diff --git a/pythonCode/indexTable.xquery b/pythonCode/indexTable.xquery index f7a3782..1beeb6c 100644 --- a/pythonCode/indexTable.xquery +++ b/pythonCode/indexTable.xquery @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ { let $conspFiles := collection('personTestingOutput') let $ents := $conspFiles//ent -let $entTypes := $ents/@type[. = 'NORP'] ! string() => distinct-values() +let $entTypes := $ents/@type[. = 'PERSON'] ! string() => distinct-values() for $e in $entTypes return @@ -10,13 +10,13 @@ return let $namesE := $conspFiles//ent[@type=$e] let $distNamesE := $namesE ! normalize-space() => distinct-values() => sort() for $t in $distNamesE -let $countT := $conspFiles//ent[. ! normalize-space() = $t] => count() -where $countT > 10 -(: order by $countT descending:) +(: let $countT := $conspFiles//ent[. ! normalize-space() = $t] => count() :) +(: where $countT > 10 :) +(: order by $countT descending:) return - + } diff --git a/regexConspTest/666_ibm.xml b/regexConspTest/666_ibm.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b4942a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/regexConspTest/666_ibm.xml @@ -0,0 +1,358 @@ +

+I scanned this excerpt in from the book, "The Delicate Balance" , +written by John Zajac. 1989-1990 . ISBN Number 0-910311-57-9 .

+ +

** Begin Excerpt **

+ +

Automation +----------

+ +

To understand how 666 relates to this discussion, one needs to explore +technology. One pertinent contributor to this technology is the +International Business Machines Corporation. IBM developed a laser method +of information transfer that has now become universally accepted. Lasers are +used for many different applications in society today, such as measuring +distances, detecting structural flaws, determining straightness, and so +forth. You can see the IBM system at your local supermarket quickly reading +prices and controlling inventory as it prints out a list of all purchased +items. Since checkers no longer have to punch keys on a register, check-out +time and errors are reduced. This system also provides the shopper with an +itemized receipt. That receipt information is stored in a central computer, +which keeps inventory and indicates what products the store should order, as +well as which products should no longer be carried.

+ +

But the use of automation is going considerably further. In fact, in Fresno, +California, one of eight regional test cities, a new computer system called +Behavior Scan gives shoppers a bar code card that is read at each purchase. +The computer then keeps a detailed list of all purchases made by a family, +including brands and quantity of each product. This same computer is also +attached to the user's home television set to monitor what is being watched. +It then selects commercials to be shown to that customer to affect his +specific buying habits. While most customers claim that they are not +affected by these commercials, the advertising companies have spent a lot of +money on research proving otherwise. Is this the start of a more modern +version of George Orwell's "1984," the complete control depicted in Vance +Packard's 'The Hidden Persuaders' ? Certainly, computers are powerful and +indispensable tools. Thanks to computers, paychecks are deposited +automatically into checking and savings accounts at predefined rates while +many bills and loans are automatically paid on time every month. The system +works so well that many institutions give a discount on loans and insurance +payments if automatic payment is used (they are more confident that they +will be paid and on time). This can convenientiy save time, postage, and +worry. The world is positioned to facilitate the ever growing requirements +for increased automation and convenience.

+ +

The convenience of computers is everywhere. Even a simple inexpensive $3 +watch contains a computer. No longer does it merely tell time; it also can +add and subtract, keep time in three different zones, give the day and the +date, and beep at predetermined intervals. Computerized voices in fancy cars +warn you if you have not fastened your seat belt, that your oil is low, or +that you are almost out of fuel. The proliferation of computers has created +a strong dependence on them, for real need and pure convenience. The average +American's name is accessed 35 times a day by computer, and this is only the +beginning as we become plugged into the ever-growing system.

+ +

Our credit card system is also very convenient. Carrying cash is unnecessary +and sometimes useless, for example, when renting a car or cashing a check. +With a credit card, transactions are easier, and banks are now able (and +more then willing), to deduct payment of your credit card bill automatically +from your main account.

+ +

In fact, paper money soon may become a thing af the past for three reasons:

+ +

1. The government is concerned about the advances being made in color +xerographic technology. Advanced copy machines will soon be able to produce +counterfeit bills that are indistinguishable from government issues. The +FBI reported that up to 20 percent of people having access to advanced color +copiers will produce some counterfeit bills.

+ +

2. The successful introduction of the Smart Card in France and U.S. test +cities such as Washington, D.C., and Norfolk, Virginia, may render cash +obsolete. This Smart Card, manufactured by Motorola and Toshiba carries a +complete history of the user, including a physical description and health +record. The card allows direct payment to the seller by instantaneously +deducting the purchase amount and any service charges directly from the +cardholder's account. Thus, not only is the seller paid immediately but, +also, the card companies save millions of dollars by eliminating bad +payments and personal bankruptcy debts. Reducing credit card fraud should +also save card companies large sums of money. For example, MasterCard could +save $25 million annually by eliminating fraudulent cards. By the end of +1990, 20 million fraud-resistant cards will be in use in France. Seventeen +other countries have agreed to a standard card for all bank machines. Visa, +Eurocheque, Eurocard and MasterCard have already agreed to a method to make +their cards, systems, and money access interchangeable. Thus, by eliminating +checks and voluntary payments, the credit card industry would save 3.2 +billion dollars per year.

+ +

3. The Federal Government is paying close attention to methods for taxing +the $300 billion underground economy in the United States. Unreported income +costs the U.S. Treasury $90 billion per year. If cash were eliminated, +computers could keep track of all income.

+ +

Evidence that cards may soon replace cash (and checks) was provided by Arco +service stations and Lucky supermarkets, which announced in September 1986 +that their pumps and check-out stands now accept automatic teller bank +cards. With this system, payment is deducted electronically from the user's +bank account before the user received his purchase. Within one month, 6400 +service stations and supermarkets in 23 states were fitted with the system.

+ +

The gentlemen who came up with the laser reader in supermarkets for IBM +also invented the means of placing the same kind of bar code beneath living +tissue in one-billionth of a second. This marking is totally invisible to +the naked eye, and it can be read only by a certain type of laser. The +writing and reading is totally harmless and painless. The inventor +demonstrated this system in 1979 by marking salmon as they swam downstream. +The fish were totally unaware of the process as the laser burned a code into +their flesh. The computer then keeps track of the codes. Years later, these +fish will be detected by the same system as they swim back upstream and are +forced through fish ladders and chutes. *

+ +

Just as impressive is what Walter Wriston, the chairman of CitiCorp did in +1983. He passed a rule within the bank that was later withdrawn as a result +of public outcry. His rule stated that unless you were a depositor of $5000 +or more, you were not entitled to a teller. This meant that the vast +majority of depositors would have to stand in line outside the bank and +"talk" to machines. This was an economic move, of course, because banks have +had some problems of late. But its message was that people would no longer +talk to people. If banks could establish such a policy, then they could make +the minimum deposit higher and higher. Finally everything for everyone would +be done by machines. The concern is that we are reaching a highly automated +state, which if followed to the next logical step might have profound +impacts on how we rate life.

+ +

Even more startling was an "off the cuff"' statement made by an other +chairman of an eastern megabank: He announced that a method is in place that +can imprint in human hands a silicon chip the size of the head of a pin. +That chip will include not only the person's identification number, Social +Security number, name and birthplace, but also his criminal background, +educational level financial worth in the community, and his political +affiliations.

+ +

* Such a system is currently manufactured by Taymar, Inc., Westminster, CO +The U.S. Agriculture Department uses the product for cattle. Will it be +used for people in the future?

+ +

With such a system, the minute someone walked through the door of the bank, +he would be sensed and the bank would know who he was, where he came from, +what he did, and how much he was worth. All this would occur before a person +could reach the counter.

+ +

Now this was one step further than even progressive thinkers envisioned. +There had been discussions about placing codes on the hand to be used as +identification marks, like fingerprints, similar to package bar codes in +supermarkets. With such a system you would not need cash or a validated +check or even a Smart Card. You could put your hand through a laser and be +read by the computer. The store would automatically deduct the amount of the +purchase from your account. The method would be efficient in terms of cost, +speed, thoroughness, and elimination of bad checks. * But the price of all +this automation is individual independence from nameless bureaucrats looking +over your shoulder and approving (allowing) every transaction.

+ +

The amount of control would be unprecedented: however, the government would +immediately know how to put this control to use. People would no longer be +able to cheat the government because every time anyone had any money, the +government would know about it. The government could collect taxes each time +you spent your money, and, thus, there would be no more filing on April +15th. It also means that advanced printing and photocopying machines could +not be used for counterfeiting. Even a law breaker who traded with stolen +goods would have his purchase and sale traced by computer as he tried to +move or "spend" funds. The government would monitor every transaction, +knowing precisely everyone's location, actions, and worth. Instant +evaluations, approval or disapproval, and tax deductions on every individual +would be made.

+ +

* Such systems are not in the distant future. Six thousand people in Sweden +have accepted a mark on their right hands in a test of a totally cashless +society. Tests also have been conducted in Japan and the Dominican Republic +in Latin America.

+ +

Small wonder that the government likes this idea. +Governments have always liked control. They would like to control +everything, even the areas they say they do not want to control, such as +business, transportation, education, religion, entertainment, and other +governments. If this sounds the least bit exaggerated just look at our +government's actions regarding the restrictions of business concerning tax +credit, labor laws, advertising, antitrust, and corporate subsidies. Even in +deregulation, transportation requires licensing, registration, inspection, +subsidies, price controls, flight approval, and government flight +controllers. Although there may be talk of eliminating the Federal +Department of Education there is no attempt to reduce control of school +curriculum, subsidies, and even school lunches. Most universities are +dependent on federal aid and research grants.

+ +

The government controls religion by granting tax exemption to "desired +religions" and by making it illegal to pray in school. The government +exercises control of entertainment by licensing and or censoring television, +radio, movies, and books. The Federal Government also seeks to control other +governments by rewarding or threatening them with trade concessions, +military or econonic aid, sanctions, or war. The highest people in +government, it would seem, want the government to have total control of +everything.

+ +

In Orwell's 1984, the government "took over," and everyone was controlled by +"Big Brother." In reality, government may take over, not through control of +transportation and censorship, but through the economy, the lending +institutions, and every financial transaction. Is it too far-fetched to +imagine that you may have to take a mark on your hand to be able to buy and +sell and exist in a modern society? The technology exists. The chairman of +the megabank was asked what it would take to motivate people to put little +pieces of silicon under their skin. He answered, "a major catastrophe." He +knew people would not do it voluntarily.

+ +

Of course if there was a financial or national emergency (catastrophe), the +government would exercise unprecedented control, and compliance of citizens +would be anything but voluntary.

+ +

Central Computing +-----------------

+ +

As mentioned earlier, the impact of computers on society has been enormous. +However, their likely future role may be overwhelming. As powerful as +computers are, their effectiveness is greatly multiplied when they can +communicate with other computers. For example, missile launch command +computers talk to U.S. Weather Bureau computers to update the possible +flight paths of thousands of Minuteman missiles every hour. Thus, to enhance +a system's capabilities, computers need to talk to computers. To sort out +the enormous amount of cross-references, a central computer is needed.

+ +

The central computer for America is in Texas, and the international computer +that ties all the national central computers together is situated in +Brussels, Belgium. The Brussels computer is housed in a 13 story building, +the first three floors of which are occupied totally by this system's +hardware. Because of its size. the Brussels computer is referred to +affectionately as "the Beast."

+ +

This immense computer has enough capacity to store every detail about the +lives of every human being on Earth, the information contained in the +Library of Congress, and every book ever printed. Having operated for years, +it stores a growing volume of information as additional countries tie into +it ever more heavily. This allows international banking, interstate banking, +and quick credit references. Money can be moved from New York to California +or London in minutes. If a deposit is made in a bank other than where the +check was drawn, banks usually impose a 5 to 10-day holding period. +Actually, this practice is just a means for banks to increase their "float" +and thus to increase their profits, since the money is transferred within +one day. What happens to the money for the other days? The bank uses it to +float shorter loans by which the bank earns interest. Banks typically wait +longer to issue credit because they want to use the money for as many days +as possible.

+ +

Daily manipulation of funds by banks is common. Many banks are forced to +move their funds around the globe with the sun to have their reserves where +they are needed-in the banks that are open. Even the CIA likes the +capability of the central computer because it can check on personnel +mobility, foreign trading, and all financial transactions.

+ +

Many advanced computers are available with many designations, but one is +especially interesting. NCR produced a six-core memory computer with 60 +bytes per word in conjunction with six bits to the character. It is named +and advertised as the 6-60-6 which defines the size and shape of the +computer. The only way this can be pronounced is six sixty-six (666). In +computer language, 666 has a unique significance.

+ +

A computer is an information retrieval system, and all of its information is +stored as numbers. A computer's memory cell has only two states: on and off, +or mathematically 1 and 0. Thus, every number must be represented in 1's and +0's. We use a decimal system based on 10; thus, it has 10 symbols: 0, 1, 2, +3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Computers use a binary system using two symbols (0 +and 1). To manage large numbers, computers use a binary coded decimal system +(BCD) which consists of groups of four digits, to make up all numbers. By +comparing the groups of number listed below one can find each system's +equivalent symbol. Thus, 0011, 0111, 0101 in the binary coded decimal system +is equal to our decimal system number 1375.

+ +

Decimal System Binary System

+ +

0-0000 +1-0001 +2-0010 +3-0011 +4-0100 +5-0101 +6-0110 +7-0111 +8-1000 +9-1001

+ +

(For various reasons, some computers use Base 8 (0-7) and therefore do not +use the last two symbols shown.)

+ +

As shown in the BCD system, the number 6 is represented by 0110. This is +unique because 0110 written backwards or upside-down is still 0110. The +only other number in the BCD system with the same property is its complement +1001, or 9. (However, not every computer counts past 7.) This consistency is +the same in every country in the world, unaffected by language because every +computer speaks the same language of "1's" and "0's." Thus, 011001100110 +is 666 universally.

+ +

In the Book of Revelation; John said that 666 is the mark of the beast. This +number also represents the universal consistency of the computers that will +be required to control the world's finances and thus the world's people. +When John wrote 1900 years ago, he did not know anything about the binary +number system, computers, or why computers would require binary coded +decimals. Yet, he stated emphatically that the mark of the beast is 666.

+ +

Is this to say that the endtime beast is merely a building located in +Belgium? No! The Brussels computer is no more the beast than a general is +an army. The significance is that computerization for financial dominance is +the financial beast. The beast is a false god and the worship of that false +god. Worship means "worth respect." A false god does not have to assume the +figure of a man: It is the physical representation of that which controls, +that which is worshipped. So, if people worship the "$" symbol too much for +what it can acquire, influence, or accomplish, then that can qualify it as +the false god. The Brussels computer is only the figurehead of a vast, +soon-to-be indispensable financial network that will control all financial +transactions and thus all business and people.

+ +

He who controls the system controls all. What is feared by some is that +whoever is in control wiil demand that all take the code (mark) on their +hand to be able to buy and sell. Money, credit cards, and checkbooks would +be totally eliminated. Everything would be done through the government, +through the computer, giving the government total control. The greatest fear +is that when receiving the mark, you also may be forced to pledge allegiance +to your flag and (as in the days of kings) to your ruler, but in this case +the world leader would be the Antichrist. Of course, to have allegiance with +the Antichrist is to make a pact with the Devil. If you think that this +unified system is very far away, then you have missed some intriguing news +items.

+ +

As you probably are aware, the government has been talking about a national +identification number for some time. It is supposed to make record keeping +easier and to provide a means of crosschecking. It will help find deserting +husbands who owe child support as well as locate tax evaders. Most people +anticipate that the Social Security number will play a part in this national +identification code.

+ +

The government's system for identification uses 18 digits, the last nine of +which are the Social Security number. Virtually every citizen in the country +over the age of 1 will be forced to have a Social Security number. At +present, a Social Security number is necessary to have a job or a +savings/checking account. Starting 1990, every child over one year old must +have a Sociai Security number to qualify as a dependent on tax returns. +Preceding this 9-digit Social Security number are 3 digits corresponding to +one's telephone area code. Obviously, the whole world is tied by phone; even +barren deserts with no inhabitants have area codes. In front of these +numbers is a country code; for America it is 110. From this single +universally consistent number, the government will instantly know a person's +country, region, and identity. Does that seem logical so far? But that +accounts for only 15 digits, and the system is based on 18. The missing +3-digit code specifes that you are in the system: 666.

+ +

All computerized companies are going to 18-digit identification codes. +According to the report '666 Is Here,' Sears Roebuck is going on this system +and is committed to changing over all its credit cards. J.C. Penney's is +reported to be switching over, as well as New York Telephone. The U.S. +Government used to prefix all the serial numbers of everything it owned with +the code 451. But that also is changing; the dog tags on every soldier in +America are to be converted to 666.

+ +

Is that enough to concern you? The point is that 666 is a significant and +important part of what the future is going to hold. The Bible prophesied it. +Nostradamus explained it, and we are presently at the very edge of seeing it +become enacted. Rumors abound about people receiving checks with these +marks, governments admit they need better financial control, and the +chairman of one of the largest banks says, "It's ready; we just need a major +catastrophe."

+ +

** End Excerpt ** +

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Title: The Proven existance of 9 dimensional planes

+ +

Intro: In order to understand these files, one must assume the following is +completely true. If not assumed, one will be completely lost in the text of +the following files. You may laugh if you wish, but if you want to understand +the theory you must make compensations on your part. Ok, on with the file...

+ +

Volume I: Defining the 9 planes

+ +

Written by: Starmaster and Locust

+ +

1st dimensional plane: This plane consists of only the single dimension +of length. It is not advised to try to envision this dimension for it may +cause insanity, seriously.

+ +

2nd dimensional plane: This plane consists of both length and width. It +is not adviable to envision this either. The first and second planes are +not the same as the fourth dimension and are uncomprehendable except by +entities "living" in that plane of thought and sight.

+ +

3rd dimensional plane: This is the plane of depth. This one is easily +imagined by 4th dimensional entities, because they are so close to it, and +had just passed out of it.

+ +

4th dimensional plane: This is the plane that the entities that we call +beings "live" on. It consists of the forward movement of time. It is the one +we are on right now.

+ +

The cross-over: This is a place where the 4th dimensional entities make their +way into the 5th and above. It is often refered to as death, yet it is only a +cross-over point. At this point, all knowledge of the 4th and below +dimensions is lost.

+ +

5th dimensional plane: This plane consists of the backwards movement of +time. Although considered impossible by 4th dimensional entities, those +entities are only thinking in the 4th dimensional phase. Remember everything +else from here on out is done in metaphysical thinking.

+ +

6th dimensional plane: This is the plane of clairvoyance. Remember, all of +this you must assume, or no comprehension of the later explanations +will be understood. Not much is known about this plane, except you "inhabit" +the sense of clairvoyance.

+ +

7th dimensional plane: This is the plane of telekinesis. This is even less +understood than the plane of clairvoyance, yet it does exist. This +often thought of as "supernatural", when in fact it a real thing.

+ +

8th dimensional plane: This is the plane of perception. It is the highest any +entity can evolve to. It consists of all the planes from five and up.

+ +

9th dimensional plane: God. Refered to by many, but understood by few. All +cultures and beings, be it from our world or others, have this vision. God +created all life, so all life lives by him.

+ +

These are the explanations of all the dimensional planes. Dimensional planes +are achieved by the evolution of the mind/soul/entity, which are all the +same thing. Evolution is a continual learning process. As we evolve we +understand more, yet raise more questions. This theory is to help those +understand the answers to many questions concerning God and the +"supernatural". One thing is assumed. We are not the only lifeforms in this +universe. All lifeforms were created by God, and will evolve through the +process God laid forth unto us. The universe is infinitely large, which +shows God's power is also infinitely large.

+ +
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+ +

Volume II: Explanation of the Planes and their signifigance to the supernatural

+ +

Intro: This is the second part to the previous file on the proven existance of +9 dimensional planes. As stated in the last phile, one must assume all things +true in order to understand and comprehend the intensity of this phile. This +one will deal with the questions brought about by the theory itself.

+ +

One thing must be understood in this file. All the entities, in all the +dimensional planes, co-exist with one another in this one universe. There is +but one universe, in which all entities live in. There are no "outside" +universes. Everything co-exists in this one universe.

+ +

Explanation of "Insane Persons":

+ +

An insane person is thought of as a person without the ability to think clearly +and comprehend things on a 4th dimensional basis. They are not "insane". That +is a term 4th dimensional entities give to those entities which are not on the +the same thought plane that the other entities are on. Every plane is just a +level of thought process. In the past file I stated that evolution is a +continuing process of learning. The "insane" persons of a 4th dimensional +community are not on the same thought plane we consider ourselves on.

+ +

Explanation of "supernatural" powers

+ +

This deals with the idea of persons who are able to channel their psychic +powers to do physical things. This also deals with fortune tellers and People +who can see the future, i.e. Nostradameus. These occurances are also explained +by the thought level that these entities are on. They are actually 6th or 7th +dimensional beings stuck in a 4th deminsional body. Because 99.8% of the +population of the 4th dimension only thinks in 4 dimensions, they are often +considered "supernatural", "witches", "prophets", ect. You then will ask, if I +came up with this, how come I can't bend spoons with a thought. The answer is +simple. I am now just discovering this phenomenon. I have an upbringing of this +not really happening, but being a science-fiction thing. The people who do know +how to do these things have been concentrating all their lives to use this +"super" power givin to them by God. If everone thought on the 8th dimension, +there would be no use for a God. It is all a process of learning and +comprehending.

+ +

Explanation of "Ghosts, Spirits, and Poltergeists"

+ +

This is about the simplest thing to explain. As I stated above, all entities +co-exist in the same universe, for there is only one, which is infinite. +Sometimes, 4th dimensional beings see things they aren't "supposed" to see. +People are brought up with the idea ghosts are science-fiction, when in fact +they are a real thing. Sometimes these entities are accidently crossed back for +a few seconds, years, or minutes.

+ +

Explanation of Heaven or the Kingdom of God

+ +

This is fairly easily comprehended, if one thinks beyond the 4th dimension. It +is but the enternity at the other side of the cross-over. What do you think the +"light at the end of the tunnel" is? It is the "other side" or 5th dimension. +People lose their physical bodies and are "able to fly" around. This also +explains the angels 4th dimensional beings continually say are immortal.

+ +

Explanation of Immortality

+ +

Immortality is an easily comprehendable concept, if one thinks of a positive +charge and a negative charge. When thrown together, they cancel each other out. +This is the same priciple when you combine forward and reverse time together. +After you make the cross-over, your mind adapts to backwards time, yet when +backwards time collides with forward time it cancels it out. Therefore the +state of immortality is reached.

+ +

The one constant

+ +

There is but one constant in all the dimensions. Plank's constant is only +valuable in 4th dimensional science and so is the speed of light. There is only +one constant in all of the 9 dimensions. It is the emotions. No one can explain +emotions except this phile. Emotions are the only constant of the co-existant +universe. Think about it. Why do you think the "ghosts" are happy, sad, angry, +ect., ect., when you see them. It is because of the power and intensity of the +emotional constant. When emotions of the 5th and above dimensional entities +gains great intensity, it then is transfered to all other dimensions.

+ +

That about does it for this file. That pretty much explains everything that I +can think of dealing with the unexplainable. If you can think of any more, +leave mail on Centre of Eternity for Starmaster (#75). I will ponder for the +answer, until I can get a suitable one using this theory. None will be turned +away. Who knows, maybe I'll get enough quetions to write another phile. Slatez +dudes.

+ +

Greets to all metaphysical thinkers. This should answer some of your questions. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Call Centre of Eternity-(615)552-5747/ 40 megs on-line/ 12/2400 baud. +HQ of The Esoteric Society and Toxic Shock +Call Ripco-(312)528-5020/ 12-9600 baud/ 60+ megs online +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +

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The A-Z of Conspiracy +As everyone knows, we are never allowed to know who is really +controlling our lives/the country/the world. But is this knowledge a +dangerous thing? To clear up this question beyond reasonable doubt +Life provides a comprehensive guide to the theoretical corridors and +sinister back offices in which true power (and general paranoia) may +(or may not) lie +02/12/95 +THE GUARDIAN

+ +

Conspiracy theories are the will-o'-the-wisps of the modern +world. They provide an alternative history to the authorised +version of events, a coherent demonology in a godless, devil-less +age. +Conspiracy theories fill a human need. They make some sense of +the cruel narrative that is the 20th century. They turn the random +violence of a lone madman into an act of orchestrated malice. In +this way the loss of a figure like Kennedy becomes somehow more +comprehensible. To be angry is more bearable than to be uncertain. +This soothing function can be at odds with truth, however. +Alternative conspiracist history is as flawed as the 'authorised' +version. Worse, a conspiracist view can suppress awkward pieces of +information by toying with the notion that events have been covered +up by the authorities to suit their own ends: encounters with alien +space ships, the real makers of the Lockerbie bomb and the truth +about Rudolf Hess have all been hidden from the public but the +higher officers of the state are in the know. +Some of the conspiracy theories which date from earlier this +century have more ignoble, murkier origins. Anti-semites were +behind the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Jewish Conspiracy +and countless others. Their modern equivalents are put about by +neo-Nazi cliques. Again, these conspiracy theories have a human +function. Failure in life is more bearable if 'the truth' is that +the Jews/the blacks/the Illuminati have conspired against you, it +allows you to ignore the fact that you are a spotty social +inadequate with bad breath and too-tight lederhosen. +The conspiracy theorist is the bane of the working journalist. +The need for some sliver of evidence to support assertions is +secondary to the spell of the theory: that, for the conspiracy +theorist, is its charm. This difficulty is compounded by the fact +that not all conspiracy theories are untrue. Those in power across +the world do prefer to keep embarrassing truths secret; they do +cover up; they do, from time to time, kill people who get in the +way. +True or not, a rattling good conspiracy theory requires the +following qualities:

+ +

1 it must be difficult, better still, impossible, to understand +at first glance. +2 it must contain a spaghetti-heap of leads, all of which cannot +be followed up. There must always be one more lead left to chase. +3 The story should speak to a 'wider' truth about our society, +through a series of disconnected or unconnected or unfalsifiable +propositions. +4 There should be no easy way of verifying it.

+ +

The theories below demonstrate all of these qualities to a +greater or lesser degree. To savour our A-Z properly, we suggest +readers mull over it with deadpan credulousness in the small hours +of the morning listening to the theme music from The X-Files and +drinking black coffee. +A IS FOR ALIEN ENCOUNTERS that are being covered up by the +authorities. Perhaps the best-documented close encounter of the +third kind took place on 27 December 1980, when airmen at two RAF +stations in East Anglia witnessed something extraordinary. First +radar operators at RAF Watton in Norfolk picked up an oddity on +their screens. Then RAF Phantom pilots reported seeing intense +bright lights in the sky. Former radar operator Mal Scurrah said: +'As the Phantoms got close the hovering object shot upwards at +phenomenal speed " monitored at more than 1000 mph.' Later, airmen +stationed at RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk investigated a mystery fire +in Rendlesham Forest. Sergeant Jim Penniston witnessed the +encounter with airman John Burroughs. Penniston said: 'The air was +filled with electricity and we saw an object about the size of a +tank. It was triangular, moulded of black glass and had symbols on +it. Suddenly it shot off faster than any aircraft I have ever +observed.' The next day the object returned. Base commander Lt Col +Charles Halt saw the flying saucer himself: 'I couldn't believe +what I was seeing. It looked like the rising sun with a black +pulsating centre. It appeared to be dripping molten metal.' Hall +acted coolly, taping and photographing the object engineered by 'an +intelligence which didn't originate on Earth'. His tape and film +were confiscated by visiting US defence officials. Former British +Chief of Defence Staff Lord Hill-Norton has claimed: 'Someone is +sitting on information that should be in the public domain.' +Believability: 9/10 (Possible explanation: what the airmen saw may +not have been a UFO, but a prototype of the Stealth bomber, which +has a black triangular shape, a strange radar print and was, in +1980, ultra-secret. Project Aurora, a new ultra-ultra-secret +Pentagon Black Budget reconnaissance aircraft, is probably +responsible for all subsequent UFO sightings.)

+ +

B IS FOR THE BILDERBERG GROUP, which organises semi-secret +annual three-day meetings of the European-Atlantic great and good +from the worlds of business, diplomacy and politics. The first +meetings were organised in 1954 by eminence grise Joseph Retinger, +the then secretary general of the newly fledged, CIA-funded +European Movement. Karl Otto Pohl, then president of Deutsche +Bundesbank, David Rockefeller, Lord Carrington and Governor Bill +Clinton of Arkansaswere among recent delegates. Denis Healey was at +that first meeting and, having retired, discusses Bilderberg in his +autobiography, The Time Of My Life. Bilderberg is one of the +transnational groups suspected by the European-American far Right +of being part of the secret elite power structure. Even the +Financial Times column 'Lombard' has noted: 'If the Bilderberg +group is not a conspiracy of some sort, it is conducted in such a +way as to give a remarkably good imitation of one.' Believability: +8/10

+ +

C IS FOR CEAUSESCU, who was tried and executed on Christmas Day +to hush up the complicity of Romania's new leaders in his crimes. +The videotape of the Christmas Day show trial of Nicolae and Elena +Ceausescu is an absorbing spectacle. Time and again, Ceausescu and +his wife turn on their interrogators and accuse them of knowing the +answers to the questions they have posed. Prosecutor: 'What do you +know about the Securitate?' Elena: 'They are sitting across from us +here.' The old witch was right, of course, because sitting in the +courtroom were secret police chiefs like Colonel Magureanu, who had +been party to the attack on civilians in Timisoara which had +triggered the revolution. He was later promoted by the leader of +the conspirators, Ion Iliescu " a former Ceausescu crony " to head +the renamed secret police, the 'Romanian Information Service'. +Iliescu became and remains president, the tainted hero of a tainted +revolution. +Believability: 10/10

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D IS FOR 'DEEP THROAT', the mole in the Nixon administration +guiding the Washington Post journalists, Woodward and Bernstein, to +the Watergate story. 'Throat' remains unidentified. In his book +Hidden Agenda (1984) Jim Hougan nominated both Nixon's chief of +staff, Alexander Haig, and National Security Agency boss, Admiral +Bobby Ray Inman, as candidates; Colodny and Gettlin also fingered +Haig in their book Silent Coup (1991). Barbara Newman, for Channel +4's Dispatches, came up with the head of the FBI field office in +Washington, the late Bob Kunkle. He was allegedly leaking for the +FBI, which was disgruntled by the Nixon cover-up. +Believability: 10/10 (Cynics suspect 'Deep Throat' was merely a +dramatic device or a ploy to keep newspaper lawyers quiet.)

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E IS FOR ELECTRICITY PYLONS, which fry our brains. A number of +protesters have complained that electro-magnetic waves in overhead +electricity pylons have led to depression, headaches, mental and +physical ill-health. No government ministry has placed much +credence on these complaints. The epidemiology of environmental +effect is notoriously hard to prove, but all good conspiracists +believe there is no smoke without a secret ray. +Believability: 7/10

+ +

F IS FOR FREEMASONS, who club together to better themselves in +the world. The majority of active freemasons have sworn not to +divulge the secrets of the craft, on pain of having their tongues +'cut out by the root and buried in the sand below low-water mark'. +Other masons who have tried to break ranks have come to sticky +ends, like 'God's Banker' Roberto Calvi, found hanging from +Blackfriars Bridge in 1982. So it is hard to determine just how +much influence is wielded by the grown men who like to dress in +black suits, wear aprons, bare their breasts and roll up their +trouser legs. Not very much, say some sceptics, who suspect that +the masons have more control over, say, haberdashery in +Herefordshire than the British state. But freemasons still hold +some sway in the corridors of power. The Rt Hon the Lord Templeman +and Rt Hon Lord Justice Balcombe, both freemasons, are two of the +most senior judges in the land; junior Foreign Office minister Tony +Baldry, former Tory MP David Trippier and back bench MPs Sir Peter +Emery and Sir Gerard Vaughan are all on the square. +Many police officers, too, remain true to their masonic oaths of +secrecy. In 1993 at a Police Federation conference a motion urging +police officers to reveal membership of the masonic brotherhood was +debated. An officer from Merseyside said it did not matter if +officers 'wore a goatskin or rolled up their trouser leg'. Another +said that freemasonry was 'not all mumbo-jumbo'. +A third police officer, mocking the calls for more openness +about freemasonry in the ranks, put a paper bag over his head. +Finally a member of the Metropolitan branch came to the rostrum to +announce the vote. 'I'm not telling,' he said to laughter. 'It's a +secret.' The opponents of freemasonry lost the vote. +Believability: 8/10

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G IS FOR THE GEMSTONE FILE, the conspiracy theory which first +surfaced in 1975. Originally a precis by American journalist +Stephania Caruana of allegations made in letters by American +chemist Bruce Roberts, now deceased, Gemstone attributes much of +post-war America's ills to the power of Aristotle Onassis, who had +the Kennedys and Dr King assassinated, seized the Howard Hughes +empire, did a deal with the Mafia, etc. The subject of a couple of +book-length studies to date, Gemstone has appeared in five or six +different versions, each one containing new material. Most striking +is the 'Kiwi Gemstone' in which specifically New Zealand incidents +have been embedded in the original American narrative. Authorless, +floating round the world in samizdat form, Gemstone is a perfect, +small-scale disinformation vehicle for anyone who cares to use it. +Believability: 0/10

+ +

H IS FOR HESS, locked up in Spandau prison because he knew all +about the secret 1941 negotiations between Britain and Nazi +Germany. Rudolf Hess's flight in May 1941 remains one of the most +bizarre episodes of the Second World War. Lord James +Douglas-Hamilton, son of the Duke of Hamilton, the Scottish +landowner to whom Hess presented his plans, said: 'Hess's proposals +consisted of a limited peace deal under which Germany would have +allowed Britain a free hand in her empire in return for Britain +allowing Germany a free hand in Europe and Russia. His so-called +peace plans would have meant the enslavement of Europe.' Hess was +arrested, tried to commit suicide, went mad, was sentenced to life +imprisonment and, at the age of 93, hanged himself in Spandau +prison. Or not, as the case may be. +One theory has it that the Churchill government, in a hideously +clever propaganda campaign against the Nazis, ran a double, 'Hess +Two'. Evidence supporting the double theory emerged when a Dutch TV +journalist, Karel Hille, disclosed that he had got the Most Secret +file on Hess via an unnamed British historian who had been given it +by the late MI6 spymaster Sir Maurice Oldfield. Oldfield had, +allegedly, stolen the file from the MI6 archive. That the man, +'Hess Two', who killed himself in prison was not the real Hess is +backed by Hugh Thomas, a Welsh surgeon, who, in the early 1970s, +was consultant to the British Military Hospital in West Berlin. +Thomas examined 'Hess Two' and found him to lack the scars the real +Hess should have had after a wound he received in 1917. MI6 had +'Hess Two' hanged because they didn't want the truth to come out. +Then the killers burnt the evidence, including an electrical flex, +with which he was murdered. +Believability: 5/10 (Hess was mad. His 1917 wound was +pea-sized.)

+ +

I IS FOR THE ILLUMINATI, the secret society controlling all the +other secret societies. An 18th-century masonic splinter group +begun by Adam Weishaupt, the Illimunati were said to be the hidden +force behind the French Revolution. After the First World War they +were re-launched into the English-speaking world by one Nesta +Webster who credited them with organising the Russian October +Revolution too. In 1921 the Spectator described Weishaupt as a +'Prussian with criminal instincts and lunatic perversions . . . +{who} shunted continental freemasonry on to Antinomian and +revolutionary lines.' In the demonology of the Anglo-American far +Right, the Illuminati largely replaced the Jews as the spider at +the centre of the web. These theories were brilliantly parodied in +the Illuminatus! trilogy (1976) by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert +Shea. +Believability: 0/10

+ +

J IS FOR JAMES JESUS ANGLETON, the orchid-growing, +poetry-writing, paranoid head of CIA counter intelligence +throughout much of the Cold War. Angleton believed the CIA and all +other spy networks to be so much gorgonzola, riddled with KGB +moles. In his search for these moles Angleton paralysed large +chunks of the CIA for years at a stretch and blighted the careers +of many senior officers. +It was Angleton who insisted in the 1960s that MI5 investigate +Harold Wilson, a task taken up enthusiastically by Peter Wright and +his circle in MI5. Angleton's overarching idiocy was to believe the +KGB defector Golitsyn, who claimed that the friction between the +Soviet Union and Mao's China in the late 1960s was a fake to +deceive the West. Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union, +Golitsyn remains convinced that it is all a black propaganda ploy. +However, the confession of top CIA man Aldrich Ames that he was a +KGB mole have proved some of Angleton's fears correct. +Believability: 6/10

+ +

K IS FOR KENNEDY, killed by almost anyone you care to mention. +According to Captain James T Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, the +'first rule of assassination is kill the assassins'. The killing of +Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby set a hare running that has never +stopped. Instead of Oswald's courtroom confession or denial of +guilt providing some explanation of the killing of the president, +the assassination of the assassin let conjecture reign. +So many had a hand in his murder it is too tedious to name them +all. Oliver Stone argued in his film JFK that Lyndon Baines Johnson +was the man behind the conspiracy. The KGB, the Mafia, the Cubans, +the FBI and the masons are all contenders. Perhaps the best JFK +conspiracy theory is that he is, after all, still alive, but kept a +permanent prisoner by the National Security Council. +Believability: 1/10

+ +

L IS FOR LOCKERBIE. On 21 December 1988, 270 people were +murdered when Pan Am 103 exploded over Scotland. +Six years later no one has been convicted of the crime, although +investigators on both sides of the Atlantic have consistently +pointed the finger at two Libyan intelligence officers who they +believe planted the bomb on a plane from Malta before it was +transferred at Frankfurt on to the fatal flight. UN sanctions are +enforced against Tripoli until Colonel Gadaffi agrees to hand over +the two for trial. +Others are not convinced by the official line. Tales of +suitcases of heroin recovered at the crash site by mysterious +American intelligence officers point to a joint CIA/Drug +Enforcement Administration operation that was fatally compromised +by Syrian and Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorists. American +spooks were running 'controlled' deliveries of Lebanese heroin +through Frankfurt airport in return for information about the +whereabouts of the hostages in Beirut. The terrorists were aware of +this and switched the dope-filled Samsonite case with one +containing the bomb. Among those killed were Matthew Gannon, the +CIA's deputy head of station in Beirut, and Major Charles McKee, a +Defence Intelligence Agency officer allegedly in charge of a +hostage rescue team. Some students of the tragedy have gone so far +as to suggest that McKee was flying home to blow the whistle, +disgusted that deals were being struck with dope dealers in order +to gain intelligence on the kidnap victims. +Believability: 8/10

+ +

M IS FOR DAVID MELLOR, got at by Mossad after his +pro-Palestinian outburst in 1988 on the West Bank. The Israelis +were out to topple Mellor after he became the most prominent critic +in the British Government of their conduct in the Occupied +Territories. +First, they managed to secure his removal as junior Foreign +Office minister, threatening to stop passing on intelligence +information about the hostages in Beirut unless Mellor was moved. +Second, they arranged for the clandestine phone-tapping +operation which led to the highly embarrassing 'toe-sucking' +allegations. +The result: Mellor was forced to quit the Cabinet. +Believability: 5/10

+

N IS FOR NOSTRADAMUS, the 16th-century psychic seer who +predicted Napoleon, Hitler and the killing of John Kennedy. The +seer's muddily-written quatrains have spawned more than 200 books, +a propaganda war between the Nazis and the Allies during the Second +World War, a movie, an American TV spin-off show, Monopoly-style +board games, a virtual reality game and even a watch, which ticks +down the seconds from 1 January 1995 to the millennium. +Whitstable housewife Valerie Hewitt, author of Nostradamus: His +Key To The Centuries (Heinemann, 1994), predicts that Prince +Charles will be crowned this year. 'It will be something sudden +that will affect the Queen, an illness " whether it is political or +genuine it doesn't matter. And Diana will be offered the chance to +become Queen. But Charles's reign will be short and William could +be king before he's 18.' In 1993 she predicted that George Bush +would stay as president. +Rival Nostradamus buff John Hogue is more apocalyptic. He plumps +for nuclear disaster or terrorism in 1996, World War III before the +millennium and Aids " 'a very great plague . . . with a great scab' +" and the ozone hole killing off two-thirds of the world population. +He quotes the prophet's vision of the future: 'So many {die} +that no one will know the true owners of fields and houses. The +weeds in the city streets will rise higher than the knees, and +there shall be a total desolation of the clergy.' Believability: +0/10 (The verses of Nostradamus clearly refer to events and places +in the 16th century. For example, nowhere does he mention 'Hitler', +only 'Hister', the contemporary name for the Lower Danube.)

+ +

P IS FOR PROMIS SOFTWARE, stolen from a Washington law firm. In +1982 a Washington DC computer firm, Inslaw, developed a programme +called Promis (Prosecutors' Management Information System) which it +supplied to the US Justice Department for $10 million. A year +later, Justice stopped all payments and Inslaw went bankrupt. A +ruling in 1987 at a bankruptcy court concluded that the Justice +Department 'took, converted and stole Promis software through +trickery, fraud and deceit', which is a little embarrassing for the +department charged with upholding the rule of law. +So far, so what? It is only when people started to probe into +why Justice had acted in such a way that it gets interesting, +prompting one investigator to claim that the case 'was a lot +dirtier for the department than Watergate had been, both in its +breadth and depth'. +It turns out that (allegedly) the men behind the theft of the +software were all Reagan appointees who helped engineer the 1980 +'October Surprise', whereby the Republicans struck a deal with the +Iranians not to release American Embassy hostages from Tehran until +after Reagan was safely in the White House. The software was then +sold on to foreign intelligence agencies across the globe, (a) to +generate revenue for covert operations not authorised by Congress; +and (b) to make it easier for US operatives to hack into the +software. +The story was chased by US freelance Danny Casolaro. A year +after making himself known to the Inslaw people he was found dead +in a motel room in West Virginia. The official verdict was suicide, +but Elliott Richardson, the Attorney General under Nixon, hired by +Inslaw to investigate the case, concluded: 'It's hard to come up +with any reason for Casolaro's death other than he was deliberately +murdered because he was so close to uncovering sinister elements in +what he called 'the Octopus'.' Believability: 7/10

+ +

Q IS FOR CARROLL QUIGLEY, the granddaddy of all modern American +conspiracists. Quigley's 1340-page volume Tragedy And Hope " +History Of The World In Our Time (1966) included a dozen pages on +the existence of a hitherto unknown secret society, run by Alfred, +Lord Milner, Lloyd George's Chef de Cabinet, funded by Cecil +Rhodes's estate. The group, said Quigley, who claimed to have +access to its papers, organised the Round Table groups in the +Commonwealth, the Royal Institute For International Affairs in +London and its counterpart in the US betwen the wars. +For far-Right groups such as the John Birch Society these pages +were proof, from an 'insider', of the great conspiracy they had +always suspected. Not the communists, not the Jews, not even the +Illuminati, but the Perpetual Hidden Government " the PHG! +Quigley's revelations are behind much of the recent talk of One +Worlders and New World Orders and are part of Republican +presidential hopeful Pat Robertson's world view. Among Quigley's +students at Georgetown University was Bill Clinton, and the +conspiracists got quite excited when President Clinton referred to +the impact Quigley made on him in his inauguration speech. +Believability: 4/10

+ +

R IS FOR JAMES RUSBRIDGER, killed and framed as a sex pervert by +MI5. Rusbridger was a tremendous irritant to the security services. +His letters to newspapers poured scorn on the Official Secrets Act; +his books, such as The Intelligence Game, cast doubt on the +official version of events. But where Rusbridger, aged 65 at the +time of his death, really annoyed the spooks was when he unearthed +Britain's code-cracking secrets, in particular the story that the +British had cracked Japanese naval codes in advance of the attack +on Pearl Harbour. +He was bright, hale and hearty for his age when he was +discovered in February 1994 at his home, dressed in a green +protective suit for use in nuclear, biological or chemical warfare, +green overalls, a black plastic mackintosh and thick rubber gloves. +His face was covered by a gas mask and he was also wearing a +sou'wester. His body was suspended from two ropes, attached to +shackles fastened to a piece of wood across the open loft hatch, +and was surrounded by pictures of men and mainly black women in +bondage. Consultant pathologist Dr Yasai Sivathondan said he died +from asphyxia due to hanging 'in keeping with a form of sexual +strangulation'. +His death occasioned a piece by Sunday Times reporter James +Adams, whose own books boast of contacts with British intelligence. +Adams quoted senior intelligence officials as saying Rusbridger +never had any connection with any branch of British intelligence: +"His death was as much a fantasy as his life,' said one source . . +. Rusbridger's interest in intelligence seems to have coincided +with his conviction for theft in 1977.' Such an extensive +posthumous demolition job by intelligence officials would perhaps +only be merited by someone who had been a serious thorn in their +side. +Believability: 7/10

+ +

S IS FOR THE SUICIDES OF THE SCIENTISTS WHO WORKED FOR MARCONI. +In 1988 a host of brilliant researchers working for the defence +giant killed themselves in a variety of ways: one drove his +petrolladen car into a disused Little Chef, another jumped off the +Clifton suspension bridge, a third electrocuted himself. +The deaths appeared to be a case of life imitating art " in this +case, an episode of the 1960s Avengers series which features a +number of brilliant scientists killing themselves. The first +problem is that there was no linkage between the deaths. Second, +suicide is 10 times more common than murder in Britain. Third, men +kill themselves more violently than women. Fourth, scientists are +more ingenious than the rest of the population, so one would expect +them to kill themselves violently and bizarrely. Fifth, the defence +business employs huge numbers of scientists, and Marconi is a big +employer. +When the numbers are crunched, there is no statistical +aberration in the number of suicides by Marconi scientists. It is +too good a story for a newspaper to kill, however. +Believability: 0/10

+ +

U IS FOR THE UNIFIED CONSPIRACY THEORY, or the Grand Unified +Conspiracy Theory, which knits all the other conspiracy theories +into a coherent tapestry. +Believability: 1/10

+ +

V IS FOR VATICAN, which knocks off the popes it doesn't like. +The markedly short reign of John Paul I has given rise to this +particular crock of conjecture. +Old men can die quite quickly, even if they are popes. However, +rumours persist in the Vatican than John Paul I was going to clean +out the Augean stables of the pontiff's finances and expose the +scandalous links between the Mafia, the freemasons and senior +cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church. +Believability: 2/10

+ +

W IS FOR COLIN WALLACE, who was forced to resign from the +Ministry of Defence in 1975 when he leaked information about a +covert MI5 operation, 'Clockwork Orange'. Wallace, an Ulsterman, +claimed he had been involved in the operation, which had been +designed to destabilise paramilitary organisations in the Province +through disinformation. Wallace alleged that the scope of the +operation had been extended to include mainland politicians viewed +as 'politically soft or leftist', a list which included Harold +Wilson, Edward Heath and Jeremy Thorpe. Wallace claims it was in +his remit to discredit these 'targets' using unfounded smear +stories about sexual impropriety. +He also alleged, in a memo to army chiefs, that a Belfast boys' +home named Kincora was being used as a homosexual trap for +intelligence gathering against prominent Unionist politicians. In +1990 an inquiry conducted by James Calcutt QC found Wallace's +dismissal to be unsafe and ordered the Ministry to award him +pounds 30000 in compensation. The inquiry was not, however, +empowered to make any judgment on Wallace's allegations. +Believability: 7/10

+ +

X IS FOR MR X, the third man who allegedly went to bed with two +senior Conservative politicians, now in the Cabinet, all at the +same time. This is a conspiracy theory never to be told. +Believability: 10/10

+ +

Y IS FOR YAKUZA, the Japanese mafia who run the world. The +Yakuza are the world's richest and most powerful gangsters. They +control many of the big-name Japanese corporations that now have +huge leverage in the major western economies. Nothing can be done +to loosen the grip of the Yakuza on the world economy. +Believability: 8/10

+ +

Z IS FOR THE ZAGREB OPERATION, when the NKVD inducted Robert +Maxwell as a Soviet double agent. Maxwell was never clear about how +he escaped from Nazi-occupied Germany. In fact, he was given secret +passage through Nazi-allied Croatia by Communist partisans, then +loyal to the Soviet Union, in return for a lifetime as a spy. +While passing through Zagreb Maxwell was recruited by an officer +of the NKVD " the forerunner to the KGB " and was told to travel to +Britain and ingratiate himself with the British Establishment. +Maxwell did brilliantly, becoming first a war hero then a respected +publisher. The NKVD and KGB helped Maxwell out from time to time, +smoothing his path in arranging deals with Eastern Bloc scientific +publishers and the like. Maxwell prospered. +It was only in 1991 that the Israeli secret service, Mossad, +came across the truth when they bought up a senior KGB archivist +who sold them the Operation Zagreb file. Maxwell " who Mossad +thought had been working for them " was terminated by a crack unit +of Israeli frogmen. +Believability: 6/10 +

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+WHO Murdered Africa +The Greatest Murder Mystery of all Time

+

There is no question mark after the title of this article because +the title is not a question. It's a declarative statement. WHO, the +World Health Organization, murdered Africa with the AIDS virus. Thats +a provocative statement, isn't it?

+

The answers to this little mystery, Murder on the WHO Express will +be quite clear to you by the end of this report. You will also +understand why the other suspects, the homosexuals, the green monkey +and the Haitians, were only pawns in this virocidal attack on the +non-Communist world.

+

If you believe the government propaganda that AIDS is hard to catch +then you are going to die even sooner than the rest of us. The common +cold is a virus. Have you ever had a cold? How did you catch it? +You don't really know, do you? If the cold virus was fatal, How many +people would be left in the world?

+

Yellow fever is a virus. You catch it from mosquito bites. Malaria +is a parasite also carried by mosquitoes. It is many times larger than +the AIDS virus ( like comparing a pinhead to a moose head ) yet the +mosquito easily carries this large organism to man.

+

The tuberculosis germ, also larger than that AIDS virus, can be +transmitted by formites ( inanimate objects such as towels ). The +AIDS virus can live for as long as 10 days on a dry plate. You can't +understand this murder mystery unless you learn a little virology.

+

Many viruses grow in animals and many grow in humans, but most of +the viruses that affect animals don't affect humans. There are exceptions, +of course, such as yellow fever and small pox.

+

There are some viruses in animals that can cause very lethal cancer +in those animals, but do not affect man or other animals. The Bovine +Leukemia Virus ( BLV ), for example, is lethal to cows but not humans. +There is also another virus that occurs in sheep called Sheep Visna Virus +which is also non-reactive in man. These Deadly viruses are " Retro - +Viruses ", meaning that they can change the genetic composition of the +cells that they enter.

+

The World Health Organization, in published articles, called for +scientists to work these deadly agents and attempt to make a hybrid +virus that would be deadly to humans. " An attempt should be made to +see if viruses can in fact exert selective effects on immune function. +The possibility should be looked into that the immune response to the +virus itself maybe impaired if the infecting virus damages, more or +less selectively, the cell responding to the virus."

+

Thats AIDS. What the WHO is saying in plain english is " Let's cook +up a virus that selectively destroys the T-Cell system of man, an +acquired immune deficiency. Why would anyone want to do this? If you +destroy the T-Cell system of man then you destroy man. Is it even +remotely possible that the WHO would want to develop a virus that would +wipe out the human race?

+

If there new creation worked, the WHO stated, then many terrible +and fatal infectious viruses could be made even more terrible and more +malignant. Does this strike you as being a peculiar goal for a health +organization?

+

Sometimes Americans believe in conspiracies and sometimes the don't. +Was there a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy? Twenty five years later +the debate still continues, and people keep changing there minds. One day +it's yes and the next it's no - depending upon what was served for lunch, +or how the stock market did the day before.

+

But it doesn't take a bad lunch to see an amazing concatenation of +events involving Russian and Chinesse communist nationals, The WHO, The +National Cancer Institute, and the AIDS epidemic.

+

But what about the green monkey? Some of the best virologist in the +world and many of those directly involved in AIDS research, such as +Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier, have said that the green monkey may be +the culprit. You know the story: A green monkey bit a native on the ass +and, bam - AIDS all over central Africa.

+

There is a fatal flaw here. It is very strange. Because Gallo, +Montagnier and these other virologist know that the AIDS virus doesn't +occur naturally in monkeys. In fact it doesn't occur naturally in any +animal.

+

AIDS started practically simultaneously in the United States, Haiti, +Brazil, and Central Africa. ( Was the green monkey a jet pilot? ) +Examination for the gene structure of the green monkey cells prove that +it is not genetically possible to transfer the AIDS virus from monkeys +to man by natural means.

+

Because of the artificial nature of the AIDS virus it will not easily +transfer from man to man unless it has become very concentrated in the +body fluids through repeated injections from person to person, such as +drug addicts, and through high multiple partner sexual activity such as +takes place in Africa and among homosexuals. After repeated transfer it +can become a " natural " infection for man, which it has.

+

Dr. Theodore Strecker's research of the literature indicates that +the National Cancer Institute ( NCI ) in collaboration with the WHO, +made the AIDS virus in there laboratories at Fort Detrick ( now NCI ). +They combined the deadly retro-viruses Bovine-Leukemia Virus and Sheep +Visna Virus, and injected them into human tissue cultures. The result +was the AIDS virus, the first human retro-virus known to man and now +believed to be 100% fatal to those infected.

+

The momentous plague that we now face was anticipated by the National +Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 1974 when they recommended that "Scientists +throughout the world join with the members of this committee in voluntarily +deferring experiments linking animal viruses". What the NAS is saying in +carefully guarded english is: "For God's sake. Stop this madness!" The +green monkey is off the hook. How about the Communists?

+

Communist are in the process of conducting germ warfare from Fort +Detrick, Maryland against the free world, expecially the United States, +even using foreign communist agents within the US Army's germ warfare +unit euphamistically called the Army Infectious Disease Unit.

+

You don't believe it? Carlton Gajdusek, an NIH bigshot at Detrick +admits it. " IN THE FACILITY I HAVE A BUILDING WHERE MORE GOOD AND +LOYAL COMMUNIST SCIENTISTS FROM THE USSR AND MAINLAND CHINA WORK, WITH +FULL PASSKEYS TO ALL THE LABORATORIES, THAN THERE ARE AMERICAN. EVEN THE +ARMY'S INFECTIOUS DISEASE UNIT IS LOADED WITH FOREIGN WORKERS NOT ALWAYS +FRIENDLY NATIONALS."

+

Can you imagine that? A UN-WHO communist trojan horse in our +biological warfare center with the full blessing of the US government?

+

The creation of the AIDS virus by the WHO was not just a diabolical +scientific exercise that got out of hand. It was a cold-blooded +successful attempt to create a killer virus which was then used in a +successful experiment in Africa. So successful in fact that most of +Central Africa may be wiped out, 75000000 dead within 3-5 years.

+

It was not an accident, it was deliberate. In the Federation +Proceedings of the United States in 1972, WHO said : " In relation +to the immune response a number of useful experimental approaches can +be visualized ". They suggested a neat way to do this would be to put +their new killer virus ( AIDS ) into a vaccination program, sit back and +observe the results. " This would be particularly informative in +sibships," they said. That is, give AIDS to brothers and sisters and +see if they die, who dies first, and of what, just like rats in a +laboratory.

+

They used the smallpox vaccine for their vehicle and the geographical +sites chosen in 1972 were Ugunda and other African sites, Haiti, Brazil +and Japan. The present and recent past of AIDS epidemiology coincides +with these geographical areas.

+

Dr. Strecker points out that even if the African green monkey could +transmit AIDS to humans, the present known amount of infection in Africa +makes it statistically impossible for a single episode, such as a monkey +biting someone, to have brought this epidemic to this point. The doubling +time of the number of people infected, about every 14 months, when +correlated with the first known cases, and the present known number of +cases, prove beyond a doubt that a large number of people had to be +infected at the same time. Starting in 1972 with the first case from our +mythical monkey, and doubling the number of infected from that single +source every 14 months you get only a few thousand cases. From 1972 to +1987 is 15 years or 180 months. If it takes 14 months to double the number +of cases then there would have been 13 doublings. 1 then 2 then 4 then 8.. +etc...In 15 years, from a single source of infection there would be about +8000 cases in Africa, not 75 million. We are approaching World War II +mortality statistics here - without a shot being fired.

+

Dr. Theodore A. Strecker is the courageous doctor who has unraveled +this conundrum, the greatest murder mystery of all time. He should get +the Nobel Prize but he'll be lucky not to get "suicided." ( "Prominent +California doctor ties his hands behind his back, hangs himself, and +jumps from 20th floor. There was no evidence of foul play." )

+

Strecker was employed as a consultant to work on a health proposal +for Security Pacific Bank. He was to estimate the cost of their health +care for the future. Should they form an HMO was the major issue. After +investigating the current medical market he advised against the HMO because +he found that the AIDS epidemic in all probability bankrupt the nation's +medical system.

+

He became fascinated with all the scientific anomalies concerning AIDS +that kept cropping up. Why did the " experts " keep talking about +green monkeys and homosexuals being the culprits when it was obvious that +the AIDS virus was a man-made virus? Why did they say it was a homosexual +and drug-user disease when in Africa it was obviously a heterosexual +disease? If the green monkey did it then why did AIDS explode practically +simultaneously in Africa, Haiti, Brazil, Japan, and the United States?

+

Why, when it was proposed to the National Institute of Health that the +AIDS virus was a combination of two bovine or sheep viruses cultured in +human cells in a laboratory, did they say it was " bad science " when +thats exactly what occurred?

+

As early as 1970 the WHO was growing these deadly animal viruses in +human tissue cultures. Cedric Mims, in 1981, said in a published article +that there was a bovive virus contaminating the culture media of th WHO. +Was this an accident or a "non-accident"? If it was an accident then why +did the WHO continue to use the vaccine?

+

This viral and genetic death bomb, AIDS, was finally produced in 1974. +It was given to monkeys and they died of pneumocystis carni which is +typical of AIDS.

+

Dr. R. J. Biggar said in Lancet ( a Brittish journal ) that the AIDS +agent could not have developed de novo. That means in plain english that +it didn't come out of thin air. AIDS was engineered in a laboratory by +virologists. It couldn't engineer itself. As Dr. Stricker so colorfully +puts it: " If a person has no arms or legs and shows up at a party in a +tuxedo, how did he get dressed? Somebody dressed him. "

+

There are 9000 to the 4th power possible AIDS viruses. ( There are +9000 base pairs on the geneome. ) So the fun has just begun. Some will +cause brain rot similar to the sheep virus, some leukemia-like diseases +from the cow viruses, and some that won't do anything. So the virus will +be constantly changing and trying out new esoteric disease on hapless +man. We're only the beginning

+

Because of the trillions of possible genetic combinations there will +never be a vaccine. Even if they could develop a vaccine they would +undoubtfully give us something equally as bad as they did with the Polio +vaccine ( cancer of the brain ), the Swine Flu vaccine ( a Polio-like +disease ), the Smallpox vaccine (AIDS), and the Hepatitis vaccine (AIDS).

+

There are precedents. This is not the first time the virologists have +brought us disaster. SV-40 virus from monkey cell cultures contaminated +Polio cultures. Most people in there 40's are now carrying the virus +through contaminated Polio innoculations given in the early 60's. It is +known to cause brain cancer which explains the increase in this disease +that we have seen in the past 10 years.

+

This is the origin of the green monkey theory. The Polio vaccine was +grown on green monkey kidney cells. 64 million Americans were vaccinated +with SV-40 contaminated vaccine in the 60's. An increase in cancer of the +brain, possibly Multiple Sclerosis, and God only knows what else is the +tragic result. The delay between vaccination and the onset of cancer +with this virus is as long as 20-30 years. 1965 + 20 = 1985. Get the +picture?

+

The final piece of the puzzle is how AIDS devastated the homosexual +population in the United States. It wasn't from Smalpox vaccination as +in Africa because we don't do that any more. There is no Smallpox in the +United States and so vaccination was discontinued. Although some AIDS has +been brought to the United States from Haiti by homosexuals, It would not +be enough to explain the explosion of AIDS that occurred simultaneously +with the African and Haitian epidemics.

+

The AIDS virus didn't exist in the United States before 1978. You can +check back in any hospital and no stored blood samples can be found +anywhere that exhibit the AIDS virus before that date. What happened in +1978 and beyond to cause AIDS to burst upon the scene and devastate the +homosexual section of our population? It was the introduction of the +Hepatitis B vaccine which exhibits the exact same epidemiology of AIDS.

+

A Doctor W. Schmunger, born in Poland and educated in Russia, came +to this country in 1969. Schmunger's immigration to the U.S. was +probably the most fatefull immigration in our history. He, by unexplained +process, became the head of one of the New York City blood bank. ( How +does a Russian trained doctor become the head of one of the largest blood +banks in the world? Doesn't that strike you as peculiar? )

+

He set up the rules for the Hepatitis vaccine studies. Only males +between the ages of 20 and 40 , who were not monogamous, were allowed to +participate in this study. Can you think of any reason for insisting that +all expermentees be promiscuous? Maybe you don't believe in the Communist +conspiracy theory but give me some other logical explanation. Schmunger +is now dead and his diabolical secret went with him.

+

The Centers for Disease Control reported in 1981 that 4% of those +receiving the Hepatitis vaccine were AIDS infected. In 1984 they admitted +to 60%. Now they refuse to give out the figures at all because they don't +want to admit that 100% of the Hepatitis vaccine receivers are AIDS +infected. Where is the data on the Hepatitis vaccine studied? FDA? CDC? +No, the U.S. Department of Justice has buried it where you will never see +it.

+

What has the government told us about AIDS?

+

* It's a homosexual disease-----------------------WRONG +* It's related to anal intercourse only-----------WRONG +* Only a small % of those testing positive +for AIDS would get the disease------------------WRONG +* It came from the African green monkey-----------WRONG +* It came from cytomegalovirus--------------------WRONG +* It was due to popping amyl nitrate with sex-----WRONG +* It was started 400 years ago by the Portugese---WRONG +* You cant get it from insects--------------------WRONG +* The virus can't live outside the body-----------WRONG

+

The head of the Human Leukemia Research Group at Harvard is a +veterinarian. Dr. O. W. Judd, International Agency for Research on Cancer, +the agency that requested the production of the virus in the first place, +is also a veterinarian. The Leukemia research he is conducting is being +done under the auspices of a school of veterinary medicine. Now, there is +nothing wrong with being a vet but, as we have pointed out, the AIDS virus +is a human virus. You can't test these viruses in animals and you can't +test leukemias in them either. It doesn't work. So why would your +government give Judd, a veterinarian, 8.5 million dollars to study +leukemia in a veterinary college? As long as we are being used as +experimental animals maybe it is appropriate.

+

The London Times should be congratulated for uncovering the smallpox-AIDS connection. But there expose was very misleading. The article states +that the African AIDS epidemic was caused by the smallpox vaccine +"triggering" the AIDS in those vaccinated. Dr. Robert Gallo, who has been +mixed up in some very strange scientific snafus, supports this theory. +Whether the infection of 75 million Africians was deliberate or +accidental can be debated, but there is no room for debate whether the +smallpox shots "awakened the unsuspecting virus infection." There is +absolutely no scientific evidence that this laboratory-engineered virus +was present in Africa before the WHO descended upon these hapless people +in 1967 with their deadly AIDS-laced vaccine. The AIDS virus didn't come +from Africa, it came from Fort Detrick, Maryland, U.S.A.

+

The situation is extremely desperate and the medical profession is +too frightened and cowed (as usual) to take any action. Dr. Strecker +attempted to mobilize the doctors through some of the most respected +medical journals in the world. The prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine +said that his material "appears to be entirely concerned with maters of +virology" and so try some other publication.

+

In his letter to The Annals, Strecker said, "If correct human +experimental procedures had been followed we would not find half of the +world stumbling off on the wrong path to the cure for AIDS with the other +half of the world covering up the origination of the dammed disease. It +appears to me that your Annals of Internal Medicine is participating in +the greatest fraud ever perpetrated."

+

I guess they didn't like that so Stricker submitted his sensational +and mind-boggling letter with all of the proper documentation to the +British journal, Lancet. Their reply : " Thank you for that interesting

+

letter on AIDS. I am sorry to have to report that we will not be able to +publish it. We have no criticism" but their letter section was " over +crowded with submissions ".

+

They're too crowded to announce the end of western civilization and +possibly all mandkind? Doesn't seem reasonable. What can we do? The first +thing that should be done is to close down all laboratories in this +country that are dealing with these deadly retro-viruses. Then we must +sort out the insane, irresponsible and traitorous scientists involved +in these experiments and try them for murder. Then maybe, just ,maybe, we +can repopulate and re-civilize the world.

+

William Campbell Douglass, M.D. +P.O. Box 38 Lakemont, GA 30552

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The following articles are extracted from New Dawn magazine, +Volume No. 1 & 2. (C) Copyright April 1992. Subscription rates are +as follows: $30 for 12 issues, $5 sample; Foreign US$40 & US$7. +New Dawn, GPO Box 3126FF, Melbourne, 3001, Australia.

+ +

Shocking Revelations on AIDS Research by Our North American +Correspondent

+ +

Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, national spokesman for Minister Louis +Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, dropped a bombshell on the +nation's capital at a mass rally held at All Souls Unitarian +Church on September 8. Although the event had been planned for +some time to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Washington, +D.C. ministry of Dr. Muhammad, he turned the event into a report +on his recent fact-finding mission to the African nation of Kenya.

+ +

Dr. Muhammad startled the standing-room-only audience when he +announced that a research team working out of the Kenyan Medical +Research Institute, led by the Harvard-trained immunologist Dr. +David Koech, had made dramatic advances in the treatment of AIDS. +Dr. Muhammad also charged that the U.S. government was leading a +major effort by the international medical establishment to +suppress this groundbreaking research.

+ +

Among those who packed the church to hear Dr. Muhammad speak on +the theme "Can We Survive Genocide," were clergy from several +denominations along the East Coast, civil rights leaders, +community activists, leaders of the Nation of Islam, elected +officials and political leaders from Maryland, Virginia, and the +District of Columbia, and hundreds of ordinary citizens. The +introduction of Washington's former Mayor Marion Barry - the man +on whom the Bush administration spent millions to remove him from +office - brought the house to its feet in an extended ovation.

+ +

A Policy of Genocide

+ +

In his remarks, Dr. Muhammad quoted extensively from a 1985 +article authored by Lyndon LaRouche, "The Looming Extinction of +the 'White Race'". In that piece, LaRouche documents that the +imperial policies intrinsic to oligarchism have set into motion +the self-destruction of the population levels and economies of +those "white" nations that have complicitly tolerated oligarchical +policies - most specifically the United States and Great Britain. +LaRouche states that since what the oligarchs call the "Great +White Race" is dying out at an accelerating rate, and threatening +the supremacy of the Anglo-American financial establishment, we +witness a fanatically Malthusian commitment to a policy of +genocide directed against people of colour; a genocide consciously +implemented through the conditionalities policies of the +International Monetary Fund (IMF).

+ +

"That," Dr. Muhammad charged, "is one of the reasons they've got +him locked up; because he's got the guts to tell the truth."

+ +

Dr. Muhammad went on to present extensive evidence that the policy +of deliberate genocide is fully operational. He described the +CIA's support for the cause of population control during George +Bush's tenure as Director of Central Intelligence, and reported +the contents of National Security Memorandum 200, written during +the Ford administration, which advised that the preservation of +U.S. political and commercial interests "will require that the +President and Secretary of State treat the subject of population +growth control in the third world as a matter of paramount +importance...." To the amazement of the audience, Muhammad +identified the authors of the internal memo as Henry Kissinger and +Gen. Brent Scowcroft, now Bush's national security adviser. (See +The New Dawn Vol.1 No.1, May, 1991)

+ +

Dr. Muhammad used the case of Brazil, which has the second largest +black population in the world, to prove that the memorandum was +being implemented. "Today in Brazil, 40% of the women of +childbearing age have been surgically sterilized with funds +provided by the USAID," he said, "and 90% of those sterilized +women are black."

+ +

He insisted that this genocide was the real agenda of Bush's New +World Order; that it not only motivated the invasion of Panama and +the kidnapping of Gen. Manuel Noriega, but also the continuing +murder of the nation of Iraq. He told the audience that these were +just the opening battles in the war of the advanced sector nations +of the North against the developing nations of the South. Dr. +Muhammad denounced George Bush as a wicked man who cherished his +membership in the satanic secret society Skull and Bones. He +reminded the audience that the "skull and bones" was also the +emblem on the flag flown by the slave traders who raided Africa, +as well as of the latter day pirates.

+ +

AIDS and 'population control'

+ +

Given the Anglo-American establishment's commitment to mass +murder, the effort to suppress the promising research of Dr. Koech +and his colleagues should come as no surprise to anyone, the +Nation of Islam leader said. In fact, he contended, there is +substantial evidence to indicate that AIDS was developed as a +race-specific population control measure. Dr. Muhammad ridiculed +the theory that AIDS originated when the virus made a species jump +from the African green monkey to the African population. "We lived +with the green monkey for thousands of years and never had any +problems. The green monkey isn't our enemy. The IMF is."

+ +

Dr. Muhammad, who is a trained surgeon, said he traveled to Kenya +to see for himself what the alpha interferon derivative, which +goes under the trade name Kemron, was really all about. Dr. +Muhammad reported that he interviewed the research team in their +laboratory, was permitted to review their data, and to examine +AIDS patients currently undergoing treatment with Kemron and with +a new, more advanced form of Kemron, the drug Immunex, which +contains a greater number of alpha interferon components than the +original drug. Dr. Muhammad stressed that although the new drug +was only a treatment and not a cure for the deadly HIV virus, he +was tremendously hopeful and encouraged by the dramatic +improvement in the condition of those undergoing treatment.

+ +

Dr. Muhammad introduced Dr. Barbara Justice, a well-known New York +City-based cancer surgeon who has sent 54 AIDS patients to Kenya +for treatment over the past year. Dr. Justice reported that 97% of +her patients showed marked improvement within weeks of beginning +treatment, and that most were able to regain some degree of +normalcy in their ability to function.

+ +

It has been almost impossible for anyone outside of Kenya +administering Kemron on an experimental basis in the to assess the +work of the Kenyan team, which has been treatment of AIDS since +1989, since it has been systematically blacked out of the +scientific literature. Dr. Koech was to present his data, first at +the International AIDS Conference in the United States in 1987, +and then again at the 1991 AIDS Conference in Italy. On both +occasions, his invitation was inexplicably withdrawn.

+ +

Last year, Dr. Koech decided to take his data directly to the U.S. +medical community, and an extensive U.S. lecture tour was planned. +That tour was abruptly cancelled when the State Department refused +to issue Dr. Koech the necessary permission to enter the United +States.

+ +

This is certainly not the first time that important AIDS research +has been suppressed. Quite the contrary, it is part of a +continuing criminal pattern of lies and cover-up. The importance +of a rapid evaluation of Dr. Koech's work with Kemron and Immunex +is obvious. Currently, the only treatment available to AIDS +victims is the drug AZT; however, AZT therapy is prohibitively +expensive and carries with it extremely destructive side effects, +especially with prolonged use. Additionally, a recent study +conducted by the U.S. Army showed that, for unexplained reasons, +AZT therapy is not only largely ineffective in the treatment of +blacks, but that, in fact, AZT seems to aggravate symptoms in an +alarming number of black patients.

+ +

Kenya's President Daniel Arap Moi clearly finds the Koech team's +findings to be convincing. He recently announced that his +government was building a factory to allow the mass production of +alpha interferon.**

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+ +

AIDS - Man-Made Holocaust

+ +

The fact that AIDS is a man-made virus created in U.S. +laboratories has been covered up

+ +

By JASON JEFFREY

+ +

"America should withdraw from the Mediterranean, Europe and all +foreign bases and it should save that money to create jobs for 12 +million unemployed Americans, and contribute towards the +elimination of the diseases it manufactured like AIDS which was +produced by the CIA at its laboratories and tested on American +prisoners who took the virus with them to the outside world when +released from prison and then it spread throughout the world." +- Muammar Al-Qadhafi speaking at the International Conference for +Peace in the Mediterranean, 4-6 May, 1990.

+ +

On July 4, 1984, the Indian daily Patriot published a +horrifying report that the disease AIDS was believed to +have originated from a virus created in the laboratories +at the U.S. germ warfare research institute at Fort +Detrick, Maryland. The editor explained that the +information had come from a well-known American scientist +and anthropologist who expressed the fear that India might +face a danger from the disease in the near future. The +American had to remain anonymous. He was obviously in +danger for having disclosed so deadly a secret. At that +time, when the full horror of the incurable disease was +not known Patriot reported that the World Health +Organisation believed AIDS posed the gravest threat to the +entire population of the world. More on the World Health +Organisation later. The British Sunday Express, 26 +October, 1986, with banner headlines, and an "exclusive" +label, announced "AIDS made in lab. shock." The front-page +story said that the virus was created during laboratory +experiments which "went disastrously wrong." It added that +a massive cover-up had kept the secret from the world. The +Sunday Express quoted a British expert, Dr. John Seale, +who first reported his conclusion that the virus was +man-made last August, 1986, in the Royal Society of +Medicine Journal. He said that his report was met with a +"deadly silence" from the medical profession, and that +made him very suspicious. The editor of the Journal +agreed, according to Dr. Seale, that "it sounded like a +conspiracy of silence." The second expert quoted by the +Sunday Express, was Prof. Jacob Segal, retired Director of +the Institute of Biology in Berlin. It said, "our +investigators have revealed that two U.S. Embassy +officials made a two-hour visit to Prof. Segal at his home +two weeks ago questioning him about what he knows, what he +thinks, where he got his information, and what he intends +doing with his report." The Professor told the reporters, +"one said he was a historian, and the other said he was a +political consul. But I am positive they were from the +CIA, and that they were deeply concerned that the cover-up +over the origin of AIDS was going to be exposed." I told +them I had known that in the mid-70s experiments were +being carried out at Fort Detrick, where the U.S. Army +Medical Research Command has its headquarters, on +volunteer long-term prisoners who were promised their +freedom after the tests. Almost certainly the scientists +were unaware of the extent of their terrible creation - +the AIDS virus. +WHO Involvement? +The third expert quoted in the Sunday Express was Dr. +Robert Strecker, an internist and gastroentarologist from +Glendale, California, who stated "it must have been +genetically engineered." Strecker believes, after years of +exhaustive research, that the AIDS virus is indeed +man-made. Strecker has alleged that AIDS was engineered at +the request of the World Health Organisation and other +scientific groups who, according to Strecker, injected the +disease during preventative vaccines. WHO, he says, along +with the International Agency for Research on Cancer and +The National Institute on Health, requested the production +of a virus that would attack the immune system's T-cells. +AIDS, he says, is a hybrid of two animal viruses - bovine +leukemia (found in cattle) and a sheep brain virus called +visna. This new virus was given as vaccinations in Haiti, +Brazil, Africa and the Caribbean by WHO in a 13-year +campaign against smallpox in Third World nations, reports +indicate. Strecker, in his 97-minute videotape, "The +Strecker Memorandum," cites specific documentation +supporting theories that AIDS is a result of that direct +request. For example, from Volume 47 of Bulletin of the +World Health Organisation (1972), page 259: "The effects +of virus infection of different cell types (e.g., +Macrophages, T and B lymphocytes) should be studied in +greater detail with morphological changes perhaps serving +as an indication of functional alteration..." "The +possibility should also be looked into that the immune +response to the virus may itself be impaired if the +infecting virus damages more or less selectively the cells +responding to the viral antigens..." In fact, a May 11, +1987 frontpage article in the London Times, headlined +"Smallpox Vaccine Triggered AIDS Virus," said WHO was +investigating new evidence suggesting that "immunization +from the smallpox vaccine Vaccinia awakened the +unsuspected, dormant human immuno defense virus infection +(HIV)." Vaccinia was the actual vaccine given as smallpox +deterrents during the WHO project. Were the AIDS +infections intentional, accidental or coincidence? +According to Strecker in his "Memorandum," a key part of +the actual study "was to be the time relationship between +infection and antigen administration," which suggests WHO +officials - and other agencies who were directly dependent +on the United States government for research grants - had +to have known. The denials were not long in coming. But +the British Sunday Telegraph exposed itself. It said the +story (the Sunday Express article) was invented by the +Russians "to smear the Americans," and recalled that it +had appeared in the Soviet journal, Literary Gazette. It +said this paper based its report on the Patriot - and that +the Patriot report did not exist! Professor Segal +describes as "ludicrous and scientifically incredible" the +theory that the virus came from African green monkeys. One +thing is certain: the controversy surrounding the AIDS +virus will not die.

+ +

A Weapon Against Black People? +Zear Miles, a Black industrial engineer, who has studied +the AIDS virus and its origins for about six years has +stated that he has proof from various documentation and +letters from other AIDS researchers to prove that the +virus was made in an American military lab as a means to +suppress Blacks. In his document entitled "Rape Africa", +Miles researched the origin of the AIDS virus from 1952, +when the federal government had enough blood types and +characteristics of every nationality in the world up to +the King Alfred plan which called for the extinction of +Blacks in national security emergencies. Miles learned +that through National Security Council Memorandum 46, +dated 1978, which called for a possible way to gauge and +control the impact of the growing Black movement, the +government was researching possible ways to suppress Black +hostility toward the authorities. Later called the King +Alfred plan, the scheme called for the extinction of +Blacks by the year 2000 with an AIDS-like virus. Miles +said he also gauged the increasing number of AIDS cases in +which the number of Black contractors have gone up +significantly compared with Whites, citing that the AIDS +virus attacked a Black person's immune system and +destroyed it in six weeks as opposed to a White person's +time of six months.

+ +

The Evidence +What is the evidence available to the layman. First, the +initial cases were reported in New York and there is no +dispute that Fort Detrick was working on immunological +defence against infection. The British Guardian reported +on October 27, 1986, that in 1969 evidence was given to a +Washington Appropriation Committee that "within the next +five or ten years it would probably be possible to make a +new infective micro-organism which would differ from any +known disease causing organism. Most important, that it +might be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic +properties on which we depend to maintain our relative +freedom from infectious disease." "Refractory" means, +according to the Oxford Dictionary, "not yielding to +treatment." AIDS answers precisely to that description. +On September 24, 1986, the Daily Telegraph reported from +Washington, "Enough of a debilitating virus to infect the +whole world, disappeared from an American germwarfare +laboratory five years ago, and has never been traced, an +environment group claimed yesterday in a Washington Court +action aimed at halting biological weapons research." In +1968, the J.D. Bernal Peace Library organised a conference +on the dangers of biological warfare research. Ritchie +Calder said then that among the weapons being stockpiled +were some designed to bring about genetic changes. He said +the "doomsday bug was under wraps" and that there was a +conspiracy of silence about germ weapons because the +implications were so frightening." He told the British +Daily Mirror after his address that "somewhere in the +world a germ is being cultured to which we would have no +natural resistance and to which there would be no sure +defence." A precise description of AIDS. The British +Observer, on June 30, 1968, quoted from an article in the +Journal of General Microbiology by W.D. Lawton of Fort +Detrick, and R.C. Morris and T.W. Burrows of the British +microbiological research station at Porton. One paragraph +said, "By engineering the genetics of individual strains, +microbiologists aim to produce a single strain containing +the most deadly combination of properties." Again, a +description of AIDS. The article says that at that time +Porton, according to the government, was concerned only +with defence applications of research, but Fort Detrick +was only committed to developing microbiological weapons +for offence. The Japanese carried out germ warfare +research in occupied China during the war. Some of these +criminals were captured by the Soviets and duly tried and +sentenced. Others were given immunity by the Americans and +taken to work at Fort Detrick. In 1969, after the AIDS +virus was loose, negotiations began on a Convention +banning biological weapons, and it came into force in +1972. In its first review conference in 1980, it was +reported that 80 countries had ratified. But there is no +provision in the Convention to ban research or for +verification. Nichola Sims, who has written a book on +biological disarmament, wrote recently, "the failure of +the Convention to impose any restrictions even on +'offensive' biological warfare research, has been +frequently criticised." And she refers to popular fears +that a "super germ breakthrough in the means of waging +biological or toxin warfare is just around the corner and +may induce the possessor of such a germ to break out of +the Convention." She quotes Dr. Robert K. Mikulak of the +U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for the statement +that "there is no justification for classified military +research on the question in any country." But so far there +is no inspection or verification. A much more recent +accusation against the United States for the manufacturing +of the AIDS virus comes from the Libyan UN Ambassador, Mr. +Ali Ahmed Elhouderi. On January 9, 1992, at a press +conference, he stated that the AIDS virus was produced in +a laboratory probably as a weapon. He said, "We think it +is man-made and it was done in laboratories. And it was +not, as suggested, coming from monkeys in Africa." He also +suggested that the virus had been manufactured at the time +of the Vietnam War. These statements fit perfectly into +place as research would have been carried out at that time +at Fort Detrick for offensive purposes against the North +Vietnamese.

+ +

AIDS Was Man-Made +On all the circumstantial evidence, the layman will almost +certainly reject the idea that the escape of the man-made +AIDS virus was the result of a disastrous error during +innocent civilian research. We can assuredly conclude that +it was the result of germ warfare research, and the finger +of guilt points to the United States. The scientists +could not have visualised that they would let loose a +so-far incurable disease that may and possibly will wipe +out millions, particularly in the Third World, where the +majority of the world's population lives. Never was the +need greater for the nations to drop their differences and +to concentrate all their skill and resources in a +world-wide battle against this terrible threat, and to end +the horror of germ warfare research.**

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+ +

The Mystery of Skull Valley

+ +

By NIKOLAI FILIPPOV

+ +

Because of an error made by an airman testing a new germ weapon, a +deadly virus attacks the population of a small town in highland +Utah, USA. An incurable disease begins to kill people like a +plague epidemic. In an attempt to cover up the traces of their +crime, the military authorities artificially cause a landslide +that buries the town and doom chance survivors to lifelong +isolation.

+ +

This is the plot of Vector, a novel by Henry Sutton, an +American author. This book is based on dramatic events +during which the victims were fortunately not people but +animals. March 14-20, 1968 was a black week for American +farmers grazing sheep in the remote pasturelands of +semi-desert Skull Valley, Utah. About 6500 sheep died +there in those seven days under mysterious circumstances. +Even more of a mystery was that people, cattle and other +animals in the area were unscathed. Everybody - farmers, +residents of Utah, journalists - felt certain that the +accident was linked to the US Army chemical and +bacteriological testing ground in Dugway with an area of +several thousand square kilometres in the vicinity of +Skull Valley. Indeed, at that very time the thousands of +Dugway employees were carrying out large scale experiments +in preparation for further escalation of the chemical war +and the start of a germ war in Vietnam. For a whole year +the Defence Department emphatically denied that animals in +Skull Valley were being affected by the chemical or +biological agents disseminated in the atmosphere during +the test. In an attempt at a cover-up, experts at the +proving ground advanced hypotheses which must have seemed +untenable even to laymen about the sheep having been +killed by poisonous plants or a natural epizootic. +However, an inquiry by Utah authorities in collaboration +with veterinarians and health experts compelled the +Pentagon to admit its responsibility for the death of the +sheep. Even so, no one at Dugway was punished. The blame +for a terrible crime posing a real threat to people's +health due to a gross violation of safety standards in +conducting tests was placed on an unfortunate accident. +According to the official version formulated under the +direction of the U.S. military authorities, a test of +TMU-28/B spray tanks with nerve agent VX, was carried out +at Dugway on March 13, 1968. The gas was dispersed from an +F-4E jet bomber by means of two spray tanks with a total +capacity of 1200 litres. The bomber flew at an altitude +of 40 to 45 m. During the test something went wrong with +one of the tanks (or so the version ran), and besides, the +direction of the wind varied, with the result that part of +the nerve gas was carried beyond the proving ground. A +cloud of aerosol VX allegedly contaminated pasturelands on +an area of 400-500 sq. km. Skull Valley was not the only +area where sheep died, for a cloud of aerosol VX reached +Res Valley, killing sheep 70 km away from where the poison +gas had been released. Anyone who has read publications +dealing with the accident in Skull Valley and Res Valley +is bound to detect a contradiction between the military +authorities' version and the facts. The Pentagon has yet +to explain why a whole year passed before it made up its +mind about what chemical or biological agent caused the +death of the sheep outside Dugway. If the Dugway test had +to do only with VX, then that gas was the only cause of +the sheep's death and this could have been stated at once. +There is reason to presume that over a short period +experiments were carried out at Dugway involving a whole +range of poison gases and biological agents. But it is +logical to suppose that even in such a contingency experts +should know well the properties and casualty effects of +the test materials. And this implies that researchers must +have had no difficulty in ascertaining the nature of the +agent which killed so many sheep. The official story of +the experiment of March 13, 1968, says that the wind +carried beyond Dugway, in the form of vapours and highly +dispersed aerosol, a mere nine kg, or 0.8 per cent, of the +total amount of VX gas to be dispersed. Field chemical +control cannot ensure such a degree of accuracy. But the +authors of the version needed to cite some figure in order +to make people believe that the sheep had been killed by a +nerve gas. At the same time, the Pentagon wanted to +conceal from the public the real danger posed by chemical +weapon tests in the atmosphere to residents of Utah and so +it withheld information about the actual amount of gas +released over Skull Valley. The Pentagon officials +suggested that the contamination level in the Skull Valley +pastureland where deaths occurred among sheep averaged a +mere 0.02 gram per hectare. Let us note by way of +comparison that to kill humans, it would be necessary +according to U.S. data available to disseminate from one +to three kilograms of VX per hectare of target, or 100 +thousand times more than the contamination level in Skull +Valley given in the official version. Reports said that in +a flock totalling 2800 sheep, 2500 or 90 per cent, were +killed. No such effect is possible where the VX +contamination level is 0.02 gram per hectare. A +publication put out by the Dugway proving ground said that +during the test on March 13, 1968, the greatest distance +at which VX drops spilled on the ground had been 5.4 km +and not 70 km, as the official version would have it. The +Pentagon's information on one and the same fact varies +from document to document and from period to period. +Surely this shows that the version is false. A +contaminated cloud spreading wide in the atmosphere only +retains vapours and minute particles of aerosol which do +not settle on the ground and can be inhaled. It follows +that had such a cloud really floated over Skull Valley, it +would have caused inhalational casualties in other animals +as well, including cattle and horses, but no such thing +happened, according to documentary evidence. In the early +days after the accident, before the hypothesis about VX +was advanced, doubts were expressed even by Brig. Gen. +William Stone. He rightly asked why the gas had only +killed sheep without affecting people. There were also +other moot points. Why were the diseased sheep shot dead? +Why was no attempt made to save them by evacuating them to +an uncontaminated area or by treating them with atropine +or other antidotes? Marr Fawcett, a veterinarian of Utah, +refused to believe that the sheep had been poisoned with +VX, for in that case many of them could, in his opinion, +have been saved by means of antidotes. Dr. Kent Van +Kampen, a veterinary pathologist in Utah, said in April +1968, shortly after the accident, that as early as March +17, 1968, the supposition that the sheep had been hit by a +chemical poison affecting the nervous system could have +been refuted without difficulty since all symptoms of such +poisoning were lacking. The death of an animal poisoned +with a nerve gas such as VX is accompanied by spasms and +paresis of muscles in the limbs. Yet judging by what sheep +herders said in the early days of the inquiry into the +accident, dying sheep had shown no signs of spasms. True, +later on someone saw to it that a videotape recording +allegedly illustrating the Skull Valley accident was +projected widely. The tape showed the death of a single +sheep shaking with spasms as a group of civilians looked +on. One year after the accident, Kent Van Kampen and Marr +Fawcett contributed in collaboration with other experts of +Utah an article to the Journal of the American Veterinary +Medical Association setting out the causes and +circumstances of the sheep's death in Skull Valley, their +version tallying with the Pentagon's. There was a footnote +saying that in writing their article, the authors had +enjoyed expert assistance (it is easy enough to guess what +kind of assistance) in particular from Dr. Mortimer +Rothenberg, the science director at Dugway, and Dr. +Bernard MacNamara of Edgewood Arsenal, the chief U.S. Army +centre for the development of chemical and germ weapons. +We might as well note at this point that shortly after the +sheep's death in Skull Valley Dr. Rothenberg, trying to +exonerate Dugway from blame for the accident, declared +that the symptoms displayed by the sheep had nothing +whatever in common with those of nerve gas poisoning. And +so, it took the Pentagon a year to invent an explanation +for the sheep's death and make the civilian experts +mentioned above present its version as their own, thereby +striking a bargain with their conscience. The videotape +which showed a sheep's death from VX was intended to serve +the same purpose. But the forgery was too crude for +knowledgeable people to mistake it for the truth. They +realised at once that the "documentary" showed a sheep +injected with a nerve gas by means of a syringe, that is, +in the same way as this is done in demonstrating the +effect of nerve gases on animals. They deduced this from +the absence of any other living or dead sheep on the +screen as well as from the presence of people wearing no +gas masks or protective clothes, whereas safety +regulations forbid anyone to enter without taking these +precautions in an area contaminated by VX to a degree +killing livestock. There is no such ban where a poison gas +is injected into the body of an animal outside a +contaminated area. A further fact worthy of note is that +the worker's teams which buried the dead sheep had no gas +masks on, judging by other videotapes and various +photographs. This is permissible only when the nature of +an agent which has caused the death of animals is known +for certain. Furthermore, it is necessary to note that the +agent used was completely harmless to humans. This detail, +like the others cited above, indicates that the sheep in +Skull Valley were killed by something other than nerve +gas. The death of livestock so far away from the testing +ground, as in the case of Skull Valley, could only be +caused by a biological agent. Experts could establish +without difficulty that nine litres of biological agent is +enough to generate a pathogenic aerosol cloud five km +long, two km deep and 100 m high. One litre of aerosol +cloud could contain several hundred units of pathogen. +Such a cloud can sail many dozens of kilometres without +losing its casualty effects. Consideration of the death +rate of biological agents during the drift of aerosol +particles in the atmosphere makes no difference as far as +the main conclusion is concerned. Poison gas tests +according to regulations in force at Dugway are generally +conducted in the morning to ensure that enough daylight +remains for collecting data on the results of tests and +cleaning the test site. The dissemination of VX on March +13, 1968, is alleged to have been carried out one hour +before sunset. Evening experiments are particularly +typical in the case of biological agents, for researchers +are careful to preclude the disastrous impact of sunrays +on pathogens. The year 1968, when the Skull Valley +accident occurred, has gone down in history as the peak of +U.S. chemical warfare in Vietnam, Laos and Kampuchea. In +thelate 1960s, the Pentagon worked at a frantic pace to +develop new chemical and germ weapons. A report by the +House Committee on Science and Astronautics said that in +the years preceding the accident, the Pentagon had been +engaged in a vast programme for germ weapon testing. The +tests were conducted at several military testing grounds, +on ocean islands, in the Panama Canal zone, Alaska, New +York City and San Diego as well as on airfields, in +subways and on highways. The Dugway test made on March 13, +1968, or somewhat earlier could be one of those tests. It +is reasonable to suppose that during that test use was +made of biological agents based on a virus selectively +killing sheep without doing any harm to humans. It could +be visna, a virus which has been intensively studied since +the late 1950s in several research centres, including Fort +Dettrick, Maryland, then the main U.S. centre for the +development of germ weapons. No visna-caused diseases have +been recorded among humans. This virus hardly affects +cattle, horses or other animals. Its properties in this +respect coincide entirely with those of the agent +responsible for the Skull Valley accident in 1968. Visna +affects the central nervous system of sheep, robbing their +body of immunity. The symptoms are progressive weakness, +shortness of breath, a wobbly gait, sagging withers and a +drooping head. The end affect is paresis and paralysis of +the skeletal muscles and then death. Similar symptoms were +registered in sheep affected with the Skull Valley +disease. The disease caused by visna is incurable. This +explains why the epidemiological service of Utah did the +right thing by deciding to slaughter the diseased sheep. +No antidotes could have helped the animals in the least +and were not used, either. If during the March 1968 tests +at Dugway visna was used as a simultant modelling the +properties of germ weapons, it is clear why the men who +buried the dead sheep used no gas masks or protective +clothes, since visna is harmless to man. And this invites +another conclusion: at that time, the nature of the agent +which affected the sheep was known to at least a small +group of people in charge of removing the effects of the +accident. The establishment of investigation committees +was merely designed to conceal the real objectives and +tasks of the Dugway experiments from the public. The +mystery of those criminal experiments has begun to come to +light in recent years. Competent scientists consider that +visna was used in the United States for genetic +engineering work which resulted in creating HIV, a +chimeric virus causing an incurable infectious disease of +man known as AIDS. Research into HIV at the molecular +level has shown that 60 per cent of its genome is +identical with that of visna and the rest is a built-in +nucleotide sequence isolated from the genome of another +retrovirus, HLTV-I. HIV, or the pathogen of AIDS, was +designed in U.S. genetic engineering laboratories on +instruction from the Pentagon. The purpose of this virus +is to augment the U.S. germ (biological) warfare potential +by acquiring a capability for depriving an enemy +population of vitally important immunity at the threshold +of a major or local armed conflict. The conclusion about +the complicity of the U.S. military authorities in the +appearance of AIDS, the new dangerous disease which +affects humans, is shared by John Seale of Britain, Jacob +Segal of Germany, Robert Strecker of the United States and +other noted scientists and experts who have carefully +analysed available scientific data. [See New Dawn Vol.2, +No.1] For the time being, they have discounted the events +and facts connected with the Skull Valley accident. +Nevertheless, they have come to the unanimous conclusion +that in designing HIV visna was made use of. Dr. Seale has +said that a scientist who wanted to evolve a virus capable +of destroying man's immunity system and provoking a +disease similar to AIDS would have to resort to visna. +The "patent" for inventing HIV should be issued to the +United States because it was there that the virus was +developed and also because Americans were the first +victims of AIDS. The disease, which broke out in New York, +was carried to other big cities in the United States and +then to other countries and continents. Its virus was +transmitted by infected Americans serving at overseas +military bases. Besides, AIDS was contracted in the United +States by Australian and European tourists vacationing +there. HIV spread to Middle East and other Arab countries +which imported blood from donors stricken with AIDS. In +October 1986, John Seale quoted during an interview with +the Guardian an extract from a report prepared by the +Pentagon in 1969. It said that in the next five to ten +years an infective micro-organism might be evolved that +would differ substantially from all pathogens known so +far. Its most important property, the report said, would +consist in attacking the immune system and internal organs +on which the ability of the human body to resist +infectious diseases depends. Consequently, the AIDS +pathogen was deliberately created and development was +planned and funded. The test at Dugway which killed so +many sheep in Skull Valley turned out to be part of the +Pentagon's programme for designing a new biological agent, +the AIDS pathogen.**

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AIDS: As Biological & Psychological Warfare

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By WAVES FOREST

+ +

It is hard to imagine that a cure for AIDS would be withheld for +economic reasons alone. Could there be some other motive?

+ +

Despite repeated denials from Defense Department +officials, allegations persist that AIDS is a genetically +altered virus, which has been deliberately released to +wipe out homosexuals and/or non-whites in the U.S. and +reduce populations in Third World countries. At first +glance it seems like the epitome of paranoia to accuse the +military of conspiring to exterminate citizens of their +own country, and even some of their own troops. However, +the vast majority of military personnel could be +completely unaware of such a plot in their midst, while a +relative handful of traitors in key positions could +conduct it under cover of classified operations. And the +circumstantial evidence is actually quite compelling, that +the AIDS virus was artificially engineered, and planted in +several different locations at about the same time through +vaccination programs, and possibly blood bank +contamination. At a House Appropriations hearing in 1969, +the Defense Department's Biological Warfare (BW) division +requested funds to develop through gene-splicing a new +disease that would both resist and break down a victim's +immune system. "Within the next 5 to 10 years it would +probably be possible to make a new infective +micro-organism which would differ in certain important +respects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most +important of these is that it might be refractory to the +immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we +depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious +disease." (See A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story +of Chemical and Biological Warfare by R. Harris and J. +Paxman, p.266, Hill and Wang, pubs.) The funds were +approved. AIDS appeared within the requested time frame, +and has the exact characteristics specified. In 1972, the +World Health Organisation published a similar proposal: +"An attempt should be made to ascertain whether viruses +can in fact exert selective effects on immune function, +e.g. by... affecting T cell function as opposed to B cell +function. The possibility should also be looked into that +the immune response to the virus itself may be impaired if +the infecting virus damages more or less selectively the +cells responding to the viral antigens." (Bulletin of the +W.H.O., vol. 47, p.257-274.) This is a clinical +description of the function of the AIDS virus. The +incidence of AIDS infections in Africa coincides exactly +with the locations of the massive W.H.O. smallpox +vaccination program in the mid-1970's (London Times, May +11, 1987). Some 14000 Haitians then on UN secondment to +Central Africa were also vaccinated in this campaign. +Personnel actually conducting the vaccinations may have +been completely unaware that the vaccine was anything +other than what they were told. A striking feature of +AIDS is that it is ethno-selective. The rate of infection +is twice as high among Blacks, Latinos and Native +Americans as among whites, with death coming two to three +times as swiftly. And over 80% of the children with AIDS +and 90% of infants born with it are among these +minorities. "Ethnic weapons" that would strike certain +racial groups more heavily than others have been a +longstanding U.S. Army BW objective. (Harris and Paxman, +p.265) Under the current U.S. administration biological +warfare research spending has increased 500 percent, +primarily in the area of genetic engineering of new +disease organisms. The "discovery" of the AIDS virus +(HTLV3) was announced by Dr. Robert Gallo at the National +Cancer Institute, which is on the grounds of Fort Detrick, +Maryland, a primary U.S. Army biological warfare research +facility. Actually, the AIDS virus looks and acts much +more like a cross between a bovine leukemia virus and a +sheep visna (brain-rot) virus, cultured in a human cell +culture, than any virus of the HTLV3 group. The closest +thing in this case to a "smoking test tube" so far is the +AIDS virus itself. If it was possible for such a +monstrosity to occur naturally it would have done so ages +ago and decimated mankind at that time. Some other life +form would presently be in control of this planet +(assuming that is not already the case). The Hepatitis B +vaccine study in 1978 appears to have been the initial +means of planting the infection in New York City. The test +protocol specified non-monogamous males only, and +homosexuals received a different vaccine from +heterosexuals. At least 25-50% of the first reported New +York AIDS cases in 1981 had received the Hepatitis B test +vaccine in 1978. By 1984, 64% of the vaccine recipients +had AIDS, and the figures on the current infection rate +for the participants of that study are held by the U.S. +State Department of Justice, and "unavailable." The AIDS +epidemic emerged full-blown in the three U.S. cities with +"organised gay communities" before being reported +elsewhere, including Haiti or Africa, so it is +epidemiologically impossible for either of those countries +to be the origin point for the U.S. infections. Another +indication AIDS had multiple origin points is that the +14-month doubling time of the disease cannot nearly +account for the current number of cases if we assume only +a small number of initial infections starting in the late +1970s. Before dismissing the possibility that a U.S. Army +BW facility would participate in genocide, bear in mind +that hundreds of top Nazis were imported into key +positions in the U.S. military-intelligence establishment +following WWII. U.S. military priorities were then +reorientated from defeating Nazis to "defeating" communism +at any cost, and strengthening military control of +economic and foreign policy decisions. (See Project +Paperclip by Clarence Lasby, Atheneum 214, NY, and Gehlen: +Spy of the Century by E.H. Cookridge, Random House.) +There's no proof those Nazis ever gave up their longterm +goals of conquest and genocide, just because they changed +countries. Fascism was and is an international phenomenon. +It's not as if this was a total reversal of previous U.S. +military policy, however. Hitler claimed to have gotten +his inspiration for the "final solution" from the +extermination of Native Americans in the U.S. For that +matter the first example of germ warfare in the U.S. was +in 1763 when some of the European colonists gave friendly +Indians a number of blankets that had been infected with +smallpox, causing many deaths. One indication of the +actual U.S. military priorities regarding BW was the +importation of the entire Japanese germ warfare unit +(#731) following WW II. These people killed over 3000 +POWs, including many Americans, in a variety of grisly +experiments, yet they were granted complete amnesty and +given American military positions in exchange for sharing +their research findings with their U.S. Army counterparts. +Consider also the callous attitude displayed by top +military officials toward veterans suffering from the +after-effects of exposure to Agent Orange and radiation +from nuclear weapons tests. In fact, since the end of WW +II over 200 experimental BW tests have been conducted on +civilians and military personnel in the U.S. One example +was the test spraying from Sept. 20-26, 1950 of bacillus +globigi and syraceus maracezens over 117 square miles of +the San Francisco area, causing pneumonia-like infections +in many of the residents. The family of one elderly man +who died in the test sued the government, but lost. To +this day, syraceus is a leading cause of death among the +elderly in the San Francisco area. Another case was the +joint Army-CIA BW test in 1955, still classified, in which +an undisclosed bacteria was released in the Tampa Bay +region of Florida, causing a dramatic increase in whooping +cough infections, including twelve deaths. A third example +was the July 7-10, 1966 release of bacteria throughout the +New York subway system, conducted by the U.S. Army's +Special Operations Division. Due to the vast number of +people exposed it would be virtually impossible to +identify, let alone prove, the specific health problems +resulting directly from this test. Despite the loyalty of +the vast majority of U.S. military personnel toward their +country, there are clearly some military officials who +have very different intentions, and they occupy high +enough positions to impose their priorities on military +programs and get away with it, so far. The first detailed +charges regarding AIDS as a BW weapon were published in +the Patriot newspaper in New Delhi, India, on July 4, +1984. It is hard to say where the investigations of this +story in the Indian press might have led, if they had not +been sidetracked by two major domestic disasters shortly +thereafter: the assassination of Indira Gandhi on Oct. 31 +and the Bhopal Union Carbide plant "accident" that killed +several thousand and injured over 200000 on Dec. 3. +Apparently, homosexuals were an initial target in the U.S. +because their sexual practices would help in the rapid +spread of the disease, and because it was correctly +assumed that very few non-homosexual citizens would pay +much attention during the early years of the epidemic. +Also, the stigma of a "homosexual disease" would interfere +with rational analysis and discussion of AIDS. Bear in +mind that homosexuals were among the first to be +exterminated in Nazi Germany, before Jews and other +minorities, so fewer citizens would object. The details +of precisely how the AIDS virus was synthesized, mass +cultured, and spread by incorporating it into vaccination +programs are available but fairly intricate. Evil is hard +to confront, especially on the preposterous scale we have +here. If you acknowledge the presence of those who think +their only hope for survival is to kill off two thirds of +all the other kinds, and their ability to manage it, you +then pretty much have to do something about it.

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Abridged from Now What #1.**

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Immunex

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The North American-based Nation of Islam (NOI) led by Minister +Louis Farrakhan launched an offensive in its battle against the +deadly "man-made" AIDS virus during its recent Saviours' Day +weekend. The following report is courtesy of The Final Call. + +From the rostrum of Christ Universal Temple here, the +Honorable Louis Farrakhan announced that the NOI has +acquired exclusive distribution rights to the AIDS +fighting drug Immunex, an oral alpha-interferon treatment +developed in Kenya. "I just got a call from our chief of +staff 3 minutes before I came on the rostrum," Minister +Farrakhan said, regarding the confirmation of the Immunex +agreement that came from Leonard Muhammad in Kenya. "The +Nation of Islam is announcing to you that we have the +exclusive distribution rights of Immunex throughout the +United States of America. "As of this day," he continued, +"Min. Alim will still teach, but he is now the Minister of +Health and Human Services for the Nation of Islam." Dr. +Alim told the cheering audience that the war against AIDS +is being won but total victory will not come "until we +deal with those responsible for making the AIDS virus." +Since the early 1970s under the Nixon administration, he +said, the official policy of this government has been to +commit genocide against non-white people around the earth. +That policy continues under the administration of +President George Bush, he said. Dr. Muhammad and former +Final Call Editor-in-Chief Abdul Wali Muhammad were sent +to Kenya by Minister Farrakhan last year on a fact-finding +tour regarding the drug Kemron. While there, the NOI +representatives learned about Immunex. Both drugs have +shown remarkable effects in relieving AIDS symptoms, but +the drugs have received very little media coverage in the +U.S. "We would like FDA approval," said Min. Farrakhan, +"however we can't wait. We will take any risk, bear any +burden to free our people of a man-made disease designed +to kill us all." The Minister added that the drug will be +offered to all who need it "regardless of race, creed or +colour."** +

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AIDS as a Weapon of War

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by Dr. William Campbell Douglas, M.D.

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Introduction & Comments by Jim Shults

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INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTS

+ +

I must admit I am just a little gun shy of doing this +particular article. The reason is pretty obvious. Who in hell is +going to plead guilty to inventing the AIDS virus. Do I think it +was invented? Absolutely and without a doubt.

+ +

Firstly, where in hell has it been during the last 5000 years? +Why haven't we had exposure to it sooner, like in the last 50 years?

+ +

All of a sudden certain countries and entire continents are +coming down with the AIDS virus and no organization, body, group, or +whatever you care to call it has even a clue to the real source, and +it sure as hell isn't some monkey in Africa, that's for sure.

+ +

Over the last twenty years the genetic scientists have been +having a filed day inventing all kinds of new "life." Some have +even been granted patents for their creatures, which are usually +various types of bacteria, etc.

+ +

One patent was granted for the invention, or more accurately +put, creation, of a type of bacteria that eats oil, handy for oil +spills I guess. Now do you think for even a second that a virus +like the AIDS virus couldn't be created with all the genetic +engineering that is going on around the world?

+ +

There are certain types of bacteria that are living in test +tubes in labs around the world that if released would cause the end +of mankind in less than a year.

+ +

The real question is why we allow these bozos to play in labs, +making all kinds of new and artificial life in the first place. It +is going to backfire, in fact the author already feels it has, +through the deliberate release of the HIV (human immunodeficiency +virus); that's what AIDS is really called.

+ +

Something extraordinary happened last June (88'), in fact it +was so extraordinary that nothing like it has ever happened before.

+ +

The Surgeon General of the United States had mailed to every +mail box and address in the United States a brochure attempting to +explain AIDS, its danger, myths and means of transmission. The

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absolutely amazing thing about this was that it was done at +all. +Think of this for a minute: the U.S. Government mailed this +information to every address in America. That in itself should tell +all of us something that the media has somehow missed -- that this +is a population-destroying virus.

+ +

That really means that we all are in shit city, race fans, and +the Government know it. It is significant that they did the +mailing, and that should be very significant to anyone who knows +how our government works and what kind of very real panic those +who really know are experiencing.

+ +

When something like this brochure is made available as it was, +you can be very sure that the boys at the top, including the +scientific folks, are up against something they may not beat before +it has a very real chance of destroying at least half of mankind!

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In fact, the fastest time even guessed at, for some kind of +beginning cure for some types of AIDS is at least five years and +that's thought to be impossible by medical people.

+ +

The author comes up with a very plausible scenario for how +rapidly AIDS has been distributed. (We are not blaming the +World Health Organization. In the author's scenario he simply +indicates that the WHO was used by others.)

+ +

Let's face it, we are in very real trouble. There are several +types of new AIDS viruses and more to be discovered, and who is to +say how the new ones, not yet mutated, will spread -- a sneeze +perhaps?

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Our government and others around the world are not telling us +the truth about this stuff in order to protect our poor little dumb +minds. I suspect that if we know the truth, an enormous citizen +effort could be martialed worldwide which would probably shut down +the arms race for the time being.

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Again, at the bottom line, we are in big trouble and "they" +know it....Many scientists predict we will lose half the world's +population (including U.S.) by the year 2000.

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-- Jim Shults

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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William Campbell Douglass, M.D.

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Age: 62

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Education: BS, University of Rochester, New York; +MD, University of Miami School of +Medicine; Graduate, U.S. Navy School of +Aviation and Space Medicine

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Career: U.S. Navy, 7 years -- Flight Surgeon. +In practice for over 25 years. Former +state president, Florida, American +College of Emergency Physicians. +Former Editor of the Journal of the +Sarasota County Medical Society. +Consulting Editor, Health Freedom News. +On Board of Governors of the National +Health Federation. Regular speaker at +the National Health Federation meetings +around the United States. Appears +regularly on radio and television +programs on health. +Doctor of the +Year: National Health Federation, 1985.

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Dr. Douglass has studied in England with Dr. Katharina Dalton, +discoverer of the premenstrual syndrome. He was one of the +first doctors in the United States to diagnose and treat PMS. +He opened his PMS Clinic in 1981.

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AIDS as a Weapon of War

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William Campbell Douglass, M.D.

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The great powers renounced chemical and biological warfare 20 +years ago -- but kept right on experimenting. The germ warfare +experiments on Seventh Day Adventist soldiers,

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1) the Tuskeegee syphilis experiments on prisoners, +2) the San Francisco Bay attack by the U.S. Army using +serratia marcescens bacteria, +3) the New York City subway germ attack +4 and many other experiments on humans, largely unknown to +the victims, continue in the free world.

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In Novosybirsk, at the Ivanofsky Institute and other Soviet +centers of biological warfare, you can be sure that similar +diabolical experiments on humans continue at a frantic pace.

+ +

The Soviet press, always masters of the half truth, accused +the U.S. Army of having engineered the AIDS virus in the biological +warfare laboratories at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

+ +

This was a clever psy-war ploy which, for a while anyway, +neutralized those of us who were saying essentially the same thing, +that the AIDS virus was probably created through recombinant genetic +engineering (the rearranging of genes between two or more species of +plants or animal) and/or serial passage: the growing of a virus in +a series of generations of tissue culture cells or live animals, +thus adapting the virus to a new species, using human tissue culture +cells in the top security labs at Fort Detrick.

+ +

People started accusing us of spreading the communist line, not +a comfortable position for a dedicated anti-communist like myself.

+ +

What the Soviet propagandists didn't say was that their agents +had been working in our top security biological warfare laboratories +for over 20 years.

+ +

In a burst of brotherly love they were invited in by President +Nixon. The astounded communist scientists from Russia, the Eastern +Bloc and Communist china, who had been trying to penetrate this +vital security area for 40 years, quickly accepted.

+ +

They have been snickering in their beakers ever since, while +they prepare for our demise.

+ +

"It's no secret that they are there," Dr. Carlton Gajdusek, +Nobel Prize winner, a top official at the Fort Detrick Army +laboratory in Maryland, said in Onmi Magazine (March 1986): "In +the facility I have a building where more good and loyal communist +scientists from the USSR and mainland China work, with full passkeys +to all the laboratories, than there are American. Even the Army's +infectious disease unit is loaded with foreign workers who are not +always friendly nationals."

+ +

This answer to an interview question refers to the high number +of Soviet bloc scientists in this U.S. facility who act as

+ +

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+ +

inspectors to ensure that we are not producing bacteriological +weapons in violation of treaties with the Soviets.

+ +

You can't put it more plainly than that. Even the Trojans +weren't that stupid: at least they didn't KNOW the Trojan horse +was full of soldiers.

+ +

When it became obvious to the Communist press that we were +getting the truth out about who was running things at Fort Detrick, +they completely reversed themselves and said it was all a mistake. +Everything was just fine at Fort Detrick.

+ +

To understand the enormity of our betrayal you must know about +the origin of the AIDS virus. The virologists of the world, the +sorcerers who brought us this ghastly plague, have a united front in +denying that the virus was laboratory-made from known, lethal animal +viruses.

+ +

The scientific party line is that a monkey in Africa with AIDS +bit a native on the butt. The native then went to town and gave it +to a prostitute who gave it to the local banker who gave it to his +wife and three girlfriends and what!

+ +

50 to 75 million people became infected with AIDS in Africa and +throughout the world. This is an entirely preposterous story, and +it is preposterous because:

+ +

1. The green velvet monkey of Africa doesn't get human AIDS. You +can't reproduce the disease in monkeys even by injecting AIDS +virus directly into them.

+ +

2. After injecting the virus into monkeys, you can't transmit it +to other monkeys, much less to humans.

+ +

3. Genetically, AIDS (HIV-1) is not even close to the monkey form +of immunodeficiency virus. +[Ed. Note: For references on the three items above, +see: Seale, Dr. John J., +Royal Society of Medicine, Sept. 1987, +Seale, Dr. John J., +The Origin of AIDS -- International +Conference on AIDS, Cairo, March 1988.]

+ +

4. AIDS started not in the villages but in the cities of Africa, +where there are no wild monkeys.

+ +

5. The doubling time of AIDS infection being about 12 months, one +monkey biting one native and then spreading the disease would +have taken 20 years to reach a million cases. Seventy-five million Africans became infected practically simultaneously. +At the same time, the disease became rampant in the U.S., +Haiti and Brazil.

+ +

It is obvious that one monkey couldn't have done that (or one +homosexual, either). There had to be some sort of simultaneous +seeding process.

+ +

The only worldwide simultaneous seeding going on at the same +time was the smallpox vaccine program of the World Health +Organization (the WHO). +Page 5

+ +

The early epidemiology of the AIDS pandemic fits the smallpox +vaccination project of the WHO -- AND NOTHING ELSE -- with the +exception of the U.S., which we will examine subsequently.)

+ +

The AIDS virus was created in a laboratory by combining lethal +animal "retroviruses" in human cancer (HeLA) cell cultures. These +viruses have never before caused infection in man.

+ +

The "species barrier" has always been nature's way of keeping a +deadly virus from wiping out the entire animal kingdom, including +man. The myxoma virus of rabbits, for example, wiped out the rabbit +population of Europe, but man and other animals were not affected.

+ +

The sheep visna virus completely decimated the flocks of +Iceland, but no other animal was affected.

+ +

The virologists deny that the AIDS virus, HIV-1, is of animal +origin. I am sure that you see the paradox here. Aren't monkeys +animals?

+ +

They are also united in saying that it's not possible for the +virus to have been engineered in a laboratory. If it didn't come +from other animals and it didn't come from a laboratory, and they +now admit privately that the monkey couldn't have done it, then it +must have come out of thin air. That's a theological position and +hence beyond argument. It's certainly not scientific.

+ +

These scientists who have created this monstrous problem in +their sorcerer's retrovirology laboratories are constantly caught in +their own lies.

+ +

The line goes: "The AIDS virus could not have been engineered +in a laboratory because the technology wasn't available until +recently."

+ +

Icelandic scientists combined the sheep visna virus with human +tissue cells over 20 years ago. The technology has been refined in +recent years, but the basic process has been actively used in labs +all over the world for long before the AIDS virus made its dramatic +appearance.

+ +

But the scientists hold fast in their denial of culpability. +Professor William Jarrett said, when asked about the possibility of +AIDS arising from animal retroviruses, "That is like someone saying +babies come out of cabbages."5

+ +

Dr. Robert Gallo said that people who claim AIDS was +manufactured artificially are "either insane or communists."6

+ +

Dr. Luis Montagnier, the discoverer of the AIDS virus, said, +"In 1970 there was not enough knowledge in genetic engineering to +make such a virus starting from already existing viruses."7 (See +Icelandic experiments mentioned above.)

+ +

This tower of lies must eventually fall of its own weight. +Then what? Where do we look for a solution? Certainly not from +the people who caused the disaster.

+ +

But where? -- the Pentagon? The Pentagon is supporting

+ +

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+ +

research on biological warfare in over 100 federal and private +laboratories, including those at many prominent universities.8 Yet, +Neil Levitt, who worked for 17 years at the Army Infectious Disease +Institute, says, "It's a joke...there's no defense against these +kinds of organisms. And if you can't defend against something, then +why are we pouring more and more money in it? There's something +else going on that we don't know about."9

+ +

Some joke.

+ +

A short virology lesson will help you understand that AIDS is +indeed an animal virus and that it was laboratory-made as a weapon +of biological warfare against the free world.

+ +

A basic rule of virology is that if two viruses have the same +shape, design and size, then they are almost certainly the same +virus (a very simple and easy to understand rule).10

+ +

For example, this virus:

+ +
----------- +|==| ||| +-----------
+ +

... a virus of bacteria (bugs have diseases, too), doesn't look +anything like this virus:

+ +

___________ +/ \ +/ ~~~~~~~ \ +\ / +\___________/

+ +

... a virus of ticks that's transmitted to pigs, or this virus:

+ +

__________ +____/ ~~~~ \ +/ ______/ +\________/

+ +

... which is found in horses.

+ +

The AIDS virus, which "couldn't have come from animal +viruses" is almost certainly a recombinant virus from fusing a +cattle virus, bovine leukemia virus:

+ +
= +* +=* *=
+ +
=* ++++ *=
+ +
=* *= +* +=
+ +

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+ +

...with sheep visna virus:

+ +
* +* *
+ +
* ==== *
+ +
* * +*
+ +

You combine the two in human tissue culture cells and you get bovine +visna virus:

+ +
= +* +=* *=
+ +
=* ==== *=
+ +
=* *= +* +=
+ +

... A VIRUS THAT HERETOFORE DID NOT EXIST -- a product of man, +engineered in a laboratory.

+ +

Now, if you isolate the AIDS virus from an infected human, it +looks like this:

+ +
= +* +=* *=
+ +
=* ==== *=
+ +
=* *= +* +=
+ +

It doesn't look like this (the tick virus):

+ +

__________ +____/ ~~~~ \ +/ ______/ +\________/

+ +

... or this (the cattle virus):

+ +
= +* +=* *=
+ +
=* ++++ *=
+ +
=* *= +* +=
+ +

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+ +

It looks like THIS:

+ +
= +* +=* *=
+ +
=* ==== *=
+ +
=* *= +* +=
+ +

... the recombinant virus from cattle and sheep AND ITS CALLED +AIDS. You don't have to be a genius to understand this. Any +properly instructed 10-year-old can understand it ....

+ +

But, some alert reader will say, we don't give smallpox +vaccinations in the U.S., so how do you explain the simultaneous +outbreak of AIDS in Africa, Brazil and Haiti, where they did indeed +give the vaccine, and in the U.S., where they didn't give the +vaccine?

+ +

Simple. The homosexual community was used as a large group of +experimental animals through the hepatitis-B program. It didn't +take many infected homosexuals among the I.V. drug users to quickly +spread the disease among a large percentage of the addicts due to +the near certainly of infection through direct intravenous insertion +of the virus.

+ +

To understand the seeding of AIDS among homosexuals (and +eventually to the rest of us through bisexuals unless drastic action +is taken), you must know about a character with the strange name of +Wolf Szmuness. His life story will seem bizarre to you unless, like +me, you have a conspiratorial turn of mind.

+ +

Dr. Szmuness was a Polish Jew who supposedly ended up in a +Siberian labor camp during World War II. But after the war he +somehow became a privileged person, was sent to medical school in +Tomsk, Russia, and married a Russian woman. Hardly typical +treatment of an enemy of the Soviet state [under Stalin.

+ +

Szmuness' biographer said that Wolf was always reluctant to +discuss "those dark years in Siberia." Maybe he wasn't in Siberia. +If he [actually] was, he certainly wasn't shoveling salt.

+ +

In 1959 the Soviet government "allowed" him to practice in +Poland in a public health capacity. Standard policy in all +Communist countries is never to allow all members of a family to +travel out of the country to the West at the same time.

+ +

This eliminates 98 percent of all defection attempts. I have +physician friends in Hungary, for example. He can go to a meeting +anywhere in the world if she stays home. She can go if he stays +home. They can both go if the children are left at home. But in +1969, the entire Szmuness family was allowed by communist Poland to +go to a medical meeting in Italy. At that time they "defected" and +moved to New York City.

+ +

WITH NO AMERICAN CREDENTIALS WHATSOEVER, he immediately got a

+ +

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+ +

job as a "lab technician" at the New York City Blood Center. Within +a very few years this Polish immigrant was GIVEN HIS OWN LAB, a +separate department of epidemiology was created for him at the blood +bank and he, like the chrysalis turning into a butterfly, changed +into a FULL PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AT THE COLUMBIA MEDICAL +SCHOOL!

+ +

In six years this "lab tech" became a full professor AND THEN +WENT BACK TO MOSCOW for a scientific presentation and was received +as a dignitary, not a defector.

+ +

We tell you this amazing story because in retrospect it is +obvious that Wolf Szmuness was a carefully groomed ... agent, +planted here after years of preparation, to instigate biological +warfare against the American people.

+ +

Szmuness, with the full cooperation and financial support of +the U.S. Center for Disease Control and the National Institutes of +Health,11 masterminded the hepatitis-B vaccine experimental program +used on homosexual men.

+ +

He insisted that only young, promiscuous homosexuals be allowed +to participate in the experiment. The experiment started in New +York at the blood bank in November 1978.

+ +

THE EXPERIMENTAL VACCINE WAS PRODUCED in a government +supervised laboratory.12 The study was completed in October 1979. +Within 10 years, most of these young men would be dead or dying from +AIDS.

+ +

In 1980 the program was expanded to major cities all across the +U.S. In the fall of 1980 the first AIDS case was reported in San +Francisco. Eight years later most of the homosexuals in San +Francisco are infected, dead or dying.

+ +

Szmuness did not live to see the fruition of this larger +experiment. He died of cancer in 1982.

+ +

In 1986 Dr. Cladd Stevens, one of Szmuness's collaborators, +penned an astonishing report that did not make your local newspaper.

+ +

She reported that the majority of the homosexuals in the +experimental program were infected with the AIDS virus.13 The AIDS-laced vaccine, through the bridge of bisexual men, now infects as +many as three million Americans. Mission accomplished.

+ +

AIDS was not the first germ warfare attack against Americans.

+ +

In the early '60s, millions of unsuspecting Americans took +either Salk injected polio vaccine or the live Sabin polio vaccine, +which was taken by mouth.

+ +

BOTH WERE LACED WITH S.V.-40, A CANCER-CAUSING MONKEY VIRUS.14

+ +

With an incubation period of 20 years, we are only now seeing +the grim results of this bio-attack against Americans, largely in +the form of brain tumors and leukemia.

+ +

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+ +

Salk didn't like the Sabin vaccine and Sabin didn't like the +Salk vaccine. I think they are both right. It is interesting to +note that polio was rapidly disappearing WITHOUT a vaccine (J. Trop. +Pediat, env. Child. Health 21, 11) ....

+ +

Our Soviet enemies not only instigated the AIDS epidemic +through clandestine agents within our government, but they now +control, through the World Health Organization, the AIDS policies of +the free world.

+ +

You are probably not aware that the international AIDS +prevention program of the World Health Organization (WHO) is run by +the Soviets.

+ +

You don't believe it? Call WHO and ask them who is in charge +in Europe. If you want to save your nickel I'll tell you. He's a +Russian named Bysencho and he operates out of Copenhagen....

+ +

The Soviets control the response to AIDS of the entire free +world at many levels, including the top. Dr. Sergei Litvinov, +the coordinator of all task forces on AIDS at the WHO, is a high +official in the Soviet Ministry of Health. Allegedly Litvinov +gave out the order to our scientists and medical organizations in +the western world not to discuss the real cause of the epidemic.

+ +

At a secret meeting (information supplied the author from a +confidential source) between the editors of Lancet, the highly +respected British medical publication, and a group of the leading +retrovirologists of the world, it was decided not to publish any +academic discussion about the possible artificial creation of the +AIDS virus in a laboratory.

+ +

They particularly agreed not to make any mention of world-renowned biologist Isaac Farlane Bernet's published remarks that +molecular biology may get out of hand like atomic physics and be +used for evil purposes and "practical applications of molecular +biology to cancer research might be sinister."

+ +

Other medical journals such as Science and JAMA have +lockstepped with Lancet and put all references to the man-made +origins of AIDS down the memory hole.

+ +

Did Comrade Litvinov have a little talk with the +retrovirologists? They, of course, wouldn't need any encouragement +from the Soviet [WHO] bosses to attempt a little coverup of their +own heinous crime, but Lancet, the British Medical Journal, and the +New England Journal of Medicine are another matter.

+ +

It took some powerful and sinister forces indeed to get these +respected publications to cover up the crime of the millennium.

+ +

The notable exception to this appalling censorship of mass +murder is Professor Harding Rains, Editor of the Journal of the +Royal Society of Medicine. Rains refers to "a conspiracy of +silence" covering the allegation that AIDS was man-made. I hope +Dr. Rains is watching his backside.

+ +

Dr. Zhores Medvedev, unlike Bysencho and Litvinov, supposedly +is a Russian exile. Medvedev operates out of London at the National

+ +

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+ +

Institute for Medical Research. He's a senior research scientist +who continues to communicate freely with his supposed enemies in the +Soviet biowarfare laboratories, but we lack the space to catalog all +the details [here].

+ +

Medvedev is spreading the disinformation that AIDS is rampant +in Russia due to the escape of the virus from a laboratory, a sort +of biological Chernobyl.

+ +

This tends to divert suspicion away from Litvinov, Szmuness and +the other reds that President Nixon allowed to penetrate our +biological warfare laboratories at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

+ +

Having the Soviets "control" the spread of AIDS in the West has +let to some interesting paradoxes. Our masters in the U.S. tell us +that there shall be absolutely no restrictions on travel between +various parts of the non-Communist world by persons who test +positive for AIDS.

+ +

Surgeon General C.E. Koop supports this Soviet policy of +biological suicide. (Are those the instructions he received when he +made his trip to Moscow, where the WHO has set up its main AIDS +research center?)

+ +

But, our Soviet masters in the WHO tell us, this open policy of +international travel does not apply to the communist bloc of +nations. If you or I were to visit Moscow and tested positive for +the AIDS virus, POW! -- out on the next plane!

+ +

If they stay clean through their immigration policies and we +die because of the immigration policies imposed on us through the +U.N.-controlled World "Health" Organization, who needs atomic bombs +for world conquest?

+ +

Cuba, Dr. John Seale informs me, has a strict asylum system for +the AIDS-infected. When their troops come back from "liberating" +Africans, they are tested as they get off the boat.

+ +

If tested positive the soldier goes directly to hell -- +euphemistically called a sanitarium. He can visit his family +occasionally, but only in the presence of a commissar called a +"health official (no hanky-panky).

+ +

Unless the West gets its act together and closes down the U.N. +genocide division called the WHO, freedom and decency will disappear +from planet Earth for a thousand years. But the problem goes much +deeper.

+ +

How do you close down the U.S. government laboratories such as +the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Institute of +Health (NIH) and the Fort Detrick bio-warfare lab when the +perpetrators of the crime are in control at all levels?

+ +

I don't know the answer. *****

+ +

_________________________

+ +

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+ +

1 Project Whitecoat, to be published in Health Freedom News, +P.O. Box 688, Monrovia CA 91016/Subscription $20.00 per year.

+ +

2 Bad Blood, J.H. Jones, MacMillan, NY, 1982.

+ +

3 Common Cause Magazine, Jan./Feb. 1988.

+ +

4 First aids Report, March/April 1988.

+ +

5 Private communication, John Seale, M.D., 1988

+ +

6 Ibid.

+ +

7 First International Conference on the Global Impact of aids, +London, March 8-10, 1988.

+ +

8 New Scientist, London, 5/19/88.

+ +

9 Science News, 133:100, 2/13/88.

+ +

10 Joklik, Virology, 2nd edition, pp. 36 ff.

+ +

11 AIDS and the Doctors of Death, Cantwell, Aries Rising Press, +Los Angeles,p.76.

+ +

12 Ibid.

+ +

13 Ibid. +14 Salk/Sabin s.v.-40 Proc. Nat'l Acad. Sci., vol. 77, #8, +p. 4861, and Atlantic Monthly, 2/76.

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Title : AIDS: The Facts

+ +

Source : American Red Cross

+ +

AIDS: +Spread Facts +Not Fear

+ +

What Is AIDS?

+ +

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a serious condition that affects +the body's ability to fight infection. A disgnosis of AIDS is made when a +person develops a life-threatening illness not usually found in a person with a +normal ability to fight infection. The two diseases most often found in AIDS +patients are a lung infection called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and a rare +form of cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma. It is these diseases, not the AIDS +virus itself, that can lead to death. To date, more than 50 percent of the +persons with AIDS have died.

+ +

What Causes AIDS?

+ +

Researchers have discovered the cause of AIDS - a virus that is called either +HTLV-III or LAV. This virus changes the structure of the cell it attacks. +Infection with the virus can lead to AIDS or to a less severe condition known +as AIDS-related complex (ARC). Some of those persons infected with the virus +will develop symptoms of AIDS or ARC. Other people who carry the virus may +remain in apparent good health. These carriers can transmit the virus during +sexual contact, or an infected mother can transmit the virus to her infant +before, during, or after birth (probably through breast milk).

+ +

Who Gets AIDS?

+ +

Since 1981, the Centers for Disease Control has been collecting information +on AIDS. Approximately 95 percent of the persons with AIDS belong to one of the +following groups:

+ +

* Sexually active homosexual or bisexual men (73 percent)

+ +

* Present or past abusers of intravenous drugs (17 percent)

+ +

* Patients who have had transfusions with blood or blood products (2 percent)

+ +

* Persons with hemophilia or other coagulation disorders (1 percent)

+ +

* Heterosexuals who have had sexual contact with someone with AIDS, or at risk +for AIDS (1 percent)

+ +

* Infants born to infected mothers (1 percent)

+ +

Approximately 5 percent of persons with AIDS do not fall into any of these +groups, but researchers believe that they came in contact with the virus in +similar ways. Some died before complete histories could be taken, while others +refused to provide any personal information.

+ +

What Are the Symptoms?

+ +

Most individuals infected with the AIDS virus have no symptoms and feel well. +Some develop symptoms that may include -

+ +

* Fever, including "night sweats."

+ +

* Weight loss for no apparent reason.

+ +

* Swollen lymph glands in the neck, underarm, or groin area.

+ +

* Fatigue or tiredness.

+ +

* Diarrhea.

+ +

* White spots or unusual blemishes in the mouth.

+ +

These symptoms are also symptoms of many other illnesses. They may be symptoms +of AIDS if they are unexplained by other illness. Anyone with these symptoms +for more than two weeks should see a doctor.

+ +

How is the AIDS Virus Spread?

+ +

The AIDS virus is spread by sexual contact, needle sharing, or rarely through +transfused blood or its components. Multiple sexual partners, either homosexual +or heterosexual, and sharing needles by drug users increase the risk of +infection with the virus.

+ +

Is the AIDS Virus Spread Through Casual Contact?

+ +

No. Casual contact with AIDS patients or people who carry the virus does NOT +place others at risk for getting AIDS. The AIDS virus is NOT spread by-

+ +

* Casual contact, such as hugging or hand shaking with an AIDS patient or a +person carrying the virus.

+ +

* Use of bathroom facilities, such as toilets, sinks, or bathtubs. Use of +swimming pools.

+ +

* Sneezing, coughing, or spitting.

+ +

* Dishes, utensils, or food handled by a person with AIDS.

+ +

The AIDS virus is not spread through normal daily contact at work, in school, +or at home. No cases have been found where the virus has been transmitted by +casual contact with AIDS patients in the home, workplace, or health care +setting. This statement is based in part, on studies of more than 300 +households where people with AIDS were present. Not a single case of AIDS or +transmission of the virus was found except from sexual contacts or from +infected mothers to their infants. Many of those tested were children who had +shared bottles, beds, toothbrushes, and eating utensils with infected brothers +and sisters.

+ +

Is There a Test for AIDS?

+ +

There is an AIDS virus antibody test that detects antibodies to the AIDS virus +that causes the disease. The body produces antibodies that try to get rid of +bacteria, viruses, or anything else that is not supposed to be in the blood +stream. The test tells if someone has been infected with the AIDS virus. Most +people with AIDS have a positive test and some people with a positive test +will develop AIDS. The test does not tell who will develop AIDS.

+ +

What Does a Positive Test Mean?

+ +

It means that a person has been infected with the AIDS virus. It is estimated +that more than one million Americans have been infected by the AIDS virus. Some +of these people will develop AIDS. Others who have the virus may stay well, +without any symptoms, but can transmit the virus to others.

+ +

Why Do We Have a Test?

+ +

The test was first used in blood donation centers to prevent the AIDS virus +from getting into the blood supply. We have always used tests to make the +blood supply as safe as possible. For example, all blood is tested for the +hepatitis B virus. This is to make sure that the person does not get hepatitis +B.

+ +

Is the Blood Supply Safe?

+ +

YES. The blood supply is well protected from the AIDS virus. People who may be +at risk of having AIDS are told that they should not donate blood. For example, +men who have had sex with another male since 1977 are told not to donate blood. +Also, the test is used to screen all donated blood and plasma for signs of the +virus that causes AIDS.

+ +

Can I Get AIDS by Donating Blood?

+ +

NO. All of the needles, syringes, tubing, and containers used by blood donation +centers are sterile and are used only once and thrown away, so there is no +chance of infection.

+ +

Is the Test Available to the Public?

+ +

YES. The test is available at a variety of test sites in most states. It is +also available through private doctors and clinics. Information about where to +get the test is available from state or local health departments, sexually +transmitted disease clinics, doctor's offices, and community blood services. +Anyone planning to take the test should get advice before the test and +understand what the results may indicate. It is important to have counseling +after the test.

+ +

How Can I Protect Myself From AIDS?

+ +

* Do not have sexual contact with AIDS patients, with members of the risk +groups, or with people who test positive for the AIDS virus. If you do, use +a condom and avoid sexual practices such as anal intercourse that may injure +tissue.

+ +

* Do not use IV drugs. If you do, do not share needles. Do not have sex with +people who use IV drugs.

+ +

* Women who are sex partners of risk group members or who use IV drugs should +consider the risk to their babies before pregnancy. These women should have +an HTLV-III antibody test before they become pregnant. If the become pregnant +they should have a test during pregnancy.

+ +

* Do not have sex with multiple partners, including prostitutes (who may also +be IV drug abusers). The more partners you have, the greater your chances of +contracting AIDS.

+ +

What Should I Do if I Have a Positive Test?

+ +

* Have a regular medical checkup and get counseling.

+ +

* Do not donate blood, sperm, or organs.

+ +

* Do not share drugs with others, and avoid exchanging bodily fluids during +sexual activity (a condom should be used). Avoid oral-genital contact and +intimate kissing.

+ +

* Do not share toothbrushes. razors, or anything that could be contaminated +with blood.

+ +

* Consider postponing pregnancy.

+ +

Further information about AIDS can be obtained from your Red Cross chapter, +local or state health department, other community agencies, or the Public +Health Service Hotline. The hotline number is 1-800-342-AIDS. Atlanta Area +callers should dial 329-1290.

+ +

______________________________________________________________________________

+ +

Developed in cooperation with the Washington Business Group on Health, based +upon Public Health Service/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services +pamphlet "Facts About AIDS"

+ +

Funding provided by the American Council of Life Insurance and the Health +Insurance Association of America. +______________________________________________________________________________

+ +

AIDS-1 Rev. May 1986

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+ +

:: AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster? ::

+ +

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+ +

:: PREFACE ::

+ +

In an extensive article in the Summer-Autumn 1990 issue of "Top Secret", prof +J. Segal and Dr. L. Segal outline their theory that AIDS is a man-made disease, +originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland. +Top Secret is the international edition of the German magazine Geheim and is +considered by many to be a sister publication to the American Covert Action +Information Bulletin (CAIB). In fact, Top Secret carries the Naming Names +column, which CAIB is prevented from doing by the American government, and +which names CIA agents in different locations in the world. The article, named +"AIDS: US-Made Monster" and subtitled "AIDS - its Nature and its Origins," is +lengthy, has a lot of professional terminology and is dotted with footnotes. +The following is my humble attempt to encapsulate its highlights. It is +recommended that all interested read the original, which is available at some +bookstores, or can be ordered for $3.50 from:

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:: AIDS FACTS ::

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"The fatal weakening of the immune system which has given AIDS its name +(Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome)," write the Segals, "has been traced back +to a destruction or a functional failure of the T4-lymphocytes, also called +'helper cells', which play a regulatory role in the production of antibodies in +the immune system." In the course of the illness, the number of functional T4-cells is reduced greatly so that new anti-bodies cannot be produced and the +defenseless patient remains exposed to a range of infections that under other +circumstances would have been harmless. Most AIDS patients die from +opportunistic infections rather than from the AIDS virus itself.

+ +

The initial infection is characterized by diarrhea, erysipelas and intermittent +fever. An apparent recovery follows after 2-3 weeks, and in many cases the +patient remains without symptoms and functions normally for years. Occasionally +a swelling of the lymph glands, which does not affect the patient's well-being, +can be observed.

+ +

After several years, the pre-AIDS stage, known as ARC (Aids-Related Complex) +sets in. This stage includes disorders in the digestive tract, kidneys and +lungs. In most cases it develops into full-blown AIDS in about a year, at which +point opportunistic illnesses occur. Parallel to this syndrome, disorders in +various organ systems occur, the most severe in the brain, the symptoms of +which range from motoric disorders to severe dementia and death.

+ +

This set of symptoms, say the Segals, is identical in every detail with the +Visna sickness which occurs in sheep, mainly in Iceland. (Visna means tiredness +in Icelandic). However, the visna virus is not pathogenic for human beings.

+ +

The Segals note that despite the fact that AIDS is transmitted only through +sexual intercourse, blood transfusions and non-sterile hypodermic needles, the +infection has spread dramatically. During the first few years after its +discovery, the number of AIDS patients doubled every six months, and is still +doubling every 12 months now though numerous measures have been taken against +it. Based on these figures, it is estimated that in the US, which had 120000 +cases of AIDS at the end of 1988, 900000 people will have AIDS or will have +died of it by the end of 1991. It is also estimated that the number of people +infected is at least ten times the number of those suffering from an acute case +of AIDS. That in the year 1995 there will be between 10-14 million cases of +AIDS and an additional 100 million people infected, 80 percent of them in the +US, while a possible vaccination will not be available before 1995 by the most +optimistic estimates. Even when such vaccination becomes available, it will not +help those already infected. These and following figures have been reached at +by several different mainstream sources, such as the US Surgeon General and the +Chief of the medical services of the US Army.

+ +

Say the Segals: "AIDS does not merely bring certain dangers with it; it is +clearly a programmed catastrophe for the human race, whose magnitude is +comparable only with that of a nuclear war." They later explain what they mean +by "programmed," showing that the virus was produced by humans, namely Dr. +Robert Gallo of the Bethesda Cancer Research Center in Maryland. When +proceeding to prove their claims, the Segals are careful to note that: "We have +given preference to the investigative results of highly renowned laboratories, +whose objective contents cannot be doubted. We must emphasize, in this +connection, that we do not know of any findings that have been published in +professional journals that contradict our hypotheses."

+ +

:: DISCOVERING AIDS ::

+ +

The first KNOWN cases of AIDS occurred in New York in 1979. The first +DESCRIBED cases were in California in 1979. The virus was isolated in Paris in +May 1983, taken from a French homosexual who had returned home ill from a trip +to the East Coast of the US. One year later, Robert Gallo and his co-workers at +the Bethesda Cancer Research Center published their discovery of the same +virus, which is cytotoxic, i.e poisonous to cells.

+ +

Shortly after publishing his discovery, Gallo stated to newspapers that the +virus had developed by a natural process from the Human Adult Leukemia virus, +HTLV-1, which he had previously discovered. However, this claim was not +published in professional publications, and soon after, Alizon and Montagnier, +two researchers of the Pasteur Institute in Paris published charts of HTLV-1 +and HIV, showing that the viruses had basically different structures. They also +declared categorically that they knew of no natural process by which one of +these two forms could have evolved into the other.

+ +

According to the professional "science" magazine, the fall 1984 annual meeting +of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), was almost +entirely devoted to the question of: to what extent new pathogenic agents could +be produced via human manipulation of genes. According to the Segals, AIDS was +practically the sole topic of discussion.

+ +

:: THE AIDS VIRUS ::

+ +

The Segals discuss the findings of Gonda et al, who compared the HIV, visna +and other closely-related viruses and found that the visna virus is the most +similar to HIV. The two were, in fact, 60% identical in 1986. According to +findings of the Hahn group, the mutation rate of the HIV virus was about a +million times higher than that of similar viruses, and that on the average a +10% alteration took place every two years. That would mean that in 1984, the +difference between HIV and visna would have been only 30%, in 1982-20%, 10% in +1980 and zero in 1978. "This means," say the Segals, "that at this time visna +viruses changed into HIV, receiving at the same time the ability to become +parasites in human T4-cells and the high genetic instability that is not known +in other retroviruses. This is also consistent with the fact that the first +cases of AIDS appeared about one year later, in the spring of 1979."

+ +

"In his comparison of the genomes of visna and HIV," add the Segals, "Coffin +hit upon a remarkable feature. The env (envelope) area of the HIV genome, which +encodes the envelope proteins which help the virus to attach itself to the host +cell, is about 300 nucleotides longer than the same area in visna. This +behavior suggests that an additional piece has been inserted into the genomes +of the visna virus, a piece that alters the envelope proteins and enables them +to bind themselves to the T4-receptors. BUT THIS SECTION BEHAVES LIKE A +BIOLOGICALLY ALIEN BODY, which does not match the rest of the system +biochemically. (emphasis mine)

+ +

The above mentioned work by Gonda et al shows that the HIV virus has a section +of about 300 nucleotides, which does not exist in the visna virus. That length +corresponds with what Coffin described. That section is particularly unstable, +which indicates that it is an alien object. According to the Segals, it +"originates in an HTLV-1 genome, (discovered by Gallo-ED) for the likelihood of +an accidental occurrence in HIV of a genome sequence 60% identical with a +section of the HTLV-1 that is 300 nucleotides in length is zero." Since the +visna virus is incapable of attaching itself to human T4 receptors, it must +have been the transfer of the HTLV-1 genome section which gave visna the +capability to do so. In other words, the addition of HTLV-1 to visna made the +HIV virus. In addition, the high mutation rate of the HIV genome has been +explained by another scientific team, Chandra et al, by the fact that it is "a +combination of two genome parts which are alien to each other BY ARTIFICIAL +MEANS rather than by a natural process of evolution, because this process would +have immediately eliminated, through natural selection, systems that are so +replete with disorders."

+ +

"These are the facts of the case," say the Segals. "HIV is essentially a visna +virus which carries an additional protein monomer of HTLV-1 that has an epitope +capable of bonding with T4 receptors. Neither Alizon and Montagnier nor any +other biologist know of any natural mechanism that would make it possible for +the epitope to be transferred from HTLV-1 to the visna virus. For this reason +we can come to only one conclusion: that this gene combination arose by +artificial means, through gene manipulation."

+ +

:: THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIV ::

+ +

"The construction of a recombinant virus by means of gene manipulation is +extraordinarily expensive, and it requires a large number of highly qualified +personnel, complicated equipment and expensive high security laboratories. +Moreover, the product would have no commercial value. Who, then," ask the +Segals, "would have provided the resources for a type of research that was +aimed solely at the production of a new disease that would be deadly to human +beings?"

+ +

The English sociologist Allistair Hay (as well as Paxman et al in "A Higher +Form of Killing"-ED), published a document whose authenticity has been +confirmed by the US Congress, showing that a representative of the Pentagon +requested in 1969 additional funding for biological warfare research. The +intention was to create, within the next ten years, a new virus that would +not be susceptible to the immune system, so that the afflicted patient would +not be able to develop any defense against it. Ten years later, in the spring +of 1979, the first cases of AIDS appeared in New York.

+ +

"Thus began a phase of frantic experimentation," say the Segals.

+ +

One group was working on trying to cause animal pathogens to adapt themselves +to life in human beings. This was done under the cover of searching for a cure +for cancer. The race was won by Gallo, who described his findings in 1975. A +year later, Gallo described gene manipulations he was conducting. In 1980 he +published his discovery of HTLV.

+ +

In the fall of 1977, a P4 (highest security category of laboratory, in which +human pathogens are subjected to genetic manipulations) laboratory was +officially opened in building 550 of Fort Detrick, MD, the Pentagon's main +biological warfare research center. "In an article in 'Der Spiegel', Prof. +Mollings point out that this type of gene manipulation was still extremely +difficult in 1977. One would have had to have a genius as great as Robert Gallo +for this purpose, note the Segals."

+ +

Lo and behold. In a supposed compliance with the international accord banning +the research, production and storage of biological weapons, part of Fort +Detrick was "demilitarized" and the virus section renamed the "Frederick +Cancer Research Facility". It was put under the direction of the Cancer +Research Institute in neighboring Bethesda, whose director was no other than +Robert Gallo. This happened in 1975, the year Gallo discovered HTLV. +Explaining how the virus escaped, the Segals note that in the US, biological +agents are traditionally tested on prisoners who are incarcerated for long +periods, and who are promised freedom if they survive the test. However, the +initial HIV infection symptoms are mild and followed by a seemingly healthy +patient.

+ +

"Those who conducted the research must have concluded that the new virus +was...not so virulent that it could be considered for military use, and the +test patients, who had seemingly recovered, were given their freedom. Most of +the patients were professional criminals and New York City, which is +relatively close, offered them a suitable milieu. Moreover, the patients were +exclusively men, many of them having a history of homosexuality and drug abuse, +as is often the case in American prisons. 1111

+ +

It is understandable why AIDS broke out precisely in 1979, precisely among men +and among drug users, and precisely in New York City," assert the Segals. They +go on to explain that whereas in cases of infection by means of sexual contact, +incubation periods are two years and more, while in cases of massive infection +via blood transfusions, as must have been the case with prisoners, incubation +periods are shorter than a year. "Thus, if the new virus was ready at the +beginning of 1978 and if the experiments began without too much delay, then +the first cases of full-blown AIDS in 1979 were exactly the result that +could have been expected."

+ +

In the next three lengthy chapters, the Segals examine other theories, +"legends" as they call them, of the origins of AIDS. Dissecting each claim, +they show that they have no scientific standing, providing also the findings +of other scientists. They also bring up the arguments of scientists and +popular writers who have been at the task of discounting them as "conspiracy +theorists" and show these writers' shortcomings. Interested readers will have +to read the original article to follow those debates. I will only quote two +more paragraphs:

+ +

"We often heard the argument that experiments with human volunteers are part of +a barbaric past, and that they would be impossible in the US today... We wish +to present one single document whose authenticity is beyond doubt. An +investigative commission of the US House of Representatives presented in +October 1986 a final report concerning the Manhattan Project. According to this +document, between 1945 and 1975 at least 695 American citizens were exposed +to dangerous doses of radioactivity. Some of them were prisoners who had +volunteered, but they also included residents of old-age homes, inmates of +insane asylums, handicapped people in nursing homes, and even normal patients +in public hospitals; most of them were subjected to these experiments without +their permission. Thus the 'barbaric past' is not really a thing of the past."

+ +

"It is remarkable that most of these experiments were carried out in university +institutes and federal hospitals, all of which are named in the report. +Nonetheless, these facts remained secret until 1984, and even then a +Congressional committee that was equipped with all the necessary +authorization needed two years in order to bring these facts to life. We are +often asked how the work on the AIDS virus could have been kept secret. Now, +experiments performed on a few dozen prisoners in a laboratory that is +subject to military security can be far more easily kept secret than could +be the Manhattan Project."

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Today and Yesterday +-------------------------

+ +

The ultimate responsibility for this thread :-) belongs to George +Medhurst (1759-1827), of England. During a period of a few years +about 1810, he invented three distinct forms of air-propelled +transport. None of them was implemented during his lifetime; +but all of them saw use eventually, reaching their greatest extent +in the reverse order of their original invention.

+ +

Medhurst's first method involved moving air through a tube a few +inches in diameter, pushing a capsule along it; this simple idea +was the pneumatic dispatch tube. Next he realized that if the same +system was built much larger, it could carry passengers (or freight +items larger than letters); it was natural to run the vehicle on +tracks, and so this became known since the vehicle would be large +enough to require tracks, this became known as a pneumatic railway.

+ +

But would anyone actually want to ride along mile after mile inside +an opaque pipe? Not likely. So he then thought of having only a +piston moving within the pipe, somehow dragging along a vehicle +outside it. He proposed several versions of this idea; in most of +them the vehicle ran on rails, so this became known as an atmospheric +railway (though a distinction between that term and the pneumatic +railway was not always observed). The key feature of all versions +of the system was a longitudinal valve: some sort of flexible flap +running the length of the pipe, which would be held closed by air +pressure except when the piston was actually passing. Medhurst +did try to raise capital to implement this system, but failed.

+ +

Now, while the first operable steam locomotive was built about 1804, +steam-powered trains did not see regular use for passengers for some +25 years after that. It was in the 1830's and 1840's that the steam +railway was shown to be practical in both engineering and financial +senses.

+ +

But the same technical developments that made possible the practical +steam railway also made the atmospheric railway, if not certainly +practical, at least worth a try. And it offered the prospect of +considerable advantages. Since the trains wouldn't have to carry +their prime mover, they would be lighter; therefore the track could +be built cheaper, and the trains' performance would be better. +The trains wouldn't trail smoke wherever they went (and into the +passenger cars in particular), and they would also be quiet. +And if one section of the route was hilly and required more motive +power, all that were needed would be more or larger pumping stations +along that section; no need to add extra locomotives. In short, +very much the same advantages that electricity gave a few decades +later. (Plus one more: a derailed train would tend to be kept near +the track by the pipe and piston.)

+ +

The success of the 1830's railways gave rise to the Railway Mania +of the 1840's, when interest in railway shares reached absurd levels. +In that climate the proposers of atmospheric lines could find the +backing they needed, and four atmospheric lines opened in a period +of about 3 years. In order of opening, these were:

+ +

* The Dublin & Kingstown, from Kingstown to Dalkey in Ireland, +1.5 miles long; operated 1844-54. +* The London & Croydon, from Croydon to Forest Hill in London, +England, 5 miles, then extended to New Cross for a total +of 7.5 miles; operated 1846-47. +* The Paris a St-Germain, from Bois de Vezinet to St-Germain +in Paris, France, 1.4 miles long; operated 1847-60. +* The South Devon, from Exeter to Teignmouth in Devonshire, +England, 15 miles, then extended to Newton (now Newton Abbot), +20 miles altogether; operated 1847-48.

+ +

I note in passing that while I (as a fan of his) might like Isambard +Kingdom Brunel to have invented the atmospheric system used on the +South Devon, it is wrong to say that he did so. He did choose it +and actively promoted it (well, "actively" is redundant with Brunel). +It was actually developed by Samuel Clegg and Joseph and Jacob Samuda.

+ +

Both of the longer, if shorter-lived, English lines used atmospheric +propulsion in both directions of travel, whereas the French and Irish +lines were built on hills and their trains simply returned downhill +by gravity. Since all were single-track lines, the one-way system +simplified the valves needed to let the pistons in and out of the +pipes at their ends (possibly while traveling at speed).

+ +

All four lines were converted to ordinary steam railways in the end, +and for the next 130 years the atmospheric system appeared dead. +For one thing, steam locomotive technology had too much of a head +start in development over the atmospheric system; steam railways +might have delays due to engine failure but they never had to shut +down for 6 weeks while a new design of longitudinal valve was +installed along the entire length of the route!

+ +

(The valve involved metal and leather parts and a greasy or waxy +sealant "composition". Although stories were told about rats +eating the composition, and this probably did happen sometimes, +it wasn't really a serious thing; the biggest problems in fact +were freezing and deterioration of the leather, and corrosion +of the metal parts.)

+ +

Also, the atmospheric system was inflexible, in that if the power +requirements for a section of route were greater than estimated, +very little could be done short of splitting the section and adding +a whole new pumping station. (All the lines used vacuum rather +than positive pressure in the pipes, which limited the pressure +differential to about 0.9 atmosphere in practice; but the valve +designs were marginal anyway and likely wouldn't have stood up +to greater pressures if they could have been used.)

+ +

What today might be seen as the most serious disadvantage of all, +the requirement for long interruptions of the motive power at +junctions, was not so noticeable in those days. If the train +didn't have enough speed to coast across the gap, well, the +third-class passengers could always get out and push, or maybe +there would be a horse conveniently at hand. At some stations +a small auxiliary pipe was used to advance the train from the +platform to the start of the main pipe.

+ +

There were many other proposals in those days for atmospheric +lines, but in view of these early failures, none of them were +ever built as atmospheric railways. The next atmospheric railway +to open actually appeared in 1990!

+ +

While the atmospheric railways were vanishing, the first +pneumatic dispatch tubes were beginning to appear; I'll get +into that later. But from that start, the pneumatic railway +idea began to return also. At first these were designed for +freight. engineers J. Latimer Clark and T. W. Rammell formed +the Pneumatic Despatch Company, which built a demonstration tube +above ground in Battersea in 1861. This line successfully carried +loads up to 3 tons... and even a few passengers, lying down in +the vehicles in the 30-inch tunnel! The pressure used was up +to 0.025 atmosphere, and speeds up to 40 mph were reached.

+ +

The Post Office became interested in the system and had several +tunnels built for it. They were used from 1863 to 1874, though +interrupted for a time by the financial crisis of 1866.

+ +

(At this point they decided that the system didn't gain enough time +to be worth the cost, not to mention the risk of a vehicle becoming +stuck in the tube. In the 1920's, when electricity was available, +they returned a driverless trains system, using tunnels of similar +size to the old pneumatic tubes. This is the Post Office "tube" +Railway, which continues in use to this day. Such systems also +exist in Switzerland, which had it first, and in West Germany.)

+ +

Meanwhile, while these lines were moving the mail from the streets +of London to tunnels underneath, the first underground railways +were doing the same with passenger traffic. The first section of +the Metropolitan Railway (from Farringdon, now Farringdon Street, +to Paddington station) opened in 1863. It was promptly followed +by extensions, as well as competition in the form of the Metropolitan District Railway, a subsidiary that got away. (Their +routes in central London today form the London Underground's +Metropolitan, District, Circle, and Hammersmith & City Lines.)

+ +

Now there was no thought of operating the Metropolitan with +anything but steam locomotives, despite the line being mostly +in tunnel. Sir John Fowler, who later co-designed the Forth Bridge, +did have the idea of a steam locomotive where the heat from the fire +would be retained in a cylinder of bricks, and therefore the fire +could be put out when traveling in the tunnels. One example of +this design, later called Fowler's Ghost, was tried in 1862. +It was thermodynamically absurd: as C. Hamilton Ellis put it, +"the trouble was that her boiler not only refrained from producing +smoke, it produced very little steam either".

+ +

In the end both the Met and the District were worked with condensing +steam locomotives: these emitted smoke as usual, but their exhaust +steam, while running in tunnels, was directed back into the water +tanks and condensed. The tanks were drained at the end of the run +and refilled with cold water.

+ +

So people were not only willing to travel in what amounted to an +opaque tube after all, but in one filled with smoke at that! +Why not one *without* smoke? And so the pneumatic railway was +now tried; but it never got past the demonstration stage.

+ +

The longest line to carry passengers was opened at the Crystal +Palace in London in 1864. It used a tunnel about 9 by 10 feet, +1800 feet long. The driving fan was 22 feet across, generating +about 0.01 atmosphere of pressure -- the larger the tube, the +lower the pressure you need. The vehicle was a full-size broad +gauge railway car ringed with bristles; it carried 35 passengers. +The trip took 50 seconds, thus averaging about 25 mph. Another, +smaller demonstration line was built at a fair in the US in 1867 +by Alfred Ely Beach.

+ +

Beach then formed the Beach Pneumatic Transit Company, which +obtained permission to build a freight-carrying pneumatic line +under Broadway in New York. But what he actually opened in 1870 +was a passenger-carrying pneumatic subway, the only one to +actually operate under a city street. It was only 312 feet long, +from Warren Street to Murray Street. The tunnel was 9 feet in +diameter, and was worked by a single car with a capacity of +18 passengers.

+ +

Beach tried but failed to get permission to extend the line. +It closed after a few months, and New York did not get a subway +again until 1904, when the first Interborough Rapid Transit route +was opened (from City Hall station along the present Lexington +Avenue, 42nd Street shuttle, and 7th Avenue lines to, um, initially +somewhere around 120th Street). This route was electric and so +have been all its successors.

+ +

Beach's tunnel had been almost forgotten when the crews +constructing the new subway broke into it in 1912.

+ +

In London, a pneumatic underground line was started *with* permission, +but construction was never completed. This was the Waterloo and +Whitehall Railway, which planned to connect Waterloo station to Great +Scotland Yard, 1/2 mile away, with a 12'9" diameter tunnel passing +under the Thames. Considering that the Thames Tunnel project of +Sir Marc Brunel and Isambard Kingdom Brunel -- now now part of +the Underground's East London Line -- had faced massive technical +and financial difficulties before its long-delayed completion only +about 20 years previously, this was no mean undertaking.

+ +

The Waterloo & Whitehall was halted by the financial crisis of 1866; +and it was never revived. The tunnel had been started from the +Great Scotland Yard end, and had just reached the river; work on +the underwater section was beginning. There were other proposals +for passenger-carrying pneumatic lines, but none saw construction +in that form. (At least one, under the Mersey at Liverpool, England, +was eventually opened as an ordinary railway.)

+ +

The next type of underground line to open in London was the Tower +Subway, which also passed under the Thames. It was a short route, +just under the river, worked by a small cable car. It opened in +1870 and was short-lived. (The tunnel served as a footway for a +while after that, then was taken over for pipes. The Thames Tunnel, +conversely, had been used first as a footway, then converted to +railway use.)

+ +

After this time, electric railways began to become practical. +The next underground line to open was the City & South London, +now part of the Underground's Northern Line. Its first section +(from Stockwell to a now disused terminus at King William Street, +replaced by the present Bank station) opened in 1890. It used +the new deep-level tube tunnels, with more limited ventilation +than on the Metropolitan Railway, so steam was out of the question +in any case. The original plan was for cable haulage, but instead +the new electric locomotives were tried and the line has always +been operated electrically. The line was first built with 10'2" +diameter tunnels, forcing use of rather small cars. (The cars +also had only tiny windows, on the grounds that there was nothing +to see -- so they got the nickname of "padded cells".)

+ +

All of the later lines in London, opened from 1900 onwards, were +built on the same general pattern as the C&SL, with deep-level +tubes and electric traction -- first by locomotives and then by +multiple-unit trains. The other tube lines vary from 11'6" to +12-foot diameter tunnels, and the C&SL was enlarged in the 1920's +to match. This is still rather small compared to most other +subways in the world, and is the reason for the distinctive +shape of the tube trains.

+ +

With the success of the electric lines, the Metropolitan and +District faced the loss of traffic, and they too were converted +to elecricity -- at least for the underground sections in central +London in 1905. The first line of the present New York subway +system opened in 1904 and this, too, has always used electricity. +(This was the original Interborough Rapid Transit route, from City +Hall station along the present Lexington Avenue, 42nd Street shuttle, +and 7th Avenue lines to, um, somewhere around 120th Street). Beach's +tunnel had been almost forgotten when the crews constructing the +new subway broke into it in 1912.

+ +

Meanwhile, the humble original concept of the pneumatic dispatch tube +continued to develop. The first of them, 1.5 inches in diameter, +had been built in 1853 by J. Latimer Clark; it connected the +Electrical and [sic] International Telegraph Company's office in +Telegraph Street, London, with their branch 675 feet away at the +Stock Exchange.

+ +

The key invention was J. W. Willmott's double sluice valve of 1870, +which allowed rapid dispatching of successive capsules. It was also +possible, as had been done on the pneumatic railways, to use both +positive pressure (on the order of 1 atmosphere) and vacuum, to +drive the capsules both ways from a single pumping station. The +tubes became quite common; many miles were built in various European +and North American cities. By 1886 London had over 34 miles of them +for the Post Office's telegraph service alone. In the Paris system +a person could pay a fee for a message to be sent specifically by +the tube.

+ +

They were also used within large buildings, and some survive in +use to this day.

+ +

Finally, in 1990, the Brazilian company Sur Coester stunned the +world by opening at a fair in Djakarta, Indonesia, a demonstration +line of their Aeromovel system. This is nothing more nor less +than an elevated atmospheric railway. The structure is concrete, +with steel rails and a rectangular concrete air pipe larger than +those on the 19th century lines. The longitudinal valve is made +of heavy cloth-reinforced rubber. Computerized remote control +is used.

+ +

Oh yes.

+ +

Pneumatic dispatch tubes were depicted in the 1985 movie "Brazil"; +Beach's tunnel was depicted, in rather distorted form, in the 1989 +movie "Ghostbusters II"; the modern form of the New York subway +has been depicted in many movies, notably the 1974 one "The Taking +of Pelham One Two Three"; but I don't believe the atmospheric or +pneumatic systems have ever been depicted at work in any movie. +Clearly this needs to be rectified! :-)

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References.

+ +

Almost all the information in this posting about the pneumatic +and atmospheric systems comes from one book... "Atmospheric +Railways: A Victorian Venture in Silent Speed" by Charles Hadfield, +1967, reprinted 1985 by Alan Sutton Publishing, Gloucester; ISBN +0-86299-204-4.

+ +

For other topics, I principally consulted "The Pictorial +Encyclopedia of Railways", 1976 edition, by (C.) Hamilton Ellis, +Hamlyn Publishing; ISBN 0-600-37585-4; some details came from other +books or my memory.

+ +

The information about the Djakarta line comes from two postings in +rec.railroad, one last November by Andrew Waugh quoting the November 24 +issue of "New Scientist" magazine, and the recent one by Russell Day +citing "Towards 2000".

+ +

-- +Mark Brader"Great things are not done by those +SoftQuad Inc., Toronto who sit down and count the cost +utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com of every thought and act." -- Daniel Gooch

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-Here's the lowdown on "ALTERNATIVE 3" from a TV-movie compendium. +"ALTERNATIVE 3" (GB 1977; 52m, colour) +Amusing spoof do commentary about the disappearance of various high-IQ +citizens, allegedly to form nucleus of a standby civilization on Mars against +the coming End of the World. Sly parodies of fashionable breathless TV +journalism sweetened the joke, ex-newscaster Tim Brinton held it all +together with po-faced gravity and needless to say some supernature fanatics +refuse to this day to accept that it was anything but gospel truth, although +it was orignally scheduled for April 1st (1977). Written by David Ambrose; +directed by Chris Miles; for Anglia. Apparently the TV-movie was spawned by a +book (or assuming the date is accurate, vice versa) of the same name. Written +by Leslie Watkins, it was published by Sphere Books Ltd. in 1978.

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ALTERNATIVE 003 +by +Leslie Watkins

+ +

with +David Ambrose & Christopher Miles

+ +

Section 1

+ +

NO NEWSPAPER has yet secured the truth behind the operation known +as ALTERNATIVE 3. Investigations by journalists have been blocked by +governments on both sides of the Iron Curtain. American and Russia are +ruthlessly obsessed with guarding their shared secret and this obsession, as +we can now prove, has made them partners in murder.

+ +

However, despite this intensive security, fragments of information have +been made public. Often they are released inadvertently by experts who do +not appreciate their sinister significance and these fragments, in isolation, +mean little. But when jigsawed together they form a definite pattern, a +pattern which appears to emphasize the enormity of this conspiracy of +silence.

+ +

On May 3, 1977, the Daily Mirror published this story:

+ +

President Jimmy Carter has joined the ranks of UFO spotters. He sent +in two written reports stating he had seen a flying saucer when he was the +Governor of Georgia.

+ +

The President has shrugged off the incident since then, perhaps fearing +that electors might be wary of a flying saucer freak.

+ +

But he was reported as saying after the "sighting"; "I don't laugh at +people any more when they say they've seen UFOs because I've seen one +myself."

+ +

Carter described his UFO like this: "Luminous, not solid, at first bluish, +then reddish. It seemed to move towards us from a distance, stopped, then +moved partially away."

+ +

Carter filed two reports on the sighting in 1973, one to the +International UFO Bureau and the other to the National Investigations +Committee on Aerial Phenomena.

+ +

Heydon Hewes, who directs the International UFO Bureau from his +home in Oklahoma City, is making speeches praising the President's +"open-mindedness."

+ +

But during his presidential campaign last year Carter was cautious. He +admitted he had seen a light in the sky but declined to call it a UFO.

+ +

He joked: "I think it was a light beckoning me to run in the California +primary election."

+ +

Why this change in Carter's attitude? Because, by then, he had been +briefed on Alternative 3?

+ +

A 1966 Gallup Poll showed that five million Americans including several +highly experienced airline pilots claimed to have seen Flying Saucers. +Fighter pilot Thomas Mantell has already died while chasing one over +Kentucky his F.51 aircraft having disintegrated in the violent wash of his +quarry's engines.

+ +

The U.S. Air Force, reluctantly bowing to mounting pressure, asked Dr. +Edward Uhler Condon, a professor of astrophysics, to head an investigation +team at Colorado University.

+ +

Condon's budget was $500000. Shortly before his report appeared in +1968, this story appeared in the London Evening Standard:

+ +

The Condon study is making headlines, but for all the wrong reasons. It +is losing some of its outstanding members, under circumstances which are +mysterious to say the least. Sinister rumors are circulating. At least four key +people have vanished from the Condon team without offering a satisfactory +reason for their departure.

+ +

The complete story behind the strange events in Colorado is hard to +decipher. But a clue, at last may be found in the recent statements of Dr. +James McDonald, the senior physicist at the Institute of Atmospheric +Physics at the University of Arizona and widely respected in his field. In a +wary, but ominous, telephone conversation this week, Dr. McDonald told me +that he is "most distressed." Condon's 1485-page report denied the +existence of Flying Saucers and a panel of the American National Academy of +Sciences endorsed the conclusion that "further extensive study probably +cannot be justified."

+ +

But, curiously, Condon's joint principal investigator, Dr. David Saunders, +had not contributed a word to that report. And on January 11, 1969, the +Daily Telegraph quoted Dr. Saunders as saying of the report:

+ +

"It is inconceivable that it can be anything but a cold stew. No matter +how long it is, what it includes, how it is said, or what it recommends, it will +lack the essential element of credibility."

+ +

Already there were wide-spread suspicions that the Condon +investigation had been part of an official coverup, that the government knew +the truth but was determined to keep it from the public. We now know that +those suspicions were accurate. And that the secrecy was all because of +Alternative 3.

+ +

Only a few months after Dr. Saunders made his "cold stew" statement a +journalist with the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch embarrassed the National +Aeronautics and Space Agency by photographing a strange craft looking +exactly like a Flying Saucer at the White Sands missile range in New Mexico.

+ +

At first no one at NASA would talk about this mysterious circular craft, +15 feet in diameter, which had been left in the "missile graveyard" a section +of the range where most experimental vehicles were eventually dumped.

+ +

But the Martin Marietta company of Denver, where it was built, +acknowledged designing several models, some with ten and twelve engines. +And a NASA official, faced with this information, said, "Actually the engineers +used to call it 'The Flying Saucer."

+ +

That confirmed a statement made by Dr. Garry Henderson, a leading +space research scientist: "All our astronauts have seen these objects but have +been ordered not to discuss their findings with anyone."

+ +

Otto Binder was a member of the NASA space team. He has stated that +NASA "killed" significant segments of conversation between Mission Control +and Apollo 11, the spacecraft which took Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to +the Moon and that those segments were deleted from the official record:

+ +

"Certain sources with their own VHF receiving facilities that by passed +NASA broadcast outlets claim there was a portion of Earth-Moon dialogue +that was quickly cut off by the NASA monitoring staff."

+ +

Binder added:

+ +

"It was presumably when the two moon walkers, Aldrin and Armstrong, +were making the round some distance from the LEM that Armstrong +clutched Aldrin's arm excitedly and exclaimed 'What was it? What the hell +was it? That's all I want to know.' "

+ +

Then, according to Binder, there was this exchange:

+ +

MISSION CONTROL: What's there? malfunction(garble).Mission +Control calling Apollo 11.

+ +

APOLLO 11: These babies were huge, sir. enormous, Oh, God you +wouldn't believe it! +I'm telling you there are other space-craft out there +lined up on the far side of the crater edge. +They're on the Moon watching us.

+ +

NASA, understandably, has never confirmed Binder's story but Buzz +Aldrin was soon complaining bitterly about the Agency having used him as a +"traveling salesman."

+ +

And two years after his Moon mission, following reported bouts of heavy +drinking, he was admitted to hospital with "emotional depression."

+ +

"Traveling salesman", that's an odd choice of words, isn't it? What, in +Aldrin's view, were the NASA authorities trying to sell? And to whom? +Could it be that they were using him, and others like him, to sell their +official version of the truth to ordinary people right across the world?

+ +

Was Aldrin's Moon walk one of those great spectaculars, presented with +maximum publicity, to justify the billions being poured into space research?

+ +

Was it part of the American-Russian cover for Alternative 3?

+ +

All men who have travelled to the Moon have given indications of +knowing about Alternative 3 and of the reasons which precipitated it.

+ +

In May, 1972, James Irwin, officially the sixth man to walk on the +Moon, resigned to become a Baptist missionary. And he said then, "The +flight made me a deeper religious person and more keenly aware of the +fragile nature of our planet."

+ +

Edgar Mitchell, who landed on the Moon with the Apollo 14 mission in +February, 1971, also resigned in May, 1972 to devote himself to +parapsychology. Later, at the headquarters of his Institute for noetic +Sciences near San Francisco, he described looking at this world from the +Moon: "I went into a very deep pathos, a kind of anguish. That incredibly +beautiful planet that was Earth, a place no bigger than my thumb was my +home.. a blue and white jewel against a velvet black sky...was being killed +off."

+ +

And on March 23, 1974, he was quoted in the Daily Express as saying +that society had only three ways in which to go and that the third was "the +most viable but most difficult alternative."

+ +

Another of the Apollo Moon walkers, Bob Grodin, was equally specific +when interviewed by a Sceptre Television reporter on June 20, 1977;

+ +

"You think they need all that crap down in Florida just to put two guys +up there on a bicycle? The hell they do! You know why they need us? +So they've got a P.R. story for all that hardware they've been firing into +space. +We're nothing, man! Nothing!"

+ +

On July 11, 1977, the Los Angeles Times came near to the heart of +the matter, nearer than any other newspaper, when it published a +remarkable interview with Dr. Gerard O'Neill.

+ +

Dr. O'Neill is a Princeton professor who served, during a 1976 +sabbatical, as Professor of Aerospace at the Massachusetts Institute of +Technology and who gets nearly $500000 each year in research grants from +NASA. Here is a section from that article:

+ +

The United Nations, he says, has conservatively estimated that the +world's population, now more than 4 billion people, will grow to about 6.5 +billion by the year 2000. Today, he adds, about 30% of the world's +population is in developed nations. But, because most of the projected +population growth will occur in underdeveloped countries, that will drop to +22% by the end of the century. The world of 2000 will be poorer and +hungrier than the world today, he says.

+ +

Dr. O'Neill also explained the problems caused by the earth's 4000 mile +atmospheric layer, but presumably because the article was comparatively +short one, he was not quoted on the additional threat posed by the notorious +"greenhouse" syndrome.

+ +

His solution? He called it Island 3. And he added: "There's no debate +about the technology involved in doing it. That's been confirmed by NASA's +top people."

+ +

But Dr. O'Neill, a family man with three children who like to fly +sailplanes in his spare time, did not realize that he was slightly off target. +He was right, of course, about the technology.

+ +

But he knew nothing of the political ramifications and he would have +been astounded to learn that NASA was feeding his research to the Russians.

+ +

Even eminent political specialists, as respected in their sphere as Dr. +O'Neill is in his own, have been puzzled by an undercurrent they have +detected in East-West relationships.

+ +

professor G. Gordon Broadbent, director of the independently financed +Institute of Political Studies in London and author of a major study of +U.S.-Soviet diplomacy since the 1950s, emphasized that fact on June 20, +1977, when he was interviewed on Sceptre Television:

+ +

"On the broader issue of Soviet-U.S. relations, I must admit there is an +element of mystery which troubles many people in my field."

+ +

He added: "What we're suggesting is that, at the very highest levels of +East-West diplomacy, there has been operating a factor of which we know +nothing. Now it could just be and I stress the word 'could' that this +unknown factor is some kind of massive but covert operation in space. But +as for the reasons behind it we are not in the business of speculation."

+ +

Washington's acute discomfort over O'Neill's revelations through the Los +Angeles Times can be assessed by the urgency with which a "suppression" +Bill was rushed to the Statute Book.

+ +

On July 27, 1977, only sixteen days after publication of the O'Neill +interview columnist Jeremy Campbell reported in the London Evening +Standard that the Bill would become law that September. He wrote:

+ +

It prohibits the publishing of an official report without permission, +arguing that this obstructs the Government's control of its own information. +That was precisely the charge brought against Daniel Ellsberg for giving the +Pentagon papers to the New York Times.

+ +

Most ominous of all, the Bill would make it a crime for any present or +former civil servant to tell the Press of Government wrong doing or pass on +any news based on information "submitted to the Government in private."

+ +

Campbell pointed out that this final clause "has given serious pain to +guardians of American Press freedom because it creates a brand new crime." +Particularly as there was provision in the Bill for offending journalists to be +sent to prison for up to six years.

+ +

We subsequently discovered that a man called Harman Leonard Harman +read that item in the newspaper and that later, in a certain television +executives' dining room, he expressed regret that a similar Law had not been +passed years earlier by the British government.

+ +

He was eating treacle tart with custard at the time and he reflected +wistfully that he could then have insisted on such a Law being obeyed. That, +when it came to Alternative 3, would have saved him from a great deal of +trouble.

+ +

He had chosen treacle tart, not because he particularly liked it, but +because it was 2p(ence) cheaper than the chocolate sponge. That was +typical of Harman.

+ +

He was one of the people, as you may have learned already through the +Press, who tried to interfere with the publication of this book. We will later +be presenting some of the letters received by us from him and his lawyers +together with the replies from our legal advisers.

+ +

We decided to print these letters in order to give you a thorough insight +into our investigation for it is important to stress that we, like Professor +Broadbent, are not in the "business of speculation." We are interested only in +the facts.

+ +

And it is intriguing to note the pattern of facts relating to astronauts +who have been on Moon missions and who have therefore been exposed to +some of the surprises presented by Alternative 3.

+ +

A number, undermined by the strain of being party to such a +horrendous secret, suffered nervous or mental collapses. A high percentage +sought sanctuary in excessive drinking or in extramarital affairs which +destroyed what had been secure and successful marriages.

+ +

Yet these were men originally picked from many thousands precisely +because of their stability. Their training and experience, intelligence and +physical fitness all these, of course, were prime considerations in their +selection. But the supremely important quality was their balanced +temperament.

+ +

It would need something stupendous, something almost unimaginable +to most people, to flip such men into dramatic personality changes. That +something, we have now established, was Alternative 3 and, perhaps more +particularly, the night marish obscenities involved in the development and +perfection of Alternative 3.

+ +

We are not suggesting that the President of the United States has had +personal knowledge of the terror and clinical cruelties which have been an +integral part of the Operation, for that would make him directly responsible +for murders and barbarous mutilations.

+ +

We are convinced, in fact, that this is not the case. The President and +the Russian leader, together with their immediate subordinates, have been +concerned only with broad sweep of policy.

+ +

They have acted in unison to ensure what they consider to be the best +possible future for mankind. And the day to day details have been delegated +to high level professionals.

+ +

These professionals, we have now established, have been classifying +people selected for the Alternative 3 operation into two categories: those +who are picked as individuals and those who merely form part of a "batch +consignment."

+ +

There have been several "batch consignments" and it is the treatment +meted out to most of these men and women which provides the greatest +cause for outrage.

+ +

No matter how desperate the circumstances may be$and we reluctantly +recognize that they are extremely desperate$no humane society could +tolerate what has been done to the innocent and the gullible.

+ +

That view, fortunately, was taken by one man who was recruited into +the Alternative 3 team three years ago. He was, at first, highly enthusiastic +and completely dedicated to the Operation. However, he became revolted by +some of the atrocities involved. He did not consider that, even in the +prevailing circumstances, they could be justified.

+ +

Three days after the transmission of that sensational television +documentary, his conscience finally goaded him into action. He knew the +appalling risk he was taking, for he was aware of what had happened to +others who had betrayed the secrets of Alternative 3, but he made telephone +contact with television reporter Colin Benson and offered to provide Benson +with evidence of the most astounding nature.

+ +

He was calling, he said, from abroad but he was prepared to travel to +London. They met two days later. And he then explained to Benson that +copies of most orders and memoranda, together with transcripts prepared +from tapes of Policy Committee meetings, were filed in triplicate in +Washington, Moscow and Geneva where Alternative 3 had its operational +headquarters.

+ +

The system had been instituted to ensure there was no +misunderstanding between the principal partners. He occasionally had +access to some of that material although it was often weeks or even months +old before he saw it and he was willing to supply what he could to Benson. +He wanted no money. He merely wanted to alert the public, to help stop the +mass atrocities.

+ +

Benson's immediate reaction, after he had assessed the value of this +offer, was that Sceptre should mount a follow up programme, one which +would expose the horrors of Alternative 3 in far greater depth.

+ +

He argued bitterly with his superiors at Sceptre but they were adamant. +The company was already in serious trouble with the government and there +was some doubt about whether its licence would be renewed. They refused +to consider the possibility of doing another programme. They had officially +disclaimed the Alternative 3 documentary as a hoax and that was where the +matter had to rest.

+ +

Anyway, they pointed out, this character who'd come forward was +probably a nut$ If you saw the documentary, you will probably realize that +Benson is a stubborn man. His friends say he is pig obstinate. They also say +he is a first class investigative journalist.

+ +

He was angry about this attempt to suppress the truth and that is why +he agreed to cooperate in the preparation of this book. That cooperation +has been invaluable.

+ +

Through Benson we met the telephone caller who we now refer to as +Trojan. And that meeting resulted in our acquiring documents, which we +will be presenting, including transcripts of tapes made at the most secret +rendezvous in the world, thirty five fathoms beneath the ice cap of the +Arctic.

+ +

For obvious reasons, we cannot reveal the identity of Trojan. Nor can +we give any hint about his function or status in the Operation.

+ +

We are completely satisfied, however, that his credentials are authentic +and that, in breaking his oath of silence, he is prompted by the most +honourable of motives.

+ +

He stands in relation to the Alternative 3 conspiracy in much the same +position as the anonymous informant "Deep Throat" occupied in the +Watergate affair. Most of the "batch consignments" have been taken from the +area known as the Bermuda Triangle but numerous other locations have also +been used.

+ +

On October 6, 1975, the Daily Telegraph gave prominence to this +story:

+ +

The disappearance in bizarre circumstances in the past two weeks of +20 people from small coastal communities in Oregon was being intensively +investigated at the weekend amid reports of an imaginative fraud scheme +involving a "flying saucer" and hints of mass murder.

+ +

Sheriff's officers at Newport, Oregon, said that the 20 individuals had +vanished without trace after being told to give away all their possessions, +including their children, so that they could be transported in a flying saucer +"by UFO to a better life."

+ +

"Deputies under Mr. Ron Sutton, chief criminal investigator in +surrounding Lincoln County, have traced the story back to a meeting on +September 14 in a resort hotel, the Bayshore Inn at Waldport, Oregon$ +Local police have received conflicting reports as to what occurred (at the +meeting).

+ +

But while it is clear that the speaker did not pretend to be from outer +space, he told the audience how their souls could be "saved through a UFO.

+ +

"The hall had been reserved for a fee of $50 by a man and a woman who +gave false names. Mr. Sutton said witnesses had described them as "fortyish, +well groomed, straight types."

+ +

The Telegraph said that "selected people would be prepared at a special +camp in Colorado for life on another planet" and quoted Investigator Sutton +as adding:

+ +

"They were told they would have to give away everything, even their +children. I'm checking a report of one family who supposedly gave away +150-acre farm and three children."

+ +

"We don't know if it's fraud or whether these people might be killed. +There are all sorts of rumours, including some about human sacrifice and +that this is sponsored by the (Charles) Manson family."

+ +

"Most of the missing 20 were described as being "hippie types" +although there were some older people among them."

+ +

People of this calibre, we have now discovered, have been what is +known as "scientifically adjusted" to fit them for a new role as a slave +species.

+ +

There have been equally strange reports of animals, particularly farm +animals, disappearing in large numbers. And occasionally it appears that +aspects of the Alternative 3 operation have been bungled, that attempts to +lift "batch consignments" of humans or of animals have failed.

+ +

On July 15, 1977, the Daily Mail under a "Flying Saucer" headline +carried this story:

+ +

Men in face masks, using metal detectors and a geiger counter, +yesterday scoured a remote Dartmoor valley in a bid to solve a macabre +mystery. Their search centred on marshy grassland where 15 wild ponies +were found dead, their bodies mangled and torn.

+ +

All appeared to have died at about the same time, and many of the bones +have been inexplicably shattered. To add to the riddle, their bodies +decomposed to virtual skeletons within only 48 hours.

+ +

Animal experts confess they are baffled by the deaths at Cherry Brook +Valley near Postbridge.

+ +

Yesterday's search was carried out by members of the Devon +Unidentified Flying Objects centre at Torquay who are trying to prove a link +with outer space.

+ +

They believe that flying saucers may have flown low over the area and +created a vortex which hurled the ponies to their death. Mr. John Wyse, +head of the four-man team, said:

+ +

"If a spacecraft has been in the vicinity, there may still be detectable +evidence. We wanted to see if there was any sign that the ponies had been +shot but we have found nothing. This incident bears an uncanny +resemblance to similar events reported in America."

+ +

The Mail report concluded with a statement from an official +representing The Dartmoor Livestock Protection Society and the Animal +Defence Society:

+ +

"Whatever happened was violent. We are keeping an open mind. I am +fascinated by the UFO theory. There is no reason to reject that possibility +since there is no other rational explanation."

+ +

These, then, were typical of the threads, which inspired the original +television investigation. It needed one person, however, to show how they +could be embroidered into a clear picture.

+ +

Without the specialist guidance of that person the Sceptre television +documentary could never have been produced, and Trojan would never have +contacted Colin Benson.

+ +

And it would have been years, possibly seven years or even longer, +before ordinary people started to suspect the devastating truth about this +planet on which we live. That person, of course, is the old man$

+ +
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Section 2

+ +

THEY Realize now that they should have killed the old man.

+ +

That would have been the logical course to protect the secrecy of +Alternative 3. It is curious, really, that they did not agree to his death on +that Thursday in February for, as we have stated, they do use murder.

+ +

Of course, it is not called murder, not when it is done jointly by the +governments of America and Russia. It is an Act of Expediency.

+ +

Many Acts of Expediency are believed to have been ordered by the +sixteen men, official representatives of the pentagon and the Kremlin, who +comprise the Policy Committee.

+ +

Grotesque and apparently inexplicable slayings in various parts of the +world in Germany and Japan, Britain and Australia are alleged to have been +sanctioned by them.

+ +

We have not been able to substantiate these suspicions and allegations +so we merely record that an unknown number of people, including +distinguished radio astronomer Sir William Ballantine, have been executed +because of this astonishing agreement between the super-powers.

+ +

Prominent politicians, including two in Britain, were among those who +tried to prevent the publication of this book. They insisted that it is not +necessary for you, and others like you, to be told the unpalatable facts.

+ +

They argue that the events of the future are now inevitable, that there is +nothing to be gained by prematurely unleashing fear.

+ +

We concede that they are sincere in their views but we maintain that +you ought to know. You have a right to know.

+ +

Attemps were also made to neuter the television programme which first +focused public attention on Alternative 3. Those attemps were partially +successful. And, of course, after the programme was transmitted, when +there was that spontaneous explosion of anxiety, Septre Television was +forced to issue a formal denial.

+ +

It had all been a hoax. That's what they were told to say. That's what +they did say.

+ +

Most people were then only too glad to be reassured. They wanted to +be convinced that the programme had been devised as a joke, that it was +merely an elaborate piece of escapist entertainment. It was more +comfortable that way.

+ +

In fact, the television researchers did uncover far more disturbing +material than they were allowed to transmit. The censored information is +now in our possession. And, as we have indicated, there was a great deal +that Benson and the rest of the television team did not discover, not until +after their programme had been screened.

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Copies of Alternative 3 are rare. There is a source in ENGLAND which +we do not currently know, however, you may purchase an imported copy for +about $11.00 from Metaphysical Book Store, 9511 E. Colfax, Aurora, CO +80010 (303) 341-7562. Please mention that you got the address from VANGARD +SCIENCES or the KeelyNet Bulletin Board System. Thanks.

+ +

Placed in the public domain from the

+ +

VANGARD SCIENCES archives on October 28 1989. +Our mailing address is PO BOX 1031, Mesquite, TX 75150. +Voice phone (Jerry 214-324-8741...Ron 214-484-3189 +KeelyNet (214) 324-3501

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The Truth about Alternative 3 +from its author, Leslie Watkins

+ +

(This article is taken from the $Windwords$ newsletter) +address not available

+ +

In our June issue, we told you about the controversial book Alternative +3, by British author Leslie Watkins. In out attempt to find out if the +shocking theories in the book were true, we called Avon Books, the +American publisher; they said the book was out of print in the states. We +called Penguin Books in London and found that it was listed on their +NON-FICTION list. A senior editor there told us that it was officially +classified as FICTION BASED ON FACT. The author's agent told us it was +most definitely fiction. We wrote to the author himself to try to get the +real story, and here is the letter he sent us.

+ +

Dear Ms. Dittrich:

+ +

Thank you for your letter, which reached me today. Naturally, I am +delighted by your interest in Alternative 3 and by the fact that you plan to +sell it in the Windwords bookstore. I will certainly cooperate in any way I +can.

+ +

The correct description of Alternative 3 was given to you by the +representative from Penguin Books. The book is based on fact, but uses that +fact as a launchpad for a HIGH DIVE INTO FICTION. In answer to your +specific questions:

+ +

1) There is no astronaut named Grodin. +2) There is no Sceptre Television and the reported Benson is also +fictional. +3) There is no Dr. Gerstein. +4) Yes, a "documentary" was televised in June 1977 on Anglia +Television, which went out to the entire national network in Britain. +It was called Alternative 3 and was written by David Ambrose and +produced by Christopher Miles (whose names were on the book for +contractual reasons). This original TV version, which I EXPANDED +IMMENSELY for the book, was ACTUALLY A HOAX which had been +scheduled for transmission on April Fools' Day. Because of certain +problems in finding the right network slot, the transmission was +delayed.

+ +

The TV program did cause a tremendous uproar because viewers +refused to believe it was fiction. I initially took the view that the +basic premise was so way-out, particularly the way I aimed to +present it in the book, that no one would regard it as non-fiction. +Immediately after publication, I realized I was totally wrong. In fact, +the amazing mountains of letters from virtually all parts of the world +including vast numbers from highly intelligent people in positions of +responsibility-convinced me that I had ACCIDENTALLY trespassed +into a range of top-secret truths.

+ +

Documentary evidence provided by many of these +correspondents decided me to write a serious and COMPLETELY +NON-FICTION sequel. Unfortunately, a chest containing the bulk of +the letters was among the items which were mysteriously LOST IN +TRANSIT some four years when I moved from London, England, to +Sydney, Australia, before I moved on to settle in New Zealand. For +some time after Alternative 3 was originally published, I have +reason to suppose that my home telephone was being tapped and my +contacts who were experienced in such matters were convinced +that certain intelligence agencies considered that I probably knew +too much.

+ +

So, summing up, the book is FICTION BASED ON FACT. But I now feel +that I inadvertently got VERY CLOSE TO A SECRET TRUTH. I hope this is of +some help to you and I look forward to hearing from you again.

+ +

With best wishes, +Leslie Watkins

+ +

Unfortunately, Alternative 3 is no longer available. We (Windwords) +bought all the remaining copies from the British publisher and those quickly +sold out. If the book is reprinted, you can be sure we'll let you know and +we'll carry it in the Windwords bookstore.

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From: San Francisco Chronicle, Wed. Dec. 12, 1990 (Briefing Section) +----

+ +

The British Zionists were led by Chaim Weizmann, a brilliant chemist who +contributed to the war effort by discovering a new process for manufacturing +acetone, a substance vital for TNT that was until then only produced in +Germany. Weizmann saw a historic opening for Zionism and began to lobby +influential British politicians.

+ +

Early in their talks with British politicians, it became clear to them that +only a British Palestine would be a reliable buffer for the Suez Canal. +Weizmann therefore assured Britain that in exchange for its support, +Zionists would work for the establishment of a British protectorate there. +This suited Britain better than the agreement it had already made with +France for an international administration for Palestine.

+ +

So on November 2, 1917, Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour made his famous +and deeply ambiguous declaration that Britain would "view with favor the +establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people..." +How did the pledge to the Zionists square with what had already been +promised to the Arabs in return for their support in the war against the +Turks? The Arabs realized that they had been outmaneuvered.

+ +

Note - As you can see, the main reason our troops are in the Persian Gulf +is because of the Zionist hunger for a national home in Palestine. +Palestine was an independent land before 1917. But after the +totally unfair Balfour Declaration, written by British Zionists, +Zionists (Jews) were given permission by Great Britain to take +over Palestine and keep lands which do not belong to them. And +the US has not done anything about it. Why? Because of the +better known media, which are all Zionists. (ie. Ted Koppell, +Larry King, etc etc etc) Many large corporations are also run +by Jews, including many of the large corporations which make +stuff for our military.

+ +

Note - The American Anti-Jewish League in no way supports the naked +aggression committed by Saddam Hussein against Kuwait. He +must leave Kuwait, even though Kuwait, contrary to popular +opinion, once WAS a PROVINCE of Iraq. There is no doubt about +this: just go to your public library and get a good book on +Iraq, Kuwait, or British Foreign Policy in the Middle East. +Once again, it was the British (and French) who set up the +current boundaries which exist today. However, what Saddam +has done must be overruled, exactly as what the Jews have +done to Palestine must be stopped. Do you know how much of +our TAXES go to Israel every year? Do you know how much +trouble we've gone through to protect Israel? Do you know +that there are more Jews in the USA than in any other country +in the world? Do you know most Jews (especially the conservative and highly orthodox ones) are strong anti-Americans? +Why then, are we supporting them? Because many of our +highest government positions are run by Jews. They are +practically running the US. And what about the British? +It is not Japan that owns more of the US than other countries. +It is Great Britain. They own more US land, corporations, +stocks, interests, etc. in the US than the Japanese and 5 +other countries put together. If you don't believe any of +this, just print it out, and go to your local public library +or ask an unbiased History professor. This is all true. +Please spread the word around, and upload this and other +files to as many BBS's as you can. We must begin to stop +this low-profile takeover of our country, or else it will +be too late to control it. Thank you for your time.

+ +

American Anti-Jewish League +---------------------------

+ +

Have you ever wondered why so many people hate or dislike Jews? From their +very first existence, they have been hated by people around them and people +who knew them. Why? All through these ages, anti-semitism is still strong. +Why? It is true that some of this hatred is not founded for truly, such as +in the case of the Germans. Hitler was looking for a people to accuse of +Germany's downfall, so he picked the Jews. Although this is not the main +reason for Germany's weakness at that time, there is still something to it. +Jews were contributing, but very minutely, and in low-profile, to Germany's +problems. Anyway, back to the main point. Now it is the Arabs who are after +the Jews, even though if you go back to Germany today, the majority of +Germans (although they will not admit it right away) are still anti-semitic. +Wouldn't you still be? Just look at ALL these movies made and shown on +TV and at cinemas in which the world is pitted against the Germans, and +the Germans always lose. These movies are still shown every day on TV and +cable. Just turn on TBS, TNT, etc. Anyway, now it is the Arabs. And +now we have and soon will have more movies which bring down the Arabs. +(ie. the new Sally Field movie, which is grossly exaggerated) Don't +forget who runs most of the TV networks and movie studios. So why do +so many people hate Jews (also known as Zionists, semitic people (not very +correctly though), Israelites, Israelis) The answer to this question +is very simple. Jews believe that they are God's chosen people (they +honestly believe this, even though they will not admit it anymore directly) and that because they are so, then they are superior to all +other people. All others must work for Jews, because no one else is +as gifted as they are. It is true that most Jews have above-average +intelligence, and that they are very handy and dexterous, and work hard +(but only for themselves) We are not denying this. What we detest is +their attitude that they are superior to us, and therefore we must +be their slaves. And they can do almost anything they want, because +they are the "chosen" ones. Because of this belief of theirs, Jews +along with their other attributes have been slowly and quietly taking +over the most important world systems. They cheat a lot; this is one +of their most distinguished characteristics. What we mean by cheat +is not just cheating, but taking advantage of the right opportunities +to gain their objectives. They are extremely well-known for their +"money habits". They take advantage of less qualified peoples, using +them knowingly. They help mostly only themselves, and have very close +ties with each other. (they even have their owns BBs's, just look inside Computer Currents) Because of this connections, they can get +things done easily. If a Jew needs job, no problem. There are other +Jews in all the top job areas, who will right away hire him/her first +over others. They have extremely high-level propaganda machinery; +many TV and radio commentators are Jews, many reporters, book writers, +and magazines are Jewish. AND very importantly, the many publications +companies are run by Jews. If you have any doubts, just do some +research. It might take you a while, but you will find out that, yes, +it is true. And these people are ALL over the world: Israel, USA, +England, Canada, spread over in S. American, all over Europe, USSR, +etc etc. They are practically in the highest-level positions all over +the world. And they use their clear advantage to continually gain +more and more power. The Middle East is the last bastion of true +anti-Zionism. God only knows what would happen if they were to take +over the Middle East and its oil too. They already have the biggest +banks, corporations, communications systems, etc in the world. All +they need now is oil. And all throughout the ages, they have been +doing the same thing, and when successful, suppressing all opposing +views. Now they have finally succeeded in turning the whole world +against Iraq, the 2nd biggest anti-Zionist country in the world. This +of course, has been done in an indirect manner, and has taken them a +lot of time. But it has worked. Once Saddam is ousted, thanks to +our soldiers and money, they will then begin to slowly get control of +the region. There is still Iran, Syria, and other countries, but they +can be taken care of too. It will not be easy for them, because the +Arabs are tremendous anti-semites, and they are willing to do anything +to stop the Jews. But, with the US, Britain, and other countries +helping them, the Jewish will have all the support they need to accomplish their goals. And all because these countries are practically +run by Jews. So please, become more informed on this subject. Read +more books, newspapers, etc. about these people, making DEAD sure +that they are not written by Jewish authors, or published by Jewish +publication companies, or third-party Jewish-influenced writers. +We must stop these people from controlling the world. We don't want +to kill them or hurt them, we want to let them know that they are +not superior to us, they are not God's chosen people, and that they +cannot do whatever they want. Please, help us out. Spread these +files around, call your senators and representatives, read more +about this stuff, etc. JEWS MUST BE STOPPED... NOW!

+ +

American Anti-Jewish League +---------------------------

+ +

How would you like it if another peoples, with greater military capability +and more money came to the United States and started to control it. If +they began to put strict restrictions on everything you did, and started +to take away your rights. If they set curfews, so that you couldn't +come outside at times, and refused to let you go wherever you wanted. +If they refused to allow you to celebrate certain holidays. If they put +down all opposition brutally, killing anyone who disobeyed their rules. +And to top if off, they were supported by the biggest military in the +world. You could do nothing about it. Nothing. All tries have been +put down by force. Anything you have done has ended in your people +being killed or injured. How would you feel? Be honest now. Well, +this is exactly what is happening in Palestine now. It's even worse +than this. There is no way to describe it. The only way to do so is +to sit down for a few minutes and imagine people coming into your +town and suddenly taking control of it. You have to do everything +they tell you to. If you go out and protest, they will injure you. If +you get violent, they will kill you, saying that you have been wanted +for other offenses as well, and that you had done such and such. +And there is absolutely nothing that you can do. Many people outside +are talking about this, but no one is really doing anything about it. +It feels terrible, doesn't it? You are beginning to get really angry +now, that no one is listening to your cries. You try more violent +methods - nothing. So you decide the only way to make it known to +others is to use terrorist methods. You hijack a plane. Now the +whole world is against you. More Jewish propaganda. You are called +a barbarian, uncivilized. Just throw a nuke on you, many say. So +what do you do? This is exactly what is happening to the Palestinian +people. Please, do something about it. Or at least, next time you +hear Jews, Jewish propaganda, or some other Jewish views, question +them, embarass them. Don't believe everything they say. Become +more informed. STOP THEM BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!

+ +

American Anti-Jewish League +---------------------------

+ +

Disclaimer - Any use of this info for illegal purposes is forbidden +and against the law. All of the info in this file is +only for your personal knowledge. If you use any of +this info in the process, the consequences are yours +and yours alone.

+ +
+ +

Useful Addresses and Phone Numbers +----------------------------------

+ +

1. Consulate General of Israel +220 Bush +San Francisco, CA.

+ +

(415) 398-8885

+ +

Open M-F 10am to 1pm

+ +

2. Adath Israel +Rabbi Jacob Traub +1851 Noriega

+ +

(415) 564-5665

+ +

3. Ahavat Shalom +150 Eureka

+ +

(415) 621-1020

+ +

4. Congregation Anshey Sfard +1500 Clement + +(415) 752-4979

+ +

5. Congregation Beth Israel-Judea +Rabbi Herbert Morris +625 Brotherhood Way

+ +

(415) 586-8833

+ +

6. Congregation Beth Sholom +Rabbi Alexander Graubart +14th Ave & Clement

+ +

(415) 221-8736

+ +

7. Congregation B'Nai B'Rit Ha Mashiach +(415) 992-2079

+ +

8. Congregation B'Nai Emunah (Conservative Jews - Give 'em HELL!) +Rabbi Theodore R. Alexander +3595 Taraval

+ +

(415) 664-7373

+ +

9. Congregation B'Nai Israel (also conservative) +Rabbi Malcolm Cohen +1575 Annie

+ +

(415) 756-5430

+ +

10. Congregation Chevra Thilim +751 25th Ave + +(415) 386-9570

+ +

11. Congregation Emanu-El +199 Arguello Bl. + +(415) 751-2535

+ +

12. Congregation Keneseth Israel +1255 Post Suite 427 + +(415) 771-3420

+ +

13. Congregation Magain David Sephardim +351 4th Ave + +(415) 752-9095

+ +

14. Congregation Ner Tamid +1250 Quintara

+ +

(415) 661-3383

+ +

15. Congregation Sherith Israel +2266 California

+ +

(415) 346-1720

+ +

16. Hillel Foundation +33 Banbury Dr.

+ +

(415) 333-4922

+ +

17. Jewish Educational Center of SF +538 29th Ave

+ +

(415) 221-7045

+ +

18. United Synagogue of America +425 Divisadero +(415) 864-1051

+ +

Note - Some 42% of the problems of the US are a direct result of Jews. This +is not some hypothetical figure, it is thouroughly researched fact. +One of the main reasons our troops are in the gulf is Israel. Why? +They run practically all the biggest TV networks, newspapers, radio +stations, higher posts, etc. in the USA.

+ +

American Anti-Jewish League +---------------------------

+ +

UPDATE

+ +

So, now that Saddam Hussein has fired Scud missiles into Israel, and the +Jews have shown restraint, they immediately expect something from us. Today +they asked for 13 billion more dollars (billion, not million). In addition +to this, they have asked for another $10 billion from other countries. +Why the hell do we have to send our tax dollars to them? Why? They have +everything they already need. They have a huge air force, many nuclear +weapons, an army, navy, and money. Why should we send them anything? If +we are going to send money to someone, there are many other needier nations +on this planet who have none of the above. Instead, we send this money to +a country which from its very beginning has caused trouble. Possibly, no +other country has ever caused so many problems for humankind in history. +These Jewish pigs are now taking advantage of the circumstances to get many +of their ideas across, and thanks to Saddam, they are being very successful. All the TV networks (most of which are run by Jews (many of the news +directors are Jewish, plus anchormen as well, such as Ted Coppel, Larry +King, etc etc)) are interviewing Jewish state figures, and asking them +favorable questions. CNN itself constantly interviews many Jewish heads +of state. But very few Arab leaders/figures are interviews, and if done +so, not very rational figures are chosen so that people get the wrong +impression. (ie. those two Jordanian engineers on Nightline who do not +reflect the majority opinion of Arabs) All the Jewish pigs interviewed +have been saying: "Now the world knows what we have had to put up with +all these years", when in fact, it is exactly the opposite! It is what +the Arab people have had to put up with, especially the Palestinians, +who unfortunately supported Saddam's aggression. This is truly sad, +because it has given the Palestinians a very bad image, especially in +the USA. Many of you are probably saying, "Oh, those poor Israelis, +look what they have to put up with. If San Francisco was bombed, I +would do the same too." And this is somewhat true; Saddam is a brutal +dictator, and the only thing he has done is help the Zionist pigs. +So here we go again; we've given them Patriot missile systems (each +Patriot missile costs $1 million - this is your TAX money!) Now we're +about to give those pigs, who don't really need this money, another +$13 billion. Of course the Arab countries will see us with an evil +eye. Not only have we ignored them, but now we are putting the icing +on the Jewish cake. This is enfuriating them. The Jews are (they say +this, and it is true, but they also take advantage of inferior peoples. +Just trace Jewish history) smart people, they are literate, have schools, +money, etc. Why can't they just get their own money? They practically +run a third of our country. Now, for restraining against immediate +attack (they will attack later though), they ask us for $13 billion. +This is an outrage! An absolute outrage! Our economy is going down, +we are cutting from health care, and from education, there are many +programs here that need money, and what do we do? We give those Jewish +pigs, who need the money less than we do, millions of dollars every +year. So that they can in return take advantage of our resources. +I plead with you that you do something about this. We have to stop +this. Many of the people who run the USA our Jews. Get them out +of their posts. Please, we must do something about this NOW, before +it's too late to even start something. Write letters. Ask people. +Inform yourselves. Read books (that are not biased - many of the +biggest publications companies are run by Jews) Spread this file +around as many bulletin boards as possible. Thank you for your +time. + +

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FROM THE ALL OHIO SCANNER CLUB:

+ +

SYSTEM PROFILE - The FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

+ +

History

+ +

The FBI traces its roots back to the year 1908 when then U.S. Attorney General +Charles Bonaparte directed that Department of Justice investigations be handled +by a small group of special investigators. The group was formed as the Bureau +of Investigation and, in 1935, the present day name was designated by Congress.

+ +

Duties

+ +

The primary functions of the FBI and its agents are the investigations of +violations of certain Federal statutes and the collection of evidence in cases +in which the United States is or may be an interested party. The FBI performs +other duties specifically imposed by law or Presidential directive and conducts +a number of service activities for other law enforcement agencies. The FBI can +investigate a matter only when it has authority to do so under a law passed by +Congress or on instructions of the President or the Attorney General.

+ +

The FBI is not a Federal police force, it is a fact-finding organization +investigating violations of Federal laws and its authority is strictly limited +to matters within its jurisdiction. FBI agents may make arrests without a +warrant for any Federal offense committed in their presence, or when they have +reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or +is attempting to commit a felony violation of United States laws. Agents may +also make arrests by warrant.

+ +

Agents do not make arrests for "investigation" or "on suspicion". Before +arrests are made, if at all possible, the facts of each case are presented tom +the U.S. Attorney who decides whether or not a Federal violation has occurred +and, if so, the U.S. Attorney may authorize agents to file a complaint which +serves as the basis of the arrest warrant.

+ +

The FBI has no authority to investigate local crimes which are not within its +jurisdiction. The FBI will, however, render all possible assistance to the +local police through the FBI Laboratory and Identification Division. The FBI +LID maintains fingerprint files on approximately 70 million (yes, million) +people. The FBI also maintains the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) +which keeps records of missing persons, serialized stolen property, wanted +persons for whom an arrest warrant is outstanding, and criminal histories on +individuals arrested and fingerprinted for serious or significant offenses.

+ +

The NCIC is a computerized information system established by the FBI as a +service to all criminal justice agencies: local, state and Federal. The +information can be instantly retrieved over a vast communications network +through the use of telecommunications equipment in criminal justice centers in +various locations in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Many times when +monitoring the local or county police/sheriff departments a reference to a NCIC +check is heard.

+ +

The FBI is involved in criminal investigations and foreign counterintelligence +efforts. Most notably criminal investigations are those of bank robberies and +kidnapping cases. The FBI can also investigate criminal activity associated +with interstate transportation of stolen property, and the FBI can investigate +graft and corruption cases of local government under certain circumstances. +Department of Justice offices mat be found on some military installations as +the FBI has jurisdiction when a crime involves Government property, or funds, +or when only civilians are involved.

+ +

The FBI's responsibility with respect to foreign counterintelligence, within +the United States, is to detect, lawfully counteract, and/or prevent espionage +and other clandestine intelligence activities, sabotage, international +terrorist activities, or assassinations conducted for or on behalf of foreign +powers, organizations, or persons. The FBI also investigates murders, +kidnappings, and assaults against foreign diplomatic officials while in the +United States, as well as damage to property of foreign governments in the +United States.

+ +

Organization

+ +

The FBI is an agency within the U.S. Department of Justice, which is lead by +the U.S. Attorney General. The head of the FBI is the Director who is appointed +by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Assistant directors +are the next level of command within the FBI. The FBI has ten assistant +directors who are accountable to the Director for all matters within their +sphere of operations.

+ +

The FBI has 59 field offices located in major cities throughout the United +States and in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Each, with the exception of the New York +Office which is headed by an Assistant Director, is under the direct +supervision of a Special Agent In Charge (SAIC). The SAIC is supervised and +receives directions from the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.

+ +

Each FBI Field Office has Resident Agencies which are local offices in some of +the larger cities within the field offices jurisdiction. Refer to the FBI field +office map for the sectioning of the field offices across the United States. +The following list of the field offices and associated data was generated by +data contributed from several readers who wish to remain anonymous and from +this editor.

+ +

Location F.O. Telephone No. Call Letters RA's

+ +

Albany, NY 12201 1 518 465 7551 KEC 250 - 262 8

+ +

Albuquerque, NM 87102 2 505 247 1555 6

+ +

Alexandria, VA 3 KFQ 240 - 244 3

+ +

Anchorage, AK 99513 4 907 276 4441 2

+ +

Atlanta, GA 30303 5 404 521 3900 KIE 300 - 311 8

+ +

Baltimore, MD 21207 6 301 265 8080 KGB 747 - 756 9

+ +

Birmingham, AL 35203 7 205 252 7705 5

+ +

Boston, MA 02203 8 617 742 5533 KCB 800 - 814 12

+ +

Buffalo, NY 14202 9 716 856 7800 KEX 590 - 595 3

+ +

Butte, MT 59702 10 406 782 2304 13

+ +

Charlotte, NC 28217 11 704 529 1030 KEV 220 - 228 8

+ +

Chicago, IL 60604 12 312 431 1333 KSC 210 - 217 4

+ +

Cincinnati, OH 45202 13 513 421 4310 KQC 390 - 399 8

+ +

Cleveland, OH 44199 14 216 522 1400 KEX 740 - 750 9

+ +

Columbia, SC 29201 15 803 254 3011 KEX 820 - 830 8

+ +

Dallas, TX 75202 16 214 720 2200 8

+ +

Denver, CO 80202 17 303 629 7171 7

+ +

Detroit, MI 48226 18 313 965 2323 KEX 760 - 772 12

+ +

El Paso, TX 79901 19 915 533 7451 1

+ +

Honolulu, HI 96850 20 808 521 1411 0

+ +

Houston, TX 77008 21 713 868 2266 3

+ +

Indianapolis, IN 46204 22 317 639 3301 KEX 780 - 790 9

+ +

Jackson, MS 39269 23 601 948 5000 9

+ +

Jacksonville, FL 32211 24 904 721 1211 7

+ +

Kansas City, MO 64106 25 816 221 6100 KEX 570 - 582 9

+ +

Knoxville, TN 37902 26 615 544 0751 KEV 240 - 246 6

+ +

Las Vegas, NV 89104 27 702 385 1281 2

+ +

Little Rock, AR 72211 28 501 221 9100 KFQ 200 - 208 7

+ +

Los Angeles, CA 90024 29 213 477 6565 KMC 250 - 275 25

+ +

Louisville, KY 40202 30 502 583 3941 KIA 320 - 332 12

+ +

Memphis, TN 38103 31 901 525 7373 6

+ +

Miami, FL 33169 32 305 944 9101 KEV 300 - 305 4

+ +

Milwaukee, WI 53202 33 414 276 4684 KSC 220 - 228 6

+ +

Minneapolis, MN 55401 34 612 339 7861 14

+ +

Mobile, AL 36602 35 205 438 3674 5

+ +

Newark, NJ 07102 36 201 622 5613 KEX 620 - 628 6

+ +

New Haven, CT 06510 37 203 777 6311 KEX 600 - 606 4

+ +

New Orleans, LA 70113 38 504 522 4671 6

+ +

New York, NY 10278 39 212 553 2700 KEC 270 - 283 ?

+ +

Norfolk, VA 23510 40 804 623 3111 KEX 340 - 341 1

+ +

Oklahoma City, OK 73118 41 405 842 7471 11

+ +

Omaha, NE 68102 42 402 348 1210 9

+ +

Philadelphia, PA 19106 43 215 629 0800 KEX 640 - 651 7

+ +

Phoenix, AZ 85012 44 602 279 5511 6

+ +

Pittsburgh, PA 15222 45 412 471 2000 KEX 660 - 679 12

+ +

Portland, OR 97201 46 503 224 4181 KEX 720 - 728 6

+ +

Richmond, VA 23220 47 804 644 2631 KEX 360 - 369 6

+ +

Sacramento, CA 95825 48 916 481 9110 KFP 900 - 910 6

+ +

St Louis, MO 63103 49 314 241 5357 5

+ +

Salt Lake City, UT 84138 50 801 355 7521 3

+ +

San Antonio, TX 78205 51 512 225 6741 KEX 840 - 847 5

+ +

San Diego, CA 92188 52 619 231 1122 KEX 680 - ? 4?

+ +

San Francisco, CA 94102 53 415 553 7400 KFP 970 - 990 19

+ +

San Juan, PR 00918 54 809 754 6000 0

+ +

Savannah, GA 31405 55 912 354 9911 KEV 380 - 389 4

+ +

Seattle, WA 98174 56 206 622 0460 KOD 220 - 232 9

+ +

Springfield, IL 62704 57 217 522 9675 KEX 800 - 812 10

+ +

Tampa, FL 33602 58 813 228 7661 KEV 320 - 327 5

+ +

Washington, D.C. 20535 59 202 324 3000 KGB 770 0

+ +

The list of Field Offices and RA's is not 100% accurate, updates please. The +number of RA's may differ from the call letter assignment block for a given +F.O. because many RA's were closed and consolidated during the Carter and early +Regan administrations. The call letters were assigned prior to their +administrations.

+ +

The F.O. call letters will be the first is an assigned block for a given F.O. +Example Cincinnati F.O. call is KQC 390 (or simply 390 as often will be heard) +or Cleveland F.O. call is KEX 740 (740).

+ +

The following is a list of Resident Agencies for the primary coverage states of +the AOSC. The list is as of 1 October 1987. I will send a copy of the FBI Field +Office and Resident Agency map for a SASE to those who desire a copy. A list of +RA's may be obtained from the map for your local area. The map will be a copy +of a copy, however it will be fairly legible. Note the two Ohio Field Office +lists are presented later in this column with the detailed Ohio data.

+ +

Chicago "CG" Field Office - RA's

+ +

Lisle (Chicago West) +Mount Prospect (Chicago North) +Oakland Park (Chicago South) +Rockford

+ +

Frequency Plan:

+ +

A-1 167.3375 B-1 167.600 +A-2 167.4875 B-2 167.675 +A-3 167.425 B-3 167.7375 +A-4 167.5625 B-4 167.5625 +A-5 163.9875/167.3375 B-5 162.8625/167.600 +A-6 Unconfirmed B-6 Unconfirmed +A-7 163.8625/167.5375 B-7 163.8625/167.5375 +A-8 163.8375/167.2875 B-8 163.8375/167.2875

+ +

Chicago F.O. utilizes 8 banks, A through H. Channel banks C through H are not +confirmed to exact frequencies and usage. There are one way links in the upper +162, lower 164 and upper 165 MHz ranges. The one way links are often a control +station to a repeater site utilizing a directional antenna. The one way links +may also be a point-to-point relay of communications from an outer fringe RA to +the F.O.

+ +

Chicago appears to configured similarly as several other F.O.'s in that up to +five other VHF frequencies can be active with 163.9875 simultaneously with the +same radio traffic. Chicago F.O. also still uses some remote VHF receive/UHF +retransmit link sites, but most are believed to be converted to microwave +links.

+ +

Also 167.7625 which Randy Strayer and this editor received via skip between KSC +210 and KSC 216. Channel identified as Bravo 1.

+ +

Detroit "DE" Field Office - RA's

+ +

Ann Arbor +Benton Harbor +Flint KEX 762 +Grand Rapids +Jackson +Kalamazoo +Lansing +Marquette KEX 767 +Mount Clemens +Oakland County +Saginaw +Traverse City KEX 772

+ +

Frequencies per MFFD (1986) and others: 163.925/267.2625 R.A. repeater; +163.8875/167.750 F.O. repeater; 163.8625/167.5375R; 167.3125; 167.3625; +167.400; 167.450; 167.500; 167.650; 414.500 is a state-wide UHF link to Detroit +F.O. and 419.250 is believed to a FBI UHF link, continuous tone.

+ +

Indianapolis "IP" Field Office - RA's

+ +

Bloomington +Evansville +Fort Wayne +Gary +Lafayette +Muncie +New Albany KEX 786 +South Bend +Terre Haute

+ +

Frequencies from the MFFD: 163.9625/167.2125 R.A. repeater and 167.600.

+ +

Louisville "LS" Field Office - RA's

+ +

Ashland +Bowling Green +Covington +Elizabethtown +Frankfort +Hopkinsville +Lexington KIA 321 +London +Paducah +Pikeville

+ +

Frequencies from the MFFD: 163.9375/167.675 R.A. repeater and 167.600.

+ +

Philadelphia Field Office - RA's

+ +

Allentown KEX 645 +Harrisburg KEX 641 +Landsdale KEX 648 +Newtown Square KEX 650 +Scranton KEX 643 +State College KEX 652 +Williamsport KEX 651

+ +

Frequencies: 163.9875/167.325R CH 1; 167.7125 CH 2; 167.500 CH 3; 167.5625 CH +4; 167.525 CH 5; 163.9625 ECC-1; 163.8375/167.3875R; 163.9375R; 167.2625; +167.300; 167.325; 167.3375; and 419.325 data/tone.

+ +

Pittsburgh "PG" Field Office - RA's

+ +

Beckley (WV) +Charleston (WV) +Clarksburg (WV) +Erie +Greensburg +Huntington (WV) +Johnstown +Martinsburg (WV) +New Castle +Parkersburg (WV) +Washington +Wheeling (WV)

+ +

Frequencies per MFFD (1986, no updates since then): 163.925/167.475R R.A. +repeater; 163.950/167.2125 F.O. repeater; 167.6375 and UHF links on 414.025, +414.125, 414.425 and 419.425.

+ +

Springfield (IL) Field Office - RA's

+ +

Alton +Belleville +Bloomington +Carbondale +Champaign +Danville +Decatur +Effingham +Peoria +Rock Island

+ +

Frequencies per the MFFD: 163.9125/167.725 R.A. repeater; 167.3625 and 167.625.

+ +

Now some miscellaneous data from the files on frequencies and call letters. The +following list of call signs are for NY and NJ state and are from a list dated +in 1981, so be fore told.

+ +

Albany F.O.: KEC 250; KEC 254 Watertown; KEC 256 Syracuse; KEC 257 Utica; KEC +258 Burlington (VT); KEC 259 Plattsburgh; and KEC 261 Glens Falls.

+ +

Buffalo F.O.: KEX 590; KEX 591 Rochester; KEX 592 Geneva; KEX 593 Jamestown; +and KEX 595 Niagara Falls.

+ +

Newark F.O.: KEX 620; Camden KEX 624

+ +

NYC F.O.: KEC 270/271; KEC 272 Suffolk; KEC 273 Garden City (NJ); KEC 277 JFK +Airport; KEC 278 Poughkeepsie, NY; KEC 280 Staten Island; KEC 281 Richmond +Hills; and KEC 283 New Rochelle. From a 1988 list I have a KEC 900 for NYC as +well as KEC 270.

+ +

Now some frequencies from the input basket contributed by AOSC or NESN (North +East Scanner News - more data at the end of this column) members during 1989 or +1990.

+ +

Boston F.O.: Romeo Units (R.A.'s) - 162.7625, 162.7875, 167.2625, 167.3625, +167.5625, 167.600, 167.6625 and 167.7625. Delta Units - 167.2625, 167.3625, +167.4625, 167.600, 167.6625 and 167.7625. Rhode Island - 167.2375, 167.2625, +167.4625, 167.7125 and 167.7625. New Hampshire - 163.9875/167.3625R, also +167.2375 and 167.6125.

+ +

Still with Boston from NESN: 163.8375, 163.8875, 163.900 and 163.925/164.125, +163.975/167.275 repeaters. Also 164.150, 167.250, 167.325, 167.425, 167.450, +167.500, 167.6375, and 167.750.

+ +

CT/NY FBI - 163.750 NY; 163.8625 CH 6 CT; 163.8875 CT; 164.125 Long Island; +164.150 NY; 167.2375 CT; 167.2625 NY; 167.2875 NY?; 167.3375 Long Island; +167.3875 NY; 167.425 CT primary; 167.4375 CT; 167.4625 NY; 167.5375 CT (note +input to 163.8625 CH 6); 167.5625; 167.600 NY; 167.6875 NY; 167.775 Long +Island; 167.7875 CT; 413.625 NY; 414.075 CT; 414.350 NY "Bronco Base" and +419.350 CT tone. Also note from the previous American Scannergram +169.975/168.850 as a new NYC repeater.

+ +

Also several with "?" as follows: 165.925 NY; 167.175 NY; 169.575 NY, possible +FBI/DEA; and 419.250 NY. One other interesting frequency - 170.825 as a U.S. +Marshal/INS/FBI NY "tie-in" frequency.

+ +

Charlotte F.O.: 163.9125/? A-1 Greensboro (R.A. repeater) +163.9625/?R, 167.750 and 167.7125.

+ +

Knoxville F.O.: A-1 163.9875R Knoxville F.O., also A-5 (probably different +input frequency and/or tone). +A-4 163.8375/167.2375 Chattanooga R.A. +B-5 163.8375/167.400 R.A. repeater, also C-1 +C-5 163.8375R R.A. repeater +Johnson City base call is KEV-243 +Knoxville Unit Numbers: 99 - Aircraft; mobile units 1 - 69.

+ +

Los Angeles F.O.: An excellent complete and detailed listing is available from +Mobile Radio Resources (2661 Carol Drive, San Jose, CA 95125). The FBI in LA +utilizes repeater channels in the 162, 163, 164, and 165 MHZ frequency range. +Inputs can be found in the 167 MHz frequencies. The 165 repeater frequencies +are 167.5875 and 165.7125.

+ +

Memphis F.O.: R.A. repeater - 163.9375; F.O. repeater 163.8625

+ +

Norfolk F.O.: 163.8375/167.600 F1; 167.2375 F2; 167.4875 F3; and 167.5625 F4.

+ +

Richmond F.O.: 163.8875/167.625 Operations Repeater; 167.5625 (note - +nationwide FBI simplex common); 163.8625/167.5375 (note - this is the only +repeater frequency pair that is common nationwide, usually used for SWAT or +special operations - ed.); 414.250 and 419.525 as UHF links.

+ +

San Diego F.O. sampling via Mobile Radio Resources Government Radio Systems +directory: Repeaters in the 162, 163, 164 and 165 MHz ranges with the input in +the 167 MHz range. The 165 repeater is on 167.5625 MHz.

+ +

San Francisco F.O. sampling via MRS GRS directory: Repeaters in the 163 and 167 +MHz frequency ranges with inputs in the 167 and 162 MHz ranges respectively.

+ +

Tampa-St. Petersburg from Blaine Brooks: A-2: 167.725; A-3 167.325; A-5 +167.3875; A-6 167.275; repeater on 163.9875 and 419.250 UHF satellite receiver +link.

+ +

CINCINNATI FIELD OFFICE OPERATIONS

+ +

The Cincinnati Field Office originally had nine Resident Agencies which were +located in Athens, Chillicothe, Columbus, Dayton, Hamilton, Portsmouth, +Springfield, Steubenville and Zanesville. The Springfield office is closed and +I am not sure about the Zanesville R.A.

+ +

The CI F.O. and R.A.'s radio communication systems are DES (Digital Encryption +Standard) capable and are utilized on a regular basis. CI appears to have a 32 +channel DES system in place as testing was monitored during 1988 and 1989. Most +of their frequencies remained the same from the previous DES days. Note that +the CI radios are VHF/UHF mobiles. Refer to the B channel series in the +frequency list.

+ +

The signal numbers do not appear to be squad base (logically grouping by +general agent function such as bank robbery squad or drug enforcement, or by +R.A.'s), but rather a numeric numbering scheme starting with 1 and into the low +100's.

+ +

The CI F.O./R.A. operations still need some work from our southern Ohio members +as allot of holes and gaps remain. The following profile on CI was mainly made +possible by the efforts of Bill Gillie, Tony Cono, Rick Poorman, another member +who desires to named Mr. Anonymous, and this editor.

+ +

NOTE: ALL OHIO data is confirmed unless noted otherwise.

+ +

CI Call Letter Assignments

+ +

KQC 390 Cincinnati +KQC 391 Dayton +KQC 392 Columbus +KQC 393 Chillicothe +KQC 394 Springfield (closed) +KQC 395 Athens +KQC 396 Hamilton +KQC 397 Portsmouth +KQC 398 Stubenville +KQC 399 Zanesville

+ +

CI Frequency Assignments

+ +

167.650 A-1 Operations simplex R.A.'s +167.2375 A-2 " " F.O. +167.4375 A-3 " " division wide +167.5625 A-4 Nationwide common simplex +163.9875/167.650 A-5 Operations Repeater R.A.'s +163.8625/167.5375 A-6 SWAT Repeater +163.8375/167.2375 A-7 Operations Repeater F.O.

+ +

The B channels are local option assigned meaning that each office will have a +different set of frequencies. The CI F.O. has Cincinnati PD CH 5, 460.275R, +(B-1); Hamilton County Sheriff, 460.500R, (B-2); and several DEA frequencies.

+ +

??? D-6 and D-8 channel designators heard, but not confirmed.

+ +

163.9875/167.650 ECC-1 (Extended Car-to-Car) repeater R.A.'s +163.8375/167.2375 ECC-2 repeater F.O. +163.8625/167.5375 ECC-3 SWAT/Special Operations nationwide repeater +164.100/? ? Repeater heard with CI units

+ +

167.325, 167.600, 167.625, 167.6625, 167.6875 and 167.725: Simplex +operations.

+ +

412.575 - Xenia, Greene County UHF Repeater link +419.300 - New Vienna, Highland County UHF Repeater link +419.500 - Macon, Brown County UHF Repeater link

+ +

168.000 - possibly a VHF one-way link.

+ +

CI Signal Numbering

+ +

390 Signals: 1, 2, 3, 20, 22, 24, 53, 71, 72, 77, 90, 106, 133, 141 and +148. +391 Signals: 11 (SAIC), 18, 26, 29, 33, 43, 45, 49, 51, 52, 61, 64, 72, +75, 78, 91, 112, 137, 158 and 159. +392 Signals: 5 (SAIC), 6, 23, 34, 38, 40, 41, 42, 50, 54, 56, 65, 69, 73, +75, 82, 88, 93, 98, 100, 103, 104, 105, 108, 112, 113, 114, +116, 117, 122, 125, 147, 157, 166 and 225? +393 Signals: 71 +397 Signals: 27 (SAIC) +398 Signals: 95 and 96.

+ +

Sometimes units may only use their last two digits, such as 14 or 17 +instead of 114 or 117. Unit 90 usually in a helicopter or may be a helicopter. +Unit The MFFD has units in the 200's as surveillance vans/vehicles and units +in the 400's as surveillance air vehicles. Also we have report that unit 500 is +a surveillance aircraft.

+ +

CLEVELAND FIELD OFFICE OPERATIONS

+ +

The Cleveland Field Office originally had 10 Resident Agencies located in +Akron, Canton, Elyria, Lima, Mansfield, Mentor, Painesville, Sandusky, Toledo +and Youngstown. The Mentor R.A. currently is the only R.A. out of service in +the CV division.

+ +

The CV F.O. And R.A.'s radio communication system is DES capable and utilized +quite often in the DES mode. The CV F.O. has been in DES since the mid-eighties +on a limited basis and a full system since early 1989. The CV system appears to +be a 64 channel system which was implemented during the latter part of 1989.

+ +

The CV division utilizes a squad numbering scheme for assignment of signal +numbers. There are still a few holes in the numbering, but for the most part it +is complete.

+ +

CV Call Letter Assignment

+ +

KEX 740 Cleveland +KEX 741 Akron +KEX 742 Toledo +KEX 743 Youngstown +KEX 744 Painesville +KEX 745 Elyria +KEX 746 Mentor (closed) +KEX 747 Lima +KEX 748 Mansfield +KEX 749 Canton +KEX 750 Sandusky

+ +

CV Frequency Assignments

+ +

167.675 A-1 Operations Simplex F.O. +167.4125/167.7375 A-2 S.O.G. Repeater (Special Operations Group) +167.7875 A-3 S.O.G. Simplex; Operations Simplex +167.5625 A-4 Nationwide Common +164.100/167.2875 A-5 S.O.G. repeater +163.9125/167.675 A-6 Operations Repeater +163.8625/167.5375 A-7 (?) SWAT Repeater +154.935 A-8 Ohio LEERN

+ +

167.425 B-1 R.A. Simplex +167.5625 B-4 Simplex +163.875/167.425 B-5 R.A. Operations Repeater +155.370 B-6 Ohio Intercity

+ +

167.3375/162.7375 C-2 Canton Operations Repeater +167.3375/? C-3 " " " +167.3875/? C-4 Mansfield " " +167.7875/167.7375 C-7 CV Repeater

+ +

167.425 D-1 R.A. Simplex +163.875/167.425 D-4 R.A. Repeater +??? D-7 Akron simplex, not confirmed

+ +

167.7625 G-1 Akron Operations Simplex +167.7625/162.7625 G-2 Akron R.A. Operations Repeater +167.3625 G-3 Painesville Simplex (?)

+ +

The F bank is believed to be local option. No E or H bank references.

+ +

Confirmed frequency list:

+ +

162.7375 Canton B/M input to 167.3375 repeater +162.7625 Akron " " to 167.7625 " +163.8625/167.5375 CV SWAT Repeater +163.875/167.425 R.A. Repeater +163.9125/167.675 CV F.O. Repeater +164.100/167.2875 S.O.G. Repeater +167.100 Simplex +167.2125 CV simplex +167.2375 Akron simplex +167.2625 " " +167.2875 CV simplex; input to 164.100 +167.3375/162.7375 Canton R.A. Repeater +167.3375/? Lima, Sandusky, Toledo R.A. Repeater +167.3625/162.7625 Akron, Painesville R.A. Repeater +167.3625 Akron, Painesville Simplex +167.3875/? Mansfield Operations Repeater +167.4125/167.7375 CV S.O.G. Repeater +167.425 R.A. Simplex; input to 163.875 +167.4625 Mansfield Simplex +167.5125 CV Simplex +167.5375 Input to 163.8625 +167.5625 Common simplex +167.675 CV Simplex; input to 163.9125 +167.7375 CV Simplex AND CV Repeater +167.7625/162.7625 Akron R.A. repeater +167.7875 CV Simplex and CV Repeater

+ +

That is 22 unique confirmed frequencies and there are probably more out there +in CV. Also try 168.000 as it may be a VHF fixed one-way link.

+ +

Several frequencies come active with the same traffic at times, namely +167.4125, 167.7375 and 167.7875, and at times 164.100 also!

+ +

CV Signal Numbering

+ +

1-99 Administration +100 - 199 Exact function(s) not confirmed +200 - 299 Gambling Squad +300 - 399 Bank Robbery Squad; Kidnapping Squad; Extortion Cases +400 - 499 Drug Enforcement Squad +500 - 599 Organized Crime Task Force; S.O.G. personnel +600 - 699 Exact function(s) not confirmed +assists w/kidnapping cases, surveillances +700 - 739 Assistant U.S. Attorney's; others? +740 - 750 Base Station Calls +800 - 899 SWAT; Foreign Counterintelligence; O.C.T.F. +900 - 999 Akron, Painesville R.A.'s +Akron - 900, 901, 902, 904, 906, 921 - 929 +Painesville - 903, 920, 930 +1000 - 1099 Canton and Mansfield R.A.'s +Canton - 1000 to 1010; 1030 to 1040 +Mansfield - 1005, 1032 and 1033 +1100 - 1199 Sandusky and Toledo R.A.'s +Sandusky - 1121 - 1129 +Toledo - 1100 - 1119, 1130 +1200 - 1299 Youngstown R.A. - 1200 to 1209 and 1220 to 1232. +1300 - 1399 Radio Technicians and Vehicle Maintenance +Radio Techs - 1302, 1303, 1304, 1307 and 1319 +Vehicle Maintenance - 1300, 1301, 1305, 1306 and 1318.

+ +

FBI COMMON FREQUENCY RANGES

+ +

I suggest searching the following frequency ranges for FBI radio activity. Note +that in many areas across the U.S. the FBI have picked up many traditional +non-FBI frequencies. Originally the Department of Justice had only 82 VHf +frequencies assigned for ALL of its members, let alone just the FBI. The FBI +originally had less than 40 of the 82 frequencies for their exclusive use.

+ +

During the change over to DES nationwide, the FBI has received additional +frequencies from other branches and departments who did not utilize or need +them. In the NE region the FBI received 110 VHF frequencies - almost 300% +increase in the number of frequencies available. The early days saw the FBI in +the 163 MHz range for repeaters and the 167 MHz range for simplex operations.

+ +

Limit your search to 500 KHz at a time, certainly no more than a 1 MHz. The +following are common ranges reported nationwide:

+ +

162.6125 - 162.7875 Repeater Inputs; Outputs; 12.5KHz steps +163.825 - 163.9875 Repeater Outputs; 12.5KHz steps +164.000 - 164.500 Repeater Outputs; 25KHz steps +165.5125 - 165.900 Repeater Outputs; 12.5KHz steps +167.100 - 167.7875 Repeater Inputs; Outputs; Simplex; 12.5KHz steps +168.825 - 169.000 Repeater Inputs; 25KHz steps +169.825 - 169.975 Repeater Outputs; 25KHz steps

+ +

FBI COMMON TEN CODES

+ +

10-0 Negative 10-29 O.L. Check +10-4 Affirmative 10-42 Residence +10-7 Out-of-Service 10-58 Mileage +10-8 In-Service 10-66 Alarm (?) +10-9 Repeat 10-76 Enroute +10-16 Message Check 10-77 Bank Alarm +10-20 Location 10-85 Meet w/agent ... +10-21 Telephone Call 10-90 Bank Robbery +10-22 Report to Office 10-91 BR In Progress +10-23 Stand-By 10-99 Assist Agent +10-26 N.C.I.C. Check +10-28 Registration check

+ +

FBI COMMON CODE WORDS

+ +

ASAIC - Assistant Special Agent In Charge +AUSA - Assistant U.S. Attorney +Big K - K-Mart +Bird Dog - Surveillance Aircraft +C.I. - Confidential Informant +Diaper Change - Changing of battery (bug or trailing transmitter) +ECC - Extended Car-to-Car +FCI - Foreign Counter Intelligence +Half Signal - An Agent's spouse +H.T. - Handi-Talkies +In-the-Pocket - Subject in surveillance net +Intel - Intelligence +KEL - Manufacturer of Surveillance equipment +Main Man - Primary subject under surveillance/investigation +Mickey D's - McDonald's +Nest - Off-site office from F.O./R.A. for S.O.G. and Undercover Agents +No Joy - Negative Communications +O, The - The Office +OCTF - Organized Crime Task Force +Other Side - DES mode +Out-of-Pocket - Subject not currently under surveillance +Outside Agency - News Media +Package - Suspect or item under surveillance +Plank - Bridge +Private - DES Mode +Private Side - DES Mode +Port - Motel +Quarter Signal - An Agent's child +RA - Resident Agency +Rabbit - Subject under surveillance +Rabbit Tracks - subject on the move +R.D.O.- Regular Day Off +Red Balled - Stopped at traffic light w/subject +Red Boarded - " " " " ; subject not stopped +Road Runner - Surveillance Aircraft +SAIC - Special Agent In Charge +Signal - A field agent +S.O.G. - Special Operations Group +S.W. - Search Warrant +SWAT - Special Weapons and Tactics +Ten Check - Message Check +Unit - A vehicle +USA - U.S. Attorney +Wagon - Surveillance Van +Wire - Body Transmitter

+ +

FEDERAL NEWS - FBI

+ +

The FCC has established a nationwide radio frequency for stolen vehicle +tracking systems operating on the frequency of 173.025. The frequency was +reported as a FBI assignment (wouldn't we like to see the exact frequency +assignment chart?) Nationwide. Perhaps this frequency was used for wireless +microphones or bugs, and if so perhaps others operate on nearby similar +frequencies. Give it a listen and let us know.

+ +

The FBI Academy, located 40 miles south of Washington, is the host to the most +crime ridden town in the United States - Hogan's Alley. Hogan's Alley is a +"Hollywood" town with a motel, bank, post office, drug store, laundry and even +a theater. It is used as a training ground for FBI agent trainees. Various +scenarios are enacted under the careful eyes of supervisors. The trainees +performance are evaluated with each exercise.

+ +

One thing about Hogan's Alley - it has a 100% success rate in solving of cases, +pretty impressive. Something that is not pretty impressive about the FBI is the +starting pay agents earn. According to a 8 January 1990 U.S. News and World +Report quirk the starting pay of a FBI agent is $26261. Consider that an agent +does not choice his assignment location, the agent could be placed in a very +high cost of living area. Placement in certain cities such as NYC offer +slightly more pay, however it is not enough for the work that they perform for +all of us. Yet even worse is the pay for DEA agents $19493 to $23846.

+ +

The Congress is aware of these low salaries (after all they, the Congressmen +and Senators literally took care of themselves) and will hopefully rectify the +problem this year. + +

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Volume : SIRS 1991 History, Article 56 +Subject: Keyword(s) : KENNEDY and ASSASSINATION +Title : Do Assassinations Alter the Course of History? +Author : Simon Freeman and Ronald Payne +Source : European +Publication Date : May 24-26, 1991 +Page Number(s) : 9 +

+

+EUROPEAN +(London, England) +May 24-26, 1991, p. 9 +"Reprinted courtesy of THE EUROPEAN." +

+

DO ASSASSINATIONS ALTER THE COURSE OF HISTORY? +by Simon Freeman and Ronald Payne +

+

+India faces collapse with the violent death of Rajiv Gandhi--or +does it? Simon Freeman and Ronald Payne analyse the importance of +individuals in the march of events +

+

+They have paid their tributes, expressed their horror and +pledged, as they always do when one of their number is murdered, +that democracy will triumph in the face of terrorism. Now, in +their weekend retreats, with their foreign affairs advisers and +their top secret intelligence reports, world leaders will have to +judge the true impact on India of the assassination of Rajiv +Gandhi. +

+

+They will conclude, perhaps a little unhappily for them but +fortunately for the rest of us, that Gandhi's death is unlikely +to be more than a footnote, if a substantial one, in the history +of his country. India will not disintegrate. There will be no +civil war. The Indian military will not stage a coup. Pakistan +will not launch the oft-predicted strike which would set the +region ablaze. +

+

+Some Indians, perhaps many, may die over the next month in +the kind of primitive ethnic and religious feuding which has +always threatened to destroy the country. But, unless history is +truly mischievous, India will muddle through and get on with the +business of trying to survive. +

+

+It is rarely the personal stature of a statesman which +decides how pivotal his contribution to history will be. History +usually depends less on the drama of an assassination or the +status of the victim than on more profound political, economic or +demographic forces. In retrospect, it often appears that assassin +and victim were inexorably drawn together to become the catalyst +for inevitable change. +

+

+The most spectacular assassination in modern European +history--the shooting of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife +at Sarajevo in 1914 by a Serbian student, Gavrilo Princip--was +undoubtedly the immediate cause of the First World War. But few +serious historians today subscribe to the theory that, had +Princip not pressed the trigger that late June day in the cause +of Serbian nationalism, the 19th-century order would have +survived. +

+

+Dr Christopher Andrew, of Cambridge University, believes +that the assassination merely set the timetable for war. He said: +"Even if the Archduke had not been killed then there might have +been a great war anyway." Other experts now talk not of Princip +but of an explosive cocktail of nationalism straining within +decrepit empires and of fatally dangerous alliances built by +leaders from an earlier world. +

+

+It is possible to see Sarajevo as the climax to a period in +which political murders became almost routine. The reference +books on late 19th-century Europe are peppered with the names of +hapless, long-forgotten politicians who were shot, bombed or +stabbed because, so it was thought by the many bands of +extremists, that was the only way to force change. +

+

+While there are no precise ways to assess the real +importance of an assassination, historians like Andrew reckon +that there are some general guidelines. In the stable, advanced +democracies of today the murder of a top politician is unlikely +to cause more than outrage and pain. +

+

+When the Irish Republican Army blew up the Grand Hotel in +Brighton in 1984 in an attempt to kill Prime Minister Margaret +Thatcher and most of her Cabinet, they hoped that there would be +such disgust at the murders that the British public would force +their leaders to pull out of Northern Ireland. But, even if +Thatcher had died this would not have happened. Her death would +probably have strengthened her successor's resolve not to bow to +terrorism. +

+

+The IRA should have known this from the reaction to the +killing five years earlier of Lord Louis Mountbatten, +distinguished soldier, public servant and pillar of the British +Establishment. The murder changed nothing in the province and +only demonstrated, as if it was necessary, that determined +terrorists often find ways to murder their chosen targets. +Similarly, The Red Brigade anarchists who cold-bloodedly killed +Aldo Moro, the Italian prime minister, in May, 1978, achieved +nothing except to ensure that the Italian authorities would hunt +them with even more determination. Nor did the killers of Swedish +Prime Minister Olof Palme accomplish anything. The murder--still +unsolved--drew the usual, but clearly genuine, shocked response +from world leaders. But even at the time they were hardpressed to +pretend that Palme's murder would fundamentally matter to Sweden. +

+

+The Third World, on the other hand, is more volatile. +Sometimes, as in India, countries are an uneasy blend of +feudalism and capitalism, dynastic authoritarianism and +democracy. The demise of dictators often leaves a bloody vacuum. +Yet even here, the assassination of a tyrant does not necessarily +signal major upheaval. General Zia ul-Haque, who had ruled +Pakistan since 1977, was blown up in his plane in the summer of +1988. But, though he had long seemed crucial to the continuing +stability of the country, his death seemed to be the fated climax +to the era of military rule. +

+

+The murder of Egypt's President Sadat in October 1981 seemed +then to herald some new dark age of internal repression and +aggression towards Israel. But his successor, Hosni Mubarak, +merely edged closer to the Arab world without returning to the +pre-Sadat hostility towards Israel. +

+

+The killers of kings and dictators in other Arab countries +have also discovered that they have murdered in vain. Iraq has +endured a succession of brutal military dictators who have died +as violently as they lived. The fact that Iraq has never +experienced democracy is the result of economic and historical +realities, not assassins' bullets. Saudi Arabia has also seen its +share of high level killings yet, today, the House of Saud +remains immovably in power. +

+

+But in the United States, where the idea of righteous +violence is deeply embedded in the national consciousness, the +grand assassination has been part of the political process for +more than a century. Beginning with the murder of President +Abraham Lincoln in 1865, the list of victims is a long and +distinguished one. It includes most recently, President John F. +Kennedy in 1963; his brother, Robert, heir apparent, shot in +1968; Martin Luther King, civil rights campaigner and Nobel Peace +Prize winner, gunned down the same year. Ronald Reagan could +easily have followed in 1981 when he was shot and badly wounded. +

+

+John Kennedy's death now appears important for different +reasons from those one might have expected at the time. It did +not derail any of his vaunted civil rights or welfare programmes; +rather his death guaranteed that his successor, Lyndon Johnson, +would be able to push the Kennedy blueprint for a New America +through Congress. Nor did it end the creeping US involvement in +Vietnam. +

+

+But Kennedy has been immortalised by his assassin and the +mythology of his unfulfilled promise will endure long after his +real accomplishments are forgotten. +

+

+In a curious, perverse, sense he and his fellow-martyrs +might live on as far more potent symbols of change than if they +had survived into gentle retirement with their fudges revealed +and their frailties exposed. +

+

+Why good leaders die and bad ones survive +

+

+Few names of hated tyrants appear on the roll-call of world +leaders who fall to the assassin's bomb, knife or bullet, writes +Ronald Payne. One of the curiosities of the trade in political +murder is that those the world generally recognises as bad guys +often live to a ripe old age or die quietly in their beds. Few +who mourn the passing of Rajiv Gandhi would have shed so many +tears had President Saddam Hussein been blown to pieces in Iraq. +

+

+There was a time only a few years ago when Americans and +Europeans would have celebrated the violent demise of President +Muammar Gaddafi. Both the Libyan leader and Hussein live on, as +do Idi Amin of Uganda, or Fidel Castro, whom the American Central +Intelligence Agency plotted so imaginatively and ineffectually to +remove. +

+

+When academics play the game of what might have been, the +consequences of assassinating such monstres sacres as Stalin and +Hitler arise. +

+

+When the Russian dictator died suddenly of natural causes, +the whole Soviet Union was paralysed because no leader dared +claim the right to succeed him. That in itself suggests what +might have happened had Stalin been shot unexpectedly at a more +critical moment. +

+

+The timing of a political murder is crucial. Had Adolf +Hitler been assassinated before he achieved full power or before +his invasion of the Soviet Union, the history of Germany, and +indeed of Europe, would have been very different. +

+

+Fascinating though such intellectual exercises are, it seems +that as a rule it is the decent, the innocent and the relatively +harmless who perish as assassins' victims. +

+

+The reason may not be far to seek. Tyrants watch their backs +pretty carefully. The secret police are ever active. It is easier +to kill statesmen in democracies where the rule of law prevails +and the sad truth is that leaders in those countries which +exercise authority through voting rather than shooting are more +at risk than Middle East tyrants. +

+

+A further reason for the survival of the hated monster +figure might be that Western intelligence services have been +forbidden to go in for execution. The CIA and the British secret +intelligence service are now out of the killing business. Even +the KGB's assassination specialists seem to have been stood down. +

+

+In any case the Kremlin was hardly keen on the murder of +ruling statesmen even in the bad old days. Soviet leaders +understood the realities of power well enough to know that such +acts were unlikely to further their cause. +

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Volume : SIRS 1991 History, Article 02 +Subject: Keyword(s) : KENNEDY and ASSASSINATION +Title : Conspiracy Theories: Doubts Refuse to Die +Author : Bob Dudney +Source : Dallas Times Herald (Dallas, Texas) +Publication Date : Nov. 20, 1983 +Page Number(s) : Special Sec. 11 +

+

+DALLAS TIMES HERALD +(Dallas, Texas) +Nov. 20, 1983, Commemorative Section, pp. 11 +Reprinted with permission from the author. +

+

+CONSPIRACY THEORIES: DOUBTS REFUSE TO DIE +by Bob Dudney +Special to the Times Herald +

+

+Editor's Note: Bob Dudney, a former reporter for the Dallas Times +Herald, has written hundreds of articles about the investigation +of President Kennedy's assassination. He has covered +congressional inquiries on the subject, has interviewed dozens of +people connected with it, and has examined thousands of +government documents. +

+

+The shots fired in Dealey Plaza on a sunny Dallas day 20 +years ago still reverberate in a bizarre way: the belief that +President John F. Kennedy's assassination resulted from a +conspiracy. +

+

+There is a deep, almost theological assumption by some +Americans that the President was the victim of conspirators who +still roam at large. The conclusion is strange because there is +no solid evidence to support it--and significant reasons to +believe it is false. +

+

+There is no denying the difficulty of accepting the Warren +Commission's verdict on the events of Nov. 22, 1963--that a +down-and-out, 24-year-old ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald, with +no outside assistance, murdered the most glamorous, powerful man +in the world at the time. +

+

+But no matter how strong the unwillingness to believe, the +evidence in the case demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that +there was no plot. Undermining the scores of conspiracy theories +that have cropped up over the years are three crucial factors: +

+

+- The scientific, eyewitness and medical data establishing +that Oswald shot Kennedy. +

+

+- The absence of uncontroverted evidence linking Oswald to +other conspirators. +

+

+- The lack of evidence to suggest that Oswald was +unwittingly manipulated by others. +

+

+So long as these elements remain unshaken, claims that a +sinister plot was afoot that November day will amount to nothing +more than speculation. +

+

+Nevertheless, theories about the active involvement of +others in the assassination thrive and multiply. Their +proponents--some skilled and some not, some sincere and some not +--have produced dozens of books, films and articles that purport +to reveal the "full" treachery of events in Dallas two decades +ago. +

+

+In fact, from the volume and variety of conspiracy theories, +one might conclude that the possibility of a conspiracy had never +been officially probed. The theories discount thousands of +documents and millions of investigative man-hours devoted to that +question by the Warren panel, the FBI and the CIA in 1963 and +1964; the Rockefeller Commission in 1975; the Senate Select +Committee on Intelligence in 1975 and the House Committee on +Assassinations in 1977-1978. +

+

+The list of "suspects" the theories implicate is extensive. +Among them: The Soviet KGB; anti-Soviet exiles; Fidel Castro; +pro-Castro Cubans in the United States; anti-Castro Cubans; +loyalists of slain South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem; right +wing fanatics; left wing Marxists; the Mafia; rogue Texas oilmen; +labor unions; Southern white racists; the Dallas Police +Department; the CIA; the FBI; the Secret Service; the Chinese +communists; reactionary Army officers; and Jewish extremists. +

+

+But it is not enough to demonstrate that some group stood to +benefit from the murder. Theorists must establish participation +of two or more people in the murder. This they have not done. +

+

+Each theory alters the nature of Oswald's role in the death, +but the possible changes are necessarily limited. The principle +theories are: +

+

+Oswald is innocent: Adherents of this contention maintain +that law enforcement officials--cynically or through honest +error--settled on Oswald as the assassin even though there was no +reliable evidence against him. They say Oswald could have +exonerated himself at a trial had he not been killed by Dallas +nightclub owner Jack Ruby. +

+

+Challenging this theory is an abundance of evidence. +Scientific testing and physical evidence found at the scene show +that shots were fired at Kennedy's limousine from a sixth-floor +window of the Texas School Book Depository building. +

+

+Oswald worked in the building at Elm and Houston. He was +seen leaving it shortly after the shooting. Crates were found +stacked by the sixth-floor window as an apparent gun brace. +Oswald's fingerprints were on the crates. The morning of the +assassination, Oswald was seen carrying a long, paper-wrapped +object into the building. Wrapping paper found near the window +bore Oswald's fingerprints. +

+

+A rifle was found hidden between boxes in the building. A +bullet and the bullet fragments removed from Kennedy, Connally +and the limousine ballistically matched the rifle. Oswald's palm +print was found on the rifle. The rifle, purchased from a Chicago +mail order house, had been shipped to a Dallas post office box +rented by Oswald. A photograph showed Oswald holding a rifle +identical to the one found. +

+

+Proponents of this theory retort that all of the evidence +was fabricated and put credence in Oswald's post-arrest +declaration that he hadn't killed anyone. +

+

+But claims that the incriminating rifle photo was doctored-- +with Oswald's head superimposed over another man's body--were +dispelled by Marina Oswald's confirmation that she took the +picture. And claims that Oswald's rifle was planted in the room +after the assassination were refuted by ballistic tests that +showed it fired the deadly shots. +

+

+Given the problems with claims of planted evidence, some +theorists have argued that there must have been a "planted +Oswald," or Oswald impersonator on the scene. This contention, +however, has been difficult to reconcile with the Oswald +fingerprints and palmprints found on the evidence. +

+

+Two years ago, conspiracy theorists, successfully pressed +for the opening of Oswald's grave to show it contained an +imposter--probably a Soviet agent. Subsequent examination, +however, determined the body was the "real" Lee Harvey Oswald. +

+

+Oswald had accomplices: Faced with the weight of evidence +indicating Oswald's guilt, quite a few conspiracy theories have +contended he was only one of those involved. +

+

+Some theories assert that a person or persons helped put +Oswald in position to shoot the President. They leave unexplained +why Oswald would need such help. As an employee of the book +depository, he had easy access to the building. After the +shooting, according to witnesses' testimony, he sought no help in +fleeing and left downtown Dallas by city bus and then a taxi. +

+

+Moreover, it would seem unlikely that accomplices could have +helped get Oswald a job that put him on the motorcycle route. +Oswald got his job at the depository on Oct. 15. White House +planning for the President's motorcade route did not begin until +Nov. 4, and the map of the route was not published until Nov. 19. +Somewhat more credible is the contention others provided +secret financing, planning, direction or encouragement for the +murder that Oswald carried out. +

+

+In this scenario, the chief suspect over the years has been +the Soviet Union. After all, Oswald defected to Russia in 1959. +He married a Russian woman, Marina Prusakova, in 1961. He was a +vociferous Marxist. Even after he returned to the United States +in June 1962, Oswald had several fleeting contacts with Soviet +diplomats. +

+

+However, no evidence of Soviet complicity has been found. +Investigators who combed Oswald's effects discovered no +unexplained funds, no code books, no messages--nothing to suggest +a Soviet hand in Oswald's actions. Also, had Oswald been +recruited as a Soviet agent, the Russians would not have been +likely to allow him to defect, as he did--thereby exposing his +relationship with them. +

+

+The other top suspect has been Cuba. Oswald admired Fidel +Castro; he was a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in +the United States; he visited the Cuban embassy in Mexico City a +few weeks before the assassination, seeking a travel visa to that +country. Because the CIA was backing assassination plots against +Castro at the time, some speculate that Castro may have +retaliated through Oswald. +

+

+But, as with the theory of Soviet involvement, there is no +evidence. At one point, there did appear to be some. A young +Central American informant told U.S. authorities he saw Oswald in +the Cuban embassy, talking to two other men, one of whom was +conversing in Spanish. Later, he said, Oswald supposedly received +$6500 to kill an important person. Under questioning, however, +the informant admitted he had never seen Oswald and had +fabricated the transaction, wishing to stir up American hatred +for Castro's Cuba. Subsequently, he retracted his retraction. +Finally, he failed a lie-detector test. Anyway, Oswald did not +speak Spanish. +

+

+Another account suggesting possible Cuban involvement was +provided by a Cuban exile who testified before the Warren +commission. She said two Hispanic men and an Anglo man they +identified as "Leon Oswald" came to her Dallas apartment 28 days +before the assassination. She said they spoke vaguely of Cuban +revolutionary plans before she turned them away. She identified +Oswald in television film as the man she had seen, but federal +investigators said they do not believe it was him. They said they +believe that at that time, Oswald was traveling from his New +Orleans home to Mexico in his quest for a Cuban entry visa. +

+

+The most publicized theories involving Oswald accomplices +are those that have featured other gunmen. +

+

+These various versions have assassins firing from other +windows in the depository building; from the Dal-Tex building; +from sewer drains, a grassy knoll near Dealey Plaza, the railroad +bridge over Elm, Main and Commerce streets and the Dallas County +Courthouse roof; and firing with silencers or automatic weapons. +

+

+The arguments surrounding these claims: +

+

+- One-man, one-bullet: The first shot that wounded Kennedy +in the neck did not also hit John Connally, as the Warren +Commission concluded. Rather they were struck by individual +bullets simultaneously, requiring that there be two shooters. A +team of experts, including a National Aeronautics and Space +Administration engineer, conducted an exhaustive study of this +question in 1978. The panel's conclusion: It is not only +possible, but almost certain that Kennedy and Connally were hit +by the same bullet. +

+

+- Filmed accomplices: Photographs of Dealey Plaza taken at +the time of the assassination show a dim form behind a wall on a +grassy knoll to the right and in front of the presidential +limousine. However, investigators found no spent cartridges, +weapons or footprints in this area. A panel of photography +experts concluded in 1978 that the images on the film were +shadows. +

+

+Films and photos also show a man in Dealey Plaza opening and +closing a black umbrella. Conspiracy theories suggest he was +signaling gunmen or that some weapon was hidden in the umbrella. +But at a hearing of the House Assassinations Committee in 1978, a +mild-mannered Dallas insurance worker identified himself as the +mysterious "umbrella man" and said he was only trying to harass +Kennedy. +

+

+- Head movement: The famous Zapruder film of the +assassination clearly shows President Kennedy's head lurching +backward when it was struck by the fatal gunshot. If the shot had +come from behind, conspiracy theorists reason, the impact would +have driven the President's head forward. Nonetheless, a panel of +medical experts concluded in 1978 that Kennedy's head wounds were +caused by a shot from the rear. Moreover, a panel of +wound-ballistics scientists concluded that the backward motion +was caused by the sudden tightening of the President's neck +muscles. +

+

+- Tape-recorded sounds: Sound transmitted through the +microphone of a motorcycle patrolman in the motorcade, and +recorded at Dallas police headquarters, shows four noise +"spikes." At the behest of the House Assassinations Committee in +1978, three acoustical experts conducted three test gunshot +firings in Dealey Plaza, compared the sounds and concluded it was +95 percent certain that four shots had been fired. The Warren +Commission had concluded that no more than three shots had been +fired from the window. The source of the previously unknown one, +the acoustical experts said, was the grassy knoll area. +

+

+The finding was the first scientific evidence supporting a +conspiracy theory and stirred an uproar. But it, too, was later +discounted. Twelve experts assembled by the National Research +Council reviewed the tapes and concluded the "spikes" were +actually recorded about a minute after the assassination. +

+

+The Assassinations Committee also grappled futily with the +prospect of a likely colleague for Oswald. "The question is with +who," said one member of the now-defunct committee. "If there's a +conspirator, then who could it have been? We asked ourselves over +and over: What associates did Oswald have, where was there +evidence of conspiracy? We found none." +

+

+Oswald was manipulated: These theories suggest that Oswald, +and perhaps other operatives, were unknowingly influenced in +their actions. +

+

+There can be only one reasonable candidate to mastermind +such a project--the KGB. It would have been the only organization +with the scientific means and the extended access to Oswald. Even +some Warren Commission lawyers and CIA members briefly toyed with +the possibility. Because Oswald spent some time in a Soviet +hospital while residing in Russia, there was the suspicion he +might have been brainwashed. +

+

+Once again, the problem is that there is no evidence to +suggest Oswald was brainwashed. Moreover, the CIA believes KGB +"mind conditioning" techniques at the time were primitive. +

+

+Surely, it is impossible to rule out the prospect of a +conspiracy in the assassination. The Warren Commission itself did +not do so. "Because of the difficulty of providing negatives to a +certainty," the panel said, proving there was no conspiracy +"cannot be established categorically." However, the panel said, +"if there is any such evidence it has been beyond the reach of +all the investigative agencies and resources of the United +States." +

+

+Twenty years later, that is still the case. +

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Volume : SIRS 1991 History, Article 02 +Subject: Keyword(s) : KENNEDY and ASSASSINATION +Title : The Day John Kennedy Died +Author : Bryan Woolley +Source : Dallas Times Herald (Dallas, Texas) +Publication Date : Nov. 20, 1983 +Page Number(s) : Sec. Sec. 2-3 +

+

+DALLAS TIMES HERALD +(Dallas, Texas) +Nov. 20, 1983, Special Section, pp. 2-3 +Reprinted with permission from the author. +

+

+THE DAY JOHN KENNEDY DIED +Sun cleared dawn's drizzle, but gloom clouded Dallas +by Bryan Woolley +Staff Writer +

+

+The valet walked past the Secret Service guard and entered +Suite 850 of Fort Worth's Texas Hotel. He knocked on the door of +the master bedroom. It was 7:30 a.m. "Mr. President," he said, +"it's raining out." +

+

+President John F. Kennedy, coming out of sleep, replied, +"That's too bad." +

+

+While he was dressing, he heard the murmur of the crowd +outside and went to the window. Below him, 5000 people were +standing patiently in the soft drizzle, some wearing raincoats, +some holding umbrellas, most simply ignoring the weather. They +were office and factory workers. They had begun gathering before +dawn to hear the speech the President would make in the parking +lot where they stood. Mounted police officers wearing yellow +slickers moved among them. "Gosh, look at the crowd!" the +President said to his wife. "Just look! Isn't that terrific." +

+

+In the lobby, he was joined by Vice President Lyndon +Johnson, Gov. John Connally, Sen. Ralph Yarborough, several +members of Congress and the president of the Fort Worth Chamber +of Commerce. They crossed Eighth Street and plunged into the +crowd, shaking hands, smiling. They mounted the truck that was to +serve as the speaker's platform. Kennedy grabbed the microphone +and shouted: "There are no faint hearts in Fort Worth!" +

+

+The crowd cheered. Somebody yelled, "Where's Jackie?" +

+

+Kennedy pointed toward his eighth-floor window. "Mrs. +Kennedy is organizing herself," he replied. "It takes her a +little longer, but, of course, she looks better than we do when +she does it." +

+

+Fort Worth was the third stop on the President's five-city +Texas tour. He had ridden through Houston and San Antonio like a +triumphant emperor, and Fort Worth had stayed up past midnight to +welcome the handsome 46-year-old President and his beautiful +34-year-old wife, lining their route from Carswell Air Force base +to the hotel. +

+

+After an informal speech in the parking lot, he would go to +the hotel, deliver a breakfast speech, fly from Carswell to Love +Field, ride in a motorcade through Dallas, deliver a speech at a +$100-a-plate luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart, fly to Austin for +a banquet and a reception at the Governor's Mansion, and then go +to the LBJ ranch for a weekend of rest. +

+

+Back inside the Texas Hotel, Kennedy accepted the ceremonial +cowboy hat from his hosts, but refused to wear it for +photographers and TV cameramen. He would model it later, he said, +at the White House. His breakfast speech was the standard +fence-mending one-- about the greatness of Texas and Fort Worth +and the Democratic Party--and it drew a thunderous ovation. +

+

+The President and the first lady retired to Suite 850 to +prepare for the flight to Dallas. Kennedy placed a call to former +Vice President John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner in Uvalde, Texas, +to wish him a happy 95th birthday, and an aide showed him a +black-bordered full-page ad with a sardonic headline in The +Dallas Morning News. "Welcome Mr. Kennedy to Dallas," it read. In +13 rhetorical questions, something called the "American +Fact-Finding Committee" accused the administration of selling out +the world to communism. +

+

+"Oh, you know, we're heading into nut country today," the +President said. Mrs. Kennedy later told author William Manchester +that he paced the floor and then stopped in front of her. "You +know, last night would have been a hell of a night to assassinate +a president," he said. "There was the rain and the night, and we +were all getting jostled. Suppose a man had a pistol in a +briefcase." He pointed a finger at the wall and pretended to fire +two shots. +

+

+Not many in the presidential party were looking forward to +Dallas. Several Texans--some from Dallas--had warned the +President not to include Dallas on his Texas tour, that an ugly +incident was likely to occur there. But Kennedy insisted that the +state's second-largest city be placed on the itinerary. +

+

+So the preparations had been made. Dallas civic leaders had +launched a public relations campaign to try to ensure a friendly +turnout for the President. +

+

+Seven hundred law officers--city police officers and +firefighters, sheriff's deputies, Texas Rangers and state highway +patrol officers--had been assembled to keep order. About the time +that John Kennedy was waking up, Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry +had gone on TV to warn that his officers would take "immediate +action to block any improper conduct." If the police were +inadequate, he said, even citizen's arrests were authorized. +

+

+Others were preparing, too, in the early morning. Waiters +were setting the places for the Trade Mart luncheon. A warehouse +worker named Lee Harvey Oswald sneaked a rifle and a telescopic +sight into the Texas School Book Depository. Because of forecasts +showing that the rain probably would be past Dallas by the time +the presidential party arrived, a Kennedy aide told the Secret +Service not to put the bubble-top on the big blue limousine in +which the President and Mrs. Kennedy would ride. +

+

+Air Force One had barely left the runway at Carswell before +it began its descent toward Love Field. The flight took only 13 +minutes. The big plane touched down at 11:38 a.m. Police armed +with rifles stood along the roof of the terminal building. A +large crowd waited beyond a chain-link fence. Many in the crowd +were jumping, screaming, waving placards: "We Love Jack," "Hooray +for JFK." Others were less friendly. They held placards, too: +"Help Kennedy Stamp Out Democracy," "In 1964 Goldwater and +Freedom," "Yankees Go Home And Take Your Equals With You." They +booed and hissed when the President and first lady emerged from +the plane, smiled, waved and descended the stairs of Air Force +One. +

+

+For the fourth time in 24 hours, Lyndon and Lady Bird +Johnson were waiting to welcome the Kennedys to a Texas city. The +presidential couple was introduced to the 12-man official +welcoming committee. Mrs. Earle Cabell, wife of the Dallas mayor, +presented Mrs. Kennedy with a bouquet of red roses. Then Kennedy +broke from the official cluster and moved along the chain-link +fence, smiling, shaking hands; letting people touch him. +

+

+At 11:55, two motorcycle police officers led the motorcade +out of Love Field and turned left on Mockingbird Lane. Police +Chief Curry drove the lead car. With him rode Dallas County +Sheriff Bill Decker and two Secret Service agents. Then came +three more motorcycles. Then the blue limousine with two Secret +Service agents in the front, John and Nellie Connally in the jump +seats and the Kennedys in the back seat. Two motorcycles flanked +the car on each side. Next was another convertible, full of +Kennedy aides and Secret Service agents, and four more agents +standing on its running boards. +

+

+Then came the vice presidential convertible, carrying two +Secret Service agents, the Johnsons and Yarborough. A Texas +highway patrol officer and four Secret Service agents rode in the +next car. A press pool car, a press bus, convertibles bearing +photographers, and cars carrying lesser dignitaries completed the +procession. +

+

+The motorcade would move through a sizable portion of +Dallas--along Mockingbird to Lemmon Avenue, right on Lemmon to +Turtle Creek Boulevard, along Turtle Creek and Cedar Springs Road +to Harwood Street, down Harwood to Main Street, where, at City +Hall, it would turn right and move westward along Main through +the downtown business district. +

+

+At the west end of downtown, it would turn right onto +Houston Street and then immediately left onto Elm Street and move +through the Triple Underpass. A few yards beyond the underpass, +it would turn right again onto Stemmons Expressway and move to +the Trade Mart at the intersection of Stemmons and Harry Hines +Boulevard. After the President's speech, it would proceed out +Harry Hines to Mockingbird, turn right, and return to Love Field. +The sidewalk crowds were sparse at first. A few people in +the factories and offices along Mockingbird came out to have a +look. The sun was bright now, and Mrs. Kennedy was regretting +that she was wearing the pink wool suit. She had expected woolen +weather. It was, after all, late November. She put on sunglasses, +but her husband told her to take them off. The people wanted to +see her, he said. +

+

+At the corner of Lemmon and Lomo Alto, a group of children +held a long banner reading, "Please Stop and Shake Our Hands." +Kennedy ordered his driver to stop. He got out and shook their +hands. Farther along, he ordered another stop and got out to +greet a group of nuns. At Lee Park on Turtle Creek, the crowd +began to thicken. And at Harwood and Live Oak, still two blocks +from the turn onto Main, the people in the motorcade heard the +downtown crowd murmuring like a distant tide. +

+

+When the caravan made the turn, it faced pandemonium. People +were standing 10 and 12 deep on the sidewalks. Red, white and +blue bunting fluttered from the buildings. People leaned out +windows, waving and screaming. There were no picket signs, no +sour faces. The feared Dallas crowd was friendly--even adoring. +The nuts had stayed home. It was 12:21 p.m. +

+

+At the Trade Mart, the luncheon guests were showing their +tickets to the door guards and filing to their seats. The huge +building was surrounded by Dallas and Texas police, standing at +parade rest, holding riot sticks, glaring at a handful of +protesters. Inside the atrium hall, parakeets flew freely from +tree to tree. A fountain splashed. An organist was practicing +"Hail to the Chief." Dozens of yellow roses adorned the head +table. The presidential seal had been mounted on the rostrum. +

+

+As the motorcade neared Houston Street, the size of the +crowd diminished, but the cheers and applause were still hearty. +Nellie Connally turned in her seat and said, "You can't say +Dallas doesn't love you, Mr. President." +

+

+Kennedy replied, "No, you can't." +

+

+Workers from the Texas School Book Depository, the Dal-Tex +Building and the Dallas County buildings lined the sidewalks at +Houston and Elm as the head of the motorcade turned toward the +Triple Underpass. Others stood on the grass of Dealey Plaza. Many +had brought their children to see the President. Several +spectators noticed a man standing very still in a sixth-floor +corner window of the depository. One man saw the rifle he was +holding and assumed he was a Secret Service agent. +

+

+As the blue limousine made the sharp left turn from Houston +onto Elm, the Hertz rental car time-and-temperature sign on the +roof of the depository red 12:30. A Secret Service man in the +motorcade radioed the Trade Mart: "Halfback to Base. Five minutes +to destination." He wrote in his shift log: "12:35 p.m. President +Kennedy arrived at Trade Mart." +

+

+Some thought the noises were firecrackers. Others thought a +motorcycle was backfiring. Some recognized them as rifle shots. +Pigeons flew from the roof of the depository. Kennedy lurched +forward and grabbed his neck. +

+

+Sen. Yarborough, in the vice president's car, cried, "My +God! They've shot the President!" Secret Service agent Rufus +Youngblood climbed from the front seat to the back, threw Johnson +to the floorboard and covered him with his own body. +

+

+In the blue limousine, Gov. Connally had been hit, too. He +pitched forward and fell toward his wife. "No, no, no, no, no!" +he screamed. +

+

+Then another shot. The President's head exploded. Blood +spattered the occupants of the blue car. The first lady, in +shock, tried to climb out over the trunk. A Secret Service agent +pushed her back. The car slowed and then lurched out of the +motorcade line and sped past the Triple Underpass, with Chief +Curry's car and the Secret Service car in pursuit. +

+

+UPI White House correspondent Merriman Smith was sitting in +the middle of the front seat of the press pool car. He grabbed +the mobile phone. He called the wire service's Dallas bureau and +dictated the first bulletin: "Three shots were fired at President +Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas." +

+

+The cheers of greeting in Dealey Plaza rose to screams of +horror and fear. "They killed him! They killed him! They killed +him!" Parents grabbed children and ran. Men and women lay +prostrate on the grass and sidewalks, as if dead. The motorcade +was disintegrating, the cars veering hither and yon, trying to +get through the crowd and follow the limousine. Helmeted police +officers leaped from motorcycles, pulled guns, looked wildly +about. The Hertz clock still read 12:30. +

+

+The staff at Parkland Memorial Hospital had only five +minutes notice of the massive emergency rushing upon them, and +many thought the message was a joke. When the blue car arrived, +they weren't ready. No one was waiting at the emergency entrance. +A Secret Service agent dashed inside to order stretchers. +

+

+Connally--whose wounds were serious but not fatal--was +wheeled to Trauma Room No. 2, Kennedy to Trauma Room No. 1. Teams +of surgeons and nurses went to work. The Secret Service regrouped +around the Johnsons and hustled them to seclusion in another part +of the hospital. Reporters dashed around the halls and offices, +searching for phones. Parkland patients heard the news and rushed +to have a look. +

+

+"Gentlemen," a weeping Yarborough told reporters, "this has +been a deed of horror. Excalibur has sunk beneath the waves." +Mrs. Kennedy insisted on being in the trauma room with her +husband. A nurse protested, but she was admitted. +

+

+Outside, more of the motorcade vehicles were arriving. Their +passengers tumbled out and stared in horror at the blood-soaked +convertible. +

+

+At 1 p.m., Dr. Kemp Clark, the senior physician working on +the President, pronounced him dead. A priest administered last +rites. At 1:13, the news was carried to the vice president. At +1:26, the Secret Service, fearing the assassination was part of a +massive plot against the government, spirited the Johnsons away +to unmarked cars and sped to Love Field. They boarded Air Force +One at 1:33, while Kennedy press aide Malcolm Kilduff was +announcing the President's death to the press. +

+

+Police were still combing the Dealey Plaza area for +Kennedy's murderer. Indeed, only a minute after the fatal shot +was fired, Marrion Baker, a Dallas motorcycle officer, had +pointed his pistol at Lee Harvey Oswald. Baker had been riding by +the Texas School Book Depository when the killing occurred, and +he jumped off his motorcycle and dashed inside with Roy Truly, +the building's superintendent. They encountered Oswald in the +second-floor lunchroom. Baker drew his gun. "Do you know this +man?" he asked Truly. "Does he work here?" Truly said he did, and +Baker let him go. A minute later, Oswald walked out the front +door of the depository, where he encountered NBC reporter Robert +MacNeil, who was looking for a phone. Oswald told him he could +find one inside. Five minutes later, police sealed off the door. +

+

+At 12:44, Oswald boarded a bus at Elm and Murphy streets, +seven blocks from the depository, but got off a few minutes later +when the bus was caught in a traffic snarl. By 12:45, Dallas +police had questioned the witness who had seen the man standing +in the depository window with the rifle and had broadcast his +description from a radio car in front of the depository. Two +minutes later, Oswald caught a taxicab at the Greyhound bus +station and rode to Beckley and Neely, a corner near his Oak +Cliff rooming house. He went to his room, got a pistol and left +again. +

+

+Meanwhile, Roy Truly had drawn up a list of depository +employees and told police that Oswald was missing. At 1:12, +sheriff's deputies found three empty cartridge cases near the +sixth floor corner window. Ten minutes later, they would find the +rifle, hidden between boxes of textbooks in the room. +

+

+At 1:15, Dallas officer J.D. Tippett was cruising by a drug +store at 10th and Patton, less than a mile from the Oak Cliff +rooming house, and spotted Oswald walking along the sidewalk. +Tippett, for reasons never determined, pulled over and stopped +him. Oswald jerked his pistol from under his jacket, shot four +times and ran away. Nine people saw the shooting. A pickup truck +driver took the dead officer's radio mike and said, "Hello, +police operator. We've had a shooting out here." +

+

+On Air Force One, stewards were removing some of the seats +in the tail compartment to make room for President Kennedy's +coffin. In the plane's stateroom, Lyndon Johnson was watching +Walter Cronkite on television and was asking aides and +congressmen whether he should be sworn in immediately or wait +until they had returned to Washington. Some thought he should +wait. Others thought it might be dangerous for the country to be +without a President while he was en route. Johnson decided he +would assume the office in Dallas. "Now," he said, "What about +the oath?" +

+

+The aides and congressmen were embarrassed. They could +remember neither the words nor where to find them. They couldn't +remember who, besides Supreme Court justices, was authorized to +administer the oath. Everyone was in such shock and confusion +that phone calls were made to several Justice Department +officials in Washington and Dallas before someone remembered that +a President may be sworn in by any judge and that the oath is in +the Constitution. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach +dictated it by phone from Washington, and U.S. District Judge +Sarah Hughes, an old friend of Johnson who had been appointed to +the North Texas federal bench by Kennedy, was dispatched to Love +Field. +

+

+At 1:40, Lee Oswald ran into the Texas Theater on West +Jefferson--eight blocks from officer Tippit's body--without +buying a ticket. The box office attendant called the police. +Cruisers began converging on the theater. At 1:50, the house +lights went up, and officers moved up and down the aisles, looked +into the faces of the few patrons. Officer M.N. McDonald stopped +at the 10th row and said to a man sitting alone: "Get up." +

+

+"Well, it's all over now," Oswald said, according to +witnesses and he stood up. But when McDonald moved closer, Oswald +struck him in the face and went for his pistol. McDonald struck +back and grabbed for the gun. Oswald pulled the trigger, but the +web of skin between McDonald's thumb and forefinger was caught +under the hammer. The gun didn't fire. Other officers joined the +fight. They subdued Oswald and hustled him out of the theater. "I +protest this police brutality!" Oswald shouted. +

+

+Twenty-five minutes later, Capt. Will Fritz, chief of +homicide, returned to the Police Department and ordered that the +missing Texas School Book Depository worker named Lee Harvey +Oswald be arrested as a suspect in the presidential killing. An +officer pointed to a small young man with a bruised eye who was +sitting in a chair. "There he sits," he said. +

+

+At Parkland, a Secret Service agent called Oneal's Funeral +Home in Oak Lawn to order a casket. The funeral director, Vernon +Oneal, arrived with it at 1:30. After the President's body had +been placed in the casket, Mrs. Kennedy entered Trauma Room No. +1, took off her wedding ring and placed it on her husband's +finger. The casket was closed and placed on a funeral home cart +to be moved to the hearse. +

+

+Dr. Earl Rose, the Dallas County medical examiner, +protested. Kennedy was a homicide victim, he said, and the body +couldn't be released legally until after an autopsy had been +performed. A quarrel developed between him and the Secret +Service. Kennedy aides and the Secret Service agents forced the +casket through the crowd that had gathered at the hospital door +and loaded it into the hearse. Mrs. Kennedy rode in the back with +it. At 2:20, the dead President was carried up the stairs into +Air Force One. Mrs. Kennedy retired to the bedroom. +

+

+Judge Hughes boarded the plane at 2:35 and was handed a +small white card with the oath scrawled on it. Capt. Cecil +Stoughton, an Army Signal Corps photographer, tried to arrange +the crowd in the cramped stateroom so that he could take a +picture of the ceremony. "We'll wait for Mrs. Kennedy," Johnson +said. "I want her here." +

+

+Mrs. Kennedy came out of the bedroom still wearing the +blood-soaked pink suit. Johnson pressed her hand and said, "This +is the saddest moment of my life." The photographer placed her on +Johnson's left, Lady Bird on his right. Judge Hughes, the first +woman to administer the presidential oath, was shaking. +

+

+"What about a Bible?" asked one of the witnesses. Someone +remembered that President Kennedy had kept a Bible in the bedroom +and went to get it. +

+

+"I do solemnly swear..." +

+

+The oath lasted 28 seconds. At 2:38 p.m., Lyndon B. Johnson +became the 36th President of the United States. The big jet's +engines already were screaming. "Now, let's get airborne," he +said. +

+
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Volume : SIRS 1991 History, Article 02 +Subject: Keyword(s) : KENNEDY and ASSASSINATION +Title : A Remembrance of Kennedy +Author : Jim Henderson +Source : Dallas Times Herald (Dallas, Texas) +Publication Date : Nov. 20, 1983 +Page Number(s) : Special Sec. 1+ +

+

+. . . Reprinted with permission from +DALLAS TIMES HERALD +(Dallas, Texas) +Nov. 20, 1983, Special Section, pp. 1+ +

+

+A REMEMBRANCE OF KENNEDY +by Jim Henderson +Staff Writer +

+

+'Let the word go forth from this time and place...that the torch +has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this +century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, +proud of our ancient heritage.' +

+

+After 20 years, the events seem as compressed as a leanly +edited videotape. +

+

+A sunny day, a dark convertible, a steady din rebounding +from the canyon walls above a crowded street, three cracks from a +rifle in a sniper's nest, a scramble below, engines racing, a +sobbing black woman outside Parkland Memorial Hospital, a +policeman shot across town, a pronouncement of death, a scrawny, +handcuffed suspect in a corridor with Jack Ruby's .38 exploding +in his belly. +

+

+The nation was stunned by the images that were transmitted +from Dallas--hard images formed in terse, teletype prose and more +vivid ones fashioned from bits and pieces of celluloid. +

+

+America paused to watch the newsreel. +

+

+A new President quickly sworn in and airlifted into command, +a bloodstained widow never far from the coffin, a change to +black, a bewildered daughter kneeling before a flag-draped box in +the Capitol rotunda, the wintry streets of the capital, a dark +riderless horse with empty boots facing backward in the stirrups, +a slow-moving caisson, a young boy saluting the honor guard +carrying his father to Arlington National Cemetery, the lighting +of the eternal flame. +

+

+On the day John F. Kennedy was buried, Alistair Cooke wrote: +"He was snuffed out. In that moment, all the decent grief of a +nation was taunted and outraged. So along with the sorrow, there +is a desperate and howling note from over the land. We may pray +on our knees, but when we get up from them, we cry with the poet: +Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the +dying of the light." +

+

+It is only in memory that the howling note from those four +days flits past. Behind the newsreel, the hours were agonizing +and interminable. For many, particularly in Dallas, time moved as +slowly as a motorcade or a horse-drawn caisson. +

+

+Erik Jonsson, then-president of the Dallas Citizens Council, +would recall the anxiety he felt when the President did not show +up on schedule for a luncheon at the Trade Mart. What's going on? +he asked himself over and over as the wait, only a few moments in +duration, seemed endless. +

+

+After 12:33 p.m. Nov. 22, 1963, the time the first news +bulletin notified the republic that its President had been shot +in Dallas, the city stood motionless and helpless, waiting for +the firestorm of scorn. It came in searing, overlapping bursts. +"Are these human beings or are these animals?" Adlai Stevenson +had asked moments after he escaped from a violent crowd in Dallas +a month earlier. +

+

+The world looked again at Dallas with the same question. It +would seem, in the slow-motion drift of events, that the answer +would never come. Dallas mourned the assassination as the rest of +the nation mourned it, as a deeply personal tragedy. +Schoolteachers wept as they broke the news to their classes. Men +cried in public. Rage and shame and guilt and dread melted into +one great immobilizing glob of emotional turmoil. +

+

+An eternity, two hours and 20 minutes, passed before the +truth would be known. Kennedy's assassin was not of Dallas, was +far removed from the nation's perception of the city and the +city's own worst fears of itself. +

+

+In time, the world, as well as Dallas, would believe the +city was merely caught in one of history's inscrutable warps, +that it was only by chance that the light passing through the +long prism of that era intersected in Dealey Plaza. +

+

+The howl that was heard through the dark night of those +times had the tone of a primal scream, a victim raging against a +felon. In truth, it was a cry of national doubt, of the sense +that America would not be the same. More than mere innocence was +lost that day in Dallas. With it went the cable that anchored the +nation to its sense of order. +

+

+To the historians who define eras in terms of events rather +than years, the decade of the '60s was born in Dallas. +

+

+In a great, shuddering spasm, the fragile floodgates that +had held back the reservoir of a restless social movement was +punctured by the bullets that rained down from the Texas School +Book Depository. +

+

+Within months, America would experience the first of her +long hot summers, just the beginning of another newsreel: the +dogs and fire hoses of Birmingham, the first smiling Marines +marching into Vietnam and returning in body bags, campus radicals +occupying the administration building at Columbia University, +rioting outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, +the fires of Watts and Newark and Detroit, Dr. Strangelove, +Apollo 11, Woodstock, Charles Manson, the cultural revolution, +the counterculture revolution, the sexual revolution, the +yippies, the hippies, the peaceniks and the crazies. +

+

+In 1968, Stuart Udall, secretary of interior for both +Kennedy and Johnson, was asked his opinion of the times, which +seemed to be reeling out of control. He offered a sober, but +startling, observation. +

+

+"This may be remembered," he said, "as the most creative +time in our history." +

+

+It did not seem such an outrageous judgment when the +hurricane had passed. A sorting out had occurred in the storm. +Not many years would pass before a black preacher from Chicago +would run for the presidency. Women would flood the work place +and supervise staffs of men. Men with an eye on the White House +could talk of a female running mate without risking ridicule. +Wars would be harder to make, nuclear waste harder to conceal, +books harder to burn, air harder to pollute, justice harder to +deny. +

+

+America was starkly different. Kennedy's presidency and his +assassination may have been essential to unlocking the passions +of the time, but what the land became was neither his legacy, nor +Oswald's nor Dallas.' +

+

+After the trauma and shame and guilt were gone, the judgment +of history would be that Kennedy and Oswald, Edwin Walker and +Martin Luther King, George Wallace and Stokely Carmichael, Angela +Davis and George Lincoln Rockwell, Dallas and Los Angeles, +Memphis and Birmingham, Detroit and Da Nang were fragments of the +American character, slivers of the dream and the nightmare. +

+

+The legacy of that sunlit moment in Dallas was a nation's +fretful and all-consuming search for itself, a long and howling +rage against the dying of the light. +

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The Next Banking Crisis: +========================================= +The Issue Whose Name They Dare Not Speak. +=========================================

+ +

Late in June, [the Bush] Administration unleashed a bill that +would gut the Community Reinvestment Act (which requires banks to +make loans in their own neighborhoods, including low-income +areas), ease restrictions on loans to a bank's own officers and +directors and postpone the effective date of some tighter +regulations contained in last year's banking law. +- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +This proposal is only the latest in a series of deregulatory +gestures by the Administration and the Fed. [whose] gifts to the +financial industry -- [recently] forty-five actions, taken rather +quietly since December [..] mandate looser capital requirements, +lighter supervision and gimmicky accounting. Their collective +effect is to make the banking industry look healthier than it +really is and to permit riskier behavior in the future. These +moves defer tomorrow's disasters +- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +The CBO estimates that the repeated delays in shutting down +insolvent institutions from 1980 to 1991 added $66 billion to the +cost of the S&L bailout -- enough to fund the Aid to Families with +Dependent Children program for three years, or AIDS research for 50

+ +

The Next Banking Crisis: +========================================= +The Issue Whose Name They Dare Not Speak. +========================================= +By Doug Henwood, _The Nation_, July 20/27, 1992 +(See below for more about _The Nation_)

+ +

Transcribed by Joseph Woodard

+ +

Whatever happened to the financial crisis? Only a year ago, it seemed +the credit system was imploding, and ever-more-extravagant bailouts +appeared inevitable. Now, the Resolution Trust Corporation (R.T.C.), +liquidator of failed savings and loans, is winding down operations; +banks and surviving thrifts seem generally profitable; and the seizure +of failing institutions has all but ceased. Surely the weak, possibly +failing, economic recovery we've seen since late last year can't be +solely responsible for this apparent reversal of fortune.

+ +

No, finance owes its recovery mainly to an indulgent government, whose +normal generosity has been deepened by election year concerns. The +Bush Administration wants to bury the problem, Congress is happy to go +along and the media aren't asking any unpleasant questions. Clinton +raises the issue with his typical technocratic dullness, and Perot +with his usual empty fury -- but neither has made that big a deal of +the timely disappearance of the financial crisis. That's odd, +considering that, as Bush campaign officials told Lynda Edwards of +_The Village Voice_, people in their focus groups are obsessed with +the savings and loan bailout and wonder why the press isn't covering +it.

+ +

One reason the banking mess has receded from view is that the Federal +Reserve -- which no doubt prefers that the financial system never be +an electoral issue at all -- has been easing policy gradually but +steadily since March 1989. The federal funds rate (the interest rate +banks charge one another for overnight loans), the most sensitive +indicator of the central bank's policy, has fallen in thirty-two of +the past forty months, pushing short-term interest rates to their +lowest levels since 1963.

+ +

Although the economy has barely responded to this treatment -- no +modern slump has proved so resistant to lowered rates -- it has helped +refloat the banking system in at least two ways. First, banks haven't +really shared the Fed's generosity with their customers. Rates charged +for loans haven't declined anywhere near as much as those paid on +deposits, boosting bank profits. And second, long-term rates haven't +declined nearly as much as short-term rates. Leaving aside two brief +spikes in the 1950s, the gap between long-and short-term rates is the +widest it's been since the dislocations of the 1930s and 1940s. This +also fattens the banks, which have been buying government bonds +(rather than making loans) and pocketing the large spread between what +they pay their depositors and what they can get from Uncle Sam. Should +the relation between long-term and short-term rates return to normal, +the banks would take a quick turn for the worse.

+ +

Fed chairman Alan Greenspan isn't the banks' only friend. The other is +the man who has said he will do anything to get re-elected, George +Bush. Late in June, his Administration unleashed a bill that would gut +the Community Reinvestment Act (which requires banks to make loans in +their own neighborhoods, including low-income areas), ease +restrictions on loans to a bank's own officers and directors and +postpone the effective date of some tighter regulations contained in +last year's banking law.

+ +

This proposal is only the latest in a series of deregulatory gestures +by the Administration and the Fed. The Durham, North Carolina-based +Financial Democracy Campaign recently issued a five-page list of such +gifts to the financial industry -- forty-five actions, taken rather +quietly since December, that mandate looser capital requirements, +lighter supervision and gimmicky accounting. Their collective effect +is to make the banking industry look healthier than it really is and +to permit riskier behavior in the future.

+ +

These moves defer tomorrow's disasters, shoring up shaky banks (more +than 1000 are on the F.D.l.C.'s problem list); yesterday's disasters +are being dealt with separately. The government has virtually stopped +seizing failed banks and thrifts; the liquidators can only move in +when ordered to by Administration agencies (the Office of Thrift +Supervision and the Comptroller of the Currency, both fiefdoms within +Nicholas Brady's Treasury Department), and such orders aren't being +given. This is good news for the liquidators, since their insurance +funds are broke, and Congress is reluctant to vote them more money -- +at least not in an election year.

+ +

If you listen to the R.T.C., its work is nearly done. Even though it +has run through only half its budget, the corporation is shutting +offices and reducing staff. Among the staff being reduced, as Susan +Schmidt has been reporting in _The Washington Post_, are lawyers with +the professional liability section, who are supposed to be going after +the executives and board members who ran the thrift industry into the +ground. With a three-year statute of limitations (running from the +moment institutions are seized), the division needs more staff, not +less -- but the R.T.C. is dismissing experienced lawyers and replacing +them with novices. No one can prove anything yet, of course, but the +likely targets of such liability investigations, aside from bankers, +would be realtors, accountants, lawyers, doctors and others who are +likely to be generous campaign contributors to both parties.

+ +

Insofar as there's a strategy behind this delay in dealing with the +banking problem (aside from political expediency), it's one of +"forbearance" -- the hope that the problem will just go away with time +and economic growth. But the economy is hardly growing, and insolvency +isn't one of the diseases that time can cure. The Congressional Budget +Office estimates that the repeated delays in shutting down insolvent +institutions from 1980 to 1991 added $66 billion to the cost of the +S&L bailout -- enough to fund the Aid to Families with Dependent +Children program for three years, or AIDS research for fifty.

+ +

Students of the S&L disaster are reminded of 1988, when the same trio +of co-conspirators -- the executive and legislative branches, assisted +by a lazy or complicit media -- ignored the disaster until after the +election. In early 1989, the thrift crisis was suddenly "discovered," +only to disappear again in accordance with the quadrennial cycle.

+ +

But the problems won't just go away. Bank and thrift balance sheets +are contaminated with billions of dollars of loans that went to build +pointless shopping centers and see-through office buildings. Salomon +Brothers estimates that it will take a national average of twelve +years to fill up existing empty commercial real estate -- ten years in +Los Angeles, twenty-six years in Boston, forty-six years in New York +City and fifty-six years in San Antonio, the national champ.

+ +

Aside from increasing the ultimate cost of the financial rescue, the +conspiracy of silence has largely prevented any serious discussion of +why the financial meltdown happened or how we might make the best of +the situation. The government is spending hundreds of billions of +public dollars to restore business as usual. Instead, failed +institutions could be transformed to publicly or cooperatively owned +local development banks, and the government's vast inventory of +near-worthless real estate could be turned over to community groups, +local governments or nonprofit associations for creative use. But some +things are too important to be discussed openly, especially during +election season.

+ +

************************************************************** +Doug Henwood is Editor of _Left Business Observer_ (see below) +**************************************************************

+ +

+ +################################################################## +Reprinted with permission - granted by The Nation magazine/The Nation +Company, Inc. Copyright 1992 +################################################################## +Subscriptions to _The Nation_ -- published since 1865 and the oldest +weekly magazine in America -- are $32 per year (47 issues): +The Nation // Dept MAP // 72 Fifth Ave. // New York, NY 10011 +Or a half-year subscription (24 issues) is $22. + +

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Article 1577 of misc.activism.progressive: +From: dave@ratmandu.corp.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe) +Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive +Subject: will BCCI happen again? bank on it. (part 1 of 2) + 1991Nov23.064309.14321@pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Date: 23 Nov 91 06:43:09 GMT +Sender: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) +Followup-To: alt.activism.d +Organization: PACH +Lines: 586 +Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

+ +

The following is part one of a two-part series on BCCI +that recently appeared in "In These Times". +Reprinted with permission of "In These Times."

+ +

During World War II the United States had emerged as the globe's +dominant economic and military power. In 1944, the Bretton Woods +agreement established a system of fixed exchange rates based on +the dollar .... +By 1971, however, U.S. corporations had lost their competitive +edge to Japan and the U.S. military had wasted hundreds of +billions of dollars in Vietnam. Nixon's decision to devalue the +dollar and effectively end the Bretton Woods agreement on fixed +exchange rates simply recognized the inevitable--the United States +no longer ruled the world .... +By the start of the '90s, BCCI and other banks that operated out +of the offshore financial havens played key roles in the new +economic order dominated by multinational corporations. As the +United States learned when it was forced to end fixed exchange +rates, the new global economic system was too powerful for any one +government to control. For BCCI, as well as for international +criminal elements, this was a dream come true.

+ +

from the October 23-29, 1991 issue of "IN THESE TIMES": +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +BCCI THE BIG PICTURE +A system out of control, not just one bank +By George Winslow

+ +

This is the first story in a two-part "In These Times" investigation +into the broader economic implication of the BCCI affair.

+ +

IN THE EARLY '80S, PAKISTANI IMMIGRANT AZIZ Rehman was overjoyed +to find a job in one of the world's fastest growing banks, the +Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). The pay was +good and the perks were even better. His employer gave him a +lavish expense account to entertain foreign diplomats--and he got +to meet people like Jeb Bush, the U.S. vice president's son. +But Rehman soon discovered that international finance had a less +glamorous side. Often, he had to lug heavy suitcases filled with +cash through the sweltering Miami heat. During the day, he +worried about being robbed; at night, he wondered about the +bank's strange way of doing business. Bank executives told Rehman +the bags of cash were from a BCCI branch in the Bahamas. But +Rehman knew they were lying. The branch office didn't exist. +Years later, it s clear that BCCI has misplaced a lot more than +a bank office. On July 5 1991, bank regulators from several +nations shut down BCCI, charging that top executives had lost or +stolen as much as $15 billion worth of deposits. +Since then, the BCCI affair has exploded into the biggest +financial scandal of the '90s. A barrage of press reports have +detailed BCCI's involvement with drug dealers, CIA operators, +corrupt dictators and sleazy arms dealers. Even CIA officials +have been quoted as calling BCCI "the Bank of Crooks and Criminals +International." +Unfortunately, the mainstream media has largely ignored a much +bigger scandal--a revolution in the global economy that has +produced many banks just like BCCI. This revolution has caused a +terrifying cycle of poverty, drug addiction and financial fraud +around the world. Like the toxic waste given off by a chemical +factory, BCCI is simply a noxious byproduct of a global economy +based on profits and high finance, not human needs.

+ +

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS: The economic context of the BCCI scandal +begins with socialism and ends with the creation of a kind of +capitalist utopia. +In 1972, BCCI's founder, Agha Hasan Abedi, was under house +arrest in Pakistan. A socialist government had nationalized +Abedi's United Bank and was investigating allegations of fraud at +the institution. But as police guarded his house, Abedi was +already meeting with some of his powerful friends, plotting the +creation of a new bank, BCCI. +This bank, Abedi liked to say, would be the world's first +"genuinely global bank." Bank of America--then the world's +largest bank--was trying to expand its international division. +The huge U.S. bank was the first investor to jump on board. Bank +of America put up only $2.5 million to acquire a 25 percent stake +in BCCI, but its involvement helped Abedi get investment capital +from powerful Third-World leaders and financiers. One early +investor was Sheik Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahyan, ruler of oil-rich +Abu Dhabi. Other major investors would eventually include Kamal +Adham, former chief of Saudi Arabia's intelligence service; the +bin Mahfouz family, which also controls Saudi Arabia's largest +bank; and other rulers from the United Arab Emirates. +BCCI went into operation with only $10 million in capital, but +Abedi's timing was perfect. Over the next 18 years, BCCI would +grow by leaps and bounds. By no coincidence, so would the +international financial system. In 1970, only about $60 billion +moved through the international financial system each day. Today +more than $2 trillion worth of stocks bonds and currencies cross +national borders--a 3200 percent increase. BCCI took full +advantage of this growth. By early 1990, it had grown into a $21 +billion bank with 425 branches in over 75 countries that served +1.2 million customers.

+ +

UNCLE SAM'S FALL: A dramatic period of political and economic +disorder produced the global economic revolution that allowed BCCI +to thrive. One year before BCCI was founded, President Richard +Nixon announced that the United States would devalue the dollar, +effectively ending the American government's control over the +international financial system. +During World War II the United States had emerged as the globe's +dominant economic and military power. In 1944, the Bretton Woods +agreement established a system of fixed exchange rates based on +the dollar. By making the dollar the equivalent of gold in world +trade, U.S. economic policies became the world's economic +policies. Washington could print dollars to finance the Marshall +Plan in Europe and other programs designed to open up markets to +American corporations. And it could mint money to build up +America's military establishment--which, in turn, protected U.S. +investments in other countries. It was a "free world based on the +dollar and backed by the atomic bomb," according to Richard Barnet +and Ronald Muller, authors of "The Global Reach: The Power of +Multinational Corporations." +By 1971, however, U.S. corporations had lost their competitive +edge to Japan and the U.S. military had wasted hundreds of +billions of dollars in Vietnam. Nixon's decision to devalue the +dollar and effectively end the Bretton Woods agreement on fixed +exchange rates simply recognized the inevitable--the United States +no longer ruled the world.

+ +

A NEW KING: Assuming the U.S. government's throne, huge +multinational corporations had become the world's new imperial +power. American foreign investments jumped from $29.1 billion in +1955 to $120 billion in 1970 and $373 billion in 1989. Foreign +investments by every country in the world grew nearly tenfold from +$112.3 billion in 1967 to $1023 billion in 1987. +U.S. banks also expanded their international operations to +provide financial services to their blue-chip clients. In 1965, +only 20 U.S. banks with 112 branches had set up shop overseas. By +1988, 132 American banks had 849 foreign branches, holding a total +of more than $275 billion in assets. +BCCI was quick to establish a relationship with many of the U.S. +banks that had expanded overseas in the '70s. A confidential +internal BCCI study, obtained by "In These Times," illustrates +just how many U.S. banks had close financial relationships with +BCCI. The 1985 study notes that for all of 1984, BCCI transferred +foreign currencies worth $37.5 billion through American banks. +Most of these foreign currency transfers, $19 billion, involved +five major American banks: Bank of America, Security Pacific, +American Express Bank Ltd., the Bank of New York and First +Chicago. +The BCCI study also shows that on an average working day in +1984, BCCI conducted 1434 transactions involving $2.7 billion +with the five banks. Most of those transactions (700 in all, +worth $1.7 billion) involved Bank of America--even though Bank of +America had sold its stake in BCCI in 1980.

+ +

CAPITALIST UTOPIAS: The rapid growth of the global economy also +produced dramatic changes in the very structure of the +international economic system. Massive military expenditures from +Vietnam--along with increased imports--caused billions of dollars +to flow out of the United States. In the '60s, banks began +loaning these dollars--called "Eurodollars" because they were +often held in European banks--to corporations, thus creating the +world's first unregulated, international financial market. In +1963, only about $148 million worth of bonds or loans were issued +in the Eurodollar market. By 1988 over $721 billion worth of +securities and loans were made in the market. +Most Eurodollar trading occurs in what are known as offshore +havens. Typically these havens--located in places like Panama, +Hong Kong and the Bahamas--operate as a kind of capitalist utopia +for transnational corporations. Strict bank-secrecy laws protect +depositors from the prying eyes of tax collectors or foreign +investigators. Lax local regulations allow foreign banks to carry +on many activities--such as selling stocks and bonds--that may be +illegal or tightly regulated in their home countries. More +importantly, taxes are virtually non-existent. +Today, offshore havens manage over $5 trillion worth of assets- +-nearly the size of the U.S. gross national product for 1990. But +before the rise of the Eurodollar market, many of these havens +didn't exist or played only a minor role in international finance. +The Cayman Islands, for example, didn't set up shop as an offshore +center until the mid-'60s. But by 1990, the Caribbean nation was +home to over 500 banks from all over the world--including 46 of +the 50 largest--holding over $250 billion in assets. +BCCI was one of the banks that most profited from the rise of +offshore finance. It capitalized by setting up its headquarters +in Luxembourg, an offshore haven, and by establishing subsidiaries +in dozens of other havens. By 1990, for example, its Cayman +Islands subsidiary held over $7.5 billion worth of assets. +By the start of the '90s, BCCI and other banks that operated out +of the offshore financial havens played key roles in the new +economic order dominated by multinational corporations. As the +United States learned when it was forced to end fixed exchange +rates, the new global economic system was too powerful for any one +government to control. For BCCI, as well as for international +criminal elements, this was a dream come true.

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PEEKABOO FINANCE: From the start, BCCI understood the beauty of +offshore finance. Operating out of regulation-free havens, BCCI +was able to embark on what international investigators have called +"the most complex deception in banking history." To hide the fact +that BCCI "may never have been profitable in its entire history," +BCCI's auditors say that top executives used the offshore system +to set up "a massive and complex web of fictitious transactions." +Over a 15-year period, BCCI shuffled nearly $15 billion through +over 750 accounts. For example, after losing an astonishing $849 +million speculating in U.S. Treasury bonds between 1979 and 1986, +BCCI executives simply parked the losses in its Cayman Islands +subsidiary, where bank regulators wouldn't find them. Then it +illegally shuffled new deposits through various havens to make it +look as if hundreds of millions of dollars worth of loans to BCCI +executives and large shareholders were being repaid. In fact, +they weren't. As Rep. Charles Schumer (D-NY) recently stated, +"BCCI fell between the international cracks." +These cracks are beginning to look more and more like canyons. +Law-enforcement experts say that offshore banks provide essential +financial services for many of the world's most profitable crimes, +including the drug business (in which $300 billion is laundered +worldwide each year, according to the State Department), tax fraud +(which, according to the Internal Revenue Service, totals $100 +billion a year in the United States alone) and securities fraud +(which adds up to $10 billion annually in the United States, +according to a recent private study). Offshore banking also aids +the Mafia (which launders over $70 billion annually, according to +the FBI) and black-market arms traffickers. (Offshore bank +accounts were used in the Iran-contra affair, illegal arms sales +to Iraq and several recent illegal sales of technology used to +make nuclear bombs.) Furthermore, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) +contends that "billions" looted from U.S. savings-and-loans ended +up in secret offshore accounts. Such accounts were also used by +the perpetrators of Watergate, as well as the recent scandals at +the Department of Housing and Urban Development and at the +Pentagon. +As a full-service bank, BCCI diversified into almost all of +these criminal activities. But before exploring its role as a +"Bank of Crooks and Criminals International," it's worth +remembering that some of BCCI's largest crimes were quite legal-- +at least in the context of the lawless offshore financial system.

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A FREE LUNCH: Consider, for example, taxes. While Aziz Rehman +was carrying large bags of cash around Miami for BCCI, he noticed +that many of the bank's clients weren't interested in drugs or +arms or weird CIA plots. They simply wanted to avoid taxes. In +one case--uncovered by the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, +Narcotics and International Operations, which is headed by Sen. +Kerry--Modern Health Care had BCCI wire $20 million into an +account in the Caribbean. +"They got interest over there, and they never showed that +interest into the United States [for tax purposes]," Rehman +remembers. "That's why people deposit outside the United States. +But BCCI is by no means the only bank that has been involved in +tax fraud. Using offshore havens to avoid the IRS has become +standard operating procedure for many financial institutions. In +the mid-'70s, for example, while New York City was going broke and +drastically cutting social services, city officials charged that +Citibank had used offshore havens to avoid over $30 million in +taxes. In this case, Citibank created a series of fictitious +transactions that made it look as if its subsidiaries in America +and Europe were losing money. Then, the profits were recorded in +subsidiaries located in offshore havens. (A Reagan appointee to +the Securities and Exchange Commission eventually dropped charges +against the bank, explaining that he did "not subscribe to the +theory that a company that violates tax and exchange-control +regulations is a bad corporation.") +Foreign corporations have also used the offshore system to avoid +paying U.S. taxes. For example, the IRS claims that foreign +multinational corporations operating in the United States avoided +between $13 billion and $30 billion worth of U.S. taxes in the +'80s. +The issue of tax fraud in the BCCI scandal has been virtually +ignored by the mainstream media, but it has had a horrifying +effect on the quality of life in America. Over time, the ability +of banks like BCCI to help corporations avoid taxes, has left a +big hole in local, state and federal budgets. +In 1950, when offshore finance and multinational production +didn't play a very important role in the world's economy, U.S. +corporations paid 26 percent of all state, local and federal +taxes. But by 1990, their share had dropped to only 8 percent. +Of course, offshore banking wasn't the only reason for this +decline--but it certainly helped. If U.S. corporations still paid +26 percent of all taxes, they would have paid an extra $329 +billion in 1990 alone. This number is worth remembering when +people talk about BCCI as simply a case of bank fraud, far removed +from problems like poverty, bad schools or potholes.

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------------------------------------------------------------------ +'Bank of Crooks and Criminals International' had +links to U.S. intelligence and Third World tyrants +| It's no wonder the Bank of Credit and Commerce +International (BCCI) is enmeshed in one of the +biggest financial scandals of the 20th century. A +list of BCCI's shareholders reads like a who's who of +corrupt Third-World elites. Most of them have a long +history of involvement in major arms deals or +corporate bribery scams. In addition, several key +BCCI insiders have extensive ties to Western +intelligence agencies. +These same figures helped loot the bank, receiving +hundreds of millions of dollars worth of loans that +were never repaid. +One major shareholder and a front man for BCCI's +illegal purchases of various American banks-- +including First American Bankshares in Washington, +D.C.--was Sheikh Kamal Adham, the brother-in-law of +the late Saudi King Faisal. During the '60s and +'70s, Kamal ran the Saudi equivalent of the FBI and +CIA. And like many members of the Saudi ruling +family, he often demanded commissions (a polite way +of saying bribe) from multinational corporations +operating around the mideast. +In the '50s and '60s, Kamal accepted kickbacks from +the Japanese in return for cheap oil. He also took +commissions for arms deals set up for Northrup and +two other U.S. arms dealers. In the '70s, according +to the "Wall Street Journal," he was paid "many +millions of dollars in commission" by Boeing to +persuade the Egyptians to buy its planes. +Besides his extensive ties to the U.S. arms +industry, Kamal maintained close ties to Western +intelligence agencies. In 1977, the "Washington +Post" described Kamal as the CIA's "liason man" in +the region and noted that Kamal had hired former CIA +station chief Raymond Close as an adviser. In the +late '60s, Kamal acted as the CIA's intermediary to +funnel payments to Anwar Sadat while Sadat was vice +president of Egypt. According to Larry Gurwin's 1990 +article in the business magazine "Regardie's," Kamal +channeled hundreds of millions of dollars to Egypt +after Sadat took power. These funds convinced Sadat +to expel Soviet military advisers in 1973 and to +establish a closer relationship with the United +States. +In Kamal's years as the head of Saudi intelligence, +he was responsible for a number of human rights +abuses, including torture and executions of political +opponents. Internal BCCI documents show that Kamal +received over $313 million in loans from BCCI, most +of which have not been repaid. +Other one-time BCCI shareholders with close +connections to the CIA and the Western arms industry +include Iran's now-ousted ruling family. Shah +Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, whose family held stock in +BCCI as late as 1978, was installed in power in 1953 +by a CIA-backed coup against Mohammed Mossadeq, who +had nationalized American oil companies. In the +'70s, before he was overthrown, the Shah purchased +billions of dollars worth of arms from American +companies. +Kuwaiti businessman Faisal Saud al Fulajj was a +small BCCI shareholder. According to the "Wall +Street Journal," he accepted over $300000 in bribes +from Boeing while he was head of the Kuwait Airlines. +Fulajj was also one of seven men who received $47 +million in bribes to illegally act as a frontman for +BCCI's illegal and secret purchases of various +American banks, including First American. +Mohammed Irvani was another frontman with ties to +Western intelligence. He set up a consulting firm +with former CIA director Richard Helms in 1977. +Ali Mohammed Shorafa was a small BCCI shareholder +and yet another frontman in the First American +affair. According to columnist Jack Anderson and +"Regardie's" magazine, Shorafa financed a company +that received an exclusive contract to ship U.S. arms +to Egypt right after the Camp David accords. +Internal BCCI documents show that BCCI gave Fulajj at +least $113 million in loans and Shorafa $123 million +in loans. +Agha Hasan Abedi, BCCI's founder, kept close ties +to Pakistani military and intelligence officials. +Abedi hired a number of bank officials with links to +the Pakistani military or intelligence services. The +"Financial Times" of London has reported that the CIA +used BCCI to funnel payments to the Pakistani +military. Recently, the "Wall Street Journal +reported that one top Pakistani official who refused +to extradite Abedi to the United States to face +charges of fraud and larceny, "had received (from +BCCI) a monthly stipend, free travel, a home loan and +an expensive automobile." +Abedi was so close to Pakistani Dictator Zia al-Haq, that Zia rushed to Abedi's bedside when the +banker had a heart attack. Zia's term in office +produced massive human rights violations and +continual allegations that top Kaistani officials +were involved in the lucrative heroin trade. Zia +overthrew the democratically elected government of +Zulfikav Ali Bhutto and executed Bhutto. +The U.S. government rewarded Zia's support for the +Afghan rebels with $2.1 billion worth of U.S. Agency +for International Development grants and hundreds of +millions of dollars in military aid. +The bin Mahfouz family--which owns Saudi Arabia's +largest bank--sold its 20 percent stake in BCCI in +1990. The family also has a long history of +corruption and financial fraud. In the late '70s, +for example, the family teamed up with the Hunt +brothers, infamous Texas oil barons, in an illegal +attempt to manipulate the price of silver by +cornering the world silver market. The operation +nearly touched off a worldwide financial panic before +it was halted by U.S. regulators. More recently, the +bin Mahfouz family used BCCI as a private piggy bank, +receiving over $176 million in unsecured loans from +the bank. +Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, the ruler of Abu +Dhabi and head of the United Arab Emirates us BCCI's +largest shareholder. He rose to power in 1966 when +the British encouraged him to overthrow his brother, +Sheikh Shakbut, who provoked widespread unrest by +refusing to spend his oil revenues on various +development schemes. (Shakbut once justified his +policies by saying the oil companies needed the money +more than the citizens of his country did.) +Sheik Zayed proved to be the more enlightened +ruler, spending billions to establish a social +welfare state for the citizens of Abu Dhabi. But he +still treats Abu Dhabi's oil revenues (about $1 +billion a month) as personal income, using it to +build lavish mansions around the world. As a staunch +U.S. ally, he has spent billions on U.S. and European +arms. President Bush recently asked Congress to +approve another $648 million U.S. arms deal as a +reward for Sheik Zayed's staunch support for the U.S. +during the Iraq war. +------------------------------------------------------------------

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LOOTING THE THIRD WORLD: During the '80s, Americans weren't the +only ones faced with cuts in social services and declining +standards of living. Between 1980 and 1985, average incomes in +Latin America fell by 9 percent. Some heavily indebted countries +like Argentina (where incomes dropped 17.7 percent) and Bolivia +(down 29.4 percent) fared even worse. +But, as the average Latin American suffered, wealthy elites used +banks like BCCI to take hundreds of billions of dollars out of +their homelands. Court documents and Senate hearings show that +Panama's Manuel Noriega, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, the Philippines' +Ferdinand Marcos, Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier and other dictators +used BCCI to steal billions of dollars from native countries. The +BCCI affair illustrates how large multinational corporations have +established close financial and political ties with corrupt +Third-World elites, who used Western arms sales, political +repression and the CIA to maintain their power (see accompanying +story in box). +But in going after the capital-flight business, BCCI wasn't +doing anything out of the ordinary. Estimates of how much money +has been moved out of Third-World countries vary, but all of them +are alarming. Morgan Guarantee Trust, a U.S. financial +institution, estimates that local elites transferred over $200 +billion out of the Third-World into the Western financial system +between 1975 and 1985. Other researchers have produced estimates +as high as $660 billion--equal to about half of all outstanding +Third-World debts. Morgan Guarantee notes that the ten most-heavily indebted Latin American countries borrowed $375 billion +between 1975 and 1985. During that time, an amount equal to about +half of that borrowed money was siphoned out of these countries by +capital flight. Venezuela, for example borrowed $36 billion, but +had $41 billion leave the country.

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BCCI'S PALS IN HIGH PLACES: Such huge debts have left many +Third-World countries dependent on the International Monetary +Fund, the World Bank, the U.S. government and various other +international development bodies. But these bodies have promoted +Third-World development strategies that stress foreign +investment--thus increasing the power of multinational +corporations. BCCI was one of the primary beneficiaries of such +policies. +The IMF, the World Bank and the U.S. government have supported a +number of projects to establish offshore havens. BCCI's most +notorious money-laundering operation occurred in Panama, where one +BCCI official says he acted as Manuel Noriega's "personal banker." +This, of course, wouldn't have been possible if a U.S. Agency for +International Development official hadn't helped Panama set up an +offshore haven in 1970. +BCCI also had large operations in virtually every Caribbean +offshore haven--and it established close ties to many Caribbean +governments. Internal BCCI documents show that the bank received +large deposits from virtually every central bank in the Caribbean +and from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), a regional lending +institution that is heavily funded by the United States. The CDB +has provided many loans to Caribbean countries who wanted to set +up tax-free industrial havens for multinational corporations. +But ties between BCCI and development agencies went far beyond +general policy discussions and the creation of offshore havens. +The "Wall Street Journal" noted recently that "[t]he U.S. +government was one of BCCI's biggest customers in Cameroon, with +$10 million in U.S. Agency for International Development accounts. +That is equal to about 5 percent of BCCI Cameroon's published +assets." +More importantly, "In These Times" has learned that the IMF +contacted officials at central banks in Brazil, Argentina and +Uruguay about BCCI's expansion into Latin America. The IMF also +gave BCCI advice on how the bank could expand its operations in +Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Venezuela. +The IMF further suggested that BCCI might get deposits from +central banks in Latin America if it established correspondent +bank relationships with these banks. (Correspondent banks provide +various financial services for each other, such as taking deposits +and wire transfers.) After it followed that advice, BCCI +eventually established banking relationships with central banks in +at least 30 countries around the world. Because of BCCI's +financial troubles, many of these banks may lose a large share of +the money they deposited with BCCI. One former World Bank and IMF +official has already been indicted by Peruvian officials for his +role in having Peru's central bank reserves deposited at BCCI. +BCCI put together other deals that involved the World Bank and +the IMF. According to "Time" magazine, BCCI intervened in a +dispute between the IMF and Jamaica over the country's inability +to pay its mounting debts. BCCI brokered a deal with the IMF in +which BCCI agreed to provide a new $48 million loan to Jamaica. +Soon thereafter, Jamaica's central bank agreed to make large +deposits with BCCI. +One BCCI employee, Amjad Awan, also told Kerry subcommittee +investigators that the World Bank suggested BCCI provide a loan to +Bolivia. After BCCI provided the loan, which was guaranteed by +the World Bank, Bolivia's central bank began depositing money in +BCCI.

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IN THE RED: Ironically, as the IMF and the World Bank were using +BCCI to help solve the debt crisis in several countries, BCCI was +engaging in a number of illegal transactions that actually +increased the debt various Third-World countries were paying. +Jack Blum, a former counsel for the Kerry subcommittee, claims +that BCCI became very active in "the business of brokering Third-World debt." Many of these debts, which were in arrears, were +nearly worthless or were being sold by banks for about 20 cents on +the dollar to outside investors. Blum says that these investors +would contact BCCI, which would intervene with a Third-World +government. Under a scheme promoted by the IMF, the World Bank +and the United States, many governments would agree to pay back +all of the debt (not just the 20 percent that the investor had +paid for it), if the debt-purchaser would invest the money in the +debtor country or use the money to buy a company the country's +government was trying to sell. +But according to Blum, many investors made huge profits while +investing very little in Third-World nations. An example of such +a transaction can be found in Argentina. In the late '80s, BCCI +bought Argentinian debt for an unknown discount, then had the +Argentinian government redeem it at full value. It's unclear how +much BCCI paid for the Argentinian debt, which currently sells for +79 cents on the dollar. Assuming BCCI bought the debt at the +current rate (which is a very conservative guess), the bank would +have paid only $30 million for $38 million of debt, producing a +quick $8 million profit. +To hold up the bank's end of the deal, BCCI frontman Ghaith +Pharoan then agreed to invest $38 million in a hotel and farm in +Argentina. But according to the "New York Times," Pharoan only +invested about $10 million. Assuming, conservatively, BCCI made +an $8 million windfall on the deal, the bank, in effect, purchased +a $10 million hotel for $2 million. Argentina, on the other hand, +spent $38 million to redeem its debt and received only $2 million +in new investment money. +Jack Blum laid out BCCI's illegal Third-World debt operations in +an August 1991 testimony before the Kerry committee. The debt +scam, Blum pointed out, "is a very major business. I think it +runs to billions of dollars." +Yet, like many of the other multibillion-dollar economic scams +covered by this article, Blum's testimony attracted virtually no +press attention. Once again, the mainstream media's lack of +interest in larger economic issues led it to ignore a scandal that +has impoverished many Third-World countries. +BCCI is not the first scandal of its kind. In the early '80s, +the Vatican bank scandal produced widespread calls for a tougher +system of international bank regulations. But nothing was done. +As prosecutors sift through the wreakage of the BCCI affair, +banks like BCCI continue to use offshore havens to help +multinational corporations avoid taxes, and to aid corrupt Third-World leaders in looting their countries. The international +financial system still operates outside the control of any real +government authority. BCCI will happen again.

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George Winslow is a New York City freelance writer who regularly +covers white-collar crime and international finance.

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In Part II, "In These Times" shows how larger economic issues shed +new light on BCCI's more notorious operations--the bank's ties to +the CIA, drug dealers, sleazy S&Ls, and influence peddlers.

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-- +daveus rattus

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yer friendly neighborhood ratman

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KOYAANISQATSI

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ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. +5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.

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Article 1633 of misc.activism.progressive: +From: dave@ratmandu.corp.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe) +Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive +Subject: will BCCI happen again? bank on it. (part 2 of 2) + 1991Dec5.000939.15744@pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Date: 5 Dec 91 00:09:39 GMT +Sender: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) +Followup-To: alt.activism.d +Organization: PACH +Lines: 613 +Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

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The following is part two of a two-part series on BCCI. +Reprinted with permission of "In These Times."

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Meanwhile, the Reagan and Bush administrations actively +obstructed a congressional investigation of the scandal. A Senate +subcommittee chaired by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) has been +investigating BCCI for several years. From the start, the +subcommittee encountered resistance from the administration. For +example, the Justice Department ordered key witnesses not to +cooperate with Kerry. The department also refused to produce +documents subpoenaed by the subcommittee. +But these machinations are only part of a much larger political +scandal--the growing political power of financial institutions +over every aspect of the American political system. Over the past +decade, securities firms, major banks, insurance companies and +other financial institutions have given more money to Congress +than any other industry.

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from the October 30-November 5, 1991 issue of "IN THESE TIMES": +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +BCCI THE BIG PICTURE +New capitalism: bank fraud, drug trade, espionage +By George Winslow

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In its October 23 issue, "In These Times" began a two-part +series on the broader economic and social issues of the BCCI +affair. Author George Winslow argued that the real scandal +was not a lone wayward bank, but a world financial system +out of control. Winslow examined how, during the past two +decades, multinational corporations rose to global economic +dominance. He then documented the way in which operations +like BCCI use "offshore havens" to do these corporations +banking. +Such havens--located in places like Panama, Hong Kong and +the Bahamas--free corporations from the taxes, oversight and +laws of their home countries. They also help Third-World +leaders loot their own nations, thus increasing those +countries debts and putting further strain on the shaky U.S. +economy. No matter what happens in the ongoing BCCI +investigation, Winslow concluded, the offshore financial +system that spawned the bank still operates outside of the +control of any real government authority. "BCCI will happen +again," he wrote. +In the following story, Winslow examines how larger economic +issues shed new light on BCCI's more notorious operations-- +the bank's ties to the CIA, drug dealers, sleazy S&Ls and +influence peddlers.

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EVEN IN MIAMI, WHERE EXCESS HAS BECOME a fine art, David Paul, the +chairman of CenTrust Savings Bank, stood out from the pack. Paul, +who raised lots of money for top Democratic Party politicians, +used bank funds to buy a $13 million Rubens that he hung in his +opulent estate and insisted that his $7 million yacht be built +with 14 carat gold nails. +But by the late '80s, Paul was in trouble. CenTrust, like many +other S&Ls, had suffered huge losses by speculating in securities +and junk bonds. For years he had hidden the losses with +accounting tricks that were legalized by Congress and the Reagan +administration. But, as the public began howling about fraud in +the S&L industry, bank regulators ordered Paul to make the losses +public, a move that threatened to ruin his bank. +To buy time, Paul used his political clout to arrange meetings +with top regulators in the Reagan administration. At the +meetings, Paul introduced Ghaith Pharaon, a wealthy Saudi +financier who had already bought 25 percent of CenTrust. Paul +implied that Pharaon and his wealthy Saudi friends planned to save +the bank. +Impressed with this display of wealth, regulators let CenTrust +stay in business. CenTrust lost more money and Paul kept throwing +lavish parties--at one $122000 affair he flew six famous chefs +first class from the United States to France. When bank +regulators finally shut down CenTrust in 1990, taxpayers got stuck +with a bill for $2 billion. +The CenTrust fiasco took place in Florida and Washington--half-way around the world from Abu Dhabi, where a number of Bank of +Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) executives are now under +house arrest. But the CenTrust affair illustrates how the sun +never sets on the new world of bank fraud. Ghaith Pharaon--the +wealthy Saudi financier who was supposed to save CenTrust--was +simply one of the front men that BCCI used to secretly buy and +loot at least four American banks.

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THE PRICE WE PAY: The "New York Times" recently assured its +readers that many of BCCI's crimes would have little effect on +Americans. "[The] money laundering and other corruption at BCCI +occurred largely overseas. ... The criminals and most, if not +all, of the victims of BCCI's scams were foreigners," the "Times" +wrote. +But that is not at all the case--and in this article, "In These +Times" will examine how and why. Many of BCCI's alleged crimes, +such as its involvement in the S&L scandal, were conceived in the +United States--and most of the bank's foreign criminal activity +would not have been possible without the complicity of American +business and government. +Today, it would be hard to find an American who hasn't been +victimized by BCCI. Taxpayers have spent billions of dollars, and +may have to spend billions more, to bail out banks looted by BCCI +and its clients. Financial services provided by BCCI and other +banks helped international drug traffickers bring tens of billions +of dollars worth of illegal narcotics into the United States. +Arms transactions financed or administered by BCCI accelerated a +Mideastern arms race that helped trigger the U.S.-Iraqi war. And +BCCI was not the only major financial institution to profit from +bank fraud, arms deals and drug smuggling. These problems--and +the financial system that nourishes them--will continue.

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SECRET INVASION: Only five years after being founded in the Third +World, BCCI began its invasion of America. In 1977, several of +BCCI's largest shareholders launched a hostile bid for the largest +bank in Washington, D.C., Financial General Bankshares (now called +First American Bankshares). There were problems from the start. +A number of the investors were simply BCCI front men, many of them +with long histories of involvement in corporate bribery scandals. +A Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation into the +deal uncovered a wide range of illegal securities transactions. +Normally these violations would have disqualified potential +investors from handling billions of dollars in federally insured +deposits. But BCCI's high-powered legal team, headed by Clark +Clifford--a former secretary of defense and adviser to four +presidents--convinced the Federal Reserve Board to approve the +deal on the condition that BCCI would not control the bank. It +was a condition BCCI ignored from the start. Over the next +decade, BCCI also used Ghaith Pharaon as a frontman to secretly +acquire a minority stake in CenTrust, as well as controlling +interests in the National Bank of Georgia and the Independence +Bank of Encino, Calif. As with its secret purchase of First +American Bankshares, BCCI shifted money through a bewildering +array of offshore havens to convince regulators that the banks +were being bought by wealthy Arabs with lots of cash. In fact, +the real owner was BCCI. +Then, BCCI used the same system of offshore finance to loot the +banks. For example, soon after BCCI lost over $849 million +speculating in U.S. Treasury bonds, BCCI executives had First +American Bankshares (FAB) pay $220 million for Ghaith Pharaon's +shares in National Georgia Bank. According to the "Wall Street +Journal," FAB paid between $20 million to $60 million more than +any other bank was willing to pay. The deal had the effect of +transferring $220 million from a very solvent bank, FAB, to +Pharaon and BCCI at a time when the latter two were in deep +financial trouble. +Today, the effects of BCCI's involvement are plain. FAB, once a +solvent, well-capitalized commercial bank, is in dire financial +straits. Recently regulators gave FAB, which lost $182 million in +1990, a rating of "four." Five means the banks is broke and +should be shut down: one is an excellent rating. The $11 billion +bank, which now has $469 million worth of bad loans, could easily +cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars if it collapses.

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NEW RULES: More importantly, the FAB fiasco illustrates how the +new world of international finance has affected the American +banking industry. The increasingly unregulated international +financial system of the '70s and American financial system as +well. +This deregulation dramatically changed the structure of American +finance (see "In These Times," Oct. 2). For the first time since +the Depression, banks were allowed to expand their operations into +the insurance and securities markets. Savings-and-loan +associations were permitted to make speculative investments in the +commercial real-estate market--a practice that ruined many S&Ls. +Large corporations, which had once raised most of their short-term +debt from commercial banks, now turned to foreign banks and Wall +Street firms. Securities firms such as Merrill Lynch offered +certificates of deposit--encroaching on a traditional market of +banks--and channeled tens of billions of dollars into shady S&Ls. +Finance companies--especially subsidiaries of large auto makers-- +stepped onto another traditional turf of the banking industry the +auto-loan market. Sears and other retailers. which were once +content to sell power tools and lawn chairs, began peddling credit +cards and stocks. +These changes not only increased competition among financial +institutions, but also reduced profits and led to increasingly +speculative investments. Deregulation led to a decade of +financial fraud and mismanagement. Like BCCI, some S&L owners +used secret bank accounts in offshore havens to hide their +ownership or to embezzle millions of dollars. +Federal authorities made it easier for investors to buy banks, +allowing many shady financiers to move into the industry. Many of +these financiers, such as Charles Keating and David Paul, set up +elaborate business and political ties with BCCI's clients, +advisers and shareholders. These ties show that BCCI was not +simply a foreign problem--and that the S&L scandal goes far beyond +U.S. borders. In the '80s, high-flying institutions like BCCI and +CenTrust became magnets for con artists of all kinds.

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BCCI AND THE S&L SCANDAL: For example, Charles Keating and his +thrift, Lincoln Savings and Loan, invested millions of dollars in +Trendinvest, an offshore company that speculated in foreign +currencies. According to the "Wall Street Journal," Lincoln +suffered "large losses" from trades made at Trendinvest and +"lawyers representing investors ... defrauded by Mr. Keating . . +. accuse him of shifting money overseas through such mechanisms as +foreign exchange losses." +A BCCI executive, Alfred Hartmann, served on Trendinvest's board +of directors and advised Keating on the foreign-exchange +transactions. In 1989, Lincoln Savings and Loan filed for +bankruptcy--a move that cost taxpayers over $2.5 billion. +Another notorious S&L con artist is Herman Beebe. Beebe had a +history of bank fraud as well as alleged business ties to the +Mafia--which would normally have prevented him from buying a bank. +But in the '80s world of deregulated banking, Beebe was able to +secretly buy and loot at least 100 S&Ls. +Beebe's exploits are documented in the book, "Inside Job: The +Looting of America's Savings and Loans," by Stephen Pizzo, Mary +Fricker and Paul Muolo. According to the authors, one of Beebe's +closest business associates, Ben Barnes, set up partnership with +John Connally, the former governor of Texas. The partnership +borrowed money from at least 17 S&Ls. But the partnership failed +to pay back many of the loans, due to the real-estate crash. +Connally, a one-time US. treasury secretary, was forced into +bankruptcy. +In the late '70s, Connally owned a Texas bank with BCCI front +man Pharaon, according to Stephen Fay's book, "Beyond Greed: The +Hunt Family's Bold Attempt to Corner the Silver Market." Connally +introduced the bin Mafouze family, BCCI's second-largest +shareholder, to the Hunt brothers, the infamous oil barons who +lost their $10 billion fortune trying to illegally manipulate the +world's silver market. The bin Mafouze family and Pharaon +invested in the Hunt scam and suffered huge losses. +Through Pharaon and CenTrust, the BCCI connection also leads +back to the biggest con artists of the S&L scandal--Michael Milken +and his firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert. The Federal Deposit +Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has charged that Milken, Drexel, +CenTrust's Paul and BCCI rigged a sale of $150 million worth of +junk bonds to make it appear as if CenTrust had raised more +capital than it actually had. +More importantly, a $6.8 billion suit filed by the FDIC alleges +that Milken, Drexel, Keating and Paul set up a network of junk-bond buyers at CenTrust and other S&Ls who "wilfully, deliberately +and systematically plundered certain S&Ls." This network used +"illegal and manipulative secretive trading activities" to trade +bonds back and forth to each other, creating "an illusion of an +efficient, growing and liquid market for junk bonds." +In other words, the FDIC believes that the network created a +bogus market for junk bonds that artificially inflated the prices +for these bonds. When the market finally collapsed, many S&Ls +such as CenTrust, went broke, costing taxpayers at least $6 +billion.

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HOOKED ON DRUG MONEY: Financial crime, however, wasn't the only +toxic byproduct of global financial deregulation. The authors of +"Inside Job" have noted that organized crime groups produced tens +of billions of dollars worth of revenue each year. These criminal +organizations needed financial institutions to launder their +profits: "Thrift deregulation fulfilled ... those needs nicely. +... Not only had the rules been drastically eased, but the cops +[thrift examiners] were no longer much of a threat, their ranks +having been gutted after state and federal deregulation." +Financial pressures also forced many banks to turn a blind eye +toward money laundering. Faced with declining profits, bad +Third-World debts and increased competition, banks needed new +deposits and customers. +Handling drug money had been illegal in the United States since +the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970. But, in practice, the rewards often +exceeded the penalties. Between 1970 and 1985, only two thrifts +were fined for money laundering. And a federal crackdown on money +laundering in the mid-'80s produced only $21 million worth of +fines against 44 banks--a small portion of the $50 billion to $100 +billion worth of drug money laundered through American banks each +year. BCCI was one of the banks that capitalized on this booming +industry. Like many other financially troubled institutions, +drug-cartel deposits helped BCCI hide its losses and keep growing. +Naturally, BCCI executives worked very hard to keep their +customers happy. +Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, for example, received +millions of dollars in kickbacks from the Medellin drug cartel. +When Noriega set up a $25 million account with BCCI, bank +executives issued him credit cards for his wife and mistress. +They booked him into posh New York City hotels and they took him +on shopping sprees at the city's largest department stores where +Noriega ran up as much as $100000 worth of credit-card bills. +Noriega is believed to have laundered at least $90 million through +BCCI. +In other cases, BCCI actually helped drug dealers set up +sophisticated laundering systems. For example, when a U.S. +undercover agent, Robert Musella, began depositing money from the +Medellin cartel at BCCI, the bank sent Musella to Europe for a +kind of seminar in laundering. Then, BCCI set up a Byzantine +system of offshore corporations and banks that Musella used to +launder $16 million in drug money. +Here, BCCI's skill at manipulating the deregulated U.S. banking +industry played a key role. At least some of the drug money that +Musella was laundering for the Medellin cartel made its way +through First American and other banks secretly controlled by +BCCI, according to House Banking Committee investigators. +BCCI taught Musella so much about the secret world of money +laundering that government investigators were able to indict 85 +people and launch investigations into the activities of 41 major +banks, including Bank of America. BCCI eventually paid a $15 +million fine, only a small part of the profits it made from +laundering over $1 billion worth of drug money for the Medellin +cartel in the '80s. +But while the mainstream media has focused on BCCI as a full-service bank for drug dealers, media reports have paid very little +attention to money laundering by other major banks. For example, +Bank of America was hit with a $4.75 million fine for money +laundering in 1986. It was the largest money-laundering fine +until the BCCI case. Yet two years later, the financially +troubled Bank of America was still laundering money. +In 1989, U.S. investigators cracked an operation that used +jewelry stores, BCCI and many other banks to launder over $12 +billion in cocaine profits for the Medellin cartel. Major banks +that accepted cash deposits from the drug-money-laundering +organization included Bank of America ($32 million), Republic +National Bank ($185 million), American Express Bank ($11 million), +Citibank ($63 million), and Extebank ($138 million). (BCCI, which +received a $13 million wire transfer from the Bank of New York, +was a relatively minor player in this scheme.)

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DRUGS, GUNS AND IDEOLOGY: BCCI's money-laundering activities also +have a political context that has been largely ignored by the +mainstream media. Over the last decade, the Reagan and Bush +administrations have attempted to portray the war against drugs as +a Cold War crusade. By attacking "narco-terrorists," Reagan +attempted to link Latin American revolutionaries and Latin +American drug traffickers--thus justifying, for example, U.S. +military intervention in Nicaragua. Likewise, Bush recently sent +military advisers to Peru to fight left-wing guerrillas involved +in the drug trade. +But, in fact, billionaires who run the drug cartels are hardly +left-wing rebels. They are a lot like most wealthy Third-World +elites who use terror and illegal arms deals to maintain their +power. +In 1989, for example, Colombian officials raided the farm of +Gonzalo Rodriquez Gacha, one of the founders and a top leader of +the Medellin drug cartel. Here they found hundreds of assault +rifles that had been imported from the Israel Military Industries, +the state-owned arms manufacturers. +They also found a bizarre home video. It showed members of the +cartel at a paramilitary training camp attacking a mock village +and firing their guns into homes. The men were screaming +"Communist guerrillas, we want to drink your blood"--hardly a +slogan that Marxist revolutionaries would use. +The weapons, Colombian officials soon discovered, had been used +to assassinate a number of union leaders attempting to organize +workers at large farms owned by the cartel. The paramilitary +camp--backed by the Colombian military and financed by the +cartel--trained Colombian death squads. The camp had been set up +by Israeli arms dealers and former military officers. +One officer, Lt. Col. Amatzia Shuali had trained military +officers in Guatemala and Nicaraguan Contra rebels in Honduras. +At the camp, members of the cartel learned how to make bombs that +had been used to blow up a Colombian airliner with 117 passengers. +This horrifying affair has been virtually ignored by the +American media and it has not been covered in any of the articles +on BCCI. Yet "In These Times" has learned that U.S. government +investigators are probing allegations that BCCI had ties to +several of the people who set up the camps. BCCI had a large +number of branches in Colombia that were used by the cartels, and +druglord Gacha was a BCCI customer. +More importantly, the case illustrates how Cold War politics +have corrupted the war on drugs. In Colombia, this policy had +disastrous effects. After the discovery of one cocaine lab, U.S. +officials claimed the drug trade was being run by the guerrillas. +The charge was later proven false. In fact, the Colombian +military was aligned with the drug dealers. One of the front +companies used to set up the death-squad camps was actually owned +by the Colombian minister of defense. As a result, millions of +dollars in U.S. aid, earmarked for the war on drugs, was actually +going to fight the guerrillas.

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OFFSHORE A-BOMB INDUSTRY: Guns for the drug cartels represented +only a small part of BCCI's arms supermarket. BCCI was involved +in the sale of guns to the Contras and the CIA-backed Afghan +rebels. Gun dealers hired by the National Security Council's +Oliver North used the bank to illegally sell tow missiles to Iran +during the Iran-contra affair. And the banks provided financial +services for Silkworm missiles sold to Saudi Arabia, Scud-B +missiles bought by Syria, weapons purchased by the Abu Nidal +terrorist group, Mirage Jets acquired by India and helicopters +sold to Guatemala. +Some of the most terrifying deals apparently involved atomic +bombs. Sen. Alan Cranston (D-CA), has alleged that BCCI was +involved in programs by Argentina, Libya, Pakistan and Iraq to +build atomic bombs. In addition, former Senate investigator Jack +Blum says that Munther Bilbeisi, an arms dealer "whose brother was +a [BCCI] branch bank manager" and a "major" BCCI customer, was +involved "in an effort to sell enriched uranium from South Africa +to the Middle East." +In each case, arms dealers obtained export licenses under the +pretext of shipping arms to a given country. But the arms would +never arrive at their official destination. Instead using a +system of dummy corporations and secret bank accounts at +unregulated offshore havens, the dealers were able to illegally +ship the materials to their real destination. +So far, the "Washington Post" has been the only major paper to +explain that the "global banking system ... makes it relatively +easy to finance cross-borders smuggling of sensitive nuclear +technology." This is partly because "international banks ... +are under no obligation to check whether the materials being +transported are legal."

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BCCI AND THE CIA: More importantly, very few media reports have +put BCCI's arms sales in a larger context of American foreign +policy and covert operations. +The congressional Iran-Contra committee noted that then-CIA +director William Casey "wanted to establish an offshore entity +capable of conducting operations in furtherance of U.S. foreign +policy that was 'stand-alone'--financially independent of +appropriated funds, and, in turn, congressional oversight." +Like the transnational corporations that created the offshore +financial world to avoid government control, the CIA was able to +use BCCI and the offshore financial system to set up its own +unregulated, private, foreign-policy apparatus. In this way, it +could ignore Congress, which had outlawed aid to the White House-backed Nicarguan Contra rebels, and public opinion, which was +opposed to U.S. military intervention in the region. +Countries that agreed to cooperate with this "secret +government"--including Panama, Israel, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf +states--received billions in U.S. aid and arms during the '80s. +Arms dealers and banks like BCCI profited from the deals by +charging huge fees and by receiving official protection for some +of their illegal operations, such as drug smuggling. +BCCI's history, structure and expertise made it a perfect +vehicle for the secret government's covert operations. Set up as +an offshore bank, BCCI operated out of unregulated financial +havens where covert operations could be easily hidden. Like many +other corrupt Third-World elites, BCCI's shareholders also had a +long history of ties to Western arms dealers and intelligence +agencies. +Panama's Manuel Noriega was an important figure in the secret +scheme to illegally fund the Contras. Jose Blandon, a former +Noriega aide, claims that the CIA advised Noriega to use BCCI as +his bank. Various published sources say that the CIA was +depositing as much as $200000 a year in Noriega's account at +BCCI. Noriega, in turn, helped Oliver North set up dummy +corporations and secret bank accounts that were used to finance +the Contras. +Israel also played a key role. Israel shipped Noriega more than +$500 million worth of arms during the '80s, supplied the Contras +with guns and helped sell weapons to Iran in the Iran-Contra +affair. BCCI is known to have worked with Israeli officials on +several arms deals during this period. The bank also provided +financing for a number of arms shipments to Iran in the Iran-Contra affair. Another country that acted as a CIA proxy in +Iran-Contra was Saudi Arabia, which gave the Contras at least $22 +million. +The Saudis also provided CIA-supported rebels fighting the +Soviet-backed Afghan government with about half of their funds. +BCCI's longstanding ties to Pakistan's military and to the Saudi +royal family made the bank a logical choice to funnel CIA aid in +Afghanistan. Recently, Pakistan's finance minister, Sartaj Aziz, +told the "Financial Times" that BCCI was used by the CIA to direct +arms and money to the Afghanistan rebels. The official also said +that U.S. intelligence agencies had set up a slush fund for +Pakistani military leaders who helped the Afghan resistance. +During the same interview, the finance minister claimed drug +traffickers in the region had used BCCI to launder profits from +sales of heroin. Furthermore, it's clear that the Afghan rebels +sold drugs to buy arms. ("We i must grow and sell opium to fight +our holy war," a rebel commander once told the "New York Times.") +And the CIA may have been involved. "In These Times" has learned +that government investigators are probing allegations that one CIA +official supervised the BCCI-financed shipment of drugs and arms +through Pakistan.

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BANKING ON WAR: But getting rid of BCCI won't hinder those +government officials who, like William Casey and Oliver North, are +determined to undermine American democracy. It's important to +remember that the CIA has used banks like BCCI for decades. +During the '60s, '70s and '80s, for example, the CIA laundered +money for coups and covert operations through the Castle Bank in +the Bahamas, the World Finance Corporation in Florida and the +Nugan Hand Bank of Australia. Like BCCI, these banks had ties to +organized crime figures, drug dealers and spies. Like BCCI, they +all had links to American banking and S&L scandals. And like +BCCI, fraud and speculative investments by top executives forced +all three banks out of business. +More recently, the CIA had ties with 22 failed thrifts that +loaned money to people involved in "gun running, drug smuggling, +money laundering and covert aid to the Nicaraguan Contras," +according to the "Houston Post." +Over time, the booming CIA-backed arms trade has produced big +profits for arms dealers and banks like BCCI. But these black-market sales have also touched off a terrifying arms race in the +Third World. +Consider, for example, the role that BCCI and many other banks +played in a secret operation to build up Saddam Hussein's military +might. Last summer, a joint investigation by ABC's "Nightline" +and the "Financial Times" concluded that "Robert Gates was deeply +involved as deputy director of the CIA in a major covert operation +that funneled weapons and technology to Iraq. ... The CIA's +covert shipments put into Saddam Hussein's hand some of the most +dangerous battlefield weapons in the world." +To carry out these shipments, Gates--now the CIA director-designate--allegedly met with Carlos Cardoen, the head of +Industrias Cardoen. This Chilean company, which was the largest +private supplier of weapons to Iraq, shipped more than $500 +million worth of weapons to Iraq in the '80s (see "In These +Times," April 17 and Oct. 9). +Industrias Cardoen is licensed to build and ship high-tech +artillery guns created by arms dealer Gerald Bull and ArmsCor, an +arms manufacturer owned by the South African government. +In 1990, Gerald Bull was assassinated, allegedly by Israeli +agents because he was working with Saddam Hussein to build a +"supergun" capable of firing nuclear and chemical weapons. Bull, +an expert on advanced artillery, had a long history of illegal +arms sales. In the late '70s, a congressional staff report found +that Bull had conspired with CIA agents to break the U.S. arms +embargo against South Africa by shipping technology that allowed +ArmsCor to develop sophisticated artillery guns. +In 1990, the Inter Press news service reported that over 200 of +these guns had been sold by Cardoen and ArmsCor to Iraq. At least +50 to 70 had been sold to the United Arab Emirates, which is +headed by BCCI's largest shareholder. +BCCI enters this affair in two ways. In August, Britain's +"Independent" newspaper alleged that BCCI had helped Bull's +company, Space Research, smuggle propellant for Hussein's supergun +from Belgium to Iraq. The story, largely ignored in the United +States, also reported that "a former deputy prime minister [Andre +Cools] of Belgium was killed days after being given BCCI bank +statements alleging bribes were paid to beat the arms embargo" to +Iraq. +BCCI also loaned at least $72 million to the Atlanta branch of +the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL)--Italy's largest bank. This +BNL branch loaned Iraq over $4 billion between 1985 and 1989 and +provided financial services that allowed Hussein to illegally buy +hundreds of millions of dollars worth of arms and military +supplies. The BNL branch didn't have enough money to take on such +large loans, so it illegally financed them by borrowing money from +banks like BCCI. The House Banking Committee says that Bull's +Space Research Corporation was one of the companies that received +illegal financing from BNL for Iraq's weapons program. +Such deals helped keep Hussein in power and dramatically +increased the political tensions throughout the Mideast. +Confident that the arms would keep flowing, Hussein invaded Iran +in 1980 and Kuwait a decade later--conflicts that cost more than a +million lives. +But in providing financial services to Saddam Hussein, BCCI was +not alone. In the BNL affair, for example, Bank of America +transferred $72 million between BCCI and BNL. J.P. Morgan, a +major New York bank, acted as a clearing agent for BNL in the +loans to Iraq. And many large European corporations provided the +technology and weapons.

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A WHITEWASH? Fraud at BCCI burst into the headlines when bank +regulators around the world shut down the bank this past July. +But like the S&L scandal--which wasn't discovered by the +mainstream media until hundreds of billions of dollars had been +lost--warning bells at BCCI had been going off for well over a +decade. As early as the late '70s, British and American +regulators were so worried about the bank's operations that they +denied BCCI key regulatory licenses to expand its operations. Yet +BCCI marched on, illegally buying American banks and stealing +deposits to cover its huge losses. +Meanwhile, the Reagan and Bush administrations actively +obstructed a congressional investigation of the scandal. A Senate +subcommittee chaired by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) has been +investigating BCCI for several years. From the start, the +subcommittee encountered resistance from the administration. For +example, the Justice Department ordered key witnesses not to +cooperate with Kerry. The department also refused to produce +documents subpoenaed by the subcommittee. +But these machinations are only part of a much larger political +scandal--the growing political power of financial institutions +over every aspect of the American political system. Over the past +decade, securities firms, major banks, insurance companies and +other financial institutions have given more money to Congress +than any other industry. +For example, the Center for Responsive Politics estimates that +in the 1988 election, political action committees (PACs) for the +finance, insurance and real-estate industries gave over $27 +million to congressional candidates. That's about 26 percent of +all business PAC contributions. Common Cause estimates that +between 1983 and 1988, the S&L industry gave $11.6 million to +Congress and party committees. +Despite a decade of financial scandals, this well-oiled lobbying +machine has defeated every major attempt to enact tough new U.S. +regulations over the financial system. +In BCCI's case, the result has been a better cover-up than +anything Oliver North ever concocted. Washington's inaction has +allowed BCCI to continue exploiting an obsolete U.S. regulatory +system that was set up in the +Some reforms may yet come out of the BCCI scandal--but Congress +and the White House show little interest in fundamental change. +In fact, the mood in Washington is for more deregulation, not +less. Sometime this year or next year, Congress is likely to pass +White House-sanctioned legislation that will further deregulate +the banking and financial industry (see "In These Times," Oct. 2). +This legislation, which gives banks new freedom to buy insurance +companies and set up shop on Wall Street, is designed to help +American banks compete in the international financial system. But +by reducing government control, the legislation would simply give +multinational corporations more power over the world's economy. +Bringing these corporations under control won't be easy. +Congress could pass laws putting banks out of business if they +launder criminal money, and it could impose tough economic +sanctions on offshore havens that refuse to cooperate with U.S. +regulations and investigations. +But tough U.S. laws might simply convince financial institutions +to move their operations overseas, putting many Americans out of +work and making it harder to finance this country's chronic +government deficits. It took a group of regulators from five +major capitalist companies to shut down BCCI this past summer. It +will take many countries, acting together, to bring the system +that created BCCI under control. Given the current political +climate, that is unlikely.

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George Winslow is a New York City freelance writer who regularly +covers white-collar crime and international finance.

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yer friendly neighborhood ratman

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ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. +5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.

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John Bedini has a prototype free energy motor.

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Imagine having a small D.C. electrical motor sitting on your laboratory bench powered +by a common 12 volt battery. Imagine starting with a fully charged battery and +connecting it to the motor with no other power input. Obviously, the motor is go +ing to run off the battery, but by conventional thinking it will stop when the battery +runs down.

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It isn't running by the conventional wisdom of electrical physics. It isn't running +by the conventional rules of electric motors and generators, but it is running.

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And it isn't something complex. It's pretty simple, once one gets the hang of the +basic idea.

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Impossible, you say. Not at all. That's precisely what John Bedini has done, and the +motor is running now in his workshop.

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It's running off the principles of electromagnetics that Nikola Tesla +discovered shortly before 1900 in his Colorado Springs experiments. It's running +off the fact that pure empty vacuum - pure "emptiness", so to speak, is filled with riv +ers and oceans of seething energy, just as Nikola Tesla pointed out.

+ +

It's running off the fact that vacuum space-time itself is nothing but pure masless +charge. That is, vacuum has a very high electrostatic scalar potential - it is greatly +stressed. To usefully tap the enormous locked-in energy of that stress, all one +has to do is crack it sharply and tap the vacuum oscillations that result. The best +way to do that is to hit something resonant that is imbedded in the vacuum, then +tap the resonant stress of the ringing of the vacuum itself.

+ +

In other words, we can ring something at its resonant frequency and, if that +something is imbedded in the vacuum, we can tap off the resonance in vacuum stress, +without tapping energy directly from the embedded system we rang into oscillation. +So +what we really need is something that is deeply imbedded in the vacuum, that is, +something that can translate the "vacuum" movement into "mass" movement.

+ +

Well, all charged particles and ions are already imbedded in the vacuum by their +charged fluxes, so stressed oscillations - that is, vacuum oscillations - can be +converted into normal energy of mass movement by charged particles or ions, if the +sy +stem of charged particles or ions is made to resonate in phase with our tapping +"potential". For our purpose, let's use a system of ions.

+ +

First we will need a big accumulator to hold a lot of the charged ions in the system +that we wish to shock into oscillation. We need something that has a big capacitance +and also contains a lot of ions.

+ +

An ordinary battery filled with electrolyte fits the bill nicely. While it's not +commonly known, ordinary lead-acid storage batterys have a resonant ionic frequency, +usually in the range of from 1 - 6 Mhz. All we have to do is shock -oscillate the +ions in the electrolyte at their resonant frequency and time our "trigger" potential +and "siphon" circuit correctly. Then if we keep adding potential to trigger the +system we can get all that "potential" to translate into "free electrical energy".

+ +

Look at it this way. Conventionally "electrostatic scalar potential" is composed +of work or energy per columb of charged particle mass. So if we add potential alone, +without the mass flow, to a system of oscillating charged particles, we add "physica +l energy" in the entire charged particle system. In other words, the "potential" we +add is converted directly into "ordinary energy " by the imbedded ions in the system. +And if we are clever we don't have to furnish any pushing energy to move pure po +tential around. (For proof that this is possible, see Bearden's Toward a New +Electromagnetics; Part IV; Vectors and Mechanisms Clarified, Tesla Book Co., 1983, +Slide 19, Page 43, and the accompanying write-up, pages 10, and 11. Also see Y. +Aharonov an +d V. Bohm, "Significance of Electromagnetic Potentials in the Quantum Theory", +Physical Review, Second Series, Vol. 115, No. 3, Aug. 1, 1959, pages 485-491. On page +490 you will find that it's possible to have a field-free reigon of space, and +still have the potential determine the physical properties of the system.)

+ +

Now this "free energy resonant coupling" can be done in a simple, cheap system. +You don't need big cyclotrons and huge laboratories to do it; you can do it with +ordinary D.C. motors, batteries, controllers and trigger circuits.

+ +

And that's exactly what John Bedini has done. It's real. It works. It's running +now on John's laboratory bench in prototype form.

+ +

But that's not all. John is also a humanitarian. He's as concerned as I am for that +little old widow lady at the end of the lane, stretching her meager Social Security +check as far as she can, shivering in the cold winter and not daring to turn +up her furnace because she can't afford the frightful utility bills.

+ +

That's simply got to change and John Bedini may well be the fellow who changes it. +By openly releasing his work in this paper, he is providing enough information +for all the tinkerers and independent inventors around the world to have at it. If +he can get a thousand of them to duplicate his device, it simply can't be supressed as +so many others have been.

+ +

So here it is. John has deliberately written his paper for the tinkerer and +experimenter, not for the scientist. You must be careful, for the device is a little +tricky to adjust in and synchronize all the resonances. You'll have to fiddle with +it, +but it will work. Keep at it.

+ +

Also, we warn you not to play with this unless you know what you are doing. The +resonating battery electrolyte produces hydrogen, and if you hit it to hard with a +"voltage spike" you can get an electrical spark inside the battery. If that happens,

+ +

THE BATTERY WILL EXPLODE, so don't mess with it unless you are qualified and use the +utmost caution.

+ +

But it DOES work. So all you experimenters and pioneers, now's your chance. Have +at it. Build it. Tinker with it. Fiddle it into resonant operation. Then lets build +this thing in quantity, sell it widely, and get those home utilities down to where w +e can all afford them - including the shivering little old lady at the end of the lane.

+ +

And when we do, lets give John Bedini, and men like him the credit and appreciation +they so richly deserve.

+ +

Tom Bearden

+ +

April 131984

+ +

John Bedini

+ +

[Note: John Bedini developed Two kinds of controller devices. One, being very simple, +is the one I will present here. The other is quite a bit more complex, and would be +impossible for me to reproduce here... Anyway if you want to see the all electro +nic controller, get the book "Bedini's Free Energy Generator" by John C. Bedini, +Published by the Tesla Book Co. 1580 Magnolia Ave., Millbrae, CA 94030.]

+ +

For some time man has been looking for different ways to generate electricity. He has +used water power, steam power, nuclear power, and solar power. Recent papers written +by Tom Bearden make a free energy generator possible. Tom Bearden, rather +than patent his devices, chose to share them with people who had open ears. I +myself have had many conversations with Tom Bearden. He found Tom to be one of +the most reasonable men he had ever dealt with in this energy field. Most others woul +d tell you stories of great machines they had, but would never present the truth +with circuit diagrams or a look at the machine in question. Tom, on the other hand, +clearly presents his ideas and clearly presents his ideas and discloses the +concepts by means of which they work.

+ +

The facts I am about to present to you about free energy were never put into textbooks, +only portions were. The textbooks have grounded people in conventional theory and made +things very complicated. What I am about to explain is very simple; anyone +can understand this theory and anyone who understands what he is doing can build +this device.

+ +

I have been grounded in conventional theory for some eleven years. I have always +tried to study the simplicity of electrical circuits, but my mind wouldn't allow +this because of my orthodox training. In any event, I had to change the way +i was looking at things. I started to wonder, why do we need to have things so +complicated? The truth of the matter is, we have been taught to consume or waste energy +at every turn in our lives, so we jump into our cars, turn on lights, etc. In other +words, we have been conditioned to waste energy and fuels lavishly, not realizing +that someday someone will sky-rocket our energy bills to a point where we will +not be able to pay for these fuels. Everything will come to a stand-still. But la +ugh as you will, at that time Rube Goldberg machines will power your future. It +probably will not be uncommon to see machines from the size of garbage cans to the +size of two story apartment houses powering everything in sight. These machines will

+ +

be using a force in nature never conceived by the conventionally trained mind of today.

+ +

The theory I am about to explain to you will bring you one step closer to gaining +free energy.

+ +

To begin my story I must state I had a vision - looking for this energy. Many times +I hammered my head into the ground, but I refused to give up in my search. Any person +with a dream should never let it be wasted by fools, who will always say "you +can't do that". All that statement really means is that they do not know how to do it.

+ +

There are many different ways to explain this theory. I will discuss the first +one now.

+ +

The device is very simple and uses a motor, a generator, a controller switch, and a +battery. Basically, we drive a direct current motor with pulsed current from a battery, +then utilize a special means to cause the battery to recharge itself.

+ +

First, the battery, controller, and generator are interconnected as shown in figure +3. (See also Figure 1)

+ +

Figure 1: The Kromery Converter

+ +Figure 2: Controller Construction + +

Figure 3: Schematic of the device

+ +

Let's begin by stating certain facts. The ions move backwards under charging +conditions and in reverse under discharging conditions. So here we start our new +concept. Suppose we have constructed a machine that has tricked this battery into a +different space and time relationship. Simply put, suppose the battery never did any +work +and it should have its full charge left in it. Suppose this becomes possible because +we have stressed the terminals in such a way that the ions in the battery electrolyte +actually move themselves backwards. The machine, or unit, that makes this possible h +as many different names. Some people call these units generators, energizers, +alternators, etc. Conventionally such devices have one thing in common; they stress the +battery backwards by pushing electricity into the battery and forcibly pushing the ions +i +n the electrolyte backwards. In our theory, we are not going to push anything - the ions +are going to move themselves, recharging the battery.

+ +

If we go a little deeper into this theory, you are probably asking yourself, "what is +this madman talking about?" Simply put, we are going to put a stress on the battery +terminals for a moment in time and the battery will do the rest. Now comes the heavy +part of this theory. What they didn't teach you in textbooks is that, in order for the +battery to charge, two oscillatory actions must occur, one at the positive terminal and +one at the negative terminal. Under different stress levels this then forces the +ions backwards. The same would occur for an electron. Our machine will slingshot ions +in the battery electrolyte backwards beyond the normal recoil action.

+ +

I must give a very stern warning at this time that if the voltage developed is too +high the battery will explode. Use the utmost care. Test setups in my lab have proven +that this can be dangerous. Do not build the device and experiment with it unless yo +u know what you are doing, and use the utmost caution.

+ +

When struck by a sharp voltage spike, the electrolyte in the battery will resonate +at a certain frequency and this can also force the ions backwards. Simply put, the +battery, the motor, and the energizer will become resonant at some point, "ring" like +a +bell when we "strike" it, and in its ringing the most energy will be developed.

+ +

[Note: sorry I can't produce waveforms here so get the book! I will present the +explanation here, however]

+ +

The battery is really charging itself. The ions in the electrolyte are being stressed +in a curved space and time relationship, the battery is actually forced into believing +that no work ever occured. The oscillatory action that has taken place by the en +ergizer has just pulsed our "slingshot" and immediately let go. Once this has happened, +the electrolyte in the battery goes wild and the ions race backwards, giving off +hydrogen and oxygen gas. I must make a stern warning here! The time of the stimulaing +pulse is very important. If the time is to long the battery will burn itself out. If +the pulse time is too short or if the circuit fails to operate correctly, the battery +will never recover its charge. Taking this into consideration, the only failures tha +t could occur would be the controller failure due to a points faiulre (on the electronic +controller), or the multivibrator latched in the "on" position (again, only on the +electronic controller). Anyone studying this can see that we have used very little +energy to get to this point, and gained a lot of resonant energy in return.

+ +

We must remember that, if the battery is applied to the energizer longer than normal, +we must burn up the excess energy to keep the battery cool. The problem now becomes one +of embarrassing excess of energy, not a shortage.

+ +

The energizer is also a simple machine, but if yu want to, you can make it very +complex. The simple way is to study the alternator principles. The waves we want to +generate are like those that came from old D.C. generators with the exception of +armature +drag, bearing drag, and no excited fields. Also, we would want to cut the magnetic +fields at 90 degress to the armature. The simpler the better.

+ +

I am going to throw a few ideas your way. I have run some tests in my lab and +discovered that certain types of energizers, generators, and alternators do what we +need. Also, we want to be able to tune the output of our energizer. The old D.C. +generator +puts out something very close towhat we need, except for The drag.

+ +

In an A.C. generator output we are going to see just what we manufacture. It would +appear that this leaves this generator out. Not really, because we can make this +generator's output change by rectifying it.

+ +

In looking at the A.C. generator with rectified output, we see that it could become +very useful to us as an energizer, simply because it is the easiest to construct and +its principles are simple. I have done experiments with an A.C. generator using ALL +N. alligned magnets, and rectified. Most people can see that that type o alternator +might have some problems. However, remember that I am looking for a certain type of wave +form that I want to tune to a certain frequency at a certain speed. The winding of +this alternatr is a problem and it is a bit tricky, but I chose to stay with this unit. +You may choose a different method if you retain the principle. The type of energizer +that was used for the prototype was a standard office type 2-speed A.C. fan housi +ng. The coils were replaced with 6 coils of approx. 200 turns of #20 wire - all in +phase. Six permanent magnets are bonded to an aluminum disc. This arrangement is +basically a magneto, but will produce more amperage than ordinarily expected of a +magneto.

+ +

Controller Construction: Figure 2 shows the controller. It should be made of two +coencentric circles, one with approx. 140 degrees of copper, the other, spaced far +enough from the first for a brush to be inserted between them, a full 360 degrees of +copper +. Provisions should be made to rotate the brushes in relationship to each other in order +to secure the required timing.

+ +

Eike Mueller

+ +

John Bedini found that the material generally available concerning Kromery's +Converter had been altered. Rebuilding the Kromery Converter from the patent papers +ended up in a non-functioning device. Bedini found the necessary modifications

+ +

which made this machine perform.

+ +

Our first goal was to determine the converters efficiency. We found this to be +quite difficult as the efficiency changes with the load applied.

+ +

Figure K-1 shows the first setup we used. We drove the Kromery Converter from +a 12v motorcycle battery. We connected at the output of the converter a condenser +and a rectifier bridge in parallel. The rectified current was then put b +ack into the motorcycle battery. To detect any current flow, we connect into the +positive line a 12 V light bulb.

+ +

The result of this test was the light bulb was lit up. However after 15 minutes the +batrery voltage had dropped from 11.05 V to 9.10 V. The speed of the converter +was stabale at 1020 rpm.

+ +

In the next test we introduced a seperate battery (battery #2) for charging from +the converter.

+ +

We recharged the battery #2 from 12.30 V to 12.40 V within 4 minutes, and we measured +a current flow into the battery #2 of 0.8 amperes.

+ +

Figure K-2 shows the second test setup. Because the kromery converter ran +too slow on one 12 V battery, we decided to drive the converter using 24 V via tw +o 12 V batteries, connected in series.

+ +

Next we wanted to find a correlation between the normal charging of battery #2 using +a commercial battery charger, and charging this same battery with the Kromery converter. +We drained the battery #2 to 8 V, connected it to the Kromery Converter, and af +ter reaching 11.51 V, we measured the time it took to charge the battery from this +voltage level of 11.51 V to 12.45 V. We reached this voltage (12.45 V) after 11 +minutes. The indicated current into the battery was 0.94 A.

+ +

We then repeated these steps using the commercial battery charger. Because we ran out +of time after nearly 2 hours, we disconnected the battery from the charger. The +battery voltage had reached 12.41 V. The measurement is depicted in Figure K-3.

+ +

THE BATTERY CHARGER NEEDED 119 MINUTES

+ +

TO RAISE THE BATTERY VOLTAGE FROM 11.51 V TO 12.41 V +FIGURE K - 3

+ +

THE KROMERY CONVERTER NEEDED 11 MINUTES

+ +

TO RAISE THE BATTERY VOLTAGE FROM 11.51 V TO 12.45 V

+ +

NOTE: The charger could not fill up the batteries +to 12.45 volts within two hours.

+ +

We wanted to find a correction factor for the Kromery Converter by comparing the +same effect, i.e. the charging of the same battery from one specific voltage to +another specific voltage. The calculation of this factor is avilable in the book "E +xperiments with a Kromery and a Brandt-Tesla converter built by John Bedini" By Eike +Mueller, with Comments by Tom Bearden. Table K-1 shows the combined test results. +Because we detected an increase in the speed of the Kromery Converter as well as +a +decrease in the input energy when we increased the output load, we decided to +measure the input energy and speed when the output was shorted. Again, the input energy +dropped and the speed increased.

+ +

Measurement No Load Loaded With Shorted Corrected +Battery Fact. 5.535 +============================================================

+ +

Input Voltage 25.30 25.00 24.90

+ +

Input Current 3.90 3.00 2.20

+ +
------------------------------------------------------------
+ +

Watts In 98.67 75.00 54.78

+ +

Watts Out N/A 10.26 N/A 56.78

+ +
------------------------------------------------------------
+ +

Speed In Rev/Sec 40.00 65.00 73.00

+ +

Output Voltage DC 48.00 10.80 N/A +Output Current N/A 0.95 1.05 +------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

Watts In/Out N/A 7.31 N/A 1.32

+ +
============================================================
+ +

Table K - 1

+ +

Using the earlier determined correction factor of 5.535 we calculated the energy +they put into the battery to 56.78 watts (from 10.26 * 5.535). Looking at Table K-1 +we see that it takes only 54.78 watts to run the Kromery Converter when the outpu +t is shorted. This result led us to continue with theese tests and load the converter +output even more. The results of these tests can be seen in Table K-2.

+ +

Here again, we detected that we would get a higher efficiency of the total device, +the more we load down the output side. This effect is totally contradictory +to the conventional laws of physics.

+ +

Measurement No Load Loaded With Loaded w/ Loaded w/ +Lamp & Batt 13.5 Ohms 0.63 Ohms +============================================================

+ +

Input Voltage 25.40 25.30 20.00 21.90

+ +

Input Current 3.90 3.90 3.39 2.30

+ +
------------------------------------------------------------
+ +

Watts In 99.06 98.67 67.80 50.37

+ +

Watts Out N/A 21.00 185.19 634.92

+ +

Watts Out (Corrected) 116.24 +------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

Resistance (Ohms) N/A N/A 13.50 0.63

+ +

Output Voltage DC 48.00 28.00 50.00 20.00

+ +

Output Current N/A 0.75 N/A N/A

+ +
------------------------------------------------------------
+ +

Watts In/Out N/A 0.85 0.37 0.08

+ +
============================================================
+ +

Table K - 2

+ +

We used the Kromery correction factor for the First case, when we had connected the +battery to the converter output. We did not use this factor in both other cases when +we used resistors in the output circuit.

+ +

The above test results show that the efficiency of the Kromery Converter is well +above 100%.

+ +

The end. Typed by (_>Shadow Hawk 1<_). May be distributed anywhere as long as you keep +the credits. I dont give a shit what you do with it either.

+ +

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"The Bermuda Triangle and Parapsychology" By Dave Beall

+ +

. Although not embraced by the parapsychological community, the Bermuda +Triangle phenomena is an intriguing topic to the public. Jane Roberts' Seth +claims the mysterious disappearances of ships and planes is the result of a +"coordination point", which is a place where time and space meet. Supposed +energy "crystals" from the ancient culture of Atlantis, which Edgar Cayce +predicted would be discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, are suspected by some to +be responsible for the peculiar events in this region. Some individuals +consider UFOs as the source of the phenomena.

+ +

. A provacative theory has been proposed by geologists as a result of the +recent discover and subsequent laboratory analysis of an ice like substance +called hydrate. A hydrate layer, formed by mixing cold sea water and natural +gas at immense pressures of the deep ocean, has been found on the ocean floor +in the triangle area, and this seal prevents natural venting of natural gas +from the large hydrocarbon desposits located there.

+ +

. When a large natural gas pocket is suddenly released as a result of a +buildup in pressure or sea floor movement (i.e. faulting), ships can be +suddenly swallowed by the foamy mixture of gas and water and temporary +"islands" as much as one mile across can be visible on neighboring ship's radar +screens, as the gas enters the atmosphere. Negative ions generated by agitated +sea water rise into the atmosphere along with the lighter-than-air-gas, causing +magnetic disturbances which could disrupt compass readings in the area. +Aircraft, passing over the gas blowout, could experience engine failure due to +oxygen starvation in the gas rich air and crash without a trace.

+ +

. Any sinking wreckage from a plane or ship could be carried miles from the +accident site by the strong currents in the region, before being consumed by +thick bottom muds or hydrate accumulations, leaving no evidence. The release +of trapped gas desposits ruptured by faulting in shallow ocean areas could +display similar characteristics, whithout hydrate, and the chance of a gas +blowout of this nature exists anywhere in the world's oceans where large +natural gas deposits are present. In the case of the Bermuda Triangle +phenomena, it would appear that a reasonable explanation has been proposed. +

+

+. Many aspects of parapsychology or related areas may not have solutions +which readily conform to known physical principles. On the other hand, many +esoteric or metaphysical ideas may someday be explainable in purely physical +terms. In an attempt to understand paranormal occurences, an individual should +remain open and objective until all of the evidence is in so that the +temptation towards premature and unfounded conclusions can be overcome.

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Foresight Background +No. 4, Rev. 0 +Copyright 1989 The Foresight Institute. +All rights reserved by the author. +Box 61058, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA

+ +

by Arthur Kantrowitz

+ +

Dartmouth College

+ +

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of +a democracy should be the weapon of openness."

+ +

--Niels Bohr

+ +

Introduction

+ +

What is the "weapon of openness" and why is it the best weapon of a +democracy? Openness here means public access to the information needed +for the making of public decisions. Increased public access (i.e. less +secrecy) also gives information to adversaries, thereby increasing +their strength. The "weapon of openness" is the net contribution that +increased openness (i.e. less secrecy) makes to the survival of a +society. Bohr believed that the gain in strength from openness in a +democracy exceeded the gains of its adversaries, and thus openness was +a weapon.

+ +

This is made plausible by a Darwinian argument. Open societies evolved +as fittest to survive and to reproduce themselves in an international +jungle. Thus the strength of the weapon of openness has been tested +and proven in battle and in imitation. Technology developed most +vigorously in precisely those times, i.e. the industrial revolution, +and precisely those places, western Europe and America, where the +greatest openness existed. Gorbachev's glasnost is recognition that +this correlation is alive and well today.

+ +

Let us note immediately that secrecy and surprise are clearly +essential weapons of war and that even countries like the U.S., which +justifiably prided itself on its openness, have made great and +frequently successful efforts to use secrecy as a wartime weapon. +Bohr's phrase was coined following WWII when his primary concern was +with living with nuclear weapons. This paper is concerned with the +impact of secrecy vs. openness policy on the development of military +technology in a long duration peacetime rivalry.

+ +

Let us also immediately note that publication is the route to all +rewards in academic science and technology. When publication is +denied, the culture changes toward the standard hierarchical culture +where rewards are dependent on finding favor with superiors. Reward +through publication has been remarkably successful in stimulating +independent thinking. However, in assessing openness vs. secrecy +policy it must be borne in mind that research workers (including the +present author) start with strong biases favoring openness.

+ +

In contrast, secrecy insiders come from a culture where access to +deeper secrets conveys higher status. Those who "get ahead" in the +culture of secrecy understand its uses for personal advancement. +Knowledge is power, and for many insiders access to classified +information is the chief source of their power. It is not surprising +that secrecy insiders see the publication of technological information +as endangering national security. On the other hand, to what degree +can we accept insiders' assurances that operations not subject to +public scrutiny or to free marketplace control will strengthen our +democracy?

+ +

My own experience relates only to secrecy in technology. Therefore I +will not discuss such secrets as submarine positions (which seem +perfectly justifiable to me in the sense that they clearly add to our +strength) or activities which are kept secret to avoid the +difficulties of explaining policy choices to the public (which seem +disastrously divisive to me).

+ +

First, we offer some clues to understanding the historical military +strength of openness in long duration competition with secrecy.

+ +

Second, we suggest a procedure for the utilization of more openness to +increase our strength.

+ +

The Strength of Openness

+ +

An important source of support for secrecy in technology is the +ancient confusion between magic and science. In many communications +addressed to laymen the terms are used almost interchangeably. Magic +depends on secrecy to create its illusions while science depends on +openness for its progress. A major part of the educated public and the +media have not adequately understood this profound difference between +magic and science. This important failure in our educational system is +one source of the lack of general appreciation of the power of +openness as a source of military strength. A more general +understanding of the power of openness would bolster our faith that +open societies would continue to be fittest to survive.

+ +

Openness is necessary for the processes of trial and the elimination +of error, Sir Karl Popper's beautiful description of the mechanism of +progress in science. Let's try to understand what happens to each of +these processes in a secret project and perhaps we can shed some light +on how the peacetime military was able to justly acquire its +reputation for resistance to novelty.

+ +

Trial in Popper's language means receptivity to the unexpected +conjecture. There is the tradition of the young outsider challenging +the conventional wisdom. However in real life it is always difficult +for really new ideas to be heard. Such a victory is almost impossible +in a hierarchical structure. The usual way a new idea can be heard is +for it to be sold first outside the hierarchy. When the project is +secret this is much more difficult, whether the inventor is inside or +outside the project.

+ +

Impediments to the elimination of errors will determine the pace of +progress in science as they do in many other matters. It is important +here to distinguish between two types of error which I will call +ordinary and cherished errors. Ordinary errors can be corrected +without embarrassment to powerful people. The elimination of errors +which are cherished by powerful people for prestige, political, or +financial reasons is an adversary process. In open science this +adversary process is conducted in open meetings or in scientific +journals. In a secret project it almost inevitably becomes a political +battle and the outcome depends on political strength, although the +rhetoric will usually employ much scientific jargon.

+ +

Advances in technology incorporate a planning process in addition to +the trial and elimination of error which is basic to all life. When +the planned advance is small the planning can be dominant, in the +sense that little new knowledge is required and no significant errors +must be anticipated. When the planned advance is large it will usually +involve research and invention, and the processes of trial and the +elimination of error discussed above will determine the rate of +progress. In these cases the advantages of openness will be especially +important. The familiar disappointments in meeting schedules and +budgets are frequently related to the fact that, in selling new +programs, the importance of these unpredictable processes is not +sufficiently emphasized. More openness would reduce these +disappointments.

+ +

Trial and the elimination of error is essential to significant +progress in military technology, and thus both aspects of the process +by which significant progress is made in military technology are +sharply decelerated when secrecy is widespread in peacetime. Openness +accelerates progress. In peacetime military technology, openness is a +weapon. It is one clue to the survival of open societies in an +international jungle.

+ +

Secrecy as an Instrument of Corruption

+ +

The other side of the coin is the weakness which secrecy fosters as an +instrument of corruption. This is well illustrated in Reagan's 1982 +Executive Order #12356 on National Security (alarmingly tightening +secrecy) which states {Sec. 1.6(a)};

+ +

In no case shall information be classified in order to conceal +violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error; to prevent +embarrassment to a person, organization or agency; to restrain +competition; or to prevent or delay the release of information that +does not require protection in the interest of national security.

+ +

This section orders criminals not to conceal their crimes and the +inefficient not to conceal their inefficiency. But beyond that it +provides an abbreviated guide to the crucial roles of secrecy in the +processes whereby power corrupts and absolute power corrupts +absolutely. Corruption by secrecy is an important clue to the strength +of openness.

+ +

One of the most important impacts of corruption from secrecy is on the +making of major technical decisions. Any federally sponsored project +and especially a project so hotly contested as the Strategic Defense +Initiative must always keep all its constituencies in mind when making +such decisions. Thus the leadership must ask itself whether its +continual search for allies will be served by making a purely +technical decision one way or the other. (A purely technical decision +might determine whether money flows to Ohio or to Texas. Worse yet, +revealing technical weaknesses could impact the project budget.)

+ +

When this search for allies occurs in an unclassified project, +technical criticisms, which will come from the scientific community +outside the project, must be considered. Consideration of these +criticisms can improve the decision making process dramatically by +bringing a measure of the power of the scientific method to the making +of major technical decisions.

+ +

In a classified project, the vested interests which grow around a +decision can frequently prevent the questioning of authority necessary +for the elimination of error. Peacetime classified projects have a +very bad record of rejecting imaginative suggestions which frequently +are very threatening to the existing political power structure.

+ +

When technical information is classified, public technical criticism +will inevitably degrade to a media contest between competing +authorities and, in the competition for attention, it will never be +clear whether politics or science is speaking. We then lose both the +power of science and the credibility of democratic process.

+ +

Corruption is a progressive disease. It diffuses from person to person +across society by direct observations of its efficacy and its safety. +The efficacy of the abuse of secrecy for interagency rivalry and for +personal advancement is well illustrated by the array of abuses listed +in Sec. 1.6(a). The safety of the abuse of secrecy for the abuser is +dependent upon the enforcement of the Section. As abuses spread and +become the norm, enforcibility declines and corruption diffuses more +rapidly.

+ +

However, diffusive processes take time to spread through an +organization, and this makes it possible for secrecy to make a +significant contribution to national strength during a crisis. When a +new organization is created to respond to an emergency, as for example +the scientific organizations created at the start of WWII, the +behavior norms of the group recruited may not tolerate the abuse of +secrecy for personal advancement or interagency rivalry. In such +cases, and for a short time, secrecy may be an effective tactic. The +general belief that there is strength in secrecy rests partially on +its short-term successes. If we had entered WWII with a well-developed +secrecy system and the corruption which would have developed with +time, I am convinced that the results would have been quite different.

+ +

Secrecy Exacerbates Divisiveness: the SDI Example

+ +

Reagan's Executive Order, previously referred to, provides another +clue to the power of openness. The preamble states;

+ +

It [this order] recognizes that it is essential that the public be +informed concerning the activities of its Government, but that the +interests of the United States and its citizens require that certain +information concerning the national defense and foreign relations be +protected against unauthorized disclosure.

+ +

The tension in this statement is not resolved in the order. It may be +informative to attempt a resolution by considering a concrete example, +namely the Strategic Defense Initiative. SDI symbolizes one of the +conflicts, clearly exacerbated by secrecy, which currently divide us.

+ +

I would assert that there are unilateral steps toward openness which +we could take, and which would leave us more unified and stronger, +even if no reciprocal steps were taken by the Soviets. I propose that +we start unclassified research programs designed to provide scientific +information needed for making public policy. If these programs are +uncoupled from classified programs, their emphases would not +compromise classified information. Their purpose would be to provide a +knowledge base for public policy discussions. These programs would not +reveal the decisions taken secretly, but a public knowledge base would +reduce the debilitating divisiveness fostered by secrecy.

+ +

The Strategic Defense Initiative provides a classic example of +debilitating divisiveness. Countermeasures to SDI are deeply +classified. The deadly game of countermeasures and +countercountermeasures will probably determine whether SDI is +successful or a large-scale Maginot Line. At the present time, +classification of the countermeasure area trivializes the public +debate to a media battle between opposed authorities offering +conflicting interpretations of secret information.

+ +

An example of this game is decoying vs. discrimination. If the offense +can proliferate a multitude of decoys which cannot be discriminated +from warheads by the defense, SDI will not succeed. Knowing a decoy +design would of course make it easier for an adversary to discriminate +it from a warhead. It is therefore very important that such designs be +carefully guarded. On the other hand, maintaining secrecy over the +scientific and engineering research basic to the +decoying-discrimination technology would, for the reasons discussed +earlier, make it much more difficult to provide assurance to the +public that all avenues had been explored. Indeed, a substantial part +of the criticism of the feasibility of SDI turns on the possibility +that an adversary would invent a countermeasure for which we would be +unprepared.

+ +

The Cryptography Case: Uncoupled Open Programs

+ +

We can learn something about the efficiency of secret vs. open +programs in peacetime from the objections raised by Adm. Bobby R. +Inman, former director of the National Security Agency, to open +programs in cryptography. NSA, which is a very large and very secret +agency, claimed that open programs conducted by a handful of +matheticians around the world, who had no access to NSA secrets, would +reveal to other countries that their codes were insecure and that such +research might lead to codes that even NSA could not break. These +objections exhibit NSA's assessment that the best secret efforts, that +other countries could mount, would miss techniques which would be +revealed by even a small open uncoupled program. If this is true for +other countries is it not possible that it also applies to us?

+ +

Inman (1985) asserted that "There is an overlap between technical +information and national security which inevitably produces tension. +This tension results from the scientists' desire for unrestrained +research and publication on the one hand, and the Federal Government's +need to protect certain information from potential foreign adversaries +who might use that information against this nation.

+ +

I would assert that uncoupled open programs (UOP) in cryptography make +America stronger. They provide early warning of the capabilities an +adversary might have in breaking our codes. There are many instances +where secret bureaucracies have disastrously overestimated the +invulnerability of their codes. In this case I see no tension between +the national interest and openness. The cryptographers have provided a +fine case study in strengthening the weapon of openness.

+ +

Consider then the value of starting unclassified, relatively cheap, +academic research programs uncoupled from the classified programs. +These UOP could provide the more solid information on countermeasures +needed for an informed political decision on SDI, just as the open +cryptography research has taught us something about the security of +our codes. If indeed SDI's critics are right about the opportunities +for the invention of countermeasures, then the UOP would provide an +opportunity to make a conclusive case. On the other hand if the open +programs exhibited that SDI could deal with all the countermeasures +suggested and retain its effectiveness, its case would be +strengthened.

+ +

These open programs would indeed be shared with the world. They would +strengthen the U.S. even if there were no response from the USSR by +reducing corruption by secrecy, by improving our decision making, and +by reducing our divisiveness. Undertaking such programs would exhibit +our commitment to strengthening the weapon of openness. Making that +commitment would enable democratic control of military technology. +More openness, reducing suspicions in areas where Americans are +divided, will do more to increase our military strength by unifying +the country and its allies than it could possibly do to increase the +military strength of its enemies.

+ +

The Weapon of Openness and the Future

+ +

Bohr's phrase which was the keynote of this article was invented in an +effort to adapt to the demands for social change required to live with +advancing military technology. Unfortunately Bohr's effort, to +persuade FDR and Churchhill of the desirability of more openness in +living with nuclear weapons, was a complete failure. There can be no +doubt that the future will bring even more rapid rates of progress in +science-based technology. Let's just mention three possibilities, +noting that these are only foreseeable developments and that there +will be surprises which, if the past is any guide, will be still more +important.

+ +

Artificial Intelligence is advancing, driven by its enormous economic +potential and its challenge in understanding brain function.

+ +

Molecular biology and genetic engineering are creating powers beyond +our ability to forecast limits.

+ +

Feynman some years ago wrote a paper entitled "There's Plenty of Room +at the Bottom" pointing out that miniaturization could aspire to the +huge advances possible with the controlled assembly of individual +atoms. When the possibility of the construction of assemblers which +could reproduce themselves was added by Eric Drexler in his book +Engines of Creation, a very large expansion of the opportunities in +atomic scale assembly were opened up. This pursuit, today known as +nanotechnology, will also be driven by the enormous advantages it +affords for health and for human welfare.

+ +

But each of these has possible military uses comparable in impact to +that of nuclear weapons. With the aid of the openness provided by +satellites and arms control treaties, we have been able to live with +nuclear weapons. We will need much more openness to live with the +science-based technologies that lie ahead.

+ +

Dr. Kantrowitz is a professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at +Dartmouth, and former Chairman of Avco-Everett Research Lab. He +serves as an Advisor to the Foresight Institute. +

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BNL - IRAQGATE SCANDAL

+ +

The Chicago Connection - Bush & Saddam Inc. +Key documents - sought by Gonzalez - withheld

+ +

With George Bush ready to take America into another war with Iraq to +destroy the nuclear, chemical, biological and missiles weapons that Bush +himself helped Saddam Hussein to build, Congressmen Henry Gonzalez, the +courageous Texas Democrat who heads the House Banking Committee, continues, +single-handedly, to peel back layer after layer of cover-up to reveal the +monumental proportions of the Iraqgate-BNL (Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro) +scandal that now threatens to bring down the Bush regime. But the most +explosive documents have been withheld.

+ +

Over the past several months Gonzalez has shown the Iraqgate-BNL scandal to be bigger than anyone had imagined. He has uncovered and +reported incontestable evidence that Bush and his associates secretly sold +nuclear, biological, chemical and missile-related weapons materials to +Saddam Hussein; blocked investigations into the use of such materials by +Hussein; suppressed memos warning of the dangers of such sales; +deliberately falsified documents on such sales submitted to Congress and +interfered illegally to halt investigations into the criminal activities of +the BNL bank in secretly diverting American agricultural loans to buy the +weapons for Hussein.

+ +

BNL-BCCI Chicago Branches

+ +

Gonzalez has revealed a Bush policy disaster that lead to the first +Gulf War and a blunder that is now costing the Americans $2 billion to pay +off the loans Bush guaranteed with U.S. taxpayersU money . Bush repeatedly +ignored warnings that Iraq would default on the loans. Now, certain key +documents - perhaps the most revealing yet - are being withheld from the +Gonzalez investigation. They are said to be the records of the Chicago +branches of BNL and BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International), +through which, some investigators say , George Bush and Saddam Hussein may +have been involved in a joint, private enterprise to skim oil profits +arising from Reagan-Bush policies toward Iraq. The documents have been +impounded by a Chicago court and Congressman Gonzalez Banking Committee +has been denied access.

+ +

Bush's Pennzoil Profits

+ +

Between 1980 and 1990 the Gulf region exported a trillion dollars +worth of oil to the West. Hundreds of billions of dollars in kickbacks were +involved. Some of the kickbacks were said to be handled by the BNL/BCCI +banks for Pennzoil, an oil company founded by George Bush The Pennzoil +case was (is?) the target of Ross PerotUs much-denied investigation of the +Bush family and friends. Investigators believe the Chicago bank records +could help explain BushUs massive, covert military support for Iraq in the +years between 1981-1990.

+ +

The Chicago BNL /BCCI records could also provide clues to why the +Bush Administration secretly - and possibly illegally - exempted eleven +members of the Bush cabinet from conflict of interest restrictions in their +handling of the Gulf war policy. Bush simply declared that the law +regarding conflict of interest would cease to apply to his advisors on the +Gulf war policy. He then ordered that his declaration would be not be made +public. Congressman Gonzalez is now asking Bush to explain the deal. Bush +has not responded.

+ +

According to some investigators, the BNL-BCCI bank documents +now impounded by a Chicago judge could shed light not only on the +Iraqgate case, but on other illegal transactions including Iran-Contra, +October Surprise and the Inslaw case. In all instances monies passed +through the BNL/BCCI banking network.

+ +

BNL is an Italian bank now under investigation by Congress for +fraud in using loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to finance +IraqUs pre-war military buildup. Over the past thirty years, BNL is +suspected of involvement in a wide range of international criminal +activities. (French Intelligence investigators have even linked the bank to +large payments to certain individuals in Europe in late 1963, thought to be +associated with the John Kennedy assassination.)

+ +

On December 28th 1990, when Gonzalez sought the records of the +Chicago branch of BNL (Case number 90 C 6863 of the U.S. District Court in +Chicago: People of the State of Illinois ex re; William C. Harris v. the +Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Gonzalez was told by +Federal Judge, Brian Duff that he could not have them. Duff, a friend of +both Bush and Reagan, works closely with the Federal Reserve Bank. Duff +impounded the documents and abused GonzalezU attorney for Rbehaving like an +800 -pound gorilla.S That is when Duff impounded the records.

+ +

Questions abound. Suspicions arise from the fact that among +officials involved in the BNL bank is Brent Scowcroft, BushUs National +Security advisor who, Gonzalez has now revealed, maintained a million-dollar financial interest in 40 of the biggest U.S. weapons companies that +profited from U.S. policies toward Iraq, including General Electric, +General Motors, ITT, and Lockheed. Gonzalez has also revealed that +Assistant Secretary of State Laurence Eagleberger worked closely with BNL +when he and Scowcroft were part of Henry KissingerUs consulting firm. +Kissinger was a member of the board of BNL and his firm represents BNL in +the USA.

+ +

BNL, P2 and the Vatican Bank

+ +

The BNL bank was also used for secret arms trade by the outlawed P2 +Masonic Lodge of Rome, whose Grandmaster, Licio Gelli is thought to have +been the mastermind behind BNLUs illegal, world-wide banking strategies, +until his arrest in 1981, for embezzling $1.5 billion from the Vatican +Bank. The Vatican Bank had close ties with BNL. Gelli was recently +sentenced to 18 years in jail for his role in the case.

+ +

Gelli was involved with the PopeUs banker and bodyguard, Bishop +Marcinkus (formerly of Chicago) in the Vatican Bank embezzlement. When the +Italian government issued a warrant for the BishopUs arrest they were +blocked by the Vatican, which claims separate city-state authority. (The +Pope is still closely involved with Marcinkus and the Vatican Bank is still +closely associated with BNL.)

+ +

Bush and Gelli are friends. Gelli was guest of honor at the 1981 +Reagan-Bush inaugural ball. (N.Y. Times, June 4, 1981, page 7.) Kissinger +also knew Gelli. When Gelli was arrested in March, 1981, Kissinger +immediately sent an agent to Rome with $18000 to try to buy some of the +documents in the P2 case to keep them from becoming public ( In These +Times, Sept. 1982). It may be of interest that P2 had a lodge in Chicago.

+ +

Chicago, it is now emerging, has been the central point for vast, +international, illegal transactions involving the BNL and BCCI banks and +secret deals with American oil companies, military manufacturers, the CIA, +and possibly U.S. politicians. (According to a London source, unreleased +BCCI documents in the possession of the Bank of London list the names of +at least 105 members of U.S. Congress - of both Houses and both parties - +who have received money through the Chicago branch of BCCI. The U.S. +Federal Reserve is said to have a copy of the same secret BCCI list).

+ +

The Octopus

+ +

Just as the P2 scandal in Italy brought down the government and +destroyed hundred of careers in politics, industry and banking, so too the +BNL/BCCI - Penzzoil case could bring down the Bush administration and send +dozens of top administration officials to jail. Indeed the P2 and BNL cases +overlap in the October Surprise case, and U.S. investigators would do well +to examine the Italian government documents in the P2 case as part of their +inquiry into the October Surprise/BNL/BCCI/Penzzoil/Bush/Hussein links. It +is beginning to look as though the late journalist, Danny Casselaro was on +the right track at the time of his highly suspicious RsuicideS last year, +when he was investigating what he called RThe OctopusS, a vast, +interlocking, international criminal conspiracy.

+ +

Bush's Watergate

+ +

Congress is now calling for the appointment of a Special Prosecutor +to investigate the ballooning BNL-Iraqgate case. In his insightful and +relentless reporting on the case in The New York Times, William Safire says +flatly that BNL will be BushUs Watergate. Saffire is now investigating the +Chicago link to the case. (Updates on the case now appear regularly on the +recorded telephone hotlines of controversial Chicago investigator, Sherman +Scholnick of the RCommittee to Clean Up the CourtsS, who has spearheaded +his own investigation. Call: 312 - 731 1100 & 312-731 1505 for five-minute recorded updates.)

+ +

When appointed, the Special Prosecutor in the BNL/Iraqgate case +should have immediate access to all the records, including the crucial +documents now confiscated and impounded by the Chicago court.

+ +

When the truth of the BNL case is finally revealed, the War & +Peace foundation believes we will see the extent to which politics around +the world +have been corrupted by the arms trade. Iraqgate will serve as further +evidence of the need for international monitoring by the United Nations of +all weapons traffic as a first, essential step toward complete world +disarmament.

+ +

Ironically, as we go to press, joint efforts by both houses of +Congress in the wake of the Iraqgate revelations to tighten restrictions on +the sale of nuclear weapons-related materials to nations like Iraq, Iran +and Syria, have provoked a threat of veto by George Bush, who argues that +such non-proliferation legislation would mean a loss of business for +American nuclear exporters!

+ +

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THE BOHEMIAN CLUB

+ +

For two and a half weeks every July, two thousand of the top +movers and shakers in business and government attend the Bohemian +Club's summer encampment. Although highly selective, the club has +a national membership and is among the most prestigious of +affiliations in neoconservative circles. Its membership is known +to include Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Gerald Ford, William F. +Buckley, Jr., Frank Borman, Justin Dart, William Randolph Hearst, +Jr., Caspar Weinberger, Charles Percy, George Schultz, Edward +Teller, Merv Griffin, and a large proportion of the directors and +chief executive officers of the Fortune 1000. Daniel Ludwig, the +richest private citizen on earth, is a Bohemian. Conspiracy nuts +think the Bohemian Club meets each summer to plot to take over the +world. These guys ALREADY run the world. +The club's name harkens back to its founding in 1872 by +artists and journalists in the Bay Area; the club proper is at 624 +Taylor Street in San Francisco. The annual summer camp is held at +"Bohemian Grove," an isolated site in Sonoma County, California, +near the town of Monte Rio. To get there, you cross the bridge +over the Russian River and take the second left. +Signs warn off trespassers, and the Grove is guarded during +the encampment. Visitors must have invitations and sign in and +out; cooks and other workers have to wear ID badges. The club (and +hired staff) is all male. There are no black Bohemians and just +one Asian; the former Philippine president Carlos Romulo. +The club does a good job of avoiding publicity, although in +1980 Rick Clogher, a writer for MOTHER JONES magazine, managed to +slip in to the encampment for four days with the help of an +unidentified insider. Brooding over the Grove is a giant rock that +looks like an owl. Clogher discovered that the rock is concrete, +covered with moss to look natural. The Cremation of Care ritual +takes place in front of the owl when, on the first night of camp, +robed members burn a doll representing Dull Care. +Bohemian Grove includes 122 distinct camps in its 2700 +acres. The camps have whimsical names such as Whiskey Flat, +Toyland, Owl's Nest, Hill Billies, and Cave Man's, and each one +has its own kitchen-bar building -- there is a lot of drinking -- +and sleeping quarters. The members of some camps sleep in tents; +other camps have redwood cabins. Daily "Lakeside Talks" on +geopolitical topics are given by prominent speakers, both members +and non-members. It is claimed that Richard Nixon and Ronald +Reagan conferred during the 1967 encampment, Reagan agreeing not +to challenge Nixon for the presidential nomination. +The highlight of camp is the Grove play, which is written +exclusively for the club. All the female roles are played by men +in drag. The 1980 play was an adaptation of the Greek myth of +Cronus and Zeus supplemented with fireworks, smoke bombs, and a +light show. (One can only wonder if Reagan ever starred in a Grove +play. He certainly has more acting experience than most club +members.) The polished productions cost the Bohemians as much as +$25000 -- for one performance.

+ +

xperience than most

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Path: uuwest!spies!apple!usc!samsung!uunet!isis!jsanders +From: jsanders@isis.cs.du.edu (Jim Sanders) +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy +Subject: BOOK FILE! PROVES CIA-MOB-OIL-DRUG-MURDER WORLD CONSPIRACY!!!! + 1991Jan21.054207.6954@isis.cs.du.edu +Date: 21 Jan 91 05:42:07 GMT +Reply-To: jsanders@isis.UUCP (Jim Sanders) +Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver +Lines: 534

+ +

HERE IT IS -> ********** THE BOOK FILE ***************

+ +

THE SUPER RADICAL FILE THAT USES REAL SOURCES TO DOCUMENT THE +CIA/BUXH/MOB/ILLUMINATI/OIL CO LINKS TO RAPE AND STEAL FROM WE THE PEOPLE!!!

+ +

A KILLER COMPANION FILE TO THIS ONE IS THE OPAL FILE - WHICH WAS POSTED TO +ALT.CONSPIRACY ON 1/10/91 AND AGAIN ON APPX 1/21/91. +PLEASE CROSS POST THESE FILES ON YOUR LOCAL SSYSTEM NEWS FOR ALL TO SEE THE +TRUTH BEHIND WHY WE MUST NOW DIE FOR THE SEVEN SISTERS(THE OIL COMPANIES).

+ +

TABLE OR CONTENTS: +PARTI=LAWYERS/KILLER BOOKS,PARTII=MOB BOOK,PARTIII=DEA BOOK,PARTIV=ILLUMINATI.

+ +

PART I:

+ +

LAWYERS/CIA/MOB/BUSH -----> RAPE/MURDER/DRUG SMUGGLE/STEAL

+ +

Part A:

+ +

Lawyers have amassed into a worldwide coalition to dominate the world in the +tradition of the Bavarian Illuminati. Back in the 1800's they managed to gain +control of Amerika by planting their seeds in the Executive, Legislative, and +Judicial branch of U.S. Now separation of powers of the 3 branches exists only +on the hemp paper the Constitution was written on. Oh, and they managed to make +hemp illegal because their buddies own chemical and logging industries that +hemp paper was and can put out of business because it grows 20 times faster, +makes better paper, and needs fewer chemicals to process into paper! They +turned U.S. politics into a morbid game for money. In 1700's our founders +warned us of political parties and hired farmers for presidents who did not use +CIA hitmen to topple foreign regimes for private business concerns. (Bush's +international construction company builds oil refineries in Saudi Arabia!*!*!) +Big brother is nothing more than a four eyed wimp called George with a +lust for megabucks. Death to all who oppose the villain - ex-head of the CIA - +turned US Pres! But he made a terrible mistake. He called a war on drugs,but +his CIA has imported Heroin from Asia for half a century and brought Coke into +the US on Air Amerika planes coming back from Contra Arms deliveries in Central +Amerika!

+ +

IMPEACH BUSH NOW - HE'S A DOPE DEALER BETTER YET HANG HIM HIGH FOR TREASON for +working in the Cia when they killed Kennedy so they could escalate the Viet +Nam War and sell heroin to soldiers and JP4 fuel and military jets/helicopters +to U.S. TAXPAYERS!

+ +

**** SEND THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS AND CONGRESSMAN/WOMAN AND TELL HER/HIM YOU WANT +BUSH IMPEACHED TODAY AND NO EXCUSES !!! +BESIDES, QUALE WOULD HAVE TROUBLE ESCALATING A BAR FIGHT BY DIALING 911 +- HE COULDN'T START A WAR!!! +(MANY UNCONFIRMED THEORIES FORMULATE THAT IF BUSH WERE TO LOSE HIS LIFE OR GET +ROUND FILED, THE CIA WOULD HAVE TO ASSASINATE QUALE) +______________________________________________ +| WHAT FOLLOWS ARE EXPLANATIONS AND SOURCES: +|______________________________________________|

+ +

Part B:(Some facts and logical conclusions about lawyers)

+ +

"AN AMERICAN TYRANNY," +by David C. Morrow:

+ +

LAWYERS MAKE THE LAWS, JUDGE THE LAWS, BREAK THE LAWS, FUDGE THE LAWS +----------------> SHOULDN'T THIS CHANGE? +Slave owners often helped themselves to their female property and medieval +lords showed their ability to dominate and degrade by having serfs' brides +spend their wedding nights with them and not the grooms. +The California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility +and Conduct has recently decided that "a lawyer-client sexual relationship" +does not impair the lawyer's ability "to competently perform the legal services +required." +"A ban on any sexual relationship with a client," the gentlemen of the Bar +concluded, "appears overly broad and unnecessary." Like the Alaska Bar +Association and, a few years ago, its Oregon counterpart, they ruled it +perfectly fine for lawyers to have sex with women (or men) they represent. +Much criticism of lawyers has come from men trying to reform divorce laws +that give wives at least half a man's property, most of his future income, and +child support without enforced visitation. The accusation is that attorneys, +in legislative offices deliberately make laws that bribe women to divorce in +order to generate cases and that judges, themselves lawyers, assign custody to +women because of evidence showing that maternal more than paternal custody +results in juvenile delinquency. That divorcees may not enjoy as high a living +standard as they anticipate is of no concern to the lawyers. +While these observations can be supported by findings of such established +researchers as the Kettering Foundation and the FBI Crime report, there are +broader implications. +Minnesotan R. F. Doyle, while researching the law's abuse of marriage, came +across a telling article in the September 17, 1975 "Philadelphia Inquirer". +Participants in a Philadelphia Bar Association meeting voted against marijuana +decriminalization. No health reasons were cited; instead the prominent attorney +A. Charles Peruto said that lawyers needed marijuana cases for personal profit. +One need but recall how prostitution, pornography, and other vices are usually +tolerated except during election year when incumbents need to demonstrate their +"effectiveness" and raise extra revenues while scratching one another's backs. +More recently, victims of violent crimes by repeat offenders have begun to +speak out against lenient judges and parole boards who do not keep dangerous +offenders locked up. Each retrial means money for lawyers, judges and a host of +court employees, and who better to guarantee retrials than habitual criminals?

+ +

"SINCE LAWYERS OCCUPY ALL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT, +THE SEPARATION OF POWER EXISTS ONLY ON PAPER!!!"

+ +

To test the lawyer conspiracy theory a few years ago, I sent to various +state legislatures for copies of their statistics. While Idaho listed only +eight of 105 legislators as lawyers in 1983, I discovered that in Wisconsin, +for example, eleven of thirty-one senators and twelve of ninety-nine +representatives were attorneys. During that time, seventeen of Alabama's +thirty-five senators and eleven of sixty-five representatives were lawyers. +The New York State legislature was twenty percent lawyers. Governors, as in +Wisconsin, frequently proved to be lawyers. +It would seem that since members of the legal fraternity occupy all branches +of government, the separation of powers exists only on paper. This enables them +to generate cases for profit and the public detriment by making unenforceable +laws, encouraging repeat offenders as long as possible, and appealing to greed +to keep families - and thereby society in general - in disorder. Perhaps, +indeed, most of America's problems are due less to mysterious sociological +factors than to sly legal machinations. +In their zeal to publicly approve their own sexual misbehavior, what lawyers +are really doing is, like slave owners or medieval lords, sneering down at the +rest of us from their pinnacle and flaunting their privileges in the most +degrading and insulting manner. They are also engaging in behavior that causes +social change, especially change of ruling classes. It is the signal to take +actions to eliminate their tyranny. +We should exclude attorneys from all legislative and executive positions. +Office holders can hire or appoint legal advisers. Judges should be elected, +since appointment, especially by professional peers, would be perverted to +favor persons who work to advance their profession and not to secure justice +and social stability. Rather than campaigning, judges should have to publish +their decisions and sentences with complete explanations in ordinary language, +and this information alone should be the basis of the voters' decision to +re-elect or turn them out of office. Since they enjoy immunity from prosecution +for wrongful decisions, judges' punishments for crimes committed while in +office should be extremely severe. +With these and other measures that may be found useful, we can enter the next +century with few social problems, a very high standard of public morality, and +with crimes violent and victimless under a functional measure of control.

+ +

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+ +

Part C:(Some more facts about lawyers and Mr. CIA dude(G.BUSH!))

+ +

In the early 1800's, the professional politicians took over this country and +public office went from "A duty and a privilege" to a profession. A +professional politician must be a master of words. A lawyer's rhetoric is as +effective as a 357 magnum. Who better to pull off the bloodless coup. Or has it +been blood-less? The civil war devastated the north, the south, and the blacks +had to go to work in polluted northern factories for pennies a day afterwards +(quite handy however for the northern industrial imperialists.) Then the +bluecoats killed off the Indians and the buffalo to boot! Then came Korea, Nam, +Graneda, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Kuwait. +Around 1903 a New York oil baron had Nikolai Tesla thrown out of N.Y. +(Tesla was a super inventer of such things as AC current and the Westinghouse +electric motor!) It seems Tesla had discovered a way to transmit electricity +without wires around NY city! The oilmen knew it would be an end to their +gross profiteering from energy manipulation and tossed Nik outta there! +A book called "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" documents how hemp was +needed to win world wars, but soon after became illegal after oil, logging and +chemical companies realized hemp made better paper with less petro-chemicals +and converted to alcohol easily with extremely high energy per kilo of biomass! +(Cars can run on alcohol just as easily as gas-I know-I raced cars & planes!) +"The Origin of Consciousness In the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by +Dr. Julian Jaynes of Princeton U., shows in his book how leaders of the world +have confused us for thousands of years with rhetoric, mysticism, music, & +theology, so as to better manipulate and tax the poor masses. +Then there was the carburetor invented in the 70's that got 100 MPG. All +of a sudden a major U.S. company bought the patent rights to the carb and +locked it away. Think of the pollution we now have that we could have avoided +if a handful of greedy politicians and oilmen didn't want all of the excess +wealth their oil businesses have afforded them at the cost of our health! +And Bush is an Oil Refinery Contractor from Texas! Remember, the place +where LBJ, Carlos Marcello, and the CIA had Kennedy shot. Oh, but Bush was in +the CIA! Oh and Bush became the head of the CIA - the same folks that killed +JFK to escalate war and drug profits in NAM. A book "The politics of Heroin in +South East Asia" documents the CIA's selling of narcotics to fund operations. +So does the Book "The American Heroin Empire". HOT NEW BOOK ON DRUGWAR SCAM & +COUNTERINSUGENCY IS CALLED "DEEP COVER" BY MICHAEL LEVINE - GET IT NOW!!!!!!!!! +Garrison's book, "On the trail of Assassins" shows how Oswall was indeed also a +CIA agent. Lucky for the CIA & FBI that Oswald died soon after, along with over +a dozen very important witnessess and suspects who perished for unexplainably +weird reasons within a year of JFK's murder. (And David Scheim's book "Contract +On America" provides the evidence showing how Mafia chiefs like Marcello worked +together with the CIA to murder JFK, Robert Kennedy(he prosecuted MOB Bosses +as JFK's Attorney General), Martin Luther King and Malcom X(these two were +begining to expose the facts that the CIA/MOB drug dealers were taking all the +money from the poor people they sold narcotics to!)) +But Bush wants a drug war? But his CIA sells drugs(hard narcotics). Let +us impeach Bush for accessory to a felony to import narcotics(He knew about it) +Or impeach him for accessory to JFK's treasonous murder.(It is supreme high +treason to withhold knowledge of a conspiracy to kill a U.S. President - and +treason carries the death penalty!) +Hoover ran the FBI at the time the killing and helped the coverup. Such +twisted justice can be found described in Turner's book, "Hoover's FBI." +Ex-CIA agents have written books like "The CIA File" and "Deadly Deceits" which +further documents the ruthless activities of drug smuggling and crime by +the CIA abroad and at home. (U.S. law strictly forbids CIA operation in U.S.) +"The Cocaine Wars" explains that the CIA now imports South American Cocaine +into U.S. The Mafias do too, but then they also work for the CIA in many areas +like drug smuggling, assassinations, and other clandistine, cloak and dagger +dirty work no longer needed in the global world of the nineties! +According to the book "Poisoning for Profit," by Block and Scarpitti, the +Mafias basically own the nations waste disposal companies and have dumped toxic +waste illegally into U.S. water supplies for decades. If the CIA and the Mafia +work together, then who is committing crimes against the U.S. now? +I would say that the Bush/Oil/CIA/Mafia connection poses the most threat +to U.S. national security for choking US with oil pollution in Air and Water, +killing our presidents, poisoning our water with toxic waste, and getting our +kids hooked on Smack, Coke and Crack - and all for their love of $. +Hell, these guys make the KGB look about as dangerous as a Cub Scout Pack +loaded with water balloons! +But these same guys control the news services too! No one ever hears any +of this. But then no one reads non-fiction books any more either! These books +are all available at a good college or city library to read for free! Just when +Iraq grabbed the headlines months ago, the Gannett news agency reported in a +small article that mostly Texans including G.Bush received over 500000 bucks +from failing S&L's. Great smokescreen(sandscreen) George!

+ +

Oh, and Bush is a life member of the "Skull and Crossbones Club" which is +the American equivalent of the Bavarian Illuminati - the motto of which falls +along the lines of "secrecy or death!" These secret sects were formed by +Lawyers as far back as 1776 to dominate, manipulate and tax the masses!

+ +

Part D(Conclusion:) +We the people could all have 2 day work weeks if $.60 out of every $1.00 we +spend did not pay for energy costs they have assessed us soley for their own +gains-this alone is multiple felony counts of interstate fraud/mail fraud by +Bush & Company. (CIA, & Logging, Oil, Chemical & Financial Industries!) +I propose a new order, not of imperfect, selfish, egotistical humans, but of +and through microprocessors. These machines would not rule the world as most +would expect, but would just aid in applying logic to the production of +solutions to the race's survival. +Data on natural resources, human resources, pollution, et cetera, would be +inputed into a program written in Basic language, open to anyone's inspection, +that would give a committee of non-lawyers/oilmen logical options to take in +handling the affairs of the people. Data input into the Basic interpreter by +the committee would be available to all citizens to duplicate and certify the +committees results. +If the program can be run on anyone's PC, then everyone with a PC could +verify the results the committee obtained so as to make sure that the committee +was not exceeding its own authority. The committee would have to post input +data in newspapers for each problem entered, to allow citizens to duplicate the +committee's findings. If the committee obtained results that differed with the +people's results, the committee would be subject to an audit of their hardware +and software systems until the reason was determined that they obtained +different solutions. This would eliminate the possibility for a virus to be +injected into their system and would eliminate the criminal elements from +tampering with our government for their own personal gains! +With such a system, we no longer would have the personal conflicts of +interest that we presently have with our leaders who are so economically tied +to world events and whose "solutions" are now tainted by such events.

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+ +

PART II:

+ +

HOW POLITICIANS/ILLUNINATI USE MAFIAS TO DO THERE DIRTY WORK:

+ +

"CONTRACT ON AMERICA" =superexpose on mob/cia/illuminati JFK,King,Malcm X hits!

+ +

Well go to a good bookstore and aquire the book "Contract On America" by +David E Scheim. Paperback versions have 624 pages and cost 4.95 US bux. +This is probably the best single source on "the conspiracy" by our governent +to work with the Mob to take over the U.S.A. and run it for their personal +profit.

+ +

Chapter 21 "More Assassinations" +Documents how the Mob killed Martin Luther/Malcom X because the two had +begun to expose how much the Mob profitted off of ghetto Blacks by +selling drugs to the poor People!

+ +

Chapter 22 "Richard Nixon and the Mob." +This chapter documents a multitude of conections between Nixon and +the Mob/Hoffa/Teamsters/and relatives of such. +(in my opinion, Nixon was one of the fuckin greasyest, slimyest, scum +buckets who pretended to work for the People as a "politician" - +- next to Rea-gun and Bush-wacker of course!)

+ +

Chapter 23 "The Reagan Administration"

+ +

Obviously deals with CIA/Mob connections that Reagan and his cronies like +G.Bush had in those 8 years of blood sucking!

+ +

And now for a quote from page 257 of "Contract On America" (read it and weep)

+ +

"Organized crime involves itself in the life of every single human being. +It causes prices to be raised; it affects your pocketbook when you go to a +laundry or dry cleaner; the price you pay for food in the market. I have +been involved in and know of bad meat being purchased, unfit for human +consumption, that has been converted into salami in delicatessens and +forced to be sold through grocery stores... +When I testified about Mr DeCarlo, I, too, had the native feel of what +organized crime was. +I saw photographs of graves dug in New Jersey, with over 35 bodies over +a period of years, melted with lye. I sat and heard the voices at dinner +talking over murdering a 12-year-old child and burying bodies in New Jersey... +Narcotics, manipulation of businesses that cause prices to spiral, we can +go on for a long, long time. . . .It goes on and on.

+ +

Mob defector Gerald Zelmanowitz, testifying +in 1973 before a U.S. Senate committee"

+ +

BUSH & THE MOB:

+ +

page 594 states "Gelli is also "very well aquainted with Vice-President-Bush." +(in Mobese this translates to "the two fuckin worked together")

+ +

page367 states "On August 2, 1980, as resort-bound Italian and foreign tourists +crowded Italy's Bologna R.R. station, a massive bomb ripped through a waiting +room. The explosion left 85 dead and 200 others injured. It was the worst +terrorist strike in postwar Europe.... +....Another defendent in the pending trial(on the bombing) is P2 +grandmaster Licio Gelli, now a fugitive believed to be hiding in S Amerika. +In 1981, shortly before fleeing multiple criminal indictments, Gelli had +been an honored guest at Reagan's inaugural ball... +...when police raided Gelli's villa in 1981...they found an exchange of +letters between Gelli and Guarino discussing ways to help "our brother +Michele," refering to Sindona, another P2 member. Sindona, who had curried the +Italian-American vote for Nixon as Guarino did for Reagan, was then on trial +in New York. Gelli also wrote a letter of support to Reagan offering to ensure +favorable coverage for him in the Italian press. The powerful Italian used his +infuence in a major publishing empire to do exactly that.... +....the president(Reagan-Bush) has countenanced the use of unsavory +partnerships and methods to further a political agenda. Moreover, two policy +developments of his presidency find disturbing counterparts in Mob ideology and +perhaps reflect traces of the Mob's insidious, post-assassination influence on: +1) A classic mob scam is to assume control of a thriving business and drain +its wealth through massive loans based on its previoously good finacial +standing. During Reagan's 2 terms, Amerikans have been steered along in an orgy +of consumption that has tripled the national debt from $645 billion to +$2 trillion and turned the world's largest creditor nation into the world's +largest debtor. +2) Organized crime's "ultimate solution to everything is to kill somebody," +as one defector observed. During the early years of Reagan's presidency, +military force became the prime instrument of U.S. foreign policy. Patterned +after a percieved Soviet menace and financed by the ballooning deficit, the +biggest peacetime weapons buildup in U.S. history was conducted. This obsessive +reliance on weaponry was no better exhibited than in the 1985 covert U.S. arms +sale to Iran - obstensibly a good-will gesture - while that nation was known +to be sponsoring terrorism against Amerikan citizens."

+ +

Borrow or buy this book and learn even more! It has pictures, and it seems as +though every other sentence is documented with footnotes referencing hard core +sources!

+ +

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+ +

PART III:

+ +

*** NEW DRUGWAR COUNTERINSURGENCY MANUAL - "DEEP COVER": ***

+ +

"Deep Cover", by Michael Levine (an expose of the +phony drug war by a former undercover operative) +is out in paperback for $6.00. Seems pretty good +reading, and should provide lots of ammunition for +those of us trying to end this "drug war" madness.

+ +

(Standard plug: legalized drugs could bring in on +the order of $100 *BILLION* a year in tax revenues, +the best chance to reduce the deficit and pull us +out of the recession. Currently that money is going +overseas to 3rd world drug producers.)

+ +

Quote from the book: " ... the secret agencies that +really pull the strings of foreign policy believe that +our two-hundred-BILLION-dollar-a-year drug habit is a +necessary subsidy to keep the millions of poor in Third +World countries from turning to communism ..."

+ +

"Once lead the American people into war, and they'll forget there +ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight you must be brutal +and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into +every fiber of our national life ..." --- President Woodrow Wilson

+ +
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+ +

PART IV:

+ +

ILLUMINATI DIRECTLY LINKED TO CURRENT WORLD EVENTS BY VICTORY CHART:

+ +

Hell, I'm Jewish, but it sure as hell to me looks like international +banking is a Religious plot to rule the world. After all, the +major International Banks are owned by three Jewish families, the +Rosenthauls, the Rockefellers, and the Rothschilds! New York City was +owned by 'em until the Japs bought them out! Read a book by a former +Moussad operative(Israeli SS) called "Moussad" to become more enlightened about +this matter! And order the best single source on the Illuminati for *FREE* +by asking for the "Rise and Power of the International Bankers" chart from:

+ +

VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH +900 46TH AVENUE +EAST MOLINE, IL 61244

+ +

(Summary of just one-hundredth of the chart is found at end of this document.)

+ +

Jayne's book and I&O Publishing out of Boulder City Nevada will illustrate that +whenever a bunch of religious fanatics do something, they ruin things for all +others. Take the Pope's overpopulation of the earth for example, or the +crusades, or the Koran's evil followers in Arabia. Every time We the People +are left holding the bag naked. I say lets drop the bag in the dumpster. Ditch +religion forever and think for yourself damn it! I only include this church +literature cause they are involved with the Freedom Movement who, yes, are a +little fanatical, but they are the only ones around who will stand up to +the B.S. that has suppressed so many others, and are the only ones who dare +expose the Illuminati and live to talk about it!

+ +

NOW FOR THE SUM OF A MAN'S KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE ILLUMINATI:

+ +

These folks are more secret than Moussad(the Israeli SS) who is the +undisputed ultimate "secret agent men/women" experts of the world. +Therefore, you will find no reliable sources of information on them. + +They like to frequent Swiss chalets and spend their loot on good +spirits and women. Oh, they do not have women for members. + +Their associates are in international banking and are world leaders of +organized crime. But they are not ever necessarily top world leaders or +top CEO's, but they completely influence the major decisions of most +multinational companies and world leaders. + +They are always there but you never see them: + +Once, at a coffee shop in an affluent Denver 'burb in the foothills, I ran +across a man of this general authority. With a German accent, he had told +me that if I were to sit at a table, I was to buy coffee, but he did not +work there. He wore a $2000 Swiss pilot's chronometer on one wrist. His +clothes cost at least half of the watch and he wasn't wearing a suit! +We were just waiting for the rain to stop and I could not believe my ears +when he tried to shoo me away from my dry spot under the curbside table's +canvas awning. I thought carefully and then replied something to the likes +of "The Illuminati would always like for me to be recirculating my money +back into their economic system of manipulation." + +As soon as I said this, never mind the weather, he took off. He was a +strong 50 year old Aryan, about 6'1", 200lbs, to my 5'11", 150lbs +but he looked extremely agitated before he left. I could tell he was not +physically scared of me. In fact, he knew all too well what I was saying about +the global economic policies of his "associates" in the Illuminati. You see, +they have so effectively cut off information about even their existence, that +it will damn near give one of them vapor lock if you call their hand! +(Notice that Europe houses the ultimate banks next to Bavaria on Swiss soil, +and note how the Swiss are given International Neutrality to boot so that +the Secret accounts will be safe and stable! I would wager a month of Sundays +that money in a Swiss account is backed by real gold too!) + +Bush belongs to the "Skull and Crossbones Club" which is the American +Equivalent of the Illuninati. You have to study at Yale and be in a family that +is part of the old boy system and then you might get in. It is highly secret, +but really is much more well known than the Illuminati. It exists to perpetuate +the existence of the old boys in Amerika, much as the Illuminati does the same +in Europe. + +Amazingly, the only reference to the Illuminati that I have ever seen other +than in a few paper back books on mysticism called the Trilogy which actually +are probably right 50% of the time, was in the Unabridged Webster's Dictionary, +where all it dares say is that they were "the members of an anticlerical, +deistic, republican society founded in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of +law at Ingolstadt in Bavaria. It was suppressed by the Bavarian government in +1785: called also the Order of the Illuminati." + +I suppose they had to go deep undercover, much more so than even the Mafia. +This might explain the agitation I evoked in the fellow! + +It might be fun to know more about these fellow, but you now know all you +need to know, except their names. Search and destroy!

+ +

The Illuminati was formed by the creme de la creme of Europe's most powerful +aristocrats to perpetuate its iron grip on the peasants, to maintain the status +quo, to keep the rich rich, and the poor masses poor.

+ +

J.Jaynes book, "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown Of the Bicameral +Mind," explains how for thousands of years, the masses have been hypnotized +into not thinking for themselves by Illuminati like leaders who use mysticism, +religion, music and propaganda to accomplish this. A person can still do very +hard organized work for these manipulators and actually still not ever think in +a non-bicameral or enlightened state of mind. This has allowed the world's +sadistic, oppressive leaders to screw us for 1000's of years.

+ +

It appears that the illuminati had penetrated U.S. government from the +beginning. The Illuminati was formed in 1776 by a lawyer in Bavaria. +These esquires snaked their way into the womb of Amerika from the getgo! +I find it revolting and an infinite slap in the face to see lawyers' own symbol +of economic repression on the very money we get shafted for by these leach +lawyers daily.

+ +

(In 1776 The European Economic Community (the aristocracy) worried quite +a bit when WE told England to get the Hell outta here, so naturally they +regrouped and formed the Illuminati to deal with US and prevent future colonies +from being so eager to toss the king's tea taxes overboard!)

+ +

ACCORDING TO THE RISE AND POWER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS CHART:

+ +

Beginning in 1795, five of the Rothschild's sons were sent to five different +European countries, were the Illuminati/World Banker scam started to spread +in Germany, Vienna, England, Italy, and France. This put them in the top five +countries, where they soon rose to positions of immense power and influence. +Thus the manipulation of global affairs began!

+ +

The 10 commandments of the Illuminati are: +1 - Abolish land ownership. +2 - Taxation of the people. +3 - Abolish all rights of inheritance. +4 - Confiscate lands and properties of all rebels. +5 - Centralize credit - Create National banks. +6 - Control transportation and communication. +7 - State owned factories. +8 - Equal liability of all to labor. +9 - Distribution of the population. +10 - Free education to all in "public" schools. +(Sounds like bigbro ta me, Booboo!)

+ +

The chart shows that in 1798 the following 3 things occurred: +1 - Washington warned of the danger of the Illuminati. +2 - Jefferson wrote to John Adams stating that he agreed with +him that the international bankers were more powerful and +dangerous than standing armies. +3 - Professor John Robinson exposed it in his book, " PROOFS OF +A CONSPIRACY."

+ +

And then in 1836, Andrew Jackson abolished the central bank. If this +measure had not been taken, America would have fallen to the +International bankers at this time.

+ +

NOTE: the last 40 lines were 1% of the data on the chart showing the +Illuminati's links and activities as "Control," which appears +to be their new name. Get the damn chart - I don't care what +you think of Baptists, these folks are just helping us now! +? +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +* PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE THIS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE !!! * +* SEND A COPY TO YOUR POLICE, GOVERNORS, LEGISLATORS, RELATIVES !!! * +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +____________________ +__ .__ +|__| |__| " +DON'T TREAD ON ME! +|____________________| +

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Feel free to copy this article far and wide, but please +keep my name and this sentence on it.

+ +

The Bill of Rights, a Status Report +by Eric Postpischil

+ +

4 September 1990

+ +

6 Hamlett Drive, Apt. 17 +Nashua, NH 03062

+ +

edp@jareth.enet.dec.com

+ +

How many rights do you have? You should check, because it +might not be as many today as it was a few years ago, or +even a few months ago. Some people I talk to are not +concerned that police will execute a search warrant without +knocking or that they set up roadblocks and stop and +interrogate innocent citizens. They do not regard these as +great infringements on their rights. But when you put +current events together, there is information that may be +surprising to people who have not yet been concerned: The +amount of the Bill of Rights that is under attack is +alarming.

+ +

Let's take a look at the Bill of Rights and see which +aspects are being pushed on or threatened. The point here +is not the degree of each attack or its rightness or +wrongness, but the sheer number of rights that are under +attack.

+ +

Amendment I

+ +

Congress shall make no law respecting an +establishment of religion, or prohibiting the +free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom +of speech, or of the press; or the right of the +people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the +Government for a redress of grievances.

+ +

ESTABLISHING RELIGION: While campaigning for his first +term, George Bush said "I don't know that atheists should +be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered +patriots." Bush has not retracted, commented on, or +clarified this statement, in spite of requests to do so. +According to Bush, this is one nation under God. And +apparently if you are not within Bush's religious beliefs, +you are not a citizen. Federal, state, and local +governments also promote a particular religion (or, +occasionally, religions) by spending public money on +religious displays.

+ +

FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION: Robert Newmeyer and Glenn +Braunstein were jailed in 1988 for refusing to stand in +respect for a judge. Braunstein says the tradition of +rising in court started decades ago when judges entered +carrying Bibles. Since judges no longer carry Bibles, +Braunstein says there is no reason to stand -- and his +Bible tells him to honor no other God. For this religious +practice, Newmeyer and Braunstein were jailed and are now +suing.

+ +

FREE SPEECH: We find that technology has given the +government an excuse to interfere with free speech. +Claiming that radio frequencies are a limited resource, the +government tells broadcasters what to say (such as news and +public and local service programming) and what not to say +(obscenity, as defined by the Federal Communications +Commission [FCC]). The FCC is investigating Boston PBS +station WGBH-TV for broadcasting photographs from the +Mapplethorpe exhibit.

+ +

FREE SPEECH: There are also laws to limit political +statements and contributions to political activities. In +1985, the Michigan Chamber of Commerce wanted to take out +an advertisement supporting a candidate in the state house +of representatives. But a 1976 Michigan law prohibits a +corporation from using its general treasury funds to make +independent expenditures in a political campaign. In +March, the Supreme Court upheld that law. According to +dissenting Justice Kennedy, it is now a felony in Michigan +for the Sierra Club, the American Civil Liberties Union, or +the Chamber of Commerce to advise the public how a +candidate voted on issues of urgent concern to their +members.

+ +

FREE PRESS: As in speech, technology has provided another +excuse for government intrusion in the press. If you +distribute a magazine electronically and do not print +copies, the government doesn't consider you a press and +does not give you the same protections courts have extended +to printed news. The equipment used to publish Phrack, a +worldwide electronic magazine about phones and hacking, was +confiscated after publishing a document copied from a Bell +South computer entitled "A Bell South Standard Practice +(BSP) 660-225-104SV Control Office Administration of +Enhanced 911 Services for Special Services and Major +Account Centers, March, 1988." All of the information in +this document was publicly available from Bell South in +other documents. The government has not alleged that the +publisher of Phrack, Craig Neidorf, was involved with or +participated in the copying of the document. Also, the +person who copied this document from telephone company +computers placed a copy on a bulletin board run by Rich +Andrews. Andrews forwarded a copy to AT&T officials and +cooperated with authorities fully. In return, the Secret +Service (SS) confiscated Andrews' computer along with all +the mail and data that were on it. Andrews was not charged +with any crime.

+ +

FREE PRESS: In another incident that would be comical if +it were not true, on March 1 the SS ransacked the offices +of Steve Jackson Games (SJG); irreparably damaged property; +and confiscated three computers, two laser printers, +several hard disks, and many boxes of paper and floppy +disks. The target of the SS operation was to seize all +copies of a game of fiction called GURPS Cyberpunk. The +Cyberpunk game contains fictitious break-ins in a +futuristic world, with no technical information of actual +use with real computers, nor is it played on computers. +The SS never filed any charges against SJG but still +refused to return confiscated property.

+ +

PEACEABLE ASSEMBLY: The right to assemble peaceably is no +longer free -- you have to get a permit. Even that is not +enough; some officials have to be sued before they realize +their reasons for denying a permit are not Constitutional.

+ +

PEACEABLE ASSEMBLY: In Alexandria, Virginia, there is a +law that prohibits people from loitering for more than +seven minutes and exchanging small objects. Punishment is +two years in jail. Consider the scene in jail: "What'd +you do?" "I was waiting at a bus stop and gave a guy a +cigarette." This is not an impossible occurrence: In +Pittsburgh, Eugene Tyler, 15, has been ordered away from +bus stops by police officers. Sherman Jones, also 15, was +accosted with a police officer's hands around his neck +after putting the last bit of pizza crust into his mouth. +The police suspected him of hiding drugs.

+ +

PETITION FOR REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES: Rounding out the +attacks on the first amendment, there is a sword hanging +over the right to petition for redress of grievances. +House Resolution 4079, the National Drug and Crime +Emergency Act, tries to "modify" the right to habeas +corpus. It sets time limits on the right of people in +custody to petition for redress and also limits the courts +in which such an appeal may be heard.

+ +

Amendment II

+ +

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the +security of a free State, the right of the people +to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

+ +

RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS: This amendment is so commonly +challenged that the movement has its own name: gun +control. Legislation banning various types of weapons is +supported with the claim that the weapons are not for +"legitimate" sporting purposes. This is a perversion of +the right to bear arms for two reasons. First, the basis +of freedom is not that permission to do legitimate things +is granted to the people, but rather that the government is +empowered to do a limited number of legitimate things -- +everything else people are free to do; they do not need to +justify their choices. Second, should the need for defense +arise, it will not be hordes of deer that the security of a +free state needs to be defended from. Defense would be +needed against humans, whether external invaders or +internal oppressors. It is an unfortunate fact of life +that the guns that would be needed to defend the security +of a state are guns to attack people, not guns for sporting +purposes.

+ +

Firearms regulations also empower local officials, such as +police chiefs, to grant or deny permits. This results in +towns where only friends of people in the right places are +granted permits, or towns where women are generally denied +the right to carry a weapon for self-defense.

+ +

Amendment III

+ +

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered +in any house, without the consent of the Owner, +nor in time of war, but in a manner to be +prescribed by law.

+ +

QUARTERING SOLDIERS: This amendment is fairly clean so +far, but it is not entirely safe. Recently, 200 troops in +camouflage dress with M-16s and helicopters swept through +Kings Ridge National Forest in Humboldt County, California. +In the process of searching for marijuana plants for four +days, soldiers assaulted people on private land with M-16s +and barred them from their own property. This might not be +a direct hit on the third amendment, but the disregard for +private property is uncomfortably close.

+ +

Amendment IV

+ +

The right of the people to be secure in their +persons, houses, papers and effects, against +unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be +violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon +probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, +and particularly describing the place to be +searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

+ +

RIGHT TO BE SECURE IN PERSONS, HOUSES, PAPERS AND EFFECTS +AGAINST UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES: The RICO law +is making a mockery of the right to be secure from seizure. +Entire stores of books or videotapes have been confiscated +based upon the presence of some sexually explicit items. +Bars, restaurants, or houses are taken from the owners +because employees or tenants sold drugs. In Volusia +County, Florida, Sheriff Robert Vogel and his officers stop +automobiles for contrived violations. If large amounts of +cash are found, the police confiscate it on the PRESUMPTION +that it is drug money -- even if there is no other evidence +and no charges are filed against the car's occupants. The +victims can get their money back only if they prove the +money was obtained legally. One couple got their money +back by proving it was an insurance settlement. Two other +men who tried to get their two thousand dollars back were +denied by the Florida courts. + +RIGHT TO BE SECURE IN PERSONS, HOUSES, PAPERS AND EFFECTS +AGAINST UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES: A new law goes +into effect in Oklahoma on January 1, 1991. All property, +real and personal, is taxable, and citizens are required to +list all their personal property for tax assessors, +including household furniture, gold and silver plate, +musical instruments, watches, jewelry, and personal, +private, or professional libraries. If a citizen refuses +to list their property or is suspected of not listing +something, the law directs the assessor to visit and enter +the premises, getting a search warrant if necessary. Being +required to tell the state everything you own is not being +secure in one's home and effects. + +NO WARRANTS SHALL ISSUE, BUT UPON PROBABLE CAUSE, SUPPORTED +BY OATH OR AFFIRMATION: As a supporting oath or +affirmation, reports of anonymous informants are accepted. +This practice has been condoned by the Supreme Court.

+ +

PARTICULARLY DESCRIBING THE PLACE TO BE SEARCHED AND +PERSONS OR THINGS TO BE SEIZED: Today's warrants do not +particularly describe the things to be seized -- they list +things that might be present. For example, if police are +making a drug raid, they will list weapons as things to be +searched for and seized. This is done not because the +police know of any weapons and can particularly describe +them, but because they allege people with drugs often have +weapons.

+ +

Both of the above apply to the warrant the Hudson, New +Hampshire, police used when they broke down Bruce Lavoie's +door at 5 a.m. with guns drawn and shot and killed him. +The warrant claimed information from an anonymous +informant, and it said, among other things, that guns were +to be seized. The mention of guns in the warrant was used +as reason to enter with guns drawn. Bruce Lavoie had no +guns. Bruce Lavoie was not secure from unreasonable search +and seizure -- nor is anybody else.

+ +

Other infringements on the fourth amendment include +roadblocks and the Boston Police detention of people based +on colors they are wearing (supposedly indicating gang +membership). And in Pittsburgh again, Eugene Tyler was +once searched because he was wearing sweat pants and a +plaid shirt -- police told him they heard many drug dealers +at that time were wearing sweat pants and plaid shirts. +

+ +

Amendment V

+ +

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, +or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a +presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except +in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or +in the Militia, when in actual service in time of +War or public danger; nor shall any person be +subject to the same offence to be twice put in +jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled +in any criminal case to be a witness against +himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or +property, without due process of law; nor shall +private property be taken for public use without +just compensation.

+ +

INDICTMENT OF A GRAND JURY: Kevin Bjornson has been +proprietor of Hydro-Tech for nearly a decade and is a +leading authority on hydroponic technology and cultivation. +On October 26, 1989, both locations of Hydro-Tech were +raided by the Drug Enforcement Administration. National +Drug Control Policy Director William Bennett has declared +that some indoor lighting and hydroponic equipment is +purchased by marijuana growers, so retailers and +wholesalers of such equipment are drug profiteers and +co-conspirators. Bjornson was not charged with any crime, +nor subpoenaed, issued a warrant, or arrested. No illegal +substances were found on his premises. Federal officials +were unable to convince grand juries to indict Bjornson. +By February, they had called scores of witnesses and +recalled many two or three times, but none of the grand +juries they convened decided there was reason to criminally +prosecute Bjornson. In spite of that, as of March, his +bank accounts were still frozen and none of the inventories +or records had been returned. Grand juries refused to +indict Bjornson, but the government is still penalizing +him.

+ +

TWICE PUT IN JEOPARDY OF LIFE OR LIMB: Members of the +McMartin family in California have been tried two or three +times for child abuse. Anthony Barnaby was tried for +murder (without evidence linking him to the crime) three +times before New Hampshire let him go.

+ +

COMPELLED TO BE A WITNESS AGAINST HIMSELF: Oliver North +was forced to testify against himself. Congress granted +him immunity from having anything he said to them being +used as evidence against him, and then they required him to +talk. After he did so, what he said was used to find other +evidence which was used against him. The courts also play +games where you can be required to testify against yourself +if you testify at all.

+ +

COMPELLED TO BE A WITNESS AGAINST HIMSELF: In the New York +Central Park assault case, three people were found guilty +of assault. But there was no physical evidence linking +them to the crime; semen did not match any of the +defendants. The only evidence the state had was +confessions. To obtain these confessions, the police +questioned a 15-year old without a parent present -- which +is illegal under New York state law. Police also refused +to let the subject's Big Brother, an attorney for the +Federal government, see him during questioning. Police +screamed "You better tell us what we want to hear and +cooperate or you are going to jail," at 14-year-old Antron +McCray, according to Bobby McCray, his father. Antron +McCray "confessed" after his father told him to, so that +police would release him. These people were coerced into +bearing witness against themselves, and those confessions +were used to convict them.

+ +

COMPELLED TO BE A WITNESS AGAINST HIMSELF: Your answers to +Census questions are required by law, with a $100 penalty +for each question not answered. But people have been +evicted for giving honest Census answers. According to the +General Accounting Office, one of the most frequent ways +city governments use census information is to detect +illegal two-family dwellings. This has happened in +Montgomery County, Maryland; Pullman, Washington; and Long +Island, New York. The August 8, 1989, Wall Street Journal +reports this and other ways Census answers have been used +against the answerers. + +COMPELLED TO BE A WITNESS AGAINST HIMSELF: Drug tests are +being required from more and more people, even when there +is no probable cause, no accident, and no suspicion of drug +use. Requiring people to take drug tests compels them to +provide evidence against themselves. + +DEPRIVED OF LIFE, LIBERTY, OR PROPERTY WITHOUT DUE PROCESS +OF LAW: This clause is violated on each of the items life, +liberty, and property. Incidents including such violations +are described elsewhere in this article. Here are two +more: On March 26, 1987, in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, +Jeffrey Miles was killed by police officer John Rucker, who +was looking for a suspected drug dealer. Rucker had been +sent to the wrong house; Miles was not wanted by police. +He received no due process. In Detroit, $4834 was seized +from a grocery store after dogs detected traces of cocaine +on three one-dollar bills in a cash register. + +PRIVATE PROPERTY TAKEN FOR PUBLIC USE WITHOUT JUST +COMPENSATION: RICO is shredding this aspect of the Bill of +Rights. The money confiscated by Sheriff Vogel goes +directly into Vogel's budget; it is not regulated by the +legislature. Federal and local governments seize and +auction boats, buildings, and other property. Under RICO, +the government is seizing property without due process. +The victims are required to prove not only that they are +not guilty of a crime, but that they are entitled to their +property. Otherwise, the government auctions off the +property and keeps the proceeds.

+ +

Amendment VI

+ +

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall +enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by +an impartial jury of the State and district +wherein the crime shall have been committed, +which district shall have been previously +ascertained by law, and to be informed of the +nature and cause of the accusation; to be +confronted with the witnesses against him; to +have compulsory process for obtaining Witnesses +in his favor, and to have the assistance of +counsel for his defence. + +THE RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL: Surprisingly, the +right to a public trial is under attack. When Marion Barry +was being tried, the prosecution attempted to bar Louis +Farrakhan and George Stallings from the gallery. This +request was based on an allegation that they would send +silent and "impermissible messages" to the jurors. The +judge initially granted this request. One might argue that +the whole point of a public trial is to send a message to +all the participants: The message is that the public is +watching; the trial had better be fair. + +BY AN IMPARTIAL JURY: The government does not even honor +the right to trial by an impartial jury. US District Judge +Edward Rafeedie is investigating improper influence on +jurors by US marshals in the Enrique Camarena case. US +marshals apparently illegally communicated with jurors +during deliberations. + +OF THE STATE AND DISTRICT WHEREIN THE CRIME SHALL HAVE BEEN +COMMITTED: This is incredible, but Manuel Noriega is being +tried so far away from the place where he is alleged to +have committed crimes that the United States had to invade +another country and overturn a government to get him. Nor +is this a unique occurrence; in a matter separate from the +Camarena case, Judge Rafeedie was asked to dismiss charges +against Mexican gynecologist Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain +on the grounds that the doctor was illegally abducted from +his Guadalajara office in April and turned over to US +authorities.

+ +

TO BE INFORMED OF THE NATURE AND CAUSE OF THE ACCUSATION: +Steve Jackson Games, nearly put out of business by the raid +described previously, has been stonewalled by the SS. "For +the past month or so these guys have been insisting the +book wasn't the target of the raid, but they don't say what +the target was, or why they were critical of the book, or +why they won't give it back," Steve Jackson says. "They +have repeatedly denied we're targets but don't explain why +we've been made victims." Attorneys for SJG tried to find +out the basis for the search warrant that led to the raid +on SJG. But the application for that warrant was sealed by +order of the court and remained sealed at last report, in +July. Not only has the SS taken property and nearly +destroyed a publisher, it will not even explain the nature +and cause of the accusations that led to the raid.

+ +

TO BE CONFRONTED WITH THE WITNESSES AGAINST HIM: The courts +are beginning to play fast and loose with the right to +confront witnesses. Watch out for anonymous witnesses and +videotaped testimony.

+ +

TO HAVE COMPULSORY PROCESS FOR OBTAINING WITNESSES: Ronald +Reagan resisted submitting to subpoena and answering +questions about Irangate, claiming matters of national +security and executive privilege. A judge had to dismiss +some charges against Irangate participants because the +government refused to provide information subpoenaed by the +defendants. And one wonders if the government would go +to the same lengths to obtain witnesses for Manuel Noriega +as it did to capture him.

+ +

TO HAVE THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL: The right to assistance +of counsel took a hit recently. Connecticut Judge Joseph +Sylvester is refusing to assign public defenders to people +ACCUSED of drug-related crimes, including drunk driving.

+ +

TO HAVE THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL: RICO is also affecting +the right to have the assistance of counsel. The +government confiscates the money of an accused person, +which leaves them unable to hire attorneys. The IRS has +served summonses nationwide to defense attorneys, demanding +the names of clients who paid cash for fees exceeding +$10000.

+ +

Amendment VII

+ +

In Suits at common law, where the value in +controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the +right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no +fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise +reexamined in any Court of the United States, +than according to the rules of common law.

+ +

RIGHT OF TRIAL BY JURY IN SUITS AT COMMON LAW: This is a +simple right; so far the government has not felt threatened +by it and has not made attacks on it that I am aware of. +This is our only remaining safe haven in the Bill of Rights.

+ +

Amendment VIII

+ +

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor +excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual +punishments inflicted.

+ +

EXCESSIVE BAIL AND FINES: Tallahatchie County in +Mississippi charges ten dollars a day to each person who +spends time in the jail, regardless of the length of stay +or the outcome of their trial. This means innocent people +are forced to pay. Marvin Willis was stuck in jail for 90 +days trying to raise $2500 bail on an assault charge. But +after he made that bail, he was kept imprisoned because he +could not pay the $900 rent Tallahatchie demanded. Nine +former inmates are suing the county for this practice.

+ +

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTS: House Resolution 4079 +sticks its nose in here too: "... a Federal court shall +not hold prison or jail crowding unconstitutional under the +eighth amendment except to the extent that an individual +plaintiff inmate proves that the crowding causes the +infliction of cruel and unusual punishment of that +inmate."

+ +

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTS: A life sentence for selling +a quarter of a gram of cocaine for $20 -- that is what +Ricky Isom was sentenced to in February in Cobb County, +Georgia. It was Isom's second conviction in two years, and +state law imposes a mandatory sentence. Even the judge +pronouncing the sentence thinks it is cruel; Judge Tom +Cauthorn expressed grave reservations before sentencing +Isom and Douglas Rucks (convicted of selling 3.5 grams of +cocaine in a separate but similar case). Judge Cauthorn +called the sentences "Draconian."

+ +

Amendment IX

+ +

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain +rights, shall not be construed to deny or +disparage others retained by the people.

+ +

OTHER RIGHTS RETAINED BY THE PEOPLE: This amendment is so +weak today that I will ask not what infringements there are +on it but rather what exercise of it exists at all? What +law can you appeal to a court to find you not guilty of +violating because the law denies a right retained by you?

+ +

Amendment X

+ +

The powers not delegated to the United States by +the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the +States, are reserved to the States respectively, +or to the people.

+ +

POWERS RESERVED TO THE STATES OR THE PEOPLE: This +amendment is also weak, although it is not so nonexistent +as the ninth amendment. But few states set their own speed +limits or drinking age limits. Today, we mostly think of +this country as the -- singular -- United States, rather +than a collection of states. This concentration of power +detaches laws from the desires of people -- and even of +states. House Resolution 4079 crops up again here -- it +uses financial incentives to get states to set specific +penalties for certain crimes. Making their own laws +certainly must be considered a right of the states, and +this right is being infringed upon.

+ +

Out of ten amendments, nine are under attack, most of them +under multiple attacks of different natures, and some of +them under a barrage. If this much of the Bill of Rights +is threatened, how can you be sure your rights are safe? A +right has to be there when you need it. Like insurance, +you cannot afford to wait until you need it and then set +about procuring it or ensuring it is available. Assurance +must be made in advance.

+ +

The bottom line here is that your rights are not safe. You +do not know when one of your rights will be violated. A +number of rights protect accused persons, and you may think +it is not important to protect the rights of criminals. +But if a right is not there for people accused of crimes, +it will not be there when you need it. With the Bill of +Rights in the sad condition described above, nobody can be +confident they will be able to exercise the rights to which +they are justly entitled. To preserve our rights for +ourselves in the future, we must defend them for everybody +today. +

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NOTE: This is a report on Government and military techniques, notterrorist!

+ +

B R A I N W A S H I N G +By Lorenzo Saint Dubois

+ +

The report that follows is a condensation of a study by training experts of +the important information available on this subject.

+ +

BACKGROUND

+ +

Brainwashing, as a technique, has been used for centuries and is no mystery +to psychologists. In this sense, brainwashing means involuntary re-education +of basic beliefs and values. All people are being re-educated continually. +New information changes one's beliefs.

+ +

Everyone has experienced to some degree the conflict that ensues when new +information is not consistent with prior belief.

+ +

The experience of the brainwashed individual differs in that the inconsistent +information is forced upon the individual under controlled conditions after +the possibility of critical judgment has been removed by a variety of +methods.

+ +

There is no question that an individual can be broken psychologically by +captors with knowledge and willingness to persist in techniques aimed at +deliberately destroying the integration of a personality. Although it is +probable that everyone reduced to such a confused, disoriented state will +respond to the introduction of new beliefs, this cannot be stated +dogmatically.

+ +

HUMAN CONTROL AND REACTION TO CONTROL

+ +

There are progressive steps in exercising control over an individual and +changing his behaviour and personality integration.

+ +

The following five steps are typical of behaviour changes in any controlled +individual:

+ +

1. Making the individual aware of control is the first stage in changing his +behaviour. A small child is made aware of the physical and psychological +control of his parents and quickly recognizes that an overwhelming force +must be reckoned with.

+ +

So a controlled adult comes to recognize the overwhelming powers of the +state and the impersonal, incarcerative machinery in which he is enmeshed. +The individual recognizes that definite limits have been put upon the ways +he can respond.

+ +

2. Realization of his complete dependence upon the controlling system is a +major factor in the controlling of his behaviour.

+ +

The controlled adult is forced to accept the fact that food, tobacco, +praise and the only social contact that he will get come from the very +interrogator who exercises control over him.

+ +

3. The awareness of control and recognition of dependence result in causing +internal conflict and breakdown of previous patterns of behaviour.

+ +

Although this transition can be relatively mild in the case of a child, +it is almost invariably severe for the adult undergoing brainwashing. +Only an individual who holds his values lightly can change them easily.

+ +

Since the brainwasher/interrogators aim to have the individuals undergo +profound emotional change, they force their victims to seek out painfully +what is desired by the controlling individual. During this period the +victim is likely to have a mental breakdown characterized by delusions +and hallucinations.

+ +

4. Discovery that there is an acceptable solution to his problem is the +first stage of reducing the individuals conflict.

+ +

It is characteristically reported by victims of brainwashing that this +discovery led to an overwhelming feeling of relief that the horror of +internal conflict would cease and that perhaps they would not be driven +insane.

+ +

It is at this point that they are prepared to make major changes in their +value system. This is an automatic rather than voluntary choice. They have +lost their ability to be critical.

+ +

5. Reintegration of values and identification with the controlling system is +the final stage in changing the behaviour of the controlled individual.

+ +

A child who has learned a new, socially desirable behaviour demonstrates +its importance by attempting to as apt the new behaviour to a variety of +other situations. Similar states in the brainwashed adult are pitiful.

+ +

His new value-system, his manner of perceiving, organizing, and giving +meaning to events, is virtually independent of his former value system. +He is no longer capable of thinking or speaking in concepts other than +those he has adopted. He tends to identify by expressing thanks to his +captors for helping him see the light.

+ +

Anyone willing to use known principles of control and reactions to +control and capable of demonstrating the patience needed in raising a +child can probably achieve successful brainwashing.

+ +

CONTROL TECHNIQUES AND THEIR EFFECTS

+ +

A description of usual communist control techniques follows.

+ +

INTERROGATION

+ +

There are at least two ways in which interrogation is used:

+ +

A. Elicitation, which is designed to get the individual to surrender +protected information, is a form of interrogation. One major difference +between elicitation and interrogation used to achieve brainwashing is that +the mind of the individual must be kept clear to permit coherent, +undistorted disclosure of protected information.

+ +

B. Elicitation for the purpose of brainwashing consists of questioning, +argument, indoctrination, threats, cajolery, praise, hostility and a +variety of other pressures. The aim of this interrogation is to hasten the +breakdown of the individual's value system and to encourage the substitution +of a different valuesystem.

+ +

The procurement of protected information is secondary and is used as a +device to increase pressure upon the individual. The term interrogation in +this article will refer in general, to this type. The interrogator is the +individual who conducts this type of interrogation and who controls the +administration of the other pressures. He is the protagonist against whom +the victim develops his conflict and upon whom the victim develops a state +of dependency as he seeks some solution to his conflict.

+ +

PHYSICAL TORTURE & THREATS OF TORTURE

+ +

Two types of physical torture are distinguishable more by their psychological +effect in inducing conflict than by the degree of painfulness:

+ +

A. The first type is one in which the victim has a passive role in the pain +inflicted on him (e.g., beatings). His conflict involves the decision of +whether or not to give in to demands in order to avoid further pain. +Generally, brutality of this type was not found to achieve the desired +results. Threats of torture were found more effective, as fear of pain +causes greater conflict within the individual than does pain itself.

+ +

B. The second type of torture is represented by requiring the individual to +stand in one spot for several hours or assume some other pain-inducing +position. Such a requirement often engenders in the individual a +determination to stick it out. This internal act of resistance provide a +feeling of moral superiority at first. As time passes and his pain mounts, +the individual becomes aware that it is his own original determination to +resist that is causing the continuance of pain.

+ +

A conflict develops within the individual between his moral determination and +his desire to collapse and discontinue the pain. It is this extra internal +conflict, in addition to the conflict over whether or not to give in to the +demands made of him, that tends to make this method of torture more +effective in the breakdown of the individual personality.

+ +

+ISOLATION

+ +

Individual differences in reaction to isolation are probably greater than to +any other method. Some individuals appear to be able to withstand prolonged +periods of isolation without deleterious effects, while a relatively short +period of isolation reduces others to the verge of psychosis. Reaction +varies with the conditions of the isolation cell.

+ +

Some sources have indicated a strong reaction to filth and vermin, although +they had negligible reactions to the isolation. Others reacted violently to +isolation in relatively clean cells. The predominant cause of breakdown in +such situations is a lack of sensory stimulation (i.e., grayness of walls, +lack of sound, absence of social contact, etc.). Experimental subjects +exposed to this condition have reported vivid hallucinations and +overwhelming fears of losing their sanity.

+ +

CONTROL OF COMMUNICATION

+ +

This is one of the most effective methods for creating a sense of +helplessness and despair. This measure might well be considered the +cornerstone of the system of control. It consists of strict regulation of +the mail, reading materials, broadcast materials and social contact +available to the individual. The need to communicate is so great that when +the usual channels are blocked, the individual will resort to any open +channel, almost regardless of the implications of using that particular +channel.

+ +

Many POWs in Korea, whose only act of collaboration was to sign petitions +and peace appeals, defended their actions on the ground that this was the +only method of letting the outside world know they were still alive.

+ +

Many stated that their morale and fortitude would have been increased +immeasurably had leaflets of encouragement been dropped to them. When the +only contact with the outside world is via the interrogator, the prisoner +comes to develop extreme dependency on his interrogator and hence loses +another prop to his morale.

+ +

Another wrinkle in communication control is the informer system. The +recruitment of informers in POW camps discouraged communication between +inmates. POWs who feared that every act or thought of resistance would be +communicated to camp administrators, lost faith in their fellow man and +were forced to untrusting individualism. Informers are also under several +stages of brainwashing and elicitation to develop and maintain control over +the victims.

+ +

INDUCTION OF FATIGUE

+ +

This is a well-known device for breaking will power and critical powers of +judgment. Deprivation of sleep results in more intense psychological +debilitation than does any other method of engendering fatigue. They vary +their methods.

+ +

Conveyor belt interrogation that last 50-60 hours will make almost any +individual compromise, but there is danger that this will kill the victim. +It is safer to conduct interrogations of 8-10 hours at night while forcing +the prisoner to remain awake during the day. Additional interruptions in the +remaining 2-3 hours of allotted sleep quickly reduce the most resilient +individual.

+ +

Alternate administration of drug stimulants and depressants hastens the +process of fatigue and sharpens the psychological reactions of excitement +and depression. Fatigue, in addition to reducing the will to resist, also +produces irritation and fear that arise from increased slips of the +tongue forgetfulness and decreased ability to maintain orderly thought +processes.

+ +

CONTROL OF FOOD, WATER AND TOBACCO

+ +

The controlled individual is made intensely aware of his dependence upon his +interrogator for the quality and quantity of his food and tobacco. The +exercise of this control usually follows a pattern.

+ +

No food and little or no water is permitted the individual for several +days prior to interrogation. When the prisoner first complains of this to +the interrogator, the latter expresses surprise at such inhumane treatment.

+ +

He makes a demand of the prisoner, if the latter complies, he receives a +good meal. If he does not, he gets a diet of unappetizing food containing +limited vitamins, minerals and calories.

+ +

This diet is supplemented occasionally by the interrogator if the prisoner +cooperates. Studies of controlled starvation indicate that the whole value system of the subjects underwent a change. Their irritation increased +as their ability to think clearly decreased. The control of tobacco presented +an even greater source of conflict for heavy smokers. Because tobacco is not +necessary to life, being manipulated by his craving for it can in the +individual a strong sense of guilt.

+ +

CRITICISM AND SELF-CRITICISM

+ +

There are mechanisms of thought control. Self-criticism gains its +effectiveness from the fact that although it is not a crime for a man to be +wrong, it is a major crime to be stubborn and to refuse to learn. Many +individuals feel intensely relieved in being able to share their sense of +guilt.

+ +

Those individuals however, who have adjusted to handling their guilt +internally have difficulty adapting to criticism and self-criticism. In +brainwashing, after a sufficient sense of guilt has been created in the +individual, sharing and self-criticism permit relief. The price paid for +this relief, however, is loss of individuality and increased dependency.

+ +

HYPNOSIS AND DRUGS AS CONTROLS

+ +

There is no reliable evidence of making widespread use of drugs or hypnosis +in brainwashing or elicitation. The exception to this is the use of common +stimulants or depressants in inducing fatigue and mood swings.

+ +

Other methods of control, which when used in conjunction with the basic +processes, hasten the deterioration of prisoners' sense of values and +resistance are:

+ +

A. Requiring a case history or autobiography of the prisoner provides a mine +of information for the interrogator in establishing and documenting +accusations.

+ +

B. Friendliness of the interrogator, when least expected, upsets the +prisoner's ability to maintain a critical attitude.

+ +

C. Petty demands, such as severely limiting the allotted time for use of +toilet facilities or requiring the POW to kill hundreds of flies, are +harassment methods.

+ +

D. Prisoners are often humiliated by refusing them the use of toilet +facilities during interrogation, until they soil themselves. Often +prisoners were not permitted to bathe for weeks until they felt +contemptible.

+ +

E. Conviction as a war criminal appears to be a potent factor in creating +despair in the individual. One official analysis of the pressures exerted +by the ChiComs on confessors and non-confessors to participation in +bacteriological warfare in Korea showed that actual trial and conviction +of war crimes was overwhelmingly associated with breakdown and confession.

+ +

F. Attempted elicitation of protected information at various times during +the brainwashing process diverted the individual from awareness of the +deterioration of his value-system.

+ +

The fact that, in most cases, the ChiComs did not want or need such +intelligence was not known to the prisoner. His attempts to protect +such information was made at the expense of hastening his own breakdown.

+ +

EXERCISE OF CONTROL +A SCHEDULE FOR BRAINWASHING

+ +

From the many fragmentary accounts reviewed, the following appears to be the +most likely description of what occurs during brainwashing. In the period +immediately following capture, the captors are faced with the problem of +deciding on best ways of exploitation of the prisoners.

+ +

Therefore, early treatment is similar both for those who are to be exploited +through elicitation and those who are to undergo brainwashing. Concurrently +with being interrogated and required to write a detailed personal history, +the prisoner undergoes a physical and psychological softening-up which +includes: limited unpalatable food rations, withholding of tobacco, possible +work details, severely inadequate use of toilet facilities, no use of +facilities for personal cleanliness, limitation of sleep such as requiring a +subject to sleep with a bright light in his eyes.

+ +

The interrogation and autobiographical material, the reports of the +prisoner's behaviour in confinement and tentative personality typing by the +interrogators, provide the basis upon which exploitation plans are made.

+ +

There is a major difference between preparation for elicitation and for +brainwashing. Prisoners exploited through elicitation must retain sufficient +clarity of thought to be able to give coherent, factual accounts.

+ +

In brainwashing, on the other hand, the first thing attacked is clarity of +thought. To develop a strategy of defence, the controlled individual must +determine what plans have been made for his exploitation. Perhaps the best +cues he can get are internal reactions to the pressures he undergoes. The +most important aspect of the brainwashing process is the interrogation. The +other pressures are designed primarily to help the interrogator achieve his +goals. The following states are created systematically within the +individual. These may vary in order, but all are necessary to the +brainwashing process:

+ +

1. A feeling of helplessness in attempting to deal with the impersonal +machinery of control. +2. An initial reaction of surprise. +3. A feeling of uncertainty about what is required of him. +4. A developing feeling of dependence upon the interrogator. +5. A sense of doubt and loss of objectivity. +6. Feelings of guilt. +7. A questioning attitude toward his own value-system. +8. A feeling of potential breakdown i.e., that he might go crazy. +9. A need to defend his acquired principles. +10. A final sense of belonging (identification).

+ +

A feeling of helplessness in the face of the impersonal machinery of control +is carefully engendered within the prisoner. The individual who receives the +preliminary treatment described above not only begins to feel like an animal +but also feels that nothing can be done about it. No one pays any personal +attention to him. His complaints fall on deaf ears. His loss of +communication, if he has been isolated, creates a feeling that he has been +forgotten. Everything that happens to him occurs according to an impersonal +time schedule that has nothing to do with his needs. The voices and +footsteps of the guards are muted. He notes many contrasts, e.g., his +greasy, unpalatable food may be served on battered tin dishes by guards +immaculately dressed in white.

+ +

The first steps in depersonalization of the prisoner have begun. He has no +idea what to expect. Ample opportunity is allotted for him to ruminate upon +all the unpleasant or painful things that could happen to him. He approaches +the main interrogator with mixed feelings of relief and fright.

+ +

Surprise is commonly used in the brainwashing process. The prisoner is rarely +prepared for the fact that the interrogators are usually friendly and +considerate at first. They make every effort to demonstrate that they are +reasonable human beings.

+ +

Often they apologize for bad treatment received by the prisoner and promise +to improve his lot if he, too, is reasonable. This behaviour is not what he +has steeled himself for. He lets down some of his defences and tries to take +a reasonable attitude. The first occasion he balks at satisfying a request +of the interrogator, however, he is in for another surprise. The formerly +reasonable interrogator unexpectedly turns into a furious maniac. The +interrogator is likely to slap the prisoner or draw his pistol and threaten +to shoot him. Usually this storm of emotion ceases as suddenly as it began +and the interrogator stalks from the room. These surprising changes create +doubt in the prisoner as to his very ability to perceive another person's +motivations correctly. His next interrogation probably will be marked by +impassivity in the interrogator's mien.

+ +

A feeling of uncertainty about what is required of him is likewise carefully +engendered within the individual. Pleas of the prisoner to learn specifically +of what he is accused and by whom are side-stepped by the interrogator.

+ +

Instead, the prisoner is asked to tell why he thinks he is held and what he +feels he is guilty of. If the prisoner fails to come up with anything, he is +accused in terms of broad generalities (e.g, espionage, sabotage, acts of +treason against the people etc.)

+ +

This usually provokes the prisoner to make some statement about his +activities. If this take the form of a denial, he is usually sent to +isolation on further decreased food rations to think over his crimes.

+ +

This process can be repeated again and again, as soon as the prisoner thinks +of something that might be considered self-incriminating, the interrogator +appears momentarily satisfied. The prisoner is asked to write down his +statement in his own words and sign it. Meanwhile a strong sense of +dependence upon the interrogator is developed. It does not take long for the +prisoner to realize that the interrogator is the source of all punishment, +all gratification, and all communication. The interrogator, meanwhile, +demonstrates his unpredictbility. He is perceived by the prisoner as a +creature of whim.

+ +

At times, the interrogator can be pleased very easily and at other times no +effort on the part of the prisoner will placate him. The prisoner may begin +to channel so much energy into trying to predict the behaviour of the +unpredictable interrogator that he loses track of what is happening +inside himself. After the prisoner has developed the above psychological +and emotional reactions to a sufficient degree, the brainwashing begins in +earnest.

+ +

First, the prisoner's remaining critical faculties must be destroyed. He +undergoes long, fatiguing interrogations while looking at a bright light. +He is called back again and again for interrogations after minimal sleep.

+ +

He may undergo torture that tends to create internal conflict. Drugs may +be used to accentuate his mood swings. He develops depression when the +interrogator is being kind and becomes euphoric when the interrogator is +threatening the direst penalties. Then the cycle is reversed, the +prisoner finds himself in a constant state of anxiety which prevents him +from relaxing even when he is permitted to sleep. Short periods of +isolation now bring on visual and auditory hallucinations.

+ +

The prisoner feels himself losing his objectivity. It is in this state that +the prisoner must keep up an endless argument with the interrogator. He +may be faced with the confessions of other individuals who collaborated with +him in his crimes.

+ +

The prisoner seriously begins to doubts his own memory. This feeling is +heightened by his inability to recall little things like the names of the +people he knows very well or the date of his birth. The interrogator +patiently sharpens this feeling of doubt by more questioning. This tends to +create a serious state of uncertainty when the individual has lost most of +his critical faculties.

+ +

The prisoner must undergo additional internal conflict when strong feelings +of guilt are aroused within him. As any clinical psychologist is aware, it +is not at all difficult to create such feelings. Military servicemen are +particularly vulnerable.

+ +

No one can morally justify killing even in wartime. The usual justification +is on the grounds of necessity or self-defence. The interrogator is careful +to circumvent such justification. He keeps the interrogation directed toward +the prisoner's moral code. Every moral vulnerability is exploited by +incessant questioning along this line until the prisoner begins to question +the very fundamentals of his own value-system.

+ +

The prisoner must constantly fight a potential breakdown. He finds that +his mind is going blank for longer and longer periods of time. He can +not think constructively. If he is to maintain any semblance of psychological +integrity, he must bring to an end this state of interminable internal +conflict. He signifies a willingness to write a confession.

+ +

If this were truly the end, no brainwashing would have occurred. The +individual would simply have given in to intolerable pressure. The final +stage of the brainwashing process has just begun. No matter what the prisoner +writes in his confession the interrogator is not satisfied. The interrogator +questions every sentence of the confession. He begins to edit it with the +prisoner. The prisoner is forced to argue against every change. This is the +essence of brainwashing.

+ +

Every time that he gives in on a point to the interrogator, he must rewrite +his whole confession. Still the interrogator is not satisfied, in a desperate +attempt to maintain some semblance of integrity and to avoid further +brainwashing, the prisoner must begin to argue that what he has already +confessed to is true. He begins to accept as his own the statements he has +written. He uses many of the interrogator's earlier arguments to buttress +his position. By this process, identification with the interrogator's +value-system becomes complete.

+ +

It is extremely important to recognize that a qualitative change has taken +place within the prisoner. The brainwashed victim does not consciously +change his value-system; rather the change occurs despite his efforts. He is +no more responsible for this change than is an individual who snaps and +becomes psychotic. Like the psychotic, the prisoner is not even aware of the +transition. +

+ +

DEFENSIVE MEASURES

+ +

1. Training of Individuals potentially subject to communist control. +Training should provide for the trainee a realistic appraisal of what +control pressures the interrogators are likely to exert and what the +usual human reactions are to such pressures. The trainee must learn the +most effective ways of combating his own reactions to such pressures and +he must learn reasonable expectations as to what his behaviour should be.

+ +

Training has two decidedly positive effects; first, it provides the +trainee with ways of combating control; second, it provides the basis for +developing an immeasurable boost in morale. Any positive action that the +individual can take, even if it is only slightly effective, gives him a +sense of control over a situation that is otherwise controlling him.

+ +

2. Training must provide the individual with the means of recognizing +realistic goals for himself.

+ +

A. Delay in yielding may be the only achievement that can be hoped for. +In any particular operation, the agent needs the support of knowing +specifically how long he must hold out to save an operation, protect +his cohorts, or gain some other goal.

+ +

B. The individual should be taught how to achieve the most favourable +treatment and how to behave and make necessary concessions to obtain +minimum penalties.

+ +

C. Individual behavioural responses to the various control pressures +differ markedly. Therefore, each trainee should know his own particular +assets and limitations in resisting specific pressures. He can learn +these only under laboratory conditions simulating the actual pressures +he may have to face.

+ +

D. Training must provide knowledge of the goals and the restrictions +placed upon his interrogator. The trainee should know what controls +are on his interrogator and to what extent he can manipulate the +interrogator.

+ +

For example, the interrogator is not permitted to fail to gain +something from the controlled individual. The knowledge that, after +the victim has proved that he is a tough nut to crack he can +sometimes indicate that he might compromise on some little point to +help the interrogator in return for more favourable treatment, may be +useful indeed. Above all, the potential victim of interrogator control +can gain a great deal of psychological support from the knowledge that +the interrogator is not a completely free agent who can do whatever he +wills with his victim.

+ +

E. The trainee must learn what practical cues might aid him in recognizing +the specific goals of his interrogator. The strategy of defence against +elicitation may differ markedly from the strategy to prevent +brainwashing. To prevent elicitation, the individual may hasten his +own state of mental confusion; whereas, to prevent brainwashing, +maintaining clarity of thought processes is imperative.

+ +

F. The trainee should obtain knowledge about carrots as well as sticks. +They keep certain of their promises and always renege on others, for +example, demonstrable the fact that informers receive no better +treatment than other prisoners should do much to prevent this particular +evil. On the other hand, certain meaningless concessions will often get +a prisoner a good meal.

+ +

G. In particular, it should be emphasized to the trainee that, although +little can be done to control the pressures exerted upon him, he can +learn something about controlling his personal reactions to specific +pressures. The trainee can gain much from learning something about +internal conflict and conflict-producing mechanisms. He should learn +to recognize when someone is trying to arouse guilt feelings and what +behavioural reactions can occur as a response to guilt.

+ +

H. The training must teach some methods that can be utilized in thwarting +particular control techniques:

+ +

ELICITATION

+ +

In general, individuals who are the hardest to interrogate for information +are those who have experienced previous interrogations. Practice in being +the victim of interrogation is a sound training device.

+ +

TORTURE + +The trainee should learn something about the principles of pain and shock. +There is a maximum to the amount of pain that can actually be felt. Any +amount of pain can be tolerated for a limited period of time. In addition, +the trainee can be fortified by the knowledge that there are legal +limitations upon the amount of torture that can be inflicted by jailors.

+ +

ISOLATION

+ +

The psychological effects of isolation can probably be thwarted best by +mental gymnastics and systematic efforts on the part of the isolate to +obtain stimulation for his neural end +organs. Controls on Food and Tobacco. Food given will always be enough to +maintain survival, sometimes the victim gets unexpected opportunities +to supplement his diet with special minerals, vitamins and other nutrients +(e.g., iron from the rust of prison bars).

+ +

In some instances, experience has shown that individuals could exploit +refusal to eat. Such refusal usually resulted in the transfer of the +individual to a hospital where he received vitamin injections and +nutritious food. Evidently attempts of this kind to commit suicide arouse +the greatest concern in officials.

+ +

If deprivation of tobacco is the control being exerted. The victim can gain +moral satisfaction from giving up tobacco. He can't lose since he is not +likely to get any anyway.

+ +

FATIGUE

+ +

The trainee should learn reactions to fatigue and how to overcome them +insofar as possible. For example, mild physical exercise clears the head in +a fatigue state.

+ +

WRITING PERSONAL ACCOUNTS AND SELF-CRITICISM

+ +

Experience has indicated that one of the most effective ways of combating +these pressures is to enter into the spirit with an overabundance of +enthusiasm.

+ +

Endless written accounts of inconsequential material have virtually +smothered some eager interrogators. In the same spirit, sober, detailed +self-criticisms of the most minute sins has sometimes brought good results.

+ +

Guidance as to the priority of positions he should defend. Perfectly +compatible responsibilities in the normal execution of an individual's +duties may become mutually incompatible in this situation.

+ +

Take the example of a senior grade military officer, he has the knowledge +of sensitive strategic intelligence which it is his duty to protect. He +has the responsibility of maintaining the physical fitness of his men and +serving as a model example for their behaviour. The officer may go to the +camp commandant to protest the treatment of the POW's and the commandant +assures him that treatment could be improved if he will swap something for +it. Thus to satisfy one responsibility he must compromise another.

+ +

The officer, in short, is in a constant state of internal conflict. But if +the officer is given the relative priority of his different responsibilities, +he is supported by the knowledge that he won't be held accountable for any +other behaviour if he does his utmost to carry out his highest priority +responsibility.

+ +

There is considerable evidence that many individuals tried to evaluate the +priority of their responsibilities on their own, but were in conflict over +whether others would subsequently accept their evaluations. More than one +individual was probably brainwashed while he was trying to protect himself +against elicitation.

+ +

CONCLUSIONS

+ +

The application of known psychological principles can lead to an +understanding of brainwashing.

+ +

1. There is nothing mysterious about personality changes resulting from the +brainwashing process.

+ +

2. Brainwashing is a complex process. Principles of motivation, perception, +learning, and physiological deprivation are needed to account for the +results achieved in brainwashing.

+ +

3. Brainwashing is an involuntary re-education of the fundamental beliefs of +the individual. To attack the problem successfully, the brainwashing +process must be differentiated clearly from general education methods for +thought-control or mass indoctrination, and elicitation.

+ +

4. It appears possible for the individual, through training, to develop +limited defensive techniques against brainwashing. Such defensive +measures are likely to be most effective if directed toward thwarting +individual emotional reactions to brainwashing techniques rather than to +ward thwarting the techniques themselves.

+ +

DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIELD OF CONTROL OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

+ +

1. There are two major methods of altering or controlling human behaviour +and the Soviets where interested in both.

+ +

The first is psychological; the second, pharmacological. The two may be +used as individual methods or for mutual reinforcement.

+ +

For long-term control of large numbers of people, the former method is +more promising than the latter. In dealing with individuals, the U.S. +experience suggests the pharmacological approach (plus psychological +techniques) would be the only effective method. Neither method would be +very effective for individuals on a long term basis.

+ +

2. Soviet research on the pharmacological agents producing behavioural +effects has consistently lagged about five years behind Western research.

+ +

They have been interested in such research and are now pursuing research +on such chemicals as LSD-25, amphetamines, tranquillizers, hypnotics and +similar materials. There is no present evidence that anyone has any +singular, new, potent drugs to force a course of action on an individual.

+ +

They are aware of the tremendous drive produced by drug addiction and +perhaps could couple this with psychological direction to achieve +control of an individual.

+ +

3. The psychological aspects of behaviour control would include not only +conditioning by repetition and training, but such things as hypnosis, +deprivation, isolation, manipulation of guilt feelings, subtle or covert +threats, social pressure and so on.

+ +

Some of the newer trends in the USSR where as follows:

+ +

A. The adoption of a multi-disciplinary approach integrating biological, +social and physicalmathematical research in attempts better to +understand, and eventually, to control human behaviour in a manner +consonant with national plans.

+ +

B. The outstanding feature, in addition to the inter-disciplinary approach, +is a new concern for mathematical approaches to an understanding of +behaviour.

+ +

Particularly notable are attempts to use modern information theory, +automata theory and feedback concepts in interpreting the mechanisms by +which the second signal system, i.e., speech and associated phenomena, +affect human behaviour.

+ +

Implied by this second signal system, using information inputs as +causative agents rather than chemical agents, electrodes or other more +exotic techniques applicable, perhaps, to individuals rather than groups.

+ +

C. This new trend, observed in the early Soviet post-Stalin period, +continues. By 1960 the word cybernetics was used by the Soviets to +designate this new trend.

+ +

This science is considered by some as the key to understanding the human +brain and the product of its functioning - Psychic activity and +personality - To the development of means for controlling it and to ways +for moulding the character of the New Communist Man.

+ +

As one Soviet author put it: Cybernetics can be used in moulding of a +child's character, the inculcation of knowledge and techniques, the +amassing of experience, the establishment of social behaviour patterns, +all functions which can be summarized as 'control' of the growth process +of the individual. Students of particular disciplines in the USSR, such +as psychologist and social scientists, also support the general +cybernetic trend. + +Research indicates that the Soviets had attempted to develop a technology +for controlling the development of behavioural patterns among the +citizens of the USSR in accordance with politically determined +requirements of the system. Furthermore, the same technology can be +applied to more sophisticated approaches to the coding of information for +transmittal to population targets in the battle for the minds of men.

+ +

Some of the more esoteric techniques such as ESP or, as the Soviets call +it, biological radio-communication, and psychogenic agents such as LSD, +are receiving some overt attention with, possibly, applications in mind +for individual behaviour control under clandestine conditions.

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Article 15189 of alt.activism: +From: covici@ccs.covici.com (John Covici) +Newsgroups: alt.activism +Subject: Part 1: Unauthorized Biography Of George Bush + 1RokeB1w164w@ccs.covici.com +Date: 15 Jan 92 03:55:59 GMT +Organization: Covici Computer Systems +Lines: 1361

+ +

George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

+ +

by Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin

+ +

With this issue of the New Federalist, Vol. V, No. 39, we begin +to serialize the book, {George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography,} +by Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin. This book will +soon be published by {Executive Intelligence Review}.

+ +

At the heart of any effort at biography is the attempt to +discover the essence of the subject as a human personality. The +essential character of the subject is what the biographer must +strive to capture, since this is theindispensable ingredient +that will provide coherence to the entire story whose unity must +be provided by the course of a single human life.

+ +

During the preparation of the present work, there was one +historical moment which more than any other delineated the +character of George Bush. The scene was the Nixon White House +during the final days of the Watergate debacle. White House +officials, including George Bush, had spent the morning of that +Monday, August 5, 1974 absorbing the impact of Nixon's notorious +"smoking gun" tape, the recorded conversation between Nixon and +his chief of staff, H.R. Haldemann, shortly after the original +Watergate break-in, which could now no longer be withheld from +the public. In that exchange of June 23, 1972, Nixon ordered +that the CIA stop the FBI from further investigating how various +sums of money found their way from Texas and Minnesota via Mexico +City to the coffers of the Committee to Re-Elect thePresident +(CREEP) and thence into the pockets of the "Plumbers" arrested +in the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergatebuilding. +These revelations were widely interpreted as establishing a +{prima facie} case of obstruction of justice against Nixon. That +was fine with George, who sincerely wanted his patron and +benefactor Nixon to resign. George's great concern was that the +smoking gun tape called attention to a money-laundering mechanism +which he, together with Bill Liedtke of Pennzoil, and Robert +Mosbacher, had helped to set up at Nixon's request. When Nixon, +in the "smoking gun" tape, talked about "the Texans" and +"some Texas people," Bush, Liedtke, and Mosbacher were among +the most prominent of those referred to. The threat to George's +political ambitions was great.

+ +

The White House that morning was gripped by panic. Nixon +would be gonebeforethe end of the week. In the midst of the +furor, White House Congressional liaison William Timmons wanted +to know if everyone who needed to be informed had been briefed +about the smoking gun transcript. In a roomful of officials, +some of whom were already sipping Scotch to steady their nerves, +Timmons asked Dean Burch,

+ +

"Dean, does Bush know about the transcript yet?" +"Yes," responded Burch. +"Well, what did he do?" inquired Timmons. +"He broke out into assholes and shit himself to death," +replied Burch. +Inthis exchange, which is recordedin Woodward and +Bernstein's {The Final Days,} we grasp the essential George Bush, +in a crisis, and for all seasons.

+ +

Introduction

+ +

The thesis of this book is simple: if George Bush were to be +re-elected in November 1992 for a second term as the President of +the United States, this country and the rest of the world would +face a catastrophe of gigantic proportions.

+ +

The necessity of writing this book became overwhelming in the +minds of the authors in the wake of the ghastly slaughter of the +Iraq war of January-February 1991. That war was an act of savage +and premeditated genocide on the part of Bush, undertaken in +connivance with a clique in London which has, in its historical +continuity, represented boththe worst enemy of the long-term +interests of the American people, and the most implacable +adversary of the progress of the human species.

+ +

Theauthors observed George Bush as the Gulf crisis and the +war unfolded, and had no doubt that his enraged publicoutbursts +constituted real psychotic episodes, indicative of a deranged +mental state that was full of ominous portent for humanity. The +authors were also horrified by the degree to which their fellow +citizens willfully ignored the shocking reality of these public +fits. A majority of the American people proved more than willing +to lend its support to a despicable enterprise of killing.

+ +

By their role-call votes of January 12, 1991, the Senate and +the House ofRepresentatives authorized Bush's planned war +measures to restore the Emir of Kuwait, who owns and holds +chattel slaves. That vote was a crime against God's justice.

+ +

This book is part of an attempt to help the American people to +survive this terrible crime, both for the sake of the world and +for their ownsake. It is intended as a contribution to a +process of education that might help to save the American people +from the awesome destruction of a second Bush presidency. It is +further intended as a warning to all citizens that if they fail +to deny Bush a second term, they will deserve what they get after +1993.

+ +

As this book goes to press, public awareness of the long-term +depression of the American economy is rapidly growing. If Bush +were re-elected, he would view himself as beyond the reach of the +American electorate; with the federal deficit rising over a +billion dollars a day, a second Bush administration would dictate +such crushing austerity as to bring the country to thebrink of +civil war. Some examples of this point are described in the last +chapter of this book.

+ +

Ourgoal has been to assemble as much of the truth about Bush +as possible within thetime constraints imposed bythe 1992 +election. Time and resources have not permitted us meticulous +attention to certain matters of detail; we can say, nevertheless, +that both our commitment to the truth and our final product are +betterthan anythinganyoneelse has been able to muster, +including news organizationsand intelligence agencies with +capabilities that far surpass our own.

+ +

Why do we fight the Bush power cartel with a mere book? We +have no illusions of easy success, but we were encouraged in our +work by the hope that a biography might stimulate opposition to +Bush and his policies.It will certainly pose a new set of +problems for those seeking to get Bush re-elected. For although +Bush is now what journalists call a world leader, no accurate +account of his actual career exists in the public domain.

+ +

Thevolumewhich we submit to the court of world public +opinion is, to the best of our knowledge, the first book-length, +unauthorized biography ofGeorgeBush. It is the first +approximation of the truth about his life. This is the first +biography worthy of the name, a fact that says a great deal about +the sinister and obsessive secrecy of this personage. None of +the other biographies (including Bush's campaign autobiography) +can be takenseriously; each of these books is a pastiche of +lies, distortions and banalities that run the gamut from campaign +panegyric, to the Goebbels Big Lie, to fake but edifying stories +for credulous children. Almost without exception, the available +Bush literature is worthless as a portrait of the subject.

+ +

Bush's family pedigree establishes him as a networkasset of +Brown Brothers Harriman, one of the most powerful political +forces in the United States during much of the twentieth century, +and for many years the largest private bank inthe world. It +suffices in this context to think of Averell Harriman negotiating +duringWorld War IIin the name of the United States with +Churchill and Stalin, or of the role of Brown Brothers Harriman +partner Robert Lovett in guiding John F. Kennedy's choice of his +cabinet, to begin to see the implications of Senator Prescott +Bush's post as managing partner of this bank. Brown Brothers +Harriman networks pervade government and the mass media. Again +and again in the course of the following pages wewill see +stories embarrassing to George Bush refused publication, +documents embarrassing to Bush suspiciously disappear, and +witnesses inculpatoryto Bush be overtaken by mysterious and +conveniently timed deaths. The few relevant facts which have +found their way into the public domain have necessarily been +filtered by this gigantic apparatus. This problemhas been +compounded by thecorruption and servility of authors, +journalists, news executives and publishers who have functioned +more and more as kept advocates for a governmental regime of +which Bush has been a prominent part for a quarter-century.

+ +

The Red Studebaker Myth

+ +

George Bush wants key aspects of his life to remain covert. +At the same time, he senses thathis need for coverup is a +vulnerability.The need to protect this weak flank accounts for +the steady stream of fake biographical material concerning +George, as well as the spin given to many studies that may never +mention Georgedirectly. Over the past several months, we have +seen a new book about Watergate that pretends to tell the public +something newby fingering Al Haig as Deep Throat, but ignoring +the central role of George Bush and his business partners in the +Watergate affair. We have a new book by Lt. Col. Oliver North +which alleges that Reagan knew everything about the Iran-Contra +affair, but that George Bush was not part of North's chain of +command. The latter point merely paraphrasesBush'sown lame +excusethat he was "out of the loop" during all those illegal +transactions. During the hearings on the nomination of Robert +Gates to become director of Central Intelligence, nobody had +anything new to add about the role of George Bush, the boss of +the National Security Council's Special Situation Group crisis +staff that was a command center for the whole affair. These +charades are peddledto a very credulous public by operatives +whose task goes beyond mere damage control to mind control--the +"MK" in the government's MK-Ultra operation.

+ +

Part of the free ride enjoyed by George Bush during the 1988 +elections is reflected in the fact that at no point in the +campaign was there any serious effort byany of the news +organizations to provide the public with an accurate and complete +account of his political career. At least two biographies of +Dukakis appeared which, although hardly critical,were not +uniformly laudatory either. But in the case of Bush, all the +public could turn to was Bush's old 1980 campaign biography and a +newer campaign autobiography, both of them a tissue of lies.

+ +

Early in the course of our research for the present volume it +became apparent that all books and most longerarticles dealing +with the life of George Bush had been generated from a single +print-out of thoroughly approved "facts" about Bush and his +family. We learned that during 1979-80, Bush aide Pete Roussel +attempted to recruit biographers to prepare a life of Bush based +on a collection of press releases, news summaries, and similar +pre-digested material. Most biographical writing about Bush +consists merely of the points from this printout, strung out +chronologically and made into anarrative through the +interpretation of comments, anecdotes, embellishments, or special +stylistic devices.

+ +

Thecanonical Bush-approved printout is readily identified. +One dead giveaway is the inevitability with which the hacks out +to cover up the substance of Bush's life refer to a 1947 red +Studebaker which George Bush allegedly drove into Odessa, Texas +in 1948. This is the sort of detail which has been introduced +into Bush's real life in a deliberate and deceptive attempt to +humanize his image.It has been our experience that any text +that features a reference to Bush's red Studebaker has probably +been derived from Bush's list of approved facts, and is therefore +practically worthless for serious research into Bush's life. We +therefore assign such texts to the "red Studebaker school" of +coverup and falsification.

+ +

Some examples? This is from Bush's campaign autobiography, +{Looking Forward,} ghost-written by his aide Vic Gold:"Heading +into Texas in my Studebaker, all I knewabout the state's +landscape was what I'd seen from the cockpit of a Vultee Vibrator +during my training days in the Navy."s1 +Here is the same moment as recaptured by Bush's crony Fitzhugh +Green, a friend of the Malthusian financier Russell Train, in his +{George Bush: An Intimate Portrait,} published after Bush had won +the presidency: "He (Bush) gassed up his1948 Studebaker, +arranged for his wife and son to follow, and headed for Odessa, +Texas."s2

+ +

Harry Hurt III wrote the followinglines in a 1983 Texas +magazine article that was even decorated with a drawing of what +apparently is supposed to be a Studebaker, but whichdoes not +look like a Studebaker of that vintage at all: "When George +Herbert Walker Bush drove his battered red Studebaker into Odessa +in the summer of 1948, the town's population, though constantly +increasing with newly-arrived oil field hands, was still under +30000."s3

+ +

We see that Harry Hurt has more imagination than many Bush +biographers, and hisarticle does provide a few useful facts. +More degraded is the version offered by Richard Ben Kramer, whose +biography of Bush is expected to be published during 1992. Cramer +was given the unenviable task of breathing life once more into +the same tired old printout. But the very fact that the Bush +team feels that it requires another biography indicates that it +still feels that it has a potential vulnerability here. Cramer +has attempted to solve his problem byrecasting thesame old +garbage into a frenetic and hyperkinetic, we would almost say +{hyperthyroid} style. The following is from an excerpt of this +forthcoming book that was published in {Esquire} in June 1991: +"In June, after the College World Series and graduation day in +New Haven, Poppy packed up his new red Studebaker (a graduation +gift from Pres), and started driving south."s4

+ +

Was that Studebakershiny and new, or old andbattered? +Perhaps the printout is not specific on this point; in any case, +as we see, our authorities diverge.

+ +

Joe Hyams's 1991 romance of Bush at war, the {Flight of the +Avenger,}s5 does notinclude the obligatory "red Studebaker" +reference, but this is more than compensated for bythe most +elaborate fawning over other details of our hero's war service. +The publication of {Flight of the Avenger,} which concentrates on +an heroic retelling of Bush's war record,and ignores all +evidence that might tend to puncture this myth, was timed to +coincide with Bush's war with Iraq. This is a vile tract written +with the open assistance of Bush, Barbara Bush, and the White +House staff. {Flight of the Avenger} recallsthe practice of +totalitarian states according to which a war waged by the regime +should be accompanied by propaganda which depicts the regime's +strong man ina martial posture. In any case, this book deals +with Bush's life up to the end of World War II; we never reach +Odessa.

+ +

Only one of the full-length accounts produced by the Bush +propaganda machine neglects the red Studebaker story. This is +Nicholas King's {George Bush: A Biography,} the first book-length +version of Bush's life, produced as a result of Pete Roussel's +efforts for the 1980 campaign. Nicholas King had served as +Bush'sspokesman when he was U.S.Ambassador to the United +Nations. King admits in his preface that he can be impugned for +writing a work of the most transparent apologetics: "In +retrospect," he says , "this book may seem open to the charge +of puffery, for the view of its subject is favorable all +around."s6 Indeed.

+ +

Books about Barbara Bush slavishly rehearse the same details +from the sameprintout. Here is the relevant excerpt from the +warmly admiring {Simply Barbara Bush: A Portrait ofAmerica's +CandidFirst Lady,} writtenby Donnie Radcliffe and published +after Bush's 1988 election victory: "With $3000 left over after +he graduated in June, 1948, he headed for Texas in the1947 red +Studebaker his father had given him for graduation after George's +car died on the highway."s7

+ +

Even foreign journalists attempting to inform their publics +about conditions in the United States have fallen victim to the +same old Bushprintout. The German author and reporter Rainer +Bonhorst, the former Washington correspondent of the +{Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung,} in his 1988 book {George Bush: +The New Man in the White House,} named a chapter of this Bush +political biography "To Texas in the Red Studebaker." Bonhorst +writesas follows: "Then there was still the matter of the red +Studebaker. It plays--rightafter the world wareffort--a +central role in thelife history of George Bush. It is the +history of his rebellion. The step which made a careless Texan +out of a stiff NewEnglander, a self-made man out ofa +patrician's son, born into wealth.... Thus, George and Barbara +Bush, 24 and23 years old, he having just finished with his +studies, she having prematurely withdrawn from her university and +become a mother a few months earlier, packed their baby and their +suitcases and loaded them into their glaring red Studebaker +coupe.

+ +

"Asupermodern, smart car, certainly somewhat loud for the +New England taste,' the Bushes later recalled. But finally it +departed towards Texas."s8 +We see that Bonhorst isacutely awareof the symbolic +importance assumed by the red Studebaker in these hagiographic +accounts of Bush's life.

+ +

What is finally the truth of the matter? There is good reason +to believe that George Bush did not first come to Odessa, Texas, +in a red Studebaker. One knowledgeable source is the well-known +Texas oil man and Bush campaign contributor Oscar Wyatt of +Houston. In arecentletterto the {Texas Monthly,} Wyatt +specifies that "when people speak of Mr. Bush's humble +beginnings in the oil industry, it should be noted that he rode +down to Texas on Dresser's private aircraft. He was accompanied +by his father, who at that time was one of the directors of +Dresser Industries.... I hate it when people make statements +about Mr. Bush's humble beginnings in the oil industry. It just +didn'thappenthat way," writes Mr. Wyatt.s9 Dresser was a +Harriman company, and Bush got his start working for one of its +subsidiaries.One history of Dresser Industries contains a +photograph of George Bush with his parents, wife, and infant son +"in front of a Dresser company airplane in West Texas."s1s0 Can +this be a photo of Bush's arrival in Odessa during the summer of +1948? In anycase, this most cherished myth ofthe Bush +biographers is very much open to doubt.

+ +

The Roman Propaganda Machine

+ +

Fawning biographies of bloodthirsty tyrants are nothing new in +world literature. The red Studebaker school goes back a long +way; these writers of today can be usefullycompared witha +certain Gaius Velleius Paterculus, who lived in the Roman Empire +under the emperors Augustus and Tiberius, and who was thus an +approximate contemporary of Jesus Christ. Velleius Paterculus was +an historian and biographer who is known today, if at all, for +his biographical notes on the Emperor Tiberius, which are +contained within Paterculus's history of Rome.

+ +

Paterculus,writing underTiberius, gave a very favorable +treatment of Julius Caesar, and became fulsome when he came to +write of Augustus. But the worst excesses of flattery came in +Velleius Paterculus's treatment of Tiberius himself. Here is +part of what he writes about that tyrannical ruler:

+ +

"Of the transactions of the last sixteen years, which have +passed in the view, and are fresh in the memory of all, who shall +presume to give a full account? ... credit has been restored to +mercantile affairs, seditionhas been banished from the forum, +corruption from the Campus Martius, and discord from the +senate-house; justice, equity and industry, which had long lain +buried in neglect, have been revived in the state; authority has +been given to the magistrates, majesty to the senate, and +solemnity to the courts of justice; the bloody riots in the +theatre have been suppressed, and all men have had either a +desire excited in them, or a necessity imposed on them, of acting +with integrity. Virtuous actsare honored, wicked deeds are +punished. The humble respects the powerful, without dreading +him; the powerful takes precedenceof the humble without +condemning him. When were provisions more moderate in price? +When were the blessings of peace more abundant? Augustan peace, +diffused overall the regions of the east and the west, and all +that lies between the south and the north, preserves every corner +of the world free from all dread of predatory molestation. +Fortuitous losses, not only of individuals, but of cities, the +munificence of the prince is ready to relieve. The cities of +Asia have been repaired; the provinces have been secured from the +oppression of their governors. Honor promptly rewards the +deserving, and the punishment of the guilty, ifslow, is +certain. Interest gives place to justice, solicitation to +merit.For the best of princes teaches his countrymen to act +rightly by his own practice; and while he is the greatest in +power, he is still greater in example.

+ +

"Having exhibited a general view of the administration of +Tiberius Caesar, let us now enumerate a few particulars +respecting it.... How formidable a war, excited by the Gallic +chief Sacrovir and Julius Florius, did he suppress, and with such +amazing expedition and energy, that the Roman people learned that +they were conquerors, before they knew that they were at war, and +the news of the victory outstripped the news of the danger! The +African war too, perilous as it was, and daily increasing in +strength, was quickly terminatedunder his auspices and +direction...."s1s1

+ +

All of this was written in praise of the regime that crucified +Jesus Christ, and one of the worst genocidal tyrannies in the +history of the world.Paterculus, we must sadly conclude, was a +sycophant of the Tiberius administration. Some of his themes are +close parallels to the propaganda of today's Bush machine.

+ +

In addition to feeding the personality cult ofTiberius, +Paterculus also lavished praise on Lucius Aelius Sejanus, the +Prefect of the Praetorian Guard and for manyyears Tiberius's +number one favorite, second in command, and likely successor. In +many respectsSejanus was not unlike James Baker III under the +Bush regime. While Tiberius spent all of his time inseclusion +on his island of Capri near Naples, Sejanus assumed day to day +control of the vastempireand its 100 millionsubjects. +Paterculus wrote of Sejanusthat he was "a most excellent +coadjutor in all the toils of government ... aman of pleasing +gravity, and of unaffected cheerfulness ... assuming nothing to +himself." That was the voice of the red Studebaker school in +about 30 A.D. Paterculus should have limited his fawning to +Tiberius himself; somewhat later, the emperor, suspecting a coup +plot, condemned Sejanus andhad him tornlimb from limb in +gruesome retribution.

+ +

But why bring up Rome? Some readers may be scandalized by the +things that truth obliges us to record about a sittingpresident +of the United States. Are we not disrespectful to this high +office? No. One of the reasons for glancing back at Imperial +Rome is to remind ourselves that in times of moral and cultural +degradation like our own, rulers of great evil haveinflicted +incalculable sufferingon humanity.In our modern time of war +and depression, this is once again the case.If Caligula was +possible then, who could claim that the America of the New World +Order should be exempt? Let us therefore tarry for a moment with +these old Romans, because they can show us much about ourselves.

+ +

In order to find Roman writers who tell us anything reliable +about the first dozen emperors, we must wait until the infamous +Julio-Claudian dynastyof Julius Caesar, Augustus,Tiberius, +Caligula, Claudius, Nero, and the rest had entirely passed from +the scene, to be supplanted by new ruling houses. Tiberius +reigned from 14 to 37 A.D.; Caligula, his designated successor, +from 37 to 41 A.D.; and Nero from 54 to 68 A.D. But the first +accurate account of the crimes of some of these emperors comes +from Publius Cornelius Tacitus in about 115-17 A.D., late in the +reign of the emperor Trajan. It was feasible for Tacitus to write +and publish a more realistic account of the Julio-Claudian +emperors because oneof the constant themes of Trajan's +propaganda was to glorify himself as an enlightened emperor +through comparison with the earlier series of bloody tyrants.

+ +

Tacitus manages to convey how the destructivenessof these +emperors in their personal lives correlated with their mass +executions and their genocidal economic policies. Tacitus was +familiar withthe machinery of Roman Imperial power: he was of +senatorial rank, served as consul in Italy in 97 A.D., and was +the governor of theimportant province of western Anatolia +(today's Turkey) which the Romans referred tosimplyas Asia. +Tacitus writes of Tiberius: "... his criminal lusts shamed him. +Their uncontrollable activity was worthy of anoriental tyrant. +Free-born children were his victims. He was fascinated by +beauty, youthful innocence, and aristocratic birth. New names +for types of perversions were invented. Slaves were charged to +locate and procure his requirements.... It was like the sack of +a captured city."

+ +

Tiberius was ableto dominate the legislative branch of his +government, the senate, by subversion and terror: "It was, +indeed, a horrible feature of this period that leading senators +became informers evenon trivial matters--some openly, many +secretly. Friends and relatives were as suspect as strangers, +old stories as damaging as new. Inthe Main Square, ata +dinner-party, a remark on any subject might mean prosecution. +Everyone competed forpriority in marking down the victim. +Sometimes this was self-defense, but mostly it was a sort of +contagion, like an epidemic.... I realize that many writers omit +numerous trials and condemnations, bored by repetition or afraid +that catalogues they themselves have found over-long and dismal +may equally depress their readers.But numerous unrecorded +incidents, which have come to my attention, ought to be known.

+ +

"... Even women were in danger.They could not be charged +with aiming at supreme power. So they were charged with weeping: +one old lady was executed for lamenting her son's death. The +senate decidedthis case.... In the same year the high price of +corn nearly caused riots....

+ +

"Frenzied with bloodshed, (Tiberius) now ordered the +execution of all those arrested for complicity with Sejanus. It +was a massacre. Without discrimination of sex or age, eminence +or obscurity, therethey lay, strewn about--or in heaps. +Relatives and friends were forbidden to stand by or lament them, +or even gaze for long. Guards surrounded them, spying on their +sorrow, and escorted the rotting bodies until, dragged to the +Tiber,they floated away or grounded--with none to cremate or +touch them. Terror had paralyzed human sympathy. The rising +surge of brutality drove compassion away."s1s2

+ +

This is the sameTiberius administration so extravagantly +praised by Velleius Paterculus. +Because of lacunae in the manuscripts of Tacitus's work that +have come down to us, much of what we know of the rule of +Caligula (Gaius Caesar, in power from 37 to 41 A.D.) derives from +{The Lives of the Twelve Caesars,} a book by GaiusSuetonius +Tranquillus. The character and administration of Caligula present +some striking parallels with the subject of the present book.

+ +

Asa stoic, Caligula was a great admirer of his own +"immovable rigor." His motto was "Remember that Ihave the +right to do anything to anybody." He made no secret of his +bloodthirsty vindictiveness. Caligula was a fan of the green +team in the Roman arena, and when the crowd applaudeda +charioteer who wore a different color, Caligula criedout, "I +wish the Roman people had but a single neck." At one of his +state dinnersCaligula burst into a fit of uncontrollable +laughter, andwhen a consul askedhim what was so funny, he +replied that it was the thought that as emperor Caligula had the +power to have the throats of the top officials cut at any time he +chose. Caligula carried this same attitude into his personal +life: whenever he kissed or caressed the neck of his wife or one +of his mistresses, he liked to remark: "Off comes this beautiful +head whenever I give the word."

+ +

Above all, Caligula was vindictive. After his death, two +notebooks were found among his personal papers, one labelled +"The Sword"and the other labelled "The Dagger." These were +lists of the persons he had proscribed and liquidated,and were +the forerunners of the enemies lists and discrediting committee +of today. Suetonius frankly calls Caligula "a monster," and +speculates on thepyschologicalrootsof his criminal +disposition: "I think I may attributeto mental weakness the +existence of two exactly opposite faults in the same person, +extreme assurance and, on theotherhand,excessive +timorousness." Caligula was"full of threats" against "the +barbarians," but at the same time prone to precipitous retreats +and flights of panic. Caligula worked on his "body language" +by "practicing all kinds of terrible and fearsome expressions +before a mirror."

+ +

Caligula built an extension of his palace to connect with the +Temple of Castor and Pollux, and often went there to exhibit +himself as an object of public worship, delighting in being +hailed as "Jupiter Latiaris" by the populace. Later Caligula +would officially opentemples in his own name. Caligula was +brutal in his intimidation of the senate, whose members he +subjected to open humiliations and covert attacks; many senators +were "secretly put to death." "He often inveighed against all +the Senators alike.... He treated the other orders with like +insolence and cruelty." Suetonius recites whole catalogues of +"special instances of his innate brutality" toward persons of +all walks of life. He enjoyed inflicting torture, and revelled +in liquidating political opponents or those who had insulted or +snubbed him in some way. He had a taste for capital executions +as theperfect backdrop for parties and banquets. Caligula also +did everything he could to denigrate the memory of the great men +of past epochs, so that their fame could not eclipse his own: +"He assailed mankind of almost every epoch with no less envy and +malice than insolence and cruelty. He threw down the statues of +famous men" and tried to destroy all the texts of Homer.

+ +

Caligula "respected neither his own chastity nor that of any +one else." He was reckless in his extravagance, and soon emptied +out the imperial treasury of all the funds that old Tiberius had +squirreled away there. After that, Caligula tried to replenish +his coffers through a system of spies, false accusations, +property seizures, and public auctions. He also "levied new and +unheard-of taxes," to the point that "no class of commodities +was exempt from some kind of tax or other." Caligula taxed all +foodstuffs, took a fortiethof the award in any lawsuit, an +eighth of the daily wages of the porters, and demandedthat the +prostitutes pay him a daily fee equal to the average price +charged to each individual customer. (It is rumored that this +part of Caligula's career is under study by those planning George +Bush's second term.) Caligula also opened a brothel in his palace +as anadditional source of income, which may prefigure today's +White House staff. Among Caligula's moresingular hobbies +Suetonius includes his love of rolling and wallowing in piles of +gold coins.

+ +

Caligula kept his wife, Caesonia (describedby Suetonius as +"neither beautiful nor young") with him until the very end. +But his greatest devotion was to his horse, whom he made consul +of theRoman state. Ultimately Caligula fell victim to a +conspiracy of the Praetorian Guard, led by the tribune Gaius +Chaerea, a man whomCaligula had taken special delight in +humiliating.s1s3

+ +

The authors of the present study are convinced that these +references tothe depravityof the Roman emperors, and to the +records of that depravity provided by such authors as Tacitus and +Suetonius, are directly germane to our present task offollowing +the career of a member of the senatorial class of the +Anglo-American elite through the various stages of hisformation +and ultimate ascent to imperial power. The Roman Imperial model +is germane because the American rulingelite of today is far +closerto the world of Tiberius and Caligula than it is to the +world of the American Revolution or the Constitutional Convention +of 1789. The leitmotif of modern American presidential politics +is unquestionably an imperial theme, most blatantly expressed by +Bush in his slogan for 1990, "The NewWorld Order," and for +1991, the "pax universalis." The central project of the Bush +presidency isthe creation and consolidation of a single, +universal Anglo-American (orAnglo-Saxon) empire very directly +modelled on the various phases of the Roman Empire.

+ +

The Olympian Delusion

+ +

There is one other aspect of the biographical-historical +methodof the Graeco-Roman world which we have sought to borrow. +Ever since Thucydides composed hismonumental work on the +PeloponnesianWar, those who have sought to imitate his +style--with the Roman historian Titus Livius prominent among +them--have employed the device of attributing long speeches to +historical personages, even when it appears very unlikely that +such lengthy orations could have been made by the protagonists at +the time. This has nothing to do with the synthetic dialogue of +current American political writing, which attempts to present +historical events asa series of trivial and banal soap-opera +exchanges, which carry on for such interminable lengths as to +suggest that the authors are getting paid by the word. Our idea +of fidelity to the classical style has simply been to let George +Bush speak for himself wherever possible, through direct +quotation. We are convinced that by letting Bush express himself +directly in this way, we afford the reader a more faithful--and +damning--account of Bush's actions.

+ +

George Bush might agreethat "history is biography," +although we suspect that he would not agree with any of our other +conclusions. There may be a few peculiarities of the present +work as biography that are worthy of explanation at the outset.

+ +

Oneof our basic theses is that George Bush is, and considers +himself to be, an oligarch. The notion of oligarchy includes +first of all the idea of a patrician and wealthy family capable +of introducing its offspring into such elite institutions as +Andover, Yale,and Skull and Bones. Oligarchy also subsumes the +self-conception of the oligarch as belonging to a special, +exalted breed of mankind, one that is superior to the common run +of mankind as a matter of hereditary genetic superiority. This +mentality generallygoes togetherwith a fascination for +eugenics, race science and just plain racism as a means of +building a case that one's own family tree and racial stock are +indeed superior. These notions of "breeding" are a constant in +the history of the titled feudal aristocracy of Europe, +especially Britain, towards inclusion in which an individual like +Bush must necessarily strive.At the very least, oligarchs like +Bush see themselves as demigods occupying a middle ground between +the immortals above and the {hoi polloi} below. The culmination +of this insane delusion, which Bush has demonstrably long since +attained, is the obsessive belief that the principal families of +the Anglo-American elite, assembled in their freemasonic orders, +by themselves directly constitute an Olympian Pantheon of living +deities who have the capability of abrogating and disregarding +the laws of the universe according to their own irrational +caprice. If we do not take into account this element of fatal +and megalomaniac hubris, the lunatic Anglo-American policies in +regardto the Gulf War, international finance, or the AIDS +epidemic must defy all comprehension.

+ +

Part of the ethos of oligarchism as practiced by George Bush +is theemphasis on one's own family pedigree.This accounts for +the attention we dedicate in the opening chapters of this book to +Bush's family tree, reaching back to the nineteenth century and +beyond. It is impossible to gain insight into Bush's mentality +unless we realize that it is important for him to be considered a +cousin, however distant, of Queen Elizabeth II of theHouse of +Mountbatten-Windsor and for his wife Barbara to be viewed in some +sense a descendant of President Franklin Pierce.

+ +

The Family Firm

+ +

Forrelated reasons, it is our special duty to illustrate the +role played in the formation of George Bush as a personality by +his maternal grandfather and uncle, George Herbert Walker and +George Herbert Walker, Jr., and by George H.W. Bush's father, the +late Senator Prescott Bush. In the course of this task, we must +speak at length about the institution to which George Bush owes +the most, the Wall Street international investment bank of Brown +Brothers Harriman, the political and financial powerhouse +mentioned above. For George Bush, Brown Brothers Harriman was +and remains the family firm in the deepest sense. The formidable +power of this bank and its ubiquitous network, wielded by Senator +Prescott Bush up through the time of his death in 1972, and still +activeon George's behalf down to the present day, is the single +most important key to every step of George'sbusiness, covert +operations, and political career.

+ +

In the case of George Bush, as many who have known him +personally have noted, the networklooms much larger than +George's own character and will. The reader will search in vain +for strong principled commitments in George Bush's personality; +the most that will be found is a series of characteristic +obsessions, of which the most durable are race, vanity, personal +ambition, and settling scores with adversaries. What emerges by +contrast is the decisive importance of Bush's network of +connections. His response to the Gulf crisis of 1991 will be +largely predetermined, not by any great flashes of geopolitical +insight, but rather by his connections to the British oligarchy, +to Kissinger, to Israeli and Zionist circles, to Texas oilmen in +his fundraising base, to the Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti royal +houses. If the question is one of finance, then the opinions of +J. Hugh Liedtke, Henry Kravis, Robert Mosbacher,T. Boone +Pickens, Nicholas Brady, James Baker III and the City of London +will be decisive. If covert operations and dirty tricks are on +the agenda, then there is a whole stable of CIA old boys with +whom he will consult, and so on down the line. During much of +1989, despite his control over the presidency, Bush appeared as a +weak and passive executive, waiting for his networks to show him +what it was he was supposed to do. When German reunification and +the crumblingof the Soviet empire spurred those--primarily +British--networks intoaction, Bush was suddenly capable of +violent and daring adventures. As his battle for a second term +approaches, Bush may be showing increasing signs of a rage-driven +self-starter capability, especially when it comes to starting new +wars designed to secure his re-election.

+ +

The United States in Decline

+ +

Biography has itsown inherent discipline: Itmust be +concerned with the life of its protagonist, and cannot stray too +far away. In no way has it been our intention tooffer an +account of American history during the lifetime of George Bush. +The present study neverthelessreflects manyaspects of that +recent historyof U.S. decline. It will be noted that Bush has +succeeded in proportion as the country has failed,and that +Bush's advancement has proceeded {paripassu}with the +degradation of the national stage upon which he has operated and +which he has come to dominate. At various phases in his career, +Bush has come into conflict with persons who were intellectually +and morally superior to him. Onesuch was Senator Ralph +Yarborough, and another was Senator Frank Church. Our study will +be found to catalogue the constant decline in the qualities of +Bush's adversaries as human types until the 1980s, by which time +his opponents, as in the case of Al Haig, are no better than Bush +himself.

+ +

Theexception to this trend is Bush's long-standing personal +vendetta against Lyndon LaRouche, his most consistent and capable +adversary. LaRouche was jailed seven days after Bush's +inauguration in the most infamous political frameup of recent +U.S. history. As our study will document, at critical moments in +Bush's career, LaRouche's political interventions have frustrated +some of Bush's best-laid political plans: A very clear example is +LaRouche's role in defeating Bush's 1980 presidential bid in the +New Hampshire primary. Over the intervening years, LaRouche has +become George Bush's "man in the iron mask," the principled +political adversary whom Bush seeks to jail and silence at all +costs.The restoration of justice in this country must include +the freeing of Lyndon LaRouche, LaRouche's political associates, +and all the other political prisoners of the Bush regime.

+ +

As for the political relevance of our project, we think that +it is very real. During the Gulf crisis, it would have been +important for the public to know more about Bush's business +dealings withthe Royal Family ofKuwait. During the 1992 +presidential campaign, as Wall Street's recent crop ofjunk-bond +assisted leveraged buyouts line up at the entrance to bankruptcy +court, and state workers all across the United States are +informed that the retirement pensions they had been promised will +never be paid, the relations between George Bush and Henry Kravis +will surely constitute an explosive political issue. Similarly, +once Bush's British and Kissingerian pedigree is recognized, the +methods he is likely to pursue in regard to situations such as +the planned Romanian-style overthrow of the Castro regime in +Cuba, or theprovocation of a splendid little nuclear war +involving North Korea, or of a new Indo-Pakistani war, will +hardly be mysterious.

+ +

Theauthors have been at some pains to makethis work +intelligible to readers around the world. We offer this book to +those who share our aversion to the imperialist-colonialist New +World Order, and our profound horror at the concept ofa return +to a single, worldwide Roman Empire as suggested by Bush's "pax +universalis" slogan. This work is tangible evidence that there +is anopposition to Bush inside the United States, and that the +new Caligula is very vulnerable indeed on the level of the +exposure of his own misdeeds.

+ +

It will be argued that this book should have been published +before the 1988 election, when a Bush presidency might have been +avoided. That is certainly true, but it is an objection which +should also be directed to many institutions and agencies whose +resources far surpassour modest capabilities. We can only +remind our fellow citizens that when he asks for their votes for +his re-election, George Bush also enters that court of public +opinion in which he is obliged to answer their questions. They +shouldnot waste this opportunity to grill him on all aspects of +his career and future intentions, since it is Bush who comes +forward appealing for their support. To aid in this process, we +have provided a list of TwentyQuestions forCandidate George +Bush on the campaign trail, and this will be found in the +appendix.

+ +

We do not delude ourselves that we have said the last word +about George Bush. But we have for the first time sketched out at +least some of the most salient features and gathered them into a +comprehensible whole. We encourage an aroused citizenry, as well +as specialized researchers, to improve upon what we have been +able to accomplish.In sodoing, we recall the words of the +Florentine Giovanni Boccaccio when he reluctantly accepted the +order of a powerful king to produce an account of the old Roman +Pantheon: "If I don't succeed completely in this exposition, at +least I will provide a stimulus for the better work of others who +are wiser."--Boccaccio, {Genealogy of the National Gods} +{To be continued.}

+ +

Notes

+ +

1. George Bush andVic Gold, {Looking Forward,} (New York: +Doubleday, 1987), p. 47.

+ +

2. +Fitzhugh Green, {Looking Forward,} (New York: Hippocrene, 1989), +p. 53.

+ +

3. Harry Hurt III, "George Bush, Plucky Lad," {TexasMonthly,} +June, 1983, p.142.

+ +

4. Richard Ben Cramer, "How He Got Here," {Esquire,} June, +1991, p. 84.

+ +

5. Joe Hyams, {Flight of the Avenger} (New York, 1991).

+ +

6. +Nicholas King, {George Bush: A Biography} (New York, Dodd, Mead, +1980), p. xi.

+ +

7. Donnie Radcliffe, {Simply Barbara Bush,} (New York: Warner, +1989), p. 103.

+ +

8. Rainer Bonhorst, {George Bush, Der Neue Mann im Weissen Haus,} +(Bergisch Gladbach: Gustav Luebbe Verlag, 1988), pp. 80-81.

+ +

9. See "TheRoar of the Crowd," {Texas Monthly,} November, +1991. See also Jan Jarboe, "Meaner Than a Junkyard Dog," {Texas +Monthly,} April 1991, p. 122 ff. Here Wyatt observes: "I knew +from the beginning George Bush came to Texas only because he was +politically ambitious.He flew out here on an airplane owned by +Dresser Industries. His daddy was a member of the board of +Dresser."

+ +

10. Darwin Payne, {Initiative in Energy} (NewYork: Simon and +Shuster, 1979), p. 233.

+ +

11. John Selby Watson (translator), {Sallust, Florus, and +Velleius Paterculus} (London: George Bell andSon, 1879), pp. +542-46.

+ +

12. CorneliusTacitus, {The Annals of Imperial Rome} (Penguin, +1962), pp. 193-221.

+ +

13. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, {The Lives of the Twelve +Caesars} (New York: Modern Library,1931),pp. 165-204, { +passim.

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Any comments, please send by email, as I get very far behind on +this group.

+ +

Thanks.

+ +

John Covici

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Article 15244 of alt.activism: +From: covici@ccs.covici.com (John Covici) +Newsgroups: alt.activism +Subject: Part 2: George Bush Unauthorized Biography + mV3LeB1w164w@ccs.covici.com +Date: 15 Jan 92 21:58:09 GMT +Organization: Covici Computer Systems +Lines: 1495

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The followingis from the New Federalist serialization of a +forthcoming book concerning George Bush.

+ +

For further information or to subscribe to New Federalist, please +contact me by e-mail.

+ +

CHAPTER 2 THE HITLER PROJECT

+ +

1. Bush Property Seized--Trading with the Enemy

+ +

In October 1942, ten months after entering World War II, America +was preparingits first assault against Nazi military forces. +Prescott Bush was managing partner of Brown BrothersHarriman. +His 18-year-old son George, the future U.S. President, had just +begun training to become a naval pilot.

+ +

On October 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure +of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were +being conducted by Prescott Bush.

+ +

Under the {Trading with the Enemy Act}, the government took +over the {Union Banking Corporation,} in which Bush was a +director. The U.S. Alien Property Custodian seized Union Banking +Corp.'s stock shares, all of which were owned by Prescott Bush, +E. Roland "Bunny" Harriman, three Nazi executives, and two +other associates of Bush.s1

+ +

The order seizing the bank "vest[ed] [seized] all of the +capital stock of Union Banking Corporation, aNew York +corporation," and named the holders of its shares as:

+ +

sb|"E. Roland Harriman--3991 shares." Harriman was chairman +and director of Union Banking Corp. (UBC); this is"Bunny" +Harriman, described by Prescott Bush as a place holder who didn't +get much into banking affairs; Prescott managed his personal +investments.

+ +

sb|"Cornelis Lievense--4 shares." Lievense was president and +director of UBC, and a New York resident banking functionary for +the Nazis.

+ +

sb|"Harold D. Pennington--1 share." Pennington was treasurer +and director of UBC, and an office manager employed by Bush at +Brown Brothers Harriman.

+ +

sb|"Ray Morris--1 share." Morris was director of UBC, anda +partner of Bush and the Harrimans.

+ +

sb|"Prescott S. Bush--1 share." Bush was director of UBC, +which was co-founded and sponsored by his father-in-law George +Walker; he was senior managing partner for E. Roland Harriman and +Averell Harriman.

+ +

sb|"H.J. Kouwenhoven--1 share" Kouwenhoven was director of +UBC; he organized UBCas the emissary of Fritz Thyssen in +negotiations with George Walker and Averell Harriman; he was also +managing director ofUBC's Netherlands affiliate under Nazi +occupation; industrial executive inNazi Germany,and also +director and chief foreign financial executive of the German +Steel Trust.

+ +

sb|"Johann G. Groeninger--1 share." Groeninger was director +of UBC and of its Netherlands affiliate; he was an industrial +executive in Nazi Germany.

+ +

The order also specified: "all of which shares areheld for +the benefit of ... membersof the Thyssen family, [and] is +property of nationals ... of a designated enemy country...."

+ +

By October 26, 1942, U.S. troops were underway for North +Africa. On October 28, the government issued orders seizing two +Nazi front organizations run by theBush-Harriman bank: the +{Holland-American Trading Corporation} and the {Seamless Steel +Equipment Corporation.}s2

+ +

U.S. forces landed under fire nearAlgiers on November 8, +1942; heavy combat raged throughout November. Nazi interests in +the {Silesian-American Corporation,} long managed by Prescott +Bush and his father-in-law George Herbert Walker, were seized +under the Trading with the Enemy Act on November 171942. In +this action, the government announced that it was seizing only +the Nazi interests, leaving the Nazis' U.S. partners to carry on +the business.s3

+ +

These and other actions taken by the U.S. government in +wartime were, tragically, too little and too late.President +Bush'sfamily had already played a central role in financing and +arming Adolf Hitler for his takeover of Germany; in financing and +managing the buildup of Nazi war industries for the conquest of +Europe and war against the U.S.A.; and in the development of Nazi +genocide theories and racial propaganda, with their well-known +results.

+ +

The facts presented here must be known, and their implications +reflected upon, for a proper understanding ofPresident George +Herbert Walker Bush and ofthe danger to mankind that he +represents. The President's family fortune was largely a result +of theHitlerproject. The powerful Anglo-American family +associations, which later boosted him into the Central +Intelligence Agency and up to the White House, were his father's +partners in the Hitler project.

+ +

President Franklin Roosevelt's Alien Property Custodian, Leo +T. Crowley, signed Vesting Order Number 248 seizing the property +of Prescott Bush under the Trading with Enemy Act. The order, +published in obscure government record books and kept out of the +news,s4 explained nothing about the Nazis involved; only that the +Union BankingCorporation was run for the "Thyssen family" of +"Germany and/or Hungary"--"nationals ... of a designated enemy +country."

+ +

By deciding that Prescott Bush and the other directors of the +Union BankingCorp. were legally {front men for the Nazis}, the +government avoided the more important historical issue: In what +way {were Hitler's Nazis themselves hired, armed, and instructed +by} the New York and London clique of which Prescott Bush was an +executive manager? Let us examinethe Harriman-Bush Hitler +project from the 1920s until it was partially broken up, to seek +an answer for that question.

+ +

2. Origin and Extent of the Project

+ +

Fritz Thyssen andhis business partners are universally +recognized as the most important German financiersof Adolf +Hitler's takeover ofGermany. At the time of the order seizing +the Thyssen family's Union Banking Corp., Mr. Fritz Thyssen had +already published his famous book, {I Paid Hitler},s5 admitting +that he had financed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement since +October 1923.Thyssen's role as the leading early backer of +Hitler's grab for power in Germany had been noted by U.S. +diplomats in Berlin in 1932.s6 The order seizing the Bush-Thyssen +bank was curiously quiet and modest about the identity of the +perpetrators who had been nailed.

+ +

Buttwo weeks before the official order, government +investigators had reported secretly that "W. Averell Harriman +was in Europe sometime prior to 1924 and at that time became +acquainted with Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist." +Harriman and Thyssen agreed to set up a bank for Thyssen in New +York. "[C]ertain of[Harriman's] associates would serve as +directors...." Thyssen agent "H.J. Kouwenhoven ... came to the +United States ... prior to 1924 for conferences with the Harriman +Company in this connection...."s7

+ +

When exactly was "Harriman in Europe sometimeprior to +1924"? In fact, he was in Berlin in 1922 to set up the Berlin +branch of W.A. Harriman & Co. under George Walker's presidency.

+ +

The Union Banking Corporation wasestablished formally in +1924, as a unit in the Manhattan offices of W.A. Harriman & Co., +interlocking with the Thyssen-owned {Bank voor Handel en +Scheepvaart} (BHS) inthe Netherlands. The investigators +concluded that "theUnion BankingCorporation has since its +inception handled funds chiefly supplied to it through the Dutch +bank by the Thyssen interests for American investment."

+ +

Thus by personal agreement between Averell Harriman and Fritz +Thyssen in 1922, W.A. Harriman & Co. (alias Union Banking +Corporation) would be transferring funds back and forth between +New York and the "Thyssen interests" in Germany. By putting up +about $400000, the Harriman organization would be joint owner +and manager of Thyssen's banking operations outside of Germany.

+ +

{How important was the Nazienterprise for whichPresident +Bush's father was the New York banker?}

+ +

The 1942 U.S. government investigative report said that Bush's +Nazi-front bank was an interlocking concern with the Vereinigte +Stahlwerke (United Steel Works Corporation or {German Steel +Trust}) led by FritzThyssen and his two brothers.After the +war, congressional investigators probed the Thyssen interests, +Union Banking Corp. and related Nazi units.The investigation +showed that the Vereinigte Stahlwerke had produced thefollowing +approximate proportions of total German national output: "50.8% +of Nazi Germany's pig iron; 41.4% of Nazi Germany'suniversal +plate;36.0% of Nazi Germany's heavy plate; 38.5% of Nazi +Germany's galvanized sheet; 45.5% of Nazi Germany's pipes and +tubes;22.1% of Nazi Germany's wire; 35.0% of Nazi Germany's +explosives."s8

+ +

This accounts for many, many Nazi submarines, bombs, rifles, +gas chambers, etc.

+ +

Prescott Bush became vice president of W.A. Harriman & Co. in +1926. That same year, a friend of Harriman and Bush set up a +giant new organization for their client Fritz Thyssen, prime +sponsor of politician Adolf Hitler. The new {German Steel Trust,} +Germany's largest industrial corporation, was organized in 1926 +by Wall Street banker Clarence Dillon. Dillon was the old comrade +of Prescott Bush's father Sam Bush from the "Merchants of +Death" bureau in World War I.

+ +

In return for putting up $70 millionto create his +organization, majority owner Thyssen gave the Dillon Read company +two or more representativeson the boardof the new Steel +Trust.s9

+ +

Thus there is a division of labor: Thyssen's own confidential +accounts, forpolitical and related purposes, were run through +the Walker-Bush organization; the Steel Trust did itscorporate +banking through Dillon Read.

+ +

TheWalker-Bush firm's banking activities werenot just +politically neutral money-making ventures which happened to +coincide withthe aims of German Nazis. All of the firm's +European business in those days was organized around +anti-democratic political forces.

+ +

In 1927, criticism of their support for totalitarianism drew +this retort from BertWalker, written fromKennebunkport to +Averell Harriman: "It seems to me that the suggestion in +connection with Lord Bearsted's views that we withdraw from +Russia smacks somewhat of the impertinent.... I think that we +have drawn our line and should hew to it."s1s0

+ +

Averell Harriman met with Italy's fascistdictator, Benito +Mussolini. A representative of the firm subsequently telegraphed +good news back to his chief executive Bert Walker: "... During +these last days ... Mussolini ... has examined and approved our +c[o]ntract 15 June."s1s1

+ +

Thegreat financial collapse of1929-31 shook America, +Germany, and Britain,weakening all governments. It also made +the hard-pressed Prescott Bush even more willing to do whatever +was necessary to retain his new place in the world.It was in +this crisis that certain Anglo-Americans determined on the +installation of a Hitler regime in Germany.

+ +

W.A. Harriman & Co., well-positioned for this enterprise and +rich in assets from their German and Russianbusiness, merged +with the British-American investment house, Brown Brothers, on +January 1, 1931. Bert Walker retired to his own G.H.Walker& +Co. This left the Harriman brothers, Prescott Bush, and Thatcher +M. Brown as the senior partners ofthe new Brown Brothers +Harriman firm. (The London, England branch of the Brown family +firm continued operating under its historic name--Brown, +Shipley.)

+ +

Robert A. Lovett also came over as a partner from Brown +Brothers. His father, E.H. Harriman's lawyer and railroad chief, +had been on the War Industries Board with Prescott's father. +Though he remained a partner in Brown Brothers Harriman, the +juniorLovettsoon replacedhis father as chief exexcutive of +Union Pacific Railroad.

+ +

Brown Brothers had a racial tradition that fitted it well for +the Hitler project. American patriots had cursed its name back +in Civil War days. Brown Brothers, with offices in the U.S.A. +and in England, had carried on their ships fully 75 percent of +the slave cotton from the American South overto British mill +owners; through their usurious credit they controlled and +manipulated the slave-owners.

+ +

Now, in 1931, the virtual dictator of world finance, Bank of +England Governor Montagu Collet Norman, was a former Brown +Brothers partner, whose grandfather had been bossof Brown +Brothers during the U.S. Civil War. Montagu Norman was known as +the most avidof Hitler's supporters within British ruling +circles, and Norman's intimacy with this firm was essential to +his management of the Hitler project.

+ +

In 1931, while Prescott Bush ran the New York office of Brown +Brothers Harriman, Prescott's partner wasMontagu Norman's +intimate friend Thatcher Brown. The Bank of England chief always +stayedat the home of Prescott's partner on his hush-hush trips +to New York. Prescott Bush concentrated on the firm's German +actitivites, and Thatcher Brown saw to their business in old +England, under the guidance of his mentor Montagu Norman.s1s2

+ +

3. Hitler's Ladder to Power

+ +

Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany January 30, 1933, +and absolute dictator in March 1933, after two years of expensive +and violent lobbying and electioneering. Two affiliates of the +Bush-Harriman organization played great parts in this criminal +undertaking:Thyssen's German Steel Trust;and the +Hamburg-Amerika Line and several of its executives.s1s3

+ +

Letus look moreclosely at the Bushfamily's German +partners.

+ +

{Fritz Thyssen} told Allied interrogators after the war about +some of his financial support for the Nazi Party: "In 1930 or +1931 ... I told [Hitler's deputy Rudolph]Hess ... I would +arrange a credit for him with a Dutch bank in Rotterdam, the Bank +fuaur Handel und Schiff [i.e. Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart +(BHS), the Harriman-Bush affiliate].I arranged the credit ... +he would pay it back in three years.... I chose a Dutch bank +because I did not want to be mixed up with German banks in my +position, and because I thought it was better to do business with +a Dutch bank, and I thought I would have the Nazis a little more +in my hands....

+ +

"The credit was about 250-300000 [gold] marks--about the sum +I had given before. The loan has been repaid in part to the +Dutch bank, but I think some money is still owing on it...."s1s4

+ +

The overall total of Thyssen's political donations and loans +to the Nazis was well over a million dollars, including funds he +raised from others--in a period of terrible money-shortage in +Germany.

+ +

{Friedrich Flick} was the major co-owner of the German Steel +Trust with Fritz Thyssen, Thyssen's longtimecollaborator and +sometime competitor. In preparation for the war crimes tribunal +at Nuremberg, the U.S.government said that Flick was"one of +leading financiers and industrialists who from 1932 contributed +large sums to the Nazi Party ... member of 'Circle of Friends' of +Himmler who contributed large sums to the SS."s1s5

+ +

Flick, like Thyssen, financed the Nazis to maintain their +private armies called Schutzstaffel (S.S. or Black Shirts) and +Sturmabteilung (S.A., storm troops or Brown Shirts).

+ +

The Flick-Harriman partnership was directly supervised by +Prescott Bush, President Bush's father, and by George Walker, +President Bush's grandfather.

+ +

The Harriman-Walker Union Banking Corp. arrangements for the +GermanSteel Trust had made them bankers for Flick and his vast +operations in Germany by no later than 1926.

+ +

The {Harriman Fifteen Corporation} (George Walker, president, +Prescott Bushand Averell Harriman, sole directors) held a +substantial stake in the Silesian Holding Co. at the time of the +merger with Brown Brothers, January1, 1931. This holding +correlated to Averell Harriman's chairmanshipof the +{Consolidated Silesian SteelCorporation,} the American group +owning one-third of a complex of steelmaking, coal-mining and +zinc-mining activities in Germany and Poland, in which Friedrich +Flick owned two-thirds.s1s6

+ +

The Nuremberg prosecutor characterized Flick as follows:

+ +

"Proprietor and head ofa large group of industrial +enterprises (coal and iron mines, steel producing and fabricating +plants) ... 'Wehrwirtschaftsfuehrer,' 1938[title awarded to +prominent industrialists for merit in armaments drive--'Military +Economy Leader']...."s1s7

+ +

Forthis buildup of the Hitler war machine with coal, steel, +and arms production, using slave laborers, the Nazi Flick was +condemned to seven years in prison at the Nuremberg trials; he +served three years. With friends in New York and London, +however, Flick lived into the 1970s and died a billionaire.

+ +

On March 19, 1934, Prescott Bush--then director of the German +Steel Trust's Union Banking Corporation--initiated analert to +the absent Averell Harriman about a problem which had developed +in the Flick partnership.s1s8 Bush sent Harriman a clipping from +the {New York Times} of that day, which reported that the Polish +government was fighting back against American and German +stockholders who controlled "Poland's largest industrial unit, +the Upper Silesian Coal and Steel Company...."

+ +

The {Times} article continued: "The company has long been +accused of mismanagement,excessive borrowing, fictitious +bookkeeping and gambling in securities. Warrants were issued in +December for several directors accused of tax evasions. They +were German citizens and they fled. They were replaced by Poles. +Herr Flick, regarding this as an attempt to make thecompany's +board entirely Polish, retaliated by restricting credits until +the new Polish directors were unable to pay the workmen +regularly."

+ +

The{Times} noted that the company's mines and mills "employ +25000 men and account for 45 percent of Poland's total steel +output and 12 percent of her coal production.Two-thirds of the +company's stock is owned by Friedrich Flick, a leading German +steel industrialist, and the remainder is owned by interests in +the United States."

+ +

In view of the fact that a great deal of Polish output was +being exported to Hitler's Germany under depression conditions, +the Polish government thought that Bush, Harriman, and their Nazi +partners should at least pay fulltaxes on their Polish +holdings. The U.S. and Nazi owners responded with a lockout. +The letter to Harriman in Washington reported a cable from their +European representative: "Have undertaken new steps London +Berlin... please establishfriendly relations with Polish +Ambassador [in Washington]."

+ +

A 1935 Harriman Fifteen Corporation memo from George Walker +announced an agreement had been made "in Berlin" to sell an +8000 block of their shares in Consolidated Silesian Steel.s1s9 +But the dispute with Poland did not deter the Bush family from +continuing its partnership with Flick.

+ +

Nazi tanksand bombs "settled" this dispute in September, +1939 with the invasion of Poland, beginning World War II. The +Nazi army had been equipped by Flick, Harriman, Walker, and Bush, +with materials essentially stolen from Poland.

+ +

There were probably fewpeopleat the time who could +appreciate the irony, that when the Soviets also attacked and +invaded Poland from the East, their vehicles were fueled by oil +pumpedfrom Baku wells revived bythe Harriman/Walker/Bush +enterprise.

+ +

Three years later, nearly a year after the Japanese attack on +Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of the +Nazis'share in theSilesian-American Corporationunder the +Trading with the Enemy Act. Enemy nationals were said to own 49 +percent of the common stock and 41.67 percent of the preferred +stock of the company.

+ +

The order characterized the company as a "business enterprise +within the United States, owned by [a front company in] Zurich, +Switzerland, and held for the benefit of Bergwerksgesellschaft +George von Giesche's Erben, a German corporation...."s2s0

+ +

Bert Walker was still the senior directorof the company, +which he hadfounded back in 1926 simultaneously with the +creation of the German Steel Trust. Ray Morris, Prescott's +partner from Union Banking Corp. and Brown Brothers Harriman, was +also a director.

+ +

Theinvestigative report prior to the government crackdown +explained the "NATURE OF BUSINESS: The subject corporation is an +American holding company for German and Polish subsidiaries, +which own large andvaluable coal and zinc mines in Silesia, +Poland and Germany. Since September 1939, these properties have +been in the possession of and have been operated by the German +government and have undoubtedly been of considerable assistance +to that country in its war effort."s2s1

+ +

Thereportnoted that the American stockholders hoped to +regain control of the European properties after the war.

+ +

4. Control of Nazi Commerce

+ +

Bert Walker had arranged the credits Harriman needed to take +control of the Hamburg-Amerika Line back in 1920. Walker had +organized the {American Ship and Commerce Corp.} as a unit of the +W.A.Harriman & Co., with contractual power over +Hamburg-Amerika's affairs.

+ +

As the Hitler project went into high gear, Harriman-Bush +shares in American Ship and Commerce Corp. were held by the +Harriman Fifteen Corp., run by Prescott Bush and Bert Walker.s2s2

+ +

It was a convenient stroll for the well-tanned, athletic, +handsome Prescott Bush. From the Brown Brothers Harriman +skyscraper at59 Wall Street--where he was senior managing +partner, confidential investments manager and advisor to Averell +and his brother "Bunny"--he walked across to the Harriman +Fifteen Corporation at One Wall Street, otherwise known as G.H. +Walker& Co.--and around the corner to his subsidiary offices at +39 Broadway, former home of the old W.A. Harriman &Co., and +still the offices for American Ship and Commerce, and of the +Union Banking Corporation.

+ +

In many ways, Bush's Hamburg-Amerika Line was the pivot for +the entire Hitler project.

+ +

Averell Harriman and Bert Walker had gained control over the +steamship company in 1920 in negotiations with its post-World War +I chief executive, {Wilhelm Cuno}, and with the line's bankers, +M.M. Warburg.Cuno was thereafter completely dependent on the +Anglo-Americans, and became a member of the Anglo-German +Friendship Society.In the 1930-32 drive fora Hitler +dictatorship, Wilhelm Cuno contributed important sums to the Nazi +Party.s2s3

+ +

{Albert Voegler} was chiefexecutive of the Thyssen-Flick +GermanSteel Trust for which Bush's Union Banking Corp. was the +New York office. He was a director of the Bush-affiliate BHS +Bank in Rotterdam, and a director of the Harriman-Bush +Hamburg-Amerika Line. Voegler joined Thyssen and Flickin their +heavy 1930-33Nazi contributions, and helped organize the final +Nazi leap into national power.s2s4

+ +

The {Schroeder} family of bankers was a linchpin for the Nazi +activities ofHarriman and Prescott Bush, closely tied to their +lawyers Allen and John Foster Dulles.

+ +

Baron Kurt von Schroeder was co-director of the massive +Thyssen-Huettefoundry alongwith Johann Groeninger, Prescott +Bush's New York bank partner. Kurt von Schroeder wastreasurer +of the support organization for the Nazi Party's private armies, +to which Friedrich Flick contributed.Kurt von Schroeder and +Montagu Norman's proteaageaaHjalmar Schacht together made the +final arrangments for Hitler to enter the government.s2s5

+ +

Baron Rudolph von Schroeder was vice president and director of +the Hamburg-Amerika Line. Long an intimate contact of Averell +Harriman's inGermany, Baron Rudolph sent his grandson Baron +Johann Rudolph for a tour ofPrescott Bush's Brown Brothers +Harriman offices in New York City in December 1932--on the eve of +their Hitler-triumph.s2s6

+ +

Certain actions taken directly by the Harriman-Bush shipping +line in 1932 must be ranked among the gravest acts of treason in +this century.

+ +

TheU.S. Embassy in Berlin reported back to Washington that +the "costly election campaigns" and "the cost of maintaining a +private army of 300000 to 400000 men" had raised questions as +to theNazis'financial backers. The constitutional government +of the German republic movedto defend national freedom by +ordering the Nazi Party private armies disbanded. The U.S. +Embassy reported that the {Hamburg-Amerika Line was purchasing +and distributing propaganda attacks against the German +government, for attempting this last-minute crackdown on Hitler's +forces.}s2s7

+ +

Thousands of German opponents ofHitlerism were shot or +intimidated by privately armed Nazi BrownShirts. In this +connection, we note that the original "Merchant of Death," +SamuelPryor,was a founding director of both the Union Banking +Corp. and the American Ship and Commerce Corp.Since Mr. Pryor +was executive committee chairman of Remington Arms and a central +figure in the world's private arms traffic, his use to the Hitler +project was enhanced as the Bush family's partner in Nazi Party +banking and trans-Atlantic shipping.

+ +

TheU.S. Senate arms-traffic investigators probed Remington +after it was joined in a cartel agreement on explosives to the +Nazi firm I.G. Farben. Looking at the period leading up to +Hitler's seizure of power, the senators found that "German +political associations, like the Nazi and others, are nearly all +armed with American ... guns.... Arms of all kinds coming from +America are transshipped in the Scheldt to river barges before +the vessels arrive in Antwerp. They then can be carried through +Holland without police inspectionor interference. The +Hitlerists and Communists arepresumed to get arms in this +manner. The principal armscomingfrom America are Thompson +submachine guns and revolvers.The number is great."s2s8

+ +

The beginning of the Hitler regime brought some bizarre +changes to the Hamburg-Amerika Line--and more betrayals.

+ +

Prescott Bush's American Ship and Commerce Corp. notified Max +Warburg of Hamburg, Germany, on March 7, 1933, that Warburg was +to bethe corporation's official, designated representative on +the board of Hamburg-Amerika.s2s9

+ +

Max Warburg replied on March 27, 1933, assuring his American +sponsors thatthe Hitler government was good for Germany: "For +the last few years business was considerably better than we had +anticipated, but a reactionis making itself felt for some +months. We are actually suffering also underthe very active +propaganda against Germany, caused bysome unpleasant +circumstances.These occurrences were the natural consequence of +the very excited election campaign, but were extraordinarily +exaggerated inthe foreign press.The Government is firmly +resolved to maintain public peace and order in Germany, andI +feel perfectly convinced in this respect that there is no cause +for any alarm whatsoever."s3s0

+ +

This seal of approval for Hitler, coming from a famous Jew, +was just what Harriman and Bush required, for they anticipated +rather serious "alarm" inside the U.S.A. against their Nazi +operations.

+ +

On March 29, 1933, two days after Max's letter to Harriman, +Max's son Erich sent a cable to his cousin Frederick M. Warburg, +a director ofthe Harriman railroad system. He asked Frederick +to "use all your influence" to stop all anti-Nazi activity in +America, including "atrocity news and unfriendly propaganda in +foreign press, mass meetings, etc." Frederick cabled back to +Erich: "No responsible groups here [are] urging [a] boycott [of] +Germangoods[,] merely excited individuals." Two days after +that, On March 31, 1933, the {American-Jewish Committee,} +controlled bythe Warburgs,and the {B'nai B'rith,} heavily +influenced by the Sulzbergers' ({NewYork Times}),issueda +formal, official joint statement of the two organizations, +counselling "that no American boycott against Germany be +encouraged, [and advising] ... that no further mass meetings be +held or similar forms of agitation be employed."s3s1

+ +

The American Jewish Committee and the B'nai B'rith (mother of +the "Anti-DefamationLeague") continued with this hardline, +no-attack-on-Hitler stance all through the 1930s, blunting the +fight mounted by many Jews and other anti-fascists.

+ +

Thus the decisive interchange reproduced above, taking place +entirely within the orbit of the Harriman/Bush firm, may explain +something of the relationship of George Bush to American Jewish +and Zionist leaders. Some of them, in close cooperation with his +family, played an ugly part in the drama of Naziism. Is this why +"professional Nazi-hunters" have never discovered how the Bush +family made its money?

+ +

The executive board of the {HamburgAmerika Line}{(Hapag)} +met jointly with the North German Lloyd company board in Hamburg +on September 5, 1933. Under official Nazi supervision, the two +firms were merged. Prescott Bush's American Ship and Commerce +Corp.installed Christian J. Beck, a longtime Harriman +executive, as manager of freight and operations in North America +for the new joint Nazi shipping lines {(Hapag-Lloyd)}) on +November 4, 1933.

+ +

According to testimony of officials of the companies before +Congress in 1934, a supervisor from the {Nazi Labor Front} rode +with every ship of the Harriman-Bush line; employees of the New +York offices were directly organized into the Nazi Labor Front +organization; Hamburg-Amerika provided free passage to +individuals going abroad for Nazi propaganda purposes; and the +line subsidized pro-Nazi newspapers in the U.S.A., as it had done +in Germany against the constitutional German government.s3s2

+ +

In mid-1936, Prescott Bush's American Ship and Commerce Corp. +cabled M.M. Warburg, asking Warburg torepresent thecompany's +heavyshareinterest atthe forthcoming Hamburg-Amerika +stockholders meeting. The Warburg office repliedwith the +information that "we represented you" at the stockholders +meeting and "exercised on your behalf your voting power for Rm +[gold marks] 3509600 Hapag stock deposited with us."

+ +

The Warburgs transmitted a letter received from Emil +Helfferich, German chief executive of both Hapag-Lloyd and of the +Standard Oil subsidiary in Nazi Germany: "It is the intention to +continue the relations with Mr. Harriman on the samebasis as +heretofore...." In a colorful gesture, Hapag's Nazi chairman +Helfferich sent the line's president across the Atlantic ona +Zeppelin to confer with their New York string-pullers.

+ +

After the meeting with theZeppelin passenger, the +Harriman-Bush office replied: "I am glad to learnthat Mr. +Hellferich [sic] hasstated that relations between the Hamburg +American Line and ourselves will be continued on the same basis +as heretofore."s3s3

+ +

Twomonthsbefore moving against Bush's Union Banking Corp., +the U.S. government ordered the seizure of all property of the +Hamburg-Amerika Line and North German Lloyd, under the Trading +with the Enemy Act. The investigators noted in the pre-seizure +reportthat Christian J. Beck was still acting as an attorney +representing the Nazi firm.s3s4

+ +

In May 1933, just after the Hitler regime was consolidated, an +agreement was reached in Berlin for the coordination of all Nazi +commerce with the U.S.A. The {Harriman International Co.,} led by +Averell Harriman's first cousin Oliver, was to head a syndicate +of 150 firms and individuals, to conduct {all exports from +Hitler's Germany to the United States}.s3s5

+ +

This pact had been negotiated in Berlin between Hitler's +economics minister, Hjalmar Schacht, and John Foster Dulles, +international attorney for dozens of Nazi enterprises, with the +counsel of Max Warburg and Kurt von Schroeder.

+ +

John Foster Dulles would later be U.S. Secretary of State, and +the great power in the Republican Party of the 1950s. Foster's +friendship and that of his brother Allen (head of the Central +Intelligence Agency), greatly aided Prescott Bush to become the +Republican U.S. senator from Connecticut. And it was to be of +inestimable value to George Bush, in his ascent to the heights of +"covert action government," that both of these Dulles brothers +were the lawyers for the Bush family's far-flung enterprise.

+ +

Throughoutthe 1930s, John Foster Dulles arranged debt +restructuring for German firms under a series of decrees issued +by Adolf Hitler. In these deals, Dulles struck a balance between +the interest owed to selected, larger investors, and the needs of +the growing Nazi warmaking apparatus for producing tanks, poison +gas, etc.

+ +

Dulles wrote to PrescottBush in 1937 concerning one such +arrangement. The German-Atlantic Cable Company, owning Nazi +Germany's only telegraph channel to the United States, had made +debt and management agreements with the Walker-Harriman bank +during the 1920s. A new decree would now void those agreements, +which had originallybeen reached with non-Nazicorporate +officials. Dulles asked Bush, whomanaged these affairs for +Averell Harriman, to get Averell's signature on a letter to Nazi +officials, agreeing to the changes. Dulles wrote:

+ +

"Sept. 22, 1937 +"Mr. Prescott S. Bush +"59 Wall Street, New +York, N.Y.

+ +

"Dear Press, +"I have looked over the letter of the German-American [sic] +Cable Companyto Averell Harriman.... It would appear that the +only rights in the matter are those which inure in the bankers +and that no legal embarrassment would result, so far as the +bondholders are concerned, by your acquiescence in the +modification of the bankers' agreement. +"Sincerely yours, +"John Foster Dulles"

+ +

Dulles enclosed aproposed draft reply, Bush got Harriman's +signature, and the changes went through.s3s6

+ +

In conjunction with these arrangements, the German Atlantic +Cable Companyattempted to stop payment on its debts to smaller +American bondholders. The money was to be used instead for +arming the Nazi state, under a decree of the Hitler government.

+ +

Despite the busy efforts of Bush and Dulles, a New York court +decided that this particular Hitler "law" was invalid in the +UnitedStates; smallbondholders, not parties to deals between +the bankers and the Nazis, were entitled to get paid.s3s7

+ +

In this and a few other of the attempted swindles, the +intended victims came out with their money. But the Nazi +financial and political reorganization went ahead to its tragic +climax.

+ +

Forhis part in the Hitler revolution, Prescott Bush was paid +a fortune.

+ +

This is the legacy he left to his son, President George Bush.

+ +

Notes

+ +

1. Office of Alien Property Custodian, Vesting Order Number 248. +Signedby Leo T. Crowley, Alien Property Custodian, executed +October 20, 1942; F.R. Doc. 42-11568; Filed, November 6, 1942. 7 +Fed. Reg. 9097 (November 7, 1942). +The {New York City Directory of Directors}, 1930s-40s, list +Prescott Bushas a director of Union Banking Corp. from 1934 +through 1943.

+ +

2. +Alien Property Custodian Vesting Order No. 259: Seamless Steel +Equipment Corporation; Vesting Order Number 261: Holland-American +Trading Corp.

+ +

3. Alien Property Custodian Vesting Order No. 370: +Silesian-American Corp.

+ +

4. {New York Times,} December 16, 1944, ran a five-paragraph page +25 article on actions of the New York State Banking Department. +Only the last sentence refers to the Nazi bank, as follows: "The +Union BankingCorporation, 39 Broadway, New York, has received +authority to change its principal place ofbusiness to 120 +Broadway." +The {Times} omitted the factthat the Union Banking +Corporation had been seized by the government for trading with +the enemy, and the fact that 120 Broadway was the address of the +government's Alien Property Custodian.

+ +

5. +FritzThyssen, {I Paid Hitler}, 1941, reprintedin (Port +Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1972), p. 133. Thyssen says +his contributions began with 100000 marks given in October 1923, +for Hitler's attempted "putsch" against the constitutional +government.

+ +

6. Confidential memorandum from U.S. Embassy, Berlin, to the +U.S. Secretary of State, April 20, 1932,on microfilm in +{Confidential Reportsof U.S. State Dept., 1930s, Germany,} at +major U.S. libraries.

+ +

7. October 5, 1942, Memorandum to the Executive Committee of the +Officeof Alien Property Custodian, stamped CONFIDENTIAL, from +the Division of Investigation and Research, Homer Jones, Chief. +Now declassified in United States National Archives, Suitland, +Maryland annex. See Record Group 131, Alien Property Custodian, +investigative reports, in file boxrelating to Vesting Order +Number 248.

+ +

8. {Elimination of German Resources for War}: HearingsBeforea +Subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs, United States +Senate, Seventy-Ninth Congress; Part 5, Testimony of [the United +States] Treasury Department,July 2, 1945. Page 507: Table of +Vereinigte Stahlwerke output, figures are percent of German total +as of1938; Thyssenorganization including Union Banking +Corporation pp. 727-731.

+ +

9. Robert Sobel, {The Life and Times of Dillon Read} (New York: +Dutton-Penguin, 1991),pp. 92-111.The Dillon Read firm +cooperated in the development of Sobel's book.

+ +

10. George Walker to Averell Harriman, August 11, 1927, in W. +Averell Harriman papers, Library of Congress(hereafter "WAH +papers").

+ +

11. "Iaccarino" to G. H. Walker, RCA Radiogram Sept. 12, 1927.

+ +

12. Andrew Boyle, {Montagu Norman} (London: Cassell, 1967). +Sir Henry Clay, {Lord Norman} (London, MacMillan & Co., 1957), +pp. 18, 57, 70-71. +John A. Kouwenhouven, {Partners in Banking ... Brown Brothers +Harriman} (Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1969).

+ +

13. +Coordination of much of the Hitler project took place ata +single New York address. The Union Banking Corporation had been +set up by George Walker at 39 Broadway. Management of the +Hamburg-Amerika Line,carried out through Harriman's American +Ship and Commerce Corp., was also set up by George Walker at 39 +Broadway.

+ +

14. Interrogation of Fritz Thyssen, EF/Me/1 of Sept. 4, 1945 in +U.S. Control Council records, photostat on page 167 in Anthony +Sutton, {An Introduction to The Order} (Billings, Mt.: Liberty +House Press, 1986).

+ +

15. {Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Supplement B}, by the Office +of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis +Criminality, U. S. Government Printing Office, (Washington, D.C., +1948), pp. 1597, 1686.

+ +

16. "Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation - [minutes of the] +Meeting of Board of Directors," October 31, 1930 (WAH papers), +shows Averell Harriman as Chairman of the Board. +Prescott Bush to W.A. Harriman, Memorandum December 19, 1930 +on their Harriman Fifteen Corp. +Annual Report of United Konigs and Laura Steel and Iron Works +for the year1930 (WAH papers) lists "Dr. Friedrich Flick ... +Berlin" and "William Averell Harriman ... New York" on the +Board of Directors. +"HarrimanFifteen Coporation Securities Position February +28, 1931," WAH papers. This report showsHarriman Fifteen +Corporation holding 32576 shares in Silesian Holding Co. V.T.C. +worth (in scarce depression dollars) $1628800, just over half +the value of the Harriman Fifteen Corporation's total holdings. +The {New York City Directory of Directors}volumes for the +1930s (available at the Library of Congress) show Prescott +Sheldon Bush and W.Averell Harriman as the directors of +Harriman Fifteen Corp. +"Appointments," (three typed pages) marked "Noted May 18 +1931 W.A.H.," (among the papers from PrescottBush'sNew York +Officeof Brown Brothers Harriman, WAH papers), lists a meeting +between Averell Harriman and Friedrich Flick in Berlin at 4:00 +P.M., Wednesday April 22, 1931. This was followed immediately by +a meeting with Wilhelm Cuno, chief executive of the +Hamburg-Amerika Line. +The "Report To the Stockholders of theHarriman Fifteen +Corporation," October19, 1933 (WAH papers) names G.H. Walker +as president of the corporation. It shows theHarriman Fifteen +Corp.'s address as 1 Wall Street--the location of G.H. Walker and +Co.

+ +

17. {Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Supplement B}, {op. cit.,} +p. 1686.

+ +

18. Jim Flaherty (a BBH manager, Prescott Bush's employee), March +19, 1934 to W.A. Harriman. +"Dear Averell: +"In Roland's absence Pres[cott] thought it adviseable for me +to let you know that we received the following cable from [our +European representative] Rossidated March 17th [relating to +conflict with the Polish government]...."

+ +

19. Harriman Fifteen Corporation notice to stockholders January +7, 1935, under the name of George Walker, President.

+ +

20. Order No. 370: Silesian-American Corp. Executed November 17, +1942. Signed by Leo T. Crowley, Alien Prop. Custodian.F.R. Doc. +42-14183; Filed, December 31, 1942; 8 Fed. Reg. 33 (Jan. 1, +1943). +The order confiscated the Nazis' holdings of 98000 shares of +common and 50000 shares of preferred stock in Silesian-American. +TheNazi parent company in Breslau, Germany wrote to Averell +Harriman at 59 Wall St. on Aug. 5, 1940, with "an invitation to +take part in the regular meetingof the members of the +Bergwerksgesellsc[h]aft Georgvon Giesche'sErben...." WAH +papers.

+ +

21. Sept. 25, 1942, Memorandum To the Executive Committee of the +Office of Alien Property Custodian, stamped CONFIDENTIAL, from +the Division of Investigation and Research, Homer Jones, Chief. +Now declassified in United States National Archives,Suitland, +Maryland annex. See Record Group 131, Alien Property Custodian, +investigative reports, in filebox relating to Vesting Order +Number 370.

+ +

22. George Walker was a director of American Ship and Commerce +from its organizationthrough 1928.Consult {New York City +Directory of Directors}. +"Harriman FifteenCorporation Securities Position February +28, 1931," {op. cit.} The report lists 46861 shares in the +American Ship & Commerce Corp. +See"Message from Mr. Bullfin," August 30, 1934 (Harriman +Fifteen section, WAH papers) for the joint supervision of Bush +and Walker,respectively director and president of the +corporation.

+ +

23. Cuno was later exposed by Walter Funk, Third Reich Press +Chief and Under Secretary of Propaganda, in Funk's postwar jail +cell at Nuremberg; but Cuno had died just as Hitler was taking +power. William L. Shirer, L., {The Rise and Fall of the Third +Reich} (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960), p. 144. {Nazi +Conspiracy and Aggression, Supplement B}, {op. cit.,} p. 1688.

+ +

24. See "Elimination of German Resources for War," {op. cit.,} +pages 881-882 on Voegler. +SeeAnnualReport of the +(Hamburg-Amerikanische-Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesel schaft (Hapag or +Hamburg-Amerika Line), March 1931, for the board of directors.A +copy is in the New York PublicLibrary Annexat 11th Avenue, +Manhattan.

+ +

25. {Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression--Supplement B,} {op. cit.,} +pp. 1178, 1453-1454, 1597, 1599. +See "Elimination of German Resources for War," {op. cit.,} +pp. 870-72 on Schroeder; p. 730 on Groeninger.

+ +

26. Annual Report of Hamburg-Amerika, {op. cit.} +Baron Rudolph Schroeder, Sr. to Averell Harriman, November 14, +1932. K[night] W[ooley] handwritten note and draft reply letter, +December 9, 1932. +In his letter, Baron Rudolph refers to the family's American +affiliate, J. Henry Schroder [name anglicized], of which Allen +Dulles was a director, and his brother John Foster Dulles was the +principal attorney. +Baron Bruno Schroder of the British branch was adviser to Bank +of England Governor MontaguNorman, and Baron Bruno's partner +Frank Cyril Tiarks was Norman's co-director of the Bank of +England throughout Norman's career. Kurt von Schroeder was +Hjalmar Schacht's delegate to the Bank for International +Settlements in Geneva, where many of the financial arrangements +for the Nazi regime were made by Montagu Norman, Schacht and the +Schroeders for several years of the Hitler regime right up to the +outbreak of World War II.

+ +

27. +Confidential memorandum from U.S. Embassy, Berlin, {op. cit.}

+ +

28. U.S. Senate "Nye Committee" hearings, Sept. 14, 1934, pp. +1197-1198, extracts from letters of Col. William N. Taylor, dated +June 27, 1932 and January 9, 1933.

+ +

29. American Ship and Commerce Corporation to Dr. Max Warburg, +March 7, 1933. +MaxWarburg had brokeredthe sale of Hamburg-Amerika to +Harriman and Walker in 1920. Max's brothers controlledthe Kuhn +Loeb investment banking house in New York, the firm which had +staked old E.H. Harriman to his 1890s buyout of the giant Union +Pacific Railroad. +Max Warburg had long worked with Lord Milner and others of the +racialist British Round Table concerning joint projects in Africa +and Eastern Europe.He was an advisor to Hjalmar Schacht for +several decades and was a top executive of Hitler's Reichsbank. +The reader may consult David Farrer, {The Warburgs: The Story of +A Family} (New York: Stein and Day, 1975).

+ +

30. Max Warburg, at M.M. Warburg and Co., Hamburg, to Averill +[sic] Harriman, c/o Messrs.Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., 59 +Wall Street, New York, N.Y., March 27, 1933.

+ +

31. This correspondence, and the joint statement of the Jewish +organizations,are reproduced in Moshe R. Gottlieb, {American +Anti-Nazi Resistance, 1933-41: An Historical Analysis} (New York: +Ktav Publishing House, 1982).

+ +

32. {Investigation of Nazi PropagandaActivities and +Investigation of Certain Other Propaganda Activities}: Public +Hearings before A Subcommittee of the Special Committee on +Un-American Activities, United States House of Representatives, +Seventy Third Congress, New York City, July 9-12, 1934--Hearings +No. 73-NY-7 (Washington, D.C., U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1934). +See testimony of Capt. Frederick C. Mensing, John Schroeder, Paul +von Lilienfeld-Toal, and summaries by Committee members. +See {New York Times,} July 16, 1933, p. 12, for organizing of +Nazi Labor Front at North German Lloyd, leading to +Hamburg-Amerika after merger.

+ +

33. American Ship and Commerce Corporation telegram to Rudolph +Brinckmann at M.M. Warburg, June 12, 1936. +Rudolph Brinckmannto Averell Harriman at 59 Wall St., June +20, 1936, with enclosed note transmitting Helferrich's letter. +Reply to Dr. Rudolph Brinkmann c/o M.M. Warburg andCo, July +6, 1936, WAH papers. The file copy of this letter carries no +signature, but is presumably from Averell Harriman.

+ +

34. Office of Alien Property Custodian, Vesting Order Number 126. +Signed by Leo T. Crowley, Alien Property Custodian, executed +August 28, 1942. F.R. Doc.42-8774; Filed September 4, 1942, +10:55 A.M.; 7 F.R. 7061 (Number 176, Sept. 5, 1942.) +July 18, 1942, Memorandum To the Executive Committee of the +Officeof Alien Property Custodian, stamped CONFIDENTIAL, from +the Division of Investigation and Research, Homer Jones, Chief. +Now declassified in United States National Archives, Suitland, +Maryland annex. See Record Group 131, Alien Property Custodian, +investigative reports, in file boxrelating to Vesting Order +Number 126.

+ +

35. {New York Times,} May 20, 1933. Leading up to this agreement +is a telegramwhich somehowescaped the shredder. It is +addressed to Nazi official HjalmarSchacht at the Mayflower +Hotel, Washington, dated May 11, 1933: "Much disappointed to +have missed seeing you Tueday afternoon....I hope to see you +either in Washington or New York before you sail. +with my regards W.A. Harriman" (WAH papers).

+ +

36. Dulles to Bush, letter and draft reply in WAH papers.

+ +

37. {New York Times,} Jan. 19, 1938.

+ +

Any comments, please send by email, as I get very far behind on +this group.

+ +

Thanks.

+ +

John Covici

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Chapter 3 RACE HYGIENE: Three Bush Family Alliances "The +[government] must put the most modern medical means in the +service of this knowledge.... Those who are physically and +mentally unhealthy and unworthy must not perpetuate their +suffering in the body of their children....The prevention of +the faculty and opportunity toprocreate on the part of the +physically degenerateand mentally sick, over a period of only +600 years, would ... free humanity froman immeasurable +misfortune."s1

+ +

"The per capita income gap between the developed and the +developing countries is increasing, in large part the result of +higher birth rates in the poorer countries.... Famine in India, +unwanted babies in the United States, poverty that seemed to form +an unbreakable chain for millions of people--how should we tackle +these problems?.... It is quite clearthat one of the major +challenges ofthe 1970s ... will be to curb the world's +fertility."

+ +

These two quotations are alike in their mock show of concern for +human suffering, and in their cynical remedy for it: Big Brother +must prevent the "unworthy" or "unwanted" people from +living. +Letus now further inquire into the family background of our +President, so as to help illustrate how the second quoted author, +{George Bush}s1 came to share the outlook of the first, {Adolf +Hitler}.s2 +We shall examine here the alliance of the Bush family with +three other families: {Farish, Draper} and {Gray.} +The private associations among these families have led to the +President's relationship tohis closest, most confidential +advisers. These alliances were forged in the earlier Hitler +project and its immediate aftermath. Understanding them will +help us to explain George Bush's obsession with the supposed +overpopulation of the world's non-Anglo-Saxons, and the dangerous +means he has adopted to deal with this "problem."

+ +

Bush and Farish

+ +

When George Bush was elected vice president in 1980, Texas +mystery man William Stamps Farish III took over management of all +of George Bush's personal wealth in a "blind trust."Known as +one of the richest men in Texas, Will Farish keeps his business +affairs under the most intense secrecy. Only the source of his +immense wealth is known, not its employment.s3 +Will Farish has long been Bush's closest friend and +confidante. He is also the unique private host toBritain's +Queen Elizabeth: Farish owns and boards the studs which mate with +the Queen's mares. That is her public rationale when she comes +to America and stays in Farish's house. It is a vital link in +the mind of our Anglophile President. +President Bush can count on Farish not to betray the violent +secrets surrounding the Bush family money. For Farish's own +familyfortune was made inthe same Hitler project, in a +nightmarish partnership with George Bush's father.

+ +

On March 25, 1942, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thurman +Arnoldannounced that William Stamps Farish (grandfather of the +President's money manager) had pleaded "no contest" to charges +of criminal conspiracy with the Nazis. Farish was the principal +manager of a worldwide cartel between StandardOil Co. of New +Jersey and the I.G. Farben concern.The merged enterprise had +opened the Auschwitz slave labor camp on June 141940, to +produce artificial rubber and gasoline from coal. The Hitler +government supplied political opponents and Jews as the slaves, +who were worked to near death and then murdered. +Arnold disclosed that Standard Oil of New Jersey (later known +as Exxon), of which Farish was president and chief executive, had +agreedto stop hiding fromthe United States patents for +artificial rubber which the company had provided to the Nazis.s4 +A Senate investigating committeeunder Senator (later U.S. +President) Harry Truman of Missouri had called Arnold to testify +at hearings on corporations' collaboration with the Nazis. The +Senators expressed outrage at the cynicalway Farish was +continuing an alliance with the Hitler regime that had begun back +in 1933, when Farish became chief of Jersey Standard. Didn't he +know there was a war on? +The Justice Department laid before the committee a letter, +written to Standard president Farish by his vice president, +shortly after the beginning of World War II (September1, 1939) +in Europe. The letter concerned arenewal of their earlier +agreements with the Nazis:

+ +

Report on European Trip Oct. 12, 1939 Mr. W.S. Farish 30 +Rockefeller Plaza

+ +

Dear Mr. Farish: +... I stayed in France until Sept. 17th.... In England I met +by appointment the Royal Dutch [Shell Oil Co.] gentlemen from +Holland, and ... a general agreement was reached on the necessary +changes in our relations with the I.G. [Farben], in view of the +state of war.... [T]he Royal Dutch Shell group is essentially +British.... Ialso had several meetings with ... the [British] +Air Ministry.... +I required help to obtain the necessary permission to go to +Holland.... After discussions with the [American] Ambassador +[Joseph Kennedy] the situation was cleared completely.... The +gentlemen in the Air Ministry ... very kindly offered to assist +me [later] in reentering England.... +Pursuant to thesearrangements, I was able to keep my +appointments in Holland [having flown there on a British Royal +Air Force bomber], where I had three days of discussion with the +representatives of I.G. They delivered to me assignments of some +2000 foreign patents and {we did our best to work out complete +plans for a modus vivendi which could operate through the term of +the war, whether or not the U.S. came in....} [emphasis added] +Very truly yours, F[rank] A. Howards5

+ +

Here are some cold realities behind the tragedy of World War +II, which help explain the Bush-Farish family alliance--and their +peculiar closeness to the Queen of England: +sb|Shell Oil is principally owned by the British Royal +family. Shell's chairman, Sir Henri Deterding, helped sponsor +Hitler's rise to power,s6 by arrangement with the Royal Family's +Bank of England Governor, Montagu Norman. Their ally, Standard +Oil, would take part in the Hitler project right up to the +bloody, gruesome end. +sb|When grandfather Farish signed the Justice Department's +consent decree in March 1942, the government had already started +picking its way through the tangled web of world-monopoly oil and +chemical agreements between Standard Oil and the Nazis. Many +patents and other Nazi-owned aspects of the partnership had been +seized by the U.S. Alien Property Custodian. +Uncle Sam would not seize Prescott Bush's Union Banking +Corporation for another seven months. +The Bush-Farish axis had begun back in 1929. In that year, the +Harriman bank bought Dresser Industries, supplier of oil-pipeline +couplers to Standard and other companies. Prescott Bush became a +director and financialczar of Dresser, installinghis Yale +classmate Neil Mallon as chairman.s7 George Bush would later name +one of his sons after the Dresser executive. +William S. Farish was the main organizer of the Humble Oil Co. +of Texas, which Farish merged into the Standard Oil Company of +New Jersey. Farish built up the Humble-Standard empire of +pipelines and refineries in Texas.s8 +Thestock market crashed just after the Bush family got into +the oil business. The world financial crisis led to the merger +of the Walker-Harriman bank with Brown Brothers in 1931. Former +Brown partner Montagu Norman and his protege Hjalmar Schacht, who +was to become Hitler's economics minister, paid frantic visits to +New York that year and the next, preparing the new Hitler regime +for Germany.

+ +

The Congress on Eugenics

+ +

The mostimportant American political event in those +preparations for Hitler was the infamous Third International +Congress on Eugenics, held at NewYork's American Museum of +Natural History August 21-23, 1932, supervised by the +International Federation of Eugenics Societies.s9 This meeting +took up the stubborn persistence of African-Americans and other +allegedly "inferior" and "socially inadequate"groups in +reproducing, expanding their numbers, and "amalgamating" with +others. It was recommendedthat these "dangers" to the +"better" ethnic groups and to the "well-born," could be dealt +with by sterilization or "cutting off the bad stock" of the +"unfit." +Italy's fascist government sent an official representative. +Averell Harriman's sister Mary, director of "entertainment" for +the Congress, lived down in Virginia fox-hunting country; her +state supplied the speaker on "racial purity," W.A. Plecker, +Virginia commissioner of vital statistics. Plecker reportedly +held the delegates spellbound with his account of the struggle to +stop race-mixing and interracial sex in Virginia. +TheCongress proceedings were dedicated to Averell Harriman's +mother; she had paidfor the founding ofthe race-science +movement in America back in 1910, building the Eugenics Record +Office as a branch of the Galton National Laboratory in London. +She and other Harrimans were usually escorted to the horse races +by old George Herbert Walker--they shared with the Bushes and the +Farishes a fascination with "breeding thoroughbreds" among +horses and humans.s1s0 +Averell Harriman personally arranged with the Walker/Bush +Hamburg-Amerika Line to transport Nazi ideologues from Germany to +New York for this meeting.s1s1 The most famous among those +transported was Dr. Ernst Rudin, psychiatrist at the Kaiser +Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy and Demography in Berlin, where +the Rockefeller family paid for Dr.Rudin to occupy an entire +floor with his eugenics "research." Dr. Rudin had addressed the +International Federation's 1928 Munich meeting, speaking on +"Mental Aberration and Race Hygiene," while others (Germans and +Americans) spoke on race-mixing and sterilization of the unfit. +Rudin had led the German delegation to the 1930 Mental Hygiene +Congress in Washington, D.C. +At the Harrimans' 1932 New York Eugenics Congress, Ernst Rudin +was unanimously elected President of the International Federation +of Eugenics Societies. This was recognition of Rudin as founder +of the German Society for Race Hygiene, with his co-founder, +Eugenics Federation vice president Alfred Ploetz. +As depression-maddened financiersschemed in Berlin and New +York, Rudin was now official leader of the world eugenics +movement. Componentsof his movement included groups with +overlapping leadership, dedicated to: +sb|sterilization of mental patients ("mental hygiene +societies"); +sb|execution of the insane, criminals and the terminally ill +("euthanasia societies"); and +sb|eugenical race-purification by prevention of births to +parents from inferior blood stocks ("birth control +societies").

+ +

Before the Auschwitz death camp became a household word, these +British-American-European groups called openly for the +elimination of the "unfit" by means including force and +violence.s1s2 +Ten months later, in June 1933, Hitler's interior minister +Wilhelm Frick spoke to a eugenics meeting in the new Third Reich. +Frick called the Germans a"degenerate"race, denouncing +one-fifth of Germany's parentsfor producing"feeble-minded" +and "defective" children. The following month, on a commission +by Frick, Dr. Ernst Rudin wrote the "Law for the Prevention of +Hereditary Diseases in Posterity," the sterilization law modeled +on previous U.S. statutes in Virginia and other states. +Special courts were soon established for the sterilization of +German mental patients, the blind, the deaf, and alcoholics.A +quarter million people in these categorieswere sterilized. +Rudin, Ploetz, and their colleagues trained a whole generation of +physicians and psychiatrists--as sterilizers and as killers. +When the war started, the eugenicists, doctors, and +psychiatrists staffed the new "T4" agency, which planned and +supervised the mass killings: first at "euthanasia centers," +where the same categories which had firstbeen subject to +sterilization were now to be murdered, their brains sent in lots +of 200 to experimental psychiatrists; then at slave camps such as +Auschwitz; and finally, for Jews andother race victims, at +straight extermination campsin Poland, such as Treblinka and +Belsen.s1s3 +In 1933, as what Hitler called his"New Order"appeared, +John D. Rockefeller,Jr. appointedWilliam S. Farish the +chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (in 1937 he was made +president and chief executive). Farish moved his offices to +Rockefeller Center, New York, where he spent a good deal of time +with Hermann Schmitz, chairman of I.G. Farben; his company paid a +publicity man,Ivy Lee, to write pro-I.G. Farben and pro-Nazi +propaganda and get it into the U.S. press. +Now that he was outside of Texas, Farish found himself in the +shipping business--like the Bush family. He hired Nazi German +crews for Standard Oil tankers. And he hired {Emil Helfferich,} +chairman of the Walker/Bush/Harriman Hamburg-Amerika Line, as +chairman also of the Standard Oil Company subsidiary in Germany. +Karl Lindemann, board member of Hamburg-Amerika, also became a +top Farish-Standard executive in Germany.s1s4 +This interlock between their Nazi German operations put Farish +together with Prescott Bush ina small, select group of men +operating from abroad through Hitler's "revolution," and +calculating that they would never be punished. +In 1939, Farish's daughter Martha married Averell Harriman's +nephew, Edward Harriman Gerry, and Farish in-laws became Prescott +Bush's partners at 59 Broadway.s1s5 +Both Emil Helfferich andKarl Lindemann were authorized to +write checks to Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Nazi SS, ona +special Standard Oil account. This account was managed by the +German-British-American banker, Kurt von Schroeder. According to +U.S. intelligence documents reviewed by author Anthony Sutton, +Helfferich continued his payments to the SS into 1944,when the +SS was supervising the mass murder at the Standard-I.G. Farben +Auschwitz and other death camps. Helfferich told Allied +interrogators after the warthat these were not his personal +contributions--they were corporate Standard Oil funds.s1s6 +After pleading "no contest" to charges of criminal +conspiracy with the Nazis, WilliamStampsFarishwas fined +$5000. (Similar fines were levied against Standard Oil--$5000 +each for the parent company and for several subsidiaries.) This +of course did not interfere with the millionsof dollars that +Farishhad acquired in conjunction with Hitler's New Order, as a +large stockholder, chairman, and president of StandardOil. All +the government sought was the use of patents which his company +had given to the Nazis--the Auschwitz patents--but had withheld +from the U.S. military and industry. +Buta warwas on, and if young men were to be asked to die +fighting Hitler something more was needed. Farish was hauled +beforethe Senate committee investigating the national defense +program. The committee chairman, Senator Harry Truman, told +newsmen before Farish testified: "I think this approaches +treason."s1s7 +Farish began breaking apart at these hearings. He shouted his +"indignation" at the senators, and claimed hewas not +"disloyal." +After the March-April hearings ended, more dirt came gushing +out of the Justice Department and theCongress on Farish and +Standard Oil.Farishhad deceived the U.S. Navy to prevent the +Navy from acquiring certain patents, while supplying them to the +Nazi war machine; meanwhile, he was supplying gasoline and +tetraethyl lead to Germany's submarines and air force. +Communications between Standard and I.G. Farben from the outbreak +of World WarII were released tothe Senate, showing that +Farish's organization had arranged to deceive the U.S. government +into passing over Nazi-owned assets: They would nominally buy +I.G.'sshare in certain patents because "in the event of war +between ourselves and Germany ... it would certainly be very +undesireable to havethis 20 percent Standard-I.G. pass to an +alien property custodian of the U.S. who might sell it to an +unfriendly interest."s1s8 +John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (father of David, Nelson, and John +D. Rockefeller III), the controlling owner of Standard Oil, told +the Rooseveltadministrationthat he knewnothing of the +day-to-day affairs of his company, that all these matters were +handled by Farish and other executives.s1s9 +In August, Farish was brought back for more testimony. He was +now frequently accused of lying. Farish was crushed under the +intense, public grilling; he became morose, ashen. While +Prescott Bush escaped publicity when the government seized his +Nazi banking organization in October, Farish had been nailed. He +collapsed and died of a heart attack on November 29, 1942. +The Farish family was devastated by the exposure. Son William +StampsFarish, Jr., a lieutenant in the Army Air Force, was +humiliated by the public knowledge that his father was fueling +the enemy's aircraft; he died in a training accident in Texas six +months later.s2s0 +With this double death, the fortune comprising much of +Standard Oil's profits from Texas and Nazi Germany was now to be +settled upon the little four-year-old grandson, William +("Will") Stamps Farish III. Will Farish grew up a recluse, the +most secretive multimillionaire in Texas, with investments of +"that money" in a multitude of foreign countries, and a host of +exoticcontacts overlapping the intelligence andfinancial +worlds--particularly in Britain. +The Bush-Farish axis started George Bush's career.After his +1948 graduation from Yale (and theSkull and Bones secret +society), George Bush flew down to Texas on a corporate jet and +was employed by his father's Dresser Industries. In a couple of +years he got help from his uncle, George Walker, Jr., and +Farish's British banker friends, to set him up in the oil +property speculation business. Soon thereafter, George Bush +founded the Zapata Oil Company, which put oil drilling rigs into +certain locations of great strategic interest to the +Anglo-American intelligence community. +Twenty-five-year-old Will Farish was personal aide to Zapata +chairman George Bush in Bush's unsuccessful 1964 campaign for +Senate. Farish used "that Auschwitz money" to back George Bush +financially, investing in Zapata. When Bush was elected to +Congress in 1966, Farish joined the Zapata board.s2s1 +When George Bush became U.S. vice-president in 1980, the +Farish and Bush family fortunes were again completely, secretly +commingled. As we shall see, the old projects were now being +revived on a breathtaking scale.

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Bush and Draper

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Twenty years before he was U.S. President, George Bush +brought two "race-science" professors in front of the +Republican Task Force on Earth Resources and Population. As +chairman of the Task Force, then-Congressman Bush invited +Professors William Shockley and Arthur Jensen to explain to the +committee how allegedly runaway birth-rates for African-Americans +were "down-breeding" the American population. +Afterwards, Bush personally summed up for the Congress the +testimony his black-inferiority advocates had given to the Task +Force.s2s2 George Bush held his hearings on the threat posed by +black babies on August 5, 1969, while much of the world was in a +better frame of mind--celebrating mankind's progress from the +first moon landing 16 days earlier. Bush's obsessive thinking on +this subject was guided by his family's friend, Gen. William H. +Draper, Jr., the founder and chairman of the Population Crisis +Committee, and vice chairman of the Planned Parenthood +Federation. Draper had long been steering U.S. public discussion +about the so-called "population bomb" in the non-white areas of +the world. +If Congressman Bush had explained to his colleagues {how his +family had come to know General Draper,} they would perhaps have +felt some alarm, or even panic, and paid more healthy attention +to Bush's presentation. Unfortunately,the Draper-Bush +population doctrine is now official U.S. foreign policy. +William H. Draper, Jr. had joined the Bush team in 1927, when +he was hired by Dillon Read & Co., New York investment bankers. +Draper was put into a new job slot at the firm: handling the +Thyssen account. +We recall that in 1924, Fritz Thyssen set up his Union Banking +Corporation in George Herbert Walker’s bank at 39Broadway, +Manhattan. Dillon Read & Co.'s boss, Clarence Dillon, had begun +working with Fritz Thyssen some time after Averell Harriman first +met with Thyssen--at about the time Thyssen began financing Adolf +Hitler's political career. +In January 1926, Dillon Read created the {German Credit and +Investment Corporation} in Newark,New Jersey and Berlin, +Germany, as Thyssen's short-term banker. That same year, Dillon +Read created the {Vereinigte Stahlwerke} (German Steel Trust), +incorporating the Thyssen family interests under the direction of +New York and London finance.s2s3 +William H. Draper, Jr. was made director, vice president, and +assistant treasurer of the German Credit and Investment Corp. His +business was short-term loans and financial management tricks for +Thyssen and the German Steel Trust. Draper's clients sponsored +Hitler's terroristic takeover; his clients led the buildup of the +Nazi war industry; his clients made war against the United +States. The Nazis were Draper's direct partners in Berlin and New +Jersey: Alexander Kreuter, residing in Berlin, was president; +Frederic Brandi, whose father was a top coal executive in the +German Steel Trust, moved to the United States in 1926 and served +as Draper's co-director in Newark. +Draper's role was crucial for Dillon Read & Co., for whom +Draper was a partner and eventually vice president. The German +Credit and Investment Corp.(GCI) was a "front" for Dillon +Read: It had the same New Jersey address as U.S. & International +Securities Corp. (USIS), and the same man served as treasurer of +both firms.s2s4 +Clarence Dillon and his son C. Douglas Dillon were directors +of USIS, which was spotlighted when Clarence Dillon was hauled +before the Senate Banking Committee's famous "Pecora" hearings +in 1933. USIS was shown to be one of the great speculative +pyramid schemes which had swindled stockholders of hundreds of +millions of dollars. These investment policies had rotted the +U.S. economy to the core, and led to the Great Depression of the +1930s. +But William H. Draper, Jr.'s GCI "front" was not +{apparently} affiliated with the USIS "front" or with Dillon, +and the GCI escaped the congressmen's limited scrutiny. This +oversight was to prove most unfortunate, particularly to the 50 +million people who subsequently died in World War II. +Dillon Read hired public relations man Ivy Lee to prepare +their executives for their testimony and to confuse and further +baffle the congressmen.s2s5 Lee apparently took enough time out +from his duties as image-maker for William S. Farish and the Nazi +I.G. Farben Co.; he managed the congressional thinking so that +the congressmen did not disturb the Draper operation in +Germany--and did not meddle with Thyssen, or interfere with +Hitler's U.S. money men. +Thus, in 1932, Willam H. Draper, Jr. was free to finance the +International Eugenics Congress as a "Supporting Member."s2s6 +Was reusing his own income as a Thyssen trust banker? Or did +the funds come from Dillon Read corporate accounts, perhaps to be +written off income tax as "expenses for German project: race +purification"? Draper helped select Ernst Rudin as chief of the +world eugenics movement, who used his office to promote what he +called Adolf Hitler's "holy, national and international racial +hygienic mission."s2s7 +W.S. Farish was publicly exposed in 1942, humiliated and +destroyed. Just before Farish died, Prescott Bush's Nazi banking +office was quietly seized and shut down. But Prescott’s close +friend and partner in the Thyssen-Hitler business, William H. +Draper, Jr., {neither died nor moved out of German affairs.} +Draper listed himself as a director of the German Credit and +Investment Corp. through 1942, and the firm was not liquidated +until November1943.s2s8 Buta war was on. Draper, a colonel +from previous military service, went off to the Pacific theater +and became a general. +General Draper apparently had a hobby:magic--illusions, +sleight of hand, etc.--and he was a member of the Society of +American Magicians. This is not irrelevant to his subsequent +career. +The Nazi regime surrendered in May 1945. In July 1945, General +Draper was called to Europe by the American military government +authorities in Germany. Draper was appointed head of the +Economics Division of the U.S. Control Commission. He was +assigned to take apart the Nazi corporate cartels. There is an +astonishing but perfectly logical rationale to this--Draper knew +a lot about the subject! General Draper, who had spent about 15 +years financing and managing the dirtiest of the Nazi +enterprises, was now authorized to decide {who was exposed, who +lost and who kept his business, and in practical effect, who was +prosecuted for war crimes.}s2s9 +(Draper was not unique within the postwar occupation +government. Consider the case of John J. McCloy, U.S. Military +Governor and High Commissioner of Germany, 1949-1952. Under +instructions from his Wall Street law firm, McCloy had lived for +a year in Italy, serving as an adviser to the fascist government +of Benito Mussolini. An intimate collaborator of the +Harriman/Bush bank, McCloy had sat in Adolf Hitler's box at the +1936 Olympic games in Berlin, at the invitation of Nazi +chieftains Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering.)s3s0

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William H. Draper, Jr., as a "conservative," was paired with +the "liberal" U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau in a +vicious game. Morgenthau demanded that Germany be utterly +destroyed as a nation, that its industry be dismantled and it be +reduced to a purely rural country. As the economic boss in 1945 +and 1946, Draper "protected" Germany from the Morgenthau Plan +... but at a price. +Draper and his colleagues demanded that Germany and the world +accept the {collective guilt of the German people} as {the +}explanation for the rise of Hitler's New Order, and the Nazi war +crimes. This, of course, was rather convenient for General +Draper himself, as it was for the Bush family. It is still +convenient decades later, allowing Prescott's son,President +Bush, to lecture Germany on the danger of Hitlerism. Germans are +too slow, it seems, to accept his New World Order. +After several years of government service (often working +directly for Averell Harriman in the North Atlantic Alliance), +Draper was appointed in 1958 chairman of a committee which was to +advise President Dwight Eisenhower on the proper course for U.S. +military aid to other countries. At that time, Prescott Bush was +a U.S. senator from Connecticut, a confidential friend and golf +partner with National Security Director Gordon Gray, and an +important golf partner with Dwight Eisenhower as well. +Prescott's old lawyer from the Nazi days, John Foster Dulles, was +Secretary of State, and his brother Allen Dulles, formerly of the +Schroder bank, was head of the CIA. +This friendly environment emboldened our General Draper to +pull off a stunt with his military aid advisory committee. He +changed the subject under study. The following year, the Draper +committee recommended that the U.S. government react to the +supposed threat of the "population explosion" by formulating +plans to depopulate the poorer countries. The growth of the +world's non-white population, he proposed, should be regarded as +dangerous to the national security of the United States!s3s1 +President Eisenhower rejected the recommendation. But in the +next decade, General Draper founded the "Population Crisis +Committee" and the "Draper Fund," joining with the Rockefeller +and DuPont families to promote eugenics as "population +control." The administration of President Lyndon Johnson, +advised by Draper on the subject, began financing birth control +in the tropical countries through the Agency for International +Development. +General William Draper was George Bush's guru on the +population question.s3s2 But there was also Draper's money--from +that uniquely horrible source--and Draper's connections on Wall +Street and abroad. Draper's son and heir, William H. Draper III, +was co-chairman for finance(chief of fundraising) of the +Bush-for-President national campaign organization in 1980. With +George Bush in the White House, the younger Draper heads up the +depopulation activities of the United Nations throughout the +world. +Draper was vice president of Dillon Read until 1953. During +the 1950s and 1960s, the chief executive there was Frederic +Brandi, the German who was Draper's co-director for the Nazi +investments and his personal contact man with the Nazi Steel +Trust. Nicholas Brady was Brandi's partner from 1954, and +replaced him as the firm's chief executive in 1971. Nicholas +Brady, who knows where all the bodies are buried, was chairman of +his friend George Bush's 1980 election campaign in New Jersey, +and has been United States Treasury Secretary throughout Bush's +presidency.s3s3

+ +

Bush and Grey

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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) says +that surgical sterilization is the Bush administration's "first +choice" method of population reduction in the Third World.s3s4 +The United Nations Population Fund claims that 37 percent of +contraception users in Ibero-America and the Caribbean have +already been surgically sterilized. In a 1991 report, William H. +Draper III's U.N. agency asserts that 254 million couples will be +surgically sterilized over the course of the 1990s; and that if +present trends continue, 80 percent of the women in Puerto Rico +and Panama will be surgically sterilized.s3s5 +The U.S. government pays directly for these sterilizations. +Mexico is first among targeted nations, on a list which was +drawn up in July 1991, at a USAID strategy session. India and +Brazil are second and third priorities, respectively. +On contract with the Bush administration, U.S. personnel are +working from bases in Mexico to perform surgery on millions of +Mexican men and women. The acknowledged strategy in this program +is to sterilize those young adults who have not already completed +their families. +George Bush has a rather deep-seated personal feeling about +this project, in particular as it pits him against Pope John Paul +II in Catholic countries such as Mexico. (See Chapter 4 below, on +the origin of a Bush-family grudge in this regard.) +The spending for birth control in the non-white countries is +one of the few items that is headed upwards in the Bush +administration budget. As its 1992 budget was being set, USAID +said its Population Account would receive $300 million, a 20 +percent increase over the previous year. Within this project, a +significant sum is spent on political and psychological +manipulations of target nations, and rather blatant subversion of +their religions and governments.s3s6 +These activities might be expected to cause serious objections +from the victimized nationalities, or from U. S. taxpayers, +especially if the program is somehow given widespread publicity. +Quite aside from moral considerations, {legal} questions would +naturally arise, which could be summed up: {How does George Bush +think he can get away with this?} +In this matter the President has expert advice. Mr. +(Clayland) Boyden Gray has been counsel to George Bush since the +1980 election. As chief legal officer in the White House, Boyden +Gray can walk the President through the dangers and complexities +of waging such unusual warfare against Third World populations. +Gray knows how these things are done. +When Boyden Gray was four and five years old, his father +organized the pilot project for the present worldwide +sterilization program, from the Gray family household in North +Carolina. +It started in 1946. The eugenics movement was looking fora +way to begin again in America. +Nazi death camps such as Auschwitz had just then seared the +conscience of the world. The Sterilization League of America, +which had changed its name during the war to "Birthright, +Inc.," wanted to start up again. First they had to overcome +public nervousness about crackpots proposing to eliminate +"inferior" and "defective"people. The Leaguetried to +surface in Iowa, but had to back off because of negative +publicity: a little boy had recently been sterilized there and +had died from the operation. +They decided on North Carolina, where the Gray family could +play the perfect host.s3s7 Through British imperial contacts, +Boyden Gray's grandfather Bowman Gray had become principal owner +of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Boyden's father, Gordon Gray, +had recently founded the Bowman Gray (memorial) Medical School in +Winston-Salem, using his inherited cigarette stock shares. The +medical school was already a eugenics center. +As the experiment began, Gordon Gray's great aunt, Alice +Shelton Gray,who had raised him from childhood, was living in +his household. Aunt Alice had founded the "Human Betterment +League," the North Carolina branch of the national eugenical +sterilization movement. +Aunt Alice was the official supervisor of the 1946-47 +experiment. Working under Miss Gray was Dr. Claude Nash Herndon, +whom Gordon Gray had made assistant professor of "medical +genetics" at Bowman Gray medical school. +Dr. Clarence Gamble, heir to the Proctor and Gamble soap +fortune, was the sterilizers' national field operations chief. +The experiment worked as follows.{All children enrolled in +the school district of Winston-Salem, N.C., were given a special +"intelligence test." Those children who scored below a certain +arbitrary low mark were then cut open and surgically sterilized.} +We quote now from the official story of the project: "In +Winston-Salem and in [nearby] Orange County, North Carolina, the +[Sterilization League's] field committee had participated in +testing projects to identify school age children who should be +considered for sterilization. The project in Orange County was +conducted by the University of North Carolina and was financed by +a 'Mr. Hanes,' a friend of Clarence Gamble and supporter of the +field work project in North Carolina. The Winston-Salem project +was also financed by Hanes. ["Hanes" was underwear mogul James +Gordon Hanes, a trustee of Bowman Gray Medical School and +treasurer of Alice Gray's group].... +"The medical school had a long history of interest in +eugenics and had compiled extensive histories of families +carrying inheritable disease. In 1946, Dr. C. Nash Herndon ... +made a statement to the press on the use of sterilization to +prevent the spread of inheritable diseases.... +"The first step after giving the mental tests to grade school +children was to interpret and make public the results. In Orange +County the results indicated that three percent of the school age +children were either insane or feeble-minded.... [Then] the field +committee hired a social worker to review each case ... and to +present any cases in which sterilization was indicated to the +State Eugenics Board, which under North Carolina law had the +authority to order sterilization...." +Race science experimenter Dr. Claude Nash Herndon provided +more details in an interview in 1990:s3s8 +"Alice Gray was the general supervisor of the project. She +and Hanes sent out letters promoting the program to the +commissioners of all 100 counties in North Carolina.... What did +I do? Nothing besides riding herd on the whole thing! The +social workers operated out of my office. I was at the time also +director of outpatient services at North Carolina Baptist +Hospital. We would see the [targeted] parents and children +there.... I.Q. tests were run on all the children in the +Winston-Salem public school system. Only the ones who scored +really low [were targeted for sterilization], the real bottom of +the barrel, like below 70. +"Did we do sterilizations on young children? Yes. This was a +relatively minor operation.... It was usually not until the +child was eight or ten years old. For the boys, you just make an +incision and tie the tube.... We more often performed the +operation on girls than with boys. Of course, you have to cut +open the abdomen, but again, it is relatively minor." +Dr. Herndon remarked coolly that "we had a very good +relationship with the press" for the project. This is not +surprising, since Gordon Gray owned the {Winston-Salem Journal,} +the {Twin City Sentinel,} and radio station WSJS. +In 1950 and 1951, John Foster Dulles, then chairman of the +Rockefeller Foundation, led John D. Rockefeller III on a series +of world tours, focusing on the need to stop the expansion of the +non-white populations. In November 1952, Dulles and Rockefeller +set up the Population Council, with tens of millions of dollars +from the Rockefeller family. +At that point, the American Eugenics Society, still cautious +from the recent bad publicity vis-a-vis Hitler, left its old +headquarters at Yale University. The Society moved its +headquarters into the office of the Population Council, and the +two groups melded together. The long-time secretary of the +Eugenics Society, Frederick Osborne, became the first president +of the Population Council. The Gray family's child-sterilizer, +Dr. C. Nash Herndon, became president of the American Eugenics +Society in 1953, as its work expanded under Rockefeller +patronage. +Meanwhile, the International Planned Parenthood Federation was +founded in London, in the offices of the British Eugenics +Society. +The undead enemy from World War II, renamed "Population +Control," had now been revived. +George Bush was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1972, +when with prodding from Bush and his friends, the United States +Agency for International Development first made an official +contract with the old Sterilization League of America. The league +had changed its name twice again,and was now called the +"Association for Voluntary Surgical Contraception."The U.S. +government began paying the old fascist group to sterilize +non-whites in foreign countries. +The Gray family experiment had succeeded. +In 1988, the U.S. Agency for International Development signed +its latest contract with the old Sterilization League (a.k.a. +"Association for Voluntary Sterilization"), committing the +U.S. government to spend $80 million over five years. +Having gotten away with sterilizing several hundred North +Carolina school children, "not usually less than eight to ten +years old," the identical group is now authorized by President +Bush to do it to 58 countries in Asia, Africa, and Ibero-America. +The group modestly claims it has directly sterilized only2 +million people, with87 percent of the bill paid by U.S. +taxpayers. +Meanwhile, Dr. Clarence Gamble, Boyden Gray's favorite soap +manufacturer, formed his own "Pathfinder Fund" as a split-off +from the Sterilization League. Gamble’s Pathfinder Fund, with +additional millions from USAID, concentrates on penetration of +local social groups in the non-white countries, to break down +psychological resistance to the surgical sterilization teams.

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Notes

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1. Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, {World Population Crisis: The United +States Response} (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973), +"Forward" by George H.W. Bush, pp. vii-viii.

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2. +Adolf Hitler, {Mein Kampf} (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, +1971), p. 404.

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3. "The Ten Richest People in Houston," in {Houston Post +Magazine,} March 11, 1984. "$150 million to $250 million from ... +inheritance, plus subsequent investments ... chief heir to a +family fortune in oil stock.... As to his financial interests, +he is ... coy. He once described one of his businesses as a +company that 'invests in and oversees a lot of smaller companies +... in a lot of foreign countries.'|"

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4. The announcements were made in testimony before a Special +Committee of the U.S. Senate Investigating the National Defense +Program. The hearings on Standard Oil were held March 5, 24, 26, +27, 31, and April 1, 2, 3 and 7, 1942. Available on microfiche, +law section, Library of Congress. See also {New York Times,} +March 26 and March 27, 1942, and {Washington Evening Star,} March +26 and March 27, 1942.

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5. {Ibid.,} Exhibit No. 368, printed on pp. 4584-87 of the +hearing record. See also Charles Higham,{Trading With The +Enemy} (New York: Delacorte Press, 1983), p. 36.

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6. Confidential memorandum from U.S. Embassy, Berlin, {op. +cit.,} chapter2. Sir Henri Deterding was among the most +notorious pro-Nazis of the early war period.

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7. See sections on Prescott Bush in Darwin Payne, {Initiative in +Energy: Dresser Industries, Inc.} (New York: Distributed by Simon +and Schuster, 1979) (published by the Dresser Company).

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8. William Stamps Farish obituary, {New York Times,} Nov. 30, +1942.

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9. {A Decade of Progress in Eugenics: Scientific Papers of the +Third International Congress of Eugenics held at American Museum +of Natural History New York, August 21-23, 1932.} (Baltimore: +Williams & Wilkins Company, September, 1934). +The term "eugenics" is taken from the Greek to signify +"good birth" or "well-born," as in aristocrat. Its basic +assumption is that those who are not "well-born" should not +exist.

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10. +See among other such letters, George Herbert Walker, 39 +Broadway, N.Y., to W. A. Harriman, London, February 21, 1925, in +W.A. Harriman papers.

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11. +Averell Harriman to Dr. Charles B. Davenport, President, The +International Congress of Eugenics,Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., +N.Y.:

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January 21, 1932 +Dear Dr. Davenport: +I will be only too glad to put you in touch with the +Hamburg-American Line they may be able to co-operate in making +suggestions which will keep the expenses to a minimum. I have +referred your letter to Mr. Emil Lederer [of the Hamburg-Amerika +executive board in New York] with the request that he communicate +with you.

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Davenport to Mr. W.A. Harriman, 59Wall Street, New York, +N.Y.

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January 23, 1932 +Dear Mr. Harriman: +Thank you very much for your kind letter of January 21st and +the action you took which has resulted at once in a letter from +Mr. Emil Lederer. This letter will serve as a starting point for +correspondence, which I hope will enable more of our German +colleagues to come to America on the occasion of the congresses +of eugenics and genetics, than otherwise.

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Congressional hearings in 1934 established that +Hamburg-Amerika routinely provided free transatlantic passage for +those carrying out Nazi propaganda chores. See {Investigation of +Nazi Propaganda Activities and Investigation of Certain Other +Propaganda Activities,} {op. cit.,} chapter 2.

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12. +Alexis Carrel, {Man the Unknown} (New York: Halcyon House, +published by arrangement with Harper & Brothers, 1935), pp. +318-19. +The battle cry of the New Order was sounded in 1935with the +publication of {Man the Unknown,} by Dr. Alexis Carrel of the +Rockefeller Institute in New York. This Nobel Prize-winner said +"enormous sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane +asylums.... Why do we preserve these useless and harmful +beings? This fact must be squarely faced. Why should society +not dispose of the criminals and the insane in a more economical +manner? ... The community must be protected against troublesome +and dangerouselements.... Perhaps prisons should be +abolished.... The conditioning of the petty criminal with the +whip, or some more scientific procedure, followed by a short stay +in hospital, would probably suffice to insure order. [Criminals, +including those] who have ... misled the public on important +matters, should be humanely and economically disposed of in small +euthanasic institutions supplied with proper gases. A similar +treatment could be advantageously applied to the insane, guilty +of criminal acts." +Carrel claimed to have transplanted the head of a dog to +another dog and kept it alive for quite some time.

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13. +Bernhard Schreiber, {The Men Behind Hitler: A German Warning to +the World,} France: La Hay-Mureaux, ca. 1975), English language +edition supplied by H.& P. Tadeusz, 369 Edgewere Road, London +W2. Acopy of this book is now held by Union College Library, +Syracuse, N.Y.

+ +

14. +Higham, {op. cit.,} p. 35.

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15. +Engagement announced Feb. 10, 1939, {New York Times,}p. 20. +See also {Directory of Directors} for New York City, 1930s and +1940s.

+ +

16. +Higham, {op. cit.,} pp. 20, 22 and other references to +Schroeder and Lindemann. +Anthony Sutton, {Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler} (Seal +Beach: '76 Press, 1976). Sutton is also a good source on the +Harrimans.

+ +

17. +{Washington Evening Star,} March 27, 1942, p.1.

+ +

18. Higham, {op. cit.} p. 50.

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19. +{Ibid.,} p. 48.

+ +

20. +{Washington Post,} April 29, 1990, p. F4. Higham, {op. cit.,} +pp. 52-53.

+ +

21. +Zapata annual reports, 1950s-1960s, Library of Congress +microforms.

+ +

22. +See {Congressional Record} for Bush speech in the House of +Representatives, Sept. 4, 1969. Bush inserted in the record the +testimony given before his Task Force on August 5, 1969.

+ +

23. Sobel, {op. cit.,} pp. 92-111. See also Boyle, {op. cit.,} +chapter 1, concerning the Morgan-led Dawes Committee of Germany's +foreign creditors. +Like Harriman, Dillon used the Schroeder and Warburg banks to +strike his German bargains. All Dillon Read & Co. affairs in +Germany were supervised by J.P. Morgan & Co. partner Thomas +Lamont, and were authorized by Bank of England Governor Montagu +Norman.

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24. See {Poor's Register of Directors and Executives,} (New York: +Poor's Publishing Company, late 1920s, '30s and '40s).See also +{Standard Corporation Records} (New York: Standard & Poor), 1935 +edition pp. 2571-25,and 1938 edition pp. 7436-38, for +description and history of the German Credit and Investment +Corporation. For Frederic Brandi, See also Sobel, {op. cit.,} p. +213-214.

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25. Sobel, {op. cit.,} pp. 180, 186.Ivy Lee had been hired to +improve the Rockefeller family image, particularly difficult +after their 1914 massacre of striking miners and pregnant women +in Ludlow, Colorado. Lee got old John D. Rockefeller to pass out +dimes to poor people lined up at his porch.

+ +

26. +Third International Eugenics Congress papers {op. cit.,} +footnote 7, p.512, "Supporting Members."

+ +

27. +Schreiber, {op. cit.,} p. 160. The Third Int. Eugenics Congress +papers, p. 526, lists the officers of the International +Federation as of publication date in September, 1934.Rudin is +listed as president--a year after he has written the +sterilization law for Hitler.

+ +

28. +{Directory of Directors for New York City,} 1942. Interview with +Nancy Bowles, librarian of Dillon Read & Co.

+ +

29. +Higham, {op. cit.,} p. 129, 212-15, 219-23.

+ +

30. +Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, {The Wise Men: Six Friends and +the World They Made--Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, +McCloy} (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986), pp. 122, 305.

+ +

31. +Piotrow, {op. cit.,} pp. 36-42.

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32. +{Ibid.,} p. viii. "As chairman of the special Republican Task +Force on Population and Earth Resources, I was impressed by the +arguments of William H. Draper, Jr.... General Draper continues +to lead through his tireless work for the U.N. Population Fund."

+ +

33. +Sobel, {op. cit.,} pp. 298, 354.

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34. +Interview July 16, 1991, with Joanne Grossi, an official with +the USAID's Population Office.

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35. Dr. Nafis Sadik, "The State of World Population," 1991, New +York, United Nations Population Fund.

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36. +See {User's Guide to the Office of Population,} 1991, Office of +Population, Bureau for Science and Technology, United States +Agency for International Development. Available from S&T/POP, +Room 811 SA-18, USAID, Washington D.C. 20523-1819.

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37. "History of the Association for Voluntary Sterilization +[formerly Sterilization League of America], 1935-64," thesis +submitted to the faculty of the graduate school of the University +of Minnesota by William Ray Van Essendelft, March, 1978, +available on microfilm, Library of Congress. This is the official +history, written with full cooperation of the Sterilization +League.

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38. +Interview with Dr. C. Nash Herndon, June 20, 1990.

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Any comments, please send by email, as I get very far behind on +this group.

+ +

Thanks.

+ +

John Covici

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CHAPTER 4: "THE CENTER OFPOWER IS IN WASHINGTON" Brown +Brothers Harriman & Co. 59 Wall Street, New York Cable Address +"Shipley-New York" Business Established 1818 +Private Bankers

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September 5, 1944

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The Honorable W. A. Harriman American Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. +American Embassy, Moscow, Russia

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Dear Averell:

+ +

Thinking that possibly Bullitt's article in the recent issue +of "LIFE" may not have come to your attention, I have clipped +it and am sending it to you, feeling that it will interest you. +At present writing all is well here.

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With warm regards, I am, Sincerely yours,

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Pres

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'At present writing all is well here." Thus the ambassador to +Russia was reassured by the managing partner of his firm, +Prescott Bush. Only 22 and a half months before, the U.S. +government had seized and shut down the Union Banking +Corporation, which had been operated on behalf of Nazi Germany by +Bush and the Harrimans. But that was behind them now, and they +were safe. There would be no publicity on the Harriman-Bush +sponsorship of Hitlerism. +Prescott's son George, the future U.S. President, was also +safe. Three days before this note to Moscow was written, George +Bush had parachuted from a Navy bomber airplane over the Pacific +Ocean, killing his two crew members when the unpiloted plane +crashed. +Five months later, in February 1945, Prescott's boss Averell +Harriman escorted President Franklin Roosevelt to the fateful +summit meeting with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at Yalta. In +April Roosevelt died. The agreement reached at Yalta, calling +for free elections in Poland once the war ended, was never +enforced. +Over the next eight years (1945 through 1952), Prescott Bush +was Harriman'sanchorin the New York financial world. The +increasingly powerful Mr. Harriman and his allies gave Eastern +Europe over to Soviet dictatorship. A Cold War was then +undertaken, to "counterbalance" the Soviets. +This British-inspired strategy paid several nightmarish +dividends. Eastern Europe was to remain enslaved. Germany was +"permanently" divided. Anglo-American power was jointly +exercised over the non-Soviet "Free World." The confidential +functions of the British and American governments were merged. +The Harriman clique took possession of the U.S. national security +apparatus, and in doing so, they opened the gate and let the Bush +family in. +- * * * -

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Following his services to Germany's Nazi Party, Averell +Harriman spent several years mediating between the British, +American, and Soviet governments in the war to stop the Nazis. He +was ambassador to Moscow from 1943 to 1946.

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President Harry Truman, whom Harriman and his friends held in +amused contempt, appointed Harriman U.S. ambassador to Britain +in 1946. +Harriman was at lunch with former British Prime Minister +Winston Churchill one day in 1946,when Truman telephoned. +Harriman asked Churchill if he should accept Truman's offer to +come back to the U.S. as Secretary of Commerce. According to +Harriman's account, Churchill told him: "Absolutely. The center +of power is in Washington."s1

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Jupiter Island

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The reorganization of the American government after World War +II--the creation of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency along +British lines, for example--had devastating consequences. We are +concerned here with only certain aspects of that overall +transformation, those matters of policy and family which gave +shape to the life and mind of George Bush, and gave him access to +power. +It was in these postwar years that George Bush attended Yale +University, and was inducted into the Skull and Bones society. +The Bush family's home at that time was in Greenwich, +Connecticut. But it was just then that George's parents, Prescott +and Dorothy Walker Bush, were wintering in a peculiar spot in +Florida, a place that is excluded from mention in literature +originating from Bush circles. +Certain national news accounts early in 1991 featured the +observations on President Bush's childhood by his elderly mother +Dorothy. She was said to be a resident of Hobe Sound, Florida. +More precisely, the President's mother lived in a hyper-security +arrangement created a half-century earlier by Averell Harriman, +adjacent to Hobe Sound. Its correct name is Jupiter Island. +During his political career, George Bush has claimed many +different "home" states, including Texas, Maine, Massachusetts, +and Connecticut. It has not been expedient for him to claim +Florida, though that state has a vital link to his role in the +world, as we shall see. And George Bush's home base in Florida, +throughout his adult life, has been Jupiter Island. +The unique, bizarre setup on Jupiter Island began in 1931, +following the merger of W.A. Harriman and Co. with the +British-American firm Brown Brothers. +The reader will recall Mr. Samuel Pryor, the "Merchant of +Death." A partner with the Harrimans, Prescott Bush, George +Walker, and Nazi boss Fritz Thyssen in banking and shipping +enterprises, Sam Pryor remained executive committee chairman of +Remington Arms. In this period, the Nazi private armies (SA and +SS) were supplied with American arms--most likely by Pryor and +his company--as they moved to overthrow the German republic. +Such gun-running as an instrument of national policy would later +become notorious in the "Iran-Contra" affair. +Sam Pryor's daughter Permelia married Yale graduate Joseph V. +Reed on the last day of 1927. Reed immediately went to work for +Prescott Bush and George Walker, as an apprentice at W.A. +Harriman and Co. +During World War II, Joseph V. Reed had served in the +"special services" section of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. A +specialist insecurity, codes and espionage, Reed later wrote a +book entitled {Fun with Cryptograms}.s2

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Sam Pryor had had property around Hobe Sound, Florida, for +some time. In 1931, Joseph and Permelia Pryor Reed bought the +entirety of Jupiter Island. +This is atypically beautiful Atlantic coast"barrier +island," a half-mile wide and nine miles long. The middle of +Jupiter Island lies just off Hobe Sound. The south bridge +connects the island with the town of Jupiter, to the north of +Palm Beach. It is about 90 minutes by auto from Miami--today,a +few minutes by helicopter. +Early in 1991, a newspaper reporter asked a friend of the Bush +family about security arrangements on Jupiter Island. He +responded, "If you called up the White House,would they tell +you how many security people they had? It's not that Jupiter +Island is the White House, although he [George Bush] does come +down frequently." +But for several decades before Bush was President, Jupiter +Island had an ordinance requiring the registration and +fingerprinting of all housekeepers, gardeners, and other +non-residents working on the island. The Jupiter Island police +department says that there are sensors in the two main roads that +can track every automobile on the island. If a car stops in the +street, the police will be there within one or two minutes. +Surveillance is a duty of all employees of the Town of Jupiter +Island. News reporters are to be prevented from visiting the +island.s3 +To create this astonishing private club, Joseph and Permelia +Pryor Reed sold land only to those who would fit in. Permelia +Reed was still the grande dame of the island when George Bush was +inaugurated President in 1989. In recognition of the fact that +the Reeds know where {all} the bodies are buried, President Bush +appointed Permelia's son, Joseph V. Reed, Jr., chief of protocol +for the U.S. State Dept., in charge of private arrangements with +foreign dignitaries. +Averell Harriman made Jupiter Island a staging ground for his +1940s takeover of the U.S. national security apparatus. It was +in that connection that the island became possibly the most +secretive private place in America. +Let us briefly survey the neighborhood, back then in 1946-48, +to see some of the uses various of the residents had for the +Harriman clique.

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Residence on Jupiter Island

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sb|Jupiter Islander {Robert A. Lovett,}s4, Prescott Bush's +partner at Brown Brothers Harriman, had been Assistant Secretary +of War for Air from 1941 to 1945. Lovett was the leading American +advocate of the policy of terror-bombing of civilians. He +organized the Strategic Bombing Survey, carried out for the +American and British governments by the staff of the Prudential +Insurance Company, guided by London's Tavistock Psychiatric +Clinic. +In the postwar period, Prescott Bush was associated with +Prudential Insurance,one of Lovett's intelligence channels to +the British secret services. Prescott was listed by Prudential +as a director of the company for about two years in the early +1950s. +Their Strategic Bombing Survey failed to demonstrate any real +military advantage accruing from such outrages as the +fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany. But the Harrimanites +nevertheless persisted in the advocacy of terror from the air. +They glorified this as "psychological warfare," a part of the +utopian military doctrine opposed to the views of military +traditionalists such as Gen. Douglas MacArthur. +Robert Lovett later advised President Lyndon Johnson to +terror-bomb Vietnam. President George Bush revived the doctrine +with the bombing of civilian areas in Panama, and the destruction +of Baghdad. +On October 22, 1945, Secretary of war Robert Patterson created +the Lovett Committee, chaired by Robert A. Lovett, to advise the +government on the post-World War II organization of U.S. +intelligence activities. The existence of this committee was +unknown to the public until an official CIA history was released +from secrecy in 1989. But the CIA's author (who was President +Bush’s prep school history teacher; see chapter 5) gives no real +details of the Lovett Committee's functioning, claiming: "The +record of the testimony of the Lovett Committee, unfortunately, +was not in the archives of the agency when this account was +written."s5 +The CIA's self-history does inform us of the advice that +Lovett provided to the Truman cabinet, as the official War +Department intelligence proposal. +Lovett decided that there should be a separate Central +Intelligence Agency. The new agency would "consult"with the +armed forces,but it must be the sole collecting agency in the +field of foreign espionage and counterespionage. The new agency +should have an independent budget, and its appropriations should +be granted by Congress without public hearings. +Lovett appeared before the Secretaries of State, War, and Navy +on November 14, 1945. He spoke highly of the FBI's work because +it had "the best personality file in the world." Lovett said +the FBI was expert at producing false documents, an art "which +we developed so successfully during the war and at which we +became outstandingly adept." Lovett pressed for a virtual +resumption of the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in a +new CIA. +U.S. military traditionalists centered around Gen. Douglas +MacArthur opposed Lovett's proposal. The continuation of the OSS +had been attacked at the end of the war on the grounds that the +OSS was entirely under British control, and that it would +constitute an American Gestapo.s6 But the CIA was established in +1947 according to the prescription of Robert Lovett, of Jupiter +Island. +sb|{Charles Payson} and his wife, {Joan Whitney Payson,} were +extended family members of Harriman's and business associates of +the Bush family. +Joan's aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, was a relative of +the Harrimans. Gertrude's son, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") +Whitney, long-time chairman of Pan American Airways (Prescott was +a Pan Am director), became assistant secretary of the U.S. Air +Force in 1947. Sonny's wife Marie had divorced him and married +Averell Harriman in 1930. Joan and Sonny's uncle, Air Marshal Sir +Thomas Elmhirst, was director of intelligence for the British Air +Force from 1945 to 1947. +Joan's brother, John Hay("Jock") Whitney, was to be +ambassador to Great Britain from 1955 to 1961 ... when it would +be vital for Prescott and George Bush to have such a friend. +Joan’s father, grandfather, and uncle were members of the Skull +and Bones secret society. +Charles Payson organized a uranium refinery in 1948. Later, he +was chairman of Vitro Corporation,makers of parts for +submarine-launched ballistic missiles, equipment for frequency +surveillance and torpedo guidance, and other subsurface +weaponry. +Naval warfare has long been a preoccupation of the British +Empire. British penetration of the U.S. Naval Intelligence +service has been particularly heavy since the tenure of Joan's +Anglophile grandfather, William C. Whitney, as secretary of the +Navy for President Grover Cleveland. This traditional covert +British orientation in the U.S. Navy, Naval Intelligence and the +Navy’s included service, the Marine Corps, forms a backdrop to +the career of George Bush--and to the whole neighborhood on +Jupiter Island. Naval Intelligence maintained direct relations +with gangster boss Meyer Lansky forAnglo-American political +operations in Cuba during World War II,well before the +establishment of the CIA. Lansky officially moved to Florida in +1953.s7 +sb|{George Herbert Walker, Jr.} (Skull and Bones, 1927), was +extremely close to his nephew George Bush, helping to sponsor his +entry into the oil business in the 1950s. "Uncle Herbie" was +also a partner of Joan Whitney Payson when they co-founded the +New York Mets baseball team in 1960. His son, G.H. Walker III, +was a Yale classmate of {Nicholas Brady} and Moreau D. Brown +(Thatcher Brown's grandson), forming what was called the "Yale +Mafia" on Wall Street. +sb|{Walter S. Carpenter, Jr.} had been chairman of the finance +committee of the Du Pont Corporation (1930-40).In 1933, +Carpenter oversaw Du Pont's purchase of Remington Arms from Sam +Pryor and the Rockefellers, and led Du Pont into partnership with +the Nazi I.G. Farben company for the manufacture of explosives. +Carpenter became Du Pont's president in 1940. His cartel with the +Nazis was broken up by the U.S. government. Nevertheless, +Carpenter remained Du Pont's president, as the company’s +technicians participated massively in the Manhattan Project to +produce the first atomic bomb. He was chairman of Du Pont from +1948 to 1962, retaining high-level access to U.S. strategic +activities. +Walter Carpenter and Prescott Bush were fellow activists in +the Mental Hygiene Society. Originating at Yale University in +1908, the movement had been organized into the World Federation +of Mental Health by Montague Norman, himself a frequent mental +patient, former Brown Brothers partner and Bank of England +Governor. Norman had appointed as the federation’s chairman, +Brigadier John Rawlings Rees, director of the Tavistock Clinic, +chief psychiatrist and psychological warfare expert for the +British intelligence services. Prescott was a director of the +society in Connecticut; Carpenter was a director in Delaware. +sb|{Paul Mellon} was the leading heir to the Mellon fortune, +and along-time neighbor of Averell Harriman's in Middleburg, +Virginia, as well as Jupiter Island,Florida. Paul's father, +Andrew Mellon, U.S. treasury secretary 1921-32, had approved the +transactions of Harriman, Pryor, and Bush with the Warburgs and +the Nazis. Paul Mellon's son-in-law, {David K.E. Bruce,} worked +in Prescott Bush's W.A. Harriman & Co. during the late 1920s; +was head of the London branch of U.S. intelligence during World +War II; and was Averell Harriman's Assistant Secretary of +Commerce in 1947-48. Mellon family money and participation would +be instrumental in many domestic U.S. projects of the new Central +Intelligence Agency. +sb|{Carll Tucker} manufactured electronic guidance equipment +for the Navy. With the Mellons, Tucker was an owner of South +American oil properties. Mrs. Tucker was the great-aunt of +{Nicholas Brady,} later George Bush's Iran-Contra partner and +U.S. treasury secretary. Their son Carll Tucker, Jr. (Skull and +Bones,1947), was among the 15 Bonesmen who selected George Bush +for induction in the class of 1948. +sb|{C. Douglas Dillon} was the boss of William H. Draper, +Jr. in the Draper-Prescott Bush-Fritz Thyssen Nazi banking +scheme of the 1930s and 40s. His father, Clarence Dillon, created +the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (Thyssen's German Steel Trust) in 1926. +C. Douglas Dillon made{Nicholas Brady} the chairman of the +Dillon Read firm in 1971 and himself continued as chairman of the +Executive Committee. C. Douglas Dillon would be a vital ally of +his neighbor Prescott Bush during the Eisenhower administration. +sb|{Publisher Nelson Doubleday} headed his family's publishing +firm, founded under the auspices of J.P. Morgan and other British +Empire representatives. When George Bush's"Uncle Herbie" +died, Doubleday took over as majority owner and chief executive +of the New York Mets baseball team. +Some other specialized corporate owners had their place in +Harriman's strange club. +sb|{George W. Merck,} chairman of Merck & Co., drug and +chemical manufacturers, was director of the War Research Service: +Merck was the official chief of all U.S. research into biological +warfare from 1942 until at least the end of World War II. After +1944, Merck’s organization was placed under the U.S. Chemical +Warfare Service. His family firm in Germany and the United States +was famous for its manufacture of morphine. +sb|{James H. McGraw, Jr.,} chairman of McGraw Hill Publishing +Company, was a member of the advisory board to the U.S. Chemical +Warfare Service and a member of the Army Ordnance Association +Committee on Endowment. +sb|{Fred H. Haggerson,} chairman of Union Carbide Corp., +produced munitions, chemicals, and firearms. +sb|{A.L. Cole} was useful to the Jupiter Islanders as an +executive of {Readers Digest.} In 1965, just after performing a +rather dirty favor for George Bush [which will be discussed in a +coming chapter--ed.],Cole became chairman of the executive +committee of the {Digest,} the world's largest-circulation +periodical. +From the late 1940s, Jupiter Island has served as a center for +the direction of covert action by the U.S. government and, +indeed, for the covert management of the government. Jupiter +Island will reappear later on, in our account of George Bush in +the Iran-Contra affair.

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Target: Washington

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George Bush graduated from Yale in 1948. He soon entered the +family's Dresser oil supply concern in Texas. We shall now +briefly describe the forces that descended on Washington, D.C. +during those years when Bush, with the assistance of family and +powerful friends, was becoming "established in business on his +own." +From 1948 to 1950, Prescott Bush's boss Averell Harriman was +U.S. "ambassador-at-large" to Europe. He was a non-military +"Theater Commander," the administrator of the +multi-billion-dollar Marshall Plan, participating in all +military/strategic decision-making by the Anglo-American +alliance. +The U.S. secretary of defense, James Forrestal, had become a +problem to the Harrimanites. Forrestal had long been an executive +at Dillon Read on Wall Street. But in recent years he had gone +astray. As secretary of the navy in 1944, Forrestal proposed the +racial integration of the Navy. As defense secretary, he pressed +for integration in the armed forces and this eventually became +the U.S. policy. +Forrestal opposed the utopians' strategy of appeasement +coupled with brinkmanship. He was simply opposed to communism. +On March 28, 1949, Forrestal was forced out of office and flown +on an Air Force plane to Florida. He was taken to "Hobe Sound" +(Jupiter Island), where Robert Lovett and an army psychiatrist +dealt with him.s8 +He was flown back to Washington, locked in Walter Reed Army +Hospital and given insulin shock treatments for alleged "mental +exhaustion." He was denied all visitors except his estranged +wife and children--his son had been Averell Harriman's aide in +Moscow. On May 22, Forrestal's body was found, his bathrobe cord +tied tightly around his neck, after he had plunged from a +sixteenth-story hospital window. The chief psychiatrist called +the death a suicide even before any investigation was started. +The results of the Army's inquest were kept secret. Forrestal's +diaries were published, 80 percent deleted, after a year of +direct government censorship and rewriting. +- * * * - +North Korean troops invaded South Korea in June 1950, after +U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson (Harriman's very close +friend) publicly specified that Korea would not be defended. +With a new war on, Harriman came back to serve as President +Truman's adviser, to "oversee national security affairs." +Harriman replaced Clark Clifford, who had been special counsel +to Truman. Clifford, however, remained close to Harriman and his +partners as they gained more and more power. Clifford later +wrote about his cordial relations with Prescott Bush: +"Prescott Bush ... had become one of my frequent golfing +partners in the fifties, and I had both liked and respected +him.... Bush had a splendid singing voice,and particularly +loved quartet singing. In the fifties, he organized a quartet +that included my daughter Joyce.... They would sing in +Washington, and, on occasion, he invited the group to Hobe Sound +in Florida to perform. His son [George], though, had never +struck me as a strong or forceful person. In 1988, he presented +himself successfully to the voters as an outsider--no small trick +for a man whose roots wound through Connecticut, Yale, Texas oil, +the CIA, a patrician background, wealth, and the Vice +Presidency."s9

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With Forrestal out of the way,Averell Harriman and Dean +Acheson drove to Leesburg, Virginia, on July 1, 1950, to hire the +British-backed U.S. Gen. George C. Marshall as secretary of +defense. At the same time, Prescott's partner, Robert Lovett, +himself became assistant secretary of defense. +Lovett, Marshall, Harriman, and Acheson went to work to +unhorse Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander of U.S. forces in +Asia. MacArthur kept Wall Street's intelligence agencies away +from his command, and favored real independence for the non-white +nations. Lovett called for MacArthur's firing on March 23, 1951, +citing MacArthur’s insistence on defeating the Communist Chinese +invaders in Korea. MacArthur's famous message, that there was +"no substitute for victory," was read in Congress on April 5; +MacArthur was fired on April 10, 1951. +That September, Robert Lovett replaced Marshall as secretary +of defense. Meanwhile, Harriman was named director of the Mutual +Security Agency, making him the U.S. chief of the Anglo-American +military alliance. By now,Brown Brothers Harriman was +everything but commander-in-chief. +- * * * - +These were, of course, exciting times for the Bush family, +whose wagon was hitched to the financial gods of Olympus--to +Jupiter, that is.

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Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. 59 Wall Street, New York 5, N.Y. +Business Established 1818 Cable Address "Shipley-New York" +Private Bankers +April 2, 1951

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The Honorable W.A. Harriman, The White House, Washington, D.C.

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Dear Averell: +I was sorry to miss you in Washington but appreciate your +cordial note. I shall hope for better luck another time. +I hope you had a good rest at Hobe Sound. +With affectionate regard, I am, +Sincerely yours,

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Pres [signed] +Prescott S. Bush

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A central focus of the Harriman security regime in Washington +(1950-53) was the organization of covert operations, and +"psychological warfare." Harriman,together with his lawyers +and business partners, Allen and John Foster Dulles, wanted the +government's secret services to conduct extensive propaganda +campaigns and mass-psychology experiments within the U.S.A., and +paramilitary campaigns abroad. This would supposedly ensure a +stable world-wide environment favorable to Anglo-American +financial and political interests. +The Harriman security regime created the Psychological +Strategy Board (PSB) in 1951. The man appointed director of the +PSB, Gordon Gray, is familiar to the reader as the sponsor of the +child sterilization experiments, carried out by the Harrimanite +eugenics movement in North Carolina following World War II. +Gordon Gray was an avid Anglophile, whose father had gotten +controlling ownership of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company +through alliance with the British Imperial tobacco cartel's U.S. +representatives, the Duke family of North Carolina. Gordon's +brother, R.J. Reynolds chairman Bowman Gray Jr., was also a naval +intelligence officer, known around Washington as the "founder of +operational intelligence." Gordon Gray became a close friend and +political ally of Prescott Bush; and Gray's son became for +Prescott's son, George, his lawyer and the shield of his covert +policy. +But President Harry Truman, as malleable as he was, +constituted an obstacle to the covert warriors. An insular +Missouri politician vaguely favorable to the U.S. Constitution, +he remained skeptical about secret service activities that +reminded him of the Nazi Gestapo. +So, "covert operations" could not fully take off without a +change of the Washington regime. And it was with the Republican +Party that Prescott Bush was to get his turn.

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Prescott Runs for Senate

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Prescott had made his first attempt to enter national politics +in 1950, as his partners took control of the levers of +governmental power. Remaining in charge of Brown Brothers +Harriman, he ran against Connecticut's William Benton for his +seat in the U.S. Senate. (The race was actually for a two-year +unexpired term, left empty by the death of the previous +senator). +In those days, Wisconsin's drunken Senator Joseph R. McCarthy +was making a circus-like crusade against communist influence in +Washington. McCarthy attacked liberals and leftists, State +Department personnel, politicians, and Hollywood figures. He +generally left unscathed the Wall Street and London strategists +who donated Eastern Europe and China to communist +dictatorship--like George Bush, their geopolitics was beyond left +and right. +Prescott Bush had no public ties to the notorious Joe +McCarthy, and appeared to be neutral about his crusade. But the +Wisconsin senator had his uses. Joe McCarthy came into +Connecticut three times that year to campaign for Bush and +against the Democrats. Bush himself made charges of "Korea, +Communism and Corruption" into a slick campaign phrase against +Benton, which then turned up as a national Republican slogan. +The response was disappointing. Only small crowds turned out +to hear Joe McCarthy, and Benton was not hurt. McCarthy's +pro-Bush rally in New Haven, in a hall that seated 6000, drew +only 376 people. Benton joked on the radio that "200 of them +were my spies." +Prescott Bush resigned from the Yale Board of Fellows for his +campaign, and the board published a statement to the effect that +the "Yale vote" should support Bush--despite the fact that +Benton was a Yale man, and in many ways identical in outlook to +Bush. Yale's Whiffenpoof singers appeared regularly for +Prescott's campaign. None of this was particularly effective, +however, with the voting population.s1s0 +Then Papa Bush ran into a completely unexpected problem. At +that time, the old Harriman eugenics movement was centered at +Yale University. Prescott Bush was a Yale trustee, and his former +Brown Brothers Harriman partner, Lawrence Tighe, was Yale's +treasurer. In that connection, a slight glimmer of the truth +about the Bush-Harriman firm's Nazi activities now made its way +into the campaign. +Not only was the American Eugenics Society itself +headquartered at Yale, but all parts of this undead fascist +movement had a busy home at Yale. The coercive psychiatry and +sterilization advocates had made the Yale/New Haven Hospital and +Yale Medical School their laboratories for hands-on practice in +brain surgery and psychological experimentation. And the Birth +Control League was there, which had long trumpeted the need for +eugenical births--fewer births for parents with "inferior" +bloodlines. Prescott's partner Tighe was a Connecticut director +of the league, and the Connecticut league's medical advisor was +the eugenics advocate, Dr. Winternitz of Yale Medical School. +Now in 1950, people who knew something about Prescott Bush +knew that he had very unsavory roots in the eugenics movement. +There were then, just after the anti-Hitler war,few open +advocates of sterilization of "unfit" or "unnecessary" +people. (That would be revived later, with the help of General +Draperand his friend George Bush.) But the Birth Control League +was public--just about then it was changing its name to the +euphemistic "Planned Parenthood." +Then, very late in the 1950 senatorial campaign, Prescott Bush +was publicly exposed for being an activist in that section of the +old fascist eugenics movement. Prescott Bush lost the election +by about 1000 out of 862000 votes. He and his family blamed +the defeat on the exposeaa. The defeat was burned into the +family's memory, leaving a bitterness and perhaps a desire for +revenge. +In his foreword to a population control propaganda book, +George Bush wrote about that1950 election: "My own first +awareness of birth control as a public policy issue came with a +jolt in 1950 when my father was running for United States Senate +in Connecticut. Drew Pearson, on the Sunday before Election day, +'revealed' that my father was involved with Planned +Parenthood.... Many political observers felt a sufficient number +of voters were swayed by his alleged contacts with the birth +controllers to cost him the election...."s1s1 +Prescott Bush gave a graphic description of these events in +his "oral history" interview at Columbia University: "In the +1950 campaign, when I ran against Benton, the very last week, +Drew Pearson,famous columnist, was running a radio program at +that time.... In this particular broadcast, just at the end of +our campaign [Pearson said]: "I predict that Benton will retain +his seat in the United States Senate, because it has just been +made known that Prescott Bush, his opponent, is president of the +Birth Control Society" or chairman, member of the board of +directors, or something, "of the Birth Control Society. In this +country, and of course with Connecticut's heavy Catholic +population, and its laws against birth control ... this is going +to be too much for Bush to rise above. Benton will be elected. +I predict." +The next Sunday, they handed out, at these Catholic Churches +in Waterbury and Torrington and Bridgeport, handbills, quoting +Drew Pearson's statement on the radio about Prescott Bush, you +see--I predict. Well, my telephone started ringing that Sunday +at home, and when I'd answer, or Dotty [Prescott's wife, George's +mother] would answer--"Is this true, what they say about +Prescott Bush?This can't be true. Is it true?" +She'd say, "No, it isn't true." Of course, it wasn't true. +But you never catchup with a thing like this--the election's +just day after tomorrow, you see? So there's no doubt, in the +estimate of our political leaders, that this one thing cost me +many thousand votes--whether it was 1, 3, 5 or 10 thousand we +don't know, we can't possibly tell, but it was enough. To have +overcome that thousand vote, it would only have had to be 600 +switch [sic]. +[Mrs. Bush then corrected the timing in Prescott Bush's +recollections.] +"I'd forgotten the exact sequence, but that was it.... The +state then--and I think still is--probably about 55 percent +Catholic population, with all the Italian derivation people +[sic],and Polish is very heavy, and the Catholic church is very +dominant here, and the archbishop was death on this birth control +thing. They fought repeal every time it came up in the +legislature, and {we never did get rid of that prohibition until +just a year or two ago,} as I recall it [emphasis added].s1s2

+ +

Prescott Bush was defeated, while the other Republican +candidates fared well in Connecticut. He attributed his loss to +the Catholic Church. After all, he had dependable friends in the +news media. The {New York Times}loved him for his bland +pleasantness. He just about owned CBS. Twenty years earlier, +Prescott Bush had personally organized the credit to allow +William S. Paley to buy the CBS (radio, later television) network +outright. In return, Prescott was made a director and the +financial leader of CBS; Paley himself became a devoted follower +and servitor of Averell Harriman. +Well, when he tried again, Prescott Bush would not leave the +outcome to the blind whims of the public. +Prescott Bush moved into action in 1952 as a national leader +of the push to give the Republican presidential nomination to +Gen. Dwight D. ("Ike") Eisenhower. Among the other team members +were Bush's Hitler-era lawyer John Foster Dulles, and Jupiter +Islander C. Douglas Dillon. +Dillon and his father were the pivots as the Harriman-Dulles +combination readied Ike for the presidency. As a friend put it: +"When the Dillons ... invited [Eisenhower] to dinner it was to +introduce him to Wall Street bankers and lawyers."s1s3 +Ike's higher level backers believed, correctly, that Ike would +not interfere with even the dirtiest of their covert action +programs. The bland, pleasant Prescott Bush was in from the +beginning: a friend to Ike, and an original backer of his +presidency. +On July 28, 1952, as the election approached, Connecticut's +senior U.S. senator, James O'Brien McMahon, died at the age of +48. (McMahon had been Assistant U.S. Attorney General, in charge +of the Criminal Division, from 1935 to 1939. Was there a chance +he might someday speak out about the unpunished Nazi-era crimes +of the wealthy and powerful?) +This was {extremely} convenient for Prescott. He got the +Republican nomination for U.S. senator at a special delegated +meeting, with backing by the Yale-dominated state party +leadership. Now he would run in a special election for the +suddenly vacant Senate seat. He could expect to be swept into +office, since he would be on the same electoral ticket as the +popular war hero, General Ike. By a technicality, he would +instantly become Connecticut's senior senator, with extra power +in Congress. And the next regularly scheduled senatorial race +would be in 1956 (when McMahon’s term would have ended), so +Prescott could run again in that presidential election year ... +once again on Ike's coattails!

+ +

With this arrangement, things worked out very smoothly. In +Eisenhower's 1952 election victory,Ike won Connecticut by a +margin of 129507 votes out of 1092471. Prescott Bush came in +last among the statewide Republicans, but managed to win by +30373out of 1088799, his margin nearly 100000 behind +Eisenhower. He took the traditionally Republican towns. +In Eisenhower's 1956 re-election, Ike won Connecticut by +303036 out of 1114954 votes, the largest presidential margin +in Connecticut's history. Prescott Bush managed to win again, by +129544 votes out of 1085206--his margin this time 290082 +smaller than Eisenhower's.s1s4 +In January 1963, when this electoral strategy had been played +out and his second term expired, Prescott Bush retired from +government and returned to Brown Brothers Harriman. +The 1952 Eisenhower victory made John Foster Dulles Secretary +of State, and his brother Allen Dulles head of the CIA. The +reigning Dulles brothers were the "Republican" replacements for +their client and business partner, "Democrat" Averell +Harriman. Occasional public posturings aside, their strategic +commitments were identical to his. +Undoubtedly the most important work accomplished by Prescott +Bush in the new regime was on the golf links. +Those who remember the Eisenhower presidency know that Ike +played ... quite a bit of golf! Democrats sneered at him for +mindlessness, Republicans defended him for taking this healthy +recreation. Golf was Ike's ruling passion. And there at his +side was the loyal, bland, pleasant Senator Prescott Bush, former +president of the U.S. Golf Association, son-in-law of the very +man who had reformulated the rules of the game. +Prescott Bush was Dwight Eisenhower's favorite golf partner. +Prescott could reassure Ike about his counselors, allay his +concerns, and monitor his moods. Ike was very grateful to +Prescott, who never revealed the President's scores. +The public image of his relationship to the President may be +gleaned from a 1956 newspaper profile of Prescott Bush's role in +the party. The {New York Times,}which 11 years before had +consciously protected him from public exposure as a Nazi banker, +fawned over him in an article entitled, "His Platform: +Eisenhower":"A tall, lean, well-dressed man who looks exactly +like what he is--a wealthy product of the Ivy League--is chairman +of the Republican Convention's platform committee. As such, +Prescott Bush, Connecticut's senior United States Senator, has a +difficult task: he has to take one word and expand it to about +5000. +"The one word, of course, is 'Ike'--but no party platform +could ever be so simple and direct.... +"Thus it is that Senator Bush and his fellow committee +members ... find themselves confronted with the job of wrapping +around the name Eisenhower sufficient verbiage to persuade the +public that it is the principles of the party, and not the grin +of the man at the head of it, which makes it worthy of +endorsement in [the] November [election]. +"For this task Prescott Bush, a singularly practical and +direct conservative, may not be entirely fitted. It is likely +that left to his own devices he would simply offer the country +the one word and let it go at that. +"He is ... convinced that this would be enough to do the +trick ... if only the game were played that way.

+ +

"Since it is not, he can be expected to preside with dignity, +fairness and dispatch over the sessions that will prepare the +party credo for the 1956 campaign. +"If by chance there should be any conflicts within the +committee ... the Senator's past can offer a clue to his +conduct. +"A former Yale Glee Club and second bass in the All-Time +Whiffenpoofs Quartet,he is ...[called] 'the hottest +close-harmony man at Yale in a span of twenty-five years.' +"Close harmony being a Republican specialty under President +Eisenhower, the hottest close-harmony man at Yale in twenty-five +years would seem to be an ideal choice for the convention job he +holds at San Francisco.... +"[In addition to his business background,he] also played +golf, competing in a number of tournaments. For eight years he +was a member of the executive committee of the United States Golf +Association.... +"As a Senator, Connecticut's senior spokesman in the upper +house has followed conservative policies consistent with his +business background. +He resigned all his corporate directorships, took a leave from +Brown Brothers, Harriman, and proceeded to go down the line for +the Eisenhower program.... +"Around the Senate, he is known as a man who does his +committee work faithfully, defends the Administration stoutly, +and fits well into the club like atmosphere of Capitol +Hill...."s1s5 +{To be continued.}

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Notes

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1. +Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, {The Wise Men}: Six Friends and +the World They Made--Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, +McCloy} (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986), p. 377.

+ +

2. +Reed was better known in high society as a minor diplomat, the +founder of the Triton Press and the president of the American +Shakespeare Theater.

+ +

3. +{Palm Beach Post,} January 13, 1991.

+ +

4. +For Lovett's residency there see Isaacson and Thomas, {op. +cit.,} p. 417. Some Jupiter Island residencies were verified by +their inclusion in the 1947 membership list of the Hobe Sound +Yacht Club, in the Harriman papers, Library of Congress; others +were established from interviews with long-time Jupiter +Islanders.

+ +

5. +Arthur Burr Darling, {The Central Intelligence Agency: An +Instrument of Government,to 1950}, (College Station: +Pennsylvania State University, 1990), p. 59.

+ +

6. The {Chicago Tribune}, Feb 9, 1945,for example, warned of +"Creation of an all-powerful intelligence service to spy on the +postwar world and to pry into the lives of citizens sat home. +{Cf. Anthony Cave Brown, {Wild Bill Donovan: The Last Hero}, (New +York: Times Books, 1982), p.625, on warnings to FDR about the +British control of U.S. intelligence.

+ +

7. Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, Eli Landau, {Meyer Lansky: Mogul of +the Mob} (New York: Paddington Press, 1979) pp. 227-28.

+ +

8. See John Ranelagh, {The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the +CIA}, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987), pp. 131-32.

+ +

9. Clark Clifford, {Counsel to the President} (New York: Random +House, 1991).

+ +

10. Sidney Hyman, {The Life of William Benton} (Chicago: The +University of Chicago Press, 1969), pp. 438-41.

+ +

11. Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, {World Population Crisis: The United +States Response} (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973), +"Forward" by George H.W. Bush, p. vii.

+ +

12. Interview with Prescott Bush in the Oral History Research +Project conducted by Columbia University in1966, Eisenhower +Administration Part II; pp. 62-4.

+ +

13. Herbert S. Parmet, {Eisenhower and the American Crusades} +(New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972), p. 14.

+ +

14. {New York Times}, Sept. 6, 1952, Nov. 5, 1952, Nov. 7, 1956.

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15. {New York Times}, Aug. 21, 1956.

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Any comments, please send by email, as I get very far behind on +this group.

+ +

Thanks.

+ +

John Covici + +coviciccs.covici.com +

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[Reproduced with permission from _The Spotlight_, June 22, 1992

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Free use of this material is permitted provided that _The Spotlight_ +is credited, including publisher's address]

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BUSH LINKED TO TERROR BOMBING;

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WILL U.N. ASK FOR EXTRADITION?:

+ +

Shocking Evidence Revealed

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The evidence pointing to President Bush's role in the terrorist bombing of +a Cuban airliner grows stronger with new revelations. Will the UN Security +Council demand his extradition to Cuba or the World Court, as Bush and the +UN have done in the case of Libyan suspects in a similar crime?

+ +

By Warren Hough +Exclusive to The Spotlight

+ +

Washington, DC, 6/12/92 -- Long-suppressed records have turned up +"shattering" new evidence of the role played by President George Bush in +the midair bombing of a Cuban airliner and in its subsequent cover-up, +Latin American officials conducting a "preliminary review" of the tragic +incident have told the UN Security Council. +The secret files reportedly confirm that in mid-1976, while serving as +CIA chief, Bush was in "overall command" of a botched sabotage operation +that ended in the crash of a Cuban passenger jet, killing all 73 aboard, +The SPOTLIGHT has learned from diplomatic sources close to the +investigation. +A CIA agent identified as Luis Posada was arrested by Venezuelan +authorities shortly after the Cuban plane exploded in midair during its +takeoff from a Caribbean stopover, these sources say. Posada, a member of +a sizable CIA contingent conducting covert operations from Venezuelan bases +at the time, was charged with having smuggled an explosive device aboard +the flight, and held for trial. +Bush, anxious to disclaim all responsibility for such an atrocious +terrorist outrage, ordered a "no-holds-barred" cover-up of the crime, the +record suggests. +"In order to take the heat off Posada, the CIA targeted another +suspect, Dr. Orlando Bosch, a militant Cuban exile activist who advocated +'armed action' against the Castro dictatorship," recounted Felipe Rivero, +the popular Miami broadcaster who is The SPOTLIGHT's correspondent in the +region." +Venezuela's secret police, known after its Spanish initials as DISIP, +maintained close relations with the CIA and followed its lead. Bosch was +imprisoned and charged with complicity in the bombing in Venezuela.

+ +

BUSH ORCHESTRATION

+ +

The next move in the cover-up reportedly orchestrated by Bush was to +"recover" Posada, these sources day. In a well-organized and lavishly +financed jailbreak, the alleged aerial bomber was spirited from Venezuela +to Panama, where the CIA issued him a new set of identity documents under +the name of Ramon Medina, a Guatemalan businessman. +In the concluding move of the cover-up, Posada, now known as "Medina," +was handed over to Felix Rodriguez, a senior CIA field agent with whom Bush +had a personal working relationship, the record shows. Rodriguez gave +Posada a series of covert jobs with CIA teams stationed in Central America, +largely in order to protect him and "keep him happy," these sources +related. +"I, for my part, spent 11 years in various maximum security Venezuelan +prisons," Bosch told a SPOTLIGHT reporter during a recent telephone +interview. "During those years, I was put on trial four times for that +airplane bombing. My case was heard by military, civilian and appellate +courts. I was found innocent each time. But after each acquittal, the CIA +came up with new 'suggestions' about my guilt."

+ +

PALE AND FRAIL

+ +

Finally the Venezuelan government told Washington it could no longer +hold Bosch. Pale and in frail health, the falsely accused "terrorist" was +flown back to Miami. "Here I could hope for no acquittal," recounted +Bosch. "At the airport, immigration officials threw me into chains. I was +held in solitary confinement for 29 months." +Finally granted a provisional release after leading Cuban-American +Republicans pressed his cause without letup, Bosch now lives in seclusion +near Miami. "My status is that of a 'deportable' alien," he told The +SPOTLIGHT. "If I engage in any political activity, or even if I talk too +much, I can be tossed back into jail. I am in no position to comment on +controversial questions -- not even in my own cause." +Living under the assumed name and a small CIA paycheck in Central +America also proved difficult for Posada, SPOTLIGHT correspondent Rivero +reports. "A couple of years ago, two men walked up to Posada in a +Guatemalan restaurant and shot him five times," Rivero related. "He +survived the shooting by a sheer miracle. Badly injured -- he lives +largely on liquefied food and walks with a crutch, I hear -- he has +vanished into the 'protective custody' of the CIA." +The reason for Posada's attempted assassination is known, however. He +"drank a bit and began to talk too much," U.N. sources said. "The CIA +needed an airtight cover-up of that airline bombing. When Posada turned +talkative, his usefulness to Bush was at an end -- and, but for an iron +physique and that miraculous survival, he would have been, too." +Now the U.N. Security Council, having assumed jurisdiction over such +international terrorist crimes when it clamped harsh sanctions on Libya +last April, faces a tougher challenge: How to deal with a case of aerial +mass murder in which the principal suspect happens to be THE INCUMBENT +PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

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+*** The "Liberation of the Camps": FACTS vs. LIES ***

+ +

By Theodore J. O'Keefe +_______________________________________________________________________________

+ +

Nothing has been more effective in establishing the authenticity of the Holocaust in the minds of Americans than the terrible scenes U.S. GI's discovered when they entered the German concentration camps at the close of World War II.

+ +

At Dachau, Buchenwald, Dora, Mauthausen, and other work and detention camps, horrified American infantrymen encountered heaps of dead and dying inmates, emaciated and diseased. Survivors told them hair-raising stories of torture and slaughter, and backed up their claims by showing the GI's crematory ovens, alleged gas chambers, supposed implements of torture, even shrunken heads and lampshades, gloves, and handbags purportedly made from skin flayed from dead inmates.

+ +

U.S. government authorities, mindful that most Americans, who remembered the atrocity stories fed them during World War I, still doubted the Allied propaganda directed against the Hitler regime, resolved to "document" what the GI's had found in the camps. Prominent newsmen and politicians were flown in to see the harrowing evidence, while the U.S. Army Signal Corps filmed and photographed the scenes for posterity. The famous journalist Edward R. Murrow reported, in tones of horror, but no longer of disbelief, what he had been told and shown, and Dachau and Buchenwald were branded on the hearts and minds of the American populace as names of infamy unmatched in the sad and bloody history of this planet.

+ +

For Americans, what was "discovered" at the camps - the dead and the diseased, the terrible stories of the inmates, all the props of torture and terror - became the basis not simply of a transitory propaganda campaign but of the conviction that yes, it was true: the Germans DID exterminate six million Jews, most of them in lethal gas chambers. What the GI's found was used, by way of films which were mandatory viewing for the vanquished populace of Germany, to "re-educate" the German people b +destroying their national pride and their will to a united, independant national state, imposing in their place overwhelming feelings of collective guilt and political impotence. And when the testimony, and the verdict, at Nuremberg incorporated mos, if not all, of the horror stories Americans were told about Dachau, Buchenwald, and other places captured by the U.S. Army, the Holocaust could pass for one of the most documented, one of the most authenticated, one of the most proven historical episodes in the human record.

+ +

A Different Reality

+ +

* But it is known today that, very soon after the liberation of the * +* camps, American authorities were aware that the real story of the camps * +* was quite different from the one in which they were coaching military * +* public information officers, government spokesmen, politicians, * +* journalists, and other mouthpieces. *

+ +

When American and British forces overran western and central Germany in the spring of 1945, they were followed by troops charged with discovering and securing any evidence of German war crimes. Among them was Dr. Charles Larson, one of America's +leading forensic pathologists, who was assigned to the Judge Advocate General's Department. Dr. Larson performed autopsies at Dachau and some twenty other German camps, examining on some days more than 100 corpses. After his grim work at Dachau, he was questioned for three days by U.S. Army prosecutors.^1

+ +

Dr. Larson's findings? According to an interview he gave to an American journalist in 1980, "What we've heard is that six million Jews were exterminated. Part of that is a hoax."^2 And what part was the hoax? Dr. Larson, who told his biographer that to his knowledge he "was the only forensic pathologist on duty in the entire European Theater,"^3 informed "Wichita Eagle" reporter Jan Floerchinger that "never was a case of poison gas uncovered."^4 Neither Dr. Larson nor any other forensic specialist has ever been cited by any Holocaust historian to substantiate a single case of death by poison gas, whether Zyklon-B or any other variety.

+ +

Typhus, Not Poison Gas

+ +

If not by gassing, how did the unfortunate victims at Dachau, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen perish? Were they tortured to death? Deliberately starved? The answers to these questions are known as well. As Dr. Larson and other Allied medical men discovered, the chief cause of death at Dachau, Belsen, and the other camps was disease, above all typhus, an old and terrible scourge of mankind which until recently flourished in places where populations were crowded together in circumstances where public health measures were unknown or had broken down. Such was the case in the overcrowded internment camps in Germany at war's end, where, despite such measures as systematic delousing, quarantine of the sick, and cremation of the dead, the virtual collapse of Germany's food, transport, and public health systems led to catastrophe.

+ +

Perhaps the most authoritative statement of the facts as to typhus and mortality in the camps has been made by Dr. John E. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of preventive medicine and epidemiology at the Harvard University School of Public Health +who was with U.S. forces in Germany in 1945. Dr. Gordon reported in 1948 that "The outbreaks in concentration camps and prisons made up the great bulk of typhus infection encountered in Germany." Dr. Gordon summarized the causes for the outbreaks as +follows:

+ +
* * *
+ +

Germany was in chaos. The destruction of whole cities and the path left by advancing armies produced a disruption of living conditions contributing to the spread of the disease. Sanitation was low grade, public utilities were seriously disrupted +food supply and food distribution was poor, housing was inadequate and order and discipline were everywhere lacking. Still more important, a shifting of populations was occurring such as few countries and few times have experienced.^5

+ +
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+ +

Dr. Gordon's findings are corroborated by Dr. Russel Barton, today a psychiatrist of international repute, who entered Bergen-Belsen with British forces as a young medical student in 1945. Barton, who volunteered to care for the diseased survivors, testified under sworn oath in a Toronto courtroom in 1985 that "Thousands of prisoners who died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II weren't deliberately starved to death but died from a rash of diseases."^6 Dr. Barton further testified that on entering the camp he had credited stories of deliberate starvations but had decided such stories were untrue after inspecting the well-equipped kitchens and the meticulously maintained ledgers, dating back to 1942, of food cooked and dispensed each day. Despite noisily publicized claims and widespread popular notions to the contrary, no researcher has been able to document a German policy of extermination through starvation in the German camps.

+ +

No Lampshades, No Handbags, Etc.

+ +

What of the ghoulish stories of concentration camp inmates skinned for their tattoos, flayed to make lampshades and handbags, or other artifacts? What of the innumerable "torture racks," "meathooks," whipping posts, gallows, and other tools of torment and death that are reported to have abounded at every German camp? These allegations, and even more grotesque ones profferred by Soviet prosecutors, found their way into the record at Nuremberg.

+ +

The lampshade and tattooed-skin charges were made against Ilse Koch, dubbed by journalists the "Bitch of Buchenwald," who was reported to have furnished her house with objects manufactured from the tanned hides of luckless inmates. But General Lucius Clay, military governor of the U.S. zone of occupied Germany, who reviewed her case in 1948, told his superiors in Washington: "There is no convincing evidence that she [Ilse Koch] selected inmates for extermination in order to secure tattooed sins or that she possessed any articles made of human skin."^7 In an interview General Clay gave years later, he stated about the material for the infamous lampshades: "Well, it turned out actually that it was goat flesh. But at the trial it was still +human flesh. It was almost impossible for her to have gotten a fair trial."^8 Ilse Koch hanged herself in a West German jail in 1967.

+ +

It would be tedius to itemize and refute the thousands of bizarre claims as to Nazi atrocities. That there were instances of German cruelty, however, is clear from the testimony of Dr. Konrad Morgen, a legal investigator attached to the Reich Criminal Police, whose statements on the witness stand at Nuremberg have never been challenged by believers in the Jewish Holocaust. Dr. Morgen informed the court that he had been given full authority by Heinrich Himmler, commander of Hitler's SS and th +dread Gestapo, to enter any German concentration camp and investigate instances of cruelty and corruption on the part of the camp staffs. According to Dr. Morgen's sworn testimony at Nuremberg, he investigated 800 such cases, in which over 200 convictions resulted.^9 Punishments included the death penalty for the worst offenders, including Hermann Karl Koch, Ilse's husband, commandant of Buchenwald.

+ +

In reality, while camp commandants in certain cases did inflict physical punishment, such acts had to be approved by authorities in Berlin, and it was required that a camp physician first certify the good health of the prisoner to be disciplined +and then be on hand at the actual beating.^10 After all, the camps were throughout most of the war important centers of industrial activity. The good health and morale of the prisoners was critical to the German war effort, as is evidenced by a 1942 +order issued by SS-Brigadefuhrer Richard Glucks, chief of the office which controlled the concentration camps, which held camp commanders "personally responsible for exhausting every possibility to preserve the physical strength of the detainees."^11

+ +

Concentration Camp Survivors - Merely Victims?

+ +

U.S. Army investigators, working at Buchenwald and other camps, quickly ascertained what was common knowledge among veteran inmates: that the worst offenders, the cruelest denizens of the camps were not the guards but the prisoners themselves. Common criminals of the same stripe as those who populate U.S. prisons today committed many villainies, particularly when they held positions of authority, and fanatical Communists, highly organized to combat their many political enemies among the inmates, eliminated their foes with Stalinist ruthlessness.

+ +

Two U.S. Army investigators at Buchenwald, Egon W. Fleck and Edward A. Tenenbaum, carefully investigated circumstances in the camp before its liberation. In a detailed report submitted to their superiors, they revealed, in the words of Alfred Tombs, their commander, who wrote a preface to the report, "how the prisoners themselves organized a deadly terror within the Nazi terror."^12

+ +

Fleck and Tenenbaum described the power exercised by criminals and Communists as follows: +* * *

+ +

. . . The trusties, who in time became almost exclusively Communist Germans, had the power of life and death over all other inmates. They could sentence a man or a group to almost certain death . . . The Communist trusties were directly responsible for a large part of the brutalities at Buchenwald.

+ +
* * *
+ +

Colonel Donald B. Robinson, chief historian of the American military government in Germany, summarized the Fleck-Tenenbaum report in an article which appeared in "The American Mercury" shortly after the war. Colonel Robinson wrote succinctly of +the American investigators' findings: "It appeared that the prisoners who agreed with the Communists ate; those who didn't starved to death."^13

+ +

Additional corroboration of inmate brutality has been provided by Ellis E. Spackman, who, as Chief of Counter-Intelligence Arrests and Detentions for the Seventh U.S. Army, was involved in the liberation of Dachau. Spackman, later a professor of +history at San Bernardino Valley College in California, wrote in 1966 that at Dachau "the prisoners were the actual instruments that inflicted the barbarities on their fellow prisoners."^14

+ +

"Gas Chambers"

+ +

On December 9, 1944 Col. Paul Kirk and Lt. Col. Edward J. Gully inspected the German concentration camp at Natzweiler in Alsace. They reported their findings to their superiors at the headquarters of the U.S. 6th Army Group, which subsequently forwarded Kirk and Gully's report to the War Crimes Division. While, significantly, the full text of their report has never been published, it has been revealed, by an author supportive of Holocaust claims, that the two investigators were careful to characterize equipment exhibited to them by French informants as a "SO-CALLED lethal gas chamber," and claim it was "ALLEGEDLY used as a lethal gas chamber"^15 [emphasis added].

+ +

Both the careful phraseology of the Natzweiler report, and its effective suppression, stand in stark contrast to the credulity, the confusion, and the blaring publicity which accompanied official reports of alleged gas chambers at Dachau. At first, a U.S. Army photo depicting a GI gazing mournfully at a steel door marked with a skull and crossbones and the German words for: "Caution! Gas! Mortal danger! Don't open!" was identified as showing the murder weapon. Later, however, it was evidently +decided that the apparatus in question was merely a standard delousing chamber for clothing, and another alleged gas chamber, this one cunningly disguised as a shower room, was exhibited to American congressmen and journalists as the site where thousands breathed their last. While there exist numerous reports in the press as to the operation of this second "gas chamber," no official report by trained Army investigators has yet surfaced to reconcile such problems as the function of the shower heads: Were they "dummies," or did lethal cyanide gas stream through them? (Each theory has appreciable support in journalistic and historiographical literature.)

+ +

As with Dachau, so with Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, and the other camps captured by the Allies. There was no end of propaganda about "gas chambers," "gas ovens," and the like, but so far not a single detailed description of the murder weapon and its function, not a single report of the kind that is mandatory for the successful prosecution of any assault or murder case in America at the time and today, has come to light.

+ +

Furthermore, a number of Holocaust authorities have now publicly decreed that there were no gassings, no extermination camps in Germany after all! All these things, we are told, were located in what is now Poland, in areas captured by the Soviet +Red Army and off-limits to Western investigators. In 1960 Dr. Martin Broszat, who is now director of the Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History, which is funded by the West German government to SUPPORT the Holocaust story, wrote a letter to +he German weekly "Die Zeit" in which he stated categorically: "Neither in Dachau nor in Bergen-Belsen nor in Buchenwald were Jews or other prisoners gassed."^16 Professional Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal wrote in 1975 that "there were no extermination +camps on German soil."^17 And Dachau "gas chamber" No. 2, which was once presented to a stunned and grieving world as a weapon which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, is now described in the brochure issued to tourists at the modern Dachau "memorial site" in these words: "This gas chamber, camouflaged as a shower room, was not used."^18

+ +

The Propaganda Intensifies

+ +

More than forty years after American troops entered Dachau, Buchenwald, and the other German camps, and trained American investigators established the facts as to what had gone on in them, the government in Washington, the entertainment media in +Hollywood, and the print media in New York continue to churn out millions of words and images annually on the horrors of the camps and the infamy of the Holocaust. Despite the fact that, with the exception of the defeated Confederacy, no enemy of America has ever so suffered so complete and devestating defeat as did Germany in 1945, the mass media and the politicians and bureaucrats behave as if Hitler, his troops, and his concentration camps continue to exist in an eternal present, and our opinion makers continue to distort, through ignorance or malice, the facts about the camps.

+ +

Time for the Truth

+ +

It is time that the government and the professional historians revealed the facts about Dachau, Buchenwald, and the other camps. It is time that they let the American public know how the inmates died, and how they didn't die. It is time that the +claims as to mass murder by gassing were clarified and investigated in the same manner as any other claims of murder are dealt with. It is time that the free ride certain groups have enjoyed as the result of unchallenged Holocaust claims be terminate, just as it is time that other groups, including Germans, eastern Europeans, the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and the wartime leadership of America and Britain stop being scapegoated, either for their alleged role in the Holocaust or their supposed failure to stop it.

+ +

Above all, it is time that the citizens of this great democratic Republic have the facts about the camps, facts which they possess a right to know, a right that is fundamental to the exercise of their authority and their will in the governance o +their country. As citizens and as taxpayers, Americans of all ethnic backgrounds, of all faiths, have a basic right and an overriding interest in determining the facts of incidents which are deemed by those in positions of power to be determinative in America's foreign policy, in its educational policy, in its selection of past events to be memorialized in our civic life. The alleged facts of the Holocaust are today at issue all over the civilized world: in Germany, in France, in Italy, in Britain, in the Low Countries and Scandinavia, in Japan, across our border in Canada and in the United States of America itself. The truth will be decided only by recourse to the facts, in the public forum: not by concealing the facts, denying the truth, stonewalling reality. The truth will out, and it is time the government of this country, and governments and international bodies throughout the world, made public and patent the evidence of what actually transpired in the German concentration camps in +the years 1933-1945, so that we may put paid to the lies, without fear or favor, and carry out the work of reconciliation and renewal that is and must be the granite foundation of mutual tolerance between peoples and of a peace based on justice, rather than on guns, barbed wire, prisons, and lies.

+ +

NOTES

+ +

1. _Crime Doctor_, a biography of Larson by John D. McCallum, Mercer, +Washington & Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1979, p. 69.

+ +

2. _Wichita Eagle_, April 1, 1980, p. 4C.

+ +

3. _Crime Doctor_, p. 46.

+ +

4. _Wichita Eagle_, April 1, 1980, p. 4C.

+ +

5. John E. Gordon, "Louse-Borne Typhus Fever in the European Theater of +Operations, U.S. Army, 1945," in Forest Ray Moulton, Ed., _Rickettsial +Diseases of Man_, Am. Acad. for the Advancement of Science, Washington D.C. +1948.

+ +

6. _Toronto Star_, February 8, 1985, p. A2.

+ +

7. _New York Times_, 24 September 1948, p. 3.

+ +

8. Interview with Lucius Clay, _Official Proceeding of the George C. Marshall +Research Foundation,_ cited in "Buchenwald: Legend and Reality," Mark +Weber, _The Journal of Historical Review_, Vol. 7, no. 4.

+ +

9. International Military Tribunal, Vol. XVII, p. 556; IMT, Vol. XX, pp. 489, +438.

+ +

10. Cited in _The Theory and Practice of Hell_, Eugen Kogon, Berkley Books, New +York, pp. 108-109.

+ +

11. Nuremberg document NO-1523.

+ +

12. _Buchenwald: A Preliminary Report_, Egon W. Fleck and Edward A. Tenenbaum, +U.S. Army, 12th Army Group, 24 April 1945. National Archives, Record Group +331, SHAEF, G-5, 17.11, Jacket 10, Box 151 (8929/163-8929/180).

+ +

13. "Communist Atrocities at Buchenwald," Donald B. Robinson, in _American +Mercury_, October 1946.

+ +

14. _San Bernardino Sun-Telegram_, March 13, 1966 (cited in _The Man Who +Invented "Genocide"_, James J. Martin, Institute for Historical Review, +IHR, 1984, pp. 110-111.

+ +

15. _Concentration Camp at Natzwiller [sic]_, RG 331, Records of Allied +Operations and Occupation, Army Headquarters WW2, SHAEF/G-5/2717, Modern +Military, National Archives, Washington, D.C., cited in Robert H. Abzug, +_Inside the Vicious Heart_, Oxford University Press, New York, 1985, p. 10, +p. 181.

+ +

16. _Die Zeit_, Hamburg, Germany, August 26, 1960.

+ +

17. _Books & Bookmen_, April 1975, Vol. 7, p. 5.

+ +

18. Leaflet, _Memorial Site Concentration Camp Dachau_, The International +Dachau-Committee, Dachau, Germany, n.d. +_______________________________________________________________________________

+ +

Theodore J. O'Keefe is the editor of "The Journal of Historical Review." Educated at Harvard, he has studied history and literature on three continents, and has published many articles on historical and political subjects. +_____________________________________________________________________________ +The conclusions of the early U.S. Army investigations as to the +truth about the wartime German concentration camps have since been +corroborated by all subsequent investigators and can be summarized: +1. The harrowing scenes of dead and dying inmates were not the result of +a German policy of "extermination," but rather the result of epidemics of +typhus and other disease brought about largely by the effects of Allied +aerial attacks. +2. Stories of Nazi supercriminals and sadists who turned Jews and others +into handbags and lampshades for their private profit or amusement were +sick lies or diseased fantasies; indeed, the German authorities +consistently punished corruption AND cruelty on the part of camp +commanders and guards. +3. On the other hand, the representations of the newly liberated inmates +to have been saints and martyrs of Hitlerism were quite often very far +from the truth; indeed, most of the brutalities inflicted on camp +detainees were the work of their fellow prisoners, in contravention of +German policy and German orders. +4. The alleged homicidal showers and gas chambers had been used either +for bathing camp inmates or delousing their clothes; the claim that they +had been used to murder Jews or other human beings is a contemptible +fabrication. Orthodox, Establishment historians and professional "Nazi-hunters" have quietly dropped claims that inmates were gassed at Dachau, +Buchenwald, and other camps in Germany. They continue, however, to keep +silent regarding the lies about Dachau and Buchenwald, as well as to +evade an open discussion of the evidence for homicidal gassing at +Auschwitz and the other camps captured by the Soviets. +|_____________________________________________________________________________|

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+------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +CARTER'S TRUE LEGACY SHOCKING

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By Mike Blair +Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT

+ +

Washington, DC -- While many frown when they think of the high interest +rates, U.S. hostages held abroad and foreign policy giveaways associated +with the Carter administration, former President Jimmy Carter's true legacy +may be even more shocking than imagined.

+ +

Carter seemingly ran an end run around a law passed in the wake of +Watergate and signed before Carter took office, which limited White House +powers, when he formed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

+ +

FEMA was based on Richard Nixon's Executive Order (EO) 11490.

+ +

The legislation contained nearly 200000 words on 32 pages. It +pertained to every executive order ever issued unless specifically revoked.

+ +

When Carter took office, EO 11490 was incorporated into a new order +allowing a president to assume dictatorial powers during any self-proclaimed "emergency" situation; these powers will remain with a president +until specifically revoked by Congress.

+ +

Some senators thought they had successfully squashed the chief +executive's "national emergency" powers more than 10 years ago, after a +bipartisan congressional committee pushed the National Emergencies Act into +law.

+ +

Until September 14, 1976, the nation's chief executive officer was +empowered by more than 470 special statues to "seize property, organize and +control the means of production, seize commodities, institute martial law, +seize and control all transportation and communication, regulate the +operation of private enterprise, restrict travel and, in a host of other +ways, control the lives of Americans," then-Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) +said in the _Congressional Record_.

+ +

The National Emergencies Act, which took effect in 1978, was supposed +to prevent the nation from turning into a potential dictatorship. +Presidents had used their "emergency" powers at least four times in the +previous 45 years.

+ +

The president held this little-known sway over citizens through +executive orders, which he could write into law in a moment's notice. No +group, neither elected officials, business leaders, nor private citizens, +had the power to void these laws.

+ +

Franklin Roosevelt invoked a national emergency in 1933 to deal with +the banking crisis, and Harry Truman responded to the Korean War with an +emergency act in 1950.

+ +

Richard Nixon declared a pair of crises. In March 1970 he declared a +national emergency to deal with the post office strike. The Nixon White +House was at it again 16 months later when it implemented currency +restriction in August of 1971 in order to control foreign trade.

+ +

Then, in 1976, after two years of public hearings and committee +meetings, a bipartisan special congressional Committee on Emergency Powers +pushed legislation to wrestle power from the White House.

+ +

The National Emergencies Act became law on September 14, 1978,. +Senators used the second anniversary of their law to pat each other on the +back -- through the _Congressional Record_ -- and to attempt to establish +Congress's role in national security.

+ +

"The Congress must never again trade away its responsibilities in the +name of national emergency," Church said. "Let that be one of the lessons +learned from the investigation completed, the passage of the National +Emergencies Act and the termination today of emergency powers."

+ +

Church's warning fell on deaf ears. Less than one year later, +President Jimmy Carter ordered into being an entire apparatus -- +unprecedented in American history -- designed to seize and exercise all +political, economic and military power in the United States.

+ +

Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush or any future president could +establish himself as total dictator.

+ +

Carter did this with an executive order -- EO 12148.

+ +

An executive order has never been defined by Congress. The validity +of such directives has been questioned many times, but there has never been +a decision made by the courts or Congress on how far-reaching executive +orders may be.

+ +

Through existing executive orders it is possible for one person to +ignore the Constitution, Congress and the will of the American people. A +complete dictatorship can be imposed under the veil of law.

+ +

A declaration by the president of the existence of a "national +emergency" has always stopped short of martial law, although the president +has that prerogative. Undoubtedly it would be exercised in the event of an +attack on the United States.

+ +

An attempt was made to incorporate all the "national emergency" powers +into one law under Nixon. However, in the wake of the Watergate scandal, +he was unable to pull off the presidential coup.

+ +

Carter, a Trilateralist, did.

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CUBA, CASTRO, and the UNITED STATES +or How One Man With A Cigar Dominated American Foreign Policy

+

In 1959, a rebel, Fidel Castro, overthrew the reign of +Fulgencia Batista in Cuba; a small island 90 miles off the +Florida coast. There have been many coups and changes of +government in the world since then. Few if any have had the +effect on Americans and American foreign policy as this one.

+

In 1952, Sergeant Fulgencia Batista staged a successful +bloodless coup in Cuba .

+

Batista never really had any cooperation and rarely +garnered much support. His reign was marked by continual +dissension. +

+

After waiting to see if Batista would be seriously opposed, +Washington recognized his government. Batista had already +broken ties with the Soviet Union and became an ally to the +U.S. throughout the cold war. He was continually friendly and +helpful to American business interest. But he failed to bring +democracy to Cuba or secure the broad popular support that +might have legitimized his rape of the 1940 Constitution.

+

As the people of Cuba grew increasingly dissatisfied with +his gangster style politics, the tiny rebellions that had +sprouted began to grow. Meanwhile the U.S. government was +aware of and shared the distaste for a regime increasingly +nauseating to most public opinion. It became clear that Batista +regime was an odious type of government. It killed its own +citizens, it stifled dissent. (1)

+

At this time Fidel Castro appeared as leader of the growing +rebellion. Educated in America he was a proponent of the +Marxist-Leninist philosophy. He conducted a brilliant guerilla +campaign from the hills of Cuba against Batista. On January +1959, he prevailed and overthrew the Batista government.

+

Castro promised to restore democracy in Cuba, a feat +Batista had failed to accomplish. This promise was looked +upon benevolently but watchfully by Washington. Castro was +believed to be too much in the hands of the people to stretch +the rules of politics very far. The U.S. government supported +Castro's coup. It professed to not know about Castro's +Communist leanings. Perhaps this was due to the ramifications +of Senator Joe McCarty's discredited anti-Communist diatribes.

+

It seemed as if the reciprocal economic interests of the +U.S. and Cuba would exert a stabilizing effect on Cuban +politics. Cuba had been economically bound to find a market for +its #1 crop, sugar. The U.S. had been buying it at prices much +higher than market price. For this it received a guaranteed +flow of sugar. (2)

+

Early on however developments clouded the hope for peaceful +relations. According to American Ambassador to Cuba, Phillip +Bonsal, "From the very beginning of his rule Castro and his +sycophants bitterly and sweepingly attacked the relations of +the United States government with Batista and his regime".(3) +He accused us of supplying arms to Batista to help overthrow +Castro's revolution and of harboring war criminals for a +resurgence effort against him. For the most part these were +not true: the U.S. put a trade embargo on Batista in 1957 +stopping the U.S. shipment of arms to Cuba. (4) However, his +last accusation seems to have been prescient.

+

With the advent of Castro the history of U.S.- Cuban +relations was subjected to a revision of an intensity and +cynicism which left earlier efforts in the shade. This +downfall took two roads in the eyes of Washington: Castro's +incessant campaign of slander against the U.S. and Castro's +wholesale nationalization of American properties.

+

These actions and the U.S. reaction to them set the stage +for what was to become the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the end of +U.S.- Cuban relations.

+

Castro promised the Cuban people that he would bring land +reform to Cuba. When he took power, the bulk of the nations +wealth and land was in the hands of a small minority. The huge +plots of land were to be taken from the monopolistic owners and +distributed evenly among the people. Compensation was to be +paid to the former owners. According to Phillip Bonsal, " +Nothing Castro said, nothing stated in the agrarian reform +statute Castro signed in 1958, and nothing in the law that was +promulgated in the Official Gazzette of June 3, 1959, warranted +the belief that in two years a wholesale conversion of Cuban +agricultural land to state ownership would take place".(5) Such +a notion then would have been inconsistent with many of the +Castro pronouncements, including the theory of a peasant +revolution and the pledges to the landless throughout the +nation. Today most of the people who expected to become +independent farmers or members of cooperatives in the operation +of which they would have had a voice are now laborers on the +state payroll. (6)

+

After secretly drawing up his Land Reform Law, Castro used +it to form the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA) +with broad and ill defined powers. Through the INRA Castro +methodically seized all American holdings in Cuba. He promised +compensation but frequently never gave it. He conducted +investigations into company affairs, holding control over them +in the meantime, and then never divulging the results or giving +back the control. (7)

+

These seizures were protested. On January 11 Ambassador +Bonsal delivered a note to Havana protesting the Cuban +government seizure of U.S. citizens property. The note was +rejected the same night as a U.S. attempt to keep economic +control over Cuba. (8)

+

As this continued Castro was engineering a brilliant +propaganda campaign aimed at accusing the U.S. of "conspiring +with the counter revolutionaries against the Castro regime"(9). +Castro's ability to whip the masses into a frenzy with wispy +fallacies about American "imperialist" actions against Cuba was +his main asset. He constantly found events which he could work +the "ol Castro magic " on, as Nixon said , to turn it into +another of the long list of grievances, real or imagined, that +Cuba had suffered.

+

Throughout Castro's rule there had been numerous minor +attacks and disturbances in Cuba. Always without any +investigation whatsoever, Castro would blatantly and publicly +blame the U.S..

+

Castro continually called for hearings at the Organization +of American States and the United Nations to hear charges +against the U.S. of "overt aggression". These charges were +always denied by the councils. (10)

+

Two events that provided fuel for the Castro propaganda +furnace stand out. These are the "bombing" of Havana on +October 21 and the explosion of the French munitions ship La +Coubre on March 4, 1960.(11)

+

On the evening of October 21 the former captain of the +rebel air force, Captain Dian-Lanz, flew over Havana and +dropped a quantity of virulently anti-Castro leaflets. This was +an American failure to prevent international flights in +violation of American law. Untroubled by any considerations of +truth or good faith, the Cuban authorities distorted the +facts of the matter and accused the U.S. of a responsibility +going way beyond negligence. Castro, not two days later, +elaborated a bombing thesis, complete with "witnesses", and +launched a propaganda campaign against the U.S. Ambassador +Bonsal said, "This incident was so welcome to Castro for his +purposes that I was not surprised when, at a later date, a +somewhat similar flight was actually engineered by Cuban secret +agents in Florida."(12)

+

This outburst constituted "the beginning of the end " in +U.S.- Cuban relations. President Eisenhower stated ,"Castro's +performance on October 26 on the "bombing" of Havana spelled +the end of my hope for rational relations between Cuba and the +U.S."(13)

+

Up until 1960 the U.S. had followed a policy of non +intervention in Cuba. It had endured the slander and seizure +of lands, still hoping to maintain relations. This ended, +when, on March 4, the French munitions ship La Coubre arrived +at Havana laden with arms and munitions for the Cuban +government. It promptly blew up with serious loss of life. (14)

+

Castro and his authorities wasted no time venomously +denouncing the U.S. for an overt act of sabotage. Some +observers concluded that the disaster was due to the careless +way the Cubans unloaded the cargo. (15) Sabotage was possible +but it was preposterous to blame the U.S. without even a +pretense of an investigation.

+

Castro's reaction to the La Coubre explosion may have been +what tipped the scales in favor of Washington's abandonment of +the non intervention policy. This, the continued slander, and +the fact that the Embassy had had no reply from the Cuban +government to its representations regarding the cases of +Americans victimized by the continuing abuses of the INRA.

+

The American posture of moderation was beginning to become, +in the face of Castro's insulting and aggressive behavior, a +political liability. (16)

+

The new American policy, not announced as such, but +implicit in the the actions of the United States government was +one of overthrowing Castro by all means available to the U.S. +short of open employment of American armed forces in Cuba.

+

It was at this time that the controversial decision was +taken to allow the CIA to begin recruiting and training of +ex-Cuban exiles for anti-Castro military service. (17)

+

Shortly after this decision, following in quick steps, +aggressive policies both on the side of Cuba and the U.S. led +to the eventual finale in the actual invasion of Cuba by the +U.S!

+

In June 1960 the U.S. started a series of economic +aggressions toward Cuba aimed at accelerating their downfall.

+

The first of these measures was the advice of the U.S. to +the oil refineries in Cuba to refuse to handle the crude +petroleum that the Cubans were receiving from the Soviet Union. +The companies such as Shell and Standard Oil had been buying +crude from their own plants in Venezuela at a high cost. The +Cuban government demanded that the refineries process the crude +they were receiving from Russia at a much cheaper price. These +refineries refused at the U.S. advice stating that there were +no provisions in the law saying that they must accept the +Soviet product and that the low grade Russian crude would +damage the machinery. The claim about the law may have been +true but the charge that the cheaper Soviet +crude damaging the +machines seems to be an excuse to cover up the attempted +economic strangulation of Cuba. (The crude worked just fine as +is soon to be shown)

+

Upon receiving the refusal Che Gueverra, the newly +appointed head of the National Bank,and known anti-American, +seized all three major oil company refineries and began +producing all the Soviet crude,not just the 50% they had +earlier bargained for. This was a big victory and a stepping +stone towards increasing the soon to be controversial alliance +with Russia.

+

On July 6, a week after the intervention of the refineries, +President Eisenhower announced that the balance of Cuba's 1960 +sugar quota for the supply of sugar to the U.S. was to be +suspended. (18). This action was regarded as a reprisal to +the intervention of the refineries. It seems obvious that it +was a major element in the calculated overthrow of Castro.

+

In addition to being an act of destroying the U.S. record +for statesmanship in Latin America, this forced Cuba into +Russia's arms and vice-versa.

+

The immediate loss to Cuba was 900000 tons of sugar +unsold. This was valued at about $100000000.(19) Had the +Russians not come to the rescue it would have been a serious +blow to Cuba. But come to the rescue they did, cementing the +Soviet-Cuban bond and granting Castro a present he could have +never given himself. As Ernest Hemingway put it,"I just hope to +Christ that the United States doesn't cut the sugar quota. That +will really tear it. It will make Cuba a gift to the +Russians." (20) And now the gift had been made.

+

Castro had announced earlier in a speech that action +against the sugar quota would cost Americans in Cuba "down to +the nails in their shoes" (21) Castro did his best to carry +that out. In a decree made as the Law of Nationalization, he +authorized expropriation of American property at Che Gueverra's +discretion. The compensation scheme was such that under +current U.S. - Cuban trade relations it was worthless and +therefore confiscation without compensation.

+

The Soviet Unions assumption of responsibility of Cuba's +economic welfare gave the Russians a politico-military stake in +Cuba. Increased arms shipments from the U.S.S.R and +Czechoslovakia enabled Castro to rapidly strengthen and expand +his forces. On top of this Cuba now had Russian military +support. On July 9, three days after President Eisenhowers +sugar proclamation, Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev announced, +"The U.S.S.R is raising its voice and extending a helpful hand +to the people of Cuba.....Speaking figuratively in case of +necessity Soviet artillerymen can support the Cuban people with +rocket fire. (22) Castro took this to mean direct commitment +made by Russia to protect the Cuban revolution in case of U.S. +attack. The final act of the U.S. in the field of economic +aggression against Cuba came on October 19, 1960, in the form +of a trade embargo on all goods except medicine and medical +supplies. Even these were to be banned within a few months. +Other than causing the revolutionaries some inconvenience, all +the embargo accomplished was to give Castro a godsend. For the +past 25 years Castro has blamed the shortages, rationings, +breakdowns and even some of the unfavorable weather conditions +on the U.S. blockade.

+

On January 6, 1961, Castro formally broke relations with +the United States and ordered the staff of the U.S. embassy to +leave. Immediately after the break in relations he ordered +full scale mobilization of his armed forces to repel an +invasion from the United States, which he correctly asserted +was imminent. For at this time the Washington administration, +under new President-elect Kennedy was gearing up for the Cuban +exile invasion of Cuba. The fact that this secret was ill kept +led to increased arms being shipped to Cuba by Russia in late +1960.

+

President Kennedy inherited from the Eisenhower-Nixon +administration the operation that became the Bay of Pigs +expedition. The plan was ill conceived and a fiasco.

+

Both Theodore Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger describe the +President as the victim of a process set in motion before his +inauguration and which he, in the first few weeks of his +administration, was unable to arrest in spite of his +misgivings. Mr. Schlesinger writes -"Kennedy saw the project +in the patios of the bureaucracy as a contingency plan. He did +not yet realize how contingency planning could generate its own +reality." (23)

+

The fact is that Kennedy had promised to pursue a more +successful policy towards Cuba. I fail to see how the proposed +invasion could be looked upon as successful. The plan he +inherited called for 1500 patriots to seize control over their +seven million fellow citizens from over 100000 well trained, +well armed Castroite militia!

+

As if the plan wasn't doomed from the start, the +information the CIA had gathered about the strength of the +uprising in Cuba was outrageously misleading. If we had won, +it still would have taken prolonged U.S. intervention to make +it work. This along with Kennedys decision to rule out +American forces or even American officers or experts, whose +participation was planned, doomed the whole affair.

+

Additionally these impromptu ground rules were not relayed +to the exiles by the CIA, who were expecting massive U.S. +military backing!

+

The exiles had their own problems; guns didn't work, ships +sank, codes for communication were wrong, the ammunition was +the wrong kind - everything that could go wrong, did. As could +be imagined the anti-Castro opposition achieved not one of its +permanent goals. Upon landing at the Bay of Pigs on April 17, +1961, the mission marked a landmark failure in U.S. foreign +politics. By April 20, only three days later, Castro's forces +had completely destroyed any semblance of the mission: they +killed 300 and captured the remaining 1200!

+

Many people since then have chastised Kennedy for his +decision to pull U.S. military forces. I feel that his only +mistake was in going ahead in the first place, although, as +stated earlier, it seems as if he may not have had much choice.

+

I feel Kennedy showed surer instincts in this matter than +his advisors who pleaded with him not to pull U.S. forces. For +if the expedition had succeeded due to American armed forces +rather than the strength of the exile forces and the anti-Castro movement within Cuba, the post Castro government would +have been totally unviable: it would have taken constant +American help to shore it up. In this matter I share the +opinion of 'ambassador Ellis O. Briggs, who has written "The +Bay of Pigs operation was a tragic experience for the Cubans +who took part, but its failure was a fortunate (if mortifying) +experience for the U.S., which otherwise might have been +saddled with indefinite occupation of the island.

+

Beyond its immediately damaging effects, the Bay of Pigs +fiasco has shown itself to have far reaching consequences.

+

Washington's failure to achieve its goal in Cuba provided +the catalyst for Russia to seek an advantage and install +nuclear missiles in Cuba. The resulting "missile crisis" in +1962 was the closest we have been to thermonuclear war.

+

America's gain may have been America's loss. A successful +Bay of Pigs may have brought the United States one advantage. +The strain on American political and military assets resulting +from the need to keep the lid on in Cuba might have lid on Cuba +might have led the President of the United States to resist, +rather than to enthusiastically embrace, the advice he received +in 1964 and 1965 to make a massive commitment of American air +power, ground forces, and prestige in Vietnam.

+

Cuban troops have been a major presence as Soviet +surrogates all over the world, notably in Angola.

+

The threat of exportation of Castro's revolution permeates +U.S.-Central and South American policy. (Witness the invasion +of Grenada.)

+

This fear still dominates todays headlines. For years the +U.S. has urged support for government of El Salvador and the +right wing Contras in Nicaragua. The major concern underlying +American policy in the area is Castro's influence. The fear of +a Castro influenced regime in South and Central America had +such control of American foreign policy as to almost topple the +Presidency in the recent Iran - Contra affair. As a result the +U.S. government has once again faced a crisis which threatens +to destroy its credibility in foreign affairs. All because of +one man with a cigar.

+

In concluding I would like to state my own feelings on the +whole affair as they formed in researching the topic. To +start, all the information I could gather was one-sided. All +the sources were American written, and encompassed an American +point of view. In light of this knowledge, and with the +advantage of hindsight, I have formulated my own opinion of +this affair and how it might have been more productively +handled. American intervention should have been held to a +minimum. In an atmosphere of concentration on purely Cuban +issues, opposition to Castro's personal dictatorship could be +expected to grow. Admittedly, even justified American +retaliation would have led to Cuban counterretaliation and so +on with the prospect that step by step the same end result +would have been attained as was in fact achieved. But the +process would have lasted far longer; measured American +responses might have appeared well deserved to an increasing +number of Cubans, thus strengthening Cuban opposition to the +regime instead of, as was the case, greatly stimulating +revolutionary fervor, leaving the Russians no choice but to +give massive support to the Revolution and fortifying the +belief among anti-Castro Cubans that the United States was +rapidly moving to liberate them. The economic pressures +available to the United States were not apt to bring Castro to +his knees, since the Soviets were capable of meeting Cuban +requirements in such matters as oil and sugar. I believe the +Cuban government would have been doomed by its own +disorganization and incompetence and by the growing +disaffection of an increasing number of the Cuban people. Left +to its own devices, the Castro regime would have withered on +the vine. +ammunition was +the wrong kind - everything that could go wrong, di +Downloaded from Just Say Yes. 2 lines, More than 1500 files online! +Do you write? Give us a call! 415-922-2008 CASFA

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CELINE'S LAWS +by Hagbard Celine

+ +

As every thinking person has noticed, our national life has +become increasingly weird and surrealistic. The waiting lines at +banks and post offices are growing longer all the time, even +though demographers tell us US population is no longer rising. +The street signs more often than not say WALK on the red and +DON"T WALK on the green. You can't get a plumber on the +weekends. Nobody has been able to explain the cattle mutilations +yet. Every survey shows that the price of consumer goods, the +number of violent crimes, and the eerie popularity of THE GONG +SHOW are ominously accelerating. +I believe I have found the explanation these distressing +trends. Needless to say, I cannot present, in a short article, +all the evidence which I have accumulated in three decades of +careful metasociological research; that will have to await the +publication of my three-volume study, "Why Everybody Is Going +Bonkers." Here I can only mention the thousands of depth +interviewws, the innumerable flowcharts and helix-matrix +equations, the vast files of computer readouts, the I CHING +divinations, and other rigorous scientific techniques used in +developing what I modestly call Celine's Laws of Chaos, Discord +and Confusion. +Celine's First Law is that National Security is the chief +cause of national insecurity! +That may sound like a paradox, but I will explain it at one. +Every secret police agency must be monitored by an elite corps +of secret-police-of-the-second-order. There are numerous reasons +for this, but three are especially noteworthy. +******************************************************************************************** +NATIONAL SECURITY IS THE CHIEF CAUSE OF NATIONAL INSECURITY!!! +*******************************************************************************

+ +

1). Infiltration of the secret police, for the purpose of +subversion, will always be a prime goal of internal +revolutionaries. This is an ordinary part of the spy-counterspy +game. There is nothing Weather Underground would like better +than having a few agents in the FBI or CIA, for the same reasons +that the FBI or CIA would like to have a few agents in Weather +Underground.

+ +

2). Such infiltration will also be a prime goal of hostile +foreign powers, for the same reasons.

+ +

Please note that these are simple facts of the secret-police +game, well-known even to the general public, the subject of many +ingenious plots in popular spy films, and not particularly +alarming...yet. Nonetheless, the seeds of Chaos, Discord, +Confusion, and Paranoia are already here, for the simple reason +that once a human being develops the habits of worry and +suspicion, he or she finds increasing justifications for more +worry and more suspicion. For instance, Richard Q. (not his real +initial), one of my interview subjects, became concerned, after +ten years in the CIA, with the possibility of infiltration by +"extraterrestrial" agents. He was eventually retired when he +began to claim that demons in the form of dogs wanted him to +assassinate Laverne and Shirley.

+ +

3). Secret-police officials acquire fantastic capacities to +blackmail and intimidate others in goverment.

+ +

Stalin executed three chiefs of his secret police in a row, +because of this danger. One of my informants claims that every +president since the National Security Act was passed in 1947 has +learned how to have sexual intercourse without making a single +audible sound, because of the possible electronic eavesdroppers. +As Nixion says so wistfully on the Watergate transcripts, "Well, +Hoover performed. He would have fought. That was the point. He +would have defied a few people. He would have scared them to +death. HE HAS A FILE ON EVERYBODY!" Caps added. Thus, those +who employ secret-police organizations MUST monitor them th be +sure they are not acquiring too much power. +In the United States today, the superelite that monitors the +CIA is the National Security Agency. ( And a group called "The +Store" monitors the NSA). +Here is where a sinister infinite regress enters the game. +Any such elite, second or third order secret-police agency must +be, according to the above pragmatic and necessary rules, subject +to infiltration by native subversives or hostile foreign powers, +or to acquiring "too much power" in the opinion of its masters. +(It may even be subject, if Richard Q. was correct in his +anxieties, to extraterrestrial manipulation). And so, it, too, +must be monitored by a secret police of the third order.

+ +

But this third-order secret-police (such as Nixon's notorious +"plumbers", or more currently, "The Store"). is also subject to +infiltration or to acquiring too much power...and thus, with +relentless logic, the infinite regress builds. Once a goverment +has n orders of secret police spying on each other, all are +potentially suspect, and to be safe a secret police of order n+1 +must be created. And so on, forever.

+ +

****************************************** +* THUS WHO EMPLOY SECRET * +* POLICE MUST MONITOR THEM TO * +* BE SURE THEY ARE NOT ACQUIRING * +* TOO MUCH POWER. * +******************************************

+ +

In practice, of course, this cannot really regress to +infinity, but only to the point where every other citizen, or +until the funding runs out, whichever comes first.

+ +

National Security in practice, then, must always fall short of +the logically ideal infinite regress which we have shown is +necessary to the achievement of its goal. In that gap between +the ideal of "One nation under survillance, with wiretaps and +mail covers for all" andthe strictly limited real situation of +finite funding, there is ample encouragement for paranoias of all +sorts to flourish. In short, every government that employs +secret-police agencies must grow more insecure, not more secure, +as the strength, versatility, and power of the secret-police +agencies grow. +For instance, a certain left-wing nation which has employed +secret-police agencies for 61 years has now reached the point +where the leaders are terrified of painters and poets. In +another, right-wing nation infested with secret-police agencies, +several purges have been caused by three practical jokers who +regularly call middle-rank officials on the phone and talk in +what appears to be a code. The secret police, of course, are no +fools, and are aware that this might be what it in fact is, a +form of anarchist humor; but they can't be sure.

+ +

What usually happens in such cases is this: an official +receives one of these mystery calls, saying perhaps "Pawn to +queen rook five. No wife, no horse, no mustache. A boy has never +wept nor dashed a thousand kim." He knows immediately that +surveillance upon him will be increased tenfold. In the next few +days, while memories of all his mistakes, small bribes, +incautious remarks, and other incriminating events haunt his +imagination, he observes the increased surveillance, and begins +to suspect even the most loyal of his subordinates of watching +him with eyes that miss nothing and to give a sinister +interpertation to everything. Within ten days, he usually +attempts to contact a foreign goverment to seek political +sanctuary, and the secret-police net closes on him.

+ +

By the same process of worry leading to more worry and +suspicion leading to more suspicion, the very act of joining a +ecret-police organization will eventually turn a man or woman +into a clinical paranoi; in layman's terms, "bananas" or "wigged +out." THE AGENT KNOWS WHOM HE IS SPYING ON; BUT HE NEVER KNOWS +WHO IS SPYING ON HIM! Could it be his wife, his girl friend, his +secretary, the newsboy, the Good Humor man? +For these reasons, secret-police agents develop elaborate and +complex theories to account for what is actually going on. +According to one of my tables of data, there isn't a single +theory held by professional conspiracy buffs which isn't also +believed by many members of our various secret-police agencies. +In fact, the exact percentages of believes in these extravagant +scenarios are quite similar among a group of 1000 CIA agents and +a control group of 1000 readers of the underground press, as +shown in table 1.

+ +

Table 1. True Believes in various Conspiracy Theories Among CIA +Agents and Underground-Press Readers. +::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: +:: :: :: UNDERGROUND PRESS :: +::CONSPIRACY THEORY :: CIA :: READERS :: +::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: +::The Yankees (Eastern :: :: :: +::millionaires) run :: 25% :: 30% :: +::everything :: :: :: +::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: +:: The Cowboys(Western :: :: :: +:: millionaires) run :: 25% :: 15% :: +:: everything :: :: :: +::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: +:: It's the result of :: :: :: +:: civil war between :: 23% :: 17% :: +::Yankees and Cowboys :: :: :: +::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: +::It's the 33 degree :: :: :: +:: Masons :: 5% :: 5% :: +::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: +:: It's the Jesuits :: 5% :: 5% :: +::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: +::It's the Elders of Zion :: 2% :: 2% :: +::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: +::It's the Military :: :: :: +::Industrial Complex :: 1% :: 2% :: +::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: +::It's the Bilderbergers :: 1% :: 2% :: +::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: +::It's the Gnomes of :: :: :: +:: Zurich :: 1% :: 2% :: +::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: +::It's the Lesbian :: :: :: +:: Vegetarians :: 10% :: 28% :: +::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: +::It's the Rock n Roll :: :: :: +:: Empire :: 2% :: 2% :: +:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

+ +

a). Source: Gallup, Roper, and Hogtied, "WHO'S WATCHING WHOM" +(Washington, DC: US Goverment Printing Office, 1979), p. 432.

+ +

b). All figures are percentages. Figures do not add to 100, for +a variety of reasons. For a list of them, please send 25 cents +and a list of suspicious persons in your neighborhood to the US +Dept. of Bedding, Washington DC 20001.

+ +

c). Includes those who blame it all on the Bavarian Illuminati; +those who hold a multiconspiracy theory (e.g., the Lesbian +Vegetarians are allied with the Yankees and Bilderbergers against +the Cowboys, the TV Networks, and the Cattle Mutilators); those +who believe it is all part of the UFO Cover-Up; and those who +claim that demons in the form of dogs told them it's connected +somehow with the alligators in New York's sewers. +:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

+ +

************************************ +* IN RUSSIA, THE GOVERMENT IS * +* TERRIFIED OF PAINTERS AND POETS! * +************************************

+ +

Now, Table 1 clearly gives a picture of a rather schizzed-out +nation. This is the result of the impossible infinite regress +and its resultant of worry leading to more worry. +Furthermore, if there is a secret police at all, in any nation +you care to imagine, every branch and department of that +country's government becomes suspect, in the eyes of cautious and +intelligent people, as a possible front or funnel to the secret +police. (That is, the more shrewd citizens will recognize that +something titled a branch of the HEW or even PTA might actually +be run by the CIA). Inevitably, the government as a whole, and +many nongovernmental agencies, will be regarded by reasonable +persons with fear and trepidation. Proverbs like "One can't be +too careful these days" and "Better safe than sorry" become a +kind of sinister folk wisdom.

+ +

But further yet: any government which already has a secret +police (and a secret police monitoring the secret police, etc). +will become alarmed on observing that its more hip and +intelligent citizens now regard it with loathing and misgivings. +The government will therefore increase the size and powers of the +secret police. This is the only rational move, within the +context of the secret-police game.

+ +

****************************** +* SOMETHING PASSING AS A * +* BRANCH OF HEW MIGHT BE A * +* FRONT FOR THE CIA! * +******************************

+ +

(The only alternative was once suggested sarcastically by +playwright Bert Brecht, who said, "If the government doesn't +trust the people, why does'nt it dissovle them and elect new +people?" No way has yet been invented to elect a new people; so +the police state will instead spy on the existing people even +more vigorously). +This, of course, creates additional paranoia in both the +governors and the citizens, because a suffciently pugnacious +secret police will eventually "have a file on everybody," +including its own creators. This leads to another infinite +regress: the more people will loathe the government, the more +power will be given to the secret police. +Thus, whether any of the hypothetical conspiracies mentioned +earlier really exist or not, a system of clandestine goverment +inevitably produces, in both the rulers and the ruled, a mood of +paranoia in which such conspiracy theories flourish. +This escalating sense of suspiciousness is accelerated by the +fact that every secret-police organization engages in both the +collection of information and the production misinformation. +That is, you score points in the secret-police game both by +hoarding signals (information units)---that is, by hiding facts +from competitive players---and by foisting false signals (fake +information units) on the other players. This creates the +situation which I call Optimum Fuckup, in which every participant +has rational (not neurotic) cause to suspect that every other +player may be attempting to deceive him, gull him, con him, dupe +him, and generally misinform him. As Henry Kissinger is rumored +to have said, "Anybody in Washington these days who isn't +paranoid is crazy!" +One could generalize the remark: anyone in the United States +today who isn't paranoid must be crazy!!!

+ +

********************************** +* "IF THE GOVERMENT DOESN'T * +* TRUST THE PEOPLE, WHY DOESN'T * +* IT DISSOLVE THEM AND ELECT A * +* NEW PEOPLE?" * +**********************************

+ +

The deliberate production of misinformation (or, as +intelligence agencies more euphemistically call it, +disinformation) creates a situation profoundly disorienting to +the philosopher, the scientist, and the ordinary Joe who wants to +know the best time to go to the bank. The desire to discover +"what-the-hell-is-really-going-on" (the definition of science +offered by physicist Saul-Paul Sirag) is totally incompatible +with the circulation of disinformation; we all need to know, at +least roughly, what the hell is really going on if we are not to +stumble around like blind robots colliding with things we weren't +told were there. +Maybe the UFO's really exist---or maybe the whole UFO +phenomenon is a cover for an intelligence operation. Maybe there +are black holes where space and time implode---or maybe the +entire black-hole cosmology was created to befuddle and mislead +Russian scientists. Maybe Jimmy Carter really exists---or maybe +he is, as the National Lampoon claims, an actor named Sidney +Goldfarb specially trained to project the down-home virtues that +the American people nostalgically seek. Perhaps only three men +at the top of the National Security Angency REALLY know the +answers to these questions---or perhaps those three are being +deceived by certain subordinates (as Lyndon Johnson was deceived +by the CIA about Vietnam) and are as disoriented as the rest of +us. Such is the logic of a Disinformation Matrix. +Personally, I find it easier to believe in UFO's than in black +holes or Jimmy Carter; but that may just indicate the damage to +my own brain caused by the Optimum Fuckup of the Disinformation +Matrix. +According to a recent survey 19 per cent of the population +believe the moon landings were faked by Stanley Kubrick and a +gang of special effects experts. Perhaps these archskeptics are +the sanest ones left among us. Who among the readers of this +file has a security clearance high enough to be ABSOLUTELY sure +that these ultraparanoids are wrong?

+ +

This general tendency toward chaos discord, and confusion, +once a secret police has been established, is complicated and +accelerated by Celine's Second Law, to wit: "Accurate +communication is only possible in a nonpunishing situation." +This is a very simple statement of the obvious, and means no more +than that everybody tends to lie a little, to flatter or to +protect themselves, when dealing with those who have power over +them, especially the power to punish. (this is why communication +between parents and children is notoriously befoolzled). +Every authoritarian structure can be visualized as a pyramid, +with very few at the top and very many at the bottom, as in the +flowchart of any corperation or bureaucracy. On each rung, +participants bear a burden of nescience in relation to those +above them. That is, they must be very, very careful that their +natural sensory activities as conscious organisms---the acts of +seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling, drawing inferences +from perception, etc.---be in accord with the wishes of those +above them. This is absolutely vital; job security depends on +it. It is much less important---a luxury that can easily be +discarded---that these perceptions be in accord with actual +reality.

+ +

************************* +* COMMUNICATION IS ONLY * +* BETWEEN EQUALS. * +*************************

+ +

For instance, in the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the agent had +to develop the capacity to see godless communists everywhere. +Any agent whose perceptions indicated that there were actually +very few godless communists anywhere in this country wold +experience what psychologists call cognitive dissonance: his or +her reality grid was at variance with the official reality grid +of the pyramidal authority structure. To talk about such +divergent perceptions at all would be to invite suspicions of +eccentricity, of intellectual wiseacreing, or of being oneself a +godless communist. The same would apply to any Dominican +Inquisitor of earlier centuries who lacked the capacity to see +witches everywhere. In such authoritarian situations, it is +important to see what the authorities see; it is inconvenient, +and possibly dangerous, to see what is actually there. +But this leads to an equal and opposite burden of omniscience +on those at the top, in the Eye of the authoritarian pyramid. +All that is forbidden to those at the bottom---the conscious +activities of perception andand evaluation---is demanded of the +master classes, the elite and the super-elite. They must attempt +to do the seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling, thinking, +and decisionmaking for the whole society. +But a man with a gun (the power to punish) is told only what +his target thinks will not cause him to pull the trigger. The +elite, with their burden of omniscience, face the underlings, +with their burden nescience, and receive only the feedback +consistent with their own preconceived notions. The burden of +omniscience becomes, in short, another and more complex burden of +nescience. Nobody really knows anything anymore, or if they do, +they are careful to hide the fact. +As the national security paradigm approaches (or attempts to +approach) the ideal infinite regress of spies-spying-on-spies-spying-on-spies, etc., the resultant general trepidation causes +all persons to hide anything they know (if it differs from the +official reality), not only from their superiors, but from peers +and inferiors as well. Anybody, after all, might be part of the +nth-degree secret police. "One can't be too careful these days." +The burden of nescience becomes omnipresent. More and more of +reality becomes unspeakable. +But as Freud noted, that which is objectively repressed +(unspeakable) soon becomes subjectively repressed (unthinkable). +Nobody likes to feel like a coward and a liar constantly. It is +easier to cease to notice where the official reality grid differs +from sensed experience. Thus Optimun Fuckup gradually becomes +Terminal Fuckup, and rigiditus bureaucraticus sets in; this is +the last stage before all brain activity ceases, and the society +is intellectually dead. +Celine's Third Law is like unto the first two, and holds that +AN HONEST politician is a national calamity. +At first glance, this seems preposterous. People of all +shades of opinion agree that at least on the axiom that we need +more honest politicians, not more crooked ones. Please remember, +however, that people of all shades of opinion once agreed that +the Earth is flat. +Your typical dishonest politician (bocca grande normalis) is +interested only in enriching himself at the public expense, a +goal he shares with most of his fellow citizens, especially +doctors and lawyers. This is normal behavior for our primate +species, and society has always been able to endure and survive +it. + +******************************** +* NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, OR IF * +* THEY DO, THEY ARE CAREFUL TO * +* HIDE THE FACT! * +********************************

+ +

An honest politician (bocca grande giganticus) is far more +dangerous. He or she is sincerley commited to bettering society +by political action. In practice, that means by writing and +enacting more laws. Indeed, many groups of idealistic citizens +publish rating sheets on politicians every year, and those who +have created more laws are estimated as having higher value than +those who are frequently absent when bills are voted upon. The +assumption is that adding more laws to statute books is a +positive achievement, like adding more money to our paychecks or +more art works to a museum. +A little thought, however, shows that this assumption is not +tenable. Every law creates a whole new criminal class; for +instance, when marijuana was illegalized in 1937, several hundred +thousand formerly law-abiding citizens became criminals +overnight, by Act of Congress. As more and more laws are passed, +more and more citizens become criminals. The chief cause of the +rising crime rate is the rising number of laws being enacted. An +honest politician, who keeps his nose to the grindstone and +enacts several hundered laws in the course of his career, thereby +produces as many as several million new criminals.

+ +

It is furthermore mathematically demonstrable that the more +laws there are, the more restrictions there are on the freedom of +the individual. If there were, say, only three laws in a given +society---e.g., Thou shalt not kill; thau shalt not steal; thou +shalt not lie or defraud---there would be only three restrictions +on freedom, which all rational persons would accept as obviously +necessary to the maintenance of order. When there are several +hundred thousand restrictions on freedom, most of which are felt +as extremely irksome by large segments of the populace. +In fact, it would take a brigade of lawyers several weeks, +minutely examining your affairs, to determine if you are a +criminal. Certainly, no ordinary citizen has the time or +research facilities to discover if he or sshe is in violation of +one out of skillions of laws currently on our statute books. In +many cases, two lawyers consulted independently will give +opposite opinions about whether or not a given course of action +is in violation of the statutes. +And new laws are being enacted all the time. Obviously, +unless there is a sudden paper shortage, the number of laws on +the books will eventually reach the point satirized by T.H.White, +in which "everything not prohibited is compulsory." It would +then probably only take a few years or decades more for a cadre +of honest politicians diligently writing even more laws to reach +the complementary point where "everything not compulsory is +prohibited." + +********************************* +* EVERY LAW CREATES A WHOLE * +* NEW CRIMINAL CLASS OVERNIGHT! * +*********************************

+ +

At that stage the nightmare world of Orwell's 1984 will be +achieved. Crooked politicians, merely interested in the normal +human activity of making themselves rich and comfortable, could +never create that ultimate horror; but honest and idealistic +politicians bring us closer to it every day, with every new law +they enact. +These three generalizations---that national security produces +national insecurity; that authoritarianism produces +miscommunication and eventual idiocy; and that honest politicians +are a plague upon society---will be found to fully explain the +Decline and Fall of Rome, the Decline and Fall of the British +Empire, and the Decline and Fall of any country you care to name. +They are as universal as Newton's laws of motion and apply to +ALL cases. Of course, the American Sociological Association says +I am mad. Mad, am I? They said the Wright Brothers were mad. +They said Edison was mad. They said Baron Frankenstein was +mad...

+ +

HABARD CELINE was trained in contract law and naval engineering +but claims he acquired his real education playing the piano in a +whorehouse. He is captain of the world's largest yellow +submarine, the Leif Erikson, and president of Gold and Appel +Inc., an import-export firm that has frequently aroused the +suspicions of law enforcement agencies ("137 arrests and no +convictions," Hagbard brags). Some claim that he is a master of +disguise and has successfully passed himself off under such +alternative identities as Howard Cork, Carl Cory, Hugh Crane, +Clutch Cargo, Captain Nemo, etc., and has appeared in countless +epics and sagas. +I am mad.

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CHRISTIANITY AND FREEDOM

+ +

By JACOB G. HORNBERGER

+ +

Many Americans believe that by supporting the Welfare State, +they are fulfilling God's great commandment to "love thy +neighbor as thyself." Having been taught in public schools +since childhood that the Welfare State helps needy people, +Americans usually are filled with a deep sense of guilt and +embarrassment whenever they object to any aspect of +governmental assistance for others.

+ +

Of course, government officials foster these feelings in order +to minimize resistance to the Welfare State. For whenever a +citizen objects to any part of the welfare system in America, +he inevitably is assaulted by political officials with such +accusations as: "You hate the poor!"; "You are a racist!"; and +"You hate God!" These tactics usually are quite effective in +breaking down resistance to welfare programs. And the usual +result is that Americans call for reform, rather than +elimination, of the Welfare State.

+ +

But, in actuality, the Welfare State is founded on absolutely +immoral principles. And not only does a person not further +God's work by advocating or defending the Welfare State, he +instead denigrates it.

+ +

One can imagine the following scenario when a new arrival gets +to the pearly gates:

+ +

St. Peter: What did you do to fulfill God's commandment +to love thy neighbor as thyself?

+ +

Applicant: I have here my income tax returns, the +Internal Revenue Code, and the Federal Register.

+ +

St. Peter: What meaning do these items have?

+ +

Applicant: St. Peter, you obviously are not familiar with +the Welfare State of the United States of America. These +items show how much of my tax money was used by the +government to help others in need. So, please step aside +and let me in.

+ +

St. Peter: You were participating in a way of life which +constituted a wilful violation of God's sacred +commandment against stealing?

+ +

Applicant: Stealing? What are you talking about? Through +my tax payments, people were helped.

+ +

St. Peter: Was not the political process used to take +money from people against their will in order to +redistribute to others? Were you not supporting and +participating in this evil way of life?

+ +

Applicant: Oh! No, that wasn't me. That was the +politicians and bureaucrats. I just voted for them, just +like other patriotic Americans. Don't blame me for the +stealing. Just give me credit for all the good that was +done with the loot.

+ +

If I held a gun to a person's head, and demanded "Your money +or your life!," most people would believe that I had committed +an immoral (and illegal) act. Suppose I needed the money for +my (or someone else's) education. Would this change the +immoral (and illegal) nature of my act? Most people would +respond in the negative. While punishment might be mitigated +due to extenuating circumstances, it remains morally (and +legally) wrong to steal, no matter how great the need for +another person's money.

+ +

But the interesting phenomenon about the Welfare State is that +many people believe that by making the exact same act legal-- +that is, by enshrining it into their political system--it +somehow is converted into a moral act. In other words, in the +Welfare State, people vote for someone who is given the legal +power to take a person's money in order to give it to someone +else; then, it is believed that this political act, immoral if +committed by a private individual, somehow becomes moral +because it is now performed by a democratically elected public +official.

+ +

We must also consider the matter of free will--one of the +greatest gifts which God bestowed on human beings. He +obviously loved us so much that we have been given the freedom +even to deny Him (and our neighbor). In other words, while we +are told to love Him and others, we are not compelled by Him +to do so.

+ +

One of the best examples of this wide ambit of freedom is +found in the story of "The Danger of Riches" in the New +Testament. A rich man approached Jesus and asked, "Teacher, +what good must I do to possess everlasting life?" After the +man advised Jesus that he already kept all of the +commandments, Jesus told him, "If you seek perfection, go, +sell your possessions, and give to the poor. You will then +have treasure in heaven. Afterward, come back and follow me." +Unable to let go of his material wealth, however, the man went +away sad.

+ +

The story, of course, is valuable in advising people of the +dangers of spiritual or psychological attachment to material +things. But the lesson it teaches is important in another way: +After the young man chose to reject the suggestion to give +everything he had to the poor, Jesus did not ask the political +authorities to seize the man's possessions and redistribute +them to the poor. In other words, he did not force the man to +comply with the suggestion. Since the man had been given the +freedom to choose, the choice he made, although not the +desired one, was honored.

+ +

It is the vital importance of freedom of choice that advocates +of the Welfare State so often forget. They favor "freedom" but +only when the person chooses the "right" way. In other words, +the person is told, "It is morally and ethically correct that +you should share your possessions with others, and you are +free to make this decision in your own way . . . but if you +choose the wrong way, we shall simply take your money from +you, against your will, and do with it what you should have +done with it."

+ +

It is the great principles of freedom of choice and individual +responsibity on which the United States was founded. By and +large, our American ancestors were free to engage in a +tremendously wide range of choices as long as they did not +inflict violence or fraud on others. And early Americans +believed that the primary purpose of government was to protect +the exercise of choice rather than interfere with it. Thus, +for the first century of America's history, there was, for +example, neither income taxation nor welfare.

+ +

Does this mean that our ancestors were evil and mean for not +providing a Welfare State as their descendants have? Of course +not. It simply means that they believed that each individual +should be free to do what he wants with his own money even +when, and especially when, it is not in accordance with the +wishes of the majority of his fellow citizens. And the irony +was that 19th-century America was not only the most prosperous +nation in history but also the most charitable nation in +history.

+ +

But unfortunately, the American people of the 20th century +have rejected and abandoned that philosophy. The idea now is +that people must be forced to be "good" through the political +plunder of the Welfare State. Money is taken from people +against their will so that it can be given to those who need +it. And the taxpayers claim "credit" for all of the "good" +which the political authorities do with their money.

+ +

The result, of course, is that the government has become the +means by which everyone is trying to live at the expense of +everyone else. Everyone is trying to get his "fair" share of +the loot while, at the same time, blocking out of his mind +that it is being stolen from his friends, neighbors, and +fellow citizens across the land. And everyone is trying to get +his "fair" share of the "credit" while doing everything he can +to protect his own pocketbook.

+ +

At the end of the year, it is important to count our +blessings. Fortunately, we live in a nation in which, by and +large (and with many exceptions), the government is +constitutionally prohibited from interfering with our +religious, intellectual, and political activities. But it is +also important, at the beginning of the new year, to make +resolutions: Let us resolve to dedicate ourselves to ending +the Welfare State by recapturing the vision of freedom, +private property, and limited government which guided our +American ancestors.

+ +

Mr. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of +Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209.

+ +

------------------------------------------------------------ +From the December 1990 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1990, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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+CHRONOLOGY OF SECRET SOCIETIES +Excerpted from THE OCCULT CONSPIRACY +by Michael Howard +Published by Destiny Books +Pages 179 - 183 +------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

40000 BCE +Early establishment of Mystery schools, as depicted in the Lascaux +cave paintings.

+ +

30000 BCE +According to some occult traditions this period saw the +colonization of Asia and Australasia by the inhabitants of the +lost continent of Lemuria or Mu. Goddess worship and matriaarchal +cultures established worldwide.

+ +

10000 BCE +Evidence suggestive of early contact between extraterrestials and +Stone Age tribes in Tibet.

+ +

9000 - 8000 BCE +Estimated date of the destruction of Atlantis, according to some +occult traditions. The Atlantean priesthood flee to establish +colonies in the British Isles, Western Europe, North Africa and +South America. Rise of the Northern Mystery Tradition centered on +the island of Thule and the Aryan culture. Invention of the runic +alphabet.

+ +

5000 BCE +First primitive cities established in the Middle East. +Agriculture begins with domestication of animals such as sheep and +goats. Possible contact between extraterrestials and early +Sumerian culture.

+ +

5000 - 3000 BCE +Formation of the two lands in pre-dynastic Egypt ruled by +outsiders (Isis and Osiris). The Egyptian pantheon of gods +established including Horus, Thoth, Set, Ra, Ptah and Hathor. +Pharoahs regarded as the divine representatives of the Gods.

+ +

3000 - 2000 BCE +Building of burial mounds and chambered tombs in Western Europe +and the Mediterranean area; the Sphinx and the Great Pyramids of +Giza and Cheops of Egypt; and the ziggurat (Towers of Babel) in +Ur. Sarmoung Brotherhood founded in Babylon.

+ +

2000 - 1000 BCE +Reign of Thothmes III in Egypt (c. 1480). Foundation of the +Rosicrucian Order. Reign of Akhenaton (c. 1370) who establishes +the mystical Brotherhood of Aton dedicated to the worship of the +Sun as a symbol of the Supreme Creator. Erection of Stonehenge +and other megalithic stone circles in the British Isles. Reign of +Ankhenaton's son Tutankhamun who re-establishes the old pantheon +of Egyptian gods and goddesses. Moses leads Children of Israel +out of slavery in Egypt during the reign of Ramses II to the +promised land of Canaan.

+ +

1000 - 500 BCE +Foundation of the Dionysian Artificers. The building of Solomon's +temple (c. 950). Establishment of the city states of Greece and +the Olympic pantheon of gods to replace earlier Nature worship. +First temples erected in Mexico, Peru and southwest North America. +Celts invade Western Europe. Decline of Goddess worship and rise +of patriarchal sky gods personified by priest-kings. Rome founded +in 750.

+ +

500 BCE - 001 CE +Celtic culture established in Britain. The foundation of Druidic +wisdom colleges in Gaul and the British Isles. Odin recognized as +major god in the Northern Mysteries replacing the Mother Goddess +and is credited with inventing the runes. Buddha, Lao Tze, +Confucius, Pythagoras, Plato and Zoroaster preach their new +religions and philosophies. Maya culture in South America. +Establishment of Eleusinian mystery cults. Rise of the Essene +sect in Palestine and Judea. Birth of Jesus of Nazareth.

+ +

001 - 400 CE +Jesus possibly travels to India, Tibet and Britain to be initiated +into the esoteric traditions of East and West. Crucified for his +radical political and religious ideas (c. 33). Joseph of +Arimanthea establishes first Celtic Church at Glastonbury (c. 37). +Invasion of Britain by Roman legions and suppression of the Druids +(40 - 60). Paul travels to Asia Minor and Greece preaching his +version of the gospel (50). Jewish revolt against Roman rule led +by Zealots (66). Essenes suppressed and Dead Sea Scrolls hidden +in caves. Temple in Jerusalem destroyed by Romans (70). New +testament written. The Nazarenes break away from Judasim to found +the Christian Church (c. 80). Ormus is converted to Esoteric +Christianity by Mark. Mithrasim and the Mysteries of Isis compete +with Christianity in the Roman Empire. Mani, a Persian high +priest of Zoroastrianism, is crucified (276). Emperor Constantine +declares Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. +The Council of Nicea defines heresy, condemns paganism and lays +the theological foundation for the Catholic or Universal Church +(325). Constantine's successor Julian the Apostate (361 - 363) +briefly re-establishes the pagan old religion. Emperor Theodosius +outlaws the worship of the pagan gods in Rome and closes the pagan +temples (378). Invasion of Rome, Greece and Europe by the +barbarians led by Atilla the Hun (395-480). Withdrawal of the +Roman legions from Britain (395). Foundation of the Order of +Comacine by ex-members of the Roman College of Architects.

+ +

500 - 1000 CE +Mohammed founds Islam (dies 632). Celtic Church outlawed by +Council of Whitby (664). Foundation of first Sufi secret +societies (c. 700). First written translation of Emerald Tablet +of Hermes Trismegistus. Charlemagne founds alleged first +Rosicrucian Lodge in Toulouse (898). Foundation of the Cathars, +Druzes and Yezedi (900). Heretical Catholic monks found first +Rosicrucian college (1000).

+ +

1000 - 1400 CE +Foundation of the Order of the Devoted of Assassins by +Hasan-i-Sabbah (1034-1124) and the Order of St John (1050). First +Crusade to the Holy Land (1095). Capture of the city of Jerusalem +by Godfrey de Bouillan, founder of the Priory of Sion (1099). +Assassins infiltrate Thuggee cult in India. Foundation of the +Order of the Knights of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem (1118). +Charter granted to the Priory of Sion by Pope Alexander II (1178). +Crusade launched against Cathars (1208). Inquistion created to +fight heresy (1215). Massacre of the Cathars at Montsegur in +Southern France (1241). Troubadours practising their cult of +courtly love. Occult schools teaching the Cabbala and alchemy +established in Spain by the Moors. Count Rudolf von Hapsburg +crowned as Holy Roman Emperor (1273). Knights Templars arrested +by King Philip of France on charges of devil worship, heresy and +sexual perversion (1307). Last official Grand Master of the +Templars, Jacques de Molay, burnt at the stake and the Order goes +underground (1314).

+ +

1400 - 1600 CE +Alleged life of Christian Rosenkreutz (1379-1482). Foundation +of the Order of the Garter by Edward III (1348). First +publication of the Corpus Heremeticum by the Medici family in +Italy (1460). Publication of Malleus Malifiracum and the papal +bull of Pope Innocent which began the medieval witch hunting +hysteria (1484 and 1486). Martin Luther begins Reformation +(1521). Henry Agrippa refers to the Templars as Gnostics and +worshippers of the phallic god Priapus (1530). Life of Dr John +Dee (1527-1608). Foundation of the British Secret Service by Sir +Francis Walsingham. Birth of Johann Valenti Andrea (1586). Life +of Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626). Defeat of the Spanish Armada, +with magical help from the New Forest Witches (1588).

+ +

1600 - 1700 CE +Foundation of the Virginia Company by James I (1606). The +Romanovs become Czars of Russia (1613). Publication of +Rosicrucian manifesto (1614). Life of Elias Ashmole (1617-1692). +Voyage of the Mayflower to New England and the publication of Sir +Francis Bacon's novel The New Atlantis (1620). Establishment of +the pagan community of Merrymount in Massachusetts by Thomas +Morton. English Civil War begins (1642). First English Mason +guild accepts non-stonemasons into its meetings (c. 1646). +Charles I convicted of treason and beheaded (1649). Oliver +Cromwell allegedly makes pact with the Devil in order to retain +power. Introduction of Freemasonry to American colonies by Dutch +settlers (1658). Order of Pietists founded in Pennsylvania +(1694).

+ +

1700 - 1800 CE +Birth of the Comte de Saint-Germain (1710). Masonic Grand Lodge +of England and Druid Order founded (1717). First Masonic lodge +founded in France (1721)> Benjamin Franklin initiated as Mason +(1731). Chevalier Alexander Ramsey informs French Masons that +they are heirs to the Templar tradition (1736). Roman Church +condemns Masonry (1738). Birth of Count Cagliostro. Comte de +Saint-Germain involved in Jacobite plot to restore Stuart dynasty +to the English Throne (1743). Society of Flagellants and Skopski +founded in Russia (1750). George Washington initiated as a Mason +(1752). Sir Francis Dashwood founds the Hell Fire Club. Franklin +visits England to discuss the future of American colonies with +Dashwood (1758). Foundation of the Rite of the Strict Observance +by Baron von Hund based on the Templar tradition. Frederick of +Prussia founds Order of the Architects of Africa and uses the +title Illuminati to describe his neo-Masonic lodges (1768). +Franklin elected Grand Master of the Nine Sisters lodge in Paris +(1770). Grand Orient founded in France (1771). Boston Tea Party +(1773). Washington appointed Commander-in-Chief of the new +American Army (1775). Order of Perfectibilists or Illuminati +founded. American Revolution (1776). Czar Peter founds the +Secret Circle (1778). Supposed death of the Comte Saint-Germain +(1784). Grand Masonic Congress allegedly plots French Revolution. +Cagliostro involved in Diamond Necklace Affair. Illuminati banned +in Bavaria and goes underground (1785). French Revolution (1789). +Illuminist conspiracy to overthrow the Hapsburgs (1794).

+ +

1800 - 1900 CE +Count Grabinka founds secret society in St. Petersburg based on +Martinism and Rosicrucianism (1803). French republican plot to +assassinate Napoleon by placing a bomb under his coach, led by +occultist Fabre d'Olivet. Emperor Napoleon takes control of +French Masonry (1805). Revived Templar Order in France celebrates +the martyrdom of Jacques de Molay with public requiem (1808). +Foundation of the Order of Sublime Perfects (1809). Eliphas Levi +(1810-1875) reveals the secret symbolism of the Templar idol +Baphomet. Czar Alexander I and Emperor Francis von Hapsburg unite +to defeat Italian revolution incited by secret societies. John +Quincy Adams, initiate of the Dragon Society, is elected US +President (1820). Czar Alexander outlaws Masonry in Russia +(1822). Decembrist secret society attempts coup when Czar +Alexander allegedly dies (1825). AntiMasonic Party founded in US +to combat secret societies in American politics (1828). Wagner +joins the Vaterlandsverein, a secret society dedicated to the +formation of a pan-European federation of nations. Masonic +convention at Strasbourg allegedly plots second French Revolution +(1848). Napoleon III condemns Grand Orient for dabbling in +radical politics (1850). Paschal Randolph founds Hermetic +Brotherhood of the Light (1858). Abraham Lincoln is assassinated +(1865). Klu Klux Klan founded (1866). Society of Rosicrucians in +Anglia founded (1867). Foundation of the Theosophical Society by +Madame Blavasky on instructions of the Great White Brotherhood. +Birth of Aleister Crowley (1875). Mysterious suicide of ArchDuke +Rudolph von Hapsburg at a hunting lodge at Mayerling (1889). +Foundation of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (1888). +Assassination of Empress Elizabeth von Hapsburg by anarchist +(1898).

+ +

1900 - 1897 CE +Foundation of the Ordo Templi Orientis (1900). International +Order of CoFreemasonry founded in 1902. Publication of The +Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion in Russia (1905). Foundation of +the Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rose Crucis (1909). Black +Hand Society founded in 1911. Aleister Crowley accepted as head +of the British OTO. Order of the Temple of the Rosy Cross founded +in 1912. Assassination of ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand and +Archduchess Sophia von Hapsberg. Attempted murder of Rasputin. +WWI begins in 1914. Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates. Hapsburg dynasty +is overthrown. Bolshevik Revolution in Russia (1917-1918). +Foundation of German Workers Party by Thule Society (1919). +Hitler joins GWP and changes its name to the National Socialist +Party (1920). Crowley employed by MI6. Cardinal Roncalli, later +Pope John XXIII, allegedly joins Rosicrucian Order. Hitler +becomes first chancellor of the Third Reich (1933). Roosevelt +places Illuminist symbol of eye in triangle on the dollar bill +(1935). Nazi invasion of England prevented by New Forest Witches +(1940). Rudolf Hess lured to Britain on peace mission by fake +astrological data (1941). Order of the Temple revived in France +(1952). First Bilderberg meeting in 1954. Foundation of the P2 +Lodge (1960). Death of Pope Paul VI, election and alleged murder +of Pope John Paul I, and election of Pope John Paul II (1978). +Exposure of P2 conspiracy. Attempt to assassinate John Paul II +(1981). L'Ordre Internationale Chevelresque Tradition Solaire +founded on instructions of the revived Order of the Temple in +France (1984).

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+Article: 569 of sgi.talk.ratical +From: dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe) +Subject: Top Secret: How To Kill--"The CIA's Secret Weapons Systems" +Keywords: our culture has lost its moral, ethical, and spiritual foundations +Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. +Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 15:56:51 GMT +Lines: 321

+ +

unless we know MUCH MORE about the atrocities committed "in the interests +and name of 'national security,'" how can we possibly become sufficiently +motivated and driven to dedicate our energies towards changing this form +of "government" by lies, dissembling, expediency, profit-as-god, and +murder? we have no idea what is "done in our name." if we did, we would +no longer be able to participate in its commoditized seductiveness because +we would not be able to look ourselves in the mirror or sleep at night. +--ratitor

+ +

the following is taken from the June, 1978 issue of "Gallery" magazine: +__________________________________________________________________________ +THE CIA'S SECRET WEAPONS SYSTEMS +by Andrew Stark

+ +

Exploding wine bottles, guns constructed out of pipes, +bullets made of teeth, aspirin explosives: they sound like +props from a second-rate spy story. Horrifyingly enough, +they are real. The CIA has spent a great deal of its time-- +and your money--developing countless bizarre weapons for +assassination, sabotage, and mass destruction. If that's +news to you, it's because the CIA doesn't want these +products, some of which are quite easy to put together, to +fall into the "wrong hands." As for whether they are in the +right hands now--judge for yourself.

+ +

The CIA has developed many exotic and sophisticated devices +intended for use in interrogation, sabotage, and assassination. +These weapons are necessary--if you grant that what the CIA itself +does is necessary. If the CIA wants to eliminate a key KGB agent +operating in Hungary, it faces certain problems. It would be +virtually impossible to slip a deadly weapon, such as a gun or +bomb, past Hungarian customs officials. Thus, the CIA assassin +must assemble his weapon from commonly obtainable materials after +he crosses the border. +The CIA agent might decide to construct a urea nitrate +explosive, commonly known as a urine bomb. This weapon is quite +deadly, easily exploded, and consists primarily of nitric acid and +urine. The urine bomb is one of literally hundreds of murderous +weapons in the CIA arsenal. +"The New York Times" of September 26, 1975 revealed the +existence of guns that shoot cobra-venom darts. Then there was the +shoe polish compound intended to make Fidel Castro's beard fall +out, so that he would lose his "charisma." And CIA laboratories in +Fort Monmouth, New Jersey developed the famous rifle that shoots +around corners. +Some CIA weapons are designed to kill many people--deadly germs +can be released in subways; others are intended to kill a single, +specific individual--the Borgia ring contains deadly poison to be +slipped into a victim's drink; and still others are standard +weapons supplied for such missions as overthrowing the Allende +government in Chile in 1973. +The information about CIA weapons that you will read in this +article generally has not been made public before. It was not +intended to be. But your tax dollars pay for these devices; it is +your right to know about them. +There is a booklet, written in 1977 and distributed to a select +group of U.S. mercenaries, titled "CIA Improvised Sabotage +Devices." This instructional guidebook, part of "the Combat +Bookshelf," was published by Desert Publications, P.O. Box 22005, +Phoenix, Arizona 85028. If you want to know how the CIA turns a +cigar box into an explosive that can destroy a 10000-gallon +capacity storage tank, then "CIA Improvised Sabotage Devices" is +what you should read. You will need it if you want to build the +"Water-Drip Electric Delay," a bomb that requires little more than +wood scrap, a tin can, and a battery. The "Pocket Watch Electric +Delay" requires little more than a watch, a screw, and a battery. +The "Mousetrap Electric Release" is another bomb, this one +requiring a mousetrap, a trip wire, a battery, and little else. It +is described as "an excellent device to use with bazooka rockets +against trucks, tanks, or locomotives." The "Chemical +Instantaneous Initiator" is made from a sugar-chlorate mix and is +effective in sabotaging trains. The "Martini Glass Shaped Charge" +is a bomb that also can be made out of a beer can. You might want +to try to construct the "Vehicle Booby Trap." The "Potassium +Chlorate and Sugar Igniter" and the "Sawdust, Moth Flakes, and Oil +Incendiary" can be made with only what you see in their titles. +For these and more than fifty other CIA devices, step-by-step +instructions on how to make them and illustrations of what they +should look like when completed are given. Turn a wine bottle into +a bomb. Build a land-mine rocket. Manufacture napalm in your +basement. Even the simple how-tos of causing a dust explosion can +be found in "CIA Improvised Sabotage Devices." +Why is the CIA so deeply involved in sabotage techniques? The +CIA might think it is in this country's interest to delay +scientific work being done by another nation. Or, the CIA might +want to disrupt a nation's economy in the hope that the resulting +chaos will lead to civil unrest and the overthrow of the existing +government (some of this actually happened in Chile). The original +John Rockefeller used such tactics against his competitors. He +simply had their refineries blown up. +Another pamphlet the CIA would not like you to see is titled +"How to Kill," written by John Minnery, edited by Robert Brown and +Peder Lund, and published by Paladin Press, Box 1307, Boulder, +Colorado 80306. The reason the CIA would prefer that you not see +this eighty-eight-page pamphlet, which is unavailable at bookstores +and newsstands, is because it contains a number of "ingenious" +methods of doing what the title says. Also, Paladin Press, which +published a book called "OSS Sabotage and Demolition Manual," is +widely regarded by journalists as an organization with close ties +to mercenary groups and the CIA. Paladin Press doesn't want you to +know that, but how else could they have published the "OSS Sabotage +and Demolition Manual?" The Office of Strategic Services was the +precursor of today's CIA. +This writer's call to Colorado yielded the following +conversation:

+ +

"How could you publish the "OSS Sabotage and Demolition Manual," +I asked Peter Lund, editor and publisher of Paladin Press, "if your +organization, at the least, was not dealing with former OSS agents? +And what about "How to Kill?" +"I don't talk to journalists," Lund said. +"You're called the Paladin Press. You must publish books. Can +I order them?" +"No." +"Why not? You're a publisher, aren't you?" +"We're afraid our publications might fall into the wrong hands." +"What are the right hands?" I asked. +"I don't talk to journalists." +"Have you ever heard of Desert Publications?" I asked. +"A fine outfit," Lund said. "If they recommend you, I'll send +you our material." +"That's my problem," I said. "They don't seem to have a phone +number." +"Well, they're a good group." +"Listen," I said, "wasn't your group, and Desert Publications +besides, involved in CIA mercenary activity in Africa?" +"I don't know anything about that." +"Were you in the Special Forces?" +"July 1967 to July 1968 in Vietnam." +"Were you CIA?" +"I was MACV [Military Armed Forces Command Vietnam]." +"You weren't affiliated with CIA?" +"I didn't say that." +"What do you say?" +"We did joint operations with CIA on the Phoenix Program." +"Wasn't that a murder operation?" +"No. It was snatching people."

+ +

The Phoenix Program was designed for a job that the CIA +euphemistically described as "eliminating the Viet Cong +infrastructure." In reality, it was a rampant reign of terror run +out of CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia. Former CIA director +William Colby later termed the program "effective." The Phoenix +Program was a naked murder campaign, as proved by every realistic +report, ranging from the Bertrand Russell Tribunal to the Dellums +Committee to admissions by CIA agents themselves. The program +killed--and *none* of these killings occurred in combat--18000 +people, mostly women and children. +But what about Peder Lund, editor and publisher of Paladin +Press? The book he edited and published, "How to Kill," outlined a +surfeit of murder methods, horrific techniques of causing people to +die. For example: +"Without getting too deeply into the realm of the bizarre," +wrote John Minnery, the author of "How to Kill" as he proceeded to +just that, "a specially loaded bullet made from a human tooth +(bicuspid) could be fired under the jaw or through the mouth into +the head. The tooth is a very hard bone, and its enamel shell +would allow it to penetrate into the brain. The intention here is +also to hide the cause of death because the examiner in his search +for a projectile will disregard bone fragments." +One last example from "How to Kill" should give you the flavor +of the book:

+ +

Lesson Nine: Hot Wire

+ +

"Essentially, the weapon is an electrified grid in the urinal +basin. This can take the form of a screen cover for the drain +or a metal grill. If the urinal is completely porcelain, the +screen must be added by the assassin. The drain cover is +connected to the electrical system of the washroom by means of +an insulated cord that is hidden behind the plumbing. +"What happens when the subject uses the urinal should be +obvious now. The subject's urine, which is a salty liquid and +a perfect conductor of electricity, makes contact with the +charged grid, and the shock will kill him."

+ +

This reporter's investigation revealed that the "Hot Wire" was +child's play compared to certain other CIA weapons devices. For +instance, I was able to obtain Volumes One and Two of the "CIA +Black Book" on improvised munitions, volumes that are stamped "for +official use only" on almost every page. It is obvious why the CIA +would like these books to remain secret. With elaborate +instructions, they describe how to make high explosives from +aspirin, how to construct a nail grenade, and how to turn a Coke +bottle into a bomb. +Described in detail in the "Black Book" is the previously +mentioned urea nitrate explosive, or, as it is known to the pros, +"the piss bomb." Instructions for the preparation of this weapon +assure the maker that animal urine will do as well as human; the +important thing is to have ten cups of it, boil it down to one cup, +and mix it with the nitric acid. +Also described in the "Black Book" is how to construct a pipe +pistol, which, as the name indicates, is a gun constructed out of a +pipe. Other weapons include a cooking syringe filled with poison +that can be stabbed into "the subject's" stomach; a cyanide gas +pistol; a throat cutter gauntlet knife (razor sharp and only an +inch or so in length); and a mixture of fertilizer and aluminum +powder that can be made into a powerful bomb. +Why build murder weapons out of such weird material? Is the CIA +insane? +No. In its own way, the whole thing is perfectly logical. +The pamphlet "How to Kill" explained it all: "As most of these +devices are homemade, this precludes the possibility of their being +traced. They are, in effect, 'sanitized' and perfect for +assassinations, where weapons are prohibited, or where customs in +the hostile country are stringent, so these can be made from local +materials." +Being a contract killer for the CIA is not all roses. You +cannot kill in just any way. A number of attempts have been made +on Fidel Castro's life--some with the CIA and the Mafia +cooperating--and some of them may have failed because of +restrictions imposed on the potential assassins. It would be +unacceptable for Castro's murder to be laid at the door of the CIA. +This would make Castro a martyr in the eyes of his countrymen. +Thus, a method that would suggest death by natural causes must be +found. +Abundant speculation and considerable evidence suggest that the +CIA or some other government agency arranged for the "natural" +deaths of David Ferrie, Jack Ruby, George De Mohrenschildt, and +other potential witnesses into the assassination of John Kennedy. +Some methods of killing, like the injection of an air bubble into +the bloodstream, will often go unnoticed by medical examiners. +Another hard-to-trace method of killing is to mail a snake to +the victim. This is known as killing by long distance. A +disadvantage to this method is that the snake might bite an +innocent third party who just happens to open the package. The +advantage is that once the snake has struck, the evidence can +simply slither away. +Sometimes, as the CIA knows, killing has to be done at close +range. For this purpose, a valuable weapon is the ice pick with a +blood arrester attached. The blood arrester is a cloth wrapped +near the tip of the ice pick. When the pick is shoved into the +victim, the spurting blood is absorbed by the blood arrester. +People who see the victim fall will probably think he has had a +heart attack. While the onlookers try to help the victim, the +assassin uses this valuable ten or fifteen seconds to escape +unnoticed. +Often it is advisable to use what is called in the trade a +"quiet weapon." Silenced weapons can include pistols, rifles, and +even machine guns. +Poison is a quiet killer. Here is a partial list of the poisons +the CIA has become expert at administering: oil of bitter almonds; +ant paste; cadmium, used in vapor form, and death is delayed four +hours; radiator cleaner, also causing a delayed death; +Cantharides (Spanish Fly); ethyl mercury; and freon, heated by a +flame. These poisons and many others are listed in "How to Kill." +The author then cautions the reader: +"Unless otherwise stated, these poisons are either to be +injected into the subject, or taken orally by him by adding it to +his food. Use common sense in the application of these potions +and, if possible, double the O.D. necessary." +W.H. Bowart, in his book, "Operation Mind Control" described the +CIA's use of drugs: "In 1953, the CIA made plans to purchase ten +kilograms of LSD for use in 'drug experiments with animals and +human beings.' Since there are more than 10000 doses in a gram, +that meant the CIA wanted 100 million doses. The CIA obviously +intended to 'corner the market' on LSD so that other countries +would not be ahead of the U.S. in their potential for 'LSD +warfare.'" +Dr. Albert Hoffman, an early researcher into the uses of LSD, +was horrified by what the CIA was doing: "I had perfected LSD for +medical use, not as a weapon. It can make you insane or even kill +you if it is not properly used under medical supervision. In any +case, the research should be done by medical people and not by +soldiers or intelligence agencies." +Perhaps the most frightening weapon of all is the one that can +be used to alter weather and climate. It was used with +considerable success in Vietnam. It slowed troop movements with +heavy rains, and it destroyed the rice crop, as well. The danger +is that these climatological changes may become permanent, +affecting not only enemies of the United States, but also the +entire planet. +Finally, considerable evidence exists that the United States, +through the CIA, employed germ warfare during the Korean War. A +number of captured pilots testified that germ warfare was used, but +their testimony was dismissed as brainwashing. A Marine Corps +colonel named Frank H. Schwable signed a germ warfare confession +and, according to W.H. Bowart, "named names, cited missions, +described meetings and strategy conferences." +Schwable later repudiated his confession. But the charges of +germ warfare were taken up in front of the United Nations, and a +number of countries believed them. +The United States, incidentally, was later charged with using +nerve gas in Vietnam. +What you have read on these pages is pretty revolting stuff. +Yet, if the world ought to be saved from Communism, who can say it +is not necessary? One danger, of course, is that these terrible +weapons have been introduced into our body politic and have +produced strange and terrible fruits on our own native soil. When +assassination becomes government policy, when men are trained to +kill in every conceivable way, when morality is set aside for a +"higher good," can even the President of the United States consider +himself safe?

+ +

Andrew Stark is a pseudonym for a specialist on weaponry.

+ +

-- +daveus rattus

+ +

yer friendly neighborhood ratman

+ +

KOYAANISQATSI

+ +

ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. +5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.

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EX-CIA OFFICIAL SPEAKS OUT

+ +

By Greg Kaza

+ +

This article is reprinted from Full Disclosure. Copyright (c) 1986 +Capitol Information Association. All rights reserved. Permission is hereby +granted to reprint this article providing this message is included in its +entirety. Full Disclosure, Box 8275, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48107. $15/yr.

+ +

Full Disclosure: I'd like to start out by talking about your well-known book, +'The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence.' What edition is that in today?

+ +

Marchetti: The latest edition came out last summer. Its the Laurel edition, +Dell paperback.

+ +

FD: Its gone through a couple of printings?

+ +

Marchetti: Yes. It was originally published by Alfred Knopf in hardback and +by Dell in paperback. That was in 1974 with Knopf and 1975 with Dell. Then a +few years later we got some more of the deletions back from the government, +so Dell put out a second printing. That would have been about 1979. Then +recently, during the summer of 1983, we got back a few more deletions and +that's the current edition that is available in good bookstores (laughs) in +Dell paperback, the Laurel edition.

+ +

Originally the CIA asked for 340 deletions. We got about half of those back +in negotiations prior to the trial. We later won the trial, they were +supposed to give everything back but it was overturned at the appellate +level. The Supreme Court did not hear the case, so the appellate decision +stood. We got back 170 of those deletions in negotiations during the trial +period. A few years later when the second paperback edition came out there +were another 24 deletions given back. The last time, in 1983, when the the +third edition of the paperback edition was published, there were another 35 +given back. So there are still 110 deletions in the book out of an original +340.

+ +

As for the trial, the CIA sued in early 1972 to have the right to review and +censor the book. They won that case. It was upheld at the appellate court in +Richmond some months later, and again the Supreme Court did not hear the +case. Two years later we sued the CIA on the grounds that they had been +arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable in making deletions and were in +violation of the injunction they had won in 1972. We went before Judge Albert +V. Bryan Jr., and in that case, he decided in our favor. Bryan was the same +fourth district judge in Alexandria who heard the original case. He said that +there was nothing in the book that was harmful to national security or that +was logically classifiable. Bryan said the CIA was being capricious and +arbitrary. They appealed, and a few months later down in Richmond the +appellate court for the fourth district decided in the government's favor, +and overturned Bryan's decision. Again, the Supreme Court did not hear the +case. It chose not to hear it, and the appellate court's decision stood.

+ +

By this time, we had grown weary of the legal process. The book was published +with blank spaces except for those items that had been given back in +negotiations. Those items were printed in bold face type to show the kind of +stuff the CIA was trying to cut out. In all subsequent editions, the +additional material is highlighted to show what it is they were trying to cut +out.

+ +

Of course the CIA's position is that only they know what is a secret. They +don't make the national security argument because that is too untenable these +days. They say that they have a right to classify anything that they want to, +and only they know what is classifiable. They are establishing a precedent, +and have established a precedent in this case that has been used subsequently +against ex-CIA people like Frank Snepp and John Stockwell and others, and in +particular against Ralph McGee. They've also used it against (laughing), its +kind of ironic, two former CIA directors, one of whom was William Colby. +Colby was the guy behind my case when he was director. In fact, he was sued +by the CIA and had to pay a fine of I think, about $30000 for putting +something in that they wanted out about the Glomar Explorer. He thought they +were just being, as I would say, "arbitrary and capricious,'' so he put it +in anyway, was sued, and had to pay a fine. Admiral Stansfield Turner was +another who, like Colby when he was director, was the great defender of +keeping everything secret and only allowing the CIA to reveal anything. When +Turner got around to writing his book he had the same problems with them and +is very bitter about it and has said so. His book just recently came out and +he's been on a lot of TV shows saying, "Hells bells, I was director and I +know what is classified and what isn't but these guys are ridiculous, +bureaucratic,'' and all of these accusations you hear. It is ironic because +even the former directors of the CIA have been burned by the very precedents +that they helped to establish.

+ +

FD: What are the prospects for the remaining censored sections of your book +eventually becoming declassified so that they are available to the American +people?

+ +

Marchetti: If I have a publisher, and am willing to go back at the CIA every +year or two years forcing a review, little by little, everything would come +out eventually. I can't imagine anything they would delete. There might be a +few items that the CIA would hold onto for principle's sake. Everything that +is in that book, whether it was deleted or not, has leaked out in one way or +another, has become known to the public in one form or another since then. So +you know its really a big joke.

+ +

FD: Looking back on it, what effect did the publication of the 'The CIA and +the Cult of Intelligence' have on your life?

+ +

Marchetti: It had a tremendous effect on my life. The book put me in a +position where I would forever be persona non grata with the bureaucracy in +the federal government, which means, that I cannot get a job anywhere, a job +that is, specific to my background and talents. Particularly if the company +has any form of government relationship, any kind of government contract. +That stops the discussions right there. But even companies that are not +directly allied with the government tend to be very skittish because I was so +controversial and they just don't feel the need to get into this. I have had +one job since leaving the CIA other than writing, consulting and things like +that, and that was with an independent courier company which did no business +with the government, was privately owned, and really didn't care what the +government thought. They ran their own business and they hired me as their +friend. But every other job offered to me always evaporates, because even +those individuals involved in hiring who say they want to hire me and think +the government was wrong always finish saying, "Business is business. There +are some people here who do not want to get involved in any controversial +case.'' Through allies or former employees somebody always goes out of their +way to make it difficult for me, so I never have any other choice but to +continue to be a freelance writer, lecturer, consultant, etcetera, and even +in that area I am frequently penalized because of who I worked for.

+ +

FD: The government views you as a troublemaker or whistleblower?

+ +

Marchetti: As a whistleblower, and, I guess, troublemaker. In the +intelligence community, as one who violated the code.

+ +

FD: The unspoken code?

+ +

Marchetti: Right. And this has been the fate of all those CIA whistleblowers. +They've all had it hard. Frank Snepp, Stockwell, McGee, and others, have all +suffered the same fate. Whistleblowers in general, like Fitzgerald in the +Department of Defense, who exposed problems with the C-5A, overruns, have +also suffered the same kind of fate. But since they were not dealing in the +magical area of national security they have found that they have some leeway +and have been able to, in many other cases, find some other jobs. In some +cases the government was even forced to hire them back. Usually the +government puts them in an office somewhere in a corner, pays them $50000 a +year, and ignores them. Which drives them crazy of course, but thats the +government's way of punishing anybody from the inside who exposes all of +these problems to the American public.

+ +

FD: Phillip Agee explains in his book the efforts of the CIA to undermine his +writing of 'Inside The Company' both before and after publication. Have you +run into similar problems with extralegal CIA harassment?

+ +

Marchetti: Yes. I was under surveillance. Letters were opened. I am sure our +house was burglarized. General harassment of all sorts, and the CIA has +admitted to some of these things. One or two cases, because the Church +Committee found out. For example, the CIA admitted to working with the IRS to +try and give me a bad time. The Church Committee exposed that and they had to +drop it. They've admitted to certain other activities like the surveillance +and such, but the CIA will not release to me any documents under the Freedom +of Information Act. They won't release it all -- any documents under FOIA, +period.

+ +

FD: About your time with the CIA?

+ +

Marchetti: No, about my case. I only want the information on me after leaving +the agency and they just refuse to do it. They've told me through friends +"You can sue until you're blue in the face but you're not going to get +this'' because they know exactly what would happen. It would be a terrible +embarrassment to the CIA if all of the extralegal and illegal activities they +took became public.

+ +

The most interesting thing they did in my case was an attempt at entrapment, +by putting people in my path in the hopes that I would deal with these +people, who in at least one case turned out to be an undercover CIA operator +who was, if I had dealt with him, it would have appeared that I was moving to +deal with the Soviet KGB. The CIA did things of that nature. They had people +come to me and offer to finance projects if I would go to France, live there, +and write a book there without any censorship. Switzerland and Germany were +also mentioned. The CIA used a variety of techniques of that sort. I turned +down all of them because my theory is that the CIA should be exposed to a +certain degree in the hope that Congress could conduct some investigation out +of which would come some reform. I was playing the game at home and that is +the way I was going to play. Play it by the rules, whatever handicap that +meant. Which in the end was a tremendous handicap.

+ +

But it did work out in the sense that my book did get published. The CIA drew +a lot of attention to it through their attempts to prevent it from being +written and their attempts at censorship, which simply increased the appetite +of the public, media, and Congress, to see what they were trying to hide and +why. All of this was happening at a time when other events were occurring. +Ellsberg's Pentagon Papers had come out about the same time I announced I was +doing my book. Some big stories were broken by investigative journalists. All +of these things together, my book was part of it, did lead ultimately to +congressional investigations of the CIA. I spent a lot of time behind the +scenes on the Hill with senators and congressman lobbying for these +investigations and they finally did come to pass.

+ +

It took awhile. President Ford tried to sweep everything under the rug by +creating the Rockefeller Commission, which admitted to a few CIA mistakes but +swept everything under the rug. It didn't wash publicly. By this time, the +public didn't buy the government's lying. So we ultimately did have the Pike +Committee, which the CIA and the White House did manage to sabotage. But the +big one was the Church Committee in the Senate which conducted a pretty broad +investigation and brought out a lot of information on the CIA. The result of +that investigation was that the CIA did have to admit to a lot of wrongdoing +and did have to make certain reforms. Not as much as I would have liked. I +think everything has gone back to where it was and maybe even worse than what +it was, but at least there was a temporary halt to the CIA's free reign of +hiding behind secrecy and getting away with everything, up to and including +murder. There were some changes and I think they were all for the better.

+ +

FD: So instead of some of the more harsher critics of the CIA who would want +to see it abolished you would want to reform it?

+ +

Marchetti: Yes. Its one of these things where you can't throw out the baby +with the bathwater. The CIA does do some very good and valuable and +worthwhile and legal things. Particularly in the collection of information +throughout the world, and in the analysis of events around the world. All of +this is a legitimate activity, and what the CIA was really intended to do in +the beginning when they were set up. My main complaint is that over the years +those legitimate activities have to a great extent been reduced in +importance, and certain clandestine activities, particularly the covert +action, have come to the fore. Covert action is essentially the intervention +in the internal affairs of other governments in order to manipulate events, +using everything from propaganda, disinformation, political action, economic +action, all the way down to the really dirty stuff like para-military +activity. This activity, there was too much of it. It was being done for the +wrong reasons, and it was counterproductive. It was in this area where the +CIA was really violating U.S. law and the intent of the U.S. Constitution, +and for that matter, I think, the wishes of Congress and the American people. +This was the area that needed to be thoroughly investigated and reformed. My +suggestion was that the CIA should be split into two organizations. One, the +good CIA so to speak, would collect and analyze information. The other part, +in the dirty tricks business, would be very small and very tightly controlled +by Congress and the White House, and if possible, some kind of a public board +so that it didn't get out of control.

+ +

My theory is, and I've proved it over and over again along with other people, +is that the basic reason for secrecy is not to keep the enemy from knowing +what you're doing. He knows what you're doing because he's the target of it, +and he's not stupid. The reason for the CIA to hide behind secrecy is to keep +the public, and in particular the American public, from knowing what they're +doing. This is done so that the President can deny that we were responsible +for sabotaging some place over in Lebanon where a lot of people were killed. +So that the President can deny period. Here is a good example: President +Eisenhower denied we were involved in attempts to overthrow the Indonesian +government in 1958 until the CIA guys got caught and the Indonesians produced +them. He looked like a fool. So did the N.Y. Times and everybody else who +believed him. That is the real reason for secrecy.

+ +

There is a second reason for secrecy. That is that if the public doesn't know +what you are doing you can lie to them because they don't know what the truth +is. This is a very bad part of the CIA because this is where you get not only +propaganda on the American people but actually disinformation, which is to +say lies and falsehoods, peddled to the American public as the truth and +which they accept as gospel. That's wrong. It's not only wrong, its a lie and +it allows the government and those certain elements of the government that +can hide behind secrecy to get away with things that nobody knows about. If +you carefully analyze all of these issues that keep coming up in Congress +over the CIA, this is always what is at the heart of it: That the CIA lied +about it, or that the CIA misrepresented something, or the White House did +it, because the CIA and the White House work hand in glove. The CIA is not a +power unto itself. It is an instrument of power. A tool. A very powerful tool +which has an influence on whoever is manipulating it. But basically the CIA +is controlled by the White House, the inner circle of government, the inner +circle of the establishment in general. The CIA is doing what these people +want done so these people are appreciative and protective of them, and they +in turn make suggestions or even go off on their own sometimes and operate +deep cover for the CIA. So it develops into a self-feeding circle.

+ +

FD: Spreading disinformation is done through the newsmedia.

+ +

Marchetti: Yes. Its done through the newsmedia. The fallacy is that the CIA +says the real reason they do this is to con the Soviets. Now I'll give you +some examples. One was a fellow by the name of Colonel Oleg Penkovsky.

+ +

FD: Penkovsky Papers?

+ +

Marchetti: Yes. I wrote about that in 'The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. +The Penkovsky Papers was a phony story. We wrote the book in the CIA. Now, +who in the hell are we kidding? The Soviets? Do we think for one minute that +the Soviets, who among other things captured Penkovsky, interrogated him, and +executed him, do you think for one minute they believe he kept a diary like +that? How could he have possibly have done it under the circumstances? The +whole thing is ludicrous. So we're not fooling the Soviets. What we're doing +is fooling the American people and pumping up the CIA. The British are +notorious for this kind of thing. They're always putting out phony +autobiographies and biographies on their spies and their activities which are +just outright lies. They're done really to maintain the myth of English +secret intelligence so that they will continue to get money to continue to +operate. Thats the real reason. The ostensible reason is that we were trying +to confuse the Soviets. Well that's bullshit because they're not confused.

+ +

One of the ones I think is really great is 'Khruschev Remembers.' If anybody +in his right mind believes that Nikita Khruschev sat down, and dictated his +memoirs, and somebody -- Strobe Talbot sneaked out of the Soviet Union with +them they're crazy. That story is a lie. That book was a joint operation +between the CIA and the KGB. Both of them were doing it for the exact same +reasons. They both wanted to influence their own publics. We did it our way +by pretending that Khruschev had done all of this stuff and we had lucked out +and somehow gotten a book out of it. The Soviets did it because they could +not in their system allow Khruschev to write his memoirs. Thats just against +everything that the Communist system stands for. But they did need him to +speak out on certain issues. Brezhnev particularly needed him to +short-circuit some of the initiatives of the right wing, the Stalinist wing +of the party. Of course the KGB was not going to allow the book to be +published in the Soviet Union. The stuff got out so that it could be +published by the Americans. That doesn't mean that the KGB didn't let copies +slip into the Soviet Union and let it go all around. The Soviets achieved +their purpose too.

+ +

This is one of the most fantastic cases, I think, in intelligence history. +Two rival governments cooperated with each other on a secret operation to +dupe their respective publics. I always wanted to go into much greater length +on this but I just never got around to it. Suffice it to say that TIME +magazine threatened to cancel a two-page magazine article they were doing on +me and my book if I didn't cut a brief mention of this episode out of the +book.

+ +

FD: How was this operation initially set up?

+ +

Marchetti: I don't know all of the ins and outs of it. I imagine what +happened is that it probably started with somebody in the Soviet Politburo +going to Khruschev and saying, "Hey, behind the scenes we're having lots of +trouble with the right-wing Stalinist types. They're giving Brehznev a bad +time and they're trying to undercut all of the changes you made and all of +the changes Brehznev has made and wants to make. Its pretty hard to deal with +it so we've got an idea. Since you're retired and living here in your dacha +why don't you just sit back and dictate your memoirs. And of course the KGB +will review them and make sure you don't say anything you shouldn't say and +so on and so forth. Then we will get in touch with our counterparts, and see +to it that this information gets out to the West, which will publish it, and +then it will get back to the Soviet Union in a variety of forms. It will get +back in summaries broadcast by the Voice of America and Radio Liberty, and +copies of the book will come back in, articles written about it will be +smuggled in, and this in turn will be a big influence on the intelligentsia +and the party leaders and it will undercut Suslov and the right wingers.'' +Khruschev said okay. The KGB then went to the CIA and explained things to +them and the CIA said, Well that sounds good, we'll get some friends of ours +here, the TIME magazine bureau in Moscow, Jerry Schecter would later have a +job in the White House as a press officer. We'll get people like Strobe +Talbot, who is working at the bureau there, we'll get these guys to act as +the go-betweens. They'll come and see you for the memoirs and everyone will +play dumb. You give them two suitcases full of tapes (laughs) or something +like that and let them get out of the Soviet Union. Which is exactly what +happened.

+ +

Strobe brought all of this stuff back to Washington and then TIME-LIFE began +to process it and put a book together. They wouldn't let anybody hear the +tapes, they didn't show anybody anything. A lot of people were very +suspicious. You know you can tell this to the public or anybody else who +doesn't have the least brains in their head about how the Soviet Union +operates and get away with it. But anybody who knows the least bit about the +Soviet Union knows the whole thing is impossible. A former Soviet premier +cannot sit in his dacha and make these tapes and then give them to a U.S. +newspaperman and let him walk out of the country with them. That cannot be +done in a closed society, a police state, like the Soviet Union.

+ +

The book was eventually published but before it was published there was +another little interesting affair. Strobe Talbot went to Helsinki with the +manuscript, where he was met by the KGB who took it back to Leningrad, looked +at it, and then it was finally published by TIME-LIFE. None of that has ever +been explained in my book. A couple of other journalists have made references +to this episode but never went into it. It's an open secret in the press +corps here in Washington and New York, but nobody ever wrote a real big story +for a lot of reasons, because I guess it's just the kind of story that it's +difficult for them to get their hooks into. I knew people who were then in +the White House and State Department who were very suspicious of it because +they thought the KGB...

+ +

FD: Had duped TIME?

+ +

Marchetti: Exactly. Once they learned this was a deal they quieted down and +ceased their objections and complaints, and even alibied and lied afterwards +as part of the bigger game. Victor Lewis, who was apparently instrumental in +all of these negotiations, later fit into one little footnote to this story +that I've often wondered about. Lewis is (was)... After all of this happened +and when the little furor that existed here in official Washington began +dying down, Victor Lewis went to Tel Aviv for medical treatment. He came into +the country very quietly but somebody spotted him and grabbed him and said, +"What are you doing here in Israel?'' "Well I'm here for medical treatment, +'' Lewis said. They said, "What?! You're here in Israel for medical +treatment?'' He said, "Yes.'' They said, "Well whats the problem?'' "I've +got lumbago, a back problem, and they can't fix it in the Soviet Union. but +there's a great Jewish doctor here I knew in the Soviet Union and I came to +see him.'' That sounds like the craziest story you ever wanted to hear. But +then another individual appeared in Israel at the same time and some reporter +spotted him. He happened to be Richard Helms, then-director of the CIA. He +asked Helms what he was doing in Israel, and he had some kind of a lame +excuse which started people wondering whether this was the payoff. Helms +acting for the CIA, TIME-LIFE, and the U.S. government, and Lewis acting for +the KGB, Politburo, and the Soviet government. Its really a fascinating +story. I wrote about briefly in the book and it was very short. You'll find +it if you look through the book in the section we're talking about. +Publications and things like that. When I wrote those few paragraphs there +wasn't much further I could go, because there was a lot of speculation and +analysis.

+ +

Around the time my book came out, TIME magazine decided that they would do a +two-page spread in their news section and give it a boost. Suddenly I started +getting calls from Jerry Schecter and Strobe Talbot about cutting that part +out. I said I would not cut it out unless they could look me in the eye and +say I was wrong. If it wasn't true I would take the book and cut the material +out. But neither of them chose to do that. Right before the article appeared +in TIME I got a call from one of the editors telling me that some people +wanted to kill the article. I asked why and he said one of the reasons is +what you had to say about TIME magazine being involved in the Khruschev +Remembers book. I asked him, "Thats it?'' I had talked to Jerry and Strobe +and this was their backstab. This editor asked me if I could find somebody +who could trump the people who were trying to have the article killed. +Somebody who could verify my credentials in telling the story. I said why +don't you call Richard Helms, who by that time had been eased out of office +by Kissinger and Nixon, and was now an ambassador in Teheran. So this editor +called Helms to verify my credentials (laughing) and Helms said, "Yeah, he's +a good guy. He just got pissed off and wanted to change the CIA.'' So the +article ran in TIME. I think you're one of the very few people I've explained +this story to in depth.

+ +

FD: Did this operation have a name?

+ +

Marchetti: It probably did but I was already out of the agency and I don't +know what it was. But I do know it was a very sensitive activity and that +people very high up in the White House and State Department who you would +have thought would have been aware of it were not aware of it. But then +subsequently they were clearly taken into a room and talked to in discussions +and were no longer critics and doubters and in fact became defenders of it.

+ +

FD: Let me make sure I am clear about the CIA's motivation...

+ +

Marchetti: The CIA's motivation was that here we have a former Soviet premier +talking out about the events of his career and revealing some pretty +interesting things about his thinking and the thinking of others. All of +which shows that the Soviet Union is run by a very small little clique. A +very small Byzantine-like clique. There is a strong tendency to stick with +Stalinisn and turn to Stalinism but some of the cooler heads, the more +moderate types, are trying to make changes. Its good stuff from the CIA's +point of view and from the U.S. government's point of view. This is what +we're dealing with. This is our primary rival. Look at how they are. And +Khruschev had to dictate these things in secrecy and they had to be smuggled +out of the Soviet Union.

+ +

Things like this are very subtle in their consistency. It's not a black and +white thing on the surface. You might say, "Well, what's wrong with that?'' +What's wrong with that is that it is a lie. The truth would have been much +more effective. Nikita Khruschev was approached by the KGB and Soviet +Politburo to dictate his memoirs, which he did under their supervision, which +means we don't know if he is telling the whole story or the complete truth +because they had an opportunity to edit it. The Russians were so anxious to +get this information out so that it could come back to the Soviet Union for +two reasons. The first was to build international pressure. The second was to +build up internal pressure against the Stalinists. They were so anxious that +they were willing to make a deal with the CIA, and give us this material. So +that we could then prepare a book. Which we did. Thats the kind of a +government we are dealing with here. These are the kinds of people they are +and the kind of lies they live.

+ +

FD: Let's turn to world affairs for a moment. One of the events of recent +years that has always puzzled me is United States support for the Vanaaka +Party in what was once the New Hebrides Islands. In the late '70s, before the +New Hebrides achieved independence, there were basically two factions +fighting between themselves to see who would maintain control when the +colonial powers left. The British and the French had governed the New +Hebrides under a concept known as the condominium, and before independence, +the British and the labor movement in Australia threw their support behind +the ubiquitous socialist faction, in this case, the Vanaaka Party. The French +offered some behind-the-scenes support to the second faction, which was +basically pro-free market and pro-West. The U.S. under Jimmy Carter went +along with the British. Do you have any idea why this might have been done?

+ +

Marchetti: Offhand, I don't. The CIA has learned over the years that you +sometimes cannot support the people you would prefer to support, because they +just do not have the popular power to gain control or maintain control +without a revolution and things of that sort. The classic example is West +Berlin. Back in the '50s we were contesting with the Russians for influence +in Berlin. This was at a time when the Russians and East Germans were putting +tremendous pressure on to have West Berlin go almost voluntarily into the +Soviet bloc. The United States was struggling mightily to keep West Berlin +free. At that point in time the strong power in West Germany were the +Christian Democrats under Konrad Adenauer, and these were the people that we +were supporting.

+ +

The Christian Democrats, however, just did not have the wherewithal to save +West Berlin. The situation was such that the Social Democrats were the ones +who could save West Berlin. Not getting into all of the whys and wherefores +and policy positions, the Social Democrats also had a very charismatic person +named Willy Brandt. So by backing Willy Brandt and the Social Democrats, +instead of putting all of our eggs in the Christian Democratic Party basket, +Brandt and the Social Democrats were able to maintain a free West Berlin and +we were able to achieve our goal. There were some people in the CIA who +thought this was terrible, we were not being ideologically pure, and one of +them happens to be E. Howard Hunt, who actually considered Willy Brandt a KGB +spy. So there are times when you have to, I guess you would call it, choose +the lesser of two evils.

+ +

It might have been a miscalculated gamble. I don't have all of the facts, but +maybe the thinking was that if we left the pro-West faction in power we may +end up with a goddamned civil war.

+ +

FD: In retrospect, the Carter administration's decision seems even more +tragic and mistaken. Since coming to power the Vanaaka Party has consolidated +power in the new country, now known as Vanuatu, and established diplomatic +relations with governments like Cuba and Vietnam. Socialist Vanuatu has now +come to serve as a beacon of sorts for other independence movements in that +part of the world, such as the Kanaks in New Caledonia, who have subsequently +adopted socialism as their ideology. When I asked Jimmy Carter about this +during an interview recently he said he was sorry, but he did not remember +the episode. Is it possible that this may have been an incompetent blunder on +the part of the U.S. government? That somebody didn't do their homework, and +as a result those responsible for the decision didn't have all of the facts?

+ +

Marchetti: Absolutely. Absolutely. Yes. Its not the kind of an issue that +draws the most attention in Washington. As you just pointed out, Jimmy Carter +doesn't even remember it. I'm sure that decision was made pretty far down the +line. If Carter ever had to make a decision he probably doesn't even remember +it because it was probably staffed down because it was considered so +inconsequential at the time by Carter and everyone involved. They considered +it so inconsequential that they don't even remember it. It's something they +signed off on. My guess from what you have told me is that it was a mistake.

+ +

FD: You mentioned E. Howard Hunt earlier. I understand that you wrote an +article for a Washington-based publication about the assassination of John F. +Kennedy and Hunt sued the publication, charging libel. Could you give us some +background on this matter?

+ +

Marchetti: The article was written in the summer of 1978 and published by +SPOTLIGHT, a weekly newspaper that advertises itself as 'The Voice of the +American Populist Party.' At the time I wrote the article for SPOTLIGHT the +House Select Committee on Assassinations was getting ready to hold its +hearings reviewing the Kennedy and King assassinations. I had picked up some +information around town that a memo had recently been uncovered in the CIA, +and that the CIA was concerned about it. I believe the memo was from James +Angleton, who at the time was chief of counterintelligence for Richard Helms. +I forget the exact date, but this memo was something like six years old, +while Helms was still in office as director.

+ +

The memo said that at some point in time the CIA was going to have to deal +with the fact that Hunt was in Dallas the day of the Kennedy assassination or +words to that effect. There was some other information in it, such as did you +know anything about it, he wasn't doing anything for me, and back and forth. +I had that piece of information, along with information that the House Select +Committee was going to come out with tapes that indicated there was more than +one shooter during the Kennedy assassination and that the FBI, or at least +certain people in the FBI, believed these tapes to be accurate and had always +believed that there was more than one shooter.

+ +

I was in contact with the House Select Committee, and they were probing real +deeply into things and they were very suspicious of the Kennedy +assassination. There were some other reporters working on the story at the +time, one in particular who has a tremendous reputation, and he felt there +was something to it. So we rushed into print at SPOTLIGHT with a story +saying, based on everything we put together, that we had this information, +and we tried to predict what was going to happen. In essence we said whats +going to happen is that the committee is going to unearth some new +information that there was more than one shooter and probably come up with +this memo, this internal CIA memorandum, and there will be some other things. +Then the CIA will conduct a limited hangout, and will admit to some error or +mistake, but then sweep everything else under the rug, and in the process +they may let a few people dangle in the wind like E. Howard Hunt, Frank +Sturgis, Jerry Hemming, and other people who have been mentioned in the past +as being involved in something related to the Kennedy assassination. It was +that kind of speculative piece.

+ +

What happened is that about a week after my article appeared in SPOTLIGHT the +Wilmington News-Journal published an article by Joe Trento. This was a longer +and more far-ranging article, in which he discussed the memo too but in +greater detail. A couple of weeks after that Hunt informed SPOTLIGHT that he +wanted a retraction. I checked with my sources and said I don't think we +should retract. I said we should do a follow-up article. Now by this time +some CIA guy was caught stealing pictures in the committee, some spy, so +things were really hot and heavy at the time. There was a lot of expectation +that the committee was going to do something, some really good work to bring +their investigation around. So I said to SPOTLIGHT let's do a follow-up +piece, but the publisher chickened out and said, nah, what we'll do is tell +Hunt we'll give him equal space. He can say whatever he wants to in the same +amount of space.

+ +

Hunt ignored the offer. A couple of months later Hunt comes to town for +secret hearings with the committee, and was heard in executive session. Hunt +was suing the publisher of the book 'Coup D'Etat in America,' and deposed me +in relation to that case, and then he brought in, he tried to slip in, this +SPOTLIGHT article. I was under instructions from my lawyer not to comment. My +lawyer would have me refuse to answer on the grounds of journalistic +privilege, and also on the grounds of my relationship with the CIA. My lawyer +had on his own gone to the CIA before I gave my deposition and asked them +about this, and they said to tell me to just hide behind my injunction. I +told my lawyer I don't understand it, and he told me all that the CIA said is +that they hate Hunt more than they hate you and they're not going to give +Hunt any help. So that's what I did, and that was the end of it. We thought.

+ +

Two years after it ran Hunt finally sued SPOTLIGHT over my article. SPOTLIGHT +thought it was such a joke, all things considered, that they really didn't +pay any attention. I never even went to the trial. I never even submitted an +affidavit. I was not deposed or anything. The Hunt people didn't even try to +call me as a witness or anything. I was left out of everything. Hunt ended up +winning a judgment for $650000. Now SPOTLIGHT got worried. They appealed and +the Florida Appellate Court overturned the decision on certain technical +grounds, and sent it back for retrial. The retrial finally occurred earlier +this year. When it came time for the retrial, which we had close to a year to +prepare for, SPOTLIGHT got serious, and went out and hired themselves a good +lawyer, Mark Lane, who is something of an expert on the Kennedy +assassination. They got me to become involved in everything, and we ended up +going down there and just beating Hunt's pants off. The jury came in, I +think, within several hours with a verdict in our favor. The interesting +thing was the jury said we were clearly not guilty of libel and actual +malice, but they were now suspicious of Hunt and everything he invoked +because we brought out a lot of stuff on Hunt.

+ +

Hunt lost, and was ordered to pay our court costs in addition to everything +else. He has subsequently filed an appeal and that's where its at now. It's +up for appeal. I imagine it will probably be another six months to a year +before we hear anything further on it. Based on everything I have seen, Hunt +doesn't have a leg to stand on because the deeper he gets into this the more +he runs the risk of exposing himself. We had just all kinds of material on +Hunt. We had a deposition from Joe Trento saying, yes, he saw the internal +CIA memo. We produced one witness in deposition, Marita Lorenz, who was +Castro's lover at one point, and she said that Hunt was taking her and people +like Sturgis and Jerry Hemmings and others and running guns into Dallas. +Lorenz said that a couple of days before the assassination Hunt met them in +Dallas and made a payoff. What they all were doing, whether it was connected +to the assassination, we don't know.

+ +

I think if Hunt keeps pursuing this, all that he's doing is setting the stage +for more and more people to come forward and say bad things about him, and +raise more evidence that he was in Dallas that day and that he must have been +involved in something. If it wasn't the assassination it must have been some +kind of diversionary activity or maybe it was something unrelated to the +assassination and the wires just got crossed and it was a coincidence at the +time.

+ +

One of the key points in the mind of the jury as far as we've been able to +tell at SPOTLIGHT is that Hunt to this day still cannot come up with an alibi +for where he was the day of the assassination. Hunt comes up with the +weakest, phoniest stories that he can't corroborate. Some guy who was drunk +came out of a bar and waved at him. His story doesn't match with that guy's +story. Hunt says he can produce his children to testify he was in Washington. +None of his children appeared at the trial. It's a very, very strange thing. +Hunt clearly was, in my mind, not in Washington doing what he says he was +doing Nov. 22, 1963. He was certainly not at work that day at the CIA. This +subject has come up before, whether he was on sick leave, an annual leave, or +where the hell he was. Hunt just cannot come up with a good alibi.

+ +

Hunt has gone before committees. The Rockefeller Committee, I believe he was +before the Church Committee, and before the House Select Committee. Nobody +will give Hunt a clean bill of health. They always weasel words. Their +comment on Hunt is always some sort of a way that can be interpreted anyway +that you want. You can say this indicates the committee looked into it and +they feel he wasn't involved. Or you can look at it and say the committee +looked into it and they have a lot of doubts about Hunt, and they're just +being very careful about what they are saying. Hunt himself will not tell you +what happened before these committees. He says that his testimony is +classified information. Well, if the testimony vindicates Hunt and provides +him with an alibi then why can't he tell us? The mystery remains.

+ +

FD: Do you believe it possible that the CIA knows where Hunt was Nov. 22, +1963, but just do not want to release that information?

+ +

Marchetti: That's my guess. I think that subsequently, by now, the CIA may +not have known where Hunt was at the time, and they may not have even +realized what he was up to until years after and years later when his name +started to be commonly mentioned in connection with the assassination. I +think by now the CIA probably knows where Hunt was and what he was doing or +have some very strong feelings about that, and they're not too happy about +it. But whatever it was, and is, that Hunt was involved in, it seems to be, +or would appear, that he was in or around Dallas about the time of the +assassination, involved in some kind of clandestine activity. It may have +been an illegal clandestine activity, even something the CIA was unaware of. +The CIA acts very strangely about this. The CIA will not give Hunt any help. +He got no help at all from the CIA in the preparation of his case against us +or in the presentation of his case. They just left him out there. Hunt +managed to scrounge up a couple of his CIA friends who on their own were +willing to give some help, but caved in right away. One guy didn't testify. +Another guy gave a stupid deposition in the middle of the night to us +(laughs) which wasn't worth the paper it was written on.

+ +

Helms gave a deposition which said nothing. No way would he go out on a limb +for Hunt. In my own mind, I have a feeling that the CIA knows where Hunt was +and what he was doing, and while they're not going to prosecute him for a lot +of reasons, they're involved in the cover-up themselves and don't want to +bring any embarrassment upon the agency. On the other hand, they feel if he +screws around and gets his own mit in the ringer, that's his own fault, and +we can cover our ass. Hunt, for his own part, apparently feels he has some +sort of pressure on the CIA that while it might not be strong enough to bring +them forward to defend him before any committee or in a court of law, its at +least strong enough for them not to take any overt action against him. So it +seems to me to be some kind of double graymail. Hunt's graymailing the CIA on +one hand and they're graymailing him on the other hand. Its a very, very +strange thing.

+ +

FD: Did Jerry Hemmings give a deposition? I understand he is still in prison.

+ +

Marchetti: I think Jerry might still be in. He asked not to give a deposition +or be called as a witness unless it was absolutely necessary, because he was +either coming toward the end of his term, or he was up for parole. He +preferred not to get involved. This was pretty much the attitude of another +individual who was mentioned, but I was left with the feeling that if push +really came to shove, these people could be brought forward. Now what they +know, or whether they were going to risk perjury, which is a pretty big +gamble when you're dealing with Mark Lane, particularly on this subject. He's +not only a brilliant lawyer, but this is a subject he has a lot of background +in.

+ +

FD: Did Gordon Novel fit into this at all?

+ +

Marchetti: No.

+ +

FD: You mentioned that it is possible the CIA is withholding information on +Hunt's whereabouts Nov. 22, 1963. The CIA has been accused many times in the +past of engaging in a cover-up of the JFK assassination. Do you believe they +are still covering up in a lot of ways?

+ +

Marchetti: Oh yeah, I think so, I'd think not only they and the FBI, I think +everybody is covering up.

+ +

FD: Are they covering up necessarily to just keep the American people in the +dark about the episode, or cover-up because of their own guilt and complicity?

+ +

Marchetti: I think its both. I think it all started with when it happened. I +don't think anybody was really sure in Washington who was behind the +assassination. I think they were very fearful that if they didn't come up +with a lone nut theory, and in this case a lone nut who was removed from the +scene in a matter of days, that the American people might panic. They might +lose their faith in the government. They might lose their faith in the +institutions. They might begin to point fingers at all kinds of people. The +Russians. The Cubans. Other elements of our society like the right wing and +organized crime and so on. I think there was a consensus in the minds of the +establishmentarians in our government which was that we should put this to +bed as quickly and as quietly as possible. We'll make a hero out of Kennedy +and let's forget about it. And then of course they did have to have a Warren +Commission, a blue-ribbon panel which would have the right people on it and +then we'll lay the thing to rest officially. Which is essentially what +happened. They didn't hear a lot of evidence. They ignored evidence. Evidence +was hidden. Evidence was destroyed. I think it was pretty much clear that +nobody was being absolutely forthcoming.

+ +

The former head of the CIA, Allen Dulles, even said he would lie to the +people about anything he considered to pertain to national security. Dulles +said he would lie to the people if he had to. I think the Kennedy +assassination was laid to rest by the establishment and it became just a +suspicion in the minds of the people. Then came the revelations. I think by +now everybody involved was deeply involved in the coverup, that that maybe +became even more paramount than the question of who did kill Kennedy and why. +To admit that we covered up from the very begining, and that we've been +covering up ever since, I think, would be more devastating than it would have +been a few years ago to say O.K., we've looked into it, and figured it out, +it was CIA renegades, or whoever was responsible for murdering Kennedy. I +think by now there are just too many people that feel they may have started +out originally for the most noble of motives but they cannot adjust to it. We +saw it with the Watergate affair, and see it every day in life. Once somebody +starts lying and covering up it just snowballs. It just keeps going on and on +and on and on. It keeps getting harder and harder and harder to determine the +truth. I think it's pretty difficult for somebody in 1985 to come forward and +say, yes, I was part of a cover-up, 22 years ago. What he's saying is that +I've lived a lie all of my life. I don't think we're ever going to get the +answer, frankly. I don't think we're every going to get the answer to the +story.

+ +

FD: You're pessimistic about the American people discovering the real truth +about the JFK assassination?

+ +

Marchetti: This is not to say that 50 years from now that some historian may +get access to some material when everybody is dead and buried, and might be +able to put together a pretty accurate story. But even then, with all of the +time that has gone by, the myth will have been established. You have those +people that will say, "Ugh. Conspiracy theorists,'' while other people will +say, "I never believe the government.'' But it will have no effect.

+ +

FD: So you believe it will only be time that will reveal the full truth about +the JFK assassination? The truth won't be revealed because of another big +government scandal like Watergate, or a president who is committed to seeing +that the case is solved?

+ +

Marchetti: One of the presidents who might have unearthed all this, actually +a potential president was Bobby Kennedy, but he got rubbed out.

+ +

FD: Bobby Kennedy made a statement three days before he was murdered that he +felt only the office of the presidency could get at the truth.

+ +

Marchetti: I'm not sure if thats possible. I wonder in my own mind if, let's +say, Teddy Kennedy would be elected president. I wonder if he, one, would +have the courage to reopen the case at this point in time knowing everything +he knows about it probably. And two, if he had the courage, would he have the +muscle to be able to resolve it completely and fully to the satisfaction of +everyone? I think there are those things in life you either resolve at the +time or never. After awhile, as the years pass by, it becomes more and more +difficult until it is impossible.

+ +

FD: The American people are told that they choose their leaders and run the +government. Is this true, or is it the invisible state within a state, the +intelligence community?

+ +

Marchetti: I don't think the intelligence community, although it is an +invisible arm of the government, runs it. I think the people who run the +country are the same people who usually run things not only here but all over +the world. The powerful economic interests, whether they are bankers, or +industrialists, or whatever. The real solid inner core of the establishment. +These are the movers and shakers, but they don't have absolute power. They +may not want a certain person to get nominated by a certain party. In some +cases they may not even be able to stop them from getting to power or using +it. Generally speaking, they have more influence on the government than the +other people do. Its manifested itself in all sorts of ways. There are all of +these forces at work.

+ +

FD: One last question: PSI. Both the CIA and the KGB had a great interest in +this area. One of the things I know the CIA did, attempt to recruit KGB +agents in the afterlife. Are you familiar with this?

+ +

Marchetti: I do know there was great interest in this whole area of +parapsychology, for whatever benefit may have been achieved. Not only the +CIA, but the Pentagon was involved, and for that matter, the KGB. Everybody +has apparently examined it. There were a lot of stories floating around the +CIA that they had tried to contact old agents like Penkovsky, who had been +captured and killed, executed by the Soviet Union, in the hope that they +could derive additional information. To my knowledge none of this stuff +really worked.

+ +

FD: Thank you, Victor Marchetti. + +could derive additional information. To my knowledge none of this stuff +really worked.

+ +

FD: Tha

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"Our Presidents should not be able to conduct secret +operations which violate our principles, jeopardize our rights, +and have not been subject to the checks and balances which +normally keep policies in line."

+ +

Morton Halperin +Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of +Defense for International Affairs

+ +

"In its consideration of covert action, the Committee was +struck by the basic tension--if not incompatibility--of covert +operations and the demands of a constitutional system. Secrecy +is essential to covert operations; secrecy can, however, become a +source of power, a barrier to serious policy debate within the +government, and a means of circumventing the established checks +and procedures of government. The Committee found that secrecy +and compartmentation contributed to a temptation on the part of +the Executive to resort to covert operations in order to avoid +bureaucratic, congressional, and public debate."

+ +

The Church Committee

+ +

"The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we too +are honorable men, devoted to her service." + +Richard Helms, then DCI +April, 1971 +Table of Contents

+ +

CHAPTER ONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 +Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

+ +

CHAPTER TWO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 +CIA Proprietaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 +Propaganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 +Political Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 +Economic Covert Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 +Paramilitary Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

+ +

CHAPTER THREE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 +Project NKNAOMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 +Project MKULTRA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 +LSD Experimentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 +Project BLUEBIRD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 +Project ARTICHOKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

+ +

CHAPTER FOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 +The National Security Act of July 1947 . . . . . . 19 +Radio Free Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 +Radio Liberty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 +Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 +Operation Mongoose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 +Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 +The Bay of Pigs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 +Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 +The Phoenix Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 +Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

+ +

CHAPTER FIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 +Plausible Deniability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 +CIA Case Officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 +Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

+ +

CHAPTER ONE

+ +

INTRODUCTION

+ +

On January 22, 1946, President Harry S. Truman issued an +executive order setting up a National Intelligence Authority, +and under it, a Central Intelligence Group, which was the +forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. Truman +recognized the need for a centralized intelligence apparatus +in peacetime to help ensure that nothing like the Japanese +surprise attack on Pearl Harbor would ever again happen. +The organization that was to become the CIA took on a life of +its own and over the past four decades has become the secret +army of the President of the United States. Presidents from +Truman to Ronald Reagan have used this secret army whenever +they found it impossible to achieve their policy goals +through overt means. +Over the years, the CIA has evolved from an agency whose +primary assignment was to gather intelligence into a powerful +entity whose help is enlisted to help attain American foreign +policy goals. Since 1947, the Agency has been involved in +the internal affairs of over fifty countries on six different +continents. Although an exact number is impossible to +determine, there are over 20000 employees affiliated with +the organization. Of these, more than 6000 serve in the +clandestine services, the arm of the CIA that is responsible +for covert operations. +The purpose of this work will be to survey the covert +operations that have been undertaken by the CIA in the past +forty years and to assess the effectiveness of a number of +these activities. We shall begin by examining the various +shapes that covert operations may take. They are propaganda; +political action; economic activities; and paramilitary +operations. After surveying the various types of covert +operations, we will look at examples of CIA involvement +around the world. Since there have been eighty-five or so +such operations since 1948, we will not attempt to look at +every one (See Appendix I). However, we will examine a +number of covert operations to get an idea of what exactly +the CIA does and continues to do. We will evaluate both the +particular operations examined in this work and covert +operations in general. Afterwards, we should be able to +establish a number of criteria that separate good covert +operations from bad ones. Finally, we will look towards the +future and try to see what it has in store for the Central +Intelligence Agency. +

+ +

CHAPTER TWO

+ +

According to the CIA's own definition, covert action +means "any clandestine or secret activities designed to +influence foreign governments, events, organizations, or +persons in support of U.S. foreign policy conducted in such +manner that the involvement of the U.S. Government is not +apparent." Before we explore the various types of covert +operations in which the Agency engages, we should examine one +of the methods that the CIA uses to mask its activities. +What is being referred to is the establishment of "front" +organizations, better known as proprietaries. +CIA proprietaries are businesses that are wholly owned +by the Agency which do business, or appear to do business, +under commercial guise. Proprietaries have been used by the +CIA for espionage as well as covert operations. Many of the +larger proprietaries are also, and have been in the past, +used for paramilitary purposes. +The best-known of the CIA proprietaries were Radio Free +Europe and Radio Liberty. The corporate structures of the +two radio stations served as a prototype for later Agency +proprietaries. Each functioned under the cover provided by a +board of directors made up of prominent Americans, who in the +case of Radio Free Europe incorporated as the National +Committee for a Free Europe and in the case of Radio Liberty +as the American Committee for Liberation. However, CIA +officers in the key management positions at the stations made +all of the important decisions regarding the activities of +the station. +Other CIA proprietaries, organized in the 1960s, were +the CIA airlines--Air America, Air Asia, Civil Air Transport, +Intermountain Aviation, and Southern Air Transport--and +certain holding companies involved with the airlines or the +Bay of Pigs project, such as the Pacific Corporation and +Double-Chek corporation. In early 1967, it became known that +the CIA had subsidized the nation's largest student +organization, the National Student Association. This +revelation prompted increased press interest in CIA fronts +and conduits. Eventually, it became known that the CIA +channeled money directly or indirectly into a multitude of +business, labor, and church groups; universities; charitable +organizations; and educational and cultural groups. + +PROPAGANDA

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Propaganda is any action that is "intended to undermine the +beliefs, perceptions, and value systems of the people under the +rule of the adversary government..." The ultimate aim of +propaganda is to convert the people under the opposition +government into accepting the belief system of the country which +is distributing the propaganda. Half of the battle is won if the +people of the target country begin to question the belief system +of the government under whose authority they live. +Propaganda is among the oldest of techniques employed by +governments in dealing with their foes. There are many different +propaganda methods that are used by governments to undermine the +political machinery in other countries, some of which are overt. +One of these is the use of radio broadcasts. Radio provides a +way to reach the people of the adversary country that cannot be +kept out by building walls. +In addition to the overt means of distributing propaganda +that have been mentioned, there are covert means that are +sometimes employed. Covert action is used and becomes relevant +when a country attempts to control the media of the enemy state. +This control is accomplished by influencing writers, journalists, +printers, publishers, and so forth through money, exchanges of +favors, or other means. In the case of radio, covert action +involves the operation of "black radio" which will be discussed +in a moment. +In their book The Invisible Government, authors David Wise +and Thomas B. Ross make the following observations about the +radio activities of the Central Intelligence Agency:

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United States radio activities have ranged all the +way from overt, openly acknowledged and advertised +programs of the Voice of America to highly secret +CIA transmitters in the Middle East and other areas +of the world. In between, is a whole spectrum of +black, gray, secret and semi-secret radio +operations. The CIA's Radio Swan, because it +became operationally involved at the Bay of Pigs, +never enjoyed more than the thinnest of covers. +But Radio Swan was a relatively small black-radio +operation. Other radio operations, financed and +controlled in whole or in part by the Invisible +Government [The CIA and the U.S. Intelligence +Community as a whole], are more skillfully +concealed and much bigger.

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It may now be helpful to examine exactly what is meant +by black and white propaganda. Black propaganda conceals its +origin while white propaganda is an open, candid charge +against an opponent. An example of black propaganda would be +the CIA's circulation of a supposedly Soviet anti-Islamic +pamphlet in Egypt in October 1964. The effort was intended +to hurt the image of the Soviet Union in that country. +"Black radio", in the specialized language of the +intelligence community, is generally understood to mean the +operation of a radio broadcasting system which, after being +captured by the intelligence network of the adversary nation, +is operated in the name of the original owner to conduct +hostile, but subtle, propaganda against the owner while +pretending that the station is still in the original hands. +Sometimes "black radio" simply means radio operations +controlled directly or indirectly by any intelligence +apparatus. "Black radio" operations of this sort have been +conducted by both super-powers on a large scale in every form +since the beginning of the Cold War. U.S. activities have +ranged from the open Voice of America broadcasting station to +secret CIA transmitters in different parts of the world. +One more type of propaganda effort which deserves +further mention here is printed propaganda. Every year, the +CIA engages in publishing slightly misleading newspaper and +magazine articles, books, and even occasionally the memoirs +of Soviet officials or soldiers who have defected. The +Agency also wages a silent war through disinformation and +various other counterespionage techniques. The distribution +through this method sometimes proves to be more difficult +than conducting radio broadcasts.

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POLITICAL ACTION

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Another type of influence that may be exerted through +covert means is political action. Such action may be defined +as attempts to change the power structure and policies of +another state through secret contacts and secret funds by +means which are stronger than mere persuasion (propaganda) +and less severe than military action. Following the Korean +War and the shift in the perception of the Soviet threat as +more political and less military, the CIA concentrated its +operations on political action, particularly in the form of +covert support for electoral candidates and political +parties. +Covert political action may be carried out in the form +of support of a friendly government or against its domestic +opposition, a type of covert action known as subversive. It +may also manifest itself in the form of support to a group +that is the domestic opposition of an unfriendly government. +The latter type of covert action is known as benign. +Another and somewhat darker form of covert political +activity is assassination. From time to time, a dictator +unfriendly to the United States or its interests will take +control of a country that the U.S. deems to be of vital +significance. Perhaps the leader has a heavy Marxist bent +like Fidel Castro or a somewhat unpredictable tendency to +cause turmoil in the world like Moammar Gadhafi. In cases +where such a person has seized power, the U.S. is often +interested in removing the dictator by any means available. +In cases where the leaders in the United States feel that the +immediate removal of an unfriendly dictator is absolutely +necessary if the U.S. is to enjoy continued security, U.S. +leaders may resort to the unpleasant option of assassination. +In 1975, in light of questions about the conduct of the +CIA in domestic affairs in the United States, the Senate +Select Committee on Intelligence, headed by Senator Frank +Church of Idaho, began hearings on the CIA and its +activities. The Church Committee (as it become known) issued +a report in 1975 entitled "Alleged Assassination Plots +Involving Foreign Leaders" which provided a unique inside +account of how such plans originate. The CIA was allegedly +involved in assassination plots against Fidel Castro of Cuba, +Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, and Ngo Din Diem of South +Vietnam. The Agency also allegedly schemed to assassinate +President Sukarno of Indonesia and Francois "Papa Doc" +Duvalier of Haiti. The Agency had provided arms to +dissidents within Indonesia and Haiti, but witnesses before +the Church Committee swore that those weapons were never +given for the purpose of murdering either man. +In addition to plotting to assassinate foreign leaders, +the CIA often supplied dissidents within foreign countries +controlled by unfriendly governments with arms and +ammunition. In Chile, the CIA passed three .45 calibre +machine guns, ten tear-gas grenades, and five-hundred rounds +of ammunition. For Castro dissidents, the Agency prepared a +cache composed of a rifle with a telescope and silencer and +several bombs which could be concealed in a suitcase. +Finally, in the Dominican Republic, where the United States +disliked Rafael Trujillo, the CIA prepared to drop twelve +untraceable rifles with scopes. That drop was never +executed. +In all of the plots in which the Agency was involved, it +made sure that its role was indirect. Never once did an +American CIA agent actually make any of the assassination +attempts. According to Loch Johnson in A Season of Inquiry:

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In no case was an American finger actually on the +trigger of these weapons. And even though the +officials of the United States had clearly +initiated assassination plots against Castro and +Lumumba, it was technically true--as Richard Helms +had claimed--that neither the CIA nor any other +agency of the American government had murdered a +foreign leader. Through others, however, we had +tried, but had either been too inept...or too late +to succeed. +

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ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

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Economic covert operations are those in which an attempt +is made to affect the economic machinery within a country +with the aim of achieving a desired result. An example would +be the CIA's involvement in trying to contaminate part of a +cargo of Cuban sugar that was bound for the Soviet Union. +This type of activity might also come in the form of helping +a country become more economically efficient and hoping that +the success will be noticed by other countries who will then +embrace the democratic ideals and methods through which the +"model" country has become prosperous.

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PARAMILITARY OPERATIONS

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Perhaps the most tangible type of covert action engaged +in by the CIA is in the form of paramilitary operations. +This category of covert operations is also potentially the +most politically dangerous. With the onset of the Cold War +and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, military operations +became both necessary and dangerous at the same time. In +countries where other forms of persuasion did not seem to be +working, it often seemed necessary to use military forces to +further the foreign policy goals of the United States. The +perceived threat of Soviet domination of the Third World +served to increase the pressure for military intervention. +It was thus decided by U.S. leaders that the nation should +have paramilitary capabilities. The responsibility for +devising and carrying out these operations naturally settled +upon the shoulders of the CIA. +Though the United States began to work on developing a +paramilitary capability after World War II, with the +exception of an operation in Guatemala in 1954, the scale of +activities was minimal before 1961. When President John F. +Kennedy took office in 1961, he and his closest advisors were +convinced of the need for the U.S. to develop an +unconventional warfare capability to counter the growing +evidence of communist guerilla activities in Southeast Asia +and Africa. The aim of "counterinsurgency" (as it became +known) was to prevent communist supported military victories +without causing a major U.S./Soviet confrontation. +Simultaneously, Kennedy directed the CIA to develop and use +its paramilitary capabilities around the world. Thus, in the +decade of the 1960s, developing a paramilitary capability +became the primary objective of the CIA's clandestine +activities, and by 1967, spending on paramilitary activities +had surpassed both psychological and political action in the +amount of budgetary allocation. +In the early 1960s, the decolonization of Africa sparked +an increase in the scale of CIA clandestine activities on +that continent. CIA activities there paralleled the growing +interest within the State Department and the Kennedy +Administration in Third World Countries, which were regarded +as the first line of defense against the Soviets. The U.S. +Government assumed that the Soviets would attempt to encroach +upon the newly independent states. Thus the African +continent, which prior to 1960 was included in the CIA's +Middle-Eastern Division became a separate division. In +addition, between 1959 and 1963, the number of CIA stations +in Africa increased by 55.5%. Also, the perception of a +growing Soviet presence both politically and through guerilla +activity in Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia, resulted in a 40% +increase in the size of the Western Hemisphere Division +between 1960 and 1965. +Throughout the 1960s, the CIA was involved in +paramilitary operations in a number of countries. Its +involvement included efforts in Angola, Vietnam, Laos, and +Cuba. Many of the CIA's undertakings were either +unsuccessful or without any clear result and some of them +will be discussed later. Before leaving this category of +covert operations, it is interesting to consider a story +recounted by Fred Branfman, in a book entitled Uncloaking the +CIA by Howard Frazier.

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There are many stories I could tell about him, but +I will tell just one. In the late 1960s a friend +of mine was a pilot for a private CIA airline. The +agent threw a box on the airplane one day and said +"Take this to Landry in Udorn". (Pat Landry was +the head of the CIA in Udorn, coordinating the +Burma-Thailand-Laos-North Vietnam theatre). My +friend started flying the plane and noticed a bad +odor coming from the box. After some time he could +not stand it anymore and opened up the box. Inside +was a fresh human head. This was a joke. The idea +was to see what Pat Landry would do when someone +put this box on his desk. You cannot throw a human +head in the wastepaper basket, you cannot throw it +in the garbage can. CIA paramilitary activities +were and are being carried out by people, like this +agent, who have gone beyond the pale of civilized +behavior. There are hundreds of these people now +working in the Third World. This fact is, of +course, not just a disgrace, but a clear and +present danger. +

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CHAPTER THREE

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In the first two decades following its establishment, +the CIA initiated a number of programs to develop a chemical +and biological warfare capacity. Project NKNAOMI was begun +to provide the CIA with a covert support base to meet its +clandestine operational requirements. This was to be +accomplished by stockpiling several incapacitating and lethal +materials for specific use by the Technical Services Division +of the CIA. Under this plan, the TSD was to maintain in +operational readiness special and unique items for the +dissemination of biological and chemical materials. The +project also provided for the required surveillance, testing, +upgrading, and evaluation of materials and items in order to +assure the absence of defects and the complete predictability +of results to be expected under operational conditions. In +1952, the Special Operations Division of the U.S. Army was +asked to assist the CIA in developing, testing, and +maintaining biological agents and delivery systems for the +purposes mentioned above. +The SOD helped the CIA develop darts coated with +biological agents and different types of pills. The two also +devised a special gun which could fire darts enabling an +agent to incapacitate guard dogs, enter the installation the +dogs were guarding, and return the dogs to consciousness upon +departure from the facility. In addition, the CIA asked the +SOD to study the feasibility of using biological agents +against crops and animals. Indeed, a CIA memo written in +1967 and uncovered by the Church Committee gives evidence of +at least three methods of covert attack against crops which +had been developed and evaluated under field conditions. +Project NKNAOMI was discontinued in 1970, and on +November 25, 1969, President Richard Nixon renounced the use +of any form of biological weapons that could kill or +incapacitate. Nixon also ordered the disposal of existing +stockpiles of bacteriological weapons. On February 14, 1970, +Nixon clarified the extent of his earlier order and indicated +that toxins--chemicals that are not living organisms but +produced by living organisms--were considered bacteriological +weapons subject to his previous directive. Despite the +presidential order, a CIA scientist acquired around 11 grams +of a deadly shellfish toxin from SOD personnel at Fort +Detrick and stored it in a little-used CIA laboratory where +it remained, undetected, for over five years. +Another project, MKULTRA, provided for the research and +development of chemical, biological, and radiological +materials which could be employed in clandestine operations +to control human behavior. According to the Church +Committee, a CIA memo was uncovered which stated the purpose +of the project. The memo indicated that MKULTRA's purpose +was

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to develop a capability in the covert use of +biological and chemical materials...Aside from the +offensive potential, the development of a +comprehensive capability in this field of covert +chemical and biological warfare gives us a thorough +knowledge of the enemy's theoretical potential, +thus enabling us to defend ourselves against a foe +who might not be as restrained in the use of these +techniques as we are.

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Eighty-six universities or institutions were involved to some +extent in the project. +As early as 1947, the CIA had begun experimentation with +different types of mind-altering chemicals and drugs. One +Project, CHATTER, involved the testing of "truth drugs" for +interrogation and agent recruitment. The research included +laboratory experiments on animals and human volunteers +involving scopolamine, mescaline, and Anabasis aphylla in +order to determine their speech-inducing qualities. The +project, which was expanded substantially during the Korean +War, ended in 1953. +Another, more controversial, program involved testing +the hallucinogenic drug LSD on human subjects. LSD testing +by the CIA involved three phases. In the first phase, the +Agency administered LSD to 1000 soldiers who volunteered for +the testing. Agency scientists observed the subjects and +noted their reactions to the drug. In the second phase of +research, Material Testing Programme EA 1729, 95 volunteers +received LSD to test the potential intelligence-gathering +value of the drug. The third phase of the testing, Projects +THIRD CHANCE and DERBY HAT, involved the interrogation of +eighteen unwitting non-volunteers in Europe and the Far East +who had received LSD as part of operational field tests. +A tragic twist in the LSD experimentation occurred on +November 27, 1953. Dr. Frank Olson, a civilian employee of +the U.S. Army died following participation in a CIA +experiment with LSD. He unknowingly received 70 micrograms +of LSD which was placed in his drink by Dr. Robert Lashbrook, +a CIA officer, as part of an experiment. Shortly after the +experiment, Olson exhibited the symptoms of paranoia and +schizophrenia. Accompanied by Lashbrook, Olson began +visiting Dr. Harold Abrahamsom for psychological assistance. +Abrahamson's research on LSD had been funded indirectly by +the CIA. Olson jumped to his death from a ten-story window +in the Statler Hotel while receiving treatment. +It was disclosed by Senate Committees investigating the +activities of the CIA in 1977 that the Agency was involved in +testing drugs like LSD on "unwitting subjects in social +situations". In some situations, heroin addicts were enticed +into participating in order to get a reward--heroin. Perhaps +most disturbing of all is the fact that the extent of +experimentation on human subjects cannot readily be +determined, since the records of all MKULTRA activities were +destroyed in January 1973 at the instruction of then CIA +director Richard Helms. +At least one project undertaken by the CIA in 1950 was +aimed at finding ways to protect the security of agents in +the field. Project BLUEBIRD attempted to discover means of +conditioning personnel to prevent unauthorized extraction of +information from them by known means. The project +investigated the possibility of controlling an individual by +employing special interrogation techniques. BLUEBIRD also +looked into memory enhancement and ways to establish +defensive means against the hostile control of Agency +personnel. As a result of interrogations conducted overseas +during the project, another goal was established--the +evaluation of the offensive uses of unconventional +interrogation methods, including the use of hypnosis and +various drugs. +In August 1951, the project was renamed ARTICHOKE. +Project ARTICHOKE included "in-house experiments on +interrogation techniques, conducted 'under medical and +security controls which would ensure that no damage was done +to the individuals who volunteer for the experiments'". +Although the CIA maintains that the project ended in 1956, +evidence indicates that the Office of Security and Office of +Medical Services use of "special interrogation" techniques +continued for several years thereafter. +

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CHAPTER FOUR

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The National Security Act of July 1947 established the +CIA as it exists today. Under the Act, the CIA's mission was +loosely defined, since any efforts to flesh out its duties in +specific terms would have unduly limited the scope of its +activities. Therefore, under the Act, the CIA was charged to +perform five general tasks. The first is to advise the +National Security Council on matters relating to national +security. The second is to make recommendations to the NSC +regarding the coordination of intelligence activities of the +various departments. The third duty is to correlate and +evaluate intelligence data and provide for its appropriate +dissemination. Fourth, the CIA is to carry out "service of +common concern". Finally, the CIA is authorized "to perform +all other functions and duties related to intelligence +affecting the national security as the NSC will from time to +time direct...". +It is from this final directive that the wide-ranging +power to do everything from plotting political assassinations +and government overthrows to buying off local newspaper +owners and mining harbors has come. The wording of that +final directive has allowed presidents of the United States +to organize and use secret armies to achieve covertly the +policy aims that they are not able to achieve through overt +means. It allows presidents both present and future to use +the resources of the nation's top intelligence agency as they +see fit. +Now that we have become more educated regarding the +Central Intelligence Agency and some of its numerous +activities, we shall proceed to the main purpose of this +analysis. This work is intended to give the reader a clear +understanding of the types of covert operations in which the +CIA involves itself. We will then assess the effectiveness +of various techniques used by the Agency. Doing so will help +us draw conclusions about the proper scope of CIA activities +and will enable us to address questions about areas of +legitimate involvement by the CIA. We shall begin by looking +at a number of CIA covert operations since 1947.

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RADIO FREE EUROPE AND RADIO LIBERTY + +In 1949, the CIA founded the National Committee for a +Free Europe and the Committee for the Liberation of Peoples +of Russia. The immediate result of the establishment of +these two committees was the founding of two broadcasting +stations, Radio Free Europe in Munich and Radio Liberation. +These stations were staffed with emigres who broadcast to +their countrymen in their native languages. Radio +Liberation, which became Radio Liberty in 1956, was targeted +mainly at the Soviet Union and broadcast in fourteen +different languages. The main target of Radio Free Europe +was the satellite countries of Eastern Europe. The primary +advantage of the emigre staffs was that the broadcasters were +able to keep abreast of recent developments in their former +homelands by communicating to recent emigres and direct +contacts inside their native countries. As a result of the +close contact, broadcasters were able to speak knowledgeably +and intimately to their fellow countrymen. +The initial broadcasts by Radio Free Europe and Radio +Liberation were designed to intensify the passive resistance +of the people in the target countries in hopes that such +action would undermine European regimes by weakening the +control of the Communist party. The broadcasts were also +intended to give the targeted listeners the strength to hold +on to their hope for ultimate freedom. Later, after Stalin +died and relations between the East and West began to +improve, U.S. leaders began to realize that slow change was +more likely than a dramatic shift in power. Therefore, the +messages which were broadcast dwelt less on liberation and +more on themes involving political and social change. +In addition to broadcasting in Europe, the CIA used this +persuasive propaganda technique elsewhere, most notably, in +Cuba. In 1961, the Agency used a broadcasting station in +conjunction with other arrangements that were made to support +the invasion at the Bay of Pigs. The CIA used Radio Swan to +mislead the Cuban government, encourage the rebels, and to +make it seem like there was massive support for a rebellion +within Cuba.

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ECONOMIC COVERT ACTIVITIES: TAIWAN

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A good example of the positive type of economic covert +action is the success story of Taiwan. The Republic of China +is an example of the successful use of economic assistance +(especially in agriculture) to further the interests of the +United States. In Taiwan, early land reform gave ownership +of the land to those who worked it. Coupled with +technological guidance on modern farming techniques, the +system provided a praiseworthy model for other developing +countries. The introduction of miracle seeds and chemical +fertilizers helped to make Taiwan an economic showcase. +Around 1960, the U.S. came up with the idea of helping the +Chinese Nationalists set up food-growing demonstration +projects in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, where +both their techniques and personnel were suited to the task +of helping primitive agricultural societies. +The project in Taiwan was not only an economic aid +program helping to build prestige and political contacts for +the Nationalist Chinese, it also provided a demonstration of +what Chinese people working under a free market system were +capable of doing. The prosperity of the Taiwanese as seen +against the backdrop of the economic shortcomings of Mao's +programs on the mainland was the kind of creative propaganda +campaign that supported U.S. policies and principles. The +CIA's role was to use its contacts in the other developing +countries to explain the mutual benefits and get the +undertaking going. The economic assistance program that was +implemented could have been an overt one, but acknowledged +U.S. sponsorship would have caused some governments to shy +away from it. Furthermore, an overt pushing of the program +by the United States might have embarrassed Taiwan by giving +the impression that it was forced to do the job by the U.S. +Ray Cline, then a touring case officer for the CIA, +explained the project in "off the record talks with Chiang +Ching-kuo, the savvy son of Chiang Kai-shek, who was perhaps +the most far-sighted political leader in Taiwan." Cline +added,

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Ching-kuo grasped the concept immediately and saw +the benefits, as did other Taiwanese Foreign and +Agricultural policy officials. The program was +organized by the Chinese with a minimum of American +help and it worked well for about ten years. In +some regions, it continued to work even longer, and +everyone has profited from the program.

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Thus, the success of the program in Taiwan was a testimonial +to the potential for success for well planned economic covert +actions conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency.

+ +

OPERATION MONGOOSE

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In order to get a better idea of the kind of planning +that went into the assassination schemes devised by the CIA, +we will look at the case of Fidel Castro. In addition, at +the end of this work appears a number of messages that were +transmitted between the CIA station chief in Leopoldville and +headquarters in Washington regarding the CIA attempts to +assassinate Patrice Lumumba (Appendix II). Now let us look +at the story behind Operation Mongoose, the CIA plan to +eliminate Fidel Castro. +When Castro took power in Cuba in 1959, U.S. leadership +made it a top priority to remove him. According to Ray +Cline, former Deputy-Director of the CIA,

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The CIA had advocated the 'elimination of Fidel +Castro' as early as December 1959, and the matter +was discussed at Special Group meetings in January +and March of 1960. At an NSC meeting on March 10, +1960, terminology was used suggesting that the +assassination of Castro, his brother Raul, and Che +Guevara was at least theoretically considered.

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Describing the political climate by the time Kennedy took +office, Cline comments in his book Secrets, Spies, and +Scholars, "There was almost an obsession with Cuba on the +part of policy matters" and it was widely believed in the +Kennedy Administration "that the assassination of Castro by a +Cuban might have been viewed as not very different in the +benefits that would have accrued from the assassination of +Hitler in 1944." It should also be noted that after the +failure at the Bay of Pigs in 1961, the pride of the United +States was hurt and U.S. leaders wanted more than ever to +dispose of Castro. +The number of strategies devised by the CIA to carry out +the deed and the diversity of their applications illustrates +the creativity and shrewdness of planners within the agency. +Johnson points out a number of ingenious plots that were at +least considered by planners within the agency at one time or +another. This brief excerpt from his book is by no means an +exhaustive list.

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The several plots planned at CIA headquarters +included treating a box of Castro's favorite cigars +with a botulinum toxin so potent that it would +cause death immediately upon being placed to the +lips; concocting highly poisonous tablets that +would work quickly when immersed in just about +anything but boiling soup; contaminating a diving +suit with a fungus guaranteed to produce a chronic +skin disease called Madura foot and, through and +intermediary, offering the suit as a gift to +Castro; constructing an exotic seashell that could +be placed in reefs where Castro often went skin-diving and then exploded at the right moment from a +small submarine nearby; and providing an agent with +a ballpoint pen that contained a hypodermic needle +filled with the deadly poison Black-leaf 40 and had +so fine a point it could pierce the skin of the +victim without his knowledge.

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Perhaps more frightening than any of the above plots was +the revelation that the CIA also attempted to launch a plot +against Castro through its contacts with underworld figures +with connections in Cuba. The fact that the agency was +willing to resort to such desperate action illustrates the +desire of the men in charge in Washington to eliminate +Castro. One source told a reporter in 1962 that then +Attorney-General Robert Kennedy had stopped a deal between +the CIA and the Mafia to murder Fidel Castro. +The CIA asked a mobster named Roselli to go to Florida +on its behalf in 1961 and 1962 to organize assassination +teams of Cuban exiles who would infiltrate their homeland and +assassinate Castro. Rosselli called upon two other crime +figures, Sam Giancana, a mobster from Chicago, and the Costra +Nostra chieftain for Cuba, Santos Trafficante, to help him. +Giancana, using the name "Sam Gold" in his dealings with the +CIA, was on the Attorney General's "Ten Most Wanted +Criminals" list. +Castro was still permitting the Mafia gambling syndicate +to operate in Havana, for tourists only, and Trafficante +traveled back and forth between Havana and Miami in that +connection. The mobsters were authorized to offer $150000 +to anyone who would kill Castro and were promised any support +the Agency could yield. Giancana was to locate someone who +was close enough to Castro to be able to drop pills into his +food while Trafficante would serve as courier to Cuba, +helping to make arrangements for the murder on the island. +Rosselli was to be the main link between all of the +participants in the plot. +Fortunately for the CIA, the Attorney General intervened +before the plan was carried out. Had the plan succeeded and +it then become public knowledge that the CIA and the Mafia +worked together intimately to murder Castro, the startling +revelation might have been too much for the American public +to stomach. It most likely would have done serious damage to +the credibility of an agency which was already beginning to +rouse public suspicion.

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GUATEMALA: THE OVERTHROW OF ARBENZ

+ +

In 1951, leftist leader Juan Jose Arevalo was succeeded +by his minister of defense, Jacobo Arbenz, who continued to +pursue Arevalo's hard leftist policy both domestically and in +Foreign Affairs. The United States Government found Arbenz's +policy objectives unacceptable and cut off all military aid +to Guatemala. President Eisenhower encouraged the CIA to +overthrow the Arbenz government in 1954. +Arbenz had angered the Eisenhower Administration by +legalizing the Communist party and inviting it to join his +government. The real trigger for the action in Guatemala, +however, was Arbenz's brazen rejection on September 5, 1953, +of an American protest denouncing Guatemala's proposed +"expropriation " from the American owned United Fruit Company +of 355000 acres on the Pacific and 174000 acres on the +Atlantic side of the country. The protest said that the +$600000 in agrarian bonds proposed to be paid for these +acres "bears not the slightest resemblance to a true +evaluation." In addition, John Foster Dulles, who by that +time realized there would be no roll-back of communism in +Eastern Europe, was determined to block communist regimes +from taking power elsewhere in the world, and especially in +the Western Hemisphere. As a matter of fact, the Eisenhower +administration had earmarked $20 million for an operation +against Guatemala. +The U.S. put political and economic pressure on the +Arbenz government at the public level while the CIA +diligently worked behind the scenes. On the covert level, +the CIA began trying to convince top Guatemalan military +officers to defect while simultaneously launching a campaign +of radio and leaflet propaganda against Arbenz. The CIA +engineered a brilliant campaign (considered as much a +propaganda success as a paramilitary one) using small-scale +military action along with psychological warfare to cause +quite a disturbance in the Latin American country. +The main attempt by the CIA was to support a military +plot to overthrow the government that was already in +progress. Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas had begun plotting a +coup against the Arbenz regime in 1952 with the help of +leaders in Nicaragua and Honduras, and the encouragement of +the United Fruit Company. The CIA action was aimed mainly at +alienating the Guatemalan Army from Arbenz. CIA operatives +sought to attain this goal by inciting the Army through radio +broadcasts and other propaganda, and by supplying arms to the +insurgents. +The operation began on May 1, 1954, a Guatemalan +holiday. Steadily escalating psychological pressures were +brought to bear on the Arbenz government. It was no secret +that Castillo Armas was training an army of several hundred +men in Honduras, and the United States officially denounced +the Arbenz regime, leading the Guatemalan dictator to believe +that a large-scale U.S. effort to help overthrow him was +underway. Since the poorly equipped Guatemalan Army was no +match for a U.S.-backed invasion, Arbenz was alarmed and his +top advisors were divided over how to deal with the +situation. +On June 17, 1954, Colonel Castillo, using about 450 +troops, initiated a paramilitary operation against Arbenz +which ended on the 18th. Castillo and his men crossed over +into Guatemala from Honduras to attack the Arbenz government. +Castillo set-up camp six miles inside Guatemala, and his Air-Force, a mixed handful of B-26s and P-47 fighters, dropped +leaflets, made strafing runs in outlying districts, and +dropped a few bombs. The attacks were militarily +insignificant, but they contributed to the wide-spread fear +of all-out raids. +Meanwhile, the Voice of Liberation, the CIA-run +broadcasting station, was active around the clock, reporting +phantom "battles" and spreading rumors. Arbenz was bombarded +with conflicting reports. Without even one serious military +engagement having occurred, Arbenz found himself confused, +excited, undecided, and alone. +In mid-campaign, Castillo Armas had lost two of his +three P-47s without which he would be incapable of +maintaining a show of force. The United States negotiated +the "sale" of a number of planes to the Nicaraguan Air-Force. +Sorties were flown in the planes for Castillo Armas by CIA +pilots. +Arbenz was forced to flee, and on June 25, 1954, he +sought asylum in the Mexican Embassy. Two days later, he +resigned. A few days later, Castillo Armas, having taken +charge, arrived victorious in Guatemala on the plane of U.S. +Ambassador John Peurifoy. Peurifoy's wrote the following +jingle which appeared in Time magazine July 28, 1954, which +seemed to sum up nicely the U.S. attitude about the CIA-sponsored operation in Guatemala:

+ +

Sing a song of quetzals, pockets full of peace! +The junta's in the palace, they've taken out a lease. +The Commies are in hiding, just across the street; +To the embassy of Mexico they beat a quick retreat. +And pistol-packing Peurifoy looks mighty optimistic +For the land of Guatemala is no longer Communistic.

+ +

CUBA: THE BAY OF PIGS

+ +

As surely as the successful operation in Guatemala was an +example of how to conduct a covert action, the debacle in Cuba +was a primary example of what not to do. The disaster at the Bay +of Pigs in Cuba seriously altered the perception of the CIA's +ability to plan and conduct covert paramilitary operations. +Indeed, as Satish Kumar pointed out in his book The CIA in the +Third World: A Study in Crypto-Diplomacy, "it is certain that +the Cuban operation cast serious doubts as to the efficacy of +large-scale para-military operations as an instrument of covert +action." Says Harry Rositzke, a former CIA operative,

+ +

Para-military operations are the "noisiest" of all +covert actions. When they fail, they become public +fiascos, and no official denials are plausible. +The history of American para-military operations as +an element of America's containment policy is one +of almost uniform failure.

+ +

Such was the case with the ill-fated Bay of Pigs operation in +Cuba. +The idea of a Soviet-oriented communist dictatorship a mere +ninety miles from the United States was a grave concern for U.S. +leaders in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Neither President +Eisenhower nor his predecessor John Fitzgerald Kennedy were +pleased to have a neighbor with such undemocratic ideals. As +early as 1959, the CIA had advocated the elimination of Castro, +and as has already been pointed out, the Agency began an +operation (Operation MONGOOSE) aimed at accomplishing just that. +The alternative of initiating guerilla operations against +Castro had been abandoned by the CIA in 1960. Instead, +Eisenhower set-up a CIA-run program for training hundreds of +highly motivated anti-Castro Cuban refugees in the arts of +guerilla combat, planning to possibly use the force to overthrow +the Castro government. Vice President Richard Nixon was a strong +supporter of a program to topple the Castro regime, and +Eisenhower, upon the advice of the NSC Subcommittee responsible +for reviewing covert action schemes, approved the paramilitary +training project as a contingency plan, leaving the decision of +whether or not to execute it up to the incoming Kennedy +administration. +President Kennedy decided to go ahead with the plan after +taking office. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman William +Fulbright, upon learning of plans for the proposed invasion, sent +a memorandum to the White House that said that if American forces +were drawn into the battle in Cuba,

+ +

We would have undone the work of thirty years in +trying to live down earlier interventions...To give +this activity even covert support is of a piece +with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the +United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet +Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This +point will not be lost on the rest of the world nor +our own consciences. And remember always, the +Castro regime is a thorn in the side but not a +dagger in the heart.

+ +

The Senator's views were no doubt on Kennedy's mind when he +later declined to commit American troops after the invasion +began to fall apart. +The CIA trained some 1400 Cuban emigres for action +against Castro. Some of the Cubans were trained as ground +forces and the remainder as pilots. It was eventually +decided that the guerilla brigade would make an amphibious +landing in the Bay of Pigs. Air support for the operation +was to be supplied for the operation by emigre pilots flying +in American B-26s made up to look like Cuban Air Force +planes. This would help create the illusion that Castro's +own men were rebelling against him. On April 15, 1961, eight +U.S.-made planes conducted air strikes against three Cuban +air bases with the intention of destroying the Cuban Air +Force on the ground. These attempts proved to be +unsuccessful. The events that followed spelled disaster for +the Cuban guerrillas and the CIA. +When the invasion force landed at the Bay of Pigs, it +met considerably more resistance than had been expected. +Despite broadcasts by the CIA run Radio Swan, the Cuban +militia and citizens were not incited to rebel against the +Castro regime as the CIA had estimated. Instead, the Cuban +forces fought valiantly against the exile force. The Castro +Air Force, which had not been completely destroyed, began to +inflict severe damages on both the rebel air and ground +forces. For all intents and purposes, the invasion was over +almost as quickly as it had begun, with Castro's forces +easily quashing the rebellion. +Fatal to the operation were a number of bad breaks. +U.S. air cover that was to be provided for one hour at the +onset of the invasion never materialized because of a +miscommunication between the rebels and the U.S. Air Force. +The rebel Air Force sustained such heavy casualties that CIA +pilots had to fly missions in a futile attempt to salvage +the operation. As has already been mentioned, the Cuban +people did not react as had been expected, and without +popular support, the invasion had little chance of success. +Even before the operation was a confirmed failure, the CIA +cover story began to fall apart and later revelations about +U.S. involvement in the fiasco greatly embarrassed the United +States. +The Castro forces took more than eleven-hundred +prisoners during the fighting. Most of them were traded on +Christmas eve of 1962 to the United States for $10 million in +cash and $53 million in medicines, baby foods, and other +supplies and equipment exempted from the American embargo on +shipments to Cuba. Of the approximately 1300 guerrillas that +actually had gone ashore, 114 were killed during the three +fatal days of the operation. + +LAOS: THE SECRET ARMY

+ +

The CIA was involved in what has been regarded by many +experts as the most outstanding example of the depth and +magnitude of the clandestine operations of a major power in +the post-war period. What is being referred to is the CIA's +operations in Laos, known as the "secret army". The CIA's +"secret war" in Laos went on for over a decade, involving "a +military force of over 100000 men, and in which were dropped +over two million tons of bombs, as much as had been loosed on +all Europe and the Pacific Theatre in World War II". +The CIA involvement in Laos began with a presence in the +country in the late 1950s. Initially, the operation involved +air supply and paramilitary training of the Meo tribesmen to +help them defend their country against the North Vietnamese. +However, the operation gradually evolved into a full-scale +management of the ground war in Laos by the CIA. +According to Fred Branfman, what the CIA did in Laos was +very simple.

+ +

It created an army of its own, an army paid, +controlled, and directed by American CIA officials +entirely separately from the normal Laotian +government structure...Some troops from every +people in Southeast Asia were bought into Laos as +part of what became known as "the secret army". +The CIA trained the secret army; directed it in +combat; decided when it would fight; and had it +carry out espionage missions, assassinations of +military and civilian figures, and sabotage.

+ +

As was mentioned earlier, the U.S. dropped over two-million tons of bombs on Laos. The majority of those raids +were targeted by CIA officials, not Air Force officials. The +CIA officials worked at Udorn Air Force base. They were a +special team of photo reconnaissance people who, because the +CIA had men at Udorn and on the ground, bureaucratically +decided which targets would be bombed. +In Laos, the CIA put a great deal of emphasis on +psychological warfare. Americans were told in the early '60s +that the core of our program in Laos would be to win the +"minds and hearts" of the people. Indeed, a tremendous +attempt was made to do just that through land reform, +education, and economic assistance. However, by the time +President Nixon took office, winning the "hearts and minds" +of the people had failed and the emphasis was shifted to +controlling their behavior. The reasoning behind the shift +in emphasis was simple. Although the United States might not +be able to change the way the people thought, it could +certainly control their political behavior.

+ +

SOUTH VIETNAM: THE PHOENIX PROGRAM

+ +

Another country in Asia in which the CIA found itself +heavily involved was Vietnam. From 1962-1965, the CIA worked +with the South Vietnamese government to organize police +forces and paramilitary units. After 1965, the CIA became +engaged in a full-scale paramilitary assistance program to +the South Vietnamese Government. The CIA commitment +paralleled the growing U.S. commitment to South Vietnam. +Perhaps one of the most grisly of all CIA paramilitary +operations in any country was the Phoenix Program, which was +initiated in South Vietnam in 1968. The program was +originally designed to "neutralize", assassinate, or imprison +members of the civilian infrastructure of the National +Liberation Front (NLF). Offices were set up from Saigon all +the way down to the district level. CIA advisors were +present at every level. The function of the Phoenix offices +was to collate intelligence about the "Vietcong +infrastructure", interrogate civilians picked up at random by +military units carrying out sweeps through villages, and +"neutralize" targeted members of the NLF. The task of +"neutralizing" NLF members was carried out by CIA-led South +Vietnamese soldiers, organized into Provincial Reconnaissance +Units. +The original concept of the Phoenix Program was quickly +diluted for two major reasons. One was that the pressure +from the top to fill numerical quotas of persons to be +neutralized was very great. The second was the difficulties +encountered at the bottom levels in identifying members of +the NLF civilian infrastructure who were often +indistinguishable from the general population. The end +result of these two problems was an increase in the numbers +of innocent persons rounded up, detained, imprisoned, and +murdered in an effort to show results. +William Colby, the director of the Phoenix Program, +testified before Congress in 1971 that Phoenix was an +American responsibility:

+ +

The Americans had a great deal to do with starting +the program...we had a great deal to do in terms of +developing the ideas, discussing the need, +developing some of the procedures, and so +forth...maybe more than half the initiative came +from us originally.

+ +

+According to Fred Branfman, high-ranking American +officials in South Vietnam bear the sole responsibility for +the practice of setting quotas of civilians to be rounded up +under the program each month. Branfman continues, "The +United States clearly set quotas in an attempt to force the +GVN (Government of South Vietnam) officials into something +they preferred not to undertake". As a matter of fact, +Vietnam Information Notes, published by the U.S. State +Department in July 1969 reported that, "The target for 1969 +calls for the elimination of 1800 VCI per month" as +fulfillment of the quotas set by those running the Phoenix +Program. +The CIA-backed Phoenix Program assassinated and jailed +large numbers of Vietnamese civilians without evidence of +judicial procedure. This fact was confirmed by Colby in an +admission to Representative Reid in his July 1971 testimony +before Congress. According to Colby, the Phoenix Program had +resulted in the deaths of 20587 persons as of May 1971. +That number, proportionate to population, would have totaled +over 200000 Americans deliberately assassinated over a +three-year period had Phoenix been conducted in the United +States.

+ +

CHILE: ACTIVITIES AGAINST ALLENDE

+ +

A good example of the CIA's use of the type of political +action mentioned above is the Agency's involvement in the +internal political affairs of Chile beginning in 1963 and +reaching a climax in 1973. In 1964, the United States became +involved in a covert assistance program to Eduardo Frei in +his campaign for the presidency of Chile. Frei was running +against Salvador Allende, a candidate disliked by U.S. +leaders for his leftist leanings. The CIA had judged +previously that Frei would come to power regardless, with a +plurality of the vote, and the assistance given by it to Frei +was supposedly to help strengthen the Democratic process in +Chile. Although Frei won the election, the United States +continued to meddle in the internal affairs of Chile for +another nine years. +The largest covert operation in Chile from 1963-1973 was +propaganda. The CIA station in Santiago placed materials in +the Chilean media, maintained a number of assets or agents on +major Chilean newspapers, radio, and television stations, and +manufactured and disseminated "black" propaganda. Examples +of CIA activities ranged from support of the establishment of +a commercial television service in Chile to the placement of +anti-Soviet propaganda on eight radio news stations and in +five provincial newspapers. The most significant +contribution in this area of covert activity was the money +provided to El Mercurio, the major Santiago daily newspaper +during the Allende regime. The CIA spent over $12 million on +the Chilean operation. +Another category of CIA involvement in Chile was that of +political action. The most impressive of these actions +undertaken was the massive effort made from 1963 to 1974 to +influence elections. The CIA spent over $3 million in +election programs alone. In addition to attempting to +influence elections, the Agency combatted the principle +Communist-dominated labor union in Chile and wrested control +of Chilean university student organizations from the +Communists. +As was discussed earlier, the United States never liked +Salvador Allende, and in 1970, the CIA began covert political +operations against the government of Allende under express +orders from President Richard Nixon and his National Security +Assistant, Dr. Henry Kissinger. Both the CIA and the State +Department were apparently reluctant to become involved in +what appeared to be an infeasible program to keep President +Salvador Allende out of office, even though he had won by +plurality in the September, 1970 election. +Nevertheless, the President and Mr. Kissinger directed +the CIA, much against its officers' better judgments, to +stage a coup in Chile. The project never developed into +anything substantial. However, the CIA provided large sums +of money (around $8 million) to support parliamentary +opposition to Allende and to keep alive an opposition press. +For all its efforts, the CIA was unsuccessful in defeating +Allende although on September 11, 1973, he was overthrown in +a coup which, though not under U.S. control, may well have +been caused by U.S. anti-Allende pressures.

+ +

CHAPTER FIVE

+ +

A major requirement of covert operations over the years +has been that in the event something goes wrong, the +president, as head of state in the U.S., should be able to +believably deny any knowledge of the clandestine activity. +This concept is known as plausible deniability and it has +been a cornerstone in the foundation of presidential +decisions to authorize covert operations. The misconception +that plausible deniability is a valid method of concealing +U.S. involvement in covert activities has led to a number of +problems over the years. +The doctrine of plausible deniability led to many of the +widespread abuses of power that occurred in the CIA before +the Intelligence Reform Era in the mid-1970s. It led the +agency to believe that CIA officers had a green light to +conduct almost any actions they saw fit to reach their goals. +McGeorge Bundy, a former Special Assistant for National +Security Affairs to President's Kennedy and Johnson, has +stated:

+ +

While in principle it has always been the +understanding of senior government officials +outside the CIA that no covert operations would be +undertaken without the explicit approval of "higher +authority", there has also been a general +expectation within the Agency that it was proper +business to generate attractive proposals and to +stretch them, in operation, to the furthest limit +of any authorization actually received.

+ +

It is easy to see how this misperception on the part of +the CIA developed. A president, hoping to pursue his goals, +would communicate his desire for a sensitive operation +indirectly, thereby creating sort of a "blank check". CIA +officers, intending to carry out the wishes of the president, +would then set about furthering the expressed desires of the +Commander in Chief. However, instead of informing the +president of the progress of the covert planning, the +officers would be tempted to keep him unaware of it, thereby +enabling him to "plausibly deny" any knowledge of the scheme. +Darrel Garwood, the author of a comprehensive work on +CIA activities entitled Under Cover writes,

+ +

"Plausible deniability" could be regarded as one of +the most wretched theories ever invented. Its +application...was based on the idea that in an +unholy venture a president could be kept so +isolated from events that when exposure came he +could truthfully emerge as shiningly blameless. In +practice, whether he deserved it or not, a +president almost always had to take the blame for +whatever happened.

+ +

Also, as the Senate Intelligence Committee pointed out about +plausible deniability, "this concept...has been expanded to +mask decisions of the President and his senior staff +members." +A recent example of how problems linked to this concept +can occur is the so-called "Iran-Contra Affair" which made +the headlines in late 1986 and earlier this year. The fiasco +was an embarrassing illustration of the example which was +discussed above. Although the CIA itself was not directly +implicated in the scandal, Colonel Oliver North and other +members of the government were discovered to have been +carrying out the aims of the President--by channeling funds +from arms sales to Iran to the Contras in Nicaragua-- +supposedly without his knowledge. Whether or not President +Reagan actually knew about the diversion of funds is unclear, +but in any event, top level planners of the operation +believed that the President would be able to plausibly deny +any knowledge of the diversion of funds. However, because of +the intense scrutiny placed upon the operation by the media +and Congress, President Reagan was unable to convince them +and the country as a whole that he had no knowledge of the +diversion. As the president and his men learned the hard +way, "inevitably, the truth prevails and policies pursued on +the premise that they could be plausibly denied in the end +damage America's reputation and the faith of her people in +their government". +One of the major reasons that the CIA has gone astray +over the last forty years is the veritable freedom from any +type of control or restriction that it has enjoyed. Though +Congress investigated the activities of the Agency in 1975 +and subsequently instituted more stringent oversight +procedures, the CIA of today is once again an agency that is +able to do almost as it pleases. The strictures placed on +the CIA by the Ford and Carter Administrations were relaxed +in 1981 when Ronald Reagan took office. To understand how +the Agency has become so omnipotent since 1947 will require a +look back to a time when the Agency really did as it pleased. +To get an idea of the characteristics of the men in the +Agency during its first three decades, we shall look at a +description of CIA case officers.

+ +

CIA men abroad were called case officers within the +organization. As individuals, they were generally +efficient, dedicated, highly motivated and +incorruptible. The trouble in the CIA was likely +to be that, for anything short of the meanest of +all-out wars, they were too highly motivated. A +severe beating administered to a reluctant +informant, or the assassination of a would-be left-wing dictator, could seem trivial to them in the +light of their goal of outscoring the nation's +potential enemies. And naturally, until one +happened, they could not imagine a nationwide furor +over actions which to them seemed unimportant.

+ +

In a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors +in April, 1971, then DCI Richard Helms said, "The nation must +to a degree take it on faith that we too are honorable men, +devoted to her service." +CIA officials were not the only ones who believed that +the CIA could be trusted to carry out the objectives of the +United States Government. The Agency had a number of +champions in the Congress of the United States as well. +Feelings about the sanctity of sensitive information dealt +with by the Agency led to wide support for a laissez faire +policy in Congress regarding the CIA. For example, Richard +Russell, the Democratic Senator from Georgia, once gave the +following explanation of why he led the fight against a +resolution to provide for closer Congressional surveillance +of the CIA.

+ +

Russell noted that the statement had been made on +the floor that the Armed Services subcommittee of +which he was a member had not revealed to the +country what it had learned about CIA operations.

+ +

"No, Mr. President," Russell said, "we have not +told the country, and I do not propose to tell the +country in the future, because if there is anything +in the United States which should be held sacred +behind the curtain of classified matter, it is +information regarding the activities of this +agency...It would be better to abolish it out of +hand than it would be to adopt a theory that such +information should be spread and made available to +every member of Congress and to the members of the +staff of any committee.

+ +

With such a powerful man and others like him on its side, it +is small wonder that the CIA got away with the things that it +did prior to 1975. +CIA officers cleverly played upon the fears of Congress +to consolidate the power of the Agency. Former CIA director +Allen Dulles, speaking before a Congressional committee, +warned, +Any investigation, whether by a congressional +committee or any other body, which results in +disclosure of our secret activities and operations +or uncovers our personnel, will help a potential +enemy just as if the enemy had been able to +infiltrate his own agents right into our shop.

+ +

Such statements led Senators like John Stennis to comment, +"If you are going to have an intelligence agency, you have to +protect it as such...and shut your eyes some, and take what's +coming".

+ +

Appendix I

+ +

The following is a partial list of United States Covert +action abroad to impose or restore favorable political +conditions, 1946-1983. The list was prepared by Tom Gervasi +of the Center for Military Research and Analysis in 1984, and +it was compiled using information available in the public +domain.

+ +

1946: GREECE. Restore monarch after overthrow of Metaxas +government. Successful.

+ +

1946-1955: WEST GERMANY. Average of $6 million annually to +support former Nazi intelligence network of General +Reinhard Gehlen. Successful.

+ +

1948-1968: ITALY. Average of $30 million annually in +payments to political and labor leaders to supportanti-Communist candidates in Italian elections. Successful.

+ +

1949: GREECE. Military assistance to anti-Communist forces +in Greek civil war. Successful.

+ +

1949-1953: UKRAINE. Organize and support a Ukrainian +resistance movement. Unsuccessful.

+ +

1949-1961: BURMA. Support 12000 Nationalist China troops +in Burma under General Li Mi as an incursion force into +People's Republic of China. Unsuccessful.

+ +

1950-1952: POLAND. Financial and military assistance for +Polish Freedom and Independence Movement. Unsuccessful.

+ +

1950: ALBANIA. Overthrow government of Enver Hoxha. +Unsuccessful.

+ +

1951-1954: CHINA. Airdrop guerilla teams into People's +Republic of China. Unsuccessful.

+ +

1953: IRAN. Overthrow Mossadegh government and install +Zahedi. Cost: $10 million. Successful.

+ +

1953: PHILLIPINES. Assassination and propaganda campaign to +overcome Huk resistance and install government of Ramon +Magsaysay. Successful.

+ +

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+ +

1953: COSTA RICA. Overthrow government of Jose Figueres. +Unsuccessful.

+ +

1954: SOUTH VIETNAM. Install government of Ngo Dinh Diem. +Successful.

+ +

1954: WEST GERMANY. Arrange abduction and discreditation of +West German intelligence chief Otto John, and replace +with Reinhard Gehlen. Successful. + +1954: GUATEMALA. Overthrow government of Jacobo Arbenz +Guzman and replace with Carlos Castillo Armas. +Successful.

+ +

1955: CHINA. Assassinate Zhou Enlai en route to Bandung +Conference. Unsuccessful.

+ +

1956: HUNGARY. Financial and military assistance to +organize and support a Hungarian resistance movement, +and broad propaganda campaign to encourage it. +Unsuccessful.

+ +

1956: CUBA. Establish anti-Communist police force, Buro de +Represion Actividades Communistas (BRAC) under Batista +regime. Successful.

+ +

1956: EGYPT. Overthrow Nasser government. Unsuccessful. + +1956: SYRIA. Overthrow Ghazzi government. Aborted by +Israeli invasion of Egypt.

+ +

1956-1957: JORDAN. Average of $750000 annually in personal +payments to King Hussein. According to United States +government, payments ceased when disclosed in 1976.

+ +

1957: LEBANON. Financial assistance for the election of +pro-American candidates to Lebanese Parliament. +Successful.

+ +

1958: INDONESIA. Financial and military assistance, +including B-26 bombers, for revel forces attempting to +overthrow Sukarno government. Unsuccessful.

+ +

1958-1961: TIBET. Infiltrate Tibetan guerrillas trained in +United States to fight Chinese Communists. Unsuccessful.

+ +

1959: CAMBODIA. Assassinate Prince Norodum Shianouk. +Unsuccessful.

+ +

1960: GUATEMALA. Military assistance, including the use of +B-26 bombers for government of Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes +to defeat rebel forces. Successful.

+ +

1960: ANGOLA. Financial and military assistance to rebel +forces of Holden Roberto. Inconclusive.

+ +

1960: LAOS. Military assistance, including 400 United +States Special Forces troops, to deny the Plain of Jars +bad Mekong Basin to Pathet Lao. Inconclusive.

+ +

1961-1965: LAOS. Average of $300 million annually to +recruit and maintain L'Armee Clandestine of 35000 Hmong +and Meo tribesmen and 17000 Thai mercenaries in support +of government of Phoumi Nosavan to resist Pathet Lao. +Successful.

+ +

1961-1963: CUBA. Assassinate Fidel Castro. Six attempts in +this period. Unsuccessful.

+ +

1961: CUBA. Train and support invasion force of Cuban +exiles to overthrow Castro government, and assist their +invasion at the Bay of Pigs. Cost: $62 million. +Unsuccessful.

+ +

1961: ECUADOR. Overthrow government of Hose Velasco Ibarra. +Successful.

+ +

1961: CONGO. Precipitate conditions leading to +assassination of Patrice Lumumba. Successful.

+ +

1961: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Precipitate conditions leading to +assassination of Rafael Trujillo. Successful.

+ +

1961-1966: CUBA. Broad sabotage program, including +terrorist attacks on coastal targets and bacteriological +warfare, in effort to weaken Castro government. +Unsuccessful.

+ +

1962: THAILAND. Brigade of 5000 United States Marines to +resist threat to Thai government from Pathet Lao. +Successful.

+ +

1962-1964: BRITISH GUIANA. Organize labor strikes and riots +to overthrow government of Cheddi Jagan. Successful.

+ +

1962-1964: BRAZIL. Organize campaign of labor strike and +propaganda to overthrow government of Joao Goulart. +Successful.

+ +

1963: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Overthrow government of Juan +Bosch in military coup. Successful.

+ +

1963: SOUTH VIETNAM. Precipitate conditions leading to +assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem. Successful.

+ +

1963: ECUADOR. Overthrow government of Carlos Julio +Arosemena. Successful.

+ +

1963-1984: EL SALVADOR. Organize ORDEN and ANSESAL domestic +intelligence networks under direction of General Jose +Alberto Medrano and Colonel Nicolas Carranza, and +provide intelligence support and training in +surveillance, interrogation and assassination +techniques. Successful.

+ +

1963-1973: IRAQ. Financial and military assistance for +Freedom Party of Mulla Mustafa al Barzani in effort to +establish independent Kurdistan. Unsuccessful.

+ +

1964: CHILE. $20 million in assistance for Eduardo Frei to +defeat Salvador Allende in Chilean elections.Successful.

+ +

1964: BRAZIL, GUATEMALA, URUGUAY, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. +Provide training in assassination and interrogation +techniques for police and intelligence personnel. +Inconclusive.

+ +

1964: CONGO. Financial and military assistance, including +B-26 and T-28 aircraft, and American and exiled Cuban +pilots, for Joseph Mobutu and Cyril Adoula, and later +for Moise Tshombe in Katanga, to defeat rebel forces +loyal to Lumumba. Successful.

+ +

1964-1967: SOUTH VIETNAM. Phoenix Program to eliminate Viet +Cong political infrastructure through more than 20000 +assassinations. Infiltrated by Viet Cong and only +partially successful.

+ +

1964-1971: NORTH VIETNAM. Sabotage and ambush missions +under Operations Plan 34A by United States Special +Forces and Nung tribesmen. Inconclusive.

+ +

1965-1971: LAOS. Under Operations Shining Brass and Prairie +Fire, sabotage and ambush missions by United States +Special Forces personnel and Nung and Meo tribesmen +under General Bang Pao. Inconclusive.

+ +

1965: THAILAND. Recruit 17000 mercenaries to support +Laotian government of Phoumi Nosavan resisting Pathet +Lao. Successful. +1965: PERU. Provide training in assassination and +interrogation techniques for Peruvian police and +intelligence personnel, similar to training given in +Uruguay, Brazil and Dominican Republic, in effort to +defeat resistance movement. Unsuccessful.

+ +

1965: INDONESIA. Organize campaign of propaganda to +overthrow Sukarno government, and precipitate conditions +leading to massacre of more than 500000 members of +Indonesian Communist Party, in order to eliminate +opposition to new Suharto government. Successful.

+ +

1967: BOLIVIA. Assist government in capture of Ernesto Che +Guevara. Successful.

+ +

1967: GREECE. Overthrow government of George Papandreou and +install military government of Colonel George +Papadopolous after abdication of King Constantine. +Successful.

+ +

1967-1971: CAMBODIA. Under Projects Daniel Boone and Salem +House, sabotage and ambush missions by United States +Special Forces personnel and Meo tribesmen. +Inconclusive.

+ +

1969-1970: CAMBODIA. Bombing campaign to crush Viet Cong +sanctuaries in Cambodia. Unsuccessful.

+ +

1970: CAMBODIA. Overthrow government of Prince Norodom +Sihanouk. Successful.

+ +

1970-1973: CHILE. Campaign of assassinations, propaganda, +labor strikes and demonstrations to overthrow government +of Salvador Allende. Cost: $8400000. Successful.

+ +

1973-1978: AFGHANISTAN. Military and financial assistance +to government of Mohammed Duad to resist rise to power +of Noor Mohammed Taraki. Unsuccessful.

+ +

1975: PORTUGAL. Overthrow government of General Vasco dos +Santos Goncalves. Successful.

+ +

1975: ANGOLA. Military assistance to forces of Holden +Roberto and Jonas Savimbi to defeat forces of Popular +Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) during +Angolan civil war, and prevent MPLA from forming new +government. Unsuccessful.

+ +

1975: AUSTRALIA. Propaganda and political pressure to force +dissolution of labor government of Gough Whitlam. +Successful. +1976: JAMAICA. Military coup to overthrow government of +Michael Manley. Unsuccessful.

+ +

1976-1984: ANGOLA. Financial and military assistance to +forces of Jonas Savimbi to harass and destabilize Neto +and succeeding governments. Inconclusive.

+ +

1979: IRAN. Install military government to replace Shah and +resist growth of Moslem fundamentalism. Unsuccessful.

+ +

1979-1980: JAMAICA. Financial pressure to destabilize +government of Michael Manley, and campaign propaganda +and demonstrations to defeat it in elections. +Successful.

+ +

1979: AFGHANISTAN. Military aid to rebel forces of Zia +Nezri, Zia Khan Nassry, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Sayed Ahmed +Gailani and conservative mullahs to overthrow government +of Hafizullah Amin. Aborted by Soviet intervention and +installation of new government.

+ +

1980-1984: AFGHANISTAN. Continuing military aid to same +rebel groups to harass Soviet occupation forces and +challenge legitimacy of government of Babrak Karmal.

+ +

1979: SEYCHELLES. Destabilize government of France Albert +Rene. Successful.

+ +

1980: GRENADA. Mercenary coup to overthrow government of +Maurice Bishop. Successful.

+ +

1980: DOMINICA. Financial support to Freedom Party of +Eugenia Charles to defeat Oliver Seraphim in Dominican +elections. Successful.

+ +

1980: GUYANA. Assassinate opposition leader Walter Rodney +to consolidate power of government of Forbes Burnham. +Successful.

+ +

1980-1984: NICARAGUA. Military assistance to Adolfo Colero +Portocarrero, Alfonso Robelo, Alfonso Callejas, Fernando +Chamorro Rappacioli, Eden Pastora Gomez, Adrianna +Guillen, Steadman Fagoth and former Somoza National +Guard officers, to recruit, train and equip anti-Sandinista forces for sabotage and terrorist incursions +into Nicaragua from sanctuaries in Honduras and Costa +Rica, in effort to destabilize government of Daniel +Ortega Saavedra.

+ +

1981: SEYCHELLES. Military coup to overthrow government of +France Albert Rene. Unsuccessful. +1981-1982: MAURITIUS. Financial support to Seewoosagar +Ramgoolam to bring him to power in 1982 elections. +Unsuccessful.

+ +

1981-1984: LIBYA. Broad campaign of economic pressure, +propaganda, military maneuvers in Egypt, Sudan and Gulf +of Sidra, and organization if Libyan Liberation Front +exiles to destabilize government of Muammar Qaddafi. +Inconclusive.

+ +

1982: CHAD. Military assistance to Hissen Habre to +overthrow government of Goukouni Oueddei. Successful.

+ +

1982: GUATEMALA. Military coup to overthrow government of +Angel Anibal Guevara. Successful.

+ +

1982: BOLIVIA. Military coup to overthrow government of +Celso Torrelio. Successful.

+ +

1982: JORDAN. Military assistance to equip and train two +Jordanian brigades as an Arab strike force to implement +United States policy objectives without Israeli +assistance.

+ +

1982-1983: SURINAM. Overthrow government of Colonel Desi +Bouterse. Three attempts in this period. Unsuccessful.

+ +

1984: EL SALVADOR. $1.4 million in financial support for +the Presidential election campaign of Jose Napoleon +Duarte. Successful. Appendix II + +The Congo 1960: State Terrorism and Foreign Policy*

+ +

A 1975 report of the Church Committee entitled "Alleged +Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders" provides a +rare inside account of how such operations are planned and +carried out--in this case, the CIA's attempt to assassinate +Patrice Lumumba in the Congo in 1960. Lumumba, a popular +politician considered pro-Soviet by U.S. policymakers, had +briefly served as prime minister after the Congo gained its +independence from Belgium in June of that year. According to +the Senate report, "It is likely that President +Eisenhower's...strong...concern about Lumumba...was taken by +[CIA director] Allen Dulles as authority to assassinate +Lumumba." CIA officials ordered a staff scientist (code-named "Joe") to prepare "toxic biological materials" that +would "produce a disease...indigenous to that area [of +Africa]" and to deliver the poison to the CIA station chief +in Leopoldville, who was to assassinate Lumumba. But before +the station chief could carry out his orders, Lumumba was +captured by the forces of Joseph Mobutu, the U.S. supported +nationalist leader who is still dictator of the country, and +delivered to his archenemies in Katanga, where he was +murdered. Following are excerpts from the cables, published +by the committee, that were exchanged by CIA headquarters in +Washington and the officers in the Congo.

+ +

August 18, 1960. Station chief, Leopoldville, to CIA +headquarters:

+ +

EMBASSY AND STATION BELIEVE CONGO EXPERIENCING CLASSIC +COMMUNIST EFFORT TAKEOVER GOVERNMENT...DECISIVE PERIOD NOT +FAR OFF. WHETHER OR NOT LUMUMBA ACTUALLY COMMIE OR JUST +PLAYING COMMIE GAME TO ASSIST HIS SOLIDIFYING POWER, ANTI-WEST FORCES RAPIDLY INCREASING POWER CONGO AND THERE MAY BE +LITTLE TIME LEFT IN WHICH TO TAKE ACTION TO AVOID ANOTHER +CUBA.

+ +

August 26. Headquarters to Leopoldville:

+ +

IN HIGH QUARTERS HERE IT IS THE CLEAR-CUT CONCLUSION THAT IF +[LUMUMBA] CONTUNUES TO HOLD HIGH OFFICE, THE INEVITABLE +RESULT WILL...AT WORST PAVE THE WAY TO COMMUNIST +TAKEOVER...WITH DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES..FOR THE INTERESTS OF

+ +

*This excerpt appeared in Harper's Magazine in October 1984. +THE FREE WORLD GENERALLY. CONSEQUENTLY WE CONCLUDE THAT HIS +REMOVAL MUST BE AN URGENT AND PRIME OBJECTIVE...OF OUR COVERT +ACTION...TO THE EXTENT THAT AMBASSADOR MAY DESIRE TO BE +CONSULTED, YOU SHOULD SEEK HIS CONCURRENCE. IF IN ANY +PARTICULAR CASE, HE DOES NOT WISH TO BE CONSULTED YOU CAN ACT +ON YOUR AUTHORITY...

+ +

September 19. Headquarters to Leopoldville, announcing the +arrival of the poison:

+ +

["JOE"] SHOULD ARRIVE APPROX. 27 SEPT...WILL ANNOUNCE HIMSELF +AS "JOE FROM PARIS"...URGENT YOU SHOULD SEE ["JOE"] +SOONEST...HE WILL FULLY IDENTIFY HIMSELF AMD EXPLAIN HIS +ASSIGNMENT TO YOU. ALL CABLE TRAFFIC THIS OP...HOLD ENTIRELY +TO YOURSELF.

+ +

October 7. Leopoldville to headquarters:

+ +

[JOE] LEFT CERTAIN ITEMS OF CONTINUING USEFULNESS. [STATION +OFFICER] PLANS CONTINUE TRY IMPLEMENT OP.

+ +

October 15. Headquarters to Leopoldville:

+ +

POSSIBLE USE COMMANDO TYPE GROUP FOR ABDUCTIOM +[LUMUMBA]...VIA ASSAULT ON HOUSE...

+ +

October 17. Leopoldville to headquarters:

+ +

NOT BEEN ABLE PENETRATE ENTOURAGE...RECOMMEND HQS POUCH +SOONEST HIGH POWERED FOREIGN MAKE RIFLE WITH TELESCOPIC SCOPE +AND SILENCER. HUNTING GOOD HERE WHEN LIGHT IS RIGHT.

+ +

November 14. Leopoldville to headquarters:

+ +

TARGET HAS NOT LEFT BUILDING IN SEVERAL WEEKS. HOUSE GUARDED +DAY AND NIGHT...TARGET HAS DISMISSED MOST OF SERVANTS SO +ENTRY THIS MEANS SEEMS REMOTE.

+ +

January 13. Fearing that Lumumba, who had been imprisoned by +Mobutu's forces in December, would soon be freed by his +supporters and seize power, Leopoldville cables headquarters:

+ +

THE COMBINATION OF [LUMUMBA'S] POWERS AS DEMAGOGUE, HIS ABLE +USE OF OF GOON SQUADS AND PROPAGANDA AND SPIRIT OF DEFEAT +WITHIN [GOVERNMENT]...WOULD ALMOST CERTAINLY INSURE [LUMUMBA] +VICTORY IN PARLIAMENT...REFUSAL TAKE DRASTIC STEPS AT THIS +TIME WILL LEAD TO DEFEAT OF [UNITED STATES] POLICY IN CONGO.

+ +

January 17. Mobutu and his ally Joseph Kasavubu send Lumumba +to his enemies in Katanga province, the forces of local +leader Moise Tshombe. Two days later, the CIA base chief in +Elizabethville cables headquarters:

+ +

THANKS FOR PATRICE. IF WE HAD KNOWN HE WAS COMING WE WOULD +HAVE BAKED A SNAKE. + +A U.N. inquiry later concluded Lumumba was killed by his +enemies on or shortly after his arrival in Katanga. The +Church Committee investigation found that "the toxic +substances were never used. But there is, however, no +suggestion of a connection between the assassination plot and +the events which actually led to Lumumba's death".

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY +WASHINGTON 25, D. C.

+ +

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR 25 APR 1956 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

MEMORANDUM FOR: The honorable J. Edgar Hoover +Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

+ +

SUBJECT : Brainwashing

+ +

The attached study on brainwashing was prepared by my +staff in response to the increasing acute interest in the +subject throughout the intelligence and security components +of the Government. I feel you will find it well worth your +personal attention. It represents the thinking of leading psychologists, psychiatrists and intelligence specialists, based +in turn on interviews with many individuals who have had +personal experience with Communist brainwashing, and on +extensive research and testing. While individuals specialists +hold divergent views on various aspects of this most complex +subject, I believe the study reflects a synthesis of majority +expert opinion. I will, of course, appreciate any comments +on it that you or your staff may have.

+ +

(signed) +Allen W. Dulles +Director

+ +

ENCLOSURE

+ +

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+ +

A REPORT ON COMMUNIST BRAINWASHING

+ +

The report that follows is a condensation of a study by training experts of the important classified and unclassified information +available on this subject.

+ +

BACKGROUND

+ +

Brainwashing, as a technique, has been used for centuries and +is no mystery to psychologists. In this sense, brainwashing means +involuntary re-education of basic beliefs and values. All people +are being re-educated continually. New information changes one's +beliefs. Everyone has experienced to some degree the conflict that +ensues when new information is not consistent with prior belief. +The experience of the brainwashed individual differs in that the inconsistent information is forced upon the individual under controlled +conditions after the possibility of critical judgment has been removed by a variety of methods.

+ +

There is no question that an individual can be broken psychologically by captors with knowledge and willingness to persist in techniques aimed at deliberately destroying the integration of a personality. Although it is probable that everyone reduced to such a confused, +disoriented state will respond to the introduction of new beliefs, this +cannot be stated dogmatically.

+ +

PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN CONTROL AND REACTION TO CONTROL

+ +

There are progressive steps in exercising control over an individual and changing his behaviour and personality integration. The following five steps are typical of behaviour changes in any controlled +individual:

+ +

1. Making the individual aware of control is the first stage in +changing his behaviour. A small child is made aware of the physical +and psychological control of his parents and quickly recognizes that +an overwhelming force must be reckoned with. So, a controlled adult +comes to recognize the overwhelming powers of the state and the impersonal, "incarcerative" machinery in which he is enmeshed. The individual recognizes that definite limits have been put upon the ways +he can respond.

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2. Realization of his complete dependence upon the controlling system is a major factor in the controlling of his behavior.The controlled adult is forced to accept the fact that food, tobacco,praise, +and the only social contact that he will get come from the very interrogator who exercises control over him. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

3. The awareness of control and recognition of dependence result in causing internal conflict and breakdown of previous patterns +of behaviour. Although this transition can be relatively mild in +the case of a child, it is almost invariably severe for the adult +undergoing brainwashing. Only an individual who holds his values +lightly can change them easily. Since the brainwasher-interrogators +aim to have the individuals undergo profound emotional change, they +force their victims to seek out painfully what is desired by the +controlling individual. During this period the victim is likely to +have a mental breakdown characterized by delusions and hallucinations.

+ +

4. Discovery that there is an acceptable solution to his problem is the first stage of reducing the individual's conflict. It +is characteristically reported by victims of brainwashing that this +discovery led to an overwhelming feeling of relief that the horror +of internal conflict would cease and that perhaps they would not, +after all, be driven insane. It is at this point that they are prepared to make major changes in their value-system. This is an +automatic rather than voluntary choice. They have lost their ability to be critical.

+ +

5. Reintergration of values and identification with the controlling system is the final stage in changing the behaviour of the +controlled individual. A child who has learned a new, socially desirable behaviour demonstrates its importance by attempting to asapt the new behaviour to a variety of other situations. Similar +states in the brainwashed adult are

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pitiful. His new value-system, his manner of perceiving,organizing,and +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +giving meaning to events, is virtually independent of his former value-system.He is no longer capable of thinking or speaking in concepts other +than those he has adopted. He tends to identify by expressing thanks to +his captors for helping him see the light.Brainwashing can be achieved +without using illegal means.Anyone willing to use known principles of +control and reactions to control and capable of demonstrating the patience +needed in raising a child can probably achieve successful brainwashing.

+ +

COMMUNIST CONTROL TECHNIQUES AND THEIR EFFECTS

+ +

A description of usual communist control techniques follows.

+ +

1. Interrogation. There are at least two ways in which "interrogation" is used: +a. Elicitation, which is designed to get the individual to +surrender protected information, is a form of interrogation. One major +difference between elicitation and interrogation used to achieve +brainwashing is that the mind of the individual must be kept clear to +permit coherent, undistorted disclosure of protected information. +b. Elicitation for the purpose of brainwashing consists of +questioning,argument,indoctrination,threats,cajolery,praise,hostility, and a variety of other pressures. The aim of this interrogation +is to hasten the breakdown of the individual's value system and to encourage +the substitution of a different value-system. The procurement of protected +information is secondary and is used as a device to increase pressure upon +the individual. The term "interrogation" in this paper will refer, in +general, to this type. The "interrogator" is the individual who conducts +this type of interrogation and who controls the administration of the other +pressures. He is the protagonist against whom the victim develops his conflict, and upon whom the victim develops a state of dependency as he seeks +some solution to his conflict.

+ +

2. Physical Torture and Threats of Torture. Two types of physical +torture are distinguishable more by their psychological effect in inducing conflict than by the degree of painfulness:

+ +

a. The first type is one in which the victim has a passive role +in the pain inflicted on him (e.g.,beatings). His conflict involves the +decision of whether or not to give in to demands in order to avoid further +pain. Generally, brutality of this type was not found to achieve the +desired results. Threats of torture were found more effective, as fear +of pain causes greater conflict within the individual than does pain itself.

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b. The second type of torture is represented by requiring the +individual to stand in one spot for several hours or assume some other +pain-inducing position. Such a requirement often engenders in the individual a determination to "stick it out." This internal act of resistance +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +provide a feeling of moral superiority at first. As time passes and his +pain mounts,however, the individual becomes aware that it is his own +original determination to resist that is causing the continuance of pain. +A conflict develops within the individual between his moral determination +and his desire to collapse and discontinue the pain. It is this extra +internal conflict, in addition to the conflict over whether or not to give +in to the demands made of him, that tends to make this method of torture +more effective in the breakdown of the individual personality.

+ +

3. Isolation. Individual differences in reaction to isolation are +probably greater than to any other method. Some individuals appear to +be able to withstand prolonged periods of isolation without deleterious +effects, while a relatively short period of isolation reduces others to +the verge of psychosis. Reaction varies with the conditions of the isolation cell. Some sources have indicated a strong reaction to filth and +vermin, although they had negligible reactions to the isolation. Others +reacted violently to isolation in relatively clean cells. The predominant +cause of breakdown in such situations is a lack of sensory stimulation +(i.e.,grayness of walls,lack of sound,absence of social contact,etc.). +Experimental subjects exposed to this condition have reported vivid hallicinations and overwhelming fears of losing their sanity.

+ +

4. Control of Communication. This is one of the most effective +methods for creating a sense of helplessness and despair. This measure +might well be considered the cornerstone of the communist system of control. It consists of strict regulation of the mail,reading materials, +broadcast materials, and social contact available to the individual. The +need to communicate is so great that when the usual channels are blocked, +the individual will resort to any open channel, almost regardless of the +implications of using that particular channel. Many POWs in Korea, whose +only act of "collaboration" was to sign petitions and "peace appeals," +defended their actions on the ground that this was the only method of +letting the outside world know they were still alive. May stated that +their morale and fortitude would have been increased immeasurably had +leaflets of encouragement been dropped to them. When the only contact +with the outside world is via the interrogator, the prisoner comes to +develop extreme dependency on his interrogator and hence loses another +prop to his morale.

+ +

Another wrinkle in communication control is the informer system. +The recruitment of informers in POW camps discouraged communication

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between inmates.POWs who feared that every act or thought of resistance +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +would be communicated to the camp administrators, lost faith in their +fellow man and were forced to "untrusting individualism." Informers are +also under several stages of brainwashing and elicitation to develop +and maintain control over the victims.

+ +

5. Induction of Fatigue. This is a well-known device for breaking +will power and critical powers of judgment. Deprivation of sleep results +in more intense psychological debilitation than does any other method of +engendering fatigue. The communists vary their methods. "Conveyor belt" +interrogation that last 50-60 hours will make almost any individual compromise, but there is danger that this will kill the victim. It is safer +to conduct interrogations of 8-10 hours at night while forcing the prisoner +to remain awake during the day. Additional interruptions in the remaining +2-3 hours of allotted sleep quickly reduce the most resilient individual . +Alternate administration of drug stimulants and depressants hastens the +process of fatigue and sharpens the psychological reactions of excitement +and depression.

+ +

Fatigue, in addition to reducing the will to resist,also produces +irritation and fear that arise from increased "slips of the tongue." forgetfulness, and decreased ability to maintain orderly thought processes.

+ +

6. Control of Food,Water and Tobacco. The controlled individual +is made intensely aware of his dependence upon his interrogator for the +quality and quantity of his food and tobacco. The exercise of this control usually follows a pattern. No food and little or no water is permitted the individual for several days prior to interrogation.When the +prisoner first complains of this to the interrogator, the latter expresses +surprise at such inhumane treatment. He makes a demand of the prisoner. +If the latter complies,he receives a good meal. If he does not, he gets +a diet of unappetizing food containing limited vitamins,minerals, and +calories. This diet is supplemented occasionally by the interrogator if +the prisoner "cooperates." Studies of controlled starvation indicate +that the whole value-system of the subjects underwent a change. Their +irritation increased as their ability to think clearly decreased. The +control of tobacco presented an even greater source of conflict for heavy +smokers. Because tobacco is not necessary to life, being manipulated by +his craving for it can in the individual a strong sense of guilt.

+ +

7. Criticism and Self-Criticism. There are mechanisms of communist +thought control. Self-criticism gains its effectiveness from the fact +that although it is not a crime for a man to be wrong, it is a major crime +to be stubborn and to refuse to learn. Many individuals feel intensely relieved in being able to share their sense of guilt. Those individuals

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however, who have adjusted to handling their guilt internally have difficulty adapting to criticism and self-criticism. In brainwashing ,after +a sufficient sense of guilt has been created in the individual, sharing +and self-criticism permit relief. The price paid for this relief, however, +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +is loss of individuality and increased dependency.

+ +

8. Hypnosis and Drugs as Controls. There is no reliable evidence +that the communists are making widespread use of drugs or hypnosis in +brainwashing or elicitation. The exception to this is the use of common +stimulants or depressants in inducing fatigue and "mood swings."

+ +

9. Other methods of control, which when used in conjunction with the +basic processes, hasten the deterioration of prisoners' sense of values +and resistance are:

+ +

a. Requiring a case history or autobiography of the prisoner +provides a mine of information for the interrogator in establishing and +"documenting" accusations.

+ +

b. Friendliness of the interrogator , when least expected, upsets the prisoner's ability to maintain a critical attitude.

+ +

c. Petty demands, such as severely limiting the allotted time +for use of toilet facilities or requiring the POW to kill hundreds of +flies, are harassment methods.

+ +

d. Prisoners are often humiliated by refusing them the use of +toilet facilities during interrogator until they soil themselves. often +prisoners were not permitted to bathe for weeks until they felt contemptible.

+ +

e. Conviction as a war criminal appears to be a potent factor +in creating despair in the individual. One official analysis of the pressures exerted by the ChiComs on "confessors" and "non-confessors" to +participation in bacteriological warfare in Korea showed that actual trial +and conviction of "war crimes" was overwhelmingly associated with breakdown +and confession.

+ +

f. Attempted elicitation of protected information at various +times during the brainwashing process diverted the individual from awareness of the deterioration of his value-system. The fact that, in most +cases, the ChiComs did not want or need such intelligence was not known +to the prisoner. His attempts to protect such information was made at +the expense of hastening his own breakdown.

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THE EXERCISE OF CONTROL: A "SCHEDULE" FOR BRAINWASHING +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +From the many fragmentary accounts reviewed, the following appears +to be the most likely description of what occurs during brainwashing .

+ +

In the period immediately following capture, the captors are faced +with the problem of deciding on best ways of exploitation of the prisoners. +Therefore, early treatment is similar both for those who are to be exploited +through elicitation and those who are to undergo brainwashing. concurrently +with being interrogated and required to write a detailed personal history, +the prisoner undergoes a physical and psychological "softening-up" which +includes: limited unpalatable food rations,withholding of tobacco,possible work details,severely inadequate use of toilet facilities, no use of +facilities for personal cleanliness,limitation of sleep such as requiring +a subject to sleep with a bright light in his eyes. Apparently the interrogation and autobiographical ,material, the reports of the prisoner's behaviour in confinement, and tentative "personality typing" by the interrogators, provide the basis upon which exploitation plans are made.

+ +

There is a major difference between preparation for elicitation and +for brainwashing .Prisoners exploited through elicitation must retain sufficient clarity of thought to be able to give coherent,factual accounts. In +brainwashing , on the other hand, the first thing attacked is clarity of +thought. To develop a strategy of defense, the controlled individual must +determine what plans have been made for his exploitation. Perhaps the best +cues he can get are internal reactions to the pressures he undergoes.

+ +

The most important aspect of the brainwashing process is the interrogation. The other pressures are designed primarily to help the interrogator +achieve his goals. The following states are created systematically within +the individual . These may vary in order, but all are necessary to the +brainwashing process:

+ +

1. A feeling of helplessness in attempting to deal with the impersonal +machinery of control.

+ +

2. An initial reaction of "surprise."

+ +

3. A feeling of uncertainty about what is required of him.

+ +

4. A developing feeling of dependence upon the interrogator .

+ +

5. A sense of doubt and loss of objectivity.

+ +

6. Feelings of guilt.

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7. A questioning attitude toward his own value-system.

+ +

8. A feeling of potential "breakdown," i.e.,that he might go crazy. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +9. A need to defend his acquired principles.

+ +

10. A final sense of "belonging" (identification).

+ +

A feeling of helplessness in the face of the impersonal machinery +of control is carefully engendered within the prisoner. The individual +who receives the preliminary treatment described above not only begins +to feel like an "animal" but also feels that nothing can be done about +it. No one pays any personal attention to him. His complaints fall on +deaf ears. His loss of communication, if he has been isolated, creates +a feeling that he has been "forgotten." Everything that happens to him +occurs according to an impersonal; time schedule that has nothing to do +with his needs. The voices and footsteps of the guards are muted. He +notes many contrasts,e.g.,his greasy,unpalatable food may be served +on battered tin dishes by guards immaculately dressed in white. The +first steps in "depersonalization" of the prisoner have begun. He has +no idea what to expect. Ample opportunity is allotted for him to ruminate +upon all the unpleasant or painful things that could happen to him. He +approaches the main interrogator with mixed feelings of relief and +fright.

+ +

Surprise is commonly used in the brainwashing process. The prisoner +is rarely prepared for the fact that the interrogators are usually friendly +and considerate at first. They make every effort to demonstrate that +they are reasonable human beings. Often they apologize for bad treatment +received by the prisoner and promise to improve his lot if he, too, is +reasonable. This behaviour is not what he has steeled himself for. He +lets down some of his defenses and tries to take a reasonable attitude. +The first occasion he balks at satisfying a request of the interrogator , +however, he is in for another surprise. The formerly reasonable interrogator unexpectedly turns into a furious maniac. The interrogator is +likely to slap the prisoner or draw his pistol and threaten to shoot him. +Usually this storm of emotion ceases as suddenly as it began and the interrogator stalks from the room. These surprising changes create doubt +in the prisoner as to his very ability to perceive another person's motivations correctly. His next interrogation probably will be marked by impassivity in the interrogator 's mien.

+ +

A feeling of uncertainty about what is required of him is likewise +carefully engendered within the individual . Pleas of the prisoner to +learn specifically of what he is accused and by whom are side-stepped by

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the interrogator. Instead, the prisoner is asked to tell why he thinks +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +he is held and what he feels he is guilty of. If the prisoner fails to +come up with anything, he is accused in terms of broad generalities (e.g., +espionage, sabotage,acts of treason against the "people"). This usually provokes the prisoner to make some statement about his activities. +If this take the form of a denial, he is usually sent to isolation on +further decreased food rations to "think over" his crimes. This process +can be repeated again and again. As soon as the prisoner can think of +something that might be considered self-incriminating, the interrogator +appears momentarily satisfied. The prisoner is asked to write down his +statement in his own words and sign it.

+ +

Meanwhile a strong sense of dependence upon the interrogator is +developed. It does not take long for the prisoner to realize that the +interrogator is the source of all punishment , all gratification,and all +communication. The interrogator , meanwhile,demonstrates his unpredictability. He is perceived by the prisoner as a creature of whim. At +times, the interrogator can be pleased very easily and at other times +no effort on the part of the prisoner will placate him. The prisoner +may begin to channel so much energy into trying to predict the behaviour +of the unpredictable interrogator that he loses track of what is happening inside himself.

+ +

After the prisoner has developed the above psychological and emotional +reactions to a sufficient degree, the brainwashing begins in earnest. +First, the prisoner's remaining critical faculties must be destroyed. +He undergoes long, fatiguing interrogations while looking at a bright +light. He is called back again and again for interrogations after minimal sleep. He may undergo torture that tends to create internal conflict. Drugs may be used to accentuate his "mood swings." He develops +depression when the interrogator is being kind and becomes euphoric when +the interrogator is threatening the direst penalties. Then the cycle is +reversed. The prisoner finds himself in a constant state of anxiety +which prevents him from relaxing even when he is permitted to sleep. +Short periods of isolation now bring on visual and auditory hallucinations. +The prisoner feels himself losing his objectivity. It is in this state +that the prisoner must keep up an endless argument with the interrogator . +He may be faced with the confessions of other individuals who "collaborated" with him in his crimes. The prisoner seriously begins to doubts +his own memory. This feeling is heightened by his inability to recall +little things like the names of the people he knows very well or the date +of his birth. The interrogator patiently sharpens this feeling of doubt +by more questioning. This tends to create a serious state of uncertainty +when the individual has lost most of his critical faculties.

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The prisoner must undergo additional internal conflict when strong +feelings of guilt are aroused within him. As any clinical psychologist +is aware, it is not at all difficult to create such feelings. Military +servicemen are particularly vulnerable. No one can morally justify killing +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +even in wartime. The usual justification is on the grounds of necessity or self-defense. The interrogator is careful to circumvent such +justification. He keeps the interrogation directed toward the prisoner's +moral code. Every moral vulnerability is exploited by incessant questioning along this line until the prisoner begins to question the very fundamentals of his own value-system. The prisoner must constantly fight a +potential breakdown. He finds that his mind is "going blank" for longer +and longer periods of time. He can not think constructively. If he is +to maintain any semblance of psychological integrity, he must bring to +an end this state of interminable internal conflict. He signifies a +willingness to write a confession.

+ +

If this were truly the end, no brainwashing would have occurred. +The individual would simply have given in to intolerable pressure. Actually, the final stage of the brainwashing process has just begun. No +matter what the prisoner writes in his confession the interrogator is +not satisfied. The interrogator questions every sentence of the confession. He begins to edit it with the prisoner. The prisoner is forced +to argue against every change. This is the essence of brainwashing. +Every time that he gives in on a point to the interrogator, he must rewrite his whole confession. Still the interrogator is not satisfied. +In a desperate attempt to maintain some semblance of integrity and to +avoid further brainwashing, the prisoner must begin to argue that what +he has already confessed to is true. He begins to accept as his own the +statements he has written. He uses many of the interrogator's earlier +arguments to buttress his position. By this process,identification +with the interrogator's value-system becomes complete. It is extremely +important to recognize that a qualitative change has taken place within +the prisoner. The brainwashed victim does not consciously change his +value-system; rather the change occurs despite his efforts. He is no +more responsible for this change than is an individual who "snaps" and +becomes psychotic. And like the psychotic, the prisoner is not even +aware of the transition.

+ +

DEFENSIVE MEASURES OTHER THAN ON THE POLICY AND PLANNING LEVEL

+ +

1. Training of Individuals potentially subject to communist control.

+ +

Training should provide for the trainee a realistic appraisal +of what control pressures the communists are likely to exert and what +the usual human reactions are to such pressures. The trainee must learn

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the most effective ways of combatting his own reactions to such pressures +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +and he must learn reasonable expectations as to what his behaviour should +be. Training has two decidedly positive effects; first, it provides the +trainee with ways of combatting control; second, it provides the basis +for developing an immeasurable boost in morale. Any positive action that +the individual can take, even if it is only slightly effective, gives him +a sense of control over a situation that is otherwise controlling him.

+ +

2. Training must provide the individual with the means of +recognizing realistic goals for himself.

+ +

a. Delay in yielding may be the only achievement that can be +hoped for. In any particular operation, the agent needs the support of +knowing specifically how long he must hold out to save an operation, protect his cohorts, or gain some other goal.

+ +

b. The individual should be taught how to achieve the most favorable treatment and how to behave and make necessary concessions to +obtain minimum penalties.

+ +

c. Individual behavioural responses to the various communist +control pressures differ markedly. Therefore, each trainee should know +his own particular assets and limitations in resisting specific pressures. +He can learn these only under laboratory conditions simulating the actual +pressures he may have to face.

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d. Training must provide knowledge of the goals and the restrictions placed upon his communist interrogator. The trainee should know +what controls are on his interrogator and to what extent he can manipulate +the interrogator. For example, the interrogator is not permitted to fail +to gain "something" from the controlled individual. The knowledge that, +after the victim has proved that he is a "tough nut to crack" he can sometimes indicate that he might compromise on some little point to help the +interrogator in return for more favorable treatment, may be useful indeed. Above all, the potential victim of communist control can gain a +great deal of psychological support from the knowledge that the communist +interrogator is not a completely free agent who can do whatever he wills +with his victim.

+ +

e. The trainee must learn what practical cues might aid him in +recognizing the specific goals of his interrogator. The strategy of defense +against elicitation may differ markedly from the strategy to prevent +brainwashing. To prevent elicitation, the individual may hasten his own +state of mental confusion; whereas, to prevent brainwashing, maintaining +clarity of thought processes is imperative.

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f. The trainee should obtain knowledge about communist "carrots" +as well as "sticks." The communists keep certain of their promises and always renege on others. For example, the demonstrable fact that "informers" +receive no better treatment than other prisoners should do much to prevent +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +this particular evil. On the other hand, certain meaningless concessions +will often get a prisoner a good meal.

+ +

g. In particular, it should be emphasized to the trainee that, +although little can be done to control the pressures exerted upon him, he +can learn something about controlling his personal reactions to specific +pressures. The trainee can gain much from learning something about internal conflict and conflict-producing mechanisms. He should learn to +recognize when someone is trying to arouse guilt feelings and what behavioural reactions can occur as a response to guilt.

+ +

h. Finally, the training must teach some methods that can be utilized +in thwarting particular communist control techniques:

+ +

Elicitation. In general, individuals who are the hardest to interrogate for information are those who have experienced previous interrogations. Practice in being the victim of interrogation is a sound training device.

+ +

Torture. The trainee should learn something about the principles of +pain and shock. There is a maximum to the amount of pain that can actually +be felt. Any amount of pain can be tolerated for a limited period of +time. In addition, the trainee can be fortified by the knowledge that there +are legal limitations upon the amount of torture that can be inflicted +by communist jailors.

+ +

Isolation. The psychological effects of isolation can probably be +thwarted best by mental gymnastics and systematic efforts on the part of +the isolate to obtain stimulation for his neural end organs.

+ +

Controls on Food and Tobacco. Foods given by the communists will +always be enough to maintain survival. Sometimes the victim gets unexpected opportunities to supplement his diet with special minerals,vitamins +and other nutrients (e.g.,"iron" from the rust of prison bars). In some +instances, experience has shown that individuals could exploit refusal to +eat. Such refusal usually resulted in the transfer of the individual to +a hospital where he received vitamin injections and nutritious food. Evidently attempts of this kind to commit suicide arouse the greatest concern +in communist officials. If deprivation of tobacco is the control being +exerted. the victim can gain moral satisfaction from "giving up" tobacco. +He can't lose since he is not likely to get any anyway.

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Fatigue. The trainee should learn reactions to fatigue and how to +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +overcome them insofar as possible. For example, mild physical exercise +"clears the head" in a fatigue state.

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Writing Personal Accounts and Self-Criticism. Experience has indicated that one of the most effective ways of combatting these pressures +is to enter into the spirit with an overabundance of enthusiasm. Endless +written accounts of inconsequential material have virtually "smothered" +some eager interrogators. In the same spirit, sober, detailed self-criticisms of the most minute "sins" has sometimes brought good results.

+ +

Guidance as to the priority of positions he should defend. Perfectly +compatible responsibilities in the normal execution of an individual's +duties may become mutually incompatible in this situation. Take the example of a senior grade military officer. He has the knowledge of sensitive +strategic intelligence which it is his duty to protect. He has the responsibility of maintaining the physical fitness of his men and serving as +a model example for their behaviour. The officer may go to the camp +commandant to protest the treatment of the POWs and the commandant assures him that treatment could be improved if he will swap something for +it. Thus to satisfy one responsibility he must compromise another. The +officer, in short, is in a constant state of internal conflict. But if +the officer is given the relative priority of his different responsibilities, +he is supported by the knowledge that he won't be held accountable for +any other behaviour if he does his utmost to carry out his highest priority +responsibility. There is considerable evidence that many individuals +tried to evaluate the priority of their responsibilities on their own, +but were in conflict over whether others would subsequently accept their +evaluations. More than one individual was probably brainwashed while he +was trying to protect himself against elicitation.

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CONCLUSIONS

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The application of known psychological principles can lead to an +understanding of brainwashing.

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1. There is nothing mysterious about personality changes resulting +from the brainwashing process.

+ +

2. Brainwashing is a complex process. Principles of motivation, +perception, learning, and physiological deprivation are needed to account +for the results achieved in brainwashing.

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3. Brainwashing is an involuntary re-education of the fundamental +beliefs of the individual. To attack the problem successfully, the brain-washing process must be differentiated clearly from general education +methods for thought-control or mass indoctrination, and elicitation.

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4. It appears possible for the individual,through training,to +develop limited defensive techniques against brainwashing. Such defensive +measures are likely to be most effective if directed toward thwarting individual emotional reactions to brainwashing techniques rather than toward +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +thwarting the techniques themselves.

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SECRET

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY +WASHINGTON 25, D. C.

+ +

19 JUN 1964

+ +

(Commission No. 1131)

+ +

MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. J. Lee Rankin +General Counsel +President's Commission on the +Assassination of President Kennedy

+ +

SUBJECT : Soviet Brainwashing Techniques

+ +

1. Reference is made to your memorandum of 19 May 1964, +requesting that materials relative to Soviet techniques in mind +conditioning and brainwashing be made available to the Commission.

+ +

2. At my request, experts on these subjects within the CIA +have prepared a brief survey of Soviet research in the direction +and control of human behavior, a copy of which is attached. The +Commission may retain this document. Please note that the use +of certain sensitive materials requires that a sensitivity indicator +be affixed.

+ +

3. In the immediate future, this Agency will make available +to you a collection of overt and classified materials on these subjects, +which the Commission may retain.

+ +

4. I hope that these documents will be responsive to the +Commission's needs.

+ +

(SIGNED)

+ +

(DECLASSIFIED) Richard Helms +(By C.I.A.) Deputy Director for Plans +(letter of ___________) +(---------------------)

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Attachment

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CD 1131 SECRET

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MEMORANDUM

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SUBJECT: Soviet Research and Development in the Field of +Direction and Control of Human Behavior.

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1. There are two major methods of altering or controlling +human behavior, and the Soviets are interested in both. The first +is psychological; the second, pharmacological. The two may be +used as individual methods or for mutual reinforcement. For +long-term control of large numbers of people, the former method +is more promising than the latter. In dealing with individuals, +the U.S. experience suggests the pharmacological approach (assisted +by psychological techniques) would be the only effective method. +Neither method would be very effective for single individuals on +a long term basis.

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2. Soviet research on the pharmacological agents producing +behavioral effects has consistently lagged about five years behind +Western research. They have been interested in such research, +however, and are now pursuing research on such chemicals as +LSD-25, amphetamines, tranquillizers, hypnotics, and similar +materials. There is no present evidence that the Soviets have +any singular, new, potent drugs to force a course of action on +an individual. They are aware, however, of the tremendous drive +produced by drug addiction, and PERHAPS could couple this with +psychological direction to achieve control of an individual.

+ +

3. The psychological aspects of behavior control would include +not only conditioning by repetition and training, but such things as +hypnosis, deprivation, isolation, manipulation of guilt feelings, +subtle or overt threats, social pressure, and so on. Some of the +newer trends in the USSR are as follows:

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a. The adoption of a multidisciplinary approach integrating +biological,social and physical-mathematical research in attempts +better to understand, and eventually, to control human behavior in a +manner consonant with national plans.

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b. The outstanding feature, in addition to the interdisciplinary approach, is a new concern for mathematical approaches to +an understanding of behavior. Particularly notable are attempts to use +modern information theory, automata theory, and feedback concepts in +interpreting the mechanisms by which the "second signal system," i.e., +speech and associated phenomena, affect human behavior. Implied by this +"second signal system," using INFORMATION inputs as causative agents +rather than chemical agents, electrodes or other more exotic techniques +applicable, perhaps, to individuals rather than groups.

+ +

c. This new trend, observed in the early Post-Stalin Period, +continues. By 1960 the word "cybernetics" was used by the Soviets to +designate this new trend. This new science is considered by some as +the key to understanding the human brain and the product of its +functioning--psychic activity and personality--to the development of +means for controlling it and to ways for molding the character of the +"New Communist Man". As one Soviet author puts it: Cybernetics can be +used in "molding of a child's character, the inculcation of knowledge +and techniques, the amassing of experience, the establishment of social +behavior patterns...all functions which can be summarized as 'control' +of the growth process of the individual." 1/Students of particular +disciplines in the USSR, such as psychologist and social scientists, +also support the general cybernetic trend. 2/ (Blanked by CIA)

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4. In summary, therefore, there is no evidence that the Soviets +have any techniques or agents capable of producing particular behavioral +patterns which are not available in the West. Current research indicates that the Soviets are attempting to develop a technology for +controlling the development of behavioral patterns among the citizenry +of the USSR in accordance with politically determined requirements of +the system. Furthermore, the same technology can be applied to more +sophisticated approaches to the "coding" of information for transmittal +to population targets in the "battle for the minds of men." Some of the +more esoteric techniques such as ESP or, as the Soviets call it, +"biological radio-communication", and psychogenic agents such as LSD,

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are receiving some overt attention with, possibly, applications in mind +for individual behavior control under clandestine conditions. However, +we require more information than is currently available in order to +establish or disprove planned or actual applications of various +methodologies by Soviet scientists to the control of actions of +articular individuals.

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References

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1. Itelson, Lev, "Pedagogy: An Exact Science?" USSR October 1963, +p. 10. +2. Borzek, Joseph, "Recent Developments in Soviet Psychology," +Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 15, 1964, p. 493-594.

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The first letter and attachment are from DECLASSIFIED +DOCUMENTS 1984 microfilms under MKULTRA (84) 002258, published +by Research Publication Woodbridge, CT 06525. Some original +markings were not retyped, but the content is the same.

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The second letter and attachment are from the Warren +Commission documents. Notice should be paid to the different +tone Helms gives to his letter, keeping in mind he was found +guilty of lying to Congress. He places greater emphasis on +"Soviet" practices and tries to diminish breakthroughs gained +by Americans. Some thought should be given as to WHY the +Warren Commission sought such documents (remembering that +ALLEN DULLES was a member of that Commission). They were +exploring the Manchurian candidate theory. It was revealed +during the Church Committee hearings of 1975 that Helms had +been in charge of Project AMLASH, a program to assassinate +Castro (Cuba),Trujillo (Dominican Republic), Diem (RVN), +Schneider (Chile) using MAFIA figures John Roselli and Santos +Trafficante to do the job.

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+Article: 571 of sgi.talk.ratical +From: dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe) +Subject: How the CIA turned 'being directed by the NSC' into 'getting approval' +Keywords: the compartmentalized "need to know" security lid locks up the govn't +Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. +Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:01:36 GMT +Lines: 573

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. . . Control of a good share of what the Pentagon is doing is +more important to the CIA than control over the government of +Jordan or Syria. . . . +When the CIA wants to do something for which it does not have +prior approval and for which it does not have legal sanction, it +works from the bottom, using all of its guile with security and +"need to know"--a euphemism for "keep the scheme away from anyone +at any level of government who might stand in its way." Hand and +Lansdale, among others, were almost always able to line up enough +support in the right places to make it possible for the CIA to get +a favorable reading from the "Forty Committee" on any subject, +legal or not. In fact, this is the great weakness of such a +committee. Rather than working to control the agency it works the +other way. The procedure makes it possible for the agency to win +approval from a lesser echelon of the NSC intrastructure, and then, +by clamping on a security id, it makes others believe that the CIA +had orders from the NSC or perhaps even from the President, when in +fact it did not.

+ +

the following appeared in the 7/75 issue of "Genesis:" +_____________________________________________________________________ +How the CIA Controls President Ford +by L. Fletcher Prouty +reprinted here with permission of the author

+ +

In this monstrous U.S. government today, it's not so much what +comes down from the top that matters as what you can get away with +from the bottom or from the middle--the least scrutinized level. +(Contrary to the current CIA propaganda as preached by William +Colby, Ray Cline, Victor Marchetti and Philip Agee, who say, +incorrectly, "What the Agency does is ordered by the President.") +As with the Mafia, crime is a cinch if you know the cops and the +courts have been paid off. With the Central Intelligence Agency, +anything goes when you have a respected boss to sanctify and bless +your activities and to shield them from outside eyes. +Such a boss in the CIA was old Allen Dulles, who ran the Agency +like a mother superior running a whorehouse. He knew the girls +were happy, busy, and well fed, but he wasn't quite sure what they +were doing. His favorites, all through the years of his prime as +Director of Central Intelligence, were such stellar performers as +Frank Wisner, Dick Bissell, George Doole, Sheffield Edwards, Dick +Helms, Red White, Tracy Barnes, Desmond Fitzgerald, Joe Alsop, Ted +Shannon, Ed Lansdale and countless others. They were the great +operators. He just made it possible for them to do anything they +came up with. +When Wisner and Richard Nixon came up with the idea of mounting +a major rebellion in Indonesia in 1958, Dulles saw that they got +the means and the wherewithal. When General Cabell and his Air +Force friends plugged the U-2 project for Kelly Johnson of +Lockheed, Dulles tossed it into the lap of Dick Bissell. When Dick +Helms and Des Fitzgerald figured they could play fun and games in +Tibet, Dulles talked to Tom Gates, then Secretary of Defense, and +the next we knew CIA agents were spiriting the Dalai Lama out of +Lhasa, CIA undercover aircraft were clandestinely dropping tons of +arms, ammunitions, and supplies deep into Tibet and other planes +were reaching as far as northwestern China to Koko Nor. +While he peddled the hard-won National Intelligence Estimates to +all top offices and sprinkled holy water over the pates of our +leaders, Dulles dropped off minor miracles along the way to +titillate those in high places. If you win the heart of the queen +and convert her to your faith, you can control the king. This +works for the Jesuits. It worked well for the CIA. Allen Dulles +was no casual student and practitioner of the ancient art of +religion. He was an expert in the art of mind-control. He learned +how to operate his disciples and his Agency in the ways of the +cloth. +But for every Saint and every Sinner in the fold there must be +an order of monks, and the Agency has always been the haven for +hundreds of faceless, nameless minions whose only satisfaction was +the job well done and the furtherance of the cause. One of the +most remarkable--and surely the best--of these was an agent named +Frank Hand. +In my book, "The Secret Team," written during 1971 and 1972, I +mentioned that the most important agent in the CIA was an almost +unknown individual who spent most of his time in the Pentagon. At +that time I did not reveal his name; but a small item in a recent +obituary column stated that:

+ +

"Frank Hand, 61, a former senior official of the CIA, died in +Marshall, Minn. . . . (he was) a graduate of Harvard Law +School. He had served with the CIA from 1950 until +retirement in 1971."

+ +

After a life devoted to quiet, effective, skillful performance +of one of the most important jobs in the worldwide structure of +that unparalleled agency, all that the CIA would publicly say of +Frank Hand was that he was a "senior official." +Ask Dick Helms, Ed Lansdale, Bob McNamara, Tom Gates or Allen +Dulles or John Foster Dulles, if they were with us today, and they +all would tell us stories about Frank Hand. They would do more to +characterize the nature and the sources of power which make use of +and control the CIA than has ever been told before. He was that +superior operative who made big things work unobtrusively. +You might have been one of the grass-green McNamara "whiz kids," +lost in the maze of the Pentagon Puzzle Palace, who came upon a +short, Hobbit-like, pleasant man who knew the Pentagon so well that +you got the feeling he was brought in with the original load of +concrete. Thousands of career men to this day will never realize +that Frank Hand was a "Senior Official" of the CIA and not one of +their civilian cohorts. To my knowledge he never worked anywhere +else. I was there in 1955 and he was there. I left in December +1963, and he was at my farewell party. He must have spent some of +his time at the agency; but it must have been before 1955. If he +had a dollar for every trip he made in those busy years between the +Pentagon and the CIA he would have died a very wealthy man. He +popularized the Agency term "across the river" and the "Acme +Plumbers" nickname for agents of the CIA. (A term later to be +confused by Colson and John Ehrlichman, among others, with the use +of the term "White House Plumbers" of Watergate fame. Someone knew +that Hunt, McCord, the Cubans, Haig, Butterfield and others all had +CIA backgrounds and connections and therefore were "Plumbers." +Only the insiders knew about the real "Acme Plumbers.") +Frank was as much at home with Allen Dulles as he was with the +famous old supersleuth, General Graves B. Erskine, and as he was +with Helms, Colby, or Fitzgerald. Ian Fleming may have popularized +the spy and the undercover agent as a flashing James Bond type; +but in the reality of today's world the great ones are more in the +mold of Frank Hand and "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold." +There has long existed a "golden key" group of agency and +agency-related supermen. They came from the CIA, the Pentagon, the +Department of State, the White House and other places in government +or from the outside. They have kept themselves inconspicuous and +they meet in the evening away from their offices. They are the men +who open the doors of big government to industry-banking law and to +the multinational corporate centers of greed and power. Their +strength lies in their common awareness of the ways in which real +power is generated in the government, the real power that controls +activities of the government. In many instances this is the power +of being able to keep something from happening, rather than to make +it happen. For example, if the President is murdered, real power +involves the control of government operations sufficient to make +any investigation ineffective and to assure that the government +will do nothing even if the investigation should turn up something. +Real power is the ability to keep the government bureaucracy from +going into action when the price of petroleum and wheat is doubled +or tripled by avaricious international monopolies. +Some of these "gold key" members have surfaced and have accepted +publicity, as did Des Fitzgerald, Allen Dulles, Tracy Barnes and +others. Frank never did. He was so anonymous that even his +friends could not find him. +The Agency covered for Frank Hand as it did for few others. The +James Bonds of this world may be the idols of the Intelligence +coterie; but if you are a Bill Colby, Dick Helms, or Allen Dulles, +you know the real value of an indispensable agent. Frank was their +man in the Pentagon, and the Pentagon was always the indispensable +prime target of the CIA. When the chips are down, the CIA could +care less about overturning "Communism" in Cuba or Chile. What +really matters is its relative power in the U.S. Government. +Control of a good share of what the Pentagon is doing is more +important to the CIA than control over the government of Jordan or +Syria. +Once, when the CIA wanted to move a squadron (twenty-five) of +helicopters from Laos to South Vietnam, long before the troubles +there had become a war, I turned down the request from the Deputy +Director of Central Intelligence in the name of the Secretary of +Defense for no other reason than the fact that I did not find that +project on the approved list of the National Security Council's +"Forty Committee" (then called the 5412/2 committee). That meant +the agency had neither been directed by the National Security +Council to move those helicopters into Vietnam, nor had it received +authorization for such a tactical movement. In other words, the +planned intervention into South Vietnam with a squadron of +helicopters would at that time have been unlawful as an +intervention into the internal affairs of another country. +This denial then, in 1960, effectively blocked the CIA from +being able to move heavy war-making equipment into Vietnam. The +helicopters were actually U.S. Marine Corps property on "loan" from +Okinawa to the CIA for clandestine operations in Laos. +At that time my immediate superior was General Graves Erskine, +the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Special (Clandestine) +Operations, and the man then responsible for all military support +of clandestine operations of the CIA. Also at that time, Frank +Hand, "worked for" Erskine. Of course, this was a cover +assignment--"cover slot" as it was known to us and to the CIA. +Frank had a regular office in the Pentagon. +No sooner had the CIA request been turned down than someone near +the top of the agency called Frank and told him about it. In his +smiling and friendly way he came into my office, carrying two cups +of coffee, and began some talk about music, travel, or golf. Then, +as was his practice, he would get the subject around to his point +with such a comment as, "Fletch, who do you suppose took a call +here about the choppers in Laos?" and we would be off. +The special ability he possessed was best evidenced by the +process he would set in motion once he discovered a problem that +affected the ambitions of the agency. He would talk about the +choppers with Erskine. Then he would drop in to see the Chief of +Naval Operations and perhaps the Commandant of the Marine Corps. +He would talk with some of the other civilian Assistant +Secretaries. In other words, he would go from office to office +like a bee spreading pollen, titillating only the most senior +officers and civilian officials with the most "highly sensitive" +tidbits about the CIA's plans for Vietnam. In this manner he would +find out what the real thinking in the Pentagon might be, and where +there might be real opposition to such an idea--such as in the +Marine Corps, which knew it would never get compensation for those +expensive helicopters and for the loss of time of all their support +people. He would also find out where there would be support, as +with the ever-eager U.S. Army Special Forces, most of whose senior +officers had been with the CIA. +Then he would drop out of the picture for awhile to travel back +to the old CIA headquarters, on the hill that overlooks what is now +the Watergate complex, for a long talk with Allen Dulles or the +Deputy Director, General Cabell. On matters involving the +clandestine services he would also stop by the old headquarters +buildings, that lined the reflecting pool near the Lincoln +Memorial, to talk with Dick Helms, Desmond Fitzgerald, and other +operators. Within a day or two he would have them fully briefed on +the steps to be taken in order to win over the Defense Department; +or failing that, how to overpower and outmaneuver the Pentagon in +the Department of State and the White House. +The foregoing is a "case study" on the important subject of how +the CIA really operates and what it believes is its top priority. +The propaganda being spread around today by the CIA and its +propagandists that, "What the CIA does is ordered by the +President," is totally untrue in all but .00001 percent of actual +historical cases. It is much more factual to say that, "What the +CIA does is to find ways to initiate major foreign policy moves +without having the President find out--or at least without +discovery until it is too late." +"It is in precisely that manner that the CIA today works around, +beneath and behind the White House to effect policies that could +influence the survival of the nation and the world. "Gold Key" +operatives are, at this very moment, carrying out CIA game plans +entirely outside the power of President Ford's ability to affect +their activities. He is totally without knowledge of most of them, +and therefore powerless to stop or alter them. +In the case of the helicopters, Frank Hand was able to convince +Allen Dulles that the disapproval from the Secretary of Defense, +via my office, was real and that the Secretary would, at that time, +be unlikely to change his mind. Frank also could report that the +position of other top-level assistants was so cool to stepping up +the hardware *involvement* of the military in Vietnam, in 1960, +that none of them would likely attempt to persuade the Secretary to +change his policy of limited involvement. +Fortified with the information gleaned by Frank Hand, Allen +Dulles would have two primary options: drop the idea of moving +helicopters into Vietnam, or bypass the Secretary of Defense for +the time being by going to the White House for support. In 1960 +this was a crucial decision. The huge attempt to support a +rebellion in Indonesia had failed utterly, the U-2 operations had +been curtailed because of the Gary Powers incident, the far-reaching operations into Tibet had come to a halt by Presidential +directive and anti-Castro activities were limited to minor forays. +And at that time the large-scale (large for CIA) war in Laos had +become such a disaster that the CIA wanted no more of it. Dick +Bissell, the chief of the Clandestine Services, had written strong, +personal letters to Tom Gates, the Secretary of Defense, wondering +openly what to do about the 50000 or more miserable Laotian Meo +tribesmen the CIA had moved into the battle zones of Laos and then +had deserted with no plans for their protection, resupply, care or +feeding. The CIA badly wanted to be relieved of the war that they +had started and then found they could not handle. They wanted to +transfer and thus preserve the agency's assets, including the +helicopters, to the bigger prospects in Vietnam. +So, in 1960, if Allen Dulles dropped the idea of moving his +assets from Laos, he would not only have lost those helicopters +back to the Marine Corps but he would have seriously jeopardized +the CIA's undercover leadership role in the development of the war +in Vietnam, which it had been fanning since 1954. +This was a crucial decision for both the CIA and for those who +wished to contain the agency. If those who wished to put the CIA +genie back in the bottle had been able at that time to prevent the +move of those CIA assets into Vietnam, Dulles would have had to +disband them: helicopters, B-26 bombers from the Indonesian +fiasco, tens of thousands of rifles and other weapons, C-46, C-54 +and other Air America-supported heavy transport aircraft, U-2 +operations over Indochina, radar and other clandestine equipment, +C-130's specially modified for deep Tibetan operations, and much +more. From the point of view of the CIA, the helicopters were +simply the tip of the iceberg, and the decision was its most +important in that decade. +Typically, in his unwitting Mother Superior-style, which +included bulldog tenacity, Dulles chose the route to the White +House. Here again he could rely strongly on Frank Hand. Working +with Hand in Erskine's office was the CIA's other best agent, Major +General Edward G. Lansdale, who had long served in the CIA. Like +Hand, he had unequalled contacts in the Department of State and in +the White House. In support of Dulles, they contacted their +friends there and began a subtle and powerful move destined to +prepare the way for what would appear to be a decision by President +Eisenhower. This was an important feature of the "case study": +The *apparent* Presidential decision. +When the CIA wants to do something for which it does not have +prior approval and for which it does not have legal sanction, it +works from the bottom, using all of its guile with security and +"need to know"--a euphemism for "keep the scheme away from anyone +at any level of government who might stand in its way." Hand and +Lansdale, among others, were almost always able to line up enough +support in the right places to make it possible for the CIA to get +a favorable reading from the "Forty Committee" on any subject, +legal or not. In fact, this is the great weakness of such a +committee. Rather than working to control the agency it works the +other way. The procedure makes it possible for the agency to win +approval from a lesser echelon of the NSC intrastructure, and then, +by clamping on a security id, it makes others believe that the CIA +had orders from the NSC or perhaps even from the President, when in +fact it did not. +Thus it was that, about two weeks from the day that I received +that first call requesting the movement of the squadron of +helicopters, received word from General Erskine that he had been +"officially" informed that the White House (Forty Committee) had +approved the secret operation. The helicopters were moved into +Vietnam. They were the first of thousands. +The great significance of this incident is to point out how the +CIA works powerfully, deftly, and with great assurance at any level +of our government to get anything it wants done. But the anecdote +shows only the surface coating of the application of the CIA +apparatus. +One year earlier, in 1959, Frank Hand had directed a Boston +banker to my office. At that time I worked in the Directorate of +Plans in Air Force headquarters and my work was top secret. Few of +my contemporaries in the Pentagon knew that I was in charge of a +global U.S. Air Force system created for the dual purpose of +providing Air Force support for the CIA and for protecting the best +interests of the USAF while performing that task. My door was +labeled simply, "Team B"; yet that Boston banker knocked and +entered with assurance. Somehow he knew what my work was and he +knew that I might be able to help him. +In 1959 there were very few helicopters in all of the services, +and military procurement of those expensive machines was at an +all-time low. The Bell Helicopter Company was all but out of +business, and its parent company, Bell Aerospace Corp., was having +trouble keeping it financially afloat. Meanwhile, the shrewd Royal +Little, President of the Providence-based Textron Company, had a +good cash position and could well afford the acquisition of a +loser. Textron and the First National Bank of Boston got together +to talk helicopters. Neither one knew a thing about them. But men +in First Boston were close to the CIA, and they learned that the +CIA was operating helicopters in Laos. What they needed to know +now was, "What would be the future of the military helicopter, and +would the use of helicopters in South East Asia escalate if given a +little boost--such as moving a squadron from Laos to Vietnam?" The +CIA could tell them about that, and Frank Hand would be the man who +could get them to the right people in the Pentagon. +The banker from Boston phrased his questions as though he +believed that the helicopters in Laos were somehow operating under +the Air Force, and then went on to ask about their tactical +significance and about the possible increase of helicopter +utilization for that kind of warfare. This was at a time when not +even newspapers had reported anything like the operation of such +large and expensive aircraft in that remote war. We had a rather +thorough discussion and then he left. He called me several times +after that and visited my office a month or two later. +As the record will show, Textron did acquire the Bell Helicopter +Company and the CIA did step up use of helicopters to the extent +that one of the CIA's own proprietary companies, Asia Aeronautics +Inc., had more than four thousand men on each of two bases where +helicopters were maintained. Most of those men were involved in +their maintenance--Bell Helicopters, no less! +Orders for Bel Helicopters for use in Vietnam exceeded $600-million. Anyone wanting to know more about how the U.S. got so +heavily ($200-billion and the loss of 58000 American lives) +involved in Indochina need look no further. This was the pattern +and the plan. +At the present time, when the White House, the House, and the +Senate are all investigating the CIA, it is important to understand +the CIA and to put it all in the proper perspective. It is not the +President who instructs the CIA concerning what it will do. And in +many cases it is *not* even the Director of Central Intelligence +who instructs the CIA. The CIA is a great, monstrous machine with +tremendous and terrible power. It can be set in motion from the +outside like a programmer setting a computer in operation, and then +it covers up what it is doing when men like Frank Hand--the real +movers--put grease on the correct gears. And in a majority of +cases, the power behind it all is big business, big banks, big law +firms and big money. The agency exists to be used by them. +Let no one misunderstand what I mean. It was President Lyndon +B. Johnson who on more than one occasion said that the CIA was +"operating a damn Murder Inc. in the Carribean." In other words, +he knew it was doing this--and he was the President! This +knowledge has been recently confirmed by Defense Secretary James +Schlesinger (who is a former head of the CIA) and others by their +admission that they told the agency to end all "terminations." But +Lyndon Johnson was powerless to do anything about it. This is an +astounding admission from a President, the very man from whom, the +CIA says, it always gets its instructions. +The present concern over "domestic surveillance" and such other +lean tidbits--most important to you and me as they are--is not +important to the CIA. It can easily dispense with a James Angleton +or even a Helms or a Colby (just look at the list of CIA bigwigs +who have been fired--Allen Dulles, Frank Wisner, Dick Bissell, Dick +Helms, and now perhaps Colby); but the great machine will live on +while Congress digs away at the Golden Apples tossed casually aside +by the CIA--the supreme Aphrodite of them all. Notice that the +agency cares little about giving away "secrets" in the form of +cleverly written insider books such as those by Victor Marchetti +and Philip Agee. The CIA just makes it look as though it cared +with some high-class window dressing. Actually the real harm to +the American public from those books is to make people believe that +certain carefully selected propaganda is true. +In the story of Frank Hand we come much closer to seeing exactly +how the CIA operates to control this government and other foreign +governments. It is still operating that way. Today it is +President Ford who is the unwitting accessory.

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the following is taken from an article Fletcher Prouty wrote +for the February 1986 issue of "Freedom" magazine, entitled, +"Why Vietnam? The Selection and Preparation of the +Battlefield For America's Entry into the Indochina War," Part +7 in a Series on the Central Intelligence Agency. i include +it to amplify on the curious visit Colonel Prouty received in +1959 from the vice president of the First National Bank of +Boston and how it demonstrates that

+ +

There was only one way that vice president of the First +National Bank of Boston could have come directly to my +office in the Pentagon. The CIA had sent him there. +This is one of the most important "truly confidential" +roles of the agency. The CIA is the best friend of the top +executives of America's biggest businesses, and it works for +them at home and abroad. It is always successful in the +highest echelons of government and finance. . . . +Translated into everyday terms, Casey's CIA, as was Allen +Dulles' CIA, is one of the true bastions of power as a +servant of the American and transnational business and +financial community.

+ +

--ratitor

+ +

______________________________________________________________________ +| Helicopters in Vietnam +| Toward the end of World War II, a small number of +helicopters made their appearance in military operations. +During the costly battle for Okinawa, in the summer of 1945, +General Joseph Stilwell--famed for his role as commander in +the China-Burma-India theater of the war--began to use an +early model of the Sikorsky helicopter as a"command car." +During the early 1950s, the Korean War gave the +helicopter industry a much needed boost and several models +were used there. After the Korean War, the use of +helicopters in all services was severely curtailed by high +costs of procurement and by the enormous amounts of time and +money required to keep them in operation. By 1959 almost +all helicopter manufacturers were broke, or at least on very +hard times. This included the Bell Helicopter Company in +Buffalo, New York. +The helicopters used on operational missions into Laos, +mentioned in this article, were the only military +helicopters anywhere in the world getting regular and +frequent tactical use. However, their very existence in +Thailand and their employment in Laos were secrets. They +had been moved from Okinawa to Thailand and were supported +by my office in the Pentagon. +One day, in 1959, a man entered my office to discuss +helicopters. +Because of the nature of the work my office was doing, +this was an infrequent event. Outside the door of the +office there was a small blue card that read: +| Air Force Plans +"Team B" +Chief--Lt. Col. L. F. Prouty +| That card by the door drew little attention, and it was +meant to be that way. Then how did this civilian visitor +from the outside world know that "Team B" was the place he +wanted to visit--for business purposes? +He introduced himself as a vice president of the First +National Bank of Boston. He said he was interested in the +tactical utilization of helicopters. Somehow he had been +directed to "Team B." "Team B" had been established in 1955 +to provide "military support of the clandestine activities +of the CIA." The use of helicopters in Laos was a +clandestine operation of the CIA. +My visitor knew quite a bit about the helicopters in +Thailand. He wanted to know if this utilization of large +helicopters on tactical missions was a harbinger of more +helicopters or was it simply a make-work project? Then he +got to the reason for his visit. +He said that the Textron Company of Providence, Rhode +Island, was a major customer of his bank. Textron was in a +good cash position and the bank was advising them to +diversify and acquire a marginally viable company for tax +purposes and with an eye to future value. +To the First National Bank of Boston the helicopter +business and specifically the Bell Helicopter Company in +Buffalo appeared to be a prime prospect on both counts. +Textron was interested. The only problem was the market. +Would there ever be an interest in and a need for +helicopters by the military, meaning in big numbers? The +Laotian operation was the only show in town. +Because of the role being played by my office in support +of the use of helicopters in Southeast Asia, I already knew +the Bell people well both in Washington, D.C., and Buffalo. +I knew Bill Gesel, the president of Bell Helicopter. I knew +they were competent, but in trouble for lack of orders. +I described the helicopter as a useful vehicle of limited +potential, but rather well suited for covert operations. In +simple terms, the helicopter was too costly for the regular +military budget, but, as a rule, covert operations had money +to burn. That was the kind of money helicopters needed. +Because of the trend of covert operations in Southeast Asia, +I believed the demand for helicopters would increase. +As events later transpired, the First National Bank of +Boston, of which this man was a vice president, was +instrumental in getting Textron to acquire the Bell +Helicopter Company. This was the beginning of the Textron +acquisition of Bell and of the great success Bell had in +selling helicopters for use in Indochina. As we all know +now, the Bell "Huey" helicopter was the unsung hero of the +struggle in Vietnam. Thousands were used there. +On one occasion, while I was at lunch at the Army and +Navy Club in Washington, Bill Gesel, still president of +Bell, came by my table and pulled a check out of his pocket +that was in the range of nine figures--hundreds of millions +of dollars. Needless to say, Bell was doing well. Textron +was doing well. The First National Bank of Boston had +earned its fees and, as a result, the remains of hundreds of +Hueys are scattered all over the countryside of Vietnam. +The Huey had become the famous "gun ship" of that war. +There was only one way that vice president of the First +National Bank of Boston could have come directly to my +office in the Pentagon. The CIA had sent him there. +This is one of the most important "truly confidential" +roles of the agency. The CIA is the best friend of the top +executives of America's biggest businesses, and it works for +them at home and abroad. It is always successful in the +highest echelons of government and finance. +This is the way things were more than 25 years ago. You +may be assured these successes have not diminished under the +current director of central intelligence, William J. Casey, +a true friend of business. +During a speech, delivered in December 1979 before an +American Bar Association workshop on "Law, Intelligence and +National Security," Casey said that he would like to see the +CIA be a place "in the United States government to +systematically look at the economic opportunities and +threats in a long-term perspective, . . . [to] recommend, or +act on the use of economic leverage, either offensively or +defensively for strategic purposes." +Translated into everyday terms, Casey's CIA, as was Allen +Dulles' CIA, is one of the true bastions of power as a +servant of the American and transnational business and +financial community. +|____________________________________________________________________|

+ +

-- +daveus rattus

+ +

yer friendly neighborhood ratman

+ +

KOYAANISQATSI

+ +

ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living. +

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+John Stockwell +The Secret Wars of the CIA

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[The Other Americas Radio; A two-part speech.]

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John Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the agency +and go public. He ran a CIA intelligence-gathering post in Vietnam, was the +task-force commander of the CIA's secret war in Angola in 1975 and 1976, and +was awarded the Medal of Merit before he resigned. Stockwell's book "In Search +of Enemies", published by W.W. Norton 1978, is an international best-seller. +This is a transcript of a lecture he gave in June, 1986.

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"The Inner Workings of the National Security Council and the +CIA's Covert Actions in Angola, Central America and Vietnam"

+ +

I did 13 years in the CIA altogether. I sat on a subcommittee of the NSC, so +I was like a chief of staff, with the GS-18s (like 3-star generals) Henry +Kissinger, Bill Colby (the CIA director), the GS-18s and the CIA, making the +important decisions and my job was to put it all together and make it happen +and run it, an interesting place from which to watch a covert action being +done....

+ +

I testified for days before the Congress, giving them chapter and verse, date +and detail, proving specific lies. They were asking if we had to do with S. +Africa, that was fighting in the country. In fact we were coordinating this +operation so closely that our airplanes, full of arms from the states, would +meet their airplanes in Kinshasa and they would take our arms into Angola to +distribute to our forces for us....

+ +

What I found with all of this study is that the subject, the problem, if you +will, for the world, for the U.S. is much, much, much graver, astronomically +graver, than just Angola and Vietnam. I found that the Senate Church +committee has reported, in their study of covert actions, that the CIA ran +several thousand covert actions since 1961, and that the heyday of covert +action was before 1961; that we have run several hundred covert actions a +year, and the CIA has been in business for a total of 37 years.

+ +

What we're going to talk about tonight is the United States national security +syndrome. We're going to talk about how and why the U.S. manipulates the +press. We're going to talk about how and why the U.S. is pouring money into +El Salvador, and preparing to invade Nicaragua; how all of this concerns us so +directly. I'm going to try to explain to you the other side of terrorism; +that is, the other side of what Secretary of State Shultz talks about. In +doing this, we'll talk about the Korean war, the Vietnam war, and the Central +American war.

+ +

Everything I'm going to talk to you about is represented, one way or another, +already in the public records. You can dig it all out for yourselves, without +coming to hear me if you so chose. Books, based on information gotten out of +the CIA under the freedom of information act, testimony before the Congress, +hearings before the Senate Church committee, research by scholars, witness of +people throughout the world who have been to these target areas that we'll be +talking about. I want to emphasize that my own background is profoundly +conservative. We come from South Texas, East Texas....

+ +

I was conditioned by my training, my marine corps training, and my background, +to believe in everything they were saying about the cold war, and I took the +job with great enthusiasm (in the CIA) to join the best and the brightest of +the CIA, of our foreign service, to go out into the world, to join the +struggle, to project American values and save the world for our brand of +democracy. And I believed this. I went out and worked hard....

+ +

What I really got out of these 6 years in Africa was a sense ... that nothing +we were doing in fact defended U.S. national security interests very much. We +didn't have many national security interests in Bujumbura, Burundi, in the +heart of Africa. I concluded that I just couldn't see the point.

+ +

We were doing things it seemed because we were there, because it was our +function, we were bribing people, corrupting people, and not protecting the +U.S. in any visible way. I had a chance to go drinking with this Larry Devlin, +a famous CIA case officer who had overthrown Patrice Lumumba, and had him +killed in 1960, back in the Congo. He was moving into the Africa division +Chief. I talked to him in Addis Ababa at length one night, and he was giving +me an explanation - I was telling him frankly, 'sir, you know, this stuff +doesn't make any sense, we're not saving anybody from anything, and we are +corrupting people, and everybody knows we're doing it, and that makes the U.S. +look bad'.

+ +

And he said I was getting too big for my britches. He said, you're trying to +think like the people in the NSC back in Washington who have the big picture, +who know what's going on in the world, who have all the secret information, +and the experience to digest it. If they decide we should have someone in +Bujumbura, Burundi, and that person should be you, then you should do your +job, and wait until you have more experience, and you work your way up to that +point, then you will understand national security, and you can make the big +decisions. Now, get to work, and stop, you know, this philosophizing.

+ +

And I said, 'Aye-aye sir, sorry sir, a bit out of line sir'. It's a very +powerful argument, our presidents use it on us. President Reagan has used it +on the American people, saying, 'if you knew what I know about the situation +in Central America, you would understand why it's necessary for us to +intervene.'

+ +

I went back to Washington, however, and I found that others shared my concern. +A formal study was done in the State Department and published internally, +highly classified, called the Macomber [sp?] report, concluding that the CIA +had no business being in Africa for anything it was known to be doing, that +our presence there was not justified, there were no national security +interests that the CIA could address any better than the ambassador himself. +We didn't need to have bribery and corruption as a tool for doing business in +Africa at that time.

+ +

I went from ... a tour in Washington to Vietnam. And there, my career, and my +life, began to get a little bit more serious. They assigned me a country. It +was during the cease-fire, '73 to '75. There was no cease-fire. Young men +were being slaughtered. I saw a slaughter. 300 young men that the South +Vietnamese army ambushed. Their bodies brought in and laid out in a lot next +to my compound. I was up-country in Tay-ninh. They were laid out next door, +until the families could come and claim them and take them away for burial.

+ +

I thought about this. I had to work with the sadistic police chief. When I +reported that he liked to carve people with knives in the CIA safe-house - +when I reported this to my bosses, they said, '(1). The post was too important +to close down. (2). They weren't going to get the man transferred or fired +because that would make problems, political problems, and he was very good at +working with us in the operations he worked on. (3). Therefore if I didn't +have the stomach for the job, that they could transfer me.'

+ +

But they hastened to point out, if I did demonstrate a lack of 'moral fiber' +to handle working with the sadistic police chief, that I wouldn't get another +good job in the CIA, it would be a mark against my career.

+ +

So I kept the job, I closed the safe-house down, I told my staff that I didn't +approve of that kind of activity, and I proceeded to work with him for the +next 2 years, pretending that I had reformed him, and he didn't do this sort +of thing anymore. The parallel is obvious with El Salvador today, where the +CIA, the state department, works with the death squads.

+ +

They don't meet the death squads on the streets where they're actually +chopping up people or laying them down on the street and running trucks over +their heads. The CIA people in San Salvador meet the police chiefs, and the +people who run the death squads, and they do liaise with them, they meet them +beside the swimming pool of the villas. And it's a sophisticated, civilized +kind of relationship. And they talk about their children, who are going to +school at UCLA or Harvard and other schools, and they don't talk about the +horrors of what's being done. They pretend like it isn't true.

+ +

What I ran into in addition to that was a corruption in the CIA and the +intelligence business that made me question very seriously what it was all +about, including what I was doing ... risking my life ... what I found was +that the CIA, us, the case officers, were not permitted to report about the +corruption in the South Vietnamese army....

+ +

Now, the corruption was so bad, that the S. Vietnamese army was a skeleton +army. Colonels would let the troops go home if they would come in once a +month and sign the pay vouchers so the colonel could pocket the money. Then +he could sell half of the uniforms and boots and M-16's to the communist +forces - that was their major supply, just as it is in El Salvador today. He +could use half of the trucks to haul produce, half of the helicopters to haul +heroin.

+ +

And the Army couldn't fight. And we lived with it, and we saw it, and there +was no doubt - everybody talked about it openly. We could provide all kinds +of proof, and they wouldn't let us report it. Now this was a serious problem +because the south was attacked in the winter of 1975, and it collapsed like a +big vase hit by a sledgehammer. And the U.S. was humiliated, and that was the +dramatic end of our long involvement in Vietnam....

+ +

I had been designated as the task-force commander that would run this secret +war [in Angola in 1975 and 1976].... and what I figured out was that in this +job, I would sit on a sub-committee of the National Security Council, this +office that Larry Devlin has told me about where they had access to all the +information about Angola, about the whole world, and I would finally +understand national security. And I couldn't resist the opportunity to know. +I knew the CIA was not a worthwhile organization, I had learned that the hard +way. But the question was where did the U.S. government fit into this thing, +and I had a chance to see for myself in the next big secret war....

+ +

I wanted to know if wise men were making difficult decisions based on truly +important, threatening information, threatening to our national security +interests. If that had been the case, I still planned to get out of the CIA, +but I would know that the system, the invisible government, our national +security complex, was in fact justified and worth while. And so I took the +job.... Suffice it to say I wouldn't be standing in front of you tonight if I +had found these wise men making these tough decisions. What I found, quite +frankly, was fat old men sleeping through sub-committee meetings of the NSC in +which we were making decisions that were killing people in Africa. I mean +literally. Senior ambassador Ed Mulcahy... would go to sleep in nearly every +one of these meetings....

+ +

You can change the names in my book [about Angola] and you've got +Nicaragua.... the basic structure, all the way through including the mining +of harbors, we addressed all of these issues. The point is that the U.S. led +the way at every step of the escalation of the fighting. We said it was the +Soviets and the Cubans that were doing it. It was the U.S. that was +escalating the fighting. There would have been no war if we hadn't gone in +first. We put arms in, they put arms in. We put advisors in, they answered +with advisors. We put in Zairian para-commando battalions, they put in Cuban +army troops. We brought in the S. African army, they brought in the Cuban +army. And they pushed us away. They blew us away because we were lying, we +were covering ourselves with lies, and they were telling the truth. And it +was not a war that we could fight. We didn't have interests there that should +have been defended that way.

+ +

There was never a study run that evaluated the MPLA, FNLA and UNITA, the three +movements in the country, to decide which one was the better one. The +assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Nathaniel Davis, no +bleeding-heart liberal (he was known by some people in the business as the +butcher of Santiago), he said we should stay out of the conflict and work with +whoever eventually won, and that was obviously the MPLA. Our consul in +Luanda, Tom Killoran, vigorously argued that the MPLA was the best qualified +to run the country and the friendliest to the U.S.

+ +

We brushed these people aside, forced Nat Davis to resign, and proceeded with +our war. The MPLA said they wanted to be our friends, they didn't want to be +pushed into the arms of the Soviet Union; they begged us not to fight them, +they wanted to work with us. We said they wanted a cheap victory, they wanted +a walk-over, they wanted to be un-opposed, that we wouldn't give them a cheap +victory, we would make them earn it, so to speak. And we did. 10000 +Africans died and they won the victory that they were winning anyway.

+ +

Now, the most significant thing that I got out of all of this, in addition to +the fact that our rationales were basically false, was that we lied. To just +about everybody involved. One third of my staff in this task force that I put +together in Washington, commanding this global operation, pulling strings all +over the world to focus pressure onto Angola, and military activities into +Angola, one third of my staff was propagandists, who were working, in every +way they could think of, to get stories into the U.S. press, the world press, +to create this picture of Cubans raping Angolans, Cubans and Soviets +introducing arms into the conflict, Cubans and Russians trying to take over +the world.

+ +

Our ambassador to the United Nations, Patrick Moynihan, he read continuous +statements of our position to the Security Council, the general assembly, and +the press conferences, saying the Russians and Cubans were responsible for the +conflict, and that we were staying out, and that we deplored the +militarization of the conflict.

+ +

And every statement he made was false. And every statement he made was +originated in the sub-committee of the NSC that I sat on as we managed this +thing. The state department press person read these position papers daily to +the press. We would write papers for him. Four paragraphs. We would call +him on the phone and say, 'call us 10 minutes before you go on, the situation +could change overnight, we'll tell you which paragraph to read. And all four +paragraphs would be false. Nothing to do with the truth. Designed to play on +events, to create this impression of Soviet and Cuban aggression in Angola. +When they were in fact responding to our initiatives.

+ +

And the CIA director was required by law to brief the Congress. This CIA +director Bill Colby - the same one that dumped our people in Vietnam - he gave +36 briefings of the Congress, the oversight committees, about what we were +doing in Angola. And he lied. At 36 formal briefings. And such lies are +perjury, and it's a felony to lie to the Congress.

+ +

He lied about our relationship with South Africa. We were working closely +with the South African army, giving them our arms, coordinating battles with +them, giving them fuel for their tanks and armored cars. He said we were +staying well away from them. They were concerned about these white +mercenaries that were appearing in Angola, a very sensitive issue, hiring +whites to go into a black African country, to help you impose your will on +that black African country by killing the blacks, a very sensitive issue. The +Congress was concerned we might be involved in that, and he assured them we +had nothing to do with it.

+ +

We had in fact formed four little mercenary armies and delivered them into +Angola to do this dirty business for the CIA. And he lied to them about that. +They asked if we were putting arms into the conflict, and he said no, and we +were. They asked if we had advisors inside the country, and he said 'no, we +had people going in to look at the situation and coming back out'. We had 24 +people sleeping inside the country, training in the use of weapons, installing +communications systems, planning battles, and he said, we didn't have anybody +inside the country.

+ +

In summary about Angola, without U.S. intervention, 10000 people would be +alive that were killed in the thing. The outcome might have been peaceful, or +at least much less bloody. The MPLA was winning when we went in, and they +went ahead and won, which was, according to our consul, the best thing for the +country.

+ +

At the end of this thing the Cubans were entrenched in Angola, seen in the +eyes of much of the world as being the heroes that saved these people from the +CIA and S. African forces. We had allied the U.S. literally and in the eyes +of the world with the S. African army, and that's illegal, and it's impolitic. +We had hired white mercenaries and eventually been identified with them. And +that's illegal, and it's impolitic. And our lies had been visible lies. We +were caught out on those lies. And the world saw the U.S. as liars.

+ +

After it was over, you have to ask yourself, was it justified? What did the +MPLA do after they had won? Were they lying when they said they wanted to be +our friends? 3 weeks after we were shut down... the MPLA had Gulf oil back in +Angola, pumping the Angolan oil from the oilfields, with U.S. gulf technicians +protected by Cuban soldiers, protecting them from CIA mercenaries who were +still mucking around in Northern Angola.

+ +

You can't trust a communist, can you? They proceeded to buy five 737 jets +from Boeing Aircraft in Seattle. And they brought in 52 U.S. technicians to +install the radar systems to land and take-off those planes. They didn't buy +[the Soviet Union's] Aeroflot.... David Rockefeller himself tours S. Africa +and comes back and holds press conferences, in which he says that we have no +problem doing business with the so-called radical states of Southern Africa.

+ +

I left the CIA, I decided that the American people needed to know what we'd +done in Angola, what we'd done in Vietnam. I wrote my book. I was fortunate +- I got it out. It was a best-seller. A lot of people read it. I was able +to take my story to the American people. Got on 60 minutes, and lots and lots +of other shows.

+ +

I testified to the Congress and then I began my education in earnest, after +having been taught to fight communists all my life. I went to see what +communists were all about. I went to Cuba to see if they do in fact eat +babies for breakfast. And I found they don't. I went to Budapest, a country +that even national geographic admits is working nicely. I went to Jamaica to +talk to Michael Manley about his theories of social democracy.

+ +

I went to Grenada and established a dialogue with Maurice Bishop and Bernard +Coard and Phyllis Coard, to see - these were all educated people, and +experienced people - and they had a theory, they had something they wanted to +do, they had rationales and explanations - and I went repeatedly to hear them. +And then of course I saw the U.S., the CIA mounting a covert action against +them, I saw us orchestrating our plan to invade the country. 19 days before he +was killed, I was in Grenada talking to Maurice Bishop about these things, +these indicators, the statements in the press by Ronald Reagan, and he and I +were both acknowledging that it was almost certain that the U.S. would invade +Grenada in the near future.

+ +

I read as many books as I could find on the subject - book after book after +book. I've got several hundred books on the shelf over my desk on the subject +of U.S. national security interests. And by the way, I *urge you to read*. +In television you get capsules of news that someone else puts together what +they want you to hear about the news. In newspapers you get what the editors +select to put in the newspaper. If you want to know about the world and +understand, to educate yourself, you have to get out and dig, dig up books and +articles for yourself. Read, and find out for yourselves. As you'll see, the +issues are very, very important.

+ +

I also was able to meet the players, the people who write, the people who have +done studies, people who are leading different situations. I went to +Nicaragua a total of 7 times. This was a major covert action. It lasted +longer and evolved to be bigger than what we did in Angola. It gave me a +chance, after running something from Washington, to go to a country that was +under attack, to talk to the leadership, to talk to the people, to look and +see what happens when you give white phosporous or grenades or bombs or +bullets to people, and they go inside a country, to go and talk to the people, +who have been shot, or hit, or blown up....

+ +

We're talking about 10 to 20 thousand covert actions [the CIA has performed +since 1961]. What I found was that lots and lots of people have been killed +in these things.... Some of them are very, very bloody.

+ +

The Indonesian covert action of 1965, reported by Ralph McGehee, who was in +that area division, and had documents on his desk, in his custody about that +operation. He said that one of the documents concluded that this was a model +operation that should be copied elsewhere in the world. Not only did it +eliminate the effective communist party (Indonesian communist party), it also +eliminated the entire segment of the population that tended to support the +communist party - the ethnic Chinese, Indonesian Chinese. And the CIA's +report put the number of dead at 800000 killed. And that was one covert +action. We're talking about 1 to 3 million people killed in these things.

+ +

Two of these things have led us directly into bloody wars. There was a covert +action against China, destabilizing China, for many, many years, with a +propaganda campaign to work up a mood, a feeling in this country, of the evils +of communist China, and attacking them, as we're doing in Nicaragua today, +with an army that was being launched against them to parachute in and boat in +and destabilize the country. And this led us directly into the Korean war.

+ +

U.S. intelligence officers worked over Vietnam for a total of 25 years, with +greater and greater involvement, massive propaganda, deceiving the American +people about what was happening. Panicking people in Vietnam to create +migrations to the south so they could photograph it and show how people were +fleeing communism. And on and on, until they got us into the Vietnam war, and +2000000 people were killed.

+ +

There is a mood, a sentiment in Washington, by our leadership today, for the +past 4 years, that a good communist is a dead communist. If you're killing 1 +to 3 million communists, that's great. President Reagan has gone public and +said he would reduce the Soviet Union to a pile of ashes. The problem, +though, is that these people killed by our national security activities are +not communists. They're not Russians, they're not KGB. In the field we used +to play chess with the KGB officers, and have drinks with them. It was like +professional football players - we would knock heads on Sunday, maybe in an +operation, and then Tuesday you're at a banquet together drinking toasts and +talking.

+ +

The people that are dying in these things are people of the third world. +That's the common denominator that you come up with. People of the third +world. People that have the misfortune of being born in the Mitumba mountains +of the Congo, in the jungles of Southeast Asia, and now in the hills of +northern Nicaragua. Far more Catholics than communists, far more Buddhists +than communists. Most of them couldn't give you an intelligent definition of +communism, or of capitalism.

+ +

Central America has been a traditional target of U.S. dominion. If you want +to get an easy-read of the history of our involvement in Central America, read +Walter LaFeber's book, "Inevitable Revolutions" . We have dominated the area +since 1820. We've had a policy of dominion, of excluding other countries, +other industrial powers from Europe, from competing with us in the area.

+ +

Just to give you an example of how complete this is, and how military this has +been, between 1900 and W.W. II, we had 5000 marines in Nicaragua for a total +of 28 years. We invaded the Dominican Republic 4 times. Haiti, we occupied +it for 12 years. We put our troops into Cuba 4 times, Panama 6 times, +Guatemala once, plus a CIA covert action to overthrow the democratic +government there once. Honduras, 7 times. And by the way, we put 12000 +troops into the Soviet Union during that same period of time.

+ +

In the 1930's there was public and international pressure about our marines in +Nicaragua....

+ +

The next three leaders of Guatemala [after the CIA installed the puppet, +Colonel Armas in a coup] died violent deaths, and amnesty international tells +us that the governments we've supported in power there since then, have killed +80000 people. You can read about that one in the book "Bitter Fruit", by +Kinzer and Schlesinger. Kinzer's a New York Times Journalist... or Jonathan +Kwitny, the Wall Street Journal reporter, his book "Endless Enemies" all +discuss this....

+ +

However, the money, the millions and millions of dollars we put into this +program [helping Central America] inevitably went to the rich, and not to the +people of the countries involved. And while we were doing this, while we were +trying, at least saying we were trying, to correct the problems of Central and +Latin America, the CIA was doing its thing, too. The CIA was in fact forming +the police units that are today the death squads in El Salvador. With the +leaders on the CIA's payroll, trained by the CIA and the United States.

+ +

We had the 'public safety program' going throughout Central and Latin America +for 26 years, in which we taught them to break up subversion by interrogating +people. Interrogation, including torture, the way the CIA taught it. Dan +Mitrione, the famous exponent of these things, did 7 years in Brazil and 3 in +Uruguay, teaching interrogation, teaching torture. He was supposed to be the +master of the business, how to apply the right amount of pain, at just the +right times, in order to get the response you want from the individual.

+ +

They developed a wire. They gave them crank generators, with 'U.S. AID' +written on the side, so the people even knew where these things came from. +They developed a wire that was strong enough to carry the current and fine +enough to fit between the teeth, so you could put one wire between the teeth +and the other one in or around the genitals and you could crank and submit the +individual to the greatest amount of pain, supposedly, that the human body can +register.

+ +

Now how do you teach torture? Dan Mitrione: 'I can teach you about torture, +but sooner or later you'll have to get involved. You'll have to lay on your +hands and try it yourselves.'

+ +

... All they [the guinea pigs, beggars from off the streets] could do was lie +there and scream. And when they would collapse, they would bring in doctors +and shoot them up with vitamin B and rest them up for the next class. And +when they would die, they would mutilate the bodies and throw them out on the +streets, to terrify the population so they would be afraid of the police and +the government.

+ +

And this is what the CIA was teaching them to do. And one of the women who +was in this program for 2 years - tortured in Brazil for 2 years - she +testified internationally when she eventually got out. She said, 'The most +horrible thing about it was in fact, that the people doing the torture were +not raving psychopaths.' She couldn't break mental contact with them the way +you could if they were psychopath. They were very ordinary people....

+ +

There's a lesson in all of this. And the lesson is that it isn't only Gestapo +maniacs, or KGB maniacs, that do inhuman things to other people, it's people +that do inhuman things to other people. And we are responsible for doing +these things, on a massive basis, to people of the world today. And we do it +in a way that gives us this plausible denial to our own consciences; we create +a CIA, a secret police, we give them a vast budget, and we let "them" go and +run these programs in our name, and we pretend like we don't know it's going +on, although the information is there for us to know; and we pretend like it's +ok because we're fighting some vague communist threat. And we're just as +responsible for these 1 to 3 million people we've slaughtered and for all the +people we've tortured and made miserable, as the Gestapo was the people that +they've slaughtered and killed. Genocide is genocide!

+ +

Now we're pouring money into El Salvador. A billion dollars or so. And it's +a documented fact that the... 14 families there that own 60% of the country +are taking out between 2 to 5 billion dollars - it's called de-capitalization +- and putting it in banks in Miami and Switzerland. Mort Halperin, testifying +to a committee of the Congress, he suggested we could simplify the whole thing +politically just by investing our money directly in the Miami banks in their +names and just stay out of El Salvador altogether. And the people would be +better off.

+ +

Nicaragua. What's happening in Nicaragua today is covert action. It's a +classic de-stabilization program. In November 16, 1981, President Reagan +allocated 19 million dollars to form an army, a force of contras, they're +called, ex-Somoza national guards, the monsters who were doing the torture and +terror in Nicaragua that made the Nicaraguan people rise up and throw out the +dictator, and throw out the guard. We went back to create an army of these +people. We are killing, and killing, and terrorizing people. Not only in +Nicaragua but the Congress has leaked to the press - reported in the New York +Times, that there are 50 covert actions going around the world today, CIA +covert actions going on around the world today.

+ +

You have to be asking yourself, why are we destabilizing 50 corners of the +troubled world? Why are we about to go to war in Nicaragua, the Central +American war? It is the function, I suggest, of the CIA, with its 50 +de-stabilization programs going around the world today, to keep the world +unstable, and to propagandize the American people to hate, so we will let the +establishment spend any amount of money on arms....

+ +

The Victor Marchetti ruling of the Supreme Court gave the government the right +to prepublication censorship of books. They challenged 360 items in his 360 +page book. He fought it in court, and eventually they deleted some 60 odd +items in his book.

+ +

The Frank Snepp ruling of the Supreme Court gave the government the right to +sue a government employee for damages. If s/he writes an unauthorized account +of the government - which means the people who are involved in corruption in +the government, who see it, who witness it, like Frank Snepp did, like I did - +if they try to go public they can now be punished in civil court. The +government took $90000 away from Frank Snepp, his profits from his book, and +they've seized the profits from my own book....

+ +

[Reagan passed] the Intelligence Identities Protection act, which makes it a +felony to write articles revealing the identities of secret agents or to write +about their activities in a way that would reveal their identities. Now, what +does this mean? In a debate in Congress - this is very controversial - the +supporters of this bill made it clear.... If agents Smith and Jones came on +this campus, in an MK-ultra-type experiment, and blew your fiance's head away +with LSD, it would now be a felony to publish an article in your local paper +saying, 'watch out for these 2 turkeys, they're federal agents and they blew +my loved one's head away with LSD'. It would not be a felony what they had +done because that's national security and none of them were ever punished for +those activities.

+ +

Efforts to muzzle government employees. President Reagan has been banging +away at this one ever since. Proposing that every government employee, for +the rest of his or her life, would have to submit anything they wrote to 6 +committees of the government for censorship, for the rest of their lives. To +keep the scandals from leaking out... to keep the American people from +knowing what the government is really doing.

+ +

Then it starts getting heavy. The 'Pre-emptive Strikes' bill. President +Reagan, working through the Secretary of State Shultz... almost 2 years ago, +submitted the bill that would provide them with the authority to strike at +terrorists before terrorists can do their terrorism. But this bill... +provides that they would be able to do this in "this" country as well as +overseas. It provides that the secretary of state would put together a list +of people that he considers to be terrorist, or terrorist supporters, or +terrorist sympathizers. And if your name, or your organization, is put on +this list, they could kick down your door and haul you away, or kill you, +without any due process of the law and search warrants and trial by jury, and +all of that, with impunity.

+ +

Now, there was a tremendous outcry on the part of jurists. The New York Times +columns and other newspapers saying, 'this is no different from Hitler's +"night and fog" program', where the government had the authority to haul +people off at night. And they did so by the thousands. And President Reagan +and Secretary Shultz have persisted.... Shultz has said, 'Yes, we will have +to take action on the basis of information that would never stand up in a +court. And yes, innocent people will have to be killed in the process. But, +we must have this law because of the threat of international terrorism'.

+ +

Think a minute. What is 'the threat of international terrorism'? These +things catch a lot of attention. But how many Americans died in terrorist +actions last year? According to Secretary Shultz, 79. Now, obviously that's +terrible but we killed 55000 people on our highways with drunken driving; we +kill 2500 people in far nastier, bloodier, mutilating, gang-raping ways in +Nicaragua last year alone ourselves. Obviously 79 peoples' death is not +enough reason to take away the protection of American citizens, of due process +of the law.

+ +

But they're pressing for this. The special actions teams that will do the +pre-emptive striking have already been created, and trained in the defense +department.

+ +

They're building detention centers. There were 8 kept as mothballs under the +McCarran act after World War II, to detain aliens and dissidents in the next +war, as was done in the next war, as was done with the Japanese people during +World War II. They're building 10 more, and army camps, and the... executive +memos about these things say it's for aliens and dissidents in the next +national emergency....

+ +

FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, headed by Loius Guiffrida, a +friend of Ed Meese's.... He's going about the country lobbying and demanding +that he be given authority, in the times of national emergency, to declare +martial law, and establish a curfew, and gun down people who violate the +curfew... in the United States.

+ +

And then there's Ed Meese, as I said. The highest law enforcement officer in +the land, President Reagan's closest friend, going around telling us that the +constitution never did guarantee freedom of speech and press, and due process +of the law, and assembly.

+ +

What they are planning for this society, and this is why they're determined to +take us into a war if we'll permit it... is the Reagan revolution.... So he's +getting himself some laws so when he puts in the troops in Nicaragua, he can +take charge of the American people, and put people in jail, and kick in their +doors, and kill them if they don't like what he's doing....

+ +

The question is, 'Are we going to permit our leaders to take away our freedoms +because they have a charming smile and they were nice movie stars one day, or +are we going to stand up and fight, and insist on our freedoms?' It's up to +us - you and I can watch this history play in the next year and 2 and 3 years.

+ +

======================================================================== +"CIA Covert Operations in Central America, CIA Manipulation of the +Press, CIA Experimentation on the U.S. Public"

+ +

I just got my latest book back from the CIA censors. If I had not submitted +it to them, I would have gone to jail, without trial - blow off juries and all +that sort of thing - for having violated our censorship laws....

+ +

In that job [Angola] I sat on a sub-committee of the NSC, so I was like a +chief of staff, with the GS-18s (like 3-star generals) Henry Kissinger, Bill +Colby (the CIA director), the GS-18s and the CIA, making important decisions +and my job was to put it all together and make it happen and run it, an +interesting place from which to watch a covert action being done....

+ +

When the world's gotten blocked up before, like a monopoly game where +everything's owned and nobody can make any progress, the way they erased the +board and started over has been to have big world wars, and erase countries +and bomb cities and bomb banks and then start from scratch again. This is not +an option to us now because of all these 52000 nuclear weapons....

+ +

The United States CIA is running 50 covert actions, destabilizing further +almost one third of the countries in the world today....

+ +

By the way, everything I'm sharing with you tonight is in the public record. +The 50 covert actions - these are secret, but that has been leaked to us by +members of the oversight committee of the Congress. I urge you not to take my +word for anything. I'm going to stand here and tell you and give you examples +of how our leaders lie. Obviously I could be lying. The only way you can +figure it out for yourself is to educate yourselves. The French have a saying, +'them that don't do politics will be done'. If you don't fill your mind +eagerly with the truth, dig it out from the records, go and see for yourself, +then your mind remains blank and your adrenaline pumps, and you can be +mobilized and excited to do things that are not in your interest to do....

+ +

Nicaragua is not the biggest covert action, it is the most famous one. +Afghanistan is, we spent several hundred million dollars in Afghanistan. +We've spent somewhat less than that, but close, in Nicaragua....

+ +

[When the U.S. doesn't like a government], they send the CIA in, with its +resources and activists, hiring people, hiring agents, to tear apart the +social and economic fabric of the country, as a technique for putting pressure +on the government, hoping that they can make the government come to the U.S.'s +terms, or the government will collapse altogether and they can engineer a coup +d'etat, and have the thing wind up with their own choice of people in power.

+ +

Now ripping apart the economic and social fabric of course is fairly +textbook-ish. What we're talking about is going in and deliberately creating +conditions where the farmer can't get his produce to market, where children +can't go to school, where women are terrified inside their homes as well as +outside their homes, where government administration and programs grind to a +complete halt, where the hospitals are treating wounded people instead of sick +people, where international capital is scared away and the country goes +bankrupt. If you ask the state department today what is their official +explanation of the purpose of the Contras, they say it's to attack economic +targets, meaning, break up the economy of the country. Of course, they're +attacking a lot more.

+ +

To destabilize Nicaragua beginning in 1981, we began funding this force of +Somoza's ex-national guardsmen, calling them the contras (the +counter-revolutionaries). We created this force, it did not exist until we +allocated money. We've armed them, put uniforms on their backs, boots on +their feet, given them camps in Honduras to live in, medical supplies, +doctors, training, leadership, direction, as we've sent them in to +de-stabilize Nicaragua. Under our direction they have systematically been +blowing up graineries, saw mills, bridges, government offices, schools, health +centers. They ambush trucks so the produce can't get to market. They raid +farms and villages. The farmer has to carry a gun while he tries to plow, if +he can plow at all.

+ +

If you want one example of hard proof of the CIA's involvement in this, and +their approach to it, dig up 'The Sabotage Manual', that they were circulating +throughout Nicaragua, a comic-book type of a paper, with visual explanations +of what you can do to bring a society to a halt, how you can gum up +typewriters, what you can pour in a gas tank to burn up engines, what you can +stuff in a sewage to stop up the sewage so it won't work, things you can do to +make a society simply cease to function.

+ +

Systematically, the contras have been assassinating religious workers, +teachers, health workers, elected officials, government administrators. You +remember the assassination manual? that surfaced in 1984. It caused such a +stir that President Reagan had to address it himself in the presidential +debates with Walter Mondale. They use terror. This is a technique that +they're using to traumatize the society so that it can't function.

+ +

I don't mean to abuse you with verbal violence, but you have to understand +what your government and its agents are doing. They go into villages, they +haul out families. With the children forced to watch they castrate the +father, they peel the skin off his face, they put a grenade in his mouth and +pull the pin. With the children forced to watch they gang-rape the mother, +and slash her breasts off. And sometimes for variety, they make the parents +watch while they do these things to the children.

+ +

This is nobody's propaganda. There have been over 100000 American witnesses +for peace who have gone down there and they have filmed and photographed and +witnessed these atrocities immediately after they've happened, and documented +13000 people killed this way, mostly women and children. These are the +activities done by these contras. The contras are the people president Reagan +calls 'freedom fighters'. He says they're the moral equivalent of our +founding fathers. And the whole world gasps at this confession of his family +traditions.

+ +

Read "Contra Terror" by Reed Brody former assistant Attorney General of New +York State. Read "The Contras" by Dieter Eich. Read "With the Contras" by +Christopher Dickey. This is a main-line journalist, down there on a grant +with the Council on Foreign Relations, a slightly to the right of the middle +of the road organization. He writes a book that sets a pox on both your +houses, and then he accounts about going in on patrol with the contras, and +describes their activities. Read "Witness for Peace: What We have Seen and +Heard" . Read the Lawyer's Commission on Human Rights. Read "The Violations +of War on Both Sides" by the Americas Watch. And there are many, many more +documentations of details, of names, of the incidents that have happened.

+ +

Part of a de-stabilization is propaganda, to dis-credit the targeted +government. This one actually began under Jimmy Carter. He authorized the +CIA to go in and try to make the Sandinistas look to be evil. So in 1979 +[when] they came in to power, immediately we were trying to cast them as +totalitarian, evil, threatening Marxists. While they abolished the death +sentence, while they released 8000 national guardsmen that they had in their +custody that they could have kept in prison, they said 'no. Unless we have +evidence of individual crimes, we're not going to hold someone in prison just +because they were associated with the former administration.' While they set +out to launch a literacy campaign to teach the people to read and write, which +is something that the dictator Somoza, and us supporting him, had never +bothered to get around to doing. While they set out to build 2500 clinics to +give the country something resembling a public health policy, and access to +medicines, we began to label them as totalitarian dictators, and to attack +them in the press, and to work with this newspaper 'La Prensa', which - it's +finally come out and been admitted, in Washington - the U.S. government is +funding: a propaganda arm.

+ +

[Reagan and the State dept. have] been claiming they're building a war machine +that threatens the stability of Central America. Now the truth is, this +small, poor country has been attacked by the world's richest country under +conditions of war, for the last 5 years. Us and our army - the death they +have sustained, the action they have suffered - it makes it a larger war +proportionally than the Vietnam war was to the U.S. In addition to the contra +activities, we've had U.S. Navy ships supervising the mining of harbors, we've +sent planes in and bombed the capital, we've had U.S. military planes flying +wing-tip to wing-tip over the country, photographing it, aerial +reconnaissance. They don't have any missiles or jets they can send up to +chase us off. "We" are at war with "them" . The have not retaliated yet with +any kind of war action against us, but we do not give them credit with having +the right to defend themselves. So we claim that the force they built up, +which is obviously purely defensive, is an aggressive force that threatens the +stability of all of Central America.

+ +

We claim the justification for this is the arms that are flowing from +Nicaragua to El Salvador, and yet in 5 years of this activity, President +Reagan hasn't been able to show the world one shred of evidence of any arms +flowing from Nicaragua into El Salvador.

+ +

We launched a campaign to discredit their elections. International observer +teams said these were the fairest elections they have witnessed in Central +America in many years. We said they were fraudulent, they were rigged, +because it was a totalitarian system. Instead we said, the elections that +were held in El Salvador were models of democracy to be copied elsewhere in +the world. And then the truth came out about that one. And we learned that +the CIA had spent 2.2 million dollars to make sure that their choice of +candidates - Duarte - would win. They did everything, we're told, by one of +their spokesmen, indirectly, but stuff the ballot boxes....

+ +

I'll make a footnote that when I speak out, he [Senator Jesse Helms] calls me +a traitor, but when something happens he doesn't like, he doesn't hesitate to +go public and reveal the secrets and embarrass the U.S.

+ +

We claim the Sandinistas are smuggling drugs as a technique to finance their +revolution. This doesn't make sense. We're at war with them, we're dying to +catch them getting arms from the Soviet Union, flying things back and forth to +Cuba. We have airplanes and picket ships watching everything that flies out +of that country, and into it. How are they going to have a steady flow of +drug-smuggling planes into the U.S.? Not likely! However, there are +Nicaraguans, on these bases in Honduras, that have planes flying into CIA +training camps in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, several times a week.

+ +

Now, obviously i'm not going to stand in front of you and say that the CIA +might be involved in drug trafficking, am I? READ THE BOOK. Read "The +Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia" . For 20 years the CIA was helping the +Kuomintang to finance itself and then to get rich, smuggling heroin. When we +took over from the French in 1954 their intelligence service had been +financing itself by smuggling the heroin out of Laos. We replaced them - we +put Air America, the CIA subsidiary - it would fly in with crates marked +humanitarian aid, which were arms, and it would fly back out with heroin. And +the first target, market, of this heroin was the U.S. GI's in Vietnam. If +anybody in Nicaragua is smuggling drugs, it's the contras. Now i've been +saying that since the state department started waving this red herring around +a couple of years ago, and the other day you notice President Reagan said that +the Nicaraguans, the Sandinistas, were smuggling drugs, and the DEA said, 'it +ain't true, the contras are smuggling drugs'.

+ +

We claim the Sandinistas are responsible for the terrorism that's happening +anywhere in the world. 'The country club of terrorism' we call it. There's an +incident in Rome, and Ed Meese goes on television and says, 'that country club +in Nicaragua is training terrorists'. We blame the Sandinistas for the misery +that exists in Nicaragua today, and there is misery, because the world's +richest nation has set out to create conditions of misery, and obviously we're +bound to have some effect. The misery is not the fault of the Sandinistas, +it's the result of our destabilization program. And despite that, and despite +some grumbling in the country, the Sandinistas in their elections got a much +higher percentage of the vote than President Reagan did, who's supposed to be +so popular in this country. And all observers are saying that people are +still hanging together, with the Sandinistas.

+ +

Now it gets tricky. We're saying that the justification for more aid, +possibly for an invasion of the country - and mind you, president Reagan has +begun to talk about this, and the Secretary of Defense Weinberger began to say +that it's inevitable - we claim that the justification is that the Soviet +Union now has invested 500 million dollars in arms in military to make it its +big client state, the Soviet bastion in this hemisphere. And that's true. +They do have a lot of arms in there now. But the question is, how did they +get invited in? You have to ask yourself, what's the purpose of this +destabilization program? For this I direct you back to the Newsweek article +in Sept. 1981, where they announce the fact that the CIA was beginning to put +together this force of Somoza's ex-guard. Newsweek described it as 'the only +truly evil, totally unacceptable factor in the Nicaraguan equation'. They +noted that neither the white house nor the CIA pretended it ever could have a +chance of winning. So then they asked, rhetorically, 'what's the point?' and +they concluded that the point is that by attacking the country, you can force +the Sandinistas into a more radical position, from which you have more +ammunition to attack them.

+ +

And that's what we've accomplished now. They've had to get Soviet aid to +defend themselves from the attack from the world's richest country, and now we +can stand up to the American people and say, 'see? they have all the Soviet +aid'. Make no doubt of it, it's the game plan of the Reagan Administration to +have a war in Nicaragua, they have been working on this since 1981, they have +been stopped by the will of the American people so far, but they're working +harder than ever to engineer their war there.

+ +

Now, CIA destabilizations are nothing new, they didn't begin with Nicaragua. +We've done it before, once or twice. Like the Church committee, investigating +CIA covert action in 1975, found that we had run several hundred a year, and +we'd been in the business of running covert actions, the CIA has, for 4 +decades. You're talking about 10 to 20 thousand covert actions.

+ +

CIA apologists leap up and say, 'well, most of these things are not so +bloody'. And that's true. You're giving a politician some money so he'll +throw his party in this direction or that one, or make false speeches on your +behalf, or something like that. It may be non-violent, but it's still illegal +intervention in other countries' affairs, raising the question of whether or +not we are going to have a world in which law, rules of behaviour, are +respected, or is it going to be a world of bullies, where the strongest can +violate and brutalize the weakest, and ignore the laws?

+ +

But many of these things are very bloody indeed, and we know a lot about a lot +of them. Investigations by the Congress, testimony by CIA directors, +testimony by CIA case officers, books written by CIA case officers, documents +gotten out of the government under the freedom of information act, books that +are written by by pulitzer-prize-winning journalists who've documented their +cases. And you can go and read from these things, classic CIA operations that +we know about, some of them very bloody indeed. Guatemala 1954, Brazil, +Guyana, Chile, The Congo, Iran, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Equador, Uruguay - the +CIA organized the overthrow of constitutional democracies. Read the book +"Covert Action: 35 years of Deception" by the journalist Godswood. Remember +the Henry Kissinger quote before the Congress when he was being grilled to +explain what they had done to overthrow the democratic government in Chile, in +which the President, Salvador Allende had been killed. And he said, 'The +issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for +themselves'.

+ +

We had covert actions against China, very much like what we're doing against +Nicaragua today, that led us directly into the Korean war, where we fought +China in Korea. We had a long covert action in Vietnam, very much like the +one that we're running in Nicaragua today, that tracked us directly into the +Vietnam war. Read the book, "The Hidden History of the Korean War" by I. F. +Stone. Read "Deadly Deceits" by Ralph McGehee for the Vietnam story. In +Thailand, the Congo, Laos, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Honduras, the CIA put together +large standing armies. In Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, the Congo, Iran, +Nicaragua, and Sri Lanca, the CIA armed and encouraged ethnic minorities to +rise up and fight. The first thing we began doing in Nicaragua, 1981 was to +fund an element of the Miskito indians, to give them money and training and +arms, so they could rise up and fight against the government in Managua. In +El Salvador, Vietnam, Korea, Iran, Uganda and the Congo, the CIA helped form +and train the death squads.

+ +

In El Salvador specifically, under the 'Alliance for Progress' in the early +1960's, the CIA helped put together the treasury police. These are the people +that haul people out at night today, and run trucks over their heads. These +are the people that the Catholic church tells us, has killed something over +50000 civilians in the last 5 years. And we have testimony before our +Congress that as late as 1982, leaders of the treasury police were still on +the CIA payroll.

+ +

Then you have the 'Public Safety Program'. I have to take just a minute on +this one because it's a very important principle involved that we must +understand, if we're to understand ourselves and the world that we live in. +In this one, the CIA was working with police forces throughout Latin America +for about 26 years, teaching them how to wrap up subversive networks by +capturing someone and interrogating them, torturing them, and then getting +names and arresting the others and going from there. Now, this was such a +brutal and such a bloody operation, that Amnesty International began to +complain and publish reports. Then there were United Nations hearings. Then +eventually our Congress was forced to yield to international pressure and +investigate it, and they found the horror that was being done, and by law they +forced it to stop. You can read these reports - the Amnesty International +findings, and our own Congressional hearings.

+ +

These things kill people. 800000 in Indonesia alone according to CIA's +estimate, 12000 in Nicaragua, 10000 in the Angolan operation that I was +sitting in Washington, managing the task force. They add up. We'll never +know how many people have been killed in them. Obviously a lot. Obviously at +least a million. 800000 in Indonesia alone. Undoubtedly the minimum figure +has to be 3 million. Then you add in a million people killed in Korea, 2 +million people killed in the Vietnam war, and you're obviously getting into +gross millions of people....

+ +

We do not parachute teams into the Soviet Union to haul families out at night +and castrate the father with the children watching, because they have the +Bomb, and a big army, and they would parachute teams right back into our +country and do the same thing to us - they're not scared of us. For slightly +different reasons, but also obvious reasons, we don't do these things in +England, or France, or Germany, or Sweden, or Italy, or Japan. What comes out +at you immediately is that these 1 to 3 million direct victims, the dead, and +in these other wars, they're people of the third world, they're citizens of +countries that are too small to defend them from United States brutality and +aggression. They're people of the Mitumba mountains of the Congo, and the +jungles of Southeast Asia, and now the hills of northern Nicaragua - 12000 +peasants. We have not killed KGB or Russian army advisors in Nicaragua. We +are not killing Cuban advisors. We're not killing very many Sandinistas. The +12000 that we have killed in Nicaragua are peasants, who have the misfortune +of living in a CIA's chosen battlefield. Mostly women and children. +Communists? Far, far, far more Catholics than anything else.

+ +

Now case officers that do these things in places in Nicaragua, they do not +come back to the U.S. and click their heels and suddenly become responsible +citizens. They see themselves - they have been functioning above the laws, of +God, and the laws of man - they've come back to this country, and they've +continued their operations as far as they can get by with them. And we have +abundant documentation of that as well. The MH-Chaos program, exposed in the +late 60's and shut down, re-activated by President Reagan to a degree - we +don't have the details yet - in which they were spending a billion dollars to +manipulate U.S. student, and labor organizations. The MK-ultra program. For +20 years, working through over 200 medical schools and mental hospitals, +including Harvard Medical School, Georgetown, some of the biggest places we've +got, to experiment on American citizens with disease, and drugs.

+ +

They dragged a barge through San Francisco Bay, leaking a virus, to measure +this technique for crippling a city. They launched a whooping cough epidemic +in a Long Island suburb, to see what it would do to the community if all the +kids had whooping cough. Tough shit about the 2 or 3 with weak constitutions +that might die in the process. They put light bulbs in the subways in +Manhattan, that would create vertigo - make people have double vision, so you +couldn't see straight - and hid cameras in the walls - to see what would +happen at rush hour when the trains are zipping past - if everybody has +vertigo and they can't see straight and they're bumping into each other.

+ +

Colonel White - oh yes, and I can't not mention the disease experimentations - +the use of deadly diseases. We launched - when we were destabilizing Cuba for +7 years - we launched the swine fever epidemic, in the hog population, trying +to kill out all of the pigs - a virus. We experimented in Haiti on the people +with viruses.

+ +

I'm not saying, I do not have the slightest shred of evidence, that there is +any truth or indication to the rumor that the CIA and its experimentations +were responsible for AIDS. But we do have it documented that the CIA has been +experimenting on people, with viruses. And now we have some deadly, killer +viruses running around in society. And it has to make you wonder, and it has +to make you worry.

+ +

Colonel White wrote from retirement - he was the man who was in charge of this +macabre program - he wrote, 'I toiled whole-heartedly in the vineyards because +it was fun, fun fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, +cheat, steal, rape and pillage with the blessings of the all highest?' Now +that program, the MK-ultra program, was eventually exposed by the press in +1972, investigated by the Congress, and shut down by the Congress. You can +dig up the Congressional record and read it for yourself.

+ +

There's one book called 'In Search of the Manchurian Candidate'. It's written +by John Marks, based on 14000 documents gotten out of the government under +the Freedom of Information Act. Read for yourselves. The thing was shut down +but not one CIA case officer who was involved was in any way punished. Not +one case officer involved in these experimentations on the American public, +lost a single paycheck for what they had done.

+ +

The Church committee found that the CIA had co-opted several hundred +journalists, including some of the biggest names in the business, to pump its +propaganda stories into our media, to teach us to hate Fidel Castro, and Ho +Chi Minh, and the Chinese, and whomever. The latest flap or scandal we had +about that was a year and a half ago. Leslie Gelb, the heavyweight with the +New York Times, was exposed for having been working covertly with the CIA in +1978 to recruit journalists in Europe, who would introduce stories, print +stories that would create sympathy for the neutron bomb.

+ +

The Church committee found that they had published over 1000 books, paying +someone to write a book, the CIA puts its propaganda lines in it, the +professor or the scholar gets credit for the book and gets the royalties. The +latest flap we had about that was last year. A professor at Harvard was +exposed for accepting 105000 dollars from the CIA to write a book about the +Middle East. Several thousand professors and graduate students co-opted by +the CIA to run its operations on campusses and build files on students.

+ +

And then we have evidence - now, which has been hard to collect in the past +but we knew it was happening - of CIA agents participating, trying to +manipulate, our elections. FDN, Contra commanders, traveling this country on +CIA plane tickets, going on television and pin-pointing a Congressional and +saying, 'That man is soft on Communism. That man is a Sandinista lover.' A +CIA agent going on television, trying to manipulate our elections.

+ +

All of this, to keep America safe for freedom and democracy.

+ +

In Nicaragua the objective is to stop the Cuban and Soviet take-over, we say. +Another big operation in which we said the same thing was Angola, 1975, my +little war. We were saying exactly the same thing - Cubans and Soviets.

+ +

Now I will not going into great detail about this one tonight because I wrote +a book about it, I detailed it. And you can get a copy of that book and read +it for yourselves. I have to urge you, however - please do not rush out and +buy a copy of that book because the CIA sued me. All of my profits go to the +CIA, so if you buy a copy of the book you'll be donating 65 cents to the CIA. +So check it out from your library!

+ +

If you have to buy a copy, well buy one copy and share it with all your +friends. If your bookstore is doing real well and you want to just sort of +put a copy down in your belt...

+ +

I don't know what the solution is when a society gets into censorship, +government censorship, but that's what we're in now. Do the rules change? I +just got my book back, my latest book back from the CIA censors. If I had not +submitted it to them, I would have gone to jail, without trial - blow off +juries and all that sort of thing - for having violated our censorship +laws....

+ +

So now we have the CIA running the operation in Nicaragua, lying to us, +running 50 covert actions, and gearing us up for our next war, the Central +American war. Let there be no doubt about it, President Reagan has a fixation +on Nicaragua. He came into office saying that we shouldn't be afraid of war, +saying we have to face and erase the scars of the Vietnam war. He said in +1983, 'We will do whatever is necessary to reverse the situation in +Nicaragua', meaning get rid of the Sandinistas. Admiral LaRocque, at the +Center for Defense Information in Washington, says this is the most +elaborately prepared invasion that the U.S. has ever done. At least that he's +witnessed in his 40 years of association with our military.

+ +

We have rehearsed the invasion of Nicaragua in operations Big Pine I, Big Pine +II, Ocean Venture, Grenedara, Big Pine III. We have troops right now in +Honduras preparing. We've built 12 bases, including 8 airstrips. Obviously +we don't need 8 airstrips in Honduras for any purpose, except to support the +invasion of Nicaragua. We've built radar stations around, to survey and +watch. Some of these ventures have been huge ones. Hundreds of airplanes, +30000 troops, rehearsing the invasion of Nicaragua.

+ +

And of course, Americans are being given this negative view of these evil +Communist dictators in Managua, just 2 days' drive from Harlingen, Texas. +(They drive faster than I do by the way). I saw an ad on TV just two days ago +in which they said that it was just 2 hours from Managua to Texas. All of +this getting us ready for the invasion of Nicaragua, for our next war.

+ +

Most of the people - 75% of the people - are polled as being against this +action. However, President Eisenhower said, 'The people of the world +genuinely want peace. Someday the leadership of the world are going to have +to give in and give it to them'. But to date, the leaders never have, they've +always been able to outwit the people, us, and get us into the wars when +they've chosen to do so.

+ +

People ask, how is this possible. I get this all the time.... Americans +*are* decent people. They *are* nice people. And they're insulated in the +worlds that they live in, and they don't understand and we don't read our +history. History is the history of war. Of leaders of countries finding +reasons and rationales to send the young men off to fight.

+ +

In our country we talk about peace. But look at our own record. We have over +200 incidents in which we put our troops into other countries to force them to +our will. Now we're being prepared to hate the Sandinistas. The leaders are +doing exactly what they have done time and again throughout history. In the +past we were taught to hate and fight the Seminole Indians, after the leaders +decided to annex Florida. To hate and fight the Cherokee Indians after they +found gold in Georgia. To hate and fight Mexico twice. We annexed Texas, New +Mexico, Arizona, part of Colorado, and California.

+ +

In each of these wars the leaders have worked to organize, to orchestrate +public opinion. And then when they got people worked up, they had a trigger +that would flash, that would make people angry enough that we could go in and +do....

+ +

We have a feeling that the Vietnam war was the first one in which the people +resisted. But once again, we haven't read our history. Kate Richards-O'Hare. +In 1915, she said about WW I, 'The Women of the U.S. are nothing but +brutesalles, producing sons to be put in the army, to be made into +fertilizer'. She was jailed for 5 years for anti-war talk.

+ +

The lessons of the Vietnam war for the American people is that it was a tragic +mistake.... 58000 of our own young people were killed, 2 million Vietnamese +were killed. We withdrew, and our position wound up actually stronger in the +Pacific Basin.

+ +

You look around this society today to see if there's any evidence of our +preparations for war, and it hits you in the face....

+ +

'Join the Army. Be all that you can be'. Now if there was truth in +advertising, obviously those commercials would show a few seconds of young men +with their legs blown off at the knees, young men with their intestines +wrapped around their necks because that's what war is really all about.

+ +

If there was honesty on the part of the army and the government, they would +tell about the Vietnam veterans. More of whom died violent deaths from +suicide after they came back from Vietnam then died in the fighting itself.

+ +

Then you have President Reagan.... He talks about the glory of war, but you +have to ask yourself, where was he when wars were being fought that he was +young enough to fight in them? World War II, and the Korean war. Where he +was was in Hollywood, making films, where the blood was catsup, and you could +wash it off and go out to dinner afterwards....

+ +

Where was Gordon Liddy when he was young enough to go and fight in a war? He +was hiding out in the U.S. running sloppy, illegal, un-professional breaking +and entering operations. Now you'll forgive my egotism, at that time I was +running professional breaking and entering operations....

+ +

What about Rambo himself? Sylvester Stallone. Where was Sylvester Stallone +during the Vietnam war? He got a draft deferment for a physical disability, +and taught physical education in a girls' school in Switzerland during the +war.

+ +

Getting back to President Reagan. He really did say that 'you can always call +cruise missiles back'.... Now, you can call back a B-52, and you can call back +a submarine, but a cruise missile is different.... When it lands, it goes +boom ! And I would prefer that the man with the finger on the button could +understand the difference. This is the man that calls the MX a peace-maker. +This is the man who's gone on television and told us that nuclear war could be +winnable. This is the man who's gone on television and proposed that we might +want to drop demonstration [atom] bombs in Europe to show people that we're +serious people. This is the man who likens the Contras to the moral +equivalents of our own founding fathers. This is the man who says South +Africa is making progress on racial equality. This is the man who says that +the Sandinistas are hunting down and hounding and persecuting Jews in +Nicaragua. And the Jewish leaders go on TV the next day in this country and +say there are 5 Jewish families in Nicaragua, and they're not having any +problems at all. This is the man who says that they're financing their +revolution by smuggling drugs into the U.S. And the DEA says, 'It ain't true, +it's president Reagan's Contras that are doing it'....

+ +

[When Reagan was governor of California, Reagan] said 'If there has to be a +bloodbath then let's get it over with'. Now you have to think about this a +minute. A leader of the U.S. seriously proposing a bloodbath of our own +youth. There was an outcry of the press, so 3 days later he said it again to +make sure no-one had misunderstood him.

+ +

Read. You have to read to inform yourselves. Read "The Book of Quotes"; "On +Reagan: The Man and the Presidency" by Ronnie Dugger. It gets heavy. Dugger +concludes in his last chapter that President Reagan has a fixation on +Armageddon. The Village Voice 18 months ago published an article citing the +11 times that President Reagan publicly has talked about the fact that we are +all living out Armageddon today....

+ +

[Reagan] has Jerry Falwell into the White House. This is the man that +preaches that we should get on our knees and beg for God to send the rapture +down. Hell's fires on earth so the chosen can go up on high and all the other +people can burn in hell's fires on earth. President Reagan sees himself as +playing the role of the greatest leader of all times forever. Leading us into +Armageddon. As he goes out at the end of his long life, we'll all go out with +him....

+ +

Why does the CIA run 10000 brutal covert actions? Why are we destabilizing a +third of the countries in the world today when there's so much instability and +misery already? Why are our leaders now taking us into another war? Why are +we systematically taught to hate and fight other people?

+ +

What you have to understand is the politics of paranoia. The easiest... +buttons to punch are the buttons of macho, aggression, paranoia, hate, anger, +and fear. The Communists are in Managua and that's just 2 hours from San +Diego, CA. This gets people excited, they don't think. It's the pep-rally, +the football pep-rally factor. When you get people worked up to hate, they'll +let you spend huge amounts of money on arms.

+ +

Read "The Power Elite" by C. Wright Mills. Read "The Permanent War Complex" +by Seymour Melman. CIA covert actions have the function of keeping the world +hostile and unstable....

+ +

We can't take care of the poor, we can't take care of the old, but we can +spend millions, hundreds of millions of dollars to destabilize Nicaragua....

+ +

Why arms instead of schools? .... They can make gigantic profits off the +nuclear arms race because of the hysteria, and the paranoia, and the secrecy. +And that's why they're committed to building more and more and more weapons, +is because they're committed to making a profit. And that's what the +propaganda, and that's what the hysteria is all about. Now people say, 'What +can I do?'....

+ +

The youth *did* rise up and stop the Vietnam war....

+ +

We have to join hands with the people in England, and France, and Germany, and +Israel, and the Soviet Union, and China, and India - the countries that have +the bomb, and the others that are trying to get it. And give our leaders no +choice. They have to find some other way to do business other than to +motivate us through hate and paranoia and anger and killing, or we'll find +other leaders to run the country.

+ +

Now, Helen Caldicott, at the end of her lectures, I've heard her say, very +effectively, "Tell people to get out and get to work on the problem.... You'll +feel better" ....

+ +

'What can I do?'.... If you can travel, go to Nicaragua and see for yourself. +Go to the Nevada test site and see for yourself. Go to Pantex on Hiroshima +day this summer, and see the vigil there. The place where we make 10 +nose-cones a day, 70 a week, year in and year out. He [Admiral LaRocque] +said, "I'd tell them, if they feel comfortable lying down in front of trucks +with bombs on them, to lie down in front of trucks with bombs on them." But +he said, "I'd tell them that they can't wait. They've got to start tomorrow, +today, and do it, what they can, every day of their lives."

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The following pamphlet was written in 1989 by a minister (now +deceased) who had the courage and inspiration to explain in +very simple and uncluttered language -- how it is that we +are presently being ENSLAVED and IMPOVERISHED by the current +"debt-usury banking system" that we have.

+ +

It was written for a predominately Christian audience (which may +or may not be your cup of tea), and some of the information +may be a little dated (the figures for the debt, for example, +have increased astronomically since it was penned) but regardless +of that -- it is a clear and URGENT message that needs to be +listened to by the American people.

+ +

Keep in mind, also, that according to William Cooper ("Behold +a Pale Horse" p. 80-81) -- in the year 1952, an alliance was +formed between all the various groups that are working for total +financial enslavement of the worlds' peoples: The Illuminati, +Knights of Malta, Freemasons, European and Continental Banking +Families, etc.. Thus, it is NOT any one group or subgroup of +this alliance (referred to as the "Bankers" in the text) that +is doing it to us.

+ +

There is no copyright to this information. Print out a copy and +share it with your friends!

+ +

-- JS

+ +

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+ +

BILLIONS FOR THE BANKERS AND DEBTS FOR THE PEOPLE

+

A Study by Pastor Sheldon Emry

+ +

"For the love of money is the root of all evil..." +1 Timothy 6:10 +

+ +

Produced and Distributed by:

+ +

AMERICA'S PROMISE MINISTRIES +P.O. BOX 157 +SANDPOINT, IDAHO 83864 +

+ +

[There is NO COPYRIGHT on this information. Please re-post it freely +and widely. It needs to be in the hands of every American citizen!] + +______________________________________________________________________ +

+

+ +TABLE OF CONTENTS

+ +

INTRODUCTION + +Love of Money...................i +Thomas Jefferson Quote...............ii +Three Types of Conquest.............iii

+ +

BILLIONS FOR THE BANKERS.................1 + +Money is Man's Only Creation................2 +Money Creating Profitable.............3 +Adequate Money Supply Needed................3 +The Bankers' Depression of the 1930's.............3 +Money For Peace or War?...............5

+ +

POWER TO COIN AND REGULATE MONEY...............6

+ +

HOW PEOPLE LOST CONTROL OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE.......6

+ +

More Disastrous Than Pearl Harbor...........7 +They Print It -- We Borrow It...............7 +And There is More...............9 +And There is Still More...............9

+ +

THE INTEREST AMOUNT IS NEVER CREATED..........10

+ +

Borrow $60000 and Pay Back $255931.............11 +Small Loans....................11 +Bankers Always Prosper...............12 +The Cost to You................13 +For the Gamblers...............14

+ +

YES, IT'S POLITICAL TOO!................15 + +Mounting Debts and Wars..............16 +And There is More....................17

+ +

THE CONSTITUTIONAL WAY..................19 + +No Bankers' Plunder..................21 +Stable Money...................22 +Citizen Control................23 +A Debt-Free America..................24

+ +

WHY HAVEN'T WE KNOWN....................25

+ +

Controlled News................25

+ +

TELL THE PEOPLE...................27

+ +

AUDIT THE FEDERAL RESERVE...............29

+ +

NOTABLE QUOTES ON MONEY.................33

+ +

THEY HAVE NOT TOLD YOU..................35

+ +

GOD KNOWS OUR PLIGHT....................37

+ +

WHAT YOU CAN DO...................38

+ +

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+ +

INTRODUCTION

+ +

"The love of money is the root of all evil": (1 Timothy 6:10)

+ +

"If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou +shalt not be to him an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him +usury." Exodus 22:25

+ +

"Take no usury of him, or increase ... thou shalt not give him thy +money upon usury." Leviticus 25:36-37

+ +

"Unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: That the Lord +they God bless thee." Deuteronomy 23:20

+ +

In the early Church, any interest on debt was considered usury. +Read below to see what interest (usury) on debts, a violation of +God's Law, is doing to America.

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THE NEWS +------------------------------------------------------------- +A-8 Lynchburg, Va., Sat., March 26, 1977

+ +

------------------------------------------------------------- + +THE NATIONAL DEBT

+ +

+In 1901 the national debt of the United States was less than $1 billion. +It stayed at less than $1 billion until we got into world war I. Then it +jumped to $25 billion.

+ +

Between 1918 and 1941, on the eve of World War II, the national debt +just about doubled -- from $25 to $49 billion.

+ +

Between 1942 and 1952, the debt went from $72 billion to $265 billion. +In 1962 it was $303 billion. Eight years later, in 1970, it was $383 +billion.

+ +

Between 1971 and 1976 it rose from $409 billion to $631 billion. The +estimated debt at the end of this year [1977] is $727 billion, and +next year it is expected to top $800 billion -- having nearly doubled +in the past eight years. + +If the present trend continues, and there is no evidence whatsoever +that it will not continue, we can expect the national debt to nearly +double again within the next six to eight years. By then, the INTEREST +in the debt alone should be in the $400 billion a year range. + +[Transcriber's note: As of 1996, the official debt about 5 TRILLION]. + +Eventually, the government will own nothing, the people will own +nothing, the banks will own everything.

+ +

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+ +

BILLIONS FOR THE BANKERS + +DEBTS FOR THE PEOPLE +--------------------

+ +

[Top of page: A cartoon showing two bankers sitting on top of a +private bank tower -- one banker sitting contentedly in a +chair smoking a cigar; the other banker throwing a money +windfall up in the air and saying to the first banker, "IT IS +EASY TO ROB THE PEOPLE AND GET RICH. WE JUST LEND THEM THEIR +OWN CREDIT ON PAPER AND CHARGE THEM USURY (INTEREST)." +Beneath the bankers is a door called "loans" showing a +$50000 paper credit "loan" going out of the bank to a +residential home. From the home are $250000 in payments +(30 year payemts) flying back to land on the "tongue" of the +voracious "open mouth" of the bank.]

+ +
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+ +

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the +issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, +the banks and corporations that will grow up around them [around +the banks], will deprive the people of their property until their +children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers +conquered." +-- Thomas Jefferson

+ +

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+ +

p. iii

+ +

THREE TYPES OF CONQUEST

+ +

+History reveals nations can be conquered by the use of one or more of +three methods.

+ +

The most common is conquest by war. In time, though, this method usually +fails, because the captives hate the captors and rise up and drive them +out if they can. Much force is needed to maintain control, making it +expensive for the conquering nation.

+ +

A second method is by religion, where men are convinced they must give +their captors part of their earnings as "obedience to God." Such a +captivity is vulnerable to philosophical exposure or by overthrow by +armed force, since religion by its nature lacks military force to +regain control, once its captives become "disillusioned."

+ +

The third method can be called economic conquest. It takes place when +nations are placed under "tribute" without the use of visible force or +coercion, so that the victims do not realize they have been conquered. +"Tribute" is collected from them in the form of "legal" debts and taxes, +and they believe they are paying it for their own good, for the good of +others, or to protect all from some enemy. Their captors become their +"benefactors" and "protectors".

+ +

Although this is the slowest to impose, it is often quite long lasting, +as the captives do not see any military force arrayed against them, their +religion is left more or less intact, they have freedom to speak and +to travel, and they participate in "elections" for their rulers. Without +realizing it, they are conquered, and the instruments of their own society +are used to transfer their wealth to their captors and make the conquest +complete.

+ +

In 1900 the average American worker paid few taxes and had little debt. +Last year payments on debts and taxes took more than half of what he +earned. Is it possible a form of conquest has been imposed on our people? +Read the following pages and decide for yourself. And may God have mercy +on this once debt-free and great nation, in Christ, + +-- The author

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+ +

+BILLIONS FOR THE BANKERS + +DEBTS FOR THE PEOPLE +--------------------

+ +

THE REAL STORY OF THE MONEY-CONTROL OVER AMERICA

+ +

by + +Pastor Sheldon Emry + + +[Cartoon showing a mother standing in front of a judge in divorce +court, holding the hand of her small boy and girl -- with her +husband sitting in the witness chair, holding his head in gloom. +The mother says to the judge, "AND JUDGE, WE WERE ALWAYS IN DEBT!."]

+ +
+* * *
+ +

+Americans, living in what is called the richest nation on earth, seem +always to be short of money. Wives are working in unprecedented numbers, +husbands hope for overtime hours to earn more, or take part-time jobs +evenings and weekends, children look for odd jobs for spending money, +the family debt climbs higher, and psychologists say one of the biggest +causes of family quarrels and breakups is "arguments over money." Much +of this trouble can be traced to our present "debt-money" system.

+ +

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+ +

p. 2

+ +

Too few Americans realize why Christian Statesmen wrote into Article I +of the U.S. Constitution:

+ +

+"Congress shall have the Power to Coin Money and +Regulate the Value Thereof." +

+ +

They did this, as we will show, in prayerful hope that it would prevent +"love of money" from destroying the republic they had founded. We shall +see how subversion of Article I has brought on us the "evil" of which +God's Word had warned. +

+ +

MONEY IS MAN'S ONLY "CREATION"

+ +

Economists use the term "create" when speaking of the process by which +money comes into existence. Now, "creation" means making something which +did not exist before. Lumbermen make boards from trees, workers build +houses from lumber, and factories manufacture automobiles from metal, +glass and other materials. But in all these they did not "create," +They only changed existing materials into a more usable and, therefore, +more valuable form. This is not so with money. Here, and here alone, +man actually "creates" something out of nothing. + +___________________________________________________________________________

+ +

p. 3 + +A piece of paper of little value is printed so that it is worth a piece +of lumber. With different figures it can buy the automobile or even the +house. It's value has been "created" in the true meaning of the word.

+ +

+"CREATING" MONEY IS VERY PROFITABLE!

+ +

As is seen by the above, money is very cheap to make, and whoever does +the "creating" of money in a nation can make a tremendous profit! +Builders work hard to make a profit of 5% above their cost to build a +house.

+ +

Auto makers sell their cars for 1% to 2% above the cost of manufacture +and it is considered good business. But money "manufactures" have no limit +on their profits, since a few cents will print a $1 bill or a $10000 bill.

+ +

That profit is part of our story, but first let consider another unique +characteristic of the thing -- money, the love of which is the "root of +all evil".

+ +

+ADEQUATE MONEY SUPPLY NEEDED

+ +

An adequate supply of money is indispensable to civilized society. We +could forego many other things but without money industry would grind to +a halt, farms would become only self-sustaining units, surplus food would +disappear, jobs requiring the work of more than one man or one family +would remain undone, shipping and large movement of goods would cease, +hungry people would plunder and kill to remain alive, and all government +except family or tribe would cease to function.

+ +

An overstatement, you say? Not at all. Money is the blood of civilized +society, the means of all commercial trade except simple barter. It is +the measure and the instrument by which one product is sold and another +purchased. Remove money or even reduce the supply below that which is +necessary to carry on current levels of trade, and the results are +catastrophic. For an example, we need only look at America's Depression +of the early 1930's.

+ +

+THE BANKER'S DEPRESSION OF THE 1930'S

+ +

In 1930 America did not lack industrial capacity, fertile farmland, +skilled and willing workers or industrious farm families. It had an +extensive and efficient transportation system in railroads, road networks, +and inland and ocean waterways. + +____________________________________________________________________________ + +p. 4 + +Communications between regions and localities were the best in the world, +utilizing telephone, teletype, radio, and a well-operated government mail +system. No war had ravaged the cities or the countryside, no pestilence +weakened the population, nor had famine stalked the land. The United +States of America in 1930 lacked only one thing: an adequate supply of +money to carry on trade and commerce.

+ +

In the early 1930s, Bankers, the only source of new money and credit, +deliberately refused loans to industries, stores and farms. Payments on +existing loans were required however, and money rapidly disappeared from +circulation. Goods were available to be purchased, jobs waiting to be +done, but the lack of money brought the nation to a standstill. + +By this simple ploy America was put in a "depression" and the greedy +Bankers took possession of hundreds of thousands of farms, homes, and +business properties. The people were told, "times are hard" and "money +is short." Not understanding the system, they were cruelly robbed of +their earnings, their savings, and their property.

+ +

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+ +

p. 5

+ +

MONEY FOR PEACE? NO! + +MONEY FOR WAR? YES!

+ +

+World War II ended the "depression." The same Bankers who in the +early 30's had no loans for peacetime houses, food and clothing, +suddenly had unlimited billions to lend for Army barracks, K-rations +and uniforms! A nation that in 1934 couldn't produce food for sale, +suddenly could produce bombs to send free to Germany and Japan! (More +on this riddle later).

+ +

With the sudden increase in money, people were hired, farms sold +their produce, factories went to two shifts, mines re-opened, and "The +Great Depression" was over! Some politicians were blamed for it and +others took credit for ending it. The truth is the lack of money (caused +by the Bankers) brought on the depression, and adequate money ended it. +The people were never told that simple truth and in this article we will +endeavor to show how these same Bankers who control our money and credit +have used their control to plunder America and place us in bondage.

+ +

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+ +

p. 6

+ +

POWER TO COIN AND REGULATE MONEY + +When we can see the disastrous results of an artificially created +shortage of money, we can better understand why our Founding Fathers, who +understood both money and God's Laws, insisted on placing the power to +"create" money and the power to control it ONLY in the hands of the +Federal Congress.

+ +

They believed that ALL Citizens should share in the profits of its +"creation" and therefore the Federal government must be the ONLY creator +of money. They further believed that ALL citizens, of whatever State +or Territory, or station in life, would benefit by an adequate and stable +currency, and therefore, the national government must also be, by law, +the ONLY controller of the value of money.

+ +

Since the Federal Congress was the only legislative body subject to all +the citizens at the ballot box, it was, to their minds, the only safe +depository of so much profit and so much power. They wrote it out in the +simple, but all inclusive: + +"Congress shall have the Power to Coin Money and +Regulate the Value Thereof."

+ +

HOW THE PEOPLE LOST CONTROL T0 THE FEDERAL RESERVE

+ +

Instead of the Constitutional method of creating our money and putting +it into circulation, we now have and entirely unconstitutional system. +This has brought our country to the brink of disaster, as we shall see.

+ +

Since our money was handled both legally and illegally before 1913, we +shall consider only the years following 1913, since from that year on, ALL +of our money had been created and issued by an illegal method that will +eventually destroy the United States if it is not changed. Prior to 1913, +America was a prosperous, powerful, and growing nation, at peace with its +neighbors and the envy of the world. But -- in December of 1913, Congress, +with many members away for the Christmas holidays, passed what has since +been known as the FEDERAL RESERVE ACT. (For the full story of how this +infamous legislation was forced through our Congress, read "Conquest or +Consent", by W. D. Vennard).

+ +

Omitting the burdensome details, it simply authorized the establishment of +a Federal Reserve Corporation, with a Board of Directors (The Federal +Reserve Board) to run it, and the United States was divided into 12 +Federal Reserve "Districts."

+ +

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+ +

p. 7

+ +

This simple, but terrible, law completely removed from Congress the +right to "create" money or to have any control over its "creation", and +gave that function to The Federal Reserve Corporation. This was done with +appropriate fanfare and propaganda that this would "remove money from +politics" (they didn't say "and therefore from the people's control") and +prevent "Boom and Bust" from hurting our citizens.

+ +

The people were not told then, and most still do not know today, that the +Federal Reserve Corporation is a private corporation controlled by bankers +and therefore is operated for the financial gain of the bankers over the +people rather than for the good of the people. The word "Federal" was used +only to deceive the people.

+ +

+MORE DISASTROUS THAN PEARL HARBOR

+ +

Since that "day of infamy", more disastrous to us than Pearl Harbor, the +small group of "privileged" people who lend us "our" money have accrued to +themselves all of the profits of printing our money -- and more! Since +1913 they have "created" tens of billions of dollars in money and credit, +which, as their own personal property, they then lend to our government +and our people at interest.

+ +

"The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" had become the secret policy +of the Federal government. An example of the process of "creation" and its +conversion to peoples "debt" will aid our understanding.

+ +

THEY PRINT IT --

+ +

WE BORROW IT AND PAY THEM INTEREST + +We shall start with the need for money. The Federal Government, having +spent more than it has taken from its citizens in taxes, needs, for the +sake of illustration, $1000000000. Since it does not have the money, +and Congress has given away its authority to "create" it, the Government +must go to the "creators" for the $1 billion.

+ +

But, the Federal Reserve, a private corporation, doesn't just give its +money away! The Bankers are willing to deliver $1000000000 in money +or credit to the Federal Government in exchange for the Government's +agreement to pay it back -- with interest. So Congress authorizes the +Treasury Department to print $1000000000 in U.S. Bonds, which are then +delivered to the Federal Reserve Bankers.

+ +

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+ +

p. 8

+ +

The Federal Reserve then pays the cost of printing the $1 billion (about +$1000) and makes the exchange. The government then uses the money to pay +its obligations. What are the results of this fantastic transaction? Well, +$1 billion in Government bills are paid all right, but the Government has +now indebted the people to the Bankers for $1 billion on which the people +must pay interest!

+ +

Tens of thousands of such transactions have taken place since 1913 so that +by the 1980s, the U.S. Government is indebted to the Bankers for over +$1000000000000 (trillion), on which the people pay over $100 billion +a year in interest alone with no hope of ever paying off the principal. +Supposedly, our children and following generations will pay forever and +forever! (Since this book was printed in 1984, the national debt has +grown to today's 1989 total of approximately 3 trillion dollars.) + +[Transcriber's note: As of 1996, it is approximately 5 trillion dolllars]. + +_____________________________________________________________________________

+ +

p. 9

+ +

AND THERE'S MORE

+ +

You say, "This is terrible!" Yes, it is, but we have shown only part of +the sordid story. Under this unholy system, those United States Bonds have +now become "assets" of the Banks in the Reserve System, which they then use +as "reserves" to "create" more "credit" to lend. Current "reserve" +requirements allow them to use that $1 billion in bonds to "create" as +much as $15 billion in new "credit" to lend to States, municipalities, to +individuals and businesses.

+ +

Added to the original $1 billion, they could have $16 billion of "created +credit" out in loans paying them interest with their only cost being +$1000 for printing the original $1 billion! Since the U.S. Congress has +not issued Constitutional money since 1863 (over 100 years), in order +for the people to have money to carry on trade and commerce they are +forced to borrow the "created Credit" of the Monopoly bankers and pay +them usury-interest!

+ +

+ +AND THERE'S STILL MORE

+ +

In addition to the vast wealth drawn to them through this almost +unlimited usury, the Bankers who control the money at the top are able +to approve or disapprove large loans to large and successful corporations +to the extent that refusal of a loan will bring about a reduction in +the price that that Corporation's stock sells for on the market.

+ +

After depressing the price, the Bankers' agents buy large blocks of the +company's stock, after which the sometimes multi-million dollar loan is +approved, the stock rises, and is then sold for a profit. In this manner +billions of dollars are made with which to buy more stock. This practice +is so refined today that the Federal Reserve Board need only announce to +the newspapers an increase or decrease in their "discount rate" to send +stocks up and down as they wish. + +Using this method since 1913, the Bankers and their agents have purchased +secret or open control of almost every large corporation in America. Using +that control, they then force the corporations to borrow huge sums from +their banks so that corporate earnings are siphoned off in the form of +interest to the banks. This leaves little as actual "profits" which can +be paid as dividends and explains why stock prices are so depressed, +while the banks reap billions in interest from corporate loans. In effect, +the bankers get almost all of the profits, while individual stockholders +are left holding the bag.

+ +

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+ +

p. 10

+ +

The millions of working families of America are now indebted to the +few thousand Banking families for twice the assessed value of the entire +United States. And these Banking families obtained that debt against us +for the cost of paper, ink, and bookkeeping!

+ +

THE INTEREST AMOUNT IS NEVER CREATED

+ +

The only way new money (which is not true money, but is "credit" +representing a debt), goes into circulation in America is when it is +borrowed from Bankers. When the State and people borrow large sums, we +seem to prosper. However, the bankers "create" only the amount of the +principal of each loan, never the extra amount needed to pay the +interest.

+ +

Therefore, the new money never equals the new debt added. The amounts +needed to pay the interest on loans is not "created," and therefore does +not exist!

+ +

Under this kind of a system, where new debt always exceeds the new money +no matter how much or how little is borrowed, the total debt increasingly +outstrips the amount of money available to pay the debt. The people can +never, ever get out of debt!

+ +

An example will show the viciousness of this usury-debt system with +its "built in" shortage of money.

+ +

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+ +

p. 11

+ +

IF $60000 IS BORROWED

+ +

- $255931.20 MUST BE PAID BACK

+ +

When a citizen goes to a banker to borrow $60000 to purchase a home or +a farm, the Bank clerk has the borrower agree to pay back the loan plus +interest. At 14% interest for 30 years, the borrower must agree to pay +$710.92 per month for a total of $255931.20. + +The clerk then requires the citizen to assign to the banker the right of +ownership of the property if the borrower does not make the required +payments. The bank clerk then gives the borrower a $60000 check or a +$60000 deposit slip, crediting the borrower's checking account with +$60000.

+ +

The borrower then writes checks to the builder, subcontractors, etc., +who in turn write checks. $60000 of new "checkbook" money is thereby +added to the "money in circulation."

+ +

However, and this is the fatal flaw in a usury system, the only new +money created and put into circulation is the amount of the loan, $60000. +The money to pay the interest is NOT created, and therefore was NOT added +to "money in circulation."

+ +

Even so, this borrower (and those who follow him in ownership of the +property) must earn and TAKE OUT OF CIRCULATION $255931, almost $200000 +MORE than he put IN CIRCULATION when he borrowed the original $60000! +(By the way, it is this interest which cheats all families out of nicer +homes. It is not that they cannot afford them; it is because the Bankers' +usury forces them to pay for FOUR homes to get ONE!)

+ +

Every new loan puts the same process in operation. Each borrower adds a +small sum to the total money supply when he borrows, but the payments on +the loan (because of interest) then deduct a much LARGER sum from the +total money supply.

+ +

There is therefore no way all debtors can pay off the money-lenders. As +they pay the principle and interest, the money in circulation disappears. + +All they can do is struggle against each other, borrowing more and more +from the money-lenders each generation. The money lenders (Bankers), +who produce nothing of value, slowly, then more rapidly, gain a death +grip on the land, building, and present and future earnings of the whole +working population. Proverbs 22:7 has come to pass in America. The +borrowers have become the servants to the lenders. No wonder God +Almighty forbids interest on loans. (See cover again).

+ +

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+ +

p. 12 +

+ +

SMALL LOANS DO THE SAME THING

+ +

If you haven't quite grasped the impact of the above, let us consider +a small auto loan for 3 years at 18% interest. Step 1: Citizen borrows +$5000 and pays it into circulation (it goes to the dealer, factory, +miner, etc.) and signs a note agreeing to pay the Bankers $6500. Step 2: +Citizen pays $180 per month of his earnings to the Banker. In three years, +he will take OUT of circulation $1500 more than he put IN circulation.

+ +

Every loan of Banker "created" money (credit) causes the same thing to +happen. Since this has happened millions of times since 1913 (and +continues today), you can see why America has gone from a prosperous, +debt-free nation to a debt-ridden nation where practically every home, +farm and business is paying usury-tribute to some Banker. + +The usury-tribute to the Bankers on personal, local, State and Federal +debt totals more than the combined earnings of 25% of the working +people. Soon it will be 50% and continue upward.

+ +

+THIS IS WHY BANKERS PROSPER IN GOOD TIMES OR BAD

+ +

In the millions of transactions made each year like those above, little +actual currency changes hands, nor is it necessary that it do so. 95% of +all "cash" transactions in the U. S. are executed by check, so the +Banker is perfectly safe in "creating" that so-called "loan" by writing +the check or deposit slip, not against actual money, but AGAINST YOUR +PROMISE TO PAY IT BACK! The cost to him is paper, ink and a few +dollars in salaries and office costs for each transaction. It is "check +kiting" on an enormous scale. The profits increase rapidly, year after +year, as shown below.

+ +

* * * + +[Article from a newspaper:] + +"Valley Bank Posts 49% Gain in Profits"

+ +

"Gains of 49 percent in net income and 51 percent in operating +income were posted last year by Valley National bank. Those +gains brought net income to $33959000 in the year ended Dec. +31 and operating income to $34459000. The year before those +totals were $22836000 and $22807000 respectively."

+ +

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+ +

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+ +

"Bank's Profit Rise 21%"

+ +

"Arizona bank announced on Monday it had achieved a 21.2 percent +increase in net income in 1978 over 1977. On the basis of +operating income, excluding the 1977 sale of the Arizona Bank +Building for $1336368, the bank said the increase was 43.9 +percent. Tostenrud said loans and deposits increased in the +last year. Deposits 18.8 percent to $1353 billion and loans +21.9 percent to $951 million."

+ +
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+ +

THE COST TO YOU? EVENTUALLY, EVERYTHING!

+ +

In 1910 the U. S. Federal debt was only $1 billion, or $12.40 per +citizen. State and local debts were practically non-existent.

+ +

By 1920, after only six years of Federal Reserve shenanigans, the +Federal debt had jumped to $24 billion, or $228 per person, and State +and local debts were mushrooming.

+ +

By 1981 the Federal debt passed $1 trillion and was growing +exponentially as the Bankers tripled the interest rates. State and local +debts are now MORE than the Federal, and with businesses and personal +debts totalled over $6 trillion, three times the value of all land +and buildings in America. + +If we signed over to the money-lenders of all of America we would +still owe them more two more Americas (plus their usury, or course!).

+ +

However, they are too cunning to take the title to everything. They +instead leave you with some "illusion of ownership" so you and your +children will continue to work and pay the Bankers more of your earnings +on ever increasing debts. The "establishment" has captured our people +with their ungodly system of usury and debt as certainly as if they had +marched in with an uniformed army.

+ +

To understand that it really is a "conquest," go back to the front +and read the "Three Types of Conquest" again. + +_____________________________________________________________________________

+ +

p. 14 + +The borrower must pay back MORE then he borrowed, so bankers +ALWAYS get more than they lend!

+ +

+FOR THE GAMBLERS AMONG MY READERS

+ +

To grasp the truth that periodic withdrawal or money through interest +payments will inexorably transfer all wealth in the nation to the receiver +of interest, imagine yourself in a poker or dice game where everyone must +buy the chips (the medium of exchange) from a "banker" who does not risk +chips in the game, but watches the table and every hour reaches in and +takes 10% to 15% of all the chips on the table. As the game goes on, the +amount of chips in the possession of each player will go up and down with +his luck. However, the TOTAL number of chips available to play the game +(carry on trade and business) will decrease rapidly. + +The game will get low on chips, and some will run out. If they want to +continue to play, they must buy or borrow them from the "banker". The +"banker" will sell (lend) them ONLY if the player signs a "mortgage" +agreeing to give the "banker" some real property (car, home, farm, +business, etc.) if he cannot make periodic payments to pay back all +the chips plus some EXTRA ones (interest). The payments must be made on +time, whether he wins (makes a profit) or not.

+ +

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+ +

p. 15

+ +

It is easy to see that no matter how skillfully they play, eventually +the "banker" will end up with all of his original chips back, and except +for the very best players, the rest, if they stay in long enough, will +lose to the "banker" their homes, their farms, their businesses, perhaps +even their cars, watches, rings, and the shirts off their backs!

+ +

Our real life situation is MUCH WORSE than any poker game. In a poker +game none is forced to go into debt, and anyone can quit at any time and +keep whatever he still has. But in real life, even if we borrow little +ourselves from the "bankers," the local, State and Federal governments +borrow billions in our name, squander it, then confiscate our earnings +from us and pay it back to the Bankers with interest.

+ +

We are forced to play the game, and none can leave except by death. We +pay as long as we live, and our children pay after we die. If we cannot +pay, the same government sends the police to take our property and +give it to the Bankers. The bankers risk nothing in the game; they just +collect their percentage and "win it all." In Las Vegas and at other +gambling centers, all games are "rigged" to pay the owner a percentage, +and they rake in millions...The Federal Reserve Bankers' "game" is also +rigged, and it pays off in billions!

+ +

In recent years, Bankers have added real "cards" to their game. +"Credit" cards are promoted as a convenience and a great boon to trade. +Actually, they are ingenious devices by which Bankers collect 2% to 5% +of every retail sale from the seller and 18% interest from buyers. A +real "stacked" deck!

+ +

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+ +

+YES, IT'S POLITICAL, TOO!

+ +

Democrat, Republican, and independent voters who have wondered why +politicians always spend more tax money than they take in should now see +the reason. When they begin to study our "debt-money" system, they soon +realize that these politicians are not the agents of the people but are +the agents of the Bankers, for whom they plan ways to place the people +further in debt.

+ +

It takes only a little imagination to see that if Congress had been +"creating," spending and issuing into circulation the necessary increase +in the money supply, THERE WOULD BE NO NATIONAL DEBT and the over +$4 Trillion of other debts would be practically non-existent.

+ +

Since there would be no ORIGINAL cost of money except printing, and no +continuing costs such as interest, Federal taxes would be almost nil. +Money, once in circulation, would remain there and go on serving its +purpose as a medium of exchange for generation after generation and +century after century, with no payments to the Bankers whatsoever!

+ +

+MOUNTING DEBTS AND WARS

+ +

But instead of peace and debt-free prosperity, we have ever-mounting +debt periodic wars. We as a people are now ruled by a system of +Banker-owned Mammon that has usurped the mantle of government, disguised +itself as our legitimate government, and set about to pauperize and +control our people.

+ +

It is now a centralized, all-powerful political apparatus whose main +purposes are promoting war, confiscating the people's money, and +propagandizing to perpetuate itself in power. Our two large political +parties have become its servants, the various departments of government +its spending agencies, and the Internal Revenue Service is its +collection agency.

+ +

Unknown to the people, it operates in close cooperation with similar +apparatuses in other nations, which are also disguised as "governments." +Some, we are told, are friends. Some, we are told, are enemies. "Enemies" +are built up through international manipulations and used to frighten the +American people into going billions of dollars more into debt to the +bankers for "military preparedness," "foreign aid to stop communism," +"minority rights" etc.

+ +

Citizens, deliberately confused by brainwashing propaganda, watch +helplessly while our politicians give food, goods, and money to +Banker-controlled alien governments under the guise of "better relations" +and "easing tensions." Our Banker-controlled government takes our finest +and bravest sons and sends them into foreign wars with obsolete equipment +and inadequate training, where tens of thousands are murdered, and hundreds +of thousands are crippled. Other thousands are morally corrupted, +addicted to drugs, and infected with venereal and other diseases, which +they bring back to the United States.

+ +

When the "war" is over, we have gained nothing, but we are scores of +billions of dollars more in debt to the bankers, which was the reason for +the "war" in the first place!

+ +

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+ +

p. 17-19

+ +

AND THERE'S MORE

+ +

The profits from these massive debts have been used to erect a +complete and almost hidden economic and political colossus over our +nation. They keep telling us they are trying to do us "good," when in +truth they work to bring harm and injury to our people. These would-be +despots know it is easier to control and rob an ill, poorly-educated +and confused people than it is a healthy and intelligent population, +so they deliberately prevent real cures for diseases, they degrade our +educational systems, and they stir up social and racial unrest. For the +same reason they favor drug use, alcohol, sexual promiscuity, abortion, +pornography, and crime. Everything which debilitates the minds and +bodies of the people is secretly encouraged, as it makes the people +less able to oppose them or even to understand what is being done to +them. Family, morals, love of Country, the Christian religion, all +that is honorable is being swept away, while they try to build their +new, subservient man.

+ +

Our new "rulers" are trying to change our whole racial, social, +religious, and political order, but they will not change the debt-money economic system by which they ron and rule. Our people have +become tenants and "debt-slaves" to the Bankers and their agents in +the land our fathers conquered. It is conquest through the most +gigantic fraud and swindle in the history of mankind.

+ +

And we need to remind you again: The key to their wealth and power +over us is their ability to create "money" out of nothing and lend it +to us at interest. If they had not been allowed to do that, they +would never would have gained secret control of our nation. How true +Solomon's words are:

+ +

"The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is +servant to the lender." Proverbs 22.7

+ +

God Almighty warned in the Bible that one of the curses which would +come upon His People for disobeying His Laws was:

+ +

"The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee +very high, and thou shalt come down very low. He shall +lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him; he shall be +the head, and thou shalt be the tail." Deut. 28:44-45

+ +

Most of the owners of the largest banks in America are of Eastern +European ancestry and connected with the Rothschild European banks. +Has that warning come to fruition in America?

+ +

Let us now consider the correct method of providing the medium of +exchange (money) needed by our people.

+ +

+THE CONSTITUTIONAL WAY -- EVERY CITIZEN A STOCKHOLDER

+ +

If we would have used the Constitutional way of "creating" the money +needed in the nation, the Federal Congress would spend most of its time +and study on the issuance and control of an adequate supply of stable +money for the people.

+ +

If an increase of population and production required an increase in +the medium of exchange, Congress would authorize the "coining," (i.e., +printing) of the determined amount. Some could be used to pay current +legitimate expenses of the Federal Government, with the balance paid +directly to the citizens. Records for payment would be similar to +Social Security records, except a citizen would be recrded at birth, +instead of when he first goes to work. + +Each person on the records as of the date of the Congressional +authorization would receive an equal amount just as of he were a +stockholder holding one share. Just think -- a peyment of only $20 to +each citizen would put $4 billion of debt-free and interest-free money +into circulation.

+ +

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+ +

p. 20

+ +

Such a suggestion always scares the Bankers. Their propagandists +will immediately cry "printing press money," abd warn that it would +soon be "worthless" and would cause "inflation."

+ +

The truth is their immense ursury charges on their "created" credit +(our debt) is the sole cause of "inflation." All prices on all +industry, trade and labor must be reaised periodically to pay the ever +increasing usury charges. That is the ONLY cause of higher prices, +and the money-changers spend millions in propaganda to keep you from +realizing that.

+ +

The money-creators (Bankers) know that if we ever tried a +Constitutional issue of debt-free, interest-free currency, even a +limited issue, the benefits would be apparent immediately. That they +must prevent. Abraham Lincoln was the last President to issue such +debt-free and interest-free currency (in 1863) and he was assassinated +shortly thereafter. [Transcriber's note: JFK also made an issue of some +interest-free U.S. Treasury currency notes in 1963, and he quickly met +the same fate as Lincoln].

+ +

___________________________________________________________________________ + +p. 21 + +NO BANKS PLUNDER

+ +

Under the Constitutional system, no private banks would exist to rob +the people. Government banks under the control of the people's +representatives would issue and control all money and credit. They would +issue not only actual currency, but could lend limited credit at no +interest for the purchase of capital goods, such as homes.

+ +

A $60000 loan would require only $60000 repayment, not $255931 as it +is now. Everyone who supplied materials and labor for the home would get +paid just as they do today, but the bankers would NOT get $195931 in +interest. AND THAT IS WHY THEY RIDCULE AND DESTROY ANYONE SUGGESTING +GOVERNMENT (CITIZENS') MONEY WITHOUT INTEREST AND WITHOUT DEBT.

+ +

History tells us of debt-free and interest-free money issued by +governments. The American colonies did it through colonial script in the +1700's and their wealth soon rivaled that of England and brought +restrictions from Parliament, which led to the Revolutionary War. + +Abraham Lincoln did it in 1863 to help finance the Civil War. He was +later assassinated by an agent of the Rothschild Bank. No debt-free or +interest-free money has been issued in America since then.

+ +

Several Arab nations issue interest free loans to their citizens today. +[Transcribers note: Now you can understand what all the commotion in the +Middle East is all about, and why the banker-owned press is brainwashing +American citizens to think of all Arabs as terrorists).

+ +

The Saracen Empire forbade interest on money 1000 years ago and its +wealth outshone even Saxon Europe. Mandarin China issued its own money, +interest-free and debt-free and historians and collectors of art today +consider those centuries to be China's time of greatest wealth, culture, +and peace.

+ +

Germany issued debt-free and interest-free money from 1935 on, +accounting for its startling rise from the depression to a world power +in 5 years. Germany fiunanced its entire government and war operation +from 1935 to 1945 without gold and without debt, and it took the +whole Capitalist and Communist world to destroy the German power over +Europe and bring Europe back under the heel of the bankers. Such +history of money does not even appear in the textbooks of public +(government) schools today. + +Issuing money which does not have to be paid back in interest leaves +the money available to use in the exchange of goods and services and +services, and its only continuing cost is replacement as the paper wears +out. Money is the paper ticket by which transfers are made and should +always be in sufficient quantity to transfer all possible production of +the nation to the ultimate consumers. + +___________________________________________________________________________

+ +

p. 22

+ +

It is as ridiculous for a nation to say to its citizens, "You must +consume less because we are short of money," as it would be for an +airline to say, "Our planes are flying, but we cannot take you because +we are short of tickets."

+ +

+STABLE MONEY

+ +

Money, issued in such a way, would derive its value in exchange from +the fact that it had come from the highest legal source in the nation +and would be declared legal to pay all public and private debts.

+ +

Issued by a sovereign nation, not in danger of collapse, it would need +no gold or silver or other so-called "precious" metals to back it. + +As history shows, the stability and responsibility of government issuing +it is the deciding factor in the acceptance of that government's +currency -- not gold, silver, or iron buried in some hole in the ground. +Proof is America's currency today. Our gold and silver are practically +gone, but our currency is accepted. But if the government was about to +collapse our currency would be worthless.

+ +

Also, money issued through the people's legitimate government would not +be under the control of a privately owned corporation whose individual +owners benefit by causing the mojney amount and value to fluctuate and +the people to go into debt.

+ +

Under the present debt-usury system, the extra burden of usury forces +workers and businesses to demand more money for the work and goods to +pay their ever-increasing debts and taxes. This increase in prices and +wages is called "inflation." Bankers, politicians and "economists" +blame it on everything but the real cause, which is the usury levied on +money and debt by the Bankers.

+ +

This "inflation" benefits the money-lenders, since it wipes out savings +of one generation so they can not finance or help the next generation, +who must then borrow from the money-lenders, and pay a large part of +their life's labor to the usurer.

+ +

With an adequate supply of interest-free money, little borrowing would +be required and prices would be established by people and goods, not by +debts and usury.

+ +

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+ +

p. 23

+ +

CITIZEN CONTROL

+ +

If Federal Congress failed to act, or acted wrongly, in the supply of +money, the citizens would use the ballot or recall petitions to replace +those who prevented correct action with others whom the people believe +would pursue a better money policy. Since the creation of money and its +issuance in sufficient quantity would be one of the few functions of +Congress, the voter could decide on a candidate by his stand on money +instead of the hundreds of lesser issues which are presented to us +today. + +And since money is, and would remain, a national function, local +differences or local factrions would not be able to sway the people from +the nation's (citizens') interest. All other problems, except the +nation's defense, would be taken care of in the State, County, or City +governments where they are best handled and most easily corrected.

+ +

An adequate national defense would be provided by the same citizen-controlled Congress, and there would be no Bankers behind the scenes, +bribing politicians to give $220 billions of American military +equipment to other nations, disarming us, while alien nations prepare +to attack and invade the United States of America. + +___________________________________________________________________________

+ +

p. 24

+ +

A DEBT-FREE AMERICA +

+

+With debt-free and interest-free money, there would be no high and +confiscatory taxation, and our homes would be mortgage-free with no +$10000-per-year payments to the Bankers, nor would they get $1000 to +$2500 per year from every automobile on our roads.

+ +

We would need no "easy payment" plans, "revolving" charge accounts, +loans to pay medical or hospital bills, loans to pay taxes, loans to pay +for burials, loans to pay loans, nor any of the thousand and one +usury-bearing loans which now suck the life-blood of American families.

+ +

There would be no unemployment, divorces caused by debt, destitute old +people, or mounting crime, and even the so-called "depraved" classes +would be deprived of neither job nor money to buy the necessities of +life.

+ +

Criminals could not become politicians, nor would politicians become +criminals in the pay of the Money-lenders. Our officials, at all +government levels, would be working for the people instead of devising +more money to place us further in debt to the Bankers.

+ +

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+ +

p. 25

+ +

We would get out of the entangling foreign alliances that have engulfed +us in four major ways and scores of minor wars since the Federal Reserve +Act was passed, alliances which are now used to prevent America from +preparing her own defense in the face of mounting danger from alien +powers.

+ +

A debt-free America would mean mothers would not have to work. +With mothers at home, juvenile deliquency would decrease rapidly. The +elimination of the usury and debt would be the equivalent of a 50% +raise in the purchasing power of every worker. With this cancellation +of all debts, the return to the people of all the property and wealth +the parasitic Bankers and their quasi-legal agents have stolen by usury +and fraud, and then ending of their theft of $300 Billion (or more) +every year from the people. America would be prosperous and powerful +beyond the wildest dreams of the citizens today. And we would be at +peace! (For a Bible example of cancellation of debts to money lenders +and restoration of property and money to the people, read +Nehemiah 5:1-13.) + + +WHY YOU HAVEN'T KNOWN

+ +

We realize that this small, and necessarily incomplete, article on +money may be charged with oversimplification. Some may say that if it +is that simple the people would have known about it, and it could not +have happened.

+ +

But this MONEY LENDERS consPIRACY is as old as Babylon, and even in +America it dates far back before the year 1913.

+ +

Actually, 1913 may be considered the year in which their previous plans +came to fruition, and the way opened for complete economic conquest of +our people. The consPIRACY is old enough in America so that to its +agents have been, for many years, in positions of influence such as +newspaper publishers, editors, columnists, church ministers, university +presidents, professors, textbook writers, labor union leaders, movie +makers, radio and TV commentators, politicians, and from school board +members to U.S. presidents, and many others.

+ +

+CONTROLLED NEWS AND INFORMATION

+ +

These agents control the information available to our people. They +manipulate public opinion, elect whom they will locally and nationally, +and never expose the crooked money system. They promote school bonds, +municipal bonds, expensive and detrimental farm programs, "urban renewal," +foreign aid, and many other schemes which put the people more deeply +into debt to the Bankers.

+ +

__________________________________________________________________________ + +p. 26 + +Thoughtful citizens wonder why billions are spent on one program and +billions on another which may duplicate it or even nullify it, such as +paying some farmers not to raise crops, while at the same time building +dams or canals to irrigate more farm land. Crazy or stupid?

+ +

Neither. The goal is more debt. Thousands of government-sponsored +ways of wasting money go on continually. Most make no sense, but they +are never exposed for what they really are, builders of "billions for +the bankers and debts for the people."

+ +

So-called "economic experts" write syndicated columns in hundreds of +newspapers, craftily designed to prevent the people from learning the +simple truth about our money system. Commentators on radio and TV, +preachers, educators, and politicians blame the people as wasteful, lazy +or spend-thrift, and blame the workers and consumers for the increase +in debts and the inflation of prices, when they know the cause is the +debt-money system itself.

+ +

Our people are literally drowned in charges and counter-charges designed +to confuse them and keep them from understanding the unconstitutional and +evil money-system that is so efficiently and silently robbing the farmers, +the workers, and the businessmen of the fruits of their labor and of their +freedoms.

+ +

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+ +

p. 27

+ +

When some few Patriotic people or organizations who know the truth +begin to expose them or try to stop any of their mad schemes, they are +ridiculed and smeared as "right-wing extremists," "super-patriots," +"ultra-rightists," "bigots," "fascists," and "anti-Semites." Any name +is used which will cause them to shut up or will at least stop other +people from listening to the warning they are giving. Articles and +books such as you are now reading are kept out of schools, libraries, +and book stores.

+ +

Some, who are especially vocal in their exposure of the treason +against our people, are harassed by government agencies such as +the EPA, the OSHA, the IRS, and others, causing them financial loss +and bankruptcy. Using the above methods, they have been completely +successful in preventing most Americans from learning the truth.

+ +

Therefore, to prevent violence or armed resistance to their plunder of +America, they plan to register all firearms and eventually to disarm +all citizens. They have to eliminate most guns, except those in the +hands of their government, polics and army.

+ +

+TELL THE PEOPLE

+ +

The "almost hidden" conspirators in politics, religion, education, +entertainment, and the news media are working for A Banker-owned +United States, in a Banker-owned world under a Banker-owned World +Government!

+ +

Love of Country, compassion for your race, and concern for your +children should make you deeply interested in this, America's greatest +problem, for our generation has not suffered under the "yoke" as the +coming generations will. Usury and taxes will continue to take a +larger and larger part of the annual earning of the people and put +them into the pockets of the Bankers and their political Agents. +Increasing "government" regulations will prevent citizen protest and +opposition to their control.

+ +

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+ +

p. 28

+ +

It is possible that your grandchildren will own neither home nor car, +but will live in "government-owned" apartments and ride to work in +"government-owned" buses (both paying interest to the bankers), +AND BE ALLOWED TO KEEP JUST ENOUGH OF THEIR EARNINGS TO BUY A MINIMUM +OF FOOD AND CLOTHING while in luxury? In Asia and eastern Europe it is +called "communism;" in America it is called "Democracy" and "Capitalism."

+ +

America will not shake off her Banker-controlled dictatorship as long +as the people are ignorant of the hidden controllers. International +financiers, who control most of the governments of the nations, and most +sources of information, seem to have us completely within their grasp. + +They are afraid of only one thing: an awakened Patriotic Citizenry, armed +with the truth, and with a trust in Almighty God for deliverance. This +pamphlet has given you the truth about their iniquitous system. What you +do with it is in your hands, as in the hands of Divine Providence. "The +fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord +shall be safe." Proverbs 29:25

+ +
* * *
+ +

[Chart at bottom of page shows "Principal Assets of All +Commercial Banks: 1950 to 1980" -- shows an exponentially +increasing upward spike. Source: Statistical Abstract of +United States. A note below the chart states: +"1982: Since 1950 the Bankers "assets" (obtained by fraud) +have risen from $160 billion to almost $2000 billion. +They are stealing America with their debt-usury system!] + +[Note alongside the chart: "Bankers produce no usable product +or any "wealth," yet their usury robbery amost doubles their +net assets (wealth) every ten years! Is it possible another +generation under their "System" will make them "legal" owners +of the entire United States and 200 million citizens will be +their bond-slaves on the continent our fathers colonized and +developed?"] +____________________________________________________________________________ + +p. 29

+ +

AUDIT THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM? + +The Federal Reserve has never been audited by the government since +it took over our money and credit in 1913. In 1975, a bill, H.R. 4316, +to require an audit, was introduced in Congress.

+ +

During the April, 1975, hearings, this author submitted a statement +favoring the audit, as did many others. It is reprinted on the next +two pages, from pages 306-308 of the 739 pages of testimony given +during those hearings before the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary +Policy of the Committee on Banking, Currency, and Housing, House of +Representatives. Due to pressure from the money-controllers, it was +not passed. No audit has ever been made.

+ +

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+ +

+p. 33

+ +

NOTEABLE MONEY QUOTES

+ +

PRESIDENT JAMES A. GARFIELD: "whoever controls the volume of money in +in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce."

+ +

HORACE GREELRY: "While boasting of our noble deeds, we are careful to +conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have +nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is +not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery."

+ +

THOMAS A. EDISON: "People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on +project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will +collect more money from the United States than will the People who +supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible +thing about interest...But here is the point: If the Nation can +issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that +makes the bond good makes the bill good also. + +The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets +the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond an an additional +20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the +Constitution, pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way.

+ +

It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue +currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and +the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People +were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a +terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National +Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at +the hands of men who cointrol the fictitious value of gold. Interest +is the invention of Satan."

+ +

PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON: "A great industrial Nation is controlled +by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The +growth of the Nation and all our activities are in the hands of a few +men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most +completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world -- no +longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by +conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion +and duress of small groups of dominant men." + +(Just before he died, Wilson is reported to have stated to friends +that he had been "deceived" and that "I have betrayed my Country." +He referred to the Federal Reserve Act, passed during his +Presidency) [<--note by the author, Emry.] + +SIR JOSIAH STAMP: (President of the Bank of England in the 1920's, the +second richest man in Britain): "Banking was conceived in iniquity +and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from +them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick +of the pen they create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, +take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will +disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier +and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves +of the Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them +continue to create deposits."

+ +

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+ +

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+ +

MAJOR L.L.B. ANGAS: "The modern Banking system manufactures money out +of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of +sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banks can in fact inflate, +mint, and unmint the modern ledger-emntry currency."

+ +

RALPH M. HAWTREY (Former Secretary of the British Treasury): "Banks +lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of +nothing."

+ +

ROBERT H. HEMPHILL (Credit Manager of Federal Reserve Bank, Altanta, +Ga.): "This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent +on the the commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we +have in circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample +synthetic money, we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are +absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a +complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our +hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is +the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and +reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may +collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects +remedied very soon."

+ +

CONGRESSMEN LOUIS T. MCFADDEN: The Federal Reserve (Banks) are one +of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is +not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this +Nation is run by the International Bankers."

+ +

JOHN C. CALHOUN (Speech in the Senate, May 26, 1836): "A power has +risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, +consisting of many and various powerful interests combined in one mass, +and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the +banks."

+ +

LYOF N. TOLSTOY (In What Shall We Do?, 1891): "Money is a new form +of slavery, and sistinguishable from the old simply by the fact that +it is impersonal -- that there is no human relation between master +and slave."

+ +

THOMAS JEFFERSON (Letter to Elbridge Gerry, Jan. 26, 1779): "Banking +establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

+ +

WILLIAM CORBETT: (In Advice to Yound Men, 1, 1829): "The power +which money gives is that of brute force; It is the power of +the bludgeon and the bayonet."

+ +

SOPHOCLES (Atigone, c. 450 B.C.): "Money lays waste cities; It sets +men to roaming from home. It seduces and corrupts honest men and +turns virtue to baseness; It teaches villany and impiety."

+ +

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+ +

THEY HAVE NOT TOLD YOU!

+ +

Listed below are the individuals, organizations and publications +that control rather completely what you know or do not know.

+ +

Please read this list, and see if any of them, since 1920, have told +you any of the simple truths about our iniquitous debt-usury economic +system which you have read in this little booklet: + +Presidents, Vice-Presidents, or potential candidates [except for +Harry Browne -- JS]; Cabinet members, U.S. Judges, or other appointed +U.S. officials; Any U.S. Senator or Representative, except Robert +Lafoliete, Charles Binderup, Charles Lindberg Sr., Louis McFadden, +Wright-Patman, or John Rarick? (All now gone).

+ +

State Governors or members of State Legislatures?

+ +

The Republican Party;

+ +

The Democratic Party;

+ +

The Communist Party;

+ +

The Socialist Worker's Party;

+ +

Other so-called "voter information" groups?

+ +

News sources such as Associated Press (AP), United Press International +(UPI), Reuters, etc;

+ +

Any large daily newspaper or newspaper columnist?

+ +

Radio or TV networks such as ABC, NBC, CBS, [CNN] and Mutual;

+ +

Radio or television newsmen or commentators;

+ +

News magazines such as TIME, NEWSWEEK, LOOK, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, +PEOPLE, etc.

+ +

Any other widely circulated magazines?

+ +

Books sold on the newsstands, in book stores, by Book-of-the-Month +Club or any other book clubs?

+ +

The moves, stage or other "entertainment" (although they often attack +politics, religion, or Christian society, they NEVER expose the money +system);

+ +

University to College professors;

+ +

Any elementary, high school or college textbooks;

+ +

Any other "educator" or educational organization such as the N.E.A., +P.T.A. or similar?

+ +

Labor Unions such as the A.F. of L., C.I.O., Teamsters, UMW, Farm +organizations such as Farmers Union, Farm Bureau, NFO, United Farm +Workers, etc, (the recent American Agricultural Movement has exposed +the debt-usury);

+ +

________________________________________________________________________ + +p. 36 + +Any farm publication?

+ +

Business organizations such as the National Association of +Manufacturers, Better Business Bureau, Chamber of Commerce, etc.?

+ +

Medical, scientific or professional organizations such as the A.M.A, +A.A.U.P., etc.?

+ +

Civic or Fraternal organizations such as Rotary, Elks, Lions, +Moose, Eagkles, Odd Fellows, etc.?

+ +

Veterans organizations such as the American Legion, Veterans of +Foreign Wars, Disabled Vets, etc.?

+ +

The hundreds of "civil rights," "student," "Women's Lib." and +similar "protest" organizations or publications? They protest +"racism," atomic weapons, war, pollution, and scores of other supposed +"wrongs," but NEVER, NEVER, expose or object to the robbery of the +people by the Billionaire Bankers!

+ +

Masonic Orders, Lodges or publications;

+ +

Knights of Columbus;

+ +

Any Catholic Pope, Bishop or Priest? (Father Coughlin of Michigan +spoke on radio and wrote books in the 1930's protesting the Bankers' +plunder of America. He was silenced in a few years on direct orders +of the Pope. Since then few Priests have mentioned the plunder).

+ +

Jewish Rabbis or Jewish organizations such as the United Synagogues +of America, B'nai Brith, Anti-defamation League, etc;

+ +

World Council of Churches (WCC)

+ +

National Council of Churches (NCC)

+ +

Any denominational Protestant minister or church;

+ +

Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, or similar; +"Charismatic" or "Pentacostal" ministers or churches; +"Non-denominational" or independent ministers or churches; Religious +magazines, publishing houses, or bookstores; "Evangelists" or +"Crusaders" on radio and television;

+ +

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+ +

p. 37

+ +

YOUR MINSTER?

+ +

ANYONE?

+ +

By the 1980's virtually no prominent indiviual or national organization +of influence in America, including religious organizations, opposes or +exposes the Bankers' plunder. Because of that silence most Americans +live out their whole lives in this land without ever learning how they are +being robbed.

+ +

Small groups of patriots are opposing the Bankers. One is LIBERTY +LOBBY which publishes The SPOTLIGHT, a weekly newspaper ($32 per year +or $59 for two years, 300 Independence Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C. +20003). Each issue exposes the anti-American shenanigans of the +Bankers, Communists and other enemies of America. Every patriotic +American family should subscribe.

+ +

Read this short booklet over again.

+ +

Since the politicians, the major media and the churches will not +warn the people, that warning is up to us AND YOU! Will you pray +AND ACT?

+ +

+ +IS IT POSSIBLE GOD KNOWS ABOUT OUR PLIGHT? + +"But this is a people robbed and spoiled; +they are all of them snared in holes, +and they are bid in prison houses; +they are for a prey, and none delivereth; +for a spoil, AND NONE SAVETH, RESTORE.

+ +

"Who among you will give ear to this? +Who will hearken, and hear for the time +to come?" (the "last days") Isaiah 42:22-23

+ +

+___________________________________________________________________________

+ +

p. 38

+ +

WHAT YOU CAN DO

+ +

Pray for America's release from this wicked money control, which +is at the root of our debts and wars.

+ +

Send copies of this book to officials in your State government, +to school board members, principals, teachers, ministers, neighbors, +etc. Ask them for their comments.

+ +

Write letters to elected or appointed officials. Write "letters-to-the-editor" to newspapers. Most small towns and suburban newspapers +are not totally controlled, while most of the big city newspapers are.

+ +

Give or mail them out by the hundreds to awaken and educate other +Americans to this fantastic plunder of the working people of America. +The cost to you is VERY LITTLE compared to the BILLIONS in money and +property being STOLEN from our people.

+ +

The Bibe has scores of passages condemning the robbery of the +workers and the poor by the wicked. For a Bible-related study of +this evil system of plunder, write to the publisher of this booklet for +a list of books, tracts, and cassette sermons on Bible Law and Prophecy.

+ +

[End of Part 2 of 2]

+ +

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Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 08:21:07 -0500 +From: James Daugherty jhdaugh@a-albionic.com +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy +Subject: Carroll Quigley Examined; Multicultural Strategy of Ruling Class?

+ +

A-albionic Research Weekly Up-date of January 8, 1995 +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +***************Contents**********************

+ +

1. Clinton, Quigley, and Conspiracy: What's going on here? by Daniel Brandt +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

+ +

2. Multiculturalism and the Ruling Elite by Daniel Brandt +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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From NameBase NewsLine, No. 1, April-June 1993:

+ +

Clinton, Quigley, and Conspiracy: What's going on here?

+ +

by Daniel Brandt

+ +

When Bill Clinton delivered his acceptance speech at the Democratic +convention on July 16, 1992, it didn't contain any surprises, nor were any +expected. There were the usual feel-good platitudes: he wanted to talk +with us "about my hope for the future, my faith in the American people, +and my vision of the kind of country we can build.... This election is +about putting power back in your hands and putting the government back on +your side.... It is time to heal America." Any speech writer could have +pulled boiler-plate from the files and pasted together something similar. +Speeches for occasions like this one aren't meant to be long on specifics.

+ +

Toward the end of the speech Clinton mentioned that "as a teenager +I heard John Kennedy's summons to citizenship. And then, as a student at +Georgetown, I heard that call clarified by a professor named Carroll +Quigley, who said to us that America was the greatest country in the +history of the world because our people have always believed in two +things: that tomorrow can be better than today and that every one of us +has a personal, moral responsibility to make it so."

+ +

This was not the first time that Clinton had paid tribute to the +memory of his Georgetown professor. A few days earlier, a story on +Clinton's background mentioned that he had never forgotten Quigley's last +lecture. "Throughout his career he has evoked [this lecture] in speeches +as the rhetorical foundation for his political philosophy," according to +the Washington Post, which offered another Clinton quotation praising +Quigley's perspective and influence.[1] A kindly old professor appreciated +as a mentor by an impressionable, idealistic student? This is how it was +interpreted by almost everyone who heard it, particularly since Quigley's +name was not exactly a household word.

+ +

But in certain rarified circles among conspiracy theorists, Clinton's +reference to Quigley was surprising. Now that Clinton had one foot in the +White House, the conservative Washington Times soon ran an item that tried +to clear matters up. Professor Quigley, according to the Times, +specialized in the history of a secret group of elite Anglo-Americans who +had a decisive influence on world affairs during the first half of this +century. Quigley, in other words, was a conspiracy theorist -- but one who +had an impeccable pedigree as "one of the few insiders who came out and +exposed the Eastern establishment plan for world government." These words +belong to Tom Eddlam, research director for the John Birch Society. As +someone who had sold two of Quigley's books, Eddlam knew plenty about +Quigley. But we can't have a Democratic draft-dodging liberal candidate +who admires a Birch Society conspiracy hero, so the Times quickly resolved +the issue by noting that Quigley wanted the conspiracy to succeed, whereas +the Birchers wanted it to fail.[2] Thus the Times summed matters up, in +six column inches.

+ +

Clinton's supporters depict him as an intellectual, someone whose +heroes traffic in solemn ideals. If so, Clinton presumably read Tragedy +and Hope, Quigley's best-known book, which appeared while Clinton was at +Georgetown. At any rate, Quigley's work is well worth looking at, along +with Clinton's early career, for its possible clues to Clinton's thought.

+ +

Reading Quigley may turn you into a student of high-level conspiracy, +which is exactly what many influential people around Clinton and elsewhere +say you shouldn't be. Almost all of the 3000 members of the Council on +Foreign Relations (CFR) will go on record ridiculing any of the conspiracy +theories that, according to all polls, are taken seriously by large +majorities of average people. CFR member Daniel Schorr will tell you again +and again that Oswald was a lone nut, and CFR member Steven Emerson will +write article after article debunking Pan Am 103 and October Surprise +theories. It's not that people in high places know better, it's simply +that they have more to protect and cannot afford to be candid.

+ +

As new research is published about the JFK assassination, for +example, it becomes clear that virtually all the high-level players, from +LBJ on down, assumed it was a conspiracy from the moment the shots were +fired. It took until recently for dedicated researchers to dig this fact +out.[3] But thirty years later many journalists still find it useful to +defend the Warren Commission or belittle its critics.

+ +

Carroll Quigley was a conspiracy historian, but he was unusual in +that he avoided criticism. Most of his conspiracy research concerned the +role of the Rhodes-Milner Round Table Groups in Britain from 1891 through +World War II. His major work, Tragedy and Hope (1966), contains scattered +references to his twenty years of research in this area, but his detailed +history of the Round Table was written in 1949. The major reason he +avoided criticism is because his work wasn't threatening to people in high +places. Quigley's research was too obscure, and too much had happened in +the world since the events he described. Quigley was also an insider, so +his criticisms of the groups he studied are subdued. He did his +undergraduate and graduate work at Harvard, where he received a doctorate +in 1938. He later taught at Princeton and Harvard before settling in at +Georgetown's conservative School of Foreign Service in 1941, where he +remained for the rest of his career. He was a consultant for the Brookings +Institution, the Defense Department, the State Department, and the +Navy,[4] and taught western civilization and history. In 1962 the Center +for Strategic and International Studies was established on the Georgetown +campus, where it maintained close ties with the School of Foreign Service. +CSIS included a number of people on its staff who had high-level CIA +connections. Quigley moved in these circles until his death in 1977:

+ +

I know of the operations of this network [the Round Table Groups] +because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two +years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret records. +I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of +my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have +objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies, +but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to +remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant +enough to be known.[5]

+ +

In his 1949 detailed look at the Cecil Rhodes - Oxford - Alfred +(Lord) Milner - Round Table nexus, published posthumously in 1981 as +The Anglo-American Establishment, Quigley was more forceful with his +criticism. While endorsing this elite's high-minded internationalist +goals, Quigley wrote that "I cannot agree with them on methods," and added +that he found the antidemocratic implications of their inherited wealth +and power "terrifying." This is as tough as he got with his comments:

+ +

No country that values its safety should allow what the Milner Group +accomplished in Britain -- that is, that a small number of men should +be able to wield such power in administration and politics, should be +given almost complete control over the publication of the documents +relating to their actions, should be able to exercise such influence +over the avenues of information that create public opinion, and +should be able to monopolize so completely the writing and the +teaching of the history of their own period.[6]

+ +

Quigley also avoided criticism because his books are the product of +years of painstaking research into primary diplomatic sources. To qualify +as a critic of his analysis, someone would have to duplicate that research +-- and so far no one has. It also helped that Quigley was doing most of +his work at a time when conspiracy theories were considered curious and +quaint, but not threatening. Clinton, at any rate, had no reason to feel +uneasy about citing the virtually unknown Quigley in his convention +acceptance speech.

+ +

But serious researchers can hardly afford to pass over Quigley's +potential significance so lightly. The Washington Times, to begin with, is +clearly mistaken to brush Quigley off as simply one more liberal elitist +one-worlder. Certainly he is no streetcorner agitator, whether of the +right or left. But his understated critique of his elite colleagues is +nevertheless a searching one.

+ +

In the years following the publication of Tragedy and Hope in 1966, +writers on both the right and left began to recognize this. For example, +New Left writer and activist Carl Oglesby came to realize that some of his +ideas about elite power in the U.S. had been anticipated by Quigley.[7] +On the far right, meanwhile, Quigley found a convert in W. Cleon Skousen, +a former FBI agent who later became a star of the John Birch Society's +lecture circuit. In 1970, Skousen published a book-length review of +Quigley's Tragedy and Hope that was titled The Naked Capitalist. It +quoted so heavily from Quigley's work that Quigley threatened to sue for +copyright infringement.

+ +

Skousen chose to emphasize Quigley's mention of subterranean +financial arrangements between certain Wall Street interests and certain +groups on the U.S. left, in particular the Communist Party.[8] Oglesby, +meanwhile, shared Quigley's interest in the challenge posed to Wall +Street's Eastern elite by newer oil and defense-aerospace money +concentrated in the Southwest.[9] But as Oglesby recognized, Quigley's +meticulous research into elite power shaded insensibly over into the study +of "conspiracy":

+ +

Am I borrowing on Quigley then to say with the far right that this +one conspiracy rules the world? The arguments for a conspiracy theory +are indeed often dismissed on the grounds that no one conspiracy +could possibly control everything. But that is not what this theory +sets out to show. Quigley is not saying that modern history is the +invention of an esoteric cabal designing events omnipotently to suit +its ends. The implicit claim, on the contrary, is that a multitude of +conspiracies contend in the night. Clandestinism is not the usage of +a handful of rogues, it is a formalized practice of an entire class +in which a thousand hands spontaneously join. Conspiracy is the +normal continuation of normal politics by normal means.[10]

+ +

But it's a bad word for polite editors, so the issues surrounding the +"C" word are almost never discussed in print. One needs to tease out +Oglesby's observation that there is a qualitative difference between the +way that the left and right in the U.S. have addressed this issue. Both +tendencies can at least get together on which groups deserve attention: +the Council on Foreign Relations, which became the American branch of the +Round Table in 1919; Bilderberg, which has held secret meetings in Europe +for select participants since 1954; and the Trilateral Commission, a group +that began in 1973 and now has 325 members from Japan, Europe, and America. +CFR consists of Americans only, whereas Bilderberg adds the Europeans and +TC also adds the Japanese. The Americans in Bilderberg and TC are almost +always members of CFR also.

+ +

But some leftists and left-liberal sociologists prefer to take the +curse off their interest in such groups by calling their investigations +"power-structure research." The implication seems to be that tracing +interlocking directorates, let's say, belongs to science in a way that +tracing Lee Harvey Oswald's intelligence connections never could. Still, +G. William Domhoff, the most prominent of the "power structure" +researchers, admits that attempting to maintain this quarantine can itself +become unscientific:

+ +

Critics of a power elite theory often call it 'conspiratorial,' which +is the academic equivalent of ending a discussion by yelling +Communist. It is difficult to lay this charge to rest once and for +all because these critics really mean something much broader than the +dictionary definition of conspiracy. All right, then, if 'conspiracy' +means that these men are aware of their interests, know each other +personally, meet together privately and off the record, and try to +hammer out a consensus on how to anticipate or react to events and +issues, then there is some conspiring that goes on in CFR, not to +mention in the Committee for Economic Development, the Business +Council, the National Security Council, and the Central Intelligence +Agency.[11]

+ +

And what makes Domhoff's middle ground on the problem of conspiracy +so difficult to maintain is precisely the existence of inconveniently +concrete cases like Oswald's. If there was a conspiracy and cover-up, then +it was carried out by interested individuals rather than by blind social +forces. The best that Domhoff can do with the JFK assassination is to +ignore it, which he does.

+ +

But this won't do for Michael Albert, editor of the leftist Z +Magazine and a Domhoffian "structuralist," who has attempted to finesse +this problem. His argument on the JFK assassination, as best I can +understand it, goes something like this: JFK was a predictable product of +established institutions; these institutions wanted a war in Vietnam; it's +inconceivable that JFK would have disagreed with this because his behavior +was determined (that is, he could not have changed his mind), and +therefore, the assassination of JFK, conspiracy or not, made no difference +to our history and is unimportant. The problem with Albert's approach is +that he's fairly close to vulgar Marxism, which by now has been thoroughly +discredited.

+ +

To my thinking, the reason why the JFK assassination is so important +is this: It's one thing to believe that there are rich people who become +richer because their environment tells them to behave that way, and quite +another to believe that there is a powerful, secret government that +doesn't have to play by the rules. If you can prove that the assassination +was a conspiracy, then the first notion becomes silly and insignificant. +Essentially, conspiracy theories restore notions of freedom and +responsibility that have been stripped from from the "value free" social +science establishment. Quigley is between Domhoff and Oglesby on our +spectrum, which is not a left-right spectrum but rather a conspiracy +spectrum. Oglesby deals seriously with the JFK assassination while Quigley +does not. But Quigley at least follows the money trail and believes that +human agency and individual actors are important forces in history. +Domhoff, on the other hand, is more interested in class distinctions and +general behavior.

+ +

Skousen is much more conspiratorial than Oglesby. He applies +conspiracy thinking to complex issues where a middle ground would be +productive (such as CFR, Bilderberg, and Trilateralism), and treats them +in an either/or fashion as if they were similar to the JFK assassination. +It doesn't work very well. The New World Order may be a bad idea, but to +assume as a starting point that it's a Communist plot doesn't help us +understand the who or why behind it.

+ +

Before returning to Clinton, it will help to fill out our spectrum a +bit. So far we have Domhoff, Quigley, and Oglesby in a line, and Skousen +off further on the pro-conspiracy end. On the anti-conspiracy end we +should add Erwin Knoll, longtime editor of The Progressive. According to +Knoll, "none of the conspiracy theories we have scrutinized meets the test +of accuracy -- or even plausibility -- we normally apply to material +published in The Progressive, so none has appeared in the pages of this +magazine.[12] Knoll's advisory board includes three members of the Council +on Foreign Relations, so this fits okay. There's also Chip Berlet, who +berates unwitting leftists for falling prey to conspiracy theories that +the devious right has conspired to foist on them. He isn't critical of +conspiracy thinking on the basis of the evidence, but waits until the +theorist can be shown to have incorrect political associations.[13] Berlet +doesn't fit anywhere on our spectrum; he's running his own show.

+ +

A conspiracy bookseller named Lloyd Miller[14] is farther out than +Skousen. Miller is aware of Quigley and sells his books. While Oglesby is +toying with an American ruling-class Yankee-Cowboy split that goes back a +generation or so, Miller dwells on a split between the Knights of Malta +and the Knights Templar going back to the year 1307. The modern derivative +of this struggle provides his hypothesis that "the overt and covert organs +of the Vatican and British Empire are locked in mortal combat for control +of the world." In Miller's theory, Jesuit-controlled Georgetown is the +Vatican headquarters on the American front, and Quigley is a Vatican agent +exposing the Anglo-American connection. Miller is more sophisticated than +this description allows, but I have difficulties with him. On a case by +case basis, the theory produces as many questions as answers. More +importantly, perhaps, my historical interests and imagination don't extend +much beyond the last 100 years.

+ +

Miller is mentioned because there are similarities between his +analysis and the theories of Lyndon LaRouche. For anyone who wants to +figure out what LaRouche is talking about, it is necessary to be +conversant with esoterica concerning Freemasonry, the Knights of Malta, +and British imperialism. The alternative is to see all of the above as +code words for Jews, and LaRouche's enemies -- namely Chip Berlet, Dennis +King, and the Anti-Defamation League -- tend to take this easy way out. I +don't believe that right-wing globalist conspiracy theories in general, or +LaRouche's theories in particular, can be dismissed by claiming that they +are disguised anti-Semitism -- that is to say, code-word versions of the +old international Jewish banking conspiracies. While there is some +anti-Semitism on the right, it is no longer the driving force it might +have once been. Most right-wing theories are more sophisticated than +Berlet, King, or the ADL are ready to believe.

+ +

I don't consider any of the people I've mentioned as crackpots, +because I'm convinced that there are vital issues at stake. All of them +are doing their best with checkered evidence, and for the most part I +share their instincts if not always their conclusions. Regardless of where +we decide to place Bill Clinton on the spectrum, which will be discussed +after a review of his career, at least two other former (and future?) +presidential candidates have staked out positions. Ross Perot believes +that there is massive corruption and occasional conspiracies in high +places; he belongs somewhere close to Quigley. Pat Robertson is a less +hysterical version of Skousen, modified for post anti-Communism, and +should also be taken seriously. Along with Ross Perot's movement, some see +Robertson's Christian Coalition as a populist challenge to our one-party +Republocrat system.

+ +

Most of Pat Robertson's latest book, The New World Order (1991), is +a popularized yet articulate presentation of recent American history as +controlled by the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, +Bilderberg, the Federal Reserve System, and Wall Street. Several pages +are spent on Quigley's theories, which provide the background for an +understanding of the Rhodes Trust, CFR, and the foundations with their +"One World agenda." Unfortunately, the only mention of this book in the +left press ignores the analytical material that Robertson draws on, and +dismisses "its more bizarre conspiracy theories such as those targeting +mainstream figures as dupes of the Devil."[15]

+ +

Yes, Robertson finally couches his theories in a Biblical context +(after keeping the Bible out of it for the first two-thirds of the book), +and most of us don't find the Bible necessary or compelling. But when +leftists skip to the end in order to belittle his critique, at a time +when they have lost the capacity to provide an alternative critique, this +is self-defeating. My main objection to Robertson is that he doesn't +deserve to have a monopoly on these important issues; his vision is too +apocalyptic and too narrow. Unlike the politically-correct "progressive" +press, however, I consider him potentially closer to populism than to +fascism.

+ +

Robertson spends several pages recounting the 1976 campaign of Jimmy +Carter, and describes how he concluded that Carter's strings were being +pulled by the same Trilateralists who created him. A similar analysis -- +much more detailed and convincing -- can also be found from a leftist +perspective.[16] It wasn't too many years ago, before politically-correct +thinking carried the day, that the left took Trilateralism seriously. +Since 1980, the only left perspective on Trilateralism has been written by +a Canadian professor.[17] His Gramscian categories tend to be academically +overbearing, but he took the trouble to interview 100 Trilateral +Commission members.

+ +

The Jimmy Carter story is depressing. Hamilton Jordan reportedly +said, "If, after the inauguration you find Cy Vance as secretary of state +and Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of national security, then I would say +that we failed." That's exactly what happened, and seventeen other key +members of the administration were also Trilateralists. For his entire +administration, every move on foreign policy was cleared with the +hard-liner Brzezinski.

+ +

Robertson's book was written just one year before Clinton's name +became a household word. One wonders how Robertson reacted to Clinton's +reference to Quigley in his acceptance speech. And then what Robertson +thought when he learned that Clinton checked off on almost every group +you care to name: he is a Rhodes Scholar, a CFR member, a Trilateral +Commission member, a Bilderberg participant, and most of his appointees +are at least one of the above. If Clinton's mention of Quigley in July +1992 had been an isolated case, then one might interpret this as simply a +ploy to disguise his elitist loyalties. But Clinton has mentioned Quigley +many times over the years, and I suspect that on this he is sincere. Then +again, it's hard to believe that Clinton is unaware of Quigley's +anti-elitist tendencies. What's going on here?

+ +

After shaking John Kennedy's hand, they say that William Jefferson +Clinton never doubted that he was headed for the White House. A band major +in high school, he was favored by his school principal, who encouraged him +to run for class offices and to participate in a leadership program that +sponsored his trip to Washington. He attended Georgetown from 1964-1968, +majoring in international affairs and immediately running for student +office ("Hello, I'm Bill Clinton. Will you help me run for president of +the freshman class?"). When he wasn't listening to Quigley or networking +and glad-handing his way through a student council election, he was +working in the Senate Foreign Relations Office of senator J. William +Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and former Rhodes Scholar who started +criticizing the CIA and Vietnam policy in 1966. During his first two +years, Clinton was a trainee in Georgetown's ROTC unit, and could be seen +around campus in Army fatigues.

+ +

Between Quigley and his Georgetown connections, Fulbright and his +Rhodes Trust connections, and Clinton's keen interest in his own political +power, it's not surprising that the big, bearded, amiable Clinton became a +Rhodes Scholar in 1968 and went off to spend two years at Oxford. Another +power behind Clinton was Winthrop Rockefeller (1912-1973), two-time +Republican governor of Arkansas, who reportedly functioned as a father +figure. At Oxford, Clinton participated in one or more demonstrations +against U.S. policy in Vietnam in front of the American embassy, and used +his connections to stay out of the draft. After Oxford he went to Yale Law +School. In the fall of 1972 he directed McGovern's campaign in Texas. He +ran for Congress in Arkansas in 1974 after finishing Yale, but barely +lost. Then he taught law in Arkansas until 1976, when he was elected state +attorney general after running unopposed. That year he also headed up the +state campaign for Jimmy Carter. Two years later he won the race for +governor.

+ +

The anti-war sentiments among Clinton's Oxford colleagues did not +produce an antipathy toward the CIA. Robert Earl, later an assistant to +Oliver North at the National Security Council, was one of these +colleagues. And while governor, Clinton was aware that an airfield in +Mena, Arkansas played a major role in secret contra logistics involving +gun and drug running. Clinton's security chief is being sued for an +alleged Mena-related frame-up, and many believe that there were cover-ups +by both state and federal agencies.[18]

+ +

Bill Clinton is promoted as the first baby boomer and anti-war +activist in the White House. Yet I was also these things, and I cannot +identify with Clinton at all. In order for this piece to make any sense, +it's important that I show how two different anti-war protesters might +have stood together in a demonstration for different reasons, after +arriving from different directions.

+ +

To begin with, one has to divide the student movement into two +periods, before and after 1968. This year was pivotal: the McCarthy +campaign, the RFK and MLK assassinations, the police riot in Chicago. +Anti-war protesters on conservative campuses such as my University of +Southern California and Clinton's Georgetown, were almost always bona fide +prior to 1968. There was no percentage in it otherwise, as the polls were +overwhelmingly in favor of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. At USC I organized +a peaceful draft card turn-in ceremony in 1968. We were physically ejected +from the campus by fraternity boys, and had to continue in a church across +the street, where the frat rats feared to tread. A poll by our student +newspaper showed that most students agreed with the fraternity. At USC, +and the same was probably true of Georgetown, a student politician +couldn't get more than a handful of votes by taking an anti-war position.

+ +

In 1969 everything suddenly changed. Major anti-war organizing +efforts appeared on campus, coordinated through national networks. I +guessed that these new activists, who seemed to come out of nowhere to +organize the Vietnam Moratorium, were former McCarthy-Kennedy campaign +workers. Although I had been co-chairman of our SDS chapter the previous +year, these were all new faces to me. I was astounded and a little +suspicious. Everything had turned around completely: now no student +politician could hope to win without the long hair, the beads and sandals, +and speaking at freshmen orientation by abandoning the lectern and sitting +on the edge of the stage, "rapping" to them movement-style.

+ +

When it came time to confront the draft, these same student +politicians used their mysterious connections to get out the easy way. +Sometimes they pulled strings to secure a place in the overbooked National +Guard, but most got out clean. Almost half of all undergraduate men were +released when the first lottery was held at the end of the year, which +of course brought our anti-draft movement to a halt. I now refer to my +1969 experience as the "Sam Hurst syndrome," after the articulate and +good-looking student body president who sat on the edge of the stage and +rode into power on the post-1968 wave. It's my euphemism for slick, +well-disguised self-interest and a great head of hair.

+ +

I noticed that new students could not tell the difference between Sam +Hurst's activism and mine. Students with safe lottery numbers sadistically +inquired about my number -- they would find it amusing if my number was +also safe, now that I had been convicted for refusing induction. It was +every man for himself. Then it got worse. By September 1970 the big +movement on campus centered on Timothy Leary's old colleague Richard +Alpert, who now called himself Baba Ram Dass and told overflow crowds that +the best way to do revolution was to sit in the lotus position and do +nothing. Soon Rennie Davis of Chicago Eight fame was spending his time +puppy-dogging a teenaged guru from India. Within another year there was no +discernible movement at all, just embarrassing burnouts like the Weather +Underground and eventually the Symbionese Liberation Army, which kidnapped +and brainwashed Patty Hearst.

+ +

Bill Clinton is even slicker than Sam Hurst. His anti-war activism, +as well as everything else he did, developed from a focused interest in +his own future. After 1968 it would have been unthinkable for Clinton to +ignore the anti-war movement and face political obsolescence -- not +because of his revulsion over carpet bombing, but because it was time to +hedge his bets. Clinton is not an intellectual, he's merely very clever. +A clever person can manipulate his environment, while an intellectual can +project beyond it and, for example, identify with the suffering of the +Vietnamese people. But this involves some risk, whereas power politics is +the art of pursuing the possible and minimizing this risk. Almost +everything that happened to the student movement is best explained without +conspiracy theories. There are, however, some bits of curious evidence +that should be briefly mentioned. Each of these alone doesn't amount to +much, but taken together they suggest that something more was happening -- +the possibility that by 1969 a significant sector of the ruling class had +decided to buy into the counterculture for purposes of manipulation and +control:

+ +

* Student leaders James Kunen[19] and Carl Oglesby[20] both report that +in the summer of 1968, the organization Business International, which +had links to the CIA, sent high-level representatives to meet with +SDS. These people wanted to help organize demonstrations for the +upcoming conventions in Chicago and Miami. SDS refused the offer, but +the experience convinced Oglesby that the ruling class was at war +with itself, and he began developing his Yankee-Cowboy theory.

+ +

* Tom Hayden, who by 1986 was defending his state assembly seat against +those trying to oust him because of his anti-war record, was quoted +as saying that while he was protesting against the Vietnam War, he +was also cooperating with U.S. intelligence agents.[21]

+ +

* The CIA was of course involved with LSD testing, but there is also +evidence that it was later involved in the distribution of LSD within +the counterculture.[22]

+ +

* Feminist leader Gloria Steinem[23] and congressman Allard Lowenstein +both had major CIA connections. Lowenstein was president of the +National Student Association, which was funded by the CIA until +exposed by Ramparts magazine in 1967. He and another NSA officer, Sam +Brown, were key organizers behind the 1969 Vietnam Moratorium.[24] +(In 1977 Brown became the director of ACTION under Jimmy Carter; his +activism, which was more intense and more sincere than Clinton's, +didn't hurt his career either.)

+ +

* Symbionese Liberation Army leader Donald DeFreeze appears to have +been conditioned in a behavior modification program sponsored by +elements of U.S. intelligence.[25]

+ +

* The CIA has a long history of infiltrating international +organizations, from labor to students to religion. I submit that +if an anti-war activist was involved in this type of international +jet-setting, the burden is on them to show that they were not +compromised. Clinton comes close to assuming this burden.

+ +

The major point here is that by 1969, protest was not necessarily +anti-Establishment. When thousands of students are in the streets every +day, and the troops you sent to Vietnam are deserting, sooner or later +it's going to cut into your profits. If you can't beat them, then you have +to co-opt them. Clinton's mentors and sponsors realized this, Clinton +himself sensed the shift, and until more evidence is available it's fair +to assume that his anti-war activity was at a minimum self-serving, and +perhaps even duplicitous.

+ +

How else can we explain why he has recently embraced the very +organizations who got us into Vietnam in the first place? He joined the +Council on Foreign Relations in 1989, attended a Bilderberg meeting in +1991, is currently a member of the Trilateral Commission, and has +appointed numerous Rhodes Scholars, CFR members, and Trilateralists to key +positions. These are the very groups whose historical roots, according to +Quigley, are essentially conspiratorial and antidemocratic. A cynic would +say that Clinton appropriated from Quigley what he needed -- which was a +precise description of where the power is -- and ignored those aspects of +Quigley that did not fit his agenda. He may have read a book or two by +Quigley, but he didn't inhale them.

+ +

On February 2, when Clinton's nominee for CIA director was asked some +polite questions, Senator John Chafee (R-RI) joked about what he called +"a Mafia that's taking over the administration."[26] Be sure to smile when +you say that, Senator. The new director, R. James Woolsey, was an early +supporter of the contras and served as defense attorney for Michael Ledeen +and Charles E. Allen, he has Georgetown-CSIS connections, and he's a +Rhodes Scholar, CFR member, and Yale Law School graduate, several years +ahead of Clinton. Yale, of course, is thick with CIA connections.[27] The +new CIA director was close to Brent Scowcroft at the Bush White House, and +is a director of Martin Marietta, the eighth-largest defense corporation, +whose contracts include the MX missle and Star Wars weapons.

+ +

It's becoming clear that on inauguration day we merely had a changing +of the guard. But it's still the same old team at headquarters, wherever +that is, and you won't find any television cameras there. Ultimately, +then, Clinton's references to Quigley are worth as much as his anti-war +record. And both are worth nothing at all.

+ +

1. David Maraniss, "Bill Clinton: Born to Run...and Run...and Run. +Washington Post, July 13, 1992, p. A1.

+ +

2. "Clinton a Bircher?", Washington Times, July 22, 1992, p. A6. For a +more useful discussion of the right and Quigley, see Frank P. Mintz, +The Liberty Lobby and the American Right: Race, Conspiracy and +Culture (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1985), pp. 145-51.

+ +

3. This conclusion in inescapable after reading Dick Russell, The Man +Who Knew Too Much (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1992).

+ +

4. Who's Who in America, 1976-1977 (Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1976).

+ +

5. Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time +(New York: Macmillan Company, 1966), p. 950.

+ +

6. Carroll Quigley, The Anglo-American Establishment (New York: Books in +Focus, 1981), pp. xi, 197.

+ +

7. Carl Oglesby, The Yankee and Cowboy War (New York: Berkley Publishing, +1977), pp.6-7.

+ +

8. Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, pp. 945-9.

+ +

9. Ibid., pp. 1245-6.

+ +

10. Oglesby, p. 25.

+ +

11. G. William Domhoff, "Who Made American Foreign Policy, 1945-1963?" In +David Horowitz, ed., Corporations and the Cold War (New York: Monthly +Review, 1969), p.34.

+ +

12. Erwin Knoll, "Memo from the Editor," The Progressive, March 1992, +p. 4.

+ +

13. Chip Berlet, Right Woos Left (Political Research Associates, 678 +Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 205, Cambridge MA 02139), July 28, 1992, +$6.50.

+ +

14. A-albionic Research, P.O. Box 20273, Ferndale MI 48220.

+ +

15. Kate Cornell, "The Covert Tactics and Overt Agenda of the New +Christian Right," Covert Action Quarterly, No. 43, Winter 1992-93, +p. 51.

+ +

16. Laurence H. Shoup, "Jimmy Carter and the Trilateralists: Presidential +Roots"; Laurence H. Shoup and William Minter, "Shaping a New World +Order: The Council on Foreign Relations' Blueprint for World +Hegemony, 1939-1945"; and several other relevant articles. In Holly +Sklar, ed., Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite +Planning for World Management (Boston: South End Press, 1980).

+ +

17. Stephen Gill, American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission (New +York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

+ +

18. Association of National Security Alumni, Unclassified, February-March +1992, pp. 6-9.

+ +

19. James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College +Revolutionary (New York: Avon Books, 1970), pp. 130-1.

+ +

20. Steve Weissman, Big Brother and the Holding Company (Palo Alto CA: +Ramparts Press, 1974), pp. 298-9.

+ +

21. AP in San Francisco Examiner, June 21, 1986.

+ +

22. Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain, Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD, and the +Sixties Rebellion (New York: Grove Press, 1985).

+ +

23. Kai Bird, The Chairman: John J. McCloy, The Making of the American +Establishment (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), pp. 483-4, 727.

+ +

24. Richard Cummings, The Pied Piper: Allard K. Lowenstein and the +Liberal Dream (New York: Grove Press, 1985).

+ +

25. Douglas Valentine, The Phoenix Program (New York: William Morrow, +1990), p. 337.

+ +

26. Douglas Jehl, "CIA Nominee Wary of Budget Cuts," New York Times, +February 3, 1993, p. A18.

+ +

27. Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961 +(New York: William Morrow, 1987). +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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From NameBase NewsLine, No. 3, October-December 1993:

+ +

Multiculturalism and the Ruling Elite

+ +

by Daniel Brandt +_____

+ +

Opportunity is rapidly vanishing, poorly masked by an institutionalized +preference for diversity. Leftist academics in ivory towers are hooked on +designer victimology but fail to notice the real victims -- the entire +next generation. Meanwhile the rich get richer. Have a nice New World +Order. +_____

+ +

Anyone who follows today's academic debates on multiculturalism, and +by happenstance is also familiar with the power-structure research that +engaged students in the sixties and early seventies, is struck by that old +truism: the only thing history teaches us is that no one learns from +history. By now it's even embarrassing, perhaps because of our soundbite +culture. Not only must each generation painstakingly relearn, by trial and +error, everything learned by the previous generation, but it's beginning +to appear that we have to relearn ourselves that which we knew a scant +twenty years earlier. The debate over diversity is one example of this.

+ +

Researchers in the sixties discovered that the ruling elites of the +West mastered the techniques of multiculturalism at the onset of the Cold +War, and employed them time and again to counter the perceived threat from +communism. The Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) was funded first by the +CIA and then, after this was exposed in 1967, by the Ford Foundation. CCF +created magazines, published books, and conducted conferences throughout +the world, in an effort to wean intellectuals to democratic liberalism.[1]

+ +

The CIA was also busy in Africa. In an article titled "The CIA as an +Equal Opportunity Employer" that first appeared in 1969 in Ramparts and +was reprinted in the Black Panther newspaper and elsewhere, members from +the Africa Research Group presented convincing evidence that "the CIA has +promoted black cultural nationalism to reinforce neo-colonialism in +Africa." In their introduction they added that "activists in the black +colony within the United States can easily see the relevance to their own +situation; in many cases the same techniques and occasionally the same +individuals are used to control the political implications of +Afro-American culture."[2]

+ +

But this is lost history, found today only on dusty library shelves +or buried in obscure databases. None of it is mentioned in the current +debate over diversity, not even in one of the most lucid essays, an +opinion piece by David Rieff that appeared in a recent Harper's.[3] Rieff +paints a picture of multiculturalism and shows, in broad strokes, how +multiculturalism serves capitalism. To appreciate the significance of +multiculturalism we must, as Rieff does, look at the academic arguments +from someplace in the real world, or at least from off campus. But we must +also be aware of our own historical legacy: psychological warfare and the +secret state, the mass media and the culture of spectacle, the role of +foundations, and above all, the interests and techniques of the elite +globalists who won the Cold War.

+ +

From the time that this war began in 1947, the Carnegie, Ford, and +Rockefeller Foundations, in cooperation with the CIA, began funding +programs at major U.S. universities such as Harvard, MIT, and Columbia. +They began with an emphasis on Russian studies, but by the mid-1960s these +three foundations and the CIA had a near-monopoly on all international +studies in the U.S.[4] This phenomenon, a big-money, top-down affair born +out of strategic considerations, is the precursor of today's academic +multiculturalism.

+ +

Some defenders of academic diversity pretend that the elitist shoe +is on the other foot, and note that their critics are funded by certain +conservative foundations. Sara Diamond tracks the Olin Foundation and +Smith-Richardson money behind Dinesh D'Souza and the National Association +of Scholars (NAS), two of the more vocal critics of multiculturalism.[5] +Diamond points out that the Smith-Richardson Foundation has its own CIA +connections, even though they pale in significance alongside the Carnegie +- Ford - Rockefeller nexus. But Diamond's major error is in framing her +arguments in terms of right and left. This allows the real dynamics to +escape her field of vision.

+ +

The ruling elite that finds diversity useful is an elite operating +at a level which transcends right and left. While there is an ideological +right that is battling the left, and while they do enjoy funding from +other conservatives, these folks are not the problem because they do not +have substantial power. Nothing shows this better than the fact that this +ideological right has always been as concerned as the left over the real +source of power, the elite globalists. This began with the Reece Committee +on the role of foundations in 1954, continued through the 1960s with the +John Birch Society's attacks on the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), +and later on the Trilateral Commission, and continues today with Pat +Robertson,[6] Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, Spotlight, and others. It's not +a right-left problem, but rather a top-bottom problem.[7]

+ +

Secondly, whatever the funding enjoyed by D'Souza and NAS, one +must recognize that the ideological right has long been motivated by +a Constitutionally-based, protectionist patriotism that hates big +government. Too often the patriotic component has devolved into what can +only be described as racism and imperialism. But in 1993 they are once +again isolationist, at a time when louder mainstream voices want to assume +the role of the world's policeman. And today the populist, ideological +right (as opposed to the corporate, Republican, elitist right found on the +CFR roster) is also opposed to NAFTA, every bit as firmly as the +trade-union Democrats. The ideological right, in other words, takes ideas +seriously -- a characteristic of those who lack power. It's just possible +that diversity for its own sake deserves to be criticized because it +replaces the search for truth with a situationist relativism based on +personal experience. This too is a consideration that defies simplistic +left-right categories.

+ +

For those who feel that the forces behind the debate are instructive, +it's worthwhile noting that the Ford Foundation began supporting feminist +groups and women's studies programs in the early 1970s. Just ten years +earlier they were busy training Indonesian elites (using Berkeley +professors as instructors) to take over from Sukarno,[8] which occurred +soon after a CIA-sponsored coup in 1965 that led to the slaughter of +hundreds of thousands. Did the folks at Ford Foundation have a bleeding +change of heart, or are they continuing the same battle on another front? +It would appear to be the latter. David R. Hunter, considered the +"godfather of progressive philanthropy" by hip heirs such as George +Pillsbury,[9] began his new career co-opting the next generation after +spending four years at the Ford Foundation.[10] The ruling elite knows +exactly what it's doing, and they are remarkably consistent.

+ +

When Ramparts blew the whistle on the CIA's domestic cultural +activities in 1967, President Johnson appointed a committee consisting of +elitists Nicholas Katzenbach (Rhodes scholar and former Ford Foundation +fellow), OSS old-boy John Gardner (Carnegie Corporation president, +1955-1965), and CIA director Richard Helms to study the problem. The +Katzenbach Committee reported that they expected private foundations, +which had grown from 2200 in 1955 to 18000 in 1967, to take over +the CIA's funding of international organizations, and recommended a +"public-private mechanism" to give grants openly. Sixteen years later +a Democratic Congress adopted this recommendation by establishing the +National Endowment for Democracy (NED). By now it requires a leap of good +faith to draw distinctions among complicated overlapping networks of CIA +funding, NED funding, and funding by foundations such as Carnegie, Ford, +and Rockefeller. The same people are behind all three, and they seem to +be getting richer every day. They promote the two-party system because +it keeps the rest of us off track.

+ +

Consider the issue of women in the workplace. Everyone agrees that +increased opportunities for women are wonderful, but what effect has this +had on family income? Here's the sobering answer, from Daniel Patrick +Moynihan, no less:

+ +

The average weekly take home pay of a worker who entered the +workforce in 1989 is $5.68 less today than thirty years ago. This is +also reflected in hourly wages. Compared to 1959, there has been a +slight increase, 60 cents an hour. But hourly wages are down from +their peak in 1973. The 1950s were our boom time. In that one decade +hourly wages grew by 83 cents. It took the following three decades +to add a mere 60 cents. Families made do by doubling up in the +workforce. Between 1955 and 1989 female participation in the work +force rose from 35.7 percent to 57.4 percent. Even so, family income +stayed flat. Median family income in 1973 was $32109. Half a +generation later in 1988 it was, in constant 1988 dollars, $32191, a +gain of $82. We also started the 1980s as the largest creditor nation +in history. We are now the largest debtor.... As a debtor nation, we +must expect that the people we owe money to will be better off than +we are.[11]

+ +

More American women are working just to keep the family going, while +more Japanese women can afford to stay home and are choosing to do so. The +flip side of increased opportunities for American women is that they can +no longer choose to stay out of the labor force. As David Rieff asks, "If +multiculturalism is what its proponents claim it is, why has its moment +seen the richest one percent of Americans grow richer and the +deunionization of the American workplace? There is something wrong +with this picture."[12]

+ +

Consider, too, the situation of African-Americans. As soon as the +ghettos erupted in the mid-1960s, Johnson's war on poverty began pouring +funds on the flames. This was followed with Nixon's "black capitalism," +and by the early 1970s affirmative action was institutionalized by edict +from above in both the public sector and in major private corporations +that held government contracts. But twenty years later only the +politicians, pundits, and movie stars pretend that any of this is +significant; it's the Jesse Jacksons and black personalities on television +who justify what they've got by emphasizing how far we've come thanks to +the civil rights struggle. Meanwhile the young in the ghettos, and +increasingly even on campuses, know that these front-office PR slots were +filled long ago. It's not a problem of inequality; for the next generation +there's already a rough equality in anticipated misery. The big problem +is that opportunities are vanishing altogether, without regard to race, +gender, or sexual orientation.

+ +

What's left of the left has yet to even acknowledge this, which makes +the proponents of diversity seem irrelevant and even a bit suspicious. +It's as if the multiculturalists are protesting too much. Trapped by the +cognitive dissonance engendered by hard evidence and common sense, their +words lash out reactively in an effort to justify themselves. What else +can they do? As David Rieff notes, their relationship to the real world +is peripheral:

+ +

For all their writings on power, hegemony, and oppression, the campus +multiculturalists seem indifferent to the question of where they fit +into the material scheme of things. Perhaps it's tenure, with its way +of shielding the senior staff from the rigors of someone else's +bottom-line thinking. Working for an institution in which neither pay +nor promotion is connected to performance, job security is guaranteed +(after tenure is attained), and pension arrangements are probably the +finest in any industry in the country -- no wonder a poststructuralist +can easily believe that words are deeds. She or he can afford to.[13]

+ +

While self-justification may motivate tenured multiculturalists, the +same politics also work well for those who are trying to get there. As any +humanities grad student soon discovers, academia is about specialization, +not about teaching. You need a gimmick. The choreography of the canon +limits the varieties of mental gymnastics during any given academic period +(about ten years), and anyone out of sync is destined for unemployment. By +insisting on diversity as a challenge to the canon, new slots are forced +open for tenure-track spin doctors. Pressure from the administration for +departmental affirmative action dovetails nicely with the fact that only +victims can preach this new canon; presto, tenure at last! Elizabeth +Fox-Genovese, who resigned as chair of Emory's women's studies program +because of complaints she wasn't sufficiently radical, admits as much:

+ +

In real terms, however, the battle over multiculturalism is a battle +over scarce resources and shrinking opportunities. To recognize this +much does not deny the related battle over national identity, but +does caution us to take the more extreme pronouncements pro and con +with a grain of salt.[14]

+ +

Multiculturalism can be an ideology that is used to bludgeon one's +way into tenure, because affirmative action alone is insufficient. The +essence of affirmative action becomes clear after leaving grad school and +spending fifteen years working for small companies as well as several +large corporations. Affirmative action (the PR phrase is "equal +opportunity" and the accurate phrase is "preferential treatment") is a +facade, affecting only the low-level and public-interface positions in +large corporations. After instructing their human resource departments +along federal guidelines, upper management stays the same, secure in the +knowledge that the low-level hires will statistically offset the white +males behind their closed office doors. Feminists call this the "glass +ceiling."

+ +

For young white males without exceptional advantages, it's closer to +a glass floor. Math doesn't play language games: if you quota something in +you also quota something out. Someone must pay for the sins of the elite. +When the diversity-mongers target white males, at best they are almost +half correct -- many (not all) older white males have enjoyed advantages. +But then when they make someone pay, they are all wrong: it's always the +young and innocent who bear the brunt of their policies. It would make as +much sense for U.S. institutions to impose sanctions on young women today, +simply because historically they have enjoyed exemption from the military +draft.

+ +

The fact that affirmative action appeared so rapidly over twenty +years ago, without opposition from entrenched interests, should have +provided a clue. It may have been designed to defuse civil unrest, but +this remedy was forced from above, not from below. In a poll commissioned +by Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, which plans to organize minorities +in support of traditional family values, only 36.6 percent of Hispanics, +37.6 percent of blacks, and 10 percent of whites agreed with the statement +that "African-Americans, Hispanics and other minorities should received +special preference in hiring to make up for past inequalities."[15] The +agenda of victimology, defined by George Will as "the proliferation of +groups nursing grievances and demanding entitlements,"[16] is not an +agenda shared widely off campus.

+ +

It appears that those who are most vocal in support of affirmative +action are those, reasonably enough, who are most dependent on it to +maintain their advantage. The ruling elite are experts at manipulating +their own interests; they know how to divide and conquer, which is why +they continue to rule. As inequality becomes increasingly obvious, those +who are less equal begin to see society in terms of "us" and "them." The +dominant culture shades this definition by using the mass media to +emphasize our differences at every opportunity. Conventional wisdom +becomes articulated within narrow parameters, which is another way of +saying that the questions offered for public debate are rigged.

+ +

The objective is to define "us" and "them" in ways that do not +threaten the established order. Today everyone can see that there is more +Balkanization on campus, and more racism in society, than there was when +affirmative action began over twenty years ago. And for twenty years now +one can hardly get through the day without being reminded that race is +something that matters, from TV sitcoms all the way down to common +application forms (it would have been unthinkable to ask about one's race +on an application form in the 1960s). We are not fighting the system +anymore, we're fighting each other.

+ +

Multiculturalism fails to challenge the underlying assumption of all +affirmative action rationales, namely that opportunities are scarce and +there's not enough for everyone. There is much evidence to substantiate +this, particularly as the U.S. tries to remain competitive in a new global +economy. Perhaps we should take the global perspective seriously and +hunker down for hard times. It's just poor business sense to build a +factory in the U.S. if you can build it in Mexico (2000 have moved +already). In 1983 the cost of an hour's labor time here was $12.26. The +hourly savings for using foreign labor that year amounted to $10.81 in +Mexico, $10.09 in Singapore, $6.06 in Japan, and $10.97 in Korea.[17]

+ +

Perhaps America's only potential advantage is the technical lead we +enjoy in certain areas. If we can play this card well, it might partially +compensate for a declining industrial base. Here, too, affirmative action +has it all backwards. A huge pool of talent -- the ones, incidentally, +who have most of the skills needed in a society that wants to emphasize +technical innovation, merit, and quality -- are underemployed and +demoralized by affirmative action policies.

+ +

Recent literacy tests by the Education Department, the most +comprehensive in two decades, show that American adults aged 21 to 25 +scored significantly lower than eight years ago, and that about 40 million +American adults of all ages have difficulty reading a simple sentence. Men +outscored women in document and quantitative literacy, and white adults +scored significantly higher than any of the other nine racial and ethnic +groups surveyed.[18] Over half of all minorities admitted to college under +affirmative action programs drop out before graduating; 30 percent before +the end of their freshman year.[19] America does not have the time or +resources to bring everyone up to the same level, so instead it appears to +be "dumbing down" our culture by denying opportunities and challenges to +our most capable young people. This attempt at social leveling is a poor +second choice.

+ +

None of these dire trends are of any concern to the ruling elites who +have the power to address them. They are citizens of the world, and no one +-- now not even the Soviet bloc -- stands in their way. They have no need +for borders; free trade is what they want and what they will eventually +get. Many on Wall Street prefer unrestricted immigration, which would +drive down wages and fold up our few remaining unions. For ruling elites, +private security provides insulation and "social decay" is just an +irrelevant phrase. A massive amount of money, some $1 trillion, is traded +every day on currency exchanges around the world. On those rare occasions +when money laundering is discovered, the tax man gets too greedy, or +regulators become pesky, one nation can be played off against another. And +there is disturbing evidence that even the CIA operates at the level of +offshore banking and drug-running, presumably after they determine that +their already-bloated budgets, picked from our pockets, simply don't meet +their needs.

+ +

The owners of corporate America have the resources to move offshore +or south of the border, while the rest of us are here for the duration. If +we were all tightening our belts together, there might be some basis for +programs designed to redistribute opportunities. But the rich are getting +richer at the same time that they institute policies such as affirmative +action and NAFTA. It doesn't pass the smell test. The campus left speaks +of equality, and then forgets about justice by ignoring economic and class +distinctions. This failure is so fundamental that multiculturalists +should no longer be considered "leftists." As long as they claim this +description, some of us -- those who still feel that elites ought to be +accountable -- are beginning to feel more comfortable as "populists."

+ +

Back on campus, the debate rages over the quality of +politically-correct (PC) courses and the propriety of speech codes +designed to penalize so-called "hate" speech. Multiculturalism is +pervasive throughout the humanities, but English and art classes seem +to attract most of the PC professors. At the University of Maryland, +Josephine Withers taught "Contemporary Issues in Feminist Art" in 1993. +Nine of her students, in an effort to propagate the awareness of rape as +a feminist issue, tacked up hundreds of fliers bearing the heading +"Notice: These Men Are Potential Rapists." The names underneath were +chosen arbitrarily from the student directory. Some of those named were +not amused. This is not "hate speech," because in this case the +perpetrators -- the nine women -- are victims of a "male-identified" +culture, and are simply expressing sensitivity to their own +oppression.[20]

+ +

For an example of actionable hate speech, we go to the University of +Pennsylvania. The theft of 14000 copies of the student newspaper by black +students unhappy with a white columnist went unpunished at Penn. But a +white male freshman was hauled before the school's judicial board after +yelling "water buffalo" at a group of black sorority sisters creating a +disturbance under his dormitory window.[21]

+ +

Some of the steam has gone out of campus speech codes because of +recent court decisions that have declared them unconstitutional. But +political correctness and multiculturalism is still rampant inside some +classrooms. Scholars from NAS have expressed concern over standards of +scholarship and rising campus tensions.[22] Thoughtful progressives like +Barbara Epstein worry that "a politics that is organized around defending +identities ... forces people's experience into categories that are too +narrow."[23] Todd Gitlin, a former 1960s student leader who now teaches +at Berkeley, echoes similar sentiments:

+ +

The academic left has degenerated into a loose aggregation of margins +-- often cannibalistic, romancing the varieties of otherness, +speaking in tongues. In this new interest-group pluralism, the +shopping center of identity politics makes a fetish of the virtues +of the minority, which, in the end, is not only intellectually +stultifying but also politically suicidal.... Authentic liberals have +good reason to worry that the elevation of 'difference' to a first +principle is undermining everyone's capacity to see, or change, the +world as a whole.[24]

+ +

Even Mother Jones magazine is having second thoughts. Karen Lehrman, +a thirtyish conservative who visited 20 women's studies classes at +Berkeley, Iowa, Smith, and Dartmouth, delivered a withering critique of +course content in a recent issue.[25] The same Mother Jones issue also +tantalizes with a teaser for future articles: "Is Hillary our friend?" +and "Did someone get to Bill?" At this rate the magazine may eventually +(sometime after the next election, naturally) figure out who the Clintons +really represent. Or at least discover that Donna Shalala, FOH (friend of +Hillary) and chancellor of the University of Wisconsin (before Hillary +appointed her HHS secretary), is a member of both the Council on Foreign +Relations and the super-elitist Trilateral Commission (as is Hillary's +husband). Shalala has called for "a basic transformation of American +higher education in the name of multiculturalism and diversity."[26]

+ +

The critics of course content object to some of the sensitivity +training programs and techniques that are in vogue on the multicultural +campus. Many universities now require PC sensitivity exposure of some sort +for incoming freshmen. The NAS worries that such programs are making the +situation on campus worse, not better:

+ +

'Sensitivity training' programs designed to cultivate 'correct +thought' about complicated normative, social, and political issues do +not teach tolerance but impose orthodoxy. And when these programs +favor manipulative psychological techniques over honest discussion, +they also undermine the intellectual purposes of higher education and +anger those subjected to them. If entire programs of study or +required courses relentlessly pursue issues of 'race, gender, and +class' in preference to all other approaches to assessing the human +condition, one can expect the increasing division of the campus along +similar lines.[27]

+ +

Sensitivity training has its roots in the late 1960s, when it became +a business management fad much the way that "total quality" has been the +fad over the past few years. An undergraduate at the time, at least in +California, could usually find a sensitivity course in the business +school. These revolved around personal rather than political sensitivity. +A similar experience might be found in the psychology department, where +one "humanist" might have held out against the behaviorists. In sociology, +a race relations class might sponsor trips to the ghetto, where poverty +program militants would harangue and titillate white sorority sisters by +using foul language.

+ +

Ethical questions should be raised when such techniques are applied +with a political agenda. In the late 1960s in California, a group with +liberal Protestant connections calling itself the "Urban Plunge" organized +sensitivity immersions for white liberals from the suburbs. After several +days or more of intensive ghetto exposure organized by charismatic Plunge +staffers, interspersed with group "attack therapy" sessions, many +participants were duly impressed. I attended two or three "Plunges" in +1967-1968 in Los Angeles and San Francisco. In early 1970, when I believed +in pacifism and was appealing a conviction for draft resistance, the Los +Angeles "Plunge" invited me to speak to the weekend participants. I +arrived at the scheduled time and discovered that new techniques were +being used: everyone had been deprived of sleep and food for two days +in an effort to sensitize them to the Third World. Tempers were +understandably short. As I walked in, fists were flying between a staffer +and participant. Disgusted with the whole scene, I immediately walked +back out.

+ +

In 1968, despite all the mistakes and stupidity of that era, +victimology as self-justification was not yet in vogue. Poverty program +militants acted more like kings on their own turf than like victims; they +even seemed to enjoy themselves. Women didn't start complaining until a +year or two later. Hispanics were only recently recognized on a par with +blacks, even in the huge barrios of Los Angeles. Draft resisters risked +prison in an effort to stop the machine, and many who served in Vietnam +felt an obligation to society and risked everything. In this social stew +there were many demands for justice but few self-serving claims to +entitlements. Today, however, Lehrman discovers that victimology is all +the rage:

+ +

Terms like sexism, racism, and homophobia have bloated beyond all +recognition, and the more politicized the campus, the more frequently +they're thrown around.... [T]hose with the most oppressed identities +are the most respected.... The irony is not only that these students +(who, at the schools I visited at least, were overwhelmingly white +and upper-middle class) probably have not come into contact with much +oppression, but that they are the first generation of women who have +grown up with so many options open to them.[28]

+ +

Another sore point for the critics is the moral relativism of today's +multiculturalists, particularly in the humanities. Lehrman complains that +their "post-structuralism" implies that "all texts are arbitrary, all +knowledge is biased, all standards are illegitimate, all morality is +subjective." When it comes to their own Western-culture feminism, however, +the relativism is conveniently forgotten.[29] Mortimer J. Adler feels that +those who assert subjectivism have dug themselves into a philosophical +hole:

+ +

For such multiculturalists ... what is or is not desirable is, +therefore, entirely a matter of taste (about which there should be +no disputing), not a matter of truth that can be disputed in terms of +empirical evidence and reasons. We are left with a question that +should be embarrassing to the multiculturalists, though they are not +likely to feel its pinch. When they proclaim the desirability of the +multicultural, they dispute about matters that should not be disputed. +What, then, can possibly be their grounds of preference? Since in +their terms it cannot appeal to any relevant body of truth, what they +demand in the name of multiculturalism must arise from a wish for +power or self-esteem.[30]

+ +

Classes on campus that are considered PC tend to be easy credits, +where students grade each other and spend much of their time discussing +personal experiences and writing journals. Indeed, once relativism is +embraced, there's not much to learn that doesn't come from within, so what +else can be done? But then add social pressure to the classroom, so that +certain patterns of experience are validated by one's peers while others +are not. If one's classmates represented a cross-section of society the +effect might even out, but in this rigged environment they all end up +saying the same thing. Thus college becomes a narrowing experience rather +than a broadening experience. Normally this isn't supposed to happen +until grad school.

+ +

But perhaps learning has always occurred more frequently outside of +the classroom. In 1968 I noticed from a puff piece in our campus yearbook +that a university trustee, John McCone, was a former CIA director. In the +library there was exactly one book to be found that was critical of the +CIA (The Invisible Government by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross, published +in 1964) and it included some material on McCone. Then I began looking at +the other University of Southern California trustees, and discovered some +of the people behind Governor Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.

+ +

No one ever assigned me readings on power-structure research; the +established order never encourages anyone to research or expose its inner +workings. I became interested on my own, with help from soon-defunct +magazines like Ramparts. (Years later a former postal worker told me that +at his post office, the feds collected lists of Ramparts subscribers.) +When it comes to naming and describing the ruling elite, the facts are +inconvenient for those who are nursing careers. Students at Columbia +published impressive research on the trustees at their university in 1968, +but not a hint of this made it into the major media. It was reported as +long-haired, pot-smoking draft dodgers who spontaneously decided to take +over the campus for no reason at all. Film at eleven.

+ +

Professors know little about ruling elites because they do know +how to recognize a career-stopper when they see one. The fact that +administrators are actively promoting multiculturalism should have set +off alarm bells for class-conscious leftists who haven't yet deluded +themselves about the role of the university. This support by the +administration ought to clearly suggest that multiculturalism is endorsed +by the ruling elite because they find it useful.

+ +

Donna Shalala, now secretary of Health and Human Services, once +remarked:

+ +

The university is institutionally racist. American society is racist +and sexist. Covert racism is just as bad today as overt racism was +thirty years ago. In the 1960s we were frustrated about all this. But +now, we are in a position to do something about it.[31]

+ +

She and her CFR and Trilateralist friends must laugh about this in +private, knowing that their policies function like self-fulfilling +prophecies. They also know that any focus on racism and sexism to the +exclusion of class analysis amounts to a cover-up of their own agenda. The +1980s speak for themselves. Ultimately the ruling elites intend nothing +less than the Balkanization of the American middle class. Comparatively +speaking, this class is one of world's few remaining reservoirs of +unprotected, unexploited wealth.

+ +

1. Peter Coleman, The Liberal Conspiracy: The Congress for Cultural +Freedom and the Struggle for the Mind of Postwar Europe (New York: +Free Press, 1989), 333 pages.

+ +

2. Dan Schechter, Michael Ansara, and David Kolodney, "The CIA as an +Equal Opportunity Employer," Ramparts, June 1969, pp. 25-33. +Reprinted with an introduction in Ellen Ray, William Schaap, Karl +van Meter, and Louis Wolf, eds., Dirty Work 2: The CIA in Africa +(Secaucus NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1979), pp. 50-69.

+ +

3. David Rieff, "Multiculturalism's Silent Partner: It's the newly +globalized consumer economy, stupid." Harper's, August 1993, +pp. 62-72.

+ +

4. Sigmund Diamond, Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of +Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945-1955 (New York: +Oxford University Press, 1992), 371 pages; David Horowitz, "Sinews of +Empire," Ramparts, October 1969, pp. 32-42.

+ +

5. Sara Diamond, "The Funding of the NAS." In Patricia Aufderheide, ed., +Beyond PC: Toward a Politics of Understanding (Saint Paul MN: +Graywolf Press, 1992), pp. 89-96. This essay first appeared in +Z Magazine, February 1991.

+ +

6. Compare Sigmund Diamond's discussion of the Reece Committee in +Compromised Campus and Pat Robertson's discussion of same in The New +World Order (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1991).

+ +

7. I'm indebted to Ace Hayes for this sentence.

+ +

8. David Ransom, "Ford Country: Building an Elite for Indonesia." In +Steve Weissman, ed., The Trojan Horse: A Radical Look at Foreign Aid +(Palo Alto CA: Ramparts Press, 1975), pp. 93-116.

+ +

9. Kathleen Teltsch, "Adviser Helping the Rich Discover Worthy Causes," +New York Times, 14 October 1984, p. 50.

+ +

10. Who's Who in America, 1984-1985 (Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1984).

+ +

11. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, "Deficit by Default" (14th edition of an +annual series beginning with Fiscal Year 1976), July 31, 1990, +pp. xiv - xvii.

+ +

12. Rieff, p. 63.

+ +

13. Ibid., p. 66.

+ +

14. Pat Aufderheide, ed., Beyond PC: Toward a Politics of Understanding +(Saint Paul MN: Graywolf Press, 1992), p. 232.

+ +

15. Ralph Z. Hallow, "Christian Coalition to Court Minorities: Blacks, +Hispanics Back Key Stands," Washington Times, 10 September 1993, +p. A5.

+ +

16. George F. Will, "Literary Politics." In Aufderheide, ed., p. 24.

+ +

17. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Handbook of Labor Statistics (Washington: +1985), p. 435, Table 132.

+ +

18. Carol Innerst, "America's Illiterates Increasing: Survey Disputes +U.S. Self-Image," Washington Times, 9 September 1993, p. A1, A10.

+ +

19. C. Vann Woodward, "Freedom and the Universities." In Aufderheide, +ed., p. 32.

+ +

20. Janet Naylor, "'Potential Rapists' Flier Stirs UMd. Flap," Washington +Times, 7 May 1993, p. A1, A7.

+ +

21. Carol Innerst, "The Hackney Hubbub: PC Debate at Penn Trails +Clinton's Pick for NEH," Washington Times, 14 June 1993, p. D1, D2.

+ +

22. National Association of Scholars, "The Wrong Way to Reduce Campus +Tensions." In Aufderheide, ed., pp. 7-10.

+ +

23. Barbara Epstein, "Political Correctness and Identity Politics." In +Aufderheide, ed., pp. 148-54.

+ +

24. Todd Gitlin, "On the Virtues of a Loose Canon." In Aufderheide, ed., +pp. 185-90.

+ +

25. Karen Lehrman, "Off Course," Mother Jones, September-October 1993, +pp. 45-51, 64, 66, 68.

+ +

26. Shalala is quoted in Dinesh D'Souza, Illiberal Education: The +Politics of Race and Sex on Campus (New York: Vintage Books, 1992), +p. 13.

+ +

27. National Association of Scholars, p. 9.

+ +

28. Lehrman, pp. 64, 66, 68.

+ +

29. Ibid., p. 66.

+ +

30. Mortimer J. Adler, "Multiculturalism, Transculturalism, and the Great +Books." In Aufderheide, ed., pp. 59-64.

+ +

31. Shalala is quoted in D'Souza, p. 16.

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+ +SECRET CONCENTRATION CAMPS + +The September issue of THE OSTRICH reprinted a story from the +CBA BULLETIN which listed the following principal civilian concentration camps established in GULAG USA under the =Rex '84= program: +Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas; Ft. Drum, New York; Ft. Indian Gap, Pennsylvania; Camp A. P. Hill, Virginia; Oakdale, California; Eglin +Air Force Base, Florida; Vendenberg AFB, California; Ft. Mc Coy, +Wisconsin; Ft. Benning, Georgia; Ft. Huachuca, Arizona; Camp +Krome, Florida. The February OSTRICH printed a map of the expanding +Gulag. Alhough this listing and map stirred considerable interest, +the report was not new. For at least 20 years, knowledgeable Patriots +have been warning of these sinister plots to incarcerate dissidents +opposing plans of the =Elitist Syndicate= for a totalitarian +=New World Order=. Indeed, the plot was recognized with the insidious +encroachment of "regionalism" back in the 1960's. As early as 1968, +the "greatest land steal in history" leading to global corporate +socialism, was in a ="Master Land Plan"= for the United States +by =Executive Orders= involving water resource regions, +population movement and control, pollution control, zoning +and land use, navigation and environmental bills, etc. Indeed, +the real undercover aim of the so-called "Environmental Rennaissance" +has been the abolition of private property. +All prelude to the total grab of the =World Conservation Bank=, +as THE OSTRICH has been reporting. The map on this page and +the list of executive orders available for imposition of an "emergency" +are from 1970s files of the late Gen. =P. A. Del Valle's= ALERT, +sent us by =Merritt Newby=, editor of the now defunct AMERICAN +CHALLENGE. +=Wake up Americans!= The Bushoviks have approved =Gorbachev's= +imposition of "Emergency" to suppress unrest. =Henry Kissinger= +and his clients hardly missed a day's profits in their deals with +the butchers of Tiananmen Sqaure. Are you next? +*************************************************************************

+ +

SUBJECT: Executive Orders + + +APPLICABLE EXECUTIVE ORDERS + +The following =Executive Orders=, now recorded in the Federal +Register, and therefore accepted by Congress as the law of the +land, can be put into effect at any time an emergency is declared: + +10995--All communications media seized by the Federal Government. +10997--Seizure of all electrical power, fuels, including +gasoline and minerals. +10998--Seizure of all food resources, farms and farm equipment. +10999--Seizure of all kinds of transportation, including your +personal car, and control of all highways and seaports. +11000--Seizure of all civilians for work under Federal supervision. +11001--Federal takeover of all health, education and welfare. +11002--Postmaster General empowered to register every man, woman +and child in the U.S.A. +11003--Seizure of all aircraft and airports by the Federal +Government. +11004--Housing and Finance authority may shift population from +one locality to another. Complete integration. +11005--Seizure of railroads, inland waterways, and storage facilities. +11051--The Director of the Office of Emergency Planning authorized +to put Executive Orders into effect in "times of increased +international tension or financial crisis". He is also to +perform such additional functions as the President +may direct.

+ +

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +A Dangerous Fact Not Generally Known +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +THESE EXECUTIVE ORDERS GROSSLY AND FLAGRANTLY VIOLATE ARTICLE +4 SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. "THE +UNITED STATES SHALL GUARANTEE TO EVERY STATE IN THIS UNION A +REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT, AND SHALL PROTECT EACH OF THEM +AGAINST INVASION; AND ON APPLICATION OF THE LEGISLATURE, OR OF THE +EXECUTIVE (WHEN THE LEGISLATURE CANNOT BE CONVENED) AGAINST +DOMESTIC VIOLENCE." "REGIONAL GOVERNMENT IS NOT A REPRESENTATIVE +REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT!"

+ +

When Government gets out of hand and can no longer be controlled +by the people, short of violent overthrow as in 1776, there are +two sources of power which are used by the dictatorial government +to keep the people in line: the Police Power and the Power of the +Purse (through which the necessities of life can be withheld). +And both of these powers are no longer balanced between the three +Federal Branches, and between the Federal and the State and +local Governments. These powers have been taken over, with the +permission of the Federal Legislature and the State Governments, +by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government and all attempts +to reclaim that lost power have been defeated.

+ +

Stated simply: the dictatorial power of the Executive rests primarily +on three basis: Executive Order 11490, Executive Order 11647, and +the Planning, Programming, Budgeting System which is operated +through the new and all-powerful Office of Management and +Budget.

+ +

E. O. 11490 is a compilation of some 23 previous Executive Orders, +signed by Nixon on Oct. 28, 1969, and outlining emergency functions +which are to be performed by some 28 Executive Departments and +Agencies whenever the President of the United States declares +a national emergency (as in defiance of an impeachment edict, +for example). Under the terms of E. O. 11490, the President +can declare that a national emergency exists and the Executive +Branch can: +* Take over all communications media +* Seize all sources of power +* Take charge of all food resources +* Control all highways and seaports +* Seize all railroads, inland waterways, airports, storage facilities +* Commandeer all civilians to work under federal supervision +* Control all activities relating to health, education, and welfare +* Shift any segment of the population from one locality to another +* Take over farms, ranches, timberized properties +* Regulate the amount of your own money you may withdraw from +your bank, or savings and loan institution

+ +

All of these and many more items are listed in 32 pages incorporating +nearly 200000 words, providing and absolute bureaucratic +dictatorship whenever the President gives the word.

+ +

--> Executive Order 11647 provides the regional and local mechanisms +--> and manpower for carrying out the provisions of E. O. 11490. +--> Signed by Richard Nixon on Feb. 10, 1972, this Order sets up Ten +--> Federal Regional Councils to govern Ten Federal Regions made up +--> of the fifty still existing States of the Union. + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +Don sez:

+ +

*Check out this book for the inside scoop on the "secret" Constitution.* + +SUBJECT: - "The Proposed Constitutional Model" Pages 595-621 +Book Title - The Emerging Constitution +Author - Rexford G. Tugwell +Publisher - Harpers Magazine Press,Harper and Row +Dewey Decimal - 342.73 T915E +ISBN - 0-06-128225-10 +Note Chapter 14 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

+ +

The 10 Federal Regions +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ +

REGION I: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode +Island, Vermont. +Regional Capitol: Boston +REGION II: New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Virgin Island. +Regional Capitol: New York City +REGION III: Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West +Virginia, District of Columbia. +Regional Capitol: Philadelphia +REGION IV: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, +North Carolina, Tennessee. +Regional Capitol: Atlanta +REGION V: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin. +Regional Capitol: Chicago +REGION VI: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas. +Regional Capitol: Dallas-Fort Worth +REGION VII: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska. +Regional Capitol: Kansas City +REGION VIII: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, +Utah, Wyoming. +Regional Capitol: Denver +REGION IX: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada. +Regional Capitol: San Fransisco +REGION X: Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho. +Regional Capitol: Seattle

+ +

Supplementing these Then Regions, each of the States is, or is to +be, divided into subregions, so that Federal Executive control +is provided over every community.

+ +

Then, controlling the bedgeting and the programming at every +level is that politico-economic system known as PPBS.

+ +

The President need not wait for some emergency such as an impeachment +ouster. He can declare a National Emergency at any time, and freeze +everything, just as he has already frozen wages and prices. And +the Congress, and the States, are powerless to prevent such an +Executive Dictatorship, unless Congress moves to revoke these +extraordinary powers before the Chief Executive moves to invoke +them.

+ +

THESE EXECUTIVE ORDERS GROSSLY AND FLAGRANTLY VIOLATE THE INTENT AND +PURPOSE OF ARTICLE 4 SECTION 3. THERE IS NO PROVISION IN THIS +SECTION OR THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES FOR FORMING A +REGIONAL STATE OUT OF A GROUP OF STATES! FURTHER, THESE EXECUTIVE +ORDERS GROSSLY AND FLAGRANTLY VIOLATE THE 9TH AND 10TH +AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION!

+ +

By Proclaiming and Putting Into Effect Executive Order No. 11490, +the President would put the United States under TOTAL MARTIAL LAW +AND MILITARY DICTATORSHIP! The Guns Of The American People Would +Be Forcibly Taken!

+ +

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Bushie-Tail used the Gulf War Show to greatly expand the powers of the +presidency. During this shell game event, the Executive Orders signed +into "law" continued Bushie's methodical and detailed program to bury +any residual traces of the constitutional rights and protections of U.S. +citizens. The Bill of Rights--[almost too late to] use 'em or lose 'em:

+ +

|| The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to || +|| constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of || +|| the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial || +|| executive. ||

+ +

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +From "Covert Action Information Bulletin," Number 37, Summer, 1991 (see +bottom 2 pages for subscription & back issues info on this quarterly):

+ +

Domestic Consequences of the Gulf War +Diana Reynolds +Reprinted with permission of CAIB. Copyright 1991

+ +

Diana Reynolds is a Research Associate at the Edward R. Murrow Center, +Fletcher School for Public Policy, Tufts University. She is also an +Assistant Professor of Politics at Broadford College and a Lecturer at +Merrimack College.

+ +

A war, even the most victorious, is a national misfortune. +--Helmuth Von Moltke, Prussian field marshall

+ +

George Bush put the United States on the road to its second war in +two years by declaring a national emergency on August 21990. In +response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Bush issued two Executive +Orders (12722 and 12723) which restricted trade and travel with Iraq +and froze Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets within the U.S. and those in the +possession of U.S. persons abroad. At least 15 other executive orders +followed these initial restrictions and enabled the President to +mobilize the country's human and productive resources for war. Under +the national emergency, Bush was able unilaterally to break his 1991 +budget agreement with Congress which had frozen defense spending, to +entrench further the U.S. economy in the mire of the military-industrial complex, to override environmental protection regulations, +and to make free enterprise and civil liberties conditional upon an +executive determination of national security interests.

+ +

The State of Emergency +In time of war a president's power derives from both constitutional +and statutory sources. Under Article II, Section 2 of the +Constitution, he is Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. Although +Congress alone retains the right to declare war, this power has become +increasingly meaningless in the face of a succession of unilateral +decisions by the executive to mount invasions. +The president's statutory authority, granted by Congress and +expanded by it under the 1988 National Emergencies Act (50 USC sec. +1601), confers special powers in time of war or national emergency. +He can invoke those special powers simply by declaring a national +emergency. First, however, he must specify the legal provisions under +which he proposes that he, or other officers, will act. Congress may +end a national emergency by enacting a joint resolution. Once invoked +by the president, emergency powers are directed by the National +Security Council and administered, where appropriate, under the +general umbrella of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).[1] +There is no requirement that Congress be consulted before an emergency +is declared or findings signed. The only restriction on Bush is that +he must inform Congress in a "timely" fashion--he being the sole +arbiter of timeliness. +Ultimately, the president's perception of the severity of a +particular threat to national security and the integrity of his +appointed officers determine the nature of any state of emergency. +For this reason, those who were aware of the modern development of +presidential emergency powers were apprehensive about the domestic +ramifications of any national emergency declared by George Bush. In +light of Bush's record (see "Bush Chips Away at Constitution" Box +below) and present performance, their fears appear well-founded.

+ +

The War at Home +It is too early to know all of the emergency powers, executive +orders and findings issued under classified National Security +Directives[2] implemented by Bush in the name of the Gulf War. In +addition to the emergency powers necessary to the direct mobilization +of active and reserve armed forces of the United States, there are +some 120 additional emergency powers that can be used in a national +emergency or state of war (declared or undeclared by Congress). The +"Federal Register" records some 15 Executive Orders (EO) signed by +Bush from August 21990 to February 141991. (See "Bush's Executive +Orders" box, below) +It may take many years before most of the executive findings and +use of powers come to light, if indeed they ever do. But evidence is +emerging that at least some of Bush's emergency powers were activated +in secret. Although only five of the 15 EOs that were published were +directed at non-military personnel, the costs directly attributable to +the exercise of the authorities conferred by the declaration of +national emergency from August 2, 1990 to February 1, 1991 for non-military activities are estimated at approximately $1.3 billion. +According to a February 11, 1991 letter from Bush to congressional +leaders reporting on the "National Emergency With Respect to Iraq," +these costs represent wage and salary costs for the Departments of +Treasury, State, Agriculture, and Transportation, U.S. Customs, +Federal Reserve Board, and the National Security Council.[3] +The fact that $1.3 billion was spent in non-military salaries alone +in this six month period suggests an unusual amount of government +resources utilized to direct the national emergency state. In +contrast, government salaries for one year of the state of emergency +with Iran[4] cost only $430000.

+ +

____________________________________________________________________ +| +Bush Chips Away at Constitution | +| +George Bush, perhaps more than any other individual in | +U.S. history, has expanded the emergency powers of | +presidency. In 1976, as Director of Central Intelligence, | +he convened Team B, a group of rabidly anti-communist | +intellectuals and former government officials to reevaluate | +CIA inhouse intelligence estimates on Soviet military | +strength. The resulting report recommended draconian civil | +defense measures which led to President Ford's Executive | +Order 11921 authorizing plans to establish government | +control of the means of production, distribution, energy | +sources, wages and salaries, credit and the flow of money | +in U.S. financial institutions in a national emergency.[1] | +As Vice President, Bush headed the Task Force on | +Combatting Terrorism, that recommended: extended and | +flexible emergency presidential powers to combat terrorism; | +restrictions on congressional oversight in counter-terrorist planning; and curbing press coverage of | +terrorist incidents.[2] The report gave rise to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1986, that granted the President clear-cut | +authority to respond to terrorism with all appropriate | +means including deadly force. It authorized the | +Immigration and Naturalization Service to control and | +remove not only alien terrorists but potential terrorist | +aliens and those "who are likely to be supportive of | +terrorist activity within the U.S."[3] The bill superceded | +the War Powers Act by imposing no time limit on the | +President's use of force in a terrorist situation, and | +lifted the requirement that the President consult Congress | +before sanctioning deadly force. | +From 1982 to 1988, Bush led the Defense Mobilization | +Planning Systems Agency (DMPSA), a secret government | +organization, and spent more than $3 billion upgrading | +command, control, and communications in FEMA's continuity | +of government infrastructures. Continuity of Government | +(COG) was ostensibly created to assure government | +functioning during war, especially nuclear war. The Agency | +was so secret that even many members of the Pentagon were | +unaware of its existence and most of its work was done | +without congressional oversight. | +Project 908, as the DMPSA was sometimes called, was | +similar to its parent agency FEMA in that it came under | +investigation for mismanagement and contract | +irregularities.[4] During this same period, FEMA had been | +fraught with scandals including emergency planning with a | +distinctly anti-constitutional flavor. The agency would | +have sidestepped Congress and other federal agencies and | +put the President and FEMA directly in charge of the U.S. | +planning for martial rule. Under this state, the executive | +would take upon itself powers far beyond those necessary to | +address national emergency contingencies.[5] | +Bush's "anything goes" anti-drug strategy, announced | +on September 6, 1989, suggested that executive emergency | +powers be used: to oust those suspected of associating | +with drug users or sellers from public and private housing; | +to mobilize the National Guard and U.S. military to fight | +drugs in the continental U.S.; to confiscate private | +property belonging to drug users, and to incarcerate first | +time offenders in work camps.[6] | +The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to | +constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of | +the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial | +executive. | +| +1. Executive Order 11921, "Emergency preparedness Functions, | +June 11, 1976. Federal Register, vol. 41, no. 116. The | +report was attacked by such notables as Ray Cline, the | +CIA's former Deputy Director, retired CIA intelligence | +analyst Arthur Macy Cox, and the former head of the U.S. | +Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Paul Warnke for | +blatantly manipulating CIA intelligence to achieve the | +political ends of Team B's rightwing members. See Cline, | +quoted in "Carter to Inherit Intense Dispute on Soviet | +Intentions," Mary Marder, "Washington Post," January 2, | +1977; Arthur Macy Cox, "Why the U.S. Since 1977 Has | +Been Mis-perceiving Soviet Military Strength," "New York | +Times," October 20, 1980; Paul Warnke, "George Bush and | +Team B," "New York Times," September 24, 1988. | +| +2. George Bush, "Public Report of the Vice President's Task | +Force On Combatting Terrorism" (Washington, D.C.: U.S. | +Government Printing Office), February 1986. | +| +3. Robert J. Walsh, Assistant Commissioner, Investigations | +Division, Immigration and Naturalization Service, "Alien | +Border Control Committee" (Washington, DC), October 1, | +1988. | +| +4. Steven Emerson, "America's Doomsday Project," "U.S. News | +& World Report," August 7, 1989. | +| +5. See: Diana Reynolds, "FEMA and the NSC: The Rise of the | +National Security State," "CAIB," Number 33 (Winter 1990); | +Keenan Peck, "The Take-Charge Gang," "The Progressive," | +May 1985; Jack Anderson, "FEMA Wants to Lead Economic | +War," "Washington Post," January 10, 1985. | +| +6. These Presidential powers were authorized by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Public Law 100-690: 100th | +Congress. See also: Diana Reynolds, "The Golden Lie," | +"The Humanist," September/October 1990; Michael Isikoff, | +"Is This Determination or Using a Howitzer to Kill a | +Fly?" "Washington Post National Weekly," August 27-, | +September 2, 1990; Bernard Weintraub, "Bush Considers | +Calling Guard To Fight Drug Violence in Capital," "New | +York Times," March 21, 1989. | +| +--------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

Even those Executive Orders which have been made public tend to +raise as many questions as they answer about what actions were +considered and actually implemented. On January 8, 1991, Bush signed +Executive Order 12742, National Security Industrial Responsiveness, +which ordered the rapid mobilization of resources such as food, +energy, construction materials and civil transportation to meet +national security requirements. There was, however, no mention in +this or any other EO of the National Defense Executive Reserve (NDER) +plan administered under FEMA. This plan, which had been activated +during World War II and the Korean War, permits the federal government +during a state of emergency to bring into government certain +unidentified individuals. On January 7, 1991 the "Wall Street Journal +Europe" reported that industry and government officials were studying +a plan which would permit the federal government to "borrow" as many +as 50 oil company executives and put them to work streamlining the +flow of energy in case of a prolonged engagement or disruption of +supply. Antitrust waivers were also being pursued and oil companies +were engaged in emergency preparedness exercises with the Department +of Energy.[5]

+ +

Wasting the Environment +In one case the use of secret powers was discovered by a watchdog +group and revealed in the press. In August 1990, correspondence +passed between Colin McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for +Production and Logistics and Michael Deland, Chair of the White House +Council on Environmental Quality. The letters responded to +presidential and National Security Council directives to deal with +increased industrial production and logistics arising from the +situation in the Middle East. The communications revealed that the +Pentagon had found it necessary to request emergency waivers to U.S. +environmental restrictions.[6] +The agreement to waive the National Environmental Policy Act (1970) +came in August. Because of it, the Pentagon was allowed to test new +weapons in the western U.S., increase production of materiel and +launch new activities at military bases without the complex public +review normally required. The information on the waiver was +eventually released by the Boston-based National Toxic Campaign Fund +(NTCF), an environmental group which investigates pollution on the +nation's military bases. It was not until January 30, 1991, five +months after it went into effect, that the "New York Times," acting +on the NTCF information, reported that the White House had bypassed +the usual legal requirement for environmental impact statements on +Pentagon projects.[7] So far, no specific executive order or +presidential finding authorizing this waiver has been discovered. +Other environmental waivers could also have been enacted without +the public being informed. Under a state of national emergency, U.S. +warships can be exempted from international conventions on +pollution[8] and public vessels can be allowed to dispose of +potentially infectious medical wastes into the oceans.[9] The +President can also suspend any of the statutory provisions regarding +the production, testing, transportation, deployment, and disposal of +chemical and biological warfare agents (50 USC sec. 1515). He could +also defer destruction of up to 10 percent of lethal chemical agents +and munitions that existed on November 8, 1985.[10] +One Executive Order which was made public dealt with "Chemical and +Biological Weapons Proliferation." Signed by Bush on November 16, +1990, EO 12735 leaves the impression that Bush is ordering an +increased effort to end the proliferation of chemical and biological +weapons. The order states that these weapons "constitute a threat to +national security and foreign policy" and declares a national +emergency to deal with the threat. To confront this threat, Bush +ordered international negotiations, the imposition of controls, +licenses, and sanctions against foreign persons and countries for +proliferation. Conveniently, the order grants the Secretaries of +State and the Treasury the power to exempt the U.S. military. +In February of 1991, the Omnibus Export Amendments Act was passed +by Congress compatible with EO 12735. It imposed sanctions on +countries and companies developing or using chemical or biological +weapons. Bush signed the law, although he had rejected the identical +measure the year before because it did not give him the executive +power to waive all sanctions if he thought the national interest +required it.[11] The new bill, however, met Bush's requirements.

+ +

____________________________________________________________________ +| +BUSH'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS | +| +* EO 12722 "Blocking Iraqi Government Property and | +Prohibiting Transactions With Iraq," Aug. 2, 1990. | +| +* EO 12723 "Blocking Kuwaiti Government Property," Aug. 2, | +1990. | +| +* EO 12724 "Blocking Iraqi Government Property and | +Prohibiting Transactions With Iraq," Aug. 9, 1990. | +| +* EO 12725 "Blocking Kuwaiti Government Property and | +Prohibiting Transactions With Kuwait," Aug. 9, 1990. | +| +* EO 12727 "Ordering the Selected Reserve of the Armed | +Forces to Active Duty," Aug. 22, 1990. | +| +* EO 12728 "Delegating the President's Authority To | +Suspend Any Provision of Law Relating to the Promotion, | +Retirement, or Separation of Members of the Armed Forces," | +Aug. 22, 1990. | +| +* EO 12733 "Authorizing the Extension of the Period of | +Active Duty of Personnel of the Selected Reserve of the | +Armed Forces," Nov. 13, 1990. | +| +* EO 12734 "National Emergency Construction Authority," Nov. | +14, 1990. | +| +* EO 12735 "Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation," | +Nov. 16, 1990. | +| +* EO 12738 "Administration of Foreign Assistance and Related | +Functions and Arms Export Control," Dec. 14, 1990. | +| +* EO 12742 "National Security Industrial Responsiveness," | +Jan. 8, 1991. | +| +* EO 12743 "Ordering the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces | +to Active Duty," Jan. 18, 1991. | +| +* EO 12744 "Designation of Arabian Peninsula Areas, Airspace | +and Adjacent Waters as a Combat Zone," Jan. 21, 1991. | +| +* EO 12750 "Designation of Arabian Peninsula Areas, Airspace | +and Adjacent Waters as the Persian Gulf Desert Shield | +Area," Feb. 14, 1991. | +| +* EO 12751 "Health Care Services for Operation Desert | +Storm," Feb. 14, 1991. | +| +--------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

Going Off Budget +Although some of the powers which Bush assumed in order to conduct +the Gulf War were taken openly, they received little public discussion +or reporting by the media. +In October, when the winds of the Gulf War were merely a breeze, +Bush used his executive emergency powers to extend his budget +authority. This action made the 1991 fiscal budget agreement between +Congress and the President one of the first U.S. casualties of the +war. While on one hand the deal froze arms spending through 1996, it +also allowed Bush to put the cost of the Gulf War "off budget." Thus, +using its emergency powers, the Bush administration could:

+ +

* incur a deficit which exceeds congressional budget authority;

+ +

* prevent Congress from raising a point of order over the +excessive spending;[12]

+ +

* waive the requirement that the Secretary of Defense submit +estimates to Congress prior to deployment of a major defense +acquisition system;

+ +

* and exempt the Pentagon from congressional restrictions on +hiring private contractors.[13]

+ +

While there is no published evidence on which powers Bush actually +invoked, the administration was able to push through the 1990 Omnibus +Reconciliation Act. This legislation put a cap on domestic spending, +created a record $300 billion deficit, and undermined the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act intended to reduce the federal deficit. Although +Congress agreed to pay for the war through supplemental appropriations +and approved a $42.2 billion supplemental bill and a $4.8 billion +companion "dire emergency supplemental appropriation,"[14] it +specified that the supplemental budget should not be used to finance +costs the Pentagon would normally experience.[15] +Lawrence Korb, a Pentagon official in the Reagan administration, +believes that the Pentagon has already violated the spirit of the 1990 +Omnibus Reconciliation Act. It switched funding for the Patriot, +Tomahawk, Hellfire and HARM missiles from its regular budget to the +supplemental budget; added normal wear and tear of equipment to +supplemental appropriations; and made supplemental requests which +ignore a planned 25% reduction in the armed forces by 1995.[16]

+ +

The Cost In Liberty Lost +Under emergency circumstances, using 50 USC sec. 1811, the +President could direct the Attorney General to authorize electronic +surveillance of aliens and American citizens in order to obtain +foreign intelligence information without a court order.[17] No +Executive Order has been published which activates emergency powers to +wiretap or to engage in counter-terrorist activity. Nonetheless, +there is substantial evidence that such activities have taken place. +According to the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, the +FBI launched an anti-terrorist campaign which included a broad sweep +of Arab-Americans. Starting in August, the FBI questioned, detained, +and harassed Arab-Americans in California, New York, Ohio, +Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and Colorado.[18] +A CIA agent asked the University of Connecticut for a list of all +foreign students at the institution, along with their country of +origin, major field of study, and the names of their academic +advisers. He was particularly interested in students from the Middle +East and explained that the Agency intended to open a file on each of +the students. Anti-war groups have also reported several break-ins of +their offices and many suspected electronic surveillance of their +telephones.[19]

+ +

Pool of Disinformation +Emergency powers to control the means of communications in the U.S. +in the name of national security were never formally declared. There +was no need for Bush to do so since most of the media voluntarily and +even eagerly cooperated in their own censorship. Reporters covering +the Coalition forces in the Gulf region operated under restrictions +imposed by the U.S. military. They were, among other things, barred +from traveling without a military escort, limited in their forays into +the field to small escorted groups called "pools," and required to +submit all reports and film to military censors for clearance. Some +reporters complained that the rules limited their ability to gather +information independently, thereby obstructing informed and objective +reporting.[20] +Three Pentagon press officials in the Gulf region admitted to James +LeMoyne of the "New York Times" that they spent significant time +analyzing reporters' stories in order to shape the coverage in the +Pentagon's favor. In the early days of the deployment, Pentagon press +officers warned reporters who asked hard questions that they were seen +as "anti-military" and that their requests for interviews with senior +commanders and visits to the field were in jeopardy. The military +often staged events solely for the cameras and would stop televised +interviews in progress when it did not like what was being portrayed. +Although filed soon after the beginning of the war, a lawsuit +challenging the constitutionality of press restrictions was not heard +until after the war ended. It was then dismissed when the judge ruled +that since the war had ended, the issues raised had become moot. The +legal status of the restrictions--initially tested during the U.S. +invasions of Grenada and Panama--remains unsettled.

+ +

A National Misfortune +It will be years before researchers and journalists are able to +ferret through the maze of government documents and give a full +appraisal of the impact of the President's emergency powers on +domestic affairs. It is likely, however, that with a post-war +presidential approval rating exceeding 75 percent, the domestic +casualties will continue to mount with few objections. Paradoxically, +even though the U.S. public put pressure on Bush to send relief for +the 500000 Iraqi Kurdish refugees, it is unlikely the same outcry +will be heard for the 37 million Americans without health insurance, +the 32 million living in poverty, or the country's five million hungry +children. The U.S. may even help rebuild Kuwaiti and Iraqi civilian +infrastructures it destroyed during the war while leaving its own +education system in decay, domestic transportation infrastructures +crumbling, and inner city war zones uninhabitable. And, while the +U.S. assists Kuwait in cleaning up its environmental disaster, it will +increase pollution at home. Indeed, as the long-dead Prussian field +marshal prophesied, "a war, even the most victorious, is a national +misfortune."

+ +

FOOTNOTES:

+ +

1. The administrative guideline was established under Reagan in Executive +Order 12656, November 181988, "Federal Register," vol. 23, no. 266.

+ +

2. For instance, National Security Council policy papers or National +Security Directives (NSD) or National Security Decision Directives +(NSDD) have today evolved into a network of shadowy, wide-ranging and +potent executive powers. These are secret instruments, maintained in +a top security classified state and are not shared with Congress. For +an excellent discussion see: Harold C. Relyea, The Coming of Secret +Law, "Government Information Quarterly," Vol. 5, November 1988; see +also: Eve Pell, "The Backbone of Hidden Government," "The Nation," +June 191990.

+ +

3. "Letter to Congressional Leaders Reporting on the National Emergency +With Respect to Iraq," February, 11, 1991, "Weekly Compilation of +Presidential Documents: Administration of George Bush," (Washington, +DC: U.S. Government Printing Office), pp. 158-61.

+ +

4. The U.S. now has states of emergency with Iran, Iraq and Syria.

+ +

5. Allanna Sullivan, "U.S. Oil Concerns Confident Of Riding Out Short Gulf +War," "Wall Street Journal Europe," January 7, 1991.

+ +

6. Colin McMillan, Letter to Michael Deland, Chairman, Council on +Environmental Quality (Washington, DC: Executive Office of the +President), August 24, 1990; Michael R. Deland, Letter to Colin +McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production and Logistics +(Washington, DC: Department of Defense), August 291990.

+ +

7. Keith Schneider, "Pentagon Wins Waiver Of Environmental Rule," "New York +Times," January 30, 1991.

+ +

8. 33 U.S. Code (USC) sec. 1902 9(b).

+ +

9. 33 USC sec. 2503 l(b).

+ +

10. 50 USC sec. 1521(b) (3)(A).

+ +

ll. Adam Clymer, "New Bill Mandates Sanctions On Makers of Chemical Arms," +"New York Times," February 22, 1991.

+ +

12. 31 USC O10005 (f); 2 USC O632 (i), 6419 (d), 907a (b); and Public +Law 101-508, Title X999, sec. 13101.

+ +

13. 10 USC sec. 2434/2461 9F.

+ +

14. When the Pentagon expected the war to last months and oil prices to +skyrocket, it projected the incremental cost of deploying and +redeploying the forces and waging war at about $70 billion. The +administration sought and received $56 billion in pledges from allies +such as Germany, Japan and Saudi Arabia. Although the military's +estimates of casualties and the war's duration were highly inflated, +today their budget estimates remain at around $70 billion even though +the Congressional Budget office estimates that cost at only $40 +billion, $16 billion less than allied pledges.

+ +

15. Michael Kamish, "After The War: At Home, An Unconquered Recession," +"Boston Globe," March 6, 1991; Peter Passell, "The Big Spoils From a +Bargain War," "New York Times," March 3, 1991; and Alan Abelson, "A +War Dividend For The Defense Industry?" "Barron's," March 18, 1991.

+ +

16. Lawrence Korb, "The Pentagon's Creative Budgetry Is Out of Line," +"International Herald Tribune," April 5, 199l.

+ +

17. Many of the powers against aliens are automatically invoked during a +national emergency or state of war. Under the Alien Enemies Act (50 +USC sec. 21), the President can issue an order to apprehend, restrain, +secure and remove all subjects of a hostile nation over 13 years old. +Other statutes conferring special powers on the President with regard +to aliens that may be exercised in times of war or emergencies but are +not confined to such circumstances, are: exclusion of all or certain +classes of aliens from entry into the U.S. when their entry may be +"detrimental to the interests of the United States" (8 USC sec. 1182(f)); +imposition of travel restrictions on aliens within the U.S. (8 USC sec. +1185); and requiring aliens to be fingerprinted (8 USC sec. 1302).

+ +

18. Ann Talamas, "FBI Targets Arab-Americans," "CAIB," Spring 1991, p. 4.

+ +

19. "Anti-Repression Project Bulletin" (New York: Center for +Constitutional Rights), January 23, 1991.

+ +

20. James DeParle, "Long Series of Military Decisions Led to Gulf War News +Censorship," "New York Times," May 5, 1991.

+ +

21. James LeMoyne, "A Correspondent's Tale: Pentagon's Strategy for the +Press: Good News or No News," "New York Times," February 17, 1991.

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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +"Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North,'' by Ben +Bradlee Jr. (Donald I. fine, $21.95. 573 pp.) +------------------------------------------------------------------ +Reviewed by Dennis M. Culnan Copyright 1990, Gannett News Service All +Rights Reserved Short excerpt posted here under applicable copyright +laws

+ +

[Oliver] North managed to network himself into the highest levels of +the CIA and power centers around the world. There he lied and +boastfully ignored the constitutional process, Bradlee writes.

+ +

Yet more terrifying is the plan hatched by North and other Reagan +people in the Federal Emergency Manpower Agency (FEMA): A blueprint +for the military takeover of the United States. The plan called for +FEMA to become "emergency czar'' in the event of a national emergency +such as nuclear war or an American invasion of a foreign nation. FEMA +would also be a buffer between the president and his cabinet and other +civilian agencies, and would have broad powers to appoint military +commanders and run state and local governments. Finally, it would +have the authority to order suspect aliens into concentration camps +and seize their property.

+ +

When then-Attorney General William French Smith got wind of the plan, +he killed it. After Smith left the administration, North and his FEMA +cronies came up with the Defense Resource Act, designed to suspendend +the First Amendment by imposing censorship and banning strikes.

+ +

Where was it all heading? The book's answer: "REX-84 Bravo, a +National Security Decision Directive 52 that would become operative +with the president's declaration of a state of national emergency +concurrent with a mythical U.S. military invasion of an unspecified +Central American country, presumably Nicaragua.''

+ +

Bradlee writes that the Rex exercise was designed to test FEMA's +readiness to assume authority over the Department of Defense, the +National Guard in all 50 states, and "a number of state defense +forces to be established by state legislatures.'' The military would +then be "deputized,'' thus making an end run around federal law +forbidding military involvement in domestic law enforcement.

+ +

Rex, which ran concurrently with the first annual U.S. show of force +in Honduras in April 1984, was also designed to test FEMA's ability to +round up 400000 undocumented Central American aliens in the United +States and its ability to distribute hundreds of tons of small arms to +"state defense forces.''

+ +

Incredibly, REX 84 was similar to a plan secretly adopted by Reagan +while governor of California. His two top henchmen then were Edwin +Meese, who recently resigned as U.S. attorney general, and Louis +Guiffrida, the FEMA director in 1984.

+ +

If the review makes you nervous, you should read the book!

+ +

--Chip Berlet ** End of text from cdp:mideast.forum **

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[PeaceNet forward from AML (ACTIV-L) -- see bottom for more info] +------------------------------------------------------------------ +This is the front-page article of the Jan. 16 issue of "The +Guardian," which describes some of the U.S. government's planning +for martial law in the event of the Gulf war. This is truly a +scary scenario that should concern all civil libertarians and +patriots. +------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

WILL GULF WAR LEAD TO REPRESSION AT HOME? +by Paul DeRienzo and Bill Weinberg

+ +

On August 2, 1990, as Saddam Hussein's army was consolidating control +over Kuwait, President George Bush responded by signing two executive +orders that were the first step toward martial law in the United +States and suspending the Constitution.

+ +

On the surface, Executive Orders 12722 and 12723, declaring a +"national emergency," merely invoked laws that allowed Bush to freeze +Iraqi assets in the United States.

+ +

The International Emergency Executive Powers Act permits the president +to freeze foreign assets after declaring a "national emergency," a +move that has been made three times before -- against Panama in 1987, +Nicaragua in 1985 and Iran in 1979.

+ +

According to Professor Diana Reynolds, of the Fletcher School of +Diplomacy at Boston's Tufts University, when Bush declared a national +emergency he "activated one part of a contingency national security +emergency plan." That plan is made up of a series of laws passed since +the presidency of Richard Nixon, which Reynolds says give the +president "boundless" powers.

+ +

According to Reynolds, such laws as the Defense Industrial +Revitalization and Disaster Relief Acts of 1983 "would permit the +president to do anything from seizing the means of production, to +conscripting a labor force, to relocating groups of citizens."

+ +

Reynolds says the net effect of invoking these laws would be the +suspension of the Constitution.

+ +

She adds that national emergency powers "permit the stationing of the +military in cities and towns, closing off the U.S. borders, freezing +all imports and exports, allocating all resources on a national +security priority, monitoring and censoring the press, and warrantless +searches and seizures."

+ +

The measures would allow military authorities to proclaim martial law +in the United States, asserts Reynolds. She defines martial law as the +"federal authority taking over for local authority when they are +unable to maintain law and order or to assure a republican form of +government."

+ +

A report called "Post Attack Recovery Strategies," about rebuilding +the country after a nuclear war, prepared by the right-wing Hudson +Institute in 1980, defines martial law as dealing "with the control of +civilians by their own military forces in time of emergency."

+ +

The federal agency with the authority to organize and command the +government's response to a national emergency is the Federal Emergency +Management Agency (FEMA). This super-secret and elite agency was +formed in 1979 under congressional measures that merged all federal +powers dealing with civilian and military emergencies under one +agency.

+ +

FEMA has its roots in the World War I partnership between government +and corporate leaders who helped mobilize the nation's industries to +support the war effort. The idea of a central national response to +large-scale emergencies was reintroduced in the early 1970s by Louis +Giuffrida, a close associate of then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan and +his chief aide Edwin Meese.

+ +

Reagan appointed Giuffrida head of the California National Guard in +1969. With Meese, Giuffrida organized "war-games" to prepare for +"statewide martial law" in the event that Black nationalists and +anti-war protesters "challenged the authority of the state." In 1981, +Reagan as president moved Giuffrida up to the big leagues, appointing +him director of FEMA.

+ +

According to Reynolds, however, it was the actions of George Bush in +1976, while he was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency +(CIA), that provided the stimulus for centralization of vast powers in +FEMA.

+ +

Bush assembled a group of hawkish outsiders, called Team B, that +released a report claiming the CIA ("Team A") had underestimated the +dangers of Soviet nuclear attack. The report advised the development +of elaborate plans for "civil defense" and post-nuclear government. +Three years later, in 1979, FEMA was given ultimate responsibility for +developing these plans.

+ +

Aware of the bad publicity FEMA was getting because of its role in +organizing for a post-nuclear world, Reagan's FEMA chief Giuffrida +publicly argued that the 1865 Posse Comitatus Act prohibited the +military from arresting civilians.

+ +

However, Reynolds says that Congress eroded the act by giving the +military reserves an exemption from Posse Comitatus and allowing them +to arrest civilians. The National Guard, under the control of state +governors in peace time, is also exempt from the act and can arrest +civilians.

+ +

FEMA Inspector General John Brinkerhoff has written a memo contending +that the government doesn't need to suspend the Constitution to use +the full range of powers Congress has given the agency. FEMA has +prepared legislation to be introduced in Congress in the event of a +national emergency that would give the agency sweeping powers. The +right to "deputize" National Guard and police forces is included in +the package. But Reynolds believes that actual martial law need not be +declared publicly.

+ +

Giuffrida has written that "Martial Rule comes into existence upon a +determination (not a declaration) by the senior military commander +that the civil government must be replaced because it is no longer +functioning anyway." He adds that "Martial Rule is limited only by the +principle of necessary force."

+ +

According to Reynolds, it is possible for the president to make +declarations concerning a national emergency secretly in the form of a +Natioanl Security Decision Directive. Most such directives are +classified as so secret that Reynolds says "researchers don't even +know how many are enacted."

+ +

DOMESTIC SPYING

+ +

Throughout the 1980s, FEMA was prohibited from engaging in +intelligence gathering. But on July 6, 1989, Bush signed Executive +Order 12681, pronouncing that FEMA's National Preparedness Directorate +would "have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, +investigative, or national security work." Recent events indicate that +domestic spying in response to the looming Middle East war is now +under way.

+ +

Reynolds reports that "the CIA is going to various campuses asking for +information on Middle Eastern students. I'm sure that there are +intelligence organizations monitoring peace demonstrations." +According to the University of Connecticut student paper, the Daily +Campus, CIA officials have recently met there to discuss talking with +Middle Eastern students.

+ +

The New York Times reports that the FBI has ordered its agents around +the country to question Arab-American leaders and business people in +search of information on potential Iraqi "terrorist" attacks in +response to a Gulf war.

+ +

A 1986 Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) document entitled +"Alien Terrorists and Other Undesirables: A Contingency Plan" outlines +the potential round-up and incarceration in mass detainment camps of +U.S. residents who are citizens of "terrorist" countries, chiefly in +the Middle East. This plan echoed a 1984 FEMA nationwide "readiness +exercise code-named REX-84 ALPHA, which included the rehearsal of +joint operations with the INS to round up 40000 Central American +refugees in the event of a U.S. invasion of the region. One of the 10 +military bases established as detainment camps by REX-84 ALPHA, Camp +Krome, Fla., was designated a joint FEMA-Immigration service +interrogation center.

+ +

Recently, FEMA has been criticized in the media for inadequate +response to the October, 1989 San Francisco earthquake. What the +mainstream press has failed to cover is the agency's planned role in +repressing domestic dissent in the event of an invasion abroad.

+ +

Source: The Guardian, Jan 16 1991

+ +

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DATE OF UPLOAD: November 17, 1989 +ORIGIN OF UPLOAD: Omni Magazine +CONTRIBUTED BY: Donald Goldberg

+ +

======================================================== +PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE BBS +======================================================== +Although this article does not deal directly with UFOs, +ParaNet felt it important as an offering to our readers who +depend so much upon communications as a way to stay informed. +This article raises some interesting implications for the future +of communications.

+ +

THE NATIONAL GUARDS +(C) 1987 OMNI MAGAZINE MAY 1987 +(Reprinted with permission and license to ParaNet Information +Service and its affiliates.)

+ +

By Donald Goldberg

+ +

The mountains bend as the fjord and the sea beyond stretch +out before the viewer's eyes. First over the water, then a sharp +left turn, then a bank to the right between the peaks, and the +secret naval base unfolds upon the screen. +The scene is of a Soviet military installation on the Kola +Peninsula in the icy Barents Sea, a place usually off-limits to +the gaze of the Western world. It was captured by a small French +satellite called SPOT Image, orbiting at an altitude of 517 miles +above the hidden Russian outpost. On each of several passes -- +made over a two-week period last fall -- the satellite's high-resolution lens took its pictures at a different angle; the +images were then blended into a three-dimensional, computer-generated video. Buildings, docks, vessels, and details of the +Artic landscape are all clearly visible. +Half a world away and thousands of feet under the sea, +sparkling-clear images are being made of the ocean floor. Using +the latest bathymetric technology and state-of-the-art systems +known as Seam Beam and Hydrochart, researchers are for the first +time assembling detailed underwater maps of the continental +shelves and the depths of the world's oceans. These scenes of +the sea are as sophisticated as the photographs taken from the +satellite. +From the three-dimensional images taken far above the earth +to the charts of the bottom of the oceans, these photographic +systems have three things in common: They both rely on the +latest technology to create accurate pictures never dreamed of +even 25 years ago; they are being made widely available by +commerical, nongovernmental enterprises; and the Pentagon is +trying desperately to keep them from the general public. +In 1985 the Navy classified the underwater charts, making +them available only to approved researchers whose needs are +evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Under a 1984 law the military +has been given a say in what cameras can be licensed to be used +on American satellites; and officials have already announced they +plan to limit the quality and resolution of photos made +available. The National Security Agency (NSA) -- the secret arm +of the Pentagon in charge of gathering electronic intelligence as +well as protecting sensitive U.S. communications -- has defeated +a move to keep it away from civilian and commercial computers and +databases. +That attitude has outraged those concerned with the +military's increasing efforts to keep information not only from +the public but from industry experts, scientists, and even other +government officials as well. "That's like classifying a road +map for fear of invasion," says Paul Wolff, assistant +administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric +Administration, of the attempted restrictions. +These attempts to keep unclassified data out of the hands of +scientists, researchers, the news media, and the public at large +are a part of an alarming trend that has seen the military take +an ever-increasing role in controlling the flow of information +and communications through American society, a role traditionally +-- and almost exclusively -- left to civilians. Under the +approving gaze of the Reagan administration, Department of +Defense (DoD) officials have quietly implemented a number of +policies, decisions, and orders that give the military +unprecedented control over both the content and public use of +data and communications. For example:

+ +

**The Pentagon has created a new category of "sensitive" but +unclassified information that allows it to keep from public +access huge quantities of data that were once widely accessible. +**Defense Department officials have attempted to rewrite key laws +that spell out when the president can and cannot appropriate +private communications facilities. +**The Pentagon has installed a system that enables it to seize +control of the nation's entire communications network -- the +phone system, data transmissions, and satellite transmissions of +all kinds -- in the event of what it deems a "national +emergency." As yet there is no single, universally agreed-upon +definition of what constitutes such a state. Usually such an +emergency is restricted to times of natural disaster, war, or +when national security is specifically threatened. Now the +military has attempted to redefine emergency. +The point man in the Pentagon's onslaught on communications +is Assistant Defense Secretary Donald C. Latham, a former NSA +deputy chief. Latham now heads up an interagency committee in +charge of writing and implementing many of the policies that have +put the military in charge of the flow of civilian information +and communication. He is also the architect of National Security +Decision Directive 145 (NSDD 145), signed by Defense Secretary +Caspar Weinberger in 1984, which sets out the national policy on +telecommunications and computer-systems security. +First NSDD 145 set up a steering group of top-level +administration officials. Their job is to recommend ways to +protect information that is unclassified but has been designated +sensitive. Such information is held not only by government +agencies but by private companies as well. And last October the +steering group issued a memorandum that defined sensitive +information and gave federal agencies broad new powers to keep it +from the public. +According to Latham, this new category includes such data as +all medical records on government databases -- from the files of +the National Cancer Institute to information on every veteran who +has ever applied for medical aid from the Veterans Administration +-- and all the information on corporate and personal taxpayers in +the Internal Revenue Service's computers. Even agricultural +statistics, he argues, can be used by a foreign power against the +United States. +In his oversize yet Spartan Pentagon office, Latham cuts +anything but an intimidating figure. Articulate and friendly, he +could pass for a network anchorman or a television game show +host. When asked how the government's new definition of +sensitive information will be used, he defends the necessity for +it and tries to put to rest concerns about a new restrictiveness. +"The debate that somehow the DoD and NSA are going to +monitor or get into private databases isn't the case at all," +Latham insists. "The definition is just a guideline, just an +advisory. It does not give the DoD the right to go into private +records." +Yet the Defense Department invoked the NSDD 145 guidelines +when it told the information industry it intends to restrict the +sale of data that are now unclassified and publicly available +from privately owned computer systems. The excuse if offered was +that these data often include technical information that might be +valuable to a foreign adversary like the Soviet Union. +Mead Data Central -- which runs some of the nation's largest +computer databases, such as Lexis and Nexis, and has nearly +200000 users -- says it has already been approached by a team of +agents from the Air Force and officials from the CIA and the FBI +who asked for the names of subscribers and inquired what Mead +officials might do if information restrictions were imposed. In +response to government pressure, Mead Data Central in effect +censured itself. It purged all unclassified government-supplied +technical data from its system and completely dropped the +National Technical Information System from its database rather +than risk a confrontation. +Representative Jack Brooks, a Texas Democrat who chairs the +House Government Operations Committee, is an outspoken critic of +the NSA's role in restricting civilian information. He notes +that in 1985 the NSA -- under the authority granted by NSDD 145 +-- investigated a computer program that was widely used in both +local and federal elections in 1984. The computer system was +used to count more than one third of all votes cast in the United +States. While probing the system's vulnerability to outside +manipulation, the NSA obtained a detailed knowledge of that +computer program. "In my view," Brooks says, "this is an +unprecedented and ill-advised expansion of the military's +influence in our society." +There are other NSA critics. "The computer systems used by +counties to collect and process votes have nothing to do with +national security, and I'm really concerned about the NSA's +involvement," says Democratic congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas, +chairman of the House science and technology subcommittee +concerned with computer security. +Also, under NSDD 145 the Pentagon has issued an order, +virtually unknown to all but a few industry executives, that +affects commercial communications satellites. The policy was +made official by Defense Secretary Weinberger in June of 1985 and +requires that all commercial satellite operators that carry such +unclassified government data traffic as routine Pentagon supply +information and payroll data (and that compete for lucrative +government contracts) install costly protective systems on all +satellites launched after 1990. The policy does not directly +affect the data over satellite channels, but it does make the NSA +privy to vital information about the essential signals needed to +operate a satellite. With this information it could take control +of any satellite it chooses. +Latham insists this, too, is a voluntary policy and that +only companies that wish to install protection will have their +systems evaluated by the NSA. He also says industry officials +are wholly behind the move, and argues that the protective +systems are necessary. With just a few thousand dollars' worth +of equipment, a disgruntled employee could interfere with a +satellite's control signals and disable or even wipe out a +hundred-million-dollar satellite carrying government information. +At best, his comments are misleading. First, the policy is +not voluntary. The NSA can cut off lucrative government +contracts to companies that do not comply with the plan. The +Pentagon alone spent more than a billion dollars leasing +commercial satellite channels last year; that's a powerful +incentive for business to cooperate. +Second, the industry's support is anything but total. +According to the minutes of one closed-door meeting between NSA +officials -- along with representatives of other federal agencies +-- and executives from AT&T, Comsat, GTE Sprint, and MCI, the +executives neither supported the move nor believed it was +necessary. The NSA defended the policy by arguing that a +satellite could be held for ransom if the command and control +links weren't protected. But experts at the meeting were +skeptical. +"Why is the threat limited to accessing the satellite rather +than destroying it with lasers or high-powered signals?" one +industry executive wanted to know. +Most of the officials present objected to the high cost of +protecting the satellites. According to a 1983 study made at the +request of the Pentagon, the protection demanded by the NSA could +add as much as $3 million to the price of a satellite and $1 +million more to annual operating costs. Costs like these, they +argue, could cripple a company competing against less expensive +communications networks. +Americans get much of their information through forms of +electronic communications, from the telephone, television and +radio, and information printed in many newspapers. Banks send +important financial data, businesses their spreadsheets, and +stockbrokers their investment portfolios, all over the same +channels, from satellite signals to computer hookups carried on +long distance telephone lines. To make sure that the federal +government helped to promote and protect the efficient use of +this advancing technology, Congress passed the massive +Communications Act of of 1934. It outlined the role and laws of +the communications structure in the United States. +The powers of the president are set out in Section 606 of +that law; basically it states that he has the authority to take +control of any communications facilities that he believes +"essential to the national defense." In the language of the +trade this is known as a 606 emergency. +There have been a number of attempts in recent years by +Defense Department officials to redefine what qualifies as a 606 +emergency and make it easier for the military to take over +national communications. +In 1981 the Senate considered amendments to the 1934 act +that would allow the president, on Defense Department +recommendation, to require any communications company to provide +services, facilities, or equipment "to promote the national +defense and security or the emergency preparedness of the +nation," even in peacetime and without a declared state of +emergency. The general language had been drafted by Defense +Department officials. (The bill failed to pass the House for +unrelated reasons.) +"I think it is quite clear that they have snuck in there +some powers that are dangerous for us as a company and for the +public at large," said MCI vice president Kenneth Cox before the +Senate vote. +Since President Reagan took office, the Pentagon has stepped +up its efforts to rewrite the definition of national emergency +and give the military expanded powers in the United States. "The +declaration of 'emergency' has always been vague," says one +former administration official who left the government in 1982 +after ten years in top policy posts. "Different presidents have +invoked it differently. This administration would declare a +convenient 'emergency.'" In other words, what is a nuisance to +one administration might qualify as a burgeoning crisis to +another. For example, the Reagan administration might decide +that a series of protests on or near military bases constituted a +national emergency. +Should the Pentagon ever be given the green light, its base +for taking over the nation's communications system would be a +nondescript yellow brick building within the maze of high rises, +government buildings, and apartment complexes that make up the +Washington suburb of Arlington, Virginia. Headquartered in a +dusty and aging structure surrounded by a barbed-wire fence is an +obscure branch of the military known as the Defense +Communications Agency (DCA). It does not have the spit and +polish of the National Security Agency or the dozens of other +government facilities that make up the nation's capital. But its +lack of shine belies its critical mission: to make sure all of +America's far-flung military units can communicate with one +another. It is in certain ways the nerve center of our nation's +defense system. +On the second floor of the DCA's four-story headquarters is +a new addition called the National Coordinating Center (NCC). +Operated by the Pentagon, it is virtually unknown outside of a +handful of industry and government officials. The NCC is staffed +around the clock by representatives of a dozen of the nation's +largest commercial communications companies -- the so-called +"common carriers" -- including AT&T, MCI, GTE, Comsat, and ITT. +Also on hand are officials from the State Department, the CIA, +the Federal Aviation Administration, and a number of other +federal agencies. During a 606 emergency the Pentagon can order +the companies that make up the National Coordinating Center to +turn over their satellite, fiberoptic, and land-line facilities +to the government. +On a long corridor in the front of the building is a series +of offices, each outfitted with a private phone, a telex machine, +and a combination safe. It's known as "logo row" because each +office is occupied by an employee from one of the companies that +staff the NCC and because their corporate logos hand on the wall +outside. Each employee is on permanent standby, ready to +activate his company's system should the Pentagon require it. +The National Coordinating Center's mission is as grand as +its title is obscure: to make available to the Defense +Department all the facilities of the civilian communications +network in this country -- the phone lines, the long-distance +satellite hookups, the data transmission lines -- in times of +national emergency. If war breaks out and communications to a +key military base are cut, the Pentagon wants to make sure that +an alternate link can be set up as fast as possible. Company +employees assigned to the center are on call 24 hours a day; they +wear beepers outside the office, and when on vacation they must +be replaced by qualified colleagues. +The center formally opened on New Year's Day, 1984, the same +day Ma Bell's monopoly over the telephone network of the entire +United States was finally broken. The timing was no coincidence. +Pentagon officials had argued for years along with AT&T against +the divestiture of Ma Bell, on grounds of national security. +Defense Secretary Weinberger personally urged the attorney +general to block the lawsuit that resulted in the breakup, as had +his predecessor, Harold Brown. The reason was that rather than +construct its own communications network, the Pentagon had come +to rely extensively on the phone company. After the breakup the +dependence continued. The Pentagon still used commercial +companies to carry more than 90 percent of its communications +within the continental United States. +The 1984 divestiture put an end to AT&T's monopoly over the +nation's telephone service and increased the Pentagon's obsession +with having its own nerve center. Now the brass had to contend +with several competing companies to acquire phone lines, and +communications was more than a matter of running a line from one +telephone to another. Satellites, microwave towers, fiberoptics, +and other technological breakthroughs never dreamed of by +Alexander Graham Bell were in extensive use, and not just for +phone conversations. Digital data streams for computers flowed +on the same networks. +These facts were not lost on the Defense Department or the +White House. According to documents obtained by Omni, beginning +on December 14, 1982, a number of secret meetings were held +between high-level administration officials and executives of the +commercial communications companies whose employees would later +staff the National Coordinating Center. The meetings, which +continued over the next three years, were held at the White +House, the State Department, the Strategic Air Command (SAC) +headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, and at the +North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado +Springs. +The industry officials attending constituted the National +Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee -- called NSTAC +(pronounced N-stack) -- set up by President Reagan to address +those same problems that worried the Pentagon. It was at these +secret meetings, according to the minutes, that the idea of a +communications watch center for national emergencies -- the NCC +-- was born. Along with it came a whole set of plans that would +allow the military to take over commercial communications +"assets" -- everything from ground stations and satellite dishes +to fiberoptic cables -- across the country. +At a 1983 Federal Communications Commission meeting, a +ranking Defense Department official offered the following +explanation for the founding of the National Coordinating Center: +"We are looking at trying to make communications endurable for a +protracted conflict." The phrase protracted conflict is a +military euphemism for nuclear war. +But could the NCC survive even the first volley in such a +conflict? +Not likely. It's located within a mile of the Pentagon, +itself an obvious early target of a Soviet nuclear barrage (or a +conventional strike, for that matter). And the Kremlin +undoubtedly knows its location and importance, and presumably has +included it on its priority target list. In sum, according to +one Pentagon official, "The NCC itself is not viewed as a +survivable facility." +Furthermore, the NCC's "Implementation Plan," obtained by +Omni, lists four phases of emergencies and how the center should +respond to each. The first, Phase 0, is Peacetime, for which +there would be little to do outside of a handful of routine tasks +and exercises. Phase 1 is Pre Attack, in which alternate NCC +sites are alerted. Phase 2 is Post Attack, in which other NCC +locations are instructed to take over the center's functions. +Phase 3 is known as Last Ditch, and in this phase whatever +facility survives becomes the de facto NCC. +So far there is no alternate National Coordinating Center to +which NCC officials could retreat to survive an attack. +According to NCC deputy director William Belford, no physical +sites have yet been chosen for a substitute NCC, and even whether +the NCC itself will survive a nuclear attack is still under +study. +Of what use is a communications center that is not expected +to outlast even the first shots of a war and has no backup? +The answer appears to be that because of the Pentagon's +concerns about the AT&T divestiture and the disruptive effects it +might have on national security, the NCC was to serve as the +military's peacetime communications center. +The center is a powerful and unprecedented tool to assume +control over the nation's vast communications and information +network. For years the Pentagon has been studying how to take +over the common carriers' facilities. That research was prepared +by NSTAC at the DoD's request and is contained in a series of +internal Pentagon documents obtained by Omni. Collectively this +series is known as the Satellite Survivability Report. Completed +in 1984, it is the only detailed analysis to date of the +vulnerabilities of the commercial satellite network. It was +begun as a way of examining how to protect the network of +communications facilities from attack and how to keep it intact +for the DoD. +A major part of the report also contains an analysis of how +to make commercial satellites "interoperable" with Defense +Department systems. While the report notes that current +technical differences such as varying frequencies make it +difficult for the Pentagon to use commercial satellites, it +recommends ways to resolve those problems. Much of the report is +a veritable blueprint for the government on how to take over +satellites in orbit above the United States. This information, +plus NSDD 145's demand that satellite operators tell the NSA how +their satellites are controlled, guarantees the military ample +knowledge about operating commercial satellites. +The Pentagon now has an unprecedented access to the civilian +communications network: commercial databases, computer networks, +electronic links, telephone lines. All it needs is the legal +authority to use them. Then it could totally dominate the flow +of all information in the United States. As one high-ranking +White House communications official put it: "Whoever controls +communications, controls the country." His remark was made after +our State Department could not communicate directly with our +embassy in Manila during the anti-Marcos revolution last year. +To get through, the State Department had to relay all its +messages through the Philippine government. +Government officials have offered all kinds of scenarios to +justify the National Coordinating Center, the Satellite +Survivability Report, new domains of authority for the Pentagon +and the NSA, and the creation of top-level government steering +groups to think of even more policies for the military. Most can +be reduced to the rationale that inspired NSDD 145: that our +enemies (presumably the Soviets) have to be prevented from +getting too much information from unclassified sources. And the +only way to do that is to step in and take control of those +sources. +Remarkably, the communications industry as a whole has not +been concerned about the overall scope of the Pentagon's threat +to its freedom of operation. Most protests have been to +individual government actions. For example, a media coalition +that includes the Radio-Television Society of Newspaper Editors, +and the Turner Broadcasting System has been lobbying that before +the government can restrict the use of satellites, it must +demonstrate why such restrictions protect against a "threat to +distinct and compelling national security and foreign policy +interests." But the whole policy of restrictiveness has not been +examined. That may change sometime this year, when the Office of +Technology Assessment issues a report on how the Pentagon's +policy will affect communications in the United States. In the +meantime the military keeps trying to encroach on national +communications. +While it may seem unlikely that the Pentagon will ever get +total control of our information and communications systems, the +truth is that it can happen all too easily. The official +mechanisms are already in place; and few barriers remain to +guarantee that what we hear, see, and read will come to us +courtesy of our being members of a free and open society and not +courtesy of the Pentagon.

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Transcript of taped message concerning the implementation of a +dictatorial government in the United States.

+ +

A NATIONAL EMERGENCY: TOTAL TAKEOVER

+ +

This is William R. Pabst. My address is 1434 West Alabama Street, +Houston, Texas 77006. My telephone number is: (713) 521-9896. This +is my 1979 updated report on the concentration camp program of the +Dept. of Defense of the United States.

+ +

On April 20, 1976, after a rapid and thorough investigation, I filed suit +on behalf of the People of the United States against various personages +that had a key part in a conspiratorial program to do away with the +United States as we know it. This is a progress report to you, the +plaintiffs, you the People of the United States. The civil action number +is 76-H-667. It is entitled, "Complaint Against the Concentration Camp +Program of the Dept. of Defense." It was filed in the U.S. District Court +for the southern district of Texas, Houston division. The judge +responsible for the case was Judge Carl Beau (phonetic spelling).

+ +

You have no doubt heard the story: Once upon a time, under the Nazi +regime in Germany, a man worked on an assembly line in a baby +carriage factory. His wife was going to have a baby, but the Nazi +government would not let anybody buy a baby carriage. The man +decided he would secretly collect one part from each department and +assemble the carriage himself. When this was done he and his wife +gathered up the pieces and assembled it. When they were finished they +did not have a baby carriage, they had a machine gun.

+ +

And that is exactly the situation that I am going to present to you at this +time. The center for the Study for Democratic Institutions recently +completed a proposed constitution for the "Newstates of America." The +Center is Rockefeller funded. To give you an indication of the type of +constitution proposed, the term "national emergency" is mentioned 134 +times. The document did not have a Bill of Rights and the right to own +arms was taken away. At the same time, House Concurrent Resolution +#28 awaited for calling a constitutional convention on or before July 4, +1976. The presiding officer of such an event would have been Nelson +Rockefeller, Vice President and president pro tem of the Senate. This +particular resolution awaited in committee. Obviously, money would +not be spent on these massive programs unless there would be the +chance for the actual implementation of such a scheme.

+ +

However, in case the American people do not voluntarily adopt a new +constitution less troublesome to those who desire dictatorship, there is +Executive Order #11490, which will include its predecessors when it is +cited herein. The Executive Order authorizes the secretaries of the +various agencies to prepare for any "national emergency" type +situation--including, but not limited to, those specified in the +Executive Order itself. If you read the Order, there is nothing at all left +to the imagination. For any conceivable pretext, a national emergency +may be declared based upon this frightening decree, dated October +1969. The Order itself was prefaced in March of 1969 by another +Executive Order that established the federal regions and their capitals. +All the departments of the government were involved, including the +L.E.A.A. (Law Enforcement Assistance Administration) and H.E.W. +(Health, Education, and Welfare). Congressman Larry McDonald has +revealed to Congress that various guerrilla and terrorist groups were +being financed by the federal government. If they (the terrorist groups) +actually began in search of activities, Executive Order #11490 would +be activated. But as mentioned previously, if you will read Executive +Order #11490, you will see that a "national emergency" may be +declared for any conceivable pretext whatsoever. If the Order itself +were activated, here is what would happen. The next day you and your +family would be standing in front of your local post office with your +neighbors the front doors bursting with block-long lines of people +waiting to be registered. After waiting in line with your family for +hours, you finally get channeled through the doors. Once inside, you +overhear the postal clerk with his sidearm on telling a frightened +registrant, "Look there is nothing I can do. The truck behind the +building will take you to a work camp where you have been assigned. +Your wife has been assigned to a factory and there's nothing I can do." +Then your son or daughter looks up at you with a quivering voice and +asks, "Dad, why are we here?"

+ +

IMPLEMENTING THE NEW GOVERNMENT

+ +

Well, you see there's much more to life in a "free country" than paying +your mortgage. You have to be aware of what is going on and act +accordingly and participate in government, that is, get involved. +Examine the organization chart on Executive Order #11490 to discover +how we have all helped finance (through our tax dollars) the mechanics +of the overthrow of our Constitution. Executive Order #11490 +designates certain authorities to the Office of Preparedness--which in +turn designates authority to the various departments of the federal +government.

+ +

If the Order were implemented, the Post Office department would be +responsible for a national registration. The State Department would be +responsible for the protection of the United Nations personnel or +property and prevention of escape from the United States. The +Department of Defense would be responsible for its expropriation of +industry; direction of service and national production system, control of +censorship; and communication expropriation of non-industrial +facilities. The Commerce Department would be responsible for +expropriation, selection and international distribution of commodities +(which would be the actual looting of the United States), census +information and human resources

+ +

The Treasury Department would be responsible for collection of cash +and non-cash items and the recreation of evidence of assets and +liabilities. The Justice Department would have concurrent responsibility +with the Dept. of State for prevention of escape from the U.S.; for +replenishing the stockpile of narcotics; for a national police force; for +correctional and penal institutions; for mass feeding and housing of +prisoners and for use of prisoners to augment manpower--which would +be slave labor.

+ +

The Federal Bulk (which is not a FEDERAL bank) would be +responsible for regulation of withdrawal of currency. The G.S.A. +(General Services Administration) would be responsible for confiscation +of private property for government use. H.E.W. would be responsible +for nationalization of education (which the Dept. of Education has +already done), health services, hospital and mental institutions. The +Labor Dept. would be responsible for recruiting manpower, referring +manpower, and allocating manpower so each particular person that was +registered at the post office in this national registration would be told +where he (or she) was going to work. H.U.D. (Housing & Urban +Development) would be responsible for emergency enforcement and +control and movement of passengers and the emergency operation of the +Alaskan railroad.

+ +

There are two specific agencies here that we need to look at and to keep +in mind. They are: H.E.W. and the Justice Dept., as those two agencies +are related to the Dept. of Defense. The various military departments are +part of the Dept. of Defense. Under it, we have the Secretary of Army, +Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff of Personnel and law enforcement, +U.S. Army's forces command, and continental Army Reserve & +National Guard. And under that we have the four armies dividing up the +United States. Under the Fifth Army we have the provost marshal, who +is directly connected to the Deputy Chief of Staff for law enforcement +personnel. Under the provost Marshall for the Fifth Army we have the +300 Military Police Prisoner-of War (POW) Command at Lebonia, Michigan.

+ +

At this point I quote from retired Admiral Elmo Zumoff's (phonetic +spelling) book, "On Watch": Kissinger states, 'I believe the American +people lack the will to do the things necessary to achieve parity and to +maintain maritime superiority. I believe we must get the best deal we +can in our negotiations before the United States and the Soviets both +perceive these changes and the balance that occurs. When these +perceptions are in agreement, and both sides know the U.S. is inferior, +we must have gotten the best deal we can. Americans at that time will +not be happy that I have settled for second, but it will be too late. "

+ +

Zumoff said, 'Then why not take it to the American people? They will +not accept the decision to become second best while we are in a position +of Gross National Product twice that of the U.S.S.R."

+ +

Kissinger responds, "That's a question of judgment. I judge that we will +not get their support, and if we seek it and tell the fact as we would have +to, we would lose our negotiating leverage with the Soviets."

+ +

Zumoff stated, "But isn't that the ultimate immorality in a democracy; to +make a decision for the people of such importance without consulting +them?"

+ +

Kissinger stated, "Perhaps, but I doubt that there are one million who +could even understand the issue.

+ +

Zumoff responded, "Even if that presumption is correct, those one +million can influence the opinions of the majority of the people. I +believe it is my duty to take the other course."

+ +

Kissinger responded, "You should take care, lest your words result in a +reduction in the Navy budget."

+ +

So we see what the intention of the State Dept. is regarding the people. +Another fact: On December 30, 1974, the California National Guard +announced in a press release (which I have) that the state's Military +Police battalions were organized and trained to provide immediate +response to virtually every civil and man-made disaster, as well as to +assist law enforcement officers in emergency situations to carry out their +law enforcement as well as their military mission. When I asked four of +the defendants in this case for their mission statement they did not +provide it_although they say it is public information.

+ +

The training spoken of for the California National Guard covers such +subjects as dealing with individual civilians/civil population, detention +procedures, citizen's rights, and similar matters. You know as well as I +do that when there is Martial Law, or Martial Rule, citizens have no +rights-because the Constitution is pre-empted. Even the uniforms of the +National Guards who participate in this program are different from the +regular uniforms. Army spokesmen will not reveal more about the +uniforms. But the Los Angeles Sheriff's Dept. Paramilitary units, who +have received this training also, have army fatigues dyed black for their +uniforms.

+ +

A further fact is the disaster preparedness plan for the Marine Corps +Supply Center in Barstow, CA. Quoting from that document: 'Under the +Constitution and the laws of the United States, the preservation of law +and order is the responsibility of local and state government. The +authority to maintain the peace and enforce the law is invested in the +authorities of those governments.' There are specific exceptions to the +above concept. One of these pertains to federal intervention to the civil +disturbances in certain situations. Military commanders are deemed to +have the inherent authority to take any measure reasonably necessary for +the protection of life and property in the event of a sudden unexpected +public calamity which disrupts the normal process of government and +presents an emergency so eminent as to make it dangerous to await the +instructions from appropriate authorities. This includes law enforcement +duties. The manual mentions something called "Garden plot Forces," +which will discuss at length in a few minutes.

+ +

Don Bell (who writes a weekly report) reported on July 25, 1975 that in +May of '75 the 303 Civil Affairs group of the U.S. Army Reserves in +Kearny, NJ conducted an exercise to sharpen plans for a military +takeover of the state government in NJ. According to Colonel Frances +Clark, they had conducted similar studies on how to seize municipal +and county government over the past few years. But this was the first +time they had studies STATE government. Such units were trained +during World War II to operate captured governments in the foreign. +We never had federal troops training to take over government in the +United States. When local violence of catastrophe struck, the National +Guard--under command of the governor--went into action. This is +definitely not the situation at this time...

+ +

CONTROLLING THE MASSES

+ +

On February 16, 1975, in 'San Gabriel Valley Tribune' it was reported +that the L.E.A.A. (funded by the Dept. of Justice) and the Police +Foundation (funded by the Ford Foundation) were prime movers toward +implementing a national police force. Each, however, contends they +support local police agencies. The total program involves military units +that have the function of taking ova the administration of local and state +governments. That program is "Operation Cable Splicer"_by Army +civil affairs groups, a sub-plan of "Operation Garden Plot" (the Martial +Law program).

+ +

The method by which the national police concept is being presented to +the public has changed. It was first disguised under the cover of +protection against civil disturbances. This program was as follows:

+ +

A) Keep the people from gathering in the streets. +B) Isolate and neutralize the revolution's leadership. +C) Dispersal of crowds and demonstrators.

+ +

This is followed by successful prosecution in order to: I) Validate the +action of the police; 2) Denying the arrestees propaganda materials, and, +3) Denying them the opportunity to recover money damages against the +police for arresting them.

+ +

Let me quote for you the scenario which was developed for Cable +Splicer One, Two, and Three to justify the needs for dealing with civil +disturbances "Phase One - an arrest and shooting provoke crowd unrest +and threats against public officials and a riot begins to form: Phase Two +- police vehicles are ambushed, various attempted assassinations of +public officials occur, destruction and raiding of armories occur, and +thousands of people begin to gather and local police lose control, Phase +Three increased movements of rioters and the crowds must be dispersed +before they become sympathetic with the rioters. The National Guard +and the local police lose control."

+ +

This scenario provides for an orderly transition from state to federal +control. The Deputy Attorney General of California commented at a +Cable Splicer Three conference, that anyone who attacks the State--even +verbally becomes a revolutionary and an enemy by definition. They are +the enemy and must be destroyed. This program was taught in almost +every state west of the Mississippi River and included as participants +local active military, reserve military and civilian police. The course +name was "Civil Emergency Management Course." The official +explanation that was to be given if any questions were asked about the +program was: "This activity is a continuous, joint law enforcement +military liaison effort and a continuation of coordination established last +year."

+ +

In 1976, the 'Oakland Tribune' carried the most complete explanation of +what is planned. It is reported in its entirety in the 'National Chronicle' +which added an analysis to the story. (The 'Oakland Tribune's editor +died suddenly after the story was published). And I quote:

+ +

"Last Saturday the California National Guard unveiled a new Law +Enforcement Assistance Force-L.E.A.F., a specially trained and +outfitted Military Police Unit, whose members will serve as shock +troops in the state's war against political protesters and demonstrators.

+ +

"I saw a full-dress exhibition of what the California National Guard +has planned for the next American revolution. Helicopters, SWAT +teams, civilian military policemen in jackboots and helmets, twelve-gauge shotguns, .38 and .45 caliber pistols, radios, walkie-talkies, and +electrically controlled intelligence centers wired for instant +communications with any police force in one state.

+ +

"L.E.A.F. is a 1000 member unit put together this year to handle unique +law enforcement problems such a mass civil disobedience, protest +demonstrations and riots. In other words, breaking heads and taking +names. L.E.A.F. has the support of Governor Brown, a quarter million +dollars worth of grants from the federal government, and no public +opposition from civil liberties' groups.

+ +

"For all its ineptitude however, L.E.A.F. has a frightening possibility +from a civil liberty standpoint. It is a direct product of the California +"Cable Splicer" conferences--a series of high-level secret meetings +between government officials, law enforcement officials and military +planners held during the late '60s and early '70s. The meetings were +held as late as 1975 so far, as many public records show. These were +the conferences which Counter-Spy magazine had identified as +California's "Garden Plot Sub-plan."

+ +

'Gary Davis, Governor Brown's right hand man, says L.E.A.F. is to +assist civil police, not to replace them. Gary says, "Civilians could +expect a civilian type law enforcement rather than what is commonly +known as Martial Law." Despite this assurance, L.E.A.F.'s exercises +look disturbingly like the military coup described in the novel, "Seven +Days In May. "

+ +

'L.E.A.F. soldiers with nightsticks stood at intersections, stopping cars +with suspicious occupants, checking I.D. cards and generally +intimidating onlookers with their SWAT style uniforms, their sidearms +and helmets. Perhaps more ominously, several participants in the role-playing exercises Saturday admitted that even under simulated pressure +there has already been a number of incidents where the L.E.A.F. troops +used excessive force to quell disturbances - even though their orders +forbade it.' (That ends the quotation.)

+ +

Former L.E.A.A. Administrator, Charles Ross Dovan (phonetic +spelling), is on record as having stated that local law enforcement has +failed and must be replaced by a national police force. Patrick Murphy, +the administrator of the Police Foundation, states, "I have no fear of a +national police force. Our 40000 police departments are not sacred." +Ex-Attorney General William Saxby warned that if we can go on as we +are, crime will invade us and the national police will take over.

+ +

For the policemen who do not cooperate and still want to be policemen, +there is the program of Contemporary Research, Inc.--an organization of +psychologists, sociologists, education specialists and economic experts-- +who work toward a solution of many of today's social problems. The +same organization develops specialized computer base systems for law +enforcement agencies at all levels of government.

+ +

The L.E.A.A. alone will receive over a billion dollars a year over the +next four years_even though it has been ineffective against crime. This +is because the L.E.A.A. is not geared to fighting crime, it is geared to +developing a system for takeover of the United States with the +assistance of the Dept. of Defense.

+ +

THE PLANNED POLICE STATE

+ +

One of the programs the L.E.A.A. works on in its fight against crime is +psycho-surgery. If you don't cooperate with their programs, you are +merely operated on so that you will be as cooperative as an adding +machine. Or, the L.E.A.A. supports drug research for the same purpose to neurological source's violence. Hence, as an example, if a law were +passed whereby the ownership of firearms was declared to be illegal, +you would be placed in one of these programs if you did not cooperate. +The L.E.A.A. control exercise (at the state's level) is from the Office of +Criminal Justice Planning of the Governor's office. Here in Texas, Mr. +Robert C. Klowers is still the executive director in that office. But all +states have that particular department.

+ +

In May 1975 the 'L.E.A.A. Newsletter' describes the function of one of +its organizations: the National Institute of Law Enforcement & Criminal +Justice. This organization funds something called the 'United Nations +Clearinghouse" in Rome, Italy. The function of that organization is, +among other things, the exchange of Criminal Justice System +information with the Soviet Union. It goes without saying that we have +nothing to learn from the Criminal Justice System of the Soviet Union. +These incredible projects are being funded with our tax dollars.

+ +

The code names for these projects are: "Garden Plot" and "Cable +Splicer. " Garden Plot is the program to control the population. Cable +Splicer is the program for an orderly takeover of the state and local +governments by the federal government.

+ +

An investigation was completed in Nov., 1975 by four sources: The +Conservative publication, 'American Challenge' the leftist 'New Times'; +the foundation financed Fund for Investigative Journalism, and, Don +Wood of the trustworthy 'Ozark Sunbeam. ' It involves the potential +creation of a Police State through the use of the Pentagon and its +computerized intelligence dossier (lodged in the Pentagon basement) of +thousands of citizens by the National Guard, state and local police +departments, the L.E.A.A., plainclothes military forces, SWAT teams, +and the Dept. of Justice.

+ +

Brigadier General J. L. Julienit (phonetic spelling), senior Army officer +of the Pentagon National Guard Bureau, has admitted, "I know of no +state that did not have some form of these exercises within the last +year."

+ +

Today the Cable Splicer handbook is composed of six loose-leaf, three-ring binders that are merely an outline for the impending takeover and +destruction of our Constitution. The Sixth Army used the term "Cable +Splicer" for the name of the operation, but it has not revealed the name +of the operation in the other military areas within the U. S.

+ +

On page 4, paragraph 10 on Public Information, the instructions state: +"As a means to prevent adverse publicity or misleading psychological +effects in regard to coordinating, planning, and conducting this exercise, +all military participants involved will perform such duties in civilian +clothing when exercise oriented activities are conducted at law +enforcement facilities. In the event inquiries are received regarding this +exercise, the response should be limited to identifying the activity as a +continuous, joint law enforcement military liaison effort and a +continuation of coordination established last year." +On page 6, security guidance is explained to the effect that if anybody +asks any questions, limit the information that is given out on the basis +of it being in the interest of 'national interest' (security).

+ +

Now, in the festivities celebrating the success of completion of the +exercises, Attorney General Stanly R. Larsen, the commanding general +of the Sixth Army stated, "The most serious challenge facing all of us +will be the challenge of discharging our legitimate responsibilities. For +a significant portion of a society at large is likely to regard us with +suspicion and to question, even challenge, our authority on the basic +assumption of our profession. Part of this challenge we must be +prepared to deal with; a potentially dangerous portion of our society +which in truth, could well become the domestic enemy.

+ +

The manual includes instructions on operation of confinement facilities, +handling and processing prisoners_including searching, transporting, +feeding, housing and handling of the special class of persons called +"detainees." The plan also specifically includes a proposition for +confiscation of privately owned weapons and ammunition.

+ +

FILES ON POTENTIAL PRISONERS

+ +

The Army has over 350 separate record centers containing substantial +information on civilian political activities. Virtually every major Army +unit has its own set aside from this. The Fifth Army of San Antonio has +over 100000 files of its own. The overall operation command post is a +domestic room at the Pentagon. There are 25 million cards on +individuals and 760000 on organizations held by the Defense Central +Index of investigations alone. This information includes political, +sociological, economical and psychological profiles. All this type of +information on 25 million Americans.

+ +

Since 1970 local county and state police forces all over the country have +undertaken crash programs to install various kinds of computerized +information systems. A large portion of this is being paid for my the +L.E.A.A. Beginning in 1970, Congress and the Joint Chiefs of Staff +ordered the destruction of all these data banks, but they were not +destroyed. All the outlawed collection is now located at Mt. Weather, +Clark County, West Virginia and similar Pentagon facilities designed as +adjuncts to the president's emergency powers under the Executive +Orders.

+ +

The cadre of specialized persons to enforce this plan are found in the U. +S. Army Reserves Military Police POW Command at Lebonia, +Michigan. Mr. Fenren (phonetic spelling) of the 300th Military Police +POW Command at Lebonia told me, when I called him from the Federal +Information Center at Houston, that the camps in the Command were +for foreign prisoners-of-war and for "enemies of the United States." I +asked him if enemies of the United States included U.S. citizens. He +became an_, wouldn't deny it, and referred me to a very sinister +individual at the Army Reserve facility here at Houston whom I talked +to; who explained to me that the prisoners were called "inventory" and +"internees." He would not deny that the camps were for U.S. citizens.

+ +

I called the Pentagon, spoke with the defendant there, and then with the +provost Marshal for the Fifth Army, and do you know what? Not one of +these persons would deny that the system was for U.S. citizens. The +provost marshal for the Fifth Army--when I mentioned the names of all +the camp sites--said, "Well at least you've got that right."

+ +

The names of the detention facilities that I gave him were a list that I +had acquired from the 'Ozark Sunbeam.' That list of names was the +same list of facilities designated under the old Detention Act of 1950 as +"emergency detention centers." But there is only one problem: That act +was supposed to have been repealed in 1971. After some research, I +found out what the problem was. One Congressman-when the hearings +were held for the repeal of the Emergency Detention Act--mentioned +that there are 17 other bits of law that provided for the same thing. So it +didn't matter whether they ever repealed the Emergency Detention Act. +The public was in fact tricked by the Congress of the United States!

+ +

Here are the designated sites: Tucked away in the Appalachian +Mountains of central Pennsylvania is a bustling town of approximate +10000 people. Fifteen to twenty years ago it was a sleepy village of +400. Allanwood, PA is linked to New York City by Interstate U.S. 80. It +takes up approximately 400 acres and is surrounded by a 10-foot barbed +wire fence. It now holds approximately 300 minimum security prisoners +to keep in shape. It could hold 12000 people from one day to the next.

+ +

Thirty miles from Oklahoma City on U.S. 66 is El Reno, OK with an +approximate population of 12000. Due west, six miles from town +almost in sight of U.S. 66 is a complex of buildings that could pass for a +small school. However, the facility is overshadowed by a guard house +that appears to be something like an airport control tower--except that +it's manned by a vigilant, uniformed guard. This is a federal prison camp +or detention center. These camps are all located near super-highways or +near railroad tracks or both.

+ +

The federal prison camp at Florence, Arizona could hold 3500 +prisoners. It is presently kept in condition by approximately 400 legally +convicted prisoners. Wickenberg, AZ is famous for its municipal +airport that was once government owned. It is now occupied by a +private party. It is rumored to be capable of being taken back by the +federal government without notice.

+ +

Now there are a couple other of these facilities that are probably existing +under the same arrangements. This particular rumor of instant taking +back without notice has existed for about 9 or 10 years. The only way it +can actually be established is by looking at the local contract for the +Wickenberg Municipal Airport itself and the parties that have +possession of it.

+ +

As I mentioned previously, these names were ratified by the provost +marshal of the Fifth Army who is in charge of the 300th Military Police +POW Command. He is the one who verified them. He said, as I +mentioned before, "Well at least you've got that right."

+ +

Some of the locations are: Tool Lake in California--now in private +hands. It can be retaken without notice. Some of the others: We have +Mill Point, West Virginia. I couldn't find a thing on Mill Point, WV +but in that area we have all kinds of prisons. Among them are: +Alderson, WV, a women's federal reformatory, Lewisburg, WV, a +federal prison; Greenville, SC in Greenville County is now occupied +by the State Youthful Offenders Division. Even that is a mystery to the +people of that area.

+ +

At Montgomery, AL we have a federal civilian prison camp at Maxwell +Air Force Base. Now does that sound right? There's one at Tucson, +AZ, David Munson Air Base. In Alaska we have Elmendorf at +Eielson Air Force Base.

+ +

That brings us to a facility in Florida, called Avon Park, FL. He found +the Avon Park Bombing and Gunnery Range, which is also listed as the +Avon Park Correctional Institute. No one is permitted entrance and +probably there is no overfly permitted because it is a bombing and +gunnery range. This was one of the places ratified by the provost +marshal of the Fifth Army.

+ +

In 1976, as well as on March 20, 19791 went to the sheriffs Dept. in +Houston to see if our local sheriff's Dept. had been infiltrated by these +plans. Well, it appears so. I was put in contact with a Lt. Kiljan +(phonetic spelling) who is in charge of some secret unit in the +department. I asked him if he had participated in military training with +military personnel here in the Sheriff s Dept. He denied it, and when I +asked him if he would testify so under oath he became angry and stated, +"You are just an ordinary citizen. I don't have to tell you anything." I +later discovered that Lt. Kiljan is the ex-director of the Houston branch +office of the U. S . Secret Service. Now where does his money come +from? The area is administered by the Houston-Galveston Area Council.

+ +

In this regional-government plan, each federal region is divided into +state clearinghouses, and each state clearinghouse is divided into area +clearinghouses. And for our area we have the Houston-Galveston Area +Council.. It serves as a conduit for federal funds in two major areas +L.E.A.A. and H.E.W

+ +

Most everybody thinks this organization (the Houston-Galveston area +Council) is for the development of the area--the geographical area here +in Houston. But it is not. It is for the development of L.E.A.A. and +H.E.W. projects. Now this finds its counterpart in every community +across the U.S. It provides for these agencies a liaison for inter-governmental communications, interaction and coordination.

+ +

MENTAL COOPERATION IN TAKEOVER PLANS

+ +

I examined their projects to see what they were doing. This region-government program distributes federal funds for two major purposes: +1) Radio hook-ups between every police agency in the state to Fort Sam +Houston, and: 2) Mental health programs, including programs for the +mentally ill having priority of beds and hospitals.

+ +

Another interesting fact to consider is that in the Pine Bluff Arkansas +Arsenal '3-Z" is stored. It's a nerve gas which creates sleepiness, +dizziness, stupor, and the incapacity to move about. According to the +Associated Press, the agent can be sprayed by aerosol, injected or +sprayed over large areas by a bomb. The Military has admitted that one +potential use of the gas is for civilian control. So whatever they planned, +they've also planned a way for you to go to your destination in a tranquil +state of mind.

+ +

H.E.W., by law, is operated in conjunction with the United Nations +through the World Health Organization. Back in 1948, the +International Congress on Mental health U.N. organization-declared in +its pamphlet, 'Mental Health and World Citizenship, ' that, "prejudice, +hostility or excessive nationalism may become deeply imbedded in the +developing personality without awareness on the part of the individual +concerned. In order to be effective, efforts of changing individuals +must be appropriate to the successive stages of the unfolding +personality. In the case of almost any group of individuals, change will +be strongly resisted unless an attitude of acceptance has first been +engendered.

+ +

"Principles of mental health cannot be successfully furthered in any +society unless there is progressive acceptance of the concept of world +citizenship," the document states. "Programs for social change to be +effective require a joint effort of psychiatrists and social scientists, +working together in cooperation with statesmen, administrators and +others in positions of responsibility."

+ +

The three phases of the development are: 1) Mental hospitals for +segregation, care and protection of persons of unsound minds. 2) +Community Mental Health Care Centers so that persons may be treated +in their own neighborhood. 3) Child Care Centers for dealing with early +difficulties of nationalism in a child's life.

+ +

Two years earlier, Major General G. B. Chisholm, Deputy Minister of +Health in Canada_ who later became director of United Nations World +Health Organization--explained, "Self defense may involve a neurotic +reaction when it means defending one's own excessive material wealth +from others who are in great need. This attitude leads to war..." So his +solution to the problem is: 'Set's redistribute the wealth among +everyone.

+ +

Further, the re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the individual's +concept of right and wrong-which has been the basis of child training +are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapies. +Now if we digress even further, to Buria (phonetic spelling), the director +of the Soviet Secret Police in the 1930's, we see he explained the +communist political strategy through the use of "mental heating" of +psychiatry:

+ +

"Psycho-politics is the art and science of asserting and of maintaining a +dominion over the thoughts and loyalties of individuals, officers, +bureaus, and masses, and the effecting of the conquest of enemy nations +through mental healing. You must work,: he stated, "Until every teacher +of psychology unknowingly or knowingly teaches only communistic +doctrine under the guise of psychology."

+ +

If you look at the Russian manual of instruction of psycho-political +warfare, we see in chapter nine, "Psycho-political operations should at +all times be alert to the Opportunities to organize for the betterment of +the community mental health centers."

+ +

Now, under the new national Mental Health program, at this moment +there are more than 600 of these community mental health centers +across the United States. The whole thing was promoted by Dr. Stanly +F. Yoles (phonetic spelling), who was the director of the National +Institute of Mental Health in 1969. He stated back then, that the newest +trend in treating mental illness is care at local health care centers where +the patient is not isolated from his (or her) family and friends. They +have been working on this program for 46 years publicly, and now +across the U.S._through your tax dollars_you have 603 centers (to be +exact), Community Health Centers that are all part of this program.

+ +

This is how they are part of the program. (It has already happened): In +the mid-1950's, there were set into motion an interesting chain of +events. About 1956, the Alaska Mental Health Bill was proposed and +later passed. It granted approximately $12 million and one million acres +of public land to Alaska so that it could develop its own mental health +program. Now this was a little abnormal since Alaska only had a little +over 400 people who were classified as mentally ill!

+ +

After the bill was passed, Alaska passed its own enabling legislation to +get into the mental health business. They started by adopting the +essential elements of the Public Health Service Draft Act on the +hospitalization of the mentally ill in the old 'interstate Compact on +Mental Health"_now called the Uniform Mental Health Act. There +were no provisions for jury trial in it or anything else. You would just +be picked up and taken to the Alaskan-Siberian Asylum. +incommunicado_and the state would also confiscate all of your +personal and real property! They actually tried to do it in 1954 in the +case of Ford vs. Milinak (phonetic spelling), which declared the act as +adopted in another state (the state of Missouri) as unconstitutional.

+ +

But the act itself still exists_and modified_but essentially in the same +form, the Uniform Mental Health Act, to which approximately six states +subscribe. And in passing most State Constitutions-if you will check +them from the period of 1935-made a part of their constitution the +practice of having a person submit to a 90-day mental examination to +determine his (or her) sanity, without any provisions for a trail by jury. +This was part of the national program at that time.

+ +

In this act, the governor could have anyone picked up and sent to the +Mental Health Institution in Alaska or elsewhere. The results of rumors +back in the '50s, were that there was in fact a sinister, Frankenstein-type +mental health person in Alaska. I wrote to Alaska (the officials, that is) +and asked them for a description of the kind of one million acres that +they were eligible to receive under the Alaska Mental Health Act. I also +asked them for a copy of the inventory they ran for their facilities back +at that same time. Well, so far no answer. And probably, I will never +receive an answer without a court order.

+ +

Through the years, there was a spot in Alaska that was continually +referred to: Southeast of Fairbanks, southwest of Fairbanks, northwest +of Fairbanks--somewhere near Fairbanks. Then I received information +that a pilot had flown over the entire area once and had had his license +revoked. So, for S1.85 each, I ordered the low-level navigation maps +from the federal government for Alaska and located the Alaska-Siberian +Asylum for the treatment of enemies of the United States. It's right +where rumor over the past 20 years had placed it: Southwest of +Fairbanks. It stands out like a sore thumb! It's the only one of that +geometric configuration within the state of Alaska, and you will note a +black line running up through Fairbanks and down over near that area of +the map. That is the railroad that the Dept. of Transportation would take +the emergency operation of under the Executive Order--if the Executive +Order went into effect. H.E.W. would be responsible for making a +determination of whether or not you were mentally disturbed because of +your nationalistic tendencies, your love for the United States, or your +adherence to any political or religious doctrine.

+ +

Let's look a little further into the type of program that the L.E.A.A. is +paying for through the Dept. of Justice. The Federal Bureau of Prisons-- +located in the backwoods of North Carolina, near a tiny village called +Butner--is constructing a mammoth 42 acre research complex for +prisoners from throughout the East. Who will be sent for experiments to +test new behavioral programs and techniques? Target date for +completion of the entire system is ironically 1984.

+ +

So, they're using right now, under the L.E.A.A. program, something +called anectine (phonetic spelling). Punishment for troublesome +behavior within the prison is being done by drugs and shock, likely to +be the most selected examples of programs that have made use of +anectine--a derivative of South American curare. Anectine was +originally used as a beginning factor to electro-convulsive shock. Such +shocks applied to the head are so strong they can break and graze pores +under the strain, resulting in muscle contractions. Since anectine +paralyzes the muscles without diminishing consciousness or the ability +to feel pain. By first injecting the inmates with it, researchers can turn +up the voltage as high as they want without cracking the inmates' +skeleton when his body is thrown into convulsions by the jolt.

+ +

What the anectine does, in short, is to simulate death within 30 to 40 +seconds of injection. It brings on paralysis first, with the small rapidly +moving muscles in the nose, fingers, and eyes; then in the diaphragm +and the cardiovascular system. As a result, the patient cannot move or +breath and yet remains fully conscious, as though drowning and dying. +This is from the 1974 publication, 'Human Behavior.

+ +

THE PEOPLE VS. THE CONSPIRATORS

+ +

The federal government answered my suit in June (1976) by filing an +unsworn general denial of everything that I had alleged. I spoke with +the assistant U.S. Attorney in charge of the case and asked him if he had +gone to the trouble to call any of the parties mentioned in the suits-- +since I had provided not only the addresses, but their telephone numbers +to provide a faster means of investigation. He said he had not. He had +not even done a minimal amount of investigation of the case, but yet he +filed a denial of my allegations.

+ +

I filed a motion in the meantime to take the deposition of the person +who writes the training programs for the concentration camp guards, +Mr. Richard Burrage--the 75th Maneuver Air Command at Army +Reserve Center at Houston, Texas--stating that in light of all the recent +activity of government agents, one of the agencies involved might +attempt to murder this key witness, the author of the training camp +program. The federal judge denied my motion, stating that I had not +quoted enough cases to him justifying my request. However, he was +also aware as that there were no cases existing on this set of facts, but as +you will see as I go along with this report, he chose to ignore it.

+ +

I then made an agreement with the assistant U. S. Attorney to take the +deposition to Mr. Burrage. After I'd made the arrangements, the U.S. +Attorney refused to voluntarily go along with taking the deposition. It is +very difficult to find justice in our system of courts. It is a corruption-driven system founded upon the buddy system, and hence, the court +rules are routinely overlooked or not followed.

+ +

On July 20, a hearing was held at the magistrate of Norman Black, U.S. +District Court in Houston. The courtroom was completely filled with +spectators. Although the news media had been contacted, no +representatives of the press were there. There is a news media blackout +on this matter here in Houston.

+ +

Brief oral arguments were presented. The U.S. Attorney explained that I +was not the proper person to bring the suit because, although the free +exercise of my constitutional rights was threatened by the concentration +camp program as alleged, it did not constitute my injury. The magistrate +was impressed with the information I had thus far collected and stated +that he would bring it to the attention of the federal judge. The U.S. +Attorney tried to have my investigation of the case halted, but the +magistrate would not go along that far with a pre-arranged decision.

+ +

As an additional indication of what I was up against, the original +hearing was scheduled for 10:30 in the morning. However, the U.S. +Attorney had secretly had the time changed to 2:30 in the afternoon. The +magistrate gave the U.S. Attorney permission to file for motion to +dismiss because he felt that the concentration camp program--to be used +for persons who exercise their freedom of speech--did not present any +injury.

+ +

Now, on July 23 I had placed in the 'Houston Post' and in the 'Houston +Chronicle' newspapers the following advertisement in the legal section. +Quote: "Solicitation for witnesses in Civil Action 78-H 667, Federal +District Court of Houston, People extemporal William Pabst vs. Gerald +Ford et d. The action titled: Complaint Against the Concentration Camp +Program of the Dept. of Defense. Attention: If you have participated in +Operation Garden Plot, Operation Cable Splicer, the 300th Military +Police Prisoner of War Command, or the Army Reserve Civil Affairs +group, you may be involved in a program that needs to be disclosed for +this suit. To give your testimony call or write; (and here I placed my +name address and telephone number).

+ +

As I previously mentioned, there is a news media blackout on the story +here in Houston. Both newspapers refused to carry the ad. First, at the +'Houston Post,' I had to threaten them with a lawsuit to carry out the ad, +even though I was paying for it. Then, at the 'Chronicle' I had to meet +with the president and various vice presidents because a refusal from +that paper had come up from their own lawyers. Both newspapers +finally carried it, but only after two days of complaining. The initial +response of both papas was, "We don't carry stories like that" and: +"Don't you think that the people planning the concentration camps have +our best interest in mind?" As you will hear for yourselves, the policies +definitely do not reflect our best interests.

+ +

The next event that occurred was that the U.S. Attorney filed a +"Statement of Authority," showing the reasons he could find why I +should not be allowed to take depositions to get more information from +the person who was writing the concentration camp guard training +program. However, his brief was completely filled with misquotes of +the law from many cases. He'd mention the case and then invent +whatever the case should say. In my brief to the court at this point, I +notified the judge of the violation of the law requiring honesty in such +matters. But, the notification was ignored by the judge, who apparently +sanctioned this most dishonest of acts, commonly known as "quoting +out of context."

+ +

THE GENEVA CONVENTION

+ +

My brief was filed on August 27. On August 31, formal arguments were +set. The new courtroom of the magistrate was almost filled again. +However, no one from the news media showed up for this hearing +either. The few who were contacted had been told not to go; they would +lose their jobs.

+ +

At the hearing I introduced evidence that heretofore had never been +introduced in any court of law in the U.S. The U.S. Attorney had +denied, you will remember, everything in my suit without so much as +even a tiny investigation. So, I introduced him to evidence the following +letter from the Dept. of the Army, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff of +Personnel, signed by 1B Sergeant, Colonel G.S., Action Director of +Human Resources Development.

+ +

Quoting: "On behalf of President Ford, I am replying to your letter 27 +May, 1976, regarding a news article in the Dallas Morning News. As +much as he would like to, the president cannot reply personally to every +communication he receives. Therefore, he has asked the departments +and agencies of the federal government in those instances where they +have special knowledge or special authority underlogued.

+ +

"For this reason your communication was forwarded to officials of the +Dept. of Defense. Within the Dept. of Defense, the Army is responsible +for custody and treatment of enemy prisoners of war and civilian +internees as defined under terms of the Geneva Convention of 1949. +Therefore, the Army is prepared to detain prisoners of war and detainees +as defined in Article IV of the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the +treatment of prisoners of war and protection of civilian persons.

+ +

'It is U.S. policy that its Armed Forces adhere to the provisions of +international law to set the example for other countries of the world to +follow and respecting the rights and dignity of those who become victim +of international conflict. It should be noted that the Army program is +designed for implementation during conditions of war between the U.S. +and one or more foreign countries. The Army had no plans nor does it +maintain detention camps to imprison American citizens during +domestic crises."

+ +

The problem with this letter is that it's not true, and that's what I'm +going to discuss at this point. First of all, in verifying the authenticity of +the claims in the letter, I checked the Geneva text. There is no article in +the Geneva Convention entitled as the letter states. There is, however, +on each of the classifications, "Protection of War Victims / Civilian +Persons" and a separate article on "Prisoners of War." "That was the +first discrepancy.

+ +

Then I turned to Article IV of the Geneva Convention. That article did +not set up any requirements or authorizations for military units of any +type and does not even suggest it. Hence, the second discrepancy.

+ +

The next problem with the letter from President Ford's representative +is that it states that the prisoner of war guard program is set up for the +implementation for "conditions of war between the U.S. and one or +more (foreign) countries." However, Article III of the Geneva +Convention reads that the treaty applies to (and I am quoting): 'In case +of an armed conflict, not of an international character, occurring within +the territory of one of the high contracting parties." Obviously and +armed conflict occurring within one's own territory did not mean +between one or more of the parties to the treaty, especially if only one +is involved. Now, the examples of this type of conflict are: civil war, +armed insurgency and guerrilla activities. In other words, they're +speaking of a domestic conflict.

+ +

An even more shocking item is found in the pages of the 1949 Geneva +Convention under "Protection of War Victims/Civilian Persons." You +will find the index card, the identification card, forms to be used to +writing your family, and everything necessary for the administration of +a concentration camp is contained in this treaty that the U.S. signed and +ratified. Further, if there is a conflict in the U.S. involving only the U.S. +this convention or treaty can go into operation_which includes the +procedures for setting up the concentration camps.

+ +

Article LXVIII of the Convention states (and I paraphrase): If you +commit an offense that is solely intended to harm the occupying power, +not harming the life or limb of members of the occupying power, but +merely talking against such a force_such as the Martial Law situation +you can be imprisoned provided that the duration of such imprisonment +is proportionate to the offense committed. Well, President Dwight +Eisenhower didn't feel that provision was strong enough. So he had the +following additions placed in the treaty, which state: "The U.S. reserves +the right to impose the death penalty in accordance with the previsions +of Article LXVIII without regard to whether the offense is referred to +therein are punishable by death under the law of the occupied territory at +the time the occupation begins."

+ +

So not only can you be imprisoned for having exercised freedom of +speech; you can be put to death under the provisions of the Geneva +Convention in 1949 for having exercised, or attempting to exercise +freedom of speech.

+ +

The next item that I introduced into evidence was a field manual; FM +41-1-, '<Civil Affairs activities includes: 'item 4. Assumption of full or +partial executive, legislative and judicial authority ova a country or +area." So let's see what a "country or area" is defined as in the same +manual. It includes: "small towns and rural areas, municipalities of +various population sizes, districts, counties, provinces or states, regions +of national government."

+ +

Nowhere in the manual does it exclude this program from being put into +effect right here in the United States. As a matter of fact, in Kearny, +New Jersey, the Civil Affairs group went into that area and practiced +taking ova that governmental unit. Yet the Army, in it's letter of June +16, states that these programs are not for us. However, they are practiced +here in the United States under conditions that can only occur here t +home.

+ +

The study outline of field manuals FM 41-10 on page j-24 under Penal +institutions 1-B," you see there is a program on concentration camps and +a labor camp are always located near each other for obvious reasons.

+ +

Again on page d-4 of the same manual you'll find a sample receipt for +seized property; a sample receipt written in English and containing +terminology applicable to only U.S. territory. On page 8-2 of the same +manual, under the heading "Tables of Organization and Equipment," we +find that there are three other organizations that would be working along +with the Civil Affairs operation: the Chemical Service Organization, the +Composite Service Organization, and the Psychological Operations +Organization, along with the various Civil Affairs organizations.

+ +

In July of that year (1976), the following Civil Affairs groups met with +the following airborne groups at a staging area in Fort Chaffee, AR A +staging area is where military units meet before they go into action. +They met with the 82nd Airborne and part of the 101st Airborne; the +32nd Civil Affairs group of San Antonio, TX headquarters; the 362nd +Civil Affairs brigade from Dallas, TX; the 431st Civil Affairs company +from Little Rock, AR headquarters; the 306th Civil Affairs group, U.S. +Army Reserves, Fayetteville,AR commanded by Lt. Colonel N. +McQuire (phonetic spelling) and William Highland. The 486th Civil +Affairs company from Tulsa, OK; the 418th Civil Affairs company from +Kansas City, MO; the 307th Civil Affairs group from Abilene, IX; the +413th company from Hanlin, LA, the 12th S.S. group, 2nd Battalion +(headquarters unknown).

+ +

They're ready to go into action. The problem is, as it appears they were +ready to take over the entire government of the United States as their +mission sets out. One man who attended this staging area talked to a +Civil Affairs sergeant and asked him what his job was. The sergeant +explained that the civilians of this country will really be surprised some +day when the Civil Affairs groups begin to operate the government. +Now, the Dept. of the Army still maintains that all this not for the +United States--yet this training continues here for us. The evidence is +overwhelming: the plan exists for the imprisonment of millions of U.S. +citizens. Even though all this information was presented to the federal +magistrate, he still felt that no one was injured by such a plot.

+ +

On the second day of September, 1976, the magistrate recommended to +the federal judge that the case be dismissed. The sole basis for his +reasoning to dismiss was that we have to be actually physically injured +before we can maintain a lawsuit of this type. He did not feel that, +although all this active planning, preparation and training was going on, +that any U.S. citizen had been injured-even though the citizen may fear +exercising his or her freedom for fear of being detained and imprisoned +in a concentration camp at a later date.

+ +

IGNORING THE CONSTITUTION

+ +

The case of Tatum B. Laird, heard before the Supreme Court in 1974, is +a case in point. It involved the Army intelligence's collecting apparatus, +which was developing a list of names of persons who the Army felt +were troublesome. The Supreme Court held that the making of list of +this type did not of and by itself present any injuries. The minority +opinion in that case was that the injury in the case with a program such +as this, made people afraid to use their freedom of speech for fear of +being sent to jail for it. But the majority did not buy that argument.

+ +

The difference between that case and this case-although we also have +the computer program--is that we have something much further past that +point, the concentration camp guard program and the Civil Affairs +program for the taking over of all functions of our government. In light +of that the federal judge said that this is not an injury. As a matter of act, +the U. S. Attorney alleged that even if people were place in +concentration camps, if they were all treated the same they would still +not have the right to go to federal court.

+ +

On the 20th day of September, I filed a memorandum to notify the +magistrate and the federal judge that I had discovered that the federal +government had a program for a number of years to suspend our +constitutional right of the writ of habeas corpus. This information +substantiated the complaint. Habeas corpus is the name of that legal +instrument utilized to bring someone before a judge when the person is +being illegally imprisoned or detained so that he (or she) may obtain his +(or her) freedom. The Constitution states that the writ of habeas corpus +shall never be suspended.

+ +

I found the disturbing information in a report: 94-755, 94th Congress, +2nd Session Senate, April 26th, 1976, entitled "Intelligence Activities +and the Rights of Americans Book II." On page 17-d, entitled "First +Amendment Rights," the report states that more importantly "the +government surveillance activities in the aggregate, whether expressly +intended to do so, to deter the exercise of First Amendment rights by +American citizens who become aware of the government's domestic +intelligence program."

+ +

Beginning on page 54 it is stated that, beginning in 1946_four years +before the Emergency Detention Act of 1950 was passed--the FBI +advised the Attorney General that it had secretly compiled a secret +index of potentially dangerous persons. The Justice Dept. then made +tentative plans for emergency detention based on suspension of the +privilege of the writ of habeas corpus. Department officials +deliberately avoided going to Congress. When the Emergency +Detention Act of 1950 was passed, it did not authorize the suspension +of the writ of habeas corpus. But shortly after passage of that act, +according to a bureau document, Attorney General J. R. McGraft told +the FBI to disregard it and to proceed with the program as previously +outlined.

+ +

A few sentences later on page 55 it states, "With the security index, use +broader standards to determine potential dangerousness than those +described in the statute." Unlike the act, Department plans provided fro +issuing a master search warrant and a master arrest warrant. This is the +center importance: It is the same thing that I am alleging in federal +court. Yet, the magistrate chose to ignore these facts also.

+ +

We have government officials not only ignoring the will of Congress, +but doing the opposite of what the Constitution provides by planning +illegally for the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. In addition, as +mentioned before, the master search warrant and the master arrest +warrant are forms fed into the computer, which print the names and +addresses on them from the tapes previously prepared by the +intelligence-gathering program.

+ +

As you are arrested, your home will be searched and anything found +there may be confiscated. This program has existed since 1946 up to and +including 1973, and without proper access to judicial discovery +techniques. It can't be determined whether the same plan now exists +under the same name or under another name altogether.

+ +

This memorandum was filed on September 28 to make the court aware +of the danger that our rights of freedom of speech and lawful assembly +are in. But the court, on September 30--after this notification was +received--dismissed the case. however, in keeping with the practice of +federal courts in Houston of actively participating in the obstruction of +justice, I was not notified of the dismissal until the 6th of October-- +which gave me just two working days to submit any further motion in a +10-day period before time starts running for the appeal.

+ +

What I have just said regarding the federal courts in Houston is not only +my opinion; The 'Houston Chronicle' surprisingly, published an +extensive document severely criticizing the federal courts in Houston for +making up their own rules as they go along with the proceedings, a well +as commenting on the communist-like Supreme Court attitude of the +judges and the court personnel. l My experience here has been that the +court has returned to me almost every document I filed. Then after a big +argument, they reaccept the document, stating that they just made a +mistake. In reality, the power structure doesn't want these types of cases +in any federal court.

+ +

SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE

+ +

On the 8th of October, I had submitted a request for finding the facts in +the filing which had been established by the evidence presented:

+ +

* 1) The 300th Military Police POW Command is located at Livonia, Mich.

+ +

* 2) The Dept. of the Army has stated that said Command exists per se +the Geneva Convention of 1949, a treaty of the U.S., Article IV thereof +under the title relative to the treatment of prisoners of war and +protection of civilian prisoners.

+ +

* 3) However, no such title exists in the Geneva Convention per se.

+ +

* 4) Nevertheless, there are separate titles, one of which is; a. +Multilateral Protection of War Victims/Prisoners of War; b. Multilateral +Protection of War Victims/Civilian Persons.

+ +

* 5)Nevertheless, Article IV of both titles does of provide for the +creation of any military programs for concentration camps.

+ +

* 6) Whether Mr. Fenren of the 300th Military Police POW Command +has stated that the purpose of the Command is for the detention of +foreign prisoners of war and enemies of the United States.

+ +

* 7) Further, Article III, concerning civilian persons, makes the treaty +applicable to conflicts occurring solely within the territory of the U.S. +that are not of an international character, which is capable of including +any type of conflict in its description whether it be civil war or +guerrilla activity or anything else. The text states: "In case of armed +conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of +one of the high contracting parties, each party to a conflict shall be +bound to apply to the minimum of the following provisions."

+ +

* 8) Dept. of the Army field manual FM 41-10, Civil Affairs Operations +of Civil Affairs Organization, lists as one of its functions the +assumption of full or partial executive, legislative and judicial authority +over a country or an area and there is no specific exclusion of the U. S. +as such a country or area.

+ +

* 9) Said manual defines country along certain geographical population +basis, county, state regions and national government.

+ +

*10) Said organization in fact conducted practiced takeovers of local +and state governments in the continental U.S., including but not limited +to the state of New Jersey.

+ +

* 11) Said organization includes in its study outline page j-24 a section +on concentration camps and labor camps.

+ +

* 12) Said organization includes in it operations composite service +operations and psychological operations organizations.

+ +

*13) Said psychological operation is working with the U. S. Public +Health Service, are prepared to operate any and/or all mental health +facilities in the U. S. as tools of repression against outspoken but +nonviolent political conduct of the U. S. citizens in conjunction with all +the above, which is to be used for the same purpose.

+ +

* 14) Further, the Dept. of Justice, inconjunction with this program, has +had plans for the suspension of writ of habeas corpus since the year of +1946, has planned depriving persons being detained under this total +program any means for protection against tyrannical political repression. +The plaintiff requested that the court make findings of fact and draw +conclusions of law, consistent therewith as shown by the evidence on +record before the court. The effect of this request is that the case must +go back to the district judge for further consideration. I mentioned that +it appeared that all this planning for concentration camps was to be +directed against anyone regardless of this political persuasion or his deo-ideology who exercised freedom of speech against the established power +structure of international bankers and multinational corporation. But, +with Proposition B-type movements threatening to reduce taxes +throughout our nation, I foresee an activation of emergency programs so +that the parasites on the federal take will continue to receive their +checks.

+ +

PRICE OF PATRIOTISM

+ +

In the same Senate document, on intelligence activities on the rights of +Americans referred to on pages 166 and 167, you will find that the +federal government has targeted its intelligence activities against one +group of Americans. On page 166, the first classification listed is +rightists and anti-Communist groups. The first group on page 167 on +Army surveillance lists the John Birch Society as number one and the +Young Americans for Freedom as the number two target. Therefore, the +groups of U.S. American citizens considered to be the biggest enemy of +the U.S. by the federal government at this is the conservative patriot.

+ +

Although this information has been available since April of this year +(1979), no one has mentioned this incredible discovery that the federal +government considers the patriotic conservative as its greatest enemy. I +have received all kinds of information regarding this case from all +across the United States.

+ +

PRICE OF APATHY

+ +

I obtained the 1945 report of the O. S. S. (Office of Strategic Services)- +-the precursor of the C.I.A.-7th Army, William W. Quinn, Colonel +G.F.CA.C.of the G2, on the liberation of Dachau, a concentration camp +during the liberation in Germany. It contains much groupings of +information, but the relevant portion of the report concerns itself with +the section on the townspeople. Quoting from his report, on why the +people of this little town didn't complain or didn't overthrow +oppressors, but just continued to go along and get along even though +they lost their freedom in the process. I quote:

+ +

"These words crop up again and again. They are the rationalization of a +man who admits that he was a member of the Nazi party. 'I was forced +to do so by business reasons,' they state. We were lied to in every +respect but they admit they knew the camp existed. But, they saw the +work detail to the inmates passing through the streets under guard, and +in some instances the S.S. behaved brutally even towards the +townspeople.

+ +

"When asked if they realized that within the last three months before the +liberation 13000 men lost their lives within a stone's throw of where the +people lived, they claimed they were shocked and surprised.

+ +

'When asked if they never saw transports of dead and dying pass +through the streets along the railway, they referred only to the last one. +They insist that most of the trains came in at night and that they were +sealed cars.

+ +

"Did they never ask what was in the endless procession of cars that +came in full and always went out empty? A typical reply was, 'We were +told it was all army material and booty from France.'

+ +

"It is established that anyone who stated that he was only one train come +in in the daytime was telling a flat lie. There are quite a few such +people in Dachau."

+ +

The analysis of the anti-Nazi element of the town: 1) The people knew +what was going on in the camp, even ten years prior to liberation; 2) +The town did a thriving business from the concentration camp guard; 3) +Ninety percent are guilty and have dabbed themselves with the blood of +innocent human beings; 4) The people are to blame for their cowardice-- +they were all too cowardly. They didn't want to risk anything--and that +was the way it was in all of Germany.

+ +

The conclusion of this report written on Dachau written in 1945 on the +liberation of the concentration camp applies today. The conclusion is as +follows: If one is to attempt tremendous task and accept the terrible +responsibility of judging a whole town, assess it in mass as to collective +guilt or innocence of all its inhabitants for their complicity in +committing this most heinous of crimes, one would do well to +remember the fearsome shadow that hangs over everyone in this state in +light of the similar conditions that now prevail in the midst of our own +circumstances.

+ +

So you can see how the whole program is related here. My lawsuit was +against one single aspect of the total program: The enforcement arm of +the conspiracy. The people who makeup the cadre that is going to +occupy the concentration camps where enemies of the U. S. will be +placed. Remember Solzhenitsyn's words in the 'Gulag Archipelago': +"Resistance should have begun right there but it did not begin. You +aren't gagged, you really can and you really ought to cry out that arrests +are being made on the strength of false accusations. If many such +outcries had been heard all over the city would arrests have no longer +have been so easy.

+ +

They, the tyrants, can't work in the public eye. These people who were +so apathetic, hoping that nothing was really wrong, that nothing would +happen to their persons and property, sat back and watched. The +anarchists, financed by multinational interests, looted and pillaged their +country.

+ +

If you think that all (that) is necessary is to pay your house notes, to pay +your TV notes, to go vote when there is an election, and to stand back +during the rest of the year and watch as your country and way of life are +replaced by a system in which you will be a slave in a concentration +camp, you_not the conspirators_are guilty because you, by silent +acquiescence, invite tyranny and oppression.

+ +

When you have to steal food to eat because our production is for foreign +use because the Dept. of Commerce--through Executive Order 11490 +and its predecessors--is responsible for international distribution of our +commodities, don't sit in the culvert hiding and eating and wondering +what happened because you made it all possible.

+ +

When your family is split up and spread across the United States to do +slave labor and you never see your loved ones again, it will be your fault +because you did nothing to prevent it. Once we lose our freedom, we +are never going to regain it. That is why we must stand together to +prevent the loss of our freedom as citizens of the United States.

+ +

Thank you very much. (Conclusion of taped report.)

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From: Bill Cooper dont.tread.on.me@usa.com +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy +Subject: READ BEFORE "THEY" DELETE! +Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:12:01 -0400 + 326D7EF1.9B4@usa.com

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Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars

+ +

An introductory programming manual Operations Research +Technical Manual TM-SW7905.1

+ +

Welcome Aboard

+ +

This publication marks the 25th anniversary of the Third World +War, called the "Quiet War", being conducted using subjective +biological warfare, fought with "silent weapons."

+ +

This book contains an introductory description of this war, its +strategies, and its weaponry.

+ +

May 1979 #74-1120

+ +

SECURITY

+ +

It is patently impossible to discuss social engineering or the +automation of a society, i.e., the engineering of social automation +systems (silent weapons) on a national or worldwide scale without +implying extensive objectives of social control and destruction of +human life, i.e., slavery and genocide.

+ +

This manual is in itself an analog declaration of intent. Such a +writing must be secured from public scrutiny. Otherwise, it might be +recognized as a technically formal declaration of domestic war. +Furthermore, whenever any person or group of persons in a position +of great power and without full knowledge and consent of the public, +uses such knowledge and methodologies for economic conquest - it +must be understood that a state of domestic warfare exists between +said person or group of persons and the public.

+ +

The solution of today's problems requires an approach which is +ruthlessly candid, with no agonizing over religious, moral or +cultural values.

+ +

You have qualified for this project because of your ability to +look at human society with cold objectivity, and yet analyze and +discuss your observations and conclusions with others of similar +intellectual capacity without the loss of discretion or humility. +Such virtues are exercised in your own best interest. Do not deviate +from them.

+ +

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+ +

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

+ +

Silent weapon technology has evolved from Operations Research +(O.R.), a strategic and tactical methodology developed under the +Military Management in England during World War II. The original +purpose of Operations Research was to study the strategic and +tactical problems of air and land defense with the objective of +effective use of limited military resources against foreign enemies +(i.e., logistics).

+ +

It was soon recognized by those in positions of power that the +same methods might be useful for totally controlling a society. But +better tools were necessary.

+ +

Social engineering (the analysis and automation of a society) +requires the correlation of great amounts of constantly changing +economic information (data), so a high-speed computerized data-processing system was necessary which could race ahead of the +society and predict when society would arrive for capitulation.

+ +

Relay computers were to slow, but the electronic computer, +invented in 1946 by J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly, filled +the bill.

+ +

The next breakthrough was the development of the simplex method +of linear programming in 1947 by the mathematician George B. +Dantzig.

+ +

Then in 1948, the transistor, invented by J. Bardeen, W.H. +Brattain, and W. Shockley, promised great expansion of the computer +field by reducing space and power requirements.

+ +

With these three inventions under their direction, those in +positions of power strongly suspected that it was possible for them +to control the whole world with the push of a button.

+ +

Immediately, the Rockefeller Foundation got in on the ground +floor by making a four-year grant to Harvard College, funding the +Harvard Economic Research Project for the study of the structure of +the American Economy. One year later, in 1949, The United States Air +Force joined in.

+ +

In 1952 the grant period terminated, and a high-level meeting of +the Elite was held to determine the next phase of social operations +research. The Harvard project had been very fruitful, as is borne +out by the publication of some of its results in 1953 suggesting the +feasibility of economic (social) engineering. (Studies in the +Structure of the American Economy - copyright 1953 by Wassily +Leontief, International Science Press Inc., White Plains, New York).

+ +

Engineered in the last half of the decade of the 1940's, the new +Quiet War machine stood, so to speak, in sparkling gold-plated +hardware on the showroom floor by 1954.

+ +

With the creation of the maser in 1954, the promise of unlocking +unlimited sources of fusion atomic energy from the heavy hydrogen in +sea water and the consequent availability of unlimited social power +was a possibility only decades away.

+ +

The combination was irresistible.

+ +

The Quiet War was quietly declared by the International Elite at +a meeting held in 1954.

+ +

Although the silent weapons system was nearly exposed 13 years +later, the evolution of the new weapon-system has never suffered any +major setbacks.

+ +

This volume marks the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the +Quiet War. Already this domestic war has had many victories on many +fronts throughout the world.

+ +

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+ +

POLITICAL INTRODUCTION

+ +

In 1954 it was well recognized by those in positions of authority +that it was only a matter of time, only a few decades, before the +general public would be able to grasp and upset the cradle of power, +for the very elements of the new silent-weapon technology were as +accessible for a public utopia as they were for providing a private +utopia.

+ +

The issue of primary concern, that of dominance, revolved around +the subject of the energy sciences.

+ +

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+ +

ENERGY

+ +

Energy is recognized as the key to all activity on earth. Natural +science is the study of the sources and control of natural energy, +and social science, theoretically expressed as economics, is the +study of the sources and control of social energy. Both are +bookkeeping systems: mathematics. Therefore, mathematics is the +primary energy science. And the bookkeeper can be king if the public +can be kept ignorant of the methodology of the bookkeeping.

+ +

All science is merely a means to an end. The means is knowledge. +The end is control. Beyond this remains only one issue: Who will be +the beneficiary?

+ +

In 1954 this was the issue of primary concern. Although the so-called "moral issues" were raised, in view of the law of natural +selection it was agreed that a nation or world of people who will +not use their intelligence are no better than animals who do not +have intelligence. Such people are beasts of burden and steaks on +the table by choice and consent.

+ +

Consequently, in the interest of future world order, peace, and +tranquillity, it was decided to privately wage a quiet war against +the American public with an ultimate objective of permanently +shifting the natural and social energy (wealth) of the undisciplined +and irresponsible many into the hands of the self-disciplined, +responsible, and worthy few.

+ +

In order to implement this objective, it was necessary to create, +secure, and apply new weapons which, as it turned out, were a class +of weapons so subtle and sophisticated in their principle of +operation and public appearance as to earn for themselves the name +"silent weapons."

+ +

In conclusion, the objective of economic research, as conducted +by the magnates of capital (banking) and the industries of +commodities (goods) and services, is the establishment of an economy +which is totally predictable and manipulatable.

+ +

In order to achieve a totally predictable economy, the low-class +elements of society must be brought under total control, i.e., must +be housebroken, trained, and assigned a yoke and long-term social +duties from a very early age, before they have an opportunity to +question the propriety of the matter. In order to achieve such +conformity, the lower-class family unit must be disintegrated by a +process of increasing preoccupation of the parents and the +establishment of government-operated day-care centers for the +occupationally orphaned children.

+ +

The quality of education given to the lower class must be of the +poorest sort, so that the moat of ignorance isolating the inferior +class from the superior class is and remains incomprehensible to the +inferior class. With such an initial handicap, even bright lower +class individuals have little if any hope of extricating themselves +from their assigned lot in life. This form of slavery is essential +to maintain some measure of social order, peace, and tranquillity +for the ruling upper class.

+ +

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+ +

DESCRIPTIVE INTRODUCTION OF THE SILENT WEAPON

+ +

Everything that is expected from an ordinary weapon is expected +from a silent weapon by its creators, but only in its own manner of +functioning.

+ +

It shoots situations, instead of bullets; propelled by data +processing, instead of chemical reaction (explosion); originating +from bits of data, instead of grains of gunpowder; from a computer, +instead of a gun; operated by a computer programmer, instead of a +marksman; under the orders of a banking magnate, instead of a +military general.

+ +

It makes no obvious explosive noises, causes no obvious physical +or mental injuries, and does not obviously interfere with anyone's +daily social life.

+ +

Yet it makes an unmistakable "noise," causes unmistakable +physical and mental damage, and unmistakably interferes with the +daily social life, i.e., unmistakable to a trained observer, one who +knows what to look for.

+ +

The public cannot comprehend this weapon, and therefore cannot +believe that they are being attacked and subdued by a weapon.

+ +

The public might instinctively feel that something is wrong, but +that is because of the technical nature of the silent weapon, they +cannot express their feeling in a rational way, or handle the +problem with intelligence. Therefore, they do not know how to cry +for help, and do not know how to associate with others to defend +themselves against it.

+ +

When a silent weapon is applied gradually, the public +adjusts/adapts to its presence and learns to tolerate its +encroachment on their lives until the pressure (psychological via +economic) becomes too great and they crack up.

+ +

Therefore, the silent weapon is a type of biological warfare. It +attacks the vitality, options, and mobility of the individuals of a +society by knowing, understanding, manipulating, and attacking their +sources of natural and social energy, and their physical, mental, +and emotional strengths and weaknesses.

+ +

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+ +

THEORETICAL INTRODUCTION

+ +

Give me control over a nation's currency, and I care not who +makes its laws.

+ +

Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743 - 1812)

+ +

Today's silent weapons technology is an outgrowth of a simple +idea discovered, succinctly expressed, and effectively applied by +the quoted Mr. Mayer Amschel Rothschild. Mr. Rothschild discovered +the missing passive component of economic theory known as economic +inductance. He, of course, did not think of his discovery in these +20th-century terms, and, to be sure, mathematical analysis had to +wait for the Second Industrial Revolution, the rise of the theory of +mechanics and electronics, and finally, the invention of the +electronic computer before it could be effectively applied in the +control of the world economy.

+ +

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+ +

GENERAL ENERGY CONCEPTS

+ +

In the study of energy systems, there always appears three +elementary concepts. These are potential energy, kinetic energy, and +energy dissipation. And corresponding to these concepts, there are +three idealized, essentially pure physical counterparts called +passive components.

+ +

(1) In the science of physical mechanics, the phenomenon of +potential energy is associated with a physical property called +elasticity or stiffness, and can be represented by a stretched +spring. In electronic science, potential energy is stored in a +capacitor instead of a spring. This property is called capacitance +instead of elasticity or stiffness.

+ +

(2) In the science of physical mechanics, the phenomenon of +kinetic energy is associated with a physical property called inertia +or mass, and can be represented by a mass or a flywheel in motion. +In electronic science, kinetic energy is stored in an inductor (in a +magnetic field) instead of a mass. This property is called +inductance instead of inertia.

+ +

(3)In the science of physical mechanics, the phenomenon of energy +dissipation is associated with a physical property called friction +or resistance, and can be represented by a dashpot or other device +which converts energy into heat. In electronic science, +dissipation of energy is performed by an element called either a +resistor or a conductor, the term "resistor" being the one +generally used to describe a more ideal device (e.g., wire) employed +to convey electronic energy efficiently from one location to +another. The property of a resistance or conductor is measured as +either resistance or conductance reciprocals.

+ +

In economics these three energy concepts are associated with: +Economic Capacitance - Capital (money, stock/inventory, investments +in buildings and durables, etc.) Economic Conductance - Goods +(production flow coefficients) Economic Inductance - Services +(the influence of the population of industry on output)

+ +

All of the mathematical theory developed in the study of one +energy system (e.g., mechanics, electronics, etc.) can be +immediately applied in the study of any other energy system (e.g., +economics).

+ +

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+ +

MR. ROTHSCHILD'S ENERGY DISCOVERY

+ +

What Mr. Rothschild had discovered was the basic principle of +power, influence, and control over people as applied to economics. +That principle is "when you assume the appearance of power, people +soon give it to you."

+ +

Mr. Rothschild had discovered that currency or deposit loan +accounts had the required appearance of power that could be used to +induce people (inductance, with people corresponding to a magnetic +field) into surrendering their real wealth in exchange for a promise +of greater wealth (instead of real compensation). They would put up +real collateral in exchange for a loan of promissory notes. Mr. +Rothschild found that he could issue more notes than he had backing +for, so long as he had someone's stock of gold as a persuader to +show his customers.

+ +

Mr. Rothschild loaned his promissory notes to individual and to +governments. These would create overconfidence. Then he would make +money scarce, tighten control of the system, and collect the +collateral through the obligation of contracts. The cycle was then +repeated. These pressures could be used to ignite a war. Then he +would control the availability of currency to determine who would +win the war. That government which agreed to give him control of its +economic system got his support.

+ +

Collection of debts was guaranteed by economic aid to the enemy +of the debtor. The profit derived from this economic methodology mad +Mr. Rothschild all the more able to expand his wealth. He found that +the public greed would allow currency to be printed by government +order beyond the limits (inflation) of backing in precious metal or +the production of goods and services.

+ +

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+ +

APPARENT CAPITAL AS "PAPER" INDUCTOR

+ +

In this structure, credit, presented as a pure element called +"currency," has the appearance of capital, but is in effect negative +capital. Hence, it has the appearance of service, but is in fact, +indebtedness or debt. It is therefore an economic inductance instead +of an economic capacitance, and if balanced in no other way, will be +balanced by the negation of population (war, genocide). The total +goods and services represent real capital called the gross national +product, and currency may be printed up to this level and still +represent economic capacitance; but currency printed beyond this +level is subtractive, represents the introduction of economic +inductance, and constitutes notes of indebtedness.

+ +

War is therefore the balancing of the system by killing the true +creditors (the public which we have taught to exchange true value +for inflated currency) and falling back on whatever is left of the +resources of nature and regeneration of those resources.

+ +

Mr. Rothschild had discovered that currency gave him the power to +rearrange the economic structure to his own advantage, to shift +economic inductance to those economic positions which would +encourage the greatest economic instability and oscillation.

+ +

The final key to economic control had to wait until there was +sufficient data and high-speed computing equipment to keep close +watch on the economic oscillations created by price shocking and +excess paper energy credits - paper inductance/inflation.

+ +

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+ +

BREAKTHROUGH

+ +

The aviation field provided the greatest evolution in economic +engineering by way of the mathematical theory of shock testing. In +this process, a projectile is fired from an airframe on the ground +and the impulse of the recoil is monitored by vibration transducers +connected to the airframe and wired to chart recorders.

+ +

By studying the echoes or reflections of the recoil impulse in +the airframe, it is possible to discover critical vibrations in the +structure of the airframe which either vibrations of the engine or +aeolian vibrations of the wings, or a combination of the two, might +reinforce resulting in a resonant self-destruction of the airframe +in flight as an aircraft. From the standpoint of engineering, this +means that the strengths and weaknesses of the structure of the +airframe in terms of vibrational energy can be discovered and +manipulated.

+ +

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+ +

APPLICATION IN ECONOMICS

+ +

To use this method of airframe shock testing in economic +engineering, the prices of commodities are shocked, and the public +consumer reaction is monitored. The resulting echoes of the economic +shock are interpreted theoretically by computers and the psycho-economic structure of the economy is thus discovered. It is by this +process that partial differential and difference matrices are +discovered that define the family household and make possible its +evaluation as an economic industry (dissipative consumer structure).

+ +

Then the response of the household to future shocks can be +predicted and manipulated, and society becomes a well-regulated +animal with its reins under the control of a sophisticated computer-regulated social energy bookkeeping system.

+ +

Eventually every individual element of the structure comes under +computer control through a knowledge of personal preferences, such +knowledge guaranteed by computer association of consumer preferences +(universal product code, UPC; zebra-striped pricing codes on +packages) with identified consumers (identified via association with +the use of a credit card and later a permanent "tattooed" body +number invisible under normal ambient illumination).

+ +

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+ +

THE ECONOMIC MODEL

+ +

The Harvard Economic Research Project (1948-) was an extension of +World War II Operations Research. Its purpose was to discover the +science of controlling an economy: at first the American economy, +and then the world economy. It was felt that with sufficient +mathematical foundation and data, it would be nearly as easy to +predict and control the trend of an economy as to predict and +control the trajectory of a projectile. Such has proven to be the +case. Moreover, the economy has been transformed into a guided +missile on target.

+ +

The immediate aim of the Harvard project was to discover the +economic structure, what forces change that structure, how the +behavior of the structure can be predicted, and how it can be +manipulated. What was needed was a well-organized knowledge of the +mathematical structures and interrelationships of investment, +production, distribution, and consumption.

+ +

To make a short story of it all, it was discovered that an +economy obeyed the same laws as electricity and that all of the +mathematical theory and practical and computer know-how developed +for the electronic field could be directly applied in the study of +economics. This discovery was not openly declared, and its more +subtle implications were and are kept a closely guarded secret, for +example that in an economic model, human life is measured in +dollars, and that the electric spark generated when opening a switch +connected to an active inductor is mathematically analogous to the +initiation of war.

+ +

The greatest hurdle which theoretical economists faced was the +accurate description of the household as an industry. This is a +challenge because consumer purchases are a matter of choice which in +turn is influenced by income, price, and other economic factors.

+ +

This hurdle was cleared in an indirect and statistically +approximate way by an application of shock testing to determine the +current characteristics, called current technical coefficients, of a +household industry

+ +

Finally, because problems in theoretical electronics can be +translated very easily into problems of theoretical electronics, and +the solution translated back again, it follows that only a book of +language translation and concept definition needed to be written for +economics. The remainder could be gotten from standard works on +mathematics and electronics. This makes the publication of books on +advanced economics unnecessary, and greatly simplifies project +security.

+ +

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+ +

INDUSTRIAL DIAGRAMS

+ +

An ideal industry is defined as a device which receives value +from other industries in several forms and converts them into one +specific product for sales and distribution to other industries. It +has several inputs and one output. What the public normally thinks +of as one industry is really an industrial complex, where several +industries under one roof produce one or more products . . .

+ +

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+ +

THREE INDUSTRIAL CLASSES

+ +

Industries fall into three categories or classes by type of +output: Class #1 - Capital (resources) Class #2 - Goods +(commodities or use - dissipative) Class #3 - Services (action of +population

+ +

Class #1 industries exist at three levels: (1) Nature - sources +of energy and raw materials. (2) Government - printing of currency +equal to the gross national product (GNP), and extension of currency +in excess of GNP. (3) Banking - loaning of money for interest, and +extension (inflation/counterfeiting) of economic value through the +deposit loan accounts.

+ +

Class #2 industries exist as producers of tangible or consumer +(dissipated) products. This sort of activity is usually recognized +and labeled by the public as "industry."

+ +

Class #3 industries are those which have service rather than a +tangible product as their output. These industries are called (1) +households, and (2) governments. Their output is human activity of a +mechanical sort, and their basis is population.

+ +

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+ +

AGGREGATION

+ +

The whole economic system can be represented by a three-industry +model if one allows the names of the outputs to be (1) capital, (2) +goods, and (3) services. The problem with this representation is +that it would not show the influence, say, the textile industry on +the ferrous metal industry. This is because both the textile +industry and the ferrous metal industry would be contained within a +single classification called the "goods industry" and by this +process of combining or aggregating these two industries under one +system block they would lose their economic individuality.

+ +

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+ +

THE E-MODEL

+ +

A national economy consists of simultaneous flows of production, +distribution, consumption, and investment. If all of these elements +including labor and human functions are assigned a numerical value +in like units of measure, say, 1939 dollars, then this flow can be +further represented by a current flow in an electronic circuit, and +its behavior can be predicted and manipulated with useful precision.

+ +

The three ideal passive energy components of electronics, the +capacitor, the resistor, and the inductor correspond to the three +ideal passive energy components of economics called the pure +industries of capital, goods, and services, respectively.

+ +

Economic capacitance represents the storage of capital in one +form or another.

+ +

Economic conductance represents the level of conductance of +materials for the production of goods.

+ +

Economic inductance represents the inertia of economic value in +motion. This is a population phenomenon known as services.

+ +

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+ +

ECONOMIC INDUCTANCE

+ +

An electrical inductor (e.g., a coil or wire) has an electric +current as its primary phenomenon and a magnetic field as its +secondary phenomenon (inertia). Corresponding to this, an economic +inductor has a flow of economic value as its primary phenomenon and +a population field as its secondary field phenomenon of inertia. +When the flow of economic value (e.g., money) diminishes, the human +population field collapses in order to keep the economic value +(money) flowing (extreme case - war).

+ +

This public inertia is a result of consumer buying habits, +expected standard of living, etc., and is generally a phenomenon of +self-preservation.

+ +

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+ +

INDUCTIVE FACTORS TO CONSIDER

+ +

(1) Population (2) Magnitude of the economic activities of the +government (3) The method of financing these government activities +(See Peter-Paul Principle - inflation of the currency.)

+ +

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+ +

TRANSLATION

+ +

(a few examples will be given.)

+ +

Charge - coulombs - dollars (1939). Flow/Current - amperes +(coulombs per second) - dollars of flow per year. Motivating +Force - volts - dollars (output) demand. Conductance - amperes +per volt - dollars of flow per year per dollar demand. +Capacitance - coulombs per volt - dollars of production +inventory/stock per dollar demand.

+ +

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+ +

TIME FLOW RELATIONSHIPS AND SELF-DESTRUCTIVE OSCILLATIONS

+ +

An ideal industry may be symbolized electronically in various +ways. The simplest way is to represent a demand by a voltage and a +supply by a current. When this is done, the relationship between the +two becomes what is called an admittance, which can result from +three economic factors: (1)hindsight flow, (2) present flow, and (3) +foresight flow.

+ +

Foresight flow is the result of that property of living entities +to cause energy (food) to be stored for a period of low energy +(e.g., a winter season). It consists of demands made upon an +economic system for that period of low energy (winter season).

+ +

In a production industry it takes several forms, one of which is +known as production stock or inventory. In electronic symbology this +specific industry demand (a pure capital industry) is represented by +capacitance and the stock or resource is represented by a stored +charge. Satisfaction of an industry demand suffers a lag because of +the loading effect of inventory priorities.

+ +

Present flow ideally involves no delays. It is, so to speak, +input today for output today, a "hand to mouth" flow. In electronic +symbology, this specific industry demand (a pure us industry) is +represented by a conductance which is then a simple economic valve +(a dissipative element).

+ +

Hindsight flow is known as habit or inertia. In electronics this +phenomenon is the characteristic of an inductor (economic analog = a +pure service industry) in which a current flow (economic analog = +flow of money) creates a magnetic field (economic analog = active +human population) which, if the current (money flow) begins to +diminish, collapse (war) to maintain the current (flow of money - +energy).

+ +

Other large alternatives to war as economic inductors or economic +flywheels are an open-ended social welfare program, or an enormous +(but fruitful) open-ended space program.

+ +

The problem with stabilizing the economic system is that there is +too much demand on account of (1) too much greed and (2) too much +population.

+ +

This creates excessive economic inductance which can only be +balanced with economic capacitance (true resources or value - e.g., +in goods or services).

+ +

The social welfare program is nothing more than an open-ended +credit balance system which creates a false capital industry to give +nonproductive people a roof over their heads and food in their +stomachs. This can be useful, however, because the recipients become +state property in return for the "gift," a standing army for the +elite. For he who pays the piper picks the tune.

+ +

Those who get hooked on the economic drug, must go to the elite +for a fix. In this, the method of introducing large amounts of +stabilizing capacitance is by borrowing on the future "credit" of +the world. This is a fourth law of motion - onset, and consists of +performing an action and leaving the system before the reflected +reaction returns to the point of action - a delayed reaction.

+ +

The means of surviving the reaction is by changing the system +before the reaction can return. By this means, politicians become +more popular in their own time and the public pays later. In fact, +the measure of such a politician is the delay time.

+ +

The same thing is achieved by a government by printing money +beyond the limit of the gross national product, and economic process +called inflation. This puts a large quantity of money into the hands +of the public and maintains a balance against their greed, creates a +false self-confidence in them and, for awhile, stays the wolf from +the door.

+ +

They must eventually resort to war to balance the account, +because war ultimately is merely the act of destroying the creditor, +and the politicians are the publicly hired hit men that justify the +act to keep the responsibility and blood off the public conscience. +(See section on consent factors and social-economic structuring.)

+ +

If the people really cared about their fellow man, they would +control their appetites (greed, procreation, etc.) so that they +would not have to operate on a credit or welfare social system which +steals from the worker to satisfy the bum.

+ +

Since most of the general public will not exercise restraint, +there are only two alternatives to reduce the economic inductance of +the system.

+ +

(1) Let the populace bludgeon each other to death in war, which +will only result in a total destruction of the living earth.

+ +

(2) Take control of the world by the use of economic "silent +weapons" in a form of "quiet warfare" and reduce the economic +inductance of the world to a safe level by a process of benevolent +slavery and genocide.

+ +

The latter option has been taken as the obviously better option. +At this point it should be crystal clear to the reader why absolute +secrecy about the silent weapons is necessary. The general public +refuses to improve its own mentality and its faith in its fellow +man. It has become a herd of proliferating barbarians, and, so to +speak, a blight upon the face of the earth.

+ +

They do not care enough about economic science to learn why they +have not been able to avoid war despite religious morality, and +their religious or self-gratifying refusal to deal with earthly +problems renders the solution of the earthly problem unreachable to +them.

+ +

It is left to those few who are truly willing to think and +survive as the fittest to survive, to solve the problem for +themselves as the few who really care. Otherwise, exposure of the +silent weapon would destroy our only hope of preserving the seed of +the future true humanity...

+ +

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+ +

THE HOUSEHOLD INDUSTRY

+ +

The industries of finance (banking), manufacturing, and +government, real counterparts of the pure industries of capital, +goods, and services, are easily defined because they are generally +logically structured. Because of this their processes can be +described mathematically and their technical coefficients can be +easily deduced. This, however, is not the case with the service +industry known as the household industry.

+ +

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+ +

HOUSEHOLD MODELS

+ +

...The problem which a theoretical economist faces is that the +consumer preferences of any household is not easily predictable and +the technical coefficients of any one household tend to be a +nonlinear, very complex, and variable function of income, prices, +etc.

+ +

Computer information derived from the use of the universal +product code in conjuction with credit-card purchase as an +individual household identifier could change this state of affairs, +but the U.P.C. method is not yet available on a national or even a +significant regional scale. To compensate for this data deficiency, +an alternate indirect approach of analysis has been adopted known as +economic shock testing. This method, widely used in the aircraft +manufacturing industry, develops an aggregate statistical sort of +data.

+ +

Applied to economics, this means that all of the households in +one region or in the whole nation are studied as a group or class +rather than individually, and the mass behavior rather than the +individual behavior is used to discover useful estimates of the +technical coefficients governing the economic structure of the +hypothetical single-household industry...

+ +

One method of evaluating the technical coefficients of the +household industry depends upon shocking the prices of a commodity +and noting the changes in the sales of all of the commodities.

+ +

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+ +

ECONOMIC SHOCK TESTING

+ +

In recent times, the application of Operations Research to the +study of the public economy has been obvious for anyone who +understands the principles of shock testing.

+ +

In the shock testing of an aircraft airframe, the recoil impulse +of firing a gun mounted on that airframe causes shock waves in that +structure which tell aviation engineers the conditions under which +some parts of the airplane or the whole airplane or its wings will +start to vibrate or flutter like a guitar string, a flute reed, or a +tuning fork, and disintegrate or fall apart in flight.

+ +

Economic engineers achieve the same result in studying the +behavior of the economy and the consumer public by carefully +selecting a staple commodity such as beef, coffee, gasoline, or +sugar, and then causing a sudden change or shock in its price or +availability, thus kicking everybody's budget and buying habits out +of shape.

+ +

They then observe the shock waves which result by monitoring the +changes in advertising, prices, and sales of that and other +commodities.

+ +

The objective of such studies is to acquire the know-how to set +the public economy into a predictable state of motion or change, +even a controlled self-destructive state of motion which will +convince the public that certain "expert" people should take control +of the money system and reestablish security (rather than liberty +and justice) for all. When the subject citizens are rendered unable +to control their financial affairs, they, of course, become totally +enslaved, a source of cheap labor.

+ +

Not only the prices of commodities, but also the availability of +labor can be used as the means of shock testing. Labor strikes +deliver excellent tests shocks to an economy, especially in the +critical service areas of trucking (transportation), communication, +public utilities (energy, water, garbage collection), etc.

+ +

By shock testing, it is found that there is a direct relationship +between the availability of money flowing in an economy and the real +psychological outlook and response of masses of people dependent +upon that availability.

+ +

For example, there is a measurable quantitative relationship +between the price of gasoline and the probability that a person +would experience a headache, feel a need to watch a violent movie, +smoke a cigarette, or go to a tavern for a mug of beer.

+ +

It is most interesting that, by observing and measuring the +economic models by which the public tries to run from their problems +and escape from reality, and by applying the mathematical theory of +Operations Research, it is possible to program computers to predict +the most probable combination of created events (shocks) which will +bring about a complete control and subjugation of the public through +a subversion of the public economy (by shaking the plum tree)...

+ +

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+ +

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMIC AMPLIFIERS

+ +

Economic amplifiers are the active components of economic +engineering. The basic characteristic of any amplifier (mechanical, +electrical, or economic) is that it receives an input control signal +and delivers energy from an independent energy source to a specified +output terminal in a predictable relationship to that input control +signal.

+ +

The simplest form of an economic amplifier is a device called +advertising.

+ +

If a person is spoken to by a T.V. advertiser as if he were a +twelve-year-old, then, due to suggestibility, he will, with a +certain probability, respond or react to that suggestion with the +uncritical response of a twelve-year-old and will reach into his +economic reservoir and deliver its energy to but that product on +impulse when he passes it in the store.

+ +

An economic amplifier may have several inputs and output. Its +response might be instantaneous or delayed. Its circuit symbol might +be a rotary switch if its options are exclusive, qualitative, "go" +or "no-go", or it might have its parametric input/output +relationships specified by a matrix with internal energy sources +represented.

+ +

Whatever its form might be, its purpose is to govern the flow of +energy from a source to an output sink in direct relationship to an +input control signal. For this reason, it is called an active +circuit element or component.

+ +

Economic Amplifiers fall into classes called strategies, and, in +comparison with electronic amplifiers, the specific internal +functions of an economic amplifier are called logistical instead of +electrical.

+ +

Therefore, economic amplifiers not only deliver power gain but +also, in effect, are used to cause changes in the economic +circuitry.

+ +

In the design of an economic amplifier we must have some idea of +at least five functions ,which are

+ +

(1) the available input signals, (2) the desired output-control +objectives, (3) the strategic objective, (4) the available economic +power sources, (5) the logistical options.

+ +

The process of defining and evaluating these factors and +incorporating the economic amplifier into an economic system has +been popularly called game theory.

+ +

The design of an economic amplifier begins with a specification +of the power level of the output, which can range from personal to +national. The second condition is accuracy of response, i.e., how +accurately the output action is a function of the input commands. +High gain combined with strong feedback helps to deliver the +required precision.

+ +

Most of the error will be in the input data signal. Personal +input data tends to be specified, while national input data tends to +be statistical.

+ +

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+ +

SHORT LIST OF INPUTS

+ +

Questions to be answered: (1) what (2) when (3) where (4) how (5) +why (6) who

+ +

General sources of information: (1) telephone taps (2) surveillance +(3) analysis of garbage (4) behavior of children in school

+ +

Standard of living by: (1) food (2) clothing (3) shelter (4) +transportation

+ +

Social contacts: (1) telephone - itemized record of calls (2) family +- marriage certificates, birth certificates, etc. (3) friends, +associates, etc. (4) memberships in organizations (5) political +affiliation

+ +

THE PERSONAL PAPER TRAIL

+ +

Personal buying habits, i.e., personal consumer preferences: (1) +checking accounts (2) credit-card purchases (3) "tagged" credit-card +purchases - the credit-card purchase of products bearing the U.P.C. +(Universal Product Code)

+ +

Assets: (1) checking accounts (2) savings accounts (3) real estate +(4) business (5) automobiles, etc. (6) safety deposit at bank (7) +stock market

+ +

Liabilities: (1) creditors (2) enemies (see - legal) (3) loans (4) +consumer credit

+ +

Government sources (ploys)*: (1) Welfare (2) Social Security (3) +U.S.D.A. surplus food (4) doles (5) grants (6) subsidies *Principle +of this ploy - the citizen will almost always make the collection of +information easy if he can operate on the "free sandwich principle" +of "eat now, and pay later."

+ +

Government sources (via intimidation): (1) Internal Revenue Service +(2) OSHA (3) Census (4) etc.

+ +

Other government sources - surveillance of U.S. mail.

+ +

HABIT PATTERNS - PROGRAMMING

+ +

Strengths and weaknesses: (1) activities (sports, hobbies, etc.) (2) +see "legal" (fear, anger, etc. - crime record) (3) hospital records +(drug sensitivities, reaction to pain, etc.) (4) psychiatric records +(fears, angers, disgusts, adaptability, reactions to stimuli, +violence, suggestibility or hypnosis, pain, pleasure, love, and sex)

+ +

Methods of coping - of adaptability - behavior: (1) consumption of +alcohol (2) consumption of drugs (3) entertainment (4) religious +factors influencing behavior (5) other methods of escaping from +reality

+ +

Payment modus operandi (MO) - pay on time, etc.: (1) payment of +telephone bills (2) energy purchases (electrical, gas,...) (3) water +purchases (4) repayment of loans (5) house payments (6) automobile +payments (7) payments on credit cards

+ +

Political sensitivity: (1) beliefs (2) contacts (3) position (4) +strengths/weaknesses (5) projects/activities

+ +

Legal inputs - behavioral control (Excuses for investigation, +search, arrest, or employment of force to modify behavior): (1) +court records (2) police records - NCIC (3) driving record (4) +reports made to police (5) insurance information (6) anti-establishment acquaintances

+ +

NATIONAL INPUT INFORMATION

+ +

Business sources (via I.R.S., etc.): (1) prices of commodities (2) +sales (3) investments in (a) stocks/inventory (b) production +tools and machinery (c) buildings and improvements (d) the +stock market

+ +

Banks and credit bureaus: (1) credit information (2) payment +information

+ +

Miscellaneous sources: (1) polls and surveys (2) publications (3) +telephone records (4) energy and utility purchases

+ +

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+ +

SHORT LIST OF INPUTS

+ +

Outputs - create controlled situations - manipulation of the +economy, hence society - control of compensation and income. +Sequence: (1) allocates opportunities. (2) destroys opportunities. +(3) controls the economic environment. (4) controls the availability +of raw materials. (5) controls capital. (6) controls bank rates. (7) +controls the inflation of the currency. (8) controls the possession +of property. (9) controls industrial capacity. (10) controls +manufacturing. (11) controls the availability of goods +(commodities). (12) controls the prices of commodities. (13) +controls services, the labor force, etc. (14) controls payments to +government officials (15) controls the legal functions. (16) +controls the personal data files - uncorrectable by the party +slandered. (17) controls advertising. (18) controls media contact. +(19) controls material available for T.V. viewing. (20) disengages +attention from real issues. (21) engages emotions. (22) creates +disorder, chaos, and insanity. (23) controls design of more probing +tax forms. (24) controls surveillance. (25) controls the storage of +information. (26) develops psychological analyses and profiles of +individuals. (27) controls legal functions [repeat of 15] (28) +controls sociological factors. (29) controls health options. (30) +preys on weakness. (31) cripples strengths. (32) leaches wealth and +substance.

+ +

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+ +

TABLE OF STRATEGIES

+ +

Do +this...................... +.......................To get +this Keep the public +ignorant........................ +.......Less public organization Maintain access +control......................Recquired +reaction to output (prices, sales) Create +preoccupation................... +.................Lower defenses Attack +the family +unit...................... +.Control of the education of the young Give less cash and more +credit and doles.............More self-indulgence and more data Attack the privacy of the +church.................Destroy faith +in this sort of government Social +conformity...................... +......Computer programming simplicity Minimize the +tax protest...........Maximum economic data, +minimum enforcement problems Stabilize the +consent......................... +............Simplicity coefficients Tighten +control of variables............Simpler +computer input data - greater predictability Establish boundary +conditions.......Problem simplicity / solutions of differential and +difference equations Proper +timing.......................... +.............Less data shift and blurring +Maximize +control......................... +.........Minimum resistance to control Collapse of +currency................Destroy the faith of +the American people in each other.

+ +

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+ +

DIVERSION, THE PRIMARY STRATEGY

+ +

Experience has prevent that the simplest method of securing a +silent weapon and gaining control of the public is to keep the +public undisciplined and ignorant of the basic system principles on +the one hand, while keeping them confused, disorganized, and +distracted with matters of no real importance on the other hand.

+ +

This is achieved by:

+ +

(1) disengaging their minds; sabotaging their mental activities; +providing a low-quality program of public education in mathematics, +logic, systems design and economics; and discouraging technical +creativity.

+ +

(2) engaging their emotions, increasing their self-indulgence and +their indulgence in emotional and physical activities, by:

+ +

(a) unrelenting emotional affrontations and attacks (mental and +emotional rape) by way of constant barrage of sex, violence, +and wars in the media - especially the T.V. and the newspapers. +(b) giving them what they desire - in excess - "junk food for +thought" - and depriving them of what they really need.

+ +

(3) rewriting history and law and subjecting the public to the +deviant creation, thus being able to shift their thinking from +personal needs to highly fabricated outside priorities.

+ +

These preclude their interest in and discovery of the silent +weapons of social automation technology.

+ +

The general rule is that there is a profit in confusion; the more +confusion, the more profit. Therefore, the best approach is to +create problems and then offer solutions.

+ +

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+ +

DIVERSION SUMMARY

+ +

Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the +real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance.

+ +

Schools: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real +economics, real law, and real history.

+ +

Entertainment: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth-grade +level.

+ +

Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; +back on the farm with the other animals.

+ +

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+ +

CONSENT, THE PRIMARY VICTORY

+ +

A silent weapon system operates upon data obtained from a docile +public by legal (but not always lawful) force. Much information is +made available to silent weapon systems programmers through the +Internal Revenue Service. (See Studies in the Structure of the +American Economy for an I.R.S. source list.)

+ +

This information consists of the enforced delivery of well-organized data contained in federal and state tax forms, collected, +assembled, and submitted by slave labor provided by taxpayers and +employers.

+ +

Furthermore, the number of such forms submitted to the I.R.S. is +a useful indicator of public consent, an important factor in +strategic decision making. Other data sources are given in the Short +List of Inputs.

+ +

Consent Coefficients - numerical feedback indicating victory +status. Psychological basis: When the government is able to collect +tax and seize private property without just compensation, it is an +indication that the public is ripe for surrender and is consenting +to enslavement and legal encroachment. A good and easily quantified +indicator of harvest time is the number of public citizens who pay +income tax despite an obvious lack of reciprocal or honest service +from the government.

+ +

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+ +

AMPLIFICATION ENERGY SOURCES

+ +

The next step in the process of designing an economic amplifier +is discovering the energy sources. The energy sources which support +any primitive economic system are, of course, a supply of raw +materials, and the consent of the people to labor and consequently +assume a certain rank, position, level, or class in the social +structure, i.e., to provide labor at various levels in the pecking +order.

+ +

Each class, in guaranteeing its own level of income, controls the +class immediately below it, hence preserves the class structure. +This provides stability and security, but also government from the +top.

+ +

As time goes on and communication and education improve, the +lower-class elements of the social labor structure become +knowledgeable and envious of the good things that the upper-class +members have. They also begin to attain a knowledge of energy +systems and the ability to enforce their rise through the class +structure.

+ +

This threatens the sovereignty of the elite.

+ +

If this rise of the lower classes can be postponed long enough, +the elite can achieve energy dominance, and labor by consent no +longer will hold a position of an essential energy source.

+ +

Until such energy dominance is absolutely established, the +consent of people to labor and let others handle their affairs must +be taken into consideration, since failure to do so could cause the +people to interfere in the final transfer of energy sources to the +control of the elite.

+ +

It is essential to recognize that at this time, public consent is +still an essential key to the release of energy in the process of +economic amplification.

+ +

Therefore, consent as an energy release mechanism will now be +considered.

+ +

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+ +

LOGISTICS

+ +

The successful application of a strategy requires a careful study +of inputs, outputs, the strategy connecting the inputs and the +outputs, and the available energy sources to fuel the strategy. This +study is called logistics.

+ +

A logistical problem is studied at the elementary level first, +and then levels of greater complexity are studied as a synthesis of +elementary factors.

+ +

This means that a given system is analyzed, i.e., broken down +into its subsystems, and these in turn are analyzed, until by this +process, one arrives at the logistical "atom," the individual.

+ +

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+ +

THE ARTIFICIAL WOMB

+ +

From the time a person leaves its mother's womb, its every effort +is directed towards building, maintaining, and withdrawing into +artificial wombs, various sorts of substitute protective devices or +shells.

+ +

The objective of these artificial wombs is to provide a stable +environment for both stable and unstable activity; to provide a +shelter for the evolutionary processes of growth and maturity - +i.e., survival; to provide security for freedom and to provide +defensive protection for offensive activity.

+ +

This is equally true of both the general public and the elite. +However, there is a definite difference in the way each of these +classes go about the solution of problems.

+ +

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+ +

THE POLITICAL STRUCTURE OF A NATION - DEPENDENCY

+ +

The primary reason why the individual citizens of a country +create a political structure is a subconscious wish or desire to +perpetuate their own dependency relationship of childhood. Simply +put, they want a human god to eliminate all risk from their life, +pat them on the head, kiss their bruises, put a chicken on every +dinner table, clothe their bodies, tuck them into bed at night, and +tell them that everything will be alright when they wake up in the +morning.

+ +

This public demand is incredible, so the human god, the +politician, meets incredibility with incredibility by promising the +world and delivering nothing. So who is the bigger liar? the public? +or the "godfather"?

+ +

This public behavior is surrender born of fear, laziness, and +expediency. It is the basis of the welfare state as a strategic +weapon, useful against a disgusting public.

+ +

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+ +

ACTION/OFFENSE

+ +

Most people want to be able to subdue and/or kill other human +beings which disturb their daily lives, but they do not want to have +to cope with the moral and religious issues which such an overt act +on their part might raise. Therefore, they assign the dirty work to +others (including their own children) so as to keep the blood off +their hands. They rave about the humane treatment of animals and +then sit down to a delicious hamburger from a whitewashed +slaughterhouse down the street and out of sight. But even more +hypocritical, they pay taxes to finance a professional association +of hit men collectively called politicians, and then complain about +corruption in government.

+ +

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+ +

RESPONSIBILITY

+ +

Again, most people want to be free to do the things (to explore, +etc.) but they are afraid to fail.

+ +

The fear of failure is manifested in irresponsibility, and +especially in delegating those personal responsibilities to others +where success is uncertain or carries possible or created +liabilities (law) which the person is not prepared to accept. They +want authority (root word - "author"), but they will not accept +responsibility or liability. So they hire politicians to face +reality for them.

+ +

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+ +

SUMMARY

+ +

The people hire the politicians so that the people can: (1) +obtain security without managing it. (2) obtain action without +thinking about it. (3) inflict theft, injury, and death upon +others without having to contemplate either life or death. (4) +avoid responsibility for their own intentions. (5) obtain the +benefits of reality and science without exerting themselves in the +discipline of facing or learning either of these things.

+ +

They give the politicians the power to create and manage a war +machine: (1) provide for the survival of the nation/womb. (2) +prevent encroachment of anything upon the nation/womb. (3) +destroy the enemy who threatens the nation/womb. (4) destroy +those citizens of their own country who do not conform for the sake +of stability of the nation/womb.

+ +

Politicians hold many quasi-military jobs, the lowest being the +police which are soldiers, the attorneys and C.P.A.s next who are +spies and saboteurs (licensed), and the judges who shout orders and +run the closed union military shop for whatever the market will +bear. The generals are industrialists. The "presidential" level of +commander-in-chief is shared by the international bankers. The +people know that they have created this farce and financed it with +their own taxes (consent), but they would rather knuckle under than +be the hypocrite.

+ +

Thus, a nation becomes divided into two very distinct parts, a +docile sub-nation [great silent majority] and a political subnation. The political sub-nation remains attached to the docile subnation, tolerates it, and leaches its substance until it grows +strong enough to detach itself and then devour its parent.

+ +

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+ +

SYSTEM ANALYSIS

+ +

In order to make meaningful computerized economic decisions about +war, the primary economic flywheel, it is necessary to assign +concrete logistical values to each element of the war structure - +personnel and material alike.

+ +

This process begins with a clear and candid description of the +subsystems of such a structure.

+ +

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+ +

THE DRAFT

+ +

(As military service)

+ +

Few efforts of human behavior modification are more remarkable or +more effective than that of the socio-military institution known as +the draft. A primary purpose of a draft or other such institution is +to instill, by intimidation, in the young males of a society the +uncritical conviction that the government is omnipotent. He is soon +taught that a prayer is slow to reverse what a bullet can do in an +instant. Thus, a man trained in a religious environment for eighteen +years of his life can, by this instrument of the government, be +broken down, be purged of his fantasies and delusions in a matter of +mere months. Once that conviction is instilled, all else becomes +easy to instill.

+ +

Even more interesting is the process by which a young man's +parents, who purportedly love him, can be induced to send him off to +war to his death. Although the scope of this work will not allow +this matter to be expanded in full detail, nevertheless, a coarse +overview will be possible and can serve to reveal those factors +which must be included in some numerical form in a computer analysis +of social and war systems.

+ +

We begin with a tentative definition of the draft. The draft +(selective service, etc.) is an institution of compulsory collective +sacrifice and slavery, devised by the middle-aged and elderly for +the purpose of pressing the young into doing the public dirty work. +It further serves to make the youth as guilty as the elders, thus +making criticism of the elders by the youth less likely +(Generational Stabilizer). It is marketed and and sold to the public +under the label of "patriotic = national" service.

+ +

Once a candid economic definition of the draft is achieved, that +definition is used to outline the boundaries of a structure called a +Human Value System, which in turn is translated into the terms of +game theory. The value of such a slave laborer is given in a Table +of Human Values, a table broken down into categories by intellect, +experience, post-service job demand, etc.

+ +

Some of these categories are ordinary and can be tentatively +evaluated in terms of the value of certain jobs for which a known +fee exists. Some jobs are harder to value because they are unique to +the demands of social subversion, for an extreme example: the value +of a mother's instruction to her daughter, causing that daughter to +put certain behavioral demands upon a future husband ten or fifteen +years hence; thus, by suppressing his resistance to a perversion of +a government, making it easier for a banking cartel to buy the State +of New York in, say, twenty years.

+ +

Such a problem leans heavily upon the observations and data of +wartime espionage and many types of psychological testing. But crude +mathematical models (algorithms, etc.) can be devised, if not to +predict, at least to predeterminate these events with maximum +certainty. What does not exist by natural cooperation is thus +enhanced by calculated compulsion. Human beings are machines, levers +which may be grasped and turned, and there is little real difference +between automating a society and automating a shoe factory.

+ +

These derived values are variable. (It is necessary to use a +current Table of Human Values for computer analysis.) These values +are given in true measure rather than U.S. dollars, since the latter +is unstable, being presently inflated beyond the production of +national goods and services so as to give the economy a false +kinetic energy ("paper" inductance).

+ +

The silver value is stable, it being possible to buy the same +amount with a gram of silver today as it could be bought in 1920. +Human value measured in silver units changes slightly due to changes +in production technology.

+ +

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+ +

ENFORCEMENT

+ +

FACTOR I

+ +

As in every social system approach, stability is achieved only by +understanding and accounting for human nature (action/reaction +patterns). A failure to do so can be, and usually is, disastrous. +As in other human social schemes, one form or another of +intimidation (or incentive) is essential to the success of the +draft. Physical principles of action and reaction must be applied to +both internal and external subsystems. To secure the draft, +individual brainwashing/programming and both the family unit and the +peer group must be engaged and brought under control.

+ +

FACTOR II - FATHER

+ +

The man of the household must be housebroken to ensure that +junior will grow up with the right social training and attitudes. +The advertising media, etc., are engaged to see to it that father-to-be is pussy-whipped before or by the time he is married. He is +taught that he either conforms to the social notch cut out for him +or his sex life will be hobbled and his tender companionship will be +zero. He is made to see that women demand security more than +logical, principled, or honorable behavior. By the time his son +must go to war, father (with jelly for a backbone) will slam a gun +into junior's hand before father will risk the censure of his peers, +or make a hypocrite of himself by crossing the investment he has in +his own personal opinion or self-esteem. Junior will go to war or +father will be embarrassed. So junior will go to war, the true +purpose not withstanding.

+ +

FACTOR III - MOTHER

+ +

The female element of human society is ruled by emotion first and +logic second. In the battle between logic and imagination, +imagination always wins, fantasy prevails, maternal instinct +dominates so that the child comes first and the future comes second. +A woman with a newborn baby is too starry-eyed to see a wealthy +man's cannon fodder or a cheap source of slave labor. A woman must, +however, be conditioned to accept the transition to "reality" when +it comes, or sooner. As the transition becomes more difficult to +manage, the family unit must be carefully disintegrated, and state-controlled public education and state-operated child-care centers +must be become more common and legally enforced so as to begin the +detachment of the child from the mother and father at an earlier +age. Inoculation of behavioral drugs [Ritalin] can speed the +transition for the child (mandatory). Caution: A woman's impulsive +anger can override her fear. An irate woman's power must never be +underestimated, and her power over a pussy-whipped husband must +likewise never be underestimated. It got women the vote in 1920.

+ +

FACTOR IV - JUNIOR

+ +

The emotional pressure for self-preservation during the time of +war and the self-serving attitude of the common herd that have an +option to avoid the battlefield - if junior can be persuaded to go - +is all of the pressure finally necessary to propel Johnny off to +war. Their quiet blackmailings of him are the threats: "No +sacrifice, no friends; no glory, no girlfriends."

+ +

FACTOR V - SISTER

+ +

And what about junior's sister? She is given all the good things +of life by her father, and taught to expect the same from her future +husband regardless of the price.

+ +

FACTOR VI - CATTLE

+ +

Those who will not use their brains are no better off than those +who have no brains, and so this mindless school of jelly-fish, +father, mother, son, and daughter, become useful beasts of burden or +trainers of the same. [ table of contents ]

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The History and Significance of the New World Order

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by Scott Spencer

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The author of this series, Scott Spencer, is a writer and researcher +who lives in Toronto, Canada.

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Introduction

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The concept and the reality of the New World Order are widely +misunderstood, even by most patriots; or perhaps I should +say, especially by most patriots. Some of this misunderstanding is +caused by the shortcomings of the patriots, but there is also +disinformation deliberately inserted by our enemies. We need an +accurate understanding of what -- and who -- we are +fighting to insure our victory.

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The self-styled "patriots," the coin-sellers and quack-cure salesmen, +if given the reins of power in the United States tomorrow morning, +would either be shot dead trying to flee the country, or would be +dancing to an internationalist Jewish tune by nightfall. Most of them +want only to hawk their questionable wares. Even if they know what the +New World Order really is, they would rather have their bank +statements published than oppose it.

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The Old World Order

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The United States is, itself, a product of the fall of the Old World +Order. The Old World Order, as far as government is concerned, was +comprised of the Christian monarchies which ruled by "divine right" +after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the sixth century. The +term "New World Order" pertained to an ideal world which was allegedly +to develop on the ashes of the Old Order after no powerful monarchs +ruled in Europe. The American Revolution was a relatively benign +manifestation of a revolutionary movement against that Old Order. This +movement bore its most bitter fruit in the 19th and 20th centuries. +This revolutionary movement, whatever its merits once were, has been +hijacked by the enemies of our race and nation.

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The increase of chaos in 19th century Europe, brought about by the +undermining of monarchies, was offset by the growth of national +consciousness among the peoples of Europe.

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The idea that the overthrow of a monarchy would always lead to +self-government of "the people" was transparently fraudulent. Powerful +Jews were often ideally positioned when the monarch fell. The Jews +were, then as now, a people unto themselves. They had their own +interests, and these interests were often antithetical to the +interests of the peoples among whom they lived.

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Self-government of a people leads to nationalism and a sensitivity to +alien control of government. Consequently there was a healthy, +although grossly inadequate, reaction against Jewish power. +Nationalism is inherently hostile toward organized Jewry, and +organized Jewry is inherently hostile toward nationalism.

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The French Revolution

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An early milestone of the New World Order was the French Revolution. +The French monarchy, and the causes of its downfall, have been widely +and deliberately misrepresented. The truth about the French monarchy +was stated by the Scottish philosopher David Hume in 1742:

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Though all kinds of government be improved in modern times, yet +monarchical government seems to have made the greatest advance to +perfection. It may now be affirmed of civilized monarchies, what +was formerly said of republics alone, that they are a government +of laws, not of men. They are susceptible of order, method, and +constancy, to a surprising degree. Property is there secure; +industry is encouraged; the arts flourish; and the prince lives +among his subjects like a father among his children.

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Hume added that he saw more "sources of degeneracy" in representative +republics like that of England than in France, which he called "the +most perfect model of pure monarchy."

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It is generally conceded that a conspiracy orchestrated the French +Revolution. The moderate members of the conspiracy, such as Lafayette, +were appalled at the outcome of the process they had helped to start. +Lafayette and many others had merely wanted to establish a +constitutional monarchy, but as in all revolutions, the moderates did +not determine the outcome.

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But in spite of any conspiracy, Louis XVI could not have been +overthrown unless he allowed himself to be overthrown.

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This may seem a peculiar thing to say, that Louis XVI allowed himself +to be overthrown, allowed his kingdom to be ruined, and subjected +himself and many others to the whim of filthy degenerates, but Louis +XVI was a liberal, much like the liberals we encounter today. He was +an enemy to his friends and a friend to his enemies. The entire French +Revolution could have been stifled on several occasions if only the +King had allowed his bodyguards and his troops to deal with the gangs +of hired ruffians in the manner they so richly deserved. But no, Louis +was a "humanitarian." In the Siege of the Tuileries the King's +own Swiss guards were brutally murdered simply because he had +forbidden them to raise their weapons, even in self-defense, against +those hired thugs whom the King naively regarded as "the people."

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Louis was not a congenitally stupid man, but from childhood his head +had been filled with wrong ideas, the same kind of wrong ideas which +public schools and the mass-media impress upon us and our children +today.

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The fate of Louis XVI should be a cautionary tale about the deadliness +of wrong ideas. Some wrong ideas, the "brotherhood of man," for +example, are highly infectious because they appeal to wishful +thinking; it is soothing and pleasant to think that violence, +conflict, and death are mere vestiges of an unenlightened past, and +that all unpleasantness can be avoided simply by being nice to +everyone. This mode of thinking is a deadly form of self-indulgence.

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Louis XVI had far more armed forces than were needed to crush the +Revolution, but he chose not to crush it. Over one million Frenchmen, +many of whom were the best in the nation, were murdered -- as a +consequence of his "humanitarianism."

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The Bolshevik Revolution

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Czarist Russia was naturally a prime target of Jewish malice and +defamation, since it was the last absolute monarchy in Europe. In +addition, the government of the Czar (Czar is the Russian equivalent +of Kaiser or Caesar), more than any other government, had taken steps +to protect its people from Jewish exploitation. The Japanese victory +over Czarist Russia in 1905 was the first great blow to the confidence +of the White world; it was brought about with the financial assistance +of Jewish bankers. Czarist Russia's defeat in 1905 was part of a long +pattern of events, including numerous assassinations, attempted +assassinations, and bombings. In the end there was the bloody ritual +murder of Czar Nicholas II and most of his family.

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It should be noted, however, that the Czar, like Louis XVI, +essentially permitted his own rule to be replaced. At first, it was +replaced by a republic. The republic was weak and dissolute and ended +up paving the way for a reign of terror. As in France, the better +racial elements were murdered.

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The preponderance of Jewish influence in the Bolshevik Revolution is +thoroughly documented. Additionally, Zionism played a part. Zionism +is, and was, an integral aspect of the largely Jewish New World Order. +Rabbi Moses Hess, one of the primary instigators of Zionism, was a +mentor of Karl Marx.

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The Destruction of Britain

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Zionism contributed to the destruction of Britain as a world power. +Zionism helped to dismantle the White-dominated world of our +grandfathers, ushering in the Jews' New World Order of multiracialism, +the absolute rule of money, and cultural chaos.

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In 1914 the greatest power in the White world was the British Empire. +After the First World War the alleged "victor," Great Britain, was a +second-rate power. After the Second World War, which Britain also +supposedly "won," she was a third-rate power and quickly stripped of +almost all her possessions. How was this great empire destroyed?

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As a consequence of the First World War, the international Jewish +bankers raked in a huge debt. Britain in particular was ruinously +indebted. Britain's plight would not have been so grievous had the +Jewish bankers not succeeded in prolonging the war by involving the +United States. Even Winston Churchill later stated that it would have +been better if the United States had stayed out of World War I.

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However, it was the moral weakness of Britain's leaders which allowed +Britain to suffer usury and to participate in that fratricidal war. +One can blame the people of Britain for having elected such leaders, +and it is the British people who have suffered because of it, but it +is an inherent feature of every democratic republic that the people +can only vote on the basis of information the controlled media give +them. It is only in retrospect that a voter can know whether he has +made a mistake. Britain has gone to its ruin quietly and obediently, +lacking a national leadership with the will to preserve the nation.

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The First World War

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The American people have likewise been saddled with treacherous +leadership. Neither of the World Wars, and perhaps no foreign war in +this century, has served the interests of the American people.

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Jewish bankers, many of whom were influential Zionists, extorted the +Balfour Declaration from Britain. Organized Jewry promised Britain to +bring the United States into the war against Germany if, after the +war, they would be given Palestine. How were the Jews able to bring +the United States into the war? Firstly, even at that time, they owned +many newspapers in the United States which they used for pro-war +propaganda. And secondly, through Woodrow Wilson. Wilson was a +weak-willed and self-indulgent man. He was the first U.S. president to +be surrounded by Jewish "advisors" and to be thoroughly beholden to +Jewish interests.

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The German Kaiser, William II, had been a great friend of the Jews and +had many Jews in his government. Jewish gratitude manifested itself +just as it always has historically -- as a stab in the back. Germany +was deserted by World Jewry the moment Britain offered the Jews a +sweeter deal: the Balfour Declaration.

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The "war to make the world safe for democracy," as it was called, was +the first war explicitly propagandized as a struggle for a New World +Order. In November 1918, on the eve of the German surrender, the +"League to Enforce Peace" published a pamphlet entitled The +Foundations of a New World Order. The nominal president of the League +was former U.S. President William Howard Taft. Evidence suggests the +"League to Enforce Peace" was largely a Jewish creation. And its +Orwellian-sounding title carries the mark of one of their operations.

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The New World Order and Egalitarianism

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World War I was the first of the many wars in which young White men +were required to shed their blood and end their lives, not to defend +their borders from invaders, not to gain an increase in the territory +controlled by their people, and not even to enrich their national +treasury, but for abstract and allegedly "moral" purposes crafted to +increase the suckers' enthusiasm for slaughter. Thus, we had the war +"to end war" or the war "to make the world safe for democracy." In +recent times we have had a war to "restore democracy" in Kuwait and +U.S. intervention to "restore democracy" to Haiti. The pattern was set +in 1917.

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The Pyrrhic victors of the First World War could not disregard the +egalitarian New World Order propaganda which they had spouted. Lothrop +Stoddard, a widely read political and social commentator in the +post-war period, wrote in The Rising Tide of Color in 1920:

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During the war years the allied statesmen had officially +proclaimed times without number that the war was being fought to +establish a new world order based on such principles as the +rights of small nations, and the liberty of all peoples. These +pronouncements had been treasured and memorized throughout the +East. When, therefore, the East saw a peace settlement based, +not upon those high professions, but upon the imperialistic +secret treaties, it was fired with a moral indignation and sense +of outraged justice never known before.

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The European powers, while they displayed an unlimited capacity for +treachery toward defeated Germany, whose people were certainly not +granted self-determination, did abide by their foolish feel-good +propaganda of a "New World Order" when it came to the non-White world. +Unrest by non-Whites in British and French colonies was met with +concessions, and the European empires were gradually dissolved.

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It is ironic that Britain was a leading promoter of the League of +Nations and the New World Order; it perhaps lost more than +any other nation because of it. It seems less ironic if one considers +that British foreign policy was under the control of Jewish +bankers, who did not give a hoot about Britain's destiny. Once the +Britons had developed and pacified the dark continent +sufficiently for safe operation of Jewish-owned gold, copper, and +diamond mines, they were disposable. Beyond this +trail-blazing function, all those White colonists were just in the +way. And the destruction of White political power in Africa +was an explicit part of the New World Order agenda.

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A collection of essays entitled "The New World Order" was published by +Oxford University Press in 1932. In the essay entitled Race Problems +in Industry and Culture, F. S. Marvin states:

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Until South Africa can not only contemplate, but insist on +having, a Bantu as one of its delegation to Geneva, it has not +recognized the principle.

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Marvin also advocated the admission of the non-White hordes into White +homelands. He wrote:

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But there does exist a teeming population in Japan, pressing for +outlets, and hundreds of millions of Chinese . . . . India, too, +constantly increases her needy but industrious and +naturally skillful peasantry. Meanwhile the white man in +Australia, South Africa, and on the Pacific Coast [of the United +States] is maintaining in his own supposed interest the strictest +exclusion that he can arrange against the settlement of these +people in lands which he controls, and they could happily and +profitably inhabit. It is a policy untenable in the long run, +condemned alike by considerations of industry, biology, and +humanity. Let us be thankful that a League of Nations stands in +the breach, not yet to take active steps, for other more urgent +tasks are at hand, but to keep steadily before the +eyes of all parties the hopes and duties of cooperating mankind.

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F.S. Marvin was a professor of history and a member of the Royal +Historical Society. It is absolutely terrifying that there have been, +and are, men who hold positions of respect who speak such idiocy. +Similarly, in more recent times, the Queen of England, in her +Christmas address of 1994, praised the recent introduction of +"democracy" to South Africa. F.S. Marvin's prescription was a +toned-down version of the tirades of lunatic abolitionists one hundred +years earlier. They said the same things because they suffered from +the same syndrome: sadomasochistic race-treason clothed in the +sanctimonious pretension of Judaic otherworldliness.

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The conspiracy theorists who make so much noise about Cecil Rhodes and +say the New World Order is a British conspiracy are trafficking +information that is not only incomplete and misleading, but grossly +out of date. One of these groups is the Lyndon Larouche organization +whose leading figures appear to be mostly Jews. Similarly, it is a lie +that the New World Order -- even Communism -- is a "Russian" +phenomena. The biggest lie, however, is that the New World Order is +some sort of German or "Nazi" plot. It is primarily Jewish in origin. +"Patriots" who tell you otherwise are ill-informed or liars.

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Hitler's New European Order

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Perhaps the biggest lie on the God, country, and gold coin circuit is +that the National Socialist German government was a progenitor of +today's New World Order.

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Bolshevism was viewed with great alarm by Russia's neighbor, Germany, +which now found itself flanked on one side by the Soviet Union, and on +the other by Judeo-democratic France. In the economic ruin +deliberately foisted upon Germany at the end of the First World War, +Bolshevism was a serious menace. A Judeo-Communist regime even seized +power briefly in Bavaria shortly after the war.

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The liberal Weimar constitution imposed on Germany after the war was +written by Hugo Preuss, a Jew. The dominant political party of the +Weimar period was the Social Democratic Party, founded by Ferdinand +Lasalle, also a Jew.

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The economic devastation of Germany under the Weimar government was +extreme. The currency became worthless. Workers were paid with +wheelbarrows full of money -- twice a day, because the depreciation +was so rapid that your money would lose half its value by nightfall. +Eventually, billion-mark postage stamps were printed, and +trillion-mark bank notes, but all had the same ultimate value: zero. +German workers and soldiers saw their savings and their future turn +into nothingness. German children starved. Jewish businessmen, during +the same period, bought ancient German estates for pocket change in +foreign currency.

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The Weimar regime was a sink-pit of degeneracy, corruption, and +ugliness. Nihilistic creeds of self-destruction were made popular by +the mostly Jewish-controlled magazines and newspapers. Drug use +skyrocketed. Homosexuality suddenly became "fashionable." Modern "art" +replaced the beautiful images of the pre-1918 period. Pornography of +the grossest and most indecent kind was popularized. Marxism was +preached from university lecterns and even many church pulpits. Sound +familiar?

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This was what it meant to implement the New World Order in Germany. +What followed was a powerful reaction against the New World Order. But +it was not merely a reaction. Nor was it an impractical attempt to +reinstate the Old Order, although it did preserve much of what was +good in the Old Order.

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The Old Order had been based on monarchy and Christianity. Even in the +anti-monarchical United States, Christian baptism was a widespread +qualification for holding public office until the middle of 19th +century. This reliance on religion alone as the official basis of +society had made the Old Order vulnerable. Belief in Christianity had +declined, especially among more educated Europeans. Some of the best +minds of our race were resentful of the Old Order. And the reliance on +Christianity meant any racial alien could become part of the nation +simply by undergoing the ritual of baptism. For many Jews, this ritual +was meaningless. It was simply submitted to as a means to achieve +power.

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In opposition to the New World Order, Hitler erected his New Order of +Europe. It had some of the characteristics of the Old Order; for +example, it preserved the nation-state and traditional morality. It +also preserved many of Old Order's trappings, such as the customary +Roman salute. But it was different from the Old Order in that it was +primarily based, not on religion, but on race.

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Misinformation about National Socialist Germany

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A tremendous amount of malicious dishonesty has been directed against +the memory of Hitler's New European Order. For example, there has been +an effort to manipulate Christians with the lie that Adolf Hitler was +a scourge of Christianity. In fact, Adolf Hitler received a great deal +of support from Christian clergymen, Catholic and Lutheran. Among the +smaller sects, the Seventh Day Adventist and New Apostolic churches +were among the most ardent supporters of National Socialism, long +before the party actually came to power.

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Another lie is that Hitler was a member of the Thule Society. Such a +society did exist, but Hitler regarded it as an embarrassment. You may +read his opinion of its freakish "occult" characters in the last +chapter of Book I of Mein Kampf.

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It is also a lie that Hitler took away the guns from the German +people. The promoters of this falsehood usually make the insinuation +by means of a verbal shell-game, in which they distort the actual +disarming of non-citizen, non-German, Jewish deportees during the war +into a fictitious disarming of the German people -- an event which +never took place under National Socialism.

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The National Socialists actually relaxed the gun laws in Germany. In +fact, private ownership of guns persisted in Germany until the New +World Order forces of the Allies rolled in and confiscated guns, and +converted Germany into a brainwashed province of the New World Order.

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This myth of Hitler the gun-grabber has been promoted most +vociferously by an organization calling itself "Jews for the +Preservation of Firearms Ownership." It should be clear that Jews in +general are a very biased source of information about +Hitler.

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Why Is Hitler Demonized?

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Hitler is accused of many things he did not do, but there is one thing +he did do. He broke the Jews' grip on Germany and restored Germany to +the German people. This fact is reflected in his popularity; during +most of his administration, Adolf Hitler was favorably regarded by +more than 90% of the German people -- a popularity which no American +President has ever matched.

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Because Hitler put the interests of his own people first, and freed +them from the New World Order, World Jewry declared war on Germany in +1933. They revived essentially the same propaganda they had used +against the Kaiser. With appropriate changes, the same kind of +propaganda is used to rouse us against whoever the current enemy of +the New World Order happens to be.

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Heaven forbid that our people should ever have a strong leader who +cares for our survival as a people, as Hitler cared for +Germany. That would not suit the New World Order at all!

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And that is why the obsession with the democratic republic as a form +of government is a grievous error in the American patriot movement. +When the New World Order was implemented in Germany, it included the +establishment of a republican constitution in place of the monarchy. +Our political tradition in the U.S. and our public school education +lead us automatically to regard this as progress. Really, we ought not +to be so smug.

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Those who make "democracy" their political ideal are, whether they +realize it or not, helping the New World Order. Our main concern about +government should not be whether it is a "big government" or a +"democratic" government, but whether it is a government which serves +us -- or serves our enemies.

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It is absurd to moralize against Adolf Hitler for setting up a strong +government to preserve his people from the New World Order. It is +absurd to criticize him for not acting like a typical American +conservative -- for not using approaches that have always failed. +Conservatives always compromise; they use half-measures and try to be +nice to everyone. It is to Hitler's credit that he saw clearly what +had to be done and did it, with very little compromise. Let us no +longer make virtues of irresolution and weakness; let us no longer +moralize against success.

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The New World Order Is Here Now

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All of those so called "patriots," with their flag-waving and their +knee-jerk tendency to link everything bad to Hitler -- including, most +ironically, the New World Order -- have built their house on +quicksand, for it is the United States of America since 1933 which has +been the enforcer of the New World Order, and it was Germany and her +allies in World War II which defended our civilization against it.

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It is customary for "patriotic" commentators to wail endlessly about +the threat of the New World Order "taking over the United States." The +New World Order is not some future threat. It rules now.

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The New World Order crowd has been at the levers of power in the +United States during most of this century. They experienced a +temporary setback in the 1920s, during the Harding and Coolidge +administrations, when popular sentiment recognized that the First +World War had been a grievous error. During the 1920s immigration was +drastically reduced, and a number of Jewish subversives were even +deported. But since the Great Depression swept Franklin Roosevelt and +his retinue of Jews and Communists into power, the New World Order has +had uninterrupted control of the United States Government. +The McCarthy era marked the last important attempt to regain control +of the United States government for the American people. McCarthyism +failed because the full depth and racial nature of the problem were +not recognized and faced in a forthright manner. Most of the patriotic +efforts since McCarthy have been far more timid, far less inclined to +call a spade a spade and, as a consequence, have failed utterly.

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The Scare Word "Nazi"

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For telling the truth about Germany, World War II, and the New World +Order, some of the coin salesmen will no doubt call me a "nazi." Let +me say this: There has never been a government on planet Earth that +could receive unqualified endorsement from me, or probably from any +reasonable man.

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Learning from history is important, and it is interesting to study +various regimes from as objective an outlook as possible. This +becomes very difficult when a government, its leader, or its people +have become demonized and turned into a metaphor for +"evil."

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Another heavily-demonized regime is the Old America, which I would +define roughly as pre-1965 America, or European-America. Hardly a day +goes by that the networks or the lie-papers don't torment us with a +documentary "proving" the evil "racism" and "oppression" that were +omnipresent in the Old America. However, anyone over 40 can remember +America was freer, safer, more cultured, more prosperous, and more +optimistic then than now. Exempt from demonization, of course, are New +World Order change agents like the Marxist profligate "Martin Luther" +King and the unspeakable Franklin Roosevelt, who were doing their best +to destroy the Old America and everything it stood for. They are not +demonized, but are regarded as heroes, if not saints!

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The National Socialist regime in Germany between 1933 and 1945 has +been demonized even more than the Old America. It has become a +metaphor for "evil" used by almost all political factions in the +insane asylum that still goes by the name "America."

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We have the loony left accusing militias of being dangerous "nazis," +while some right-wing "patriot" groups accuse the Clintonistas and +their enforcers of being "nazis," "fascists," "stormtroopers," etc. +"Nazi" has become a word that one attaches to any form of government +power, or rebellion against government power, that one disapproves of. +For all practical purposes, the word has ceased to have any actual +meaning.

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Like the word "witch" in the 16th century, the word "nazi" still has +the power to instill fear of ostracism or punishment, so cowards of +many political stripes do all sorts of mental and verbal gymnastics to +avoid the feared appellation.

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The really interesting thing to note is that National Socialist +Germany is not demonized by the establishment for its possible +faults -- but rather for one of its virtues. After all, many regimes +of yesterday -- and today -- have far less personal freedom +than was allowed citizens there. They have far less press freedom, far +more regimentation, far higher taxation, far more government +regulation, far more hostility toward their own citizens, and all the +rest of it.

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The real reason, and in fact the only reason, National Socialist +Germany is demonized is the same reason that pre-1965 +America is demonized: Both favored the survival of the White race. +This is a crime that the New World Order cannot forgive.

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Resistance to the New World Order

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The modern resistance to the New World Order may be regarded as having +begun early in this century, when alarm over the blood soaked +Bolshevik Revolution -- and its adherents in this country -- began to +grow.

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Literally hundreds of nationalist, anti-Communist, and patriotic +societies and organizations have arisen, prospered, and fallen +in the past 80 years. Some of them achieved national recognition and +had many thousands of members and supporters. Some names you would +recognize, such as the America First Committee and the John Birch +Society. Some may be familiar to you from their current shortwave and +satellite radio broadcasts. While some of these organizations have +made small fortunes, both by selling quack cures (for disease and for +subversion) and by selling overpriced precious metals; they have all +failed to halt the advance of the New World Order.

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Why Opposition Has Failed

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This failure can be attributed to the fact that the "patriots" +themselves accept a large part of New World Order doctrine. +They accept the idea of "rights" inherent in all beings arguably +human, regardless of race, creed, color, sexual preference, +etc., etc. -- until you gag. As long as such nonsense is enshrined as +"sacred truth," the failure will continue.

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The doctrine "all men are created equal" is one such sacred cow. It +must be repudiated by patriots, for in five short words it exemplifies +New World Order ideology.

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Its origin lies in the 18th century philosophy of the Enlightenment, +which first enshrined the ideas of 1) basic human equality, and 2) +rights which inhere in every human being equally regardless of the +worth or attainments of that human being.

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The American Revolution may have merely adopted some of the notions of +the Enlightenment, such as "all men are created equal," simply because +these were fashionable ideas at the time which were conducive to +revolution.

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The Declaration of Independence incorporates the very unfortunate +statement, the only statement from that document which the public +schools and the Jewish-controlled media have made sure that we know by +heart: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are +created equal . . ." Now, it is obvious to almost everyone that +individual human beings are not born equal to each other. On the face +of it, Thomas Jefferson's statement is blatantly, and even +embarrassingly, untrue. Jefferson himself later advocated repatriation +of Blacks to Africa. This may give us some insight into his more +mature and considered views. Unfortunately however, he did write that +phrase.

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During the Enlightenment, leading philosophers such as John Locke and +Jean Jacques Rousseau seriously argued that everyone was born mentally +identical. Locke's term for the condition of the mind at birth was +tabula rasa, Latin for "blank slate." Racial differences were thought +to be due to environmental influence over the course of just a few +generations. These fallacies, part of the intellectual universe in +which Thomas Jefferson lived, were overturned in the nineteenth +century. Many scientists, including Charles Darwin, began making +discoveries that showed human equality was a myth. Darwin dealt a +death blow to the superstitions of the Enlightenment by providing +evidence that man was part of the animal kingdom in which all are +clearly not created equal.

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Darwin wrote that men are not tabulae rasae; human motivations and +emotions are based on instincts. These are at least partially +hereditary, and differ from one race to another. More recently, +mainstream psychology has largely acknowledged that the +characteristics of the mind are largely hereditary, although the +Politically Correct adherents of the Boas school still +argue the point.

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Science should have utterly dispelled the belief that all men are +created equal, but unfortunately, because it is a piece of cant +which has been enshrined on a holy relic of the United States it has +continued to distort thinking. The Declaration of Independence was not +regarded as a holy relic until about the 1840s, when it was put on +display in the National Portrait Gallery, at the urging of Daniel +Webster.

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When "Martin Luther" King Jr. spoke in Washington, DC, in 1963, he +used the words in the Declaration as if they were a debt instrument. +He said, 'you claim to believe this; you must act accordingly.' +(Perhaps his Jewish and Communist associate, Stanley Levison, had +something to do with it.) It is a dramatic illustration of the latent +destructive power of wrong ideas.

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The Declaration of Independence, with enthronement of Judaic +egalitarian dogma, has been a millstone around the neck of +the American people. It has provided powerful rhetorical ammunition +for egalitarian dogmatists. Yet, since it is one of the founding +documents of the United States, the average American does not feel +that it would be safe to say that the words of the Declaration are +obviously not literally true -- although he may know this perfectly +well. Thus the average American is intimidated into endorsing the +fundamental premise of the New World Order, "all men are created +equal."

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The Constitution of the United States is on an altogether higher +level. We are indeed fortunate to have the rights which the +Constitution expresses, but that piece of paper did not create them. +These rights are part of the Anglo Saxon tradition and spring from the +soul of our branch of the White race. The republican form of +government has hardly existed outside of the White world (except in +name) because it presupposes a self-discipline and independence of +thought which are characteristic primarily of our race. When the +republican form is transplanted to Africa or Asia, it simply does not +work the same way. Witness Liberia. Witness the Philippines.

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Secret Societies, etc.

+ +

It is not without some trepidation that I set out to discuss obscure +conspiratorial aspects of the New World Order; it is a +subject on which our enemies do not mind having patriots focus. The +very obscurity of the subject makes misrepresentation +easy, and the distance of such conspiracies from everyday life +suggests that there is nothing that an ordinary person can do to +resist. Some people who call themselves patriots have become so +wrapped up in fantasies that the most obvious facts have +escaped their notice: the fact, for example, that multiracialism is +the centerpiece of the New World Order.

+ +

Many secret societies have been heavily influenced by Cabalism -- a +system of esoteric theory and "magic" developed by rabbis from the 7th +to 13th centuries. "Illumination" is an important term in Cabalism, +hence the series of Jewish-led organizations calling themselves +Illuminati or Illuminated Ones. The Freemasons are one of the secret +societies which have been influenced both by Jews and by Cabalism. +With Illuminism and Freemasonry, the Jews essentially resumed the +ancient Jewish practice of multiplying their own power by +proselytizing Gentiles.

+ +

We may note in passing the continuing Jewish involvement in New Age +cults, all of which, for some reason or other, seem to have "equality" +and "brotherhood" and "One World" as central themes. The credulous +followers of these cults are thus hoodwinked, like the Masons, into +advancing the Jewish agenda in the name of a spurious humanitarianism +with a small, or large, helping of "spiritual" gobbledygook thrown in.

+ +

It is customary among patriot commentators, eager to stay marginally +on the Jews' good side, to point to some Gentile stooge as an excuse +to avoid implicating the Jews. The so-called Jewish "patriots" can +also be counted on to do this. The fact that these essentially Jewish +organizations try to ensnare Gentile stooges is not at all surprising +in light of Isaiah 61, which states:

+ +

Aliens shall stand and feed your flocks, foreigners shall be your +plowmen and vine dressers; but you shall be called the priests of +the Lord, men shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you +shall eat the wealth of nations, and in their riches you shall +glory.

+ +

Jews often recruit Gentiles to be their "plowmen and vine dressers," +or some equivalent thereof.

+ +

Grand Orient Freemasonry and quasi-Masonic secret societies such as +Adam Weishaupt's Order of Illuminati had an important role in inciting +the French Revolution. The Grand Orient Lodge of Freemasonry, +notorious for being Jewish-controlled, horrified Europe by ordering +that Louis XVI be executed.

+ +

Jewish writer Max Dimont states in Jews, God, and History that there +was an addition to Cabalism in the 16th century, which has significant +implications:

+ +

A new metaphysical philosophy was injected into Cabalism in the +sixteenth century by one of the great Cabalistic scholars, Isaac +Luria (1534-1572), known as Ari, 'the lion.' Luria held that all +matter and thought evolved through a three stage cycle: tzimtzum, +literally 'contraction' or thesis; shevirat hakeilim, literally +'breaking of the vessels' or antithesis; and tikkun, literally +'restoration' or synthesis.

+ +

That last Hebrew term, tikkun, you have heard before: It is the name +of Rabbi Michael Lerner's Jewish magazine. It was Rabbi Lerner who was +the spiritual advisor of First Lady Hillary Clinton. It was Rabbi +Lerner who put the words "politics of meaning" into her mouth.

+ +

Also notable is Jacob Frank, a Jew and the leader of the Frankists. +They also called themselves the "Illuminated." This group +was part of what is called the "Jewish Reformation," which also +included Hasidic Judaism. Jewish writer, Norman F. Cantor, +states in The Sacred Chain: the History of the Jews:

+ +

Central to Frank's doctrine, and practiced by him and some of his +followers, was the legitimacy of sexual promiscuity based on the +assumption, from Cabalistic derivation, that sexual activity was +a form of cosmic healing, unifying the spiritual and material +realms.

+ +

The "free love" advocated and practiced by Jacob Frank and his ilk was +echoed in the French Revolution, in the Bolshevik Revolution, in the +radical abolitionist movement of the American Civil War era, and in +the hippie movement of the 60s.

+ +

Abolitionism

+ +

Perhaps the most destructive movement in American history was radical +abolitionism. This movement was comprised of a tiny minority of +lunatics and degenerates, who somehow made enough noise that they +succeeded in having America's racial identity officially destroyed.

+ +

Few of those involved were Jews themselves, but they represent an +example of the Jewish "ideals" of universal human equality, which are +vended to the gullible.

+ +

The general character of the abolitionists is suggested by a memoir of +Henry B. Stanton, who attended a convention of abolitionists in +Boston:

+ +

There was a representative array on the front seats, near the +platform. First was Garrison, his countenance calling to mind the +pictures of the prophet Isaiah in a rapt mood; next was the fine +Roman head of Wendell Phillips; at his right was Father Lampson, +so called, a crazy loon -- his hair and flowing beard as white as +the driven snow. He was the inventor of the valuable +scythe-snath, and invariably carried a snath in his hand. His +forte was selling his wares on secular days and disturbing +religious meetings on Sunday. Next to Lampson sat +Edmund Quincy, high born and wealthy, the son of the famous +President Quincy [of Harvard]. Next to Quincy was Abigail Folsom, +another lunatic, with a shock of unkempt hair reaching down to her +waist. At her right was George W. Mellen, clad in the military +costume of the Revolution, and fancying himself to be General +Washington, because he was named after him. Poor Mellen died in +an asylum.

+ +

Another prominent figure in Radical Abolitionism was Victoria +Woodhull, who was also a feminist, an occultist, and a +Communist. Stanton continues:

+ +

As if her time did not pass spectacularly enough, Victoria +Woodhull organized an American section of the International +Workingmen's Association [the First Communist International]. In +this endeavor her chief ally was William West . . . Their section +of the International advocated woman's suffrage and sexual +freedom as well as Stephen Pearl Andrews' pet theories of +universal language and "pantarchical" order."

+ +

These flakes were an embarrassment even to the Marxists. In the +interests of party orthodoxy, Victoria Woodhull's section was expelled +from the party when Marx relocated the center of World Communism from +London to New York City in 1872.

+ +

In 1863 Henry C. Wright published The Self-Abnegationist, which was a +reaction against the findings of Charles Darwin vis a vis the +implications for man. Wright defined self-abnegation in these terms: +"Suffer rather than inflict suffering; die, rather than kill."

+ +

He further explains:

+ +

Self-preservation, at the expense of others, is condemned by +universal consciousness . . . . Let any man, whatever be his +moral or intellectual development, fully understand the meaning +of self-abnegation and then enter into the sacred and silent +depths of his own soul, and he will find this to be an abiding +law of his nature, to which he will find his heaven in being +obedient.

+ +

Mainstream historian Lewis Perry states that there was behind radical +abolitionism a religious movement called "Perfectionism," which is +"the quest for perfect holiness and the idea that such perfection +might be immediately possible." Perry further states:

+ +

Perfectionist ideas permeated the major denominations and +inspired a variety of shockingly radical splinter movements. It +was possible for those who deemed their personal sanctification +to be perfect to attack the practices of institutional churches +and hold themselves to new standards of morality. Rumors of +sexual promiscuity particularly haunted the career of +perfectionism in upstate New York. John Humphrey Noyes +proceeded from the development of perfectionist religious +theories to preach common marriage among the saints, a belief +which, as practiced by Noyes and his followers at the Oneida +Community, was popularly referred to as "free love." Though free +love and the disruption of churches were of course widely +condemned, it was difficult for the evangelical orthodoxy to +distinguish its basic perfectionist beliefs from those of +scandalous radicals.

+ +

The combination of the term "perfectionism" with the advocacy of +sexual promiscuity is a suggestive parallel to Jewish Cabalism. Adam +Weishaupt's Order of the Illuminati was also known as the +Perfektibilisten. We return to Perry:

+ +

The most notorious perfectionist was John Humphrey Noyes. Noyes +had been brought up as an orthodox New Englander and educated in +the 'New Divinity' at Yale." After a meeting with abolitionist +leader William Lloyd Garrison, Noyes announced that he had +retracted his allegiance to the United States government and now +championed the claim of Jesus Christ to the throne of the world. +He depicted the government as a fat libertine flogging Negroes +and torturing Indians. . . . "My hope of the millennium," he +wrote, "begins where Dr. Beecher's expires -- viz, at the +overthrow of this nation."

+ +

James Russell Lowell, a prominent abolitionist, explicitly advocated +race-mixing, on the grounds that mulatto offspring would be more +submissive -- more "Christian" -- than the White race. He wrote:

+ +

We have never had any doubt that the African race was intended to +introduce a new element of civilization, and that the Caucasian +would be benefited greatly by an infusion of its gentler and less +selfish qualities. The Caucasian mind, which always seeks to +govern, at whatever cost, can never come to so beautiful or +Christian a height of civilization, as with a mixture of those +seemingly humble, but truly more noble, qualities which teach it +to obey.

+ +

Abolitionist Henry C. Wright stated in 1857 what would become the +actual agenda of the Reconstruction period:

+ +

A baptism of blood awaits the slave holder and his abettors. So +be it. The retribution is just. Must the slave holders become the +slaves of those whom they have enslaved? History answers "Yes." +If slavery goes down in blood, the conquered will be the bondsmen +and bondswomen of the conquerors; for the practical teaching of +Church and State is, that might makes the right to enslave. Bid +American slave holders beware! Their turn may come, will come, +must come, to be bought and sold as brutes, and to have their +wives and daughters consigned to the Negro's harem, unless they +willingly and penitently let their slaves go free.

+ +

It should be noted that, aside from the grotesque dream of forced +miscegenation, Wright's vision is not essentially different +from that of Karl Marx; it was an axiom of Marxist anarchism that +workers were in fact slaves, who would one day change +places with their masters.

+ +

Marxism: Illuminism Reincarnate

+ +

Karl Marx, though he disclaimed the Jewish religion, was the +descendent of a long line of rabbis. Both his father and mother +were Jews. His father, Heinrich, a well-to-do lawyer who was a dutiful +follower of the Enlightenment philosophers, was faced with a choice of +being baptized or giving up his profession. He chose the former.

+ +

Karl Marx had no mystical pretensions whatsoever; he called his +ideology "dialectical materialism," incorporating a semblance of the +Hegelian philosophy which was the popular, mainstream philosophy of +that time.

+ +

One often hears patriotic broadcasters refer vaguely to "the Hegelian +dialectic," as if Hegelianism itself were a tool of conspiracy. In +fact, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels both stated repeatedly that the +Hegelian dialectic, as espoused by Hegel, was not and could not be an +instrument of conspiracy. I consider it important to exonerate Hegel +because it appears as part of a general knee-jerk tendency to dump on +the Germans whenever possible so as to appease the real perpetrators +of the New World Order, the Jews.

+ +

The Political Spectrum

+ +

In recent years, when the term Conservative has been redefined to mean +laissez faire -- a meaning it never had before -- it has become the +fashion among the historically myopic to redefine the terms "right" +and "left" in politics. They claim that the left stands for "more +government" and that the right stands for "less government," that +Communism is the extreme of the left and Anarchy the extreme of the +right. This conception of the political spectrum is a false one. +Historically, Marxism has embraced both Communism and Anarchism. The +Anarchists of 100 years ago, such as Alexander Birkman and "Red Emma" +Goldman, were called "Reds," and they were indeed Marxists who used +the familiar Marxist slogans. On the ostensible premise that society +makes men bad, the Marxist ideal is precisely the elimination of all +government, and of all other social barriers -- the same ideal which +Adam Weishaupt espoused. The real motive behind this abhorrence of +social barriers is simply the Jews' desire to recreate our society in +their own image, so that they will have a free hand to engage in +power-seeking activities without the barriers that traditional White +societies imposed on them. They would like to freely engage in all the +abhorrent practices which emanate from the Jewish soul and are +condoned by their Jewish lawbook, the Talmud.

+ +

Perhaps it is clear now why laissez faire is so widely touted by Jews +like Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand. Laissez faire and Marxism are not +the opposites that most of our people assume them to be. Marxism +actually goes farther than laissez faire, advocating a never-never +land in which there is no government whatsoever.

+ +

The Captain of the Chicago Police, Michael J. Schaack, stated in his +1889 book Anarchy and Anarchists: a History of the Red Terror and the +Social Revolution in America and Europe:

+ +

It [anarchism] is founded upon the teachings of Karl Marx and his +disciples, and it aims directly at the complete destruction of +all forms of government and religion. It offers no solution of +the problems which will arise when society, as we understand it, +shall disappear, but contents itself with declaring that the duty +at hand is tearing down; that the work of building up must come +later.

+ +

When one considers that anarchism is, in fact, laissez faire carried a +step farther, it becomes apparent that Marxism and the beloved laissez +faire doctrine of today's so-called Conservatives are intimately +related. The two philosophies are in fact striving toward the same +impossible goal: a world without any constraints or conflict, and with +plenty for everyone. The salient element in Marxism and laissez faire +is the drive to abolish the constraints and the order of healthy White +society. The bribe which these Jewish doctrines offer to their Gentile +adherents is a license for self-indulgence In the name of laissez +faire, our millionaires justify stabbing American workingmen in the +back by importing workers from the non-White world. And under Marxist +inspiration, the so-called "civil rights" movement was organized. Now, +it is obvious that the so-called "civil rights" movement resulted in +less freedom for White people, but it has on the whole, by its +destruction of communities and social norms, increased the level of +anarchy, in the sense of chaos, in our society.

+ +

Furthermore, although it did produce an expansion of government, the +really significant thing is that the government has been perverted. +The big government we have today is distinctly anti-White and is +pernicious in ways that a pro-White government of equal proportions +would not be. Indeed if an equally powerful state had been organized +for the purpose of fighting off the enemies of our race, perhaps we +would not have been conquered by infiltration as we have been today.

+ +

Big Government

+ +

Any people which is at war will necessarily have a big government, and +that is true whether the enemy is internal or external. The reason why +our enemies, the enemies of our race, have built up a big government +is that they have marked us, racially conscious White men and women +(and really all White people) as enemies in our own land. Big +government has been built up to wage war against us. Should we ever +gain control of the seat of power, any scruples about using "big +government" against our enemies will be a disaster, a snatching of +defeat from the jaws of victory. The redefinition of "conservative" to +mean "laissez faire" would be crippling at the very brink of victory. +A government in the hands of White patriots will have to be a +powerful government if it is to correct all the damage that has been +done by the current anti-White regime.

+ +

So the question of left and right is not a question of more or less +government. The original "rightists," were supporting the big +government (for its time) of Louis XVI, and the original "leftists" +like Weishaupt advocated anarchy. But anarchism is always +a transitional ideology; anarchy is a power-vacuum, and Nature abhors +a vacuum. Ultimately, the question is whether we will live in a +society ordered according to the character of our own race or +according to the demands of that vastly different Middle Eastern race.

+ +

This anti-government attitude among patriots is understandable, +because in the United States our experiences with big government are +almost all bad. Really big government in the U.S. began with Franklin +Roosevelt. In the U.S., more government has always meant more racially +destructive policies. This is simply because of the malevolent entity +which controls our government. A government that is truly of, by, and +for our people would not be of that nature, so the axiom that +big government is bad government would not necessarily apply.

+ +

The crucial question about government is whether it is run by and for +our people, or whether it is run by and for the enemies of our people.

+ +

Recruiting America as a Partner in the New World Order

+ +

Today in the United States both political parties are universalist, +and both see man as a mainly economic entity. They share +these characteristics with Marxism. The only valid alternative, the +only true antithesis to the New World Order, is a society based on +race. Only by establishing a race-based society can America and the +civilization of the West survive. Only by establishing a race-based +community can we begin to defeat the New World Order.

+ +

The last time America was culturally healthy was in the 1920s. +Internationalism had been repudiated. The First World War had been +recognized as a grievous mistake, and America's leaders were committed +to keeping America out of any such future catastrophes. Eugenics as a +national policy seemed entirely possible for the United States of the +1920s.

+ +

The last healthy epoch of America's existence was overturned by the +Great Depression. The abrupt stock-market crash which heralded the +Depression did not take the leaders of Jewry by surprise. Some have +argued that the Jews used their control of credit through the Federal +Reserve System, which they had in place from the days of their puppet +Woodrow Wilson, to engineer the stock-market crash. Regardless of +whether the Jews caused the crash, manipulated it, or merely had +inside knowledge of it; evidence suggests that Bernard Baruch (an +extremely wealthy Jewish speculator who had been one of the Jewish +string pullers behind Wilson and virtual economic czar during World +War I), knew exactly when the crash was coming. He abruptly pulled all +his money out of stocks only a few days before the stock market crash, +over the protests of his broker. After the crash, leading Jews were +able to buy up American industry for practically nothing.

+ +

It is an old saw that money is the mother's milk of political +campaigns. With their vastly increased share of the American pie, +and with a smear campaign, the Jews were able to blame Herbert Hoover +for the depression and replace him with their puppet Roosevelt, who +had run as a Conservative but governed as a Marxist socialist and did +not let the Constitution get in his way. Roosevelt was also notorious +for stocking the executive branch with large numbers of Communists and +Jews; many of whom remained for decades.

+ +

When Germany dispossessed the Jews, who had robbed them on a scale far +more massive than in the United States, the Jews wanted revenge. Along +the way, the Jews killed several birds with one stone. In order to +discredit the eugenics movement which still had proponents in the +United States, the Jews involved America in what amounted to a war +against eugenics. It is said that a war makes any cause sacred, and +the Second World War made the cause of doing the Jews' +bidding sacred in this country. This false religion remains in place +to this day.

+ +

The Cold War Era

+ +

At the end of the Second Fratricidal War in Europe, genuine patriotic +Americans like George S. Patton urged that Bolshevism be finished off +by military means. Several years later, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy +published America's Retreat from Victory, which argued that the reason +why the opportunity to destroy Bolshevism had not been grasped was +that the American government was controlled by Communist sympathizers +-- an obvious fact to anyone who takes the time to investigate the +matter. The division of the world into two enemy factions helped the +New World Order planners in many ways. By maintaining Communism and +capitalism as two ostensibly hostile brands of Jewish universalism, +Jewish bankers and arms merchants were able to create wars at leisure. +And by financing and selling arms to both sides in the various hot +wars and in the ongoing Cold War, they were able to vastly increase +their wealth and the debt-burden of the entire world.

+ +

Furthermore, the Cold War, with its focus on foreign aggression, +diverted attention from subversion at home. Subversion in +America advanced most rapidly during the Cold War, especially during +the Vietnam War, when patriotic Americans were afraid to complain too +loudly lest the country appear further divided in the face of its +foreign foe.

+ +

At the same time, the Cold War's constant focus on a foreign menace +caused people to overlook the treason in their own government. It was +the end of the Cold War that allowed America's racial consciousness to +spring back to life -- in time to survey all the damage that treason +had wrought in forty years. Not the least of this treason was the +media's gradual brainwashing of our people, many of whom had learned +to think of America only as the vehicle of a certain brand of +universalism -- the liberal capitalist brand. This brand of +universalism was then represented as the only alternative to +Communism. The liberal capitalist world view, this phony +neo-conservatism, was the rationale for NAFTA and for free trade +with China: In a purely materialistic and economic world view, whether +it be laissez faire or Communism, race and nation receive no +consideration. It is an encouraging sign, however, that in spite of +the brainwashing, the majority reaction was against NAFTA. This shows +that part of America still has some will to live.

+ +

The "Civil Rights" Movement

+ +

What damaged America more than anything else in recent times has been +the so-called "Civil Rights" movement. It is misnamed because it is +not about "rights" but about enforcing equality. This movement was +planned by the Jews after the Second World War and was carried out at +the tactical level by Jewish agitators and fellow travelers who held +positions of influence in the media and universities. This war against +the White race was also waged by Gentile stooges like Dwight David +Eisenhower, who appointed Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, then said +"Oops!" with a pretended look of surprise. Nevertheless, he did not +neglect to send paratroopers to Little Rock to enforce the Warren +Court's anti-White agenda. Eisenhower, the protege of Bernard Baruch, +had also been the first "supreme commander" of the Soviet-American +alliance that called itself the "United Nations" even before Communist +agent Alger Hiss chaired the nominal founding meeting of that +organization in San Francisco several years later. Eisenhower's mentor +Baruch was also a leader of the Jewish community in the Western +Hemisphere; at this point it is very clear how everything ties +together.

+ +

Immigration

+ +

What threatens America most today is immigration. The United States +government has for years been under-funding its border patrol and +refusing to take adequate measures to curb the illegal immigration of +fast-breeding mestizos. You will recall that non-White immigration was +part of the New World Order program described by F.S. Marvin in 1932. +In Canada this destructive immigration is part of official government +policy. Almost one-quarter of a million largely non-White immigrants +enter Canada legally every year, despite horrendous unemployment among +the White population. The U.S. government pursues by subterfuge the +very same New World Order policy which the Canadian government pursues +openly, and which the British government pursued by bringing Blacks +into Britain.

+ +

One would have to be brain-dead to believe that the motive for +bringing these fast-breeding non-White populations into our +homelands is in any way charitable, since any relief afforded to +Mexico by emigration will quickly be cancelled by population +increase. The population of Mexico doubles every nineteen years! +Current policies will lead to the entire world being overpopulated +with brown men and women.

+ +

As America becomes increasingly non-White, it will also become +increasingly unfree. A people united by common blood and common values +need few laws, few prisons, and few policemen to get along peaceably. +Multicultural empires are not known for their freedom.

+ +

Non-White America, populated by mulattos and mestizos, will be easier +for our enemies to control and exploit, and whatever White minority +remains, if it adheres to the representative process, will be +perennially behind the eight-ball, always outvoted by racial aliens +being manipulated by our enemies. It seems to me that those +multiracial "Constitutional" patriots, who want us all to pretend that +race doesn't matter, are leading their adherents in precisely this +direction: toward a United States in which the Constitution is a +revered artifact with even less influence than it has today.

+ +

We do not have to accept this fate, nor will the fight be impossible! +Louis XVI and Czar Nicholas II died because they lacked the will to +resist and didn't even really try. We understand what is happening. A +highly motivated and disciplined minority can change the course of +history. It has happened before. In fact, it has seldom happened any +other way.

+ +

We have every reason to fight, and no incentive whatsoever to give up, +for the loss of our race means the loss of everything. The struggle +itself will make us strong!

+ +

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JOHN STOCKWELL

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THE SECRET WARS OF THE CIA

+ +

10 October 1987

+ +

A two-part speech.

+ +

Copyright (C) 1987 The Other Americas Radio +John Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the +agency and go public. He ran a CIA intelligence-gathering post in +Vietnam, was the task-force commander of the CIA's secret war in +Angola in 1975 and 1976, and was awarded the Medal of Merit before he +resigned. Stockwell's book In Search of Enemies, published by W.W. +Norton 1978, is an international best-seller. This is a transcript of +a lecture he gave in June, 1986.

+ +

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PART I

+ +

THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL AND THE +CIA'S COVERT ACTIONS IN ANGOLA, CENTRAL AMERICA AND VIETNAM

+ +

"I did 13 years in the CIA altogether. I sat on a subcommittee of +the NSC, so I was like a chief of staff, with the GS-18s (like 3-star +generals) Henry Kissinger, Bill Colby (the CIA director), the GS-18s +and the CIA, making the important decisions and my job was to put it +all together and make it happen and run it, an interesting place from +which to watch a covert action being done....

+ +

I testified for days before the Congress, giving them chapter and +verse, date and detail, proving specific lies. They were asking if we +had to do with S. Africa, that was fighting in the country. In fact +we were coordinating this operation so closely that our airplanes, +full of arms from the states, would meet their airplanes in Kinshasa +and they would take our arms into Angola to distribute to our forces +for us....

+ +

What I found with all of this study is that the subject, the +problem, if you will, for the world, for the U.S. is much, much, much +graver, astronomically graver, than just Angola and Vietnam. I found +that the Senate Church committee has reported, in their study of +covert actions, that the CIA ran several thousand covert actions since +1961, and that the heyday of covert action was before 1961; that we +have run several hundred covert actions a year, and the CIA has been +in business for a total of 37 years.

+ +

What we're going to talk about tonight is the United States national +security syndrome. We're going to talk about how and why the U.S. +manipulates the press. We're going to talk about how and why the U.S. +is pouring money into El Salvador, and preparing to invade Nicaragua; +how all of this concerns us so directly. I'm going to try to explain +to you the other side of terrorism; that is, the other side of what +Secretary of State Shultz talks about. In doing this, we'll talk +about the Korean war, the Vietnam war, and the Central American war.

+ +

Everything I'm going to talk to you about is represented, one way or +another, already in the public records. You can dig it all out for +yourselves, without coming to hear me if you so chose. Books, based +on information gotten out of the CIA under the freedom of information +act, testimony before the Congress, hearings before the Senate Church +committee, research by scholars, witness of people throughout the +world who have been to these target areas that we'll be talking about. +I want to emphasize that my own background is profoundly conservative. +We come from South Texas, East Texas....

+ +

I was conditioned by my training, my marine corps training, and my +background, to believe in everything they were saying about the cold +war, and I took the job with great enthusiasm (in the CIA) to join the +best and the brightest of the CIA, of our foreign service, to go out +into the world, to join the struggle, to project American values and +save the world for our brand of democracy. And I believed this. I +went out and worked hard....

+ +

What I really got out of these 6 years in Africa was a sense ... +that nothing we were doing in fact defended U.S. national security +interests very much. We didn't have many national security interests +in Bujumbura, Burundi, in the heart of Africa. I concluded that I +just couldn't see the point.

+ +

We were doing things it seemed because we were there, because it was +our function, we were bribing people, corrupting people, and not +protecting the U.S. in any visible way. I had a chance to go drinking +with this Larry Devlin, a famous CIA case officer who had overthrown +Patrice Lumumba, and had him killed in 1960, back in the Congo. He +was moving into the Africa division Chief. I talked to him in Addis +Ababa at length one night, and he was giving me an explanation - I was +telling him frankly, 'sir, you know, this stuff doesn't make any +sense, we're not saving anybody from anything, and we are corrupting +people, and everybody knows we're doing it, and that makes the U.S. +look bad'.

+ +

And he said I was getting too big for my britches. He said, 'you're +trying to think like the people in the NSC back in Washington who have +the big picture, who know what's going on in the world, who have all +the secret information, and the experience to digest it. If they +decide we should have someone in Bujumbura, Burundi, and that person +should be you, then you should do your job, and wait until you have +more experience, and you work your way up to that point, then you will +understand national security, and you can make the big decisions. +Now, get to work, and stop, you know, this philosophizing.'

+ +

And I said, 'Aye-aye sir, sorry sir, a bit out of line sir'. It's a +very powerful argument, our presidents use it on us. President Reagan +has used it on the American people, saying, 'if you knew what I know +about the situation in Central America, you would understand why it's +necessary for us to intervene.'

+ +

I went back to Washington, however, and I found that others shared +my concern. A formal study was done in the State Department and +published internally, highly classified, called the Macomber [sp?] +report, concluding that the CIA had no business being in Africa for +anything it was known to be doing, that our presence there was not +justified, there were no national security interests that the CIA +could address any better than the ambassador himself. We didn't need +to have bribery and corruption as a tool for doing business in Africa +at that time.

+ +

I went from ... a tour in Washington to Vietnam. And there, my +career, and my life, began to get a little bit more serious. They +assigned me a country. It was during the cease-fire, '73 to '75. +There was no cease-fire. Young men were being slaughtered. I saw a +slaughter. 300 young men that the South Vietnamese army ambushed. +Their bodies brought in and laid out in a lot next to my compound. I +was up-country in Tayninh. They were laid out next door, until the +families could come and claim them and take them away for burial.

+ +

I thought about this. I had to work with the sadistic police chief. +When I reported that he liked to carve people with knives in the CIA +safe-house - when I reported this to my bosses, they said, '(1). The +post was too important to close down. (2). They weren't going to get +the man transferred or fired because that would make problems, +political problems, and he was very good at working with us in the +operations he worked on. (3). Therefore if I didn't have the stomach +for the job, that they could transfer me.'

+ +

But they hastened to point out, if I did demonstrate a lack of +'moral fiber' to handle working with the sadistic police chief, that I +wouldn't get another good job in the CIA, it would be a mark against +my career.

+ +

So I kept the job, I closed the safe-house down, I told my staff +that I didn't approve of that kind of activity, and I proceeded to +work with him for the next 2 years, pretending that I had reformed +him, and he didn't do this sort of thing anymore. The parallel is +obvious with El Salvador today, where the CIA, the state department, +works with the death squads.

+ +

They don't meet the death squads on the streets where they're +actually chopping up people or laying them down on the street and +running trucks over their heads. The CIA people in San Salvador meet +the police chiefs, and the people who run the death squads, and they +do liaise with them, they meet them beside the swimming pool of the +villas. And it's a sophisticated, civilized kind of relationship. +And they talk about their children, who are going to school at UCLA or +Harvard and other schools, and they don't talk about the horrors of +what's being done. They pretend like it isn't true.

+ +

What I ran into in addition to that was a corruption in the CIA and +the intelligence business that made me question very seriously what it +was all about, including what I was doing ... risking my life ... what +I found was that the CIA, us, the case officers, were not permitted to +report about the corruption in the South Vietnamese army....

+ +

Now, the corruption was so bad, that the S. Vietnamese army was a +skeleton army. Colonels would let the troops go home if they would +come in once a month and sign the pay vouchers so the colonel could +pocket the money. Then he could sell half of the uniforms and boots +and M-16's to the communist forces - that was their major supply, just +as it is in El Salvador today. He could use half of the trucks to +haul produce, half of the helicopters to haul heroin.

+ +

And the Army couldn't fight. And we lived with it, and we saw it, +and there was no doubt - everybody talked about it openly. We could +provide all kinds of proof, and they wouldn't let us report it. Now +this was a serious problem because the south was attacked in the +winter of 1975, and it collapsed like a big vase hit by a +sledgehammer. And the U.S. was humiliated, and that was the dramatic +end of our long involvement in Vietnam....

+ +

I had been designated as the task-force commander that would run +this secret war [in Angola in 1975 and 1976].... and what I figured +out was that in this job, I would sit on a sub-committee of the +National Security Council, this office that Larry Devlin has told me +about where they had access to all the information about Angola, about +the whole world, and I would finally understand national security. +And I couldn't resist the opportunity to know. I knew the CIA was not +a worthwhile organization, I had learned that the hard way. But the +question was where did the U.S. government fit into this thing, and I +had a chance to see for myself in the next big secret war....

+ +

I wanted to know if wise men were making difficult decisions based +on truly important, threatening information, threatening to our +national security interests. If that had been the case, I still +planned to get out of the CIA, but I would know that the system, the +invisible government, our national security complex, was in fact +justified and worth while. And so I took the job.... Suffice it to +say I wouldn't be standing in front of you tonight if I had found +these wise men making these tough decisions. What I found, quite +frankly, was fat old men sleeping through sub-committee meetings of +the NSC in which we were making decisions that were killing people in +Africa. I mean literally. Senior ambassador Ed Mulcahy... would go +to sleep in nearly every one of these meetings....

+ +

You can change the names in my book [about Angola] [13] and you've +got Nicaragua.... the basic structure, all the way through including +the mining of harbors, we addressed all of these issues. The point is +that the U.S. led the way at every step of the escalation of the +fighting. We said it was the Soviets and the Cubans that were doing +it. It was the U.S. that was escalating the fighting. There would +have been no war if we hadn't gone in first. We put arms in, they put +arms in. We put advisors in, they answered with advisors. We put in +Zairian para-commando battalions, they put in Cuban army troops. We +brought in the S. African army, they brought in the Cuban army. And +they pushed us away. They blew us away because we were lying, we were +covering ourselves with lies, and they were telling the truth. And it +was not a war that we could fight. We didn't have interests there +that should have been defended that way.

+ +

There was never a study run that evaluated the MPLA, FNLA and UNITA, +the three movements in the country, to decide which one was the better +one. The assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Nathaniel +Davis, no bleeding-heart liberal (he was known by some people in the +business as the butcher of Santiago), he said we should stay out of +the conflict and work with whoever eventually won, and that was +obviously the MPLA. Our consul in Luanda, Tom Killoran, vigorously +argued that the MPLA was the best qualified to run the country and the +friendliest to the U.S.

+ +

We brushed these people aside, forced Matt Davis to resign, and +proceeded with our war. The MPLA said they wanted to be our friends, +they didn't want to be pushed into the arms of the Soviet Union; they +begged us not to fight them, they wanted to work with us. We said +they wanted a cheap victory, they wanted a walk-over, they wanted to +be un-opposed, that we wouldn't give them a cheap victory, we would +make them earn it, so to speak. And we did. 10000 Africans died and +they won the victory that they were winning anyway.

+ +

Now, the most significant thing that I got out of all of this, in +addition to the fact that our rationales were basically false, was +that we lied. To just about everybody involved. One third of my +staff in this task force that I put together in Washington, commanding +this global operation, pulling strings all over the world to focus +pressure onto Angola, and military activities into Angola, one third +of my staff was propagandists, who were working, in every way they +could think of, to get stories into the U.S. press, the world press, +to create this picture of Cubans raping Angolans, Cubans and Soviets +introducing arms into the conflict, Cubans and Russians trying to take +over the world.

+ +

Our ambassador to the United Nations, Patrick Moynihan, he read +continuous statements of our position to the Security Council, the +general assembly, and the press conferences, saying the Russians and +Cubans were responsible for the conflict, and that we were staying +out, and that we deplored the militarization of the conflict.

+ +

And every statement he made was false. And every statement he made +was originated in the sub-committee of the NSC that I sat on as we +managed this thing. The state department press person read these +position papers daily to the press. We would write papers for him. +Four paragraphs. We would call him on the phone and say, 'call us 10 +minutes before you go on, the situation could change overnight, we'll +tell you which paragraph to read. And all four paragraphs would be +false. Nothing to do with the truth. Designed to play on events, to +create this impression of Soviet and Cuban aggression in Angola. When +they were in fact responding to our initiatives.

+ +

And the CIA director was required by law to brief the Congress. +This CIA director Bill Colby - the same one that dumped our people in +Vietnam - he gave 36 briefings of the Congress, the oversight +committees, about what we were doing in Angola. And he lied. At 36 +formal briefings. And such lies are perjury, and it's a felony to lie +to the Congress.

+ +

He lied about our relationship with South Africa. We were working +closely with the South African army, giving them our arms, +coordinating battles with them, giving them fuel for their tanks and +armored cars. He said we were staying well away from them. They were +concerned about these white mercenaries that were appearing in Angola, +a very sensitive issue, hiring whites to go into a black African +country, to help you impose your will on that black African country by +killing the blacks, a very sensitive issue. The Congress was +concerned we might be involved in that, and he assured them we had +nothing to do with it.

+ +

We had in fact formed four little mercenary armies and delivered +them into Angola to do this dirty business for the CIA. And he lied +to them about that. They asked if we were putting arms into the +conflict, and he said no, and we were. They asked if we had advisors +inside the country, and he said 'no, we had people going in to look at +the situation and coming back out'. We had 24 people sleeping inside +the country, training in the use of weapons, installing communications +systems, planning battles, and he said, we didn't have anybody inside +the country.

+ +

In summary about Angola, without U.S. intervention, 10000 people +would be alive that were killed in the thing. The outcome might have +been peaceful, or at least much less bloody. The MPLA was winning +when we went in, and they went ahead and won, which was, according to +our consul, the best thing for the country.

+ +

At the end of this thing the Cubans were entrenched in Angola, seen +in the eyes of much of the world as being the heroes that saved these +people from the CIA and S. African forces. We had allied the U.S. +literally and in the eyes of the world with the S. African army, and +that's illegal, and it's impolitic. We had hired white mercenaries +and eventually been identified with them. And that's illegal, and +it's impolitic. And our lies had been visible lies. We were caught +out on those lies. And the world saw the U.S. as liars.

+ +

After it was over, you have to ask yourself, was it justified? What +did the MPLA do after they had won? Were they lying when they said +they wanted to be our friends? 3 weeks after we were shut down... the +MPLA had Gulf oil back in Angola, pumping the Angolan oil from the +oilfields, with U.S. gulf technicians protected by Cuban soldiers, +protecting them from CIA mercenaries who were still mucking around in +Northern Angola.

+ +

You can't trust a communist, can you? They proceeded to buy five +737 jets from Boeing Aircraft in Seattle. And they brought in 52 U.S. +technicians to install the radar systems to land and take-off those +planes. They didn't buy [the Soviet Union's] Aeroflot.... David +Rockefeller himself tours S. Africa and comes back and holds press +conferences, in which he says that we have no problem doing business +with the so-called radical states of Southern Africa.

+ +

I left the CIA, I decided that the American people needed to know +what we'd done in Angola, what we'd done in Vietnam. I wrote my book. +I was fortunate - I got it out. It was a best-seller. A lot of +people read it. I was able to take my story to the American people. +Got on 60 minutes, and lots and lots of other shows.

+ +

I testified to the Congress and then I began my education in +earnest, after having been taught to fight communists all my life. I +went to see what communists were all about. I went to Cuba to see if +they do in fact eat babies for breakfast. And I found they don't. I +went to Budapest, a country that even national geographic admits is +working nicely. I went to Jamaica to talk to Michael Manley about his +theories of social democracy.

+ +

I went to Grenada and established a dialogue with Maurice Bishop and +Bernard Cord and Phyllis Cord, to see - these were all educated +people, and experienced people - and they had a theory, they had +something they wanted to do, they had rationales and explanations - +and I went repeatedly to hear them. And then of course I saw the +U.S., the CIA mounting a covert action against them, I saw us +orchestrating our plan to invade the country. 19 days before he was +killed, I was in Grenada talking to Maurice Bishop about these things, +these indicators, the statements in the press by Ronald Reagan, and he +and I were both acknowledging that it was almost certain that the U.S. +would invade Grenada in the near future.

+ +

I read as many books as I could find on the subject - book after +book after book. I've got several hundred books on the shelf over my +desk on the subject of U.S. national security interests. And by the +way, I urge you to read. In television you get capsules of news that +someone else puts together what they want you to hear about the news. +In newspapers you get what the editors select to put in the newspaper. +If you want to know about the world and understand, to educate +yourself, you have to get out and dig, dig up books and articles for +yourself. Read, and find out for yourselves. As you'll see, the +issues are very, very important.

+ +

I also was able to meet the players, the people who write, the +people who have done studies, people who are leading different +situations. I went to Nicaragua a total of 7 times. This was a major +covert action. It lasted longer and evolved to be bigger than what we +did in Angola. It gave me a chance, after running something from +Washington, to go to a country that was under attack, to talk to the +leadership, to talk to the people, to look and see what happens when +you give white phosporous or grenades or bombs or bullets to people, +and they go inside a country, to go and talk to the people, who have +been shot, or hit, or blown up....

+ +

We're talking about 10 to 20 thousand covert actions [the CIA has +performed since 1961]. What I found was that lots and lots of people +have been killed in these things.... Some of them are very, very +bloody.

+ +

The Indonesian covert action of 1965, reported by Ralph McGehee, who +was in that area division, and had documents on his desk, in his +custody about that operation. He said that one of the documents +concluded that this was a model operation that should be copied +elsewhere in the world. Not only did it eliminate the effective +communist party (Indonesian communist party), it also eliminated the +entire segment of the population that tended to support the communist +party - the ethnic Chinese, Indonesian Chinese. And the CIA's report +put the number of dead at 800000 killed. And that was one covert +action. We're talking about 1 to 3 million people killed in these +things.

+ +

Two of these things have led us directly into bloody wars. There +was a covert action against China, destabilizing China, for many, many +years, with a propaganda campaign to work up a mood, a feeling in this +country, of the evils of communist China, and attacking them, as we're +doing in Nicaragua today, with an army that was being launched against +them to parachute in and boat in and destabilize the country. And +this led us directly into the Korean war.

+ +

U.S. intelligence officers worked over Vietnam for a total of 25 +years, with greater and greater involvement, massive propaganda, +deceiving the American people about what was happening. Panicking +people in Vietnam to create migrations to the south so they could +photograph it and show how people were fleeing communism. And on and +on, until they got us into the Vietnam war, and 2000000 people were +killed.

+ +

There is a mood, a sentiment in Washington, by our leadership today, +for the past 4 years, that a good communist is a dead communist. If +you're killing 1 to 3 million communists, that's great. President +Reagan has gone public and said he would reduce the Soviet Union to a +pile of ashes. The problem, though, is that these people killed by +our national security activities are not communists. They're not +Russians, they're not KGB. In the field we used to play chess with +the KGB officers, and have drinks with them. It was like professional +football players - we would knock heads on Sunday, maybe in an +operation, and then Tuesday you're at a banquet together drinking +toasts and talking.

+ +

The people that are dying in these things are people of the third +world. That's the common denominator that you come up with. People of +the third world. People that have the misfortune of being born in the +Metumba mountains of the Congo, in the jungles of Southeast Asia, and +now in the hills of northern Nicaragua. Far more Catholics than +communists, far more Buddhists than communists. Most of them couldn't +give you an intelligent definition of communism, or of capitalism.

+ +

Central America has been a traditional target of U.S. dominion. If +you want to get an easy-read of the history of our involvement in +Central America, read Walter LaFeber's book, Inevitable Revolutions. +[8] We have dominated the area since 1820. We've had a policy of +dominion, of excluding other countries, other industrial powers from +Europe, from competing with us in the area.

+ +

Just to give you an example of how complete this is, and how +military this has been, between 1900 and W.W. II, we had 5000 marines +in Nicaragua for a total of 28 years. We invaded the Dominican +Republic 4 times. Haiti, we occupied it for 12 years. We put our +troops into Cuba 4 times, Panama 6 times, Guatemala once, plus a CIA +covert action to overthrow the democratic government there once. +Honduras, 7 times. And by the way, we put 12000 troops into the +Soviet Union during that same period of time.

+ +

In the 1930's there was public and international pressure about our +marines in Nicaragua....

+ +

The next three leaders of Guatemala [after the CIA installed the +puppet, Colonel Armaz in a coup] died violent deaths, and amnesty +international tells us that the governments we've supported in power +there since then, have killed 80000 people. You can read about that +one in the book Bitter Fruit, by Schlesinger and Kinzer. [5] Kinzer's +a New York Times Journalist... or Jonathan Kwitny, the Wall Street +Journal reporter, his book Endless Enemies [7] - all discuss this....

+ +

However, the money, the millions and millions of dollars we put into +this program [helping Central America] inevitably went to the rich, +and not to the people of the countries involved. And while we were +doing this, while we were trying, at least saying we were trying, to +correct the problems of Central and Latin America, the CIA was doing +its thing, too. The CIA was in fact forming the police units that are +today the death squads in El Salvador. With the leaders on the CIA's +payroll, trained by the CIA and the United States.

+ +

We had the 'public safety program' going throughout Central and +Latin America for 26 years, in which we taught them to break up +subversion by interrogating people. Interrogation, including torture, +the way the CIA taught it. Dan Metrione, the famous exponent of these +things, did 7 years in Brazil and 3 in Uruguay, teaching +interrogation, teaching torture. He was supposed to be the master of +the business, how to apply the right amount of pain, at just the right +times, in order to get the response you want from the individual.

+ +

They developed a wire. They gave them crank generators, with 'U.S. +AID' written on the side, so the people even knew where these things +came from. They developed a wire that was strong enough to carry the +current and fine enough to fit between the teeth, so you could put one +wire between the teeth and the other one in or around the genitals and +you could crank and submit the individual to the greatest amount of +pain, supposedly, that the human body can register.

+ +

Now how do you teach torture? Dan Metrione: 'I can teach you about +torture, but sooner or later you'll have to get involved. You'll have +to lay on your hands and try it yourselves.'

+ +

.... All they [the guinea pigs, beggars from off the streets] could +do was lie there and scream. And when they would collapse, they would +bring in doctors and shoot them up with vitamin B and rest them up for +the next class. And when they would die, they would mutilate the +bodies and throw them out on the streets, to terrify the population so +they would be afraid of the police and the government.

+ +

And this is what the CIA was teaching them to do. And one of the +women who was in this program for 2 years - tortured in Brazil for 2 +years - she testified internationally when she eventually got out. +She said, 'The most horrible thing about it was in fact, that the +people doing the torture were not raving psychopaths.' She couldn't +break mental contact with them the way you could if they were +psychopath. They were very ordinary people....

+ +

There's a lesson in all of this. And the lesson is that it isn't +only Gestapo maniacs, or KGB maniacs, that do inhuman things to other +people, it's people that do inhuman things to other people. And we +are responsible for doing these things, on a massive basis, to people +of the world today. And we do it in a way that gives us this +plausible denial to our own consciences; we create a CIA, a secret +police, we give them a vast budget, and we let them go and run these +programs in our name, and we pretend like we don't know it's going on, +although the information is there for us to know; and we pretend like +it's ok because we're fighting some vague communist threat. And we're +just as responsible for these 1 to 3 million people we've slaughtered +and for all the people we've tortured and made miserable, as the +Gestapo was the people that they've slaughtered and killed. Genocide +is genocide!

+ +

Now we're pouring money into El Salvador. A billion dollars or so. +And it's a documented fact that the... 14 families there that own 60% +of the country are taking out between 2 to 5 billion dollars - it's +called de-capitalization - and putting it in banks in Miami and +Switzerland. Mort Halper, in testifying to a committee of the +Congress, he suggested we could simplify the whole thing politically +just by investing our money directly in the Miami banks in their names +and just stay out of El Salvador altogether. And the people would be +better off.

+ +

Nicaragua. What's happening in Nicaragua today is covert action. +It's a classic de-stabilization program. In November 16, 1981, +President Reagan allocated 19 million dollars to form an army, a force +of contras, they're called, ex-Somoza national guards, the monsters +who were doing the torture and terror in Nicaragua that made the +Nicaraguan people rise up and throw out the dictator, and throw out +the guard. We went back to create an army of these people. We are +killing, and killing, and terrorizing people. Not only in Nicaragua +but the Congress has leaked to the press - reported in the New York +Times, that there are 50 covert actions going around the world today, +CIA covert actions going on around the world today.

+ +

You have to be asking yourself, why are we destabilizing 50 corners +of the troubled world? Why are we about to go to war in Nicaragua, +the Central American war? It is the function, I suggest, of the CIA, +with its 50 de-stabilization programs going around the world today, to +keep the world unstable, and to propagandize the American people to +hate, so we will let the establishment spend any amount of money on +arms....

+ +

The Victor Marquetti ruling of the Supreme Court gave the government +the right to prepublication censorship of books. They challenged 360 +items in his 360 page book. He fought it in court, and eventually +they deleted some 60 odd items in his book.

+ +

The Frank Snep ruling of the Supreme Court gave the government the +right to sue a government employee for damages. If s/he writes an +unauthorized account of the government - which means the people who +are involved in corruption in the government, who see it, who witness +it, like Frank Snep did, like I did - if they try to go public they +can now be punished in civil court. The government took $90000 away +from Frank Snep, his profits from his book, and they've seized the +profits from my own book....

+ +

[Reagan passed] the Intelligence Identities Protection act, which +makes it a felony to write articles revealing the identities of secret +agents or to write about their activities in a way that would reveal +their identities. Now, what does this mean? In a debate in Congress +- this is very controversial - the supporters of this bill made it +clear.... If agents Smith and Jones came on this campus, in an +MK-ultra-type experiment, and blew your fiance's head away with LSD, +it would now be a felony to publish an article in your local paper +saying, 'watch out for these 2 turkeys, they're federal agents and +they blew my loved one's head away with LSD'. It would not be a +felony what they had done because that's national security and none of +them were ever punished for those activities.

+ +

Efforts to muzzle government employees. President Reagan has been +banging away at this one ever since. Proposing that every government +employee, for the rest of his or her life, would have to submit +anything they wrote to 6 committees of the government for censorship, +for the rest of their lives. To keep the scandals from leaking out... +to keep the American people from knowing what the government is really +doing.

+ +

Then it starts getting heavy. The 'Pre-emptive Strikes' bill. +President Reagan, working through the Secretary of State Shultz... +almost 2 years ago, submitted the bill that would provide them with +the authority to strike at terrorists before terrorists can do their +terrorism. But this bill... provides that they would be able to do +this in this country as well as overseas. It provides that the +secretary of state would put together a list of people that he +considers to be terrorist, or terrorist supporters, or terrorist +sympathizers. And if your name, or your organization, is put on this +list, they could kick down your door and haul you away, or kill you, +without any due process of the law and search warrants and trial by +jury, and all of that, with impunity.

+ +

Now, there was a tremendous outcry on the part of jurists. The New +York Times columns and other newspapers saying, 'this is no different +from Hitler's "night in fog" program', where the government had the +authority to haul people off at night. And they did so by the +thousands. And President Reagan and Secretary Shultz have +persisted.... Shultz has said, 'Yes, we will have to take action on +the basis of information that would never stand up in a court. And +yes, innocent people will have to be killed in the process. But, we +must have this law because of the threat of international terrorism'.

+ +

Think a minute. What is 'the threat of international terrorism'? +These things catch a lot of attention. But how many Americans died in +terrorist actions last year? According to Secretary Shultz, 79. Now, +obviously that's terrible but we killed 55000 people on our highways +with drunken driving; we kill 2500 people in far nastier, bloodier, +mutilating, gang-raping ways in Nicaragua last year alone ourselves. +Obviously 79 peoples' death is not enough reason to take away the +protection of American citizens, of due process of the law.

+ +

But they're pressing for this. The special actions teams that will +do the pre-emptive striking have already been created, and trained in +the defense department.

+ +

They're building detention centers. There were 8 kept as mothballs +under the McLaren act after World War II, to detain aliens and +dissidents in the next war, as was done in the next war, as was done +with the Japanese people during World War II. They're building 10 +more, and army camps, and the... executive memos about these things +say it's for aliens and dissidents in the next national emergency....

+ +

FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, headed by Loius +Guiffrida, a friend of Ed Meese's.... He's going about the country +lobbying and demanding that he be given authority, in the times of +national emergency, to declare martial law, and establish a curfew, +and gun down people who violate the curfew... in the United States.

+ +

And then there's Ed Meese, as I said. The highest law enforcement +officer in the land, President Reagan's closest friend, going around +telling us that the constitution never did guarantee freedom of speech +and press, and due process of the law, and assembly.

+ +

What they are planning for this society, and this is why they're +determined to take us into a war if we'll permit it... is the Reagan +revolution.... So he's getting himself some laws so when he puts in +the troops in Nicaragua, he can take charge of the American people, +and put people in jail, and kick in their doors, and kill them if they +don't like what he's doing....

+ +

The question is, 'Are we going to permit our leaders to take away +our freedoms because they have a charming smile and they were nice +movie stars one day, or are we going to stand up and fight, and insist +on our freedoms?' It's up to us - you and I can watch this history +play in the next year and 2 and 3 years.

+ +

PART II

+ +

CIA COVERT OPERATIONS IN CENTRAL AMERICA, CIA MANIPULATION +OF THE PRESS, CIA EXPERIMENTATION ON THE U.S. PUBLIC

+ +

I just got my latest book back from the CIA censors. If I had not +submitted it to them, I would have gone to jail, without trial - blow +off juries and all that sort of thing - for having violated our +censorship laws....

+ +

In that job [Angola] I sat on a sub-committee of the NSC, so I was +like a chief of staff, with the GS-18s (like 3-star generals) Henry +Kissinger, Bill Colby (the CIA director), the GS-18s and the CIA, +making important decisions and my job was to put it all together and +make it happen and run it, an interesting place from which to watch a +covert action being done....

+ +

When the world's gotten blocked up before, like a monopoly game +where everything's owned and nobody can make any progress, the way +they erased the board and started over has been to have big world +wars, and erase countries and bomb cities and bomb banks and then +start from scratch again. This is not an option to us now because of +all these 52000 nuclear weapons....

+ +

The United States CIA is running 50 covert actions, destabilizing +further almost one third of the countries in the world today....

+ +

By the way, everything I'm sharing with you tonight is in the public +record. The 50 covert actions - these are secret, but that has been +leaked to us by members of the oversight committee of the Congress. I +urge you not to take my word for anything. I'm going to stand here +and tell you and give you examples of how our leaders lie. Obviously +I could be lying. The only way you can figure it out for yourself is +to educate yourselves. The French have a saying, 'them that don't do +politics will be done'. If you don't fill your mind eagerly with the +truth, dig it out from the records, go and see for yourself, then your +mind remains blank and your adrenaline pumps, and you can be mobilized +and excited to do things that are not in your interest to do....

+ +

Nicaragua is not the biggest covert action, it is the most famous +one. Afghanistan is, we spent several hundred million dollars in +Afghanistan. We've spent somewhat less than that, but close, in +Nicaragua....

+ +

[When the U.S. doesn't like a government], they send the CIA in, +with its resources and activists, hiring people, hiring agents, to +tear apart the social and economic fabric of the country, as a +technique for putting pressure on the government, hoping that they can +make the government come to the U.S.'s terms, or the government will +collapse altogether and they can engineer a coup d'etat, and have the +thing wind up with their own choice of people in power.

+ +

Now ripping apart the economic and social fabric of course is fairly +textbook-ish. What we're talking about is going in and deliberately +creating conditions where the farmer can't get his produce to market, +where children can't go to school, where women are terrified inside +their homes as well as outside their homes, where government +administration and programs grind to a complete halt, where the +hospitals are treating wounded people instead of sick people, where +international capital is scared away and the country goes bankrupt. +If you ask the state department today what is their official +explanation of the purpose of the Contras, they say it's to attack +economic targets, meaning, break up the economy of the country. Of +course, they're attacking a lot more.

+ +

To destabilize Nicaragua beginning in 1981, we began funding this +force of Somoza's ex-national guardsmen, calling them the contras (the +counter-revolutionaries). We created this force, it did not exist +until we allocated money. We've armed them, put uniforms on their +backs, boots on their feet, given them camps in Honduras to live in, +medical supplies, doctors, training, leadership, direction, as we've +sent them in to de-stabilize Nicaragua. Under our direction they have +systematically been blowing up graineries, saw mills, bridges, +government offices, schools, health centers. They ambush trucks so +the produce can't get to market. They raid farms and villages. The +farmer has to carry a gun while he tries to plow, if he can plow at +all.

+ +

If you want one example of hard proof of the CIA's involvement in +this, and their approach to it, dig up 'The Sabotage Manual', that +they were circulating throughout Nicaragua, a comic-book type of a +paper, with visual explanations of what you can do to bring a society +to a halt, how you can gum up typewriters, what you can pour in a gas +tank to burn up engines, what you can stuff in a sewage to stop up the +sewage so it won't work, things you can do to make a society simply +cease to function.

+ +

Systematically, the contras have been assassinating religious +workers, teachers, health workers, elected officials, government +administrators. You remember the assassination manual? that surfaced +in 1984. It caused such a stir that President Reagan had to address +it himself in the presidential debates with Walter Mondale. They use +terror. This is a technique that they're using to traumatize the +society so that it can't function.

+ +

I don't mean to abuse you with verbal violence, but you have to +understand what your government and its agents are doing. They go +into villages, they haul out families. With the children forced to +watch they castrate the father, they peel the skin off his face, they +put a grenade in his mouth and pull the pin. With the children forced +to watch they gang-rape the mother, and slash her breasts off. And +sometimes for variety, they make the parents watch while they do these +things to the children.

+ +

This is nobody's propaganda. There have been over 100000 American +witnesses for peace who have gone down there and they have filmed and +photographed and witnessed these atrocities immediately after they've +happened, and documented 13000 people killed this way, mostly women +and children. These are the activities done by these contras. The +contras are the people president Reagan calls 'freedom fighters'. He +says they're the moral equivalent of our founding fathers. And the +whole world gasps at this confession of his family traditions.

+ +

Read Contra Terror by Reed Brodie [1], former assistant Attorney +General of New York State. Read The Contras by Dieter Eich. [4] Read +With the Contras by Christopher Dickey. [2] This is a main-line +journalist, down there on a grant with the Council on Foreign +Relations, a slightly to the right of the middle of the road +organization. He writes a book that sets a pox on both your houses, +and then he accounts about going in on patrol with the contras, and +describes their activities. Read Witness for Peace: What We have Seen +and Heard. Read the Lawyer's Commission on Human Rights. Read The +Violations of War on Both Sides by the Americas Watch. [15] And there +are many, many more documentations of details, of names, of the +incidents that have happened.

+ +

Part of a de-stabilization is propaganda, to dis-credit the targeted +government. This one actually began under Jimmy Carter. He +authorized the CIA to go in and try to make the Sandinistas look to be +evil. So in 1979 [when] they came in to power, immediately we were +trying to cast them as totalitarian, evil, threatening Marxists. +While they abolished the death sentence, while they released 8000 +national guardsmen that they had in their custody that they could have +kept in prison, they said 'no. Unless we have evidence of individual +crimes, we're not going to hold someone in prison just because they +were associated with the former administration.' While they set out +to launch a literacy campaign to teach the people to read and write, +which is something that the dictator Somoza, and us supporting him, +had never bothered to get around to doing. While they set out to +build 2500 clinics to give the country something resembling a public +health policy, and access to medicines, we began to label them as +totalitarian dictators, and to attack them in the press, and to work +with this newspaper 'La Prensa', which - it's finally come out and +been admitted, in Washington - the U.S. government is funding: a +propaganda arm.

+ +

[Reagan and the State dept. have] been claiming they're building a +war machine that threatens the stability of Central America. Now the +truth is, this small, poor country has been attacked by the world's +richest country under conditions of war, for the last 5 years. Us and +our army - the death they have sustained, the action they have +suffered - it makes it a larger war proportionally than the Vietnam +war was to the U.S. In addition to the contra activities, we've had +U.S. Navy ships supervising the mining of harbors, we've sent planes +in and bombed the capital, we've had U.S. military planes flying +wing-tip to wing-tip over the country, photographing it, aerial +reconnaissance. They don't have any missiles or jets they can send up +to chase us off. We are at war with them. The have not retaliated +yet with any kind of war action against us, but we do not give them +credit with having the right to defend themselves. So we claim that +the force they built up, which is obviously purely defensive, is an +aggressive force that threatens the stability of all of Central +America.

+ +

We claim the justification for this is the arms that are flowing +from Nicaragua to El Salvador, and yet in 5 years of this activity, +President Reagan hasn't been able to show the world one shred of +evidence of any arms flowing from Nicaragua into El Salvador.

+ +

We launched a campaign to discredit their elections. International +observer teams said these were the fairest elections they have +witnessed in Central America in many years. We said they were +fraudulent, they were rigged, because it was a totalitarian system. +Instead we said, the elections that were held in El Salvador were +models of democracy to be copied elsewhere in the world. And then the +truth came out about that one. And we learned that the CIA had spent +2.2 million dollars to make sure that their choice of candidates - +Duarte - would win. They did everything, we're told, by one of their +spokesmen, indirectly, but stuff the ballot boxes....

+ +

I'll make a footnote that when I speak out, he [Senator Jesse +Helmes] calls me a traitor, but when something happens he doesn't +like, he doesn't hesitate to go public and reveal the secrets and +embarrass the U.S.

+ +

We claim the Sandinistas are smuggling drugs as a technique to +finance their revolution. This doesn't make sense. We're at war with +them, we're dying to catch them getting arms from the Soviet Union, +flying things back and forth to Cuba. We have airplanes and picket +ships watching everything that flies out of that country, and into it. +How are they going to have a steady flow of drug-smuggling planes into +the U.S.? Not likely! However, there are Nicaraguans, on these bases +in Honduras, that have planes flying into CIA training camps in +Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, several times a week.

+ +

Now, obviously i'm not going to stand in front of you and say that +the CIA might be involved in drug trafficking, am I? READ THE BOOK. +Read The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. For 20 years the CIA +was helping the Kuomantang to finance itself and then to get rich, +smuggling heroin. When we took over from the French in 1954 their +intelligence service had been financing itself by smuggling the heroin +out of Laos. We replaced them - we put Air America, the CIA +subsidiary - it would fly in with crates marked humanitarian aid, +which were arms, and it would fly back out with heroin. And the first +target, market, of this heroin was the U.S. GI's in Vietnam. If +anybody in Nicaragua is smuggling drugs, it's the contras. Now i've +been saying that since the state department started waving this red +herring around a couple of years ago, and the other day you notice +President Reagan said that the Nicaraguans, the Sandinistas, were +smuggling drugs, and the DEA said, 'it ain't true, the contras are +smuggling drugs'.

+ +

We claim the Sandinistas are responsible for the terrorism that's +happening anywhere in the world. 'The country club of terrorism' we +call it. There's an incident in Rome, and Ed Meese goes on television +and says, 'that country club in Nicaragua is training terrorists'. We +blame the Sandinistas for the misery that exists in Nicaragua today, +and there is misery, because the world's richest nation has set out to +create conditions of misery, and obviously we're bound to have some +effect. The misery is not the fault of the Sandinistas, it's the +result of our destabilization program. And despite that, and despite +some grumbling in the country, the Sandinistas in their elections got +a much higher percentage of the vote than President Reagan did, who's +supposed to be so popular in this country. And all observers are +saying that people are still hanging together, with the Sandinistas.

+ +

Now it gets tricky. We're saying that the justification for more +aid, possibly for an invasion of the country - and mind you, president +Reagan has begun to talk about this, and the Secretary of Defense +Weinberger began to say that it's inevitable - we claim that the +justification is that the Soviet Union now has invested 500 million +dollars in arms in military to make it its big client state, the +Soviet bastion in this hemisphere. And that's true. They do have a +lot of arms in there now. But the question is, how did they get +invited in? You have to ask yourself, what's the purpose of this +destabilization program? For this I direct you back to the Newsweek +article in Sept. 1981, where they announce the fact that the CIA was +beginning to put together this force of Somoza's ex-guard. Newsweek +described it as 'the only truly evil, totally unacceptable factor in +the Nicaraguan equation'. They noted that neither the white house nor +the CIA pretended it ever could have a chance of winning. So then +they asked, rhetorically, 'what's the point?' and they concluded that +the point is that by attacking the country, you can force the +Sandinistas into a more radical position, from which you have more +ammunition to attack them.

+ +

And that's what we've accomplished now. They've had to get Soviet +aid to defend themselves from the attack from the world's richest +country, and now we can stand up to the American people and say, 'see? +they have all the Soviet aid'. Make no doubt of it, it's the game +plan of the Reagan Administration to have a war in Nicaragua, they +have been working on this since 1981, they have been stopped by the +will of the American people so far, but they're working harder than +ever to engineer their war there.

+ +

Now, CIA destabilizations are nothing new, they didn't begin with +Nicaragua. We've done it before, once or twice. Like the Church +committee, investigating CIA covert action in 1975, found that we had +run several hundred a year, and we'd been in the business of running +covert actions, the CIA has, for 4 decades. You're talking about 10 +to 20 thousand covert actions.

+ +

CIA apologists leap up and say, 'well, most of these things are not +so bloody'. And that's true. You're giving a politician some money +so he'll throw his party in this direction or that one, or make false +speeches on your behalf, or something like that. It may be +non-violent, but it's still illegal intervention in other countries' +affairs, raising the question of whether or not we are going to have a +world in which law, rules of behaviour, are respected, or is it going +to be a world of bullies, where the strongest can violate and +brutalize the weakest, and ignore the laws?

+ +

But many of these things are very bloody indeed, and we know a lot +about a lot of them. Investigations by the Congress, testimony by CIA +directors, testimony by CIA case officers, books written by CIA case +officers, documents gotten out of the government under the freedom of +information act, books that are written by by pulitzer-prize-winning +journalists who've documented their cases. And you can go and read +from these things, classic CIA operations that we know about, some of +them very bloody indeed. Guatemala 1954, Brazil, Guyana, Chile, the +Congo, Iran, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Equador, Uruguay - the CIA +organized the overthrow of constitutional democracies. Read the book +Covert Action: 35 years of Deception by the journalist Godswood. [6] +Remember the Henry Kissinger quote before the Congress when he was +being grilled to explain what they had done to overthrow the +democratic government in Chile, in which the President, Salvador +Allende had been killed. And he said, 'The issues are much too +important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves'.

+ +

We had covert actions against China, very much like what we're doing +against Nicaragua today, that led us directly into the Korean war, +where we fought China in Korea. We had a long covert action in +Vietnam, very much like the one that we're running in Nicaragua today, +that tracked us directly into the Vietnam war. Read the book, The +Hidden History of the Korean War by I. F. Stone. [14] Read Deadly +Deceits by Ralph McGehee [9] for the Vietnam story. In Thailand, the +Congo, Laos, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Honduras, the CIA put together large +standing armies. In Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, the Congo, +Iran, Nicaragua, and Sri Lanka, the CIA armed and encouraged ethnic +minorities to rise up and fight. The first thing we began doing in +Nicaragua, 1981 was to fund an element of the Mesquite indians, to +give them money and training and arms, so they could rise up and fight +against the government in Managua. In El Salvador, Vietnam, Korea, +Iran, Uganda and the Congo, the CIA helped form and train the death +squads.

+ +

In El Salvador specifically, under the 'Alliance for Progress' in +the early 1960's, the CIA helped put together the treasury police. +These are the people that haul people out at night today, and run +trucks over their heads. These are the people that the Catholic +church tells us, have killed something over 50000 civilians in the +last 5 years. And we have testimony before our Congress that as late +as 1982, leaders of the treasury police were still on the CIA payroll.

+ +

Then you have the 'Public Safety Program.' I have to take just a +minute on this one because it's a very important principle involved +that we must understand, if we're to understand ourselves and the +world that we live in. In this one, the CIA was working with police +forces throughout Latin America for about 26 years, teaching them how +to wrap up subversive networks by capturing someone and interrogating +them, torturing them, and then getting names and arresting the others +and going from there. Now, this was such a brutal and such a bloody +operation, that Amnesty International began to complain and publish +reports. Then there were United Nations hearings. Then eventually +our Congress was forced to yield to international pressure and +investigate it, and they found the horror that was being done, and by +law they forced it to stop. You can read these reports -- the Amnesty +International findings, and our own Congressional hearings.

+ +

These things kill people. 800000 in Indonesia alone according to +CIA's estimate, 12000 in Nicaragua, 10000 in the Angolan operation +that I was sitting on in Washington, managing the task force. They +add up. We'll never know how many people have been killed in them. +Obviously a lot. Obviously at least a million. 800000 in Indonesia +alone. Undoubtedly the minimum figure has to be 3 million. Then you +add in a million people killed in Korea, 2 million people killed in +the Vietnam war, and you're obviously getting into gross millions of +people...

+ +

We do not parachute teams into the Soviet Union to haul families out +at night and castrate the father with the children watching, because +they have the Bomb, and a big army, and they would parachute teams +right back into our country and do the same thing to us - they're not +scared of us. For slightly different reasons, but also obvious +reasons, we don't do these things in England, or France, or Germany, +or Sweden, or Italy, or Japan. What comes out at you immediately is +that these 1 to 3 million direct victims, the dead, and in these other +wars, they're people of the third world, they're citizens of countries +that are too small to defend them from United States brutality and +aggression. They're people of the Metumba mountains of the Congo, and +the jungles of Southeast Asia, and now the hills of northern Nicaragua +- 12000 peasants. We have not killed KGB or Russian army advisors in +Nicaragua. We are not killing Cuban advisors. We're not killing very +many Sandinistas. The 12000 that we have killed in Nicaragua are +peasants, who have the misfortune of living in a CIA's chosen +battlefield. Mostly women and children. Communists? Far, far, far +more Catholics than anything else.

+ +

Now case officers that do these things in places in Nicaragua, they +do not come back to the U.S. and click their heels and suddenly become +responsible citizens. They see themselves - they have been +functioning above the laws, of God, and the laws of man - they've come +back to this country, and they've continued their operations as far as +they can get by with them. And we have abundant documentation of that +as well. The MH-Chaos program, exposed in the late 60's and shut +down, re-activated by President Reagan to a degree - we don't have the +details yet - in which they were spending a billion dollars to +manipulate U.S. student, and labor organizations. The MK-ultra +program. For 20 years, working through over 200 medical schools and +mental hospitals, including Harvard medical school, Georgetown, some +of the biggest places we've got, to experiment on American citizens +with disease, and drugs.

+ +

They dragged a barge through San Francisco bay, leaking a virus, to +measure this technique for crippling a city. They launched a whooping +cough epidemic in a Long Island suburb, to see what it would do to the +community if all the kids had whooping cough. Tough shit about the 2 +or 3 with weak constitutions that might die in the process. They put +light bulbs in the subways in Manhattan, that would create vertigo - +make people have double vision, so you couldn't see straight - and hid +cameras in the walls - to see what would happen at rush hour when the +trains are zipping past - if everybody has vertigo and they can't see +straight and they're bumping into each other.

+ +

Colonel White - oh yes, and I can't not mention the disease +experimentations - the use of deadly diseases. We launched - when we +were destabilizing Cuba for 7 years - we launched the swine fever +epidemic, in the hog population, trying to kill out all of the pigs - +a virus. We experimented in Haiti on the people with viruses.

+ +

I'm not saying, I do not have the slightest shred of evidence, that +there is any truth or indication to the rumor that the CIA and its +experimentations were responsible for AIDS. But we do have it +documented that the CIA has been experimenting on people, with +viruses. And now we have some deadly, killer viruses running around +in society. And it has to make you wonder, and it has to make you +worry.

+ +

Colonel White wrote from retirement - he was the man who was in +charge of this macabre program - he wrote, 'I toiled whole-heartedly +in the vineyards because it was fun, fun fun. Where else could a +red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage +with the blessings of the all highest?' Now that program, the +MK-ultra program, was eventually exposed by the press in 1972, +investigated by the Congress, and shut down by the Congress. You can +dig up the Congressional record and read it for yourself.

+ +

There's one book called 'In Search of the Manchurian Candidate'. +It's written by John Marks, based on 14000 documents gotten out of +the government under the Freedom of Information Act. Read for +yourselves. The thing was shut down but not one CIA case officer who +was involved was in any way punished. Not one case officer involved +in these experimentations on the American public, lost a single +paycheck for what they had done.

+ +

The Church committee found that the CIA had co-opted several hundred +journalists, including some of the biggest names in the business, to +pump its propaganda stories into our media, to teach us to hate Fidel +Castro, and Ho Chi Minh, and the Chinese, and whomever. The latest +flap or scandal we had about that was a year and a half ago. Lesley +Gelp, the heavyweight with the New York Times, was exposed for having +been working covertly with the CIA in 1978 to recruit journalists in +Europe, who would introduce stories, print stories that would create +sympathy for the neutron bomb.

+ +

The Church committee found that they had published over 1000 books, +paying someone to write a book, the CIA puts its propaganda lines in +it, the professor or the scholar gets credit for the book and gets the +royalties. The latest flap we had about that was last year. A +professor at Harvard was exposed for accepting 105000 dollars from +the CIA to write a book about the Middle East. Several thousand +professors and graduate students co-opted by the CIA to run its +operations on campuses and build files on students.

+ +

And then we have evidence - now, which has been hard to collect in +the past but we knew it was happening - of CIA agents participating, +trying to manipulate, our elections. FDN, Contra commanders, +traveling this country on CIA plane tickets, going on television and +pin-pointing a Congressional and saying, 'That man is soft on +Communism. That man is a Sandinista lover.' A CIA agent going on +television, trying to manipulate our elections.

+ +

All of this, to keep America safe for freedom and democracy.

+ +

In Nicaragua the objective is to stop the Cuban and Soviet +take-over, we say. Another big operation in which we said the same +thing was Angola, 1975, my little war. We were saying exactly the +same thing - Cubans and Soviets.

+ +

Now I will not going into great detail about this one tonight +because I wrote a book about it, I detailed it. And you can get a +copy of that book and read it for yourselves. I have to urge you, +however - please do not rush out and buy a copy of that book because +the CIA sued me. All of my profits go to the CIA, so if you buy a +copy of the book you'll be donating 65 cents to the CIA. So check it +out from your library!

+ +

If you have to buy a copy, well buy one copy and share it with all +your friends. If your bookstore is doing real well and you want to +just sort of put a copy down in your belt...

+ +

I don't know what the solution is when a society gets into +censorship, government censorship, but that's what we're in now. Do +the rules change? I just got my book back, my latest book back from +the CIA censors. If I had not submitted it to them, I would have gone +to jail, without trial - blow off juries and all that sort of thing - +for having violated our censorship laws....

+ +

So now we have the CIA running the operation in Nicaragua, lying to +us, running 50 covert actions, and gearing us up for our next war, the +Central American war. Let there be no doubt about it, President +Reagan has a fixation on Nicaragua. He came into office saying that +we shouldn't be afraid of war, saying we have to face and erase the +scars of the Vietnam war. He said in 1983, 'We will do whatever is +necessary to reverse the situation in Nicaragua', meaning get rid of +the Sandinistas. Admiral LaRoque, at the Center for Defense +Information in Washington, says this is the most elaborately prepared +invasion that the U.S. has ever done. At least that he's witnessed in +his 40 years of association with our military.

+ +

We have rehearsed the invasion of Nicaragua in operations Big Pine +I, Big Pine II, Ocean Venture, Grenada, Big Pine III. We have troops +right now in Honduras preparing. We've built 12 bases, including 8 +airstrips. Obviously we don't need 8 airstrips in Honduras for any +purpose, except to support the invasion of Nicaragua. We've built +radar stations around, to survey and watch. Some of these ventures +have been huge ones. Hundreds of airplanes, 30000 troops, rehearsing +the invasion of Nicaragua.

+ +

And of course, Americans are being given this negative view of these +evil Communist dictators in Managua, just two days drive from +Harlington, Texas. (They drive faster than I do by the way). I saw +an ad on TV just two days ago in which they said that it was just two +hours from Managua to Texas. All of this getting us ready for the +invasion of Nicaragua, for our next war.

+ +

Most of the people - 75% of the people - are polled as being against +this action. However, President Eisenhower said, 'The people of the +world genuinely want peace. Someday the leadership of the world are +going to have to give in and give it to them'. But to date, the +leaders never have, they've always been able to outwit the people, us, +and get us into the wars when they've chosen to do so.

+ +

People ask, how is this possible? I get this all the time.... +Americans are decent people. They are nice people. And they're +insulated in the worlds that they live in, and they don't understand +and we don't read our history. History is the history of war. Of +leaders of countries finding reasons and rationales to send the young +men off to fight.

+ +

In our country we talk about peace. But look at our own record. We +have over 200 incidents in which we put our troops into other +countries to force them to our will. Now we're being prepared to hate +the Sandinistas. The leaders are doing exactly what they have done +time and again throughout history. In the past we were taught to hate +and fight the Seminole Indians, after the leaders decided to annex +Florida. To hate and fight the Cherokee Indians after they found gold +in Georgia. To hate and fight Mexico twice. We annexed Texas, New +Mexico, Arizona, part of Colorado, and California.

+ +

In each of these wars the leaders have worked to organize, to +orchestrate public opinion. And then when they got people worked up, +they had a trigger that would flash, that would make people angry +enough that we could go in and do....

+ +

We have a feeling that the Vietnam war was the first one in which +the people resisted. But once again, we haven't read our history. +Kate Richards-O'Hare. In 1915, she said about WW I, 'The Women of the +U.S. are nothing but brutesalles, producing sons to be put in the +army, to be made into fertilizer'. She was jailed for 5 years for +anti-war talk.

+ +

The lessons of the Vietnam war for the American people is that it +was a tragic mistake.... 58000 of our own young people were killed, 2 +million Vietnamese were killed. We withdrew, and our position wound +up actually stronger in the Pacific basin.

+ +

You look around this society today to see if there's any evidence of +our preparations for war, and it hits you in the face....

+ +

'Join the Army. Be all that you can be'. Now if there was truth in +advertising, obviously those commercials would show a few seconds of +young men with their legs blown off at the knees, young men with their +intestines wrapped around their necks because that's what war is +really all about.

+ +

If there was honesty on the part of the army and the government, +they would tell about the Vietnam veterans. More of whom died violent +deaths from suicide after they came back from Vietnam then died in the +fighting itself.

+ +

Then you have President Reagan.... He talks about the glory of war, +but you have to ask yourself, where was he when wars were being fought +that he was young enough to fight in them? World War II, and the +Korean war. Where he was was in Hollywood, making films, where the +blood was catsup, and you could wash it off and go out to dinner +afterwards....

+ +

Where was Gordon Liddy when he was young enough to go and fight in a +war? He was hiding out in the U.S. running sloppy, illegal, +un-professional breaking and entering operations. Now you'll forgive +my egotism, at that time I was running professional breaking and +entering operations....

+ +

What about Rambo himself? Sylvester Stallone. Where was Sylvester +Stallone during the Vietnam war? He got a draft deferment for a +physical disability, and taught physical education in a girls' school +in Switzerland during the war.

+ +

Getting back to President Reagan. He really did say that 'you can +always call cruise missiles back'.... Now, you can call back a B-52, +and you can call back a submarine, but a cruise missile is +different.... When it lands, it goes boom!. And I would prefer that +the man with the finger on the button could understand the difference. +This is the man that calls the MX a peace-maker. This is the man +who's gone on television and told us that nuclear war could be +winnable. This is the man who's gone on television and proposed that +we might want to drop demonstration [atom] bombs in Europe to show +people that we're serious people. This is the man who likens the +Contras to the moral equivalents of our own founding fathers. This is +the man who says South Africa is making progress on racial equality. +This is the man who says that the Sandinistas are hunting down and +hounding and persecuting Jews in Nicaragua. And the Jewish leaders go +on TV the next day in this country and say there are 5 Jewish families +in Nicaragua, and they're not having any problems at all. This is the +man who says that they're financing their revolution by smuggling +drugs into the U.S. And the DEA says, 'It ain't true, it's president +Reagan's Contras that are doing it'....

+ +

[When Reagan was governor of California, Reagan] said 'If there has +to be a bloodbath then let's get it over with'. Now you have to think +about this a minute. A leader of the U.S. seriously proposing a +bloodbath of our own youth. There was an outcry of the press, so 3 +days later he said it again to make sure no one had misunderstood him.

+ +

Read. You have to read to inform yourselves. Read The Book of +Quotes [12]. Read On Reagan: The Man and the Presidency [3] by Ronnie +Dugger. It gets heavy. Dugger concludes in his last chapter that +President Reagan has a fixation on Armageddon. The Village Voice 18 +months ago published an article citing the 11 times that President +Reagan publicly has talked about the fact that we are all living out +Armageddon today....

+ +

[Reagan] has Jerry Falwell into the White House. This is the man +that preaches that we should get on our knees and beg for God to send +the rapture down. Hell's fires on earth so the chosen can go up on +high and all the other people can burn in hell's fires on earth. +President Reagan sees himself as playing the role of the greatest +leader of all times forever. Leading us into Armageddon. As he goes +out at the end of his long life, we'll all go out with him....

+ +

Why does the CIA run 10000 brutal covert actions? Why are we +destabilizing a third of the countries in the world today when there's +so much instability and misery already? Why are our leaders now +taking us into another war? Why are we systematically taught to hate +and fight other people?

+ +

What you have to understand is the politics of paranoia. The +easiest... buttons to punch are the buttons of macho, aggression, +paranoia, hate, anger, and fear. The Communists are in Managua and +that's just 2 hours from San Diego, CA. This gets people excited, +they don't think. It's the pep-rally, the football pep-rally factor. +When you get people worked up to hate, they'll let you spend huge +amounts of money on arms.

+ +

Read The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills. [11] Read The Permanent War +Complex by Seymour Melman. [10] CIA covert actions have the function +of keeping the world hostile and unstable....

+ +

We can't take care of the poor, we can't take care of the old, but +we can spend millions, hundreds of millions of dollars to destabilize +Nicaragua....

+ +

Why arms instead of schools? .... They can make gigantic profits off +the nuclear arms race because of the hysteria, and the paranoia, and +the secrecy. And that's why they're committed to building more and +more and more weapons, is because they're committed to making a +profit. And that's what the propaganda, and that's what the hysteria +is all about. Now people say, 'What can I do?'....

+ +

The youth did rise up and stop the Vietnam war....

+ +

We have to join hands with the people in England, and France, and +Germany, and Israel, and the Soviet Union, and China, and India - the +countries that have the bomb, and the others that are trying to get +it. And give our leaders no choice. They have to find some other way +to do business other than to motivate us through hate and paranoia and +anger and killing, or we'll find other leaders to run the country.

+ +

Now, Helen Caldicott, at the end of her lectures, I've heard her +say, very effectively, 'Tell people to get out and get to work on the +problem.... You'll feel better'....

+ +

'What can I do?'.... If you can travel, go to Nicaragua and see for +yourself. Go to the Nevada test site and see for yourself. Go to +Pantex on Hiroshima day this summer, and see the vigil there. The +place where we make 10 nose-cones a day, 70 a week, year in and year +out. He [Admiral LaRock] said, 'I'd tell them, if they feel +comfortable lying down in front of trucks with bombs on them, to lie +down in front of trucks with bombs on them.' But he said, 'I'd tell +them that they can't wait. They've got to start tomorrow, today, and +do it, what they can, every day of their lives'.

+ +

[1] Reed Brody. +Contra Terror. +??, .

+ +

[2] Christopher Dickey. +With the Contras. +??, .

+ +

[3] Dugger, Ronnie. +On Reagan: The Man and the Presidency. +McGraw-Hill, 1983.

+ +

[4] Eich, Dieter. +The Contras: Interviews with Anti-Sandinistas. +Synthesis, 1985.

+ +

[5] Kinzer, Stephan and Stephen Schlesinger. +Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in +Guatemala. +Doubleday, 1983.

+ +

[6] Godswood, Roy (editor). +Covert Actions: 35 Years of Deception. +Transaction, 1980.

+ +

[7] Kwitny, Jonathon. +Endless Enemies: America's Worldwide War Against It's Own Best +Interests. +Congdon and Weed, 1984.

+ +

[8] LaFeber, Walter. +Inevitable Revolutions; The United States in Central America. +Norton, 1984.

+ +

[9] McGehee, Ralph. +Deadly Deceits: My Twenty-Five Years in the CIA. +Sheridan Square, 1983.

+ +

[10] Melman, Seymour. +The Permanent War Complex. +Simon and Shuster, 1974.

+ +

[11] Mills, C. Wright. +The Power Elite. +Oxford, 1956.

+ +

[12] ?? +The Book of Quotes. +McGraw-Hill, 1979.

+ +

[13] Stockwell, John. +In Search of Enemies. +Norton, 1978.

+ +

[14] Stone, I.F. +Hidden History of the Korean War. +Monthly Review, 1969.

+ +

[15] The Americas Watch. +The Violations of War on Both Sides. +??, .

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(The Elkhorn Manifesto)

+ +

SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA:

+ +

The Real Reason the Government Won't Debate Medical Cannabis and +Industrial Hemp Re-legalization

+ +

An Open Letter to All Americans by R. William Davis

+ +

Documented Evidence of a Secret Business and Political Alliance +Between the U.S. "Establishment" and the Nazis - Before, During and +After World War II - up to the Present.

+ +

PREFACE

+ +

Before the Gatewood Galbraith for Governor Campaign in 1991, few +Kentuckians knew that the plant that the federal government had +demonized for over 50 years as "Marijuana - Assassin of Youth," was, +in fact, Cannabis Hemp, the most traded commodity in the world until +the mid-1800s, and our state's number one crop, industry, and most +important source of revenue, for over 150 years.

+ +

Today, thanks to the efforts of pioneer hemp researchers and public +advocates such as Galbraith, Jack Fraizer, Jack Herer, Chris Conrad, +Ed Rosenthal, Don Wirtshafter and others, the federal government's +unjustifiable suppression of our state's right to develop our most +valuable and versatile natural resource, is facing increasing +opposition from an informed public. Hemp is now recognized as the +number one agriculturally renewable raw material in the world, and +perhaps the only crop / industry which can guarantee us industrial +and economic independence from the trans-national corporations.

+ +

"Shadow of the Swastika" is a follow-up to my earlier work, +"Cannabis Hemp: the Invisible Prohibition Revealed," which I wrote +and published in support of the Galbraith Campaign. Since +publication of that booklet, there has been growing public +acceptance of the evidence that Marijuana Prohibition was created in +1937, not to protect society from the "evils of the drug Marijuana," +as the Federal government claimed, but as an act of deliberate +economic and industrial sabotage against the re-emerging Industrial +Hemp Industry.

+ +

Previous investigations by hemp researchers have been limited to +the suppression of free-market competition from the hemp industry, +and focused on the activities of three prominent members of +America's corporate, industrial and banking establishment during the +mid-to late-1930s:

+ +

WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, the newspaper and magazine tycoon.

+ +

The expected rebirth of cannabis hemp as a less expensive source of +pulp for paper meant his millions of acres of prime timberland, and +investment in wood pulp papermaking equipment, would soon be worth +much less. In the 1920s, about the same time as the equipment was +developed to economically mass-produce raw hemp into pulp and fiber +for paper, he began the "Reefer Madness" hoax in his newspaper and +magazine publications.

+ +

ANDREW MELLON, founder of the Gulf Oil Corporation.

+ +

He knew that cannabis hemp was an alternative industrial raw +material for the production of thousands of products, including fuel +and plastics, which, if allowed to compete in the free-market, would +threaten the future profits of the oil companies. As Secretary of +the Treasury he created the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and +appointed his own future nephew-in-law, Harry Anslinger, as +director. Anslinger would later use the sensational, and totally +fabricated, articles published by Hearst, to push the Marijuana Tax +Act of 1937 through Congress, which successfully destroyed the +rebirth of the cannabis hemp industry.

+ +

A prominent member of one Congressional subcommittee who voted in +favor of this bill was Joseph Guffey of Pennsylvania, an oil tycoon +and former business partner of Andrew Mellon in the Spindletop oil +fields in Texas.

+ +

THE DU PONT CHEMICAL CORPORATION,

+ +

which owned the patents on synthetic petrochemicals and industrial +processes that promised billions of dollars in future profits from +the sale of wood pulp paper, lead additives for gasoline, synthetic +fibers and plastics, if hemp could be suppressed. At the time, du +Pont family influence in both government and the private sector was +unmatched, according to historians and journalists.

+ +

This publication, however, reveals documented historical evidence +that the suppression of the hemp industry was only one key part of a +much larger conspiracy in the 1930s, not only by the three corporate +interests named above, but by many others, as well.

+ +

Congressional records, FBI reports and investigations by the +Justice Department, during the 1930s and 1940s, have already +documented evidence of this wider plot. A list of the corporations +named include Du Pont, Standard Oil, and General Motors, all of +which were proven to be conspiring with Nazi industrial cartels to +eliminate competition world-wide and divide among themselves the +Earth's industrial resources and commercial markets, for profitable +exploitation.

+ +

This conspiracy succeeded. It is now obvious that this lack of +serious competition in the industrial raw materials market caused +our present - and totally contrived - addiction to petrochemicals. +Its success is directly responsible for the most troubling problems +we now face in the 1990s; serious damage to our environment, +concentration of economic and political power into fewer and fewer +hands, and the weakening of the rights of individuals and states to +determine their own futures.

+ +

It is more and more evident that, given the historical record, the +structure of the New World Order is being built upon the Foundation +of Marijuana Prohibition, and only the relegalization of free-market +hemp competition can save us.

+ +

R. William Davis July 4, 1996 Louisville, Kentucky

+ +

INTRODUCTION

+ +

To clearly understand the circumstances which existed during the +1930s and 1940s, and are the subject of this booklet, it would be +helpful to first put the hemp / petrochemical conflict into +historical perspective. The events which took place in the years +leading up to World War II were a continuation of a struggle between +agricultural and industrial interests that began before the American +Revolution, a struggle which has yet to be decided, even today.

+ +

AGRICULTURE VS. INDUSTRY

+ +

The historical record, at least as it has been presented to us in +the public school system, is that the Civil War was fought to end +slavery. This is not the whole story. The truth of the matter is +that it was also a clash between Northern industrialists and +Southern agriculturists, over control of the expansion into the +newly opened West.

+ +

In 1845, Abraham Lincoln wrote, "I hold it a paramount duty of us +in the free states due to the union of the states, and perhaps to +liberty itself, to let the slavery of other states alone." (1)

+ +

Concerning the Western territories, he said "The whole Nation is +interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We +want them for homes and free white people. This they cannot be, to +any considerable extent, if slavery be planted within them." (2)

+ +

Lincoln was caught in the middle between the Northern +industrialists and the Southern agriculturists, who both wanted to +dominate Western expansion because of the wealth it offered. The +industrialists knew that the agriculturists depended on slavery +because cotton, upon which Southern wealth was based, was very labor +intensive and required the inexpensive labor that slavery provided. +They knew that if the Western lands were declared "free states" then +the Southern agriculturists would be unable to compete, and would be +forced to leave Western expansion, and its potential profits, to the +Northern industrialists.

+ +

Quoting "The Irony of Democracy," by Thomas R. Dye and T. Harmon +Zeigler,

+ +

"The importance of the Civil War for America's elite structure was +the commanding position that the new industrial capitalists won +during the course of the struggle. . . . The economic transformation +of the United States from an agricultural to an industrial nation +reached the crescendo of a revolution in the second half of the +nineteenth century.

+ +

"Civil War profits compounded the capital of the industrialists and +placed them in a position to dominate the economic life of the +nation. Moreover, when the Southern planters were removed from the +national scene, the government in Washington became the exclusive +domain of the new industrial leaders." (3)

+ +

The Northern industrialists used this increased capital to build +the system of transcontinental railways, linking the Northeast with +both the South and West. The labor for this undertaking was from the +Northeastern Establishment's own source of cheap labor - recently +freed slaves and poor immigrants from Europe and China - who +suffered under living conditions which were often little better than +those which existed under the Slave System just a few years before.

+ +

It was during the years between the Civil War and the beginning of +the Twentieth Century that the Northern industrialists altered the +role of the American government. Originally established by the +Revolution to protect and preserve the lives, property and freedoms +of all Americans from repressive government, it was transformed into +an agency to protect the economic future of Northern industrialists.

+ +

"[T]he industrial elites," according to Dye and Zeigler, "saw no +objection to legislation if it furthered their success in business. +Unrestricted competition might prove who was the fittest, but as an +added precaution to insure that the industrial capitalists +themselves emerged as the fittest, these new elites also insisted +upon government subsidies, patents, tariffs, loans, and massive +giveaways of land and other natural resources." (4)

+ +

The struggle between Western farmers and the railroads owned by the +Northern industrialists is a good example. To protect their +interests, citizens created "the Grange," an organization which +helped to enact state laws regulating the "ruthless aggression" of +the railroads. In 1877, these laws were upheld by the Supreme Court +in the Munn v. Illinois decision. But, a few years later, Justice +Stephen A. Field changed the role, and the very definition, of the +corporation. He gave a new interpretation to the Fourteenth +Amendment that actually gave corporations legal status as citizens . +. . as artificial persons. (5)

+ +

It was not long after this change in the interpretation of the +Fourteenth Amendment that John D. Rockefeller, the father of the +modern-day corporation, created the great Standard Oil Corporation +which, by the late 1880s, gained control over 90% of all the oil +refineries in America. (6)

+ +

The roots of 20th Century American politics can best be illustrated +by the 1896 Presidential Election, won by Republican William +McKinley by a landslide. The McKinley campaign was directed by +Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Standard Oil and raised a $16000000 +campaign fund from wealthy fellow industrialists, (an amount that +was unmatched in Presidential campaigns until the 1960s). The major +theme of the campaign, and one that would echo far into the future, +was "what's good for business is good for the country." (7)

+ +

This emerging political and judicial misuse of power in America was +feared by Thomas Jefferson who, in 1787, wrote, "I think our +governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they +remain chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall +be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one +another in large cities as in Europe they will become corrupt as in +Europe." (8)

+ +

It is important to remember that the American Revolution was a +clash between the agriculturists in the colonies, and the British +industrialists who controlled the government in England. Almost 100 +years later the Civil War was fought as a continuation of the same +basic struggle, but with the victory going back to the +industrialists. This began the erosion of the American government +"of the people, for the people and by the people." The buying of the +1896 Presidential Election, by Hanna of Standard Oil and the +Northern industrial interests, was the next important step on the +long road to the American government "of the corporation, for the +corporation and by the corporation."

+ +

A few years later, World War I would forge an even closer +relationship between corporations and government in the United +States, as well as around the world. Anthony Sampson, in his book +"The Arms Bazaar," notes that "the American companies, led by US +Steel and du Pont, were transformed by war orders. US Steel, which +had absorbed Carnegie's old steel company, had made average annual +profits in the four pre-war years of $105 million, while in the four +war years they were $240 million; and du Pont's average profit went +up from $6 million to $58 million. . . .

+ +

"Certainly the arms companies had become much richer through the +war, and there were widespread suspicions that they were actually +trying to prolong it." (9)

+ +

The bottom line is, of course, victory or profit, and in what +proportions? To what lengths would this nation's top industrial +leaders go to secure their share of the profits before and during +the next "war to end all war?"

+ +

NOTES: INTRODUCTION

+ +

1.American Political Tradition, Hofstadter, p. 109. (As reprinted +in The Irony of Democracy, Thomas R. Dye and L. Harmon Zeigler, p. +72) 2.American Political Tradition, p. 113. (As reprinted in The +Irony of Democracy, p. 72) 3.Irony of Democracy, p. 73 4.Ibid., p. +74 5.Ibid., p. 75 6.Ibid., p. 76 7.Ibid., p. 82 8.Ibid., p. 62 9.The +Arms Bazaar, Anthony Sampson, p. 65

+ +

U.S. CORPORATIONS AND THE NAZIS

+ +

"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist +state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely +with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of +opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our +American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. . . .

+ +

"Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with +bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They +extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are +helping to keep it there." - William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to +Germany, 1937.(1)

+ +

A large volume of documentary evidence exists that reveals that +many of the richest, most powerful men in the United States, and the +giant corporations they controlled, were secretly allied with the +Nazis, both before and during World War II, even after war was +declared between Germany and America. This alliance began with U.S. +corporate investment during the reconstruction of post-World War I +Germany in the 1920s and, years later, included financial, +industrial and military aid to the Nazis.

+ +

On the pages which follow we will review which prominent Americans +and corporations were involved, what aid and comfort they gave our +nation's enemies - treasonable offenses during time of war, and +investigations into these matters which produced evidence of a +US/Nazi corporate conspiracy to bring a fascist state to America, +and eliminate competition in the industrial raw materials market in +order to force world-wide dependance on oil-based petrochemicals.

+ +

WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST

+ +

Hearst, who was so concerned about the American public's health and +safety on the matter of marijuana use, apparently had no such fears +when it came to Hitler and the Nazis. According to journalist George +Seldes:

+ +

". . . Hitler had the support of the most widely circulated +magazine in history, 'Readers Digest,' as well as nineteen big-city +newspapers and one of the three great American news agencies, the +$220-million Hearst press empire.

+ +

". . . William Randolph Hearst, Sr., . . . was the lord of all the +press lords in the United States. The millions who read the Hearst +newspapers and magazines and saw Hearst newsreels in the nation's +moviehouses had their minds poisoned by Hitler propaganda.

+ +

"It was . . . disclosed first to President Roosevelt [by Ambassador +Dodd] almost on the day it happened, in September 1934, and it is +detailed in the book 'Ambassador Dodd's Diary,' published in 1941, +and again in libel-proof documents on file in the courts of the +state of New York. William E. Dodd, professor of history [at the +University of Chicago], told me about the Hearst sell-out . . .

+ +

"According to Ambassador Dodd, Hearst came to take the waters at +Bad Nauheim in September 1934, and Dodd somehow learned immediately +that Hitler had sent two of his most trusted Nazi propagandists, +Hanfstangel and Rosenberg, to ask Hearst how Nazism could present a +better image in the United States. When Hearst went to Berlin later +in the month, he was taken to see Hitler."

+ +

Seldes reports that a $400000 a year deal was struck between +Hearst and Hitler, and signed by Doctor Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi +propaganda minister. "Hearst," continues Seldes, "completely changed +the editorial policy of his nineteen daily newspapers the same month +he got the money."

+ +

In the court documents filed on behalf of Dan Gillmor, publisher of +a magazine named "Friday," in response to a lawsuit by Hearst, under +item 61, he states: "Promptly after this said visit with Adolf +Hitler and the making of said arrangements. . . said plaintiff, +William Randolph Hearst, instructed all Hearst press correspondents +in Germany, including those of INS [Hearst's International News +Service] to report happenings in Germany only in a friendly' manner. +All of such correspondents reporting happenings in Germany +accurately and without friendliness, sympathy and bias for the +actions of the then German government, were transferred elsewhere, +discharged, or forced to resign. . . ."

+ +

In the late 1930s, Seldes recounts, when "several sedition +indictments [were brought by] the Department of Justice . . . +against a score or two of Americans, the defendants included an +unusually large minority of newspaper men and women, most of them +Hearst employees." (2)

+ +

ANDREW MELLON

+ +

"Thurman Arnold, as assistant district attorney of the United +States, his assistant, Norman Littell, and several Congressional +investigations, have produced incontrovertible evidence that some of +our biggest monopolies entered into secret agreements with the Nazi +cartels and divided the world up among them," states Seldes in his +book, "Facts and Fascism," published in 1943. "Most notorious of all +was Alcoa, the Mellon-Davis-Duke monopoly which is largely +responsible for the fact America did not have the aluminum with +which to build airplanes before and after Pearl Harbor, while +Germany had an unlimited supply." (3)

+ +

Alcoa sabotage of American war production had already cost the U.S. +"10000 fighters or 1665 bombers," according to Congressman Pierce +of Oregon speaking in May 1941, because of "the effort to protect +Alcoa's monopolistic position. . ."

+ +

"If America loses this war," said Secretary of the Interior +[Harold] Ickes, June 26, 1941, "it can thank the Aluminum +Corporation of America."

+ +

"By its cartel agreement with I.G. Farben, controlled by Hitler," +writes Seldes, "Alcoa sabotaged the aluminum program of the U.S. air +force. The Truman Committee [on National Defense, chaired by then-Senator Harry S. Truman in 1942] heard testimony that Alcoa's +representative, A.H. Bunker, $1-a-year head of the aluminum section +of O.P.M., prevented work on our $600000000 aluminum expansion +program." (4)

+ +

DU PONT AND GENERAL MOTORS

+ +

General Motors is included here because, by 1929, the Du Pont +corporation had acquired controlling interest in, and had +interlocking directorships with, General Motors.

+ +

Irenee du Pont, "the most imposing and powerful member of the +clan," according to biographer and historian Charles Higham, "was +obsessed with Hitler's principles." "He keenly followed the career +of the future Fuhrer in the 1920s, and on September 7, 1926, in a +speech to the American Chemical Society, he advocated a race of +supermen, to be achieved by injecting special drugs into them in +boyhood to make their characters to order." Higham's book on this +subject, "Trading with the Enemy: An Expose of the Nazi-American +Money Plot 1933-1949," is highly recommended.

+ +

Du Pont's anti-Semitism "matched that of Hitler" and, in 1933, the +Du Ponts "began financing native fascist groups in America . . ." +one of which Higham identifies as the American Liberty League: "a +Nazi organization whipping up hatred of blacks and Jews," and the +"love of Hitler.

+ +

"Financed . . . to the tune of $500000 the first year, the Liberty +League had a lavish thirty-one-room office in New York, branches in +twenty-six colleges, and fifteen subsidiary organizations nationwide +that distributed fifty million copies of its Nazi pamphlets. . . .

+ +

"The Du Ponts' fascistic behavior was seen in 1936, when Irenee du +Pont used General Motors money to finance the notorious Black +Legion. This terrorist organization had as its purpose the +prevention of automobile workers from unionizing. The members wore +hoods and black robes, with skulls and crossbones. They fire-bombed +union meetings, murdered union organizers, often by beating them to +death, and dedicated their lives to destroying Jews and communists. +They linked to the Ku Klux Klan. . . . It was brought out that at +least fifty people, many of them blacks, had been butchered by the +Legion." (5)

+ +

Du Pont support of Hitler extended into the very heart of the Nazi +war machine as well, according to Higham, and several other +researchers: "General Motors, under the control of the Du Pont +family of Delaware, played a part in collaboration" with the Nazis.

+ +

"Between 1932 and 1939, bosses of General Motors poured $30 million +into I.G. Farben plants . . ." Further, Higham informs us that by +"the mid-1930s, General Motors was committed to full-scale +production of trucks, armored cars, and tanks in Nazi Germany." (6)

+ +

Researchers Morton Mintz and Jerry S. Cohen, in their book, "Power +Inc.," describe the Du Pont-GM-Nazi relationship in these terms:

+ +

". . . In 1929, [Du Pont-controlled] GM acquired the largest +automobile company in Germany, Adam Opel, A.G. This predestined the +subsidiary to become important to the Nazi war effort. In a heavily +documented study presented to the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust +and Monopoly in February 1974, Bradford C. Snell, an assistant +subcommittee counsel, wrote:

+ +

"'GM's participation in Germany's preparation for war began in +1935. That year its Opel subsidiary cooperated with the Reich in +locating a new heavy truck facility at Brandenburg, which military +officials advised would be less vulnerable to enemy air attacks. +During the succeeding years, GM supplied the Wehrmact with Opel +"Blitz" trucks from the Brandenburg complex. For these and other +contributions to [the Nazis] wartime preparations, GM's chief +executive for overseas operations [James Mooney] was awarded the +Order of the German Eagle (first class) by Adolf Hitler.'"

+ +

Du Pont-GM Nazi collaboration, according to Snell, included the +participation of Standard Oil of New Jersey [now Exxon] in one, very +important arrangement. GM and Standard Oil of New Jersey formed a +joint subsidiary with the giant Nazi chemical cartel, I.G. Farben, +named Ethyl G.m.b.H. [now Ethyl, Inc.] which, according to Snell: +"provided the mechanized German armies with synthetic tetraethyl +fuel [leaded gas]. During 1936-39, at the urgent request of Nazi +officials who realized that Germany's scarce petroleum reserves +would not satisfy war demands, GM and Exxon joined with German +chemical interests in the erection of the lead-tetraethyl plants. +According to captured German records, these facilities contributed +substantially to the German war effort: 'The fact that since the +beginning of the war we could produce lead-tetraethyl is entirely +due to the circumstances that, shortly before, the Americans [Du +Pont, GM and Standard Oil] had presented us with the production +plants complete with experimental knowledge. Without lead-tetraethyl +the present method of warfare would be unthinkable.'" (7)

+ +

At about the same time the Du Ponts were serving the Nazi cause in +Germany, they were involved in a Fascist plot to overthrow the +United States government.

+ +

"Along with friends of the Morgan Bank and General Motors," in +early 1934, writes Higham, "certain Du Pont backers financed a coup +d'etat that would overthrow the President with the aid of a $3 +million-funded army of terrorists . . ." The object was to force +Roosevelt "to take orders from businessmen as part of a fascist +government or face the alternative of imprisonment and execution . . +."

+ +

Higham reports that "Du Pont men allegedly held an urgent series of +meetings with the Morgans," to choose who would lead this "bizarre +conspiracy." "They finally settled on one of the most popular +soldiers in America, General Smedly Butler of Pennsylvania." Butler +was approached by "fascist attorney" Gerald MacGuire (an official of +the American Legion), who attempted to recruit Butler into the role +of an American Hitler.

+ +

"Butler was horrified," but played along with MacGuire until, a +short time later, he notified the White House of the plot. Roosevelt +considered having "the leaders of the houses of Morgan and Du Pont" +arrested, but feared that "it would create an unthinkable national +crisis in the midst of a depression and perhaps another Wall Street +crash." Roosevelt decided the best way to defuse the plot was to +expose it, and leaked the story to the press.

+ +

"The newspapers ran the story of the attempted coup on the front +page, but generally ridiculed it as absurd and preposterous." But an +investigation by the Congressional Committee on Un-American +Activities - 74th Congress, first session, House of Representatives, +Investigation of Nazi and other propaganda - was begun later that +same year.

+ +

"It was four years," continues Higham, "before the committee dared +to publish its report in a white paper that was marked for +'restricted circulation.' They were forced to admit that 'certain +persons made an attempt to establish a fascist organization in this +country . . . [The] committee was able to verify all the pertinent +statements made by General Butler.' This admission that the entire +plan was deadly in intent was not accompanied by the imprisonment of +anybody. Further investigations disclosed that over a million people +had been guaranteed to join the scheme and that the arms and +munitions necessary would have been supplied by Remington, a Du Pont +subsidiary." (8)

+ +

The names of important individuals and groups involved in the +conspiracy were suppressed by the committee, but later revealed by +Seldes, Philadelphia Record reporter Paul French, and Jules Archer, +author of the book, "The Plot to Seize the White House." Included +were John W. Davis (attorney for the J.P. Morgan banking group), +Robert Sterling Clark (Wall Street broker and heir to the Singer +sewing machine fortune), William Doyle (American Legion official), +and the American Liberty League (backed by executives from J.P. +Morgan and Co., Rockefeller interests, E.F. Hutton, and Du Pont-controlled General Motors). (9)

+ +

THE US/NAZI CARTEL AGREEMENT

+ +

"On November 23, 1937," states Higham, "representatives of General +Motors held a secret meeting in Boston with Baron Manfred von +Killinger, who was . . . in charge of West Coast espionage [for the +Nazis], and Baron von Tipplekirsch, Nazi consul general and Gestapo +leader in Boston. This group signed a joint agreement showing total +commitment to the Nazi cause for the indefinite future. . . ." (10)

+ +

Seldes describes the plotters as "the great owners and rulers of +America who planned world domination through political and military +Fascism" including "several leading American industrialists, members +of the Congress of the United States, and representatives of large +business and political organizations . . ."

+ +

He obtained the text of the agreement, and published it in his +newsletter, "In Fact," on July 13, 1942. The plan "goes much further +than the mere cartel conspiracies of Big Business of both +countries," writes Seldes, "because it has political clauses and +points to a bigger conspiracy of money and politicians such as +helped betray Norway and France and other lands to the Nazi machine. +The most powerful fortress in America is the production monopolies, +but its betrayal would involve, as it did in France, the +participation of some of the most powerful figures of the political +as well as the industrial world." (11)

+ +

STANDARD OIL OF NEW JERSEY (Now Exxon)

+ +

"On February 27, 1942," according to Higham, "Arnold, with +documents stuffed under his arms, . . . strode into the lion's den +of Standard at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Just behind him were Secretary +of the Navy Franklin Knox and Secretary of the Army Henry L. +Stimson." They confronted Standard official William Farish and +"Arnold sharply laid down his charges" that "by continuing to favor +Hitler in rubber deal and patent arrangements," Standard Oil "had +acted against the interests of the American government . . . +suggested a fine of $1.5 million and a consent decree whereby +Standard would turn over for the duration all the patents" in +question.

+ +

"Farish rejected the proposal on the spot. He pointed out that +Standard" was also selling the U.S. a "high percentage" of the fuel +being used by the Army, Navy, and Air Force "making it possible for +America to win the war. Where would America be without it?"

+ +

Blackmail? Yes, says Higham. And effective. Arnold was finally +reduced to asking the oil company official "to what Standard Oil +would agree. After all, there had to be at least token punishment. . +. . Arnold, Stimson, and Knox soon realized they had no power to +compare with that of Standard."

+ +

The price Standard Oil "agreed" to pay for its crime? A modest fine +of a few thousand dollars divided up among ten defendants. "Farish +paid $1000, or a quarter of one week's salary, for having betrayed +America."

+ +

In New Jersey, charges of "criminal conspiracy with the enemy" were +filed against Standard, then "dropped in return for Standard +releasing its patents and paying the modest fine." But Arnold, and +his ally, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, weren't finished +with Standard Oil just yet. They approached Senator Truman, chairman +of the Senate Special Committee Investigating the National Defense +Program. "With great enthusiasm Give 'em Hell Harry embarked on a +series of hearings in March 1942, in order to disclose the truth +about Standard."

+ +

Between the 26th and the 28th of March, 1942, Arnold "produced +documents showing that Standard and Farben in Germany had literally +carved up the world markets, with oil and chemical monopolies all +over the map," according to Higham. (12)

+ +

Mintz and Cohen describe the confrontation:

+ +

"Four months after the United States entered World War II, the +Justice Department obtained an indictment of Exxon and its principal +officers for having made arrangements, starting in the late 1920s +with I.G. Farben involving patent sharing and division of world +markets. Jersey Standard agreed not to develop processes for the +manufacture of synthetic rubber; in exchange, Farben agreed not to +compete in the American petroleum market. After war broke out in +Europe, but before the attack on Pearl Harbor, executives of +Standard Oil and Farben, at a meeting in Holland, established a +'modus vivendi' for continuing the arrangements in event of war +between the United States and Germany - although the arrangements +interfered with the ability of the United States to make synthetic +rubber desperately needed after it entered the war in December 1941. +Rather than face a criminal trial, Exxon and the indicted executives +entered no-contest pleas - the legal equivalent of guilty pleas - +and were fined the minor sums which were the maximum amounts +permitted by law. A few days later, on March 26, 1942, the Senate +Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program held a +hearing at which Thurman Arnold, chief of the Antitrust Division, +put into the record documents on which the [criminal] indictment had +been based, including a memo from a Standard Oil official on the +'modus vivendi' agreed to in Holland. After the hearing, the +committee chairman, Harry S. Truman, characterized the arrangements +as treasonable." (13)

+ +

Another source book on this subject of US / Nazi corporate +activities is "The Secret War Against the Jews," by Mark Aarons and +John Loftus. Here is their version of the events:

+ +

"Before the war Standard of New Jersey had forged a synthetic oil +and rubber cartel with the Nazi-controlled I.G. Farben," which +"worked well until the United States joined the war in 1941. . . . +Next to the Rockefellers, I.G. Farben owned the largest share of +stock in Standard Oil of New Jersey. Among other things, Standard +had provided Farben with its synthetic rubber patents and technical +knowledge, while Farben had kept its patents to itself, under strict +instructions from the Nazi government."

+ +

Evidence which Thurman Arnold turned over to the Truman Committee, +which Truman would declare "treasonous," included "Standard's 1939 +letter renewing its agreement, which made it clear that the +Rockefellers' company was prepared to work with the Nazis whether +their own government was at war with the Third Reich or not. +Truman's Senate Committee on the National Defense was outraged and +began to probe into the whole scandalous arrangement, much to the +discomfort of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Suddenly, however, the whole +matter was dropped.

+ +

"There was a reason for Rockefeller's escape: blackmail. According +to the former intelligence officers we interviewed on this point, +the blackmail was simple and powerful: The Dulles brothers [John +Foster, later Secretary of State, and Allen, later director of the +CIA] had one of their clients threaten to interrupt the U.S. oil +supply during wartime."

+ +

When confronted by Arnold on the Standard - Farben arrangement +"Standard executives made it clear that the entire U.S. war effort +was fueled by their oil and it could be stopped. . . . The American +government had no choice but to go along if it wanted to win the +war." (14)

+ +

July 13, 1944, Ralph W. Gallagher, attorney for Standard Oil, filed +a lawsuit against the U.S. government's seizure of the contested +patents. "On November 7, 1945, Judge Charles E. Wyzanski gave his +verdict," according to Higham. "He decided that the government had +been entitled to seize the patents. Gallagher appealed. On September +22, 1947, Judge Charles Clark delivered the final word on the +subject. He said, 'Standard Oil can be considered an enemy national +in view of its relationships with I.G. Farben after the United +States and Germany had become active enemies.' The appeal was +denied." (15)

+ +

One aspect of this Standard - I.G. Farben relationship, revealed in +testimony during the Patents Committee hearings, chaired by Senator +Homer T. Bone in May 1942, is of interest to those who seek direct +evidence of a conspiracy by big oil companies to suppress +development of synthetic substitutes to petrochemical products such +as industrial chemicals, aircraft lubricants and fuel, all of which +can be made from hemp:

+ +

"On May 6th, John R. Jacobs, Jr., of the Attorney General's +department, testified that Standard had interfered with the American +explosives industry by blocking the use of a method of producing +synthetic ammonia. As a result of its deals with Farben, the United +States had been unable to get the use of this vital process even +after Pearl Harbor. Also, the United States had been restricted in +techniques of producing hydrogen from natural gas and from obtaining +paraflow, a product used for airplane lubrication at high altitudes. +. . ."

+ +

On August 7th, "Texas oil operator C.R. Starnes appeared to testify +that Standard had blocked him at every turn in his efforts to +produce synthetic rubber after Pearl Harbor. . . ."

+ +

On August 12th, "John R. Jacobs reappeared in an Army private's +uniform (he had been inducted the day before) to bring up another +disagreeable matter: Standard had also, in league with Farben, +restricted production of methanol, a wood alcohol that was sometimes +used as motor fuel." (16)

+ +

The restriction against methanol production apparently did not +apply to the Nazis, however. "As late as April 1943," Higham +reveals, "General Motors in Stockholm [Sweden] was reported as +trading with the enemy. . . . Further documents show that, as with +Ford, repairs on German army trucks and conversion from gasoline to +wood-gasoline production were being handled by GM in Switzerland." +(17)

+ +

The use of hemp as a source of methanol was known to the Nazis, +revealed in the pamphlet "The Humorous Hemp Primer," published in +Berlin, also in 1943. This document, recently re-published in the +1995 edition of "Hemp and the Marijuana Conspiracy: The Emperor +Wears No Clothes," by veteran hemp conspiracy researcher Jack Herer, +states that:

+ +

"Crops should not only provide food in large quantities, they can +provide raw materials for industry. . . . Among such raw materials +of especially high value is hemp . . .

+ +

"The woody part of this large plant is not to be thrown out, since +it can easily be used for surface coatings for the finest floors. It +also provides paper and cardboard, building materials and wall +paneling. Further processing will even produce wood sugar and wood +gas. . . .

+ +

"Anyone who grows hemp today need not fear a lack of a market, +because hemp, as useful as it is, will be purchased in unlimited +amounts." (18)

+ +

The Nazis obviously considered hemp a vital war material that could +be used to produce methanol, or "wood gas," at the same time, in +1943, that Du Pont-controlled General Motors in Switzerland was +"converting from gasoline to wood-gasoline production." This, taken +into consideration along with the earlier statement that Standard +Oil-I.G. Farben had "restricted production of methanol" and the GM-Standard Oil-I.G. Farben joint venture, Ethyl, Inc., whose +profitability depended on the production of lead-tetraethyl for oil-based petrochemical gasoline - in direct competition with the +alternative methanol, or "wood gas," certainly opens new avenues of +investigation into the existence of a conspiracy against hemp as an +alternative, and competing, industrial raw material, by these very +same corporations which sold America out to the Nazis for profit and +control of world resources and markets.

+ +

"Just after Pearl Harbor," writes Seldes, "the Assistant Attorney +General, Mr. Thurman Arnold, issued a sensational report of the +sabotage of the national [war production] program, the first report +naming the practices which were later to be referred to as the +treason of big business in wartime. Said Mr. Arnold:

+ +

"Looking back over 10 months of defense effort we can now see how +much it has been hampered by the attitude of powerful basic +industries who have feared to expand their production because +expansion would endanger their future control of industry.

+ +

"Anti-trust investigations during the past year have shown that +there is not an organized basic industry in the United States which +has not been restricting production by some device or other in order +to avoid what they call 'ruinous overproduction after the war'." +(19)

+ +

By "ruinous overproduction," of course, they meant free-market +competition. So, to question the existence of an industrial +conspiracy against competition, during the 1930s and 1940s, is +pointless. It has long been totally documented by volumes of +evidence, available in the public record. And among this list of +convicted corporate conspirators are murderers, racists, pro-Nazi +collaborators, blackmailers and American Fascists who plotted at +least one armed take-over of the U.S. government. And the list is +not yet complete.

+ +

THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY

+ +

Henry Ford, writes Higham, "admired Hitler from the beginning, when +the future Fuhrer was a struggling and obscure fanatic. He shared +with Hitler a fanatical hatred of Jews."

+ +

"Ford's book 'The International Jew' was issued in 1927. A virulent +anti-Semitic tract, it was still being distributed in Latin America +and the Arab countries as late as 1945. Hitler admired the book and +it influenced him deeply. Visitors to Hitler's headquarters at the +Brown House in Munich noticed a large photograph of Henry Ford +hanging in his office. Stacked high on the table outside were copies +of Ford's book. As early as 1923," when Hitler heard that Ford was +planning to run for President, he "told an interviewer from the +'Chicago-Tribune,' 'I wish that I could send some of my shock troops +to Chicago and other big American cities to help'."

+ +

As late as 1940, Ford Motor Company "refused to build aircraft +engines for England and instead built supplies of the 5-ton military +trucks that were the backbone of German army transportation." (20)

+ +

The Ford Motor Company was also aware of the potential of hemp as +an alternative industrial resource, devoting many years research to +the subject.

+ +

In a 1989 ABC Radio broadcast, Hugh Downs reported that in the +1930s, "the Ford Motor Company also saw a future in biomass fuels. +Ford operated a successful biomass conversion plant that included +hemp at their Iron Mountain facility in Michigan. Ford engineers +extracted methanol, charcoal fuel, tar, pitch, ethyl acetate, and +creosote - all fundamental ingredients for modern industry, and now +supplied by oil-related industries. . . . Henry Ford's experiments +with methanol promised cheap, readily-available fuel." (21)

+ +

As reported in "Popular Mechanics" in December, 1941, Ford's +research represented "an industrial revolution in progress . . . a +revolution in materials that will affect every home." (22)

+ +

So, it is possible, even likely, that Ford and General Motors +conversion "from gasoline to wood-gasoline production" for Nazi +Germany, as earlier reported by Higham, involved at least some +consideration of hemp as a resource, if not actual production of +"wood-gas" from hemp. After all, Ford had already committed several +years and significant research dollars to the subject.

+ +

The implication of methanol fuel patents, hemp industry research +and production facilities, all in the hands of this cabal of Nazi-allied American corporations, during a proven period of anti-competition conspiracies, and wartime blackmail against the U.S. +government, should provide additional support for the hemp +conspiracy theories. The fact is that Nazi Germany recognized hemp +as a vital war material - one which, just before America's entrance +into World War II, was positioned to compete in the free-market +against the products controlled by the Pro-Nazi American +corporations. Unrestricted expansion of United States industrial +hemp production threatened not only the profits of these treasonous +corporations, but the degree of their control over America's +production of vital war materials.

+ +

This view of hemp, not as a "dangerous drug" but as a vital war +material, was acknowledged by the Kentucky Legislature a little over +100 years before the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1841, +according to Professor James F. Hopkins, author of "A History of the +Hemp Industry in Kentucky," published by the University of Kentucky +Press in 1951:

+ +

"When the farmers of Woodford County [KY] assembled in October, +1841, to consider a program of hemp production for the navy, they +only went as far as to express an opinion that the government should +employ a rope spinner in Kentucky for the purpose of converting the +fiber into yarns, which could be transported much more cheaply and +safely than the bulky raw material. The Committee on Agriculture of +the Kentucky House of Representatives inquired into the matter early +in 1842 . . .

+ +

"Both houses of the General Assembly sent to the Senators and +Congressmen from Kentucky a request that they use their 'best +exertions' to have established in the state one or more agencies for +the inspection and manufacture of hemp for the navy. A select +committee of Congress, appointed to consider the resolutions from +Kentucky, reported three resolutions of its own: that the navy be +directed to construct a factory at Louisville 'for the purpose of +depositing and manufacturing . . . such hempen fabrics of domestic +water-rotted hemp as the public service may require'; that +inspectors be appointed to test the fiber that might be offered for +sale; and that, after due notice to the public, purchase of the +necessary amount of fiber be made at the factory. The Committee +contended that its plan would build up during peacetime a source of +hemp which would be vitally important in case of war, encourage +American agriculture and manufactures, and decrease the unfavorable +balance of trade." (23)

+ +

[NOTE: For many years we Kentuckians have had a good deal of our +heritage and history buried beneath a thick layer of propaganda from +a source of power and control in this country which knows neither +honor nor justice. Now, we are learning the truth. Our history as a +state built upon the foundation of a long-and dishonestly-outlawed +industry endures.]

+ +

INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH

+ +

Even after Pearl Harbor, ITT was working for the Nazis, reports +Higham: ". . . the German army, navy, and air force contracted with +ITT for the manufacture of switchboards, telephones, alarm gongs, +buoys, air raid warning devices, radar equipment, and thirty +thousand fuses per month for artillery shells used to kill British +and American troops."

+ +

ITT also "supplied ingredients for the rocket bombs that fell on +London," and other devices as well, without which "it would have +been impossible for the German air force to kill American and +British troops, for the German army to fight the Allies in Africa, +Italy, France, and Germany, for England to have been bombed, or for +Allied ships to have been attacked at sea." (24)

+ +

In 1938, "following a series of meetings with Luftwaffe chief +Herman Goring, [ITT founder and chairman Sosthenes] Behn encouraged +ITT's Lorenz subsidiary to purchase 28 percent of the Focke-Wulf +firm, manufacturer of the bombers that were to sink so many Allied +ships during the war," according to researcher and author Jim +Hougan. (25)

+ +

Anthony Sampson, in "The Sovereign State of ITT," reports on what +is perhaps the most bizarre aspect of the US/Nazi corporate +partnership, war reparations:

+ +

". . . ITT now presents itself as the innocent victim of the Second +World War, and has been handsomely recompensed for its injuries. In +1967, nearly thirty years after the events, ITT actually managed to +obtain $27 million in compensation from the American government, for +war damage to Focke-Wulf plants - on the basis that they were +American property bombed by Allied bombers." (26)

+ +

The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission was responsible for this +payment to ITT, and other U.S. corporations as well.

+ +

Bradford Snell reports that "After the cessation of hostilities, GM +and Ford demanded reparations from the U.S. Government for wartime +damages sustained by their Axis facilities as a result of Allied +bombing. By 1967 GM had collected more than $33 million in +reparations and Federal tax benefits for damages to its warplane and +motor vehicle properties in formerly Axis territories . . . Ford +received a little less than $1 million, primarily as a result of +damages sustained by its military truck complex at Cologne." (27)

+ +

ALLEN DULLES: ARCHITECT OF THE US-NAZI NETWORK

+ +

Contemporary history records Allen Dulles as one of America's top +spymasters, from his early days in the Office of Strategic Services +(OSS) in World War II, to his position as Director of the Central +Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the 1950s and early 1960s (until +President John F. Kennedy fired him over the Bay of Pigs disaster in +1961), and finally to his membership on the controversial Warren +Commission, which investigated President Kennedy's assassination. +Until recently, his pivotal role in promoting a U.S. corporate +relationship with the Nazis was little known. Loftus and Aarons +describe the post-World War I role of Allen, and his brother, John +Foster, in the following terms:

+ +

"We first turn to Dulles's creation of international finance +networks for the benefit of the Nazis. In the beginning, moving +money into the Third Reich was quite legal. Lawyers saw to that. And +Allen and his brother John Foster were not just any lawyers. They +were international finance specialists for the powerful Wall Street +law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. . . .

+ +

"The Dulles brothers were the ones who convinced American +businessmen to avoid U.S. government regulation by investing in +Germany. It began with the Versailles Treaty, in which they played +no small role. After World War I the defeated German government +promised to pay war reparations to the Allies in gold, but Germany +had no gold. It had to borrow the gold from Sullivan & Cromwell's +clients in the United States. Nearly 70 percent of the money that +flowed into Germany during the 1930s came from investors in the +United States, many of them Sullivan & Cromwell clients. . .

+ +

"Foster Dulles, as a member of the board of I.G. Farben, seems to +have had little difficulty in getting along with whoever was in +charge. Some of our sources insist that both Dulles brothers made +substantial but indirect contributions to the Nazi party as the +price of continued influence inside the new German order. . . ." +(28)

+ +

NOTES: U.S. CORPORATIONS AND THE NAZIS

+ +

1.Facts and Fascism, George Seldes, p. 122 Trading with the Enemy, +Charles Higham, p. 167 2.Even the Gods Can't Change History, Seldes, +pp. 140-144 3.Facts and Fascism, p. 68 4.Ibid., p. 262 5.Trading +with the Enemy, pp. 162-165 6.Ibid., p. 166 7.Power, Inc., Morton +and Mintz, pp. 497-499 8.Trading with the Enemy, pp. 163-165 9.The +Plot to Seize the White House, Jules Archer, Hawthorn Books, 1973 +(Quoted from It's A Conspiracy, National Insecurity Council, +EarthWorks Press, 1992, pp. 179-184) 10.Trading with the Enemy, pp. +167-168 11.Facts and Fascism, pp. 68-70 12.Trading with the Enemy, +pp. 45-46 13.Power, Inc, pp. 499-500 14.The Secret War Against The +Jews, Aarons and Loftus, pp. 44-65 15.Trading with the Enemy, pp. +61-62 16.Ibid., pp. 49-52 17.Ibid., p. 176 18.The Emperor Wears No +Clothes, Jack Herer, pp. 127-130 19.One Thousand Americans, Seldes, +pp. 142-143 20.Trading with the Enemy, pp. 154-156 21.Ain't Nobody's +Business If You Do, p. 734 22.Popular Mechanics Magazine, Vol. 76, +No. 6, Dec. 1941 (The Emperor Wears No Clothes, 1995 edition, p. +199) 23.A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky, Professor James +F. Hopkins, University of Kentucky Press, 1951 24.Trading with the +Enemy, p. 99 25.Spooks, Jim Hougan, pp. 423-424 26.The Sovereign +State of ITT, Anthony Sampson, p. 47 (Power, Inc., pp. 500-501) +27.GM and the Nazis, by Bradford C. Snell, Ramparts Magazine, June +1974, pp. 14-16 (Democracy for the Few, Michael Parenti, pp. 91-92) +28.The Secret War Against the Jews, pp. 55-60

+ +

THE NEW WORLD (DIS)ORDER

+ +

"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if +the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it +becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in +essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a +group, or by any other controlling power.

+ +

"Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in +history is growing." - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1)

+ +

As mentioned earlier, the secret U.S./Nazi corporate alliance +during World War II was the result of substantial American +investment in post-World War I Germany. In order to protect these +investments, and the accumulating profits, the U.S. multinational +corporations remained an important part of the Nazi war machine +until the final defeat of Germany in 1945. What effect did the end +of World War II have on this faction of American Nazi collaborators?

+ +

In this section we will review the evidence, much of it from +recently de-classified documents, that this pro-Nazi faction, rather +than facing charges of high treason, became an integral part of the +United States national security apparatus, extending its fascist +influence in both foreign and domestic policies and, in effect, +creating what has been referred to as America's "Invisible +Government." The excuse, of course, was Communism.

+ +

THE BUGGING OF WALL STREET

+ +

Aarons and Loftus' research, which documents the Dulles brothers' +pro-Nazi activities, did not go unnoticed. "Before his death, former +Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg granted one of the authors an +interview. Justice Goldberg had served in U.S. intelligence during +World War II. Although he said little in public, he had collected +information on the Dulles boys' activities over the years. His +verdict was blunt. 'The Dulles brothers were traitors.' They had +betrayed their country, by giving aid and comfort to the enemy in +time of war." (2)

+ +

Much of what is now known about the activities of the Dulles +brothers and other American Nazi collaborators in banking and +industry came as a result of a top-secret joint U.S.-British +intelligence program known as the Ultra Project. "Prior to the +United States' entry into the war," write Loftus and Aarons, +"Roosevelt permitted British intelligence to wiretap American +targets.

+ +

"According to our sources in the intelligence community, the area +of coverage included a good bit of the New York financial district, +several floors of Rockefeller Plaza, part of the RCA Building, two +prominent clubs, and various shipping firms. . . .

+ +

"The wiretap unit reported to Sir William Stephenson, a Canadian +electronics genius better known by his code name, 'Intrepid.' From +his headquarters in the Rockefeller building, Stephenson's job was +to identify U.S. companies that were aiding the Nazis." (3)

+ +

"Several months before the United States declared war," continue +Loftus and Aarons, "Bill Donovan invited Allen Dulles to head up the +New York branch of the Office of the Coordinator of Information +(COI), President Roosevelt's new intelligence agency and the +precursor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Its primary +mission was to collect information against the Nazis and their +collaborators. In other words, Dulles was asked to inform on his own +clients in New York. . . ."

+ +

"Roosevelt had approved his selection as head of the COI Manhattan +branch because he wanted Dulles where the British wiretappers could +keep an eye on him. . . .

+ +

"One floor below Dulles was Stephenson's wiretap shop. Inside +Dulles's operation was one of Roosevelt's spies, Arthur Goldberg . . +." who, "confirmed . . . that Dulles's appointment was a setup. . . +.

+ +

"Roosevelt was giving Dulles enough rope to hang himself. From +Stephenson's Manhattan wiretaps, it is known that Dulles was +continuing to work with his German business clients, who wanted to +remove Hitler and install a puppet of their own who would make peace +with the West while forging an alliance against Stalin. It was to be +a kinder, gentler Third Reich, favorably disposed to American +financial interests. . . . (4)

+ +

"The wiretap evidence against Dulles originally was collected by a +special section of Operation Safehaven, the U.S. Treasury +Department's effort to trace the movement of stolen Nazi booty +towards the end of the war. Roosevelt and Treasury Secretary Henry +Morganthau had set up Dulles by giving him the one assignment - +intelligence chief in Switzerland - where he would be most tempted +to aid his German clients with their money laundering."

+ +

Roosevelt had one thing in mind: "The sudden release of the +Safehaven intercepts would force a public outcry to bring treason +charges against those British and American businessmen who aided the +enemy in time of war." Among the targets were Allen Dulles, Henry +Ford, and other U.S. industrialists. (5)

+ +

The plan failed, however, due to Dulles being "tipped off . . . +that he was under surveillance" in time to cover his tracks. One +possible source of the leak was Vice President Henry Wallace, "who +constantly shared information with his brother-in-law, the Swiss +minister in Washington during the war."

+ +

"Wallace," the authors reveal, "gave many details of his secret +meetings with Roosevelt to the Swiss diplomat." The problem was +that, at the time, the Nazis "had recruited the head of the Swiss +secret service."

+ +

It is, perhaps, no coincidence that Roosevelt dropped Wallace +during the 1944 election, choosing instead Senator Harry S. Truman +as his new running mate. (6)

+ +

THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY

+ +

"After the Nazis' 1943 defeat at Stalingrad," write Loftus and +Aarons, "various Nazi businessmen realized they were on the losing +side and made plans to evacuate their wealth. The Peron government +in Argentina was receiving the Nazi flight capital with open arms, +and Dulles helped it hide the money. . . .

+ +

"The Guinness Book of Records lists the missing Reichsbank treasure +[estimated at $2.5 billion dollars] as the greatest unsolved bank +robbery in history. Where did it go? . . . .

+ +

"According to our source, the bulk of the treasure was simply +shipped a very short distance across Austria and through the Brenner +Pass into Italy. Dulles's contacts were waiting at the Vatican. The +German-Vatican connection was how Allen Dulles and the Nazi +industrialists planned to get away with it. . . ." (7)

+ +

The effort was successful, according to the authors, who state that +the "vast bulk of the wealth of the Nazi empire" which "disappeared +before the end of World War II" reappeared "within a decade in the +hands of the same men who financed Hitler's war against the Jews. +Allen Dulles's clients were not defeated, only inconvenienced." The +authors identify two of Dulles's accomplices as James Jesus Angleton +and his father, Hugh Angleton. The Angletons were members of X-2, +the OSS counterintelligence branch in Italy, in 1943.

+ +

Like Dulles, Hugh Angleton was financially involved with Axis +powers. He was the European representative for National Cash +Register in Italy before the war and business associate of Dulles. +When World War II broke out, the authors write,

+ +

". . . Angleton was crushed financially as all his investments were +in enemy hands.

+ +

"Like Dulles's clients, he wanted his money back. Like Dulles, Hugh +offered his services to the OSS." With high-placed contacts in +Mussolini's Interior Ministry, Hugh was accepted and "promoted +rapidly in U.S. intelligence. He became second in command to Colonel +Clifton Carter, the OSS commander in Italy at the end of World War +II." (8)

+ +

Perhaps the most controversial information which is now emerging +with the release of recently declassified documents concerning World +War II, is the role of the Vatican, both in its pre-war German +investments, and its role in helping Nazi war criminals escape +justice after the war. Concerning the Vatican-German investments, +Loftus and Aarons are quite clear:

+ +

"That the Vatican encouraged such investments and even donated +money to Hitler himself cannot be denied. A German nun, Sister +Pascalina, was present at its creation. In the early 1920s she was +the housekeeper for Archbishop of the Vatican-Nazi connection . . . +Eugenio Pacelli, then the papal nuncio in Munich. Sister Pascalina +vividly recalls receiving Adolf Hitler late one night and watching +the archbishop give Hitler a large amount of Church money."

+ +

In addition, Eugenio Pacelli

+ +

"later convinced the Vatican to invest millions of dollars in the +rising German economy, money from the Vatican's land settlement that +ended the Pope's claim of sovereignty over territory outside the +walls of Vatican City. It was Pacelli who negotiated the Concordat +with Germany and then had to deal with the consequences of his own +mistakes when he became pope on the eve of World War II.

+ +

"The Vatican and the Dulles brothers had the same problem. Once +their money was in Hitler's hands, how would they get it back?"

+ +

The authors interviewed "a former colonel in U.S. Military +Intelligence who specialized in tracing enemy assets. He claimed +that only a tiny portion of the Reichbank's gold ingots actually +reached the Vatican Bank, while the rest was held in cooperative +banks in Belgium, Liechtenstein, and especially Switzerland." It was +only necessary to transfer the paperwork on the gold, not the gold +itself. Since, by that time, Dulles knew his telegraph +communications were being monitored by the British wiretap operation +in New York, he instead used couriers to "ensure absolute secrecy in +moving the foreign currency and the ownership documents out of +Switzerland . . . special agents of the Vatican who had diplomatic +immunity to move back and forth across both Nazi and Allied lines. . +. ." (9)

+ +

". . . . The Vatican's eminence grise for Balkan intelligence, the +Bosnian-Croat priest Krunoslav Draganovic, was involved in +transporting large quantities of Nazi booty, especially gold +bullion, from Austria to the safety of the Holy See with the help of +the Dulles-Angleton clique in Rome. Some of the booty was +transported in truck convoys run by British troops. Other shipments +were carried in U.S. Army jeeps provided to Father Draganovic so +that he could conduct pastoral visits' on behalf of the Vatican.

+ +

"Another ardent Nazi propagandist and agent, Slovenian bishop +Gregory Rozman, was sent to Bern with the help of Dulles's friends +in U.S. intelligence. Declassified U.S. intelligence files confirm +that Bishop Rozman was suspected of trying to arrange the transfer +of huge quantities of Nazi-controlled gold and Western currency that +had been discreetly secreted in Swiss banks during the war. For a +few months the Allies prevented Rozman from gaining access to this +treasure, but then the way was mysteriously cleared. In fact, the +Dulles-Vatican connection had fixed it, and before too long the +bishop obtained the loot for his Nazi friends, who were hiding in +Argentina.

+ +

"Such instances turned out to be only the tip of the iceberg. It +has long been acknowledged that it was Allen Dulles who tipped off +General Patton about the buried German treasure that lay in the path +of the U.S. Third Army. Patton explicitly urged General Eisenhower +to conceal as much of the gold as possible, but his advice was +refused.

+ +

"Our sources claim that Dulles and his colleagues exerted a great +deal of influence to ensure that Western investments in Nazi Germany +were not seized by the Allies as reparations for the Jews. After +all, much of 'Hitler's Gold' had originally belonged to the bankers +in London and New York. The . . . captured Nazi loot went +underground. . . .

+ +

"In the cause of anticommunism, and to retrieve its own investments +in Germany, the Vatican agreed to become part of Dulles's smuggling +window, through which the Nazis and their treasure could be moved to +safety." (10)

+ +

On April 12th, 1945, Roosevelt died, and Truman became President. +May 7th, Nazi Germany surrendered after the suicide of Adolf Hitler. +September 2nd, Japan surrendered.

+ +

World War II finally ended, but at the cost of more than 35000000 +lives, over half that amount civilians. The death toll for the +United States was 294000. (11)

+ +

A PLEDGE BETRAYED

+ +

"Dulles and some of his friends volunteered for postwar service +with the government not out of patriotism but of necessity," +according to Loftus and Aarons. "They had to be in positions of +power to suppress the evidence of their own dealings with the Nazis. +The Safehaven investigation was quickly stripped from Treasury . . . +and turned over to the State Department. There Dulles's friends +shredded the index to the interlocking corporations and blocked +further investigations.

+ +

"Dulles had this goal in mind: Not a single American businessman +was ever going to be convicted of treason for helping the Nazis. +None ever was, despite the evidence. According to one of our sources +in the intelligence community, the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence +Corps had two large 'Civilian Internment Centers' in Occupied +Germany, code named 'Ashcan' and 'Dustbin.' The CIC had identified +and captured a large number of U.S. citizens who had stayed in +Germany and aided the Third Reich all through World War II. The +evidence of their treason was overwhelming. The captured German +records were horribly incriminating.

+ +

"Yet Victor Wohreheide, the young Justice Department attorney +responsible for preparing the treason trials, suddenly ordered the +prisoners' release. All of the Nazi collaborators were allowed to +return to the United States and reclaim their citizenship. At the +same time, another Justice Department attorney, O. John Rogge, who +dared to make a speech about Nazi collaborators in the United States +was quickly fired. However, the attorney who buried the treason +cases was later promoted to special assistant attorney general.

+ +

"Dulles and his clients had won. The proof is in the bottom line. +Forty years after World War II, Fortune magazine published a list of +the hundred richest men in the world. There were no Jews on the +list. The great fortunes of the Rothschilds and Warburgs had been +diminished to insignificance by the Depression, the Nazis, and World +War II.

+ +

"Near the top of the list were several multibillionaires who had +been prominent members of Hitler's inner circle. A few even had +served time in Allied prisons as Nazi war criminals, but they were +all released quickly. The bottom line is that the Nazi businessmen +survived the war with their fortunes intact and rebuilt their +industrial empires to become the richest men in the world. Dulles's +clients got away with it. President Roosevelt's dream of putting the +Nazis' moneymen on trial died with him."

+ +

England also failed to see justice done, according to the authors: +"The British authorities in Germany ordered the U.S. Army to release +all of the VIP British Nazis and hand over the evidence against +them. Even before Roosevelt's death, Churchill had already begun to +withdraw from his commitment to prosecute Nazis." The reason?" Too +many British industries might be seized as Nazi fronts. Too many +upper-class collaborators might have to be prosecuted. The Germans +were defeated, and the Soviets were now the enemy.

+ +

"Funding for British war crimes investigations suddenly dried up. +Nazi bankers such as Herman Abs were released from prison to work as +economic advisers in the British zone of Germany. The history of +British 'efforts' to punish Nazis after the war is aptly summarized +in Tom Bower's book, 'The Pledge betrayed'. . . .

+ +

"The pattern was repeated all over the remnants of the Third Reich. +Despite direct orders from President Truman and General Eisenhower, +I.G. Farben, the citadel of the Nazi industrialists, was never +dismantled. Dulles's clients demanded, and received, Allied +compensation for bomb damage to their factories in Germany. Only a +few of the top Nazis were executed. Most of the rest were released +from prison within a few years. Others, . . . would go virtually +unpunished. No one ever investigated the Nazi sympathizers in +Western intelligence who had made it all possible." (12)

+ +

As we have seen, the American industrialists who did business with +the Nazis were in no way inconvenienced by war crimes trials, and +even received compensation for damages to their Nazi war plants. +Some Nazi industrialists were charged and convicted by the Nuremberg +war crimes trials but, in their book, "The American Establishment," +authors Leonard and Mark Silk observe that in the late 1940s "the +United States and its leaders faced an agonizing moral problem in +coming to terms with those German industrialists who had willingly +done business with the Nazis and who were now just as willing to do +business with the Americans in the reconstruction of Germany. The +problem was dramatized when those German industrialists who had been +convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg were all released from +Landsberg prison in early 1951, their sentences commuted by the +American High Commissioner [of German Occupation], John J. McCloy.

+ +

". . . . Whatever the motivation," the authors continue, "the +blanket release of the convicted industrialists was taken within +Germany - and by them - as a sign that businessmen were not to be +seriously blamed for their involvement in matters for which others +were hanged or suffered long imprisonment." (13)

+ +

The motivation for the mass release of imprisoned Nazi war +criminals is described in the book, "The New Germany and the Old +Nazis," by T.H. Tetens, an expert in German affairs.

+ +

Tetens observes that in "1950, when Washington showed its eagerness +to create a new German army of 500000 men, the SS [at that time +reorganized into a neo-Nazi front group called HIAG, which stands +for 'mutual assistance,' a so-called veterans organization], +together with the old Wehrmacht officers, started an all-out +campaign for the immediate release of all war criminals. It was a +superbly organized blackmail action, enjoying wide support from the +public, from all parties, and carried toward success by Dr. +Adenauer's astute maneuverings.

+ +

"The Chancellor suggested an inconspicuous way to solve the problem +with 'parole,' 'sick leave,' and other roundabout methods. The more +the U.S. High Commission in Germany showed leniency, however, the +stronger the pressure became: either 'all so-called war criminals +are released or there will be no German army.' American diplomats +followed Dr. Adenauer's plan to feed the nationalistic monster +piecemeal. Every few days we quietly released one or two more from +prison - the Krupps, the I.G. Farben directors, and dozens of former +Wehrmacht Generals. On friendly advice from Washington, the British +and the French, extremely reluctant, had to follow suit. When the +supply dried up, there remained behind bars only the SS, the mass +murderers from Dachau, Belsen, and Buchenwald, and the toughs from +the Waffen SS who had massacred American, British, and Canadian +prisoners of war. This put High Commissioner John McCloy in a most +embarrassing position. . . ."

+ +

Tetens explains how Chancellor Adenauer helped High Commissioner +McCloy and the U.S. State Department avoid this embarrassment: +Adenauer "suggested the formation of a review board, with three +German members sitting in and having equal voice in making +recommendations. The whole procedure was to be shrouded in secrecy, +and it was decided that the names of those released should not be +revealed to the public. In this way the last few hundred 'poor +devils,' those SS mass killers and sadists, were quietly set free +within two or three years." (14)

+ +

Christopher Simpson, in his extensively documented book on the +subject of U.S. recruitment of Nazis, "Blowback," goes into more +detail of the backgrounds of those released:

+ +

"The beneficiaries of this act included, for example, all of the +convicted concentration camp doctors; all of the top judges who had +administered the Nazis' 'special courts'" and dozens of similar +cases. In addition, "McCloy's clemency decisions for the Landsberg +inmates set in motion a much broader process that eventually freed +hundreds of other convicted Nazi war criminals over the next five +years. . . . By the winter of 1950-1951 the most senior levels of +the U.S. government had decided to abrogate their wartime pledge to +bring Nazi war criminals to justice. . . . in the interests of +preserving West German military support for American leadership in +the cold war. While nazism and Hitler's inner circle continued to be +publicly condemned throughout the West, the actual investigation and +prosecution of specific Nazi crimes came to a standstill." (15)

+ +

One case merits special attention: Sepp Dietrich, "the organizer of +the Fuehrer's bodyguard. Dietrich carried out Hitler's personal +murder assignments" and, Tetens continues, "was in charge of the +liquidation of the Jewish population in the city of Kharkov. During +the Battle of the Bulge his troops committed the Malmedy massacre, +killing more than 600 military and civilian prisoners, among them +115 American G.I.s. He was sentenced to death, and the sentence was +later commuted to life imprisonment. In 1955 he was one of the last +poor devils' quietly released from prison and greeted by the Bonn +government with the homecoming pay of 6000 marks." (16)

+ +

In a "New York Times" article published February 1, 1951, one +prominent American expressed support for the reduction of sentences +for those responsible for the mass murder of the 600 unarmed +prisoners of war at Malmedy, describing the decision as "extremely +wise." The American was Senator Joseph McCarthy, Republican from +Wisconsin.

+ +

Tetens observes that, despite the wide-spread fear by "the French, +the British, and the smaller European countries" of a re-militarized +Germany, "the outbreak of the Korean War (June 1950) brought a total +change. The provisions which banned all military and veterans' +organizations lost all their meaning and were no longer enforced. +Western Germany was allowed by the Allies to set up its own General +Staff, camouflaged under the name Blank Office. Supported by Bonn +and tolerated by the United States, a nation-wide network was +created to reactivate the experienced officers and the man power of +the old Wehrmacht. The short period of 1950-51 must be marked as the +time when Hitler's old officers, SS leaders, and [Nazi] party +functionaries returned to power and influence." (17)

+ +

Tetens' comment that the Nazi's return to power in Germany was +"tolerated by the United States" was a historical understatement. By +the time Tetens' book was published in 1961, hundreds of convicted +Nazi war criminals had already been smuggled out of Germany to avoid +prosecution at the war crimes trials at Nuremberg, recruited by, and +on the payroll of several U.S. government agencies, including the +Army CIC, the OSS, and the Office of Policy Coordination within the +State Department.

+ +

Over the past fifty years, it is now documented, these Americanized +fugitive Nazi war criminals have been involved in, and in many cases +in charge of, many U.S. government covert operations -- +international weapons smuggling, drug cartels, Central American +death squads, right wing anti-communist dictatorships, LSD mind +control experiments -- the Republican National Committee's Ethnic +Heritage Councils, and the Presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, +Ronald Reagan, and George Bush.

+ +

THE GEHLEN ORGANIZATION

+ +

Probably the most influential Nazi to come to work for the United +States intelligence agencies during the Cold War was named Gehlen.

+ +

"Reinhard Gehlen," writes author Christopher Simpson, "Hitler's +most senior military intelligence officer on the eastern front, had +begun planning his surrender to the United States at least as early +as the fall of 1944." Of "several hundred" high-ranking Nazi +officers who switched sides at the end of World War II, Gehlen +"proved to be the most important of them all.

+ +

"In early March 1945 Gehlen and a small group of his most senior +officers carefully microfilmed the vast holdings on the USSR in the +. . . military intelligence section of the German army's general +staff. They packed the film in watertight steel drums and secretly +buried it in remote mountain meadows scattered through the Austrian +Alps. Then, on May 22, 1945, Gehlen and his top aides surrendered to +an American Counter-intelligence Corps [CIC] team." (18)

+ +

According to Tetens: ". . . [Gehlen] immediately asked for an +interview with the commanding officer . . ." and offered the United +States "his intelligence staff, spy apparatus, and the priceless +files for future service."

+ +

Gehlen was sent to Washington and his offer was taken. "The +Pentagon-Gehlen agreement," states Tetens, "in practice guaranteed +the continuation of the all-important Abwehr division of the German +General Staff. Hundreds of German army and SS officers were quietly +released from internment camps and joined Gehlen's headquarters in +the Spessart Mountains in central Germany. When the staff had grown +to three thousand men, the Bureau Gehlen opened a closely guarded +twenty-five-acre compound near Pullach, south of Munich, operating +under the innocent name of the South German Industrial Development +Organization. . . .

+ +

"Within a few years the Gehlen apparatus had grown by leaps and +bounds. In the early fifties it was estimated that the organization +employed up to 4000 intelligence specialists in Germany, mainly +former army and SS officers, and that more than 4000 V-men +(undercover agents) were active throughout the Soviet-bloc +countries. Gehlen's spy network stretches from Korea to Cairo, from +Siberia to Santiago de Chile. . . . When the Federal Republic [of +West Germany] became a sovereign state in 1955, the Bureau Gehlen +was openly recognized as the official intelligence arm of the Bonn +government." (19)

+ +

How important was the Gehlen Org, as it became known, to the +history of the Cold War? Simpson's research documents that it was +perhaps the most significant element of all:

+ +

". . . . The Org became the most important eyes and ears for U.S. +intelligence inside the closed societies of the Soviet bloc. 'In +1946 [U.S.] intelligence files on the Soviet Union were virtually +empty,' says Harry Rositzke, the CIA's former chief of espionage +inside the Soviet Union. '. . . . Rositzke worked closely with +Gehlen during the formative years of the CIA and credits Gehlen's +organization with playing a "primary role" in filling the empty file +folders during that period. . . .'

+ +

"'Gehlen had to make his money by creating a threat that we were +afraid of,' says Victor Marchetti, formerly the CIA's chief analyst +of Soviet strategic war plans and capabilities, 'so we would give +him more money to tell us about it.' He continues: 'In my opinion, +the Gehlen Organization provided nothing worthwhile for the +understanding or estimating Soviet military or political +capabilities in Eastern Europe or anywhere else.' Employing Gehlen +was 'a waste of time, money, and effort, except that maybe he had +some CI [counter-intelligence] value, because practically everybody +in his organization was sucking off both tits.'" (20)

+ +

By 'sucking off both tits' Marchetti is referring to the fact that +Gehlen's elaborate operation was penetrated by Soviet spies at the +very time it was our most important source of intelligence upon +which the Cold War was based. In fact, the Communists had +infiltrated Nazi intelligence long before Gehlen switched sides.

+ +

TRIPLE CROSS

+ +

"In each generation," write Aarons and Loftus,"Soviet intelligence +created 'anti-Communist' emigre front groups, ostensibly to foment +revolution and topple Bolshevism. The front groups attracted support +from the West. Considerable financial assistance was supplied and +close ties forged with various Western intelligence services. This +enabled the Communist double agents running the front groups to co-opt the legitimate emigre opposition, splinter their leadership and +provoke them into premature and poorly organized rebellions which +were easily defeated. More importantly, the false front groups were +a vehicle for long-term Soviet penetration of Western society. . . +."

+ +

The authors identify one of these groups as the Narodny Trudovoi +Soyuz (NTS), or the People's Labour Alliance. The NTS represented +itself as a group of anti-communist "moles" inside the Kremlin and, +in the 1920s, recruited a Communist agent named Prince Anton +Vasilevich Turkel. Turkel, who actually worked for Soviet Military +intelligence (GRU), went on to penetrate French, Japanese, Italian, +British, German, and even the Vatican intelligence services before +the end of World War II.

+ +

"After World War II, Turkel worked for West German intelligence +(the Gehlen Org), collaborated with many of the spy services of +NATO, including the American Military Intelligence Service (MIS - +for offensive intelligence), the US Army Counter Intelligence Corps +(CIC - for defensive purposes), the ultra-secret State Department +Office of Policy Co-ordination and the Central Intelligence Agency. +. ." (21)

+ +

"Just before World War II began," according to the authors, "an +Austrian Jew named Richard Kauder created a secret intelligence +network, code named MAX." Kauder, using the name of [Max] Klatt - +Turkel's intelligence chief ["Unholy Trinity," Aarons and Loftus, p. +166] - "worked exclusively for Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the German +spy chief who collaborated with the Vatican and the British to +topple Hitler during the war [the group known as the Black +Orchestra]."

+ +

The Nazis thought the Max network was made up of "so-called Fascist +Jews" who "were willing to spy against the Soviet Union, not for the +glory of the Third Reich but to save themselves and their families +from the concentration camps." The Max network was supposed to have +had "the only communication link to a secret network of 'White' +Russian Fascists inside the Kremlin [Turkel's NTS], who had +supposedly infiltrated Stalin's military headquarters prior to World +War II." But, the authors continue, "the Max network was not made up +of Fascist Jews. They were, in fact, Communist Jews who risked their +lives inside the heart of the Third Reich's intelligence service."

+ +

The Max network actually misled the Nazis, feeding them false +intelligence on the capabilities and intentions of the Soviet Union, +leading "the Nazi divisions into a series of death traps on the +Eastern front." The Max double-agents were responsible for the Nazis +defeats at Stalingrad, "the giant battle of Kursk where Hitler's +tank divisions were slaughtered. The final sting," continue the +authors, "was to mislead Germany into believing that the Red army +was on the verge of collapse in 1944, when in fact the Soviets were +preparing for the most massive onslaught of the war.

+ +

"It would not be an exaggeration to say that the 'Fascist Jews' of +the Max network did more to defeat the German army than all the +Western intelligence services combined. Seventy percent of all +Hitler's divisions were destroyed on the Eastern front, largely as a +result of the misleading intelligence supplied by Max." (22)

+ +

When Gehlen was recruited by the United States, Allen Dulles +ordered the ex-Nazi spymaster to "revive the Max network." Gehlen +already had plans to do just that, intending "to make Turkel's Max +network the centerpiece of his new West German intelligence agency. +As soon as a Republican president was elected in the United States, +Dulles intended to take over the CIA and make Gehlen and Turkel the +heart of his anti-Soviet network. The Soviets, of course, were +delighted as they watched Dulles and Gehlen attempt to plant a +Communist spy ring in the heart of Western intelligence. . . .

+ +

". . . [E]ventually, in 1956, the Allies decided that the whole +thing had been a giant Soviet-controlled operation. Dozens of +operations, hundreds of agents, thousands of innocent civilians had +been betrayed. . . .

+ +

". . . [T]hree years after Dulles became head of CIA in 1953, his +pet 'Fascist,' Turkel, broadcast the CIA codes to start the +Hungarian uprising prematurely. Thousands of innocent Hungarians +rushed on to the streets of Budapest to start the revolution. +Instead of American paratroopers dropping supplies, they found +Soviet tanks waiting in the suburbs."

+ +

By 1959, the collapse of Dulles's spy network was almost total: +"U.S. Military Intelligence admitted to the National Security +Council that it did not have a single network of couriers or safe +houses left in Communist territory, apart from East Germany. +Dulles's Nazi 'freedom fighters' had sold him out." (23)

+ +

COLD WARRIORS

+ +

It was Harry Rositze who best described the attitude of the United +States military-intelligence establishment after the end of World +War II: "Any bastard as long as he was anti-Communist." Rositze, the +"former head of secret operations inside the USSR" for the CIA, was +correct. (24)

+ +

We have seen that many Nazis - including those who committed +atrocities - returned to positions of power and influence inside +Germany after the war. Unknown until fairly recently was the extent +of Nazi recruitment by U.S. intelligence agencies and political +organizations, in the 1940s and 1950s.

+ +

Perhaps the most publicized program of Nazi recruitment is that of +Project Paperclip, which involved the collection of Nazi rocket +scientists and facilities, all of which were later incorporated into +the U.S. Space Program. Klaus Barbie's employment by the U.S. State +Department in the 1940s is another well-known incident. Barbie, head +of the Gestapo in Lyons, France, was known as the "Butcher of Lyons" +and was sought by the French Government for atrocities committed +against French Resistance fighters captured by the Nazis. Barbie was +recruited as a U.S. intelligence "asset" in 1947 by one branch of +the State Department's Counter-intelligence Corps (CIC), while +another branch, the Operation Selection Board, a joint U.S./British +project, was trying to put him in prison for war crimes.

+ +

Eventually, according to Aarons and Loftus, "Barbie's employment +(and protection) by the Americans began to reach French newspapers +and politicians at least as early as 1948. They, in turn brought +increasing pressure on the U.S. government through publicity and +eventually through official notes requesting Barbie's extradition +from Germany. That, in the final analysis, is why the CIC chose to +provide Barbie with a new identity and safe passage to Argentina in +1951, while thousands of other ex-Nazis who had been 'of interest' +to the CIC at one time or another have simply lived out their lives +in Germany. If the CIC had dumped Barbie when the French government +began requesting his extradition, he would have had plenty of +compromising things to say about the CIC. . ." (25)

+ +

But when Barbie was eventually captured by Bolivian authorities in +the early 1980s, and returned to France to face charges of war +crimes, the U.S. government was forced to conduct an investigation +into the Barbie affair. The official position? ". . . [T]his +investigation concluded that the United States had indeed protected +Barbie in Europe and engineered his escape but that Barbie was the +only such Nazi who had been assisted in this fashion." (26)

+ +

As documented previously, this statement was false. Hundreds, +perhaps thousands, of Nazis were employed by the several U.S. +agencies, from the CIC to the CIA, and used in covert operations +overseas, as our first line of defense against Communism. Others, +equally as guilty of wartime atrocities, were brought into the +United States for domestic political purposes. This aspect of the +U.S.-Nazi connection is well-documented, and deserves closer +attention by the mainstream press.

+ +

One of the first researchers to reveal the connections between the +U.S. government and the Nazis, was a lady named Mae Brussell of +Carmel, California. Her career as a conspiracy researcher and host +of the weekly radio program "World Watchers International" began +with the Kennedy assassination. "In ferreting out every morsel from +the Warren Report," writes Jonathan Vankin, author of the book +"Conspiracies, Cover-ups and Crimes," "supplementing her research +with untold amounts of reading from the 'New York Times' to 'Soldier +of Fortune,' Brussell discovered not merely a conspiracy of a few +renegade CIA agents, Mafiosi, and Castro haters behind Kennedy's +death, but a vast, invisible institutional structure layered into +the very fabric of the U.S. political system.

+ +

"Comprising the government within a government were not just spies, +gangsters, and Cubans, but Nazis. Mae found that many of the +commission witnesses -- whose testimony established Oswald as a lone +nut' -- had never even spoken to Oswald, or knew him only slightly. +The bulk of them were White Russian emigres living in Dallas. +Extreme in their anti-Communism, they were often affiliated with +groups set up by the SS in World War II -- Eastern European ethnic +armies used by the Nazis to carry out their dirtiest work.

+ +

"Brussell also discovered an episode from history rarely reported +in the media, and not often taught in universities. Those same +collaborationist groups were absorbed by United States intelligence +agencies. They hooked up with the spy net of German General Reinhard +Gehlen, Hitler's Eastern Front espionage chief."

+ +

"'This is a story of how key Nazis . . . anticipated military +disaster and laid plans to transplant nazism, intact but disguised, +in havens in the West,' wrote Mae Brussell in 1983. She didn't +author too many articles, but this one, 'The Nazi Connection to the +John F. Kennedy Assassination' (in 'The Rebel,' a short-lived +political magazine published by 'Hustler' impresario Larry Flynt), +was definitive, albeit convoluted.

+ +

"'It is a story that climaxes in Dallas on November 22, 1963, when +John Kennedy was struck down,' Brussell's article continued. 'And it +is a story with an aftermath -- America's slide to the brink of +Fascism.'"

+ +

Mae Brussell quit broadcasting her radio show in Spring of 1988, +after receiving a death threat from a "man who is said to have +identified himself as 'a fascist and proud of it.'"

+ +

The last project she worked on, before her death from cancer on +October 3, 1988, writes the author, "was a study of Satanic cults -- +within the U.S. military. The hidden fascist oligarchy had +progressed far beyond the need for patsies like Oswald. They were +now able, Brussell asserted, to hypnotically program assassins.

+ +

"Satanic cults are the state of the art in brainwashing. With +drugs, sex, and violence, they strip any semblance of moral thought. +They are perfect for use in creating killers. The United States +military, Brussell found, was using them." (27)

+ +

NOTES: THE NEW WORLD (DIS)ORDER

+ +

1.One Thousand Americans, George Seldes, p. 5-6 2.The Secret War +Against the Jews, Loftus and Aarons, p. 71 3.Ibid., pp. 73-74 +4.Ibid., pp. 75-76 5.Ibid., p. 77 6.Ibid., p. 78 7.Ibid., pp. 79-80 +8.Ibid., pp. 82-83 9.Ibid., pp. 84-85 10.Ibid., pp. 85-86 11.Tragedy +and Hope, Prof. Carrol Quigley, p. 827 12.Secret War Against the +Jews, pp. 100-102 13.The American Establishment, Leonard and Mark +Silk, p. 249 14.The New Germany and the Old Nazis, T.H. Tetens, pp. +99-102 15.Blowback: America's recruitment of Nazis and its effects +on the Cold War, Christopher Simpson, pp. 191-192 16.The New Germany +and the Old Nazis, p. 103 17.Ibid., pp. 112-113 18.Blowback, pp. 40-41 19.The New Germany and the Old Nazis, pp. 42-43 20.Blowback, pp. +54-55 21.Unholy Trinity, Mark Aarons and John Loftus, pp. 151-152 +22.The Secret War Against the Jews, pp. 135-136 23.Ibid., pp. 151-152 24.Blowback, p. 159 25.Ibid., pp. 187-189 26.Ibid., pp. 192-193 +27.Conspiracies, Cover-ups and Crimes, Jonathan Vankin, pp. 101-104

+ +

RICHARD MILHOUSE NIXON

+ +

In this section we will explore the Nazi connections of Richard +Nixon. To do so we must return to the years just after the end of +World War II and, of course, a man named Dulles.

+ +

The irony of Nixon's political career ending with a cover-up can +only be appreciated with the knowledge that this turbulent career +also began with one. Loftus and Aarons state that:

+ +

"According to several of our sources among the 'old spies,' Richard +Nixon's political career began in 1945, when he was the navy officer +temporarily assigned to review . . . captured Nazi documents." The +documents in question revealed the wartime record of Karl Blessing, +"former Reichsbank officer and then head of the Nazi oil cartel, +Kontinentale Ol A.G. 'Konti' was in partnership with Dulles's +principal Nazi client, I.G. Farben. Both companies had despicable +records regarding their treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. +After the war Dulles not only 'lost' Blessings Nazi party records, +but he helped peddle a false biography in the ever-gullible 'New +York Times.'"

+ +

The authors' sources reveal that not only did Dulles help cover up +his Nazi client's record, he "personally vouched for Blessing as an +anti-Nazi in order to protect continued control of German oil +interests in the Middle East. Blessing's Konti was the Nazi link to +Iben Saud [King of Saudi Arabia] and Aramco [the Arabian-American +Oil Company]. If Blessing went down, he could have taken a lot of +people with him, including Allen Dulles. The cover-up worked, except +that U.S. Naval Intelligence scrutinized a set of the captured Konti +records."

+ +

According to the "old spies," Allen Dulles made a deal with the +young navy officer who was reviewing the Konti files - Richard +Nixon. Nixon would help Dulles bury the Konti files. In return, +Allen Dulles "arranged to finance [Nixon's] first congressional +campaign against Jerry Voorhis." (1)

+ +

Dulles's support for Nixon paid off in 1947 when, as the freshman +congressman from California, he "saved John Foster Dulles +considerable embarrassment by privately pointing out that +confidential government files showed that one of Foster's foundation +employees, Alger Hiss, was allegedly a Communist. The Dulles +brothers took Nixon under their wing and escorted him on a tour of +Fascist 'freedom fighter' operations in Germany, apparently in +anticipation that the young congressman would be useful after Dewey +became president." [He would be useful anyway, despite the fact that +incumbent President Truman won reelection in 1948, defeating Dewey.] +(2)

+ +

After Truman's victory, write the authors, "Nixon became Allen +Dulles's mouthpiece in Congress. Both he and Senator Joseph McCarthy +received volumes of classified information to support the charge +that the Truman administration was filled with 'pinkos.' When +McCarthy went too far in his Communist investigations, it was Nixon +who worked with his next-door neighbor, CIA director Bedell Smith, +to steer the investigations away from the intelligence community.

+ +

"The CIA was grateful for Nixon's assistance, but did not know the +reason for it. Dulles had been recruiting Nazis under the cover of +the State Department's Office of Policy Coordination, whose chief, +Frank Wisner, had systematically recruited the Eastern European +emigre networks that had worked first for the SS, then the British, +and finally Dulles.

+ +

"The CIA did not know it, but Dulles was bringing them to the +United States less for intelligence purposes than for political +advantage. The Nazis' job quickly became to get out the vote for the +Republicans. One Israeli intelligence officer joked that when Dulles +used the phrase 'Never Again,' he was not talking about the +Holocaust but about Dewey's narrow loss to Truman. In the eyes of +the Israelis, Allen Dulles was the demon who infected Western +intelligence with Nazi recruits.

+ +

"In preparation for the 1952 Eisenhower-Nixon campaign, the +Republicans formed an Ethnic Division, which, to put it bluntly, +recruited the 'displaced Fascists' who arrived in the United States +after World War II. Like similar migrant organizations in several +Western countries, the Ethnic Division attracted a significant +number of Central and Eastern European Nazis, who had been recruited +by the SS as political and police leaders during the Holocaust. +These Fascist emigres supported the Eisenhower-Nixon 'liberation' +policy as the quickest means of getting back into power in their +former homelands and made a significant contribution 'in its first +operation (1951/1952).'"

+ +

The authors point out that "over the years the Democrats had +acquired one or two Nazis of their own, such as Tscherim Soobzokov, +a former member of the Caucasian SS who worked as a party boss in +New Jersey. But in 90 percent of the cases, the members of Hitler's +political organization went to the Republicans. In fact, from the +very beginning, the word had been put around among Eastern European +Nazis that Dulles and Nixon were the men to see, especially if you +were a rich Fascist . . ." (3)

+ +

This relationship between Richard Nixon and the Nazis developed +because both he and Allen Dulles "blamed Governor Dewey's razor-thin +loss to Truman in the 1948 presidential election on the Jewish vote. +When [Nixon] became Eisenhower's vice president in 1952, Nixon was +determined to build his own ethnic base.

+ +

"Vice President Nixon's secret political war of Nazis against Jews +in American politics was never investigated at the time. The foreign +language-speaking Croatian and other Fascist emigre groups had a +ready-made network for contacting and mobilizing the Eastern +European ethnic bloc. There is a very high correlation between CIA +domestic subsidies to Fascist 'freedom fighters' during the 1950s +and the leadership of the Republican party's ethnic campaign groups. +The motive for under-the-table financing was clear: Nixon used Nazis +to offset the Jewish vote for the Democrats.

+ +

"In 1952 Nixon had formed an Ethnic Division within the Republican +National Committee. 'Displaced Fascists, hoping to be returned to +power by an Eisenhower-Nixon "liberation" policy signed on' with the +committee. In 1953, when Republicans were in office, the immigration +laws were changed to admit Nazis, even members of the SS. They +flooded into the country. Nixon himself oversaw the new immigration +program. As vice president, he even received Eastern European +Fascists in the White House. After a long, long journey, the +Croatian Nazis had found a new home in the United States, where they +reestablished their networks.

+ +

"In 1968 Nixon promised that if he won the presidential election, +he would create a permanent ethnic council within the Republican +party. Previously the Ethnic Division was allowed to surface only +during presidential campaigns. Nixon's promise was carried out after +the 1972 election, during [George] Bush's tenure as chairman of the +Republican National Committee. The Croatian Ustashis became an +integral part of the campaign structure of Republican politics, +along with several other Fascist organizations." (4)

+ +

The authors describe Nixon's pro-Nazi activities in no uncertain +terms: "Nixon himself personally recruited ex-Nazis for his 1968 +presidential campaign. Moreover, Vice President Nixon became the +point man for the Eisenhower administration on covert operations and +personally supervised Allen Dulles's projects while Ike was ill in +1956 and 1957." (5)

+ +

One of the Nazis recruited by candidate Nixon was Laszlo Pasztor, +described by Aarons and Loftus as "the founding chair of Nixon's +Republican Heritage Groups council" who, "during World War II . . . +was a diplomat in Berlin representing the Arrow Cross government of +Nazi Hungary, which supervised the extermination of the Jewish +population.

+ +

"[A]fter Nixon won [the 1968 Presidential Election], he approved +Pasztor's appointment as chief organizer of the ethnic council. Not +surprisingly, Pasztor's 'choices for filling emigre slots as the +council was being formed included various Nazi collaborationist +organizations.' The former Fascists were coming out of the closet in +droves.

+ +

"The policy of the Nixon White House was an 'open door' for emigre +Fascists, and through the door came such guests as Ivan Docheff, +head of the Bulgarian National Front and chairman of the American +Friends of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN). . . . an +organization dominated by war criminals and fugitive Fascists. Yet +Nixon welcomed them with open arms and even had Docheff to breakfast +for a prayer meeting to celebrate Captive Nations Week." (6)

+ +

"During Nixon's 'Four More Years' campaign in 1971-1972, Laszlo +Pasztor again played a key role in marshaling the ethnic vote. No +longer a marginal player on the fringes, now he held a key position +as the Republican National Committee's nationalities director. . . .

+ +

"The Republican leadership cannot claim ignorance as a defense. +[Syndicated Columnist Jack] Anderson's famous expose of Nixon's +Nazis appeared in 'The Washington Post' at the same time as the +November 1971 convention. Among those mentioned was Laszlo Pasztor, +'the industrious head of the GOP ethnic groups, [who] was never +asked about his wartime activities in Hungary by the four GOP +officials who interviewed him for his job.' It was too embarrassing +for Nixon to admit that Pasztor had been a ranking member of a +Fascist government at war with the United States.

+ +

". . . . It is one thing to promote obscure Eastern European +Fascist movements in the Republican party. It is quite another to +let the German Nazis have a major influence. After 1953, the +Republican administration changed the rules, and even members of the +Waffen SS could immigrate to the United States as long as they +claimed only to have fought the Communists on the Eastern Front." +(7)

+ +

The Republican/Nixon attraction to Nazism was also observed by +Robert J. Groden and Harrison Edward Livingstone, authors of the +book, "High Treason," dealing with the Kennedy Assassination. Groden +and Livingstone write: "Nixon surrounded himself with what was known +as the Berlin Wall, a long succession of advisors with Germanic +names: We recall at the top of his 'German General Staff' as it was +also known, Haldeman, Erlichman, Krogh, Kliendienst, Kissinger (the +Rockefellers' emissary) and many others.

+ +

"The selection of German names was no accident. Many of the +brighter staff people close to Nixon came to him from the University +of Southern California, and the University of California at Los +Angeles, where there were fraternities that kept alive the vision of +a new Reich. America has for a long time harbored this dark side of +its character, one of violence and the Valhalla of Wagner and +Hitler.

+ +

"But Gordon Liddy was the one in whose mind 'Triumph of the Will' +was the most alive. Some of these men would watch the great Nazi +propaganda films in the basement of the White House until all hours +of the night, and drink, in fact, get drunk with their power, with +blind ambition, as one of them wrote." (8)

+ +

"According to several of our sources in the intelligence community +who were in a position to know," continue Loftus and Aarons, "the +secret rosters of the Republican party's Nationalities Council read +like a Who's Who of Fascist fugitives. The Republican's Nazi +connection is the darkest secret of the Republican leadership. The +rosters will never be disclosed to the public. As will be seen in +Chapter 16 dealing with George Bush, the Fascist connection is too +widespread for damage control.

+ +

"According to a 1988 study by Russ Bellant of Political Research +Associates, virtually all of the Fascist organizations of World War +II opened up a Republican party front group during the Nixon +administration. The caliber of the Republican ethnic leaders can be +gauged by one New Jersey man, Emanuel Jasiuk, a notorious mass +murderer from what is today called the independent nation of +Belarus, formerly part of the Soviet Union. But not all American +ethnic communities are represented in the GOP's ethnic section; +there are no black or Jewish heritage groups. . . .

+ +

"The truth is that the Nazi immigrants were 'tar babies' that no +one knew how to get rid of. Dulles had brought in a handful of the +top emigre politicians in the late 1940s. They in turn sponsored +their friends in the 1950s. By the 1960s ex-Nazis who had originally +fled to Argentina were moving to the United States. . . ." (9)

+ +

It is clear that, even before the break-in at the Democratic Party +Headquarters on June 17, 1972, the Republicans were on the brink of +having their pro-Nazi activities over the past four decades become a +matter of mass-media attention. After the Watergate Break-in, as the +Congressional Hearings began to reveal the slush-funds, money-laundering, illegal corporate campaign contributions, the political +sabotage of the 1972 Presidential election process, the involvement +of ITT and the Nixon Administration into the assassination of +Salvador Allende, the democratically elected president of Chile, and +many other aspects of Nixonism, the floodgates of truth were about +to open. Only one thing averted this wholesale learning of the truth +by the American people: Nixon's resignation and subsequent pardoning +by his hand-picked successor, Gerald Ford.

+ +

NOTES: RICHARD MILHOUSE NIXON

+ +

1.The Secret War Against the Jews, p. 221 2.Ibid., pp. 221-222 +3.Ibid., pp. 222-223 4.Ibid., pp. 122-123 5.Ibid., pp. 224-225 +6.Ibid., pp. 297-298 7.Ibid., pp. 298-299 8.High Treason, Robert J. +Groden and Harrison Edward Livingstone, pp. 417-418 9.The Secret War +Against the Jews, pp. 300-301

+ +

GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH

+ +

Like Richard Nixon, George Bush was a strong anti-marijuana/hemp +president, escalating the so-called "war on drugs" begun by Nixon. +And, like Nixon, George Bush was deeply involved with supporting the +Nazis in the Republican's closet. In fact, support for the Nazis was +a Bush family tradition which goes back more than six decades and, +once again, to Allen Dulles.

+ +

Loftus and Aarons write: "The real story of George Bush starts well +before he launched his own career. It goes back to the 1920s, when +the Dulles brothers and the other pirates of Wall Street were making +their deals with the Nazis. . . ."

+ +

THE BUSH-DULLES-NAZI CONNECTION

+ +

"George Bush's problems were inherited from his namesake and +maternal grandfather, George Herbert 'Bert' Walker, a native of St. +Louis, who founded the banking and investment firm of G. H. Walker +and Company in 1900. Later the company shifted from St. Louis to the +prestigious address of 1 Wall Street. . . .

+ +

"Walker was one of Hitler's most powerful financial supporters in +the United States. The relationship went all the way back to 1924, +when Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist, was financing Hitler's +infant Nazi party. As mentioned in earlier chapters, there were +American contributors as well.

+ +

"Some Americans were just bigots and made their connections to +Germany through Allen Dulles's firm of Sullivan and Cromwell because +they supported Fascism. The Dulles brothers, who were in it for +profit more than ideology, arranged American investments in Nazi +Germany in the 1930s to ensure that their clients did well out of +the German economic recovery. . . .

+ +

"Sullivan & Cromwell was not the only firm engaged in funding +Germany. According to 'The Splendid Blond Beast,' Christopher +Simpson's seminal history of the politics of genocide and profit, +Brown Brothers, Harriman was another bank that specialized in +investments in Germany. The key figure was Averill Harriman, a +dominating figure in the American establishment. . . .

+ +

"The firm originally was known as W. A. Harriman & Company. The +link between Harriman & Company's American investors and Thyssen +started in the 1920s, through the Union Banking Corporation, which +began trading in 1924. In just one three-year period, the Harriman +firm sold more than $50 million of German bonds to American +investors. 'Bert' Walker was Union Banking's president, and the firm +was located in the offices of Averill Harriman's company at 39 +Broadway in New York.

+ +

"In 1926 Bert Walker did a favor for his new son-in-law, Prescott +Bush. It was the sort of favor families do to help their children +make a start in life, but Prescott came to regret it bitterly. +Walker made Prescott vice president of W. A. Harriman. The problem +was that Walker's specialty was companies that traded with Germany. +As Thyssen and the other German industrialists consolidated Hitler's +political power in the 1930s, an American financial connection was +needed. According to our sources, Union Banking became an out-and-out Nazi money-laundering machine. . . .

+ +

"In [1931], Harriman & Company merged with a British-American +investment company to become Brown Brothers, Harriman. Prescott Bush +became one of the senior partners of the new company, which +relocated to 59 Broadway, while Union Banking remained at 39 +Broadway. But in 1934 Walker arranged to put his son-in-law on the +board of directors of Union Banking.

+ +

"Walker also set up a deal to take over the North American +operations of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, a cover for I.G. Farben's +Nazi espionage unit in the United States. The shipping line smuggled +in German agents, propaganda, and money for bribing American +politicians to see things Hitler's way. The holding company was +Walker's American Shipping & Commerce, which shared the offices at +39 Broadway with Union Banking. In an elaborate corporate paper +trail, Harriman's stock in American Shipping & Commerce was +controlled by yet another holding company, the Harriman Fifteen +Corporation, run out of Walker's office. The directors of this +company were Averill Harriman, Bert Walker, and Prescott Bush. . . .

+ +

". . . In a November 1935 article in Common Sense, retired marine +general Smedley D. Butler blamed Brown Brothers, Harriman for having +the U.S. marines act like 'racketeers' and 'gangsters' in order to +exploit financially the peasants of Nicaragua. . . .

+ +

". . . A 1934 congressional investigation alleged that Walker's +'Hamburg-Amerika Line subsidized a wide range of pro-Nazi propaganda +efforts both in Germany and the United States.' Walker did not know +it, but one of his American employees, Dan Harkins, had blown the +whistle on the spy apparatus to Congress. Harkins, one of our best +sources, became Roosevelt's first double agent . . . [and] kept up +the pretense of being an ardent Nazi sympathizer, while reporting to +Naval Intelligence on the shipping company's deals with Nazi +intelligence.

+ +

"Instead of divesting the Nazi money," continue the authors, "Bush +hired a lawyer to hide the assets. The lawyer he hired had +considerable expertise in such underhanded schemes. It was Allen +Dulles. According to Dulles's client list at Sullivan & Cromwell, +his first relationship with Brown Brothers, Harriman was on June 18, +1936. In January 1937 Dulles listed his work for the firm as +'Disposal of Stan [Standard Oil] Investing stock.'

+ +

"As discussed in Chapter 3, Standard Oil of New Jersey had +completed a major stock transaction with Dulles's Nazi client, I.G. +Farben. By the end of January 1937 Dulles had merged all his +cloaking activities into one client account: 'Brown Brothers +Harriman-Schroeder Rock.' Schroeder, of course, was the Nazi bank on +whose board Dulles sat. The 'Rock' were the Rockefellers of Standard +Oil, who were already coming under scrutiny for their Nazi deals. By +May 1939 Dulles handled another problem for Brown Brothers, +Harriman, their 'Securities Custodian Accounts.'

+ +

"If Dulles was trying to conceal how many Nazi holding companies +Brown Brothers, Harriman was connected with, he did not do a very +good job. Shortly after Pearl Harbor, word leaked from Washington +that affiliates of Prescott Bush's company were under investigation +for aiding the Nazis in time of war. . . .

+ +

". . . The government investigation against Prescott Bush +continued. Just before the storm broke, his son, George, abandoned +his plans to enter Yale and enlisted in the U.S. Army. It was, say +our sources among the former intelligence officers, a valiant +attempt by an eighteen-year-old boy to save the family's honor.

+ +

"Young George was in flight school in October 1942, when the U.S. +government charged his father with running Nazi front groups in the +United States. Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, all the shares +of the Union Banking Corporation were seized, including those held +by Prescott Bush as being in effect held for enemy nationals. Union +Banking, of course, was an affiliate of Brown Brothers, Harriman, +and Bush handled the Harrimans' investments as well.

+ +

"Once the government had its hands on Bush's books, the whole story +of the intricate web of Nazi front corporations began to unravel. A +few days later two of Union Banking's subsidiaries -- the Holland +American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment +Corporation -- also were seized. Then the government went after the +Harriman Fifteen Holding Company, which Bush shared with his father-in-law, Bert Walker, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, and the Silesian-American Corporation. The U.S. government found that huge sections +of Prescott Bush's empire had been operated on behalf of Nazi +Germany and had greatly assisted the German war effort." (1)

+ +

EDWIN PAULEY

+ +

"Try as he did," continue the authors, "George Bush could not get +away from Dulles's crooked corporate network, which his grandfather +and father had joined in the 1920s. Wherever he turned, George found +that the influence of the Dulles brothers was already there. Even +when he fled to Texas to become a successful businessman on his own, +he ran into the pirates of Wall Street.

+ +

"One of Allen Dulles's secret spies inside the Democratic party +later became George Bush's partner in the Mexican oil business. +Edwin Pauley, a California oil man, was . . . one of Dulles's covert +agents in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations . . . a 'big +business' Democrat. . . ."

+ +

Among the key posts held by Pauley were: treasurer of the +Democratic National Committee, director of the Democratic convention +in 1944 and, after Truman's election, Truman appointed him the +"Petroleum Coordinator of Lend-Lease Supplies for the Soviet Union +and Britain."

+ +

Just after the end of World War II, "in April 1945 Truman appointed +Pauley as the U.S. representative to the Allied Reparations +Committee, with the rank of ambassador," as well as "industrial and +commercial advisor to the Potsdam Conference, 'where his chief task +was to renegotiate the reparations agreements formulated at Yalta.' +As one historian noted, the 'oil industry has always watched +reparations activities carefully.' There was a lot of money +involved, and much of it belonged to the Dulles brothers' clients."

+ +

At the same time, report Loftus and Aarons,

+ +

"the Dulles brothers were still shifting Nazi assets out of Europe +for their clients as well as for their own profit. They didn't want +the Soviets to get their hands on these assets or even know that +they existed. Pauley played a significant role in solving this +problem for the Dulles brothers. The major part of Nazi Germany's +industrial assets was located in the zones occupied by the West's +forces. As Washington's man on the ground, Pauley managed to deceive +the Soviets for long enough to allow Allen Dulles to spirit much of +the remaining Nazi assets out to safety. . . .

+ +

"Pauley, a key player in the plan to hide the Dulles brothers' Nazi +assets, then moved into another post where he could help them +further. After successfully keeping German assets in Fascist hands, +Pauley was given the job of 'surveying Japan's assets and +determining the amount of its war debt.' Again, it was another job +that was crucial to the Dulles clique's secret financial and +intelligence operations." (2)

+ +

After Pauley retired from government work he went back to being an +independent oil man. Loftus and Aarons state that: "In 1958 he +founded Pauley Petroleum which: . . . teamed up with Howard Hughes +to expand oil production in the Gulf of Mexico.

+ +

"Pauley Petroleum discovered a highly productive offshore petroleum +reserve and in 1959 became involved in a dispute with the Mexican +Government, which considered the royalties from the wells to be too +low.

+ +

"According to our sources in the intelligence community, the oil +dispute was really a shakedown of the CIA by Mexican politicians. +Hughes and Pauley were working for the CIA from time to time, while +advancing their own financial interests in the lucrative Mexican oil +fields. Pauley, say several of our sources, was the man who invented +an intelligence money-laundering system in Mexico, which was later +refined in the 1970s as part of Nixon's Watergate scandal. At one +point CIA agents used Pemex, the Mexican government's oil monopoly, +as a business cover at the same time Pemex was being used as a money +laundry for Pauley's campaign contributions. As we shall see, the +Mexican-CIA connection played an important part in the development +of George Bush's political and intelligence career. . . .

+ +

"Pauley, say the 'old spies,' was the man who brought all the +threads of the Mexican connection together. He was Bush's business +associate, a front man for Dulles's CIA [Allen Dulles was CIA +director then], and originator of the use of Mexican oil fronts to +create a slush fund for Richard Nixon's various campaigns. . . .

+ +

"Although it is not widely known, Pauley, in fact, had been a +committed, if 'secret,' Nixon supporter since 1960. It should be +recalled that Nixon tried to conceal his Mexican slush fund during +the Watergate affair by pressuring the CIA into a 'national +security' cover-up. The CIA, to its credit, declined to participate. +Unfortunately, others were so enmeshed in Pauley's work for Nixon +that they could never extricate themselves. According to a number of +our intelligence sources, the deals Bush cut with Pauley in Mexico +catapulted him into political life. In 1960 Bush became a protege of +Richard Nixon, who was then running for president of the United +States. . . .

+ +

"The most intriguing of Bush's early connections was to Richard +Nixon, who as vice president had supervised Allen Dulles's covert +planning for the Bay of Pigs [invasion]. For years it has been +rumored that Dulles's client, George Bush's father, was one of the +Republican leaders who recruited Nixon to run for Congress and later +convinced Eisenhower to take him on as vice president. There is no +doubt that the two families were close. George Bush described Nixon +as his 'mentor.' Nixon was a Bush supporter in his very first tilt +at politics, during his unsuccessful run for the Senate in 1964, and +turned out again when he entered the House two years later.

+ +

"After Nixon's landslide victory in 1972, he ordered a general +house cleaning on the basis of loyalty. 'Eliminate everyone,' he +told John Ehrlichman about reappointments, 'except George Bush. Bush +will do anything for our cause.' . . . According to Bush's account, +the president told him that 'the place I really need you is over at +the National Committee running things.' So, in 1972, Nixon appointed +George Bush as head of the Republican National Committee.

+ +

"It was Bush who fulfilled Nixon's promise to make the 'ethnic' +emigres a permanent part of Republican politics. In 1972 Nixon's +State Department spokesman confirmed to his Australian counterpart +that the ethnic groups were very useful to get out the vote in +several key states. Bush's tenure as head of the Republican National +Committee exactly coincided with Laszlo Pasztor's 1972 drive to +transform the Heritage Groups Council into the party's official +ethnic arm. The groups Pasztor chose as Bush's campaign allies were +the emigre Fascists whom Dulles had brought to the United States. . +. .

+ +

". . . Nearly twenty years later, and after expose's in several +respectable newspapers, Bush continued to recruit most of the same +ethnic Fascists, including Pasztor, for his own 1988 ethnic outreach +program when he first ran for president.

+ +

"According to our sources in the intelligence community," state the +authors, "it was Bush who told Nixon that the Watergate +investigations might start uncovering the Fascist skeletons in the +Republican party's closet. Bush himself acknowledges that he wrote +Nixon a letter asking him to step down. The day after Bush did so, +Nixon resigned.

+ +

"Bush had hoped to become Gerald Ford's vice president upon Nixon's +resignation, but he was appointed U.S. ambassador to the UN. Nelson +Rockefeller became vice president and chief damage controller. He +formed a special commission in an attempt to preempt the Senate's +investigation of the intelligence community. The Rockefeller +Commission into CIA abuses was filled with old OPC [Dulles's Office +of Policy Coordination] hands like Ronald Reagan, who had been the +front man back in the 1950s for the money-laundering organization, +the Crusade for Freedom, which was part of Dulles's Fascist 'freedom +fighters' program." (3)

+ +

In 1988, Project Censored, a news media censorship research +organization, awarded the honor of "Top Censored story" to the +subject of George Bush. The article revealed "how the major mass +media ignored, overlooked or undercovered at least ten critical +stories reported in America's alternative press that raised serious +questions about the Republican candidate, George Bush, dating from +his reported role as a CIA 'asset' in 1963 to his Presidential +campaign's connection with a network of anti-Semites with Nazi and +fascist affiliations in 1988." (4)

+ +

NOTES: GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH

+ +

1.The Secret War Against the Jews, pp. 357-361 2.Ibid., pp. 362-364 +3.Ibid., pp. 365-371 4.The 1993 Project Censored Yearbook: The News +That Didn't Make The News - And Why, Project Censored; Dr. Carl +Jensen, Director., pp. 230.

+ +

CONCLUSION

+ +

If, before you finished reading this publication, you ever wondered +why the U.S. federal government refuses to consider the medicinal +and industrial value of cannabis hemp, despite widespread and +growing support from the public, medical experts, industry leaders, +and a growing number of state legislators across this nation . . . +you now have the answer.

+ +

For the past several generations, Americans have been +systematically deceived about the true nature of cannabis hemp. Many +Americans have died - victims of political murders. Millions have +been imprisoned, their children and their property taken away, their +futures destroyed. The history of my own state - Kentucky - and +others as well, have been "sanitized," rewritten, our heritage +deleted, our citizens defrauded and impoverished to bury the truth.

+ +

And if, before you finished reading this publication, you ever +wondered why the U.S. federal government would train and finance +Central American death squads; or why, while waging the so-called +"war on drugs," the U.S. federal government would operate cocaine +and heroin smuggling operations around the world, bringing in tons +of drugs to places like Mena, Arkansas; or why the U.S. federal +government would "spread democracy" throughout the world by +assassinating democratically elected politicians - both at home and +abroad - replacing them with right-wing dictators and training their +secret police in the latest techniques of torture, terrorism, and +mind control; or why the U.S. federal government would conduct +deadly medical and radiation experiments on unsuspecting citizens - +including pregnant women, the mentally impaired, and children . . . +you now have the answer.

+ +

The last question is "what are we going to do about it?"

+ +

BIBLIOGRAPHY (By section)

+ +

INTRODUCTION

+ +

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+ +

The Arms Bazaar: From Lebanon to Lockheed - By Anthony Sampson - +The Viking Press, NY. 1977

+ +

U. S. CORPORATIONS AND THE NAZIS

+ +

Facts and Fascism - By George Seldes (Assisted by Helen Seldes) - +Sixth Edition - In Fact, Inc., NY. 1943

+ +

Trading with the Enemy: An Expose of the Nazi-American Money Plot +1933-1949 - By Charles Higham - Delecorte Press, NY. 1983

+ +

Even the Gods Can't Change History: The Facts Speak for Themselves +- By George Seldes - Lyle Stuart, Inc., NJ. 1976

+ +

Power, Inc.: Public and Private Rulers and How to Make Them +Accountable - By Morton Mintz & Jerry S. Cohen - Viking Press, NY. +1976

+ +

The Plot to Seize the White House - By Jules Archer - Hawthorn +Books, 1973

+ +

It's A Conspiracy!: The Shocking Truth About America's Favorite +Conspiracy Theories - By Michael Litchfield/The National Insecurity +Council - EarthWorks Press, CA. 1992

+ +

The Secret War Against The Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed The +Jewish People - By John Loftus and Mark Aarons - St. Martin's Press, +NY. 1994

+ +

HEMP & the Marijuana Conspiracy: The Emperor Wears No Clothes - By +Jack Herer (Editors: C. Conrad, L. & J. Osburn, E. Komp , and J. +Stout)

+ +

H.E.M.P. (Help Eliminate Marijuana Prohibition), CA. 1995

+ +

One Thousand Americans - By George Seldes - BONI & GAER, NY. 1947

+ +

Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consentual +Crimes in a Free Society - By Peter McWilliams - Prelude Press, CA. +1993

+ +

A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky - By Professor James F. +Hopkins - University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, KY. 1951

+ +

Spooks: The Haunting of America - The Private Use of Secret Agents +- By Jim Hougan - First Bantam Edition - William Morrow and Co., NY. +1979

+ +

The Sovereign State of ITT - By Anthony Sampson - Stein and Day, +NY. 1973

+ +

Democracy for the Few - By Michael Parenti - Fourth Edition - St. +Martin's Press, NY. 1983

+ +

THE NEW WORLD (DIS)ORDER

+ +

Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time - By Carroll +Quigley, Second Printing - Wm. Morrison, NY. 1974

+ +

The American Establishment - By Leonard Silk & Mark Silk, First +Discus Printing - Avon Books (by arrangement with Basic Books), NY. +1981

+ +

The New Germany and the Old Nazis - By T.H. Tetens - Random House, +NY. 1961

+ +

Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazi's and Its Effect on the +Cold War - By Christopher Simpson - Weidenfeld & Nicolson, NY. 1988

+ +

Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, the Nazis, and Soviet Intelligence - +By Mark Aarons & John Loftus, First U.S. Edition - St. Martin's +Press, NY. 1992

+ +

Conspiracies, Cover-Ups and Crimes: From JFK to the CIA Terrorist +Connection - By Jonathan Vankin - Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing +Group, Inc., NY. 1992

+ +

RICHARD MILHOUSE NIXON

+ +

High Treason: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and +the New Evidence of Conspiracy - By Robert J. Groden and Harrison +Edward Livingstone, Berkley Edition - Berkley Books, NY. 1990

+ +

GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH

+ +

Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News - And Why - By Carl +Jensen - Shelburne Press, Inc., NY. 1993

+ +

Dedicated to the principals of an open discussion of the issues. +Copy and distribute freely. Please credit direct quotations where +appropriate. R. William Davis - Founder and Director, The Elkhorn +Project "Restoring Kentucky's Proud Heritage and Bright Future" All +email responses should be directed to: randy@ka.net Hemp for +Victory! Thank you r

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TRANSCRIPT OF AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. BRIAN MEE

+ +

CONCERNING THE FAMOUS BACKYARD RIFLE PHOTOGRAPHS

+ +
------------ +Introduction +------------
+ +

On Tuesday, 16 August, 1994, I met with Mr. Brian Mee in my home +for the better part of three hours to discuss the famous backyard +rifle photos, which seem to show Oswald wearing a pistol belt +and holding a rifle in one hand and some radical newspapers +in the other hand. There are three backyard photographs +currently in evidence. They are labeled CE 133-A, B, and C. +Each shows the Oswald figure in a different pose. Although the +Dallas police said they found two negatives, one for A and one +for B, only the B negative is known to exist. An important +backyard snapshot was discovered in the late 1970s when the House +Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was conducting its +investigation. This photo, known as 133-A, DeMohrenschildt, is +much clearer than 133-A and was printed full negative.

+ +

Prior to our interview, I supplied Mr. Mee with a 22-page extract +from the file PHOTOS.ZIP, which at the time was available on +CompuServe's JFK Assassination Forum. This file contains the +HSCA testimony of two members of the Committee's photographic +panel, Calvin S. McCamy and Cecil W. Kirk, who testified in +defense of the backyard pictures. I also supplied Mr. Mee with +sections on the photos from two books that dispute their +authenticity.

+ +

Our meeting ran about 2 hours and 55 minutes, give or take a +few minutes. I recorded all but about 15 minutes of it on +audio cassettes. I had obtained two 60-minute tapes and one 30-minute tape for the interview, never thinking that it would go +beyond two and a half hours. Three or four of those non-recorded +minutes resulted from the "Pause" button on the recorder not +being released after the audio tape had been paused while we +viewed a video segment. (At other times, however, the tape was +left running while we watched a video segment.) The remaining +unrecorded minutes occurred toward the end of our meeting, when I +ran out of cassette tape. When this happened, I took careful +notes.

+ +

I should make it clear at the outset that we did not examine +copies directly from the National Archives. Of course, we did +not study the original photos and the 133-B negative either. +Just about the first thing Mr. Mee asked me when he came through +the door was if I had access to the originals, and if I had my +own copies from the National Archives. Mr. Mee stated that in +some cases he would be unable to provide a firm judgment due to +the nature of the copies we had available to examine.

+ +

I will say, though, that in his video White uses copies of good-quality reproductions of the backyard photos that he obtained +from the National Archives. I used the freeze-frame function on +my VCR and also made several long video segments of the photos +from Jack White's video. We viewed these on my 19-inch color TV, +which has a very high-quality picture. Additionally, I made +available to Mr. Mee an enlarged copy of 133-A from a fairly good +reproduction in Matthew Smith's book JFK: THE SECOND PLOT. Our +other source for copies of the backyard photographs was Robert +Groden's book THE KILLING OF A PRESIDENT. Mr. Mee felt that in +several cases the copies I was able to show him enabled him to +reach firm conclusions. On the other hand, as mentioned above, +he also made it clear that he could not provide a firm opinion on +certain issues due to the nature of these copies and to his not +being able to view the original materials.

+ +

For the sake of convenience and organization, I placed subject +headings in the 22-page extract that I provided to Mr. Mee. +All testimony from PHOTOS.ZIP pertaining to these subjects +was included. The headings were as follows: "On Using Frame Edge +Markings and Scratches for Authentication"; "Frame Edge Markings +on 133-A (DeM) and the 133-B Negative"; "Imperial Reflex +Scratches on the Backyard Photos"; "Photogrammetry and the +Backyard Photos"; "Lines in the Chin Area?"; "The Shape of the +Chin"; "Varying Exposure Analysis and Faked Shadows"; "Digital +Image Processing"; "Nose Shadow vs. Body and Rifle Shadows"; +"Duplicating the Nose Shadow?"; "Change of Expression?"; +"Backyard Measurements and Stereo Pairs"; "Answering Jack White"; +"General Comments"; "McCamy on the Possibility of Fakery."

+ +

Mr. Mee stated that the opinions he expressed were his own, and +that he was not speaking on behalf of any government agency.

+ +

The reader will notice that during the interview I read several +lengthy sections from Kirk and McCamy's testimony. I explained +to Mr. Mee before we went on tape that I would be reading +extensively from the extract in order to provide those who +would read this transcript with the necessary context and +background.

+ +

There is one issue about which I would like to further consult +with Mr. Mee, and that is his theory of how the backyard photos +could have been faked. In explaining his theory, he drew +diagrams and referred to them throughout his explanation. This +was the only point in our interview when I wished I had video +taped it as well as audio taped it. The reader might find it +somewhat hard to follow Mr. Mee's explanation without being able +to see the diagrams to which he was referring. I should say, +however, that I think one can still get the general idea of what +Mr. Mee was saying on this subject.

+ +

Following my interview with Mr. Mee, I spoke with other +professional photographers and photo lab technicians, as well as +with serious, experienced amateur photographers. They did not +know that the questions they were answering were related to the +Kennedy assassination. I posed my questions in relation to a +hypothetical photo of a doll in someone's yard. When it came to +the issue of water spots and the nearly straight line that +runs across Oswald's chin, I simply asked what the chances +were that the edge of a water spot would form a nearly straight +line. Some of the people with whom I consulted included the +following:

+ +

* Mr. Konrad Mandl, a professional photographer and photo +lab technician, and a certified member of the British Institute +of Professional Photography.

+ +

* Miss Davette Johnson, a professional photographer and photo +lab technician, and a computer graphics technician.

+ +

* Mr. Jerry Finzi, professional photographer

+ +

* Mr. Mark Loundy, professional photographer.

+ +

* Mr. Arthur Kramer, a professional photographer who has taught +photography at the collegiate level. In addition, Mr. Kramer +wrote a column for MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY magazine for 20 years +called "The View from Kramer."

+ +

* Mr. Steven Newbould, a photo lab technician at the Harrogate +Photographic Laboratories, Harrogate, England.

+ +

All of the professionals and serious amateurs with whom I spoke +corroborated Mr. Mee's views on the issues about which I asked +them.

+ +

For example, Mr. Mee expressed considerable skepticism about the +photographic panel's claim that the irregular line across the +chin was actually the edge of a water spot. This line, as it +appears in Jack White's video, is nearly straight, and Mr. Mee +said this was one of the reasons that he doubted the panel's +assertion. Miss Johnson told me that in all her years in +photography she had never seen the edge of a water spot form a +nearly straight line. Mr. Mandl said it would be unusual for the +edge of a water spot to form a nearly straight line. Similarly, +Mr. Kramer stated that such an occurrence would be "unlikely."

+ +

Mr. Mee disputed the photographic panel's claim that a vanishing +point analysis could explain the conflicting shadows in the +backyard photos. I did not discuss this subject with Miss +Johnson or Mr. Mandl, but I did question my other photographic +sources on the issue, and their responses were quite revealing. +I asked them if a vanishing point analysis could explain why the +facial and body shadows on my hypothetical doll did not fall in +the same direction. I asked them to assume that the facial +shadows fell straight down, but that the body shadows fell off in +approximately a ten o'clock position (which is what we see in the +backyard snapshots). Every single one of them insisted that the +described shadow variations were not possible without two +different light sources, and none of them expressed the view +that the variant shadows could be explained by a vanishing point +analysis.

+ +

Mr. Mee said that the film grain patterns in the backyard photos +could have been matched if the forger knew what he was doing and +took care to match the film speed. Mr. Mandl agreed that a +skillful forger could match film grain patterns in a composite +picture. Mr. Newbould said he believed that grain patterns could +be matched in a fake photo, but he added that he wanted more +information before commenting further on my question. Mr. Mandl +and Mr. Newbould were the only two persons that I asked to +comment on this topic.

+ +

------------------------ +Mr. Mee's Qualifications +------------------------

+ +

Mr. Mee is a professional photographer and photo lab technician. +He has worked in photography for 18 years. He has worked as +photographer and photo lab technician for the U.S. Government for +the last ten years. Among other things, Mr. Mee has studied and +had on-the-job training in negative retouching, print +development, shadows, and negative analysis.

+ +

In addition, he has had technical courses in color print +development and color negative development at the Winona School +of Photography, which is affiliated with the Professional +Photographers of America School. He has also had courses in +automatic printing and in using computer video analyzers at the +KODAK School of Photography in Rochester, New York.

+ +

Mr. Mee asked me to make it clear that the views he expressed +were his own, and that he was not speaking on behalf of any +government agency.

+ +

----------------------- +Transcript of Interview +-----------------------

+ +

[Mr. Mee and MTG watch a segment on the DeMohrenschildt photo +from Jack White's video FAKE: THE FORGED PHOTO THAT FRAMED LEE +HARVEY OSWALD. The segment is about the DeMohrenschildt photo +and how its superior detail and clarity indicate that it was +taken with a different, better camera.]

+ +

MTG. All right, the thing about the DeMohrenschildt photo not +being a copy of 133-A because it has much better detail and a +larger background. Does that make sense?

+ +

MR. MEE. It wouldn't be a copy of 133-A if it had more detail +because, if anything, the reverse would be true, since you always +lose, you never gain, when you copy something. You lose detail, +definition, and contrast is built up. You start to lose your +gray tones, which hold most of your detail, and it starts to go +into shadow or [tape unclear]. So, it wouldn't be a copy. +The DeMohrenschildt photo would not be a copy of 133-A.

+ +

MTG. Could it have been printed off of the negative of 133-A, +even though it has better contrast and everything? I mean, Jack +White seems to think that because the DeMohrenschildt photo +has such better quality, that it must have been made with a +better camera. Is it logical to assume that it was taken with +a better camera?

+ +

MR. MEE. There are two possibilities that come to mind. That is +one of them--that it was done with a better camera. The other +one is that it was an earlier copy of the negative and that 133-A +is a second-or third-generation copy. To say that the +DeMohrenschildt photo was done with a better quality camera is +possible, and, it is likely, in this situation, the more probable +of the two choices.

+ +

MTG. Let me just see how we're sounding so far.

+ +

[Audio tape is stopped, rewound some, and then played back to +check sound quality. Mr. Mee and MTG then watch Jack White video +segment on how the frame edge markings and scratches could have +been produced.]

+ +

MTG. Your comments on that?

+ +

MR. MEE. One comment is on the theory that you an oval cutout +area was filled in with a figure. Cutting an oval out and then +inserting a body and then a head--I think that would be just too +difficult to accomplish without leaving tell-tale signs. You're +allowing too many areas where your tampering can be detected. +You're multiplying your suspected area by a whole bunch, as +opposed to just putting the head on and [tape unclear]. That +would be a little bit easier to do. That could be done. But +when you have to retouch such a large area, I think that would be +picked up. It would leave too many tell-tale signs. I wouldn't +really agree with that.

+ +

MTG. So, then, the first way that White suggested, of making an +exposure with just the edge markings on it, and then combining +this with the composite photo. . . .

+ +

MR. MEE. Yes, that could be done. It's feasible to do something +like that. The process of the sandwiching, though, might be a +little difficult to hide. This is not to say that it couldn't +be done, but then you'd be dealing with another negative and +probably with different characteristics.

+ +

But, the idea that a negative was shot that just had the edge +markings on it, and only the edge markings--something like that +would be difficult to achieve.

+ +

If you took the film and wound it across the IR camera without +making an exposure, and then developed that negative, you'd have +a clear type of, well, what we call an overlay, which you could +combine with a picture, instead of actually shooting any type of +picture through the IR camera. You see, otherwise, as soon as +you--even with the cap on--as soon as you open that up, you're +still going to get some type of traces of a different negative.

+ +

Now you could sandwich them together, and, again, we're talking +about making a print, and then working with that print and then +copying it. So that's a possibility. Something along those +lines. I wouldn't go so far as to say that's how they did it, +but it could have been done in this fashion.

+ +

MTG. So they, possibly, took some film, dragged it across the +film plane aperture, but did not snap a picture? Then, they +took the film out and that would have given them an overlay?

+ +

MR. MEE. Yes, that would give you an acetate overlay, a clear +film. Once you develop it, since it hasn't been struck by +light, it will come out clear. So then, you could place your +composite onto the acetate overlay and make a print and then copy +the print with a different camera. It would be possible to do +that.

+ +

MTG. So what would. . . .

+ +

MR. MEE. But there's one thing: Keep in mind that if you +copied the print with the IR, you would have multiple streaks and +edge marks. And you would probably have a shadowing type of +effect, or a ghosting type of effect, where you'd get one and +then another one close by. Even if they had tried to drag the +film through the camera again exactly as they had done before, I +think you would still be able to pick up slight variations in the +marks with a microscope.

+ +

MTG. Okay.

+ +

[Mr. Mee and MTG view Jack White video segment on the fact +that the photographic panel omitted the nose, earlobe, and chin +measurements in the backyard photos from its Penrose study.]

+ +

MTG. Comments?

+ +

MR. MEE. Just pretty much what I said last time. You don't do +that kind of a study and then leave out relevant measurements. +I'm surprised that the chin measurement wasn't considered. The +guys on that panel knew that the chin in these pictures was a +disputed area, according to the other articles that you gave me.

+ +

MTG. Oh, yes. They knew. The chin had been disputed for a long +time before that.

+ +

MR. MEE. Uh-huh. Well, that just makes it harder to understand +how they could have left it out when they did their calculations.

+ +

MTG. Could they have done this because the chin, and the other +things, threw off the total measurements too much?

+ +

MR. MEE. Let me put it this way: I don't know why they would +have left out ANY measurements, especially the chin, of all +things.

+ +

[Mr. Mee and MTG then view Jack White video segment on the +idea that the DeMohrenschildt photo was somehow produced without +the IR camera negative, and that the backyard photos could have +been made prior to being made with the IR camera.]

+ +

MTG. Any comments on that?

+ +

MR. MEE. It's quite possible.

+ +

MTG. So the DeMohrenschildt picture indicates that the backyard +photos could have been made before they were made with the IR +camera and that a better camera was used? I mean. . . .

+ +

MR. MEE. I think I know what you're getting at. When you +start talking about high-quality cameras, you're talking about +the lens not as much as the camera, and you would use a high-quality lens to copy things, because you want to try to reduce +the aberrations and the contrasts, and all the things that go +with an inferior-quality lens when you're copying. You're +already losing something. You don't want to lose anything else. +So you use the best type of lens that you can get. So, that's +consistent with what would be normal practice if you had a +picture that was being worked on. You would copy that picture +with a more expensive camera, to preserve as much of the quality +as possible.

+ +

And, with the edge markings, you're talking about more of an +original type of negative, or rather an original type of a print +from a full negative. That's not to say that would be +the original print, or the original negative. You could take +a print and copy it, and you would still get the edge markings, +but it would be printed full negative, as in the case of the +DeMohrenschildt photo. That would be the only difference, +whereas with the other pictures you might not be seeing the +full print.

+ +

During that time [the 1960s], they would do a certain amount of +cropping on the edges. This is done quite often with automatic +printers. You'll look at the picture and say, "Wait a second. +Why is this person's hand cut off, when I can see it on the +negative?" So that's pretty customary.

+ +

MTG. How much of the picture on the negative would one usually +expect to be cropped? I mean, like, if you were going to give a +percentage, would you say it would be cropped 20 percent? Ten +percent?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, you can't really say, because it depends on the +format. It depends on a lot of factors. It depends on the +machine you're using. It depends on the enlarger you're using, +and the operator who's using it. It gets back to format. For +example, say you've got a 35mm negative. To get a 35mm print, +full negative--for instance in a 7 X 10. . . . [pauses] But most +people don't have 7 X 10 frames; they have 8 X 10 frames. So, +what has to happen is that it has to be blown up so that the 7 +goes to an 8, but then you have to cut off the edges. In that +situation, you would cut off about 20 percent of the picture. So +that's one example of how cropping can come into play. There are +a lot of variables. It's hard to say.

+ +

MTG. Okay. So now. . . .

+ +

MR. MEE. I would say that normally, when you're copying a +picture, you'll want to crop in enough to where you can't see the +edging. Your attempt is to try to get in as much of the original +picture as possible, if you're trying to get the fullest picture +possible without the edging.

+ +

To get in as much as possible, you'd cut it really close. You'd +want to crop it enough so that you couldn't see whatever was on +the edges. You wouldn't want to be able to see the edging of the +picture which has a texture and has fibers in it.

+ +

MTG. Before we move on to other areas, am I right in saying +that it is your position that the presence of the frame edge +markings and the scratches alone is not absolute proof of the +backyard photos' authenticity?

+ +

MR. MEE. Right. I'm not convinced that those markings prove +that the photos weren't doctored.

+ +

MTG. Okay. The next area, then.

+ +

[Mr. Mee and MTG view Jack White video segment on Oswald's +expression in the backyard photos. White's view is that the +person in the picture could not have gone from the smile +to the frown without noticeably moving surrounding facial +muscles.]

+ +

MTG. Any comments on that?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, I don't think that's a significant piece of +evidence. Every person is different. The degree that you're +smiling or frowning can be ever so subtle. The facial muscles +don't have to change that much. They [the other muscles] +wouldn't necessarily be noticed in these photographs.

+ +

Granted, if he had a big grin, it would change a lot of different +things. It would change smile lines, the way the light hits him, +what kinds of shadows would be created. Or, if he had a big +frown. The difference in expression in those two photographs +appears to be ever so slight, but it's hard to tell without +looking at enlargements of the originals. It's possible that the +frown or the smile was retouched. Both could have been +retouched.

+ +

MTG. The HSCA photographic panel said that the different +expressions--the smile and the frown--showed that this was not +the same head pasted onto separate photographs.

+ +

MR. MEE. Right. Well, it's possible that the mouth was +retouched. The heads in the photos could be the same head. But, +I don't think that that argument alone is a strong argument for +saying that the same head appears in all the photos. There are +other things that are more compelling as evidence that the same +head was used. The mouth could have been retouched.

+ +

Or, there could have been more than one photograph taken of his +[Oswald's] head, and then those pictures could have been used in +the photos. You could use two heads just as easily as you could +use one. But that wouldn't change the problems with the lighting +characteristics, the shadows. If two photos of the head were +used, they were photographed in one setting, and with the head in +the same position in each picture.

+ +

MTG. Right. Oh, by the way, it's interesting that Kirk and +McCamy criticized Jack White's use of overlays, but in order to +detect the smile and the frown they themselves used overlays.

+ +

MR. MEE. Yeah. [Mr. Mee smiles noticeably as he says this.]

+ +

MTG. Okay, let's see. Where's my copy of the extract? Oh, yes. +I'd like to ask you about the two other things that were +mentioned as evidence that the same head was not used, namely the +differences in the eyes and the puffing of the lower lip in the +frown. The argument is that this is more evidence that the +heads aren't all the same.

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, you could make that argument. I'm not ruling out +the possibility that two heads were used. The differences in the +eyes would indicate that more than one photo of the head was +used. But, from looking at these photographs here, it's hard for +me to tell. [Mr. Mee points to the mouth and the eyes, and then +pauses to examine the photos.]

+ +

Could we look at that segment again? What I want to see is that +part that shows the head enlarged.

+ +

MTG. Sure.

+ +

[The portion of the video segment showing the head enlargements +is replayed twice. Mr. Mee then looks at the book copies of the +photos again.]

+ +

MR. MEE. I can see a slight difference in the eyes. But, you +can't say that these things couldn't have been retouched either. +I really wish. . . .

+ +

MTG. Including the. . . . Oh, I'm sorry.

+ +

MR. MEE. No, go ahead.

+ +

MTG. Including the eyes? The eyes could have been retouched?

+ +

MR. MEE. The eyes could have been retouched. But, on the other +hand, when you're looking at a negative, and you're trying to +determine which photo goes with which negative, one of the things +you look for is the subtlety of the smile, because it can change, +ever so slightly. So, it's possible that more than one +photograph of Oswald's head was used.

+ +

It's hard to tell from the pictures I'm looking at here. If I +had the originals, I could make a better determination. After +looking at the enlargements on the video, and at all these +copies [of the photos] again, my guess would be that two pictures +of the head were used, and that the head was photographed at +around noon. But, when the one head was put on at a tilt, the +nose and eye shadows were overlooked. That [the idea that two +head pictures were used] would be the more logical assumption. +But, again, this isn't to say that the mouth and eyes couldn't +have been retouched enough to create these differences. I'd +really have to look at the originals.

+ +

MTG. Okay. McCamy also brought up the fact that the lower +lip. . . .

+ +

MTG. Okay. We got cut off there. I was going to ask you about +the puffing out of the lower lip.

+ +

MR. MEE. Yes. That really doesn't say a whole lot in terms of +whether or not there's been retouching or if more than one photo +of the head was used.

+ +

MTG. Okay. I've got another segment I'd like to show you.

+ +

[Mr. Mee and MTG view Jack White video segment on the stance +of the figure in the backyard photos.]

+ +

MTG. Okay. The problem with the center of weight and also with +the stance when the figure is reversed--any comments?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, I'm not sure exactly what Mr. White's trying to +say by pointing this out. Granted, the figure is standing there +in an awkward position, regardless of the head. The head here +doesn't seem to have any bearing on how this person is standing. +Maybe that's what he's trying to point out.

+ +

But the nature of photography is that you're catching the subject +in an instant. And to say that people stand or walk around all +the time in complete balance is not feasible. We see people off +balance in photographs all the time. He [the figure in the +backyard photos] could have been shifting his weight, or starting +to walk, or taking a step backwards. There are a lot of +different things that he could have done to make his stance look +odd. It does look odd, mind you. Certainly it does look odd. +But I don't know that you can say that the stance is not natural.

+ +

MTG. What about the claim that the figure's center of gravity +lies outside his weight-bearing foot? If this is actually the +case, what would that mean?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, to me it is a moot point. People don't always +stand perfectly balanced. You see this all the time. I don't +know exactly what the suggestion is here. If it's that the body +was retouched in some way, I'd have a problem with that. I don't +know why, if someone went to such lengths to fake these +photographs--I don't know why they would need to retouch the legs +or the upper body.

+ +

[Mr. Mee and MTG view Jack White video segment on the conflicting +body shadows.]

+ +

MR. MEE. Can we watch that segment again?

+ +

[Video segment is shown several times.]

+ +

MTG. Comments?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, something is definitely wrong with the body +shadows. I don't see quite the difference that Mr. White does, +but I do see a difference. I don't know that I would say that +one body shadow is right at ten o'clock and that the other one is +right at twelve o'clock.

+ +

MTG. Well, I think he's phrasing the differences in terms +of approximations. In other words, he's not saying that one's in +a perfect ten o'clock position and that the other's right at a +twelve o'clock position. Let's watch the segment again.

+ +

MR. MEE. Okay.

+ +

[Video segment is reviewed again.]

+ +

MTG. You see what I mean?

+ +

MR. MEE. Right. Okay. And, as I said, I can see that there's a +difference in the body shadows. They seem to have been made +at different times of the day.

+ +

Now, if I you wanted to make every possible allowance for body +movement or camera movement, or both, I could see how you could +perhaps say that the time difference between these pictures was a +matter of minutes, several minutes, as far as when the body +shadows were made. I could see how you could reach this +conclusion.

+ +

MTG. Uh-huh.

+ +

MR. MEE. Now, the shadows cast by the head and the neck in +133-A--they look odd to me.

+ +

MTG. How so?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, the shadow of the neck looks too narrow. And the +head--I don't know if its shadow should angle off that much, when +it doesn't do that in B or C. The shadow cast by the neck is +thicker in B and C too. These could be real shadows, mind you, +but they do look a little off to me.

+ +

MTG. Uh-huh.

+ +

MR. MEE. It's hard to say, though. It would really help if I +could look at the originals. Again, they could be real shadows. +I'm just saying that looking at them here, they do seem a little +strange.

+ +

[Mr. Mee and MTG view Jack White video segment on the fact that +in 133-C the body shadow runs up onto the fence, whereas the +body shadows in A and B don't.]

+ +

MTG. Comments?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, to say that these photographs were taken within +seconds of each other, I think, is impossible. There's just too +much variance in the directions in the body shadows. They [the +body shadows] have definitely changed positions.

+ +

Now, about that C photograph--and, again, this is without looking +at the original--but what could cause that [the shadow running up +onto the fence] would be if the figure were a little farther +back. You've got to consider any lean, too. The weight shift +here [in 133-C], so that he's leaning back more, could cause +the shadow to go up onto the fence. It wouldn't take that much +of a shift or lean to make it go up onto the fence. I don't +think that's an unreasonable amount. I mean, you can see this +for yourself by standing in front of a bright light. You can see +how much you can change the length of your shadow just by leaning +a little bit.

+ +

MTG. Okay. So the body shadow on the fence, that is, the head +going up onto the fence, could be due to a slight shift or lean?

+ +

MR. MEE. Right. And, by the way, I think the suggestion that +two different people were used, wearing the same clothes, is +really unlikely. I don't think they would have used two +different bodies, especially ones that were different heights.

+ +

MTG. Right. That makes sense.

+ +

[Mr. Mee and MTG view Jack White video segment on the blurriness +of the right-hand fingers in 133-A.]

+ +

MTG. Okay. On the blurriness of the fingers on his right hand.

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, yeah, that's the way it appears. But that could +have been caused by a couple different things. He could have +been moving that hand. Or, light might have been reflecting off +the newspaper and into the shadow areas of the hand, which would +take away some of the detail around the fingers. If his hand +were slightly angled, just ever so slightly, and with the +reflection from the newspaper, that would make the fingers look +stubby too. Those are more likely possibilities. I don't know +why a retouch artist would have tampered with anything in that +area.

+ +

MTG. Yeah, you'd think they would have had the guy just hold the +newspapers, and so they wouldn't have to do any retouching there.

+ +

MR. MEE. Right.

+ +

MTG. Okay. Now, in this next segment. . . . Well, let's take +a look at it.

+ +

[Mr. Mee and MTG view Jack White video segment on White's finding +that when he enlarged the figure in 133-A to match Oswald's +height of 5 feet 9 inches, the length of the rifle was too long, +and that when be brought the rifles to the same size, to match +the alleged murder weapon's official size of 40.2 inches, the +figure appeared to be six inches too short.]

+ +

MTG. Okay. What are your thoughts on this?

+ +

MR. MEE. The person's height could be different, and that would +be another indication of fraud in these photos. I don't know +why they would have used a stand-in who was so much shorter than +Oswald, though. You'd think they would have gotten someone who +was about Oswald's height.

+ +

MTG. Along that line, one of the Oswald impersonators was +said by two or three witnesses to be quite a bit shorter than +Oswald.

+ +

MR. MEE. Huh. That's interesting. Well, I'd have to examine +Mr. White's methodology more closely before I reached any +conclusions here, though. When you're doing these kinds of +comparisons, you've got to figure in other factors, like +whether or not there was any tilting of the camera, how the +person was standing, the relationship to other objects in the +picture, that sort of thing. But. . . .

+ +

MTG. Does the figure look like it's leaning or tilted very much?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, I was just about to say that the figure doesn't +look like he's leaning to the point that it would be that hard to +determine the height. He appears to be standing pretty much +straight up. Now, you don't know exactly how the camera was +being held, but I wouldn't guess that it was held way off +balance, to look at these pictures.

+ +

[Phone rings. Tape recorder is placed on pause. After MTG +hangs up the phone, the interview is resumed but the recorder is +accidentally left on pause. After about a minute, MTG realizes +that tape recorder is still on pause.]

+ +

MTG. Okay. We had a little snafu there. Let me ask you +this again. What is your opinion of Jack White's work overall?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, overall, I'd say it's pretty good. I don't agree +with some of it. I think he's reading too much into certain +things. But, in general, I think he's on the right track. I +mean, from everything I've seen so far, from all the copies and +everything that I've looked at so far, I would say he's made some +valid arguments.

+ +

MTG. Well, you know that British photographic expert mentioned +in the video, Jeffrey Crowley, looked at White's work and was +quite impressed with it.

+ +

MR. MEE. Uh-huh. Yeah, I remember that. I mean, the guy [Jack +White] does make some mistakes, but overall he makes a pretty +good case.

+ +

MTG. Okay. Fair enough.

+ +

[Mr. Mee and MTG view the Jack White video segment on the +conflict between the backyard figure's chin and Oswald's chin, +and on the line that goes from one side of the neck, across the +chin, to the other side of the neck.]

+ +

MTG. Okay. I think I'll bracket the issue of the shape of the +chin. I've got a lot of pictures of Oswald, going clear back +into his junior high or high school days, and they all show him +with a sharp, cleft chin. I know in his testimony, McCamy said +he found some pictures of Oswald as a youth in which his chin was +a little broader and slightly flat. Even Congressman Fithian +wasn't convinced, and I haven't found that to be the case at all +in the photos that I have of Oswald as a youth. This isn't the +issue anyway, since the backyard photos supposedly show Oswald +as an adult. And all the photos of Oswald as an adult show +him with a sharp, cleft chin. I'd like to return to the +issue of the chin later when we discuss McCamy's claim that +the edge of the chin disappears in shadow.

+ +

MR. MEE. Okay.

+ +

MTG. I'd also like to hold off on discussing the line across +the chin until we review McCamy's argument that it was caused +by a water spot. All right?

+ +

MR. MEE. That's fine.

+ +

MTG. I just wanted to show you that segment to provide some +background for when we get to those issues in a few minutes.

+ +

MR. MEE. All right.

+ +

[Mr. Mee and MTG view Jack White video segment on the conflicts +between the nose shadow and the neck and body shadows, and +on the non-movement of the nose shadow even when the head is +tilted.]

+ +

MTG. Comments?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, I think this is the area where you get into the +most convincing evidence that these photographs have been +doctored--the lighting characteristics. You can see in these +photographs that the nose and eye shadows do not match the neck +shadow. They don't match the shadow that falls down from the +body either. They don't match. We only have one sun, and that's +the problem. Even if we had two suns, their light still could +not produce the differences in the shadows in the backyard +photos. And I think that all the things that that panel [the +photographic panel] cited to substantiate these photos aren't +nearly as important as the shadow characteristics.

+ +

MTG. I was going to ask you about that later, but as long +as we're on the subject. . . . Now, McCamy, instead of dealing +with the problems in the shadows themselves, appealed to a +vanishing point analysis. He never actually got around to +explaining why the nose and eye shadows drop straight down, +while, on the other hand, you have a big patch of light on the +left side of the neck; and why you have the body shadows in A and +C falling at about a ten o'clock position. Instead of dealing +head-on with those problems, he appealed to a vanishing point +analysis. We'll get into this more later, but for right now I'd +like to ask you if you think that an analysis of that kind can +overrule what you're able to see in the photos themselves as far +as the contrasting shadows?

+ +

MR. MEE. No, not at all. The shadows themselves, the different +angles that they show, their shape, the areas that they should +cover but don't--these have got to be dealt with directly. No +form of analysis is going to convince me that those shadows are +not different shadow groups.

+ +

MTG. Okay. Now. . . .

+ +

MR. MEE. Let me give you a little background on why I say this. +There are a lot of ways to alter shadows in photography. But in +this situation, where the figure was outdoors, during the day, +and where there was only one light source, there is just no way +that all the shadows in these photos could have occurred at the +same time of day.

+ +

Now, it could be argued that the reason there is more light on +the neck in 133-A is that you're getting a reflection off the +newspaper, but in B and C the newspaper is out to the side, +and. . . .

+ +

MTG. The patch of light is still there. . . .

+ +

MR. MEE. It's still there. It's still consistent. And that +shouldn't be. Most of the neck on both sides should be in +shadow, to be consistent with the eye and nose shadows.

+ +

And the nose shadow should not stay in that V-shape, coming +straight down onto the upper lip, when the head is tilted. Now, +with the tilt of the head here, you wouldn't see a big difference +in the nose shadow, but you would see some difference. The shape +and the angle would change. It [the nose shadow] shouldn't look +like that with the head tilted.

+ +

[Mr. Mee and MTG view Jack White video segment on two unnatural +bulges in the backyard photos, one in the neck in 133-A and the +other in the post in 133-B, and on the fact that these bulges are +parallel to each other.]

+ +

MR. MEE. Can we see that again?

+ +

[Video segment is replayed several times.]

+ +

MTG. On the bulges. Any comments on the bulges and on the fact +that they're parallel to each other? Could it be that a +retoucher might have goofed on the neck, spotted it, and then +decided to move the goof to the post in the hope that if he +moved it to a background image it would be less noticeable?

+ +

MR. MEE. Even good retouchers sometimes make small errors. I +can see the bulges. I can see what he's [Mr. White's] talking +about here. This goes along with the theory that these are +composite photographs and that they would have required +retouching.

+ +

MTG. Now, in the photographic panel's report. . . . Well, the +panel apparently had a hard time explaining the bulge in the +post. The theory that the panel put in writing was that the +indentation was an optical illusion caused by the shadow of a +twig. . . .

+ +

MTG. Okay. Let's go over that again. I'm going to read +the explanation given by the photographic panel:

+ +

What could be perceived as an indentation in the +post in CE 133-B is believed by the undersigned to +be an illusion resulting from the location of a +shadow of a branch or a leaf along the edge of the +post. + +Okay, and you said you have a problem with that.

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, the problem I have with that, keeping in mind +the angle of the body shadows and others, is that a branch or a +leaf here would have been struck by sun coming from around a four +o'clock position. Therefore, a branch or leaf shadow here would +fall in about a ten or eleven o'clock position, and so I don't +think the bulge here could have resulted from a natural shadow. +With the sun coming in from a four o'clock angle, I don't see how +that bulge could have been caused by the shadow from a branch or +a leaf. The angle's not right. Can we look at the part about +this in the video again?

+ +

MTG. Sure.

+ +

[Video segment is replayed. Afterwards, Mr. Mee then examines +the book and xeroxed copies of the photos again.]

+ +

MR. MEE. No, I don't see how that bulge could have been caused +by a shadow from a branch or a leaf. I don't see it. The shadow +angle would be wrong. The sun's in the wrong position to do +that. I'd like to see the originals, though. For a small detail +like this, you want to look at the original photos. But from +what I can see here, I really don't think this bulge was caused +by any kind of a branch or a leaf shadow--not with the sun +shining the way it is in these pictures.

+ +

What about the bulge in the neck? How do they explain it? I +didn't see that discussed anywhere in the extract.

+ +

MTG. No, Kirk and McCamy didn't deal with that. There's nothing +about it in that file [PHOTOS.ZIP]. I don't know if the panel's +report deals with it either. I don't think the panel tried to +explain it. If they had offered an explanation, I think Groden +and Livingstone would have tried to answer it. I could be wrong, +though. It's kind of hard to believe they wouldn't have tried to +explain this, but I don't know. I still haven't gotten a copy of +the panel's report. So I really don't know.

+ +

MR. MEE. Okay. Well, that neck bulge needs to be explained. It +doesn't look natural, and it's parallel to the bulge in the post. +It disappears in 133-B, but then you have an indentation in the +post [in B].

+ +

MTG. Uh-huh. In his HSCA testimony, Jack White suggested that +the forger's knife slipped and caused the post bulge. Could +something like that have caused the bulge in the neck?

+ +

MR. MEE. Possibly. Something's definitely off there.

+ +

MTG. Oh, I wanted to ask you about McCamy's explanation of the +indentation in the post.

+ +

MR. MEE. All right.

+ +

MTG. Let me read it here. He was referring to a computer +printout that was produced by digital image processing.

+ +

Our inspection of this leads us to believe that +the apparent indentation is simply a shadow, +because if you look very carefully, you can see +the post running through that area, and this is +just a slight darkening. So that was merely a +shadow. + +MR. MEE. No, I don't think that's consistent with the direction +of the sun in the pictures. It's not consistent with the way the +bulge looks.

+ +

MTG. So, just to summarize, you're saying that the sun, +according to the body shadow, isn't in a position where it +could cause a shadow that would produce the indentation +in the post?

+ +

MR. MEE. That's how it looks to me.

+ +

MTG. Just to let you know, to my knowledge the panel never +identified which leaf or branch could have possibly caused such a +shadow. They simply said the bulge COULD have been caused by the +shadow from a leaf or a branch, but they didn't say which leaf or +branch.

+ +

MR. MEE. Okay.

+ +

[Mr. Mee and MTG view Jack White video segment on the fact that +a patch of sunlight on the side of the house beside the post +holding the stairway does not change shape in any of the backyard +pictures, indicating that the camera making the photo did not +move horizontally. This patch of light is to the left of the +post and is roughly parallel with the figure's right elbow.]

+ +

MTG. Now, on the non-movement of that one shadow underneath +the stairway. If it doesn't change shape or position, even +though the pictures were supposedly taken with a hand-held +camera, what does that say? I'm asking this because, supposedly, +she [Marina] took the first picture. Snap. Then, Oswald came, +took the camera from her, advanced the film, handed it back to +her, and then went back to where he was. She then had to and +position the camera again. And then this process was REPEATED +for the third picture. So how could that patch of light not +change in some way?

+ +

MR. MEE. The possibility that that patch of light would stay +in the same position and maintain the same shape after all that +movement is remote. You'd need a tripod, and even then you'd +have to be careful. Can we see that again?

+ +

[Video segment is replayed several times.]

+ +

MR. MEE. I think I can see what he's talking about, but can we +look at that a couple more times?

+ +

[Video segment is replayed two more times.]

+ +

MR. MEE. Okay, let me take another look at these pictures really +quickly.

+ +

MTG. Oh, sure. Take your time.

+ +

[Mr. Mee studies pictures for approximately one minute.]

+ +

MTG. Do you see what he's talking about?

+ +

MR. MEE. Yes. I would agree with that.

+ +

MTG. So wouldn't that be almost impossible using a hand-held +camera, especially given the way that these pictures were +supposedly taken?

+ +

MR. MEE. I would say it would be nearly impossible. The chances +of something like that happening would be astronomically small.

+ +

MTG. All right. . . .

+ +

MR. MEE. Even if you were using a modern camera, one that would +automatically advance the film after each shot, and were taking +a series of pictures, your chances of achieving that effect +would be low. They'd be better, but still very low.

+ +

MTG. All right. Now, if I'm not mistaken, I think we have just +one more segment.

+ +

[MTG starts to play the video tape and then realizes there are no +more video segments.]

+ +

MTG. Nope. That was it. That was the last of the segments.

+ +

MR. MEE. All right.

+ +

MTG. Okay. Now, a little while back, I got a message on +CompuServe from a gentleman named Paul Burke. In reference to +Jack White's secondary method for producing the frame edge +markings on the photos, he said, "Copying a photo assembled from +a group of photos as you and others have postulated using the +Imperial Reflex camera has a problem. Its focus ability, if any, +is limited, so the master montage would have to be large, a +couple of feet or so," which you said last time you didn't argue +with. . . .

+ +

MR. MEE. Right.

+ +

MTG. Okay, and then he continues, "and it would have all sorts +of granular discontinuities between the segments making it up, +such as sharp lines for the cuts, etc., etc."

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, I'd have to know more about the scenario he +has in mind. What are we talking about here? I mean, how +were the first pictures taken? What was in them? How many +copies are we talking about?

+ +

The appearance of your final product will depend on several +factors. It's going to depend on things like the quality of your +original photos, the camera, the enlarging equipment and +materials, and the retouching. There are a lot of things +that would come into play.

+ +

As far as size goes, it probably would be a rather large +photograph in this scenario. Your composite--it would have to be +a rather big picture. With the lighting in these pictures [the +backyard photos], I would guess that they used medium-speed film. +But there are so many things you'd have to establish first before +you made a judgment. And, also, the farther down the line you go +from your original, the more quality you're going to lose.

+ +

MTG. Okay. . . .

+ +

MR. MEE. Another thing--these pictures ARE grainy. I'm talking +about A, B, and C. They are not that sharp. They do have a +lot of texture and grain to them. Plus, you've got that +tell-tale line running across the chin, and the other things +[i.e., the bulge in the neck in 133-A and the indentation in the +post in 133-B].

+ +

MTG. All right. This thing about the chin, the line across the +chin in 133-A. Now, in the extract, we read that McCamy was +POSITIVE that the line that runs from one side of the neck to the +other, crossing the chin--that that line was caused by a water +spot. The panel as a whole, however, did not go this far. In +the report it says that the cause of the lines has not been +definitely determined. But I wanted to ask you what you thought +of McCamy's explanation?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, I was reading through that, and I had some +problems with it. The. . . .

+ +

MTG. Okay. So you said you had some problems with McCamy's +explanation, with his claim that the irregular line across +the chin was caused by a water spot. This is the line that +Jack White mentions as well.

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, there are a couple things. One thing is the +sheer coincidence that this line just happens to fall in the chin +area; that this one edge of this one particular water spot is +supposed to have left deposits in such a way as to form a line +that coincidentally starts at one side of the neck, crosses the +chin, and then ends at the other side--right where Oswald's head +could have been attached to the body. I mean, this would be a +good place to join a head to a body in a composite, in the chin +area, and here we have a line in that region, and it's supposed +to be a water spot.

+ +

The other problem I have with what he says has to do with +his statements about the line as a photographic image.

+ +

MTG. Now, this is just before he starts talking about water +spots. You're talking about where he says the line isn't a +photographic image.

+ +

MR. MEE. Right.

+ +

MTG. Again, that line is the one that Jack White discusses in +the video, the one that starts off on one side of the upper neck, +crosses the chin, and then goes to the other side of the neck.

+ +

MR. MEE. Right.

+ +

MTG. Just to give us some context here, why don't I go +ahead and read exactly what he said about the line.

+ +

MR. MEE. Okay.

+ +

MTG. Let's see. . . . Here it is. This was McCamy.

+ +

Now that fine line is actually too fine to be a +photographic image. The photographic image is +made up of silver grains, and these grains are +distributed all through here, so we have a good +idea of their size and distribution. This line is +a line that is much finer than the silver grains +themselves. It is much too continuous to be a +photographic line. A line that had been +photographed from some kind of montage would have +had the grain pattern of a discontinuous line, but +this line is quite continuous. Indeed, we can +follow this line down up to here and then back +around to here. It is a closed loop. + +MR. MEE. Now, when you talk about what has been photographed-- +what you see in the picture--that has no bearing on the grains in +the negative emulsion. The grains are more a characteristic of +the film itself than what has been produced from a photographic +print. So, when he ways, "This line is a line that is much finer +than the silver grains themselves. This is much too continuous +to be a photographic line"--this, to me, holds no water at all. +He's looking at the A print, not at the negative, so his argument +holds no water.

+ +

[Mr. Mee again reads from the extract] "A line that had been +photographed from some kind of montage would have had the +grain pattern of a discontinuous line." Now, again, that's +coming from a print, but what you'd need to look at would be the +negative, and he didn't examine the A negative. So his +argument is not valid. It doesn't prove anything. You see, +the grain is a characteristic of the negative, not the print.

+ +

I mean, even forgetting about that part of his argument, what +he's saying is that it [the line] doesn't have a grain pattern +running through it. The line is so fine that he says it's +getting in between the grain, which would put it in the emulsion. +It's like a sandwich, kind of like with two pieces of plastic, +and then the water spot would be sitting on top. But I think +that would be so obvious that there would be no doubt about it.

+ +

When he says the line on the chin is part of a closed loop, I'm +sort of at a disadvantage because I don't have the exhibit he was +using. So it's hard for me to comment. But if that irregular +line is part of a closed loop and was caused by a water spot, +then the loop is the outline of the water spot. Now that line is +almost straight, and water spots don't normally have edges like +that. I mean, water spots . . . well . . . they're just that-- +they're spots. They're usually more oblique. They're not going +to have long straight edges.

+ +

And I'd like to see where the other edges of this loop are. I +mean, they don't seem to be in the face. Just looking at these +pictures here, I can see the line across the chin, but I don't +see any other tell-tale lines in the face. So I'd like to know +where the other edges [of the loop] are.

+ +

MTG. Okay. What I'd like to do now is ask you about McCamy's +point concerning what they saw when they examined the negative, +the 133-B negative, with a phase contrast microscope. Let me +just read that part, okay?

+ +

MR. MEE. Sure.

+ +

MTG. [Reading from the extract]

+ +

We examined the negative with a phase contrast +microscope, which would detect very, very small +changes in thickness in the negative. + +He didn't come right out and say it, but I assume he was saying +that they checked the negative with that high-powered microscope +and didn't find any changes in thickness in the chin area in the +negative.

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, the thickness of the negative is not necessarily +going to be relevant. What I'm saying is that the original +photograph could have been copied and then a negative could have +been made from that. So you're not going to see any difference +in density in the negative if the negative came from a retouched +photo.

+ +

MTG. Uh-huh. Oh, let's go back to the water spot for just a +second if we could. I wanted to ask you something else about +what McCamy said about it.

+ +

MR. MEE. Okay.

+ +

MTG. He said, "We did not see water spots. . . ." Now, in the +extract the word "not" is missing, but it's obvious that that's +what he was saying. As you read on, it's obvious that that's +what he was saying. [Resumes reading]

+ +

We did not see water spots on 133-B, but we do see +that this same spot occurs on both of these first-generation prints of the A negative, so we know +that the spot must have been on the negative. + +Any comments on that?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, to me, what he's saying is inconsistent. He's +saying that the water spot had to be on the A negative because +it's on the print, and that it's not part of the photographic +image. But unless you see the negative, you can't really say +that.

+ +

MTG. Now, just for the record here, let me read what the +[photographic] panel said about the irregular lines that +appeared on the scanned image of the B negative. I'm reading +from Groden and Livingstone's book HIGH TREASON.

+ +

MR. MEE. Yes.

+ +

MTG. Let me go ahead and read that out of the book.

+ +

MR. MEE. Okay.

+ +

MTG. They're quoting directly from the photographic panel's +report. Let's see. . . . Here it is. [Reads from page +201 of HIGH TREASON]

+ +

Under very carefully adjusted display conditions, +the scanned image of the Oswald backyard negative +did exhibit irregular, very fine lines in the chin +area. + +The panel went on to say that the lines were probably caused +by "very faint water stains." Comments?

+ +

MR. MEE. Yes, I meant to ask you about their reference to +"lines," not just a single line. What other lines did they find?

+ +

MTG. You know, to be honest, I don't know. I've wondered about +that myself, because McCamy only mentioned one line that was +found with digital image scanning.

+ +

MR. MEE. Huh. Well, as far as what we just read, I would +say it's evidence of tampering. I don't accept the idea that +that line across the chin was caused by a water spot, at least +not at this stage I don't. Now, again, I haven't seen the +exhibit that shows the shape of the water spot that McCamy says +caused the line, but I'd be surprised if it caused me to change +my mind. I just don't think a water spot would leave that kind +of a line.

+ +

MTG. Okay. Now, McCamy said that they examined the chin area +with digital image processing and that they didn't find any +granular inconsistencies.

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, if you matched the film speed, using the kind of +film that was common back then, it would be hard to prove +something either way. Back then there was pretty much one way of +making film.

+ +

If you had a forger who knew his stuff and who knew the kinds +of things that would be checked for later on, you'd have to +guess that he would have done his best to match the grain +characteristics. This wouldn't have been impossible. If +he had access to the negatives of the pictures of Oswald's +head, it could have been done.

+ +

What I'm saying is that the tampering, the pasting of the head +onto the figure's chin, could have been done well enough to where +they [the members of the photographic panel] would not have been +able to pick it up with the technology that they had at that +time.

+ +

MTG. Ah, here's the part I was looking for you. If I could, +I'd like to read this to you. This is about the grain pattern +again.

+ +

One of the things that we wanted to do was to +study the nature of the silver grain in the areas +above the chin and below the chin, because of the +allegation that there were two different +photographs in some way. And so we did +that. . . . And as photographic scientists, we +found nothing remarkable about the grain pattern. +This was the same type of grain pattern. + +MR. MEE. But, again, if the forger matched up the film, there +wouldn't be any noticeable difference in the grain. It [digital +image processing] would be inconclusive. Now, I'm not saying +this would be an easy process. It would all depend on if you had +the negatives of the pictures of the head.

+ +

MTG. To match the film, you mean.

+ +

MR. MEE. Right. But it could be done. With the way film was +made back then--there was pretty much one way of making film--if +you matched the film speed, assuming you had access to the +negative of each head shot you were using, you could match the +film characteristics.

+ +

MTG. So your position is that the things that they claimed to +have observed through digital image processing in and of +themselves cannot prove that these are authentic photographs?

+ +

MR. MEE. No, I don't think that digital image processing alone +can prove these photographs are authentic. With the technology +that was available back then [in the late 1970s], I don't think +they could have proven this. I don't know that it could be done +today--possibly, with the scanning technology that's just +coming out, you could do it. It would depend on how carefully +the forger matched the film and on what steps he went through to +fake the photographs. There are a lot of variables.

+ +

MTG. All right. Vanishing point analysis. I'm a layman, and +when I read this, I got the impression that they didn't want to +deal with the shadow angles themselves, so they resorted to +this vanishing point analysis. They tried to explain all the +shadow problems in the pictures--the neck, the nose and the eyes, +the body shadows--with vanishing point analysis. Let me read +this so we have some context here:

+ +

Mr. GOLDSMITH. Mr. McCamy, how did the panel +address the question of the shadows in the +backyard pictures? + +Mr. MCCAMY. This was addressed by a vanishing +point analysis. + +Mr. GOLDSMITH. What do you mean by "vanishing +point analysis"? + +Mr. MCCAMY. The sun is very distant, so far away +that we can consider it to be at infinity, and as +a result, if we draw a line from an object to the +shadow of the object, and we do this in a number +of places in a scene, all of those lines are +parallel lines. + +Now you may recall, if you have ever seen a +photograph of railroad tracks disappearing into +the distance, the photograph shows those two rails +converging at a point. That is called the +vanishing point. The rails are parallel but in +the photograph they converge. This is taught in +art courses in high school and in mechanical +drawing, so the converging of parallel lines is a +well-known matter of perspective. In a photograph +one should expect that these parallel shadow lines +should converge at the vanishing point. . . . + +Mr. MCCAMY. Yes. Here we have 133-A and 133-B. A +line is drawn from a part of this stairway, past +the shadow of the stairway, down to here. A line +is drawn from the butt of the pistol, through the +shadow of the butt of the pistol, down to here, +from the arm to the shadow of the arm, down to +here. And when we do this for all the points in +the photograph, we find that they all meet at a +point, as they should. + +Now this is the line that passes through the nose +and the chin down to here, and that one is the +nose to the shadow of the nose. That is the one +thing that has been disputed so frequently, and +if you do the analysis properly, you see that the +shadow lies right where it is supposed to lie. + +The same thing is true over here. Here we have the +muzzle of the rifle, the shadow of the muzzle of +the rifle, and so on down the line. + +Mr. GOLDSMITH. Mr. McCamy, if the lines were not +parallel, would they all meet at one point as they +do in these two exhibits? + +Mr. MCCAMY. No. + +Mr. GOLDSMITH. If the lines in these two exhibits +had not met at one point, what conclusion or +inference might you have drawn? + +Mr. MCCAMY. We might have drawn the conclusion +that something had been drawn in rather than +traced in by the hand of nature. + +Mr. GOLDSMITH. Did you do a similar vanishing +point analysis for 133-C? + +Mr. MCCAMY. Yes. + +Mr. GOLDSMITH. And what were the results? + +Mr. MCCAMY. The results were the same. + +Now, when you read on, however, it gets a little more +interesting. McCamy was asked about the sharp angles of the +lines in his analysis. I'll find it here. It jumped out at me +as soon as I read it. [MTG looks through extract for a few +seconds] Okay. Here it is. Let me read this. He [McCamy] +was being questioned by Congressman Fithian, who was the only +guy to ask any challenging questions. He [Fithian] said,

+ +

This morning I was listening carefully when you +described the vanishing point concept, which I +find fascinating. But I wonder why did the +vanishing point lines converge in such a very, +very short distance on your chart. + +Now, I look at a railroad, even an artist's +conception of a railroad track, or a road where it +sort of narrows off. It gives me the impression +that we are talking about, you know, great +distances. + +Yet, there are some very, very sharp angles that +those lines from the bush and the nose and the +rest of it come in, all within 2 feet on your +chart. Could you explain that optical problem +that I am having? + +And here's McCamy's answer:

+ +

Yes. The vanishing point may be at infinity; that +is, if we have parallel vertical lines and the +axis of the camera is horizontal. Then we do get +parallel lines, and of course that says that the +vanishing point is at infinity. + +Now, a very slight tilt of the camera will cause a +convergence, but it would be a very slight +convergence. It starts at infinity and it begins +to move inward. + +Now, on the photographs that we saw here, the +vanishing point of the shadows was substantially +below the photographs. If photographs had been +made later and later in that day, I have estimated +that these pictures were taken about 4 to 4:30 in +the afternoon--if pictures were made later, the +vanishing point would have continued to move up +until finally it would be within the picture area; +that is, as the Sun had moved behind the +photographer. + +In the instance that you cite of the railroad +track disappearing into the distance, the +vanishing point is in the picture, and you +are seeing the vanishing point. + +I think that is as far as I can go in describing +that phenomenon. The vanishing point can be +anywhere from at infinity to right in the picture +itself. + +Now, I didn't quite understand exactly how McCamy explained the +fact that the angles in his chart were so sharp and converged +in such a short distance.

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, not having looked at his chart, it's hard for +me to comment on it. I'd have to look at it and see exactly what +we're talking about. Those lines and sharp angles do sound odd, +but I'd need to see the chart itself before I could really form +an opinion here.

+ +

But, really, I understand the principle of vanishing points, +and I don't think it's relevant in this case. The real issue is +the conflicts between the shadows. And, another thing, I can +tell you that the sun that hit Oswald's face wasn't in a four +o'clock position. You've also get to deal with the absence of +shadow where there should be shadow. You've got to look at the +shadows themselves--study their angles, determine the direction +of your light source, those kinds of things.

+ +

I mean, a vanishing point analysis is not about to explain +why Oswald's nose shadow doesn't move or change form in the +photographs. It's not going to explain why you seem to have +two separate light sources hitting the body and the face. It's +not going to explain those bulges [in the neck and the post].

+ +

MTG. Okay. The disappearing chin. McCamy said that the +edge of the chin disappeared in shadow. Now, the problem he +was trying to explain is the fact that in the backyard photos +the chin is broad and flat, but in all other pictures of Oswald-- +in all those that were taken from any kind of a frontal +viewpoint--his chin is sharp and cleft.

+ +

MR. MEE. It HAS disappeared in shadow, but not to the extent +that Oswald's would have, and that's the difference.

+ +

MTG. Okay. He [McCamy] was saying that Oswald's chin form +vanished to the point that in the picture it looks like he has a +broad, flat chin.

+ +

MR. MEE. No, I would disagree with that. The sun was not in +a position to have that much of an affect on the appearance of +the chin.

+ +

MTG. Uh-huh. Okay. Now, Mr. Fithian, bless his heart, he had +a problem with this, too. Here's part of the exchange he had +with McCamy:

+ +

Mr. FITHIAN. Here is a thing that I had the +greatest difficulty with in terms of my own +viewing of the photographs, is the squareness of +the chin. + +I wonder, Mr. Chairman, if we could ask that that +multiple photograph, that chart with half a dozen +Oswalds on it, plus the two, could be put back up. + +While we are doing this, let me preface my +question by saying that sitting here and looking +at your exhibit, I did not visually at least +identify any other chin that was even +approximately as square as the one in the backyard +photograph--from all of the pictures that you put +up. + +I could not see that. I hate to return to what you +have already done. But it still puzzles me and +troubles me. That seems to be one of the +strongest points of the critics, is the misshape +of the chin. I want to make sure I understood +your testimony. + +It was your testimony that it was the light and +shadow combination of an overhead Sun or whatever? + +Mr. MCCAMY. Yes. + +Mr. FITHIAN. Do I understand you correctly? + +Mr. MCCAMY. Yes. + +Then they went on for a bit, and then Fithian continued:

+ +

Mr. FITHIAN. In the photo, in the two large +blowups, the right-hand photo, is it your +testimony, then, that the point of the chin, which +obviously doesn't disappear--and I find it +difficult to believe that just by changing your +teeth or your mouth position it really makes that +much difference--is it then that the point of the +chin disappears in the shadow of the chin in +layman's terms? + +Is that what you are saying happens in that +photograph? + +Mr. MCCAMY. Yes, the lower part of the chin is not +illuminated, so you don't see it. It just +disappears in the shadow. + +MTG. Do you accept that?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, such a thing is possible, but not in this +instance, because of the position of the sun.

+ +

MTG. And that is what?

+ +

MR. MEE. The position of the sun?

+ +

MTG. Yeah.

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, the sun is overhead and to his left.

+ +

MTG. Based on the body shadows, you mean?

+ +

MR. MEE. Yeah. The sunlight is coming down at him from about +a four o'clock position. So I don't see how it could have made +that much of his chin disappear. I mean, the underside of the +chin is in shadow, but the edge hasn't vanished. The form [of +the chin] is still there.

+ +

MTG. What if the sun came from right around a twelve o'clock +position?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, then you'd have to explain why both sides of the +neck aren't in the same amount of shadow, and why the body shadow +falls off to his right.

+ +

MTG. Uh-huh.

+ +

MR. MEE. I mean, if anything, it seems like there's more chin +there, more than there should be, in terms of width, even if +you ignore how flat it is.

+ +

MTG. Yeah, I think so too.

+ +

MR. MEE. That's how it looks to me. I would say the chin is a +serious problem.

+ +

MTG. Uh-huh. Okay. Now, I'd like to ask you about the +fact that the panel found only very small variations in the +distances between objects in the background of the pictures. +Given the way that these photos were supposedly taken, does +that seem possible?

+ +

MR. MEE. No, the variations would be greater if these +photographs were taken the way Marina said they were. I mean, +like they showed in the video: She snaps a picture; Oswald walks +over and takes the camera from her; he advances the film; he +hands the camera back to her; he goes back over and assumes +another pose; she aims with the camera again and then takes the +picture; and they go through this process again for the third +photo. No. . . . No way. The camera would have moved more than +just a tiny fraction of an inch.

+ +

Even with a professional photographer who's trying to hold the +camera as still as possible, you're going to have more variations +in distance than what they're talking about in these pictures.

+ +

MTG. Now, Jack White mentioned that the small differences in +distance could have been produced by keystoning. What do you +think about that?

+ +

MR. MEE. Oh, I think he's right. Now, when he was demonstrating +the keystoning effect in the video, he was exaggerating a little +bit to help you understand what he was talking about, but he's +got the right idea. It would be a simple matter of tilting the +easel just a little bit. I mean, any slight movement in the +enlarger or the easel could cause the kinds of differences +they're talking about here.

+ +

MTG. Okay. Stereoscopic analysis. They said that when they +analyzed these photos, they were able to view them +stereoscopically. Let me just read some of what McCamy said:

+ +

We were able to view these photographs +stereoscopically, so we know that there was slight +camera movement. We know that there were two +pictures. But it has much more far reaching +consequence than that. + +It tells us that there was a solid three +dimensional field that was photographed two times. +If one were to have photographed the background +once, and then taken a camera and photographed +that print and then rephotographed the print from +two angles, when that is viewed stereoscopically, +the human eye would tell you that you were looking +at a plane print. That isn't what we saw. We saw +depth, and we can still see depth. + +Now if one were going to do art work on actual +stereo pairs, that art work has to be done +exceedingly meticulously, because the slightest +difference in the art work on one photograph and +the art work on the other photograph would cause +the points involved to appear to be too far away +or too close. They would tend to float in space. +So stereo viewing is an excellent way of checking +up on the authenticity of the photograph. + +Mr. GOLDSMITH. Is any special viewer necessary to +enable someone to see in stereo? + +Mr. MCCAMY. It is not necessary but it makes it +more convenient for most people. + +Mr. GOLDSMITH. How many panel members examined +these photographs in stereo? + +Mr. MCCAMY. At least, oh, a half dozen. + +MTG. Any thoughts about that?

+ +

MR. MEE. If you have slight movement during the enlarging +process or during the copying process, I think you could get a +different perspective in the photographs that would cause that +effect. So, that doesn't prove. . . . It doesn't convincingly +say that these pictures are authentic.

+ +

I mean, I think we've all at one time looked through those little +children's viewfinders and have seen those cartoon slides in +3-D. The reason you get that is that you're looking through two +different eyes and seeing the result of a slight movement of the +prints. The prints of the cartoons have been slightly moved--the +prints you're looking at through the viewfinder. You've got two +prints, and they've been moved slightly, and that's what gives +you your 3-D effect, the slight movement of those prints.

+ +

So, in the case of these photographs. . . .

+ +

MTG. The backyard photographs.

+ +

MR. MEE. Right. In this case, if you had slight movement in +the enlarger or during the copying process, you could get the +right amount of difference between the photos so that you would +be able to view them in stereo.

+ +

MTG. Okay. One thing that I'd really like to ask you about +has to do with the DeMohrenschildt photograph and the frame edge +markings. Actually, it doesn't just involve the frame edge +markings. It involves matching the DeMohrenschildt photo to the +IR camera's film plane aperture. We talked about this briefly +last time. Now, when Jack White testified before the Committee, +the House Select Committee. . . .

+ +

MR. MEE. Uh-huh.

+ +

MTG. Okay. Now, this involves the finding of the edge markings +on the edges of the DeMohrenschildt photo and the determination +that the photo is genuine because those markings are unique to +the IR camera. Now, Jack White, when he testified back then, +said. . . . Well, let me read what he said. [Reads from page +205 of HIGH TREASON]

+ +

The DeMohrenschildt picture shows a much larger +amount of background around the edges than any of +the photographs, 133-A, B, or C. To me, this +indicates that the DeMohrenschildt picture is +printed full negative. In fact, we can verify +this because it is printed with a black border +around the edge, the black border being the clear +area around the edge of the negative. + +According to the FBI, the picture, CE-133-B, was +identified as being taken with Oswald's camera +because it could be matched to the film plane +aperture. Yet, if the DeMohrenschildt picture +shows a larger background area and it is taken +from the same camera viewpoint, then 133-A, B, and +C have been cropped and, therefore, if there is +more background area in the picture, then it [the +DeMohrenschildt photo] could not possibly be +matched to the film plane aperture. + +Do you understand his point?

+ +

MR. MEE. Yes.

+ +

MTG. Can you explain it in layman's terms? Do you think he's +right?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, there are certain things I'd have to know +before I could say whether or not he's right. I'll put it this +way: If the DeMohrenschildt photo has a lot more background than +the B negative, and if both were taken from the same camera +viewpoint, then, yes, that would tend to tell me that Mr. White +is correct. What you'd have to do is make precise measurements +of the DeMohrenschildt picture and the B negative, and then +compare them. You'd also need to know if they were taken from +the same camera viewpoint. You'd want a good, uncropped print of +the B negative. These are the kinds of things I'd need to check +out before I could really say anything about what he [White] +says here.

+ +

MTG. In his video, Jack White suggests that the DeMohrenschildt +photo is a composite made up of 133-A and the border of the film +plane aperture of the IR camera.

+ +

MR. MEE. Can we see that segment again?

+ +

MTG. Yeah.

+ +

[Video segment is located on the tape and then replayed.]

+ +

MR. MEE. No, that explanation. . . . I see what he's saying, +but if you do that, you're going to have sort of a line of +demarcation all the way around. This would be very easy to +identify. Or, let's put it this way: It would be very difficult +to cover up, extremely difficult to cover up, a line like that. +It would be almost impossible to do that.

+ +

MTG. Okay. Now to get back to the other point, about the fact +that it's so much clearer than 133-A and. . . .

+ +

MR. MEE. It's an earlier generation than the ones that have +been cropped.

+ +

MTG. Right. Now how would they have gotten the two scratch +marks onto it [the DeMohrenschildt photo]?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, this gets into how these pictures could have +been made. I'll tell you what I think they might have done.

+ +

[Mr. Mee starts to draw a diagram, using squares to represent +pictures and/or negatives. As he presents his explanation, he +points back and forth to the different squares. For instance, +when he refers to "this one" or says "here," he points to a +certain square, and then when he says something like "and then +this one over here," he points to a different square, etc., +etc.]

+ +

You see, what I'm thinking is that there was a group of backyard +photographs made long before the DeMohrenschildt photograph, and +that at some point in this earlier group you have composites.

+ +

The first pictures, the very first ones, would be taken with a +high-quality camera, a very high-quality camera. So your first +pictures are all very high quality. Okay?

+ +

MTG. Uh-huh.

+ +

MR. MEE. And then this group here would be taken from those +pictures, again using a high-quality camera. Now the pictures +in this group would be smaller than the first ones.

+ +

And then, after that, just for example, way down the road, +133-A, B, and C were taken from these. Okay? And every time +along the way you're losing a generation.

+ +

MTG. Uh-huh.

+ +

MR. MEE. And, you never can tell, there may have been more then +a couple generations in between these photos.

+ +

Now, in the early stages, we're just talking about the +background--one very high-quality picture of the backyard.

+ +

So, then, you get down to here where you have your first pictures +that include the figure holding the rifle and the newspapers. +Okay?

+ +

MTG. All right.

+ +

MR. MEE. Now, there may have been more originals. You don't +know how many could have existed before that.

+ +

At this stage here, you introduce one or two heads, and you +retouch those prints. Then, you photograph that print and +you come up with a print and a negative here. And you do that +for each picture. Now, these prints could be retouched, or the +negatives could be retouched. Then, you'd make prints from those +negatives.

+ +

Now, you're down to here. This is where we introduce this stage, +here. These photographs can either be the same or a generation +or two down. Okay, then you've got these photos here--they've +had the art work done on them and they've been reworked. Until +now you're using a very high-quality camera. Then, you +photograph one of these photos with the IR camera to make, for +example, the DeMohrenschildt picture, which would give you the +edge markings and the scratches.

+ +

MTG. Now, what would happen if you were to analyze, say, the +negative of this photo right here with digital image processing +after all this stuff had been done?

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, you've got to remember that you have these other +pictures up here, where the heads are included. The grain +pattern of this photo--the one that you're talking about--is +going to be dependent on the film that has been used. If you +have the negative of the photo of the head, then you know what +kind of film to use.

+ +

Let's say you saw that the film used for the head was, oh, 100-speed Kodak. That was a pretty common film back then, 100-speed. +It might have even been less than that. Now, you would have to +be sure, then, to use 100-speed Kodak to shoot the prints of the +background and of the guy standing with the rifle and the +newspapers. The key would be to keep your film consistent +throughout. That would be very important. Now, if you did this, +it would be extremely difficult, with the technology that they +had during that time, to detect what little differences you +would have with this process. We're talking about the late +seventies?

+ +

MTG. 1978 to 1979.

+ +

MR. MEE. Right. I don't think they had the technology back then +to be able to discern the small differences you'd have if you +kept your film consistent. Today, possibly, with the +sophistication of the computers and the scanning capabilities +that they're just now coming out with, you might be able to spot +the differences. But in the late seventies, I don't think they +had the capability to detect them. As long as you maintained +the consistency of the film for your photos, they'd all blend +together. It's just like anything else. If your process is +gradual enough, they're going to blend right in. This is how I +think these photographs could have been made.

+ +

MTG. Do you think there was only one forger?

+ +

MR. MEE. No, I think you would have needed a team, a group of +professionals.

+ +

MTG. I'd like to show you a couple doctored prints that were +released by Dallas authorities in 1992.

+ +

[MTG shows Mr. Mee the two prints, both of which show a white +human silhouette where Oswald is supposed to be. The whited-out +figure corresponds closely in size and outline to the figure in +the backyard photos.]

+ +

MR. MEE. Is that right? Well, somebody was doing something. +Now, this doesn't prove that this is how it was done. But these +prints might represent an early attempt to produce the backyard +photos. You never know.

+ +

See, the thing is, though, I don't believe the pictures were +made like this because you would have had too much area to +retouch, even for a good retoucher. Here, in the head area, you +would have only had a very small area to worry about. Mind you, +these prints might have been a part of the process. It could +have been done that way. But that's not how I would have done +it.

+ +

They [the forgers] probably looked at several different options +for making these photographs, and they would have been looking +for the best method. So these prints could have been one +of the ways that they considered.

+ +

MTG. All right. I'd like to ask you about varying exposure +analysis.

+ +

MR. MEE. Well, I understand what they were doing. The theory +is that you're trying to. . . .

+ +

MTG. Can I go ahead and read a little bit first?

+ +

MR. MEE. Sure.

+ +

MTG. Okay, I'm going to read some of what McCamy said about +this.

+ +

Mr. GOLDSMITH. Please explain the results of this +varying exposure analysis. + +Mr. MCCAMY. Yes. In these illustrations, the +greatest exposure gives the darkest print, and the +least exposure, the lightest print. The advantage +of doing this is that in the lightest areas of the +picture we can see detail here that cannot be seen +up here. Conversely, in the shadows, this is the +best photograph on which to look for the detail. +So that is a print ideally exposed to look into +the shadows. This one is ideally exposed to look +into the highlights, so we can see all the detail +there. + +Mr. GOLDSMITH. After applying this method, did +the panel discern anything unusual about these +pictures? + +Mr. MCCAMY. No, nothing at all. There had been +allegations that the shadows were painted in, and +a simple examination of the shadows on these +pictures shows that there is plenty of detail +there. You can see grass, little stones. There +is a newspaper lying back here. You can see the +detail on it. + +Any comments?

+ +

MR. MEE. I don't think it's an issue. I mean, I don't think the +shadows were added. Now, I haven't had time to study these +pictures long enough to give a firm opinion in this area. But, +just from what I can see--again, without looking at the +originals--I don't think the shadows were added.

+ +

What he's talking about here is altering the exposure so +you can see detail in the shadows. A black and white print has +different grades from lightness to darkness. The full spectrum +is called a zone system. The full spectrum is from 1 to 10--1 +being your whitest white, and 10 being your blackest black. Most +cameras and film can only pick up a zone from about. . . . Well, +let's say this is a sliding scale. Your camera might get a very +white white, but it might not get a really dark dark, and it +doesn't get everything in between. So, by altering the exposure, +you can lighten these dark areas and see detail in them.

+ +

Now that doesn't explain the problems of the different shadow +angles and the bulges in the post and the neck.

+ +

MTG. Right.

+ +

MR. MEE. And I still have some questions about the shadow +of the neck and the head in 133-A. It looks a little odd, but +that might be due to using a different head. But the shadows of +the bushes, the stairway, and all that--I don't see why a +retoucher would have bothered with them. It would have been +taking an unnecessary risk. So, really, I'd tend to agree with +him [McCamy]. From what I can see, I don't think the shadows +were added.

+ +

MTG. Okay. . . .

+ +

MR. MEE. Now, if he's saying that this analysis explains the +shadow angles and those neck and post bulges, then I would +disagree with him. You're not going to explain away those +problems with that sort of analysis.

+ +

MTG. It seems to me that the easiest way to explain the +different body shadows would be to assume that they were +photographed at different times of the day.

+ +

MR. MEE. Yeah, I think they were just taken at different times +of the day.

+ +

You see, I understand what some of these guys [conspiracists] are +saying. If you had a situation where you took a picture of the +scene, and then took a picture of a person in a studio or +somewhere else and then put the figure in the picture, then you'd +need to add the shadows. But I agree with him [McCamy] here. I +don't think the shadows were added. It would be a lot easier to +just put a head on a body. I mean, you could put anybody in the +picture. You could take the picture with the background and +the body and everything, and then just take the head and put it +on the figure. That would be a lot easier.

+ +

MTG. Okay. I know we talked about this quite a bit last time, +but I'd like to ask you again about the reenactment that McCamy +cited to show that the nose shadow could remain the same even +with the head tilted. I've already discussed this reenactment +in detail in the forum [the JFK Assassination Forum on +CompuServe]. I'd just like to get some of your views on it.

+ +

MR. MEE. [Begins shaking his head from side to side in the +typical "No" motion.] Right. Well. . . . [pauses and +continues to shake his head]

+ +

MTG. Well, you know, even Congressman Fithian pointed out that +the chances that all those things would occur at the same +time were very low. [Fithian was referring to the manipulated +and unrealistic head and camera movements that were done in the +reenactment.]

+ +

MR. MEE. Yeah. Well, let's put it this way: What they did +wasn't realistic. The bottom line is that the [nose] shadow +should have shifted when the head tilted. I mean, with the head +tilted like that, you wouldn't have a drastic change, but you'd +get enough movement that you could easily spot the difference. +There's just no way that shadow should look like that.

+ +

MTG. Okay. Let's see. . . . Let me see if I can find it +here. Okay, here it is. What I have here is a picture. . . .

+ +

[Side two of the third tape runs out. The portion follows is +reconstructed from notes taken by MTG. MTG showed Mr. Mee the +notes at the conclusion of the interview, and Mr. Mee said +they accurately reflected what he had said.]

+ +

MTG. I'd like to show you a picture from Gerald Posner's book +CASE CLOSED. The picture shows the grain structure analysis that +was done on the right side of Oswald's face. Would you take a +look at it and tell me what you think?

+ +

[MTG shows Mr. Mee the bottom photo on the sixth page of pictures +in Posner's book. Mr. Mee studies it for about a minute.]

+ +

MR. MEE. I can see some variation in the grain pattern. +However, I wouldn't form an opinion just from looking at a copy +of a picture of this nature in a book. I would need to study the +originals with a high-powered microscope so that I could see the +grain structure. But, if the forger matched the film, and given +the fact that for the most part there was one standard way +of making film in the 60s, I wouldn't expect to see a big +difference in the grain anyway. If the film was in fact +matched, it would be difficult to reach a definite conclusion +about the grain in terms of the authenticity of the backyard +photos.

+ +

MTG. When McCamy recognized that Mr. Scott's photograph was +a fake, he did so because the shadows on the suit didn't match +the shadows on the railing. McCamy explained:

+ +

He [Mr. Scott, a fellow panel member] spent 40 +hours with an assistant preparing a fake +photograph of a man standing in a backyard. When +he presented the photograph, he mailed it to me, I +pulled it out of the envelope, and as I pulled it +out of the envelope I said it is a fake. + +I was rather surprised that it was that easy. As +it turned out, what he had done was to make a +photograph, a 6-foot photograph of a 6-foot man, +and this was placed in the backyard, and it was +photographed. + +But there was a thing that caught my eye +instantly; that is, that there were shadows that +were cast by parts of a dark suit. There were +shadows cast by parts of a railing immediately +behind the man. + +When the suit was in full sunlight, it exactly +matched the railing. But the shadows on the suit +didn't match the shadows on the railing. + +Now, that would not be the way it would have been +if it had been a true photograph. + +When I read this, I thought it was strange that this was the same +man who had just gone to such great lengths to dismiss the +implications of the variant shadows in the backyard photos. Yet, +he admitted that he concluded that Mr. Scott's picture was a fake +because some of the shadows didn't match. What is your opinion +on this matter?

+ +

MR. MEE. McCamy was saying the same thing about Scott's photo +that others have said about the backyard pictures. He was not +consistent.

+ +

Inconsistent shadows in a photo are a clear indication of fakery. +McCamy was absolutely correct in immediately branding Mr. Scott's +picture a fake based on the conflicting shadows, because we +only have one sun. The shadow conflicts in the backyard +photographs are at least, if not more, serious and telling. The +head and the body were not photographed in the same sunlight. +They were taken at two different times of the day.

+ +

MTG. What do you think of the argument that a good forger would +have done his pasting in a different part of the body, such as +in the stomach or in the chest?

+ +

MR. MEE. For one thing, in order to attach an upper body onto +someone else's lower body in the stomach or chest area, you would +have to match the shirt widths exactly. You would need to +maintain consistency in any wrinkles or folds that came up to the +joining point. You would have to ensure that the two persons' +builds and figures were compatible. Also, the larger the object +that your attaching, the harder it will be to hide the pasting.

+ +

There is also the matter of the figure's pose. In order to +attach Oswald's upper body onto a lower body, the forgers would +have needed a picture of Oswald with his arms and hands in the +necessary positions. They would have needed photos of him +with his hands held in such a way that the rifle and the +newspapers could have been inserted into them.

+ +

Doing the pasting at the abdomen or lower would also present +problems. The builds and figures would again have to be +compatible. And you would be increasing the size of the +object to be attached, thus making it even harder to hide +the pasting.

+ +

The chin area would be a logical place to do the joining, for +a number of reasons. Most people have a natural cleft or +indentation of some form in the chin, beneath the lower lip, and +I notice that the line across Oswald's chin runs through this +area. In joining only about 4/5 of a head onto a chin, the +object to be attached would be small, much smaller than part or +all of a man's upper body.

+ +

The neck would be another place where the pasting could be done. +The object to be attached would still be relatively small, at +least when compared to an upper body. But, you would need to +have necks that were identical in size and shape.

+ +

MTG. Finally, what would you say in summary about the backyard +photographs?

+ +

MR. MEE. I am convinced they are fake. They show impossible +shadows. The shadow conflicts are serious and telling. There is +no way the backyard photos could have identical, or even nearly +identical, backgrounds if they were taken in the manner described +by Marina Oswald. The figure's chin is not Oswald's chin. This +is readily apparent. Even if we were to accept the claim that +the line across the chin was caused by a water spot, that would +not change the fact that the chin itself is noticeably different +from Oswald's chin. The neck bulge and the post indentation are +further indications of tampering.

+ +

MTG. I would like to thank you for coming here tonight and for +taking so much of your time to answer my questions.

+ +

MR. MEE. You're quite welcome, and it was my pleasure.

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PROOF THAT OSWALD DID NOT SHOOT JFK:

+ +

THE BAKER-OSWALD ENCOUNTER

+ +

Michael T. Griffith +1996 +@All Rights Reserved

+ +

The fact that Officer Marrion Baker saw Lee Harvey Oswald on +the second floor of the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) +building less than 90 seconds after President Kennedy was shot is +proof that Oswald could not have been the assassin. Officer +Baker claimed that he spotted Oswald just inside the foyer door +leading to the second-floor lunchroom. Baker said he saw Oswald +through the foyer door's window. If so, then Oswald could not +have been on the sixth floor during the shooting, and therefore +could not have shot President Kennedy from the window identified +by the Warren Commission (WC) as the point from which all the +shots were allegedly fired.

+ +

Let us begin by analyzing Officer Baker's actions after he +heard the shots. Here is how the WC described what Baker did +after he heard gunfire:

+ +

When the shots were fired, a Dallas motorcycle +patrolman, Marrion L. Baker, was riding in the +motorcade at a point several cars behind the +President. He had turned right from Main Street +onto Houston Street and was about 200 feet south of +Elm Street when he heard a shot. Baker, having +recently returned from a week of deer hunting, was +certain the shot came from a high-powered rifle. +He looked up and saw pigeons scattering in the +air from their perches on the Texas School Book +Depository Building. He RACED his motorcycle to the +building, dismounted, scanned the area to the west +and pushed his way through the spectators toward the +entrance. There he encountered Roy Truly, the building +superintendent, who offered Baker his help. They +entered the building, and RAN toward the two elevators +in the rear. Finding that both elevators were on an +upper floor, they DASHED up the stairs. (WCR 5, emphasis +added) + +The evidence is clear that on the day of the shooting +Patrolman Baker encountered Oswald less than 90 seconds after the +shots were fired. During the WC's reenactments, Baker's fastest +time was 75 seconds; this was the time for his second, and final, +simulation. Although Baker claimed to the Commission that his +75-second reenactment time was the "minimum" time in which he +could have reached the second-floor landing, the evidence +strongly indicates otherwise. For example, Baker admitted to the +WC that in that test he merely "kind of ran" outside the Book +Depository and that he moved only at "kind of a trot" inside the +building. And these were not the only aspects of the WC's +simulations that were unrealistic.

+ +

Roy Truly, the building manager who ran ahead of Baker +through the building, likewise said his simulation time was the +minimum time. But Truly did not seem certain about this. +When asked if his simulation pace had even been "about" the same +as his pace on the day of the shooting, Truly replied, "I THINK +so" (3 H 228, emphasis added). If he wasn't positive that the +simulation pace had even been "about" the same as his 11/22/63 +pace, one wonders how he could have been certain that his +simulation time was the "minimum" possible time. At one point he +described his simulation pace as a WALK, but then said it was a +"trot." Whenever Truly referred to his 11/22/63 pace through the +building, he consistently used the word "ran" (e.g., 3 H 221, +222, 223, 224, 227). As with Baker's simulation speeds, the +evidence indicates that Truly's reenactment pace was slower than +his pace on the day of the assassination.

+ +

Pauline Sanders' testimony and Baker's own filmed statements +in 1988 indicate that Baker ran quite fast after he dismounted +from his motorcycle. In the frames from the Couch film in which +Baker is visible, he is seen to be running rapidly. During the +WC's reenactments, moving slower, and quite possibly starting +slightly earlier than he did on the day of the shooting, Baker +made it to the TSBD's entrance in just 15 seconds.

+ +

WC supporters note that the simulations did not attempt to +duplicate Baker's pushing people aside en route to the entrance, +and that therefore in the reenactment Baker made it to the +entrance as fast or faster than he did on the day of the +shooting. But it stands to reason that this action took no more +than 5-6 seconds, and possibly as little as 2-4 seconds. +Whatever small difference in time this action would have made in +the simulation was substantially, if not completely, offset by +the fact that in the simulation Baker moved more slowly than he +did after the shooting.

+ +

WC defenders also note that the Commission's simulations did +not take into account the fact that Baker and Truly had to push +their way through a few people as they approached the front of +the TSBD. Truly, however, indicated it took he and Baker very +little time to do this, and that therefore omitting this action +from the simulation didn't really matter:

+ +

I said when the officer and I ran in, we were +shouldering people aside in front of the building, +so--we possibly were slowed a little bit more +coming in than we were when he and I came in March +20th [during the simulation]. I DON'T BELIEVE SO. +BUT IT WOULDN'T BE ENOUGH TO MATTER THERE. (3 H +228, emphasis added) + +WC supporters point out that the simulations did not take +into account the fact that Baker looked down Elm Street for a +moment before he ran toward the TSBD's entrance. But this action +surely took no more than a second or two. Moreover, Baker said +he did this WHILE HE WAS DISMOUNTING (3 H 248). The omission of +this momentary action, like the omission of the action of pushing +people aside, was at least somewhat offset by the fact that Baker +moved considerably slower in the simulations than he did on the +day of the shooting. Baker's FASTEST pace outside the building +during the simulations was only "kind of a run." Yet, in the +Couch film Baker is seen to be running at a rapid pace.

+ +

During the abovementioned 1988 filmed interview, Baker said +it took him only "a very few seconds" to reach the TSBD's +entrance. If Baker was referring to the time it took him AFTER +he dismounted his motorcycle, this would still indicate that +he was running at a rapid pace and that it didn't take him very +long at all to reach the entrance, since it would have taken him +no more than 10 or 15 seconds, and perhaps less, to "race" his +bike 200 feet, dismount, and briefly look down the street. +Similarly, Truly indicated that it didn't take Baker very long at +all to reach the entrance. Truly told the Commission that as +soon as the third shot rang out the crowd around him began to +scream and surge backward, pushing him back to the first step of +the stairs leading to the building's front entrance; then, he +heard a policeman holler. As Truly was pushed back to the first +step, "JUST MOMENTS LATER--I saw a young motorcycle policeman run +up to the building, up the steps to the entrance of our building" +(3 H 221, emphasis added). (Notice Truly said Baker was +"running"--not "trotting" or "kind of trotting," but RUNNING, +which is what we see Baker doing in the Couch film.)

+ +

Now let us examine Baker's movements from the time he went +through the entrance until the time he headed up the stairs. On +November 22, Baker said the following in a sworn statement:

+ +

As I entered the door I saw several people standing +around. I asked these people where the stairs were. +A man stepped forward and stated he was the building +manager and that he would show me where the stairs were. +I followed the man to the rear of the building and he +said, "Let's take the elevator." The elevator was hung +several floors up so we used the stairs instead.

+ +

As mentioned, in the WC's reenactments Baker's FASTEST time +was 75 seconds, and that was when he "kind of ran" outside the +building and moved at "kind of a trot" inside the building. Yet, +both Baker and Roy Truly described exactly what one would expect +under the circumstances--a mad dash. In fact, they were running +so fast that when they encountered a swinging office door on the +first floor that jammed momentarily because the door's bolt had +slid out, Baker ran into Truly's back (3 H 222, 249). So a more +reasonable estimate for Baker's trip to the point where he said +he saw Oswald would be 60-65 seconds. One could make a strong +case that Baker reached the second-floor landing in 50-60 +seconds. But, for the sake of argument, let's assume a time +closer to 60 seconds. Therefore, a fair estimate for the time it +took Baker to go from the front door to the first-floor stairs +would be around 30-40 seconds. As will be discussed below, it +could have taken him LESS than 30 seconds.

+ +

It should be kept in mind that lone-gunman theorists have +argued that the alleged lone assassin could have made it from the +sniper's nest to the sixth-floor stairs in well under 30 seconds. +(One WC supporter suggested to me that the gunman could have +reached the sixth-floor stairs in 16 seconds.) As we'll see +below, this idea is problematic, given all the things the +gunman allegedly did or would have had to do. However, if we +were to assume that the gunman merely bolted from the window, +stopped for only a few seconds to hide the rifle, and then +continued his dash, he could have reached the sixth-floor stairs +in less than 30 seconds. So, if at least 150 feet could have +been covered in well under 30 seconds on the sixth floor, there +is certainly no reason that Baker and Truly could not have made +it to the first-floor stairs in the same amount of time. (From +the front door to the elevator shaft would have been a distance +of around 90-100 feet. Moving at just a moderate running pace, +the average man can easily cover this distance in around 15 +seconds or less. From the elevators to the stairs leading up to +the second floor would have been about 18 feet.)

+ +

Baker's trip breaks down as follows (bearing in mind that, +on balance, this timing breakdown is generous to the lone-gunman +theory): 15-25 seconds to go from his bike to the entrance, 25-40 +seconds to reach the first-floor stairs, and 5-10 seconds to go +up one flight of stairs. (However, I would guess that it took +the running Baker closer to 5 seconds to reach the second-floor +landing area.) More specific times are provided in the time +lines presented below.

+ +

Baker said he spotted Oswald from the second-floor landing +just after he (Baker) reached the landing, when he looked +through the small window of the foyer door. Recounted Baker,

+ +

. . . I was coming out this one on the second +floor, and I don't know, I was kind of sweeping +[visually] this area as I come up, I was looking +from right to left and as I got to this door here +I caught a glimpse of this man, just, you know, a +sudden glimpse. . . . (WCR 151) + +Baker said Oswald was about 20 feet away when he caught a +glimpse of him, which would have put Oswald right next to the +foyer door. Baker, according to the Warren Commission, then +walked through the foyer door and saw Oswald in the lunchroom +(WCR 151). Oswald had continued walking and thus was still +about 20 feet from Baker. [1] Is this how it happened? There +are problems with Baker's account.

+ +

With the foyer door shut, the window would have been at a +45-degree angle to Baker. In all probability, that door, which +was an automatic door, was already closed when Baker looked +through its small window. However, in his WC testimony, Baker +suggested that the door "might" have been moving. There is +reason to question his word on this point. Among other things, +this was the first and only time that Baker suggested the door +might have been in motion. Truly said nothing about the door +having been in motion, and his testimony indicates that he looked +at the door when he reached the landing (the door would have +been right in the middle of his field of view; more will be said +on this point further below).

+ +

If the door was still moving, it must have been nearly shut, +or else Baker would have had an even harder time seeing anything +through the window. Baker himself said that the door "might have +been . . . closing AND ALMOST SHUT AT THAT TIME." In other +words, even Baker indicated that if the door was in fact moving +it was "almost shut at that time." Additionally, if Oswald was +20 feet from Baker when Baker spotted him, then Oswald would have +been no more than a foot past the foyer door, in which case the +door--with its slow automatic closing mechanism--would not have +had enough time to close or nearly close if Oswald had just gone +through it.

+ +

Another problem with Baker's account is that Baker said he +wasn't even sure if Oswald had gone through the foyer door (3 H +255). Now this is very odd indeed. If Baker spotted Oswald +through the foyer door a second or two after reaching the top of +the stairs, and if the door was "almost shut" when Baker looked +at it, and if Oswald was no more than a foot beyond the door at +the time (as he would have had to be for Baker to see him), +how, then, could Baker have had any doubt about whether Oswald +had walked through that door? (If someone wants to propose that +Baker was referring to the lunchroom door, though he clearly +wasn't, then his uncertainty becomes even more astounding. How +in the world could Baker have had any doubt that Oswald had just +gone through the lunchroom door to reach the lunchroom?)

+ +

Perhaps the most serious problem with Baker's account is +that if Oswald was only a foot past the foyer door when he +spotted him, then Roy Truly, who was running AHEAD of Baker, +surely would have seen Oswald either coming off the stairs, or +walking across the landing toward the door, or opening the door. +The Commission itself admitted that Oswald must have gone through +the foyer door only "a second or two" before being spotted by +Baker:

+ +

Since the vestibule [foyer] door is only a few +feet from the lunchroom door, the man [Oswald] +must have entered the vestibule door only a second +or two before Baker arrived at the top of the +stairwell. Yet he must have entered the vestibule +door before Truly reached the top of the stairwell +[leading to the second-floor landing], since Truly +did not see him. (WCR 151) + +But the Commission never explained HOW Oswald could have +done this. If Oswald had gone through the foyer door BEFORE +Truly reached the top of the stairs, he would have been several +feet beyond the door by the time Baker reached the landing, and +thus would not have been visible to Baker through the window. +And, if Oswald had entered the door "only a second or two" before +Baker reached the top of the stairwell, then Truly could not have +missed seeing him. Nor did the Commission explain how Baker +could have been the least bit unsure about whether or not Oswald +had gone through the foyer door if Baker spotted Oswald right +next to the door and if the door was in any kind of motion at the +time.

+ +

Truly told the WC that he had already started up the stairs +to the third floor when he noticed that Baker was no longer +running behind him. Truly also said there was slightly more +distance between him and Baker on the second floor than there was +on the first floor. So, it is reasonable to assume that Truly +gained a view of the second-floor landing a minimum of 2 seconds +before Baker did. Truly's account suggests that Baker was +beginning to tire on his way up the stairs. (This is +understandable, given the fact that Baker had been running very +fast virtually every second after he got off his bike.) Baker +himself said that when he arrived to the landing and began to +scan it, Truly "had already started around the bend to come to +the next elevation going up" (3 H 255). Thus, if Oswald had gone +through the foyer door "a second or two" before Baker spotted +him, Truly could not possibly have missed seeing Oswald coming +off the stairs, or approaching the door, or starting to open the +door.

+ +

Truly told the Commission that he was already in the process +of "going around" to the third-floor stairs at the time Baker +would have seen the alleged movement in the foyer door's window +(3 H 226; cf. 3 H 223-224). Interestingly, Truly testified that +he knew nothing about Baker's having supposedly spotted movement +through the door's window until a few days before he testified (3 +H 226). Said Truly, "I never knew until a day or two ago that he +said he saw a movement, saw a man going away from him" (3 H 226). +Does it not seem odd that Baker would not have mentioned this to +Truly when he asked Truly if he knew Oswald when they were +standing there in the lunchroom? Does it not seem somewhat +curious that Baker didn't say anything about this to Truly as the +two of them continued up the stairs and to other parts of the +building? One can't be faulted for wondering why Baker, if he +had just seen Oswald right next to and walking away from the +foyer door, didn't ask Truly, when Truly arrived to the +lunchroom, something along the lines of "Hey, I just saw this guy +walking away from that door over there, so are you sure he's OK?" +Nor can one be faulted for wondering why Baker, as he and Truly +continued their search of the building, didn't say to Truly, +"About that guy we just saw downstairs in that lunchroom, you +know I saw him right next to that foyer door, and he was walking +away from it. So are you sure he's legit? You're sure he's OK?" + +At this point it should be noted out that in two of his +statements Baker said Oswald was walking away from him when he +spotted him. But, in another statement, Baker said Oswald was +STANDING in the lunchroom when he saw him there. Moreover, on +November 22, Truly said Baker didn't see Oswald until Baker +"stuck his head into the lunchroom area." After studying a +photograph of the view Baker would have had of the foyer door +just after he reached the second-floor landing, I do not believe +Baker spotted Oswald in the manner he described to the WC. This +photo can be seen on page 286 of Gary Savage's book JFK: FIRST +DAY EVIDENCE (photo number 140). It is clear from this picture +that in order for Baker to have "spotted" any kind of "movement" +by Oswald near that door, Oswald would have had to be no more +than a foot beyond the door. But, again, the door would not have +had time to close or nearly close by that time, and Truly could +not have missed seeing Oswald coming off the stairs or crossing +the landing as he approached the door. Another telling +photograph is CE 741, which is a picture taken of the foyer door +from inside the lunchroom. This photo likewise makes it clear +that Oswald would have had to be no more than a foot past the +foyer door in order for Baker to have seen any "movement" on his +part through the door's window (see Savage 289, photo number +143). I believe Baker ran over to the door in order to glance +through the window and then saw Oswald in the lunchroom. +Nevertheless, I have assumed for the sake of argument that Baker +spotted Oswald just after he reached the second-floor landing.

+ +

In the Commission's reenactments of Oswald's alleged +movements from the sixth floor to the second floor, the fastest +time of the Oswald stand-in, SSA John Howlett, was 74 seconds. +In this test, Howlett moved at "a fast walk" so that he would not +be out of breath when he reached the lunchroom. This was +necessary because Baker said that Oswald did not appear to be out +of breath but looked "calm and collected." However, Howlett +skipped or fudged on several actions that Oswald allegedly +performed on the sixth floor. For example, instead of carefully +hiding the rifle, as the evidence clearly shows Oswald would have +had to do, Howlett simply "leaned over as if he were putting a +rifle there" (3 H 239, 253; although another account of the +simulation claimed that Howlett did carry a rifle and just leaned +over and dropped it). In addition, Howlett did not chamber a +round in a rifle, as Oswald allegedly did after supposedly firing +the fatal head shot. Nor did Howlett slowly withdraw a rifle +from the window and casually step away from it, as Oswald +allegedly did. Nor did Howlett remain at the window for a few +seconds to gloat over his feat, as Oswald allegedly did. Nor did +Howlett have to squeeze through the tight entrance to the +sniper's nest, as Oswald would have had to do. Nor did Howlett +attempt to simulate even a cursory effort to wipe off the rifle. + +Many WC supporters claim that the rifle was not wiped off at +all after it was fired. To be specific, WC apologists opine that +"Oswald" made no effort whatsoever to wipe off the weapon after +he fired it. This is an unlikely scenario. It is hard to +believe that any gunman in that situation would have failed to at +least hurriedly wipe off those parts of the rifle that he had +just handled during the act of shooting. When the alleged murder +weapon was found, the trigger, the rear part of the trigger +guard, the magazine, and the bolt were completely devoid of even +partial prints or smudges. Yet, the forward end of the trigger +guard, i.e., the magazine housing, had some partial prints on it. +However, the gunman would not have made those prints during the +act of shooting since they were located in an area that he would +not have touched while operating the weapon. It is true that the +rifle's metal was not an ideal surface to retain prints, but +prints were found on the magazine housing, yet not even a smudge +was found on the bolt, on the trigger, on the rear part of the +trigger guard, or on the magazine. Before Lt. J. C. Day of the +Crime Lab would allow Captain Fritz to operate the bolt, he +examined it with a magnifying glass and did not report seeing +even a tiny smudge thereon (4 H 258-259). WC supporters do not +believe the alleged lone gunman used gloves. So, why were prints +found on the magazine housing, while not even a smudge was found +on those parts of the rifle that the assassin would have +handled--and handled strongly--during the shooting? It will be +assumed in the time lines that the gunman hurriedly tried to wipe +off those parts of the weapon that he would have handled while +firing it.

+ +

How could Oswald have come down the stairs without being +seen by Roy Truly? WC supporters have never been able to provide +a plausible answer to this crucial question. If, as the WC +claimed, Oswald went through the foyer door a second or two +before Baker reached the landing, then (1) Truly should and would +have seen him, and (2) the door would not have had time to shut +or nearly shut behind Oswald by the time Baker looked at it. The +simple fact of the matter is that Oswald could not possibly have +come down the stairs without being seen by Truly. This fact +alone proves that Oswald did not shoot JFK. Moreover, Oswald +could not have done all the things the WC said he did on the +sixth floor and still have made it to the second-floor lunchroom +in time to be seen by Baker just after Baker reached the landing.

+ +

It should be noted that Truly and Baker were looking for +someone, a gunman. One can perhaps debate the exact degree to +which Truly was "searching," but there is no doubt that he looked +at the second-floor landing as he was moving and that he would +have seen anyone who might have been near or at the foyer door. +Truly was asked by WC counsel if he was looking straight ahead to +see anyone on his way up the stairs, or if he was just intent on +ascending the stairs (3 H 223). Truly replied,

+ +

If there had been anybody in that area, I would +have seen him on the outside. But I was content--I +was trying to show the officer the pathway up, where +the elevators--I mean where the stairways continued. +(3 H 223) + +So although Truly didn't go over and look through the door, +since he was trying to get Baker up the stairs, he did see the +landing area and would have seen anyone IN THAT AREA, i.e., on +the landing, had someone been there. Coming up the stairs and +onto the landing, the foyer door would have been virtually in the +middle of Truly's view of the landing area. If Oswald had been +in BAKER's view in the door's window, and if the door had been +nearly shut when Baker spotted him, then, at the very least, the +door would have been halfway open when Truly saw it, and at least +half of Oswald's body in profile would have been in plain view of +Truly.

+ +

When Truly said he would have seen anyone in the landing +area "on the outside," he probably meant he would have spotted +anyone ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE DOOR. One leading WC supporter +acknowledged this point to me in e-mail. This is important +because it suggests the door was CLOSED when Truly saw it. If +the door was closed when Truly saw it, and if Oswald had gone +through it after allegedly coming down the stairs, then Oswald +would have been well out of Baker's view by the time Baker +reached the second-floor landing. If the door had been even +partially open when Truly saw it, one would expect that he would +have mentioned this in his testimony. But he never once +suggested that the door was anything but closed when he saw it, +and his testimony suggests that the door was in fact shut when he +reached the landing.

+ +

--------------------------------------------------------- +New Lone-Gunman Theories About the Baker-Oswald Encounter +---------------------------------------------------------

+ +

A few WC supporters have suggested that Oswald got inside +the foyer door even BEFORE Truly reached THE LANDING. Among +other things, this theory would require us to believe that our +alleged fleeing assassin, who was supposedly desperate to provide +an alibi for himself, inexplicably just stood right next to the +door while Truly came up the stairs, while Truly reached the +landing, while Truly looked at the landing area (including the +door), while Truly started up the third-floor stairs (or at least +arrived to within a few feet of the foot of those stairs), and +while Baker came up the stairs at least a couple seconds behind +him. What's more, this theory would appear to refute Baker's +tentative claim that the foyer door was in motion when he looked +at it, since the door was apparently closed when Truly saw it. +If so, this would mean that Oswald unbelievably just stood there +and waited for the door to close, and that this suicidal 3-6 +second wait occurred even BEFORE Truly had a view of the landing. +Why would Oswald have waited by the foyer door when he was +supposedly trying to give himself an alibi by getting as far +away from the stairs as possible? Why wouldn't Oswald have moved +away from the door upon hearing Baker and Truly running up the +stairs? If one assumes Oswald didn't hear them running up the +stairs, then surely he would have started to move away from the +foyer door when Truly came through the stairway door to the +landing, in which case Oswald would not have been visible to +Baker when Baker looked through the foyer door's window a few +seconds later. The very idea that any fleeing gunman would have +stood by the foyer door seems wholly implausible. His most +important mission in life at that time would have been to get as +far away from the stairs as possible, and, correspondingly, to +get out of the line of sight of anyone who might look through the +foyer door's window.

+ +

An even more implausible scenario, offered by a few WC +supporters, goes something like this:

+ +

Oswald was coming down the stairs when Truly called +for the elevator. Upon hearing Truly holler, or +perhaps after hearing Baker and Truly running up +the stairs, Oswald ducked into the lunchroom and +then moments later went back to the foyer door to +see if the way was clear to continue on down the +stairs (in the hope of exiting the building +from the rear door). When Oswald went back to the +foyer door, he might have even begun to open it, +but then, after seeing Truly, turned around and was +just in the process of starting to walk back toward +the lunchroom when Baker spotted him, which would +explain why Baker said he might have seen the door +in motion. + +For starters, why would Oswald have returned so quickly +to the foyer door? Why wouldn't he have stood away from the door +so as to be out of sight but close enough to hear Baker and Truly +run up the stairs? Then, once they had passed, he could have +gone down the stairs in the hope of leaving the building from the +rear exit. Why would Oswald have started to open the door before +he was sure the way was clear? If it is suggested that he +started to open the door just before Truly reached the landing +but then pulled back when he saw and/or heard Truly, then Oswald +would have had ample time to duck away from the door, and thus +get out of sight, by the time Baker reached the landing.

+ +

If it is theorized that Oswald didn't start to open the door +but that he merely began to turn around when he saw Truly, he +still would have had time to duck out of view by the time Baker +reached the landing. And wouldn't Oswald have heard Baker and +Truly running up the stairs as they neared the landing? If so, +why would he have even gotten close to the foyer door? Wouldn't +he have stayed away from the door, out of view, until he heard +Baker and Truly continue up the stairs?

+ +

What's more, in his WC testimony Baker indicated that Oswald +had his back to the door when he spotted him. This claim causes +several problems for the traditional lone-gunman version of the +Baker-Oswald encounter. It also creates difficulties for any +theory that puts Oswald on the second floor before Truly reached +the landing. For example, if Oswald had returned to the foyer +door and started to push it open but then pulled back when he saw +or heard Truly, why on earth would he have bothered to turn +around before heading back to the lunchroom? Why wouldn't he +have simply stepped backwards as soon as he saw or heard Truly? +For that matter, why wouldn't he have just ducked below the +window as soon as he saw or heard Truly? Then, he could have +easily rushed back into the lunchroom and been out of sight when +Baker reached the landing. And, again, wouldn't Oswald have +heard Baker and Truly running up the stairs as he began to return +to the foyer door? And wouldn't he have therefore stayed away +from the door, and out of sight, until he heard Baker and Truly +continue up the stairs? Also, how could Oswald have reached the +second floor so quickly in the first place? How could Baker +and Truly have reached the elevator shaft or the stairs before +Oswald reached the second-floor landing if Oswald arrived there +as early as some WC supporters have suggested he did? According +to some WC defenders, Oswald only had to chamber a bullet, bolt +out of the sniper's nest, sprint across the sixth floor, stop +momentarily and literally "throw" the rifle into its hiding +place, and then dash down the stairs. Such a scenario would +require the following time line:

+ +

Action Time +--------------------------------------------------------- +Fires last shot...........00:00-00:00 +Chambers one round........00:00-00:01 +Exits sniper's nest.......00:01-00:04 +Sprints 150 feet across sixth floor +to rifle's hiding place......00:04-00:18 +Stops, turns to face rifle's +hiding place, and throws rifle +down.............00:18-00:21 +Turns around and runs to sixth-floor +stairway.........00:21-00:23 +Dashes down four flights of stairs +and reaches second-floor landing...00:23-00:36

+ +

Obviously, this scenario is markedly unrealistic. However, +if we assume it is correct, how can we accept the theory that +Oswald was on the stairs when Truly yelled for the elevator or +when Baker and Truly were running up the stairs to the second +floor? Baker and Truly could not have reached the elevator shaft +so soon after the shots were fired. These are just some of the +problems associated with any theory that assumes Oswald somehow +made it to the second floor before Truly reached the landing.

+ +

If Oswald had reached the second floor in less than 40 +seconds, why wouldn't he have just continued going down the +stairs and exited the building's rear door? Baker and Truly +could not have even been at the elevator shaft by that time. So +why would Oswald have bothered to go to the second-floor +lunchroom?

+ +

A third scenario proposed by some WC supporters involves the +idea that Oswald WALKED from the window to the rifle's hiding +place. According to this theory, Oswald "walked briskly" after +he allegedly fired the shots.

+ +

Wouldn't Harold Norman and the two other men who were with +him just below the sniper's nest have heard a grown man "walking +briskly" above them? Walking quickly creates almost as much +noise as running makes. Yet, the three men didn't hear a sound +come from the sniper's nest after the shooting.

+ +

And wouldn't Oswald have RUN for dear life? One would think +that he would have wanted to get as far away from the sniper's +nest as quickly possible. Why, then, wouldn't he have run from +the sniper's nest and then dashed down the stairs? Again, +though, walking briskly makes almost as much noise as running +makes. How could Norman, with his supposedly superhuman hearing, +not have heard a grown man speed-walking across the floor?

+ +

Anyway, if Oswald had walked briskly, and if we accept for +the sake of argument the other assumptions about his movements +made the WC supporters who advance this theory, he would have +been behind the foyer door around 50 seconds after the shooting. +If we assume that Oswald exited the foyer door 10-15 seconds +later but then turned around when he heard Truly yell or heard +Baker and Truly running up the stairs, a number of problems come +to mind: For starters, if he heard Truly yell, he would have had +plenty of time to get back in the lunchroom and well out of +Baker's sight.

+ +

The only other option is to assume that Oswald heard Baker +and Truly coming up the stairs and had just barely gone back +through the foyer door when Baker looked at it. But, and this is +an important point, then we're right back to square one with +having to explain how Truly could have missed seeing Oswald and +how Oswald would or could have been visible to Baker by the time +Baker looked at the door. + +Only if Oswald had been standing right next to the door +would Baker have had any chance of "spotting" him through the +door's window. This scenario becomes even more problematic with +Baker's claim that Oswald was walking away from the door, in +which case the door would not have had time to close or nearly +close behind him by the time Baker allegedly spotted him. This, +in turn, brings us right back to the issue of how Truly possibly +could have missed seeing Oswald since Oswald would, at the very +least, have been in the middle of the doorway, with the door +plainly open, when Truly saw the door. Truly said if there had +been anyone in the landing area, he would have seen him; and to +judge from Truly's testimony, the door was shut when he looked at +it. And if the door was shut when Truly looked at it, and/or if +Oswald had ducked back through the door when he heard Baker and +Truly running up the stairs, he would not have been visible +through the foyer door's window by the time Baker looked toward +the door.

+ +

One could, out of desperation, assume that Oswald just stood +there inside the door and didn't start to move away until a +second before Baker looked at the door, but this idea is +impossible from the outset unless we also assume that Oswald was +back inside the door BEFORE TRULY reached the landing area. But +surely Oswald would have stepped away from the door (if not +ducked down) when he saw Truly arrive to the landing, and thus he +would not have been visible through the window when Baker reached +the landing. And, if Oswald, incredibly, just stood by the door +until a second before Baker looked at it, how could Oswald have +been facing AWAY from the door, i.e., with his back to the door, +when Baker supposedly spotted him through the window?

+ +

------------------------------------ +Victoria Adams: An Important Witness +------------------------------------

+ +

Another problem confronting WC supporters is the fact that +Victoria Adams went down the stairs shortly after the last shot +was fired, and neither saw nor heard anyone else on those +stairs. Miss Adams was with Sandra Styles on the fourth floor +during the shooting. After the shots were fired, she said that +she and Miss Styles waited 15-30 seconds by the window and then +"ran" down the stairs to the first floor. Miss Adams testified +that as she entered the first floor from the stairway she saw +Bill Lovelady and William Shelley standing near the elevator. +Realizing the implications of Miss Adams' account, the WC +suggested that Miss Adams' recollection of her movements was in +error--and not by just a little bit, but by "several minutes." +This is highly unlikely. Moreover, Lovelady and Shelley gave +sworn statements on the day of the shooting that tend to support +her account.

+ +

Miss Adams said that from her position on the fourth floor +she "ran" down the back stairs to the first floor very soon after +the last shot. She told the Commission that "at the most" it +took her no longer than a minute to reach the bottom of the +stairs on the first floor after she waited at the window. She +further informed the Commission that she RAN down the stairs.

+ +

If Miss Adams remained at the window for 15-30 seconds +before taking "no more than a minute" to reach the first floor, +she could have arrived there before Baker and Truly did, as these +time lines show:

+ +

Action Time +------------------------------------------------- +Last shot is fired........00:00-00:00 +Waits at window...........00:00-00:15 +Reaches fourth-floor landing....00:15-00:30 +Reaches bottom of first-floor +stairs...........00:30-00:42 +Moves several feet away from +first-floor stairs...........00:42-00:44

+ +

From her position on the fourth floor, Miss Adams would have +had to run about 60 feet, which a normal female of her age could +have done in 15 seconds or less. After that, she only had to go +down three flights of stairs. Since she was going DOWN, and +since it is always easier to go down stairs than to go up them, +it is entirely possible that she "ran" down the stairs in 12 +seconds. Even we want to stretch her stair-running time to 15 +seconds, that could still get her away from the first-floor +stairs before Baker and Truly neared the stairs. Surely no one +will dispute the fact that a healthy young female adult could +have "run" and gotten several feet away from the first-floor +stairs in 3 seconds. In any event, let's add a second here and +there and see what we get:

+ +

Action Time +------------------------------------------------- +Last shot is fired........00:00-00:00 +Waits at window...........00:00-00:15 +Reaches fourth-floor landing....00:15-00:30 +Reaches bottom of first-floor +stairs...........00:30-00:45 +Moves several feet away from +first-floor stairs...........00:45-00:47

+ +

As we can see, I've added 3 seconds to the time it took her +to go down the stairs, and 2 seconds to the time it took her to +move several feet away from the first-floor stairs. Even with +the extra time, she still could have reached the first floor +before Baker and Truly entered the landing area. Now, let's bend +a little more and see what we get:

+ +

Action Time +------------------------------------------------- +Last shot is fired........00:00-00:00 +Waits at window...........00:00-00:17 +Reaches fourth-floor landing....00:17-00:32 +Reaches bottom of first-floor +stairs...........00:32-00:47 +Moves several feet away from +first-floor stairs...........00:47-00:49

+ +

Even in this time line, we see that Miss Adams still could +have reached the first floor 3 seconds before Baker and Truly +reached the first-floor landing area.

+ +

What if Miss Adams literally raced from the window after +pausing at it for 15 seconds? The following would be the fastest +scenario:

+ +

Action Time +------------------------------------------------- +Last shot is fired........00:00-00:00 +Waits at window...........00:00-00:15 +Reaches fourth-floor landing....00:15-00:30 +Reaches bottom of first-floor +stairs...........00:30-00:39 +Moves several feet away from +first-floor stairs...........00:39-00:40

+ +

What about Lovelady and Shelley? Judging from their +November 22 statements, they made it to the first floor in well +under a minute. Lovelady, who was standing on the steps of the +Depository, said that after the shots were fired he went +back into the building. Shelley said that after he heard shots, +he ran across the street, encountered a girl who said JFK had +been shot, and then went back to the TSBD to call his +wife. One would imagine that Shelley was anxious to phone his +wife with this shocking news and that therefore he moved at a +fairly quick pace. So both Lovelady and Shelley, according to +their November 22 statements, could have been on the first floor +in time to be seen by Miss Adams 40-50 seconds after the +shooting.

+ +

WC defenders argue that since Miss Adams did not report +hearing Truly yell for the elevator and did not see Baker and +Truly, she must have been on the stairs much later than she +thought she was. However, this is not necessarily correct. +There were other people in that area of the first floor (the +vicinity of the stairs) at the time, and if Miss Adams reached +the foot of the first-floor stairs at the early times that I've +suggested, then Baker and Truly would have been a good 20 feet +away from her when she arrived. With the other people that were +there, and given the excitement at the time, it is understandable +that Miss Adams didn't notice Baker and Truly, just as she +undoubtedly didn't notice certain other people who were there. +Under such circumstances, nobody takes note of every single +person around them. Similarly, Shelley was very unsure that he +had seen Miss Adams on the first floor, and Lovelady said he +"couldn't swear" that he had seen her, yet she noticed both of +them.

+ +

As for Miss Adams not hearing Truly yell, this is entirely +understandable. The elevator shaft was some 15-20 feet from +the stairs, and the shaft and the stairs were separated by a +wall. Miss Adams' running down the stairs would have created +noise by itself, which might have further obscured the sound of +Truly's voice. And, if she was near or at the foot of the stairs +when Truly yelled, noise from the other people who were on the +floor could have also partially obscured the sound of Truly's +voice. There is also the distinct possibility that Miss Adams +reached the first floor BEFORE Truly yelled for the elevator, as +the above time lines show.

+ +

As mentioned, Sandra Styles was with Miss Adams on the +fourth floor and accompanied her down the stairs. Yet, +incredibly, the Commission not only failed to call her as a +witness, but it didn't even have the FBI obtain a statement from +her concerning her movements after the shooting. Sylvia Meagher +rightly asks, "Why was . . . Sandra Styles--who was in a position +to confirm or contradict . . . [Miss Adams'] testimony--not +called before the Commission and questioned?" (Meagher 73). +Surely it must have occurred to the WC that Miss Styles was a +crucial witness. One can't help but suspect that the Commission +ignored her because it feared she would confirm that Miss Adams +went down the stairs less than a minute after the shots rang out.

+ +

It should be noted that it is possible that Oswald could +have come down the stairs without being seen or heard by Miss +Adams. This seems unlikely, but it is possible. The value +of Miss Adams' testimony is that if she made it to the first +floor around 40-50 seconds after the shots were fired, this would +appear to refute, or at least cast strong doubt on, any attempt +to put Oswald in or near the lunchroom before Truly had a view of +the second-floor landing. If nothing else, her testimony +indicates that she was on the fourth-floor stairs no later than +50 seconds after the shooting but neither saw nor heard anyone +else on the stairs.

+ +

Now let us consider three timing scenarios to reinforce the +fact that Oswald could not have made it from the sixth floor to +the second-floor lunchroom without being seen by Truly or in time +to be seen by Baker within inches of the foyer door just after +Baker reached the second-floor landing.

+ +

Before we do so, a word needs to be said about Oswald's +supposed route and the distance he would have had to cover in +going from the sniper's nest to the rifle's hiding place. In +previous versions of this article, it was assumed for the sake of +argument that Oswald would have had a straight path from the +sniper's nest to the rifle's hiding place (as is claimed by +Gerald Posner in his book CASE CLOSED). This would have required +him to walk or run around 75 feet to arrive at the spot where the +rifle was hidden. However, photos taken of the sixth floor +shortly after the shooting prove that this would have been +impossible (see, for example, Savage 165-172; Groden 65). The +photos show that the sixth floor was crowded with rows of stacks +of book boxes, and that Oswald would have had to run down the +east wall and then along the north wall in order to reach the +rifle's hiding place. This was the only clear path to the +rifle's hiding place (cf. Savage 294; Savage posits the same +route). Using this route, Oswald would have had to cover at +least 150 feet to go from the sniper's nest to the stack of boxes +where the rifle was later found. Yet, although I assumed a +distance of only 75 feet for this journey in earlier versions of +this article, I have NOT lengthened the times for it. I have +done so in order to give the lone-gunman theory the benefit of +the doubt.

+ +

------------------------------------------------------ +SCENARIO #1: TIMES FAVORABLE TO THE LONE-GUNMAN THEORY +------------------------------------------------------

+ +

Notice that in this scenario it is assumed that Oswald RAN +across the sixth floor and down the stairs, and that he only took +8 seconds to hide the rifle. These times, along with two or +three others, are more than generous in order to give the +lone-gunman theory the benefit of the doubt, and all of the +listed times are reasonable and consistent with the evidence.

+ +

"OSWALD" TIME LINE #1:

+ +

Alleged Action Time +------------------------------------------------------------- +Fires last shot.................00:00 +Chambers another round..........00:00-00:01 +Stays at window to gloat over feat..........00:01-00:05 +Slowly withdraws rifle, casually moves away from +window, walks around boxes stacked next +to window, and reaches entrance to sniper's +nest...................00:05-00:11 +Squeezes out of sniper's nest.........00:11-00:13 +Runs approximately 150 feet across the sixth +floor and reaches spot where rifle was +found..................00:13-00:29 +Wipes off the rifle.............00:29-00:33 +Hides the rifle.................00:33-00:41 +Turns from rifle's hiding place and then runs +approximately 7 feet to the top of the +sixth-floor stairs...........00:41-00:43 +Runs down four flights of stairs and reaches +the bottom stair on the second-floor stairs....00:43-00:59 +Opens door to second-floor landing and goes +through it.............00:59-01:00 +Runs approximately 20 feet across the +second-floor landing to the foyer door...01:00-01:02 +Opens foyer door and goes through it........01:02-01:03

+ +

TRULY TIME LINE #1:

+ +

Action Time +------------------------------------------------------------- +Last shot is fired..............00:00 +Baker races motorcycle, dismounts, runs to +TSBD, and comes through building's +entrance...............00:00-00:25 +Leads Baker across the first floor and arrives +to entrance to first-floor stairs........00:15-00:55 +Opens and goes through door to first-floor +stairs.................00:55-00:56 +Runs up stairs and gets far enough +to see second-floor landing........00:56-01:02

+ +

Thus, even after making generous allowances in favor of the +lone-gunman theory, we see that Truly would have had a view of +the second-floor landing BEFORE Oswald would gone through the +the foyer door. Not only would Truly have seen Oswald going +through the door, but he would have also seen the slow +automatic door closing behind Oswald.

+ +

Of course, if Oswald had RUN 150 feet from the sniper's nest +to the rifle's hiding place, raced down four flights of stairs, +and then bolted across the second-floor landing to dash through +the foyer door, he surely would have been at least somewhat out +of breath, and not "calm and collected," when Baker encountered +him.

+ +

Furthermore, as indicated above, it is possible that Baker +and Truly took less than 40 seconds to get to the foot of the +first-floor stairs. We have assumed that it took "Oswald" only +16 seconds to run the roughly 150 feet from the sniper's nest to +the spot where the rifle was hidden. Why, then, would it have +taken Baker and Truly, who were running at a fast pace, 40 +seconds to reach the entrance to the first-floor stairs? I think +one could plausibly argue that it took them as little as 25 +seconds to do so, bearing in mind that they probably spent 5-10 +seconds calling for and trying to use the elevator before they +decided to go up the stairs. Or, one could bend a little more +and assume it took them 35 seconds to reach the first-floor +stairs. This is a plausible estimate.

+ +

Now let us see why Baker's story about seeing Oswald 20 feet +away just after Baker reached the second-floor landing would, if +true, prove that Oswald did not shoot Kennedy. Keep in mind that +Oswald would have been opening and then walking through the foyer +door 62-63 seconds after the shots were fired.

+ +

BAKER TIME LINE #1:

+ +

Action Time +------------------------------------------------------------- +Last shot is fired..............00:00 +Races motorcycle, dismounts, runs to +TSBD, and comes through building's +entrance...............00:00-00:15 +Goes with Truly across the first floor and +arrives to entrance to first-floor stairs......00:15-00:55 +Truly opens door to first-floor stairs and +Baker follows................00:55-00:57 +Runs up stairs and reaches second-floor +landing about 2-3 seconds after Truly +does...................00:57-01:04

+ +

It is apparent that Oswald would have just finished walking +through the foyer door when Baker reached the second-floor +landing and began to scan the area, and that therefore the foyer +door would have just barely started to close behind Oswald when +Baker looked at it. Also, Truly was running well ahead of Baker +by that time and would have easily spotted Oswald crossing the +landing, or reaching for the door, or going through the door.

+ +

What follows is a time line that is extremely favorable to +the lone-gunman theory, which we will call Oswald Time Line #2. +In it we have eliminated some of Oswald's alleged actions and +have shortened the times given for a number of the remaining +activities. However, we have also taken the reasonable step of +allowing a few seconds--actually only 2 seconds--for the slow +automatic door to close or "nearly close" behind Oswald. We have +further assumed that it took Baker and Truly somewhat less than +40 seconds to reach the first-floor stairway. Then, let us +compare this second Oswald time line with more plausible +time lines for Baker and Truly. Although these Baker and Truly +time lines are more plausible, and hence less favorable to the +lone-gunman hypothesis, they will include the assumptions that +(1) it took Baker 15 seconds to reach the TSBD's entrance, and +(2) that Truly didn't have a view of the second-floor landing +until 7 seconds after he started running up the stairs. I would +like to emphasize that the following time line is NOT realistic, +since, as stated above, it omits some of Oswald's alleged actions +and contains shortened times for a number of his remaining +supposed activities.

+ +

"OSWALD" TIME LINE #2:

+ +

Alleged Action Time +------------------------------------------------------------- +Fires last shot.................00:00 +Chambers another round..........00:00-00:01 +Slowly withdraws rifle, casually moves away from +window, and walks around boxes stacked next +to window..............00:01-00:06 +Reaches outer/outside edge of sniper's nest +and exits nest...............00:06-00:09 +Runs approximately 150 feet across the sixth +floor and reaches spot where rifle was +found..................00:09-00:23 +Hurriedly wipes off those parts of the rifle +that he handled during the shooting......00:23-00:28 +Hides the rifle.................00:28-00:34 +Turns from rifle's hiding place and then runs +approximately 7 feet to the top of the +sixth-floor stairs...........00:34-00:36 +Runs down four flights of stairs and reaches +the bottom stair on the second-floor stairs....00:36-00:49 +Opens door to second-floor landing and +goes through it..............00:49-00:50 +Runs approximately 20 feet across the +second-floor landing to the foyer door...00:50-00:52 +Opens foyer door and goes through it........00:52-00:53 +Automatic-closing foyer door closes nearly +all the way behind him.............00:53-00:55

+ +

If the foyer door was like most automatic doors, it could have +taken as much as 5 seconds, or more, to close or nearly close. +But, for the sake of argument, we have assumed it only took 2 +seconds to do so.

+ +

TRULY TIME LINE #2:

+ +

Action Time +------------------------------------------------------------- +Last shot is fired..............00:00 +Baker races motorcycle, dismounts, and comes +through TSBD entrance..............00:00-00:15 +Leads Baker across the first floor and arrives +to entrance to first-floor stairs........00:10-00:40 +Opens and goes through door to first-floor +stairs.................00:40-00:41 +Runs up stairs and gets far enough on stairs +to see second-floor landing........00:41-00:48

+ +

BAKER TIME LINE #2:

+ +

Action Time +------------------------------------------------------------- +Last shot is fired..............00:00 +Races motorcycle, dismounts, runs to TSBD, +and comes through building's +entrance...............00:00-00:15 +Goes with Truly across the first floor and +arrives to entrance to first-floor stairs......00:10-00:40 +Truly opens door to first-floor stairs and +Baker follows................00:40-00:42 +Runs up stairs and reaches second-floor +landing about 2-3 seconds after Truly +does...................00:42-00:51

+ +

Even these Baker and Truly time lines are not as fast as +they could be (and probably should be), yet we still see that +Oswald could not have made it from the sixth floor without being +seen by Truly and in time to be spotted by Baker.

+ +

-------------------------------------------------------------- +SCENARIO #2: MORE PLAUSIBLE TIMES FOR OSWALD'S ALLEGED ACTIONS +--------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

In this scenario, "Oswald" does not run across the sixth +floor and down the stairs; he walks at a fast pace, as did SSA +Howlett for his FASTEST time in the WC's reenactments. Also, +notice that it is assumed that the hiding of the rifle took 10 +seconds. This is a very reasonable time, since the evidence +clearly shows that the weapon was very carefully concealed. The +weapon was surrounded by boxes on all sides and was held upright +by at least one box. This time line also assumes that the door +to the second-floor landing was open.

+ +

"OSWALD" TIME LINE #3:

+ +

Alleged Action Time +------------------------------------------------------------- +Fires last shot.................00:00 +Chambers another round..........00:00-00:01 +Stays at window to gloat over feat..........00:01-00:05 +Slowly withdraws rifle, casually moves away +from window, walks around boxes stacked next +to window, and reaches entrance to sniper's +nest...................00:05-00:10 +Squeezes out of sniper's nest.........00:10-00:11 +Runs approximately 150 feet across the sixth +floor and reaches spot where rifle was +found..................00:11-00:30 +Wipes off the rifle.............00:30-00:36 +Hides the rifle.................00:36-00:46 +Turns from rifle's hiding place and then runs +approximately 7 feet to the top of the +sixth-floor stairs...........00:46-00:49 +Runs down four flights of stairs and reaches +the bottom stair on the second-floor stairs....00:49-01:06 +Steps off bottom stair and walks approximately +20 feet across second-floor landing to +foyer door.............01:06-01:10 +Opens foyer door and goes through it........01:10-01:12

+ +

This time line is a telling blow against the lone-gunman +theory when it is kept in mind that Truly surely was on the +second-floor landing 60 seconds after the shots were fired, as +shown in Truly Time Line #1. It should also be remembered that +in the WC's simulations, the Oswald stand-in, skipping some +actions and fudging on others, made it from the sniper's nest to +the lunchroom in 1 minute and 14 seconds.

+ +

--------------------------------------- +SCENARIO #3: CONSIDERING THE COUCH FILM +---------------------------------------

+ +

Officer Baker appears in the Couch film. He is seen running +toward the TSBD. In the segment of the film in which he appears, +he is within a few seconds of the building's entrance. According +to W. Anthony Marsh, the Couch film shows that it might have +taken Baker as long as 30 seconds to reach the front door. +Howard Roffman, on the other hand, suggests the film shows that +it took Baker 10-15 seconds to do so. I propose a compromise +figure of 25 seconds, although I believe the film could indicate +that Baker reached the door a little sooner than this.

+ +

When Baker parked his motorcycle, he was only 45 feet from +the TSBD's front entrance (WCR 149, 152). By the time he +appears in the Couch film he has clearly long since dismounted +(he parked his motorcycle about 10 feet from the traffic signal, +at the northwest corner of Elm and Houston, which would have put +him only seconds away from the entrance to begin with). He's +seen running toward the TSBD and appears to be very close to the +entrance, since, among other things, he's near a car that is +parked on the NORTH side of Elm Street, i.e., the side closest to +the building, and he's clearly beyond and well to the right of +the traffic light (Trask 424; compare with Trask 500, 548, 551, +and 587, and with WCR 62).

+ +

Even allowing for Baker's having to push his way through a +few people at the foot of the entrance, I don't see how it could +have taken him longer than 5 or 6 seconds to reach the front door +from the point at which he appears in the Couch film. If you +correlate the Couch frame on page 424 of Trask's PICTURES OF THE +PAIN with the photo on page 62 of the WCR, it's clear that Baker +was very close to the entrance in this frame when Couch captured +him on film.

+ +

The exact time that Couch filmed Baker running toward the +TSBD cannot be established. Couch said he started filming +immediately after he saw a rifle barrel being slowly withdrawn +from the sixth-floor window. Baker appears in the segment that +Couch filmed while Couch was still in the car. The in-car +segment is only 22.5 seconds long, and the frames with Baker in +them are NOT the last ones that Couch took from the car. Since +Baker was only a few seconds away from the Depository's entrance +when Couch filmed him, and given the fact that the Baker segment +was not the last in-car footage, a time of 25 seconds seems +reasonable.

+ +

Moreover, what if the fatal head shot came AFTER the rifle +was withdrawn from the window? Since there is considerable +evidence that the fatal head shot was fired from the front, it is +possible that the gunman in the sixth-floor window withdrew his +rifle after he hit the President in the back or after firing all +the shots he was supposed to fire. In other words, the +sixth-floor shooter could have been withdrawing his rifle by +around frame 225 of the Zapruder film, i.e., nearly five seconds +before Kennedy was shot in the head.

+ +

In any event, in the time lines below we will use the figure +of 25 seconds for Baker's dash to the front door. At the same +time, however, we will also use more realistic times for Baker +and Truly's sprint from the front door to the first-floor stairs, +and for their dash up the stairs.

+ +

TRULY TIME LINE #3:

+ +

Action Time +------------------------------------------------------------- +Last shot is fired..............00:00 +Baker races motorcycle, dismounts, runs to TSBD, +and comes through building's +entrance...............00:00-00:25 +Leads Baker across the first floor and arrives +to entrance to first-floor stairs........00:25-00:50 +Opens and goes through door to first-floor +stairs.................00:50-00:51 +Runs up stairs and gets far enough +to see second-floor landing........00:51-00:56

+ +

If the landing door was closed, it would have taken Truly an +extra second or two to gain a view of the landing area.

+ +

BAKER TIME LINE #3:

+ +

Action Time +------------------------------------------------------------- +Last shot is fired..............00:00 +Baker races motorcycle, dismounts, runs to TSBD, +and comes through building's +entrance...............00:00-00:25 +Runs with Truly across the first floor and +arrives to entrance to first-floor stairs......00:25-00:50 +Truly opens door to first-floor stairs and +Baker follows................00:50-00:52 +Runs up stairs and reaches second-floor +landing about 2-3 seconds after Truly +does...................00:52-00:59

+ +

When we compare these times lines with the first and third +Oswald time lines, we once again see that Oswald could not have +gone through the foyer door without being seen by Truly and in +time to be spotted by Baker.

+ +

If we consider the second Oswald time line, which is much +too favorable to the lone-gunman theory (so much so that it is +unrealistic), we see that Truly would have arrived far too LATE +for the WC's version of the event to be possible, since the +Commission admitted that if Oswald had come down the stairs and +had gone through the foyer door, then he would have had to walk +through the door just "a second or two" before BAKER reached the +second-floor landing. This problem becomes even more pronounced +if we assume that it took Baker 5 more seconds, i.e., 30 seconds, +to reach the front door.

+ +

On the other hand, if we add 5 seconds to the time for +Baker's run to the entrance, which would give us 30 seconds for +that action, and then compare that figure with the first and +third Oswald time lines, we see that Oswald still would have +been unable to reach the foyer door without being seen by Truly +and without, at the very least, having the door clearly and +visibly open when Baker looked at it.

+ +

And I would ask the reader to remember that the times given +for Oswald's alleged run from the sniper's nest to the rifle's +hiding place were originally proposed for a journey of only +around 75 feet. So it cannot be said that I haven't made every +effort to be fair to the lone-gunman scenario. The problem is +that the WC's theory about how Oswald came to be in the second-floor lunchroom is impossible. He could not have made it there +in time to be "spotted" by Baker and without being seen by Truly.

+ +

Oswald wasn't seen or heard by Victoria Adams or Roy Truly +on the stairs because he never came down those stairs. He was at +the soda machine buying a Coke, just as he told the authorities +during his interrogations, which was one reason that early news +reports put the Coke in his hand when Baker saw him, as did Chief +Curry on November 23, and as Baker himself initially did during +his last sworn statement to the FBI.

+ +

The simple, irrefutable fact of the matter is that Lee +Harvey Oswald could not have shot President Kennedy because he +could not have been at the alleged sniper's nest at the time of +the shooting. He was in the second-floor lunchroom buying a +Coke.

+ +

------------------------------------------------------------- +WAS SOMEONE IN THE SIXTH-FLOOR WINDOW AT THE SAME TIME OSWALD +WAS SPOTTED DOWNSTAIRS IN THE LUNCHROOM? +-------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

Harold Norman was watching the motorcade from the window +directly beneath the sniper's window. With him were Bonnie Ray +Williams and James Jarman. Norman told the WC that he could hear +shells hitting the floor above him during the shooting (WCR, p. +70). This was quite an accomplishment given the fact that the +TSBD's floors were built to support tons of book boxes, and given +the noise being emitted at the time from the motorcycles and the +crowd less than 180 feet from the window. (Incredibly, Norman +also said he could hear the rifle's bolt being operated!) +Nevertheless, the Commission said it confirmed in a simulation +that Norman could have heard shells hitting the floor, although +the simulation was not done over the noise of a cheering crowd +and of 18 motorcycles idling along less than 180 feet away. +However, if we assume that Norman really did hear shells hitting +the floor above him during the shooting, then it is surely +significant that neither Norman nor Williams nor Jarman mentioned +hearing any movement above them after the shots were fired. +Jarman, in fact, was asked if he heard "any steps" or "any noise +at all" above him after the shots were fired. "No, sir," he +replied, "none."

+ +

In light of the testimony of Mrs. Lillian Mooneyham, this is +not surprising. Mrs. Mooneyham was a law clerk who worked in +the Criminal Courts Building. She told the FBI soon after the +assassination that she saw a man standing in the sixth-floor +window 4-5 minutes after the shots had been fired (see, for +example, Marrs 52-53). From her position at the window on the +west side of the County Courts Building, Mrs. Mooneyham had an +excellent view of the TSBD. She was a highly credible witness +who reported what she had seen in a straightforward, +matter-of-fact manner. The Commission made no effort to refute +her account. It could not attack her credibility, nor could it +claim that she could not have seen what she said she had seen. +So, what did the Commission do with this credible and important +account? Nothing. The Commission simply ignored it, and did not +even call Mrs. Mooneyham as a witness.

+ +

In 1968 researcher David Lifton obtained an FBI report from +the National Archives which said that a witness at a window on an +upper floor of a nearby building had told a Dallas lawyer that +she saw "some boxes moving" in the sixth-floor window, presumably +within minutes of the shooting (Lifton 367).

+ +

In 1979 photogrammetric experts hired by the House Select +Committee on Assassinations studied photographs of the +sixth-floor window taken within moments of the shooting and +concluded the pictures showed "an apparent rearranging of boxes +within 2 minutes after the last shot was fired at President +Kennedy" (6 HSCA 109). Obviously, Oswald could not have been +moving boxes around in the window less than 2 minutes after the +shooting, nor could he have been the man who was seen by Mrs. +Mooneyham.

+ +

So not only could Oswald not have made it to the lunchroom +in the required amount of time, but we also have credible +testimony and evidence that someone other than Oswald was in the +sixth-floor window moments after the shots were fired.

+ +

Recommend Reading for Important Facts Mentioned Herein +------------------------------------------------------

+ +

1. The alleged murder weapon was very carefully hidden and could +not have been simply "thrown" to its hiding place as some WC +defenders have suggested: Weisberg, CASE OPEN, pp. 110-117.

+ +

2. Victoria Adams' account of her movements after the shots were +fired is accurate and is not refuted by the WC testimony of +Lovelady and Shelley: Meager, ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT, pp. 72-74.

+ +

3. The WC's reenactments of the Baker-Oswald encounter were +flawed and unrealistic, and actually proved that Baker reached +the second-floor landing much earlier than he did in the +reenactments: Weisberg, SELECTIONS FROM "WHITEWASH," pp. 53-57; +Weisberg, CASE OPEN, pp. 117-124.

+ +

4. Oswald would have had to literally "squeeze" out of the +alleged sniper's nest: Meagher, ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT, p. +42; Trask, PICTURES OF THE PAIN, p. 525. Some have disputed this +fact because, Luke Mooney, the police officer who said he had to +"squeeze" through the entrance to the nest, was somewhat heavy-set. However, the boxes that formed the entrance were at leg +level, and Mooney's legs, to judge from his appearance, were +probably right about the same size as Oswald's legs (see Trask, +PICTURES OF THE PAIN, p. 521). If nothing else, Oswald would +have had to slow down and negotiate his way through the narrow +entrance to the nest.

+ +

5. Oswald did not appear to be out of breath but was "calm and +collected" when Baker saw him: Meagher, ACCESSORIES AFTER THE +FACT, p. 71.

+ +

6. The sixth-floor shooter remained at the window for a few +seconds and then slowly withdrew the rifle as he casually moved +away from the window: Posner, CASE CLOSED, p. 248; Hurt, +REASONABLE DOUBT, p. 89; Brown, THE PEOPLE V. LEE HARVEY OSWALD, +pp. 113-117.

+ +

7. The foyer door (and therefore its window) would have been at a +45-degree angle to Officer Baker from his position on the +second-floor landing: Groden, THE KILLING OF A PRESIDENT, p. 121; +Weisberg, SELECTIONS FROM "WHITEWASH," p. 56; Savage, FIRST DAY +EVIDENCE, pp. 286, 289.

+ +

8. In two statements, Baker said Oswald was walking away from him +when he saw him in the lunchroom, but in another statement, his +final one, Baker said he saw Oswald standing in the lunchroom, +and on the day of the shooting, Roy Truly said that Baker didn't +see Oswald until Baker "stuck his head into the lunchroom area": +Weisberg, SELECTIONS FROM "WHITEWASH," p. 54; Meagher, +ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT, pp. 72, 74 n.

+ +

Notes +-----

+ +

1. The Warren Commission seemingly contradicted itself on exactly +where Baker was when he observed Oswald in the lunchroom. On +page 151 of the WCR, we read that Baker saw Oswald in the +lunchroom AFTER Baker went through the foyer/vestibule door. +However, on page 3 of the report, we read that Baker saw him in +the lunchroom when Baker "rushed" to the foyer door, and the +Commission's own diagram of Baker's movements likewise puts Baker +just in front of the door when he observed Oswald.

+ +

Bibliography +------------ +Brown, Walt, THE PEOPLE V. LEE HARVEY OSWALD, New York: +Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1992.

+ +

Groden, Robert J., THE KILLING OF A PRESIDENT: THE COMPLETE +PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF THE JFK ASSASSINATION, THE CONSPIRACY, AND +THE COVER-UP, New York: Viking Studio Books, 1993.

+ +

Hurt, Henry, REASONABLE DOUBT: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE +ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY, New York: Holt, Rinehart, +and Winston, 1985. + +Lifton, David, BEST EVIDENCE, New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988

+ +

Marrs, Jim, CROSSFIRE: THE PLOT THAT KILLED KENNEDY, New +York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1989.

+ +

Meagher, Sylvia, ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT, New York: +Vintage Books edition, 1992.

+ +

Posner, Gerald, CASE CLOSED: LEE HARVEY OSWALD AND THE +ASSASSINATION OF JFK, New York: Random House, 1993.

+ +

Savage, Gary, FIRST DAY EVIDENCE, Monroe, Louisiana: The +Shoppe Press, 1993,

+ +

THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT, Washington, D.C.: Government +Printing Office, 1964. I am using the Barnes & Noble printing of +the report.

+ +

Trask, Richard, PICTURES OF THE PAIN: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE +ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY, Danvers, Massachusetts: +Yeoman Press, 1994.

+ +

Weisberg, Harold, NEVER AGAIN, New York: Carroll & Graf +Publishers, 1995.

+ +

-----, SELECTIONS FROM "WHITEWASH," New York: Carroll & Graf +Publishers, 1994.

+ +

-----, WHITEWASH, Hyattstown, Maryland, 1966. + +--------------------------------------------------------------- +ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Michael T. Griffith is a two-time graduate of +the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and the +author of three books on Mormonism and ancient texts. His +articles on the JFK assassination have appeared in DATELINE: +DALLAS and in DALLAS '63. (CompuServe ID: 74274650; Internet +address: mtgriff@ironrod.win-uk.net or 74274.650@compuserve.com) + +

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Host Element Fusion

+ +

Unpublished Work +Copyright (c) 1990 +Earl Laurence Lovings

+ +

1. Proton (1 Hydrogen 1) Energy: 938.3 Mev = 1.007825 amu +2. Neutron (1 Neutron 0) Energy: 939.6 Mev = 1.008665 amu +3. Deuterium (2 Hydrogen 1) = 2.014102 amu +4. [(1 Neutron 0) + (1 Hydrogen 1) - electron] = +(939.6 Mev + 938.3 Mev - .511 Mev) = 1877.389 Mev = +2.015447128 amu +5. [(1 Neutron 0) - (1 Hydrogen 1) + electron] = +(939.6 Mev - 938.3 Mev + .511 Mev) = 1.811 Mev = +1.9441763 x 10 - 03 amu +6. (105 Palladium 46) = 104.905064 amu +7. (103 Rhodium 45) = 102.905511 amu

+ +

The host element fusion experiment begins with a Palladium +electrode submersed in Deuterium. A energy source is supplied, +which enables the fusion process to begin. My theory on this +subject is explained below:

+ +

The Deuterium atoms are allowed inside the Palladium electrode due +to the electric field on the electrode. Once the Deuterium atoms +are inside, the Deuterium causes the Palladium to become unstable. +This is done by this process:

+ +

[ (105 Pd 46 - (1 Neutron 0 + 1 Hydrogen 1 - electron) + +(1 Neutron 0 - 1 Hydrogen 1 + electron)] or, +[ 104.905064 amu - 2.015447128 amu + 1.9441763 x 10-03 amu] = +102.8916 amu.

+ +

The closest element Palladium can try to become stable is +(103 Rhodium 45).

+ +

Take Palladium's new mass and subtract it with Rhodium's mass. +(103 Rhodium 45) - 102.8916 amu, or +102.905511 amu - 102.8916 amu = 1.394653 x 10-02 amu.

+ +

To find out how many electrons that is equivalent to: +(1.394653 x 10-02 amu x 931.5 Mev/amu)/(.511 Mev/electrons) = +25.42309 electrons

+ +

This is the amount of electrons required to be ionized to enable +host element fusion with Deuterium.

+ +

That is the first process of host element fusion.

+ +

The second process begins when the ionized electrons from the +palladium atom shields the deuterium atoms to allow host element +fusion.

+ +

The Equation:

+ +

Q = [(2 Hydrogen 1) + (2 Hydrogen 1) + (25.423 e) - +(1877.389 Mev) + (1.811 Mev) - (2 Hydrogen 1)] x 931.5 Mev or,

+ +

Q = [(2.014102 amu + 2.014102 amu + .01394653 amu - 2.015447 amu ++ 1.944176 x 10-03 amu - 2.014102 amu)] x 931.5 Mev

+ +

Q = 13.55 Mev

+ +

You must realize for this process to work for host element fusion, +you have to have a host element before Deuterium will fuse. +My equation also theoretically works for known Deuterium fusion +processes.

+ +

Known Equation:

+ +

1. [(2 Hydrogen 1) + (2 Hydrogen 1)] -> (3 Helium 2) + +(1 Neutron 0)] = or,

+ +

[(2.014102 amu + 2.014102 amu - 3.016030 amu - 1.008665 amu) x +(931.5 Mev/amu)] = Q = 3.27 Mev

+ +

My Equation:

+ +

Host Element = (3 Helium 2) + (1 Neutron 0) +[(3 Helium 2) + (1 Neutron 0) - 1877.389 Mev + 1.811 Mev] = +[3.016030 amu + 1.008665 amu - 2.015447 amu + 1.944176x10-03 amu] += 2.011192 amu

+ +

The element whose mass is closest to the new unstable "element" is +(2 Hydrogen 1)

+ +

(2.014102 amu) - 2.011192 amu = 2.909899 x 10-03 amu excess mass +convert to electrons

+ +

(2.909899 x 10-03 amu x 931.5 Mev/amu) /(.511 Mev/electrons) = +5.304445 electrons

+ +

Now the fusion of Deuterium atoms +[(2 Hydrogen 1) + (2 Hydrogen 1) + 5.30444e - 1877.389 Mev ++ 1.811 Mev - (2 Hydrogen 1)] x 931.5 Mev = +[(2.014102 amu + 2.014102 amu + 2.909899x10-03 amu - 2.015447 amu ++ 1.944176x10-03 amu - 2.014102 amu)] x (931.5 Mev/amu)

+ +

Q = 3.27 Mev

+ +

Known Equation:

+ +

2. [(2 Hydrogen 1) + (2 Hydrogen 1) -> (4 Helium 2)] = or, +[(2.014102 amu + 2.014102 amu - 4.002603 amu)] x +(931.5 Mev/amu) = Q = 23.85 Mev + +My Equation:

+ +

Host Element = (4 Helium 2) +[(4 Helium 2) - 1877.389 Mev + 1.811 Mev] = +[(4.002603 amu - 2.015447 amu + 1.944176x10-03 amu)] = 1.9891 amu

+ +

The element whose mass is closest to the new unstable "element" is +(2 Hydrogen 1)

+ +

(2.014102 amu) - 1.9891 amu = 2.500188 x 10-02 amu excess mass +convert to electrons

+ +

(2.500188 x 10-02 amu x 931.5 Mev/amu) /(.511 Mev/electrons) = +45.57585 electrons

+ +

Now the fusion of Deuterium atoms +[(2 Hydrogen 1) + (2 Hydrogen 1) + 45.58 electrons - 1877.389 Mev ++ 1.811 Mev - (2 Hydrogen 1)] x 931.5 Mev = +[(2.014102 amu + 2.014102 amu + 2.500188x10-02 amu - 2.015447 amu ++ 1.944176x10-03 amu - 2.014102 amu)] x (931.5 Mev/amu) =

+ +

Q = 23.85 Mev

+ +

Known Equation:

+ +

3. [(2 Hydrogen 1) + (2 Hydrogen 1) -> (3 Hydrogen 1) + +(1 Hydrogen 1) = or,

+ +

[(2.014102 amu + 2.014102 amu - 3.016050 amu - 1.007825 amu)] x +(931.5 Mev/amu) = Q = 4.03 Mev

+ +

My Equation:

+ +

Host Element = (3 Hydrogen 1) + (1 Hydrogen 1) +[(3 Hydrogen 1) + ( 1 Hydrogen 1) - 1877.389 Mev + 1.811 Mev] = +[3.016050 amu + 1.007825 amu - 2.015447 amu + 1.944176x10-03 amu] += 2.010372 amu

+ +

The element whose mass is closest to the new unstable "element" is +(2 Hydrogen 1)

+ +

(2.014102 amu - 2.010372 amu) = 3.729582x10-03 amu excess mass +convert to electrons

+ +

(3.729582x10-03 amu x 931.5 Mev/amu)/(.511 Mev/electrons) = +6.798641 electrons

+ +

Now the fusion of Deuterium atoms +[(2 Hydrogen 1) + (2 Hydrogen 1) + 6.799 electrons - 1877.389 Mev ++ 1.811 Mev - (2 Hydrogen 1)] x 931.5 Mev = +[(2.014102 amu + 2.014102 amu + 3.7296x10-03 amu - 2.015447 amu + +1.944176x10-03 amu - 2.014102 amu)] x (931.5 Mev/amu) = +Q = 4.03 Mev

+ +

Known Equation:

+ +

4. [(1 Hydrogen 1) + (1 Hydrogen) -> (2 Hydrogen 1) +(electron)= +[(1.007825 amu + 1.007825 amu - 2 electrons - 2.014102 amu)] +x (931.5 Mev/amu) = Q = .42 Mev

+ +

My Equation:

+ +

Host Element = (2 Hydrogen 1) +[(2 Hydrogen 1) - 1877.389 Mev + 1.811 Mev] = +[(2.014102 amu - 2.015447128 amu + 1.9441763x10-03 amu)] = +5.990302x10-04 amu

+ +

The element whose mass is closest to the new unstable "element" +is (1 Hydrogen 1)

+ +

(1.007825 amu - 5.990302x10-03 amu) = 1.007226 amu excess mass +convert to neutrinos

+ +

(1.007226 amu x 931.5 Mev/amu) / (.42 Mev/neutrinos) = +2233.884 neutrinos

+ +

Now the fusion of 1 Hydrogen 1 atoms

+ +

[(1 Hydrogen 1) + (1 Hydrogen 1) + 2234 neutrinos - 2 electrons +- 1877.389 Mev + 1.811 Mev - (1 Hydrogen)] x 931.5 Mev/amu = +[(1.007825 amu + 1.007825 amu + 1.007226 amu - .001097 amu +-2.015447128 amu + 1.9441763x10-03 amu - 1.007825 amu)] +x 931.5 Mev/amu = Q = .42 Mev +

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+The Computational Self +by Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, M.D. +180 North Michigan Avenue +Chicago, Illinois 60601 +CIS PPN 722551101 +This is a paper original delivered at the First Annual Mathematics +and Psychoanalysis Meeting in New York, N.Y. on June 6, 1988. Any +comments are very welcome. + +What I have to say today is more by way of posing a problem +and indicating an area where I suspect the solution to lie than a +coherent presentation of a new theory. I am going to talk about +some elementary ideas from a branch of psychoanalysis called self +psychology and some elementary ideas from computer science that +seem to me to provide a framework for thinking about the self of +self psychology and then invite you all to let me know whether what +I have said has made sense and whether you can see directions for +the development of these notions. +Freud's effort to explain mental life on the basis of drives +that are the psychological representations of biological +disequilibria fell on hard times as he tried to work out the theory +in detail. He introduced a new entity, the ego, dangerously close +to a homunculus within the mind, that performed certain functions +and vigorously protected itself from being "overwhelmed" or +traumatized. The ego's functions included managing the persons +relation to reality, regulations of drives, object relations, +thought processing, defensive functions, perceptions and motor +activity, and integration of all other psychological functions - +its so called synthetic function. +The concept of the ego became the center of American +psychoanalytic theory in the forties ,fifties and sixties. Despite +heroic, rigorous efforts to sharpen the terms's meaning, the +confusion Freud left between the ego and the subjective experience +of the self continued. This persistent confusions was not merely +the result of intellectual sloppiness. Nor was it, as Bruno +Bettleheim proposes, the result of Freud's English translators' +discomfort the soul-like implications of the Freud's original idea. +The difficult is more fundamental. The terminologic and theoretic +confusion reflected a clinical reality. +It often happens that people who functioned badly in the areas +called "ego functions" also have major disturbances in their +experience of the self and that the two types of difficulty are +exacerbated or diminished in concert. The idea of the ego as a +unitary entity is not just as a convenient, if confusing, name for +the set of functions described earlier, a sort of waste basket for +what is neither id nor superego. The term reflect the commonly +observed covariation in these functions. +The systematic exploration of the self experience began in +psychoanalysis in the years following the second world war, though, +of course the concept of self has been the object of study since +the dawn of civilization. Although he had significant +psychoanalytic precursors, notably in the work of Paul Federn, Erik +Erikson was the first to propose that the core of much +psychopathology lies in disorders of self experience. Erikson's +concept of identity, which amalgamated the many sources of beliefs +about who one is is both evocative of common experience and proved +clinically useful. Many kinds of difficultly, as well a normal, and +supernormal psychological development can be usefully explored as +experiences of loss or diffusion of identity or attempts to +establish a satisfactory identity where one was lacking. +Erikson's work is problematic from a psychoanalytic point of +view for two reasons. First, reading Erikson carefully one +discovers that his wonderful portrayal of emotional states through +imagery, metaphor and clinical detail is not matched by explicit, +clear theoretical formulations. Second, his writings often focus +on external environmental effects rather than people's +psychological worlds and the manner of their construction. +Erikson never systematically described his therapeutic +approach to his patients. However, it is clear that he consistently +placed a positive connotation on his patients' struggles. He +demonstrated how manifest psychopathology could be understood as +potentially successful attempts to achieve valuable identities, +that while there might be difficulties in the way the patient's +basic project and his ways of attempting to accomplish it were +closer to healthy development than the patient or the society might +recognize. Erikson's psychobiographical studies of Luther, Gandhi, +Hitler and Shaw are messages to readers, many of them young, about +the value of their struggles to form workable identities. Erikson's +implicit view is that an appreciative stance toward the patients' +struggles which include or dominated by external realities is +therapeutic. +In the years following the second world war Harry Stack +Sullivan, observed that the experience of the self of many of his +schizophrenic patients was grossly disturbed. Borrowing from the +Chicago School of Sociology, most notably George Herbert Mead, +Sullivan conceptualized the self as a summation of social roles, +some of them retained without full awareness from archaic periods +of development. In this "interpersonal theory" of psychology +pathology resulted from a self system that was internal incongruent +or problematic in terms of the environment. Therapeutic +intervention consisted in understanding and appropriately revising +the self system in the light of more mature and current +understanding. What is central to our discussion is Sullivan's view +that the self system was both the product of the external +environment and made no sense whatever outside of a social system. +Several analysts, notably Klein, Winnicott, Khan, Fairburn, +Bion, Spitz, and Modell emphasized the role of holding environment, +environmental container or the "mother" in the development of the +self. From their very different perspectives each emphasized how +the self's growth required an external situation of being "held" +as the emerging and vulnerable self gained strength and autonomy. +People whose psychopathology centered in problematically self +development, a condition that all these authors equated with +difficulties in the first two years of life, could work out their +problems if provided with an analytic situation that allowed them +to reengage those phases with the analyst experienced as the +archaic maternal environment of that era. Some of these analysts +believed, like Melaine Klein, that these very early situations +involved inherent conflicts that now be resolved through +interpretation in analysis. Others like Donald Winnicott held that +new experiences, "beyond interpretation," with a good-enough object +were needed so that the developmental failure could be righted +through new development. The theoretical formulations of many of +these authors was either so inherently fantastic, or so abstruse, +or so unsystematic that their work has had relatively little +influence on psychoanalytic theory beyond the range of their +immediate followers. It is only now being integrated into the +mainstream of psychoanalytic thought. +Margaret Mahler and her coworkers also concerned themselves +with he early development of the self. They centered their +attention on the era of late toddlerhood that involved the +difficulties of the child emerging from a state they called +"symbiosis" in which the experience of the self includes the care +taking environment into a state of being an individual in one's own +right. Based on treatment experiences with youngsters and adults +who seemed to have difficulties in the area of the self experience +and observations of toddlers, which unfortunately were dominated +by their preexisting theory, Mahler and her group concluded that +much of the difficulty in self experience arose from a failure to +adequately separate from the mother of infancy. Although there are +many well informed analysts who would disagree with me, I will +assert that the overwhelming data of infant and later developmental +studies demonstrate that Mahler's symbiotic phase is not part of +normal development nor is separateness, in the sense she meant it, +characteristic of ordinary or healthy more mature psychological +function. +However the clinical observations that lead to Mahler's +thinking and that have been explained in terms of her theories are +certainly common. That is, there are many people who seem to have +shaky experiences of themselves and function with a conflicting +notions that on the one hand they desperately need other people if +they are to function at all reasonably and that some core aspect +of themselves is in danger precisely in these urgently needed +interactions. +Starting in the sixties in Chicago Heinz Kohut initiated a +psychoanalytic study of disorders of the self. His approach to +these researches was methodologically distinct and is worth a +moment's pause. First he took a radical position, that he claimed, +incorrectly at the time, to be a standard one, that psychoanalytic +data was collected in a manner different from that of the natural +sciences. He asserted that it is possible and usually to +immediately comprehend complex psychological configurations in +others and that such understanding ordinary mode of operation of +the working analyst. Empathy for other's internal states, as a mode +of comprehension, was, for Kohut, similar to the way we perceive +faces - as a complete and immediate gestalt. Analytic training and +technique are designed to maximize the analyst's ability to use +this investigative tool and to overcoming its pitfalls, just a +training in microscopy enables us to vastly extend ordinary visual +capacities. While Kohut claimed to be making explicit what everyone +did anyway, his position, right or wrong, was deeply antithetical +to Freud's view of psychoanalysis as a natural science-like +investigation and also Hartman's explicit statements that empathy +in the sense that Kohut meant it had no appropriate role in +psychoanalytic investigation. +A second, and less problematically, position about +psychoanalytic investigative method was Kohut's position on +transference. In his early writings on self psychology Kohut +assumed that the only data to be taken seriously in psychoanalysis +were the data of the transference. The various stories the patient +told, the analyst's conceptual framework and responses and all the +other stuff the analyst commonly use to frame a picture of the +patient's psychology was of minimal importance compared to the job +of describing and understanding the interaction between patient +and analyst. Kohut also believed that premature interpretations to +the effect that the patient was avoiding knowing something about +himself often interfered with the full blossoming of the +transference. According to Kohut, premature interpretations, +particularly premature interpretations of defense often resulted +in the analyst discovering evidence that confirmed their +preexisting notions because they misunderstood possibly contrary +clinical facts as representative of the patients' avoidance of +already known realities. +Using empathy and the exploration of transference as their +primary tools, Kohut and his students treated a group of patients +whose distress took three overlapping forms. One group of patients +suffered from feelings of depletion, emptiness, triviality and/or +fragmentation. These experiences often took symbolic expression in +the form of hypochondriasis. Another set of patients were engaged +in activities that seemed enormously driven or addictive such as +sexual promiscuity and perversion, shop lifting, desperately +clinging relations to other people and substance abuse. Finally, +some of the patients had chronic and acute states of tantrum like +rage. +In analysis, at least as conducted by Kohut and his followers, +these patients developed characteristic attitudes to the analyst +that Kohut labeled selfobject transferences. Characteristically, +often against considerable internal resistance, these patients came +to experience the analyst as essential to their well being. His +physical or psychological absence variously precipitated great +distress and/or the reemergence of symptoms that had been +previously remitted. For example, a young man who had entered +analysis much distressed by his promiscuous homosexual behavior +reported what for him was a major business success during a +session. The analyst, noting that the patient's anxiety had +interfered with an even greater accomplishment, made the plausible +interpretation that the patient had inhibited himself from doing +even better because he experienced his business competitor as like +the analyst and feared the analyst's reprisal if the patient beat +him in competition. The interpretation was bolstered by several +significant details that made it plausible and the patient thought +it was "right on the mark" and promised "to try to do better next +time." Retrospectively he said he had felt irritable and "headachy" +during and immediately after the interpretation was given. That +evening he returned to a gay pornographic movie theatre were there +was much sexual activity among the patrons. Before the analysis +this was one of his regular haunts but he had stopped patronizing +the theatre many months before. The patient allowed several men to +perform fellatio on him. He felt angry and painfully excited as he +thought the fallators really appreciated what he had. In response +to what he felt was the analysts inadequately appreciative response +the patient had desperately turned to a more concrete indication +that someone could appreciate his accomplishments. Another patient +experienced every weekend as "like being sent away to live in the +Sahara in a desert" and the return to the analysis as "like coming +back to the oasis." +When their feelings are not interrupted these patients like +these experience the analyst in characteristic ways that Kohut +described with oversimplifying systemticity. Some patients +idealized the analyst seeing in him the embodiment of strength and +good and feeling alive and whole in his presence. Others find +relief in the sense of being in a unity with their analyst, or +being like him or being appreciated by him. Interruptions in these +states of mind commonly bring with them inordinate distress or +symptoms which could be reasonably understood as experiences of a +fragmented or devitalized self or attempts to avoid those +experiences. +From these clinical experiences Kohut posited that there were +a group of people for whom the maintenance of a satisfactory self +experience was centrally important because it was so problematic. +The analyses of these patients was characterized by the use of the +analyst to maintain the a cohesive and vital self by using the +image of the analyst as part of the self or as a support for the +self. Any interruption in the capacity to use the analyst in this +manner lead to the reemergence of problems in this area. The +situation within the analysis was equated with postulated normal +developmental states in which the caretaker ordinarily performs the +functions for the self. These functions Kohut called selfobject +functions and he believed his patients to be suffering from +disorders of the self resultant on traumatic failures of early +selfobject functions. As in normal development small, empathically +supported, failures in the selfobject function allow patients to +identify with the image of the way the analyst should have +functioned and to make those functions more their own. However +mental health does not consist in giving up self objects. Kohut +asserted that selfobject functions normally continue across the +course of life and that it is their qualities, not their existence, +that is altered with maturity. (Having made this assertion Kohut +never elaborated or demonstrated it. Recently Bertram Cohler and +myself have undertaken the task of exploring the empirical evidence +for Kohut's position.) +Kohut's findings, and the findings of many of those who have +examined the psychology of the self from other viewpoints, have +been questioned in too apparently distinct ways, whose +interconnection I will show you in a moment. +The first objection is that Kohut's theories serve to avoid +painful psychological truths. Many of the phenomena Kohut observed +had been observed previously and classified as defensive +operations. For example, idealizations of the analyst were commonly +understood as ways both to avoid knowing of the unconscious +demeaning of the analyst and to arrange for disappointments when +the analyst fails to live up to the idealization as he inevitably +must. The idea that the patient "needs" the analyst to function in +some certain fashion lest his core being be seriously damaged could +be understood as a fantasied misunderstanding designed to +rationalize wishes whose non-fulfillment may be extremely +frustrating but not inherently, must less psychologically fatally, +damaging. +The second set of objections has to do with the theory of the +self. Kohut never clearly defines his central concept of the self. +Essentially he says that everyone knows from experience what the +self is and leaves it at that. After studying the many discussions +of the meaning of the "self" in the psychoanalytic literature one +is reminded of the Buddha's comments on the self. He said that +those who believe in the self are like "a man who says that he is +in love with the most beautiful woman in the land, but is unable +to specify her name, her family or her appearance" (Digha Nikaya +I 193, quoted in Carrithers (1983).) The essential theoretical +difficulty was clarified by Meissner who pointed out that the term +self as habitually used by Kohut and most other writers whose work +places the self at the center of psychological life, is +consistently used to refer to both a psychological representation +and also a psychological agent. Although more systematic +researchers, for example Hartman, limit the concept of self to a +psychological representation of the person, they also give the self +a markedly subsidiary role in psychology. Meissner's argument is +quite similar to Schafer's later discussions of internalization in +which Schafer observed that the elaborate analytic theories of +internalization were in fact nothing more then the translation into +psychoanalytic jargon of unconscious fantasies and did not, in his +view represent, represent actual psychological mechanism and in +fact obscured, what actually happens when we have experience that +had been described as the taking in of another person or aspects +of that person. +The two problems with self psychology, its use as a defense +against painful insight and its confusion of agent and image, are +related. Notice that if the self is "only" a psychological +representation it would follow that the patient's idea that had +will be dysfunctional as a direct result of some impairment in this +representation seems mistaken - or at least so it seemed to many +thoughtful psychoanalysts. Only the impairment of some mental +agency could really result in dysfunction. It was if the patient +complained that his car did not function because part of a picture +of the vehicle had been obliterated. The idea that the patient is +in error in this regard supports the clinical stance that the +patient's fears in these matters are not an accurate assessment of +the situation but rather fantasies motivated by their unconscious +desires to hide deeper psychological realities. +Now of course we all know that there are "mere" +representations that are very good for actually doing things and +whose faultiness causes no end of problems. These representations +are called programs. +Now, I suspect that once stated the notion that the self is +a program which like other programs is capable of change by +altering its representation and at the same time is an active agent +is neither a surprising or remarkable idea. However, when one +notices that fifty years or so of both clinical and theoretic +psychoanalytic thinking about the self has been profoundly +influenced by the idea that the existence of such an object is a +logical impossibility the point seems more worth making. The other +advantage of making this point is that it invites us to use what +we know about programs to think about the self and suggests the +systematic characterization of the self as a program. +Let us begin the selfobject function whose enemies are want +to equate it with some form of mysticism. We know, of course, that +programs have meaning and function only within computational +environments. An inappropriate computational environment can alter +the meaning and operation of the program or render it altogether +meaningless. For example a routine that calls a global variable +gives a different value depending on the value of that variable; +a program written in C for which one has no compiler is totally +useless. The use of the term "computation environment" in computer +science is relative to the process being discussed and only has +meaning once one specifies what program is being referred to. An +expression only has meaning within an environment. Having bound a +global variable that value then becomes part of the computational +environment of the programs running within that context. Of course +from a different viewpoint the program that sets up the environment +for our first program itself has an environment. Thus ordinarily +we expect that program will "need" appropriate environments in the +same way that self psychology predicts that people need +selfobjects. +What one chooses to call program and what environment +obviously effects the picture of the situation that emerges and is +a function of the interest of the investigator. Similarly the +boundaries of the self depend on the point of view we adopt based +on the focus of our interests. It is only important to notice that +the choice is ours, not intrinsic to the system under study and +that it is important not to become confused about the principles +governing the entities we have defined. A few decades ago von +Bertalanfy made a minor industry of pointing out the inappropriate +application of conservation principles to "open" systems that were +mistakenly treated as having no energy flux across their +boundaries. +The mechanics of the selfobject or the environment is +naturally important but by no means definitive in terms of its +function. In one since it is obviously of considerable importance +whether a subroutine that is called is available in RAM, is +currently located on a easily accessed storage device or is located +on a tape that the machines operator must fetch and mount before +it can be used. In another sense these mechanical considerations +are of minor importance in our understanding of the program. +Likewise whether the capacity to be soothed is a readily available +group of psychological functions represented within the cranium, +the activity of a caretaker who is but a cry away or requires some +elaborate undertaking - say a few years of psychoanalysis - can be +regarded as involving no essential difference in this function. +Although he never would have put it in this way this is an +essential aspect of what Kohut was trying to point to in the idea +of the selfobject - something that functions as an essential aspect +of the self or of the support of the self but which because of the +mechanics of its availability is at times less efficiently +accessible than other aspects of the self that we are more +accustomed to including in our idea of the self. This computational +relative inaccessablity commonly is associated with the need for +particular perceptual inputs and computational assistance. +For instance the phenomenon of "social referencing" has been +studied extensively from a social psychological point of view. +Starting at about age seven months given a novel situation or a +situation with elements that suggest danger babies look to +caregivers for cues about whether to proceed and base their actions +on the caretaker's response. Toddlers as they move away from mother +in a play ground frequently turn around, checking mother's +expression before proceeding further. In the toddlers experience +the decision does not take its basis in the issue of whether +mother, as a person approves or disapproves of the action, rather +the mother's approving response registers as an impersonal "It is +okay." The toddler has not called the person "mother" in this +situation but has rather expanding his computational resources +which happen at the moment to be located in the being we would +refer to as his mother. The child needs loves nor hates the mother +in this context but does need her to function. If she is +functioning well like any computational resource he remains unaware +of her presence. It is only her failure of availability that makes +her of interest, just as we are generally unaware of our memories +except when we have difficulty recollecting something we need to +continue our thinking. +Those of you familiar with Marvin Minsky's work recently +summarized in The Society of Mind will recognize in these ideas a +particular application of the multi-hierarchy computational model +that can be used to explore processing within many levels of human +function from neurons to societal organizations. The issue of a +non-pejorative attitude to what we call mysticism comes to mind +here. Much of what is referred to as mystical might well be +considered as attempts to comprehend hierarchically higher +computational structures within the computational world of lower +order entities. +The self as a program does two important things that are the +subject of our constant attention in our analytic work. The program +monitors its own operation and ordinarily modifies itself in +response to such monitoring. The type of programs we are familiar +with in daily work with computers generally have facilities to +monitor and modify their own execution to a limited extent. Error +trapping of one type or other is virtually universally employed so +that unexpected or undesirable situations do not result in the +continuation of "business as usual" but instead lead to some kind +of branching in the process. In an "error" situation the new +execution often takes the form of enlarging the computational +environment to include the operator who is asked how to proceed or +to correct some situation that impedes the computation or to +authorize the use of additional computational resources. For +example if the execution of a program requires more than a certain +amount of time the systems operator may be asked whether to +continue or abort the execution. +Similarly, but much more extensively, the self is engaged in +a constant process of monitoring its own function and functional +needs, arranging for them to be met or attempting to compensate for +their not being met. We have already implicitly discussed the +ongoing monitoring of computational resources and the recognition +of the need to evoke devices such as the perception of other people +to serve as selfobjects. The detailed study of the nature, +functions and situations in which these additional computational +devices are called or where calls to such devices is avoided +constitutes a major area of psychoanalytic investigation that +encompasses much of object relations theory, including self +psychology, attachment theory, the concept of the transitional +object and the role of cultural experience. +In the von Neumann architecture computer design was dominated +by the wish to avoid programming errors. This was accomplished by +carefully separating data, programs and processing functions and +forcing sequential processing so that except in terms of the +overall duration of computation the outcome of a computation was +unaffected by the time required for each computational step. +Furthermore building this basic architecture requires the +anticipation at least the basic architecture of the system from +its beginning. It cannot result of the evolutionary piecing +together of elements designed for other functions as the brain must +have evolved. +The von Neuman architecture is so excellent an environment for +humans to design programs for that it dominated computer design for +almost four decades. However as von Neumann noted from early on +this architecture is a poor model for brain functioning. The +microsecond firing times of neurons are much to slow to allow +brains to do the things they do all the time with a von Neumann +machines. Furthermore brains are the result of a bioevolutionary +process, not a unitary design and its programmer is not an +individual who sets out to explicitly specify processes but an +environment with many other things on its mind than programming +brains. Of course we know from direct study of brains that they +operate through massively parallel processing. +Fortunately for those of us interested in brains and their +productions it has become clear that the technological limitations +inherent in the von Neumann architecture make it essential that +other architectures be explored in depth to make more capable +computers. The last five years has seen an explosion of +publications about parallel processing architecture and we will be +among the beneficiaries of the resultant intellectual advances. +But, of course, the problems that von Neumann sought to avoid +in computer design are precisely the problems that emerge in +parallel processing. It is simply much more difficult to predict +what is going to happen when things do not go on sequentially, when +the distinction between memory and processing is abandoned and +simple hierarchies of bindings are abandoned. Now rather then +building the absence of these difficulties into the architecture +of the system it becomes necessary to discover ways to overcome +them. A much more elaborate system of error trapping and control +becomes essential. +Parallel systems are highly vulnerable to internal conflicts +and instabilities. Attempts to remove these features from the +system usually entail the loss of precisely what has been gained +through parallelism. To give an very elementary but quite everyday +example, when a database can be updated through several different +inputs there is considerable danger that attempting simultaneous +updating of a record will result in loss of data or undesirable +results. Suppose I am making a deposit in my savings account at the +same time that interest is being calculated and recorded in the +same record. In many database systems the entire record is +retrieved updated and stored again. So in this instance the +original record is retrieved by both the deposit and the interest +function. Each, independently updates the record and then writes +it to the storage device. Either the deposit or the interest +payment, whichever is stored last, will be recorded but not both. +A simple solution that is used in many database systems is to make +the record available to only one potential input at a time by +locking it to other users while it is in the hands of a potential +inputter. In essence one suspends parallel processing and goes to +sequential processing in the face of such potential errors. This +is an awful solution for simple database management, although as +anyone who has worked with such a system knows it can be thoroughly +annoying. But such a general solution for a massively parallel +system would slow the whole thing to a snails pace. Thus special +mechanism for recognizing, protecting against and resolving +conflicts are expected to be a central aspect of massively parallel +system. +But notice how close we have gotten to the ordinary stuff of +psychoanalytic clinical work. A lot of what we do in analysis has +to do with successes and failures to resolve conflicts between +computational results achieved through parallel processing of +situations. To give a much oversimplified instance, a young man +who might displace a supervisor by putting forward his own ideas +expresses them but muddles their presentation. Analysis reveals +that his actions result from two parallel, conflicting computations +and an attempt to resolve that conflict. On the one hand are a +variety of factors including his wish for greater prestige and +material wealth that in turn reflect a long sequence of +developmental processes and on the other his assumption (which is +outside of awareness) that he will be harmed in various ways if he +pursues these wishes results in a state of conflict. This conflict +and potential conflicts are dealt with variously by some higher +order resolutions or through the isolation of the processes from +one another by a variety of means. The resulting action, +unfortunately called a "compromise formation" in psychoanalytic +jargon is an attempt to synthesize the results of these two groups +of computations. +An even greater danger to the system than partially +contradictory computational results is its own instability. +Computational process may become chaotic, disorganized or pass +through a catastrophe as we recognize in depth when we study them +in terms of dynamical systems. It is reasonable to expect that a +computational system can only function in anything like a +satisfactory manner if such situations is rigorously limited to +lower levels of function and if the system has extensive safeguards +against higher level catastrophes or chaos. +Again this is precisely what we find clinically. The most +central concerns in disorders of the self frequently are concerns +about discontinuous and disorderly change. A typical error trapping +procedure in the area where catastrophic change seems a danger is +to avoid all change whatsoever and to attempt to isolate the +computational processes from outside influences that might result +in change. Recently I described how the process of working through +in psychoanalysis, the repeated reexamination if slightly different +versions of paradigmatic situations within an analysis, could +usefully be regarded as the reestablishment of a Boltzman +algorithm-like psychological function by which existing "solutions" +are repeatedly and automatically reexamined both to achieve greater +optimality and to integrate data that may have been unavailable at +the time they were formed. I said that much psychopathology could +be usefully characterized as the interruption of this ordinary +process in the face of a perceived threat of disruption or +disorganization and that what we often think of as the curative +factor of working through is just the resumption of normal +psychological function. +This brings us to the third way in which the self differs from +the programs we are most familiar with from the study of computers. +The self is self developing. Here my opinions are somewhat +different from many of my psychoanalytic colleagues, so let me +spell them out briefly. As she attempted to explore the concepts +of normality and pathology in childhood, Anna Freud discovered that +the presence or absence of symptoms per se was not an adequate +guide in assessing children. She concluded that childhood was +normatively a period of change and development and these were its +primary tasks. The failure of such for such development to be +ongoing was the essence of psychological disturbance in childhood. +For Anna Freud, who had a clear picture of what psychological +health was like in adulthood, the task of childhood was move toward +such mature functioning and she posited a drive to "the completion +of development." +Three groups of observation impressed me into extending her +notion. First the past quarter century has yielded a massive +demonstration that human development normal continues across the +entire life course - that the idea of a definite mature +developmental state whether occurring with the resolution of the +Oedipus complex or the end of late adolescence or whenever else is +mistaken. Second there seem to be quite diverse ways to be +psychologically healthy which becomes readily apparent if we avoid +employing a priori notions of the meaning of health. Finally the +work begun by Marsh to the effect that programs can be written not +with specific goals in mind but rather that proceed to explore and +develop in area that are vaguely defined by such criteria as +"interestingness" corresponded so well to the observations of +workers like Piaget who found that exploration and development were +self motivating that it seemed likely that the human mind is such +a system. It thus seems reasonable to posit that an ongoing +function of the self is its own reorganization and development. +Indeed it was this point that first led to my interest in a +computation model of the self because the question of how the self +could be both agent and representation and in particular how it +could be an agent acting on itself as a representation has a long +standing concrete instaniation in Lisp. Lisp, one of the two oldest +high level programming languages in common use, was specifically +designed to manipulate list of symbols. Of course lisp programs are +themselves list of symbols so that lisp programs can be operated +on my lisp programs including the program itself. The species that +seemed so internally contradictory that analysts denied there +existence have in fact been around for a long time. +Now, of course such programs are not without very serious +problems - in particular they too can be much less stable and far +less predictable than those programs were program and data are kept +strictly separate. As with parallel processing one way to protect +from the dangers inherent in such a structure is to carefully limit +in advance the changes the program can make in itself. Another +possibility is to monitor the development of the program and +introduce error trapping and correction as untoward consequences +of the rewriting occur. A combination of the two approaches would +seem to be necessary. In a sequential system for example a fatal +error occurs if a real interminable loop is introduced into a +program. Here, however, parallelism and conflict can be of +considerable help. Freud's idea of a tripartite model of mind +essentially involves the parallel processing of data, the +consequent development and resolution of conflict so that a variety +of needs can be met through these various modes of processing. In +particular aspects of the mind can monitor the ongoing process of +the development of the self - interrupting and altering it when it +comes parlously close to instability or stagnation. +The hierarchical level at which these process can proceed are +various and new levels in the hierarchy seem to develop with +greater maturity. In particular greater capacities for abstraction +both from data and process appear to be a normal part of human +development. With these capacity comes increased abilities for +metacognition. Piaget's observation of the progressive decentering +of cognition with the related capacity, for example to think about +thinking, represents such an elaboration of abstraction +hierarchies. +Among the many objections that could be raised to my +discussion is the importance I lay on introspection and +subjectivity as a source of information about psychological +processes. From a computational viewpoint consciousness is an odd, +unnecessary, or at least peculiar phenomenon, while from the point +of view of classical psychoanalysis precisely what is most +interesting about people is barred from the conscious awareness. +Thus subjective reports about experience should be relatively +uninteresting to both groups. However, following Vygotsky and +Basch, I take a different point of view about consciousness. +Consciousness is a state that we employ when automatic functioning +becomes problematic. For example we only become aware of walking +when we stumble or when we are learning how to do it and only +attend to it in detail if something impedes are ability to walk. +It is thus precisely in areas of difficulty that we expect +awareness to appear. So it is the areas of difficulty that we +should find well represented in consciousness. Freud's idea of +bringing the unconscious into awareness then is nothing more then +the extension of this normal process into areas in which it is not +employed. In particular the mechanism of repression reflects a +special procedure to keep ideas separate from each other by not +bringing them into awareness. But more generally we can use +subjective experience as at least a preliminary guide to the +computational difficulty. +I am well aware of having painted the picture of the +computational self with extremely broad strokes and having done +violence to many subtle and important issues in the process. At the +same time I am impressed that psychoanalysts having discovered that +the Freudian and ego-psychological paradigms are inadequate have +largely abandoned the attempt to develop broad theories that +encompass the particular data of the psychoanalytic field, choosing +instead to focus on smaller more tractable problems and maintaining +an unavowed theoretical agnosticism. +An exception to this abandonment of theory lies in the work +of the self psychologists. However their conceptualizations, +especially those of Kohut, while evocative remain vague. I think +it is clear that the computational properties of the mind must find +representation in personal psychology. I have suggested one +possibility for how this may occur using the computational self as +the central organizer for my thinking and attempting to show how +ideas from computer science may yield models that are congruent +with our clinical experience. Just as I believe development is the +central activity of the self so to I believe development should be +the central goal of our intellectual activities. Thus if this +paper, despite its flaws does nothing more then stimulate some of +you to think along these lines and to help me do so more cogently +I will be satisfied.

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EDITOR'S NOTE:

+ +

I have only compiled this list. I claim no responsibility for errors, +discrepensies, bogus entries, repeated or contradictiory entries, +spelling or grammatical errors, or governmental action against those in +possession of this list. Thank for for your support!

+ +

THE PREMISE:

+ +

Last year, I attended a Science Fiction convention during which I +discovered (along with other things) that the makers of the +recently-demised TV series War of the Worlds, had a scene in the very first +episode, where the original Martian war machines were found mouldering in a +LA warehouse. For fun, the special effects folk labeled one of the boxes +in the warehouse 'Ark of the Covenant', indicating that it was the SAME +warehouse where the Govt. hid everything that folks were not to know +about. Recently, I decided to try to use this warehouse in a role-playing +game, for fun. I've been trying to figure out things that should be in +some of the boxes. I'm essentially looking for all sorts of things that +were shown on TV and in the movies, that were indicated fell into +government hands and were never heard from again. I'm also including +things that some folks claim have existed for years (like the 100 MPG +carburetor) that the Government has decided to hide away somewhere. (This +is where you conspiracy folks come in).

+ +

NOTE: +This list also contains items containted in the British Government Warehouse, +the Vatican Warehouse, and the Soviet Government Warehouse

+ +

POSSIBLE LOCATIONS OF THE WAREHOUSE:

+ +

A fish processing/packaging plant in the warehouse district of a large +American city

+ +

A U.S. Government surplus cheese warehouse

+ +

Two World Trade Center

+ +

SIGN ON THE DOOR:

+ +

U.S. Government Warehouse #137-B

+ +

E. Presley & J. Morrison, Propietors.

+ +

W. Casey & J.E. Hoover, Curators

+ +

THE CONTENTS: +(AMERICAN WING)

+ +

Ark of the Covenant

+ +

100 MPG Carburetor

+ +

3 Martian War Machines

+ +

Parts of a cut up UFO from "My Science Project"

+ +

Smashed pieces of the time gizmo from "The Philedelphia Experiment"

+ +

Engine that runs on tap water

+ +

A whole bunch of perpetual motion devices.

+ +

The dead aliens from a crippled UFO the gov't captured.

+ +

Several Elvis clones awaiting activation (might be ElvisDroids).

+ +

Hundred of huge crates marked with the name Craig Shergold (containing +Business cards and getwell cards by the million).

+ +

H.G. Wells' working time machine from "Time After Time"

+ +

The UFO that purportedly crashed in the early '50s in New Mexico

+ +

Evidence providing the TRUE story of the Kennedy assassination

+ +

Judge Crater

+ +

What's left of Flight 19 +All of the oddball geological findings that never seem to get +displayed in museums, including: +The lump of coal with a spark plug in it +The piece of sandstone containing human footprints +The dinosaur skull with a bullet hole in it

+ +

A lead-into-gold device

+ +

A small prototype nuclear fusion plant

+ +

the Ghostbusters' proton packs

+ +

Excalibur

+ +

The steel that the T1000 fell into

+ +

Microscope slide labelled "Turin Shroud section No. 325", with piece +of material reading "Made In Korea" in tiny letters

+ +

Thunderbird 9

+ +

The Wild Card virus (Xenovirus Takis-A)

+ +

The contents of a house previously owned by the Adams family

+ +

The contents of a house previously owned by the Munster family

+ +

An formula/equation that allows for the creation of negative-life energy

+ +

A large canvas parchment detailing the location of irregularities in the +time/space continuum

+ +

A collection of psychological reports detailing various conditions +including: acute paranoia, acute schizophenia, profound catatonia, +various phobias, et.al. All the patients have at one time or another +analyzed the Necronomicon

+ +

A copy of "Radioactive Man", issue #1

+ +

A collection of coronary reports detailing various suicides and +particularly violent and/or gory unsolved homicides. All the victims +had at one time or another analyzed the Necronomicon

+ +

A statue of a monster of vaguely humanoid outline, but with an octopuslike +head whose face is a mass of tentacles, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, +claws on its hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings

+ +

An authorization for the assassination of Norma Jean Baker. It is signed +by President John F. Kennedy and is dated 4 August 1962

+ +

A gun recovered from a grassy knoll in Dallas, Texas by CIA agents on +22 November 1963

+ +

Several test tubes filled with swine flu

+ +

A scabbard which prevents its wearer from being cut and will keep anyone +alive, no matter how bad the wound

+ +

A machine that allows emotions and all other sensations to be recorded +by one person and that can be played back and experienced by a second +party. There are several tapes including: water slide, carnal relations, +surfing, and heart attack

+ +

Shakespeare's lost play. It is titled THE TRAGORICAL HISTORY OF KING +ARTHUR

+ +

The Tarnhelm

+ +

A plain gold ring. Unknown script appears on the inside when the ring is +heated suffiently. Properties recorded include, but are not limited to: +Invisibility of wearer, extreme age-retardation of bearer, and a +profoundly increased degree of powerlust in the wearer. The bearer also +becomes extremely reluctant to surrender the ring

+ +

A rope that cannot be broken with traces of wolf hair found on it

+ +

A primitive yet working subspace radio. It is composed of a record +player, a sawblade with holes punched in it, a fork, aluminum foil, an +umbrella, and a Texas Instrument See and Spell. The characters it +transmits have yet to be deciphered. It was found on a small hill

+ +

Reeses Pieces with extraterrestrial bacteria on them. Found on same hill +as the subspace radio

+ +

A large stone tablet, reconstructed from pieces, with writing on it. It +is Hebrew and has Commandments 11 through 17

+ +

Definitive proof that the Illuminati exist and their plans to control the +world. It is sealed in a safe with an eye superimposed on a pyramid

+ +

Papers showing that professional wrestling is real

+ +

Documentation revealing that in exchange for scientific advances, the +government provides UFO's with human beings for unknown reasons

+ +

Evidence suggesting that officials took bribes from concerned Arab oil +men to sabotage cold fusion experiments

+ +

One cyanide laden apple with a bite taken out of it

+ +

One glass slipper

+ +

Several beans with amazing growth potential

+ +

One red riding hood, slightly bloody

+ +

90 yards of golden blonde hair

+ +

A house made out of stale candy

+ +

Evidence showing that the reason JFK didn't support the Bay of Pigs +Invasion was that the Illuminati threatened to expose several scandals +if he did

+ +

A stuffed Ravenous BugBlatter Beast of Traal

+ +

Confirmed photo of Adolf Hitler living high on the hog in Argentina

+ +

Confirmed photo of Adolf Hitler breaking a glass with his foot in his +marraige ceremony to Eva Braun

+ +

Several volumes with the title WHAT THE SHADOW KNOWS

+ +

Proof that President Bush chose Quayle as his running mate to prevent +future assassination attempts

+ +

Equipment recovered from the laboratory of Dr. Frankenstein

+ +

Papers showing that the Mafia was created by the government in order +to keep the citizenry in line

+ +

A formula by one Dr. Griffin

+ +

Information that says that the Illuminati sabotaged the Iran hostage +rescue mission so that they could put a puppet president in office. +They succeeded with flying colors

+ +

A map to the Fountain of Youth and its guard, Ponce de Leon

+ +

Methusela

+ +

A blackboard with equations that prove that time *is* money

+ +

Confirmation of a tenth planet and an advanced civilisation living there

+ +

Papers showing that the government was created by the Mafia in order +to keep the citizenry in line

+ +

Records of the contents of Hangar 33 (and evidence that Hangar 18 was +invented as government misinformation)

+ +

A gaunlet with six gems that provide the wearer with near-omnipotence

+ +

Proof that Milli Vanilli *did* sing their album

+ +

A heave metal box, 75cm on a side, painted in military green. Each side +has the words, "This side towards enemy" printed on it. +(Nuclear claymore mine)

+ +

And don't forget a Chevy Malibu, with an unidentifiable (but definitely +not human) corpse in the trunk, and with black-and-whice cans labelled +simply "BEER" and "FOOD" in the back seat

+ +

All of Dan Quayle's clones (they decided one DQ was bad enough!)

+ +

Robbie the Robot

+ +

The Transience Disk

+ +

The Aeolanthe & Naeolanthe

+ +

One ENIAC

+ +

One Tesla Radio Power distribution system

+ +

John Galt

+ +

The top 10 vaporware products of all time

+ +

Laputa

+ +

A Liliputan

+ +

The squadren of jet powered Spruce Geese

+ +

Lassie

+ +

The pen used to sign the Hitler-Stalin pact

+ +

What's left of the apple that fell on Newton's head

+ +

The reliable version of the space shuttle (threatened job security)

+ +

Amelia Earhart's flight jacket

+ +

Nazi flying saucers

+ +

Jetpack, a la "The Rocketeer"

+ +

Chips of some unknown alloy collected during Apollo missions

+ +

Big black slab collected by the Leakeys in Olduvai Gorge +(and a femur found in orbit)

+ +

Jimmy Hoffa

+ +

A Cloudbuster (a rainmaking machine built by Wilhelm Reich - see +the Kate Bush video "Cloudbusting")

+ +

An N-ray detector

+ +

A dinosaur egg. Fresh. In a crate marked "Africa."

+ +

A chunk of steel, of an unusual alloy, that bears the label +"Tunguska 190?" (Slightly radioactive)

+ +

A box full of scrolls - written in Aramaic. Box says "Gnostic II."

+ +

Ronald Reagan Mark I and the animatronics to make him work

+ +

Bill Gates' Porsche 959

+ +

A notebook belonging to Fermat, containing the answer to that damn +"Last Theorem," and notes about a much more interesting conjecture

+ +

A freezer holding the body of Walt Disney

+ +

The Necronomicon

+ +

The Terminator's arm

+ +

Beethoven's Eleventh Symphony

+ +

A phone booth with an odd antenna on top, and a San Dimas, CA number

+ +

A blue British police call box

+ +

A tight-fitting blue costume with a big red "S" on the chest

+ +

The backup tape archives from the "Terminator 2" lab

+ +

The Infinite Improbability Generator

+ +

The 1992 Democratic Presidential Candidate

+ +

HAL 9000's Failed Turing Test (He got a 57%!)

+ +

The monolith on the moon

+ +

The monolith by Jupiter

+ +

HAL 9000

+ +

A Darkness Device

+ +

Da Shoes!

+ +

A copy of Bunnies & Burrows

+ +

Gary Gygax

+ +

A minute black hole--made of a "knot singularity"

+ +

The Body of Valentine Michael Smith

+ +

The center of a tootsie roll pop

+ +

The Great Virus of '29

+ +

The Heart of Gold

+ +

The Tree of Life

+ +

The seed to the Tree of Knowledge

+ +

The "dean drive" which "converts angular momentum into linear momentum."

+ +

Two and a half tons of Nazi gold recovered from a Swiss mine shaft in +1945

+ +

Some plants from the Brazilian rain forest that can cure just about +anything

+ +

The "magic gun" that fired the "magic bullet" that killed JFK

+ +

Part of a Soviet Sub recovered by Howard Hughes' Glomar Explorer back +in 1971

+ +

A Typhoon-class submarine with Caterpillar Drive

+ +

A little silver ball from Starman

+ +

A searchlight with the sillouette of a bat on it

+ +

A book entitled "To Serve Man"

+ +

A three-eyed fish named Blinky

+ +

JFK's Brain

+ +

The gold from the lost Dutchman mine

+ +

The Marylin Monroe Diaries

+ +

The Holy Grail

+ +

The "sets and costumes" that were used to film the Apollo Moon Landing

+ +

The Rhinegold

+ +

The FBI and CIA files detailing the Career of "Special Agent Elvis"

+ +

A mountain of letters addressed to Santa Claus

+ +

A crate marked "The Alamo" with 19th century weapons, uniforms, and +one coon skin cap

+ +

All of the drugs ever seized in DEA raids

+ +

A bottle with a tag, "Drink Me"

+ +

One kite, string, and key that are scourched

+ +

In a corner a Zoltar Fortune Telling Machine

+ +

A strange looking submarmine named Natulis

+ +

A row of robots, one marked Gort and another marked Robbie

+ +

200 year old crate (damaged) of tea marked "Boston"

+ +

Joseph Raymond McCarthy in cryogenic suspension. +(Due to be woken 2000 AD)

+ +

Contents of a television studio once based in a desert. +Props include Mars landscape sections and lifesized fibreglass spaceships

+ +

Ted Kennedy's driver license

+ +

Yoko Ono's talent

+ +

Diogene's Zippo

+ +

The Lincoln Savings and Loan cash reserves

+ +

A portrait, in GIF format, showing Helen of Troy was a real dog

+ +

Micheal Jackson's original nose

+ +

A petrified turd, left by one of the mounts of the Four Horsemen

+ +

Indisputable proof that Oswald acted alone

+ +

All the people who have ever voted in a Chicago election while dead +(required an annex)

+ +

The original blueprints for building the Great Pyramid of Egypt

+ +

A telephone book for the Planet Mars

+ +

The original magnifying glass used by Sherlock Holmes

+ +

A bottle of smoke from the Chicago Fire

+ +

A crate containing a machine, labeled "Owner - Danny Dunn"

+ +

Oliver North's diary

+ +

A brain laleled "Ronald Reagan"

+ +

Ten crates of clothes labeled "Liberace"

+ +

25 crates of confederate money

+ +

2500 crates of two dollar bills

+ +

Several rows of crates marked, "K-2"

+ +

A large vat of goo, labeled "Keep away from turtles!"

+ +

The real contents of Al Capone's Vault

+ +

The solution to the halting problem

+ +

The "Missing" volumes of the Art of Computer Programming

+ +

A bottle of the "andromedia strain" Virus

+ +

Several Bigfoot(s)

+ +

The bones of the Loch Ness Monster

+ +

A crate of seed pods from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"

+ +

All the AV recording made of the Mothership from "Close Encounters +of the Third Kind"

+ +

Snake Plisken's death certificate

+ +

The cursed ship, The Flying Dutchman

+ +

The missing pages from the logbook of the abandoned Marie Celeste

+ +

Adolf Hitler's body... intact

+ +

The Blob... in a large freezer of course

+ +

Gary Seven's voice-operated typewriter

+ +

Spock's vacuum tube computer made in the 1930's, found in flophouse

+ +

All the books which were checked out when the Library at Alexandria burned

+ +

Undeniable authentication documents for the Shroud of Turin

+ +

A map showing where the Time Tunnel desert base's drive-in door is located

+ +

The original plans for Colossus (the Forbin project)

+ +

Used hypodermic needle; once injected a miniaturized submarine into a neck

+ +

Copy of hostage-withholding agreement between Bush and the Ayatollah

+ +

Saucer pieces, mostly melted from magnesium flares, found in (Ant)artic

+ +

The stiff little finger from the hand of an Invader

+ +

NASA office note about refusing collect call from a Will Robinson

+ +

Hollow krypton meteorite, found in Smallville, USA. Cradle inside

+ +

Three "telepods", non-working, along with a grotesque fly/human/metal body

+ +

Spy satellite photos, detailing the location of Noah's Ark

+ +

A working orgone energy machine (see theories of Nicola Tesla +for more details)

+ +

A real, live unicorn

+ +

A working anti-gravity device (perhaps a sample of Cavorite?)

+ +

Complete maps and journals of the expedition PROVING the Hollow +Earth theory

+ +

What REALLY happened on the Hindenberg

+ +

Two strange electronic devices, found with a set of identifcation for +"Commander Pavel Chekov, Starfleet."

+ +

A set of photographs of a tall (6'3"), muscular man wearing sunglasses. +Some appear to have been taken at a police station, the rest at a mall

+ +

A pair of yellow shoes with thick hollow glass soles. One sole is intact +and contains three goldfish skeletons

+ +

Pieces excavated from a stone building of Greek or early Roman design. +Found in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

+ +

The corpse of a grotesque, bipedal, fish-like being. Roughly 7' tall, +the creature wears chitinous armor. In the crate with it are a strange +looking spear, net, gun on its shoulder, blade on one wrist, and an +electronic thingee on its other wrist

+ +

Many crates of bizarre super-tech weapons, all marked with swastikas

+ +

A crate full of papers, computer disks, and models of a modified +DeLorean sports car. Among the papers is a photograph of two men +standing by a clock, dating back to 1888

+ +

A female android, dressed in a pink gown, with her left arm torn out of +place. She looks remarkably like Olivia d'Abo

+ +

Several hundred issues of "Playboy" confiscated from American servicemen +in the Persian Gulf

+ +

A green meteorite attatched to a chain, found in a sewer by the +Metropolis department of Public Works

+ +

Two CDs, one marked "Elvis" and the other marked "Bruce." These are kept +with two identically-marked reels of tape and a strange machine

+ +

Plans and a prototype of a reactionless engine. The notes say it puts +out no exhaust mass, only heat and light

+ +

A circular shield, about 3' in diameter, with concentric red and white +rings and a star in the center on a blue field

+ +

A black sword, with red runes on it, unearthed in western Canada with a +petrified human skeleton. The sword is dated as being older than the +earth where it was found. Researchers tested the sword to find out what +it was made of, but it defied their efforts. Everyone who touched the +sword died

+ +

Hundreds of boxes of very very old, crumbling books found in Egypt.

+ +

Inside the front cover of each one is a pocket containing a little card +with heiroglyphs on it. All but the last set on each card are crossed +out

+ +

A gold medallion with raised markings on each side, and an off-center +hole holding a red crystal

+ +

A glowing green crystal, about 10 inches long and 2.5 inches wide with +angled ends, discovered near the North Pole

+ +

An illuminated manuscript much like a Bible, along with a rabbit's +corpse and many pieces of shrapnel

+ +

A large emerald in the shape of a heart, confiscated from a fence in new +York City

+ +

About 60000 tapes and CDs by the 2 Live Crew

+ +

Hundreds of issues of a comic shop newsletter bearing the headline, +"DeFalco and Macchio found in adult movie house."

+ +

Captain Hook's hand

+ +

A listing of pi which gets to a long stretch of ones and then ends

+ +

Stacks of mismatched contact lenses

+ +

Thousands of car keys

+ +

A chemical formula for the cure for the common cold

+ +

Formula 7x

+ +

The recipie for Macdonald's secret sauce

+ +

KFC's 11 secret herbs and spices

+ +

1000 mint-condition WWII army Jeeps, to be sold for $50 each

+ +

The hover-skateboard from BTTF2

+ +

A slightly less than infinite number of wallets (no money in them though)

+ +

A slightly malleable bit of metal (the world famous Philosopher's Stone)

+ +

The failed prototype from the Aurora project (yet another "stealth" plane)

+ +

The remains of a rather strange-looking humanoid... (the "missing link")

+ +

proof that the president knew the strength of the atomic bomb, and +dropped it to prove a point to the soviets

+ +

Proof that religion WAS created to control the people

+ +

Proof that communism and socialism WOULD work

+ +

A complete transcription and dates and times for all of Nosatradamus's +prophecies!

+ +

A box containing proof that Salem really did have witches

+ +

The REAL McCarthy list, before the politicain's saw it

+ +

The recording of Nixon saying "I'm not a crook"

+ +

Proof that Daylight savings, and flouridation really ARE communist plotS

+ +

The missing part of Kennedy's head

+ +

The true identity of the kidnaper of the Lindbergh baby

+ +

Amelia Earhart

+ +

Six copies of the Mona Lisa, all authentic, except for the words +"This is a fake" written on the back in felt-tip pen.

+ +

A seventh copy of the Mona Lisa, appearing to be authentic, which DOESN'T have +Had "This is a fake" written on the canvases in felt tip marker.

+ +

The complete list of every drink in the Universe whose name +is a version of 'Gin 'n Tonic'.

+ +

The formula for Coca-Cola

+ +

The missing 80 points of Dan Quayle's IQ

+ +

Every taxicab in the Metropolitan New York area (only while it's raining)

+ +

The Golden Fleece

+ +

A broadsword from roughly 1000 AD with a woman's hand still gripping the handle

+ +

A grafitti-free subway car

+ +

A hen's tooth

+ +

A calendar containing a month made up entirely of Sundays

+ +

The Ultimate Nullifier

+ +

The six lost episodes of Dr. Who (and you thought only one was lost...)

+ +

A pair of red ruby slippers

+ +

A pillar of salt in the shape of a woman

+ +

An extremely well-aged apple with two bites out of it

+ +

Universal Solvent (we think) (bring your own container) (hurry) (never mind...)

+ +

A letter from an Egyptian princess, saying she'd like to be reincarnated +as Shirley McLean

+ +

The suppressed Penthouse edition featuring Kylie Minogue

+ +

The REAL reason why the Challenger blew up

+ +

A spy satellite marked "Made in Taiwan"

+ +

A diary entry from the president of the Sierra Club saying he's going out +duck-shooting

+ +

A reciept for a rifle and ammo from Dallas Texas, to the account of L.B. +Johnson

+ +

A note from a member of the French Govt. saying they were sorry for the +Rainbow Warrior

+ +

A working cold fusion unit (perhaps one for the back of a car, that you +could feed garbage to)

+ +

The REAL crown jewels of Iran/Persia

+ +

The Maltese Falcon

+ +

An old treaty between Argentina and Britian giving the Falklands to one or +the other

+ +

An effective chemical male contraceptive

+ +

The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

+ +

The lost notice to tell Arthur the bulldozers were coming

+ +

The message from the Vogons warning the Earth of the Hyperspace Bypass

+ +

The One Ring

+ +

The White Gold Ring

+ +

The Virus programmed against the Black Marble Wombat

+ +

The Wombat listing in VMS Help

+ +

"That Loving Feeling"

+ +

Plane tickets proving George Bush was in Paris in the fall of 1980

+ +

Recordings of a mysterious five-tone musical work, left over +from a certain project that took place at Devil's Rock

+ +

A slightly radioactive safe marked "S.S. Titanic"

+ +

Pay stubs with the words "Central Intelligence Agency" and "Lee Harvey +Oswald"

+ +

The autopsy records for JFK (sealed for 50 years!)

+ +

The totally innocuous file on MLKjr that +was sealed -- because it was totally innocuous!

+ +

The report given to FDR on the Japanese fleet steaming toward Hawaii

+ +

George Washington's membership card for the Masons

+ +

Birth certificates for several mulatto children, with the "Father" +space marked "Thomas Jefferson"

+ +

Autopsy records for President Zachary Taylor

+ +

Telegram from Andrew Johnson to John Wilkes Booth saying "Great opportunity +at Ford's Theater -- a definite Do-Not-Miss"

+ +

a prototype (or working model!) of Alpha Complex's +Computer

+ +

_Another_ government warehouse...

+ +

90% of the works of Nikola Tesla

+ +

Ship with bodies embedded in several inch-thick steel from +the "Philadelphia Experiment"

+ +

A Mac SE hard disk containing plans for "Transparent Aluminum"

+ +

Plans for the "Wildfire" research station

+ +

Set of printer plates for the Lyons UNIX book

+ +

Atlantis

+ +

Everything ever lost in the Bermuda Triangle

+ +

A sample of scrith

+ +

A disc (ring) with a ratio of circumference to diameter equal 3

+ +

Political ethics

+ +

The plan for a balanced US budget

+ +

Several letters signed "George Washington" and "Adam +Weisshaupt", and a memo signed by a grafologist claiming that both sets +were written by the same person.

+ +

The unicorn scene from "Blade Runner"

+ +

Laserdisc copies of all Hayao Miyazaki films -- UNCUT and in ENGLISH

+ +

Schubert's last symphony (complete)

+ +

A short mathematical proof that the travelling salesman problem can be +solved in polynomial time

+ +

An Elder God, dead

+ +

A pouch of sand, a red ruby on a chain, and a strange insect-like mask

+ +

The last 7 presidents and vice presidents, frozen -- including Bush & Quayle

+ +

Several Caroline clones (they work there)

+ +

a Kirelean photograph of Stonhenge -- showing auras on all the +stones, including the missing ones

+ +

A silver albatross

+ +

An old-fashioned green railroad-man's lantern, and a collection of green +rings of various shapes and sizes

+ +

The original manuscript for Bible II: The Son Strikes Back

+ +

Various and sundry archaeological relics from Mu, Lemuria, Atlantis, +Shangri-La, and Xanadu

+ +

A complete set of the Golden Age Suicide Squid comics

+ +

Two 16-inch Battleship Cannon shells (you know - like the ones on the Ne +Jersey) Filled with Quick-Death organism bomblets

+ +

the British copy of the North American Treaty

+ +

Several kilograms of Byzanium, along with a 1889 Colorado newspaper and the +body of a Red Army corporal

+ +

A wooden staff, with a claw holding a crystal on the end

+ +

The Starship Defiant

+ +

A large number of Swiss Army knives and rolls of Duct Tape. The knives all +have the letter M engraved on them

+ +

The financial records of Stemple's Mill, Seattle, Washington - signed +"Ishmael Marx"

+ +

A large number of Swords

+ +

A number of semi-transparent, amoeboid creatures, accompanied by semi-neanderthalic humanoids

+ +

An F-15's gun-camera recording of a Dragon in flight

+ +

The leg-bones of Miles Vorkosigan

+ +

One Dozen Red Roses

+ +

Maps to caves in Ireland, where several spaceships (with markings in Gaelic) +are kept

+ +

Two thousand bottles of NyQuil

+ +

The coordinates of a rain-swept planet far out in the galaxy, inhabited by a +little old man who likes cats (even though he doesn't believe in them)

+ +

Aristotle's treatise on humor

+ +

The Freemasons' Ultimate Secret

+ +

King Arthur's perfectly preserved body

+ +

God's pair of dice

+ +

The sixth replicant

+ +

The Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator

+ +

A bubble-gum machine full of dehydrated Martians (just add water)

+ +

A helmet with a scrub brush attatched to the top and a pair of +tennis shoes with the name "M. Martian" on both

+ +

Map & instructions for recovering the treasure on Oak Island

+ +

The Method used to place the statues on Easter Island

+ +

The reason the statues were put there

+ +

The Beethoven manuscripts that disapeared at his death.

+ +

The first draft of Adam Weishaupt's inagural address

+ +

The allied plans for the bombing of Russian oil fields, early '41

+ +

The German nuke

+ +

The real recipie for the Pan-galactic gargle blaster

+ +

Cratefuls and cratefuls of containers remarkably similar to yogurt +and ice cream containers, labelled "The Stuff"

+ +

Two live plesiosaurs

+ +

Plane tickets from Munich, 1958, +stamped "Flight Cancelled".

+ +

All the missing ozone

+ +

Lenin's hair

+ +

The brain of a liberal, the heart of a conservative

+ +

A magnetic monopole

+ +

A huge ax and an even bigger stuffed blue ox

+ +

A photograph of a very large gold menorah (pictured on the Arch of +titus in Rome) with report detailing the contents of the +Vatican warehouse

+ +

An archive containing every issue to date of the WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, with +marginal notations like, "Hoo boy, we *really* fooled this one!" +and "He's getting too close; exchange him."

+ +

A large tank containing some sort of preservative solution and several +slightly radioactive corpses in various states of decay, all +of which seem to twitch or move slightly now and then

+ +

Edison's final invention: The Necrophone, a device enabling one to speak +with the dead

+ +

A handwritten proof, repudiating all claims of truth to the notion of +relativity, signed by Einstein

+ +

A book containing the contents of the Soviet's Warehouse, with _infinitely_ +more interesting stuff

+ +

A text about flouridation and its true effects on the mind

+ +

An engine that runs on the passage of _time_ (a Soviet physicist, whose name +escapes me, has crunched the numbers on this one!)

+ +

A text written in ancient Hebrew that begins, In the Beginning, but has all +the words for god feminine in gender

+ +

A dummy terminal connecting to nothing in particular, with a prompt. +When any name is typed in, the COMPLETE history of the subject is displayed, +including what he is doing at this moment, with constant updating

+ +

The CIA's report on Psychotronic Weaponry, with the Soviet's explaination +to what happened to Nixon and Carter, as well athe death of Brezhnev, +Andropov, Chernenko, and the meteoric rise to power of one Mikhail +Gorbachev, who happened to be head of the KGB when the research was being +done

+ +

One human skeleton, found in casket, with a wooden stake inserted into the +ribcage

+ +

Remains of a sophisticated WWII Japanese fighter, codenamed Kamikaze, +with humanoid figures crushed in the machinery, that must have disabled it

+ +

A strange machine, incorporating a glass cylinder with a weird gel flowing +within it, and sealed with a lock that can only be opened from within. +Found in the basement of a church in Detroit

+ +

The bodies of the victims of Crest test #57

+ +

Directions to Midian

+ +

Definitive proof of the Carter thesis that states that petroleum, rather +than being a diminishing resource, is constantly replenished naturally +by the earth

+ +

Documentation about the CIA's project into creating the first strain +of recombinant DNA, with a formula very similar to that of Human Immunodeficiency Virus

+ +

Joseph Smith's golden tablets, containing the Book of Mormon

+ +

The missing 23 minutes of Nixon's tape recordings

+ +

Parcelsus' notebooks (that were supposedly buried with him, but weren't there +when his tomb was opened, later---for that matter, how about his body?)

+ +

The Marquis de Saint Germaine

+ +

Documentation and photos from all the cases of Spontaneous Human Combustion

+ +

The mummy from the sarcophagus in the Great Pyramid

+ +

A couple of those computer chips they've supposedly found embedded in the +arms of Egyptian mummies

+ +

All that runic graffiti saying things like "Sven Redbeard was here" from the +upper Mississippi

+ +

A parrot-headed umbrella

+ +

A giant Lincoln's head penny

+ +

A table-top fortune-telling machine

+ +

A curiously heavy black statue of a falcon, with several chips +carved out of it

+ +

A sled with the brandname of "Rosebud"

+ +

The "Greatest American Hero" suit (with instructions)

+ +

Rudy Wells' lab notes

+ +

Several hypodermic needles, +labelled "Lot Six"

+ +

Several spare self-destructing tape recorders

+ +

Hymie

+ +

A shoe-phone

+ +

A birth certificate with MacGyver's FIRST name!

+ +

Several large hairy bipeds, a small pyramid of silver spheres, +and a stack of video recordings showing the bipeds attacking +a tibettan monestary in Wales

+ +

A diary purporting to show the location of the Holy Grail, labelled +"property of Prof. H. Jones"

+ +

Reports, wreckage, and photos from the Starkweather-Moore expedition +to Antartica. Contains the bodies of what look like 5-symmetric +animals with fan-shaped wings and lots of tentacles. Also contains +what looks like a frozen block of blackish protoplasm marked "Do not +defrost under ANY circumstances"

+ +

Photo showing the "Illuminated Five" (Nikola Tesla, Howard Hughes, +Adam Weishaupt, H.P. Lovecraft, and Nostradamus) having a beer bash +at the Eye In The Pyramid pub in Ingolstadt

+ +

The Overthruster and Buckaroo Banzai's jet car. Also a strange +looking record that when played displays a rather rastafarian-looking +alien

+ +

Proof that Orson Wells' War of the Worlds broadcast was no joke

+ +

The *complete* manuscript of Coleridge's Kubla Khan

+ +

Everything dropped by aliens that Eric Von Daniken claims to have seen (which +is usually guarded by "wild tribesmen" or drug runners, etc.)

+ +

One of those movie revolvers that fires twelve or fifteen shots, or at least +never needs reloading

+ +

The Phantom Tollbooth

+ +

Carrie White

+ +

The plastic bottle that was taken to the Roman/Chinese emperor, which caused +the inventor to be executed, to keep the glassblowers in business

+ +

Kentucky fried rats

+ +

Einstein's unified field theory

+ +

Hitler's REAL diaries ("hot date with Eva tonight---va-va-voom!")

+ +

The missing chapters of Nostradamus, especially those dealing with the End +of Civilization as We Know It (suppressed because the world is not +prepared)

+ +

The sequel to Gone With the Wind that Margaret Mitchell supposedly burned, +after finding she didn't like "all the trouble *this* book has brought me."

+ +

The lightbulbs they used for illumination, in painting Egyptian tombs

+ +

The map to King Soloman's mines

+ +

The Viking longship that was discovered in California's Imperial Valley, +sometime around 1910

+ +

A stuffed Pterodactyl, shot in Africa, earlier in this century

+ +

Millions of Pet Rocks (everybody bought one, nobody has one now, +they have to be SOMEWHERE!)

+ +

The official U.S. Navy map showing the location of Gilligan's Island

+ +

Hundreds of millions of dirty socks, each tagged with the time, date +and location of the laundry in which they disappeared

+ +

Bill Watterston

+ +

Various bits of a 1958 Plymouth Fury (red)

+ +

A Tanu skeleton (stored with a variety of high-tech weapons and +devices found with it buried on the bottom of the Mediterrenan +Sea, dated at approximately 6 million years old)

+ +

A dodo bird

+ +

A disk pack containing the personnel database for Yoyodyne Propulsion +Systems, listing lots of people named John who all applied for social +security numbers on November 1, 1938 in Grover's Mill, NJ

+ +

Boxes of proposal, progress report, and design review documents for +Yoyodyne's work on contract # DOD 84-C112001, plus a copy of "Commerce +Business Daily" containing the original RFP for the Truncheon Bomber

+ +

The Great American Novel. Actually, one Great American Novel from the +1960's, another from the '50's, another from the '20's. Probably a +couple more without established dates

+ +

Documents suggesting that "NSA" really meant "No Such Agency," the code +name of an elaborate cover for yet another internal security service -- +as yet unknown

+ +

UNIX; a nearly-mythical, small, simple, fully-functional multiuser +operating system (mentioned in some theoretical papers by Ritchie and +Thompson, c. 1978). Possibly found squished in the very bottom left +back corner of one of several huge crates labelled "BSD," "SYS5," etc

+ +

News software that does something approximately near what one might +actually want

+ +

A book with the title: +THE TRUTH +One page, one word. +Doesn't matter what language you read, or if you read at all. +One glance at it and you will know the truth. +of course, when somebody learns the truth his head explodes

+ +

Real live (frozen or otherwise) Jackalopes, Hidebehinds, and other such +beasties

+ +

An atom with the atomic number of 104

+ +

A coke can with the old style pull tabs

+ +

Several cases of the original coke (the ones with cocaine)

+ +

The location of Car 54

+ +

The Golem of Prague

+ +

Frankenstein's Monster

+ +

A set of papers referring to the Iran - Contra Affair

+ +

The primary mirror we were originally going to use on Hubble

+ +

A passenger pigeon (became extinct in the late 19th century)

+ +

The Gordian knot. Beside it, a much simpler knot, cut in two

+ +

Docmuments from the 1960's describing Isaac Asimov's process to "grow" a +positronic brain, using a revolutionary crystal-growing process amazingly +similar to biological cell reproduction

+ +

A complete log of everything ever posted to the Internet. Cross-referenced +by subversive nature. All Email, too, of course

+ +

The crashed UFO from White Sands, 1947

+ +

A statement stating that Iran-Contra was "all my idea", signed Ronald Reagan

+ +

George Bush's travelogue from October, 1980

+ +

Professor Azland's time bubble

+ +

A spaceship powered entirely by steam

+ +

Phone number for the Earth Defense League

+ +

Crashed and destroyed Yeti, Ogron, and Dalek spacecraft

+ +

Construction plans for the top-secret lab in Quantum Leap

+ +

Videotape footage of the Loch Ness Monster. And Bigfoot

+ +

A perfect glass bowl, with the words "So Long, and Thanks..." engraved on it, +containing some water and a sad-looking yellow fish

+ +

A battered and aged working copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

+ +

CIA pay stubs, made out in the name of Mikhail Gorbachev

+ +

A complete set of Majestic Twelve (aka MJ-12 aka MAJIC) documents, marked +"Exempt: not to be declassified Top Secret Burn before reading"

+ +

A stack of memos to Joe Malik (regarding the Illuminati)

+ +

A cat. No one can tell whether it is alive or dead

+ +

A gigantic submarine made of gold. Leif Erikson is written on the side

+ +

A sacred cow

+ +

The collected writings of Kilgore Trout +The only writings to appear by him are excerpts and brief quotes in several +Kurt Vonnegut stories, except for the novel "Venus on the Half Shell"

+ +

And, of course, the warehouse would need to have, as a relief from all +the clutter, a vial containing a perfect vacuum

+ +

In a dark corner of the warehouse, a cage containing a furry creature, +about 10 inches tall, with huge eyes and ears. It has a tendency to +sing once in awhile. A sign hangs in front of the cage saying; +Do NOT place in bright light! +NEVER get it wet! +And DO NOT feed after midnight!!!

+ +

A small glass vile that seems to contain plain water. The label reads; +"property of R. Reagan, from fountain of youth, FL"

+ +

This list

+ +

(BRITISH WING)

+ +

All the gadgets designed by Q, including the ones James Bond didn't use

+ +

All the gadgets designed by q (Q's little brother), such as a vacuum +cleaner which, when carefully dismantled and cunningly reassembled, +becomes a hair dryer

+ +

The alien spacecraft from "Quatermass and the Pit"

+ +

H. G. Wells' time machine

+ +

Complete inventory of the U. S. Government warehouse

+ +

The first telephone, invented by Percy forbes-Hamilton. It wasn't much +use until Alexander Graham Bell invented the second one

+ +

A map showing the exact location of Thunderbirds' Island H.Q.

+ +

A copy of a blackmail note addressed to Pons and Fleischmann, sent by the +head of B.P.

+ +

Plans for converting the Scott Monument into a rocket capable of travelling +to Mars and back

+ +

The date and time of the revolution

+ +

Geoffrey Boycott's missing test years

+ +

The real Jules Verne trophy

+ +

The location of the *first* tunnel under the Channel (built back in +Napoleon's time)

+ +

The Difference Engine

+ +

Videotape of a secret Special Air Service raid on a U.F.O., shot by +a Commander Straker

+ +

The diary of one "S. Holmes, Consulting Detective."

+ +

A similar (but often contradictory) diary by a Dr. Watson

+ +

Several infernal devices created by a Dr. Manchu, in crates shipped +in from Hong Kong

+ +

A bottle holding a bacterial culture labeled "Mutant 59."

+ +

The manuscripts of all those unwritten Sherlock +Holmes adventures, such as the Adventure of the Aluminium Crutch, and The +Giant Rat of Sumatra, that Watson kept tempting us with!

+ +

A "Norwegian Blue" parrot nailed to a perch in a birdcage

+ +

A device, similar to a laptop computer, wrapped in a dirty towel, +with the words "Don't panic" written in friendly letters

+ +

A Babel fish

+ +

Miscellaneous documents labeled "Project Tic-Toc"

+ +

A bottle of pills marked "S. Beamish"

+ +

A rubber mask that looks just like David MacCallum

+ +

A manuscript, written in some druidic script, giving +operating instructions for Stonehenge

+ +

An electronic thumb

+ +

A number of typewritten manuscripts bearing titles such +as "Hamlet", "Macbeth" and "George", with the author +given as A. Simian

+ +

Documents detailing payments made to an advertising agency +to manufacture a front man to sell the above manuscripts

+ +

A device for flattening areas of corn

+ +

The mumified remains of the original M. Thatcher

+ +

Mark Thatcher's road map

+ +

A copy of "The Nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter: Witch"

+ +

A sonic screwdriver (nonfunctional, with a note explaining that it was found in +London, AD 1666)

+ +

An Eyes-Only Scottland Yard File re: a serious of prostitute murders +in London in the 1890's

+ +

A file cabinet, formerly belongong to one Brigadier Arthur Gordon +Lethbridge-Stewart, containing detailed documents of encounters with +assorted aliens and creatures on the British Isles, all stamped with the +words "TOP SECRET:UNIT"

+ +

Blueprints for a "Time Machine", with the initials "H.G.W." signed at +the bottom

+ +

A bag of old jelly-babies

+ +

The school transcripts and transfer forms of one Vislor Turlough, which +gives his home address as "Trion"; and similar, older documents for a +girl named Susan whose grandfather claimed on her records that she'd +attended "West Gallifrey Junior High."

+ +

A letter from Downing Street to Argentina, promising +someone a large sum of money to make and fail in an attempt to +capture some unspecified islands

+ +

A glass onion

+ +

A pair of shoes with a tag saying, "Found near Abbey Road"

+ +

A set of human ribs, one is missing

+ +

A stuffed hound with a tag saying "Baskervilles"

+ +

Three pegs with various sized discs on them. A monk is slowly +moving one disc at a time +Diagrams for a semi-functionnal mind control device, +and (pessimistic) progress reports for control of subject +"John M."

+ +

Details of the massive conspiracy which seems to have resulted +in most of the British secrets ending up in the US warehouse

+ +

The names and scorecards of all the international teams competing +in the "World Series"

+ +

The formula for the Top Secret language encrypting system developed +by the CIA, which was used to call a game in which something +which isn't a ball is hardly ever kicked called "Football"

+ +

A black doctors bag containing a number of strange automatic devices +For performing various forms of surgery

+ +

A bottle of small yellow pills. The label warns you not to take a +pill if you are in a small two-man shuttle craft

+ +

A bloodstained apron embroydered with masonic regalia and three +feathers

+ +

Margret Thatcher's conscience

+ +

A report on an MI5 operation involving a poisoned apple, a known +homosexual and an infinite tape

+ +

A geologist's report on the repeated earthquakes in a small region of +Monmouthshire, seemingly associated with the ruins of a number of +fallen towers

+ +

Some very old burned cakes

+ +

John Major's personality

+ +

The phone number of International Rescue

+ +

Prince Edward's A Level exam papers

+ +

The incorporation papers of a company called "Univsrsal Export"

+ +

A biochemical report proving that one should put the milk in first

+ +

Neil Kinnock's ideals

+ +

Satelite photographs showing that the General Galtiari was, in fact, +somewhere in the Indian Ocean when sunk

+ +

A report on the spontanious self-disassembly of an early experimental +British nuclear weapon as it was being transported through inner +London, and why no one noticed

+ +

A gene analysis on the reamins of Winston Churchil, showing that he +was, in fact, a chicken

+ +

A map and latitude-longitude coordinates showing the exact location of +the Village

+ +

Schematics for the use of weather balloons as anti-personel devices

+ +

Papers showing who built the Village, who runs it, and who Number 1 is

+ +

The reason why Number 6 resigned

+ +

A door, above which is the brightly lit word "EXIT", and +which bears a small plate upon which is written "101"

+ +

Nigel Lawson's calculator

+ +

A parchment letter from James I to a group of biblical scholars +starting with the words "Thou Creeps"

+ +

A large leathery egg found on the shores of a Scottish loch

+ +

Authur Skargil's Tory party membership

+ +

A marrow bone and a poker

+ +

Contract between the MoD and BAE to develop an aircraft capable of +tracking traffic on the M1 and the plans for the developed system, +code named "Babel"

+ +

MI6's report on machinery of unearthly origin found on an unnamed ship +lifted out of Aukland harbour

+ +

A rain making machine confiscated from the MCC

+ +

A letter from the Secratary of State for Defence to the commanders of +all British submarines pointing out that, contrary to earlier orders, +issued due to a previous minister having his hair shampooed and set +while typing, it is _Soviet_ trawlers that pose a thright to British +security and not, as stated, _Scottish_ ones

+ +

The final page of the Communist Manefesto containing the punch line, +found inside a volume in the British library where it had seemingly +been dropped in the haste of getting the book to the publisher

+ +

The original plans for the analytical engine clearly labeled as +"Automatic bacon slicer and piano key carving machine"

+ +

The launch control system for the Scott monument

+ +

The formula for the additive inserted into Welsh water supplies 25 +years ago to induce small mutations into unborn children which makes +the retina and optic lobes much less sensitive to fast moving ovoid +objects

+ +

The minutes of the final session of the Scotish parliament wherein the +members decided to take the money and run before the Irish made good +on their promise to sue for royalties on Whiskey

+ +

A transit label found miraculously preserved on the underside of one +of the fallen stones at stonehenge bearing the name "M A trnspt ltd, +by apointment, intrnl. removals"

+ +

A shard of crystal found wedged in a crevice on Rockall

+ +

The complete transcript of Joan of Ark's trial

+ +

The recipe for British Rail sausage rolls, confiscated for national +security reasons

+ +

A working Advanced Passenger Train

+ +

The Great Rat of Sumatra

+ +

(VATICAN WING)

+ +

Roger Bacon's robot, or the plans for it, or both

+ +

Pliny's "History of Rome" and the missing parts of the "Mary Magdalin Gospel"

+ +

A suppressed letter from St. Paul apologizing to the female members +of the church at Corinth

+ +

A complete transscript of Gallieo's trial (including the non-public parts)

+ +

The Fatima Prophesies (One look at those, and the Pope in office at +the time locked himself up for three days)

+ +

Obviously a copy of the Necronomicon (Know thine enemies!)

+ +

STORED TOGETHER: +(V) The nails used to crucify Jesus +(V) The Crown of Thorns +(V) Veronica's Veil +(Strangely, each of these have been found containing trace quantities of +blood. When the blood was scanned for DNA, none was found...)

+ +

A bunch of fish and bread, still remarkably fresh

+ +

Lazarus, in a cage

+ +

A paystub to one Mr. Salmon Rushdie, commenting, "Job Well Done."

+ +

A paystub to Lee Harvey Oswald, commenting "Job Well Done."

+ +

The bill for the Last Supper

+ +

The bill for the Last Brunch

+ +

At least a couple of demons, imprisoned

+ +

A big ol' hourglass that _cannot_ be turned over, slowly running out

+ +

A very large key, inset with pearls, inscribed (in Aramaic) "To Peter, +Sorry, you can't take it with you."

+ +

A dartboard, with most of the space being taken up with signs for Italy, +but a few bearing names like France, Spain, Ireland, and a _very_ small +one for the USA. Oh, yeaH, there's a dart in it now, pierced through Poland

+ +

Copies of all the books put on the "Banned" lists (Know Thine Enemies!)

+ +

An ancient map, dated AD 476 that points to the major locations where all +the books were taken (Damn the *^$#$ Dark Ages!)

+ +

A strange account of a man who appeared before the Inquisition saying, "No, +wait, you've got it _all_ wrong... This is _nothing_ like I intended!" +The report goes on to show that the man was summarily tortured for Heresy, +and when he did not repent, was killed. Strangely, though, it also comments +that the body of the heretic disappeared soon after

+ +

An ancient tome, dating to AD 30, written in a bastardization of Arabic, +Aramaic, Greek, and Latin, proposing complex differential equations, and +signed QED, JC. (Prince of Darkness)

+ +

Complete records on all major exorcisms, visitations, and miracles

+ +

One part of a strange machine built by Da Vinci, which used solar energy to +remarkable ends

+ +

Tons of Stuff by Raphael, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, and Donatello, +along with a few others, deemed "inappropriate" for the general populace, +but which looked spiffy on the Pope's bedroom wall

+ +

A bottle of water that says "Taken from top of Everest...Remember!"

+ +

A pile of ash composed primarily of brimstone, with a card: "remember"

+ +

A pillar of salt, "I told you NOT to look back!"

+ +

Various bottles containing insects, frogs, lice, etc., and the last labelled, +"Azrael. Open in case of Emergency."

+ +

The char-broiled corpse of a non-levite, "Don't touch it."

+ +

A horn, reading, "DON'T BLOW!!!!"

+ +

A sling and several stones

+ +

Ark of the Covenant, with a note in Italian reading, "Switch made...replica +en route to USA."

+ +

Samples of the excellent 'shrooms that only grow on Patmos (as in St. John)

+ +

The Sybilline Books

+ +

The Lost Centuries of Nostradamus

+ +

The Grimoire of Pope Honorius

+ +

The Third Prophecy of Fatima

+ +

Adolph Hitler's baptismal certificate

+ +

(SOVIET WING)

+ +

The Firefox (or at least plans for it)

+ +

All the material on the Russian ESP "remote viewing" project (which, of +course, was stolen by our own remote viewers)

+ +

The bodies of the executed Romanoff royal family, including Anastasia

+ +

All the missing Old Masters paintings that the Nazis commandeered

+ +

Lenin's last orders

+ +

The UFO that crashed in Siberia in 1908

+ +

(JAPANESE WING)

+ +

The sword given to the first Emperor by the goddess Amaterasu

+ +

A copy of the telegram from Tojo to Roosevelt giving warning of the +Pearl Harbor attack

+ +

An oxygen destroyer

+ +

A suspended animaion unit containing a ten-year-old boy, labeled +"Akira"

+ +

Four suits of powered armor custom-fitted for women

+ +

Satellite photos of Area 88

+ +

The manuscript for a book entitled "The Japan That Can Say No" +(oops, that one leaked out already!)

+ +

The manuscript for the "really inflamatory" veersion of "The Japan +That Can Say No"

+ +

Godzilla

+ +

To Europe and the so-called Gas Chambers with eager +scientists from 'round the world, Fred Leuchter, and all +Revisionists beg. Questions answered NOW. The Sun could +steal the mist of mystery. IT COULD BE SO SIMPLE. Truth +denied; investigation denied. Every day the Zionist Giant +is taller, and each day has farther to fall (a certainty). +Victory is solidly ours, fellow Revisionists. Be patient +through the long wait; the cattle WILL find their way home.

+ +

Pete Faust + +Institute For Relearning +

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From: Alan Lustiger alu@pruxp.pr.att.com +Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny +Subject: 25 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE "ATOM BOMB" + S4dc.13e2@looking.on.ca +Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 4:30:03 EST +Lines: 209 + +25 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE "ATOMIC BOMB" + +1. Is there any evidence that a thermonuclear device exploded over +Hiroshima in 1945? + +No, absolutely none. According to leading historians and physicists, +the thermonuclear bomb was not invented until years after the supposed +detonation over Japanese territory. + +2. Is there any evidence that a uranium-based "atom bomb" was ever dropped +onto Nagasaki, Japan? + +Absolutely not. While many historians and journalists made this claim +in the late 40's and early 50's, everyone now agrees that no such +bomb ever exploded over Nagasaki. Yet there are some who still stubbornly +cling to this supposed "fact." + +3. What are the materials needed to make an "atom bomb?" + +Uranium-238 and plutonium-239. + +4. Aren't these materials radioactive? + +Highly so. Anybody who attempts to use these materials is endangering +his/her life. + +5. Is it likely that nuclear scientists in the 40's would be +handling uranium and plutonium? + +This would be highly unlikely. Very few people felt so threatened +by the Japanese to be willing to risk their lives on a theoretical +chance of a superbomb that could end a far-away war a little sooner. + +6. Aren't there witnesses to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima? + +The only "witnesses" that could possibly survived this supposed +explosion would have been blinded by the intense flash of light, +so their testimony is quite unreliable and contradictory. + +7. According to conventional historians, was the uranium bomb tested +before supposedly being dropped over Hiroshima? + +No. There was no testing whatsoever of a uranium bomb in Alamogordo +or anywhere else before Hiroshima. + +8. Isn't that strange? + +Yes. Typical weapons are tested for months and years before deployment; +there is no other weapon that according to the accepted "facts" deployed +before any testing whatsoever. + +9. How many witnesses are there for all of the atomic tests allegedly +occuring during the fifties and sixties? + +Very few, perhaps a few hundred, who claimed to have seen them. + +10. What did the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy +Commission say in their report of October 30, 1949? + +They recommended strongly against the development of what they +called the "Super Bomb," which is simply a thermonuclear +bomb. They said that "A super bomb might become a weapon of +genocide." + +11. Isn't this four years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki? + +Yes. Obviously development of nuclear weapons occurred well +after their supposed implementation in 1945. + +12. Is radioactivity dangerous? + +Everything is radioactive to some extent. + +13. What was the triggering method of the bomb that supposedly +was dropped on Hiroshima? + +According to the standard historical accounts, it used a gun-assembly trigger. + +14. Wasn't the gun-assembly method of triggering abandoned +in the design stage? + +Yes; according to these same sources the gun method would not +work with uranium-derived plutonium-239 because some of the +plutonium-239 absorbs a neutron to become plutonium-240, which +undergoes spontaneous fission, all before supercriticality, +causing a premature and very small explosion that is unusable +for the very purpose that it was supposedly designed for! + +15. How do conventional historians rectify these two "facts?" + +They don't even attempt to. + +16. How many books have been written about the atomic bomb? + +Many hundreds, as well as thousands of articles in magazines +and newspapers. + +17. Why was Hiroshima "targeted," and not Tokyo? + +Perhaps because no one had heard of Hiroshima, and no one knew anyone +from there. It would be far more difficult to claim that Tokyo was bombed +than Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In fact, most world maps from before "World +War Two" do not even mention these cities at all. + +18. How does Japan benefit from the "atom bomb" story? + +As a direct result of the "war," Japan has received billions of dollars +worth of US aid for its defense. Japan has essentially no defense +budget, so it can pour resources through MITI into defeating the US +economically, all while playing on the emotions of anti-"nuke" activists +about the "horrors" of nuclear weapons. + +19. Wow, I never thought of that. How else do the Japanese +benefit from this story? + +The Japanese now own major Hollywood studios, from which many war +movies are produced. Also, they play upon our sympathy for the +supposed "atom bomb" to blind us to the fact that this foreign +nation had taken over our semiconductor industry, many California +banks and practically the entire state of Hawaii. + +This is all a part of the Japanese plot to take over the world. +According to the "Protocols of the Elders of the Orient," this +is a Japanese conspiracy all foretold by their ancient texts +that very few Anglo-Saxons have the ability to read. + +19. How many people are supposed to have died in the explosions? + +It is hard to say. Some sources say 60000 in Hiroshima, others say +140000. No attempt has been made to rectify the various numbers. + +20. How many people die annually from car accidents in the US? + +Over 50000. + +21. So, what makes Hiroshima so special? + +Nothing, especially given the contradictory evidence about it. + +22. Boy, I'm mad. What should I do about this? + +Glad you asked. First, send me lots of money so we can spread this +message far and wide. Maybe we'll take out ads in college newspapers +or something. + +Second, direct your anger at the Japanese. We are the victims, and +they are the aggressors. Make yourself feel important again by bashing +Japan at every opportunity. Japanese people are inherently evil, and +basically subhuman. They were never bombed, and if they would have been +they would have deserved it. Who do they think they are, anyway? + +Yes, we Revisionists have all the answers. Life is a lot simpler than +you thought it was. Join us, and you won't have to be bothered anymore +by any feelings of guilt for your inherent hatred. We can justify it! +Oh, it's not the Japanese you hate, but the crippled? Hey - so do we! +It's easy: we don't like feeling uncomfortable around people in wheelchairs, +either! Who do they think they are, taking all the good parking spaces +when they were stupid enough to slip on a banana peel? IT'S A +CONSPIRACY! --See how easy it is to start? Now, just mix in a few +real facts, and start converting all of the otherwise messed-up +people to OUR CAUSE! + +23. Wow! You mean that I could write stuff like this, too? + +Sure! It's embarrasingly easy to write what we wrote above. In fact, +it's even superior to the usual anti-Semitic revisionist garbage, +because it has a higher percentage of REAL FACTS! Most of the +apparent "contradictions" above come from the facts that Nagasaki +was bombed by a plutonium bomb, not uranium; and that hydrogen +bombs are thermonuclear, not atomic bombs. Just juggle information +about the different types of bombs and mix them up so they seem to +be contradicting each other. It doesn't take ANY INTELLIGENCE +WHATSOEVER, and you can get lots of free air time on "48 Hours"! + +Oh, I forgot to mention: I have a Japanese girlfriend who agrees +with EVERY WORD I've written above. Here she is: + +"Yes, I am his Japanese girlfriend. I love him very much, and I've +always been troubled by my Japanese friends claiming to know people +who died in Hiroshima." + +There you have it! Just throw some unverifiable opinions on top +of ridiculous proofs to STRENGTHEN YOUR CASE! + +24. Couldn't I be arrested for this? + +No! This country is founded on FREE SPEECH! But, just make sure +that you mention how much you are being persecuted for saying +your version of history. (More than three email messages a day +qualify for being called harrassment. Five may merit a lawsuit.) + +25. Where can I get more information? + +Go to a library. Take a book at random. Skim it. Then, decide how +that book is either for you or against you. If it is for you, quote +liberally and out of context. If against you, do the same. + +DON"T LET YOURSELF GET CONFUSED BY THE FACTS! We certainly don't! + +------------------------------------------------------------------ +Alan LustigerINTERNET:lustiger@att.com UUCP:att!pruxp!alu +ATTMAIL:!alustiger CIS:72657366 + +-- +Selected by Maddi Hausmann. MAIL your joke (jokes ONLY) to funny@clarinet.com.

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SOLDIER OF FORTUNE DIES MYSTERIOUSLY AFTER +TALKING TO CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATORS

+ +

by Vince Bielski and Dennis Bernstein

+ +

A county coroner in Los Angeles has yet to announce the +cause of death of Steven Carr, a 27-year-old U.S. mercenary who +has provided Congress with much of what it knows about weapons +shipments to the contras. Had Carr lived, he was also expected to +testified in federal court against 29 contra supporters allegedly +involved in cocaine trafficking, an assassination attempt on +former contra leader Eden Pastora and a scheme to kill U.S +Ambassador to Costa Rica Lewis Tambs.

+ +

While Detective Mel Arnold of the Los Angeles Police +Department said the department is investigating the possibility +that Carr was murdered, at this point he said there doesn't +appear to be any evidence of "foul play." But in the days before +his death, Carr told several people that he feared he would be +assassinated. He was "very paranoid and frightened" because of +his role as a witness, Carr's sister Ann of Naples, Fla., said.

+ +

Here is what the police are saying about Carr's death. He +died at 4 am on December 13 in a parking lot near his friend's +apartment in Van Nuys, Calif., where he was staying. In the +predawn hours on this Saturday morning, while his friend, +Jacqueline Scott, was asleep, Carr left the apartment for an +unknown reason. After spending an undetermined amount of time +outside, Carr began making noise which awoke Scott. Arnold said +he could not describe the type of noise Carr was making. Scott +found Carr in the parking lot, who was "distressed and having +coordination problems." Soon after he died from a "probable +cocaine overdose." Asked if the police found any physical +evidence of cocaine use in the area of the apartment or parking +lot, Arnold said "no comment."

+ +

Dan Sheehan, an attorney with the Christic Institute in +Washington which filed the law suit against the 29 contra +supporter, said Carr used cocaine, but called him "an educated +user." Martha Honey, a reporter for the BBC, became friends with +Carr while he was a mercenary in Costa Rica. She said Carr was +not the type of person who would kill himself because he was +under pressure. "Stevie was a survivor. He had this ability to get +himself in trouble but he always seemed to bounce back. He had a +great sense of humor."

+ +

The source of his fears were not just the contra +supporters whose alleged crimes he revealed, but also the U.S. +government. Carr said that while he was in Costa Rica, U.S. +embassy officials threatened to jail him if he squealed on their +contra operation in Costa Rica.

+ +

In April 1985 Carr was arrested by Costa Rican authorities +for violating the country's neutrality and sent to prison. Carr +was one of several mercenaries based in northern Costa Rica on +land owned and managed by a U.S. citizen and reported CIA +operative named John Hull. Evidence from several sources suggests +that the contras operate what amounts to a military base on +property controlled by Hull as well as an airbase for the +movement of cocaine from Columbia into the United States.

+ +

While in jail, Carr spilled the beans about the contra +operation. To reporters, he claimed that Hull had told him that +Hull was the CIA liaison to the contras and was receiving $10000 a +month from the National Security Council to help finance the +operation. Carr told Honey why he was revealing such secrets: +"Carr said that the mercenaries had been led to believe that +their mercenary activity was sanctioned by top U.S. military and +Costa Rican officials. He was extremely bitter at having been +arrested."

+ +

Honey compiled information from Carr and other sources into +a book focusing on the role of Hull and other contra supporters in +the May 1984 assassination attempt against Pastora in Nicaragua +in which a bomb explosion killed eight people and injured +Pastora. Hull sued Honey, and her colleague Tony Avirgan, for +libel in May 1986. Carr received a subpoena to appear at the +trial, where he was to be a key witness for the reporters' +defense.

+ +

On May 16, Carr was released from jail. He later described +the events which took place in his life over the course of the +next week to Honey and an U.S. congressional aide involved in an +investigation of the arms supply network to the contras.

+ +

Carr said that Hull bailed him out of jail as a way of +persuading him to testify on Hull's behalf. Hull requested that +Carr testify that the reporters forced him to make the charges +against Hull, Carr said.

+ +

That same day, Carr said he went to the U.S. embassy to +determine why he was arrested for participating in a war that the +U.S. supports. He said he met with two officials, Kirk Kotula, +the counsel general and John Jones, the acting chief of the +consulute.

+ +

According to Honey's notes of her conversation with Carr +about his meeting with the officials, Carr said: "The officials +told me they knew all about Hull's contra operation and they had +me call him. He picked up the phone instantly, as if he had been +waiting for my call.

+ +

"They said if I go to court and testify in your behalf I'll +go to jail whether I tell the truth or not. I had no choice in +the matter. The embassy told me to get the hell out of Dodge or +I'd go back to La Reforma prison. They told me that the bus to +Panama leaves at 7:30 pm and to be on it," he said.

+ +

Carr spent the next three days staying at Honey's house. On +night of May 19, Carr left the house to visit a friend, and the +following day, the U.S. embassy told the court that Carr was in +their custody and that he would appear at the trial, Honey said. +However, Carr said on May 20, following U.S. embassy orders, he +took a bus to Panama, and with the help to the U.S. embassy +there, flew to Miami a few days later. Upon his return, Carr was +put in jail in Naples, Fla., for a prior offense.

+ +

Kotula said he had talked with Carr, but denied the he had +threatened him or forced him to leave Costa Rica. "That's not +true, at least by me. I did not threaten him with any such thing. +I couldn't do that, what would be the possible motive. I can't +put people in jail and I can't get people out of jail.

+ +

"I tried to convince Steve Carr when I first met him not to +go and join up with some bunch of guys. He was nothing but a +overgrown child who had read too many John Wayne comic books."

+ +

Jonathan Winer, an aide to Sen. John Kerry D-Mass., said +the Senator's office is investigating the matter. "There are +obviously some very serious questions regarding the U.S. +embassy's role in Steven Carr leaving Costa Rica," he said.

+ +

After Carr's return to the U.S., congressional investigators +said they had planned on bringing him before Congress. His +testimony, based on his participation on a March 6, 1985 arms +shipment from Fort Lauderdale to Ilogango Air Base in El +Salvador, would have linked Felix Rodriguez--the ex-CIA agent who +reportedly met with Donald Gregg, aide to Vice President George +Bush--to that weapons shipment, Sheehan said.

+ +

"He is the guy that can prove that the March 6 +shipment of weapons that flew out of the Fort Lauderdale Airport +went to Ilopango airport," said Sheehan. "He witnessed and can +identify Felix Rodriguez as the guy who off loaded the weapons to +smaller planes which were then flown to Hull's ranch in Costa +Rica."

+ +

In early 1986, Carr and two other eye-witnesses told federal +authorities that several major players in the arms supply network +were involved in the shipment, including Tom Posey, head of the +mercenary group Civilian Materiel Assistance, Robert Owen, +reportedly a liaison to fired Lt. Col. Oliver North, and Hull, +Sheehan said.

+ +

With no criminal indictment by October, Sheehan alleged +before a congressional committee that the Justice Department had +engaged in a "willfull conspiracy...to obstruct justice....A +number of telephone calls were then placed to Mr. Kellner (the +U.S. Attorney in Miami) personally by Edwin Meese...instructing +Mr. Kellner 'to proceed very, very, very slowly' in any +investigation of this case." Kellner has said he +has talked with Meese about the case, but denied Sheehan's +allegation.

+ +

A grand jury has recently formed in Miami to reportedly hear +evidence about the March 6 weapons shipment. But the one person +who could have provided the grand jury with an eye-witness +account that the weapons were transported from U.S. soil to El +Salvador--evidence which is essential in making a case that the +U.S. Neutrality Act and the Arms Export Control Act were +violated--is now dead.

+ +

"A great deal of the information Carr provided did check +out. It will now be harder for anyone to bring a prosecution with +Steven's testimony now unavailable, and I think that is very +unfortunate," Winer said. +----------------------------------------------------------------- + +e, and I think that is very +unfortunate,"

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SECRET TEAM OF WEAPONS DEALERS +by Vince Bielski

+ +

A "secret team" of former CIA and military officials and +arms dealers are responsible for the covert weapons shipments to +Iran and the contras under the direction of fired White House +aide Lt. Col. Oliver North.

+ +

Members of the "secret team" came together in the secret war +against Cuba in 1961, and have since been involved in "political +assassination" programs in Laos, Vietnam, Chile and now +Nicaragua.

+ +

The "secret team," through an association with known Mafia +leaders, has resorted to opium and cocaine trafficking to +finance their operations.

+ +

Edwin Wilson, the ex-CIA operative convicted for selling +explosives to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, was an active member.

+ +

These allegations are part of a lengthy affidavit filed this +week in a Miami federal court in support of a law suit brought +by Dan Sheehan, an attorney with the Christic Institute in +Washington. The suit names 29 alledged operatives in the contras +arms network as defendants.

+ +

The suit alleges that the defendants supplied the C-4 +explosives which were used in the May 1984 assassination attempt +against contra leader Eden Pastora in Nicaragua in which eight +people were killed and Pastora injured. The plaintiffs, Martha +Honey and Tony Avirgan, are American journalists who are sueing +for personal injuries they suffered from the bombing.

+ +

The Christic Institute, a church funded public interest law +firm, has taken on controversial cases in the past, such as the +suit against Kerr McGree Nuclear Corporation on behalf of Karen +Silkwood. And it was while Sheehan was defending a sanctuary +worker that he received information which led him +into the investigation of the contra arms supply opertation.

+ +

In March 1984, he learned from a member of the Federal +Emergency Management Agency that FEMA had a highly secret plan to +"deputize" government and State National Guard personnel for the +purpose of interning 400000 undocumented Central +Americans in detention centers in the event that President Reagan +launched "Operation Night-train"--a military invasion into +Central America.

+ +

The plan also called for the distribution from U.S. military +bases of hundreds of tons of weapons to be used by newly created +State Defense Forces, composed of civilians, who would help +enforce the "State of Domestic National Emergency" during the +invasion. Sheehan learned from a Louisiana State National Guard +Colonel that a State Defense Force in Louisiana planned to give +half of the weapons it received to the contras.

+ +

In Miami, former U.S. military personnel and active National +Guard units had organized a para-military organization, called +Civilian Military Assistance, to arm, train and fight with the +contras. The group, headed by Tom Posey, obtained "surplus" +military equipment from the 20th Special Forces Unit of the U.S. +Army in Alabama, Sheehan learned from a member of the group.

+ +

In June 1984, Sheehan was informed a man who +working with the para-military organization in helping arm the +contras also claimed to be a "personal representative to the +Contras of...Lt. Col. Oliver North." His name is Robert Owen.

+ +

One year later, Sheehan began putting this information into +a law suit when he learned that Posey, Owen and others +were allegedly involved in the bombing of the Pastora press +conference which caused physical and personal injury to the two +American reporters.

+ +

Sheehans investigation also led him to the discovery of a +"secret team" of former high ranking U.S. officials and officers +who oversaw the procurement and shipment of weapons to the +contras to to Iran. Through Posey, Owen and other they allegedly +supplied the explosives for the press conference bombing. The +"secret team" includes former high-ranking CIA officials Theodore +Shackley and Thomas Clines, ret. Air Force Gen. Richard Secord, +ex-CIA operative Edwin Wilson, and two arms dealers, Albert Hakim +(of Los Gatos) and Rafael Quintero, both of whom are U.S. +citizens.

+ +

In the affidavit, which cites 79 seperate sources, Sheehan +said he learned of the "secret team" from a former U.S. +intelligence officer who worked in Iran, a retired CIA officer, +and a former Air Force officer.

+ +

The intelligence officer discussed "the existence of a +'secret team' of former high-ranking American CIA officials, +former high-ranking U.S. military officials and Middle Eastern +arms merchants--who also specialized in the performance of covert +political assassinations of communists...(and) which carried on +its own, independent, American foreign policy--regardless of the +will of Congress,...the President,...or the (CIA)," the affidavit +reads.

+ +

The source said the "secret team" was set up in +1977 under the supervision of Shackley and Cline, who were then +with the CIA. Wilson worked with Gadhafi "to secretly train +Libyan anti-Shah of Iran terrorists in the use of deadly C-4 +explosives," the affidavit reads. Wilson's real purpose was to +gather intelligence on the anti-Shah terrorist missions, and then +pass the information to Quintero, "who was responsible for the +assassination of these Libyan terrorists,"

+ +

Wilson was convicted for his dealings with Gadhafi, and +Shackley and Clines resigned under pressure from then-CIA +director Stansfield Turner. Shackley and Clines then join with +Secord and Hakim and "went private" continuing to run their +"secret team," the affidavit reads.

+ +

This group--initially through the Egyptian-American +Transport and Service Company--was "responsible for the entire +supply of weapons...to the Contras," when the CIA wasn't directly +providing them. They began arming the contras in August 1979, +after entering "into a formal contractual agreement with +Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza" despite President Carter's +order banning the sending of weapons to Somoza, the affidavit +reads.

+ +

The CIA took over in 1981, but when the 1984 ban on U.S. +support went into effect, North reactivated the private +merchants. Quintero, operating through a Florida based +corporation named Orca Supply Company--a company earlier set up +by Edwin Wilson--saw to it that the supplies were delivered to +the contras through John Hull, a U.S. citizen, who reportedly +operates a contra base in northern Costa Rica on land he owns. +Among the delivered weapons were the explosives used in the +Pastor bombing, the CIA source said.

+ +

To fund the contras, the "secret team" resorted to the +foreign military sales scheme used in Iran in which military +equipment is bought from the U.S. government at the +manufacturer's cost and sold to Iran at replacement cost. The +profits are then laundered through front companies.

+ +

The Examiner reported in July that Secord, partners with +Hakim in Standford Technology Trading Group International, was +involved in the 1981 sale of AWACS to Saudi Arabia, in which +money from that sale financed the contra operation.

+ +

In another report, the Examiner said the weapons were also +financed by an elaborate cocaine ring involing Columbia's largest +cocaine dealers in which the drug moves from Columbia, +through Hull's land, into the U.S at a level of one ton each +week.

+ +

When the Reagan Administration decided to undertake the +secret sales of arms to Iran in 1985, it was Shackley, Clines, +Hakim and Secord whom they used to carry out the mission, the +affidavit reads.

+ +

BACKGROUND

+ +

In 1961, Shackley, a CIA station chief in Miami, and his +deputy Clines, directed the covert war against Cuba. A special +unit formed to assassinate Castro, supervised by the "Mafia +Lieutenant Santo Trafficante," included Quintero--and Felix +Rodreguez and Luis Pasada Carillo--two ex-CIA agent who +reportedly operate the contras arms network at an El Salvador air +base. Pasada was involved in the 1976 mid-air bombing +of a Cuban passenger airliner.

+ +

After the covert war activists were caught smuggling narcotics +into the U.S. from Cuba, the operation was shut down, and Shackley +and Clines were transfered to Laos, where Shackley was made CIA +Deputy Chief of Station and Clines continued as his deputy.

+ +

According to the affidavit, Shackley and Clines directed a +secret program which trained and used Meo tribesmen "to +secretly assassinated over 100000 non-combatant village mayors, +book-keepers, clerks and other civilian bureaucrats in Laos, +Cambodia and Thailand." The operation was funded by profits from +an illegal opium trade.

+ +

A commander the political assassination program was ret. +Army General John Singlaub, who has said publicly that he is +helping arm the contras. North, a Marine Corps Major at the time, +was one of Singlaub's deputies. Also involved with Shackley in +Laos was Secord, then an Air Force General, the affidavit +reads.

+ +

In 1971, Shackley and Clines, from their post the CIA's +Western Hemisphere operations, directed the "Track II" operation +in Chile which played a role in the assassination of Chilean +President Salvador Allende, the affidavit reads.

+ +

In 1974, the two directed the Phoenix project in Vietnam, +which carried out the political assassination of some 60000 non-Viet Cong civilians in an attempt to cripple Vietnam's political +institutions.

+ +

"With their secret CIA anti-communist extermination program +coming to a end,...(they) started their own private assassination +business..."

+ +
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RACISM, CONTROL, AND ROCK AND ROLL

+ +

By JACOB G. HORNBERGER

+ +

Civil rights laws are among the most repugnant forms of +political control in American society. Not only are they a +severe violation of the principles of freedom, they also have +totally failed to achieve their purported end -- the +elimination of racism in America.

+ +

Few intelligent people will deny that racial prejudice is +itself morally abhorrent. And being half-Mexican, I know from +personal experience that it is not pleasant to be at the +receiving end of prejudice against Hispanics (or half-breeds!). But does the wrongful nature of racism mean that +such social conduct should be turned over to the coercive +power of government? NO!

+ +

First, how can an individual be considered free if government +officials have the power to coerce him, through fine or +imprisonment, to associate with people with whom he does not +desire to associate? It is the essence of individual liberty +to be able to choose one's friends and associates without +interference from the political authorities.

+ +

Moreover, the bedrock of freedom is private ownership of +property. How can a person be considered free if he can be +coerced, through fine or imprisonment, into selling what +supposedly belongs to him to a person to whom he would rather +not sell? It is the essence of private ownership of property +that a person have the right to do whatever he wants with his +own property, as long as it is peaceful.

+ +

Racial prejudice, of course, has long existed in American +society. No where was this better exemplified in this century +than in the segregation laws which American politicians and +bureaucrats enforced in the 1950s. Did segregation laws +guarantee the freedom and private property rights of +individuals? On the contrary! These equally offensive forms of +political control constituted the denial of individual freedom +and private property. Why? Because they prohibited blacks and +whites, through fine or imprisonment, from voluntarily +associating with each other in many social and business +contexts.

+ +

The crucial question is: Why did the politicians and +bureaucrats believe that segregation laws were necessary? Why +didn't they simply leave people free to discriminate or not on +a purely private basis? Why did they force them to +discriminate with segregation laws? Because they knew that the +market process would impose tremendous financial costs on +racists and ultimately break down racial barriers in America.

+ +

Are there any examples of where the market, rather than the +government, has accomplished this end? Yes! One of the best +examples involves one of the most controversial activities in +20th century America: rock and roll.

+ +

The story of rock and roll has been told in many books, among +which are You Say You Want a Revolution by Robert G. Pielke +and The Story of Rock by Carl Belz. From the very beginning, +it was the music of the young, and was hated and reviled by +the old. Why? Not simply because the music itself was +distasteful to adults. The animosity against rock and roll +went much deeper than that. Rock and roll shook the +foundations of values and beliefs held dear by grown-ups in +the 1950s.

+ +

One of the most important social teachings during that time +was that blacks were inferior to whites and, therefore, that +it was unacceptable for whites to associate with blacks. The +best example of this was found in government schools. With +segregation, and the battle against integration, in government +schools, American teenagers were taught by their parents and +government officials that it was socially detestable for +whites to be with blacks.

+ +

Along came rock and roll and turned that teaching upside down. +While rock and roll had its roots in various strands of +American music, i.e., country/western and gospel, its biggest +foundation was rhythm and blues or "race music" as it was +known in the 1950s. While whites were enjoying the sweet, +innocent sounds of the Big Bands, rhythm and blues, with its +especially strong sexual overtones, predominated among blacks.

+ +

It was natural for white parents to expect their children to +pursue their same musical interests. But it was not to be. +When Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" was played in the +1955 movie, The Blackboard Jungle, a story of student protest +in a government school, rock and roll became the music of +choice for American teenagers.

+ +

While parents were resisting their children's growing +love for rock and roll, teenagers were listening to it on the +radio late at night (after their parents had gone to bed). +Many well-established radio stations refused to play the new +music, but teenagers would carefully search the radio band for +the few that did. (My favorite was an Oklahoma City station +more than 500 miles from my home.)

+ +

And along came Sam Phillips, the entrepreneur par excellence, +who shook the world by looking for a white man who sang like a +black man. One day the invisible hand of the market brought +into his studio the man who would become the King of Rock and +Roll, Elvis Presley. Elvis was hated and condemned by grown-ups. But teenagers didn't care, and Elvis became the social +phenomenon of the century. (While on our way to a national +student council convention when I was in the 9th grade, a few +of us discovered that Elvis was staying in our motel. I +knocked on his door and asked if Elvis would come out to +visit. At about midnight, Elvis Presley came down to the pool +and spent some time visiting with a few of us. It did not take +long to see that he was a great person and that what grown-ups +were saying about him was untrue.)

+ +

The white racists were furious over the trend toward rock and +roll. But not just because teenagers were rejecting their +social teaching. Well-established financial interests were +getting hurt by the market process. Radio stations which +played only the "correct" music were losing market share and, +therefore, advertising revenue.

+ +

There was also a tremendous upheaval in the record business. +Small independent record companies called "indies" were +experiencing phenomenal growth rates by producing rock and +roll records. And the well-established record companies which +concentrated on the traditional music were losing a major +share of the market.

+ +

Rock and roll was providing a vehicle by which blacks could +out-compete whites and accumulate wealth. There were numerous +success stories; among the best known was Berry Gordy, Jr., +and his Motown Records, who produced such rock and roll greats +as The Supremes, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson and the +Miracles, and The Temptations. Blacks were getting wealthy, +and white racists were infuriated.

+ +

The market process was also bringing whites and blacks closer +together in other ways. Buddy Holly, who created some of the +most beautiful music ever written, shocked the black audience +at the Apollo Theater in New York City. (No white act had ever +played the Apollo!) And they loved him! White teenagers were +flocking to see Chuck Berry sing "Roll Over Beethoven," +"Maybellene," and "Sweet Little Sixteen." And, horror of +horrors, white and black musicians were even travelling +together!

+ +

The world of racial separation for which adults longed in the +1950s was disintegrating among their children. And it was +occurring not as a result of government coercion but in spite +of it.

+ +

The response of the political authorities was not amusing. In +some cases, rock concerts were banned by ordinance. Musicians +were arrested on questionable charges. But the most tragic +abuse of political power came from the United States +government which, with its payola investigation, did +everything it could to destroy rock and roll.

+ +

Payola was a practice in which record companies would pay disc +jockies to promote their records. Payola was well-known and +well-established in the music business and had been going on +long before the advent of radio. But U.S. Congressmen had not +objected when musicians in the Big Band era were paid to play +a composer's music. It was only when rock and roll became +popular among the youth of America that the politicians' wrath +came in the form of a Congressional investigation of an +activity that was harming no one.

+ +

While the political investigation cast a wide net over rock +and roll, its ultimate brunt was felt by Alan Freed, a disc +jockey who was the first to coin the term "rock and roll." +Freed was one of the earliest and most successful promoters of +rock and roll, is generally recognized as the "Father of Rock +and Roll," and appeared in the rock and roll movie, Rock +Around the Clock. But all that ended with the Congressional +attempt to destroy rock and roll. In one of the ugliest abuses +of political power in American history, U.S. Congressmen +brutalized and butchered Alan Freed. He died a broken man in +1965 at the age of 43.

+ +

But the politicians and the racists, despite their fervent +hopes and valiant efforts, have never been able to destroy +rock and roll and its wonderful influence on American culture.

+ +

Reliance on the market, rather than government, to break down +racial barriers ensures that the costs of racial prejudice are +self-imposed rather than externally imposed. If the racist +radio station owner, for example, chooses not to play the +music of blacks, he foregoes the advertising revenue which +could be used to improve the lot of his family. He bears the +cost which his racial prejudice has induced him to impose upon +himself!

+ +

The market process also enables racists to vent their +prejudices by engaging in discrimination. Denying them this +opportunity does not eliminate the racism under which they +suffer; instead, it compresses it in a "pressure cooker" which +ultimately is bound to explode.

+ +

Rock and roll has been one of the most revolutionary cultural +phenomena in American history. It has produced some of the +world's most beautiful music. Of course, not all of its music +has been popular but that is the essence of a free society -- +the legal protection of those peaceful activities which the +majority dislike.

+ +

But rock and roll did more than just contribute to the musical +heritage of the world. It also sent deep and profound quakes +through some of the most wrongful beliefs of American adults. +The social upheaval began with challenges to racial prejudice +but it did not end there. A few years later, appeared an +individual named Boy Dylan, one of the world's greatest poets +and ironically a product of America's government schools. +Through the message of his music, Dylan pierced the conscience +of a generation during the most controversial war in American +history.

+ +

Mr. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of +Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +From the October 1990 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1990, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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Subject: Corporate buyout of the Democratic Party

+ +

****************************** +>From the SF Examiner, Monday July 20, 1992. +Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon (Jeff Cohen is founder +of FAIR, a media watchdog group; Norman Solomon is +a media critic.)

+ +

The Takeover of the Democratic Party

+ +

Thousands of journalists covered the Democratic National +Convention here. Almost all of them missed the biggest +story. +The story wasn't missed because it happened in the shadows +of in some smoke-filled back room. It was bypassed because of +ideological binders worn by so many in the conformist press. +The big story was the takeover of the Democratic Party by +big business. +Of course, the Democratic Party has always included hefty +doses of corporate interests. But in past years, they were +one of many competing forces in the party, along with +representatives of labor, minorities, senior citizens, women +and others. +The significance of this convention is that corporate America +has taken undisputed control - at least for now - of both major +political parties, not just the GOP. +How did so many in the political press corps miss the story? +Most establishment journalists seem blind to the fact that +corporations are thoroughly political institutions, seeking +ever-increasing influence over parties, legislation and government +regulation. (These businesses are, after all, the folks who +underwrite the news with their advertising.) +In political reporting, corporations are treated as benign, neutral, +invisible. Their political maneuvers are generally not news.

+ +

It's not that journalists are oblivious to political wheeling and +dealing by various groups. In the days before the convention, +political reporters scrutinized teachers unions, black activists, +senior-citizen groups, feminists, gay-rights advocates - denigrating +them as "special interests'' who could ruin "Clinton's convention'' +by "alienating middle-class voters.'' +With so much media focus on these relatively powerless grass-roots +groups, powerful corporations - the country's REAL special +interests - ran off with the party.

+ +

ITEM: Two days before the convention, a "Victory Train'' carried +congressional Democrats from Washington to New York. Accompanying +the party elite on the train ride were corporate lobbyists who +paid $10000 to $25000 for the right to mingle and shmooze. +The Democratic National Committee has been raking in money from +virtually every corporate interest needing a government +favor. The message to anti-poverty or consumer-rights activists: +No need for you to come on board. You can wait at the station.

+ +

ITEM: The Clinton-Gore ticket represents the seizure of the +party hierarchy by the Democratic Leadership Council, which +is typically euphemized in the media as a group of +"moderate'' Democratic politicians who want the party to +"speak for the middle class.'' (Clinton and Gore were +founders of the DLC; Clinton was its chair in 1990-91.) +The problem is that the DLC has no middle-class constituents. +It is bankrolled by - and speaks for - corporate America: +ARCO, Dow Chemical, Georgia Pacific, Martin Marietta, the +Tobacco Institute, the Petroleum Institute, etc.

+ +

ITEM: Clinton became the media-designated "front-runner'' in +large part because he raised so much money early in the +campaign. The cash didn't come from middle-class folks. +As reported by the weekly In These Times, most of it +came from conservative business interests; investment +bankers, corporate lobbyists and Wall Street firms which +fund both major political parties.

+ +

ITEM: Two of Clinton's key fund-raisers were Robert Barry, +a longtime General Electric lobbyist, and Thomas H. Boggs +Jr., who ears $1.5 million a year as a lawyer-lobbyist +for the Washington firm of Patton, Boggs, and Blow. +Boggs' parents were members of Congress; his sister is +media pundit Cokie Roberts. His law firm boasts a computer +program that matches corporate donors with Congress members +who seek his help in raising money; a match depends on what +legislation is pending before Congress.

+ +

ITEM: The Boggs law firm also boasts partner Ron Brown, +chair of the Democratic Party. Some pundits have suggested +that since Brown in an African-American, the Clinton-Gore +ticket has less need of Jesse Jackson to mobilize the +black vote in November. But Ron Brown is far more familiar +with corporate boardrooms and government corridors than +grass-roots organizing. His clients have included an +array of U.S. and foreign business interests, as well as +the regime of Haitian dictator Jean Claude Duvalier.

+ +

When Jerry Brown spent his campaign denouncing +"Washington sleaze,'' he was referring to these kinds of +cozy corporate-government relations. +But mainstream media have demonstrated far less animus +toward corporate influence than toward Jerry Brown, who +was routinely described by journalists covering the +convention as "disruptive,'' "egotistical'' and a +"party pooper.'' +Aided by this media slant, corporate insiders are +laughing all the way to the bank.

+ +
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+ +

This is the real problem with our "democracy" - the voters have +very little influence over the choices. Those decisions have +already been made for us. We should feel glad about it, now +we don't have to make the difficult decisions...

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Subject: Conspiracy for the Day -- November 3, 1993 +From: bfrg9732@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian F. Redman) +Date: 3 Nov 1993 00:02:07 GMT

+ +

Conspiracy for the Day -- November 3, 1993 +============================================= +("Quid coniuratio est?")

+ +
-!---------------------------------------------------------------
+ +

The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate": +The CIA and Mind Control +by John Marks +[Excerpts]

+ +

By the 1950s, most "Americans knew something about the famous +trial of the Hungarian Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, at which the +Cardinal appeared zombielike, as though drugged or hypnotized. +Other defendants at Soviet 'show trials' had displayed similar +symptoms as they recited unbelievable confessions in dull, +cliche-ridden monotones. Americans were familiar with the idea +that the communists had ways to control hapless people, and [the +term 'brainwashing'] helped pull together the unsettling evidence +into one sharp fear."

+ +

Many Americans "saw the confessions as proof that the communists +now had techniques 'to put a man's mind in a fog so that he will +mistake what is true for what is untrue, what is right for what +is wrong, and come to believe what did not happen actually had +happened, until he ultimately becomes a robot.'"

+ +

"Given the incontrovertible evidence that the Russians and the +Chinese could, in a very short time and often under difficult +circumstances, alter the basic belief and behavior patterns of +both domestic and foreign captives, [it was argued that] there +must be a technique involved that would yield its secrets under +objective investigation."

+ +

Harold Wolff and Lawrence Hinkle "became the chief brainwashing +studiers for the U.S. government... Their secret report to [CIA +chief] Allen Dulles, later published in a declassified version, +was considered the definitive U.S. Government work on the +subject."

+ +

"The CIA built up its own elaborate brainwashing program +[which]... took its own special twist from our national +character. It was a tiny replica of the Manhattan Project, +grounded in the conviction that the keys to brainwashing lay in +technology. Agency officials hoped to use old-fashioned American +know-how to produce shortcuts and scientific breakthroughs... The +Agency's brainwashing experts gravitated to people more in the +mold of the brilliant -- and sometimes mad -- scientist."

+ +

CIA officials began to look for scientists and guinea pigs. "Some +of their experiments would wander so far across the ethical +borders of experimental psychiatry (which are hazy in their own +right) that Agency officials thought it prudent to have much of +the work done outside the United States."

+ +

Montreal hospital. One of Cameron's projects was an attempt to +"depattern" experimental subjects. "Cameron defined +'depatterning' as breaking up existing patterns of behavior... by +means of particularly intensive electroshocks, usually combined +with prolonged, drug-induced sleep... Cameron claimed he could +generate 'differential amnesia.' Creating such a state in which a +man who knew too much could be made to forget had long been a +prime objective [of CIA] programs."

+ +

Cameron's depatterning "normally started with 15 to 30 days of +'sleep therapy.' As the name implies, the patient slept almost +the whole day and night. According to a doctor at the hospital +who used to administer what he calls the 'sleep cocktail,' a +staff member woke up the patient three times a day for medication +that consisted of a combination of 100 mg. Thorazine, 100 mg. +Nembutal, 100 mg. Seconal, 150 mg. Veronal, and 10 mg. Phenergan. +Another staff doctor would also awaken the patient two or +sometimes three times daily for electroshock treatments... In +standard, professional electroshock, doctors gave the subject a +single dose of 110 volts, lasting a fraction of a second, once a +day or every other day. By contrast, Cameron used a form 20 to 40 +times more intense, two or three times daily, with the power +turned up to 150 volts."

+ +

"The frequent screams of patients that echoed through the +hospital did not deter Cameron or most of his associates in their +attempts to 'depattern' their subjects completely. Other hospital +patients report being petrified by the 'sleep rooms,' where the +treatment took place, and they would usually creep down the +opposite side of the hall."

+ +

"The Agency sent the psychiatrist research money to take the +treatment *beyond this point*. Agency officials wanted to know +if, once Cameron had produced a blank mind, he could then program +in new patterns of behavior, as he claimed he could. As early as +1953 -- the year he headed the American Psychiatric Association +-- Cameron conceived a technique he called 'psychic driving,' by +which he would bombard the subject with repeated verbal +messages."

+ +

The CIA continued to fund Cameron's research. Then, in 1964, he +retired abruptly. "His successor, Dr. Robert Cleghorn, made a +virtually unprecedented move in the academic world of mutual +back-scratching and praise. He commissioned a psychiatrist and a +psychologist, unconnected to Cameron, to study his electroshock +work."

+ +

"The study-team members couched their report in densely academic +jargon, but one of them speaks more clearly now. He talks +bitterly of one of Cameron's former patients who needs to keep a +list of her simplest household chores to remember how to do +them... He continues, 'I probably shouldn't talk about this, but +Cameron -- for him to do what he did -- he was a very +schizophrenic guy, who totally detached himself from the human +implications of his work... God, we talk about concentration +camps. I don't want to make this comparison, but God, you talk +about ''we didn't know it was happening,'' and it was -- right in +our back yard.'"

+ +

"It cannot be said how many -- if any -- other Agency

+ +

Details are scarce, since many of the principal witnesses have +died, will not talk about what went on, or lie about it. In what +ways the CIA applied work like Cameron's is not known. What is +known, however, is that the intelligence community, including the +CIA, changed the face of the scientific community during the +1950s and early 1960s by its interest in such experiments."

+ +

-!--------------------------------------------------------------- + +Today's conspiracy brought to you by....... +Brian Francis Redman +..................... +: Aperi os tuum muto, : +: et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt. : +: Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, : +: et judica inopem et pauperem. : +: -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9 : +:...................: +(bfrg9732@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) (72567.3145@compuserve.com) +

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THE COWTOWN CONNECTION +by +M. Duke Lane +(CIS ID: 760042356)

+ +

Harold Weisberg once said about his Whitewash works that "there are no +theories in my books... they're factual."[1] The sentiment about factuality +has been echoed by many respectable researchers, who insist that "the Kennedy +case ought to be treated as a homicide, which is what it is." Aren't we +pressing for a final, legal investigation of the JFK murder to view all of +the evidence, new and old, holding it to the constraints of our legal system? +A common refrain, after all, is that the Warren Commission's investigation +and "conviction" of Lee Oswald would never have held up in a true adversarial +judicial proceeding.

+ +

Interestingly, we don't seem to hold ourselves to the same constraints. If +one researcher discovers something, even in error, we are apparently +permitted to cite that person's work, without certification, as established +fact. Many people complain when their own theories are held up to the same +critical light as we hold the official investigations, as if we aren't +beholden to the same burden of proof we assign them.

+ +

There has even been recent argument on both sides of this issue regarding +whether researchers' conclusions ought to be held up to critical peer review +or whether we should be allowed to follow our intuition and reach reasonable +conclusions... which can't be anything more than speculation, by +definition.[2] That we accept such speculation and/or incomplete +investigation as "fact" is exemplified by Robert Morrow's recently published +First Hand Knowledge (FHK),[3] in which he suggests that an apparent CIA +operative was detained in Fort Worth only a couple of hours after Kennedy's +assassination.

+ +

FHK is, by most people's estimation, a reprint of Morrow's earlier Betrayal, +this time, however, naming names and adding new information. One piece of +this "new information" is that an "unidentified suspect" taken into custody +in Fort Worth, 30 miles west of Dallas, was, in fact, David Atlee Phillips, a +former CIA operative who was based in Mexico City while Lee Harvey Oswald was +purportedly visiting Soviet and Cuban embassies in that city, and/or the +"Maurice Bishop" character said to be Cubans refugees' CIA contact for the +Bay of Pigs operation. What, the reader must wonder, was this man--of all +people--doing in that place at that time? This is information with curious +implications indeed!

+ +

As evidence of Phillips' apparent complicity in the murder, Morrow includes a +photo of Phillips beside the House Assassinations Committee's sketch of +"Bishop," which many researchers agree look strikingly similar. The photo is +included with the Phillips and "Bishop" pictures. The man, Morrow asserts, +bears an "uncanny resemblance" to Phillips/Bishop. Even while the angles of +the men's faces are different, making a direct comparison difficult if not +impossible, there does indeed appear to be a resemblance between them.

+ +

What was Phillips/Bishop doing in Fort Worth? The reader is left to wonder, +for Morrow cites Gary Shaw and Larry Ray Harris' Cover-Up[4] to state that no +record of this man's arrest exists and, in fact, the negatives of the +pictures taken of the arrest have disappeared from the files of The Fort +Worth Star-Telegram. Who but the government could manage such an obvious +cover-up, one must wonder. Who indeed?

+ +

Since I live near Fort Worth, I decided to look into this. This article will +take the reader roughly through the steps of my investigation into this +question. In the end, we will find that not only was Morrow "reaching," but +also that previous information was incomplete at best. While I cannot +possibly clear Phillips from any sort of involvement in the Bay of Pigs +episode or the Kennedy hit, it is quite clear that he was NOT the man in the +photo Morrow uses to implicate him. This is perhaps an abject lesson for the +reader not to take everything he reads at face value, no matter what the +credentials of an author may seem to be....

+ +

Let us pause for a moment to consider Morrow's works. Morrow, as we know, +claims to be a former CIA contract agent who supposedly delivered four +Mannlicher-Carcano 7.65mm rifles to David Ferrie for what he later +determined to be the JFK assassination, one of which he says he kept. In both +FHK and Betrayal, he discusses the purchase and delivery of these rifles to +Ferrie, who of course, cannot confirm or deny Morrow's allegation since he is +dead. Nor can Morrow's CIA connection be affirmed or refuted; we have no +choice but to either take the man at his word or not, since it is impossible +to prove one way or the other. That is simply the nature of the beast.

+ +

Likewise, we can either believe or disbelieve his accounts of the various +newly-named people's involvement in the planning, execution and/or cover-up +of the assassination. Certainly, the dust jacket overview and the author's +own preface to his new book paint a reasonably credible picture of the man +who claims to have "first hand knowledge" of the assassination. Knowing, +however, that there is no statute of limitations against prosecution in a +murder, how is it that Morrow can publicly come forward with an admission of +having participated in the most notorious murder of our time? Even aside from +prosecution, surely one must wonder at what repercussions he might suffer at +the hands of those whom he names as his accomplices, including the CIA.

+ +

These questions are handled adroitly enough even before the reader reaches +the book's introduction. "Mr Morrow," the dust jacket states, "has now come +forward with the truth because he believes the danger to his family is +reduced due to the impending release of the Congressional files on the +assassination," thereby assuring us that Morrow doesn't expect to become +another "mysterious death."

+ +

But what of the others he names? His own preface makes this clear: "More than +half the characters about to come to life on these pages have already been +put to death, tortured, exiled or silenced in strange and horrible ways." +They are either dead or otherwise will not rise to their own defense against +Morrow's accusations. It is worthwhile to note that David Atlee Phillips is +among the former, having died of cancer at his Arlington, VA, home on July 7, +1988.[5] He will not be stepping forward to clear his name, nor will Tracy +Barnes, another of the people Morrow names in FHK and who is also dead. The +rest of the "more than half" of Morrow's characters will likewise not be +coming forward to correct the record and provide true facts since they've +either been "put to death, tortured, exiled or silenced in strange and +horrible ways." The other half, we may reasonably conclude, have but bit +parts in Morrow's narrative, and aren't connected with the assassination, and +so have nothing to "fear."

+ +

Returning to the question of Phillips (or Bishop) having been arrested in +Fort Worth, we must bear these factors in mind. Gary Shaw and Larry Harris +have already told us that no record of the arrest exists and that negatives +of the photographs taken of this man have "disappeared" from the +Star-Telegram's files. Morrow has only added to the mystery by connecting the +CIA to this man, a factor which can apparently not be proven nor disproven. +Or can it?

+ +

Tom Tilson Tells Tall Tales +===========================

+ +

One of the first things I was curious about was whether this arrest had any +connection to the black sedan chase so often related to the events in Dealey +Plaza. This connection was bolstered by an article which appeared the day +after the assassination in The Dallas Morning News which told of a man having +been arrested in Fort Worth because he was said to be driving a car "linked +to the slayer."[6] Fort Worth was the apparent destination of the driver of +the black sedan headed westbound on the DFW Turnpike and chased by an +off-duty Dallas policeman.

+ +

This incident was first reported by Earl Golz in The Dallas Morning News[7] +nearly twenty years after the fact, and repeated by Jim Marrs in +Crossfire,[8] to which the reader is referred for additional information. In +addition, rumblings of a car having been found abandoned in Fort Worth later +in the day_naturally tied to the "black car chase"_raised even more +interesting possibilities. Was the man in the FHK photo the same one who +off-duty officer Tom Tilson chased from Dealey Plaza, and who may +subsequently have abandoned the car before having been arrested?

+ +

Unequivocally not. To begin with, it is apparent that there never was a car, +black or otherwise, where Tilson claimed he initially saw it. His interview +with Golz clearly states that he was driving along Commerce Street just +beyond the Stemmons Freeway bridge but not yet as far as the Triple Underpass +(the railroad bridge) when he saw a man run down the bridge abutment, toss a +long object (a rifle?) into the back seat, run around to jump into the +driver's seat and take off.

+ +

According to his daughter who was riding with him, "seconds before she saw +the fleeing man, the presidential limousine had just sped past his parked car +on the grass... and the limousine was turning onto Stemmons Freeway."[9] This +time roughly corresponds to the time that Mel McIntire took two photographs +of the limo emerging from under the railroad bridge and, shortly thereafter, +the Secret Service follow-up car turning onto Stemmons.[10] In neither photo +is there a "parked car on the grass." With the rest of the motorcade still in +Dealey Plaza, it is impossible that a car could have gotten to that spot in +time for Tilson to have seen it before passing under the Triple Underpass. It +simply wasn't there.

+ +

Moreover, photographic evidence belies Tilson's claim that "everyone was +jumping out of their cars pulling up on the median strip" in the plaza as he +saw the man running down the abutment and jumping into his car.[11] Of the +many photographs taken in DP, none show "everyone... jumping out of their +cars [and] pulling up on the median strip," and none show cars parked on the +median even long after the motorcade had left the plaza, much less when +Tilson claims they were (before the press bus had even reached the +Underpass). Obviously, Tilson has never looked at any pictures of the +assassination and aftermath before.

+ +

If that doesn't prove the lie, then consider that the Dallas Police +Department (DPD) recorded and investigated, however cursorily, quite a number +of reports about suspicious cars in the Dallas area that afternoon.[12] Yet, +according to Tilson, his own compatriots decided to ignore his report because +"if you didn't have a big white hat on, they didn't even want you in the +office."[13] Does it make sense that detectives will credit and investigate +reports from ordinary citizens, yet ignore one from "one of their own?"

+ +

Also, is it credible that a fleeing assassin would drive a dozen or so blocks +through city streets to get on a highway when there was and is an entrance +ramp onto the same highway, going in the same direction, within 100 yards of +where his car was supposedly parked and immediately to the left of the +Stemmons Freeway entrance taken by the motorcade? I think not.

+ +

If Tilson's story is a fabrication, however, that doesn't preclude that a car +was found abandoned in Fort Worth, and in fact, one was. Almost by accident, +I met a retired Fort Worth police officer, WD Roberts, who had called in a +report of an abandoned and presumably stolen car only a few minutes after the +time that Kennedy was being shot thirty miles away.[14]

+ +

Officer Roberts, who is now retired from the force, was on patrol in the +Riverside section of east Fort Worth and had come across the vehicle. He +called it in to the dispatcher at about 12:45 to 1:00. (It was later +determined to have been stolen in Houston the previous week.) Roberts is +certain that the car was not black (ergo not related to Tilson's "black +sedan"), but only recalls it as being "a light color, perhaps even +two-toned." Since it had been parked there for a number of days, we can +reasonably conclude that it was not related to the JFK murder, thereby +removing it from consideration in relation to the arrest in question.

+ +

If At First You Don't Succeed... +================================

+ +

Between the apparent fact that Tom Tilson's black sedan never existed and +that the car found abandoned in Fort Worth wasn't connected to this +pseudo-event, it was quite certain that this avenue of inquiry would not lead +to a conclusion about the photo in FHK. Who, then, was the man in the photo, +and what could be learned about him? After all, he could be just about +anyone: how can an unidentified man be found thirty years later from his +image that is bound to have changed in the interim? There are more than two +million people in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex; where and how do you begin?

+ +

As anyone can see, there are in fact two men in the photograph: the +"unidentified suspect" and a police officer. Since nobody'd had any luck +finding out about the arrest from official files, I reasoned, the next-best +way would seem to be to find out what the arresting officer could remember. +And if you're trying to find out who a cop is, who're the best people to ask? +Naturally, other cops who may have worked with him. I decided to check with +Fort Worth police.

+ +

Identifying the officer in the photo proved not as easy as I'd thought, since +in the course of less than two hours, I'd gotten no less than four "positive +identifications" of the man from nearly a dozen of his fellow officers, +including the Assistant Chief of Police. Only one of them, as it turned out, +was correct. This should be instructive to anyone who attempts to identify a +person based upon the recollection of only one or two of his +contemporaries... even if they're trained observers, as police are frequently +termed.

+ +

The officer who found the abandoned car mentioned earlier, WD Roberts, also +turned out to be the arresting officer in the case of Donald Wayne House, +which many readers are familiar with. For the sake of those who aren't and +for putting Roberts' observations and impressions on the record (since +nobody's ever asked him about this before), we'll once again depart our main +focus on the FHK photo to recap the story of this arrest; interestingly, it +will lead us directly back to the photo.

+ +

In addition to the brief mention of the "2-city manhunt" in The Dallas +Morning News on the morning after the assassination, there was one (and only +one) other account of someone being arrested in Fort Worth. It appeared in +The Fort Worth Star-Telegram the day after the assassination, and related +that a 22-year-old man had been picked up as a possible suspect in the +assassination of President Kennedy.[15] While it didn't identify the man by +name, it did indicate that he was from Ranger, a small town southwest of Fort +Worth. It also identified the arresting officers (WD Roberts and BG Whistler) +and noted that the man had been arrested in the 3400 block of East Belknap +Street in the city.

+ +

Reconstructing this arrest from a variety of sources, it happened something +like this:

+ +

On the morning of November 22, Donald Wayne House left his home in Ranger, TX +bound for Mesquite (a Dallas suburb) to visit an old Army buddy, Randall +Hunsaker.[16] He had parked his car in a lot on Commerce Street at about +10:30[17] and called Hunsaker, who was apparently not home. Hearing that JFK +was due to ride through downtown, he decided to get a glimpse of Kennedy, +whom he says he had long admired.[18] After the motorcade had passed, he +headed toward Fort Worth on the DFW Turnpike to visit a cousin.[19]

+ +

Along the way, House says he stopped for gas at a station in Grand Prairie, +where two women who had heard about the assassination asked him if he knew +anything more about it. House told them that he'd heard the alleged +assassin's description, which he then related to the women. The description +he gave them of Oswald describes House as well, a resemblance that can be +clearly seen in photos taken of him that day except that House is much +shorter than Oswald.[20] It is also possible that the women had heard the +description themselves and felt that House matched it closely enough to +arouse their suspicions.

+ +

One of the two women he spoke with was apparently the "Mrs Cunningham" +identified in Dallas County Deputy Sheriff JC Watson's report who called the +Grand Prairie PD after House had left the filling station. The Grand Prairie +PD then notified the Dallas County sheriffs, who in turn made a general +broadcast including his description and that of his car and its license plate +number at 1:35 pm. A "short while" later Tarrant County officials notified +sheriffs that the car and driver had been taken into custody.[21]

+ +

The green and white Ford was heading westbound on the DFW Turnpike toward +Fort Worth.[22] At about the same time or just shortly after the Sheriff's +broadcast had gone out, FWPD officer WD Roberts had pulled into the Shady +Oaks Drive-in on Riverside Drive just after having called in his report of +the abandoned car. While waiting for a cup of coffee, he happened to glance +in his mirror and noticed the car going by. He took off after it, leaving the +carhop standing there with his order in hand.[23]

+ +

Roberts called into FWPD dispatch to verify House's license plate number, and +because he was driving an underpowered cruiser, he also requested assistance +in case the driver attempted to evade him.[24] Officer BG Whistler, who was +patrolling an adjoining sector, sped to his assistance and met up with him a +short distance away at the "Five Points" intersection of East Belknap and +Bonnie Brae;[25] officer BL Harbour also fell in behind Whistler.[26] Upon +seeing he had assistance, Roberts notified dispatch that he was going to +"curb" the car.[27]

+ +

Roberts pulled around House and forced him to pull over in the 3400 block of +East Belknap Street near Sylvania Park; Whistler came up behind House, got +out of his squad car, and trained his shotgun on House, telling him to get +out of the car and keep his hands where they could be seen. Roberts frisked +him and put him in handcuffs before putting him in the back of Whistler's +car. By this time (shortly before 1:57 pm CST, the time on House's arrest +report[28]), a number of other officers had also arrived, including Lt +Lawrence Wood who immediately took charge as the ranking officer. Harbour +joined Whistler in the latter's car and the two transported the prisoner to +city hall where they were photographed by newsmen.[29] Wood accompanied these +officers to city hall on his motorcycle[30] while Roberts remained behind to +secure the scene and inventory the vehicle.[31]

+ +

All of the officers involved described the arrest as "odd" because, during +all of this time, House never said a word. Roberts in particular thought so, +and "couldn't imagine how you could pull a man out of his car, frisk him, +handcuff him and put him in the back of a patrol car in a matter of just +seconds, all the time with a shotgun aimed at him and he never even asked why +he was being arrested!"[32]

+ +

Roberts' account was confirmed by Whistler, who added that Lt Wood had +instructed them not to ask House any questions or make any statements to him, +but to "leave that to the Feds," who had apparently been notified to meet the +officers at city hall.[33] House's arrest report also indicated that "the +subject never once appeared nervous and in fact he was unusually calm," and +that he had never asked the officers why he was being arrested or taken into +jail.

+ +

Among the police, only Wood's account differed. He told a reporter that House +was "hysterical" and that "the guy stuttered, he was so scared he couldn't +get a single word out, no matter how long he tried,"[34] descriptions the +arresting officers adamantly denied. In Wood's defense, however, that +recollection was nearly twenty years old by the time it was made.

+ +

(House's own account of it, published ten months after his arrest, says that +he'd asked why he was being arrested and was told by officers "You're being +arrested for the assassination of President Kennedy,"[35] which also +contradicts the officers' statements. I consider this to be a relatively +minor point since House was "in the spotlight" during the interview and may +have tended to meld details. He was undoubtedly told at some time why he'd +been brought in; whether it was before or after he arrived at city hall seems +more a matter of how he told the story than how it actually happened.)

+ +

Another oddity, Roberts recalled, was that House's car was "absolutely +spotless, there wasn't even a slip of paper in the glove box," although he +found an empty dynamite box in the trunk, which House claimed to have been +using as a tool chest[36] (Wood, in his account, said that "we found several +boxes of dynamite in the back seat,"[37] which the arresting officers also +disputed). Roberts was surprised to learn that House supposedly junked the +car a short while later[38], saying that he couldn't imagine why he did since +the car was "immaculate."

+ +

House was transported to city hall (which also housed police headquarters at +the time) by Officers Whistler and Harbour, and photographs[39] show the two +taking him inside. House was then put in the "shakedown" room and searched, +where the only belongings that were recorded having been taken from him was a +wallet containing $23 in cash and a knife.[40] According to House, he was +interrogated by federal officers for three hours and remained alone in his +cell for another hour before being cleared and released,[41] although the jail +report indicates the time was slightly shorter.[42]

+ +

Another apparent "oddity" came up when Roberts also recalled that, when he +arrived at city hall later in the day, he had gone to the chief's secretary +to dictate his report. About midway into his report, he says, the chief came +in and told him "not to bother" completing his report, that the man had +already been cleared by the Feds.[43] Whistler also did not recall writing a +report, corroborating Roberts' memory.

+ +

Again, there is nothing "sinister" about this. The official record of federal +agents interviewing him exists, and was published by the Warren +Commission.[44] I was also able to find an arrest report for House on file +that was compiled from "information from" the two arresting officers and BL +Harbour (who is now deceased). It was typed by a clerk and filed; it was not, +however, signed by the officers which is why I believe they don't remember +having filed it since, in reality, it was typed and filed after they'd +recounted the details of the arrest to the clerk. Considering the commotion +of the afternoon, it is hardly surprising that this occurred.

+ +

A Second Arrest in Fort Worth +=============================

+ +

While there is a relative wealth of information about Donald Wayne House +available, as we've already learned, nothing was known about the second man +who is pictured in FHK. As I've already noted, in Cover-Up, Shaw and Harris +relate that "a second Fort Worth arrest was made at the same time House was +taken into custody, but other than photographs from The Fort Worth +Star-Telegram, there is no record of the arrest." They continue that +"negatives of these photos [which include the one that appears in FHK and +also in Cover-Up] are now missing from the newspaper's files."[45] Morrow +added his opinion that the man looked like someone associated with the CIA +and/or the Bay of Pigs operation. It all sounds very mysterious, almost +sinister.

+ +

None of the newspaper articles around that period provide any indication of +who this man was, and no account of this second arrest appeared in any of the +local papers. None of the photos were published by local newspapers, although +there were at least four other photos taken of him in addition to the one in +FHK. A second picture, which appears in Cover-Up,[46] shows the man being +taken from the FWPD patrol car by Lt Wood, and a third on file at the +Star-Telegram offices depicts him being led by Wood and another officer (the +same one in the FHK photo) into city hall; two others show the back of the +man and the arresting officers as they entered the building.

+ +

Neither of the two photos in Cover-Up (one of which is the one in FHK) were +taken by Star-Telegram photographers, which explains why the negatives are +not on file there. Most likely, they were taken by its rival newspaper, The +Fort Worth Press, which ceased printing in May 1976 (although a new weekly +paper has been recently started under the same banner). The Star-Telegram, as +Shaw noted, no longer has all of the negatives of the photos they had taken, +but I was able to find photos on contact sheets (positives made directly from +the film strips) there, and most did indeed have negatives available. The +photo archives of the Press are said to be in private hands, so I have as yet +been unable to view whatever remains of them.

+ +

Some people have suggested that the Star-Telegram's negatives may have been +removed by the FBI as part of its official investigation, but there is no +evidence that this is the case. Some Star-Telegram staffers thought this +might be so, but the director of the photo archives told me that it is much +more likely that the photographers did not turn them all in, or removed them +after realizing that they may have some historical value. "We don't polygraph +them to make sure they do," he said. In any case, they were not removed by +any official body as part of either an investigation or a cover-up, nor most +certainly, to protect David Phillips.

+ +

While negatives are not available for a number of photos, there is nothing +particularly noteworthy about the ones that are missing versus those that are +not. In my estimation, it doesn't appear there is any cause to claim a +cleanup of "incriminating" photos, and certainly not with regard to this +particular arrest, since, as we shall soon see, the man had nothing to do +with either the assassination or the government. The photos on the contact +sheets can generally be viewed by the public on request, although it isn't +always easy to get copies of them.

+ +

The contact sheets turned out to be the solution to the question of who the +officer in the FHK photo actually was since, in one of the photos, I was able +to read the name plate on one of the men in one of the contact sheet photos: +it read "HW Sinclair," one of the four officers named by his associates. +After making a number of phone calls, I was able to locate Sinclair, and +phoned him an arranged to visit with him at his home in rural East Texas. Now +retired and raising cattle, he doesn't seem to have aged much in the past 29 +years and looks very much the same as he did the day the photo was taken. +Both he and his wife positively identified him in the FHK photo, and also +identified Lt Lawrence Wood as the man with him in a photocopy I'd been able +to make of a Star-Telegram photo showing both officers.

+ +

(Two of the other officers who had been identified later called me and +identified Sinclair as well. It is also worth noting that, in head-on photos +of the man in custody, the similarity between him and "Maurice Bishop" and/or +David Atlee Phillips is no longer evident. One such photo can be seen in Shaw +and Harris' Cover-Up,[47] and another is on file at The Fort Worth +Star-Telegram.)

+ +

Sinclair is a private man and wouldn't allow our interview to be taped. He +was, however, very forthcoming in his recollections of that period. In +addition to arresting the man in the picture, Sinclair had also performed +security at Miller's Funeral Home while Lee Oswald was being prepared for +burial, and also at Rose Hill Cemetery when Oswald was buried. He also +pointed out that FWPD kept a guard at the gravesite for many months following +Oswald's burial, citing various threats of people digging up the body and +dragging it through the streets of the city.

+ +

It was a quirk of fate that got Sinclair involved in these events. Since he +had joined the force in 1956, he had been assigned as a patrolman in the +detective division, investigating fraud in plain clothes. Sometime in +mid-1963, however, someone decided that all patrolmen were to be assigned to +the Patrol Division, so Sinclair donned his uniform and patrolled the +streets. In January 1964, Sinclair was named the Patrol Division Officer of +the Year for 1963, and promoted to detective. He returned to plain clothes +and was assigned to the Homicide Division for the remainder of his years with +FWPD.

+ +

Sinclair remembered the arrest having taken place in the Riverside area on +the east side of Fort Worth, although he couldn't recall the exact location. +He had assisted two officers who he thought were on motorcycles to transport +the prisoner to city hall. "There were a lot of cops there," he said, adding +that he had arrived after the other officers. Lt Wood, whom Sinclair +diplomatically said was "not shy of the media," appeared "out of nowhere" +when he arrived at city hall with the prisoner. (In fact, Wood was already at +city hall, having escorted officers Whistler and Harbour with Donald House +from the arrest scene. In the NBC film footage, Wood can be seen alighting +from his motorcycle in front of the police cruiser) Wood then helped Sinclair +take the man out of the patrol car and escorted him into city hall. Wood is +also pictured taking the man out of the cruiser's front seat in one of the +photos in Cover-Up,[48] and it is his fingers that can be seen at the +prisoner's right elbow in the FHK photo.

+ +

Because he had merely assisted in the arrest, Sinclair did not believe that +he had filed an arrest report, that duty falling to the actual arresting +officers, whom Sinclair recalled having stayed behind to secure the arrest +scene and inventory the vehicle the man had apparently been stopped in. He +says he may have filled in a "call sheet," but later investigation found that +these are only kept for six months before being destroyed, so if he had, it +is no longer available. Beyond these facts and his recollection that it was +the only time in his career that he had loosed the shotgun officers carried +in their cruisers, he couldn't remember anything particularly striking about +the arrest and he was unable to remember what the man's name might have been. +He noted that Wood is now deceased, and that he didn't know who the arresting +officers might have been.[49]

+ +

The Unidentified Man

+ +

While I had successfully identified the officer in the picture, I was still +no closer to learning who the man in custody was or why he been detained. +During my many meetings with current and retired FWPD officers, however, I +had been referred to a number of others who may have had some information +regarding the case. One of these men was assigned as an officer to the +Identification Division in 1963, where he continues to work today as a +civilian employee (his associates consider him to be "the best fingerprint +guy you can find anywhere"). Sinclair thought that this individual may have +been working the afternoon of the arrests, and could provide some useful +information.

+ +

As it turned out, he had worked the evening shift on November 22, and thus +had no details of the arrest. However, he thought there might still be a +record of it on file, but shortly found that the department's worksheets of +that period were no longer on file. He felt that I wouldn't be able to find +any information without knowing the man's name, but nevertheless transferred +me to the supervisor of the Records Division. The supervisor suggested that I +come into the police station and look through some of their old microfilm +records. I went to Fort Worth later the same afternoon.

+ +

I didn't really know what I was looking for, whether it would be a jail +roster or what, but I thought I might have been able to find a name that was +out of place or couldn't be verified against other records. I was given two +rolls of microfilm covering the period, one of arrest records, and another of +the Disposition Report and Property Records of prisoners. Since I had already +read elsewhere and been told by the officers that no arrest record was made, +I didn't know how much luck I'd have, but I figured it was worth a try.

+ +

I began reading the arrest reports. It appeared that November 22, 1963 +started out like any other day for FWPD (aside from the President's visit +that morning). Of the thirty or so arrests officers made that day, many were +listed as "juvenile fugitives," and a roughly equal number were for +"investigation of theft under $50 (shoplifting)." There was also a report of +a man who'd been taken into custody because the police had learned he had VD, +and one of a man who had been arrested in the men's room of the local bus +station while injecting nitroglycerine into his arm. Maybe the day wasn't so +"typical" after all....

+ +

Midway through the day's reports was the arrest report for Donald Wayne +House, which I decided to make a copy of since, after all, I'd been told it +hadn't been filed. The very next arrest report was for another man named +Kenneth Glenn Wilson, then of 6121 Broadway in Haltom City to the east of +Fort Worth. Interestingly, he had also been arrested at the 3400 block of +East Belknap Street, 23 minutes after House had been. The arresting officers +were listed as Lt LE Wood and HW Sinclair.[50]

+ +

This was an odd coincidence: nobody had mentioned two men having been +arrested in that place at that time. Who was this man, and what had he been +arrested for? That the arresting officers were the same two men who had been +photographed bringing the "unidentified suspect" into city hall made this +record all the more intriguing. (It is worth noting that Wood couldn't have +actually been an arresting officer since he'd already left the scene before +the man was taken into custody. He was, however, one of the two officers who +escorted him into city hall and booked him, and so was included in the +report.)

+ +

Wilson, an auto parts salesman, was charged as an "investigation witness." If +he was the same man in the photos, this helped to explain why he is shown +unmanacled in the photos taken at city hall: the man wasn't a suspect, but a +witness! A witness of what? The details of the arrest provided that +information:

+ +

"The above subject was arrested and charged as above [Inv. Witness] after he +came to the scene of where House was arrested. When he arrived at the scene, +he stated that he recognized the car which House was driving and stated that +he thought that it belonged to his wife's cousin. On the way to the [city] +hall, the subject stated that House was recently been discharged from the +service. He stated that he had not seen House lately and that his home is in +Ranger, Texas" [emphasis added].[51]

+ +

As noted earlier, the interview House had with the Fort Worth Press said that +he was traveling to Fort Worth to visit his cousin, in addition to mentioning +his intent to visit his Army buddy in Dallas.[52] This man Wilson--or rather, +his wife--must be who House was going to see.

+ +

When I was talking with WD Roberts earlier, neither of us could figure out +why he had gotten off of the highway and driven up Riverside Drive since his +home was a number of miles farther out the same road. I drove to 6121 +Broadway, the address given on Wilson's arrest record. While the house no +longer exists, the route that House took would have led him to his cousin's +house about a mile from where he was arrested. This particular segment of the +story no longer held any mystery. The question that nagged at me, though, was +how Wilson knew House had been arrested in the first place, an answer I knew +only Wilson could provide.

+ +

I was finally able to locate and contact Wilson (he no longer lives in Fort +Worth), who verified that he was the same Kenneth Glenn Wilson who had lived +at the 6121 Broadway address nearly 30 years ago. I explained the reason I +was calling, to identify a man in a photo which I believed to be him, and +wondered if he would be willing to help me. We discussed the circumstances +which led up to the photo being taken, and as he provided me with various +details without prompting_House's name, the make and color of car he was +driving, that he was from Ranger and that House was, in fact, his wife's +cousin_it quickly became apparent that I had found the man whose arrest +report I held, but was he the same man in the photo?

+ +

In the course of our conversation, he mentioned that he had a book about the +assassination with his picture in it; did I perhaps have the same one? It +turned out to be Cover-Up, which of course, I had. I asked him to turn to +page 89 where the photos of House and the "unidentified suspect" were, and +asked him if he recognized any of them. "Sure," he said. "The three across +the top are Don, and the two below that are of me."[53] One of these two +photos is the same as that which appears in FHK, as we've already discussed.

+ +

Satisfied that Wilson and the "unidentified suspect" were one and the same, I +arranged to meet with him the following weekend when I could make the time to +travel to where he now lives. We met one Saturday afternoon at a roadside +restaurant near the interstate; he was accompanied by his wife and young +grandson, who was visiting for the weekend. We talked for nearly three hours.

+ +

Wilson now wears glasses and is, in his words, "a little fatter and deeper in +debt," but the similarity with the man in the FHK photo was unmistakable. He +parts his hair differently, but facial characteristics like the nose, chin +and forehead don't change, and_despite his denial_he still has the same slim +build he had back then. When he later posed in the same semi-profile as in +the picture, there was no doubt I was looking at the same man. Furthermore, +both he and Mrs Wilson recognized the pencil he'd always hung over his ear, +and the pocket protector he wore in those days.

+ +

How did Wilson come to be at that place and time where his cousin-in-law had +been arrested only moments before? Mrs Wilson provided most of the +details:[54]

+ +

At some point after the shooting, while House had been enroute to Fort Worth, +Dallas police had contacted his mother_with whom he was living at the time_to +determine his whereabouts. After two or three such calls, Mrs House became +concerned, and called her niece, Mrs Wilson. (Mrs House is now deceased, so I +was unable to determine what DPD had talked with her about during those +calls.) Mrs House called the Wilsons' because, whenever Don came to Fort +Worth, he would spend the night with the Wilsons and she expected he would do +so this night too. After the calls from DPD, she became worried.

+ +

Shortly after the call from her aunt, Mrs Wilson heard a radio broadcast of a +suspect, identified as "22-year-old Donald House of Ranger, Texas" having +been arrested at 3408 East Belknap in Fort Worth.[55] At first, she said, she +didn't recognize the name since "nobody called him Donald," but realized +after a moment that it had been her cousin who'd been taken into custody in +connection with the slaying.

+ +

She noted that the address was only a couple of blocks from where her husband +worked selling auto parts, and called to ask him to check on Don since it +appeared he was in some sort of trouble. He excused himself from work and +walked the short distance to where House had been arrested. There, he told +officers that he thought the car belonged to his wife's cousin, and was taken +into custody at 2:20 pm.[56] "I was looking out for Don," Ken Wilson told me, +"and they ended up taking me to jail!"

+ +

He was not charged with a crime, and as the record of his arrest shows, he +was brought in solely as a witness. He was questioned about his relationship +with Don House and released 90 minutes later, at 3:50.[57] He returned home +with his wife, where House joined them a couple of hours later (House wasn't +released until 5:15[58]).

+ +

(Mrs Wilson recalled an amusing anecdote from that day: when Don had finally +come to their house, everyone wanted to know if he'd been nervous. "Nervous? +Of course not, I didn't do anything," he said, sitting down... missing the +chair completely and sprawling on the floor. Nervous? Who me? I guess not.)

+ +

Wilson's account also clears up questions about HW Sinclair's recollection of +the event and in reconstructing the "arrest:" House had been curbed by +Roberts and hurried into Whistler's cruiser with Harbour in the back with +House. They in turn sped off to city hall with their prisoner with Lt Wood in +the lead, who may well have given orders to secure the scene before +departing. Other officers began arriving during and after this period, one of +whom was Sinclair. Whether he arrived before or after Wilson is difficult to +determine and not really important. He was nevertheless selected to transport +Wilson to headquarters, which he did. Obviously, Sinclair did not feel +threatened by the mild-mannered Wilson, who rode beside him unmanacled and +volunteering information about his wife's cousin, Don House, during the five or ten-minute ride downtown. From all accounts, it was a relatively pleasant +trip, if being under arrest or dealing with suspected Presidential assassins +can ever be called "pleasant!"

+ +

On arriving at city hall, the two men were met by Lt Wood, who had escorted +Whistler, Roberts and House to city hall less than a half-hour before. +Undoubtedly, Wood felt a need for additional police presence ushering Wilson +into city hall because a crowd of people had gathered,[59] and under the +circumstances, it wouldn't have been unreasonable to suspect they might have +become unruly at the sight of a "suspect" in the assassination being led +before them. In fact, Ken Wilson recalled the scene as "a little frightening +with all those people standing around yelling."[60]

+ +

Photos of both House and Wilson were taken by photographers from both the +Star-Telegram and the Press, although neither paper ever published them. TV +camera crews also captured footage of House being led into city hall and +through the corridors of the police department, but if similar footage of +Wilson exists, I haven't seen it.

+ +

Conclusion +==========

+ +

Beginning with a photograph of an "unidentified man" said to have been +arrested in Fort Worth and connected with both the Kennedy murder and the +CIA, along with a vague rumor or two of how the "black sedan" described by +Tom Tilson may have been found in Fort Worth, we've come to find that not +only is there no evidence to support such a connection, but also that it is +quite apparent that the black sedan never actually existed and is either a +figment of Tilson's imagination, a mis-recollection, or an attempt to portray +himself as having a role in the events of November 22, 1963_however +peripheral_which he in fact did not have.

+ +

While it is a fact that two men were taken into custody in Fort Worth "in +connection with the shooting," there is nothing other than speculation that +can link either of them with the murder. House had been to Dallas to visit a +friend who wasn't home when he got there. Unable to leave town because of the +heavy traffic due to the parade, he waited for the motorcade to pass before +he was able to leave to visit his cousin. A couple of women at a gas station +thought he matched the broadcast description of a suspect, and he was taken +into custody, cleared and released.

+ +

The second man, Ken Wilson, was only trying to help House, his wife's cousin. +He was taken into city hall as a witness, and not as a suspect. He wasn't +charged with any crime, and wasn't even handcuffed as he rode to city hall in +the front seat with HW Sinclair. He was questioned about his relationship to +House, released and went home. He's hardly given a second thought to these +events afterward until I spoke with him about them.

+ +

That Ken Wilson remained "unidentified" for nearly 30 years is surprising +when you consider that I was able to locate and identify him within two weeks +of the time his photo in FHK was brought to my attention, using records which +"don't exist" long after others had apparently attempted the same. None of +the police officers involved in these arrests_save Lawrence Wood, who was +interviewed by The Fort Worth Star-Telegram 20 years later_had ever been +contacted by anyone, and it's apparent that the search for the men's arrest +records was neither thorough nor tenacious since they were, in fact, quite +readily available.

+ +

I must admit I had been somewhat surprised that Ken Wilson had never +attempted to identify himself, especially having seen his photo in Cover-Up +along with what could be considered "mysterious" if not "sinister" +insinuations made about his being taken into custody. Then again, maybe I +shouldn't have been so surprised, since there are many people who are +apprehensive or skeptical, even cautious and suspicious of anything to do +with the JFK murder, and don't want their names associated with it.

+ +

On the other hand, we've also got to ask ourselves who would Wilson have gone +to even had he wished to identify himself? It's not an easy task to reach an +author through his publisher after all, and even so, once a book is published +and widely circulated, it is not an easy matter to change bits of material, +especially when it doesn't add to the story. It is unlikely that Cover-Up +will be amended, but will First Hand Knowledge be corrected because we now +know for certain that the "unidentified suspect" is no longer unidentified, +was never in fact a suspect, and was absolutely not either David Phillips or +"Maurice Bishop?" We'll have to wait for the second printing to find out.

+ +

While the underlying concern of whether it is "better" from a publishing +standpoint to maintain the intrigue and aura of mystery, or to ascertain that +mundane details as this has turned out to be are accurately portrayed remains +an important one, it is in truth of little consequence whether Wilson's +"story" is corrected since, to all those thousands of people who've bought +Cover-Up and FHK and not read this article, Ken Wilson will always be a +"mysterious CIA agent" involved in the assassination whose "arrest" was +"covered up" by sinister forces. Certainly, I'd like to see the record +amended, but I don't expect it will be. I just hope the same mistake won't be +made by future authors.

+ +

It is perhaps unfortunate in some respects that I have brought these men and +women to the fore, even despite the fact that it has "cleared" an innocent +man from any involvement with the crime, and set the record straight about +his detention. Wilson, for example, told me how his wife's cousin, Don House, +had been "harassed" over the peripheral role he had played in the events of +November 22, 1963, and no longer wishes to talk to anyone about it; indeed, +Cover-Up states that when the authors attempted to interview House during the +course of their research, they met with "extreme hostility." Others declined +to have their recollections recorded, voicing similar concerns.

+ +

For these reasons, I have refrained from noting too many personal details to +preserve their privacy and hopefully to prevent them from becoming part of +"the continuing inquiry," ruing the day they first heard my name: their roles +are long since finished. I enjoyed meeting each of them, and appreciate the +time they took to speak with me, the hospitality they showed me, and the +assistance they provided to close this chapter of history quickly. I hope +they never have cause to regret it.

+ +

I hope too that this experience can temper the enthusiasm, even zeal, of many +researchers who feel that the "truth" can be found by citing every lead and +"reasonable conclusion" as absolute fact. If we are ever to be successful in +our efforts to re-open an official investigation of some sort, we must come +armed with evidence, not mere theories and speculations. After all, we're +supposed to be investigating a murder, not writing novels or creating myths, +aren't we?

+ +

Copyright c 1993, M. Duke Lane

+ +

The author gratefully acknowledges the advice, assistance and encouragement +of Gary Mack, Mary Ferrell, Dave Perry, and other Dallas area researchers in +this investigation.

+ +

NOTES +-----

+ +

1. Interview with Gary Null, WBAI-FM New York, 99.5 FM, October 1992

+ +

2. See Letters to the Editor of The Third Decade, Volume 9, Number 1, +November 1992, pp 36-40; Number 2, January 1993, pp 9-11; and Number 3, March +1993, pp 27-28 (all related).

+ +

3. Robert Morrow, First Hand Knowledge, 1992, S.P.I Books/Shapolsky +Publishers, Inc, New York

+ +

4. Gary Shaw and Larry Ray Harris, Cover-Up, self-published, Cleburne TX, +1976, page 89

+ +

5. Obituary, The Washington Post, July 9, 1988, pG5

+ +

6. "Police Launch 2-city Manhunt," The Dallas Morning News, November 23, 1963, +page 2. The full account reads: "During the frantic period at the hospital, +police, Secret Service men and FBI agents had started a 2-city manhunt. They +arrested several persons, among them a Fort Worth man who was said to be +driving a car linked to the slayer." There was no additional coverage of this +event in the paper.

+ +

7. Earl Golz, "Ex-officer suspect he chased '2nd gun'," The Dallas Morning +News, August 20, 1978, p 42A.

+ +

8. Jim Marrs, Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, 1989, Carroll & Graf +Publishers, New York, pp 325-327. This is a nearly verbatim recounting of the +aforementioned Golz article.

+ +

9. Golz, "'2nd gun'"

+ +

10. "Scenes From an Assassination" (photographic essay), The Dallas +Times-Herald, November 20, 1983

+ +

11. Golz, "'2nd gun'"

+ +

12. See Decker Exhibit 5323 (affidavits to Dallas County Sheriffs): 19H500, +Malcolm Summers, November 23, 1963; 19H497-98, Jesse James Williams, November +22, 1963; 19H501, William Clifford Anderson, November 25, 1963; 19H522-23, +November 22, 1963; and Cover-Up, p 88 (reference to DPD radio logs for +11/22/63, time not indicated)

+ +

13. Golz, "'2nd gun'"

+ +

14. Interview with WD Roberts by author, December 22, 1992

+ +

15. "Man Arrested Here Released," The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, November 23, +1963, p9

+ +

16. Warren Commission Document #301 (CD 301), pp 111-112. See also John +Moulder, "'Suspect' Seized Here Made History," The Fort Worth Press, +September 28, 1964, page 1 and Cover-Up, p 88.

+ +

17. Ibid CD 301, and CD 897, p 331

+ +

18. "'Suspect' Seized Here Made History"

+ +

19. Ibid

+ +

20. Cover-Up, p 89

+ +

21. 19H522-23, November 22, 1963.

+ +

22. Ibid, and arrest report #19560, FWPD, Donald Wayne House. November 22, 1963

+ +

23. Roberts interview

+ +

24. A six cylinder Plymouth: Roberts interview and House arrest report

+ +

25. Interview with BG Whistler, January 5, 1993

+ +

26. House arrest report

+ +

27. Roberts interview; Whistler interview

+ +

28. House arrest report. Note that this may be "official" as opposed to +actual time since an NBC newscast transcript notes the first broadcast that +"a car has been stopped at Fort Worth that may have some connection with the +shooting" at 1:49 pm CST, eight minutes earlier. WBAP radio had also +broadcast a similar statement three minutes earlier at 1:46, indicating that +House had already been pulled over and perhaps already taken to city hall.

+ +

29. Cover-up, p 89, upper row of photos

+ +

30. Wood is now deceased and surviving officers do not recall who the +motorcycle officers were, but news footage taken by KXAS-TV (then WBAP-TV) +made available to me by Fort Worth researcher Gary Mack shows Wood getting +off of his motorcycle as House is being driven up in the squad car

+ +

31. House arrest report; Roberts and Whistler interviews

+ +

32. Roberts interview

+ +

33. Whistler interview

+ +

34. Elston Brooks, "An Arrest He'll Never Forget," The Fort Worth +Star-Telegram, November 20, 1983, p 20F (Sunday special section: "Turning +Point: The Assassination of JFK")

+ +

35. "'Suspect' Seized Here Made History"

+ +

36. Ibid

+ +

37. "An Arrest He'll Never Forget"

+ +

38. Cover-Up, p 88

+ +

39. Photos can be seen in Cover-Up, top of p 89

+ +

40. House Property Record #19560, FWPD

+ +

41. "'Suspect' Seized Here Made History"

+ +

42. House disposition report #19560, FWPD. The report indicates that charges +were dropped after House was questioned, and he was released at 5:15 pm, 3 +hours and 18 minutes after he'd been arrested

+ +

43. Roberts interview

+ +

44. CD 301

+ +

45. Cover-Up, page 89

+ +

46. Ibid

+ +

47. Ibid

+ +

48. Ibid

+ +

49. Interview with Mr and Mrs HW Sinclair, December 20, 1992

+ +

50. Wilson arrest record #19561, FWPD (shown on back cover), and accompanying +disposition report and property record #19561

+ +

51. Ibid

+ +

52. "'Suspect' Arrested Here Makes History."

+ +

53. Telephone interview with Kenneth Glenn Wilson, January 9, 1993

+ +

54. Interview with Mr and Mrs Kenneth Glenn Wilson, January 23, 1993

+ +

55. Live WBAP radio broadcast, November 22, 1963 at the time House was +brought into the jail. In addition to the newspaper reporters and +photographers who were at city hall, there were a number of television and +radio personnel. Footage from KXAS-TV and KTVT-TV (op cit) of House being +brought into police headquarters and being marched through the hallways and +offices clearly indicates that coverage of the arrest was immediate.

+ +

56. Wilson and House arrest records. Again, this is an official rather than +actual time.

+ +

57. At 3:50 pm; Wilson disposition report #19561

+ +

58. House disposition report #19560

+ +

59. WBAP-TV (NBC) news footage

+ +

60. Wilson interview

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I notice the now-ancient Gauquelin "Mars Effect" affair continues to +crop up, perennially, with considerable time-honoured but still-fuzzy +rhetoric about an alleged CSICOP "cover up", including copious +laudatory mentions of Dennis Rawlins's ALSO-ancient jeremiad +"sTARBABY", which appeared in "Fate" magazine. Essentially all +treatments of the affair since then have been loose (and even MORE +careless) descendants of the Rawlins article, often committing gross +distortions, such as confusing the test of European athletes with the +later one based on U.S. data.

+ +

The ONLY proper rejoinder I've ever seen to Rawlins was a reply piece +by CSICOP Fellow P. J. Klass, which "Fate" refused to publish, and +which far too few have seen, over the years since. Robert Sheaffer +and I have now scanned in the text, and are attempting to distribute +it more widely. The full text may be downloaded or File REQuested, +but not FTP'd from my BBS as CRYBABY.ZIP (as Robert mentions in his +comments, which follow), and I'll be mailing it to other skeptics' +groups on diskette, as well as uploading it to CompuServe.

+ +

-- Rick Moen +Vice-Chair, Bay Area Skeptics +Sysop, The Skeptic's Board BBS, San Francisco +(also reachable at 76711.243@CompuServe.com)

+ +

"CRYBABY"

+ +

by Philip J. Klass

+ +

Philip J. Klass is a member of the Executive Council, Committee +for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal +(CSICOP).

+ +

[Note: This article, written in 1981, was submitted for +publication to FATE Magazine, in reply to Dennis Rawlins' +accusations against CSICOP in his Oct., 1981 FATE article +"sTARBABY". FATE adamantly refused to publish this article. +Meanwhile, Rawlins was given the opportunity to make a +rambling, six-page statement in the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER +(Winter, 1981-82, p.58), which was published exactly as +received, presenting his accusations of a "coverup." This +was in addition to the 5 1/2 page article he earlier had on +the "Mars Effect" in the Winter, 1979-80 issue (p.26). To +this day, supporters of the paranormal still charge CSICOP +with perpetrating a "coverup" on this matter. Only a +relatively few people ever saw Klass's "CRYBABY", the long +and detailed answer to Rawlins' "sTARBABY" charges. Now that +you have the opportunity to read Klass's rebuttal, you can +make up your own mind.

+ +

Klass's original text has been reproduced below, exactly as +typed, with the author's permission. Spelling and +punctuation have not been changed. Text that was underlined +in the original appears in capital letters. +- Robert Sheaffer, Bay Area Skeptics, 1991. +This article is brought to you courtesy of the Bay +Area Skeptics' BBS, 415-648-8944, from which it is +available for downloading, although not via FTP.]

+ +

"They call themselves the Committee for the Scientific +Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. In fact, they are a +group of would-be-debunkers who bungled their major +investigation, falsified the results , covered up their errors +and gave the boot to a colleague who threatened to tell the +truth." Thus began a 32-Page article in the October 1981 issue of +FATE magazine, which a a press release headlined: "SCIENTIST +BLOWS THE WHISTLE ON PARANORMAL COVERUP."

+ +

Since CSICOP was formed in the spring of 1976, it has been a +thorn in the side of those who promote belief in "psychic +phenomena," in astrology, UFOs, and similar subjects and it has +been criticized sharply by FATE whose articles generally cater to +those who are eager to believe. However, this FATE article was +written by skeptic Dennis Rawlins, who was one of the original +Fellows in CSICOP and for nearly four years had been a member of +its Executive Council. This would seem to give credence to +Rawlins' charges -- except to those of us with first-hand +experience in trying to work with him and who are familiar with +his modus-operandi.

+ +

Because Rawlins proposed my election to CSICOP's Executive +Council I cannot be charged with animosity toward him, except +what he later engendered by his actions. And in a recent letter +to me, Rawlins volunteered that I "was less involved than any +other active Councillor" in the alleged misdeeds.

+ +

The FATE article, entitled "sTARBABY" prompted my own +investigation into Rawlins' charges. But unlike Rawlins, who +relies heavily on his recollection of conversations several years +earlier, I chose to use hard evidence - published articles, +memoranda and letters, some of which Rawlins cites in his +article. When I requested copies of these letters and memoranda +from the several principals involved, all of them responded +promptly and fully except for one -- Dennis Rawlins, who had +accused the others of "cover-up" and "censorship." RAWLINS +REFUSED MY REPEATED REQUESTS TO SUPPLY HARD DATA THAT MIGHT +CONFIRM HIS CHARGES, AND WHICH ALSO COULD DENY THEM!

+ +

The results of my investigation, based on hard data, +prompted me to conclude that the Rawlins article should have been +entitled "CRYBABY," and that an appropriate subtitle would have +been: "A wounded ego is the root of much evil."

+ +

If the editors of FATE had spent only a few hours reading +published articles cited in the Rawlins article they could not in +good conscience have accused CSICOP of "cover-up" or of having +"falsified the results." Instead, FATE chose to ignore the +traditional journalistic practice of investigating both sides of +a controversial issue and publishing both sides, as those accused +by Rawlins had done.

+ +

Rawlins' charges result from two tests intended to assess +whether the position of the planet Mars at the time of a person's +birth has a significant influence on whether he/she becomes a +"sports champion." This "Mars effect" hypothesis was first +proposed by France's Michel Gauquelin, who directs the laboratory +for the Study of Relations between Cosmic and Psychophysiological +Rhythms, based on a study of European champions.

+ +

The first of the two tests was performed by Gauquelin +himself, with results that generally were supportive of the Mars +effect hypothesis by eliminating a possible objection that first +had been raised by others, i,e, not CSICOP. The only way in which +CSICOP, or persons affiliated with it, could be guilty of +Rawlins' charges would be if they had refused to publish +Gauquelin's results or had intentionally altered the data in his +report. NEITHER OCCURRED. Nor did Gauquelin accuse CSICOP or its +members of trying to "cover-up" his results or altering the data +of this first test whose calculations he himself performed, +although there were some differences of interpretation of the +implication of these results.

+ +

HOWEVER, GAUQUELIN DID PUBLICLY ACCUSE RAWLINS OF DISTORTION +AND MISREPRESENTATION, with implied criticism of CSICOP because +Rawlins then was a member of its Executive Council. There would +be other occasions when CSICOP would be criticized because of +Rawlins' intemperate statements and actions.

+ +

This criticism was published by CSICOP in the Winter l978 +issue of its publication, THE SKEPTICAL INQUIRER (p. 80). In it +Gauquelin wrote: "How, in spite of all this data could one +distort and misrepresent the effect in question and sow doubts on +the subject? Dennis Rawlins, a member of CSICP ... has done just +this in a polemic which appeared in the Fall-Winter 1977 issue of +that (CSICOP's) journal." In "sTARBABY," Rawlins tries to shift +the blame for his transgressions to CSICOP.

+ +

According to "sTARBABY," CSICOP Chairman Prof. Paul Kurtz +was the principal architect of the alleged cover-up. Yet in +reality it was Kurtz, then editor of THE HUMANIST magazine +(published by the American Humanist Assn.) who printed the +lengthy paper by Gauquelin describing the seemingly favorable-for-him results of the first test in the Nov/Dec,l977 issue (p. +30). What kind of doubletalk is this when Rawlins and FATE charge +that Kurtz's decision to publish test results favorable to an +"adversary" represents a "cover-up"? Rawlins might better have +waited until "l984" to resort to such "double-speak" accusations.

+ +

Because the issues are complex and because two different +publications and organizations were involved, it is useful to +recount briefly the events that led to the first Mars effect +test, which is at the root of the Rawlins/FATE charges, and the +second tests performed using data for outstanding U.S. athletes. +Based on calculations performed by Rawlins himself, the U.S. +champions test showed a very UNFAVORABLE result for the claimed +Mars effect, which Rawlins confirms in "sTARBABY." And these +Rawlins-computed results were published, without change, by +CSICOP.

+ +

The Sept/Oct. l975 issue of THE HUMANIST carried an article +by L.E. Jerome that was critical of astrology in general and of +the Mars effect in particular. When Gauquelin sought an +opportunity for rebuttal, Kurtz provided it in the Jan./Feb. 1976 +issue of THE HUMANIST, which also carried several other articles +on astrology. Because Gauquelin's article claimed that the +Mars effect had been confirmed by Belgian Committee for the +Scientific Investigation of Alleged Paranormal Phenomena (created +some 25 years earlier), that group also was invited by Kurtz to +submit an article for publication. Belgian Comite Para, as it is +called, confirmed Gauquelin's calculations. But it questioned his +statistical assumption "that the frequency distribution of the +hours of birth during the day (the nych-themeral curve) is a +constant distribution...", i.e. that there is an equal +probability of a person being born during any hour of the day.

+ +

This seemed important because the Mars effect hypothesis +holds that persons born during an approximately two-hour period +just after Mars has "risen" or during a comparable period after +Mars is at upper culmination (zenith), are more likely to become +sports champions than persons born during other hours of the day. +If there is an equal probability of a person being born in any +one of the 24 hours, then 4/24, or l6.7%,of the general +population should be born when Mars is in one of these two "key +sectors." (Because of combined orbital motions of Earth and Mars, +the percentage of the day in which Mars is in two key sectors is +approximately l7%. But Gauquelin reported that 22% European +champions in his data base had been born when Mars was in the two +key sectors, significantly higher than the l7% "benchmark."

+ +

Because of the issue raised by Comite' Para, Kurtz +consulted statistics professor Marvin Zelen who in turn proposed a +control test that could resolve the statistical issue raised by +Comite' Para. This Zelen proposed test, also published in the +same (Jan./Feb. 1976) issue of THE HUMANIST, suggested that +Gauquelin should gather birth data for "non-champions" who had +been born in the same local areas and within three days of a +RANDOMLY SELECTED sub-sample of Gauquelin's "champions" who +seemed to show the Mars effect.

+ +

If only 17% of these NON-champions were born when Mars was +in the two key sectors, this would void the issue raised by +Comite Para. But if roughly 22% of the NON-champions also were +born when Mars was in the two key sectors, this would undercut +the Mars effect hypothesis. Zelen's article concluded that the +proposed test offered "an objective way for unambiguous +corroboration or dis-confirmation." In retrospect it would have +been more precise had he added: "...of the issue raised by +Belgian Comite Para." If Gauquelin's sample of "champions" data +was "biased," as Rawlins first suspected, this could not possibly +be detected by the Zelen-proposed test.

+ +

The same issue of The Humanist carried another article, by +astronomy professor George O. Abell, which was very skeptical of +astrology in general. But unlike Rawlins who dismissed the Mars +effect out-of-hand and "didn't believe that it merited serious +investigation yet" (FATE: p. 74), Abell wrote that if Gauquelin's +findings were correct, they were "extremely interesting."

+ +

However, Abell included the following note of caution: "If +all of Gauquelin's work is re-checked, and his results hold up, +then it is necessary to repeat the experiment with a new sample, +say in the United States. If that sample should give the same +result, then further verification is in order, until it is +absolutely certain that the effects are real and reproducible. +That is the way science works; reproducibility of results is +necessary before fundamental new laws can be inferred." This sage +advice clearly indicated the limits of what conclusions could be +drawn, and could not be drawn, from the results of the upcoming +Zelen test, and even from a complete re-check of Gauquelin's +original data on European champions, which was not attempted. It +should be stressed that at the time this first (Zelen) test was +proposed, CSICOP did not yet exist. Several months later, when it +was formed (initially under the auspices of the American Humanist +Assn.), Kurtz became its co-chairman and later its chairman. +Zelen and Abell were named Fellows, but not to CSICOP's Executive +Council. In l980, Abell was elected to replace Rawlins on the +Council.

+ +

The results of this first (Zelen) test were published in the +Nov./Dec., l977 issue of THE HUMANIST, where the issue first was +raised, although by this time CSICOP had its own publication. +Gauquelin and his wife Francoise were given nearly six large-size +magazine pages to present their findings without censorship. +Gauquelin reported having difficulties in obtaining data for non-champions born within several days of champions in small towns, +so he said that non-champions birth data had been obtained only +from the large cities in France and Belgium, The Gauquelins +reported that these data showed that only l7% of the non-champions had been born when Mars was in the two sectors which +seemed to resolve the issue earlier raised by Belgium's Comite +Para in favor of the Mars effect.

+ +

The same issue of THE HUMANIST carried an article jointly +authored by Zelen, Kurtz, and Abell, that began: "Is there a +'Mars Effect'? The preceding article by Michel and Francoise +Gauquelin discusses the experiment proposed by Marvin Zelen and +its subsequent outcome. Their conclusions come out in favor of +the existence of a 'Mars effect' related to sports champions. It +is the purpose of this article to discuss the analysis of the +data and to point out the strengths and weaknesses of the +evidence in favor of the 'Mars effect.'"

+ +

The Zelen/Kurtz/Abell article raised some questions about +the results. For example, that "the 'Mars effect' only appears in +Paris, not in Belgium or in the rest of France." The article +concluded: "lf one had a high prior 'belief' that there is a Mars +effect, then the Gauquelin data would serve confirm this prior +belief. In the other hand, if the prior belief in the existence +of a Mars effect was low, then this data may raise the posterior +belief, but not enough to accept the existence of the Mars +effect."

+ +

Rawlins charges that publication of this article, following +the uncensored Gauquelin paper,"commited CSICOP to a cover-up." +(FATE: p.76) Yet is characteristic of scientific controversy for +one party to question or challenge another's interpretation of +the data. And Gauquelin would do so following the second test +without being accused of a "cover-up" in "sTARBABY."

+ +

In the same issue of THE HUMANIST, in a brief introduction +written by Kurtz, the first "linkage" with CSICOP occurred. Kurtz +wrote: "Thus, members of CSICOP involved in this inquiry believe +that the claim that there is a statistical relationship between +the position of Mars at the time of birth of individuals and the +incidence of sports champions among them has not been established +.. to further the cause of scientific inquiry, the committee has +agreed (with Gauquelin) to make an independent test of the +alleged Mars effect by a study of sports champions in the United +States."

+ +

In "sTARBABY," Rawlins charges that the U. S, champions test +was a "diversion." Clearly the Gauquelins themselves did not view +it in this light, judging from the concluding statement in their +article which said: "Let us hope that these positive results may +induce other scientists to study whether this effect, discovered +with the European data, appears also with the U.S. data."

+ +

On March 28, 1978, SEVERAL MONTHS AFTER THE RESULTS OF THE +FIRST TEST WERE PUBLISHED, Rawlins sent Kurtz a copy of a three-page memorandum he had prepared a year earlier (March 29, 1977). +It contained a very technical analysis of the issue raised by +Comite Para, which prompted Rawlins to conclude that the 22% +figure reported for European champions was not the result of a +disproportionate share of births of the general population during +the early morning hours when Mars often was in one of the two key +sectors. In this analysis, Rawlins concluded that Gauquelin had +"made fair allowance for the effect."

+ +

But Rawlins had not written this three-page memo until +several month AFTER the Zelen test had been proposed in THE +HUMANIST. Shortly after preparing the analysis, Rawlins had sent +a copy to Prof. Marcello Truzzi, then editor of CSICOP's +publication. Truzzi had decided not to publish it but sent a copy +to Gauquelin. IF the Rawlins analysis of 1977 took account of all +possible demographic factors -- and there is some disagreement on +this question -- it was much too technical to be understood by +persons without expertise in statistics and celestial mechanics.

+ +

When Rawlins finally got around to sending this analysis to +Kurtz on March 28, 1978, his letter of that date did NOT +criticize Truzzi or CSICOP for not having published it earlier. +Rather, Rawlins admitted, "I should not have kept my (Mar. 19, +1977) memo..private after all." He did suggest that perhaps it +might now be published in THE HUMANIST. But by this time Kurtz no +longer was its editor. More important, the results of the first +(Zelen) test already had been published several months earlier.

+ +

If, as Rawlins would later charge in "sTARBABY," the +Zelen/Kurtz/Abell article published several months earlier in THE +HUMANIST amounted to a "cover-up," Rawlins did not make such an +accusation to Kurtz when he wrote him April 6, 1978. Instead, +Rawlins wrote; "I think our best bets now are 1. The main +European investigation might seek to discover how the Eur. samp +(of Gauquelin) was (hypothetically) fudged -- check orig. records +microscopically for some sort of Soal trick. 2. Proceed with the +U.S, test, where we know we have a clean (unbiased) sample."

+ +

This April 6, 1978, letter clearly shows that while Rawlins +suspected that Gauquelin had manipulated his European champions +data ("Soal trick") he found no evidence of wrong-doing by +Zelen/Kurtz/Abell. On April 26, 1978, in another letter to Kurtz, +following his visit with Rawlins in San Diego, Rawlins wrote that +he "was certain" that Gauquelin's original data "was biased, but +not sure how." Rawlins concluded this letter on a cordial note: +"Now, wasn't it great visiting sunny, funny, California -- and +getting to see a real live nut religion launch itself in San +Diego? ... hope you'll get back this way soon again."

+ +

It was at about this time that CSICOP came under fire for +Rawlins' actions in another matter. In the summer of 1977, +Rawlins and Abell had been invited to be panelists in a symposium +on astrology to be held March 18, 1978 at the University of +Toronto at which Gauquelin, among others, would participate. The +invitation came from Dr. Howard Eisenberg on the stationary of +the University's School of Continuing Studies. Both Rawlins and +Abel had accepted. Then, in late September, 1977, Eisenberg +withdrew the invitations on the grounds that "the response from +potential speakers...has yielded an incredible acceptance rate of +100%. This places us in the embarassing position of not being +able to sponsor all of you," i.e. pay travel expenses and allow +formal presentations.

+ +

On Feb. 6, 1978, Rawlins wrote to the president of the +University of Toronto, protesting what he said were "a number of +oddities" associated with the symposium, including an imbalance +between the number of astrology supporters and skeptics. The +Rawlins letter charged that "this conference looks to be a pretty +phoney confrontation, which will therefore give the irrational +pseudo-science of astrology an evidentially-unmerited 'academic' +boost in public credibility..." Rawlins sent a copy of his letter +to another university official.

+ +

Rawlins' suspicion of a loaded panel may have been +justified. But the letter of protest was written on CSICOP +stationery and signed "Dennis Rawlins, Executive Council, +CSICOP." Another regretable action was a Rawlins telephone call +late at night to a university astronomy professor, Robert +Garrison, which gave the impression that Rawlins was speaking in +behalf of CSICOP. In fact, Rawlins had taken these actions +without consulting other Council members and without official +approval to use CSICOP's name. In early April 1978, a copy of the +Rawlins letter had reached Truzzi, who also had been invited and +dis-invited to participate in the conference. The Rawlins letter +claimed that Truzzi had co-authored "an astrology-supporting +paper...and so rates as a strange sort of skeptic." Truzzi sent +Kurtz a copy of this Rawlins letter with a note that said: "Since +Dennis' letter is on Committee stationery, would appear he is +writing on behalf of the Committee, I trust that will not happen +again."

+ +

Rawlins' actions were reported in the Canadian magazine +SCIENCE FORUM July/August 1978, in an article written by Lydia +Dotto. The article, entitled "Science Confronts 'Pseudo-Science'", began; "It was after midnight on a Saturday night when +University of Toronto astronomer Bob Garrison was awakened by a +phone call. The caller identified himself as a member of the +Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the +Paranormal, and according to Garrison, he spent the best part of +the next hour urging the U of T scientist not to participate in +the conference on astrology...Dennis Rawlins, a California +astronomer and science writer and a member of the Committee, +acknowledged in an interview that he made the call, but denied he +was trying to talk Garrison out of attending the +conference...this and other incidents surrounding the conference +have become something of a cause celebre, particularly since the +event was cancelled shortly before it was to have taken place in +mid-March. Predictably, ACCUSATIONS BEGAN TO FLY THAT SCIENTIFIC +OPPONENTS OF ASTROLOGY WERE ENGAGED IN A CAMPAIGN TO SUPPRESS +FREEDOM OF SPEECH." (Emphasis added.)

+ +

Indeed they did, much to CSICOP's embarassment. Britain's +New Scientist magazine, in its June 29, 1978, issue, quoted the +Canadian magazine in an article that began: "Earlier this year an +astronomer at the University of Toronto, Dr. Bob Garrison, was +awakened by a phone call from a member of Committee for the +Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. The caller +allegedly spent most of the next hour trying to dissuade Garrison +from taking part in a conference on astrology."

+ +

This New Scientist account was picked up by FATE magazine, +which in turn attributed the action to CSICOP rather than to one +Council member. FATE commented: "If you have difficulty +understanding their (CSICOP) motives, remember that here is a +dedicated group of witch-hunters seeking to burn nonbelievers at +the stake." (How ironic that FATE now is promoting the views of +the same person whose intemperate earlier actions had provoked +FATE's harsh criticism.) The same criticism of CSICOP, because of +Rawlins' actions surfaced again in a feature article in THE +WASHINGTON POST (Aug. 26, 1979). The article, syndicated and +published elsewhere, was written by Ted Rockwell who was +identified as a member of the Parapsychological Association.

+ +

When I learned of the Rawlins incident, I was shocked as +were others on the Council. But all of us hoped that Council +members had learned an important lesson from the incident and +that it would have a maturing effect on Rawlins. Yet before +another year had passed Rawlins would once again demonstrate his +inability to distinguish between official CSICOP actions and +those of its individual members.

+ +

Originally it was expected that the required calculations of +Mars' position at the time of birth of U.S. champions (for the +second test) would be performed by Prof. Owen Gingerich of +Harvard University. But during the summer of 1978 the Harvard +astronomer was on an extended leave so Kurtz asked Rawlins to +perform the celestial mechanics computations. Rawlins did so and +found in sharp contrast to Gauquelin's findings that 22% of the +European champions were born when Mars was in the two key +sectors, and compared to the "chance" benchmark figure of 17%, +only 13.5% of the U.S. champions were born when Mars was in the +two key sectors. Thus, Rawlins' calculations showed that if Mars +had any effect on champions, it was a pronounced NEGATIVE effect +for U.S. athletes.

+ +

On Sept, 18, 1978, Rawlins prepared a four-page report +describing the procedures he had used in his calculations and a +summary of the results. But Rawlins could not resist including +some denigrating charges against Gauquelin. For example: +"Gauquelin was well known in his teens for his casting of +horoscopes (a practice he has since disowned)..." The comments +were both gratuitous and inappropriate.

+ +

Relations between Rawlins and Gauquelin had been strained +since CSICOP published a long, rambling Rawlins attack +(Fall/Winter 1977) in which he accused Gauquelin of "misgraphing +the results of the Belgian Comite Para check on his Mars-athletes +link..." Gauquelin had responded with the charge that Rawlins had +distorted and misrepresented the facts in a letter which then was +scheduled to be published shortly in the Winter 1978 issue of THE +SKEPTICAL INQUIRER. The same issue also would carry a sharp +rejoinder from Rawlins.

+ +

Thus it is hardly surprising that Kurtz decided that it +would be best if the upcoming summary report on the results of +the U.S. champions test should be written by Zelen, Abell and +himself -- especially since the three of them had jointly +authored the earlier article and Abell had proposed the U.S. +test. If Kurtz instead had suggested that the U.S. champions test +report be jointly authored with Rawlins instead of Abell, +"sTARBABY" might never have been published. This is evident from +numerous Rawlins complaints in "sTARBABY." For example, Rawlins +complains that the day after Kurtz received his Sept. 18, 1978, +report (with the ad hominem attack on Gauquelin) "Kurtz wrote +Abell to suggest KZA (Kurtz, Zelen and Abell) confer and prepare +the test report for publication (EXCLUDING ME)." (Emphasis +added.) (P.79.)

+ +

Rawlins also complains that Kurtz asked Zelen and Abell "to +verify the work," i.e. Rawlins' calculations. (P.80.) Because of +the importance of test, it was good scientific protocol to ask +other specialists to at least spot-check Rawlins' computations. +Then Rawlins reveals he was angered because "Abell asked +countless questions about my academic training." (P. 8O.) +Inasmuch as Rawlins lists his academic training as being in +physics rather than astronomy, Abell's questions seem justified.

+ +

Further evidence of Rawlins' wounded ego is his complaint +that "not only was Abell being invited to the press conference +(at the upcoming Council in Washington, D.C.), he was to be the +CSICOP spokesman on astrology in Washington." (P.81) Rawlins said +he "strongly protested the high-handedness of the choice of Abell +as the speaker at the annual meeting...I emphasized that CSICOP +had plenty of astronomers associated with it (Carl Sagan, Bart +Bok, Edwin Krupp and others), all of them nearer Washington than +Abell who lived all the way across the country, in the Los +Angeles area." (In fact, Krupp also lived in Southern California, +Bok lived Arizona, and Sagan then was working in California on +his "Cosmos" television series.)

+ +

In "sTARBABY," Rawlins claims that Abell had been invited to +speak because "Kurtz was trying to suppress my dissenting report +(of Sept. 18, 1978) and (by not paying my travel fare) to keep me +from the December Council meeting while inviting to Washington as +a prominent CSICOP authority the very person whose appointed task +I HAD MYSELF PERFORMED" (his italics, p. 81). In reality, there +was no question that Rawlins' Sept, 18, 1978, report, describing +his analytical procedures, needed to be published. The only +question was whether it should include the ad hominem attack on +Gauquelin.

+ +

It was not until approximately one year AFTER the results of +the Zelen test were published in THE HUMANIST that Rawlins first +charged the use of "bait-and-switch" tactics--what he calls +"BS"--had been employed. This allegation was contained in his +letter of Nov. 2, 1978, to Zelen, with a copy to Kurtz. BUT +RAWLINS STILL DID NOT CHARGE THAT THIS AMOUNTED TO A "COVER-UP," +OR THAT CSICOP WAS INVOLVED. Quite the opposite. A few weeks +later when the Winter 1978 issue of THE SKEPTICAL INQUIRER was +published, there was a Rawlins response which said: "It SHOULD BE +CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT CSICOP AS A BODY NEVER HAD ANYTHING TO DO +WITH THE HUMANIST ZELEN TEST 'CHALLENGE'...PUBLISHED BEFORE THE +COMMITTEE WAS FOUNDED"(Emphasis added.)

+ +

Like most members of CSICOP's Executive Council who had not +been involved either in the first (Zelen) test or the subsequent +U.S. champions test, and who were not sufficiently expert in +celestial mechanics, statistics or astrology to take a prior +interest, my first exposure to the controversy came during the +Council meeting in Washington in early December, 1978, when +Rawlins unleashed a rambling harrangue. Understandably I was +confused by Rawlins' charge that CSICOP somehow was involved in a +Zelen test-results cover-up that had occurred more than a year +before which contradicted his just-published statement in THE +SKEPTICAL INQUIRER stating that the original Zelen test was NOT a +CSICOP-sponsored effort.

+ +

Despite my efforts to understand Rawlins' allegations, it +was not clear to me (and to many other Council members) just what +it was that he now was claiming had been"covered-up." After three +years of working with Rawlins I was well aware of his proclivity +for making harsh, exaggerated charges. Most often these were +directed against supporters of the para-normal, but sometimes +also against Council members who disagreed with his proposals for +intemperate actions against "the believers." For example, Rawlins +had charged that Truzzi was involved with the "Church of Satan."

+ +

Beyond having difficulty in understanding the specifics of +Rawlins' charges, I failed to grasp what he thought should be +done to correct the alleged problem. Because the hour was getting +late and Council members had to leave to catch flights back home, +I suggested to Rawlins that he write a memorandum that clearly +and concisely set forth the basic issues and that he recommend +appropriate corrective action. In this way Council members could +better comprehend the matter and consider corrective action if +such were justified. Rawlins cites this in "sTARBABY" and claims +he was the only party who had put the issues in writing. BUT HE +DID NOT SEND COPIES OF SUCH MEMORANDA TO COUNCIL MEMBERS. ONE +LOGICAL EXPLANATION FOR THIS IS THAT PREVIOUSLY HE DID NOT +BELIEVE THE MATTER INVOLVED CSICOP OR REQUIRED COUNCIL MEMBERS' +ATTENTION.

+ +

Rawlins was the last one to leave my apartment (where we had +been meeting that night) and he continued his earlier harrangue +but without clarifying the issues. Later, he called me from the +airport to continue the discussion. Again I asked that he clarify +the issues for me and other Council members by preparing a +memorandum. I assured Rawlins that since I had not been involved +in either of the two tests and since he had recommended my +election to Council, he could expect me to be at least neutral if +not sympathetic.

+ +

Rawlins never responded to my request. About six weeks later +(Jan. 17, 1979), he did circulate a five-page memo to CSICOP +Fellows and Council members. It was a "baby sTARBABY" which cited +a number of ALLEGED mistakes that had been made by OTHERS +involved in the tests and in CSICOP's operations. I replied on +Jan. 31 saying that his memo was "for me an unintelligible +jumble." I added: "without meaning to give offense to a friend, I +once again urge you -- as I did at our meeting here -- to outline +the problem...then outline your recommendations. And please do +not assume, as you have done, that all of us follow the G-affair +as closely as you have done." My letter concluded: "Skip the +invective...outline the problem clearly, concisely, and offer +your recommendations."

+ +

Rawlins never responded to this request. Today, following my +recent investigation, I know why. There was no cover-up, except +in Rawlins' troubled mind, fed by the fires of a wounded ego and, +perhaps, by embarassment over his unauthorized intervention in +the University of Toronto symposium. Rawlins was unable to +recommend specific corrective action because nothing could have +saved his wounded ego unless it were possible to turn back the +clock and to have invited Rawlins to be the CSICOP speaker on +astrology in Washington and to replace Abell in writing the +report on the results of the U.S. champions test.

+ +

Readers of "sTARBABY" might easily conclude that Rawlins +believes that Zelen/Kurtz/Abell, in the Nov/Dec. 1977 issue of +THE HUMANIST, should have conceded "Gauquelin has won" and +cancelled plans for the U.S. champions test. Yet had they done +so, Rawlins would have been outraged because such a concession +would imply that the Zelen test had proved the Mars effect beyond +all doubt and this was not true. Had Zelen/Kurtz/Abell even +contemplated such a concession, I am certain that Rawlins would +have urged that they be ousted from CSICOP.

+ +

"sTARBABY" reveals that Rawlins imagines many things that +simply are not true, such as his charge that I was involved in a +plot to suppress his discussions of the Gauquelin test at the +1978 Council meeting. His article implies that Council meetings +are characterized by attempts to suppress dissenting views. In +reality one usually hears almost as many different viewpoints as +there are Council members present. And Kurtz is the most +unconstraining group chairman I have ever known in the many +organizations of which I have been a member.

+ +

Even on easily ascertainable matters, Rawlins chooses to +rely on his vivid imagination or recollections rather than take +time to check the facts. For example, in "sTARBABY," Rawlins +claims that he was an "associate editor" of THE SKEPTICAL +INQUIRER, as well as being a member of its editorial board -- +which he was [not]. Rawlins makes that claim in seven different +places in his article. One would expect that a person who +imagines himself to be an associate editor of a publication over +a period of several years would at least once look at that +publication's masthead, where its editorial staff is listed. Had +Rawlins done so he would not have made this spurious claim.

+ +

This is not an error of great consequence. But when I +pointed it out to him, his response was revealing, especially +because he accuses others of being unwilling to admit to error +and of resorting to "cover-up." Rawlins' letter of Sept. 21, +1981, explained that at a Council meeting HELD FOUR YEARS EARLIER +he remembers that "Kurtz called all Ed. Board members 'Associate +Editors'...I adopted to save syllables." Rawlins tries to justify +his misstatement of fact on the grounds that he was able to save +approximately 42 characters in his 75000-character-long article!

+ +

In "sTARBABY," Rawlins claims that the full-day meeting of +the Council in Washington was held at the National Press Club +because this was "the temple of CSICOP's faith." (P. 86.) Had +Rawlins asked me, I would have informed him that I had selected +the National Press Club because it was the lowest-cost facility +in downtown Washington that I could find. But Rawlins decided he +knew the answer without bothering to investigate. This is neither +good science nor good journalism.

+ +

In the previously cited Rawlins memorandum of Jan. 17, 1979, +following the Washington meeting, he wrote that he planned to +reduce his involvement with CSICOP. He added that there was no +reason to "hide" CSICOP's problems "from the public. So I may +inform a neutral, responsible, unsensational member of the press +re the foregoing." In reality Rawlins already had taken such +steps at the December Council meeting whose press seminar was +attended by an experienced journalist with a known empathy for +some paranormal claims. During the early afternoon Rawlins and +this journalist left the meeting together and returned together +several hours later. But this journalist never published anything +on the matter, possibly because he has as much difficulty in +understanding Rawlins' charges as did Council members.

+ +

According to "sTARBABY," in mid-1979, Rawlins received a +letter from Jerome Clark of FATE magazine, expressing an interest +in learning more about Rawlins' complaints against CSICOP. +Rawlins claims that shortly afterward "I told the Council I'd be +open with FATE." I question the truthfulness of his statement +because Rawlins did not bother to attend the next Council meeting +in December, 1979, nor have I been able to locate any Rawlins +letter or memorandum to substantiate this claim.

+ +

"sTARBABY" claims that "as the FATE-story realization set +in, Council reacted like the White House when it learned that +John Dean had sat down with the prosecution (during the Watergate +scandal). (P.91) This claim I know to be false. The prospect of a +Rawlins article in FATE was never discussed at the 1979 or 1980 +Council meetings, nor by memorandum during the two intervening +years. Otherwise CSICOP would have prepared a response which it +could have released immediately following publication of +"sTARBABY," preventing Rawlins from boasting that failure of +CSICOP to respond quickly to his many charges indicated an +inability to do so.

+ +

Returning, chronologically, to the fall of 1979, CSICOP was +preparing to publish the results of the U.S. champions test in +the Winter 1979-80 issue of THE SKEPTICAL INQUIRER. Rawlins +demanded the right to revise and expand his original Sept, 18, +1978, paper, and was given that opportunity. Furthermore, +according to "sTARBABY," Rawlins informed Ken Frazier, editor of +THE SKEPTICAL INQUIRER, "that if there were any alterations not +cleared with me, I wanted a note printed with the paper stating +that deletions had occurred over the author's protest and that +the missing portions could be obtained directly from me." (P. +92.)

+ +

Frazier (who had been recommended for the position by +Rawlins himself), acting on the recommendation of Prof. Ray +Hyman, a Council member who reviewed the Rawlins paper and the +others, and on Frazier's own long editorial experience, decided +to delete the sentence referring to Gauquelin's earlier interest +in traditional astrology. Frazier also opted to delete another +sentence that read: "In this connection I must also say that, +given the self piekill upshot (sic) of their European +(nonchampions) adventure plus their failure to perform +independently the U.S. study's technical foundations (sector +position, expectation curve), I find it amusing that ZKA (Zelen, +Kurtz, Abell) are the main commentators on this test in THE +SKEPTICAL INQUIRER." Once again Rawlins' wounded-ego had +manifested itself.

+ +

On Nov, 6, 1979, Rawlins sent a memo to other members of the +Editorial Board complaining that his article "has been neatly +censored here and there, so I have asked to add a statement +saying so and suggesting that readers who wish to consult the +original version may do so by contacting me. This sentence has +itself been bowdlerized (so that it reads as if no tampering +occurred)." Frazier had proposed an alternative sentence, which +was published at the end of the Rawlins paper, that read: +"Further commentary on the issues raised in this paper and in +these notes is available from the author." Rawlins' address also +was published.

+ +

This is the basis for Rawlins' harsh charges of "censorship" +against Frazier, the man whom he had so highly recommended for the +position. If Rawlins' complaint were justified, every working +journalist could make the same accusations regularly against +those who edit his/her copy to assure clarity and good taste and +to avoid libel. In response to Rawlins' charges, Frazier wrote to +members of the Editorial Board explaining what had transpired. +Frazier noted, "Dennis seems to believe his position as a member +of the Editorial Board gives his writings special status exempt +from normal editorial judgment. None of the rest of you has ever +suggested this," i.e. demanded privileged treatment. So because +Rawlins was not given privileged treatment, he charges +"censorship."

+ +

In the same Nov. 6, 1979, letter charging censorship, +Rawlins complained that he alone among Council members had not +been reimbursed for his travel expenses of $230 to the previous +Council meeting in Washington. Rawlins said that he would need +$400.00 for travel to attend the upcoming Council meeting in New +York and added "I won't do that unless all 63O dollars are here +beforehand." Kurtz promptly sent Rawlins a check for $350 as a +travel advance and assured him he would be reimbursed for +previous travel expense as soon as he submitted an expense +account--which Rawlins had never done (In "sTARBABY," Rawlins +characterizes this as a "ridiculous excuse" for failure to +reimburse him earlier.) Rawlins cashed the $350 check but did not +attend the New York Council meeting, nor did he inform the +Council that he would not attend. Rawlins never refunded the $120 +difference between $230 he claimed was due him and the $350 he +received. Yet Rawlins professes to have been shocked and +surprised when the Council voted unanimously not to reelect +Rawlins at its New York meeting. (Since Rawlins seems so easily +shocked and surprised, I suspect he was equally surprised at the +resignation of Richard M. Nixon.)

+ +

Two months later, Rawlins wrote to Frazier saying he wished +to resign from the Editorial Board. But he insisted that the +resignation should not take effect until his statement +complaining about not being reelected "in absentia" was +published. This Rawlins statement claimed that he had not been +reelected solely because he had criticized "CSICOP's conduct +during ITS FOUR YEAR INVOLVEMENT in testing Gauquelin's neo-astrology..." (Emphasis added.)

+ +

Had Frazier opted to publish this grossly inaccurate +statement, which he did not, readers might well have wondered if +there were really two different Dennis Rawlins, recalling barely +a year earlier when a Rawlins letter had been published which +said: "It should be clearly understood that CSICOP as a body +never had anything to do with the Humanist Zelen test +'challenge'..." When Frazier accepted Rawlins' resignation, this +prompted Rawlins to complain that he had been removed from the +Editorial Board without "cause or written notice." Later, +following a mail ballot of Council members, CSICOP dropped +Rawlins from its list of Fellows. (The vote against Rawlins was +6:1.)

+ +

The foregoing highlights the key issues and actions that +prompted FATE and Rawlins to charge that CSICOP "bungled their +major investigation, falsified the results, covered up their +errors and gave the boot to a colleague who threatened to tell +the truth." (After my investigation, a re-reading of "sTARBABY" +gives me the feeling that I am reading a Pravda account +explaining that the Soviets moved into Afghanistan to help the +Afghans prevent an invasion by the U.S. Central Intelligence +Agency.)

+ +

Were it possible to turn back the clock, undoubtedly Kurtz, +Zelen and Abell would try to be more precise in defining test +objectives and protocol and would do so in writing. And more time +would be spent in more carefully phrasing articles dealing with +such tests. But all CSICOP Council members and Fellows have other +full-time professions that seriously constrain time available for +CSICOP efforts.

+ +

Were it possible to turn back the clock, the Council should have +insisted in the spring of 1978 that Rawlins issue a public +statement that he had erred in using CSICOP's name in support of +his personal actions connected with the University of Toronto's +planned astrology symposium. Failure to do this has resulted in +an unjustified blot on CSICOP's modus-operandi. Also at that time +the Council should have developed a policy statement, as it +recently did, that more clearly delineates activities that +members perform officially in behalf of CSICOP and those carried +out as private individuals.

+ +

When a small group of persons met in Buffalo in May, 1976, +to create CSICOP, their motivation was a concern over the growing +public acceptance of claims of the paranormal. CSICOP was created +to provide a counter-balance to those who espouse a variety of +claims, ranging from UFOs to astrology, from the "Bermuda +Triangle" to psychic phenomena. With the benefit of experience, +it was apparent that there was an extreme spectrum of viewpoints +on the Council. Rawlins was at the "hit-'em-hard" extreme, while +Truzzi was at the opposite pole and resigned after a couple +years, partially as a result of behind-the scenes plotting by +Rawlins which he admits in "sTARBABY." Now Rawlins has departed +and, in my view, CSICOP is much the better for it.

+ +

CSICOP never has tried to destroy those organizations that +promote belief in paranormal causes. But individuals in these +organization have tried to discredit CSICOP, even going so far in +one instance as to circulate a forged letter.

+ +

FATE magazine made wide distribution of the Rawlins +"sTARBABY" article in reprint form, together with its press +release. Prof. R.A. McConnell, University of Pittsburgh, founding +President of the Parapsychological Association, also distributed +copies to CSICOP Fellows and Council members, among others. In +his accompanying letter, McConnell said he believed the "Rawlins +report is certainly true in broad outline and probably true in +every detail...He has created a document of importance for the +history and philosophy of science." McConnell quoted an "unnamed +scientist" as claiming that "Rawlins has uncovered the biggest +scandal in the history of rationalism." McConnell characterized +CSICOP as "an intellectually dishonest enterprise."

+ +

FATE and McConnell have demonstrated the intrinsic flaw in +the basic approach of those who promote claims of the paranormal +-- THEIR EAGERNESS TO ACCEPT CLAIMS OF EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS +WITHOUT RIGOROUS INVESTIGATION. Neither FATE nor McConnell +contacted CSICOP officials to check out Rawlins' charges. This +demonstrates why CSICOP is so sorely needed.

+ +

The late President Harry Truman phrased it well: "If you +can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen." CSICOP is "in the +kitchen" by choice and intends to remain there despite the heat. +The response of CSICOP's Council and its Fellows to recent events +shows that the Committee is not an easy victim of heat-prostration.

+ +

If the Mars effect, or any other paranormal hypothesis, +should ever be demonstrated using rigorous scientific procedures, +there simply is no way in which the small group of individuals +involved in CSICOP could ever hope to suppress such evidence. Nor +have I found any CSICOP Council member or Fellow who is so +foolish as to try.

+ +

(end)

+ +

[In the years following "sTARBABY", Rawlins has continued to +receive publicity by making sensational charges of +scientific coverup and fraud. In 1988 he made national +headlines by renewing an earlier charge he had made before +CSICOP's founding, this time supposedly supported by a new-found document: that Admiral Peary never actually reached +the North Pole during his famous expedition in 1909, but +instead fabricated his navigational records to make it +appear as if he had. A New York Times article of October 13, +1988 carries the headline: "Peary's Notes Said to Imply He +Fell Short of Pole." It begins: "New evidence based on +navigational notes by Robert E. Peary indicates that the +Arctic explorer fell short of his goal and deliberately +faked his claim in 1909 that he was the first person to +reach the North Pole, according to an analysis by a +Baltimore astronomer and historian ... Dennis Rawlins, an +independent scholar who trained as an astronomer and who has +a long-standing interest in Peary's expedition, said +yesterday that his analysis of the navigational notes, +mainly sextant readings of the sun to establish geographic +position, indicated that Peary knew that he had come no +closer than 121 miles from the Pole." Officials of the +National Geographic Society promised to examine Rawlins' +data, but added "We believe Mr. Rawlins has been too quick +to cry fake."

+ +

After a three-month investigation of Rawlins' charges, a +press conference was sponsored by The Navigation Foundation +at which they dismissed his "sensational claims". As +reported in a Baltimore Sun story syndicated Feb. 2, 1989, +"Since October [Natl. Geographic] Society President Gilbert +M. Grosvenor and others had quietly endured Rawlins' public +calls for debate and unconditional surrender on the Peary +issue." The Society was willing to take seriously an +analysis by the British explorer Wally Herbert, based on +other evidence, that a navigation error may have caused +Peary to miss the pole by about 45 miles. "Suggesting that +Peary might not have reached the Pole is one thing," said +Grosvenor. "Declaring Peary a fraud is quite another." +Rawlins held his own "informal press conference" afterwards, +reports The Sun, in which Rawlins "admitted he had confused +time readings for chronometer checks with altitudes of the +sun and had mistaken serial numbers on the chronometers for +navigational observations." Rawlins conceded, "My +interpretation has some problems, and I acknowledge that. +It's fair to say that, if I'm saying Peary was a fraud, I +think I have not yet met the burden of proof."

+ +

Finally, in December, 1989, a 230-page report commissioned +by the National Geographic Society was released, concluding +that Peary actually did reach the Pole. As reported in a +story on p.1 of the New York Times, Dec. 12, 1989, a new +analysis of Peary's records by professional navigators +concluded that Peary's final camp was not more than five +miles from the Pole. "The report said, there was no evidence +of fraud and deception in the explorer's records. But one +critic, Dennis Rawlins, a Baltimore astronomer and +historian, said he remained convinced, despite the new +study, that Admiral Peary did not reach his goal and had +faked his claim."

+ +

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The following appeared in the October, 1975 issue of "Gallery," a porno +magazine which billed Fletcher Prouty as the "National Affairs Editor." +Some people feel there is no credible way to justify associating oneself +with such exploitative and demeaning media. Fletcher Prouty has told me +that since the Ballentine paperback edition of "The Secret Team" was +"disappeared" soon after it came out in February of 1974, it was very +difficult for him to find publishers who would print his writings (from +9/74 to 7/75 he was able to get 7 articles published in "Genesis" (another +porno magazine), and from 9/75 to 6/78 he got 14 articles printed in +"Gallery)". Up until the Ballentine paperback was squelched, he had been +published in the likes of "The Nation," "The New Republic," (including +cover-story features), and "Air Force Magazine." It is a telling +indictment of the reality of the lack of public access to the mainstream +corporate press, that a man like Fletcher Prouty--who served in the Air +Force for 23 years, rose to the rank of Colonel, was a briefing officer in +the Pentagon from 1955 thru 12/31/63, serving also as Focal Point Officer +(liason) between the DOD and the CIA, first in the Headquarters of the Air +Force (1955 to 1960), where he set up and then ran the structures that +supplied Air Force logistical (military hardware) support for CIA +clandestine operations world-wide, then in the Office of the Secretary of +Defense (1960 into 1961), and then in the Office of the Joint Chiefs of +Staff (1961 thru 12/31/63) where he ran the same support for all branches +of the military--that a man possessing such critical first-hand experience +and knowledge of the mechanisms, methodogy and factual history of CIA +covert operations in this seminal period, would find his writings and +analysis of these important issues essentially barred from the most +generally accessible publications. As long as the conglomerate press in +this country continues to increasingly restrict the range and variety of +points of view being published, writers will resort to certain types of +publishers they would not choose to go to if they had a better alternative.

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THE GUNS OF DALLAS +(c) 1975 by L. Fletcher Prouty +Reprinted here this one time only with permission by of the author

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The shocking nature of what you are about to read in this article +makes it imperative that you be aware of some of the credentials +and experience of the author. +From 1955 to December 31, 1963, Col. L. Fletcher Prouty was the +Focal Point (liason) officer between the Pentagon and the CIA. +During 1962 and 1963 he was Director of Special Plans (clandestine +operations) in the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. +In 1971 he was the president of the Financial Marketing Council, +Washington, D.C. +He is the author of numerous articles and of "The Secret Team," +published by Prentice Hall (1973) and Ballantine Books (1974). +

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This article included a great deal of photograhic evidence of the events +in Dealey Plaza. The photographic research was by Richard E. Sprague. +Unfortunately, I will only be able to include the text in this post. +However, the captions are included in square braces, and an asterisk +character, '*', delimits pictures not seen by Warren Commission. +--ratitor

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How was the Warren Commission kept +from investigating and seeing evidence? +This is the real issue. +This is a crime to top the crime. +________________________________________________

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As we prepare now to celebrate the beginning of the third century +of the founding of this country, we wonder if we live in the land +of the free. We wonder if at least we still have a government of +the people and by the people. Certainly, it is no longer a +government for the people. The sound throughout the land is ugly: +there is frustration, hate, and fear. We must act while there may +still be time. +There is a grave conspiracy over the land. The people have come +alive because of Vietnam and Watergate; but they have scarcely +scratched the surface. A President and a Vice-President have been +forced to resign. A President has been shot to death. Two +Presidential candidates have been shot, one of them killed. Many +of the President's men have been forced to leave, some have gone to +jail; others are still under indictment. +Yes, history has been made by a series of murders, but not +enough has been done to solve them. The trial of Watergate was the +trial of the cover-up. There has been no trial about the real +crime of Watergate. There has been no trial of the big power +behind Watergate. The Hunts, Liddys, McCords, and the Cubans were +not drawn into that drama solely for their own interests. They +were working for someone much higher up. They were all pawns, just +like Nixon was. This is a game for the biggest stake of all-- +absolute control of the government of the United States of America; +and, with control of this government, control of the world. And +yet the real crime underlying all of this has not even been +identified, stated, and charged. The real criminals still walk the +streets, run their corporations, control their banks, and pull +strings throughout their political and financial machines.

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This control mechanism did not start in 1972 with Watergate. It +began, in a tentative way, in the Korean War era, when the military +and the executive branch found out how easy it was to fool the +Congress and the American public. And with that recognition, +power-hungry and money-mad industrialists began to usurp more and +more power. And when those rifles crackled over Dealey Plaza, in +Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 and John F. Kennedy's brain was +splattered across the road, they had made their move into the big +time. They took over control of the President and of the +Presidency. The man they had killed was no longer a problem and +they had made certain that his successor, Lyndon Johnson, heard and +remembered the sound of those guns. It is the sound of those guns +in Dallas, and their ever-present threat, which is the real +mechanism of control over the American government. +It is possible now to reconstruct the scenario of that day, and, +with new information, to show why the murder of JFK may properly be +called the "Crime of the Century." If we the people of the United +States do not demand its resolution this year, it will stand in the +way of a free election in 1976. It will doom a third century of +democratic government in this country. +Almost everyone who has taken the time to do any reading and +thinking about that crime knows by now that John Kennedy was killed +not by a lone assassin, but by a group of hired "mechanics." Let's +look at some of the hard facts of this murder and put to rest once +and for all the "cover-up" report of the Warren Commission. +The Warren Commission categorically stated that Lee Harvey +Oswald was the killer of JFK and that he acted alone. The Warren +Commission says that Oswald fired three shots, only three shots, +from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building +and that his lair was at a window, number one from the right +(eastern-most on the south side) on that sixth floor. (See photo +1. [NUMBER 1. The Texas School Book Depository Building. Arrow +points to window from which Oswald supposedly shot Kennedy. (photo +by Willis.)])

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If one breaks this contrived Warren Commission story, then the +fundament of the "lone assassin" theory is undermined. Break this +weak theory and you are confronted immediately with an awareness of +the existence of a massive conspiracy. And we are equally +convinced that this group hired at least four expert "mechanics" +(assassins). This group wielded control over elements of the +Dallas police, the Sheriff's office, the FBI, the Secret Service, +and the CIA. This great cabal had control high enough in +government, or at least in the councils of government, to be able +to influence the travel plans of the President, the Vice-President +and a Presidential candidate (Nixon), and all members of the +Kennedy cabinet. They were powerful enough to have orders issued +to the Army, and they were able to mount a massive campaign to +control the media during and after the assassination. They were +able to have Jack Ruby kill Oswald and to transfer jurisdiction of +the murder from Texas and then to effectively control the outcome +of the Warren Commission review. +Then as soon as JFK was dead, they began an even larger campaign +to cover up that crime forever. Penn Jones, the tenacious editor +of the Midlothian, Texas, "Mirror," has devoted his life to +"researching the hell" out of this conspiracy. He has a list of +some eighty-five people who, because they knew too much or got too +close, have died sudden and unnatural deaths since the JFK murder. +This great cabal had seen to it that Vice-President Lyndon +Johnson was in the Kennedy procession, and they saw to it that he +heard those hired guns, that he saw Kennedy die, and that he lived +through that terrible nightmare of the trip back to Washington on +Air Force One. From that day on, LBJ never again was that self-confident, swash-buckling, free-wheeling Texan. Before he died, +LBJ told his old friend Tom Janos that he knew Oswald had not +killed JFK alone. +The American public is now ready enough to have the cloak torn +from the lies about the Kennedy murder and the cover-up; but the +American public has not had the guts to face the fact of the +massive conspiracy that arranged for that murder and which to this +day perpetuates its cover-up.

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Many of us have been convinced, as a result of careful and +detailed study that the first of these glass barricades, the Warren +Commission report, is a lie. And, we are equally convinced that +the cover-up of the murder can be smashed and the conspiracy +exposed. But if we don't act now, there will be consequences. +These will begin with either the cancellation of elections in 1976 +or with elections that will be a total sham. For who will dare run +against the candidate of the conspiracy? Will it be Wallace with +his wounds and from his wheelchair, or another Kennedy, or Ed +Muskie, who was badly roughed up in 1972, or George McGovern, who +was twice scheduled for assassination in 1972? +Who, unless he sells his soul to the cabal, can face those hired +guns? +Today, our country is being run by a President and a Vice-President who have not been elected to office. This is merely a +process to condition the American public. +Let's begin here by breaking apart the whole fabric of the +lone-killer thesis. On November 28, 1963, less than one week after +Kennedy's death, the Secret Service, the agency closest to the +scene, reported that three shots were fired. The Secret Service +said that the first hit the President, the second hit Governor John +Connally of Texas, and the third struck the President. There were +no other shots according to the Secret Service. *The Secret +Service was wrong*! +On December 9, 1963, the FBI reported that three shots had been +fired and that two hit the President and that one hit John +Connally. The FBI says there were no other shots. The FBI was +less specific than the Secret Service. *The FBI was wrong*. +Then, much later, on September 27, 1964 (ten months after the +crime), the Warren Commission issued its report along with twenty-six huge volumes of random data. This report states that there +were three shots. *The Warren Commission was wrong*.

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According to the Warren Commission, the first shot, the "miracle +bullet" designed and dreamed up by one of its lawyers (Arlen +Specter), is one of the most fascinating contrivances of our +generation. Forced to account for a series of unrelated events, +Arlen Specter came up with a weird solution. He says the first +bullet hit JFK, passed through the muscle of his upper back exited +from his lower throat, traveled a few feet in the air, changed +course, and entered Connally's back, plunged through his body, +broke about five inches of one of his right rib bones, came out +again, and then slammed into his right wrist, where it broke two +more bones, exited again, and then pierced his thigh and ended its +strange journey embedded in his thigh bone. +An interpretation of this thesis, based on photographic and +medical evidence, means the bullet would have had to have made a +right and upward turn upon leaving JFK's throat, paused in midair +for more than two seconds, made a left and steep downward turn as +it entered Connally's back, made a right and upward turn as it left +Connally's chest, passed through Connally's wrist in the direction +backward from the way his wrist was facing, made another left and +downward turn, then wound up in Connally's left thigh. +Right here we see the brazen, "To Hell with the Public" +character of the Commission report. Can you imagine some lawyer, +even the persuasive and imaginative Specter, selling that bullet +and its bumble-bee flight to any jury of intelligent Americans? +The Commission was stuck with a "three bullet" crime because the +Secret Service and the FBI had both reported three bullets, because +there were only 6.8 seconds of shooting[1], as proven precisely by +a film of the event made by Abraham Zapruder, and because the +character who planted the shells at the "Oswald lair" had only put +three there. Furthermore, if they were going to stick with the +"lone assassin" solution, they were faced with the hard task of +making it appear feasible that Oswald alone could have gotten off +just three bullets in 6.8 seconds, let alone four, five, or six. +The Zapruder movie film, which shows the entire scene from +beginning to end, became invaluable as a master clock of the whole +affair. It established a foolproof chronology of the crime. It is +not too difficult to determine precisely when (what frame of the +movie film) the first shot was fired; and it is equally simple to +determine exactly the elapsed time until the last shot was fired. +So, unless the Commission could accept that there might have been +other gunmen who fired during the same 6.8 seconds--and this the +Commission categorically denied--it was going to have to show that +Oswald could have fired three bullets from that sixth-floor window, +and that he performed this feat in super-marksmanship time of 6.8 +seconds. It is significant to stress here that the supposed murder +weapon was a cheap Italian Mannlicher-Carcano mail-order rifle, a +single-shot, bolt-action antique. +Another complication crept into the Commission's connivance. +One of the bystanders at Dealey Plaza that day was a man named +James Tague. He was hit by a fragment of concrete knocked off the +curb by a bullet that had hit a curbstone near where he stood. +(See photo 2. [NUMBER 2.* James Tague, on the far right, with cut +on face after he was hit by a fragment of concrete that was knocked +off the curb by errant bullet. (photo by Allen.)] ) He reported +his injury to a hospital. So there was another man on record as +having been hit during these same 6.8 seconds. This forced the +Commission to accept that one bullet, the second by their count, +missed both JFK and Connally. This complicated their task. +Remember, neither the Secret Service nor the FBI has accounted for +that "missed" bullet and there were only three shell cases and no +clips at Oswald's window. They both had said that three shots were +fired and that two hit JFK and one hit Connally. The FBI later +found the nick in the curbstone, took a section of it back to their +labs in Washington, analyzed it, and decided that a bullet had +indeed hit the curb. +The Zapruder film makes it abundantly clear that the top of the +President's head was blown off and the skull and brain spattered as +far as thirty-seven yards away by a third shot. Thus the +Commission gives the "official" version: three shots. The third +shot, the missed second shot, and none other than the contrived +"Specter Miracle Bullet"--the first shot. (See photos 345. +[NUMBER 3. Z-313, showing impact and explosion of third shot, which +killed Kennedy. NUMBER 4. "The Miracle bullet." Commission +exhibit 399: a portion was sliced from for FBI spectrographic +comparison with other bullet fragments. The results were never +released. NUMBER 5.* X-ray of fragment of the "miracle bullet" +still in John Connally's thigh. This fragment is larger than any +piece missing from the "miracle bullet."]) +As if this were not fantasy enough, and as if this were not +carrying their "To Hell with the Public" role far enough, the +Commission reports that this same miracle bullet was found forty-five minutes later in the Parkland Hospital more than three hectic +miles from the scene of the murder. It was on a stretcher which +"somebody" presumed Connally had been lying on. +This is the stuff of the Commission solution and this is what we +have been asked and forced to believe for the past eleven years. +Any ballistics expert worth his gunpowder would shrink from the +task of developing the theory of that bullet. Pictures of that +undamaged bullet show it as clean as a brand-new slug. It looks as +though it had hardly been fired at all, let alone having traveled +through two men, broken three bones, and lodged in a fourth. [3]

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____________________________________________________________________ +How the Zapruder Film Created a Time Clock +for the Assassination in Dealey Plaza +| Abraham Zapruder's camera was running at a determinable +speed: 18.3 frames per second. The camera had a +governor control, so its speed was constant. Each frame +of the film was 1/18th of a second apart. Since John +Kennedy appeared in every frame of the relevant sequence +of the film, the FBI was able to plot on a surveyor's map +of Dealey Plaza, Kennedy's exact position at each frame +number. This "map" perfectly coordinated two functions: +time and place--where Kennedy was at each moment, within +1/18th of a second accuracy, and a distance error of no +more than 7.3 inches. The Zapruder film was used to +determine the speed of the President's car, the elapsed +time between events, especially between the first and last +shots (6.8 seconds), and the timing of events in the +background. --Richard E. Sprague +| Z denotes Zapruder film and frame number. +|___________________________________________________________________|

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I have worked with the CIA and military officials in testing +special rifles. I have seen countless bullets fired into gelatin +and paraffin to simulate body hits on humans. I have seen goats +shot under controlled conditions to show what impact will do. In +my own experience, admittedly limited, I have never seen an +undamaged slug, no matter what substance it had been fired into, +except when fired carefully into cotton.[4] But even then there +are scars, lines, and even deformity. The "Specter Miracle Bullet" +does not even show that much damage. +There is no point in dwelling on this in more detail here except +for the most important fact that, if any of the major Commission +conclusions are shattered, then the whole house of cards comes down +and the whole Commission solution is exploded. And because this +solution is wrong, then Lee Harvey Oswald was not the lone +assassin, and because he was not the lone assassin, there was a +conspiracy. +This incredulous miracle bullet, then, is the key to opening the +whole can of worms. Let's look at bullet Number Two, the one which +hit a curb and injured bystander James Tague. The Secret Service +and the FBI ignored it and the Commission passed over it lightly. +Now, if you were told that the assassin missed the President and +that the bullet hit a curb; and if you were told that the assassin +fired from high above from the sixth floor, you would not have been +wrong to have concluded that this errant bullet hit the curb on the +far side of the street beside the President's car. *Wrong*! +This bullet hit the curb on the far side of the next street and +more than twice as far away as the car was from the sixth-floor +window. The President's car was traveling down Elm Street, and +Tague was standing on Main Street. If that bullet was fired by +Oswald in the first window, then he missed JFK by twenty-one feet +on the right and thirty-three feet overhead and the shot went 260 +feet rather than ninety feet. This is a fantastic and unbelievable +miss for a man who was supposedly able to fire the "Specter Miracle +Bullet" on his first try and then to knock the entire right side of +the President's head off with his third shot after pumping two +bullets into that ancient single-shot rifle in 6.8 seconds! +It is much more plausible to believe that this missed shot was +fired from a point much lower down and on a line with the nick on +the curbstone and the President's head. In other words, a near +miss. This would have placed the gunman's lair somewhere in the +adjacent Dal Tex Building, perhaps under the second-floor fire +escape. This establishes a second lair, a second gun, and a second +"mechanic." (See photo 6. [NUMBER 6. (Commission's Shaneyfelt +Exhibit.) Lyndal Shaneyfelt, the FBI's ballistics and photographic +expert, took this picture from the spot where the shot that missed +hit the curb. By sighting back to the sixth floor window, the +degree of miss can be seen. By sighting directly over JFK's +position, the top of the white car in the center lane, anyone can +see where the shot came from: the second floor window of the Dal +Tex building. See Altgen's photo, number 8.]) +It is not hard to find another shot that Oswald could not have +made. The Zapruder film clearly fixes the time of the first shot +at frame Z-189. Also, the Zapruder film clearly fixes the location +of the car--and thus the President--at Z-189. (See photo 7. +[NUMBER 7. This is Z-189. JFK was slowly waving his right hand to +the crowd.]) There were broken white lines on the road and it can +be shown exactly where the car was at the time of each shot by its +position relative to these lines. Knowing this, it is possible to +draw a line from the precise position of the President at Z-189 up +to the Oswald "lair." In this process, another unexplained +oversight of the Commission is discovered. There is a huge oak +tree in front of the Book Depository building. In November 1963 +that tree was so large that it made it impossible for anyone to +have lined up a shot from the Oswald window at the President at +Z-189.[5] (See photos 89. [NUMBER 8. The Altgens photo. The +building in the rear with a fire escape is the Dal Tex building. +NUMBER 9. The Secret Service reenactment photo from the sixth floor +window taken two weeks after the assassination through Oswald's +actual telescopic lens on his rifle. This would have been his +exact view of the limousene and JFK's head in the crosshairs at +Z-189.]) The earliest time a shot could line up with the President +was at Z-210. At that time the tree was no longer in the way. +What did the Warren Commission think? Apparently, nothing. It +ignored the tree. (See photos 1011. [NUMBERs 10, 11. Two pictures +confirming that a shot struck JFK at Z-189. Compare photo number 7 +with number 10. Picture number 10 is Z-190. JFK's right hand +snaps slightly forward in 1/18 second. From here until he goes +behind sign (Z-204) JFK's right hand drops steadily and begins to +clench into a fist. This motion continues until Z-225, after he +comes out from behind the sign. Conclusion: a shot struck JFK at +Z-189.]) +Who then fired at Z-189? Was it the mechanic who missed later, +and hit Tague? This is impossible. (See photo 12. [NUMBER 12.* +This is Phil Willis' fifth photo, showing JFK approaching sign; +Zapruder in background on grassy knoll pedestal, camera at eye. +Willis said he snapped photo in reaction to hearing first shot. +Photo was sanpped at Z-202, confirming Z-189 was time of first +shot. A similar photo taken by Hugh Betzner confirms the timing of +this shot.]) The trajectory of that first bullet did not +correspond to a line from the President to that lair. In fact, the +medical evidence, statements from the doctors at Parkland Hospital, +as well as other evidence indicates that the shot came from the +front. So there had to be a third mechanic. +At this point it is important to make certain that we have laid +all of this out with reasonable credibility. I have been working +on this problem since 1963. Many others have been working that +long doing very specialized and very detailed work. (See photos +13-16. [NUMBERs 13-16. This series of frames from the Zapruder +film show that JFK's right hand is still falling and clenched as he +emerges from behind the sign (up to frame Z-225). Note the drastic +change in his position: hands, head, elbows, shoulders, and arms +(between Z-225 and Z-227) in just 2/18 of a second. This indicates +a second shot striking him in the back at Z-225.]) One of the best +of these investigators is Richard Sprague, a most experienced +computer technician and photographic analyst. We know of at least +510 photographs taken either before, during, or after the shooting +--all within the space of one hour. Sprague has accounted for +seventy-five photographers on the scene, thirty of whom were +professionals from newspapers, television studios, and photographic +agencies. Other men, such as R.B. Cutler, Ray Marcus, Josiah +Thompson, David Lifton, Fred Newcomb, and Jones Harris, working +both independently and together with Sprague, have done the most +professional work on this case. Ed Berkeley[6] published much of +this work in his magazine "Computers and Automation," notably in +the May 1970 and October 1973 issues. +It is astounding to learn that in their entire work the +Commission was permitted to see only twenty-six of these pictures, +and that the FBI limited its examination to some fifty of the 510. +The Commission principals interviewed only four of the thirty +professional photographers and saw only about a dozen of their +several hundred photographs. Here was evidence enough to arouse +the interest and curiosity of any investigator. How could all of +this vital, most essential evidence have been kept from the +Commission? Today, one of the members of this Commission is +President of the United States. He is an intelligent and +experienced man. How could it have been arranged so that men such +as Gerald Ford did not have the chance to see all of these +photographs? In all there were more than 25000 frames of pictures +exposed within that crucial hour at Dealey Plaza. (This includes +the frames of movie camera film, some of which have been so vitally +important when studied frame by frame.) (See photos 17-20. +[NUMBERs 17-20. This sequence of Zapruder frames shows that the +final and fatal shot striking JFK at Z-313, which caused an +enormous explosion, drove his head and upper body back and to his +left until he bounced off the rear seat cushion at Z-321. The +acceleration back to the left in the first two frames following +Z-313 have been calculated by Josiah Thompson in "Six Seconds in +Dallas" at more than 75 feet per second per second. The shot +came from the grassy knoll, right to front.]) +Consider what real professionals can do with such evidence. It +is possible to build a time-phased chronological moving panorama of +all events on Dealey Plaza from five minutes before the murder to +ninety minutes after it. Sprague and his associates have done +this. It reveals some amazingly accurate sequences. For example, +there is the "umbrella" man. (See photos 21-23. [NUMBER 21. View +of umbrella. (Photo by Willis.) NUMBER 22.* View of umbrella, +Z-227. NUMBER 23.* Umbrella man. Note that umbrella is folded. +(Photo by Bond.)]) +As the President's car rounds the corner from Houston Street +turning left onto the fatal Elm Street, pictures show a man near a +road sign, right next to where the President was killed. This man +is holding a closed umbrella in a walking-cane position. It was +high noon and no rain. No one else at Dealey Plaza had an +umbrella. As the shots are fired, this man is seen in several +pictures with his umbrella open and over his head (some sort of +signal). Then other pictures show him later with the umbrella +lowered to his side. Although everyone else runs from the scene +and races around in the excitement, the umbrella man stays there +calmly, looking around. He is one of the last to leave the scene. +This man shows up on a number of photographs. His actions +certainly do arouse suspicion, and yet the Commission did not see +these pictures, did not know about this strange man. He was never +queried or identified in any way. This is no ordinary oversight. +This is a strange and dangerous subversion of justice. Who did +this? How could such evidence have been withheld from the Chief +Justice of the Supreme Court and other singularly respected men who +were serving with him? It begs credulity to attribute such gross +errors to oversight. How was this Commission kept from +investigating and "seeing" such things? This is the real issue. +When you arrive at this question you are facing the issue of +conspiracy. A conspiracy that took over right from the beginning +and began to control action even within the chambers of the +Commission. It is ridiculous to say that all of the Commission +members were that dumb. They were not. It is ridiculous to say +that they did not have the authority to demand more assistance, +more facts, more investigation, and more results. For too long, +people have attributed such failings to the Commission. If you do, +then you make the Commission part of the conspiracy. It is much +more logical to recognize that the conspiracy controlled the +Commission, too. +The single-bullet theory is overly contrived, especially when +one is attempting to solve a major crime such as the murder of a +President. Consider the following:

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* The fact that the Secret Service and the FBI both +state three bullets were fired, but account for no +miss.

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* The fact that the Commission states that three +bullets were fired, including the near miss.

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* The fact that the Warren Commission missed the +back-to-left motion of JFK's head (see photos).

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* The fact that only three members of the Commission +ever saw the Zapruder film in motion.

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* The fact that the Warren Commission missed seeing +the evidence of three separate bullets hitting JFK +and a fourth hitting Connally; and then +disregarding the "umbrella man."

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All of the discrepancies, one after the other, stagger the mind. +Of course, the umbrella man could have been a perfectly innocent +guy, why not find out? +Then there was the "communications man." Photo Number 24 +[NUMBER 24. Note first large figure on the right. He is the +"communications man."] shows a man across the street from the +umbrella man. This man was in the crowd near Houston and Elm +Streets at the time of the shots. The photo shows a two-way radio +in the man's left hip pocket with a wire dangling down. This wire +is an antenna. What did the Warren Commission say about this? Not +a word. They did not see the pictures. This man is known. He is +James Hicks, currently in an insane asylum. (See photo 25. [NUMBER +25.* James Hicks, the "communications man."]) +There is no need to trace each error and oversight in the +twenty-six volume report which was thrown together by the staff of +the Commission. Once one sees the hand of the conspiracy and the +evidence that Oswald was made the patsy and then murdered to cover +his true role, it does not take too much deduction to see that the +whole thing was the work of a major conspiracy and that the cover-up has been an even more weighty threat to our freedom. (See +photos 2627. [NUMBER 26. Oswald holding rifle. Photos found in +Oswald's garage the day after the assassination. NUMER 27.* These +two photos are enlargements of the two photos found in the garage. +The line where Oswald's real head was glued onto the two photos of +another man's body at the chin line can be seen. A whole series +of mistakes was made by the team who did this work. One of the +most obvious is the way the shadow under Oswald's nose in the two +photos tilts with his head. This shows that the same head photo +was glued on at two different angles. These fake photos taken +with a camera that didn't belong to Oswald were accepted as totally +valid by the Warren Commission and the FBI. Marina Oswald was +forced by the assassination team to testify that she took these two +photos.]) +Why an assassination conspiracy in the first place? Once you +decide that it was not the work of a lone nut, then there is no +turning away from the next step. Why was the President killed and +who would want to do it? These questions must be faced, cost what +they may, and then having faced them, they must be resolved. This +is what we have a government for. Individuals cannot subpoena, +cross-examine, or pursue for the sake of justice. It is up to an +honest government to do this. But why has the government for all +of these long years avoided this essential work? This conspiracy +has the power--in the face of public apathy--to control +investigation and prosecution, or the lack thereof. +I said earlier that it is now possible to trace the scenario of +this master plot. I'll try as best one man can and I'll leave it +to you to see how far you can go along this road with me. I'll say +right now that the more we know about this, the more we begin to +think of *today's* problems and the *less* we think of the JFK +murder; but it takes an understanding of one to face squarely the +issue of the other. +Kennedy had been in Miami in September 1963. Prior to that, a +Miami police informer had uncovered the existence of a plot to kill +JFK either in Miami or in some other city. The Miami police, in +accordance with good practice, turned this information over to the +FBI and the FBI informed the Miami Police that they had turned that +information over to the Secret Service. When JFK went to Miami, he +was well protected to and from the airport because he traveled by +helicopter. This was the beginning of the plot and from that time +on the FBI and the Secret Service should have been on maximum +alert. Why weren't they? Who pulled them off the job? Certainly +not Oswald. Certainly not Castro. Certainly not Khrushchev. +Before that time, plans were being made to have Kennedy visit +Texas "for political purposes." In accordance with this plan, +Eugene Zuchert, then Secretary of the Air Force, had suggested, +perhaps unwittingly, that JFK should visit San Antonio and make a +speech at the opening of an Air Force medical facility at Brooks +Air Force Base. With this first step planned, someone else +suggested that JFK should visit Fort Worth. A bitter multi-billion-dollar contest over the award of the TFX (F-111) airplane +had ended with the contract being given to the General Dynamics +Corporation's facility in that city. The idea was that it would +make good sense for Kennedy to make political hay out of the "good +will" that Fort Worth might have for the President. JFK went from +San Antonio to Fort Worth. +Considering Texas politics, it would not have been right for the +President to go to Fort Worth and not go to Dallas; so plans were +made for the President to mend fences there, too, and there were a +lot of anti-Kennedy fences in Dallas at that time. This was done +despite the warnings from Miami and the Miami police. Jerry Bruno, +Kennedy's advance man, went to Dallas. Kenneth O'Donnell, another +Kennedy aide, worked on the trip, too. But somehow, after their +initial work, the plans were changed. By whom? Who selected that +unusual and devious route around Dealey Plaza? It was not Bruno or +O'Donnell. +Then things began to get complicated. Someone decided that the +Vice-President, Texan Lyndon B. Johnson, should go to Dallas with +the President, and that he and his friend John Connally should be +in the procession with Kennedy and other Democratic bigwigs. Also, +someone else saw to it that another useful tool--Richard M. Nixon- +-should be in Dallas that day. Indoctrination and near-complicity +is an excellent form of discipline, spelled BLACKMAIL. Here we +must stop and begin another analysis. +The Secret Service was founded on June 23, 1860. It is an old, +proud, and highly professional organization. I have traveled to +foreign countries and have worked in support of the Secret Service. +I am familiar with its operating procedures. I am familiar with +what is called "Protection" in its most elaborate sense. I was at +the Cairo Conference and the Teheran Conference, both in 1943. I +participated in actions designed to safeguard the lives of the +chiefs of state who attended those conferences. I traveled to +Mexico City during the tenure of President Eisenhower as part of a +mission to prepare for the security of his visit there. I was in +Lima, Peru in 1964 while that city went through more than three +months of preparation for a de Gaulle visit by the famous +"gorillas" whose skilled work kept Charles de Gaulle alive in the +face of repeated attempts on his life. +Because of my familiarity with these highly skilled and +meticulous organizations, I have been doubly concerned over some of +the events that did not take place in San Antonio, Fort Worth, and +Dallas during and before the visit by Kennedy in 1963. This is of +extreme significance. It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks. +It is even harder to keep an old dog from doing his old tricks. +How could it have happened that the Secret Service, contrary to +all good sense and all professional "Protection" practice, +permitted the President and the Vice-President to be in close +proximity in the same city, in the same procession? This is +unheard of. The Secret Service dates back more than a century and +they had never permitted that to take place before. Why this time? +Here we must go back to our scientific and systematic perusal of +the thousands of pictures available about this incident. One of +the most remarkable and important pictures taken of the entire +25000 was one taken by James Altgens, a professional photographer +from the Associated Press. (See photo 8.) By cross-referencing +this remarkable photograph with the Zapruder film chronology, it is +possible to determine that this picture was taken 3.6 seconds after +the first shot was fired and 3.2 seconds before the last shot. +This is very important. This picture clearly shows JFK +beginning to clench his fists. It shows Jackie's gloved hand +holding his left arm just above the wrist (she begins to sense +something is wrong). It shows Connally sitting directly in front +of JFK just beginning to turn to the rear as if to see what the +trouble was. Then it shows a carload of Secret Service men +immediately behind the Presidential car, and save for three of +those eight men, one would say that they were, at that moment, +unconcerned and more or less unaware that anything was happening. +The three men are looking to the rear either because they had been +looking to the rear, as they are supposed to do at all times, or +because they may have heard something from that direction. +But then events in the third car show something quite startling. +The third car was the Vice-President's automobile. The driver and +Lady Bird Johnson are smiling and unconcerned at 3.6 seconds into +the assassination; Lyndon and his bodyguard are sitting in their +seats in this photo, but are partially obscured by the edge of the +car on the left. +Then we look at the fourth car in the procession. This was the +Secret Service car following the Vice-President. Here we can see +that a Secret Service agent by the name of Jerry Kivett has already +opened the door of that car and that he is preparing to jump out-- +all by 3.6 seconds. +This one indelible record of a fragment in history tells a truer +story than all twenty-six volumes of the Warren report. It is +possible to place the first shot at Zapruder film frame 189 and the +Altgens photograph at Z-255. It is interesting to note that nearly +one half of the background of the Altgens photo is filled with that +huge oak tree we mentioned earlier. It has keen carefully +researched that a rifleman in the Oswald window could not possibly +have shot at the President through that tree and thus could not +have fired at the President until at least Z-210. In fact, under +the prevailing physical conditions, no one could have fired from +that window. (See photos 2829. [NUMBERs 28, 29. Two photographs +showing that no one could have fired any shots from the sixth-floor +window and that the cartons in the window were arranged to look +like a sniper's nest three days after the assassination. Photo +number 28 is the official photo of the sniper's nest taken by +Dallas police photographer Robert Studebaker. It was probably +taken on November 25, three days later. Photo number 29* was taken +by "Dallas Morning News" photographer Jack Beers at 3:30 P.M. on +the day of the assassination. The most important thing the photos +show is that the real position of the boxes at the time of the +shots did not allow enough space for anyone to be in a firing +position.]) As important as this Altgens photograph is, it was +found that it had been severely cropped when it was tucked into the +Warren report. Why did someone go to that trouble? Here again is +the tricky hand of the conspiracy reaching into the Commission +chambers. +We have wandered a little because of the extreme importance of +that Altgens photo. Our objective was to show the seriousness of +the Secret Service oversight in permitting the President and Vice-President to be under the same guns. +These were not the only oversights. I have always been +concerned about the failure of the Secret Service to act in +accordance with their long-established and highly professional +standard operating procedures on Kennedy's Texas trip. We know +that the Secret Service does not have the numbers to permit it to +cover every possible avenue and angle of danger; but what we also +know is that over the years it has keen the practice of the Secret +Service to call upon trained elements of the Armed Forces and other +technical assistance to flesh out their strength in compliance with +"Protection" policy. +In 1963 there was in Washington, D.C. the 113th Army +Intelligence Unit, which was highly trained for this purpose. A +counterpart of this unit was the 112th at 4th Army Headquarters at +Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The 112th had a detachment, the 315th, in +San Antonio. Its commanding officer, among others, complained +bitterly that his unit was not used in protection along with the +Secret Service after he had keen told that the services of his unit +would not be needed. On more than one occasion he called his +headquarters and called Washington to correct this "oversight." +Like the old dog, he and his men had keen well trained and they +were ready to go into action. It takes strong and deft control +from the top to keep a unit out of the action for which it has been +trained. +After the assassination, some of the men of the 112th dug into +the unit's files and found that they had note cards on a Lee Harvey +Oswald in Dallas, Texas. I do not know what other records they +had; but failure to utilize this unit and its files was part of +the conspiracy and an indication of how far up the hand of the +conspirators went. +Not only did the Secret Service disregard experienced and +qualified assistance from the Armed Forces, but they did not act in +accordance with their own time-tested regulations. I recall, when +we walked down Avenida Reforma in Mexico City before Eisenhower's +trip, being told that if we found a place where Eisenhower could +not be properly protected, the Secret Service "manual" stated that +the "President's car must maintain not less than 44 mph until clear +of any danger zones." I joked with the Secret Service officer +about the "44 mph." Why not "45 mph" or "50 mph." He answered +that tests had determined that a car traveling 44 mph was going +fast enough to guarantee all but 100 percent assurance that the +President would be safe. It was Secret Service men working under +the provisions of the same manual who let the President's car creep +around that corner at Dealey Plaza at 8-9 mph. Why?

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____________________________________________________________________ +Army Aid to Help Protect President Kennedy Was Refused +| Trained U.S. Army Intelligence Units were told their +assisstance was not needed in Dallas during the JFK visit. +William McKinney, a former member of the crack 112th +Military Intelligence Group at 4th Army Headquarters, Fort +Sam Houston, Texas, has revealed that both Col. +Maximillian Reich and his deputy, Lt. Col. Joel Cabaza, +protested violently when they were told to "Stand Down" +rather than to report with their units for duty in +augmentation of the Secret Service in Dallas. McKinney +said, "All the Secret Service had to do was nod and these +units [which had been trained at the Army's top +Intelligence school at Camp Holabird, Maryland] would have +performed their normal function of Protection for the +President in Dallas." +The 315th, the Texas unit which would have been involved +if its support had not been turned down, had records in +its files, according to McKinney, on Lee Harvey Oswald. +The 315th had a Dallas office and its records were up to +date. +McKinney added that, "Highly specialized classes were +given at Camp Holabird on the subject of Protection. This +included training designed to prepare this army unit to +assist the Secret Service. If our support had not been +refused, we would have been in Dallas." --L.F.P. +|___________________________________________________________________|

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Also, as we looked up at the high buildings on Mexico City's +main street, he told me that agents would check and secure each +floor and each window of each building. This is not as big a job +as it may seem. The Secret Service knows the exact timing of the +movements of the President and they see to it, using radios and men +on rooftops, that his progress is covered all the way. This is +their business and they are good at it. +But in Dallas, for some strange reason, someone picked a +dangerous turn in the road. The procession passed slowly to the +right, and then it turned slowly to the left, and all of the time +the President's car was right under hostile windows. How simple +and how correct it would have keen for Secret Service men, aided by +all of the Armed Forces required, to have checked those buildings, +to have sealed any unused floors (such as that famous deserted +sixth floor), and then to have shut all of the front windows. +Then, by placing a radio-equipped man in the Plaza, all he would +have had to do was to watch if a single window opened. If it did, +he would call to the man on the roof and have someone dispatched to +check that window, and with that same call he would have alerted +the whole force, especially those with the President's party. +This chronology and theme need not be pursued further here. +What is important is to point out that trained and experienced +organizations such as the Secret Service and the Army were somehow +given instructions not to take part. In bureaucratic terms alone +this is hard to do. Each organization fights for its prerogatives +and for its role. Yet someone ordered them to stand down. The +power to keep units from operating automatically would have to have +been extreme and must have originated close to the top. Someone +had to put out the word to the Secret Service and through them to +the Army; and then that same power was able to rebuff repeated +attempts to right that wrong. +Recognition of this fact leads to the delineation of the origin +and source of the conspiracy, which was strong enough to directly +influence the role of major government organizations even before +the President was shot. I have spoken with men of these units. +Many had keen trained at Fort Holabird, the Army's top intelligence +school. There can be no interpretation of this suppression of the +forces created to protect the President other than that it was a +part of the whole conspiracy. +Turning once more to the infallible evidence of press +photographs, we find an excellent picture of the Texas Book +Depository Building taken by Thomas C. Dillard. ( See photos +30, 31. [NUMBER 30.* Photo by Dillard shows black men on floor +beneath the one from where Oswald supposedly fired. NUMBER 31. +This enlargement of the Dillard photo was used by the Warren +Commission in connection with the testimony of the black men in the +fifth-floor windows. However, the Warren Commission did not +realize that the photo was taken within 3.5 seconds after the fatal +head shot and therefore showed that the witnesses--who said they +saw a rifle sticking out of that window after the fatal shot--were +imagining things. Nor does the original Dillard photo show any +rifle or anyone holding a rifle in any window of the building 3 +seconds after the last shot.]) In the procession, he was in camera +car number three. He took the picture only three seconds after the +shooting, about ten seconds after the first shot. In this one +picture one can see which windows were open and which were closed +at that time. Actually, the Commission severely cropped this +picture before it went into the report; however, Richard Sprague +was able to obtain a copy of the full original. Again, why did the +Commission see a cropped photo rather than the full original? +The importance of this picture is that it shows how easily and +how effectively the role of the Secret Service can be performed +when it is done correctly and in accordance with "Protection" +doctrine. An agent or an Army man placed properly in the Plaza +could have observed all of the buildings around the Plaza and all +of their windows. +Further evidence of the hand of the conspiracy is found +immediately after the shooting. Security on the scene was almost +nonexistent. Photographic evidence, including the famous "tramp" +photographs, show that ten men were "arrested" at Dealey Plaza. No +record of these arrests exists and there is none in the Warren +report. +In the case of the "tramps," those three men who were rounded up +on orders of Police inspector J. Herbert Sawyer (the man in charge +of security activity at Dealey Plaza), we find a sequence of +astounding actions. A Sergeant D.V. Harkness was ordered to stop a +freight train and remove the men. Harkness arrested the three men +and turned them over to policemen Marvin Wise and Billy Bass, who +marched them all the way from the west side of the Book building, +around the north side of the Plaza, and into the vehicle entrance +of the Sheriff's office. Few people realize this entire procedure +took place almost on the steps of the Sheriff's office. While Wise +and Bass were marching these men to the Sheriff's office, William +Allen, George Smith, and Jack Beers of the "Dallas Times Herald," +the Fort Worth "Star Telegram," and the "Dallas Morning News," took +several pictures of them. Their remarkable pictures show clearly +that Wise and Bass took them to the Sheriff's office. Yet Harkness +and Sheriff Harold Elkins couldn't remember that there were any +other policemen with Harkness. This is utterly ridiculous in the +face of so many clear pictures. Why was this done? And why +weren't these amazing pictures shown to the Commission so that it +could order the men before them. And worse still, there is +absolutely no record anywhere that these men were booked that day. +There are no "blotter" records at all. The men have simply +vanished. (See photos 32-35 [NUMBERs 32-35.* Policeman with +"tramps." None of these pictures were seen by the Warren +Commission.]). +I have been given a list of the names of these men. Also, the +pictures show three policemen. Did the Sheriff, or someone in that +office, spirit them away? And why did the Sheriff, who had all of +these men in his custody, permit them to get away within minutes of +the time that the President of the United States had been shot and +killed on his doorstep? These are tough questions, but let's go a +bit further. Why didn't the all-powerful Warren Commission--which +included the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the former +Director of Central Intelligence, the man who is now our President, +etc.--why didn't they have an opportunity to see these pictures? +The photos would have led them to ask these questions and then to +demand answers. +It is this type of grossly irrational action that leads any +concerned and level-headed person to conclude that a massive +conspiracy had taken over and was strong enough during 1964 to +control the Warren Commission. No one can buy the idea that the +Warren Commission was that incurious, that inexperienced, and that +stupid. Having gone this far, it is not a long step to realize +that this same cabal has been able to control these things for the +past eleven years. This is the greater crime. +I happened to be far away in New Zealand at the time of JFK's +murder. I was on my way to breakfast (the crime occured at +6:30A.M. on the 23rd of November there) with a member of Congress +from Ohio. As soon as possible, we purchased the first newspaper +available--the "Christchurch Star." It is amazing to re-read the +front page of that paper today and find all of the detail, the +remarkable detail, about Lee Harvey Oswald, about his service in +the Marine Corps, about his living in Russia, about his Russian +wife, and then the full scenario of the crime.[7] +Then one begins to wonder--understanding full well the +capability of modern-day communications and reporting--who it was +that was able in so short a time to come up with such a life +history of so obscure a twenty-four-year-old "loner." Even the +Dallas police had not charged him with any crime by the time that +paper had hit the streets. In the crime scenario it states that +two Dallas cops, J.D. Tippit and M.N. McDonald, had chased Oswald +into a theater and that Tippit was shot dead "as he ran into the +cinema." Who fabricated all of that news? Who was at the right +place at that moment to flood the whole world with all of this news +about Lee Harvey Oswald, when even the Dallas police weren't too +sure of their man, they said, because he carried two identities +(Oswald and Alek Hidell) in his pocket. (See photo 36. [NUMBER +36.* Oswald is arrested.]) Actually fifteen policemen, one of them +the Chief of Police for Personnel (a man who had never made an +arrest before), and an FBI man stormed the theater in that strange +episode, and Tippit did not. He was dead outside. +All of this proves that the American people, in their desire to +be "loyal," can be had. For eleven years we have been fed this +pap. The Warren Commission report is trash. Because it is trash, +the Warren Commission either was part of the conspiracy, and as +part of the conspiracy they used their report to cover and +obfuscate the crime, or they, too, had been put under the control +of that powerful cabal. +I prefer to believe the latter. I have known some of the men of +that Commission and I have known about many others. There was not +an ignorant or stupid man on that Commission. So they may have +been persuaded that the better part of discretion was to put out +the report "to soothe the public." But is that the way to solve a +crime or to prevent others? Did that Commission agree, nobly, to +let a whole team of criminals walk the streets? This is a big +question. +By the end of 1964, LBJ was President and he was being carried +along on the crest of a surging wave called Vietnam. Few people +have ever been able to understand our involvement in Vietnam. It +may be that clearing up the mystery of Dealey Plaza will help to +clear up the mystery of Vietnam. By 1968, Lyndon Johnson had had +all that one man could take of his ordeal. Uncharacteristically, +he announced that he was through and that he would "devote his time +to ending the war." +Then the guns rang out again. Martin Luther King was shot dead +on a motel balcony in Memphis and again we have had doubtful +treatment about that crime. Hardly had the dust, the flames, and +the seething anger settled over the country when Bobby Kennedy was +ambushed in Los Angeles. It was becoming harder and harder to get +good men to run for President. Then out of the wreckage of 1968 +came Richard M. Nixon, the man who had been kicked around but who +was ready when called. He became President because his real +opposition had recently been buried in Arlington. +After a defeat in the mid-term elections during that winter of +our discontent in 1970-71, Nixon faced a panel of reporters on an +ABC broadcast in January 1971. When asked why he had been unable +to bring the country "the lift of a driving dream" he had promised +during the New Hampshire primaries, Nixon--in one of his rare human +moments--looked at the reporters and then mumbled, "When you have +inherited nightmares you are unable to bring the country the lift +of a driving dream." A few years later that lonely, abused and-- +quite properly so--captive man won one of the strangest elections +this country has ever seen, and then was driven from the White +House by a nightmare of tapes spun by someone with the power to +plant tape recorders in the White House without giving the +President a switch that would at least enable him to turn them off +when he swore at his brood of worldbeaters. +It is fitting to note that Nixon's own prosecutors were from +among the old gang who worked with the Warren Commission, and that +he was replaced as President by a man who was the most vociferous +member of the Warren Commission and who had the best attendance +record at the Commission's meetings. All of these things are not +random. All of these things did not just happen accidentally. We +are caught up in this maelstrom and we must rise and rend this +cloak. Like the great magician, conspiracy is only effective as +long as the trick is a secret. We have the knowledge, we have the +facts, we have the desire, and we have the power. It is now up to +the American people to throw off this dreaded bondage. We have +work to do. We want free elections in 1976 and we want to begin a +glorious new century of the free.

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[1] Even the tests which "prove" it could have been done in 5.7 seconds are +faulty. The shots in Dallas were not fired evenly; this is proved by +the Zapruder film and by the Commission's own figures--Zapruder film +frames 186-215-313. Tests were made with a "clip" of three bullets. +No clip was found in the Book Depository Building.

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[2] The Warren Commission allowed even less time; according to their +report, the elapsed time was 5.7 seconds.

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[3] X-rays show a piece of the bullet is still in Connally's thigh bone, +yet there is no fragment that size missing from that bullet.

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[4] It is entirely possible that some technician did fire that bullet in +this manner from that gun in order to obtain a "laboratory perfect" +ballistics specimen. Then, when some eager conspirators' accomplice +got it, he "planted" it as the "Miracle" bullet.

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[5] This is a highly technical point. Strangely, in its manipulations, +the Commission "notes" that a "gap occurred in the leaves of the tree +at Z-186," then says nothing. If there was this split-second gap, +then the gun would have had to have been aimed and fired in that +split second (about 1/20th of a second), and the Zapruder film tree +would have to confirm that possibility. It does not!

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[6] Edmund C. Berkeley is the publisher of the magazine "People and the +Pursuit of Truth," Newtonville, Mass.

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[7] First news reports that day said, "There were three bursts of gunfire +from automatic weapons." These reports were nearly correct.

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-- +daveus rattus

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yer friendly neighborhood ratman

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KOYAANISQATSI + +ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. +5. a state of life that calls for another way of living. +

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*************************************************************************** +*************************************************************************** + + +DARK CONSPIRACY INVOLVING ELECTRICAL POWER COMPANIES SURFACES + + +Rewritten by the Quantum Mechanic + +(Author Unknown) + +Updated 8/7/88 W0PN +*************************************************************************** +*************************************************************************** + +For years the electrical utility companies have led the public to believe +they were in business to supply electricity to the consumer, a service for +which they charge a substantial rate. The recent accidental acquisition of +secret records from a well known power company has led to a massive +research campaign which positively explodes several myths and exposes the +massive hoax which has been perpetrated upon the public by the power +companies. + +The most common hoax promoted the false concept that light bulbs emitted +light; in actuality, these 'light' bulbs actually absorb DARK which is +then transported back to the power generation stations via wires. A more +descriptive name has now been coined; the new scientific name is for the +device is DARKSUCKER. + +This newsletter introduces a brief synopsis of the darksucker theory, +which proves the existence of dark and establishes the fact that dark has +great mass, and further, that dark is the fastest known particle in the +universe. Apparently, even the celebrated Dr. Albert Einstein did not +suspect the truth.. that just as COLD is the absence of HEAT, LIGHT is +actually the ABSENCE of DARK... light does not really exist! + +The basis of the darksucker theory is that electric light bulbs suck dark. +Take for example, the darksuckers in the room where you are. There is much +less dark right next to them than there is elsewhere, demonstrating their +limited range. The larger the darksucker, the greater its capacity to suck +dark. Darksuckers in a parking lot or on a football field have a much +greater capacity than the ones in used in the home, for example. + +It may come as a surprise to learn that darksuckers also operate on a +celestial scale; witness the Sun. Our Sun makes use of dense dark, sucking +it in from all the planets and intervening dark space. Naturally, the Sun +is better able to suck dark from the planets which are situated closer to +it, thus explaining why those planets appear brighter than do those which +are far distant from the Sun. + +Occasionally, the Sun actually oversucks; under those conditions, dark +spots appear on the surface of the Sun. Scientists have long studied these +'sunspots' and are only recently beginning to realize that the dark spots +represent leaks of high pressure dark because the Sun has oversucked dark +to such an extent that some of actually leaks back into space. This +leakage of high pressure dark frequently causes problems with radio +communications here on Earth due to collisions between the dark particles +as they stream out into space via the black 'holes' in the surface of the +Sun. + +As with all manmade devices, darksuckers have a finite lifetime. Once they +are full of dark, they can no longer suck. This condition can be observed +by looking for the black spot on a full darksucker when it has reached +maximum capacity... you have surely noticed that dark completely surrounds +a full darksucker because it no longer has the capacity to suck dark at +all. + +A candle is a primitive darksucker. A new candle has a white wick. You +will notice that after the first use the wick turns black, representing all +the dark which has been sucked into it. If you hold a pencil next to the +wick of an operating candle, the tip will turn black because it got in the +way of the dark flowing into the candle. Unfortunately, these primitive +darksuckers have a very limited range and are hazardous to operate because +of the intense heat produced. + +There are also portable darksuckers called flashlights. The bulbs in these +devices cannot handle all of the dark by themselves, and must be aided by a +dark storage unit called a battery. When the dark storage unit is full, it +must be either emptied (a process called 'recharging') or replaced before +the portable darksucker can continue to operate. If you break open a +battery, you will find dense black dark inside, evidence that it is +actually a compact dark storage unit. + +The darksuckers on your automobile are high capacity units with great +range, thus they require much larger dark storage units mounted under the +hood of the vehicle. Since there is far more dark available in the winter +season, automobile dark storage units reach capacity more frequently than +they do in the summer, requiring 'recharging', or in severe cases, total +replacement. + +Dark has great mass. When dark is drawn into a darksucker, friction caused +by the speed of the dark particles (called anti-photons) actually generates +substantial heat, thus it is unwise to touch an operating dark sucker. +Candles represent a special problem, as the dark must travel into a solid +wick instead of through clear glass. This generates a great amount of +heat, making it very dangerous to touch an operating candle. + +Because dark has such great mass, it is very heavy. If you swim just below +the surface of a lake, you see a lot of 'light' (absence of dark, to be +more precise). As you go deeper and deeper beneath the surface, you notice +it gets darker and darker. When you reach a depth of approximately fifty +feet, you are in total darkness. This is because the heavier dark sinks to +the bottom of the lake, making it appear 'lighter' near the surface. + +The power companies have learned to use the dark that has settled to the +bottom of lakes by pushing it through turbines, which generate electricity +to help push the dark into the ocean where it may be safely stored for +their devious purposes. + +Prior to the development of turbines, it was much more difficult to get the +dark from the rivers and lakes to the ocean. The Indians recognized this +problem, and developed means to assist the flow of dark on it's long +journey to the ocean. When on a river in a canoe travelling in the same +direction as the flow of dark, they paddled slowly, so as not to impede the +flow of dark; but when they travelled against the flow of dark, they +paddled vigorously to help propel the dark along its way. + +Scientists are working feverishly to develop exotic new instrumentation with +which to measure the actual speed and energy level of dark. While such +instrumentation is beyond the capabilities of the average layman, you can +actually perform a simple test to demonstrate the unbelievable speed of +dark, right in your own home. + +All that is required for the simple test is a closed desk drawer situated +in a bright room. You know from past experience that the tightly shut +drawer is FULL of dark. Now, place your hand firmly on the drawer's +handle. Quickly yank the drawer open.. the dark immediately disappears, +demonstrating the blinding speed with which the dark travels to the nearest +darksucker! + +The secrets of dark are at present known only to the power companies. Dark +must be very valuable, since they go to such lengths to collect it in vast +quantities. By some well hidden method, more modern power 'generation' +facilities have devised methods to hide their collection of dark. The +older facilities, however, usually have gargantuan piles of solidified dark +in huge fenced in areas. Visitors to these facilities are told the huge +black piles of material are supplies of coal, but such is not the case. + +The power companies have long used code words to hide their activities; +D.C. is Dark Conspiracy, whole A.C. is Alternate Conspiracy. The intent of +the A.C. is not yet known, but the D.C. is rapidly yielding it's secrets to +the probing eyes and instruments of honest scientists around the world. +New developments are being announced every day and we promise to keep the +public informed of these announcements as they occur via this newsletter. + +Les Dark, Editor +

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From "CROSSFIRE" by Jim Marrs +ISBN 0-88184-524-8 +Copyright (c) 1989 by Jim Marrs +First published by Carroll & Graf 1989

+ +

Reprinted without permission

+ +

CONVENIENT DEATHS

+ +

In the three-year period which followed the murder of President +Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, 18 material witnesses died - six by +gunfire, three in motor accidents, two by suicide, one from a cut +throat, one from a karate chop to the neck, five from natural causes. +An actuary, engaged by the London Sunday Times, concluded that on +November 22, 1963m the odds against these witnesses being dead by +February 1967, were one hundred thousand trillion to one.

+ +

The above comment on the deaths of assassination witnesses was published in +a tabloid companion piece to the movie _Execution Action_, released in 1973. +By that time, part of the mythology of the Kennedy assassination included the +mysterious deaths of people who were connected with it. +By the mid-1960s, people in Dallas already were whispering about the +number of persons who died under strange or questionable circumstances. Well +into the 1980s, witnesses and others were hesitant to come forward with +information because of the stories of strange and sudden death that seemed to +visit some people with information about the assassination. +Finally, in the late 1970s, the House Select Committee on Assassinations +felt compelled to look into the matter. +But aside from discrediting the London Sunday Times actuarial study, the +Committee was unable to come to any conclusions regarding the growing number +of deaths. The Committee said it could not make a valid actuarial study due +to the broad number and types of persons that had to be included in such a +study. +In response to a letter from the Committee, London Sunday Times legal +manager Anthony Whitaker stated:

+ +

Our piece about the odds against the deaths of the Kennedy witnesses +was, I regret to say, based on a careless journalistic mistake and +should not have been published. This was realized by The Sunday Times +editorial staff after the first edition - the one which goes to the +United States... - had gone out, and later editions were amended. +There was no question of our actuary having got his answer wrong: it +was simply that we asked him the wrong question. He was asked what +were the odds against 15 named people out of the population of the +United States dying within a short period of time, to which he replied +- correctly - that they were very high. However, if one asks what are +the odds against 15 of those included in the Warren Commission Index +dying within a given period, the answer is, of course, that they are +much lower. Our mistake was to treat the reply to the former question +as if it dealt with the latter - hence the fundamental error in our +first edition report, for which we apologize.

+ +

This settled the matter for the House Committee, which apparently made +little or no attempt to seriously study the number of deaths that followed +the JFK assassination. +Jacqueline Hess, the Committee's chief of research for the JFK +investigation, reported:

+ +

Our final conclusion on the issue is that the available evidence does +not establish anything about the nature of these deaths which would +indicate that the deaths were in some manner, either direct or +peripheral, caused by the assassination of President Kennedy or by +any aspect of the subsequent investigation.

+ +

However, an objective look at both the number and the causes of death +balanced against the importance of the person's connection to the case, still +causes raised eyebrows among those who study such a list. +In this section, people who were connected - no matter how tenuously - +with the assassination and who are now dead are listed according to date of +death. +This is dealing only with deaths, not with the numerous persons - such as +Warren Reynolds, Roger Craig, and Richard Carr - who claim to have been shot +at or attacked. +This chapter has been entitled "Convenient Deaths" because these deaths +certainly would have been convenient for anyone not wishing the truth of the +JFK assassination to become public. +The CIA has gone to some lengths to discredit the idea of mysterious +deaths plaguing assassination witnesses. +A 1967 memo from CIA headquarters to station chiefs advised:

+ +

Such vague accusations as that "more than 10 people have died +mysteriously" can always be explained in some rational way: e.g., the +individuals concerned have for the most part died of natural causes; +the [Warren] Commission staff questioned 418 witnesses - the FBI +interviewed far more people, conducting 25000 interviews and +reinterviews - and in such a large group, a certain number of deaths +are to be expected.

+ +

Testifying before the Church Committee in 1975, CIA technicians told of a +variety of TWEP technology - Terminate With Extreme Prejudice - that cannot +be detected in a postmortem examination. +One recently declassified CIA document, a letter from an Agency consultant +to a CIA officer, states:

+ +

You will recall that I mentioned that the local circumstances under +which a given means might be used might suggest the technique to be +used in that case. I think the gross divisions in presenting this +subject might be: +(1) bodies left with no hope of the cause of death being determined by +the most complete autopsy and chemical examinations +(2) bodies left in such circumstances as to simulate accidental death +(3) bodies left in such circumstances as to simulate suicidal death +(4) bodies left with residue that simulates those caused by natural +diseases.

+ +

The letter goes on to show that undetected murders do not have to be the +result of sophisticated chemicals. It states:

+ +

There are two techniques which I believe should be mentioned since +they require no special equipment besides a strong arm and the will to +do such a job. These would be either to smother the victim with a +pillow or to strangle him with a wide piece of cloth such as a bath +towel. In such cases, there are no specific anatomic changes to +indicate the cause of death...

+ +

While it is obvious that the CIA - and hence the mob through operatives who +work for both - has the capability of killing, it is less well known that the +Agency has developed drugs to induce cancer. +Recall that Jack Ruby died of sudden lung cancer just as he had been granted +a new trial. +A 1952 CIA memo reported on the cancer-causing effects of beryllium: +"This is certainly the most toxic inorganic element and it produces a +peculiar fibrotic tumor at the site of local application. The amount +necessary to produce these tumors is a few micrograms." +Local law-enforcement officers and coroners are not equipped, either by +training or by inclination, to detect deaths induced by such sophisticated +means. They look for signs of a struggle, evidence of a break-in, bruises, +or marks on the victim. +With no evidence to the contrary, many deaths are ruled suicide or accident. +Others are ruled due to natural causes, such as heart attack. +It is interesting to note how the deaths are grouped. Many of the +earliest deaths came during the time of the Warren Commission investigation +or just afterwards. +More deaths took place in the late 1960s as New Orleans District Attorney +Jim Garrison was launching his investigation. Other suspicious deaths +occurred during the mid-1970s, as the Senate Intelligence Committee was +looking into assassinations by U.S. intelligence agencies. And finally, +another spate of deaths came around 1977, just as the House Select Committee +on Assassinations was gearing up its investigation. +These deaths are listed below in chronological order. An asterisk means +the death is a particularly suspicious one. They are also grouped according +to which investigation was being conducted at the time. +The possibility of convenient deaths leads one into a well of paranoia, yet +this long list cannot be summarily dismissed. +Obviously, many of these deaths - particularly in recent years - can be +ascribed to the passage of time. But others cannot - especially when viewed +in the context of the assassination inquiries taking place at the time. +Read for yourself and consider... When does coincidence end and conspiracy +begin?

+ +

List of Deaths

+ +

Date Name Connection with Case Cause of Death

+ +

11/63 Karyn Kupcinet* TV host's daughter who was Murdered +overheard telling of JFK's +death prior to 11/22/63

+ +

The Warren Commission Investigation

+ +

12/63 Jack Zangretti* Expressed foreknowledge of Gunshot victim +Ruby shooting Oswald

+ +

2/64 Eddy Benavides* Look-alike brother to Tippit Gunshot to head +shooting witness, Domingo +Benavides

+ +

3/64 Betty McDonald* Former Ruby employee who Suicide by hanging +alibied Warren Reynolds in Dallas jail +shooting suspect

+ +

3/64 Bill Chesher Thought to have information Heart attack +linking Oswald and Ruby

+ +

3/64 Hank Killam* Husband of Ruby employee, Throat cut +knew Oswald acquaintance

+ +

4/64 Bill Hunter* Reporter who was in Ruby's Accidental shooting +apartment on 11/24/63 by policeman

+ +

5/64 Gary Underhill* CIA agent who claimed Gunshot in head, +Agency was involved Ruled suicide

+ +

5/64 Hugh Ward* Private investigator working Plane crash in +with Guy Banister and David Mexico +Ferrie

+ +

5/64 DeLesseps Morrison* New Orleans mayor Passenger in Ward's +plane

+ +

8/64 Teresa Norton* Ruby employee Fatally shot

+ +

6/64 Guy Banister* Ex-FBI agent in New Orleans Heart attack +connected to Ferrie, CIA, +Carlos Marcello and Oswald

+ +

9/64 Jim Koethe* Reporter who was in Ruby's Blow to neck +apartment on 11/24/63

+ +

9/64 C.D. Jackson Life Magazine senior vice Unknown +president who bought Zapruder +film and locked it away

+ +

10/64 Mary Pinchot Meyer* JFK mistress whose diary was Murdered +taken by CIA chief James +Angleton after her death

+ +

1/65 Paul Mandal Life writer who told of JFK Cancer +turning to rear when shot in +throat

+ +

3/65 Tom Howard* Ruby's first lawyer, was in Heart attack +Ruby's apartment on 11/24/63

+ +

5/65 Maurice Gatlin* Pilot for Guy Banister Fatal Fall

+ +

8/65 Mona B. Saenz* Texas Employment clerk who Hit by Dallas bus +interviewed Oswald

+ +

?/65 David Goldstein Dallasite who helped FBI Natural causes +trace Oswald's pistol

+ +

9/65 Rose Cheramie* Knew of assassination in Hit/run victim +advance, told of riding to +Dallas with Cubans

+ +

11/65 Dorothy Kilgallen* Columnist who had private Drug overdose +interview with Ruby, pledged +to "break" JFK case

+ +

11/65 Mrs. Earl Smith* Close friend to Dorothy Unknown +Kilgallen, died two days +after columnist, may have +kept Kilgallen's notes

+ +

12/65 William Whaley* Cabdriver who reportedly Motor Collision +drove Oswald to Oak Cliff (the only Dallas +taxi driver to +die on duty)

+ +

1966 Judge Joe Brown Presided over Ruby's trial Heart attack

+ +

1966 Karen "Little Lynn" Ruby employee who last talked Gunshot victim +Carlin* with Ruby before Oswald shooting

+ +

1/66 Earline Roberts Oswald's landlady Heart attack

+ +

2/66 Albert Bogard* Car salesman who said Oswald Suicide +test drove new car

+ +

6/66 Capt. Frank Martin Dallas police captain who Cancer +witnessed Oswald slaying, +told Warren Commission, +"There's a lot to be said, +but probably be better if I +don't say it."

+ +

8/66 Lee Bowers, Jr.* Witnessed men behind picket Motor accident +fence on Grassy Knoll

+ +

9/66 Marilyn "Delilah" Ruby dancer Shot by husband +Walle* after one month +of marriage

+ +

10/66 William Pitzer* JFK autopsy photographer Gunshot, ruled +who described his duty as suicide +"horrifying experience"

+ +

11/66 Jimmy Levens Fort Worth nightclub owner Natural causes +who hired Ruby employee

+ +

11/66 James Worrell, Jr.* Saw man flee rear of Texas Motor accident +School Book Depository

+ +

1966 Clarence Oliver D.A. investigator who Unknown +worked Ruby case

+ +

12/66 Hank Suydam Life magazine official in Heart attack +charge of JFK stories

+ +

The Garrison Inquiry

+ +

Date Name Connection with Case Cause of Death

+ +

1967 Leonard Pullin Civilian Navy employee who One-car crash +helped film _Last Two Days_ +about assassination

+ +

1/67 Jack Ruby Oswald's slayer Lung cancer (He +told family he +was injected with +cancer cells.)

+ +

2/67 Harold Russell* Saw escape of Tippit killer Killed by cop in +bar brawl

+ +

2/67 David Ferrie* Acquaintance of Oswald, Blow to neck, +Garrison suspect, and ruled accidental +employee of Guy Banister

+ +

2/67 Eladio Del Valle* Anti-Castro Cuban associate Gunshot wound, +of David Ferrie being sought ax wound to head +by Garrison

+ +

3/67 Dr. Mary Sherman* Ferrie associate working on Died in fire +cancer research (possibly shot)

+ +

1/68 A.D. Bowie Assistant Dallas D.A. Cancer +prosecuting Ruby

+ +

4/68 Hiram Ingram Dallas deputy sheriff, close Cancer +friend to Roger Craig

+ +

5/68 Dr. Nicholas Chetta New Orleans coroner who ruled Heart attack +on death of Ferrie

+ +

8/68 Phillip Geraci* Friend of Perry Russo, told of Electrocution +Oswald/Shaw connection

+ +

1/69 Henry Delaune* Brother-in-law to coroner Murdered +Chetta

+ +

1/69 E.R. Walthers* Dallas deputy sheriff who Shot by felon +was involved in Depository +search, claimed to have found +.45-cal slug

+ +

1969 Charles Mentesana Filmed rifle other than Heart attack +Mannlicher-Carcano being taken +from Depository

+ +

4/69 Mary Bledsoe Neighbor to Oswald, also Natural causes +knew David Ferrie

+ +

4/69 John Crawford* Close friend to both Ruby and Crash of private +Wesley Frazier, who gave ride plane +to Oswald on 11/22/63

+ +

7/69 Rev. Clyde Johnson* Scheduled to testify about Fatally shot +Clay Shaw/Oswald connection

+ +

1970 George McGann* Underworld figure, connected Murdered +to Ruby friends; wife, Beverly, +took film in Dealey Plaza

+ +

1/70 Darrell W. Garner Arrested for shooting Warren Drug overdose +Reynolds, released after +alibi from Betty McDonald

+ +

8/70 Bill Decker Dallas sheriff who saw bullet Natural causes +hit street in front of JFK

+ +

8/70 Abraham Zapruder Took famous film of JFK Natural causes +assassination

+ +

12/70 Salvatore Granello* Mobster linked to Hoffa, Murdered +Trafficante, and Castro +assassination plots

+ +

1971 James Plumeri* Mobster tied to mob-CIA Murdered +assassination plots

+ +

3/71 Clayton Fowler Ruby's chief defense attorney Unknown

+ +

4/71 Gen. Charles Cabell* CIA deputy director connected Collapsed and +to anti-Castro Cubans died after +physical at Ft. +Myers

+ +

The Church Committee Investigation

+ +

Date Name Connection with Case Cause of Death

+ +

1972 Hale Boggs* House majority leader, member Disappeared on +of Warren Commission who began Alaskan plane +to publicly express doubts flight +doubts about findings

+ +

5/72 J. Edgar Hoover* FBI director who pushed "Lone Heart attack (no +assassin" theory in JFK autopsy) +assassination

+ +

9/73 Thomas E. Davis* Gun runner connected to both Electrocuted +Ruby and CIA trying to steal +wire

+ +

2/74 J.A. Milteer* Miami right-winger who Heater explosion +predicted JFK's death and +capture of scapegoat

+ +

1974 Dave Yaras* Close friend to both Hoffa Murdered +and Jack Ruby

+ +

7/74 Earl Warren Chief justice who reluctantly Heart failure +chaired Warren Commission

+ +

8/74 Clay Shaw* Prime suspect in Garrison Possible cancer +case, reportedly a CIA +contact with Ferrie and E. +Howard Hunt

+ +

1974 Earle Cabell Mayor of Dallas on 11/22/63, Natural causes +whose brother, Gen. Charles +Cabell, was fired from CIA by +JFK

+ +

6/75 Sam Giancana* Chicago Mafia boss slated to Murdered +tell about CIA-mob death plots +to Senate Committee

+ +

1975 Clyde Tolson J. Edgar Hoover's assistant Natural causes +and roommate

+ +

7/75 Allan Sweatt Dallas deputy sheriff involved Natural causes +in investigation

+ +

12/75 Gen. Earl Wheeler Contact between JFK and CIA Unknown

+ +

1976 Ralph Paul Ruby's business partner Heart attack +connected with crime figures

+ +

4/76 James Chaney Dallas motorcycle officer Heart attack +to JFK's right rear who said +JFK "struck in the face" with +bullet

+ +

4/76 Dr. Charles Gregory Governor John Connally's Heart attack +physician

+ +

6/76 William Harvey* CIA coordinator for CIA-mob Complications of +assassination plans against heart surgery +Castro

+ +

7/76 John Roselli* Mobster who testified to Stabbed and +Senate committee, was to stuffed in metal +appear again drum

+ +

1977 - A Terrible Year for Many

+ +

The year 1977 produced a bumper crop of candidates for listing under +convenient deaths connected with the JFK assassination - including the deaths +of six top FBI officials all of whom were scheduled to testify before the +House Select Committee on Assassinations. +Topping this list was former number-three man in the FBI, William C. +Sullivan, who had already had a preliminary meeting with the investigators +for the House Committee. Sullivan was shot with a high-powered rifle near +his New Hampshire home by a man who claimed to have mistaken him for a deer. +The man was charged with a misdemeanor - "shooting a human being by +accident" - and released to the custody of his father, a state policeman. +There was no further investigation of Sullivan's death. +Louis Nichols was a special assistant to J. Edgar Hoover as well as +Hoover's liaison with the Warren Commission. Alan H. Belmont also was a +special assistant to Hoover. James Cadigan was a document expert with access +to many classified assassination documents, while J.M. English headed the FBI +laboratory where Oswald's rifle and pistol were tested. Donald Kaylor was +the FBI fingerprint expert who examined prints found at the assassination +scene. None of these six Bureau officials lived to tell what they knew to +the House Committee. +Other key assassination witnesses, such as George DeMohrenschildt and +former Cuban president Carlos Prio Soccaras, died within weeks of each other +in 1977, just as they, too, were being sought by the House Committee. +The ranks of both organized crime and U.S. intelligence agencies were +thinned by deaths beginning in 1975, the time of the Senate Intelligence +Hearings, and 1978, the closing months of the House Committee. +Charles Nicoletti, a mobster connected with the CIA-Mafia assassination +plots, was murdered in Chicago, while William Pawley, a former diplomat +connected with both organized crime and CIA figures, reportedly committed +suicide. +Adding to rumors that "hit teams" may have been at work, a Time magazine +article reported that federal agents had initiated a nationwide investigation +into more than 20 gangland assassinations constituting what agents believed +was an "open underworld challenge to governmental infiltration of Mafia +activities." +One FBI source was quoted as saying: "Our main concern is that we may be +facing a revival of the old 'Murder, Inc.' days." +A New York News story concerning this official fear of roving +assassination squads even mentions the death of Sam Giancana, who was killed +one day before he was scheduled to testify about mob-CIA connections and +while under government protection. +Prior to the House Committee investigation into the JFK assassination, +the news media reported the following deaths:

+ +

Date Name Connection with Case Cause of Death

+ +

1/77 William Pawley* Former Brazilian ambassador Gunshot, ruled +connected to anti-Castro suicide +Cubans, crime figures

+ +

3/77 George Close friend to both Oswald Gunshot wound, +DeMohrenschildt* and Bouvier family (Jackie ruled suicide +Kennedy's parents), CIA +contract agent

+ +

3/77 Carlos Prio Former Cuban president, Gunshot wound, +Soccaras* money man for anti-Castro ruled suicide +Cubans

+ +

3/77 Paul Raigorodsky Business friend of George Natural causes +DeMohrenschildt and wealthy +oilmen

+ +

5/77 Lou Staples* Dallas radio talk show host Gunshot to head, +who told friends he would ruled suicide +break case

+ +

6/77 Louis Nichols Former number-three man in Heart attack +FBI, worked on JFK +investigation

+ +

8/77 Alan Belmont FBI official who testified to "Long illness" +Warren Commission

+ +

8/77 James Cadigan FBI document expert who Fall in home +testified to Warren Commission

+ +

8/77 Joseph C. Ayres* Chief steward on JFK's Shooting accident +Air Force One

+ +

8/77 Francis G. Powers* U-2 pilot downed over Russia Helicopter crash +in 1960 (he reportedly +ran out of fuel)

+ +

9/77 Kenneth O'Donnell JFK's closest aide Natural causes

+ +

10/77 Donald Kaylor FBI fingerprint chemist Heart attack

+ +

10/77 J.M. English Former head of FBI Forensic Heart attack +Sciences Laboratory

+ +

11/77 William Sullivan* Former number-three man in Hunting accident +FBI, headed Division 5, +counterespionage and +domestic intelligence

+ +

1978 C.L. "Lummie" Lewis Dallas deputy sheriff who Natural causes +arrested Mafia man Braden in +Dealey Plaza

+ +

9/78 Garland Slack Man who said his target was Unknown +fired at by Oswald at rifle +range

+ +

1/79 Billy Lovelady Depository employee said to be Complications +the man in the doorway in AP from heart attack +photograph

+ +

6/80 Dr. John Holbrook Psychiatrist who testified Heart attack, but +Ruby was not insane pills, notes found

+ +

1/81 Marguerite Oswald Mother of accused assassin Cancer

+ +

10/81 Frank Watts Chief felony prosecutor for Natural causes +Dallas D.A.

+ +

1/82 Peter Gregory Original translator for Natural causes +Marina Oswald and Secret +Service

+ +

5/82 Dr. James Weston Pathologist allowed to see Died while +JFK autopsy material for jogging, ruled +HSCA natural causes

+ +

8/82 Will H. Griffin FBI agent who reportedly Cancer +said Oswald was "definitely" +an FBI informant

+ +

10/82 W. Marvin Gheesling FBI official who helped Natural causes +supervise JFK investigation

+ +

3/84 Roy Kellerman Secret Service agent in charge Unknown +if JFK limousine + +--- end +

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PRODUCER INTERESTS VS. THE PUBLIC INTEREST: THE ORIGIN OF +DEMOCRATIZED PRIVILEGE

+ +

By RICHARD M. EBELING

+ +

In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith constructed some of the +most devastating arguments against the then-prevailing system +of economic policy--mercantilism. In practically every country +in Europe, governments regulated, controlled and planned the +economic activities of their subjects. In France, the +regulations were so detailed that they specified how many +stitches should be used in attaching a button to a shirt. In +Austria, the state limited the period in which people could be +in mourning so that the dye-makers would not lose the business +of selling colored cloth.

+ +

Adam Smith demonstrated that rather than bringing prosperity, +mercantilism had retarded economic progress. Governments, he +argued, had neither the wisdom nor the ability to plan the +economic affairs of a multitude of people. If governments +primarily limited themselves to the protection of life, +liberty and property, Smith said, men could be trusted to +manage their own affairs. And when left to do so in an open, +competitive market, the natural forces of supply and demand +would generate a rising prosperity for all. Free men in free +markets were the ultimate source of the wealth of nations.

+ +

But having presented the case for free markets, Adam Smith was +not optimistic about the future. To expect that a regime of +free trade would ever be established was, he said, as likely +as the establishment of a utopia. "Not only the prejudices of +the public," he despaired, "but what is much more +unconquerable, the private interests of many individuals +irresistibly oppose it."

+ +

Governments had turned over many industries and trades to +private monopolies, whose interests were clearly opposed to +open competition. Special-interest groups, with their +government-bestowed privileges, were too strong ever to be +defeated.

+ +

Within one lifetime, however, Smith was proven to be wrong. By +the middle of the 19th century, England was a free-trade +nation and many other nations were following its path.

+ +

But in our century, governments once again use their power to +regulate the marketplace, protect various industries from +foreign and domestic competition, and limit entry into markets +through licensing procedures. Mercantilism has returned; and +it has returned stronger than ever. The older mercantilism was +a system that benefited a few privileged producers at the +expense of most of the society. But in our era of democratic +government, it is the many who lobby and politick in the +political arena. Almost every group in society now does battle +for a piece of the economic pie--not through open competition +for consumer business, but through the political process to +gain a greater share by manipulating the market. Ours is the +era of democratized privilege.

+ +

Why have free societies all around the world become +battlegrounds for political privilege and economic plunder?

+ +

The answer is to be found in one of Adam Smith's most famous +ideas: the division of labor. "The division of labor," Smith +explained, "so far as it can be introduced, occasions in every +art, a proportionate increase of the productive powers of +labor." By specializing in various lines of production, the +members of society are able to improve and increase their +skills and efficiency to do various things. Out of these +productive specializations comes an increased supply of all +kinds of goods and services. The members of society trade away +the large quantities of each commodity they respectively +produce for all the other goods offered by their fellows in +the market arena.

+ +

Society's members give up the independence of economic self-sufficiency for the interdependence of a social system of +division of labor. But the gain is a much higher standard of +living than any one of them could ever hope to attain just by +using his own capabilities to fulfill all his wants and +desires through his own labor.

+ +

Each individual is now dependent upon others in the society +for the vast majority of the goods and services he wishes to +use and consume. But in a competitive market setting, this +works to his advantage. Sellers vie with one another for his +consumer business.

+ +

They underbid each other and offer him attractively lower +prices; they devise ways to produce and market new and +improved products. As consumer, the individual is the master +of the market, whom all sellers must serve if they are to +obtain his business.

+ +

Viewed from the perspective of the consumer, the competitive +market serves the public interest. The resources of society +are effectively applied and put to work to satisfy the various +wants and desires of the individuals of that society. The +products which are manufactured are determined by the free +choices of all of the demanders in the marketplace. +Production serves consumption.

+ +

But the market looks totally different from the perspective of +the individual producers. They, too, are dependent upon the +market: they are dependent upon buyers willing to purchase +what they have for sale. While the market serves every one as +a consumer, no one can be a consumer unless he has been +successful as a producer. And his success as a producer +depends upon his ability to market and sell his products or to +find willing buyers for his particular labor skills and +abilities.

+ +

As a consequence, for each producer the price of his own +product or labor service tends to be more important than the +prices of all of the multitude of consumer goods he might +purchase. Because unless he earns the necessary financial +wherewithal in his producer role, he cannot be a consumer.

+ +

Being the consumer of many things, but the producer of usually +one thing, each seller tends to view competition as a +financial threat to his position in the market as well as to +his specific share of the market. The incentive for each +producer, therefore, is to want to limit entry into his corner +of the market, or to reduce the amount of competition +currently existing in his industry or profession.

+ +

The only avenue for limiting competition, however, is the +government. Only the government has the ultimate authority to +permanently prohibit those who think they could do better in +the market and who desire to try. Producers, therefore, have +incentives to use portions of the resources and wealth at +their disposal in the political arena to gain or protect the +market position that they feel themselves unable to obtain or +maintain in an open field of competition. And as long as the +costs of acquiring political privileges and protections from +the government to secure profits are less than the costs of +earning profits by making better and less expensive products, +producers will resort to lobbying and politicking to achieve +their ends.

+ +

The dilemma for the society is that when producers lobby in +the political process for profits via government privilege, +this results in a using-up of resources that otherwise could +have been invested in making products desired by consumers. +Furthermore, existing producers, sitting behind their walls of +political protections and privileges, have fewer incentives +for making product improvements. Therefore, the normal, +competitive forces that over time would result in better +and greater supplies of goods are retarded,

+ +

When government is viewed as the means for acquiring income +"entitlements," job "guarantees" and "fair" (rather than open) +markets, producer interests will always win over the public, +i.e., consumer, interest. Because most individual sellers will +view that they have more to lose from competition as producers +than they have to gain from competition as consumers.

+ +

Unfortunately, the pursuit of producer-protection policies +through government has a perverse outcome: the society as a +whole is poorer than it otherwise would be. Every privilege +and protection raises the prices, narrows the variety and +lowers the quality of the goods available to all of us as +consumers.

+ +

How, then, do we reverse our age of democratized privilege, in +which politics is reduced to a free-for-all for mutual plunder +and economic power? The answer is not an easy one nor one that +offers a "quick fix."

+ +

A turn from our era of neo-mercantilism, with its philosophy +of privileges for all who can win on the political battle +field, requires a moral revolution on the part of each of us. +It requires each and every one of us to apply the rules of +personal conduct to the arena of politics.

+ +

In our personal conduct, few of us would feel morally right in +forcibly preventing a buyer from leaving our respective +business establishment until he paid the price we wanted him +to pay. Nor would we feel morally correct in taking a sum of +money out of another's pocket without his consent simply +because he considered our price for our products or labor +services too high.

+ +

Yet this is done all of the time through the political +process. Not until we come to accept that the rules of +morality that apply in personal conduct must be the same rules +we follow in politics will the age of democratized privilege +and plunder come to an end. And, alas, we seem a long way off +from seeing that day!

+ +

Professor Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of +Economics at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, and also +serves as vice-president of academic affairs for The Future of +Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209.

+ +

------------------------------------------------------------ +From the March 1991 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1991, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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Desktop genetic engineering.

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By Kevin Kelly

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I spent a day recently a biotechnology trade show, snooping around the +aisles of plumbing and lob gear to see how close we ore to having gene +equipment that would work in a suburban garage. was looking for +off-the-shelf components that could be assembled by a dedicated individual +into o lob for homebrewed DNA. / was surprised by how close it has come. +While most of the equipment for biotechnology is either delicate but +cumbersome laboratory research instruments, or massive industrial/chemical +plumbing for production purposes, there are o couple of items that hove +miniaturized the research methods into o suggestive desktop space. The +leader in self-contained DNA coding gear is Applied Biosystems. Their star +contraption is a table-top box linked to a Macintosh computer that will +assemble a short string of DNA from the order that you type into the Mac. +The unit generates the DNA sequence from the some four amino acids that +cellular DNA does. in this case the amino acids are provided in small +bottles in the front of the box, along with bottles of solvent to drive the +process. The DNA is outputted" into a tiny capillary tube. While the +machine is 99.8% accurate in what it constructs, the major (and it is major) +drawback is that it con assemble sequences that are no more than 180 units +long, which would make one short gene, at most. (Genes, like words, vary in +length.) Since human genes come in the order of about one billion units, +there is a way to go in improvements. On the other hand, since the +alteration of even one gene con make a big difference in a living organism +(many congenital diseases are due to a single gene), there is still power in +being able to rewrite o couple of hundred units. A complementary box made by +Applied Biosystems works in reverse. Rather than going from code to DNA, it +goes from DNA to code. It takes a bit of existing DNA and reads" its +sequence out as a display on the computer - ATTCGGACA, etc., for instance. +Not only con this verify a sequence one builds, but its main purpose is to +unravel the genetic code encrypted in all living things. It too is severely +limited in the amount of DNA it con handle at one time. But the task of +deciphering chromosomes that are 5 million genes long would be o bummer +without it. The two machines work as a pair. Both together would fit onto a +kitchen countertop. These units by themselves are not enough to do +biotechnology research. Sundry other hi-tech items, as well as low-tech ones +like incubators, cold rooms and basic labware, are essential. But these two +systems ore the heart of the hard work; they automate what was tedious and +unpredictable toil just a few years ago. I'd guess that true basement +biotechnology is still at least a decade away, if only because of the price +$50000 for each of these machines alone)aond the expertise Ph.0) needed to +get them going. -Kevin Kelly Information from: Applied Biosystems, inc., +850 Lincoln Center Drive, Foster City, CA 94404.

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+------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +BLUEPRINT FOR U.S. DICTATORSHIP PLACES INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AT RISK

+ +

By Mike Blair +Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT

+ +

Washington, DC -- During the Persian Gulf war and the military buildup +leading to it, President George Bush began using the term "New World +Order," often suggesting that the commitment of so-called multinational +forces involved in the military effort was the beginning of this alleged +worldwide utopia.

+ +

Supposedly using the vehicle of the United Nations, Bush's New World +Order would be the arbitrator of all world problems and the apparatus to +enforce globalist dictates through the use of armed forces combined from +the armies of member nations. The UN law would be, regardless of the +nationalist interests of individual countries, the final word.

+ +

Actually, even the mention of a New World Order would normally be +anathema to thinking Americans and, in particular, conservative political +leaders and civil libertarians.

+ +

SINISTER TECHNOLOGY

+ +

It is also surprising to many critics of the move toward one-world +government that Bush would even dare choose the term "New World Order" to +define his globalist schemes. However, most Americans alive today were +born after World War II, when propaganda of the so-called Allied powers +used the terms of "New Order" or "New World Order" to describe in a +sinister way the military efforts of Japan and, in particular, Germany +under Adolf Hitler.

+ +

Few, it seems, have taken the time to analyze just what Bush has in +mind for his New World Order, of which America is to become an integral +part, starting with supplying about 90 percent of the muscle, and young +lives, that tackled and defeated Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein's Arab +legions.

+ +

However, patriotic Constitutional scholars know that Bush's New World +Order is the worst attack ever on America as a sovereign, independent and +free nation.

+ +

BEGAN WITH WILSON

+ +

Efforts to form a global government are certainly nothing new. +American political leaders, who were concerned with America first, were +able to overcome the internationalist, one-world government machinations of +President Woodrow Wilson following world war I. Wilson was prevented from +realizing his visions of a New World Order, through the League of Nations, +by a powerful Senate opposition, which refused to rubber-stamp for Wilson +U.S. membership in the world body.

+ +

A few decades later, however, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, +near the end of World War II, was able to get his one-world plans under way +by laying the groundwork for today's United Nations, which was completed +under his successor, Harry S. Truman.

+ +

A few years later, that membership in an UN-mandated war in Korea cost +America 35000 young lives.

+ +

The problem that one-worlders have always encountered, of course, is +the U.S. Constitution, which has stood as a bulwark against any globalist +schemes.

+ +

Nevertheless, American presidents since Roosevelt have insidiously +chipped away at the great powers of the people, written into the +Constitution by America's immortal Founding Fathers, with the use of so-called executive orders.

+ +

CAUSE FOR ALARM

+ +

Americans should be deeply alarmed that those presidents have signed a +series of executive orders (EOs) which, under the guise of any national +emergency declared by the president serving at the time, can virtually +suspend the Constitution and convert the nation into a virtual +dictatorship. Dissent, peaceful or otherwise, is eliminated.

+ +

Those backing efforts to circumvent the Constitution may have gotten +the idea from President Abraham Lincoln, whose use of various extraordinary +powers of his office -- which many Constitutional scholars still insist was +illegal -- suspended various civil rights to curb such problems as draft +riots during the Civil War.

+ +

In 1862, Congress enacted the Enrollment Act to allow the drafting of +young men for the Union Army. The act was rife with inequities, such as +the provision which allowed a man to pay $300 or hire a substitute to take +his place. This hated "Rich Man's Exemption," as it was called, angered +the average American of military age and in particular young Irish +immigrants in New York City.

+ +

A riot erupted in New York in 1863, and it resulted in Lincoln using +some extraordinary powers of his office to keep the Union from falling +apart from within.

+ +

But over the years, presidents have used these powers for purposes +never intended by the Founding Fathers.

+ +

INDIANS VICTIMIZED

+ +

President John Tyler used such powers in 1842 to round up Seminole +Indians in Georgia and Florida and force-march them -- men, women and +children -- to Arkansas. This was probably the first use of internment in +America to deal with unpopular minorities. It was not the last.

+ +

In 1886, the Geronimo Chiricahua Apache Indians surrendered to U.S. +troops in the West, were rounded up by order of President Grover Cleveland, +and shipped to internment in Florida and Alabama.

+ +

Earlier, during the War Between the States, Sioux Indians in +Minnesota, when there was a delay in paying them their yearly allowance, +began attacking nearby white settlements. Lincoln sent in a hastily raised +force of volunteers under Col. H. H. Sibley. Little Crow, leader of the +Kaposia band, was decisively defeated by the Union troops on September 23, +1862, and more than 2000 Sioux were taken captive, although Little Crow +himself and a few followers escaped.

+ +

Through the process of a military tribunal, sanctioned by Lincoln, 36 +Sioux leaders were publicly hanged. Whether the Sioux executed were +innocent or guilty was apparently immaterial. The revolt was quelled, and +the Minnesota Sioux were all moved to reservations in Dakota.

+ +

These instances of the nation's executive branch taking extraordinary +measures to confine, or intern, American Indians are just a few of many +examples.

+ +

More recent examples of interning minorities by executive order +occurred during World War I and World War II.

+ +

During World War I, an unknown number of German-Americans were rounded +up by federal authorities and interned until after the war. In addition, +regardless of the First Amendment of the Constitution, which guarantees +freedom of speech and of the press. German-language newspapers, published +within German-American communities in the United States, were banned.

+ +

WW II INTERNMENTS

+ +

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, within +days the FBI rounded up tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans, guilty +only of being of Japanese ancestry, under the authority of an executive +order issued by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The lists of those to +be apprehended had been drawn up months earlier, before the war.

+ +

Held in concentration camps, the perimeters guarded by U.S. soldiers +armed with machine guns, the mostly innocent and patriotic Japanese-Americans were not released until after the war.

+ +

Congress has recently passed legislation extending the nation's +apologies to the Japanese-Americans and extending them compensation for +their years of confinement.

+ +

However, no apology or compensation has ever been extended to the more +than 8000 German-Americans who were confined in dozens of jails and camps +across the United States, also by order of Roosevelt.

+ +

Many were not released until 1947, a full two years after the end of +the war, in total violation of the Geneva Conventions.

+ +

"What happened to me and thousands of others is old history," said +Eberhard Fuhr of Cincinnati, who was interned at 17 years of age, "but the +next time it could be any other group, which is then not politically +correct, or out of favor for any other reason (SPOTLIGHT, May 20, 1991).

+ +

Fuhr's warning, of course, had already been proved correct just +several months earlier when, under orders of Bush, the FBI hounded +thousands of innocent Arab-Americans as the U.S. prepared for the Persian +Gulf conflict.

+ +

Only the efforts of a handful of irate U.S. Congressmen halted the +harassment but not until after a number of U.S. military bases were +selected as sites of internment camps for Arab-Americans and war +dissenters.

+ +
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+ +

Reproduced with permission from a special supplement to _The Spotlight_, +May 25, 1992. This text may be freely reproduced provided acknowledgement +to The Spotlight appears, including this address:

+ +

The SPOTLIGHT +300 Independence Avenue, SE +Washington, DC 20003 + +

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+------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +DICTATORSHIP POSSIBLE HERE

+ +

By Lawrence Wilmot and Martin Mann +Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT

+ +

Washington, DC -- Hidden in the bureaucratic maze Washington politicians +call "our Constitutional system of government," a little-known federal +agency is quietly making plans to turn the United States into a +dictatorship.

+ +

There are "stacks of blueprints" in the top-secret safe of the Federal +Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) designed to convert American society +into a "command system," a former deputy administrator of the agency has +told The SPOTLIGHT's investigative team.

+ +

In a private interview, allowing him to remain anonymous, this highly +placed source confirmed that the procedures developed by FEMA to "suspend" +the Constitution and to round up thousands of dissenters nationwide can be +activated by a simple phone call from the White House.

+ +

"Even people who have become aware of FEMA's existence and know +something about its activities -- not many do -- think the word 'Emergency' +in its designation means it will go into action only in case of a natural +disaster or perhaps a surprise nuclear attack," related this expert.

+ +

"In reality, however, this outfit can be mobilized whenever the +politicians occupying the White House decide they need special -- and +extra-Constitutional -- powers to impose their will on the nation."

+ +

As Liberty Lobby first revealed, FEMA's bureaucrats can then proceed +to:

+ +

* Take over all farms, ranches or timberland in order to "utilize them +more effectively" as decreed in Executive Order (EO) 11490, the so-called omnibus emergency preparedness decree promulgated by President +Richard Nixon on October 28, 1969.

+ +

* Seize all sources of public power: electric, nuclear, petroleum, etc.

+ +

* Freeze all wages, prices and bank accounts.

+ +

* Take over all communications media.

+ +

A FORCE OF FACELESS FEDS

+ +

Such totalitarian measures can be imposed by bureaucrats under FEMA's +direction, not just in the face of a cataclysmic upheaval, but "[w]henever +necessary for assuring the continuity of the federal government in any +national emergency type situation," decreed a subsequent White House ukase, +EO 11921, issued by President Gerald Ford in April 1976.

+ +

Can such a blueprint for tyranny be clamped on the United States by a +force of faceless federal officials? It is the role of FEMA has been +preparing for most intensively, says the former high agency administrator.

+ +

"In recent years, despite talk of spending cuts, FEMA's budget has +been steadily increasing," revealed this knowledgeable source. "It now +stands at somewhere around $3 billion annually. I say 'somewhere' because +part of this agency's funding is appropriated under so-called black +programs, submitted to Congress with the defense budget without an +explanation of its purpose, aping the secret CIA appropriation."

+ +

FEMA can draw on the defense budget and on the protection of the +secrecy reserved for national security projects because it came into being +under President Jimmy Carter in a move that merged the civil defense and +disaster relief responsibilities formerly shared by the Pentagon, the +Commerce Department and the General Services Administration under a single +powerful agency.

+ +

WHAT'S FEMA REALLY UP TO?

+ +

But FEMA's real focus is not on disaster relief, knowledgeable sources +say. An investigation of this little-known agency, conducted earlier this +year by the General Accounting Office (GAO), the congressional watchdog +unit, has found that less than 10 percent of FEMA's staff -- 230 +bureaucrats out of an estimated 2600 -- are assigned full-time to +preparing for and dealing with major natural disasters such as storms or +earthquakes.

+ +

What, then, is FEMA really up to? The SPOTLIGHT's investigative team +has obtained an advance copy of the GAO report on this secretive agency.

+ +

The study's surprising findings have been reviewed with the help of +well-placed confidential sources, in order to bring into full view, for the +first time, the federal bureaucracy's secret blueprint for tyranny in +America.

+ +
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+ +

Reproduced with permission from a special supplement to _The Spotlight_, +May 25, 1992. This text may be freely reproduced provided acknowledgement +to The Spotlight appears, including this address:

+ +

The SPOTLIGHT +300 Independence Avenue, SE +Washington, DC 20003

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Somewhere in the vicinity of 2500 Soviet and Eastern European +officials live in the United States at any given time. The U.S. +State Department estimates that 30% to 40% of them are spies.

+ +

This comes to about 900 working spies in the diplomatic corps.

+ +

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+ +

The code applies ONLY to diplomatic plates which are conspicuously +red, white and blue with the word DIPLOMAT printed at the top.

+ +

All diplomatic licenses have a D. The other two letters indicate +the nation. SX for example, indicates that the car carries diplomats +from the Soviet Union.

+ +

FBI counter-intelligence agents are given wallet-sized cards listing +the codes for eighteen "problem" nations.

+ +

These nations are identified by the following codes :

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Albania CP Libya FM +Bulgaria OM Nicaragua QU +China CY North Korea GQ +Cuba DC Poland QW +Czechoslavakia PH Romania ND +East Germany TJ South Africa FY +Hungary KH Soviet Union SX +Iran DM Syria AQ +Iraq TS Vietnam LD

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WILD DISEASES +By +Carolee Boyles-Sprenkel

+ +

A few days after Patsy M. returned home from a trip to +Hawaii, she came down with what she thought was intestinal flu. +After a week of nausea and vile-smelling diarrhea she went to her +doctor. He couldn't find anything wrong with her and put her on +a liquid diet. Two weeks and ten pounds later she was becoming +anemic.

+ +

Three stool samples, a sigmoidoscopy and a proctoscopy could +not establish the cause of her illness. Finally she mentioned +her symptoms to a colleague at work who recognized them as +something he'd heard of before. A little research turned up +information on an organism that parasitizes the human digestive +tract, Giardia. After only 24 hours on the antibiotic Flagyl, +Patsy knew she'd solved the problem. She recovered without +further incident.

+ +

Patsy was only one of a number of people who bring back more +from their outdoor experiences that they bargain for. Any time +we go into the woods, we run the risk of encountering illnesses +and discomforts our urban neighbors don't ever run into. Few +physicians even think about testing for these "exotic" diseases. +Untreated, some will run their course in a few days or a few +weeks. But not all are so benign.

+ +

According to epidemiologist Dr. Lisa Conti, doctors term +these diseases "zoonotic." That means they're caused by +organisms that infect both animals and humans. Though most +affect humans only rarely, a few are relatively common.

+ +

This is definitely not a case of "what you don't know won't +hurt you." What you don't know about some of these ailments +will, in some cases, kill you.

+ +

Lyme Disease

+ +

Lyme Disease may be the most visible of the little shop of +horrors found in the woods. Unlike some other diseases, Lyme +Disease is not rare. Dr. Robert Craven, a Centers for Disease +Control researcher studying Lyme, says doctors reported more than +2400 cases during 1988. He believes it's spreading throughout +the country.

+ +

A bacterium carried by deer mice and deer causes Lyme +Disease. Ixodid ticks can pass the organism from infected +animals to people.

+ +

The first symptom of the disease is a little red area where +the tick attached itself to you. The spot grows. Then fever, +headache, and muscle aches start. The spot increases in size +until it become a red ring several inches across with a light-colored center. "It's kind of like a bull's-eye," says Craven.

+ +

If you don't get treatment, the effects can be severe. "It +can eventually cause cardiac problems, usually rhythm +disturbances," Craven says. "It can cause arthritis, which can +be fairly severe and debilitating. It can cause a whole host of +neurologic problems - encephalitis, meningitis type problems, +paralyses, that sort of thing."

+ +

Lyme Disease is easy to treat with antibiotics. According +to Craven, researchers are trying to produce a vaccine, but none +is available at this time.

+ +

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

+ +

Another bacterium transmitted exclusively by tick bites is +Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Infected ticks can pass the +organism from generation to generation without feeding on a sick +animal.

+ +

According to Dr. Michael Wilder, a state public health +clinician, the first symptoms are fever, cramping stomach pain +and rash. "Stomach-ache seems to be a common early symptom," he +says. "There may be some vomiting, but no diarrhea." The rash +looks like measles but it appears on the wrists and palms of the +hand, which measles rarely does.

+ +

Antibiotics will cure Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Of the +patients who are not treated, though, a few die from either shock +or hemorrhaging. + +Encephalitis

+ +

Several different types of encephalitis cause problems from +time to time. St. Louis Encephalitis follows a 10-year cycle in +the Mississippi Valley, according to Craven. Eastern Equine +Encephalitis and Western Equine Encephalitis appear in small +scattered outbreaks each summer.

+ +

Birds carry the viruses that cause encephalitis, which +mosquitoes spread from the birds to humans and other mammals. +Early symptoms include confusion and fever. Some varieties of +the ailment cause nausea and vomiting. Then, Craven says, +convulsions, coma, and other neurologic involvement may occur.

+ +

"Eastern Equine is a particularly virulent form of +encephalitis in humans," he says. "It frequently kills, and the +people who do survive are usually brain damaged to a greater or +lesser degree for life."

+ +

Antibiotics are useless against encephalitis, he says. +Researchers have developed a vaccine against both Eastern and +Western Equine, but officials recommend using it only during +epidemic conditions. + +Tularemia

+ +

According to Dr. Thomas Quan with the CDC's Fort Collins, +Colorado unit, most people acquire tularemia infections from +rabbits and hares, and the ticks associated with them. He says +people can pick up the versatile organism in a number of ways.

+ +

"Most human cases occur through the bite of a tick or +through direct contact with rabbits that are infected," he says. +"There are other modes of infection, such as deer fly bites and +mosquito bites." Sheep-shearers have acquired it from working +with infected sheep in Colorado. Some people have become ill +from drinking contaminated water. Farm workers can inhale the +organism from hay dust.

+ +

Early symptoms are fairly vague. You'll develop a bit of a +fever, and generally not feel too good. If you've inhaled the +organism, you'll have respiratory symptoms; if you've swallowed +it, you'll think you'll have intestinal flu. Swelling of the +armpits - called buboes - and other plague-like symptoms will +follow a tick bite or infection through a cut. For untreated +cases, the fatality rate is about 5 to 7 per cent. With +antibiotic treatment, patients can expect complete recovery. +"The people who get sick with it wish they'd die, but they +usually don't," Quan says. "But eventually they overcome it." + +Giardia

+ +

CDC worker Dr. David Addiss says the biggest source of +Giardia is contaminated water. Biologists have found the +organism from many streams and rivers. "It's found fairly +commonly throughout the United States in untreated surface +water," he says. "You don't find it very much in wells or big +lakes, but you do see it in streams."

+ +

A number of different animals, especially beavers, may carry +the protozoan that causes the illness. Symptoms include loose +stools or full-blown diarrhea, cramping, gas and burping, and +rarely nausea and vomiting. The disease may be more chronic than +acute. Giardia attaches itself to the wall of the small +intestine, where it lives and reproduces. Untreated, the ailment +may go away on its own. In many people, through, the infection +persists until it's treated with a course of antibiotic.

+ +

Don't rely on iodine or chlorine tablets to treat stream +water. They may work if the water is warm and only contains a +few Giardia cysts. But in cold or heavily infested water, +they're not particularly effective.

+ +

Relapsing Fever

+ +

Craven also works with relapsing fever another tick-borne +disease related to Lyme Disease. He says it's fairly rare in the +United States.

+ +

The last big epidemic of Relapsing Fever occurred in the +Grand Canyon in the 1970s, and was related to squirrels nesting +in cabins where Canyon staff people were living. Generally, +though, the cases are fairly scattered.

+ +

The disease produces flu-like symptoms, including fever and +muscle aches. If it's not treated, the symptoms subside, and +patients think they're well. Then it comes back. This cycle +continues until the disease is treated. Fortunately, it doesn't +seem to produce any serious long-term effects like Lyme Disease +does.

+ +

Brucellosis

+ +

Unless you hunt wild hogs in the southeastern United States, +brucellosis is one problem you probably don't need to worry +about. This is not to say the disease isn't found in other +species; biologists have reported it in desert rats and other +rodents, hares, foxes, goats, sheep, deer, elk and bison, and +even dogs and cats. But Dr. Arnold Kaufmann, a physician with +the CDC in Atlanta, says he's never heard of hunters contracting +brucellosis from any animal except hogs.

+ +

The organisms which cause brucellosis are a group of +bacteria that live in the blood, bone marrow and lymphatic +system, including the liver and spleen. You can become infected +in a couple of ways. If you clean a hog without wearing gloves, +bacteria can enter through small cuts and scratches on your +hands. As you cut into the carcass of the animal a number of the +organisms are released into the air, where you can inhale them.

+ +

Heat kills the bacteria, so you're not at risk if you eat +well-cooked meat from a sick animal. In fact, when domestic +animals such as cattle are found to have brucellosis, one cure is +to send the animals to the slaughterhouse.

+ +

In humans, brucellosis is a vague sort of illness, according +to Kaufmann. It causes headache, fever, and exhaustion. You may +have achy joints and in general feel like you have a severe case +of the flu.

+ +

"It goes on and on and doesn't go away," says Kaufmann. +"It's a very complex disease. It can involved a variety of +organs." Untreated, most patients eventually recover; for a few, +though, it continues as a chronic illness. Treatment is simply a +course of antibiotics.

+ +

Q Fever

+ +

Q or Query Fever may be under reported, according to CDC +microbiologist Russell Regnery. As a result, the CDC doesn't +have any good data on how many cases occur in this country each +year.

+ +

"I think it's an important disease, but one for which very +little data can be found," says Regnery. In his opinion, +hunters and fishermen in sheep country need to be aware of the +disease as a potential long-shot ailment. "If, for example, you +were to shoot a sheep that had Q Fever and you butchered it out, +especially if that animal is a pregnant female, you would really +be asking for the possibility of exposure," Regnery says. The +organism reaches its highest concentration in amniotic fluid and +fetal tissues.

+ +

The agent is a specialized bacterium. It can infect humans +through cuts on the hand, but it's very infectious if inhaled. +As a result, clothes and other items can become contaminated by +the organism.

+ +

Symptoms include headache and fever, plus muscle pain. +Pregnant women may suffer complications. Untreated, the disease +usually resolves itself after a few days or a few weeks. A few +people, though, develop Q Fever endocarditis, or inflammation of +the heart. This can be a chronic problem, hard to treat, and +sometimes leading to death. Q-fever has been associated with +rabbit hunting in Canada. + +Rabies

+ +

Despite modern vaccinations, rabies is still a potential +threat. Unlike most of the other diseases you can acquire in the +woods, rabies has no treatment - if you get it, you die. It's +that simple.

+ +

"Any warm-blooded animal can get rabies," says Wilder. "But +certain animals seem to play a more important role as a +reservoir. The main ones throughout most of the country are +insectivorous bats, skunks, foxes, and of course raccoons." Even +deer and antelope can become infected if a rabid animal bites +them.

+ +

You're only at a slight risk to pick up rabies if you dress +an infected deer or other ungulate without gloves on. +Theoretically, though, it's possible for you to get it, +especially if you skin out the head and get saliva on your hands.

+ +

Direct contact is not the only way you can acquire rabies. +In rare cases, spelunkers have become infected from inhaling the +virus in bat caves.

+ +

If you're bitten by a rabid animal, the first symptom of the +disease is what Wilder terms "an unusual sensation" at the site +of the bite. "It's an increased sensitivity, a feeling of +prickliness, just an odd sensation arising from the healing +wound." A fever and stiffening of the neck follow. Then you'll +have convulsions. You'll salivate because you're unable to +swallow. Death will follow in of days or weeks.

+ +

A post-exposure vaccine for people has been available for +many years. Recently, scientists have developed a pre-exposure +vaccine. Wilder says whether or not you need to get vaccinated +depends on what you're hunting. Most people don't need to worry +about it. But if you're a woodchuck or raccoon hunter, he +recommends it. At a cost of about $100, it's cheap insurance.

+ +

Wilder also stresses that hunters need to have their dogs +vaccinated against the disease. Some raccoon hunters in +particular fear the inoculation will affect the dogs' ability to +hunt, and so don't have them vaccinated.

+ +

Don't do the vaccination yourself. In Florida and perhaps a +few other state, rabies vaccine is available over the counter at +feed stores. "We've been most fortunate that no identified cases +of rabies have occurred from this practice," Wilder says.

+ +

Plague +Remember the bubonic plague, the disease that decimated +Europe in the Middle Ages? It's still with us in the western US.

+ +

Any rodent in the west can harbor the plague organism. +"Most people in the United States who acquire plague are getting +it from ground squirrels," Quan says. "On the west coast, it's +the California Ground Squirrel. In the Rocky Mountains it's the +Rock Squirrel. Then you have other smaller squirrels and +chipmunks." Even if you don't have direct contact with rodents, +you're still not immune. Your dog and cat may catch a squirrel, +pick up the fleas carrying the organism, and bring it home to +you.

+ +

Plague is transmitted to humans through flea bites. Early +symptoms are similar to those of tularemia: high fever, muscle +aches, fatigue. You'll have pain, sometimes quite severe, in the +area where the buboes, or swollen lymph glands, are going to +develop.

+ +

Untreated, plague kills. The organism produces toxins that +cause problems with blood clotting, and eventually gangrene. +Fifty-five to sixty per cent of patients die. Even treated, +plaque kills 15 to 20 per cent of patients.

+ +

As dreadful as plague is, it's easily treated. A variety of +antibiotics, including Tetracycline and sulfa drugs, will knock +it out.

+ +

"People who see a physician early on after symptoms, and who +have the savvy to know they were possibly exposed tend to +survive," Quan says. "A large percentage of those who die have +septicemic plague, which does not have a bubo." These cases look +like a lot of other diseases, are hard to diagnose, and as a +result often don't get treated early enough.

+ +

Fortunately, plague is rare. Quan says in 1983 doctors +reported a high of 40 cases, but in general the number is 10 to +20. This compares to 200-plus for tularemia each year.

+ +

Prevention

+ +

Most members of this hall of villains are easy to prevent +with little effort. First, don't drink untreated water. Carry +water or soft drinks with you.

+ +

Second, any time you dress game, don't do it bare-handed; +wear gloves. "If you don't wear gloves, you're really taking +your chances," Quan says.

+ +

Third, avoid contact with mosquitoes, ticks and fleas. +"Most of these things can be prevented with repellents," Craven +says. He notes especially Permanone, a permethrin compound that +is both an insecticide and a repellent useful for ticks.

+ +

If, after being in the woods, you begin to show symptoms +like any of the ones described here, go straight to the doctor. +Don't wait to see if you get better on your own. And be sure you +tell him or her what you suspect.

+ +

"Be sure you tell the physician you had the contact," Quan +says. "It's one way we have of making an early, proper +diagnosis. Tell the doctor you had contact with such-and-such an +animal. Then the physician is at least alerted that tularemia is +as possibility, or in the western states, plague."

+ +

These are only some of the weird and exotic diseases you may +encounter on a hunting or fishing trip. Others include +Leptospirosis, Anthrax, and a variety of fungal organisms. But +by following some common-sense preventive techniques, you can +avoid bringing home these unwanted freeloaders from the woods.

+ +

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+VIOLATION OF LAW OF CONSERVATION OF CHARGE +IN SPACE POWER GENERATION PHENOMENON

+ +

By

+ +

PARAMAHAMSA TEWARI +Chief Project Engineer +Kaiga Project +NUCLEAR POWER CORPORATION +Karwar +INDIA

+ +

INTRODUCTION:

+ +

It has been hitherto believed in physics that the total electric +charge in the Universe is a constant quantity, and if additional +charge appears in some region, it is only at the expense of the +charge deficit in some other regions.

+ +

It is a basic law that electric charge is conserved and cannot be +destroyed or created. Precise experiments on a Space Power +Generator (SPG) which has been now further developed to demonstrate +the commercial viability of the newly discovered phenomenon of space +power generation however, totally violate the existing law of +conservation of charge, by generating output electrical power much +in excess of the input electrical power.

+ +

Since electric charge is a form of basic energy, the law of +conservation of energy will need to be enlarged to incorporate in it +the dynamics of absolute vacuum [1] which in a state of rotation +generates fundamental field to produce electrical charge and energy.

+ +

DESCRIPTION OF THE SPG:

+ +

The SPG shown in Fig. 1 is a further developed form of the machines +described [23] in earlier issues of this magazine.

+ +

A non-magnetic shaft interconnects two mild steel rotors on which +two electromagnets are mounted. Electric power at 1.5 volt d-c and +high ampheres is drawn from each unit, with the help of copper-graphite brushes when the machine runs at 2860 rpm directly coupled +and driven by an induction motor.

+ +

The power is drawn between the inner rotor's cylindrical surface and +the shaft through d-c shunts that enable measurements of high d-c +current.

+ +

The SPG weighs about 150 Kg. and is fabricated out of 120 mm thick +mild steel plate. The two units enable generation of power at more +than 3 volt d-c by appropriate series connections between the two +coils. The electromagnet's coils are 16 swg super enamelled wire +with 216 turns in each coil.

+ +

The feature that brings improvements [4] in this machine is the +larger diameter of the rotors that produces higher d-c voltage at +comparatively lower speed, not exceeding 3000 rpm. Also the twin +units with single coil in each unit double the amount of power.

+ +

TEST RESULTS:

+ +

The drive motor (DM) takes no-load current of 2.6 amperes (1300 +watts) to rotate itself and the SPG to overcome windage and friction +at 2870 rpm. The no-load voltage internally generated in each unit +of the SPG is adjusted to 1.5 volts d-c between the shaft and the +inner rotor by the control of the d-c excitation current in the two +electromagnet's coils connected in series.

+ +

The excitation current is 31 amperes, the total d-c resistance of +the two coils being 2.5 ohms. The power given to the electromagnets +is 31 x 31 x 2.5, that is, 2400 watts. The two shunts with +calibration of 2000 amperes for 75 mv are now connected across the +two output circuits.

+ +

The d-c currents measured in each circuit are almost equal to 2613 +amperes corresponding to 98 mv reading of the shunt.

+ +

The output electrical power of each unit is 2613 x 1.5 watts, that +is, 3919 watts. Total electrical power from the two units is 7839 +watts.

+ +

As the SPG is electrically loaded, the current of DM rises to 10 +amperes, showing a rise of 7.4 amperes over the no-load current, and +corresponding to a rise in input electrical power of 3700 watts.

+ +

The load current of the DM of 10 amperes amounts to the total +electrical input to the DM of 5000 watts, out of which 1300 watts is +utilised to overcome the no-load losses.

+ +

The remaining electrical input of 3700 watts generates 7839 watts of +electrical output power, giving the efficiency of space power +generation in this particular as 211.8%.

+ +

Assuming electromagnetic efficiency of the DM as 80%, the efficiency +of the electrical energy generation of the SPG will rise to 264.75%.

+ +

If the excitation power of 2400 watts given to the SPG is deducted +from the total electrical output from the SPG of 7839 watts, the +balance electrical output of 5439 watts still exceeds the total +electrical input of 5000 watts by 439 watts, giving the total system +efficiency of 105.9% while, in addition the DM-SPG set runs as a +perpetual system drawing 1300 watts of power from space.

+ +

QUANTUM OF SPACE POWER:

+ +

The quantum of electrical charge produced due to the rotation of +space in a rotating electromagnet and the electrical power produced +when the power is withdrawn through an electric circuit, as +discussed in earlier article [2], is given by,

+ +

P = (1.8) LN(r^2)(10^-5)kW +(1)

+ +

where, P is power in kW, L is axial length of the SPG in centimeter, +N is revolution per second, and 'r' is the radius in centimeter of +the SPG on the inner rotor surface.

+ +

The derivation of the above relation was based on the assumption +that the radius of the spherical void at the centre of electron as +discussed in space vortex theory [12] is 1.5 x (10^-11) cm.

+ +

More precise measurements in space power generation experiments, +however show that the coefficient 1.8 in equation (1) should be 2.5, +and the void radius at electron's centre should be taken as 10^-11 +cm. With these corrections the space power equation (1) now +becomes:

+ +

P = (2.5) LN(r^2)(10^-5)kW +(2)

+ +

substituting the values, L=12, N=47.6, and r=11.43 in (2),

+ +

P = 5.85 kW

+ +

Since there are two units of the SPG on the shaft, total power from +the two units will be 11.7 kW, which is 1.5 times the output power +drawn from the machine in the above test.

+ +

With additional brushes and reduced contacts at about 3000 rpm, the +above machine will have capacity to produce about 12 kW of power.

+ +

If the SPG is driven at 6000 rpm both the voltages and currents will +be doubled, producing 4 times output of 48 kW. Since the excitation +power remains constant, much higher total system efficiency is +expected though the efficiency of the SPG as computed above will +remain constant at 211.8%.

+ +

CONCLUSION:

+ +

Mass-energy equation of Einstein brought forth an universal law that +an electron like all matter contains in its structure energy. A +further enlargement of this law is that electron is itself energy, +where "energy" in physical terms is a state of vacuum in rotation.

+ +

Even at ordinary speed of rotation of an electromagnet, the interatomic space of the iron core develops velocity fields of vacuum +that qualitatively act like additional charge within the rotating +system and liberate orbital electrons of the iron atoms.

+ +

With the interaction of the magnetic field the free electrons form +polarites [23].

+ +

It is possible to commercially develop a machine that can not only +rotate itself perpetually but also generate additional electrical +charge in kilowatts and higher range.

+ +

The law of conservation of charge and the law of conservation of +energy are applicable within the systems confined to material +interactions alone and not to the medium of space which is a dynamic +entity that can rotate and create charge at ordinary speeds, and can +rotate and create electrons at speed of light.

+ +

REFERENCES:

+ +

1. Paramahamsa Tewari - "Beyond Matter", Printwell Publications, +Aligarh, India (1984).

+ +

2. Paramahamsa Tewari - "Generation of Electrical Power from +Absolute Vacuum by High Speed Rotation of conducting Magnetic +Cylinder", +Magnets in Your Future, Vol. 1 No. 8, August 1986, P.O. Box 580, +Temecula, CA 92390, USA.

+ +

3. Paramahamsa Tewari - "Interaction of Electron and Magnetic Field +in Space Power Generation Phenomenon", Magnets in Your Future, +Vol. 2 No. 12, December 1987, P.O. Box 580, Temecula, Ca. 92390, +USA.

+ +

4. Report on the Initial Testing Phase of DePalma Energy +Corporation, N1 Electrical Power Generator, 6-1-1988 - +Bruce DePalma, DePalma Energy Corporation, 1060 Channel Drive, +Santa Barbara, California +93108, (805) 969-6442.

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+HOMOPOLAR "FREE-ENERGY" GENERATOR TEST

+ +

Robert Kincheloe +Professor of Electrical Engineering (Emeritus) +Stanford University

+ +

Paper presented at the 1986 meeting +of the +Society for Scientific Exploration +San Francisco

+ +

June 21, 1986 +Revised February 1, 1987

+ +
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+ +

HOMOPOLAR "FREE-ENERGY" GENERATOR TEST +Robert Kincheloe

+ +

ABSTRACT

+ +

Known for over 150 years, the Faraday homopolar generator has +been claimed to provide a basis for so-called "free-energy" +generation, in that under certain conditions the extraction of +electrical output energy is not reflected as a corresponding +mechanical load to the driving source.

+ +

During 1985 I was invited to test such a machine. While it did +not perform as claimed, repeatable data showed anomalous +results that did not seem to conform to traditional theory.

+ +

In particular, under certain assumptions about internally +generated output voltage, the increase in input power when power +was extracted from the generator over that measured due to +frictional losses with the generator unexcited seemed to be +either about 13% or 20% of the maximum computed generated power, +depending on interpretation.

+ +

The paper briefly reviews the homopolar generator, describes the +tests on this particular machine, summarizes and presents +tentative conclusions from the resulting data.

+ +

THE SUNBURST HOMOPOLAR GENERATOR

+ +

In July, 1985, I became aware of and was invited to examine and +test a so-called free-energy generator known as the Sunburst N +Machine.

+ +

This device, shown in Figs 1a and 1b, was proposed by Bruce +DePalma and constructed by Charya Bernard of the Sunburst +Community in Santa Barbara, CA, about 1979.

+ +

The term "free-energy" refers to the claim by DePalma [1] +(and others [2]) that it was capable of producing electrical +output power that was not reflected as a mechanical load to the +driving mechanism but derived from presumed latent spatial +energy.

+ +

Apart from mechanical frictional and electrical losses inherent +in the particular construction, the technique employed was +claimed to provide a basis for constructing a generator which +could supply the energy to provide not only its own motive power +but also additional energy for external use. From August 1985 +to April 1986 I made a series of measurements on this particular +machine to test these claims.

+ +

GENERATOR DESCRIPTION

+ +

Details of the generator construction are shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

+ +

It consists essentially of an electromagnet formed by a coil of +3605 turns of #10 copper wire around a soft iron core which +can be rotated with the magnetic field parallel to and +symmetrical around the axis of rotation.

+ +

At each end of the magnet are conducting bronze cylindrical +plates, on one of which are arranged (as shown in Fig. 3) +one set of graphite brushes for extracting output current +between the shaft and the outer circumference and a second +set of metering brushes for independently measuring the induced +voltage between these locations.

+ +

A third pair of brushes and slip rings supply the current for +the electromagnet. A thick sheath of epoxy-impregnated +fiberglass windings allow the magnet to be rotated at high speed.

+ +

The generator may be recognized as a so-called homopolar, or +acyclic machine, a device first investigated and described +by Michael Faraday [3] in 1831 (Figs. 45) and shown +schematically in Fig. 6.

+ +

It consists of a cylindrical conducting disk immersed in an +axial magnetic field, and can be operated as a generator with +sliding brushes extracting current from the voltage induced +between the inner and outer regions of the disk when the +rotational energy is supplied by an external driving source.

+ +

The magnitude of the incremental radial generated voltage +is proportional to both the strength of the magnetic field +and the tangential velocity, so that in a uniform magnetic +field the total voltage is proportional to the product of speed +times the difference between the squares of the inner and outer +brush radii.

+ +

The device may also be used as a motor when an external +voltage produces an radial current between the sliding brushes.

+ +

There have been a number of commercial applications of +homopolar motors and generators, particularly early in this +century [4], and their operating principles are described in a +number of texts [5].

+ +

The usual technique is to use a stationary magnet to produce +the magnetic field in which the conducting disk (or +cylinder) is rotated.

+ +

Faraday found, however, (Fig 7) that it does not matter whether +the magnet itself is stationary or rotating with the disk as long +as the conductor is moving in the field, but that rotating the +magnet with the conducting disk stationary did not produce an +induced voltage.

+ +

He concluded that a magnetic field is a property of space +itself, not attached to the magnet which serves to induce the +field [6].

+ +

DePalma stated [7] that when the conducting disk is attached +to a rotating magnet, the interaction of the primary magnetic +field with that produced by the radial output current results in +torque between the disk and the magnet structure which is not +reflected back to the mechanical driving source.

+ +

Lenz's law therefore does not apply, and the extraction of +output energy does not require additional driving power. +This is the claimed basis for extracting "free" energy.

+ +

Discussions of the torque experienced by a rotating magnet are also +discussed in the literature [8].

+ +

Because the simple form shown in Fig. 6 has essentially +one conducting path, such a homopolar device is characterized +by low voltage and high current requiring a large magnetic field +for useful operation.

+ +

Various homopolar devices have been used for specialized +applications [9] (such as generators for developing large +currents for welding, ship degaussing, liquid metal +magnetohydrodynamic pumps for nuclear reactor cooling, +torquemotors for propulsion, etc.), some involving quite high +power.

+ +

These have been extensively discussed in the literature, +dealing with such problems as developing the high magnetic +fields required (sometimes using superconducting magnets in +air to avoid iron saturation effects), the development of +brushes that can handle the very high currents and have low +voltage drop because of the low output voltage generated, +and with counteracting armature reaction which otherwise would +reduce the output voltage because of the magnetic field +distortion resulting from the high currents.

+ +

From the standpoint of prior art, the design of the +Sunburst generator is inefficient and not suitable for power +generation:

+ +

1. The magnetic field is concentrated near the axis where +the tangential velocity is low, reducing the generated +voltage.

+ +

2. Approximately 4 kilowatts of power are required to +energize the magnet, developing enough heat so that the +device can only be operated for limited periods of time.

+ +

3. The graphite brushes used have a voltage drop almost +equal to the total induced voltage, so that almost all of +the generated power is consumed in heating the brushes.

+ +

4. The large contacting area (over 30 square inches) of +the brushes needed for the high output current creates +considerable friction loss.

+ +

Since this machine was not intended as a practical generator but +as a means for testing the free energy principle, however, +from this point of view efficiency in producing external +power was not required or relevant.

+ +

DEPALMA'S RESULTS WITH THE SUNBURST HOMOPOLAR GENERATOR

+ +

In 1980 DePalma conducted tests with the Sunburst +generator, describing his measurement technique and results in an +unpublished report [10].

+ +

The generator was driven by a 3 phase a-c 40 horsepower motor +by a belt coupling sufficiently long that magnetic fields of +the motor and generator would not interact. A table from this +report giving his data and results is shown in Fig. 8.

+ +

For a rotational speed of 6000 rpm an output power of 7560 watts +was claimed to require an increase of 268 watts of drive power +over that required to supply losses due to friction, windage, +etc. as measured with the output switch open.

+ +

If valid, this would mean that the output power was 28.2 times +the incremental input power needed to produce it. Several +assumptions were made in this analysis:

+ +

1. The drive motor input power was assumed to be the product +of the line voltage and current times the appropriate factor +for a three-phase machine and an assumed constant 70% power +factor. +There was apparently no consideration of phase angle +change as the motor load increased. This gives optimistic +results, since consideration of phase angle is necessary +for calculating power in an a-c circuit, particularly with +induction motors. +It might also be noted that the measured incremental line +current increase of 0.5 ampere (3.3%) as obtained with the +analog clamp-on a-c ammeter that was used was of limited +accuracy.

+ +

2. The output power of the generator was taken to be the +product of the measured output current and the internally +generated voltage in the disk less the voltage drop due only +to internal disk resistance. Armature reaction was thus +neglected or assumed not to be significant.

+ +

3. The generated voltage which produced the current in the main +output brushes was assumed to be the same as that measured +at the metering brushes, and the decrease in metered voltage +from 1.5 to 1.05 volts when the output switch is closed was +assumed to be due to the internal voltage drop resulting +from the output current flowing through the internal disk +resistance that is common to both sets of brushes and +calculated to 62.5 microohms.

+ +

Of these, the first assumption seems the most serious, and it is my +opinion that the results of this particular test were inaccurate.

+ +

Tim Wilhelm of Stelle, Illinois, who witnessed tests of the Sunburst +generator in 1981, had a similar opinion [11].

+ +

RECENT TESTS OF THE SUNBURST GENERATOR

+ +

Being intrigued by DePalma's hypothesis, I accepted the offer by +Mr. Norman Paulsen, founder of the Sunburst Community, to +conduct tests on the generator which apparently had not been +used since the tests by DePalma and Bernard in 1979.

+ +

Experimental Setup

+ +

A schematic diagram of the test arrangement is shown in Fig. 9, +with the physical equipment shown in Fig. 10. The generator +is shown coupled by a long belt to the drive motor behind it, +together with the power supplies and metering both contained +within and external to the Sunburst power and metering cabinet.

+ +

Figure 10b shows the panel of the test cabinet which provided +power for the generator magnet and motor field. The 4-1/2 digit +meters on the panel were not functional and were not used; +external meters were supplied.

+ +

I decided to use an avaiable shunt-field d-c drive motor +to facilitate load tests at different speeds and to simplify +accurate motor input power measurements.

+ +

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+ +

Referring to Figure 9, variacs and full-wave bridge +rectifiers provided variable d-c supplies for the motor armature +and field and the homopolar generator magnet.

+ +

Voltages and currents were measured with Micronta model 11-191 +3-1/2 digit meters calibrated to better than 0.1% against a +Hewlett Packard 740B Voltage Standard that by itself was +accurate to better than .005%.

+ +

Standard meter shunts together with the digital voltmeters were +used to measure the various currents. With this +arrangement the generator speed could be varied smoothly from 0 +to over 7000 rpm, with accurate measurement of motor input +power, metered generator output voltage Vg and generator output +current Ig.

+ +

Speed was measured with a General Radio model 1531 Strobotac +which had a calibration accuracy of better than 2% (as verified +with a frequency counter) and which allowed determination of +relative speed changes of a few rpm of less.

+ +

Small changes in either load or input power were clearly +evident because of the sensitivity of the Strobotac speed +measurement, allowing the motor input power to be adjusted +with the armature voltage variac to obtain the desired +constant speed with no acceleration or deceleration before +taking readings from the various meters.

+ +

Generator Tests

+ +

Various tests were conducted with the output switch open to +confirm that generated voltage at both the output brushes (Vbr) +and metering brushes (Vg) were proportional to speed and magnetic +field, with the polarity reversing when magnetic field or +direction of rotation were reversed.

+ +

Tracking of Vbr and Vg with variation of magnetic field is shown +in Fig. 11, in which it is seen that the output voltages are not +quite linearly related to magnet current, probably due to core +saturation.

+ +

The more rapid departure of Vg from linearity may be due to +the different brush locations as seen on Fig 3, differences +in the magnetic field at the different brush locations, or other +causes not evident. An expanded plot of this voltage +difference is shown in Fig. 12, and is seen to considerably +exceed meter error tolerances.

+ +

Figure 11 also shows an approximate 300 watt increase in drive +motor armature power as the magnet field was increased from +0 to 19 amperes.

+ +

(The scatter of input power measurements shown in the upper curve +of Fig. 11 resulted from the great sensitivity of the motor +armature current to small fluctuations in power line voltage, +since the large rotary inertia of the 400 pound generator did +not allow speed to rapidly follow line voltage changes).

+ +

At first it was thought that this power loss might be due to +the fact that the outer output brushes were arranged in a +rectangular array as shown in Fig. 3.

+ +

Since they were connected in parallel but not equidistant from +the axis the different generated voltages would presumably +result in circulating currents and additional power dissipation.

+ +

Measurement of the generated voltage as a function of +radial distance from the axis as shown in Fig. 13, however, +showed that almost all of the voltage differential occurred +between 5 and 12 cm, presumably because this was the region of +greatest magnetic field due to the centralized iron core.

+ +

The voltage in the region of the outer brushes was almost +constant, with a measured variation of only 3.7% between the +extremes, so that this did not seem to explain the increase in +input power. The other likely explanation seems to be that there +are internal losses in the core and other parts of the metal +structure due to eddy currents, since these are also moving +conductors in the field.

+ +

In any event, the increase in drive power was only about 10% for +the maximum magnet current of 19 amperes.

+ +

Figure 14 typifies a number of measurements of input power +and generator performance as a function of speed and various +generator conditions.

+ +

Since the generator output knife switch procedure was very stiff +and difficult to operate the procedure used was to make a +complete speed run from zero to the maximum speed and descending +again to zero with the switch open, taking readings at each +speed increment with the magnet power both off and on.

+ +

The procedure was then repeated with the switch closed. (It +was noted that during the descending speed run the input power +was a few percent lower than for the same speed during the +earlier ascending speed run; this was presumably due to +reduced friction as the brushes and/or bearings became +heated. In plotting the data the losses for both runs were +averaged which gave a conservative result since the losses +shown in the figures exceed the minimum values measured).

+ +

The upper curve (a) shows the motor armature input power +with a constant motor field current of 6 amperes as the speed +is varied with no generator magnet excitation and is seen to +reach a maximum of 4782 watts as the speed is increased to 6500 +rpm.

+ +

This presumably represents the power required to overcome +friction and windage losses in the motor, generator, and drive +belt, and are assumed to remain essentially constant whether +the generator is producing power or not [12].

+ +

Curve 14b shows the increase of motor armature power over that +of curve (a) that results from energizing the generator magnet +with a current of 16 amperes but with the generator output +switch open so that there is no output current (and hence +no output power dissippation).

+ +

This component of power (which is related to the increase of +drive motor power with increased magnet current as shown in Fig. +11 as discussed above) might also be present whether or not the +generator is producing output current and power, although this is +not so evident since the output current may affect the +magnetic field distribution.

+ +

Curve 14c shows the further increase of motor armature input +power over that of curves (a) plus (b) that results when the +output switch is closed, the generator magnet is energized and +output current is produced.

+ +

It is certainly not zero or negligible but rises to a maximum of +802 watts at 6500 rpm. The total motor armature input power +under these conditions is thus the sum of (a), (b), and +(c) and reaches a maximum of 6028 watts at 6500 rpm.

+ +

The big question has to do with the generated output power. +The measured output current at 6500 rpm was 4776 amperes; the +voltage at the metering brushes was 1.07 volts.

+ +

Using a correction factor derived from Fig. 12 and assuming a +common internal voltage drop due to a calculated disk +resistance of 38 microohms, a computed internal generated +potential of 1.28 volts is obtained which if multiplied by +the measured output current indicates a generated power of +6113 watts.

+ +

All of this power is presumably dissipated in the internal +and external circuit resistances, the brush loss due both to +the brush resistance and the voltage drops at the contact +surfaces between the brushes and the disk (essentially an arc +discharge), and the power dissipated in the 31.25 microohm meter +shunt.

+ +

It still represents power generated by the machine, however, +and exceeds the 802 watts of increased motor drive power due +solely to closing the generator output switch and causing +output current to flow by a factor of 7.6 to 1.

+ +

If the 444 watts of increased input power that resulted +from energizing the magnet with the output switch open is assumed +to have been converted to generated output power and hence +should be included as part of the total increased drive motor +power required to produce generated output, the computed 6113 +watts of generated power still exceeds the total input power of +444 watts plus 802 watts by a factor of 4.9 to 1.

+ +

The computed output power even slightly exceeds the total +motor armature input power including all frictional and windage +losses of 6028 watts under these conditions (although the +total system effeciency is still less than 100% because of the +generator magnet power of approximately 2300 watts and motor +field power of about 144 watts which must be added to the +motor armature power to obtain total system input power).

+ +

It would thus seem that if the above assumptions are valid +that DePalma correctly predicted that much of the generated +power with this kind of machine is not reflected back to the +motive source. Figure 15 summarizes the data discussed above.

+ +

To further examine the question of the equivalence between +the internally generated voltage at the main output brushes and +that measured at the metering brushes, a test was made of the +metered voltage as a function of speed with the generator magnet +energized with a current of 20 amperes both with the output +switch open and closed. The resulting data is shown in Fig. 16.

+ +

The voltage rises to about 1.32 volts at 6000 rpm with the +switch open (which is close to that obtained by DePalma) and +drops 0.14 volts when the switch is closed and the measured +output current is 3755 amperes, corresponding to an effective +internal resistance of 37 microohms.

+ +

Even if this were due to other causes, such as armature reaction, +it does not seem likely that there would be a large potential +drop between the output and metering brushes because of +the small distance, low magnetic field (and radial differential +voltage), and large mass of conducting disk material.

+ +

Internal currents many times the measured output current of +almost 4000 amperes would be required for the voltage +difference between the outer metering and output brushes to +be significant and invalidate the conclusions reached above.

+ +

A further method of testing the validity of the assumed +generated output potential involved an examination of the +voltage drop across the graphite brushes themselves.

+ +

Many texts on electrical machinery discuss the brush drop +in machines with commutators or slip rings.

+ +

All of those examined agree that graphite brushes typically have +a voltage drop that is essentially constant at approximately one +volt per brush contact when the current density rises above 10-15 +amperes per square centimeter.

+ +

To compare this with the Sunburst machine the total brush +voltage was calculated by subtracting the IR drop due to the +output current in the known (meter shunt) and calculated (disk, +shaft, and brush lead) resistances from the assumed +internally generated output voltage. The result in Fig. 17 +shows that the brush drop obtained in this way is even less than +that usually assumed, as typified by the superimposed curve +taken from one text.

+ +

It thus seems probable that the generated voltage is +not significantly less than that obtained from the metering +brushes, and hence the appropriateness of the computed output +power is supported.

+ +

CONCLUSIONS

+ +

We are therefore faced with the apparent result that the +output power obtained when the generator magnet is +energized greatly exceeds the increase in drive power over +that needed to supply losses with the magnet not energized. +This is certainly anomalous in terms of convential theory. +Possible explanations?

+ +

1. There could be a large error in the measurements resulting +from some factor such as noise which caused the digital +meters to read incorrectly or grossly inaccurate current +shunt resistances.

+ +

If the measured results had shown that the computed generated +output power exceeded the input drive power by only a few percent +this explanation would be reasonable and would suggest that more +careful calibration and measurements might show that the results +described above were due to measurement error.

+ +

With the data showing such a large ratio of generated power to +input power increase, however, in my opinion this +explanation of the results seems unlikely.

+ +

(A later test showed that the digital meters are insensitive +to a large a-c ripple superimposed on the measured d-c, but +within their rated accuracy of 0.1% give a true average value).

+ +

2. There could be a large difference between the measured +voltage at the metering brushes and the actual generated +voltage in the output brush circuit due to armature +reaction, differences in the external metering and output +circuit geometry, or other unexplained causes.

+ +

As discussed above the various data do not seem to support this +possibility.

+ +

3. DePalma may have been right in that there is indeed a +situation here whereby energy is being obtained from a +previously unknown and unexplained source.

+ +

This is a conclusion that most scientists and engineers would +reject out of hand as being a violation of accepted laws of +physics, and if true has incredible implications.

+ +

4. Perhaps other possibilities will occur to the reader.

+ +

The data obtained so far seems to have shown that while DePalma's +numbers were high, his basic premise has not been disproved. +While the Sunburst generator does not produce useful output power +because of the internal losses inherent in the design, a +number of techniques could be used to reduce the friction +losses, increase the total generated voltage and the +fraction of generated power delivered to an external load.

+ +

DePalma's claim of free energy generation could perhaps then +be examined.

+ +

I should mention, however, that the obvious application of using +the output of a "free-energy" generator to provide its own motive +power, and thus truly produce a source of free energy, has +occured to a number of people and several such machines have +been built.

+ +

At least one of these known to me [13], using what seemed to +be a good design techniques, was unsuccessful.

+ +
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+ +

FOOTNOTES

+ +

1. DePalma, 1979a,b,c, 1981, 1983, 1984, etc. +2. For example, Satelite News, 1981, Marinov, 1984, etc. +3. Martin, 1932, vol. 1, p.381. +4. Das Gupta, 1961, 1962; Lamme, 1912, etc. +5. See, for example, Bumby, 1983; Bewley, 1952; Kosow, 1964; Nasar, +1970. +6. There has been much discussion on this point in the +literature, and about interpretation of flux lines. Bewley, +1949; Cohn, 1949a,b; Crooks, 1978; Cullwick, 1957; Savage, +1949. +7. DePalma, op. cit. +. Kimball, 1926; Zeleny, 1924. +9. Bumby, Das Gupta, op. cit. +10. DePalma, 1980. +11. Wilhelm, 1980, and personal communication. +12. The increase in motor losses with increased load are +neglected in this discussion because of a lack of accurate +values for armature and brush resistances, magnetic field +distortion resulting from armature reaction, etc. Such +losses, while small, would be appreciable, however; their +inclusion would further increase the ratio of generated to +drive power so that the results described are conservative. +13. Wilhelm, 1981, and personal communication.

+ +
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+ +

REFERENCES

+ +

[Bewley, 1949] - L. V. Bewley, letter re [Cohn, 1949a]; ELECTRICAL +ENGINEERING, Dec. 1949, p.1113-4. (Claims error in Cohn's paper)

+ +

[Bewley, 1952] - L. V. Bewley, FLUX LINKAGES & ELECTROMAGNETIC +INDUCTION, Macmillan, NY, 1952. (Explanation of induction +phenomena and the Faraday generator)

+ +

[Bumby, 1983] - J. R. Bumby, SUPERCONDUCTING ROTATING ELECTRICAL +MACHINES, Claredon Press, 1983. (Homopolar designs, high current +brushes including liquid metal)

+ +

[Cohn, 1949a] - George I. Cohn, "Electromagnetic Induction", +ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, May 1949, p441-7. (Unipolar generator as +paradox)

+ +

[Cohn, 1949b] - George Cohn, letter re [Savage, 1949]; ELECTRICAL +ENGINEERING, Nov 1949, p1018. (Responds to criticism by Savage)

+ +

[Crooks, 1978] - M. J. Crooks et al, "One-piece Faraday generator: +A paradoxical experiment from 1851", Am. J. Phys. 46(7), July +1978, p729-31. (Derives Faraday generator performance using +Maxwell's equations)

+ +

[Cullwick, 1957] - E. G. Cullwick, ELECTROMAGNETISM AND RELATIVITY, +Longmans & Green, London, 1957. (Chapter 10, "A Rotating +Conducting Magnet", pp.141-60, discusses question of flux rotation +with magnet)

+ +

[Das Gupta, 1961] - A. K. Das Gupta, "Design of self-compensated +high current comparatively higher voltage homopolar generators", +AIEE Trans. Oct 1961, p567-73. (Discusses very high current +homopolar generator design)

+ +

[Das Gupta, 1962] - A. K. Das Gupta, "Commutatorless D-C generators +capable to supply currents more than one million amperes, etc" +AIEE Trans. Oct 1962, p399-402. (Discusses very high current low +voltage Faraday generators)

+ +

[DePalma, 1979a] - Bruce DePalma, EXTRACTION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY +DIRECTLY FROM SPACE: THE N-NACHINE, Simularity Institute, Santa +Barbara CA, 6 Mar 1979. (Discusses homopolar generator or N-Machine as free-energy source)

+ +

[DePalma, 1979b] - Bruce DePalma, "The N-Machine", Paper given at +the World Symposium on Humanity, Pasadena, CA, 12 April 1979. +(Describes background, development of "free-energy" theories)

+ +

[DePalma, 1979c] - Bruce DePalma, ROTATION OF A MAGNETIZED +GYROSCOPE, Simularity Institute Report #33, 16 July 1979. +(Describes design of Sunburst homopolar generator)

+ +

[DePalma, 1980] - Bruce DePalma, "Performance of the Sunburst N +Machine", Simularity Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, 17 December +1980. (Description of tests and results)

+ +

[DePalma, 1981] - Bruce DePalma, "Studies on rotation leading to the +N-Machine", DePalma Institute, 1981 (transcript of talk?) +(Discusses experiments with gravity that led to development of +idea of free-energy machine)

+ +

[DePalma, 1983] - Bruce DePalma, THE ROTATION OF THE UNIVERSE, +DePalma Institute Report #83, Santa Barbara, CA, 25 July 1983. +(Uses Faraday disc to discuss universal principles).

+ +

[DePalma, 1984] - Bruce DePalma, THE SECRET OF THE FARADAY DISC, +DePalma Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, 2 Feb 1984. (Claims +explanation of Faraday disc as a free-energy device)

+ +

[Kimball, 1926] - A. L. Kimball, Jr., "Torque on revolving +cylindrical magnet", PHYS. REV. v.28, Dec 1928, p.1302-8. +(Alternative analysis of torque in a homopolar device to that of +Zeleny and Page, 1924)

+ +

[Kosow, 1964] - Irving L. Kosow, ELECTRICAL MACHINERY & CONTROL, +Prentice-Hall, 1964. (Discusses high current homopolar (acyclic) +generators)

+ +

[Lamme, 1912] - B. G. Lamme, "Development of a successful direct-current 2000-kW unipolar generator", AIEE Trans. 28 June 1912, +p1811-40. (Early discussion of design of high power homopolar +generator)

+ +

[Marinov, 1984]- Stefan Marinov, THE THORNY WAY OF TRUTH, Part II; +Graz, Austria, 1984 (Advertisement in NATURE). (Claims free-energy generator proved by DePalma, Newman)

+ +

[Martin, 1932] - Thomas Martin (ed), FARADAY'S DIARY, Bell, 1932, +in 5 vols. (Transcription and publication of Faraday's original +diaries)

+ +

[Nasar, 1970] - S. Nasar, ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES +& SYSTEMS, Prentice-Hall, 1970. (Discusses principles and +applications of acyclic (homopolar) machines)

+ +

[Satellite News, 1981] - "Researchers see long-life satellite power +systems in 19th century experiment", Research news, SATELLITE +NEWS, 15 June 1981. (Reports DePalma's claim for free-energy +generator)

+ +

[Savage, 1949] - Norton Savage, letter re [Cohn, 1949a]; ELECTRICAL +ENGINEERING, July 1949, p645. (Claims error in Cohn's paper)

+ +

[Wilhelm, 1980] - Timothy J. Wilhelm, INVESTIGATIONS OF THE N-EFFECT +ONE-PIECE HOMOPOLAR DYNAMOS, ETC. (Phase I), Stelle, IL, 12 Sept +1980. (Discusses tests on DePalma's N-Machine)

+ +

[Wilhelm, 1981] - Timothy J. Wilhelm, INVESTIGATIONS OF THE N-EFFECT +ONE-PIECE HOMOPOLAR DYNAMOS, ETC. (Phase II), Stelle, IL, 10 June +1981. (Design and tests of improved homopolar generator/motor)

+ +

[Zeleny, 1924] - John Zeleny & Leigh Page, "Torque on a cylindrical +magnet through which a current is passing", PHYS. REV. v.24, 14 +July 1924, p.544-59. (Theory and experiment on torque in a +homopolar device)

+ +
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+ +

(Sysop note: The following figure also had an accompanying drawing)

+ +

Figure 5 - Transcription of the first experiment showing generation +of electrical power in a moving conductor by Michael +Faraday

+ +

99*. Made many expts. with a copper revolving plate, about 12 inches +in diameter and about 1/5 of inch thick, mounted on a brass +axle.

+ +

To concentrate the polar action two small magnets 6 or 7 inches +long, about 1 inch wide and half an inch thick were put against +the front of the large poles, transverse to them and with their +flat sides against them, and the ends pushed forward until +sufficiently near; the bars were prevented from slipping down +by jars and shakes by means of string tied round them.

+ +

100. The edge of the plate was inserted more of less between the two +concentrated poles thus formed. It was also well amalgamated, +and then contact was made with this edge in different places by +conductors formed from equally thick copper plate and with the +extreme end edges grooved and amalgamated so as to fit on to +and have contact with the edges of the plate. Two of these +were attached to a piece of card board by thread at such

+ +

*[99] +(Sysop note: a sketch appeared in this area)

+ +
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+ +

(Sysop note: The following figure also had an accompanying drawing)

+ +

Figure 7 - Test of a rotating magnet by Michael Faraday, December +26, 1831.

+ +

255. A copper disc was cemented on the top of a cylinder magnet, +paper intervening, the top being the marked pole; the magnet +supported so as to rotate by means of string, and the wires of +the galvanometer connected with the edge and the axis of the +copper plate. When the magnet and disc together rotated +unscrew the marked end of the needle went west. When the +magnet and disc rotated screw the marked end of the needle +went east.

+ +

256. This direction is the same as that which would have resulted +if the copper had moved and the magnet been still. Hence +moving the magnet causes no difference provided the copper +moves. A rotating and a stationary magnet cause the same +effect.

+ +

257. The disc was then loosed from the magnet and held still +whilst the magnet itself was revolved; but now no effect upon +the galvanometer. Hence it appears that, of the metal circuit +in which the current is to be formed, different parts must +move with different angular velocities. If with the same, no +current is produced, i.e. when both parts are external to the +magnet.

+ +
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+ +

(Sysop note: The following figure also had an accompanying drawing)

+ +

Figure 8 - Test data from report by Bruce DePalma

+ +

PERFORMANCE OF THE SUNBURST HOMOPOLAR GENERATOR

+ +

machine speed: 6000 r.p.m. +drive motor current no load 15 amperes +drive motor current increase +when N machine is loaded 1/2 ampere max.

+ +

Voltage output of N generator no load 1.5 volts d.c. +Voltage output of N generator loaded 1.05 v.d.c. +Current output of N generator 7200 amperes +(225 m.v. across shunt @ 50 m.v./1600 amp.)

+ +

Power output of N machine 7560 watts = 10.03 H.p.

+ +

Incremental power ratio = 7560/268 28.2 watts out/watts in

+ +

Internal resistance of generator 62.5 micro-phms

+ +

Reduction of the above data gives as the equivalent circuit for the +machine:

+ +

(Sysop note: a drawing R(internal) = 62.5 micro-ohms +appeared in this area) R(brush) = 114.25 " " +R(shunt) = 31.25 " "

+ +

BRUCE DEPALMA +17 DECEMBER 1980

+ +
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+ +

Page 14

+ +

Figure 15 - Summary of test results at 6500 rpm

+ +

I II III

+ +

MAGNET POWER OFF ON ON +OUTPUT SWITCH OPEN OPEN CLOSED +SPEED 6500 6500 6500 RPM +MAGNET CURRENT 0 16 16 +AMPERES +MOTOR ARMATURE POWER 4782 5226 6028 +WATTS +INCREMENT 444 802 +WATTS +METER BRUSH VOLTAGE .005 1.231 1.070 +VOLTS +OUTPUT CURRENT 0 0 4776 +AMPERES +GENERATED VOLTAGE 1.280 (1.280) +VOLTS +GENERATED POWER 0 0 (6113) +WATTS

+ +

HOMOPOLAR GENERATOR TEST - BIG SPRINGS RANCH APRIL 26, 1986

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+ENERGY FROM SPACE +An Engineer's Invention Excites Interest

+ +

In a tiny room in a Bombay suburb, an electrical engineer works +on a machine that seems to have been conceived in a Sci-Fi book - a +generator which can ostensibly produce electricity from nothing.

+ +

But the machine's creator, Paramahamsa Tewari, 51, is not an +eccentric inventor from one of Sukumar Ray's fantastic tales. He is +a senior engineer with the Department of Atomic Energy's Nuclear +Power Corporation (NPC).

+ +

Tewari created a minor sensation 10 years ago when he produced the +theory that space is filled with a dynamic medium whose swirling +motion is the source of all matter and energy.

+ +

He called it the Space Vortex Theory (SVT) which postulated that at +the heart of the electron was a void whose high speed rotation +within a vacuum could produce energy from space.

+ +

Interestingly, it was the Theosophical Society which had first +published Tewari's theory by arranging a special lecture in 1977 at +Adyar in Madras.

+ +

The theosophists were excited by Tewari's ideas since they were +remarkably close to observations about the electron put forward by +Annie Besant's associate, the clairvoyant Charles W. Leadbeater, in +the book "Occult Chemistry."

+ +

However, the first indication that Tewari's ideas about the +structure of space were more than just a mystic vision came earlier +this year at a conference in Hanover organised by the German +Association of Gravity Field Energy.

+ +

The Space Power Generator (SPG) invented by Tewari won the first +prize of Rs 25000 from among 25 similar machines presented at the +conference by scientists from all over.

+ +

Tewari's generator is actually a simple machine, consisting +basically of a magnetised cylinder rotating at high speed with the +help of a motor.

+ +

Power from this device is extracted by connecting a wire between the +surface of the cylinder and its axis. According to the engineer inventor, the SPG produces two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half times +more power than it consumes, defying the basic physical law of +conservation of energy which says that the output of energy cannot +be more than the input.

+ +

Tewari says the excess power comes from the inter-atomic space of +the rotating cylinder - it is the movement of the "voids" in the +spinning cylinder which creates additional energy out of the space +between the machine's axis and the magnet.

+ +

Tewari admits that his theory sounds incredible taking into account +the existing laws and that he would never have developed it had he +been trained as a physicist and not an engineer, since it is so +divergent from conventional physics.

+ +

But, he says, it would have been difficult for him to go on with +work on the SVT and the generator were it not for encouragement from +two US physicists, John A. Wheeler, director of the Centre for +Theoretical Physics at the University of Texas, Austin, and Bruce +DePalma, formerly a lecturer in physics at the Massachusetts +Institute of Technology.

+ +

"But for DePalma, I wouldn't have been able to tie up my theory," +says Tewari. "He was working on similar ideas and kept sending his +results to me."

+ +

Though Tewari, who is slated for transfer to the NPC's Kaiga Project +in Karnataka as chief project engineer, has pursued his interest in +physics in his spare time, he has received infrastructural support +from the NPC for putting together his extraordinary new machine.

+ +

The SPG was built under Tewari's supervision at the Tarapur Atomic +Plant. "Tewari's prototype SPG can be considered a major +breakthrough," says S. L. Kati, managing director of NPC.

+ +

Before leaving for Hanover, Tewari addressed a meeting of scientists +and engineers at the Bhaba Atomic Research Centre on his theory.

+ +

But most physicists remained sceptical about his findings.

+ +

Undaunted, he is experimenting with a new model of the SPG since his +return, which he feels will be an improvement. He eventually hopes +to create a prototype for a generator which could deliver 50 kw to +100 kw of electricity.

+ +

"The encouragement I received abroad has been a great help, and +hopefully within a year, I will be able to build an experimental +model which could ultimately prove commercially viable," he says.

+ +

Tewari, of course, is not the only engineer hoping to build the +ultimate power generation machine - one which will run perpetually +since it will extract energy from space - as the Hanover conference +demonstrated.

+ +

In fact, DePalma, the first inventor to create such a machine, is +presently conducting experiments in California in anticipation of a +breakthrough which could lead to commercial production.

+ +

Their work promises to create ultimately a machine which appears to +come straight out of a futuristic fantasy.

+ +

- M. Rahman

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WBAI radio interview with Mark Swaney from "Faithful Arkansas" +a citizens group, speaking of Bill Clinton's and George Bush's +connection with the CIA covert drug smuggling operation in +Mena Arkansas in support of the Contras. + +MARK SWANEY: +. . . . [they] set up a front company in Guadalahara Mexico. +The purpose of which, he was told, was to smuggle weapons to +the Contra's in Central America. And he was to be the front man +-- he was to provide the front cover for this company, but he +was given to know that behind the scenes they [the CIA] would +be using this company to smuggle weapons. So he was ok with +that and he went down to Guadalahara and was down there until +the summer of '87 --actually the plane was shot down in '86 +so this operation in Mexico continued for a year after the +Iran-Contra story was breaking and that's something that a +lot of people don't know --they think that Iran-Contra/Contra +Resupply stopped when the revelations were made in '86, but +they actually continued. + +Anyway in the summer of '87, even as the hearings were going +on in Congress, Terry Reed began to suspect they were using +his front company for something other than smuggling weapons. +And one day he was looking for a lathe in one of his warehouses +by the airport there in Guadalahara and he went in and opened +up an air freight shipping container (which are very large, +they're about 28 feet long, 7 feet high, 8 feet wide), and he +found it packed full of Cocaine when he opened it up. He immediately +realized he was in a very precarious situation because he was +the only one on paper who had anything to do with that company, +and if they had ever gotten caught -- there was nobody to stand +up and say well this guy didn't know anything -- he was going +to be a patsy if anything went wrong. So he decided he wasn't +going to play the part of the patsy. The man who was his contact +man for the CIA in Mexico was Felix Rodrigez. So he confronted +Felix Rodrigez and said well listen I didn't bargain on getting +into Narcotics smuggling and I'm outa this all together guys +-- I'm leaving now -- I refuse to have anything further to do +with this. And Felix Rodrigez said ok fine if you want to be +out your out. Now before he was able to return even to Little +Rock Arkansas where his home was at the time, Governor Clinton's +Chief of Security, a man named Raymond Buddy Young, and +another man Tommy Baker, Private Investigator and I'm told +former member of the Arkansas State Police, were framing +Terry Reid for mail fraud. What this involved was the so +called project donation that Oliver North had set up. Terry +Reid's plane had been stolen a number of years earlier +-- and used in drug missions and such without his knowledge +-- and he claimed the insurance money for his plane being stolen +-- and so to set him up what they did was took the airplane +and put it back in his hangar before he got back to Arkansas. +Governor Clinton's Chief of Security just supposedly happened +--and this is what he tells the press -- he say's "one day I +just happened to be walking by this hangar, and the wind just +happened to blow the door open and I just happened to look in +and see this airplane that was stolen four years earlier in +another state and I realized -that was the plane." And so this +is how the case got started. + +PAUL DeRIENZO: + +How would he have known that was the plane? + +MARK SWANEY:

+ +

Oh that's never been explained. Along with a number of aspects +in this famous story. We're in contact with Terry Reid's defense +attorney in Witchita and she's promised to send us all of the +documents --we have some of the documents already that indicate +--he was found not guilty --well he never went to trial. + + +PAUL DeRIENZO:

+ +

Is that the same Buddy Young by the way who's head of Governor +Clinton's security detail. + +MARK SWANEY:

+ +

Yes he is. + +PAUL DeRIENZO: + +Buddy Young, let's keep his name in mind because I want to come +back to him. Let's jump now to the sight in Arkansas that was +used as the landing sight, the airport in Arkansas in the town +of Mena Arkansas --that was determinates of a lot of these +Iran-Contra resupply flights. + +MARK SWANEY:

+ +

Yes, in fact Terry Reid has stated in that same article that +you have that it was the *hub* of the Contra resupply effort. +Many people are not aware that Arkansas was very heavily and +very deeply involved in the Iran-Contra affair all during the +time that Governor Clinton ???? Governor of the state. +And there were numerous stories written about it in the press. +Well the story about Mena is that Mena is a very small town +in the middle of the the Washitah (sp) mountains in Southwestern +Arkansas and not coincidentally it happens to be in Congressman +John Paul Hammerschmidt's district, the Third Congressional +district. John Paul Hammerschmidt just happens to be one +of George Bush's very closest friend's. He was George Bush's +Presidential Campaign Manager for Bush's campaign in '76 and +again in 1980. The two people are very close. Anyway Mena +has an airport and it looks from the outside like an ordinary, +normal airport. The thing that separates Mena's airport from +any other is the fact that there are row upon row of hangars +--buildings which house aircraft refitting facilities. Now +aircraft refitting is an industry that is in demand by two +principal paying customers. One of them is the CIA, and the +other one are drug smugglers. And the reason is, is because if +you're a CIA guy and you're going to do covert actions overseas +-- they're almost entirely relying on air transport of some kind. +Particularly if you're going to covertly resupply an army that's +over a thousand miles away. + +PAUL DeRIENZO: + +Hassenfusse's plane was based there. + +MARK SWANEY:

+ +

Pardon me. + +PAUL DeRIENZO: + +Hassenfusse's plane, the plane that was shot down, was based +in Mena Arkansas. + +MARK SWANEY:

+ +

That plane was based there formally before Barry Seal was +murdered just a few months before it was shot down. That +was Barry Seal's own personal airplane. But anyway what +you need to do, if you're a CIA or a drug smuggler is you +need an airplane that can do things that normally airplanes +of the civilian variety are not allowed to do. Things like +have cargo doors that open to the inside of the airplane so +that you can make in-flight drops - so that you can drop +things out of the airplane while it's flying -- which is +illegal on a commercial or civilian type of aircraft. You +need to do things like install advanced navigational equipment +sometimes even ??? You need things like roller matts to put +down on the floor so that you can roll the crates forward +in the fuselage of the airplane to kick them out. You need +to be able to modify a civilian aircraft that is not legally +allowed to have such capability so that it does have those +capabilities. + +PAUL DeRIENZO: + +And this was done in Mena -- a smalltown airport. + +MARK SWANEY: + +Right. Now Mena has the second or third largest --I don't +know which, but one of the largest aircraft refitting +facilities in the United States. And as such it was --long +before the Nicaruguan episode happened, it was a base of CIA +covert operation and remains to this very minute a base of +CIA covert operation. + +PAUL DeRIENZO: + +Let's jump to another name that comes up in this -- a fella +by the name of Larry Nichols, former employee of the state +of Arkansas. He was a employee of the Arkansas Development +and Finance Authority now I have an Associated Press article +that came out just a couple of days ago that Larry Nichols +has dropped a lawsuit that he had instituted in 1990 against +Governor Clinton that came after his 1988 dismissal from that +state job for miss-use of agency telephones.

+ +

Can you tell us who Larry Nichols was. + +MARK SWANEY: + +Yeah this is probably the most interesting part of the story +-- you see Larry Nichols is the source of all these rumors +and the Jennifer Flowers thing and the Governor's sex life. +The story that the press has yet not picked up on is the +fact that Larry Nichols was a big time Contra supporter. +He has close connections to Mario Collero, Adolpho Collero +and Jack Singlove. In fact he served with General Singlove +in Vietnam. He spent the first half of the decade working +for the Contras in a connection with an organization that +General Singlove had. He spent time with the Contra's on the +ground in Honduras. His job was to collect military information. +Now I've met with Larry Nichols -- this information that I'm +about to give you he has told me directly. And we have checked +out a great deal of what he's told us and everything that he +has told us has checked out totally accurate. + +PAUL DeRIENZO: + +So what we're seeing here is a connection between the mistress +sex scandal and the Iran-Contra and the Governor of Arkansas. +There's a connection. + +MARK SWANEY: + +Well what you find out here in a minute is that the sex +scandals really have nothing to do with it. I saw his lawsuit +several months ago when I was in Little Rock and it was of +no interest to me I didn't even bother to make a copy of it. +But Larry Nichols, the man, and his relationship to the +Governor is extremely interesting. You see what it is --is +that his job was to make military analysis of the situation +in Honduras with the Contras. And to take that information +back to the United States and package it and present it to +Congressmen who are in favor of Contra Aid with a view toward +convincing them that the Contra's were an effective military +fighting force --that they could win militarily against the +Sandanistas. At some point around '85 I believe this job for +Larry ran out, and he didn't have any money and he approached +Governor Clinton. Now according to Larry, he and Governor Clinton +are close friends, have known each other for a long time. In +fact before the Governor was the Governor. He asked Governor +Clinton --hey I'm broke I need a job. Well it's not too usual +that somebody could just call up the Governor and say I want +a job and the Governor says sure we'll make you Marketing +Director for ADFA. That's the Arkansas Development Finance +Authority --which figures centrally in Bill Clinton's +relationship to the Contra Resupply network that the state +of Arkansas was so heavily involved in. In any case he was +there working at ADFA and someone at ADFA a fellow employee +had found out about this guy that was working with them who +was this romantic jungle fighter type of character. And +eventually she began to talk to some friends about it and +word reached the ears of a reporter and a reporter began +to investigate Larry Nichols --wondering what this big Contra +supporter was doing working for ADFA. Everyone who holds a +top position at ADFA is directly appointed by Bill Clinton --in +fact ADFA is a total invention of Bill Clinton's --he created +the agency out of thin air and appoints all of the top +directors. In any case a reporter approached Bill Clinton +in Japan and started to question him about Larry Nichols +--wanted to know what this guy was doing on state payroll +--if he was lobbying for the Contra's or just what the story +was. Mr. Clinton, rather precipitously fired Larry Nichols +directly after that. And the story that was put out was that +he was fired for misusing state telephones that he'd supposedly +made hundreds of calls to the Contras and ran up thousands of +dollars worth of bills to the Contras -- uhmm that is an +unsubstantiated allegation --in fact on Larry Nichols suggestion +the organization I work with received his entire phone records +from ADFA through freedom of information act and went over +those phone records with him call by call and we did not find +any records of calls by him outside the United States on +those phone records so it was a phony charge and Larry Nichols +was in fact wrongfully fired and they made up this story that +he was calling the Contras in order to get rid of him. + +PAUL DeRIENZO: + +Why do you think that was? + +MARK SWANEY: + +Well I don't know the exact reason but I can tell you this +that Larry Nichols and Buddy Young the man I mentioned earlier, +are very close friends. + +PAUL DeRIENZO: + +Well that's a point that you just mentioned that Buddy Young was +the State Security man who discovered the airplane -- the allegedly +stolen airplane belonging to Terry Reid was in fact in a certain +airport hangar. + + +MARK SWANEY: + +Everything to do with that in fact the federal judge is on record +for calling Buddy Young a liar in Terry Reid's trial. But see Larry +Nichols and Buddy Young knew each other and are close friends +according to the newspaper accounts that were in the newspaper +down here in Arkansas yesterday -- they're old buddies. + +PAUL DeRIENZO: + +Yes, well that's what the Associated Press report that I'm looking +at right now says that Nichols dropped his lawsuit after consulting +with Buddy Young. + +MARK SWANEY: + +Yes, Now I'm going to say something right now which is rather +shocking -- this is the first time this has been made public +to my knowledge. A member of my organization who is going to +be at a press conference that we're having tomorrow --spoke +with Larry Nichols --we've been in contact with him for several +months off and on on the telephone, and he's had a conversation +with him sometime around the first week of January -- during +which Larry Nichols tolde this member of my organization -- that +Buddy Young had called him and told him that he in fact was a +dead man -- that was under threat of death. + +PAUL DeRIENZO: + +Buddy Young was? + +MARK SWANEY: + +No. Larry Nichols. And at that time Buddy Young was frightened +-- he was not threatening Larry Nichols personally he was saying +that we're all in trouble with this because there's a move in +the Governor's office to get rid of me. So Buddy Young was +afraid that Governor Clinton was about to axe him in the same +way that he axed Larry Nichols. And so serious did he take +this possibility that he informed Larry Nichols directly that +he was a dead man. + +PAUL DeRIENZO: + +So Larry Nichols is now saying that Buddy Young the Chief of +Governor Clinton's gubernatorial campaign has told him that +he's a dead man. + +MARK SWANEY: + +Yes, that is the information that Larry Nichols gave to us +-- now as I say that has not been reported anywhere else and +I would not bet a lot right now on Mr. Nichols backing that +statement up, but I back it up. + +PAUL DeRIENZO: + +And this is prior to him dropping this lawsuit against Governor +Clinton. + +MARK SWANEY: + +Yes, the timing of his dropping the lawsuit is interesting to +us too, because we just recently were in contact with the Nation +Magazine, and it was approximately two days after the Nation +Magazine actually decided to take the information that we had +collected on this case very seriously and in fact are now +pursuing their own investigative journalism on this, it was +about two days after that that Larry Nichols declared that he +was going to drop his lawsuit. Uh, so there's some very strange +things that are going on. There's a great deal of other +information --uh, connecting Governor Clinton to the operation +in Mena. We don't have what you'd call a smoking gun on this +-- I have in front of me a piece of paper that I've written +17 questions for the Governor on that the media has totally +overlooked in their haste to salivate over all these sexual +stories --they've totally missed what's available. For example, +the organization that I work for has been --I don't say I work for, +nobody pays us we're getting broke doing this, but in any case +we've collected just about everything that's publicly available +about Mena and all of its ramifications and its a tremendous +story, and I'd like to emphasize right now that Governor +Clinton's part in this is very minor -- the real big fish in this +story is George Bush. The damage that could come from this +information coming out is in fact far more damaging to George +Bush than anyone else, because he's directly responsible for this +-- this operation was run out of the then Vice President George +Bush's office. And I'd also like to add that the Arkansas chapter +of the Iran-Contra story was the one that was most heavily +covered up at the time -- it was part of the story they had +that they took the most care to see to it that nothing ever +came out about it. And that was for two reasons: 1) because +it involves massive cocaine smuggling -- we had one pilot that +came to the University and spoke directly to us and said +"I personally flew for the CIA, guns, Panamanian Defense +forces and approximately one ton of cocaine per flight. +I flew seven of these flights into Mena Arkansas." So they +wanted to cover it up because it was the one thing that would +have exposed the drug connection within the United States +most heavily. 2) And the other reason that they were very +anxious to coverup Mena's involvement was because the base +of operations that the CIA was using was in fact still active +at the time the hearings were going on. And that base of +operations supports covert operations all around the world +not just in Central America. For example, there's a current +covert operation that was going on there at least as late as +May of last year that killed a man from Arkansas and Angola -- +so the entire time that Barry Seal was operating out of that +airport the CIA was supporting there covert war with Jonason(sp) +and Manunita(sp) in Angola. And we have sources within the +United States government that there is covert activity going on +in it this very day. + + +PAUL DeRIENZO: + +Thank you very much Mark Swaney --this is an amazing story and +the amazing thing about it is that this is the *real* story about +Governor Bill Clinton and that what we're getting served to us from +all the media from start to finish from morning to night headlines +in all the New York papers, is this thing about Governor Clinton +and this woman Jennifer Flowers and her association with the +Governor who is married for 14 years, and the real story which +you get on WBAI underneath it all from our contacts in Arkansas +is that in fact the Governor of Arkansas is covering up an illegal +operation that began in the Vice President's office who is now +President of the United States -- George Bush. Which makes me +wonder why should I even bother voting -- who's there to vote for. +I mean both sides the Democrats and the Republicans are involved. + +MARK SWANEY:

+ +

That's another part of the story --you know the best way to buy +off an election is to pay off both candidates. There's significant +Republican interest in seeing Bill Clinton get the nomination +from the standpoint that they will be assured then that none +of the issues of the Iran-Contra affair are likely to be talked +about. Certainly Clinton doesn't want to talk about them.

+ +

We tried before we knew that Mr. Clinton was involved in this -- +we only came across this information 5 or 6 months ago and +for two years now we've been doing demonstrations, writing +letters collecting petitions holding informational gatherings +to try to get this story to the people, and we have on several +occasions sent Bill Clinton signatures, petitions of Arkansan's +asking for a state investigation and he refused to do anything +about them he would do nothing more than have an aide send us a +two sentence letter saying we have received your petition and +then this last September just one week before he decided to +run for the Presidency we contacted his office and said listen +we'd be willing to talk to you or any one of your aides so that +we could talk to you about this major crime problem in our state +that we're concerned about that we'd like to get to the bottom +of -- and he refused that. During the 4 or 5 years now that +the press has covered this story about Mena and Barry Seal -- +you know this is a story about people who have been murdered -- +this is a very, very serious affair and during all of this time +talk of massive Cocaine smuggling, corruption of local officials +corruption of Federal and State judicial system on and on and on +there was total silence from the Governor, not a word. And it +was not until our organization had a large demonstration +-- it wasn't really a large demonstration but it was very well +covered in the Arkansas press --that reporters approached +Mr. Clinton about Mena. He talked about it for the first time +in 4 or 5 years and what he had to say at that time was that +he had in fact authorized some money for lonely little Polk County, +which is a poor county in Southwestern Arkansas to run an +investigation and so we asked him for back up from the +Governor's office we said -freedom of information act +-- we'd like to know if you have any documentation whatsoever +to back up your statement that you are willing to help the +Polk County investigators do their own state investigation +in this affair. And he could not produce a single thing.

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"Why of course the people don't want war... It is the leaders...who +determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the +people along...all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked +and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the +country to danger. It works the same in any country.

+ +

Hermann Goering, 1936 + +

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+CONTRAS USED COCAINE TO BUY ARMS +BY VINCE BIELSKI and DENNIS BERNSTEIN

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WASHINGTON--Senator John Kerry (D-Mass) and his staff said recently +they are "confident" that money from the sale of narcotics helped finance +the contras and that the arms network set up by Lt. Col. Oliver North could +be involved.

+ +

North was fired from the staff of the National Security Council by +President Reagan this week after the Administration discovered that North +arranged for the transfer $30 million from the sale of arms to Iran to +Swiss bank accounts controlled by the contras.

+ +

"I'm confident that the contras have received drug money. They have +received illegal shipments of weapons and that U.S. officials knew of it," +Kerry said, in calling for a special prosecutor to look into these other +allegations.

+ +

John Weiner, a Kerry aide, said while congressional investigators do +not know if North was directly involved, they do have evidence linking the +"North network" to the cocaine-arms operation. According to a report +produced by Kerry's staff, North established a network, involving retired +Army Gen. John Singlaub, U.S. mercenaries and Cuban-Americans, to provide +arms to the contras during the two-year congressional ban on U.S. support. +After the downing of the C-123 cargo plane over Nicaragua, Administration +officials also acknowledged that North set up the private arms operation to +the contras.

+ +

Weiner and several other sources charge that individuals involved in +the network traffic in cocaine to help buy weapons for the contras.

+ +

"We have received a variety of allegations about drug connections to +the contras and to parts of the North network. As to whether Oliver North +was directly involved in that I can't say. But parts of the North network +allegedly were. And that needs to be looked at very seriously," he said.

+ +

The Senate Foreign Relations committee is expected to investigate +these charges when Congress reconvenes in January.

+ +

The role that cocaine played in funding the network has been part of a +two-year investigation carried out by the Christic Institute, a Washington-based law firm. Dan Sheehan, the attorney directing the investigation, said +the proceeds from the sale of cocaine has been "one significant source of +funding for the contras. He said he has subsantial evidence to prove that +the contras and their Cuban-American supporters are smuggling one ton of +cocaine into the United States each week.

+ +

The Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that one ton of cocaine +has a street value of between $26 and $50 million. Sheehan said a portion +the profits are used to purchase weapons.

+ +

The cocaine ring, involving mostly major Columbian cocaine trafficker, +or "cocaine lords," and Cuban-Americans from Miami had been operating for +years before the North network began in 1984. John Mattes, an attorney for +one of the Cuban-Americans involved in the North network, said that the +cocaine traffickers and the arms network "got together as a marriage of +convenience."

+ +

"The Columbians saw that the contra base in Costa Rica was an ideal +transhipment point. Their planes would land there and refuel. They also +benefit from the pilots, planes and intelligence information which the arms +suppliers had and which they make extensive use of," Mattes said. In +return, Mattes said the Columbians paid the contras $10000 to $25000 for +each plane carry cocaine which landed in Costa Rica for refueling. The +Christic Institute's allegations are all contained in a civil suit filed in +May 1986 in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida.

+ +

The suit is brought by two U.S. journalists, Martha Honey and Tony +Avirgan, who charge that the cocaine/arms conspiracy was responsible for +the May 1984 assassination attempt on contra leader Eden Pastora in La +Penca, Nicaragua. The journalists are sueing for personal injuries they +suffered resulting from a bomb explosion at a press conference which killed +8 people and injured Pastora. "As amazing as it sounds," Sheehan said, "the +conspiracy is continuing to bring about one ton or 1000 kilos of cocaine +into the United States each week." Jesus Garcia, a former corrections +officer in Dade County, Florida, said he was actively involved in the +cocaine-arms operation.

+ +

He is one of Sheehan and Kerry's main sources of information. In a +telephone interview from prison, where Garcia is no serving a three-year +term for possession of a firearm, he said "it is common knowledge here in +Miami that that this whole contra operation in Costa Rica was paid for with +cocaine. Everyone involved knows it. I actually saw the cocaine and the +weapons together under one roof, weapons that I helped ship to Costa Rica." +In May of 1983, according to the suit, two Cuban-Americans, Rene Corbo and +Felipe Vidal joined forces with John Hull, a U.S. citizen who owns 1750 +acres of land in northern Costa Rica, "to recruit, train, finance (and) +arm" a Cuban-American mercenary force to attack Nicaragua.

+ +

To finance the mercenary force, the Cuban-Americans, Hull and others +made arrangements with two known Columbian cocaine trafficers, Pablo +Escobar and Jorge Ochoa, "to provide hundreds of pounds of cocaine on a +regular basis," according to the suit. Garcia said that individuals +involved in the arms supply operation told him that Ochoa was supplying +cocaine to the contras.

+ +

The cocaine was flown from Columbia to Hull's ranch, Sheehan said, +where the planes would refuel. Sheehan said he has obtained records of +Corbo buying huge gasoline tanks in Costa Rica which are used for refueling +the planes. The Christic Institute learned about the cocaine shipments from +members of Costa Rican Rural Guard, workers on Hull's land who unloaded the +illegal substance from the small planes, and the pilots who transported the +cocaine.

+ +

Corbo and Vidal belong to the Brigade 2506, an anti-Castro group in +Miami whose members were recruited and hired by the CIA to fight in the Bay +of Pigs invasion agaisnt Cuba. Kerry's staff report charges that "Hull... +has been identified by a wide range of sources, including Eden Pastora, +mercenaries, Costa Rican officials, and contra supporters as "deeply +involved with military support for the contras...and has been identified by +a wide-range of sources...as a CIA or NSC liaison to the contras."

+ +

According to Steven Carr and Peter Glibbery, two mercenaries based on +land operated by Hull who were captured by the Costa Rican Rural Guard in +1985, Hull introduced himself to them as "the chief liaison for the FDN +(National Democratic Force) and the CIA." Hull received $10000 a month +from the NSC, according to the report. The NSC denies having made payments +to Hull.

+ +

Hull has denied that he is assisting the contras and that he is +working for the U.S. government.

+ +

Sheehan said that the cocaine is flown from the land operated by Hull +to Memphis and then to Denver. The drug is also packed into container ships +at the Costa Rican port of Limon and transported to Miami, New Orleans and +San Francisco.

+ +

Francisco Chanes, a Cuban-American, is the major importer and +distributor of the cocaine coming in from Costa Rica, according to the +suit. Sheehan said he learned of Chanes' role from Drug Enforcement +Administration agents who investigated Chanes, Corbo and Vidal.

+ +

During a January 1986 interview with FBI agents, Garcia said he told +the agents that Chanes and Corbo were also involved in the contra supply +operation.

+ +

Garcia said the agents responded by saying that Chanes and Corbo were +already the subjects of a FBI narcotics trafficing investigation. Mattes, +Garcia's attorney who was present at the interview, said he also heard the +agents say that the FBI was investigating Chanes and Corbo.

+ +

Sheehan said money from the sale of cocaine is deposited in one bank +in Miami and two in Central America and then withdrawn to purchase weapons +and explosives.

+ +

Garcia said he was personally involved in a March 1985 shipment of 6 +tons of arms to Costa Rica from Miami. In July 1986, an official from the +U.S. Attorney's office in Miami confirmed to the Miami Herald that "we now +believe there were some weapons" illegally shipped to the contras by their +U.S. supporters from the Fort Lauderdale International airport in 1985.

+ +

Garcia said he saw both these weapons and three kilograms of cocaine +stored at the home of Chanes in Miami in the company of Chanes and Carr.

+ +

"They cocaine was kept in a dresser, about ten feet away from the +weapons. Carr told me that the three keys (kilograms) was what was left +from a larger shipment," Garcia said.[EP

+ +

He said he had no direct evidence that the weapons in Chanes' home +were purchased with the proceeds from the sale of cocaine. He said that +Carr told him that the three kilograms were part of a larger shipment of +cocaine brought to the United States from Costa Rica in container ships +belonging Ocean Hunter, a seafood importing company owned by Chanes.

+ +

Garcia said he helped load the weapons into a van which were then +taken to the aiport in Miami. Glibbery said he witnessed the arrival of +these weapons on airstrips located on land operated by Hull in Costa Rica, +according to the Kerry report.

+ +

The suit also names Theodore Shackley, former CIA associate deputy +director for world wide covert operations, and retired Army Gen. John +Singlaub as the main weapons suppliers.

+ +

According to the suit, Shackley "knowingly accept(ed) the proceeds +from illegal sales of narcotics in payment for illegal arms shipments." +Singlaub has made "admissions to various reporters that he has sent guns +and bullets to the contras," according to the report.

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TO BEGIN, YOU'LL NEED THREE TO SIX GALLONS OF EMBALMING FLUID. IF YOU +CAN'T FIND A BRAND NAME FLUID YOU CAN MIX YOUR OWN, USING DYED AND PERFUMED +FORMALDEHYDES, GLYCERINE, BORAX, PHENOL, ALCOHOL, AND WATER. THE PROPORTIONS +AREN'T TOO IMPORTANT TO THE FINISHED PRODUCT, AS DR. JESSE CARR WILL EXPLAIN +LATER.

+ +

FIRST OF ALL, THE MOUTH MUST BE SEWN TOGETHER AT THE INSIDE OF THE LIPS. +(THE NEEDLE IS BROUGHT OUT THROUGH THE NOSTRIL, USUALLY THE LEFT ONE.) THEN +YOU TAKE A TROCAR, A LONG HOLLOW NEEDLE ATTACHED TO A TUBE. DRAIN THE CONTENTS +OF THE ABDOMINAL AND CHEST CAVITIES, AND REPLACE THE REMOVED MATTER WITH CAVITY +FLUID. PUMP OUT THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM, REPLACE THE BLOOD AND PLASMA WITH THE +ENBALMING SOLUTION, AND THAT'S ABOUT IT. IN EIGHT TO TEN HOURS THE TISSUES WILL +BE FIRM AND DRY, AND READY FOR 'COSMETIC RESTORATION.'

+ +

CAREFUL, THOUGH! REGULAR ENBALMING FLUID WORKS DIFFERENTLY ON VARIOUS +BODIES ACCORDING TO THE CAUSE OF DEATH. WHILE IT WILL GIVE A PLEASANT PINK GLOW +TO THE FLESH OF A VICTIM OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING, WHEN IT IS USED ON +SOMEONE WHO DIED OF JAUNDICE IT IMPARTS A GREEN TINGE THAT REQUIRES A LOT OF +MAKE-UP TO CONCEAL.

+ +

ALTHOUGH IT IS WIDELY BELIEVED TO PRESERVE A BURIED BODY, EMBALMING IN +FACT DOES NO SUCH THING. IF IT HAS ANY WORTHWHILE PURPOSE AT ALL, IT IS TO MAKE +THE OPEN CASKET FUNERAL MORE PALATABLE. DR. JESSE CARR IS NO FRIEND OF THE +MORTUARY INDUSTRY, BUT HE IS A FORMER CHIEF OF PATHOLOGY AT SAN FRANCISCO +GENERAL HOSPITAL AND PROFESSOR OF PATHOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA +MEDICAL SCHOOL, AND HERE'S WHAT HE HAS TO SAY ABOUT IT:

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AN EXHUMED BODY IS A REPUGNANT, MOLDY, FOUL-LOOKING OBJECT. IT'S NOT +THE IMAGE OF ONE WHO HAS BEEN LOVED . . . THE BODY ITSELF MAY BE +INTACT, AS FAR AS CONTOURS AND SO ON; BUT THE SILK LINING OF THE +CASKET IS ALL STAINED WITH BODY FLUIDS, THE WOOD IS ROTTING, AND THE +BODY IS COVERED WITH MOLD . . . IF YOU SEAL UP A CASKET SO IT IS +MORE OR LESS AIRTIGHT, YOU SEAL IN THE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA - THE KIND +THAT THRIVE IN AN AIRLESS ATMOSPHERE, YOU SEE. THESE ARE THE +PUTREFACTIVE BACTERIA, AND THE RESULTS OF THEIR GROWTH ARE PRETTY +HORRIBLE . . . YOU'RE BETTER OFF WITH A SHROUD, AND NO CASKET AT +ALL.

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."". "NO STONE UNTURNED" +." ". R A R A T REPORT +~~ ~~ +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +BILL CROUSE, EDITOR FEB/MARCH 87 (c) 1987 NUMBER 2 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

POST WWII SIGHTINGS

+ +

The cold war began shortly after WWII. Turkey became one of the stages +where this drama of confrontation between superpowers was played. Along with +Jupiter missiles, the Americans set up elaborate listening devices in Turkey +to monitor Soviet activity. Cat and mouse games to gauge Soviet readiness +were played out almost on a daily basis. The Americans sent fighter planes to +the proximity of the Soviet border while the men on the ground checked the +responses of the Soviet defenses. Captain Gregor Schwinghammer, now a Pan Am +instructor and pilot, was one of the players in this game. Since Ararat is +near the Soviet border, there were many fly-bys around the mountain. During +one such excursion, a Turkish pilot participating in the maneuvers volunteered +to show some of the American pilots Noah's Ark. Schwinghammer took all this in +a light vein but went along.

+ +

The editor of AR discussed this incident with Schwinghammer about two years +ago. The only thing really clear in his memory was that it definitely looked +like a structure of some kind. He likened it to the long rectangular chicken +houses he had seen in the midwest. It didn't really hit him that this could +be Noah's Ark until he saw the movie In Search of Noah's Ark on TV. +Schwinghammer still is not sure what it was but he maintains it definitely was +a structure.

+ +

An interesting thing to note here about Schwinghammer is that he later flew +many bombing missions in Vietnam with the particular responsibility of +spotting the targets on the ground. We mention this to point out that the man +was trained to spot objects from a plane. + +To read more on the Schwinghammer experience, see Berlitz' first book +Doomsday 1999 A.D. and the update in his latest book mentioned in this issue. +Schwinghammer now claims that the object he saw looked like the Hagopian +description as drawn by Elfred Lee.

+ +

Schwinghammer had a recollection of the U-2 pilots also seeing something in +photos. They flew out of the same base in Adana. As you will recall from the +Gary Powers' incident the Americans were flying reconnoissance missions deep +into the heart of the Soviet Union. On many occasions this took them right +over Ararat.

+ +

In the spring of 1985, one Sunday morning, we received a phone call at 7:00 +a.m. with the caller excitedly telling us that he knew someone who had seen +photographs of the Ark while in the Air Force. After garnering some of the +facts, we made an appointment to see this man to check out his story. + +After his basic training, this man spent most of his four years in the Air +Force in top security work at a large base in the midwest. His job was to +process film as it was brought into the lab from around the world. +Apparently, our U-2's were surreptitiously filming the whole world, even +friendly countries, in order to pin-point possible bomb targets when and if +this action ever became necessary. Our man remembers film coming in from +eastern Turkey. After he and others processed the film it was turned over to +another crew who were responsible for the analysis. What he remembers is the +perplexity these men had over a certain object high in the snows of Ararat.

+ +

It seems they could not figure out what the Turks could have built of that +size at that extreme altitude. What could it be? Finally, he recalled +hearing one of them jokingly exclaim: "It must be Noah's Ark!" Being a +Christian at the time, our friend pricked up his ears and went over for a +closer look. Basically, what he remembers is a barge-like object sticking out +of the ice with most of it still buried. Since he was in top security he told +no one of the incident. Being a distant event he apparently felt it was O.K. +to now share the experience with the hope that it might yield some clue to the +Ark's whereabouts.

+ +

Upon discharge from the Air Force this gentleman enrolled in a Baptist +college near this Air Force base to prepare for the ministry. While at this +college, he recalls another incident while strolling around the student lounge +one day. To his surprise he noticed on the bulletin board a photo cut out of +a newspaper with the caption "Could this be Noah's Ark?" He did a double take +when he realized it was from the roll he had processed only a few years +previously in the lab. He wondered who dared disclose the photograph because +he remembered how his superiors drilled into them the subject of secrecy and +the penalty involved.

+ +

To this day he does not know if it was Noah's Ark but he wonders what else +it could have been. This man (who wishes to remain anonymous) was once a +pastor of a large Baptist church in Kansas City. Today he is a marriage and +family counselor in a large clinic in Dallas. We know this man personally and +can attest that his reputation is impeccable. + +To add further authenticity to this story, in the summer of '85, Col. Jim +Irwin met an American two-star General in Turkey who also claimed to have seen +a file labeled Noah's Ark and a slide purporting to be the Ark while stationed +at an Air Force base in the midwest (not the same base). We are not privy to +all the details of the General's testimony, but as far as we know, nothing new +has turned up despite the General's promise to try and locate the photographs.

+ +

In 1953 an American employed by an American oil company not only claimed to +have seen the Ark while flying by in a helicopter, he also took a number of +photographs. Upon returning to the states this man, George J. Greene, was +unsuccessful in trying to raise support for a ground expedition. Some time +later he died, or was murdered in South America. Many people however, saw his +photographs, too many in fact for this to have been a fictitious story. A +more complete account of Greene's discovery can be found in Noah's Ark: Fact +or Fable by Violet Cummings (213ff).

+ +

For two very good reasons we are now 99% convinced that what George Greene +saw was a large rock formation that is known to most Ark researchers. The +particular formation we refer to came to light in the mid-seventies as a +result of an expedition led by Tom Crotser of the Holy Ground Mission. The +movie, In Search of Noah's Ark, which we refer to elsewhere in this issue, +zooms in on the Crotser photograph and shows an object with planking clearly +visible. Ark researchers have looked this photo over carefully and have +questioned its authenticity. It appeared to have been retouched. We now know +for a fact that it was indeed retouched, but not with any fraudulent intent, +so says Mr. David Fry, of Cleburne, TX a former acquaintance of Crotser's.

+ +

Fry met Crotser in a photo print shop in Dallas where he noticed Crotser's +scenic mountain photos. When he was informed that the mountain scenery was +Ararat, the two learned they had a mutual interest in Biblical history. Fry +agreed to assist Crotser in the analysis of the photo containing an +interesting ship-shaped object. Since they had shots of the object from +different angles Fry studied it stereo-scopically. While doing so, he noticed +lines that seemed to run parallel length-wise on the object when viewed +through a magnifying lense. Fry simply enhanced these lines and presented the +photo to Crotser who then proceded to publicly proclaim the lines as planking +on a structure. He also began announcing to the press that the structure was +Noah's Ark.

+ +

The object in question is positively located on the eastern rim of the +Ahora Gorge at approximately 12000 feet. It was photographed by Bob Stuplich +from the air in 1983 and by expeditions on the ground.

+ +

There are two reasons to link the Greene and Crotser sightings. Our first +reason for concluding that Greene's and Crotser's objects are one and the same +is their similarity to the sketch made by Fred Drake who claimed to have +viewed Greene's photographs.

+ +

Mr. Fry was kind enough to lend us a photograph of the object which he +said was made from one of the Crotser's slides. The object was shot at eye +level from the western rim of the gorge much the same as Greene would have +done from the helicopter, only from further away.

+ +

To us the similarity is striking! The object lies almost due north and +south exactly as Greene described it. The object is on a kind of rock shelf +over-looking a shear drop-off. When viewing Stuplich's aerial photos it +appears that a side shot would also look just as Drake sketched it. Cummings +also reports that Greene was flying over the northeastern side of the mountain +(p.219).

+ +

The fact that the object is at about 12000 feet also supports our +contention. This is about the ceiling for a helicopter in the early '50s. We +did some checking on this awhile back and found that there was a high +performance French helicopter that could have flown to the summit of the +mountain, but it is doubtful that Greene would have had one of these at his +disposal.

+ +

This of course does not seal the case in concrete. We will never know for +certain until we actually see Greene's photos. However, we said that there +were two reasons why we are convinced that Greene saw the same rock formation +that Crotser photographed in 1974.

+ +

Rod Younquist, engineer and veteran of several trips to Ararat, related to +AR that he once met members of Crotser's expedition who informed him that they +had shown their photographs to people who had also viewed Greene's missing +photographs. Upon viewing the Holy Ground Mission photographs their response +was: "Oh, where did you get George Greene's photographs?" Hence our second +reason is the fact that Greene's friends mistakenly identified the Crotser +photographs as Greene's.

+ +

When Fry saw some of our slides of this object from different vantage +points he too became doubtful. However, he said it really looks convincing +when viewed stereo-scopically. He would like to see more photographs to have +added confirmation. We agree. Perhaps one of our readers may have a close up +of this formation.

+ +

(In subsequent issues we will continue our investigation of post WWII +sightings.)

+ +

EVOLUTION CONTRA CHRISTIANITY

+ +

Why are evolutionists so opposed to the subject of special creation? Is +it due to the overwhelming superiority of the evidence? We think not. The +real reason these two positions are so at loggerheads is much deeper than +evidence. The conflict begins back at the presuppositional level. +Presuppositions are those beliefs that are foundational; they are taken in +faith and they dictate how one interprets the data of experience. All world +views rest on these presuppositions or assumptions. What we have between +Evolution and Christianity is a collision of world views. We thought it would +be helpful to our readers to pinpoint what some of these conflicting +assumptions are. First, we will list these side by side:

+ +

Christian Evolutionary

+ +

1. Man fell from a 1. Living things +higher estate. are evolving +(devolution) to higher forms. + + +2. There is a qual-2. Only a quantitative difference +between man and the +animals.

+ +

3. God's providence 3. Chance. +in nature.

+ +

4. True moral values. 4. Only mores. + +5. Open universe. 5. Closed universe. + +6. Man needs re-6. Man needs more +demption. time.

+ +

7. There is purpose 7. No purpose. +in the universe.

+ +

In future issues it is our plan to expound on these assumptions point by +point so our readers will know from whence the Creation-Evolution controversy +arises.

+ +

ARK MOVIES

+ +

We've had several responses to our inquiry in the January issue concerning +the Bart LaRue movie, The Ark of Noah. We now have our own copy and have +viewed it several times with great interest. Our tape library now contains +quite a few hours of various Ark films and we thought it might be a service to +our readers to review what we've learned about other Ark films and where our +readers might have access to them.

+ +

What intrigues us is that more than four films about the search for Noah's +Ark appeared in one year, 1976! Incidentally, we know of at least eight or +nine books on the subject of the Ark and the Flood that appeared between '72 +and '76. Certainly this must have inspired film-makers to take advantage of +the interest generated by the books.

+ +

We don't know who qualifies as being first, but two of the films produced +that year are feature-length and were shown in theaters. A videotape of the +aforementioned Bart LaRue film can still be ordered from: United +Entertainment, Inc., 6535 E. Skelley Dr., Tulsa, OK 74145. The cost is +$39.95. Their phone number is 918-622-6460.

+ +

This movie is of interest to Ark researchers because of its historic +footage from Navarra, Search Foundation, and the Archaeological Research +Foundation. The movie itself plods along, contains many historical +inaccuracies, and is anti-Turkish in tone. LaRue himself is persona non-grata +in Turkey due to his illegal climb of the mountain while filming for the +movie. Viewers will also have difficulty discerning the real thing from what +is re-enactment.

+ +

Another major feature length movie, In Search of Noah's Ark, was made in +1976 by Sunn Classic Pictures. A major book of the same title was released +the same year. The authors of the book are Dave Balsiger and Charles E. +Sellier, Jr. Balsiger was the ghost-writer for the English version of +Navarra's book: Noah's Ark: I Touched It. Sellier is also the producer of the +family-oriented TV show "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams." In Search of +Noah's Ark has been seen by millions and is frequently shown on late night TV. +A video of this movie can probably be ordered from your local video store. +This is a better film, but it leaves you with the impression that the Ark has +been found and that the evidence is more credible than we would allow.

+ +

Ken Anderson Films of Winona Lake, IN produced the film Noah's Ark and the +Genesis Flood. Jack Dabner, now with Seven Star Productions, in Long Beach, +CA headed up the research effort and narrated this film. It appeared first in +1976. It is approximately an hour in length and rents for $52. +Unfortunately, it is not available on videotape. The film can be rented +through local rental agencies who handle Ken Anderson films.

+ +

Films for Christ, distributes a film mainly dealing with the Genesis +Flood. It has been translated into many languages and is still used +frequently in churches and by missionaries. The emphasis is apologetic and +evangelistic. Its title is The World that Perished. It contains an excellent +presentation of the many flood stories found in cultures on all the continents +of the world. On the whole, it is a very instructional film. It is about 35 +minutues in length. A video of this film can be rented for $27 from Films for +Christ, 2628 W. Birchwood Cir., Mesa, AZ 85202. We were told that this film +is based on a book of the same name authored by Dr. John Whitcomb of Grace +Theological Seminary. We are acquainted with this book, and can attest that +it is a work of high quality. We highly recommend it to our readers.

+ +

Last summer, a Dutch film crew joined the Irwin team for the purpose of +making a documentary for Dutch television. A video (VHS) of this is available +from High Flight Foundation, Box 1387, Colorado Springs, CO 80901. Purchase +price is $20, or $10 to rent. The title of this video is: Waar is De Ark Van +Noach? Some of the dialogue is in Dutch but the majority is English. It +contains footage from a rare flight over the mountain, has a sense of drama, +and contains clear gospel testimonies by Col. Irwin and his team members.

+ +

We are also aware of another film released in '86 produced by Montana +Film, a German Company. This film is 43 minutes in length and has been shown +on German television. This company films mountain-climbing events all over +the world and the fact that they included footage about the search for the Ark +was incidental to their purpose. Dr. John Baumgardner and Ron Wyatt are +interviewed on the film. It also apparently contains some spectacular footage +shot on the summit of Ararat and the Parrot glacier area. It leaves you with +the impression that the ship-shaped formation southeast of Ararat is likely +the Ark of Noah. An English-version video cassette is available, but we are +not aware of any U.S. distributors at this time. Inquiries can be sent to +their German address: Montana Film, Am Fort Elisabeth 15, D-6500 Mainz, W. +Germany.

+ +

We have knowledge that a Canadian film crew was present at Ararat in '85 +with the intent of making a documentary for Canadian Broadcasting, however, we +have no details at this time as to whether or not one was made or shown in +Canada.

+ +

To our knowledge, these are all the "Ark Movies" formally "published." If +any of our readers are aware of others please let us know as we would like to +share that information.

+ +

GOPHER WOOD---A PROCESS?

+ +

submitted by +Dr. Don Shockey +Albuquerque, NM

+ +

When asked what the Ark of Noah was constructed from we all immediately +know the answer. We can respond without hesitation by replying--"gopher +wood." That is correct, and is exactly what the KJV of the Bible states. +Genesis 6:14: "make thee an ark of gopher wood." The New International +Version says it a little differently: "So make yourself an ark of cypress +wood." The footnote tells the reader that cypress would be more likely the +wood of choice since the Hebrew meaning of go'phir is uncertain. Still no +problem since we know without reservation that whatever God told Noah would be +the absolute best to sustain the craft during the deluge to follow. One of +the primary objectives of the re-discovery of the Ark will be to +scientifically examine the wood and attempt to resolve once and for all what +type of wood was used in its construction. All seem to agree that it would be +some type of hard wood. Guesses have included white oak, cypress, etc. even a +type of tree no longer on earth has been suggested.

+ +

The following is offered to our AR readers and Ark researchers as a +possible interpretation of the term "gopher wood."

+ +

Recently, during a professional seminar in Texas a doctor approached me, +and a conversation began when I learned he was born in Israel and has a mother +who is 94 still living in Jerusalem. I asked him what gopher wood, as stated +in Genesis, really meant? The following is his reply:

+ +

"From a certain kind of resinous tree, when one makes an incision into the +bark and collects the resin or sap, he can use it as glue by applying it at +the joint between two pieces of wood. After letting it dry over-night, he +will not be able to break the joint. The wood will break before the joined +seam. This has been used in our area of the world for centuries, although it +is not used very often in modern times since this sap will discolor any wood +it happens to come into contact with. This is what Noah used to construct the +Ark. 'Gopher wood' or 'gophering' is a process not a particular tree." +(Emphasis mine).

+ +

He further suggested that Noah used the "gophering process" to fashion the +large timbers from many different pieces of hardwood that could have been some +type of hard oak tree. What, specifically, we can only guess. This +information turned on a light within my thinking. What he described would be +like our process of making plywood. If this is a valid assumption, then Noah +could have constructed large timbers needed of any size, thickness, or length, +without being dependent upon single, mammoth trees to accomplish God's +command. The original meaning should be traced back to determine if a gopher +wood process has any validity. As of this writing, a minister from +Albuquerque is to visit the Holy Land and will attempt to secure information +about this resin which we will test. I will update AR on this project.

+ +

BOOKS

+ +

In the November issue we noted that Charles Berlitz, author of the Bermuda +Triangle would be authoring a book on Noah's Ark and the Flood. We are +pleased to announce that this book is now available in major bookstore chains. +The book is titled The Lost Ship of Noah. It is published by G.P. Putnam's +Sons, and sells for $17.95 (hardback), 187 pp.

+ +

Berlitz is an author of the Erich von Daniken mold. He is particularly +interested in the myths and symbols of ancient cultures. It is his thesis +that behind them are actual historical events from which they arose.

+ +

This new book by Berlitz is an elaboration of a former book--Doomsday 1999 +A.D. published in 1981. He believes there was not only a great world-wide +catastrophe in the past, i.e. a world-wide flood, but that there will likely +be another. He bases this prediction on two things: the course of modern +events whereby man seems to be destroying his environment, and the numerous +prophecies from a variety of cultures and religions. He sees the majority of +these prophecies as being authentic revelations that are this very moment +moving toward fulfillment.

+ +

In The Lost Ship of Noah Berlitz seeks to bring his readers up-to-date on +the search for Noah's Ark on Mt. Ararat, and sets forth the cases for a +previous world-wide deluge, and the probability of future global destruction. +Since most of the previous books on the Ark were written in the 70s Berlitz +does those who are interested in the search a service. He is not writing from +a scholarly perspective. However, he is a reporter who digs into his subject +and writes well. In addition we must point out that Berlitz is not necessarily +writing from a Christian perspective. He believes that there were probably +many arks that saved representatives of their respective cultures from the +catastrophic flood-waters. In fact, he cites evidence of other ships being +found in mountains and anticipates that more will undoubtedly be uncovered +(see p. 166ff).

+ +

All Ark enthusiasts will appreciate the many photos by Ahmet Arslan and Jay +Bitzer, who was this editor's photographer in a 1985 expedition. While most +Christians will not accept his multiple ark theory we commend him for making a +clear case for a universal flood. SUMMER OF '87

+ +

About this time of the year, the Ark Grapevine is humming with news about +expedition plans, new objects spotted in old photos, and new theories about +location, etc.

+ +

Permits are generally applied for in January. Plans are being made to +raise funds. Intense research is being carried out. Regular calls are made +to the Turkish embassy, and there is an "air" of secrecy.

+ +

AR is not a "tell all" sheet. If someone informs us about their plans or +research in confidence, we don't print it. Right now we are aware of some +pretty exciting research going on and some interesting developments that we +hope to report to you at the right time.

+ +

Currently we are aware of about 7 or 8 groups that are applying for +research permits for Mt. Ararat. Foreign groups are also getting involved. +We are aware of French, Norwegian and Japanese groups who are interested in +the search for the Ark. There is the possibility that a helicopter will be +used this summer for the first time. They will need adequate financing and +much prayer to pull this off.

+ +

It is also our hope that the ship-shaped formation southeast of Ararat will +be properly excavated this summer. We will also endeavor to keep you up-to-date on this strange shape which the Turkish government is claiming to be the +Ark of Noah. +

+ +

POLITICAL AND WEATHER WATCH

+ +

We are still getting unconfirmed reports of a horrendous winter in Eastern +Turkey. We have news reports stating that areas in Turkey and Greece have +received snow where it has never snowed before!

+ +

On the political side we are happy to report that the U.S. has signed a new +five year treaty with Turkey. Our government will be paying $1 billion for +the privilege of maintaining our military bases.

+ +

The following article appeared in Insight, Mar. 30, 1987:

+ +

"A report from Ankara's Security Department has accused Libya and Syria of +supplying arms and logistic support to Kurdish separatist terrorists in Turkey +and Iraq. The allegation was made during the trial of five persons accused of +smuggling arms into Turkey from Syria for the Kurds. Most of the insurgents +are members of the Kurdish Labor Party, a Marxist-Leninist organization with +headquarters in Syria.

+ +

The groups said to be receiving the supplies are the Kurdish Democratic +Party, Kurdish Workers Party and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

+ +

According to Western analysts, following the Turkish bombing of Kurdish +camps in Iraq last August, the flow of arms (some believed to be a gift of +Libya's Col. Muammar Quaddafi) across the Syrian border is beginning to +increase in numbers and sophistication."

+ +

This one appeared in the Rocky Mountain News, 3/9/87:

+ +

"Assailants believed to be Kurdish guerrillas raided a Turkish village near +the Syrian border, killing six children and two adults, the Anatolia news +agency said yesterday.

+ +

The assailants fired automatic weapons and hurled hand grenades at two +homes in the village of Acikyol on Saturday night, the news agency said.

+ +

Most of the guerrillas operating in the region are linked to the Kurdish +Labor Party, which wants to set up an independent Kurdish state in eastern and +southeastern Turkey."

+ +

A note of interest with regard to the previous news article: The incident +referred to took place very close to one of the traditional resting places of +Noah's Ark--Nisibis. We will be doing a major article on the other +traditional resting places of Noah's Ark in a future issue.

+ +

BITS AND PIECES

+ +

In the November issue, we mentioned another forthcoming book by Rene +Noorbergen which would defend the thesis that the ship-shaped object south of +Ararat is the Ark. We have been informed that this book will not be out until +June.

+ +

* Back issues of ARARAT REPORT are available on the same donation basis.

+ +

* A continuously updated outline and bibliography is available on the search +for Noah's Ark. Please send $2.00 for postage and copying.

+ +

* A comprehensive bibliography on the subject of "Kibowtology" (Ark research) +is under preparation. Target date: early summer.

+ +

* Christian Information Ministries, International, which publishes the ARARAT +REPORT, is a faith ministry. That is, we depend on the gifts of God's people +to sustain us. The ARARAT REPORT is sent as a free gift to those who enable +this ministry to continue through their giving. If you own a personal +computer equipped with a modem and are interested in knowing more about THE +INFORMED CHRISTIAN NETWORK, write or call to receive a password. All back +issues of ARARAT REPORT are downloadable from our database. THE INFORMED +CHRISTIAN NETWORK is a growing library of Christian Information that we are +seeking to make available to the Body of Christ.

+ +

* We would like to make our readers aware of Origins Research & Information +Service, 137 Oak Crest Dr., Lafayette, LA 70503. For $1.00 they will send an +introductory packet of Creationist material.

+ +

* We invite letters to the editor. We will print those that will make a +contribution to the overall discussion. + +

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Path: uuwest!control.spies.com!spies!sgiblab!sgigate!olivea!stratus!florida!lpb +From: lpb@florida.swdc.stratus.com (Len Bucuvalas) +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy +Subject: Re: Executive Orders + 8523.29441@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM +Date: 11 Nov 92 18:58:32 GMT +References: BxGKI1.HDn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu +Sender: news@SWDC.Stratus.COM +Lines: 1615

+ +

This is in reply to the original poster. What is is what +can happen. What is not, has happened, and what may be will +happen.

+ +

My 2 cents worth of gobbledygook for the day! ;^)

+ +

This file describes, FEMA, all EOs, and provides examples of +their use.

+ +

Len +========================================================================

+ +

SUBJECT: FEMA GULAG

+ +

+ +SECRET CONCENTRATION CAMPS + +The September issue of THE OSTRICH reprinted a story from the +CBA BULLETIN which listed the following principal civilian concentration camps established in GULAG USA under the =Rex '84= program: +Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas; Ft. Drum, New York; Ft. Indian Gap, Pennsylvania; Camp A. P. Hill, Virginia; Oakdale, California; Eglin +Air Force Base, Florida; Vendenberg AFB, California; Ft. Mc Coy, +Wisconsin; Ft. Benning, Georgia; Ft. Huachuca, Arizona; Camp +Krome, Florida. The February OSTRICH printed a map of the expanding +Gulag. Alhough this listing and map stirred considerable interest, +the report was not new. For at least 20 years, knowledgeable Patriots +have been warning of these sinister plots to incarcerate dissidents +opposing plans of the =Elitist Syndicate= for a totalitarian +=New World Order=. Indeed, the plot was recognized with the insidious +encroachment of "regionalism" back in the 1960's. As early as 1968, +the "greatest land steal in history" leading to global corporate +socialism, was in a ="Master Land Plan"= for the United States +by =Executive Orders= involving water resource regions, +population movement and control, pollution control, zoning +and land use, navigation and environmental bills, etc. Indeed, +the real undercover aim of the so-called "Environmental Rennaissance" +has been the abolition of private property. +All prelude to the total grab of the =World Conservation Bank=, +as THE OSTRICH has been reporting. The map on this page and +the list of executive orders available for imposition of an "emergency" +are from 1970s files of the late Gen. =P. A. Del Valle's= ALERT, +sent us by =Merritt Newby=, editor of the now defunct AMERICAN +CHALLENGE. +=Wake up Americans!= The Bushoviks have approved =Gorbachev's= +imposition of "Emergency" to suppress unrest. =Henry Kissinger= +and his clients hardly missed a day's profits in their deals with +the butchers of Tiananmen Sqaure. Are you next? +************************************************************************* +SUBJECT: Executive Orders + + +APPLICABLE EXECUTIVE ORDERS + +The following =Executive Orders=, now recorded in the Federal +Register, and therefore accepted by Congress as the law of the +land, can be put into effect at any time an emergency is declared: + +10995--All communications media seized by the Federal Government. +10997--Seizure of all electrical power, fuels, including +gasoline and minerals. +10998--Seizure of all food resources, farms and farm equipment. +10999--Seizure of all kinds of transportation, including your +personal car, and control of all highways and seaports. +11000--Seizure of all civilians for work under Federal supervision. +11001--Federal takeover of all health, education and welfare. +11002--Postmaster General empowered to register every man, woman +and child in the U.S.A. +11003--Seizure of all aircraft and airports by the Federal +Government. +11004--Housing and Finance authority may shift population from +one locality to another. Complete integration. +11005--Seizure of railroads, inland waterways, and storage facilities. +11051--The Director of the Office of Emergency Planning authorized +to put Executive Orders into effect in "times of increased +international tension or financial crisis". He is also to +perform such additional functions as the President +may direct.

+ +

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +A Dangerous Fact Not Generally Known +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +THESE EXECUTIVE ORDERS GROSSLY AND FLAGRANTLY VIOLATE ARTICLE +4 SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. "THE +UNITED STATES SHALL GUARANTEE TO EVERY STATE IN THIS UNION A +REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT, AND SHALL PROTECT EACH OF THEM +AGAINST INVASION; AND ON APPLICATION OF THE LEGISLATURE, OR OF THE +EXECUTIVE (WHEN THE LEGISLATURE CANNOT BE CONVENED) AGAINST +DOMESTIC VIOLENCE." "REGIONAL GOVERNMENT IS NOT A REPRESENTATIVE +REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT!"

+ +

When Government gets out of hand and can no longer be controlled +by the people, short of violent overthrow as in 1776, there are +two sources of power which are used by the dictatorial government +to keep the people in line: the Police Power and the Power of the +Purse (through which the necessities of life can be withheld). +And both of these powers are no longer balanced between the three +Federal Branches, and between the Federal and the State and +local Governments. These powers have been taken over, with the +permission of the Federal Legislature and the State Governments, +by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government and all attempts +to reclaim that lost power have been defeated.

+ +

Stated simply: the dictatorial power of the Executive rests primarily +on three basis: Executive Order 11490, Executive Order 11647, and +the Planning, Programming, Budgeting System which is operated +through the new and all-powerful Office of Management and +Budget.

+ +

E. O. 11490 is a compilation of some 23 previous Executive Orders, +signed by Nixon on Oct. 28, 1969, and outlining emergency functions +which are to be performed by some 28 Executive Departments and +Agencies whenever the President of the United States declares +a national emergency (as in defiance of an impeachment edict, +for example). Under the terms of E. O. 11490, the President +can declare that a national emergency exists and the Executive +Branch can: +* Take over all communications media +* Seize all sources of power +* Take charge of all food resources +* Control all highways and seaports +* Seize all railroads, inland waterways, airports, storage facilities +* Commandeer all civilians to work under federal supervision +* Control all activities relating to health, education, and welfare +* Shift any segment of the population from one locality to another +* Take over farms, ranches, timberized properties +* Regulate the amount of your own money you may withdraw from +your bank, or savings and loan institution

+ +

All of these and many more items are listed in 32 pages incorporating +nearly 200000 words, providing and absolute bureaucratic +dictatorship whenever the President gives the word.

+ +

--> Executive Order 11647 provides the regional and local mechanisms +--> and manpower for carrying out the provisions of E. O. 11490. +--> Signed by Richard Nixon on Feb. 10, 1972, this Order sets up Ten +--> Federal Regional Councils to govern Ten Federal Regions made up +--> of the fifty still existing States of the Union. + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +Don sez:

+ +

*Check out this book for the inside scoop on the "secret" Constitution.* + +SUBJECT: - "The Proposed Constitutional Model" Pages 595-621 +Book Title - The Emerging Constitution +Author - Rexford G. Tugwell +Publisher - Harpers Magazine Press,Harper and Row +Dewey Decimal - 342.73 T915E +ISBN - 0-06-128225-10 +Note Chapter 14 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

+ +

The 10 Federal Regions +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ +

REGION I: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode +Island, Vermont. +Regional Capitol: Boston +REGION II: New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Virgin Island. +Regional Capitol: New York City +REGION III: Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West +Virginia, District of Columbia. +Regional Capitol: Philadelphia +REGION IV: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, +North Carolina, Tennessee. +Regional Capitol: Atlanta +REGION V: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin. +Regional Capitol: Chicago +REGION VI: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas. +Regional Capitol: Dallas-Fort Worth +REGION VII: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska. +Regional Capitol: Kansas City +REGION VIII: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, +Utah, Wyoming. +Regional Capitol: Denver +REGION IX: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada. +Regional Capitol: San Fransisco +REGION X: Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho. +Regional Capitol: Seattle

+ +

Supplementing these Then Regions, each of the States is, or is to +be, divided into subregions, so that Federal Executive control +is provided over every community.

+ +

Then, controlling the bedgeting and the programming at every +level is that politico-economic system known as PPBS.

+ +

The President need not wait for some emergency such as an impeachment +ouster. He can declare a National Emergency at any time, and freeze +everything, just as he has already frozen wages and prices. And +the Congress, and the States, are powerless to prevent such an +Executive Dictatorship, unless Congress moves to revoke these +extraordinary powers before the Chief Executive moves to invoke +them.

+ +

THESE EXECUTIVE ORDERS GROSSLY AND FLAGRANTLY VIOLATE THE INTENT AND +PURPOSE OF ARTICLE 4 SECTION 3. THERE IS NO PROVISION IN THIS +SECTION OR THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES FOR FORMING A +REGIONAL STATE OUT OF A GROUP OF STATES! FURTHER, THESE EXECUTIVE +ORDERS GROSSLY AND FLAGRANTLY VIOLATE THE 9TH AND 10TH +AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION!

+ +

By Proclaiming and Putting Into Effect Executive Order No. 11490, +the President would put the United States under TOTAL MARTIAL LAW +AND MILITARY DICTATORSHIP! The Guns Of The American People Would +Be Forcibly Taken!

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Keywords: "To preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, so help me God." +Lines: 696

+ +

Bushie-Tail used the Gulf War Show to greatly expand the powers of the +presidency. During this shell game event, the Executive Orders signed +into "law" continued Bushie's methodical and detailed program to bury +any residual traces of the constitutional rights and protections of U.S. +citizens. The Bill of Rights--[almost too late to] use 'em or lose 'em:

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|| The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to || +|| constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of || +|| the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial || +|| executive. ||

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----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +From "Covert Action Information Bulletin," Number 37, Summer, 1991 (see +bottom 2 pages for subscription & back issues info on this quarterly):

+ +

Domestic Consequences of the Gulf War +Diana Reynolds +Reprinted with permission of CAIB. Copyright 1991

+ +

Diana Reynolds is a Research Associate at the Edward R. Murrow Center, +Fletcher School for Public Policy, Tufts University. She is also an +Assistant Professor of Politics at Broadford College and a Lecturer at +Merrimack College.

+ +

A war, even the most victorious, is a national misfortune. +--Helmuth Von Moltke, Prussian field marshall

+ +

George Bush put the United States on the road to its second war in +two years by declaring a national emergency on August 21990. In +response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Bush issued two Executive +Orders (12722 and 12723) which restricted trade and travel with Iraq +and froze Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets within the U.S. and those in the +possession of U.S. persons abroad. At least 15 other executive orders +followed these initial restrictions and enabled the President to +mobilize the country's human and productive resources for war. Under +the national emergency, Bush was able unilaterally to break his 1991 +budget agreement with Congress which had frozen defense spending, to +entrench further the U.S. economy in the mire of the military-industrial complex, to override environmental protection regulations, +and to make free enterprise and civil liberties conditional upon an +executive determination of national security interests.

+ +

The State of Emergency +In time of war a president's power derives from both constitutional +and statutory sources. Under Article II, Section 2 of the +Constitution, he is Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. Although +Congress alone retains the right to declare war, this power has become +increasingly meaningless in the face of a succession of unilateral +decisions by the executive to mount invasions. +The president's statutory authority, granted by Congress and +expanded by it under the 1988 National Emergencies Act (50 USC sec. +1601), confers special powers in time of war or national emergency. +He can invoke those special powers simply by declaring a national +emergency. First, however, he must specify the legal provisions under +which he proposes that he, or other officers, will act. Congress may +end a national emergency by enacting a joint resolution. Once invoked +by the president, emergency powers are directed by the National +Security Council and administered, where appropriate, under the +general umbrella of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).[1] +There is no requirement that Congress be consulted before an emergency +is declared or findings signed. The only restriction on Bush is that +he must inform Congress in a "timely" fashion--he being the sole +arbiter of timeliness. +Ultimately, the president's perception of the severity of a +particular threat to national security and the integrity of his +appointed officers determine the nature of any state of emergency. +For this reason, those who were aware of the modern development of +presidential emergency powers were apprehensive about the domestic +ramifications of any national emergency declared by George Bush. In +light of Bush's record (see "Bush Chips Away at Constitution" Box +below) and present performance, their fears appear well-founded.

+ +

The War at Home +It is too early to know all of the emergency powers, executive +orders and findings issued under classified National Security +Directives[2] implemented by Bush in the name of the Gulf War. In +addition to the emergency powers necessary to the direct mobilization +of active and reserve armed forces of the United States, there are +some 120 additional emergency powers that can be used in a national +emergency or state of war (declared or undeclared by Congress). The +"Federal Register" records some 15 Executive Orders (EO) signed by +Bush from August 21990 to February 141991. (See "Bush's Executive +Orders" box, below) +It may take many years before most of the executive findings and +use of powers come to light, if indeed they ever do. But evidence is +emerging that at least some of Bush's emergency powers were activated +in secret. Although only five of the 15 EOs that were published were +directed at non-military personnel, the costs directly attributable to +the exercise of the authorities conferred by the declaration of +national emergency from August 2, 1990 to February 1, 1991 for non-military activities are estimated at approximately $1.3 billion. +According to a February 11, 1991 letter from Bush to congressional +leaders reporting on the "National Emergency With Respect to Iraq," +these costs represent wage and salary costs for the Departments of +Treasury, State, Agriculture, and Transportation, U.S. Customs, +Federal Reserve Board, and the National Security Council.[3] +The fact that $1.3 billion was spent in non-military salaries alone +in this six month period suggests an unusual amount of government +resources utilized to direct the national emergency state. In +contrast, government salaries for one year of the state of emergency +with Iran[4] cost only $430000.

+ +

____________________________________________________________________ +| Bush Chips Away at Constitution +| George Bush, perhaps more than any other individual in +U.S. history, has expanded the emergency powers of +presidency. In 1976, as Director of Central Intelligence, +he convened Team B, a group of rabidly anti-communist +intellectuals and former government officials to reevaluate +CIA inhouse intelligence estimates on Soviet military +strength. The resulting report recommended draconian civil +defense measures which led to President Ford's Executive +Order 11921 authorizing plans to establish government +control of the means of production, distribution, energy +sources, wages and salaries, credit and the flow of money +in U.S. financial institutions in a national emergency.[1] +As Vice President, Bush headed the Task Force on +Combatting Terrorism, that recommended: extended and +flexible emergency presidential powers to combat terrorism; +restrictions on congressional oversight in counter-terrorist planning; and curbing press coverage of +terrorist incidents.[2] The report gave rise to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1986, that granted the President clear-cut +authority to respond to terrorism with all appropriate +means including deadly force. It authorized the +Immigration and Naturalization Service to control and +remove not only alien terrorists but potential terrorist +aliens and those "who are likely to be supportive of +terrorist activity within the U.S."[3] The bill superceded +the War Powers Act by imposing no time limit on the +President's use of force in a terrorist situation, and +lifted the requirement that the President consult Congress +before sanctioning deadly force. +From 1982 to 1988, Bush led the Defense Mobilization +Planning Systems Agency (DMPSA), a secret government +organization, and spent more than $3 billion upgrading +command, control, and communications in FEMA's continuity +of government infrastructures. Continuity of Government +(COG) was ostensibly created to assure government +functioning during war, especially nuclear war. The Agency +was so secret that even many members of the Pentagon were +unaware of its existence and most of its work was done +without congressional oversight. +Project 908, as the DMPSA was sometimes called, was +similar to its parent agency FEMA in that it came under +investigation for mismanagement and contract +irregularities.[4] During this same period, FEMA had been +fraught with scandals including emergency planning with a +distinctly anti-constitutional flavor. The agency would +have sidestepped Congress and other federal agencies and +put the President and FEMA directly in charge of the U.S. +planning for martial rule. Under this state, the executive +would take upon itself powers far beyond those necessary to +address national emergency contingencies.[5] +Bush's "anything goes" anti-drug strategy, announced +on September 6, 1989, suggested that executive emergency +powers be used: to oust those suspected of associating +with drug users or sellers from public and private housing; +to mobilize the National Guard and U.S. military to fight +drugs in the continental U.S.; to confiscate private +property belonging to drug users, and to incarcerate first +time offenders in work camps.[6] +The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to +constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of +the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial +executive. +| 1. Executive Order 11921, "Emergency preparedness Functions, +June 11, 1976. Federal Register, vol. 41, no. 116. The +report was attacked by such notables as Ray Cline, the +CIA's former Deputy Director, retired CIA intelligence +analyst Arthur Macy Cox, and the former head of the U.S. +Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Paul Warnke for +blatantly manipulating CIA intelligence to achieve the +political ends of Team B's rightwing members. See Cline, +quoted in "Carter to Inherit Intense Dispute on Soviet +Intentions," Mary Marder, "Washington Post," January 2, +1977; Arthur Macy Cox, "Why the U.S. Since 1977 Has +Been Mis-perceiving Soviet Military Strength," "New York +Times," October 20, 1980; Paul Warnke, "George Bush and +Team B," "New York Times," September 24, 1988. +| 2. George Bush, "Public Report of the Vice President's Task +Force On Combatting Terrorism" (Washington, D.C.: U.S. +Government Printing Office), February 1986. +| 3. Robert J. Walsh, Assistant Commissioner, Investigations +Division, Immigration and Naturalization Service, "Alien +Border Control Committee" (Washington, DC), October 1, +1988. +| 4. Steven Emerson, "America's Doomsday Project," "U.S. News +& World Report," August 7, 1989. +| 5. See: Diana Reynolds, "FEMA and the NSC: The Rise of the +National Security State," "CAIB," Number 33 (Winter 1990); +Keenan Peck, "The Take-Charge Gang," "The Progressive," +May 1985; Jack Anderson, "FEMA Wants to Lead Economic +War," "Washington Post," January 10, 1985. +| 6. These Presidential powers were authorized by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Public Law 100-690: 100th +Congress. See also: Diana Reynolds, "The Golden Lie," +"The Humanist," September/October 1990; Michael Isikoff, +"Is This Determination or Using a Howitzer to Kill a +Fly?" "Washington Post National Weekly," August 27-, +September 2, 1990; Bernard Weintraub, "Bush Considers +Calling Guard To Fight Drug Violence in Capital," "New +York Times," March 21, 1989. +--------------------------------------------------------------------

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+ +

Even those Executive Orders which have been made public tend to +raise as many questions as they answer about what actions were +considered and actually implemented. On January 8, 1991, Bush signed +Executive Order 12742, National Security Industrial Responsiveness, +which ordered the rapid mobilization of resources such as food, +energy, construction materials and civil transportation to meet +national security requirements. There was, however, no mention in +this or any other EO of the National Defense Executive Reserve (NDER) +plan administered under FEMA. This plan, which had been activated +during World War II and the Korean War, permits the federal government +during a state of emergency to bring into government certain +unidentified individuals. On January 7, 1991 the "Wall Street Journal +Europe" reported that industry and government officials were studying +a plan which would permit the federal government to "borrow" as many +as 50 oil company executives and put them to work streamlining the +flow of energy in case of a prolonged engagement or disruption of +supply. Antitrust waivers were also being pursued and oil companies +were engaged in emergency preparedness exercises with the Department +of Energy.[5]

+ +

Wasting the Environment +In one case the use of secret powers was discovered by a watchdog +group and revealed in the press. In August 1990, correspondence +passed between Colin McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for +Production and Logistics and Michael Deland, Chair of the White House +Council on Environmental Quality. The letters responded to +presidential and National Security Council directives to deal with +increased industrial production and logistics arising from the +situation in the Middle East. The communications revealed that the +Pentagon had found it necessary to request emergency waivers to U.S. +environmental restrictions.[6] +The agreement to waive the National Environmental Policy Act (1970) +came in August. Because of it, the Pentagon was allowed to test new +weapons in the western U.S., increase production of materiel and +launch new activities at military bases without the complex public +review normally required. The information on the waiver was +eventually released by the Boston-based National Toxic Campaign Fund +(NTCF), an environmental group which investigates pollution on the +nation's military bases. It was not until January 30, 1991, five +months after it went into effect, that the "New York Times," acting +on the NTCF information, reported that the White House had bypassed +the usual legal requirement for environmental impact statements on +Pentagon projects.[7] So far, no specific executive order or +presidential finding authorizing this waiver has been discovered. +Other environmental waivers could also have been enacted without +the public being informed. Under a state of national emergency, U.S. +warships can be exempted from international conventions on +pollution[8] and public vessels can be allowed to dispose of +potentially infectious medical wastes into the oceans.[9] The +President can also suspend any of the statutory provisions regarding +the production, testing, transportation, deployment, and disposal of +chemical and biological warfare agents (50 USC sec. 1515). He could +also defer destruction of up to 10 percent of lethal chemical agents +and munitions that existed on November 8, 1985.[10] +One Executive Order which was made public dealt with "Chemical and +Biological Weapons Proliferation." Signed by Bush on November 16, +1990, EO 12735 leaves the impression that Bush is ordering an +increased effort to end the proliferation of chemical and biological +weapons. The order states that these weapons "constitute a threat to +national security and foreign policy" and declares a national +emergency to deal with the threat. To confront this threat, Bush +ordered international negotiations, the imposition of controls, +licenses, and sanctions against foreign persons and countries for +proliferation. Conveniently, the order grants the Secretaries of +State and the Treasury the power to exempt the U.S. military. +In February of 1991, the Omnibus Export Amendments Act was passed +by Congress compatible with EO 12735. It imposed sanctions on +countries and companies developing or using chemical or biological +weapons. Bush signed the law, although he had rejected the identical +measure the year before because it did not give him the executive +power to waive all sanctions if he thought the national interest +required it.[11] The new bill, however, met Bush's requirements.

+ +

____________________________________________________________________ +| BUSH'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS +| * EO 12722 "Blocking Iraqi Government Property and +Prohibiting Transactions With Iraq," Aug. 2, 1990. +| * EO 12723 "Blocking Kuwaiti Government Property," Aug. 2, +1990. +| * EO 12724 "Blocking Iraqi Government Property and +Prohibiting Transactions With Iraq," Aug. 9, 1990. +| * EO 12725 "Blocking Kuwaiti Government Property and +Prohibiting Transactions With Kuwait," Aug. 9, 1990. +| * EO 12727 "Ordering the Selected Reserve of the Armed +Forces to Active Duty," Aug. 22, 1990. +| * EO 12728 "Delegating the President's Authority To +Suspend Any Provision of Law Relating to the Promotion, +Retirement, or Separation of Members of the Armed Forces," +Aug. 22, 1990. +| * EO 12733 "Authorizing the Extension of the Period of +Active Duty of Personnel of the Selected Reserve of the +Armed Forces," Nov. 13, 1990. +| * EO 12734 "National Emergency Construction Authority," Nov. +14, 1990. +| * EO 12735 "Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation," +Nov. 16, 1990. +| * EO 12738 "Administration of Foreign Assistance and Related +Functions and Arms Export Control," Dec. 14, 1990. +| * EO 12742 "National Security Industrial Responsiveness," +Jan. 8, 1991. +| * EO 12743 "Ordering the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces +to Active Duty," Jan. 18, 1991. +| * EO 12744 "Designation of Arabian Peninsula Areas, Airspace +and Adjacent Waters as a Combat Zone," Jan. 21, 1991. +| * EO 12750 "Designation of Arabian Peninsula Areas, Airspace +and Adjacent Waters as the Persian Gulf Desert Shield +Area," Feb. 14, 1991. +| * EO 12751 "Health Care Services for Operation Desert +Storm," Feb. 14, 1991. +--------------------------------------------------------------------

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Going Off Budget +Although some of the powers which Bush assumed in order to conduct +the Gulf War were taken openly, they received little public discussion +or reporting by the media. +In October, when the winds of the Gulf War were merely a breeze, +Bush used his executive emergency powers to extend his budget +authority. This action made the 1991 fiscal budget agreement between +Congress and the President one of the first U.S. casualties of the +war. While on one hand the deal froze arms spending through 1996, it +also allowed Bush to put the cost of the Gulf War "off budget." Thus, +using its emergency powers, the Bush administration could:

+ +

* incur a deficit which exceeds congressional budget authority;

+ +

* prevent Congress from raising a point of order over the +excessive spending;[12]

+ +

* waive the requirement that the Secretary of Defense submit +estimates to Congress prior to deployment of a major defense +acquisition system;

+ +

* and exempt the Pentagon from congressional restrictions on +hiring private contractors.[13]

+ +

While there is no published evidence on which powers Bush actually +invoked, the administration was able to push through the 1990 Omnibus +Reconciliation Act. This legislation put a cap on domestic spending, +created a record $300 billion deficit, and undermined the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act intended to reduce the federal deficit. Although +Congress agreed to pay for the war through supplemental appropriations +and approved a $42.2 billion supplemental bill and a $4.8 billion +companion "dire emergency supplemental appropriation,"[14] it +specified that the supplemental budget should not be used to finance +costs the Pentagon would normally experience.[15] +Lawrence Korb, a Pentagon official in the Reagan administration, +believes that the Pentagon has already violated the spirit of the 1990 +Omnibus Reconciliation Act. It switched funding for the Patriot, +Tomahawk, Hellfire and HARM missiles from its regular budget to the +supplemental budget; added normal wear and tear of equipment to +supplemental appropriations; and made supplemental requests which +ignore a planned 25% reduction in the armed forces by 1995.[16]

+ +

The Cost In Liberty Lost +Under emergency circumstances, using 50 USC sec. 1811, the +President could direct the Attorney General to authorize electronic +surveillance of aliens and American citizens in order to obtain +foreign intelligence information without a court order.[17] No +Executive Order has been published which activates emergency powers to +wiretap or to engage in counter-terrorist activity. Nonetheless, +there is substantial evidence that such activities have taken place. +According to the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, the +FBI launched an anti-terrorist campaign which included a broad sweep +of Arab-Americans. Starting in August, the FBI questioned, detained, +and harassed Arab-Americans in California, New York, Ohio, +Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and Colorado.[18] +A CIA agent asked the University of Connecticut for a list of all +foreign students at the institution, along with their country of +origin, major field of study, and the names of their academic +advisers. He was particularly interested in students from the Middle +East and explained that the Agency intended to open a file on each of +the students. Anti-war groups have also reported several break-ins of +their offices and many suspected electronic surveillance of their +telephones.[19]

+ +

Pool of Disinformation +Emergency powers to control the means of communications in the U.S. +in the name of national security were never formally declared. There +was no need for Bush to do so since most of the media voluntarily and +even eagerly cooperated in their own censorship. Reporters covering +the Coalition forces in the Gulf region operated under restrictions +imposed by the U.S. military. They were, among other things, barred +from traveling without a military escort, limited in their forays into +the field to small escorted groups called "pools," and required to +submit all reports and film to military censors for clearance. Some +reporters complained that the rules limited their ability to gather +information independently, thereby obstructing informed and objective +reporting.[20] +Three Pentagon press officials in the Gulf region admitted to James +LeMoyne of the "New York Times" that they spent significant time +analyzing reporters' stories in order to shape the coverage in the +Pentagon's favor. In the early days of the deployment, Pentagon press +officers warned reporters who asked hard questions that they were seen +as "anti-military" and that their requests for interviews with senior +commanders and visits to the field were in jeopardy. The military +often staged events solely for the cameras and would stop televised +interviews in progress when it did not like what was being portrayed. +Although filed soon after the beginning of the war, a lawsuit +challenging the constitutionality of press restrictions was not heard +until after the war ended. It was then dismissed when the judge ruled +that since the war had ended, the issues raised had become moot. The +legal status of the restrictions--initially tested during the U.S. +invasions of Grenada and Panama--remains unsettled.

+ +

A National Misfortune +It will be years before researchers and journalists are able to +ferret through the maze of government documents and give a full +appraisal of the impact of the President's emergency powers on +domestic affairs. It is likely, however, that with a post-war +presidential approval rating exceeding 75 percent, the domestic +casualties will continue to mount with few objections. Paradoxically, +even though the U.S. public put pressure on Bush to send relief for +the 500000 Iraqi Kurdish refugees, it is unlikely the same outcry +will be heard for the 37 million Americans without health insurance, +the 32 million living in poverty, or the country's five million hungry +children. The U.S. may even help rebuild Kuwaiti and Iraqi civilian +infrastructures it destroyed during the war while leaving its own +education system in decay, domestic transportation infrastructures +crumbling, and inner city war zones uninhabitable. And, while the +U.S. assists Kuwait in cleaning up its environmental disaster, it will +increase pollution at home. Indeed, as the long-dead Prussian field +marshal prophesied, "a war, even the most victorious, is a national +misfortune."

+ +

FOOTNOTES:

+ +

1. The administrative guideline was established under Reagan in Executive +Order 12656, November 181988, "Federal Register," vol. 23, no. 266.

+ +

2. For instance, National Security Council policy papers or National +Security Directives (NSD) or National Security Decision Directives +(NSDD) have today evolved into a network of shadowy, wide-ranging and +potent executive powers. These are secret instruments, maintained in +a top security classified state and are not shared with Congress. For +an excellent discussion see: Harold C. Relyea, The Coming of Secret +Law, "Government Information Quarterly," Vol. 5, November 1988; see +also: Eve Pell, "The Backbone of Hidden Government," "The Nation," +June 191990.

+ +

3. "Letter to Congressional Leaders Reporting on the National Emergency +With Respect to Iraq," February, 11, 1991, "Weekly Compilation of +Presidential Documents: Administration of George Bush," (Washington, +DC: U.S. Government Printing Office), pp. 158-61.

+ +

4. The U.S. now has states of emergency with Iran, Iraq and Syria.

+ +

5. Allanna Sullivan, "U.S. Oil Concerns Confident Of Riding Out Short Gulf +War," "Wall Street Journal Europe," January 7, 1991.

+ +

6. Colin McMillan, Letter to Michael Deland, Chairman, Council on +Environmental Quality (Washington, DC: Executive Office of the +President), August 24, 1990; Michael R. Deland, Letter to Colin +McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production and Logistics +(Washington, DC: Department of Defense), August 291990.

+ +

7. Keith Schneider, "Pentagon Wins Waiver Of Environmental Rule," "New York +Times," January 30, 1991.

+ +

8. 33 U.S. Code (USC) sec. 1902 9(b).

+ +

9. 33 USC sec. 2503 l(b).

+ +

10. 50 USC sec. 1521(b) (3)(A).

+ +

ll. Adam Clymer, "New Bill Mandates Sanctions On Makers of Chemical Arms," +"New York Times," February 22, 1991.

+ +

12. 31 USC O10005 (f); 2 USC O632 (i), 6419 (d), 907a (b); and Public +Law 101-508, Title X999, sec. 13101.

+ +

13. 10 USC sec. 2434/2461 9F.

+ +

14. When the Pentagon expected the war to last months and oil prices to +skyrocket, it projected the incremental cost of deploying and +redeploying the forces and waging war at about $70 billion. The +administration sought and received $56 billion in pledges from allies +such as Germany, Japan and Saudi Arabia. Although the military's +estimates of casualties and the war's duration were highly inflated, +today their budget estimates remain at around $70 billion even though +the Congressional Budget office estimates that cost at only $40 +billion, $16 billion less than allied pledges.

+ +

15. Michael Kamish, "After The War: At Home, An Unconquered Recession," +"Boston Globe," March 6, 1991; Peter Passell, "The Big Spoils From a +Bargain War," "New York Times," March 3, 1991; and Alan Abelson, "A +War Dividend For The Defense Industry?" "Barron's," March 18, 1991.

+ +

16. Lawrence Korb, "The Pentagon's Creative Budgetry Is Out of Line," +"International Herald Tribune," April 5, 199l.

+ +

17. Many of the powers against aliens are automatically invoked during a +national emergency or state of war. Under the Alien Enemies Act (50 +USC sec. 21), the President can issue an order to apprehend, restrain, +secure and remove all subjects of a hostile nation over 13 years old. +Other statutes conferring special powers on the President with regard +to aliens that may be exercised in times of war or emergencies but are +not confined to such circumstances, are: exclusion of all or certain +classes of aliens from entry into the U.S. when their entry may be +"detrimental to the interests of the United States" (8 USC sec. 1182(f)); +imposition of travel restrictions on aliens within the U.S. (8 USC sec. +1185); and requiring aliens to be fingerprinted (8 USC sec. 1302).

+ +

18. Ann Talamas, "FBI Targets Arab-Americans," "CAIB," Spring 1991, p. 4.

+ +

19. "Anti-Repression Project Bulletin" (New York: Center for +Constitutional Rights), January 23, 1991.

+ +

20. James DeParle, "Long Series of Military Decisions Led to Gulf War News +Censorship," "New York Times," May 5, 1991.

+ +

21. James LeMoyne, "A Correspondent's Tale: Pentagon's Strategy for the +Press: Good News or No News," "New York Times," February 17, 1991.

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Article 2132 of alt.activism: +Newsgroups: alt.activism +Subject: Plan to suspend the Constitution (1984; maybe 1991?) +Distribution: usa +Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH +Lines: 72

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[PeaceNet forward from AML (ACTIV-L) -- see bottom for more info] +------------------------------------------------------------------ +/** mideast.forum: 216.5 **/ +** Written 8:11 pm Jan 17, 1991 by nlgclc in cdp:mideast.forum ** +An excellent book which deals with the REX 84 detention plan is: +- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +"Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North,'' by Ben +Bradlee Jr.(Donald I. fine, $21.95. 573 pp.) +------------------------------------------------------------------ +Reviewed by Dennis M. Culnan Copyright 1990, Gannett News Service All +Rights Reserved Short excerpt posted here under applicable copyright +laws

+ +

[Oliver] North managed to network himself into the highest levels of +the CIA and power centers around the world. There he lied and +boastfully ignored the constitutional process, Bradlee writes.

+ +

Yet more terrifying is the plan hatched by North and other Reagan +people in the Federal Emergency Manpower Agency (FEMA): A blueprint +for the military takeover of the United States. The plan called for +FEMA to become "emergency czar'' in the event of a national emergency +such as nuclear war or an American invasion of a foreign nation. FEMA +would also be a buffer between the president and his cabinet and other +civilian agencies, and would have broad powers to appoint military +commanders and run state and local governments. Finally, it would +have the authority to order suspect aliens into concentration camps +and seize their property.

+ +

When then-Attorney General William French Smith got wind of the plan, +he killed it. After Smith left the administration, North and his FEMA +cronies came up with the Defense Resource Act, designed to suspendend +the First Amendment by imposing censorship and banning strikes.

+ +

Where was it all heading? The book's answer: "REX-84 Bravo, a +National Security Decision Directive 52 that would become operative +with the president's declaration of a state of national emergency +concurrent with a mythical U.S. military invasion of an unspecified +Central American country, presumably Nicaragua.''

+ +

Bradlee writes that the Rex exercise was designed to test FEMA's +readiness to assume authority over the Department of Defense, the +National Guard in all 50 states, and "a number of state defense +forces to be established by state legislatures.'' The military would +then be "deputized,'' thus making an end run around federal law +forbidding military involvement in domestic law enforcement.

+ +

Rex, which ran concurrently with the first annual U.S. show of force +in Honduras in April 1984, was also designed to test FEMA's ability to +round up 400000 undocumented Central American aliens in the United +States and its ability to distribute hundreds of tons of small arms to +"state defense forces.''

+ +

Incredibly, REX 84 was similar to a plan secretly adopted by Reagan +while governor of California. His two top henchmen then were Edwin +Meese, who recently resigned as U.S. attorney general, and Louis +Guiffrida, the FEMA director in 1984.

+ +

If the review makes you nervous, you should read the book!

+ +

--Chip Berlet ** End of text from cdp:mideast.forum **

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[PeaceNet forward from AML (ACTIV-L) -- see bottom for more info] +------------------------------------------------------------------ +This is the front-page article of the Jan. 16 issue of "The +Guardian," which describes some of the U.S. government's planning +for martial law in the event of the Gulf war. This is truly a +scary scenario that should concern all civil libertarians and +patriots. +------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

WILL GULF WAR LEAD TO REPRESSION AT HOME? +by Paul DeRienzo and Bill Weinberg

+ +

On August 2, 1990, as Saddam Hussein's army was consolidating control +over Kuwait, President George Bush responded by signing two executive +orders that were the first step toward martial law in the United +States and suspending the Constitution.

+ +

On the surface, Executive Orders 12722 and 12723, declaring a +"national emergency," merely invoked laws that allowed Bush to freeze +Iraqi assets in the United States.

+ +

The International Emergency Executive Powers Act permits the president +to freeze foreign assets after declaring a "national emergency," a +move that has been made three times before -- against Panama in 1987, +Nicaragua in 1985 and Iran in 1979.

+ +

According to Professor Diana Reynolds, of the Fletcher School of +Diplomacy at Boston's Tufts University, when Bush declared a national +emergency he "activated one part of a contingency national security +emergency plan." That plan is made up of a series of laws passed since +the presidency of Richard Nixon, which Reynolds says give the +president "boundless" powers.

+ +

According to Reynolds, such laws as the Defense Industrial +Revitalization and Disaster Relief Acts of 1983 "would permit the +president to do anything from seizing the means of production, to +conscripting a labor force, to relocating groups of citizens."

+ +

Reynolds says the net effect of invoking these laws would be the +suspension of the Constitution.

+ +

She adds that national emergency powers "permit the stationing of the +military in cities and towns, closing off the U.S. borders, freezing +all imports and exports, allocating all resources on a national +security priority, monitoring and censoring the press, and warrantless +searches and seizures."

+ +

The measures would allow military authorities to proclaim martial law +in the United States, asserts Reynolds. She defines martial law as the +"federal authority taking over for local authority when they are +unable to maintain law and order or to assure a republican form of +government."

+ +

A report called "Post Attack Recovery Strategies," about rebuilding +the country after a nuclear war, prepared by the right-wing Hudson +Institute in 1980, defines martial law as dealing "with the control of +civilians by their own military forces in time of emergency."

+ +

The federal agency with the authority to organize and command the +government's response to a national emergency is the Federal Emergency +Management Agency (FEMA). This super-secret and elite agency was +formed in 1979 under congressional measures that merged all federal +powers dealing with civilian and military emergencies under one +agency.

+ +

FEMA has its roots in the World War I partnership between government +and corporate leaders who helped mobilize the nation's industries to +support the war effort. The idea of a central national response to +large-scale emergencies was reintroduced in the early 1970s by Louis +Giuffrida, a close associate of then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan and +his chief aide Edwin Meese.

+ +

Reagan appointed Giuffrida head of the California National Guard in +1969. With Meese, Giuffrida organized "war-games" to prepare for +"statewide martial law" in the event that Black nationalists and +anti-war protesters "challenged the authority of the state." In 1981, +Reagan as president moved Giuffrida up to the big leagues, appointing +him director of FEMA.

+ +

According to Reynolds, however, it was the actions of George Bush in +1976, while he was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency +(CIA), that provided the stimulus for centralization of vast powers in +FEMA.

+ +

Bush assembled a group of hawkish outsiders, called Team B, that +released a report claiming the CIA ("Team A") had underestimated the +dangers of Soviet nuclear attack. The report advised the development +of elaborate plans for "civil defense" and post-nuclear government. +Three years later, in 1979, FEMA was given ultimate responsibility for +developing these plans.

+ +

Aware of the bad publicity FEMA was getting because of its role in +organizing for a post-nuclear world, Reagan's FEMA chief Giuffrida +publicly argued that the 1865 Posse Comitatus Act prohibited the +military from arresting civilians.

+ +

However, Reynolds says that Congress eroded the act by giving the +military reserves an exemption from Posse Comitatus and allowing them +to arrest civilians. The National Guard, under the control of state +governors in peace time, is also exempt from the act and can arrest +civilians.

+ +

FEMA Inspector General John Brinkerhoff has written a memo contending +that the government doesn't need to suspend the Constitution to use +the full range of powers Congress has given the agency. FEMA has +prepared legislation to be introduced in Congress in the event of a +national emergency that would give the agency sweeping powers. The +right to "deputize" National Guard and police forces is included in +the package. But Reynolds believes that actual martial law need not be +declared publicly.

+ +

Giuffrida has written that "Martial Rule comes into existence upon a +determination (not a declaration) by the senior military commander +that the civil government must be replaced because it is no longer +functioning anyway." He adds that "Martial Rule is limited only by the +principle of necessary force."

+ +

According to Reynolds, it is possible for the president to make +declarations concerning a national emergency secretly in the form of a +Natioanl Security Decision Directive. Most such directives are +classified as so secret that Reynolds says "researchers don't even +know how many are enacted."

+ +

DOMESTIC SPYING

+ +

Throughout the 1980s, FEMA was prohibited from engaging in +intelligence gathering. But on July 6, 1989, Bush signed Executive +Order 12681, pronouncing that FEMA's National Preparedness Directorate +would "have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, +investigative, or national security work." Recent events indicate that +domestic spying in response to the looming Middle East war is now +under way.

+ +

Reynolds reports that "the CIA is going to various campuses asking for +information on Middle Eastern students. I'm sure that there are +intelligence organizations monitoring peace demonstrations." +According to the University of Connecticut student paper, the Daily +Campus, CIA officials have recently met there to discuss talking with +Middle Eastern students.

+ +

The New York Times reports that the FBI has ordered its agents around +the country to question Arab-American leaders and business people in +search of information on potential Iraqi "terrorist" attacks in +response to a Gulf war.

+ +

A 1986 Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) document entitled +"Alien Terrorists and Other Undesirables: A Contingency Plan" outlines +the potential round-up and incarceration in mass detainment camps of +U.S. residents who are citizens of "terrorist" countries, chiefly in +the Middle East. This plan echoed a 1984 FEMA nationwide "readiness +exercise code-named REX-84 ALPHA, which included the rehearsal of +joint operations with the INS to round up 40000 Central American +refugees in the event of a U.S. invasion of the region. One of the 10 +military bases established as detainment camps by REX-84 ALPHA, Camp +Krome, Fla., was designated a joint FEMA-Immigration service +interrogation center.

+ +

Recently, FEMA has been criticized in the media for inadequate +response to the October, 1989 San Francisco earthquake. What the +mainstream press has failed to cover is the agency's planned role in +repressing domestic dissent in the event of an invasion abroad.

+ +

Source: The Guardian, Jan 16 1991

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DATE OF UPLOAD: November 17, 1989 +ORIGIN OF UPLOAD: Omni Magazine +CONTRIBUTED BY: Donald Goldberg +======================================================== +PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE BBS +======================================================== +Although this article does not deal directly with UFOs, +ParaNet felt it important as an offering to our readers who +depend so much upon communications as a way to stay informed. +This article raises some interesting implications for the future +of communications.

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THE NATIONAL GUARDS +(C) 1987 OMNI MAGAZINE MAY 1987 +(Reprinted with permission and license to ParaNet Information +Service and its affiliates.)

+ +

By Donald Goldberg

+ +

The mountains bend as the fjord and the sea beyond stretch +out before the viewer's eyes. First over the water, then a sharp +left turn, then a bank to the right between the peaks, and the +secret naval base unfolds upon the screen. +The scene is of a Soviet military installation on the Kola +Peninsula in the icy Barents Sea, a place usually off-limits to +the gaze of the Western world. It was captured by a small French +satellite called SPOT Image, orbiting at an altitude of 517 miles +above the hidden Russian outpost. On each of several passes -- +made over a two-week period last fall -- the satellite's high-resolution lens took its pictures at a different angle; the +images were then blended into a three-dimensional, computer-generated video. Buildings, docks, vessels, and details of the +Artic landscape are all clearly visible. +Half a world away and thousands of feet under the sea, +sparkling-clear images are being made of the ocean floor. Using +the latest bathymetric technology and state-of-the-art systems +known as Seam Beam and Hydrochart, researchers are for the first +time assembling detailed underwater maps of the continental +shelves and the depths of the world's oceans. These scenes of +the sea are as sophisticated as the photographs taken from the +satellite. +From the three-dimensional images taken far above the earth +to the charts of the bottom of the oceans, these photographic +systems have three things in common: They both rely on the +latest technology to create accurate pictures never dreamed of +even 25 years ago; they are being made widely available by +commerical, nongovernmental enterprises; and the Pentagon is +trying desperately to keep them from the general public. +In 1985 the Navy classified the underwater charts, making +them available only to approved researchers whose needs are +evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Under a 1984 law the military +has been given a say in what cameras can be licensed to be used +on American satellites; and officials have already announced they +plan to limit the quality and resolution of photos made +available. The National Security Agency (NSA) -- the secret arm +of the Pentagon in charge of gathering electronic intelligence as +well as protecting sensitive U.S. communications -- has defeated +a move to keep it away from civilian and commercial computers and +databases. +That attitude has outraged those concerned with the +military's increasing efforts to keep information not only from +the public but from industry experts, scientists, and even other +government officials as well. "That's like classifying a road +map for fear of invasion," says Paul Wolff, assistant +administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric +Administration, of the attempted restrictions. +These attempts to keep unclassified data out of the hands of +scientists, researchers, the news media, and the public at large +are a part of an alarming trend that has seen the military take +an ever-increasing role in controlling the flow of information +and communications through American society, a role traditionally +-- and almost exclusively -- left to civilians. Under the +approving gaze of the Reagan administration, Department of +Defense (DoD) officials have quietly implemented a number of +policies, decisions, and orders that give the military +unprecedented control over both the content and public use of +data and communications. For example:

+ +

**The Pentagon has created a new category of "sensitive" but +unclassified information that allows it to keep from public +access huge quantities of data that were once widely accessible. +**Defense Department officials have attempted to rewrite key laws +that spell out when the president can and cannot appropriate +private communications facilities. +**The Pentagon has installed a system that enables it to seize +control of the nation's entire communications network -- the +phone system, data transmissions, and satellite transmissions of +all kinds -- in the event of what it deems a "national +emergency." As yet there is no single, universally agreed-upon +definition of what constitutes such a state. Usually such an +emergency is restricted to times of natural disaster, war, or +when national security is specifically threatened. Now the +military has attempted to redefine emergency. +The point man in the Pentagon's onslaught on communications +is Assistant Defense Secretary Donald C. Latham, a former NSA +deputy chief. Latham now heads up an interagency committee in +charge of writing and implementing many of the policies that have +put the military in charge of the flow of civilian information +and communication. He is also the architect of National Security +Decision Directive 145 (NSDD 145), signed by Defense Secretary +Caspar Weinberger in 1984, which sets out the national policy on +telecommunications and computer-systems security. +First NSDD 145 set up a steering group of top-level +administration officials. Their job is to recommend ways to +protect information that is unclassified but has been designated +sensitive. Such information is held not only by government +agencies but by private companies as well. And last October the +steering group issued a memorandum that defined sensitive +information and gave federal agencies broad new powers to keep it +from the public. +According to Latham, this new category includes such data as +all medical records on government databases -- from the files of +the National Cancer Institute to information on every veteran who +has ever applied for medical aid from the Veterans Administration +-- and all the information on corporate and personal taxpayers in +the Internal Revenue Service's computers. Even agricultural +statistics, he argues, can be used by a foreign power against the +United States. +In his oversize yet Spartan Pentagon office, Latham cuts +anything but an intimidating figure. Articulate and friendly, he +could pass for a network anchorman or a television game show +host. When asked how the government's new definition of +sensitive information will be used, he defends the necessity for +it and tries to put to rest concerns about a new restrictiveness. +"The debate that somehow the DoD and NSA are going to +monitor or get into private databases isn't the case at all," +Latham insists. "The definition is just a guideline, just an +advisory. It does not give the DoD the right to go into private +records." +Yet the Defense Department invoked the NSDD 145 guidelines +when it told the information industry it intends to restrict the +sale of data that are now unclassified and publicly available +from privately owned computer systems. The excuse if offered was +that these data often include technical information that might be +valuable to a foreign adversary like the Soviet Union. +Mead Data Central -- which runs some of the nation's largest +computer databases, such as Lexis and Nexis, and has nearly +200000 users -- says it has already been approached by a team of +agents from the Air Force and officials from the CIA and the FBI +who asked for the names of subscribers and inquired what Mead +officials might do if information restrictions were imposed. In +response to government pressure, Mead Data Central in effect +censured itself. It purged all unclassified government-supplied +technical data from its system and completely dropped the +National Technical Information System from its database rather +than risk a confrontation. +Representative Jack Brooks, a Texas Democrat who chairs the +House Government Operations Committee, is an outspoken critic of +the NSA's role in restricting civilian information. He notes +that in 1985 the NSA -- under the authority granted by NSDD 145 +-- investigated a computer program that was widely used in both +local and federal elections in 1984. The computer system was +used to count more than one third of all votes cast in the United +States. While probing the system's vulnerability to outside +manipulation, the NSA obtained a detailed knowledge of that +computer program. "In my view," Brooks says, "this is an +unprecedented and ill-advised expansion of the military's +influence in our society." +There are other NSA critics. "The computer systems used by +counties to collect and process votes have nothing to do with +national security, and I'm really concerned about the NSA's +involvement," says Democratic congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas, +chairman of the House science and technology subcommittee +concerned with computer security. +Also, under NSDD 145 the Pentagon has issued an order, +virtually unknown to all but a few industry executives, that +affects commercial communications satellites. The policy was +made official by Defense Secretary Weinberger in June of 1985 and +requires that all commercial satellite operators that carry such +unclassified government data traffic as routine Pentagon supply +information and payroll data (and that compete for lucrative +government contracts) install costly protective systems on all +satellites launched after 1990. The policy does not directly +affect the data over satellite channels, but it does make the NSA +privy to vital information about the essential signals needed to +operate a satellite. With this information it could take control +of any satellite it chooses. +Latham insists this, too, is a voluntary policy and that +only companies that wish to install protection will have their +systems evaluated by the NSA. He also says industry officials +are wholly behind the move, and argues that the protective +systems are necessary. With just a few thousand dollars' worth +of equipment, a disgruntled employee could interfere with a +satellite's control signals and disable or even wipe out a +hundred-million-dollar satellite carrying government information. +At best, his comments are misleading. First, the policy is +not voluntary. The NSA can cut off lucrative government +contracts to companies that do not comply with the plan. The +Pentagon alone spent more than a billion dollars leasing +commercial satellite channels last year; that's a powerful +incentive for business to cooperate. +Second, the industry's support is anything but total. +According to the minutes of one closed-door meeting between NSA +officials -- along with representatives of other federal agencies +-- and executives from AT&T, Comsat, GTE Sprint, and MCI, the +executives neither supported the move nor believed it was +necessary. The NSA defended the policy by arguing that a +satellite could be held for ransom if the command and control +links weren't protected. But experts at the meeting were +skeptical. +"Why is the threat limited to accessing the satellite rather +than destroying it with lasers or high-powered signals?" one +industry executive wanted to know. +Most of the officials present objected to the high cost of +protecting the satellites. According to a 1983 study made at the +request of the Pentagon, the protection demanded by the NSA could +add as much as $3 million to the price of a satellite and $1 +million more to annual operating costs. Costs like these, they +argue, could cripple a company competing against less expensive +communications networks. +Americans get much of their information through forms of +electronic communications, from the telephone, television and +radio, and information printed in many newspapers. Banks send +important financial data, businesses their spreadsheets, and +stockbrokers their investment portfolios, all over the same +channels, from satellite signals to computer hookups carried on +long distance telephone lines. To make sure that the federal +government helped to promote and protect the efficient use of +this advancing technology, Congress passed the massive +Communications Act of of 1934. It outlined the role and laws of +the communications structure in the United States. +The powers of the president are set out in Section 606 of +that law; basically it states that he has the authority to take +control of any communications facilities that he believes +"essential to the national defense." In the language of the +trade this is known as a 606 emergency. +There have been a number of attempts in recent years by +Defense Department officials to redefine what qualifies as a 606 +emergency and make it easier for the military to take over +national communications. +In 1981 the Senate considered amendments to the 1934 act +that would allow the president, on Defense Department +recommendation, to require any communications company to provide +services, facilities, or equipment "to promote the national +defense and security or the emergency preparedness of the +nation," even in peacetime and without a declared state of +emergency. The general language had been drafted by Defense +Department officials. (The bill failed to pass the House for +unrelated reasons.) +"I think it is quite clear that they have snuck in there +some powers that are dangerous for us as a company and for the +public at large," said MCI vice president Kenneth Cox before the +Senate vote. +Since President Reagan took office, the Pentagon has stepped +up its efforts to rewrite the definition of national emergency +and give the military expanded powers in the United States. "The +declaration of 'emergency' has always been vague," says one +former administration official who left the government in 1982 +after ten years in top policy posts. "Different presidents have +invoked it differently. This administration would declare a +convenient 'emergency.'" In other words, what is a nuisance to +one administration might qualify as a burgeoning crisis to +another. For example, the Reagan administration might decide +that a series of protests on or near military bases constituted a +national emergency. +Should the Pentagon ever be given the green light, its base +for taking over the nation's communications system would be a +nondescript yellow brick building within the maze of high rises, +government buildings, and apartment complexes that make up the +Washington suburb of Arlington, Virginia. Headquartered in a +dusty and aging structure surrounded by a barbed-wire fence is an +obscure branch of the military known as the Defense +Communications Agency (DCA). It does not have the spit and +polish of the National Security Agency or the dozens of other +government facilities that make up the nation's capital. But its +lack of shine belies its critical mission: to make sure all of +America's far-flung military units can communicate with one +another. It is in certain ways the nerve center of our nation's +defense system. +On the second floor of the DCA's four-story headquarters is +a new addition called the National Coordinating Center (NCC). +Operated by the Pentagon, it is virtually unknown outside of a +handful of industry and government officials. The NCC is staffed +around the clock by representatives of a dozen of the nation's +largest commercial communications companies -- the so-called +"common carriers" -- including AT&T, MCI, GTE, Comsat, and ITT. +Also on hand are officials from the State Department, the CIA, +the Federal Aviation Administration, and a number of other +federal agencies. During a 606 emergency the Pentagon can order +the companies that make up the National Coordinating Center to +turn over their satellite, fiberoptic, and land-line facilities +to the government. +On a long corridor in the front of the building is a series +of offices, each outfitted with a private phone, a telex machine, +and a combination safe. It's known as "logo row" because each +office is occupied by an employee from one of the companies that +staff the NCC and because their corporate logos hand on the wall +outside. Each employee is on permanent standby, ready to +activate his company's system should the Pentagon require it. +The National Coordinating Center's mission is as grand as +its title is obscure: to make available to the Defense +Department all the facilities of the civilian communications +network in this country -- the phone lines, the long-distance +satellite hookups, the data transmission lines -- in times of +national emergency. If war breaks out and communications to a +key military base are cut, the Pentagon wants to make sure that +an alternate link can be set up as fast as possible. Company +employees assigned to the center are on call 24 hours a day; they +wear beepers outside the office, and when on vacation they must +be replaced by qualified colleagues. +The center formally opened on New Year's Day, 1984, the same +day Ma Bell's monopoly over the telephone network of the entire +United States was finally broken. The timing was no coincidence. +Pentagon officials had argued for years along with AT&T against +the divestiture of Ma Bell, on grounds of national security. +Defense Secretary Weinberger personally urged the attorney +general to block the lawsuit that resulted in the breakup, as had +his predecessor, Harold Brown. The reason was that rather than +construct its own communications network, the Pentagon had come +to rely extensively on the phone company. After the breakup the +dependence continued. The Pentagon still used commercial +companies to carry more than 90 percent of its communications +within the continental United States. +The 1984 divestiture put an end to AT&T's monopoly over the +nation's telephone service and increased the Pentagon's obsession +with having its own nerve center. Now the brass had to contend +with several competing companies to acquire phone lines, and +communications was more than a matter of running a line from one +telephone to another. Satellites, microwave towers, fiberoptics, +and other technological breakthroughs never dreamed of by +Alexander Graham Bell were in extensive use, and not just for +phone conversations. Digital data streams for computers flowed +on the same networks. +These facts were not lost on the Defense Department or the +White House. According to documents obtained by Omni, beginning +on December 14, 1982, a number of secret meetings were held +between high-level administration officials and executives of the +commercial communications companies whose employees would later +staff the National Coordinating Center. The meetings, which +continued over the next three years, were held at the White +House, the State Department, the Strategic Air Command (SAC) +headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, and at the +North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado +Springs. +The industry officials attending constituted the National +Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee -- called NSTAC +(pronounced N-stack) -- set up by President Reagan to address +those same problems that worried the Pentagon. It was at these +secret meetings, according to the minutes, that the idea of a +communications watch center for national emergencies -- the NCC +-- was born. Along with it came a whole set of plans that would +allow the military to take over commercial communications +"assets" -- everything from ground stations and satellite dishes +to fiberoptic cables -- across the country. +At a 1983 Federal Communications Commission meeting, a +ranking Defense Department official offered the following +explanation for the founding of the National Coordinating Center: +"We are looking at trying to make communications endurable for a +protracted conflict." The phrase protracted conflict is a +military euphemism for nuclear war. +But could the NCC survive even the first volley in such a +conflict? +Not likely. It's located within a mile of the Pentagon, +itself an obvious early target of a Soviet nuclear barrage (or a +conventional strike, for that matter). And the Kremlin +undoubtedly knows its location and importance, and presumably has +included it on its priority target list. In sum, according to +one Pentagon official, "The NCC itself is not viewed as a +survivable facility." +Furthermore, the NCC's "Implementation Plan," obtained by +Omni, lists four phases of emergencies and how the center should +respond to each. The first, Phase 0, is Peacetime, for which +there would be little to do outside of a handful of routine tasks +and exercises. Phase 1 is Pre Attack, in which alternate NCC +sites are alerted. Phase 2 is Post Attack, in which other NCC +locations are instructed to take over the center's functions. +Phase 3 is known as Last Ditch, and in this phase whatever +facility survives becomes the de facto NCC. +So far there is no alternate National Coordinating Center to +which NCC officials could retreat to survive an attack. +According to NCC deputy director William Belford, no physical +sites have yet been chosen for a substitute NCC, and even whether +the NCC itself will survive a nuclear attack is still under +study. +Of what use is a communications center that is not expected +to outlast even the first shots of a war and has no backup? +The answer appears to be that because of the Pentagon's +concerns about the AT&T divestiture and the disruptive effects it +might have on national security, the NCC was to serve as the +military's peacetime communications center. +The center is a powerful and unprecedented tool to assume +control over the nation's vast communications and information +network. For years the Pentagon has been studying how to take +over the common carriers' facilities. That research was prepared +by NSTAC at the DoD's request and is contained in a series of +internal Pentagon documents obtained by Omni. Collectively this +series is known as the Satellite Survivability Report. Completed +in 1984, it is the only detailed analysis to date of the +vulnerabilities of the commercial satellite network. It was +begun as a way of examining how to protect the network of +communications facilities from attack and how to keep it intact +for the DoD. +A major part of the report also contains an analysis of how +to make commercial satellites "interoperable" with Defense +Department systems. While the report notes that current +technical differences such as varying frequencies make it +difficult for the Pentagon to use commercial satellites, it +recommends ways to resolve those problems. Much of the report is +a veritable blueprint for the government on how to take over +satellites in orbit above the United States. This information, +plus NSDD 145's demand that satellite operators tell the NSA how +their satellites are controlled, guarantees the military ample +knowledge about operating commercial satellites. +The Pentagon now has an unprecedented access to the civilian +communications network: commercial databases, computer networks, +electronic links, telephone lines. All it needs is the legal +authority to use them. Then it could totally dominate the flow +of all information in the United States. As one high-ranking +White House communications official put it: "Whoever controls +communications, controls the country." His remark was made after +our State Department could not communicate directly with our +embassy in Manila during the anti-Marcos revolution last year. +To get through, the State Department had to relay all its +messages through the Philippine government. +Government officials have offered all kinds of scenarios to +justify the National Coordinating Center, the Satellite +Survivability Report, new domains of authority for the Pentagon +and the NSA, and the creation of top-level government steering +groups to think of even more policies for the military. Most can +be reduced to the rationale that inspired NSDD 145: that our +enemies (presumably the Soviets) have to be prevented from +getting too much information from unclassified sources. And the +only way to do that is to step in and take control of those +sources. +Remarkably, the communications industry as a whole has not +been concerned about the overall scope of the Pentagon's threat +to its freedom of operation. Most protests have been to +individual government actions. For example, a media coalition +that includes the Radio-Television Society of Newspaper Editors, +and the Turner Broadcasting System has been lobbying that before +the government can restrict the use of satellites, it must +demonstrate why such restrictions protect against a "threat to +distinct and compelling national security and foreign policy +interests." But the whole policy of restrictiveness has not been +examined. That may change sometime this year, when the Office of +Technology Assessment issues a report on how the Pentagon's +policy will affect communications in the United States. In the +meantime the military keeps trying to encroach on national +communications. +While it may seem unlikely that the Pentagon will ever get +total control of our information and communications systems, the +truth is that it can happen all too easily. The official +mechanisms are already in place; and few barriers remain to +guarantee that what we hear, see, and read will come to us +courtesy of our being members of a free and open society and not +courtesy of the Pentagon.

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---------------------------END FEMA SUMMARY---------------------- + +-- +*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@* +The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very +use of the law is the instrument of illegality. +-- Ralph Nader @ Harvard Law School, 1/15/92 +

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+SUBJECT: FEMA GULAG

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+ +SECRET CONCENTRATION CAMPS + +The September issue of THE OSTRICH reprinted a story from the +CBA BULLETIN which listed the following principal civilian concentration camps established in GULAG USA under the =Rex '84= program: +Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas; Ft. Drum, New York; Ft. Indian Gap, Pennsylvania; Camp A. P. Hill, Virginia; Oakdale, California; Eglin +Air Force Base, Florida; Vendenberg AFB, California; Ft. Mc Coy, +Wisconsin; Ft. Benning, Georgia; Ft. Huachuca, Arizona; Camp +Krome, Florida. The February OSTRICH printed a map of the expanding +Gulag. Alhough this listing and map stirred considerable interest, +the report was not new. For at least 20 years, knowledgeable Patriots +have been warning of these sinister plots to incarcerate dissidents +opposing plans of the =Elitist Syndicate= for a totalitarian +=New World Order=. Indeed, the plot was recognized with the insidious +encroachment of "regionalism" back in the 1960's. As early as 1968, +the "greatest land steal in history" leading to global corporate +socialism, was in a ="Master Land Plan"= for the United States +by =Executive Orders= involving water resource regions, +population movement and control, pollution control, zoning +and land use, navigation and environmental bills, etc. Indeed, +the real undercover aim of the so-called "Environmental Rennaissance" +has been the abolition of private property. +All prelude to the total grab of the =World Conservation Bank=, +as THE OSTRICH has been reporting. The map on this page and +the list of executive orders available for imposition of an "emergency" +are from 1970s files of the late Gen. =P. A. Del Valle's= ALERT, +sent us by =Merritt Newby=, editor of the now defunct AMERICAN +CHALLENGE. +=Wake up Americans!= The Bushoviks have approved =Gorbachev's= +imposition of "Emergency" to suppress unrest. =Henry Kissinger= +and his clients hardly missed a day's profits in their deals with +the butchers of Tiananmen Sqaure. Are you next? +************************************************************************* +SUBJECT: Executive Orders + + +APPLICABLE EXECUTIVE ORDERS + +The following =Executive Orders=, now recorded in the Federal +Register, and therefore accepted by Congress as the law of the +land, can be put into effect at any time an emergency is declared: + +10995--All communications media seized by the Federal Government. +10997--Seizure of all electrical power, fuels, including +gasoline and minerals. +10998--Seizure of all food resources, farms and farm equipment. +10999--Seizure of all kinds of transportation, including your +personal car, and control of all highways and seaports. +11000--Seizure of all civilians for work under Federal supervision. +11001--Federal takeover of all health, education and welfare. +11002--Postmaster General empowered to register every man, woman +and child in the U.S.A. +11003--Seizure of all aircraft and airports by the Federal +Government. +11004--Housing and Finance authority may shift population from +one locality to another. Complete integration. +11005--Seizure of railroads, inland waterways, and storage facilities. +11051--The Director of the Office of Emergency Planning authorized +to put Executive Orders into effect in "times of increased +international tension or financial crisis". He is also to +perform such additional functions as the President +may direct.

+ +

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +A Dangerous Fact Not Generally Known +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +THESE EXECUTIVE ORDERS GROSSLY AND FLAGRANTLY VIOLATE ARTICLE +4 SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. "THE +UNITED STATES SHALL GUARANTEE TO EVERY STATE IN THIS UNION A +REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT, AND SHALL PROTECT EACH OF THEM +AGAINST INVASION; AND ON APPLICATION OF THE LEGISLATURE, OR OF THE +EXECUTIVE (WHEN THE LEGISLATURE CANNOT BE CONVENED) AGAINST +DOMESTIC VIOLENCE." "REGIONAL GOVERNMENT IS NOT A REPRESENTATIVE +REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT!"

+ +

When Government gets out of hand and can no longer be controlled +by the people, short of violent overthrow as in 1776, there are +two sources of power which are used by the dictatorial government +to keep the people in line: the Police Power and the Power of the +Purse (through which the necessities of life can be withheld). +And both of these powers are no longer balanced between the three +Federal Branches, and between the Federal and the State and +local Governments. These powers have been taken over, with the +permission of the Federal Legislature and the State Governments, +by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government and all attempts +to reclaim that lost power have been defeated.

+ +

Stated simply: the dictatorial power of the Executive rests primarily +on three basis: Executive Order 11490, Executive Order 11647, and +the Planning, Programming, Budgeting System which is operated +through the new and all-powerful Office of Management and +Budget.

+ +

E. O. 11490 is a compilation of some 23 previous Executive Orders, +signed by Nixon on Oct. 28, 1969, and outlining emergency functions +which are to be performed by some 28 Executive Departments and +Agencies whenever the President of the United States declares +a national emergency (as in defiance of an impeachment edict, +for example). Under the terms of E. O. 11490, the President +can declare that a national emergency exists and the Executive +Branch can: +* Take over all communications media +* Seize all sources of power +* Take charge of all food resources +* Control all highways and seaports +* Seize all railroads, inland waterways, airports, storage facilities +* Commandeer all civilians to work under federal supervision +* Control all activities relating to health, education, and welfare +* Shift any segment of the population from one locality to another +* Take over farms, ranches, timberized properties +* Regulate the amount of your own money you may withdraw from +your bank, or savings and loan institution

+ +

All of these and many more items are listed in 32 pages incorporating +nearly 200000 words, providing and absolute bureaucratic +dictatorship whenever the President gives the word.

+ +

--> Executive Order 11647 provides the regional and local mechanisms +--> and manpower for carrying out the provisions of E. O. 11490. +--> Signed by Richard Nixon on Feb. 10, 1972, this Order sets up Ten +--> Federal Regional Councils to govern Ten Federal Regions made up +--> of the fifty still existing States of the Union. + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +Don sez:

+ +

*Check out this book for the inside scoop on the "secret" Constitution.* + +SUBJECT: - "The Proposed Constitutional Model" Pages 595-621 +Book Title - The Emerging Constitution +Author - Rexford G. Tugwell +Publisher - Harpers Magazine Press,Harper and Row +Dewey Decimal - 342.73 T915E +ISBN - 0-06-128225-10 +Note Chapter 14 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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The 10 Federal Regions +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ +

REGION I: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode +Island, Vermont. +Regional Capitol: Boston +REGION II: New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Virgin Island. +Regional Capitol: New York City +REGION III: Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West +Virginia, District of Columbia. +Regional Capitol: Philadelphia +REGION IV: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, +North Carolina, Tennessee. +Regional Capitol: Atlanta +REGION V: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin. +Regional Capitol: Chicago +REGION VI: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas. +Regional Capitol: Dallas-Fort Worth +REGION VII: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska. +Regional Capitol: Kansas City +REGION VIII: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, +Utah, Wyoming. +Regional Capitol: Denver +REGION IX: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada. +Regional Capitol: San Fransisco +REGION X: Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho. +Regional Capitol: Seattle

+ +

Supplementing these Then Regions, each of the States is, or is to +be, divided into subregions, so that Federal Executive control +is provided over every community.

+ +

Then, controlling the bedgeting and the programming at every +level is that politico-economic system known as PPBS.

+ +

The President need not wait for some emergency such as an impeachment +ouster. He can declare a National Emergency at any time, and freeze +everything, just as he has already frozen wages and prices. And +the Congress, and the States, are powerless to prevent such an +Executive Dictatorship, unless Congress moves to revoke these +extraordinary powers before the Chief Executive moves to invoke +them.

+ +

THESE EXECUTIVE ORDERS GROSSLY AND FLAGRANTLY VIOLATE THE INTENT AND +PURPOSE OF ARTICLE 4 SECTION 3. THERE IS NO PROVISION IN THIS +SECTION OR THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES FOR FORMING A +REGIONAL STATE OUT OF A GROUP OF STATES! FURTHER, THESE EXECUTIVE +ORDERS GROSSLY AND FLAGRANTLY VIOLATE THE 9TH AND 10TH +AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION!

+ +

By Proclaiming and Putting Into Effect Executive Order No. 11490, +the President would put the United States under TOTAL MARTIAL LAW +AND MILITARY DICTATORSHIP! The Guns Of The American People Would +Be Forcibly Taken!

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Keywords: "To preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, so help me God." +Lines: 696

+ +

Bushie-Tail used the Gulf War Show to greatly expand the powers of the +presidency. During this shell game event, the Executive Orders signed +into "law" continued Bushie's methodical and detailed program to bury +any residual traces of the constitutional rights and protections of U.S. +citizens. The Bill of Rights--[almost too late to] use 'em or lose 'em:

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|| The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to || +|| constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of || +|| the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial || +|| executive. ||

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----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +From "Covert Action Information Bulletin," Number 37, Summer, 1991 (see +bottom 2 pages for subscription & back issues info on this quarterly):

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Domestic Consequences of the Gulf War +Diana Reynolds +Reprinted with permission of CAIB. Copyright 1991

+ +

Diana Reynolds is a Research Associate at the Edward R. Murrow Center, +Fletcher School for Public Policy, Tufts University. She is also an +Assistant Professor of Politics at Broadford College and a Lecturer at +Merrimack College.

+ +

A war, even the most victorious, is a national misfortune. +--Helmuth Von Moltke, Prussian field marshall

+ +

George Bush put the United States on the road to its second war in +two years by declaring a national emergency on August 21990. In +response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Bush issued two Executive +Orders (12722 and 12723) which restricted trade and travel with Iraq +and froze Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets within the U.S. and those in the +possession of U.S. persons abroad. At least 15 other executive orders +followed these initial restrictions and enabled the President to +mobilize the country's human and productive resources for war. Under +the national emergency, Bush was able unilaterally to break his 1991 +budget agreement with Congress which had frozen defense spending, to +entrench further the U.S. economy in the mire of the military-industrial complex, to override environmental protection regulations, +and to make free enterprise and civil liberties conditional upon an +executive determination of national security interests.

+ +

The State of Emergency +In time of war a president's power derives from both constitutional +and statutory sources. Under Article II, Section 2 of the +Constitution, he is Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. Although +Congress alone retains the right to declare war, this power has become +increasingly meaningless in the face of a succession of unilateral +decisions by the executive to mount invasions. +The president's statutory authority, granted by Congress and +expanded by it under the 1988 National Emergencies Act (50 USC sec. +1601), confers special powers in time of war or national emergency. +He can invoke those special powers simply by declaring a national +emergency. First, however, he must specify the legal provisions under +which he proposes that he, or other officers, will act. Congress may +end a national emergency by enacting a joint resolution. Once invoked +by the president, emergency powers are directed by the National +Security Council and administered, where appropriate, under the +general umbrella of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).[1] +There is no requirement that Congress be consulted before an emergency +is declared or findings signed. The only restriction on Bush is that +he must inform Congress in a "timely" fashion--he being the sole +arbiter of timeliness. +Ultimately, the president's perception of the severity of a +particular threat to national security and the integrity of his +appointed officers determine the nature of any state of emergency. +For this reason, those who were aware of the modern development of +presidential emergency powers were apprehensive about the domestic +ramifications of any national emergency declared by George Bush. In +light of Bush's record (see "Bush Chips Away at Constitution" Box +below) and present performance, their fears appear well-founded.

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The War at Home +It is too early to know all of the emergency powers, executive +orders and findings issued under classified National Security +Directives[2] implemented by Bush in the name of the Gulf War. In +addition to the emergency powers necessary to the direct mobilization +of active and reserve armed forces of the United States, there are +some 120 additional emergency powers that can be used in a national +emergency or state of war (declared or undeclared by Congress). The +"Federal Register" records some 15 Executive Orders (EO) signed by +Bush from August 21990 to February 141991. (See "Bush's Executive +Orders" box, below) +It may take many years before most of the executive findings and +use of powers come to light, if indeed they ever do. But evidence is +emerging that at least some of Bush's emergency powers were activated +in secret. Although only five of the 15 EOs that were published were +directed at non-military personnel, the costs directly attributable to +the exercise of the authorities conferred by the declaration of +national emergency from August 2, 1990 to February 1, 1991 for non-military activities are estimated at approximately $1.3 billion. +According to a February 11, 1991 letter from Bush to congressional +leaders reporting on the "National Emergency With Respect to Iraq," +these costs represent wage and salary costs for the Departments of +Treasury, State, Agriculture, and Transportation, U.S. Customs, +Federal Reserve Board, and the National Security Council.[3] +The fact that $1.3 billion was spent in non-military salaries alone +in this six month period suggests an unusual amount of government +resources utilized to direct the national emergency state. In +contrast, government salaries for one year of the state of emergency +with Iran[4] cost only $430000.

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____________________________________________________________________ +| Bush Chips Away at Constitution +| George Bush, perhaps more than any other individual in +U.S. history, has expanded the emergency powers of +presidency. In 1976, as Director of Central Intelligence, +he convened Team B, a group of rabidly anti-communist +intellectuals and former government officials to reevaluate +CIA inhouse intelligence estimates on Soviet military +strength. The resulting report recommended draconian civil +defense measures which led to President Ford's Executive +Order 11921 authorizing plans to establish government +control of the means of production, distribution, energy +sources, wages and salaries, credit and the flow of money +in U.S. financial institutions in a national emergency.[1] +As Vice President, Bush headed the Task Force on +Combatting Terrorism, that recommended: extended and +flexible emergency presidential powers to combat terrorism; +restrictions on congressional oversight in counter-terrorist planning; and curbing press coverage of +terrorist incidents.[2] The report gave rise to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1986, that granted the President clear-cut +authority to respond to terrorism with all appropriate +means including deadly force. It authorized the +Immigration and Naturalization Service to control and +remove not only alien terrorists but potential terrorist +aliens and those "who are likely to be supportive of +terrorist activity within the U.S."[3] The bill superceded +the War Powers Act by imposing no time limit on the +President's use of force in a terrorist situation, and +lifted the requirement that the President consult Congress +before sanctioning deadly force. +From 1982 to 1988, Bush led the Defense Mobilization +Planning Systems Agency (DMPSA), a secret government +organization, and spent more than $3 billion upgrading +command, control, and communications in FEMA's continuity +of government infrastructures. Continuity of Government +(COG) was ostensibly created to assure government +functioning during war, especially nuclear war. The Agency +was so secret that even many members of the Pentagon were +unaware of its existence and most of its work was done +without congressional oversight. +Project 908, as the DMPSA was sometimes called, was +similar to its parent agency FEMA in that it came under +investigation for mismanagement and contract +irregularities.[4] During this same period, FEMA had been +fraught with scandals including emergency planning with a +distinctly anti-constitutional flavor. The agency would +have sidestepped Congress and other federal agencies and +put the President and FEMA directly in charge of the U.S. +planning for martial rule. Under this state, the executive +would take upon itself powers far beyond those necessary to +address national emergency contingencies.[5] +Bush's "anything goes" anti-drug strategy, announced +on September 6, 1989, suggested that executive emergency +powers be used: to oust those suspected of associating +with drug users or sellers from public and private housing; +to mobilize the National Guard and U.S. military to fight +drugs in the continental U.S.; to confiscate private +property belonging to drug users, and to incarcerate first +time offenders in work camps.[6] +The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to +constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of +the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial +executive. +| 1. Executive Order 11921, "Emergency preparedness Functions, +June 11, 1976. Federal Register, vol. 41, no. 116. The +report was attacked by such notables as Ray Cline, the +CIA's former Deputy Director, retired CIA intelligence +analyst Arthur Macy Cox, and the former head of the U.S. +Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Paul Warnke for +blatantly manipulating CIA intelligence to achieve the +political ends of Team B's rightwing members. See Cline, +quoted in "Carter to Inherit Intense Dispute on Soviet +Intentions," Mary Marder, "Washington Post," January 2, +1977; Arthur Macy Cox, "Why the U.S. Since 1977 Has +Been Mis-perceiving Soviet Military Strength," "New York +Times," October 20, 1980; Paul Warnke, "George Bush and +Team B," "New York Times," September 24, 1988. +| 2. George Bush, "Public Report of the Vice President's Task +Force On Combatting Terrorism" (Washington, D.C.: U.S. +Government Printing Office), February 1986. +| 3. Robert J. Walsh, Assistant Commissioner, Investigations +Division, Immigration and Naturalization Service, "Alien +Border Control Committee" (Washington, DC), October 1, +1988. +| 4. Steven Emerson, "America's Doomsday Project," "U.S. News +& World Report," August 7, 1989. +| 5. See: Diana Reynolds, "FEMA and the NSC: The Rise of the +National Security State," "CAIB," Number 33 (Winter 1990); +Keenan Peck, "The Take-Charge Gang," "The Progressive," +May 1985; Jack Anderson, "FEMA Wants to Lead Economic +War," "Washington Post," January 10, 1985. +| 6. These Presidential powers were authorized by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Public Law 100-690: 100th +Congress. See also: Diana Reynolds, "The Golden Lie," +"The Humanist," September/October 1990; Michael Isikoff, +"Is This Determination or Using a Howitzer to Kill a +Fly?" "Washington Post National Weekly," August 27-, +September 2, 1990; Bernard Weintraub, "Bush Considers +Calling Guard To Fight Drug Violence in Capital," "New +York Times," March 21, 1989. +--------------------------------------------------------------------

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Even those Executive Orders which have been made public tend to +raise as many questions as they answer about what actions were +considered and actually implemented. On January 8, 1991, Bush signed +Executive Order 12742, National Security Industrial Responsiveness, +which ordered the rapid mobilization of resources such as food, +energy, construction materials and civil transportation to meet +national security requirements. There was, however, no mention in +this or any other EO of the National Defense Executive Reserve (NDER) +plan administered under FEMA. This plan, which had been activated +during World War II and the Korean War, permits the federal government +during a state of emergency to bring into government certain +unidentified individuals. On January 7, 1991 the "Wall Street Journal +Europe" reported that industry and government officials were studying +a plan which would permit the federal government to "borrow" as many +as 50 oil company executives and put them to work streamlining the +flow of energy in case of a prolonged engagement or disruption of +supply. Antitrust waivers were also being pursued and oil companies +were engaged in emergency preparedness exercises with the Department +of Energy.[5]

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Wasting the Environment +In one case the use of secret powers was discovered by a watchdog +group and revealed in the press. In August 1990, correspondence +passed between Colin McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for +Production and Logistics and Michael Deland, Chair of the White House +Council on Environmental Quality. The letters responded to +presidential and National Security Council directives to deal with +increased industrial production and logistics arising from the +situation in the Middle East. The communications revealed that the +Pentagon had found it necessary to request emergency waivers to U.S. +environmental restrictions.[6] +The agreement to waive the National Environmental Policy Act (1970) +came in August. Because of it, the Pentagon was allowed to test new +weapons in the western U.S., increase production of materiel and +launch new activities at military bases without the complex public +review normally required. The information on the waiver was +eventually released by the Boston-based National Toxic Campaign Fund +(NTCF), an environmental group which investigates pollution on the +nation's military bases. It was not until January 30, 1991, five +months after it went into effect, that the "New York Times," acting +on the NTCF information, reported that the White House had bypassed +the usual legal requirement for environmental impact statements on +Pentagon projects.[7] So far, no specific executive order or +presidential finding authorizing this waiver has been discovered. +Other environmental waivers could also have been enacted without +the public being informed. Under a state of national emergency, U.S. +warships can be exempted from international conventions on +pollution[8] and public vessels can be allowed to dispose of +potentially infectious medical wastes into the oceans.[9] The +President can also suspend any of the statutory provisions regarding +the production, testing, transportation, deployment, and disposal of +chemical and biological warfare agents (50 USC sec. 1515). He could +also defer destruction of up to 10 percent of lethal chemical agents +and munitions that existed on November 8, 1985.[10] +One Executive Order which was made public dealt with "Chemical and +Biological Weapons Proliferation." Signed by Bush on November 16, +1990, EO 12735 leaves the impression that Bush is ordering an +increased effort to end the proliferation of chemical and biological +weapons. The order states that these weapons "constitute a threat to +national security and foreign policy" and declares a national +emergency to deal with the threat. To confront this threat, Bush +ordered international negotiations, the imposition of controls, +licenses, and sanctions against foreign persons and countries for +proliferation. Conveniently, the order grants the Secretaries of +State and the Treasury the power to exempt the U.S. military. +In February of 1991, the Omnibus Export Amendments Act was passed +by Congress compatible with EO 12735. It imposed sanctions on +countries and companies developing or using chemical or biological +weapons. Bush signed the law, although he had rejected the identical +measure the year before because it did not give him the executive +power to waive all sanctions if he thought the national interest +required it.[11] The new bill, however, met Bush's requirements.

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____________________________________________________________________ +| BUSH'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS +| * EO 12722 "Blocking Iraqi Government Property and +Prohibiting Transactions With Iraq," Aug. 2, 1990. +| * EO 12723 "Blocking Kuwaiti Government Property," Aug. 2, +1990. +| * EO 12724 "Blocking Iraqi Government Property and +Prohibiting Transactions With Iraq," Aug. 9, 1990. +| * EO 12725 "Blocking Kuwaiti Government Property and +Prohibiting Transactions With Kuwait," Aug. 9, 1990. +| * EO 12727 "Ordering the Selected Reserve of the Armed +Forces to Active Duty," Aug. 22, 1990. +| * EO 12728 "Delegating the President's Authority To +Suspend Any Provision of Law Relating to the Promotion, +Retirement, or Separation of Members of the Armed Forces," +Aug. 22, 1990. +| * EO 12733 "Authorizing the Extension of the Period of +Active Duty of Personnel of the Selected Reserve of the +Armed Forces," Nov. 13, 1990. +| * EO 12734 "National Emergency Construction Authority," Nov. +14, 1990. +| * EO 12735 "Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation," +Nov. 16, 1990. +| * EO 12738 "Administration of Foreign Assistance and Related +Functions and Arms Export Control," Dec. 14, 1990. +| * EO 12742 "National Security Industrial Responsiveness," +Jan. 8, 1991. +| * EO 12743 "Ordering the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces +to Active Duty," Jan. 18, 1991. +| * EO 12744 "Designation of Arabian Peninsula Areas, Airspace +and Adjacent Waters as a Combat Zone," Jan. 21, 1991. +| * EO 12750 "Designation of Arabian Peninsula Areas, Airspace +and Adjacent Waters as the Persian Gulf Desert Shield +Area," Feb. 14, 1991. +| * EO 12751 "Health Care Services for Operation Desert +Storm," Feb. 14, 1991. +--------------------------------------------------------------------

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Going Off Budget +Although some of the powers which Bush assumed in order to conduct +the Gulf War were taken openly, they received little public discussion +or reporting by the media. +In October, when the winds of the Gulf War were merely a breeze, +Bush used his executive emergency powers to extend his budget +authority. This action made the 1991 fiscal budget agreement between +Congress and the President one of the first U.S. casualties of the +war. While on one hand the deal froze arms spending through 1996, it +also allowed Bush to put the cost of the Gulf War "off budget." Thus, +using its emergency powers, the Bush administration could:

+ +

* incur a deficit which exceeds congressional budget authority;

+ +

* prevent Congress from raising a point of order over the +excessive spending;[12]

+ +

* waive the requirement that the Secretary of Defense submit +estimates to Congress prior to deployment of a major defense +acquisition system;

+ +

* and exempt the Pentagon from congressional restrictions on +hiring private contractors.[13]

+ +

While there is no published evidence on which powers Bush actually +invoked, the administration was able to push through the 1990 Omnibus +Reconciliation Act. This legislation put a cap on domestic spending, +created a record $300 billion deficit, and undermined the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act intended to reduce the federal deficit. Although +Congress agreed to pay for the war through supplemental appropriations +and approved a $42.2 billion supplemental bill and a $4.8 billion +companion "dire emergency supplemental appropriation,"[14] it +specified that the supplemental budget should not be used to finance +costs the Pentagon would normally experience.[15] +Lawrence Korb, a Pentagon official in the Reagan administration, +believes that the Pentagon has already violated the spirit of the 1990 +Omnibus Reconciliation Act. It switched funding for the Patriot, +Tomahawk, Hellfire and HARM missiles from its regular budget to the +supplemental budget; added normal wear and tear of equipment to +supplemental appropriations; and made supplemental requests which +ignore a planned 25% reduction in the armed forces by 1995.[16]

+ +

The Cost In Liberty Lost +Under emergency circumstances, using 50 USC sec. 1811, the +President could direct the Attorney General to authorize electronic +surveillance of aliens and American citizens in order to obtain +foreign intelligence information without a court order.[17] No +Executive Order has been published which activates emergency powers to +wiretap or to engage in counter-terrorist activity. Nonetheless, +there is substantial evidence that such activities have taken place. +According to the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, the +FBI launched an anti-terrorist campaign which included a broad sweep +of Arab-Americans. Starting in August, the FBI questioned, detained, +and harassed Arab-Americans in California, New York, Ohio, +Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and Colorado.[18] +A CIA agent asked the University of Connecticut for a list of all +foreign students at the institution, along with their country of +origin, major field of study, and the names of their academic +advisers. He was particularly interested in students from the Middle +East and explained that the Agency intended to open a file on each of +the students. Anti-war groups have also reported several break-ins of +their offices and many suspected electronic surveillance of their +telephones.[19]

+ +

Pool of Disinformation +Emergency powers to control the means of communications in the U.S. +in the name of national security were never formally declared. There +was no need for Bush to do so since most of the media voluntarily and +even eagerly cooperated in their own censorship. Reporters covering +the Coalition forces in the Gulf region operated under restrictions +imposed by the U.S. military. They were, among other things, barred +from traveling without a military escort, limited in their forays into +the field to small escorted groups called "pools," and required to +submit all reports and film to military censors for clearance. Some +reporters complained that the rules limited their ability to gather +information independently, thereby obstructing informed and objective +reporting.[20] +Three Pentagon press officials in the Gulf region admitted to James +LeMoyne of the "New York Times" that they spent significant time +analyzing reporters' stories in order to shape the coverage in the +Pentagon's favor. In the early days of the deployment, Pentagon press +officers warned reporters who asked hard questions that they were seen +as "anti-military" and that their requests for interviews with senior +commanders and visits to the field were in jeopardy. The military +often staged events solely for the cameras and would stop televised +interviews in progress when it did not like what was being portrayed. +Although filed soon after the beginning of the war, a lawsuit +challenging the constitutionality of press restrictions was not heard +until after the war ended. It was then dismissed when the judge ruled +that since the war had ended, the issues raised had become moot. The +legal status of the restrictions--initially tested during the U.S. +invasions of Grenada and Panama--remains unsettled.

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A National Misfortune +It will be years before researchers and journalists are able to +ferret through the maze of government documents and give a full +appraisal of the impact of the President's emergency powers on +domestic affairs. It is likely, however, that with a post-war +presidential approval rating exceeding 75 percent, the domestic +casualties will continue to mount with few objections. Paradoxically, +even though the U.S. public put pressure on Bush to send relief for +the 500000 Iraqi Kurdish refugees, it is unlikely the same outcry +will be heard for the 37 million Americans without health insurance, +the 32 million living in poverty, or the country's five million hungry +children. The U.S. may even help rebuild Kuwaiti and Iraqi civilian +infrastructures it destroyed during the war while leaving its own +education system in decay, domestic transportation infrastructures +crumbling, and inner city war zones uninhabitable. And, while the +U.S. assists Kuwait in cleaning up its environmental disaster, it will +increase pollution at home. Indeed, as the long-dead Prussian field +marshal prophesied, "a war, even the most victorious, is a national +misfortune."

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FOOTNOTES:

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1. The administrative guideline was established under Reagan in Executive +Order 12656, November 181988, "Federal Register," vol. 23, no. 266.

+ +

2. For instance, National Security Council policy papers or National +Security Directives (NSD) or National Security Decision Directives +(NSDD) have today evolved into a network of shadowy, wide-ranging and +potent executive powers. These are secret instruments, maintained in +a top security classified state and are not shared with Congress. For +an excellent discussion see: Harold C. Relyea, The Coming of Secret +Law, "Government Information Quarterly," Vol. 5, November 1988; see +also: Eve Pell, "The Backbone of Hidden Government," "The Nation," +June 191990.

+ +

3. "Letter to Congressional Leaders Reporting on the National Emergency +With Respect to Iraq," February, 11, 1991, "Weekly Compilation of +Presidential Documents: Administration of George Bush," (Washington, +DC: U.S. Government Printing Office), pp. 158-61.

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4. The U.S. now has states of emergency with Iran, Iraq and Syria.

+ +

5. Allanna Sullivan, "U.S. Oil Concerns Confident Of Riding Out Short Gulf +War," "Wall Street Journal Europe," January 7, 1991.

+ +

6. Colin McMillan, Letter to Michael Deland, Chairman, Council on +Environmental Quality (Washington, DC: Executive Office of the +President), August 24, 1990; Michael R. Deland, Letter to Colin +McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production and Logistics +(Washington, DC: Department of Defense), August 291990.

+ +

7. Keith Schneider, "Pentagon Wins Waiver Of Environmental Rule," "New York +Times," January 30, 1991.

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8. 33 U.S. Code (USC) sec. 1902 9(b).

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9. 33 USC sec. 2503 l(b).

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10. 50 USC sec. 1521(b) (3)(A).

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ll. Adam Clymer, "New Bill Mandates Sanctions On Makers of Chemical Arms," +"New York Times," February 22, 1991.

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12. 31 USC O10005 (f); 2 USC O632 (i), 6419 (d), 907a (b); and Public +Law 101-508, Title X999, sec. 13101.

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13. 10 USC sec. 2434/2461 9F.

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14. When the Pentagon expected the war to last months and oil prices to +skyrocket, it projected the incremental cost of deploying and +redeploying the forces and waging war at about $70 billion. The +administration sought and received $56 billion in pledges from allies +such as Germany, Japan and Saudi Arabia. Although the military's +estimates of casualties and the war's duration were highly inflated, +today their budget estimates remain at around $70 billion even though +the Congressional Budget office estimates that cost at only $40 +billion, $16 billion less than allied pledges.

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15. Michael Kamish, "After The War: At Home, An Unconquered Recession," +"Boston Globe," March 6, 1991; Peter Passell, "The Big Spoils From a +Bargain War," "New York Times," March 3, 1991; and Alan Abelson, "A +War Dividend For The Defense Industry?" "Barron's," March 18, 1991.

+ +

16. Lawrence Korb, "The Pentagon's Creative Budgetry Is Out of Line," +"International Herald Tribune," April 5, 199l.

+ +

17. Many of the powers against aliens are automatically invoked during a +national emergency or state of war. Under the Alien Enemies Act (50 +USC sec. 21), the President can issue an order to apprehend, restrain, +secure and remove all subjects of a hostile nation over 13 years old. +Other statutes conferring special powers on the President with regard +to aliens that may be exercised in times of war or emergencies but are +not confined to such circumstances, are: exclusion of all or certain +classes of aliens from entry into the U.S. when their entry may be +"detrimental to the interests of the United States" (8 USC sec. 1182(f)); +imposition of travel restrictions on aliens within the U.S. (8 USC sec. +1185); and requiring aliens to be fingerprinted (8 USC sec. 1302).

+ +

18. Ann Talamas, "FBI Targets Arab-Americans," "CAIB," Spring 1991, p. 4.

+ +

19. "Anti-Repression Project Bulletin" (New York: Center for +Constitutional Rights), January 23, 1991.

+ +

20. James DeParle, "Long Series of Military Decisions Led to Gulf War News +Censorship," "New York Times," May 5, 1991.

+ +

21. James LeMoyne, "A Correspondent's Tale: Pentagon's Strategy for the +Press: Good News or No News," "New York Times," February 17, 1991.

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[PeaceNet forward from AML (ACTIV-L) -- see bottom for more info] +------------------------------------------------------------------ +/** mideast.forum: 216.5 **/ +** Written 8:11 pm Jan 17, 1991 by nlgclc in cdp:mideast.forum ** +An excellent book which deals with the REX 84 detention plan is: +- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +"Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North,'' by Ben +Bradlee Jr.(Donald I. fine, $21.95. 573 pp.) +------------------------------------------------------------------ +Reviewed by Dennis M. Culnan Copyright 1990, Gannett News Service All +Rights Reserved Short excerpt posted here under applicable copyright +laws

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[Oliver] North managed to network himself into the highest levels of +the CIA and power centers around the world. There he lied and +boastfully ignored the constitutional process, Bradlee writes.

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Yet more terrifying is the plan hatched by North and other Reagan +people in the Federal Emergency Manpower Agency (FEMA): A blueprint +for the military takeover of the United States. The plan called for +FEMA to become "emergency czar'' in the event of a national emergency +such as nuclear war or an American invasion of a foreign nation. FEMA +would also be a buffer between the president and his cabinet and other +civilian agencies, and would have broad powers to appoint military +commanders and run state and local governments. Finally, it would +have the authority to order suspect aliens into concentration camps +and seize their property.

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When then-Attorney General William French Smith got wind of the plan, +he killed it. After Smith left the administration, North and his FEMA +cronies came up with the Defense Resource Act, designed to suspendend +the First Amendment by imposing censorship and banning strikes.

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Where was it all heading? The book's answer: "REX-84 Bravo, a +National Security Decision Directive 52 that would become operative +with the president's declaration of a state of national emergency +concurrent with a mythical U.S. military invasion of an unspecified +Central American country, presumably Nicaragua.''

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Bradlee writes that the Rex exercise was designed to test FEMA's +readiness to assume authority over the Department of Defense, the +National Guard in all 50 states, and "a number of state defense +forces to be established by state legislatures.'' The military would +then be "deputized,'' thus making an end run around federal law +forbidding military involvement in domestic law enforcement.

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Rex, which ran concurrently with the first annual U.S. show of force +in Honduras in April 1984, was also designed to test FEMA's ability to +round up 400000 undocumented Central American aliens in the United +States and its ability to distribute hundreds of tons of small arms to +"state defense forces.''

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Incredibly, REX 84 was similar to a plan secretly adopted by Reagan +while governor of California. His two top henchmen then were Edwin +Meese, who recently resigned as U.S. attorney general, and Louis +Guiffrida, the FEMA director in 1984.

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If the review makes you nervous, you should read the book!

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--Chip Berlet ** End of text from cdp:mideast.forum **

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[PeaceNet forward from AML (ACTIV-L) -- see bottom for more info] +------------------------------------------------------------------ +This is the front-page article of the Jan. 16 issue of "The +Guardian," which describes some of the U.S. government's planning +for martial law in the event of the Gulf war. This is truly a +scary scenario that should concern all civil libertarians and +patriots. +------------------------------------------------------------------

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WILL GULF WAR LEAD TO REPRESSION AT HOME? +by Paul DeRienzo and Bill Weinberg

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On August 2, 1990, as Saddam Hussein's army was consolidating control +over Kuwait, President George Bush responded by signing two executive +orders that were the first step toward martial law in the United +States and suspending the Constitution.

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On the surface, Executive Orders 12722 and 12723, declaring a +"national emergency," merely invoked laws that allowed Bush to freeze +Iraqi assets in the United States.

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The International Emergency Executive Powers Act permits the president +to freeze foreign assets after declaring a "national emergency," a +move that has been made three times before -- against Panama in 1987, +Nicaragua in 1985 and Iran in 1979.

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According to Professor Diana Reynolds, of the Fletcher School of +Diplomacy at Boston's Tufts University, when Bush declared a national +emergency he "activated one part of a contingency national security +emergency plan." That plan is made up of a series of laws passed since +the presidency of Richard Nixon, which Reynolds says give the +president "boundless" powers.

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According to Reynolds, such laws as the Defense Industrial +Revitalization and Disaster Relief Acts of 1983 "would permit the +president to do anything from seizing the means of production, to +conscripting a labor force, to relocating groups of citizens."

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Reynolds says the net effect of invoking these laws would be the +suspension of the Constitution.

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She adds that national emergency powers "permit the stationing of the +military in cities and towns, closing off the U.S. borders, freezing +all imports and exports, allocating all resources on a national +security priority, monitoring and censoring the press, and warrantless +searches and seizures."

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The measures would allow military authorities to proclaim martial law +in the United States, asserts Reynolds. She defines martial law as the +"federal authority taking over for local authority when they are +unable to maintain law and order or to assure a republican form of +government."

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A report called "Post Attack Recovery Strategies," about rebuilding +the country after a nuclear war, prepared by the right-wing Hudson +Institute in 1980, defines martial law as dealing "with the control of +civilians by their own military forces in time of emergency."

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The federal agency with the authority to organize and command the +government's response to a national emergency is the Federal Emergency +Management Agency (FEMA). This super-secret and elite agency was +formed in 1979 under congressional measures that merged all federal +powers dealing with civilian and military emergencies under one +agency.

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FEMA has its roots in the World War I partnership between government +and corporate leaders who helped mobilize the nation's industries to +support the war effort. The idea of a central national response to +large-scale emergencies was reintroduced in the early 1970s by Louis +Giuffrida, a close associate of then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan and +his chief aide Edwin Meese.

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Reagan appointed Giuffrida head of the California National Guard in +1969. With Meese, Giuffrida organized "war-games" to prepare for +"statewide martial law" in the event that Black nationalists and +anti-war protesters "challenged the authority of the state." In 1981, +Reagan as president moved Giuffrida up to the big leagues, appointing +him director of FEMA.

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According to Reynolds, however, it was the actions of George Bush in +1976, while he was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency +(CIA), that provided the stimulus for centralization of vast powers in +FEMA.

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Bush assembled a group of hawkish outsiders, called Team B, that +released a report claiming the CIA ("Team A") had underestimated the +dangers of Soviet nuclear attack. The report advised the development +of elaborate plans for "civil defense" and post-nuclear government. +Three years later, in 1979, FEMA was given ultimate responsibility for +developing these plans.

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Aware of the bad publicity FEMA was getting because of its role in +organizing for a post-nuclear world, Reagan's FEMA chief Giuffrida +publicly argued that the 1865 Posse Comitatus Act prohibited the +military from arresting civilians.

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However, Reynolds says that Congress eroded the act by giving the +military reserves an exemption from Posse Comitatus and allowing them +to arrest civilians. The National Guard, under the control of state +governors in peace time, is also exempt from the act and can arrest +civilians.

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FEMA Inspector General John Brinkerhoff has written a memo contending +that the government doesn't need to suspend the Constitution to use +the full range of powers Congress has given the agency. FEMA has +prepared legislation to be introduced in Congress in the event of a +national emergency that would give the agency sweeping powers. The +right to "deputize" National Guard and police forces is included in +the package. But Reynolds believes that actual martial law need not be +declared publicly.

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Giuffrida has written that "Martial Rule comes into existence upon a +determination (not a declaration) by the senior military commander +that the civil government must be replaced because it is no longer +functioning anyway." He adds that "Martial Rule is limited only by the +principle of necessary force."

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According to Reynolds, it is possible for the president to make +declarations concerning a national emergency secretly in the form of a +Natioanl Security Decision Directive. Most such directives are +classified as so secret that Reynolds says "researchers don't even +know how many are enacted."

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DOMESTIC SPYING

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Throughout the 1980s, FEMA was prohibited from engaging in +intelligence gathering. But on July 6, 1989, Bush signed Executive +Order 12681, pronouncing that FEMA's National Preparedness Directorate +would "have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, +investigative, or national security work." Recent events indicate that +domestic spying in response to the looming Middle East war is now +under way.

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Reynolds reports that "the CIA is going to various campuses asking for +information on Middle Eastern students. I'm sure that there are +intelligence organizations monitoring peace demonstrations." +According to the University of Connecticut student paper, the Daily +Campus, CIA officials have recently met there to discuss talking with +Middle Eastern students.

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The New York Times reports that the FBI has ordered its agents around +the country to question Arab-American leaders and business people in +search of information on potential Iraqi "terrorist" attacks in +response to a Gulf war.

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A 1986 Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) document entitled +"Alien Terrorists and Other Undesirables: A Contingency Plan" outlines +the potential round-up and incarceration in mass detainment camps of +U.S. residents who are citizens of "terrorist" countries, chiefly in +the Middle East. This plan echoed a 1984 FEMA nationwide "readiness +exercise code-named REX-84 ALPHA, which included the rehearsal of +joint operations with the INS to round up 40000 Central American +refugees in the event of a U.S. invasion of the region. One of the 10 +military bases established as detainment camps by REX-84 ALPHA, Camp +Krome, Fla., was designated a joint FEMA-Immigration service +interrogation center.

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Recently, FEMA has been criticized in the media for inadequate +response to the October, 1989 San Francisco earthquake. What the +mainstream press has failed to cover is the agency's planned role in +repressing domestic dissent in the event of an invasion abroad.

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Source: The Guardian, Jan 16 1991

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DATE OF UPLOAD: November 17, 1989 +ORIGIN OF UPLOAD: Omni Magazine +CONTRIBUTED BY: Donald Goldberg +======================================================== +PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE BBS +======================================================== +Although this article does not deal directly with UFOs, +ParaNet felt it important as an offering to our readers who +depend so much upon communications as a way to stay informed. +This article raises some interesting implications for the future +of communications.

+ +

THE NATIONAL GUARDS +(C) 1987 OMNI MAGAZINE MAY 1987 +(Reprinted with permission and license to ParaNet Information +Service and its affiliates.)

+ +

By Donald Goldberg

+ +

The mountains bend as the fjord and the sea beyond stretch +out before the viewer's eyes. First over the water, then a sharp +left turn, then a bank to the right between the peaks, and the +secret naval base unfolds upon the screen. +The scene is of a Soviet military installation on the Kola +Peninsula in the icy Barents Sea, a place usually off-limits to +the gaze of the Western world. It was captured by a small French +satellite called SPOT Image, orbiting at an altitude of 517 miles +above the hidden Russian outpost. On each of several passes -- +made over a two-week period last fall -- the satellite's high-resolution lens took its pictures at a different angle; the +images were then blended into a three-dimensional, computer-generated video. Buildings, docks, vessels, and details of the +Artic landscape are all clearly visible. +Half a world away and thousands of feet under the sea, +sparkling-clear images are being made of the ocean floor. Using +the latest bathymetric technology and state-of-the-art systems +known as Seam Beam and Hydrochart, researchers are for the first +time assembling detailed underwater maps of the continental +shelves and the depths of the world's oceans. These scenes of +the sea are as sophisticated as the photographs taken from the +satellite. +From the three-dimensional images taken far above the earth +to the charts of the bottom of the oceans, these photographic +systems have three things in common: They both rely on the +latest technology to create accurate pictures never dreamed of +even 25 years ago; they are being made widely available by +commerical, nongovernmental enterprises; and the Pentagon is +trying desperately to keep them from the general public. +In 1985 the Navy classified the underwater charts, making +them available only to approved researchers whose needs are +evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Under a 1984 law the military +has been given a say in what cameras can be licensed to be used +on American satellites; and officials have already announced they +plan to limit the quality and resolution of photos made +available. The National Security Agency (NSA) -- the secret arm +of the Pentagon in charge of gathering electronic intelligence as +well as protecting sensitive U.S. communications -- has defeated +a move to keep it away from civilian and commercial computers and +databases. +That attitude has outraged those concerned with the +military's increasing efforts to keep information not only from +the public but from industry experts, scientists, and even other +government officials as well. "That's like classifying a road +map for fear of invasion," says Paul Wolff, assistant +administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric +Administration, of the attempted restrictions. +These attempts to keep unclassified data out of the hands of +scientists, researchers, the news media, and the public at large +are a part of an alarming trend that has seen the military take +an ever-increasing role in controlling the flow of information +and communications through American society, a role traditionally +-- and almost exclusively -- left to civilians. Under the +approving gaze of the Reagan administration, Department of +Defense (DoD) officials have quietly implemented a number of +policies, decisions, and orders that give the military +unprecedented control over both the content and public use of +data and communications. For example:

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**The Pentagon has created a new category of "sensitive" but +unclassified information that allows it to keep from public +access huge quantities of data that were once widely accessible. +**Defense Department officials have attempted to rewrite key laws +that spell out when the president can and cannot appropriate +private communications facilities. +**The Pentagon has installed a system that enables it to seize +control of the nation's entire communications network -- the +phone system, data transmissions, and satellite transmissions of +all kinds -- in the event of what it deems a "national +emergency." As yet there is no single, universally agreed-upon +definition of what constitutes such a state. Usually such an +emergency is restricted to times of natural disaster, war, or +when national security is specifically threatened. Now the +military has attempted to redefine emergency. +The point man in the Pentagon's onslaught on communications +is Assistant Defense Secretary Donald C. Latham, a former NSA +deputy chief. Latham now heads up an interagency committee in +charge of writing and implementing many of the policies that have +put the military in charge of the flow of civilian information +and communication. He is also the architect of National Security +Decision Directive 145 (NSDD 145), signed by Defense Secretary +Caspar Weinberger in 1984, which sets out the national policy on +telecommunications and computer-systems security. +First NSDD 145 set up a steering group of top-level +administration officials. Their job is to recommend ways to +protect information that is unclassified but has been designated +sensitive. Such information is held not only by government +agencies but by private companies as well. And last October the +steering group issued a memorandum that defined sensitive +information and gave federal agencies broad new powers to keep it +from the public. +According to Latham, this new category includes such data as +all medical records on government databases -- from the files of +the National Cancer Institute to information on every veteran who +has ever applied for medical aid from the Veterans Administration +-- and all the information on corporate and personal taxpayers in +the Internal Revenue Service's computers. Even agricultural +statistics, he argues, can be used by a foreign power against the +United States. +In his oversize yet Spartan Pentagon office, Latham cuts +anything but an intimidating figure. Articulate and friendly, he +could pass for a network anchorman or a television game show +host. When asked how the government's new definition of +sensitive information will be used, he defends the necessity for +it and tries to put to rest concerns about a new restrictiveness. +"The debate that somehow the DoD and NSA are going to +monitor or get into private databases isn't the case at all," +Latham insists. "The definition is just a guideline, just an +advisory. It does not give the DoD the right to go into private +records." +Yet the Defense Department invoked the NSDD 145 guidelines +when it told the information industry it intends to restrict the +sale of data that are now unclassified and publicly available +from privately owned computer systems. The excuse if offered was +that these data often include technical information that might be +valuable to a foreign adversary like the Soviet Union. +Mead Data Central -- which runs some of the nation's largest +computer databases, such as Lexis and Nexis, and has nearly +200000 users -- says it has already been approached by a team of +agents from the Air Force and officials from the CIA and the FBI +who asked for the names of subscribers and inquired what Mead +officials might do if information restrictions were imposed. In +response to government pressure, Mead Data Central in effect +censured itself. It purged all unclassified government-supplied +technical data from its system and completely dropped the +National Technical Information System from its database rather +than risk a confrontation. +Representative Jack Brooks, a Texas Democrat who chairs the +House Government Operations Committee, is an outspoken critic of +the NSA's role in restricting civilian information. He notes +that in 1985 the NSA -- under the authority granted by NSDD 145 +-- investigated a computer program that was widely used in both +local and federal elections in 1984. The computer system was +used to count more than one third of all votes cast in the United +States. While probing the system's vulnerability to outside +manipulation, the NSA obtained a detailed knowledge of that +computer program. "In my view," Brooks says, "this is an +unprecedented and ill-advised expansion of the military's +influence in our society." +There are other NSA critics. "The computer systems used by +counties to collect and process votes have nothing to do with +national security, and I'm really concerned about the NSA's +involvement," says Democratic congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas, +chairman of the House science and technology subcommittee +concerned with computer security. +Also, under NSDD 145 the Pentagon has issued an order, +virtually unknown to all but a few industry executives, that +affects commercial communications satellites. The policy was +made official by Defense Secretary Weinberger in June of 1985 and +requires that all commercial satellite operators that carry such +unclassified government data traffic as routine Pentagon supply +information and payroll data (and that compete for lucrative +government contracts) install costly protective systems on all +satellites launched after 1990. The policy does not directly +affect the data over satellite channels, but it does make the NSA +privy to vital information about the essential signals needed to +operate a satellite. With this information it could take control +of any satellite it chooses. +Latham insists this, too, is a voluntary policy and that +only companies that wish to install protection will have their +systems evaluated by the NSA. He also says industry officials +are wholly behind the move, and argues that the protective +systems are necessary. With just a few thousand dollars' worth +of equipment, a disgruntled employee could interfere with a +satellite's control signals and disable or even wipe out a +hundred-million-dollar satellite carrying government information. +At best, his comments are misleading. First, the policy is +not voluntary. The NSA can cut off lucrative government +contracts to companies that do not comply with the plan. The +Pentagon alone spent more than a billion dollars leasing +commercial satellite channels last year; that's a powerful +incentive for business to cooperate. +Second, the industry's support is anything but total. +According to the minutes of one closed-door meeting between NSA +officials -- along with representatives of other federal agencies +-- and executives from AT&T, Comsat, GTE Sprint, and MCI, the +executives neither supported the move nor believed it was +necessary. The NSA defended the policy by arguing that a +satellite could be held for ransom if the command and control +links weren't protected. But experts at the meeting were +skeptical. +"Why is the threat limited to accessing the satellite rather +than destroying it with lasers or high-powered signals?" one +industry executive wanted to know. +Most of the officials present objected to the high cost of +protecting the satellites. According to a 1983 study made at the +request of the Pentagon, the protection demanded by the NSA could +add as much as $3 million to the price of a satellite and $1 +million more to annual operating costs. Costs like these, they +argue, could cripple a company competing against less expensive +communications networks. +Americans get much of their information through forms of +electronic communications, from the telephone, television and +radio, and information printed in many newspapers. Banks send +important financial data, businesses their spreadsheets, and +stockbrokers their investment portfolios, all over the same +channels, from satellite signals to computer hookups carried on +long distance telephone lines. To make sure that the federal +government helped to promote and protect the efficient use of +this advancing technology, Congress passed the massive +Communications Act of of 1934. It outlined the role and laws of +the communications structure in the United States. +The powers of the president are set out in Section 606 of +that law; basically it states that he has the authority to take +control of any communications facilities that he believes +"essential to the national defense." In the language of the +trade this is known as a 606 emergency. +There have been a number of attempts in recent years by +Defense Department officials to redefine what qualifies as a 606 +emergency and make it easier for the military to take over +national communications. +In 1981 the Senate considered amendments to the 1934 act +that would allow the president, on Defense Department +recommendation, to require any communications company to provide +services, facilities, or equipment "to promote the national +defense and security or the emergency preparedness of the +nation," even in peacetime and without a declared state of +emergency. The general language had been drafted by Defense +Department officials. (The bill failed to pass the House for +unrelated reasons.) +"I think it is quite clear that they have snuck in there +some powers that are dangerous for us as a company and for the +public at large," said MCI vice president Kenneth Cox before the +Senate vote. +Since President Reagan took office, the Pentagon has stepped +up its efforts to rewrite the definition of national emergency +and give the military expanded powers in the United States. "The +declaration of 'emergency' has always been vague," says one +former administration official who left the government in 1982 +after ten years in top policy posts. "Different presidents have +invoked it differently. This administration would declare a +convenient 'emergency.'" In other words, what is a nuisance to +one administration might qualify as a burgeoning crisis to +another. For example, the Reagan administration might decide +that a series of protests on or near military bases constituted a +national emergency. +Should the Pentagon ever be given the green light, its base +for taking over the nation's communications system would be a +nondescript yellow brick building within the maze of high rises, +government buildings, and apartment complexes that make up the +Washington suburb of Arlington, Virginia. Headquartered in a +dusty and aging structure surrounded by a barbed-wire fence is an +obscure branch of the military known as the Defense +Communications Agency (DCA). It does not have the spit and +polish of the National Security Agency or the dozens of other +government facilities that make up the nation's capital. But its +lack of shine belies its critical mission: to make sure all of +America's far-flung military units can communicate with one +another. It is in certain ways the nerve center of our nation's +defense system. +On the second floor of the DCA's four-story headquarters is +a new addition called the National Coordinating Center (NCC). +Operated by the Pentagon, it is virtually unknown outside of a +handful of industry and government officials. The NCC is staffed +around the clock by representatives of a dozen of the nation's +largest commercial communications companies -- the so-called +"common carriers" -- including AT&T, MCI, GTE, Comsat, and ITT. +Also on hand are officials from the State Department, the CIA, +the Federal Aviation Administration, and a number of other +federal agencies. During a 606 emergency the Pentagon can order +the companies that make up the National Coordinating Center to +turn over their satellite, fiberoptic, and land-line facilities +to the government. +On a long corridor in the front of the building is a series +of offices, each outfitted with a private phone, a telex machine, +and a combination safe. It's known as "logo row" because each +office is occupied by an employee from one of the companies that +staff the NCC and because their corporate logos hand on the wall +outside. Each employee is on permanent standby, ready to +activate his company's system should the Pentagon require it. +The National Coordinating Center's mission is as grand as +its title is obscure: to make available to the Defense +Department all the facilities of the civilian communications +network in this country -- the phone lines, the long-distance +satellite hookups, the data transmission lines -- in times of +national emergency. If war breaks out and communications to a +key military base are cut, the Pentagon wants to make sure that +an alternate link can be set up as fast as possible. Company +employees assigned to the center are on call 24 hours a day; they +wear beepers outside the office, and when on vacation they must +be replaced by qualified colleagues. +The center formally opened on New Year's Day, 1984, the same +day Ma Bell's monopoly over the telephone network of the entire +United States was finally broken. The timing was no coincidence. +Pentagon officials had argued for years along with AT&T against +the divestiture of Ma Bell, on grounds of national security. +Defense Secretary Weinberger personally urged the attorney +general to block the lawsuit that resulted in the breakup, as had +his predecessor, Harold Brown. The reason was that rather than +construct its own communications network, the Pentagon had come +to rely extensively on the phone company. After the breakup the +dependence continued. The Pentagon still used commercial +companies to carry more than 90 percent of its communications +within the continental United States. +The 1984 divestiture put an end to AT&T's monopoly over the +nation's telephone service and increased the Pentagon's obsession +with having its own nerve center. Now the brass had to contend +with several competing companies to acquire phone lines, and +communications was more than a matter of running a line from one +telephone to another. Satellites, microwave towers, fiberoptics, +and other technological breakthroughs never dreamed of by +Alexander Graham Bell were in extensive use, and not just for +phone conversations. Digital data streams for computers flowed +on the same networks. +These facts were not lost on the Defense Department or the +White House. According to documents obtained by Omni, beginning +on December 14, 1982, a number of secret meetings were held +between high-level administration officials and executives of the +commercial communications companies whose employees would later +staff the National Coordinating Center. The meetings, which +continued over the next three years, were held at the White +House, the State Department, the Strategic Air Command (SAC) +headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, and at the +North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado +Springs. +The industry officials attending constituted the National +Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee -- called NSTAC +(pronounced N-stack) -- set up by President Reagan to address +those same problems that worried the Pentagon. It was at these +secret meetings, according to the minutes, that the idea of a +communications watch center for national emergencies -- the NCC +-- was born. Along with it came a whole set of plans that would +allow the military to take over commercial communications +"assets" -- everything from ground stations and satellite dishes +to fiberoptic cables -- across the country. +At a 1983 Federal Communications Commission meeting, a +ranking Defense Department official offered the following +explanation for the founding of the National Coordinating Center: +"We are looking at trying to make communications endurable for a +protracted conflict." The phrase protracted conflict is a +military euphemism for nuclear war. +But could the NCC survive even the first volley in such a +conflict? +Not likely. It's located within a mile of the Pentagon, +itself an obvious early target of a Soviet nuclear barrage (or a +conventional strike, for that matter). And the Kremlin +undoubtedly knows its location and importance, and presumably has +included it on its priority target list. In sum, according to +one Pentagon official, "The NCC itself is not viewed as a +survivable facility." +Furthermore, the NCC's "Implementation Plan," obtained by +Omni, lists four phases of emergencies and how the center should +respond to each. The first, Phase 0, is Peacetime, for which +there would be little to do outside of a handful of routine tasks +and exercises. Phase 1 is Pre Attack, in which alternate NCC +sites are alerted. Phase 2 is Post Attack, in which other NCC +locations are instructed to take over the center's functions. +Phase 3 is known as Last Ditch, and in this phase whatever +facility survives becomes the de facto NCC. +So far there is no alternate National Coordinating Center to +which NCC officials could retreat to survive an attack. +According to NCC deputy director William Belford, no physical +sites have yet been chosen for a substitute NCC, and even whether +the NCC itself will survive a nuclear attack is still under +study. +Of what use is a communications center that is not expected +to outlast even the first shots of a war and has no backup? +The answer appears to be that because of the Pentagon's +concerns about the AT&T divestiture and the disruptive effects it +might have on national security, the NCC was to serve as the +military's peacetime communications center. +The center is a powerful and unprecedented tool to assume +control over the nation's vast communications and information +network. For years the Pentagon has been studying how to take +over the common carriers' facilities. That research was prepared +by NSTAC at the DoD's request and is contained in a series of +internal Pentagon documents obtained by Omni. Collectively this +series is known as the Satellite Survivability Report. Completed +in 1984, it is the on

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AIDS As Biological & Psychological Warfare

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by Waves Forrest

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Despite repeated denials from Defense Department officials, +allegations persist that AIDS is a genetically altered virus, +which has been deliberately released to wipe out homosexuals +and/or non-whites in the U.S. and reduce populations in third +world countries.

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At first glance it seems like the epitome of paranoia to accuse +the military of conspiring to exterminate citizens of their own +country, and even some of their own troops. However, the vast +majority of military personnel could be completely unaware of +such a plot in their midst, while a relative handful of traitors +in key positions could conduct it under cover of classified +operations. And the circumstantial evidence is actually quite +compelling, that the AIDS virus was artificially engineered, and +planted in several different locations at about the same time +through vaccination programs, and possibly blood bank +contamination.

+ +

At a House Appropriations hearing in 1969, the Defense +Department's Biological Warfare (BW) division requested funds to +develop through gene-splicing a new disease that would both +resist and break down a victim's immune system. "Within the next +5 to 10 years it would probably be possible to make a new +infective micro-organism which could differ in certain important +respects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most +important of these is that it might be refractory to the +immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to +maintain our relative freedom from infectious diseases." (See - +A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story of Chemical and +Biological Warfare by R. Harris and J. Paxman, p 266, Hill and +Wang, pubs.) The funds were approved.

+ +

AIDS appeared within the requested time frame, and has the exact +characteristics specified.

+ +

In 1972, the World Health Organization published a similar +proposal: "An attempt should be made to ascertain whether viruses +can in fact exert selective effects on immune function, e.g., +by ...affecting T cell function as opposed to B cell function. +The possibility should also be looked into that the immune +response to the virus itself may be impaired if the infecting +virus damages more or less selectively the cells responding to +the viral antigens." (Bulletin of the W.H.O., vol. 47, p 257-274.) This is a clinical description of the function of the AIDS +virus.

+ +

The incidence of AIDS infections in Africa coincides exactly with +the locations of the W.H.O. smallpox vaccination program in the +mid-1970's (London Times, May 11, 1987). Some 14000 Haitians +then on UN secondment to Central Africa were also vaccinated in +this campaign. Personnel actually conducting the vaccinations +may have been completely unaware that the vaccine was anything +other than what they were told.

+ +

A striking feature of AIDS is that it's ethno-selective. The +rate of infection is twice as high among Blacks, Latinos and +Native Americans as among whites, with death coming two to three +times as swiftly. And over 80% of the children with AIDS and 90% +of infants born with it are among these minorities. "Ethnic +weapons" that would strike certain racial groups more heavily +than others have been a long-standing U.S. Army BW objective. +(Harris and Paxman, p 265)

+ +

Under the current U.S. administration biological warfare research +spending has increased 500 percent, primarily in the area of +genetic engineering of new disease organisms.

+ +

The "discovery" of the AIDS virus (HTLV3) was announced by Dr. +Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute, which is on the +grounds of Fort Detrick, Maryland, a primary U.S. Army biological +warfare research facility. Actually, the AIDS virus looks and +acts much more like a cross between a bovine leukemial virus and +a sheep visna (brain-rot) virus, cultured in a human cell culture, than any virus of the HTLV group.

+ +

The closest thing in this case to a "smoking test tube" so far is +the AIDS virus itself. If it was possible for such a monstrosity +to occur naturally it would have done so ages ago and decimated +mankind at that time. Some other life form would presently be in +control of this planet (assuming that is not already the case).

+ +

The Hepatitis B vaccine study in 1978 appears to have been the +initial means of planting the infection in New York City. The +test protocol specified non-monogamous males only, and +homosexuals received a different vaccine from heterosexuals. At +least 25-50% of the first reported New York AIDS cases in 1981 +had received the Hepatitis B test vaccine in 1978. By 1984, 64% +of the vaccine recipients had AIDS, and the figures on the +current infection rate for the participants of that study are +held by the U.S. Department of Justice, and "unavailable."

+ +

The AIDS epidemic emerged full-blown in the three U.S. cities +with "organized gay communities" before being reported elsewhere, +including Haiti or Africa, so it is epidemiologically impossible +for either of those countries to be the origin point for the U.S. +infections.

+ +

Another indication AIDS had multiple origin points is that the +14-month doubling time of the disease cannot nearly account for +the current number of cases if we assume only a small number of +initial infections starting in the late 1970s.

+ +

Before dismissing the possibility that a U.S. Army BW facility +would participate in genocide, bear in mind that hundreds of top +Nazis were imported into key positions in the U.S. military-intelligence establishment following WW II. U.S. military +priorities were then re-oriented from defeating Nazis to +"defeating" communism at any cost, and strengthening military +control of economic and foreign policy decisions (See - Project +Paperclip by Clarence Lasby, Atheneum 214, NY, and Gehlen: Spy of +the Century by E.H. Cookridge, Random House.) There's no proof +those Nazis ever gave up their long-term goals of conquest and +genocide, just because they changed countries. Fascism was and +is an international phenomenon.

+ +

It's not as if this was total reversal of previous U.S. military +policy, however. Hitler claimed to have gotten his inspiration +for the "final solution" from the extermination of Native +Americans in the U.S. For that matter the first example of germ +warfare in the U.S. was in 1763 when some of the European +colonists gave friendly Indians a number of blankets that had +been infected with smallpox, causing many deaths.

+ +

One indication of the actual U.S. military priorities regarding +BW was the importation of the entire Japanese germ warfare unit +(#731) following WW II. These people killed over 3000 POWs, +including many Americans, in a variety of grisly experiments, yet +they were granted complete amnesty and given American military +positions in exchange for sharing their research findings with +their U.S. Army counterparts.

+ +

Consider also the callous attitude displayed by top military +officials toward veterans suffering from the after-effects of +exposure to Agent Orange and radiation from nuclear weapons +tests.

+ +

In fact, since the end of WW II over 200 experimental BW tests +have been conducted on civilians and military personnel in the +U.S. One example was the test spraying from Sept. 20-26, 1950 of +bacillus globigi and syraceus maracezens over 117 square miles of +the San Francisco area, causing pneumonia-like infections in many +of the residents. The family of one elderly man who died in the +test sued the government, but lost. To this day, syraceus is a +leading cause of death among the elderly in the San Francisco +area. Another case was the joint Army-CIA BW test in 1955, still +classified, in which an undisclosed bacteria was released in the +Tampa Bay region of Florida, causing a dramatic increase in +whooping cough infections, including twelve deaths. A third +example was the July 7-10, 1966 release of bacteria throughout +the New York subway system, conducted by the U.S. Army's Special +Operations Division. Due to the vast number of people exposed it +would virtually impossible to identify, let alone prove, and +specific health problems resulting directly from this test.

+ +

Despite the loyalty of the vast majority of U.S. military +personnel toward their country, there are clearly some military +officials who have very different intentions, and they occupy +high enough positions to impose their priorities on military +programs and get away with it, so far.

+ +

The first detailed charges regarding AIDS as a BW weapon were +published in the Patriot newspaper in New Delhi, India, on July +4, 1984. It is hard to say where the investigations of this +story in the Indian press might have led, if they had not been +sidetracked by two major domestic disasters shortly thereafter: +the assassination of Indira Gandhi on Oct. 31 and the Bhopal +Union Carbide plant "accident" that killed several thousand and +injured over 200000 on Dec. 3.

+ +

The Soviet press picked up the story on October 1985, making it +easy for U.S. Defense Department spokesmen to dismiss the charges +as "Soviet propaganda," even though many other countries carried +it. The Soviets recently retracted the charges, in the new +spirit of US-USSR cooperation.

+ +

A variation on the AIDS-BW theory that is popular in far-right +publications is that AIDS was developed in Soviet laboratories +for use against the U.S. An obvious problem with this idea is +that the victims of choice of a Soviet BW attack would be anti-communists, not minorities or homosexuals, who are generally more +left-wing. The people at greatest risk from AIDS in the U.S. are +in fact the very elements most disliked by arch-conservatives. +In any case, it is simplistic to assume that one country, U.S. or +USSR, is conducting this campaign against one another. Although +concealed in apparent conflicts between nations, the real +culprits are multi-national fascists on both "sides" still bent +on massive population reductions and global domination.

+ +

Other motives include the old "divide and conquer" principle; +AIDS is inspiring fear and mistrust between people, and scaring +them away from relating to each other at the basic level of +sexuality. It is acting as a barrier to the attempted cultural +resurgence toward peace, love and cooperation. Of high school +students surveyed last year as to which decade they'd most like +to have grown up in, 90% chose the 60's. The last thing pro-war +fascists want is another "love generation," especially if it is +more politically sophisticated than the last one.

+ +

Apparently, homosexuals were an initial target in the U.S. +because their sexual practices would help in the rapid spread of +the disease, and because it was correctly assumed that very few +non-homosexual citizens would pay much attention during the early +years of the epidemic. Also, the stigma of a "homosexual +disease" would interfere with rational analysis and discussion of +AIDS. Bear in mind that homosexuals were among the first to be +exterminated in Nazi Germany, before Jews or other minorities, so +fewer citizens would object.

+ +

The details of precisely how the AIDS virus was synthesized, mass +cultured, and spread by incorporating into vaccination programs +are available but fairly intricate. It is beyond the scope of +this report to present a crash course in virology, epidemiology, +genetic engineering, and the military strategies of international +fascism. Readers are encouraged to obtain and study the +references cited here, and demand a full inquiry. Those +officials who are actually involved in the coverup will reveal it +by their inaction when pressed to investigate.

+ +

Evil is hard to confront, especially on the preposterous scale we +have here. If you acknowledge the presence of those who think +their only hope for survival is to kill off two thirds of all the +other kinds, and their ability to manage it, you then pretty much +have to do something about it.

+ +

Three good sources, each which lists many other key references, +are: Covert Action Information Bulletin #28 ($5), Box 50272, +Washington, D.C. 20004; Bio-Attack Alert ($20), Dr. Robert +Strecker, 1501 Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90041; Radio Free +America #16 by Dave Emery and Nip Tuck (3 tapes, $10), Davkore +Co., 1300-D Space Park Way, Mountain View, CA 94043.

+ +

This report was originally printed in - Critique - Exposing +Consensus Reality, P.O. Box 11368, Santa Rosa, CA 95406. $15.00 +for three issues (one year). +

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102nd Congress +2nd Session

+ +

Amendment No. +Offered by M.

+ +

1. SEC. 1. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES +2. (a) The Congress finds: +3. (1) that telecommunications systems and networks are often +4 used in the furtherance of criminal activities including +5 organized crime, racketeering, extortion, kidnapping, espionage, +6 terrorism, and trafficking in illegal drugs; and +7 (2 ) that recent and continuing advances in +8 telecommunications technology, and the introduction of new +9 technologies and transmission modes by the telecommunications +10 industry, have made it increasingly difficult for government +11 agencies to implement lawful orders or authorizations to +12 intercept communications and thus threaten the ability of such +13 agencies effectively to enfore the laws and protect the national +14 security; and +15 (3) without the assistance and cooperation of providers of +16 electronic communication services and private branch exchange +17 operators, the introduction of new technologies and transmission +18 modes into telecommunications systems witout consideration and +19 accomodation of the need of government agencies lawfully to +20 intercept communications, would impede the ability of such +21 agencies effectively to carry out their responsibilities. +22

+ +

1 The purpose of this Act are: +2 (1) to clarify the duty of providers of electronic +3 communication services and private branch exchange operators to +4 provide such assistance as necessary to ensure the ability of +5 government agencies to implement lawful orders or authorizations +6 to intercept communications; and +7 (2) to ensure that the Federal Communications Commission, +8 in the setting of standards affecting providers of electronic +9 communication services or private branch exchange operators, will +10 accomodate the need of government agencies lawfully to intercept +11 communications.

+ +

12 SEC. 2. Title II of the Communictions Act of 1934 is amended +13 by adding at the end thereof the following new sections: +14 "Sec__. GOVERNMENT REQUIREMENTS +15 "(a) The Federal Communications Commission shall, +16 within 120 days after enactment of this Act, issue such +17 regulations as are necessary to ensure that the government +18 can intercept communications when such interception is +19 otherwise lawfully authorized +20 "(b) The regulations issued by the commission shall: +21 "(1) establish standards and specifications for +22 telecommunications equipment and technology employed by +23 providers of electronic communication services or +24 private branch exchange operators as may be necessary +25 to maintain the ability of the government to lawfully +26 intercept communication

+ +

1 "(2) require that any telecommunications +2 equipment or technology which impedes the ability of +3 the government to lawfully intercept communications and +4 and which has been introduced into a telecommunications +5 system by providers of electronic communication +6 services or private branch exchange operators shall not +7 expanded so as to further impede such utility until +8 that telecommunications equpment or technology is +9 brought into compliance with the requirements set forth +10 in regulations issued by the Commission; +11 "(3) require that modifications which are +12 necessary to be made to existing telecommunications +13 equipment or technology to eliminate impediments to the +14 ability of the government to lawfully intercept +15 communications shall be implemented by such providers +16 of electronic communication services and private branch +17 exchange operators within 180 days of issuance of such +18 regulations; and +19 "(4) prohibit the use by electronic communication +20 service providers and private branch exchange operators +21 of any telecommunications equipment or technoloqy which +22 does not comply with the regulations issued under this +23 section after the 180th day following the issuance of +24 such regulations. +25 "(c) For the purposes of administering and enforcing +26 the provisions of this section and the regulations

+ +

1 prescribed hereunder, the Commission shall have the same +2 authority, power, and functions with respect to providers of +3 electronic communication services or private branch exchange +4 operators as the Commission has in administering and +5 enforcing the provisions of this title with respect to any +6 common carrier otherwise subject to Commission jurisdiction. +7 Any violation of this section by any provider of electronic +8 communication service or any private branch exchange +9 operator shall be subject to the same remedies, penalties, +10 and procedures as are applicable to a violation of this +11 chapter by a common carrier otherwise subject to Commission +12 jurisdiction, except as otherwise specified in subsection +13 (d). +14 "(d) In addition to any enforcement authorities vested +15 in the Commission under this title, the Attorney General may +16 apply to the appropriate United States District Court for a +17 restraining order or injunction against any provider of +18 electronic communication service or private branch exchange +19 operator based upon a failure to comply with the provisions +20 of this section or regulations prescribed hereunder. +21 "(e) Any person who willfully violates any provision +22 of the regulations issued by the Commission pursuant to +23 subjection (a) of this section shall be subject to a civil +24 penalty of $10000 per day for each day in violation. +25 "(f) To the extent consistent with the setting or +26 implementation of just and reasonable rates, charges and +

+ +

1 classifications, the Commission shall authorize the +2 compensation of any electronic communication service +3 providers or other entities whose rates or charges are +4 subject to its jurisdiction for the reasonable costs +5 associated with such modifications of existing +6 telecommunications equipment or technology, or with the +7 development or procurement, and the installation of such +8 telecommunications equipment or technology as is necessary +9 to carry out the purposes of this Act, through appropriate +10 adjustments to such rates and charges. +11 "(g) The Attorney General shall advise the Commission +12 within 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, and +13 periodically thereafter, as necessary, of the specific needs +14 and performance requirements to ensure the continued ability +15 of the government to lawfully intercept communications +16 transmitted by or through the electronic communication +17 services and private branch exchanges introduced, operated, +18 sold or leased in the United States. +l9 "(h) Notwithstanding section 552b of Title 5, United +20 States Code or any other provision of law, the Attorney +21 General or his designee may direct that any Commission +22 proceeding concerning regulations, standards or +23 registrations issued or to be issued under the authority of +24 this section shall be closed to the public. +25 "(i) Definitions -- As used in this section --

+ +

1 "(l) 'provider of electronic communication +2 service' or 'private branch exchange operator' means +3 any service which profices to users thereof the ability +4 to send or receive wire, oral or electronic +5 communications, as those terms are defined in +6 subsections 2510(1) and 2510(12) of Title 18, United +7 States Code; +8 "(2) 'communication' means any wire or electronic +9 communication, as defined in subsection 2510(1) and +10 2510 (12), of Title 18, United States Code; +11 "(3) 'impede' means to prevent, hinder or impair +12 the government's ability to intercept a communication +13 in the same form as transmitted; +14 "(4) 'intercept' shall have the same meaning +l5 set forth in section 2510 (4) of Title 18, United States +16 Code; +17 "(5) 'government' means the Government of the +18 United States and any agency or instrumentality +19 thereof, any state or political subdivision thereof, +20 and the District of Columbia, and Commonwealth of Puerto +21 Rico; and +22 "(6) 'telecommunications equipment or technology' +23 means any equipment or technology, used or to be used +24 by any providers of electronic communication services +25 or private branch exchange operators, which is for the

+ +

1 transmission or recept of wire, oral or electronic +2 communications."

+ +

3 SEC 3. Section 510, Title V, P.L. 97-259 is amended deleting the +4 phrase "section 301 or 302a" and substituting the phrase "section +5 301, 302a, or ____.

+ +

DIGITAL TELEPHONY AMENDMENT +(report language)

+ +

Significant changes are being made in the systems by which +communications services are provided. Digital technologies, +fiber optics, and other telecommunications transmission +technologies are coming into widespread use. These changes +in communications systems and technologies make it increasingly +difficult for government agencies to implement lawful orders or +authorizations to intercept communications in order to enfore +the laws and protect the national security.

+ +

With the assistance of providers of electronic communication +services, these technological advances need not impede +the ability of government agencies to carry out their +responsibilities. This bill would direct the Federal +Communications Commission (FCC) to issue standards ensuring +that communications systems and service providers continue +to accomodate lawful government communications intercepts. +The regulations are not intended to cover federal government +communications systems. Procedure already exist by which +the Federal Bureau of Investigation amy obtain federal agency +cooperation in implementing lawful orders or authorizations +applicable to such systems. Further, there would be no +obligation on the part of the service providers or any other party +to ensure access to the plain text of encrypted or other encoded +material, but rather only to the communication in whatever form +it is transmitted. It is thus the intent and purpose of the +bill only to maintain the government's current communications +interception capability where properly ordered or authorized. +No expansion of that authority is sought.

+ +

ANALYSIS

+ +

+Subsection 2(a) and (b) would require the Federal Communications +Commission (FCC) to issue any regulations deemed necessary to +ensure that telecommunications equipment and technology used +by providers of electronic communications services or private branch +exchange operators will permit the government to intercept +communications when such interception is lawfully authorized. +The regulations would also require that equipment or technologies +currently used by such providers or operators that impede this +ability until brought into compliance with the regulations. +Compliance with FCC regulations issued under this section would +be required within 180 days of their issuance.

+ +

Subsection 2(c) provides that the Commission's authority to +implement and enforce the provisions of this section are the same +as those it has with respect to common carriers subject to its +jurisdiction.

+ +

Subsection 2(d) would give the Attorney General the authority to +request injunctive relief against non-complying service providers +or private branch exchange operators.

+ +

Subsection 2(e) provides civil penalty authority for willful +violations of the regulations of up to $10000 per day for each +violation.

+ +

Subsection 2(f) would permit the FCC to provide rate relief to +service providers subject to its rate-setting jurisdiciton for +the costs associated with modifying equipment or technologies to +carry out the purposes of the bill.

+ +

Subsections 2(g), (h), and (i) require the Attorney General +to advise the Commission regarding the specific needs and +performance criteria required to maintain government intercept +capabilities, require the FCC to ensure that the standards and +specifications it promulgates may be implemented on a royalty-free basis, and authorize the Attorney General to require that +particular Commission rulemaking proceedings to implement the Act +be closed to the public.

+ +

Subsection 2(j) provides definitions for key terms used in this +section. + +

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+ + +SUBJECT: FEMA GULAG + + + +SECRET CONCENTRATION CAMPS + +The September issue of THE OSTRICH reprinted a story from the +CBA BULLETIN which listed the following principal civilian concentration camps established in GULAG USA under the =Rex '84= program: +Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas; Ft. Drum, New York; Ft. Indian Gap, Pennsylvania; Camp A. P. Hill, Virginia; Oakdale, California; Eglin +Air Force Base, Florida; Vendenberg AFB, California; Ft. Mc Coy, +Wisconsin; Ft. Benning, Georgia; Ft. Huachuca, Arizona; Camp +Krome, Florida. The February OSTRICH printed a map of the expanding +Gulag. Alhough this listing and map stirred considerable interest, +the report was not new. For at least 20 years, knowledgeable Patriots +have been warning of these sinister plots to incarcerate dissidents +opposing plans of the =Elitist Syndicate= for a totalitarian +=New World Order=. Indeed, the plot was recognized with the insidious +encroachment of "regionalism" back in the 1960's. As early as 1968, +the "greatest land steal in history" leading to global corporate +socialism, was in a ="Master Land Plan"= for the United States +by =Executive Orders= involving water resource regions, +population movement and control, pollution control, zoning +and land use, navigation and environmental bills, etc. Indeed, +the real undercover aim of the so-called "Environmental Rennaissance" +has been the abolition of private property. +All prelude to the total grab of the =World Conservation Bank=, +as THE OSTRICH has been reporting. The map on this page and +the list of executive orders available for imposition of an "emergency" +are from 1970s files of the late Gen. =P. A. Del Valle's= ALERT, +sent us by =Merritt Newby=, editor of the now defunct AMERICAN +CHALLENGE. +=Wake up Americans!= The Bushoviks have approved =Gorbachev's= +imposition of "Emergency" to suppress unrest. =Henry Kissinger= +and his clients hardly missed a day's profits in their deals with +the butchers of Tiananmen Sqaure. Are you next? +************************************************************************* + +SUBJECT: Executive Orders + + +APPLICABLE EXECUTIVE ORDERS + +The following =Executive Orders=, now recorded in the Federal +Register, and therefore accepted by Congress as the law of the +land, can be put into effect at any time an emergency is declared: + +10995--All communications media seized by the Federal Government. +10997--Seizure of all electrical power, fuels, including +gasoline and minerals. +10998--Seizure of all food resources, farms and farm equipment. +10999--Seizure of all kinds of transportation, including your +personal car, and control of all highways and seaports. +11000--Seizure of all civilians for work under Federal supervision. +11001--Federal takeover of all health, education and welfare. +11002--Postmaster General empowered to register every man, woman +and child in the U.S.A. +11003--Seizure of all aircraft and airports by the Federal +Government. +11004--Housing and Finance authority may shift population from +one locality to another. Complete integration. +11005--Seizure of railroads, inland waterways, and storage facilities. +11051--The Director of the Office of Emergency Planning authorized +to put Executive Orders into effect in "times of increased +international tension or financial crisis". He is also to +perform such additional functions as the President +may direct. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +A Dangerous Fact Not Generally Known +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +THESE EXECUTIVE ORDERS GROSSLY AND FLAGRANTLY VIOLATE ARTICLE +4 SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. "THE +UNITED STATES SHALL GUARANTEE TO EVERY STATE IN THIS UNION A +REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT, AND SHALL PROTECT EACH OF THEM +AGAINST INVASION; AND ON APPLICATION OF THE LEGISLATURE, OR OF THE +EXECUTIVE (WHEN THE LEGISLATURE CANNOT BE CONVENED) AGAINST +DOMESTIC VIOLENCE." "REGIONAL GOVERNMENT IS NOT A REPRESENTATIVE +REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT!" + +When Government gets out of hand and can no longer be controlled +by the people, short of violent overthrow as in 1776, there are +two sources of power which are used by the dictatorial government +to keep the people in line: the Police Power and the Power of the +Purse (through which the necessities of life can be withheld). +And both of these powers are no longer balanced between the three +Federal Branches, and between the Federal and the State and +local Governments. These powers have been taken over, with the +permission of the Federal Legislature and the State Governments, +by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government and all attempts +to reclaim that lost power have been defeated. + +Stated simply: the dictatorial power of the Executive rests primarily +on three basis: Executive Order 11490, Executive Order 11647, and +the Planning, Programming, Budgeting System which is operated +through the new and all-powerful Office of Management and +Budget. + +E. O. 11490 is a compilation of some 23 previous Executive Orders, +signed by Nixon on Oct. 28, 1969, and outlining emergency functions +which are to be performed by some 28 Executive Departments and +Agencies whenever the President of the United States declares +a national emergency (as in defiance of an impeachment edict, +for example). Under the terms of E. O. 11490, the President +can declare that a national emergency exists and the Executive +Branch can: +* Take over all communications media +* Seize all sources of power +* Take charge of all food resources +* Control all highways and seaports +* Seize all railroads, inland waterways, airports, storage facilities +* Commandeer all civilians to work under federal supervision +* Control all activities relating to health, education, and welfare +* Shift any segment of the population from one locality to another +* Take over farms, ranches, timberized properties +* Regulate the amount of your own money you may withdraw from +your bank, or savings and loan institution + +All of these and many more items are listed in 32 pages incorporating +nearly 200000 words, providing and absolute bureaucratic +dictatorship whenever the President gives the word. + +--> Executive Order 11647 provides the regional and local mechanisms +--> and manpower for carrying out the provisions of E. O. 11490. +--> Signed by Richard Nixon on Feb. 10, 1972, this Order sets up Ten +--> Federal Regional Councils to govern Ten Federal Regions made up +--> of the fifty still existing States of the Union. + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +Don sez: + +*Check out this book for the inside scoop on the "secret" Constitution.* + +SUBJECT: - "The Proposed Constitutional Model" Pages 595-621 +Book Title - The Emerging Constitution +Author - Rexford G. Tugwell +Publisher - Harpers Magazine Press,Harper and Row +Dewey Decimal - 342.73 T915E +ISBN - 0-06-128225-10 +Note Chapter 14 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + +The 10 Federal Regions +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +REGION I: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode +Island, Vermont. +Regional Capitol: Boston +REGION II: New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Virgin Island. +Regional Capitol: New York City +REGION III: Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West +Virginia, District of Columbia. +Regional Capitol: Philadelphia +REGION IV: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, +North Carolina, Tennessee. +Regional Capitol: Atlanta +REGION V: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin. +Regional Capitol: Chicago +REGION VI: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas. +Regional Capitol: Dallas-Fort Worth +REGION VII: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska. +Regional Capitol: Kansas City +REGION VIII: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, +Utah, Wyoming. +Regional Capitol: Denver +REGION IX: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada. +Regional Capitol: San Fransisco +REGION X: Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho. +Regional Capitol: Seattle + +Supplementing these Then Regions, each of the States is, or is to +be, divided into subregions, so that Federal Executive control +is provided over every community. + +Then, controlling the bedgeting and the programming at every +level is that politico-economic system known as PPBS. + +The President need not wait for some emergency such as an impeachment +ouster. He can declare a National Emergency at any time, and freeze +everything, just as he has already frozen wages and prices. And +the Congress, and the States, are powerless to prevent such an +Executive Dictatorship, unless Congress moves to revoke these +extraordinary powers before the Chief Executive moves to invoke +them. + +THESE EXECUTIVE ORDERS GROSSLY AND FLAGRANTLY VIOLATE THE INTENT AND +PURPOSE OF ARTICLE 4 SECTION 3. THERE IS NO PROVISION IN THIS +SECTION OR THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES FOR FORMING A +REGIONAL STATE OUT OF A GROUP OF STATES! FURTHER, THESE EXECUTIVE +ORDERS GROSSLY AND FLAGRANTLY VIOLATE THE 9TH AND 10TH +AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION! + +By Proclaiming and Putting Into Effect Executive Order No. 11490, +the President would put the United States under TOTAL MARTIAL LAW +AND MILITARY DICTATORSHIP! The Guns Of The American People Would +Be Forcibly Taken! + +--------------------------------END:REF1------------------------------------------MORE--(40%) + + +################################################################################ +--------------------------------REF2:FEMA--------------------------------------- + + +Bushie-Tail used the Gulf War Show to greatly expand the powers of the +presidency. During this shell game event, the Executive Orders signed +into "law" continued Bushie's methodical and detailed program to bury +any residual traces of the constitutional rights and protections of U.S. +citizens. The Bill of Rights--[almost too late to] use 'em or lose 'em: + +|| The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to || +|| constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of || +|| the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial || +|| executive. || + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +From "Covert Action Information Bulletin," Number 37, Summer, 1991 (see +bottom 2 pages for subscription & back issues info on this quarterly): + +Domestic Consequences of the Gulf War +Diana Reynolds +Reprinted with permission of CAIB. Copyright 1991 + +Diana Reynolds is a Research Associate at the Edward R. Murrow Center, +Fletcher School for Public Policy, Tufts University. She is also an +Assistant Professor of Politics at Broadford College and a Lecturer at +Merrimack College. + +A war, even the most victorious, is a national misfortune. +--Helmuth Von Moltke, Prussian field marshall + +George Bush put the United States on the road to its second war in +two years by declaring a national emergency on August 21990. In +response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Bush issued two Executive +Orders (12722 and 12723) which restricted trade and travel with Iraq +and froze Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets within the U.S. and those in the +possession of U.S. persons abroad. At least 15 other executive orders +followed these initial restrictions and enabled the President to +mobilize the country's human and productive resources for war. Under +the national emergency, Bush was able unilaterally to break his 1991 +budget agreement with Congress which had frozen defense spending, to +entrench further the U.S. economy in the mire of the military-industrial complex, to override environmental protection regulations, +and to make free enterprise and civil liberties conditional upon an +executive determination of national security interests. + +The State of Emergency +In time of war a president's power derives from both constitutional +and statutory sources. Under Article II, Section 2 of the +Constitution, he is Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. Although +Congress alone retains the right to declare war, this power has become +increasingly meaningless in the face of a succession of unilateral +decisions by the executive to mount invasions. +The president's statutory authority, granted by Congress and +expanded by it under the 1988 National Emergencies Act (50 USC sec. +1601), confers special powers in time of war or national emergency. +He can invoke those special powers simply by declaring a national +emergency. First, however, he must specify the legal provisions under +which he proposes that he, or other officers, will act. Congress may +end a national emergency by enacting a joint resolution. Once invoked +by the president, emergency powers are directed by the National +Security Council and administered, where appropriate, under the +general umbrella of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).[1] +There is no requirement that Congress be consulted before an emergency +is declared or findings signed. The only restriction on Bush is that +he must inform Congress in a "timely" fashion--he being the sole +arbiter of timeliness. +Ultimately, the president's perception of the severity of a +particular threat to national security and the integrity of his +appointed officers determine the nature of any state of emergency. +For this reason, those who were aware of the modern development of +presidential emergency powers were apprehensive about the domestic +ramifications of any national emergency declared by George Bush. In +light of Bush's record (see "Bush Chips Away at Constitution" Box +below) and present performance, their fears appear well-founded. + +The War at Home +It is too early to know all of the emergency powers, executive +orders and findings issued under classified National Security +Directives[2] implemented by Bush in the name of the Gulf War. In +addition to the emergency powers necessary to the direct mobilization +of active and reserve armed forces of the United States, there are +some 120 additional emergency powers that can be used in a national +emergency or state of war (declared or undeclared by Congress). The +"Federal Register" records some 15 Executive Orders (EO) signed by +Bush from August 21990 to February 141991. (See "Bush's Executive +Orders" box, below) +It may take many years before most of the executive findings and +use of powers come to light, if indeed they ever do. But evidence is +emerging that at least some of Bush's emergency powers were activated +in secret. Although only five of the 15 EOs that were published were +directed at non-military personnel, the costs directly attributable to +the exercise of the authorities conferred by the declaration of +national emergency from August 2, 1990 to February 1, 1991 for non-military activities are estimated at approximately $1.3 billion. +According to a February 11, 1991 letter from Bush to congressional +leaders reporting on the "National Emergency With Respect to Iraq," +these costs represent wage and salary costs for the Departments of +Treasury, State, Agriculture, and Transportation, U.S. Customs, +Federal Reserve Board, and the National Security Council.[3] +The fact that $1.3 billion was spent in non-military salaries alone +in this six month period suggests an unusual amount of government +resources utilized to direct the national emergency state. In +contrast, government salaries for one year of the state of emergency +with Iran[4] cost only $430000. + +____________________________________________________________________ +| Bush Chips Away at Constitution +| George Bush, perhaps more than any other individual in +U.S. history, has expanded the emergency powers of +presidency. In 1976, as Director of Central Intelligence, +he convened Team B, a group of rabidly anti-communist +intellectuals and former government officials to reevaluate +CIA inhouse intelligence estimates on Soviet military +strength. The resulting report recommended draconian civil +defense measures which led to President Ford's Executive +Order 11921 authorizing plans to establish government +control of the means of production, distribution, energy +sources, wages and salaries, credit and the flow of money +in U.S. financial institutions in a national emergency.[1] +As Vice President, Bush headed the Task Force on +Combatting Terrorism, that recommended: extended and +flexible emergency presidential powers to combat terrorism; +restrictions on congressional oversight in counter-terrorist planning; and curbing press coverage of +terrorist incidents.[2] The report gave rise to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1986, that granted the President clear-cut +authority to respond to terrorism with all appropriate +means including deadly force. It authorized the +Immigration and Naturalization Service to control and +remove not only alien terrorists but potential terrorist +aliens and those "who are likely to be supportive of +terrorist activity within the U.S."[3] The bill superceded +the War Powers Act by imposing no time limit on the +President's use of force in a terrorist situation, and +lifted the requirement that the President consult Congress +before sanctioning deadly force. +From 1982 to 1988, Bush led the Defense Mobilization +Planning Systems Agency (DMPSA), a secret government +organization, and spent more than $3 billion upgrading +command, control, and communications in FEMA's continuity +of government infrastructures. Continuity of Government +(COG) was ostensibly created to assure government +functioning during war, especially nuclear war. The Agency +was so secret that even many members of the Pentagon were +unaware of its existence and most of its work was done +without congressional oversight. +Project 908, as the DMPSA was sometimes called, was +similar to its parent agency FEMA in that it came under +investigation for mismanagement and contract +irregularities.[4] During this same period, FEMA had been +fraught with scandals including emergency planning with a +distinctly anti-constitutional flavor. The agency would +have sidestepped Congress and other federal agencies and +put the President and FEMA directly in charge of the U.S. +planning for martial rule. Under this state, the executive +would take upon itself powers far beyond those necessary to +address national emergency contingencies.[5] +Bush's "anything goes" anti-drug strategy, announced +on September 6, 1989, suggested that executive emergency +powers be used: to oust those suspected of associating +with drug users or sellers from public and private housing; +to mobilize the National Guard and U.S. military to fight +drugs in the continental U.S.; to confiscate private +property belonging to drug users, and to incarcerate first +time offenders in work camps.[6] +The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to +constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of +the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial +executive. +| 1. Executive Order 11921, "Emergency preparedness Functions, +June 11, 1976. Federal Register, vol. 41, no. 116. The +report was attacked by such notables as Ray Cline, the +CIA's former Deputy Director, retired CIA intelligence +analyst Arthur Macy Cox, and the former head of the U.S. +Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Paul Warnke for +blatantly manipulating CIA intelligence to achieve the +political ends of Team B's rightwing members. See Cline, +quoted in "Carter to Inherit Intense Dispute on Soviet +Intentions," Mary Marder, "Washington Post," January 2, +1977; Arthur Macy Cox, "Why the U.S. Since 1977 Has +Been Mis-perceiving Soviet Military Strength," "New York +Times," October 20, 1980; Paul Warnke, "George Bush and +Team B," "New York Times," September 24, 1988. +| 2. George Bush, "Public Report of the Vice President's Task +Force On Combatting Terrorism" (Washington, D.C.: U.S. +Government Printing Office), February 1986. +| 3. Robert J. Walsh, Assistant Commissioner, Investigations +Division, Immigration and Naturalization Service, "Alien +Border Control Committee" (Washington, DC), October 1, +1988. +| 4. Steven Emerson, "America's Doomsday Project," "U.S. News +& World Report," August 7, 1989. +| 5. See: Diana Reynolds, "FEMA and the NSC: The Rise of the +National Security State," "CAIB," Number 33 (Winter 1990); +Keenan Peck, "The Take-Charge Gang," "The Progressive," +May 1985; Jack Anderson, "FEMA Wants to Lead Economic +War," "Washington Post," January 10, 1985. +| 6. These Presidential powers were authorized by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Public Law 100-690: 100th +Congress. See also: Diana Reynolds, "The Golden Lie," +"The Humanist," September/October 1990; Michael Isikoff, +"Is This Determination or Using a Howitzer to Kill a +Fly?" "Washington Post National Weekly," August 27-, +September 2, 1990; Bernard Weintraub, "Bush Considers +Calling Guard To Fight Drug Violence in Capital," "New +York Times," March 21, 1989. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + +

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----FEMA pt 2 continued ---------------------------------------------- + + + +Even those Executive Orders which have been made public tend to +raise as many questions as they answer about what actions were +considered and actually implemented. On January 8, 1991, Bush signed +Executive Order 12742, National Security Industrial Responsiveness, +which ordered the rapid mobilization of resources such as food, +energy, construction materials and civil transportation to meet +national security requirements. There was, however, no mention in +this or any other EO of the National Defense Executive Reserve (NDER) +plan administered under FEMA. This plan, which had been activated +during World War II and the Korean War, permits the federal government +during a state of emergency to bring into government certain +unidentified individuals. On January 7, 1991 the "Wall Street Journal +Europe" reported that industry and government officials were studying +a plan which would permit the federal government to "borrow" as many +as 50 oil company executives and put them to work streamlining the +flow of energy in case of a prolonged engagement or disruption of +supply. Antitrust waivers were also being pursued and oil companies +were engaged in emergency preparedness exercises with the Department +of Energy.[5] + +Wasting the Environment +In one case the use of secret powers was discovered by a watchdog +group and revealed in the press. In August 1990, correspondence +passed between Colin McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for +Production and Logistics and Michael Deland, Chair of the White House +Council on Environmental Quality. The letters responded to +presidential and National Security Council directives to deal with +increased industrial production and logistics arising from the +situation in the Middle East. The communications revealed that the +Pentagon had found it necessary to request emergency waivers to U.S. +environmental restrictions.[6] +The agreement to waive the National Environmental Policy Act (1970) +came in August. Because of it, the Pentagon was allowed to test new +weapons in the western U.S., increase production of materiel and +launch new activities at military bases without the complex public +review normally required. The information on the waiver was +eventually released by the Boston-based National Toxic Campaign Fund +(NTCF), an environmental group which investigates pollution on the +nation's military bases. It was not until January 30, 1991, five +months after it went into effect, that the "New York Times," acting +on the NTCF information, reported that the White House had bypassed +the usual legal requirement for environmental impact statements on +Pentagon projects.[7] So far, no specific executive order or +presidential finding authorizing this waiver has been discovered. +Other environmental waivers could also have been enacted without +the public being informed. Under a state of national emergency, U.S. +warships can be exempted from international conventions on +pollution[8] and public vessels can be allowed to dispose of +potentially infectious medical wastes into the oceans.[9] The +President can also suspend any of the statutory provisions regarding +the production, testing, transportation, deployment, and disposal of +chemical and biological warfare agents (50 USC sec. 1515). He could +also defer destruction of up to 10 percent of lethal chemical agents +and munitions that existed on November 8, 1985.[10] +One Executive Order which was made public dealt with "Chemical and +Biological Weapons Proliferation." Signed by Bush on November 16, +1990, EO 12735 leaves the impression that Bush is ordering an +increased effort to end the proliferation of chemical and biological +weapons. The order states that these weapons "constitute a threat to +national security and foreign policy" and declares a national +emergency to deal with the threat. To confront this threat, Bush +ordered international negotiations, the imposition of controls, +licenses, and sanctions against foreign persons and countries for +proliferation. Conveniently, the order grants the Secretaries of +State and the Treasury the power to exempt the U.S. military. +In February of 1991, the Omnibus Export Amendments Act was passed +by Congress compatible with EO 12735. It imposed sanctions on +countries and companies developing or using chemical or biological +weapons. Bush signed the law, although he had rejected the identical +measure the year before because it did not give him the executive +power to waive all sanctions if he thought the national interest +required it.[11] The new bill, however, met Bush's requirements. + +____________________________________________________________________ +| BUSH'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS +| * EO 12722 "Blocking Iraqi Government Property and +Prohibiting Transactions With Iraq," Aug. 2, 1990. +| * EO 12723 "Blocking Kuwaiti Government Property," Aug. 2, +1990. +| * EO 12724 "Blocking Iraqi Government Property and +Prohibiting Transactions With Iraq," Aug. 9, 1990. +| * EO 12725 "Blocking Kuwaiti Government Property and +Prohibiting Transactions With Kuwait," Aug. 9, 1990. +| * EO 12727 "Ordering the Selected Reserve of the Armed +Forces to Active Duty," Aug. 22, 1990. +| * EO 12728 "Delegating the President's Authority To +Suspend Any Provision of Law Relating to the Promotion, +Retirement, or Separation of Members of the Armed Forces," +Aug. 22, 1990. +| * EO 12733 "Authorizing the Extension of the Period of +Active Duty of Personnel of the Selected Reserve of the +Armed Forces," Nov. 13, 1990. +| * EO 12734 "National Emergency Construction Authority," Nov. +14, 1990. +| * EO 12735 "Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation," +Nov. 16, 1990. +| * EO 12738 "Administration of Foreign Assistance and Related +Functions and Arms Export Control," Dec. 14, 1990. +| * EO 12742 "National Security Industrial Responsiveness," +Jan. 8, 1991. +| * EO 12743 "Ordering the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces +to Active Duty," Jan. 18, 1991. +| * EO 12744 "Designation of Arabian Peninsula Areas, Airspace +and Adjacent Waters as a Combat Zone," Jan. 21, 1991. +| * EO 12750 "Designation of Arabian Peninsula Areas, Airspace +and Adjacent Waters as the Persian Gulf Desert Shield +Area," Feb. 14, 1991. +| * EO 12751 "Health Care Services for Operation Desert +Storm," Feb. 14, 1991. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Going Off Budget +Although some of the powers which Bush assumed in order to conduct +the Gulf War were taken openly, they received little public discussion +or reporting by the media. +In October, when the winds of the Gulf War were merely a breeze, +Bush used his executive emergency powers to extend his budget +authority. This action made the 1991 fiscal budget agreement between +Congress and the President one of the first U.S. casualties of the +war. While on one hand the deal froze arms spending through 1996, it +also allowed Bush to put the cost of the Gulf War "off budget." Thus, +using its emergency powers, the Bush administration could: + +* incur a deficit which exceeds congressional budget authority; + +* prevent Congress from raising a point of order over the +excessive spending;[12] + +* waive the requirement that the Secretary of Defense submit +estimates to Congress prior to deployment of a major defense +acquisition system; + +* and exempt the Pentagon from congressional restrictions on +hiring private contractors.[13] + +While there is no published evidence on which powers Bush actually +invoked, the administration was able to push through the 1990 Omnibus +Reconciliation Act. This legislation put a cap on domestic spending, +created a record $300 billion deficit, and undermined the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act intended to reduce the federal deficit. Although +Congress agreed to pay for the war through supplemental appropriations +and approved a $42.2 billion supplemental bill and a $4.8 billion +companion "dire emergency supplemental appropriation,"[14] it +specified that the supplemental budget should not be used to finance +costs the Pentagon would normally experience.[15] +Lawrence Korb, a Pentagon official in the Reagan administration, +believes that the Pentagon has already violated the spirit of the 1990 +Omnibus Reconciliation Act. It switched funding for the Patriot, +Tomahawk, Hellfire and HARM missiles from its regular budget to the +supplemental budget; added normal wear and tear of equipment to +supplemental appropriations; and made supplemental requests which +ignore a planned 25% reduction in the armed forces by 1995.[16] + +The Cost In Liberty Lost +Under emergency circumstances, using 50 USC sec. 1811, the +President could direct the Attorney General to authorize electronic +surveillance of aliens and American citizens in order to obtain +foreign intelligence information without a court order.[17] No +Executive Order has been published which activates emergency powers to +wiretap or to engage in counter-terrorist activity. Nonetheless, +there is substantial evidence that such activities have taken place. +According to the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, the +FBI launched an anti-terrorist campaign which included a broad sweep +of Arab-Americans. Starting in August, the FBI questioned, detained, +and harassed Arab-Americans in California, New York, Ohio, +Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and Colorado.[18] +A CIA agent asked the University of Connecticut for a list of all +foreign students at the institution, along with their country of +origin, major field of study, and the names of their academic +advisers. He was particularly interested in students from the Middle +East and explained that the Agency intended to open a file on each of +the students. Anti-war groups have also reported several break-ins of +their offices and many suspected electronic surveillance of their +telephones.[19] + +Pool of Disinformation +Emergency powers to control the means of communications in the U.S. +in the name of national security were never formally declared. There +was no need for Bush to do so since most of the media voluntarily and +even eagerly cooperated in their own censorship. Reporters covering +the Coalition forces in the Gulf region operated under restrictions +imposed by the U.S. military. They were, among other things, barred +from traveling without a military escort, limited in their forays into +the field to small escorted groups called "pools," and required to +submit all reports and film to military censors for clearance. Some +reporters complained that the rules limited their ability to gather +information independently, thereby obstructing informed and objective +reporting.[20] +Three Pentagon press officials in the Gulf region admitted to James +LeMoyne of the "New York Times" that they spent significant time +analyzing reporters' stories in order to shape the coverage in the +Pentagon's favor. In the early days of the deployment, Pentagon press +officers warned reporters who asked hard questions that they were seen +as "anti-military" and that their requests for interviews with senior +commanders and visits to the field were in jeopardy. The military +often staged events solely for the cameras and would stop televised +interviews in progress when it did not like what was being portrayed. +Although filed soon after the beginning of the war, a lawsuit +challenging the constitutionality of press restrictions was not heard +until after the war ended. It was then dismissed when the judge ruled +that since the war had ended, the issues raised had become moot. The +legal status of the restrictions--initially tested during the U.S. +invasions of Grenada and Panama--remains unsettled. + +A National Misfortune +It will be years before researchers and journalists are able to +ferret through the maze of government documents and give a full +appraisal of the impact of the President's emergency powers on +domestic affairs. It is likely, however, that with a post-war +presidential approval rating exceeding 75 percent, the domestic +casualties will continue to mount with few objections. Paradoxically, +even though the U.S. public put pressure on Bush to send relief for +the 500000 Iraqi Kurdish refugees, it is unlikely the same outcry +will be heard for the 37 million Americans without health insurance, +the 32 million living in poverty, or the country's five million hungry +children. The U.S. may even help rebuild Kuwaiti and Iraqi civilian +infrastructures it destroyed during the war while leaving its own +education system in decay, domestic transportation infrastructures +crumbling, and inner city war zones uninhabitable. And, while the +U.S. assists Kuwait in cleaning up its environmental disaster, it will +increase pollution at home. Indeed, as the long-dead Prussian field +marshal prophesied, "a war, even the most victorious, is a national +misfortune." + +FOOTNOTES: + +1. The administrative guideline was established under Reagan in Executive +Order 12656, November 181988, "Federal Register," vol. 23, no. 266. + +2. For instance, National Security Council policy papers or National +Security Directives (NSD) or National Security Decision Directives +(NSDD) have today evolved into a network of shadowy, wide-ranging and +potent executive powers. These are secret instruments, maintained in +a top security classified state and are not shared with Congress. For +an excellent discussion see: Harold C. Relyea, The Coming of Secret +Law, "Government Information Quarterly," Vol. 5, November 1988; see +also: Eve Pell, "The Backbone of Hidden Government," "The Nation," +June 191990. + +3. "Letter to Congressional Leaders Reporting on the National Emergency +With Respect to Iraq," February, 11, 1991, "Weekly Compilation of +Presidential Documents: Administration of George Bush," (Washington, +DC: U.S. Government Printing Office), pp. 158-61. + +4. The U.S. now has states of emergency with Iran, Iraq and Syria. + +5. Allanna Sullivan, "U.S. Oil Concerns Confident Of Riding Out Short Gulf +War," "Wall Street Journal Europe," January 7, 1991. + +6. Colin McMillan, Letter to Michael Deland, Chairman, Council on +Environmental Quality (Washington, DC: Executive Office of the +President), August 24, 1990; Michael R. Deland, Letter to Colin +McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production and Logistics +(Washington, DC: Department of Defense), August 291990. + +7. Keith Schneider, "Pentagon Wins Waiver Of Environmental Rule," "New York +Times," January 30, 1991. + +8. 33 U.S. Code (USC) sec. 1902 9(b). + +9. 33 USC sec. 2503 l(b). + +10. 50 USC sec. 1521(b) (3)(A). + +ll. Adam Clymer, "New Bill Mandates Sanctions On Makers of Chemical Arms," +"New York Times," February 22, 1991. + +12. 31 USC O10005 (f); 2 USC O632 (i), 6419 (d), 907a (b); and Public +Law 101-508, Title X999, sec. 13101. + +13. 10 USC sec. 2434/2461 9F. + +14. When the Pentagon expected the war to last months and oil prices to +skyrocket, it projected the incremental cost of deploying and +redeploying the forces and waging war at about $70 billion. The +administration sought and received $56 billion in pledges from allies +such as Germany, Japan and Saudi Arabia. Although the military's +estimates of casualties and the war's duration were highly inflated, +today their budget estimates remain at around $70 billion even though +the Congressional Budget office estimates that cost at only $40 +billion, $16 billion less than allied pledges. + +15. Michael Kamish, "After The War: At Home, An Unconquered Recession," +"Boston Globe," March 6, 1991; Peter Passell, "The Big Spoils From a +Bargain War," "New York Times," March 3, 1991; and Alan Abelson, "A +War Dividend For The Defense Industry?" "Barron's," March 18, 1991. + +16. Lawrence Korb, "The Pentagon's Creative Budgetry Is Out of Line," +"International Herald Tribune," April 5, 199l. + +17. Many of the powers against aliens are automatically invoked during a +national emergency or state of war. Under the Alien Enemies Act (50 +USC sec. 21), the President can issue an order to apprehend, restrain, +secure and remove all subjects of a hostile nation over 13 years old. +Other statutes conferring special powers on the President with regard +to aliens that may be exercised in times of war or emergencies but are +not confined to such circumstances, are: exclusion of all or certain +classes of aliens from entry into the U.S. when their entry may be +"detrimental to the interests of the United States" (8 USC sec. 1182(f)); +imposition of travel restrictions on aliens within the U.S. (8 USC sec. +1185); and requiring aliens to be fingerprinted (8 USC sec. 1302). + +18. Ann Talamas, "FBI Targets Arab-Americans," "CAIB," Spring 1991, p. 4. + +19. "Anti-Repression Project Bulletin" (New York: Center for +Constitutional Rights), January 23, 1991. + +20. James DeParle, "Long Series of Military Decisions Led to Gulf War News +Censorship," "New York Times," May 5, 1991. + +21. James LeMoyne, "A Correspondent's Tale: Pentagon's Strategy for the +Press: Good News or No News," "New York Times," February 17, 1991. + +______________________________________________________________________________ +Covert Action INFORMATION BULLETIN + +Back Issues + +No. 1 (July 1978): Agee on CIA; Cuban exile trial; consumer research-Jamaica.* +No. 2 (Oct. 1978): How CIA recruits diplomats; researching undercover +officers; double agent in CIA.* +No. 3 (Jan. 1979): CIA attacks CAIB; secret supp. to Army field manual; +spying on host countries.* +No. 4 (Apr.-May 1979): U.S. spies in Italian services; CIA in Spain; CIA +recruiting for Africa; subversive academics; Angola.* +No. 5 (July-Aug. 1979): U.S. intelligence in Southeast Asia; CIA in +Denmark, Sweden, Grenada.* +No. 6 (Oct. 1979): U.S. in Caribbean; Cuban exile terrorists; CIA plans +for Nicaragua; CIA's secret "Perspectives for Intelligence."* +No. 7 (Dec. 1979-Jan. 1980): Media destabilization in Jamaica; Robert +Moss; CIA budget; media operations; UNITA; Iran.* +No. 8 (Mar.-Apr. 1980): Attacks on Agee; U.S. intelligence legislation; +CAIB statement to Congress; Zimbabwe; Northern Ireland. +No. 9 (June 1980): NSA in Norway; Glomar Explorer; mind control; NSA. +No. 10 (Aug.-Sept. 1980): Caribbean; destabilization in Jamaica; Guyana; +Grenada bombing; "The Spike"; deep cover manual. +No. 11 (Dec. 1980): Rightwing terrorism; South Korea; KCIA; Portugal; +Guyana; Caribbean; AFIO; NSA interview. +No. 12 (Apr. 1981): U.S. in Salvador and Guatemala; New Right; William +Casey; CIA in Mozambique; mail surveillance.* +No. 13 (July-Aug. 1981): South Africa documents; Namibia; mercenaries; +the Klan; Globe Aero; Angola; Mozambique; BOSS; Central America; +Max Hugel; mail surveillance. +No. 14-15 (Oct. 1981): Complete index to nos. 1-12; review of intelligence +legislation; CAIB plans; extended Naming Names. +No. 16 (Mar. 1982): Green Beret torture in Salvador; Argentine death squads; +CIA media ops; Seychelles; Angola; Mozambique; the Klan; Nugan Hand.* +No. 17 (Summer 1982): CBW History; Cuban dengue epidemic; Scott Barnes +and yellow rain lies; mystery death in Bangkok.* +No. 18 (Winter 1983): CIA & religion; "secret" war in Nicaragua; Opus Dei; +Miskitos; evangelicals-Guatemala; Summer Inst. of Linguistics; World +Medical Relief; CIA & BOSS; torture S. 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+ + +[PeaceNet forward from AML (ACTIV-L) -- see bottom for more info] +------------------------------------------------------------------ + +/** mideast.forum: 216.5 **/ +** Written 8:11 pm Jan 17, 1991 by nlgclc in cdp:mideast.forum ** +An excellent book which deals with the REX 84 detention plan is: + +- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +"Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North,'' by Ben +Bradlee Jr. (Donald I. fine, $21.95. 573 pp.) +------------------------------------------------------------------ +Reviewed by Dennis M. Culnan Copyright 1990, Gannett News Service All +Rights Reserved Short excerpt posted here under applicable copyright +laws + +[Oliver] North managed to network himself into the highest levels of +the CIA and power centers around the world. There he lied and +boastfully ignored the constitutional process, Bradlee writes. + +Yet more terrifying is the plan hatched by North and other Reagan +people in the Federal Emergency Manpower Agency (FEMA): A blueprint +for the military takeover of the United States. The plan called for +FEMA to become "emergency czar'' in the event of a national emergency +such as nuclear war or an American invasion of a foreign nation. FEMA +would also be a buffer between the president and his cabinet and other +civilian agencies, and would have broad powers to appoint military +commanders and run state and local governments. Finally, it would +have the authority to order suspect aliens into concentration camps +and seize their property. + +When then-Attorney General William French Smith got wind of the plan, +he killed it. After Smith left the administration, North and his FEMA +cronies came up with the Defense Resource Act, designed to suspendend +the First Amendment by imposing censorship and banning strikes. + +Where was it all heading? The book's answer: "REX-84 Bravo, a +National Security Decision Directive 52 that would become operative +with the president's declaration of a state of national emergency +concurrent with a mythical U.S. military invasion of an unspecified +Central American country, presumably Nicaragua.'' + +Bradlee writes that the Rex exercise was designed to test FEMA's +readiness to assume authority over the Department of Defense, the +National Guard in all 50 states, and "a number of state defense +forces to be established by state legislatures.'' The military would +then be "deputized,'' thus making an end run around federal law +forbidding military involvement in domestic law enforcement. + +Rex, which ran concurrently with the first annual U.S. show of force +in Honduras in April 1984, was also designed to test FEMA's ability to +round up 400000 undocumented Central American aliens in the United +States and its ability to distribute hundreds of tons of small arms to +"state defense forces.'' + +Incredibly, REX 84 was similar to a plan secretly adopted by Reagan +while governor of California. His two top henchmen then were Edwin +Meese, who recently resigned as U.S. attorney general, and Louis +Guiffrida, the FEMA director in 1984. + +If the review makes you nervous, you should read the book! + +--Chip Berlet ** End of text from cdp:mideast.forum ** + +--------------------------------END:REF3----------------------------------- +########################################################################### +--------------------------------REF4:FEMA---------------------------------- + +[PeaceNet forward from AML (ACTIV-L) -- see bottom for more info] +------------------------------------------------------------------ +This is the front-page article of the Jan. 16 issue of "The +Guardian," which describes some of the U.S. government's planning +for martial law in the event of the Gulf war. This is truly a +scary scenario that should concern all civil libertarians and +patriots. +------------------------------------------------------------------ + +WILL GULF WAR LEAD TO REPRESSION AT HOME? +by Paul DeRienzo and Bill Weinberg + +On August 2, 1990, as Saddam Hussein's army was consolidating control +over Kuwait, President George Bush responded by signing two executive +orders that were the first step toward martial law in the United +States and suspending the Constitution. + +On the surface, Executive Orders 12722 and 12723, declaring a +"national emergency," merely invoked laws that allowed Bush to freeze +Iraqi assets in the United States. + +The International Emergency Executive Powers Act permits the president +to freeze foreign assets after declaring a "national emergency," a +move that has been made three times before -- against Panama in 1987, +Nicaragua in 1985 and Iran in 1979. + +According to Professor Diana Reynolds, of the Fletcher School of +Diplomacy at Boston's Tufts University, when Bush declared a national +emergency he "activated one part of a contingency national security +emergency plan." That plan is made up of a series of laws passed since +the presidency of Richard Nixon, which Reynolds says give the +president "boundless" powers. + +According to Reynolds, such laws as the Defense Industrial +Revitalization and Disaster Relief Acts of 1983 "would permit the +president to do anything from seizing the means of production, to +conscripting a labor force, to relocating groups of citizens." + +Reynolds says the net effect of invoking these laws would be the +suspension of the Constitution. + +She adds that national emergency powers "permit the stationing of the +military in cities and towns, closing off the U.S. borders, freezing +all imports and exports, allocating all resources on a national +security priority, monitoring and censoring the press, and warrantless +searches and seizures." + +The measures would allow military authorities to proclaim martial law +in the United States, asserts Reynolds. She defines martial law as the +"federal authority taking over for local authority when they are +unable to maintain law and order or to assure a republican form of +government." + +A report called "Post Attack Recovery Strategies," about rebuilding +the country after a nuclear war, prepared by the right-wing Hudson +Institute in 1980, defines martial law as dealing "with the control of +civilians by their own military forces in time of emergency." + +The federal agency with the authority to organize and command the +government's response to a national emergency is the Federal Emergency +Management Agency (FEMA). This super-secret and elite agency was +formed in 1979 under congressional measures that merged all federal +powers dealing with civilian and military emergencies under one +agency. + +FEMA has its roots in the World War I partnership between government +and corporate leaders who helped mobilize the nation's industries to +support the war effort. The idea of a central national response to +large-scale emergencies was reintroduced in the early 1970s by Louis +Giuffrida, a close associate of then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan and +his chief aide Edwin Meese. + +Reagan appointed Giuffrida head of the California National Guard in +1969. With Meese, Giuffrida organized "war-games" to prepare for +"statewide martial law" in the event that Black nationalists and +anti-war protesters "challenged the authority of the state." In 1981, +Reagan as president moved Giuffrida up to the big leagues, appointing +him director of FEMA. + +According to Reynolds, however, it was the actions of George Bush in +1976, while he was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency +(CIA), that provided the stimulus for centralization of vast powers in +FEMA. + +Bush assembled a group of hawkish outsiders, called Team B, that +released a report claiming the CIA ("Team A") had underestimated the +dangers of Soviet nuclear attack. The report advised the development +of elaborate plans for "civil defense" and post-nuclear government. +Three years later, in 1979, FEMA was given ultimate responsibility for +developing these plans. + +Aware of the bad publicity FEMA was getting because of its role in +organizing for a post-nuclear world, Reagan's FEMA chief Giuffrida +publicly argued that the 1865 Posse Comitatus Act prohibited the +military from arresting civilians. + +However, Reynolds says that Congress eroded the act by giving the +military reserves an exemption from Posse Comitatus and allowing them +to arrest civilians. The National Guard, under the control of state +governors in peace time, is also exempt from the act and can arrest +civilians. + +FEMA Inspector General John Brinkerhoff has written a memo contending +that the government doesn't need to suspend the Constitution to use +the full range of powers Congress has given the agency. FEMA has +prepared legislation to be introduced in Congress in the event of a +national emergency that would give the agency sweeping powers. The +right to "deputize" National Guard and police forces is included in +the package. But Reynolds believes that actual martial law need not be +declared publicly. + +Giuffrida has written that "Martial Rule comes into existence upon a +determination (not a declaration) by the senior military commander +that the civil government must be replaced because it is no longer +functioning anyway." He adds that "Martial Rule is limited only by the +principle of necessary force." + +According to Reynolds, it is possible for the president to make +declarations concerning a national emergency secretly in the form of a +Natioanl Security Decision Directive. Most such directives are +classified as so secret that Reynolds says "researchers don't even +know how many are enacted." + +DOMESTIC SPYING + +Throughout the 1980s, FEMA was prohibited from engaging in +intelligence gathering. But on July 6, 1989, Bush signed Executive +Order 12681, pronouncing that FEMA's National Preparedness Directorate +would "have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, +investigative, or national security work." Recent events indicate that +domestic spying in response to the looming Middle East war is now +under way. + +Reynolds reports that "the CIA is going to various campuses asking for +information on Middle Eastern students. I'm sure that there are +intelligence organizations monitoring peace demonstrations." +According to the University of Connecticut student paper, the Daily +Campus, CIA officials have recently met there to discuss talking with +Middle Eastern students. + +The New York Times reports that the FBI has ordered its agents around +the country to question Arab-American leaders and business people in +search of information on potential Iraqi "terrorist" attacks in +response to a Gulf war. + +A 1986 Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) document entitled +"Alien Terrorists and Other Undesirables: A Contingency Plan" outlines +the potential round-up and incarceration in mass detainment camps of +U.S. residents who are citizens of "terrorist" countries, chiefly in +the Middle East. This plan echoed a 1984 FEMA nationwide "readiness +exercise code-named REX-84 ALPHA, which included the rehearsal of +joint operations with the INS to round up 40000 Central American +refugees in the event of a U.S. invasion of the region. One of the 10 +military bases established as detainment camps by REX-84 ALPHA, Camp +Krome, Fla., was designated a joint FEMA-Immigration service +interrogation center. + +Recently, FEMA has been criticized in the media for inadequate +response to the October, 1989 San Francisco earthquake. What the +mainstream press has failed to cover is the agency's planned role in +repressing domestic dissent in the event of an invasion abroad. + +Source: The Guardian, Jan 16 1991 + +The Guardian is an independent radical news weekly. Subscriptions are +available at $33.50 per year from The Guardian, 33 West 17th St., New +York, NY 10011 + + +----------------------------END:REF4------------------------------------ +######################################################################## +----------------------------REF5:NSDD 145------------------------------- + +DATE OF UPLOAD: November 17, 1989 +ORIGIN OF UPLOAD: Omni Magazine +CONTRIBUTED BY: Donald Goldberg + +======================================================== +PARANET INFORMATION SERVICE BBS +======================================================== +Although this article does not deal directly with UFOs, +ParaNet felt it important as an offering to our readers who +depend so much upon communications as a way to stay informed. +This article raises some interesting implications for the future +of communications. + + +THE NATIONAL GUARDS +(C) 1987 OMNI MAGAZINE MAY 1987 +(Reprinted with permission and license to ParaNet Information +Service and its affiliates.) + +By Donald Goldberg + +The mountains bend as the fjord and the sea beyond stretch +out before the viewer's eyes. First over the water, then a sharp +left turn, then a bank to the right between the peaks, and the +secret naval base unfolds upon the screen. +The scene is of a Soviet military installation on the Kola +Peninsula in the icy Barents Sea, a place usually off-limits to +the gaze of the Western world. It was captured by a small French +satellite called SPOT Image, orbiting at an altitude of 517 miles +above the hidden Russian outpost. On each of several passes -- +made over a two-week period last fall -- the satellite's high-resolution lens took its pictures at a different angle; the +images were then blended into a three-dimensional, computer-generated video. Buildings, docks, vessels, and details of the +Artic landscape are all clearly visible. +Half a world away and thousands of feet under the sea, +sparkling-clear images are being made of the ocean floor. Using +the latest bathymetric technology and state-of-the-art systems +known as Seam Beam and Hydrochart, researchers are for the first +time assembling detailed underwater maps of the continental +shelves and the depths of the world's oceans. These scenes of +the sea are as sophisticated as the photographs taken from the +satellite. +From the three-dimensional images taken far above the earth +to the charts of the bottom of the oceans, these photographic +systems have three things in common: They both rely on the +latest technology to create accurate pictures never dreamed of +even 25 years ago; they are being made widely available by +commerical, nongovernmental enterprises; and the Pentagon is +trying desperately to keep them from the general public. +In 1985 the Navy classified the underwater charts, making +them available only to approved researchers whose needs are +evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Under a 1984 law the military +has been given a say in what cameras can be licensed to be used +on American satellites; and officials have already announced they +plan to limit the quality and resolution of photos made +available. The National Security Agency (NSA) -- the secret arm +of the Pentagon in charge of gathering electronic intelligence as +well as protecting sensitive U.S. communications -- has defeated +a move to keep it away from civilian and commercial computers and +databases. +That attitude has outraged those concerned with the +military's increasing efforts to keep information not only from +the public but from industry experts, scientists, and even other +government officials as well. "That's like classifying a road +map for fear of invasion," says Paul Wolff, assistant +administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric +Administration, of the attempted restrictions. +These attempts to keep unclassified data out of the hands of +scientists, researchers, the news media, and the public at large +are a part of an alarming trend that has seen the military take +an ever-increasing role in controlling the flow of information +and communications through American society, a role traditionally +-- and almost exclusively -- left to civilians. Under the +approving gaze of the Reagan administration, Department of +Defense (DoD) officials have quietly implemented a number of +policies, decisions, and orders that give the military +unprecedented control over both the content and public use of +data and communications. For example: + +**The Pentagon has created a new category of "sensitive" but +unclassified information that allows it to keep from public +access huge quantities of data that were once widely accessible. +**Defense Department officials have attempted to rewrite key laws +that spell out when the president can and cannot appropriate +private communications facilities. +**The Pentagon has installed a system that enables it to seize +control of the nation's entire communications network -- the +phone system, data transmissions, and satellite transmissions of +all kinds -- in the event of what it deems a "national +emergency." As yet there is no single, universally agreed-upon +definition of what constitutes such a state. Usually such an +emergency is restricted to times of natural disaster, war, or +when national security is specifically threatened. Now the +military has attempted to redefine emergency. +The point man in the Pentagon's onslaught on communications +is Assistant Defense Secretary Donald C. Latham, a former NSA +deputy chief. Latham now heads up an interagency committee in +charge of writing and implementing many of the policies that have +put the military in charge of the flow of civilian information +and communication. He is also the architect of National Security +Decision Directive 145 (NSDD 145), signed by Defense Secretary +Caspar Weinberger in 1984, which sets out the national policy on +telecommunications and computer-systems security. +First NSDD 145 set up a steering group of top-level +administration officials. Their job is to recommend ways to +protect information that is unclassified but has been designated +sensitive. Such information is held not only by government +agencies but by private companies as well. And last October the +steering group issued a memorandum that defined sensitive +information and gave federal agencies broad new powers to keep it +from the public. +According to Latham, this new category includes such data as +all medical records on government databases -- from the files of +the National Cancer Institute to information on every veteran who +has ever applied for medical aid from the Veterans Administration +-- and all the information on corporate and personal taxpayers in +the Internal Revenue Service's computers. Even agricultural +statistics, he argues, can be used by a foreign power against the +United States. +In his oversize yet Spartan Pentagon office, Latham cuts +anything but an intimidating figure. Articulate and friendly, he +could pass for a network anchorman or a television game show +host. When asked how the government's new definition of +sensitive information will be used, he defends the necessity for +it and tries to put to rest concerns about a new restrictiveness. +"The debate that somehow the DoD and NSA are going to +monitor or get into private databases isn't the case at all," +Latham insists. "The definition is just a guideline, just an +advisory. It does not give the DoD the right to go into private +records." +Yet the Defense Department invoked the NSDD 145 guidelines +when it told the information industry it intends to restrict the +sale of data that are now unclassified and publicly available +from privately owned computer systems. The excuse if offered was +that these data often include technical information that might be +valuable to a foreign adversary like the Soviet Union. +Mead Data Central -- which runs some of the nation's largest +computer databases, such as Lexis and Nexis, and has nearly +200000 users -- says it has already been approached by a team of +agents from the Air Force and officials from the CIA and the FBI +who asked for the names of subscribers and inquired what Mead +officials might do if information restrictions were imposed. In +response to government pressure, Mead Data Central in effect +censured itself. It purged all unclassified government-supplied +technical data from its system and completely dropped the +National Technical Information System from its database rather +than risk a confrontation. +Representative Jack Brooks, a Texas Democrat who chairs the +House Government Operations Committee, is an outspoken critic of +the NSA's role in restricting civilian information. He notes +that in 1985 the NSA -- under the authority granted by NSDD 145 +-- investigated a computer program that was widely used in both +local and federal elections in 1984. The computer system was +used to count more than one third of all votes cast in the United +States. While probing the system's vulnerability to outside +manipulation, the NSA obtained a detailed knowledge of that +computer program. "In my view," Brooks says, "this is an +unprecedented and ill-advised expansion of the military's +influence in our society." +There are other NSA critics. "The computer systems used by +counties to collect and process votes have nothing to do with +national security, and I'm really concerned about the NSA's +involvement," says Democratic congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas, +chairman of the House science and technology subcommittee +concerned with computer security. +Also, under NSDD 145 the Pentagon has issued an order, +virtually unknown to all but a few industry executives, that +affects commercial communications satellites. The policy was +made official by Defense Secretary Weinberger in June of 1985 and +requires that all commercial satellite operators that carry such +unclassified government data traffic as routine Pentagon supply +information and payroll data (and that compete for lucrative +government contracts) install costly protective systems on all +satellites launched after 1990. The policy does not directly +affect the data over satellite channels, but it does make the NSA +privy to vital information about the essential signals needed to +operate a satellite. With this information it could take control +of any satellite it chooses. +Latham insists this, too, is a voluntary policy and that +only companies that wish to install protection will have their +systems evaluated by the NSA. He also says industry officials +are wholly behind the move, and argues that the protective +systems are necessary. With just a few thousand dollars' worth +of equipment, a disgruntled employee could interfere with a +satellite's control signals and disable or even wipe out a +hundred-million-dollar satellite carrying government information. +At best, his comments are misleading. First, the policy is +not voluntary. The NSA can cut off lucrative government +contracts to companies that do not comply with the plan. The +Pentagon alone spent more than a billion dollars leasing +commercial satellite channels last year; that's a powerful +incentive for business to cooperate. +Second, the industry's support is anything but total. +According to the minutes of one closed-door meeting between NSA +officials -- along with representatives of other federal agencies +-- and executives from AT&T, Comsat, GTE Sprint, and MCI, the +executives neither supported the move nor believed it was +necessary. The NSA defended the policy by arguing that a +satellite could be held for ransom if the command and control +links weren't protected. But experts at the meeting were +skeptical. +"Why is the threat limited to accessing the satellite rather +than destroying it with lasers or high-powered signals?" one +industry executive wanted to know. +Most of the officials present objected to the high cost of +protecting the satellites. According to a 1983 study made at the +request of the Pentagon, the protection demanded by the NSA could +add as much as $3 million to the price of a satellite and $1 +million more to annual operating costs. Costs like these, they +argue, could cripple a company competing against less expensive +communications networks. +Americans get much of their information through forms of +electronic communications, from the telephone, television and +radio, and information printed in many newspapers. Banks send +important financial data, businesses their spreadsheets, and +stockbrokers their investment portfolios, all over the same +channels, from satellite signals to computer hookups carried on +long distance telephone lines. To make sure that the federal +government helped to promote and protect the efficient use of +this advancing technology, Congress passed the massive +Communications Act of of 1934. It outlined the role and laws of +the communications structure in the United States. +The powers of the president are set out in Section 606 of +that law; basically it states that he has the authority to take +control of any communications facilities that he believes +"essential to the national defense." In the language of the +trade this is known as a 606 emergency. +There have been a number of attempts in recent years by +Defense Department officials to redefine what qualifies as a 606 +emergency and make it easier for the military to take over +national communications. +In 1981 the Senate considered amendments to the 1934 act +that would allow the president, on Defense Department +recommendation, to require any communications company to provide +services, facilities, or equipment "to promote the national +defense and security or the emergency preparedness of the +nation," even in peacetime and without a declared state of +emergency. The general language had been drafted by Defense +Department officials. (The bill failed to pass the House for +unrelated reasons.) +"I think it is quite clear that they have snuck in there +some powers that are dangerous for us as a company and for the +public at large," said MCI vice president Kenneth Cox before the +Senate vote. +Since President Reagan took office, the Pentagon has stepped +up its efforts to rewrite the definition of national emergency +and give the military expanded powers in the United States. "The +declaration of 'emergency' has always been vague," says one +former administration official who left the government in 1982 +after ten years in top policy posts. "Different presidents have +invoked it differently. This administration would declare a +convenient 'emergency.'" In other words, what is a nuisance to +one administration might qualify as a burgeoning crisis to +another. For example, the Reagan administration might decide +that a series of protests on or near military bases constituted a +national emergency. +Should the Pentagon ever be given the green light, its base +for taking over the nation's communications system would be a +nondescript yellow brick building within the maze of high rises, +government buildings, and apartment complexes that make up the +Washington suburb of Arlington, Virginia. Headquartered in a +dusty and aging structure surrounded by a barbed-wire fence is an +obscure branch of the military known as the Defense +Communications Agency (DCA). It does not have the spit and +polish of the National Security Agency or the dozens of other +government facilities that make up the nation's capital. But its +lack of shine belies its critical mission: to make sure all of +America's far-flung military units can communicate with one +another. It is in certain ways the nerve center of our nation's +defense system. +On the second floor of the DCA's four-story headquarters is +a new addition called the National Coordinating Center (NCC). +Operated by the Pentagon, it is virtually unknown outside of a +handful of industry and government officials. The NCC is staffed +around the clock by representatives of a dozen of the nation's +largest commercial communications companies -- the so-called +"common carriers" -- including AT&T, MCI, GTE, Comsat, and ITT. +Also on hand are officials from the State Department, the CIA, +the Federal Aviation Administration, and a number of other +federal agencies. During a 606 emergency the Pentagon can order +the companies that make up the National Coordinating Center to +turn over their satellite, fiberoptic, and land-line facilities +to the government. +On a long corridor in the front of the building is a series +of offices, each outfitted with a private phone, a telex machine, +and a combination safe. It's known as "logo row" because each +office is occupied by an employee from one of the companies that +staff the NCC and because their corporate logos hand on the wall +outside. Each employee is on permanent standby, ready to +activate his company's system should the Pentagon require it. +The National Coordinating Center's mission is as grand as +its title is obscure: to make available to the Defense +Department all the facilities of the civilian communications +network in this country -- the phone lines, the long-distance +satellite hookups, the data transmission lines -- in times of +national emergency. If war breaks out and communications to a +key military base are cut, the Pentagon wants to make sure that +an alternate link can be set up as fast as possible. Company +employees assigned to the center are on call 24 hours a day; they +wear beepers outside the office, and when on vacation they must +be replaced by qualified colleagues. +The center formally opened on New Year's Day, 1984, the same +day Ma Bell's monopoly over the telephone network of the entire +United States was finally broken. The timing was no coincidence. +Pentagon officials had argued for years along with AT&T against +the divestiture of Ma Bell, on grounds of national security. +Defense Secretary Weinberger personally urged the attorney +general to block the lawsuit that resulted in the breakup, as had +his predecessor, Harold Brown. The reason was that rather than +construct its own communications network, the Pentagon had come +to rely extensively on the phone company. After the breakup the +dependence continued. The Pentagon still used commercial +companies to carry more than 90 percent of its communications +within the continental United States. +The 1984 divestiture put an end to AT&T's monopoly over the +nation's telephone service and increased the Pentagon's obsession +with having its own nerve center. Now the brass had to contend +with several competing companies to acquire phone lines, and +communications was more than a matter of running a line from one +telephone to another. Satellites, microwave towers, fiberoptics, +and other technological breakthroughs never dreamed of by +Alexander Graham Bell were in extensive use, and not just for +phone conversations. Digital data streams for computers flowed +on the same networks. +These facts were not lost on the Defense Department or the +White House. According to documents obtained by Omni, beginning +on December 14, 1982, a number of secret meetings were held +between high-level administration officials and executives of the +commercial communications companies whose employees would later +staff the National Coordinating Center. The meetings, which +continued over the next three years, were held at the White +House, the State Department, the Strategic Air Command (SAC) +headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, and at the +North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado +Springs. +The industry officials attending constituted the National +Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee -- called NSTAC +(pronounced N-stack) -- set up by President Reagan to address +those same problems that worried the Pentagon. It was at these +secret meetings, according to the minutes, that the idea of a +communications watch center for national emergencies -- the NCC +-- was born. Along with it came a whole set of plans that would +allow the military to take over commercial communications +"assets" -- everything from ground stations and satellite dishes +to fiberoptic cables -- across the country. +At a 1983 Federal Communications Commission meeting, a +ranking Defense Department official offered the following +explanation for the founding of the National Coordinating Center: +"We are looking at trying to make communications endurable for a +protracted conflict." The phrase protracted conflict is a +military euphemism for nuclear war. +But could the NCC survive even the first volley in such a +conflict? +Not likely. It's located within a mile of the Pentagon, +itself an obvious early target of a Soviet nuclear barrage (or a +conventional strike, for that matter). And the Kremlin +undoubtedly knows its location and importance, and presumably has +included it on its priority target list. In sum, according to +one Pentagon official, "The NCC itself is not viewed as a +survivable facility." +Furthermore, the NCC's "Implementation Plan," obtained by +Omni, lists four phases of emergencies and how the center should +respond to each. The first, Phase 0, is Peacetime, for which +there would be little to do outside of a handful of routine tasks +and exercises. Phase 1 is Pre Attack, in which alternate NCC +sites are alerted. Phase 2 is Post Attack, in which other NCC +locations are instructed to take over the center's functions. +Phase 3 is known as Last Ditch, and in this phase whatever +facility survives becomes the de facto NCC. +So far there is no alternate National Coordinating Center to +which NCC officials could retreat to survive an attack. +According to NCC deputy director William Belford, no physical +sites have yet been chosen for a substitute NCC, and even whether +the NCC itself will survive a nuclear attack is still under +study. +Of what use is a communications center that is not expected +to outlast even the first shots of a war and has no backup? +The answer appears to be that because of the Pentagon's +concerns about the AT&T divestiture and the disruptive effects it +might have on national security, the NCC was to serve as the +military's peacetime communications center. +The center is a powerful and unprecedented tool to assume +control over the nation's vast communications and information +network. For years the Pentagon has been studying how to take +over the common carriers' facilities. That research was prepared +by NSTAC at the DoD's request and is contained in a series of +internal Pentagon documents obtained by Omni. Collectively this +series is known as the Satellite Survivability Report. Completed +in 1984, it is the only detailed analysis to date of the +vulnerabilities of the commercial satellite network. It was +begun as a way of examining how to protect the network of +communications facilities from attack and how to keep it intact +for the DoD. +A major part of the report also contains an analysis of how +to make commercial satellites "interoperable" with Defense +Department systems. While the report notes that current +technical differences such as varying frequencies make it +difficult for the Pentagon to use commercial satellites, it +recommends ways to resolve those problems. Much of the report is +a veritable blueprint for the government on how to take over +satellites in orbit above the United States. This information, +plus NSDD 145's demand that satellite operators tell the NSA how +their satellites are controlled, guarantees the military ample +knowledge about operating commercial satellites. +The Pentagon now has an unprecedented access to the civilian +communications network: commercial databases, computer networks, +electronic links, telephone lines. All it needs is the legal +authority to use them. Then it could totally dominate the flow +of all information in the United States. As one high-ranking +White House communications official put it: "Whoever controls +communications, controls the country." His remark was made after +our State Department could not communicate directly with our +embassy in Manila during the anti-Marcos revolution last year. +To get through, the State Department had to relay all its +messages through the Philippine government. +Government officials have offered all kinds of scenarios to +justify the National Coordinating Center, the Satellite +Survivability Report, new domains of authority for the Pentagon +and the NSA, and the creation of top-level government steering +groups to think of even more policies for the military. Most can +be reduced to the rationale that inspired NSDD 145: that our +enemies (presumably the Soviets) have to be prevented from +getting too much information from unclassified sources. And the +only way to do that is to step in and take control of those +sources. +Remarkably, the communications industry as a whole has not +been concerned about the overall scope of the Pentagon's threat +to its freedom of operation. Most protests have been to +individual government actions. For example, a media coalition +that includes the Radio-Television Society of Newspaper Editors, +and the Turner Broadcasting System has been lobbying that before +the government can restrict the use of satellites, it must +demonstrate why such restrictions protect against a "threat to +distinct and compelling national security and foreign policy +interests." But the whole policy of restrictiveness has not been +examined. That may change sometime this year, when the Office of +Technology Assessment issues a report on how the Pentagon's +policy will affect communications in the United States. In the +meantime the military keeps trying to encroach on national +communications. +While it may seem unlikely that the Pentagon will ever get +total control of our information and communications systems, the +truth is that it can happen all too easily. The official +mechanisms are already in place; and few barriers remain to +guarantee that what we hear, see, and read will come to us +courtesy of our being members of a free and open society and not +courtesy of the Pentagon. + +================================================================= +Psi-Tech and alien brain-wave research -- Whats going on at Los Alamos? +

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HELP BUNGLED AND DISORGANIZED

+ +

By Martin Mann and George Nicholas +Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT

+ +

Washington, DC -- One after another, two violent, cataclysmic disasters +struck the United States in the fall of 1989. Hurricane Hugo roared +through the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the Carolinas in September. +Within weeks, northern California was shaken by the Loma Prieta earthquake +that left hundreds of thousands of victims and billions of dollars in +damage in its wake.

+ +

Having spent "over $25 billion on setting up FEMA," American taxpayers +were entitled to expect "quick and efficient help" from it in the face of +such shattering calamities. But the response by the Federal Emergency +Management Agency (FEMA) to these upheavals was "bungled" and +"disorganized," says Ray Groover, who reported on the hurricane for a San +Juan, Puerto Rico, newspaper and is now studying for a graduate degree in +journalism at Columbia University in New York.

+ +

Since the Disaster Relief Act of 1988, FEMA has been responsible for +coordinating the "[disaster] preparedness, response and recovery actions of +state and local governments." Unable to live up to these responsibilities +during the 1989 crisis, the agency drew sharp criticism from the press and +from Congress, whose leaders assigned the General Accounting Office (GAO) +to conduct the first-ever detailed investigation of FEMA.

+ +

For a year, GAO field examiners interviewed hundreds of disaster +victims, state and local relief workers, journalists and other witnesses. +The agency has assembled a 71-page report on U.S. relief operations.

+ +

WATCHDOG AGENCY RATES FEMA

+ +

Having obtained an advance copy of that survey, a team of SPOTLIGHT +reporters found that the congressional watchdog agency rated FEMA's ability +to deal with natural disasters as being "inefficient," "weak" and +"dilatory."

+ +

Noting that "emergency management includes three phases: +preparedness, response and recovery," GAO probers warned that FEMA failed +to operate "as efficiently as possible" in all these areas.

+ +

There was evidence of "inadequate planning ... inadequate or no +standard operating procedures ... [and a] lack of coordination" wherever +FEMA's bureaucrats intervened, the GAO report concluded. Among the results +of these botched relief attempts were "delays in providing disaster +assistance and duplicate payments for some [of FEMA's] activities," the +congressional overseers discovered.

+ +

One example of FEMA's failure cited by the GAO survey team involved +4000 low-income units wholly destroyed in California's devastating October +1989 earthquake. "Thirteen months later, only 114 units had been processed +and approved for [rehabilitation] funding," the report reveals. Similarly, +10 months after Hurricane Hugo, most of the families left homeless "had not +yet been provided with housing assistance from FEMA."

+ +

DIRECTORS SHELL GAME

+ +

Warned that the GAO report will expose FEMA as incompetent and +wasteful, President George Bush fired agency Director Julius Becton, an +elderly three-star general, whose principal qualifications for flag rank +was Henry Kissinger's wish to promote "minority" officers, Defense +Department sources say.

+ +

Becton was replace by Wallace Stickney, a former New Hampshire state +official whose colorless and low-profile reputation is expected to dampen +the fireworks the GAO report might otherwise touch off about the inadequacy +of federal relief operations.

+ +

But simply shifting directors "does not answer the real question: If +[FEMA officials] seem uninterested and negligent when it comes to disaster +response, what are FEMA's thousands of bureaucrats working on?" asked +Groover.

+ +

The answer, a SPOTLIGHT investigation has found, is that FEMA's +leadership is developing programs that will not merely "[ensure] the +continuity of the federal government in any national emergency-type +situation," as decreed by President Gerald Ford in Executive Order 11921, +but REPLACE the nation's Constitutional statecraft with a centralized +"command system."

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Reproduced with permission from a special supplement to _The Spotlight_, +May 25, 1992. This text may be freely reproduced provided acknowledgement +to The Spotlight appears, including this address:

+ +

The SPOTLIGHT +300 Independence Avenue, SE +Washington, DC 20003

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FEVERFEW: A HERBAL REMEDY FOR MIGRAINE? + +"Some of the world's most effective medicines began their +careers as herbal remedies: digitalis came from foxglove, aspirin +from willow bark, and morphine from poppy blossoms. Potentially +the newest plant to cross over from folklore to mainstream +treatment is a member of the chyrsanthemum family known as common +feverfew or, botanically, Tanacetum parthenium. + +"The name 'feverfew' indicates the belief, dating from the +middle ages, that the herb was a good treatment for fever and +certain other ailments, including arthritis, psoriasis, and +headaches. In modern England, eating feverfew leaves has become +a familiar method for prevention migraine attacks, and there is +now some reason to think that the folklore about feverfew has a +grain or two of truth to it. Some people for whom the usual +migraine treatments have not been very effective have turned to +feverfew. The typical users eats 1-4 fresh leaves a day. Food +is usually taken at the same time to mask the leaves' bitter +taste. Tablets and capsules containing dried feverfew have also +begun to appear in...health food store shelves. + +"To evaluate the remedy, a group of British researchers +designed a controlled study. However, they did not feel free to +give feverfew to people who had never taken it, because the agent +has not gone through animal studies, as is appropriate before a +drug is tested in people. But they hit on a human test of +feverfew that was both rigorous and ethical. Many of the +patients seen in the City of London Migraine Clinic had already +been dosing themselves with feverfew for long periods of time as +a way to reduce migraine attacks. So, instead of setting up a +test in which the drug was GIVEN to subjects, investigators from +the clinic set up a test in which feverfew was TAKEN AWAY. + +"The doctors identified patients who were dosing themselves +with feverfew and asked them to participate in a study. During +the research period, the subjects would take their medication +either as freeze-dried herb or as a placebo (presented in +identical-looking capsules). After a period on one preparation, +they would switch to the other, and then repeat the two stages +again. In this type of "double-blind crossover" test, neither +researcher nor subject is told which treatment is being given. +However, patients easily guessed when they were receiving placebo +because the frequency of headache and nausea virtually tripled, +and severity also increased markedly. These results support the +claim that a daily dose of something contained in feverfew may be +effective in preventing migraine attacks. + +"The people studied had no serious ill effects while taking +feverfew, but that was to be expected, as they had been taking +the herb for some time. People who had tried the plaint and then +quit because they couldn't tolerate would have been excluded from +this study. Feverfew is capable of producing rather marked +allergic reactions; some people who try it develop sores in the +mouth or, less commonly, a generalized inflammation of the mouth +and tongue. + +This first test of the effectiveness of feverfew must be +regarded as preliminary. It will no doubt lead to more thorough +testing, as it should. Even if feverfew pans out as preventive +medicine for migraine, it probably will not prove to be the +'answer.' But it may join the growing list of effective +treatments for a very unpleasant disorder." + +Quoted from the April 1986 edition of the Harvard Medical +School Health Letter, reporting on research appearing in the +British Medical Journal, August 31, 1985. +

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FOREIGN POLICY AND FOREIGN WARS

+ +

By RICHARD M. EBELING

+ +

When the Founding Fathers wrote and then defended the case for +passage of the Constitution in 1787-1788, they did so with a +strong belief in the natural rights of man, rights that Thomas +Jefferson had so eloquently expressed in the Declaration of +Independence in 1776. But their idealism was tempered with +stark realism, based on historical knowledge and personal +experience, about both human nature and the nature of +governments.

+ +

The separation of legislative, executive and judicial powers +was considered essential if the human inclination toward +political abuse of power was to be prevented. "No political +truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped +with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty," +stated James Madison in The Federalist Papers, "than that +. . . [t]he accumulation of all power, legislative, executive +and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or +many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may +justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

+ +

Division of power and responsibilities, therefore, was seen as +an essential--though neither a perfect nor guaranteed--tool to +assure that the freedom and property of individuals would not +become political plunder to be devoured by either majorities +or minorities.

+ +

Issues concerning war and peace and individual liberty were of +deep concern to the Founding Fathers for the same reason. When +the matter came up at the convention as to which branch of +government would have the authority to "make war," +disagreement arose. Pierce Butler of South Carolina wanted +that power to reside in the President who, he said, "will have +all the requisite qualities." James Madison and Elbridge Gerry +of Massachusetts were for "leaving to the Executive the power +to repel sudden attacks" but proposed changing the wording to +"declare" rather than "make war," and then only with the +approval of both Houses of Congress. Oliver Ellsworth of +Connecticut agreed, saying that "It should be more easy to get +out of war than into it." And George Mason of Virginia also +was "against giving the power of war to the Executive, because +[he was] not safely to be trusted with it." Mason "was for +clogging rather than facilitating war."

+ +

Thus, in the final, ratified Constitution, the Congress, in +Article I, Section 8, was given the sole authority, "To +Declare War," while the President, in Article II, Section 2, +was made "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the +United States, and the Militia of the several States, when +called into the actual service of the United States." Civilian +authority over the military was established, with +Constitutionally divided power over its application in war: +Congress declared war, and the President oversaw its +execution.

+ +

The Founding Fathers possessed no misconceptions about the +potentially aggressive nature of governments toward their +neighbors. John Jay, in The Federalist Papers, insightfully +enumerated the various motives, rationales and passions that +had led nations down the road to war through the ages.

+ +

But neither did they have any illusions that Americans could +be any less susceptible to similar motives and passions. The +Constitution, through a division of powers, was meant to put +procedural hurdles and delays in the way before the passions +of the moment could result in declarations of war and the +initiation of hostilities against other nations.

+ +

Yet, in spite of these Constitutional restraints, the United +States has participated in four foreign wars in the 20th +century--two World Wars, the Korean "police action" and the +Vietnam conflict--and in three of these, the United States was +neither directly attacked nor threatened by a foreign enemy. +Why, then, did we intervene?

+ +

The answer lies in the ideology of the welfare state. First in +the years preceding World War I, and then again in the 1930s, +American intellectuals and politicians undertook grand +experiments in social engineering. The Progressive Era of +Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and the New Deal days +of Franklin D. Roosevelt, were the crucial decades for the +implementation of the politics of government intervention and +economic regulation. It was the duty and responsibility of the +state to manage, oversee and control the social and economic +affairs of the citizenry.

+ +

The social engineers believed that people left alone to manage +their own affairs invariably went astray, with the result +being poverty, economic exploitation and social decay. +Enlightened leadership, under wise government, would provide +the population with the economic prosperity and social harmony +that the governmental policy-makers knew, in their hearts, +that they had the knowledge and expertise to provide. The +good wanted state power so they could benefit their fellow +men.

+ +

And what was good for Americans at home, surely would be no +less beneficial for the masses of people across the oceans. +Was not Europe a caldron of political intrigue and corruption? +Were not the people of Asia, Africa and Latin America +suffering in squalor and ignorance, the victims of tribal +despots and imperialist exploitors--easy prey to that even +greater threat of communist propaganda and revolution?

+ +

America's first crusade was in 1917, when Woodrow Wilson, +insisting that the United States had the moral duty to take +the lead and "make the world safe for democracy," had asked +for, and got, a declaration of war from Congress. Americans, +however, were repulsed in the years following World War I, +when instead of democracy, they saw that all that came out of +our participation in that noble crusade had been communism in +Russia, fascism in Italy, Nazism in Germany and imperialist +spoils for the victorious European allies.

+ +

But World War II seemed to offer the opportunity for a second +chance. The American "arsenal of democracy" would free the +world of Hitler and Imperial Japan and then pursue an +international course of permanent foreign intervention to +create "a better world." What the world got was the Cold War, +with the Soviet Union gaining an Eastern European empire, and +with China being lost behind what became known as the +communist "Bamboo Curtain."

+ +

America's rewards were global commitments that required +hundreds of thousands of American soldiers permanently +stationed in Europe; two bloody wars in Asia that cost the +lives of over a hundred thousand Americans; a huge defense +budget that siphoned off hundreds of billions of dollars from +the private sector for four decades; and even more tens of +billions of dollars in military and foreign aid to any +government, in any part of the world, no matter how corrupt, +just as long as it declared itself "anti-communist." And as +one of the founders of Human Events, Felix Morley, pointed out +in his book, Freedom and Federalism, in the heyday of +Keynesian economics in the 1950s and 1960s, defense spending +became a tool for "priming the pump" and guaranteeing "full +employment" through government expenditures.

+ +

But communism is now dying under the weight of its own +political corruption and economic failures. And the European +and Asian countries that benefited from decades of being on +the American defense and foreign aid dole have decided they +want to grow up and manage their own affairs.

+ +

But rather than be delighted that the Cold War Welfare State +can finally be ended, American political and foreign policy +makers are petrified. The global social engineers in +Washington are suddenly faced with a world that doesn't want +to be under the tutelage of American paternalism and +dominance. They are busy scrambling for some way to "keep +America in Europe," maintain Washington's political control +and influence over international affairs and guarantee that +America will remain "in harm's way," potentially drawn into +numerous controversies and conflicts around the world.

+ +

If it is undesirable for the United States government to +intervene in the economic and social affairs of its citizenry +--as the advocate of individual freedom steadfastly believes +--then it is equally undesirable for the United States +government to intervene in the internal affairs of other +nations, or the conflicts that sometimes arise among nations.

+ +

The first duty of the American government is to protect the +life, liberty and property of the citizens of the United +States from foreign aggressors. Once a government sets itself +the task of trying to rectify the errors and choices of its +own citizens, it soon begins sliding down a slippery slope in +which the end result is state supervision and regulation of +all of its citizens' activities, and all in the name of a +higher "social good."

+ +

Just as our neighbors often do things of which we do not +approve, or which we do not consider good or wise, so do other +nations. But to follow the path of attempting to set the world +straight can lead to nothing but perpetual intervention and +war in the name of world peace and global welfare. And these +have been precisely the results of America's global crusade to +save the world since 1945.

+ +

The end of communism, and the economic growth of Europe and +Asia, give us a new opportunity to foreswear the global +welfare state, free ourselves from foreign political and +military entanglements, and follow George Washington's wise +advice of free commercial relationships with all, but foreign +alliances and intrigues with none.

+ +

Professor Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of +Economics at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, and also +serves as vice-president of academic affairs of The Future of +Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +From the November 1990 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1990, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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FOIA FILES KIT - INSTRUCTIONS

+ +

USING THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT +REVISED EDITION +Fund for Open Information and Accountability, Inc. +339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012 +(212) 477-3188

+ +

INSTRUCTIONS

+ +

The Freedom of Information Act entitles you to request any +record maintained by a federal Executive branch agency. The +agency must release the requested matieral unless it falls into +one of nine exempt categores, such as "national security," +"privacy," "confidential source" and the like, in which case the +agency may but is not compelled to refuse to disclose the +records. +This kit contains all the material needed to make FOIA +requests for records on an individual, an orgnaization or on a +particular subject matter or event.

+ +

HOW TO MAKE A COMPLETE REQUEST

+ +

Step 1: Select the appropriate smaple letter. Fill in the +blanks in the body of the letter. Read the directions printed to +the right of each letter in conjunction with the following +instructions: +For organizational files: In the first blank space insert +the full and formal name of the organization whose files you are +requesting. In the second blank space insert any other names, +acronyms or shortened forms by which the organization is or has +ever been known or referred to by itself or others. If some of +the organization's work is conducted by sub-groups such as clubs, +committees, special programs or through coalitions known by other +names, these should be listed. +For individual files: Insert the person's full name in the +first blank space and any vaiations in spelling, nicknames, stage +names, marriage names, titles and the like in the second blank +space. Unlike other requests, the signatures of an individual +requesting her/his own file must be notarized. +For subject matter or event files: In the first blank space +state the formal title of the subject matter or event including +relevant dates and locations. In the second blank space provide +the names of individuals or group sponsors or participants and/or +any other information that would assist the agency in locating +the material you are requesting. +Step 2: The completed sample letter may be removed, +photocopies and mailed as is or retyped on your own stationary. +Be sure to keep a copy of each letter. +Step 3: Addressing the letters: Consult list of agency +addresses. +FBI: A complete request requires a minimum of two letters. +Sen done letter to FBI Headquarters and separate letter to each +FBI field office nearest the location of the individual, the +organization or the subject matter/event. Consdier the location +of residences, schools, work and other activities. +INS: Send a request letter to each district office nearest +the location of the individual, the organization or the subject +matter/event. +Address each letter to the FOIA/PA office of the appropraite +agency. Be sure to make clearly on the envelope: ATTENTION--FOIA +REQUEST.

+ +

FEE WAIVER

+ +

You will notice that the sample letters include a request +for fee waiver. Many agencies automatically waive fees if a +request results in the release of only a small number of +documents, e.g. 250 pages or less. Under the Act, you are +entitled to a waiver of all search and copy fees associated with +your request if the release of the information would primarily +benefit the general public. However, in January 1983, the Justice +Department issued a memo to all federal agencies listing five +criteria which requesters must meet before they are deemed +entitled to a fee waiver. Under these criteria, a requester must +show that the material sought to be released is already the +subject of "genuine public interest" and "meaningfully +contributes to the public development or understanding of the +subject"; and that she/he has the qualifications to understand +and evaluate the materials and the ability to interpret and +disseminate the information to th epublic and is not motivated by +any "personal interest." Finally, if the requested information is +already "in the public domain," such as in the agency's reading +room, no fee waiver will be granted. +You should always request a waiver of fees if you believe +the information you are seeking will benefit the public. If your +request for a waiver is denied, you should appeal that denial, +citing the ways in which your request meets the standards set out +above.

+ +

MONITORING THE PROGRESS OF YOUR REQUEST

+ +

Customarily, you will receive a letter from each agency +within 10 days stating that your request has been received and is +being processed. You may be asked to be patient and told that +requests are handled cafeteria style. You have no alternative but +to be somewhat patient. but there is no reason to be complacent +and simply sit and wait. +A good strategy is to telephone the FOIA office in each +agency after about a month if nothing of substance has been +received. Ask for a progress report. The name of the person you +talk with and the gist of the converstaion should be recorded. +try to take notes during the conversation focusing especially on +what is said by the agency official. Write down all the details +you can recall after the call is completed. Continue to call +every 4 to 6 weeks. +Good recordkeeping helps avoid time-consuming and +frustrating confusion. A looseleaf notebook with a section +devoted to each request simplifies this task. Intervening +correspondence to and from the agency can be inserted bewteen the +notes on phone calls so that all relevant material will be at +hand for the various tasks: phone consultations, writing the +newsletter, correspondence, articles, preparation for media +appearances, congressional testimony or litigation, if that +course is adopted.

+ +

HOW TO MAKE SURE YOU GET EVERYTHING YOU ARE ENTITLED TO ... +AND WHAT TO DO IF YOU DO NOT

+ +

After each agency has searched and processed your request, +you will receive a letter that announces the outcome, encloses +the released documents, if any, and explains where to direct an +appeal if any material has been withheld. There are four possible +outcomes: +1. Request granted in full: This response indicates that +the agency has released all records pertinent to your request, +with no exclusions or withholdings. The documents may be enclosed +or, if bulky, may be mailed under separate cover. This is a very +rare outcome. +Next Step: Check documents for completeness (see +instructions below). +2. Requested granted in part and denied in part: This +response indicates that the agency is releasing some material but +has withheld some documents entirely or excized some passages +from the documents released. The released documents may be +enclosed or, if bulky, mailed under separate cover. +Next step: Check documents released for completeness (see +instructions below) and make an administrative appeal of denials +or incompleteness (see instructions below). +3. Request denied in full: This response indicates that +the agency is asserting that all material in its files pertaining +to your request falls under one or the nine FOIA exemptions. +These are categories of information that the agency may, at its +discretion, refuse to release. +Next step: Make an administrative appeal (see instructions +below). Since FOIA exemptions are not mandatory, even a complete +denial of your request can and should be appeals. +4. No records: This response will state that a search of +the agency's files indicates that it has no records corresponding +to those you requested. +Next step: Check your original request to be sure you have +not overlooked anything. If you receive documents from other +agencies, review them for indications that there is matieral in +the files of the agency claiming it has none. For example, look +for correspondence, or references to correspondence, to or from +that agency. If you determine that there are reasonable grounds, +file an administrative appeal (see instructions below).

+ +

HOW TO CHECK FOR COMPLETENESS

+ +

Step 1: Before reading the documents, turn them over and +number the back of each page sequentilaly. The packet may contain +documents from the agency's headquarters as well as several field +office files. Separate the documents into their respective office +packets. Each of these offices will have assigned the +investigation a separate file number. Try to find the numbering +system. Usually the lower righthand corner of the first page +carries a hand-written file and document number. For instance, an +FBI document might be marked "100-7142-22". This would indicate +that it is the 22nd document in the 7142nd file in the 100 +classification. As you inspect the documents, make a list of +these file numbers and which office they represent. In this way +you will be able to determine which office created and which +office received the document you have in your hand. Often there +is a block stamp affixed with the name of the office from whose +files this copy was retrieved. the "To/From" heading on a +document may also give you corresponding file numbers and will +help you puzzle out the origin of the document. +When you have finally identified eahc document's file and +serial number and separated the documents into their proper +office batches, make a list of all the serial numbers in each +batch to see if there any any missing numbers. If there are +missing serial numbers and some documents have been withheld, try +to determine if the missing numbers might reasonably correspond +to the withheld documents. If not, the realease may be incomplete +and an administrative appeal should be made. +Step 2: Read all the document released to you. Keep a list +of all document referred to the text--letters, memos, teletypes, +reports, etc. Each of these "referred to" documents should turn +up in the packet released to you. If any are not in the packet, +it is possible they may be among those document withheld; a +direct inquiry should be made. In an administrative appeal, ask +that each of these "referred to" documents be produced or that +the agency state plainly that they are among those withheld. Of +course, the totals of unproduced vs. withheld must be within +reasons; that is, if the total number of unproduced documents you +find referred to the text of the documents produced exceeds the +total number of documents withheld, the agency cannot claim that +all the referred to documents are accounted for by the withheld +categoty. You will soon get the hand of making logical +conclusions from discrepancies in the totals and missing document +numbers. +Another thing to look for when reading the released +documents if the names of persons or agencies to whom the +document has been disseminated. the lower left-hadn corncer is a +common location for the typed list of agencies or offices to whom +the document has been directed. In addition, there may be +additional distribution recorded by hand, there or elsewhere on +the cover page. There are published glossaries for some agencies +that will help in deciphering these notaitons when they are not +clear. Contact FOIA, Inc., if you need assistance in deciphering +the text. +Finally, any other file numbers that appear on the document +should be noted, particularaly in the subject of the file is of +interest and is one you have not requested. You may want to make +an additional request for some of these files.

+ +

HOW TO MAKE AN ADMINISTRATIVE APPEAL

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Under the FOIA, a dissatified requester has the right of +administrative appeal. the name and address of the proper appeal +office will be given to you by each agency in its final response +letter. +This kit contains a sample appeal letter with suggesting for +adapting it to various circumstances. However, you need not make +such an elaborate appeal; in fact, you need not offer any reasons +at all but rather simply write a letter to the appeals unit +stating that "this letter constitutes an appeal of the agency's +decision." Of course, if you have identified some real +discrepanices, you will want to set them for fully, but even if +you have not found any, you may simply ask that the release be +reviewed. +If you are still dissatisfied after the administrative +appeal process, the FOIA gives you the right to bring a lawsuit +in federal district court on an expedited basis.

+ +

SAMPLE FBI REQUEST LETTER

+ +

Date:

+ +

To: FOIA/PA Unit +Federal Bureau of Investigation

+ +

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act.

+ +

I request a complete and thorough search of all filing +systems and locations for all records maintained by your agency +pertaining to and/or captioned: ______ +_____________________________________________________ +[describe records desired and/or insert full and +_____________________________________________________ +formal name] +_____________________________________________________

+ +

_____________________________________________________

+ +

including, without limitations, files and documents captioned, or +whose captions include

+ +

_____________________________________________________ +[insert changes in name, commonly used names, +_____________________________________________________ +acronyms, sub-groups, and the like] +_____________________________________________________

+ +

_____________________________________________________

+ +

This request specifically includes "main" files and "see +references," including, but not limited to numbered and lettered +sub files, "DO NOT FILE" files, and control files. I also request +a search of the ELSUR Index,a nd the COINTELPRO Index. I request +that all records be produced with the administrative pges. +I wish to be sent copies of "see reference" cards, +abstracts, serach slips, including search slips used to process +this request, file covers, multiple copies of the same documents +if they appear in a file, and tapes of any electronic +surveillances. +I wish to make it clear that I want all records in you +roffice "identifiable with my request," even though reports on +those records have been sent to Headquarters and even though +there may be duplication between the two sets of fils. I do not +want just "interim" documents. I want all documents as they +appear in the "main" files and "see references" of all units of +your agency. +If documents are denied in whole or in part, please specify +which exemption(s) is(are) claimed for each passage or whole +document denied. Please provide a complete itemized inventory and +a detailed factual justification of total or partial denial of +documents. Give the number of pages in each document and the +total number of pages pertaining to this request. For +"classified" material denied pleae include the following +information: the classification (confidential, secret or top +secret); identity of the classifer; date or event for automatic +declassification, classification review, or down-grading; if +applicable, identity of official authorizing extension of +automatic declassification or review; and if applicable, the +reason for extended classification. +I request that excized material be "blacked out" rather +thatn "whited out" or cut out and that the remaining non-exempt +portions of documents will be released as provided under the +Freedom of Information Act. +Please send a memo (copy to me) to the appropriate units in +your office to assure that no records related to this request are +destroyed. Please advise of any destruction of records and +include the date of and authority for such destruction. +As I expect to appeal any denials, please specify the office +and address to which an appeal should be directed. +I believe my request qualifies for a waiver of fees since +the release of the requested information would primarily benefit +the general public and be "in the public interest." +I can be reached at the phone listed below. Please call +rather than write if there are any questions or if you need +additional information from me. +I expect a response to this request within ten (10) working +days, as provided for in the Freedom of Information Act.

+ +

Sincerely,

+ +

name: _______________________________________________

+ +

address: ____________________________________________

+ +

____________________________________________

+ +

telephone: __________________________________________

+ +

signature: __________________________________________

+ +

SAMPLE AGENCY REQUEST LETTER

+ +

DATE: +TO: FOIA/PA Unit

+ +

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. +I request a complete and thorough search of all filing +systems and locations for all records maintained by your agency +pertaining to and/or captioned +______________________________________________________ +[describe records desired and/or insert full and +______________________________________________________ +formal name] +______________________________________________________

+ +

______________________________________________________

+ +

including, without limitation, files and documents captioned, or +whose captions include:

+ +

______________________________________________________ +[insert changes in name, commonly used names, +______________________________________________________ +acronyms, sub-groups and the like] +______________________________________________________

+ +

______________________________________________________

+ +

I also request all "see references" to these names, a search +of the ELSUR Index or any similar technique for locating records +of electronic surveillance. +This request is also a request for any corresponding files +in INS Headquarters or regional offices. +Please place any "missing" files pertaining to this request +on "special locate" and advise that you have done this. +If documents are denied in part or whole, please specify +which exemption(s) is(are) claimed for each passage or whole +document denied. Please provide a complete itemized inventory and +detialed factual justification of total or partial denial of +documents. Specify the number of pates in each document and th +ttoal number of pages pertaining to this request. For classified +material denied, please include the following information: the +classification rating (confidential, secret, or top secret); +identify the classifier; date or event for automatic +declassification, classification review or downgrading; if +applicable, identify the official authorizing extension of +automatic declassification or reviw; and, if applicable, give the +reason for extended classification. +I request that excised material be "blacked out" rather than +"whited out" or cut out. I expect, as provided by the Freedom of +Information Act, that the remaining non-exempt portions of +documents will be released. +Please send a memo (copy to me) to the appropriate units in +your office or agency to assure that no records related to this +request are destroyed. Please advise of any destruction of +records and include the date of and authority for such +destruction. +As I expect to appeal any denials, please specify the office +and address to which an appeal should be directed. +I believe my request qualifies for a waiver of fees since +the release of the requested information would primarily benefit +the general public and be "in the public interest." +I can be reached at the phone listed below. Please call +rather than write if there are any questions or if you need +additional information from me. +I expect a response to this request within ten (10) working +days, as provided for in the Freedom of Information Act.

+ +

Sincerely,

+ +

name: _______________________________________________

+ +

address: ____________________________________________

+ +

____________________________________________

+ +

telephone: (___)_______________________________________

+ +

signature: __________________________________________

+ +

SAMPLE ADMINISTRATIVE APPEAL LETTER

+ +

Date: +To: FOIA/PA Appeals Office +RE: Request numer [Add this if the agency has given your request +a number] +This is an appeal pursuant to subsection (a)(6) of the +Freedom of Information Act as amended (5U.S.C. 552). +On [date], I received a letter from [name of official] of +your agency denying my request for [describe briefly the +information you are after]. This reply indicated that an appeal +letter could be sent to you. I am enclosing a copy of my exchange +of correspondence with your agency so that you can see exactly +what files I have requested and the insubstantial grounds on +which my request has been denied. +[Optional paragraph, to be used if the agency has withheld +all or nearly all the material which has been requested]: +You will note that your agency has withheld the entire (or +nearly the entire) document (or file, or report, or whatever) +that I requested. Since the FOIA provides that "any reasonably +secregable portion of a record shall be provided to any eprson +requesting such record after deletion of the portions which are +exempt," I believe that your agency has not complied with the +FOIA. I believe that there must be (additional) segregble +portions which do not fall within FOIA exemptions and which must +be released. +[Optional paragraph, to be used in the agency has used the +(b)(1) exemption for national security, to withhold information] +Your agency has used the (b)(1) exemption to withhold +information [I question whether files relating to events that +took place over twenty years ago could realistically harm the +national security.] [Because I am familiar with my own activities +during the period in question, and know that none of these +activities in any way posed a significant threat to the national +security, I question the designation of my files or portions of +my file as classified and exempt from disclosure beca8use of +national security considerations.] +[Sample optional argument to be used if the exemption which +is claimed does not seem to make sense; you should cite as many +specific instances as you care to of items withheld from the +documents that you ahve received. We provide two examples which +you might want to adampt to your own case.] +"On the memo dated _____________ the second paragraph +withheld under the (b)(1) exemption appears to be describing a +conversation at an open meeting. If this is the case, it is +impossible that the substance of this converation could be +properly classified." Or, "The memo dated _____ refers to a +meeting which I attended, but a substantial portion is deleted +because of the (b)(6) and (b)(7)(c) exemptions for unwarranted +invasions of personal privacy. Since I already know who attended +this meeting, no privacy interest is served by the withholding." +I trust that upon examination of my request, you will +conclude that the records I requested are not properly covered by +exemption(s) [here repeat the exemptions which the agency's +denial letter claimed applied to your request] of the amended +FOIA, and that you will overrule the decision to withhold the +information. +[Use if an itemized inventory is not supplied originally] +If you choose instead to continue to withhold some or all of +the material which was denied in my initial request to your +agency, I ask that you give me an index of such matieral, +together with the justification for the denial of each item which +is still withheld. +As provided in the Act, I will expect to receive a reply to +this administrative appeal letter within twenty working days. +If you deny this appeal and do not adequately explain why +the material withheld is properly exempt, I intend to initial a +lawsuit to compel its disclosure. [You can say that you intend to +sue, if that is your present inclination; you may still decide +ultimately not to file suit.]

+ +

Sincerely yours,

+ +

name: ____________________________________________

+ +

address: ____________________________________________

+ +

____________________________________________

+ +

signature: ___________________________________________

+ +

[Mark clearly on envelope: Attention: Freedom of Information +Appeals]

+ +

FBI ADDRESSES AND PHONE NUMBERS

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FBI Headquarters, J. Edgar Hoover Bldg, Washington, D.C., 20535, +202-324-5520 (FOI/PA Unit)

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Field Offices +Albany, NY 12207, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, 518-465-7551 +Albuquerque, NM 87101, Federal Office Bldg., 505-247-1555 +Alexandria, VA 22314, 300 N. Lee St., 703-683-2681 +Anchorage, AK 99510, Federal bldg., 907-272-6414 +Atlanta, GA 30303, 275 Peachtree St. NE, 404-521-3900 +Baltimore, MD 21207, 7142 Ambassador Rd., 301-265-8080 +Birminghan, AL 35203, Room 1400, 2121 Bldg. 205-252-7705 +Boston, MA 02203, J.F. Kennedy Federal Office Bldg., 617-742-5533 +Buffalo, NY 14202, 111 W. Huron St., 716-856-7800 +Butte, MT 59701, U.S. Courthouse and Federal Bldg., 406-792-2304 +Charlotte, NC 28202, Jefferson Standard Life Bldg., 704-372-5485 +Chicago, IL 60604, Everett McKinley Dirksen Bldg., 312-431-1333 +Cincinnati, OH 45202, 400 U.S. Post Office & Crthse Bldg., 513-421-4310 +Cleveland, OH 44199, Federal Office Bldg., 216-522-1401 +Columbia, SC 29201, 1529 Hampton St., 803-254-3011 +Dallas TX 75201, 1810 Commrce St., 214-741-1851 +Denver, CO 80202, Federal Office Bldg., 303-629-7171 +Detroit, MI 48226, 477 Michigan Ave., 313-965-2323 +El Paso, TX 79901, 202 U.S. Courthosue Bldg., 915-533-7451 +Honolulu, HI 96850, 300 Ala Moana Blvd., 808-521-1411 +Houston, TX 77002, 6015 Fed. Bldg and U.S.Courthouse, 713-224-1511 +Indianapolis, IN 46202, 575 N. Pennsylvania St., 317-639-3301 +Jackson, MS 39205, Unifirst Federal and Loan Bldg., 601-948-5000 +Jacksonville, FL 32211, 7820 Arlington Expressway, 904-721-1211 +Kansas City, MO 64106, 300 U.S. Courthouse Bldg., 816-221-6100 +Knoxville, TN 37919, 1111 Northshore Dr., 615-588-8571 +Las Vegas, NV 89101, Federal Office Bldg., 702-385-1281 +Little Rock, AR 72201, 215 U.S Post Office Bldg., 501-372-7211 +Los Angeles, CA 90024, 11000 Wilshire Blvd, 213-272-6161 +Louisville, KY 40202, Federal Bldg., 502-583-3941 +Memphis, TN 38103, Clifford Davis Federal bldg., 901-525-7373 +Miami, FL 33137, 3801 Biscayne Blvd., 305-573-3333 +Milwaukee, WI 53202, Federal Bldg and U.S. Courthouse, 414-276-4681 +Minneapolis, MN 55401, 392 Federal Bldg., 612-339-7846 +Mobile, AL 36602, Federal Bldg., 205-438-3675 +Newark, NJ 07101, Gateway I, Market St., 201-622-5613 +New Haven, CT 06510, 170 Orange St., 203-777-6311 +New Orleans, LA 70113, 701 Loyola Ave., 504-522-4671 +New York, NY 10007, 26 Federal Plaza, 212-553-2700 +Norfolk, VA, 23502, 870 N. Military Hwy., 804-461-2121 +Oklahoma City, OK 73118, 50 Penn Pl. NW, 405-842-7471 +Omaha, NB 68102, 215 N. 17th St., 402-348-1210 +Philadelpha, PA 19106, Federal Office Bldg., 215-629-0800 +Phoenix, AZ 85004, 2721 N. central Ave., 602-279-5511 +Pittsburgh, PA 15222, Federal Office Bldg., 412-471-2000 +Portland, OR 97201, Crown Plaza Bldg., 503-224-4181 +Richmond, VA 23220, 200 W. Grace St., 804-644-2531 +Sacramento, CA 95825, Federal Bldg., 916-481-9110 +St. Louis, MO 63103, 2704 Federal Bldg., 314-241-5357 +Salt Lake City, UT 84138, Federal Bldg., 801-355-7521 +San Diego, CA 92188, Federal Office Bldg., 619-231-1122 +San Francisco, CA 94102, 450 Golden Gate Ave., 415-552-2155 +San Juan, PR 00918 U.S. Courthouse and Fed. Bldg., 809-754-6000 +Savannah, GA 31405, 5401 Paulson St., 912-354-9911 +Seattle, WA 98174, 915 2nd Ave., 206-622-0460 +Springfield, IL 62702, 535 W. Jefferson St., 217-522-9675 +Tampa, FL 33602, Federal Office Bldg., 813-228-7661 +Washington, DC 20535, 9th and Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 202-324-3000

+ +

FEDERAL AGENCIES (SELECTED ADDRESSES)

+ +

Central Intelligence Agency +Information and Privacy Coordinator +Central Intelligence Agency +Washington, D.C. 20505 +202-351-5659

+ +

Civil Service Commission +Appropriate Bureau (Bureau of Personnel Investigation, +Bureau of Personnel Information Systems, etc.) +Civil Service Commission +1900 E Street, N.W. +Washington, D.C. 20415 +202-632-4431

+ +

Commission on Civil Rights +General Counsel, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights +1121 Vermont Ae., N.W. Room 600 +Washington, D.C. 20415 +202-254-6610

+ +

Consumer Product Safety Commission +Office of the Secretary +Consumer Product Safety Commission +1111 18th St., N.W. +Washington, D.C. 20207 +202-624-7700

+ +

Department of Defense/Dept. of Air Force +Freedom of Information Manager +Headquarters, USAF/DADF +Washington, D.C. 20330-5025 +202-697-3467 + + + +

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Reproducible Electronic Publishing can defeat censorship.

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This file, its printout, or copies of either +are to be copied and given away, but NOT sold.

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Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +**** ****

+ +

FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY

+ +

A Documented Record of the Foundations of the +Christian Religion

+ +

by +Joseph Wheless

+ +

Lately Major, Judge Advocate, U.S.A.; Associate Editor +(in section of comparative Law) of American Bar +Association Journal; Life Member of American +Law Institute; etc. +**** ****

+ +

Dedicated +In grateful appreciation

+ +

TO +Henry L. Mencken +Dean of American Letters and Critics +Theologian Emeritus of +a Treaties on the Gods

+ +

Published by +"PSYCHIANA" +Moscow, Idaho

+ +

Copyright 1930 +**** **** +FOREWORD

+ +

THE DISEASE AND THE CURE

+ +

"ALL TRUTH is safe, and nothing else is +safe; and he who keeps back the truth, or +withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal, or +both." +MAX MULLER, +The Science of Religion, p. 11.

+ +

"The time has come for honest men to denounce +false teachers and attack false gods." +Luther Burbank

+ +

MAN IS A RELIGIOUS ANIMAL -- is incurably religious," are +commonplaces of clerical rhetoric. The priestly "Doctors of +Divinity" who unctuously utter these pious -- and apocryphal -- +platitudes -- fathered by the wish, -- urge the incurable state of +mind -- the religious neurosis of their patients in proof of the

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divinely ordered nature of the malady, as patent of the necessity +and importance of their "sacred science" of soul-cure, and the +divine warrant for their continuance in perpetuity in their +practice upon otherwise damned humanity.

+ +

It is the ghostly Doctors themselves, however, who by their +quackeries have created the fiction of the disease, and who +purposely keep the patient opiated and on the crutches of Faith, in +order to "make their calling and election sure," and to perpetuate +their thralling dominion over the mind and money of man. The first +recorded priestly ban -- by threat and fear of death -- was on +Nature's own Golden Specific for superstition and priestcraft, -- +the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge: "Thou shalt not eat of it: for +in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." (Gen. +ii, 17.) A warden with a flaming sword was posted to guard the +Tree: sword, and rack, and stake, civil and political outlawry, +social and business ostracism and loss of living, odious Odium +Theologicum and foul calumny, have ever since been -- so far as +possible yet are the consecrated weapons of priestcraft to keep +mankind ignorant and obedient to the priests. "No beast in nature +is so implacable as an offended saint," is axiomatic of those who +prate of loving their enemies. As Jurgen picturesquely says: "The +largest lake in Hell is formed by the blood which the followers of +the 'Prince of Peace' have shed in advancing his cause," -- and +their selfish own, -- as we shall abundantly see in the following +pages.

+ +

FAITH IN A FATAL DECLINE

+ +

Howbeit, their pulpits and their press are lugubriously vocal +with Jeremiads bewailing the ever-swelling tide of Unbelief in the +land, -- throughout Christendom. The Church statistics, notoriously +padded after the Biblical model of the Censuses in the Wilderness, +can claim at most some forty-odd millions of adherents -- many of +them by lip-service and non-paying (therefore negligible), and +others many non-distinguished for piety or common honesty -- out of +the hundred and twenty-odd millions of our American population. The +Reverend Rector of Trinity Church in New York City -- (one of the +wealthiest dead-hand tax-free land monopolists in America) -- thus +bewails: "In America we are dealing with a country, the majority of +whose inhabitants are pagans. ... Only forty percent of the +population acknowledges affiliation with any Church." (N. Y. Times, +March 15, 1930.) The ex-Secretary of the Home Missions Council of +one of the great Churches bemoans: "There has been a tremendous +revolution in the history of the Church. ... The country church is +waning and dying. ... The revolution under our eyes is found in the +mode of thinking of the whole country." (N.Y. Times, Jan. 8, 1930). +An effective cause is found in the recent survey report of the +Federal Council of Churches, to be in "the acceptance of a +scientific view of life ... general questioning of formerly revered +authority ... with absolute religious and ethical authority +dethroned. ... Women have made no comparable advance in +participation in church affairs. ... It can hardly be said that the +church is an influential factor in the lives of the working +classes." (N.Y. Herald-Tribune, Jan. 31, 1930.) A curious +confession of likely cause and effect, -- in the mental calibre of +the credent -- is stated by the Reverend publicity counsel of a +[viii] national Church: "All sermons should be keyed to the

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mentality of a fifteen-year-old youth. ... Half the people of the +United States have the mentality of a fifteen-year-old youth. Most +church-goers enjoyed the 'children's sermon' more than the one on +religious philosophy. ... The average man can carry only one idea +at a time." (Herald-Tribune, Jan. 28, 1930.) -- Verily, "Of such is +the Kingdom of Heaven."

+ +

All Fools' Day seems to be a sort of New Year's for +ecclesiastical statistics and general stock-taking of the faithful: +annually at that time the very religious Christian Herald publishes +its collect of figures on Church membership; the Catholic Directory +emits its own; and the generality of Divines gives voice to holy +Lamentations and pious warnings to the Church and to the ungodly. +From this year's extensive crop a little sheaf is added, the matter +being important to our purposes, and curiously instructive as +depicting the accelerated downward tobogganing of the Faith, The +Report of the Christian Herald discloses: "The total of +communicants last year (1929) was 50006566," of which number it +assigns a total of 18051680 to the fourteen sects of Catholic +dis-Unity (Herald-Tribune, April 26, 1930); though the figures of +the Catholic Directory are 20178202. (Ib. April. 16, 1930). Under +the alarming caption -- "Warns Protestant Church it is Lagging," +the Report of the Director of the Church Survey bemoans: "The +Protestant Church in America is not keeping pace with the +population. ... American Protestantism increased from 7 in each 100 +of the population in 1800 to 24 in each 100 of the population of +1900. During the past thirty years Protestantism has not increased +its ratio of the population as much as one member more per +hundred." -- This is a very notable disclosure: that for a whole +century the very vocal and intolerant Protestant population of this +country has varied between 7% and 24% of the total population, and +is today less than 25%: -- yet this petty minority dingdongs that +this is a "Christian country," and imposes its ludicrous medieval +"Blue Laws" and tyrannous proscriptions -- as will be noted -- upon +the great anti-clerical majority of the people. And further +striking figures follow from the same source: "A study made in 1912 +-- [i.e. before Woman Suffrage], -- "exclusively in cities, found +two-thirds of the Protestant city membership consisted of [ix] +women. ... There has been a steady proportionate decrease of +interest in religion among women of the United States. ... It was +also found [in this present Survey] that only 18 percent of the +country population is in Church membership, although it is +customary to think of country people as highly religious. -- [They, +too, are becoming more educated.] In New York City, the Church +population is reported equally divided among Protestants, Roman +Catholics and Jews. Only about eight percent of the population are +members of the Protestant churches," -- thus only some 24% of the +people of New York City among all three much-divided sects. (N.Y. +Times, May 5, 1930.) In a recent abusive set of letters by three +True Believers of the same family name (one a Rev.), addressed to +the Editor of a Metropolitan paper for writing sanely about the +Tabooed Subject of Birth Control, this was denounced as an "insult +to over 2000000" Faithful in this City. (Herald-Tribune, April +12, 1930.) But the Faithful boast of their 444 churches in Greater +New York: if each had the exaggerated membership of 1000, -- let +the reader do his own figuring and note the result. And foreign +immigration of the Faithful has been sadly curtailed of late by +law.

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The true significance to the Church of the great slump in its +membership -- and hence revenues, is crudely "given away" by the +Very Rev. Episcopal Bishop of Long Island, lamenting like +conditions in his Diocese: "The growth of population during the +last decade on Long Island has been a challenge to the Church. ... +The Episcopal Bishop of the diocese advocated [in a public address] +a drive to bring into the church the wealthy residents of Long +Island." (Herald-Tribune, May 6, 1930.) The Most Rev. Episcopal +superior of the last-lamenting has made a famous discovery, and +with oracular gravity which evokes a smile he assigns its cause: +"There are no great poets, painters, writers, nor musicians -- +[only great Manikins of Bishops] -- today, and the cause of this +artistic deficiency can be found in the moderns' total disregard +for religion." (Episc. Bishop of Manhattan: Herald-Tribune, April. +21, 1930.) And the Highly Rev. Bishop of the National Capital thus +portentously, and truly, glooms: "There is an organized movement, +world-wide in scope, to unsettle Christian ideals and Christian +institutions, both in Russia and elsewhere" (Ib. May 13, 1930); -- +which, judging by the age-old gigantic failure of both -- as herein +we shall see, -- is not so much to be wondered.

+ +

So far as Russia is concerned -- (and the fact and the reason +for it apply as well to every other "Christian" country), -- the +reason is truly stated by the pious Editor of Atlantis in a +Jeremiad of confession before the Institute of Citizenship just +held in Atlanta: "For a thousand years, ever since Russia became a +Christian country, and more especially in the last 200 years, when +the Czar became the official head of the Church, the State religion +in Russia was one of the means whereby the Russian people were +oppressed, exploited and kept in ignorance. The Russian people had +a score to settle with the Church after the revolution, and they +took full advantage of it" (N.Y. Times, April 8, 1930), a like +chance for which all Christendom is looking. The very religious +Editor continues to confess: "It is useless to deny that the +Church, in most instances, has lost its hold upon vast majorities +of the people." (Ibid.) At the Christian Herald Institute of +Religion held this year at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., a perfect +symposium of Jeremiads bewailed Faith on the Toboggan: "Unless +emphasis on elaborate creeds does not cease, we will deliver +ourselves into the hands of the Humanists for the defeat which we +deserve." ... "The Church is simply going to pieces in the small +towns of the Middle West. ... The paganization of rural America is +going on so fast that if we wait for even the union of closely +allied denominations to be accomplished, it will mean ruination." +... "The greatest difficulty in effecting mergers of churches lies +in personalities and prejudices." (Herald-Tribune, May 15, 1930.) +Thus today, after nearly two thousand years of the "Sweetness and +light" of our Divine Christian religion, "personalities and +prejudices" among those taught to love even their enemies persist +and keep the Fold of Christ divided into mutually-hating Flocks; +precisely so that the olden Pagan sneer at the early Christians is +perfectly befitting their successors today: "There is no wild beast +so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith." +(Lecky, Rationalism in Europe, ii, 31.)

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To conclude this review of pregnant figures and confessions, +two luminous revelations are in one day made of cause and effect. +Says the eminent Rev. President of the National Bible Institute: +"... because the Bible has ceased to have authority either in the +pulpit or in the pew. Decline in church attendance and decrease in +church membership are almost invariably traceable to unbelief in +the divine inspiration and authority of the Bible," -- Due to +increasing knowledge of its true character, as herein revealed. +(Herald-Tribune, May 26, 1930.) And the ghastly irony and joke of +the whole huge bankruptcy of Faith is thus exposed by the egregious +Pastor of a Brooklyn Baptist Flock, who images the Missionary +"selling" the Faith to the benighted Heathen: "'I have a religion +here that will do you poor heathen a lot of good. Of course it +hasn't succeeded very well at home, but we are sure it will do you +a lot of good.'" (Ibid.) It's just like God told the Jews: You +shan't sell the dead carcasses found by the way to the Chosen; "but +thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he +may eat it; or thou mayst sell it unto an alien"! (Deut. xiv, 21.) +So the dead cats of Faith are flung out of the sanctuary as unfit +for the Knowing, but are peddled to the ignorant heathen for +whatever the refuse may bring of clerical revenue.

+ +

Like conditions exist in all priest-ridden lands. The Rt. Rev. +Archbishop of Canterbury in his call for the decennial Lambeth +Conference for 1930, at which over sixty of the Episcopal bishops +of this country are to attend, sounds a fateful monition: "The new +knowledge of the Bible and still more of the universe in which we +live still confuses and bewilders the beliefs of many of our clergy +and people. There are tendencies in the life of our Church which +suggest the prevalence of forms of belief ... which almost exclude +belief in God the Father and God the Holy Spirit." (Herald-Tribune, +March 12, 1930.) Wails the Rev. Pyke to the annual Assembly of the +National Council of Evangelical Churches of England: "A large part +of England has lapsed into semi-heathenism; ... our half-filled +churches." (Herald-Tribune, April 20, 1930.) Such creed-searchings +and churchly lamentations over their moribund condition may be +multiplied into volumes.

+ +

Some potent cure thus seems to be at work. This curative +specific is simply increasing popular knowledge: "Know the truth +and the truth shall make you free," is the Golden Recipe for the +religious disorder. What Cicero said of the Pythian Oracles may as +truly be applied to every form of priestcraft: "When men began to +be less credulous, their power vanished."

+ +

Day by day, as knowledge increaseth and spreads amongst the +people in the pews as well as among the parsons, does it become +more difficult and embarrassing for the pulpiteers to "put over" +their tales of myth and magic to the hearers of the Word. Even the +clergy are becoming awakened to the stinging truth aimed at priests +and the priest-taught by Prof. Shotwell: "Where we can understand, +it is a moral crime to cherish the ununderstood," and are beginning +to feel the humiliation of their false Position. A noted clerical +educator, Dr. Reinold Niebuhr, professor of Christian Ethics in +that hotbed of every heresy, the Union Theological Seminary, in his +textbook suggestively entitled 'Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed +Cynic,' makes this confession of recognized Dishonesty in the mass

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of clerical teaching and preaching: "As a teacher your only +interest is to discover the truth. 'As a preacher you must conserve +other interest besides the truth.' It is your business to deal +circumspectly with the whole religious inheritance lest the virtues +[?] which are involved in the older traditions perish through your +iconoclasm. That is a formidable task and a harassing one; for one +can never be quite sure where pedagogical caution ends AND +DISHONESTY BEGINS"! (Quoted by Alva Johnston in N.Y. Herald Tribune, March 8, 1930.)

+ +

The great Church Father, Bishop St. Augustine (of whom more +hereafter), was wise to the psychology of -- at least -- Pagan +religion -- the mode of its incipience and the manner of its age-long persistence. The priests and the priest-taught, he tells, +instilled the virus of superstition into their victims when "small +and weak," when they knew not to resist or healthily to react +against the contaminating inoculation; "then, afterwards, it was +necessary that succeeding generations should preserve the +traditions of their ancestors, drinking in this superstition with +their mother's milk." (Augustine, City of God, xxii, 6.) Thinks one +that this cunning modus operandi is confined only to Pagan +priestcrafts and superstitions?

+ +

If, instead of the saintly Doctors of Hebrew-Christian +Divinity, injecting their saving "opiate of the people" into the +cradled babes of Christ, it were the abhorred Doctors of Mohammedan +or Mormon Divinity who got to the cradles first, -- those infant +souls would all but surely be lost to the Christ, and in their +God's tender mercy, as assured by the sainted Augustine, would +spend eternity crawling on the candent floors of Hell, playing with +the "worm that never dies": hardly from the cradle to the grave +could all the Christian purges for Sin and pills for Salvation of +Soul, later administered, serve for effective catharsis of the +venom of those Christianly-hated "superstitions, drunk in with +their mother's milk."

+ +

This truth is strikingly stated in an eloquent period by +Ingersoll, and stunningly confirmed and confessed by the syndicated +Prophet of Protestantism below to be quoted. The former opens his +classic Why I Am an Agnostic, with these trenchant words:

+ +

"For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs +of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashions of our +garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned +by our surroundings. Environment is a sculptor -- a painter.

+ +

"If we had been born in Constantinople, the most of us would +have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his +prophet.' If our parents had lived on the banks of the Ganges, we +would have been worshippers of Siva, longing for the heaven of +Nirvana.

+ +

"As a rule, children love their parents, believe what they +teach, and take great pride in saying that the religion of mother +is good enough for them. ...

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"The Scotch are Calvinists because their fathers were. The +Irish are Catholics because their fathers were. The English are +Episcopalians because their fathers were, and the Americans are +divided into a hundred sects because their fathers were. ... +Children are sometimes superior to their parents, modify their +ideas, change their customs, and arrive at different conclusions."

+ +

The truth thus uttered by the great Agnostic finds its +confirmation curiously wrung from the lips of the Bellwether of +would-be "reconciliationists" of primitive Superstition and modern +Science. In a metropolitan newspaper carrying his syndicated "Daily +Counsel" to the lovelorn and the misty-minded, a Virginia Believer +puts to him challengingly the question direct: "Do you mean to +imply that belief is largely a matter of environment, and if so, +would you not have been as firm a follower of Mahomet as you are of +Christ if you had been born of Mahometan parentage and brought up +in that faith?" For once there was no chance for Conmanian +suppleness of evasion, so the blunt and confusing truth is forced: +Yes! "It is fairly certain that, had I been cradled in Mohametans +[sic] I should now have been turning toward Mecca at the appointed +hours"! (N.Y. Herald-Tribune, Oct. 29, 1929.) Thus the champion +special pleader for the fast fading faith of Christ confesses away +the divinely self-evident "truth" of his Christian faith, admits +that it is the result not of independent thought and convincing +proofs to his mind, but the inheritance of the cradle and the +nursery, -- that that towering intellect would today be bearing +witness to the "revealed truth" of a false God and religion, if he +had chanced to be "born that way"! Allah would to him -- and to +millions -- be true and living God and Jehovah a crude barbarian +myth, but for the accident of birth and teaching, -- a reversal of +the whole scheme of salvation! Thus the Cradle determines the +Creed; it is the virus of the superstition-germ first injected +which infects the credulity-center of the brain and colors too-oft +through life the whole concept of "religious truth" in the mind of +the patient.

+ +

The psychology of the priestly maxim -- "Disce primum quod +credendum est -- Learn first what is to be believed," and the +persistent virulence of the virus thus injected, is aptly signified +by the Rev. Wenner, 83-year old Bellwether of Lutheranism in +America, and for 61 years pastor of one of its oldest sheep-folds +in New York City: "I do not think that time has produced many +changes in the attitude of Lutheran worshippers, -- because of the +stable nature of the religious education we give the youth of our +sect. From the age of six onward we instruct them in the tenets of +our faith, and they usually abide." (N.Y. Herald-Tribune, Oct. 10, +1929.)

+ +

The predilect precept of the Doctors of every brand of +Divinely forever is: "Catch 'em in the cradle, and get 'em +inoculated before they know." In the bib and rattle period, the +childish brain is a soft, clean surface, "soft as wax to be molded +into vice," as His Holiness says: helpless it receives and retains +whatever is first impressed or imposed upon it: true religion or +false, Christ or Crishna or Santa Claus, Holy Ghost or the ghosts +of Afric superstition. "Give us a child until it is seven, and +we've got it cinched for life," is the ghoulish axiom of all the

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Faiths: "Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the +Kingdom of Heaven," -- as of the heathen Nirvana. How godly a work +is it to sear the thoughtless child mind with the brand of Faith; +how infamous and damnable to offer to the "immature" and inept +youth in college freedom from the stigma of credulity! How crude +and cruel for the Chinese to bind and cripple for life the feet of +their girl children; how fiendish the custom of sundry savage +tribes, ignorant of the "Light of the World," to clamp the infant +heads between boards so as to produce the hideous deformity of +skull so aesthetically popular among them; but how pleasing to gods +and priests to fetter the child mind in the bonds of Faith, and so +to dwarf and deaden the mind's most precious faculty -- Reason! "To +succeed," eloquently said Ingersoll, "the theologians invade the +cradle, the nursery. In the brain of innocence they plant the seeds +of superstition. They pollute the minds and imaginations of +children. They frighten the happy with threats of pain -- they +soothe the wretched with gilded lies. ... All of these comforting +and reasonable things are taught by the ministers in their pulpits +-- by teachers in Sunday schools and by parents at home. The +children are victims. They are assaulted in the cradle -- in their +mother's arms. Then, the school-master carries on the war against +their natural sense, and all the books they read are filled with +the same impossible truths. The poor children are helpless. The +atmosphere they breathe is filled with lies -- lies that mingled +with their blood." This unholy cradle-robbing goes on with vehement +zest. The Churches, the Federal Council of Churches, the Vicar of +God and his adjutants, all ply amain the arts of enslaving the babe +in the cradle, the child in the school. In the Encyclical of +December 31, 1929, the right of the Church to the child is +proclaimed as above that of parents and State; the secular public +schools are damned, and the prole of the Faithful are forbidden to +attend and mingle with the "irreligious" State pupils: "the +frequenting of non-Catholic schools, namely, those which are open +to Catholic and non-Catholic alike, is forbidden to Catholic +children," as such a school is not "a fit place for Catholic +students," who must be baited with "the supernatural." (Current +History, March 1930, p. 1091, passim.) Yet the banned and cursed +Public Schools of New York City, forbidden to the Faithful child, +the ecclesiastical' City government fills with Faithful teachers +for the purpose of "boot-legging" the forbidden supernaturalism +into them; a work so wide-spread and active, that the Cardinal +Archbishop of the City, addressing over 2000 of the Catholic +Teachers Association, "praises their work of teaching faith in City +Institutions." (N.Y. Times, Nov. 25, 1928.) And every rationalist +effort to counteract such illegal propaganda and to free the +schools from the pernicious influences of superstition, is +denounced and opposed by the Bible bootleggers of every brand of +Faith; and in the brave instance of Russia, a medieval orgy of +prayer-assault on High Heaven is made, to counsel God what he ought +to do to the Russians for their "godless" efforts to save the +children of that Church-cursed land from the superstitions of +priestcraft.

+ +

In an ironical letter to the English press, in which he +"enters the lists against the British critics of Moscow's anti-clerical policy," George Bernard Shaw, writing under a transparent +Russian pseudonym, says: "In Russia we take religious questions

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very seriously. We protect our children very carefully against +proselytizers of our fantastic sects until they are old enough to +make up their own minds. To us, it is inconceivable that a +government would tolerate the inculcation upon helpless children of +beliefs that will not stand the most strenuous scientific +examination or in which the teachers themselves do not honestly +believe. ... We cannot understand why the so-called Articles of +Religion, which have been described. by one of the most learned and +intellectually gifted of your churchmen as capable of being +professed only by 'fools, bigots or liars,' are deliberately taught +as divine truths in your schools. ... Russia is setting an example +of intellectual and moral integrity to the whole world, while +England is filling its temples with traders, persecuting its +clergy, and bringing up children to be scoffers to whom religion +means nothing but hypocrisy and humbug." (Herald-Tribune, April 7, +1930.)

+ +

Thus the Church enchains the Reason. The proudest boast today +of the Church for its ex-Pagan Saint Augustine, is that: "as soon +as a contradiction -- [between his "philosophy" and his religious +doctrines] -- arises, he never hesitates to subordinate his +philosophy to religion, reason to faith"! (Cath. Encyc. ii, 86.) So +this great ex-Pagan Saint of the Church surrenders his reason to +faith, and avers: "I would not believe the Gospels to be true, +unless the authority of the Catholic Church constrained me"! +(Augustine, De Genesi.)

+ +

Ingersoll, in one of his glowing, devastating periods of +oratory, said: "Somebody ought to tell the truth about the Bible!" +That I have already essayed quite comprehensively to do. In my +recent work, Is It God's Word? (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, +1926, 2nd and 3rd Editions), I devote some five hundred pages to +"An Exposition of the Fables and Mythology of the Bible and of the +Impostures of Theology," as my thesis is defined in my sub-title. +"A farrago of palpable nonsense," in the words of the Dean of +American critics, is about all that remains of Holy Writ as the +pretended "Word of God," as the result of that searching analysis.

+ +

That study was limited, in most part, to the sacred texts for +the internal evidences, which themselves so abundantly afford, of +their own falsity and primitive-minded fatuity. On the other phase +of inquiry I there limited myself to the suggestive remark: "The +gospels are all priestly forgeries over a century after their +pretended dates" (p. 279; cf. p. 400), purposing then to complement +the work by this sequel or companion volume, treating the frauds +and forgeries of religion and the Church.

+ +

Taking up now more particularly the second phase of my +subject, I here propose to treat of the inveterate forgeries, +frauds, impostures, and mendacities of Priestcraft and its +Theology. I shall be explicit and plain spoken, and unmistakably +state my purpose and my proofs. For nearly two thousand years the +priestcraft of Christendom, for purposes of domination by fear and +greedy exploitation through imposture upon credulity, has consigned +to earthly fire and sword, and to eternal damnation all who dared +to dissent or to protest; the priestly word "miscreant,"

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misbeliever, has become the synonym for everything foul and +criminal in human nature. The day of reckoning and of repudiation +is at hand; Priestcraft has here its destroying answer, in very +plain and unafraid words.

+ +

This book is a grave indictment, impossible to be made or to +be credited unless supported at every point by incontrovertible +facts. These I promise to produce and array in due and devastating +order.

+ +

THE INDICTMENT

+ +

I charge, and purpose to prove, from unimpeachable texts and +historical records, and by authoritative clerical confessions, +beyond the possibility of denial, evasion, or refutation:

+ +

1. That the Bible, in its every Book, and in the strictest +legal and moral sense, is a huge forgery.

+ +

2. That every Book of the New Testament is a forgery of the +Christian Church; and every significant passage in those Books, on +which the fabric of the Church and its principal Dogmas are +founded, is a further and conscious later forgery, wrought with +definite fraudulent intent.

+ +

3. Especially, and specifically, that the "famous Petrine +text" -- "Upon this Rock I will build my church" -- the cornerstone +of the gigantic fabric of imposture, -- and the other, "Go, teach +all nations," -- were never uttered by the Jew Jesus, but are +palpable and easily proven late Church forgeries.

+ +

4. That the Christian Church, from its inception in the first +little Jewish-Christian religious societies until it reached the +apex of its temporal glory and moral degradation, was a vast and +tireless Forgery-mill.

+ +

5. That the Church was founded upon, and through the Dark Ages +of Faith has battened on -- (yet languishes decadently upon) -- +monumental and petty forgeries and pious frauds, possible only +because of its own shameless mendacity and through the crass +ignorance and superstition of the sodden masses of its deluded +votaries, purposely kept in that base condition for purposes of +ecclesiastical graft and aggrandizement through conscious and most +unconscionable imposture.

+ +

6. That every conceivable form of religious lie, fraud and +imposture has ever been the work of Priests; and through all the +history of the Christian Church, as through all human history, has +been -- and, so far as they have not been shamed out of it by +skeptical ridicule and exposure, yet is, the age-long stock in +trade and sole means of existence of the priests and ministers of +all the religions.

+ +

7. That the clerical mind, which "reasons in chains," is, from +its vicious and vacuous "education," and the special selfish +interests of the priestly class, incapable either of the perception +or the utterance of truth, in matters where the interests of +priestcraft are concerned.

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As the Catholic-Protestant-Skeptic Bayle, of seventeenth +century fame, said: "I am most truly a Protestant; for I protest +indifferently against all systems and all sects" of religious +imposture.

+ +

My accusal, therefore, is not limited in purpose, scope or +effect to any one Church or sect, but is aimed alike at all of the +discordant factions of ancient Jewish and more modern Christian +faith. For, as has been well said, "Faith is not knowledge, no more +than that three is four, but eminently contained in it; so that he +that knows, believes, and something more; but he that believes many +times does not know -- nay, if he doth barely and merely believe, +he doth never know." The same critical cleric at another place +said: "Still less was it ever intended that men should so +prostitute their reason, as to believe with infallible faith what +they are unable to prove with infallible arguments." +(Chillingworth, Religion of Protestants, pp. 66, 412.) With +infallible facts I purpose to blast the false pretenses of Priest-forged Faith.

+ +

It is matter of fact, that for some 1500 years of this Era +there was but one "True Church" of Christ; and that Church claims +with conscious pride the origin and authorship of all the New +Testament Books, out of its own Holy bosom, by its own canonized +Saints. The New Testament Books are, therefore, distinctively +Catholic documents. That Church, therefore, -- if these its +credentials and documents are forgeries, -- as from its own records +I shall prove -- itself forged all the Books of the New Testament +and all the documents of religious dogma and propaganda the forgery +of which shall be proved in this book, and did itself perpetrate +all the pious frauds herein revealed, and is their chief +beneficiary. All the other Christian sects, however, are sprung or +severed from the original One True Church; -- "all other forms of +the Christian religion . . . originated by secession from the True +Church, ... and their founders ... were externally members of the +Church." (CE. vii, 367.) All these Protestant sects, therefore, +with full knowledge of the guilty facts and partakers in the +frauds, found their claim to Divinity -- and priestly emoluments -- +upon and through those tainted titles, and thus yet fully share the +guilt as accomplices after the fact. The "Reformed" Sects, on +breaking away from the old Monopoly of Forgery, appropriated the +least clumsy and more plausible of the pious Counterfeit of +Christianity, and for the centuries since have industriously and +knowingly been engaged in passing the stolen counterfeit upon their +own unsuspecting flocks; they are therefore equally guilty with the +original Forgers of the Faith.

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OUTLINE OF CASE AND PROOFS

+ +

The proofs of my indictment are marvelously easy. They are to +be found in amplest retore of history and accredited ecclesiastic +authorities, and in abounding incautious admissions made by the +Recredited spokesmen of the Accused: upon these I shall freely and +fully draw for complete proofs of my every specification. These +damning things of the Church, scattered through many clerical +volumes and concealed in many archives, are not well known to the +pious or preoccupied layman. My task is simply to bring together

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the documentary proofs and expose them before the astonished eves +of the modern reader; that is the prime merit of my work. To +accomplish this purpose with unimpeachable certitude, I need and +make no apology for the liberal use of quotation marks in +presenting the ensuing startling array of accusations and +confessions; to be followed by the plenary proofs.

+ +

As in the judicial process, I shall, before proceeding to the +concrete proofs, define first the crime charged, and outline the +scope of the evidence to be presented. I shall first make a prima +facie justification of the charges, by citing a few generalities of +confession of guilt, with corroborations by weighty supporting +authorities, and thus create the proper "atmosphere" for the +appreciation of the facts. Then shall come the shaming proofs in +astounding detail.

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FORGERY DEFINED

+ +

Forgery, in legal and moral sense, is the utterance or +publication, with intent to deceive or defraud, or to gain some +advantage, of a false document, put out by one person in the name +of and as the genuine work of another, who did not execute it, or +the subsequent alteration of a genuine document by one who did not +execute the original. This species of falsification extends alike +to all classes of writings, promissory notes, the coin or currency +of the realm, to any legal or private document, or to a book. All +are counterfeit or forged if not authentic and untampered.

+ +

A definition by a high ecclesiastical authority may +appropriately be cited, as it thoroughly defines the chronic +clerical crime. The Catholic Encyclopedia thus defines the crime:

+ +

"Forgery (Lat. falsum) differs very slightly from fraud. It +consists in the deliberate untruthfulness of an assertion, or in +the deceitful presentation of an object, and is based on an +intention to deceive and to injure while using the externals of +honesty. Forgery is truly a falsehood and is a fraud, but it is +something more. ... A category consists in making use of such +forgery, and is equivalent to forgery proper. ... The Canonical +legislation [dealt principally with] the production of absolutely +false documents and the alteration of authentic ... for the sake of +certain advantages. ...

+ +

"Canon law connects forgery and the use of forged documents, +on the presumption that he who would make use of such documents +must be either the author or instigator of the forgery. In canon +law forgery consists not only in the fabrication or substitution of +an entirely false document, but even by partial substitution, or by +any alteration affecting the sense and bearing of an authentic +document or any substantial point, such as names, dates, signature, +seal, favor granted, by erasure, by scratching out or writing one +word over another, and the like." (Catholic Encyclopedia, vi, 135, +136.)

+ +

Under every phase and phrase of this its own clerics legal +definition, the Church is guilty, -- is most guilty.

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A "beginning of miracles" of confession of ecclesiastical +guilt of forgery of Church documents is made in the same above +article by the Encyclopedia, -- very many others will follow in due +course from the same source:

+ +

"Substitution of false documents and tampering with genuine +ones was quite a trade in the Middle Ages. Innocent III (1198) +points out nine species of forgery [of ecclesiastical records] +which had come under his notice." (CE. vi, 136.)

+ +

But such frauds of the Church were not confined to the Middle +Ages; they begin even with the beginning of the Church and infest +every period of its history for fifteen hundred years and defile +nearly every document, both of "Scriptures" and of Church +aggrandizement. As truly said by Collins, in his celebrated +Discourse of Free Thinking:

+ +

"In short, these frauds are very common in all books which are +published by priests or priestly men. ... For it is certain they +may plead the authority of the Fathers for Forgery, Corruption and +mangling of Authors, with more reason than for any of their +Articles of Faith." (p. 96.)

+ +

Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, the great "Father of Church +History" (324 A.D.) whom Niebuhr terms "a very dishonest writer," +-- of which we shall see many notable instances, -- says this: "But +it is not our place to describe the sad misfortunes which finally +came upon [the Christians], as we do not think it proper, moreover, +to, record their divisions and unnatural conduct to each other +before the persecution -- [by Diocletian, 305 A.D.]. Wherefore we +have decided to relate nothing concerning them except things in +which we can vindicate the Divine judgment. ... But we shall +introduce into this history in general only those events which may +be useful first to ourselves and afterwards to posterity." +(Ecclesiastical History, viii, 2; N&PNF. i, 323-324.)

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Eusebius himself fraudulently "subscribed to the [Trinitarian] +Creed formed by the Council of Nicra, but making no secret, in the +letter which he wrote to his own Church, of the non-natural sense +in which he accepted it." (Cath. Encyc. v, 619.) As St. Jerome +says, "Eusebius is the most open champion of the Arian heresy," +which denies the Trinity. (Jerome, Epist. 84, 2; N&PNF. vi, 176.) +Bishop Eusebius, as we shall see, was one of the most prolific +forgers and liars of his age of the Church, and a great romancer; +in his hair-raising histories of the holy Martyrs, he assures us +"that on some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been +devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were +found alive in their stomachs, even after having been fully +digested"! (quoted, Gibbon, History, Ch. 37; Lardner, iv, p. 91; +Diegesis, p. 272). To such an extent had the "pious frauds of the +theologians been thus early systematized and raised to the dignity +of a regular doctrine," that Bishop Eusebius, "in one of the most +learned and elaborate works that antiquity has left us, the Thirty-second Chapter of the Twelfth Book of his Evangelical Preparation, +bears for its title this scandalous proposition: 'How it may be +Lawful and Fitting to use Falsehood as a Medicine, and for the +Benefit of those who Want to be Deceived'" -- (quoting the Greek +title; Gibbon, Vindication, p. 76).

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St. John Chrysostom, the "'Golden Mouthed," in his work 'On +the Priesthood,' has a curious panegyric on the clerical habit of +telling lies -- "Great is the force of deceit! provided it is not +excited by a treacherous intention."' (Comm. on I Cor. ix, 19; +Diegesis, p. 309.) Chrysostom was one of the Greek Fathers of the +Church, concerning whom Dr. (later Cardinal) Newman thus +apologetically spoke: "The Greek Fathers thought that, when there +was a justa causa, an untruth need not be a lie. ... Now, as to the +just cause, ... the Greek Fathers make them such as these self-defense, charity, zeal for God's honor, and the like." (Newman, +Apology for His Life, Appendix G, p. 345-6.) He says nothing of his +favorites, the Latin Fathers; but we shall hear them described, and +amply see them at work lying in their zeal for God's honor, and to +their own dishonor.

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The Great Latin Father St. Jerome (c. 340-420), who made the +celebrated Vulgate Version of the Bible, and wrote books of the +most marvelous Saint-tales and martyr-yarns, thus describes the +approved methods of Christian propaganda, of the Fathers, Greek and +Latin alike, against the Pagans:

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"To confute the opposer, now this argument is adduced and now +that. One argues as one pleases, saying one thing while one means +another. ... Origen, Methodius, Eusebius, and Apollinaris write at +great length against Celsus and Porphyry. Consider how subtle are +the arguments, how insidious the engines with which they overthrow +what the spirit of the devil has wrought. Sometimes, it is true, +they are compelled to say not what they think but what is needful. +...

+ +

"I say nothing of the Latin authors, of Tertullian, Cyprian, +Minutius, Victorianus, Lactantius, Hilary, lest I should appear not +so much to be defending myself as to be assailing others. I will +only mention the APOSTLE PAUL. ... He, then, if anyone, ought to be +calumniated; we should speak thus to him: 'The proofs which you +have used against the Jews and against other heretics bear a +different meaning in their own contexts to that which they bear in +your Epistles. We see passages taken captive by your pen and +pressed into service to win you a victory, which in volumes from +which they are taken have no controversial bearing at all ... the +line so often adopted by strong men in controversy -- of justifying +the means by the result." (Jerome, Epist. to Pammachus, xlviii, 13; +N&PNF. vi, 72-73; See post, p. 230.)

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Of Eusebius and the others he again says, that they "presume +at the price of their soul to assert dogmatically whatever first +comes into their head." (Jerome, Epist. li, 7; id. p. 88.) And +again, of the incentive offered by the gullible ignorance of the +Faithful, for the glib mendacities of the priests: "There is +nothing so easy as by sheer volubility to deceive a common crowd or +an uneducated congregation." (Epist. lii, 8; p. 93.) Father +Jerome's own high regard for truth and his zeal in propaganda of +fables for edification of the ignorant ex-pagan Christians is +illustrated in numberless instances. He tells us of the river +Ganges in India, which "has its source in Paradise"; that in India +"are also mountains of gold, which however men cannot approach by +reason of the griffins, dragons, and huge monsters which haunt

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them; for such are the guardians which avarice needs for its +treasures." (Epist. cxxv, 6; N&PNF. vi, 245.) He reaches the climax +in his famous Lives of sundry Saints. He relates with all fervor +the marvelous experiences of the "blessed hermit Paulus," who was +113 years of age, and for sixty years had lived in a hole in the +ground in the remotest recesses of the desert; his nearest neighbor +was St. Anthony, who was only ninety and lived in another hole four +days' journey away. The existence and whereabouts of Paulus being +revealed to Anthony in a vision, he set out afoot to visit the holy +Paulus. On the way, "all at once he beholds a creature of mingled +shape, half horse half man, called by the poets Hippo-centaur," +with whom be holds friendly converse. Later "he sees a mannikin +with hooked snout, horned forehead, and extremities like goat's +feet," this being one of the desert tribe "whom the Gentiles +worship under the names of Fauns, Satyrs, and Incubi," and whose +strange, language Anthony was rejoiced to find that he could +understand, as they reasoned together about the salvation of the +Lord. "Let no one scruple to believe this incident," pleads Father +Jerome'; "its truth is supported by" one of these creatures that, +was captured and brought alive to Alexandria and sent embalmed to +the emperor at Antioch. Finally holy Anthony reached the retreat of +the blessed Paulus, and was welcomed. As they talked, a raven flew +down and laid a whole loaf of bread at their feet. "Sec," said +Paulus, "the Lord truly loving, truly merciful, has sent us a meal. +For the last sixty years I have always received half a loaf; but at +your coming the Lord has doubled his soldier's rations." During the +visit Paulus died; Anthony "saw Paulus in robes of snowy white +ascending on high among a band of angels, and the choirs of +prophets and apostles." Anthony dragged the body out to bury it, +but was without means to dig a grave; as he was lamenting this +unhappy circumstance, "behold, two lions from the recesses of the +desert with manes flying on their necks came rushing along; they +came straight to the corpse of the blessed old man," fawned on it, +roared in mourning, then with their paws dug a grave just wide and +deep enough to bold the corpse; came over and licked the hands and +feet of Anthony, and ambled away. (Jerome, Life of Paulus the First +Hermit, N&PNF. vi, 299 seq.)

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So gross and prevalent was the clerical habit of pious lies +and pretenses "to the glory of God," that St. Augustine, about 395 +A.D., wrote a reproving treatise to the Clergy, De Mendacio (On +Lying), which he found necessary to supplement in 420 with another +book, Contra Mendacium (Against Lying). This work, says Bishop +Wordsworth, "is a protest against these 'pious frauds' which have +brought discredit and damage on the cause of the Gospel, and have +created prejudice against it, from the days of Augustine to our own +times." (A Church History, iv, 93, 94.) While Augustine disapproves +of downright lying even to trap heretics, -- a practice seemingly +much in vogue among the good Christians: "It is more pernicious for +Catholics to lie that they may catch heretics, than for heretics to +lie that they may not be found out by Catholics" (Against Lying, +ch. 5; N&PNF. iii, 483); yet this Saint heartily approves and +argues in support of the chronic clerical characteristics of +suppressio veri, of suppression or concealment of the truth for the +sake of Christian "edification," a device for the encouragement of +credulity among the Faithful which has run riot through the +centuries and flourishes today among the priests and the ignorant

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pious: "It is lawful, then, either to him that discourses, +disputes, and preaches of things eternal, or to him that narrates +or speaks of things temporal pertaining to edification of religion +or piety, to conceal at fitting times whatever seems fit to be +concealed; but to tell a lie is never lawful, therefore neither to +conceal by telling a lie." (Augustine, On Lying, ch. 19; N&PNF. +iii, 466.) The great Bishop did not, however, it seems, read his +own code when it came to preaching unto edification, for in one of +his own sermons he thus relates a very notable experience: "I was +already Bishop of Hippo, when I went into Ethiopia with some +servants of Christ there to preach the Gospel. In this country we +saw many men and women without heads, who had two great eyes in +their breasts; and in countries still more southly, we saw people +who had but one eye in their foreheads." (Augustine, Sermon 37; +quoted in Taylor, Syntagma, p. 52; Diegesis, p. 271; Doane, Bible +Myths, p. 437.) To the mind's eye the wonderful spectacle is +represented, as the great Saint preached the word of God to these +accphalous faithful: we see the whole congregation of devout and +intelligent Christians, without heads, watching attentively without +eyes, listening intently without ears, and understanding perfectly +without brains, the spirited and spiritual harangue of the eloquent +and veracious St. Augustine. And every hearer of the Sermon in +which he told about it, believed in furness of faith and infantile +credulity every word of the noble Bishop of Hippo, giving thanks to +God that the words of life and salvation had been by him carried to +so remarkable a tribe of God's curious children.

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Pope Gregory the Great (590-604), in one momentary lapse in +his own arduous labors of propagating "lies to the glory of God," +made the pious gesture, "God does not need our lies"; but His +Church evidently did, for the pious work went lyingly on; a work +given immense impetus by His Holiness Gregory himself, in his +mendacious Dialogues and other papal output, -- with little +abatement unto this day.

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A further admission of the inveteracy of ecclesiastical +forgery and fraud may be cited from the Catholic Encyclopedia. +Speaking deprecatingly of the "incredible liberty of discussion" +which to the shock and scandal of the pious prelates "prevailed in +Rome under the spell of the Renaissance," -- when men's minds were +beginning to awaken from the intellectual and moral stupor of the +Dark Ages of Faith, the Catholic thesaurus of archaic superstition +and "Catholic Truth," admits:

+ +

"This toleration of evil [sic; i.e.: -- the free discussion of +Church doctrines and documents] -- bore one good consequence: it +allowed historical criticism to begin fair. There was need for a +revision which is not yet complete, ranging over all that has been +handed down from the Middle Ages under the style and title of the +Fathers, the Councils, the Roman and other official, archives. In +all these departments forgery and interpolations as well as +ignorance had wrought mischief on a great scale." (CE. xii, 768.)

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To these preliminary confessions of the guilty Church may be +added the corroborating testimony of several eminently accredited +historical authorities.

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Middleton, in his epochal Free Inquiry into the lying habits +and miracles of the Churchmen, says: "Many spurious books were +forged in the earliest times of the Church, in the name of Christ +and his apostles, which passed upon all the Fathers as genuine and +divine through several successive ages." (Middleton, Free Inquiry, +Int. Disc. p. xcii; London, 1749.)

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The same author, whose book set England ringing with its +exposures of the lies and fraudulent miracles of the Church, makes +this acute and accurate summing up of his evidences:

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"It will not appear strange to those who have given any +attention to the history of mankind, which will always suggest this +sad reflection:' That the greatest zealots in religion, or the +leaders of sects and parties, whatever purity or principles they +pretend to have seldom scrupled to make use of a commodious lie for +the advancement of what they, call the truth. And with regard to +these very Fathers, there is not one of them, as an eminent writer +of ecclesiastical history declares, who made any scruple in those +ages of using the hyperbolical style to advance the honor of God +and the salvation of men." (Free Inq. p. 83; citing Jo., Hist. +Eccles. p. 681.)

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Lecky, the distinguished author of the History of European +Morals, devotes much research into what he describes as "the +deliberate and apparently perfectly unscrupulous forgery, of a +whole literature, destined to further the propagation either of +Christianity as a whole, or of some particular class of tenets." +(Lecky, Hist. of European Morals, vol. i, p. 375.)

+ +

In his very notable History of Rationalism speaking of that +Christian "epoch when faith and facts did not cultivate an +acquaintance," the same author, Lecky, thus describes the state of +intellectual and moral obliquity into which the Church had forced +even the ablest classes of society:

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"During that gloomy period the only scholars in Europe were +priest and monks, who conscientiously believed that no amount of +falsehood was reprehensible which conduced to the edification of +the people. ... All their writings, and more especially their +histories, became tissues of the wildest fables, so grotesque and +at the same time so audacious, that they were the wonder of +succeeding ages, And the very men who scattered these fictions +broadcast over Christendom, taught at the same time that credulity +was a virtue and skepticism a crime." (Lecky, Hist. of Rationalism, +i, 896.)

+ +

In the same work last quoted, Lecky again, speaking of what he +terms "the pious frauds of theologians," which, he shows were +"systematized and raised to the dignity of a regular doctrine," +says of the pious Fathers:

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"The Fathers laid down as a distinct proposition that pious +frauds were justifiable and even laudable, and if they had not laid +this down they would nevertheless have practiced them as a +necessary consequence of their doctrine of exclusive salvation. +Immediately all ecclesiastical literature became tainted with a

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spirit of the most unblushing mendacity. Heathenism was to be +combatted, and therefore prophecies of Christ by Orpheus and the +Sibyls -- were forged, lying wonders were multiplied. ... Heretics +were to be convinced, and therefore interpolations of old writings +or complete forgeries were habitually opposed to the forged +Gospels. ... The tendency ... triumphed wherever the supreme +importance of dogmas was held. Generation after generation it +became more universal; it continued till the very sense of truth +and the very love of truth seemed blotted out from the minds of +men." (Lecky, Rationalism in Europe, i, 396-7.)

+ +

There is thus disclosed a very sharp and shaming contrast +between the precept of the Lord Buddha: "Thou shalt not attempt, +either by words or action, to lead others to believe that which is +not true," and the confessed debasing principle of the Church, that +the maintenance of its creed -- (even by the methods of fraud, +forgery and imposture above hinted and to be evidenced) -- is +superior to the principles of morality:

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"To undo the creed is to undo the Church. The integrity of the +rule of faith is more essential to the cohesion of a religious +society than the strict practice of its moral precepts"! (CE. vii, +259).

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With its consciousness of the shifty and shady practices of +it's "sacred" profession, the Christian priestcraft differs not +from the Pagan in the sneer of Cicero: "Cato mirari se aiebat, quod +non rideret haruspex, cum haruspicem vidisset, -- Cato used to +wonder how one of our priests can forbear laughing when he sees +another." (Quoted Opera, Ed. Gron., p. 3806.) We shall see all too +well that the Pagan estimate holds good for the Christian; that, as +said by the "universal scholar" Grotius: "Ecclesiastical history +consists of nothing but the wickedness of the governing clergy, -- +Qui legit historiam Ecclesiasticam, quid legit nisi Episcoporum +vicia?" (Epistolae, p. 7, col. 1).

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The universality of the frauds and impostures of the Church, +above barely hinted at, and the contaminating influence of such +example, are by now sufficiently evident; they will be seen to +taint and corrupt every phase of the Church and of the +ecclesiastical propaganda of the Faith. As is well said by +Middleton in commenting on these and like pious practices of the +Holy Church: "And no man surely can doubt, but that those, who +would either forge, or make use of forged books, would, in the same +cause, and for the same ends, make use of forged miracles" (A Free +Inquiry, Introd. Discourse, p. lxxxvii); -- as well as of forged +Gospels, Epistles, Creeds, Saint-tales -- vast extensions of pious +frauds of which we shall see a plethora of examples.

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The proofs here to be arrayed for conviction are drawn from +original sources, chiefly those inexhaustible mines of priestly +perversions of fact and truth, the labored and ludicrous volumes of +the "Fathers of the Church," and its most accredited modern +American spokesman, the Catholic Encyclopedia. Hence it cannot be +justly complained that this presentation of facts of Church history +is unfair or untrue; all but every fact of secular and of Church +history herein recounted to the shame and guilt of Holy Church is

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taken verbatim from the Church's own histories and historians. +These clerical works of confession and confusion are for the most +part three ponderous sets of volumes; they are readily accessible +for verification of my recitals, and for further instances, in good +libraries and bookshops; the libraries of the Union Theological +Seminary and of Columbia University, in New York City, were the +places of the finds here recorded. Cited so often, space will be +saved for more valuable uses by citing by their initials, -- which +will become very familiar -- my chief ecclesiastical authorities, +towit:

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The Ante-Niceite Fathers, cited as ANF.; A Collection of the +extant Writings of all the Founders of Christianity down to the +Council of Nicaea, or Nice, in 325 A.D. American Reprint, eight +volumes. The Christian Literature Publishing Co., Buffalo, N.Y., +1885.

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The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, cited as N&PNF.; First and +Second Series; many volumes; same publishers.

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The Catholic Encyclopedia, cited as CE.; fifteen volumes and +index, published under the Imprimatur of Archbishop Farley; New +York, Robert Appleton Co., 1907-9.

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The Encyclopedia Biblica, cited as EB., four volumes; Adam & +Charles Black, London, 1899; American Reprint, The Macmillan Co., +New York, 1914.

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The clerical confessions of lies and frauds in the ponderous +volumes of the Catholic Encyclopedia alone suffice, and to spare, +to wreck the Church and to destroy utterly the Christian religion. +We shall see.

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RELIGIOUS LAWS OF OUTLAWRY

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The land, the religious world, even today is ringing with the +furious din of religious intolerance, bigotry and persecution; +pestiferous medieval laws are imposed to stop the voice of Science +teaching truths which impugn the ignorant myths of Bible and +Theology. Tennessee and several States of the Union have passed +laws making criminal the teaching of scientific facts which +contradict "the story of the divine creation of man as taught in +the Bible," and like Hillbilly legislation is sought in all the +States. The True Church lays down this amazing limitation on +learning: "When a clearly defined dogma contradicts a scientific +assertion, the latter has to be revised,"! (CE. xiii, 607.) The +civilized portion of the world has just been shocked at the +potential judicial murder and outrage sanctioned by law in North +Carolina, as likewise in a number of other States, making outlaws +of honest persons who, as parties in interest or witnesses in +actions civil and criminal, refuse to take the ridiculous and +degrading Form of Oath "upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, +in token of his engagement to speak the truth, as he hopes to be +saved in the way and method of salvation pointed out in that +blessed volume, and in further token that, if he should swerve from +the truth, he may be justly deprived of all the blessings of the +Gospel, and be made liable to that vengeance which he has +imprecated on his own head." (Consol. Stat. N.C., 1919, sec. 3189.)

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Under this infamous statute, in the late so-called Gastonia, +N.C. murder trial, the wife of one of the defendants, who had +testified that her husband was not present and had no part in the +shooting, was challenged as a witness and impeached, her testimony +discredited, and her husband convicted for want of her evidently +candid testimony: but true or not, the principle of infamy is the +same -- a citizen on trial for his liberty was refused the benefit +of evidence under this damnable statute, and he and his wife made +outlaws -- refused "the equal protection of the law"! In Maryland, +later in the same year 1929, a chicken-thief, caught in the act of +robbery by the owner, was discharged in court because the owner of +the property, a Freethinker, was not permitted under the infamous +similar statute of that godly State to give testimony in court +against the criminal: the case would have been the same, if the +life or liberty of the Infidel citizen had been at stake, -- he was +an outlaw denied the "equal protection of the law"! The benighted +State of Arkansas -- ("Now laugh!") -- declares infamously in its +Constitution: "No person who denies the being of a God shall hold +any office in the civil government of this State, nor be competent +to testify as a witness in any court"! (Const. Ark., Art. XIX, sec. +26.) Under this accursed act of outlawry, Charles Lee Smith, of New +York City, a native of Arkansas, went to his home city of Little +Rock in the Fall of 1928 to oppose the degrading proposition +proposed as a law in a popular initiative election, forbidding the +teaching of Evolution in the State-supported schools and +universities; he made some remarks reflecting upon the personal +integrity of the Almighty, as well as denying his existence; twice +was he arrested, thrown into jail, convicted, and was denied the +right to testify as a witness in his own behalf; he is today on +bail to answer to the decision of the Supreme Court of that State, +an outlaw, denied the "equal protection of the law" of the land! +The hypocrisy and self-stultification imposed by such detestable +laws, is finely illustrated: At the recent annual meeting of the +American Law Institute, I denounced this Article to a leader of the +Arkansas Bar, and appealed to him to "start something" to get rid +of it. He shrugged his shoulders, smiled in sympathy, and said: "It +is in the Constitution, and too difficult to get it out." Then, +dropping into Spanish, so that others at the table might not +understand, he added: "Yo no creo nada, -- y no digo nada -- I +believe nothing -- and I say nothing"! While these infamies are +inflicted upon the citizens of this country by law imposed by a +bigoted and ignorant minority of superstitious parsons and their +docile dupes; -- aye, even if imposed by an overwhelming majority, +or by authentic decree of God himself, -- the free and fearless +defiers of Church and despisers of its Superstition will fight it +on to the death, till every trace of these infamies is purged out +of the statute books of these sovereign States! This is due and +solemn notice and defiance to the intolerant religious oppressors +and their deluded dupes.

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Medieval laws against the fictitious crime of "Blasphemy" +survive in a dozen American States, protecting by law the Christian +superstition of the old Hebrew God. A model of them all is this +infamous enactment of the Church-ridden Massachusetts: "Whoever +wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or +contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final +judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching

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Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost -- [the whole Divine Family], -- or +by cursing or contumeliously reprioaching or exposing to contempt +or ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures +shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one +year or by fine of not more than three hundred dollars, and may +also be bound to good behavior." (Gen. Laws Mass., 1921; Chap. 272, +sec. 36.) Expressed contempt is held in lighter pecuniary +estimation in the Yankee "Nutmeg State," the fine being only +$100.00, plus the year in gaol. (Gen. Stat. Conn., 1918, sec. +6395.) In both States, under these infamous laws, persons have been +indicted, tried and convicted within the past two years! Throughout +the Union are odious religious statutes, "Blue Laws" and Sunday +Laws, penalizing innocuous diversions and activities of the people +on days of religious Voodoo: Sunday, as we shall see, being a +plagiarization from the religion of Mithras, and created a secular +holiday -- not a religious Holy Day -- by law of the Pagan +Constantine. Such laws sometimes prove troublesome to the pious +Puritans themselves; an amusing instance of their boomerang effect +being now chronicled to the annoyed and sneering world. Some "400" +of the True Believers of the "Holy Name Society" of St. Peter's +R.C, Church of New Brunswick, in the saintly State of New Jersey, +including several City "Fathers" stuck their legs under the loaded +tables of the local hostlery for a "Holy Communion Breakfast" the +past Sunday; as they began to eat they discovered to their pious +dismay that there was no bread on the tables, although the +reservation had long before been made, with particular stress on a +special brand of rolls, made only in the godless town of Newark. +Consternation reigned, with much confusion and hurried telephoning +by the management. In the midst of it came a 'phone call from the +driver of the roll-delivery truck, from the local Hoosgow: "I've +been arrested for the violation of section 316 of the Laws of 1798, +which prohibits the delivery of bread and rolls on the Sabbath and +also forbids a man to kiss his wife on that day"! Some of the +sachems called the chief of police and angrily demanded that this +holy law be violated by delivering the blessed rolls; the driver +was arraigned before the Recorder, who "released him with a +warning," and he consummated the violation by delivering the +forbidden rolls to the angry Holy Namers. (Herald-Tribune, May 14, +1930.)

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Now, throughout the State, and in far off Ohio, at the +instigation of the parsons, these pestiferous pious laws are being +forced into enforcement, headlined -- "Blue Law Net Busy in +Jersey," and recorded: "hundreds of names and addresses were in the +possession of the police today because their owners played golf, +tennis or radios, bought or sold gasoline, cigarettes or groceries, +or operated trolley cars, busses or trains in this capital city (of +Trenton) on the Sabbath," with much more of detail; and in the same +column, a dispatch from Dover, Ohio, that the police used tear-gas +bombs to dislodge the operator from the projection-box of a local +"movie" theater, who, with the owner and four employees, was +"arrested for violation of the Sunday closing law"! (N.Y. Sun, May +26, 1930.) And all this medieval absurdity of repressive penal +legislation to enforce obsolete religious observance by +disbelievers, in a land whose every constitution proclaims the +complete separation of State and Church! But for the defiance of +fearless heroes of Rationalism who have through the ages contended,

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and suffered martyrdom by rack and stake in defense of human +liberty, rack and stake and fiendish torture would yet be the +penalty, rather than fine and jail, for violators of the odious +proscriptions of Church and Church-minded, Church-driven, +politicians. To know fully the insidious and intensive efforts +being made throughout our country by the dupes of priestcraft to +undermine and destroy the liberties and rights of free men in the +interest of canting religious Pharisaism, bent on rule and ruin, +every true friend of freedom and enemy of the Church, should read +intently and keep ever at hand for an arsenal of defense, Maynard +Shipley's stirring book, The War on Modern Science; A Short History +of the Fundamentalist Attacks on Evolution and Modernism -- (Knopf, +1929), -- which to rend doth "make the angry passions rise" in +righteous wrath against these pious conspirators against American +liberties and the innate rights of man. The Church, too, through +the ages has been and yet nefariously is "in polities," seeking to +dictate and dominate and impose its malign superstitions by law: +witness the two last presidential campaigns, and the pernicious +activities of the Methodist Board of Intolerance, Meddling and +Public Nuisance, as now being revealed by the Lobbying +Investigation Committee of the United States Senate, whereby it is +shown seeking to ruborn and subordinate all to its intolerant +superstitious dominance. In most European countries the True Church +maintains its blatant "Catholic Party" in the elections and in the +parliaments; here it operations are via the "grape-vine" route," +but effective, as through the corrupt machinations of St. Tammany; +while the Methodist Party and the Baptist Party, and their allies +the Ku Klux Klan pursue the same evil ends through vocal +frightening of cheap politicians and of large sections of the +people and press. The very pious Editor of the Christian Herald has +just published a book on "The Church in Politics," in which with +cynical frankness he asserts its right and discloses its odious +methods.

+ +

These odious things are all the work and blighting effects of +the unholy 'Odium Theologicum' of Priestcraft, poisoning men's +minds with the rancor of obsolete superstitious beliefs.

+ +

Remove the cause, the cure is automatically and quickly +effected. To contribute to the speedier consummation of this +supreme boon is the motive and justification of this book. It gives +to the unctuous quack "Doctors of Divinity" a copious dose out of +their own nauseous Pharmacopaeia of Priestly Mendacity. As it takes +its deadly effect upon themselves, haply their "incurably +religious" duped patients may begin to evidence hopeful symptoms of +a wholesome, speedy and complete cure from their priest-made +malady.

+ +

"Fraud," says Ingersoll, "is hateful to its victims." The +compelling proofs of duplicitous fraud of priestcraft and Church +exposed in this book must convince even the most credulous and +devout Believer, that the system of "revealed religion" which he +"drew in with his mother's milk" and has in innocent ignorance +suffered in his system ever since, is simply a veneered Paganism, +unrevealed and untrue; is a huge scheme of priestly imposture to +exploit the credulous and to live in power and wealth at his +expense. Luther hit the bull's-eye of the System -- before he

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established another to pass the same old counterfeit: The Church +exists mostly for wealth and self-aggrandizement; to quit paying +money to the priests would kill the whole scheme in a couple of +years. This is the sovereign remedy. Let him that hath ears to +hear, hear; and govern himself accordingly. Every awakened Believer +must feel outraged in his dignity and self-respect, and in disgust +must repudiate the Creed and its impostors.

+ +

When a notorious Criminal is arraigned at the bar of Justice +and put to trial for deeds of crime and shame, it is his crimes, +his criminal career and record, which are the subject of inquiry , +-- which are exposed and denounced -- for conviction. No weight in +attenuation is accorded to sundry sporadic instances -- (if any) -- +between crimes or as cloaks for crime -- of his canting piety and +gestures of benevolence towards his victims, the dupes of his +duplicity. Thus the Church and its Creed are here arraigned on +their record of Crime, -- "extenuating naught, naught setting down +in malice"; -- simply exposing truly its own convicting record and +confessions of its criminality, for condign judgment upon it.

+ +

Goliath of Gath was a very big Giant; but a small pebble, +artfully slung, brought him to a sudden and violent collapse, a +huge corpse. This TNT. bomb of a book, loaded with barbed facts, is +flung full in facie ecclesiae -- into the face of the Forgery-founded Church and all her discordant broods. The "gates of hell" +will be exploded!

+ +

But yesteryear the Church of God in might +Has stood against the world; now lies she here, +And none so poor to do her reverence!

+ +

JOSEPH WHELESS

+ +

New York City +780 Riverside Drive +June 1, 1930

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CONTENTS

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Foreword: vii

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I: PAGAN FRAUDS-CHRISTIAN PRECEDENTS 3

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II: HEBREW HOLY FORGERIES 45

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III: CHRISTIAN "SCRIPTURE" FORGERIES 91

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IV: THE SAINTLY "FATHERS" OF THE FAITH 123

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V: THE "GOSPEL" FORGERIES 172

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VI: THE CHURCH FORGERY MILL 238

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VII: THE "TRIUMPH" OF CHRISTIANITY 295

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INDEX Follows page 400

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You are reading +FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY +by +Joseph Wheliss

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1930

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In order to better understand the text, it is necessary to +know the abreviated referances that Mr. Wheliss uses throughout the +text. If you are interested in knowing the source material it is +adviseable to take note of these oft-used references now. EFF

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Abbreviations for most often used sources:

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The libraries of the Union Theological Seminary and of +Columbia University, in New York City, were the places of the finds +here recorded. Cited so often, space will be saved for more +valuable uses by citing by their initials, -- which will become +very familiar -- my chief ecclesiastical authorities, towit:

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ANF.; The Ante-Nicene Fathers, cited as ANF.; A Collection of +the extant Writings of all the Founders of Christianity +down to the Council of Nicaea, or Nice, in 325 A.D. +American Reprint, eight volumes. The Christian Literature +Publishing Co., Buffalo, N.Y., 1885. [xxx]

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N&PNF.; The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, cited as N&PNF.; +First and Second Series; many volumes; same publishers.

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CE.; The Catholic Encyclopedia, cited as CE.; fifteen volumes +and index, published under the Imprimatur of Archbishop +Farley; New York, Robert Appleton Co., 1907-9.

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EB., The Encyclopedia Biblica, cited as EB., four volumes; +Adam & Charles Black, London, 1899; American Reprint, The +Macmillan Co., New York, 1914.

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"Being crafty, I caught you with guile" ... +For if the truth of God hath more abounded +through my LIE unto his glory; why yet am +I also adjudged a sinner?" +St. Paul.

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CHAPTER I

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PAGAN FRAUDS -- CHRISTIAN PRECEDENTS

+ +

"Neither in the confusion of paganism, nor in the +defilement of heresy, nor yet in the blindness of Judaism, is +religion to be sought, but among those alone who are called +Catholic Christians." (St. Augustine, De Vera Religions, v.)

+ +

EVERY RELIGION, PRIESTCRAFT, and Sacred Book, other than the +Roman Catholic Christian, is thus branded as false in fact and +fraudulent in practice. The Jews, however, excluded by those who +have expropriated their ancient faith, make the same imputations of +falsity and fraud against the Christian religion, based on their +own ancient sacred Scriptures, and founded, as the Christians +claim, by a Jewish Incarnation of the Hebrew God, -- which, say the +Jews, is a horrid blasphemy; and they brand the Sacred Books of +Christian origin as false and forged.

+ +

The Christians, all their hundreds of warring Sects, in their +turn impute to the Jews the blasphemous repudiation and monstrous +murder of the Son of the ancient Hebrew God, Yahweh; and with ample +usury of blood and torture have visited that fabulous iniquity upon +the hapless sons and daughters of Jewry unto half a hundred +generations of "God's Chosen People."

+ +

But, of the countless Sects of Christians, one alone, it +avers, is of the True Faith; all the others are false and beyond +the hope of heaven: "Whoever will be saved, it is necessary above +all else that he hold to the Catholic Faith," -- so reads the +venerable forged Athanasian Creed. (CE. ii, 33, 34.) The Protestant +Sects, however, though they all admit the same origin and accept in +full fatuity of faith most of the same forged sacred writings for +their rule of faith as the One True Church, yet apply the scornful +epithet "Antichrist" to their venerable Mother in Christ; freely +dub a dozen of her canonical sacred Books of Jewish origin, and +most of her thousands of canonized Saints, forgeries and frauds; +and assert many of her most holy dogmas and sacraments to be +blasphemous and degrading superstitions. The while their own scores +of hostile factions mutually recriminate each the other as blind +leaders of the blind and perverters of the sacred Truth.

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It will serve a useful purpose to take a look behind all this +dust-and-smoke screen of "Odium Theologicum" and make a brief +survey of the origins of religious superstitions and priestcraft, +and of the known and admitted falsities and frauds of Paganism, and +some venerable other religious 'isms.' This will demonstrate that +these same things are now part and parcel of Christianity. This +induces the inquiry, Wherein the data of Christianity as a whole +may haply differ from the admitted frauds of the false religions +and priestcrafts of the Past. We shall learn whether and to what +degree truth may be found in any of the confused and confusing +Christian claims of Truth.

+ +

THE DAWN-MAN AND THE SHAMAN

+ +

"There is no origin for the idea of an after-life save +the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion +suggested by dreams." -- Herbert Spencer.

+ +

Lo, the poor Indian, with his untutored mind, saw his god in +clouds and heard him in the wind. Ages before him, the Dawn-man, +the earliest Cave-man, saw his shadow in the sun, his reflection in +the water, and crudely thought that he had a sort of shadowy +double, which accompanied him and at times showed itself visible to +him. At night, when the Dawn-man, gorged with raw and often putrid +flesh, in a night-mare dream saw terrible monsters assailing him, +or in more normal sleep wandered forth and visited distant scenes +of his previous roamings, or saw, as in the flesh living and acting +before his eyes, his dead father or friend, thus he got further +immature notions of a double, "ka," or detachable spirit of man, +dwelling within him, which could leave the body and return at will, +or which survived the death of the body and lived on in spirit +form, and could revisit the old habitation and hold converse with, +do good or harm to, the frightened living. Thus came the belief in +the existence and survival after death of this double or spirit-ghost, thus the notion of the immortality of the soul, it primitive +belief held by every people of antiquity, and surviving yet by +inheritance among the priest-taught of modern times.

+ +

These strange phantoms of the night naturally worked further +upon the fear-filled mind of the early child-men, terrified by the +frightful vicissitudes of life, the violent deaths by wild animals, +the storms and floods that killed and maimed them, the lightnings +and thunders that terrified them. All these things were to them +clearly the manifestations of the anger and revenge of the departed +spirits, especially of the Old Man of the clan who had bossed it +in life and had grudges against all who had not been sufficiently +obedient to him. Awaking from these dread visions of the night, the +frightened Down-man would relate the uncanny visitations to his +fellows, who would have like ghostly dream-stuff to exchange; +together they would wonder whether something could be done to +propitiate or pileate the wandering ghost-men and to win their +favor for benefits to be had from their superior other-worldly +status and powers.

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It could not be long before some old and crafty member of the +nomadic clan would hint that he had known the Old Man well during +life, had been very friendly with him living and had a powerful

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influence with him; that he was wise to the ways and whims of +ghosts or gods; and no doubt he could get in touch with his spirit +and cajole him into reasonableness and favor. This suggestion +meeting with awed acquiescence, it would quickly be followed by the +forthright bold claim to super-ghostly powers, and by sundry weird +mumblings and mystic rites and incantations the old faker would +further awe the clan into credulous faith in the claim. The new +spiritualist would pretend to get into communion with the Old Man's +spirit, and to receive from him "revelations" of his will and +commands for the obedience of the clan. Thus began spirit-worship +or religion -- the fancied relations between man and the spirits of +the dead or gods. Here, too, we have the first shaman, medicine-man, magician, witch-doctor, or what-not; in a word, the first +priest; and the priestly game was on. The pretended ghost-cajoler +would naturally be held in dread awe and reverence by his credulous +dupes, and would gain enormous respect and prestige: he could quit +the drudgery of hunting and fishing for his precarious living, and +let the awed and believing members of the clan keep him in food and +idle ease; here the first social parasite. This is priestcraft -- +by whatever name and in whatever age and guise pursued.

+ +

A very modern instance comes to hand and is added for +confirmation. Fortunately, or lamentably for Christian pretensions, +there yet exist in the world races of very primitive descendants of +Adam, who yet preserve their primeval forms of superstition and +priestcraft, wherein may be seen their origins in yet active +reality of operation. In no more remote a region of these our +United States than the Diomede Islands of the Aleutian archipelago +of Alaska, tribal superstition and primitive priestcraft may be +seen in all their ridiculous crudity today. In the Report of the +Stoll-McCracken Expedition of the American Museum of Natural +History, 1928, primitive religious superstition and the power of +the priest are graphically described; with simple change of form +and ritual it is Religion through the Ages, the war-blessers and +rain-makers in action to cajole and control the deity through his +priests. As one reads the following extracts from the Report, let +him see what differences he may discover, other than of technique, +between the Diomeder and the Dupe of any other Cult. "For the +Diomeder humbles himself before the imaginary forces of his spirit +world, often disregarding the realities of life with typical +primitive inconsistency. ... The only powers really worthy of his +respect are the supernatural ones. This is why the Eskimo medicine +man, or angutkok, as he is called, holds a position of such +influence. He is the middleman between the natural and supernatural +world. The Diomeders have no real chiefs or any system of +government. Each family is able to manage its own affairs. The +common events of life take care of themselves. But whatever is +unusual, whatever cannot be readily understood, engages the +attention of every Diomeder. Such things as sickness and weather, +good or bad luck and the complicated workings of nature fascinate +him because they are utterly beyond his comprehension. Indeed, +superstition is the basis of the angutkok's hold over his people. +It is chiefly for his supposed alliance with the forces of the +supernatural that he is venerated. ... He is supposed to have +marvelous powers over bodily ailments. ... The power of +conversation with the ancestral spirits is one of the angutkok's +strongest holds upon his public. For the ancestral spirits are said

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to exert a tremendous influence over the lives of the natives. The +Diomeder's attitude toward them is more than one of wholesome +respect. It is made up of a definite and deep-sated fear. This is +because the spirits, if they choose, can send down either good luck +or bad -- and usually elect the latter. And clever must be the +ruses whereby they may be tricked into benignity. For a departed +soul, no matter how kindly has been its earthly owner, is a +potential agent of misfortune and must be treated accordingly" (New +York Times Magazine, Dee. 16, 1928, p. 9.) The methods of +incantation, of placating the spirits and gods, the charms and +amulets used for these conjurations, differ only in material from +those in holy vogue today in some very Christian countries. +Angutkok, shaman, medicine-man, exorciser, priest, Pennsylvania +Witch-doctors, nature-fakers and superstition-mongers, parasites +preying on ignorance and fear -- the whole genealogy of dupe-craft, +of priest-craft, -- what difference in kind and craft is +discernible between the one and the others of the god-placating, +devil-chasing Genus Shamanensis? Bombarding the irate god with +eggs, as with the Diomedes, or by the prayer of faith as with more +up-to-date God-compellers, the cause is the same, and the effect is +equally ineffective and desultory.

+ +

The Catholic Encyclopedia, describing the Doctors of Divinity +as in vogue among sundry African tribes, well describes the entire +confraternity in all religions: "Certain specialists, however, +exist, known to us as sorcerers, witch-doctors, etc. who are +familiar with the mysterious secrets of things, who make use of +them on behalf of those interested, and hand them down to chosen +disciples." (CE. i, 183.) One of the highest and most potent +functions of all these primitive shamans and devil-doctors is the +conjuring of the infinitude of devils which afflict the inner-works +of the superstitious, and work havoc in weather, crops, herds, +etc.; the practice and its ceremonial of incantation are very +elaborate in some modern schemes: "This ceremony takes up over +thirty pages of the Roman Ritual. It is, however, but rarely used +-- [in these more enlightened and skeptical days], and never +without the express permission of the Bishop, for there is room for +no end of deception and hallucination when it is a question of +dealing with the unseen powers"! (CE. i, 142). Thus the System is +yet in vogue; and its priestcraft has waxed very powerful and very +wealthy. Artificial Fear and Credulity are its sole source and +sustenance. As the Roman poet Lucretius said: "Fear was the first +thing on earth to make gods."

+ +

Reinach, after a critique of many varied definitions of +Religion, thus formulates his own -- which a moment's reflection +upon the infinite sacred "Thou Shalt Not's" of Faith will fully +justify: "A sum of scruples (Taboos) which impede the, free +exercise of our faculties." (Orpheus, 1930 ed. p. 3.)

+ +

As primitive society progressed towards organization, the +Headman of the clan or tribe would find advantage in a close and +not disinterested association with the Shaman, whose intimations of +good from the spirits or dreadful evil would assist powerfully in +the subordination and control of maybe otherwise ambitious or +unruly subjects: thus began the cooperation of ruler and priest for +the subjection of the ruled. Later yet, as government and

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priestcraft developed, the ruler was also priest or the priest +ruler, as in early Egypt and Assyria, and as in ancient theocratic +Israel before the Kings and after the return from Captivity. So +too, later, in Greece and Rome. In Egypt and under the Empire in +Rome the King was God, in Egypt by divine descent, in Rome by +apotheosis. Even Alexander of Macedon was a god by divine +generation, as declared by the Pagan Oracle of Jupiter Ammon, to +the great scandal of Alexander's mother Olympias, who was wont to +complain, "I wish that Alexander would cease from incessantly +embroiling me with the wife of Jupiter!" Thus priestcraft thrived +and gained immense dominion over the superstitious minds of men, to +say nothing of powers and prestige unlimited, privileges, +immunities, wealth and aggrandizement beyond rivalry -- in ancient +Pagan times.

+ +

The temples of the ancient gods throughout Pagandom were +marvels of sumptuous wealth and beauty, thanks to the lavish +munificence of rulers and the offerings of the votaries of the +respective false gods. The Temple of Diana at Ephesus, the +Parthenon or Temple of the Virgin-goddess at Athens, were wonders +of the ancient world. The greatest ruins of antiquity yet standing +in splendid ruin or unearthed by the excavations of the +archaeologists, are the temples of the Pagan gods, testifying in +their decayed grandeur to their pristine magnificence and wealth.

+ +

Through the priests and the fear of the gods the rulers ruled: +"Thus saith our god" was the awful sanction of their commands and +of their legal enactments. The Hebrews had no word for religion"; +their nearest approximation to the idea is the oft-repeated Bible +phrase, "The fear of Yahweh [the Lord]." The ancient Code of +Hammurabi, graven on the stela discovered by De Morgan in the ruins +of Susa at the beginning of this century and now preserved in the +Louvre at Paris, represents the King humbly receiving the Code of +Laws from the great god Bel through the Sun-god Shamash; this for +its greater sanction to obedience by the superstitious people, who +knew no better than to believe the pious fraud of the priests and +King. A thousand years more or less later, the Hebrew God Yahweh, +along with many divine laws, delivered to Moses his Code of +Commandments neatly scratched with his own finger on two stone +slabs; of these, like the grave of Moses, no man knoweth the +whereabouts unto this day. It was plain but pious fraud for +Hammurabi to issue his laws under the name of his god. Common sense +and common honesty make us disbelieve and condemn the Hammurabi +fraud, and no one chides us for disbelieving it. Perforce we must +believe the Moses-tale of identical import, or be dubbed atheists, +reviled and ostracized, and be damned in the Christian Hell +forever, to boot. Both fables of Divine enactment were invented for +and served the same purpose to dupe the credulous to believe and +obey King and Priest. Is it honest?

+ +

This principle, involved in the pretense of divine Sanctions, +and effective through the cooperation of King and Priest for +dominion over the ruled, was frankly recognized by many ancient +writers, and even by some lauded as salutary for the ignorant. +Critics, friend of Socrates, saw the State "with false reason +covering truth," which by this device "quenched lawlessness,; with +laws." Diodorus Siculus admitted it to be the duty of the State "to

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establish effective gods to do the work of police," and laid it +down, that "It is to the interest of States to be deceived in +religion." Livy admires the wisdom of Numa, who "introduced the +fear of the gods as a most efficacious means of controlling an +ignorant and barbarous populace." Polybius, the celebrated Greet +historian, gives his philosophic admiration to the religious system +of the Romans as an effective means of government of the populace:

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"In my opinion their object is to use it as a cheek upon the +common people. If it were possible to form a State wholly of +philosophers, such a custom would perhaps be unnecessary. But +seeing that every multitude is fickle and full of lawless desires, +unreasoning anger and violent passions, the only recourse is to +keep them in check by mysterious terrors and scenic effects of this +sort. Wherefore, to my mind the ancients were not acting without +purpose or it random, when they brought in among the Vulgar those +opinions about the gods and the belief in the punishments in +Hades." (Historiae, quoted by Grover, The Conflict of Religions in +the Early Roman Empire, pp. 3-4.)

+ +

This pious notion of God and religion as the Big Policeman of +the common herd, is not yet extinct. the Attorney General of +England, in a celebrated State trial for the sale of it copy of +Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason, urged to the jury the necessity +"to prevent its circulation among the industrious poor"; for, he +declaimed, "Of all human beings they stand most in need of the +consolations of religion; ... because no man can be expected to be +faithful to the authority of man who revolts against the government +of God"! (Williams' Case, 26 Howard's State Trials, p. 719; +1798-99.) But times and creeds change; this is the Twentieth +century. The professional religionists of today, however, forever +dingdong the old "Morality Lie," that without the God-given Ten +Commandments and like divine laws, ministered by them and reenacted +and enforced by the State there can be no morality, no human +virtues, no decent government. The "True Church" makes mighty boast +of its "saving civilization" after the Fall of Rome by the +industrious preachment -- as we shall amply see -- of pious lies +and practice of most unholy frauds among the semi-pagan Christian +peoples who rose -- despite the Church -- on the ruins of Rome, --

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. . . Whilst human kind +Throughout the lands lay miserably crushed +Before all eyes beneath Religion -- who +Would show her head along the region skies, +Glowering on mortals with her hideous face." +(Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, I.)

+ +

PAGANISM AT THE CROSS-ROADS WITH CHRISTIANITY

+ +

At the time of the advent of "that newer form of Paganism +later called Christianity," the Greeco-Roman world seethed with +religions in a great state of flux and re-formation. Wonder-workers, miracle-mongers, impostors in the guise of gods and +Christs abounded. Simon Magus, Apollonius of Tyana, Apuleius, +Alexander, Porphyry, Iamblichus, -- performed prodigies of divine +power and were hailed as genuine gods, -- just as were Paul and +Barnabas (Acts xiv, 11-12), and, later, Jesus the Christ. Of these

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Pagan and Jewish "Christs" two will be briefly noted, for their +very important Christian contacts and analogies. But first, some +analogies of Pagan priestly fakeries.

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The petty frauds of the Pagan priests to dupe their credulous +votaries would fill a large book; the ancient poets and +philosophers, and modern histories of Gentilic religions, abound in +instances. Simply for examples of a few of the more common frauds +of the Pagan priests, outdone a thousand-fold by the Christian +priests and church, as -- (out of the Catholic Encyclopedia) we +shall see, -- we may mention some well-known pious frauds of the +Greeks and Romans prevalent around the beginning of the Christian +era and forming the religious atmosphere of the times in which the +new faith was born and propagated.

+ +

False prophecies and miracles and fraudulent relics were the +chief reliance among the Pagans, as among the Christians, for +stimulating the faith, or credulity, of the ignorant and +superstitious masses. The images of the gods were believed to be +endowed with supernatural power. Of some, the wounds could bleed; +of others, the eyes could wink, of others, the heads could nod, the +limbs could be raised; the statues of Minerva could brandish +spears, those of Venus could weep; others could sweat; paintings +there were which could blush. The Holy Crucifix of Boxley, in Kent, +moved, lifted its head, moved its lips and eyes; it was broken up +in London, and the springs exposed, and shown to the deriding +public;, but this relation is out of place, -- this was a pious +Christian, not Pagan, fake. One of the marvels of many centuries +was the vocal statue of Memnon, whose divine voice was heard at the +first dawn of day, "the sweet voice of Memnon" which greeted the +sun, as sung by poets and attested by inscriptions on the statue +made by noted visitors, who credited the assertion of the priests +that the voice was that of the god Ammon; the secret was discovered +by Wilkinson: a cavity in which a priest was concealed, who struck +a stone at sunrise when the worshippers were assembled, thus giving +out a melodious ringing sound. Very famous was the Palladium or +statute of Minerva, thrown down from heaven by Zeus into Troy, and +guarded sacredly in the citadel as protection of the city, which +was believed to be impregnable so long as the statue was in the +city; Ulysses and Diomede entered the city in disguise and stole +out the sacred statue to the Greek camp; thence AEneas is said to +have taken it to Italy, where it was preserved in the Temple of +Vesta. Many cities of Greece and Rome claimed to have the genuine +original. Another miraculous statue of like divine origin was that +of "the great goddess, Diana" at Ephesus, which the Town-clerk (in +Acts 3 xix, 35) declared that all men knew "fell down from +Jupiter." Other holy relics galore were preserved and shown to the +pious: The AEgis of Jove, forged by Vulcan and ornamented with the +head of the Gorgon; the very tools with which the Trojan horse was +made, at Metapontum; the scepter of Pelops, at Chaeronea; the spear +of Achilles, at Pharselis; the sword of Memnon, at Nicomedia; the +hide of the Chalcydonian boar, among the Tegeates; the stone +bearing the authentic marks of the trident of Neptune, at Athens; +the Cretans exhibited the tomb of Zeus, which earned for them their +reputation as Liars. But Mohammedans show the tomb of Adam and +Christians that of Peter! There were endless shrines and +sanctuaries at which miracle-cures could be performed: oracular

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temples full of caverns, and secret passages, -- that of the +Cumaean Sibyl has recently been explored, and its fraudulent +devices exposed. The gods themselves came down regularly and ate +the fine feasts spread before their statues. In the apocryphal +History of Bel and the Dragon, interpolated in the True Church's +Book of Daniel (Chapter xiv), the Holy Ghost tells how this hero +trapped the priests who stole at night through secret passages into +the throne-room of the god and ate the good things furnished by the +pious King and people. The gods came frequently to earth, too, and +with the connivance of the priests kept amorous tryst in the +temples with unsuspecting pious ladies, edifying instances of which +are related by Herodotus and Josephus, among other chroniclers of +the wiles of priestcraft.

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Pagan prodigies of every conceivable kind were articles of +popular credulity, affectitig the commonalty as well as many of the +highest category. The great Emperor Augustus, obedient to dreams, +went begging money through the streets of Rome, and used to wear +the skin of a sea-calf to protect himself against lightning. +Tiberius placed greater faith in the efficacy of laurel leaves; +both remedies are highly praised by Pliny. Caligula would crawl +under the bed in thunder storms; the augurs had listed eleven kinds +of lightning with different significations. Comets and dreanis +portended the gravest crises. Cicero and Valerius Alaximus cite +numerous instances of dreams being verified by the event. Livy +relates with perfect faith innumerable prodigies, though he acutely +observed, that "the more prodigies are believed, the more they are +announced." The Emperors made numerous enactments against sorcery, +divination, and all kinds of magic; the "Christian" Emperor, +Constantine, prohibited all forms of magic, but specially excepted +and authorized "that which was intended to avert hail and +lightning," one of the specialties of the Christian priests. Such +puerilities of the prevalent superstitions might be multiplied to +fill volumes. (See case, Experiences with the Supernatural, etc.)

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APOLLONIUS OF TYANA

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Apollonius of Tyana was one of the most notable of these +wonder-working Christs. So extremely moral and pure were his +doctrines and his conduct, and so mighty the works he wrought, that +the Pagans insisted that Apollonius was the actual personage whom +the Christians called Jesus Christ. By all reports, implicitly +credited, Apollonius had raised the dead, healed the sick, cast out +devils, freed a young man from a lamia or vampire with whom he was +enamored, prophesied, seen in one country events which were +occurring in another, as from Ephesus the assassination of Domitian +at Rome, and had filled the world with the fame of his miracles and +of his sanctity, just as did Jesus Christ. Apollonius was born +about the same time as Jesus of Nazareth; the legends of their +lives and deeds were very similar; the former, at least, has been +justly described as "among that least obnoxious class of impostors, +who pretend to be divinely gifted, with a view to secure attention +and obedience to precepts, which, delivered in the usual way, would +be generally neglected." (Anthon, Clairsical Dictintiary, p. 165; +see generally, Lecky, Hist. of European Morals, i, 372, passim; any +good Encyclopedia.) Recall the current histories of Mohammed, the +Mormon Joseph Smith, Mother Eddy -- Jesus Christ -- for instances +of analogous pretensions.

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This customary pretense of wonder-workers is confirmed by the +great Church Fathers Lactantius, in his Divine Institutes, +dedicated to the "Christian" Emperor Constantine, in which he +combated the Pagan imputation that Jesus was a magician, like +Apollonius and Aputeius, whose wonder-workings he admits. Like all +the Fathers, as we shall see, Lactantius, an ex-Pagan, had firm +faith in magic, and believed all the magical wonders of the Pagan +magicians as veritable miracles wrought by the divine power of +demons or devils. He says that the Pagans "endeavored to overthrow +his [Jesus'] wonderful deeds [by showing] that Appllonius performed +equal or even greater deeds." But, "It is strange," he argues, +"that he omitted to mention Apuleius, of whom many and wonderful +things are accustomed to be related. ... If Christ is a magician +because He performed wonderful deeds, it is plain that Apollonius, +who, according to your description, when Domitian wished to punish +him, suddenly disappeared on his trial, was more skilful than He +who was both arrested and crucified. ... It was evident, therefore, +that he [Apollonius] was both a man and a magician; and for this +reason he affected divinity under the title of a name belonging to +another [Hercules], for in his own name he was unable to attain +it." (Lact. Div. Inst. Bk. V, ch. iii; ANP. vii, 138, 139,)

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SIMON MAGUS

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Most notorious and important, from the viewpoint of the rising +Christianity, was the Samaritan impostor, Simon Magus, the "great +power of God," vouched for by divine inspiration as having "used +sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria," he having "of a long +time bewitched them with sorceries," as the Holy Ghost of God +ridiculously assures us in Acts viii. Not content with his own +"great power of God," Simon, heaving seen some of the apostles at +work bestowing the holy Ghost on the peasants, offered money for +the gift of like power to himself, but was curtly rebuked and +refused by Peter. The especial importance of Simon Magus is his +legendary Scriptural contact with the fisherman Peter, which +developed, under the early Christian propensity for expansive +mendacity, into a veritable literature of pious lies and prodigies +associated with Simon and Peter, which was the chiefest if not sole +basis, be it remembered for the false pretense, later developed, as +we shall duly see, of the "sojourn" of Peter at Rome as Bishop and +Pope. As legends of the Samaritan impostor are wholly Christian +impostures, the Catholic Encyclopedia will be called upon for an +account of the Patristic canards. "By his magic arts," says our +exponent of "Catholic Truth," Simon was called Magus, or the +Magician, the account just given from Acts is "the sole +authoritative [?] report that we have about him": and it confesses +the chronic mendadacity of the Fathers by the remark, "The +statements of the [clerical] writers of the second century +concerning him are largely legendary, and it is difficult or rather +impossible to extract from them any historical fact the details of +which are established with certainty." Let us remember this +characterization of these same Fatherly writers, who, lying about +Simon and Peter together, in Rome, yet tell unvarnished truth about +Peter alone, or Peter and Paul together, in Rome.

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I may remark, that serious argument is made, that Paul himself +is maliciously intended by some of the Fathers under the name of +Simon, the constant conflict between Paul and Peter being disguised +under the accounts of the inveterate struggles of Simon and Peter, +(See Ency. Bib. vol. iv, Art, Simon Magus.) The childish and +fabulous histories of the Fathers regarding Simon and Peter and +Paul in Rome and their contests of magic powers, are thus related:

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"St. Justin of Rome ('First Apolog.' xxvi, lvi; 'Dialog. c. +Tryphonem, cxx), describes Simon as a man who, at the instigation +of demons, claimed to be a god. Justin says further that Simon came +to Rome during the reign of the Emperor Claudius and by his magic +arts won many followers so that these erected on an island in the +Tiber a statue to him as a divinity with the inscription 'Simon the +Holy God.' The statue, however, that Justin took for one dedicated +to Simon was undoubtedly one to the old Sabine divinity Semo Sancus +(797) ... The later anti-heretical writers who report Simon's +residence at Rome, take Justin and the apocryphal Acts of Peter as +their authority, so that their testimony is of no value. [p. 798.]

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"Simon plays an important part in the 'Pseudo-Clementines.' He appears here as the chief antagonist of the +Apostle Peter, by whom he is everywhere followed and opposed. +The alleged magical arts of the magician and Peter's efforts +against him are described in a way that is absolutely +imaginary. The entire account lacks all historical basis +[citing several WORKS] ... The apocryphal Acts of St. Peter +give an entirely different account of Simon's condition at +Rome and of his death. In this work also great stress is laid +upon the straggle between Simon and the Apostles Peter and +Paul at Rome. By his magic arts Simon had also sought to win +the Emperor Nero for himself, an attempt in which he had been +thwarted by the apostles. As proof of the truth of his +doctrines Simon offered to ascend into the heavens before the +eyes of Nero and the Roman populace; by magic did he rise in +the air in the Roman Forum, but the prayers of the Apostles +Peter and Paul caused him to fall, so that he was severely +injured and shortly afterwards died miserably. ... This legend +led later to the erection of a church dedicated to the +apostles on the alleged spot of Simon's fall near the Via +Sacra above the Forum. The stones of the pavement on which the +apostles knelt in prayer and which are said to contain the +impression of their knees, are now in the wall of the Church +of Santa Francesca Romana." (CE. xiii, 797, 798.)

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With respect to that statue erected in the Tiber to "Simon the +Holy Hod," the account, above mentioned, does not do justice to +Father Justin's invention; it is thus explicit: he says that Simon +"performed feats of magic by demonic arts in Rome during the reign +of Claudius, was held to be a god, and was honored by Senate and +people with a statue in the middle of the Tiber, between the two +bridges, bearing the inscription in Latin: 'Simoni, Deo sancto ... +To Simon the holy God.' The base of the pillar refereed to was dug +up on the island in the Tiber, at the place indicated by Justin, in +1574; the inscription, which was deciphered, runs: 'Semoni Sanco +deo fidio sacrum ... Sex. Pompeius ... donum dedit.' Thus the +pillar was dedicated to the Sabine god Semo Sancus, and not by the +Senate and people, but by the piety of a private individual." (EB.

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iv, 4538-9; cf. CE. xiii, 797-8.) The same authority, referring to +the clerical fabrications above mentioned, says: "The Pseudo-Clementine Homilies and Recognitions contain yet another element of +the very greatest importance. In them Simon displays features which +are unquestionably derived from Paul, and plainly show him to be a +caricature of that apostle drawn by an unfriendly hand." (EB. iv, +4540, with citations in proof.) Simon proclaimed as his doctrine -- +"asserting that none could possibly have salvation without being +baptized in his name" (Tert., adv. Haereyes, c.i; ANF. iii, 649); +which group plagiarized the sentiment from the other, Christians, +or Simoneans, I cannot verify.

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SUPERSTITIONS AND REVELATIONS

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The Pagans would appear almost to have been good Christians: +they had their gods, (whom they fondly called Savior and Messiah) +the death and resurrections of gods; devils, angels, and spirits +good, bad and indifferent; their heavens, hells and purgatories; +they believed in immortality of the soul, -- witness the Pyramids +and the tombs of the Kings, as of Tut-ankh-Amen in Egypt, and of +the Queen Shub-Ad, just unearthed in Ur of the Chaldees; their +elaborate sacrifices, animal and human, even of their dear little +children to appease their gods, as in Carthage and Canaan, -- a +chronic Hebrew practice. Virgin-births of demigods by the +intervention of gods and human maids were common-places of Pagan +faith, as were Virgin-mothers and god-child: the Christians +imported theirs from Egypt -- the Madonna statues of Isis and the +Child Horus -- of universal vogue at the beginning of this era of +the Christ -- may be seen in almost any first-class Museum, as the +Metropolitan in New York and the University in Philadelphia. This +popular Pagan device, the "Mother of God" and her God-baby-in-arms, +was taken over as a Christian sop to the crowds of Pagans who were +being enticed and forced into the Church; it was violently opposed +by many of the more intelligent Churchmen: "Nestorius [Bishop of +Constantinople about 404] had declared against the new and, as he +asserted, idolatrous expression 'Mother of God' (Theotokos), +thereby opposing the sentiments and wishes of the humbler people" +(CE. iii, 101); and in protest Nestorius left the Catholic Church +and founded one of the most wide-spread and powerful "heresies," +which exists in the East to the present time. The Pagans had their +holy mysteries and sacraments, baptisms of water and of blood, +communions with the gods at their sacred altars, partaking of +sacred meals to ingest the divine spirit and become godlike. they +believed in the resurrection of the dead, and in final judgments +meting rewards and punishments according to the deeds done in the +flesh, -- the Egyptian Book of the Dead, 3000 years B.C., giving +priestly prescriptions for use before the judgment seat of Osiris, +is found in almost every tomb of those able to pay for the +hieroglyphic papyrus rolls. The Pagans had their holy days (from +which the Christians plagiarized their Christmas, Easter, Rogation +Days, etc.); their monks, nuns, religious processions carrying +images of idols (like those of saints today); incense, holy water, +holy oil, chants, hymns, liturgies, confessions of sins to priests, +forgiveness of sins by priests, revelations by gods to priests, +prophecies, sacred writings of "holy bibles," Pontiffs, Holy +Fathers, holy crafty priesthood. All these sacrosanct things of +Christian "Revealed Religion," were age-old pre-Christian Pagan +myths and superstitions.

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I puzzle myself to understand how there could be "divine +revelations," to Jews and Christians, of things which for ages had +been identically ancient Pagan delusions and the inventions and +common holy stock in trade of all Pagan priestcrafts. Indeed and in +truth, there can be no divine revelation of miraculous "facts" and +"heavenly dogmas" which for centuries had been, and in the early +Christian ages were, the current mythology of credulous Pagandom. +this I shall make exceeding clear.

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CHRISTIAN "REVELATION" DEFINED AND DISPROVED

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This paragraph is one of the most important in this book, and +to it I invite Specially serious attention and thought. It will +disclose the substantial identity of Christianity with the most +popular and wide-spread "Pagan" religion of the times, Mithraism, +or the Persian Zoroastrian religion, the closest and all but +successful rival of Christianity in the Roman world, and which +might indeed have been successful, but that, soon after Constantine +prostituted the Empire to the Church, -- "with the triumph of +Christianity Mythraism came to a sudden end. The laws of Theodosius +signed its death warrant." (CE. x, 402.) That there may be no +suspicion that the recital of these remarkable identities of +Christian "revelation" with Pagan inventions is fanciful or +exaggerated, the tale shall be told in the quoted words of the +Catholic Encyclopedia, which naively makes so many extraordinary +admissions without seeming to be aware of their fatal Implications.

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"The essence of Revelation lies in the fact that it is the +direct speech of God to man," says the Holy Ghost speaking through +the Vatican Council (1870), thus confirming what I have above said, +that "divine revelation" cannot be of Pagan myths already current +and long known to everyone. The same Heavenly Instructor tells us +what Revelation is: "Revelation may be defined as the communication +of some truth by God to a rational creature through means which are +beyond the ordinary course of nature. The truths thus revealed may +be such as are otherwise inaccessible to the human mind -- +mysteries, which even when revealed, the intellect of man is +incapable of fully penetrating. ... The Decree 'Lamentabili' (3 +July, 1907) declares that the dogmas which the Church proposes as +revealed are 'truths which have come down to us from heaven' and +not 'an interpretation of religious facts which the human mind has +acquired by its own strenuous efforts.'" (Vatican Decrees, 1870; +CE. xiii, 1.) And, asserts CE.: "The existence of revelation is as +reasonably established as any historical fact"! (CE. xiii, 607.) +Isn't CE. funny!

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Divine Revelation is thus of things not previously known and +which the revelationless mind of man is incapable of acquiring or +inventing by its own efforts. Divine Revelation rests thus upon the +same principle as the Law of Patents and Copyright, A book +published, that is made known and given to the world cannot be the +subject of subsequent copyright even by its author. When an +application for a patent is presented, the first act is to search +the records to ascertain whether a similar art or article has ever +previously been known and in use: if so, no patent can be obtained: +the thing lacks novelty. So exactly with "revelation": if some +impostor or deluded person (e.g. Mohammed or Joseph Smith) claims

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that hie has received a personal -- and therefore necessarily +private -- "revelation" from some god, the only way whereby he can +get a valid patent of authenticity and credibility for his +"revelation," is to prove that its subject-matter has never before +been known and in credulous circulation, the moment that from the +search of the records -- of other, or comparative religions, -- it +is shown that the same proposition has been previously known and +current, in use and practice among some other priestcraft and its +votaries -- the thing is no revelation: the claim is a fraud. Let +us see how this indisputable rule works to the destruction and +proof of fraudulence of the "divine revelations" of Christian +credulity.

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MITHRAISM -- AND CHRISTIAN MYTH

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The religion of Zoroaster, known as Mithraism, is confessed by +CE. to be a divinely revealed Monotheism, or worship of a One God, +and having a divinely revealed Moral Code comparable to the +Christian, -- a sacred system claimed by Christians to be a +monopoly of the Hebrew-Christian religion to the exclusion of all +heathen systems. This notable confession reads: "The Avesta system +may be best defined as MONOTHEISM, modified by a physical and moral +dualism, with an ethical system based on a Divinely revealed moral +code and human free will." (CE. ii, 156.) Though it quotes a Jesuit +as saying: "Mithraism is the highest religious result to which +human reason unaided by Revelation, can attain." (Id.) Revealed or +invented, it is virtually identical with Christianity; but as the +mythic Mithraic god could not "reveal" anything, the human reason +which devised Mithraism was quite equal to the Christian God so far +as devising mythology and ethics is an attribute of godhead.

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Mithraism is one of the oldest religious systems on earth, as +it dates from the dawn of history before the primitive Iranian race +divided into the sections which became Persian and Indian, as this +same religion is contained both in the Persian Avesta and Indian +Vedas. This its "revealed" or invented Monotheism by ages outdates +the "revelation" of Yahweh to Moses; and it is yet a living faith +to some thousands of surviving Parsees: "The religious cult is +[yet] scrupulously maintained as of old. The ancient traditional +and nationally characteristic national virtues of truth and +open-handed generosity flourish exceedingly in the small, but +highly intelligent community" of Parsees in India. (CE. ii, 156.)

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The religion of Mithra anciently dominated Persia and the vast +regions of the Orient; it entered Europe following the conquests of +Alexander the Great. When in 65-63 B.C. the conquering armies of +Pompey were largely converted by its high precepts, they brought it +with them into the Roman Empire. Mithraism spread with great +rapidity throughout the Empire, and was adopted patronized and +protected by a number of the Emperors up to the time of +Constantine; it was only overthrown by the prescriptive laws and +sword of Constantine and Theodosius, who "signed its death warrant" +at the behest of the triumphant and intolerant Christians, who +absorbed virtually the entire system of Mithraism. But let CE, +proceed with the story. The reader is asked to cheek mentally each +of the uninspired details of Pagan invention with the "divinely +revealed" identities of the Christian Faith.

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"MITHRAISM" -- PRE-CHRISTIAN CHRISTIANITY

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"Mithraism is a pagan religion consisting mainly of the cult +of the ancient Indo-Iranian Sun-God Mithra. It entered Europe from +Asia Minor after Alexander's conquest, spread rapidly over the +whole Roman Empire at the beginning of our era, reached its zenith +during the third century, and vanished under the repressive +regulations of Theodosius at the end of the fourth, [Of late it has +been] brought into prominence mainly because of its supposed [?] +similarity to Christianity.

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"The origin of the cult of Mithra dates from the time that +Hindus and Persians still formed one people, for the god Mithra +occurs in the religion and sacred books of both races, i.e. in the +Vedas and in the Avesta. ... After the conquest of Babylon (538 +B.C.) this Persian cult came into contact with Chaldean astrology +and with the national worship of Marduk. For a time the two +priesthood of Mithra and Marduk coexisted in the capital and +Mithraism borrowed much from this intercourse. ... This religion, +in which the Iranian element remained predominant, came, after +Alexander's conquest, in touch with the Western world. When finally +the Romans took possession of the Kingdom of Pergamum (in 133 +B.C.), occupied Asia Minor, and stationed two legions of soldiers +on the Euphrates, the success of Mithraism was secured. It spread +rapidly from the Bosphorus to the Atlantic, from Illyria to +Britain. Its foremost apostles were the legionaries; hence it +spread first to the frontier stations of the Roman army.

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"Mithraism was emphatically a soldier religion; Mithra, its +hero, was especially a divinity of fidelity, manliness, and +bravery; the stress it laid on good-fellowship and brotherliness, +its exclusion of women, and the secret bond among its members have +suggested the idea that Mithraism was Masonry among the Roman +soldiery." Several of the Roman Emperors, down to Licinius, +colleague of Constantine, built temples to Mithra, and issued coins +with his symbols. "But with the triumph of Christianity [after +Constantine] Mithraism came to a sudden end. The laws of Theodosius +[proscribing it under penalty of death, to please the Christians] +signed its death warrant. Though he was still worshiped a thousand +years later by the Manichees (p. 402). ...

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"Ahura Mazda and Ahriman. -- This incarnate evil (Ahriman) +rose; with the army of darkness to attack and depose Oromasdes +(Ahura Mazda) They were however thrown back into hell, whence they +escape, wander over the face of the earth and afflict man. ... As +evil spirits ever lie in wait for hapless man, he needs a friend +and savior, who is Mithra. ... Mithra is the Mediator between God +and Man. The Mithraists... battled on Mithra's side against all +impurity, against all evil within and without. They believed in the +immortality of the soul; sinners after death were dragged down to +hell; the just passed through the seven spheres of the planets, +leaving at each planet a part of their lower humanity until, as +pure spirits, they stood before God. At the end of the world Mithra +will desectid to earth, ... and will make all drink the beverage of +immortality. He will thus have proved himself Nabarses, 'the never +conquered.' ...

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"The fathers conducted the worship. The chief of the fathers, +a sort of pope, who always lived at Rome, was called 'Pater +Patratus' ... The members below the grade of pater called one +another 'brother,' and social distinctions were forgotten in +Mithraic unity. ... A sacred meal was celebrated of bread and haoma +juce for which in the West wine was substituted. This meal was +supposed to give the participants supernatural virtue. ...

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"Three times a day prayer was offered the sun towards east, +south, or west according to the hour. SUNDAY was kept holy in honor +of Mithra, and the sixteenth of each month was sacred to him as +Mediator. The 25 December was observed as his birthday, the Natalis +Invictis, the rebirth of the winter-sun, unconquered by the rigors +of the season." (pp. 403-104.) It may be noted that Sunday was made +a Pagan holiday by edict of Constantine, In the fifth Tablet of the +Babylonian (Chaldean) Epic of Creation, by the great God Marduk, we +read, lines 17 and 18: "On the seventh day he appointed a holy day, +And to cease from all work he commanded." (Records of the Past, +vol. ix; quoted, Clarke, Ten Great Religions, ii, p. 383.)

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To resume with CE.: "No proof of immorality or obscene +practices has ever been established against Mithraism; and as far +as can be ascertained, or rixther conjectured, it had an elevating +and invigorating effect on its followers. [So different from +Christianity!] ...

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"Relation to Christianity. -- A similarity between Mithra and +Christ struck even early observers, such as Justin, Tertullian, and +other Fathers, and in recent times has been urged to prove that +Christianity is but an adaptation of Mithraism, or at least the +outcome of the same religious ideas and aspirations. Some apparent +[they are very apparent] similarities exist; but in a number of +details -- [it is substance that is identical] -- it is quite as +probable that Mithraism was the borrower from Christianity. -- [But +these essential identities are found in the Vedas and Avesta, of +maybe two thousand years before Christianity; Zoroaster, who, gave +final form to the creed, lived some 600 years before the Christ!] +-- It is not unnatural to suppose that a religion which swept the +whole world, should have been copied at least in some details by +another religion which was quite popular daring the third century +-- [and for nine, Or twenty centuries before!] Similarity in words +and names means nothing; it is the sense that matters. [To be sure; +we proceed to see more of the sense, -- the essence -- to be +identical] ...

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"Mithra is called a mediator; and so is Christ ... And so in +similar instances. Mithraism had a Eucharist, but the idea of the +sacred banquet is as old as the human race and existed at all ages +and amongst all peoples. -- [Not much "divine revelation" in this +greatest of Christian mysteries!]. Mithra saved the world by +sacrificing a bull -- [just as the Jews saved themselves] Christ by +sacrificing himself. ... Mithraism was all comprehensive and +tolerant of every other cult; Christianity was essentially +exclusive, condemning every other religion in the world, alone and +unique in its majesty." (CE. x, 402-404.)

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But this "unique majesty" was hidden away in the catacombs of +Rome for quite three centuries; coming out, it condemned and +persecuted to death every other religion because rivals for the +rich perquisites of priestcraft and dominion.

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The above striking analogies, or identities, between the ages-old Mithraism and the "newer Paganism called Christianity," +compelling as they are of the certainty of "borrowing" by +Christianity, are dwarfed by the evidences now to be presented in +the confessions of CE., that the Jews first, then the Christians, +took over bodily from the Babylonians and the Persians, not only +the entire celestial and infernal systems of those two closely +related religions, but virtually that high ethic, or moral code -- +"the highest religious result to which human reason, unaided by +revelation, can attain'" -- which Christians so loudly pretend is, +by "divine revelation" of their God -- theirs alone, while all +other peoples "sat in darkness and in the shadow of death" without +its saving light. Christianity looks with disdain on the Mithraic +religion because it is a "dualism"; that is, the Evil Spirit was +separately created apart from the Good God; while it is a +fundamental tenet of the Christian Faith, that its God himself +created the Christian Devil and all evil -- and is therefore +morally responsible for all his deviltry,

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Speaking particularly of Angiology, -- though the admission +will be found to apply to all the other features to be noticed, -- +CE. shows that all this is an importation into Judaism from the +Persians and Babylonians: "That the Persian domination and the +Babylonian Captivity exercised a large influence upon the Hebrew +conception -- [not, therefore, a revelation] -- of the angels is +acknowledge in the Talmud of Jerusalem (Rosh Haschanna, 56) where +it is said that [even] the names of the angels were introduced from +Babylon. ... Stress has been laid upon the similarity of the 'seven +who stand before God' and the seven Amesha-Spentas of the Zend-Avesta. ... it is easy for the student to trace the influence of +surrounding nations and of other religions in the Biblical account +of angels" (CE. i, 481); -- which seriously cripples the notion of +divine revelation regarding these celestial messengers of God. +Again it indicates the "connection between the angels of the Bible, +and the greatt archangels' or 'Amesha-Spentas' of the Zend-Avesta"; +also "we find an interesting parallel to the 'angel of the Lord' in +Nebo, 'the minister of Merodach.' ... The Babylonian sukalli +corresponded to the spirit-messengers of the Bible; they declared +their Lord's will and executed his behests." ... "The belief in +guardian angels ... was also the belief of the Babylonians and +Assyrians"; the origin of the Bible "cherubim" was the same, as +also of guardian angels, "as their monuments testify, for a figure +now in the British Museum might well serv for a modern +representation." For detailed accounts, see the articles "Angels" +and Guardian Angels." in CE. And so of Demons and Demonology, and +Demoniac possession: "In many ways one of the most remarkable +demonologies is that presented in the Avesta"; Ahriman being their +chief devil, or Daeva; "the original meaning of the word is +'shinning one,' and it comes from a primitive Aryan root 'div,' +which is likewise the source of the Greek Zeus and the Latin Deus. +But while these words, like the Sanskrit 'deva,' retain the good +meaning, 'daeva' has come to mean 'an evil spirit.' There is at

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least a coincidence, if no deeper significance, in the fact that, +while the word in its original sense was synonymous with 'Lucifer,' +it has now come to mean much the same as devil" (CE iv, 714-15, +pasism; 764). Lucifer, in the Bible, having also been originally "a +shinning one" in Heaven, was cast out into Hell and is now the +Devil.

+ +

With these preliminaries of identity between the invention of +angels and devils of Mathraic Paganism and Hebrew-Christian +"revelation," we will now let CE. confess further identities, both +of "revelation" and of the "divinely revealed moral codes," -- +summarized from the Mithraic Zend-Avesta. We seem to be reading the +Catechism or a tract on "Christian Evidences."

+ +

"The name of the Supreme God of the Avestic system is Ahura +Mazda, which probably signifies the All-Wise Lord. ... Ahura Mazda +is a pure Spirit; his chief attributes are eternity, wisdom, truth, +goodness, majesty, power. He is the creator of all good creatures +-- not, however, of Evil, of evil being, -- [as is the Christian +God]. He is the supreme Lawgiver, the Rewarder of moral good, and +the Punisher of moral evil. He dwells in Eternal Light, ... a kind +of manifestation of His presence, like the Old Testament Shekinah. +... We find frequent enumerations of the attributes of Ahura Mazda; +thus these are said to be 'omniscience, all-sovereignty, all +goodness.' Again He is styled 'Supreme Sovereign, Wise Creator, +Supporter, Protector, Giver of good things, Virtuous in acts, +Merciful, Pure Lawgiver, Lord of the Good Creations.' ...

+ +

"Opposed to Ahura Mazda, or Ormuzd, is His rival, Anro +Mainyus, (later Ahriman), the Evil Spirit. He is conceived as +existing quite independently of Ahura Mazda, apparently from +eternity, but destined to destruction at the end of time. Evil by +nature and in every detail the exact opposite of Ahura Mazda, he is +the creator of all both moral and physical. -- [But of the +Christian God: "I Jehovah create evil"; Isa. xlv, 7]. ...

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"The specific name of Ahura Mazda in opposition to the Evil +Spirit is Spento Mainyus, THE HOLY SPIRIT: and Ahura Mazda and +Spento Mainyus are synonymous throughout the Avesta. [p. 154] ...

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"Around Ahura Mazda is a whole hierarchy of spirits, +corresponding very closely to our 'angels.' ... Of the good spirits +who surround Ahura, the most important are the Amesha Spentas +('Holy Immortals' or 'Holy Saints'), generally reckoned as six in +number (but seven when Ahura Mazda is included). ... Most of all +Vohu Manah rises to a position of unique importance. ... Vohu Manah +is conceived as the 'SON OF THE CREATOR,' and identified with the +Alexandrian LOGOS [of John i, 1]. Asha, also, is the Divine Law, +Right, Sanctity (cf. Psalm 118), and occupies a most conspicuous +place throughout the Avesta. ... With him are associated in a trio +[TRINITY], Rashnu (Right, Justice), and MITHRA. -- [These Aryan +names sound unfamiliar; but as CE. has assured, "names mean +nothing; it is the sense that matters"; -- and here we have the +whole Jewish-Christian hierarchies of Heaven and Hell a thousand +years before Jewish-Christian "revelation" identities!l ...

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"Face to face with the hierarchy of celestial spirits is a +diabolical one, that of the daevas (Pers. div or dev) and druj's of +the Evil Spirit. They fill exactly the places of the devils in +Christian and Jewish theology. ... perhaps the most frequently +mentioned of all is Aesmma, the Demon of Wrath or Violence, whose +name has come down to us in the Asmodeus (Aeshmo daeva) of the Book +of Tobias [Tobit]...

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"In the midst of the secular warfare that has gone on from the +beginning between the two hosts of good and Evil stands Man. Man is +the creature of the Good Spirit, but endowed with a free will and +power of choice, able to place himself on the side of Ahura Mazda +or on that of Anro Mainyus. The former has given him, through His +Prophet Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) His Divine Revelation and law. +According as man obeys or disobeys this Divine Law his future lot +will be decided; by it he will be judged at his death. The whole +ethical system is built upon this great principle, as in the +Christian theology -- ["revelation"?]. Moral good, righteousness, +sanctity (asha) is according to the Divine will and decrees; Man by +his free will conforms to, or transgresses, these. The Evil Spirit +and his innumerable hosts tempt Man to deny or transgress the +Divine Law, as he tempted Zoroaster himself, promising him as a +reward the sovereignty of the whole world. -- [Exactly Jesus and +the Devil.] -- 'No,' replied the Prophet, 'I will not renounce it, +even if body and soul and life should be severed!' (Vendidad, xix, +25, 26). -- ["Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, for it is +written," -- way sound more Godlike but maybe little more heroic.] +...

+ +

"The moral teaching is closely akin to our own. Stress is +constantly laid on the necessity of goodness in thought, word, and +deed. -- ["Through the Three Steps, the good thought, the good +word, and the good deed, I enter Paradise."] -- Note the emphatic +recognition of sin in thought. Virtues and vices are enumerated and +estimated much as in Christian ethics. Special value is attributed +to the virtues of religion, truthfulness, purity, and generosity to +the poor (p. 155). Heresy, untruthfulness perjury, sexual sins, +violence, tyranny, are especially reprobated. ...

+ +

"The soul of the just passes over the bridge into a happy +eternity, into heaven, the abode of Ahura and His blessed angels. +The wicked soul falls from the fatal bridge and is precipitated +into hell. Of this abode of misery a lively description occurs in +the later Pahlavi 'Vision of Arda Viraf,' whose visit to the +Inferno, with realistic description of the torments, vividly +recalls that of Dante. ...

+ +

"At the end of time, the approach of which is described in the +Pahlavi literature in terms strikingly like those of our +Apocalypse, will come Saoshyant (SAVIOR) under whom will occur the +Resurrection of the dead, the General Judgment, the renewal of the +whole world -- ["a new heaven and a new earth"] -- by a general +conflagration and terrible flood of burning matter ["the heavens +being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with +fervent heat"]. This terrible flood will purify all creatures; even +the wicked will be purified from all stains, and even hell will be +cleansed and added to the 'new heavens and new earth.' Meanwhile a

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mighty combat takes place between Soashyant [the "Savior"] and his +followers and the demon hosts of the Evil Spirit, who are utterly +routed and destroyed forever. ...

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"The highest religious result to which human reason unaided by +Revelation can attain"! (CE. ii, 154-156, passim.)

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Thus "human reason unaided by revelation" had attained, ages +before Moses, the Prophets, and Jesus Christ, a system of religious +beliefs and a moral code in substantial identity with the "divine +revelations" of God to Moses, the Prophets, and his Son Jesus +Christ. At the time of the Advent of the Latter, and for three +hundred years later, throughout the Roman Empire, that is, +throughout the then known world, this wonderful Pagan invention, +with its "Pope" and Scat in Imperial Rome, and patronized by the +Emperors, lived along side with and mightily rivalled the +struggling Faith hid in the catacombs, -- until its rival +Christians got hold of the sword under Constantine, and +"triumphed," its "death warrant was signed" in blood by the laws of +the persecuting Christians. Did any God wondrously "reveal" to the +Christians these holy Pagan dreams and myths? What a waste of while +for a God to mysteriously "reveal" these "heathen deceits" +thousands of years old, and that everybody in the world already +knew!

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BUDDHISM IN CHRISTIANITY

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The account given by CE. of the Lord Buddha and of Buddhism, +by the simple substitution of the names Christ -- [the Savior of +Buddhism is Crishna, the 'incarnation" of the supreme god Vishnu] +-- and Christianity, might well be mistaken for a homily on our own +holy faith and its Founder -- who would no more recognize present day Christianity than would Buddha the crass superstition which is +today tagged with his holy name. Says CE.:

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"It is note worthy that Buddha was a contemporary of two other +famous religious philosophers, Pythagoras and Confucius. In the +sacred books of later times Buddha is depicted as a character +without a flaw, adorned with every grace of mind and heart. There +may be some hesitation in taking the highly colored portrait of +Buddhist tradition as an exact representation of the original, but +Buddha may be credited with the qualities of a great and good man. +... In all pagan antiquity no character has been depicted as so +noble and attractive. ...

+ +

"Buddha's order was composed only of those who renounced the +world to live a life of contemplation as monks and nuns. ... [In +the time of King Asoka, 3rd century B.C.) Buddhism was in a most +flourishing condition; it had become a formidable rival of the +older religion [Brahmanism), while a tolerant and kindly spirit -- +[unknown to Christianity] -- was displayed towards other forms of +religion. ... [By the seventh century A.D. -- here it parallels +Christianity again] an excessive devotion to statues and relies, +the employment of magic arts to keep off evil spirits, and the +observance of many gross superstitions, complete the picture of +Buddhism, a sorry representation of what Buddha made known to men. +... The vast majority of the adherents of Buddhism cling to forms

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of creed and worship that Buddha, if alive, would reprobate -- [as +would Christ in the case of Christianity]. Northern Buddhism became +the very opposite of what Buddha taught to men, and in spreading to +foreign lands accommodated itself to the degrading superstition of +the people it Sought to win -- [precisely as we shall see that +Christianity did to inveigle the Pagans). ...

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"Between Buddhism and Christianity there are a number of +resemblances, at first sight striking. The Buddhist order of monks +and nuns offers points of similarity with Christian monastic +systems, particularly the mendicant orders. There are moral +aphorisms ascribed to Buddha that are not unlike some of the +sayings of Christ. Most of all, in the legendary life of Buddha ... +there are many parallelisms, some more, some less striking, to the +Gospel stories of Christ. A few third rate scholars [contend that +these are borrowings from Buddhism. Why not, as everything else is +"borrowed" or filched?]. ...

+ +

"One of its most attractive features was its practice of +benevolence towards the sick and needy. Between Buddhists and +Brahmins there was a commendable rivalry in maintaining +dispensaries of food and medicine" -- long claimed as a holy +monopoly of "Christian charity." (CE. iii, 28-34, passim.)

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As elsewhere recounted, the Holy Ghost made a curious mistake +in inspiring the certification of sundry Saints, and the lord +Buddha was himself canonized by Holy Church, as St. Josaphat, and +the "Life" of this holy Saint was highly edifying to the Faithful +as well as effective in spreading the Christian truth: "During the +Middle Ages the 'life of Barlaam and Josaphat' had been translated +into some twenty languages, English included, so that in reality +the story of Buddha became the vehicle of Christian truth in many +nations"' (CE. i, 713.)

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It is now evident, and will further so appear, that there is +no single novel feature nor "revealed truth" in all the Christian +religion: our Holy Faith is all a hodgepodge or pot pourri of the +credulitles of every superstition from Afric Voodooism to the +latest one anywhere in holy vogue among the credulous. Even our +"idea" of God with its superlatives of "revealed" high attributes +is very primitive: "The idea of a Being higher than man, invisible, +inaccessible, master of life and death, orderer of all things, +seems to exist everywhere, among the Negritos, the Hottentots, the +Bantu, the Nigritians, the Hamites; for everywhere this Being has +a name. He is the 'Great,' the 'Ancient One,' the 'Heavenly One,' +the 'Bright one,' the 'Master,' sometimes the 'Author' or +'Creator'. ... Nowhere is He represented under any image, for He is +incapable of representation." (CE. i, 183, 184.)

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Cardinal Newman, commenting on Dean Milman's "History of the +Jews," groups a number of these Paganisms in Christianity, and says +that Milman arrays facts "admitted on all hands," to wit: "that the +doctrine of the Logos is Platonic; that of the Incarnation Indian; +that of a divine Kingdom Judaic; that of angels and demons (and a +Mediator) Persian; that, the connection of sin with the body is +Gnostic; the idea of a new birth Chinese and Eleusinian; that of +sacramental virtue Pythagorian; that of Trinity common to East and

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West; and that of the rites of baptism and sacrifice equally +ubiquitous"! (Newman, Essays, Critical and Historical, 7th ed., p. +231; as summarized by the Rt. Hon. J.M. Robertson in A History of +Freethought in the XIXth Century, p. 145-6. London, 1929.)

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Such is our holy Christian "Faith which was once delivered +unto the saints," which "superstition, drunk in with their mother's +milk," yet persists with the ignorant and those who do not or will +not know the truth.

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That Christianity is indeed but a "new form of Paganism," and +especially after it became the official or State religion, +consciously and purposely, in furtherance of the Imperial policy of +"One State, one Religion," perfected the amalgamation of the +salient features of all the fluxing religions of the Empire so as +to bring all Pagans within the one State-Church, is accredited by +secular and Church history; and is quite ingenuously revealed by +CE., treating of the influence of Constantine on Christianity:

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"Long before this, belief in the old polytheism had been +shaken. The world was fully ripe for monotheism or its +modified form, henotheism; but this monotheism offered itself +in varied guises, under the forms of Oriental religions; in +the worship of the Sun, in the veneration of Mithras, in +Judaism, and in Christianity. Whoever wished to make a violent +break with the past and his surroundings sought out some, +Oriental form of worship which did not demand from him too +great a sacrifice. Some ... believed that they could +appropriate [the truth contained in Judaism and Christianity] +without being obliged on that account to renounce the beauty +of other worships. Such a man was the Emperor Alexander +Severus (222-235); another so minded was Aurelian (270-275), +whose opinions were confirmed by Christians like Paul of +Samosata. Not only Gnostics and other heretics, but Christians +who considered themselves faithful, held in a measure to the +worship of the Sun. Leo the Great in his day (440-461) says +that it was the custom of many Christians to stand on the +steps of the Church of St. Peter and pay homage to the Sun by +obeisance and prayers.

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"When such conditions prevailed it is easy to understand +that many of the emperors yielded to the delusion that they +could unite all their subjects in the adoration of the one +San-god who combined in himself the Father-God of the +Christians and the much-worshipped Mithras; thus the empire +could be founded anew on the unity of religion. It looks +almost as though the last persecution of the Christians were +directed more against all irreconcilable and extremists than +against the great body of Christians. ...

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"It was especially in the West that the veneration of +Mithras predominated -- [after centuries of Christianity!]. +Would it not be possible to gather all the different +nationalities around his altars? Could not Sol Deus Invictus, +to whom even Constantine dedicated his coins for a long time, +or Sol Mithras Deus Invictus, venerated by Diocletian and +Galerius, become the supreme god of the empire? Constantine

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... had not absolutely rejected the thought even after a miraculous +event [!] had strongly influenced him in favor of the God of the +Christians, -- (who, however, worshipped the Sun!).

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"For a time it seemed as if merely tolerance and equality +were to prevail. Constaintine showed equal favor to both +religions. As pontifex maximus he watched over the heathen +worship and protected its rights. ... In the dedication of +Constantinople in 330 a ceremonial half pagan, half Christian +was used, The chariot of the Sun-god was set in the market-place, and over its head was placed the Cross of Christ -- +[not the original, which his mother had not yet been reputed +by the priests to have discovered -- i.e. "invented," -- of +which more anon], while the Kyrie Eleison was sung. Shortly +before his death Constantine confirmed the privileges of the +priests of the ancient gods. ...

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"In the same way religious freedom and tolerance could +not continue as a form of equality; the age was not ready for +such a conception; [with more of the like, p. 299; -- which is +untrue, as Constantine himself had proclaimed religious +freedom in the Edict of Milan of 313 and we have just seen it +admitted in Buddhism, and it prevailed at all tunes in the +Roman Empire, until the "Christian Emperors" gave the Church +the sword, as in Chapter VII exemplified]. ... Without +realizing the full import of his actions, Constantine granted +the Church one privilege, after another. As early as 313 the +Church obtained immunity for its ecclesiastics, including +freedom from taxation. ... Constantine moreover placed Sunday +under the protection of the State [as a Pagan holiday, as +cited. post]. It is true that the believers in Mithras also +observed Sunday as well as Christmas. Consequently Constantine +speaks not of the day of the lord, but of the everlasting day +of the Sun. ...

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"Of Constantine's sons the eldest, Constantine II, showed +decided leanings to heathenism, and his coins bear many pagan +emblems; the second and favorite son, Constantius, was a more +pronounced Christian, but it was Arian -- [anti-Divinity of +Christ] -- Christianity to which he adhered. Constantius was +an unwavering opponent of paganism; he closed all the temples +and forbade, sacrifices under pain of death. His maxim was: +'Cesset superstitio; sacrificiorum aboleatur insania' -- ('Let +superstition cease; let the folly of sacrifices be +abolished'). Their successors had recourse to persecution +against heretics and pagans. Their laws (Cod. Theod. XVI v; +[post, Chapter VII]) had an unfavorable influence on the +Middle Ages and were the basis of the much-abused[!] +Inquisition." (CE. iv, 297-301, passim.)

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Thus was the ultimate merger and total identity of Paganism +with "the new Paganism called Christianity" finally established by +law and by Imperial policy of "One State and One Religion," to +which conformity was enforced by laws of confiscation and death; +all the other religions of the Empire were fused by fire and sword +into a bastard Christianity; and the mental and moral benightedness +known as the Dark Ages of Faith fell as a pall over Christendom for +a thousand years until the renaissance of Pagan culture and freedom

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of thought darkly dawned over the world, and has fearfully +struggled into a brightening day, whose motto of Hope is again +"Cesset Superstitio"! when Constantine's funest "League with Death +and Covenant with Hell" of State and Church will soon in reality be +a forgotten Scrap of Paper!

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ALL DEVILISH IMITATIONS!

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The pious Christian Fathers were themselves sorely puzzled and +scandalized by these same things; their books are replete with +naive attempts to explain the mystery of it, -- which they +attributed to the blasphemous wiles of the Devil, -- that "the +Devil had blasphemously imitated the Christian rites and +doctrines"; -- "always seeing in pagan analogies the trickery of +devils." (CE. 393.) "It having reached the Devil's ears," says the +devout Father Justin Martyr, "that the prophets had foretold the +coming of Christ, the Son of God, he set the heathen Poets to bring +forward a great many who should be called the sons of Jove. The +Devil laying his scheme in this, to get men to imagine that, the +true history of Christ was of the same character as the prodigious +fables related of the sons of Jove." (I Apology, ch. 54; INF. i, +181-182.)

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Not only the Fathers, but the Bible, Hebrew and Christian, +recognized and affirmed the actuality and ever-living reality of +the Pagan gods, though the late post-exilic writer of the 95th +Psalm maliciously dubs them devils: "All the gods [Heb. elohim] of +the nations are devils" (Heb. elilim -- not much difference between +them -- in Hebrew; Ps. xevi, 5); and this view the Christian forger +of the Epistle under the name of Paul to the Corinthians confirms: +"The things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils" +(I Cor. x, 20). Though these malevolent flings at the venerable +divinities of Pagandom are in direct violation of the Siniatic Law +of God -- "Thou shalt not revile the gods" (Ex. xxii, 28); -- the +Hebrew Yahvah being, according to divine revelation, simply one of +many gods -- "a God above all gods," even "God of gods and Lord of +lords," who "judgeth among the [other] gods."

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Father Justin, Tertullian, and many another, says the CE., +could "see in all the gods, Moses"; the error and folly of which +notions argues our authority, is demonstrated by reference to +Middleton's letter from Rome, in which he, with Calvin, "saw an +exact conformity between popery and paganism." (CE. xii, 393.) +Whether Middleton and Calvin were so far in error and folly in this +opinion, our researches will reveal. Collins, too, in his +Discourse, supports with good authorities the opinions of Middleton +and Calvin. He cites Father Origen as "so far from disowning an +agreement between [Pagan] Plutonism and Christianity, that a great +part of his book Contra Celsum consists in showing the conformity +between them." Likewise, he says, Amelius, a heathen Platonist, who +flourished in the third century, upon reading the first verses of +St. John the Evangelist, exclaimed: "Per Jovem, barbarous iste cum +nostro Platone sentit -- By Jove, this barbarian agrees with +Plato"; and he quotes the celebrated saying of Cardinal Palavicino +-- "Senza Aristotele noi mancavamo di molti Articoli di Fede -- +Without, Aristotle we should be without many Articles of Faith" +(Colins, Discourse of Free Thinking, p. 127.)

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Not only did the Fathers and the Church admit with implicit +faith the living reality of the gods of heathendom, their powers, +oracles, miracles and other "analogies" to the Christian faith, +they even made of such anthologies their strongest apologies, or +arguments, in defense of the truth of the Christian tenets. In his +Apologia addressed to the Emperor Hadrian, Father Justin reasons +from analogy thus:

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"By declaring the Logos, the first-begotten of God, our +Master, Jesus Christ, to be born of a Virgin, without any human +mixture, we [Christians] may no more in this than what you [Pagans] +say of those whom you style the Sons of Jove. For you need not be +told what a parcel of sons the writers most in vogue among you +assign to Jove. ...

+ +

"As to the Son of God, called Jesus, should we allow him to be +nothing more than man, yet the title of 'the Son of God' is very +justifiable, upon the account of his wisdom, considering that you +[Pagans] have your Mercury in worship under the title of The Word, +a messenger of God. ...

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"As to his [Jesus] being born of a Virgin, you have your +Perseus to balance that." (Justin, Apologia, I. ch. xxii; ANF. i, +170.)

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The good Fathers carried their argument by analogy into proof +of all sorts of holy Christian mysteries; the Pagan Oracles and +miracles were undeniably valid and true, why not therefore their +new Christian counterparts? "Without a single exception," says the +historian of European Mortals, "the Fathers maintained the reality +of the Pagan miracles as fully as their own. The oracles had been +ridiculed and rejected by numbers of the philosophers, but the +Christians unanimously admitted their reality. They appealed to a +long series of Oracles as predictions of their faith; not until +1696 was there a denial of their supernatural character, when a +Dutch Anabaptist minister, Van Dale, in a remarkable book, De +Origine Progressu Idolatriae, asserted in opposition to the +unanimous voice of ecclesiastical authority, that they were simple +impostures." (Lecky, History of European Morals, i, 374-375, et +seq.; see pp. 378-381, et seq.) The Christian Fathers and their +followers made themselves so ridiculous by their fatuous faith in +the Sibyls that they were derisively called "Sibyllists" by the +Pagans.

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THE SIBYLLINE ORACLES

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The most curious in all respects, and for our purposes the +most instructive of the ancient Pagan religious frauds, are the +Sibtlline Oracles, which, extensively reinforced by Jewish and +Christian forgeries, were perhaps the most potent and popular +"proofs" of the early Church for the divinity of Jesus Christ and +the truth of the Christian religion; thus they derive special +notice here. All will remember, from their school histories of +ancient Rome, the well-known legend of one of the Sibyls who came +to King Tarquin the Second with nine volumes of Oracles, which she +offered to sell to him for a very high price; being refused, she +went away and burned three of the books, and returning offered the

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remaining six at the same price; again the King refused to buy, and +she departed, burned three more of the books, and returned with the +last three for which she demanded the original price. Astonished at +this conduct and greatly impressed, the King consulted his augurs +and was advised to secure the remaining treasures of prophecy +before it was too late; he did So, and immediately the Seeress +disappeared and was never seen again. The precious tomes were +deposited with great care and jealously guarded in the Temple of +Jupiter Capitolinus; a college of priests was instituted to have +charge of them; and the divine Oracles were consulted with great +solemnity only in times of the greatest crises of the State. The +books were finally destroyed when the Capitol was burned during the +wars of Sylla, but many ethers continued in existence.

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The oracles were composed in Alexandrine verse, and claimed to +be the work of inspired Pagan prophetesses called Sibyls; they +enjoyed the greatest vogue and were believed with the most implicit +faith by Pagans and Christians alike. There were a number of these +Sibyls, and the number of the volumes of oracles is differently +estimated as a dozen or more; those with which we are chiefly +concerned are the Roman Cumaean and Greek Erythraean Sibyls and the +Oracles going under their names. The inveterate bent of the +priestly mind for forgery in furtherance of its holy mission of +imposture, led to the prompt adoption and corruption of these Pagan +frauds, for the propagation first of the Jewish, then of the +Christian Faith. "Because of the vogue enjoyed by these heathen +oracles," says the Catholic Encyclopedia, "and because of the +influence they had in, shaping the religious views of the period, +the Hellenistic Jews in Alexandria, during the second century b.c,. +composed [i.e. forged] verses in the same form, and circulated them +among the Pagans as a means of diffusing Judaistic doctrines and +teaching. This custom was continued down into Christian times, and +was borrowed by some Christians, so that in the second or third +century, a new class of Oracles emanating from Christian sources +came into being, Hence the Sibylline Oracles can be classed as +Paggan, Jewish, or Christian. In many cases, however, the +Christians merely revised or interpolated the Jewish documents, and +thus we have two classes of Christian oracles, those adopted from +Jewish sources and those entirely written by Christians. ... It +seems clear, however, that the Christian Oracles and those revised +from Jewish sources all emanated from the same circle [or band of +Christian forgers] and were intended to aid in the diffusion of +Christianity.

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"The Sibyls are quoted frequently by the early Fathers and +Christian writers, Justin, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of +Alexandria, etc. ... They were known and used during the Middle +Ages in both the East and the West. ... They all purport to be the +work of the Sibyls." (CE. v. xiii, p. 770.)

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Most notable of these forged Christian addenda to the Pagan-Jewish forged Oracles, 'Is found in Book VIII, a lengthy composite +of Jewish and Christian fraud, consisting of some 500 hexameter +verses. The first 216 verses, says the CE., "are most likely the +work of a second century Jew, while the latter part (verses 217-500), beginning with an acrostic on the symbolical Christian word +Ichthus is undoubtedly Christian, and dates most probably from the

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third century." (CE. xiii, 770.) Ichthus is the Greek word for +fish, and the fish was the fitting and universal symbol of the +early Christians as typical of the "catch" of the Apostolic fishers +of men. This cabalistic word Ichthus, worked into the professedly +Pagan Oracle in the form of an acrostic, is composed of the initial +letters of the popular name and title of the Son of the Christian +God, in the Greek: "Iesous Christos Theou Uios Soter -- Jesus +Christ, Son of God, Savior" This fish anagram was an ancient Pagan +symbol of fecundity, of great vogue and veneration throughout +Pagandom, and was adopted by Christendom for the double reason that +the initials acrostically formed the name and title of its new +deity, and that in the ancient science fish were supposed to be +generated in the water without carnal copulation, and were thus +peculiarly symbolic of the Virgin-born Christ. Says Tertuilian: +"We, little fishes, after the example of our Ichthus, are born in +water." (On Baptism, ch. i; ANP. iii, 669.)

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The Church historian, Bishop Eusebius, preserves the Acrostic, +taken from the Erythraean Sibyl, but says: "Many people, though +they allowed the Erythrian Sibyl to have been a prophetess, yet +reject this Acrostic, suspecting it to have been forged by the +Christians"; which suspicion the good Bishop refutes by an appeal +to Cicero, who, he assures, had read and translated it into Latin. +(Eusebius, Oration on Const., chs. 18-19; I, 274-5.) Father St. +Augustine quotes the verses and says: "The Erythraean Sibyl has +indeed written some things clearly and manifestly relating to +Christ. ... There are some, who suspected all these prophecies +which relate to Christ and passed under the name of the Sibyl, to +have been forged by the Christians." (Aug., De Civ. Dei, xviii, 23; +N,&PNF. ii, 3723.) Father Clement of Alexandria attributes to the +Sibyls the same inspiration as the Old Testament, and cites Peter +and Paul as appealing to them for a prediction of the life and +character of Jesus Christ, Peter and Paul speaking thus: "Take the +Greek books in your hand, and look into the Sibyl. How clearly she +speaks of one God, and of the things to come; then take Hystaspes +also and read, and you will find the Son of God much more clearly +and evidently described." (Strom. I, 6, p. 761, Ed. Oxon.; also +Lact., De ver. sap., I, 4, 15; Free Inquiry, p. 34.)

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The importance of the Sibylline Oracles, speaking through +countless "interpolations" forged by Christian pens, for not only +the propagation of the faith among the Pagans, but as actual proofs +of the truth of the fictitious "facts" of Christianity, cannot be +overestimated; this justifies the following extracts from the +Divine Institutes of Lactantius. The greater part, I dare say, of +the seven Books of that notable work, addressed to the "mighty +Emperor Constantine," is devoted to arguments and proofs of Jesus +Christ and the principal events of his recorded life and acts, +drawn copiously from the heathen gods and the forged Oracles of the +Sibyls. These proofs, to the minds of Father Lactantius and of all +the Fathers, as to the Pagans generally, were "more strong than +proofs of Holy Writ"; for, he says, "perhaps the sacred writings +[in the Old Testament] speak falsely when they teach [such and so +about Jesus); ... the Sibyls before taught the same things in their +verses." Citing scores of Sibylline "prophecies" forged by the +Christians for the belief and persuasion of the Pagans, who were +effectively "refuted by these testimonies" and thus "brought to

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Christ," some of them, says Lactantius, urge that these prophetic +verses "were not by the Sibyls, but made up and composed by our own +writers," as the fact is above confessed by CE.; but not so, argues +the great Apologist; "do not Cicero and other Pagan authors, dead +long before Jesus, testify to the Sibyls?" -- Yes, to the Sibyls +and their utterances then extant; not to the later Christian +forgeries in their names. Moreover, these Christian +"interpolations" imputed to the Sibyls, exactly as the muddled, +ambiguous, meaningless "prophecies" of the Old Testament writings, +meant nothing and were not understood to mean anything, until Jesus +Christ came along, and these Jewish and Pagan mummeries were seized +upon by the avid forging Christians to make up and pad out the +pretended life and wondrous acts of the Christ. Even a cursory +examination and the marginal cross-references will demonstrate, +that virtually every act imputed in the New Testament Gospels to +the Nazarene, was cut to fit of some scrap of mummery or pretended +"prophecy" of Hebrew Scriptures and Sibylline Oracles. Of +numberless instances of the latter quoted in the, Divine +Institutes, a few typical ones only can be here cited, but they are +illuminating of the Christ-tales.

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In Book I, chapter vi is entitled, "Of Divine Testimonies, and +of the Sibyls and their Predictions." Appealing for faith to +Constantine, the chapter begins: "Now let us pass to divine +testimonies?; and he cites and quotes, in numerous chapters, the +Pagan gods Mercury, Hermes Trismegistus, Apollo, and other mystic +deities and personages, all testifying to the One Christian God and +to his Son Jesus. After infinite such appeals for proofs, we come +to Book IV, a veritable arsenal of manufactured "divine +testimonies"; and we pause to con with wonder chapter xv, "Of the +life and Miracles of Jesus, and Testimonies concerning Him." Jesus, +after his baptism, says Lactantius, "began to perform the greatest +miracles, not by magical powers, but by heavenly strength and +power. ... His powers were those which Apollo called wonderful. ... +And he performed all these things not by His hands, or the +application of any remedy, but by His word and command, as the +Sibyl had foretold: 'Doing all things by His word, and healing +every disease.'"

+ +

Many chapters are replete with instances of the miracles of +Jesus, alleged each of them to have been foretold by one or another +of the Sibyls, and quoting the Christian-forged prophetic verses in +proof. The Christ came to fulfill the Law; "and the Sibyl shows +that it would come to pass that this law would be destroyed by the +Son of God: 'But when all these things which I told you shall be +accomplished, then all the law is fulfilled with respect to Him.'" +(c. xvii.) Of a few others, and the arguments above sketched, I +quote the text:

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"What can be more wonderful, either in narration or in +action? But the Sibyl had before foretold that it would take +place, whose verses are related to this effect.

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"With five loaves at the same time, and with two fishes, +He shall satisfy five thousand men in the wilderness; +And Afterwards taking all the fragments that remain, +He shall fill twelve baskets to the hope of many.'

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"But perhaps the sacred writings speak falsely when they teach +that there was such power in Him, that by His command He compelled +the winds to obey Him, the seas to serve Him, disease to depart, +the dead to be submissive. Why should I say that the Sibyls before +had taught the same things in their one verses? One of whom, +already mentioned, thus speaks:

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"But shall still the winds by His word, and calm the sea +As it rages, treading with feet of peace and in faith.'

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"And again another which says:

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'He shall walk on the waves, He shall release men from +disease. +He shall raise the dead, and drive away many pains; +And from the bread of one wallet there shall be a satisfying +[of men].'

+ +

"Some, refuted by these testimonies, are accustomed to +have recourse to the assertion that these poems were not by +the Sibyls, but made up and composed by our own writers. But +he, will assuredly not think this who has read Cicero [De +Natura Deorum, ii], and Varro, and other ancient writers, who +make mention of the Erythraean and other Sibyls from whose +books we bring forth these examples; And these authors died +before the birth of Christ according to the flesh. But I do +not doubt that these poems were in former times regarded as +ravings, since no one understood them. For they announced some +marvelous wonders, of which neither the manner, nor the time, +nor the author was signified. Lastly the Erythraean Sibyl says +that it would come to pass that she would be called mad and +deceitful. But assuredly

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'They will say that the Sibyl +is mad, and deceitful: but when all things shall come to pass, +Then ye will remember me; and no one will any longer +Say that I, the prophetess of the great God, am mad.'

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"Therefore they were neglected for many ages; but they +received attention after the nativity and passion of Christ +had revealed secret things. Thus it was also with the +utterances of the prophets, which were read by the people of +the Jews for fifteen hundred [!] years and more, but yet were +not understood until after Christ had explained them by His +word and by His works. For the prophets spoke of Him; nor +could the things which they said have been in any way +understood, unless they had been altogether fulfilled." +(Lact., Div. Inst., Bk. IV, chap. xv; ANF. vii, 115, 116.)

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In view of these "divine testimonies" of Pagan Oracles forged +by pious Christians in proof of their Christ, need one wonder that +the like testimonies in the Gospels themselves may be under +suspicion of like forgery? We shall have the proofs in their due +order. Father Justin Martyr treats these Pagan books of Christian +evidences, as prophetic Scriptures and divine, and speaking of +their prohibition by the Roman Emperors, says: "By the contrivance

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of Demons it was made a capital crime to read them, in order to +deter men from coming to a knowledge of what is good." (Apologia, +I, ch. 77; ANF. i, 178.)

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That heathens and even devils may be specially endued with the +gift of prophecy by God for his glory, and God may make use of the +Devil-in-Chief for this purpose, is expressly asserted by Pope +Benedict XIV" (Heroic Virtue, III, 144, 150). And "the Angelic +Doctor," St. Thomas Aquinas, "in order to prove that the heathens +were capable of prophecy, refers to the instance of the Sibyls, who +make clear mention of the mysteries of the Trinity, of the +Incarnation of the Word, of the Life, Passion, and Resurrection of +Christ. It is true that the Sibylline poems now extant became in +course of time interpolated; but as Benedict XIV (1740-1758) +remarks, this does not hinder much of them, especially what the +early Fathers referred to, from being genuine and in no wise +apocryphal"! (CE. xii, 474.)

+ +

Thus the Holy Ghost of God, speaking through its official +mouthpiece, its Vive-God on earth, infallibly guarded by the Spirit +against the possibility of error, in the year 1742 of our Era of +Christ, sings the Doxology of these admitted frauds of paganish and +forging Christianity, and canonizes them as the God-inspired origin +of the holiest mysteries of Christian revelation. The inference is +inevitable, that Pagan Sibyls, Christian Church Fathers, and Vicars +of God, are strongly characterized by Ignorance and Imposture.

+ +

A noted classical and critical authority, Anthon, +contemplating the shifts of the new Christianity rising from the +debacle of Paganism, falls into a philosophical reflection, +pertinent alike to the old and the new systems of priestcraft:

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"When a religion has fallen and been succeeded by +another, the more zealous advocates of the new belief +sometimes find themselves in a curious state of embarrassment. +So it is with regard to the heathen system and the Christian +code. Among the numerous oracles given to the world in former +days, some have chanced to find a remarkable accomplishment; +and the pious but ill-judging Christian, unable to ascribe +them to deities in whom men no longer believes, is driven to +create for them a different origin. 'God,' says Rollin, 'in +order to punish the blindness of the heathen, sometimes +permits evil spirits to give responses conformable to the +truth.' (Rollin, Histoire Ancienne, I, 887.) The only evil +spirit which had an agency in the oracular responses of +antiquity was that spirit of craft imposture which finds so +congenial a home among an artful and cunning priesthood." +(Anthon, Classical Dictionary, 4th ed., p. 929; Art. Orv +alum.)

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The historian of European Morals, in his amazing review of the +infinite variety and number of superstitions, frauds, forgeries, +false miracles and lying oracles of Pagandom, which were taken over +almost 'in masse' by the Christians, and implicitly and with +childlike credulity accepted and believed, taught and preached by +every Christian Father of the Church, by the infallible popes, and +the millions of their ignorant and superstitious ex-Pagan lay

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dupes, makes this very pertinent and just remark apropos the value +of their pious opinions, testimonies and "traditions" of the +origins of the Christian faith:

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"To suppose that men who held these opinions were +capable, in the second and third centuries, of ascertaining +with any degree of just confidence whether miracles had taken +place in Judaea in the first century, is grossly absurd; nor +would the conviction of their reality have made any great +impression on their minds at a time when miracles were +supposed to be so abundantly diffused." (Lecky, Hist. Europ. +Morals, i, 375.)

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The confession that the vast mass of Christian miracles were +Pagan frauds and lies taken 'en bloc' over into Christianity to +make a good showing as against the Pagans and to dupe the +superstitious new converts, is made by CE., with the notable +further admission that the only alteration made was that the Pagan +gods were made over into Christian saints: "This transference was +promoted by the numerous cases in which Christian saints became the +successors of local deities, and Christian worship supplanted the +ancient local worship. This explains the great number of +similarities between gods and saints. For the often maintained +metamorphosis of gods into saints no proof is to be found." This +immense confession of Christian fraudulence and imposture, in +conjuring fictitious Pagan gods -- which according to Christian +faith were all actual devils -- into canonized Saints of God and +Holy Church, is several times reported by CE., of which this +instance is before me: "It has indeed been said that the 'Saints +are the successors to the Gods.' Instances have been cited ... of +statues of pagan Gods baptized and transformed into Christian +Saints"! (CE. xv. 710; cf. Is It God's Word? 5, 7-9.) This truly +wonderful psycho-religious miracle is thereupon wrought: The +idolatrous Pagan who just before the "baptism" actually worshipped +these "statues of the Pagan gods," immediately afterwards simply +venerated or adored the same gods "baptized and transformed into +Christian saints" -- fully comprehending the non-understandable +hair-splitting theological distinction between pious "dulia" and +idolatrous "latria," as defined by Holy Church and droned by CE. in +its article on Idolatry. And vast hoards of utterly illiterate and +stupid Faithful go into the True Churches every day, kneel before +and pray to these same Pagan gods conjured into Christian saints -- +with countless other counterfeit near-divinities of their near-Idolatry -- and appreciate the difference to a split-second of +devotion and true faith. Tis passing strange.

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A very remarkable confession of purposeful fraud, with the +mechanics of the fraud, and the vast extent of it in faking Pagan +miracle-lies into Christian truth of the most driveling nonsense, +reads:

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"Manifold as the varieties of [miracle] legends now seem +to be, there are fundamentally not so very many different +notions utilized. The legend considers the saint as a kind of +lord of the elements, who commands the water, rain, fire, +mountain, and rock; he changes, enlarges, or diminishes +objects; flies through the air; delivers from dungeons -- +(examples, Peter, Paul) -- and gallows; takes part in battles, + +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +53 +. +FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY

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and even in martyrdom is invulnerable; animals, the wildest +and the most timid, serve him (e.g., the stories of the bear +as a beast of burden; the ring in the fish; the frogs becoming +silent, etc.); his birth is glorified by a miracle; a voice, +or letters, from Heaven proclaim his identity -- [all these +score for Jesus the Christ]; bells ring of themselves; the +heavenly ones enter into personal intercourse with him +(betrothal of Mary); he speaks with the dead and beholds +heaven, hell, and purgatory; forces the devil to release +people from compacts; he is victorious over dragons; etc. Of +all this the authentic [?] Christian narratives know nothing +-- [a confession that every saint-tale of Bible and Church is +a lie].

+ +

"But whence does this world of fantastic concepts arise? A +glance at the pre-christian religious narratives will dispel every +doubt. All these stories are anticipated by the Greek chroniclers, +writers of myths, collectors of strange tales, neo-Plutonism, and +neo-Pythagorism. One need only refer to the 'Ellados Periegesis' of +Pausanius, or glance through the codices collected by Photius in +his 'Bibliotheca,' to recognize what great importance was attached +to the reports of miracles in antiquity by both the educated and +uneducated." ...

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Reversing only the order of the sentences, and CE. reversing +the truth of the answer it gives to its own question, the +confession of shame continues:

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"But how was the transference of [these miracle] legends +to Christianity consummated? ... Hellenism had already +recognized this [fraudulent] characteristic of the religious +fable, and would thus have been obliged to free itself from it +in the coarse of time, had not the competition with +Christianity forced the champions of the ancient polytheism to +seek again in the ancient fables incidents to set against the +miraculous power of Christ. [!] In this way popular illusions +found their way from Hellenism to Christianity." (CE. ix, +129-30.)

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And in 1900 years no priest, bishop, pope, depositaries and +guardians of divine truth, has ever said a word to prevent or put +end to this shameful prostitution of mind of their poor grovelling +dupes, but to this day perpetuate them in it. Far from ending the +shameful thing, many bishops and popes have won the title Mendax +Maximus by peddling these Pagan lies as God's truth; as witness +this one instance from the article we are quoting: "St. Augustine +(De Cura, xii) and also [Pope] St. Gregory the Great (Dialogues, +IV, xxxvi) -- [the greatest book of Lies outside the Bible] -- +relate of a man, who died by an error of the Angel of Death and was +again restored to life, the same story which is already given by +Lucian in his 'Philopseudes.'" (Ib. p. 130.) Such, verily for +shame, is "that new Paganism later called Christianity."

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Mythology has well been called the Theology of dead religions. +The world is a vast cemetery of deceased gods and teeming scrap-heap of decayed and discarded priest-imposed religious beliefs -- +superstitions. All the dead gods and religions of Paganism, all the

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yet surviving but fast moribund deities and faiths of the XXth +Century world, all -- (except -- the Jews and Christians say, their +own), -- all were admittedly the fraudulent handiwork of priests +and professional god-and-myth makers. In a word, short and ugly, +but true -- every priest of every god and religion (saving, for the +nonce, the Jewish-Christian ones) -- was a conscious and +unconscionable falsifier and impostor, -- a common liar for his +god. All plied their artful, unholy priestcraft in the name of +gods; for power and pelf, those grafting Pagan priests. No +Christian will, or truthfully can, deny their portentous fact, The +verdict of lying guilt of Pagan Priestcraft is unanimous.

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No one can now doubt that Lecky, after voluminous review of +pre-Christian frauds and impostures, spoke the precise historical +truth: "Christianity floated into the Roman Empire on the wave of +credulity that brought with it this long train of Oriental +superstitions and legends." (Hist. of European Morals, i, 373-4.)

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The mainstream of Oriental superstition and priestly imposture +will now be seen to swell with the turgid flood of Hebrew fables +and forgery, before pouring the mingled flood of myth and fraud +into the pure tide of Christian Truth; -- where, Presto! change! it +is beheld transformed -- "baptized" -- into the "revealed +mysteries" and "Catholic Truth" of God!

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The libraries of the Union Theological Seminary and of +Columbia University, in New York City, were the places of the finds +here recorded. Cited so often, space will be saved for more +valuable uses by citing by their initials, -- which will become +very familiar -- my chief ecclesiastical authorities, towit:

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The Ante-Nicene Fathers, cited as ANF.; A Collection of the +extant Writings of all the Founders of Christianity down to the +Council of Nicaea, or Nice, in 325 A.D. American Reprint, eight +volumes. The Christian Literature Publishing Co., Buffalo, N.Y., +1885. [xxx]

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The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, cited as N&PNF.; First and +Second Series; many volumes; same publishers.

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The Catholic Encyclopedia, cited as CE.; fifteen volumes and +index, published under the Imprimatur of Archbishop Farley; New +York, Robert Appleton Co., 1907-9.

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The Encyclopedia Biblica, cited as EB., four volumes; Adam & +Charles Black, London, 1899; American Reprint, The Macmillan Co., +New York, 1914.

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HEBREW HOLY FORGERIES

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"Hinneh lash-sheqer asah et sheqer sepharim -- Behold, the +lying pen of the scribes hath wrought lies." Jeremiah, viii. 8.

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SUNDRY HOLY HEBREW men of old, we are told on the authority of +the name of the pseudo-first Jewish-Christian Pope, "spake as they +were moved by the Holy Ghost" (2 Peter, i, 21). These literary +movings of the Spirit were sometime reduced to writing in "Sacred +Scriptures"; and again later Christian authority assures: "All +scripture is given by inspiration of God" (2 Tim. iii, 16), -- +though this is a falsified rendition: the true reading is: "Every +scripture suitable for edification is divinely inspired," as the +original Greek text is quoted by Father Tertullian. (ANF. iv, 16.)

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It is the popular supposition that the 66 -- (Catholic Bible +73) -- "little books" which comprise the Bible as we know it, are +the whole sum of Hebrew and Christian "sacred writings," which have +claimed and have been accorded the sanction of Divine inspiration +and "treated by the Church as canonical." The term "canonical" in +ecclesiastical parlance means Books accepted as divinely inspired; +books which "were definitely canonized, or adjudged to have a +uniquely Divine or authoritative quality," as is the authorative +definition. (CE. iii, 267.) "Canonicity depends on inspiration." +(EB. i, 653.) The holy Hebrew "canon" was closed, or the last +inspired Book of the Old Testament written, according to Jewish +"Tradition," by Ezra, about 444 B.C. (Ib. i, 658, 662.) In truth, +however, several of the Books of the Old Testament were written +much later, and were never heard of by Ezra; and "some found their +way in, others not, on grounds of taste -- the taste of the +period," says Wellhausen. (Einleitung, p. 652, 6th Ed.)

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The popular idea is that when the "moving" of the above +inspired 66 sacred writings was ended, the moving Spirit retired +from the field of Hebrew, and later of Christian literature, and +thus closed the "sacred canon" of the respective Hebrew and +Christian Testaments. This will be seen to be a mistake, in the +judgment of the True Christian Church, according to which the Jews +evidently did not know their own inspired writings, and curiously +omitted from their "canon" a number of divinely "moved" books and +scraps of books, which the better-instructed Christian Church has +adopted as full of inspiration into its own present official Bible, +as we shall notice in its place. There is also a much greater +number of such books, of both Hebrew and Christian origin, which +the inspired Church formerly and for ages regarded as inspired and +"canonical," but which it now repudiates as "apocryphal" and +acknowledges as forgeries; as we shall also duly note.

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There is, indeed, an eminence mass of religious writings, the +work of Jewish or Christian priests or professional religious +persons, or composite productions of both sets of forgers, which +are generally known as "apocrypha" or pious forgeries; but which +each and all have been held by the Church through many ages of +faith as of the highest inspired sanctity and accredited with the +full rank of "canonical" truth of God.

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The term apocryphal or forged "takes in those compositions +which profess to have been written either by Biblical personages or +men in intimate relation with them." (CE. i, 601.) "Since these +[apocryphal] books were forgeries, the epithet in common parlance +today denotes any story or document which is false or spurious, ... +apocryphal in the disparaging sense of bearing names to which they +have no right; all come under the definition above, for each of +then has at one tine or another been treated as canonical." (EB. i, +249-250.)

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That the above 66 (or 73) Books of the accepted Bible of +Christianity come exactly, both as to manner of spurious origin and +matter of fictional content, within the above definition of +apocrypha or forgery, shall be made exceedingly evident. A brief +review of these acknowledged religious forgeries in the name of God +and of his inspired biographers, will afford a curious and +instructive study of the workings of the fervid, credulous and +contorted priestly mind, reckless of truth, and shed a floodlight +of understanding on the origins and incredibility of the so-called +"canonical" Books of the Bible, Hebrew and Christian alike.

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While speaking here immediately of the Jewish Apocrypha or +pious forgeries, it is to be noted and borne in mind that it is the +Holy-Ghost-guided True Christian Church which alone has accepted +and cherished these spurious productions of Jewish priestcraft -- +(scornfully repudiated by the Jews), has adulterated and re-forged +them to more definite deceptive purposes of Christian propaganda, +and has outdone Jewry by adding innumerable like forgeries, -- "a +whole literature" of fabrications -- to its own spurious +hagiography, or sacred writings. There will thus occur some +necessary and unavoidable over-lappings of Jewish and Christian +forgeries in the course of our treatment.

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"It must be confessed," admits the Catholic Encyclopedia, +"that the early Fathers and the Church, during the first three +centuries, were more indulgent towards Jewish pseudograph [i.e. +forged writings] circulating under venerable Old Testament, names. +The Book of Henoch [Enoch] and the Assumption of Moses had been +cited by the canonical Epistle of Jude. Many Fathers admitted the +inspiration of Fourth Esdras. Not to mention the Shepherd of +Hermas, the Acts of St. Paul (at least in the Thecla portion) and +the Apocalypse of St. Peter were highly revered at this and later +periods. ... In the Middle Ages ... many pseudographic [i.e. +forged] writings enjoyed a high degree of favor among both clerics +and laity." (CE. i, 615.)

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A curious and edifying side-light on the chronic clerical +flair for forgery is thrown by a sentence from the paragraph above +quoted from the Catholic Encyclopedia. The earliest papal decree +condemning certain of these pious forgeries is itself a Christian +forgery! "The so-called 'Decretum de recipiendis et non recipiendis +libris,' which contained a catalogue of some half-hundred works +condemned as apocryphal, was attributed to Pope Gelasius (495), +but, in reality is a compilation dating from the beginning of the +Sixth century." (CE,. i, 615.)

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And, be it noted, these Christian forgeries were not at all +condemned by the Church as forgeries and pious lies, but simply +because they contained some dogmatic doctrines which were regarded +by the Orthodox as "heresies" they were condemned "always, however, +with a preoccupation against heresy." And again in the same +article: "Undoubtedly it was the large use heretical Circles, +especially the Gnostics made of this insinuating literature which +first called out the animadversions of the official guardians of +doctrinal purity." (lb. p. 615.)

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The same authority cautiously and clerically explains, that +"ancient literature, especially in the Orient, used methods much +more free and clastic than those permitted by our modern and +occidetital culture. Pseudographic [falsified] compositions was in +vogue among the Jews in the two centuries before Christ and for +some time later. This holds good for the so-called 'Wisdom of +Solomon,' written in and belonging to the Church's sacred cannon. +-- [This admits that this book of the Catholic Bible is spurious.] +In other cases, where the assumed name did not stand as a symbol of +a type of a certain kind of literature, the intention was not +without a degree of at least literary dishonesty." (Ib. p. 601.)

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Apocryphal religious literature consists of several classes, +one of the most important subdivisions being that designated as +"apocalyptic," and which consists of "pretended prophecies and +revelations of both Jewish and Christian authorship, and dating +from about 200 B.C. to about 150 A.D.," the latter being the +approximate date of the new "canonical" Books of the New Testament, +Their general subject is the problem of the final triumph of what +is called the Kingdom of God. Speaking particularly of the +apocalypses, the best known of which are the Hebrew Book of Daniel, +written about 165 B.C., and the Jewish-Christian Book of Revelation +imputed to the Apostle John of Patmos, a recent secular authority +(corroborated at all points by clerical authorities) points out +that many if not all of the Jewish apocalypses are adulterated with +"alterations and interpolations by Christian hands, making the +alleged predictions, point more definitely to Jesus," which pious +tempering "gave certain of these Jewish works a very wide +circulation in the early Church. ... The revelations and +predictions are set forth as though actually received and written +or spoken by ancient worthies, as Enoch, Moses, etc. ... They were +once widely accepted as genuine prophecies, and found a warm +reception in Jewish and early Christian circles." (The New +International, Encyclopedia, vol. i, p. 745.) This form of pious +fraud is admitted as quite the expected thing: "Naturally baaing +itself upon the Pentateuch and the Prophets, it clothed itself +fictitiously with the authority of a patriarch or prophet who was +made to reveal the transcendent future" (CE. i, 602), -- most +usually long ex post facto.

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The vast and varied extent of Jewish-Christian forgery of +religious books is shown by the groupings under which the several +kinds of apocrypha forgeries are quite exhaustively considered in +the technical works treating of them, such as the Catholic +Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia Biblica, as well as the more +popular Britannica and New International Encyclopedias, where the +subject is fully discussed. "Speaking broadly," says the first,

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"The Apocrypha of Jewish origin are coextensive with what are +styled of the Old Testament, and those of Christian origin the +apocrypha of the New Testament. The subject will be treated +["according to their origin"] -- as follows: (I) Apocrypha of +Jewish origin: (II) Jewish Apocrypha with Christian accretions; +(III) apocrypha of Christian origin, comprising (1) apocryphal +Gospels; (2) Pilate literature and other apocrypha concerning +Christ; (3) apocryphal Acts of Apostles; (4) apocryphal doctrinal +works; (5) apocryphal Epistles; (6) apocryphal Apocalypses, (IV) +the apocrypha and the Church." (CE. i, 601.)

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What a catalogue of confessed ecclesiastical forgers, and +fraud in the name of God, Christ and his Apostles, and the Church +of God, for the propaganda of priestly frauds as "our Most Holy +Faith"!

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What will probably -- In view of the foregoing and what is yet +to come -- be appreciated by many as a peculiarly rare bit of +apocrypha (in its secondary sense) is the following, uttered +apparently with the due and usual ecclesiastical solemnity, in the +celebrated Dictatus of Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085), stating the +presumptuous pretenses of the Papacy:

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"The Roman Church has never erred, nor will it err to all +eternity. No one may be considered a Catholic Christian who +does not agree with the Catholic Church. No book is +authoritative unless it has received the papal sanction. ...

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The pope is the only person whose feet are to be kissed +by all princes"; "the Pope may depose emperors and absolve +subjects from allegiance to an unjust ruler." (Cited by +Robinson, 'The Ordeal of Civilization, pp. 126, 128; Library +of Original Sources, vol. iv, p. 126-321.)

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This puts the stamp of canonical inspiration and verity on +some dozen Jewish books and parts of books of the Catholic Bible +which the Jews and the whole body of otherwise discordant sects of +Protestants hesitate not unanimously to pronounce apocryphal and +forged. These "apocrypha" are either entire rejected Jewish books, +all doubtless with Christian "interpolations," or apocryphal +chapters or parts, interpolated probably by the same industry into +the equally apocryphal books of the accepted Jewish canon. The +names of these books, original and interpolations, and which are +not included in the Hebrew Old Testament, -- but are in the True +Church Bible, -- are: Tobit, Judith, Baruch, with the Epistle of +Jeremiah, Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach (or +Ecclesiastics), I and II Maccabees, Prayer of Manasseh, Additions +to Esther, and Additions to the Book of Daniel, consisting of the +Prayer of Azarias, the Song of the Three Holy Children (in the +Fiery Furnace), the History of Susannah, the History of Bel and the +Dragon, and sundry such precious fables. (See CE. iii, pp. 267, +270; iv, 624, passim.) These are all included in the Greek +Septuagint and in the Latin Vulgate, were read as Scripture in +early Christian Church, and were declared by the Council of Trent, +at its Fourth Session, in 1546, -- under the Curse of God on all +skeptical doubters, -- to be "inspired and canonical"; and they are +so held by the Roman, and some of the Greek and Oriental Catholic

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Churches, but are declared "apocrypha" and forged by Jewry and all +the rest of Christendom. To several of these extra-revelations of +Judaism included in the Christian True Bible, head-notes apologetic +for their inclusion are attached, of which that to the celebrated +Book of Tobit or Tobias is typical: "Protestants have left it out +of their modern Bibles, alleging that it is not in the canon of the +Jews. But the Church of Christ, which received the Scriptures not +from the Jews, but from the Apostles of Christ, -- [who were all +Jews, to believe the Christian record] -- by traditions from them, +has allowed this book a place in the Christian [sic] Bible from the +beginning." (See Cath. Bible, Tobit, et passim). We may admire in +synopsis the divine inspiration of

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THE INSPIRED FABLE OF TOBIT

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This Book of Tobit, or Tobias, scoffed both by Jews and +Protestants as a ridiculous fable, but held by all True Believers +as a precious revelation of God, to disbelieve which is to be +damned, is a veritable treasure-trove of exalted heavenly +inspiration, for the preservation of which Jew and Gentile alike +may be dubiously grateful to the pious "tradition" of the Apostles +of Christ, as above said. This Tobias was a very pious and stubborn +Israelite of the Captivity, who, before departing, had cached all +his available cash with his kinsman Gabelus, of Rages, a city of +the Medes, "taking a note of his hand" for its repayment on demand. +While captive in a strange and pagan land, Tobias wan visited by a +piteous calamity, for "as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a +swallows nest fell upon his eves, and he was made blind"; which +affliction Tobias looked reverently to the Lord as visiting upon +him as "revenge for my sins"; as a result Tobias became extremely +poor, and his wife took in work. At that time there lived in the +city of Rages another pious Israelite by name Raguel, who had a +marriageable -- or rather muchly married daughter, Sara, who was +under grave reproach and even imputation of murder, "Because she +had been given to seven husbands, and a devil named Asmodeus had +killed them, at their first going in unto her," so that she +complained that though sevenfold a widow she remained yet a virgin.

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At this juncture Tobias bethought himself of the good money he +had left with Gabelus of Rages, and after much palaver decided to +send his son, Tobias, Jr., a comely youth, with the note of hand in +his pocket, and his dog (name unrevealed), on the long journey to +recoup the fortune of ten talents of silver. As Tobias, Jr. started +on the journey, a beautiful young man, who was really the Archangel +Raphael, met him and introduced himself as Azarias, son of Ananias, +-- (Ananias must have written the account) -- and offered to +accompany and guide him upon his journey, which offer was +gratefully accepted. As the two journeyed they came to the river +Tigris; Tobias waded in to wash his feet, when, lo, "a monstrous +fish came up to devour him," whereat Tobias called to his companion +for help. The Angel told him to take the monster fish by the gill +and haul him out, which Tobias seems to have had no trouble in +doing. The Angel then directed Tobias to open the yet live and +"panting" fish, "and lay up his heart, his gall, and his liver, for +thee; for these are necessary for useful medicines"; this done, +they cooked the fish and carried it all along for provisions for +the trip. As they journeyed, Tobias asked the Angel what these

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medicinal scraps were good for; "and the Angel answering said, if +thou put a little piece of its heart upon coals, the smoke thereof +driveth away all kinds of devils, either from man or from woman, so +that they come no more to them. And the gull is good for anointing +the eyes, in which there is a white speck, and they shall be +cured."

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So discoursing pleasantly and instructively, the twain arrived +at Rages, and the Angel guided Tobias straight to the house of +Raguel and his daughter Sara, his sole heiress, and told Tobias to +ask for her in marriage. Tobias said that he was afraid of Sara, +for he had heard of what happened to those seven other men; but the +Angel reassured him, that he would show him how to overcome the +devil Asmodeus; that he should marry Sara and go to bed with her +for three nights, but should continently confine his activities "to +nothing else but to prayers with her", and, assured the Angel, on +the first night "lay the liver of the fish on the fire, and the +devil shall be driven away," other holy marvels happening on the +succeeding nights; "and when the third night is past, thou shalt +take the virgin with the fear of the Lord, moved rather for love of +children than for lust." The affair was arranged according to these +prescriptions; with Sara and her parents; after the wedding supper, +the newlyweds were left alone in their boudoir; Tobias did nothing +but pray and put a part of the fish liver in the fire, whereupon +"the Angel Raphael took the devil, and bound him in the desert of +Upper Egypt"; then both prayed some more, the fervid prayers being +repeated verbatim. In the morning, Raguel, out of force of habit, +called his servants and ordered them to go into the garden and dig +an eighth grave for the reception of Tobias; when the maidservant +went to the room to arrange for the removal of the corpse, she to +her great surprise "found them safe and sound, sleeping both +together." The empty grave was filled up, a big banquet prepared, +and the happy bridal couple spent two weeks with the bride's +family, while the Angel took the note of hand, went to Gabelus, +collected the money, and paid it over to Tobias; Raguel gave Tobias +one-half of all his property, and executed a writing to give him +one-half of the remainder upon the death of Raguel and wife. Tobias +sent the Angel back to Gabelus, to invite him to his wedding, and +the Angel made him Come.

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To proceed swiftly to the climax of marvel, Tobias; and the +Angel, leaving the hymeneal cortege to follow as best it could, +with such impedimenta of wealth, hastened back to the home of +Tobias, Sr., where blind father and the mother were in great grief +over the supposed loss of their son and the money with him. But at +the behest of the Angel, Tobias, Jr. ran into the house, though +"the dog, which had been with them in the way, ran before, and +coming as if he had brought the news, showed his joy by his fawning +and wagging his tail," an act which has since become habitual with +dogs which have enough tail to wag. After kissing his mother and +father, as the Angel had suggested, Tobias, Jr. took the remaining +fish gall out of his traveling bag, and anointed with it the eyes +of his father; "and he stayed about half an hour; and a white skin +began to come out of his eyes, like the skin of an egg. And Tobias +took hold of it, and drew it from his eyes, and immediately he +recovered his sight. And they glorified God," and Tobias, Sr. +dutifully said "I bless thee, Lord God of Israel, because thou hast

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chastised me, and thou hast saved me: and behold I see Tobias my +son." Then, "after seven days Sara his son's wife, and all the +family arrived safe, and the cattle, and the camels, and abundance +of money of his wife's, and that money also which he had received +of Gabelus"; they all feasted for seven days "and rejoiced with all +great joy"; then, when Tobias, Sr. suggested doing something +handsome for the "holy man" through whom all their good fortune had +come, the Angel introduced himself as really not Azariah, son of +Ananias, but "The Angel Raphael, one of the Seven, who stand before +the Lord"; and he explained, "I seemed indeed to eat, and to drink +with you, but I use an invisible meat and drink, which cannot be +seen by men"; thereupon in true angel style he dissipated into thin +air and they could see him no more. The whole Tobias family then, +"lying prostrate for three hours upon their face, blessed God: and +rising up they told all his wonderful works." Thus endeth happily +the reading of the lesson, dictated by the Holy Ghost to the pious +Ananias who recorded it for the edification of True Believers. Let +us pray that it is true.

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THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING

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Until the Council of Trent, in 1546, there was no infallibly +defined sanction of inspiration of these Jewish "apocrypha"; like +the "canon" sacred Books of the Hebrew Bible, all alike were more +or lest; eclectically accepted and used in the True Church; but, as +said: "The Tridentine decree from which the above list is extracted +was the first infallible and effectually promulgated pronouncement +on the Canon, addressed to the Church universal. Being dogmatic in +its purport, it implies that the Apostles bequeathed the same Canon +to the Church as a part of the depositum fidei. ... We should +search the pages of the New, Testament in vain for any trace of +such action. ... We affirm that such a status points to Apostolic +sanction, which in turn must have rested on revelation either by +Christ or the Holy Spirit." (CE. iii, 270.)

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This is luminous clerical reasoning: a lot of anonymous Jewish +fables, derided by Jews and all the rest of the world for want of +even common plausibility of fact or truth, and as to which the +"inspired" Christian books said to emanate from Apostles, are +silent as the grave, are declared after 1500 years to have the ear-marks of Apostolic sanction, which "must have" been founded on +divine revelation to them "either by Christ or the Holy Spirit," -- +which the Church claims are one and the same person; and it is +curious that the "infallible" Council couldn't say which was which, +but vaguely and uncertainly opined it must have been one or the +other. So much for infallible cock-suredness as to "inspiration" of +holy Scriptures. Even the Old Testament itself, says our logician +of inspiration, "reveals no formal notion of inspiration," though, +again, "the later Jews must have possessed the idea." (Ib. p. 269.) +The cursory notice which we shall take of the Old Testament books +will serve to confirm that they reveal no notion at all of +inspiration; that the later Jews must have had the idea that they +were inspired, does not much help the case for them.

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In addition to these rejected Jewish books admitted into full +canonical fellowship by the inerrant True Church, there are several +other Jewish apocrypha which are only semi-canonical and admitted

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into a sort of bar-sinister fellowship with the legitimates. They +have a place in the Orthodox Bible for the "edification" of the +Faithful, but are usually printed in the Appendix as suggestive to +the devout that they will not be damned for not fully believing +these particular forgeries,

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Among these are two very celebrated books forged in the name +of the great Restorer of Israel, Ezra, under the titles of Third +and Fourth Esdras, as the name is written in the True Bibles. +"Third Esdras," says the Encyclopedia, "Is, one of the three +uncanonical books appended to the official edition of the Vulgate. +... It enjoyed exceptional favor in the early ages of the Church, +being quoted as Scripture with implicit faith by the leading Greek +and Latin Fathers." (CE,. i, 605.) In like errant faith was +regarded its companion forgery, Fourth Esdras, of which the same +ecclesiastical authority says: "The personage serving as the screen +of the author of this book is Esdras (Ezra). ... Both Greek and +Latin Fathers cite it as prophetical. ... Notwithstanding this +widespread reverence for it, in early times, it is a REMARKABLE +FACT that the book never got a foothold in the Canon or liturgy of +the Church ... and even after the Council of Trent, together with +Third Esdras. it was placed in the appendix to the official edition +of the Vulgate. ... The dominant critical dating assigns it to a +Jew writing in the reign of Domitian, A.D. 81-98," -- the "screen" +Ezra being gathered to his fathers since about 444 B.C. (Ib. p. +603-604; v, 537-8; EB. i, 653, 1393.) It is curious that it is +regarded as "remarkable" that the Holy Ghost did not "fall" for +this particular forgery, when it did for so many others!

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EZRA "RESTORES" THE LAW

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A remarkable apocryphal tale relating to the Hebrew Scriptures +is enshrined by pseudo-inspiration in chapter 14 of this Fourth of +Esdras, regarding the miraculous restoration of Hebrew Holy Writ +after its total perishment. In the calamity of the capture and +destruction of the Holy City by Nebuchadnezzar, 586 B.C., the +Temple of Solomon was destroyed, together with the entire +collection of the sacred Rolls of Scriptures, so that not a scratch +of inspired pen remained to tell the tale of theocratic Hebrew +history and its "revealed" religion. This inconsolable and +apparently irreparable loss affected the holy People all the time +of the of the Babylonian captivity. But upon their return to the +restored City of God, and over a century after their loss, God, we +are told in Fourth Esdras, inspired Ezra and commissioned him to +reproduce the sacred lost Books, which, judging from the result, of +his inspired labors, were many more than the supposed twenty and +two of the supposed old Hebrew canon. Accordingly Ezra, employing +five scribes, dictated to them (from inspired memory) the textual +contents of the lost sacred books, and in just forty days and +nights reproduced a total of 94 sacred books, of which he +designated 24 as the sacred canon, the remaining 70 being termed +esoteric and reserved fir the use of only the wisest. This inspired +fable was eagerly accepted for truth by the early Church Fathers, +many of whom, from Irenaeus on, "admitted its inspiration"; and it +was frequently quoted and commented on as canonical by such Church +luminaries as Tertullian, St. Ambrose, Clement Alexandrensis,

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Origen, Eusebius, St. Jerome, et als., and was prevalently accepted +as Scripture throughout the scholastic period. (EB. i, 654, 139 2-94; CE. i 537-8, 601-615.)

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This legend, however, had, through a better understanding of +"the powers of ordinary human memory," quite faded out by the time +of the Reformation, but only to make way for a more modern and +rationalistic one, invented by the Jew Levita, who died in 1549. +According to his new fable Ezra and the Talmudic "Men of Great +Synagogue" simply united into one volume the 24 books which until +that time had circulated separately, and divided them into the +three great divisions yet recognized, of the Law the Prophets, and +the Hagiography or holy writings. This fabulous statement of Levita +"became the authoritative doctrine of the orthodoxy of the +seventeenth and eighteenth centuries." (EB. i, 654.) This new +legend is cited simply to show how prone is the credulous clerical +mind to accept as truth the most baseless fables; and how, when one +of their precious bubbles of faith is pricked by tardy exposure or +common sense, they eagerly catch at the next which comes floating +by.

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THE "FINDING OF THE LAW"

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Another ancient priestly fiction, which to this day passes +current among the credulous as inspired truth of God, is the fabled +"finding of the Law" as recorded in the Word of God. We are all +familiar with the notable "finding" by the late lamented Prophet. +Joseph Smith -- thereto led by the Angel Moroni -- of the golden +plates containing the hieroglyphic text of Book of Mormon, near +Palmyra N.Y. in 1823-1827. (Book of Mormon, Introd.) History +repeated itself. A like remarkable discovery was made in the year +621 B.C., this time by a priest, with the help of a witch or lady +fortune-teller. As related in 2 Kings xxii, corroborated by 2 +Chronicles xxxiv, in the eighteenth year of the "good king" Josiah +of Judah, while some repair work was being done in the Temple, +Hilkiah the priest of a sudden "found the book of the law of Yahweh +given by Moses," over 800 years before, and never heard of since. +Hilkiah called in Shaphan the scribe, and they took the great +"find" to Josiah the King. To verify the veracity of the high-priest, Huldah the lady prophet was consulted; being intimately +familiar with the sentiments of God, she at once declared that +Yahweh was very angry about it, "because," as the King said, "our +fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do after +all that is written in this book"; and the King at once set about +to carry into effect the laws prescribed in Deuteronomy, -- just +then for the first time in the history of Israel ever heard of or +acted upon. This "book of the law given to Moses" 800 years before +was doubtless the priestly work of Hilkiah, palmed off under the +potent name of Moses to force its very reluctant observance and +belief on the superstitious Jews. That this is the fact is the +consensus of the scholars, as summarized in the Encyclopedia +Biblies, and any modern work of O.T. criticism. An examination of +the Bible texts themselves, as made in my previous work, +demonstrates that this holy "law of Mosses" was totally unknown and +unobserved through all the History of Israel from its beginnings +until Josiah, and was composed by his priests and enlarged into the +present Pentateuch during and after the captivity in Babylon.

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THE "SEPTUAGINT" TRANSLATION INTO GREEK

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As priestly forged tales were fabricated to account for the +origin and preservation of the sacred Hebrew Books, so like pious +fraud was adopted to account for their very notable translation +into Greek, in what is known as the Sepuagint, Version. After the +conquests by Alexander the Great and his establishment of the city +of Alexandria in Egypt, immense numbers of Jews were settled in the +new city, which quickly became the commercial and intellectual +center of the ancient world, with Greek the universal language. The +holy Hebrew language had became a dead language to the Jews of the +"Dispersion"; their synagogue services could not be conducted in +the mother tongue. The Alexandrian Jews were accordingly under +necessity to render the "Law" into Greek for their public use; and +this was gradually done by such of them as thought themselves able +to do such work. But this common-place mode of rendering the sacred +Hebrew into a Gentile speech did not satisfy the pious wonder-craving Jewish mind. Accordingly, somewhere about 200 B.C., an +anonymous Jew invented a more satisfactory tale, which has had +incalculable influence on the Christian faith and dogmas. This +pious Israelite had the customary recourse to religions forgery; he +forged a letter in the name of one Aristeas, an official of Ptolemy +II, Philadelphus, the Greek king of Egypt, 285-247 B.C., purporting +to be addressed to his brother, Philocrates, and giving a marvelous +history of the Translation.

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Here, in substance, is what we read of the first origin of the +Version, limited therein to the "law" of Moses, as first related by +Josephus. Ptolemy had recently established a library at Alexandria, +which he purposed should contain a copy of every obtainable +literary work extant. This Library became the most extensive and +celebrated of the ancient world, containing some 700000 manuscript +books at the time it was savagely destroyed, in 391 A.D., by the +benighted Christian zeal and fury of Bishop Theophilus of +Alexandria and his crazy monks of Nitria, as related in Kingsley's +Hypatia or any history of the times. CE. xiv, 625.) At the +suggestion of Demetrius, his Librarian, fables the pseudo-Aristeas +through Josephus, that he should enrich the Library with a copy of +the sacred law of the Jews Ptolemy wrote to Eleazar the chief +priest at Jerusalem, sending the letter and magnificent presents +"to God" by the hand of a delegation including Aristeas, requesting +a copy of the Law and a number of learned Jews competent to +translate it into Greek. The embassy was successful; a richly +ornamented copy of the holy law, written in letters of gold, was +sent to the King, together with seventy-two Doctors of Israel, +deputed to deliver the Book and to carry out the wishes of the +King. They were received with great honor, says pseudo-Aristeas, +and duly feted for several days; they were then conducted across +the long causeway to the Island of Pharos to the place which was +prepared for them, "which was a house that was built near the +shore, and was a quiet place, and fit for their discoursing +together about their work, ... Accordingly they made an accurate +interpretation, with great zeal and great pains," working until the +ninth hour each day, and visiting Ptolemy every morning. "Now when +the Law was transcribed, and the labor of interpretation was over, +which came to its conclusion in seventy-two days," the work was +read over to the assembled Jews, who rejoiced that "the

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interpretation was happily finished"; they were enjoined to report +any errors or emissions which they might discover, to the +"Seventy," who would make the necessary corrections in their work. +(Josephus, Antiq. Jews, Bk. XII, chap. 2; CE. xiii, 722.) Thus the +translation wag only of "The Law," the Five Books of Moses; and it +was open team-work, all the Seventy-two working together, comparing +and discussing as they proceeded, and expressly enjoining the Jews +to note and report for correction all errors of omission or +commission which they might discover.

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Thus the pseudo-Aristeas, as cited by Josephus; though, as a +matter of fact, this Septuagint Version, so-called because of the +legendary Seventy-(two), was in the grossest manner inaccurate, and +imported innumerable errors into the Christian religion which was +based upon and propagated for several centuries only through the +Septuagint texts. Indeed, "the text of the Septuagint was regarded +as so unreliable, because of its freedom in rendering, and of the +alterations which had been introduced into it, etc., that, during +the second century of our era it was discarded by the Church." (CE. +iv, 625.) We shall notice the fearful error of Isaiah's "virgin-birth" text; for other well-known instances, it makes out Creation +1195 years earlier than the Hebrew and Vulgate, 4004 B.C., and the +venerable Methuselah is made to survive the Flood by fourteen +years.

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Despite, however, its patently legendary character, the +pseudo-Aristeas' account, the forged letter and the story, were +eagerly accepted as genuine and authentic by Fathers, Popes and +ecclesiastic writers until the sixteenth century, when their +spurious character was revealed by the nascent modern criticism. +"The authenticity of the letter, called in question first by Louis +Vives (1492-1540), professor at Louvain, is now universally +denied." (CE. xiii, 722.)

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The Fathers, however, could not rest content with this +unvarnished original fabrication in the name of Aristeas, of an +ordinary human and errant translation of the "Law"; they avidly set +about embellishing it in the accepted clerical style, adding +fanciful and lying details to emphasize the miraculous and inspired +origin of the Version. As this notable instance serves admirably to +illustrate the childish and uncritical credulity of the Fathers, +their reckless disregard of truth, their chronic zest for any +untruth or fable quotable to pander to the glory of God and enhance +the pious superstition of the Faithful, let us here watch the +growth of this simple human yarn of the Jewish aristeas-forger into +the wonderful and ever more embellished miracle as it passes from +Father to Father, -- exactly as the Gospel-fables grew from "Mark" +to "John." According to Fathers Tertullian, St. Augustine, St. +Jerome, et als., the 72 were inspired by God each severally for the +entire work; in translating they did not consult with one another; +they had been shut up incomunicados in separate cells on Pharos, +either singly or in pairs, and their several translations, when +finished and compared, were found to agree entirely both as to +sense and the expressions employed, with the original Hebrew text +and with each other (St. Clement of Alexandria, St. Irenaeus, +Justin Martyr). Finally, the 72 translated not only the Law, but +the entire Old Testament, -- several of whose Books were not yet at +the time written.

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Father Justin Martyr adds near-eye-witness verification to the +false and already embroidered history, saying that the "Seventy" +were, by order of the King, "shut up in as many separate cells, and +were obliged by him, each to translate the whole Bible apart, and +without any communication with each other, yet all their several +translations were found to agree verbatim from the beginning to the +end, and were by that means demonstrated to be of divine +inspiration"; and he adds, for confirmation of faith! -- like Paul, +protesting he is not lying in anticipation of the accusation: +"These things, ye men of Greece, are no fable, nor do we narrate +fictions; but we ourselves having been in Alexandria, saw the +remains of the little [cells] at the Pharos still preserved." (Ad +Graec. ch. xiii; ANF. i, 278-9.) But in repeating the tale to the +Roman Emperor, Father Justin makes the unhappy blunder of saying, +that Ptolemy "sent to Herod, who was at that time king of the Jews, +requesting that the books of the prophets [pseudo-Aristeas said the +"Law"] be sent to him; and the king did indeed send them" (I Apol. +ch. xxxi; ANF. i, 173); whereas Herod lived some 300 years after +Ptolemy died. This forged fable is time and again repeated as sober +truth. Bishop Saint Irenaeus emphasizes the miraculous nature of +the translation of all the Books, saying that when the 72 identical +translations were compared, "God was indeed glorified, and the +Scriptures were acknowledged an truly divine; ... even the Gentiles +present perceived that the Scriptures had been interpreted by the +inspiration of God. And there was nothing astonishing in God having +done this. ... He inspired Esdras the priest (after the return from +captivity) to recast all the words of the former prophets, and to +reestablish with the people of God the Mosaic legislation." (Adv. +Haer. III, xxi, 2; ANF. i, 451-2.)

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In the course of a century or two before the Christian Era, +the other Hebrew sacred books were likewise translated into Greek +for the use of the Greek-speaking Jews of "the Dispersion," +together with numbers of the forged Jewish apocrypha, and all these +were added to the rolls of "Scriptures." This final and adulterated +form of the Septuagint "was the vehicle which conveyed these +additional Scriptures [i.e. the apocryphal Tobias, etc.] into the +Catholic Church." (CE. iii, 271.) This vagary of the Holy Ghost in +certifying the ill-translated and tempered Septuagint for the +foundations of Christian Faith, was very disastrous, as CE. points +out: "The Church had adopted the Septuagint as its own; this +differed from the Hebrew not only by the addition of several books +and passages but also by innumerable variations of text, due partly +to the ordinary process of corruption in the transcription of +ancient books, partly to the culpable temerity, as Origen called +it, of correctors who used not a little freedom in making +'corrections,' additions, and suppressions, partly to mistakes in +translation, and finally in great part to the fact that the +original Septuagint had been made from a Hebrew text quite +different from that fixed at Jamnia as the one standard by the +Jewish Rabbis." (CE. vii, 316.) So Yahveh only knows what he +actually said and did in the 4004 years up to the time his Son came +to try to "redeem" his people from some of the tangles of his Holy +Law.

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Matters grew worse as time progressed: the ex-Pagan Greek +Fathers who founded Christianity, propagated the new Faith for +several centuries only from the tortuous texts of this falsified

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Septuagint, which was the only Old Testament "Scriptures" known to +and used by them as the source of the "prophecies fulfilled by +Jesus Christ" and the holy mysteries of the Jewish-Christian Faith. +"Copies of the Septuagint." says CE., "were multiplied, and, as +might be expected, many changes, deliberate as well as involuntary, +crept in." (CE. xiii, 723.) Indeed, the itch for Scripture-scribbling was so rife among such ex-Pagan Christians as could +write and get hold of a copy, that St. Augustine complains: "It is +possible to enumerate those who have translated the Scriptures from +Hebrew into Greek, but not those who have translated them into +Latin. In sooth, in the curly days of the faith whoso possessed a +Greek manuscript and thought he had some knowledge of both tongues +was daring enough to undertake a translation." (De Doct. Christ. +II, xi; CE. ix, 20.) So the Faith was founded on befuddlement of +the Blessed Word of God as any nondescript scribbler palmed it off +to be.

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We shall more than abundantly see that Holy Church never +possessed or used a single book of "Scripture" or other document of +importance, to the glory of God and the glorification of the +Church, which was not a rank original forgery and bristled besides +with "many deliberate changes" or forged interpolations.

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THE SEPTUAGINT AND THE "VIRGIN-BIRTH" FRAUD

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The most colossal of the blunders of the Septuagint +translators, supplemented by the most insidious, persistent and +purposeful falsification of text, is instanced in the false +translation of the notoriously false pretended "prophecy" of Isaiah +vii, 14, -- frauds which have had the most disastrous and fatal +consequences for Christianity, and to humanity under its blight; +the present exposure of which should instanter destroy the false +Faith built on these frauds.

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The Greek priest who forged the "Gospel according to St. +Matthew," having before him the false Septuagint translation of +Isaiah, fables the Jewish Mary yielding to the embraces of the +Angel Gabriel to engender Jesus, and backs it up by appeal to the +Septuagint translation of Isaiah vii, 14:

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"Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth +a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel." (Matt. i, 23.)

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Isaiah's original Hebrew, with the mistranslated words +underscored, reads: "Hinneh ha-almah harah ve-yeldeth ben ve-karath +shem-o immanuel"; -- which, falsely translated by the false pen of +the pious translators, runs thus in the English: "Behold, a virgin +shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel" +(Isa. vii, 14.) The Hebrew words ha-almah mean simply the young +woman; and harah is the Hebrew past or perfect tense, "conceived," +which in Hebrew, as in English, represents past and completed +action. Honestly translated, the verse reads: "Behold, the young +woman has conceived -- [is with child) -- and beareth a son and +calleth his name Immanuel."

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Almah means simply a young woman, of marriageable age, whether +married or not, or a virgin or not; in a broad general sense +exactly like girl or maid in English, when we say shop-girl,

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parlor-maid, bar-maid, without reference to or vouching for her +technical virginity, which, in Hebrew, is always expressed by the +word bethulah. But in the Septuagint translation into Greek, the +Hebrew almah was erroneously rendered into the Greek parthenos, +virgin, with the definite article 'ha' in Hebrew, and e in Greek, +(the), rendered into the indefinite "a" by later falsifying +translators. (See Is It God's Word? pp. 277-279; EB. ii, 2162; New +Commentary on the Holy Scripture, Pt. I, p. 439.) And St. Jerome +falsely used the Latin word virgo.

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"As early as the second century B.C.," says the distinguished +Hebrew scholar and critic, Salomon Reinach, "the Jews perceived the +error and pointed it out to the Greeks; but the Church knowingly +persisted in the false reading, and for over fifteen centuries she +has clung to her error." (Orpheus, p, 197.) The truth of this +accusation of conscious persistence in known error through the +centuries is proved by confession of St. Jerome, who made the +celebrated Vulgate translation from the Hebrew into Latin, and +intentionally "clung to the error," though Jerome well knew that it +was an error and false; and thus he perpetuated through fifteen +hundred years the myth of the "prophetic virgin birth" of Jesus +called Christ.

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Being criticized by many for this falsification, St. Jerome +thus replies to one of his critics, Juvianus: "I know that the Jews +are accustomed to meet us with the objection that in Hebrew the +word Almah does not mean a virgin, but a young woman. And, to speak +truth, a virgin is properly called Bethulah, but a young woman, or +a girl, is not Almah, but Naarah"! (Jerome, Adv. Javianum I, 32; +N&PNF, vi, 370.) So insistent was the criticism, that he was driven +to write a book on the subject, in which he makes a very notable +confession of the inherent incredibility of the Holy Ghost +paternity-story "For who at that time would have believed the +Virgin's word that she had conceived of the Holy Ghost, and that +the angel Gabriel had come and announced the purpose of God? and +would not all have given their opinion against her as an +adulteress, like Susanna? For at the present day, now that the +whole world has embraced the faith, the Jews argue, that when +Isaiah says, 'Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son,' the +Hebrew the Hebrew word denotes a young woman, not a virgin, that is +to say, the word is ALMAH, not BETHULAH"! (Jerome, The Perpetual +Virginity of Blessed Mary, N&PNF, vi, 336.)

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So the Greek Father or priest who forged the false "virgin-birth" interpolation into the manuscript of "Matthew," drags in +maybe ignorantly the false Septuagint translation of Isaiah vii, +14, which the Latin Father St. Jerome purposely perpetuated as a +pious "lie to the glory of God." The Catholic and King James +Versions purposely retain this false translation; the Revised +Version keeps it in, but with a gesture of honesty, which is itself +a fraud, sticks into the margin in fine type, after the words "a +virgin" and "shall conceive," the words, "Or, the maiden is with +child and beareth," -- which not one in thousands would ever see or +understand the significance of. So it is not some indefinite "a +virgin" who 750 years in the future "shall conceive" and "shall +bear" a son whose name she "shall call" Immanuel, Jesus; but it was +some known and definite young female, married or un-married -- but

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not a "virgin" -- who had already conceived and was already +pregnant, and who beareth a son and calleth his name Immanuel, ... +who should be the "sign" which "my lord" should give to Ahaz of the +truth of Isaiah's false prophecy regarding the pending war with +Israel and Syria, as related in Isaiah vii, and of which the total +falsity is proven in 2 Chronicles xxviii, as all may read.

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Although Papal Infallibility has declared that "it will never +be lawful to grant ... that the sacred writers could have made a +mistake" (Leo XIII, Eneyc. Provid. Deus; CE. ii, 543), yet, the +fraud being notorious and exposed to the scorn of the world, and +being driven by force of modern criticism, CE. definitely and +positively -- though with the usual clerical soft-soaping, +confesses this age-long clerical fraud and falsification of Holy +Writ, and relegates it to the junk-heap of discredited -- but not +discarded -- dogmatic myth:

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"Modern theology does not grant that Isaiah vii, 14, contains +a real prophecy fulfilled in the virgin birth of Christ; it must +maintain, therefore, that St. Matthew misunderstood the passage +when he said: 'Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled +which the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall +be with child, and bring forth a son, etc."! (CE. xv, 451.)

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Thus is apparent, and confessed, the dishonesty of "Matthew" +and of the Church of Christ in perverting this idle, false and +falsified text of Isaiah into a "prophecy of the virgin birth of +Jesus Christ," and in persisting in retaining this falsity in their +dishonest Bibles as the basis of their own bogus theology unto this +day of the Twentieth Century. The Church, full knowing its falsity, +yet, clings to this precious lie of Virgin Birth and all the +concatenated consequences. Thus it declares its own condemnation as +false. Some other viciously false translations of sacred Scripture +will be duly noticed in their place.

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As Thomas Jefferson prophetically wrote, -- as is being +verified:

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"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by +the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be +classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of +Jupiter"!

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OTHER HEBREW SACRED FORGERIES

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The marvels of the canonical apocrypha of the Hebrew sacred +Books, or of the whole 94 miraculously "restored" by Ezra, could +not slake the thirst of the Jewish intellect for such edifying +histories, and their priests were very industrious in supplying the +demands of piety and marvel-craving. Making use, as above admitted, +of the most "venerable Old Testament names," they forged a +voluminous literature of fanciful and fantastic fairy-tales in the +guise of sacred history, revelations, oracles or predictions, all +solemnly "set forth as thought actually received, and written or +spoken by ancient worthies, as Enoch, Moses, etc., which were +widely accepted as genuine, and found a warm reception in Jewish +and early Christian circles." Scarcely is there a Biblical notable

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of Israel in whose name these pious false writings were not forged, +including Adam and Eve and most of the ante-and post-Diuvian +Patriarchs. It is impossible here to much more than mention the +names of some of the principal ones of these extra-canonical +apocrypha and forgeries of the Jews, as listed in the Catholic +Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia Biblica, most of them worked over +with surcharge of added Christian forgeries, to adapt them to their +pious propaganda.

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The names of these "intriguing" volumes of forgotten lore, +listed somewhat after the order of their distinguished pretended +authors and times, are: Life of Adam and Eve; Testament of Adam; +The Book of Creation; the Books of Seth (son of Adam); Book of +Enoch (grandson of Adam); Secrets of Enoch; Parables of Enoch; Book +of Lamech; Book of Noah; Book of Zoroaster (identified with Ham, +son of Noah); Apocalypse of Noah; Apocalypse of Abraham; Testament +of Abraham; Testament of Isaac; Testament of Jacob; The Testaments +of the Twelve Patriarchs; Testament of the Three Patriarchs; +Testament of Naphthali; The Prayer of Menassch; The Prayer of +Joseph; The Story of Asenath (wife of Joseph); Prayer of Asenath; +The Marriage of Asenath; The Assumption of Moses; The Testament of +Moses; Book of Jannes and Mambres (the Egyptian magicians with whom +Moses contended); Penitence of Jannes and Mambres; The Magical +Books of Moses; The Book of Jubilees. or Little Genesis; Book of Og +the Giant, Treatise of the Giants, Josippon; Book of Jasher; The +Liber Antiquitatem Bibliarum, ascribed to Philo; The Chronicles of +Jerameel; Testament of Job; Psalm CLI of David, "when he fought +with Goliath"; Testament of Solomon; The Contradictio Salomonis (a +contest in wisdom between Solomon and Hiram); The Psalms of +Solomon; Apocalypse of Elijah; Apocalypse of Baruch; The Rest of +the Words of Baruch; History of Daniel; Apocalypse of Daniel; +Visions of Daniel; Additions to Daniel, viz.: The History of +Susanne (Chap. 13), the Song of the Three Children, Story of Bel +and the Dragon (Chap. 14); Tobit; Judith; Additions to Esther; The +Martyrdom of Isaiah; The Ascension of Isaiah; III and IV Esdras; +Apocalypse of Esdras; Story of the Three Pagans, in I Esdras; I, +II, III, and IV Mitceabee"; The Prophecy of Eldad and Medad; +Apocalypse of Zephaniah, Stories of Artaphanus; Eupolemus; Story of +Aphikia, wife of Jesus Sirach; The Letter of Aristeas to +Philocrates; The Sibylline Oracles.

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Quite half of the above Jewish false-writings, separately +listed under the grouping of "Jewish with Christian Accretions," +the Catholic Encyclopedia describes with comments such as "recast +or freely interpolated by Christians," "many Christian +interpolations," etc., "presenting in their ensemble a fairly full +Christology" (CE. i, 606). If the pious Christians, confessedly, +committed so many and so extensive forgeries and frauds to adapt +these popular Jewish fairy-tales of their God and holy Worthies to +the new Christian Jesus and his Apostles, we need feel no surprise +when we discover these same Christians forging outright new wonder-tales of their Christ under the fiction of the most noted Christian +names and in the guise of inspired Gospels, Epistles, Acts and +Apocalypses.

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THE "INSPIRED" HEBREW SCRIPTURES

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The processes of the formation of the Hebrew Old Testament +Scriptures are, however, interesting and intriguing, if sacred +tradition is true. According to priestly lore, the man Moses, +"learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians" (another Christian +assurance; Acts vii, 22), sat down in the Wilderness of Sinai and +under divine inspiration wrote his Five Books of prehistorical +history, codes of post-exilic divine Law, and chronicles of +contemporary and future notable events, including four different +names of his father-in-law -- (Wz.: Jethro, Ex. iii, 1; Reuel, Ex. +ii, 18; Jether, Ex. iv, 18, and Raguel, Num. x, 29, while a fifth +name, Hobab, is awarded him in Judges iv, II), together with a +graphic account of his own death and burial, and of the whole month +afterwards spent by all Israel mourning his death. He also records +the death of his brother Aaron at Mt. Hor (Num. xx, 28; xxxiii, +38), just six months before his own death; though, in amazing +contradiction, he elsewhere records Aaron as having died at Mosera, +just after leaving Sinai (Deut. x, 6), thirty-nine years previously +-- and thus nullifies the entire history of the wonderful career +and deeds of Aaron as high priest during the whole 40 years of +wandering in the Wilderness, of which the Books of Exodus, +Leviticus and Numbers are largely filled; as also many other +matters and things occurring for some centuries after his death, +and known as "post-Mosaica" to the scholars.

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Joshua, the successor of Moses, next wrote the history of his +life and times, working in, too, a sketch of his own death and +funeral obsequies (Josh. xxiv, 29-30), and quoting the celebrated +miracle of the nun standing still, of which he says, "Is it not +written in the Book of Jasher?" -- which Book of Jasher was not +itself written until several hundred years later, at least in or +after the time of David; for it is recorded: "And he [David] bade +them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow; behold, it is +written in the Book of Jasher." (2 Sam. i, 18.)

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The Book of Judges was written by nobody knows whom, nor when, +except that it was long "post-exilic." It relates that, "Now the +children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it" +(Jud. i, 18); whereas it was not until David had reigned seven +years and six months in Hebron, that "the King and his men went to +Jerusalem" and failed to capture it, "nevertheless, David took the +stronghold of Zion, and called it the City of David." (2 Sam. v, +5-9.) It is further recorded in Judges that the tribe of Dan made +a silver idol of the Hebrew God and hired a grandson of Moses to +serve it, and "he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan +until the captivity of the land" (Jud. xviii, 30) -- about a +thousand years later.

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The gifted Samuel. Prophet of the heathen High Places of Baal +worship, gives his name and inspiration to two books of mythical +history written piecemeal until the "return from captivity," as +above indicated, and early in his work he records the historic +episode of the calling up of his own ghost from the dead by the +famous Witch of En-dor. (I Sam. xviii, 1, 7-19.)

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The ex-bandit David, "man after God's own heart" -- after +murdering a man to get his adulterous wife, and engendering of her +his all-wise son and hero, Solomon, wrote the 150 songs of the +Hebrew Hymn Book, many of his psalms singing of the long posthumous +Babylonian Captivity.

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Solomon himself, who was son-in-law to nearly everybody in the +heathen nations round about who had eligible daughters, wrote the +wisdom of the ages into his Book of Proverbs, though not one of +them is by Solomon, and in his lighter (headed or hearted) spells +penned his erotic Canticles, which for realistic lubricity quite +outdo Boccaccio, and would be really unmailable under the Postal +laws if they weren't in the Holy Bible and clerically captioned +"The Church's Love unto Christ." These are indeed but one +collection out of the great many pornographic stories of The Holy +Ghost's Decameron, enshrined in God's Holy Word for delectation of +the Puritans of Faith.

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Other divinely inspired and anonymous writers, falsely +entitling their effusions under the names of this or that Prophet +or other wholly fictitious personage, as Job, Esther, Ruth, Daniel, +gave forth yet other inspired histories, books of oracles or +prophecies, apocalypses or high powered visions into Futurity, and +a miscellany of sacred novels, love-stories and nondescript musings +or ravings known collectively as the hagiographa or holy writings +of the Jews. All these together, now thirty-nine in number, +comprise the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. It being out of +question to review each of these here, it may be stated with +assurance that not one of them bears the name of its true author; +that every one of them is a composite work of many hands +"interpolating" the most anachronistic and contradictory matters +into the original writings, and often reciting as accomplished +facts things which occurred many centuries after the time of the +supposed writer, as Psalms, isaiah, Daniel, and the so-called +"historical" books. For scientific detailed demonstration of this +the Encyclopedia Biblica digests the most competent authorities; my +own Is It God's Word? makes the proofs from the sacred texts +themselves. See the recent "Religions Book of the Month Club's" +notable Unraveling the Book of Books, by Trattner. (1929.)

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But as the Christian religion depends more vitally on Genesis +and Moses than on all the other sacred writings and writers, we may +appeal to the admissions of CE., thereto driven by force of modern +criticism, for the destruction and abandonment of the Moses Myths.

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"It is true that the Pentateuch, so long attributed to Moses, +is now held by the vast majority of non-Catholic, and by an +increasing number of Catholic, scholars to be a compilation of four +independent sources put together in final shape soon after the +Captivity." (CE. i, 622.)

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This scores strongly for Hebrew-Christian forgery and fraud in +attributing this primitive system of Bible "science" and barbarous +law to a god as a pretext for priestly domination of the +superstitious people. That God-given forged law thus prescribes for +priestcraft: "The man that will do presumptuously, and will not +hearken unto the priest, ... even that man shall die." (Deut. xvii,

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12.) The whole Five Books of Moses are thus a confessed forgery in +the names of Moses and of God; every one of the Thus saith the Lord +a thousand times repeated, with speeches and laws put into the +mouth of the God, are false and forged. Speaking of the +"difficulty, in the present condition of Old Testament criticism, +of recognizing more than a small portion of the Peritateuch as +documentary evidence contemporary with Moses," -- who, if he ever +lived, which may be confidently denied, -- never wrote a line of +it, CE. further confesses to the natural evolution -- not the +"divine revelation" -- of the Hebrew mythology into a (no less +mythological) monotheistic religion: "The Hegelian principle of +evolution ... applied to religion, has powerfully helped to beget +a tendency to regard the religion of Israel as evolved by processes +not transcending nature, from a polytheistic worship of the +elements to a spiritual and ethical monotheism." (CE. i, 493.) But +this finally and very late evolved monotheism is neither a tardy +divine revelation to the Jews, nor a novel invention by them; it +was a thousand years antedated by Amenhotep IV and Tut-ankh-amen in +Egypt, -- nor were even they the pioneers. We have seen the +admission that the Zoroastrian Mithra religion was "a divinely +revealed Monotheism" (CE., ii, 156). But the Hebrews were confessed +and notorious idolaters and polytheists until after the Captivity; +that fact is a thousand times alleged throughout the Scriptures as +the sole reason for their troubles and captivity. As above +suggested, and as thoroughly demonstrated by the texts in my other +book, the Hebrew God Yahveh was but one of the many gods worshipped +by the Hebrews; and Yahveh never claimed more than to be a "God +above all gods," to be preferred before them all; -- as at Sinai he +enacted: "Thou shalt have no other gods before [in preference to] +me," -- thus admitting the other gods.

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FORGERY BY CONTRADICTIONS

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Contradictions throughout the Bible, Old and New Testaments +alike, abound by the many thousands, and in virtually every book of +both Testaments, -- as every one knows who has read the Bible even +casually. See some thousand and more of the most notorious and +vital ones as cited in "deadly parallel" in my Is It God's Word? as +one of the most conclusive proofs of uninspired human origin and of +confusion worse confounded of tinkering, "interpolation" and +forgery outright, by the pious priests of Israel and Judah, and the +Ezra "school" of forgers of the "Law and the Prophets."

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OUR "PHONY" CHRISTIAN ERA

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"It was a monk of the 6th century, named Dionysiug Exiguus +(Dennis the Little), who fixed our present Christian era, laying +down that Jesus Christ was born on the 25th of December, A.U.C. +753, and commencing the new era from the following year, 754. That +date, as we shall see, cannot be correct and, instead of being an +improvement on, is farther from the truth than the dates assigned +by the early Fathers, St. Irenaeus and Tertullian, who fixed the +date of the Nativity in the 41st year of Augustus, that is to say, +3 years B.C., or A.U.C, 751 ... All this points to the fact that +Herod died in the year 4 B.C., and that our Savior must have been +born before that date ... Our Savior was born some time before +Herod's death, probably two years or more. So that, if Herod died

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in the year 4 B.C., we should be taken to 6 or 7 B.C. as the year +of the Nativity" (CE. 735-6).

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This, of course, discredits the date given by the inspiration +of [71] Luke, and demonstrates that both he and Matthew merely +alleged fictitious dates for what in all human probability was a +purely fictitious event. The new Era of Christ was, however, very +slow in gaining recognition; the first official secular document +dating by it was a charter of Charlemagne, after 800 A.D., and it +did not come into general use until about 1000 A.D. I may mention +a fiery sermon I once heard, in which the expounder of truth +vindicated the glory of God by declaiming that every Jew and +Infidel confessed to Jesus Christ every time he dated a letter or +mentioned the year of an event. Being simply a hearer of the Word, +I could not rise to suggest, that by the same token we confess more +to the Pagan gods than to the Christian, -- for more than half the +months and every day of the week are named for Pagan deities, and +we name them much more often than we do the years of grace and +salvation of Christ. After this bad start from Gospel error and +contradiction, we now turn to further evidences of "Gospel truth" +in contradictions and forgery.

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Among the most signal of these incessant contradictions and +scientific impossibilities of Divine Inspiration, are those +relating to the capital matter, -- for the credit of the Christian +Religion, of the time and manner of Creation of earth and Man, +based on Holy Writ and on the "chronology" worked out, with several +hundred disparate results, from the inspired pedigrees of the ante-Diluvian Patriarchs. So fatally important is this to Christianity, +that the 'True Church -- "which never deceived anyone" and "has +never erred," -- speaking through CE., thus admits that +Christianity stands or falls with -- "the literal, historical sense +of the first three chapters of Genesis in as far as they bear on +the facts touching the foundations of the Christian religion, e.g., +the creation of all things by God at the beginning of time, the +especial creation of man, the formation of the first woman from the +first man, the unity of the human race"! (Papal Biblical +Commission, June 30, 1909; CE. vii, 313). Thus: No Adam and Eve, no +Garden of Eden and Talking Snake, no "Fall" and Curse -- therefore: +No Savior Jesus Christ, no Plan of Salvation, no truth in the +Christian Religion! The fatal point is elucidated with inexorable +logic and dogmatic truth by the "Reformed" ex-Father Peter Martyr: +"So important is it to comprehend the work of creation that we see +the creed of the Church take this as its starting point. Were this +Article taken away, there would be no original sin; the promise of +Christ would become void, and all the vital force of our religion +would be destroyed"! Father Luther inherited the same faith and +bequeathed it to his dissident following: "Moses spoke properly and +plainly, and neither allegorically nor figuratively; and therefore +the world with all creatures was created in six days." Calvin, in +his "Commentary on Genesis," argues that the Genesis account of +Creation is literally true, and warns those who dare to believe +otherwise, and thus "basely insult the Creator, to expect a Judge +who will annihilate them." Again he says: "We know on the authority +of Moses, that longer ago than 6000 years the world did not exist." +So too, the Westminster Confession of Faith, in full Protestant +force and effect today -- specially lays it down as "necessary to

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salvation to believe that all things visible and invisible were +created not only out of nothing but exactly in six days." And the +Churches have murdered countless thousands to impress this +beautiful impossible truth.

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Notwithstanding the crushing disproofs of those primitive +forged "Fables of Moses," by every fact of astronomy, geology, +anthropology, biology, and kindred sciences, known to schoolboys +today, Faith clings fatuously to its fetches: Arkansas ("Now +laugh!"), Mississippi, Tennessee, three States of the Twentieth +Century United States, have made it crime by Law to teach the +sciences which discredit the Genesis Myths, upon which Christian +Superstition utterly depends;, and like medieval laws are sought to +be imposed in all our States. The True Church, like all the others, +still founds its "Faith and Morals" upon these old Hebrew forgeries +of Genesis and peddles them to its Faithful; but it knows better. +Thus the whole True Faith is shipwrecked by these heretical +confessions of CE., forced from it by the truths of heretical +Modernism, in full face of the fierce inspired fulminations of the +Syllabus of Errors: "In an article on Bible chronology it is hardly +necessary in these days to discuss the date of the Creation. At +least two hundred dates have been suggested, varying from 3483 to +6934 year B.C. all based on the supposition that the Bible enables +us to settle the point. But it does nothing of the kind. ... The +literal interpretation has now been entirely abandoned; and the +world is admitted to be of immense antiquity"! (CE. iii, 731.) +Again the "sacred science" of Genesis and of Christianity is +further admitted to be false, and the fabulous "Septuagint" Bible +on which Christianity was founded before the era of the second +century forgeries of Gospels and Epistles, to be a holy fraud, in +these further excerpts accrediting the true revelations of modern +Science as against those of Moses:

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"The church ... does not attach decisive influence to the +chronology of the Vulgate, the official version of the Western +Church, since in the Martyrology for Christmas day, the creation of +Adam is put down in the year 5199 B.C., which is the reading of the +Septuagint. It is, however, certain that we cannot confine the +years of man's sojourn on earth to that usually set down. ... +Various explanations have been given of chapter v (Genesis) to +explain the short time it seems to allow between the Creation and +the Flood. ... The total number of years in the Hebrew, Samaritan, +and Septuagint differs, in the Hebrew it being 1656, in the +Samaritan 1307, and in the Septuagint 2242. ... According to +Science the length of this period was much greater than appears +from the genealogical table. ... In any case, whether we follow the +traditional or critical view, the numbers obtained from the +genealogy of the Patriarchs in chapter xi must be greatly +augmented, in order to allow time for such a development of +civilization, language, and race type as had been reached by the +time of Abraham." (CE. iii, 731-3.)

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FORGERY BY FALSE TRANSLATIONS

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We have noted the capital forgery wrought by the Church in +consciously and unconscionably adopting and perpetuating the false +translation in the Septuagint, of the "virgin shall conceive"

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pretended prophecy of Isaiah vii, 14. Indisputably the whole forged +fabric of supernatural Christianity is based on, and depends upon, +this one monumental forgery falsely used to give credit to the +Christian forgery of "the Gospel according to Matthew" as to the +Divine and miraculous "Virgin birth of Jesus Christ." Out of scores +of other notoriously falsified translations of the sacred Old +Testament texts, attention is here called only to several of the +most signal ones which vitally affect and destroy the validity of +the most essential pretensions of truth of the Christian religion. +These frauds of translation and others, have been thoroughly +examined and supported by numerous texts from the original Hebrew, +and falsified verses of the English versions, in my 'Is It God's +Word?,' to which references must be made for a more complete +treatment than is here pertinent. Those now cited in summary are +all of them deliberate falsifications and forgeries in translation +which go to the vitals of the Hebrao-Christian system of holy +imposture.

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If the Hebrew originals had been truthfully translated, we +should have no such false pretenses for faith as the Hebrew One God +anciently revealed to Adam, and to Moses, no Adam, no man "but +little lower than the angels" because of his immortal soul, no +unique "revelation' of the "Ineffable Name" Jehovah to Moses; all +that we would have, -- all that the Hebrew texts reveal -- is a +primitive polytheistic idolatry of the crudest and most +superstitious order. Let us see.

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(a) The "God" Forgery

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The first sentence of the translated Bibles is a falsification +and forgery of the highest importance. We read with awed solemnity +of faith: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" +(Gen. i, 1). The Hebrew word for God is el; the plural is elohim, +gods. The Hebrew text of Genesis i, 1, reads: "Bereshith bara +elohim," etc., -- "In-beginning created gods the-heavens and-the-earth." And, in the same chapter we read in Hebrew honestly +translated, -- thirty times the word "elohim" gods, to whom are +attributed all the works of creation in the six peculiar "days" of +Genesis. This is plainly evident from the Hebrew texts of Genesis +i, which even false intention could not hide in the translation, +"And-said elohim (gods), let-US-make man (adam) in-image-OUR, +after-likeness-OUR" (i, 26). And when "adam" had eaten of the +forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge, "the Lord God" said, +"Behold, the-man has become like one of US, to know good and evil" +(iii, 27). And when the Tower of Babel was abuilding, "The Lord +[Heb. Yahveh] said ... Come, let US go down," etc. And thus, some +2570 times the plural, elohim, gods, is used in the Hebrew texts, +but is always falsely translated "God" in the false singular, when +speaking of the Hebrew deity, Yahveh.

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In the three Genesis verses above quoted, we have three +different designations of the Hebrew deity or deities: elohim, +gods, falsely translated "God"; "Lord God" (Heb. Yahveh-elohim); +and "Lord" (Heb. Yahveh). Yahveh is the proper name of the Hebrew +God, in English rendered Jehovah: Yahveh-elohim is a Hebrew +"construct-form" honestly meaning "Yahveh-of-the-gods." Invariably +(with rare exceptions to be noted), these personal names are

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falsely rendered "Lord" and "Lord God," respectively, for purposes +of pious fraud which we shall now expose to the shame of a theology +of imposture. We will return to this after noting a pair of others.

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(b) The "Adam" Forgery

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There was no first man "Adam," according to the Hebrew texts +of the story. The word adam in Hebrew is a common noun, meaning man +in a generic sense; in Genesis i, 26, we have read: "And elohim +(gods) said, Let us make adam (man)"; and so "elohim created haadam (the-man); ... male and female created he them" (i. 27). And +in the second story, where man is first made alone: "Yahveh formed +ha-adan (the-man) out of the dust of ha-adamah-the ground" (ii, 7). +Man is called in Hebrew adam because formed out of adamah, the +ground; just as in Latin man is called homo because formed from +humus, the ground, -- homo ex humo, in the epigram of Father +Lactantius. (Lact., Divine Institutes, ii, 58; ANF. vii, 58.) The +forging by the common noun adam into a mythical proper name Adam, +was a post-exilic fraud in the forging of fictitious genealogies +from "in the beginning" to Father Abraham.

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(c) The "Soul" Forgery

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In Genesis i is the account of the creation of elohim -- gods +-- on the fifth day, of "nephesh hayyah -- the moving creature that +hath life," and of "nephesh hayyah -- every living creature" -- out +of the waters (i, 20, 21); and on the sixth day of "nephesh hayyah +-- the living creature" out of the ground (i, 24); and he gave to +ha-adam -- the-man dominion over "kol nephesh hagyah, -- everything +wherein there is life," (i, 30.) So reads the Hebrew text -- all +these dumb animal living creatures are by God called "nephesh +hayyah," "literally "living soul," as will be found stuck into the +margins of the Authorized Version. In chapter ii we have the +history of ha-adam made from ha-adamah; and, in wonderful contrast +to these lowly "living creatures" (nephesh hayyah), Yahveh-clohim +"breathed into his nostrils nishmath hayyim -- (living breaths), +and ha-adam became nephesh hayyah -- a living soul"! (ii, 7.) In +Hebrew nephesh everywhere and simply means soul, and hayyah +(living) is the feminine singular adjective from hai, life. Man, +therefore, was created exactly the same as the other animals; all +had or were nephesh hayyah -- living souls, indistinctly. The +"false pen of the scribes," who in translation made the dumb +animals merely living creatures, and "Creation's micro-cosmical +masterpiece, Man," a "living soul," falsely altered these plain +words so as to deceive into a belief of a special God-breathed soul +in man, far different from the brute animal that perisheth.

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(d) The "Mosaic Revelation" Forgery

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When Yahveh appeared to Moses in the Burning Bush, and +announced himself as "the God of thy fathers," he was a total +stranger to Moses; Moses did not at all know him, had never heard +of him; so that he asked, "What is thy name?" -- so that he could +report it to the people back home in Egypt, who had never heard it. +After some intermission, the God came directly to the point, and +declared -- l quote the exact words -- one of the most notorious +falsities in Holy Writ:

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"And elohim spake unto Moses, and said unto him., anoki Yahveh +-- I am the Lord!

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"And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by +the name of el-shaddai, but by my name Yahvch (JEHOVAH) was I not +known to them." (Ex. vi, 2, 8.)

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Here we have the positive averment of the Hebrew God himself +to the effect that here, for the first time since the world began, +is "revealed" to mankind the "ineffable name" of Yahveh, here first +appearing in the Bible translations, and there printed as JEHOVAH +in capital letters; for more vivid and awe-inspiring impression. +But this is a capital Lie of the Lord, or of his biographer who +imputed it to him. In verse 4 of Genesis ii, the name YAHVEH first +appears; "in the day that Yahveh-elohim made the earth and the +heavens." Its first recorded use in the mouth of a mystical +personage, was when Mother Eve "conceived, and bare Cain, and said, +I have gotten a man from Yahveh -- the Lord." (Gen. iv, 1.) One +hundred and fifty-six times the personal name YAHVEH occurs in the +Book of Genesis alone; and scores of times in the mouths of +Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, as any one may read in Genesis, +with the assurance that every single time that the title "the Lord" +and "the Lord God" appears, it is a false translation by the +priests for the Hebrew personal name YAHVEH. Throughout the Hebrew +"Scriptures" the Divine Name thousands of times occurs: "The sacred +name occurs in Genesis about 156 times; ... in round numbers it is +found in the Old Testament 6000 times, either alone or in +conjunction with another Divine name." (CE. viii, 829, 331.) More +exactly, "What is called the Tetragrammaton, YHVH, appears in the +Old Testament 6823 times as the proper name of God as the God of +Israel. As such it serves to distinguish him from the gods of the +other nations." (EB. iii, 3320.) Thus was the Hebrew tribal god +YAHVEH distinguished from Bel, and Chemosh, and Dagon, and Shamash, +and the scores of "gods of the nations"; just as Bill distinguishes +its bearer from Tom, Dick, and Harry. This was precisely the Hebrew +usage -- to distinguish one heathen god from another. And this the +false translators sought to hide, giving names to all the "other +gods," but suppressing a name for the Hebrew deity, who as "the +Lord," or "the Lord God," was high and unique, "a god above all +gods," -- the one and only true God.

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But yet more malicious and evil-intentioned of deception: 6828 +times is the name of the Hebrew God concealed by false rendition +for the deliberate purpose of forging the whole Hebrew Bible, as +translated, into semblance of harmony with the false avowal of +Exodus vi, 3, that "by my name YAHVEH was I not know unto them." +Search as one may, outside Exodus vi, 3, the god-name YAHVEH +(Jehovah) is never to be found in the translations in a single +instance, except in Psalm lxxxiii, 18, and Isaiah xii, 2 and xxvi, +4. The false translations thus "make truth to be a liar," the lie +of Exodus vi, 3 to seem the truth; and a barbarous heathen tribal +god among a hundred neighbor and competitive gods to be the +nameless One Lord God of the Universe. The Hebrew-Christian One God +is a patent Forgery and Myth; a mycological Father-god can have no +"only begotten Son"; Jesus Christ is a myths even before he is +mythically born in the fancies of the Church Fathers, as we shall +soon have ample evidence to prove.

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With respect to the mythical Hebrew-Christian God or gods, we +may safely say, as says Father Justin Martyr apropos of the other +mythic Pagan gods: "And we confess that we are atheists, so far as +gods of this sort are concerned." (First Apology, ch. vi; ANF. i, +169.)

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THE ANCIENT IDEA OF "HISTORY"

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We may pause a moment to catch a vitutable view which will be +of great aid to understanding the mental processes of the ancient +writers in their portrayal of events, real or fanciful, which they +set about to record as "history." These pioneers of historical +literature lived in an age of simple-minded credulity, and +everything which they saw recorded or heard related, however +extravagant and seemingly incredible or impossible, passed all as +perfectly good history in their receptive and uncritical minds. +Speaking of the legendary, the traditional, the supernatural +stories, myths, folk-lore and fables, -- "in short, everything +which seemed to testify to the past," -- which formed the raw +material of the early historians, the Encyclopedia Biblica gives a +graphic picture of primitive history-writing, not only Hebraic but +Gentilic:

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"Their sources, like those of the Greek logographers with whom +it is natural to compare them, were poems, genealogies, often +representing clan-groupings, tribal and local traditions of diverse +kinds, such as furnish the materials for most of the Book of +Judges; the historical traditions of sanctuaries; the sacred +legends of holy places, relating theophanies and other revelations, +the erection of the altar or sacred stone, the. origin of popular +usages -- e.g. Bethel; laws; myths of foreign or native origin; +folk-lore and fable, -- in short, everything which seemed to +testify of the past.

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"To us the greater part of this material is not in any proper +sense historical at all; but for the early Israelite as for the +early Greek historian it was otherwise; our distinctions between +authentic history, legendary history, pure legend, and myth, he +made as little as he recognized our distinction of natural and +supernatural. It was all history to him; and if one part of it had +a better attestation than another, it was certainly the sacred +history as it was told at the ancient sanctuaries of the land.

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The early Hebrew historians did not affix their names to their +works; they had, indeed, no idea of authorship. The traditions and +legends which they collected were common property, and did not +cease to be so when they were committed to writing; the written +book was in every sense the property of the scribe or the possessor +of the roll. Only a part of the great volume of tradition was +included in the first books. Transcribers freely added new matter +from the same sources on which the original authors had drawn, the +traditions of their own locality or sanctuary, variants of +historical traditions or legend. Every new copy was thus in some +measure a fresh rescension. ... Scribes compared different copies, +and combined their contents according to their own judgment or +interests. ... Of records or monuments there are but a few traces, +and these for the most part doubtful." (EB. ii, 2075-76.)

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To say nothing now of the Old or New Testament "canonical" and +"apocryphal" literature, countless examples of this imaginative +method of history-writing abound in all the ancient writers, as all +who are familiar with such classics as Herodotus, Thucydides, +Xenophon, Josephus, Livy, will readily recall. One of the most +inveterate forms of imaginative creation on the part of the old +historiographers was the invention of sayings and whole speeches +which, just as do the fiction-writers of today, they put entire +into the mouths of the personages of whom they were writing, which +discourses they not only invented whole, but always wrought them in +the style and manner of the writer and his epoch, and not in those +of their ancient subjects. All are familiar with such instances in +Homer, Dante, Shakespeare and Milton, and which we all known are +pure inventions of those writers. Naming several of the ancient +historians above mentioned, and others, a distinguished philosopher +of history thus describes the art:

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"Such speeches as we find in Thucydides (for example), of +which we can positively assert that they are not bona-fide +records. ... Thus Livy puts into the mouths of the old Roman +Kings, Consuls, and generals, such orations as would be +delivered by an accomplished advocate of the Livian era... In +the same way he gives us descriptions of battles, as if he had +been an actual spectator; but whose features would serve well +enough for battles in any period." (Hegel, The Philosophy of +History, i). 2.)

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Speaking of much later times, and of a different class, but +like type, of writers, Hegel again says: "In the Middle Ages, we +except the Bishops, who were placed in the very center of the +political world, the Monks monopolized this category as maine +chroniclers." (Ib. p. 3.)

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As typical illustration of the principles and practices above +described of the best of the ancient writers, but more especially +as an example of the kind of "history" written by the most learned +and illustrious historian of Jewry, fellow-countryman and +contemporary of the supposed Apostolic writers of the New Testament +books, it is of the highest significance to cite some of the solemn +historical recordation of Josephus, from two of his most famous +works; they will make more appreciated at their real value some of +the inspired historical recitals of contemporaneous sacred +history.'

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In his Antiquities of the Jews Josephus follows closely the +subject matter and order of narration of the early Old Testament, +books, beginning with the Creation, giving the full substance of +those histories, and adding quaint comments all his own and +expansions and embellishments unknown to or unrecorded by Moses. In +Eden, not only the Talking Snake could speak, but all the now dumb +animals: "All living creatures had one language, at that time" (I, +i, 4). After our parents had eaten of the Fruit of Knowledge and, +discovering themselves naked, hid themselves from the Creator, +"This behavior surprised God," who delivers a lengthy speech of +reprieval not recorded by Moses (Ib.); and such orations are +plentiful and detailed between God and all the other notables who +came into personal contact with him; a gem is his oration to Noah.

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He relates the wars waged by the wicked posterity of Cain, to the +great distress of Adam, who predicted the two-fold destruction of +the earth, once by water and again by fire. As the Sethites were +good people and intelligent, and had made great discoveries in +astronomy, which they wished preserved for such posterity as might +survive the yet future Flood, "they made two pillars, the one of +brick, the other of stone; they inscribed their discoveries on them +both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the +Flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit these +discoveries to mankind; and also inform them that there was another +pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of +Siriad to this day." (lb., I, ii, 2.) He relates with naive and +realistic garnishment the tale of Sodom, and Lot and his daughters, +and of Lot's wife turned to a pillar of salt, which is Gospel +truth, "for I have seen it, and it remains at this day"! (Ib. 1, +xi, 4.) These historical drolleries might be quoted ad infinitum +from Jewry's greatest historian.

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The name of Solomon was most potent conjure in the Orient +through all the succeeding centuries; the spells and charms, +amulets and fetishes inscribed with his mystic symbol and +pronounced in his name, were the terror of all the devils who so +populated the Jewish mind, and the Christian. A noted instance of +the potency of this Name, exhibited before the Roman Emperor +Vespasian and his court and army, and witnessed by Josephus +himself, so circumstantial, so faith-compelling, so artless and +childishly fabling, that I am constrained to quote it for the +lightit sheds on the "historical" methods of the "age of apocryphal +literature":

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"God also enabled him [Solomon] to learn that skill which +expels demons, which is a science useful and sensitive to men. +He composed such incantations also by which distempers are +alleviated. And he left behind him the manner of using +exorcisms, by which they drive away demons, so that they never +return, and this method of cure is of great force unto this +day; for I have seen a certain man of my own country, whose +name was Eleazar, relieving people that were demoniacs in the +presence of Vespasian, and his sons, and his captains, and the +whole multitude of his soldiers. The manner of the cure was +this: he put a ring, that had a root of one of the sorts +mentioned by Solomon, to the nostrils of the demoniac, after +which he drew out the demon through his nostrils; and when the +man fell down immediately, he abjured him to return into him +no more, making still mention of Solomon, and reciting the +incantation which he composed. And when Eleazar would persuade +and demonstrate to the spectators that he had such a power, he +set a little way off a cup or basin full of water, and +commanded the demon, as he went out of the man, to overturn +it, and thereby to let the spectators know that he had left +the man; and when this was done, the skill and wisdom of +Solomon was shown very manifestly; for which reason it is, +that all men may know the vastness of Solomon's abilities, and +how he was beloved of God, and that the extraordinary virtues +of every kind with which this king was endowed, may not be +unknown to any people under the sun; for this reason, I say, +it is that we have proceeded to speak so largely of these +matters." (Josephus, Antiq. Jews, Bk. VIII, Ch. ii, 5; +Whiston's trans.) +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +82 +. +FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY + +This is followed by the full text of the autograph letters +between Solomon and Hiram regarding the building of the Temple.

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Whether the same kind of root of Solomon's magical powers just +above used by Eleazar, or one of another species of like power, it +was very difficult to obtain and the quest was attended with many +dangers, which of course enhanced the value and potency of its +magic; but here is Josephus's solemn description of the plant and +account of the eerie and risky manner of securing this treasure, +known locally as Baaras root:

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"Its color is like that of flame, and toward evening it +sends out a certain ray like lightning: it is not easily taken +by such as would do it, but recedes from their hands, nor will +yield itself to be taken quietly, until either the urine of a +woman, or blood, be poured upon it; nay, even then it is +certain death to those that touch it, unless anyone take and +hang the root itself down from his hand, and so carry it away. +It may also be taken another way, without danger, which is +this: they dig a trench quite round about it, till the hidden +part of the root be very small, then they tie a dog to it, +and, when the dog tries hard to follow him that tied him, this +root is easily plucked up, but the dog dies immediately, as if +it were instead of the man that would take the plant away nor +after this need anyone be afraid of taking it into their +hands. Yet, after all this pains in getting, it is only +valuable on account of one virtue it hath, that if it be only +brought to sick persons, it quickly drives away those called +demons, which are no other than the spirits of the wicked, +that enter into any men that are alive and kill them, unless +they can obtain some help against them." (Josephus, Wars of +the Jews, Book VII. Chap. iv, 3.)

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Instead of artful mendacity, some readers, in view of this, +may charitably impute artless simplicity of wit to some of the +devil-exorcising fable-mongers of the New Testament, the pious +Fathers who forged its Books.

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If such examples are abounding in the most brilliant of Jewish +historians, distinguished for nobility of lineage, for +statesmanship and for literary ability, what may be expected from +the admittedly "ignorant and unlearned men" such as traditionally +wrote those Gospels and Epistles of the Christians? We may now +appreciate the full significance of the admission of the Catholic +Encyclopedia, speaking of the Church Fathers and writers through +all the Ages of Faith "before the eighteenth century," of whom it +says:

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The early ecclesiastical writers were unconscious of +nearly all the problems to which criticism has given rise. ... +Looking at the Divine side, they deemed as of trifling account +questions of authorship, date, composition, accepting +unreservedly for these points such traditions as the Jewish +Church had handed down. ... The Fathers saw in every sentence +of the scripture a pregnant oracle of God. Apparent +contradictions and other difficulties were solved without +taking possible human imperfections into view. Except in

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regard to the preservation of the sacred text there was +nothing to elicit a critical view of the Bible in the age of +the Fathers, and this applies also to the Scholastic period." +(CE. iv, 492.)

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CHRISTIAN "REVELATIONS" IN JEWISH FORGERIES

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Christians no doubt believe in simple faith that the wonderful +inspired truths of their New Testament were original pronouncements +of Jesus Christ or directly revealed by him to his holy apostles, +who in turn revealed them to the populace for the first time as the +"good news" of the new religion for the salvation of sinful man. +Even a brief glance at a few of the most, notable of the Jewish +forgeries of the "age of apocryphal literature" will dispel that +pious belief, and show the most characteristic and essential +doctrines and dogmas of Christianity to be but refurbished vagaries +of the fanciful and fabulous tpectulations of already existing +Jewish apocryphal writings of the times just preceding and within +the new Christian era. These writings were put forth falsely as the +utterances of long since dead or wholly legendary Old Testament +notables, and were neither inspired nor revealed heavenly truth, +but simply vain and forged speculations of their fantastic writers. +We shall see the cardinal tenets of "revealed" Christianity in a +glance at a few of these Jewish pseudographs, and let the Christian +apologist explain.

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This literature is of the highest value today because of the +light it throws on the growth of esehatological and Messianic +doctrines among the Jewish people just previous to the rise of +Christianity, especially since these doctrines have, in a purified +form, found a permanete place in the Christian system." (New Int. +Enyc. i, 745.)

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The Book of Enoch, forged in the name of the grandson of Adam, +is the fragmentary remains of a whole literature which circulated +under the pretended authorship of that mythical Patriarch. In its +present form, the work, of 104 chapters, is composed of five Books, +with the following titles, of which those of Books 3 and 4 are of +particular significance, namely: 1. The Rape of Women by Fallen +Angels, and the Giants that were Begotten of Them; 2. The Visions +of Enoch begun; 3. The Visions continued, with Views of the +essiah's Kingdom; 4. Man's Destiny revealed in Dreams from the +beginning to the End of the Messianic Kingdom; 5. The Warnings of +Enoch to his own Family and to Mankind. This work is a composite of +at least five unknown Jewish writers, and was composed during the +last two centuries B.C. The forged Book of Enoch is quoted as +genuine and inspired in the Christian Epistle of Jude (14, ef +seq.), and as "Scripture" in the near canonical Epistle of +Barnabas; with the early Church Fathers and Apologists, among whom +Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Athenagoras, Tertullian, Clement of +Alexandria, Anatolius, Origen, St, Augustine, etc., "it, had all +the wright of a canonical book," but was finally condemned as a +forgery by the forged Apostolic Constitutions, -- an instance of +the very dubious divine guidance of the inspired Church against all +error. Father Tertullian devotes an entire chapter "Concerning the +Genuineness of the Prophecy of Enoch." in which he gives fantastic +patristic reasons as to how the Book survived Noah's Flood, either

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by the providence of Noah himself or by the Providence of God as in +the mythical case of Esdras. In answer to the scoffing objections +that the Jews rejected the Book, "I suppose," he seriously argues, +"that they do not think that, having been published before the +Deluge, it could have safely survived that world-wide calamity, the +abolisher of all things." But, he urges, "let them recall to their +memory that Noah, the survivor of the deluge, was the great-grandson of Enoch himself," and that Noah probably preserved it at the +behest of Methuselah. But, again, "If Noah had not preserved it in +this way, there would still be this consideration to warrant our +assertion of the genuineness of this Scripture: he could equally +renewed it, under the Spirit's inspiration, after it, had been +destroyed by the violence of the Deluge, as, after the destruction +of Jerusalem by the Babylonian storming of it, every document of +the Jewish literature is generally agreed to have been restored +through Ezra." But the good Father had other and equally cogent +clerical reasons for accepting the Book as inspired Scripture: "But +since Enoch in the same Scripture has preached likewise concerning +the Lord, nothing at all must be rejected by us which pertains to +us; and we read that 'every Scripture suitable for edification is +divinely inspired.' ... To these considerations is added the fact +that Enoch possesses a testimony in the Apostle Jude." (On the +Apparel of Women, II, ii; ANF. iv, 15-16.) By this excerpt from the +pious Father may be judged the value of the "testimony" of Apostles +and Church Fathers as to the inspiration, truth and authenticity of +holy "Scriptures," -- which is nil.

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Of the immense significance of these forged Jewish "sacred +writings" in general upon Christian "revelation," and of the +fabulous Book of Enoch in particular, with its elaborated myth of +the Messiah, CE. thus confesses: "Jewish Apocalyptic is an attempt +to supply the place of prophecy, which had been dead for centuries, +and has its roots in the sacred oracles of Israel. ... Naturally +basing itself upon the Pentateuch and the Prophets, it clothed +itself fictitiously with the authority of a patriarch or prophet +who was made to reveal the transcendent future. ... Messianism of +Course plays an important part in apocalyptic eschatology, and the +idea of the Messiahs in certain books received a very high +development. ... The parables of Henoch, with their pre-existent +Messiahs, mark the highest point of development -- (hence not +Divine Revelation) -- of the Messianic concept to be found in the +whole range of Hebrew literature." (CE. i, 601, 602.) From these +uninspired ravings of Jewish forgers came thus the "divine +revelation" of the co-eternal "Son of God" worked up instead of the +old "revealed" human King "of the seed of David."

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The forged Book of Enoch, thus vouched for, is notable for +being "the earliest appearance of the Messiah in non-canonical +literature." It is of the greatest importance for its doctrine of +the Jewish Messiah, who here appears as wholly an earthly human +deliverer and King over Israel forever, and for the origin of the +exalted titles applied to the Messiah in the New Testament Books, +as well as of a number of supposedly distinctive Christian +doctrines, first "revealed" by Jesus the Christ. In this Book we +first find the lofty titles: "Christ" or "the Anointed One," "Son +of Man," "the Righteous One," "the Elect One," -- all of which were +boldly plagiarized by the later Christians and bestowed on Jesus of

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Nazareth The Messiah, just as in the New Testament of later times, +exists from the beginning (48, 2); he sits on the throne of God +(453); and all judgment is committed unto him (69, 27). The +acceptance of Enoch as a Messianic prophet by the Christians led to +his rejection by the Jews. Here is the earliest invention of the +Christian Hell of fire and brimstone for eternal torture: "The +wicked shall go down into the Sheol of darkness and fire and dwell +there forever"; this being "one of the earliest mentions of Sheol +as a hell of torment" (CE. i, 602-3; EB. i, 223-5). It is the +oldest piece of Jewish literature which teaches the general +resurrection of Israel, a doctrine expanded to include Gentiles in +later "interpolations" into New Testament books. It abounds in such +"Christian" doctrines as the Messianic Kingdom, Hell, the +Resurrection, and Demonology, the Seven Heavens, and the +Millennium, all of which have here their apocryphal Jewish +promulgation, after being plagiarized bodily from the Persian and +Babylonian myths superstitions, as we have seen confessed. There +are numerous quotations, phrases, clauses, or thoughts derived from +Enoch, or of closest kin with it, in several of the New Testament +Gospels and Epistles, which may be readily found and compared as +catalogued in the authorities below cited; -- Pagan-Jewish myths +and doctrines which shared in molding the analogous New Testament +"revelations" or formed the necessary link in the development of +doctrines from the Old to the New Testament. The CE. says of the +Book of Enoch:

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"It had left its imprint on the New Testament and the +works of the early Fathers. ... Clement of Alexandria, +Tertullian, Origen, and even St. Augustine suppose the work to +be a genuine one of the patriarch. ... The work is a +compilation, and its component parts were written in Palestine +by Jews of the orthodox school ... in the latter part of the. +second century before Christ. (See CE. i, 602. passim; EB. v, +220-224.)

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In Fourth Esdras, as in the Apocalypse of Baruch, we find for +the first time, the fatal phrase and doctrine, "all mankind sinned +with Adam" (CE. i, 604), whence Paul forged his fearful and +accursed dogma of original sin and eternal damnation. Fourth +Marcabees, erroneously ascribed by Eusebius and others to Josephus, +dates from about 4 B.C., just after the death of Harod. It is +strongly indoctrinated with the Stoic philosophy, from which the +author "derived his four cardinal virtues, Prudence, Justice, +Fortitude, Temperance; and it was through Fourth Maccabees that +this category was appropriated by early Christian ascetical +writers" (CE. i, 605-6), and later "canonized" by the Church. (CE. +xi, 391.)

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The Assumption of Moses was forged in the name of that worthy +as its genuine author, about the beginning of, or early in the +Christian era, with the ostensible purpose of confirming the Mosaic +Laws in Deuteronomy. It gives the parting communications of Moses +to his successor, Joshua, and unfolds, in a series of oretended +predictions, delivered in written from, the course of Israel's +history down to Herold's time. Here is found the legend of the +dispute between Michael Archangel and Satan over the body of Moses, +which the Christian Epistle of Jude (v. 9) cites as God-inspired

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truth. (CE. i, 602-3.) The book of Jubilees, or little Geneses, is +a fabricated embellishment of the Old Testament Genesis, written in +the name of Moses somewhere between 135 B.C., or 60 A.D., and +purports to be a revelation made to Moses by the 'Angel of the +Face' of events from Adam to Moses' own day; the Patriarchs are +made the exponents of the writer's own Pharisaic views and hopes. +It is quoted as good "Scripture" by Greek and Latin Fathers down to +the twelfth century, when its forged character was discovered.

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One of the most important of apocryphal forgeries is the +Apocalypse of Baruch, "a pseudograph with evident Christian +interpolations" (CE. i, 604), written by a Jewish Pharisee about +50-90 A.D., who speaks in the first person in the name of Baruch, +secretary of the Prophet Jeremiah. The book begins by declaring +that the word of the Lord came to him in the 25th year of King +Jeconiah, -- who reigned only three months, and was carried away +captive to Babylon eleven years before the fall of Jerusalem, 586 +B.C., which event the forgery bewails; it is filled with the +Messianic hopes of Jewry at the time of the fall of Jerusalem in 70 +A.D. The book furnishes a setting and background of many +distinctive New Testament doctrines and problems, treating of +Original Sin, which it traces to the sin of Adam, Forgiveness, +Works, Justification, Free Will, etc., and this enables us to +estimate the contributions made in this respect by Jewish forgeries +to inspired Christian thought as developed in the so-called Pauline +Epistles, -- which Paul never wrote. Some notable Fathers, such as +Athenagoras, St. Justin Martyr, and St. Irenaeus, cite Beruch as a +Prophet, and vouch for him as on the same footing as Jeremiah, just +as Irenaeus vouches for Susanna and Bel and the Dragon as the +inspired work of Daniel. (CE. i, 604; iii, 271; EB. i 220.)

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Father Justin, in several chapters, accuse the Jews of having +"removed from Esdras and Jeremiah passages clearly mentioning the +Savior," as also from Psalms; he says: "they have altogether taken +away many Scriptures from the translation affected by those Seventy +elders who were with Ptolemy, and by which this very man was +crucified is proved to have been set forth expressly as God, and +man, and as having been crucified, and as dying." (Dial. Trypho, +chs. lxxi-lxxiv; ANF. i, 234-235.) But these passages, says +Middleton, were never in the Hebrew Scriptures; "they were not +erased by the Jews, but added [to their copies] by the Christians, +or forged by Justin." (Op. cit., 41, 42.)

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To which extent these pious Jewish forgeries formed the +background and basis of the Christian doctrines and dogmas of +pretended direct "revelation," and informed the thought and +utterance of Jesus Christ -- the raw material and working tools of +the Christian propagandist, may be realized from this +acknowledgement:

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"The most important and valuable of the extant Jewish +apocrypha are those which contain the visions and revelations of +the unseen world and the Messianic future. Jewish apocryphal +literature is a theme which deserves the attention of all +interested in the development of the religion of Israel, that body +of concepts and tendencies in which are fixed the roots of the +great doctrinal principles of Christianity itself, just as its +Divine Founder took his temporal generation from the stock of +orthodox Judaism. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +87 +. +FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY

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The Jewish apocryphas furnish the completing links in the +progress of Jewish theology and fill what would otherwise be a gap, +though a small one, between the advanced stage marked by the +deutero-canonical -- [i.e. long doubted but finally accepted] -- +books and its full maturity so relatively perfect that Jesus could +suppose as existing in the popular consciousness, without teaching +de novo, the doctrines of Future Retribution, the Resurrection of +the body, and the existence, nature and office of angels." (CE. i, +601.)

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All these divine and "revealed" doctrines of Christian faith +we have seen to be originally heathen Zoroastrian mythology, taken +over first by the Jews, then boldly plagiarized by the ex-Pagan +Christians. Dean Milman, of St. Paul's, thus describes the +universality of these notions among the heathens and the borrowing +by the Jews and Christians of what were originally Pagan +superstitions -- now become articles of Christian revelation:

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"Satan, angels, immortality, resurrection -- all Persian +and Zoroastrian doctrines imbibed by the Jews. ... During the +whole life of Christ, and the early propagation of the +religion, it must be borne in mind, that they took place in an +age, and among a people, which superstition had made so +familiar with what were supposed to be preternatural events, +that the wonders awakened no emotion, or were speedily +superseded by some new demand on the every-ready belief." +(Milman, History of Christianity, I, 93.)

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Thus, again, the most precious Christian truths, of supposed +divine "revelation" through God, Christ and apostles -- were +plagiarizations from forged Jewish pseudo-Scriptures, taken over +into them from long contact with the Zoroastrian Pensions. These +myths and superstitions Jesus the Son of God found ready at hand +"in the popular consciousness" of the ignorant wonder-craving +Jewish peasantry; and, Lo, our "revealed" Christian religion! We +may begin to suspect the later "inspired" books of the "Apostles" +as not beyond the taint of Pagan superstition and of the suspicion +of Christian forgery.

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CHRISTIAN "SCRIPTITRE" FORGERIES

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"Nothing stands in need of Lying but a LIE."

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To such an extent are the origins of the Christian Religion +wrapped in obscurity, due to the labyrinthine confusions and +contradictions and forgeries of its early records, that it is quite +impossible to extricate, with any degree of confidence, a thread of +historic truth from the tangle.

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The 27 New Testament booklets, attributed to eight individual +"Apostolic" writers, and culled from some 200 admitted forgeries +called Gospels, Acts, and Epistles, constitute the presient +"Canonical" or acceptedly inspired compendium of the primitive +history of Christianity. The only available method to extract from +them approximately just judgments as to the risie and progress of +the new system of beliefs, must be by a series of tentative +assumptions of reletive truth of sundry details of the narratives. +By relative truth of any tentatively assumed "fact," I mean such +"fact" with relation always to its contradictory, -- one or the +other must necessarily be false -- while both may be -- and +probably are. For, as virtually every alleged "fact" recorded in +Gospels, Acts and Epistles is off-set by a contradictory recital, +rendering one or the other untrue, neather can be assumed with +assurance; the actuality of either, and of all, is thus made +doubtful, and is subject to total rejection as our study of the +booklets develops.

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On such provisional assumption that sundry of the things +recorded possibly may have happened as in one manner or the other +related, we are able to reach several obvious conclusions as to the +order and approximate times of those dubiously-assumed happenings. +In view, however, of what we have seen, and shall soon more +abundantly see, of the shifty and fraudulent methods of +ecclesiatitical "history"-writing and propaganda, we may be +prepared for some rude upsettings of our inherited traditions of +Christian fact and faith.

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The central character of the Christian faith, Jesus, to assume +him as a historical personage, was a Jew, as were, by tradition, +his disciples and entourage. As is, of course, well known: +"Christianity took its rise in Judaism; its Founder and His +disciples were orthodox Jews, and the latter maintained their +Jewish practices, at least for a time, after the day of Pentecost. +The Jews themselves looked upon the followers of Christ as a mere +Israelitish sect, ... 'the sect of the Nazarenes' (Acts xxiv, 15)," +-- the believers in the Promised Messiah. (CE. iii, 713.) In this +they were grievously deceived and disappointed, as, too the world +knows; "Christ's humble and obscure life, ending in the ignominious +death on the cross, was the very opposite of what the Jews expected +of their Christ." (CE. i, 620.)

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Jesus was a native of Galilee, "his own country" (Mt. ii, 23; +xiii, 54-55), or of Judaea, "his own country" (.John iv, 43-44). He +was born "in the days of Herod the King" (Mt. ii, 1), about 6 B.C., +or "when Cyrenius was governor of Syria" (Luke ii, 1-7), about 7 +A.D., or some 13 years later. (CE. viii, 377; EB. i, 307-8.) The +destructive contradictions as to his lineage and parentage, and

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other essential particulars, are reserved for opportune notice. +Jesus became a Jewish sectarian religious teacher of the zealot +reformer type; so zealous that his own family thought him insane +and sent out to apprehend him (Mark iii, 31); many of the people +said of him, "He hath a devil, and is mad" (John x, 20); his own +disciples, seeing his raid into the Temple after the money-changers, shook their heads and muttered the proverb: "The zeal of +thine house hath eaten me up" (John ii, 17).

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His ministry, of about one year, according to the first three +Gospels, of some three yeurs according to the fourth, was, by his +own repeated assertion, limited exclusively to his own Jewish +people: "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of +Israel" (Mt. xv, 24; ef. Acts iii, 25-26; xiii, 46; Rom. xv, 8); +and he straitly enjoined on his Twelve Aposties: "Go not into the +way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye +not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Mt. +X, 5-6); to the woman of Canaan who pleaded with him to have mercy +on her daughter, "grievously vexed with a devil," he retorted: "It +is not meet to take the children's bread, and cast it to dogs" (Mt. +xv, 22-28; vii, 6). His own announcement, and his command to the +Twelve, was "Preach, saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand" (Mt. +x, 7), -- the exclusively Hebraic Kingdom of the Baptist (Mt. iii, +2), as of the Jewish Messianic apocrypha which we have noticed. +Jesus lived at the height of the "age of apocryphal literature," +and in due time got into it, voluminously.

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Before his death, time and again he made and repeated the +assurance -- the most positive and iterated of all the sayings +attributed to him -- of the immediate end of the world, and of his +quick triumphant return to establish the Kingdom of God in the new +earth and reign on the reestablished throne of David forever. Time +and again he said and repeated: "Verily I say unto you, There be +some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see +the Son of man coming in his Kingdom" (Mt. xvi, 28; Mk. ix, I; Lk. +ix, 27); "This generation shall not pass, till all these things be +done" Mk. xiii, 30). -- So quickly would this "second coming" be, +that when the Twelve were sent out on their first preaching tour in +little Palestine, their Master assured them: "Ye shall not have +gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of man be come" (Mt. x, +23). Caiaphag, the high priert before whom Jesus was led after his +capture in the Garden, solemnly conjured him "By the living God" +for the truth; and Jesus replied: "Nevertheless I say unto you, +Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man ... coming in the clouds of +heaven." (Mt. xxvi, 63, 64; Mk. xiv, 61, 62.) Some people are +expecting him yet. Of course, there were, could be, none but Jews +in heaven, or in this new Kingdom of Heaven on the new earth: +"Salvation is of the Jews." (John iv, 22.) It was 144000 Jews, the +"scaled" saints, who alone constituted the original Jewish "Kingdom +of God" (Rev. vii).

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With these explicit data we arrive at the first obvious and +positive conclusion: With the expectation of a quick and sudden end +of the world and of all things human, no books were written on the +subject in that generation or, for a little leeway, the next or so, +after the death of the expected returning King. The scant, number +of credulous Jews who accepted this preachment as "Gospel truth"

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and lived in this expectation, were nourished with neighborhood +gossip and oral traditions of the "good news," and needed and had +no written books of inspired record of these things. Thus many +years passed. Only as the dread consummation was delayed, and the +hope deferred sickened the hearts of the expectant Jews and they +waned in faith, and as aecused by Paul and Barnabas, "put it from +you," did the defeated propagandists of the "Faith that failed at +the Cross," give the shoulder to the Jews and "turn to the +Gentiles" (Acts xiii, 46), and begin to expand the failing new +Jewish faith among the superstitious Pagans of the countries round +about. But this was still by the spoken word; on all the +supposititious "missionary tours" the Word was spread by word of +mouth written gospel books were not yet. When at last, the "coming" +being still unrealized -- these books began to be written, we can +accurately determine something of the order of their writing, and +finally, though negatively, the approximate times when they were +written, by ascertaining when they were not yet written.

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We have seen that for a century and more the only "Scriptures" +used by the Jewish propagandists of the Christ were the Greek +Septuagint translations of the old hebrew sacred writings, "the Law +and the Prophets" (CE. v, 702; i, 635); supplemented by sundry +Jewish apocrypha and the Pagan Sibylline Oracles; these were the +only "authorities" appealed to by the early "Fathers" for the +propaganda of the new faith. Indubitably, if the wonderful +"histories" of their Christ and the inspired pretended writings of +his first, Apostles, forming noew the New Testament, had then +existed, even in scraps of writing, they would have been the most +precious and potent documents of propaganda, would have been +snatched at and quoted and appealed to with infinate zeal and +ardor, as they have been through the centuries since. But, for some +150 years, as we shall see, little or nothing besides Old Testament +and Pagan Oracles were known or quoted. As said by the great +critic, Solomon Reinach, "With the exception of Papias, who speaks +of a narrative by Mark, and a collection of sayings of Jesus, no +Christian writer of the first half of the second century (i.e., up +to 150 A.D.) quotes the Gospels or their reputed authors." +(Reinach, Orpheus, p. 218.) So, patently, as yet no "Gospels" and +but few if any "Epistles" of our "canon" had as yet been written. +Again, we read the 23 booklets from and including Acts to +Revelation: there is not a solitary referance to a word of +quotation from, any of our four Gospels; scarce a trace of the +wonderful career and miracles of Jesus the Christ; not a word of +his "gospel" or teachings mentioned or quoted. These Epistles, +indeed, "preach Christ Crucified" (from oral tradition), as the +basis of the propagandists' own "gospel." But the written "Gospel +of Jesus Christ" (his life and words and deeds), was unknown: +indeed, jealous of the so-called Petrine preaching which "perverts +the gospel of Christ" as preached by him, the soi-disant Apostle +Paul fulminates: "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach +any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached, let, +him be accursed" (Gal. i, 7, 8); -- so early did priestly +intolerance and priestly curses on opponents come into holy vogue. +Therefore the conclusion is inevitable that when those 23 Acts and +Epistles were written, none of the four "Gospel" biographies of +Jesus the Christ had yet seen the light. "Written Gospels are +neither mentioned nor implied in the NT epistles, nor in that, of

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Clemens Romanus, nor, probably, in that of Barnabas, nor in the +Didache. luke (i, 1-4) implies that 'many gospels' were current" +(EB. ii, 1809), at the time that Gospel was written.

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The Acts and Epistles, therefore, with Revelation, were +written before any of the Gospel biographies. If these Christ-histories had existed, how eagerly would they have been seized upon +to garnish and glorify the preachment of the early propagandists of +the Faith that failed at the Cross, -- and would have perished +wholly but. for the allbelieving Pagan Gentiles, who, when they +heard it, "were glad, and glorified the word of the lord" (Acts +xiii, 48), as orally delivered.

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"THE AGE OF APOCRYPHAL LITERATURE"

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As the long years passed and one generation of disappointed +"Messiah" Jews was gathered unto its fathers and was followed by +another, the believers in the promised "second coming" for the +establishment of the Jewish Kingdom grew restles, and made +pertinent complaint, "Saying, Where is the promise of his coming? +for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were +from the beginning of the creation" (2 Peter ii, 4), -- and as they +yet continue. Dubbing these reasonable but disturbing inquirers +"scoffers," the crafty Peter tried in typical priestly form to +squirm out of the embarrassing situation created by the positive +promises of the Christ and the inspired preachments of himself and +his apostolic confreres, by the shifty rejoinder: "But, beloved +["scoffers"], be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is +with the Lord as a thousand yearn, and a thousand years as one day" +(2 Peter ii, 8) -- which doesn't mean anything for an honest +answer; and time and again they cajole the impatient eredtilous: +"Ye have need of patience; ... for yet a little while, and he that +shall come, will come." (Heb. x, 36, 37; cf. 1 Thess. iv, l6-18; 2 +Thess. iii, 5; James v, 7, 8; et passim.) But he isn't come yet, +these 2000 years.

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It was at this critical juncture, to revive and stimulate the +jaded hope of the Jewish believers and to spread the propaganda +amongst the all-believing Pagaiis, that the written Christ-tales +began to be worked up by the Christian propagandists. Before their +admiring eyes they had for models the "whole literature" of Jewish +apocryphal or forged writings, plus the Pagan Oracles: with immense +zeal and industry they set about to imitate the example before +them, and to reforge these Jewish and heathen forgeries to more +definite Chriiitian uses, and to forge anew another whole +literature of distinctively Christian forgeries and fabulous +histories of the Christ. "In this form of propaganda the Christians +proved themselves to be apt pupils of the Jews. So common, indeed, +had become in early Christian times, the invention of such oracles +that Celsus terms Christians Sibyllistai, believers in sibyls, or +sibyl-mongerrs" (EB. i, 246), that is, peddlers of Christian +forgeries in Pagan form (Ib. p. 261). How great was this pious +fabrication we can only judge from the two hundred, more or less, +of false histories, gospels, epistles and revelations which have +survived, entire or fragmentary, or by title only, through the long +intervening centuries of faith, and of which 27 are yet cherished +as of Divine inspiration.

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"THE IDEA OF INSPIRATION"

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Before sketching the welter of these lying works of Christian +hands and childish minds, we may define, by high priestly +authority, the status of the problem of divine inspiration, and +just how the notion of "canonicity" or official inspiration, came +to be, now attributed to, now withdrawn from, this heterogeneous +mass or mess of pious scribblings, and finally clung to only 27 of +yet asserted sanctity. These admissions are very illuminating.

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We have aeen that the Hebrew Old Testament itself "reveals no +formal notion of inspiration," though, we are assured, "the later +Jews must have possessed the idea" (CE. iii, 269); -- thus only an +idea or notion somehow acquired, but not through divine +illumination, for as we read, of all the mass of Jewish holy +forgeries "each of them has at one tune or another been treated as +canonical" or divinely inspired. (EB. i, 250.) Whether the +Christian notion or idea as to the divine inspiration of their own +new forgeries was of any better quality may now appear.

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The New Testament and the inspired Apostles are silent on the +subject and left the matter to serious doubts and disputations for +many centuries: "There are no indications in the New Testament ... +of a definite new Canon bequeathed by the Apostles to the Church, +or of a strong self-witness to Divine inspiration," admits the CE,. +(iii, 274); that is, there is nothing in the 27 booklets which +would lead to the suspicion of their "inspiration" or truth. There +was then no Church for them to bequeath to, nor was the Canon +settled, as we shall see: "It was not until about the middle of the +second century -- [when we shall see the books were really written] +-- that under the rubric of Scripture the New Testament writings +were assimilated to the Old. ... But it should be remembered that +the inspired character of the New Testament in a Catholic dogma, +and must therefore in some way have been revealed to, and taught +by, Apostles"! (Ib. p. 275.) This is a strikingly queer bit of +clerical dialectic, and leaves the question of the "some way" of +revelation to the Apostles and of their transmission of the "dogma" +to posterity, in a nebulously unsatisfying state.

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Further, the dubious and disputed status of the sacred +writings through centuries, and the ultimate settlement of the +controversies by the 'ipse dixit' of a numerical majority of the +Council of Trent, in 1546, -- after the Reformation had forced the +issue, is thus admitted: "The idea of a complete and clear-cut +canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning, that is, +from Apostolic times, has no foundation in history. The cannon of +the New Testament, like that of the Old, is the result of a +development, of a process at once stimulated by disputes with +doubters, both within and without the Church, and retarded by +certain obscurities and natural hesitations, and which did not +reach its final term until the dogmatic defination of the +Tridentine Council. ... And this want of a organized distribution, +secondarily to the absence of an early fixation of the Canonm, left +room for variations and doubts which lasted far into the +centuries." (CE., iii, 274.) The 'modus operandi' of the Holy +Council in ultimately "canonizing" Jerome's old Vulgate Version, +and its motive for doing so, are thus exposed by the keen pen of +the author of the Rise and Fall:

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"When the Council of Trant resolved to pronounce sentence on +the Cannon of Scripture, the opinion which prevented, after some +debate, was to declare the Latin Vulgate authentic and 'almost' +infallible; and this sentence, which was guarded by formidable +anathemas, secured all the books of the Old and New Testament which +composed that ancient version. ... When the merit of that version +was discussed, the majority of the theologians urged, with +confidence and success, that it was absoutely necessary to receive +the Vulgate as authentic and inspired, unless they wished to +abandon the victory to the Lutherans, and the honors of the Church +to the Grammarians." (Gibbon, A Vindication, v, 2; Istoria del +consiglio Tridentino, L. ii, p. 147.) A number of these books were +bitterly disputed and their authenticity and inspiration denied by +the leading Reformers, Luther, Grotius, Calvin, etc., and excluded +from their official lists, until finally the Reformed Church +followed the example of the Church hopeless of reform and swallowed +the canon whole, as we have it today, -- minus, of course, the +'Tobit,' 'Judith,' and like inspired buffooneries of the True +Bible.

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Such books and the vicissitudes of their authority are thus +described: "Like the Old Testament, the New has its deutero-canonical [i.e. doubted] books and portions of books, their +canonicity having formally been a subject of some controversy in +the Church. These are, for entire books: the Epistle to the +Hebrews, that od James, the Second and Third of John, Jude, and +Apocalypse; giving seven in all as the number of the N.T. contested +books. The formerly disputed passages are three: the closing +section of St. Mark's Gospel, xvi, 9-20, about the apparitions of +Christ after the resurrection; the verses in Luke about the bloody +sweat of Jesus, xxii, 43, 44; the Pericope Adulterae, or narrative +of the woman taken in adultery, St. John, vii, 53 to viii, 11. +Since the Council of Trent it is not permitted for a Catholic to +question the inspiration of these passages." (CE. iii, 274.) +Besides the forgery of the above and other books as a whole, we +shall see many other instances of "interpolated" or forged passages +in the Christian books.

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"THE LYING PEN OF THE SCRIBES"

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Speaking of the doubtful historicity of the celebrated AEsop +of the famous Fables which go under his name, a critic well states +a valid test of historicity: "We may well doubt, however, whether +he (AEsop) ever existed; we have the most varied accounts of him, +many of which are on their face pure inventions; and the fables +which passed under his name were certainly not written until long +after the period in which he is supposed to have lived." (NIE. i, +191.) We may have occasion to apply this test to the personality of +Jesus of Nazareth and sundry apostolic personages; in any event it +is peculiarly applicable to the numerous Christian stories and +fables treating of them, which on their face are pure inventions, +and which were admittedly forged in the names of Jesut; himself and +of all of his Apostles and of many of the shining lights of the new +Christian faith, just as we have seen was done in the Jewish +forgerier; in the names of the Old Testament notables from Adam on +down the catalogue.

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Leaving for the moment aside the 27 presently accepted +booklets of the N.T., and admitting the many Christian forgeries of +Christ-fables, CE. thus apologetically explains: "The genuine +Gospels are silent about long stretches of the life of our Lord, +the Blessed Virgin, and St. Joseph. This reserve of the Evangelists +did not satisfy the pardonable curiosity of many Christians eager +for details. ... Enterprising spirits responded to this natural +craving by pretended gospels full of romantic fables, and fantastic +and striking details; their fabrications were eagerly read and +accepted as true by common folk who were devoid of any critical +faculty and who were predisposed to believe what so luxuriously fed +their pious curiosity. Both Catholics and Gnostics were concerned +in writing these fictions. The former had no motive other than that +of a PIOUS FRAUD." (CE. i, 606.) The motive above admitted for +feeding with pious frauds the "natural craving" of the ignorant and +superstitiouts Christians for marvel-mongering by the Church, is +confirmed by a distinguished historign: "A vast and ever-increasing +crowd of converts from paganism, who had become such from worldly +considerations, and still hankered after wonders like those in +which their forefathers had from time immemorial believed, lent a +ready ear to assertions which, to more hesitating or better-instructed minds, would have seemed to carry imposture on their +very face." (Draper, The Intellectaal Development of Europe, i, +309.)

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This being thus frankly confessed, our clerical writer +describes the general character of these pious frauds: "The +Christian apocryphal writings in general imitate the books of the +N.T.) and therefore, with a few exceptions, fall under the +description of Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypses." (CE. i, +606.) Further apologizing for these Christian forgeries, and giving +a smear of clerical whitewash to the forgers, it is speciously +pleaded, that "the term apocryphal in connection with special +gospels must be understood as bearing no more unfavorable an import +than uncanonical." They were forgeries pure and simple; and their +pious value is urged, that "the apocryphal Gospels help us to +understand the religious conditions of the second and third +centuries," -- as indeed they do, in a light very damaging to any +suspicion of truthfulness, common honesty, or anything above the +most mediocre intelligence of the pious Fathers and Faithful who +put these gross fabrications into circulation in the name and for +the sake of Christ. Their pious plea is: "Amor Christi est cui +satisfecimus." (Ib. p. 606.) Of these pious frauds it adds: "The +quasi-evangelistic compositions concerning Christ ... are all of +Orthodox origin." (Ib. p. 607.)

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"CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES" -- FORGED

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When the new Faith went forth to conquer the Pagan world for +Christ, the pious Greek Fathers and priests of the Propaganda soon +felt the need of something of more up-to-date effectiveness than +Old Testament text and Sibylline Oracles, they needed something +concrete out of the New Dispensation to "show" to the superstitious +Pagans to win them to the Christ and his Church: something +tangible, visible; compellingly authentic proofs. Like arms of +proof for the holy warfare, the invincible weapons of truth -- "the +whole armour of God" -- they forged outright for the conquest of +the unbeliever. What more convincing and compelling proofs of Jesus

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the Christ, his holy Apostles, and their wondrous works of over a +century ago, than the following authentic and autograph documents +and records, held before doubting eyes:

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A "GOSPEL" WRITTEN BY JESUS CHRIST'S OWN HAND;

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LETTERS AND PORTRAITS OF JESUS CHRIST AND HIS PERSONAL +CORRESPONDENCE;

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LETTERS WRITTEN BY HIS VIRGIN MOTHER;

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PILATE'S OFFICIAL REPORT TO THE EMPEROR OF THE TRIAL AND +CRUCIFICTION OF JESUS, WITH PILATE'S CONFESSION OF FAITH;

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THE REPLY OF TIBERIUS, AND THE TRIAL OF PILATE;

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OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS OF THE ROMAN SENATE ABOUT JESUS,

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GOSPELS, EPISTLES, ACTS, BY EVERY ONE OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES;

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OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS; OF CHURCH LAW AND GOVERNMENT, WRITTEN IN +GREEK, BY THE APOSTLES;

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RECORDS OF THE EARLIEST "POPES" AND "APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION;

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SCORES OF OTHER PIOUS FORGED DOCUMENTS TO BE RELATED BELOW.

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Armed with lying credentials and "proofs" of the fictitious +persons and performances for which credence must be won among the +credulous pagans, the priests and Vicars of God propagated their +stupendous "LIES to the glory of God" and the exaltation of the +Church. We shall catelogue these crude forgeries somewhat more +fully, and look into some of the more notorious.

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FORGED GOSPELS, ACTS, EPISTLES

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Half a hundred of false and forged Apostolic "Gospels of Jesus +Christ," together with more numerous orher "Scripture" forgeries, +was the output, so far as known now, of the lying pens of the pious +Christians of the first two centuries of the Christian "Age of +Apocryphal Literature"; all going to swell the "very large number +of apocryphal writings of distinctly Christian origin which were +produced from the second century onward, to satisfy an unhealthy +craving for the occult and marvelous or to embellish the stories of +the saints." (NIE., i, 746.) These N.T. apocryplia include +"numerous works purporting to have been written by apostles or +their associates, but not able to secure a general or permanent +recognition. These may be classified thus: (a) Gospels; (b) Acts of +Apostles; (c) Epistles; (d) Apocalypses; (e) Didactic Works; (f) +Hymns. (Ib. p. 748.) "The name Gospel," says CE. (vi, 656), "as +indicating a written account of Christ's words and deeds, has been, +and still is, applied to a large number of narratives of Christ's +life, which circulated both before and after the composition of our +Third Gospel (cf. Luke i, 1-4). The titles of some fifty such works +have come down to us. ... It is only, however, in connection with +some twenty of these 'Gospels' that some information has been +preserved. ... Most of them, as far as can be made out, are late

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productions, the apocryphal character of which is generally +admitted by contemporary [i.e., present day] scholars." Naming +first as Nos. 1-4 "The Canonical Gospels," now falsely labelled +with the names of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the twenty best +known ones are listed as follows; viz: The Gospels according to the +Hebrews; of Peter; According to the Egyptians; of Matthias; of +Philip; of Thomas; the Proto-Evangelium of James, Gospel of +Nicodemus (Acta Pilati); of the Twelve Apostles; of Basilides; of +Valentius; of Marcion; of Eve; of Judas; the Writing Genna Marias; +the Gospel Teleioseos. (CE. vi, 656.)

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Individual Gospels were forged in the names of each of the +Twelve Apostles, severally, and a joint fabrication under the name +of "The Gospel of the Twelve," was put into the mouths of the +twelve Apostles, using the first person to give the ear-marks of +authenticity to their forged utterances; and separately, "Almost +every one of the Apostles had a Gospel fathered upon him by one +early sect or another." (EB. i, 259.) Several seem to have been +fathered upon Matthew besides the one that wrongly heads the list +of the "canonical Four," such as the Gospel of Matthias, Traditions +of Matthias, also a supposed and probably non-existent writing in +Hebrew hypothesized as the basic document of the Four; probably, +also the so-called Logia, a papyrus scrap of one sheet discovered +at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, and containing alleged sayings of Jesus +which in part correspond with, in part radically differ from the +sayings attributed to him in the Four. He was also made responsible +for a so-called Gospel of St. Matthew, dating from the 4th or 5th +century, which "purports to have been written by Matthew and +translated by St. Jerome." (CE.. i, 608,)

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This authority also lists the famous Protevangetium Jacobi, or +Infancy Gospel of James, the Arabic Gospel of the Infancy, that of +Gamaliel, the Gospel according to the Hebrews, also According to +the Egyptians; of the Nazarenes; Gospels of St. Peter, of St. +Philip, of St. Thomas, of St. Bartholomew, of St. Andrew, of +Barnabas, of Thaddeus, even notable forged Gospels of Judas +Iscariot, and of Mother Eve; also the Gospel by Jesus Christ. We +have the Gospel of Nicodemus, the History of Joseph the Carpenter, +the Descent into Hades, the Desicent of Mary, the Ascents of James, +the Prophecy of Hystaspes, the Didache or Teachings of the +Apostles; the Gospel of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, the +Transitum Mariae or Evangelium Joannin. This last named pious +Christian work, as described by CE. (i, 607-8) is forged in the +name of St. John the Apostle, and is "prefaced with a spurious +Letter of the Bishop of Sardis, Melito"; it records how "the +Apostles are preternaturally transported from different quarters of +the globe to the Virgin's deathbed, those who have died being +resurrected for the purpose"; a Jew who dares touch the sacred body +instantly loses both hands, which are restored through the +mediation of the Apostles. Christ, accompanied by a band of angels, +comes down to receive his mother's soul, "the Apostles bear the +body to Gethsemane and deposit it in a tomb, whence it is taken up +alive to heaven"; this being an extraordinary miracle, for the body +was dead and the soul carried to heaven from her home and the dead +body laid in the grave, where it comes to life again for the +Heaven-trip. This clumsy fable, says CE., considerably "influenced +the Fathers" (Ib. i, 608), who were notoriously ehildish-minded. A

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very noted and notorious forgery was the Gospel of Paul and Thecla, +of which Father Tertullian relates, that this story wag fabricated +by an Elder of Asia Minor, who, when convicted of the fraud -- +[this being the only known instance of such action], -- confessed +that he had perpetrated it "for the love of St. Paul." (Reinach, +Orpheus, p. 235.) The Protevangelium Jacobi was "an Apocryphal work +by a fanciful fabulist, urhampered by knowledge of Jewish affairs, +contposed before the end of the second century with a view to +removing the glaring contradictions between Matthew and Mark," +regarding the birth and life of Jesus CHrist. (EB. iii, 3343.) An +"Epistle on the Martyrdom of the Apostles Peter and Paul was at a +later period attributed to St. Linus. ... It is apoeryphal, and of +later date than the history of the Martyrdom of the two Apostles, +by some attributed to Marcellus, which is also apocryphal." (CE. +ix, 273; see Acta Apostolorum, Apoerypha, xiv.) Other noted +Fatherly fabrications were the celebrated Epistles I and II of +Clement to the Corinthians, and the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions +and Homilies, purporting to be written by the very doubtful Bishop +of Rome of that name; very voluminous, and written about 140 A.D., +not a line of New Testament "scriptures" do they quote, but they +quote freely from the O.T. and from various Jewish, Christian and +Pagan works. (EB. iii, 3486.)

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Besides the above complete "Gospel" forgeries, there are +several more, and fragments of others, which purport to contain +"sayings" attributed to Jesus which are not contained in the Four +Gospels; and which are known as Agrapha, that is, things not +written. Among these are the Logia of Oxyrhynchus above mentioned; +the Fayum gospel-fragment, a papyrus purporting to give words of +Christ to Peter at the Last Supper, "in a form which diverges +largely by omissions from any in the canonical gospels." (EB. i, +258.) These Agrapha "do not embrace the lenghy sections ascribed to +Jesus in the 'Didiscalin' and the 'Pistis Sophia'; these works also +contain some brief quotations of alleged words of Jesus; ... nor +the Sayings contained in religious romances, such as we find in the +apocryphal Gospels, the apocryphal Acts, or the Letter of Christ to +Abgar. ... In patristic citations ... Justin Martyr, Clement of +Alexandria, Origen, make fslse quotations," -- citing instances. +(CE. i, 225, 226.) In the class of Agrapha are also "words in the +Gospels not regarded as genuine, as Mt. vi, 13b; xvii, 21; Mk. xvi, +9-20; John vii, 53; viii, 2; also alleged quotations from the Old +Testament in the New Testament not found in the Old Testament." +(NIE. 1, 240.)

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Of apocryphal Acts of Apostles we are edified by the Acts, or +Travels, (Greek, Pereodui) of Peter, (and separately) of John, of +Thomas, of Andrew, and of Paul; another Acts of Philip, Acts of +Matthew, of Bartholomew, of John, of judas Thomas. There is a whole +collection of Martyrdoms of the several Apostles. Of apocryphal +Epistles, the most famous is the Correspondence between the Abgar +of Edessa, and Jesus; between the Roman Philosopher Seneca and +Paul; apocryphal Epistles of Paul, to the Laodiceans, to the +Alexandrians, the Third Epistle to the Corinthians. Forged +Apocalypses abound, of which that of Peter, the Vision of Hermas, +the Vision of Paul, the Apocalypge of Paul, the Apocalypse of the +Virgin Mary. The didactic Preaching of Peter, the Teaching of the +Apostles, or Didache, containing warnings against Judaism and

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polytheism, and words of Jesus to the Apostles; another set +containing a lament of Peter for his denial of Jesus, and various +ethical maxims a Syriac Preaching of Simon Cephas; a collection of +Hymns or Odes of Solomon. As if these were not enough for Christian +edification, "many heretical or Gnostic works of the same +apocryphal kind were changed into orthodox by expurgation of +objectionable matter or by rewriting, using the same outlines; thus +a series of Catholic Acts was produced, written from an orthodox +standpoint." (NIE. i, 748.) A very celebrated forgery was the +Shepherd of Hermas, forged by Hermas,' supposed brother of Pius, +Bishop of Rome, about 150 A.D. See the vast catalogue (CE. i, +601-615).

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A whole literature of Christian forgery grew up and had +immense vogue under the designation of Acts Pilati, or Acts of +Pilate. One of the most popular of these was called the Gospel of +Nicodemus, of which CE,. says: "The alleged Hebrew orignal is +attributed to Nicodemius; the title is of medieval origin. The +apocryphon gained wide credit in the Middle Ages. ... The 'Acta' +are of orthodox composition. The book aimed at gratifying the +desire for extra-evangelical details concerning oar Lord, and at +the same time, to strengthen faith in the Resurrection of Christ, +and at general edification." (i, 3.) The Descent into Hades is an +enlargement of the reputed official acts or repots of Pilate to the +Roman Emperor. Speaking of the Pilate Literature as a whole, the +Catholic Encyclopedia. in a paragraph which pointedly admits the +falsifying frauds of three luminous liars and forgers of the Faith, +Justin Martyr, the great Bishop Eusebius, and Father Tertullian, +explains that these Acta "dwell upon the part which a reresentative +[Pilate] of the Roman Empire played in the supreme events of our +Lord's life, and to shape the testimony of Pontius Pilate, even at +the cost of exaggeration and amplification -- [hear the soft-pedaling note], into a weapon of apologetic defense, making the +official bear witness to the miracles, Crucifixion, and +Resurrection of Jesus Christ. ... It is characterized by +exaggerating Pilate's weak defense of Jesus into a strong dympathy +and practical belief in his Divinity." (CE. i, 609.) Father +Tertullian, in his Apologia (xxi), relates the Report of Pilate to +the Emperor, sketching the miracles and death of Jesus Christ, and +says, "All these things Pilate announced to Tiberius Caesar." +Bishop Eusebius thus relates the fable as taken from the Apologia +of Father Tertullian: "The fame of Our Lord's remarkable +resurrection and ascension being now spread abroad, ... Pontius +Pilate transmits to Tiberius an account of the circumstances +concerning the resurrection of our Lord from the dead. ... In this +account, he also intimated that he had ascertained other miracies +respecting him, and that having now risen from the dead, he was +believed to be a God by the great mass of the people. Tiberius +referred the matter to the Senate, ... being obviously pleased with +the doctrine; but the Senate, as they had not proposed the matter, +[rejected it]. But he continued in his opinion, threatening death +to the accusers of the Chriatians; a divine providence infusing +this into his mind, that the Gospel having freer scope in its +commencement, might spread everywhere over the world." (Eusebius, +HE. II, 2.) Father Justin Martyr, in his Apologia, "appeals +confidently as a proof of them to the 'Acta' or records of Pilate, +existing in the imperial archives." Eusebius, relates spurious

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anti-Christian Acts of Pilate composed in the fourth century, the +Acta Pilati or Gospel of Nicodemus, Anphora Pilati, Paradoseis; a +still later fabrication is the Latin Epistola Pilati ad Tiberium, +Also the Letter of Herod to Pilate and Letter of Pilate to Herod; +the Narrative of Joseph of Arimathea. The pseudo-Correspondence of +Jesus with Abgar, King of Edessa, is found in Eusebius (Hist. +Eccles., I, xiii), "who vouches that he himself translated it from +the Syriac documunis in the archives of Edessa, the metropolis, of +Eastern Syria. ... 'This,' adds Eusebius, 'happened in the year 340 +of the Seleucid era, corresponding to A.D. 28-29.'" (CE. i, 609, +610.) More monumental lies to the glory of God than those of the +distinguialied Church Fathers are not "A collection of apocryphal +Acts of the Apostles was formed in the Frankish Church in the sixth +century, probably by a monk." (Ib. p. 610.) There were also "the +works accredited to Dionysius the Areopagite, who was not the +author of the works bearing his name." (lb. p. 638.)

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Of highest importance because "these Acts are the chief source +for details of the martyrdom of the two great Apostles," as admits +the CE., special notice is made of the "Catholic" Acts of Sts. +Peter and Paul, of which many MSS of "the legend" existed, the +material import of which is thus not quite honestly summarized: +"The Jews have been aroused by the news of Paul's intended visit +(to Rome), and induce Nero to forbid it. Nevertheless the Apostle +secretly enters Italy; his companion is mistaken for himself at +Puteoli and beheaded. In retribution that city is swallowed up by +the sea. Peter receives Paul at Rome with joy. The preaching of the +Apostles converts multitudes and even the Empress. Simon Magus +traduces the Christian teachers, and there is a test of strength in +miracles between that magician and the Apostles, which takes place +in the presence of Nero. Simon essays a flight to heaven but falls +in the Via Sacra and is dashed to pieces, Nevertheless, Nero is +bent on the destruction of Peter and, Paul. The latter is beheaded +on the Ostian Way, and Peter is cruciffed at his request head +downward. Before his death he relates to the people the 'Quo +Vadis?' story. Three men from the East carry off the Apostles' +bodies but are overtaken. St. Peter is buried at 'the place called +the Vatican,' and Paul on the Ostian Way. These Acts are the chief +source for details of the martyrdom of the two great Apostles. They +are also noteworthy as emphasizing the close concord between the +Apostolic founders of the Roman Church." (CE. i, 611-12.)

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The reader is desired to bear well in mind the foregoing +paragraph, and particularly the last two sentences, the former of +immense significance when we come to review the falsified fiction +of the foundation of the Roman Church by Peter, -- the "chief +source" of which portentous claim is confessedly founded on the +crude and fantastic "legend"' of an admittedly forged document. +Another admission of forgery by the Fathers, before introducing +them formally, may be noted:, "Such known works as the Shepherd of +Hermas, the Epistle of Barnabas, the Didache or Teaching of the +Twelve Apostles, and the Apostolic Canons and Constitutions, though +formally apocryphal, really belong to patristic literature" (CE. i, +601), -- that is, they are forged writings of the Fathers.

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THE FORGFD "APOSTLES' CREED"

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The "Apotitles' Creed," forged by the Fathers several +centuries after the Apostles, must be added to the Patristic list. +Of this famous Creed, which every Christian presumably knows by +rote and piously recites in numberless services, CE. again +confesses it spurious: "Throughout the Middle Ages it was generally +believed that the Apostles, on the day of Pentecost, while still +under the direct inspiration of the Holy Ghost, composed our +present Creed, each of the Apostles contributing one of the Twelve +articles. This legend dates back to the sixth century, and is +foreshadowed still earlier in a sermon attributed to St. Ambrose, +which takes notice that the Creed was 'pieced out by twelve +separate workmen.'" (CE. i, 629.) Indeed, "not a few works have +been falsely attributed to St. Ambrose." (CE. i, 387; cf. p. 406.)

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We may smile at the peculiarly clerical way in which CE. would +"whitewash" the great Bishop of Milan, St. Ambrose (e. 340-397), +from the lie direct which admittedly he told in that Sermon, -- +saying that the Bishop simply "takes notice that the creed was +pieced out," etc.; the truth being that Ambrose positively affirmed +the fable as truth, and may have invented it. His poisitive words +are; "that the Twelve Apostles, as skilled artificers, assembled +together, and made a key by their common advice, that is, the +Creed; by which the darkness of the devil is disclosed, that the +light of Christ may appear." (Ambrose, Opera, tom. iii., Sermon 38, +p. 265; quoted in The New Testament Apocrypha, New York, The Truth +Seeker Co.) -- a work which I feel impelled to commend to all who +wish to know at first hand the 25 remarkable Chureh "Gospel" +forgeries there collected.

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THE FORGED ATHANASIAN CREED

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In likewise the celebrated Athanasian Creed of the Church, +attributed to St. Athanasius and so held by the Church "until the +seventeenth century" (CE. ii, 34), with most evil resiilts, is now +an admitter forgery. In words of Gibbon: "St. Athanasius is not the +author of the creed; it does not appear to have existed within a +century after his death; it was composed in Latin, therefore in one +of the Western provinces. Gennadius, patriarch of Constitantinoble, +was so much amazed by this extraordinary composition, that he +frankly pronounced it to be the work of a drunken man." (Petav. +Dogmat. Theologica, tom. ii, 1, vii, c. 8, p. 687; Gibbon, p. 598.)

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JESUS CHRIST'S FORGED LETTERS

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We may look for a moment at several of the most notorious of +the forgeries perpetrated for the glory of God and for imposture +upon the superstitious Christians to enhance Pagan credtulity in +the tales of Christ. If the Gospel tales were true, why should God +need pious lies to give them credit? Lies and forgeries are only +needed to bolster up falsebood: "Nothing stands in need of lying +but a lie." But Jesus Christ must needs be propagated by lies; upon +lies, and what better proof of his actuality than to exhibit +letters written by him in his own handwriting? The "Little Liars of +the Lord" were equal to the forgery of the signature of their God, +-- false letters in his name, as above cited from that exhaustless

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mine of clerical falsities, the Catholic Encyclopedia, which again +describes them, and proves that they 'Were forged by their great +Bisbop of Caesaria: "The historian Eusebius records [HE. I, xii], +a legend which he himself firmly believes concerning a +correspondence that took place between Our Lord and the local +potentate (Abgar) at Edessa. Three documents relate to this +correspondence: (1) the Letter of Abgar to Our Lord; (2) Our Lord's +answer; (3) a picture of Our Lord, painted from life. This legend +enjoyed a great popularity, both in the East, and in the West, +during the Middle Ages. Our Lord's Letter was copied on parchment, +marble, and metal, and used as a talisman or an amulet." (CE. i, +42.) But it is not true, as we have seen already confessed, that +Eusebius innocently believed that these forgeries were genuine -- +for they were all shamelessly forged by Eusebius himself: "who +vouches that he himself translated it from the Syriac documents in +the archives of Edessa." (CE. i, 610.) Again it is said by CE., +that these forged letters, with the portrait, were "accepted by +Eusebius without hesitation, and used by Addision in his work on +Christian Evidences as genuine" (Ib. vi, 217).

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It should be mentioned, first, that Abgar was not a personal +name of a King of Edessa, but was a generic title of all the rulers +of that small state: "By this title all the toparchs of Edessa were +called, just as the Roman Emperors were called Caesars, the Kings +of Egypt Pharaohs or Ptolemies, the Kings of Syria Antiochi." (ANF. +viii, 651, note.) With this first check on the forging Bishop, here +is what he said in his Church history, Book I, chapter the +thirteenth. (p. 63 seq.) Note the false fervor of the holy Bishop +to sugar-coat his circumstantial and commodious lie and fraud: +"While the Godhead of our Saviour and Lord Jesut, Christ was +proclaimed among all men by reason of the astonishing mighty-works +which He wrought, and myriads, even from countries remote from the +land of Judaea, who were afflicted with sicknesses and diseases of +every kind, were coming to him in the hope of being healed, King +Abgar sent him a letter asking Him to come and heal him of his +disease. But our Saviour at the time he asked Him did not comply +with his request. Yet He deigned to give him a letter in reply. ... +Thou hast in writing the evidence of these things, which is taken +from the Book of Records which was at Edessa; for at that time the +Kingdom was still standing. In the documents, then, which were +there, in which was contained whatever was done by those of old +down to the time of Abgar, these things are also found preserved +down to the present hour. There is, however, nothing to prevent our +hearing the very letters themselves, which have been taken by us +from the archives, and are in words to this effect, translated from +Aramaic into Greek.

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"'Copy of the letter which was written by King Abgar to Jesus, +and sent to him by the hand of Ananias -- [the Bishop was the +Ananias in this tale, and aptly named his letter-carrier], -- the +Tabularius, to Jerusalem:

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'Abgar the Black, sovereign of the country, to Jesus, the good +Saviour, who has appeared in the country of Jerusalem: Peace. I +have heard about Thee, and about the healing which is wrought by +Thy hands without drugs and roots. For, as it is reported, Thou +makest the blind to see, and the lame to walk; and Thou cleansest +the lepers, and Thou castest out unclean spirits and demons, and

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Thou healest those who are tormented with lingering diseases, and +Thou raisest the dead. And when I heard all these things about +Thee, I settled in my mind one of two things: either that Thou art +God, who has come down from heaven, and doest these things; or that +Thou art the Son of God, and doest these things. On this account, +therefore, I have written to beg of Thee that Thou wouldest weary +Thyself to come to me, and heal this disease which I have. For I +have also heard that the Jews murmur against Thee, and wish to do +Thee harm. But I have a city, small and beautiful, which is +sufficient for two.'

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"Copy of those things which were written by Jesus in reply by +the hand of Ananias, the Tabularius, to Abgar, sovereign of the +country: --

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'Blessed is he that believeth in me, not having seen me. For +it is written concerning me, that those who see me will not believe +in me, and that those will believe who have not seen me, and will +be saved. But touching that which thou hast written to me, that I +should come to thee it is meet that I should finish here all that +for the sake of which I have been sent; and, after I have finished +it, then I shall be taken up to Him that sent me; and, when I have +been taken up, I will send to thee one of my disciples, that he may +heal thy disease, and give salvation to thee and to those who are +with thee.'

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"To these letters moreover, is appended the following, also in +the Aramaic tongue", -- here following the official record of the +visit of one "Thaddaeus the apostle, one of the Seventy," and him +wonderful works in Edessa. "These things were done in the year 340. +In order, moreover that these things may not have been translated +to no purpose word for word from the Aramaic into Greek, they are +placed in their order of time here. Here endeth the first book." +(HE. i, 13; ANF. viii, 651-653.) Bishop Eusebius is thus seen to +have been a most circumstantial liar and a well-skilled forger for +God. From this episcopal lie sprouted like toadstools a whole +literature of "various books concerning Abgar the King and +Thaddaeus the Apostle," in which are preserved to posterity a +series of five letters -- very much in the style of modern patent-medicine testimonials -- written by Abgar to Tiberius Caesar and to +neighboring potentates, endorsing Jesus and his healing powers; +with a reply from Tiberius declaring that "Pilate has officially +informed us of the miracles of Jesus.". With respect to the other +letters testimonial, it is recorded: "Abgar had not yet received +answers to these letters when he died, having reigned thirty-eight +years." (Ibid. pp. 657-741, 706.)

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These crass episcopal forgeries were welcomed into the Church, +and for fifteen centuries have gone unrebuked by Pope or Church. +Even since the Reformation so strong was the belief in the Abgar-Jesus forgeries, that notable prelates in England including +Archbishop Cave, have "strenuously contended for their admission +into the canon scripture. ... The Reverend Jeremiah Jones observes, +that common people in England have this Epistle in their houses, in +many places, fixed in a frame, with the picture of Christ before +it; and that they generally, with much honesty and devotion, regard +it as the word of God, and the genuine Epistle of Christ." (Quoted

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in editorial note to the Epistles, in The Lost Books of the Bible, +p. 62.) To such state of superstitious credulity does the Church +with its pious impostures prostitute the minds of its ignorant and +credulous votaries. The portrait of Jesus, referred to above, is +said, in other versions of the Letter, to have been sent by Jesus +to the King; this portrait is now displayed at both Rome and Genoa. +(NIE. i, 38.)

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OTHER FORGERIES FOR CHRIST'S SAKE

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The pious fancy of the Fathers forged another official Letter, +in the name of what CE. calls "a fictitious person," one Lentulus, +pretended predecessor of Pilate as governor of Judaea, to the Roman +Senate, giving a description of the personal appearance of Jesus +Christ, and closing with the words, "He is the most beautiful of +the sons of men." This letter, says CE. "was certainly apocryphal"; +it was first printed in the Life of Christ, by Ludolph the +Christian; though it is thought to be traceable to the time of +Diocletian. (CE. ix, 154.) This notion of the personal beauty of +Jesus is not shared by the "tradition" of the Fathers; for Jesus +Christ is declared by Cyril of Alexandria to have been "the ugliest +of the sons of men"; a tradition also declared by Fathers Justin +Martyr and Tertullian; to offset which evil notion there was forged +"a beautiful Letter, purporting to have been written by Lentulus to +the Roman Senate." (Ib. vi, 235.) But St. Augustine, says CE., +"mentions that in his time there was no authentic portrait of +Christ, and that the type of features was still undetermined, so +that we have absolutely no knowledge of His appearance." (De +Trinitate, lib. vii, ch. 45; CE. vi, 211, n.)

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This, however, is contrary to the venerated Church fable and +artistic forgery current under the title of "St. Veronica's Veil," +based on the tale in Luke (xxvii, 27) of the woman of Jerusalem who +offered to Jesus a linen cloth to wipe his face as he was carrying +his cross towards Calvary. On wiping his sweating face, the +supposed authentic likeness of the features of the Christ was +miraculously impressed upon the cloth. The lucky lady "went to +Rome, bringing with her this image of Christ, which was long +exposed to public veneration. To her are likewise traced several +other relies of the Blessed Virgin venerated in several Churches of +the West. To distinguish at Rome the oldest and best known of these +images it was called vera icon (true image), which ordinary +language soon made veronica ... By degrees popular Imagination +mistook this word for the name of a person" (CE. xv, 362), -- and, +Lo! Saint Veronica emerges from the canonizing Saint-mill of Holy +Church. Here we plainly see myth-in-the-making; and may appreciate +the moral splendor as well as crafty thriftiness of the Church of +God which thus supplies its Faithful ready-made with one of the +most cherished female Saints of the Calendar, -- a confessed myth +and forgery. His Holiness especially displayed and vouched for this +fake on March 19, 1930, when he preached his crusade against +Russia. But the Church also, in the Roman Martyrology, credits this +holy icon to Milan, so as to fool many other Faithful. (Ib. p. +363.) This mythical female Saint "has also been confounded with a +pious woman who, according to [Bishop] Gregory of Tours, brought to +the neighboring town of Bazas some drops of the blood of John the +Baptist, at whose beheading she was present," and CE. doesn't even +wink. (Ib.)

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JOSEPHUS FORGERY TESTIFIES OF JESUS

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So many confessed Christian forgeries in Pagan and Christian +names having been wrought to testify to Jesus Christ, it was, "one +naturally expects," says CE., that a Jewish "writer so well +informed as Josephus" must know and tell about Jesus; "one +naturally expects, therefore, a notice about Jesus Christ in +Josephus." And with pride it pursues: "Antiquities, VIII, iii, 3, +seems to satisfy this expectation." It proceeds to quote the +passage, which differeth only as one translation naturally differs +from another, from that in the Whitson translation; so I follow CE. +In Chapter iii Josephus treats of "Sedition of the Jews against +Pontius Pilate"; in section 1. he relates the cause and the +suppression of the mutiny, the ensigns of the army displaying the +idolatrous Roman Eagle, brought into the Holy City; in section 2. +he tells of the action of Pilate in bringing "a current of water to +Jerusalem, and did it with the sacred money," thus again arousing +a clash with the fanatics; "there were great numbers of them slain +by this means." Passing for the moment the notorious section 3, +Josephus the Jew begins section 4: "About the same time, also, +another sad calamity put the Jews in disorder," which he proceeds +to relate, ending the long chapter. Note that these section numbers +were not put in by Josephus, but are modern editor's devices to +facilitate citation, like the chapters and verses in the Bible. And +now for the much-debated section, sandwiched, in a whole chapter on +"Seditions of the Jews," between the accounts of two massacres of +his countrymen and "another sad calamity"; and thus we read -- note +the parentheses of CE. (viii, 376): --

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"About this time," quotes CE., "appeared Jesus, a wise man (if +indeed it is right to call Him a man; for He was a worker of +astonishing deeds, a teacher of such men an receive the truth with +joy), and He drew to Himself many Jews (and many also of the +Greeks. This was the Christ). And when Pilate, at the denunciation +of those that are foremost among us, had condemned Him to the +cross, those who had first loved Him did not abandon Him. (For He +appeared to them alive on the third day, the holy prophets having +foretold this and countless other marvels about Him.) The tribe of +Christians named after Him did not cease to this day." (see. 3.)

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About this time, also "another sad calamity [?] put the Jews +into disorder," (sec. 4). continues Josephus. CE. devotes over +three long columns to the task of trying to prove that this section +3, or at least "the portions not in parentheses," -- is genuine, +and was written, sometime before his death in 94 A.D., by the +Jewish Pharisee, Josephus. "A testimony so important," well says +CE., "could not escape the critics," -- and it has not. We cannot +follow the lengthy and labored arguments; the simple reading or the +section, in its bizarre context, and a moment's reflection, condemn +it as a pious Christian forgery. If the Pharisee Josephus wrote +that paragraph, he must have believed that Jesus was the Prophesied +Messiah of his people -- "This was the Christ." Josephus is made to +aver, he must then needs have been of "the tribe of Christians +named after Him." But whatever Josephus may have said about Jesus +is, indeed, not "a testimony so important" -- when we remember what +he did aver that he saw with his own eyes; the pillar of salt into +which Mrs. Lot was turned; and Eleazar the magician drawing the

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devil by a ring and Solomonic incantations, through the nose of one +possessed, before Vespasian and all his army. If Josephus had +written that he knew Jesus the Christ personally, and had +personally seen him ascend into heaven through the roof of the room +in Jerusalem (Mk. xvi, 19, 20), or from the open countryside by +Bethany (Lk. xxiv, 50, 51), or "on the mount called Olivet" (Acts +i, 9, 12), -- we should remember that pillar of salt and that +devil-doctor, and smile.

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But, when and how did this famous passage get into The +Antiquities of the Jews? it, is pertinent to ask. The first mention +ever made of this passage, and its text, are in the Church History +of that "very dishonest writer," Bishop Eusebius, in the fourth +century, -- he who forged the Letters between Abgar and Jesus, +falsely declaring that he had found the original documents in the +official archives, whence he had copied and translated them into +his Ecclesiastical History. CE. admits, and I have the Contra +Celsum here before me, -- that "the above cited passage was not +known to Origen and the earlier patristic writers," -- though they +copied from Josephus the forged tale of the Letter of Aristeas +about the translating of the Septuagint; and "its very place in the +Josephan text is uncertain, since Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., II, vi) +must have found it before the notices concerning Pilate, while it +now stands after them" (HE. I, ii, p. 63); and it makes the curious +argument, which implies a confession: "But the spuriousness of the +disputed Josephan passage does not imply the historian's ignorance +of the facts connected with Jesus Christ"! For a wonder, that "a +writer so well informed as Josephus" should not, perhaps, know by +hearsay, sixty years after Jesus Christ, some of the remarkable +things circulated about him in current country-side gossip -- (if, +indeed, it were then current). But the fact is, that with the +exception of this one incongruous forged passage, section 3, the +wonder-mongering Josephus makes not the slightest mention of his +wonder-working fellow-countryman, Jesus the Christ, -- though some +score of other Joshuas, or Jesuses, are recorded by him, nor does +he mention any of his transcendent wonders, But, as CE. and I were +saying, none of the Fathers, before Eusebius (about 324), knew or +could find a word in the works of Josephus, of this momentous +"testimony to Jesus," over a century after Origen. That it did not +exist in the time of Origen is explicit by his own words; he cites +the supposed references by Josephus to John the Baptist and to +James, and expressly says that Josephus ought to have spoken of +Jesus instead of James; though Origen does not correctly describe +the reference to James; and the James passage, if not that also +about John, has a suspicious savor of interpolation.

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For a clear understanding of this, I will quote the passage of +Origen in his work against Celsus; it completely refutes the claim +that Josephus wrote the disputed and forged section 3. Origen says:

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"I would like to say to Celsus, who represents the Jew +accepting John somehow as a Baptist, who baptized Jesus, that the +existence of John the Baptist, baptizing for the remission of sins, +is related by one who lived no great time after John and Jesus. For +in the 18th book of his Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus bears +witness to John as having been a Baptist, and as promising +purification to those who underwent the rite. Now this writer,

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although not believing in Jesus as the Christ, in seeking after the +cause of the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple +[said that it was 'to avenge James the Just'], whereas he ought to +have said that the conspiracy against Jesus was the cause of these +calamities befalling the people, since they put to death Christ, +who was a prophet, says nevertheless -- being, although against his +will, not far from the truth -- that these disasters happened to +the Jews as a punishment for the death of James the Just, who was +a brother of Jesus (called Christ), -- the Jews having put him to +death, although he was a man most distinguished for his justice." +(Origen, Contra Celsum, I, xlvii; ANF. iv, 416.)

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Josephus is thus quoted as bearing witness to John the +Baptist, not as the Heaven-sent "forerunner" of the Christ, but +simply as a Jewish religious teacher and baptizer on his own +account; and not a word by Josephus about the Christ, in whom it is +admitted that he did not believe as such, nor even mentions as the +most illustrious of those baptized by John, to the wondrous +accompaniment of a voice from Heaven and the Holy Ghost in dove-like descent upon his head as he came up from the water. But +Origen, in his effort to get some Christian testimony from him, +misquotes Josephus and makes him say that John was baptizing "for +the remission of sins," whereas Josephus expressly says that the +efficacy of John's baptism was not for remission of sin but for the +purification of the body, as any washing would be. To vindicate +Josephus against Origen, the former's words are quoted. Josephus +recounts the defeat of Herod by Aretas, king of Arabia Petrea; and +goes on to say: --

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"Now some of the Jews thought that the destruction of +Herod's army came from God, and that very justly, as a +punishment of what he did against John, that was called the +Baptist; for Herod slew him, who was a good man, and commanded +the Jews to exercise virtue, both as to righteousness toward +one another, and piety toward God, and so to come to baptism; +for that the washing would be acceptable to him, if they made +use of it, not in order to the putting away of some sins, but +for the purification of the body: supposing still that the +soul was thoroughly purified beforehand by righteousness. Now, +when many others came in crowds about him, for they were +greatly moved by hearing his words, Herod, who feared lest the +great influence John had over the people might put it into his +power and inclination to raise a rebellion, (for they seemed +ready to do anything he should advise,) thought it best, by +putting him to death, to prevent any mischief he might cause, +and not bring himself into difficulties, by sparing a man who +might make him repent of it when it should be too late. +Accordingly, he was sent a prisoner, out of Herod's suspicious +temper, to Macherus, the castle I before mentioned, and was +there put to death." (Josephus, Antiq. Jews, Bk. XVIII, v, 2.)

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Beginning in section 4. of the same Book, and at length in +various chapters, Josephus goes into details regarding Salome; but +never a word of the famous dance-act and of the head of John the +Baptist being brought in on a charger to gratify her murderous +whim: the historical reason for the murder of John was political, +not amorous or jealous, as related by Gospel-truth.

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Father Origen again falls into error in citing Josephus, this +time in the dubious passage where Josephus, who does not believe in +the Christ, yet gives him that title in speaking of the death of +James. With typical clerical bent Father Origen imputes the fall of +Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple to the sin of the Jews +in crucifying the Christ; and says that Josephus, in seeking the +cause of the disasters which befell the Holy City and people, +attributes them to the killing of the Christ's brother. The Holy +City and temple were destroyed in 70 A.D., which was well after the +time of the supposititious James, as his demise is recorded in the +suspected passage of Josephus. He related the death of Festus, +which was in 62 A.D., the appointment by Nero of Albinus as his +successor, and the murder of James at the instigation of the high +priest Ananus, before Albinus can arrive. this sentence is to be +read in the text of Josephus:

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"Festus was now dead, and Albinus was but upon the road; +so he (Ananus) assembled the sanhedrin of judges, and brought +before them the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose +name was James, and some others; and when he had formulated an +accusation against them all breakers of the law, he delivered +them to be stoned." (Jos., Antiq. Jews, Bk. XX, ix, i.)

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Bishop Eusebius cannot pass over this chance to turn another +Jewish testimony for his Christ; he says that "The wiser part of +the Jews were of the opinion that this -- (the killing of James) -- +was the cause of the immediate siege of Jerusalem ... Josephus also +has not hesitated to superadd his testimony in his works. "These +things,' he says, 'happened to the Jews to avenge James the Just, +who was the brother of him that is called Christ, and whom the Jews +had slain, notwithstanding his preeminent justice.'" (Euseb. Hist. +Eccles. Bk. II, ch. 23.)

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The reader may judge of the integrity of these pretended +Jewish testimonies to the Baptist and to the brother of the Christ, +both suspicious per se, and both falsely cited by Father Origen, +who in all this could not find the famous section 3, first found a +century later by Bishop Eusebius; and which Origen makes it +positive Josephus had not written and could not have written. Is it +a violent suspicion, and uncharitable, to suggest that the holy +Bishop who forged the Letter of his Christ, and lied about finding +it in the Edessa archives, really "found," in the sense of +invented, or forged, the Josephus passages first heard of in his +Church History?

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But Bishop Eusebius, with a sort of "stop thief" forethought, +himself imputes forgery to those who would question or discredit +his own pious inventions, while with unctuous fervor pretended +truth he appeals to the wonderful "testimonies of Josephus," which +he has just fabricated. After quoting and misquoting Josephus with +respect to John the Baptist and Jesus Christ, he thur solemnly +couches for their false witness: "When such testimony as this is +transmitted to us by an historian who sprung from the Hebrews +themselves, both respecting John the Baptist and our Savior, what +subterfuge can be left, to prevent those from being convicted +destitute of all shame, who have forged the acts against them?" +(Eusebius, HE. I, xi.) The Bishop justly pronounces his own

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condemnation. This, says Gibbon, "is an example of no vulgar +forgery." (Chap. xvi.) In view of the convicting circumstances, and +of his notoriously bad record, it, is not uncharitable to impute +this Josephus forgery to Bishop Eusebius.

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THE OWL-ANGEL FORGERY

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Another story of Pagan superstition related by Josephus, and +twisted by the Christian invention of Bishop Eusebius and the +sacred writers of Acts into inspired "history" and truth of God, is +the celebrated angel-owl passage relating to the tragic death of +the King, Herod Agrippa. Josephus tells that Herod went to Caesarea +to attend a celebration in honor of Caesar; that as Herod entered +the stadium, clad in a robe of silver tissue, the rays of the sun +shone upon it resplendently, making him look like a supernatural +being; whereupon the crowd cried out hailing him as more than +mortal, as a god; but his mortality was quickly made evident by his +sudden illness and death. It may be explained that the word "angel" +(Greek, angelos) means simply "messenger" or herald. Thus proceeds +Josephus:

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"But" he [Herod] presently afterward looked up, he saw an +owl sitting upon a certain rope over his head, and immediately +understood that this bird was a messenger [Gr. angelos] of +ill-tidings." Herod was shortly seized with "severe pains in +his belly," and died after five days of suffering." (Jos. +Antiq. Jews, XIX, viii, 2.)

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This was too Paganish and prosaic for the pious Christian +fancy of Bishop Eusebius; so while he was forging the "Jesus +passage," he proceeded to give Christian embellishment for +edification to the "owl" story, with its use of the word "angelos." +So he quotes in full the narration of Josephus, under the chapter +heading "Herod Agrippa persecuting the Apostles, immediately +experienced divine Judgment." he first relates the "martyrdom of +James" by Herod, and the imprisonment of Peter, as recorded in +Acts, and proceeds: "The consequences, however, of the king's +attempts against the apostles, were not long deferred, but the +avenging minister of divine justice soon overtook him. ... As it is +also recorded in the book of Acts, he proceeded to Caesarea, and +there on a noted festival, being clad in a splendid and royal +dress, he harangued the people. ... The whole people applauding him +for his harangue, as it were the voice of a god, and not of a man, +the Scriptures relate, 'that the angel of the Lord immediately +smote him and being consumed by worms, he gave up the ghost.' It is +wonderful to observe, likewise, in this singular event, the +coincidence of the history given by Josephus, with that of the +sacred Scriptures. In this he [Josephus] plainly adds his testimony +to the truth, in the nineteenth book of his Antiquities, where he +relates the miracles in the following words: [here quoting Josephus +in full, until he reaches the owl-story, when he thus falsifies]: +-- 'After a little While, raising himself, he saw an angel +[angelos] hanging over his head upon a rope,, and this he knew +immediately to be an omen of evil'! Thus far Josephus: in which +statement, as in others, I can but admire his agreement with the +divine Scriptures"! (Eusebius, HE. II, x.) An angel hanging on a +rope over one's head might well have been taken by a superstitious

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person as ominous of something -- maybe of a hung angel. This pious +story, with the owl piously metamorphosed into an angel, was +apparently cribbed from Josephus also by the writer of Acts, or +maybe "interpolated" into it by the fanciful Bishop. There we find +this Pagan-Jewish anecdote retold by divine inspiration thus +embellished over Josephus and Eusebius: "And immediately the angel +of the Lord [Gr. angelos Kurioul smote him, because he gave not God +the glory: and he was eaten of worms and gave up the ghost"! (Acts +xii, 20-23.) Note the almost identical words, except for the +progressive embellishments: Josephus' owl thus became first an +angel of evil omen, then the avenging minister of the wrath of God, +aided by devouring worms to give true Christian zest and spite to +the simple Pagan superstition. Herod probably died from acute +indigestion caused by the excesses of the festivities, or from an +attack of peritonitis or appendicitis. Profane history of the event +does not chronicle the devouring, avenging worms of God.

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The forgery of pious documents of every imaginable character +was among the most constant and zealous activities of the holy +propagandists of the Christian Faith, from the beginning to the +critical era when forgeries were no longer possible or profitable. +A fitting close to this review is the following omnibus confession +-- the Churches cheating each other by forgeries:

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"Indeed, in later times, we hear of recovered autographs +of Apostolic writings in the controversies about the Apostolic +origin of some Churches or about claims for metropolitan +dignity. So the autograph of the Gospel of St. Matthew was +said to have been found in Cyprus. ... Eusebius (Hist. Eccles. +vii, 19) relates that in his time the seat of St. James was as +yet extant in Jerusalem. Of old pictures of Apostles, see +Eusebius, ibid, vii, 18. Whether or not even the oldest of +these statements are historically true remains still a mooted +question. We regard it as useless to record what may be found +on these topirg in the vast amount of matter that makes up the +apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and other legendary +documents." (CE. 635.)

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Among some of these not already mentioned are found "The +Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Canons of Pseudo-Hippolytus, +The Egyptian Church Ordinance." (CE. i, 636.) Also: "In the last +years of the fifth century a famous document attributed to Popes +Gelasius and Hormisdas adds ... a list of books disapproved, the +works of heretics, and forged Scriptural documents." (CE. vi, 4.) +A glance at the Index-volume of CE. reveals the numerous forged +works attributed to many of the Fathers of the early Church, listed +under the word Pseudo, or false, which word is to be understood as +prefixed to each of the following names: Pseudo-Alquin, Ambrosius, +Antoninus, Areopagite, Athanasius, Augustine, Barnabas, +Callisthenes, Chrysostom, Clement, Epiphanius, Gelasius, Gregory, +Nazianzen, Hegesippus, Hippolytus, Ignatius, Isidore, Jonathan, +Justin, Matthew, Prochorus, Tertullian, Zaeharius. The pious +ignorant "Christians, who for the most part are untrained and +illiterate persons," as shown in the Octavius of Minucius Felix (V, +xi), and the whole Church, were gulled by these frauds for a +thousand years.

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Before looking into the forgery of the New Testament Books, we +shall first draw, from their own words, cameo pen-sketches of those +great men of God and of Holy Church, who under the fond name of +Fathers, but with the minds and devious ways of little children, +forged the sacred documents of the Faith, and by their pious labors +of fraud and forgery founded what is credulously called the Church +of Christ and the Most Holy Christian Faith.

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The libraries of the Union Theological Seminary and of +Columbia University, in New York City, were the places of the finds +here recorded. Cited so often, space will be saved for more +valuable uses by citing by their initials, -- which will become +very familiar -- my chief ecclesiastical authorities, towit:

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The Ante-Nicene Fathers, cited as ANF.; A Collection of the +extant Writings of all the Founders of Christianity down to the +Council of Nicaea, or Nice, in 325 A.D. American Reprint, eight +volumes. The Christian Literature Publishing Co., Buffalo, N.Y., +1885. [xxx]

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The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, cited as N&PNF.; First and +Second Series; many volumes; same publishers.

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The Catholic Encyclopedia, cited as CE.; fifteen volumes and +index, published under the Imprimatur of Archbishop Farley; New +York, Robert Appleton Co., 1907-9.

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The Encyclopedia Biblica, cited as EB., four volumes; Adam & +Charles Black, London, 1899; American Reprint, The Macmillan Co., +New York, 1914.

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THE SAINTLY "FATHERS" OF THE FAITH

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"The greater Saint, the greater Liar." Diegesis. +"The principal historians of the patristic period cannot +always be completely trusted." (CE. vi, 14.)

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EMBRACED WITIFIN CE.'s confession of patristic +untrustworthines and perversion of truth is every "Father" and +Founder of the Church of Christ of the first three centuries of the +fabrication of the new Faith, -- as by their own words will now be +demonstrated. Yet upon these self-same not-to-be-trusted fabulists +and forgers do the truth and validity of the Christ and the +Christian religion solely and altogether depend. They dertroy it.

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The Fathers of our country, framers of our Constitution and +form of government, were men of personal honor and of public +probity; the most of them were Infidels. The "Fathers" and founders +of the Christian religion and Church of Christ were, all of them, +ex-Pagan charlatans -- "we who formerly used magical arts," as +Father Justin Martyr admits (I Apology, xiv), who took up the new +Christian superstition and continued to ply the same old magical +arts under a new veneer, upon the ignorant and superstitious pagans +and near-pagans, as the ensuing pages will demonstrate. The, +Fathtrs will show themselves to be wholly destitute of common sense +of opinion and of common honesty of statement, credulous and +mendacious to the n-th degree.

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It is of capital importance to an intelligent and adequate +understanding of the Christian religion, of which these Fathers +were the originators and propagandists, to see their work in the +making, and to know the mental and moral limitations and +obliquities of these fatuous, fabling, forging Fathers of the +Church. We shall see them to be grotesquely credulous of every +fable, many of which themselves fabricated: reckless of truth to +the highest degree; fluent and unscrupulous Liars of the Lord, +whose lies, if thereby the "glory of God" were made the more to +abound, they, like Paul, counted it no sin (Rom. iii, 7), as we +have seen confessed. lake Paul, "being crafty," they made a holy +craft of catching the credulous with guile; and like Paul, they +boasted of it. (2 Cor. xii, 16.)

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For the ampler appreciation of the utter incapacity of these +pious ex-Pagan and ex-Magician Fathers to comprehend truth or to +tell it, and of their childish and reckless irresponsibility in +relating as truth what they knew was not true, we need but look +briefly at their records and wonder at their moronic mentality. For +this purpose, and to watch the snow-ball-like roll and growth of +their Fatherly "traditions" and fabrications into forged Church, +Creed, and Dogma, a brief sketch is given, in chronological order +-- a veritable Roll of Dishonor -- of the chiefest of them; citing +Under each name a few -- out of innunierable -- of their +extravagant, childish-minded and tortuous precepts and practices of +Christian propaganda; together with sundry forgeries perpetrated by +them or in their sainted names.

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An admirable norm and test of trustworthiness is stated by +Middleton, one of the keenest critics of the Miracle-mongering of +the Feathers: "The authority of a writer who affirms any +questionable fact, must depend on the character of his veracity and +judgment. In many cases the want of judgment alone has all the same +effect, as the want of veracity, too, towards invalidating the +testimony of a witness; especially in cases of an extraordinary or +miraculous nature, where the weakness of men is more apt to be +imposed upon." (A Free Inquiry, P. 26.) It will give pause to +think, to that yet great and priest-taught clash of Believers who, +like the Fathers themselves, "think the credibility of a witness +sufficient evidence of the certainty of all facts indifferently, +whether natural or supernatural, probable or improbable, and +knowing no difference between faith and facts, take a facility of +believing to be the surest mark of a good Christian." (Ibid, +Preface, v.) Their faith reasons -- if at all -- in the terms of +Father Tertullian: "It is by all means to be believed, because it +is absurd; the fact is certain, because it is impossible." (De +Carne Christi, ch. v, ANF. iii, 525.)

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The mental limitations of the Fathers we have seen several +times admitted and apologized for by CE.; further it confesses of +them: "It was natural that in the early days of the Church, the +Fathers, writing with little scientific knowledge, should have a +tendency" to fall into sundry comical and preposterous errors "now +entirely abandoned" (iii, 731). This is but another of its many +luminous confessions of the ignorance and uncritical credulity of +the pious Fathers, extending over fifteen hundred years of Church +history, and even yet!

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The childlike mental processes of the Fathers, their all-accepting credulity, and the utter worthlessness of their opionns +and "traditions" as to things divine and human, is oft-admitted and +will be made manifest. We shall soon see that the Four Gospels +which Christans, with childlike faith accept as the genuine +handiwork of the apostles and immediate companions of Christ, are +anonymous forgeries of a century and more after their time, and +that the other New Testament booklets, Acts and Epistles of the +alleged apostles, are so many other forgeries made long after their +times.

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The forged New Testament booklets and the foolish writings of +the Fathers, are the sole "evidence" we have for the alleged facts +and doctrines of our most holy Faith, as is admited by (CE.: "Our +documentary sources of knowledge about the origins of Christianity +and its earliest development, are chiefly the New Testament +Scriptures and various sub-Apostolic writings, the authenticity of +which we must to a great extent take for granted here. (CE, iii, +712.) The Christian religion and the Church thus confessedly exist +upon data and documents the authenticity and verity of which "must +be taken for granted," -- but which are well known, and are here +easily shown, to be false and fabricated, with deceptive intent.

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PATRISTIC "TRADITION"

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This word "tradition," of Fathers and Chirch, we shall +frequently meet, such "tradition" being urged as evidence of the +reality and verity of these things with easy gesture "taken for +granted" by the beneficiaries of the System based upon them. What, +then, is "tradition"? Of what value is "tradition," as evidence of +things naturally incredible and unverifiable, -- of alleged events +and miraculous happenings over a century before the "traditions" -- +invariably contradictory -- which first allege them as facts for +Faith? For instance: "The famous texts of Irenaeus on Apostolic +Succession are a testimony to the faith [i.e. "traditions"] of the +second century, rather than an example of historical narrative." +(CE. vii, 341.)

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Tradition is popular stories and hand-me-down reports or +gossip current in the community or passing current among any +particular class of people; it is of the same stuff as legend is +made of. One pious Father or propagator of the Faith would aver +some wonder-tale which would attract credulous interest; the next, +in repeating it, invariably embroiders it with new fancies, and so +it grows like a snowball of fables. We have seen the example of the +garnishments of the Fathers to the forged Aristeas-tale regarding +the Septuagint; we shall see the Fatherly "traditions" suddenly +crop up a century or two after some alleged event, embroider and +expand -- and contradict themselves from Father to Father in the +telling, with respect to every single instance: Gospel-tales, +forged "apocrypha" narratives, false foundations of churches, +bishops, popes, apostolic successions. Thus the Fathers inflated +their originally fictitious "traditions" of this and that, and on +such bases the New Testament and the Church of Christ arose. Of +course, the credibility of any "tradition" or alleged fact depends +wholly on the credit of the first narrator of it, to all later +repeaters it is purely hearsay, and gains no further credit from +the number of those repeating the original tale. If a thing is a +lie when first told, repetaion ad infinitum cannot make it into a +truth.

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In a note to one instance of patristic tradition recorded in +the bulky collection, the editors of the ANF., to which we are +indebted for most of what follows regarding these fatuous Fathers, +make fhis sententious comment: "Hearsay at second-hand, and handed +about among many, amounts to nothing as evidence." And this is the +comment of Father Bishop Eusebius, the first Church historian, on +the "traditions" of good Father Bishop Papias, firist of the sub-Apostolic Fathers: "These sayings [of Jesus Christ and apostles] +consisted of a number of strange parables, and doctrines of our +Saviour, which the authority of so venerable a person, who had +lived with the apostles, imposed on the Church as genuine." (Mist. +Eccles. Bk. III, ch. 39.) But this is simply another fictitious +"tradition," that Papias "lived with the apostles," for he did not, +as his own words and CE. will disclose when we come to sketch that +pious fabulist of a Father. Such are patristic and ecclesiastical +"traditions," of which sufficient examples are yet to be noticed,

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THE TWELVE "TRADITIONAL" APOSTLES

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There were Twelve Tribes of Israel: and Moses, coming down +from Sinai, appointed twelve young men "according to the twelve +tribes of Israel" to sacrifice at the twelve phallic pillars which +he get up to celebrate the giving of the Law. (Ex. xxiv, 4-5.) So +"tradition" has it that Jesus appointed Twelve Apostles: "The +number twelve was symbolical, corresponding to the twelve tribes of +Israel" (EB. i, 264); but the whole story is fictitious, says EB. +(iii, 2987), with the soundest Scriptural basis for its conclusion. +As this -- and many other fictional features of the Christ-biographies -- are fully examined in my Is It God's Word? (Chaps. +XIII-XIV), I must refer to it for the confused "traditions" of the +Twelve, for the purpose of showing their wholly fictitious +character,

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After the same "symbolical" fashion the legendary "Seventy +Elders of Israel," commanded by Yahveh and chosen by Moses (Num. +xi, 16, 24), had their counterpart in the equally legendary +"Seventy Disciples, whom also the lord appointed" (Luke x, 1), -- +and who furnished so many zealous missionaries and early church-founders, as their "records" pretend, and so many of which are by +CE,. declared to be fraudulent and forged. Bear in mind that the +"Gospel"' records, as we shall see, are anonymous forgeries of a +century and more after the "traditional" events recorded; and the +unreliable nature of "tradition" is further illutitrated.

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The probability if not assurance will appear the stronger, as +we proceed with the Fathers and with the "sacred writings," that +the Holy Twelve had no exintence in the flesh, but their "cue" +being taken from the Old Testament legends, they were mere names -- +dramatic persons, -- masks of the play, -- of "tradition," such as +Shakespeare and all playwrights and fiction-writers create for the +actors of their plays and works of admitted fiction.

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A very curious and challenging admission is made by CE. in +speaking of the noted forgeries, long regarded as inspired, of the +"Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagitc," who "clove unto Paul" after his +Mar's Hill harangue (Acts xvii, 34), and all whose name many +precious forgeries -- "a series of famous writings" (CE. v, 13) -- +were forged by pious Christians "at the very earliest in the latter +half of the fifth century," and which were "of highest and +universully acknowledged authority, both in the Western and in the +Eastern Church, lasting until the beginning of the fifteenth +century," followed by a "period of aharp conflict Waged about their +authenticity, begun by Laurentius Valla, and closing only within +recent years." (CE. v, 15.) "Those writings," says CE. -- with more +far-reaching suggestion than intinded "with intent to deceive, +weave into their narrative certain fictitious personages, such as +Peter, James, John, Timothy, Carpus, and others." (CE. vii, 345.) +If these great Apostles and "pillars of the Faith" are "fictitious +personages" in the long-revered but now admitted forgeries of +Pseudo-Dionysius, by what token may they be any the less fictitious +personages in the hundreds of other equally forged Christian +writings Which we shall notice, -- as also in the to-be-deomonstrated forgeries of Gospel, Acts and Epistles, in which the +identical personages, or dramatis personae, play their imaginary

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and self-contradictory roles, as we shall promptly see? For fifteen +hundred years, and until "only within recent years," were the +Dionysian forguries tenaciously proclaimed as genuine by the Holy-Ghost-guided Church; may it not have been equally misguided as to +the "suthenticity" of its Gospels and other "sacred writings"? If, +in the venerated "pseudo-Areopagite," the sainted Peter, Paul, +John, et als., are admittedly "fictitious personages," how do they +acquire the flesh and blood of actual persons in Gospels and +Epistles? We shall see.

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I. The Apostles

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Two of them, the principal, Peter anh John, are described to +be "anthropoi agrammatoi kai idiotai -- unlearned and ignorant men" +(Acts iv, 13); all Twelve were of the same type and well matched. +They were variously picked up from among the humblest and most +superstitious of the Galilee peasants, fishermen and laborers, +"called" personally, we are told by the Son of God, the proclaimed +King-to-be of the Jews, to be his counsellors and associates in the +establishment of his earthly and heavenly Kingdoms -- of Jews. As +for the King-to-be and his prospective Court, a saddening and +repellent portraiture is sketched in the inspired Biographics: +though it is true, "The chronology of the birth of Christ and the +subsequent Bibical events is most uncertain." (CE. vii, 419.) His +parents and family regarded him as insane and sought to resrtrain +him by foree. (Mark iii, 21; cf. John x, 20.) He and his Apostle-band toured Palestine with a retinue of bare-foot and unwrshed +peasant men and women, shocking polite people by their habits of +not washing even their hands to eat when invited as guests, and by +the violence of their language. These traits ran in his peasant +family and relatives, His cousin, known as John the Baptist, was a +desert dervish, unwashed and unshorn, who wore a leather loin-strap +for clothes and whose regular diet, was wild bumble-bee honey and +raw grasshoppers. His own brother James was an unkempt and filthy +as any Saint in the calendar; of him Bishop Eusebius records: +"James, the brother of the Lord, ... a razor never came upon his +head, he never anointed with oil, and never used a bath"! (HE. II, +23.) With the Master at their hend, the Troupe wandered up and down +the little land, proclaiming the immediate end of the world, +playing havoc with the legions of devils who infested the +peasantry, and preaching Hell and Damnation for all who would not +heed their fanatical preachments.

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APOSTOLIC GREED AND STRIFE.

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As for the Twelve, the hope of great reward was the inspiredly +recorded motive of these peanants; who left their petty crafts for +hope of greater gain by following the lowly King-to-be. The zeal +and greed for personal aggrandizement of the Chosen Twelve is +constantly revealed throughout the inspired record. hardly had the +Holy Twelve gotten organized and into action, when the cunning and +crafty Peter, spokesman for the craft, boldly came forward and +advanced the itching palm: "Then answered Peter and said unto him, +Behold we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have +therefore?" (Matt. xix, 27.) And the Master came back splendidly +with the Promise: "And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, +That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son

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of Man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon +twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel" (Matt. xix, +28). But even these brillant future rewards could not satisfy the +greed of the Holy Ones, and led not to gratitude, but to greater +greed and strife.

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The Mother of James and John, probably inspired by them, and +zealous for their greater glory, came secretly with her two sons, +to Jesus, "worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him" +(Matt. xx, 20); and when Jesus asked her what it was, "she saith +unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy +right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom." (v. 21.) +But Mark contradicts the assurance of Matthew that it was Mrs. +Zebedee who came and made the request, and avers that "James and +John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, stying, Maister, we would +that thou shouldst do for us whatsoever we shall desire," and +stated their own modest demands for preferment. (Mark x, 35-37.) +But, in either contradictory event, both agree that "when the ten +heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two +brethren." (Matt. xxix, 24; Mark x, 41.)

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Not during the whole one -- or three -- years of association +with their Master, did these holy Apostles abate their greed and +strife. Several times are recorded desputes among them as to "who +should be greatest among them" (Matt. xviii, 1; Mark ix, 33-34; +Luke ix, 46) -- here again the "harmony of the Gospels" assuring +the constant inharmony of the Apostles. And even at the Last +Supper, when Jesus had announced that one of them would that night +betray him to death, "there was also strife among them, which of +them should be accounted the greatest." (Luke xxii, 24.) And great +was the disgust of the Master at his miserable Apostles, and +especially at the craven and crafty Peter, Jesus had spurned him +with blasting scorn, "and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, +Satan; thou art an offense to me" (Matt. xvi, 23); and again the +Gospels are in harmony (Mt. xvi, 23; Mk. viii, 33). Such are the +Holy Apostles of Jesus Christ, said to be painted by some of +themselves through inspiration. This "Satan" Peter, later +constituted "Saint" Peter, shall again deserve our attention.

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II. The Apostolic Fathers

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Under this rubric CE. lists, as those who were "converted with +the apostles," and, after them. were the first propagandists of the +Truth, the Catholic Saints Clement, Ignatiut;, Polycarp, Barnabas, +and Hermas; they fill up the first half of the second century of +the era. The "traditions" preserved of these saintly Fathers of the +Church are very scanty and dubious; but from what exists they were +all within the apostolic description of Peter and John, "ignorant +and unlearned men," and like Bishop Pipias, as described by Bishop +Eusebius, "men of very small minds, if we may judge from their own +words," of which we shall now read for ourselves. It will be noted +that all these Fathers, like all the sub-apostolic Fathers for the +first two centuries and more, were ex-Pagans, and (with the alleged +exception of "Pope" Clement), were Greeks, of scattered parts of +the Empire, who wrote and taught in Greek, and with the very +questionable exception of Clement, had nothing to do with "the +Church which sojourns at Rome." Each was the Bishop and hend of his

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own local, and independent, Church; and never once does one of them +(except Clement of Rome, in a forged Epistle), speak of or mention +the Church of Rome, or more than barely mention Peter (and only as +one of the Apostles), nor mention or quote a single book of the New +Testament, -- though they are profuse in quoting the Old Testament +books, canonical and apoeryphal, the Pagan gods, and the Sibylline +oracles, as inspired testimonies of Jesus Christ. The significance +of all this will appear.

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1. CLEMENT OF ROME (about 30-96 A.D.). He is alleged to be the +first, second, third, or fourth, Bishop, or Pope, of Rome (CE. iv, +13); and to be the author of two Epistles to the Corinthians, +besides other bulky and important forgeries, thus confessed and +catalogued by CE:

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"Many writings have been faslely attributed to Pope St. +Clement: (1) The 'Second Clementine Epistle to the Corinthians.' +Many critics have believed them genuine [they having been read in +the Churches]. ... But it is now admitted on all hands that they +cannot be by the same author as the genuine [?] Epistle to the +Corinthians. ... (2) Two Epistles to Virgins.' (3) At the head of +the Pscudo-Isidorian Decretals stand five letters attributed to St. +Clement. (4) Ascribed to Clement are the 'Apostolic Constitutions,' +'Apostolic Canons,' and the "Testament of our lord.' (5) The +'Clementines' or 'Pseudo-Clementines,' including the Recognitions +and Homilies," hereafter to be noticed. (CE. iv, 14-15; cf. 17, +39.)

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The second of these alleged Epistles of Clement to the +Corinthians is thus admittedly a forgery, together with everything +else in his name but the alleged First Epistle. The case for this +First Epistle is little if any better; but as it is the very flimsy +basis of one of the proudest claims of Holy Church -- though +suppressed as "proof" of another claim which it disproves, -- it +is, as it were, plucked as a brand from the burning of all the +other Clementine forgeries, and placed at the head of all the +writings of the Fathers. Of this I Clement EB. says: "The author is +certainly not Clement of Rome, whatever may be our judgment as to +whether or not Clement was a bishop, a martyr, a disciple of the +apostles. The martyrdom, set forth in untrustworthy Acts, has for +its sole foundation the identification of Clement of Rome with +Flavius Clement the consul, who was executed by cominand of +Domitian," -- A.D. 81-96. (EB. iii, 3486.) This First Epistle is +supposed to have been written about the year 96-98, by Clement, +friend and coworker of Paul, according to the late "tradition" +first set in motion by Dionysius, A.D. 170. But "This Clement," +says CE., after citing the Fathers, "was probably a Philippian." +(CE. iv, 13.) "Who the Clement was to whom the writings were +asscribed, cannot with absolute certainty be determined." (ANF. i, +2.)

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It is notable that the pretendedly genuine "First Epistle" +does not contain or mention the name of any one as its author, nor +name Clement; its address is simply: "The Church of God which +sojourns at Rome, to the Church of God sojurning at Corinth." There +is only one MS. of it in existence, a translation into Latin from +the original Greek. This is the celebrated MS. of "Holy Scripture"

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known as Codex A, which was discovered and presented to Charles I +of England by Cyril of Alexandria, in 1628; the Fathers cited both +I and II Clement as Seripture. On this MS., at the end of I +Clement, is written, "The First Epistle of Clement to the +Corinthians": a subscription which proves itself a forgery and that +it was not written by Clement, who could not know that a later +forger would write a "Second Clement," so as to give him occasion +to call his own the First. (ANF. viii, 55-56.)

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By whomever this "First Epistle" was written, by Father, +Bishop, or Pope of Rome, his zeal and his intelligence are +demonstrated by his argument, in Chapter xxv, of the truth of the +Resurrection; in proof of which he makes this powerful and faith-compelling plea: "Let us consider that wonderful sign [of the +resurrection) which takes place in Eastern lands, that is, in +Arabia and the countries round about. There is a certain bird which +is called a phoenix. This is the only one of its kind, and lives +five hundred years. And when the time of its dissolution draws near +that it must die, it builds itself a nest of frankincense, and +myrrh, and other spices, into which, when the time is fulfilled, it +enters and dies. But as the flesh decays a certain kind of worm is +produced, which, being nourished by the juices of the dead bird, +brings forth feathers. Then, when it has acquired strength, it +takes up that nest in which are the bones of its parent, and +bearing these it passes from the land of Arabia into Egypt, to the +City called Heliopolis. And, in open day, flying in the sight of +all men, it places them on the altar of the sun, and having done +this, hastens back to its former abode. The priests then inspect +the registers of the dates, and find that it has returned exactly +as the 500th year was completed." (ANF. i. p. 12. Note: "This fable +respecting the phoenix is mentioned by Herodotus (ii, 73) and by +Pliny (Nat. X, 2), and is used as above by Tertullian (De Resurr., +see. 13), and by others of the Fathers." CF,. iv, 15.)

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The occasion for the pretended writing of this Epistle, and +the very high significance of it, will be noticed when we treat of +the origin of the Church which sojourns at Roine.

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2. IGNATIUS: Saint, Bishop of Antioch (born in Syria, c. 50 -- +died rather latitudinously "between 98 and 117"). "More than one of +the early ecclesiastical writers has given credence, though +apparently without good reason, to the legend that Ignatius was the +child whom the Saviour took up in his armos, as described in Mark, +ix, 35." (CE. vii, 644.) "If we include St. Peter, Ignatius was the +third Bishop of Antioch," (CE, vii, 644), -- thus casting doubt on +another and a most monumental but confused Church "tradition." He +was the subject of very extensive forgeries; fifteen Epistles bear +the name of Ignatius, including one to the Virgin Mary, and her +reply; two to the apostle John, others to the Philippians, +Tarsians, Antiocheans, Ephesians, Magnesians, Trallians, Romans, +Philadelphians, Smyrneans, and to Polycarp, besides a forged +Martyrium; the clerical forgers were very active with the name of +Saint Ignatius. Of these, eight Epistles and the Martyrium are +confessedly forgeries; "they are by common consent set aside as +forgeries, which were at various dates and to serve special +purposes, put forth under the name of the celebrated Bil;hop of +Antioch" (ANF. i, 46; CE. vii, 645); though, says CE., "if the

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Martyrum is genuine, this work has been greatly interpolated." As +to the seven supposed by some to be genuine, "even the genuine +epistles were greatly interpolated to lend weight to the personal +views of its author. For this reason they are incapable of bearing +witness to the original form" (CE. vii, 645); and even the +authenticity of the "genuine seven" was warmly disputed for several +centuries. The dubious best that CE. can say is: "Perhaps the best +evidence for their authenticity is to be found in the letter of +Polycarp to the Philippians, which mentions each of them by name +... UNLESS, indeed, that of Polycarp itself be regarded as +interpolated or FORGED." (Ib. p. 646.)

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As good proofs as may be that these "seven genuine" are late +forgeries, are: of each one of them, as printed in the ANF., there +are "two recensions, a shorter and a longer," printed in parallel +columno, thus demonstrating that the longer at least is "greatly +interpolated"; the most significant being a refercnce to Peter and +Paul, constituting the "interpolated" part of Chap. vii of the +Epistle to the Romans, hereafter noticed. That as a whole they are +late forgeries, is further proved by the fact, stated by Cardinal +Newman, that "the whole system of Catholic doctrine may be +discovered, at least in outline, not to say in parts filled up, in +the course of his seven Epistles" (CE, vii, 646); this including +the impossibilities -- for that epoch -- of the claborated +hierarchy of the Imperial Chureh as having been instituted by the +humble Nazarene, -- who was to "come again" and put an end to all +earthly things within the generation; the infallibility of the +Church, the supernatural virtue of virginity, and the primacy of +the See of Rome, -- at the supposed time of Ignatius, a little +horde of nondescripts burrowing in the Catacombs of imperial Rome! +Oh, Church of God: never a scrap of paper even touched by you but +was a loathsome forgery to the glory of your fictitious God and +Christ! So as Father Saint Ignatius did not write anything +authentic, he escapes the self-condemnation of the other Apostolic +Fathers. May his martyred remains rest in peace.

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3. POLYCARP: (69 -- 155). Saint, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr. +Only one Epistle, addressed to the Philippians, remains of +Polycarp, and of it CE. discusses the "serious qucstion" of its +genuineness, which depends upon that of the Ignatian Epistles, and +vice versa, above discussed; it says: "If the former were +forgeries, the latter, which supports -- it might almost be said +presupposes -- them, must be a forgery from the same hand." (CE. +xii, 219.) Poor Church of God, cannot you produce something of your +Saints that isn't a forgery?

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But if Saint Polycarp did not write anything genuine, his +Church of Smyrna did itself proud in doing honor to his pretended +Martyrtioin, in A.D. 154-5, or 165-6 (lb.) -- so exact is Church +"tradition." In one of the earliest Encyclicals -- (not issued by +a Pope) -- the wondrous tale is told. It it; addressed: "The "The +Church of God which sojourns at Smyrna, to the Church of God +sojourning in Philomelium, and to all the congregations of the holy +and Catholic -- [first use of term] -- Church in every place"; and +proceeds in glowing words to recount the virtues, capture, trial +and condemnation to death by fire, of the holy St. Polycarp. Just +before his capture, polycarp dreamed that his pillow was afire; he

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exclaimed to those around, "prophetically, 'I am to be burned +alive.'" The forged and fabling Epistle proceeds: "Now, as Polycerp +was entering into the stadium, there came to him a voice from +heaven, saying, 'Be strong, and show thyself a man, O Polycarp.' No +one saw who it was that spoke to him; but those of our brethren who +were present heard the voice" (Ch. ix). Then the details of his +trial before the magistrates, and the verbatim report of his prayer +when led to his fate (xiv). Then (Chap. xv):

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"When he had pronounced this amen, and so finished his +prayer, those who were appointed for the purpose kindled the +fire. And as the flame blazed forth in great fury, we, to whom +it was given to witness it, beheld a great miracle, and have +been preserved that we might report to others what then took +place. For the fire, shaping itself into the form of an arch., +like the sail of a ship when filled with the wind, encompassed +as by a circle of fire the body of the martyr. And he appeared +within not like flesh which is burnt, but as bread that is +baked, or as gold and silver glowing in a furnsce. Moreover, +we prececived such a sweet odor (coming from the pile), as if +frankincene or some such precious spices had been smoking +there. (Ch. xvi.) At length, when those wicked men perceived +that his body could not be consumed by the fire, they +commanded an executioner to go near and pierce him through +with a dagger. And on his doing this, there came forth a dove, +and a great quantity of blood, so that the fire was +extinguished"! (Letter of the Church at Smyrna, ANF. i. 39-44; +CE. xii, 221.)

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Even this holy Encyclical, at least as to its appended date, +is not without suspicion; for, "The possibility remains that the +subscription was tampered with by a later hand. But 155 must be +approximately correct." (CE. xii, 221.) Oh, for something saintly +above suspicion!

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4. BARNABAS: (no dates given): Saint, a Jew; styled an +Apostle, and variously a Bishop, and wholly "traditional." "Though +nothing is recorded of Barnabas for some years, he evidently +acquired a high position in the Church"; for "a rather late +tradition recorded by Clement of Alexandria and Eusebius -- [over +200 years later] -- says he was one of the Seventy Disciples; but +Acts (iv, 36-37)" indicates the contrary. "Various traditions +represent him as the first Bishop of Milan, as preaching at +Alexandria and at Rome, whose fourth Bishop, St. Clement, he is +said to have converted, and as having suffered martyrdom in Cyprus. +The traditions are all late and untrustworthy. He is credited by +Tertullian (probably falsely) with the authorship of the Epistle to +the Hebrews, and the so-called Epistle attributed to him." (CE. ii, +300, 301.) Saint Barnabas, or his clerical counterfeiter, had some +queer notions of natural history. Expounding the reasons why Moses +banned certain animals as "unclean" and unfit for "Kosher" food, +the Saintly writer says: that Moses banned the hare, "Because the +hare multiplies, year by year, the places of its conception; for as +many years as it lives, so many it has"; and the hyena, "Wherefore? +Because that animal annually changes its sex, and is at one time +male, and at another female"; and the weasel, "For this animal +conceives by the mouth." (Epist. Barnabas, Ch. x,; ANF. i, 143.)

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Perhaps from this, other holy Fathers derived the analogous idea, +to save the rather imperiled virginity of "the proliferous but ever +Virgin mother of God," Mary, that she "per aurem concepit -- +conceived through her ear" -- as sung in the sacred Hymn of the +Church:

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"Gaude Virgo, mater Christi, +Quae per aurem concepisti, +Gabriels nuntio." +(Lecky, Rationalism in Europe, 1, p. 212.)

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Thus we have, in CE. (supra) several Fathers imputed as liars, +and a suspicion suggested as to Paul's inspired Epistle to the +Hebrews (which is another forgery), and the admission of a forged +Epistle of Saint Barnabas. Poor Church of Christ!

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5. HERMAS: Saint, Martyr, seems to have missed being Bishop, +"first or second century," -- though the Church Saint record is so +confused that I cannot vouch whether this one is the reputed author +of the forged Epistle of Barnabas. But "in the lists of the Seventy +Apostles by the Pseudo-Doretheus and the Pseudo-Hippolytus [two +more forgeries], Hermas figures as Bishop of Philippi. No one any +longer supposes that he was the author of the Shepherd of Hermas, +the date of which is about 40 A.D., though from Origen onwards +Church-writers have expressed this view, and accordingly have given +that allegorical work a place among the writings of the apostolic +Fathers." (EB. ii, 2021; cf. CE. vii, 268.) The latter says that +this "work had great authority in ancient times and was ranked with +Holy Scripture" and included as such in the MSS. of Holy Writ; but +it is called "apocryphal and false," -- like everything else the +Holy Church has ever had for "Scripture" or for self-aggrandizement. The pious author quotes the quaint forged Eldad and +Medad as Scripture, and the Pagan Sibyls as inspired Oracles of +God.

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III. The Sub-Apostolic Fathers

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6. PAPIAS: (about 70-155 A.D.); Bishop of Hieropolis, in +Phrygia, of whose "life nothing is known" (CE. xi, 459); who, after +the Apostles and contemporary with the early Presbyters, was the +first of the sub-Apostolic Fathers. He was an ex-Pagan Greek, who +flourished as a Christian Father and Bishop during the first half +of the second Christian century; the dates of his birth and death +are unknown. He is said to have written five Books entitled +"Expositions of the Oracles of the Lord" -- that is, of the Old +Testament "prophecies"; these are now lost, "except a few precious +fragments" (CE. vi, 5), whether fortunately or otherwise may be +judged from the scanty "precious fragments" preserved in quotations +by some of the other Fathers. According to Bishop Eusebius (HE. +iii, 39), quoted by CE. (xi, 549), "Papias was a man of very small +mind, if we may judge by his own words"; -- though again he calls +him "a man well skilled in all manner of learning, and well +acquainted with the [O.T.] Scriptures." (HE. iv, 36,) As examples, +Eusebius cites "a wild and extraordinary legend about Judas +Iscariot attributed to Papias," wherein he says of Judas; "his body +having swollen to such extent that he could not pass where a +chariot could pass easily, he was crushed by the chariot, so that

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his bowels gushed out." (ANF. i, 153.) This Papian "tradition" of +course impeaches both of the other contradictory Scriptural +traditions of Judas, towit, that "he went and hanged himself" +(Matt. xxvii, 5), and Peter's alleged statement that "falling +headlong, he burst asunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed +out." (Acts i, 15-18.) Bishop Eusebius says that Bishop Papias +states that "those who were raised to life by Christ lived on until +the age of Trajan," -- Roman Emperor from 98-117 A.D. Father Papias +falls into what would by the Orthodox be regarded as "some" error, +in disbelieving and denying the early crucifixion and resurrection +of Jesus Christ -- evidently not then a belief; for he assures us, +on the authority of what "the disciples of the Lord used to say in +the old days," that Jesus Christ lived to be an old man; and so +evidently died in peace in the bosom of his family, as we shall see +explicitly confessed by Bishop Irenaeus. Father Papias relates the +raising to life of the mother of Manaimos; also the drinking of +poison without harm by Justus Barsabas; which fables he supported +by "strange parables of the Savior and teachings of his, and other +mythical matters," says Bishop Eusebius (quoted by CE.), which the +authority of so venerable a person, who had lived with the +Apostles, imposed upon the Church as genuine." (Eusebius, Hist. +Eccles. Bk. III, ch. 39.) But Father Papias -- this is important to +remember -- is either misunderstood or misrepresented, in his claim +to have known the Apostles, or at least the Apostle John; for, says +CE., in harmony with EB. and other authorities: "It is admitted +that he could not have known many Apostles. ... Irenaeus and +Eusebius, who had the works of Papias before them, understood the +presbyters not to be Apostles, but disciples of disciples of the +Lord, or even disciples of disciples of the Apostles." (CE. xi, +458; see Euseb. HE. III, 39.) This fact Papias himself admits, that +he got his "apostolic" lore at second and third hand: "If, then, +any one who had attended on the elders came, I asked minutely after +their sayings, -- what Andrew or Peter said, or what was said by +Philip, or by Thomas, or by James, or by John, or by Matthew, or by +any other of the Lord's disciples: which things Aristion and the +presbyter John, the disciples of the Lord, say. For I imagined that +what was to be got from books was not so profitable to me as what +came from the living and abiding voice." (Papias, Frag. 4; ANF. i, +153.)

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One of the "wild and mythical matters" which good Father +Papias relates of Jesus Christ, which is a first-rate measure of +the degree of his claimed intimacy with John the Evangelist, and of +the value of his pretended testimony to the "Gospels" of Matthew +and Mark, to be later noticed, is the "curious prophecy of the +miraculous vintage in the Millennium which he attributes to Jesus +Christ," as described and quoted by CE. In this, Papias assures us, +on the authority of his admirer Bishop Irenaeus, that he "had +immediately learned from the Evangelist St. John himself," that: +"the Lord taught and said, That the days shall come in which vines +shall spring up, each having 10000 branches, and in each branch +shall be 10000 arms, and on each arm of a branch 10000 tendrils, +and on each tendril 10000 bunches, and on each bunch 10000 +grapes, and each grape, on being pressed, shall yield five and +twenty gallons of wine; and when any one of the Saints shall take +hold of one of these bunches, another shall cry out, 'I am a better +bunch, take me, and bless the Lord by me.'" The same infinitely

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pious twaddle of multiplication by 10000 is continued by Father +Papias with respect to grains of wheat, apples, fruits, flowers and +animals, precisely like the string of jingles in the nursery tale +of The House that Jack Built; even Jesus got tired of such his own +alleged inanities and concluded by saying: "And those things are +believable by all believers; but the traitor Judas, not believing, +asked him, 'But how shall these things that shall propagate thus be +brought to an end by the Lord?' And the Lord answered him and said, +'Those who shall live in those times shall see.'" "This, +indicates," explains Bishop Irenaeus, who devotes a whole chapter +to the repetition and elaboration of this Christ-yarn as "proof" of +the meaning of Jesus, that he would drink of the fruit of the vine +with his disciples in his father's Kingdom, -- "this indicates the +large size and rich quality of the fruits." (CE. xi, 458; Iren. +Adv. Haer. IV, xxxiii, 4; ANF. i, 564.) How far less wild a myth, +one may wonder, is this prolific propagation than that fabled by +this same John the Evangelist in his supposed "Revelation," wherein +he saw in heaven the River of Life proceeding out of the Throne of +God and of the Lamb, and "in the midst of the street of it, and on +either side of the River, was there the Tree of Life, which bare +twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the +leaves of the Tree were for the healing of the nations." (Rev. +xxii, 1, 2.) Verily, "out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou +hast perfected praise"! (Mt. xxi, 16.)

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7. JUSTIN MARTYR: (c. 100-165): Saint, Martyr, a foremost +Christian Apologist. A Gentile ex-Pagan of Samaria, turned +Christian, and supposed to have suffered martyrdom in the reign of +Marcus Aurelius, in whose name he forged a very preposterous +rescript. His principal works, in Greek, are his two Apologies, the +first addressed to the Emperor Antoninus Pius, whose reply he also +forged; the second to "the sacred Senate" of Rome; his Dialogue +with Trypho the Jew, and his Hortatory Address to the Greeks. He +describes himself and fellow Christian Fathers as "we who formerly +used magical arts." (I Apol. ch. xiv.) The burden of his arguments +is Pagan "analogies" of Christianity, the contents of many of his +chapters being indicated by their captions, as "The Demons Imitate +Christian Doctrine," and "Heathen Analogies to Christian Doctrine," +in chapters xiv and xv of his First Apology, and elsewhere. His +whole faith in Christ and in Christianity, he declares, is +confirmed by these heathen precedents and analogies: "Be well +assured, then, Trypho, that I am established in the knowledge of +and faith in the Scriptures by those counterfeits which he who is +called the Devil is said to have performed among the Greeks; just +as some were wrought by the Magi in Egypt, and others by the false +prophets in Elijah's days. For when they tell that Bacchus, son of +Jupiter, was begotten by [Jupiter's) intercourse with Semele, and +that he was the discoverer of the vine; and when they relate, that +being torn in pieces, and having died, he rose again, and ascended +to heaven; and when they introduce wine into his mysteries, do I +not perceive that [the devil] has imitated the prophecy announced +by the patriarch Jacob, and recorded by Moses? ... And when he [the +devil] brings forward AEsculapius as the raiser of the dead and +healer of all diseases, may I not say in this matter likewise he +has imitated the prophecies about Christ? ... And when I hear that +Perseus was begotten of a virgin, I understand that the deceiving +serpent counterfeited this also." (Dial, with Trypho, ch. lxix; +ANF. i, 233.) +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201

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Father Justin accepts the heathen gods as genuine divine +beings; but says they are only wicked demons who lead men astray; +and he says that these "evil demons, effecting apparitions of +themselves, both defiled women and corrupted boys." (I Apol. ch. v, +eh. liv, passim.) The devils "having heard it proclaimed through +the prophets that the Christ was to come, ... they put forward many +to be called the sons of Jupiter, under the impression that they +would be able to produce in men the idea that the things which were +said in regard to Christ were more marvelous tales, like the things +which were said by the poets. The devils, accordingly, when they +heard these prophetic words, said that Bacchus was the son of +Jupiter, and gave out that he was the discoverer of the vine"; and +so through many twaddling chapters, repeating the argument with +respect to Bellerophon and his horse Pegasus, of Perseus, of +Hercules, of AEsculapius, etc., as "analogies" prophetic of +baptism, sacraments, the eucharist, resurrection, etc., etc. The +Pagan myths and miracles are true; therefore like fables of the +Christ are worthy of belief: "And when we say also that the Word, +who is the first-born of God, was produced without sexual union, +and that He, Jesus Christ, our Teacher, was crucified. and rose +again, and ascended into heaven, we propound nothing different from +what you believe regarding those whom you esteem sons of Jupiter. +... But as we have said above, wicked devils perpetrated these +things. And if we assert that the Word of God was born in a +peculiar manner, different from ordinary generation, let this, as +said above, be no extraordinary thing to you, who say that Mercury +is the angelic word [Logos] of God. ... And if we even affirm that +He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept +of Perseus. And in what we say that he made whole the lame, the +paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very +similar to the deeds said to have been done by AEsculapius." (I +Apol., chs. xxi, xxii; ANF. i, 170; cf. Add. ad Grace. ch. lxix; +Ib. 233.)

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Father Justin also retails to the Emperor the old fable of +Simon Magus and his magical miracles at Rome, and attributes it all +to the work of the devils. For "the evil spirits, not being +satisfied with saying, before Christ's appearance, that those who +were said to be sons of Jupiter were born of him, but after he +appeared, ... and when they learned how He had been foretold by the +prophets, put forward again other men, the Samaritans Simon and +Menander, who did many mighty works by magic; ... and so greatly +astonished the sacred Senate and people of the Romans that he was +considered a god, and honored with a statue; ... which statue was +erected in the river Tiber, between the two bridges, and bore this +inscription in the language of Rome: 'Simoni Deo Sancto -- To Simon +the holy God" (I Apol. chs. xxvi, lvi; ANF. i, 171, 182; cf. Iren. +Adv. Haer. ch. xxiii; ANF. i, 347-8; Euseb. HE. II, 13.) We have +seen this much embroidered "tradition" myth exploded, and the +statue discovered and deciphered, it being a simple private pious +monument to a Pagan god!

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Father Justin in many chapters cites and appeals for Christian +proofs to "The Testimony of the Sibyl," of Homer, of Sophocles, of +Pythagoras, of Plato. (Add. ad Grace. chs. 18-20; ANF. i, 279-280.) +Of the Sibyl, so often quoted: "And you may in part learn the right +religion from the ancient Sibyl, who by some kind of potent

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inspiration teaches you, through her oracular predictions, truths +which seem to be much akin to the teachings of the prophets. ... Ye +men of Greece, ... do ye henceforth give heed to the words of the +Sibyl, ... predicting, as she does in a clear and patent manner, +the advent of our Savior Jesus Christ," quoting long verses of +Christian-forged nonsense. (Ib. chs. 37-38; ANF. i, 288-289.)

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8. IRENAEUS (120-c. 200) Saint, Martyr, Bishop of Lyons; ex-Pagan of Smyrna, who emigrated to Gaul and became Bishop; +"information of his life is scarce, and [as usual] in some measure +inexact. ... Nothing is known of the date of his death, which may +have occurred at the end of the second or beginning of the third +century." (CE., vii, 130.) How then is it known that he was a +Martyr? Of him Photius, ablest early critic in the Church, warns +that in some of his works "the purity of truth, with respect to +ecclesiastical traditions, is adulterated by his false and spurious +readings" (Phot.; Bibl. ch. cxx); -- though why this invidious +distinction of Irenaeus among all the clerical corruptors of +"tradition" is not clear. The only surviving work of Irenaeus in +four prolific Books is his notable Adversus Haereses, or, as was +its full title, "A Refutation and Subversion of Knowledge falsely +so Called," -- though he succeeds in falsely subverting no little +real knowledge by his own idle fables. This work is called "one of +the most precious remains of early Christian antiquity." Bishop St. +Irenaeus quotes one apt sentiment from Homer, the precept of which +he seems to approve, but which he and his Church confreres did not +much put into practice:

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"Hateful to me that man as Hades' gates, +Who one thing thinks, while he another states." +(Iliad, ix, 312, 313; Adv. Haer. III, xxxiii, 3.)

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JESUS DIED OF OLD AGE!

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Most remarkable of the "heresies" attacked and refuted by +Bishop Irenaeus, is one which had just gained currency in written +form in the newly published "Gospels of Jesus Christ," in the form +of the "tradition" that Jesus had been crucified to death early in +the thirties of his life, after a preaching career of only about +one year, according to three of the new Gospels, of about three +years, according to the fourth. This is rankly false and +fictitious, on the "tradition" of the real gospel and of all the +Apostles, avows Bishop Irenaeus, like Bishop Papias earlier in the +century; and he boldly combated it as "heresy." It is not true, he +asserts, that Jesus Christ died so early in life and after so brief +a career. "How is it possible," be demands, "that the Lord preached +for one year only?"; and on the quoted authority of John the +Apostle himself, of "the true Gospel," and of "all the elders," the +saintly Bishop urges the falsity and "heresy" of the Four Gospels +on this crucial point. Textually, and with quite fanciful +reasonments, he says that Jesus did not die so soon:

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"For he came to save all through means of Himself -- all, +I say, who through Him are born again to God -- infants, and +children, and boys, and youths, and old men. He therefore +passed through every age, becoming an infant for infants, thus +sanctifying infants; a child for children, thus sanctifying

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those who are of this age; a youth for youths, and thus +sanctifying them for the Lord. So likewise He was an old man +for old men, that He might be a perfect Master for all, not +merely as respects the setting forth of the truth, but also as +regards age, sanctifying at the same time the aged also, and +becoming an example to them likewise. Then, at last, He came +on to death itself, that He might be 'the first-born from the +dead.'

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"They, however, that they may establish their false +opinion regarding that which is written, 'to proclaim the +acceptable year of the Lord,' maintain that he preached for +one year only, and then suffered in the twelfth month. [In +speaking thus], they are forgetful to their own disadvantage, +destroying His work and robbing Him of that age which is both +more necessary and more honorable than any other; that more +advanced age, I mean, during which also, as a teacher, He +excelled all others. ...

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"Now, that the first stage of early life embraces thirty +years, and that this extends onward to the fortieth year, +every one will admit; but from the fortieth and fiftieth year +a man begins to decline towards old age, which our Lord +possessed while He still fulfilled the office of a Teacher, +even as the Gospel and all the elders testify; those who were +conversant in Asia with John, the disciple of the Lord, +(affirming) that John conveyed to them that information. AND +HE REMAINED AMONG THEM UP TO THE TIMES OF TRAJAN [Roman +Emperor, A.D. 98-117]. Some of them, moreover, saw not only +John, but the other Apostles also, and heard the very same +account from them, and bear testimony as to [the validity of +] the statement. Whom then should we rather believe?" (Iren. +Adv. Haer. Bk. II, ch. xxii, secs. 3, 4, 5; ANF. I, 891-2.)

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The Bishop's closing question is pertinent, and we shall come +back to it in due course.

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Irenaeus also vouches his belief in magic arts, repeating as +true the fabulous stories of Simon Magus and his statue in the +Tiber and the false recital of the inscription on it; and as a +professional heresy-hunter he falls upon Simon as the Father of +Heresy: "Now this Simon of Samaria, from whom all heresies derive +their origin. ... The successor of this man was Menander, also a +Samaritan by birth; and he, too, was a perfect adept in the +practice of magic." (Adv. Haer. I, xxiii; ANF. i, 348.)

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9. TERTULLIAN: Bishop of Carthage, in Africa; ex-Pagan born +about 160, died 220. He was "the first of the Latin theological +writers; ... and the first witness to the existence of a Latin +Bible ... Tertullian's canon of the O.T. included the deutero-canonical books -- [i.e. the forged apocrypha]. ... He also cites +the Book of Henoch [Enoch] as inspired, ... also recognizes IV +Esdras and the Sibyl." (CE. xiv, 525.)

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Montanus. In this recantation of faith he gave evidence that he was +in error in his former complete acceptance of Christianity as the +last word and irrevocable posture in revealed truth, -- and +revealed his own errant credulity. In attacking the heretics -- +before he became one, of the most preposterous sect, -- he thus +formulates the assurance of the finality of Christian Faith: "One +has succeeded in finding definite truth, when he belie lies. ... +After we have believed, search should cease." (Against Heresies, +ch. xi; ANF. iii, 248.) Tertullian is noted for several +declamations regarding the assurance of faith which have become +famous, as they are fatuous: "Credo quia incredibilis est -- I +believe because it is unbelievable"; and, like Paul's "I am become +a fool in glorying," he vaunts thus his own folly: "Other matters +for shame I find none which can prove me to be shameless in a good +sense, and foolish in a happy one, by my own contempt for shame. +The Son of God was crucified; I am not ashamed [to believe it] +because men must needs be ashamed of it. And the Son of God died; +it is by all means to be believed, because it is absurd. And He was +buried and rose again; the fact is certain because it is +impossible." (De Carne Christi, ch. v; ANF. iii, 525.) Reasoning +thus, -- or quite without reason -- Christians yet believe these +confessed absurdities and impossibilities.

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Tertullian denounces the sin of theater-going, and in this +awful illustration he invokes his God to witness of one of his lies +to God's glory: "We have the case of the woman -- the Lord Himself +is witness -- who went to the theater, and came back possessed. In +the outcasting (exorcism), accordingly, when the unclean creature +was upbraided with having dared to attack a believer, he firmly +replied: 'And in truth I did most righteously, for I found her in +my domain.'" (De Spectaculis, ch. xxvi; ANF. iii, 90.) In one of +his sumptuary diatribes on woman's dress -- yet a favorite theme of +the Vicars of God, though nowadays the complaint is of nether +brevity -- he warns and assures: "to us the Lord has, even by +revelations, measured the space for the veil to extend over. For a +certain sister of ours was thus addressed by an angel, beating her +neck," and telling her that she had as well be "bare down to your +loins" as any elsewhere below the neck. (On the Veiling of Virgins, +ch. xvii; ANF. iv, 37.) And he expresses the clerical concept of +women, saying that "females, subjected as they are throughout to +men, bear in their front an honorable mark of their virginity." +(Ib. ch. x, p. 33.) The celibate Fathers all glorified the +suppression of sex: "Marriage replenishes the earth, virginity +fills Paradise," says St. Jerome. (Adv. Jovianum, I, 17; N&PNF. vi, +360.) The Fathers regarded Woman as did St. Chrysostom: "a +necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a +domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill!" Good +Father Tertullian, in his Exhortation to Chastity, has chapters +captioned: "Second Marriage a Species of Adultery," and "Marriage +Itself Impugned as akin to Adultery." (On Chastity, chs. ix, x; +ANF. iv, 55.)

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Strongly, and upon what seems good physiological reason, he +"denies the virginity of Mary, the mother of Christ, in part, +though he affirms it [oddly] ante partum." (CE. xiv, 523.) Father +Tertullian was strong in advocacy of virginity not alone feminine, +but of the men, exclaiming, "So many men-virgins, so many voluntary

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eunuchs" (Ib.). He commends with marked approval the fanatical +incitation of the Christ to self-mutilation "for the kingdom of +heaven's sake" (Mt. xix, 11), and avers that to this same cause was +due Paul's much-complained-of "thorn in the flesh," saying: "The +Lord Himself opens the kingdoms of heaven to eunuchs, as being +Himself a virgin; to whom looking, the apostle [Paul] also -- for +this reason -- gives the preference to continence (I Cor. vii, 1, +7, 37, 40). ... 'Good,' he says, 'it is for a man not to have +contact with her, for nothing is contrary to good except evil."' +(On Monogamy, ch. iii; ANF. iv, 60.) For like reason it was, he +assures, that Noah was ordered to take two of each animal into the +ark, "for fear that even beasts should be born of adultery. ... +Even unclean birds were not allowed to enter with two females +each." (Ib. ch. iv; p. 62.) Father Tertullian shares the fantastic +notions of natural history stated by Bishop St. Barnabas; in proof +of the eternal renovation of all things, Tertullian says: "The +serpent crawls into a cave and out of his skin, and uncoils himself +in a new youth; with his scales, his years, too, are repudiated. +The hyena, if you observe, is of annual sex, alternately masculine +and feminine. ... The stag, feeding on the serpent, languishes -- +from the effects of the poison -- into youth." (On the Pallium, ch. +iii; ANF. iv, 7.) Magic admirably supplements nature and medical +remedies as cure for the scorpion's sting, assures Father +Tertullian: "Among cures certain substances supplied by nature have +very great efficacy; magic also puts on some bandages." (Scorpiace, +ch. i; ANF. iii, 633.)

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Like all the credulous ex-Pagan Fathers of Christianity, +Tertullian is a confirmed Sibyllist, and believes the forged Pagan +oracles as inspired truth of God. Citing several of her +"prophecies," he assures with confidence: "And the Sibyl is thus +proved no liar." (Pallium, ch. ii; ANF. iv, 6.)

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Tertullian admits, in a tu quoque argument, that the +Christians are sun-worshippers: "You [Pagans] say we worship the +sun; so do you." (CE. xiv, 525; Ad. Nationes, xiii; ANF. iii, 123.) +He is in common with the Fathers in the belief in magic and +astrology, which since Christ, however, are turned into holier +channels in token of His divinity: "But Magi and astrologers came +from the East (Matt. ii). We know the mutual reliance of magic and +astrology. The interpreters of the stars, then, were the first to +announce Christ's birth, the first to present gifts. ... Astrology +now-a-days, forsooth, treats of Christ -- is the science of the +stars of Christ; not of Saturn, or of Mars. But, however, that +science has been allowed until the Gospel, in order that after +Christ's birth no one should thenceforward interpret anyone's +nativity by the heaven." (On Idolatry, ch. ix; ANF. iii, 65.)

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In common with all the Fathers, Tertullian appeals to the +Phoenix as proof supreme of the resurrection of the body. It will +be noticed, that the modern false translators of our Bibles have +slipped in another bit of falsification by suppressing the word +"phoenix" in the passage quoted by Tertullian, and have substituted +the word "palm-tree" to express the flourishing state of the +righteous, as there depicted:

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"Then take a most complete and unassailable symbol of our +hope [of resurrection], subject alike to life and death. I +refer to the bird which is peculiar to the East, famous for +its singularity, marvelous from its posthumous life, which +renews its life in a voluntary death; its dying day is its +birthday, for on it it departs and returns: once more a +phoenix where just now there was none; once more himself, but +just now out of existence; another, yet the same. What can be +more express and more significant for our subject; or to what +other thing can such a phenomenon bear witness? God even in +His own Scripture says: 'The righteous shall flourish like the +phoenix' [Greek Septuagint: Dikaios os phoenix anthesei; Ps. +xcii, 12]. Must men die once for all, while birds in Arabia +are sure of a resurrection?" (Tert., On the Resurrection of +the Flesh, ch. xiii; ANF. iii, 554.)

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Father Tertullian vouches, too, with the other Fathers, for +the bogus official Report of Pilate to Caesar, and for Pilate's +conversion to Christianity, saying: "All these things Pilate did to +Christ; and now in fact a Christian in his own convictions, he sent +word of Him to the reigning Caesar, who was at the time Tiberius. +Yes, and even the Caesars would have believed on Christ, if either +the Caesars had not been necessary for the world, or if Christians +could have been Caesars." (Apol. ch. xxi; ANF. iii,. 35.) Father +Tertullian gives fall credence to the fable of the Septuagint, and +assures the Emperors: "To this day, at the temple of Serapis, the +librariis of Ptolemy are to be seen, with the identical Hebrew +originals in them." (Apology, to the Rulers of the Roman Empire, I, +xviii; ANF. iii, 32.) And, as all the other Fathers, he gives full +faith and credit to the Pagan gods, as "effective witnesses for +Christ"; -- "Yes, and we shall prove that your own gods are +effective witnesses for Christ ... "Yes, and we shall prove that +your own gods are effective witnesses for Christ. ... Against the +Greeks we urge that Orpheus, at Piera, Musaeus at Athens, (etc.) +imposed religious rites. ... Numa Pompilius laid on the Romans a +heavy load of costly superstitions. Surely Christ, then, had a +right to reveal Deity." (Apol. ch. xxi; ANF. iii, 36.) Like the +other Fathers, Tertullian is also in the ranks of patristic forgers +of holy fables, being either the author or the publisher of "The +Passion of the Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas," the fabulous +Martyrdom of two of the Church's most celebrated bogus Saints, +annexed to his accredited works. (ANF. iii, 699-706.)

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10. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: (c. 153-c. 215). Ex-Pagan; head of +the catechetical school of Alexandria; tutor of Origen. He wrote an +Exhortation to the Heathen, the Poedagogus, or Instructor, and +eight books called Stromata, or Miscellanies. From the latter a few +random assays are taken which fully accredit him among the simple-minded and credulous Fathers of Christianity.

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Clement devotes ample chapters to showing the 'Plagiarism by +the Greeks of the Miracles related in the Sacred Books of the +Hebrews"; he quotes as inspired the forged book "Peter's +Preaching," and the heathen Sibyls and Hystaspes; he assures us, +with his reason therefor, that "The Apostles, following the Lord, +preached the Gospel to those in Hades. For it was requisite, in my +opinion, that as here, so also there, the rest of the disciples

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should be imitators of the Master." Abraham was a great scientist: +"As thin in astronomy we have Abraham as an instance, so also in +arithmetic we have the same Abraham," the latter diploma being +founded on the feat that Abraham, "hearing that Lot had been taken +captive, numbered his own. servants, 318"; this mystic number, +expressed in Greek letters T I E, used as numerals: "the character +representing 300 (T) is the Lord's sign (Cross), and I and E +indicate the Savior's name," et cetera, of cabalistic twaddle. +(Strom. VI, xi; ANF. ii, 499.) Clement believes the heathen gods +and the Sibyls, and all the demigods and myths of Greece: "We have +also demonstrated Moses to be more ancient, not only than those +called, poets and wise men, but than most of their deities. Not +alone he, but the Sibyl, is more ancient than Orpheus. ... On her +arrival at Delphi she sang:

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'O Delphians, ministers of far-darting Apollo, +I come to declare the mind of AEgis-bearing Zeus, +Enraged as I am at my own brother Apollo.'" +(Strom. ii, 325.)

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11. ORIGEN: born in Alexandria, Egypt, about, 165; a wild +fanatic, he made himself "a eunuch for the Kingdom of Heaven's +sake"; died at Tyre or Caesarea about 254; was the first of the' +Fathers said to be born of Christian parents; he was a pupil and +protege of Clement of Alexandria. Origen was the greatest +theologian and biblical scholar of the Church up to his time; he +was the author of the famous Hexapla, or comparative edition of the +Bible in Hebrew, with Greek transliteration and the Greek texts of +the Septuagint and other versions. in six parallel columns. Origen +was badly tainted with the Arian heresy which denied the divinity +of Jesus Christ, and was deposed from the priesthood, but his +deposition was not generally recognized by all the Churches, -- +which again proves that they were not then subject to Rome. For +sheer credulity and nonsense Father Origen was the peer of any of +the Pagan-born Patriarchs of "the new Paganism called, +Christianity," as is evidenced by the following extracts from his +chief works.

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Accepting as living realities the heathen gods and their +miracles, he argues that the Hebrews must have had genuine miracles +because the heathens had many from their gods, which were, however, +only devils; that the Hebrews viewed. "with contempt all those who +were considered as gods by the heathen" as not being gods, but +demons, 'For all the gods of the nations are demons' (Ps, xcvi, 5). +... In the next place, miracles were performed in all countries, or +at least in many of them, as Celsus himself admits, instancing the +case, of AEsculapius, who conferred benefits on many, and who +foretold future events to entire cities," -- citing instances. If +there had been no miracles among the Hebrews "they would +immediately have gone over to the worship of those demons which +gave oracles and performed cures." (Contra Celsum, III, ch. ii-iii; +ANF. iv, 466.) The heathen oracles were indeed inspired and true, +but were due to a loathsome form of demoniac inspiration, which he +thus -- (with my own polite omissions) -- describes:

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"Let it be granted that the responses delivered by the +Pythian and other oracles were not the utterances of false men +who pretended to a divine inspiration; but let us see if, +after all, that they may be traced to wicked demons, -- to +spirits which are at enmity with the human race. ... It is +said of the Pythian priestess, that when she sat down at the +mouth of the Castalian cave, the prophetic spirit of Apollo +entered her private parts; and when she was filled with it, +she gave utterance to responses which are regarded with awe as +divine truths. Judge by this whether that spirit does not show +its profane and impure nature." (Contra Cetsum, VII, iii; ANF. +iv, 611-612). ... "It is not, then, because Christians cast +insults upon demons that they incur their revenge, but because +they drive them away out of the images, and from the bodies +and souls of men." (Ib. c. xliii, p. 655.)

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Father Origen clung to the pagan superstition that comets and +new stars portend and herald great world-events, and urges that +this undoubted fact gives credibility to the fabled Star of +Bethlehem: "It has been observed that, on the occurrence of great +events, and of mighty changes in terrestrial things, such stars are +wont to appear, indicating either the removal of dynasties or the +breaking out of wars, or the happening of such circumstances as may +cause commotions upon the earth" -- why not then the Star of +Bethlehem? (Contra Celsum, I, lix; ANP. iv, 422.) All the stars and +heavenly bodies are living, rational beings, having souls, as he +curiously proves by Job and Isaiah, as well as upon clerical +reason:

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"Let us see what reason itself can discover respecting sun, +moon, and stars. ... To arrive at a clearer understanding on these +matters, we ought first to inquire whether it is allowable to +suppose that they are living and rational beings; then, whether +their souls came into existence at the same time with their bodies, +or seem to be anterior to them; and also whether, after the end of +the world, we are to understand that they are to be released from +their bodies; and whether, as we cease to live, so they also will +cease from illuminating the world. ... We think, then, that they +may be designated as living beings, for this reason, that they are +said to receive commandments from God, which is ordinarily the case +only with rational beings: 'I have given commandments to all the +stars' (Isa, xiv, 12), says the Lord." (De Principiis, I, vii; ANF. +iv, 263.)

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12. LACTANTIUS: (-?-330). Ex-Pagan, and eminent Christian +author and defender of the faith. On account of his great +reputation for learning, he was invited by the Emperor Constantine +to become the tutor of his son Crispus, about 312-318 A.D. Thus, +omitting two entire volumes (V and VI) of the Fathers, we are +brought to the beginning of Christianity as the official or state +religion -- accredited yet by fables and propagated by +superstitious myth. The great work of Lactantius, The Divine +Institutes, dedicated to the Emperor, was thus addressed: "We now +commence this work under the auspices of your name, O mighty +Emperor Constantine, who were the first of the Roman princes to +repudiate errors, and to acknowledge and honor the majesty of the +one and only true God." (I, i.) This work, in seven lengthy Books, +occupies over 200 double-columns of vol. VII of the Ante-Nicene +Fathers. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +132 +. +FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY

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Written for the purpose of confirming Constantine in his very +uncertain "Christian" faith, and to appeal for conversion of the +higher classes of the Pagans under the imperial favor, no work of +the Fathers is more positive in the recognition of the Pagan gods +as divine realities, who are rather demons of very active +malignity; and none equalled him in profuse appeals to the Pagan +gods and the Sibyls as their prophetesses, as divine "testimonies" +to Jesus Christ and virtually every natural and supernatural act +attributed to him in the romantic Gospels. In fact, his whole work +is a sort of digest of Paran mythology taken as divinely true and +inspired antecedents and evidences of the fictitious "facts" of the +new Paganism called Christianity. We have already noticed some of +his tributes to the Sibyls as prophecies of Jesus Christ; as it is +impossible to cite but a few out of exceeding many, these are +selected, demonstrating the origins of the heathen gods as actually +demons; the verity of their being, words and deeds, and that they +one and all testify of Jesus Christ and the holy mysteries of the +Christian faith. In a word, Christianity is founded on and proved +by Pagan myths. And first, of the demon-gods, for whom he thus +vouches:

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"God in his forethought, lest the devil, to whom from the +beginning He had given power over the earth, should by his +subtility either corrupt or destroy men, ... sent angels for +the protection and improvement of the human race; and inasmuch +as He had given these a free will, He enjoined them above all +things not to defile themselves. ... He plainly prohibited +them from doing that which He knew that they would do, that +they might entertain no hope of pardon. Therefore, while they +abode among men, that most deceitful ruler of the earth ... +gradually enticed them to vices, and polluted them by +intercourse with women. Then, not being admitted into heaven +on account of the sins into which they had plunged themselves, +they fell to the earth. Thus from angels the devil makes them +to become his satellites and attendants.

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"But they who were born from these, because they were +neither angels nor men, but bearing a kind of mixed nature, +were not admitted into hell as their fathers were not into +heaven. Thus there became two kinds of demons; one of heaven, +the other of the earth. The latter are the evil spirits, the +authors of all the evils which are done, and the same devil is +their Prince. Whence Trismegistus calls him the ruler of +demons. ... They are called demons, that is, skilled and +acquainted with matters; for they think that these are gods.

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"They are acquainted, indeed, with many future events, +but not all since it is not permitted to them entirely to know +the counsel of God. These contaminated and abandoned Spirits, +as I say, wander over the whole earth, and contrive a solace +for their own perdition by the destruction of men. Therefore +they fill every place with snares, frauds and errors for they +cling to individuals, and occupy whole houses from door to +door. ... And these, since spirits are without substance and +not to be grasped, insinuate themselves into the bodies of +men; and secretly working in their inward parts, they corrupt +the health, hasten diseases, terrify their souls with dreams,

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harass their maids with frenzies, that by these means they may +compel men to have recourse to their aid." (Lact. Divine +Instit. II, xv; ANF. vii, 64.)

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He assures us, in chapter headings, and much detail of text: +"That Demons have no Power over Those who are Established in the +Faith" (Ch. xvi); "That Astrology, Soothsaying, and Similar Arts +are the Inventions of Demons" (Ch. xvii). These demon-gods are the +most potent witnesses to the Christian faith, and scores of times +he cites and appeals to them. The Hermes Trismegistus so often +quoted and vouched for, is the god Mercury "Thrice Greatest," and +is the greatest of the Christian witnesses. In many chapters the +"divine testimonies" of Trismegistus, Apollo, and the other demon-gods, are confidently appealed to and their proofs recited. He +proves the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the dead +by renewed appeals to Hermes, Apollo, and the Sibyl: "Of the Soul, +and the Testimonies concerning its Eternity" (Ch. xiii). "And I +will now allege the testimony of the prophets. ... Hermes, +describing the nature of man, that he might know that he was made +by God, introduced this statement. ... Let us therefore seek +greater testimony. A certain Polites asked Apollo of Miletus +whether the soul remains after death or goes to dissolution; and he +replied in these verses [quoting the response]. What do the +Sibylline poems say? Do they not declare that this is so, when they +say that the time will come when God will judge the living and the +dead? -- whose authority we will hereafter bring forward. ... +Therefore the Son of the most high and mighty God shall come to +judge the quick and the dead, as the Sibyl testifies and says +[quoting]. ... 'Dies irae, dies illa, Teste David et Sibylla.'" +(Ibid, VII, chs. xiii, xxii; ANF. vii, 210, 218.)

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Malignantly powerful as these demon-gods are, the simple but +potent name of Christ, or the "immortal sign" of the Cross, on the +instant renders them impotent and puts them to flight; all the +demon-gods may be evoked by magic, only Christ cannot be thus +conjured.

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As for man -- here occurring the famous epigram Homo ex humo: +"He formed man out of the dust of the ground, from which he was +called man, because he was made from the earth. Finally Plato says +that the human form was godlike; as does the Sibyl, who says, -- +'Thou are my image, O man, possessed of right reason.' (Ib. II, +lviii; p. 58.) Chapter vi is entitled, "Almighty God begat His Son; +and the Testimonies of the Sibyls and of Trismegistus concerning +Him"; and he urges: "But that there is a Son of the Most High God +is shown not only by the unanimous utterances of the prophets, but +also by the declaration of Trismegistus and the predictions of the +Sibyls [quoting them at length]. The Erythrean Sibyl proclaims the +Son of God as the leader and commander of all [quoting] ... And +another Sibyl enjoins: 'Know him as your God, who is the Son of +God'; and the Sibyl calls Him 'Counsellor.'" (Ib. IV, vi; p. 105.)

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Treating at length of the prolific adoption and adaptation by +"that new Paganism later called Christianity," of the terms, rites +and ceremonies of Paganism, CE. says: "Always the Church has

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forcefully molded words, and even concepts (as Savior, Epiphany, +Baptism, Illimination, Mysteries, Logos, to suit her own Dogma and +its expression. It was thus that John could take the [Pagan] +expression 'Logos,' mould it to his Dogma, cut short all perilous +speculation among Christians, and assert once for all that the +'Word was made Flesh' and was Jesus Christ." (CE. xi, 392.) And +thus Father Lactantius, appealing to Pagan gods and Sibyls for +cogent confirmation, deals with the ancient Pagan notion of the +"Logos," converted now into a "revealed" and most holy Christian +Mystery and the Son of God:

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"For though He was the Son of God from the beginning, He +was born again a second time according to the flesh: and this +two-fold birth of His has introduced great terror into the +minds of men, and overspread with darkness even those who +retained the mysteries of true religion. But we will show this +plainly and clearly. ... Unless by chance we shall profanely +imagine, as Orpheus supposed, that God is both male and +female. ... But Hermes also was of the same opinion, when he +says that He was 'His own father' and 'His own mother' [self-father and self-mother']. ... John also thus taught: 'In the +beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the +Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All +things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything +made.'

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"But the Greeks speak of Him as the Logos, more +befittingly than we do as the word, or speech: for Logos +signifies both speech and reason inasmuch as He is both the +speech and reason of God. ... Zeno represents the Logos as the +arranger of the established order of things, and the framer of +the universe. ... For it is the spirit of God which he named +the soul of Jupiter. For Trismegistus, who by some means or +other searched into almost all truth, often describes the +excellence and majesty of the Word." (Lact. Div. Inst. IV, +viii-ix; ANF. vii, 106-7.)

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As there can be no more positive and convincing proof that the +Christ was and is a Pagan Myth, -- the old Greek "Logos" of +Heraclitus and the Philosophers revamped by the Greek priest who +wrote the first chapter of the "Gospel according to St. John" and +worked up into the "Incarnate Son" of the old Hebrew God for +Christian consumption as the most sacred Article of Christian Faith +and Theology, I append to the admission of Father Lactantius the +culminating evidences of the "Gospel" and the further confession of +the Church through the Catholic Encyclopedia. The inspired +"revelation" of the Holy Ghost concerning the holy Pagan doctrine +of the "Creative, Logos" or "Word of God," made flesh in Jesus +Christ, is thus "taken and molded to his dogma" by the Holy Saint +John:

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"In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with +God, and the Logos was God. The same was in the beginning with +God. All things were made by him [i.e. by the Logos); and +without him was not anything made that was made." (John, i, +1-3.)

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The doctrine of the Logos was a Pagan speculation or invention +of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who lived 535-475 Before +Christ, and had never heard of Christ. From it the science of Logic +takes its name; and on it the first principle of Stoicism and the +Christian doctrine of "The Word" are based. If this startling +statement out of secular history is questioned, let CE. bear its +clerical witness to the Pagan origin of the Logos and the curious +Christian metamorphosis of it wrought by "St. John" and the Church +Fathers:

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"The word Logos (Gr. Logos; Lat. Verbum) is the term by +which Christian theology in the Greek language designates the +Word of God, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. Before +St. John had consecrated this term by adopting it, the Greeks +and the Jews had used it to express religious conceptions +which, under divers titles, have exercised a certain influence +on Christian theology. ... It was in Heraclitus that the +theory of the Logos appears for the first time, and it is +doubtless for this reason that, first among the Greek +philosophers, Heraclitus was regarded by St. Justin (Apol. I, +46) as a Christian before Christ. ... It reappears in the +writings of the Stoics, and it is especially by them that this +theory is developed. God, according to them, 'did not make the +world as an artisan does his work -- [though Genesis ii says +he did] -- but it is by wholly penetrating an matter -- [thus +a kind of ether] -- that He is the Demiurge of the universe.' +He penetrates the world 'as honey does the honeycomb' +(Tertullian, Adv. Hermogenem, 44). ... This Logos is at the +same time a force and a law -- [How, then, a Second Person +Trinitarian God?]. ... Conformably to their exegetical habit, +the Stoics made of the different gods personifications of the +Logos, e.g. of Zeus and above all of Hermes. ... In the +[apocryphal] Book of Wisdom this personification is more +directly implied, and a parallel is established between Wisdom +and the Word. in Palestinian Robbinism the Word (Memra) is +very often mentioned. ... it is the Memra of Jehovah which +lives, speaks, and acts. ... Philo's problem was of the +philosophical order; God and man are infinitely distant from +each other; and it is necessary to establish between them the +relations of action and of prayer; the Logos is here the +intermediary. ... Throughout so many diverse [Pagan and +Jewish] concepts may be recognized a fundamental doctrine: the +Logos is an intermediary between God and the world; through it +God created the world and governs it; through it also men know +God and pray to Him. ... The term Logos is found only in the +Johannine writings. ... This resemblance [to the notion in the +Book of Wisdom] suggests the way by which the doctrine of the +Logos entered into Christian theology." (CE. ix, 328-9.)

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Thus confessedly is the Divine Revelation of the "Word made +flesh" a Pagan-Jewish Myth, and the very Pagan Demiurge is the +Christian Christ -- "Very God" -- and the "Second Person of the +Blessed Trinity"! Here is the evolution of a Pagan speculation into +a Christian revelation: Heraclitus first devised "the theory of the +Logos"; by the Stoics "this theory is developed" into the Demiurge +-- "at the same time a force and a law" -- which wrought the +several works of creation instead of Zeus or Hermes. In the

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admittedly forged Book of Wisdom, -- which is nevertheless part of +the inspired Canon of the Catholic Bible, -- the Pagan Demiurge +becomes Divine Wisdom and "paralleled" with "the Word" of the +Hebrew God, and "is the Memra of Jahveh which lives, speaks, acts." +The Jewish philosopher Philo evolved it into "an intermediary -- +[Mediator] -- between God and the world, through which God created +the world." This Pagan notion echoes in: "There is one mediator +between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." (1 Tim. ii, 5.) Then +comes the Christian Greek priest who wrote the first chapter of +"the Gospel according to John," and, Lo! "the Logos [Word] was God. +... All things were made by him"! The Pagan speculation is first +philosophized, then personified, then Deified into the "Second +Person" of a Blessed Trinity which was first dogmatized in 381 +A.D.; and the blasphemy laws of England and a number of American +States decree imprisonment for ridiculing this Most Holy Mystery of +Christian Faith. Yet Christians decry the doctrine of Evolution and +pass laws to outlaw teaching it.

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Having pursued these incontestable Pagan "proofs" through his +seven Books, and so vindicated the truth and divinity of +Christianity, the eminent Doctor Lactantius concludes with this +strange apostrophe to the near-Pagan Emperor, assuring him of the +overthrow now of all error and the triumph of Catholic Truth: "But +all fictions have now been hushed, Most Holy Emperor, since the +time when the great God raised thee up for the restoration of the +house of justice, and for the protection of the human race. ... +Since the truth now comes forth from obscurity, and is brought into +light"! (Ib. VII, xxvi; p. 131.) Father Lactantius then quite +correctly, from a clerical viewpoint, defines truth and +superstition, but oddly enough confuses and misapplies the terms so +far as respects the Christian religion: "Truly religion is the +cultivation of the truth, but superstition is that which is false. +... But because the worshippers of the gods imagine themselves to +be religious, though they are superstitious, they are neither able +to distinguish religion from superstition, nor to express the +meaning of the names." (Ib. IV, xxviii; p. 131.)

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13. AUGUSTINE (354-430): Bishop of Hippo, in Africa; "Saint, +Doctor of the Church; a philosophical and theological genius of the +first order, dominating, like a pyramid, antiquity and the +succeeding ages. ... Compared with the great philosophers of past +centuries and modern times, he is the equal of them all; among +theologians he is undoubtedly the first, and such has been his +influence that none of the Fathers, Scholastics, or Reformers has +surpassed it." (CE. ii, 84.) This fulsome paean of praise sung by +the Church of its greatest Doctor, justifies a sketch of the fiery +African Bishop and a look into his monumental work, De Civitate Dei +-- "The City of God," written between the years 413-426 A.D. This +will well enough show the quality of mind of the man, a +monumentally superstitious and credulous Child of Faith; and throw +some light on the psychology of the Church which holds such a mind +as its greatest Doctor, towering like a pyramid over the puny +thinkers and philosophers of past centuries and of modern times. We +may let CE. draw the biographical sketch in its own words, simply +abbreviated at places to save space. Augustine's father, Patricius, +was a Pagan, his mother, Monica, a convert to Christianity; when +Augustine was born "she had him signed with the cross and enrolled

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among the catechumens. Once, when very ill, he asked for baptism, +but, all danger being passed, he deferred receiving the sacrament, +thus yielding to a deplorable custom of the times." when sixteen +years old he was sent to Cartage for study to become a lawyer; +"Here he formed a sinful liaison with the person who bore him a son +(372) -- [Adeodatus, "the gift of God"] -- 'the son of his sin' -- +an entanglement from which he only delivered himself, at Milan, +after fifteen years of its thralldom." During this time Augustine +became an ardent heretic: "In this same year Augustine fell into +the snares of the Manichaeans. ... Once won over to this sect, +Augustine devoted himself to it with all the ardor of his +character; he read all its books, adopted and defended all its +opinions. His furious proselytism drew into error [several others +named]. it was during this Manichaean period that Augustine's +literary faculties reached their full development." ...

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In 383 Augustine, at the age of twenty-nine, went to Italy, +and came to Milan, where he met and fell under the influence of +Bishop Ambrose -- [he who forged the Apostles' Creed]. "However, +before embracing the Faith, Augustine underwent a three years' +struggle. ... But it was only a dream; his passions still enslaved +him. Monica, who had joined her son at Milan, prevailed upon him +[to abandon his mistress]; and though he dismissed the mother of +Adeodatus, her place was soon filled by another. At first he +prayed, but without the sincere desire of being heard. -- [In his +"Confessions" (viii, 17) he addresses God: "Lord, make me pure and +chaste but not quite yet"! Finally he resolved to embrace +Christianity and to believe as the Church believed.] -- The grand +stroke of grace, at the age of thirty-three, smote him to the +ground in the garden at Milan, in 386. ... From 386 to 395 +Augustine gradually became acquainted with the Christian doctrine, +and in his mind the fusion of Platonic philosophy with revealed +dogmas was taking place. ... So long, therefore, as his philosophy +agrees with his religious doctrines, St. Augustine is frankly neo-Platonist; as soon as a contradiction arises, he never hesitates to +subordinate his philosophy to religion, reason to faith! (p. 86) +... He thought too easily to find Christianity in Plato, or +Platonism in the Gospel. Thus he had imagined that in Platonism he +had discovered the entire doctrine of the Word and the whole +prologue of St. John." Augustine was baptized on Easter of 387. He +did not think of entering the priesthood; but being in church one +day at prayer, the clamor of the crowd caused him to yield, despite +his tears, to the demand, and he was consecrated in 391, and +entered actively into the fray. A great controversy arose "over +these grave questions: Do the hierarchical powers depend upon the +moral worth of the priest? How can the holiness of the Church be +compatible with the unworthiness of its ministers? -- [The moral +situation must have been very acute to necessitate such a debate]. +In the dogmatic debate he established the Catholic thesis that the +Church, so long as it is upon earth, can, without losing its +holiness, tolerate sinners within its pale for the sake of +converting them" [?] -- or their property.

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In the City of God, which "is considered his most important +work," Augustine "answers the Pagans, who attributed the fall of +Rome (410) to the abolition of Pagan worship. In it, considering +the problem of Divine Providence with regard to the Roman Empire,

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in a burst of genius he creates the philosophy of history, +embracing as he does with a glance the destinies of the world +grouped around the Christian religion, the only one which goes back +to the beginning and leads humanity to its final term." (CE. ii, +84-89.) Let us now admire

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-- whereof, says His present Holiness in a special Encyclical on +the great Philosopher: "The teaching of St. Augustine constitutes +a precious statement of sublime truths.", (Herald-Tribune, Apr. 22, +1930.)

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The City of God, by which he intends the Christianized. World +-- City of Rome, is a ponderous tome, which cost Augustine some +thirteen years to write. Like the work of all the Fathers it is an +embellished rehash of the myths of the Old Testament, highly spiced +with "proofs" from the Pagan gods and their prophetic Sibyls, the +same style of exegesis being also used for the Gospels, all of +which he accepts as Gospel truth. He begins his philosophizing of +history by swallowing the "Sacred Science" of Genesis whole; he +entitles a chapter: "Of the Falseness of the History which allots +Many Thousand Years to the World's Past"; and thus sneeringly +dismisses those who knew better: "They are deceived, too, by those +highly mendacious documents which profess to give the history of +many thousand years, though reckoning by the sacred writings, we +find that not yet 6000 years have passed. ... There are some, +again, who are of opinion that this is not the only world, but that +there are numberless worlds." (Civ. Dei, Bk. xii, 10, 11; N&PNF. +ii, 232, 233.) Such persons are not to be argued with but to be +ridiculed: "For as it is not yet 6000 years since the first man, +who is called Adam, are not those to be ridiculed rather than +refuted who try to persuade us of anything regarding a space of +time so different from, so contrary to, the ascertained truth?" +(Ib. xviii, 40; p. 384.) To prove that "there were giants in those +days," and that the ante-Diluvians were of greater size than men of +his times, he vouches: "I myself, along with others, saw on the +shore at Utica a man's molar tooth of such a size, that if it were +cut down into teeth such as we have, a hundred, I fancy, could have +been made out of it. ... Bones of almost incredible size have been +found by exposure of sepulchres." (xv, 9; p. 291.) And he shows +how, "according to the Septuagint, Methuselah survived the Flood by +fourteen years." (xv, 11; p. 292.) He accepts the earth as flat and +inhabited on the upper side only: "As to the fable that there are +Antipodes, that is to say, men who are on the opposite side of the +earth, where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with +their feet opposite ours, is on no ground credible." (xvi, 9; p. +315.)

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Augustine is credited with a scientific leaning towards the +doctrine of Evolution and as recognizing the origin of species; but +some of his species are truly singular, and withal are but +variations from the original divine norm of Father Adam, who is +father of them all. In all soberness, tinged with a breath of +skepticism with respect to some, he thus philosophizes: "It is +reported that some monstrous races of men have one eye in the +middle of the forehead; some, the feet turned backward from the

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heel; some, a double sex, the right breast like a man, the left +like a woman, and that they alternately beget and bring forth; +others are said to have no mouth. ... They tell of a race who have +two feet but only one leg, and are of marvelous swiftness, though +they do not bend the knee; they are called Skiopedes, because in +the hot weather they lie down on their backs and shade themselves +with their feet. Others are said to have no head on their +shoulders. ... What shall we say of the Cynocephali, whose doglike +head and barking proclaim them beasts rather than men? But we are +not bound to believe all we hear of these monstrosities. ... But +who could enumerate all the human births that have differed widely +from their ascertained parents? No one will deny that all these +have descended from that one man, ... that one first father of all. +... Accordingly, it ought not to seem absurd to us, that as in the +individual races there are monstrous births, so in the whole race +there are monstrous races; ... if they are human, they are +descended from Adam." (xvi, 8; p. 315.)

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It is not alone in the realm of the genus homo that oddities +exist, in the animal world there are some very notable +singularities, for which the Saint vouches with all confidence as +out of his personal knowledge and experience. Several times he +repeats the marvel of the peacock, "which is so favored by the +Almighty that its flesh will not decay," and "which triumphs over +that corruption from which even the flesh of Plato is not exempt." +He says: "It seems incredible, but a peacock was cooked and served +to me in Carthage; and I kept the flesh one year and it was as +fresh as ever, only a little drier." (xxi, 4, 5; pp. 455, 458.) The +now exploded doctrine of abiogenesis was strong with Augustine; +some animals are born without sexual antecedents: "Frogs are +produced from the earth, not propagated by male and female parents" +(xvi, 7; p. 314); "There are in Cappadocia mares which are +impregnated by the wind, and their foals live only three years." +(xxi, 5; p. 456.) There was much question as to the efficacy of +hell-fire in toasting lost souls through eternity. The master +philosopher of all time solves the knotty problem in two chapters, +under the titles: "2. Whether it is Possible for Bodies to last +Forever in Burning Fire," and, "4. Examples from Nature proving +that Bodies may remain Unconsumed and Alive in Fire." In the first +place, before the lamentable Fall of Adam, our own bodies were +imperishable; in Hell we will again get unconsumable bodies: "Even +this human flesh was constituted in one fashion before there was +Sin, -- was constituted, in fact, so that it could not die." (xxi, +8; p. 459.) But there are other proofs of this than theological +say-so, the skeptical may have the proofs with their own eyes in +present-day Nature: "There are animals which live in the midst of +flames. ... The salamander is well known, that it lives in fire. +Likewise, in springs of water so hot that no one can put his hand +in it with impunity, a species of worm is found, which not only +lives there, but cannot live elsewhere. ... These animals live in +that blaze of heat without pain, the element of fire being +congenial to their nature and causing it to thrive and not to +suffer," -- an argument which "does not suit our purpose" on the +point of painless existence in fire of these animals, in which +particular the wisdom of God has differentiated the souls of the +damned, that they may suffer exquisitely forever; in which argument +Augustine implies the doctrine, as feelingly expressed by another

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holy Saint, the "Angelic Doctor" Aquinas: "In order that nothing +may be wanting to the felicity of the blessed spirits in heaven, a +perfect view is granted to them of the tortures of the damned"; all +these holy ones in gleeful praise to God look down at the damned +disbelievers "tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of +the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of +their torment ascendeth for ever and ever; and they have no rest +day nor night." (Rev. xiv., 10, 11.)

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In the realm of inorganic nature are many marvels, a long +catalogue of which our philosopher makes, and at several places +repeats; some of these are by hearsay and current report, for which +cautiously he does not vouch the truth; "but these I know to be +true: the case of that fountain in which burning torches are +extinguished, and extinguished torches are lit: and the apples of +Sodom, which are ripe to appearance, but are filled with dust"! +(xxi, 7; p. 458.) The diamond is the hardest known stone; so hard +indeed that it cannot be cut or worked "by anything, except goat's +blood." (p. 455.)

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The greatest of Christian Doctors, pyramid of philosophers, +has abiding faith in the reality of the Pagan gods, who, however, +as held by all the Fathers, are really demons or devils; they are +very potent as wonder-workers and magicians. Some of them, however, +are evidently not of a malicious nature: "The god of Socrates. if +he had a god, cannot have belonged to this class of demons." (xiii, +27; p. 165.) Time and again he vouches for and quotes the famous +Hermes Trismegistus, who he assures us was the grandson of the +"first Mercury." (viii, 23, 24; pp. 159, 161.) And for history he +says, that "At this time, indeed, when Moses was born, Atlas is +found to have lived, that great astronomer, the brother of +Prometheus, and maternal grandson of the elder Mercury, of whom +that Mercury Trismegistus was the grandson." (xviii, 39; p. 384.) +Also that "Picus, son of Saturn, was the first king of Argos." +(xviii, 15; p. 368.) He accepts as historic truth the fabulous +founding of Rome by Romulus and Remus, their virgin-birth by the +god Mars, and their nursing by the she-wolf, but attributes the +last to the provident interference of the Hebrew God. Some of his +comments might be applicable to One later Virgin-born. "Rhea, a +vestal virgin, who conceived twin sons of Mars, as they will have +it, in that way honoring or excusing her adultery, adding as a +proof that a she-wolf nursed the infants when exposed. ... Yet, +what wonder is it, if, to rebuke the king who had cruelly ordered +them to be thrown into the water, God was pleased, after divinely +delivering them from the water, to succor, by means of a wild beast +giving milk, these infants by whom so great a City was to be +founded?" (xviii, 21; p. 372.)

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The great philosopher, at one with Cicero in this respect, +distinguishes between the ancient fables of the gods in an age of +ignorance and superstition, and those true histories of their later +deeds in a time, such as that of the Founding of the City, when +intelligence reigned among men. A singular reversion to the mental +state of the Homeric ages would seem to have come upon men with the +advent of the new Faith. Cicero had related the fables of Homer and +contrasted them with the true history of Romulus and his more +enlightened times, saying: "Homer had flourished long before

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Romulus, and there was now so much learning in individuals, and so +generally diffused an enlightenment, that scarcely any room was +left for fable. For antiquity admitted fables, and sometimes very +clumsy ones; but this age of Romulus was sufficiently enlightened +to reject whatever had not the air of truth"! On this the great +Saint Augustine thus philosophizes, -- accounting, indeed, for the +age-long persistence of all superstitions, as due to inheritance +and early teaching: "But who believed that Romulus was a god except +Rome, which was then small and weak? Then afterwards it was +necessary that succeeding generations should preserve the +traditions of their ancestors; that, drinking in this superstition +with their mother's milk, their nation should grow great and +dominate the world"? (xxii, 6; p. 483.) In likewise it may be +queried: Who believed that Jesus was a virgin-born god except +superstitious Pagans who already believed such things of Romulus, +Apollo, AEsculapius, et id omne genus? and the succeeding +generations, "drawing in this superstition with their mother's +milk," have passed it on through the Dark Ages of Faith even unto +our own day. Even the great St. Jerome has said, that no one would +have believed the Virgin-birth of Jesus or that his mother was not +an adulteress, "until now, that the whole world has embraced the +faith" -- and would therefore believe anything -- except the truth!

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All who did not believe such things, when related by the ex-Pagan Christians, were heretics instigated by the devil; for "the +devil, seeing the temples of the gods deserted, and the human race +running to the name of the living Mediator, has moved the heretics +under the Christian name to resist the Christian doctrine." (xviii, +51; p. 392.) Whether St. Augustine, in his earlier Pagan years, +practiced the arts of magic, as did many of the other ex-Pagan +Christian Fathers, he maintained a firm Christian faith in magic +and magicians, and explains how the gift is acquired. He gives an +account of a remarkable lamp which hung in a temple of Venus in a +great candelabra; although exposed to the open air, even the +strongest winds could not blow out the flame. But that is nothing +strange to the philosophic mind of the Saint: "For to this +[inextinguishable lamp] we add a host of marvels wrought by man, or +by magic, that is, by man under the influence of devils, or by the +devils directly, -- for such marvels we cannot deny without +impugning the truth of the sacred Scriptures we believe. ... Now, +devils are attracted to dwell in certain temples by means of the +creatures who present to them the things which suit their various +tastes. ... The devils cunningly seduce men and make of a few of +them their disciples, who then instruct others. ... Hence the +origin of magic and magicians." (xxi, 6; p. 457.) A most notable +example of magical power is that which transforms men into animals, +sometimes effected by the potent word, sometimes through material +means, as where sundry inn-keepers used to put a drug into food +which would work the transformation of their guests into wild or +domestic animals.

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The philosopher Saint vouches for such magical metamorphoses +as of his own knowledge and on unimpeachable authority. At much +length he relates: "A certain man named Praestantius used to tell +that it happened to his father in his own house, that he took that +poison in a piece of cheese, ... and that he had been made a +sumpter horse, and, along with other beasts of burden, had carried

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provisions for the Rhoetian Legion. And all this was found to have +taken place just as he told. ... These things have not come to us +from persons we might deem unworthy of credit, but from informants +we could not suppose to be deceiving us. Therefore, what men say +and have committed to writing about the Arcadians being often +changed into wolves by the Arcadian gods, or demons rather, and +what is told in the song about Circe transforming the companions of +Ulysses, if they were really done, may, in my opinion, have been in +the way I have said -- [that is, by demons through the permission +of God]. ... As for Diomede's birds, that they bring water in their +beaks and sprinkle it on the temple of Diomede, and that they fawn +on men of Greek race and persecute aliens, is no wonderful thing to +be done by the inward influence of demons." (xviii, 18; p. 370.) To +the Saint and to all the Fathers, the air was full of devils: "All +diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to these demons; chiefly +do they torment fresh-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless +new-born infant." (De Divinatione Daemonorum, ch. iii), -- a whole +tome devoted to the prophetic works of the Devil, "after the +working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders," as +avouched in Holy Writ (II Thess. ii, 9); for: "The responses of the +gods are uttered by impure demons with a strong animus against the +Christians." (De Civ. Dei, xix, 23; p. 416.) And no wonder, for "by +the help of magicians, whom Scripture calls enchanters and +sorcerers, the devils could gain such power. ... The noble poet +Vergil describes a very powerful magician in these lines," +(quoting; xxi, 6; p. 457).

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Again, like all the holy Fathers and Popes down at least to +Benedict XIV, elsewhere quoted, the great philosopher and Saint is +a devoted Sibyllist, and frequently quotes and approves the +utterances of these Pagan Seeresses, inspired by the devil through +the permission of the Christian God to reveal the holy mysteries of +the Christian Faith. Augustine devotes a chapter, entitled "Of the +Erythraean Sibyl, who is known to have sung many things about +Christ more plainly than the other Sibyls," to these signal Pagan +proofs of the Christ; and he dwells with peculiar zest on the +celebrated "Fish Anagram." On this theme he enlarges: "This Sibyl +certainly wrote some things concerning Christ which are quite +manifest [citing instances]. ... A certain passage which had the +initial letters of the lines so arranged that these words could be +read in them: 'Iesous Xristos Theou Uios Soter' -- [quoting the +verses at length]. ... If you join the initial letters in these +five Greek words, they will make the word Ixthus, that is, 'fish,' +in which word Christ is mystically understood, because he was able +to live, that is, to exist, without sin, in the abyss of this +mortality as in the depths of water." (xviii, 23; p. 372-3.)

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With full faith the great Doctor Augustine accepts the old +fable of the miraculous translation of the Septuagint, and to it +adds some new trimmings betraying his intimate knowledge of the +processes and purposes of God in bringing it about: "It is reported +that there was an agreement in their words so wonderful, +stupendous, and plainly divine, each one apart (for so it pleased +Ptolemy to test their fidelity), they differed from each other in +no word, or in the order of the words; but, as if the translators +had been one, so what all had translated was one, because in very +deed the one Spirit had been in them all. And they received so

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wonderful a gift of God, in order that these Scriptures might be +commended not as human but divine, for the benefit of the nations. +who should at some time believe, as we now see them doing. ... If +anything is in the Hebrew copies and not in the version of the +Seventy, the Spirit of God did not choose to say it through them, +but only through the prophets. But whatever is in the Septuagint +and not in the Hebrew copies, the same Spirit chose rather to say +it through the latter, thus showing that both were prophets." +(xviii, 42, 43; pp. 385-387.) If this latter be true, that some +divine revelation is found in the Septuagint which is not in the +Hebrew, and vice versa how then can it be true, as the Saint has +just said, and as all the Fathers say, that there was perfect +agreement between the Hebrew original and the Greek translations? +If matters in the Hebrew text were omitted in the Greek, then the +inspired truth of God was not in those parts of the original, or +else what was inspired truth in the Hebrew became now false; and if +there was new matter now in the Greek, such portions were not +translation but were interpolations or plain forgeries of the +translators, yet inspired by God. The divine origin of the Hebrew +language, as invented by God for the use of Adam and Eve and their +posterity, is thus fabled by the great Doctor: "When the other +races were divided by their own peculiar languages [at Babel], +Heber's family preserved that language which is not unreasonably +believed to have been the common language of the race, and that on +this account it was henceforth called Hebrew." (p. 122.) As for the +origin of writing, our Saint agrees with St. Chrysostom, St. +Jerome, and other erudite Saints, that "God himself showed the +model and method of all writing when he delivered the Law written +with his own finger to Moses." (White, Warfare of Science against +Theology, ii, 181.)

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This greatest philosopher of all time attacks with profound +learning a problem which, he says, he had "previously mentioned, +but did not decide," and he proceeds with acutest wisdom to solve +the question: "Whether angels, inasmuch as they are spirits, could +have bodily intercourse with women?" With all the powers of his +mighty philosophico-clerical mind he reasons on the ethereal nature +of angels, and reaches the conclusion, fortified by many ancient +instances, that they can and do. There are, be points out, "many +proven instances, that Sylvans and Fauns, who are commonly called +'Incubi,' had often made wicked assaults upon women, and satisfied +their lusts upon them: and that certain devils, called Duses by the +Gauls, are constantly attempting and effecting this impurity." +(City of God, xv, 23; p. 303.) As the greatest Doctor and +Theologian of the Church, he discusses weightily what books of +Scripture are inspired and canonical, which are fables and +apocryphal: "Let us omit, then, the fables of those Scriptures +which are called apocryphal. ... We cannot deny that Enoch, the +seventh from Adam, left some divine writings, for this is asserted +by the Apostle Jude in his canonical Epistle"! (Ibid,, p. 305.) +Thus the great Doctor vindicates the potentiality of the Holy +Ghost, in the guise of the angel Gabriel, to maintain carnal +copulation with the "proliferous yet Ever Virgin" Mother of God; +and vouches for the divinity of the crude Jewish forgery of the +Book of Enoch, which is duly canonized as genuine and authentic +work of the mythical Patriarch, by the equally mythical "Apostle"

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author of the forged Epistle of Jude. So great a Doctor of the +Church looks, by now, very much like an extraordinary "quack +doctor" peddler of bogus nostrums.

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Such are a few picked from numberless examples of the quasi-divine wisdom and philosophy of this unparalleled, pyramidal Saint +and Doctor of the Church, who "never hesitated to subordinate his +reason to Faith." Most luminously and profoundly of all the Fathers +and Doctors, Augustine spoke the mind and language of the Church +and of its Pagan-born Christianity; more ably than them all he used +the same methods of propaganda of the Faith among the superstitious +ex-Pagan Christians; with greater authority and effect than all the +others, he exploited the same fables, the same falsehoods, the same +absurdities, exhibited to the n-th degree the same fathomless +fatuity of faith and subjugation of reason to credulity.

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A final appeal to the Pagan Sibyls and to the fabulous Phoenix +for "proofs" of the Christian mysteries, I add from the famous +forged Constitutions of the Holy Apostles, falsely through the +centuries attributed as the individual and collective inspired work +of the mythic Twelve: "If the Gentiles laugh at us, and disbelieve +our Scriptures, let at least their own prophetess Sibylla oblige +them to believe, who says thus in express words: [quoting]. If, +therefore, this prophetess confesses the Resurrection ... it is +vain for them to deny our doctrine. They say there is a bird single +in its kind which affords a copious demonstration of the +Resurrection. ... They call it a phoenix, and relate [here +repeating the old Pagan fable of the self-resurrecting phoenix]. +If, therefore, as even themselves say, a resurrection is exhibited +by means of an irrational bird, wherefore do they disparage our +accounts, when we profess that He who by His power brings that into +being which was not in being before, is able to restore this body, +and raise it up again after its dissolution?" (Apost. Const. V, 1, +vii; ANF. vii, 440-441.)

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CHRISTIAN PAGANISM

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The whole of Paganism we have seen taken over bodily into +"that new Paganism later called Christianity," by the ex-Pagan +Fathers of the Christ's Church, and all its myths and fables urged +by them as the credible and only "evidence of things not seen" of +the new Faith. What does it all signify for proof of Christian +Truth? "Nothing stands in need of lying but a Lie"; and by that +unholy means we see the holy false new Faith established among the +ignorant and superstitious Pagans.

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These sainted ex-Pagan Fathers of Christianity, one and all, +fully and explicitly accepted and believed in childlike simplicity +of faith the reality and potency of their old heathen gods, +reducing them only in immortal rank to demons or devils of +fantastic origin and powers permitted by the One True God to work +true miracles; by their inspired oracles to foretell futurity and +the most sacred mysteries of the Christian faith, and maliciously +to "imitate' -- hundreds of years in advance -- its most holy rites +and sacraments; to endow their votaries with the gift of magic and +the powers of magical practices, -- practices to this day performed +by their priestly successors under more refined euphemisms of +thaumaturgy. To the malignant works of the Devil and the hordes of

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devils the Fathers imputed, and their now-a-day successors yet +impute, the working of mighty lying wonders designed to thwart, and +often very effective in "queering" the inscrutable plans and +providences of their Almighty God. "When pious Christians," +mordantly says Middleton, "are arrived at this pitch of Credulity, +as to believe that evil spirits or evil men can work real miracles, +in defiance and opposition to the authority of the Gospels, their +very piety will oblige them to admit as miraculous whatever is +wrought in the defense of it, and so of course make them the +implicit dupes of their wonder-workers." (A Free Inquiry, p. 71.)

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This review of the ex-Pagan Fathers of Christ's True Church is +made at some length because of its capital, fatal importance to the +notion of the "authority," veracity and credibility of these the +sole witnesses and vouchers for the pretended truth and validity of +the new faith, and the "Gospel" wonders reputed as having occurred +a century and more before their times, and for the foundation of +the Church and the miraculous fundamentals of the Christian +religion. Fabling, false and fatuous in point of every single +pretended "proof" which they offer for Christianity, in every +respect fatal to their intelligence, their intellectual honesty, +their common veracity and general and particular credibility with +respect to matters both natural and supernatural -- How can they be +believed as to the miracles and miraculous and incredible basic +"truths" of Christianity? False in one thing, false and discredited +in all, must be the verdict of every one concerned to know the +truth of the new Faith sponsored and established alone through the +mongering of Pagan myths of these fatuous, childishly credulous, +unscrupulous ex-Pagan Fathers of Christianity. They knew not fable +from fact, and scrupled not to assert fable for fact, recklessly +lying to the greater glory of God and glorification of themselves +and their Paganized Church, in the name of Divinely revealed Truth +of God. But, as we have seen, there can be no "divine revelation" +of fanciful "fact" and dogma which for centuries had been, and in +the early Christian ages were, the current mythology of credulous +Pagandom. Thus the system of veneered Paganism which the ex-Pagan +Fathers revamped under the name of Christianity, cannot be true; by +a thousand tokens and tests of truth it is not true.

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In the words of Macbeth is the whole mythical scheme to be +appraised, and adjudged -- and junked:

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"...... It is a tale +Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, +Signifying nothing!"

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But -- "What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!"

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Our review of the fabling forging Fathers of Christianity +brings us through, the epoch of the establishment of Christianity +-- the whole of the second and third centuries of the Christ, -- +the epoch (in the latter half of the second), when the forged +"Gospel" biographies of the Demiurge-Christ, and the forged +Epistles of the Apostles, were, out of hundreds of like pious +Christian forgeries, worked into shape and put into circulation by +the growing Churches zealously gathering swarms of illiterate and +superstitious ex-Pagan "converts" into the Fold of Christ. With +Eusebius and Lactantius, contemporaries and retainers of the

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"Christian" Constantine, we see the official "triumph" of +Christianity in the early fourth century; with the Sainted +Augustine, late in the fourth and early in the fifth centuries, we +see the new Faith, by dint of Christian persecuting laws and of +patristic lying, well established in the Empire, -- "the human race +running to the name of the living Mediator," but yet, at the +instigation of the Devil, disturbed and threatened with extinction +by the Christian "heretics," of whom Augustine says there were +ninety-three warring sects up to his time; and against whom this +great Doctor and Saint produced that fearful text of the Wedding +Feast, "Compel them to come in," and that other fatal bloody +precept of the Christ: "Those mine enemies, which would not that I +should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me," -- +murderous slogans of the Church Persecutrix which bloodily carried +it to final triumph through a thousand years of the Dark Ages of +Faith, as we shall soon see.

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Others of the noted Fathers of the epochs under review will be +noticed as the occasion arises. There are many of them; the four +"great Latin Fathers ... are undoubtedly Sts. Augustine, Jerome, +Ambrose, and Gregory the Great"; died 604. (CE. vi, 1.) Vast is +their output of puerile superstition and pettifogging dialectic, of +which we have seen but some random examples. The overwhelming +volume of patristic palaver of nonsense is evidenced by the "Migne +Collection." of their writings, which comprises 222 ponderous tomes +in Latin and 161 in Greek. (CE. vi, 16.)

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In the next chapter we shall consider the "canonical" Gospels +and Epistles, and the palpable convincing and convicting evidences +of their forgery by the priests and Fathers -- original forgeries +themselves with multiplied forged "interpolations" or purpose-serving later additions to each of the original sacred forgeries.

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THE "GOSPEL" FORGERIES

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"Whether a Church which stands convicted of having forged its +Creed, would have any scruple of forging its Gospels, is a problem +that the reader will solve according to the influence of prejudice +or probability on his mind." Taylor, Diegesis, p. 10.

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LET us now take up the holy Evangels and Epistles of Christ-propaganda. After even our cursory examination of the welter of +Gospels, Acts, Epistles and other pious frauds of Christian +missionary-work, all admittedly forged by holy hands in the early +Christian "age of apocryphal literature" in the names of Jesus +Christ himself, of the Twelve pseudo-apostles and other Worthies, +including Mother Eve, even the most credulous and uncritical +Believer must feel the intrusion of some question: How came the +four "Gospels according to" Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, to be +sometime accepted as genuine and inspired? and, Why are there only +Four out of so much greater a number, as we have seen in +circulation and acceptance? The questions are pertinent, and shall +be given fair answer.

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This entire aggregation of forged religious writings, under +the guise of genuine Gospels, Acts, Epistles, Apocalypses, falsely +attributed to apostolic writers, is know together as "Old Christian +Literature," whether now called "canonical" or apocryphal. Of it +EB. says that this present distinction "does not, in point of fact, +rest upon any real difference in the character or origin of the +writings concerned, but only upon the assumption of their differing +values as sacred or non-sacred books." (EB. iii, 3481.) +Furthermore, the common characteristic and motive of them all is +thus described, or explained: "To compose 'letters' under another +name, especially under the name of persons whose living +presentment, or real or supposed spiritual equipment, it, was +proposed to set before the reader, was then just us usual as was +the other practice of introducing the same persons into narratives +and reporting their 'words' in the manner of which we have +examples, in the case of Jesus, in the Gospels, and, in the case of +Peter, Paul, and other apostles, in the Acts." (EB. iii, 3481.)

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"The Gospel has come down to us," says Bishop Irenaeus (about +185 A.D.), which the apostles did at one time proclaim in public, +and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in +the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith. ... For, +after our Lord rose from the dead [the apostles] departed to the +ends of the earth, preaching the glad tidings of the good things +sent from God to us, who indeed do equally and individually possess +the Gospel of God." (Iren., Adv. Haer, Bk. III, ch. i; ANF. i, +414.) Bishop Irenaeus and Bishop Papias have both averred that the +Christ lived to old age (even as late as 98-117 A.D.), flatly +denying thus as "heresy" the Gospel stories as to his crucifixion +at about thirty years of age. In any event, the Apostles, according +to the record, scattered "to the ends of the earth, preaching," +orally, before they wrote anything at all.

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But, says CE., although "the New Testament was not written all +at once, the books that compose it appeared one after another in +the space of fifty years, i.e., in the second half of the first

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century." (CE. xiv, 530.) That this last clause is untrue will be +fully and readily demonstrated. This statement, too, contradicts +Bishops Papias and Irenaeus, who are, positively, the only two of +the second century Fathers who up to their times at all mention +written Gospels or their supposed authors, as we have seen and +shall more particularly notice.

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And CE. says, as is true, of the earliest existing manuscripts +of any New Testament books: "We have New Testament MSS. written not +much more than 300 years after the composition of the books"; and +it admits (though with much diminution of truth, as we shall see): +"And in them we find numerous differences, though but few of them +are important." (CE. xiv, 526.) In this CE. at another place, and +speaking much more nearly the truth, contradicts itself, saying: +"The existence of numerous and, at times, considerable differences +between the four canonical Gospels is a fact which has long been +noticed and which all scholars readily admit. ... Those evangelical +records (SS. Matthew, Mark, Luke) whose mutual resemblances are +obvious and striking, and ... the narrative (that of St. John) +whose relation with the other three is that of dissimilarity rather +than that of likeness." (CE. vi, 658.)

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But the so-called "canonical" books of the New Testament, as +of the Old, are a mess of contradictions and confusions of text, to +the present estimate of 150000 and more "variant readings," as is +well known and admitted. Thus CE.: "It is easy to understand how +numerous would be the readings of a text transcribed as often as +the Bible, and, as only one reading can represent the original, it +follows that all the others are necessarily faulty. Mill estimated +the variants of the New Testament at 30000, and since the +discovery of so many MSS. unknown to Mill, this number has greatly +increased." (CE. iv, 498.) Who, then, is "inspired" to distinguish +true from false readings, and thus to know what Jesus Christ and +his entourage really said and did, or what some copyist's error or +priest's forgery make them say or do, falsely? Of the chaos and +juggling of sacred texts in the Great Dioceses of Africa, CE. says: +"There never existed in early Christian Africa an official Latin +text known to all the Churches, or used by the faithful to the +exclusion of all others. The African bishops willingly allowed +corrections to be made in a copy of the Sacred Scriptures, or even +a reference, when necessary, to the Greek text. With some +exceptions, it was the Septuagint text that prevailed, for the +O.T., until the fourth century. In the case of the New, the MSS. +were of the Western type. On this basis there arose a variety of +translations and interpretations. ... Apart from the discrepancies +to be found in two quotations from the same text in the works of +two different authors, and sometimes of the same author, we now +know that of several books of Scripture there were versions wholly +independent of each other." (CE. i, 193.)

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Bishop Victor of Tunnunum, who died about 569 A.D. and whose +work, says CE., "is of great historical value," says that in the +fifth century, "In the consulship of Messala, at the command of the +Emperor Anastasius, the Holy Gospels, as written Idiotis +Evangelists, are corrected and amended." (Victor of T., Chronica, +p. 89-90; cited by Dr. Mills, Prolegom. to R.V., p. 98.) This would +indicate some very substantial tinkering with Holy Writ; which

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process was a continuing one, for, says CE., "Under Sixtus V (1585-1590) and Clement VIII (1592-1605) the Latin Vulgate after years of +revision attained its present shape." (CE., xii, 769.) And the +Vulgate, which was fiercely denounced as fearfully corrupt, was +only given sanction of divinity by the Council of Trent in 1546, +under the Curse of God against any who questioned it. Though this +amendatory tinkering of their two Holinesses was after the Council +of Trent had put the final Seal of the Holy Ghost on the Vulgate in +1546!

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STILL TINKERING AT IT!

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The ancient clerical trick of tempering with the "Word of God" +and amending its plenary Divine Inspiration and Inerrancy, goes on +apace today, even to the extent of putting a veneer of civilization +on the barbarian Hebrew God, and warping his own barbarian words so +as to make a semblance of a "God of Mercy" out of the self-styled +"Jealous God" of Holy Writ.

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In 1902, after the sacred Council of Trent, in 1546, had put +the Curse of God on any further tinkering with the Inerrant Bible, +His Holiness Leo XIII appointed a Commission of Cardinals, known as +the Pontifical Biblical Commission, to further amend Divine +Inspiration; in 1907, "the Commission, with the approval of the +sovereign pontiff, invited the Benedictine Order to undertake a +collection of the variant readings of the Latin Vulgate as a remote +preparation for a thoroughly amended edition." (CE. ii, 557.) This +august body has recently laid before His Holiness, after all these +years of labor, the revised text of the revelations of Moses in the +Book of Genesis; and is now worrying with Exodus and the "Ten +Commandments" in chapter XX thereof.

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Associated Press dispatches published to the world today, +relate that "the Vatican's International Commission on the revision +of the Bible [is] taking steps to correct one of the most famous +Biblical passages, Exodus xx, 5, now believed to have been +mistranslated"! (N.Y. Times, May 18, 1930.) The actual text, and +"what the Vatican Commission thinks it should read," are here +quoted so that all may judge of the immense farce and fraud of this +capital falsification; -- the material tampering being indicated by +italics.

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Exodus xx, 5 -- as is.

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"For I the Lord thy God am a Jealous God, visiting the +iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and +fourth generation of then that hate me"; ...

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Ditto -- as falsified.

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"For I, the Lord thy God, am a God of loving-kindness and +mercy, considering the errors of the fathers as mitigating +circumstances in judging the children unto the third and +fourth generation"!

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Even a fool knows that no set of words, humanly or divinely +devisable, could bear such enormity of contrary translation; this

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is self-evident. The simple Hebrew words of verse 5 do not admit of +a word of tampering in translation. Even the present translations +into modern languages make apparent the correctness of the familiar +rendering. The words of verse 5 -- "visiting the iniquities ... of +them that hate me," close with a semicolon, followed immediately by +their antithesis: -- "And showing mercy [Heb. chesed] unto +thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments." (v. 6; +Deut. v. 9, 10.) The "Jealous God" pursues the progeny of those +"that hate" him, and "shows mercy ... to them that love" him. The +inspired "correction" of the "mistranslation" leaves verse 6 +meaningless and redundant.

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But the two simple Hebrew words chiefly involved make this +fraudulent "correction" ridiculous and impossible. In Hebrew, +Yahweh says from Sinai: "Anoki yahweh elohe-ka EL QANNA -- I Yahweh +thy God [am a] Jealous God." The only false translation in this +verse is "Lord thy God" for the 6000-times falsified "Yahweh thy +God," as elsewhere noted. Always "qanna" means "jealous' -- and is +used of the "jealous god," husband, wife, etc. The "joker" in this +false "correction" is apparent from the word "chesed -- mercy," +hundreds of times used in Holy Writ. There is no Hebrew word +meaning "loving-kindness"; this is a fanciful rendering given by +the pious translators to the same old word "chesed -- mercy." Even +the Infallible One knows -- or can look in a Hebrew dictionary or +concordance and see -- that "el qanna ... visiting iniquity" -- +cannot be twisted into "et chesed and chesed ... showing chesed -- +mercy" to only those that love him. And how many thousands of +"corrections" of words "now believed mistranslated," would be +necessary to whitewash the barbarian Yahweh of Holy Writ into a +"whited sepulchre" of civilized deity!

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SOME TESTS FOR FORGERY

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We have seen the debauchery of forgery out of which the Four +Gospels were born. This makes pertinent the critical statement of +one of the latest authorities on the subject: "Few genuine texts +have come down to us from beyond the Middle Ages -- most documents +reaching us in the form of later copies made by scribes in +monasteries"; and he adds: "The mere fact that documents have been +accepted for centuries does not itself protect them from the tests +of historical criticism." (Shotwell, See of Peter, Gen. Introd. +xix, xxii.) It is pertinent to add here a paragraph from CE. which +states with entire accuracy the elementary principles upon which +literary criticism rests; due to the application of just these +principles by honest and fearless critics, the Bible has been +stripped of every clerical pretense of inspired inerrancy and of +even common literary and historical honesty; so that even the +inerrant Church has been driven to confess countless errors and +forgeries; even, as we have seen, to the frank repudiation of the +fables of Creation, the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, and +the divine revelation of the Hebrew religion, which is thus shown +to be a very human evolution. These critical principles have +destroyed the vast mass of Hebrew and Christian apocrypha; and may +now be applied to the New Testament booklets which yet make false +pretense to divine inspiration of truth. Says CE.:

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"Some broad principles [of literary criticism] are +universally admitted by critical scholars. A fundamental one +is that a literary work always betrays the imprint of the age +and environment in which it was produced; another is that a +plurality of authors is proved by well-marked differences of +diction and style, at least when they coincide with +distinctions of viewpoint or discrepancies in a double +treatment of the same subject. A third received canon holds to +a radical dissimilarity between ancient Semitic and modern +Occidental, or Aryan, methods of composition." (CE. iv. 492.)

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The lines last above in italics point to the most fatal of all +proofs -- that of "double treatment" or forged "interpolations," +than which nothing is clearer evidence of tampering and later +fraudulent alterations of text. The most radical dissimilarity +between the ancient Semitic methods of religious composition and +our modern Occidental notions of literary honesty -- or even of +intelligent forgery -- is, that the Hebrew and Greek religious +forgers were so ignorant or careless of the principles of +criticism, that they "interpolated" their fraudulent new matter +into old manuscripts without taking care to erase or suppress the +previous statements glaringly contradicted by the new +interpolations. Though, as the great masses of the ignorant +Faithful couldn't read, it may have suited the design of the +priests to retain both contradictory matters, either of which might +be used according to occasion to impose on their credulous Flocks.

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When, therefore, in the same document, two statements of +alleged fact or doctrine are found, one of which is in glaring +contradiction of the other, one or the other is inevitably false +and to a moral certainty the work of a later and different hand. +When, furthermore, one of the statements is consonant with the time +and conditions under which it was supposedly written, or to which +it refers, and the contradictory "betrays the imprint of the age +and environment in which it was written," later and different from +that of the original, and/or betrays "distinctions of viewpoint or +discrepancies" from the earlier version, inevitably the latter +convicts itself of being forged. With these established and +admitted principles in mind, we may now look a bit closely at these +questioned documents of the Four Gospels.

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THE GOSPEL TITLES

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These Four are themselves forgeries and apocryphal "in. the +sinister sense of bearing names to which they have no right," as +well as by their contents being false, with many forged +"interpolations" or spurious additions. Even if the Four Gospels +were themselves genuine, as we shall see they are not, yet +admittedly their present titles are not original and given to them +by the writers. The present clerical position, seeking to save the +works, is that, like the Acts of the Apostles, "the name was +subsequently attached to the book, just as the headings of the +several Gospels were affixed to them." (CE. i, 117.) More +particularly speaking of the Gospel titles, the same authority +says: "The first four historical books of the New Testament are +supplied with titles (Gospel According to [Gr. kata] Matthew, +According to Mark, etc.) which, however ancient, do not go back to

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the respective authors of those sacred writings. ... That, however, +they do not go back to the first century of the Christian era, or +at least that they are not original, is a position generally held +at the present day. ... It thus appears that the titles of the +Gospels are not traceable to the Evangelists themselves." (CE. vi, +655, 656.) The very fact that the late second century Gospel-titles +are of Gospels "according to" this or that alleged apostle, rather +than "The Gospel of Mark" etc., is itself confession and plenary +proof that "Mark," et als., were not -- and were not intended to be +represented as -- the real authors of those "according to" Gospels. +The form of the titles to the Epistles -- also later tagged to +them, -- as "The Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans," etc. makes +this clear and convincing, that no Apostles wrote the "according +to" Gospel-biographies of the Christ.

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It is obvious, too, from an attentive reading of the Four +Gospels, that they are not arranged in our present collection in +their order of composition; "Matthew" certainly is not first in +order, and is only put first because it begins with the "Book of +the Generation of Jesus Christ." The Gospel "according to Mark" is +now well established as the earliest of the first three, the +"Synoptics," and "John" is clearly the latest. There has been much +dispute on this point: "The ancient lists, versions, and +ecclesiastical writings are far from being at one with regard to +the order of these (4) sacred records of Christ's words and deeds. +In early Christian literature the canonical Gospels are given in no +less than eight orders, besides the one (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) +with which we are familiar." (CE. vi, 657.)

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Let us pause a moment to catch the full force of these +admissions by CE. and note their consequences fatal to the pretense +of Apostolic authorship or origin of these Gospels. We shall +shortly see amplest proofs that none of the Four existed until well +into the last half of the second century after so-called Christ and +Apostles; but here we have, by clearest inference, an admission +that the Gospels were not written by Apostles or their +contemporaries. These titles "do not go back to the respective +authors of those sacred writings; ... do not go back to the first +century; ... are not original; ... are not traceable to the +Evangelists." What an anomaly, in all literature! most especially +in apostolic "sacred records of Christ's words and deeds"!

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Here we have these wonderful and "only true" inspired writings +of the companions of the Christ, eye-witnesses to his mighty +career, written for the conversion and salvation of the world, +floating around loose and anonymous for a century and a half, +without the slightest indication of their divine source and +sanction! All the flood of forged and spurious gospels, epistles, +acts and revelations -- "the apocryphal and pseudo-Biblical +writings with which the East especially had been flooded" (CE. iii, +272), bore the names of the pretended writers, from the false Books +of Adam and Enoch to the forged "Gospel of Jesus Christ" and the +"Apocalypse of St. Peter." But the authentic and true Gospels of +the genuine Apostles of Christ, are nameless and dateless scraps of +papyrus! Imagine the great Fathers and Bishops of the Churches, the +inspired and all-wise "Popes" of the Church at Rome, rising in +their pulpits before the gaping Faithful; taking up an anonymous +roll of manuscript, and announcing: "Our lesson today is from,

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(ahem!) one of the wonderful Gospels of our Lord and Savior Jesus +Christ; but, (ahem!) I don't really know which one. It is by either +Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John, I'm sure; but the writer forgot +to sign or insert his name. We will, however, worship God by +reading it anonymously in faith. No, here is one with a name to it; +we will now read from the inspired 'Gospel of Barnabas,' or the +sacred 'Shepherd of Hermas.' Let us sing that grand and reassuring +old Hymn, 'How firm a foundation, ye Saints of the Lord, Is laid +for your faith in His wonderful Word!' Let us pray for more faith; +and remember to believe what I have told you. Ite, missa est -- +It's all over, beat it!"

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Books, evidently, do not go the rounds of readers nor of +inspired Churches for over a century without a title or name. The +first mention of the names or titles, as of the "Gospels" to which +they were "supplied" was, as we shall see, not until about 185 +A.D., when the "Gospels according to" the Four first appear in +ecclesiastical literature, and thereupon began their career in the +current use of the Churches, and therefore, evidently, then first +came into existence. The Four Gospels thus, self-evidently, did not +-- could not for more than a century exist anonymous, without the +Apostolic titles certifying their origin and authenticity. To +pretend otherwise is sheer deceit and false pretense.

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THE "CANONICITY" OF THE FOUR GOSPELS

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The only possible pretext whereby generations of men should be +persuaded or cozened or compelled to accept and believe the Gospels +(as well as the other N.T. books), even under the genial threat "he +that believeth not shall be damned," is that these books were +written by immediate companions and apostles of the Christ, +faithful eye-witnesses to his work and word, commanded and inspired +by Christ, God, or the Holy Ghost (which one is not explicit), to +write and publish these wonderful biographies of the Christ. This +is explicitly the teaching and dogma of the Church: no real +Apostolic author, no true Gospel.

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Through pious Christian fraud and forgery, there were +fraudulently in vogue some couple of hundred "books current under +an Apostle's name in the Early Church, such as the Epistle of +Barnabas and the Apocalypse of St. Peter," as CE. (iii, 274) admits +of these fraudulent "sacred writings" -- with Apostolic titles. Our +Ecclesiastical authority then states the "certain indubitable +marks" whereby true Apostolic authenticity, essential to validity +and credence, must be known: "For the primitive Church, evangelical +character was the test of Scriptural sacredness. But to guarantee +this character it was necessary that a book should be known as +composed by the official witnesses and organs of the Evangel; hence +to certify the Apostolic authorship, or at least sanction, of a +work purporting to contain the Gospel of Christ." (CE. iii, 274.) +All purported "Gospels" as to which Apostolic authorship or +sanction could not be guaranteed and certified were, of course, +spurious, as is natural and proper. Yet, for centuries, false and +forged "Gospels," etc., as the two just named, bore the Apostolic +certificates of authenticity -- now confessed to be false.

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THE "MARK" FABLE BELIES "CANONICITY"

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The impossibility of the pretense that the precious Four +Gospels circulated nondescript and anonymous in the Churches for a +century and a half, is patently belied by the specific instance of +the "Gospel according to Mark," of which Gospel we have the precise +"history" recorded three centuries after the alleged notorious +event. Bishop Eusebius is our witness, in his celebrated Church +History. He relates that Peter preached orally in Rome, Mark being +his "disciple" and companion. The people wanted a written record of +Peter's preachments, and (probably because Peter couldn't write), +they importuned Mark to write down "that history which is called +the Gospel according to Mark." Mark having done so, "the Apostle +(Peter) having ascertained what was done by revelation of the +Spirit, was delighted ... and that history obtained his authority +for the purpose of being read in the Churches." (HE. Bk. II, ch. +15.) Thus Peter was dead at the time, but his ghost got the news +and somehow communicated its delight and approval for the document +to be a "Gospel" for the Churches. But in a later section the +Bishop gives another version: the people who heard Peter "requested +Mark, who remembered well what he [Peter] had said, to reduce these +things to writing. ... Which, when Peter understood, he directly +neither hindered nor encouraged it." (HE. Bk. VI, ch. 14.) Peter, +thus, was alive, but wholly indifferent about his alleged Gospel.

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The impossibilities of these contradictory fables need not +detain us now. But both join in declaring that the "Gospel +according to Mark" was publicly given to the Churches, at Rome, +just before or after the death of Peter, 64-67 A.D. The moment, +then, that this famous manuscript fell from the inspired pen -- +(but it was not inspired: Mark only "remembered well"), -- the +Great Seal of the Holy Ghost was upon it, and it bore before the +world the notorious crown of Canonicity, -- And this fact was of +course known to all the Roman Church. And so, of course, of the +other three; every papyrus containing these precious productions of +Divine Inspiration must ipso facto be "canonized" and notoriously +sacred and of Divine sanction from the very day they were written. +Every Church, Father, Bishop, and Pope must certainly have known +the fact, and have glorified in their precious possession.

+ +

But so it was -- not. Pope Peter evidently did not and could +not know it; he was "martyred in Rome" 64-67, the Church tells us; +and the earliest date clerically claimed for "Mark" is some years +after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. The great Pope Clement I +(died 97 A.D.?), first-to-fourth "successor" to Pope Peter, knew +nothing of his great Predecessor's "Gospel according to Mark"; for, +admits the CE.: "The New Testament he never quotes verbally. +Sayings of Christ are now and then given, but not in the words of +the Gospels. It cannot be proved, therefore, that he used any one +of the Synoptic Gospels." (CE. iv, 14.) Of course, he did not, +could not; they were not then written. And no other Pope, Bishop or +Father (except Papias and until Irenaeus), for nearly a century +after "Pope Clement," ever mentions or quotes a Gospel, or names +Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. So for a century and a half -- until +the books bobbed up in the hands of Bishop St. Irenaeus and were +tagged as "Gospels according to" this or that Apostle, there exists +not a word of them in all the tiresome tomes of the Fathers. It is

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humanly and divinely impossible that the "Apostolic authorship" and +hence "canonicity" or divine inspiration of these Sacred Four +should have remained, for a century and a half, unknown and +unsuspected by every Church, Father, Pope and Bishop of Christendom +-- if existent. Even had they been somewhat earlier in existence, +never an inspired hint or human suspicion was there, that they were +"Divine" or "Apostolic," or any different from the scores of +"apocryphal or pseudo-Biblical writings with which the East +especially had been flooded," -- that they were indeed "Holy +Scripture." Hear this notable admission: "It was not until about +the middle of the second century that under the rubric of Scripture +the New Testament writings were assimilated to the Old"! (CE. iii, +275), -- that is, became regarded as apostolic, sacred, inspired +and canonical, -- or "Scriptures."

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To argue and prove that the Four were regarded as "Apostolic" +and hence "canonical" after the middle of the second century, +argues and proves that until that late date they were not so +regarded, -- which we have seen is impossible if they had been +written by Apostles a hundred years and more previously and +authorized by them "for the purpose of being read in the Churches," +as the very ground and pillar of their foundation and faith.

+ +

Follow the proofs and argument of the Church to its own +undoing: "From the testimony of St. Irenaeus (A.D. 185) alone there +can be no reasonable doubt that the Canon of the Gospel was +inalterably fixed in the Catholic Church by the last quarter of the +second century ... to the exclusion of any pretended Evangels. +[Sundry writings mentioned] presuppose the authority enjoyed by the +Fourfold Gospel towards the middle of the second century. ... Even +Rationalistic scholars like Harnack admit the canonicity of the +quadriform Gospel between the years 140-175." (CE. iii, 275.) Even +CE. does not prove or claim that it was any earlier; so here the +Church and the Rationalists are in accord on this fatal fact! +Certainly Popes Peter and Clement I, not to review the silent +others, would have "inalterably fixed" the Divine Canonicity of the +Four a century before, if they had known about these precious +productions of the Apostles; -- if, in fact, they had existed, the +known works of Holy Apostles and apostolic men! But until "towards +the middle of the second century" there was no "canon" or notion of +divinely inspired Apostolic Gospels -- simply for the reason that +until just about that period they were not in existence.

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The sudden appearance at a certain late date, of a previously +unknown document, which is then attributed to an earlier age and +long since dead writers, is one of the surest earmarks of forgery. +Thus CE. speaking of another monumental Church forgery -- (the +"False Decretals" of Isidore, hereafter noticed) -- urges this very +fact as one of the most cogent grounds of the detection of that +forgery: "These documents appeared suddenly in the ninth century +and are nowhere mentioned before that time. ... Then again there +are endless anachronisms," -- just as in the Gospels and Epistles. +(CE. vi, 773.) More ample and compelling proofs of this destroying +fact will soon be made.

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THE GOSPELS "ACCORDING TO" GREEK PRIESTS

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According to the names "supplied" to the Four Gospels, as to +the other New Testament books, the "Apostolic" authors were all of +them Jews; the same is supposedly true of most of the now confessed +apocrypha. All these were forgeries in the names of Jewish pseudo-apostles. But all of the Gospels, the other New Testament Books, +and the forged apocrypha, were written in Greek. Self-evidently, +these "ignorant and unlearned" peasant Apostles, speaking a vulgar +Aramaic-Jewish dialect, could neither speak nor write Greek, -- if +they could write at all. The Old Testament books were written +mostly in Hebrew, which was a "dead language," which only the +priests could read; thus in the synagogues of Palestine the rolls +were read in Hebrew, and then "expounded" to the hearers in their +Aramaic dialect. But these Hebrew "Scriptures" had been translated +into Greek, in the famous Septuagint version which we have admired. +Here is another significant admission by CE.: it speaks of "the +supposed wholesale adoption and approval, by the Apostles, of the +Greek, and therefore larger Old Testament," that is, the Greek +version containing the Jewish apocrypha; and then admits the fact: +"The New Testament undoubtedly shows a preference for the +Septuagint; out of about 350 texts from the Old Testament [in the +New], 300 favor the Greek version rather than the Hebrew." (CE. +iii, 271.) It was also the Greek Septuagint and Greek forged +Oracles, that were exclusively used by the Greek Fathers and +priests in all the Gospel-propaganda work of the first three +centuries. Obviously, the Gospels and other New Testament booklets, +written in Greek and quoting 300 times the Greek Septuagint, and +several Greek Pagan authors, as Aratus, and Cleanthes, were +written, not by illiterate Jewish peasants, but by Greek-speaking +ex-Pagan Fathers and priests far from the Holy Land of the Jews.

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There is another proof that the Gospels were not written by +Jews. Traditionally, Jesus and all the "Apostles" were Jews; all +their associates and the people of their country with whom they +came into contact, were Jews. But throughout the Gospels, scores of +times, "the Jews" are spoken of, always as a distinct and alien +people from the writers, and mostly with a sense of racial hatred +and contempt. A few instances only need be given; they all betray +that the writers were not Jews speaking of their fellow Jews. The +Greek writer of "Matthew" says: "this saying is commonly reported +among the Jews until this day" (Mt. xxviii, 15), -- showing, too, +that it was written long afterwards; a Jew must have said "among +our people," or some such. It is recorded by "Mark": "For the +Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands of it, +eat not, holding to the tradition of the elders" (Mk. vii, 3); no +Jew writing for his fellow-Jews would explain or need to explain +this Jewish custom, known to and practiced by "all the Jews." Luke +names a Jew and locates geographically his place of residence: +"Joseph, of Arimathea, a city of the Jews"; an American writer, +speaking of Hoboken, could not say "a city of the Americans" nor +did Jews need to be told by a Jew that Arimathea was a "city of the +Jews." The Greek priest who wrote "John" is the most prolific in +telling his Pagan readers about Jewish customs and personalities; +absurd in a Jew writing for Jews: "After the manner of the +purifying of the Jews" (ii, 6); "And the Jews' passover was at +hand" (ii, 13) "Then answered the Jews, and said unto Jesus" (iii,

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1); "Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples +-- [all Jews] -- and the Jews about purifying" (iii, 25); "And +therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus" (v, 16); "Therefore the +Jews sought the more to kill him" (v, 18). More: "And the passover, +a feast of the Jews, was nigh" vi, 4); no American would say "the +Fourth of July, a holiday of the Americans," though a French writer +might properly so explain. "After these things Jesus would not walk +in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him" (vii, 1); "for they +feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already" (ix, 22); "His +disciples said unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone +thee with stones" (xi, 8); "As the manner of the Jews is to bury" +(xix, 40), which need be explained to no Jew. These and many like +passages prove that no Jews wrote the Gospels; that they were +written by foreigners for foreigners; these foreigners were Greek-speaking aliens unfamiliar with Jewish customs; the writers were +therefore ex-Pagan Greek priests who were zealously "selling" the +"glad tidings of great joy" to the ignorant and superstitious Pagan +populace.

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THE FOUR GOSPELS -- "CHOSEN"

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The Four Gospels are thus demonstrated as: not written by +Jews; not written by any of the "Twelve Apostles"; not written nor +in existence for over a century after the supposed Apostles. When +finally the Gospel "according to" Luke came to be written, already, +as "Luke" affirms, there were "many" other like pseudo-Apostolic +Gospel-biographies of the Christ afloat (Luke, i, 1); he added just +another. In his Commentary on Luke, Father Origen confirms this +fact as well known: "And not four Gospels, but very many, out of +which these we have chosen and delivered to the churches, we may +perceive." (Origen, In Proem. Luc., Hom. 1, vol. 2, p. 210.) How, +and why, out of half a hundred of other lying forgeries of Gospels, +were these sacred Four finally "chosen" as truly "Apostolic," +inspired, and canonical? Nobody knows, as CE. confesses.

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It is a very strange and fatal confession, in view of the +insistent false pretense of the Church for centuries of the patent +Divinity of the Four Gospels, and of its own infallible inspiration +and Divine guidance against all doubt and error; but it confesses:

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"It is indeed impossible, at the present day, to describe +the precise manner in which out of the numerous works ascribed +to some Apostle, or simply bearing the name of gospel, only +four, two of which are not ascribed to Apostles, came to be +considered as sacred and canonical. It remains true, however, +that all the early testimony which has a distinct bearing on +the number of the canonical Gospels recognizes four such +Gospels and none besides. Thus, Eusebius (d. 340) ... Clement +of Alexandria (d. about 220), ... and Tertullian (d. 220), +were familiar with our four Gospels, frequently quoting and +commenting on them." (CE. vi, 657.)

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The statement as to "all the early testimony" in favor of +these Four only, is not only untrue, but it is contradicted by a +true statement on the same page as the last above; it is, too, a +further humiliating confession of blind and groping uncertainty +with respect to the very foundation stones on which the Infallible

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Church is built, and makes a bit less confident the forged +assurance that the Gates of Hell -- to say nothing of human Reason +-- shall not yet prevail against the ill-founded structure. Here is +the destructive admission:

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"In the writings of the Apostolic Fathers one does not, +indeed, meet with unquestionable evidence in favor of only +four canonical gospels. ... The canonical Gospels were +regarded as of Apostolic authority, two of them being ascribed +to the Apostles St. Matthew and St. John, respectively, and +two to St. Mark and St. Luke, the respective companions of St. +Peter and St. Paul. Many other gospels indeed claimed +Apostolic authority, but to none of them was this claim +universally allowed in the early Church. The only apocryphal +work which was at all generally received, and relied upon, in +addition to our four canonical Gospels, is the 'Gospel +according to the Hebrews.' It is a well-known fact that St. +Jerome regards it as the Hebrew original of our Greek +Canonical Gospel according to St. Matthew." (CE. vi, 657.)

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Thus, admittedly, "numerous works" of pretended and false +"gospels," some fifty, were forged and falsely "ascribed to some +apostle" by devout Christians; after a century and a half only four +"came to be considered" and were finally "chosen" -- selected -- as +of divine utterance and sanction. Why? one may well wonder.

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WHY FOUR GOSPELS?

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Why Four Gospels, then, -- when only one would have been +aplenty and much safer, as fewer contradictions -- out of the fifty +ascribed by pious forging hands to the Holy Twelve? The pious +Fathers are ready here, as ever, with fantastic reasons to explain +things whereof they are ignorant or are not willing to give honest +reasons for. "The saintly Bishop of Lyons," says CE. with +characteristic clerical solemnity when anyone else would laugh, +"Irenaeus (died about 202), who had known Polycarp in Asia Minor, +not only admits and quotes our four Gospels, [he is the very first +to mention them!] -- but argues that there must be just four, no +more and no less. He says: 'It is not possible that the Gospels be +either more or fewer than they are. For since there are four zones +of the world in which we live, and four principal winds, while the +Church is scattered throughout the world. ... and the pillar and +ground of the Church is the Gospel. ... it is fitting that we +should have four pillars, breathing out immortality on every side +and vivifying our flesh. ... The living creatures are quadriform, +and the Gospel is quadriform, as is also the course followed by our +Lord"! (CE. vi, 659.) Thus far CE. quoting the good Bishop; but we +may follow the Bishop a few lines further in his very innocent +ratiocinations from ancient Hebrew mythology, in proof of the +divine Four:

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"For this reason were four principal covenants given to +the human race: One prior to the deluge, under Adam; the +second, that after the deluge, under Noah; the third, the +giving of the law, under Moses; the fourth, that which +renovates man, and sums up all things by means of the Gospel, +raising and bearing men upon its wings into the heavenly

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Kingdom. ... But that these Gospels alone are true and +reliable, and admit neither an increase nor diminution of the +aforesaid number, I have proved by so many and such arguments. +For, since God made all things in due proportion and +adaptation, it was fit also that the outward aspect of the +Gospel should be well arranged and harmonized. The opinion of +those men, therefore, who handed the Gospel down to us, having +been investigated, from their very fountainheads, let us +proceed also [to the remaining apostles), and inquire into +their doctrine with regard to God." (Iren. Adv. Haer. III, xi, +8, 9; ANF. i, 428-29.)

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The true reason, however, for four finally "chosen" and +accepted Gospels, is that stated by Reinach, after quoting Irenaeus +and other authorities: "The real reason was to satisfy each of the +four principal Churches each of which possessed its Gospel: Matthew +at Jerusalem, Mark at Rome, or Alexandria, Luke at Antioch, and +John at Ephesus." (Reinach, Orpheus, p. 217.) This reason for the +use of a different Gospel by each of the principal and independent +Churches, -- for the special uses of each of which the respective +Gospels were no doubt worked up by forging Fathers in each Fold, -- +is confirmed by Bishop Irenaeus himself in this same argument. Each +of the four principal sects of heretics, he says, makes use in +their Churches of one or the other of these Four for its own uses, +for instance: Matthew by the Ebionites; Mark by "those who separate +Jesus from Christ"; Luke by the Marcionites; and John by the +Valentinians; and this heretical use of the Four, argues the +Bishop, confirms their like acceptance and use by the True +Churches: "So firm is the ground upon which these Gospels rest, +that the very heretics bear witness to them, and starting from +these documents, each of them endeavors to establish his own +peculiar doctrine [citing the use by each sect of a different +Gospel as above named]. Since, then, our opponents do bear +testimony to us, and make use of these documents, our proof derived +from them is firm and true." (Iren., op. cit. sec. 7.) The +"canonical Four," verily, as CE. confesses, were manufactured +precisely for the purpose of meeting and confuting the heretics, as +were the gradually developed and defined sacred dogmas of the +Orthodox Church, even that of the Trinity. The fabrication of the +Four can be seen working out under our very eyes, in the light of +the foregoing statement of Irenaeus, and of that of CE. to be +quoted.

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In the next section we shall see proven, that no written, +Gospels existed until shortly before 185 A.D., when Irenmus wrote; +they are first mentioned in chapter xxii of his Book II; the above +quotation is from Book III, when use of them became constant. +Evident we see it to be, from what Irenaeus has just said, that the +sects of heretics named were making use, each of them of one of the +just-published Four as well as of other "spurious gospels"; the +Orthodox claimed the Four as their own, and finally established the +claim. The "gospel" up to about this time, a century and a half +after Jesus Christ, was entirely oral and "traditional"; the +Gnostics and other heretics evidently were first to reduce some +"gospels" to writing; the Orthodox quickly followed suit, in order +to combat the heretics by "apostolic" writings. This is clear from +the following, that "the spurious gospels of the Gnostics prepared

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the way for the canon of Scripture," -- meaning, for the now +"canonical Scripture"; for, as the "canon" was not dogmatically +established until 1546, the Four were not "canonized" when Irenaeus +wrote in 185, -- when the "way was prepared" for them by the +earlier heretical "spurious gospels." Thus CE. writes:

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"The endless controversies with heretics have been +indirectly the cause of most important doctrinal developments +and definitions formulated by councils to the edification of +the body of Christ. Thus the spurious gospels of the Gnostics +prepared the way for the canon of Scripture: the Patripassian, Sabellian, Arian, and Macedonian heresies drew out a +clearer concept of the Trinity; the Nestorian and Eutychian +errors led to definite dogmas on the nature and Person of +Christ. And so on down to Modernism, which has called forth a +solemn assertion of the claims of the supernatural in +history." (CE. vii, 261.)

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Heresy means "Choice"; heretics are those who choose what they +will believe, or whether they will believe at all. It was to +foreclose all choice on the part of believers, that the divinely-inspired, apostolic fictions of the Four Gospels were drawn up for +the first time to combat the "spurious gospels" of the free +choosers. Heresy could not exist in the time of Jesus Christ, for +he laid down nothing for belief, except "He that believeth on me +shall be saved" against his immediate "second coming" and end of +the world. The gospels are thus anti-heretical documents of the +second century, after Gnosticism first appeared.

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In this connection it may be mentioned, as complained by +Augustine, that there were some 93 sects of heretics during the +first three centuries of the Christian Faith; all these were +Christian sects, believing in the tales of Jesus Christ and him +crucified, but each of them as rivals struggling for the profits +and power of religion and warring to suppress all others, and make +itself master in pelf and power. Hence the Fathers thundered +against the heretics. The inspired Four Gospels, contradictory at +every point, were impossible to believe in all points; they left +every one free to disbelieve all, or to believe such as he could.

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So incredible, even on their face, were one and all of these +canonical Four Gospels, that the fanatic Father Tertullian thus +stated the grounds of his holy faith in them: "Credo quia +incredibilis est -- I believe because it is unbelievable"; and St. +Augustine, greatest of the Fathers, declared himself in these +terms: "Ego vero Evangelio non crederem, nisi me Catholicae +Ecclesiae conmoveret Auctoritas. ... Ego me ad eos teneam, quibus +praecipientibus Evangelio credidi -- I would not believe the Gospel +true, unless the authority of the Catholic Church constrained me. +... I hold myself bound to those, through whose teachings I have +believed the Gospel." (Augustine, On the Foundation, sec. 5, Ed. +Vives, vol. xxv, p. 435; Orpheus, p. 223.)

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In the work often cited, Bishop Irenaeus either falsely quotes +the Gospel of Mark, or the sacred text has been seriously altered +in our present copies; he says: "Mark commences with a reference to +the prophetical spirit, saying, 'The beginning of the Gospel of

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Jesus Christ, as it is written in Esaias the prophet"' (sec. 8, p. +428), as if Isaiah testified to the Gospel. The Bishop also quotes +two long passages, one a written letter of the Apostles "unto those +brethren from among the Gentiles who are in Antioch, and Syria, and +Silicia, greeting," -- which are not in the Acts of the Apostles or +any other New Testament book as we now have them. (Iren., Adv. +Maer. III, xi, 14; p. 436.) The good Bishop seems either to have +fabricated this alleged Epistle and passage, or other pious hands +falsified the sacred Scriptures by forging them out of its pages. +So it is evident that these inspired booklets, as we now know them, +at least differ in very many material respects from the +"traditional Gospel" and from the form in which the Four Gospels +were first reduced to writing. Many other instances exist, of which +some of the most notorious will be shown in the course of the +chapter.

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INSPIRATION AND PLAGIARISM

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In this connection a few words may be said as to the +chronological order and manner of composition of the first three or +Synoptic Gospels. "Historically Mark is the earliest, and its study +the foundation of critical enquiry. But the ordinary Christian is +not a historical critic." (New Commentary, Pt. III, p. 126; ef. pp. +33, 45.) With the latter statement all will agree; with the first +CE. is in agreement with the leading critics, though holding to the +exploded "tradition" that one Mark wrote "Mark," or, in its words: +"If, then, a consistent and widespread early tradition is to count +for anything, St. Mark wrote a work based upon St. Peter's +Preaching." (CE. ix, 676.) The later writers of "Matthew" and +"Luke" copied bodily from "Mark," with the utmost literality in +many places, but with the greatest freedom of changes, additions +and suppressions at others, to suit their own purposes. But one +comparison, that between "Mark" and "Matthew," can here be given; +the method extends quite as notably to "Luke." Thus CE. discloses +the process: "Mark is found complete in Matthew, with the exception +of numerous slight omissions and the following periscopes. ... In +all, 31 verses are omitted"; and so with respect to the "analogies" +with the other two. "Parts peculiar to Matthew are numerous, as +Matthew has 330 verses that are distinctly his own." (CE,. x, 60, +61; cf. for thorough examination, New Comm. Pt. III, pp. 33, seq.) +"These 'Matthean additions,' as they are called. ... seem to be +authentic when they relate our Lord's words; but, when they relate +incidents, they are extremely questionable." (New Comm. Pt. III, p. +127-128.)

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We have just seen the same authority admit the want of +authenticity of one set of words imputed by Matthew to his Lord; +our next section will demonstrate another famous "Matthean +addition" to be a gross and bungling forgery. This bodily copying +from Mark, with so many "additions and suppressions," implies, as +we have seen, "a very free treatment of the text of Mark in Matthew +and Luke (a freedom which reaches a climax in the treatment of Mk. +x, 17f. in Mt. xix, 16f.). ... Just as the latter (Matthew) +tampered more with the Markan order than St. Luke did." (New Comm. +Pt. III, 36, 40.) But this textual tampering is well explained, for +clerical apologists: "Nor need such freedom surprise us. Mark, at +the time when the others used it, had not attained anything like

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the status of Scripture, and an evangelist using it would feel +free, or might indeed feel bound, to bring its contents into line +with the traditions of the particular Church in which he lived and +worked"! (Ib. p. 36.)

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This perfectly confirms the position taken in the section "Why +Four Gospels?" that these Gospels were framed up each in a +different Church, to meet its own uses and special purposes, and in +answer to the "gospels" of the Heretics. "Mark," being first in +order, was probably in the hands of several Churches, some of whose +"traditions" did not accord with the "gospel" narratives therein +retailed; the local gospel-mongers, therefore, taking "Mark" as +good "copy" for a start, took their blue-pencil styluses in hand +and "edited" its text by profuse "tampering" until they produced, +severally, the "gospels according to" Matthew and Luke, for use in +more "orthodox" and approved form according to the local +traditions. The "John" gospel-fabrication alone of the Four quite +disregarded the "Mark" document, and is in the most complete +contradiction with it, and with all the first three. The "Big Four" +gradually won their way against and were "chosen" from all the +other fifty or more in circulation, which then became "apocrypha," +or admitted forgeries.

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GOSPELS LATE FORGERIES

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We have seen the admissions of CE. that the earliest notice of the +Four Gospel's now known to us was towards the close of the second +century, quoting as the earliest witnesses the African Bishops, +Clement of Alexandria and Tertullian, both of whom died about 220 +A.D. It presents, however, one earlier witness to Gospels going in +the name of the Four: "Irenrus, in his work Against Heresies (A.D. +182-188), testified to the existence of a Tetramorph or Quadriform +Gospel, given by the Word and unified by one Spirit," (CE. iii, +275), -- of which we have just had occasion to admire his quaint +and cogent proofs. This first mention, by Irenaeus, of Four +Gospels, with the names of their supposed writers, we shall in a +moment quote; first we will get the record in honest and correct +form by citing an even earlier partial naming of something like +Gospels, and their reputed writers.

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1. Bishop Papias, about 145 A.D., is the very first name of +something like written "Gospels" and writers; and this is what he +says, quoting his anonymous gossipy old friends, the presbyters:

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"And the presbyter said this. MARK having become the +interpreter of PETER, wrote down accurately whatsoever he +remembered. It was not, however, in exact order that he +related the sayings or deeds of Christ. For he neither heard +the Lord, nor accompanied him. ... For one thing he took +especial care, not to omit anything he had heard, and not to +put anything fictitious into the statements. MATTHEW put the +Oracles (of the Lord) in the Hebrew language, and each one +interpreted them as best he could." (Papias, quoted by +Eusebius, Hist. Eccles. iii, 39; ANF. i, 154-5.)

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Here, then, over one hundred years after Christ, we have the +first mention of written gospels and of Mark, and the recital, by +hearsay on hearsay, that he wrote down "whatsoever he remembered" +that Peter had said the Lord had said and done. This is rather a +far cry from divine inspiration of inerrant truth in this first +hearsay by memory recital of the supposed Gospel-writers. Thus +"Mark" is admittedly not "inspired," but is hearsay, haphazard +"traditions," pieced together a generation and more afterwards by +some unknown priestly scribe. But note well, even if Mark may have +written some things, alleged as retailed by Peter, yet this is not, +and is not an intimation even remotely, that this by-memory record +of Mark is the "Gospel according to Mark" which half a century +after Papias came to be known. Indeed, such an idea is expressly +excluded; Mark's notes were "not in exact order," but here and +there, as remembered; while the "Gospel according to Mark" is, or +purports to be, very orderly, proceeding from "The beginning of the +gospel of Jesus Christ" orderly and consecutively through to his +death, resurrection and ascension. It includes the scathing rebuke +administered by the Christ to Peter: "Get thee behind me, Satan: +for thou savourest not the things that be of God" (Mk. viii, 33) ; +one may be sure that Peter never related these eminently deserved +"sayings of Christ" to Mark or to anyone.

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Moreover, the present "Gospel according to Mark" relates the +crucifixion of Jesus at about thirty years of age, after one year's +ministry; which is wholly false, as Jesus died at home in bed of +old age, in effect says Bishop Papias, on the "tradition" of these +same presbyters. So, every other consideration here aside, Papias +is not a witness to "The Gospel according to Mark." As for Matthew, +Papias simply reports the elders as saying that Matthew wrote down +the "ORACLES" or words of the Lord, and in Hebrew; the "Gospel +according to Matthew" is much more than mere "words of the Lord"; +it is the longest and most palpably fictitious of the "Lives" of +the Christ; it was written in Greek, and very obviously by a Greek +priest or Father, many years after the reputed time of Jesus +Christ. And Bishop Papias, more than a century after Christ, did +not have in his important church, and had never seen, these alleged +apostolic writings, and only knew of some such by the gossip of the +elders at second or third hand. So we must count Papias out as a +witness for these two of our written Gospels. None of the present +Four Gospels was thus in existence in about A.D. 145. And it is +obvious that, even by "tradition," the Gospels in the names of Luke +and John did not exist in the time of Papias.

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2. Justin Martyr (145-149) quotes sundry "sayings" of Jesus +which we find here and there in the present Four, -- just as like +alleged "sayings" identically are to be found in almost any of the +confessedly forged or apocryphal gospels; but he names no names nor +Gospels, but only says "memoirs of the apostles," or simply "it is +said." (See all instances cited, in EB. ii, 1819.) So Justin is no +witness to our present Four Gospels, which evidently did not exist +in his time about 150 years after Jesus Christ, -- though he +assiduously quotes the Sibyl and the heathen gods as proofs of +Jesus Christ, as we have seen.

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3. Irenaeus (182-188) makes the very first mention of Four +Gospels and names the reputed authors. These are textually the +interesting, and as we shall see, at least in part, spurious words +of Bishop Irenaeus:

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"Matthew also issued a Gospel -- [see it grow -- Papias +said only "oracles of the Lord"] among the Hebrews in their +own dialect, while Peter and Paul were preaching at Rome, and +laying the foundations of the Church. After their departure, +Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, did also hand +down to us in writing what had been preached by Peter. Luke +also, the companion of Paul, recorded in a book the Gospel +preached by him. Afterwards, John, the disciple of the Lord, +who also had leaned upon his breast, did himself publish a +Gospel during his residence at Ephesus in Asia." (Iren. Adv. +Haer. Bk. III, Ch. 1, i; ANF. i, 414.)

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Irenaeus, therefore, about the year 185 of our Lord, to use a +medium date, or some one hundred and fifty years after his death, +is the first of all the zealous Christ-bearers to record the fact +that, at the time he wrote, there were in existence four wonderful +biographies or histories of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, two +under the names of holy Apostles, and, he "implies that the Gospels +of Mark and Luke were, in effect, apostolic, as being written by +companions of Peter and Paul." (EB. i, 1830.) If any such apostolic +and authentic works had been in existence before the years, we will +say, 150-180 A.D., it is beyond comprehension and possibility that +the zealous Fathers, who so eagerly quoted, and misquoted, the Old +Testament and its apocrypha, the forged New Testament apocrypha, +and the heathen Oracles, in proof of their Christ, should have been +silent as clams about the apostolic Jesus-histories "according to" +Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Even all the later Fathers, and +ecclesiastical writers, and the CE., admittedly are unable to trace +their genealogy further back into "the age of apocryphal +literature" than about 150 A.D. or later. It is impossible, +therefore, to believe or to pretend, that these Four Gospels were +written by apostles and their personal disciples, some hundred +years and more before they were ever heard of by the zealous and +myth-mongering Fathers. A confused medley of alleged words and +wonderful deeds of the Christ, handed down by ancient tradition or +new-invented for any occasion, existed in oral "tradition," and +were worn threadbare by rote repetition; but never a written word +of the Four for a century and a half after the apostles had their +say, and had handed down that wonderful and inexhaustible "Deposit +of Faith," which, oral and unedited, is yet drawn upon until this +day by the inspired Successors of Peter for their every new Dogma.

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One may turn the thousands of pages of the Ante-Niacin Fathers +before Irenaeus in vain to find a direct word of quotation from +written Gospels, nor (except as above, recorded) even bare mention +of the names of Matthew, Mark, Luke or John, as writers of Gospels. +The above words of Irenaeus are registered in his Book III, chapter +i; in the first two Books, while, like Justin, he quotes "sayings" +which are to be found in our present texts, as in the apocryphas, +he does not mention "Gospel" or any of the four reputed +evangelists, until chapter xxii of Book II, where he mentions the +word "Gospels" and those of John and Luke, and assails their record

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of the early death of Jesus as "heresy." But beginning with chapter +x of Book III, he bristles with the names of and direct quotations +from all Four; and so with all the following Fathers. It seems, +therefore, a fair inference that Irenaeus had just heard of these +Four Gospels at the time the last chapters of the second of the two +Books were composed; and that they came into existence, or to his +knowledge, just before the time be began to compose Book III. And +certainly these Four Gospels could not have been in existence and +circulation very long before they would come to the eager hands of +the active and prolific Bishop of Lyons, who had recently come from +the tutelage of his friend Polycarp, -- "disciple of the Apostle +John" -- venerable Bishop of Smyrna, who sent him to Lyons, and +who, for his part, shows not a suspicion of knowledge of them. And +these Gospels, just now come into existence, were immediately and +fiercely attacked by Bishop Irenaeus as false and "heresy" in the +vital points of the crucifixion and early death of Jesus, who, says +the Bishop, lived to very old age, even maybe till the times of +Trajan, 98-117, as vouched for by the Apostle John and other +apostles and by the [oral] "Gospel." This, too, casts discredit on +these Gospels as containing authentic record of the apostolic +"traditions," condemned in this vital particular by the only two +Bishops, Papias and Irenaeus, who -- for a century and a half -- +mention any Gospel-writings at all.

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"LURE" DISCREDITS APOSTOLICITY

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Moreover, at the time that the Gospel bearing the name of Luke +was published, already many Gospels or purported histories and +sayings of Jesus Christ were in active circulation: "Forasmuch as +many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of +those things which are most surely believed among us, Even as they +delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eye-witnesses +and ministers of the word; it has seemed to me good also, having +had a perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to +write unto thee, in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou +mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been +instructed." (Luke, i, 1-4). Now, these "many" Gospels were clearly +not by any of the apostles, else Luke would certainly have so +stated; they were not "inspired" writings, but they were by sundry +anonymous "eye-witnesses and ministers of the word"; they are +either totally lost to posterity, or are among the fifty admittedly +forged and apocryphal Gospels which we have previously noticed. +Thus we see two of the "Four," i.e., "Mark," and "Luke" are, on +their face, uninspired, hear-say, and long ex post facto.

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That neither apostle nor contemporary of Jesus wrote a line of +"gospel" is thus perfectly evidenced by Luke: "According to the +prologue of Luke, no eye-witness of the life of Jesus took pen in +hand -- none at least appear to have produced any writings which +Luke would have called a 'narrative.'" (EB. ii, 1892.) These +conclusions are confirmed by the learned clerical translators and +editors of the ANF, respectively, as follows:

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"Though a few of the Apocryphal Gospels are of +comparatively early origin, there is no evidence that any +Gospels purporting to be what our Four Gospels are, existed in +the first century, or that any other than fragmentary

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literature of this character existed even in the second +century." (Ed. note to Apocrypha of the New Testament, ANF. +viii, 349.) -- "There is abundant evidence of the existence of +many of these traditions in the second century, though it +cannot be made out that any of the books were then in +existence in their present form." (Translator's Introductory +Notice to Apocryphal Gospels. ANF. viii, 351.)

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Such apocryphal gospels would naturally contain -- as they do +-- many of the same reputed words and deeds of the Christ as those +now reported by Luke and the others; many are indeed in large +sections in the very same words. Luke does not say or imply that +these "many" were false, but, on the contrary, being by alleged +"eye-witnesses" they were necessarily more or less the same things +which Luke undertook, not to belie or correct, but simply to repeat +in good order for the edification of his friend Theophilus. It is +very significant, for the date of the authorship of "Luke," to note +the fact that the only Theophilus known to early Church history is +a certain ex-Pagan by that name, who, after becoming Christian, and +very probably before being instructed in the certainty of the faith +by "Luke," himself turned Christian instructor and Father, and +wrote the Tract, in three Books, under the title Epistle to +Antolychus, preserved in the Collection of Ante-Niacin Fathers, +vol. ii, pp. 89-121. This Theophilus became Bishop of Antioch about +169-177 A.D. (CE. xiv, 625); and thus illuminates the date of +"Luke."

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That these Four Gospels, then, are forgeries, falsely ascribed +to Apostles and their companions, a century and a half after Christ +and the apostles, and were compounded of very conflicting +"traditions" and out of the existing 50 or more forgeries +circulating in apostolic names -- is proven as positively as +negative proofs permit, and "beyond a reasonable doubt" -- which is +proof ample for conviction of capital crime.

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Most people, says Bishop Papias, took pleasure in "voluminous +falsehoods" in reporting or writing of Jesus Christ and his life +and deeds, for which reason, says the Bishop, he was driven to "the +living voice of tradition" for his own accounts, -- samples of +which we have seen. These fanciful and distorted oral traditions, +finally reduced into some fifty fantastic written records of +"voluminous falsehoods," were later, about the time of Book III of +Bishop Irenaeus, crystallized into four documents, one each of +which was held by one of the principal churches as its +authoritative biography of the Christ, or "gospel"; to which, the +titles "According to" Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, were tacked for +pretended apostolic sanction.

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The truth of the late second century origin of the Gospels and +Epistles may be garnered from the guarded words of a standard +theological textbook on Christian Evidences: "The Christian +literature which has survived from the latter part of the first +century and the beginning of the second is scanty and fragmentary +-- [which could not be true if the Gospels and Epistles had then +existed]. But when we come into the light of the last quarter of +the second century, we find the Gospels of the canon in undisputed +possession of the field.". (The Grounds of Theistic and Christian +Belief, by George Parker Fisher, D.D., LL.D.; 1902.)

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Summarizing the results of critical study of the four Gospels, +upon all the evidences, internal and external, which are there +fully reviewed, the conclusions of modern Biblical scholarship are +thus recorded by the Encyclopedia Biblica:

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As to Matthew: "The employment of various sources, the +characteristic difference of the quotations from the LXX +(Septuagint) and the original (Hebrew), the indefiniteness of +the determinations of time and place, the incredibleness of +the contents, the introduction of later conditions, as also +the artificial arrangement, and so forth, have long since led +to the conclusion that for the authorship of the first Gospel +the apostle Matthew must be given up." (EB. ii, 1891.)

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As to Mark: "According to Papias, the second gospel was +written by Mark. ... In what Papias says the important point +is not so much the statement that Mark wrote the gospel as the +further statement that Peter supplied the contents orally. ... +The supposition that the gospel is essentially a repetition of +oral communications by Peter, will at once fall to the ground. +... Should Mark have written in Aramaic then he cannot be held +to have been the author of canonical Mark, which is certainly +not a translation, nor yet, in view of the LXX quotations +which have passed over into all three gospels, can he be held +to have been the author of the original Mark." (EB. ii, 1891.)

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As to Luke: "This tradition [that Luke was the author of +the third gospel and of Acts] cannot be traced farther back +than towards the end of the second century (Irenaeus, +Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, and the Muratorian +fragment). ... It has been shown that it is impossible to +regard Luke with any certainty as the writer even of the 'we' +sections of Acts, not to speak of the whole book of Acts, or +of the Third Gospel. ... If Luke cannot have been the author +of Acts, neither can he have been the author of the Third +Gospel." (EB. ii, 1893, 2831.)

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As to John: "No mention of the Fourth Gospel which we can +recognize as such carries us further than to 140 A.D. As late +as 152, Justin, who nevertheless lays so great value upon the +'Memorabilia of the Apostles, regards John -- if indeed he +knows it at all -- with distrust, and appropriates from it a +very few sayings. ... If on independent grounds some period +shortly before 140 A.D. can be set down as the approximate +date of the production of the gospel [a certain statement in +it is explained]. ... The Apostolic authorship of the gospel +remains impossible, and that not merely from the consideration +that it cannot be the son of Zebedee who has introduced +himself as writer in so remarkable a fashion, but also from +the consideration that it cannot be an eye-witness of the +facts of the life of Jesus who has presented, as against the +synoptists, an account so much less credible, nor an original +apostle who has shown himself so readily accessible to +Alexandrian and Gnostic ideas, nor a contemporary of Jesus who +survived so late into the second century and yet was capable +of composing so profound a work." (EB. ii, 2550, 2553.)

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None of these Four Gospels, then, being of apostolic +authorship or even of the apostolic age, but anonymous productions +of over a century after the apostles, all are exactly of like +origin and composition as all the other fifty apocryphal Jesus-writings: the Four "do not, in point of fact, rest upon any real +difference in the character or origin of the writings concerned," +from all the other fifty admittedly apocryphal and forged gospels +dating about the middle of the second century, at the height of the +Christian age of apocryphal literature. They are therefore late +Christian forgeries of the Catholic Church.

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FORGERIES IN THE FORGED GOSPELS

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That the Four Gospels, as we have them, are very late +productions, issued in the names of apostles a century and more +dead, and are therefore forgeries, is now proven beyond +peradventure. That they are not, even in the form that Bishop +Irenaeus first knew them, each the work of one inspired mind and +pen, is as readily and conclusively provable. They are, each and +all Four, clumsy compilations framed by different persons and at +very different times, as is patent on their face; they are thus +concatenations of forgeries within forgeries. This we shall now +demonstrate.

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The Church claims these Four Gospels to be apostolic and +divine works, and together with all the other books of the Trentine +Bible, to be throughout divinely inspired, having God himself for +their Author. This 1546 Dogma of the Infallible Church has been +thus reaffirmed by the Sacred Vatican Council (A.D. 1870):

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"These books are sacred and canonical because they +contain revelation without error, and because, written by the +inspiration of the Holy Ghost, they have God for their +Author." (CE. fi, 543.)

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More recently, Pope Leo XIII, in his Encyclical Prov. Deus. +(1893), thus reaffirms the plenary inspiration and inerrancy of +Holy Writ:

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"It will never be lawful to restrict inspiration merely +to certain portions of the Holy Scriptures, or to grant that +the sacred writers could have made a mistake. ... They render +in exact language, with infallible truth, all that God +commanded, and nothing else"! (Ib.)

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For the Protestant sects the notion of divine inspiration and +inerrant truth of Scripture -- excepting always the dozen and more +of Old Testament "apocryphap' Books and parts, as Tobias and the +history of the Assyrian great god Bel and the Dragon, -- a typical +profession is that of the first Article of the Baptist Declaration +of Faith: "The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired, and +is a perfect treasure of heavenly instruction. ... It has God for +its Author, and truth without any admixture of error for its +matter."

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All this priestly "confidence stuff" must remind one of what +Cicero said of the Roman augurs. Even CE., valiant but often +perplexed defender of the orthodox Faith, can not give full credit +to that inspired canard, which even the infallible authors of it +could not have themselves believed. Timorously "reasoning in +chains" and minimizing the truth, the orthodox apologist, forced by +scholarly criticism, confesses -- utterly belying Council and +Holiness:

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"In all the Bible, where the same event is several times +narrated by the same writer, or narrated by several writers, +there is some slight [sic] divergency, as it is natural there +should be with those who spoke or wrote from memory. Divine +inspiration covers the substance of the narration." (CE. i, +122.)

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Those sacred writers, putting on papyrus rolls from errant and +therefore necessarily uninspired "memory," their intimate +familiarities with the thoughts and desires, purposes and +providence of God, make not "some slight divergences" from accurate +recording of the promptings of the Spirit to them; they committed +incessant contradictions of so gross a nature as to impeach and +destroy the possibility of truth and credibility of Virtually every +word they said or wrote "in all the Bible," Old and New Testaments +alike. I have so fully exposed some thousands of these glaring and +self-destroying contradictions in my previous work, that here I +simply notice only those most vital ones which are pertinent and +incidental to our present subject of apostolic forgeries.

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In a work accompanying the Revised Version of the Bible, in +which the Revisers pointed out some 30000 (now over 150000) +variant readings in the New Testament, the reverend author makes +this naive explanation: "In regard to the New Testament, no miracle +has been wrought to preserve the text as it came from the pens of +the inspired writers. That would have been a thing altogether out +of harmony with God's method of governing the world"! (Dr. Alex. +Roberts, Companion to the Revised Version, p. 4.) One may wonder at +the writer's intimacy with God's governmental methods, as well as +at God's indifference to the preservation of his miraculously-revealed Holy Word, so awfully necessary to save us from eternal +damnation; when, as we shall see, by special miraculous +intervention and providence he has, the Church vouches, preserved +wholly "incorrupt" through the Ages of Faith countless whole +cadavers and ghastly scraps and miraculous relics galore of the +unwashed Saints of Holy Church.

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CONTRADICTIONS AND TRUTH

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No more compelling proofs of forgery in a document can well be +than the glaring contradictions between two parts of the text. +Remember that in the "age of apocryphal literature" there were no +printed books, thus fixing the text, and no "copyright" existed. +All books, sacred and profane, were manuscripts, tediously written +by hand on rolls of papyrus or sheets of parchment-skin; like the +manuscripts of the Gospels, Epistles, etc., they were usually +unsigned and undated, and frequently gave no clue to the anonymous +writers. When one man came into possession of a manuscript which he

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desired, he sat down and copied it by hand, or employed slaves or +professional copyists to do the labor. There was absolutely no +check against errors of copying, or intentional omissions, +alterations or insertions into the text, to suit the taste or +purpose of the copyist. Religious books were written, and copied, +by priests, monks or Fathers; religious notions and doctrines were +very diversely held, and developed or were modified incessantly. +Traditions of what was said or done by Jesus Christ and the +apostles were, as we have seen, very variant and conflicting. Very +often, as we shall see, conflicting traditions or accounts are +found in the same book. As no honest writer of intelligence and +care would put into one short work which he is writing, two totally +contradictory statements regarding the same fact, the only way in +which such contradictions can occur in what purports to be an +original or genuine manuscript, is by the intentional insertion by +a later copyist of the new and contradictory material, euphoniously +called "interpolations" (CE. iv, 498, post), -- without the +critical sense to perceive the contradiction, and omit the original +statement with which his addition conflicts.

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Father Tertullian, in his work Against Heresies, denying that +'Christians do such things -- do not need to, he says, because the +Scriptures are favorable to the Orthodox -- accuses the Heretics of +such practices, and naively explains how such interpolations or +forgeries of text are done, and why they needs must be:

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"All interpolation must be believed to be a later process. ... +One man perverts the Scriptures with his hand, another their +meaning by his exposition. ... Unquestionably, the Divine +Scriptures are more fruitful in resources of all kinds for this +sort of facility [of introducing interpolations]. Nor do I risk +contradiction in saying that the very Scriptures were even arranged +by the will of God in such a manner as to furnish materials for +heretics, inasmuch as I read that 'there must be heresies' (I Cor. +xi, 19), which there cannot be without Scriptures"! (Praes. +xxxviii-xxxix; ANF. iii, 262.) Speaking of instances related to the +birth of Jesus Christ, EB. makes a remark, which it extends to +others, and is generally applicable to the conflicting Gospel +narratives:

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"From the nature of the case both canonical narratives +were accepted by faith and incorporated with each other. The +gospels themselves supply ample justification of a criticism +of the gospel narratives. In spite of all the revisions which +the gospels received before they became canonically fixed, +they still not infrequently preserve references to conditions +which are irreconcilable with the later additions." (EB. iii, +3343, 3344.)

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"For Christian orthodoxy," says the same authority, +"reconcilability of the two canonical accounts was always a +necessary dogma"; and on this point, the orthodox CE. makes a +quaint but typically clerical argument, in effect that the +confessed contradictions of Holy Writ make it all the more +credible: "As can readily be seen, variations are naturally to be +expected in four distinct, and in many ways independent, accounts +of Christ's words and deeds, so that their presence, instead of

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going against, rather makes for the substantial value of the +evangelical narratives"! (CE. vi, 659.) Fanciful and disingenuous +as this is, and derogatory of the Papal theory that it is not +possible that "the sacred writers could have made a mistake," the +argument loses even its rhetorical force when we find the most +monumental contradictions in the inspired words of the same writer +in the same inspired little book. We will notice some of the most +obvious and fatal forgeries by "interpolations" into the Gospel +Christ-tales.

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JESUS -- MAN OR GOD?

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The Jews, in their "canonical," more definitely in their +apocryphal or admittedly forged Scriptures, expected a "Messiah," +or anointed King of the race and lineage of David, who should +deliver them from the rule of their enemies, -- at the time of the +Gospel tales, the Romans; previously, the Assyrians, Persians, and +Greeks, successively. This King, says Isaiah, shall sit and reign +"upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it" +(Isa. ix, 7); and that this prophecy was in order of fulfillment, +Gabriel the Angel announced to Mary the Ever-Virgin Mother of eight +sons and daughters: "Thou shalt bring forth a son, and shalt call +his name Jesus; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of +his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob +forever." (Lk. i, 32, 33.) There is not a word of "prophecy" +anywhere that this King should be divine, a Son of the God of +Israel; he was to be a human king of the house of Jacob, of David. +There were many false pretenders to the still vacant Messiahship, +and even Jesus was not the last to proclaim himself the Messiah or +Christ: "For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and +shall deceive many." (Mt. xxiv, 4, 23, 24; Mk. xiii, 6, 21, 22.)

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That this Messiah Jesus who was come was mere man, but +instinct with the spirit of God, is positively avowed by both Peter +and Paul. Says Peter in his first sermon at Pentecost: "Ye men of +Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God +among you [etc.]. The patriarch David ... therefore being a +prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that +of the fruit of his loam according to the flesh, he would raise up +Christ to sit upon his throne." (Acts, ii, 22, 29, 30.) And Paul: +"There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man +Christ Jesus" (1 Tim. ii, 5); and again: "Jesus Christ of the seed +of David" (2 Tim. ii, 8); Therefore, in the times when the two +cited sacred books were, by whomever, written, Jesus was at that +time regarded simply as a man, a "son" or descendant of David. So, +when, many years later, the Gospels "according to" Matthew and Luke +came to be by whomever written, in their original form Jesus Christ +was mere man.

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Matthew's first chapter begins very humanly and explicitly: +"The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the +son of Abraham"; and Matthew gives an unbroken line of human +begettings, father of son, until "And Jacob begat Joseph the +husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ"! +(Matt. i, 1-16.) And Matthew names and catalogues twenty-eight +generations between David and Jesus, to-wit: David, Solomon ... +Jacob, Joseph, -- Jesus, -- a purely human ancestry. Also Luke

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still reflected the belief, held at the time he wrote, that Jesus +was of human ancestry; he gives his human genealogy all the way +back to Adam, and through many mythical patriarchs who assuredly +never existed. This human genealogy by Luke vastly differs, +however, from that of Matthew; instead of twenty-eight generations +from David, through Solomon ... Jacob and Joseph, our Luke +genealogist makes out in detail forty-two generations, to wit: +David, Nathan. ... Heli, Joseph, Jesus; and only three of the +intermediate names are the same in the two lists. So one or the +other of the two inspired genealogies is fictitious, false and +forged, necessarily: both are, of course, if Jesus was not the son +of David, but the immediate "Son of God." The truth is thus stated: +"The genealogy could not have been drawn up after Joseph ceased to +be regarded as the real father of Jesus." (EB. iii, 2960.)

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And CE. thus 'Scraps the inspired genealogy of Luke: "The +artificial character of Luke's genealogy may be seen in the +following table [copying Luke's list] ... The artificial character" +is shown by details cited. (CE. vi, 411.) It also explodes the +seventeenth century clerical pretense, -- heard often today -- in +attempted explanation of these glaring contradictions, that one or +the other of these sacred genealogies, preferably that of Luke, was +the genealogy, not of Joseph, but of Mary: "It may be safely said +that patristic tradition does not regard St. Luke's list as +representing the genealogy of the Blessed Virgin." (CE. vi, 411.) +And, as CE. itself points out, Mary is not mentioned as in the line +of descent from David in either list. To bring her into the +genealogy, in one list or the other, it must have been written: +"And Jacob begat Mary the wife of Joseph," instead of "And, Jacob +begat Joseph the husband of Mary": or "And Jesus ... being the son +of Mary, which was the daughter of Heli," instead of the recorded +"the son of Joseph (as was supposed), which was the son of Heli" +(Luke iii, 22-31). Both the genealogies are false and forged lists +of mostly fictitious names, in the original Gospel-forgeries, +fabricated to prove Jesus a direct son or descendant of David, and +thus to fulfill the terms of the pretended prophecies that the +human Messiah should be of the race and lineage of David the king.

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Moreover, Joseph and Mary both knew nothing of the Holy-Ghostly paternity of their child Jesus. The celebrated Angelic +"Annunciation" of this Fable to the "prolific yet ever-virgin +Mother of God," recorded by Dr. Luke (i, 28), is itself a forgery, +admits CE.: "The words: 'Blessed art thou among women' (v. 28) are +spurious and taken from verse 42, the account of the Visitation ... +[Adding] The opinion that Joseph at the time of the Annunciation +was an aged widower and Mary 12 or 15 years of age, is founded only +upon apocryphal documents" -- like all the rest of these Fables of +Christ. (CE. i, 542.) Simon came into the temple when Joseph and +Mary had brought the child there "to do for him after the custom of +the law," and indulged in some ecstasies which would have been +quite intelligible if Gabriel had made the revelations attributed +to him; but, hearing them, "Joseph and his mother marvelled at +those things which were spoken of him" (Lk. ii, 33). It is false, +the original says: "His father and his mother marvelled." etc. Here +is another holy forgery stuck into Luke ii, as is the later verse, +"and Joseph and his mother knew not of it" (v. 43). The true +original reads "and his parents knew not of it," -- just as in

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verse 41; "Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the +feast of the passover"; and as in verse 48, "thy father and I have +sought thee sorrowing." In "John," Jesus is twice: expressly called +the son of Joseph; Philip say's to Nathaniel, "We have found him of +whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of +Nazareth, the son of Joseph" (i, 45); and again: "Is not this +Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know'?" (vi, +42) all which "convincingly proves that in the mind of the narrator +Joseph and Mary were and knew themselves to be, in the natural +sense of the words, the parents of Jesus." (EB. iii, 3344.) The +same authority thus sums up the whole of the New Testament evidence +prior to the "interpolations" of miraculous birth: "The remark has +long ago and often been made that, like Paul, even the Gospels +themselves know nothing of the miraculous birth of our Savior. On +the contrary, their knowledge of his natural filial relationship to +Joseph the carpenter, and to Mary, his wife, is still explicit." +(Ibid.) And if Jesus had been a God he could hardly have been +crazy; yet his own family thought him so and sent to arrest him as +a madman, as above noticed. It is therefore self-evident, that the +original Jesus "tradition," down as late as Papias and Irenaeus, +regarded Jesus simply as a man, and as a very old man when he died +a peaceful and natural death. But the zeal to Combat and win the +Pagans, when, after the failure with the Jews, the Gospel "turned +to the Gentiles," and to exalt the man Jesus into a God, as was +Perseus or Apollo, grew with the Fathers; by the same token Jesus +was now made to be the son of the Hebrew God Yahveh: we have heard +the Fathers so argue. So later pious tampering grafted the "Virgin-birth" and "son of God" Pagan myths onto the simple original +"traditions" of merely human origin as the "son of David," +carelessly letting the primitively forged Davidic genealogies +remain to contradict and refute them. These "interpolations" are +self-apparent forgeries for Christ's sake, in two of the Gospels.

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But if Tertullian spoke truly (if the passage is genuine with +him), the other Gospels have been yet further tampered with; for +Tertullian explicitly says: "Of the apostles, John and Matthew, and +apostolic men, Luke and Mark, these all start with the same +principles of the faith ... how that He was born of the Virgin, and +came to fulfill the law and the prophets." (Adv. Marcion, IV, ii; +ANF. iii, 347.) As these Gospels now stand, Mark and John say not +a word of the Virgin-birth, but throughout assume Jesus to have +been of human birth, and only "son of God" in a popular religious +sense; for "son of God" was in current usage to mean any person +near and dear to God. Indeed, the Greek text of the Gospels makes +this plain, that no supernatural progeneration and actual God-sonship was intended. In most instances the Greek texts read simply +"son of God -- huios Theou," not "the Son -- o huious": the +definite article is a clerical falsification.

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"UPON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH"

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Of transcendent importance as the sole basis of the Church's +most presumptuous False Pretense -- its Divine founding by Jesus +Christ -- this Peter-Rock imposture, the most notorious, and in its +evil consequences the most far-reaching and fatal of them all, will +now be exposed to its deserved infamy and destruction.

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Upon a forged, and forced, Greek Pun put into the mouth of the +Jewish Aramaic-speaking Jesus, speaking to Aramaic peasants, the +Church of Christ is falsely founded. "The proof that Christ +constituted St. Peter the head of His Church is found in the two +famous Petrine texts, Matt. xvi, 17-19, and John xxi, 15-19." (CE. +xii, 261.) The text in John is that about "Feed my Lambs"; but this +forgery is not of present interest. The more notorious "proof" is +Matthew's forged punning passage: "Thou art Peter, and upon this +rock I will build my church," etc.

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It may first be noticed, that "Matthew" is the only one of the +three "Synoptic" gospelers to record this "famous Petrine text." +And he records this pun as made in Greek, by Jesus -- just before +his crucifixion, under very exceptional circumstances, and upon the +inspiration of a "special divine revelation" then and there first +made by God to Peter, as below to be noted. But in this, "Matthew" +is flatly contradicted by "John," who ascribes this as an Aramaic +pun by Jesus in the very first remark that he made to Peter, upon +his being introduced by his brother Andrew, on the self-same day of +the baptism of Jesus; when "Andrew first findeth his brother Simon +... and brought him to Jesus"; whereupon, "when Jesus beheld him, +he said, Thou art Simon son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, +which is by interpretation, A stone." (John i, 42.) Thus was Simon +Barjona nick-named "Cephas -- Rock" by Jesus on the very first day +of the public appearance and mission both of Jesus and of Peter, +and not a year or more later, towards the close of the career of +Jesus! So the famous Petrine Pun, if ever made by Jesus -- as it +was not -- was made in the Aramaic speech spoken by these Galilean +peasants; the Greek Father who forged the "Gospel according to +John" had to attach the translation into Greek of the Aramaic +"Cephas," into "Petros, a stone," for the benefit of his Greek +readers.

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After this first explosion of the famous Greek "Rock" pun on +which the Church is founded, and as the matter is of highest +consequence, let us expose the "Matthew" forgery of the whole +"Petrine text" by arraying the three Synoptics in sequence in the +order of their composition and evolution from simple to complex +fabrication:

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Mark (viii, 27-38).

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"And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of +Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, +saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?

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"And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, +Elias; and others, One of the prophets. +"And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And +Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ. +"And he charged them that they should tell no man of him. +"And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must +suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the +chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three +days rise again. +"And he spak that saying openly. And Peter took him, and +began to rebuke him.

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"But when he had turned about and looked on his +disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, +Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but +the things that be of men."

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Luke (ix, 18-22).

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"And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his +disciples were with him; and he asked them, saying, Whom say +the people that I am? +"They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, +Elias; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen +again. +"He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter +answering said, The Christ of God. +"And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell +no man that thing. +"Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be +rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be +slain, and be raised the third day."

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Matthew (xvi, 13-22).

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"When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he +asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of +man am? +"And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: +some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. +"He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon +Peter answered and said, Thou are the Christ, the Son of the +living God. +"And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, +Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto +thee, but my Father which is in heaven. +"And I say unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this +rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not +prevail against it. [Here about the Keys, and "binding and +loosing"]. +"Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no +man that he was Jesus the Christ. +"From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his +disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many +things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be +killed, and be raised again the third day. +"Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be +it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. +"But he turned and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me. +Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the +things that be of God, but those that be of men."

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Let it be noted, in passing, that all three of the Synoptists +expressly aver in the above narration, as elsewhere in their texts, +that Jesus positively declared and predicted, that he should be put +to death, and after three days rise again: distinctly, his +Resurrection from the dead. All three on this important point are +liars, if John be believed; for after the crucifixion and burial of +Jesus, and the discovery on the third day of his empty grave by the

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Magdalene, which she immediately reported to Peter and John, they +ran doubting to the grave, looked in, and "saw, and believed"; and +John positively avers: "For as yet they knew not the scripture, +that he must rise again from the dead." (John xx, 9.) But this +inspired assertion contains a grave anachronism: for "as yet" there +was, of course, no "scripture" about the death and resurrection at +all, nor for well over a century afterwards, as in this chapter is +proven.

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Let us examine for a moment into the context of this "famous +Petrine text" and into its antecedents, in order to get the "stage +setting of this dramatic climacteric Pun of such vast and serious +consequences unto this day.

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The original simple narrative is told in the earlier writer, +"Mark," and copied almost verbatim into "Luke." There Jesus is +reported to have put a sort of conundrum to the Twelve, "saying +unto them, Whom do men say that I am?" The answer showed a very +superstitious belief in reincarnations or "second comings" of dead +persons to earth; for "they answered, John the Baptist: but some +say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets, or Jeremias," to fuse +the somewhat disparate replies. Jesus himself shared this +reincarnation superstition, for he had positively asserted that +John the Baptist was Elijah redivivus: "This is Elias, which was +for to come," (Matt. xi, 14; xvii, 11-13); though John, being +questioned about it, "Art thou Elias?" contradicted the Christ, +"and he saith, I am not." (John i, 20, 21.)

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After hearing the disciples report what others said about him, +who he was, Jesus then "saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? +And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ. And he +charged them that they should tell no man of him" (Mk. viii, 27-30; +Lk. ix, 18-22). There was certainly nothing novel or unexpected in +this alleged reply of Peter; it was exactly the proclaimed mission +of Jesus as the "promised Messiah," as the precedent texts of +"Mark" verify. On the day of his baptism by John, before all the +people, "the heavens opened ... And there came a voice from heaven, +saying, Thou art my beloved Son" (i, 2); what the devils cried out +in the synagogue, "I know thee who thou art, the Holy one of God" +(i, 24) just what all the devils unanimously proclaimed before the +disciples and all hearers, "And unclean spirits, when they saw him. +... cried, saying, Thou art the son of God" (iii, 2); just what the +possessed man with the legion of devils cried out before all the +disciples, "What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the +most high God" (v, 7); -- all as recorded by "Mark" prior to the +above reply by Peter. So, naturally, Peter's "confession" caused no +surprise; it was the expected thing: so Jesus made no remark on +hearing it, except the peculiar injunction that "they should tell +no man" -- what all men and devils already knew by much-repeated +hearsay. So Jesus at once proceeded to speak of his coming +persecution, death, and resurrection; "And Peter took him, and +began to rebuke him. But when he had turned about and looked on his +disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for +thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that +be of men" (Mk. viii, 31-33). The identical story in its same +simple form, minus the Satan colloquy, is told also in Luke (ix, +18-22). This is the round, unvarnished tale of the first Greek

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Father "gospel" writers, a century after the reputed conversation, +and long before the "primacy of Peter" idea dawned as a "good +thing" upon the Fathers of the Church. There is not a word about +"church" in the passage, nor in the entire "gospel according to +Mark," nor in Luke, nor in even the much later "John."

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The later Church Father who wrote up the original of the +"gospel according to Matthew," copied Mark's story substantially +verbatim, Mark's verses 27-33, being nearly word for word +reproduced in Matthew's 13-16, 20-24 of chapter xvi; the only +material verbal difference being in Peter's answer, in verse 16, +where Peter's words are expanded: "Thou art the Christ, the Son of +the Living God," -- obviously padded in by the "interpolator" of +verses 17-19, which we now examine.

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As the years since "Mark" rolled by, the zeal of the Fathers +to exalt Peter increased; we have seen many admitted forgeries of +documents having that purpose in view. So it was, obviously, a new +forging Father who took a manuscript of "Matthew," and turning to +the above verses copied from "Mark," added in, or made a new +manuscript copy containing, the notable forgery of verses 17-19. +There, onto the commonplace and unnoticed reply of Peter, "Thou art +the Christ," the pious interpolator tacked on:

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"the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said +unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood +hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in +heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and +upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell +shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the +keys of the Kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind +on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt +loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." (Matt. xvi, +16b-19.)

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It is impossible that the original writer of "Matthew" should +have written those remarkable and preposterous verses, in which +Jesus is made to take Peter's commonplace announcement, "Thou art +the Christ," as a "special revelation from heaven" to Peter and a +great secret mystery here first "revealed"; -- this matter of +common notoriety and even devil-gossip throughout Israel, as we +have seen from "Mark's" numerous Christ-texts; the same is true in +Luke. These avowals that Jesus was the Christ are even more +numerous and explicit in "Matthew" up to the interpolation. That +Jesus was "Christ" is the identical disclosure and announcement, +which had been declared by Gabriel to Mary; by a dream to the +suspicious Joseph; by wicked Herod, who "demanded of them where +Christ should be born" (ii, 4); by the voice from heaven +proclaiming to the world, "This is my beloved Son" (iii, 17); that +was declared by the Devil in the wilderness, "If thou be the Son of +God" (iv, 6); that the Legion of Devils cried aloud, "What have we +to do with thee, Jesus, thou son of God" (viii, 29); that Jesus +himself avowed of himself time and again, "All things are delivered +unto me by my Father, Lord of heaven and earth" (xi, 25-27) that +all the crew of Peter's fishing-boat acclaimed when they +"worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God" (xiv, +33). 'Just two chapters earlier in Matthew, is the fable of Jesus

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and Peter "walking on the water," as "foretold" by the Sibyls; when +Peter began to sink, he was rescued and dragged aboard the little +fishing boat by Jesus; -- "and they that were in the ship came and +worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the son of God." (Mt. +xiv, 29-33.) So that Peter's wonderful information was no novelty +and special divine revelation, to himself, but was the common +credulity and gossip of the whole crew of fishermen, devils and +Palestinian peasantry. And long before, on the very next day after +his baptism by John, and before Peter was "called" or even found, +and when his brother Andrew went and found him to bring him to +Jesus, Andrew declared to Peter. "We have found the Messiah, which +is, being interpreted, the Christ"! (John i, 41.) And, on the next +day Nathaniel said to Jesus: "Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou +art the King of Israel"! (John i, 49.) Peter's wonderful "special +revelation" and confession thus lose an originality and are without +merit of the great "reward" which CE. (xii, 261) says Jesus +bestowed upon him for this pretended original and inspired +discovery, as we shall in due order notice.

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That Jesus Christ never spoke the words of those forged +verses, that they are a late Church forgery, is beyond any +intelligent or honest denial. The first mention of them in +"patristic literature," and that only a reference to the "keys," is +this scant line of Father Tertullian, in a little tract called +Scorpiace or "The Scorpion's Sting," written about 211 A.D., in +which he says: "For, though you think heaven is still shut, +remember that the Lord left to Peter and through him to the Church, +the keys of it." (Scorpiace, x; ANF. iii, 643.) That Jesus did not +use the words of those verses, interpolated into a paragraph of +Matthew copied bodily and verbatim by the original "Matthew" writer +from "Mark," and repeated in their original form by "Luke,"' is +thus conclusive from "internal" evidences; the later and +embroidered form is a visible interpolation and forgery. That this +is true, is demonstrated, moreover, by the inherent impossibility +of the thing itself.

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THE "CHURCH" FOUNDED ON THE "ROCK"

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First of all, in proof that Jesus Christ never made this Pun, +did not establish any Christian Church -- nor even a Jewish +reformed synagoguel, -- are his own alleged positive statements to +be quoted in refutation of the other forged "missionary" passage in +Matthew: "Go ye into all the world, and teach all nations." The +avowed mission of Jesus, as we have seen from his reputed words, +was exclusively to his fellow Jews: "I am not sent but to the lost +sheep of the house of Israel"; and he expressly commanded his +disciples not to preach to the Gentiles, nor even to the near-Jewish Samaritans. He proclaimed the immediate end of the world, +and his quick second coming to establish the exclusively Jewish +Kingdom of Heaven, even before all the Jews of little Palestine +could be warned of the event -- that "the Kingdom of Heaven is at +hand." It is impossible, therefore, that Jesus could have so +flagrantly contradicted the basic principles of his exclusive +mission as the Jewish promised Messiah, and could have commanded +the institution of a permanent and perpetual religious organization +an ecclesia" or "Church," to preach his exclusively Jewish

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Messianic doctrines to all nations of the earth, which was to +perish within that generation. This is a conclusive proof of the +later "interpolation" or forgery of this punning passage.

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On this point says EB.:

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"It would be a great mistake to suppose that Jesus +himself founded a new religious community" (c. 3103). -- "A +further consideration which tells against the genuineness of +Mt. xvi, 18b, is the occurrence in it of the word ecclesia. It +has been seen to be impossible to maintain that Jesus founded +any distinct religious community. ...

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"As for the word itself, it occurs elsewhere in the +Gospels only in Mt. xviii, 17. There, however, it denotes +simply the Jewish local community to which every one belongs; +for what is said relates not to the future but to the present, +in which a Christian ecclesia cannot, of course, be thought +of." (c. 3105) ... "It is impossible to regard as historical +the employment of the word ecclesia by Jesus as the +designation of the Christian community." (EB. iii, 3103, 3105, +3117.)

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Indeed, as said by a contemporary wit, the truth is that +"Jesus Christ did not found the Church -- he is its Foundling. His +parent, the Jewish church, abandoned the child; the Roman church +took it in, adopted it, and gave his mother a certificate of good +character." (The Truth Seeker, 10/23/26.)

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Jesus spoke Aramaic, a dialect of the ancient and "dead" +Hebrew. The true name of the fisherman "Prince of the Apostles," +just repudiated by Jesus as "Satan," was Shimeon, or in its Greek +form, Simon, who was later "surnamed Peter." He attained somehow +the Aramaic nickname Kepha, or in its Greek form, Cephas, meaning +a rock; this evidently furnished to the Greek punster the cue for +his play on words: "Thou art Petro, [Greek, petros, a rock; cf. +Eng. petrify, petroleum, etc.), and upon this petros [rock] I will +build my ecclesia [church]." Jesus could not have made this Greek +play on words; neither Peter nor any of the other "ignorant and +unlearned" Jewish peasant disciples could have understood it. Much +less could Jesus have said, or the apostles have understood, this +other Greek word "ecclesia," even had it been possible for Jesus, +facing the immediate end of the world -- proclaimed by himself -- +to have dreamed of founding any permanent religious sect. There was +nothing like ecclesia known to the Jews; it was a technical Greek +term designating the free political assemblies of the Greek +republics. This is illustrated by one sentence from the Greek +Father Origen, about 245 A.D., when the Church had taken over the +Greek political term ecclesia to denote its own religious +organization. Says Origen, using the word in both its old meaning +and in its new Christian adaptation: "For the Church [ecclesia] of +God, e.q., which is at Athens; ... Whereas the assembly [ecclesia] +of the Athenians," etc. (Origen, Contra Celsum, iii, 20; ANF. iv, +476.) The Greek Fathers who, a century later, founded the Church +among the Pagan Greek-speaking Gentiles, adopted the Greek word +ecclesia for their organizations because the word was familiar for +popular assemblies, and because the translators of the Septuagint

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had used ecclesia as the nearest Greek term for the translation of +the two Hebrew words qahal and edah used in the Old Testament for +the "congregation" or "assembly" of all Israel at the tent of +meeting.

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These Hebrew words (qahal, edah) had also a more general use, +as signifying any sort of gathering or crowd, religious or secular. +Thus "sinners shall not stand in the congregation [Heb. edah] of +the righteous" (Ps. i, 5); or of a mob of wicked ones: "I have +hated the congregation [Heb. qahal] of evil doers" (Ps. xxvi, 5); +and even of the great assemblage of the dead: "The man that -- +[etc.], shall remain in the congregation [Heb. qahal] of the dead" +(Prov. xxi, 16); all these various senses being rendered "ecclesia" +in the Greek Septuagint translation.

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Thus no established and permanent organization of disciples of +the Christ is implied by the term ecclesia, even if Jesus could +have used the Aramaic equivalent of that Greek term; at most it +would have only meant the small group of Jews which might adopt the +"Kingdom of Heaven" watchword and watchfully wait until the speedy +end of the world and the expected quick consummation of the +proclaimed Kingdom, -- not yet come to be, these 2000 years.

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This only possible meaning is made indisputable by the one +other instance of the use of the Greek word ecclesia attributed to +Jesus, -- and that also by the myth-mongering "Matthew." Here Jesus +is made to lay down some rules for settling the incessant discords +among his peasant believers in the Kingdom: "Moreover, if thy +brother shall trespass against thee ... tell it to the church +[ecclesia] but if he neglect to hear the ecclesial let him be unto +thee as an heathen man and a publican" (Matt. xviii, 15-17); -- +that is, kick him like a dog out of your holy company and exclude +him from share in the coming Kingdom. There was, of course, no +organized Christian "Church" in the lifetime of Jesus; he could +only have meant -- (if he said it), that disputes were to be +referred to the others of the little band of Kingdom-watchers, who +should drop the "trespasser" out of their holy group if he proved +recalcitrant and insisted upon the right of his opinion or action. +But Jesus never said even this; it is a forged later companion-piece to the "Rock and Keys" forgery, as is proven by the following +verse 18 -- (a repetition of xvi, 19) -- regarding the "binding and +loosing" powers given to itself by the later forging Church when it +assumed this preposterous prerogative of domination.

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The "On this Rock" forgery of Matt. xvi, says Reinach, "is +obviously an interpolation, made at a period when a church, +separated from the synagogue, already existed. In the parallel +passages in Mark (vii, 27, 32) and in Luke (ix, 18-22), there is +not a word of the primacy of Peter, a detail which Mark, the +disciple of Peter, could hardly have omitted if he had known of it. +The interpolation is posterior to the compilation of Luke's +gospel." (Orpheus, pp. 224-225.)

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As aptly said by Dr. McCabe; "It [the word ecclesia] had no +meaning whatever as a religious institution until decades after the +death of Jesus Christ. In the year 30 A.D. no one on earth would +have known what Jesus meant if he had said that he was going to

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'found' an ecclesia or church, and that the powers of darkness +would not prevail against it, and so on. It would sound like the +talk of the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland." (The Story of +Religious Controversy, p. 294.) Indeed, it may be remarked, it is +the "powers of darkness" of mind which have so far prevailed to +perpetuate this fraud; the powers of the light of reason are +hastening to its final overthrow.

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PETER-ROCK-CHURCH" DENIED AB SILIENCIO

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"Luke" was not present when this monumental pronouncement of +the "Rock and Keys" was allegedly made; Peter may have forgotten to +tell him of it, or "Luke" may have forgotten that Peter told him. +And Peter may have forgotten to tell of it and of his peerless +"primacy" to his own "companion" and "interpreter" Mark, or Mark +may have forgotten that Peter told him, and thus have failed to +record so momentous an event. But John, the "Beloved Disciple" was +right there, with Matthew, himself, one of the speakers and hearers +in the historic colloquy, -- and John totally ignores it. The +silence of all three discredits and repudiates it. Moreover, and +most significantly, Peter himself, in his two alleged Epistles, has +not a word of his tremendous dignity and importance conferred on +him by his Master; never once does he describe himself in the pride +of priestly humility, "Peter, Servant of the servants of God," or +"Prince of Apostles: or even "Bishop of the Church which sojourns +at Rome," or any such to distinguish himself from the common herd +of peasant apostles. Peter must have been very modest, even more so +than his "Successors."

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Furthermore, the official "Acts of the Apostles" never once +notes this divinely commissioned "primacy" of Peter; and every +other book of the New Testament utterly ignores it. Paul is said to +have written a sententious "Epistle to the Romans," and to have +written two or three Epistles from Rome, where Peter is supposed to +have been, enthroned as divine Vicar of God and Head of the Church +Universal; and yet never a word of this tremendous fact; Paul did +not know it, or ignores it. The "Epistles of Paul," fourteen of +them, and the "Acts," are replete with defiances of Paul to Peter, +-- "I withstood him to his face"; and in all the disputes between +them, over matters of the faith and the fortunes of the new +"Church," not a single one of the Apostles rises in his place and +suggests that Peter is Prince and Primate, and that Peter's view of +the matters was ex-cathedra the voice of God, and he, having +spoken, the matter was settled. Paul, in all his Epistles, never +gives a suspicion that he had ever heard, even from Peter, of the +latter's superior authority.

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Thus the admitted principal, if not only "proof" which the +Church urges for its Divine and "Petrine" foundation is found to be +-- like every other Church muniment and credential, a clerical +forgery, a priestly imposture. We shall glance at some other like +examples of the Christian art of "Scripture" falsification.

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"GO, TEACH ALL NATIONS" FORGERY

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Applying Tertullian's test of authenticity, that contradictory +passages betray a later "interpolation," the closing verses, 16-20, +of the last chapter of Matthew -- as of Mark 9-20, -- are +themselves late interpolations or forged passages.

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Matthew previously quotes Jesus as declaring: "I am not sent +but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (xv, 24; x, 6); and +his command to the Twelve: "Go not into the way of the Gentiles. +... but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (x, 5, +6). Also Matthew (as Mark) has reiterated the assurance of the +immediacy of the end of the world and the "second coming" in glory: +"Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of +Man be come." (Mt. x, 23; cf. x, 7; xxvi, 28, 34, passim.) So that +neither in reason nor in truthful statement could it be possible +for Jesus to have met the Eleven a few days after his resurrection, +in Galilee, and commanded them in this wonderful language: "Go ye +therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: ... and, lo, I am +with you always, even unto the end of the world" -- which he had +just, and repeatedly, averred should happen in the life-time of his +hearers and before they could preach even to the Jews of little +Palestine. (Mt. xxviii, 18, 20; cf. Mk. xvi, 15-16.) This "command" +could only have been "interpolated" into the forged ending of +Matthew and Mark long after the original form of the tradition of +Jesus had been first written, and when the "second coming" in the +"Kingdom of God" and the immediate "end of the world" had become +impossible of further credit by lapse of long years of time and +disappointed expectation. It could also only have been written +after the gospel of the "Kingdom" for the Jews had failed, and the +apostles had "turned to the Gentiles," which was not, even on the +face of Scripture, until after the so-called "Council of +Jerusalem," when the Jewish apostles, after bitter quarrel with the +interloper Paul, had recognized Paul's pretended "revelation" of +mission to the Gentiles and had parcelled out the propaganda work, +Paul to the uncircumcised Gentiles, all the others, Peter included, +to "the circumcision" only; though the entire story of the Council +is itself a contradictory fabrication, as demonstrated by EB. (i, +916, et seq.)

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ACTS BELIES THE "GO, TEACH ALL NATIONS" FORGERY

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Culminating proof that Jesus Christ never uttered this +command, to "Go, teach all nations," of Matthew and Mark, and that +it is a forgery long after interpolated into the original forged +texts, is found in the positive "history" of the inspiredly forged +Acts of the Apostles, in Holy Writ itself. If Jesus Christ, just +arisen from the dead, had given that ringing and positive command +to Peter and the Eleven, utterly impossible would it have been for +the remarkable "history" recorded in Acts to have occurred. Acts, +too, disproves the assertion of Mark that, straightway, after the +command was given to the Eleven, "they went forth, and preached +everywhere" (Mk. xvi, 20), -- that is, to all nations thereabouts, +the Pagan Gentiles. A further contradiction may he noted: Matthew +says that the command was given to the Eleven in Galilee, on "a +mountain where Jesus had appointed them" (Mt. xxviii, 16-19), --

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and some days after the resurrection; whereas Mark records that the +command was given to the Eleven "as they sat at meat," evidently in +a house in Jerusalem, through the roof of which Jesus immediately +afterwards ascended into heaven (Mk. xvi, 14-19); after which they +immediately "went forth, and preached everywhere" (verse 20). But +they did not, as the silence of the other two Gospels, and the +positive evidence of Acts and several of the Epistles, proves; +together with the promised disproof of the "Go, teach all nations" +command, for preaching the Kingdom to the Gentile Pagans, now to be +produced.

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Cornelius, the leader of the Italian Band at Coesarea, a Roman +Gentile Pagan, had a "revelation" that he should go to Joppa to +find Peter, evidently with a view to "conversion" and admission +into the new all-Jewish sect. A companion vision in a trance was +awarded to Peter, seemingly to prepare him for the novel notion of +community with Gentiles; though "Peter doubted in himself what this +vision which he had seen should mean"; but at this juncture the +messengers came from Cornelius, and related to Peter the vision of +Cornelius, and his request that Peter come to see him. Evidently, +Peter had never heard of the Master's command alleged to have been +given by Jesus to Peter himself, and the others: "Go, teach all +nations" of the uncircumcised, for he said to the messengers: "Ye +know how it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep +company, or come unto one of another nation"; but recalling the +vision from which he had just awaked, be added: "but God hath +showed me" that it was permissible now to deal with "one of another +nation." So, Peter went along to Cornelius, and he asked "For what +intent ye have sent for me?" Cornelius repeated the vision, and +said, "Now we are all here present before God, to hear all things +that are commanded thee by God." At this, Peter was evidently +greatly surprised, and "opened his mouth, and replied; Of a truth +I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But that in every +nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted +with him." Thus clearly Peter had never heard his Jesus command: +"Go, teach all nations"; it required this new "revelation" -- some +years later -- for him to tardily and finally "perceive" that God +accepted even "one of another nation." Clearer yet is this, that up +to this time salvation is of the Jews" only, by Peter's next words: +"The word which God sent unto the children of Israel ... which was +published throughout Judaea -- [not to "all nations"], and began in +Galilee, after the baptism which John preached -- [not baptism "in +the name" of the Trinity]. ... And be [Jesus] commanded us to +preach unto all the people" -- of the children of Israel. And now +for proof positive: Peter was now "showed" the new dispensation: a +visitation of the Holy Ghost came upon the Pagans present, who +thereupon all "spake with tongues," to the great amazement of Peter +and his Jewish companions: "They of the circumcision which believed +were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the +Gentiles was also poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost," which had +been promised only to all believing Jews. Ignorant thus of the +Christ's preascension command to him and the Eleven, to teach all +men, but now convinced that "one of another nation" was acceptable +with God, and should be baptized, Peter yielded, and argued for his +companions to consent: "Then answered Peter, Can any man forbid +water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the +Holy Ghost as well as we? And he commanded them to be baptized in

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the name of the Lord" (Acts x), -- not in the name of the Trinity, +as Matthew alleges that Jesus himself had commanded Peter himself +to do. So this bit of Scripture "history" is positive refutation of +the "Go, teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" forgery.

+ +

And none of the others of the Twelve had ever heard the +command. For immediately that they learned of this flagrant +"heresy" of Peter, "that the Gentiles have also received the word +of God," they were piously outraged and furious against Peter: "And +when Peter had come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the +circumcision contended with him, Saying, Thou wentest in to men +uncircumcised, and didst eat with them." Peter put up a long +argument in defense, urging the "revelation" to Cornelius and his +own trance vision, quoted the gospels of Matthew and John -- (not +yet in existence!), -- and wound up: "Forasmuch then as God gave +them the like gift as he did unto us, ... what am I, that I could +withstand God?" This line of argument pacified the other apostles; +"When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified +God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance +unto life." (Acts xi.) Perfect proof is this, that the alleged "Go, +teach all nations" command of the Christ to Peter and the other +apostles, is a falsification, a late forgery into Matthew and Mark: +for if Jesus had so commanded these same apostles, the special +revelations would not have been necessary; Peter's doubt and +hesitation, and the row of the others with Peter for baptizing +Cornelius and his Band could not have occurred, would have been +impossible and absurd; as would have been the apostolic rows of the +"Council of Jerusalem," recorded in Acts xv and belied by Paul in +Galatians ii, as is made evident in EB. (i, 916.)

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This incontrovertible fact, that Jesus Christ never uttered +that command, "Go, teach all nations," and that the texts so +reciting are later forgeries to serve the Gentilic propaganda of +the Faith after the Jews had rejected it, -- is confessed by CE. in +these destructive words: "The Kingdom of God had special reference +to Jewish beliefs. ... A still further expansion resulted from the +revelation directing St. Peter to admit to baptism Cornelius, a +devout Gentile." (CE. iii, 747.) If Jesus Christ, preaching the +exclusive Jewish Kingdom, had revised and reversed his God-ordained +program, and had commanded "Go, teach all nations, baptizing them," +the "expansion" would have resulted then and there from the command +itself, -- not from the "revelation" and apostolic row some years +later, which would have been unnecessary and supererogatory -- as +it was unseemly. Thus another pious lie and forgery is exposed and +confessed.

+ +

Even more plain and comprehensive are the words of this same +divine forged command of the Christ, as recorded by Mark: "Go ye +into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. And he +that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that +believeth not shall be damned." (Mk. xvi, 15-16.) It should be a +relief to many pious Hell-fearing Christians to know that their +Christ did not utter these damning words, and that they may +disbelieve with entire impunity; that they are priestly forgeries +to frighten credulous persons into belief and submission to +priestcraft. The proofs of this from the Bible itself we see +confirmed by clerical admissions under compulsion from exposure of +the fraud. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +185 +. +FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY

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Thus this whole section, says Reinach, is a "late addition" to +Mark, ."and is not found in the best manuscripts." (Orpheus, p. +221.) We have seen that CE. includes this section among those +rejected as spurious up to the time that the Holy Ghost belatedly +vouched for it at the Council of Trent in 1546, putting the seal of +divine truth upon this lie. Both these parallel but exceedingly +contradictory closing sections of Matthew and Mark, are spurious +additions made after the "end of the world" and "second coming" +predictions had notoriously failed, in order to give pretended +divine sanction to the "turning to the Gentiles," after the Jews, +to whom alone the Christ was sent and had expressly and repeatedly +limited his mission, had rejected his claim to be Messiah.

+ +

The Gentile Church of Christ has therefore no divine sanction; +was never contemplated nor created by Jesus Christ. The Christian +Church is thus founded on a forgery of pretended words of the +pretended Christ. This proposition is of such immense significance +and importance, that I array here the admissions of the forgery, in +addition to the demonstration of its falsity above given. The +virtual admissions of CE. totally destroy the authenticity of the +entire spurious section, Mark xvi, 9-20, together with the +correlated passages of the equally spurious "Matthean addition," +copied from Mark, with embellishments into Matthew.

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THE FORGED GOSPEL ENDINGS

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"The conclusion of Mark (xvi, 9-20) is admittedly not genuine. +Still less can the shorter conclusion lay claim to genuineness. ... +Almost the entire section is a compilation, partly even from the +fourth gospel and Acts." (EB. ii, 1880; 1767, n. 3; 1781, and n. 1, +on "the evidence of its spuriousness.") "The longer form ... has +against it the testimony of the two oldest Uncial MSS. (Siniatic +and Vatican) and one of the two earliest of the Syriac Versions +(Siniatic Syriac), all of which close the chapter at verse 8. In +addition to this, is the very significant silence of Patristic +literature as to anything following verse 8." (New Standard Bible +Dictionary, p. 551.) The acute and careful critical reasonings and +evidences upon which the foregoing conclusions are based, I have +omitted from these extracts, to present them in full in the +following ample review from CE., which, "reasoning in chains" +fettered upon it by the Trentine Decree, yet fully establishes the +impeaching facts and substantially confesses the forgery into +"Mark," while "saving its face" for the "inspiration" of the +forgery by clerical assumption of "some other inspired pen" as the +source of the text, which makes it "just as good" as any other, +when invested with the sanctity of the sanction of the Council of +Trent. Says CE.:

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"But the great textual problem of the Gospel (Mark) +concerns the genuineness of the last twelve verses. Three +conclusions of the Gospel are known: the long: conclusion, as +in our Bibles, containing verses 9-20, the short one ending +with verse 8, and an intermediate form [described]. ... Now +this third form way be dismissed at once -- [as an admitted +Bible forgery]. No scholar regards this intermediate +conclusion as having any title to acceptance.

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"We may pass on, then, to consider how the case stands +between the long conclusion and the short, i.e. between +accepting xvi, 9-20, as a genuine portion of the original +Gospel, or making the original end with xvi, 8. Eusebius ... +pointing out that the passage in Mark beginning with verse 9 +is not contained in all the MSS. of the Gospel. The historian +then goes on himself to say that in nearly all the MSS. of +Mark, at least in the accurate ones, the Gospel ends with xvi, +8. ... St. Jerome also says in one place that the passage was +wanting in nearly all Greek MSS. ... As we know, he +incorporated it in the Vulgate. ... If we add to this that the +Gospel ends with xvi, 8, in the two oldest Greek MSS. -- [ +Siniatic and Vatican] -- [also in the Siniatic Syriac, some +Ethiopic, Armenian, and other MSS.] indicate doubt as to +whether the true ending is at verse 8 or verse 20. (p. 678.) +. . .

+ +

"Much has been made of the silence of some of the third +and fourth century Fathers, their silence being interpreted to +mean that they either did not know the passage or rejected it. +Thus Tertullian, SS. Cyprian, Athanasius, Basil the Great, +Gregory of Nazianzus, and Cyril of Alexandria.

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"When we turn to the internal evidence, the number, and +still more the character, of the peculiarities is certainly +striking [citing many instances from the Greek text]. ... But, +even when this is said, the cumulative force of the evidence +against the Marcan origin of the passage is considerable. (p. +678.) ... The combination of so many peculiar features, not +only of vocabulary, but of matter and construction, leaves +room for doubt as to the Marcan authorship of the verses. (p. +679.) ...

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"Whatever the fact be, it is not at all certain that Mark did +not write the disputed verses. It may be that he did not; that they +are from the pen of some other inspired writer [!], and were +appended to the Gospel in the first century or the beginning of the +second. ... Catholics are not bound to hold that the verses were +written by St. Mark. But they are canonical Scripture, for the +Council of Trent (Sess. IV), in defining that all parts of the +Sacred Books are to be received as sacred and canonical, had +especially in view the disputed parts of the Gospels, of which this +conclusion of Mark is one. Hence, whoever wrote the verses, they +are inspired, and must be received as such by every Catholic." (CE. +ix, 677, 678, 679.)

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The New Commentary on the Holy Scripture has a special section +entitled "The Ending of St. Mark's Gospel," in which it reviews the +evidences in much the same manner as CE., with additional new and +able criticism; it thus concludes, -- not being fettered by the +dogmatic decision of the Council of Trent, which CE. so clerically +yields to in the letter but evades in the spirit:

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"It is practically certain that neither Matthew nor Luke +found it in their copies of Mark [from which they copied in +making up the gospels under those names: see pp. 33, 45). ... +The Last Twelve Verses are constructed as an independent

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summary with total neglect of the contents of xvi, 1-8. ... It +is as certain as anything can be in the domain of criticism +that the Longer Ending did not come from the pen of the +evangelist Mark. ... We conclude that it is certain that the +Longer Ending is no part of the Gospel." (New Commentary, Pt. +III, pp. 122, 123.)

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More shaming proofs and confessions of forgery of pretended +words of the Christ there could not be, than of this falsified +command to preach a forged Gospel to the credulous dupes of +Paganism. Gentile Christianity collapses upon its forged +foundations.

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THE BAPTISMAL FORGERY

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The contradictory "baptismal formulas," the simple "in the +name of the Lord" of Peter in Acts, and the elaborated forgery of +Matthew, "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the +Holy Ghost," are sufficiently branded with falsity in the preceding +paragraphs, and may be dismissed without further notice. This +"Trinitarian Formula" is most palpably a late forgery, never +uttered by Jesus Christ; for the Holy "Trinity" was not itself +officially invented until the Council of Constantinople, in 381 +A.D. Admittedly, "of all revealed truths this is the most +impenetrable to reason"; it is therefore called a "mystery." (CE. +xv, 52.) Of this Baptism-formula of Matthew, the ex-priest scholar, +McCabe, says: "It was fraudulently added to the gospel when the +priesthood was created." (LBB. 1121, p. 4.) Bishop Gore's English +Divines thus cautiously confess the fraud: "Matthew's witness to +the teaching of the risen Lord in these verses is widely rejected +on two grounds. The witness of Acts makes it almost certain that +baptism at first was into the name of Jesus Christ, and not +formally into the name of the Blessed Trinity. ... It is quite +likely that Matthew here expresses our Lord's teaching in language +which the Lord Himself did not actually use." (New Comm., Pt. III, +p. 204; ef. EB. i, 474.) Another blasting priestly fraud of +"Scripture" forgery is thus exposed and confessed!

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A MEDLEY OF FORGERIES

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After the foregoing colossal forgeries within the originally +forged Gospels of Jesus Christ, there yet remain many other +viciously dishonest falsifications of text. A little trinity of +them only will be noted.

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THE "WOMAN IN ADULTERY" FORGERY

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The CE. has admitted that the so-called pericope adulterae, +was regarded as spurious until the Council of Trent, in 1546, +declared it divine truth; but Reinach says: "The episode of Jesus +and the woman taken in adultery, which was inserted in John's +gospel in the fourth century, was originally in the [apocryphal] +'Gospel according to the Hebrews.'" (Orpheus, p. 235.)

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THE JOHN XXI FORGERY

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The entire chapter xxi of John is likewise a surcharge of +forgery in that gospel; it may be disposed of with this terse +comment of EB.: "As xx, 30-31 constitutes a formal and solemn +conclusion, xxi is beyond question a later appendix. We may go on +to add that it does not come from the same author with the rest of +the book." (EB. ii, 2543.)

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THE "LORD'S PRAYER" FORGERY

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As may be seen by mere comparison, the "Doxology" at the end +of the Lord's Prayer in Matthew (vi, 13): "For thine is the +kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen," is an +interpolation into the original text, and is omitted as spurious by +the Revised Version; it is not in the Catholic "True" Version. But, +it may be remarked, the whole of the so-called Lord's Prayer is not +the Lord's at all; it is a late patch-work of pieces out of the Old +Testament, as readily shown by the marginal cross-references, -- +just as we have seen that the "Apostles Creed" was said to have +been patched up by inspired lines from each apostle. The Sermon on +the Mount, in which its most used form is found, is a concatenation +of supposed logia or "sayings" of Jesus, drawn out through three +chapters of "Matthew"; it was delivered before "the multitudes" +which surrounded the Master and his disciples, and in the middle of +the fictitious discourse. This is not true, according to "Luke," +who makes it out a private talk in reply to a question by one of +the Twelve: "And it came to pass, that, as (Jesus) was praying in +a certain place, when he ceased one of his disciples said to him, +Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. And be +said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father," etc. (Luke xi, 1-228 2.) Indeed, the entire "Lord's Prayer" in Matthew, copied from +Luke and expanded with considerable new material, is as to such new +matter a forgery, confesses CE.: "Thus it is that the shorter form +of the Lord's Prayer in Luke, xi, 2-4, is in almost all Greek +manuscripts lengthened out in accordance with Matthew, vi, 9-13. +Most errors of this kind proceed," etc. (CE. iv, 498.) I shall +quote now the whole of CE.'s paragraph, admitting this and other +"deliberate corruptions" of the New Testament texts, with clerical +apologetic reasons therefor:

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"(b) Errors Wholly or Partly Intentional. -- Deliberate +corruption of the Sacred Text has always been rather rare, +Marcion's case being exceptional. Hort (Introduction (1896), +p. 282) is of the opinion that 'even among the unquestionably +spurious readings of the New Testament there are no signs of +deliberate falsification of the text for dogmatic purposes.' +Nevertheless it is true that the scribe often selects from +various readings that which favors either his own individual +opinion or the doctrine that is just then more generally +accepted. It also happens that, in perfectly good faith, he +changes passages which seem to him corrupt because he fails to +understand them, that he adds a word which he deems necessary +for the elucidation of the meaning, that he substitutes a more +correct grammatical expression, and that he harmonizes +parallel passages. Thus it is that the shorter form of the +Lord's Prayer in Luke, xi, 2-4, is in almost all Greek

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manuscripts lengthened out in accordance with Matthew, vi, +9-13. Most errors of this kind proceed from inserting in the +text marginal notes which, in the copy to be transcribed, were +but variants, explanations, parallel passages, simple remarks, +or perhaps the conjectures of some studious reader. All +readers have observed the predilection of copyists for the +most verbose texts and their tendency to complete citations +that are too brief; hence it is that an interpolation stands +a far better chance of being perpetuated than an omission." +(CE. iv, 498.)

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Thus, as to the "Lord's Prayer" in Matthew, its "variants" +from Luke are confessed forgeries; every circumstance of the two +origins is in contradiction. Like the whole "Sermon on the Mount," +the Prayer is a composite of ancient sayings of the Scripture +strung together to form it, as the marginal cross-references show +throughout.

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THE "UNKNOWN GOD" FORGERY

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At this point I may call attention to a notable instance in +Acts of a fraudulent perversion of text; Paul's use of the +pretended inscription on the statue on Mars' Hill, "To the Unknown +God," on which is based his famous harangue to the Athenians: "Whom +therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you." This +omits the truth, for the whole inscription would have been fatal to +his cause. The actual words of the inscription, together with some +uncomplimentary comment on "Paul's" manipulation of the truth, are +presented by the famous Catholic "Humanist" Erasmus. First he +states the chronic clerical propensity to warp even Scripture to +their deceptive schemes: "In general it is the public charter of +all divines, to mould and bend the sacred oracles till they comply +with their own fancy, spreading them (as Heaven by its Creator) +like a curtain, closing together, or drawing them back as they +please." Then he discloses the dishonest dodge of the great Apostle +of Persecution: "Indeed, St. Paul minces and mangles some citations +which he makes use of, and seems to wrest them to a different sense +from that for which they were first intended, as is confessed by +the great linguist St. Jerome. Thus when that apostle saw at Athens +the inscription of an altar, he draws from it an argument for the +proof of the Christian religion; but leaving out a great part of +the sentence, which perhaps if fully recited might have prejudiced +his cause, he mentions only the last two words, viz., 'To the +Unknown God'; and this, too, not without alteration, for the whole +inscription runs thus: 'TO THE GODS OF ASIA, EUROPE, AND AFRICA, TO +ALL FOREIGN AND UNKNOWN GODS'"! (Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, p. +292.) That the original Greek text of Acts used the plural "gods" +is shown by the marginal note to Acts xvii, 23, in the King James +Version. From this dreary, exposure of "Gospel" forgeries we pass +to the forged "Epistles of the Apostles."

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THE FORGED EPISTLES, ETC.

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There are 21 so-called Epistles or Letters found in the New +Testament under the names of five different "apostles" of Jesus +Christ. Making a significant reservation which seems to question +the plenary inspiration of the Council of Trent, "There are," says

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CE., "thirteen Epistles of St. Paul, and perhaps fourteen, if, with +the Council of Trent, we consider him the author of the Epistle to +the Hebrews." (CE. xiv, 530.) If Paul, the "apostle of the +Gentiles," didn't write the Letter to the Hebrews, some Church +Father must have forged it in his name. This was admitted by the +early Fathers: "Tertullian ascribed it to Barnabas, and Origen +confessed that the author was not known." (Reinach, Orpheus, p. +235; CE. xiv, 525; New Comm. Pt. III, p. 596.) "The Epistle to the +Hebrews," says EB., "had already been excluded from the group [of +then supposed Pauline Epistles] by Carlstadt (1520), and among +those who followed him in this were Luther, Calvin, Grotius, etc." +(EB. iii, 3605.) So CE.'s cautious clerical reservation is +justified, and the forgery of Hebrews in the name of Paul may be +taken as established, the inspired Council of Trent to the contrary +notwithstanding.

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But the entire "Pauline group" is in the same forged class +with Hebrews, says EB. after exhaustive consideration of the +proofs, internal and external:

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"With respect to the canonical Pauline Epistles, ... +there are none of them by Paul; neither fourteen, nor +thirteen, nor nine or eight, nor yet even the four so long +'universally' regarded as unassailable. They are all, without +distinction, pseudographia [false-writings, forgeries]; -- [it +adds, with a typical clerical striving after saving something +from the wreckage] this, of course, not implying the least +depreciation of their contents. ... The group ... bears +obvious marks of a certain unity -- of having originated in +one circle, at one time, in one environment; but not of unity +of authorship." (EB. iii, 3625, 3626.) They are thus all +uninspired anonymous church forgeries for Christ's sweet sake!

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Besides the so-called Pauline Epistles, another group, i.e. +those attributed to Peter, John, Jude and James, is known as +"Catholic Epistles," so called because addressed to the Church at +large; "not one of them is authentic." (Reinach, Orpheus, p. 239; +cf. EB., under the various titles.) A third small group, Titus and +2 Timothy, are called Pastoral Epistles" because they are addressed +to pastors of churches. These, with Acts and the Book of +Revelation, complete the tale of the Old-Christian Literature +finally approved, in 1546, by the Council of Trent as divinely +inspired, along with the inspired nonsense of Tobias, Judith, Bel +and the Dragon, and like late Hebrew pious forgeries. With respect +to the Apocalypse Revelation, attributed to the Apostle John, this +has long been held to be impossible; nor is Revelation by the same +writer as the Fourth Gospel falsely attributed to John, as we have +seen. The results of ancient patristic denials and of modern +critical scholarship are thus summed up: "John ... is not the +author of the Fourth Gospel; so, in like manner, in the Apocalypse +we may have here and there a passage that may be traced to him, but +the book as a whole is not from his pen. Gospel, Epistles, and +Apocalypse all come from the same school." (EB. i, 199.) "The +author of Revelation calls himself John the Apostle. As he was not +John the Apostle, who died perhaps in Palestine about 66, he was a +forger." (Orpheus p. 240.) The same can truly be said as to all the +others.

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It is impossible here to review the criticism of the twenty-three booklets individually. The comment of EB. on the Epistle to +the Philippians, as not written by Paul, is, fairly applicable to +them all: "What finally puts an end to all doubt is the presence of +unmistakable traces of the conditions of a later period. ... More +particularly, everything that points to a considerably advanced +stage in the development of doctrine." (EB. iii, 3709.) This +principle of criticism will be admitted by anyone; we have read it +from CE. as "universally admitted" to wit: "A fundamental one is +that a literary work always betrays the imprint of the age and +environment in which it was produced." (CE. iv, 492.) Paul and +Peter are reputed to have died together in Rome under Nero, in 64 +(67) A.D. We have shown the impossibility of the existence of "New +Testament" writings, and of a "church" during the first several +generations which daily expected the end of the world and the +sudden second coming of the Christ to set up the supernatural +Kingdom of God, among, of, and for Jews only. More especially +impassible is it, that a Catholic or "universal" Church among the +far-scattered cities and nations of the Gentiles should have +existed even in embryo within the scant, say 35 years between the +reputed death of Jesus about 30 A.D. and the deaths of Paul and +Peter in 64 (67) A.D. Most impossible would it have been for such +Gentile Church then to have had the intricate hierarchical +organization of Bishops, presbyters, deacons, priests, and +"damnable heresies," portrayed as actually existing and in active +function, by these apocryphal Epistles. They are self-evidently the +product of an elaborately organized church, -- just as they are +more elaborately laid out and their several jurisdictions and +functions defined in the admittedly forged Apostolic Constitutions +and Canons, forged in the names of the apostles in the following +centuries. Nothing from ancient times can be or is more positively +proven false and forged than every book and text of the New +Testament, attributed to apostles. Who can now deny this?

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THE "EPISTLE OF PETER" FORGERIES

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Owing to the peculiar importance attributed to them by the +Church, as among the most unquestionable of its "proofs" of +authentic divine foundation and sanction, the so-called Epistles I +and II of Peter call for a few words of special refutation. These +two Peter books were, in truth, questioned and denied from the +early days. Bishop Eusebius, the first Church Historian, (HE. III, +iii, 25), says of II Peter that it was "controverted and not +admitted into the canon"; and, says EB., "The tardy recognition of +II Peter in the early church supports the judgment of the critical +school as to its un-apostolic origin." (EB. iii, 3684.)

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The critical considerations which lead to the rejection of +both Epistles as "not Petrine" and "not of the apostolic age," may +be very briefly summarized: That I Peter is addressed to the +"Sojourners of the Dispersion" in Asia Minor, which was Paul's +reserved territory. "There is no trace of the questions mooted in +the apostolic age. ... The historical conditions and circumstances +implied in the Epistle indicate, moreover, a time far beyond the +probable duration of Peter's life. ... The history of the spread of +Christianity imperatively demands for I Peter a later date than 64 +A.D.," the alleged date of Peter's death. The second Epistle, II

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Peter, is vaguely addressed to Christians in general (i, 1), yet in +iii, 1, the writer inconsistently assumes that the First Epistle +was addressed to the same readers; and he tells them (i, 6 and iii, +15) that they had already received instructions from him +(ostensibly Peter), and also letters from Paul. "The relation of II +Peter to I Peter renders a common authorship extremely doubtful. +The name and title of the author are different. ... The style of +the two epistles is different. ... It is late and un-apostolic." +(EB. Peter, Epistles of, iii, 3678-3685; cf. New Comm. Pt. III, pp. +639, 653, 654.) "The genuineness of I Peter cannot be maintained. +Most probably it was not written before 112 A.D." (EB. 2940.) The +two letters of Peter are Graeco-Egyptian forgeries." (Reinach, +Orpheus, p. 240.) The Church pretense that I Peter was written at +Rome ("Babylon") will be judged in its more appropriate place. In +the early list of supposedly apostolic Books drawn up by Tertullian +as accepted and read in the several Churches, while he "cites the +Book of Enoch as inspired, ... also recognizes IV Esdras, and the +Sibyl, ... he does not know James and II Peter. ... He attributes +Hebrews to St. Barnabas." (CE. xiv, 525.) Bishop Dionysius +complains that his own writings "had been falsified by the apostles +of the devil; no wonder, he adds, 'that the Scriptures were +falsified by such persons.'" (CE. v, 10.) The "Peter" Books are +other instances.

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THE "GOD MANIFEST" FORGERY

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In the King James or "Authorized" Version we read: "Great is +the mystery of Godliness: God was manifest in the flesh," etc. (1 +Tim. iii, 16.) In the "Revised Version" this "God manifest" forged +interpolation is shamed out of the text, which there honestly +reads: "He who was manifested in the flesh," etc. Thus the great +"mystery of godliness," premised in the text, is no longer a +mystery; and the fraudulent insertion into the text by some over-zealous Christian forger, seeking to bolster up an "apostolic" +pedigree for the later "tradition" of the divinity of the Christ, +is confessed. This pious "interpolation" was probably made at the +time and by the same holy hands which forged the "Virgin-birth" +interpolations into "Matthew" and "Luke." This passage is but one +of a whole series of "Spurious Passages in the New Testament," +catalogued by Taylor, in the appendix to his Diegesis, (p. 421). +This pious fraud was first detected and exposed by Sir Isaac +Newton.

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THE "THREE HEAVENLY WITNESSES" FORGERY

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Bishop Clement of Alexandria, writing around 200 A.D., thus +quotes a comparatively trivial and innocuous passage from the +forged First Epistle of St. John (v, 7), -- which, through +fraudulent tampering later became one of the "chief stones of the +corner" of the Holy Church that the Fathers built: "John says: 'For +there are three that bear witness, the spirit, and the water, and +the blood: and these three are one.'" (Clem. Alex., Fragment from +Cassiodorus, ch. iii; ANF. iii, 576.) This is self-evidently the +original text of this now famous, or infamous, passage. Turning now +to the Word of God as found in the "Authorized" Protestant and in +the Chaloner-Douay Version of the Catholic Vulgate, we read with +wonder:

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"7. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the +Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. +"8. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the +spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in +one." (I John, v, 7, 8.)

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Let us now turn to the same text, or what is left of it, in +the Revised Version. Here we read, with more wonder (if we do not +know the story of pious fraud behind it), what seems to be a +garbled text:

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"8. For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and +the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one."

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Erasmus first detected the fraud and omitted the forged verse +in his edition of the Greek Testament in 1516. (New Comm. Pt. III, +p. 718-19.) This verse 7, bluntly speaking, is a forgery: "It had +been wilfully and wickedly interpolated, to sustain the Trinitarian +doctrine; it has been entirely omitted by the Revisers of the New +Testament." (Roberts, Companion to the Revised Versions p. 72.) +"This memorable text," says Gibbon, "is condemned by the silence of +the Fathers, ancient versions, and authentic manuscripts, of all +the manuscripts now extant, above four score in number, some of +which are more than 1200 years old." (Ch. xxvii, p. 598.) Speaking +of this and another, Reinach says: "One of these forgeries (I John +v, 7) was subjected to interpolation of a later date. ... If these +two verses were Authentic, they would be an affirmation of the +doctrine of the Trinity, at a time when the gospels, and Acts and +St. Paul ignore it. It was first pointed out in 1516 that these +verses were an interpolation, for they do not appear in the best +manuscripts down to the fifteenth century. The Roman Church refused +to bow to the evidence. ... The Congregation of the Index, on +January 13, 1897, with the approbation of Leo XIII, forbade any +question of the authenticity of the text relating to the 'Three +Heavenly Witnesses.' It showed in this instance a wilful ignorance +to which St. Gregory's rebuke is specially applicable: "God does +not need our lies."' (Orpheus, p. 239.) But His Church does; for +without them it would not be; and without the forged "Three +Heavenly Witnesses," and the forged "Baptism Formula" of Matthew +(xxviii, 19), there would be not a word in the entire New Testament +hinting the existence of the Three-in-One God of Christianity. The +Holy Trinity is an unholy Forgery!

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Lest it be thought by some pious but uninformed persons that +the foregoing imputation may be either false or malicious, we shall +let CE. make the confession of shame, with the usual clerical +evasions to "save the face" of Holy Church confronted with this +proven forgery and fraud. From a lengthy and detailed review, under +separate headings, of all the ancient MSS., Greek, Syriac, +Ethiopia, Armenian, Old Latin, and of the Fathers, the following is +condensed, but in the exact words of the text:

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"The famous passage of the Three Witnesses [quoting I +John, v, 7]. Throughout the past three hundred years, effort +has been made to expunge from our Clementine Vulgate edition +of the canonical Scriptures the words that are bracketed. Let +us examine the facts of the case. [Here follows the thorough

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review of the MSS, closed in each instance by such words as: +"The disputed part is found in none"; "no trace"; "no +knowledge until the twelfth century," etc. etc.] The silence +of the great and voluminous St. Augustine, [etc.] are admitted +facts that militate against the canonicity of the Three +Witnesses. St. Jerome does not seem to know the text, -- +[Jerome made the Vulgate Official Version].

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"Trent's is the first certain ecumenical decree, whereby +the Church established the Canon of Scripture. We cannot say +that the Decree of Trent necessarily included the Three +Witnesses" -- [for reasons elaborately stated, and upon two +conditions discussed, saying): "Neither condition has yet been +verified with certainty; quite the contrary, textual criticism +seems to indicate that the Comma Johanninum was not at all +times and everywhere wont to be read in the Catholic Church, +and it is not contained in the Old Latin Vulgate. However, the +Catholic theologian must take into account more than textual +criticism"! (CE. viii, 436.)

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A confessed forgery of Holy Writ consciously kept in the +"canonical" text as a fraudulent voucher for a false Trinity -- +such is "The Three Heavenly Witnesses" -- to the shame and ignominy +of the Holy Church of Christ, which "has never deceived any one," +and which "has never made an error, and never shall err to all +eternity"! This is not an error, however; it is but one more +deliberate clerical "lie to the glory of God."

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The libraries of the Union Theological Seminary and of +Columbia University, in New York City, were the places of the finds +here recorded. Cited so often, space will be saved for more +valuable uses by citing by their initials, -- which will become +very familiar -- my chief ecclesiastical authorities, towit:

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The Ante-Nicene Fathers, cited as ANF.; A Collection of the +extant Writings of all the Founders of Christianity down to the +Council of Nicaea, or Nice, in 325 A.D. American Reprint, eight +volumes. The Christian Literature Publishing Co., Buffalo, N.Y., +1885. [xxx]

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The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, cited as N&PNF.; First and +Second Series; many volumes; same publishers.

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The Catholic Encyclopedia, cited as CE.; fifteen volumes and +index, published under the Imprimatur of Archbishop Farley; New +York, Robert Appleton Co., 1907-9.

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The Encyclopedia Biblica, cited as EB., four volumes; Adam & +Charles Black, London, 1899; American Reprint, The Macmillan Co., +New York, 1914.

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THE CHURCH FORGERY MILL

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"Nevertheless, the forging of papal letters was even more +frequent in the Middle Ages than in the early Church." (CE. ix, +203.)

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LYINGLY FOUNDED on forgery upon forgery, as has been made +manifest by manifold admissions and proofs, the Church of Christ +perpetuated itself and consolidated its vast usurped powers, and +amassed amazing wealth, by a series of further and more secular +forgeries and frauds unprecedented in human history -- faintly +approximated only by its initial forgeries of the fundamental +gospels and epistles of the "New Testament of our Lord and Savior +Jesus Christ," and of the countless other forged religious +documents which we have so far reviewed. These first relate to the +infance of the Church -- constitute its false certificates of +Heavenly birth and of Divine civil status. They are, as it were, +the livery of heaven with which Holy Church clothed its moral +nakedness until it attained maturer strength and became adept to +commit the most stupendous forgeries for its own self-aggrandizement and for the completer domination of mind and soul of +its ignorant and superstitious subjects.

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The record which we shall now expose is the most sordid in +human annals, -- of frauds and forgeries perpetrated for the base +purposes of greed for worldly riches and power, and designed so to +paralyze and stultify the minds and reason of men that they should +suffer themselves to be exploited without caring or daring to +question or complain, and be helpless to resist the crimes +committed against them. Into this chapter we shall compress in as +summary manner as possible the revolting record of Christian fraud +by means of forged title deeds to vast territories, forged +documents of ecclesiastical power spiritual and temporal, forged +and false Saints, Martyrs,'Miracles and Relics -- surpassing the +power of imagination or accomplishment by any other than a divinely +inspired Church which "has never deceived anyone," and which "never +has erred" -- in its profound, cynical knowledge and exploitation +of the degraded depths of ignorance and superstition to which it +had sunk its victims, and of their mental and moral incapacity to +detect the holy frauds worked upon them. This was the glorious Age +of Faith -- the Dark Ages of human benightedness and priestly +thralldom -- when Holy Church was the Divinely-illumined and unique +Teacher of Christendom, and when the Christian world was too +ignorant to be unbelieving or heretic, -- for "unbelief is no sin +that ignorance was ever capable of being guilty of."

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In those "Dark Ages, as the period of Catholic ascendancy is +justly called" (Lecky, History of European. Morals, ii, 14), "men +were credulous and ignorant," says Buckle; "they therefore produced +a religion which required great belief and little knowledge." Again +he says: "The only remedy for superstition is knowledge. ... +Nothing else can wipe out that plague-spot of the human mind." It +was, indeed, agrees CE. -- (from 432 to 1461) -- "an age of +terrible corruption and social decadence" (xiv, 318); and of its +mental state it says: "To such an extent had certain imaginary +concepts become the common property of the people, that they +repeated themselves as auto-suggestions and dreams." (CE. ix, 130.) +But exactly this period -- the "Dark Ages of Catholic ascendancy,"

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-- with centuries before and since, was the heyday of Holy Faith +and Holy Church: it may well be wondered who was responsible for +such conditions, when only Holy Church existed, in plentitude of +power, the inspired Teacher of Christendom? During all these +centuries, "the overwhelming importance attached to theology +diverted to it all those intellects which in another condition of +society would have been employed in the investigations of science." +(Lecky, History of Rationalism in Europe, i, 275; ef. Bacon, Novum +Organum, I, 89.) What else could be expected, was possible, when "a +bountyless intolerance of all divergences of opinion was united +with an equally boundless toleration of all falsehood and +deliberate fraud that could favor received opinions?" (Lecky, +History of European Morals, ii, 15.) Indeed, "few people realize +the degree in which these superstitions were encouraged by the +Church which claims infallibility." (Lecky, Hist. Rationalism, i, +79, n.) It is confessed: "The Church is tolerant of 'pious beliefs' +which have halved to further Christianity"! (CE. xix,341.)

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THE FORGED APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONS

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For more than a thousand years, until their fraud was exposed +by modern historical criticism, these voluminous and most +commodious forgeries formed the groundwork and foundation of some +of the most extravagant pretensions of the Church and its most +potent instrument of establishment and dominion of its monarchical +government The Apostolic Constitutions, which we have admitted for +naivete of invention with respect to the Apostolic Prince Peter and +Simon Magus in their magic contests in Rome, is in fact "a fourth-century pseudo-Apostolic collection. ... It purports to be the work +of the Apostles, whose instructions, whether given by them +individually or as a body, are supposed to be gathered and handed +down by the pretended compiler, [Pope] St. Clement of Rome, the +authority of whose name gave fictitious weight to more than one +such piece of early Christian literature. ... The Apostolic +Constitutions were held generally in high esteem and served as the +basis for much ecclesiastical legislation. ... As late as 1563 ... +despite the glaring archaisms and incongruities of the collection +it was contended that it was the genuine work of the Apostles ... +could yet pretend, in an uncritical age, to Apostolic origin." (CE. +i, 636.)

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The Constitutions, pretending to be written by the apostles, +laid down in minute detail all the intricacies of organization of +several centuries later; there being elaborate chapters "concerning +bishops," presbyters, deacons, all kinds of clergy, liturgies, and +Church proceedings and services, undreamed of by "apostles," or in +the "apostolic age." The prescriptions regarding the selection of +bishops are quite democratic, and vastly different from present +papal practices; the Churches, too, are distinctly episcopal and +independent. The nature of these provisions, as well as the grossly +false and fraudulent character of the whole, a vast arsenal of +papal aggression, may be seen by the following passage in the +apostolic first person: "Wherefore we, the twelve apostles of the +Lord, who are now together, give you in charge those divine +constitutions concerning every ecclesiastical form, there being +present with us Paul, the chosen vessel, our fellow apostle, and +James the bishop, and the rest of the presbyters, and the seven

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deacons. In the first place, therefore, I Peter say, that a bishop +to be ordained is to be, as we have already, all of us, appointed, +... chosen by the whole people, who, when he is named and approved, +let the people assemble, with the presbyters and bishops that are +present, on the Lord's day, and let them give their consent. ... +And if they give their consent," etc. (Apost. Const. VIII, 2, iv; +ANF. vii, 481-482.)

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THE FORGED "APOSTOLIC CANONS"

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From the same pious forging hand, says CE. (i, 637), comes the +related Apostolic Canons (composed about 400), "a collection of +ancient ecclesiastical decrees concerning the government and +discipline of the Church; ... in a word, they are a handy summary +of the statutory legislation of the primitive Church. ... The claim +to be the very legislation of the Apostles themselves, at least as +promulgated by their great disciple Clement. Nevertheless, their +claim to genuine Apostolic origin is quite false and untenable. ... +The text passed into Pseudo-Isidore, and eventually Gratian +included (about 1140) some excerpts of these canons in his +'Decretum,' whereby a universal recognition and use were gained for +them in the law schools. At a much earlier date, Justinian (in his +sixth Novel) had recognized them as the work of the Apostles, and +confirmed them as ecclesiastical law." (CE. iii, 279, 280.) Here +the pious priests of God palmed off these self-serving forgeries on +the great but superstitious Emperor and fraudulently secured their +enactment into imperial law. In the same article is a description +of "a larger number of forged documents appearing about the middle +of the ninth century," among which "the Capitula of Benedict +Levita, Capitula Angilrammi, Canons of Isaac of Langres, -- above +all the collection of Pseudo-Isidore" (Ib. 285), which arch-forgery +we shall describe in its turn.

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THE FORGED LIBER PONTIFICALIS

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This famous, or infamous, official fabrication, "The Book of +the Popes," is notorious for its spurious accounts of the early and +mythical "successors of St. Peter." The Liber Pontificalis purports +to be "a history of the popes, beginning with St. Peter and +continued down to the fifteenth century, in the form of +biographies" of their respective Holinesses of Rome. (CE. ix, 224.) +It is an official papal work, written and kept in the papal +archives, and preserves for posterity the holy lives and wonderful +doings of the heads of the Church universal. "Historical +criticism," says CE., "has for a long time dealt with this ancient +text in an exhaustive way ... especially in recent decades." The +Liber starts off in a typically fraudulent clerical manner: "In +most of its manuscript copies there is found at the beginning a +spurious correspondence between Pope Damasus and St. Jerome. These +letters were considered genuine in the Middle Ages. ... Duchesne +has proved exhaustively and convincingly that the first series of +biographies, from St. Peter to Felix III (IV, died 530) were +compiled at the latest under Felix's successor, Boniface II +(530-532). ... The compiler of the Liber Pontificalis utilized also +some historical writings, a number of apocryphal fragments (e.g. +the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions), the Constitutum Sylvestri, the +spurious Acts of the alleged Synod of the 275 Bishops under

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Sylvester, etc., and the fifth century Roman Acts of Martyrs. +Finally, the compiler distributed arbitrarily along his list of +popes a number of papal decrees taken from unauthentic sources, he +likewise attributed to earlier popes liturgical and disciplinary +regulations of the sixth century. ... The authors were Roman +ecclesiastics, and some were attached to the Roman Court." (CE. ix, +225.) The general falsity of the Liber is again shown and the +fraudulent use made of it by the later Church forgers, thus +indicated: For instances, "in the 'Liber' it is recorded that such +a pope issued a decree that has been lost, or mislaid, or perhaps +never existed at all. Isidore seized the opportunity to supply a +pontifical letter suitable for the occasion, attributing it to the +pope whose name was mentioned in the 'Liber."' (CE. v. 774.) Thus +confessed forgery and fraud taint to the core this basic record for +some five centuries of the official "histories" and Acts of Their +Holinesses of the primitive and adolescent years of the Holy +Church. Pope Peter and his "Successors" for a century or more are +thus again proven pious fictions and frauds.

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THE "CONVERSION OF CONSTANTINE" FRAUD

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As several of the most monumental of these holy Church +forgeries are associated with the first "Christian" Emperor, +Constantine, and His contemporary Holiness, Pope Sylvester I +(314-335), we may first notice the pious forged miracles which +brought Constantine to Christ -- rather to the Christians, and thus +blightingly changed the history of the world. Constantine, Augustus +of Rome, was the bastard son of the Imperator Constantius Chlorus +and a Bythnian barmaid who became his mistress, and, later, by +virtue of opulent gifts to the Church, was raised to Heaven as St. +Helena. Constantine was a picturesque "barbarian" Pagan, with a +very bloody record of family -- and other -- murders to his credit, +mostly made to further his political ambitions. He was rival of the +four Caesars who shared the divided government, against whom he was +engaged in titanic struggle, to win the sole crown of empire. The +Christians were now become rather numerous in East and West, some +two and a half or three millions out of the hundred millions of the +Empire, sufficient to make their adherence and support important to +the contestant who could gain control of them. To curry their favor +and support Constantine adopted the tactics of his sportive father, +Constantius, and made show of friendly disposition to them and even +of possible adoption of the new faith.

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The occasion and the purely selfish and superstitious motive +for the alliance of Constantine with the Christians and their God, +are described by the three noted Church historians of the period, +-- all writing after his death, -- Eusebius, Socrates and Sozomen, +all of whom give substantially the following account, here +abbreviated from Eusebius, "Father of Church History," and an +intimate of the Emperor, in his ludicrously laudatory Life of +Constantine:

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"Being convinced that he needed some more powerful aid +than his military forces could afford him, on account of the +wicked and magical enchantments which were so diligently +practiced by the tyrant Maxentius, he sought divine +assistance. ... He considered, therefore, on what God he might +

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rely for protection and assistance. While engaged in this +enquiry, the thought occurred to him, that, of the many +emperors who had preceded him, who had rested their hopes on +a multitude of gods. ... none had profited at all by the pagan +deities, whom they sought to propitiate ... all had at last +met with an unhappy end, ... while the God of his father had +given to him, on the other hand, manifestations of his power. +... Reviewing, I may say, all these considerations, he judged +it to be folly indeed to join in the idle worship of those who +were no gods, and therefore felt it incumbent on him to honor +his father's God alone." (Eusebius, Life of Constantine, I, +27; N&PNF. I, 489; cf. Socrates, Eccles. Hist. I, 2; Ib. II, +1-2; Sozomen, Eccles. Hist. I, 3; Ib. p. 241.) So, Constantine +chose the Christian's God to offset the "magical enchantments" +of the Pagan gods in favor of his rival, Maxentius. The +Christians flocked to his court and armies, and proud prelates +of the Church hung around him and flattered his hopes. After +several military successes aided by the Christians, the rival +armies faced for decisive contest near the historic Milvian +Bridge, in the environs of Rome, in the year 312. All are +familiar with the fabulous priestly story of the miraculous +Fiery Cross said to have been hung out in heaven just before +the battle in the sight of Constantine and all his army, +blazing with the famous device "In Hoc Signo Vinces -- By this +Sign Conquer" -- though it was in Greek and read "En Touto +Nika," -- and by virtue of which Constantine was himself +conquered for Christ or for His Church.

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Here we may again see the "god in the machine' -- a pious +Christian fraud in the making, and watch its growth from nothing in +proportion of wonder from lying Father to Father as it is handed +on. Very remarkable it is, that Father Bishop Eusebius wholly omits +this portentous event, though he devotes a large part of Book IX +and all of Book X of his History of the Church (written in 324), to +Constantine, and enthusiastically describes the Battle of the +Milvian Bridge. Although he lugs divine intervention by the +Christian God into every phase of the campaign, he is content with +this colorful, naive, account: "But the emperor (Constantine), +stimulated by the divine assistance, proceeded against the tyrant, +and defeating him in the first, second, and third engagements, he +advanced through the greatest part of Italy, and came almost to the +very gates of Rome. Then God himself drew the tyrant [Maxentius], +as if bound in fetters, to a considerable distance from the gates +[i.e. to the Milvian Bridge]; and here He confirmed those +miraculous events performed of old against the wicked, and which +have been discredited by so many, as if belonging to fiction and +fable, but which have been established in the sacred volume, as +credible to the believer. He confirmed them, I say, as true, by an +immediate interposition of his power, addressed alike I may say to +the eyes of believers and unbelievers. As, therefore, anciently in +the days of Moses, the chariots of Pharaoh and his forces were cast +into the Red Sea, thus also Maxentius, and his combatants and +guards about him, sunk into the depths like a stone, when he fled +before the power of God which was with Constantine." And, in +commemoration of such signal divine aid, Constantine "immediately +commanded a trophy of the Savior's passion [a Cross] to be placed

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in the hand of his own statue" in Rome. (Eusebius, HE. IX, ix, p. +397-9.) And with all this miraculous embellishment, not a word of +the Fiery Cross in Heaven, nor of the "miraculous conversion" of +Constantine.

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The pious fable, whether by him invented or not, is first +recorded by Father Lactantius, tutor to Constantine's son Crispus +before the pious father murdered his son; he tells it -- after +Constantine's death -- in its primitive and more modest form -- a +simple dream by night, in which Jesus the Christ appeared to +Constantine, and was seen or heard -- or was fabled -- to tell +Constantine to decorate the shields of his soldiers with the holy +"sign of the Cross" before they went into the fight; this he did +and won the battle-post hoc, ergo propter hoc. Constantine may +perhaps quite naturally have had such a dream -- dreams have many +vagaries, and the priests were ever at his ear. But the "heavenly +sign," the Labarum or Monogram of Christ, which Constantine was by +divine revelation or priestly suggestion directed to place on the +shields of his soldiers, was no novel thing requiring a divine +revelation, even in a dream, to suggest to the Christian priests of +a Pagan emperor; "for it had been a familiar Christian symbol prior +to his conversion." (CE. viii, 718.) By a similar divine revelation +or priest-prompting, the Persian Cambyses had tied cats to the +shields of his soldiers in their campaign in 525 B.C. against the +cat-worshipping Egyptians, who thus dared not strike with their +swords; the Christians worshipped the Cross of which the Pagans +were superstitiously afraid, as we have seen from Father +Lactantius. The result was at least the same, as related by Father +Lactantius:

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"And now a civil war broke out between Constantine and +Maxentius. ... At length Constantine ... led his whole forces +to the neighborhood of Rome, and encamped them opposite to the +Milvian Bridge. ... Constantine was directed in a dream to +cause the heavenly sign to be delineated on the shields of his +soldiers, and to proceed to battle. He did as he had been +commanded, and he marked on their shields the letter X, with +a perpendicular line drawn through it and turned round thus at +the top, being the cipher of Christ. ... The bridge in the +rear (of Maxentius) was broken down. The hand of the Lord +prevailed, and the forces of Maxentius were routed." (Lact., +On the Death of the Persecutors, ch. xliv; ANF. vii, 318.)

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These Christ-monogram crosses were probably, to the mind's eye +of Lactantius, simple wooden or painted miniatures like the more +life-sized one which a modern Holiness specially exorcised and sent +along as an amulet or pious fetich of success on a recent +disastrous Polar Expedition. But by the time Bishop Eusebius came +on to embellish the tale, the model at least was a thing truly of +beauty and wonder. In his Life of Constantine, the holy Bishop, who +was on the Emperor's pay-roll, thus in substance relates:

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"Constantine, having resolved to liberate Rome from the +tyranny of Maxentius, and having meditated on the unhappiness of +those who worshipped a multitude of idols, as contrasted with the +good fortune of his own father Constantius, who had favored +Christianity, resolved to worship the One True God; and while he

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was in prayer to God that He would reveal Himself to him, and +stretch forth His right hand to succor him, he had a vision after +midday, when the sun was declining, in a luminous forin over the +sun, and an inscription annexed to it, 'Touto Nika' -- (by this +conquer), and at the sight of it he and all his forces were +astounded, who were spectators of the miracle. ... The following +night, when Constantine was asleep, Christ appeared to him with +that sign, which had been displayed to him in the heavens, and +commanded him to make a standard according to the pattern of what +he had seen, and to use it as a defense against his enemies; and as +soon as it was day Constantine called together the workers in gold +and precious stones, and ordered them to fashion it accordingly" -- +(it being, by his description, certainly rich, if not gaudy). And +bishop Eusebius states that Constantine, "a long time after the +event affirmed with an oath the truth of what the Bishop had +recorded" of this wonderful unhistorical fact. (Eusebius, Life of +Constantine, I, 26-31; N&PNF. i, 489-491; CE. viii, 717-8; +Wordsworth, op. cit. i, 358-9.) In a note to the last reference, +the acute Protestant clerical mind, in eager defense of even the +most absurd Catholic fables, is seen at play: "It has been objected +(by Dean Milman and others) that it is incredible that a warlike +motto on the Cross, converted into a military standard, should be +suggested by Him who is Prince of Peace. But He Who is Prince of +Peace is also Lord of Hosts; and Christ is revealed not only in the +Psalms, but also in the Apocalypse, as a Mighty Warrior going forth +conquering and to conquer." Clerical persons are really Funny-mentalists!

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The pious Bishop Eusebius, exemplar of Christian historical +un-veracity to the glory of God and Church, begins his Life of +Constantine with this rhapsody over Constantine dead: "When I raise +my thoughts even to the arch of heaven, and there contemplate his +thrice-blessed soul in communion with God himself, freed from every +mortal and earthly vesture, and shining in a refulgent robe of +light, honored with an ever-blooming crown, and an immortality of +endless and blessed existence, I stand as it were without power of +speech or thought and unable to utter a single phrase, but +condemning my own weakness, and imposing silence on myself, I +resign the task of speaking his praises worthily to the immortal +God, who alone has power to confirm his own sayings." (Eusebius, +Life, 1, 2; N&PNF. i, 481-2.)

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Here is the thrice-blessed Holy Emperor's record before he was +"freed from every mortal and earthly vesture," and before his +blood-stained earthly vestments were exchanged for that refulgent +robe of light in which he communed with God himself; this record is +of the one item only of family murderings: Maximian, his wife's +father, 310; Bassianus, his sister Anastasia's husband, 314; +Licinianus, his nephew, son of his sister Constantina, 319; Fausta, +his wife, in a bath of boiling water, 320; Sopater, Pagan +philosopher and his former intimate Counsellor, 321; Licinius, his +colleague Caesar and his sister Constantine's husband, 325; with +this last, and the beheading of his own son Crispus, 326, he fitly +inaugurated and consecrated the celebrated Council of Nicaea, which +he invoked to settle the famous puzzle, whether Jesus Christ, the +Son, being born of the Father, were not consequently less ancient +than his Sire, so that there was a time when the Begotten Son did

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not exist, and whether they were "of the same substance," or +different. It may be noticed, that the devout "Christian" Emperor +regarded this as a trifling matter of dispute not justifying the +terrible row which it kicked up among the clericals, splitting the +subjects of the Empire into throat-cutting factions for four +centuries. In his opening Address to the Council which he called to +establish peace among the priests, he turned to Alexander, Bishop +of Alexandria, and to Arius, his presbyter, and their respective +howling factions, and declared: "I understand, then, that the +origin of this controvers is this -- [the question stated by +Alexander on this point, and the negative reply of Arius]. Let +therefore both the unguarded question and the inconsiderate answer +receive your mutual forgiveness. ... For as long as you continue to +contend about these small and insignificant questions, it is not +fitting that so large a portion of God's people should be under the +direction of your judgment, since you are thus divided among +yourselves"! (Eusebius, Life of Constantine, II, 69-71; N&PNF. i, +516-7.)

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With respect to the Christian Emperor's murderings, the good +Bishop Lardner, with truly Christian modern moderation, admits that +the murderous atrocities of Constantine above listed "seem to cast +a reflection upon him"! But the holy Emperor was truly +conscientious and scrupulously concerned for his soul's salvation +on account of them; for it is recorded by the Church historian +Sozomen, that Constantine is said to have sought first Pagan, then +Christian, absolution from these murders, first from Sopater, then +from the Christian bishops. He relates the anxious solicitations of +the murderer thus: "It is reported by the Pagans that Constantine, +after slaying some of his nearest relations, and particularly after +assenting to the murder of his own son Crispus, repented of the +evil deeds, and inquired of Sopater, the philosopher, concerning +the means of purification from guilt. The philosopher, so the story +goes, replied that such moral defilement could admit of no +purification, The Emperor was grieved at this repulse; but +happening to meet some bishops who told him that he would be +cleansed from sin, on repentance and on baptism, he was delighted +with their representations, and admired their doctrines, and became +a Christian, and led his subjects to the same faith. It appears to +me that this story was the invention of persons who desired to +vilify the Christian religion. ... It cannot be imagined the +philosopher was ignorant that Hercules obtained purification at +Athens by the celebration of the mysteries of Ceres after the +murder of his children, and of Iphitus, his guest and friend. That +the Greeks held that purification from guilt of this nature could +be obtained, is obvious from the instance I have just alleged, and +he is a false calumniator who represents that Sopater taught the +contrary, ... for he was at that period esteemed the most learned +man in Greece." (Sozomen, i, 5; ii, 242-3.) It is said that the +rebuff of Sopater denying Pagan absolution was the motive of his +murder by the Christian Emperor. Howbeit, Constantine cautiously +denied himself the saving Christian rite of baptism until he was on +his deathbed, in Nicomedia, in the year of his forgiving Lord 337. +(Euseb., Life, iv, 62; Soc., i, 39; Soz., ii, 34; CE. i, 709.) But +none can deny the superiority of Christianity over Paganism in this +point of saving grace. The Christian historian, however, clearly +avers that some of the divinest sacraments of Christian Revelation,

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forgiveness of sin by God and absolution per priests, were ancient +features of the Pagan "Mysteries," of which even sinful Pagan +demigods might be the beneficiaries.

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But "the mighty and victorious Constantine, adorned with every +virtue of religion, with his most pious son, Crispus Caesar, +resembling in everything his father," -- as his doxology is sung -- +before the murder of Crisptis -- by good Bishop Eusebius (HE. ix, +p. 443), -- was rather dubiously a "practicing" Christian; he +remained until death Pontifex Maximus, or Sovereign Pontiff of the +Pagan religion, a title which the Christian Bishops could not +arrogate until the Christian Emperors abandoned it; he ordered the +auspices or divination by inspection of the entrails of birds, and +on his death, amply baptized with blood and by the deathbed heretic +Christian rite, he was apotheoisized according to Pagan custom and +raised as a god to heaven -- to rank along with his Christian +Sainted Mother, St. Helena, of whom more anon.

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In this ecstatic vision of the celestial beatitude of +Constantine, the good Bishop Eusebius was, from the orthodox or +"right-thinking" viewpoint sadly mistaken. Constantine went +unshriven to Hell and everlasting torment; not indeed for his +crimes but for his errant creed, as a disbeliever in the Divinity +of Jesus Christ and in the Holy Trinity -- which, indeed, had not +been yet invented. The majority of the Council of Niceea had by +force and terrorism decreed that Jesus Christ was of the "same +substance" as his father God, co-eternal and coequal, ergo also +God. But Constantine heretically disbelieved this inspired dogma; +he banished Athanasius and other "Trinitarian?' prelates; even "the +death of Arius did not stay the plague. Constantine now favored +none but Arians; he was baptized in his last moments by the shifty +[Arian] prelate of Nicomedia; and he bequeathed to his three sons +[themselves either Pagans or Arian heretics] an empire torn by +dissensions which his weakness and ignorance had aggravated." (CE. +i, 709.) To such a "weak and ignorant" Emperor is due, however, the +salvation of Christianity from oblivion, and upon him is lavished +the adulations of the now "indefectible Church" which his favor +alone made possible. As for the pious Bishop Eusebius, he was +himself an Arian heretic, and from his point of view he may have +thought that he visioned Constantine glorious in Heaven. So much +for divergent religious standpoints, which at the first Church +Council "proved a beginning of strife, ... bequeathed an empire +torn with dissensions, ... [until] the Catholic bishops, the monks, +the sword of Clovis, and the action of the Papacy, made an end of +it before the eighth century" (CE. i, 710), -- thus nearly four +hundred years of throat-cutting and persecutions before Constantine +was finally proved a villainous heretic, the fatal effects of his +"weakness and ignorance" overcome, and "Catholic Truth" began to +assume its full sway undisputed through the long intellectual night +of the Christian Dark Ages of Faith.

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CHRISTIAN FORGERIES FOR POWER AND PELF

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The "league with Death and covenant with Hell" whereby the new +Paganism called Christianity became the official State religion +being now signed and sealed, and soon enforced by laws of bloody +persecution, we shall now admire the most monumental of the holy

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forgeries by which the Church consolidated its vast and nefast +dominion over the minds and bodies of the quickly degraded +populations under its sway.

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THE "CONSTANTINE" FORGERIES

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A series of Church forgeries of the greatest magnitude and +most far-reaching evil consequences grew up around the name of +Constantine, forged in his name or falsely associated with it in +the nefarious work of almost limitless larceny of territorial +possessions and of papal sovereignty. A bit of historical +background is necessary to properly appreciate the underground +workings of Providence in disposing the success of these designs, +-- whereby, as said by Dr. McCabe, "Pope Adrian I induced +Charlemagne to found the papal states by producing two of the most +notorious and most shameless forgeries ever perpetrated: 'The Acts +of St. Sylvester,' and 'The Donation of Constantine,' documents +which mendaciously represented the emperor Constantine as giving +most of Italy to the papacy, and which were fabricated in Rome in +the eighth century and were used by the popes to maintain this +gigantic fraud."

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The intricate intriguing and conspiracies of the embryo papacy +under their Holinesses Zacharias, Stephen II, Adrian I, Leo III, +and of the semi-barbarian aspirants for the Frankish monarchy, +Clovis, Charles Martel, Pepin, Charlemagne, cannot be here +recounted. According to the picturesque account of Bishop St. +Gregory of Tours -- whose History is a thesaurus of the revolting +social and moral degradation of the times, Clovis was converted as +the result of his vow to the God of his Christian wife Clotilda, +that if victory were granted to him in a great battle against the +Alemanni, in which he was hard pressed, he would become a +Christian. Miracles at once attested the Divine favor: "St. Martin +showed him a ford over the Vienne by means of a hind; St. Hilary +preceded his armies in a column of fire." (Von Ranke, i, 12.) It +will be remembered that all the barbarian nations of the time were +"heretic" Christians of the hated Arian sect, who denied the +divinity of Christ and derided the Holy Trinity; the Franks thus +became the only "orthodox" Christians and the defenders of the True +Faith on behalf of the Popes. Winning the fight, Clovis and 3000 of +his army were baptized on Christmas day by Bishop St. Remigius of +Rheims. When this good Bishop came to perform the baptismal +ceremony on the king in the cathedral of Rheims, "the chrism for +the baptismal ceremony was missing, and was brought from heaven in +a vase (ampulla) borne by a dove. This is what is known as the +Sainte Ampoule of Rheims, preserved in the treasury of the +Cathedral of that City, and used for the coronation of the kings of +France from Philip Augustus down to Charles X"! (CE. v, 71.)

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FORGED DEEDS OF EMPIRE

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The Merovingian kings of the Franks had become mere puppets in +the hands of their "Mayors of the Palace," in league with the +bishops of Rome. At last "Pepin addressed to the pope the +suggestive question: 'In regard to the Kings of the Franks who no +longer possess the royal power, is this state of things proper?' +... Pope Zacharias replied that such a state of things was not

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proper -- [that "he should be king who possessed the royal power"]. +After this decision the place Pepin desired was declared vacant. +... Still this external cooperation of the pope in the transfer of +the Kingdom would necessarily enhance the importance of the Church. +Pepin was also obliged to acknowledge the increased power of the +Church by calling on it for moral [?] support." (CE. xi, 663.) In +pay or reward for this "moral support" given by the Church, Pepin, +it is said, gave to the Church some considerable territories around +Rome, which at the incitation of the Pope he had wrested by arms +from the neighboring Lombards.

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THE FORGED LETTER OF ST. PETER

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To this alleged gift Pepin was induced not alone by the +sentiment of guilty gratitude to Zacharias and Stephen, the latter +of whom crowned him King of the Franks in 751; for further +persuasion His Holiness Stephen II procured from the Vatican +Forgery Mill the identical autograph letter of St. Peter himself, +prophetically addressed "To the King of the Franks," and so +mystically worded that: "When Stephen II performed the ceremony of +anointing Pepin and his son at St. Denis, it was St. Peter who was +regarded as the mystical giver of the secular power"! (CE. xi, +663.) This cunning Papal forgery and fraud is thus described by a +high authority: "The pontiff dictated his letter in the name of the +apostle Peter, closely imitating his epistles, and speaking in a +language which implied that he was possessed of an authority to +anoint or dethrone kings, and to perform the offices, not of a +messenger, of a teacher sent from God, which is the highest +characteristic of an apostle, but of a delegated minister of His +power and justice." (Historians' History of the World, vol. viii, +p. 557.)

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Also: "The Frankish king received the title of the former +representative of the Byzantine Empire in Italy, i.e. 'Patricius,' +and was also assigned the duty of protecting the privileges of the +Holy See. ... After the acknowledgment of his territorial claims +the pope was in reality a ruling sovereign, but he had placed +himself under the protection of the Frankish ruler, and had sworn +that he and his people would be true to the king" (CE. xi, 663), -- +the divine birthright thus swapped for a mess of political potage: +for over a thousand years since it has been a mess indeed. Thus by +conspiracy, fraud, and unrighteous conquest was laid the foundation +of the sacred "Patrimony of Peter," and the unholy league between +the papacy and the French kings, which reached full fruition in the +holy massacres of the Albigenses, of the Vendee, and of St. +Bartholomew.

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A HOLY CONSPIRATION

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The next step in the progress "conquering and to conquer" of +Christ's prostituted Church was on a broader stage and with yet +vaster consequences. Pepin died in 768, dividing his realms between +his two sons, Carloman and Charles, later "by the Grace of God" and +great villainy known to fame as Charles the Great or Charlemagne; +Charles receiving the German part, Carloman the French. On the +death of Carloman, in 771, Charles seized the Frankish kingdom. The +widow and young heirs of Carloman fled for protection and aid to

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Desiderius, king of the Lombards, part of whose stolen territory +the pope held for God and Church. Desiderius was also father of the +repudiated first wife of Charles; the holy matrimonial mess is thus +defined: "Charles was already, in foro conscientiae, if not in +Frankish law, wedded to Himiltrude. In defiance of the pope's +protest, Charles married Desiderata, daughter of Desiderius (770); +three years later he repudiated her and married Hildegarde, the +beautiful Swabian. Naturally, Desiderius was furious at this +insult, and the dominions of the Holy See bore the first brunt of +his wrath." (CE. iii,.612.) Charles thereupon "had to protect Rome +against the Lombard"; finally the Lombards were "put to utter +rout"; Charles proceeded to Rome; and "history records with vivid +eloquence the first visit of Charles to the Eternal City. ... +Charles himself forgot pagan Rome and prostrated himself to kiss +the threshold of the Apostles, and then spent seven days in +conference with the successor of Peter. It was then that he +undoubtedly formed many great designs for the glory of God and the +exaltation of Holy Church, which, in spite of human weaknesses, +and, still more, ignorance, he did his best to realize." (Ib. 612.) +The principal fruit of this weakness and ignorance of Charles seems +to be that he could so easily let himself be duped by His Holiness +through the enormous forgeries for Christ's sake that were now +imposed upon him. In 774 Charles finally defeated Desiderius and +"assumed the crown of Lombardy, and renewed to Adrian [now Holiness +of Rome] the donation of territory made by Pepin." The "genuineness +of this donation," as well as of "the original gift of Pepin," have +been much questioned, says CE., but are "now generally admitted," +-- which is none too assuring; but another document, this time +favorable to Charles, is just the other way: "The so-called +'Privilegium Hadriani pro Carolo' granting him full right to +nominate the pope and to invest all bishops, is a forgery." (CE. +xi, 612). Here is precisely the reason and only effective use of +this forged "Donation of Constantine" -- it was the basis for the +inducement to Charlemagne to win the Lombard territories for the +Church and to reinstate it in the "Patrimony of Peter," largely +swollen by the pretended new gifts of the ambitious king, who, in +the seven days' conference with His Holiness, had, undoubtedly, +formed together "some great designs for the glory of God and the +exaltation of Holy Church," now begun to be realized.

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The quarter of a century passed, and much history was made. +The Roman emperors ruled from Constantinople; Roman popes and kings +were legitimately their liegemen; "the Emperor of Constantinople, +legitimate heir of the imperial title," now becomes the victim of +papal and kingly conspiration, thus brought to its climax: "On +Christmas Day, 800, took place the principal event of the life of +Charles. During the Pontifical Mass celebrated before the high +altar beneath which lay the bodies of Sts. Peter and Paul, the pope +(Leo III) approached him, placed upon his head the imperial crown, +did him formal reverence after the ancient manner, saluted him as +Emperor and Augustus and anointed him," while the Roman rabble +shouted its approval. Thus, again by collusion and usurpation, +began that Holy Roman Empire, of nefast history, which Bryce +qualifies as "neither holy, nor Roman, nor empire"; but the Vicars +of God were now well started on their way to worldly grandeur and +moral degradation. Now for their forgeries.

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THE POPE SYLVESTER FORGERIES

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The monumental forgeries which were boldly used by their +Holinesses to dupe Charlemagne and Christendom into recognizing the +papal claim of right of ownership and sovereignty over a great part +of Italy are a series of spurious documents harking in pretended +date and origin back to the "first Christian emperor" Constantine +and to His Holiness Pope St. Sylvester (314-335). About the name of +Sylvester arose "the Sylvester Legend later surrounded with that +network of myth, that gave rise to the forged document known as the +Donation of Constantine." (CE. xiv, 257.) This fable, says Prof. +Shotwell, "made its way, gathering volume as it went, reinforced +eventually by a forged Donation, until it had imposed upon all +Europe the conception of Sylvester as the potent influence behind +Constantine's most striking measures and of Constantine himself as +the dutiful servant of the See of Peter." (See of Peter, xxvi.) The +extensive variety but common general nature of these Sylvester +forgeries is thus indicated:

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"At an early date legend brings Pope St. Sylvester into +close relationship with the first Christian emperor, but in a +way that is contrary to historical fact. These legends were +introduced especially into the 'Vita beati Sylvestri,' and in +the 'Constitutum Sylvestri' -- an apocryphal account of an +alleged Roman council which belongs to the Symmachian +forgeries and appeared between 501 and 508, and also in the +'Donatio Constantini.' The accounts given in all these +writings concerning the persecution of Sylvester, the healing +and baptism of Constantine, the emperor's gift to the pope, +the rights granted to the latter, and the council of 275 +bishops at Rome, are entirely legendary" (CE. xiv, 370-371).

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THE FORGED "DONATION OF CONSTANTINE"

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"Ah, Constantine! to how much ill gave birth, +Not thy conversion, but that plenteous dewer, +Which the first wealthy Father gained from thee!" +Dante, Inferno, xix, 115.

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The Catholic Encyclopedia, artless revealer of the frauds of +the Church for which it is an authorized spokesman, gives this +account of the famous Donatio Constantini, which is describes as "a +forged document of Emperor Constantine the Great, by which large +privileges and rich possessions were conferred on the pope and the +Roman Church. ... It is addressed by Constantine to Pope Sylvester +I (314-35), and consists of two parts. ... Constantine is made to +confer on Sylvester and his successors the following privileges and +possessions: the pope, as successor of St. Peter, has the primacy +over the four Patriarchs of Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople, +and Jerusalem, also over all the bishops in the world. ... The +document goes on to say that for himself the Emperor has +established in the East a new capital which bears his name, and +thither he removes his capital, since it is inconvenient that a +secular emperor have power where God has established the residence +of the head of the Christian religion. The document concludes with +malediction's against all who violate these donations and with the +assurance that the emperor has signed them with his own hand and +placed them on the tomb of St.

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Peter. This document is without doubt a forgery, fabricated +somewhere between the years 750 and 850. As early as the 15th +century its falsity was known and demonstrated. ... Its genuinity +was yet occasionally defended, and the document still further used +as authentic, until Baronius in his Annals Ecclesiastici admitted +that the 'Donatio' was a forgery, whereafter it was soon +universally admitted to be such. It is so clearly a fabrication +that there is no reason to wonder that, with the revival of +historical criticism in the 15th century, the true character of the +document was at once recognized. ... The document obtained wider +circulation by its incorporation with the 'False Decretals' +(840-850)." (CE. v, 118, 119, 120.)

+ +

By Lord Bryce a graphic sketch of this notorious fraud is +given, with comments as to the mental and moral qualities of the +priestcraft which it reflects. It is, he says, the -- "most +stupendous of medieval forgeries, which under the name of Donation +of Constantine commanded for seven centuries the unquestioning +belief of mankind. Itself a portentous falsehood, it is the most +unimpeachable evidence of the thoughts and beliefs of the +priesthood which framed it, sometime between the middle of the +eighth and the middle of the tenth century. It tells how +Constantine the Great, cured of his leprosy by the prayers of +Sylvester, resolved, on the fourth day of his baptism, to forsake +the ancient seat for a new capital on the Bosphorus, lest the +continuance of the secular government should cramp the freedom of +the spiritual, and how he bestowed therewith upon the Pope and his +successors the sovereignty over Italy and the countries of the +West." (Bryce, Holy Roman Empire, Ch. vii, p. 97; Latin text, +extracts, p. 98.) In addition to these extraordinary investitures, +all forms of imperial pomp, privileges and dignities were +spuriously granted to the Pope and his clerics, "all of them +enjoyed by the Emperor and his senate, all of them showing the same +desire to make the pontifical a copy of the imperial office. The +Pope is to inhabit the Lateran palace, to wear the diadem, the +collar, the purple cloak, to carry the scepter, and to be attended +by a body of chamberlains. Similarly his clergy are to ride on +white horses and receive the honors and immunities of the senate +and patricians," including "the practice of kissing the pope's +foot, adopted in imitation of the old imperial court." (Ib. pp. +97-98.)

+ +

The grossness and absurdity of these stupendous forgeries, +with their pious recitals of Constantine's leprosy cured by +Sylvester's prayers, the consequent conversion and baptism of the +Emperor in the Lateran font, and the abandonment of Rome by +Constantine in order to leave it free for God's Vicar, just up from +the catacombs, to ape imperial pomp, is made manifest by a moment's +notice of dates, and recollection of contemporary history. +Sylvester's Holiness dates from 314, he died in 335; Constantine in +337. Constantine's "conversion" by the "In Hoc Signo" miracle, was +in 312, before Sylvester became pope; at no time did Constantine +have leprosy, other than moral, therefore no physical cure was +wrought by Sylvester's prayers, and certainly no moral cleansing +worthy of note; Constantine was not baptized by Sylvester in Rome, +but heretically received that rite long after Sylvester's death, +and just before his own, in Nicomedia of

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Asia Minor. (CE. i, 709.) But Christians were too sodden in +ignorance to know these things, and it was only with the "revival +of historical criticism" which marked the beginning of the end of +the Ages of Faith, that the truth was disclosed, or could have been +perceived. In words that blast and sear with infamy the +perpetrators and the conscious beneficiaries of this monumental +fraud and forgery, Gibbon says:

+ +

"Fraud is the resource of weakness and cunning; and the +strong, though ignorant barbarian, was often entangled in the +net of sacerdotal policy. ... The Decretal and the Donation of +Constantine, the two magical pillars of the spiritual and +temporal monarchy of the popes. This memorable donation was +first introduced to the world by an epistle of Adrian the +first, who exhorts Charlemagne to imitate the liberality, and +revive the name, of the great Constantine. ... So deep was, +the ignorance and credulity of the times, that the most absurd +of fables was received, with equal reverence, in Greece and in +France, and is still enrolled among the decrees of the canon +law. The emperors, and the Romans, were incapable of +discerning a forgery, that subverted their rights and freedom. +... The popes themselves have indulged a smile at the +credulity of the vulgar; but a false and obsolete title still +sanctifies their reign; and, by the same fortune which has +attended the decretals and the Sibylline Oracles, the edifice +has subsisted after the foundations have been undermined." +(Gibbon, Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch. xiv, pp. 740, +741, 742.)

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The falsity of the Donation was first alleged and proved, in +1440, by the acute Humanist critic Lorenzo Valla, who has the +exposure of more than one Church forgery to his credit, and who +narrowly escaped the Holy Inquisition; and yet the document "was +still used as authentic" by Holy Church until the great Churchman +critic Baronius forced the confession of the fraud, but the Church +still for centuries clung to the fruits of its fraud, and would not +give them up, with their revenues and rotten "sovereignty." The +ancient forgery of "Donation" was finally canceled by Italian +patriot bayonets in 1870, and the stolen territories of "Peter's +Patrimon" restored to United Italy. That these Papal territories +were not of "divine" right, nor of even forged muniments which can +be plausibly urged, is thus confessed: "All of this, of course, is +based upon painstaking deductions since no document has come down +to us either from the time of Charlemagne or from that of Pepin." +(CE. xiv, 261.) This is confirmed, and the precarious nature of the +usurped tenure thus stated: "Nominally, Adrian I (772-775) was now +monarch of about two-thirds of the Italian peninsula, but his sway +was little more than nominal. ... It was in no slight degree owing +to Adrian's political sagacity, vigilance, and activity, that the +temporal power of the Papacy did not remain a fiction of the +imagination. ... The temporal power of the popes, of which Adrian +I must be considered the real founder." (CE. i, 155-156.)

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In a paragraph which gives a word of credit to Valla for his +exposure of the forgeries of the "Donation" and the immense and +remarkable "Pseudo-Areopagite" Forgeries, previously mentioned,

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the vast extent of the output of the Vatican Forgery-Mill -- and +the evil persistence of the Church in clinging to them after +exposure, is thus admitted: "Lorenzo Valla, 1440, counselled +Engenius IV not to rely on the Donation of Constantine, which he +proved to be spurious. ... It was Valla who first denied the +authenticity of those writings which for centuries had been going +about as the treatises composed by Dionysius the Areopagite. Three +centuries later the Benedictines of St. Maur and the Bollandists +were still engaged in sifting out the true from the false in +patristic literature, in hagiology, in the story of the foundation +of local churches" (CE. xii, 768), -- such Liars of the Lord were +the pious parasites of Holy Church.

+ +

THE "SYMMACHIAN FORGERIES"

+ +

Among the sheaf of forged documents above confessed by CE. are +the so-called "Symmachian Forgeries," forged by or in behoof of His +Holiness Pope St. Symmachus (498-514), products of the Church +Forgery Mill operated by the Pope to further papal pretensions of +the independence of the Bishops of Rome from the just criticisms +and judgment of ecclesiastical tribunals, and putting them above +law clerical and secular. Whenever there was need for false +precedents, a simple turn of the crank of the wheel of the papal +forgery-mill produced them just to order. Thus, in this instance: +"During the dispute between Pope St. Symmachus and the anti-pope +Laurentius, the adherents of Symmachus drew up four apocryphal +writings called the 'Symmachian Forgeries'. ... The object of these +forgeries was to produce alleged instances from earlier times to +support the whole procedure of the adherents of Symmachus, and, in +particular, the position that the Roman bishop could not be judged +by any court composed of other bishops." (CE. xiv, 378.) Our +Confessor is careful twice to impute these confessed forgeries to +the "adherents" of His Holiness; but they were forged for him, +used, of course with his knowledge and consent, to further his +cause in the dispute; they are thus distinctly forgeries by His +Holiness.

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THE "FALSE DECRETALS" FORGERIES

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A "record of forgery in the interest of the Church which +resembles nothing else in history," in the words of Dr. McCabe, has +so far been presented; the climax and capstone is now to be seen in +what Voltaire terms "the boldest and most magnificent forgery which +has deceived the world for centuries," the so-called "False +Decretals of Isidore." While it is true, as said by Reinach, that +"never yet has the papacy acknowledged that for 1000 years it made +use of forged documents for its own benefit," yet we have seen a +thousand confessions of the fact of forgery, and either the +admission or the inevitable inference, that they were used by the +Church in the fraudulent obtention of viciously illicit ends. The +following brief paragraph of further confession from CE., is +pregnant with suggestion of the moral depravity of popes and +priests, the whole Church, the sodden ignorance of the votaries of +Holy Church, cleric and lay, the darkness of the life of mind and +spirit till at the "Renaissance" men were reborn indeed, and after +slow and painful growth of learning and of freeing from fear, began +to expose the Church in its forgeries,

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frauds, and vices. The tone of CE. is quite apologetical for this +particular monument of Church fraud; it seeks palliation in the +conditions of ignorance of the Middle Ages; but it forgets that +Holy Church purposely produced this ignorance, and that Popes and +Church are illumined by the Holy Ghost of their God against all +ignorance and error so that its "Church never has erred and never +shall": but maybe this statement is itself an error. CE. now speaks +for this gigantic fraud of Holy Church, the False Isidorian +Decretals:

+ +

"Isidorian Decretals is the name given to certain +apocryphal letters contained in a collection of canon laws +composed about the middle of the ninth century. ... Nowadays +every one agrees that these so-called papal letters are +forgeries. These documents, about 100 in number, appeared +suddenly in the ninth century and are nowhere mentioned before +that time. ... The pseudo-Isidore makes use of documents +written long after the times of the popes to whom he +attributed them. The popes of the first three centuries are +made to quote documents that did not appear until the fourth +or fifth century, etc. Then again there are endless +anachronisms. The Middle Ages were deceived by this huge +forgery, but during the Renaissance men of learning and the +canonists generally began to recognize the fraud. ... +Nevertheless the official edition of the 'Corpus Juris,' in +1580, upheld the genuineness of the false decretals." (CE. vi, +773.) But the God-guided Vicars of God knew they were +forgeries.

+ +

"Upon these spurious decretals," says Hallam, "was built +the great fabric of papal supremacy over the different +national churches; a fabric which has stood after its +foundations crumbled beneath it; for no one has pretended to +deny, for the last two centuries, that the imposture is too +palpable for any but the most ignorant ages to credit." +(History of the Middle Ages, Bk. VII, ch. ii, 99.) Though on +their face affecting only matters spiritual and causes +ecclesiastical, they soon had all Europe strangled as in the +tentacles of a giant octopus, by a process thus described by +Lord Bryce: "By the invention and adoption of the False +Decretals it (the Church) had provided itself with a legal +system suited to any emergency, and which gave it unlimited +authority through the Christian world in causes spiritual and +over persons ecclesiastical. Canonical ingenuity found it easy +in one way or another to make this include all causes and +persons whatsoever; for crime is always and wrong is often +sin, nor can aught be done anywhere which may not affect the +clergy." (Holy Roman Empire, ch. x, 152.) "The Forgery," says +Dr. Draper, "produced an immense extension of papal power, it +displaced the old Church government, divesting it of the +republican attributes it had possessed, and transforming it +into an absolute monarchy. It brought the bishops into +subjection to Rome, and made the pontiff the supreme judge of +the whole Christian world. It prepared the way for the great +attempt, subsequently made by Hildebrand, to convert the +states of Europe into a theocratic priest-kingdom, with the +pope at its head." (Conflict between Religion and Science, ch. +x, 271.)

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The false pretense back of the huge forgery was that the +documents included were genuine papal letters and decretals of the +earliest popes, thus carrying back the Church's late pretensions to +the very first of the Church and to the pretended and fictitious +associates and "Successors" of Peter. These spurious documents are +taken up seriatim by the critical Father Dupin, as outlined in +ANF., viii, and each in its turn pronounced a forgery. From the +"Introductory Notice to the Decretals," I think it pertinent to +quote the following paragraph:

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"These frauds, which, pretending to be a series of 'papal +edicts' from Clement and his successors during the ante-Niccne +ages, are, in fact, the manufactured product of the ninth +century, -- the most stupendous imposture of the world's +history, the most successful and the most stubborn in its hold +upon enlightened nations. Like the mason's framework of lath +and scantlings, on which he turns an arch of massive stone, +the Decretals served their purpose, enabling Nicholas I to +found the Papacy by their insignificant aid. That swelling +arch of vanity once reared, the framework might be knocked +out; but the fabric stood, and has borne up every weight +imposed upon it for ages. Its strong abutments have been +ignorance and despotism. Nicholas produced his flimsy +framework of imposture, and amazed the whole Church by the +audacity of the claims he founded upon it. The age, however, +was unlearned and uncritical; and, in spite of remonstrances +from France under lead of Hincmar, bishop of Rheims, the West +patiently submitted to the overthrow of the ancient Canons and +the Nicene Constitutions, and bowed to the yoke of a new canon +law, of which these frauds were not only made an integral, but +the essential, part. The East never accepted them for a +moment. ... The Papacy created the Western schism, and +contrived to call it 'the schism of the Greeks.' The Decretals +had created the Papacy, and they enabled the first Pope to +assume that communion with himself was the test of Catholic +communion: hence his excommunication of the Easterns, which, +after brief intervals of relaxation, settled into the chronic +schism of the Papacy, and produced the awful history of the +medieval Church in Western Europe." (ANF. viii, 601.)

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THE FORGED DECRETUM OF GRATIAN

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Great and pernicious as were the influences of the forged +Isidorian Decretals, there yet remained a step to bring the Forger +Church to the height of its age-old ambitious scheme to completely +imitate the olden Roman Empire and dominate the world. "The School +of Bologna had just revived the study of Roman law; Gratian sought +to inaugurate a similar study of canon law. But while compilations +of texts and official collections were available for Roman law, or +'Corpus juris civilis,' Gratian had no such assistance. He +therefore adopted the plan of inserting the texts in the body of +his general treatise; from the disordered mass of canons, collected +from the earliest days, he selected the law actually in force. ... +The science of canon law was at length established." (CE. ix, 57.) +But this disordered mass out of which Gratian selected was very +largely the old

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forged reliances of the Church; thus in making his selections +"Gratian alleges forged decretals" (CE. iv,), -- including the +Constantine Donation, the Isidore forgeries, etc. Yet, withal, "the +'Decretum' of Gratian was considered in the middle of the twelfth +century as a corpus juris canonici, i.e. a code of ecclesiastic +laws then in force." (CE. iv, 671.) It clinched the rivets in the +forged fetters of the Church upon the neck of Christendom, and +sanctioned the principles which in the next century were invoked to +found and justify the Holy Inquisition. Of this celebrated +document, the beginning of the "science" of Church legistic +sophistry, Draper says: "The most potent instrument of the new +papal system was Gratian's Decretum, which was issued about the +middle of the Twelfth Century. It was a mass of fabrications. It +made the whole Christian world, through the papacy, the domain of +the Italian clergy. It inculcated that it is lawful to constrain +men to goodness, to torture and execute heretics, and to confiscate +their property; that to kill an excommunicated person is not +murder; that the pope, in his unlimited superiority to all law, +stands on an equality with the Son of God." (Conflict between +Science and Religion, ch. x, p. 273.)

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THE FULL FRUITION OF FORGERY

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As said by Dr. McCabe: "There was no need of further +forgeries. Now securely established on its basis of forged +donations of temporal power and territory, forged decretals stating +its spiritual powers, and forged lives of saints and martyrs, the +papacy was so strong and prosperous that the popes actually dreamed +of forming a sort of United States of Europe with themselves as +virtual presidents. Nearly every country was in some ingenious way +made out to be a fief of the Papacy and bound to recognize the Pope +as its feudal monarch." (LBB. 1130, 44-5.)

+ +

Founding thus its religion, that newer form of Paganism called +Christianity, on falsehood and forged "Scripture" documents; its +pretensions to superiority and "primacy" on gross "interpolations" +into the forged Scriptures; its spurious claims to territorial +possessions and temporal sovereignty upon forged title-deeds and +Donations; its "spiritual" and legal domination upon forged Church +law and constitutions, -- thus was the visible Church of Christ +brought to the perfection of its power and degradation. For fifteen +hundred years every document under which it claimed, it forged; it +forged until it had no longer need of forgery, for nothing was left +to forge; forged so long as it could forge with impunity, for with +the Renaissance its old forgeries began to be discovered and +exposed, and it could commit undetected no further documentary +forgeries.

+ +

Such is the objective side, as it were, of the Christian +religion and its Church. Its subjective side, the subjugation of +its victims by imposed ignorance and superstition, through +limitless forgeries of miracles, martyrs, saints and relics, +remains to be briefly noticed as a sort of by-product of the Holy +Church Forgery Mill.

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THE FRUSTRATED EMS REVOLT

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Not to mention the revolt known as the "Reformation," the +discovery of the unholy and criminal practices of the Church in the +matter of its claims of primacy and jurisdiction, as defined in the +Isidorian False Decretals, led to one tardy and half-way +ecclesiastical effort of revolt within the Roman Church, which +might have developed into something worth while to humanity as a +whole, but that "political considerations" intervened to bring it +to naught. It is cited simply by way of historical reminder, and as +suggestive of what may yet be effectively accomplished to the full +extent of popular repudiation.

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The Congress of Ems, in 1786, was a gathering of the +representatives of a number of German Archbishops and other clergy, +"for the purpose of protesting against papal interference in the +exercise of episcopal powers and fixing the future relations +between these archbishops and the Roman pontiff. ... On 25 August, +1786, these archiepiscopal representatives signed the notorious +'Punctation of Ems,, consisting of twenty-three articles, which +aimed at making the German archbishops practically independent of +Rome. Assuming that Christ gave unlimited power of binding and +loosing to the Apostles and their successors, the bishops, the +'Punctation' maintains that all prerogatives and reservations which +were not actually connected with the primacy during the first three +centuries owe their origin, to the Pseudo-Isidorian decretals, +universally acknowledged as false, and, hence, that the bishops +must look upon all interference of the Roman Curia with the +exercise of their episcopal functions in their own dioceses as +encroachments on their rights. ... It may easily be seen that the +articles of the 'Punctation' lower the papal primacy to a merely +honorary one and advocate an independence of the arch-bishops in +regard to the pope which is entirely incompatible with the Unity +and Catholicity of the Church of Christ," -- such are the unctuous +objections made by Christ's Church. However, the Punctations were +"ratified by the Archbishops, and sent to Emperor Joseph ii for his +support. The Emperor was pleased with the articles, and would have +pledged his unqualified support if his councillors had not for +political reasons advised him otherwise." (CE. v, 409-10.) +Rejecting the "assumption," now known to be false and forged, that +Christ had anything at all to do with Peter and the Rock-and-Keys +forgery, all may now feel free to discard these primitive +"Scripture" frauds just as all the others of the Church which have +been exposed as false and abandoned.

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FORGED SAINTS, MARTYRS AND MIRACLES

+ +

"Throughout Church History there are miracles so well +authenticated that their truth cannot be denied." (CE. x, 345.) +" ... after the working of Satan with all power and signs and +lying wonders." (2 Thess. ii, 9.)

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Look we for a moment 'on this picture and on that, the +counterfeit presentment, to slightly adapt Hamlet, of two modern +Miracles, published to the world in the Metropolitan press, -- a +sort of study in what may be called Comparative Credulity. The

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first, although they "read it in the paper," no Christian or no +Infidel will hesitate to laugh at or commiserate as a ridiculous +superstition, taken advantage of by greedy priests to exploit their +credulous dupes. Only benighted heathen Buddhists religiously +believe the following:

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"Peasant says Buddha Arose and Cured Him. +"Chinese Tale of a 'Miracle' by Stone Image Causes Religious +"Revival at Peking

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"Peking, Sept. 7. A tremendous revival of religious +superstition is being experienced by the Buddhists of Peking and +vicinity, because an aged peasant vows that he was cured (last +week) of a long-standing ailment when one of the stone images of +the sitting Buddha at Palichwang Pagoda rose to its feet, stepped +forward, and then raised its arm in sign of benediction.

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"The old peasant, named Chang Chi-kuang, is a farmer, living +near Palichwang Pagoda [a short distance from the Peking gate of +the Great Wall]. Chang Chi-kuang, who, his neighbors say, has long +suffered from lung trouble [passing by with a load of garden-truck +which he was carrying afoot into the city], became exhausted, and +stopped for rest and for refuge from the heat in the shade of an +old tree near the Pagoda, which is thirteen stories high and was +built 500 years ago, and in the days of the Ming emperors.

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"Chang Chi-kuang, as he lay resting in the shade, found his +gaze focused on the figure of the sitting Buddha, in the third +story of the Pagoda. ... The figure rose, Chang says, took two +steps, and raised its arms with a gesture of blessing. At this +point, according to Chang, he nearly swooned. He then fell to his +knees in devout worship, and when he raised his head after a long +prayer the Buddha had gone back to the place and position of the +last few hundred years.

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"The story of this miracle has spread rapidly. Every day now +thousands of pilgrims go to Palichwang from Peking and from the +villages and farms in this part of the province.

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"Both sides of the road from the Peking gate to the Pagoda are +now lined with booths where incense is sold, and hundreds of Lama +priests, with their begging bowls, now reap a rich gathering from +the pious pilgrims. ... And old Chang swears that he is now in +better health than he has enjoyed since he was a boy." (Special +Correspondence of the New York Times, October 14, 1928.)

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The foregoing religious news item is found archived in the +"Morgue" of the Great "Religious" Daily under the discrediting +caption "Superstitions"; it will be noticed that the word "Miracle" +in the headline is printed in quotes. No such skeptical note is to +be found in its next -- Christian -- report.

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Hundreds of millions of pious priest-ridden Christians do +believe the following, testified under oath in a military court, -- +other hundreds of millions will regard it as they do the Buddhist +tale above related, -- and the Christian one below:

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"Soldier's Story of a Miracle Saves Him at Court-Martial.

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"Croatian newspapers tell how a miracle figured as a +determining factor in a court-martial trial. During the +Austrian invasion of Upper Italy a Croatian soldier was +suspected of having stolen a pearl necklace from a statue of +the Holy Virgin in a pilgrims' church and was brought to +trial. He admitted having taken the necklace. but insisted +that it was a gift to him.

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"He said that he had gone into the church to pray, and +had lamented before the statue of the Virgin the sad lot of +his family, whom he had been compelled to leave destitute. +Thereupon, he said, the Holy Virgin bowed her head, and took +the pearls from her neck and handed them to him.

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"The Court could not venture to reject this story +offhand, as there was general belief in the miracle-working +power of the statue. So it referred the matter to two Bishops, +asking them whether such a miracle was within the domain of +possibility.

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"The Bishops were perplexed. If they answered 'Yes,' they +might be protecting a rascal. But if they said 'No,' they +would destroy the repute of that church for miraculous power +and phenomena. Finally they answered that such a miracle was +within the range of possibility; and in consequence the +soldier was acquitted.

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"But the Colonel of the regiment to which the soldier +belonged was either skeptical or of a most prudent turn of +mind, for after the verdict of the court had been announced he +issued his order: 'In future no soldier under my command is +permitted, under heavy penalty, to accept a gift from +anybody."' (New York Times, Oct. 10, 1926.)

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It is not reported whether this episcopal pair of men of God +were unfrocked for perjury and the perversion of justice, or even +gently chided by His Holiness.

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The "lying wonders" of saints, martyrs and miracles are so +intimately related, and so inextricably interwoven the one form of +pious fraud with the others, that they must needs be bunched +together in this summary treatment of but few out of countless +thousands, millions perhaps, of them recorded for faith and +edification in the innumerable "Acts" and "Lives" and wonder-works +of the Holy Church of God. Those which are here mentioned are +picked at random from a turning of the pages of the fifteen +ponderous tomes of CE., where they may be verified under the +respective names of the Saints. With scarcely an exception they are +soberly recounted as actual verities of the past and living +realities of the present.

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The degraded state of mind of the Faithful, and the moral +depravity of the Church which for nearly two millennia, and yet +into the twentieth century, peddles these childish fables as +articles of Christian faith, may be known by the mere fact of the

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existence in limitless numbers of these precious myths. Founded by +Jean Bolland, of Belgium, in the early years of the 1600's, an +important Church Society, known as the Bollandists, yet exists and +industriously carries on its labors. "This monumental work, the +Acta Sanctorum of the Bollandists, has become the foundation of all +investigation in hagiography and legend." (CE. ix, 129.) For some +three centuries its task has been and yet is, to edit and publish +in official Acta Sanctorum the Lives and "Acts" -- authenticated +records -- of every Saint in the Holy Roman Calendar. Arranged in +order of dates of their "feast days," so numerous is this heavenly +mill-made host that up to the month of October over 25000 +officially authenticated Saints are recorded; the Saint-library of +the Society has over 150000 saintly volumes. As it costs about +$50000 to turn out one Saint by canonization, and "not less than +$20000" for beatification or the bestowal of the title of Blessed +(CE. ii, 369), -- the Church revenue from this single source is +seen to have been +considerable.

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Holy Church is very careful and conscientious in its processes +of certifying Saints; at least two allegedly genuine and fully +authenticated miracles must be proven to have been performed by the +candidate alive or worked by his relics after death, before final +payment is required and the name certified as a Saint to the +Calendar. A fairly modern instance showing this clerical +scrupulosity may be cited, that of the Venerable Mary de Sales, who +died in 1875 -- "Wishing to save the world over again, Jesus Our +Lord had to use means till then unknown," that is, "The Way" +invented by Mary; but no miracles were satisfactorily proved to +justify making her a Saint; however, her sanctity was proved, and +she was decreed Venerable; some miracles must later have been +proved up in her behalf, or the requisite $20000 paid, -- for in +1897 her Beatification was decreed. (CE. ix, 754.)

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However, even Infallibility may be fooled sometimes, even if +not all the time. The most notorious instance is that of the holy +Saint Josaphat, "under which name and due to an odd slip of +inerrant inspiration, the great Lord Buddha, "The Light of Asia," +was duly certified a Saint in the Roman Martyrology (27 Nov.; CE. +iii, 297). More modernly, in 1802, an old grave was found +containing a cadaver and a bottle "supposed to contain the blood of +a martyr"; the relies were enshrined in an altar, and the erstwhile +owner of the remains was duly and solemnly canonized as Saint +Philomena; but this was "by mistake"; and thus were fooled two +infallible Holinesses, Gregory XVI and Leo III. (CE. xii, 25.)

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"SPECULA STULTORUM"

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Before thumbing the wonder-filled pages of CE. to pick out +from thousands, sundry examples of the inspired and truthful +histories of Saints and Martyrs, recorded for the moral edification +and mental stultification of the Faithful of the Twentieth Century, +-- when only the miracles of Science in benefit of humanity are +recognized by many as real, -- we may note the comment of that +Exponent of "Catholic Truth" conscientiously questioning a case or +two of the certified Saint-

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records. With respect to one of the notable female Saints, St. +Catherine of Alexandria, it is candidly explained: "Unfortunately +these Acts have been transformed and distorted by fantastic and +diffuse descriptions which are entirely due to the imagination of +the narrators -- [a notable one of whom was the great Bossuet of +France], -- who cared less to state authentic facts than to charm +their readers by recitals of the marvelous." (CE. iii, 445.) +Speaking of another case, St. Emmeram: "The improbability of the +tale, the fantastic details of the Saint's martyrdom, and the +fantastic account of the prodigies attending his death, show that +the writer, infected by the pious mania of his time, simply added +to the facts imaginary details supposed to redound to the glory of +the martyr." (v, 406.) How often have we heard from this same +exponent of "Catholic Truth" this same exculpation of priestly +pious mendacity in wondermongering!

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Questioning a few such instances, implicitly carries with it +the moral assurance that all the others, related as unquestioned +fact, are free from such taint of fraud, -- are, indeed, among +those "miracles so well authenticated that their truth cannot be +denied." Indeed, the reality and authenticity of very many, for +example, the bubbling blood of the sixteen-hundred-year-old +martyred St. Januarius, and its frequent efficacy in stopping +eruptions of the Volcano Mt. Vesuvius, are explicitly affirmed by +the Catholic Encyclopedia, which is now to be quoted. It may be +suspected, however, that even these certified Saint-tales, like so +many others, are fakes and "belong to the common foundation of all +legends of saints" (CE. i, 40), the fraud of which is confessed.

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Very portentous is this St. Januarius, "martyred" about 305: +"His holy blood is kept unto this day in a phial of glass, which +being set near his head, bubbles up as though it were fresh," in +the church of St. Januarius at Naples; a long article is replete +with plenary proofs of this and other miracles of the Saint. He was +thrown into a fiery furnace, but the flames would not touch him and +his companions; his executioner was struck blind, but the Saint +cured him. His holy remains were brought to Naples, and are famous +on account of many miracles, as recorded in the official papal +"present Roman Martyrology," a longer account being given in the +Breviary, as quoted in these words of assurance: "Among these +miracles is remarkable the stopping of eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, +whereby both that neighborhood and places afar off have been like +to be destroyed. It is also well known and is the plain fact, seen +even unto this day, that when the blood of St. Januarius, kept +dried up in a small glass phial, is put in sight of the head of the +same martyr, it is wont to melt and bubble up in a very strange +way, as though it had but freshly been shed. ... For more than four +hundred years this liquefaction has taken place at frequent +intervals"; elaborate tests, the last reported in 1902 and 1904, +have been unable to account for the phenomenon except as due to +miracle. "It has had much to do with many conversations to +Catholicism. Unfortunately, however, allegations have often been +made as to the favorable verdict expressed by scientific men of +note, which are not always verifiable. The supposed testimony of +the great chemist, Sir Humphrey Davy, who is declared to have +expressed his belief in the genuineness of +the miracle, is a case in point." (CE. viii, 295-7.)

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This Holy Bottle of blood might well be borrowed to stop the +present eruption of Mt. AEtna in Sicily, which (as this is +written), is destroying several populous towns and "the most +intensively cultivated land in Sicily," by a torrent of lava a mile +in width, against which the local Patron seems impotent: "The lava +struck Mascali, a town of 10000 inhabitants last night, just after +the townsfolk had finished celebrating the feast of their patron, +St. Leonardo, whose statue was carried on the shoulders of four old +men." (N.Y. Herald-Tribune, Nov. 8, 1928.) But such pious +thaumaturgies do not seem to be overly potent this year. In this +unguarded a priori surmise I find myself mistaken, and apologize to +the gentle reader and to Holy Church. There is no need to borrow +the Vesuvius-stopping Blood of St. Januarius; Sicily has its own +local AEtna-stopper, the Holy Veil of St. Agatha, "which, according +to tradition, has arrested the flow of lava toward Catania in the +past." This sacred and potent relic, a bit tardily, after several +large towns have been wiped out, has now "been exposed in the +cathedral by order of the Archbishop Cardinal Nava, who also issued +an appeal for prayers by all in the diocese. He exhorted the +population to remain calm and maintain their faith. On previous +occasions prayers to St. Agatha were said when an eruption +occurred, and the lava stopped short before Nicolosi and +Linguaglossa, twenty-five miles north of Catania." (N.Y. Sun, Nov. +13, 1928.) This tardy exposition of the Relics and order for +prayers, -- after scientific examinations and airplane explorations +had shown that the fiery forces were about spent and "the lava +showing signs of solidification and emissions from the smoking +mountain lessening," -- is somewhat posthumous, or humorous; the +devastation was already wrought. If St. Agatha's anti-volcano Veil +had been gotten out of storage and waved or hung up on the first +signs of eruption, some of this history, one way or another, would +have been different. But if the Saint can stop volcanoes after the +evil deed is done, -- Well, one miracle of prevention is better +than a larger number of miracles of cure, -- which are ineffective +to repair the havoc in such cases. Like miracles of 'liquefaction +of Holy Blood yet occur abundantly, as in the noted cases of +"'Saints John the Baptist, Stephen, Pantaleone, Patricia, Nicholas, +Aloysius," et id omne genus; so with the bottled "Milk of our Lady" +and the canned "fat of St. Thomas Aquinas," on their respective +Saint-days!. (CE. viii, 297.)

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The sacred Council of Trent, in 1546, decreed: "That the +saints who reign with Christ offer to God their prayers for men; +that it is good and useful to invoke them by supplication and to +have recourse to their aid and assistance in order to obtain from +God His benefits through His Son and Our Savior Jesus Christ, who +alone is our Savior and Redeemer." (Session xxv.) But the sacred +Council, in its preoccupation of combating the nascent outraged +revolt and protest of Protestantism, which was filching its most +plausible counterfeits for circulation in a hostile camp, -- seems +to have overlooked this scrap of forged Scripture: "For there is +one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ +Jesus." (I Tim. ii, 5.) The effect, however, of this multiplication +of saintly mediators is picturesque; it is finely exemplified in +the great painting "The Intercession of the

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Saints," in the Royal Gallery at Naples: In the background is the +plague-stricken city; in the foreground the people are praying to +the city authorities to avert the plague; the city authorities are +praying to the Carthusian monks; the monks are praying to the +Blessed Virgin; the Virgin prays to Christ; and Christ prays to his +Father Almighty. The Holy Ghost, who "itself maketh intercession +for us with groanings which cannot be uttered," is quite left out +of the picture. Just how good and useful it is to invoke the Saints +directly, saving Doctor's bills and other inconveniences, will be +noticed in the catalogue of Saints below inscribed.

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It was in the fifth century, says Dr. McCabe, that "Rome began +on a large scale the forgery of lives of martyrs. Relics of martyrs +were now being 'discovered' in great numbers to meet the pious +demand of ignorant Christendom, and legends were fabricated by the +thousands to authenticate the spurious bits of bone." (LBB. 1130, +p. 40.) "Such," says CE., "are the 'Martyrium S. Polycarpi,' +admitting, though it does, much that may be due to the pious fancy +of the eye-witness"; also "the 'Acta SS. Perpetuae et Felicitas.'"

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The Saint-mill of Holy Church began operations very early, or +reached for grist far back into antiquity for the beginnings of its +Calendar of Saints. The first Saint who greets us among the +countless hordes of canonized Holy Ones is no less a primitive +personage that St. Abel, the younger son and second heir of our +mythical Father Adam, of Eden, who was canonized by Jesus Christ +himself, we are told, "as the first of a long line of prophets +martyred for justice's sake," as is the clerical interpretation of +Matt. xxiii, 34-35, "That upon you may come all the righteous blood +shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel unto the blood of +Zacharias," -- a bloody invocation in later centuries peculiarly +appropriate to the Church of Jesus Christ. This is a genuine +surprise, for no miracles wrought by St. Abel are recorded, and no +generous canonization fees seem to have been paid for his account +into the Treasury of the Lord in Rome.

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OLD PAGAN STUFF

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Many of the Pagan gods were converted into Christian Saints, +and seem to have brought over with them the special curative or +prophylactic attributes for which they were invoked as specifics. +Indeed, the whole system was purely Pagan: "Cures, apparitions, +prophecies, visions, transfigurations, stigmata, pleasant odor, +incorruption -- all these phenomena were also known to antiquity. +Ancient Greece exhibits stone monuments and inscriptions which bear +witness to cures and apparitions in ancient mythology. History +tells of Aristeas of Proconnessus, Hermotimus of Claxomenae, +Epimenides of Crete, that they were ascetics and thereby became +ecstatic, even to the degree of the soul leaving the body, +remaining far removed from it, and being able to appear in other +places." (CE. ix, 129.) The pious plan of temporal salvation in the +Ages of Faith is thus historically vouched: "The whole social life +of the Catholic world before the Reformation was animated with the +idea of protection from the citizens of heaven. There were patrons +or protectors in various forms of

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illness, as for instance: St. Agatha, diseases of the breast; +Apollonia, toothache; Blaise, sore throat; Clare and Lucy, eyes; +Benedict, against poison; Hubert, against bites of dogs." (CE. xi, +566.) "Catania honours St. Agatha as her patron saint, and +throughout the region around Mt. AEtna she is invoked against the +eruptions of the volcano, as elsewhere against fire and lightning." +(i, 204.)

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To the infamous sanctified fable of St. Hugh are imputed +sundry unholy accusations and persecutions against the Jews, -- +(here only repeated because they are falsely affirmed in the +inspired Bull of Canonization. A Christian child was lyingly +alleged to have been crucified by the Jews; the earth refused to +receive its body, and it was thrown into a well, where it was found +with the marks of crucifixion upon it; nineteen Jews were +infamously put to death for the fabulous crime, and ninety others +were condemned to death but released, for the sake of greed, upon +payment of large fines; "Copin, the leader, stated that it was a +Jewish custom to crucify a boy once a year"! (CE. vii, 515); +similar infamies of falsehood are related in connection with St. +William of Norwich. (CE. xv, 635.)

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Here is a monumental miracle with every assurance of verity. +"St. Winefride was a maiden of great personal charm and endowed +with rare gifts of intellect. The fame of her beauty and +accomplishments reached the ears of Caradoc, son of the neighboring +Prince Alen." She refused all his advances; frightened by his +threats she fled towards the church where her uncle St. Beuno was +celebrating Mass. "Maddened by a disappointed passion, Caradoc +pursued her and, overtaking her on the slope above the site of the +present well, he drew his sword and at one blow severed her head +from the body. The head rolled down the incline and, where it +rested, there gushed forth a spring." St. Beuno, hearing of the +tragedy, left the altar, and accompanied by the parents came to the +spot where the head lay beside the spring. "Taking up the maiden's +head be carried it to where the body lay, covered both with his +cloak, and then re-entered the church to finish the Holy Sacrifice. +When Mass was ended he knelt beside the Saint's body, offered up a +fervent prayer to God, and ordered the cloak which covered it to be +removed. Thereupon Winefride, as if awakening from a deep slumber, +rose up with no sign of the severing of the head except a thin +white circle round her neck. Seeing the murderer leaning on his +sword with an insolent and defiant air, St. Beuno invoked the +chastisement of heaven, and Caradoc fell dead on the spot, the +popular belief being that the earth opened and swallowed him. +Miraculously restored to life, Winefride seems to have lived in +almost perpetual ecstasy and to have had familiar converse with +God." The place where this signal miracle occurred was at the time +called "Dry Hollow," but with its miraculous spring its name was +changed to Holywell, and it stands there in Wales to this day, a +bubblingly vocal witness to the verity of this holy yarn. Born in +600, beheaded and reheaded at sweet sixteen, she died Nov. 3, 660; +"her death was foreshown to her in a vision by Christ Himself." +(CE. xv, 656-657.) "For more than a thousand years this Miraculous +Well has attracted numerous pilgrims; documents preserved in the +British Museum give us its history, with the

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earliest record of the miraculous cures effected by its waters. +These ancient cures included cases of dropsy, paralysis, gout, +melancholia, sciatica, cancer, alienation of mind, blood spitting, +etc. etc., also deliverance from evil spirits." (CE. repeats the +history of St. Winefride, or Gwenfrewi, in vii, 438.)

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St. Wolfgang, by a unique miracle, "forced the devil to help +him build a church." -- Et id omne genus -- ad nauseam. Such is a +handful of the holy chaff of faith, purveyed by Holy Church to all +Believers to this day. Scores of like saint-lies are here omitted +to Save space.

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These gross and degrading impostures by forged miracles not +only went unrebuked and unchecked by the Vicars of God; many of the +vice-Gods were among the most prolific miracle-mongers of the ages +of Faith. One of the most notorious wonder-workers and wonder-forgers of Holy Church was no less a personage than His Holiness +Pope St. Gregory the Great (590-604). He has the doubtful +distinction of being the author of four celebrated volumes of +Dialogi, which are a veritable thesaurus of holy wonders. From this +treasury of nature-fakery we have seen the old Pagan example, +affirmed as Christian fact by Gregory, as quoted by CE., of the man +carried off by mistake by the Angel of Death, but restored to life +when the oversight was discovered. He also relates a great flood of +the Tiber which threatened to destroy Rome, until a copy of His +Holiness's "Dialogi" was thrown into the swollen waters, which +immediately subsided, and the Holy City was thus saved. His +Holiness solemnly records the case of an awful belly-ache suffered +by a holy nun, which he avers was caused by her having swallowed a +devil along with a piece of lettuce which she was eating without +having taken the due precaution of making the sign of the cross +over it to scare away any lurking imps of Satan; and this devil, +when commanded by a holy monk to come out of the nun, derisively +replied: "How am I to blame? I was sitting on the lettuce, and this +woman, not having made the sign of the cross, ate me along with +it!" (Dial. lib. i, c. 4.) When elected Pope in 590 the city of +Rome was afflicted by a dreadful pestilence; the angels of the +angry God of all mercies were relentlessly flinging fiery darts +among the devout Christian populace. To conjure away the pestilence +-- due perhaps primarily to the filth of the Holy City and its +inhabitants -- His Holiness headed a monkish parade through the +stricken city, when of a sudden he saw the Archangel Michael +hovering over the great Pagan mausoleum of Hadrian, just in the act +of sheathing his flaming sword, while three angels with him chanted +the original verses of the Regina Caeli; the great Pope made the +Sign of the Cross and broke into Hallelujahs -- (that is, "Praise +to Yahveh," the old Hebrew war-god). In commemoration of the +wondrous event, the pious Pope built a Christian chapel, dedicated +to St. Michael, atop the Pagan monument, and over it erected the +colossal statue of the Archangel in the sword-sheathing act, which +stands there in Rome to this day -- the Castel Saint' Angelo, in +enduring proof of the miracle and of the veracity of papal +narratives. (CE. vi, 782.) The authorship of this monkish Hymn to +the Queen of Heaven being unknown, pious invention supplied its +true history: "that St. Gregory the Great heard the first three +lines chanted by angels on a certain Easter

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morning in Rome while he walked barefoot in a great religious +procession, and that the Saint thereupon added the fourth line." +(C.E. xii, 719.) Such is ecclesiastical "history."

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The literary attainments of His Holiness Gregory were +tempered, if not corrupted, by his holy zeal, for "in his +commentary on Job, Gregory I warns the reader that he need not be +surprised to find mistakes of Latin Grammar, since in dealing with +so holy a work as the Bible a writer should not stop to make sure +whether his cases and tenses are right." (Robinson, The Ordeal of +Civilization, p. 62.) However, his zeal for more material things +was not thus hampered: "Pope Gregory I contrived to make his real +belief in the approaching end of the world yield the papacy about +1800 square miles of land and a revenue of about $2000000. He +used bribes, threats and all kinds of stratagems to attain his +ends." (McCabe, LBB. 1130, p. 40.)

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His Holiness Gregory I was himself one of the greatest +thaumatur-gists of the Ages of Faith: "the miracles attributed to +Gregory are very many." (CE. vi, 786.) When Mohammed was forging +his inspired Book of Koran, the illuminating spirit, in the guise +of a dove, would perch on his shoulder and whisper the divine +revelations into his ear, -- a miracle which none but quite devout +Mohammedans believe. But Peter the Deacon, in his Vita of His +wonder-working Holiness, records that when St. Gregory was +dictating his Homilies On Ezekiel: "A veil was drawn between his +secretary and himself. As, however, the pope remained silent for +long periods at a time, the servant made a hole in the curtain and, +looking through, beheld a dove seated on Gregory's head with his +beak between his lips. When the dove withdrew its beak the holy +pontiff spoke and the secretary took down his words; but when he +became silent the secretary again applied his eye to the hole and +saw that the dove had replaced its beak between his lips." (CE. vi, +786.) No good Christian can doubt, after this proof, that their +Holinesses are constantly and directly inspired and guided by the +Holy Ghost, as Holy Church assures. Wonderful as this bit of +Gregory's history is, to recommend him to lasting remembrance, "his +great claim to remembrance lies in the fact that he is the real +father of the medieval papacy." (Ibid.) These qualities of the Holy +Father which we have noticed may to an extent explain some of the +eccentricities of the Medieval Papacy.

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FORGED AND FAKED RELICS

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"Making every allowance for the errors of the most +extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this +hypothesis represent an amount of imposture probably +unequalled in the annals of the human race." +Lecky, History of Rationalism, i, 164.

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As loathsome an example as is to be found in the annals of +Christian apologetics for fraud and imposture is this from CE., +following a long and revolting exposition of the Christian frauds +with respect to holy Relics of the Church:

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"Still, it would be presumptuous in such cases to blame +the action of the ecclesiastical authority in permitting the +continuance of a cult which extends back into remote +antiquity. [i. e. into Paganism.] ... +"Supposing the relic to be spurious, NO DISHONOR IS DONE +TO GOD by the continuance of an error handed down in perfect +good faith for many centuries"! (CE. xii, 387.)

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It may well be that the holy God of the Christians is immune +to dishonor by worship through lying Christian frauds; but one may +question the dishonor to the human mind wrought by the impostures +of God's Vicars and his Church, cozening men into holy faith in +lies; to say nothing of the shaming dishonor of Church and priest, +who with utter want of good faith and common honesty created and +fostered all these degrading Churchly cheats.

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Before viewing some of these priestly impostures, never once +rebuked or prevented by pope or priest, but, rather, industriously +stimulated by them for purposes of perpetuating ignorance and +superstition, and of feeding their own insatiate avarice, CE. will +be invoked to give a graphic, though clerically casuistic and +apologetic review of the debauchery of morals and mind which made +possible these scandalous unholy practices of Holy Church.

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"Naturally it was impossible for popular enthusiasm to be +roused to so high a pitch in a matter which easily lent itself +to error, fraud, and greed for gain, without at least the +occasional occurrence of many, grave abuses. ... In the +Theodosian Code the sale of relics is forbidden (vii, ix, 17), +but numerous stories, of which it would be easy to collect a +long series, beginning with the writings of Pope St. Gregory +the Great and St. Gregory of Tours, prove to us that many +unprincipled persons found a means of enriching themselves by +a sort of trade in these objects of devotion, the majority of +which no doubt were fraudulent. At the beginning of the ninth +century the exportation of the bodies of martyrs from Rome had +assumed the proportions of a regular commerce, and a certain +deacon, Deusdona, acquired an unenviable notoriety in these +transactions. What was in the long run hardly less disastrous +than fraud or avarice, was the keen rivalry between religious +centers, and the eager credulity fostered by the desire to be +known as the possessor of some unusually startling relic. In +such an atmosphere of lawlessness doubtful relics came to +abound. There was always disposition to regard any human +remains accidentally discovered near a church or in the +catacombs as the body of a martyr ... the custom of making +facsimiles and imitations, a custom which persists to our own +day in the replicas of the Vatican statue of St. Peter -- +[itself a fraud] or of the Grotto of Lourdes -- all these are +causes adequate to account for the multitude of unquestionably +spurious relics with which the treasuries of great medieval +churches were crowded. ... Join to this the large license +given to the occasional unscrupulous rogue IN AN AGE NOT ONLY +UTTERLY UNCRITICAL but often curiously morbid in its realism, +and it becomes easy to understand the multiplicity and +extravagance of the entries in the relics inventories of Rome +and other countries. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +225 +. +FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY

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"Such tests [to secure the Faithful against deception] +were applied as the historical and antiquarian science of that +day were capable of devising. Very often, however, this test +took the form of an appeal to some miraculous sanction, as in +the well known story repeated by St. Ambrose, according to +which, when doubt arose which of the three crosses discovered +by St. Helena was that of Christ, the healing of a sick man by +one of them dispelled all further hesitation. Nevertheless it +remains true that many of the more important ancient relics +duly exhibited for veneration in the great sanctuaries of +Christendom or even at Rome itself must now be pronounced to +be either certainly spurious or open to grave suspicion. To +take one example of the latter class, the boards of the crib +(Praesaepe) a name which for more than a thousand years has +been associated, as now, with the basilica of Santa Maria +Maggiore -- can only be considered to be of doubtful +authenticity. ... Strangely enough, an inscription in Greek +uncials of the eighth century is found on one of the boards, +the inscription having nothing to do with the Crib but being +apparently concerned with some commercial transaction. It is +hard to explain its presence on the supposition that the relic +is authentic. Similar difficulties might be urged against the +supposed 'Column of the Flagellation' venerated at Rome in the +church of Santa Prassede, and against many other famous +relics. ... Neither has the church ever pronounced that any +particular relic, not even that commonly venerated as the wood +of the Cross, is authentic; but she approves of honor being +paid to those relics which with reasonable probability are +believed to be genuine, and which are invested with due +ecclesiastical sanctions." (CE. xii, 737.) Such sophistry!

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The pettifogging sophistry of the foregoing argumentation, as +of that which follows from the same clerical source, needs no +comment. The Church of God, headed by his own Vicar General on +earth, divinely guided against all error in matters of faith and +morals, and which can detect the faintest taint of heresy of belief +further than the most gifted bird of rapine can scent a carcass, +can make no apology for permitting these degrading superstitions, +which it not only tolerates but actively propagates and encourages, +for the rich revenues they bring in. What a catalogue of its most +sacred mummeries is branded with the infamy of fraudulent in the +following:

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"The worship of imaginary saints or relics, devotion +based upon false revelations, apparitions, supposed miracles, +or false notions generally, is usually excusable in the +Worshipper on the ground of ignorance and good faith; but +there is no excuse for those who use similar means to exploit +popular credulity for their own pecuniary profit. The +originators of such falsehoods are liars, deceivers, and not +rarely thieves; but a milder judgment should be pronounced on +those who, after discovering the imposture tolerate the +improper cults [!] ... The Catholic devotions which are +connected with holy places, holy shrines, holy wells, famous +relics, etc., are commonly treated as superstitions by non-Catholics. ... It must be admitted that

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these hallowed spots and things have occasioned many legends; +that popular credulity was in some cases the principal cause +of their celebrity; that here or there instances of fraud can +be adduced; yet, for all that, the principles which guide the +worshipper, and his good intentions, are not impaired by an +undercurrent of error as to facts. [!] Moreover ... the Church +is tolerant of 'pious beliefs' which have helped to further +Christianity Thus, alleged saints and relies are suppressed as +soon as discovered, but belief in the private revelations to +which the feast of Corpus Christi, The Rosary, the Sacred +Heart, and many other devotions owe their origin is neither +commanded nor prohibited; here each man is his own judge. ... +The apparent success which so often attends a superstition can +mostly be accounted for by natural causes. When the object is +to ascertain, or to effect in a general way, one of two +possible events, the law of probabilities gives an equal +chance to success and failure, and success does more to +support than failure would do to destroy superstition." (CE. +xiv, 340, 341.) All these holy cults are thus confessed frauds +and superstitions fostered by ecclesiastic greed.

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Let us remember that no True Church in Christendom can be +built and consecrated without a box of dead man's bones or other +fetid human scraps and relics deposited under the holy altar of +God. The decree of the second council of Nice, A.D. 787, reaffirmed +by the Council of Trent in 1546, forbade the consecration of any +Church without a supply of relics. (CE. xii, 737.) Thus the ancient +superstition is sanctioned and its observance made mandatory; an +unceasing demand is created, and the market supply is more than +equal to the pious demand. Hence the great and valuable, and +fraudulent, traffic above confessed and clerically palliated.

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THE "INVENTION OF THE CROSS," ET AL

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"The Legend as to the discovering of the Cross of Christ" (CE. +vii, 203). The Holy City, Jerusalem, was, twice destroyed by the +Romans, in 70 A.D. by Titus, and again as the result of the +rebellion of Bar-Cochba, 132-135 A.D. The work was peculiarly +thorough,; not one stone was left upon another; the site was plowed +over as a mark of infamy, and the ground is said to have been sown +with salt so that nothing might ever grow there again: though pious +myths soon flourished exuberantly. Later a pagan city was +established on the site, named AElia Capitoline, and a great Temple +of Venus was erected on a suitable spot. Over two centuries later, +about 326 A.D., a great and venerated Catholic lady Saint made a +pious pilgrimage to the Holy City, namely, St. Helena, sainted +mother of the new "Christian" Emperor Constantine. This is the St. +Helena who got her start as a Pagan barmaid in a wild country +village; she fell into the graces of the Roman Imperator +Constantius as he marched through the country, became his mistress +by "concubinatus," and bore unto him who was afterwards the godly +Emperor Constantine. (CE. iv, 300.) Upon the pilgrimage of the +pious Dowager-mother to Jerusalem, great pomp and ceremony attended +her visit, under the auspices of

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the good Bishop Macarius. By order of the Bishop and in honor of +the Christian Saint, the Temple of Venus was torn down; it was +found to have been built over an empty rock grave therefore +identically the authentic sepulchre of Jesus Christ. is it true, +that this destroyed Temple of Venus and the inclosed Holy Sepulchre +were inside the walls of the City, while the Gospels inspiredly +aver that the grave was outside the walls: a trifling discrepancy +for Faith.

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Rummaging the ruins, a vaulted underground room or cellar was +found: its wonderful contents make to pale into triviality the +lately discovered tomb-treasures of Tut-ankh-Amen. There propped +against the cellar-wall was the whole apparatus of the +Crucifiction: the three identical Crosses whereon had hung the +Christ and the two thieves; the very Nails wherewith they had been +fastened; the autograph trilingual Inscription set by Pilate over +the head of the Christ; the precise Spear which had pierced his +side; the cruel Crown of Thorns which tore his brow; the holy +Seamless Coat which he had worn and for which the Roman soldiers +gambled in the hour of death (it's curious that the winner should +have left it behind); the sacred Shroud in which the dead God was. +buried. The Pilatic Inscription was not in situ; it had evidently +been knocked off and lay apart, a "separate piece of wood, on which +were inscribed in white letters in Hebrew, Greek and Latin, the +following words: 'Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews,'" as +recorded by Sozomen, the Church historian. (Eccles. Hist, ii, 1; +N&PNF. II, p. 258.)

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Due to its unfortunate separation from its original position, +it was for the moment impossible to distinguish the True Cross of +Christ from those of the thieves. A miracle was vouchsafed, +however, to identify the real Cross of the Christ: the True Cross +bowed itself down before the Saintly Empress; or, a sick woman -- +or a sick man -- was cured upon touching the True Cross after +having tried the other two in vain -- according to which priestly +version is the more truthful. Sozomen (supra) says that it was "a +certain lady of rank in Jerusalem who was inflicted with a most +grievous and incurable disease," whose miraculous curing attested +the True Cross; "a dead person was also restored to life" by its +thaumaturgic touch: -- "all as predicted by the prophets and by the +Sibyl." Some tinge of dubiety may be thrown upon the report of +Bishop Macarius, who made the wondrous discoveries first recorded +by the Church historians Socrates, about 439 A.D. (Eccles. Hist. I, +xvii), and Sozomen, who wrote a little later (Eccles. Hist. II, i), +by the fact that the earliest Church Historian, the very +informative and fabling Bishop Eusebius (d. 340), in his Life of +Constantine (III, iii, and III, xxviii), gives a very +circumstantial account of the visit of the ex-Empress St. Helena to +Jerusalem, and of the erection of a Christian Church over the Holy +Sepulchre, but he is silent as the grave about the discovery of any +Cross of Christ or any of the other holy marvels. The notable event +is known, in Church parlance, as "The Invention of the Cross" -- +which exactly it was.

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The subsequent "history" of the Cross of Christ is a tangle of +typically clerical contradictions and impossibilities. "Very +soon after the discovery of the True Cross, its wood was cut up +into small relics and scattered throughout Christendom." (CE. iv, +524.)

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"We learn from St. Cyril of Jerusalem (before 350) that the +wood of the Cross, discovered about 318, [it was in 326] was +already distributed throughout the world." (CE. xii, 736.) But +these assurances of St. Cyril and of CE. seem out of harmony with +the accredited history of the capture and asportation of the +reputed integral True Cross by Chosroes (Khosru) II, King of +Persia, who took Jerusalem in 614, massacring 90000 good +Christians, captured the Cross of Christ among his booty, and +carried it off whole in triumph to Persia! (CE. iii, 105), -- with +results very disastrous to the Faith: "The shock which religious +men received through this dreadful event can hardly now be +realized. The imposture of Constantine bore bitter fruit; the +sacred wood which had filled the world with its miracles was +detected to be a helpless counterfeit, borne off in triumph by +deriding blasphemers. All confidence in the apostolic powers of the +Asiatic bishops was lost; not one of them could work a wonder for +his own salvation in the dire extremity." (Draper, The Intellectual +Development of Europe, i, 328; Gibbon, p. 451.) The truly +miraculous nature of this True Cross is thus described by Draper: +"The wood of the Cross displayed a property of growth, and hence +furnished an abundant supply for the demands of pilgrims and an +unfailing source of pecuniary profit to its possessors. In the +course of subsequent years there was accumulated in the various +churches of Europe, from this particular relic, a sufficiency to +have constructed many hundred crosses." (Op. cit. i, 309.) On a +great porphyry column before the Church of St. Sophia at +Constantinople, stood a statue of the Pagan god Apollo; the face +was altered into the features of the Emperor Constantine, and the +Nails of the True Cross, set around like rays, were used to garnish +the crown upon his head. Another of these holy Nails has for +centuries adorned and consecrated the crown of the emperors of the +Holy Roman Empire. The horses of a regiment of cavalry could +probably be shod with the copious supply of these Holy Nails now +venerated as sacred relies.

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"It is remarkable," says CE., "that St. Jerome, who expatiates +upon the Cross, the Title, and the Nails, discovered by St. Helena, +says nothing either of the Lance or of the Crown. of Thorns, and +the silence of Andreas of Crete in the eighth century is still more +surprising." But in due time this oversight was piously repaired. +Bishop Gregory of Tours, among other faithful Church chroniclers, +produces the Crown of Thorns, and, as an eyewitness to it, "avers +that the thorns in the Crown still looked green, a freshness which +was miraculously renewed every day"; which episcopal assurance, +skeptically remarks CE., "does not much strengthen the historical +testimony for the authenticity of the relic." But, "in any case, +Justinian, who died in 565, is stated to have given a thorn to St. +Germanus, which was long preserved at Saint-Germain-des-Pres, while +the Empress Irene sent Charlemagne several thorns which were +deposited by him at Aachen. ... In 1238 Baldwin II, the Latin +Emperor of Constantinople,

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anxious to obtain support for his tottering empire, offered the +Crown of Thorns to St. Louis, King of France. It was then actually +[in pawn] in the hands of the Venetians as security for a heavy +loan, but it was redeemed and conveyed to Paris, where St. Louis +built the Sainte Chapelle for its reception." The further history +of the holy spurious relic is traced in detail; as late as 1896 "a +magnificent new reliquary of rock crystal was made for it"; but by +that time the holy relic, like a fighting-cock with his tail-feathers clawed out, was a sorry sight: "The Crown, thus preserved, +consists only of a circlet of rushes, without any trace of thorns." +A ray of light on Church fakery is thrown by the closing comment: +"That all the reputed holy thorns of which notice has survived +cannot by any possibility be authentic will be disputed by no one; +more than 700 such relics have been enumerated"! (.CE. iv, 540, +541.)

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As for the Holy Lance, which pierced the side of the dying +God, also resurrected by pious diligence of "invention," its +devious and dubious history is thus traced by our modern +ecclesiastical mummery" monger: "A spear believed to be identical +with that which pierced our Savior's body, was venerated at +Jerusalem at the close of the sixth century. The sacred relics of +the Passion fell into the bands of the pagans. Many centuries +afterwards (i.e. in 1241), the point of the Lance was presented by +Baldwin to St. Louis, and it was enshrined with the Crown of Thorns +in the Sainte Chapelle. Another part of the Lance is preserved +under the dome of St. Peter's in Rome. ... Rival lances are known +to be preserved at Nuremberg, Paris, etc. Another lance claiming to +be that which produced the wound in Christ's side is now preserved +among the imperial insignia at Vienna; another is preserved at +Cracow. Legend assigns the name of Longinus to the soldier who +thrust the Lance into our Savior's side; according to the same +tradition, he was healed of ophtbalmia and converted by a drop of +the precious blood spurting from the wound." (viii, 773-4.)

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There was also timely discovered, by some notable chance or +miracle, the very stairway, "consisting of twenty-eight white +marble steps, ... the stairway leading once to the Praetorium of +Pilate, hence sanctified by the footsteps of Our Lord during his +Passion," as we are assured by CE. (viii, 505.) This famous relic, +the "Holy Stairs," which somehow escaped the two destructions of +Jerusalem and the ravages of time for nearly three centuries, was +"brought from Jerusalem to Rome about 326 by St. Helena, mother of +Constantine the Great. ... It is now before the Sancta Sanctorum +(Holy of Holies) of the Lateran Palace. The Sancta Sanctorum +receiving its name from the many precious relics preserved there, +also contains the celebrated image of Christ, 'not made with +hands,' which on certain occasions used to be carried through Rome +in procession. ... The Holy Stairs may only be ascended on the +knees. ... Finally Pius X, on 26 February, 1908, granted a plenary +indulgence [i.e. a permanent escape from Purgatory] -- to be gained +as often as the Stairs are devoutly ascended after confession and +communion." (CE. viii, 505.) It is related that Father Luther was +performing this holy penitential climb of the "Scala Sancta," when +suddenly the vast sham and fraud of his religion burst upon his +consciousness: the

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Reformation was a consequence. In passing this famous "Mother of +Churches," St. John Lateran, we may admire the wonderful portrait +of Jesus Christ which adorns its sacred walls; the painting of it +was begun by Dr. St. Luke himself, but being left incomplete, it +was finished by an angel.

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ANCIENT FAKES YET ACCREDITED

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Think not that these ancient frauds of the Church have been +discarded in shame by the Church now that their fraudulent origin +and purpose are exposed to public obloquy and ridicule. In full +blaze of world attention and publicity of the Twentieth Century, +God's own Vicar vouches before the world for these tawdry +impostures, brought forth before the world to lend climax of +superstitious solemnity to his crazy Crusade of prayer and incited +pious hatred against the brave efforts of the Russians to undo the +fell work of the Church in that unhappy land. Associated Press +dispatches from Vatican City announce: "To lend emphasis to the +protest here, celebrated relics kept at St. Peter's -- a portion of +the true cross; St. Veronica's Veil, with which Christ is said to +have wiped His face on His way to Calvary, and the centurion's +lance which pierced His Side -- will be displayed." (N.Y. Herald Tribune, March 19, 1930.) "After the ceremony those present will +receive benediction with the sacred relics." (N.Y. Sun, Mch. 13, +1930.) Nearby, "the stones of the pavement on which the Apostles +[Peter and Paul] knelt in prayer and which are said to contain the +impression of their knees, are now in the wall of the Church of +Santa Francesca Romana." (CE. xiii, 797.) Such lying vouchers are +fit setting for the crusade of unholy lies and hate against a +people which for centuries has been kept in grossest ignorance and +superstition by greedy priestcraft, now repudiated by its victims.

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The foregoing solemn vouching for antique fakeries provoked a +deal of skeptical ridicule throughout the world, even among some of +the Faithful: so it must needs be emphasized by repetition, with +some notable other Fake Relics added for "assurance doubly sure." +So, when the Pagan Festival of Easter dawned on the Pagan "Day of +the Venerable Sun," His Royal-Holiness came forth in the full +splendor of the Pagan Pontifex Maximum to celebrate the Event, and +by his Infallible presence to vouch again for the genuineness of +these holy spurious Relics. Probably he wore and ostentated in the +joy of its recovery, the celebrated "so-called Episcopal Ring of +St. Peter, rich with sapphires and diamonds," stolen from the +Vatican treasury in 1925, and recently recaptured with the thief. +(Herald-Tribune, Dec. 3, 1929.) It is possible that he sat in state +in the very Throne or "Chair of St. Peter," which the Fisherman +Pope used, as dubiously vouched by CE. under that caption. In any +event, whatever throne he used was planted immediately above the +grave where lies the headless cadaver of St. Peter himself, for +"the skulls of Sts. Peter and Paul" were later viewed at the +Lateran, and there "shown for the adoration of the Faithful." As +announced in several Press dispatches, an inventory of the holy +Relies and ceremonials is here recorded. In preparation for the +Sacred Event in the Twentieth Century: "The major basilicas will +all have on display their most precious relics. ... The purported +Cradle of

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Bethlehem [made out of an eighth century packing case] will be +brought forth. Those attending mass at the Lateran will be able to +view the skulls of Sts. Peter and Paul, and a bit of what is +believed [by whom, not stated] to be the True Cross -- [carried off +entire in 614 by the Persians]; ... the reputed Lance of the Roman +centurion who speared the side of Christ, and the 'Holy Veil' or +napkin offered to Christ by St. Veronica," -- who is a myth forged +from "vera icon." (A.P. dispatch, Apl. 19, 1930.) Also: "A fragment +of the Cross and two Thorns from the crown of the Savior. ... The +Sancta Scala (Holy Stairs), ... drew the usual Good Friday throngs +of the Faithful today. ... Processions were held inside the ancient +edifices to honor the relics, [including] what, according to +tradition, are the heads of the apostles St. Peter and St. Paul ... +shown for the adoration of the Faithful." (Herald-Tribune, Apl. 19, +1930.) Then came the consummation and solemn Infallible accrediting +of these "most precious relics": -- "Pope Celebrates Easter Mass. +... Relics of the Passion [surrounded him], -- a reputed fragment +of the Cross, a piece of the Spear which pierced [reputedly] the +side of the Savior, and the Veil of St. Veronica. ... were +displayed from the balcony above the Papal Altar." (Ibid, Apl. 21, +1930.) Now at last, in Twentieth Century, "Roma locuta est -- causa +finita est" -- and these originally bogus frauds are genuine and +authentic Relics -- for the Faithful who may believe it.

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Samples of the "seed of the Serpent" of Eden, the scales that +fell from the eyes of Elijah's servant, the original wicked flea, +the two dwarf mummies of Bildad the Shu-hite and Ne-hi-miah, the +200 Philistine trophies (foreskins) brought in by David as his +marriage dot (1 Sam. xviii, 25-27), the horn of salvation, and the +instruments of Cornelius's Italian Band, are about the only honest-to-goodness authentic Biblical relics which seem not to be +preserved among the countless holy fake treasures of Holy Church. +The famous juvenile pocket-inventories of Tom Sawyer and +Huckleberry Finn, and the monstrous fakeries of the late lamented +Phineas Barnum, are paltry trivialities beside the countless and +priceless Relic-treasures of Holy Church, religiously guarded for +"veneration" by True Believers blessed by the privilege of paying +-- the more you pay the more you merit" is the maxim - to gaze in +rapt awe at, and to kiss and fondle, these ghastly and ghoulish, +false and forged, bloody scraps and baubles of perverted piosity. +The foreskin of the Child Christ miraculously preserved exists to +this day; enough of his diapers and swaddling-cloths, as of the +sanitary draperies of his Ever-Virgin Mother, are of record to +stock a modern department store. During the era of the unholy +Crusades the soldiers of Christ brought from the Holy Land +countless numbers of duly certified bottles of the Milk of the +Virgin Mother of God, and drove a thrifty business selling them to +churches and superstitious dupes through Europe.

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Yet in existence are several portraits of the Mother of God, +"said to have been painted by St. Luke; they belong to the Sixth +century." (CE. xv, 471.) "There is still preserved at Messina a +letter attributed to the Blessed Virgin, which, it is claimed, was +written by her to the Messenians when Our Lady heard of their +conversion by St. Paul" (x, 217; cf. list of several: i, 613.) "The +Shroud of the Blessed Virgin is preserved in the Church of

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Gethsemane." (xiv, 775.) The Holy Winding Sheet or shroud of the +Christ was formerly "exposed for veneration" at Troyes; but the +Bishop "declared after due inquiry that the relic was nothing but +a painting and opposed its exposition. Clement VI, by four Bulls +(1390), approved the exposition as lawful." After being stolen and +hawked about, this sacred relic "is now exposed and honored at +Turin." (xv, 67-68.) There must be something wrong about this, for +"The Diocese of Perigueux has a remarkable The Holy Shroud of +Christ, brought back after the first crusade. An official +investigation in 1444 asserted the authenticity of the relic." (xi, +668.) The Minster treasury of the Cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle, or +Aachen, where Charlemagne enshrined the Holy Thorns, "includes a +large number of relics, vessels, and vestments, the most important +being those known as the four 'Great Relics,' namely, the cloak of +the Blessed Virgin, the swaddling-clothes of the infant Jesus, the +loin-cloth worn by Our Lord on the Cross, and the cloth on which +lay the head of John the Baptist after his beheading. They are +exposed every seven years, and venerated by thousands of Pilgrims +(139628 in 1874, and 158968 in 1881")! +(i, 92.)

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Without comment we let CE. record for the faith of its +readers, several of the very notable and most remunerative Relics +treasured by Holy Church. That they are all impossible, are all +bogus, all crude forgeries and fakes only possible of credit by the +most credulous child-minds, needs no comment. The sordid debasement +of the human mind to the degree of credulity here displayed, the +crass dishonesty of the false pretenses which give credit to these +things for purposes of extortion from silly dupes of religion, the +vastness of the grand larceny thus perpetrated in the name of God, +-- are beyond orderly comment.

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"The possession of the seamless garment of Christ is claimed +by the Cathedral of Trier and by the parish church of Argenteuil; +the former claims that the relic was sent by the Empress St. +Helena, basing their claim on a document sent by Pope Sylvester to +the Church of Trier, but this cannot be considered genuine. ... The +relic itself offers no reason to doubt its genuineness. Plenary +indulgences were granted to all pilgrims who should visit the +cathedral of Trier at the time of the exposition of the Holy Coat, +which was to take place every seven years." (vii, 400-1.) "The +Church venerates the Holy Innocents, or Martyrs, the children +massacred by Herod, estimated in various Liturgies as 14000, +64000, 144000 boys. The Church of Paul's Outside the Walls is +believed to possess the bodies of several of the Holy Innocents. A +portion of these relics was transferred by Sixtus V to Santa Maria +Maggiore. The Church of St. Justina at Padua, the cathedrals of +Lisbon and Milan, and other Churches also preserve bodies which +they claim to be those of some of the Holy Innocents. It is +impossible to determine the day or the year of the death of the +Holy Innocents, since the chronology of the birth of Christ and the +subsequent Biblical events is most uncertain"' (CE. vii, 419.)

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In the cathedral of Cologne are preserved the skulls of the +Three Wise Men who followed the Star of Bethlehem. In the +neighboring Church of St. Gereon are distributed over the walls

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the bones from a whole cemetery, dug up and displayed as those of +that mythical Saint and his Theban Band of 10000 Martyrs; in +fitting competition are the spoils of the neighboring graveyard, +yielding the bones of St. Ursula and her 11000 Virgin Martyrs. The +miraculous bones of Santa Rosalia in Palermo are the bones of a +deceased goat!

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"The city of Tarascon has for its patron, St. Martha, who, +according to the legend, delivered the country from a monster +called 'Tarasque.' The Church of 'Saintes Marias de la Mer' +contains three venerated tombs; according to a tradition which is +attached to the legends concerning the emigration of St. Lazarus, +St. Martha, St. Mary Magdalene, and St. Maximus, these tombs +contain the bodies of the three Marys of the Gospels." (CE. i, +238.)

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The Abbot Martin obtained for his monastery in Alsace the +following inestimable articles: A spot of the blood of our Savior; +a piece of the True Cross; the arm of the Apostle James; part of +the skeleton of John the Baptist; a bottle of the Milk of the +Mother of God. (Draper, The Intellectual Development of Europe, ii, +57.) But perhaps none of these impostures surpassed in audacity +that offered by a monastery in Jerusalem, which presented to the +beholder ONE OF THE FINGERS OF THE HOLY GHOST! (Draper, Conflict +between Science and Religion, p. 270.) Also there were displayed +sundry choice collections of the wing and tail feathers of the said +Holy Ghost, from time to time shed off or pulled out when, in the +disguise of a Dove, It (or He or She) came down and perched on +people. In England at the time of Henry VIII (1501), Our Lady's +girdle was shown in not less than eleven places, and Our Lady's +milk, in a condensed form, in eight places. One of these girdles +the good Queen-mother procured for Catherine of Aragon, on her +marriage with Henry, to present to her when the expected time +should come. During the plague of 1531, Henry VIII, for a goodly +price, bought some precious relic waters to avert the plague from +himself: a tear which Our Lord shed over Lazarus, preserved by an +angel who gave it in a phial to Mary Magdalene; and a phial of the +sweat of St. Michael when he contended with Satan, as recorded in +the Book of Enoch and vouched for in the sacred Book of Jude. +(Hackett, Henry VIII, pp. 11, 234.) The Cathedral of Arras, in +France, possesses some highly venerated and remarkable relies, to +wit, some of the Holy Manna which fell from Heaven in the year 371 +during a severe famine; and the identical Holy Candle, a wax taper, +which was presented by the Blessed Virgin to Bishop Lambert, in +1105, to stop an epidemic. (CE. i, 752.) This same waxen Holy +Candle has burned continuously from 1105 to at least 1713 without +being to the slightest degree diminished, as his view of it was +then reported by Anthony Collins, in his Discourse of Free +Thinking; he expresses the doubt whether the attendant clergy would +permit a careful scrutiny to be made of the phenomenon.

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A final job lot of these holy fetishes as recorded by Dr. +McCabe with some pertinent comments, may be admired: "At Laon the +chief treasures shown to the public were some milk and hair of the +Virgin Mary. This was Laon's set-off to the rival attraction at +Soissons, a neighboring town, which had secured one of the

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milk-teeth shed by the infant Jesus. There seems to have been +enough of the milk of the Virgin -- some of it was still exhibited +in Spanish churches in the nine-teenth century -- preserved in +Europe to feed a few calves. There was hair enough to make a +mattress. There were sufficient pieces of 'the true cross' to make +a boat. There were teeth of Christ enough to outfit a dentist (one +monastery, at Charroux, had the complete set). There were so many +sets of baby-linen of the infant Jesus, in Italy, France and Spain, +that one could have opened a shop with them. One of the greatest +churches in Rome had Christ's manger-cradle. Seven churches had his +authentic umbilical cord, and a number of churches had his foreskin +(removed at circumcision and kept as a souvenir by Mary). One +church had the miraculous imprint of his little bottom on a stone +on which he had sat. Mary herself had left enough wedding rings, +shoes, stockings, shirts, girdles, etc. to fill a museum; one of +her shifts is still in the Chartres cathedral. One church had +Aaron's rod. Six churches had the six heads cut off John the +Baptist. ... Every one of these things was, remember, in its +origin, a cynical blasphemous swindle. Each of these objects was at +first launched upon the world with deliberate mendacity. ... One is +almost disposed to ask for an application to the clergy of the law +about obtaining money under false pretenses." (McCabe, The Story of +Religious Controversy, p. 353.)

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HOLY OILS, WATERS, AND FETISHES

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These sacred and sanctified wonder-working objects are too +numerous to more than mention a few of the most celebrated. +Miraculous "waters" were in great profusion distilled or in some +weird way extracted from numbers of dead Saints, "blessed" for a +variety of purposes, and vended under the names of the productive +Saints; as "The Water of St. Ignatius," of Sts. Adelhaid, Vincent +Ferrer, Willibrord, etc. That of St. Hubert was notably a specific +for the bite of mad dogs. The formula for these holy extracts or +emulsions, with their properties and miraculous effects, are set +forth in the official "Rituale Romanum." (CE. xv, 564.) The widely +celebrated "Oil of Saints" was in immense vogue and possessed +wonderful properties, as vouched by CE. under that title. This holy +unction was "an oily substance which is said to have flowed, or +still flows, from the relics or burial places of certain saints, +and water which has in some way come in contact with their relics. +These oils are or have been used by the faithful, with the belief +that they will cure bodily and spiritual ailments the custom +prevailed of pouring oil over the relics or reliquaries of martyrs +and then gathering it in vases, sponges or pieces of cloth. This +oil, oleum martyris, was distributed among the faithful as a remedy +against sickness. ... At present the most famous of the oils of +saints is the oil of St. Walburga (Walburgis oleum). It flows from +the stone slab and the surrounding metal plate on which rest the +relies of St. Walburga in her church in Eichstadt in Bavaria. The +fluid is caught in a silver cup and is distributed to the faithful +for use against diseases of the body and soul. Similarly of the Oil +of St. Menas, of which thousands of little flasks have recently +been discovered, found at many Places in Europe and Africa; there +is also a like Oil of St. Nicholas of Myra, which emanates from his

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relics at Bari in Italy, whither they were brought in 1087. A +certain substance like flour, is recorded by St. Gregory of Tours, +to emanate from the sepulchre of St. John the Evangelist; also that +from the sepulchre of the Apostle St. Andrew emanated manna in the +form of flour and fragrant oil." A list half a column long is given +of other saints from whose relics or sepulchres oil is said to have +flowed. (CE. xi, 228-9.)

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THE AGNUS DEI

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"These are discs of wax impressed with the figure of a lamb; +and blessed at stated seasons by the Pope. The rule still followed +is that the great consecration of the Agnus Dei takes place only in +the first year of each pontificate and every seventh year +afterwards. It seems probable that they had their beginning in some +pagan usage of charms or amulets, from which the ruder populace +were weaned by the employment of this Christian substitute [charm +or amulet] blessed by prayer. The early history of Catholic +ceremonial affords numerous parallels for this Christianizing of +pagan rites. ... So the purpose of these consecrated medallions is +to protect those who wear or possess them from all malign +influences. In the prayers of blessing, special mention is made of +the perils from storm and pestilence, from fire and flood, and also +of the dangers to which women are exposed in childbirth. Miraculous +effects have been believed to follow the use of these objects of +piety. Fires are said to have been. extinguished, and floods +stayed. They were much subject to counterfeit, the making of which +has been strictly prohibited by various papal bulls," -- (this +proving the obtaining of money by false pretenses in the papal. +monopoly of peddling them to the moron Faithful). "There are also +Agnus Deis made from wax mingled with the dust which is, believed +to be that of the bones of martyrs; these are called Paste de' SS. +Martiri, or Martyrs' Paste." (CE. i, 220.) The peddling of these +frauds has not yet been forbidden by the criminal code, nor by the +Vicars of God who gain by them. Three pages of a separate article, +are devoted to the potent prayers in Liturgies, several in doggerel +Latin verse, on pages 221-223. One of these inspired Papal +invocations over the sacred amulets is quoted by Dr. White:

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"O God, ... we humbly beseech thee that thou wilt bless +these waxen forms, figured with the image of an innocent lamb, +.... that, at the touch and sight of them, the faithful shall +break forth into praises, and that the crash of hailstorms, +the blast of hurricanes, the violence of tempests, the fury of +winds, and the malice of thunderbolts may be tempered, and +evil spirits flee and tremble before the standard of the holy +cross, which is graven upon them." (White, Warfare between +Science and Religion. i, 343.)

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The recurrence in modern times of the above recited +catastrophes raised by imps of the devil, not unseldom doing damage +even to the Faithful and to their sacred edifices, must be due to +the punible neglect to have a supply of these thaumaturgic crackers +on hand at the time and place of the flagellations of the Evil One.

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THE TRAGEDY OF THE "MYSTICAL MARRIAGE"

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What to a Rationalist may seem a very inhuman superstition -- +though often attenuated by the clerical formula "With all my +worldly goods I thee endow," pronounced to his earthly vicar by the +happy "Bride of Jesus Christ," is the unctuously so-called Mystical +Marriage, the nuptial ceremony whereby a deluded female enters into +the joys of her Lord without actually sharing them. This holy +mummery is thus described by the oft-cited Exponent of Catholic +Truth:

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"Christian virginity has been considered from the +earliest centuries as a special offering made by the soul to +its spouse, Christ. ... In many of the lives of the Saints, +the mystical marriage consists of a vision in which Christ +tells a soul that He takes it for His bride, presenting it +with the customary ring, and the apparition is accompanied by +a ceremony; the Blessed Virgin Mary, saints and angels are +present. ... Moreover, as a wife should share in the life of +her husband, and as Christ suffered for the redemption of +mankind, the mystical bride enters into a more intimate +participation of His sufferings, -- [casus omissus being the +sharing of the nuptial joys also involved in the notion of +marriage]. Accordingly, in three cases out of four, the +mystical marriage has been granted to stigmatics. History +[priest-written, of course] has recorded seventy-seven +mystical marriages, in connection with female saints, blesseds +and venerables"; -- a number of whom are named, including, +appropriately, St. Mary Magdalene dei Pazza -- "of the Crazy +Ones" -- as were they all. (CE. ix, 703.)

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THE "TRIUMPH" OF CHRISTIANITY

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"Destruction to the Triumphant Beast!" +Giordano Bruno.

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"Ecrasez l'Infame!" +Voltaire.

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Even MORE INDUCIVE than its own sweet reasonableness and +persuasive truth, as accredited by the records and vouchers we have +examined, were several very effective forcible aids to the +propagation of the new Faith in the hearts and minds -- and upon +the bodies -- of the Pagan populations. The strange phenomenon of +the persistence of Christianity into the XXth Century can be +understood only by consideration of the means employed for, and the +medium of un-culture permitting, the propagation of this forged +faith through the centuries of the Dark Ages of Faith, with its +medieval "hangover" into the present scientific era.

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PRIESTLY TERRORISM +GOD-ORDAINED MURDER FOR UNBELIEF

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The Jewish forgers of the near-sacred Books of Enoch, Esdras, +etc., had pilfered from the Sacred Books and System of Zoroaster of +Persia, their superstitions of angels and devils and hell-fire, and +had invented the infernal doctrines of Original Sin and eternal +damnation therefor, -- all which counterfeit passed to and became +current among the religious zealots of the debased Judaism then in +vogue. Attributing their "revelation" or invention to Jesus Christ +himself, the second-century forging Fathers of the new Faith bodily +plagiarized these ready-made Pagan-Jewish superstitions, and by the +potent "Sign of the Cross" metamorphosed them into holy +"revelations" and inspired truths, the which to doubt was to be +damned.

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The fanatic Hebrew religion and its derivative Christianity +are the only religions ever known on earth based on and maintained +by systematic persecution and murder. God-given laws of murder for +disbelief were decreed at Sinai. A holy monopoly of priests was +founded, and the divine ukase ordained: "They shall keep their +priesthood, and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to +death." (Num. iii, 10.) Murder was God-decreed: "The man that will +do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest. ... even +that man shall die." (Deut. xvii, 12.) Again the Jealous God +decrees: "He that sacrificeth to any other god -- [thus admitting +the other gods] -- save unto Yahweh alone, he shall be utterly +destroyed." (Ex. xxii, 20; Deut. xvii, 2-5.) The ne plus ultra of +inspired atrocity of Divine legislation is this infamy devised by +priests and attributed to their mythic God: "If thy brother, the +son of thy mother, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or +thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, +saying, Let us go serve other [more civilized] gods, ... Thou shalt +not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shalt thine eye +pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: +But thou shalt surely kill him: thine hand shall be the first upon +him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. +And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die"! (Deut. xiii, 6, +8-10; xvii, 2-7.) Old Elijah murdered by his God's help two

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companies of soldiers and their captains by calling down fire from +heaven, and 450 priests of Baal and 400 priests of the phallic +Asherahs, to prove by these 850 murders "if I be a man of the +gods." (2 Kings, i, 12.) His old side-partner Elisha stood by and +watched God-sent bears which he had invoked tear and eat forty +small children who ill-manneredly thumbed their noses at his old +bald pate; and throughout the blessed Old Testament of God some +hundreds of thousands of people were murdered by God outright and +by his holy priestly agents, simply for differences of opinion or +of conduct with respect -- or disrespect -- to the holy Hebrew God +and religion. Only, fortunately, probably little of it is true.

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The Son of the Hebrew God came in course of time to Jewry +ostensibly to make amends for some of his Father's damning +vengeances. He came "to fulfill the law"; not only that, he overdid +it and added to it sundry fiery climaxes of cursing and damnation, +religious bigotry and intolerance unique to the "Gospel of Love" +and of redemptive salvation. For sanctions ad terrorem of the new +preachments of Christ who "came to bring not peace but the sword," +Jesus himself kindled the fires of Hell and decreed eternal +damnation for unbelief: "He that believeth not shall be damned"; +"Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire"; "Except ye +repent, ye shall all likewise perish"; "He that believeth not the +Son, the wrath of God abideth on him"! These genial persuasions to +belief in the priests were added to by Paul the Persecutor; harking +back to his God's Law of Sinai: "He that despised Moses' law died +without mercy; ... Of how much sorer punishment ... shall he be +thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Son of God?" -- "The +same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, and shall be +tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy +angels and of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment aseendeth +forever and ever: and they shall have no rest day or night" from +"the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God"! All this is for the +happy Hereafter; but the pious deviltry begins by Hell-on-earth, as +the gentle Jesus himself prescribed: "Those mine enemies, which +would not that I reign over them, bring hither, and slay them +before me." (Luke, xix, 27.) The whole body of Apostles appealed +for Divine permit, that "we command fire to come down from heaven, +and consume them" (Luke ix, 54), who sought to imitate their pious +devil-enchantments. Peter, Prince of Apostles, takes up the bloody +cue: Every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be +destroyed" (Acts, iii, 23); and Bigot Paul enjoins persecution, +boycott and murder for the dissentient: "For there are many unruly +and vain talkers ... whose mouths must be stopped" (Titus, i, 10, +11): and "He that troubleth you ... I would they were even cut off" +(Gal. v, 10, 12), The Church Persecutrix is thus amply warranted of +its holy task of "preserving the purity of the Faith" by fire and +sword. Right quickly it began to "deal damnation 'round the land on +all they deemed the foe" of the Faith and its priests. The rule of +death to heretics was proclaimed by the "Prince" and executed by +sword and stake by his holy "Successors" so long as they were let: +"There shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring +in heresies, ... and bring upon themselves swift destruction" (2 +Peter, ii, 1); and his arch-coadjutor Paul continued to go up and +down the land "breathing out threatenings and slaughter" against +all who despised his holy preachments.

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As we shall hear confessed: "Toleration came in only when +Faith went out; lenient measures were resorted to only where power +to apply more severe measures was wanting"! (CE. vii, 262.) The +infernal fact that Intolerance is the "natural accompaniment" of +Religion, and that obsessed religionists are no different from a +man-burning mob of lynchers, is thus again confessed: "A kind of +iron law would seem to dispose mankind to religious intolerance. +(p. 35.) ... When Christianity became the religion of the Empire, +and still more when the peoples of Northern Europe became Christian +nations, the close alliance of Church and State. ... heresy, in +consequence, was a crime which secular rulers were bound in duty to +punish. ... The heretic, in a word, was simply an outlaw whose +offense, in the popular mind, deserved and sometimes received a +punishment as summary as that which is often dealt out in our day +by an infuriated populace to the [supposed] authors of justly +detested crimes. That such intolerance was not peculiar to +Catholicism, but was the NATURAL ACCOMPANIMENT OF DEEP RELIGIOUS +CONVICTION in those, also, who abandoned the Church, is evident +from the measures taken by some of the Reformers -- [ex-children of +True Church, who were there schooled and drilled in the infamies] +-- against those who differed from them in matters of belief. ... +Moreover, ... the spirit of intolerance prevalent in many of the +American colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries +may be cited in proof thereof." (CE. viii, 35, 36.) The only way to +kill the pernicious flower of Faith is to uproot and destroy the +noxious weed with truth!

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THE GOSPEL OF FEAR AND TREMBLING

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Such as this, repeated ad infinitum for terror, coupled with +the threats of the quick "Second Coming," when the Unbelievers +should receive reward "unto the resurrection of damnation" (John v, +29), effectively seared the Gospel of fear and trembling into the +superstitious Pagan dupes of Christianity.

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Hear for a moment the zealous Father Tertullian throw the fear +of Hell into the trembling Pagan patrons of the theater and the +circus. As quoted by Gibbon from the De Spectaculis (Ch. 30), they +are introduced with some pertinent words descriptive of the spirit +of bigoted Christianity: "These rigid sentiments, which had been +unknown to the ancient world, appear to have infused a spirit of +bitterness into a system of love and harmony. The ties of blood and +friendship were frequently torn asunder by the difference of +religious faith; and the Christians, who, in this world, found +themselves oppressed by the power of the Pagans, were sometimes +seduced by resentment and spiritual pride to delight in the +prospect of their future triumph. 'You are fond of spectacles, +exclaims the stern Tertullian; 'expect the greatest of all +spectacles, the last and eternal judgment of the universe. How +shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so +many proud monarchs, and fancied gods, groaning in the lowest abyss +of darkness; so many magistrates, who persecuted the name of the +Lord, liquefying in fiercer fires than they ever kindled against +Christians; so many sage philosophers blushing in red-hot flames +with their deluded scholars; so many celebrated poets trembling +before the tribunal, not of Minos, but of Christ; so many +tragedians, more tuneful in the expression of their own sufferings;

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so many dangers --.' But the humanity of the reader will permit me +to draw a veil over the rest of this infernal description, which +the zealous African pursues in a long variety of affected and +unfeeling witticisms." (Gibbon, Ch. xv, p. 146-7.)

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UNBORN BABES TO BURN FOREVER

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The damnable doctrine of Infant Damnation was one of the most +terrifying and effective impostures of the Church to drive helpless +victims into the fold of Christ. Infamous enough was the earlier +doctrine of exclusive salvation, that the unbaptized adult, the +individual outside Church was the heir to eternal damnation. But +soon the terror was extended to the just-born infant, to even the +fetus in its womb. St. Augustine affirmed this atrocity with all +his vehemence; all the Fathers without exception dinned it +eternally, -- as yet today. A treatise of the greatest authority, +De Fide, long attributed to Augustine, but now known to be the work +of Bishop St. Fulgentius (CE. vi, 317) thus states the horrid +doctrine: "Be assured, and doubt not, that not only men who have +attained the use of their reason, but also little children who have +begun to live in their mothers' womb and have there died, or who, +having been just born, have passed away from the world without the +sacrament of holy baptism, administered in the name of the Father, +Son and Holy Ghost, must be punished by the eternal torture of +undying fire; for although they have committed no sin by their own +will, they have nevertheless drawn with them the condemnation of +original sin, by their carnal conception and nativity." (sec. 70.) +Lecky, who quotes the passage, thus comment the effects as +witnessed in practice throughout the Middle Ages: "Nothing indeed +can be more curious, nothing more deeply pathetic, than the record +of the many ways by which the terror-stricken mothers attempted to +evade the awful sentence of their Church. Sometimes the baptismal +water was sprinkled upon the womb; sometimes the still-born child +was baptized, in hopes that the Almighty would antedate the +ceremony; sometimes the mother invoked the Holy Spirit to purify by +His immediate power the infant that was to be born; sometimes she +received the Host or obtained absolution, and applied them to the +benefit of her child. For the doctrine of the Church had wrung the +mother's heart with an agony that was too poignant for even that +submissive age to bear." (Rationalism in Europe, i, 362-364.) And +all this on account of an apple eaten four thousand years before +they were born; willed by the Deity who had foreordained their +birth and premature death, before His Holy Church could come at the +Baptismal fees!

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A CONTRAST IN TOLERANCE

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With the miraculous "conversion of Constantine" -- to at least +the practical advantages of Christianity as providing numerous +partisans to his ambitious cause and great numbers of recruits to +his armies, the Church of Christ emerged from obscurity and +catacombs; by dint of servile flatteries, bold impostures, and +shameless forgeries, of which we have seen examples, it quickly +insinuated itself into imperial favor and popular regard, and soon +dominated the superstitious court and populace. This was a signal +triumph for Faith, which now became popular and the means to +preferment; the truth of the Christ did now more rapidly spread and

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abound. That such considerations, much more of this material world +worldly than of the other-world of the spiritual, best further the +cause of Christ and are its most powerful propaganda, is thus +delicately confessed: "When a Government, for instance, reserves +its favors and functions for the adherents of the State religion, +the army of civil servants becomes a more powerful body of +missionaries than the ordained ministers"! (CE. vii, 259.) Thus +began that fullest League with Death and Covenant with Hell between +State and Church, persistent yet to this day!

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THE EDICT OF MILAN (313)

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But until the Christian priests poisoned his mind with their +arrogant pretensions, Constantine was truly liberal in his policy +of "religious indifferentism" or toleration. His broad-minded and +states-man-like grasp of the principles of liberty of belief in any +and all forms of religious superstition, or in none at all, rose to +heights never since attained until Thomas Jefferson's Virginia +Statute for Religious Freedom, reflected in Art. VI and Amendment +I of the Federal Constitution. Constantine's Edict of Milan, of +313, was the first charter of religious freedom and toleration, +securing equality and liberty of worship to the Christians, -- and +very quickly repudiated by them as against all others; it is +preserved and thus quoted by Lactantius:

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"Not many days after the victory, Licinius ... on the +ides of June (13th), while he and Constantine were consuls for +the third time, he commanded the following edict for the +restoration of the Church, directed to the president of the +province, to be promulgated --

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"When we, Constantine and Licinius, emperors, had an +interview at Milan, and conferred together with respect to the +good and security of the commonweal, it seemed to us that, +amongst those things that are profitable to mankind in +general, the reverence paid to the Divinity merited our first +and chief attention, and that it was proper that the +Christians and all others should have liberty to follow that +mode of religion which to each of them appeared best; so that +God, who is seated in heaven, might be benign and propitious +to us, and to everyone under our government. And therefore we +judged it a salutary measure, and one highly consonant to +right reason, that no man should be denied leave of attaching +himself to the rites of the Christians, or to whatever other +religion his mind directed him, that thus the supreme +Divinity, to whose worship we freely devote ourselves, might +continue to devote His favor and beneficence to us. ... For it +befits the well-ordered State and the tranquillity of our +times that each individual be allowed, according to his own +choice, to worship the Divinity; and we mean not to derogate +aught from the honor due to any religion or its votaries." +(Lact., Of the Manner in Which the Persecuters Died, ch. +xlviii; ANF. VII, 320; Eusebius, HE. viii, 17.)

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CHRISTIAN INTOLERANCE

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But no sooner had the priests of the new Superstition foisted +themselves securely into power, and by their threats of hell-fire +dominated the superstitious minds of the ex-Pagan Constantine and +his sons and successors, than the old decrees of persecution under +which the Christians had themselves suffered, were revamped and +with fiendish ferocity turned by them into engines of fearful +torture and destruction of Pagans, Jews, and "heretic" Christians +alike; and religious intolerance became the corner-stone of the +Church Persecutrix. In the famous Code of Theodosius, about 384, it +was at priestly instigation enacted:

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"We desire that all the people under our clemency should +live by that religion which divine Peter the apostle is said +to have given the Romans. ... We desire that heretics and +schismatists be subjected to various fines. ... We decree also +that we shall cease making sacrifices to the gods. And if +anyone has committed such a crime, let him be stricken with +the avenging sword." (Cod. Theod. xvi, 1, 2; v, 1; x, 4.)

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What a shaming Christian contrast to the Pagan Edict of Milan, +granting religious liberty and tolerance to all! In these laws of +the now "Christian" empire priestly intolerance is made the law of +the land; the accursed words "Inquisition of the Faith" and +"Inquisitors" first appear in this Christian Code. "Theodosius I +was called the Great because he was the first Emperor to act +against heathenism, and also because he contributed to the victory +over the Arians." (CE. iii, 101.)

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Even the "Infidel" Moslem, in his crude Koran, teaches a +doctrine of tolerance to shame the Bible and the Christians: "Those +who follow the Jewish religion, the Christians, the Sabeans, and +whatever others believe in God and practice doing good, all these +shall receive their recompense from the Lord. ... Virtue does not +consist in turning the face towards the East nor towards the West +to pray, but in being tolerant." (Quran, ix, 59, 76; -- from +Spanish text.)

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FAITH ENFORCED BY LAWS OF MURDER

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Holy Fraud and Forgery having achieved their initial triumph +for the Faith, the "Truth of Christ" must now be maintained and +enforced upon humanity by a millennial series of bloody brutal +Clerical Laws of pains and penalties, confiscations, civil +disabilities, torture, and death by rack, fire and sword, which +constitute the foulest chapter of the Book of human history -- the +History of the Church!

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When the Christians were weak and powerless and subjected to +occasional persecutions as "enemies of the human race," they were +vocal and insistent advocates of liberty of conscience and freedom +to worship whatever God one chose; the Christian "Apologies" to the +Emperors abound in eloquent pleas for religious tolerance; and this +was granted to them and to all by the Edict of Milan and other +imperial Decrees. But when by the favor of Constantine they got +into the saddle of the State, they at once grasped the sword and

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began to murder and despoil all who would not pretend to believe as +the Catholic priest commanded them to believe. When today the +Church screams "Persecution!" and "Bigotry!" at every criticism and +every attempt to restrict it in some of its presumptuous +usurpations, let it recall a few of the laws of intolerance, +plunder and death which it procured and enforced from the moment it +got the prostituted power, so long as that power lasted.

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Beginning with Constantine, and under succeeding "Christian" +emperors, there is a series of scores of laws which the Christians +procured to be enacted for the suppression and persecution to death +of Pagans, heretics and Jews. These laws and edicts are to be found +in the Codes of Theodosius and of Justinian, the two famous +codifleations of Roman Law. To exhibit the progressive and +persistent system of proscription to which all but themselves were +persecutingly subjected by the "Orthodox" Christians, I shall +simply quote the titles of some of these laws, with indication of +the names of the Emperors issuing them, the dates and number of the +laws, and the Code or other source in which it is preserved.

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LAWS OF CONSTANTINE

+ +

The earliest laws of Constantine were those granting religious +toleration, as the Edict of Milan (313) already quoted, and laws +for the redress of injuries done to Christians; such as release of +prisoners and those in servitude, and the restoration of property; +chapter 36 declares that "The Church is the heir of those who leave +no kindred; and free gifts to it are confirmed"; chapter 41: "Those +who have purchased property belonging to the Church or received it +as a gift, are to restore it." (Eusebius, Vita Constantine, N&PNF. +Bk. II, chs. xxiv-xliii.)

+ +

"Edict to the People of the Provinces Concerning the Error of +Polytheism." (Ib. chs. xlviii-xlix.)

+ +

"Granting Money to the Churches." (Ib. Bk, x, ch. vi.)

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"Catholic Clergy exempt from Certain Civic Duties." (Code +Theod. xvi, 2, 1; 313.) "The Catholic Church freed from Tribute." +(Id. xi, 1, 1; 815.) "Clergymen freed from Financial Burdens." (Id. +xvi, 2, 2; 319.) "The Church allowed to Receive Bequests." (Id. +xvi, 2, 4; 321.)

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"Bishop's Powers as Judges and Witnesses": "Whatever may be +settled by a sentence of bishops shall ever be held as sacred and +venerable ... All testimony given, even by a single bishop, shall +be accepted without hesitation, by every judge, neither shall the +testimony of any other witness be heard, when the testimony of a +bishop is brought forward by either party"! (Const. Sirm. i; 333.)

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"The Day of the Sun a Time of Rest." "All judges, and city +folk and all craftsmen shall rest on the venerated day of the Sun." +(Cod. Just. iii, 12, 2; 321.)

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"As it has seemed most unworthy that the Day of the Sun, +famous by its venerable character, ... Therefore on the festive +day." (Cod. Theod. ii, 8, 1; 321.)

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A number of laws follow in favor of the Pagans, and while +prohibiting "private divination and soothsaying," and "Malevolent +Magic Prohibited, but Beneficial Magic Encouraged"; also exempting +Pagan Flamens, priests and magistrates from sundry restrictions and +disabilities. No law of Constantine seems to be preserved which +prescribes active persecution; he seems to have sought to hold an +even balance of toleration to Pagans and Christians. But that he +did enact such laws seems to be proved by recital in the first of +the laws of his sons, Constantius and Constans, who were Arian +heretics.

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LAWS OF CONSTANTIUS AND CONSTANS

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"Sacrifice Prohibited.": "Let superstition cease and the folly +of sacrifices be abolished. Whoever has dared in the face of the +law of the divine prince, our father [Constantine] ... to make +sacrifices, shall have appropriate penalty, and immediate sentence +dealt to him." (Cod. Theod. xvi, 10, 2; 341.)

+ +

"All Temples Closed and Sacrifices Forbidden." "but if any one +commit any offense of this sort, let him fall by the avenging +sword," and his property forfeited; judges neglecting to "mete out +penalties for these offenses, they shall be similarly punished." +(Cod. Theod. xvi, 10, 4; 846.)

+ +

"Sacrificing and Idolatry Punishable by Death." "We order that +all found guilty of attending sacrifices or of worshipping idols +shall suffer capital punishment." (Id. xvi, 10, 6; 356.)

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LAWS OF GRATIAN AND THEODOSIUS

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"Wills of Apostate Christians to be Set Aside": "The right of +making a will shall be taken from Christians who become pagans; and +if such persons make wills, they shall be set aside without regard +to circumstances." (Cod. Theod. xvi, 7, 1; 381: +cf. Cod. Justin. i, 7, 2; 382.)

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"The Right to Bequeath or Inherit Property Denied Apostates": +"We deny to Christians and the faithful who have adopted pagan +rites and religion all power of making a will in favor of any +person whatsoever, in order that they may be without the Roman law +[outlaws]; ... even of enjoying a will with the power of acquiring +an inheritance." (Cod. Theod. xvi, 7, 2; 383.) "The Right of Making +a Will Denied Christians Who enter Temples." ( Id. xvi, 7, 3; 383.)

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LAWS OF THEODOSIUS AND VALENTINIAN

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"Testamentary Disqualification for Christian Apostates," and +Outlawry as Witnesses. -- "Those who betray the sacred faith and +profane holy baptism are shut off from association of all and from +giving testimony. ... They may not exercise the right of making a +will, nor enter upon any inheritance; they may not be made anyone's +heir." (Id. xvi, 7, 4; 391.)

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"Sacrificing and Visiting Shrines Prohibited." (Id. xvi, 10, +10; 391.) -- "Sacrifices Forbidden and Temples Closed." (Id. xvi, +10, 11; 391.)

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"PAGANISM OUTLAWED." -- "IF any one dares [to sacrifice, +etc.], let any man be free to accuse him and let him receive, as +one guilty of lese majeste, ... for it is sufficiently a crime." +(Id. xvi, 10. 12; 392.)

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LAWS OF HONORIUS AND ARCADIUS

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"Pagan Holidays Abolished." (Cod. Theod. ii, 8, 22; 895.) -- +"Privileges of Pagan Priests Abolished." (Id. xvi, 10, 14; 396.) -- +"Rural Temples to be Destroyed." (Id. xvi. 10, 16; 399.) -- +"Temples to be Appropriated by the Churches." (Id. xvi, 5, 43; +408.) -- "Temples to be Appropriated by the Churches. Temple +Buildings and their Revenues to be Confiscated and idols and +Shrines to be Destroyed." (Id. xvi, 5, 43; xvi, 10, 19; 407.)

+ +

"Only Catholics to Serve as Palace Guards." (Cod. Theod. xvi. +5, 42; 408.)

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"Laws Against the Pagans to be Enforced": "The Donatists and +other vain heretics and those others who cannot be converted to the +worship of the Catholic communion, Jews and Gentiles who are +vulgarly known as pagans; ... Let all judges understand, and not +fail to carry out all decrees against such persons." (Id. xvi,. 5, +46; 409.)

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"Pagans Barred from Civil and Military Offices." (Id. xvi, 10, +21; 416.)

+ +

"Existing Laws against Pagans to be Enforced." (Id. xvi, 10, +22; 423.) -- "Pagans Who Sacrifice Shall Lose their Property and be +Exiled"' (Id. xvi, 10, 23; 423.)

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"Pagan Superstition to be Rooted Out": "We are extirpating all +heresies and all falsehoods, all schisms and all superstitions of +the pagans and all errors that are inimicable to the Catholic +religion. ... And since all attempt at supplication is denied +forever, they will be punished with the severity befitting crimes." +(Id. xvi, 5, 63; 423.)

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"Pagans Barred from Pleading a Case or Serving as Soldiers": +"... and every sect unfriendly with the Catholics should be driven +out of every city in order that they may not be sullied by the +contagious presence of criminals. We deny to Jews or pagans the +right of pleading a case in court or of serving as soldiers." +(Const. Sirm. No. 6; 425.)

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LATER LAWS AGAINST PAGANISM

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"Pagan Rites Forbidden and Bequests for Pagan Cults +Prohibited." (Cod. Just. i, 11, 9; 472.)

+ +

"Baptized Persons who follow Pagan Practices to Suffer Death. +Provisions for the Conversion of the Unbaptized. Pagans Forbidden +to Give Instruction." (Cod. Just. 1, 11, 10; no date given.)

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"Pagans Barred from Office and their Real Property +Confiscated." "The Emperors Justin and Justinian. ... It is our +intention to restore the existing laws which affect the rest of the

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heretics of whatever name they are, (and we label as heretic +whoever is not a member of the Catholic Church and of our orthodox +and holy faith); likewise the pagans who attempt to introduce the +worship of many gods, and the Jews and the Samaritans. ... We +forbid any of the above-mentioned persons to aspire to any dignity +or to acquire civil or military office or to attain to any rank." +(Id. i, 5, 12; 527.)

+ +

Thus was Pagan Superstition proscribed and destroyed by +Christian law and sword; and the identical Pagan Superstitions +under the veneer of the name of Christian established and +enthroned. The subject is thoroughly examined by Prof. Maude A. +Huttmann, in The Establishment of Christianity Through the +Proscription of Paganism; (Columbia University Press, 1914).

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BLOODY RECORD BOASTED

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A graphic sketch of the origin, the universal scope, and the +crushing effect of the early imperial laws, supplemented and +expanded by those of medieval and more modern times, is given by +CE., related with all the sinister and cynical insolence, sophistry +and hypocrisy of intolerant bigotry. To its Christ it imputes the +horrid justification of the sword and the infernal principles of +butchery whereby the Church Murderess has "made a hell of earth to +merit heaven." This recital is not alone of ancient sacred history; +CE. admits: "These primitive views on heresy have been faithfully +transmitted and acted on by the Church in subsequent ages; there is +no break in the tradition from St. Peter to Pious X." (vii, 259.) +The principles are yet alive and cherished, their practical +application has only for the time being "fallen into abeyance," +only, for the reason that in these modern times "the power to apply +more severe measures is wanting." he admitted ecclesiastical record +of repression and murder in its forged and fraudulent faith:

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Constantine had taken upon himself the office of lay +bishop (episcopus externus) and put the secular arm at the +service of the Church, the laws against heretics became more +and more rigorous. Under the purely ecclesiastical discipline +no temporal punishment could be inflicted on the obstinate +heretic, except the damage which might arise to his personal +dignity through being deprived of all intercourse with his +former brethren. But under the Christian emperors rigorous +measures were enforced against the goods and persons of +heretics. From the time of Constantine to Theodosius and +Valentinian III (313-424) various penal laws were enacted +against heretics as being guilty of crime against the State. +In both the Theodosian and Justinian codes they were styled +infamous persons; all intercourse was forbidden to be held +with them; they were deprived of all offices of profit and +dignity in the civil administration, while all burdensome +offices, both of the camp and of the curia, were imposed upon +them; they were disqualified from disposing of their own +estates by will, or of accepting estates bequeathed to them by +others; they were denied the right of giving or receiving +donations, of contracting, buying, and selling; pecuniary +fines were imposed upon them; they were often proscribed and +banished, and in many cases scourged before being sent into

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exile. In some particularly aggravated cases sentence of death +was pronounced upon heretics, though seldom executed in the +time of the Christian emperors of Rome. Theodosius is said to +be the first who pronounced heresy a capital crime; this law +was passed in 382 against [several named sects of heretics]. +Heretical teachers were forbidden to propagate their +doctrines, publicly or privately; to hold public disputations; +to ordain bishops, presbyters, or other clergy; to hold +religious meetings; to build conventicles or to avail +themselves of money bequeathed to them for that purpose. +Slaves were allowed to inform against their heretical masters +and to purchase their freedom by coming over to the Church. +The children of heretical parents were denied their patrimony +and inheritance unless they returned to the Catholic Church. +The books of heretics were ordered to be burned. (Vide Codex +Theodosianus, lib. XVI, tit. 5, "De Hereticism")

+ +

"This legislation remained in force and with even greater +severity in the Kingdoms formed by the victorious barbarian +invaders on the ruins of the Roman Empire in the West. The burning +of heretics was first decreed in the eleventh century. The Synod of +Verona (1184) imposed on bishops the duty to search out heretics in +their dioceses and hand them over to the secular power. Other +Synods, and the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) under Pope Innocent +III, repeated and enforced this decree, especially the Synod of +Toulouse (1229), which established inquisitors in every parish (one +priest and two laymen). Everyone was bound to denounce heretics, +the names of the witnesses were kept secret; after 1243, when +Innocent III sanctioned the laws of Emperor Frederick, II and of +Louis IX against heretics, torture was applied in trials; the +guilty persons were delivered up to the civil authorities and +actually burnt at the stake.

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"Paul III (1542) established, and Sixtus V organized, the +Roman Congregation of the Inquisition, or Holy Office, a regular +court of justice [!] dealing with heresy and heretics. (See Roman +Congregations.) The Congregation of the Index, instituted by St. +Pius V, has for its province the care of faith and morals in +literature; it proceeds against, printed matter very much as the +Holy Office proceeds against persons (see Index of Prohibited +Books). The present pope, Pius X (1909), has decreed the +establishment in every diocese of a board of censors and of a +vigilance committee whose functions are to find out and report on +writings and persons tainted with the heresy of Modernism (Encycl. +'Pascendi,' 8 Sept. 1907). -- [At another place the pious clerical +reason for this flagrant attempt against the mind and its liberty +of inquiry is thus with unctuous priestly speciousness stated: "for +it is notorious that clever sophistry coated with seductive +language may render even gross errors of faith palatable to a +guilele and innocent heart"! (CE. xiv, 766).] -- The present-day +legislation against heresy has lost nothing of its ancient +severity; but the penalties on heretics are now only of the +spiritual order; all the punishments which require the intervention +of the secular arm have fallen into abeyance. ...

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"The Church's legislation on heresy and heretics is often +reproached with cruelty and intolerance. Intolerant it is; in fact +its raison d'etre is intolerance of doctrines subversive of the

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Faith. Cruelty only comes when the punishment exceeds the +requirements of the case. ... It suffices to remark that the +inquisitors only pronounced on the guilt of the accused and then +handed him over to the secular power to be dealt with according to +the laws framed by emperors and kings -- [at the instigation of the +Church!].

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"Toleration came in only when faith went out; lenient measures +were resorted to ONLY WHERE POWER TO APPLY MORE SEVERE MEASURES WAS +WANTING. ... Christ says: 'Do not think that I am come to send +peace upon earth,: I came not to send peace, but a sword.' The +history of heresy verifies this prediction"! (CE. vii, 256-262, +passim.)

+ +

The Church Persecutrix, under this forged Christ-Lie, has shed +oceans more of blood than of its boasted "light" upon religion-cursed Christendom. The only "light" it has diffused has been from +the flames of "heretic" cities, and the lurid fires of myriads of +Autos-da-Fe, kindled by hypocrite priests, burning in agony the +bodies of countless heroic men and women who scorned to prostitute +their minds to the sinister lies of priestcraft, and who have dared +defy with their lives the blighting "rule and ruin" dominion of the +power-lusting Church.

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With a shudder of undying loathing for the cruel cynical +Hypocrite, we may admire the sweet charity of tender mercy +displayed by the Holy Church of the Christ, exampled in the +sanctimonious Formula of Judgment whereby its Holy Inquisition +handed over the racked and broken errant Child of Faith to the +prostituted Secular Arm for the final Act of Murder -- the blessed +Auto-da-Fe, with a prayer for the hated heretics: "Ut quam +clementissime et sine sanguinis effusionem puniretur -- should be +punished as mildly as possible and without the shedding of blood"! +The while Their Holinesses kept a standing Decree of Indulgences +from the pangs of Purgatory for all the hoodlum Faithful who would +please and glorify God by attending the sacred ceremonials of +Burning, and especially to those who would aid God and the priests +by fetching fagots for the consecrated fires, and throw water on +the wood so that the priest-set flames would be slower in their +purifying work and allow the wrathing "Obstinate" longer time to +make Peace with God and Holy Church by meet Repentance; in which +event, the "reconciled" Child of Faith would be dragged from the +flames only partly cremated, and returned to prison cell there to +agonize out the remainder of his life in rapt contemplation of the +beauties and sweetness of the blessed Christian Religion, crooning +"Praise God from whom all blessings flow!"

+ +

The foregoing loathsome boasted record of the Church, sinister +and infamous as it is, may be complemented by the following cynical +and sophistical recital of the mental and moral debauch of +ignorance imposed by the Church, concluding with the formal +admission that "the theocratic State was called upon [by its +prostituted mistress the Church] to avenge with the pyre" defiance +of the lying fraudulent pretensions of the Church:

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"During the Middle Ages the Church guarded the purity and +genuineness of her Apostolic doctrine through the institution +of the ecclesiastical (and State) Inquisition. ... Following +the example of the Apostles, the Church today watches +zealously over the purity and integrity of her doctrine, since +on this rests her whole system of faith and morals, the whole +edifice of Catholic thought, ideals, and life. For this +purpose the Church instituted the Index of Prohibited Books, +which is intended to deter Catholics from the unauthorized +reading of books dangerous to faith or morals, for it is +notorious that clever sophistry coated with seductive language +may render even gross errors of faith palatable to a guileless +and innocent heart. (p. 766.) ... Now, formal heresy was +likewise strongly condemned by the Catholic Middle Ages; and +so the argument ran: Apostacy and heresy are, as criminal +offenses against God, far more serious crimes than high +treason, murder, or adultery. ... But, according to Romans +xiii, 11, seq., the secular authorities have the right to +punish, especially grave crimes, with death; consequently, +heretics may be not only excommunicated, but also justly +(juste) put to death' (St. Thomas, II-II, Q; xi, a, 3). ... +The earliest example of the execution of a heretic was the +beheading of the ring leader of the Priscillianists by the +usurper Maximum at Trier (385). Even St. Augustine, towards +the end of his life, favored State reprisals against the +Donatists. ... Influenced by the Roman code, which was rescued +from oblivion, Frederick II introduced the penalty of burning +for heretics by imperial law of 1224. The popes, especially +Gregory IX, favored the execution of this imperial law, in +which they saw an effective means for the preservation of the +Faith. ... Unfortunately, neither the secular nor the +ecclesiastical authorities drew the slightest distinction +between dangerous and harmless heretics, seeing forthwith in +every (formal) heresy a 'contumelia Creatoris,' which the +theocratic State was called upon to avenge with the pyre." +(CE. xiv, 766, 768.)

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"THE SECULAR ARM"

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"Hypocrites! Ye compass land and sea to make one proselyte, +and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell +than yourselves!" Jesus. (Matt. xxiii, 15.)

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"The barbarous penal forms of the Middle Ages are to be +credited, not to the Church, but to the State"! (CE. xiv, 768.) It +is a monstrous hypocritical perversion of truth to pretend, as the +Church ever does, that these inhuman and devastating legal +enactments and deeds of fire and blood, which ad horrendum we have +just read in faint outline from secular and ecclesiastical history, +and which brought several "Most Christian" nations to utter ruin, +moral and economic, were the voluntary and spontaneous expressions +of the social policy of Secular rulers, enacted and wrought against +their subjects in order to preserve the peace and safety of the +State and to regulate the civil and political conduct of their +peoples. The Church, by fraud and fear, brought the secular rulers +under her ignominious domination, and forced them by her threats, +as we have seen proved and admitted, to make and enforce these +infernal enactments and destructions. "This is the stale pretense

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of the Clergy in all countries, after they have solicited the +government to make penal laws against those they call heretics, or +schismaties, and prompted the magistrates to a vigorous execution, +then to lay all the odium on the civil power; for whom they have no +excuse to allege, but that such men suffered, not for religion, but +for disobedience to the laws." (Somers Tracts, vol. xii, p. 534; +cited by Buckle, Hist. of Civilization in England, i, p. 246.):

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But the Church waited not for the secular rulers to obey her +murderous behests to "avenge with the pyre" the crime of +disbelieving and deriding the Faith, nor did she lose time while +watching the execution of her commands of murder by the secular +arm. The Church was then itself a secular ruler over vast +territories, the stolen "Patrimony of Peter" or States of the +Church; and for those territories their Royal-Holinesses set the +example of murder and burning of their own heretics. His Holiness +Pope Gregory IX (1227-41) was, we are told" "very severe towards +heretics, who in those times were universally looked upon as +traitors and punished accordingly. ... When in 1224 Frederick II +ordered that heretics in Lombard should be burnt at the stake, +Gregory IX, then Papal Legate, approved and published the imperial +law. In 1231 the Pope enacted a law for Rome that heretics +condemned by an ecclesiastical court should be delivered to the +secular power to receive their 'due punishment.' This 'due +punishment' was death by fire for the obstinate and imprisonment +for life for the penitent. In pursuance of this law a number were +arrested in Rome, burnt at the stake, and imprisoned." (CE. vi, +797.) And it was in Rome, by law and command of His Royal-Holiness +Clement VIII, that the defier of 'the "Triumphant Beast," Giordano +Bruno, was burned alive in Rome in 1600.

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The hypocritical lie is repeated -- and in the same breath +belied. "Officially it was not the Church that sentenced +unrepenting heretics to death, more particularly to the stake ... +Gregory IX ... admitted the opinion, then prevalent among legists, +that heresy should be punished with death, seeing that it was +confessedly no less serious an offense than high treason. ... [The +succeeding popes went from opinions to acts.] In the Bull 'Ad +Extirpanda' (1252) Innocent IV says: 'When those adjudged guilty of +heresy have been given up to the civil power by the bishop or his +representative, or the Inquisition, the podesta or chief magistrate +of the city shall take them at once, and shall within five days at +the most, execute the laws made against them.' Moreover, he directs +that this Bull and the corresponding regulations of Frederick II +[for burning heretics] be entered in every city among the municipal +statutes under pain of excommunication, which was also visited on +those who failed to execute both the papal and the imperial +decrees. ... The passages [of the imperial decrees] which ordered +the burning of impenitent heretics were inserted in the papal +decretals. ... The aforesaid Bull 'Ad Extirpanda' remained +thenceforth a fundamental document of the Inquisition, renewed or +reinforced by several popes, Alexander IV (1254-61), Clement IV +(1265-68), Nicholas IV (1288-92), Boniface VIII (1294-1303), and +others. The civil authorities, therefore, were enjoined by the +popes, under pain of excommunication to execute the legal sentences +that condemned impenitent heretics to the stake. It is to be noted +that excommunication itself was no trifle, for, if the person

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excommunicated did not free himself from excommunication within a +year, he was held by the (papal) legislation of that period to be +a heretic, and incurred all the penalties that affected heresy." +(CE. viii, 34.)

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Here it may be remarked, that prescription or statute of +limitations runs not against the murderer. Thus Holy Church, who +has murdered and procured the murder of millions, can never escape +the just verdict and fatal sentence for her crimes before the bar +of Civilization. Impotent now, senile, but venomous still in +intention, she reeks yet with the blood of her slain; their ghosts, +like Banquo's, will never down. They cry yet to Humanity: Ecrasez +l'Infame!

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We have just read from CE. the confession that "the theocratic +State was called upon to avenge with the pyre" all forms of heresy +-- or hate for the Church -- as a "contumelia Creatoris." Again it +says -- again contradicting its false pretense that the State is +alone to be "credited?' with these pious infamies: "After the +Christianized Roman Empire had developed into a theocratic +(religious) State, it was compelled -- [by whom but by the Church +with its terrorizing threats to the superstitious rulers] -- to +stamp crimes against faith (apostasy, heresy, schism) as offenses +against the State. (cf. Cod. Justin., 1, 5, de Haer.: 'Quod in +religionem divinam commttitur, in omnium fertur injuriam.') +Catholic and citizen of the State became identical terms. +Consequently crimes against faith were high treason, and as such +were punishable with death." (CE. xiv, p. 768.) A truer statement +of the direful consequences of this enforced prostitution of the +"secular arm" of the State to the criminal purposes of the Church +in coercing its false and accursed religion upon humanity, cannot +be made than this confession, in specious and unctuous words: "The +role of heresy in history is that of evil generally. Its roots are +in corrupted human nature. It has come over the Church as predicted +by her Divine Founder; it has rent asunder the bonds of charity in +families, provinces, states, and nations; the sword has been drawn +and pyres erected both for its defense and its repression; misery +and ruin have followed in its track"! (CE. vii, 261.) The confessed +accursed record of Christianity!

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The utter dependence of the Church for the beginnings and for +the persistence of its bloody dominance, upon the extorted favors +and support of the prostituted "Secular Arm" of the State to do its +dirty work of subjection, is confessed and illustrated by two +instances, one with respect to the overthrow of Paganism, the other +accounting for the ultimate suppression of the early heretical +sects. Of the former, it is "credited" to the Emperor Gratian: "In +the same year, 375, he abolished all the privileges of the pagan +pontiffs and the grants for the support of the pagan worship. +Deprived of the assistance of the State, paganism rapidly lost +influence. ... He made apostasy a crime punishable by the State." +(CE. vi, 729.) With a clerical slur at the "fanciful speculations +of the Eastern sects so dear to the Eastern mind," oblivious of the +equally fanciful "Oriental speculations" which are the only source +of the holy dogmas of Western Christianism, it is cynically

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oblivion] -- under the anathema of the guardians of the +deporecorded: "but, lacking the support of the temporal power, they +sank -- [just as "orthodox" Christianity would have sunk to situm +fidei" -- holding the sword. (CE. vii, 259.)

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As elsewhere suggested, it is pertinent to remark, that +history would quickly repeat itself in this highly-to-be-desired +respect, with the withdrawal of "the support of the temporal +power," through the immense and illegal support yet given to the +Beggar Church through deadhead tax exemption on its thousands of +millions of dollars of ill-gotten, idle and hoarded properties.

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"St. Augustine seems to have originated the application of the +words 'Compel them to enter in,' to religious persecution. +Religious liberty he emphatically cursed: 'Quid est enim pejor, +mors animae quam libertas erroris? -- For which is worse, the death +of the soul than the liberty of error?' (Epistle clxvi.) Boniface +III decreed excommunication of any magistrate who either altered +the sentence of the Inquisition, or delayed more than six days in +carrying it into execution. In the beginning of the thirteenth +century, Innocent III instituted the Inquisition, and issued the +first appeal to princes to employ their power for the suppression +of heresy. In 1209, De Montfort (at Innocent's instigation), began +the massacre of the Albigenses. In 1215, the Fourth Council of the +Lateran enjoined all rulers, 'as they desired to be esteemed +faithful, to swear a public oath that they would labor earnestly, +and to the full extent of their power, to exterminate from their +dominions all those who were branded as heretics by the Church.' +The Council of Avignon, in 1209, enjoined all bishops to call upon +the civil power to exterminate heretics. The Bull of Innocent III +threatened any prince who failed to extirpate heretics from his +realm with excommunication, and with the loss of his realm." +(Lecky, History of the Rise and Progress of Rationalism in Europe, +vol. II, chap. iv, passim.)

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As confessedly "tolerance came in only when faith went out," +eternal gratitude and glory are the due meed of RATIONALISM, which +has struck the sword and the stake from the armory of Faith, and +left it a jaded sycophant begging "tolerance" of and for its bloody +self.

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England was rather distant from Rome and the English spirit +did not yield so debasedly as some others did to the orders and +dominion of priestcraft; but so early as Alfred the Great, so +vaunted by the Church for his piety and learning, we have this +picture of prostitution of State to Church; and the effects on +both: "In the joint code of laws published by Alfred and Guthrum, +apostasy was declared a crime, the payment of Peter's Pence was +commanded, and the practice of heathen rites was forbidden. ... But +the clergy, ... discharging in each district the functions of local +state officials, seem never to have quite regained the religious +spirit." (CE. i, 507.)

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Out of scores of instances of legal enactments made by +superstitious rulers under the terrors of papal threats, I cite +here but one, in the quaint words of a militant philosopher: +"Consequent to this claim of the Pope to be the Vicar Generall of

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Christ in the present Church is the doctrine of the fourth Counsell +of Lateran, held under Pope Innocent the third (Chap. 3, de +Haereticis), That if a King at the Popes admonition, doe not purge +his Kingdom of Haeresies, and being excommunicate for the same, doe +not give satisfaction within a year, his Subjects are absolved of +the bond of their obedience. Where, by Haeresies are understood all +opinions which the Church of Rome hath forbidden to be maintained." +(Hobbes, Leviathan, Pt. iv, ch. 44, p. 333; 1651.) The infallible +but presumptuous claim of the Vicars of God may be stated in the +terms of the famous Bull of the "Two Swords":

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"Under the control of the Church are two swords, that is, +two powers. ... Both swords are in the power of the Church, +the spiritual and the temporal; the spiritual is wielded in +the Church by the hand of the clergy; the secular is to be +employed for the Church by the hand of the civil authority, +but under the direction of the spiritual power. The one sword +must be subordinate to the other; the earthly power must +submit to the spiritual authority, as this has precedence of +the secular on account of its greatness and sublimity; for the +spiritual power has the right to establish and guide the +secular power, and also to judge it when it does not act +rightly. ... This authority, although granted to man, and +exercised by man, is not a human authority, but rather a +Divine one granted to Peter by Divine commission and confirmed +in him and his successors. Consequently, whoever opposes this +power ordained of God opposes the law of God." (Bull Unam +Sanctam, Boniface VIII, Nov. 18, 1302; CE. xv, 126.)

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Our review of the Forgery Founded Church having demonstrated +the monstrous falsity of every divine premise of this "Bull," the +hollow sham of these sonorous braggart phrases is ghastly apparent. +They are priestly lies!

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COMPULSORY AND WHOLESALE CONVERSION

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"And the Lord said unto his servant, Go into the highway +and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be +filled." Jesus. (Luke xiv, 28.)

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Disparaging the commands of its Lord to force them in, his +Vicarate apologizes: "Instances of compulsory conversions such as +have occurred at different periods of the Church's history must be +ascribed to the misplaced zeal of autocratic individuals." (CE. xi, +703.) The facts of history, as cited by CE. itself, belie this +apologetic clerical passing of the odium for such felonious duress +to autocratic individuals uninfluenced by the "moral" constraint of +the Church-beneficiary and unswayed by its anathemas and threats of +formal excommunication. A criminal who resorts to murder to prevent +the escape of the victims who support him, would readily threaten +murder to add greatly to the number of his supporting victims. It +was St. Augustine himself, greatest pillar and authority of the +Church Persecutrix, who first invoked, the Christ's fatal fanatic +command, "Compel them to come in," as complementary to the bloody +edicts of the earlier "Christian" emperors and of his own fatuous +fulminations against the "liberty of error," as above noticed. The +first temptation to come to Christ was by bribes, as when +Constantine offered a gold coin and a clean baptismal robe to all

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who would undergo that process; and the example of the Emperor in +favoring Christianity drew great numbers of servile subjects to the +feast of the Lord. We have read the cynical confession: that when +governments favor a religious sect by giving its adherents all the +offices and honors of the State and excluding all opponents, "the +army of civil servants becomes a more powerful body of missionaries +than the ordained ministers." When Clovis came to Christ he tolled +3000 of his retainers into the baptismal font with him at one time. +Pepin "had been filled with this lofty conception, consequently +extraordinary success attended the missionary labors of the Church. +... The conversion of the Avars had been attempted by the Bavarian +Duke; after their subjugation, they were placed under the +jurisdiction" of high prelates of the Church. (CE. v, 611.) "When +the conversion of their prince was publicly known, the (people) of +his kingdom are said to have flocked in crowds to receive the +Christian faith." (CE. i, 669.)

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When Charlemagne spent those seven days in Rome with His +Holiness, who tricked him into believing that "his imperial dignity +was an act of God, made known, of course, through the agency of the +Vicar of Christ" (CE. iii, 615), and they together formed those +"many great designs for the glory of God and the exaltation of the +Church," due execution of the command of the Christ, "Compel them +to come in," was one of the great designs conspired with His Vicar: +"True to his own and his father's understanding with the pope, he +invariably insisted on baptism as the sign of submission, punishing +with appalling barbarity any resistance, as when, in cold blood, he +beheaded in one day 4500 persons at Verdun, in A.D. 782. Under such +circumstances it is not wonderful that clerical influence extended +so fast. Always bearing in mind his engagement with the papacy, +that Roman Christianity should be enforced upon Europe wherever his +influence could reach, he remorselessly carried into execution the +penalty of death that he had awarded to the crimes of: 1. refusing +baptism; 2. false pretense of baptism; 3. relapse to idolatry; 4. +the murder of a bishop or priest; 5. human sacrifice; 6. eating +meat in Lent. To the pagan German his sword was a grim, but +convincing missionary." (Draper, The Intellectual Development of +Europe, i, 374.) This secular authority is confirmed by this +clerical admission; that under the Carlovingian Empire, "in war +conversion went hand in hand with victory; in peace Charles ruled +through bishops. ... The Teutonic Order began the great conflict +which after more than half a century of bloodshed dealt the death-blow to paganism in Prussia." (CE. iii, 700, 705.) Conversion by +force and arms continued through the Ages of Faith and brought +entire nations to Christ: "More lasting success followed the +attempts, patterned on the Crusades, to carry on wars of conversion +and conquest in those territories of north-eastern Europe peopled +by tribes that had lapsed from the Faith or that were still. +heathen; among such pagans were the Obotrites, Pomeranians, Wiltzi, +Serbs, Letts, Livonians, Finns, and Prussians. The preliminary work +was done in the twelfth century by missionaries. They were aided +with armed forces [by several kings and rulers]. From the beginning +of the thirteenth century Crusades were undertaken against Livonia, +Courland, Esthonia, and Prussia. In Lithuania Christianity did not +win until 1368." (CE. v, 612.) In Hungary, during the tenth and +eleventh centuries, "the new religion was spread by the sword. ...

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With these laws King St. Stephen brought over almost all his people +to the Catholic Faith. ... He [a later King] took strong measures +against those who had fallen away from the Faith." (CE. vii, +548-9.)

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Thus it was that by war and bloody imposition rather than by +washing in the Blood of the Lamb, "vast tribes of savages who had +always been idolaters, who were perfectly incapable, from their low +state of civilization, of forming any but anthropomorphic +conceptions of the Deity, or of concentrating their attention +steadily on any visible objeit, and who for the most part were +converted, not by individual persuasion, but by the commands of +their chiefs, embraced Christianity in such multitudes that their +habits soon became the dominating habits of the Church. From this +time the tendency to idolatry was irresistible. The old images were +worshipped under new names." (Lecky, Rationalism in Europe, i, +218.) The brand of conversion was marked by the outfit of +missionaries and military auxiliaries who first caught the +barbarians; and if the wrong kind got them first, it made all the +difference in the world in point of whether the result was the +intelligent working of the Holy Ghost or sheer ignorance. The, +great Bishop "Ulphilas (311-388) taught the Goths the Arian +theology; Arian kingdoms arose in Spain, Africa, Italy. The +Gepidae, Heruli, Vandals, Alans, and Lombards received a system +which they were as little capable of understanding as they were of +defending, and the Catholic bishops, the monks, the sword of +Clovis, the action of the papacy, made an end of it before the +eighth century." (CE. i, 707.) Arianism was very simple; it held +that there was but a One-Person God, and denied the Blessed Trinity +of Three-in-One. Thus Arianism was "an attempt to rationalize the +Creed by stripping it of mystery so far as the relation of Christ +to God was concerned" (Ib.). But this simple and de-mystified +theology, the non-Catholic barbarians were too ignorant to +understand; whereas, the other barbarians whose, minds were +enlightened by the Holy Ghost at the point of the Catholic sword, +were perfectly intelligent to comprehend the Mystery of the Holy +Trinity, -- which would have stumped Aristotle. The Arians had only +to follow the ordinary Multiplication Table -- "One times One is +One"; whereas the Orthodox. had to multiply curiously, -- "Three +times One is One!" The true formula is -- Three times Naught is +Nothing!

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CONVERSION SKIN DEEP

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In truth, however, "these nations were only Christianized upon +the surface, their conversion being indicated by little more than +their making the sign of the cross." (Draper, Op. cit., i, 365.) +True, indeed, it is, as is scores of times confessed: "Paganism had +not been renewed in Christ." (CE. iii, 700.) "Christians who +considered themselves faithful, held in a measure to the worship of +the sun. Leo the Great in his day says that it was the custom of +many Christians to stand on the steps of the Church of St. Peter +and pay homage to the Sun by obeisance and prayers." (CE. iv, 297; +cf, iii, 724-727.) And generally was it true: "The pagani retained +the worship of the old gods even after they were all +Christianized." (CE. vi, 12.) Among the Germans, and it is exactly +as with all others, "the acceptance of the Christian name and ideas +was at first a purely mechanical one." (CE. vi, 485.)

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As the result of the superficial veneer, in the early days +when persecution occasionally broke out, and offering incense to +the statue of Dea Roma or the Emperor was the test of Pagan +patriotism, great numbers of laity and even of clergy "flocked at +once to the altars of the heathen idols to offer sacrifice." (CE. +ix, 2.) "The apostates and the timid who had bought a certificate +of apostasy, became so numerous as to fancy that they could lay +down the law to the Church, ... a state of affairs which gave rise +to controversies and deplorable troubles. A bishop, followed by his +whole community, was to be seen sacrificing to the gods." (CE. i, +191.) At first the Church "imposed perpetual penance and +excommunication without hope of pardon" on the backsliders; +"however, the great number of Lapsi and Libellatici ... led to a +relaxation of the rigor of ecclesiastical discipline, leaving the +forgiveness of the sin to God alone" (CE. i, 624), while their easy +return to the decimated fold of Holy Church immensely increased its +sacred revenues and extended its sway. However, "when the Roman +Empire became Christian, apostates were punished by deprivation of +all civil rights. They could not give evidence in a court of law, +and could neither bequeath nor inherit property. To induce anyone +to apostatize was an offense punishable with death, under the +Theodosian Code, XVI, 7, De Apostasis." (CE. i, 625.)

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Thus by centuries of fraud, fear and force was the "house of +God" filled from the highways and the hedges, the forests and the +wattle villages,, with Pagans "nominally converted to +Christianity." Heathen superstitions veneered with the Pagan +superstitions called Christianity, blended together for the further +bestialization of the Faithful of Holy Church of the Christ, and +the pall of the Dark Ages of Faith settled down over benighted, +Church-ruled Christendom, -- that "civilization thoroughly +saturated with Christianity," and "fully absorbed in the +supernatural." Two holy characteristics of the Age of Faith, the +grovelling fear of guilt and devout concern for the devil, are thus +commended: "Superstition is abject and crouching, it is full of +thoughts of guilt; it distrusts God and dreads the power of evil" +(CE. i, 555); and, with the pious Christians, "as among all +savages, disease and death were commonly ascribed to evil spirits +or witchcraft." (CE. xiv, 26.) So through the Ages of Faith!

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Holy Church and Divine Christianity being now in full power +and possession over mind and body of Christendom, it had free scope +to bring forth fruits unto perfection of "Christian Civilization."

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THE "FRUITS" OF CHRISTIANITY

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"Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall know them." Jesus.

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What Christianity did for [to] Civilization

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The first effects of a new, and particularly an official State +Religion, are upon mind and morals, -- the state of culture or +prevailing civilizing conditions; essentially, on the system of +moral and intellectual education of the peoples subject to it. This +is recognized by the Church: "As in many other respects, so for the +work of education, the advent of Christianity is the most important +epoch in the history of mankind." (CE. v, 299.) Alas, this is

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disastrously true, as the Church's own history demonstrates. Jesus +Christ, says CE., was the "Perfect Teacher"; "to His Apostles He +gave the command, 'Going, therefore, teach ye all nations.' These +words are the charter of the Christian Church as a teaching +institution" (ib.). Here it got its Divine License to teach, and it +taught. How effective was the Church as the Divinely instituted +Pedagogue of Christendom, can be justly appreciated only through a +knowledge of what kind of education, moral and mental, previously +and at the time existed, and what educational system the Church +inherited from the "heathens" when it assumed its sacred monopoly +of teaching, and by a comparison between the pre-christian and the +Christian systems and results. By what the Church destroyed of +existing systems, and by what is produced through its own, -- by +these fruits of its zeal for Christian teaching must the success of +its execution of its Divine Commission be known and judged.

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Christianity arose and finally prevailed in the Graeco-Roman +world, and there is exercised its Divine License as exclusive +teacher of faith and morals and of secular education. Before the +advent of Christianity, the nations of the Pagan Empire were -- we +are told -- "such as sit in darkness and the shadow of death"; the +"Perfect Teacher" came "to give light to them that sat in darkness +and in the shadow of death" (Luke, i, 79; cf. Matt. iv, 16). A +dismal picture is thus presented, and for centuries was touched up +with the darkest colors by Christian preachments, of the moral +depravity if not intellectual benightedness of the poor heathens +before the "Light of the World" was shed upon them from the Cross +on Calvary. The Greeks and Romans knew naught of Moses and the +Prophets, had never conned the Ten Commandments, and had never +murdered any one "who hearkeneth not unto the priest," as commanded +in Deut. xvii, 12. Deplorable indeed must have been their state +before the Divine Teacher undertook their enlightenment. The +picture of their actual moral and intellectual plight we will scan +as drawn by Christian scholars. Here is faintly a sketch of --

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"THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE"

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"The education of the Greeks exhibits a progressive +development. ... The ideal of Athenian education was the completely +developed man. Beauty of mind and body, the cultivation of every +inborn faculty and energy, harmony between thought and life, +decorum, temperance, and regularity -- such were the results aimed +at in the home and in the school, in social intercourse, and in +civic relations. 'We are lovers of the beautiful,' said Pericles, +'yet simple in our tastes,' and we cultivate the mind without loss +of manliness' (Thucydides, II, 40). ...

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"The Greeks indeed laid stress on courage, temperance, and +obedience to law; and if their theoretical disquisitions -- [or +those of the Christians, for that matter] -- could be taken as fair +accounts of their actual practice, it would be difficult to find, +among the products of human thinking, a more exalted ideal. The +essential weakness of their moral education was the failure to +provide any adequate sanction -- [e.g., the fear of Hell and +damnation] -- for the principles they formulated and the counsels +they gave their youth. ... The practice of religion, whether in +public services or in household worship, exercised but little

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influence upon the formation of character. ... As to the future +life, the Greeks believed in the immortality of the soul; but this +belief had little or no practical significance [as to them, virtue +was its own reward]. ...

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"Thus the motive for virtuous action was found, not in respect +for Divine law nor in the hope of eternal reward, but simply in the +desire to temper in due proportion the elements of human nature. +Virtue is not self-possession for the sake of duty, but, as Plato +says, 'a kind of health and good habit of the soul,' while vice is +'a disease and deformity and sickness of it.' The just man 'will so +regulate his own character as to be on good terms with himself, and +to set those three principles (reason, passion, and desire) in tune +together, as if they were verily three chords of a harmony, a +higher, a lower, and a middle, and whatever may lie between these; +and after he has bound all three together and reduced the many +elements of his nature to a real unity as a temperate and duly +harmonized man, he will then at length proceed to do whatever he +has to do' (Republic, IV, 443). This conception of virtue as a +self-balancing was closely bound up with that idea of personal +worth which has already been mentioned as the central element in +Greek life and education. ... The aim of education, therefore, is +to develop knowledge of the GOOD." (CE. v, 296-7.)

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Saving their depraved want of respect for "Divine law" -- +(proclaimed by priests), and their woeful neglect to provide +"adequate sanction" of "bribe of Heaven and threat of Hell" +(priest-devised), for inducement to their Nature-harmonized +character, the godless Greeks did fairly well in "developing the +knowledge of the good" and attaining the most "exalted ideal" -- +outside of Jewish-Christian revelation -- to be found among +mankind, of personal and civic virtue, due alone to their high +"idea of personal worth," rather than to the revealed concept of +humanity pre-damned, "conceived in sin and born in iniquity," +crawling through this Vale of Tears as "Vile worms of the dust," of +Christian self-confession. But then, God in his inscrutable Wisdom +had withheld his precious revelation of Total Depravity from the +Greeks, -- knowing, probably, that they did not need it, and had +bestowed it only on the obscure tribe of barbarian polygamous +Hebrews, who eminently fitted the revelation. So it was not the +Greeks' fault that they were no worse off, without the revelation, +than were the Jews with it. We will come to the Christians anon.

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Though, thus, the "Sun of Righteousness" did not illumine the +revelationless skies of Greek Culture, the most splendrous Stars of +intellect and soul which ever -- (before the Star of Bethlehem +arose) -- shone down the vistas of Time, blazed in its zenith. The +name of every star in that Pagan Greek galaxy is known to every +intelligent person throughout Christendom today; the light from +these or those of them illuminates every page and every phase of +Art, Literature and Science known today to the inestimable glory of +man and boon of humanity. The living germ of some, the unsurpassed +perfection of others, is the product of the intellect and the soul +of the poor Pagan Greeks who had no Divine Revelation and were +bereft of the priceless "benefit of Clergy" as a teaching +institution.

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Let us gaze for a moment as through the telescope of Time and +scan the brilliant luminaries of the heavens of Pagan Greek genius, +undimmed then by the Light of the Cross. Beginning with those who +were about contemporary in their appearance with post-exilic Hebrew +revelation, say about 600 B.C., we will name only those immortally +known to every high-school student, skipping among the galaxies +down to the time, about 400 A.D., when they were for a thousand +years eclipsed by the Light of the Cross shining in the "Dark Ages" +of Christian Faith.

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The Pagan Greeks, unfamiliar with the Hebrew revelation of the +Divine Right of Kings -- (anointed by priests) -- to rule mankind, +invented Democracy, the right of the people to rule themselves, -- +a heresy recognized in the Declaration as a self-evident +proposition, that all just powers of government are derived from +the consent of the governed. News about Moses and his Divine laws +not having penetrated into Pagan Greece, a scheme of purely human +codes for human conduct was devised by the heathen Lawgivers, +Draco, Solon, Lycurgus. The revealed Mosaic History of the Hebrews +not being available as a model, the poor Pagan Greeks had to make +shift with Herodotus, "Father of History," Thucydides, Xenophon, +Strabo, Plutarch, Pausanius, Polybius, Claudius Ptolemy, Dion +Cassius. The God-drafted plans of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness +and of Solomon's Temple not being at hand to imitate, uninspired +Greeks planned and built the Parthenon, the Erechtheum, the +Prophylaea, the Temple of Diana of Ephesus, the Temple of Apollo at +Corinth, the Serapion and the Museum, "Home of all the Muses," at +Alexandria. The summit of human art in sculpture was reached in +Pagan Greece, the Apollo Belvidere, the Venus de Milo, the Winged +Victory, the Laocoon, the friezes of the Parthenon; consummate +masters of the "Old Masters" were the Pagans Phidias, Praxiteles, +Callimachus, Scopas, Polyclitus, with the chisel; Apelles, Zeuxis, +Polygnotus, Parrhasius, Pausias, with the brush. Statesmen and +military leaders unknown to Hebrew History, yet whose names are +immortal, led the Pagan Greeks to greatness and glory: +Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides the Just, Lycurgus, Miltiades, +Leonidas, Alexander the Great, who conquered the God-led Jews. Poor +heathen orators, who never heard Jehovah speak from Sinai, nor the +Christ on the Mount, -- their supreme eloquence has echoed down the +ages: Demosthenes, Democrates, AEschines, Lysias, Isocrates.

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Literature and the Theater were born in Pagan Greece; the +"Classics" of Pagan thought and dramatic majesty came from the +minds and pens of uninspired heathen who knew no line of the +inspired "Law and Prophets" of the Hebrews, made semi-intelligible +and sonorous only by the very free treatment of skilled translators +into Elizabethan English; they are the immortal and inimitable +standards of literary form, style, culture, in every university, +high school, play-house, and cultured home in Christendom today. +For poetry: Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Anacreon, Theocritus, the +burning Sappho; for drama: Esebylus, Sophocles, Euripides, +Aristophanes, besides the historians and orators named, the +delightful old resop, the philosophers and scholars yet to name. +The drama, tragedy, comedy, the chorus, melodrama; the epic, the +ode, the lyric, the elegy, poetic form and measure, the very words +for all these things, pure Pagan Greek. Philosophy -- the love of +Wisdom -- the highest reach of the uninspired human intellect into

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the mysteries, not of faith and godliness, but of mind and soul, in +search of the first principles of being, -- the "ousia of the on," +and for the Supreme Good, the noblest rules of human conduct and +happiness: Thales, Anaximander, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Heraclitus, +Xenophanes, Leucippus, Democritus, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato of +the Academy, Aristotle of the Lyceum, Epicurus, Pythagoras, Zeno +the Stoic, Antisthenes the Cynic, whose lofty moral systems have +exalted mankind ever since, and whose words and works have +dominated civilization and made their names immortal, though none +of them knew of Moses, the Christ, or the Apostles, -- although +Heraclitus invented the "Logos" which St. John worked up into the +creative "Word of God" for Christian consumption.

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Science, supremest handmaid of civilization, the true "God of +this world," its splendid dawn was in Pagan Greece, unshackled by +Genesis and Divine Mosaic revelation. Here Greek thought, +undeterred by priestly ban and unafrighted by Popish Inquisition, +sought to fathom the secrets of Creation and of Nature, to explain +the Riddle of the Universe, to make the forces of Nature the +obedient servitors of Man. Astronomy was born with Thales [640-546 +B.C.], the first of the Seven Sages of Greece. Utterly ignorant of +the Divine handiwork of the Six Days, and of universal creation out +of universal Nothing, and not having travelled enough to verify the +four corners of the flat earth, guarded by the Four Angels of the +Corners, guardians of the Four Winds, he sought for the First +Principle, the arche', of Creation, attributing all matter to +changes in atoms; not knowing the revelation that the sun was set +in a solid "firmament" arched over the flat earth, and somehow +trundled across it daily to light Adam and his progeny, and had +been stopped still for Joshua and turned backward ten degrees for +Hezekiab, but fancying that it was governed by fixed natural law, +by unaided power of mind he calculated and predicted the eclipse of +565 B.C., and discovered the Solstices and Equinoxes; he calculated +so nearly the solar revolutions, that he corrected the calendar and +divided the year into 365 days, which it still has; he taught the +Egyptians to measure the height of the Pyramids by triangulation +from the shadow of a rod he set up near them, and invented several +of the theorems adopted by Euclid. Anaximander (610-546 B.C.), like +his master ignorant of Mosaic astronomy, discovered and taught the +obliquity of the ecliptic, due to the erratic behavior of the +equator of the earth in swinging round the sun; he approximated the +sizes and distances of the planets -- not all set on the same solid +plane; he discovered the phases of the moon, and constructed the +first astronomical globes; he was the first to discard oral +teaching, and commit the principles of natural science to writing.

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Pythagoras of Samos (c. 584 B.C.), was a universal genius; he +coined the word "philosopher," according to Cicero; made +discoveries in music, which he conceived as a science based on +mathematical principles, and fancied the "music of the spheres." As +he hadn't read Genesis, he defiantly (through such ignorance) +proclaimed that the earth was a globe revolving around the sun or +central fire, and had inhabitable Antipodes, -- heathen notions +which got several Christian gentlemen into more or less trouble +some 2000 years later when they revived the idea. He speculated on +eclipses as natural phenomena rather than special dispensations of +Providence; he disputed Moses on Geology by claiming that the

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earth-surface hadn't always been just so, but that the sea had once +been land, the land sea; that islands had once formed parts of +continents; that mountains were forever being washed down by rivers +and new mountains thus formed; that volcanoes were outlets for +subterranean fires, rather than public entrances into Hell; that +fossils were the buried remains of ancient plants and animals +turned into stone, rather than theological proofs of Noah's Flood +embedded for confutation of Infidels in the Rock of Faith.; +Democritus (e. 460 B.C.), the "Laughing Philosopher," the most +learned thinker of his day and renowned for all the moral virtues; +he wrote some 72 books on physics, mathematics, ethics, grammar; +totally unlearned in Bible science, he scouted the idea of Design +in Nature, declaring it lapped in universal law; he upheld belief +in secondary physical causes, but not in a primary immaterial First +Cause, declaring that by natural law could all the phenomena of the +universe be accounted for; that there was no need of, no room for, +supernatural interference or Divine Providence. He left immortal +mark on the world of knowledge by his elaborated theory of atoms, +or constituents of matter too small to be cut or divided; boldly +and logically he applied this theory to the gods themselves, +holding that they were mere aggregates of material atoms -- +(seemingly verified by the fact of eating the body of deity in +wafers) -- only mightier and more powerful than men, -- and +seemingly, to walk and talk, hate and kill, there must be something +material about them. Modern chemistry the most universal and useful +of the sciences, is founded on modifications of the atomic theory +of Democritus.

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Hippocrates (c. 460 - c. 377 B.C.) is known as the "Father of +Medicine." He was the first physician to differentiate diseases, +and to ascribe them to different causes, on the basis of accurate +observation and common sense. His great axiom was: "To know is one +thing; merely to believe one knows is another. To know is science, +but merely to believe one knows is ignorance." In his days all +sickness and ailments were considered as inflicted directly by the +gods; the later revelation that it was all due to devils in the +inner works of man was not then known. But the result was the same: +all curing was the monopoly of the priests, the friends and +favorites of the gods and possessors of all godly lore. As the only +physicians, the priests had great revenues and a fine livelihood +from the offerings made by patients who flocked for relief to the +temples of Esculapius, which filled the ancient world. Hippocrates. +sought to separate medicine from religion, thus incurring the +venomous attacks of the priests and pious quacks. Never having +heard of "fig leaf poultices," or spittle to oust devils, "He laid +down certain principles of science upon which modern medicine is +built: 1. Therle is no authority except facts; 2. Facts are +obtained by accurate observation; 3. Deductions are to be made only +from facts." Not knowing the Christian art of casting out devils, +the heathen "Hippocrates introduced a new system of treatment; he +began by making a careful study of the patient's body, and having +diagnosed the complaint, set about curing it by giving directions +to the sufferer as to his diet and the routine of his daily life, +leaving Nature largely to heal herself." As about ninety percent of +all ills are such as would heal themselves if let alone, or if +treated with simple hygienic means, and many cures are greatly +aided by "faith" even in Pagan gods, the element of the miraculous

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is greatly discounted in the successes of the priests of +Esculapius, and possibly in those of Loreto and Lourdes. He had no +real successor until Vesalius, the first real surgeon; the +Inquisition nearly got him because his anatomical researches +disclosed that man had the same number of ribs as woman, not one +less to represent that taken for Eve; and he disproved the Church's +sacred science of the "Resurrection Bone."

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Aristotle (384-322 iii. c.) the Stagarite, friend and tutor of +Alexander the Great, besides being one of the greatest +philosophers, was the foremost man of science of his day, and in +his encyclopedic works laid the foundation of Natural science or +physics, Natural History, meteorology or the phenomena of the +heavens, animal anatomy, to all which he applied the processes of +closest research and experiment and the principles of inductive +reasoning. By reason of the limitations of his process, and over-dogmatism rather than experiment in some lines, be made many +curious mistakes, which ham-strung the human mind for ages. One was +the assertion that two objects of different weight, dropped from +the same height to the earth, would strike the earth at different +intervals of time, the heavier first; when Galileo denied this +theory and offered to disprove it by experiment, the pious +Christians of Pisa scouted and scorned him; when he ascended the +Leaning Tower and dropped two iron balls, one of one pound weight, +the other of one hundred, and both struck the ground at the same +instant, they refused to accept the demonstration, and drove him +out of the city; so strong was the hold of even the errors of Pagan +Aristotle on Christian credulity.

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Aristotle had not read the cosmic revelations of Moses, and +was ignorant of the true history of Creation as revealed through +him. He discovered sea shells and the fossil remains of marine +animals on the tops of the mountains of Greece, and embedded far +down from the surface in the sides of the mountain gorges; he noted +that the rocks lay in great layers or strata one above another, +with different kinds of fossils in the several strata. In his Pagan +imagination Aristotle commented on this: that if sea-shells were on +the tops of mountains far from the sea, why, to get there the tops +of the mountains must once have been in the bottom of the sea, the +rocks formed under the sea, and the shells and other animal remains +embedded in them must once have lived and died in the sea and there +have been deposited in the mud of the bottom before it hardened +into rock. If Aristotle had climbed Pike's Peak be would have found +great beds of ocean coral in the rocks there; sea shell-fish and +sponges -- (which Aristotle himself first discovered to be animals) +-- in the rocky walls of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.

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Theophrastus (c. 373-287 B.C.), disciple and successor of +Aristotle as head of the Peripatetic School of philosophy; his +chief renown was as the first of the botanists, on which study he +left some sixteen books; for 1800 years after his death the science +lay dormant; not a single new discovery in that subject was made +until after the close of the millennium of the Christian Ages of +Faith.

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Aristarchus (c. 220-143 B.C.) was a celebrated astronomer of +the new school at Alexandria. From his predecessors he knew that +the earth revolved around the sun, and how the plane of the +ecliptic was designed; he calculated the inclination of earth's +axis to the pole as the angle of 23 1/2 degrees, and thus verified +the obliquity of the ecliptic, and explained the succession of the +seasons. Aristarchus had not read Moses on the solid firmament and +flat earth; he clearly maintained that day and night were due to +the spinning of the earth on its own axis every twenty-four hours; +his only extant work is "On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and +Moon," wherein by rigorous and elegant geometry and reasoning he +reached results inaccurate only because of the imperfect state of +knowledge in his time. By exquisite calculations he added 1/1623 of +a day to Callipsus' estimate of 365 1/2 days for the length of the +solar year; and is said to have invented a hemispherical sundial.

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Hipparchus (c. 150 B.C.) made the first catalogue of stars, to +the number of over 1000; but his master achievement was the +discovery and calculation of the "precession of the equinoxes" +about 130 B.C. Without telescope or instruments, and with no Mosaic +Manual on Astronomy to muddle his thought, by the powers of +mathematical reasoning from observation he detected the complex +movements of the earth, first in rapid rotation on its own axis, +and a much slower circular and irregular movement around the region +of the poles, which causes the equator to cut the plane of the +ecliptic at a slightly different point each year; this he estimated +at not more than fifty seconds of a degree each year, and that the +forward revolution in "precession" was completed in about 26000 +years. Such are the powers of the human mind untrammeled by +revelation.

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Archimedes (287-212 B.C.), one of the most distinguished men +of science who ever lived. He discovered the law of specific +gravity, in connection with the fraudulent alloys put into Hiero's +crown; so excited was he when the thought struck him that, crying +"Eureka" he jumped from his bath and ran home naked to proclaim the +discovery. He discovered the laws governing the lever, and the +principles of the pulley, and the famous endless water-screw used +to this day in Egypt to raise water from the Nile for irrigation; +he was the first to determine the ratio of the diameter to the +circumference of a circle, calculating pie to be smaller than 3-1/7 +and greater than 3-10/71, which is pretty close for a heathen not +having the "Book of Numbers" before him. He made other discoveries +and inventions too numerous to relate; he disregarded his +mechanical contrivances as beneath the dignity of pure science.

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Euclid (c. 300 B.C.) is too well known for his "Principles of +Geometry" to need more than mention. Erastostlienes (c. 276-194 +B.C.) was the Librarian of the great Library of Ptolemy II +Philadelpbus, at Alexandria, containing some 700000 volumes. He +invented the imaginary lines, parallels of longitude and latitude, +which adorn all our globes and maps to this day. Not knowing the +revelation that the earth is flat, he measured its circumference. +Noticing that a pillar set up at Alexandria cast a certain shadow +at noon on the summer solstice, while a similar pillar at Syene +cast no shadow at that time, and was thus on the tropic; he +measured the distance between the two places, as 5000 stadia,

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about 574 miles; described a circle with a radius equal to the +height of the pillar at Alexandria, found the length of the small +are formed on it by the shadow, which was 1/50 of the circle, and +represented the arc of the earth's circle between Alexandria and +Syene; multiplying the distance by 50 he obtained 28700 miles as +the circumference of the earth; a figure excessive due to mis-measurement, but a magnificent intellectual accomplishment. +Erastosthenes was also the founder of scientific chronology, +calculating the dates of the chief political and literary events +back to the supposed time of the fall of Troy; a date quite as +uncertain as that of the later birth of Jesus Christ from which the +monk Dennis the Little essayed to fix the subsequent chronology of +Christian history.

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Hero of Alexandria (c. 130 B.C.) discovered the principle of +the working-power of steam and devised the first steam-engines. In +his Pneumatica he describes the aeolipyle, which may be called a +primitive steam reaction turbine; he also mentions another device +which may be described as the prototype of the pressure engine. +(Encyc. Brit. xxi, 351-2.)

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Strabo (c. 63 B.C.-19 A.D.), the most famous early geographer +and a noted historian; he left a Geography of the world, as then +known, in seventeen books, and made a map of the world; travelled +over much of it, and described what be saw. From a comparison of +the shape of Vesuvius, not then a "burning mountain," with the +active Etna, he forecast that it might some day become active, as +it did in 79 A.D. to the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum, +described by the Roman philosopher and natural historian, Pliny, +who overlooked the Star of Bethlehem, and the earthquake and +eclipse of Calvary. Strabo was ignorant of the cosmogony of Moses +and the Flood of Noah; so he declared that the fossil shells which +he discovered in rocks far inland from the sea proved that those +rocks had been formed under the sea by silt brought down by rivers, +in which living shell animals had become embedded. If Moses had +revealed this interesting fact, much human persecution and +suffering would have been avoided.

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The principles of Evolution were discovered and taught by most +of the ancient Greek philosophers above named and many others, all +of whom were profoundly ignorant of the cosmogony of Genesis, and +who "endeavored to substitute a natural explanation of the cosmos +for the old myths." Anaximander (588-624 B.C.), though he had not +read Genesis, anticipated to the very word "slime" used in the True +Bible as the material of animal and human creation; "he introduced +the idea of primordial terrestrial slime, a mixture of earth and +water, from which, under the influence of the sun's heat, plants, +animals, and human beings were directly produced." Empedoeles of +Agrigentum (495-435 B.C.) "may justly be called the father of the +evolution idea. ... All organisms arose through the fortuitous play +of the two great forces of Nature upon the four elements." +Anaxagoras (500-428) "was the first to trace the origin of animals +and plants to preexisting germs in the air and ether." Aristotle +(384-322 B.C.), the first great naturalist, shows "in his four +essays upon the parts, locomotion, generation, and vital principles +of animals, that he fully understood adaptation in its modern +sense; ... he rightly conceived of life as the function of the

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organism, not as a separate principle; ... he develops the idea of +purposive progresses in the development of bodily parts and +functions." The doctrine is very substantially developed by the +Roman Lucretius, 99-55 B.C. (H.F. Osborn, From the Greeks to +Darwin, pp. 50, et seq.)

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The vital germs of virtually every modern science had thus +their origin and some notable development in the fertile minds of +the Greek thinkers and in their great schools of thought, in the +centuries which preceded the Advent of the "Perfect Teacher" and +his divinely instituted successors in school-craft. If these +profound researches into Nature had been included in the Curriculum +of the Church, rather than fire and sword employed to extirpate +them and all who ventured to pursue them, Holy Church would not +have had the "Dark Ages of Faith" to record and apologize for. To +what perfection of Civilization and Knowledge might Humanity have +arrived in these 2000 years wasted on the Supernatural, and the +"Sacred Science of Christianity"!

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THE POWER THAT WAS ROME

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The Greeks with their brilliant culture and educational system +lay for the most part remote from the Holy See of God's Teacher-Church at Rome; so it may be that the environment of the Teacher +was really in a region which lay in darkness and the shadow of +death, and thus its divine efforts were thwarted and rendered +desultory. Thus it becomes important to know the degree of +intellectual darkness and incapacity which whelmed the Empire of +the West. The tale may best be told in the words of its Inspired +Tutor.

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"In striking contrast with the Greek character, that of +the Romans was practical, utilitarian, grave, austere. Their +religion was serious, and it permeated their whole life, +hallowing all its relations. The family, especially, was far +more sacred than in Sparta or Athens, and the position of +woman as wife and mother more exalted and influential. ...

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"The ideal at which the Roman aimed was neither harmony +nor happiness, but the performance of duty and the maintenance +of his rights. Yet this ideal was to be realized through +service to the State. Deep as was the family feeling, it was +always subordinate to devotion to the public weal. 'Parents +are dear,' said Cicero, 'and children and kindred, but all +loves are bound up in the love of our common country' (De +Officiis, I. 17). ...

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"Thus the moral element predominated, and virtues of a +practical sort were inculcated: first of all pietas, obedience +to parents and to the gods; then prudence, fair dealing, +courage, reverence, firmness, and earnestness. These qualities +were to be developed, not by abstract or philosophical +reasoning, but through the imitation of worthy models and, as +far as possible of living concrete examples. 'Vitae discimus, +We learn for life,' said Seneca; and this sentence sums up the +whole purpose of Roman education -- [in contrast to "We learn +for heaven," as we shall see the Christian ideal of +education].

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"In the course of time, elementary schools (ludi) were +opened, but they were conducted by private teachers and were +supplementary to the home instruction. About the middle of the +third century B.C. foreign influences began to make themselves +felt. The works of the Greeks were translated into Latin, +Greek teachers were introduced, and schools established in +which the educational characteristics of the Greeks +reappeared. Under the direction of the literatus and the +gramniaticus education took on a literary character, while in +the school of the rhetor the art of oratory was carefully +cultivated." (CE. v, 298; see p. 358-9.)

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PAGAN CULTURAL RESULTS

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"Pagan education, as a whole, with its ideals. successes, +and failures, has a profound significance. It was the product +of the highest human wisdom, speculative and practical, that +the world has known -- [thus confessedly, as the highest, +higher than the Christian]. It pursued in turn the ideals that +appeal most strongly to the human mind. It engaged the thought +of the greatest philosophers and the action of the wisest +legislators. Art, science, and literature were placed at its +service, and the mighty influence of the State was exerted in +its behalf. In itself, therefore, and in its results, it shows +how much and how little human reason can accomplish when it +seeks no guidance higher than itself and strives for no +purposes other than those which find, or might find, their +realization in the present phase of existence." (CE. v, 298.)

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The splendors of the intellect and culture of Pagan Greece, +its whole harmonious system of education, mental, moral and +physical, which were the glory that was Greece, were transported +thus to Rome and kindled anew there the torch of Reason which +illumined and made splendid the power that was Rome. With clerical +disparagement that all this intellectual and moral grandeur was +accomplished by human reason alone with "no guidance higher than +itself," that is, without the heaven-endowed tutorship of +priestcraft, CE. yet confesses, that "Pagan education ... was the +product of the highest human wisdom ... that the world has ever +known," pursuing "the ideals that appeal most strongly to the human +mind." It was in literature and in law, in history, in government, +and in the practical arts and sciences, rather than in pure +science, that the Roman genius rose to its highest reaches. The +undimmed lustre of the Roman mind yet casts its splendors over the +world of thought; Roman law, "the action of the wisest +legislators," yet governs the actions of men and nations throughout +the civilized world. A few illustrious names of universal renown +must suffice to put into high relief the culture of Rome from the +dawn of the Christian era till the pall of the Christian Ages of +Faith fell over the Roman world. Augustus Caesar (not to mention +Julius), Cicero, Cato, Seneca, the Plinys, Tacitus, Livy, Horace, +Vergil, Lucretius, the Scipios, Gaius, Paulus, Papinian, Tribonius, +Antoninius Pius, Marcus Aurelius; the roster may be mightily +extended and every glorious name be known to every schoolboy.

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Thus was the Pagan Roman world intellectually and morally +illumined when there befell --

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THE CHRISTIAN AGE OF FAITH

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under the tutelage of the vicars of the Perfect Teacher. The story +again may be told by the accredited apologists who thus explain +"The Aim of Christian Education," in response to the Divine +Command. All education for practical objects of this life, for all +"purposes which might find their realization in the present phase +of existence," was piously and disdainfully rejected. For over a +millennium, as will be soon admitted, Christian "education" was +virtually limited to candidates for the priesthood and to the vain +mummeries of monks; with few and straggling exceptions no one but +a churchman was taught a word: the simple proof is, that scarce one +person in a thousand of the population of Christendom except +priests, could read or write his own name. The "education" of the +Clergy will be known by its fruits, of which we shall have some +tastes. Thus CE. discloses

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THE AIM OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

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"To these Apostles He gave the command, 'Going therefore, +teach ye all nations' (Matt. xxviii, 19) -- [a forged Mandate, +as we have seen]. These [forged] words are the charter of the +Christian Church as a teaching institution. While they refer +directly to the doctrine of salvation, and therefore to the +imparting of religious truth, they nevertheless, or rather by +the very nature of that truth and its consequences for life, +carry with them the obligation of insisting on certain +characteristics which have a decisive bearing on all +educational problems (p. 299-300). ...

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"The Educational Work of the Church. Apart from the +preaching of the Apostles, the earliest form of Christian +instruction was that given to the catechumens in preparation +for baptism. Its object was twofold: to impart a knowledge of +Christian truth, and to train the candidate in the practice of +religion. ... Until the third century this mode of instruction +was an important adjunct to the Apostolate; but in the fifth +and sixth centuries it was gradually replaced by private +instruction of the converts, and by the training given in +other schools to those who had been baptized in infancy. The +catechumenal schools, however, gave expression to the spirit +which was to animate all subsequent Christian education: they +were open to every one who accepted the Faith, and they united +religious instruction with moral discipline. The +'catechetical' schools, also under the bishop's supervision, +prepared young clerics for the priesthood. The courses of +study included philosophy and theology, and naturally took on +an apologetic character in defense of Christian truth against +the attacks of pagan learning. ...

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"Philosophy and literature were factors which had to be +contended with as well as the educational system, which was +still largely under pagan control. ... Fear of the corrupting +influence of pagan literature had more and more alienated +Christians from such studies. ...

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"[In the Middle Ages] education was provided for the +clergy in the cathedral schools under the direct control of +the bishop and for the laity in parochial schools to which all +had access -- [but few availed thereof]. In the curriculum +religion held the first place; other subjects were few and +elementary, comprising at best the trivium and the quadrivium. +... [I cannot forbear to add this -- The history of education +records no greater undertaking; for the task was not that of +improving or perfecting, [the brilliant system of pagan +education], but of creating [the dull schools of religious +instruction]; and had not the Church gone vigorously about her +business, modern civilization would have been retarded for +centuries [!]

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"The monasteries were the sole schools for teaching; they +offered the only professional training; they were the only +universities of research; they alone served as publishing +houses for the multiplication of books; they were the only +libraries for the preservation of learning; they produced the +only scholars; they were the sole educational institutions of +this period. ...

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"Two other movements form the climax of the Church's +activity during the Middle Ages. The development of +Scholasticism meant the revival of Greek philosophy, and in +particular that of Aristotle; but it also meant that +philosophy was now to serve the cause of Christian truth. ... +Having used the subtleties of Greek thought to sharpen the +student's mind, the Church thereupon presented to him her +dogmas without the least fear of contradiction. ...

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"The same synthetic spirit took concrete form in the +universities. ... In university teaching all the then known +branches of science were represented. ... The university was +thus, in the educational sphere, the highest expression of +that completeness which had all along characterized the +teaching of the Church." (CE. v, 299-303, passim.)

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All these "universities were devoted for the most part to the +development of theology." (CE. vii, 368; i, 264.) The "greatest" of +these Christian universities was that of Paris, which originated +about 1211; "legends of foundation of universities by Alfred, +Charlemagne, and Theodosius II, are myths. The students were not +boys, but mature men, many clergy. ... Barbarous Latin of the +universities and the wretched translations of Aristotle used in +commentaries and lectures: the Scholastic method of teaching with +its endless hair-splitting and disputations; much time was spent in +gaining very little knowledge or hardly any value," were the +charges made by the new school of Humanists, headed by Erasmus, +"Prince of Humanists," which destroyed the old Christian ideals of +education. (CE. xv, 194.)

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The wonderful Middle Ages universities, so scorned by the +Humanists of the Renaissance, and so fondly cherished by the +Church, are not to be confounded in thought with such modernistic +institutions as Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia or Harvard -- (which +all started on a purely "Christian" standard). A revealing pen-

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sketch of them all, based on that of Paris, is drawn by Prof. James +Harvey Robinson: "There were no university buildings, and in Paris +the lectures were given in the Latin Quarter, in Straw Street, so +called from the straw strewn on the floors of the hired rooms where +the lecturer explained the text-book [a handwritten manuscript], +with the students squatting on the floor before him. There were no +laboratories, for there was no experimentation. All that was +required was a copy of the text-book. This the lecturer explained +sentence by sentence, and the students listened and sometimes took +notes.

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"The most striking peculiarity of the instruction of the +medieval university was the supreme deference paid to Aristotle. +... Aristotle was, of course, a pagan. He was uncertain whether the +soul existed after death; he had never heard of the Bible and knew +nothing of the salvation of man through Christ. One would suppose +that he would have been rejected with horror by the ardent +Christian believers of the Middle Ages. But the teachers of the +thirteenth century were fascinated by his logic and astonished at +his learning. ... He was called 'The Philosopher'; and so fully +were scholars convinced that it had pleased God to permit Aristotle +to say the last word upon each and every branch of knowledge that +they humbly accepted him, along with the Bible, the Church Fathers, +and the canon and Roman law, as one of the unquestionable +authorities which together formed a complete and final guide for +humanity in conduct and in every branch of science. ... No +attention was given to the great subject of history in the medieval +universities, nor was Greek taught." (Robinson, The Ordeal of +Civilization, pp. 207-208.)

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The school of Erasmus and the other great Humanists who +preceded and followed him brought the Renaissance to its fullness +of glory in emancipating the mind from the fetters of the Dark Ages +of Faith, and destroyed the rotten fruits of a millennium of +"Christian education." Thereupon, says CE., painfully confessing +the truth, with reservations, once the schools were secularized, +they fell rapidly under influences which transformed ideals, +systems and methods. Philosophy detached from theology, formulated +new theories of life and its values, that moved, at first slowly +and then more rapidly, away from the positive teachings of +Christianity. Science in turn cast off its allegiance to philosophy +and finally proclaimed itself the only sort of knowledge worth +seeking. ...

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"During three centuries past, the main endeavor outside the +Catholic Church has been to establish education on a purely +naturalistic basis, whether this be aesthetic culture or scientific +knowledge, individual perfection or social service. ... The +Catholic Church has been obliged to carry on ... the struggle in +behalf of those truths on which Christianity is founded; and her +educational work during the modern period may be described in +general terms as the steadfast maintenance of the union between the +natural and the supernatural. ... It is specially the parochial +school that has served in recent times as an essential factor in +the work of religion. ... Sound moral instruction is impossible +apart from religious education. ... Catholic parents are bound in

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conscience to provide for the education of their children, either +at home or in schools of the right sort." (CE. v, 295-304, passim.) +"Parochial schools ... aimed at fostering vocations to the +priesthood." (CE. xiii, 555.)

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The high Christian educational ideal of fettering Reason with +Faith, and the underlying objective of all Church teaching, is +again strongly insisted upon by our spokesman for Christian +education:

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"The Christian Church, by virtue of her Divine charter, +'Going, teach ye all nations,' is essentially a teaching +organization. ... Truths which are not of their nature +spiritual, truths of science, or history, matters of culture, +in a word, profane learning -- these do not belong +intrinsically to the pregame of the Church's teaching. +Nevertheless, they enter into her work by force of +circumstances, when, namely, the Christian youth cannot attain +a knowledge of them without incurring a grave danger to faith +or morals. ... She assumes -- [therefore, not divinely +ordained to her, but self-arrogated] -- the task of teaching +the secular branches in such a way that religion is the +centralizing, unifying, and vitalizing force in the +educational process." (CE. xiii, 555.)

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A. THE MORAL "FRUITS" OF CHRISTIANITY

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THE CHRISTIAN "MORALITY LIE")

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"Apart from Religion the observance of the Moral Law is +impossible." (CE. x, 559.)

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"The wonderful efficacy displayed by the religion of Christ in +purifying the morals of Europe has no parallel." (CE. iii, 34.)

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"Her holiness appears in the fruits which she brings forth." +(CE. iii, 759.)

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The above gems of pious self-gratulation are culled from the +plethoric treasure-chest of like paste jewels of ecclesiastical +false pretense, and are set in high relief as tribute to the +presumptuous genius of Pharisaism. A few more out of many may be +displayed as a foil to what follows: "Sound moral instruction is +impossible apart from religious education" (CE. v, 304), -- though +this seems to be discounted by this formal admission of the entire +efficacy of purely secular ethic of Plato and the Pagans: "All +moral conduct may be summed up in the rule: Avoid evil and do good" +(CE. v, 28); and by this self-evident truth: "Material prosperity +and a high degree of civilization may be found where the Church +does not exist." (CE. iii, 760.) Whether either of these highly +beneficent conditions have been found where the Church in plenitude +of power and pride did exist, will soon be disclosed. However, +these disproofs to the contrary, "The Church has ever affirmed that +the beliefs of Theism and morality are essentially connected, and +that apart from religion the observance of the moral law is +impossible." (CE. x, 559.)

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Yet we have just read from the teeming pages of CE. the +glowing tributes to the morally "exalted ideals" of the Pagan +Greeks, and that with the Pagan Romans "the moral element +predominated"; that "Pagan education, as a whole, was the product +of the highest human wisdom that the world has ever known," -- and +withal without the Light of the Cross to illumine the Pagan mind +and conscience. Indeed, in the next sentences after the last above, +CE., waxing philosophical, belies fully its "Morality Lie" thesis, +that "apart from religion the observance of the moral law is +impossible," by this explicit admission of the natural source and +origin of Morality: "The Church admits that the moral law is +knowable to reason: for the due regulation of our free actions, in +which morality consists, is simply their right ordering with a view +to the perfecting of our rational nature. ... The Greeks of +classical times were in moral questions influenced rather by non-religious conceptions such as that of natural shame than the fear +of the gods; while one great religious system, namely Buddhism, +explicitly taught the entire independence of the moral code from +any belief in God." (CE. x, 559.) We shall wonder, as we read the +Christian record, how far the "beliefs of Theism" make for morality +in higher or more wholesome degree than "the entire independence of +the moral code from any belief in God." Morals is from mores, +"custom"; it is social, not supernatural in origin; humanly +conventional, not of divine imposition and sanction. The "morals," +customs, of an age or a people depend always on what is then +regarded as socially convenient, on the character of education and +example given by their preceptors and their environment.

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The foregoing clerical admissions of the purely natural origin +and sanctions of morals, of the Moral Law, are perfectly valid and +convincing; a more formal and incontrovertible statement of the +fact and the principle, taken from a special study of the subject, +under the title "Ethics" in CE., by a Jesuit Professor of Moral +Philosophy, is added for the complete refutation of the Christian +"Morality Lie":

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"Morality, or sum of prescriptions which govern moral +conduct. ... Ethics takes its origin from the empirical fact +that certain general principles and concepts of the moral +order are common to all peoples at all times. ... It is a +universally recognized principle that we should not do to +others what we would not wish them to do to us. ... The +general practical judgments and principles: 'Do good and avoid +evil,' 'Lead a life according to reason,' etc., from which all +the Commandments of the Decalogue are derived, are the basis +of the natural law, of which St. Paul (Rom. ii, 14) says, it +is written in the hearts of all men, made known to all men by +nature herself." (CE. v, 557, 562.)

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It is because only of the nauseating persistence of the +dingdonging of this pestilent "Christian Morality Lie," by priest, +parson and press, that the loathsome record of the unparalleled +moral corruption of the Church and of Christendom under the Church, +is here in very summary and imperfect manner displayed in +refutation of this immense False Pretense. It rings false from +every pulpit and Christian apologist today as it has through all +the centuries of Creed and Crime of the Church. Here in thumbnail

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sketch is the summary of Christian results after a millennium of +undisputed moral sway: "The Church was the guide of the Western +nations from the close of the seventh century to the beginning of +the sixteenth" (CE. vii, 370); and for result: "At the beginning of +the Reformation, the condition of the clergy, and consequently of +the people, was a very sad one. ... The unfortunate state of the +clergy, their corrupt morals." (CE. vii, 387.) "The Lateran was +spoken of as a brothel, and the moral corruption of Rome became the +subject of general odium." (CE. viii, 426.) That there may be no +mistake about the insistent pretense of the Church to teach and +impose morality, "The Roman Pontiffs have always, as their office +demands, guarded the Christian faith and morals," as admitted by +the Apostolic Letter of His Holiness Pius IX, dated June 29, 1868, +by which he summoned the celebrated Vatican Council which decreed +Papal Infallibility in all matters of faith and morals. (CE. i, +176.) Therefore it was, that "the Church of the Middle Ages, having +now attained to power, continued through her priests to propagate +the Gospel. ... In the wake of religion follows her inseparable +companion, morality." (CE. xii, 418.) We shall now see the Church +at work for morality and the moral "fruits" of Christianity through +the Dark Ages of Faith. "Those were indeed golden days for the +ecclesiastical profession, since the credulity of men reached a +height which seemed to insure to the clergy a long and universal +dominion, -- until the prospects of the Church were suddenly +darkened, and human reason began to rebel ... with the rise of that +secular and skeptical spirit to which European civilization owes +its origin," as Buckle says and demonstrates and I will briefly +sketch, after first letting CE. reveal facts which are the harvest-fruits of Christian Morality.

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How, then, are we surprised to read the official confession, +that these same Middle Ages were, of all human epochs, "an age of +terrible corruption and social decadence"? (CE. i, 318.) Surely the +good cleric who penned these shaming words was a moral dyspeptic or +must have developed a pessimistic in-growing conscience. We turn +the pages of this ponderous Apology for the Faith to find the +records of Church history giving the lie to this scandalous and +disgraceful confession. There are fifteen great quarto tomes of +CE., of over 700 double-column pages each; and surely if this +confession is mistaken or untrue, the glorious facts of Church +morality, its ever-radiant and redolent "sweetness and light," +which cannot be hid, will be made manifest for the confusion of +those who might mock over this confession. The following paragraphs +are the gleanings from just one, the first, of these fifteen +volumes, recording the sacred history of the Church, in which "her +holiness appears in the fruits which she brings forth," as therein +preserved, and unparalleled "in purifying the morals of Europe" for +fifteen centuries and more under her undisputed moral sway. In this +one sample volume is the true assay of the "fruits" conserved in +them all; a typical cross-section of Church history. Multiply by +fifteen the product of these revelations of the "fruits which she +brings forth," and even the most unregenerate critic of +Christianity must agree with CE, that "the wonderful efficacy of +the religion of Christ in purifying the morals of Europe has no +parallel" in any religion or history known to mankind. The +following passages are word for word from Volume I -- (unless +otherwise indicated), -- of the Catholic Encyclopedia, arranged

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roughly in chronological order, through part only of one letter of +the Alphabet. They give thus a sort of segmentary cross-cut and +bird's-eye-view of the moral and social conditions of Christendom +through the centuries, with quite imperfect glimpses of that sweet +charity one to another which distinguishes those who love their +enemies -- in the fashion of King Richard to his brother: "For I do +love my brother Clarence so, That I would see his sweet soul In the +bosom of good old Abraham!"

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Countless instances of Christian "morality" we have already +seen in the myriad holy forgeries of the Church throughout fifteen +centuries; again are confessed "the many apocryphal [forged] +writings in the first five centuries of the Christian era." (CE. i, +132.) Whoever would forge for Christ's sake or his own profit would +as readily commit any other crime for the same ends, as we shall +see to the limit of abhorrence. But the predilect perversity of the +Christians clerical and lay, was the "lusts of the flesh," that +distinctive "crime" so proscribed and so practiced by the +expounders of "Christian virtue," and the "inseparable companion" +of the most religious. That "sex-scandals" were rampant in the +earliest days of the several infant Churches is manifest in quite +all of the second-century Epistles of the New Testament, as any one +may read unto edification. The Agape, or Christian "love feast" was +all its name implies; it was "a form of ancient Pagan funeral +feast. From the fourth century onward ... the agape gave rise to +flagrant and intolerable abuses" (i, 202). From the first century, +"the Agapeta, were virgins who consecrated themselves to God with +a vow of chastity and associated with laymen, who like themselves +had taken a vow of chastity. ... It resulted in abuses and +scandals. ... St. Jerome [about 400] asked indignantly, 'Why was +this pest of Agapette introduced into the Church?' St. Cyprian +shows that abuses of this kind developed in Africa and the East. +The Council of Ancyra, in 314, forbade virgins consecrated to God +to thus live with men as sisters. This did not correct the practice +entirely, for St. Jerome arraigns Syrian monks for living in cities +with Christian virgins. These Agapetae are sometimes confounded +with the Subintroductae, or women who lived with clerics without +marriage." (202.)

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St. Cyprian, On the State of the Church, just before the +Decian persecution (e. 250), admits: "There was no true devotion in +the priests. ... That the simple were deluded, and the brethren +circumverited by craft and fraud. That great numbers of the bishops +... were eager only to heap up money, to seize people's lands by +treachery and fraud, and to increase their stock by exorbitant +usury." (Quoted by Middleton, Free Inquiry, Int. Disc. lxvii-ix.)

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"Solicitation, in canon law, is the crime of making use of the +Sacrament of Penance for the purpose of drawing others into sins of +lust. Numerous popes have denounced this crime vehemently, and +decreed punishments for its commission ... in connection with the +Confessional, during or before" (xiv, 134). "The crime of abduction +was, doubtless, extremely rare among the early Christians. In the +fourth century, when men grew bolder, the number of wife-captors +became exceedingly numerous. To cheek this" -- a long line of +Church enactments listed, down to the Council of Trent (1500's) was +futile. (CE. i, 33.) While some of the following descriptions are

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applied to particular time and place, yet as is evident from the +content and ensemble, like conditions existed "always and +everywhere" through the Middle Ages, that delectable "civilization +thoroughly saturated with Christianity." Thus "even in the fourth +century, St. John Chrysostom testifies to the decline of fervor in +the Christian family, and contends that it is no longer possible +for children to obtain proper religious and moral training in their +own homes" (555), already so debased was Christianity.

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Loving Christian differences of opinion, enhanced by corporal +methods of seeking each to force the other to the same opinion, +were so ubiquitous and universal that birth was given to a special +and deadly new species of human hatred and a distinctive name +coined for it: Odium Theologicum -- Theological Hatred, and the +maxim: "Hell hath no fury like an offended Saint." The Father of +Church History, Bishop Eusebius, has scathing passages, and he +refuses "to record the dissensions and follies which they exercised +against each other before the (Diocletian) persecution." (Hist. +Eccles. Bk. VIII, chap. 2.) And in Chapter 12, entitled "The +Prelates of the Church," Eusebius wordily and in figured speech +thus in substance describes them: "the different heads of the +churches, who from being shepherds of the reasonable flocks of +Christ. ... were condemned by divine justice as unworthy of such a +charge; ... moreover, the ambitious aspirings of many to office, +and the injudicious and unlawful ordinations that took place, the +divisions among the confessors themselves, the great schisms and +difficulties industriously fomented by the factious, ... heaping up +affliction upon affliction: all this I have resolved to pass by," +as too shameful to be preserved in detail. Speaking of the Church +historian Socrates, who died about 400: "Living as he did in an age +of bitter polemics, he strove to avoid the animosities and hatreds +engendered by theological differences." (CE. xiv, 119.)

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We recall the embittered and bloody strifes which waged from +the early days of the fourth century between the partizans of +Arius, who denied the Divinity of Jesus Christ and consequently the +existence of the Blessed Trinity or Three-in-One Godhead, and the +"orthodox" or "right-thinking" faction which vociferated that +Father and Son were of the same eternal age and "homoousion" or "of +the same substance," -- of which puzzle it is assured: "It is +manifest that a dogma so mysterious presupposes a divine +revelation." (CE. ix, 309.) But that "divine revelation" was let +into the clerical mind through the efficacious grace of clubs, +stones and knives, by force of fraud and deviltry, as thus +witnessed: "The great definition of the Homoousion, promulgated at +Nicaea in 325, so far from putting an end to further scussion, +became rather the occasion of keener debate and for still more +distressing confusion of statement in the formulation of theories +on the relationship of Our Lord to His Father. [Other angry +Councils with the Holy Ghost were held on the "theory"] at Ariminum +for the West, and at Seleucia for the East, in 359. At both +Councils, as the result of dishonest intrigue and an unscrupulous +use of intimidation, ... the Homoousion was given up and the Son +was declared to be merely similar to -- no longer identical in +substance with -- the Father. St. Jerome's characterization of the +issue still affords the best commentary: 'The whole world groaned +in wonderment to find itself Arian'" (CE. i, 79.) Thus are divine

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revelations made manifest! The Christian trait of love for enemies +is exemplified: "The sudden death of Arius [attributed to poison] +was looked upon by contemporary Catholics as an answer to the +prayers of the good bishop." (CE. i, 285.) All the "new nations" +except the Franks, converted under Clovis, were "Arian heretics"; +and for some four centuries maybe a million throats were cut in the +name of One God or Three, before the "divine revelation" of Three-in-One won out.

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"The accession of Constantine found the African Church rent by +controversies and heresies: Catholics and Donatists contended not +only in a wordy warfare, but also in a violent and sanguinary way. +... Attempts at reconciliation, at the suggestion of the Emperor +Constantius, only widened the breach, and led to armed repression, +an ever-growing discontent, and an enmity that became more and more +embittered. ... One act of violence followed another and begot new +conflicts. ... Even in such condition of peril -- [the bitter +reprisals of the Arian Vandals which filled the fifth century], the +Christians of Africa were far from showing those virtues which +might be looked for in a time of persecution. ... Crimes of all +kinds made Africa one of the most wretched provinees in the world. +Nor had the Vandals escaped the effects of this moral corruption, +which slowly destroyed their power and eventually effected their +ruin. ... While one part of the episcopate wasted its time and +energies in fruitless theological discussions, others failed of +their duty. The last forty years of the seventh century witnessed +the gradual fall of the fragments of Byzantine Africa into the +hands of the Arabs. ... In this overwhelming disaster the African +Church was blotted out." (CE. i) 191-2.) God failed to protect his +Holy own!

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If prelates and priests, the shepherds of the flocks, wallowed +in moral defilement, judge of the state of the witless sheep of the +heavenly fold. "Valence, the central see of the Kingdom, had been +scandalized by the dissolute Bishop Maximum, and the see in +consequence had been vacant for fifty years," till 486. (616.) +"Pope St. Agapetus I (535-536) was the son of a Roman priest slain +during the riots in the days of Pope Symmachus. His first official +act was to burn in the presence of the assembled clergy the +anathema which Boniface II had propounded against the latter's +rival Dioseurus" (202). St. Angilbert, Abbott, "at this period +[about 790] was leading a very worldly life. ... Angilbert +undoubtedly had an intrigue with Charlemagne's unmarried daughter +Bertha, and became by her the father of two children" (490). "On +the death of Pope Formosus (896) there began for the papacy a time +of the deepest humiliation, such as it has never experienced before +or since. After the successor of Formosus, Boniface VI, had ruled +only fifteen days, Stephen VI (properly, VII), was raised to the +Papal Chair. In his blind rage, Stephen not only abused the memory +of Formosus but also treated his body with indignity. Stephen was +strangled in prison in the summer of 897, and the six following +popes (to 904) owed their elevation to the struggles of the +political parties. Christophorus, the last of them, was overthrown +by Sergius III (904-911)." (ii, 147.) Pope Agapetus II, (946-956), +"for ten years, during what has been termed the period of deepest +humiliation for the papacy. ... He labored incessantly to restore +the decadent discipline in churches and cloisters; and in quieting

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disturbances in the metropolitan see of Rheims; and at putting an +end to anarchy in Italy" (i, 203). Such periods of "deepest +humiliation to the papacy" were quite recurrent: "The Popes +Benedict from the fourth to the ninth inclusive belong to the +darkest period of papal history (900-1048) ... Benedict VI was +thrown into prison by the anti-pope Boniface VII, and strangled by +his orders, in 974. Benedict VII was a layman and became pope by +force, and drove out Boniface VII; died 983. ... Pope Benedict IX +had long caused scandal to the Church by his disorderly life. His +immediate successor, Pope Gregory VI (1044-46) had persuaded +Benedict IX to resign the Chair of Peter, and to do so bestowed +valuable possessions on him" (31).

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"There can be no doubt that at this period (800's) the law of +celibacy was ill observed by priests" (507). St. Arialdo was +'martyred at Milan in 1065, for his attempt to reform the +simoniacal and immoral clergy of that city. ... For inveighing +against abuses he was excommunicated by the bishop" (707). Pope +Alexander II (1061-73) was a leader in "that great agitation +against simony and clerical incontinence. ... A faction elected +Honorius II as pope -- public opinion clamoring for reform. +Alexander was omnipresent, through his legates, punishing +simoniacal bishops and incontinent clergy" (286). "The Church at +that time (1072) was torn by the schisms of anti-popes" (541). -- +"The desperate moral barbarism of the age." (vii, 229.) ]Pope +Anacletus II (1130-38) had before his election supported the popes +in their fifty years' war for reform. If we can believe his +enemies, he disgraced his office by gross immorality and by his +greed in the accumulation of lucre. There can be no doubt that he +determined to buy or force his way into the Papal Chair. ... On the +death of Honorius, two popes, Anacletus II and Innocent II were +elected and consecrated on the same day, by the factions in the +Sacred College. ... When Anaeletus died, another anti-pope, Victor +IV, was elected by one faction" (447).

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The "glorious thirteenth century," which the Faithful for some +unfathomable reason exalt proudly above all the others of the Dark +Ages of Faith, was ushered in with the murderous Holy Inquisition +and the unholy crusade against the Albigenses, tens of thousands of +whom were butchered and the fairest half of France laid desolate. +The motive for this unprecedented butchery and devastation is +naively confessed to be "their wealth ... their contempt for the +Catholic clergy, caused by the ignorance and the worldly, too +frequently scandalous lives of the latter" (268). "With the zeal of +an apostle St. Anthony [d. 1231] undertook to reform the morality +of his time; ... enormous scandals were repaired" (557). "The +barons of the Campagna fought with each other and with the Pope +and, issuing from their castles, raided the country in every +direction, and even robbed the pilgrims on their way to the tombs +of the Apostles. ... William I took captive many wealthy Greeks, +the greater number of whom he sold into slavery" (157). "A period +of decline followed after the middle of the thirteenth century, +when war and rapine did much injury ... suffered again in the +fifteenth and sixteenth centuries from the prevailing social +disturbances" (145). "Pope Alexander IV (1254-61) was easily led +away by the whisperings of flatterers, and inclined to listen to +the wicked suggestions of avaricious persons. ... He continued

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Innocent IV's policy of a war of extermination against the progeny +of Frederick II. ... The pecuniary assistance these measures +brought him was dearly bought by the embitterment of the English +clergy and people against the Holy See. ... The unity of +Christendom was a thing of the past" (288). About 1300, "all looked +forward to the time when the religious orders, whose laxity had +been occasioned in great measure by the general looseness of the +times, would be restored to their former discipline"

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Under Pope Alexander V (1409-1410) "The Great Schism (1378-1417) rent the Church. As cardinal he had sanctioned the agreement +of the rival Colleges of Cardinals to join in a common effort for +unity. He thus incurred the displeasure of Gregory XII [who deposed +him]. At, the Council of Pisa (1409) he preached the opening +sermon, a scathing condemnation of the rival popes, and presided at +the deliberations of the theologians who declared those popes +heretics and schismatics ... in the riven Catholic world. ... His +legitimacy was soon questioned, and the world was chagrined to find +that instead of two popes it now had three. ... Whether or not +Alexander was a true pope is a question still discussed" (288-9).

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Speaking of "moral" conditions in the Holy City and prevailing +in the age, CE. thus summarizes the "sweetness and light" of +Christendom in the time of His Holiness Sixtus IV (died 1484): "His +dominating passion was nepotism, heaping riches and favors on his +unworthy relatives. His nephew, the Cardinal Rafael Riario, plotted +to overthrow the Medici; the pope was cognizant of the plot, though +probably not of the intention to assassinate, and even laid +Florence under an interdict because it rose in fury against the +conspirators and brutal murderers of Giuliano dei Medici. +Henceforth, until the Reformation, the secular interests of the +papacy were of paramount importance. The attitude of Sixtus towards +the conspiracy of the Pazzi, his wars and treachery, his promotion +to the highest offices in the Church of such men as ... are blots +upon his career. Nevertheless, there is a praiseworthy side to his +pontificate. He took measures to suppress abuses in the +Inquisition, vigorously opposed the Waldenses, and annulled the +decrees of the Council of Constance Under him Rome became once more +habitable, and he did much to improve the sanitary conditions of +the city." (CE. xiv, 32, 33.)

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Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503) was so notoriously infamous and +his history is so large and so well known, with his six bastards, +including Caesar and Lucrezia Borgia, and his numerous Vatican +mistresses and dissolute Papal Court, under whose regime again "the +Vatican was a brothel," that he is simply mentioned in his order. +When one of his bastard sons "was fished out of the Tiber with his +throat cut ... that it was a warning from Heaven to repent, no one +felt more keenly than the Pope himself. He spoke of resigning; and +proclaimed his determination to set about that reform of the Church +'in Head and members' for which the world had so long been +clamoring"; but his grief was assuaged by the attentions of his +lady loves, notably pretty Guilia Farnese, niece of the Cardinal, +and whose picture as an angel now adorns one of the great frescos +of the Vatican. "Long ago Leo the Great (440-461) declared, 'the

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dignity of Peter suffers no diminution even in an unworthy +successor.'" (289, 294, passim.) Maybe so; but, the question, +simply is, "the unparalleled purification of morals" produced by +the religion of Christ!

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About this juncture, and after a thousand years of such +conditions in the Church and the Heads of the Church, popes, +prelates, priests, and monks, and rife among the degraded people, +the protests of Christendom swelling steadily for several centuries +broke into the Protestant Reformation by force and arms. A +thumbnail sketch of the culmination and the causes leading up to it +throughout the Middle Age "civilization thoroughly saturated with +Christianity," is drawn by CE. in two paragraphs here quoted:

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"At the time of Gregory VII's elevation to the papacy +(1073-85), the Christian world was in a deplorable condition. +During the desolating period of transition -- the terrible +period of warfare and rapine, violence, and corruption in high +places, which followed immediately upon the dissolution of the +Carlovingian Empire [in the 800's], a period when society in +Europe seemed doomed to destruction and ruin -- the Church had +not been able to escape from the general debasement [to which +it had so signally contributed, if not caused]. The tenth +century, the saddest perhaps, in Christian annals, is +characterized by the vivid remark of [Cardinal] Baronius that +Christ was as asleep in the vessel of the Church. At the time +of Leo IX's election in 1049, according to the testimony of +St. Bruno, Bishop of Segni, 'the whole worldly in wickedness, +holiness had disappeared, justice had perished, and truth had +been buried; Simon Magus was lording it over the Church, whose +bishops were given to luxury and fornication.' St. Peter +Damien, the fiercest censor of his age, unrolls a frightful +picture of the decay of clerical morality in the lurid pages +of his 'Book of Gomorrah.' Writing in 1075, Gregory himself +laments the unhappy state of the Church. 'The Eastern Church +has fallen away from the Faith and is now assailed on every +side by infidels. Wherever I turn my eyes -- to the west, to +the north, to the south, -- I find everywhere bishops who have +obtained their office in an irregular way, whose lives and +conversations are strangely at variance with their sacred +calling; who go through their duties not for the love of +Christ but from motives of worldly gain. And those among whom +I live are worse than Jews or Pagans.' ... Gregory made every +effort to stamp out of the Church the two consuming evils of +the age, simony and clerical incontinency. ... Gregory began +his great work of purifying the Church by a reformation of the +clergy. In 1074 he enacted the following decrees [a series +aimed at the two universal vices named]. But they met with +vigorous resistance, ... called forth a most violent storm of +opposition throughout Italy, Germany, and France. And the +reason for this opposition on the part of the vast throng of +immoral and simoniacal clerics is not far to seek." (CE. vi, +793-4.) Still, nearly five centuries later:

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"Churchmen in high places were constantly unmindful of +truth, justice, purity, self-denial; many had lost all sense +of Christian ideals; not a few were deeply stained by Pagan +[?] vices. ... The earlier years of AEneas Sylvius [Pope Pius

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II, 1458-64], the whole career of Rodrigo Borgia (Alexander +VI), the life of Farnese, afterwards Paul III, until he was +compelled to reform himself as well as the Curia, ... all with +disregard for the most elementary virtues. Julius II fought +and intrigued like a mere secular prince; Leo X, although +certainly not an unbeliever -- [it was His Holiness who framed +the famous "witty epigram: 'What profit has not that Fable of +Christ brought us,"; Encyc. Brit., 14th Ed. xix, 217] -- was +frivolous in the extreme; Clement VII drew on himself the +contempt as well as hatred of all who had dealings with him, +by his crooked ways and cowardly subterfuges which led to the +taking and pillage of Rome. Now, it is not unfair to trace in +these popes, as in their advisers, a certain common type, the +pattern of which was Caesar Borgia, sometime cardinal, but +always in mind and action a condottiere [bandit], while its +philosopher was Machiavelli. We may express it in the words of +Villari as a 'prodigious intellectual activity accompanied by +moral decay.' ... Not only did they fall away from monastic +severities, they lost all manly and decent self-control. ... +Worse things than Savonarola had seen were to happen. And a +catastrophe was inevitable. Erasmus laughed to scorn the +Ciceronian pedantries [of sundry Cardinals named]; he quotes +with disgust the paganizing terms in which some Roman +preachers travestied the persons and scenes of the Gospels, +... outcry against cancerous vices which were sapping the life +of Italy. ... [Some] demanded reform according to Catholic +principles [Others] taught education in principle and practice +on orthodox lines. ... The Sorbonne objected, however, to any +publication of Scripture without approved Catholic notes; and +this in a day which might be justly termed one of rebuke and +blasphemy. ... Poggio, the mocking adversary of the clergy, +was for half a century in the service of the popes. Filelfo, +a pagan unabashed and foul, was rewarded by Nicholas V for his +abominable satires. Pius II had the faults of a smart society +journalist, and took neither himself nor his age seriously. +Platina, with whom Paul II quarreled on political grounds, +wrote a vindicative slanderous book, 'The Lives of the Roman +Pontiffs,' which, however, was in some degree justified by the +project of reformation 'in Head and members' constantly put +forth and never fulfilled until Christendom had been rent in +twain." (CE. xii, 767-768.)

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Speaking again of prevailing conditions at the end of a +thousand years of inspired care of the Christian morals, by +their Holinesses, the following sentences culled from one +article are a little cluster of the "fruits" of Christianity: +"The scientific and ascetic training of the clergy left much +to be desired, the moral standard of many being very low, and +the practice of celibacy not everywhere observed. Not less +serious was the condition of many monasteries of men, and even +of Women. ... The members of the clergy were in many places +regarded with scorn. ... As to the Christian people itself, in +numerous districts ignorance, superstition, religious +indifference, and immorality were rife. ... Worldly ideas, +luxury and immorality rapidly gained ground at the center of +ecclesiastical life. When ecclesiastical authority grew weak +at the fountain head, it necessarily decayed elsewhere. ... In +

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proportion as the papal authority lost the respect of many, +resentment grew against both the Curia and the Papacy. ... +This vast ecclesiastical wealth, ... such riches in the hands +of the clergy. ... Higher intellectual culture was confined in +a great measure to the higher clergy. ... The parochial clergy +were to a great extent ignorant and indifferent." (CE. xii, +700-703, passim.)

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The Church leaped to arms to prevent any reform of these +degrading conditions to which her holy guidance had brought +Christendom, and for over a century, until the Religious Peace of +1648, with fire and sword made Europe a slaughter-pen in the +desperate effort to suppress the revolt and force its forged faith +and its creed of love and morals, which we have just seen +exemplified, down the throats of revolted and disgusted humanity. +The Dominican "Dogs of the Lord" were let loose in all the bloody +fiery fury of the Holy Inquisition; Alva, Tilly and Wallenstein +ravaged and destroyed Europe, culminating in the glories of +Magdeburg and St. Bartholomew for which His Holiness and his Church +sang Te Dewms. "Soon the Counter-Reformation, called into life by +the Council of Trent (1545-63) to prevent the loss of the whole of +middle Europe, appeared; its success was assured by the aid of the +Society of Jesus." (CE. v, 612.) Abetted by the crafty and cruel +Society of Jesus, under its renowned leader this miracle is said to +have been wrought: "St. Ignatius, alive to the causes which had +provoked so many nations to revolt from the clergy ... did the most +astonishing feat recorded in modern history' He reformed the Church +by means of the papacy when sunk to its lowest ebb; and he took the +heathen classics from neo-pagans to make them the instruments of +Catholic education. ... In May, 1527, Rome was laid waste, its +churches profaned, its libraries pillaged, by a rabble of +miscreants.' But,' said the Cardinal Cajetan,'it was a just +judgment on the Romans.' ... It was a change so marked that +Scaliger termed the Italians generally hypocrites. ... The papacy +aimed henceforth at becoming an 'ideal government under spiritual +and converted men.' Urban VIII (1623-44) was the last who could be +deemed a Renaissance pontiff." (CE. xii, 769.) This was over one +hundred years after the boasted "reformation in Head and members."

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So here the Augean stables were at length cleansed; the papacy +-- for the fourth time in Volume I recorded as "sunk to its lowest +ebb," was now to be "an ideal government under spiritual and +converted men," and the chronic millennial infamies of Holy Church +washed out by a baptism of Faith and "good works meet unto +repentance." But was it so?

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Adrian VI was Holiness of Rome in 1522-1523: "Appalling tasks +lay before him in this [again] darkest hour of the Papacy. To +extirpate inveterate abuses; to reform a court which thrived on +corruption, and detested the very name of reform; to hold in leash +the young and warlike princes, ready to bound at each other's +throats, -- these were herculean labors. ... His nuncio to Germany, +Chierigati, [made the exaggerated] acknowledgment, that the Roman +Court had been the fountain-head of all the corruptions in the +Church. Cardinal Adrian of Costello (in 1517) was implicated in a +charge of conspiring with Cardinal Petrucci to poison the pope Leo +X, and confessed" (i, 160). "Under the direct orders of the pope,

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Clement VII, Archbishop B. [in 1538] caused many [Protestants in +Scotland] to ... be put to death. Modern humanity condemns the +cruel manner of their execution; but such severities were the +result of the spirit of the age (ii, 374), -- which quite as +thoroughly inspired the same Protestants and was as villainously +practiced by them when they had the chance. The sixteenth century +was "a scandalous age." (CE. ii, 375.) About 1600 a special Papal +representative "was commissioned to reform a convent at Naples, +which by the laxity of its discipline had become a source of great +scandal. Certain wicked men were accustomed to have clandestine +meetings with the nuns" (i, 472). Pope Alexander VII (1655-1667) +was "elected after a struggle of eighty days; at a time when +churchmen were being forced to realize the deplorable consequences, +moral and financial, of nepotism; ... nepotic abuses came to weigh +as heavily as ever upon the papacy ... endeavors to enrich their +families" (294). Pope Alexander VIII (1689-1691) "bestowed on his +relations the riches they were eager to accumulate; in their +behalf, and to the discredit of his pontificate, he revived +sinecure offices. Out of compassion for the poor of well-nigh +impoverished Italy, he sought to succor them by reducing the taxes" +(295).

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"The eighteenth century was not an age remarkable for depth of +spiritual life" (334). "Here [in the bishopric of St. Agatha, near +Naples, in 1762] with 30000 uninstructed people, 400 mostly +indifferent and sometimes scandalous secular clergy, and 17 more or +less relaxed religious houses ... a field so overgrown with weeds +that they seemed the only crop" (337). In 1799 "people were already +rejoicing that the Papacy and the Church had come to an end. But +the priest, Count Antonio Rosmini ... published his ideas in 1848 +in the treatise 'Of the Five Plagues of the Church,' in which he +also particularly recommended the reform of the Church. ... The +demand for reform in the States of the Church was in fact not +unjustified." (CE. xiv, 264, 265.) Much later like data could be +added.

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Thus in our search for its sweetness and light, we have as it +were scratched the surface of the history of Holy Church, for a +thousand five hundred years, as recorded by itself; thus in one +volume out of fifteen have we verified the priestly boast: "Her +holiness appears in the fruits which she brings forth." The most +lurid features, as under long lines of Holinesses, for example, +Benedicts, Eugenes, and Johns, fall outside our limited +alphabetical scope; we have made no note of the interminable +political wars and throat-outtings joyously moted by fifteen +hundred years of Popes; nor of the infinite blood-lust and greed of +the execrated Holy Inquisition and of interminable successions of +Popes, papal Curias and blood-sodden prelates. The choice of every +Pope is guided by the Holy Ghost itself, aided indirectly but +effectively in a hundred instances by bribery and the dagger. Even +this trinity of Holy Electors of the Vicars of God has not always +kept the "Succession of Peter" in a straight line; a goodly number +of times the Spirit has descended upon numerous doublets and +triplets of Holinesses at one and the same time: "At various times +in the history of the Church illegal pretenders to the Papal Chair +have arisen, and frequently exercised pontifical functions in +defiance of the true occupant. According to Hergenrother, there are

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29 [doublet and triplet sets] in the following order," -- naming +them, beginning about 200 A.D. and extending down to 1449. (CE. i, +582.) The turmoils and scandals leading to and resulting from +these, the priestly anathemas spit at each other, the blood and +terror, and the unspeakably debased social conditions which made it +all possible -- in the name of Christ, can be but faintly imagined. +This is but a fractional and imperfect inventory of the crops of +"the fruits which she has brought forth" since her first budding +out of the graft of Forgery and Fraud upon the iron stock of Force.

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What price Religion! Paganism -- and Christianity! Which -- +upon the record -- has been the more shameless and debauched, and +wrought the worst for morality and civilization? If, but for the +glorious" civilizing effects" of Christianity's "civilization would +have been retarded for a thousand years" -- What would not +Civilization be today but for the "sweetness and light" of the +Church and its Dark Ages of Faith?

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B. THE INTELLECTUAL "FRUITS" OF CHRISTIANITY

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THE CHRISTIAN "EDUCATION LIE,"

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"Of course, the beginnings of all profane knowledge can be +traced back to the time when 'Priest' and 'scholar' meant one and +the same thing." (CE. vi, 447.)

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"There is nothing more despicable than an ignorant priest." +Cardinal Farness. (CE. v, 788-9.)

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A panoramic view, sketched by pious clerical pens, has passed +before us, depicting in high light the outlines of moral and +intellectual culture of two civilizations: the one Pagan, secular, +brilliant, of Pre-Christian Greece and Rome; the other "a +civilization thoroughly saturated with Christianity," with +Christian morality and culture this section, added from CE., must +determine its intellectual achievements. So insistent and ever-proclaimed are the clerical claims for the education of +Christendom, and its "Christian civilization," which, without its +glorious and heroic activities, "would have been retarded for a +thousand years," that it is but just and fair to let the Church +repeat several times what it claims to have done; then let it tell +in its own words what it did.

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Here are a few of the exalted cultural claims of the Church: +"The Church, although officially the teacher of revealed truth +only, has always been interested in the cultivation of every branch +of human knowledge. But the truth unfolded by reason cannot +contradict the truth revealed by God! The Encyclical next shows, by +extracts from many Fathers of the Church, what reason helped by +revelation can do for [to] the progress of human knowledge"! +(Encyc. AEterni-Patris, Leo XIII, 1879; CE. i, 177.) "The Christian +Church during this era -- a fact of the greatest importance -- was +the guardian of the remains of classical literature." (CE. vi, +485.) "The preservation of the fragments of Greek and Roman +classics now extant is largely due to the monasteries, which for +twelve centuries after the fall of the Western Empire were the

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custodians of manuscripts of the ancient Greek philosophy and the +Latin rhetoricians." (CE. i, 696.) "In addition to their prescribed +studies, the monks were constantly occupied in copying the classic +texts." (CE. v, 303.)

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THE MONKS "PRESERVED THE CLASSICS"

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In the sweet-sounding music of this clerical chorus, a rudely +jarring discord is struck by these dissonant notes: "The revival of +the classics, lost for a thousand years in Western Christendom. ... +The loss of Greek authors and the decline of Church Latin into +barbarism were misfortunes in a universal ruin." (CE. xii, 277.) An +attempt by Charlemagne to establish even rudimentary education was +abortive, and "the accumulated wisdom of the past ... was in danger +of perishing," but "When the permanent renaissance of learning came +several centuries later, the light began again to pierce through +the storm-clouds of feudal strife and anarchy." (CE. i, 277.) We +shall see that every scrap of Greek and Latin learning which, after +twelve centuries, slowly filtered into Christendom, came from the +hated Arabs through the more hated Jews, after Christians first +made contact with civilization through the Crusades: "Indeed, +whatever influence came from the Mosque passed through the +Synagogue before it reached the Church." (CE. i, 676.)

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In one singular and unintentional way, however, is it true +that "the preservation of fragments of Greek and Roman classics is +due to the monasteries, which were the custodians of manuscripts of +the ancient Greek philosophy," science, and literature. Such +manuscripts existed in great numbers in the age of Greek and Roman +culture; they were written on enduring parchment. When the Light of +the Cross dimmed Pagan culture, and its learning became abhorrent +to the pious Christian, the monks needed papyrus for their literary +efforts, so they gathered in the manuscripts wherever found; -- and +thus they "preserved" them: "Due to cost of vellum, old books were +scraped and used again" -- (that is the meaning of "Palimpsest") -- +for the scribbling of the precious monkish chronicles and +theological folderol soon to be noticed. "In the West much use was +made of old manuscripts from the seventh to the ninth century, +when, in consequence of the disturbed state of the country, there +was some scarcity of material, and the old volumes of neglected +authors were used for more popular works. ... The practice +continued down to the sixteenth century. Many Latin and most Greek +manuscripts are on reused vellum. A manuscript in the Vatican +contained part of the 91st Book of Livy's 'Roman History.' The +famous Sinai Bible discovered by Tischendorff was written over by +lives of female saints. Parts of the Iliad and the 'Elements' of +Euclid were covered by monkish treatises. The 'De Republica' of +Cicero, was discovered under the Commentary of Augustine on Psalms, +and several of his Orations under the Acts of the Council of +Chalcedon." Other such monkish palimpsests were discovered to +contain the Institutes of Gaius; eight orations of the Roman +senator Symmachus, the Comedies of Plautus, parts of Euripides, +epistles of Antoninus Pius, Lucius Verus, Marcus Aurelius, and +others, the 'Fasti Consolaris' of 486, the Codex Theodosianus, are +among the precious remains of Greek and Roman erudition which were +"Preserved" in this monkish fashion in the erudite monasteries. +(NIE. xvii, 762-3.) As for "monks constantly occupied in copying

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the classic texts," for the preservation and diffusion of Pagan +culture, it is a joke! They couldn't read Greek nor good Latin, and +nobody else could read at all, -- also, Holy Church and Churchmen +loathed Pagan culture and literature.

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The Church, however, got an early and fair start on its +wonderful career as the organizer and creator of civilization. In +529 [by priest-prompted edict of Justinian] "the schools of +philosophy were closed. From that date Christianity had no rival." +(CE. ii, 43.) We have read the Imperial Law of Justinian with the +fatal title: "Pagans Forbidden to give Instruction"; consequently +"the State schools of the Empire had fallen into decay." (CE. xiii, +555.) Thenceforth the Church, inspired by its Holy Ghost, was the +sole Mentor and Instructor of Christendom. Before the dazzling +Light diffused by the Church blinds us to the view, let us take a +farewell look at the Pagan civilization of the Roman world, as +recorded under the Antonine Emperors and their successors, such +conditions prevailing quite up to the era of Justinian and the +Church; -- it will be a millennium and a half before we see a spark +of such like:

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"The internal peace and prosperity were no less remarkable +than the absence of war. Trade and commence flourished; new routes +were opened, and new roads built throughout the Empire, so that all +parts of it were in close touch with the capital. The remarkable +municipal life of the period, when new and flourishing cities +covered the Roman world, is revealed by the numerous inscriptions +that record the generosity of wealthy patrons or the activity of +free burghers. ... Guilds and organizations of all conceivable +kinds, mainly for philanthropic purposes, came into existence +everywhere. By means of these associations the poorer classes were +in a sense insured against poverty. ... The activity of the Emperor +was not confined to merely official acts; private movements for the +succor of the poor and of orphans received his unstinted support. +The scope of the alimentary institutions of former reigns was +broadened, and the establishment of charitable foundations such as +that of the 'Puellae Faustinianae' is a sure indication of a +general softening of manners and a truer sense of humanity. The +period was also one of considerable literary and scientific +activity. ... The most lasting influence of the life and reign of +Antoninus was that which he exercised in the sphere of law. Five +great Stoic jurisconsults [named] were the constant advisers of the +Emperor, and under his protection they infused a spirit of leniency +and mildness into Roman legislation which effectually safeguarded +the weak and unprotected, slaves, wards, and orphans, against +aggressions of the powerful. ... An impulse was given in this +direction which produced the later golden period of Roman +jurisprudence under Septimus Severus, Caracalla, and Alexander +Severus." (CE. i, 587.)

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For vivid contrast, we may here recall the "vivid remark" of +Bishop St. Bruno, in the year 1049, that "justice had perished" +(CE. vi, 793) and the confession, relating to the beginning of the +Reformation five hundred years later: "Churchmen in high places +were constantly unmindful of justice." (CE. xii, 767.) The "golden +period of Roman jurisprudence" had been replaced by Christian +"superstitions in the administration of justice during many

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centuries of the Middle Ages, and known as ordeals or 'judgments of +God.' ... These 'judgments of God' gave rise to new superstitions. +Whether guilty or not, persons subjected to the trials would often +put more confidence in charms, magic formulas, and ointments than +in the Providence of God." (CE. xiv, 341,) Up to as late as 1538 +"the legal lore had hitherto been presented in a very barbarous +form." (CE. i, 273.) As for benevolence,: charity, the care of the +poor, the protection of the weak against the strong, the cursory +Pagan record just quoted must suffice; their continuance in the +Christian Dark Ages is sufficiently belied by the shocking social +conditions to be cursorily noticed in the general cultural sketch +to follow. As for widows and orphans, one of the proudest brags of +the clerics, the Church by sword and rack and stake, has made an +infinity more of widows and orphans that she ever scantily cared +for in her monkish lazzarettos and pestilential lying-in shambles. +With respect to slavery, which the Church boasts to have +suppressed, this pious lie is nailed by the fact of the gradual +shifting of technical slavery into universal serfdom throughout +Europe for centuries, and its persistence in "Christian" England, +America and Brazil until almost the present generation, and the +existence today of millions of slaves in very Christian Abyssinia; +and the world knows the part which the Christian soul-savers took +in the United States in upholding slavery as a God-ordained +institution of the Blessed Bible. But the Church not only aided and +abetted slavery; it owned slaves, and it actively engaged in the +most revolting forms of slave-trade: "Clement V (1309) decreed that +resisting Venetians should be sold into slavery, and Gregory XI and +Sixtus IV [of blessed memory] decreed the same for the Florentines, +and Julius II for both Florence and Bologna. The Bull by which +Nicholas V (1442) encouraged Portugal to what became the organized +trade in negro slaves. ... In 1538 Paul III decreed slavery against +all Englishmen who should dare to support Henry VIII against the +pope"! (Encyc. Brit., 14th ed. xix, 35.)

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The Church mightily prides itself on its suppression of the +bloody sports of the arena, the gladiatorial combats, because the +monk Telemachus, after 400 A.D., jumped into the arena (with two +Pagan companions) and protested against them, which act incited the +Pagan throng in the Ampitheatre to urge their abolition. But for +four hundred years not Church nor Christian had raised a voice of +protest; and during as much of this period as it had the power, the +Church was merrily murdering Pagans and heretics; and the cruelties +of free combat in the arena were speedily replaced by the infamous +torturings and slow burnings of countless human beings for Christ's +sweet sake: while bull-fights adorn every holiday and holy day of +the "Most Christian" countries today. Fie for Christian "reforms"!

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Following upon the Pagan cultural civilization depicted by CE. +existing in the closing epoch of the Roman Empire, we have a +lengthy account by the same clerical scholars of the Christian +culture of the ensuing Age of Faith: "The learning and opinions of +the first [Christian] few hundred years were comprehensively set +forth in the tremendous work of Isidore of Seville (d. 636). During +the next few centuries, which were comparatively barren of literary +achievements, the only men to achieve any celebrity were [five +named up to 1003]." ... Others are named up to 1280, -- "For all +these Albertus Magnus had opened the door to the rich treasure-

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house of Greek and Arabian learning." (CE. vi, 449, 450.) The +principal product of Christian erudition up to these times was +ludicrous lying legends and saint and martyr tales: "Needless to +say that they do not embody any real historical information, and +their chief utility is to afford an example of the pious popular +credulity of the times" (CE. i, 131). The state of Christian +historical lore through these ages may be appreciated by the +following summary:

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"The historical literature of the Middle Ages may be +classed under three general heads: chronicles, annals, and +lives of saints. ... As a matter of fact, profane history, as +dealt with by Pagan historians, no longer appealed to +Christian writers. History, as viewed from the Christian +standpoint, took into account only the Kingdom of God, and to +the new generation [of Christians] the center of such history +was the narration of the misfortunes undergone by the Jewish +nation, a subject ignored by the Roman historians. Christians +had need of a new general history in sympathy with their +ideal. ... Under Charlemagne ... the great internal +misfortunes and dissensions of the kingdom are carefully +ignored, so as not to cast discredit on the reigning princes. +... The majority of these local chronicles reproduce the +traditions, popular or local, of the monastery which they +concern and confine themselves to recording gossip and various +kinds of information, ... without asking themselves whether +the version of these sources had been tainted with legends, +and they did not take the trouble to examine the origin and +value of their information. ... The authors were bounded by a +limited horizon, often equipped with merely a rudimentary +training. Such chronicles, moreover, were often written with +the same purpose as the lives of the saints. Those, having a +general tendency to enhance as much as possible the glory of +their hero, were nothing more than panegyric. Monastic +chronicles and annals were not free from this tendency, and +often begin with an account of the life of the saint who +founded the abbey, concerning themselves more with asceticism +than with historical facts and events, which would be of much +value to us today. In conclusion, the first part of these +chronicles, written for the most part since the eleventh +century, almost always recount legends, often based on oral +tradition, but sometimes invented for the purpose of +embellishing the early history of the monastery, and of thus +increasing the devotion of the faithful. ... Chronology +especially was often treated carelessly." (CE. 1, 531-536, +passim.)

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With respect to literature and history we have thus a +millennial blank of Christian achievement: but the Church's forte +was Science, for "the Church fosters and promotes the sciences in +many ways," -- so long as they do not contradict the "sacred +science of Christianity." This we may see exemplified in the +following clerical summarization.

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"Speculations concerning the rotundity of the earth and +the possible existence of human beings 'with their feet turned +towards ours,' were of interest to the Fathers of the early +Church only in so far as they seemed to encroach upon the

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fundamental Christian dogma of the unity of the human race, +and the consequent universality of original sin and +redemption. This is clearly seen from the following passage of +St. Augustine (De Civitate Dei, xvi, 9): For Scripture, which +confirms the truth of its historical statements by the +accomplishment of its prophecies, teaches no falsehood; and it +is too absurd to say ... there is a race of human beings not +descended from that one first man.' This opinion of St. +Augustine was commonly held until the progress of science ... +dissipated the scruples arising from a defective knowledge of +geography. A singular exception occurs to us in the middle of +the eighth century. From a letter of Pope St. Zachary (1 May, +748), addressed to St. Boniface, we learn that the great +Apostle of Germany had invoked the papal censure upon +Vergilius. Among other alleged misdeeds and errors was +numbered that of holding 'that beneath the earth there was +another world and other men, another sun and moon.' In reply, +the Pope directs St. Boniface to convoke a council and, 'if it +be made clear' that Vergilius adheres to this 'perverse +teaching, contrary to the Lord and to his own soul,' to expel +him from the Church, deprived of his priestly dignity'! This +is the only information that we possess regarding an incident +which is made to figure largely in the imaginary warfare +between theology and science. ... The case of the Irish monk +who suffered the penalty of being several centuries ahead of +his age remains on the page of history, like the parallel case +of Galileo, as a solemn admonition against a hasty resort to +ecclesiastical censure," as CE,. naively remarks. (CE. i, +581-2.)

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Summing up the vivifying cultural achievements of over a +thousand years down to the beginning of the end of the regimen of +Church embrutishment of men, this ludicrous composite of confession +of debasement and self-laudation greets us: "The Middle Ages did +not bequeath to Rome any institutions that could be called +scientific or literary academies. As a rule, there was slight +inclination for such institutions. ... A special reason why +literature did not get a stronger foothold at Rome is to be found +in the constant politico-religious disturbances of the Middle Ages. +... Medieval Rome was certainly no place for learned academies. ... +From the earliest days of the Renaissance the Church was the +highest type of such an academy, that is, of the broadest kind of +culture"! (CE. i, 83, 84.) Yet despite this highest type of academy +as was the Church, the broadest kind of culture which, it +personified and radiated, the full splendor of the Renaissance had +been reacting upon and illuminating the Church for two or three +centuries, when we discover this amazing lack of clerical learning +and intelligence confessed by the Church. The Protestant heresy was +at its zenith; in 1559-74 the Protestants published an +Ecclesiastical History called "Centuriators," in thirteen volumes, +"showing century by century, how far the Catholic Church had +departed from primitive teaching and practices," as CE. describes +it. This heretic work caused "keen distress and dismay in Catholic +circles; and provided the Reformers with a formidable weapon of +attack on the Catholic Church. It did much harm. The feasibility of +a counter-attack appealed to Catholic scholars, but nothing +adequate was provided, for the science of history was still a thing

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of the future. Its founder was as yet but 21 years of age" -- +Baronius, later Cardinal. He studied hard, and later produced his +Annales, 12 volumes, "which he had foreseen in a vision would be +the term of his work," and by which the "Centuries were eclipsed," +-- but in which he ruthlessly destroyed by sane and fearless +criticism so many thousands of Church saint-and-martyr myths, that +"the Annals were condemned by the Spanish Inquisition" (CE. ii, +305, 306).

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Such was the net -- and gross result of fifteen hundred years +of the much-boasted zeal for learning and teaching of the Divinely-appointed sole Teacher of Christendom, in the broad fields of +historical knowledge, literature, and general intellectual culture. +In the grand realm of the Sciences, which the Church has ever +cherished and encouraged, may we hope for bigger and better +results?

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CHRISTIAN "SCIENCE"

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"The Church, far from hindering the pursuit of the sciences, +fosters and promotes them in many ways." (CE. xiii, 609.)

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"When a dogma contradicts a scientific assertion, the latter +has to be revised"! (CE. xiii, 607.)

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The Middle Ages, as generally understood, "is a term used to +designate that period of European history between the Fall of the +Roman Empire and about the middle of the fifteenth century," (CE. +x, 235), -- the era of the discovery of printing, -- a full +thousand years. The highly significant and evidently unstudied +explanation is made: "The Middle Ages have become an interlude, +clearly bounded on both extremities by a more civilized or humane +idea of life, which men are endeavoring to realize in politics, +education, manners, literature, and religion." (CE. xii, 765.) +Those two clearly bounded extremities are the Pagan civilization of +the dying Roman Empire and the secular, skeptical, rationalistic +"Renaissance of Knowledge," which CE. clerically complains embodied +"the ideas and spirit of classic paganism." (i, 34.) We have just +seen that during this Millennium "thoroughly saturated with +Christianity" there was, in Christendom, no literature, other than +theological treatises, monkish chronicles and Saint-tales, and no +science of whatever category, -- except "sacred science" or +theology: "Theology is the very science of faith itself" (CE. xiii, +598); and we have seen to what intellectual status that sacred +science led the human mind. The zeal with which the Church pursued +its propagation of the Faith as the central feature of its +educational system, with all other branches of human knowledge as +an indifferent "side line," we have noted, in the language of the +ecclesiastical scientists. The Church maintains that it "fosters +and promotes sciences in many ways," and inferentially always has +encouraged and protected science in all its manifold forms of +utilitarian humanism. But Holy Church has some naive notions of +science and of the ecclesiastical limitations imposed upon it. +While thus fostering and promoting the sciences, "Yet", says CE., +"while acknowledging the freedom due to them, she tries to preserve

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them from falling into errors contrary to Divine doctrine, and from +overstepping their boundaries and throwing into confusion matters +that belong to the domain of faith"! (Vatican Decrees, Sess. III, +De Fide, ch. 4; CE. xiii, 609.)

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The priestly principle of the subordination of scientific fact +to dogmatic faith is thus naively posed:

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"Science is limited by truth, which belongs to its very +essence. Should science ever have to choose between truth and +freedom (a choice not at all imaginary), it must under all +circumstances decide for truth, under the penalty of self-extermination. ... Ethics is more important for mankind than +science. Those who believe in revelation, know that the +Commandments are the criteria by which men will be judged. +(Matt. xxv, 35-46.) ...

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"The demand for unlimited freedom in science is +unreasonable and unjust, because it leads to license and +rebellion. ... To submit one's understanding to a doctrine +supposed -- [is that all?] -- to be Divine and guaranteed to +be infallible is undoubtedly more consistent than to accept +prevailing postulates of science. ...

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"When a clearly defined dogma contradicts a scientific +assertion, THE LATTER HAS TO BE REVISED"! (CE. xiii, 598-607, +passim.)

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Than this last sentence, a more palpable and ridiculous +untruth has never been tittered by the clerical Liars of the Lord. +No single scientific fact ever discovered and proclaimed, in all +the struggling history of Science in defiance of Church, has ever +been "revised," altered or withdrawn in deference to religious +Dogma. Every fact of science has proudly and triumphantly defied +and refuted Dogma and Church, and made them both cheap and +ridiculous. Faith hates facts; they are forever divorced on grounds +of congenital incompatibility. The Church, True Church, and +Protestant, has screamed and reviled at every truth of Science +which was ever discovered; with high priestly anathema, the curse +of God, with prison, rack, and stake, it has sought to suppress and +kill every thought of the human mind, every bold thinker, whose +truths for the benefit of mankind have contradicted and ridiculed +it and its holy dogmas. Every single one; I challenge the +production of a solitary instance of exception. The catalogue is +too vast to even summarize here; for details and proofs the +monumental works of Dr. Andrew D. White, The Warfare between +Science and Theology, and Dr. John W. Draper's Conflict between +Science and Religion, -- (the latter on the Church's Index of +Prohibited Books), may be profitably consulted and are cheerfully +recommended in refutation of this example of priestly mendacity. We +have read what happened to that "singular exception," the Irish +monk Bishop Vergilius.

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But let the false pretense be exposed by a few examples given +by the American apologist for "the Holy See, deservedly known as +the nursing mother of schools and universities," such as we have +above admired. Until these "universities" began, about the year

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1211 (CE. xii, 766) of the Christian epoch, no one had dared to +think; Christendom was too steeped in ignorance and credulity to +think. These Middle Ages, says CE. (xii, 38), were "a civilization +thoroughly saturated with Christianity," and therefore incapable of +scientific thought or feeling. "All Greek learning [had been] lost +for a thousand years in Western Christendom. ... The loss of Greek +authors and the decline of Church Latin [as well as the Latin +Church] into barbarism were misfortunes in a universal ruin." (CE. +xii, 765.) But men's minds could not forever be kept in the chains +of priestly dominance; Gulliver began to wake and rouse and to +struggle against the multiplied strands of theological cobwebs with +which the Lilliputs of Faith had fast bound him while in his +millennial sleep of the Christian Dark Ages of Faith. "Under these +circumstances," admits CE,. "a revival of learning so soon as the +West was capable of it, might have been foreseen." (CE. xxi, 765.) +The Church was keen and hostile, and did forsee what was coming. +The first University was founded in 1211; in identically that time +the Holy Inquisition was established by His Holiness Innocent III +to guard against heretics and "other innovators." "The taking of +Constantinople in 1204, the introduction of Arabian, Jewish, and +Greek works into the Christian schools, the rise of the +universities -- these are the events which led to the extraordinary +intellectual activity of the thirteenth century. ... Even in the +Christian schools there were declared Pantheists ... who bade fair +to prejudice the cause of Aristotelianism. These developments were +suppressed by the most stringent disciplinary measures during the +first few decades of the thirteenth century. ... Roger Bacon +demonstrated by his unsuccessful attempts to develop the natural +sciences the possibilities of another kind which were latent in +Aristotelianism." (CE. xiii, 548, 549.)

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Roger Bacon (1214-1294), the "Doctor Mirabilis," whose +"attempts to develop the natural sciences" were so drastically +suppressed, was the genius of the dawning "Revival of Learning" -- +the Renaissance. He wrote over eighty books, a number of the most +important in a secret cryptogram for fear of the ecclesiastical +consequences -- which he finally suffered. "It is in these +treatises that Bacon speaks of the reflection of light, mirages, +burning-mirrors, of the diameters of the celestial bodies and their +distances from one another, of their conjunction and eclipses; that +he explains the laws of ebb and flow, proves the Julian calendar to +be wrong; he explains the composition and effects of gunpowder, +discusses and affirms the possibility of steam-vessels and +aerostats, of microscopes and telescopes, and some other inventions +made many centuries later. ... 'Pope Nicholas IV, on the advice of +many brethren condemned and rejected the doctrine of the English +brother Roger Bacon, Doctor of Divinity, which contains many +suspect innovations, by reason of which Roger was imprisoned' 12 or +14 years" (CE. xiii, 112), until death released him from the +strangling clutches of the "nursing-mother of schools and +Universities," -- which always "encourages Science"!

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Roger's great German contemporary "Blessed Albertus Magnus" +(c. 1206-1280), was "accused of magic and of neglecting the sacred +sciences. ... Albert respected authority and traditions, was +prudent in proposing the results of his investigations. ... +sometimes he hesitates and does not express his own opinion,

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probably because he feared that his theories, which were 'advanced' +for those times -- [when Church was "far from hindering the pursuit +of the sciences"], -- would excite surprise and occasion +unfavorable comment." Among the products of his "magic," Blessed +Albert "gives an elaborate demonstration of the sphericity of the +earth. ... More important than Albert's development of the physical +sciences was his influence on the study of philosophy and theology. +'All inferior (i.e. natural) setences should be servants (ancellas) +of Theology, which is superior and the mistress' (Aquinas)." (CE. +i, 265-6.) Thus the Church thwarted and prevented what would have +been the much earlier "triumph of scientific discovery, with which, +as a rule, ... the seats of academic authority had too little +sympathy." (CE. xiii, 549.)

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The criminal ignorance and bigotry of the Church are nowhere +more convincingly evident than in its repression of medical science +through the ages when pestilence and plague swept unchecked through +Christendom, while holy priests and monks chanted litanies and +scared devils as the sole means of staying the ravages of Disease +and Death. Listen to the same old story: "Modern medical science +rests upon a Greek foundation. ... The secret of the immortality of +Hippocrates rests on the fact that he pointed out the means whereby +medicine became a science. ... Hippocratic medical science +celebrated its renascence in the eighteenth century. ... Arabian +medical science forms an important chapter in the history of the +development of medicine, [largely] because it preserved Greek +medical science. ... With the decline of Arabian rule [and +Christian rise, in Spain] -- began the decay of medicine. ... In +1085 Toledo was taken from the Moors, and Spain became the +transmitter of Arabian medicine." Here comes in the first medical +scientist to defy the Church and escape its Holy Inquisition. +Vesalius (born 1511), became physician to the Emperor Charles V; +"his eagerness to learn went so far that he stole corpses from the +gallows to work on at night in his room. ... The supreme service of +Vesalius is that he for the first time [in 1500 years of Church +cherishing of Science], with information derived from the direct +study of the dead body, attacked with keen criticism the hitherto +unassailable Galen, and thus brought about its overthrow. Vesalius +is the founder of scientific anatomy and of the technique of modern +dissection. Unfortunately, he himself destroyed a part of his +scripts on learning that his enemies intended to submit his work to +ecclesiastical censure"! (CE. x, 123-130, passim.) Indeed, "at that +era a scholar ... who generally struck out so many new ideas in +opposition to the commonly held opinion, could easily be accused of +heresy. So many of his relations with Protestant scholars appeared +suspicious. ... Personally he avoided expressing his opinion, in +order not to fall under suspicion of heresy"! (CE. xv, 379.) In +defiance of the ban of the Holy Ghost on dissection and anatomy, +Vesalius dissected the stolen corpses: his work disproved the Luz, +or "Resurrection Bone," the nucleus of the heavenly restoration of +the human body, and disclosed that Adam's missing rib, lost since +Eve was carved from it some 4500 years previously, was still there. +These impious refutations of the Church's sacred science so enraged +the clerical savants that it required all the efforts of the +Emperor to save his great physician from the Dogs of the Lord and +the Holy Inquisition.

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A word only may be added on the highly significant question of +hospitals and asylums in the Ages of Faith. "The idealism of +medieval theological beliefs led to the founding of orphan asylums +and hospitals. But the impracticability and 'other-worldliness' of +the Middle Ages prevented effective treatment of the diseases of +the inmates. Such hospitals were merely dark, crowded, and +unsanitary places of refuge for the needy and sick, who received no +rational medical attention. ... The Middle Ages, which some profess +to admire, were in reality times of low civilization." For a +shocking account of the hospitals, lying-in dens and insane pens of +medieval Christian idealism, reference must be made to Dr. Henry W. +Haggard's Devils, Drugs and Doctors; (cf. CE. vii, 492; x, 125). +Such as these miserable lazzaretti were, they were for the +superstitious Faithful only: "The bigoted Pius V actually directed +that no medical assistance should be given to any person who +declined spiritual attendance"! (Macauley, Const. Essays; Church +and State, p. 136.)

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But for the benighted theological repression of thought and of +discovery of the secrets and powers of Nature, here barely hinted, +the germs of modern science and invention which lay latent and +struggling in the fertile minds of these great pioneers, would have +quickly developed and would have recreated civilization and +enriched humanity centuries before they did, when Holy Church got +too feeble and discredited longer to enchain the minds of men. But, +as it was, the "sacred science of Christianity" must be protected +by force and proscription against the facts and knowledge of Nature +and the quickening minds of men. To guard its precious Bible +"revelations," the Church upheld the Bible and forced all men to +close their minds when they opened its sacred pages. At last, +Galileo fitted two bits of glass into an old Church organ-pipe, +poked it at the "firmament of heaven" which had cost Jehovah a +whole day's work, and, Lo! the whole of the "sacred science" of the +Church collapsed into universal ruin! The truth of God's revelation +became an exploded myth, and its inspired Bible a book of Fable. +The holy Church screeched in terror its unholy anathemas. "What, +more than all," confesses the CE., "raised alarm [over the +discoveries of Copernicus and Galileo], was anxiety for the credit +of Holy Scripture, the letter of which was then universally +believed to be the supreme authority in matters of SCIENCE, as in +all others." (CE. vi, 344.) The Church made monstrous efforts to +murder the new thought: "we know from the calendar of saints and +other sources how much had been done to cheek the wild license of +thought and speech in the Peninsula. Giordano Bruno, renegade and +pantheist, was burnt in 1600; Campanella spent [27] long years in +prison. The different measures meted out to Copernicus by Clement +VII and to Galileo by Paul V need no comment [its shame chokes the +Church]! The papacy aimed henceforth at becoming an 'ideal +government under spiritual and converted men.'" (CE. xii, 768.) The +Church missed this aim; but with the unholy aid of its Holy +Inquisition, which in 1542 it declared to be "the supreme tribunal +for the whole world" (CE. xiii, 137), and its sacred "Index of +Prohibited Books," instituted in 1557, it murdered men and thought +for yet several centuries. The up-to-date edition of 1929 closes +the minds of the "Faithful" to over 5000 books of the highest +intellectual merit -- as partially catalogued in the news +dispatches. (N.Y. Herald-Tribune, Nov. 11, and Dec. 1, 1930). This

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precious Proscription for preserving the "purity and genuineness of +her Apostolic doctrine" intact for the "guileless and innocent +hearts" of the Babes of Faith, and to prevent them from learning +anything which might put them "on inquiry" as to the "purity and +genuineness" of these holy "Apostolic" myths, includes the immortal +works of Gibbon, Sterne, Dumas, Victor Hugo, our own Dr. Draper, +Anatole France, La Fontaine, Lamartine, Balzac, Rousseau, Steele, +Addison, Talleyrand, Henry Hallam, Voltaire, Zola, Maeterlincki -- +(this my Book will probably be added by special Decree); -- in a +word every book by -- (mine excluded) -- the brilliant and fearless +thinkers of the world who have scorned Holy Church, and have been +laureated by winning inclusion in this Holy Index of Inspired +Ignorance. It is a vain and foolish gesture of Bigotry, defeating +its own malicious purpose: "Prohibited Books illuminate the world; +words suppressed or condemned are repeated from one end of the +world to the other," as Emerson admirably has expressed. But no +wonder that "a [Faithful] Christian child knows more of the +important truths [of a certain brand] than did Kant, Herbert +Spencer, or Huxley," as is the "sour grapes" sneer of CE. (xiii, +607) at those whose minds are free to seek and find the truths of +Nature and work from them true Miracles of Science; for the +boundless benefit of Man.

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This enlightened Index, established at the behest of the Holy +Ghost for keeping men ignorant, dates from the foundation of the +Faith; it deserves a word of admiration, which may be spoken by its +learned apologist: "Before the art of printing was discovered, it +sufficed to burn a few manuscript copies to prevent the spreading +of a doctrine. So it was done at Ephesus in the presence of St. +Paul (Acts xix, 19). It is known that the other Apostles, the +Fathers of the Church, and the Council of Nice (325) exercised the +same authority; [citing] the various censures, prohibitions, and +indexes issued by cities, universities, bishops, provincial +councils, and popes, through the Christian centuries." (CE. xiii, +607.) Who wonders that they were "The Dark Ages"?

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With the final childish, senile sneer of the Church we will. +dismiss this phase of examination of the paralyzing efficiency of +Faith. Says our guardian of the archaic fossils embedded in the +Rock of Faith: "It is true, the believer is less free in his +knowledge than the unbeliever, but only because he [which one?] +knows more. Hence it is, that a well-instructed Christian child +knows more of the important truths than did Kant, Herbert Spencer, +or Huxley. Believing scientists -- [a self-stultification] do not +wish to be free-thinkers just as respectable people do not wish to +be vagabonds"! (CE. xiii, 607.)

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So be it! But the vagabonds of Freethought are those who, at +infinite cost of torture and blood, through all the centuries of +Creed and Crime of the Church, and in heroic scorn of the Church +and her "sacred science," have made our dearly-earned civilization +what even it is to-day. Step by step, from contest to ultimate +conquest, in every single conflict of Fact with Faith, the Church +has been defeated and has retreated -- put to shaming rout. It has +been a slow and tortuous progress, --

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"For faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast +To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last"!

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But fantastic Faith has wondrous powers of "accommodation" and +specious tenacity of false pretense of being forever inspiredly +right. The process of adjustment has throughout a thousand +instances been the same: Faith is confronted with a discrediting +Fact; it curses it and denies it. When the fact is crammed down its +throat and it is forced to recognize it, it lyingly denies that it +had ever denied it. Then when all mankind has united in joyful +acceptance of the new fact, the arch hypocrite declares that it is +entirely in accord with its "sacred science," and tries to steal +all credit for it as one of its very own grand contributions to +"Christian civilization," and sanctimoniously wheezes, "How much +grander a concept it gives of the infinite knowledge and glory of +Gawd in His wonderful process of Nature"! Oh, Hypocrisy! Thou art +the Church of God! "Semper eadem" -- lying and shameless!

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A thrilling retrospect, and inspirational look into the +Future, are thus expressed: "It is to scientific devotion more than +to any other cause that man owes his present position on a new +earth and under new heavens. Nothing else has so immeasurably +enlarged his conception. Everywhere his experiments have opened up +stretches of infinity ... Personified Science might indeed be proud +to have begun so humbly and to have achieved so much. By the use of +her method men have weighed the planets as in scales, they have +read the secrets of the animal and vegetable world. They have +discovered 'what is in man,' not wholly, but in some large and +wonderful degree. Instead of the burnt-out lamp of dogmatism +Science has given to humanity 'the light that shineth more and more +unto the perfect day.' In an effort to minimize drudgery and misery +her great discoveries have attained to concrete availability in +useful arts that have remade the world and increased immeasurably +the comfort of men and their joy. ... Scientific devotion has +broadened the horizon of man at every step. In the course of time +humanity must leave the shrines of its cherished idols behind and +push steadily on! Sensing the poetic nature of this truth, James +Russell Lowell spoke in verse to those of his fellow men who could +understand:

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'New times demand new measures and new men; +The world advances, and in time outgrows +The laws which in our father's times were best; +And, doubtless, after us, some purer scheme +Will be shaped out by wiser men then we, +Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.'" ...

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(Dr. Ernest R. Trattner: The Autobiography of God, pp. 289 et seq., +passim. Scribners; 1930. Cf. Science Remaking the World: Caldwell +and Slosson; Doubleday, Page; 1924; Two Thousand Years of Science: +Harvey-Gibson; Macmillan; 1929).

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In glorious contrast to the murderous principles, and +practices of Faith --

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"Reason did never sentence or condemn +Faith to the torture. Freedom all she claims +For larger understanding of her aims; +Hers no evasion, sleight, or stratagem, +But only fearless quest our ignorance to stem."

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THE REBIRTH OF CIVILIZATION

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Gulliver Awakes

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"The RENAISSANCE -- the achievements of the modern spirit in +opposition to the spirit which prevailed during the Middle Ages"! +(CE. xii. 765.)

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During the Dark Ages of Faith men were born into the world +with the same capacities and potentialities of intellect as were +the Sages of Greece and the Jurisconsults and Statesmen of Rome. +The poles are not farther apart, however, day and night not more +different in volume of light, than the prechristian and Christian +eras in point of intellectual product. Why so vast a difference? +Simply -- that the pre-Christian mind was free, and explored +unfettered and unafraid the boundless zones of Nature, in search of +the Supreme Good and the practical benefits to be wrung from the +world in which Pagan man lived for the benefit of himself and of +his kind: while the Christian mind was bound by what it regarded as +revealed Truth and shackled by theology and priestcraft, which +closed every highway and bypath of approach to Nature with the +warning sign: "No Thoroughfare. Moses." "When one has once +believed, search should cease," as Father Tertullian said. The ban +of Eden -- "Of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge thou shalt not +eat," was enforced by the Priest by ecclesiastical censorship and +burning of books, by the Inquisition of Faith, the Index, the rack, +the stake. The ingrained aim and end of Man was Heaven; for that +other-worldly destiny alone was he taught and trained; that was the +whole Christian scheme of education and outlook on life; the things +of this world were contemned and ignored.

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Through these Ages of Faith two careers only were open to men +-- priestcraft and military. With rarest exception only clerical +persons could read or write; the great masses of the peoples were +utterly illiterate, ignorant, superstitious, devout slaves of +priestcraft; their civil status serfs; they lived in filth and +squalor unbelievable, wearing their coarse fabric or leathern +garments until they rotted off their unwashed bodies, the victims +of disease, plagues and famines which often killed off near half +the population, and aided by wars and rapine incessant, greatly +incited and waged by the political Church to further its corrupt +greed and ambition, keep the squalid population of Europe at a +standstill, so that it took a century to double the miserable +masses, fed on black rye bread and slops, and on lying saint-tales, +martyr-myths and forged relics for increase of stupid and credulous +devotion to its faithless Faith and Priests, the while they were +brutalized and kept savage by the almost daily free spectacles +furnished by Holy Church of public torturings and burnings by slow +priest-set fires of countless heroic men and women who were +unafraid to despise and defy the priests. Faith thus flourished on +ignorance and credulity, which the Church diligently fostered and +exploited for its unholy purposes of wealth and power, of rule by +ruin. As none but priests could read and write, while kings and +public men were mere soldiers and illiterates, and public business +must be carried on through written documents, the public offices of +State, from the King's chancellor and ambassadors to the lowliest +clerks, were priests, and thus Priestcraft and Church increased

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their sinister power and dominance and wealth. These facts explain +the sinister motive of the priestly monopoly of literacy, and fully +account for the crass ignorance of Christendom which the vaunted +Teaching Mission of the Church entailed.

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BENEFIT OF CLERGY

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For a long dark span of centuries Holy Church, as sole and +unique, Divinely inspired and guided Teacher of Christendom, plied +the gentle art of Pedagogy for the Faithful. The net result of the +intellectual efforts of the Inspired Teacher may be summed up and +made luminous by a couple of descriptions of the wonderful "benefit +of clergy" as a Teaching Institution. Says first Dr. James Harvey +Robinson: "For six or seven centuries after the overthrow of the +Roman government in the West [476], very few outside of the clergy +ever dreamed of studying, or even of learning to read and write. +Even in the Thirteenth Century an offender who wished to prove that +he belonged to the clergy in order that he might be tried by a +church court, had only to show that he could read a single line; +for it was assumed by the judges that no one unconnected with the +church could read at all. It was therefore inevitable that all the +teachers were clergymen, that almost all the books were written by +priests and monks, and that the clergy was the ruling power in all +intellectual, artistic, and literary matters -- the chief guardians +and promoters of civilization. Moreover, the civil government was +forced to rely upon churchmen to write out the public documents and +proclamations. The priests and monks held the pen for the king. +Representatives of the clergy sat in the king's councils and acted +as his ministers; in fact, the conduct of government largely +devolved upon them." (Robinson, The Ordeal of Civilization, pp. +157-8.) This "benefit of clergy," in the legal sense in which it is +above used, and the degraded state of ignorance which gave occasion +for it and the presumptions of the clergy enforcing it, are defined +and explained by the clergy: "Benefit of Clergy. -- The exemption +from the jurisdiction of the secular courts, which ... was accorded +to clergymen. ... When a clerk was brought before a court, he +proved his claim to benefit of clergy by reading, and he was turned +over to the ecclesiastical court, as only the clergy were generally +able to read. This gave rise to the extension of the benefit of +clergy to all who could read. [It is added, for historical +interest]: The privilege of benefit of clergy was entirely +abolished in England in 1827. In the Colonies it had been +recognized, but by Act of Congress of 30 April, 1790, it was taken +away in the Federal courts of the United States. Traces of it are +found in some courts of different States, but it has been +practically outlawed by statutes or by adjudication." (CE. ii, +446-7.) All this serves to confirm the truth of the statement, that +the Church and the clergy imposed and perpetuated Ignorance as the +basis of their sordid greed for power and control over the +Ignorant.

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THE CRIMINAL CRUSADES STARTED THE REVOLT

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But -- for a wonder under such conditions, and after a +thousand years, a slow but portentous change began to manifest +itself in sodden Christendom. Note this pregnant statement: "Up to +this time (1250) almost wholly absorbed in the supernatural, [men

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now] took more interest in worldly things. Unconditional +renunciation of the world came to an end, and men grew more matter-of-fact and practical." (CE. vi, 493.) As the result of this +"extraordinary change ... education found its way among laymen, and +it developed trade." (Ib.) This confirms the fact that only priests +could read and write or had any sort of "education," in all those +Church-taught ages when "scholar and priest meant one and the same +thing." Indeed, it is stated: "Only the clergy were generally able +to read." (CE. ii, 446.) About that time it was that the feeling of +nationality first began to stir in minds of civil rulers and of +people able to realize the imperial schemes of Holy Church for one +great Empire under the rule of the Vicar of God.

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To forestall and check this dangerous restlessness of peoples, +Kings, and nascent nationality, the Church devised that since time-honored scheme of joining restless factions in war on some common +enemy, thus to avert domestic difficulties: here was born the +gigantic folly and crime of the Crusades, for the pretended rescue +of the empty and apocryphal "Sepulchre of Christ from the Infidel." +This titanic scheme and its purposes are naively thus confessed: +"The idea of the Crusades corresponds to a political conception +which was realized in Christendom only from the eleventh to the +fifteenth century: this supposes a union of all peoples and +sovereigns under the direction of the popes. ... The history of the +Crusades is therefore intimately connected with that of the popes +and the Church. These Holy Wars were essentially a papal +enterprise. The idea of quelling all dissensions among Christians, +of uniting them under the same standard and sending them forth +against the Mohammedans was conceived in the eleventh century, at +a time when there were as yet no organized states in Europe." (CE. +iv, 543, 556.) A more gigantic crime and overwhelming failure of +ambitious design was probably never recorded in history. But far +different and more transcendent results for civilization were +brought about. Indeed, the Crusades were the beginning of European +civilization. Says CE.: "The Crusades brought about results of +which the popes had never dreamed, and which were perhaps the most +important of all. They reestablished traffic between the East and +West which, after having been suspended for several centuries, was +then resumed with even greater energy; they were the means of +bringing from the depths of their respective provinces and +introducing into the most civilized Asiatic countries Western +knights, to whom a new world was thus revealed, and who returned to +their native land filled with novel ideas. ... Moreover, as early +as the end of the twelfth century, the development of general +culture was the direct result of these Holy Wars. ... If, indeed, +the Christian civilization of Europe has become universal culture, +in the highest sense, the glory redounds, in no small measure, to +the Crusades"! (CE. iv, 556.) "The original aim of the Crusades, it +is true, was not attained. But the civilization of Western Europe +gained from the Orient the best the East had to give and thus was +greatly aided in its development" (CE. v, 612). The yet quasi-barbarian rulers and rabbles of Christendom were thus brought into +direct contact with a real civilization; had their first glimpse of +Arabian culture and civilized refinements of life, saw the men with +whom they were in deadly conflict who were vastly their superiors +in every ideal and practical accomplishment, and infinitely more +humane. One instance will illustrate the difference between +Christian brutality and Moslem humanity. When the Christian

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Crusaders of Christ captured Jerusalem in 1099 and rushed in to +rescue the tomb of their dead God from the Infidel, the streets of +the Holy City ran with human blood up to the horses' bridles; "the +Christians entered Jerusalem from all sides [July 15, 1099] and +slew its inhabitants regardless of age or sex"! (CE. iv, 547.) When +nearly a century later (September 17, 1187), Saladin and his +"Infidel hosts" recaptured the City and overthrew the Christian. +Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a murder nor act of violence or outrage +was committed on the inhabitants, and the murderous hordes of +Christ were allowed to depart in peace. The Christians began to +learn what civilization was. Thus "the Crusades -- those +magnificent expeditions which, inspired and supported by the +Church, brought huge masses of people into contact with the Orient. +... They were the means of spreading ... the theories and methods +of Arabian scholarship, at that time quite advanced, and thereby +placing the researches of Western scholars on entirely new bases, +and putting before them new aims and objects." (CE. vi, 448.) An +immense confession of Christian failure!

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THE "INFIDEL" REDEEMS CHRISTENDOM

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As very pertinent to an understanding of the Rebirth of +Learning, a paragraph will be devoted to a summary notice of +Arabian culture and its saving influence on Christian ignorance; +for it was, the Arabs who brought learning, literature and science +to benighted,Christendom and created the Renaissance which ended +the Dark Ages of Faith.

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"When the Arabs came in contact with other civilizations (in +the eighth century), notably with that of Persia, their speculative +and scientific activities were stimulated into action. About A.D. +750 the Abassides, an enlightened line of Caliphs, came to the +throne, who encouraged learning, and patronized the representatives +of foreign culture. ... They made ample use of Greek philosophy, +and in their free inquiries into the secrets of nature, in which +they soon outstripped the Greeks themselves, they paid little +attention to the precepts of the Koran. The Arabians translated +[the works of Plato, Galen, and Aristotle]. ... The Arabians +developed Greek philosophy in its relation to medicine, and in this +regard they exerted the most far-reaching influence in Europe. ... +The Arabian philosophy, as is well known, exercised a profound +influence on the Scholastic philosophy of the twelfth and +succeeding centuries." (CE. i, 675-6.) "The Arabian conquerors had +learned from the Syrians the arts and sciences of the Greek world. +They became especially proficient in medicine, mathematics, and +philosophy, for the study of which they erected in every part of +their domain schools and libraries. In the twelfth century -- [the +first Christians ones were in the thirteenth] -- Moorish Spain had +nineteen colleges, and their renown attracted hundreds of Christian +scholars from every part of Europe. Herein lay a grave menace to +Christian orthodoxy.

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"The BIBLE had been set up as an infallible source of +knowledge not only in matters of religion, but of history, +chronology, and physical science. The result was a reaction against +the very essentials of Christianity. ... Biblical chronology, as +then [19th century] understood, and the literal historic

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interpretation of the Book of Genesis were thrown into confusion by +the advancing sciences -- astronomy, with its grand nebular +hypothesis; biology, with its even more fruitful theory of +evolution; geology, and prehistoric archaeology. ... But able +apologists were forthcoming to assay a conciliation of science and +religion"! (CE. i, 621, 622.) Be it noted, that it was not until +late nineteenth century, when natural Science had made the "sacred +science" of the Bible ridiculous, that the "conciliators" came +forth with the Big False Pretense that "the Holy Bible was never +intended as a Book of Science, but only of moral and religious +edification"! Why then, one wonders, does Holy Bible teach +"Science" -- abound in what is -- though false and ridiculous -- +essentially teachings of "science": e.g. the origin and form of the +earth, and its fixity in space at the center of the universe as the +"footstool of God"; the position and movements of sun and stars in +the phony "firmament of heaven"; the origin and "Fall of Man" and +the "special creation" of animals; the geographical absurdities of +the Garden of Eden and its Four Rivers, the Flood and the Divine +original and purpose of the Rainbow; the differentiation of +languages at Babel; the cause of disease as the reactions to +malignant devils in the inner works of men, and the Divine +prescriptions for cure of the "Great Physician," the "Lord who +healeth thee," by spit-salve, prayers of faith, ointment, holy +water, and devil-exorcism by ignorant priests? If the Holy Ghost of +God wrote or inspired the Bible, funny it is that it talked such +foolishness, which was exactly what ignorant priests would have +written out of the ignorance and superstitions of their times, +without any inspiration of God to confirm them in the nonsense. If +the All-Wise God who dictated the Blessed Bible and its foolish +"science falsely so called," had just spoken the facts of his own +divine Creation, truthfully, -- had just once said that the earth +is round instead of flat, and revolves on its axis and around the +sun instead of standing still while the sun went around it; that +disease is caused by dirt and germs, instead of by devils; and had +given sensible precepts of prophylaxis and of cure; in a word, had +"revealed" out of his supposed Infinite Wisdom some of the things +which are just now, after some thousands of years of Bible-worship +and bloody Church-repression, being painfully and dearly worked out +by heroic human effort, -- Who would not gladly and proudly hail +the "Holy Bible, Book Divine," and for a certainty know that it was +truly the intellectual work of a God? But! The priests and the +parsons pretend yet that it is Divine; men of science and the +coming generation know that it is ignorant priestly Imposture.

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But to return to the Arabs, who "in their free inquiries into +the secrets of Nature paid little attention to the precepts of the +Koran," and were destined to "throw into confusion" the "sacred +science" of the Blessed Bible. "It cannot be exactly said when the +first translations of Arabic writings began to be received by the +Christians of the West: probably about 1000. In the beginning of +the twelfth century the contributions of Mohammedan science and +philosophy to Latin Christendom became more and more frequent and +important. ... About 1134 John of Luna translated Al-Fergani's +treatise 'Astronomy,' which was an abridgement of Ptolemy's +'Almagest,' thereby introducing Christians to the Ptolemaic +system," -- followed by a page of other Arabian works translated +for the Christians. (CE, xii, 49; cf. ib. xv, 184.) Thus

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Christendom got even its grand fable of the earth as the center of +the universe from the Greek Ptolemy through the Arabs, -- and +damned Copernicus and martyred Galileo for daring to disprove it. +"In 1085 Toledo was taken from the Moors, and Spain became the +transmitter of Arabian medicine." (CE. x, 130.) Gerard of Cremona +(died 1187), "a twelfth century student of Arabic science and +translator from Arabic into Latin, went to Toledo, and soon +acquired a great proficiency in Arabic; he translated not only the +'Almagest,' but also the entire works of Avicenna, into Latin; he +translated 76 books from Arabic into Latin. His activities, and +that of a group of men who formed a regular college of translators +at Toledo, brought the world of Arabian learning within reach of +the scholars of Latin Christendom, and prepared the way for that +conflict of ideas out of which sprang the Scholasticism of the +thirteenth century." (CE. vi, 468.) At this late period of +Christian intellectual awakening, now for the first time +"Aristotle's philosophy was finding its way through Moorish and +Jewish channels into the Christian schools of Europe." (CE. vi, +555.) Even "the compass was invented in the East and brought to +Europe by the Arabs." (CE. i, 379.) And so of scores of inventions +and branches of learning which were known to and cultivated by the +Infidel Arabs, which through them became elements of the slow +civilizing of quasi-barbarian Christendom so long under the divine +tutelage of Holy Church and the priests.

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Thus Christendom had wallowed through a thousand years of +Christian ignorance until it was awakened by the shock of contact +with Araban civilization and learning through the Crusades. Then, +slowly and dangerously, "as might have been foreseen, a revival of +learning, so soon as the West was capable of it," occurred. (CE. +xii, 765.) One can only wonder why the Christian West, instructed +by God's own Teacher, was not sooner capable of learning anything +but monkish lore or religious lies. The Church apologizes, that +"the middle Ages occupy those tumultuous years when barbarians +turned Christians were learning slowly to be civilized, from 476 +[the end of the Roman Empire] to 1400." (CE. xii, 765.) But, the +Eastern Empire, dominated by the original "Orthodox" Eastern +Catholic Church, was never "overthrown by the barbarians," but +remained in quiet and undisputed possession of its Faith and +"Christian Civilization"; but its whole history is almost as foul +and besotted, blood-reddened and Christian-barbarous as the Western +Empire. And, since the closing of the Pagan schools in 529 at +Christian behest, "the Church had no rival" as sole and inspired +civilizer and instructor of Christendom. The poor Arabs were at +that time disunited and ever-warring tribes of idolatrous +barbarians, steeped in ignorance and "sin." Mohammed fled from +their fury in the Great Hegira in 622; he died ten years later, in +632. Yet, in exactly 100 years, even before they were checked by +the Christian Charles Martel at the battle of Tours in the heart of +France, in the year 732, the Mohammedan Arabs became and remained +the most highly civilized people in the world, the masters of an +illustrious Empire of far greater extent than Christendom, -- and +which embraced the greater part of Christendom; and minions of good +Christians quickly dropped God and Christ and became worshippers of +Allah and his Prophet Mohammed. A strange Providence of the +Christian God! This leads to a moment's disposal of one of the most +pretentious and specious clerical claims, that the "divinity" of +the Christian religion is proved by its "miraculous spread and +preservation." +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +301 +. +FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY

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THE "MIRACULOUS ATTESTATIONS" OF CHRISTIANITY

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One of the Church's most precious platitudes is its oft-used +plea of "the demonstration of the truth of Christianity based on +the wonderful propagation of His religion." (CE. i, 621.) Starting +with a handful of Galilean peasants, in three centuries, up to the +time of Constantine, it claims to have been "preached to every +creature which is under heaven" (Gal. i, 23), and to have won maybe +a million or two out of the hundred millions of the Roman Empire. +We have seen the mode and manner of "conversion" of very many of +these comers to the Christ; as well as of the most dubious +Christian efficacy of the hordes of "barbarians" later won by the +missionary sword. This "rapid spread" and propagation of the Faith +is a "triumphant proof of the divinity and truth of Christianity"! +It is also a familiar and threadbare "proof," the "miraculous" +persistence and preservation of the Christian religion through some +nineteen centuries. If this be a proof, many "false" religions are +even more divine and true; for the religions of Brahma, Buddha, +Confucius, Zoroaster, have existed and persisted, all for many +centuries, some for a millennium, before Christianity, and ever +since until now, and they embrace together countless millions more +of devout worshippers than does Christianity. And we have seen the +conditions of ignorance in which Christianity flourished and the +terror by which it was preserved during the ages of Faith; and all +world knows what the Church has become, and is faster becoming, +with the advent and advance of the Age of Reason.

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But if the slow and tortuous spread of Christianity by force +and arms is proof of its "miraculous" character, what shall we say +of Mohammedanism? "Its uninterrupted spread, from the seventh +century to the present time, among all the races of the continent, +is one of the most remarkable facts of history. Today a Mussulman +may travel from Monrovia to Mecca, and thence to Batavia without +once setting foot on 'infidel' soil. Three phases in this movement +of expansion may be distinguished. In the first (638-1050) the +Arabs, in a rapid advance, propagated Islam along the whole +Mediterranean coast, from Egypt to Morocco, a conquest greatly +aided by the exploitation of the country by Byzantine [Christian] +governors, the divisions among the Christians, and political +disorganization. The second period (1050-1750) -- all Africa except +Ethiopia. ... The last period of the Mohammedan expansion extends +to the present time. ... Daily, one may say, Islam spreads." (CE. +i, 187.) Christianity retrogresses. Aye, worse than that, for the +vaunted miraculous nature and preservation of Christianity: "The +one dangerous rival with which Christianity had to contend in the +Middle Ages was the Mohammedan religion. Within a century of its +birth, it had torn from Christendom some of its fairest lands, and +extended like a huge crescent from Spain over Northern Africa, +Egypt, PALESTINE, Arabia, Persia, and Syria, to the eastern part of +Asia Minor. The danger which this fanatic religion offered to +Christian faith, in countries where the two religions come in +contact, was not to be lightly treated." (CE. i, 620-1.) Thus at +the first onrush of the champions of Mohammed the Impostor, of a +notoriously false Faith, the "Infidels" wrested from the devotees +of the True Faith their holiest shrines, the empty Sepulchre of +their dead God, the sites of his birth, crucifixion and +resurrection; and they hold them unto this day. During three

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hundred years of bloody and fanatic "Holy Wars" united Christendom +lost millions of lives and treasure in efforts to "rescue" this +empty grave of its Christ from the impudent impostors; but for +three hundred years the armies of the Cross were beaten and driven +away from their sacred goal. "This immense fact," says Ingersoll, +"sowed the seeds of distrust throughout Christendom, and millions +began to lose confidence in a God who had been vanquished by +Mohammed. ... At that time the world believed in trial by battle -- +that God would take the side of the right -- and there had been a +trial by battle between the Cross and the Crescent, and Mohammed +had been victorious." In their Westward course of conquest, "the +Moslems even crossed the Pyrennees, threatening to stable their +horses in St. Peter's at Rome, but were at last defeated by Charles +Martel at Tours, in 732, just one hundred years from the death of +Mohammed. This defeat arrested their western conquests and saved +Europe. ... They were finally conquered by the Mongols and Turks, +in the thirteenth century, but the new conquerors adopted +Mohammed's religion, and in the fifteenth century, overthrew the +tottering Byzantine Empire (1453). From that stronghold +(Constantinople) they even threatened the German Empire, but were +successfully defeated at the gates of Vienna, and driven back +across the Danube, in 1683." (CE. x, 425.) The Christian God had +failed to protect and save the vast majority of his own people. As +Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes aptly says: "If the test of the validity of +a religion is to be its growth, spread and proselyting capacity, +then Mohammedanism can make a more impressive appeal than +Christianity. Christianity had the advantage of being launched six +and a half centuries before Mohammedanism. Yet today the +Mohammedans far outnumber the Christians, and the Mohammedans have, +moreover, reconquered the very areas in which Christianity arose +and established its first strongholds." (Barnes, The Twilight of +Christianity, p. 416.) This may close with a quaint specimen of +medieval Christian historical learning, from that great literary +light of the Church, Monk Matthew Paris (died 1259), who, says CE., +"as an historian holds the first place among English chroniclers." +In "his great work, 'Chronica Majora,' from the Creation until the +year of his death," the erudite Monk explains the unworthy motives +why Mohammed quit the True Church and became an impious Infidel: +"It is well known that Mohammed was once a cardinal, and became +heretic because he failed to be elected pope. Also having drunk to +excess, he fell by the roadside, and in this condition was killed +by swine. And for that reason, his followers abhor pork even unto +this day"! This notable occurrence was probably later than the time +when Buddha was canonized a Catholic Saint.

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"THE MARKS OF THE BEAST"

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"And the Beast was taken ... which deceived them that had +received the Mark of the Beast ... and both were cast alive into a +lake of fire burning with brimstone." (Rev. xix, 20.)

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The Apocalyptic Marks of the Beast are translated by +ecclesiastical sophism into the pretended "Four Marks of the +Church": Apostolicity, Sanctity, Unity, Catholicity, as branded +upon the "Visible Body of Christ" by the Formula of the Council of +Constantinople in 381 A.D. (CE. iii, 450-758). The first two of +these Marks we have seen totally obliterated by the processes of

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the review of the Record which we have made, and by the seas of +blood and clouds of smoke of burning human bodies which have +stained them beyond recognition; and the third is simply a frayed +figure of clerical speech. Probably no one will envy The Church the +fourth and only remaining of its holy Marks. As for "Unity," it is +a very relative term; as long as even two units cohere there is +unity -- of those two. Christendom was once coextensive with the +Roman Empire, and was then by force and arms further extended over +all the north of Europe; we have seen the process. Then came the +Arab incursion, and within one century the Church lost its most +splendid fields and Churches, the vast Christian territories of +Asia and Africa, and Spain. The "Great Schism" between East and +West tore the immense Eastern Empire from the "Unity" of the True +"Catholic" Church. The Turks, turned Mohammedan, in turn wrested +the lost Eastern Empire from Christianity and it became Infidel, as +mostly it remains today. Then came the "so-called Reformation" +revolt of Luther: "The effect of the Reformation was to separate +from the Church all the Scandinavian, most of the Teutonic, and a +few of the Latin-speaking populations of Europe." (CE. iii, 704.) +To these must be added England, Scotland, Wales, a good part of +"Ever Faithful" Ireland; much of the Americas followed in the train +of disaster. The age-long causes of this last destruction are well +known; they have cried out on nearly every page of this book. +Succinctly: "Since the twelfth century, the Church was losing much +of its influence on the thoughts of men. ... The faults and wealth +of the clergy must have contributed something. ... The growth of +national divisions, the increased secularism of everyday life, the +diminished influence of the Church and the papacy, all these +interdependent influences had broken up the spiritual unity of +Christendom at least two centuries before the Reformation. ... At +the beginning of the seventeenth century, Christendom was weary of +religious war and persecution. ... Religious divisions were too +deep-seated to permit the reconstruction of a Christian polity." +(CE. iii, 704.) The final note of despair of the Church, -- of +rejoicing for all freed from it, -- is the conclusion of its review +of Christendom: "The word Christian has come in recent times to +express our common civilization rather than a religion which so +many Europeans now no longer profess"! (Ib.) Let us be rid of the +hateful Word!

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In a word, men had long since come painfully to realize the +incontrovertible truth stated by the historian of Civilization in +England: "The prosperity of nations depends upon principles to +which the clergy, as a body, are invariably opposed." (Buckle, Vol. +11, Pt. 1, p. 42.) What of the divine mark of "unity" is thus left +in the Church is the fast disappearing coherence of decaying +particles in face of the general debacle attendant upon the +Articles of Death.

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WHY -- AND WHAT PRICE -- RELIGION?

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"Leave thy gift upon the Altar, and go thy way." Jesus.

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"They which minister about holy things, live of the things of +the Temple; and they which wait at the Altar are partakers of the +things of the Altar." Paul.

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"The Lord loveth a cheerful giver." Anon.

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All ancient religions we have seen are admittedly false, all +Pagan priestcrafts fraudulent. The Pagan priestcraft held the +lavished wealth of millions of superstitious dupes, and ruled the +minds and destinies of men and nations. The motive and raison +d'etre of priestcraft, confessedly, was greed and graft, wealth and +power and privilege. When Paganism later was called Christianity, +-- No man can deny history by alleging any difference: we have seen +too many analogies and identities. At the advent of Christianity, +scores of religions flourished throughout the Roman Empire; the +Roman world was thick covered with sumptuous Temples and swarmed +with plutocratic Priestcraft. So rich were the "pickings" from the +superstitious masses and rulers and so alluring the "Get-rich-quick" possibilities of religion, that new creeds and cults were +ever in the making. Christianity came along, born in poverty and +"made as the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things" +(I Cor. iv, 13); but even then petty faction leadership had its +meed: the believers in the quick end of the world and the Second +Coming in the Kingdom, pooled their poor belongings "and laid them +down at the apostles' feet"; and these holy ones operated this +first pool. But "the Lord added to the Church daily such as should +be saved," and it gradually increased in strength if not in grace. +As the numbers grew and prestige and contributions increased, many +"false teachers" arose among the "Sheep" and brought "damnable +heresies" into the Fold. Scores of the Fathers filled parchments +with dreary diatribes "Against all Heresies," of which over ninety +flourished in the first three centuries which CE. catalogues and +describes the hair-splitting differences of doctrine which gave +excuse to splitting the Fold and dividing the spoil, And for +cutting throats and beating out brains until the end of the seventh +century. All these factious sects of "Christians" waxed more or +less powerful and wealthy; the Arian anti-Trinity "heretics," the +Donatists, Montanists, Manichaeans, Monophysites, and innumerable +others divided Europe and the contributions of the credulous for +centuries, until suppressed by law and sword of the Orthodox. It is +the latter, the True Church, which "gathered. gear by every wile +(un)-justified by honor." An authoritative summary, gleaned at +random from CE., of the grafting results is instructive.

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"When peace was given to the Church by Constintine, at the +beginning of the fourth century, an era of temporal prosperity for +the Church set in. As Europe gradually became Christian, the +donations for religious purposes increased by leaps and bounds. +Gifts of land and money for ecclesiastical purposes were now +legally recognized, and though some of the later Roman emperors +placed restrictions upon the donations of the faithful, yet the +wealth of the Church rapidly increased. Whatever losses were +suffered in the [incursions of the barbarians], were made up for +later, when the conquering barbarians in their turn were converted +to Christianity. ... The wealth of the Church at this period [the +"so-called Reformation"] his sometimes been made a matter of +reproach to her, ... admitting that abuses were indeed at times +unquestionable." (CE. iii, 762.) Such "abuses" and the ghoulish +clerical greed were exactly why some of the later Roman emperors +"placed restrictions" on grafting the Faithful. Lecky gives a +graphic picture of the priests with the itching palm: "Rich widows

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were surrounded by swarms of clerical sycophants, who addressed +them in tender diminutives, studied and consulted their every +foible, and, under the guise of piety, lay in wait for their gifts +or bequests. The evil attained such a point that a law was made +under Valentinian depriving the Christian priests and monks of that +power of receiving Legacies which was possessed by every other +class of the community." (History of European Morals, ii, 151.) +These shaming facts are confirmed by many of the contemporary +Fathers. From the Latin text of St. Jerome I turn into English his +mournful admission that the deprivation was justified: "The priests +of the idols might receive inheritances; only the clergy and monks +were prohibited by this law, and prohibited not by persecutors, but +by Christian princes ... I grieve that we should merit this law." +(Epist. lii.) We remember that already the Christian emperors, by +"persecuting laws," had prohibited Pagans from making wills and +from receiving bequests, and the law which declared all wills void +which were not made before a priest, -- who was there to get his +share. The priestly profits rolled up through the Ages of Faith. +Out of hundreds of like generalizations and specific instances +cited, I make these limited selections, which show the universal +process of clerical greed.

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"The early Christians were lavish in their support of +religion, and frequently turned their possessions over to the +Church. ... Towards the end of Charlemagne's reign the regenerated +peoples contributed generously to the support of ecclesiastical +institutions." (v, 421.) Indeed, so great had its volume then +become, that "Church property excited the cupidity of the various +factions, upon the death of Charlemagne." (v, 774.) Even a hundred +years previously the Church estates could make a prince's rewards: +"Charles Martel is charged with secularizing many ecclesiastical +estates, which he took from the churches and abbeys and gave in +fief to his warriors as a recompense for their services, This land +actually remained the property of the ecclesiastical establishments +in question." (vi, 241.) The Church grabbed all and shirked all; as +a result, "Naturally there was a desire on the part of the king and +princes to force the Church to take her share in the national +burdens and duties." (vi, 63.) "To this age belongs the famous +grant to the Church of one-tenth of his land by Ethelburt, father +of Alfred the Great" (i, 507). "On the authority of the Doomsday +Book [of William the Conqueror], the possessions of the Church +represented 25% of the assessment in the country [England] in 1066, +and 26 1/2% of its cultivated area in 1086." (v, 103.) "In 1127 +Stephen gave to these monks his forest in Furness. This grant was +most munificent, for it included large possessions in woods, +pastures, fisheries, and mills, with a large share in the salt +works and mines of the district." (vi, 324.) "The see of Exeter was +one of the largest and richest in England. The diocese was +originally very wealthy." (v, 708-9.) "The English people at large +complained of the enormous revenue which the pope and the Italians +drew from their country, ... the financial demands of the Curia." +(vii, 38.) "Bitterness existed for a considerable time between the +monks and the people of F., who complained of the abbey's imposts +and exactions." (vi, 20.) "Vast sum of money extorted from the +English clergy in 1531." (iv, 26.)

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In France the clergy formed "a wealthy body of men, gradually +extending their possessions throughout the kingdom" during the +Middle Ages. (i, 795.) "In 1384 almost a third of the land in the +kingdom of Bohemia belonged to the Church." (ii, 613.) In Germany, +twelfth century, "the difficulty of administering the vast landed +possessions caused the abbots to grant certain sections in fief." +(vi, 314.) "The gifts of German princes, nobles, and private +individuals increased the landed possessions of the abbey so +rapidly that they soon extended over distant parts of Germany," -- +long list of provinces. (vi, 313.) "In parts of Germany [in 1770] +the number and wealth of the religious houses, in some instances +their uselessness, and occasionally their disorders, tempted the +princes to lay violent and rapacious hands on them." (iv, 38.) "The +luxury of bishops and the worldly possessions of monks" led to +violent rebellion in Italy, in twelfth century. (i, 748.) At this +and most times, the "prelates were the most powerful and the +wealthiest subjects of the State." (ii, 186.) "The steady growth of +power and wealth of the Church, since the beginning of the twelfth +century, introduced an ever-increasing spirit of worldliness." +(vii, 129.) "The liberality of the faithful was a constant +incitement to depart from the rule of poverty. This liberality +showed itself mainly in gifts of real property, for example, in +endowments for prayers for the dead, which were then usually +founded with real estate. In the fourteenth century began the land +wars and feuds (e.g. the Hundred Years' War in France), which +relaxed every bond of discipline and good order." (vi, 284.) To all +this and these, "the faults and wealth of the clergy must have +contributed something. The spiritual ruler seemed almost merged in +the sovereign of Rome and the feudal lord of Sicily. Money was +needed, and in order to obtain it funds had to be raised ... and by +means which aroused much discontent and affected the credit of +Rome. ... Even in the twelfth century complaints of venality were +frequent and bitter." (iii, 703.) "Simony, the most abominable of +crimes ... was the evil so prevalent daring the Middle Ages." (xiv, +1, 2.) Hundreds of instances are recited in CE. of the teeming +wealth wrung by the Church and clergy from the fears of the +Faithful; of the inordinate riches of popes and prelates, abbots +and monks, Churches and their plethoric treasuries. The Church +existed for riches and it got, rather ill-got them in inestimable +enormity of amount. From the cradle to the grave of every faithful +who had anything to get, the Church wheedled, extorted or coerced +it. Fear was ever the foundation of the Faith and of the +"liberality" of contributions to it.

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Among the greatest and greediest mints of ecclesiastical +finance, were Simony, several times above mentioned, -- the sale of +every kind of hierarchical office and dignity, from the popedom to +the jobs of the meanest servitors of the Servants of God; and the +sale of Indulgences, or remissions of the pains of Purgatory. This +non-existent place of expiation of "Sin," acquired or "Original," +to fit the befouled soul for Heaven, was first charted if not +invented by His holiness Gregory the Great, about 600 A.D. "An +indulgence offers the penitent sinner the means of discharging this +debt [to God] during the life on earth" (CE. vii, 783), -- provided +that "debt" is adequately liquidated by cash into the coffers of +God's Vicars on earth. These indulgences are of various kinds, +efficacy and price: "The most important distinction, however, is

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that between plenary indulgences and partial. By a plenary +indulgence is meant the remission of the entire temporal punishment +due to sin so that no further expiation is required in Purgatory. +A partial indulgence commutes only a certain portion of the +penalty. ... Some indulgences are granted in behalf of the living +only, while others may be applied in behalf of the souls of the +departed" (Ib. 783-4). Leo X, he who perpetrated the celebrated +aphorism -- "What profit has not that Fable of Christ brought us," +rose in defense of the revenues, and in his Bull "Exurge Domine," +1520, "condemned Luther's assertions that 'Indulgences are pious +frauds of the faithful'; ... the Council of Trent, 1563, pronounces +anathema against those who either declare that indulgences are +useless or deny that the Church has power to grant them" (Ib.). The +flimsy basis of the traffic is thus referred to the forged "famous +Petrine text" which we have seen is itself a huge fraud: "Once it +is admitted that Christ left the Church the power to forgive sins, +the power of granting indulgences is logically inferred" (p. 785); +but logically perfect inferences can readily be made from false +premises; the premises must be true to yield valid and truthful +"inference" or conclusion. Not only were genuine but false +indulgences hawked throughout Christendom, resulting in immense +revenues -- and abuses, for "one of the worst abuses that of +inventing or falsifying grants of indulgence. Previous to the +Reformation, such practices abounded" (p. 787). The Council of +Trent sought to stop outside profits from this traffic, declaring +it to be "a grievous abuse among Christian people, and of other +disorders arising from superstition, (etc.) ... on account of the +widespread corruption" (Ib.); though it seems that now "with the +decline in the financial possibilities of the system, there is no +danger of the recurrence of the old abuses" (p. 788). But still +they sell well and net fine revenues; the writer has invested in +them several times in Mexico, for souvenirs, -- there being no +Purgatory for unbelievers in that fiery near-Hell.

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A graphic picture is drawn by the great historian of the +Middle Ages, which shows Avarice as the cornerstone and effective +motive of the Church. Hallam, Von Ranke, and many historians, give +revolting examples in the concrete through many ages; here is their +summary:

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"Covetousness, especially, became almost a characteristic +vice. ... Many of the peculiar and prominent characteristics in the +faith and discipline of those ages appear to have been either +introduced or sedulously promoted for the purposes of sordid fraud. +To these purposes conspired the veneration for relies, the worship +of images, the idolatry of saints and martyrs, the religious +inviolability of sanctuaries, the consecration of cemeteries, but, +above all, the doctrine of purgatory and masses for the relief of +the dead. A creed thus contrived, operating upon the minds of +barbarians, lavish though rapacious, and devout though dissolute, +naturally caused a torrent of opulence to flow in upon the Church. +... Even those legacies to charitable purposes. ... were frequently +applied to their own benefit. They failed not, above all, to +inculcate upon the wealthy sinner that no atonement could be so +acceptable to Heaven as liberal presents to its earthly delegates. +To die without allotting of worldly wealth to pious uses was +accounted almost like suicide, or a refusal of the last sacraments;

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and hence intestacy passed for a sort of fraud upon the Church, +which she punished by taking the administration of the deceased's +effects into her own hands. ... And, as if all these means of +accumulating what they could not legitimately enjoy were +insufficient, the monks prostituted their knowledge of writing to +the purpose of forging charters in their own favor, which might +easily impose upon an ignorant age, since it has required a +peculiar science to detect them in modern times. Such rapacity +might seem incredible in men cut off from the pursuits of life and +the hopes of posterity, if we did not behold every day the +unreasonableness of avarice and the fervor of professional +attachments." (Hallam, History of the Middle Ages, Vol. 1, Bk. vii, +passim.)

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"STOP! THIEF!"

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Ambitious and avaricious Christians who had been unable to get +their hands into the "orthodox" Treasury of the Lord, were incited +by the vision of the seas of easy money which flowed into it and by +the ostentatious opulence of the partakers of the Lord's Altar, to +emulate the zeal for riches displayed by the truly Faithful. A +lengthy article under the title Impostors -- [or is it "Stop! +Thief!"?] -- is devoted by CE. to the long line of hypocrites with +itching palms who broke away from the True Fold the better to +fleece the Faithful by their impostures. The period of the Great +Schism of the West, particularly, "was also an epoch when many +fanatical or designing persons reaped a rich harvest out of the +credulity of the populace." (CE. vii, 699.) Many thousands left the +True Church and flocked after religious Pretenders of every sort, +pouring treasures into their uncanonical coffers, to the great +pecuniary deprivation of Holy Church. Dozens of these perverters of +the Sacred Revenue through the succeeding centuries are catalogued, +coming down to our own near-secular times. Invidiously included +under the opprobrious designation of "Impostors" are the inspired +Prophet of the Mormons, Joseph Smith, and the inspired Prophetess, +Mother Mary Baker-Glover-Patterson-Eddy, -- the immense financial +success of whose respective religions may well excite envy, and +bring them within the terminology of Orthodox Odium Theologicum -- +a "BITTER ENEMY, THE HEAD OF THE RIVAL RELIGION," as is the +approved form, to credit CE. (vii, 620), in speaking of one's +religious rivals. The point of the moral is, that according to +Orthodox criteria all these Harvesters in the Vineyard of the Lord +are unscrupulous Impostors for revenue only, and batten only by +preying on "the credulity of the populace," -- which is the by-product of Religion, as we have seen it exemplified. When Ignorance +is ended Credulity ceases, and Ecclesiastical Pelf and Power +languishing die. If, as profanely jibed, "Without Hell Christianity +isn't worth a damn," a fortiori -- without Revenue, is not Religion +with out Reason to be?

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Made wise by the history of the past, in modern times most +constitutions and governments, all in which the Church is not still +powerful, have put just restrictions on the rapacity of the Church +and have forbidden direct subsidies of support to it and its +ministers. Indeed, "In most European countries the civil authority +restricts in three ways the right of the Church to receive +donations: by imposing forms and conditions; by reserving the right

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to say what institutions may receive donations, and by requiring +the approval of the civil authority." (CE. v, 117.) In this +country, Federal and State constitutions ordain separation of State +and Church, forbid the establishment of any religion, and prohibit +grants of money in support of it. But withal, so inveterate is the +force of grafting habit, so prone yet the politicians to cater to +"The Church" upon the specious pretext that the Church and religion +are of some utility for "moral" purposes and as "the Big Policeman" +for the restriction of vice and crime -- the politicians not being +familiar with the "moral record" of the Church, that the Church +evades the principle and often the letter of the law, and is yet +largely supported and kept alive by the people through the secular +State. Some nine billions of dollars of deadhand and deadhead +property thus escapes taxation in the United States, and the idle +and vicious priestcraft and its system are supported by the State +its constitution and laws notwithstanding. For every dollar of tax-exempt property, the taxpayer pays double. The vast majority of the +people supports thus a small but vocal minority, which but for such +public favors would soon perish off the land, for its own +membership could not and would not keep it going if it had to pay +the taxes, the burden of which it now shifts to the unbelieving or +indifferent majority. The system is unjust and undemocratic, is +immoral. In his Annual Message to Congress in 1875, President Grant +pointed out that the tax-free property of Churches was at the time +about one billion dollars; that "by 1900, without check, it is safe +to say this property will reach a sum exceeding three billions of +dollars"; and he added:

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"So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits +of Government without bearing its proportion of the burdens +and expenses of the same, will not be looked upon +acquiescently by those who have to pay the taxes. In a growing +country, where real estate enhances so rapidly with time, as +in the United States, there is scarcely a limit to the wealth +that may be acquired by corporations, religious or otherwise, +if allowed to retain real estate without taxation. The +contemplation of so vast a property as here alluded to, +without taxation, may lead to sequestration without +constitutional authority and through blood. I would suggest +the taxation of all property equally, whether church or +corporation." (Messages and Papers of the Presidents, vol. +vii, p. 334-5.)

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Sequestration and blood have been required to put a curb on +Church greed in many modern and "Christian" countries, even in +Italy, Spain and France, the "most favored nations" of Holy Church. +Russia and Mexico have followed suit; they had been ground into +desperation by the luxurious exactions of their respective +Churches, and the debased ignorance and poverty which were thus +imposed on their peoples. Every country of Europe, even the "Most +Christian," where the Society of Jesus has grasped wealth and +power, has been forced to expel the parasites; and to "padlock" the +vast establishments of religious orders. If one would take a census +of illiteracy and poverty, just in those countries where the Church +has had or yet has most power and wealth, the people are most +ignorant and impoverished. It may be a "coincidence," but it is a +very suspicious matter of fact. All these things are of the +"fruits," moral and educational, of Christianity.

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Until now the "damning things of the Church" arrayed in these +pages, have been known only as the result of laborious research by +a limited number: I broadcast them now so that they may be known to +all. Even the "Man of God" may plead ignorance heretofore of the +frauds of his Church and the falsity of his religion. Here it is +demonstrated to him. To beg money now on the plea that the giver +"lendeth to the Lord," that money paid for prayers for the dead +relieves the souls in Purgatory, -- both these coin-cajoling pleas +are now known to be false; obtaining money by these false +pretenses, now, is Larceny. This is timely and serious warning, +which it may be salutary to heed.

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AN APPEAL TO REASON

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"If any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant." Paul.

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"Were we can understand, it is a moral crime to cherish the +un-understood." Shotwell.

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These two quotations represent the difference between the +viewpoints of the cleric and the scholar. "A mere recital of facts +is of little avail unless certain fundamental principles be kept in +view," says our oft-quoted Defender of the Faith, -- a truth which +I would now drive home to the reader -- but in a very different +sense than is expressed in the clerical conclusion of the sentence, +-- "and unless the fact of Christian revelation be given its due +importance." The False Pretense of "Christian revelation" has been +exposed and exploded by the real revelations of falsity and fraud +in every pretended one of them, by this same Apologist for +Christian imposture. Contrasting the wondrous results of +"Christian" training -- such as we have seen exemplified -- with +those suffered by the poor Pagan without any revelation, the same +Apologist makes this deprecatory comment: "That he should learn to +think for himself was of course out of the question. With such a +training, the development of free personality was of course out of +the question." (CE. v, 296.) Such a disparaging verdict much rather +condemns the Christian system and its aims and results, which +obviously are, that its devotees, or victims should be "able to +believe automatically a number of things which -- [in reason] -- +they know are not true," and which they must therefore accept "of +faith," subjecting their reason to the priest-instilled Faith. It +is to the awakening of Reason, in the light of the facts herein +presented, that I appeal against the preoccupations or prejudices +of Faith, -- those "superstitions drunk in with their mother's +milk," and never since questioned with open mind.

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The ex-Pagan Fathers of Christianity now turned Defenders of +the new Faith, and propagandists of it among their fellow Pagans, +were very fervid and eloquent in their appeals to the reason of the +Pagans as against their mother-inherited superstitions. In his +First Apology to the Emperor Antoninus Pius, Father Justin Martyr +makes a fine appeal for the use of reason in defiance of tradition +and authority, -- a fine gesture to the Pagan, -- but a principle +seldom applied by a Christian in point of his own imposed creeds: +"Reason directs those who are truly pious and philosophical to +honor and love only what is true, declining to follow the opinions +of the ancients, if these be worthless." (Chap. ii, ANF. i, 63.) As

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the preceding review has shown the opinions of the ancient Fathers +to be worthless with respect to the "facts" of the Christian +religion, and that that religion is quite worthless either as +divine truth or effective police, it should therefore be discarded, +except for such good moral precepts as are to be found in it as in +all religions and all moral systems.

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In those times the Christian Church was small and feeble, and +had not yet snatched the cynical power whereby, ever since, it +"requires the acceptance and practice not of the religion one may +choose, but of that which God prescribes ... to be the only true +one," as asserted by His Holiness Leo XIII, in the Encyclical +Immortale Dei, of November 1, 1885. (CE. xiv, 764.) Whereupon, the +"choosers" of their religion became "heretics," and were quite +"justly burned," as that same Pope admits. But before the +successors of Constantine gave the Church the sword and the stake +for persuasions unto faith, it was necessary that the Christian +Apologists should appeal to reason with the intelligent classes of +Pagans. Father Lactantius uses argument in his great Apology +addressed to Constantine and intended for the learned Pagans of the +imperial entourage, which I would earnestly address now to those +who yet hesitate in their inherited Christianity:

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"It is therefore right, especially in a matter on which +the whole plan of life turns, that every one should place +confidence in himself, and use his own judgment and individual +capacity for the investigation and weighing of the truth, +rather than through confidence in others to be deceived by +their errors, as though he himself were without understanding. +God has given wisdom to all alike, that they might be able +both to investigate things which they have not heard, and to +weigh things which they have heard. Nor. because they (our +ancestors) preceded us in time, did they also outstrip us in +wisdom; for if this is given equally to all, we can not be +anticipated in it by those who precede us." (Lact., Divine +Institutes, II, viii; ANF. VII, 51.)

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If no one, upon reason, or even by caprice, ever changed his +opinion, belief, status, we would all be savages still. In matter +of religion, the ancestors of every one of us were once Pagans, and +those who became Christians were dubbed "atheists" by those +remaining faithful to the old gods, -- until they too changed to +the new. Then these ex-Pagan ancestors of ours were Catholics, of +the "orthodox" or one of the ninety-odd "heretic" brands which +finally perished or conformed by Grace of God and the Orthodox +sword. Others many of our good Catholic ancestors just a few +hundred years ago became "heretics" of the Protestant brands, and +so continue or until lately continued, -- and then threw off the +old tradition of faith, and became Rationalists. Every gradation of +change was due to one pregnant cause: increasing intelligence of +the individual. Each advance sloughed off sundry inherited articles +of faith, which then became discarded superstitions. Dean Milman +spoke truly of the reason for the decadence of the Pagan religions; +his reasons apply as aptly to the Christian: "The progress of +knowledge was fatal to the religions of Greece and Rome. ... Poetry +had been religion; religion was becoming mere poetry." (Hist. of +Christianity, I, 33.)

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Father Lactantius has a Chapter entitled "Cicero and Other Men +of Learning Erred in not Turning Away the People from Error." It is +a moral crime, as Dr. Shotwell says, to cling to error when we can +come to understand it as error. Not only that, urges Lactantius, it +is wrong for those who know a vital truth to refrain from striving +to turn men away from harmful error. His argument was much +applauded by the Church, and is the argument of every missionary to +the "heathen" today. Lactantius thus justly chides:

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"Cicero was well aware that the deities which men +worshipped were false. For when he had spoken many things +which tended to the overthrow of religious ceremonies, he said +nevertheless that these matters ought not; to be discussed by +the vulgar, lest such discussion should extinguish the system +of religion which was publicly received. ... Nay, rather, if +you have any virtue, Cicero, endeavor to make the people Wise: +that is a befitting subject, on which you may expend all the +powers of your eloquence ... in the dispersion of the errors +of mankind, and the recalling of the minds of men to a healthy +state." (Lactantius, Divine Institutes, II, iii; ANF. VII, +43.)

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To this ideal of the use of Reason, which Lactantius and the +earlier Fathers of the weakling Church held before the intelligent +Pagans to incite them to discard the errors and superstitions of +Paganism, this book is devoted in the earnest hope and purpose to +evoke the use of Reason to the discard of the identical errors and +superstitions of "that newer Paganism later called Christianity," +which yet persist among the priest-taught masses of Christendom.

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That Christian Appeal to Reason was not with the intelligent +classes of Pagandom very effective; more persuasive methods must, +therefore, be divised to bring the Pagans to the Altar and Treasury +of the Lord. We have read the succession of laws of the now +"Christian Emperors," which at the behest of the Priests proscribed +Paganism upon pain of death and confiscation, made outlaws of all +who refused to take the name of Christian, or continued to offer +incense to the old gods, or became "heretics" to the official +Faith; all who were guilty of these "crimes -- let them be stricken +by the avenging sword." As the newer "barbarian"' nations came upon +the Christian scene, "the Catholic Faith was spread by the sword" +among and upon them, and all who hesitated or backslid were +murdered by Christian law and sword. Crass ignorance, credulity and +superstition were then imposed and enforced upon Christendom in +order to "preserve the purity of the faith" in the unthinking minds +of unknowing dupes of the Church and the Priests who waxed in +wealth and in dominion over witless Christendom. When after a +millennium during which men were too ignorant to be heretic, the +light of thought and reason began to dawn upon the horizon of the +Dark Ages of Faith, the Inquisition and the Index, the tortures of +the rack and the stake, were providentially provided for the +further preservation of Faith by augment of Ignorance and Terror. +In all these holy Ages of Faith, in this "civilization thoroughly +saturated with Christianity," the Siamese Twins of Creed and Crime, +Faith and Filth, popular Poverty and Ecclesiastical Opulence, +stalked hand in hand -- "the inseparable companions of Religion." +The Renaissance and the Reformation came to enfranchise men from

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Authority and blind Obedience, and the way was blazed for +Rationalism and the Age of Reason. The unquestionable record of all +this we have read in the amazing and unblushing confessions of Holy +Church itself.

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At the time of the Reformation admitted conditions existed +which today are infinitely more active and more thoroughgoing: "The +Christian religious ideal -- [never a matter of practice] -- was to +a great extent lost sight of; higher intellectual culture, +previously confined in great measure to the clergy, but now common +among the laity, assumed a secular character. ... Only a faint +interest in the supernatural life survived." (CE. xii, 703.) +Education is now becoming universal; the hateful history of the +Church and of Religion is becoming general knowledge; the Church, +forced by ever-growing Secularism and Rationalism, has lost the +power of compulsion and all but that of persuasion to belief in its +forged and fatuous creeds, with all but the unthinking minority, +and is itself almost secularized, held together as a sort of social +center for the masses without other social contacts, and as matter +of "good form" for the pretentiously pious, were infantile hymns +are vocalized to an empty Heaven, and the unco gude chorus their +petitions to the inhering and unheeding Throne of Grace, +"beseeching the Lord upon the universal prayer-theme of 'Gimme!'" +Universally, too, as old John Duffy poetizes it, "The rich they +pray for pounds, and the poor they pray for pence."

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The utter futility of prayer in objective sense for the +obtaining of the subject-matter of the supplication, even of the +"Give us this day our daily bread," -- which many do get and many +and more others miserably go without, is confessed by CE., which +frankly attributes all these things to the operation of the Law of +Chance: "The apparent success which so often attends superstition +can mostly be accounted for by natural causes, although [it piously +adds] it would be rash to deny all supernatural intervention (e.g. +in the phenomena of Spiritualism). When the object is to ascertain, +or to effect in a general way, one of two possible events, the law +of probabilities gives an equal chance to success and failure; and +success does more to support than failure would do to destroy +superstition, for, on its side, there are arrayed the religious +instinct, sympathy and apathy, confidence and distrust, +encouragement and discouragement, and, -- perhaps strongest of all +-- the healing power of nature." (CE. xiv, 341.) There, in a +nutshell, is the profound psychology of the priest-instilled +"religious instinct," and of the hit-or-miss "efficacy of prayer" +for the cajoling of "heavenly gifts" of earthly benefits and of the +eversion of the heaven-sent or devil-inflicted evils whereof +suffering humanity is the sport and prey, -- to the utter +indifference of their Celestial Pater!

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The last sentence of the clerical admission above -- "the +healing power of nature," bears destructively upon one of the most +insistent of religious superstitions, the efficiency of prayers, +and saints, and relies, and shrines, and pious mummeries, to which +millions of the afflicted and deluded of God's children resort for +the relief of their torments and the cure of their diseases, -- +which their loving Father God inflicts or prevents. From the +earliest times of priestcraft until this very year of grace, the

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priests and parsons and charlatans of every stripe preach and +encourage this ancient heathen superstition, -- and reap rich +rewards through the imposture. The perfectly natural cause and +explanation of numerous occasional instances of success at the +game, which incites to further superstition and greater abuses, is +curiously but truly confessed: "There are few religions in which +recourse is not had to supernatural aid for miraculous cures. The +testimony of reliable witnesses and the numerous ex-votos that have +come down to us from antiquity leave no doubt as to the reality of +these cures. It was natural that they should have been viewed as +miraculous in an age when the remarkable power of suggestion to +effect cures was not understood. Modern science recognizes that +strong mental impressions can powerfully influence the nervous +system and through it the bodily organs, leading in some instances +to sudden illness or death, in others to remarkable cures. Such is +the so-called mind cure or cure by suggestion. It explains +naturally many extraordinary cures recorded in the annals of many +religions. Still it has its recognized limits. It cannot restore of +a sudden a half-decayed organ, or heal instantly a gaping wound +caused by a cancer." (CE. xii, 743.)

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This thus confesses the huge false pretense of "miracle of +God" in such cases of relief or cure of nervous or mental maladies +as are claimed for the impostures of Lourdes, St. Anne's, Maiden, +the Calvary Baptist Holy Rollers and all such shrines of religious +imposture and superstition. In antiquity, the fictitious Pagan gods +did not exist, -- the cures attributed to them and paid for to the +priests were entirely due to nature, and the claims of the priests +were frauds. The Christians now confess the "recognized limits" of +their God to do more than Nature did under the Pagan gods: the +pretense of "miracle," of "supernatural intervention" is seen to be +as fraudulent in modern times as it is admitted to have been in +ancient. The Pagans believed, and prayed, and paid the priests, and +some by auto-suggestion found relief or were cured, many others +believed, and prayed, and paid -- and their natural sufferings were +enhanced by their disappointment. But did they cease therefore to +believe and pray and pay? Probably then the pious apologetics of +defeatism were the same as now. If the thing prayed for cometh to +pass -- "the gods have -- God has -- answered our prayers; blessed +be their -- His -- holy name!" and the fortunate results are noised +abroad. If by equal chance the prayed-for benefit is unattained, +then "God knows better than we what is best for us," and the less +said about the failure the better for childlike Faith. When exposed +to danger or death we escape, it is "the wonderful Providence of +God," -- nothing being thought or said about those so curiously +designated "Acts of God" which permitted or inflicted the disaster; +whereas, if we die or continue in suffering, why, "God's ways are +not our ways"; "the ways of God are beyond our finite +understanding," et cetera of pious apologies for the silence and +failure of God to help his suffering and neglected children.

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It would seem that every fossil of credulity embedded in the +ancient Rock of Faith has in the course of this review been picked +out and the Rock itself drilled through and through for the easy +task of final demolition. For nigh two thousand years it has cast +its baleful shadow upon civilization, stunting and dwarfing the +minds and faculties of men clouded by its worthless bulk. Though

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vastly undermined and hacked and tottering, the blighting effects +of Church and religious superstition are yet in many odious +respects persistent; humanity and civilization yet suffer under the +lingering disease of priest-imposed delusions and the hateful +miasma of religious intolerance in every land cursed yet by +priestcraft, parsonate, and the odium of theology.

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"When the Devil was sick, the Devil a Saint would be!" The +Church is dying now; has been forced despite itself and its +enginery of torture and murder, to desist from the worst of its +deviltry, to appear a bit civilized; some of its partizans and +dupes think it "reformed," pure-minded and clean-handed. It is only +measurably so perforce, and reluctantly. Even today the Law of God, +conserved in the latest Edition of the holy Canon Law, commands +murder for unbelief; these infamous "principles are in their own +nature irreformable; ... owing to changed conditions [forced upon +it by secular civilization] are to all practical intents and +purposes obsolete ... The custom of burning heretics is really not +a question of justice, but a question of civilization"! (CE. xiv, +769.) Thus the Church confesses itself uncivilized; it retains and +insists upon the God-ordained justice of burning and murder; but is +forced by heretic civilization, acquired in bloody despite of the +Church, to conform to the decrees of Civilization. But as -- +however -- Holy Church is impotent, dying, and will soon be dead -- +then only De mortuis nil nisi bonum! -- Speed its hastening Death!

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Founded in fraud by avarice and ambition, propagated by sword +and fire, perpetuated by ignorance and fear; by increase of +knowledge and free expression of thought rendered now all but +impotent except in will and malice, priestcraft yet grasps for +power and dominion over mind and spirit of men. In present default +of rack and stake, it struggles yet to impose itself through such +unholy means as it can still partially command, -- fines and +imprisonment under ridiculous medieval laws for the absurd priestly +"crimes" of blasphemy and sacrilege, "desecration of the Lord's +Day" by innocent diversions instead of attending dull preachings +and paying the priests by the gift upon the Altar or in the +contribution plate. Odious laws for the repression of human +liberty; for the outlawing of honest men who refuse the +superstitious forms of Religious Oath imposed in courts and legal +proceedings, of which several shocking instances have recently +occurred, depriving men of liberty and property, and potentially of +life through refusal of their testimony in court. Religious +Intolerance flames through the land, as notorious instances have +lately made evident. Good Christians yet cordially dislike and +distrust all others of differing brands of Faith, which sentiments +Christians and Jews religiously reciprocate in holy hatred and +intolerance of each other, while all unite in utter abhorrence and +damnation of the Liberal and the Unbeliever, condemned alike by +private Christian spite and public obloquy, of a vocal and +intolerant minority; by political disqualifications for public +office wherever this or that Sect is yet in a majority and can +enforce its intolerance by law. "A careful study of the history of +religious toleration," says the historian of Civilization, "will +prove, that in every Christian country where it has been adopted, +it has been forced upon the clergy by the authority of the secular +classes. At the present day it is still unknown to those nations

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among whom the ecclesiastical power is stronger than the temporal +power." In quite half the countries of Latin America and several of +Europe -- the most backward and poverty-stricken and priest-ridden +of them -- yet today public office and honors can be attained only +by the votaries of the Sect in power, and the free and public +practice of any other than the official cult is prohibited by law. +I have the codes of these "Christian" countries.

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Even in our own "tolerant" country today, religious fanaticism +succeeds in its attacks, to impose by law the "sacred science of +Genesis" in the universities and schools to the outlawry of the +teachings of the truths of Nature. Preachers and teachers who dare +express honest opinions of liberalism or unbelief are by pious +religionists discharged and their families deprived of bread and +support. Religious Pharisees seek to seize the public schools to +disseminate their obsolete superstitions in the minds of youth -- +the hope of the future, and the last chance of the Church. +Individual peace and friendliness, public peace and good +understanding are often jeopardized and destroyed by Religion. +Corrupt and insulting ecclesiastical government is rampant in many +of our large cities and in a number of entire States. In a word, +and despite all, the Twentieth Century is still under the hang-over +spell of medieval theology and an the holy spites and intolerance +of rancorous Religiosity.

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The fatal work of Church and Priest through the Christian Era +-- as herein revealed, has wrought ignorance, superstition and +vice: it has been and remains a supreme failure. Faith is become +obsolete before Facts. Christianity is proved to be a fraudulent +Bankrupt; this is its final adjudication before the bar of +Civilization.

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The Christian Religion -- shown to be a congeries of revamped +Pagan Superstitions and of Priestly Lies -- is not respectable for +belief: every honest and self-respecting mind must repudiate it in +disgust. We can all "Do good, for good is good to do"!

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Faith -- fondly called "the most precious heritage of the +race," is not a thing whereof to be proud; it is not Intelligent or +of Reason. Not a flicker of intelligence is required to believe: +millions of the most illiterate and ignorant of earth's teeming +populations are the firmest in their "faith" in every form of +religious superstition known to the priests of the world, the most +devout believers of this or that imposture, -- "most assured of +what they are most ignorant" withal. Indeed, as aptly quoted: +"Unbelief is no crime that Ignorance was ever capable of being +guilty of." Buckle truly says, that to the secular and skeptical +spirit European civilization owes its origin: that "it is evident, +that until doubt began, progress was impossible" (Ch. vii, 242); +and CE. has confessed, as is also self-evident, -- "Toleration only +came in when Faith went out." What a boon then to humanity to +hasten and complete its going!

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Disbelief, doubt, inquiry of truth, rejection of superstition, +is distinctly an act of Intelligence; it often requires heroic +virtue of bravery and independence of mind to disbelieve, to revolt +against and reject the creeds and credulities of the ignorant

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community, -- as evidenced by the whole holy bloody history of +religious rancor and intolerance which has so inadequately but +shockingly been reviewed. It is the bravest men and the finest +minds, with high courage to dare and defy Holy Church, whom that +unholy Hoodlum has murdered, but who have saved and recreated +Civilization, as even yet inadequately it has been achieved.

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Think to what Civilization might have attained by this +Twentieth Century. For nigh two thousand years Christianity has +held sway and thrall over the most dominant part of the world and +portion of the human race. In each generation for most of the two +thousand years there have been hundreds of thousands of men and +women -- Priests, monks, nuns, and "religious" nondescripts, +devoted through life to the unrealities of "Other-worldliness" to +the utter neglect of the world in which they lived, resolved, all +too oft, "to make of earth a hell that they might merit heaven." In +the pursuit of such impracticalities. and to force all others to +believe, doubtless millions of books and sermons of sophistry have +been their output, not to mention ignorance, wars, famines, plagues +and bestialities innumerable that they have brought about to the +destruction of civilization. Thus, in aggregate, millions of human +beings -- many of them of very high mental capacity, have devoted +some millions of years of labor or of sloth to Theology and +Religion, -- lives, years and labor wasted! If these years and +labors had but been devoted to pure and applied Science, to the +discovery and conquest of the powers of Nature, to Knowledge of the +Worth While -- medicine, surgery anesthetics, antiseptics, +sanitation -- the catalogue is endless; to the outlawry of War and +the establishment of universal Peace; the abolition of Crime, +Poverty, and Disease -- in a word, to the Social Sciences and +Service, to Humanism and the Humanities, instead of to Theism and +Theology -- to what glorious heights would not Civilization and +Humanity have scaled!

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The timorous Religionist -- affrighted at the threatened loss +of the "opiate" and "crutches" of Faith, often asks: "What +are you going to give us in its place?" A cure! -- so that you will +not need these artificial aids. When the surgeon excises a +dangerous tumor, or the physician heals a mental or physical +disease, -- he restores to health of body or mind, -- does not +inflict some other form of disease in place of the one cured. So +with the fictitious mental disorder of Religion, -- for that it is +a mental disorder of most malignant kind is proved by the +inveterate hates and crimes it has caused the sufferers from it to +be guilty of through all the Ages of Faith, as disclosed in this +review. The sufferer goes through life, actually -- or what is the +same thing, under the delusion of disability, -- hobbling on +crutches, or with frequent injections of "dope" to allay real or +imagined pain. Either by material means or by "mind cure" he is +healed of the real or imaginary ailment: he throws away his +crutches, discards his daily narcotic; health and strength come to +his members and his whole body; the faculties of the mind are freed +from the inhibitions of disease and disability. The sufferer goes +through life, actually -- or what is the same thing, under the +delusion of disability, -- hobbling on crutches, or with frequent +injections of "dope" to allay real or imagined pain. Either by +mental means or by "mind cure" he is healed of the real or

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imaginary ailment: he throws away his crutches, discords his daily +narcotic; health and strength come to his members and his whole +body; the faculties of the mind are freed from the inhibititions of +disease and disability. The grandest cure ever wrought in the man +and in humanity is free the mind from Superstition, to release all +the energies of mind and body for the glorious work for Mankind. +The noblest and most blest worker for Humanity is the Humanist.

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Religious Toleration and freedom of thought and of beneficent +research, came in only as religious Faith went out; Civilization +began only as the Dark Ages of Faith came to an end. The Church has +had its long Night -- those Dark Ages of Faith. Therein it shed its +boasted refulgence of "sweetness and light" -- in the Dark. The +Church is very like the fire-fly -- the homely lightning Bug, -- it +needs darkness in which to shine. But the Day is come; the +supernatural Light of the Cross is faded and paled before the +luminous truths of Nature discovered now and exploited by free men +for the good of mankind.

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It remains yet to complete the good work for civilization and +humanity by destroying the last lingering works and delusions of +decadent and decayed priestcraft; through the universal triumph of +Rationalism to fully and finally Ecraser l'Infame. Truly and +prophetically spoke Zola: "Civilization will not attain to its +perfection, until the last stone from the last church falls on the +last priest!"

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A new and free Civilization rises from the ruins of the Ages +of Faith; with heart aglow and high purpose set on the attainment +of the ancient "Supreme Good," it hails the glorious possibilities +of the scientific Age of Reason, which will redeem humanity from +the blight of the centuries of Unreason. Men may now know and +freely and unafraid make known the truth: and the Truth shall make +mankind Free.

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In the fine imagery of Dr. Trattner, his autobiographic God +looks into the now not so distant Future, and thus communes: +"Before Me is the Scroll of Destiny. See! Man has already scaled +the foot-hills. Not one man alone, or two, or three, but all the +nations. Everywhere men and women together are now leading their +children forward consecrated to the Ideal. ... I am satisfied. It +is the day -- the day of complete Emancipation!"

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FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 +THE DISEASE AND THE CURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 +FAITH IN A FATAL DECLINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 +THE INDICTMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 +OUTLINE OF CASE AND PROOFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 +FORGERY DEFINED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 +RELIGIOUS LAWS OF OUTLAWRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 +CONTENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 +CHAPTER I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 +PAGAN FRAUDS -- CHRISTIAN PRECEDENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 +THE DAWN-MAN AND THE SHAMAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 +PAGANISM AT THE CROSS-ROADS WITH +CHRISTIANITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 +APOLLONIUS OF TYANA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 +SIMON MAGUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 +SUPERSTITIONS AND REVELATIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 +CHRISTIAN "REVELATION" DEFINED AND DISPROVED . . . . . . . . 35 +MITHRAISM -- AND CHRISTIAN MYTH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 +"MITHRAISM" -- PRE-CHRISTIAN CHRISTIANITY. . . . . . . . . . 37 +BUDDHISM IN CHRISTIANITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 +ALL DEVILISH IMITATIONS! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 +THE SIBYLLINE ORACLES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 +Abbreviations for most often used sources: . . . . . . . . . 55 +CHAPTER II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 +HEBREW HOLY FORGERIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 +THE INSPIRED FABLE OF TOBIT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 +THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 +EZRA "RESTORES" THE LAW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 +THE "FINDING OF THE LAW" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 +THE "SEPTUAGINT" TRANSLATION INTO GREEK. . . . . . . . . . . 65 +THE SEPTUAGINT AND THE "VIRGIN-BIRTH" FRAUD. . . . . . . . . 68 +OTHER HEBREW SACRED FORGERIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 +THE "INSPIRED" HEBREW SCRIPTURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 +FORGERY BY CONTRADICTIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 +OUR "PHONY" CHRISTIAN ERA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 +FORGERY BY FALSE TRANSLATIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 +The "God" Forgery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 +The "Adam" Forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 +The "Soul" Forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 +The "Mosaic Revelation" Forgery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 +THE ANCIENT IDEA OF "HISTORY". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 +CHRISTIAN "REVELATIONS" IN JEWISH FORGERIES. . . . . . . . . 84 +CHAPTER III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 +CHRISTIAN "SCRIPTITRE" FORGERIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 +"THE AGE OF APOCRYPHAL LITERATURE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 +"THE IDEA OF INSPIRATION". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 +"THE LYING PEN OF THE SCRIBES" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 +"CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES" -- FORGED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 +FORGED GOSPELS, ACTS, EPISTLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 +THE FORGFD "APOSTLES' CREED" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 +THE FORGED ATHANASIAN CREED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 +JESUS CHRIST'S FORGED LETTERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 +OTHER FORGERIES FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 +JOSEPHUS FORGERY TESTIFIES OF JESUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

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THE OWL-ANGEL FORGERY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 +CHAPTER IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 +THE SAINTLY "FATHERS" OF THE FAITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 +PATRISTIC "TRADITION". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 +THE TWELVE "TRADITIONAL" APOSTLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 +The Apostles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 +APOSTOLIC GREED AND STRIFE.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 +The Apostolic Fathers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 +The Sub-Apostolic Fathers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 +JESUS DIED OF OLD AGE! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 +THE PAGAN "LOGOS" CHRISTIANIZED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 +AUGUSTINE "PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY". . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 +CHRISTIAN PAGANISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 +CHAPTER V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 +THE "GOSPEL" FORGERIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 +STILL TINKERING AT IT! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 +SOME TESTS FOR FORGERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 +THE GOSPEL TITLES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 +THE "CANONICITY" OF THE FOUR GOSPELS . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 +THE "MARK" FABLE BELIES "CANONICITY" . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 +THE GOSPELS "ACCORDING TO" GREEK PRIESTS . . . . . . . . . . 157 +THE FOUR GOSPELS -- "CHOSEN" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 +WHY FOUR GOSPELS?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 +INSPIRATION AND PLAGIARISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 +GOSPELS LATE FORGERIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 +"LURE" DISCREDITS APOSTOLICITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 +FORGERIES IN THE FORGED GOSPELS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 +CONTRADICTIONS AND TRUTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 +JESUS -- MAN OR GOD? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 +"UPON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH". . . . . . . . . . . 174 +THE "CHURCH" FOUNDED ON THE "ROCK" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 +PETER-ROCK-CHURCH" DENIED AB SILIENCIO . . . . . . . . . . . 182 +"GO, TEACH ALL NATIONS" FORGERY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 +ACTS BELIES THE "GO, TEACH ALL NATIONS" +ORGERY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 +THE FORGED GOSPEL ENDINGS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 +THE BAPTISMAL FORGERY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 +A MEDLEY OF FORGERIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 +THE "WOMAN IN ADULTERY" FORGERY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 +THE JOHN XXI FORGERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 +THE "LORD'S PRAYER" FORGERY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 +THE "UNKNOWN GOD" FORGERY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 +THE FORGED EPISTLES, ETC.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 +THE "EPISTLE OF PETER" FORGERIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 +THE "GOD MANIFEST" FORGERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 +THE "THREE HEAVENLY WITNESSES" FORGERY . . . . . . . . . . . 193 +CHAPTER VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 +THE CHURCH FORGERY MILL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 +THE FORGED APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 +THE FORGED "APOSTOLIC CANONS". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 +THE FORGED LIBER PONTIFICALIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 +THE "CONVERSION OF CONSTANTINE" FRAUD. . . . . . . . . . . . 199 +CHRISTIAN FORGERIES FOR POWER AND PELF . . . . . . . . . . . 204 +THE "CONSTANTINE" FORGERIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 +FORGED DEEDS OF EMPIRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 +THE FORGED LETTER OF ST. PETER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 +A HOLY CONSPIRATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 +THE POPE SYLVESTER FORGERIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

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THE FORGED "DONATION OF CONSTANTINE" . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 +THE "SYMMACHIAN FORGERIES" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 +THE "FALSE DECRETALS" FORGERIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 +THE FORGED DECRETUM OF GRATIAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 +THE FULL FRUITION OF FORGERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 +THE FRUSTRATED EMS REVOLT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 +FORGED SAINTS, MARTYRS AND MIRACLES. . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 +"SPECULA STULTORUM". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 +OLD PAGAN STUFF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 +FORGED AND FAKED RELICS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 +THE "INVENTION OF THE CROSS," ET AL. . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 +ANCIENT FAKES YET ACCREDITED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 +HOLY OILS, WATERS, AND FETISHES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 +THE AGNUS DEI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 +THE TRAGEDY OF THE "MYSTICAL MARRIAGE" . . . . . . . . . . . 237 +CHAPTER VII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 +THE "TRIUMPH" OF CHRISTIANITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 +PRIESTLY TERRORISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 +GOD-ORDAINED MURDER FOR UNBELIEF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 +THE GOSPEL OF FEAR AND TREMBLING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 +UNBORN BABES TO BURN FOREVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 +A CONTRAST IN TOLERANCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 +THE EDICT OF MILAN (313) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 +CHRISTIAN INTOLERANCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 +FAITH ENFORCED BY LAWS OF MURDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 +LAWS OF CONSTANTINE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 +LAWS OF CONSTANTIUS AND CONSTANS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 +LAWS OF GRATIAN AND THEODOSIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 +LAWS OF THEODOSIUS AND VALENTINIAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 +LAWS OF HONORIUS AND ARCADIUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 +LATER LAWS AGAINST PAGANISM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 +BLOODY RECORD BOASTED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 +"THE SECULAR ARM". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 +COMPULSORY AND WHOLESALE CONVERSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 +CONVERSION SKIN DEEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 +THE "FRUITS" OF CHRISTIANITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 +"THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 +THE POWER THAT WAS ROME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 +PAGAN CULTURAL RESULTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 +THE CHRISTIAN AGE OF FAITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 +THE AIM OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 +THE MORAL "FRUITS" OF CHRISTIANITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 +THE CHRISTIAN "MORALITY LIE"). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 +THE INTELLECTUAL "FRUITS" OF CHRISTIANITY. . . . . . . . . . 283 +THE CHRISTIAN "EDUCATION LIE," . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 +THE MONKS "PRESERVED THE CLASSICS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 +CHRISTIAN "SCIENCE". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 +THE REBIRTH OF CIVILIZATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 +Gulliver Awakes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 +BENEFIT OF CLERGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 +THE CRIMINAL CRUSADES STARTED THE REVOLT . . . . . . . . . . 297 +THE "INFIDEL" REDEEMS CHRISTENDOM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 +THE "MIRACULOUS ATTESTATIONS" OF +CHRISTIANITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 +"THE MARKS OF THE BEAST" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 +WHY -- AND WHAT PRICE -- RELIGION? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 +"STOP! THIEF!" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 +AN APPEAL TO REASON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

+ +

Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +322 +

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*********************** EXPLORING **********************
+

in +********************* EVERYDAY LIFE ********************

+ +

by +T.B. PAWLICKI +______________________________ +I I +I (C) COPYRIGHT 1988 I +I by I +I T.B. Pawlicki I +I 843 FORT STREET I +I VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA I +I V8W 1H6 I +I CANADA I +I______________________________I

+ +
********************** FORWARD **********************
+ +

Thank you for participating in a pioneering publishing

+ +

venture.

+ +

Mass communication has progressed through four major

+ +

transformations. The first revolution separated the author from

+ +

his audience by means of writing; the LITERATI became a secret

+ +

society of COGNOSCENTI that used its exclusive knowledge to

+ +

dominate the ignorant masses. Modern democracy began when movable

+ +

type made it possible for a message to be received by everyone

+ +

who could read. Recently, radio broadcasting countered the first

+ +

and second revolutions by delivering messages to everyone who

+ +

can't read; television is likely to be the MATADOR of democracy.

+ +

The capital cost of printing plants and broadcasting studios

+ +

limits the messengers to parties of power and wealth, whose

+ +

messages are determined to maintain the STATUS QUO --- natcherly

+ +

--- especially their own status plus all the more quid they can

+ +

quo. The tragic consequence of mass communications has been the

+ +

dissemination of tendencious knowledge to enslave the minds of

+ +

mankind, rather than free us to experience our own ignorance

+ +

until we learn better. A truly free press for truly free minds

+ +

could not exist until the personal home photocopier brought

+ +

publishing within the economic capacity of every person with a

+ +

message and postage. As well as reducing the cost of copying to a

+ +

few pennies per kilowatt hour, the computer completes the

+ +

revolution of mass communications by restoring audience feedback.

+ +

As camels and soups show, quality goes down as participation

+ +

increases, but participation is better for the participators;

+ +

eventually, participators support higher standards.

+ +

Since authors began to write, instead of speaking directly

+ +

to their audience, ideas have flowed in one direction, only. It

+ +

is, however, as impossible to teach without learning as it is to

+ +

learn without teaching, which is why so little is learned from

+ +

reading books. For the first time since the advent of writing,

+ +

the computer makes it possible for readers to contribute to the

+ +

discourse and transform a lecture into a dialogue, a

+ +

conversation, a seminar, a workshop, a global town meeting.

+ +

Finding a publisher for my first book, How To Build A +-------------- +Flying Saucer, took nearly ten years; nearly ten more years +------------- +passed while my market grew to critical mass by word of mouth.

+ +

Now people are reading my first book as if the ideas were as hot

+ +

as tomorrow's news, but a whole generation has grown up to

+ +

drinking age --- and another generation has died of cirrhotic

+ +

livers --- since I was working out those early insights. My

+ +

ideas develop so rapidly that I had to rewrite the manuscript

+ +

every year until it was published. Once printed, however, the

+ +

printing plates are as immutable as graven stone. As soon as I

+ +

began to write my personal correspondence on computer, I

+ +

realized that this electronic medium keeps discoveries alive and

+ +

growing through pooling contributions in ways not feasible by

+ +

any other means of communication. The entire industry is built

+ +

by fielding half-baked ideas and then improving them with

+ +

consumer feedback, as it goes along; no other industry advances

+ +

so fast, and in no other industry do the suppliers lag behind

+ +

the advances made by their own demanders. And thus it came to

+ +

pass as I was speaking to the Global Sciences Congress, held at

+ +

Denver in August, l987, that the idea came to me to offer my

+ +

audience my current manuscripts explaining HYPERSPACE to +---------- +everyone who would participate by also sharing their ideas on

+ +

computer discs.

+ +

Ideally, a book of this nature should be transmitted over

+ +

wires to be downloaded by Special Interest Groups on

+ +

international networks. In the present state of the art,

+ +

however, computers still cannot replace paper. This

+ +

unrealistically jealous industry has not yet made files

+ +

universally readable, like sound and film tapes, and it is still

+ +

impractical to transmit text formats and illustrations through

+ +

wires. Even after the computer industry gets its parameters

+ +

together, all of us early worms will remain stuck with our

+ +

capital investments. Therefore, I have decided to print my

+ +

manuscripts onto discs for postal distribution to the computers

+ +

being used now. +---

+ +

This enterprise will succeed only if each reader will make

+ +

at least two copies and pass them on. Some readers may not know

+ +

three other people with compatible computers, so it is hoped

+ +

that readers with the most popular computer models will pass on

+ +

to their computing friends as many copies as they feel this

+ +

publication is worth. If anyone can make conversions to

+ +

unpopular computers, a copy returned to me will be passed on to

+ +

other readers out in left field.

+ +

This brings us to the matter of copyrights. Most people +---------- +believe that anyone may freely copy published material in any

+ +

numbers for any purpose as long as the copies are not sold for a

+ +

profit (*1). If legal process were not so expensive, a lot of

+ +

copycats would learn how very mistaken they are. Copyright

+ +

entitles the author to assign legal permission to make copies and

+ +

set the conditions of contract. Although I am assigning all my

+ +

readers the right to make copies and distribute this literature

+ +

freely, the formal copyright remains mine. Any party enterprising

+ +

enough to reproduce these discs by the hundred for sale at a

+ +

profit will very likely interest my attorney to offer a royalty

+ +

contract as a more attractive alternative to a court ordered

+ +

remedy. Any party that fails to include my byline and copyright

+ +

notice will be taken to task for the more serious offense of

+ +

plagiarism. +----------

+ +

Heckling is a part of all public speaking, and most of the

+ +

fun. If hecklers had a fair chance to give their opinions, many

+ +

of them would have more to say than the speakers, and some may

+ +

have better ideas. The only way a reader can add his two bits

+ +

worth to a discourse is by scribbling in the margins of public

+ +

library books. Anything that can be done will be done, so

+ +

hecklers will always be with us, and so will graffiti, along

+ +

with carefully considered letters to editors. Since it is so

+ +

easy to add and subtract opinions to a magnetic publication, a

+ +

lot of opinionated readers are going to do it. The main purpose

+ +

of this venture is to turn audience feedback into an advantage

+ +

--- for everyone --- by encouraging constructive criticism

+ +

guided by rules for fair comment within the laws governing

+ +

copyright and public utterance.

+ +

By the nature of this medium, this publication is going to

+ +

be shared by an unknown number of readers. Those who want to

+ +

give us the benefit of their superior information are asked to

+ +

follow these rules. On those matters that readers can wait for,

+ +

please append your comments to the end of the file. If you feel

+ +

that your information needs to be interjected, then mark the

+ +

beginning and end of your contribution with lines or stars.

+ +

Please include your name and the date so that we know whom to

+ +

credit. If you find mistakes of fact, your immediate correction

+ +

is eagerly asked for. Critics looking for an argument improve

+ +

their chances by including their addresses. If you are so

+ +

offended by some statements that you are compelled to make

+ +

deletions, please mark your censorship with a notice of the

+ +

amount of text you deleted, in numbers of lines or bytes, and

+ +

include your name and date to prove the courage of your

+ +

convictions. Anyone who wants to retain his copyright on

+ +

contributions is advised to include notice of their legal claim

+ +

so that no one will assume that all commentaries and

+ +

contributions are in the public domain. Expect disputes;

+ +

democracy is not for weak stomachs and faint hearts.

+ +

Depending on the number of readers who distribute more

+ +

copies, and the number of contributions added --- not to mention

+ +

subtracted --- my original text will be unrecognizable by the

+ +

time this print passes through a dozen recopies. There is no way

+ +

to know whether all contributors have marked the changes they

+ +

make. Neither is there any way to know whether they have their

+ +

facts correct, unless they cite their sources for reference.

+ +

Furthermore, these discs are communicated person-to-person

+ +

through private, first-class mail, making the message into a

+ +

conversation between acquaintances rather than a publication to

+ +

strangers; it is permissible to say things in private and

+ +

personal mail that is regarded as unethical, if not illegal, in

+ +

public utterance. Therefore, all readers must always remember

+ +

and bear in mind that the copy they are reading is a

+ +

BOUILLABAISSE stirred by many cooks, not a FILET MIGNON SAUTEED

+ +

by a chef. Unless you receive a copy that you can certify as

+ +

unaltered from the original, do not believe anything that

+ +

offends your common sense and don't hold the original author or

+ +

signed contributors responsible for statements and/or context

+ +

that may have been altered by hecklers who prefer to remain

+ +

anonymous (*2). My own editors have altered my manuscripts until

+ +

I could hardly recognize my publications as my own compositions

+ +

--- usually for the better. If some party suffers personal

+ +

injury from this special interest group disc, everyone who

+ +

receives it becomes suspect. This is an utterly novel kind of

+ +

case for the courts to rule on, not quite so much privileged

+ +

privacy as a closed computer conference but still a one-on-one

+ +

private correspondence. I dare say that honest mistakes will be

+ +

excused with a pointed finger, but deliberate malice producing

+ +

suffering to an identifiable person, when proven unjustified in

+ +

these litiginous times, will be liable to legal penalties. We may

+ +

protect ourselves from slanderous or obscene remarks by scanning

+ +

each disc immediately before mailing, to check that no one else

+ +

has run the copy and added comments disgraceful to polite

+ +

company.

+ +

I have enough discoveries in my head to keep me writing

+ +

full time for ten years --- I should live so long. In the

+ +

likelihood that my insurance is vastly underrated, I am

+ +

curtailing my research and graphic design in order to put as

+ +

much of my time as I can into getting my ideas written.

+ +

Unfortunately, the charter members of this publishing revolution

+ +

will receive bare bones of text, a dearth shared by everyone who

+ +

buys Version 1.0 of any program. The economy of electronic

+ +

publication, however, enables me to update my text whenever I

+ +

get a break, add animated illustrations in colour, and enliven

+ +

the text with creative layouts in future editions. Most

+ +

important of all, as copies eventually find their way back to me

+ +

with accumulated reader input, new editions can be issued with

+ +

the latest and most extensive information --- better than

+ +

anything I can do. This publication can be considered as a book

+ +

written by its best qualified readers. In order to receive

+ +

updates and new books, all readers will have to send me their

+ +

names and addresses, regardless whence they received their

+ +

copies. Please bear in mind that my resources are exceedingly

+ +

limited, and expect to wait like a Christian for me to follow up

+ +

in my spare time. I expect this enterprise to be taken over by

+ +

more resourceful enthusiasts.

+ +

The definitive version of this disc book will be written on

+ +

an APPLE IIc, in ASCII files; the animated illustrations will be

+ +

rendered with DAZZLE DRAW and FANTAVISION --- if I can't find

+ +

more practical graphics programs. I invested in the APPLE system

+ +

because I believed all the press reports that the computer field

+ +

has more APPLE trees planted than anything else. I am deceived;

+ +

MS-DOS is the most widely used operating system on this scene.

+ +

This original version, however, is written on a KAYPRO II

+ +

operated by CP/M 2.2 in WORDSTAR 3.3. files. It will take me

+ +

time to convert WORDSTAR files to ASCII, and then convert both

+ +

to MS-DOS. The few graphics included on this disc are drawn with

+ +

keyboard characters. Since the ASCII code is standardized only

+ +

for alphanumeric characters, computers using different keyboard

+ +

codes will produce surprising characters --- the trouble is not

+ +

in the disk or your computer.

+ +

As long as computers remain inconvenient to read in bed or

+ +

on public transportation, I shall concurrently try to find

+ +

publishers for paper versions of my disc books. These discs hold

+ +

the beginning of a 75000 word paper book, heavily illustrated

+ +

with animated illustrations included on disc, under the title

+ +

TIME TRAVEL --- The Secret Science of The UFOs. Availing myself +----------- ------------------------------ +of the impermanent and quasiconversational nature of magnetic

+ +

correspondence, I have included many speculations and tangents

+ +

on these disks to stimulate response; these unessential essays

+ +

will be deleted from the paper version. The heaviest reading is

+ +

the Second Chapter; once you establish the theoretical

+ +

foundation laid in my repetitive manner of logic, the rest of

+ +

the book is freeway, much like the First Chapter. For the first

+ +

time, the theory and engineering of time travel are explained in

+ +

sufficient practical detail for young physicists to begin

+ +

constructing their own Philadelphia Experiments in their home

+ +

workshops; at least one researcher I know is doing it already,

+ +

in California. Let me know whether you are willing to buy

+ +

TIME TRAVEL --- The Secret Science of The UFOs at a prepublication +----------- ------------------------------ +price of $10 or a postpublication price of $16. Send no money. I

+ +

only want to know whether there is a market for a paper book

+ +

before I invest more than I can afford to print it. I apologize

+ +

for my inability to acknowlege subscribers to this paper book by

+ +

individual letters, as they are received; at a dollar a letter,

+ +

the cost of mailing is prohibitive. Subscribers will be notified

+ +

individually to write their cheques when the response is

+ +

sufficient to underwrite publication. In the meantime, enquiries

+ +

from royalty publishers are welcome. Zees is a bootstrap

+ +

production, Dollink --- my apologies to Zsa Zsa.

+ +

END OF FORWARD

+ +

*1 This is the belief taken by the Government of the United +States, especially its Public Broadcasting System. Assuredly, +what the lord hath given us starving authors with one hand, he +taketh away by truckloads driven by the other. With legal +protection like we got, we are better off with our pirates. +Unless you are a government authorized freebooter, however, the +first hand lays down the law.

+ +

Readers who copy programs published in magazines are +subject to the same legal strictures. The magazine publishers do +not assign its readers the right to make copies of their text to +give to their friends, much less sell.

+ +
---------------------------------------------------------------
+ +

*2 The most heavily edited and censored book in the world is +the Holy Bible, yet its readers are convinced every copy is the +original and every last Word of God. Evidently, God has +afterthoughts --- The New Testament. The Holy Koran is an even +later Word of the very same God compiled from the very same +orginal Scriptures. And don't forget the equally Holy Book of +Mormon. I can relate to Him; I am also compelled to rewrite my +original words innumerable times as I get my act together.

+ +

I believe the Bible; it is the publishers I question. I +have no doubt that God inspires all His chosen publishers, but I +wonder whether He chose every publisher; after all, the Bible is +in public domain. If God inspired the American Constitution, in +which I believe more than the Bible, He is the Source of the +First Amendment --- entitling Larry Flint to turn a dollar in +the pre-eminently profitable religious market. It isn't belief +in the Bible that fomented the most vicious wars, but belief in +the infallible veracity of the publishers.

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FREE TRADE VERSUS PROTECTIONISM

+ +

By RICHARD M. EBELING

+ +

A specter is haunting the economies of the world. It is the +specter of protectionism. In one country after the other, +cries are heard that international trade, rather than bringing +mutual prosperity, imposes economic hardship on some nations +so that others may gain. Trading practices among nations are +declared to be "unfair." Jobs are supposedly lost through +"cheap" imports flooding domestic markets. Balance of trade +deficits threaten the financial stability of not only third-world countries, but the United States as well.

+ +

And the solutions proposed are the same everywhere: demands +are made for the imposition or stiffening of trade +restrictions--the raising of barriers in the path of trade +among nations. It is claimed that limitations on amounts of +foreign supplies entering the domestic market, through either +tariffs that make foreign goods more costly or quotas that +prohibit the quantities which may be imported, will increase +the market share of domestic companies as well as enhance +employment opportunities at home.

+ +

The reasoning seems straightforward and sensible. However, it +suffers from one handicap: It is dead wrong! When implemented, +protectionist policies bring economic harm, as well as lower +standards of living, for the people of every nation choosing +to follow this path.

+ +

If the protectionist argument is correct, that buying Japanese +goods, for example, is harmful to American industry and jobs +as a whole, then the same logic would have to imply that +importing New Mexico goods is harmful to Texas industry and +jobs; and that buying Fort Worth goods is harmful to Dallas +industry and jobs. Why does the Japanese-U.S. argument seem +plausible, while the Fort Worth-Dallas argument appears +suspect? Because people still suffer from the tribal notion +that suggests that the accident of a political boundary across +the face of a map must imply antagonism between the human +beings who live on different sides of that boundary.

+ +

International trade is nothing more than an extension of the +social division of labor across national borders. And the same +advantages that arise from a division of labor between members +of the same nation apply among members of different nations. +It enables a specialization of skills and abilities, with each +member of the world economic community tending to specialize +in that line of production in which he has a comparative +advantage (a relative superiority) in relation to his trading +neighbors.

+ +

Through such a division of tasks and activities, the wealth +and prosperity of every nation is increased, as compared to a +situation in which individuals or nations are required to +obtain what they desire through their own efforts, in economic +isolation from their fellow men.

+ +

But what of the particular charges presently leveled against +our foreign trading partners? What about the detrimental +effects which supposedly result from the trading policies of +other nations? Let us examine some of these charges:

+ +

1. Unfair Trading Practices. A number of nations have been +accused of unfairly subsidizing the export of goods to +America, i.e., at prices which are below their "actual" cost +of production.

+ +

The world is going through a dramatic technological and +economic revolution, with many underdeveloped nations finally +entering the industrialized era. Their lower prices often +merely reflect their lower costs of production, as they shift +into positions in the international division of labor which +reflect those areas where their relative economic efficiencies +are greatest. As these nations sell more in the United States, +they earn the purchasing power to buy more from America. +American exports, therefore, increase because the only way for +foreigners to buy more from Americans is for Americans to sell +more to foreigners.

+ +

To the extent that foreign governments do subsidize some +products sold in the U.S., this means that Americans are able +to buy them below what would have otherwise been the market +price. In other words, we are given a bargain, a bargain that +saves us resources that would have been devoted to the making +of more products to pay for what otherwise would have been +higher-priced imports. And these resources are now available +to make other things that we would not have been able to +produce without this bargain. It is the citizens of those +other nations who should be outraged since they, not us, have +to foot the tax bill to pay for the subsidies.

+ +

2. Foreign Products Cause Loss of Jobs. The charge is made +that the sale of foreign goods in America "steals" markets +away from American companies, with a resulting loss of jobs in +America.

+ +

This argument ignores the fact that these foreign goods must +be paid for. It is true that jobs in those sectors of the +economy which directly compete against certain foreign +products may be lost. But other jobs are created in those +industries which manufacture goods which foreigners are +interested in purchasing from Americans. The sale of foreign +goods in America may change the locale and types of +employments in the U.S., but it need not result, over time, in +any net loss of jobs.

+ +

Furthermore, with free trade, Americans end up spending less +of their income on certain products because they are bought +more cheaply from foreign suppliers. This leaves them with +extra dollars by which they are able to increase their demand +for other goods on the market. The net effect, therefore, is +to stimulate even more employment opportunities than +previously existed.

+ +

3. The Balance of Trade Deficit and Foreign Investment. The +leading issue during the last several years has been the +charge that America buys more abroad than it sells, resulting +in a trade deficit that threatens the economic stability of +the United States.

+ +

It is true that in terms of tangible or visible goods, the +U.S. has been buying more than it has sold. But this overlooks +the overall trade "balance sheet." Instead of buying American +commodities with the dollars they have earned, foreign earners +of dollars have returned some of them to America in the form +of savings in the credit markets, or as direct investment in +U.S. industry. The overall balance of payments between the +United States and the rest of the world has balanced.

+ +

When this is pointed out, the concern expressed is that +foreigners are "buying up America." "They" will control "us." +Actually, however, when the foreign investment is "indirect," +i.e., loaned to Americans through the banking system, this +merely increases the pool of savings in the United States; and +this pool of savings is available to domestic businessmen who +desire to expand or improve their plant and equipment. If +wisely used, the money borrowed will be paid back, with +interest. And, in a few years, the productive capital in +America will be greater and more efficient. Industry will +still be in "our" hands.

+ +

But what if the investment is direct? Won't foreigners +"control" America by buying out existing companies or starting +up new businesses which successfully compete against American-owned firms? Again, this reflects the collectivist notions of +past ages, notions which think of those who belong to other +nations--"tribes"--as inherently dangerous enemies.

+ +

But those of other nations who invest in America are actually +"our" captives--if one wishes to use this form of reasoning. +They have invested their savings in America because it has +offered the most attractive economic and political +environment. Their own fortunes and futures are linked to +continuing American prosperity; and they must manage their +investments in judicious, market-oriented directions if they +are to generate the profits for which they hope.

+ +

But what if "they" pulled out? Would that not hurt "us" by +disrupting "our" economy? In such a case, the physical plant +and equipment remain in America. To "pull out," they would +have to find willing buyers. And to do that, they would have +to offer attractive prices to prospective buyers. And they +would only want to sell out if either the political or +economic climate in the U.S. became less attractive as +compared to other countries. But are these not the same +incentives and motives which guide Americans who invest and +save in New York rather than California, or in the U.S. rather +than some other country?

+ +

While there will always be necessary adjustments to new and +changing circumstances, free trade between nations ultimately +benefits all who participate. Protectionism can only lead us +down a road of impoverishment and international commercial +tensions. To paraphrase the great 18th century, free-market +thinker, David Hume, when he criticized the protectionists of +his time: Not only as a man, but as an American, I pray for +the flourishing commerce of Germany, France, England and even +Japan. Why? Because America's prosperity and economic future +are dependent upon the economic prosperity of all of those +with whom it trades in the international division of labor.

+ +

Professor Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of +Economics at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, and also +serves as vice-president of academic affairs for The Future of +Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +From the January 1991 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1991, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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Subject: Leaflet: Freemasonry and Society

+ +

This is the text of a leaflet published by by the Board of +General Purposes of the United Grand Lodge of England in 1987.

+ +

Freemasonry and Society

+ +

Introduction: +This leaflet is intended to expand a topic mentioned in the +leaflet "What is Freemasonry". It explains the United Grand Lodge of +England's view on Freemasonry and Society.

+ +

Respect for the law: +Freemasonry demands from its members a respect for the law of any +country in which a man may work and live.

+ +

Principles: +The principles of Freemasonry do not in any way conflict with its +members' duties as citizens, whether at work or at home or in public +life, but on the contrary should strengthen them in fulfulling their +private and public responsibilities. + +Use of Membership: +A Freemason must not use his membership to promote his own or +anyone else's business, professional or personal interests. This is +made clear directly or by inference several times during a Freemason's +early career so that no Freemason can pretend to be ignorant of it. A +Freemason who transgresses this rule may be suspended from Masonic +activities or even expelled.

+ +

Family: +Freemasonry should not be allowed to harm a man's family or +other connections by taking too much of his time or his money or +causing him to act in any other way against their interests.

+ +

Duty as a citizen: +A Freemason's duty as a citizen must always prevail over any +obligation to other Freemasons, and any attempt to shield a Freemason +who has acted dishonourably or unlawfully or to confer an unfair +advantage on another Freemason is contrary to this prime duty.

+ +

Personal or business difficulties: +If it could be proved by evidence that any personal failure or +business difficulty was attributable to 'Masonic influence', Masonic +authority would take a serious view of the fact, as it would be +contrary to the principles of Freemasonry.

+ +

Secrecy:

+ +

* Freemasonry is not a secret society.

+ +

* Like many other societies, it regards some of its internal affairs +as private matters for its members.

+ +

* There is no secret about its aims and principles. Copies of the +constitutions and rules can be obtained from Freemasons' Hall by +interested members of the public.

+ +

* The secrets of Freemasonry are concerned with its traditional modes +of recognition. Its ceremonies are private.

+ +

* In ordinary conversation there is very little about Freemasonry +which may not be discussed. + +* On inquiry for acceptable reasons, Freemsons are free and will be +proud to acknowledge their own membership. +

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A CAPITALIST LOOKS AT FREE TRADE

+ +

By WILLIAM L. LAW

+ +

Protectionists seeking relief from the rigors of foreign +competition bring to mind Milton Friedman's dictum, "The great +enemies of free enterprise are businessmen and intellectuals-- +businessmen because they want socialism for themselves and +free enterprise for everyone else; intellectuals, because they +want free enterprise for themselves and socialism for everyone +else."

+ +

I speak from personal experience. Baseball-glove leather was +the principal product of our firm until 1957 when ball gloves +of Japanese manufacture appeared and ultimately gained seventy +percent of the United States' market. Today, we tan no +baseball-glove leather. Sentiment in the ball-glove industry +at that time was very strong for protective action. I +investigated the matter in some depth and found that I could +not in good faith urge protectionist action on my political +representatives; such action would have been wrong +economically, politically and morally.

+ +

My sentiments stem from the fact that I look upon myself not +as a tanner whose product is leather, but as a capitalist +whose product is profit. That climate most beneficial to +capitalists--and to workers--is one in which there exists a +minimum of governmental interference.

+ +

The protectionist argument is almost as widespread today as it +was two hundred years ago when Adam Smith in his treatise An +Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations so +brilliantly demonstrated its fallacies. Fortunately, we have +the work of Smith and his many successors, plus the empirical +lessons on the benefits of free trade--our fifty states united +in one common market are a notable example--to demonstrate the +advantages of free exchange.

+ +

No improvement can be made on Smith's understanding:

+ +

It is the highest impertinence of kings and +ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of +private people, and to restrain their expense, either +by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation +of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and +without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in +society. Let them look well after their own expense, +and they may safely trust private people with theirs. +If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, +that of their subjects never will. . . .

+ +

To give the monopoly of the home market to the +produce of domestic industry . . . must, in almost +all cases be either a useless or a hurtful regulation. +If the produce of domestic industry can be bought +there as cheap as that of foreign industry, the +regulation is evidently useless. If it cannot, it +must generally be hurtful.

+ +

It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, +never to attempt to make at home what it will cost +him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not +attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of a +shoemaker. The shoemaker does not attempt to make his +own clothes, but employs a tailor. The farmer attempts +to make neither the one nor the other, but employs +those different artificers. All of them find it in +their interests to employ their whole industry in a way +in which they have some advantage over their neighbors, +and to purchase with a part of its produce, or what is +the same thing, with the price of a part of it, whatever +else they have occasion for. What is prudence in the +conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in +that of a great kingdom. . . .

+ +

That it was the spirit of monopoly which originally +both invented and propagated this [protectionist] +doctrine cannot be doubted; and they who first taught +it were by no means such fools as they who believed it. +In every country it always is and must be the interest +of the great body of the people to buy whatever they +want of those who sell it cheapest. The proposition is +so very manifest, that it seems ridiculous to take any +pains to prove it; nor could it ever have been called +in question had not the interested sophistry of +merchants and manufacturers confounded the common sense +of mankind.

+ +

The "sophistry" of which Smith speaks is in essence that being +advanced today by protectionists: "The U.S. is a high-wage +country; its industry is unable to compete with that in low-wage countries; imports are increasing, and unless remedial +measures are adopted, our industries will be destroyed and +large-scale unemployment will ensue."

+ +

But fortunately, we have the the rationale and arguments for +free trade.

+ +

We trade to obtain goods that are either unobtainable +domestically, such as chrome ore, diamonds, and teak wood, or +that can be obtained more cheaply abroad, such as baseball +gloves or textiles.

+ +

And free trade raises wages! Trade between individuals, +between states, between nations is beneficial, and far from +reducing the living standards of the participants, greatly +improves them. And the country with the freest trade policy +enjoys the maximum advantage.

+ +

I repeat: trade raises wages! Those who think otherwise fail +to understand that wages in the U.S. are the world's highest +for a reason: American industry has the world's highest +average-capital investment per worker ($125000) and, +therefore, has the highest average productivity per worker. +And while we have high wages, because of the multiplier-- +tools, we also have low labor costs!

+ +

Certainly, labor-intensive industries, i.e., textiles, find it +difficult to compete inside a capital-intensive country. +After all, a Chinese worker with minimal capital--a needle-- +and working for $20 a week, will produce handmade lace at a +lower cost than an American worker using the same needle and +receiving $200 a week. While their productivity will be the +same, the Chinese labor cost will be one-tenth of the U.S. +cost.

+ +

But give the American worker a giant mechanical shovel and, at +the world's highest wage, he will produce the world's cheapest +coal. With advanced technology, workers will produce the +lowest-cost coal, wheat, jet aircraft and countless other +goods. And so, we import lace and ball gloves and petroleum, +and we export jet planes and wheat and chemicals. To attempt +to "retaliate" against lower costs in certain foreign +industries is an exercise in folly.

+ +

Moreover, contrary to popular belief, imports don't cause +unemployment, nor do immigration or automation. Unemployment +exists only when money wages are arbitrarily raised or held +above the market price.

+ +

The Great Depression is the classic case of "iatrogenic" +unemployment, i.e., induced by the economic doctor. For +example, when the stock market crashed in 1929, it +precipitated a deflation and concomitant lowering of all +prices. Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt, believing in the so-called "purchasing power theory," cooperated with major +industrialists and union leaders to do everything in their +power to prevent wages from falling--even though prices in +general had dropped by one-third from 1929 to 1932! The result +was that twenty-five to thirty percent of the work force was +unemployed. The situation was not ameliorated until 1941 when +the government printed massive amounts of money to support the +war effort; and instead of trying to support wages, the +government took the opposite position and introduced controls +to hold wages down. Unemployment soon disappeared and industry +expanded.

+ +

Unfortunately, a false lesson was learned--that war is the +health of the economy. (Our current secretary of state, +justifying the military intervention in the Middle East, +reflected this when he stated, "If you want to sum it up in +one word, it's jobs.") The truth, of course, is that war is +actually the enemy of prosperity (and freedom) and that full +employment is actually the normal condition of a truly free +economy.

+ +

Protectionism is the age-old road to reduced exports, +increased unemployment, lower standards of living, war, and so +many other problems associated with government intervention in +economic activity. Free trade, on the other hand, is the way +to increased exports, full employment, higher standards of +living, peace, and so many other benefits associated with +economic freedom.

+ +

Mr. Law is chairman of the board of Cudahy Tanning Company in +Cudahy, Wisconsin. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +From the June 1991 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1991, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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THE FORGOTTEN IMPORTANCE OF CIVIL LIBERTIES

+ +

By JACOB G. HORNBERGER

+ +

One of the real tragedies in the struggle for freedom in the +United States in the latter part of the 20th century has been +the forgotten importance of civil liberties. While economic +liberty provides the focal point of most of the efforts of +freedom devotees, and rightfully so, it is vitally important +that we never forget that all aspects of freedom are +intertwined--if we lose one, we stand in danger of losing all +of them.

+ +

Advocates of economic liberty and limited government recognize +that the purpose of government is to protect peaceful and law-abiding people from violence and fraud. If a person inflicts +direct harm such as murder, rape, or theft on another person, +he should be punished by the State for violating the rights of +others.

+ +

But many freedom devotees believe that the analysis stops +there--that criminals should be punished and that's all there +is to it. Many of them, especially those on "the +Right," view the procedural safeguards in the Constitution as +mere "technicalities" or "obstructions" whose design and +effect are to help criminals go free. They see these +safeguards as 18th century "horse and buggy" anachronisms +which are inappropriate to the more complex life of the 20th +century.

+ +

They are sadly mistaken. And they do not do justice to the +intelligence and insight of their American ancestors who +fought so hard to ensure that these restrictions on government +power were expressly enunciated in the Constitution.

+ +

Tragically, the forgotten, or perhaps abandoned, importance of +civil liberties characterizes many freedom organizations in +the United States which are devoted to achieving economic +freedom. Recognizing the vital importance of economic liberty, +and giving lip service to the Constitution and the Bill of +Rights, they scoff at the importance of civil liberties as a +part of freedom in general.

+ +

For example, a tremendous intellectual assault on civil +liberties took place last year in a series of articles +entitled "Crime and Punishment" by Robert James Bidinotto. +The assault was made more meaningful because the articles +appeared in The Freeman, a journal published by The Foundation +for Economic Education of Irvington, New York, an organization +long known for its principled commitment to economic freedom.

+ +

Concerned with ever-increasing crime rates in America, Mr. +Bidinotto argued that the solution, at least in part, turned +on the curtailment of the safeguards enunciated in the Fourth, +Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. +Mr. Bidinotto suggested that if Americans just loosened some +of the strictures in the Bill of Rights which enabled so many +criminals to go free, the crime problem could be significantly +alleviated. Unspared from Mr. Bidinotto's attack were civil +liberties lawyers as well as such rights as trial by jury, +right to bail, right to counsel, protection from unreasonable +searches and seizures, and protection from self-incrimination.

+ +

Contrary to popular opinion and what Americans are so often +taught by their government officials, the procedural +safeguards in the Constitution are not mere technicalities to +protect the guilty. They are instead well-established +safeguards to protect the innocent--those who have been +falsely accused of a crime by their own government officials. +If Americans in the latter part of this century forget this +vital principle, they do so at their peril.

+ +

I used to be a civil and criminal trial attorney. I was often +asked, "Don't you lose sleep when you get guilty people off +the hook?" My answer was, "Never." In fact, of all the +criminal cases I handled--drug, murder, theft, assault, +embezzlement, fraud--I lost sleep for several weeks in only +one case. That was the case in which I believed, and still +believe, that I had lost an innocent man to ten years in the +federal penitentiary.

+ +

What many criminal defense lawyers recognize is what our +American ancestors recognized, but unfortunately what so few +Americans today do: that the government sometimes falsely +accuses a person of a crime. When that happens, such +fundamental rights as the presumption of innocence, legal +counsel, trial by jury, and cross examination lose all +semblance of "technicalities" and become the obstacles, the +obstructions, the entanglements which interfere with the +government's ability to convict a person who has done nothing +wrong. The reason I never lost sleep at getting a "guilty" +person off the hook (which actually happened only rarely) is +that I knew that if it was this difficult to convict a +"guilty" person, that meant that it was that much more +difficult to convict an innocent person.

+ +

I once represented a security guard for a national railroad +line. He was one of the most competent law enforcement +officers I had ever encountered. His credentials included a +commission from the State of Texas as a Special Ranger.

+ +

The railroad had been suffering a series of burglaries of its +railroad cars. One day my client caught a juvenile breaking +into a railroad car which contained the household goods of +some American family. The boy resisted arrest and, after a +struggle, was taken into custody by my client.

+ +

For various reasons, some of which we were convinced were +extra-legal, the prosecutor decided to charge my client with +assault rather than the juvenile for burglary and attempted +theft. It is this type of situation which creates the +sleepless nights for the defense attorney--the specter of an +innocent client, and a law enforcement officer at that, being +sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.

+ +

Fortunately, my client was acquitted. It is impossible to +understate my gratitude (and that of my client) in having the +benefits of the presumption of innocence, trial by jury (we +didn't trust the judge either), and the right to cross-examine +the juvenile.

+ +

In another case, I was summoned to a local hotel by a client +who was being accused of murder. His girlfriend had died after +falling from their tenth floor hotel room. When I arrived at +the hotel, the police were already questioning my client; +yet, having just lost his girlfriend, he was obviously in no +state of mind to be answering questions. I immediately advised +him to stop responding and asked the police to stop +interrogating him.

+ +

The reaction of the police? Intent on not allowing the +"technicality" of the Fifth Amendment to impede the "proper +administration of justice," they arrested me for "disorderly +conduct," removed me for booking, and continued the +interrogation of my client. I at least had the solace of +believing that no court would admit my client's answers, no +matter how "voluntary," in any criminal proceeding.

+ +

The inquest ultimately established, and the district attorney +conceded, that the girl's death was a suicide, not a murder. +The grand jury did not see fit to even issue an indictment, +which of course, is simply a legal accusation. The truth was +that the man was innocent. (The truth was that so was I. I +hired one of the foremost criminal defense lawyers in the +United States who represented me for free--he had recently +suffered the same type of experience in a Miami court; +ultimately, after I refused a plea bargain, the prosecutor +dismissed the charges against me and apologized.)

+ +

To this day, when I hear an American judge instructing a jury +to presume the defendant innocent and not to convict him +unless convinced of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, I take +great pride in being an American; in living under a criminal +justice system that towers above those in other countries +whose criminal justice system unfortunately is the ideal of +many American "anti-crime fighters"--a system of presumption +of guilt, pretrial incarceration without bail, non-jury +trials, involuntary confessions, and unrestricted searches and +seizures, all with the single-minded purpose of punishing the +guilty no matter what the cost to the innocent.

+ +

The Founding Fathers, and the American people of the 1700s, +were not naive. They knew that the procedural safeguards in +the Bill of Rights would result in the release of many guilty +people. But they were willing to accept that price in order to +ensure that innocent people were never, or rarely, convicted. +They fully recognized that which freedom devotees on the Right +recognized--that those who violate the rights of others need +to be punished. But what they also recognized is what those on +the Right so often do not: that sometimes people are wrongly +accused of violating the rights of others.

+ +

Mr. Bidinotto is right to be concerned about crime and other +crises which periodically beset us. However, historically it +is crises that have furnished the excuse for some of +government's most monumental assaults on human freedom. It is +during these times that we must be most on our guard to +protect our civil liberties, not surrender them. Otherwise, +freedom devotees, and especially those on the Right, will find +that economic liberty, which they have fought so hard to +achieve, has been sacrificed back to government under the +guise of the criminal law.

+ +

Mr. Hornberger is the founder and president of The Future of +Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +From the July 1990 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1990, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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+STACKING THE JURY IN GEORGIA

+ +

We have been informed by an alert correspondent of a likely +jury-rigging scheme in south Georgia. It may be that variants of +this kind of sleazy operation are common throughout the country. +If you are rarely or never called for jury duty despite being +registered to vote and licensed to drive, perhaps a little +digging around might yield some interesting information. If and +when jury-rigging can be identified in a local judicial district, +the press might be very interested in what you have uncovered. +Such information could be of great utility in promoting awareness +of FIJA, and could be used to rally excluded groups around the +issue of jury rights.

+ +

In Georgia, it appears that the local legal establishment +draws names for the jury pool from voters who have voted in the +Republican primary election. It is known that some people are +selected repeatedly in short periods of time, while others are +seldom selected--once in twenty years, for instance. In addition, +a secret list of jurors who have given guilty verdicts in the +past is maintained by the District Attorney. A local defense +attorney petitioned the court for a copy of that list because it +gave the D.A. an unfair advantage during jury selection, but the +judge refused to require the D.A. to release the list.

+ +

The question, of course, is are people being selected over +and over again for "hanging juries"? The D.A. could build an +impressive conviction record by doing this, but defendants' +rights to a fair trial are being shredded!

+ +

A local attorney points out that conviction-prone jurors are +the kind of people insurance companies love to have hear +personal-injury cases, and they tend to side with polluters +against environmentalists, and with the establishment against +civil rights plaintiffs. The Jury Commission is scrambling to +cover its tracks now that questions have been raised. +

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+Part 1, U.S. Government Practices Germ Warfare on U.S. Population +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ +

GARY NULL: +..... also would say that they would go to Argentina, and they would +work with farm workers, and they would allow people to consume milk +without any evidence that it was safe. No one can verify that +something is going to be safe in everyone who consumes something +when you have no long-term studies. Why wasn't it done in America? +And how do we know that other organizations have not done tests on +Americans? And what groups or populations do they choose? Not once +was there any comment, editorially, in any of the media -- that I'm +aware of, at least -- that questioned the idea that you could take a +group of people: South Americans, a sub-group: farmers, and use +them as human guinea pigs.

+ +

Now think for a moment, just on a moral level. Do we have the right +to assume that a minority person from another country is any less +valuable, as a human being, than an American? That's for each of +you to decide for yourself. From my perspective, I think it's +important to respect all life, and therefore, I couldn't imagine +doing an experiment on a Mongolian child or a Sudanese family -- +and not because the world wouldn't know what I had done, but because +they are part of the human spirit. But that wasn't questioned!

+ +

And Secondly, what do we know about the Wistar Institute? If it had +done THIS deed -- and it did, indeed, do this deed -- then what else +has it done? What other politics has it engaged in? The fact that +it was associated with the Pan American Health Organization is VERY +serious for me because I remember, long before this episode, +finding that the Pan American Health Organization and one of its +individuals had made a very, very aggressive and assertive effort +to destroy the reputation, the background and the credibility of +one Doctor Lawrence Burton of the Bahamas. And it was upon the +recommendation of that Pan American Health Organization -- claiming +that Burton's therapy didn't work and that they had come in and +investigated his work -- that the Bahamian Government was willing +to, in effect, close down Burton's clinic. I remember writing +extensively -- after I went down to the Bahamas, and followed up on +THEIR work, and interviewed people from their organization -- that +they had done sloppy work. And their work was unscientific, when it +concerned Burton, and it should never have been given credibility. +I considered it scandalous. And I wrote about it. And I wrote about +the people involved.

+ +

But, here they were, going along with the Wistar Institute. +And no one asked: Who is on their [Wistar's] board of directors? +What other organizations are they involved with? What other boards +are THEIR board members associated with? No one wanted to track it +back. And no one did.

+ +

Now in the United States, concern over the moral implications of +this experiment also was questioned, particularly since a large +portion of the funding for the development of the vaccine was +provided by the Federal Government. Now, according to the New York +Times:

+ +

(quote) +"Federal officials and scientists in the United States said it +raised questions about the adequacy of a new Reagan +Administration program to regulate products of bio-technology +research." +(unquote)

+ +

What is especially disturbing about the incident of Wistar's +insistence that it had not done anything wrong was:

+ +

(quote) +"because Argentina has no rules governing the bio-technology +industry, and the United States rules did not apply." +(unquote)

+ +

Now think of that for a moment. Just think of that. Because a +country has no rules governing bio-technology, and we do, that is +to assume that those rules, which we have held are important here +(for obvious reasons), wouldn't apply to another country? I'm sure +if you went to Bali, you wouldn't find any rules on bio-technology. +Does that mean that you should go there and test the subjects of +that country? Of course not! Who ARE these people at Wistar? Why +aren't they investigated? Why hasn't 60 MINUTES done a piece? Why +hasn't 20/20 done a piece on them? I think it's reprehensible +journalism, when there are so many red flags, and this kind of +logic is used, and it is not followed through on.

+ +

While commenting on the Wistar Institute's conduct in the matter, +the New York Times cites Doctor David Kingsbury[sp], Assistant +Director of the National Science Foundation, who was instrumental +in the creation of the current regulations governing the testing +of genetically-engineered products. He said:

+ +

(quote) +"I'm not bothered by the idea of the United States Research +Institute and companies going abroad for testing. But I am +appalled that they did it without the knowledge of that +country. Given the volatility and concern on this issue, you +just don't do things like that." +(unquote)

+ +

I would challenge Doctor Kingsbury. I find it appalling that we +would assume that we could go abroad to do testing if other +countries don't have the knowledge of the conseqeunces of testing. +If they had been given an opportunity to determine the pros and +cons, then, fine. Let someone test. But what if they are innocent +in not knowing anything about what's being done.

+ +

Nor was the Wistar Institute the only party involved to see this +done, and in using obscure loopholes. The National Institutes of +Health, which provided Government funds for the development of the +vaccine, denied any responsibility for the failure to properly +oversee the experiment

+ +

(quote) +"because the actual trial itself did not use Government money." +(unquote)

+ +

That was according to Warren Leary on a report titled "Argentines +Report Infection by Altered Farm Virus" on January 22, 1988. That +was later. +(to be continued only if someone will volunteer +to post to Usenet the remaining episodes of this +series, which I will e-mail to that volunteer.) +John DiNardo jad@blythe.org +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this information is vital to the defense and +the preservation of our free society, please assist in its +dissemination by posting it to computer bulletin boards and by +posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +The Usenet newsgroup alt.bbs.lists provides dial-in numbers +of BBSs.

+ +

John DiNardo

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Subject: "THE GLOBAL ECONOMY" TRIUMPHS OVER earthday, JUST ANOTHER birthday +"The Global Economy" Gobbles Up the World's Wealth and Human Dignity

+ +

Every day, I get to observe the bizarre disparity between +what I deem to be reality and the unreality that is carefully +concocted for us (via CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, etc.) by the world +powers who are secretly and systematically getting ever richer +and more powerful by confiscating both our money and our freedom.

+ +

I am fortunate enough to be able to hear an independent source +of information -- Pacifica Radio, WBAI-FM, 99.5 in New York City. +The reality vs. unreality contrast was strikingly obvious this morning. +On my way to work, I was listening to a Swedish environmentalist. +Helen Norberg Hodge is probably how her name is spelled. +These are some of her points that I can recall:

+ +

** All the nations of the world are bankrupt. Consequently, +THEIR logical solution to OUR problem is to amalgamate all the +national economies of the world into one global economy under +the domination of the giant multinational, transnational +corporations.

+ +

** GHETTOIZATION OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY'S WORKFORCE (that's you, +me, and our children when they eventually join the workforce. +How much worse will it be for them when they reach that point?) +INTO LARGE, URBAN LABOR CENTERS ** +The consequences to us are that we common people will be +forced into traveling longer distances to work at urbanized +industrial centers which they are creating as a part of their +master plan. This will demand more sacrifices from us in terms of +travel time and travel expenses.

+ +

** SIPHONING OFF THE PLANET'S NATURAL RESOURCES OF ENERGY TO FUEL +LARGE ENERGY GENERATING CENTERS **

+ +

** INTER-LOCKING THE DISCRETE NATION-TOWNSHIPS OF THE +GLOBAL ECONOMIC STATE INTO A TIGHT WEB OF STREAMLINED +TRANSPORTATION THROUGHWAYS ** +We consumers will be forced to pay much higher prices for food +and goods because the global expressway will bring us bananas +from Australia and oranges from Israel. Naturally, we consumers +will pay the transportation costs. Volvo of Sweden is just one +of the corporate cogs in that multinational wheel of fortune.

+ +

I leave the car and go into the cafeteria for morning coffee at the +place where I work. And on the omnipresent big-screen that invades +our lives nowadays, media giant CNN is booming out its expensive +presentation. CNN happened to report on Earth Day. And this was +what they told and showed to their viewers:

+ +

Nothing at all about the environmental disasters that have been +and continue to be inflicted upon our only planet by the logging +industry, the oil industry, the automobile industry, the chemical +industry, the U.S. Government/nuclear industry, and I could go on +and on, but the point is already made.

+ +

Oh, but they did show a guy taking a car battery and recycling it.

+ +

Now that pack of lies-by-omission was brought to you by a media giant. +Conversely, the broad, deep coverage presented by that media pauper, +listener-financed, non-commercial WBAI on environmental crises alone +(not to mention their political and social reportage) would be too +vast for me to even summarize in numerous posts to these newsgroups. +What does that tell you about the motives of the mass media? +They don't want you to know any more than a meaningless tidbit about +these literally earthshaking environmental issues.

+ +

The relentless trend toward slavery is supposed +to be gradual. You're not supposed to notice it. First you +are eased into servitude, and then, when you're acclimated to +servitude, you will more readily accept being eased into slavery. +But it has to be done slowly so as to avoid mutinizing the people. +Ideally, it should proceed over more than one generation. As one +who lived through the war -- both the one in Vietnam and the one +at home that accompanied it -- I can attest to the sedation of +the American people from that generation to this one.

+ +

Now why would anyone want to get richer by making us poorer? +Why would anyone want to rob your apartment or house? +Why would anyone want to rob one-point-two trillion dollars +from the American people's paychecks to repay the $1.2 trillion +that they robbed from the people's S & L savings accounts? +That was the Reagan-Bush looting decade of the 1980s wherein +the robber-barons got wildly wealthier by making us much poorer.

+ +

If you're ignorant of that fact, then you need to turn off +that goddamned television, because it is the instrument of your +ignorance, your delusion, your anesthetization and your +compliance in our slow but discernible slide into slavery. +Just turn it off, because it is your enemy and it is out to +ruin you. That's the same advice I give to my sister-in-law +and brother-in-law about smoking, as they sit there passively +coughing their guts out. Fight the TV addiction and vanquish it. +Your human dignity and liberty depend upon it. Indeed, our +children and our grandchildren are depending upon us. If we +let them down, the consequences will be far worse for them. +Don't deny high probability. Soon enough, you'll probably be +taking on the responsibility of bringing them into this world +and looking toward their well-being.

+ +

So fight the TV addiction and vanquish that hypnotic force which +dominates your mind and your life in so many subtle, yet powerful ways.

+ +

And when you realize how hard it is to abstain from it, you'll +finally realize the extent of its power over you. But THAT is +your first step in fighting back -- in liberating yourself +and your people. Turn off that damned Svengali that holds you +spellbound. You can't imagine the price we, as a society, +are all paying for so-called free television. + +Turn off the damned thing, and seek out the truth through many +printed sources which you can access by asking your librarian to +borrow specified books and photocopies of magazine and newspaper +articles through the nationwide inter-library loan network.

+ +

Ranting by: + +John DiNardo

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+Lt. Col. James Bo Gritz (ret.) +Verses +Those U.S. Government Officials Whose Golden +Triangle Heroin Trafficking Has Prevented the +Return of Our POWs From Southeast Asia

+ +

I am going to assume that you are acquainted with the seriousness of the +matter presented herein. On a WHITE HOUSE sanctioned mission to Burma for the +rescue of American Missing In Action I learned of a major heroin smuggling +opperation involving past and present U.S. government officials which has +obstructed the return of known American MIAs from Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. +I reported this to the WHITE HOUSE and all appropriate congressional +committees. I am now taking to the public the information these government +officials refuse to act upon.

+ +

(The Overview File is not ready at this time. My letter to George Bush and +Khun Sa's letter to the Justice Department may serve to introduce this subject +until Overview is finished.)

+ +

February 1988 +Sandy Valley, NV

+ +

Honorable George Bush +Vice President +United States of America +Washington, D.C.

+ +

Sir:

+ +

AWhy does it seem that you are saying "YES" to illegal narcotics in America?

+ +

I turned over video tapes to your NSC staff assistant, Tom Harvey, January +1987, wherein General KHUN SA, overlord of Asia's "Golden Triangle", offered +to stop 900 tons of heroin/opium from entering the free world in 1987. Harvey +told me, "...there is no interest here in doing that." General Khun Sa also +offered to identify U.S. Government officials who, he says, have been +trafficking in heroin for more than 20 years.

+ +

November 1986, Scott Weekly and I went into Burma in coordination and +cooperation with The White House. Tom Harvey told me you received a letter +from Arthur Suchesk, Orange County, CA, dated 29 August 1986. Dr. Suchesk +said that Gen Khun Sa had access to U.S. POWs. Harvey said the letter had +received "highest attention". He gave me a copy along with other case +documents. I was asked if it was possible to verify the information. +According to Harvey, the CIA said Khun Sa had been assassinated some months +before. Harvey supplied Scott and myself with language under White House and +NSC letterhead that would help us gain access to Khun Sa. It worked. +Unfortunately, Khun Sa knew nothing about US POWs. He did, however, offer to +trade his nation's poppy dependence for a legitimate economy.

+ +

Instead of receiving an "Atta Boy" for bringing back video tape showing Khun +Sa's offer to stop 900 tons of illegal narcotics and expose dirty USG +officials, Scott was jailed and I was threatened. I was told that if I didn't +"erase and forget" all that we had discovered, I would, ~hurt the government". +Further, I was promised a prison sentence of "15 years".

+ +

I returned to Burma with two other American witnesses, Lance Trimmer, a +private detective from San Francisco, and Barry Flynn from Boston. Gen Khun +Sa identified some of those in government service he says were dealing in +heroin and arms sales. We video taped this second interview and I turned +copies over in June 1987, to the Chairman of the Select Committee on +Intelligence; Chairman of the House on Foreign Affairs Task Force on Narcotics +Control; Co)Chairman, Senate Narcotics Committee; Senator Harry Reid, NV; +Representative James Bilbray, NV; and other Congressional members. Mister +Richard Armitage, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security +Affairs, is one of those USG officials implicated by Khun Sa. Nothing was +done with this evidence that indicated that anyone of authority, including +yourself, had intended to do anything more than protect Mr. Armitage. I was +charged with "Mis)use of Passport". Seems that it is alright for Oliver north +and Robert MacFarlane to go into Iran on Irish Passports to negotiate an +illegal arms deal that neither you nor anyone else admits condoning, but I +can't use a passport that brings back drug information against your friends.

+ +

Lance Trimmer and I submitted a "Citizen Complaint of Wrongdoing by Federal +Officers" to Attorney General Edwin Meese, III on 17 September 1987. +Continuous private and Legislative inquiries to date indicate that the +Attorney General's Office has "lost" the document. Congressional requests to +the Government Accounting Office have resulted in additional government snares +and stalls.

+ +

January 20, 1988, I talked before your Breakfast Club in Houston, Texas. A +distinguished group of approximately 125 associates of yours, including the +Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, expressed assurance that you are a +righteous man. Almost all of them raised their hand when I asked how many of +them know you personally. If you are a man with good intent, I pray you will +do more than respond to this letter. I ask that you seriously look into the +possibility that political appointees close to you are guilty of by)passing +our Constitutional process, and for purposes of promoting illegal covert +operations, conspired in the trafficking of narcotics and arms.

+ +

Please answer why a respected American Citizen like mister H. Ross Perot can +bring you a pile of evidence of wrongdoing by Armitage and others, and you, +according to TIME magazine (May 4, page 18), not only offer him no support, +but have your Secretary of Defense, Frank Carlucci tell Mr. Perot to "stop +pursuing Mr. Armitage". Why Sir, will you not look into affidavits gathered +by The Christic Institute (Washington, D.C.), which testify that Armitage not +only trafficked in heroin, but did so under the guise of an officer charged +with bringing home our POWs. If the charges are true, Armitage, who is still +responsible for POW recovery as your Assistant Secretary of Defense ISA, has +every reason not to want these heros returned to us alive. Clearly, follow)on +investigations would illuminate the collective crimes of Armitage and others.

+ +

Several years ago a secretary working for Armitage asked me "Why would he have +us expunge his official record of all reference to past POW/MIA assignments +and activities?" Not knowing, I ventured a guess that maybe he was considering +running for public office and didn't feel the POW ) Vietnam association would +be a plus in his resume. It was about the same time a CIA agent named by Khun +Sa turned up dead in Bangkok under "mysterious circumstances". Also about +this time, as an agent of NSC's Intelligence Support Activity, I was told by +ISA Chief Jerry King, "...there are still too many bureaucrats in Washington +who don't want to see POWs returned alive". I failed to realize the fullness +of his meaning, or these other events, until in May 1987, Gen Khun Sa, in his +jungle headquarters, named Richard Armitage as a key connection in a ring of +heroin trafficking mobsters and USG officials. A U.S. agent I have known for +many years stopped by my home last month enroute to his next overseas +assignment. He remarked that he had worked for those CIA chiefs named by Khun +Sa, and that by his own personal knowledge, he knew what Khun Sa said was +true. He was surprised it had taken so long to surface.

+ +

I am a registered Republican. I voted for you twice. I will not do so again. +If you have any love or loyalty in your heart for this nation; if you have not +completely sold out, then do something positive to determine the truth of +these most serious allegations. You were Director of the CIA in 1975, during +a time Khun Sa says Armitage and CIA officials were trafficking in heroin. As +Director of Intelligence you were responsible to the American people for the +activities of your assistant ) even as you should know what some of these same +people are doing who are close to you now as our Vice President because i feel +these "parallel government" types will only be promoted by you, giving them +more reason to bury our POWs.

+ +

I am enclosing some documentation that supports the charges made. Chief is a +letter from Khun Sa to the U.S. Justice Department dated 28 June 1987, wherein +Richard Armitage is named along with Theodore Shackley (your former Deputy +Director CIA fro Covert Operations) and others. Please also note William +Stevenson's article, "Bank of Intrigue ) Circles of Power". You, Armitage, +and General Richard Secord are prominently mentioned. Stevenson, you might +remember, authored A MAN CALLED INTREPID. Also Tom Fitzpatrick's article, +"From Burma to Bush, a Heroin Highway", should interest you. Both of these +men are prize winning journalists. The book, CRIMES of PATRIOTS, "A True Tale +of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA", by Jonathan Kwitny, reporter for the Wall +Street Journal, details for you the bank connections that Khun Sa mentions. +Finally, the basic primer that spells out exactly how this dope for covert +operations gambit began, is Alfred McCoy's THE POLITICS OF HEROIN IN SOUTHEAST +ASIA. All of these should be required reading for the man appointed chief cop +by our President to safeguard America from illegal narcotics. These are just +a sampling of many works now available that chronical disgraceful conduct by +those sworn to protect and defend our Constitution.

+ +

Parting shot Mr. Vice President: On 28 January 1988, General Khun Sa tendered +an offer to turn over to me one metric ton (2200 pounds) of heroin. He says +this is a good faith gesture to the American people that he is serious about +stopping all drugs coming from the infamous Golden Triangle. I you and Nancy +Reagan are really serious about saying "NO" to drugs, why not test Gen Khun +Sa? I challenge you to allow me in the company of agents of your choice to +arrange to receive this token offer worth over $4 billion on the streets of +New York City. It will represent the largest "legal" seizure of heroin on +record. You can personally torch it, dump it in the ocean, or turn it into +legal medication; as I understand there is a great shortage of legal opiates +available to our doctors. I think Gen Khun Sa's offer is most interesting. +If you say "YES" then the ever increasing flow of heroin from Southeast Asia +(600 tons ) '86, 900 tons ) '87, 1200 tons ) '88) may dry up ) not good for +business in the parallel government and super CIA circles Oliver North +mentioned. If you say "NO" to Khun Sa, you are showing colors not fit for a +man who would be President.

+ +

What is your decision? I challenge you to demonstrate exactly where you stand +with respect to big)business)drugs, parallel government, misuse of U.S. +tax)payer dollars in foreign drug suppression programs that don't work, no +interest in dialogue that will stem the flow of illegal narcotics, return of +POWs while they are still alive? I for one am not for a "USA, Inc." with you +or anyone else as Chairman of the Board.

+ +

Respecting Your Office,

+ +

James "Bo" Gritz

+ +

Concerned American +Box 472 HCR)31 +Sandy Valley, NV 89019

+ +

(702) 723)5266

+ +

U.S. Justice Department, +Washington, D.C. U.S.A.

+ +

SUBJECT:A ' AA 8 AA AImportant fact for the Drugs Eradication +Program to be successful.

+ +

Sirs:

+ +

This letter to the US Justice Department is to make it clear about our deepest +concern in wishing to help eradicate drugs and for all the American people as +well as the world to know the truth that for the past (15) year they have been +misled to look upon us as the main source of all the drug problems. A A1. +The refusal of the United State government to accept our "SIX YEARS DRUGS +ERADICATION PLAN " presented at the Congressional Hearing by Congressman Mr. +Lester Wolff after his visit to Thailand in April 1977, was really a great +disappointment for us. Even after this disappointment, we continued writing +letters to President Carter and President Reagan forwarding our sincere wish +to help and participate in eradicating drugs. We are really surprised and +doubtful as to "why the US government refuses our participation and help to +make a success of the drugs eradication program. Furthermore, "why the world +has been misled to accuse us as the main culprit for all the drug trades.... +while in reality, we are most sincere and willing to help solve the drug +problems in South East Asia. through our own secret investigation, we found +out that some high officials in the US government's drugs control and +enforcement department and with the influence of corrupted persons objected to +our active participation in the drugs eradication program of the US government +so as to be able to retain their profitable self)interest from the +continuation of the drug problems. Thus, the US government and the American +people as well as the world have been hoodwinked.

+ +

During the period (1965 )1975) CIA Chief in Laos, Theodore Shackley was in the +drug business, having contacts with the Opium Warlord Lor Sing Han and his +followers. Santo Trafficante acted as his buying and transporting agent while +Richard Armitage handled the financial section with the Banks in Australia. +Even after the Vietnam War ended, when Richard Armitage was being posted to +the US Embassy in Thailand, his dealings in the drug business continued as +before. He was then acting as the US government official concerning with the +drugs problems in South East Asia. After 1979, Richard Armitage resigned from +the US Embassy's posting and set up the "Far East Trading Company" as a front +for his continuation in the drug trade and to bribe CIA agents in Laos and +around the world. Soon After, Daniel Arnold was made to handle the drug +business as well as the transportation of arms sales. Jerry Daniels then took +over the drug trade from Richard Armitage. For over 10 years, Armitage +supported his men in Laos and Thailand with the profits from his drug trade +and most of the cash were deposited with the banks in Australia which was to +be used in buying his way for quicker promotions to higher positions. A +AWithin the month of July, 1980, Thailand's English newspaper "Bangkok Post: +included a news)report that CIA agents were using Australia as a transit)base +for their drug business and the banks in Australia for depositing, +transferring the large sum of money involved. A AVerifications of the news +report can be made by the US Justice Department with Bangkok Post and in +Australia. A AOther facts given herewith have been drawn out from our Secret +Reports files so as to present to you of the real facts as to "why the drug +problem is being prolonged till today." A A3. Finally, we sincerely hope in +the nearest future to be given the opportunity to actively take part in +helping the US government, the Americans and people of the world in +eradicating and uprooting the drug problems.

+ +

Yours Respectfully,

+ +

Vice Chairman +THAILAND REVEOLUTIONARY COUNCIL

+ +

THE SILENT WAR

+ +

We are engaged in a silent war. Those waging this brutal conflict have +not the decency to inform their victims ))) who include ourselves and +almost everyone we know. Their standard bearers include George Bush and +David Rockefeller. As the high priced professional liars in the mass +media assure us all is well, the common people of the world are being +crushed ))) like foot soldiers over run by a panzer division.

+ +

And yet, the only real power of these perpetrators derives only from this +force fed ignorance. Apart from the power to keep us fighting each +other, the Monopolists have no power. If a critical mass of people can +learn the information contained herein, and what is more important, the +sources of this information, a global reign of terror will end.

+ +

These articles are taken from my monthly column in MONETARY AND ECONOMIC +REVIEW. I am also the Director of Research for INTELLIGENCE CONNECTION a +speakers agency that arranges events on university campuses for front +line researchers, like those mentioned in these articles. My name is +Brian Quig.

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CITY OF WASHINGTON +DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 0

+ +

AFFIDAVIT OF DANIEL P. SHEEHAN

+ +

Below, the Plaintiffs' attorney, Daniel P. Sheehan, sets forth for the +Court in the following Affidavit, the explanation of the evidence presently in +his possession )) which evidence does, in fact, rise to the level of "probable +cause" to believe that the Defendants named in this federal civil lawsuit are +guilty of the commission of the federal criminal violations set forth in the +Amended Complaint of October 4, 1986. The Plaintiffs move that this Affidavit +of Counsel be deemed a Supplemental Filing to their October 4, 1986, Amended +Complaint if the Court deems this to be legally required and that it be deemed +by the Court to set forth the evidentiary basis upon which a reasonable person +)) drawing all logical inferences from the facts adduced in the direction of +the Plaintiffs )) would conclude that it is more probable than not that each +of the Defendants named in this civil suit is guilty of violating the Federal +RICO Statute and that he is civilly liable to the Plaintiffs Tony Avirgan and +Martha Honey for having fortuitously contributed to the civil wrongs committed +against them as charged in this Amended Complaint )) as Supplemented by the +Affidavit of Counsel.

+ +

ATTORNEY DANIEL SHEEHAN'S AFFIDAVIT

+ +

Now comes Attorney Daniel P. Sheehan, and having been duly sworn hereby swears +and affirms that the following facts are true:

+ +

1. I am a duly licensed attorney at law, admitted to practice before the +State and Federal Courts of the State of New York in both the Northern and +Southern Districts of New York.

+ +

2. I am duly licensed and have been admitted to practice before the +Courts of the District of Columbia, both local and Federal and I am in good +standing before both the Bar of New York and the Bar of the District of +Columbia.

+ +

3. I have practiced law before the courts of New York and numerous other +states in our nation since 1970, having served as counsel in some 60 separate +pieces of litigation in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, +Virginia, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio, +Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming and Mississippi.

+ +

4. I graduated from Harvard college in 1967 as an Honors Graduate in +American Government, writing my Honors Thesis in the field of Constitutional +Law, and was the Harvard University nominee for the Rhodes Scholarship from +New York in 1967. I graduated from Harvard School of Law in 1970, having +served as an Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights)Civil Liberties Law Review and +as the Research Associate of Professor Jerome Cohen, the Chair of the +International Law Department of Harvard.

+ +

5. While at Harvard School of Law, I served as a summer associate at the +State Street law firm of Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar under the supervision of +Senior Partner, Donald J. Hurley, the President of the Boston Chamber of +Commerce and Massachusetts Senatorial Campaign Chairman for John F. Kennedy. +At this firm I participated in the case of BAIRD v EISENSTAT, under Roger +Stockey, General Counsel for the Massachusetts Planned Parenthood League +(establishing the unconstitutionality of the Massachusetts anti)birth control +law) and in the Nevada case, under Charles Goodhue, III (establishing the +constitutional right to bail in criminal extradition cases, including capital +cases). While at Harvard School of Law, I authored "The Pedestrian Sources of +Civil Liberties" in the Harvard Civil Rights)Civil Liberties Law Review and I +served under Professor Milton Katz, the President of the International Law +Association, as the Chairman of the Nigerian Biafran Relief Commission +responsible for successfully negotiating the admission of mercy flights of +food into Biafra in 1968.

+ +

6. While serving as a legal Associate at the Wall Street law firm of +Cahill, Gordon, Sonnett, Rheindle and Ohio under partner Theodore Shackley and +Thomas Clines directed the Phoenix Project in Vietnam, in 1974 and 1975, which +carried out the secret mission of assassinating members of the economic and +political bureaucracy inside Vietnam to cripple the ability of that nation to +function after the total US withdrawal from Vietnam. This Phoenix Project, +during its history, carried out the political assassination, in Vietnam, of +some 60000 village mayors, treasurers, school teachers and other non)Viet +Cong administrators. Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines financed a highly +intensified phase of the Phoenix project, in 1974 and 1975, by causing an +intense flow of Vang Pao opium money to be secretly brought into Vietnam for +this purpose. This Vang Pao opium money was administered for Theodore +Shackley and Thomas Clines by a US Navy official based in Saigon's US office +of Naval Operations by the name of Richard Armitage. However, because +Theodore Shackley, Thomas Clines and Richard Armitage knew that their secret +anti)communist extermination program was going to be shut down in Vietnam, +Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand in the very near future, they, in 1973, began a +highly secret non)CIA authorized program Thus, from late 1973 until April of +1975, Theodore Shackley, Thomas Clines and Richard Armitage disbursed, from +the secret, Laotian)based, Vang Pao opium fund, vastly more money than was +required to finance even the highly intensified Phoenix Project in Vietnam. +The money in excess of that used in Vietnam was secretly smuggled out of +Vietnam in large suitcases, by Richard Secord and Thomas Clines )) and carried +into Australia, where it was deposited in a secret, personal bank account +(privately accessible to Theodore Shackley, Thomas Clines and Richard Secord). +During this same period of time between 1973 and 1975, Theodore Shackley and +Thomas Clines caused thousands of tons of US weapons, ammunition, and +explosives to be secretly taken from Vietnam and stored at a secret "cache" +hidden inside Thailand.

+ +

The "liaison officer" to Shackley and Clines and the Phoenix Project in +Vietnam, during this 1973 to 1975 period, from the "40 Committee" in the Nixom +White House was one Eric Von Arbod )) an Assistant Secretary of State for Far +Eastern Affairs. Von Arbod shared his information about the Phoenix Project +directly with his supervisor Henry Kissinger.

+ +

Saigon fell to the Vietnamese in April of 1975. The Vietnam War was over.

+ +

Immediately upon the conclusion of the evacuation of U.S. personnel from +Vietnam, Richard Armitage was dispatched, by Theodore Shackley and Thomas +Clines, from Vietnam to Tehran, Iran. In Iran, Armitage (the "bursar" for the +Vang Pao opium money for Shackley and Clines' planned "Secret Team" covert +operations program), between May and August of 1975, set up a secret +"financial conduit" inside Iran, into which secret Vang Pao drug funds could +be deposited from Southeast Asia. The purpose of this conduit was to serve as +the vehicle for secret funding by Shackley's "Secret Team," of a private, +non)CIA authorized "Black" operations inside Iran )) disposed to seek out, +identify, and assassinate socialist and communist sympathizers )) who were +viewed by Shackley and his "Secret Team" members to be "potential terrorists" +against the Shah of Iran's government in Iran. In late 1975 and early 1976, +Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines retained Edwin Wilson to travel to Tehran, +Iran to head up the "Secret Team" covert "anti)terrorist" assassination +program in Iran. This was not a U.S. government)authorized operation. This +was a private operations supervised, directed and participated in by Shackley, +Clines, Secord and Armitage in their purely private capacities.

+ +

At the end of 1975, Richard Armitage took the post of a "Special Consultant" +to the U.S. Department of Defense regarding American military personnel +Missing In Action (MIAs) in Southeast Asia. In this capacity, Armitage was +posted in the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. There Armitage had top +responsibility for locating and retrieving American MIA's in Southeast Asia. +He worked at the Embassy with an associate, one Jerry O. Daniels. From 1975 +to 1977, Armitage held this post in Thailand. However, he did not perform the +duties of this office. Instead, Armitage continued to function as the +"bursar" for Theodore Shackley's "Secret Team," seeing to it that secret Vang +Pao opium funds were conducted from Laos, through Armitage in Thailand to both +Tehran and the secret Shackley bank account in Australia at the Nugen)Hand +Bank. The monies conducted by Armitage to Tehran were to fund Edwin Wilson's +secret anti)terrorist "seek and destroy" operation on behalf of Theodore +Shackely. Armitage also devoted a portion of his time between 1975 and 1977, +in Bangkok, facilitating the escape from Laos, Cambodia and Thailand and the +re)location elsewhere in the world, of numbers of the secret Meo tribesmen +group which had carried out the covert political assassination program for +Theodore Shackley in Southeast Asia between 1966 and 1975. Assisting Richard +Armitage in this operation was Jerry O. Daniels. Indeed, Jerry O. Daniels was +a "bag)man" for Richard Armitage, assisting Armitage by physically +transporting out of Thailand millions of dollars of Vang Pao's secret opium +money )) to finance the re)location of Theodore Shackley's Meo tribesmen and +to supply funds to Theodore Shackley's "Secret Team" operations. At the U.S. +Embassy in Bangkok, Richard Armitage also supervised the removal of arms, +ammunition and explosives from the secret Shackley)Clines cache of munitions +hidden inside Thailand between 1973 and 1975 )) for use by Shackley's "Secret +Team". Assisting Armitage in this latter operations was one Daniel Arnold, +the CIA Chief of Station in Thailand )) who joined Shackley's "Secret Team" )) +in his purely private capacity.

+ +

One of the officers in the U.S. Embassy in Thailand, one Abranowitz came to +know of Armitage's involvement in the secret handling of Vang Pao opium funds +and caused to be initiated an internal State Department heroin smuggling +investigations directed against Richard Armitage. Armitage was the target of +Embassy personnel complaints to the effect that he was utterly failing to +perform his duties on behalf of American MIAs, and he reluctantly resigned as +the D.O.D. Special Consultant on MIA's at the end of 1977.

+ +

From 1977 until 1979, Armitage remained in Bangkok opening and operating a +business named The Far East Trading Company. This company had offices only in +Bangkok and in Washington, D.C. This company was, in fact, from 1977 to 1979, +merely a "front" for Armitage's secret operations conducting Vang Pao opium +money out of Southeast Asia to Tehran and the Nugen)Hand Bank in Australia to +fund the ultra right)wing, private anti)communist "anti)terrorist" +assassination program and "unconventional warfare" operation of Theodore +Shackley's and Thomas Cline's "Secret Team". During this period, between 1975 +and 1979, in Bangkok, Richard Armitage lived in the home of Hynnie Aderholdt +)) the former Air Wing Commander of Shackley's "Special Operations Group" in +Laos )) who, between 1966 and 1968, had served as the immediate superior to +Richard Secord, the Deputy Air Wing Commander of MAG)SOG. Secord, in 1975, +was transferred from Vietnam to Tehran, Iran.

+ +

In 1976, Richard Secord moved to Tehran, Iran and became the Deputy Assistant +Secretary of defense in Iran, in charge of the Middle Eastern Division of the +Defense Security Assistance Administration. In this capacity, Secord +functioned as the chief operations officer for the U.S. Defense Department in +the Middle East in charge of foreign military sales of U.S. aircraft, weapons +and military equipment to Middle Eastern nations allied to the U.S.. Secord's +immediate superior was Eric Van Marbad )) the former 40 Committee liaison +officer to Theodore Shackley's Phoenix program in Vietnam from 1973 to 1975.

+ +

From 1976 to 1979, in Iran, Richard Secord supervised the sale of U.S. +military aircraft and weapons to Middle Eastern nations. However, Richard +Secord did not authorize direct nation)to)nation sales of such equipment +directly from the U.S. government to said Middle Eastern governments. +Instead, Richard Secord conducted such sales through a "middle)man", one +Albert Hakim. By the use of middle)man Albert Hakim, Deputy Assistant +Secretary of Defense Richard Secord purchased U.S. military aircraft and +weapons from the U.S. governament at the low "manufacturer's cost" )) but sold +these U.S. aircraft and weapons to the client Middle Eastern nations at the +much higher "replacement cost". Secord then caused to be paid to the U.S. +government, out of the actual sale price obtained, only the lower amount equal +to the lower manufacturer's cost. The difference, was secreted from the U.S. +government and Secord and Albert Hakim secretly transferred these millions of +dollars into Shackley's "Secret Team" operations inside Iran )) and into +Shackley's secret Nugen)Hand bank account in Australia. Thus, by 1976, +Defendant Albert Hakim had become a partner with Thomas Clines, Richard Secord +and Richard Armitage in Theodore Shackley's "Secret Team".

+ +

Between 1976 and 1979, Shackley, Clines, Secord, Hakim, Wilson, and Armitage +set up several corporations and subsidiaries around the world through which to +conceal the operations of the "Secret Team". Many of these corporations were +set up in Switzerland. Some of these were: (1) Lake Resources, Inc.; (2) The +Stanford Technology Trading Group, Inc.; and (3) Companie de Services +Fiduciaria. Other companies were set up in Central America, such as: (4) CSF, +Investments, Ltd. and (5) Udall research Corporation. Some were set up inside +the United States by Edwin Wilson. Some of these were: (6) Orca Supply +Company in Florida and (7) Consultants International in Washington, D.C.. +Through these corporations, members of Theodore Shackley's "Secret Team" +laundered hundreds of millions of dollars of secret Vang Pao opium money +pilfered Foreign Military Sales proceeds between 1976 and 1979. named in this +federal civil suit to be placed under oath and asked about their participation +in the criminal "enterprise" alleged in this Complaint is probative of the +criminal guilt of the Defendants of some of the crimes charged in this +Complaint.

+ +

Plaintiffs and Plaintiffs' Counsel, The Christic Institute, possess evidence +constituting "probable cause" that each of the Defendants named in this +Complaint are guilty of the conduct charged.

+ +

If further detailed evidence is required by the Court to allow the Plaintiffs +to begin the standard process of discovery in this case, the failure to place +it in this Affidavit is the function of the short time allowed by the Court +for the preparation of this filing )) it is not because the Plaintiffs lack +such evidence.

+ +

Daniel P. Sheehan

+ +

Subscribed and Sworn to before me this day of December, 1986

+ +

THE SILENT WAR

+ +

We are engaged in a silent war. Those waging this brutal conflict have +not the decency to inform their victims ))) who include ourselves and +almost everyone we know. Their standard bearers include George Bush and +David Rockefeller. As the high priced professional liars in the mass +media assure us all is well, the common people of the world are being +crushed ))) like foot soldiers over run by a panzer division.

+ +

And yet, the only real power of these perpetrators derives only from this +force fed ignorance. Apart from the power to keep us fighting each +other, the Monopolists have no power. If a critical mass of people can +learn the information contained herein, and what is more important, the +sources of this information, a global reign of terror will end.

+ +

These articles are taken from my monthly column in MONETARY AND ECONOMIC +REVIEW. I am also the Director of Research for INTELLIGENCE CONNECTION a +speakers agency that arranges events on university campuses for front +line researchers, like those mentioned in these articles. My name is +Brian Quig.

+ +

You can arrange speaking events with any of these legendary people by +calling

+ +

(602) 945-3858

+ +

or writing + +Intelligence Connection +6950 E. Continental Blvd Ste. 7000 +Scottsdale AZ 85257

+ +

James Bo Gritz

+ +

U.S. DRUG TRAFFICKING: +BURMA REPORT

+ +

My team mate, Mr. Scott Weekly, and I infiltrated Burma in November-December +1986 in cooperation with the White House to ascertain whether or not heroin +"king-pin" Khun Sa had access to U.S. Prisoners of War as was reported. 1;e +found no POWs, but Khun Sa agreed to send patrols throughout western Laos to +check for POW presence. During our interview with him, he stated he wanted to +eliminate the 700-900, tons of opium/heroin that is trafficked through his +area (the Golden Triangle") each year. He stated that he would also expose +U.S. Government officials involved in the drug trafficking. Mr. Weekly and I +returned to the U.S. in December 1986. I submitted the video taped +conversations to the White House, excited about the potential dialogue on drug +suppression. I received a telephone call from my White House liaison, lauding +our successful interview with drug warlord Khun Sa who had previously been +reported killed by the CIA. When asked about the reaction and planned response +to Khun Sa's proposal to eliminate drug flow into the free world I was told, +"There is no interest here in doing that". This seemed most strange, since +Vice-President Bush is appointed as the nations top policeman for drug +control. Immediately thereafter, my partner (Mr. Weekly) was arrested. He was +told by federal agents and members of the attorney general s office that I was +the true target of an investigation connecting me with White House misdeeds +(i.e., Oliver North etc.). A proffer was made that guaranteed Mr. Weekly +probation without supervision, so that he could join me oVerseas in the +on-going POW liberation effort. Instead of this, Scott Weekly was subsequently +sentenced to 5 years in prison for a technical violation of the law, which act +several federal offices and authorities admitted having sanctioned. +Simultaneously, the U.S. Government criticized Thailand and Burma for failure +to destroy Khun Sa , and declared no mercy . The ambassador for narcotic +control went to Bangkok, Thailand and announced: "The U.S. will never +negotiate with the free world's worst enemy, Khun Sa." For 60 days, newspapers +in Thailand headlined the efforts of tens of thousands of Thai and Burmese +troops deployed against Khun Sa's stronghold.

+ +

I returned to Burma to visit Khun Sa in May 1987, and see if he would release +his information on corrupt and drug dealing U.S. officials. Instead of +finding a war zone in his area, I found a new road, built by the Thai +government - with heavy equipment, leading directly to Khun Sa s Shan State +headquarters. When questioned about the lack of evidence of any bomb, bullet, +damage to the heavy-duty truck route, he laughed at the headlines we d seen +and explained: "It was only a newspaper war." I observed thousands of teak +trees along the entryway on the Thai side of the border. Obviously, Khun Sa +had traded teak to the Thais'' for a 'phony' war and high-speed road. The +Thais and Burmese were praised by the U.S. Government, insuring millions in +drug suppression funds.

+ +

During our eight-day stay, Khun Sa and his staff gave us names of past and +present U.S. officials involved in drug buying and trafficking.

+ +

It is unconscionable that American tax payers are funding millions on a +suppression program infected with corrupt officials. Drug traffic has steadily +increased each year. In 1986 it was estimated at 700 tons of opium/heroin. +This year - with the new road - Khun Sa should reach his stated goal of 900 +tons. Khun Sa says that for one tenth of the Burmese drug suppression money, +he will use his 40000-man army to completely eliminate all opium/heroin +traffic through the Golden Triangle and Shan territory. His desire is to +safeguard his 8 million Shan people from the Burmese spraying of "Agent +Orange" defoliant on Shan State crops, animals and people. He seeks +recognition of Shanland through politically-recognized negotiations that would +have given independence to Shanland from Burma in 1957. The Burmese refuse to +release this territory, and continue to overtly suppress the population. +Shanland (160000 square miles) comprises 40% of the Burma landmass and it is +estimated that 80% of the Burmese economy comes from the natural resources of +the Shan States.

+ +

The attached tapes and news copies detail this story. Additionally, 8mm sound +movies, stills, video masters and accompanying audio are available.

+ +

The bottom line is that Khun Sa has been besieged by corrupt U.S. ploys, +Scott Weekly has been railroaded, and I myself have been federally indicted +for use of a false passport. Now that I have been to Burma and learned who in +the U.S. Government Executive Branch have been involved with drug trafficking, +it is easy to understand the frantic efforts to prevent disclosure of this +report.

+ +

Lt. Col. James "Bo" Gritz +U.S. Army Special Forces (Ret.

+ +

THE SILENT WAR

+ +

We are engaged in a silent war. Those waging this brutal conflict have +not the decency to inform their victims ))) who include ourselves and +almost everyone we know. Their standard bearers include George Bush and +David Rockefeller. As the high priced professional liars in the mass +media assure us all is well, the common people of the world are being +crushed ))) like foot soldiers over run by a panzer division.

+ +

And yet, the only real power of these perpetrators derives only from this +force fed ignorance. Apart from the power to keep us fighting each +other, the Monopolists have no power. If a critical mass of people can +learn the information contained herein, and what is more important, the +sources of this information, a global reign of terror will end.

+ +

These articles are taken from my monthly column in MONETARY AND ECONOMIC +REVIEW. I am also the Director of Research for INTELLIGENCE CONNECTION a +speakers agency that arranges events on university campuses for front +line researchers, like those mentioned in these articles. My name is +Brian Quig.

+ +

You can arrange speaking events with any of these legendary people by +calling

+ +

(602) 945-3858

+ +

or writing + +Intelligence Connection +6950 E. Continental Blvd Ste. 7000 +Scottsdale AZ 85257

+ +

STATEMENT +by Lt.Col James Bo Gritz, USA (Ret) +for U.S. Congress, House Foreign Affairs Committee, +International Narcotics Control Task Force. +Rayburn House Office Building +Washington, D.C. +Tuesday, 30 June 1987

+ +

NINE HUNDRED TONS OF HEROIN & OPIUM WILL ENTER THE FREE WORLD FROM SOUTHEAST +ASIA'S "GOLDEN TRIANGLE" THIS YEAR. The reason is because U.S. taxpayer +dollars and American equipment have been used to construct a new road that +will allow narcotics to pour out of General Khun Sa's Shan Territories rather +than trickle out by horse and mule as has been the case until the beginning of +this year.

+ +

Last year 600 tons of Opiates trafficked from this area. Press reports +included as part of this statement argue that it is logistically impossible to +increase the output to 900 toins. The new road capable of easily handling 10 +ton truck convoys signal not only the capability, but the reality. The +disappointing fact is that this new artery was constructed by the Thai +Government using money, manpower, time and materials furnished by our drug +suppression funds.

+ +

Moreover, there are serious implications that elements within the U.S. +Government are Khun Sa's biggest customers. The facts are that for 15 years +U.S. taxpayers through legislative bodies like this committee and executive +agencies such as have testified here today, have dumped hundres of millions of +dollars into drug suppression programs within Thailand and Burma which have +done nothing but nourish the flow of narcotics from Asia into the United +States. The proof is statistically clear. Fifteen years ago the flow of +Opiates was 60 tons; this year it will approach or exceed 900 tons. The +reasons, while multi)faceted, boil down to one word, "money".

+ +

Certain high level Thai and Burmese officials are packing their pockets with +U.S. supplied drug suppression funds; political pay*offs, and other spin)off +profits like the thousands of Teak trees felled during the Khun Sa road +effort. Khun Sa has no outlet for teak, but it is a protected and highly +valued commodity in Thailand. More shameful are the serious allegations +raised by General Khun Sa and his staff that corrupt U.S. officials allow this +travesty and in certain cases are directly involved.

+ +

After meeting with General Khun Sa and others, I am convinced that a secret +combination exists today within the U.S. Government that was officially +germinated during the Nixon ) Vietnam years and has, through illicit drug +profits, propagated itself today into a self)serving righteous monster of +global proportions. I believe Ed Wilson was a member of this combination and +that his activities represent only one of many tentacles. I believe the +Contra)Iran situation is merely another visible lesion that has emerged +from this extra)governmental organism.

+ +

I say "would be righteous" because those within this secret combination I +believe honestly think they are serving America by offering an established +model of sabotage, subversion, and assassination to areas threatened by +communism. They are in existence because normal government process is too +cumbersome, time consuming and oft times impotent. These persons who are +intelligent and well seeded in our governmental structure think they are +smarter than our elected officials and can expedite accomplishment of national +objectives. They have funded their efforts through drug trafficking because +of a 1960's mind set that anyone who would use opiates is animalistic and the +U.S.A. doesn't really care about them. They began their drug dealing in +Southeast Asia as a means to fund the secret war in Laos and Cambodia that +Congress was officially unaware of. Besides my personal experiences, all of +these conclusions are spelled out in the book, THE POLITICS OF HEROIN IN +SOUTHEAST ASIA.

+ +

I have good reason to believe that after President Nixon got the U.S. out of +Vietname "with honor", while bringing home "all the POW's" in 1973 that either +with his concurrance, or on the initiative of those "Best and Brightest" +included within the "President's 40", the war continued to be fought through +Project Phoenix. The insiders knew the North Vietnamese would not abide by +the tri)accord and continue to consolidate their position in Vietnam, Laos, +and Cambodia. Since the war was over there was no Congressional funding and +home)grown drug trafficking offered the most expedient solution. Ideally the +communist takeover in 1975 would fall like a house)of)cards since the +infrastructure would be eliminated by extreme prejudice through the Phoenix +operation. Even so, an estimated 150000 non)military persons were +terminated, the program failed to meet the expectations of those in charge.

+ +

Next, I believe the Phoenix model was moved to help stabilize a toppling Shaw +who happened to be close to the Administration ) and to people in the secret +combination society, many of whom held high positions within the Executive +Branch. The Shaw fell. By this time the model was self)perpetuating.

+ +

Rather than shut down after failing in Iran, there was a re*focus on the +building communist threat in Central America. The Contra)Iran)Oliver +North)White House disclosures are only protrusions that have become visible +because of the extent and intensity of this para)government organization. +Even as these hearings are underway, representatives of this secret +combination are at work in the "Philippines, offering "anti)communist +solutions" to that struggling democracy. I believe that.

+ +

As years and changing administrations have gradually thinned +the society's active duty status within the U.S. Government, I +believe those who still steer the society have become more self*serving, making huge personal profitunder the guise of fighting +worldwide communism. Further, I believe they are maximizing their\j\influence to protect those of t brotherhood who still hold active +office in the government.

+ +

I have been told for years that U.S. POW's would never be allowed to return +because they were directly related to illegal drug trafficking by U.S. +officials. Until May of 1987, I thought this absurd. Now, after eight years +in the POW)Southeast Asian arena, I clearly can see what was hidden except to +those more sensitive to power politics than myself. The reason we have met +the enemy and he is U.S. in our efforts to return POWs while they are still +alive is simple. When POWs are returned the first demand by the American +people will be to examine those within the government responsible for their +return. American will want to know why these individuals failed in their +official capactities; why the burden fell on the private sector; and what took +so long if the POW issue is truly "Top National Priority" as designated by +President Reagan. Upon investigation it will be revealed that responsible +officials were more interested in actuating their secret society than +accounting for our POW and MIA.

+ +

The fact is that all of the Heroin and Opiates could be shut off at the Golden +Triangle if America's responsible elected and appointed officials would do +their job. General Khun Sa is recognized as the drug king)pin and controls +the Golden Triangle with a well disciplined army of 40000 Shan soldiers. He +has stated to me before three other American witnesses on video tape that he +greatly desires to stop the drug trafficking, but we won't let him. He has +promised that if we will give him any economic alternative, he will not just +stem, but stop the flow of narcotics through his areas of control. He has +said for example that for one)tenth the money we now give the Burmese for drug +suppression turned into economic aid and crop substitution, he will use his +force to enforce what we cannot and have not. In addition, Khun Sa has +stipulated that the Burmese must be stopped from using the 12 Bell Helicopters +and fixed wing aircraft given them by the U.S. to spray the Shan State people, +animals, food and water with Agent Orange and herbicides. All that I have +presented thus far is backed up by written and recorded documents made +available to the Committee.

+ +

It has been reported to me by committee personnel that Khun Sa has made these +offers before. They say the CIA has expressed doubt and mistrust that Khun Sa +will carry out his part of the bargain. I and three other Americans have met +with Khun Sa. We all believe him to be sincere. Certainly in view of the +dismal failure of the CIA and DEA to slow, stop or even deter the flood of +drugs from the Golden Triangle, it seems that a change in dynamics is in +order. Especially since Khun Sa has directly implicated persons within the +CIA as some of his best customers. The video tapes show testimony of a +frustrated medical doctor who, under orders from Khun Sa, did everything from +offer radio links to Khun Sa's headquarters to present a horse that might be +used to alert DEA of drug movements. The low level agents supported these +initatives, but in every case they were rejected at DEA headquarter levels. +\j\

+ +

I have strived at the invitation of the Executive Branch for eight +years to convince political skeptics that American POWs are alive in the hands +of Communist forces in Laos and Vietnam. I abhore drugs and dopes that are +users, yet in the past two weeks I've been told by committee staff and others +that "federal sources and a Los Angeles State Department employee have said +that I am a "drug trafficker", and I will be in prison before July 4th. I +know this level of federal employee would never make such slanderous +statements unless encouraged by higher)ups. While following the classic model +of "deny)defame)divert," it is disappointing that law enforcement agencies +would reveal such low life practices as directly as they have, and then avoid +comment when confronted.

+ +

I have tried in every way to cooperate with the committee and its membership. +I've furnished video tapes, only to be informed that the chairman has blocked +their distribution. I've supplied the Suchesk letter to Vice President Bush, +and requested a written transcript of the file from which Khun Sa's secretary +read from. I received a letter in the mail last week. It was from Khun Sa. +The stapled and sealed envelope had been opened. Inside, the pamphlet, which +had also been stapled shut, had been opened and the contents removed. I had +asked Khun Sa to translate his record; sign it himself with two additional +witnesses. I was assured this document was part of the opened package. I +have requested my contacts furnish me with a FAX of their copy. It serves to +supplement in writing the verbal and video accounts.

+ +

I'm disillusioned that this committee which represents the interest of 240 +million Americans in controling illegal drug trafficking, would take such a +negative and skeptical position on such a critical issue as Khun Sa's proposal +and my deliverance of the information he gave us. I've been told that I must +"sell my case" to you. Facts are, I am a citizen who has been twice to see a +warlord who is recognized as the world's most powerful Heroin kingpin. This +person has shown statistically that our 15 year old drug suppression program +is, at best, "dumb" by anyone's standards. At best we have millions of US tax +dollars being mishandled; one recipient has made use of U.S. assets to build a +major road, and secures that road from outside infiltration; 900 tons of +opiates entering the free world; rampant corruption of allied officials. At +worst in addition to the best case, we have officials within the USG who +won't, as Khun Sa says, let him get out of the drug business, because they are +his biggest buyers.

+ +

Your business is representing American interest in drug control. You greatly +influence how our tax dollars are used and how well the enforcement agencies +do their job. My business is bringing home POWs while they are still alive. +Neither one of us has been able to make much head way because I'm convinced +there are persons within the government that are opposing us both. If POWs +came home, the resulting investigation will expose their drug involvement; if +the drugs are stopped, their source of income dries up. I agree that +communism threatens the liberty of free people everywhere, but in my opinion +drugs are even a bigger and more immediate threat. To\j\fuel these +self)righteous freedom fighters with drug money is to steal, cheat, and +mislead every American taxpayer, and circumnavigate the greatest governmental +system in the world. While it may appear slow, and at times fickle and +indecisive, still our's is the greatest government in the world. There aren't +boat loads of Americans headed for the Soviet Union. I believe our system was +divinely inspired. I believe it will work despite any shortcoming.

+ +

As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter)Day Saints with Temple +Endowments, I raise my hand to the square and swear before God, Angels, and +you as witnesses, that this statement is the absolute truth as I know it. I +hope you can swear before God that you will execute the responsibilities to +your constituents with all honesty in thoroughly investigating the proposal +for eliminating all drug trafficking from the Golden Triangle, and seeing to +the objective investigation and prosecution of any American officials found to +be guilty of maliciously dealing in drugs. I personally don't believe the +Americans named by Khun Sa as conspiritors in traffickings could pass an +honest security background check. I believe if you do your job as our +representative body, you will uncover and topple those members of this secret +combination like a line of dominos. If you give this hearing only a cameo +appearance, the combination will be strengthened and our nation could be in +for a period like the Vietnam era. Your positive attention to this matter +should also speed the safe return of our POWs.

+ +

I believe we can stop the heroin and opium by working with Kuhn Sa instead of +against him. At worst we lose 10 percent of the Burmese Socialist State +suppression funds. You don't have to be from Las Vegas to recognize Khun Sa's +offer as a good bet. I believe in him and that he will keep his word. We +can't hardly afford not to take the chance. I believe the American public +would be outraged to discover we by)passed such an opportunity because people +who are suspect as traffickers say they "don't trust Khun Sa." Their line +should be added to other greats such as, "I'm from the government, I'm here to +help you"; and "your check is in the mail."

+ +

The body of this statement contains a chronology of events. I have attached +germain documents that attest to the allegations made in the video tapes.

+ +

THE SILENT WAR

+ +

We are engaged in a silent war. Those waging this brutal conflict have +not the decency to inform their victims ))) who include ourselves and +almost everyone we know. Their standard bearers include George Bush and +David Rockefeller. As the high priced professional liars in the mass +media assure us all is well, the common people of the world are being +crushed ))) like foot soldiers over run by a panzer division.

+ +

And yet, the only real power of these perpetrators derives only from this +force fed ignorance. Apart from the power to keep us fighting each +other, the Monopolists have no power. If a critical mass of people can +learn the information contained herein, and what is more important, the +sources of this information, a global reign of terror will end.

+ +

These articles are taken from my monthly column in MONETARY AND ECONOMIC +REVIEW. I am also the Director of Research for INTELLIGENCE CONNECTION a +speakers agency that arranges events on university campuses for front +line researchers, like those mentioned in these articles. My name is +Brian Quig.

+ +

You can arrange speaking events with any of these legendary people by +calling

+ +

(602) 945-3858

+ +

or writing + +Intelligence Connection +6950 E. Continental Blvd Ste. 7000 +Scottsdale AZ 85257

+ +

THE HONORABlE GEORGE H. BUSH August 29, 1986 +VICE)PRESIDENT +UNITED STATES OF AMERICA +WHITE HOUSE +WASHINGTON D.C.

+ +

DEAR SIR:

+ +

ON AUGUST 12th 1986 THE UNDERSIGNED PERSONALLY MET WITH KUHN SA AT THE +VILLAGE OF HO)MONG LOCATED NEAR THE THAI BURMA BORDER. (REFERENCE: EXHIBIT " +A " ) " CERTIFICATION OF VISIT"). TOPICS COVERED WERE;

+ +

1: A PROPOSAL TO ERADICATE OPIUM IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE +2: THE CORRUPTION OF THE THAI, BURMA AND D.E.A. OFFICIALS +3: THE AMERICAN M.I.A./ P.O.W.'S IN LAOS +4: THE REGISTRATION OF A TRADE MISSION +5: A HERBAL MEDICAL CUR FOR NARCOTIC ADDICTS.

+ +

1: A PROPOSAL TO ERADICATE OPIUM IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE.

+ +

BACKGROUND:

+ +

THE SHAN STATE IN BURMA, (APPROXIMATELY THREE TIMES THE SIZE OF TAIWAN) HAD +BEEN UNDER BRITISH PROTECTION PRIOR TO 1948. THE SHAN PEOPLE, POPULATION OF 8 +MILLION, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF KHUN SA SIGNED AN AGREEMENT TO UNIFY WITH THE +BURMESE GOVERNMENT IN ORDER TO OBTAIN INDEPENDENCE FROM THE BRITISH. THE +PINLONG AGREEMENT , REGISTERED WITH THE UNITED NATIONS, CONTAINED A CONTAINED +A CONDITION THAT WOULD ALLOW THE SHAN PEOPLE TO FREELY SECEDE FROM BURMA AFTER +A TEN YEAR PERIOD AND BECOME AN INDEPENDENT STATE.

+ +

WHEN GENERAL NE WIN, A SOCIALIST, TOOK OVER BURMA HE ABOLISHED THE PINLONG +AGREEMENT AND OPENED THE DOOR FOR THE BURMA COMMUNIST PARTY TO GAIN A STRONG +HOLD IN THE COUNTRY. IT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT SHAN REBELLION FOR INDEPENDENCE +BEGAN.

+ +

IN EARLY 1949 THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF BURMA MOVED INTO THE NORTHERN TERRITORIES +OF THE SHAN STATE AND ESTABLISHED MILITARY STRONGHOLDS WHILE ENGAGING IN THE +BUSINESS OF; OPIUM CULTIVATION, PROCESSING, TRANSPORTATION AND SALE. IN 1950 +REMNANTS OF CHAING KAI)SHEK'S KMT ARMY MOVED FROM MAINLAND CHINA INTO THE SAME +AREA. THEY ALSO ESTABLISHED STRONGHOLDS AND FREELY ENGAGED IN THE OPIUM +BUSINESS TO SUPPORT THEIR ARMIES.

+ +

tHE SHAN PEOPLE, ON THE VERGE OF STARVATION, FOUND THEMSELVES SURROUNDED AND +OPPRESSED BY THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF BURMA, THE KMT ARMIES AND A VARIETY OF +RENEGADE OPIUM WARLORDS. ALL THE FACTIONS FREELY ROAMED THE SHAN TERRITORY +PRESSING SHAN PEOPLE INTO THEIR SERVICE AS FARMERS, PORTERS AND GUIDES. THESE +FORCES SHARED LITTLE OF THEIR FINANCIAL GAINS WITH THE SHAN POPULATION, BUT +WERE FREE TO DISPENSE TORTURE, RAPE AND MURDER TO ALL WHO WOULD NOT CO)OPERATE +WITH THEM. TO PROVIDE FOOD AND FREEDOM FOR HIS PEOPLE, KHUN SA ORGANIZED HIS +ARMY AND TURNED TO OPIUM CULTIVATION FOR HIS INCOME.

+ +

AS THE YEARS PASSED KHUN SA GAINED MILITARY SUPERIORITY IN THE SHAN STATE. HE +BEGAN TO SLOWLY PHASE OUT THE)CULTIVATION OF OPIUM AMONG THE SHAN POPULATION. +TO REPLACE THAT BLOCK OF INCOME HE STARTED TO COLLECT TAXES WHILE PROVIDING +SAFE TRANSPORTATION AND PASSAGE THROUGH HIS TERRITORY TO THE DAILY CARAVANS OF +NARCOTIC TRAFFICKERS ON THEIR WAY TO THE SOUTHERN OUTLETS OF THAILAND.

+ +

TODAY, KHUN SA STILL HAS SOME SMALL ISOLATED POCKETS OF OPIUM CULTIVATION +AMONG THE SHAN PEOPLES. HE IS ATTEMPTING TO ERADICATE THESE FIELDS AS QUICKLY +AS HE CAN PROVIDE ALTERNATE INCOME PROGRAMS FOR HIS FARMERS.

+ +

PROPOSAL:

+ +

KHUN SA IS PREPARED TO IMPLEMENT A PHASE OUT PROGRAM TO COMPLETELY STOP THE +CULTIVATION OF OPIUM IN THE SHAN TERRITORIES. HE IS PREPARED TO ESTABLISH A +MILITARY CONTROL SYSTEM TO COMPLETELY STOP THE PASSAGE OR NARCOTIC TRAFFICKERS +FROM CHINA, BURMA AND LAOS ON THEIR TRAVELS TO THE THAILAND OUTLETS THROUGH +THE SHAN TERRITORIES.

+ +

TO IMPLEMENT THIS PROPOSAL, KHUN SA STATES THAT HE COULD MAINTAIN MILITARY +CONTROL AND SURVEILLANCE IN THAT AREA FOR ABOUT HALF THE COST OF THE CURRENT +U.S. BUDGET EXPENDED BY THE D.E.A. FORCES NOW STATIONED IN THAILAND. A +PROPOSAL TO REALIZE INCOME FOR HIS PEOPLE THROUGH THE SALE OF THE TERRITORIES +NATURAL RESOURCES WILL BE PRESENTED IN ITEM # FOUR, "TRADE MISSION".

+ +

2: THE CORRUPTION OF THAI, BURMA AND D.E.A. OFFICIALS.

+ +

BACKGROUND:

+ +

THE NARCOTIC ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONAL STAFFS OF BURMA, THAILAND AND THE U.S. +D.E.A. HAVE FOR YEARS ATTEMPTED TO STOP THE FLOW OF NARCOTICS FROM THE GOLDEN +TRIANGLE AREA. LARGE BUDGETS ARE EXPENDED BY OUR GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT THESE +ACTIVITIES WHICH RANGE FROM THE COLLECTION OF INTELLIGENCE TO THE OCCASIONAL +BOMBING, RAIDING AND BURNING OF SOME ISOLATED OPIUM PRODUCING FIELDS. IN ALL +THE TOTAL PROGRAM HAS NOT MET WITH ANY APPRECIABLE SUCCESS.

+ +

tHE BURMA GOVERNMENT, FUNDED BY THE D.E.A., HAVE ENGAGED IN A SERIES OF +INDISCRIMINATING BOMBING RAIDS ON SUSPECTED VILLAGES KILLING AND WOUNDING +COUNTLESS INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN. THEY HAVE SPRAYED OPIUM FIELDS AND +VILLAGES WITH CHEMICAL THAT NOT ONLY KILL THE VEGETATION BUT ALSO POISON THE +SURROUNDING WATER SUPPLIES AND SUBSEQUENT NEW PLANT GROWTH. HUNDREDS OF +VILLAGERS HAVE SUFFERED CRUEL AND SLOW DEATHS BY DRINKING POLLUTED +WATERS\j\AND EATING NEWLY GROWN VEGETABLES RAISED IN POISONED FIELDS. 082986

+ +

THAI AND D.E.A. CORRUPT OFFICIALS ARE USING U.S. FUNDS TO PURCHASE NARCOTICS +FOR RE SALE, SELLING U.S. ARMS TO KHUN SA'S FORCES AND ARE INVOLVED IN A HOST +OF OTHER ILLEGAL ACTIVES. AS LONG AS THESE CORRUPT OPERATIONS CONTINUE , IT +WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE TO ELIMINATE THE OPIUM OPERATIONS IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE.

+ +

PROPOSAL:

+ +

KHUN SA IS PREPARING HARD DOCUMENTATION OF THE CORRUPT ACTS OF THE THAI AND +D.E.A. OFFICIALS CONCERNED. HE PROPOSES THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WITHDRAW THE +CORRUPT D.E.A. PERSONNEL FROM THAT OPERATIONAL AREA AND REPLACE THEM WITH A +NEW CADRE OF TRUSTED U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENTS. KHUN SA WELCOMES THE CONCEPT OF +HAVING OBSERVERS TO MONITOR HIS NARCOTIC ERADICATION ACTIVITIES IN THE SHAN +TERRITORIES.

+ +

3: AMERICAN M.I.A./P.O.W.'S IN LAOS.

+ +

BACKGROUND

+ +

DURING THE RAINY SEASON IN THE LATE 1978 KHUN SA'S FORCES FOUND 4 U.S. M/I/A/ +PERSONNEL IN THE NORTHERN JUNGLES OF LAOS. HIS FORCES ESCORTED THE 4 MEN TO +THE MEKONG RIVER. WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CROSS THE RAIN SWOLLEN RIVER, THE 4 +U.S. PERSONNEL. THREE OF KHUN SA'S SOLDIERS AND TWO HORSES WERE SWEPT AWAY BY +THE RAGING WATERS AND ALL WERE DROWNED.

+ +

KHUN SA HAS HAD REPEATED INTELLIGENCE REPORTS OF THE LOCATION OF U.S. AND +FOREIGN PERSONNEL HELD CAPTIVE IN LAOS. HAVING NO SPECIAL USE FOR THIS +INFORMATION, IT WAS IGNORED.

+ +

AT MY REQUEST, KHUN SA CONFIRMED THE EXISTENCE OF SOME 70 U.S. M.I.A./P.O.W.'S +AND APPROXIMATELY 12 KOREANS, 5 FILIPINOS AND A HOST OF LAOSIAN'S BEING +CONFINED IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS. ONE GROUP IS WORKING AS FORCED LABORERS IN A +GOLD MINE IN THE NORTHERN SECTOR OF LAOS. THIS INFORMATION WAS INDEPENDENTLY +CONFIRMED IN MY MEETING WITH THE LEADERS OF THE UNITED LAO PEOPLE FRONT FOR +THE LIBERATION OF LAOS. (UFLLL).

+ +

PROPOSAL:

+ +

KHUN SA AS A GESTURE OF HIS SINCERITY AND GOODWILL TO THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA, +AND ESPECIALLY TO THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A. IS PREPARED +TO RESCUE THE AMERICAN PERSONNEL AND DELIVER THEM SAFELY INTO OUR HANDS. HE +WILL DO THIS EMPLOYING HIS OWN TROOPS AND FUNDS, ASKING ONLY FOR SOME SMALL +TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN THE FORM OF SOME RIVER CROSSING EQUIPMENT AND AN AIR +EVACUATION FORCE TO REMOVE THE AMERICANS FROM HIS TERRITORY. \j\

+ +

PRIOR TO MY DEPARTURE FROM HO)MONG, KHUN SA DISPATCHED RECON +TEAMS TO OBTAIN HARD PHOTOGRAPHIC AND POSSIBLE INDIVIDUAL I.D. +CONFIRMATIONS FROM THE VARIOUS PRISONER SITES. +082986

+ +

4: REGISTRATION OF A TRADE MISSION:

+ +

BACKGROUND:

+ +

SHANLAND HAS VAST RICH NATIONAL RESOURCES. IF PROPERLY MANAGED AND PRESENTED +TO THE WORLD MARKET, THESE RESOURCES COULD PROVIDE THE FUNDING FOR KHUN SA'S +OPIUM ERADICATION PROGRAM AND MAINTAIN THE ONGOING ECONOMY FOR THE SHAN +POPULACE.

+ +

PROPOSAL:

+ +

KHUN SA HAS COMMISSIONED THE UNDERSIGNED TO ESTABLISH TRADE MISSIONS IN THE +FREE WORLD. A REQUEST FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE UNITED STATES IN RECOGNIZING THE +TRADE MISSION IS MADE BY KHUN SA IN A TAPED MESSAGE TO THE VICE PRESIDENT . A +COPY OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION IS ATTACHED. (REFERENCE: EXHIBIT " B ")" +LETTER OF APPOINTMENT", AND EXHIBIT "C" ) " TAPED MESSAGE TO VICE PRESIDENT +BUSH, FROM KHUN SA" ).

+ +

5: HERBAL MEDICAL CURE FOR NARCOTIC ADDICTS.

+ +

BACKGROUND:

+ +

IN THE 1800'S THE BRITISH INTRODUCED OPIUM INTO MAINLAND CHINA. A CHINESE +HERB DOCTOR, ALARMED AT THE GROWING NUMBER OF NARCOTIC ADDICTS, DEVELOPED A +MIXTURE OF HERBS USED TO CURE ADDICTS OF THEIR CRAVINGS FOR NARCOTICS. THE +PROCESS STARTED WITH THE INGESTION OF A SMALL QUANTITY OF THE HERBAL MIXTURE. +THE ADDICT THEN EXPERIENCED 12 TO 15 HOURS OF SLEEP. FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS +THE ADDICT DETOXIFIED BY PASSING THE BODY POISONS THROUGH THE URINE AND SWEAT +GLANDS. AFTER LESS THAN ONE WEEK , THE ADDICT WOULD BEGIN TO EAT NORMALLY AND +BEGIN TO GAIN WEIGHT. MOST TREATMENTS TOOK BETWEEN SEVEN TO TEN DAYS TO +COMPLETE. UPON COMPLETION, THE FORMER ADDICT WAS READY TO RETURN TO HIS +NORMAL LIFE DUTIES, HAVING LOST ALL CRAVINGS AND DESIRES FOR ANY DRUGS.

+ +

THIS PROCESS IS STILL IN USE TODAY. A SPECIAL CLINIC IN BANGKOK HAS TREATED +OVER 10000 ADDICTS USING THE SAME HERBAL MIXTURE AS PASSED ON BY THE OLD +CHINESE DOCTOR.

+ +

PROPOSAL:

+ +

KHUN SA HAS OFFERED THIS FORMULA AND PROCESS TO THE U.S.A. AND THE FREE WORLD +AS THE FIRST OFFERING TO BE PASSED THROUGH THE TRADE MISSION. PRODUCT +VALIDITY SUPPORT OF THE TESTING OF SAMPLES AND ENDORSEMENT BY THE U.S. DEPT. +OF HEALTH IS REQUESTED. 082986

+ +

SUMMARY:

+ +

KHUN SA IS EXTREMELY DESIROUS TO ALIGNING HIS PEOPLE WITH THE UNITED STATES OF +AMERICA. THE RUSSIANS HAVE BOMBARDED HIM WITH OFFERS OF ECONOMIC AND MILITARY +AID. HE IS RESISTING THEIR TEMPTING OFFERS, AND WHILE HE HAS AGREED TO SEND +80 YOUNG STUDENTS TO RUSSIA FOR TRAINING, WILL STOP THE ACTIVITY UPON SEEING +ANY OVERT OR COVERT EXPRESSION OF SUPPORT FROM THE U.S.A.

+ +

KHUN SA HAS EXPRESSED IN LENGTH HIS NEED AND CONCERNS FOR THE ORDERLY +TRANSITION OF SHANLAND INTO AN INDEPENDENT STATE. A NEW PROPOSAL PLAN WAS +DISCUSSED, AND WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE VICE PRESIDENT IN PERSON BY THE +UNDERSIGNED.

+ +

IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT IN A SHORT SPAN OF TIME SOME MESSAGE BE SENT BACK TO +KHUN SA REGARDING THE U.S. POSITION ON THE MATTERS LISTED HEREIN. IF WE FAIL +TO RESPOND, TOTALLY IGNORE HIM,, HE WILL IN TIME, BE FORCED FOR ECONOMIC +SURVIVAL TO TURN TO THE RUSSIANS.

+ +

I AWAIT YOUR PERSONAL INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING THE PRESENTATION OF A FULL AND +DETAILED BRIEFING OF THE KHUN SA MEETING.

+ +

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED BY:

+ +

AUTHUR M. SUCHESK PH.D

+ +

AUGUST 29, 1986

+ +
:
+ +

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

+ +

KHUN SA TO GEORGE BUSH

+ +

8)12)88

+ +

TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDED MESSAGE FROM SAO KHUN SA, SHANLAND TO GEORGE BUSH, VICE +PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DATED: 08-12-1986 IN THE VILLAGE OF +HO-MONG, SHAN TERRITORY, BURMA. TO THE HONORABLE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED +STATES OF AMERICA, MR. BUSH.

+ +

SINCE MR. SUCHESK CAME TO OUR PLACE TO MEET ME IN THE VILLAGE OF HO-MONG, WE +DISCUSSED THE SITUATION IN CHINA, BURMA AND THAILAND AND ABOUT THE D.E.A. AND +OPIUM AND ALSO THE AMERICAN P.0.W. IN LAOS.

+ +

THEREFORE I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THE LIBERTY TO EXPRESS MY INTENTIONS AND IN +VIEW OF YOUR SITUATION TO YOUR EXCELLENCY VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES +OF AMERICA, I BELIEVE YOUR EXCELLENCY IS AN HONORABLE MAN.

+ +

WHEN MR. JOSEPH NELLIS ( U.S. CONGRESS ) CAME TO MEET ME.IN 1977, I PROPOSED A +GUARANTEED SIX YEAR PLAN TO END THE OPIUM PRODUCTION IN SHAN STATE. I KNOW +THAT OPIUM IS HARMFUL TO SO MANY PEOPLE. I WANT TO HELP SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. I +TELL THEM (JOE NELLIS ) THAT THE METHODS THE AMERICANS HAVE BEEN PURSUING SO +FAR WAS AN INEFFECTIVE PRUNING METHOD. TO CUT OFF LEAVES OF SOME ISOLATED +BRANCHES, BUT THE TREE NEVER DIES!

+ +

MY SIX YEAR PLAN IN CONTRAST WAS THE UPROOTING METHOD, A SURE WAY TO END THE +PROBLEM. SO IF D.E.A. REALLY WANT TO END IT, THEY SHOULD HAVE APPROACHED US, +INSTEAD THEY SENT OUR OWN BROTHERS THE THAI MILITARY UNITS TO HUNT ME DOWN, +ALL TOGETHER FOR 36 TIMES! IF THEY AIM TO GO ON DOING THE JOB THIS WAY, WE CAN +BET THEY CAN GO ON FOR ANOTHER 60 YEARS AND NEVER SUCCEED. I HAVE SHOWN A +DRAFT OF MY PLAN TO MR. NELLIS AND AGAIN SEND IT TO YOU THROUGH MR. SUCHESK.

+ +

NOW PLEASE LET ME PRESENT A SHORT ACCOUNT OF HOW THE REBELLION AND THE OPIUM +PROBLEM IN BURMA HAVE DEVELOPED TO THIS DATE. SHAN STATE HAS BEEN A +PROTECTORATE STATE UNDER BRITISH RULE BEFORE 1948. SHAN PEOPLE MADE AN +AGREEMENT TO TAKE INDEPENDENCE WITH THE BURMESE ON A CONDITION THAT SHAN STATE +COULD SUCCEED FROM BURMA AS AN INDEPENDENT STATE AFTER 10 YEARS. THAT WAS +WRITTEN IN THE 1948 BURMA CONSTITUTION, WHICH GENERAL NE WIN HAD ABOLISHED. +SINCE THEN THE SHAN REBELLION BEGAN.

+ +

AFTER THE INDEPENDENCE OF BURMA, THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF BURMA ALSO MADE +NORTHERN SHAN STATE ITS STRONGHOLD, AND THE KMT REMNANTS CAME IN FROM CHINA IN +EARLY 1950. BEING OPPRESSED BY NE WIN REGIME, THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF BURMA AND +THE KMT REMNANTS, THE PEOPLE OF SHAN STATE WERE ON THE VERGE OF STARVATION SO +THEY TURNED TO OPIUM CULTIVATION WHICH THE KMT ENCOURAGED THEM TO DO

+ +

SINCE THEN, OPIUM HAS BEEN AN EVER GROWING PROBLEM. THE PEOPLE GROW.IT NEVER +KNOW WHERE THEIR OPI0M IS HEADING FOR. THEY JUST SELL TO WHOM EVER BUY IT AND +WITH THAT MONEYS THEY WILL BUY OTHER LIFE NECESSITIES.

+ +

AS I HAVE SAID THE D.E.A. HAS TRIED SO MANY TIMES TO HUNT ME DOWN, DROVE ME +OUT OF THAILAND AND SAID WITHIN THREE MONTHS KHUN SA WOULD BE DEAD, OR HE +WOULD FLEE TO RANGOON, OR GO JOIN THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF BURMA. IN REALITY FOR +KHUN SA, THERE IS NO NEED TO RUN AWAY TO ANY OTHER PLACE. HE HAS HIS NATIVE +LAND SHAN STATE. SINCE HE IS WORKING FOR HIS PEOPLE THEY SUPPORT HIM WITH WHAT +THEY HAVE, RICE, CORN, SALT, CLOTHES, MONEY AND IF THEY ONLY HAVE OPIUM, THEY +GIVE HIM OPIUM.

+ +

CONCERNING THE OPIUM PROBLEM, DON'T THINK THAT THE BURMA, THAI AND D.E.A. +REALLY WANT TO FIND THE REAL SOLUTION. .THE RESULTS OF THEIR WORK MAY BE THE +BEST PROOF, AND STILL THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS THEM, AND WILL NOT EVEN +TAKE INTO ACCOUNT MY SIX YEAR PLAN, MY GUARANTEE, INSTEAD THEY SUPPORT THOSE +WHO ARE KILLING OUR PEOPLE.

+ +

HATE FOR THE U.S.A. IS GROWING IN THE HEARTS OF OUR PEOPLE. THEY SAY THE +U.S.A. IS KILLING OUR PARENTS FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CHILDREN, AND KILLING OUR +CHILDREN FOR THE SAKE OF OUR PARENTS. WE ARE NOT SELLING OUR OPIUM TO THEM, +THEY CAN STAY AWAY FROM BUYING, WHY ALL THIS KILLING?

+ +

THEY USE HERBICIDES TO SPRAY ON OUR FARMS THAT KILLS NOT ONLY OPIUM PLANTS BUT +ALSO OTHER VEGETABLES, INCLUDING GRASS AND LIVESTOCK. IT ALSO POISONS WATER +AROUND THE AREAS WHICH CLAIMS A THREAT TO HUMAN LIVES. IS THAT THE POLICY OF +HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE U.S.A. DO THEY THINK THAT OUR LIVES ARE NOT AS VALUABLE AS +THEIRS? FOR MY PART I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT IF THE U.S.A. WANTS TO STOP US +FROM GROWING OPIUM, THEY SHOULD STOP GROWING WHEAT, WHERE THEN ARE THEY GOING +TO GET THEIR BREAD?. ( MONEY ) FORGIVE ME FOR SAYING THIS SIR, I'M NOT MEANING +TO BE RUDE, I ONLY WANT YOU TO BE SYMPATHETIC.

+ +

OUR COUNTRY IS SURROUNDED BY CHINA, LAOS, THAILAND AND THE LOW LANDS OF BURMZ. +AGAIN THEY ( OPIUM DEALERS) COME FROM THAILAND, FROM CHINA. WHEN EVER THE +THAI'S DO SOMETHING BAD TO OUR PEOPLE, THEY SAY THAT IT IS D.E.A., AND D.E.A. +IS AMERICANS! IN THIS WAY THE HATE TOWARDS AMERICAN PEOPLE GROWS.

+ +

YOUR EXCELLENCY, I AM SINCERE IN SAYING THAT I WANT TO HELP SOLVE THIS +PROBLEM. IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME, SEND ANOTHER GROUP TO ME TO COMPETE AGAINST +THE D.E.A. TO WORK TOWARDS THE SOLUTION. THE RESULTS WILL SOON BE SEEN. +WHOEVER CAN SOLVE THE NARCOTIC PROBLEM IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE WILL BE ONE OF +THE GREAT HEROES IN THE WORLD, AND I WISH TO HELP HIM.

+ +

I BELIEVE THAT EVERY LEADER OF HIS NATION IS WORKING FOR THE WELFARE OF HIS +PEOPLE, AND THE WELFARE OF ALL MANKIND. I BELIEVE THAT YOUR EXCELLENCY WOULD +BE INTERESTED IN SERVING ALL MANKIND. IF WE ARE ABLE TO FREE OUR SHAN STATE +TO BECOME AN INDEPENDENT STATE, WITH THE HELP OF YOUR EXCELLENCY, WE WOULD +EVEN BE PLEASED TO BECOME ONE OF THE STATES OF THE U.S.A. AND A BASE TO +PREVENT THE SPREADING OF COMMUNISM.

+ +

I HOPE THE VISIT OF MR. SUCHESK AND MR. DICK HSU WILL BECOME A STEPPING STONE +TO OUR CLOSER RELATIONSHIP WHICH WILL LEAD TO THE SALVATION OF VICTIMS OF THE +WORLD.

+ +

I BEG YOUR EXZELLENCY TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF SHAN STATE. SHAN STATE IS A VZRY +BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY RICH IN MINERALS AND FORESTS AND FREE FROM ALL KINDS OF +NATURAL DISASTERS. IF THERE IS ANYONE WHO WOULD WISH TO HELP US, WE BELIEVE WE +COULD PAY YOU BACK WITH OUR NATURAL RESOURCES.

+ +

IF SHAN STATE BECOMES AN INDEPENDENT STATE I AM CERTAIN IT WOULD BE EVEN MORE +PROGRESSIVE THAN SINGAPORE AND IT CAN BECOME A PLACE WHERE UNIVERSITIES CAN BE +ESTABLISHED AND PEOPLE FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD WOULD WANT TO ATTEND, +BECAUSE IT IS A CALM AND BEAUTIFUL PLACE WITH MODERATE CLIMATE AND FREE FROM +NATURAL DISASTERS.

+ +

AS A FIRST STEP TO FIND WAYS OF EARNING MONEYS TO SUBSTITUTE THE OPIUM +CULTIVATION, WE WOULD LIKE TO MANUFACTURE SOUVENIR COINS AND STAMPS IN GOLD +AND SILVER, AS MR. SUCHESK HAS SUGZESTED. BUT WE HAVE VERY LITTLE EDUCATED +PEOPLE TO HANDLE THIS, SO I BEG YOUR EXCELLENCY TO ALLOW MR. SUCHESK AND MR. +DICK HSU TO COME AND HELP US IN THIS FIELD.

+ +

THE SILENT WAR

+ +

We are engaged in a silent war. Those waging this brutal conflict have +not the decency to inform their victims ))) who include ourselves and +almost everyone we know. Their standard bearers include George Bush and +David Rockefeller. As the high priced professional liars in the mass +media assure us all is well, the common people of the world are being +crushed ))) like foot soldiers over run by a panzer division.

+ +

And yet, the only real power of these perpetrators derives only from this +force fed ignorance. Apart from the power to keep us fighting each +other, the Monopolists have no power. If a critical mass of people can +learn the information contained herein, and what is more important, the +sources of this information, a global reign of terror will end.

+ +

These articles are taken from my monthly column in MONETARY AND ECONOMIC +REVIEW. I am also the Director of Research for INTELLIGENCE CONNECTION a +speakers agency that arranges events on university campuses for front +line researchers, like those mentioned in these articles. My name is +Brian Quig.

+ +

You can arrange speaking events with any of these legendary people by +calling

+ +

(602) 945-3858

+ +

or writing + +Intelligence Connection +6950 E. Continental Blvd Ste. 7000 +Scottsdale AZ 85257

+ +

September 17, 1987

+ +

Mr. Edwin Meese, III +Attorney General +Main Justice Building +10th & Constitution Avenue Northwest +Washington, D.C. 20530

+ +

Re: Citizen Complaint of Wrongdoing by Federal Officers

+ +

Dear Mr. Meese:

+ +

I am writing to you to register my complaints about certain actions that have +been carried out against me and my associates. I believe these actions +constitute violations of our civil rights as well as violations of the +criminal law in some instances. These actions are all the more reprehensible +in that they are politically motivated. I take this means to request that you +investigate these matters and, where appropriate, reprimand the individuals +involved and file criminal charges.

+ +

Let me explain my situation to you. I am a veteran of the United States Army. +I served with the Special Forces in the Vietnam War for more than two years +between 1964 and 1970. I consider myself to be a patriot and am proud of my +service to this country. Since the end of the Vietnam War, I have been +actively involved in seeking to locate and free American POW's and MIA's left +behind in Southeast Asia. I have been associated in these activities with Lt. +Col. James "Bo" Gritz and others, including Scott Weekly. I believe our +efforts have been carried out with the tacit ) if not always, overt ) approval +of certain elements within our government. These government and military +officials share our goal of freeing these forgotten Americans.

+ +

In the fall of 1986 Col. Gritz and Mr. Weekly went to Burma. They had +received intelligence from the "Basement of the White House", which led them +to believe certain Burmese had information about American POW's. These leads +proved to be unfounded. However, on that trip Col Gritz learned about illegal +furg trafficking directed by U.S. government)related operatives. These drup +dealing activities were on such a scale that they were used to fund covert, +para)military operations in Southeast Asia and in other parts of the world.

+ +

In May of 1987 I went to Burma with Col. Gritz and others. We brought back +startling evidence directly linking American officials with illegal drug +trafficking. A report on this Burma trip is attached hereto as Exhibit "A."

+ +

Over the years it has baffled me why the U.S. Government would not actively +and vigorously pursue the release of our POW's and MIA's. Now, the answer is +clear. Any renewed American activity in Southeast Asia, on a scale necessary +to the release of the abandoned POW's and MIA's, would attract unwanted +attention to covert activities in the are. Government)sponsored drug +trafficking is an explosive subject. Obviously, many government elements want +the story left untold.

+ +

Scott Weekly was charged with illegal transportation of explosives. He was +made promises by ATF Agent Thomas Hahn which induced him to plead guilty to +the charges. It is, of course, highly improper for law enforcement officials +to make promises, especially false promises, to criminal defendants to +persuade them to plead to criminal charges. This was done in Mr. Weekly's +case. Pages were extracted from his pre)sentence report which would, very +likely have mitigated his sentence. This action would have to have been known +about and approved by the Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Korotash. In +Montana, Mr. Korotash's activities would have violated the Canons of +Professional Ethics, which hold:

+ +

""a public prosecutor or other government lawyer in criminal litigation shall +make timely disclosure to counsel for the defendant, or to the defendant if he +has no counsel, of the existence of evidence, known to the prosecutor or other +government lawyer, that tends to negate the guilt of the accused, mitigate the +degree of the offense, or reduce the punishment." DR 7*103(b)^E^

+ +

""A lawyer shall not suppress any evidence that he or his client has a legal +obligation to reveal or produce." DR 7)109(A)^E^

+ +

I believe Agent Hahn and Attorney Korotash conspired to violate \Mr. Weekly's +rights by persuading him not to retain effective counsel and to plead guilty.

+ +

Thereafter, Col. Gritz was charged with a passport violation and has +registered his own complaint, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit +"B." Col. Gritz recently informed me that U.S. government representatives +offered him government employment and dismissal of the charges against him if +he would cease activities relative to the POW's and stay out of Southeast +Asia. In other words, if Col. Gritz would shut up and cease his activities in +Southeast Asia everything would be all right ) for him. As usual no thought +was given to the POW's and MIA's nor their families and loved ones.

+ +

Following my return from Burma on June 1, 1987, Col. Gritz was charged. I set +out to investigate facts relative to the passport violation charge as well as +the Scott Weekly situation. During the course of my short investigation there +were several incidents which took place that were certainly blatant violations +of my rights as a U.S. citizen. Itt is my opinion that the reason these +violations took place is because I had in my possession\j\reports, documents +and tapes which accuse and support accusations that U.S. Government officials +deal in drugs and certain government employees have lied and obstructed +justice in order to convict perfectly innocent persons of criminal +wrongdoings.

+ +

I believe they have been motivated by a desire to silence myself and my +associates to keep the lid on the drug trafficking evidence we have uncovered. +Short of that, they seek to discredit us and the information we've obtained.

+ +

I traveled to Seattle, Washington, on June 27, 1987, to interview a U.S. +Customs Agent named James Foley. Mr. Foley's telephone number is (206) +442)1974. His address is 1580 South 156th Street, Seattle.

+ +

I spoke with Inspector Foley and told him I needed to locate the customs agent +who passed Col. Gritz used, which was stamped at SEA)TAC Airport by Agent +1099. Attached hereto as Exhibit "C" is a copy of the passport. I told him +that Col. Gritz had had several passports with him and the agent had taken him +to an interrogation room. There he told Col. Gritz he hoped he had a +telephone number they could call. Col. Gritz gave them a number and one of +the customs men left. Returning a few minutes later, he said "Okay Col. +Gritz, you're free to go". Inspector Foley told me he may know hwo the +customs agent was that finally cleared Col. Gritz through. He said that the +number stamped in the passport may or may not mean anything but he may +possibly recognize the handwriting.

+ +

The next day, June 27th, I contacted Inspector Foley at his home. He told me +he had spoken with another Inspector named Arthur Henning. He said he had +asked Henning if he could remmeber an incident about five years ago when a +Green Beret Colonel came through customs with several passports. Inspector +Foley told me Inspector Henning immediately told him, "James 'Bo' Gritz." +Henning said he remembered the incident because of the publicity Col. Gritz +received on the POW issue shortly thereafter. Henning said he had taken Col. +Gritz to an interview room along with another customs agent, John Hood. Col. +Gritz had given them a telephone number whihc Henning said was to the State +Department. Henning told Foley he handled the incident. He said Agent Hood +may have written down the telephone number Gritz had given them a telephone +number which Henning said was to the State Department. Henning told Foley he +handled the incident. He said Agent Hood may have written down the telephone +number Gritz gave them in his notes and could still possibly have it. He told +Foley the call to the State Department would have been made by a supervisor, +possibly Lynne Robson, who is now dead. Henning told Foley he remembered Col. +Gritz was carrying at least three passports. He, also, said there would be a +"Negative Search Report" on the incident. I sought this information because +we had been led by U.S. Attorney Wulfson that this type evidence should have +been sufficient to result in the dismissal of the charges against Col. Gritz +regarding the fraudulent passport. After receiving this\j\information from +me, Col. Gritz's attorney, Lamond Mills, contacted Wulfson. Wulfson told +Mills he had already talked to Customs Inspector Henning about the incident, +but that he wasn't dropping any charges, despite what he had said earlier.

+ +

About that same time I was contacted by an investigative reporter named Tony +Kimerey from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Kimerey told me he was in the office of +the Assistant U.S. Attorney, Stephen Korotash. Jerry Bohnen, a KTOK news +reporter, was there too. Kimerey can be reached at telephone number (404) +525)6780. Jerry Bohnen can be reached at (405) 840)1948. Also present in the +office was Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms Agent Tom Hahn. Kimerey said that ATF +Agent Tom Hahn told him, in the presence of Korotash and Bohnen, that he +(Hahn) had removed 9 pages from the documents that went before Federal Judge +Alley, before the sentencing of Scott Weekly. The pages that Hahn removed +were letters from several different Government agencies corroborating the +story that Scott Weekly was involved in the Afghan traiing program which was +sanctioned by the U.S. Government. If it were so, that the program was +sanctioned by the government, then no laws would have been broken in shipping +the C)4 by commercial air carrier. Kimerey also said that a U.S. Government +investigator, who has done investigations for the U.S. Attorney's Office in +Oklahoma City, told him he could not understand why ATF Agent Hahn and U.S. +Attorney Korotash were being so malicious in prosecuting and railroading Scott +Weekly.

+ +

On July 18th, I traveled to Vancouver, British Columbia to find a man named +Ahmad Rashid and his wife, Margaret. Ahmad was Scott Weekly and Col. Gritz's +government contact in the Afghan training program. A meeting with Ahmad, +Scott Weekly and Col. Gritz was set up in August 1986 by William Bode, then +Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance. +Assistant U.S. Attorney Korotash and ATF Agent Hahn have been saying all along +that there was no Afghan traiing. They claim Weekly and Col. Gritz were +selling explosives ot the Iranians. This is utterly ridiculous. I had +thought at one time that maybe they really didn't know about the Afghan +training. Maybe they were being lied to by persons in the government. But +now I find that Agent Hahn has been in contact with William Bode since the +early days, even before Weekly was arrested in December of 1986. Hahn was +given a training schedule of the Afghan training by William Bode. Bode +admitted this to Col. Gritz.

+ +

Upon my arrival in Vancouver, British Columbia, I contacted Margaret Rashid, +wife of Ahmad. Margaret had assisted her husband in the briefing of Col. +Gritz and Scott Weekly. Margaret and Ahmad were to have given Gritz and +Weekly all of their knowledge on the Mujahadeen Afghan Freedom Fighters so +that they could use this knowledge in training several different factions of +Mujahadeen in hopes of unifying them. I was lucky to have reached Margaret +when I did because she was getting ready to leave Vancouver within a few days +to join her husband in\j\Montreal. Ahmad was in Montreal looking for a place +for them to live.

+ +

Margaret and I talked about her role in giving the information to Weekly and +Gritz about the Mujahadeen in August of 1986. Margaret told me that she and +Ahmad were in constant contact with William Bode. She said that Bode was +their U.S. Government contact. As a matter of fact Bode was the one that gave +her and Ahmad the money to move to Montreal. This evidence would provce that +this was a government)sponsored program. That being the case, Weekly should +not have been convicted of the crime he was charged with. Bode and his +associates were trying to get the Rashids out of Vancouver before Col. Gritz +or anyone tried to contact them. Margaret said she also knew of Gritz and +Weekly's problem. She knew Weekly was in jail but she did not exactly know +why. She said she had a three way telephone conversation with Bode and +another man from the U.S. Government some time ago. The man from the U.S. +Government was the one who suggested they move to Montreal away from +Vancouver. He was also the one who suggested that Bode give them the money to +move on so that we could not find them. Margaret could not remember the name +of the U.S. Government official they had the conversation with, but I found +out later it was ATF Agent Tom Hahn.

+ +

William Bode had called Col. Gritz about the same time I was visiting +MArgaret. He had no idea I had been talking to her. He told Col. Gritz he +had just heard of Weekly's being in jail. He told Col. Gritz he was no longer +working in Afghan studies or in the State Department. He told Gritz that he +hadn't been there since last February. He said that if someone had contacted +him before he would have at least given ATF a copy of the Afghan training +schedule to prove Weekly was working under the auspices of the Government.

+ +

A few days later, when Bode had found out I had talked to Margaret Rashid, he +again called Col. Gritz. He asked Col. Gritz who Lance Trimmer was. He told +Col. Gritz he had tried helping all he could. He said he had given Agent Hahn +a copy of the training schedule. In the prior converstaion he had said he may +have given him a copy. He also stated then that ATF Agent Hahn was the third +person on the three way telephone conversation with him and the Rashids.

+ +

The above information are all lies told by Government employees ATF Agent Hahn +and Assistant U.S. Attorney Korotash have lied from the beginning and they +continue to lie. My attorney in Oklahoma City, Frank Miskovski, who is a very +prominent attorney in that area, told me that he has not once talked to ATF +Agent Hahn that Hahn had not lied to him.

+ +

Hahn admitted to two reporters that he omitted several pages of documents to +be presented to a U.S. Federal Judge in recommending a long jail term for +Scott Weekly. This was a clear violation of Weekly's rights. Hahn was +instrumental in trying to hide\j\witnesses that could prove Scott Weekly's +innocence. Those witnesses could have proven that Weekly was involved in a +legitimate, U.S. Governemnt)approved, training program of Mujahadeen Afghan +Freedom Fighters. It seems very clear to me that Assistant U.S. Attorney +Korotash was also involved in the hiding of these documents.

+ +

I have continuously tried to determine why ATF Agent Hahn and U.S. Attorney +Korotash would want so badly to put Col. Gritz and Scott Weekly in jail. The +only conclusion that I have is that some persons or people higher up in the +Government are pressuring them to muzzle Col. Gritz. Col. Gritz is a proven +American hero, whose only goal in life is to bring home American Prisoners of +War left behind in Southeast Asia after the Vietnam War. The government wants +to stop him from giving to the Americna people documents and evidence that +show U.S. Government officials are now, and have been, dealing in drugs.

+ +

These are acts of governmental agents involving the obstruction of justice and +illegal suppression of evidence, which would show the charges against both +Weekly and Gritz to be ill)founded.

+ +

Now, let me address the acts which have carried out against me.

+ +

I was arrested at the U.S./Canadian Point of Entry, Blaine, Washinton, on +August 13, 1987, by U.S. Customs officials. I was arrested on a warrant, +issued out of the federal district court of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. There +were no charges. I was wanted as a material witness to testify before the +grand jury in Oklahoma.

+ +

Immediately following my arrest, I was searched and placed in a holding cell. +I was told by a Customs Agent that they were going to look in my car. Much +later, three agents came to my cell. One of them, who appeared to be in +charge, introduced himself as Jim Williams. He read me my rights and asked me +a couple of questions. I would not answer his questions but told him I was +sure he had read a report that was in my bag that would answer all the +questions he had. He insinuated that what he had read was interesting. One +of the agents with him asked me if I had a number that he could call. What he +meant was, he wanted to know if I was working for some government agency. I +told him I had none. I don't believe he would have asked that had he not read +papers in my briefcase. I was then chained up with leg irons, belts and +handcuffs and taken to Whatcom County Jail where I was booked in, +finger)printed and mugged. I was told that ATF Agents would pick me up in the +morning and take me before a magistrate in Seattle.

+ +

The next day two ATF Agents, Norm Prins and Jane Heffner, picked me up for +transfer to the Seattle U.S. Marshall's Office. Agent Prins handcuffed me +with my hands behind my back, put me in leg irons and escorted me to his +vehicle for the 1 1/2 hour drive to Seattle. He told me he had two of my bags +in their trunk. He also said that he had been to the Canadian Border where +they had picked up my bags from Customs. I asked where the other two were and +was told he knew nothing about them. Obviously, they had searched my car and +seized and searched my personal property.

+ +

On the way in Agent Prins said he'd like me to answer some personal questions +he had. He said they had nothing to do with my case because he knew nothing +about it. He said his questions had to do with POW's. If he knew nothing +about my case, he would not have known to ask me about POW's. I assume he had +read the papers in my briefcase and clothes bag. We talked about POW's and +also about my Burma Report.

+ +

When we arrived at the U.S. Marshall's Office, where I had to appear before +the Magistrate, my hands and arms were asleep from having to sit handcuffed +with my arms behind my back. The marks and bruises were still on my hands +from the cuffs four days later. Agent Prins got my two bags out of the trunk +of his car. I noticed the center section of my clothes bag was still zipped +open. I never was allowed to look in my bags. They said they had brought +them to turn over to the U.S. Marshall's Office, but the Marshall's Office +refused to accept them. They obviously argued over them for some time until +the ATF agents said they would take them and hold them in their office. I +asked again about my briefcase and clothes bag but was told that Customs had +kept them. I asked why and was told that they were "doing something" with +them. I asked what, and was told just "something, but I shouldn't worry about +it." I said abviously they are making copies of my diary and reports. They +said they didn't know but admitted it was possible.

+ +

Before appearing before the Magistrate one of the U.S. Marshalls called the +Customs Agent Williams and asked about my briefcase and camera case. I could +not hear what Agent Williams was saying but when he hung up the Marshall told +me that Williams would have my bags sent to whatever address I wanted. I told +him I wanted my bags brought to me because they also contained my credit cards +and identification which the agents had kept when they took my wallet, also I +told them they had no reason to keep them. The Marshall then told me they +were "doing something with them." When I asked "what," he said he had no idea.

+ +

I was then taken to the Magistrate where I was admitted to a $10000 bail. I +told them I could make bail immediately if I could make a phone call. This +was approximately 4:30 p.m. The Marshalls then took me from the courtroom +back up the elevator to their office. When we passed a phone I asked if I +could make that call. They said I could when I got to the office. When we +reached the office, they had me go into their little holding room and then +fooled around preparing this and that. I asked again about a call and was +told, "in a minute." It was obvious they were stalling for time since it was +close to 5:00 p.m. When I was finally allowed to call it was too late for +anything to be done. This meant I was stuck in jail for the weekend.\j\

+ +

I was then allowed to call Custons Agent Williams. I asked him about my +briefcase and camera bag. He said he would send them somewhere for me. I +told him I had to have them in my hands. I needed my identification and +credit cards to bail out of jail. He said there was no way to get them to me +now that the weekend was there. I told him someone could surely drop them at +the ATF Office with my other bags. He said they couldn't do that until +Monday. I asked if it was going to take that long to make copies of my +personal diary and papers. He said they weren't doing that. I said what +about the phone numbers. He said we are just "doing something" with the bag. +I said I would like them right away. He said it was impossible and I would +get them on Monday or maybe Tuesday. They would be through with them then. +He stated he would not be there

+ +

personally himself next week but someone else would handle it. That was the +best he could do. I was then taken to Kent, Washington, to the Kent +Corrections Center. I was taken there in handcuffs and chains. I was +fingerprinted and mugged for the third time.

+ +

While in the Kent Corrections Center I made four written requests. The first +one was made on August 15. I requested they return my briefcase and personal +belongings being held by Customs immediately. This included my credit cards +and other identification. I was told they could do nothing. They said I must +contact the agency that had them, although those agencies wouldn't accept a +collect call. I wrote another request on August 16 and was told the same +thing. Copies of all four requests are attached as Exhibit "D." On August 17 +they would not answer my request and on August 18 I was not allowed to make a +phone call. They did finally tell me that a U.S. Marshall had brought my +identification cards from Customs on that day after I had told them I would +not leave the jail without my identification even if I was bailed out, because +it was clear they could arrest me for vagrancy.

+ +

While in the jail there were two phone calls I made which were very important +regarding my bail. On one occasion, I was right at the point of learning a +phone number that I needed to call to have bail brought immediately, when the +conversation was cut off by whoever was monitoring the call. Several persons +called the jail with messages for me, with regard to bailing me out, but the +messages were never given to me. Finally on Tuesday afternoon, August 18, I +was allowed to bail out on a $10000 cash bond. The attorney who was +instrumental in bailing me out had to drive me to the Canadian Border at +Blaine, Washington, which was more than 125 miles away in order for me to get +my briefcase and camera bag.

+ +

All of the contents in those bags obviously had been removed. My notes and +papers were thrown back in completely out of order and it looked as though +several typewritten notes were missing. The Customs Agent, Joe Rydell, stated +that I either had to sign an inventory list they had made up or he would not +return my belongings. There was no way I could tell if every piece of paper +was there. I was never given an inventory list of what they took from me. +They kept my personal diary, papers, pictures, and identifications cards, +including credit cards, for six days and refused to return them. They told me +they were "doing something" with them. It was clearly an illegal search and +seizure. I was only arrested as a material witness. I have been a law +enforcement officer and understand what the term "probable cause" means. +There was no probable cause to seize my property and search it. There was no +reason to treat me like a criminal. I can understand being jailed on a +warrant. I cannot understand being handcuffed, chained, mugged and +fingerprinted on numerous occasions, being denied access to my property, and +being denied the opportunity to arrange bail. All of this was a serious +violation of my civil rights.

+ +

After I finally got released on bail I had to travel more that 200 miles to +retrieve my personal belongings. They forced me to personally go out of the +way which took another day. It was then too late to travel to my home in +Montana. I had to go to California to secure my automobile and then travel to +Oklahoma City where I was to appear before a Grand Jury on the Subpoena the +government had issued me upon my arrival. I called the U.S. Attorney's +Office and checked in as I was supposed to do. The man that I talked to about +transportation to Oklahoma City told me that I should pay my own way and turn +in a voucher on the day I appeared before the Grand Jury. I then left for +Oklahoma City. I needed to find a lawyer for my appearance.

+ +

When I appeared at the U.S. Attorney's Office with my attorney, Frank +Miskovski in Oklahoma City, we were met by ATF Agent Tom Hahn. Tom Hahn +stated that U.S. Attorney Korotash was out of town. I asked if he was also on +vacation and Hahn replied he didn't know. He told me Korotash was out of town +and could not be reached. Hahn said he had been trying to contact me for the +past ten days. I called him a liar. He said he was not lying. I told him I +called in twice to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Hahn stated that I only called +in once. I told him I called on Monday August 24 and checked in with a woman +secretary. I also called in on August 26 and told a male I would be coming to +Oklahoma City and wanted to know about travel arrangements. Hahn said he only +heard of one time I called. He said that he had called my attorney several +times in Washington. I called Mike Jordan, my attorney in Washington, on +August 30 from Oklahoma City. He told me that Hahn had called him on Friday +trying to contact me to tell me they postponed the Grand Jury Hearing.

+ +

On September 1st, the day of my scheduled appearance, Hahn gave me a new +subpoena for September 14. I asked if my bail would now be returned. He said +he didn't see why not. He would check. I waited for some time before Hahn +returned and told my attorney that they were going to hold my cash bail of +$10000 until I appeared on September 14.

+ +

I left to make a phone call and then returned with my attorney and asked for +Agent Hahn. I was told he was no longer around. My attorney asked to speak +with the U.S. Attorney Price. He was not around. This was at 11:30 a.m. We +asked to speak with any U.S. Attorney who could make a decision. We were +taken to a Chief U.S. Attorney whom I told I wanted my bail returned or to be +put back in jail. I told him the bail I received was promised to be sent back +to the person it came from on September 1 and I had appeared as promised. +This U.S. Attorney called Agent Hahn who, just a few minutes earlier, could +not be found, and had Hahn come to his office. He told Hahn I was there to be +put in jail so my bail would be returned.

+ +

Hahn immediately made many calls. A long time later he came out ant told my +attorney that they would either return my bail and place me in jail, return my +bail and release me on my own recognizance or schedule the hearing in the +morning. He was to call my attorney at his office. Later in the afternoon, +my attorney contacted me about 4:30 p.m. and said that Hahn was obviously a +habitual liar. He had finally talked to Hahn after 4:00 p.m. and Hahn told +him he called 4 or 5 times but couldn't reach him. My attorney's secretary +said that Hahn had called once. My attorney was not in and Hahn did not call +back. My attorney called Hahn back twice but could not find him. He finally +reached Hahn about 4:10 p.m. and Hahn told him they reset the Grand Jury +Hearing for the following morning, September 2. I appeared at 9;00 a.m. on +September 2nd before the Grand Jury. I talked about U.S. Officials dealing in +drugs., about General Khun Sa of Burma, about a statement I made of a +complaint being filed regarding charges oif wrongdoing by AFT Agent Hahn. +Halfway through the U>S> Attorney's questions, they stopped the hearing and +tol;d me there would be no more questions. It was approximately 11:00 a.m. I +was told that I was free to go and would have to return on Oct. 5. I believe +that is less than coincidental that Col. Gritz passport violation case is +scheduled for trial in Las Vegas, Nevada, on the very same date.

+ +

My attorney and I asked that my bail be returned along with my passport. AFT +Agent Hahn said he saw no problem with that. He said he would clear it with +U.S. Attorney Blair Watson. We waited about 45 minutes. Hahn came later and +said he would have it taken care of after lunch. My Attorney called him after +lunch but, as usual, he was not around then. He talked to the U.S. Attorney +Watson who said he didn't know about the bail and it would have to stay +whereever it was. He believed it was being held in Washington State where it +was posted. My attorney called the U.S. Attorney's office in Seattle, +Waashington and was tiold it had been sent to Oklahoma. My attorney talked +with the U.S. Attorney in Seattle later and was told Hahn had told them that +because it took so long for them to find me he didn't think they should +release my bail. There was never andy agreement to release my bail until +Sept. 14th. At this writing I still don't have it back. Since recovering my +property I have discovered that several items are missing, including typed +notes and a tape\j\of conversations with Margaret Rashid and Tony Kimerey. I +spent more than ten years of my life serving my country as a soldier. I +risked my life in combat in support of our government. I worked as a court +officer a police officer and as an investigator for a prperiod of 15 years. I +have a college degree in criminal justice. I believe in our system and have +proven my commitment by my service. I cannot tolerate nor abide the +perversion and subvertion of our system, especially by those)like me)who have +taken an oath to defend it.

+ +

This complaint deals with high)level government policy makers who have +sacrificed our POW'S and MIA's, and alot more, to cover)up illigal and +reprehensible drug trafficking activies. It deals with federal Justice +Department officials who have lied, silenced witnesses, discredited genuine +patriots and heroes, obstructed justice and used their power to harass and +intimidate honorable citizens. I've heard of the alleged illigal drug +trafficking, supported by the CIA, in Central America. Until my recent +experience I wouldn't have believed it. You are the top law enforcement +officer in the United States. You have a duty to investigate, vigorously, the +charges raised in this complaint. Today is the 200 anniversary of our +constitution. The greatest threat to that sacred document is being mounted +today by the lairs, obstructors of justice and other slime who believe the +ends justify the means and "plausible deniability" is a defensible standard of +conduct in an open, democratic system. The people and activites, complained +of herein, threatenour very system of laws. Do yourself proud. Deal with +these complaints vigorously.. The issue of illegal drug trafficking is now +before the publis.

+ +

When it becomes apparent to the public that our POW's and MIA's have been +abandoned and our youth have been exposed to drugs to protect such an +activity, the wrath of the people will be incredible. It no longer works to +try to hide this activity, too many know of it. The tactics that have been +used to produce the silence of people like me oon this issue, are +unjustifiable. Restore my faith in my government. Do your duty, as I have +sought to do mine. And as those POW's and MIA's abandoned in Southeast Asia, +have done theirs.

+ +

Sincerely,

+ +

Lance Trimmer +Suite 316, 600 Central Plaza +Great FAlls, Montana 59401

+ +

Subscribed and Sworn to before me this day of Sept. 1987 +(Linda Cooper) Notary Public for the State of Montana

+ +

My commision expires : 4/1/89

+ +

cc:

+ +

ATF, Washington, +D.C ATF, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma +U.S. Attorney William Price, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma +U.S. Customs Service, Washington, D.C. +U.S. Customs Service, Blaine, Washington, D.C. +U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. +DEA, Washington, D.C. +Members of the United States Congress

+ +

THE SILENT WAR

+ +

We are engaged in a silent war. Those waging this brutal conflict have +not the decency to inform their victims ))) who include ourselves and +almost everyone we know. Their standard bearers include George Bush and +David Rockefeller. As the high priced professional liars in the mass +media assure us all is well, the common people of the world are being +crushed ))) like foot soldiers over run by a panzer division.

+ +

And yet, the only real power of these perpetrators derives only from this +force fed ignorance. Apart from the power to keep us fighting each +other, the Monopolists have no power. If a critical mass of people can +learn the information contained herein, and what is more important, the +sources of this information, a global reign of terror will end.

+ +

These articles are taken from my monthly column in MONETARY AND ECONOMIC +REVIEW. I am also the Director of Research for INTELLIGENCE CONNECTION a +speakers agency that arranges events on university campuses for front +line researchers, like those mentioned in these articles. My name is +Brian Quig.

+ +

You can arrange speaking events with any of these legendary people by +calling

+ +

(602) 945-3858

+ +

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+ +

DRUG STORY HARD TO BELIEVE

+ +

Since the earlier publication of evidence of US government officials +trafficking in drugs in SE asia, evidence has been piling up in the Digest +office. There is so much of it, from widely diverse sources ranging from +Mother Jones and the Christic Institute on the left, to Reuters and US News +and World Report, to first)hand testimony from a warlord of the Golden +Triangle, that it seems that there must be a real fire somewhere under all +this smoke. Since the evidence is massive and the trail of the players +twisted, let us attempt to summarize. Opium and heroin have been imported +into the US from SE Asia in huge quantities by US and allied government +officials since the 1940s.

+ +

This activity became especially heavy from the 1960s forward. A great deal of +the money generated by this drug trade, particularly after it became monstrous +in the '60s and '70s, was apparently laundered through the Nugan)Hand Bank in +Australia. Upon the failure of this bank some 7 years ago, and at the same +time as the alleged suicide of one of the partners, Frank Nugan (1980), it +became clear that CIA and US military officers were deeply involved in the +bank and its nefarious operations. A full)blown investigation by the +Australian government produced a 4)volume report. It showed that some $50 +million in losses were suffered when the bank went down, but untold amounts of +illicit drug money were undoubtedly not accounted for at the time because the +owners of that money didn't want to draw attention to themselves. Strangely +enough, the whole affair of the Nugan)Hand failure was hushed up by our +government and many bank records were shredded by former US officials.

+ +

Now to Central America. Cocaine from this area has apparently been imported +into the US in large quantities for years by officials of the US and allied +nations. Some of the funds from these drug sales have apparently supported +the Contra's in Central America, along with funds from arms sales to Iran. +Here's the mind)blower: The central players in these arms and drug deals seem +always to be the same people: Theodore Shackley, a former high CIA official, +Thomas Clines, always Shackley's assistant, Richard Secord, retired Air Force +major general, and shifting cast of support players. With the exception of +Secord, these same people show up in the testimony of Gen. Khun Sa, the +recognized drug kingpin of the Golden Triangle (Thailand)Laos)Burma).

+ +

Khun Sa describes the sale of huge amounts of drugs to some of these US +officials and even notes that the funds were run through Australian banks. +Lt. Col. "Bo" Gritz, who first exposed this story on a radio talkshow in +southern California, has continued his campaign on talkshows throughout the +United States. In almost every show, says Gritz, he will get one or more +calls from Vietnam vets who describe how they participated or knew of drugs +being shipped either under US auspices or at a minimum with a "wink and a nod" +from officials on the scene.

+ +

We should note here that Gen. Khun Sa has offered to stop this drug traffic in +his part of the world but says that for 15 years, he can get "no interest" +from our government. In the videotaped interview with Gritz, Khun Sa even +agreed to provide security for the US and/or UN inspection teams if +they\j\wanted to come in to verify his efforts. Khun Sa's offer is connected +to his request for help for his people in the form of agricultural +instruction, etc. His point is that if he stops the growing of opium, his 8 +million people will need help in replacing the income that crop is generating.

+ +

To date, his offer has stirred not one iota of interest in Washington. +Unbeknownst to Gritz, H. Ross Perot had been working on this same story since +some time in late 1986. Perot took the evidence to Washington, presented it +to the Vice President, the FBI, and to the White House, and got no help +whatsoever. He even received a call from Frank Carlucci, now head of the +National Security Council, telling him to "stop pursuing" Richard Armitage, +whom Gen Khun Sa named as a big buyer of drugs in Burma.

+ +

Armitage is now Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security. +Former Chief of Special Operations for the US Air Force L. Fletcher Prouty +says many CIA officials knew all about the use of drugs to pay some troops in +Burma during WW II. One who knew was Sam Wilson who ended up as head of the +Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Prouty also states that this drug trade +was the reason for the start of the Nugan)Hand Bank in Australia, and further +states that Michael Hand (one of the partners in the bank) worked out of his +office in the Pentagon before he went to Vietnam and Laos where he met the +Nugan brothers. Prouty, by the way, assisted Alfred McCoy in the preparation +of his monumental book The Politics of Heroin in SouthEast Asia (Harper & Row, +1972). A lawsuit filed by the leftist Christic Institute alleges many of the +above events, naming these and other players. The Institute alludes to a +"Secret Team" that was/is running many of the arms/drug deals.

+ +

Much of the outline of this informal organization (if that's what it is) is +also fully covered in US News and World Report (8/10/87, p. 16), with only a +casual mention of the drug trade in the last paragraph. But at least it was +mentioned. An article by the Wall Street Journal reporter Jonathan Kwitny +appears in the August)September issue of Mother Jones. Both the reporter and +the magazine are leftist, to say the least. However, Kwitny's recounting of +the Nugan)Hand Bank failure was accurate so far as we can tell.

+ +

Among the names mentioned by Kwitny are (brace yourself): Shackley, Clines, +Secord, Eric von Marbod (another Pentagon official), 3)star US Gen. LeRoy +Manor (former chief of staff for the entire US Pacific Command), Gen. Edwin +Black (high)ranking intelligence officer and Assistant Army chief of staff for +the Pacific), Gen. Earl Cocke, Jr. (former commander of the American Legion), +William Colby (former CIA director), Adm. Earl "Buddy Yates, Michael Hand (CIA +veteran), and numerous bit)part players. Then there's the strange story of +former CIA agent Edwin Wilson, currently serving a 55)year sentence in +solitary confinement for arms dealing. Wilson has consistently asserted that +his own questionable activities were part of a larger pattern of corruption +and subversion among high CIA and Pentagon officials. According to Wilson, 5 +conspirators ) Shackley, Clines, Secord, von Marbod, and Wilson himself ) met +secretly in 1978, setting up a partnership to run arms, using the power of +these top bureaucrats. Wilson himself put up $500000 for the operation, and +he says he has a tape recording of the whole transaction. Not only did he +lose his investment, he ended up in the dungeon."

+ +

When I saw that I was the only one among all our partners to be indicted and +convicted, I realized that I was being buried for the rest of my life in a +solitary cell so that my former partners could shut me up. I was afraid to +talk," he said. To add to this mystery, it appears clear that the Mafia +serves as the retail distribution for the drugs. Richard Armitage, Santo +Trafficante (Mafia chieftain, now deceased), Shackley, Daniel Arnold, and +Jerry Daniels (said by Khun Sa to have taken over Armitage's drug duties) are +listed by Khun Sa as handling the enormous drug trade from the Golden +Triangle, and he says, they used Australian banks to launder the money. Khun +Sa also notes that Thailand's English)language newspaper Bangkok Post reported +that CIA agents were using Australia as a transit base for the drug business +and using banks in Australia for the funds.

+ +

Finally, in this strange line up of sources, it's of interest to note that the +US Communist Party newspapers, People's Daily World, and the communist +Guardian, have been playing up this story for months. We can attribute this +interest in our "drug problem" by the Reds as an attempt to divert attention +from the fact that since 1962 it has been official Communist policy to use +drugs to help being down the United States. Nicaragua, Cuba, Bulgaria, etc., +have all been working from an edict issued by Nikita Khrushchev at a secret +Warsaw Pact meeting in Moscow in 1962.

+ +

It may be only coincidence that involvement by our government officials seemed +to pick up steam at about the same time. Several aspects of this story are +appalling to us. First, we are dismayed that we find material in far)left +publications with which we agree. But even a stopped clock is right twice a +day. Second, there is an enormous amount of corroborative material being sent +to our office nearly every day. It supports the conclusion that a formal or +informal organization of high CIA and US military officers, some former, some +present, exists which has for decades been a major ) if not the major ) +importer of heroin and cocaine into the US.

+ +

Third, the same players show up nearly everywhere where drugs and arms are +involved. The only place Gen. Secord's name has not appeared is in connection +with the Khun Sa story in Burma. It's also of interest that much of this +activity occurred while Vice President George Bush was in charge of the CIA. +It's strange that Bush does not seem to be interested (based on the lack of +cooperation given Perot when he visited him) in stopping this drug business. +And Bush is "the top cop" appointed by President Reagan to handle this drug +problem.

+ +

The mere fact that the mass media has completely ignored this abundance of +evidence is further indication of the probability that very high members of +the Establishment are deeply involved. Only CBS TV in the "West 57th Street" +broadcasts have dealt with the Central American connection and that show ranks +at the bottom in the ratings. The Golden Triangle connection has yet to be +looked into. We were told by a Washington reporter for the Christian +Broadcast Network (CBN) that one reason the major TV networks have not touched +the Gritz story is that lawyers for Richard Armitage called each of them\j\and +said: "If you run the story, we'll sue". With the Westmoreland case still +vividly imprinted on the minds of network executives, the threat has +apparently worked. We have heard that a major overseas network is planning a +story sometime in the next 6 months. If this story is correct in it's broad +outline ) and there is strong evidence for this ) we are looking at the worst +scandal in government corruption in US history.

+ +

There is simply no other way to describe it. In brief, here is what appears +to be factual: The US government has outlawed various drugs since 1914 with +the explicit intent of driving up the price to make them more difficult to +obtain. Then this same government has for decades actually participated in +the importation of these very same drugs! The Mafia has served as the retailer +for our government. In the latter years of this decadent operation, drug +monies have allegedly been used to fund some Freedom Fighter operations, +particularly in Laos and Central America. It's very possible that the +recipients of this dirty money didn't know of its origins. It's even more +likely that huge amounts of money from these illicit operations stuck to the +hands of the major players. We also think it's possible, although we've seen +little evidence to support it, that there is an involvement by the big +international banks.

+ +

The closest we've come to proof is in the book The Underground Empire: Where +Crime and Government Embrace, by James Mills (Doubleday, $22.95). Perhaps the +most discouraging aspect of this whole grimy situation is that there is so +little interest among government officials and the mass media. It seems that +only a demand from the grass)roots, reaching some critical mass of mail, can +stir an investigation into this dirty business and bring it to a halt. Your +congressman must hear from you. You must demand action. You must demand the +major TV networks get on this story. You must demand that your newspaper +conduct its own investigation and print the results. You, dear friend, hold +the key. You, by your actions, will determine whether this practice continues +or is stopped.

+ +

THE SILENT WAR

+ +

We are engaged in a silent war. Those waging this brutal conflict have +not the decency to inform their victims ))) who include ourselves and +almost everyone we know. Their standard bearers include George Bush and +David Rockefeller. As the high priced professional liars in the mass +media assure us all is well, the common people of the world are being +crushed ))) like foot soldiers over run by a panzer division.

+ +

And yet, the only real power of these perpetrators derives only from this +force fed ignorance. Apart from the power to keep us fighting each +other, the Monopolists have no power. If a critical mass of people can +learn the information contained herein, and what is more important, the +sources of this information, a global reign of terror will end.

+ +

These articles are taken from my monthly column in MONETARY AND ECONOMIC +REVIEW. I am also the Director of Research for INTELLIGENCE CONNECTION a +speakers agency that arranges events on university campuses for front +line researchers, like those mentioned in these articles. My name is +Brian Quig.

+ +

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+ +

THE DEATH IN ARIZONA OF THE KEMPER MARLEY MACHINE

+ +

I expected the sky to fall after my July article linking the activities of +Charles Keating and General Singlaub. Nothing happened. The reaction to my +September article exposing Terry Burke, former top DEA in Arizona as a +possible key element in the illegal narcotics network in Arizona, however, was +immediate and unmistakable. Within days of my FAXing this story I was served +with a court summons, a nasty death threat was left on my answering machine +and my offices were entered, my files, book cases and furniture dumped and +overturned.

+ +

The last few days there has been a 6 foot 6 inch Latino following myself and +an associate. He makes the top hit man for the Medellin cartel look like a +sissy. Since Terry Burke, the former CIA station chief in Laos who +administered the Phoenix Assassination Program has been closely associated +with Theodore Shackley since 1962, this revelation coming in the wake of the +unsolved Buddhist murders must have sent shock waves far and wide. Ted +Shackley was George Bush's number 2 man at CIA when Bush was CIA Director. +Among those in the know, Ted Shackley and an operative named Richard Armitage +are the weakest points in the armor of George Bush and the New World Order.

+ +

More significantly, I am tempted to speculate that this revelation, coupled +with my suggestion of a probable heroin connection to the military style +execution of the 9 Buddhist monks, lead to the panic arrest of five innocent +Tucson kids for the murder of the monks. Supposedly, on the basis of a tip +received Sept. 3 from a patient in a mental hospital, the deputies of Maricopa +County Sheriff, Tom Agnos, arrested and charged four hispanic and one black +youth, all selected from the poorest neighborhoods of Tucson. It was apparent +from the start that this action was bogus.

+ +

First, law enforcement alleged that these youths stole a late model Bronco and +a Blazer that were seen at the Temple the day of the crime. These vehicles +were never reported stolen! Where are these vehicles today? If these kids were +in fact criminal elements, wouldn't they have driven these four wheeled all +terrain vehicles across the border to Mexico where they would have been worth +more than in the U.S.? They could have made a quick $15000 doing this. I +visited the Temple. It is more than obvious that there was nothing of value +there.

+ +

Rapidly the case against the kids began disintegrating. One suspect was +working at a dog track during the murders and was video taped performing his +duties. He had to be released. It soon became clear that there was no +physical evidence linking the youths to the crime ))) only their confessions +)))), confessions that the Dean of the Law School at ASU says can not be used +in court because they were so obviously coerced. It turns out that the +deputies worked on the youths for 12 hours in separate rooms with no windows +))) no food or water ))) in the midst of serious threats.

+ +

One youth was told that he would be "found in a lake with an anchor wrapped +around his neck if he did not cooperate". This precess took place not at +police headquarters but in separate rooms of a hotel. The attorney for Dante +Parker, said to be the ringleader, has submitted a list of 25 witnesses that +say the suspect never left Tucson the night in question.

+ +

The Thai ambassador "just happened to be in Phoenix" for the arrests. During +one short sound byte he repeated three times that his being in Phoenix was +just coincidence. His praise for Arizona law enforcement sounded a bit too +lavish for the circumstances. All readers can be assured that the smiling +Thai ambassador is no stranger to the politics of heroin in Southeast Asia. +Equally as disingenuous was the statement of the Sheriff that there was no +racism involved in the crime )))) (but only in the selection process of the +scapegoats.)

+ +

When Lt. Col. James Bo Gritz returned to the Golden Triangle of Burma in 1987 +to video tape the drug overlord, General Khun Sa, naming the names of the U.S. +officials who were the general's largest customers for heroin, he was startled +to find that a two lane highway had been constructed in the 5 months since he +was last there. This highway, which went right to the general's front door, +was built by the Thai government using Rome plows left over from the Vietnam +war. Coming out, as the Colonel went in, were 10 ton trucks, covered and +loaded, with the Thai Army insignia on the side. There is only one product +that comes out of the Golden Triangle )))) heroin! It is a certainty that the +smiling Thai ambassador has an accounting of every truck.

+ +

The importance of the discovery of this heroin highway lies in the fact that +what had trickled out on the backs of horses and mules now flows out in 10 ton +trucks. This highway, which is easily verifiable with satellite imaging, is +to this day denied by our government. When Col. Gritz's team lead Tom +Jerrills of CBS 20\20 in to meet with Khun Sa, none of the trucks seen in the +Colonel's video tapes were seen by American viewers. There was even phoney +footage of Jarrells riding on a mule and no shot of the Toyota pick)up that +actually carried him there.

+ +

It so happens that the people associated with the Temple think there was a +narcotics connection. Fong Miller lost both her mother and daughter in the +massacre. When I told her that I thought the Phoenix\Bangkok heroin +connection factored into the slayings, her words were, "That is what we think +also." Absolutely no speculation to this effect has surfaced in newspapers +here.

+ +

Last year Phoenicians were shocked to find that the state government had +committed to a $30 million toxic waste incinerator which was well under +construction by the time anyone learned of it. The selected management +company, ENSCO, had an abysmal safety record everywhere they had existed.

+ +

In order to satisfy the public hearing requirement, a remote hearing site +located 40 miles outside Phoenix was selected. The deputies of Tom Agnos were +issued stun guns and pictures of GREENPEACE toxics expert, Brad Angel, and +instructed to respond with "maximum force" to "environmental terrorism".

+ +

In order to further stifle public outcry, the high school auditorium was +partitioned so that only 25% was useable. Frictions developed when most of +the 400 people who showed up were told to go home there was not enough room +for them. TV viewers that night were horrified at the spectacle of a 65 year +old lady being repeatedly zapped by the deputies with the stun guns. She was +not even one of the environmentalists. This incident coupled with the arrests +of the innocent Tucson kids would insure a speedy trip down the toilet for +Agnos and his top confederates in any other municipality in the nation.

+ +

The previous sheriff distinguished himself by placing an ad in the classified +section of the ARIZONA REPUBLIC for truck drivers, then busting two +respondents for trucking cargos arranged by the sheriff. He also had one of +his informers fly a plane load of marijuana in from Mexico so that he could +have members of the press available at the landing site to witness the arrest +of those meeting the plane. He survived both incidents. Hopefully Agnos will +not be as lucky.

+ +

The reader is probably asking how could such things happen. For the answer to +this we must do what Col. Fletcher Prouty advises, "Go back and examine the +beginnings." Arizona is Kemper Marley territory. Kemper Marley was the big +man in Arizona.

+ +

In 1948 fifty two employees of Kemper Marley's Arizona liquor monopoly, UNITED +LIQUOR, went to prison on federal liquor violations, including Jim Hensley, +the father)in)law of Senator John McCain. Hensley was the General Manager of +UNITED LIQUOR. On the basis of this, some people might feel UNITED LIQUOR +could be described as organized crime. The slick attorney who kept Marley out +of this trial and out of prison and sent McCain's father)in)law to prison in +his place was William Rendquist )))) currently the Chief Justice of the U.S. +Supreme Court!

+ +

It was the judgement of this court that Jim Hensley would be prohibited from +working in the liquor industry from then on. Of course such judgments meant +nothing to Marley. After Jim Hensley got out of prison, Marley arranged a +BUDWIESSER distributorship for Hensley which is now in the hands of Senator +John McCain and reported to be worth $200 million.

+ +

The best source for an introduction to the environment of total corruption +which exists in Arizona is THE ARIZONA PROJECT: HOW A TEAM OF INVESTIGATIVE +REPORTERS GOT REVENGE ON DEADLINE. This expose was written by Michael +Wendland who was part of the group called INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS AND EDITORS +that came to Phoenix in the aftermath of the car bombing of the ARIZONA +REPUBLIC's investigative reporter, Don Bolles. It was the conclusion of this +group that Marley, by far the wealthiest man in Arizona, was behind this +murder.

+ +

There are many reasons to believe that Don Bolles was not killed because he +was a white knight. When Bolles testified before the HOUSE ORGANIZED CRIME +COMMITTEE, he required immunity. Why? The best clue to his death lies in his +last words ))) "Adamson, EMPRISE the mafia". John Adamson was the hit man +contracted by the establishment attorney, Neal Roberts. EMPRISE was a dog +track interest which had changed its name from SPORTSERVICE. There existed +the Maricopa County Superior Court Case # C)286651 SPORTSERVICE v. JARVIS, +STEIGER which was available to anyone interested in the motive for this crime. +Exhibits in this case allege that Bolles, who was visibly living beyond his +means, was wheeling and dealing with the gangsters. Today the EMPRISE +CORPORATION continues to flourish in Arizona under the name DELAWARE NORTH. +John McCain has been observed visiting the principals.

+ +

A good companion reader to the ARIZONA PROJECT is THE LAST RAMPAGE OF GARY +TYSON. Written by a journalism professor from the UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, this +book documents how top authorities in Arizona let Gary Tyson escape from +prison after he succeeded in carrying out a contract hit on another inmate, +Tony Sera. Sera was giving affidavits regarding the land fraud of Ned Warren. +It is the thesis of this book that this contract was given by establishment +attorney, Neal Roberts, who was described in the ARIZONA PROJECT as the murder +broker in the Bolles killing.

+ +

According to intelligence sources of the Phoenix police, who prepared a +background profile of Kemper Marley the week following the Bolles murder, +Marley was at one time directly connected to the remnants of the old Al Capone +mob, operating the TRANSAMERICA WIRE SERVICE. This betting service was +originally established in 1941 for Capone's heirs by Gus Greenbaum. Greenbaum +was a Phoenix socialite seen at all the society balls in Phoenix, usually in +the company of the Barry Goldwaters and Harry Rosenzweigs. In 1958 Greenbaum +and his wife were found dead in their bed )))) their throats cut. This +inaugurated a series of grisly gangland)style slayings.

+ +

When Marley died, July 1990, he owned 5 square miles of Carefree ))) the +highest priced real estate in Arizona. The smallest lot in this most +exclusive township is zoned for one acre. By some coincidence the Tax +Accessors made the same mistake evaluating Marley's properties as he did on +Charlie Keating's properties. This oversight was saving Marley a million +dollars a year. Of course the official investigation showed no wrongdoing in +either case.

+ +

For the last 40 years Marley bankrolled Harry Rosenzweig who doled out +Marley's great wealth to a slate of Republican candidates who were almost +universally successful in obtaining high political office. Marley was able to +control the Democratic party as well. Every congressman and every senator in +Arizona currently owes his position to the Marley machine.

+ +

Dennis DeConcini was facing a tough reelection in 1990, seeing as how he was +nailed creaming off a cool $5 million with his family on an Arizona land deal +dependent on the Senator's inside senatorial knowledge. The last thing in the +world the Republicans wanted was to loose DeConcini's seniority. Before any +other Republicans could announce, the party hierarchy formally announced their +support for the weakest candidate that one could imagine. The opponent, Keith +DeGreen, had ties to the Republican Party that were so weak he had not even +voted in the last 2 elections.

+ +

At one point Marley served as Chairman of the Board of the VALLEY NATIONAL +BANK. When Bugsy Siegel, on instructions from Meyer Lansky, built the +FLAMINGO CLUB, Las Vegas's first casino, the money was borrowed from the +VALLEY NATIONAL BANK. Involvements in narcotics trafficking on the part of +VALLEY NATIONAL BANK are hinted in the ARIZONA PROJECT.

+ +

Al Lizanetz, who served as Kemper's public relations man for 25 years, is one +of the richest sources for background on the liquor magnate. The Bolles +murder was part of a package deal that was to include a hit on Lizanetz. +According to Lizanetz, the Marley machine placed the highest priority on +placing lawyers in all the key state and municipal positions. Former Attorney +General Bob Corbin, who accepted a $55000 campaign contribution from Charles +Keating in a race where he was unopposed, worked for Marley (in the insurance +industry) in the 50s as did the preceding 2 AGs.

+ +

Marley placed his people in the top positions of the Department of Public +Safety. The county prosecutor was also key to him. Lizanetz claims that +Marley recruited Eugene Pullium to come to Phoenix to start the ARIZONA +REPUBLIC/PHOENIX GAZZETT, the monopoly newspaper here which has succeeded in +covering up these matters. Pullium then started the PHOENIX 40 a group of the +largest business interests who virtually run the state. Eugene Pullium is the +grandfather of Dan Quayle. The ARIZONA REPUBLIC/PHOENIX GAZZETT together with +the INDIANAPOLIS STAR are reported to be worth $5 billion. Lizanetz claims +that Ned Warren, responsible for half a billion dollars of land fraud in +Arizona, was another agent of Kemper Marley.

+ +

Marley's mentor was Sam Bronfman, the progenitor of the SEAGRAMS empire. When +Bronfman visited Marley in Arizona he came in the company of Al Capone. +Lizanetz claims that Jack Ruby, assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald, was also on the +Bronfman payroll.

+ +

Perhaps by now readers are beginning to understand how a phenomena like +Charles Keating could arise in such a political climate. It is not necessary +to mention how lavishly Keating paid off the local politicians. DeConcini +$72000 ))) McCain $112000 ))) a shopping center deal with McCain's wife that +netted almost a half million in 6 months ))) a $200 million dollar unsecured +load to DeConcini's campaign manager, Ron Ober. This only scratches the +surface. All cannot be told in so short an article. With this background let +us examine more in more detail.

+ +

There is a certain law firm in Phoenix which includes as principals two former +Arizona U.S. Attorneys, Melvin Mcdonald and Mike Hawkins. One was appointed +by Democrats and the other by Republicans )) giving them a lock on political +leverage here. Like Robert Peloquin, former head of the Organized Crime +Strike Force of the Justice Department, they learned quickly that they could +make 20 times as much money working for the criminals. Melvin McDonald was +chief council for Charles Keating. Whenever anything of particularly bad odor +needed to happen in Arizona one of these slimebags was called in.

+ +

A case in point was the scandal surrounding the sale of the BIG BOQUEUS RANCH +to the Navajo nation. This matter was so stinky it called for the diligence +of Mike Hawkins and Melvin Mcdonald. It so happened that back in Washington +D.C. Dennis DeConcini and John McCain were getting heat from their colleagues +about all the swindles of the indian lands. As a matter of fact McCain and +DeConcini were leading the charge of these swindlers. Keating's acquisition +of his Estrella property, in a round about way, involved a swindle of indian +lands.

+ +

The definition of a politician: Anyone, who, when being tared and feathered +and ridden out of town on a rail can make it appear as if they are leading a +parade. In true fashion, McCain and DeConcini, got themselves appointed +co)chairman of a senate investigative committee to delve into these crimes +against the indians. Enter McDonald and Hawkins.

+ +

The BIG BOQUEUS RANCH was purchased in the mourning by developers Bud Brown +and his partner for $19 million and sold that afternoon for $27 million to +Tribal Chief Peter McDonald (no relation) on behalf of the Navajo nation. Bud +Brown and his partner made a quick $8 million. In order to explore this +corruption, McCain and DeConcini granted immunity to Bud Brown and his partner +so that they could give testimony about the $10000 and the BMW that they gave +as a bribe to the corrupt indian chief. Meanwhile the ARIZONA REPUBLIC +repeatedly hammered the indian chief day after day while not mentioning Bud +Brown. The indian chief was removed from office. The Pulitzer Prize winning +journalist, Tom Fitzpatric, in a Feb. 15, 1989 NEW TIMES article called this +"the best real estate deal between white men and red men since the purchase of +Manhattan."

+ +

Another example is the Bartel Cocaine case. Dr. William Bartel was caught +with 81 pounds of cocaine after police observed him meeting with Stan Akers, +Jr., a notorious cocaine broker. Akers was the son of the former Arizona +Speaker of the House of Representatives. Here is an example of how the +narcotics industry is politically protected in Arizona. Akers was previously +convicted of possession of 6 pounds of cocaine and sentenced to 5 years in +prison. After being sentenced, Akers told the D.A. he would testify about the +unsolved drug murder of Greg Case which he had witnessed. On Akers' testimony +Paul Brookover was sent to prison and Akers walked free. Knowledgeable people +close to this case believe Akers ordered the hit.

+ +

The police found $3 million in bonds in the safe deposit box of Dr. Bartel. +Bartel's father)in)law, Al Burke, came forward to claim that the $3 million +was his and that his son)in)law was only keeping it safe for him. Naturally +Burke retained former U.S. Attorney, Mike Hawkins, to represent him in this +matter and in a few days the U.S. Attorney's office "returned" the bonds. +Anyone having to establish their financial affairs for the IRS over a 20 year +period knows that this can not be done in a few days.

+ +

Like the saber toothed tiger, the Kemper Marley machine will die of its own +success. Having harnessed all of society's watch dogs on its tightly held +leash there remains no restraint upon the unbounded greed of its members. +Eventually it will be beyond the powers of the ARIZONA REPUBLIC to keep +matters covered up. The largess of Charles Keating pushed greed past the +point of no return. This accelerating stealing contest can have only one +conclusion. Some day soon the voters of Arizona will take possession of the +government here. They came very close to doing this with Governor Ev Mecham.

+ +

For the documentation upon which this article relies send a $10 check or money +order payable to INTELLIGENCE CONNECTION, 6950 East Continental, Scottsdale, +Arizona 85257.

+ +

THE DEATH OF THE KEMPER MARLEY MACHINE

+ +

In 1948 fifty two employees of Kemper Marley's Arizona liquor monopoly, UNITED +LIQUOR, went to prison on federal liquor violations, including Jim Hensley, +the father)in)law of Senator John McCain. Hensley was the general manager of +UNITED LIQUOR. On the basis of this some people might feel UNITED LIQUOR +could be described as organized crime. The slick attorney who kept Marley out +of this trial and sent McCain's father)in)law to prison in his place was +William Rendquist )))) currently the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court!

+ +

It was the judgement of the court that Jim Hensley would be prohibited from +working in the liquor industry ever again. Of course such judgments meant +nothing to Marley. When Jim Hensley got out of prison Marley arranged a +BUDWIESSER distributorship for Hensley which is now in the hands of John +McCain and reported to be worth $200 million.

+ +

The best source for an introduction to the environment of total corruption in +Arizona is THE ARIZONA PROJECT: HOW A TEAM OF INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS GOT +REVENGE ON DEADLINE, a book written by Michael Wendland. Wendland was part of +the group called INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS AND EDITORS who came to Phoenix in +the wake of the car bombing of the ARIZONA REPUBLIC's investigative reporter, +Don Bolles. It was the conclusion of this group that Marley, by far the +wealthiest man in Arizona, was behind this murder.

+ +

There are many reasons to believe that Don Bolles was not killed because he +was a white knight. When Bolles testified before the HOUSE ORGANIZED CRIME +COMMITTEE he required immunity. Why? The best clue to his death lies in his +last words ))) "Adamson, EMPRISE the mafia". John Adamson was the hit man +arranged by the establishment attorney, Neal Roberts. EMPRISE was a dog track +interest which had changed its name from SPORTSERVICE. There was a court case +#xxxxxx SPORTSERVICE V JARVIS STIEGER available to anyone interested in the +motive which contained all the plausible reasons for this hit. Exhibits in +this case aligadge that Bolles, who was visibly living beyond his means, was +wheeling and dealing with the gangsters.

+ +

A good companion reader to this is THE LAST RAMPAGE OF GARY TYSON. Written by +a journalism professor from the UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, this book documents how +authorities here let Tyson escape from prison after he succeeded in carrying +out a contract on another inmate, Tony Sera, who was giving affidavits +regarding the land fraud of Ned Warren. It is the thesis of this book that +this contract was given by establishment attorney, Neal Roberts, who was +described in the ARIZONA PROJECT as the murder broker in the Bolles killing.

+ +

According to intelligence sources of the Phoenix police, who prepared a +background profile of Kemper Marley the week followingT h) Tthe Bolles murder, +Marley was at one time directly connected to the remnants of the old Al Capone +mob, operating the TRANSAMERICA WIRE SERVICE. This betting service was +originally established in 1941 for Capone's heirs by Gus Greenbaum. Greenbaum +was a Phoenix socialite seen at all the society balls in Phoenix, usually in +the company of the Barry Goldwaters and Harry Rosenzweigs. In 1958 Greenbaum +and his wife were found dead in their bed )))) their throats cut. This +inaugurated a series of grisly gangland)style slayings here.

+ +

When Marley died July 1990 his wealth was considered to be second only to Fife +Symington who was a new comer to Arizona. Marley owned 5 square miles of +Carefree ))) the highest priced real estate in Arizona. The smallest lot in +this most exclusive township is zoned for one acre. By some coincidence the +Tax Accessors made the same mistakes evaluating Marley's properties as he did +on Charlie Keating's properties. This oversight was saving Marley a million +dollars a year. Of course the official investigation showed no wrongdoing in +either case.

+ +

For the last 40 years Marley bankrolled Harry Rosenzweig who doled out +Marley's great wealth to a slate of Republican candidates who were almost +universally successful in obtaining high political office. Marley was able to +control the Democratic party as well. Every congressman and every senator in +Arizona currently owes his position to the Marley machine. Dennis DeConcini +was facing a tough reelection in 1990 seeing as how he was nailed creaming off +a cool $5 million with his family on a land deal dependent on the Senator's +inside senatorial knowledge. The last thing in the world the Republicans +wanted was to loose DeConcini's seniority. Before any other Republicans could +announce the party hierarchy formally announced their support for the weakest +candidate that one could imagine. Keith DeGreen had ties to the Republican +party that were so weak he had not even voted in the last 2 election ))) and +this was a senate race!

+ +

At one point Marley served as Chairman of the Board of the VALLEY NATIONAL +BANK. When Bugsy Siegel, on instructions from Meyer Lansky, built the +FLAMINGO CLUB, Las Vegas's first casino, the money was borrowed from the +VALLEY NATIONAL BANK (VNB). Involvements in narcotics trafficking on the part +of VNB are hinted in the ARIZONA PROJECT.

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Al Lizanetz, who served as Kemper's public relations man for 20 years is one +of the richest sources for background on the liquor magnate. The Bolles +murder was part of a package deal that was to include a hit on Lizanetz. +According to Lizanetz, the Marley machine placed the highest priority on +placing lawyers in all the key state and municipal positions. Former Attorney +General Bob Corbin, who accepted a $55000 campaign contribution from Charles +Keating in a race where he was unopposed, worked for Marley in the insurance +industry in the 50s.

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Marley placed his people in the top positions of the DepartmentT h) Tof Public +Safety. The county prosecutor was also key to him. Lizanetz claims that +Marley recruited Eugene Pullium to come to Phoenix to start the ARIZONA +REPUBLIC/PHOENIX GAZZETT, the monopoly newspaper here which has succeeded in +covering up these matters. Pullium then started the PHOENIX 40 a group of the +largest business interests who virtually run the state. Eugene Pullium is the +grandfather of Dan Quayle. Dan Quayle grew up in Paradise Valley next door to +Robert Welsh, the founder of the JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY. The ARIZONA +REPUBLIC/PHOENIX together with the INDIANAPOLIS STAR are reported to be worth +$5 billion.

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Marley's mentor was Sam Braufman, the progenitor of the SEAGRAMS empire. When +Braufman visited Marley in Arizona he came in the company of Al Capone. +Lizanetz claims that Jack Ruby, assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald, was also on the +Braufman payroll.

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Perhaps by now readers are beginning to understand how a phenomena like +Charles Keating could arise in such a climate. I don't need to mention how +lavishly Keating paid off the local politicians here. DeConcini $72000. +McCain $112000. A shopping center deal with McCain's wife that netted almost +a half million in 6 months. A $200 million dollar unsecured load to +DeConcini's campaign manager, Ron Ober. This only scratches the surface. All +cannot be told is so short an article. With this as background let me now +provide some detail.

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There is a certain law firm which includes as principals two former Arizona +U.S. Attorneys, Melvin Mcdonald and Mike Hawkins. One man was appointed by +Democrats and the other by Republicans giving them a lock on political +leverage here. Like Robert Peloquin, former head of the Organized Crime +Strike Force of the Justice Department they learned that they could make 20 +times as much money working for the criminals. Melvin McDonald was the chief +council for Charles Keating. When ever anything of particularly bad odor +needs to happen one of these slimebags is called in.

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A case in point was the scandal surrounding the sale of the BIG BOQUES RANCH +to the Navajo nation. This matter was so stinky it called for the diligence +of both Mike Hawkins and Melvin Mcdonald. It so happened that back in +Washington D.C. Dennis DeConcini and John McCain were getting heat from their +colleagues about all the swindles of the indian lands. As a matter of fact +McCain and DeConcini were leading the charge of the swindlers. Keating's +acquisition of his Estrella property in a round about way involved a swindle +of indian lands.

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The definition of a politician: Anyone who, when they are being tared and +feathered and ridden out of town on a rail can make it appear as if they are +leading a parade. In true fashion, McCain and DeConcini, got themselves +appointed co)chairman of a senate investigative committee to delve into these +crimes against the indians. Enter McDonald and Hawkins. The big Boq ranch +was purchased in the mourning by developers Bud Brown and his partnerT h) Tfor +$19 million and sold that afternoon for $27 million to Peter McDonald (no +relation to Melvin) on behalf of the Navajo nation. Bud Brown and his partner +made a quick $8 million. In order to explore this corruption, McCain and +DeConcini granted immunity to Bud Brown and his partner so that they could +give testimony about the $10000 and the BMW that gave as a bribe to the +corrupt indian chief. Meanwhile the ARIZONA REPUBLIC repeatedly hammered the +indian chief day after day while not mentioning Bud Brown. The Pulitzer Prize +winning journalist, Tom Fitzpatric, in a Feb. 15, 1989 NEW TIMES article +called this "the best real estate deal between white men and red men since the +purchase of Manhattan."

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Another example is the Bartel Cocaine case. Dr. William Bartel was caught +with 81 pounds of cocaine after police observed him meeting with Stan Akers, +Jr., a notorious cocaine broker here. Akers was the son of the former Arizona +Speaker of the House of Representatives. As an example of how the narcotics +industry is politically protected Akers was convicted of possession of 6 +pounds of cocaine and sentenced to 5 years in prison. After being sentenced, +Akers told the D.A. he would testify about an unsolved drug murder of Greg +Case which he had witnessed. On Akers' testimony Paul Brookover was sent to +prison and Akers walked free. Knowledgeable people close to this case believe +Akers ordered the hit.

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The police found $3 million in bonds in the safe deposit box of Dr. Bartel. +Bartel's father)in)law, Al Burke, came forward to claim that the $3 million +was his and that his son)in)law was only keeping it safe for him. Naturally +Burke retained former U.S. Attorney, Mike Hawkins to represent him in this +matter and in a few days the U.S. Attorney's office "returned" the bonds. +Anyone having to establish their financial affairs for the IRS over a 20 year +period knows that this can not be done in a few days.

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I spoke with Jim Lacey, Assistant U.S. Attorney responsible for all +prosecutions of large narcotics cases in Arizona. He admitted the +irregularities of the AMERICA WEST pilots case and the $300 million dollars +LAGUANA ARMY AIR FORCE BASE cocaine incident. He expressed his regret that +the statute of limitations had run out. Checking the dates I find that there +is still 8 weeks before these cases are dead. If the U.S. Attorney's office +will not respond I propose empaneling a Citizen's Investigative Committee.

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A good example

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THE SILENT WAR

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We are engaged in a silent war. Those waging this brutal conflict have +not the decency to inform their victims ))) who include ourselves and +almost everyone we know. Their standard bearers include George Bush and +David Rockefeller. As the high priced professional liars in the mass +media assure us all is well, the common people of the world are being +crushed ))) like foot soldiers over run by a panzer division.

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And yet, the only real power of these perpetrators derives only from this +force fed ignorance. Apart from the power to keep us fighting each +other, the Monopolists have no power. If a critical mass of people can +learn the information contained herein, and what is more important, the +sources of this information, a global reign of terror will end.

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These articles are taken from my monthly column in MONETARY AND ECONOMIC +REVIEW. I am also the Director of Research for INTELLIGENCE CONNECTION a +speakers agency that arranges events on university campuses for front +line researchers, like those mentioned in these articles. My name is +Brian Quig.

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Subject: WILL OUR GVT IMPLANT OUR CHILDREN?

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So you bloody skeptics think it can't happen here huh??? Wake Up!!!!!Comments +in upper case are all mine!

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Samurai_Writer

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Subject: KIDSCAN - Electronic Big Brother.

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Chanced upon an episode of that Australian TV show "Beyond 2000" last night +on TDC. I arrived at the tail end of a story about a device called +"KIDSCAN". This appears to be an adaptation of a lab-animal ID tag that +is regularly advertized in the weekly science journals like "AAAS SCIENCE" +and "NATURE". What you have is a tiny glass capsule containing a passive +radio re-transmitter designed to be injected directly under the skin of +the animal. These things are very tiny - looks like maybe 0.75x2.0 mm. +They are designed to derive energy from an RF field and then re-transmit +at another frequency. The transmission contains a multi-digit ID code that +allows each animal to be positively identified. +[I CHANCED UPON AN ARTICLE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE THAT DESCRIBED +THE ABOVE DEVICE IN ACTIVE USE IN MARIN COUNTY ON ALL PETS WHOSE OWNERS +ARE WILLING TO HAVE THEM IMPLANTED. I URGE YOU ALL TO GO AND BUY THE BOOK +"BEHOLD A PALE HORSE" BY WILLIAM COOPER!!...Samurai_Writer]

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KIDSCAN is the same principal ... but is being sold as something you have +implanted into your children - for their health and safety according to +the seller. These versions appear to be a little larger and can transmit +for a several block radius. The idea is to have a transmitter/reciever +every few blocks ... kinda like a small cellular phone system. This way, +the exact location of your precious progeny can be tracked every few +minutes and, I suppose, a time-map of your childs activities can be +provided. There is no reason that sensors could not be added to detect +cocaine/reefer/alcohol/nicotine/contraceptive substances/neural and +brain activity etc.. [THIS IS GREAT HUH? WHAT NEXT?!?! JUST SAY ..NO!]

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The angle is perfect. It is easy to drive parents to paranoia about their +kids safety. The kids are very much the property of their parents and +suffer diminished rights when it comes to this style of intrusion. Any +half-ass advertizer could concoct some horrific TV commercials demonstrating +how this product can 'save' your child from something. If the price is +right - and technology just gets better and cheaper - they could sell +millions of these things.

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Another obvious use is for felons - especially those on parole or out on +bail pending an appeal. Their location, and perhaps their activities, +could be easily monitored. After felons comes the mentally retarded, +altzheimers patients, petty criminals, 'suspicious persons' ... right +down to every single human being. [MY FAMILY ADOPTED A PHRASE I CONCOCTED +AS A CHILD WHEN STUDYING THE CONSTITUTION IN SCHOOL, "BETTER DEAD THAN LED" +AND I STILL BELIEVE THAT EVEN MORE SO TODAY....RECALL THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR! +MEN AN WOMEN WHO WERE WILLING TO SACRIFICE ALL TO ELIMINATE THE ENEMY!]

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Masons rule - If it CAN be detected, someone will discover a pressing +reason TO detect it.

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Many discount the ability of interested parties to institute anything +resembling a totalitarian system upon the USA. They point to such +failed attempts as the 'War on Drugs', the McCarthy ant-pinko purge etc.. +The usual reasoning goes that you would have to have a policeman following +each and every person 24 hours a day to prevent/ensure an activity. Well, +thanks to microelectronics - here is such a policeman. Start with the kids +and the obviously dangerous and then slowly find reasons to expand the +coverage - 'security' being a great catch-all reason. +[NOT ME FOLKS! THE FIRST PERSON TO TRY TO ENFORCE THIS UPON ME OR MINE WILL +BE SURPRISED AT THE RECEPTION THAT PERSON WILL RECEIVE....FREEDOM!!!!!]

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Wake-up and smell the coffee people ... technology has made the aspiring +totalitarians job easy !

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-- Jim Mason

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Subject: Re: KIDSCAN - Electronic Big Brother.

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Supporters of the U.S. "Right to Keep and Bear Arms" have been awake +and smelling the coffee for a long, LONG time.

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The electronic monitoring chip idea was proposed by the gun controllers-anti-RKBA community many years ago. Just recently in a Chicago Tribune +column by the fool Clarence Page, an editor(?), it showed up again. +The anti-RKBA never quits dreaming of new ways to destroy the RKBA +of the masses.

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In terms of kids, the latest New Wave Gun Control strategem is the +"Kids & Guns" conumdrum. A near simultaneous growth of news stories +concerning the 'awful' Kids'n Guns combo has hit the news media, as +well as the editorial and op-ed pages and Eye-Nitwit-News TV. These +are given a so-called "air of credibility" by government financed +"studies" released to show the assertion that the "disease" of +guns has "infected" the non-adult community. Further publicity is +given to reinforce the idea of "firearms-infection" by getting +some medical groups such as pediatricians to endorse ballistic weapons +bans, up to and including BB guns.

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These have the effect of gun control activists masquerating as "concerned +citizens" passing Bill of Right Free Zones i.e. Gun Free School Zones +and "Child-Firearm-Safety" laws i.e. you are defacto negligent if a +child accidentally shoots another, since the child used your gun and +"Make-Your-Weapon-Useless-Trigger-Lock" laws. Of course, the ultimate +version of this is the Washington, D.C. law which states that having +an assembled firearm in your home is illegal.

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And, of course, the whole point of all this is to restrict a person's +right to weapons and usage as much as possible for the moment, for +tommorrow is another day to foist ever-MORE gun controls on the hapless +American citizen. + +

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+CAN GRAVITY be INDUCED? + + +Observational Evidence and Verifiable Proof for + + +A Dynamic GRAVAC Sun + + +by + +Stephen Paul Goodfellow + + +1987 + + + +CONTENT: + + +Introduction Page 3 + +A Solar Shell 4 + +Proof 4 + +Elusive Neutrinos 5 + +Sunspots 6 + +Thought Model 6 + +Plasma: The Super-Hot Gas 7 + +Rudiments of the dynamic GRAVAC Cycle 8 + +Helioseismology - The Ring of Truth 9 + +Related Natural Phenomena 9 + +Mr. Science & the Breezy Room 10 + +Nature's Gravity Wells 10 + +Consequences of a GRAVAC Sun 11 + +Conclusion 12 + +Credits 14 + +References 15 + + +INTRODUCTION + +It has long been believed that gravity is the fundamental cause of +solar radiation. +The presently popular Hydrogen/Fusion Core theory rests on the +assumption that the mutual gravitational attraction of the Sun's +individual atoms override all other acting forces, thereby causing the +Suns mass to contract. This in turn creates the internal pressures +which inaugurate nuclear fusion within the Sun's core. +This scenario appears to be reasonably logical at a glance, but when +viewed in the sharp light of observational evidence, it becomes +glaringly obvious that the reasoning upon which the Hydrogen/Fusion +Core theory rests is unsound and quite erroneous. +Despite the fact that virtually every major solar observation is at +odds with this popular solar model, physicists continue to subscribe +to it because there does not seem to be a logical alternative. +The wound caused by this dilemma is deep and there for all to see; the +ability to control a sustained fusion reaction continues to elude +researchers, chiefly because of the alchemic approach with which they +attempt to apply their craft. +The reason for this sad state of affairs is simple: Fusion research is +so costly that in their eagerness to magnetically cage the fusion +reaction, scientists forgo the necessary research needed to understand +what goes on in the fusion process. +It is not unlike a blind man attempting to restrain a beast he cannot +see; the blind man builds traps and cages without understanding the +nature of the beast. +Such an attempt must surely end in failure. +PLASMA is the name of the beast that we must strive to understand; it +is a super hot gas of disassociated electrons and protons. When +united within a common magnetic field it is capable of performing +incredible configurations. +Its nature is so different from solid, liquid or gas states, that it +has been designated a state of matter in its own right: a plasma, the +fourth state of matter. +Faced with such an awesome discovery, it would seem reasonable to +assume nothing is as we expected it to be. In the light of this newly +discovered state of matter, we should proceed as if perceiving the +universe for the first time. NONE of the four known forces in the +universe ( the Strong, Weak, Electromagnetic and gravitational,) nor +their interactions with the known states of matter - may be taken for +granted when we know there is a new player on the field. +When the dynamic state of the plasma was realized, solar physicists +seem to have been reluctant to consider the Sun anew; the +intermittently arriving new knowledge of plasma states continue to be +ignored or hastily incorporated into a solar theory already beset +with unreconcilable contradictions, resulting in a hodge-podge of +discontinuous conjectures. +The focal point of this current dilemma lies in the fact that our +science community suffers from an unshakable faith in the +inviolableness of mass/gravity. It is taken for granted that the +gravitational force is dependent on the quantity of matter present. +This is an unproven conjecture - an act of faith. +Such an attitude has for too many years confined potentially creative +ideas within constrictions which in reality do not exist. I believe +strongly that such unbending dogma does not belong in the quest for +truth, because it has no relation to the objective universe. + + +A SOLAR SHELL + +Our Sun is empty; its mass is distributed in a shell about an +"Absolute vacuum." +As I shall demonstrate, an Absolute vacuum induces gravity; it is a +rift upon which mass/energy space gravitationally implodes. This +implosion continuously heats the Sun's plasma which in turn maintains +the Sun's Absolute vacuum. I call this the Gravity/Vacuum Cycle, or +the GRAVAC Cycle. +The electromagnetic potential of a given quantity of mass in a plasma +state is 1 X 10 to the 40th times stronger(1) than its gravitational +potential. Because of this, the Sun can radiate by the interlocking of +an induced gravitational force that is brought about by the +electromagnetic force. +This comes about because the Sun's plasma is magnetically polarized, +repelling electrons from electrons and protons from protons. By this +process the mass of the Sun is magnetically repulsed and flies apart +creating an Absolute Vacuum. In turn, this Absolute Vacuum induces +gravity. The induced gravity restrains the Sun's plasma from further +outward expansion, and it is the struggle between the inhibiting +induced gravity and the repulsive magnetic properties of the plasma +which cause the solar shell to radiate. + + +PROOF + +For this solar model to work, it requires that absolutely no mass, nor +radiation can travel through an Absolute vacuum. Therefore, the +experimental evidence of this solar model rests on the following +proof: + +*It can be demonstrated that neutrinos cannot pass through the Sun* + +Small subatomic particles called neutrinos emanate from stars.(2) To +an observer on Earth, each star has its own neutrino fingerprint, +which can be determined by the angle of neutrino approach and the +different neutrino energy levels that individual stars produce. +Because neutrinos are so small and have no charge, most are able to +pass through the Earth without hitting anything. Astrophysicists +believe that a flow of neutrinos would pass through the Sun without +the majority of the neutrinos being stopped by collisions.(3) +But is this so? +Imagine that you are observing neutrinos emanating from an energetic +star which is about to be eclipsed by the Sun. When the star is +eclipsed, present logic would dictate that neutrinos from the eclipsed +star would pass through the Sun. +I propose that they will not. +It is my prediction that the neutrino flow from the star will stop at +the moment of occultation ( when the star passes behind the sun.) The +reason for this is because the Sun's interior is not a ball of mass in +conventional space, as it is presently believed;(4) on the contrary, +it is an Absolute vacuum through which nothing passes. + +Of course, it is not so easy to look for neutrinos passing through the +Sun. An actual experiment would be more complicated, but could +probably be performed along these lines: + +Due to the fact that neutrino collisions are scarce, one has to rely +on a record compiled through time in order to get an accurate +determination. You will need a computer and as extensive a compilation +of recorded data of neutrino collisions as possible. The greater span +of time the records cover, the more accurate the result. +Take the orbit of the Sun ( as seen from Earth,) and break it down +into 365 windows or 'sectors' on the plane of the ecliptic, one for +each day of a year. The Sun will pass through all 365 sectors in one +year, spending 24 hours in each sector. +Design a program for the computer so that it will list all the +neutrinos with an angle of approach that comes within the band divided +into 365 sectors. +Eliminate all neutrinos from your data that show energy levels +consistent with those of our Sun. +Now compile the sectors that the Sun was in each day. Compare them to +the 364 other sectors that the Sun was not in. + +If present theories on stellar physics are correct, then neutrinos +from stellar and galactic sources should flow unimpaired through the +Sun, and there will be NO DISCERNIBLE QUANTITATIVE DIFFERENCE between +the Sun sectors and the 364 other sectors that the Sun was not in. + +This will not be so. + +I predict that the data will exhibit a CONSISTENT DECREASE of +interstellar and intergalactic neutrinos within the solar sectors. + + +ELUSIVE NEUTRINOS + +This chapter offers observational evidence which led me to my +conclusions. + +Problem: +Dr. Raymond Davis of the Brookhaven National Laboratory has been +monitoring the emanation of neutrons from the Sun since 1967, and he +has demonstrated that the flow of these neutrinos amounts to less than +1/3 of the amount anticipated by the current hydrogen fusion core +theories.(5) Why? +Solution: +The deficiency in the neutrino count may be accounted for as follows; +neutrinos originate from, or near, the Sun's surface. Since nothing +can travel through the Sun's Absolute vacuum interior, only the +neutrinos produced on the side of the Sun facing us reach the Earth. +Those neutrinos originating from the opposite side of the Sun cannot +penetrate the Sun's absolute vacuum interior and so escape the Earth +based observer. +This is the cause for the lesser neutrino flow observed to be coming +from the Sun. + +Problem: +When sunspots occur on the Sun's photosphere, the neutrino count +drops. +Neutrinos have no charge and so cannot be affected by the magnetic +field of sunspots on the Sun's surface. +If neutrinos originate from the Sun's core and travel outwards, then +sunspots on the photospheric surface should have no effect on the +neutrinos. These subatomic particles should pass to the observer +unimpeded, yet the neutrino count is diminished during sunspot +activity.(6) Why? + +Solution: +Neutrinos originate near the Sun's photospheric surface. +Within sunspots there is decreased temperature and luminosity, so +there is less likelihood of neutrino production; hence a decrease of +neutrinos during sunspot activity. + + + +SUNSPOTS + +Problem: +Sunspots are depressions in the Sun's photospheric surface.(7) If the +interior of a sunspot is closer to the Sun's supposed core, why does +it get cooler and darker and not hotter and brighter in these areas? +Solution: +The Sun has no core. +A sunspot depression is darker because it is closer to the Sun's +Absolute vacuum interior. + + +THOUGHT MODEL + +If the Sun's mass is only a thin shell of matter, how does one account +for its powerful gravitational attraction? +It is time for a thought model. +Imagine the air in front of you. Imagine now that you can apply a +force to expel the air away from a given volume. First, you may +notice that the most efficient shape to maintain a vacuum is a sphere. +Next, you might observe that the exterior air is attracted to the +vacuum -- an attraction which falls away with the square of the +distance from the source. This attraction is a feature which exhibits +the same characteristics as the force of gravity. +To illustrate this concept, stir a cup of tea or coffee and carefully +pour in some milk. Notice how the interior of the vortex moves faster +than the area further out from the vortex. +A vortex has a low pressure interior and high pressure exterior. It +behaves in a manner identical to that of the planets orbiting the Sun, +in that both phenomena obey Kepler's Second Law of Planetary Motion(8) +- which is a notable characteristic of gravity. +Another way you can observe this attraction at work is to hold a +vacuum cleaner nozzle up to a source of smoke. The attraction of smoke +to the vacuum nozzle will fall off with the square of the distance +from the nozzle, just like gravity. +Let us take our thought model into the real universe. +Space - any space - anywhere, contains a measure of mass/energy. The +proof of this is the Background Radiation which pervades our universe. +Even the 'thinnest' space is a veritable soup of radiation, virtual +particles and even whole atoms passing through any given volume at +phenomenal speeds.(9) +It follows that the laws of pressure that we applied to our thought +model should hold true anywhere in the universe; wherever there is +pressure, a vacuum will attract. +If an Absolute vacuum were possible, what behavior would we expect of +its nature? How would the universe respond to such a phenomenon? + +Dictionaries describe a vacuum as: 'A space devoid of matter.' This +definition is no longer a sufficient description of a vacuum, since it +appears that all space in the Universe contains some measure of +mass/energy. Perhaps a better description would be: 'A Vacuum is a +volume devoid of space.' +Such a volume might be quite different from conventional space. Since +temperature is a result of mass/energy space, it is reasonable to +assume that the temperature of an Absolute Vacuum must be absolute +zero. +If time is a consequence of mass/energy space, then an Absolute Vacuum +must be without time. An observer within such a field would not be +affected by the time frame of exterior space; time would stand still +for that observer while the exterior universe raced on. +A magnetic field is a manifestation of mass/energy but it is NOT +mass/energy in itself. Because of this it seems reasonable to assume +that a magnetic field may exist within an absolute vacuum. +In our thought model we used an imaginary force to maintain a +continuous vacuum. Is there any way of demonstrating the existence of +this force? + + +PLASMA: THE SUPER-HOT GAS + +As I mentioned in the introduction, it was not long ago, that physics +classified matter into only three states: Solid, liquid, and gas. +It was not realized until recently that a gas heated to a very high +temperature does not obey the law of gasses; it displays a behavior +unique to its own nature and scientists have only recently begun to +probe its secrets.(10) So different is this state from a regular gas, +that it has been classified as a fourth state of matter: a plasma.(11) +Because all stars consist of this super-hot gas, it is estimated that +over ninety percent of the known universe exists in a plasma +state.(12) +Put simply, plasma is a super-hot gas in which electrons are +stripped away from protons, placing particles of like polarity in the +same camp. +Plasmas which are shot through a plasma gun ( a magnetic field,) and +into a vacuum tube display well defined structure. Unfortunately, +because of the speed (120 miles per second,) with which the plasma +makes its way down the vacuum tube, photos reveal only a glimmering of +the complexity that can be contributed to plasma structure. However, +it is known that the plasma structure can evolve into a helix-like +flow composed of two separate streams, one consisting of electrons and +the other of protons. Furthermore, it has been observed that the +structure as a whole maintains a stable shape that can best be +described as a cross between a doughnut and a "Slinky" - a toy spring +that can 'walk' down a staircase, - turned in on itself.(13) +It is significant that electrons and protons can organize into +separate camps, because like particles of the same charge repel one +another. +If it is possible to produce a plasma configuration where the mutual +repulsion of particles occur, then it is likely that the volume left +in their wake is an Absolute Vacuum. +It strikes me that it would be a fruitful enterprise to monitor some +future plasma experiments with a sensitive gravimeter to see if known +plasma configurations exhibit inducing gravity characteristics. + +RUDIMENTS OF THE DYNAMIC GRAVAC CYCLE + +Although it is highly possible that the following scenario is a gross +oversimplification, I believe it to be an accurate thumbnail rendition +of the Sun's mode of propagation. I call it the Solar Gravity/Vacuum +Cycle, or the Solar GRAVAC cycle: +Imagine a gaseous giant, perhaps a little bigger than Jupiter. The +gravitational sum of its mass causes intense pressure and so generates +atomic fusion at its center. +The fusion reaction splits up protons and electrons which are forced +into like camps, where they repel one another. +However, the plasma can only travel outwards a finite distance, +because it has left an Absolute Vacuum in its wake. +The attraction of mass/energy space towards the Absolute Vacuum causes +a gravitational implosion. +The plasma has nowhere to go. It cannot go further inwards, because of +the repulsive magnetic field; nor can it expand outwards, due to the +gravity holding it back - what's a plasma to do? +To answer this question, try the following: Rub your hands together +fast and furious. See how they get hot? +The solar hydrogen shell is under intense pressure at the vacuum +boundary and this causes the Sun's radiation. The released energy +maintains the plasma because electrons are stripped from protons and +so the cycle repeats, thereby maintaining the radiation of the Sun. +The energy needed to maintain a total vacuum of a given volume is +equal to the energy radiating from its boundary. In the case of our +sun, that is 3.38 X 10 to the 33 ergs/sec.(14) +Let us now review the cycle: +A primordial giant planet - larger than Jupiter - inaugurates standard +gravitational compression in core of proto-sun...Pressure...Nuclear +Fusion.....Plasma.....Electrons form Camp/ Protons form +Camp....Magnetic repulsion....Induced Gravitational Attraction... +And then back to ' Pressure.'.... + +This concept is in harmony with the conservation of angular momentum, +in that it accounts for the relatively slow rotation of our Sun. +Jupiter, the fifth planet from the Sun, has by far the greatest +portion of angular momentum of the Solar System. If the Sun contracted +from a cloud of hydrogen, one would expect the center to rotate the +fastest, like a spinning ice skater will rotate faster if she draws +her arms into her side. The GRAVAC scenario suggests that the early +proto-Sun's spin was considerable while it was a dense ball of mass, +but as it inaugurated nuclear fusion and expanded into a thin shell of +plasma, it lost its angular momentum - like the ice skater letting her +arms out and slowing down.(15) + + +HELIOSEISMOLOGY - THE RING OF TRUTH + +A whole new science has recently sprung up called Helioseismology. It +has been observed that the Sun vibrates, rather like a bell. It is +presently believed that solar resonances are propagated acoustically +from the Sun's core.(16) +But is this so? +Solar oscillations came as a complete surprise to solar theorists +because one does not usually associate structures that get denser +towards their center as good candidates for effective oscillators. +Hollow structures, such as bells are good oscillators; so too is a +GRAVAC Sun. +We know from studying the powerful magnetic fields that erupt from +sunspot depressions that the Sun is capable of propagating interior +magnetic fields reaching thousands of gauss.(17) +It is this interior field which causes the Sun's magnetically +sensitive outer shell to dance upon the interior magnetic field, like +the oscillations produced by an acoustic speaker. +A blind-folded person would be hard pressed to tell whether he is +being addressed directly or via a speaker. + +The same is true for Helioseismology; the observer is blind to the +interior and so the information is interpreted in the light of present +concepts of solar theory. +Helioseismologists have discovered a condition in the Sun's shallower +layers which is at variance with conventional core models: Through +frequency splittings resulting from the Sun's rotation, it is observed +that the rotation actually decreases with depth. It is hard for any +core theory to come to terms with this lack of angular momentum.(18) +This observation of the Sun suggests an inversion - a sun turned +inside out. + + +RELATED NATURAL PHENOMENA +Vocal cords produce compressional waves ( high and low pressures ) +that travel through the air. These waves are received by the ear, +which converts them into electro-chemical impulses that are +distributed to the relevant centers of the brain.(19) +The ear also acts as a mechanism of body balance; the semi-circular +canals allow the brain to determine the position of the head in +relation to the gravitational attraction of the Earth. +If pressure and gravity were two separate and unrelated forces, would +one not expect to find two distinctly separate organs to monitor these +phenomena? + +A plane flies through the air; its forward motion produces a flow of +air above the wing which creates a standing low pressure center.(20) +The plane is sucked into the air, away from the Earth's gravitational +field. Again we observe an interplay between the forces of pressure +and gravity. + +When a rocket in space fires its engines, the same interplay of forces +are at work. The rocket places a high pressure behind itself; in so +doing it can be said that a low pressure center exists in front of the +rocket, and the rocket moves in that direction. + + +MR. SCIENCE & THE BREEZY ROOM + +I have constructed a very special room. Its design allows for a flow +of air through the ceiling and floor of the room. It has no windows +and whoever is inside is unable to make any exterior observations. As +with Einstein's famous accelerating rocket,(21) the observer is free +to draw conclusions from any phenomena that take place in the room, +but he is unaware of the exterior environment. +We now place a fan above the roof of the room which forces air +downwards. Air flows through the room and Mr. Science takes note. +The room is now placed on a high tower some distance above the Earth. +Imagine that we now pile an enormous quantity of air above the tower. +Due to the Earths gravitational attraction which causes the atmosphere +'hug' the planet, the air will flow back towards the Earth and regain +its composure. +In doing so, the air will also flow through Mr. Science's room - he +takes note. + +When asked about the nature of the two experiments, he tells us that +he believes them to be identical - a flow of air from top to bottom. +He is unaware that the first experiment was the result of pressure; +nor does he know that the second experiment was caused by gravity. He +therefore concludes that the nature of the force that propelled the +air through the room was the same in both instances; to Mr. Science, +pressure_and_gravity_are_identical! + + +NATURE'S GRAVITY WELLS + +Earlier, I mentioned that a vortex in a stirred cup of coffee mimics +the force of gravity. This phenomena is not limited to our cup; it +manifests itself throughout nature's domain. +The low pressure eye of a hurricane is a strangely tranquil place in +which there is little wind and the blue sky can be seen above, while +on all sides the high pressure fury circulates. Such is the power of +the hurricane's eye that the ocean has been observed to rise several +feet higher in this center than the ocean level surrounding the +eye.(22) +This rise in sea level is caused by the low pressure of the +hurricane's eye; the mass of the ocean in the eye is attracted to the +relative vacuum. As with gravity, the attraction to the eye falls off +with the square of the distance from its center. + +Spiral galaxies mimic the vortex and their shape leaves us with some +perplexing questions: If galaxies are gravitationally-bound systems in +dynamic equilibrium, they should consist of enough matter to hold +themselves together. +Surprisingly, it would appear that there is not enough matter present +in galaxies to achieve this, thereby giving rise to the famous +'Missing Mass Problem'.(23) +How does a spiral galaxy obtain the additional gravitational force +when it does not have a corresponding quantity of matter? Is it +possible that its high energy center is an Absolute Vacuum? +If the GRAVAC scenario proves correct, then it is not an unreasonable +speculation that galactic centers of a spiral galaxies are inducing +gravity without a corresponding quantity of mass. + + +THE CONSEQUENCES OF A GRAVAC SUN + +The concept of Absolute Vacuums may go some way to explain Olbers +Paradox, which states that, if space is infinite, why is the sky not +bright with radiative sources? +If space is interrupted with Absolute Vacuums, - and there would be as +many of these as there are stars - then any given area of space would +in effect be 'shielded' from other quadrants. + +If the Sun is merely a shell of mass and so has considerably less mass +than hitherto expected, then it cannot afford to merely drift around +living off its limited mass, or it would soon expend its supply of +fuel. This suggests that there must be some mechanism through which +the Sun replenishes its dwindling fuel supply. +I would suggest that it does this by orbiting the galaxy, 'feeding' +off the clouds and globules that pervade the Milky Way. The Sun's +magnetic and gravitational capacity make for an efficient 'food +foraging' mechanism. Both nebulae and Sun travel in the same direction +about the galaxy, like cars traveling in the same direction on a +highway. +Although the Sun is unlikely to collide with the nebulae on a given +trajectory, their mutual gravitational attraction will alter the Sun's +course towards the cloud and the Sun will plunge into the nebula's +hydrogen-rich interior. +It is estimated that the Sun's magnetic influence reaches well beyond +the planets of our solar system. When highly accelerated particles of +the solar wind collide with the gas and dust of space, electrons and +protons are knocked off from one another, thus making these particles +within the Sun's heliosphere magnetically sensitive. This is somewhat +similar to the static cling you get in a drier. The charged particle +follows the magnetic fieldlines to the north or south pole of the Sun, +depending on the polarity of the particle. The Sun's gravitational and +magnetic fields are an effective means of sweeping the galactic plane +for matter. +We can see this effect on a smaller scale with our own planet when we +watch the cascade of particles coming to Earth in the form of the +Aurora Borealis. +In the same way the Sun consumes the matter which is necessary for its +continued existence. +Our Sun is presently not in a nebula, and so it is not digesting much +matter at the moment, but if you look at stars in these nebulae, you +will see that they are in a highly energetic state. +I suggest that this is due to the infalling matter which excites the +surface of these suns. Many astronomers believe that the high energy +state of suns in nebulae is due to their youth, and they point to the +Hurtzsprung-Russell diagram as the proof of this. +The Hurtzsprung-Russell diagram plots stars on a chart in order of +their magnitude and temperature, and it is believed that this tells us +something about the evolution of stars. +Can we rely on such a diagram for evolutionary information? Consider +this little story: + +An umpire is standing in a crowded stadium. Upon his nose is an +intelligent wart. This wart desires to know the process of evolution +of its host, namely the umpire. In order to aid itself in this quest, +the wart observes the other people in the stadium. Although the wart +cannot see, it is able to monitor heartbeats and blood pressure of +people present. +Armed with this information, the wart constructs a graph upon which it +places the rate of hart beat and blood pressure of all the people in +the stadium. +The wart now mistakenly believes that by comparing people in this +manner, it has acquired a system that displays a sequence of evolution +from youth to old age. +In reality, the graph displays no such information; it merely +describes the momentary state of excitement of the people in the +stadium. The same is true for stars in nebulae. Stars of any age burn +hotter and brighter while feeding. + + +CONCLUSION + +In 1979 I stayed in Chicago with a friend who had been kind enough to +give me lodging while I was organizing an exhibition of my artwork. +One evening, after a particularly strenuous day I took a long lazy +soak in the bath. By chance I grabbed up an astronomy periodical which +lay atop a stack of magazines which happened to contain pictures taken +by the Voyager spacecraft which had recently passed through the Jovian +system. Those images held me transfixed for hours, and the tub water +was quite cold when I emerged from its primordial soup. +Eight years later and after considerable reflection I still cannot +dissect, much less put into any coherent order of thought, the +process that led to the chrysalis which formed in my mind; I can only +offer its fruits. +These writings are an attempt to put the essence of that vision into a +semblance of order. +In the process of writing this paper I have come to realize that we +live in an outrageously animated universe where nature's ingenuity is +law. Within this cosm, no cohesive entity is allowed existence unless +the efficiency of its structure has undergone nature's rigorous +trials. +If suns feed through the manipulation of electromagnetism and gravity, +it would seem reasonable to assume that they would do so in the most +efficient way possible. +Consider natures 'invention' of the strawberry flower. This is an +efficient device which allows for pollination and fruit. Pollination +assures reproduction. The fruit which are derived from the pollinated +flower are specifically designed for the survival of its offspring. +The seeds that are imbedded on the surface of the strawberry pass +unharmed through the animal digestive system. In this way the +offspring are deposited in a rich compost, away from the parent plant +thereby avoiding competition. +I propose that it is the nature of suns exhibit the same measure of +ingenuity. +In space, mass is scarce and suns will have evolved in such a way as +to take the greatest advantage of the mass that is available to them. +Mass - from which gravity and electromagnetism are derived - are the +tools with which suns seek their fuel. If suns can induce gravity - +make more gravity than the corresponding quantity of mass allows - +then they will have sought a way to do so, for it is the nature of all +life-forms to seek an excellence of efficiency. +The life-urge is a universal and little-understood force; it is the +common thread which holds the microcosm to the macrocosm. +I think it unlikely that this thin sheath we call a biosphere is +unique in its essence; if we only choose to see, then manifestations +of life are to be found on all scales of the cosm. Seasons repeat, +galaxies spin, atoms oscillate. +Mankind is often fooled into thinking of consistency as inanimate; a +cup seems to be a cup from moment to moment, but why should it be the +same cup? Is there any particular reason why we should believe an atom +is the same atom after each oscillation? +Can we maintain that a forest is the same forest from season to +season? +Nor is the consistency of an ocean's color a result of the inanimate; +on the contrary, its color is a celebration of life. The 'unchanging' +appearance of an oceans color and hue is net result of the countless +micro-organisms in the process of living within its water. +Why is it so hard for us as humans to see and comprehend a living +universe? +In our shells of being, we are trapped in our own time notion and it +is only through insight, patience and study that the actions of +smaller and larger cosms come to life for us. + +Humankind must resist falling prey to the vanity of uniqueness. +The sum of our species has shown no more self determination than any +other species; we mindlessly extract trapped carbon in the form of +coal and oil and eject it into the Earths atmosphere. +Is there purpose in this? +How would we know if we refuse to even consider the Earth as a living +entity of which we are an interacting part? We hurtle along, blinded +by our lack of humility; if we refuse look about us in the midst of a +living universe, how will we know oblivion even if we were rushing +directly towards it? + +I suspect that the vast majority of copies of this paper will be +thrown away without even being read. Some will be casually browsed +through before they are discarded. However, through the sheer force of +their numbers it is quite possible that a few - such as you dear +reader - will actually have read the paper in its entirety. +I fancy someday, someone will be tempted to perform the occultation +experiment which I have described earlier in this paper. I suspect +that this will happen sooner or later anyway, and If my vision is +false, and neutrinos pass through the Sun unimpeded, then surely I +have hurt or offended no one. +However, if it holds the seeds of truth - that gravity is no slave to +matter - where lie the limits of humankind's destiny, if we learn to +understand and control the nature of its force? + +It is quite possible that no one will remember my prediction when +verified, but that is of no consequence. The origin of an idea is of +no importance; time bleaches the pages of history, names are +eventually forgotten in the haze of time and no one is remembered for +very long. I suspect Nietzsche is wrong when he writes that the only +things remembered are written in blood and stone. Overall, humankinds +collective memory is quite short and so it is only the concepts that +become indispensable and fundamental to the survival of our species +that ever remain through the rise and fall of cultures and in my +conceit, it is here that I stake my claim. + +Man has no time but that river of dreams upon which he casts himself +adrift. + +If you have any questions or comments, please direct them to me at: +Stephen Goodfellow, 146 Farrand Park, Highland Park, MI 48023 +(313) 883-4827 + + +CREDITS + +I would like to thank the following people who have taken the time to +correspond or talk with me. Walter Kauppila, Physics Professor at +Wayne State University. Dr. Favro, W.S.U. Professor Chen, Professor of +astronomy, W.S.U. Professor Teske, Physics, University of Michigan. +Jim Thele, Electrical Technician at G.M. Greg Menovick, Mathematics, +W.S.U. Professor Wadehra, University of Michigan. Professor Cowley, +Physics & Astronomy, Wayne State University. Greenberg, Editor of +Kronos Journal. Leslie Leifer, Chemistry, Mich. Tech, Univ. Special +thanks to Dr. Raymond Davis of Brookhaven National Laboratory for his +research. +Thanks to my Brother, Justin Meilgaard, for helping me with this +pamphlet. I also thank Bill Haus, Allan Franklin, Ralph Franklin, +Janis Lewitt, Dennis Lamberis, Jackie Jablonski, for teaching me how +to think. Special thanks to Lowell Boileau and Marvin Reili to whom I +owe the existence of this paper, and who have taken the brunt of my +'off the wall' ideas with immeasurable patience. + +REFERENCES + +(1) "Gravity" by George Gamow, Doubleday Publishers 1962, p.138 +(2) "Realm of the Universe" by George O. Abell, Saunders Pub. 1980. +pp.285-86 +(3) The concept of neutrinos passing through the Sun is confirmed by +conversation with Professor Wadehra from University of Michigan, +dept. of Astrophysics (1/21/85) Prof. Wadehra also agreed that it +is hypothetically possible to determine: (a) The source of a +neutrino; the angle of neutrino approach can be determined by +collision, and (b) A neutrino's energy level can be determined. +(Hence a solar neutrino cannot be mistaken for a neutrino of a +higher energy even though it originates from a star which is +occulted by the Sun.) +(4) See "Sun," Encyclopedia Britannica, 1980, vol.17, p.178. +(5) Encyclopedia Britannica, "Science and the Future" Year Book, +1983; 'The phantom Neutrino' by James S. Trefil, p.224 +(6) News Notes, Sky & Telescope December issue, 1984 p.506 +(7) "Sunspots" 1979 by R. J. Bray and R. E. Loughhead. Dover +Publications,p.4. +(8) "Sensitive Chaos" by Theodor Schwenk, Schocken Books, New York, +1978 ; pp.44-45. +(9) "The Key to the Universe" 1978 by Nigel Calder. Penguin Pub. New +York, p.26. +"Astrophysical Quantities" 1973 by C.W. Allen, 3rd ed. The +Athlone Press, Univ. of London; p.265. +(10) "Solid Clues" 1985 by Gerald Feinburg, Simon & Schuster pub. p.23 +(11) "The ABC of Plasma" Fusion Magazine, by Riemannian, Nov. 1978 +(12) "Dictionary of Science" 1986 Barnhart Books, p.502 +(13) "The ABC of Plasma" Fusion Magazine, by Riemannian, Nov.1978p.42. +(14) "Realm of the Universe"1980 by George O. Abell, Saunders +Publication p.222 +(15) "Design of the Universe" by Fritz Kahn, Klein Publishers, New +York 1954 pp. 207-208. +(16) Scientific American, Sept. 1985 "Helioseismology" (Article,) John +W. Leibacher, Robers W. Noyes, Juri Toomre, Roger K. Ulrich; +p.48-57. +(17) "A New Sun" by John A. Eddy, NASA 1979 (SP-402); p.27. +(18) See (15); p.56. +(19) Encyclopedia Britannica 1980 vol.5, 'Ear,'pp. 1120-1131. Also: +"The Body" 1985 Anthony Smith, Pelican Books, 'The Ear.' +(20) Encyclopedia Britannica 1980 vol.1, 'Heavier-than-air craft,' +pp.372-383 +(21) "Gravity" by George Gamow, Doubleday Publishers 1962, p.118 +(22) Encyclopedia Britannica 1980 vol. 9, 'Hurricanes and Typhoons' +p.63 +Scientific American 1964 vol.211, 'Experiments in Hurricane +Modification' by R.H. Simpson and Joanne S. Malkus, pp.27-37 +(23) "Principles of Cosmology" 1978, by Michael Berry, Cambridge Univ. Press, London; p.17.

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______________________________________________________________________________ +By (_>Shadow Hawk<_) | Theory, concept, and Idea by: ????????????????????? +------------------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

NOTICE: Within this file will be presented a potential method of altering +the spatiotemporal continuum as one desires. I take no responsibility for any +use or misuse of this information, whether harmful or otherwise. The effects +of this device, if used in a careless manner, can be EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.

+ +

______________________________________________________________________________ +Gravity Resonance? What is this nut talking about????? +------------------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

You are probably thinking, "how can gravity possibly be resonant?" This is +a good question. As discovered by Thomas Townsend Brown, electricity is +directly related to gravity (see his U.S. patents 1974483, 3187206 in +particular.) If this is so, it is most likely a vectorial relationship (law of +opposites), and since there is already an electromagnetic vector (2 +dimensional), a gravitational vector would be at 90 degrees to both the +magnetic and the electric vectors (since we are in a 3 dimensional space.) The +gravitational vector is like the "duration in time" of the electric and +magnetic vectors. There are also, in addition to scalar electric and magnetic +waves (see Bearden, Thomas E. "Toward a new electromagnetics: part IV: vectors +and mechanisms clarified. Tesla Book Co., Millbrae, California, 1983. This +work, however, fails to mention gravity waves, although it does mention +controlling gravity), there are also scalar gravitic waves (see Ford, L.H and +A. Vilenkin. "A gravitational analogue of the Aharanov-Bohm effect." Journal of +Physics A. Mathematical, Nuclear, and General. (Great Britan). 14(9), Sep. +1981. p. 2353-2357.)

+ +

______________________________________________________________________________ +Okay. So There are gravity waves. How can resonating them control reality? +------------------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

All of the above has been proven; this is where basically theory comes in. +There has been much supposed experimental proof of these effects, however all +current research is, unfortuneatly, proprietary, and it is extremely hard to +come by anything helpful. The only good sources of information are some small +mail order book stores, and no one store has everything. One example of +publicized experimental proof is the information regarding the largely ignored +bierfield brown effect, whereby gravity can be nullified and even reversed due +to electric charge (see Thomas Townsend Brown, Above patents), and the book on +the philidelphia experiment (and NOT THE MOVIE! The movie was fiction, the book +is an attempt to analyze what little fact is known.) The true philidelphia +experiment, if it actually occured, used a navy ship degausser modified to act +as some type of resonant gravity vector coil.

+ +

The actual theory is that, since electricity can be "transmitt +d" through the ether through electric scalar and vector waves, and magnetic +energy through magnetic scalar and vector waves, why not gravitational scalar +and vector waves, if they do exist (law of opposites)? A gravity wave is the +emporal "shape" of the electric and magnetic vector (I hope this is a good +explanation!), and by changing this shape you are changing the mole +ular construction of the matter (or lack thereof) transmitting the waves +Also, since there are an infinite number of paralell, real universes (see +Hypernumbers II, by Charles Muses, January 1978 "Applied Mathematics and +Computation", and his introduction to Jerome Rothstein's "Communication, +Organization, and Science," The Falcon's Wing Press, Indian Hills, CO, 1958), +the gravity vector coil MAY allow the psychic (scalar electromagnetic brain +wave) postulation of reality through the G-vector. This could also be done with +a computer, but both are beyond the scope of this paper. I will now present the +plans for the construction of a simple G-vector coil. What you do with it from +here is up to you, show it to your physics teachers and have them look up the +references and watch their eyes pop as they find out the speed of light is NOT +constant.

+ +

______________________________________________________________________________ +Parts List +------------------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

This, actually, is the hardest part. You will either have to spend a lot +of $$$ at a plastics company or have some good friends to get but one of the +parts needed, the others should be fairly easy.

+ +

Listed in order of availability

+ +

(2) 50 VDC (DC-10 MHZ preferred, but...) @ 10A, 50KV isolated power +supplies

+ +

(parts list for those:)

+ +

(2) 110 VAC to 48 VDC @ 10A Isolated stepdown transformers (500 watt)

+ +

(2) 100V PIV rectifier diode

+ +

Optional (2) Heatsinks for above

+ +

(2) 0-120 VAC @ 10A variacs (variable autotransformer)

+ +

(2) 80-100V @ 1000uF electrolytic capacitors

+ +

Optional (1 or 2) Case to hold it all in

+ +

(1) 25-100 KVDC (again, DC-10 MHZ preferred...) @ 100-400 uA (not necessarily variable) 50 kV isolated power supply

+ +

(parts list)

+ +

(1) 10-12 KV @ 20-30 mA neon sign transformer

+ +

(4) TV HV diodes - 12-14 KV PIV

+ +

(4) HV capacitors, 500-1000 pF @ 10 KV

+ +

(1) 0-120 VAC @ 10A variac (variable autotransformer)

+ +

(1) Case to put it all in

+ +

about 7500 feet of #16 Guage heavy Formvar magnetwire

+ +

alot (probably 5000 feet) of #20 or #22 magnetwire

+ +

some fiberglass tape

+ +

some plastic tape

+ +

TV HV corona dope

+ +

And, the clincher:

+ +

(1) Hollow plastic dia., about 30"-32" outside diameter, 24-26" inner +diameter, and about 4"-6" thick. It must be hollow, thermosetting plastic, with +supports for an internal coil of wire, and two holes for the wire to leave, +spaced to avoid electrical discharges. It must be boiling wax-tight, +preferrably with a gasket. And it should be openable, at least into 4 sections, +with screwholes (and gaskets if available.)

+ +

You also need enough of equal portions of Carnubura (sp), beeswax, and +paraffin wax to fill the inside.

+ +

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+ +

(1) Wind a 28" (about, must center inside the hollow part of the plastic donut) +"hoop" coil of the #16 magnetwire. (see Illustration 1)

+ +

(2) Wrap first with fiberglass and then plastic tape, and then dip it in TV HV +corona dope. Allow to dry.

+ +

(3) Place the coil inside the hollow donut.

+ +

(4) Seal the donut, allowing an opening for the wax to be poured into.

+ +

(5) Pour the wax into the donut, leaving as little air space as possible.

+ +

(6) Seal the donut, adding any extra wax.

+ +

(7) Wrap approximately one layer of the #20 or #22 guage magnetwire over the +outside of the donut.

+ +

(8) Coat with HV corona dope.

+ +

(9) You are finished with the coil. It should look similar to illustration 2. +See illustration 3 for a cutaway view.

+ +

Illustration 1: +______________________________________________________________________________ +Top View Side View

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Illustration 2: +______________________________________________________________________________ +Top View Side View

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Illustration 3: +______________________________________________________________________________ +Cutaway (side) View

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+ +

If you are unfamiliar with electronics, you may need some help with this +section, as I am only presenting the schematics. Here they are:

+ +

For both 50VDC power supplies: +______________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________ +Usage +------------------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

To connect the power supplies to the coil, connect the wires leading out +of the donut (from the inner coil) to one 50 VDC power supply. The polarity, at +this stage, does not matter. Next, connect the leads from the outer coil to the +other 50 VDC power supply. Do NOT turn either of them on! Now, connect one of +the leads of the inner coil to one terminal of the 25-100 KV power supply, and connect one lead of the outer coil to the other terminal of the 25-100 KV power supply. Thats it!

+ +

Now, the hard part. You will have to figure out some way of modulating the +fields. This could be done through stepper motor control of the variac, or +through the insertion of a probe coil (probably just a ferrite rod wrapped with +a few hundred turns of wire) into the center of the donut hole. This would +then be modulated with whatever electromagnetic signal you'd want to impress +upon the field. Through careful experimentation, you should be able to produce +some very interesting effects, such as extreme gravity, bending of metal within +the field, spontaneous materialization of ?, etc. Note that the purpose of the +wax is to act as a molten dielectric, so don't be surprised when it starts +boiling. Thats why the donut form must be made out of thermosetting (or any +kind that doesnt melt near the temperature of boiling wax) plastic.

+ +

Have phun, and don't do anything you wouldnt want perpetuated throughout +your subjective reality!

+ +

(_>Shadow Hawk<_)

+ +

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GUN CONTROL, PATRIOTISM, AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

+ +

By JACOB G. HORNBERGER

+ +

The State of California recently enacted a law which requires +owners of semiautomatic weapons to register their guns with +the state. But when the law went into effect, thousands of +California gun owners, although risking a felony conviction, +refused to comply with its requirements.

+ +

The gun owners were immediately showered with harsh criticism, +not only from their public officials but from many of their +fellow citizens as well. The critics implied, among other +things, that since the law had been passed by the duly elected +representatives of the people, the gun owners, as members of +society, had a duty to comply with its terms.

+ +

The controversy raises important issues concerning liberty, +property, government, patriotism, and civil disobedience.

+ +

As I have repeatedly emphasized, by adopting the welfare-state, planned-economy way of life, the American people of our +time have rejected and abandoned the principles of individual +freedom and limited government on which our nation was +founded. But they have also rejected and abandoned something +of equal importance: the concept of patriotism which +characterized America's Founding Fathers.

+ +

There have been two different notions of patriotism in +American history. The one which characterizes the American +people of the 20th century--the one which is taught in our +public schools--is this: patriotism means the support of one's +own government and the actions which the government takes on +behalf of the citizenry. The idea is that since we live in a +democratic society, the majority should have the political +power to take any action it desires. And although those in the +minority may not like the laws, they are duty-bound, as "good" +citizens, to obey and support them.

+ +

The distinguishing characteristic of this type of patriotism +is that the citizen does not make an independent, personal +judgment of the rightness or wrongness of a law. Instead, he +does what he has been taught to do since the first grade in +his government schools: he places unwavering faith and trust +in the judgment of his popularly elected public officials.

+ +

The other concept of patriotism was the type which +characterized the British colonists during the late 1700s. +These individuals believed that patriotism meant a devotion to +certain principles of rightness and morality. They believed +that the good citizen had the duty to make an independent +judgment as to whether his own government's laws violated +these principles. And so, unlike their counterparts in America +today, these individuals refused to automatically accept the +legitimacy of the actions of their public officials.

+ +

Let us examine how "real-world" applications of these two +concepts of patriotism differ dramatically.

+ +

In the late 1700s, the British colonists were suffering under +the same type of oppressive regulatory and tax system under +which present-day Americans are suffering. What was the +reaction of the colonists to this regulatory and tax tyranny? +They deliberately chose to ignore and disobey their +government's regulations and tax acts. Smuggling and tax +evasion were the order of the day! And the more that their +government tried to enforce the restrictions, the more it met +with disregard and disobedience from the citizenry.

+ +

Sometimes smugglers or tax evaders would be caught and brought +to trial. The result? Despite conclusive evidence of guilt and +the judges' instructions to convict, the defendants' fellow +citizens on the juries regularly voted verdicts of acquittal.

+ +

And civil disobedience was not limited to economic regulations +and taxation. There was also widespread resistance to +conscription, especially during the French and Indian War. +Those who were conscripted deserted the army in large numbers. +And those who had not been conscripted hid the deserters in +their homes.

+ +

This was what it once meant to be a patriot--the devotion to a +certain set of principles regarding rightness, morality, +individualism, liberty, and property; and it meant a firm +stand against one's own government when it violated these +principles.

+ +

If an American of today were magically transported back to +colonial America of the late 1700s, he would immediately find +himself at odds with the colonists who were resisting the +tyranny of their government. How do we know this? By the way +which Americans of today respond to what is a much more +oppressive and tyrannical economic system: with either +meekness or, even worse, with ardent, "flag-waving" support +for the actions of their rulers.

+ +

And what is their attitude toward their fellow citizens who +are caught violating the rules and regulations? Again, either +meekness or fervent support of their rulers. After all, what +was the reaction to the conviction of Michael Milken for +violating such ridiculous economic regulations that even King +George would have been embarrassed? "He got what's coming to +him--he shouldn't have made so much money anyway!" And to +Leona Helmsley's conviction for having taken improper +deductions on her income tax return? "She's obnoxious--she +should go to jail." The thought of rising to the defense of +these victims of political tyranny is an anathema to the +present-day American "patriot."

+ +

And what about jury trials involving economic crimes? Like the +good, little citizens they have been taught to be, especially +in their public schools, American "patriots" dutifully comply +with the judge's instructions to convict their fellow citizens +of violating this regulatory and tax tyranny. Although they +have the same power as their ancestors to disregard the +judge's instructions and to acquit their fellow citizens, the +thought of doing so is repugnant to present-day "patriots." +They choose instead to do their "duty" and thereby become +"patriotic" agents of their own government's tyranny.

+ +

Therefore, there is no doubt that the American of today would +feel very uncomfortable if, all of a sudden, he found himself +in the British colonies in 1775--in the midst of smugglers, +tax evaders, draft resisters, and other patriots of that time.

+ +

This brings us back to the individuals in California who are +refusing to register their guns.

+ +

As our American ancestors understood so well, the bedrock of a +free society is private ownership of property. And there are +fewer more important rights of private ownership than the +unfettered right to own weapons.

+ +

Why is ownership of weapons so vitally important? Not for +hunting. And not even to resist aggression by domestic +criminals or foreign invaders. No, as history has repeatedly +shown, the vital importance of the fundamental right to own +arms is to resist tyranny by one's own government, should such +tyranny ever become unendurably evil and oppressive.

+ +

The lesson which Americans of today have forgotten or have +never learned--the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to +teach us--is that the greatest threat to our lives, liberty, +property, and security lies not with some foreign government, +as our rulers so often tell us; instead, the greatest threat +to the well-being of all of us lies with our own government!

+ +

Of course, there are those who suggest that democratically +elected public officials would never do anything seriously +harmful to the American people. But let's look at just a few +twentieth-century examples. They confiscated people's gold. +They repudiated gold clauses in government debts. They +provoked the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor and then +acted like they were surprised. They incarcerated Japanese-Americans for no crime at all. They injected dangerous, mind-altering drugs into American servicemen without their +knowledge. They radiated the American people in the Northwest +and then deliberately hid it from them. They have +surreptitiously confiscated and plundered people's income and +savings through the Federal Reserve System. They have +terrorized the citizenry through the IRS. And, most recently, +they have sent our fellow citizens to their deaths thousands +of miles away in the pursuit of a relatively insignificant +cause.

+ +

Those who believe that democratically elected rulers lack the +potential and inclination for destructive conduct against +their citizenry are living in la-la land.

+ +

Of course, the proponents of political tyranny are usually +well motivated. Those who enacted the gun-registration law in +California point to those who have used semiautomatic weapons +to commit horrible, murderous acts. But the illusion--the +pipe-dream--is that bad acts can be prevented through the +deprivation of liberty. They cannot be! Life is insecure-- +whether under liberty or enslavement. The only choice is +between liberty and insecurity, on the one hand, and +insecurity and enslavement on the other.

+ +

The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government +with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the +morality and rightness associated with principles of +individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises +in opposition to his government. This is why the gun owners of +California might ultimately go down in history as among the +greatest and most courageous patriots of our time.

+ +

Mr. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of +Freedom Foundation. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +From the May 1991 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1991, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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THE GOVERNMENT'S MANIA FOR SECRECY + +President Ronald Reagan nicknamed 1987 "The Year of the +Reader," but throughout 1987 the Reagan administration outdid +itself in its efforts to control, interpret, manipulate, +disinform, and censor all forms of information. +Typical of the Reagan administration's effort to control its +own destiny and the nation's history was the Justice Department +memorandum that could enable Reagan to control the history of his +involvement in the Iran-contra scandal. The administration is +seeking to overturn a 1986 federal court ruling that limited +Nixon's right to block the release of his White House papers. The +Justice Department memorandum, filed in a lawsuit, would allow +Nixon to withdraw any documentation he though should be +suppressed. In effect, this would put Nixon in control of U.S. +history between 1968 and 1974. If Nixon wins, it will pave the way +for Reagan to determine official U.S. history from 1980 to 1988. +While alarming, this is only one small example of Reagan's +mania for secrecy. Following are the reports of three groups that +tried to warn us about what was happening. + +PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY. This group's report provides more +than 100 pages of well-documented charges concerning the growing +trend toward secrecy in government and its threat to American +democracy. It "tells the story of the institutionalization of +secrecy throughout the federal government...the story of +unprecedented controls on information, not only on defense and +foreign policy issues where legitimate secrets do need to be +protected, but on a host of topics vital to our daily lives, from +toxic wastes to occupational hazards, from new technology to the +health of our children." + +THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. This group +issued an alert about how the Reagan administration and its +supporters restrict public access to government information. The +50-page report lists 135 specific actions that have occurred since +1981, including threatened prosecution of the press publishing +classified information; expulsion of foreign journalists; proposed +amendments to weaken the Freedom of Information Act; and the use +of lie detectors. + +THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. The latest edition of the +association's annual report on censorship provides a damning +indictment of Reagan administration efforts to "restrict and +privatize government information" such as public documents and +statistics. The 1987 report adds 78 items to the case for Reagan's +secrecy mania. + +Sources: THE NATION, May 23, 1987, "History Deleted"; GOVERNMENT +DECISIONS WITHOUT DEMOCRACY, December 1987, by People for the +American Way; FYI MEDIA ALERT 1987, March 1987, "The Reagan +Administration and the News Media," by the Reporters Committee for +Freedom of the Press; THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, Washington +Office, "Less Access to Less Information By and About the U.S. +Government: IX," December 1987, by Anne A. Heanue. + +From: UTNE READER, September/October 1988, pp. 86-87. +

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Article 6208 of alt.conspiracy: +Path: bilver!tarpit!peora!masscomp!usenet.coe.montana.edu!decwrl +!uunet!sun-barr!cronkite.Central.Sun.COM!jethro!finess.Corp.Sun.COM +!rburns +From: rburns@finess.Corp.Sun.COM (Randy Burns) +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy +Subject: Nugan Hand Bank--More Grist for the Mill +Keywords: bank CIA corruption + 7691@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM +Date: 13 Dec 91 23:08:26 GMT +Sender: news@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM +Lines: 523 + + + +Article: "Crimes of Patriots," by Jonathan Kwitny +Date: 23 Jan 90 22:55:31 GMT + +By popular email demand: more Conspiracy basics, reproduced out of +further boredom from MOTHER JONES, Aug/Sept 1987. + +Says MoJo: + +Jonathan Kwitny is an investigative reporter for the WALL STREET +JOURNAL. This article is adapted from his book, THE CRIMES OF PATRIOTS: +A TRUE TALE OF DOPE, DIRTY MONEY, AND THE CIA (W.W. Norton & Co.). + +Congressional hearings provide us with daily glimpses into a shadowy +world of arms dealers, middlemen, retired military officers, and spooks. +The details of secret arms shipments to Iran and money transfers to the +contras have provoked expressions of shock and outrage about the +"privatization" of foreign policy and the president's obsession with +covert activity, as if these were inventions of the Reagan +administration. They weren't. + +The need, cited by the past eight presidents, to pursue a perpetual and +largely secret global war against an ever-expanding Soviet empire has +justified gross violations of American law for 40 years. What is new in +1987 is that a window suddenly has been opened on this shadow world +before the spooks who inhabit it could completely take over. + +What we are seeing today is not an aberration; the aberration is only +that we are seeing it, and what we are seeing is still not most of it. + +To fight their perpetual war, successive administrations have required +an army of men who live in a world of spying and secrecy. Wrapping +themselves in a cloak of patriotism, they have carried out unlawful acts +of violence against civilians in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Many +soldiers in this shadow army also have stretched the cloak of patriotism +to cover criminal enterprises that turn a hefty profit. Indeed, "the +enterprise" that has been the focus of this summer's hearings, run by +Maj. Gen. Richard Secord and his partner, Albert Hakim, is now the +subject of a criminal investigation. + +The subject of this story is another example of such an enterprise: the +Nugan Hand Bank -- a mammoth drug-financing, money laundering, tax-evading, investor-fraud operation based in Sydney, Australia. Its +global operations, spanning six continents, involved enough U.S. +generals, admirals, CIA directors, and spooks to run a small war. Not +surprisingly, their activities brought them into contact with men of +similar military and intelligence backgrounds now facing possible +indictment for their roles in the Iran-contra affair. + + +Crimes of Patriots +by +Jonathan Kwitny + + +The cold war strayed into Lithgow, Australia, one Sunday morning in a +Mercedes Benz. Sgt. Neville Brown of the Lithgow Police recorded the +time as 4 A.M., January 27, 1980. "I was patrolling the Great Western +Highway south of Bowenfels with Constable First Class Cross," Sergeant +Brown said. "We saw a 1977 Mercedes sedan parked on the south side of +the old highway known as '40 Bends.'" It was now three months later, +and Sergeant Brown was testifying on the first day of a week-long +inquest at the Lithgow courthouse. Lithgow, a settlement about 90 miles +inland of Sydney, had been of little previous significance to Western +Civilization. Consequently, Sergeant Brown was unused to the reporters +in the courtroom and the television cameras outside. But he maintained +his official poise under the stern questioning of the big-city lawyers. + +The two officers approached the unfamiliar Mercedes stranded on the old +two-lane road. "A male person was sitting slumped over toward the +center of the vehicle," Brown testified. "A .30-caliber rifle was held +by him, the butt resting in the passenger-side floor well. His left +hand held the barrel, three or four inches from the muzzle and near the +right side of his head. His right rested on the trigger." + +Frank Nugan, the autopsy concluded, died of a single gunshot wound. +Given the moat of undisturbed gore that surrounded his body, there +seemed to be no way that someone else could have gotten into his car, +killed him, and left. The facts all pointed to suicide -- a scenario the +U.S. Central Intelligence Agency would be able to live with. Other +aspects of Sergeant Brown's testimony, however, were much more +disturbing to the CIA and others. + +For example, a typed list was found in Nugan's briefcase, containing +scores of names of prominent Australian political, sports, and business +personalities. Next to the names were handwritten dollar amounts, +mostly five-and six-figure sums. Were they the names of debtors? +Creditors? No one knew yet. + +Sergeant Brown also testified that a calling card was in the wallet +found in Nugan's right rear pocket. It bore the name of William E. +Colby, a former CIA director and now a private consultant. Written on +the back of the card was "what could have been the projected movements +of someone or other," Brown testified: "From Jan. 27 to Feb. 8, Hong +Kong at the Mandarin Hotel. 29th Feb.-8th March, Singapore." William +Colby was in those places at roughly those times. + +Probably the most sensational testimony at the inquest came from Michael +Hand, Nugan's American partner. Hand identified himself to the court as +chair-man, chief executive, and 50 percent shareholder of Nugan Hand +Ltd., "the major operating company of a worldwide group of companies +with offices throughout the world." Most people still referred to the +company by the name of its most prominent subsidiary, the Nugan Hand +Bank. + +Hand's exploits had little to do with banking. A highly decorated +member of the Green Berets in Vietnam, he went on to become a contract +agent for the CIA in Vietnam and Laos, training hill tribesmen for +combat and working closely with the CIA's Air America to see that the +tribesmen were supplied. Bill Colby had run the program. In 1967 Hand +migrated to Australia. + +How Michael Hand, just coming off active duty as a U.S. intelligence +operative in Southeast Asia, happened to hook up with Frank Nugan -- a +local lawyer and playboy heir to a modest food-processing fortune -- is +still a mystery. Asked under oath at the inquest, Hand said he couldn't +remember. + +Although Hand's CIA ties had helped lure the reporters to the courtroom, +thousands of people were interested in his testimony for other reasons. +They, or their families or their companies, had money invested with +Nugan Hand. For weeks now, the bank's officers had stalled off +inquiries from the panicky investors. Finally, from the witness stand, +Hand let loose the bad news: the company would not be able to pay its +depositors. Even "secured" deposits would not be paid, since the bonds +"securing" them were phony. Indeed, Nugan Hand couldn't even pay its +rent. "The company is insolvent," said Hand. + +Nugan Hand's unpayable claims amounted to some $50 million. Many more +lost deposits never were claimed for one simple reason: the money had +been illegal to begin with -- tax cheating or dope payments or the +wealth of a few Third World potentates. Not money the losers would want +to account for in open court. The grand total easily could have been in +the hundreds of millions of dollars. + +One might expect that the police, faced with the mysterious death of the +head of a large international bank, would take steps to seal off his +house and office. In the days after Frank Nugan's death, however, the +police stayed conveniently away, while the company's files were packed +in cartons, sorted, or fed to a shredder. Present for the ransacking +was a team of former U.S. military operatives in Southeast Asia, led by +CIA veteran Michael Hand, and including the president of the Nugan Hand +Bank, Rear Adm. Earl F. ("Buddy") Yates, and the mysterious puppetmaster +of Nugan Hand, Maurice ("Bernie") Houghton. + +Prior to becoming president of Nugan Hand Bank in 1977, Admiral Yates, A +Legion of Honor winner in Vietnam, commanded the aircraft carrier USS +JOHN F. KENNEDY and served as chief of staff for plans and policy of the +U.S. Pacific Command. He retired from active service in 1974. Though +Nugan Hand's main offices were in Sydney and Hong Kong, and though its +official address was the Cayman Islands (because of the weak regulatory +laws there), Admiral Yates lived in Virginia Beach, Virginia -- an easy +hop from Washington, D.C., where he helped maintain a Nugan Hand office. + +Bernie Houghton, a fleshy, gray-haired Texan, had been a camp follower +of America's Asian wars, always as a civilian, after a few years in the +Army Air Corps in World War II. He had been to Korea and Vietnam and +had made a living buying and selling war surplus and supplying the +"recreational" needs of GIs. Houghton arrived in Australia in January +1967, eight months before Michael Hand, where he opened the Bourbon and +Beefsteak Restaurant, the Texas Tavern, and Harpoon Harry's. All three +establishments, on the seamy side of Sydney, catered to U.S. troops on +leave from Vietnam. + +Though ostensibly occupied only as a hony-tonk bar impresario, Houghton +displayed a smooth working relationship with high-ranking military +officers and CIA and U.S. embassy personnel. Houghton's international +travels were facilitated whenever he was needed by Australia's secret +scrutiny agency, ASIO, which also gave him security clearance in 1969. + +Other high-level retired Pentagon and CIA officials associated with +Nugan Hand included three-star Gen. LeRoy J. Manor, former chief of +staff for the entire U.S. Pacific Command, who headed the bank's +Philippine operation; Gen. Edwin Black, former high-ranking intelligence +official and assistant Army chief of staff for the Pacific, who headed +the bank's Hawaii office; Gen. Erle Cocke, Jr., former national +commander of the American Legion, whose consulting office served as +Nugan Hand's Washington office; Walter McDonald, former deputy director +of the CIA, who devoted most of his consulting business to Nugan Hand; +and several top former CIA field men. William Colby, former director of +the CIA, was the bank's lawyer on a variety of matters. + +Perhaps Nugan Hand Bank's most brazen fraud was the theft of at least $5 +million, maybe more than $10 million, from American civilian and +military personnel in Saudi Arabia. The man in charge of Nugan Hand's +Saudi operations was Bernie Houghton, the barkeep with high-level ties +to U.S. and Australian intelligence. + +It was 1979, the year of OPEC's highest oil prices ever, and Saudi +Arabia was awash with money. Whole new cities were planned, and +thousands of American professionals and managers were arriving to +supervise the hundreds of thousands of newly arriving Asian laborers. + +To get their services, Saudi Arabia had to offer much higher salaries +than either the Americans or the Asians could earn back home. Most of +the Americans were going over for a couple of years, braced to suffer +the isolated, liquorless, sexless Muslim austerity in exchange for the +big nest eggs they would have when they returned home. + +When they got to Saudi Arabia they faced a problem, however. Every week +or two they got paid in cash, American or Saudi. And because Muslim law +forbids the paying or collecting of interest, there were no banks in the +Western sense of the word. So what to do with all that money? + +A claim letter from Tom Rahill, an American working Dhahran, Saudi +Arabia, described how the operation worked: "Mr. Houghton's +representatives would visit Aramco (Arabian American Oil Company) +construction camps in Saudi Arabia shortly after each payday. We +'investors' would turn over Saudi riyals to be converted at the +prevailing dollar exchange rate, and receive a Nugan Hand dollar +certificate...The moneys, we were told, were to be deposited in the +Nugan Hand Hong Kong branch for investments in various 'secured' +government bonds." Another claim letter, from a group of 70 American +workers in Saudi Arabia (who among them lost $1.5 million), says that +was their understanding as well. + +According to investors, Aramco, Bechtel, and other large U.S. concerns +boosted the Nugan Hand connection by letting salesmen hold meetings on +company property and use company bulletin boards. Bernie Houghton "only +worked in cash," says Linda Geyer, who, along with her husband, a +plumber on a large construction project, invested and lost $41481 with +Nugan Hand. "One time he had to have two briefcases." Others remember +Houghton actually toting away the loot in big plastic bags, slung over +his shoulder like some reverse Santa Claus. + +By his own admission, Houghton hauled off the intended savings not only +of private-contract American employees, but also of U.S. Air Force +personnel stationed in Saudi Arabia. In fact, the record shows that +Houghton quickly made contact with two colonels he'd known from Vietnam +War days. One of them, R. Marshall Inglebeck, "showed Mr. Houghton +around, introduced him, and explained that Mr. Houghton was a banker +looking for business for Nugan Hand Bank," according to Australian +investigators. The other was Col. Billy Prim, who served on Admiral +Yate's staff at the Pacific Command in Vietnam days and introduced +Houghton to Yates back then. It was at Colonel Prim's house in Hawaii +that Bernie Houghton would meet Maj. Gen. Richard Secord. + +After word of Nugan Hand's collapse reached the Saudi press in 1980, +Houghton and some of his banking staff fled the country, several aboard +the last plane out before the Saudi police came searching for them. +Depositors say that when they went to the old Nugan Hand office after +that, they found it occupied and guarded by U.S. Air Force personnel, +who assured them that everything would be straightened out. + +The claim letter from the 70 investors who lost $1.5 million says, "We +were greatly influenced by the number of retired admirals, generals, and +colonels working for Nugan Hand." + +One of the bigger mysteries surrounding Nugan Hand, the answer to which +may be almost self-evident, concerns its branch in Chiang Mai, Thailand. +(Indeed, Australian investigators reported that the idea for a Chiang +Mai branch was suggested to Michael Hand by Murray Stewart Riley, a +major Australian-U.S. drug trafficker now in prison in Australia.) + +Chiang Mai is the colorful market center for the hill people of +northwest Thailand. Like few other cities on earth, it is known for one +thing. More than Detroit is known for cars, or Newcastle for coal, or +Cognac for brandy, Chiang Mai is known for dope. It is the last outpost +of civilization before one enters the law-unto-itself opium-growing +world of the Golden Triangle. + +If it seems strange for a legitimate merchant bank to open an office in +Chiang Mai, consider this: the Chiang Mai Nugan Hand office was lodged +on the same floor, in what appears to be the same office suite, as the +United States Drug Enforcement Agency office. The offices shared a +common entrance and an internal connecting door between work areas. The +DEA receptionist answered Nugan Hand's phone and took messages when the +bank's representatives were out. + +The DEA has provided no explanation for how this came about. Its +spokespeople in Washington have professed ignorance of the situation, +and DEA agents in the field have been prevented by the superiors from +discussing it with reporters. + +The Drug Enforcement Agency has a history of working with the CIA at +home and abroad; with drug money corrupting the politics of many +countries, the two agencies' affairs are often intertwined. Was that +the case with the Nugan Hand office in Chiang Mai? + +It was, according to Neil Evans, an Australian whom Michael Hand chose +as the bank's chief representative in town. In recent years Evans has +made daring statements to Australian investigators and television, and +to the CBS EVENING NEWS in the United States. Among other things, he +has said that Nugan Hand was an intermediary between the CIA and various +drug rings. + +Much that Evans says appears kooky. He claims to have attended +important intelligence meetings in Hong Kong and Australia that he +probably didn't attend, though the meetings may have occurred. But much +else that he has said has proven to be true. + +In Chiang Mai he was surrounded by people with long backgrounds in U.S. +intelligence who were working for Nugan Hand. They included Thais who +until recently had been working in professional or executive jobs at +U.S. bases or with a CIA airline, and Billy and Gordon Young, sons of +missionaries, who worked for the CIA during the Vietnam War and who now +have ties to a SOLDIER OF FORTUNE magazine project. And some very +wealthy people whom Evans claims to have taken deposits from agree they +talked often to him and were urged to make deposits. + +There is little doubt that many millions of dollars in deposits from +numerous Thai citizens were taken out of Thailand; Nugan Hand's +surviving records establish that. The only question is: Who were the +depositors? + +When this reporter went to Chiang Mai with a list of local citizens whom +Evans said he had taken drug money from, the DEA agents on the scene at +first were eager to make a deal: the list, in exchange for whatever +nonconfidential information the agents could share about the people on +it. The agents, all new since Nugan Hand days, went on about how +curious they had been since they'd arrived in town and heard stories +about the bank that used to operate across the reception room; they +wanted to hear more. + +Suddenly a phone call came from an embassy official in Bangkok who +earlier had impeded my progress in every way possible (such as by +postponing issuance of standard credentials). The official ordered the +DEA agents not to talk to me. And that was that. + +The U.S. government stonewalling on the Nugan Hand issue continued all +the way to Washington. At the Hong Kong office of U.S. Customs, the one +federal agency that acknowledges it looked even briefly into Nugan Hand, +senior investigator James Wilkie agreed to an interview. I was waved in +to find Wilkie seated behind a desk next to a shredding machine and a +large carton of papers bearing a red horizontal strip, outlining the +white letters C-L-A-S-S-I-F-I-E-D. + +Wilkie was calmly feeding the documents into the shredder as he spoke, +taking each batch of shreddings out and putting them through a second +time. + +"We can't comment on anything that's under investigation or might be +under investigation," he said. + +Was Nugan Hand under investigation? + +"There wasn't an investigation. We did make some inquiries. We can't +comment." + +I asked what was being shredded. + +"It's none of your business what's being shredded," Wilkie replied. + +And that, as far as the American voter and taxpayer is concerned, may be +the whole problem. + +From the time of Frank Nugan's death in 1980, through four wide-sweeping +investigations commissioned by the Australian government, the Nugan Hand +Bank scandal has rocked Australian politics and dominated its press. To +date, the investigations have revealed widespread dealings by Nugan Hand +with international heroin syndicates and evidence of mammoth fraud +against U.S. and foreign citizens. But many questions about the bank's +operations remain unanswered. + +The law in Australia, and in most other countries where Nugan Hand +dealt, restricts the export of money. Michael Hand himself boasted that +Nugan Hand moved $1 billion a year through its seemingly magical +windows. How could the Australian security agencies have let an +operation of that size break the exchange laws with impunity for so many +years -- unless, of course, the Australian agencies were cooperating +with the bank, or had been told that Nugan Hand had a powerful +government sanction from abroad? + +The U.S. military officers who worked for Nugan Hand told Australian +investigators they were unaware of the bank's illicit activities. They +said they had been duped just like the depositors. [Ack! -jpg] But +could that level of stupidity be ascribed to high officials who only +recently were responsible for supervising BILLIONS of dollars in U.S. +taxpayer funds -- hundreds of thousands of troops and whole fleets of +aircraft and aircraft carriers -- who specialized in, of all things, +intelligence? + +Or was it more likely that these men, at least most of them, weren't +thieves, and that there was some political motive behind their work? + +The presence of former U.S. military and intelligence officers in Nugan +Hand's executive ranks raises obvious questions about the role of the +U.S. government. But the CIA, the FBI, and the U.S. Customs Service, +all of whom have information on Nugan Hand, have refused to release what +they know to Australian investigators. When an Australian newspaper, +the NATIONAL TIMES, petitioned the FBI for information on Nugan Hand +under the Freedom of Information Act, the newspaper was told that it +could only see 71 of some 151 pages of material in FBI files. When +these papers arrived they resembled a collection of Rorschach tests, +with page after page blacked out in heavy ink and bearing the notation +"B-1," indicating that disclosure would endanger U.S. "national defense +or foreign policy." + +The fragmentary records left by Nugan Hand and the testimony of some +peripheral characters in this case suggest there was a political side to +much of the bank's business -- from negotiations with the Sultan of +Brunei about ways to protect the sultan's wealth in case of political +upheaval, to lengthy reports from Nugan Hand's Thai representative +describing Vietnamese troop movements and battle tactics in Cambodia. + +Australia's Joint Task Force on Drug Trafficking released a four-volume +report on Nugan Hand to Parliament in 1983, which determined that Nugan +Hand had participated in two U.S. government covert operations; the +sale of an electronic spy ship to Iran and weapons shipments to southern +Africa, probably to U.S.-backed forces in Angola. + +Both the Iranian and African operations involved Edwin Wilson, a career +CIA officer, purportedly retired, who was then working as a civilian on +the staff of a supersecret Navy intelligence operation called Task Force +157. In 1983, Wilson began serving a 52-year sentence in federal prison +for supplying tons of plastic explosives, assassination gear, high-tech +weapons, and trained personnel to Libya. He is also the main link +between Nugan Hand and key figures in the Iran-contra affair. + +The crowd around Edwin Wilson at the time of Frank Nugan's death in 1980 +included Maj. Gen. Richard Secord, then involved in U.S. military sales +for the Pentagon worldwide; Thomas Clines, a high-ranking CIA official +who went on to run a business founded with Wilson money; Ted Shackley, +deputy chief of the CIA's clandestine services division until his ties +to Edwin Wilson led to his resignation; and Rafael ("Chi Chi") Quintero, +a Bay of Pigs veteran who was hired by Wilson in 1976 for an aborted +plot to assassinate a political opponent of Col. Muammar Qaddafi. +(Quintero says he backed out when he found out the assassinations were +not authorized by the CIA.) + +All of these men would later resurface as players in the Iran-contra +mission: Richard Secord as the man who ran the operation for the White +House; Thomas Clines as Secord's chief aide; Ted Shackley as a +consultant to a company that subsequently was used to fund the contras; +and Chi Chi Quintero as one of the men who supervised the distribution +of arms shipments to the contras in Central America. + +The 1983 Australian Joint Task Force report listed them all as people +whose "background is relevant to a proper understanding of the +activities of the Nugan Hand group and people associated with that +group." The ties between Wilson and his associates, on the one hand, +Nugan Hand, on the other, were many: + +* Shortly after Ted Shackley retired from the CIA and went on to a +career in private business, he began meeting with Michael Hand, the +former Green Beret and CIA contract agent turned banker. Surviving +correspondence between the two men indicates that their relationship +was well established and friendly. + +* Richard Secord told Australian investigators that he had met Bernie +Houghton in 1972 at the home of Colonel Prim. The task force +reported that they saw each other occasionally and socially in +Washington, D.C., Saudi Arabia, and the Netherlands throughout the +middle and late 1970s. + +* In 1979 Secord introduced Houghton to Thomas Clines. The two men +then met repeatedly with Ted Shackley in Washington, which eventually +led to a deal to sell Philippine jeeps to Egypt. (About a year +later, in June, 1980, when criminal investigations into Nugan Hand +were getting under way in Australia, Thomas Clines traveled all the +way to Sydney to accompany Bernie Houghton on his hasty flight out of +Australia.) + +* Bernie Houghton met repeatedly with Edwin Wilson during this period. +About the time of Frank Nugan's death, in January 1980, Thomas Clines +and Chi Chi Quintero dropped by Wilson's Geneva office. There they +found a travel bag full of documents left by Bernie Houghton. +According to task force witnesses, Richard Secord's name was +mentioned as they searched the bag and removed one document. "We've +got to keep Dick's name out of this," said Clines. + +Several of the men associated with Edwin Wilson came close to federal +indictment in 1982 in a deal that brought in $71 million in Defense +Department fees for delivering military equipment to Egypt. The +shipments were made by Clines's company and were overseen by Secord at +the Pentagon. According to Wilson, his bookkeeper-girlfriend, and a +female companion of Clines, profits were to be shared by Secord, Clines, +Shackley, Wilson, and another Pentagon official, Erich von Marbod. And +memos from Wilson's lawyer at the time -- first unearthed by Peter Maas +for his book MANHUNT -- say the profits were to be shared among a +corporation, apparently controlled by Wilson, and four U.S. citizens. + +But federal prosecutors decided the word of these witnesses might fail +against the denials of senior Pentagon officials. Besides, the careers +of Secord and von Marbod seemed -- at least until the Iran-contra affair +-- to have been effectively derailed. Both had resigned from their +posts. So instead of indicting the individuals, the prosecutors +indicted only Clines's company, without saying who, besides Clines and +an Egyptian partner, were thought to be the other investors. (Secord, +Shackley, and von Marbod denied involvement in the company.) + +Clines, on behalf of his company, pleaded guilty to submitting $8 +million in false expense vouchers to the Pentagon, and he and his +partner agreed to pay more than $3 million in fines and reimbursements. +That, however, did not dissuade Richard Secord from hiring Clines as his +deputy in the Iran-contra operation. + +Edwin Wilson, the man who unites all these figures, is the only one who +went to jail, along with a former assistant, Douglas Schlachter. +Schlachter agreed to testify about Wilson's dealings, served a brief +prison term, and then went into the federal witness protection program. +He also led the Australian Joint Task Force to information about Nugan +Hand's involvement in the two covert deals in Iran and Southern Africa. + +Schlachter remembered meeting Secord's friend Bernie Houghton in +Wilson's Washington office with two career CIA officers around the time +of the spy ship sale. Immigration records show that Houghton then +traveled to Iran, in March 1975, apparently for the only time in his +life. And, according to the task force report, he was accompanied by "a +senior serving member of the U.S. Armed Forces." Immigration records +also show that Wilson traveled to Iran twice in subsequent months, once +stopping over first in Sydney. At the time of the spy ship sale, in +1975, the U.S. military program in Iran was being run by General Secord. + +The Pentagon's reply to all this is simple and straightforward: "Any +sort of a sale of that sort would have been under the auspices of Naval +Intelligence Command, and, of course, their activities are classified," +a spokesman says. And he won't comment further. + +By 1975, Michael Hand was bored with banking. He told friends he wanted +to leave his desk and neckties behind for new challenges. He talked of +places where combat, which he dearly loved to reminisce about, was still +going on. He left Australia to go fight "communism" in Africa. + +From South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Michael Hand telephoned +and telexed Nugan Hand's Sydney office with long lists of weapons +ranging from handguns to machine guns and mortars. A Nugan Hand staffer +was dispatched from Sydney to discuss these needs directly with Hand. +The timing of these activities coincides exactly with the CIA's raising +of arms and men on the black market for covert intervention in Angola's +civil war. + +Meanwhile, Bernie Houghton held a series of meetings with Edwin Wilson +at Wilson's Washington office. Wilson then placed Nugan Hand's order +for 10 million of rounds of ammunition and 3000 weapons. The weapons +were believed to have been shipped from Boston to a phony destination in +Portugal. (False documentation filed in Portugal was also used in the +Iran-contra arms shipments.) Ultimately, according to the task force +report, the shipment was probably received by Michael Hand in southern +Africa and then shipped to CIA-supported fighters in Angola. + +The final judgment rendered by the task force shows some naivete about +how the CIA has actually conducted covert operations over the years. +"All things taken into account," the task force report states, "the +operation is considered likely to have been carried out as a result of +private entrepreneurial activity as opposed to one officially sanctioned +and executed by U.S. intelligence authorities." + +For those who haven't paid much attention to CIA style over the years, +perhaps the main problem in understanding Nugan Hand has been this +seemingly analytical choice between "private entrepreneurial activity" +on the one hand and "officially sanctioned" activity on the other. In +fact, as the Iran-Contra operation clearly shows, the two have never +been clearly distinguished. In phrasing the choice, one may +inadvertently rule out what is really the most likely explanation. + +It is possible, in fact customary, for a CIA-related business to be both +private and for-profit, and yet also have a close, mutually beneficial +relationship with the agency. The men running such a business are +employed exactly as if it were a private concern -- which it is. But +they may have been steered to their jobs by the CIA, and they never +forget the need to exchange favors. + +According to Victor Marchetti, a former CIA officer who coauthored a +best-selling book on the agency whose accuracy has never been +questioned, Nugan Hand seems to fall in the category of an independent +organization, closely allied with the CIA. "It doesn't seem to be a +proprietary in the full sense of the word, that is, owned and controlled +by the agency, nor does it seem to be a simple front organization. It +seems to be more of an independent organization with former CIA people +connected with it, and they're in business to make money, but because of +their close personal relationship with the agency, they will do favors +for the agency." These favors might include laundering money and +providing cover for agents, or for any highly secret activity the agency +is involved in but doesn't want to be connected to. The agency, in +turn, might use its influence to throw business the company's way, or to +offer the company protection from criminal investigation. + +CIA men on covert missions do not identify themselves as such. But +those exposed to the culture of spying learn how to interpret the word +of members of the spying community, whether active or retired. They +know, as any Mafia member does, that the business of the organization +cannot always be identified by an official seal. But it can be +recognized nonetheless. + +It is in this sense that one must judge what Nugan Hand was, and what +moral responsibility the United States government has for what Nugan +Hand did. + +No one has been convicted of a crime for the Nugan Hand Bank's +activities. Frank Nugan died in his Mercedes -- although gossipy +newspapers, consumed by the scandal, would occasionally report that he'd +been spotted in far-flung places. Suspicion grew so wild that in +February 1981 Australian officials ordered Nugan's body exhumed, just to +put everyone's mind at ease. Michael Hand fled Australia in June 1980, +with a false passport and a fake beard, accompanied by another former +U.S. intelligence operative. His whereabouts are still unknown. Bernie +Houghton disappeared at roughly the same time (accompanied by Thomas +Clines). But unlike Hand, Houghton had done most of his stealing +outside Australia. Once it was clear that the investigations were +rather toothless, he returned there in October 1981, again as a barkeep, +with a few years of part-time banking in his past. Admiral Yates, +General Manor, and the other retired military officers stayed beyond the +reach of Australian authorities and have never testified under oath. + +The legitimate security interests of the United States certainly require +a large and efficient intelligence operation. [snort -jpg] But the +people and organizations that make up what is called the intelligence +community in the U.S. government have gone far beyond the gathering of +intelligence. In many cases, the word *intelligence* has been used as a +cover for covert and unconstitutional acts of war and civil crime. + +The public, here and abroad, knows it, and respect for law itself is +dissipated. Dope peddlers and weapons smugglers almost universally +claim to be working for the CIA, and many can prove they really are. +The connections have prevented prosecution even in cases where the +crimes themselves were never authorized, and law enforcement is confused +and corrupted. + +When agents of the United States steal, when they get involved in drug +deals, how far should the patriotic cloak be granted by national policy +stretch to cover them? Does it cover an agent who lines his pockets in +side deals while working in the name of national security? What acts +lie beyond a presidential directive to do "whatever is necessary"? When +has license been granted, and when has it simply been taken? + +What the Nugan Hand affair should have established, and what the Contra-gate scandal makes even clearer, is that the license to commit crimes in +the name of national security has been granted too often and too +lightly. Without a recognition of this central fact, scandal will follow +scandal. The nation's moral capital will continue to be squandered. And +the country's real, legitimate security interests will be seriously and +repeatedly damaged by the twisted values of self-appointed "patriots." +

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THE HERITAGE OF ECONOMIC LIBERTY

+ +

By RICHARD M. EBELING

+ +

For the Founding Fathers, economic liberty was inseparable +from the case for political freedom. Many of the grievances +enumerated in the Declaration of Independence concern British +infringements on the free movement of goods and men between +the thirteen colonies and the rest of the world.

+ +

It was not a coincidence that the same year that saw the +Declaration of Independence also saw the publication of Adam +Smith's Wealth of Nations. Both represented the ideas of the +age. When Smith spoke of a "system of natural liberty" in +which, "every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of +justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interests +his own way and to bring both his industry and capital into +competition with those of other men," he was expressing the +economic vision of most of those who fought for freedom from +British imperialism in the thirteen colonies.

+ +

Following independence, the thirteen independent states were +loosely bound together by the Articles of Confederation. Many +of the Founding Fathers, however, raised concerns about +economic policies which the sovereign states were +implementing. They had introduced various forms of economic +nationalism into their relationships with not only European +countries, but also among themselves.

+ +

They imposed tariffs against the goods of other states. They +gave monopoly trading privileges to their respective citizens +in various lines of manufacturing and commerce. They passed +legal tender laws excluding or hampering the free choice in +media of exchange by private individuals. They entered into +trade wars with each other. Having broken free from the +shackles of British mercantilism when they declared their +independence in 1776, by the late 1780s the sovereign states +were all practicing that against which they had fought in the +war for independence.

+ +

To overcome these economic barriers, the writers of the +Constitution (that replaced the Articles of Confederation in +1787) included in Article 1, Section 8 that, "the Congress +shall have the Power . . . To regulate Commerce with foreign +Nations, and among the several States . . ."

+ +

For many, the meaning of "to regulate" in the Constitution was +meant to prohibit economic nationalism and make the several +states a single, unified free trade area. Most of the Founding +Fathers were very familiar with the free trade ideas of +Scotsmen like Adam Smith and David Hume and their French +colleagues, the Physiocrats. They knew that these free traders +were correct when they advocated the free movement of goods, +men, and ideas from one part of the globe to another. Freedom +and prosperity were to be linked together in one system of +human liberty.

+ +

The philosophy of wide economic freedom was believed in and +advocated during most of the 19th century. Said Daniel +Webster, for example, in 1814: "It is the true policy of +government to suffer the different pursuits of society to take +their own course, and not to give excessive bounty or +encouragement to one over another. This also is the true +spirit of the Constitution. It has not, in my opinion, +conferred on the government the power of changing the +occupation of the people of different states and sections and +of forcing them into other employments."

+ +

The same view was still respectable and defended toward the +end of the nineteenth century. President Grover Cleveland, in +his 1893 inaugural address, "condemned the injustice of +maintaining protection . . . . It perverts the patriotic +sentiment of our countrymen, and tempts them to a pitiful +calculation of the sordid gain to be derived from their +government maintenance. It undermines the self-reliance of our +people, and substitutes in its place dependence upon +governmental favoritism." It created, President Cleveland +said, the spirit of governmental "paternalism."

+ +

While the United States government never completely removed +itself from the economic affairs of the people, broad economic +freedom was more the rule than the exception in the last +century. Why? To quote Daniel Webster once more, "The general +sense of this age sets with a strong current in favor of +freedom of commercial intercourse and unrestrained action." +Economic liberty, Webster argued, was "the general tide of +opinion."

+ +

In our time, the general tide of opinion in the United States +has not been kind to either freedom of commercial intercourse +or unrestrained individual action. The reverse has been the +case. Listen to two voices from the contemporary business +community.

+ +

Lee Iacocca believes that, "the 1980s were a time of quick +bucks, greed, and a lot of corruption . . . . [W]e've got to +work and pull this country up by its bootstrap." And Mr. +Iacocca sees an important role for government in guiding us +away from our "lustful and greedy" ways.

+ +

Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer, argues that, "getting +rid of General Noriega is important, but I wish the computer +industry would get a tenth of the space on our national agenda +that he has. We have to make these issues national +priorities." Technological achievements are still possible for +America, he believes, through "government leadership." The +problem is that "the private sector [is] dancing to its short-run tune," while government leadership can offer us the long-term vision for intelligent decision-making.

+ +

Many economists no longer share Adam Smith's vision. Lester +Thurow, dean of the Sloan School of Management at MIT, says +that the Japanese "pick out an industry to conquer" and unless +we (read: the government) do something to stop their invasion +of America, "they" will own and control and "we" will work and +obey. Edward Ellwood, of the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of +Government, insists that, "We also need to make sure everybody +has medical protection outside of the welfare state. Every +other major industrialized country has found a way to do this. +In the next ten years, we will do the same . . . . We ought to +move toward a uniform national system of child support with +payments deducted automatically by the government from the +employer."

+ +

For one hundred years, Adam Smith's economic system of natural +liberty has been under attack. The idea that men, left to +their own decisions, can make better choices for themselves +than a paternalistic government, and that free men interacting +with each other through voluntary exchange can produce more +wealth and prosperity than any form of government planning or +intervention, has been denied and often ridiculed.

+ +

At the same time, the Marxist view of society has permeated +the conscience of the world, including America. Great wealth +and financial success bear the stigma of unscrupulous behavior +and deceitful conduct. How could a person or company have +accumulated so much wealth and influence in a market unless +they have been dishonest and exploitive? Besides, why does +anyone need so much while so many in the society still have so +little?

+ +

The only solution to government regulation and redistribution +of wealth in 20th century America is an amendment to the +Constitution that recognizes and guarantees a separation of +the economy and the State. Only the establishment of economic +freedom on a par with freedom of speech, religion and the +press can assure that there will be fewer ambiguities +concerning the rights of the people and their economic +affairs.

+ +

But such a constitutional reform will not be possible until +there occurs a change in "the general tide of opinion." Not +until people fully realize that the cherished freedoms under +the Constitution are truly protected only with inviolatable +private ownership of all property; not until people are +convinced that each man is a better judge of his own affairs +than any economic planner or social engineer; not until there +is a firm belief that a man has a right to that which he has +honestly produced or acquired through voluntary exchange; not +until it is recognized that redistribution of wealth through +the political process is merely one person plundering another +via the use of an elected middle man--will we be able to +remove the power of Congress to regulate and intrude into +peaceful and mutually-beneficial economic activities of the +American people.

+ +

This Fourth of July, as we wave the flag and watch the rockets +red glare, let us also, as the Founding Fathers, "mutually +pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred +Honor" to awaken in ourselves, and all those with whom we +interact, a renewed faith in free men and an understanding of +the peace and prosperity that can only come from unhampered +free markets and free trade.

+ +

Professor Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of +Economics at Hillsdale College in Michigan and also serves as +Vice-President of Academic Affairs of The Future of Freedom +Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +From the July 1990 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1990, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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Article: 468 of sgi.talk.ratical +From: dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe) +Subject: memorandum by J.E. Hoover on 11/29/63 re: his meeting with LBJ +Keywords: J.E. Hoover's FBI "spoon fed" the Warren Comission its data +Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. +Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1992 19:29:31 GMT +Lines: 577

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Summary: The second half of this post includes the copy of a memorandum +written by J. Edgar Hoover immediately after he met w/LBJ in +the Oval Office seven days after President Kennedy had been +murdered. The first half analyzes some of the more remarkable +details of this memo.

+ +

In 1963, John Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Baines Johnson knew each other +very well. They had lived across the street from each other for the +past 19 years. A professional bureaucrat of formidable talents, a 29-year-old Hoover was appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation +in 1924 (Hoover added "Federal" to the title in 1935) by then Attorney +General Harlan F. Stone to clean up a corrupt organization. During +WWII, President Roosevelt expanded the FBI's reach charging Hoover with +investigations of Nazi and Communist activities in the U.S. The Cold +War gave the Bureau new power and Hoover new glory. Hoover's dossiers +continued to grow as well as his command of Congress, his manipulation +and intimidation of the press, and his stature in the country. Hoover +supplied Joe McCarthy with a great deal of the ammunition which enabled +McCarthy to sustain his "crusade" far longer than would have been +possible without Hoover's connivance. + +When Robert Kennedy became Attorney General in 1961, Hoover's +entrenched power-structures suffered a two-year, 10-month setback. +Long before 1961, Hoover had created a direct channel of communication +with whoever was the current occupant of the Oval Office--bypassing the +actual chain of command which went from the President, through the +Attorney General, to Director of the FBI.

+ +

When LBJ assumed the Presidency, Hoover's direct link into the White +House was re-established. Johnson's official relationship with Hoover +was enhanced by personal friendship as well. "As majority leader [in +the Senate], Johnson already had neen receiving a steady stream of +reports and dossiers from the Director . . . which he prized both as +a means of controlling difficult senators and as a gratification of +earthier instincts. For President Johnson, secrets were in themselves +perquisites of power . . . No chief executive praised the Director so +warmly. In an executive order exempting Hoover, then sixty nine, from +compulsory retirement at seventy, Johnson hailed him as 'a quiet, +humble and magnificent public servant . . . a hero to millions of +citizens and an anathema to all evil men. . . . The nation cannot +afford to lose you . . . No other American, now or in our past, has +served the cause of justice so faithfully and so well' ("Johnson Hails +Hoover Service, Waives Compulsory Retirement," NYT, May 9, 1964)." +-- from "The Age of Surveillance, The Aims and Methods of America's +Political Intelligence System," by Frank Donner, (c) 1980, Knopf.

+ +

The following memorandum, written by Hoover immediately after his +meeting with President Johnson, just seven days after the assassination +of President Kennedy, is a remarkable document to say the least. There +is much information imparted in the memo regarding just how fluid and +unstable the cover story about who killed JFK still was shaping up to be +at that time. By analyzing the discrepancies between the story Hoover +briefed Johnson about on November 29th, and what the final cover story +handed down by the Warren Commission would claim almost a year later, +we can better appreciate the degree to which the final "official report" +was sculpted to fit the constraints the Commission was forced to adhere +to, regardless of the actual facts of the assassination.

+ +

This document is what is known in bureaucracy-speak as a "memo for the +record." It was a customary practice in the upper levels of the +bureaucracy in the days before electronic technology in Washington, D.C. +An official of high rank would usually return to her or his office +after such a meeting and dictate a memorandum of as many details of the +discussion as could be remembered. It was a way of recording one's own +professional dealings for future reference.

+ +

Hoover starts out recounting that Johnson brings up "the proposed group" +--what will become the Warren Commission--to study the report Hoover is +trying to complete by the end of the same day. This has been initiated +by Johnson to prevent an independent investigation by Congress of the +assassination (Reagan tried to do the same thing with the Tower +Commission). Johnson would publically announce the creation of the +Warren Commission later that same day. This was a critical move by +Johnson: by appointing the Warren Commission, they effectively bottled +up Bobby Kennedy, they bottled up the Senate, and they bottled up Texas. +The Tower Commission didn't succeed in pre-empting an investigation by +Congress. In the end, the Warren Commission didn't either, but it did +keep the cork in place, preventing any other "official" examination, for +well over another decade.

+ +

It is interesting to note that of all the people listed at the bottom of +page one, retired General Lauris Norstad (who had been head of the NATO +forces at SHAPE headquarters in Europe before his retirement) was the +only one who somehow succeeded in not serving on this Presidential +Commission. Earl Warren did NOT want the job and had sent a memo ahead +to the Oval Office, before he answered LBJ's summons, stating he would +not participate in such a commission. But when push came to shove, +Johnson's formidable powers of persuasion turned Warren's 'no' into a +'yes.' Apparently, even such focused persuasion could not win Norstad's +agreement.

+ +

The six topic bullets at the bottom of page one are file listings. This +is important for anyone ever finding themself searching for documents +from the government through Freedom Of Information Act requests. This +type of listing is very useful beccause it lets one know that these +files exist, and that one might be able to find documents using this +method which one might not find (or even know about) any other way.

+ +

In the middle of the first paragraph on page 3, Hoover relates how the +Dallas police didn't even make a move to stop Ruby. This is a pretty +heavy line by Hoover. He implies the Dallas cops must have somehow +been in collusion to silence Oswald from living to stand trial. But +the implication is never fleshed out.

+ +

The second half of page three contains some of the most enlightening +statements of the whole memo. Hoover tells Johnson three shots were +fired. Johnson asks "if any were fired at him." This question goes +a long way towards explaining the duress under which he served as +president. LBJ had heard bullets flying overhead--he had been that +close to the action. It was completely out of keeping with the +standard security procedures the Secret Service employed to have any +such parade appearance be attended by *both* the president and the +vice president. Johnson heard the sounds of those guns very clearly +and the message they conveyed. He lived out the rest of his public +life always aware of their possible return. Not long before he died, +LBJ was interviewed by his friend and writer Leo Janos. In the July, +1973 issue of "The Atlantic Monthly," Janos relates that LBJ told him:

+ +

1. "that the assassination in Dallas had been part of a conspiracy; +2. "I never believed that Oswald acted alone . . .; +3. "we had been operating a damned Murder Inc. in the Carribean."

+ +

The presence of the vice president 2 cars behind the president in the +parade in Dallas was a fundamental breach of the level of security +normally adhered to by the Secret Service. He took the experience back +with him to the White House and never forgot its meaning. He could +just as easily be snuffed out if he ever got out of line.

+ +

Then there follows a most curious and confused explanation by Hoover of +the three shots fired: "the President was hit by the first and third +bullets and the second hit the Governor". Obviously Hoover did not yet +know about the injury suffered by James Tague. Tague's face was nicked +by a bullet fragment (or a fragment from the curb it hit) which missed +the limousene entirely and struck the curb at his feet, approximately +160 feet past the location of the president's car. This shot would end +up having to be one of "the three bullets fired" in the official story.

+ +

Johnson then explicitly asks again "were they aimed at the President." +It would appear that LBJ needed repeated assurance by Hoover that no one +had intended to shoot him. Hoover then says a mouthful when he states +"I further advised him that we have also tested the fact you could fire +those three shots in three seconds." Apparently they did not yet +understand the implications of the Zapruder film (or perhaps they were +confident they would be successful in never allowing the public to gain +any kind of access to it) and that it would be used as a clock. + +Probably the most confused statements Hoover recounts making are when +he describes for Johnson's benefit how Connally was hit: "I explained +that Connally turned to the President when the first shot was fired and +in that turning he got hit. The President then asked, if Connally had +not been in his seat, would the President have been hit by the second +shot. I said yes." All we can conclude about this muddled explanation +is that Hoover was doing his best to explain things that he himself did +not understand or appreciate the complexity of.

+ +

Hoover goes on to claim they found the gun and three shells on the fifth +floor. As you can see at this point, the number of variations on what +would become the official cover story are quite numerous. All of the +the facts of the assassination were working against them. They had +a story all worked out--3 seconds, 3 shots, fifth floor--and yet they +didn't know the facts.

+ +

Fletcher Prouty commented on this issue to me while we were discussing +this memo recently. "It reminds me so much of when the U-2 was lost and +the guys from NASA began to explain the U-2 flight until a couple of +days later when somebody told them, 'hey--it wasn't a NASA flight, we +can't do it that way.' And they began to change the cover story. But +then Kruschev said, 'Look, I've got the pilot, I know the story.' The +U-2 boys used to work across the hall from me--I'd see them coming and +going--oh they were shattered, because their cover story had been +totally wrong. So Hoover is in the same kind of a box here--he is +trying to explain something that is nothing but a cover story, and +almost everytime he turns around, he finds there's another hole in it."

+ +

Near the end Johnson extolls the virtues of his relationship to Hoover +stating "I was more than head of the FBI - I was his brother and personal +friend; that he knew I did not want anything to happen to his family; +that he has more confidence in me than anybody in town." Pretty +laudatory words which substantiate the unusally close rapport these two +men had. Then Hoover writes that Johnson tells him "he would not embroil +me in a jurisdictional dispute. . . " This was the reference to Bobby +Kennedy and the pre-empting of any other legitimate, independent and +official investigation that would NOT be under the control of the FBI. +They would see to it that there would not be the kind of "rash of +investigations" Hoover said at the beginning of this meeting "would be a +three-ring circus." + +It is a known fact that in his later years Hoover's meglomania +approached epic proportions. He had various reasons why he did not want +any independent investigation which would *not* be dependent upon his +agency for the collection of data and use of his investigative staff. +Johnson was feeling quite vulnerable in these first days and was +very dependent on Hoover to tell him what to do concerning how to +consolidate his position and "reassure" the nation the assassination +was not political in any way, but rather the random occurence of a lone +sick mind. That was the only approach to take if they wanted to avoid +having to deal with why Kennedy had been killed. By de-politicizing +the assassination, they were able to ignore the basic question of why.

+ +

This memorandum shows that the people in the federal government who were +responsible for creating the Warren Commission, and giving it only a +very selected and specific set of "data" by which they reached the +conclusions that became the official report, that they did not start +with the final cover story--they created it later because even Hoover +and Johnson didn't know about it a week after the event. They were still +making things up a week later. It goes back to the old truth that it's a +big mistake to overestimate the abilities and knowledge of people--even +in high office. They can make pretty stupid mistakes and then when they +have to recant their stories, you are left with the kind of contrivance +we know as the Warren Report.

+ +

--ratitor

+ +

-- +daveus rattus

+ +

yer friendly neighborhood ratman

+ +

KOYAANISQATSI

+ +

ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. +5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.

+ +
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+ +

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE +FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

+ +

WASHINGTON __, D.C.

+ +

1:39 p.m. November 29, 1963

+ +

MEMORANDUM FOR MR. TOLSON +MR. BELMONT +MR. MOHR +MR. CONRAD +MR. DE LOACH +MR. EVANS +MR. ROSEN +MR. SULLIVAN

+ +

The President called and asked if I am familiar with the proposed +group they are trying to get to study my report - two from the House, +two from the Senate, two from the courts, and a couple of outsiders. I +replied that I had not heard of that but had seen reports from the +Senate Investigating Committee.

+ +

The President stated he wanted to get by just with my file and my +report. I told him I thought it would be very bad to have a rash of +investigations. He then indicated the only way to stop it is to +appoint a high-level committee to evaluate my report and tell the House +and Senate not to go ahead with the investigation. I stated that would +be a three-ring circus.

+ +

The President then asked what I think about Allen Dulles, and I +replied that he is a good man. He then asked about John McCloy, and I +stated I am not as enthusiastic about McCloy, that he is a good man but +I am not so certain as to the matter of publicity he might want. The +President then mentioned General (Lauris) Norstad, and I said he is a +good man. He said in the House he might try (Hale) Boggs and (Gerald +R.) Ford and in the Senate (Richard B.) Russell and (John Sherman) +Cooper. I asked him about Cooper and he indicated Cooper of Kentucky +whom he described as a judicial man, stating he would not want (Jacob +K.) Javits. I agreed on this point. He then reiterated Ford of +Michigan, and I indicated I know of him but do not know him and had +never seen him except on television the other day and that he handled +himself well on television. I indicated that I do know Boggs.

+ +

Johnson, President Lyndon B. +Assassination of President John F. Kennedy +Presidential Commission on Assassination +of President John F. Kennedy +Security - Presidential +Presidential Conferences +Presidential Travel Security

+ +
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Memorandum for Messrs. Tolson, Belmont, Mohr, November 29, 1963 +Conrad, DeLoach, Evans, Rosen, Sullivan

+ +

The President then mentioned that (Walter) Jenkins had told him that +I have designated Mr. DeLoach to work with them as he had on the Hill. +He indicated they appreciated that and just wanted to tell me they +consider Mr. DeLoach as high class as I do, and that they salute me for +knowing how to pick good men.

+ +

I advised the President that we hope to have the investigation +wrapped up today but probably won't have it before the first of the week +as an angle in Mexico is giving trouble - the matter of Oswald's getting +$6500 from the Cuban Embassy and coming back to this country with it; +that we are not able to prove that fact; that we have information he +was there on September 18 and we are able to prove he was in New Orleans +on that date; that a story came in changing the date to September 28 +and he was in Mexico on the 28th. I related that the police have again +arrested Duran, a member of the Cuban Embassy; that they will hold her +two or three days; will confront her with the original informant; and +will also try a lie detector test on her.

+ +

The President then inquired if I pay any attention to the lie +detector test. I answered that I would not pay 100% attention to them; +that it was only a psychological asset in investigation; that I would +not want to be a part of sending a man to the chair on a lie detector +test. I explained that we have used them in bank investigations and a +person will confess before the lie detector test is finished, more or +less fearful it will show him guilty. I said the lie detector test has +this psychological advantage. I further stated that it is a misnomer to +call it a lie detector since the evaluation of the chart made by the +machine is made by a human being and any human being is apt to make the +wrong interpretation.

+ +

I stated, if Oswald had lived and had take a lie detector test, this +with the evidence we have would have added that much strength to the +case; that these is no question he is the man.

+ +

I also told him that Rubenstein down there has offered to take a lie +detector test but his lawyer must be consulted first; that I doubt the +lawyer will allow him to do so; that he has a West Coast lawyer +somewhat like the Edward Bennett Williams type and almost as much of a +shyster.

+ +

The President asked if we have any relationship between the two +(Oswald and Rubenstein) as yet. I replied that at the present time we have

+ +

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Memorandum for Messrs. Tolson, Belmont, Mohr, November 29, 1963 +Conrad, DeLoach, Evans, Rosen, Sullivan

+ +

not; that there was a story that the fellow had been in Rubenstein's +nightclub but it has not been confirmed. I told the President that +Rubenstein is a very seedy character, had a bad record - street brawls, +fights, etc.; that in Dallas, if a fellow came into his nightclub and +could not pay his bill completely, Rubenstein would beat him up and +throw him out; that he did not drink or smoke; that he was an +egomaniac; that he likes to be in the limelight; knew all of the +police officers in the white light district; let them come in and get +food and liquor, etc.; and that is how I think he got into police +headquarters. I said if they ever made any move, the pictures did not +show it even when they saw him approach and he got right up to Oswald +and pressed the pistol against Oswald's stomach; that neither officer +on either side made any effort to grab Rubenstein - not until after the +pistol was fired. I said, secondly, the chief of police admits he moved +Oswald in the morning as a convenience and at the request of motion +picture people who wanted daylight. I said insofar as tying Rubenstein +and Oswald together, we have not yet done so; that there are a number +of stories which tied Oswald to the Civil Liberties Union in New York in +which he applied for membership and to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee +which is pro-Castro, directed by communists, and financed to some extent +by the Castro Government.

+ +

The President asked how many shots were fired, and I told him three. +He then asked if any were fired at him. I said no, that three shots +were fired at the President and we have them. I stated that our +ballistic experts were able to prove the shots were fired by this gun; +that the President was hit by the first and third bullets and the second +hit the Governor; that there were three shots; that one complete +bullet rolled out of the President's head; that it tore a large part of +the President's head off; that in trying to massage his heart on the +way into the hospital they loosened the bullet which fell on the +stretcher and we have that.

+ +

He then asked were they aimed at the President. I replied they were +aimed at the President, no question about that.

+ +

I further advised him that we have also tested the fact you could +fire those three shots in three seconds. I explained that there is a +story out that there must have been more than one man to fire several +shots but we have proven it could be done by one man.

+ +

The President then asked how it happened that Connally was hit. I +explained that Connally turned to the President when the first shot was +fired and in that turning he got hit. The President then asked, if +Connally had not been in his seat, would the President have been hit by +the second shot. I said yes.

+ +

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Memorandum for Messrs. Tolson, Belmont, Mohr, November 29, 1963 +Conrad, DeLoach, Evans, Rosen, Sullivan

+ +

I related that on the fifth floor of the building where we found the +gun and the wrapping paper we found three empty shells that had been +fired and one that had not been fired. that he had four but didn't fire +the fourth; then threw the gun aside; went down the steps; was seen +by a police officer; the manager told the officer that Oswald was all +right, worked there; they let him go; he got on a bus; went to his +home and got a jacket; then came back downtown, walking; the police +officer who was killed stopped him, not knowing who he was; and he +fired and killed the police officer.

+ +

The President asked if we can prove that and I answered yes.

+ +

I further related that Oswald then walked another two blocks; went +to the theater; the woman selling tickets was so suspicious - said he +was carrying a gun when he went into the theater - that she notified the +police; the police and our man went in and located Oswald. I told him +they had quite a struggle with Oswald but that he was subdued and shown +out and taken to police headquarters.

+ +

I advised the President that apparently Oswald had come down the +steps from the fifth floor; that apparently the elevator was not used.

+ +

The President then indicated our conclusions are: (1) he is the one +who did it; (2) after the President was hit, Governor Connally was hit; +(3) the President would have been hit three times except for the fact +that Governor Connally turned after the first shot and was hit by the +second; (4) whether he was connected with the Cuban operation with +money we are trying to nail down. I told him that is what we are trying +to nail down; that we have copies of the correspondence; that none of +the letters dealt with any indication of violence or assassination; +that they were dealing with a visa to go back to Russia.

+ +

I advised the President that his wife had been very hostile, would +not cooperate and speaks only Russian; that yesterday she said , if we +could give assurance she would be allowed to remain in the country, she +would cooperate; and that I told our agents to give that assurance and +sent a Russian-speaking agent to Dallas last night to interview her. I +said I do not know whether or not she has any information but we would +learn what we could.

+ +

The President asked how Oswald had access to the fifth floor of the +building. I replied that he had access to all floors. The President +asked where was his office and I stated he did not have any particular +place; that he

+ +

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Memorandum for Messrs. Tolson, Belmont, Mohr, November 29, 1963 +Conrad, DeLoach, Evans, Rosen, Sullivan

+ +

was not situated in any particular place; that he was just a general +packer of requisitions that came in for books from Dallas schools; that +he would have had proper access to the fifth and sixth floors whereas +usually the employees were down on lower floors. The President then +inquired if anybody saw him on the fifth floor, and I stated he was seen +by one of the workmen before the assassination.

+ +

The President then asked if we got a picture taken of him shooting +the gun and I said no. He asked what was the picture sold for $25000, +and I advised him this was a picture of the parade showing Mrs. Kennedy +crawling out of the back seat; that there was no Secret Service Agent +on the back of the car; that in the past they have added steps on the +back of the car and usually had an agent on either side standing on the +bumper; that I did not know why this was not done - that the President +may have requested it; that the bubble top was not up but I understand +the bubble top was not worth anything because it was made entirely of +plastic; that I had learned much to my surprise that the Secret Service +does not have any armored cars.

+ +

The President asked if I have a bulletproof car and I told him I +most certainly have. I told him we use it here for my own use and, +whenever we have any raids, we make use of the bulletproof car on them. +I explained that it is a limousine which has been armorplated and that +it looks exactly like any other car. I stated I think the President +ought to have a bulletproof car; that from all I understand the Secret +Service has had two cars with metal plates underneath the car to take +care of hand grenades or bombs thrown out on the street. I said this is +European; that there have been several such attempts on DeGaulle's +life; but they do not do that in this country; that all assassinations +have been with guns; and for that reason I think very definitely the +President ought to always ride in a bulletproof car; that it certainly +would prevent anything like this ever happening again; but that I do +not mean a sniper could not snipe him from a window if he were exposed.

+ +

The President asked if I meant on his ranch he should be in a +bulletproof car. I said I would think so; that the little car we rode +around in when I was at the ranch should be bulletproofed; that it +ought to be done very quietly. I told him we have four bulletproof cars +in the Bureau: one on the West Coast, one in New York and two here. I +said this could be done quietly without publicity and without pictures +taken of it if handled properly and I think he should have one on his +ranch.

+ +

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+ +
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Memorandum for Messrs. Tolson, Belmont, Mohr, November 29, 1963 +Conrad, DeLoach, Evans, Rosen, Sullivan

+ +

The President then asked if I think all the entrances should be +guarded. I replied by all means, that he had almost to be in the +capacity of a so-called prisoner because without that security anything +could be done. I told him lots of phone calls had been received over +the last four or five days about threats on his life; that I talked to +the Attorney General about the funeral procession from the White House +to the Cathedral; that I was opposed to it. The President remarked +that the Secret Service told them not to but the family wanted to do it. +I stated that was what the Attorney General told me but I was very much +opposed to it. I further related that I saw the procession from the +Capitol to the White House on Pennsylvania and, while they had police +standing on the curbs, when the parade came, the police turned around +and looked at the parade.

+ +

The President then stated he is going to take every precaution he +can; that he wants to talk to me; and asked if I would put down my +thoughts. He stated I was more than head of the FBI - I was his brother +and personal friend; that he knew I did not want anything to happen to +his family; that he has more confidence in me than anybody in town; +that he would not embroil me in a jurisdictional dispute; but that he +did want to have my thoughts on the matter to advocate as his own +opinion.

+ +

I stated I would be glad to do this for him and that I would do +anything I can. The President expressed his appreciation.

+ +

Very truly yours,

+ +

[signed J. E. H.]

+ +

John Edgar Hoover +Director

+ +

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NEW FBI ATTEMPTS AT SECURE COMMUNICATION

+ +

COPYRIGHT (C) 1991 BY FULL DISCLOSURE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

+ +

The FBI has spent many millions of dollars attempting to obtain secure +communications by various voice encryption methods, with limited success.

+ +

The GAO Report of March 8, 1988, "FBI Voice Privacy, Cost, Status, and +Future Direction'' provides much insight into the difficulties the FBI has +had establishing a secure communications system.

+ +

The FBI's original estimate for establishing a digial voice protection system +was $79.3 million.

+ +

The March 8th report indicates that "[b]ecause the FBI's estimated savings +cited in the table are very preliminary and are not supported by formal field +surveys or other documentation, we continue to believe that the $204.4 +million and the latest $205.8 million estimate for the nationwide voice +privacy program appear to be unrealistic.''

+ +

A big part of the major cost overrun was a lack of technological review of +what they were getting into.

+ +

"Our Feburary 1987 report explains that the technological impact of range +loss on the DVP system was one factor that increased the FBI cost estimates +from $79.3 million to $204.4 million. In the report, we say that 'the FBI +recognized in its 1979 to 1981 research that the communications range of DVP +technology was less than the range of the old, unsecure system, but it did +not consider the impact of this reduction.' The FBI says that this statement +is 'totally in error because we did recognize range loss and did consider its +impact.

+ +

"In a follow-up discussion, a key FBI official who is knowledgable about the +voice privacy cost estimate process told us that the FBI did not consider +range loss in the $79.3 million estimate and emphasized that an engineering +consultant firm developed the estimate as part of a comparison of analog +versus digital voice privacy technologies. According to this official, range +loss was not serious considered until the FBI prepared the $132.4 million +estimate. The FBI says that its methodology for developing the $132.4 million +estimate included doubled the number of repeaters to compensate for the DVP +range loss.

+ +

However, a 1984 from the Deputy Assistant Director, Technical Services +Division, the following range loss problems were described: "The Motorola +DVP/DES [Data Encryption Standard] system has a loss in range as a penalty +for the effectiveness of the digital voice privacy. Experience in the six +cities has demonstrated that to equal the existing geographic coverage, there +is an 80%-100% increase in so called fixed station equipment (e.g. repeaters, +cross band sites, and backbone equipment).''

+ +

Much of the FBI's difficults seems to be from a lack of proper management. +According to the GAO report, "[d]uring our review, we could not find any +evidence that a long range plan for the nationwide DVP program had been +prepared, and FBI officials confirmed that a written plan did not exist. The +FBI contends that it was not feasable to prepare a formal plan for the DVP +program, within time and manpower constraints. In follow-up discussions about +their response to our report, FBI official emphasized that DVP is a threat +driven system and told us that it was a management decision to go full speed +ahead rather than plan.

+ +

Now, the FBI is trying to solve the problem with frequency hopping radios. +According to Daniel Miller, Contracting Officer for the FBI, 45 PH-26 +(portable frequency hopping radios) and 20 MH-26 (mobile frequency hopping +radios) along with numerous accessories, including 2 repeaters were purchased +on September 24, 1990.

+ +

These radios are not FCC approved radio equipment and the FBI has a +sole-source contract for them with Transcrypt International, Inc., 1440 +Buckingham Dr, Lincoln, NE 68506, Phone: (402) 483-2961, Fax: (402) 435-6780, +Telex: 466146.

+ +

According to Transcrypt's brochure, "encryption insures that no outside +party can understand radio transmissions, an encrypted radio signal has a +very distinctive sound; and with the right equipment, it can be jammed, +intercepted, or the source located.''

+ +

Transcrypt refused to provide Full Disclosure with pricing information and +that information was not available from the Government by press time. The +going rate for this type of equipment, however is said to be approximately +$10000 per radio. Transcrypt will only sell the radio within the United +States to law enforcement agencies.

+ +

Even though their brochure claims that both the public and private sectors +outside the United States have the need for this type of secure +communications (no mention is made that the private sector within the United +States has such needs), a company spokesman seemed skeptical that the State +Department would approve the radios for export.

+ +

The idea behind frequency hopping radios is that rather than transmitting +constantly on one frequency, the frequency is changed many times per second +in a pseudo-random fashion. These radios switch from 12 to 50 times per +second, between any channels in a programmable window of the 148-174Mhz band. +The window size is programmable between 100Khz and 1.6Mhz. Therefore, if the +window size was set to 1.6Mhz and the window was located at 165.000mhz, the +transmissions would occur only on frequencys between 165.000mhz and +166.600mhz.

+ +

Therefore, with a standard scanner one would not notice the existence of such +transmission, nor be able to pin point them. Monitoring one of the +frequencies it used in its hopping sequence would result only in a burst of +noise 1/12 to 1/50 of a second in duration.

+ +

Another brochure from Transcrypt quotes from Communications Africa a claim +that "there are very few countries in which the equipment and expertise are +available to try to break these systems.''

+ +

Finally, the FBI has a solution to is desire for secure communications or +does it? The first glimpse to a line of attack is in the same brochure that +quotes from Communications Africa. It explains how other (in use) frequencies +in an urban environment gives the transmissions extra cover. Any kind of +transmission made in an urban environment gets extra cover from all the other +surrounding transmissions.

+ +

The fact that the transmissions need or gain from having "cover'' indicates +that they are not invisible.

+ +

Technical sources suggested the following as a method of detecting use of +frequency hopping radios in the area. Hook a cable ready TV set to an +appropriate antenna and tune it to the federal band (160-172mhz). Cable +channels G, H and I. Each channel will display a 5mhz spectrum of the federal +band. The complete frequency range of the radio would be cable channels A +through I and 7.

+ +

The sources indicated that operation of a frequency hopping radio in the area +will show a distinct pattern on the screen. To test this theory, Full +Disclosure hooked up a low power programable RF oscillator to switch +frequencies 15 times per second in the 160mhz range and powering the unit on +showed a distinct change (unique unsynchronized horizontal lines) in the +display on a TV set tuned to that frequency.

+ +

Because of the narrow window the units use, after locating the frequency of +the window, jamming the unit could be accomplished with a wide bandwidth +transmitter. (1.6mhz isn't real wide, compared to a 5mhz video transmitter). +If a little used portion of the VHF band was selected for operation by the +frequency hopping radios, jamming could be accomplished with little +interference to other transmissions.

+ +

There is some dispute over the effectiveness of using a spectrum analyzer to +spot the use of frequency hopping radios. One technical source aptly pointed +out "why worry about whether a spectrum analyzer works when a $100 TV set +does?''

+ +

As with any new surveillance technology, there is a gap between its +introduction and the availablity of countermeasures. Unlike spread spectrum +radios that switch frequencies over the entire RF spectrum, frequency hopping +radios operate in a very small window making detection, jamming, and +direction finding a much simpler task.

+ +

The following are selected specifications for the PH-26 and MH-26 radios. +Figures in ()'s are for the MH-26 when different.

+ +

Frequency Programming Range: 148-174MHz. Frequency stability: .0005%. +Frequency spacing: 5, 6.25, 12.5, 15, 25 or 30KHz. Transmitter: Power Output: +1 or 5 watts (30 watts). Modulation: FM. Receiver: Sensitivity 12 db. Sinad: +.25uv. Selectivity @30Khz: 70 db. Audio Output: 500mw (5 watts). Frequency +Agil Mode: Number of channels: 4096. Frequency series: Pseudorandom (PR). +Dwell time: 20 to 100 milliseconds. Synchronization: Continuous digital.

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HR-3515.TXT

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Article by Kaleb Axon +House bill HR 3515 transcribed by James D Bryant II

+ +

This file may be requested from 1:280/77 @fidonet as +"HR-3515.ZIP". The following related files are also available:

+ +

HR-3515.ZIP Text of House bill HR 3515, and an article +concerning its contents.

+ +

TX-8387.ZIP A brief announcement of the decision in Texas +PUC docket 8387, Reginald A. Hirsch, et. al. +vs Southwestern Bell Telephone company, and a +portion of the text of this decision.

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3515-LTR.ZIP A sample letter to be sent to your congressmen +concerning HR 3515. Please do not copy this +letter exactly; letter-writing compaigns are +more effective if every letter is different.

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H.R. 3515 -- Transcribed by James D. Bryant II on Nov. 24, 1991 +I have proofed this twice, it should not contain any +errors or omissions, I can't access my spell checker +right now, there may be a typo or two somewhere..

+ +

Please note that this is not the article written by James Bryant. I +wrote my own notice here, because I strongly disagree with his +viewpoint on this bill. His article may be file requested from +1:1/1 @fidonet as "ta91.zip".

+ +

The following document is a full transcription of the +Telecommunications Act of 1991.

+ +

IF THIS BILL PASSES, IT WILL GIVE THE BELL OPERATING COMPANIES +AND OTHER PHONE SERVICE CARRIERS THE FREEDOM TO CHARGE BBS +OPERATORS WHATEVER RATES THEY SEE FIT.

+ +

Please write your congressmen, expressing your opposition to this +bill! Be sure to mention the following points:

+ +

1. BBSs are not-for-profit.

+ +

2. BBSs are not typically used as heavily as larger, for-profit +information services.

+ +

3. BBS operators do not typically charge money for use of the +system.

+ +

4. The section of the proposed bill which concerns us is (quote +this exactly):

+ +

section 201A(e) of this bill's proposed ammendment to the +Communications Act of 1934

+ +

5. In the state of Texas, Southwestern Bell Telephone attempted +to charge business rates to all BBSs, and the Texas Public +Utilities Commission unanimously agreed that this was +unfair. In your letter, refer to Texas PUC docket 8387, +Reginald A. Hirsch, et. al. vs Southwestern Bell Telephone +Company. Partial text of their resolution may be requested +for inclusion in your letter, from 1:280/77 @fidonet as +"TX-8387.ZIP".

+ +

Please TELL your Congressman and Senators, and all members of the +involved committees to vote NO on this bill, unless it is +ammended to guarantee residential phone rates to not-for-profit, +free BBSs.

+ +

The basic principle of this bill is a good one; it is intended to +prevent the Bell companies from monopolizing the information +services. Please do not say anything in your letter which could +be interpreted as opposition to that basic principle.

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H.R. 3515

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To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to encourage competition in the +provision of electronic information services, to foster the continued +diversity of information sources and services, to preserve the universal +availability of basic telecommunications services, and for other +purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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October 8, 1991

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Mr. Cooper (for himself, Mr. Bliley, Mr. Synar, Mr. Schaefer, and Mr. +Bryant) introduced the following bill, which was referred jointly to the +Committees on Energy and Commerce and the Judiciary.

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A BILL

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To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to encourage competition in the +provision of electronic information services, to foster the continued +diversity of information sources and services, to preserve the universal +availability of basic telecommunications services, and for other +purposes.

+ +

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

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3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE

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4 This Act may be cited as the "Telecommunications +5 Act of 1991".

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1 SECTION 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES

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2 (a) Findings--The Congress finds that--

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3 (1) the national welfare will be enhanced by the +4 continued development of robust competition in the +5 provision of electronic information services and tele-6 communications services;

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7 (2) the widest possible availability of informa-8 tion and telecommunications services requires an +9 open telecommunications infrastructure that incor-10 porates market-driven advances in technology and +11 whose features and functions are available on a non-12 discriminatory and unbundled basis;

+ +

13 (3) the availability of multiple and inter-14 connected complementary telecommunications net-15 works can enhance competition in the provision of +16 information and telecommunications services;

+ +

17 (4) the redundancy inherent in a pluralistic +18 telecommunications infrastructure offers protection +19 against network failures;

+ +

20 (5) the cost-effective deployment of advanced +21 public telecommunicatins networks, subject to ap-22 propriate safeguards, can further the long-standing +23 goals of universal telephone service at affordable +24 rates;

+ +

25 (6) the provision of information services by di-26 vested operating companies prior to the development of

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1 an effectively competitive telecommunications infra-2 structure would likely lead to higher rates for tele-3 phone exchange service and jepordize the diversity +4 of information sources and services; and

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5 (7) current regulatory policies must be revised +6 and supplemented to ensure the universal availability +7 of telephone exchange service at reasonable rates +8 and fair competition in delivery of telecommunicati-9 cations and information services.

+ +

10 (b) PURPOSES--The purposes of this Act are to--

+ +

11 (1) ensure the continued availability of afford-12 able telecommunications and information services +13 that are essential to full participation in the nation's +14 economic, political, and social life;

+ +

15 (2) encourage the continued development of ad-16 vanced, reliable telecommunications networks;

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17 (3) ensure that the costs of such networks and +18 the services provided over them are allocated equi-19 tably among users; and

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20 (4) ensure that the provision of information +21 services by divested operating companies does not +22 jepordize the universal availability of telephone ex-23 change service at reasonable rates or undermine +24 competition in the information services marketplace.

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1 TITLE I -- INFRASTRUCTURE

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2 DEVELOPMENT

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3 Sec. 101. NETWORK STANDARDS

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4 Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 is +5 amended by inserting after section 201 the following new +6 section:

+ +

7 "Sec. 201A. NETWORK STANDARDS.

+ +

8 "(a) SERVICE QUALITY --

+ +

9 "(1) ADOPTION OF STANDARDS.-- A Federal-10 State Joint Board shall be established under section +11 401(c) not later than 90 days after the enactment +12 of this subsection to impose and enforce network +13 quality standards upon the common carriers for the +14 purpose of ensuring the combined maintenance and +15 evolution of common carrier facilities and services. +16 Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment +17 of this subsection, the Joint Board shall initiate a +18 rulemaking proceeding to establish standards, to be +19 enforced by the Commission and the State Commis-20 sions as to matters within their respective jurisdic-21 tions, for measuring common carrier network qual-22 ity.

+ +

23 "(2) REPORTS -- Each common carrier shall +24 submit to the Joint Board established pursuant to +25 paragraph (1) a quarterly data report, in a form re-

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1 quired by the Joint Board, reguarding compliance +2 with the prescribed network quality standards. The +3 Joint Board may require periodic independant audits +4 of common carrier compliance with the network +5 quality standards. The Commission, upon the rec-6 commendation of the Joint Board, shall establish en-7 forcement penalties and procedures, including expe-8 dited customer complaint mechanisms, to ensure +9 common carrier compliance with network quality +10 standards.

+ +

11 "(b) INTERCONNECTION --

+ +

12 "(1) GENERALLY-- Each local exchange carrier +13 shall provide interconnection, on a reasonable and +14 nondiscriminatory basis, to common carriers and +15 other providers of telecommunications services and +16 information services who request it. An interconnect-17 ing party may physically colocate the equipment nec-18 essary for interconnection at the premises of a local +19 exchange carrier, except as provided under para-20 graph (2).

+ +

21 "(2) VIRTUAL COLOCATION-- A local exchange +22 carrier that can demonstrate by clear and convincing +23 evidence in a particular case that the physical +24 colocation required under paragraph (1) is not pract-25 ticable for technical reasons or because of space lim-

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1 itations shall offer an interconnecting party virtual +2 colocation with it's premises. Virtual colocation shall +3 be economically and technically comparable to inter-4 connection that is or would be obtained through +5 physical colocation of the interconnecting party's +6 equipment at the premises of the local exchange car-7 ier. Nothing in this paragraph shall relieve a di-8 vested operating company of it's obligations under +9 section 227(d)(12).

+ +

10 "(3) EXCEPTION FOR RURAL EXCHANGE CAR-11 RIERS.-- Notwithstanding any other provision of this +12 subsection, a rural exchange carrier shall not be re-13 quired to provide interconnection to another local ex-14 change carrier.

+ +

15 "(4) REGUALTIONS-- Within 270 days after the +16 date of enactment of the Telecommunications Act of +17 1991, the Commission shall--

+ +

18 "(A) adopt and make effective rules to en-19 force the oblications imposed by this subsection; +20 and

+ +

21 "(B) initiate a rulemaking to require that +22 the interconnection offered by a local exchange +23 carrier pursuant to this subsection shall provide +24 for the portability of telephone numbers.

+ +

25 "(c) NETWORK ACCESS--

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1 "(1) REVISIONS TO ORDER-- The Commission +2 shall further revise the order of the Commission en-3 titled 'Filing and Review of Open Network Archetec-4 ture Plans' CC Docket 88-2, Phase I, released De-5 cember 22, 1988, and subsequently revised, to re-6 quire that--

+ +

7 "(A) the plans for compliance with such +8 order offer unbundled features and functions;

+ +

9 "(B) such features and functions are made +10 available on a reasonably uniform basis by all +11 of the common carriers subject to such order, +12 and that such features and functions are acces-13 sible throughout the service territory of each +14 such carrier;

+ +

15 "(C) such plans include a schedule for +16 timely offering of new features asnd functions; +17 and

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18 "(D) common carriers subject to such +19 order not unreasonably discriminate between af-20 filiated and unaffiliated providers of informa-21 tion services in offering tariffed and non-22 tariffed features, functions, and capabilities.

+ +

23 "(2) REVIEW OF ORDER AND PLANS-- At least +24 once every three years, the Commission shall--

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1 "(A) conduct a proceeding in which inter-2 ested parties shall have an opportunity to com-3 ment on whether the order described in para-4 graph (1), as further revised, and the plans +5 filed pursuant to it have opened the networks of +6 the carriers subject to such order to reasonable +7 and non-discriminatory access by providers of +8 telecommunications services and information +9 services; and

+ +

10 "(B) not later than 180 days after receiv-11 ing the reply comments filed in such proceed-12 ing, revise such order as it deems necessary or +13 appropiate and require the common carriers +14 subject to such order to file new plans consist-15 ent with such revisions, which new plans shall +16 also be subject to public comment and Commis-17 sion review prior to their becoming effective.

+ +

18 "(d) PRIVACY-- Personally identifiable customer in-19 formation obtained or collected by a local exchange carrier +20 in the course of providing telephone exchange service shall +21 be used only in connection with the provision of such serv-22 ice, and shall not be made available to any affiliate of such +23 carrier or any other person except--

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24 "(1) as required by law; or

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1 "(2) upon the affirmative request by the cus-2 tomer to which such information relates.

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3 "(e) TARIFFS--

+ +

4 "(1) GENERALLY-- A local exchange carrier +5 shall prepare and file tariffs in accordance with this +6 Act with respect to the interconnection and network +7 access services required under this section. The costs +8 that a local exchange carrier incurs in providing +9 such services shall be borne solely by the users of +10 the features and functions comprising such services. +11 The Commission shall review such tariffs to ensure +12 that--

+ +

13 "(A) the charges for such services are cost-14 based; and

+ +

15 "(B) the terms and conditions contained in +16 such tariffs do not bundle together any sepa-17 rable elements, features, or functions.

+ +

18 "(2) SUPPORTING INFORMATION-- A local ex-19 change carrier shall submit supporting information +20 with it's tariffs for interconnection and network ac-21 cess services that is sufficient to enable the Commis-22 sion and the public to determine the relationship be-23 tween the proposed charges and the cost of provid-24 ing such services. The submission of such informa-25 tion shall be pursuant to the rules adopted by the Com-

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1 mission to ensure that similarly situated carriers +2 provide such information in an uniform fashion.

+ +

3 "(3) UNIVERSAL SERVICE ELEMENTS-- A local +4 exchange carrier may include in it's tariffs for inter-5 connection services an element intended to recover +6 the amount necessary to preclude any substantial in-7 creases in the rates for telephone exchange service +8 that would otherwise result from the offering of +9 interconnection services. Such element shall be im-10 posed at a uniform rate on any person who pur-11 chases such services, and shall also be included at +12 the same rate in such carrier's charges for services +13 offered by the carrier in competition with the serv-14 ices offered by interconnecting parties. No later than +15 270 days after the date of enactment of the Tele-16 communications Act of 1991, the Commission shall +17 adopt and make effective rules governing the cal-18 culation of such element. Any amounts recovered by +19 the local exchange carrier through the imposition of +20 this additional element shall be used to defray the +21 costs of providing telephone exchange servicce.

+ +

22 "(f) RESALE-- The resale of telephone exchange +23 service (or the unbundled elements of such service) in conjunc-24 tion with the the furnishing of an interstate telecommuni-25 cations service or any information service shall not be pro-

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1 hibited or subject to unreasonable conditions by the Com-2 mission, any State, or any local exchange carrier.

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3 "(g) COORDINATED PLANNING-- The Commission +4 shall adopt and make effective rules for the conduct of +5 coordinated network planning by common carriers, subject +6 to Commission supervision, to ensure (1) the effective and +7 efficient interconnection and interoperability of common +8 carrier networks, and (2) that the design of such networks +9 does not impede access to information services by sub-10 scribers to telephone exchange service furnished by a rural +11 exchange carrier.

+ +

12 "(h) STUDY-- No later than 270 days after the en-13 actment of the Telecommunications Act of 1991, the Com-14 mission shall initiate an inquiry to examine the effects of +15 competition in the provision of telephone exchange access +16 and telephone exchange service on the availability and +17 rates for telephone exchange service furnished by rural ex-18 change carriers.

+ +

19 SEC. 102. EXPEDITED REVIEW OF CERTAIN COMPLAINTS

+ +

20 Section 208 of the Communications Act of 1934 is +21 amended by adding at the end thereof the following new +22 subsection:

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23 "(c) EXPEDITED REVIEW OF CERTAIN COM-24 PLAINTS-- The Commission shall issue a final order with +25 respect to any complaint arising from alleged violations

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1 of section 201A within 270 days after such complaint is +2 filed".

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3 SEC. 103. EXPEDITED LICENSING OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES

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4 AND SERVICES.

+ +

5 Section 7 of the Communications Act of 1934 is +6 amended by adding to the end thereof the following new +7 subsection:

+ +

8 "(c) LICENSING OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES-- Within +9 twenty-four months after making a determination under +10 subsection (b) that a technology or service related to the +11 furnishing of tlelcommunications services or information +12 services is in the public interest, the Commission shall +13 adopt and make effective rules for--

+ +

14 "(1) the provision of such technology or service; +15 and

+ +

16 "(2) the filing of applications for the authoriza-17 tions necessary to offer such technology or service to +18 the public, and shall act on any such application +19 within twenty-four months after it is filed. Any ap-20 plication filed by a carrier under this subsection for +21 the construcction or extension of a line shall also be +22 subject to section 214 and to any necessary approval +23 by the appropriate State commissions".

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1 TITLE II -- PROVISIONS AFFECTING +2 DIVESTED OPERATING COMPANIES

+ +

3 SEC. 201. PROVISION OF INFORMATION SERVICES

+ +

4 Title II of the Telecommunications Act of 1934 is +5 amended by adding at the end thereof the following new +6 section:

+ +

7 "SEC. 227. PROVISION OF INFORMATION SERVICES BY DI-8 OPERATING COMPANIES.

+ +

9 "(a) PROVISION OF SERVICES-- A divested operating +10 company or an affiliate thereof may provide information +11 services, subject to this section and title IV.

+ +

12 "(b) ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING-- A divested operat-13 ing company or an affiliate thereof may not offer elec-14 tronic publishing services in any State in which such com-15 pany or affiliate provides telephone exchange service until +16 the Commission, after notice and opportunity for public +17 comment and after consultation with the Department of +18 Justice and the appropriate State commissions, deter-19 mines that--

+ +

20 "(1) at least 50 percent of all businesses and +21 residences within the areas in each State in which +22 such company or any affiliate thereof provides tele-23 phone exchange service have access to transmission +24 and switching facilities (other than those owned or +25 controlled by a divested operating company or it's af-

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1 filiate) that are comparable in quality, cost, geo-2 graphic range, and functionality to those offered by +3 the divested operating company for the delivery of +4 electronic publishing services;

+ +

5 "(2) at least 10 percent of all businesses and +6 residences within the areas in each State in which +7 such company provides telephone exchange service +8 subscribe to services delivered over such alternative +9 facilities; and

+ +

10 "(3) the divested operating company or affiliate +11 thereof seeking to provide such electronic publishing +12 services has demonstrated that there is no substan-13 tial possibility that the divested operating company +14 could use it's position as a local exchange carrier to +15 (A) impede competition in the provision of electronic +16 publishing services, or (B) impose additional costs +17 upon subscribers of telephone exchange service.

+ +

18 "(c) WAIVER-- A divested operating company or an +19 affiliate thereof may petition the Commission for a waiver +20 of subsections (b) and (h) to provide a particular elec-21 tronic publishing service. Such petition shall be granted +22 if such company or affiliate can demonstrate to the Com-23 mission by clear and convincing evidence that (A) such +24 service would not exist unless offered by such company +25 or affiliate, and (B) the provision of such service by such

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1 company or affiliate would not impose additional costs +2 upon subscribers of telephone exchange service. The Com-3 mission shall provide notice and opportunity for public +4 comment with respect to any request for a waiver persu-5 ant to this subsection. The provision of any service author-6 ized pursuant to this subsection shall be subject to all of +7 the other provisions of this Act, including title IV and the +8 requirements of this subsection.

+ +

9 "(d) SEPARATE SUBSIDIARY--

+ +

10 "(1) GENERALLY-- Except as provided in sub-11 section (e), a divested operating company or affiliate +12 thereof may provide information services only +13 through a subsidiary that is separated from the tele-14 phone exchange service operations of the divested +15 company, in accordance with the requirements of +16 this subsection and the regualations prescribed by the +17 Commission to carry out this subsection.

+ +

18 "(2) MINIMUM NUMBER OF OUTSIDE DIREC-19 TORS-- Any subsidiary required by this subsection +20 shall have a board of directors not less than 33 per-21 cent of whom are not employees, officers, or direc-22 tors of any divested operating company or any affili-23 ate of such company.

+ +

24 "(3) TRANSACTION REQUIREMENTS-- Any +25 transaction between any divested operating company

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1 and any other affiliate of such company (including +2 the subsidiary required by this subsection)--

+ +

3 "(A) shall not be based upon any pref-4 erence or discrimination arising out of affili-5 ation;

+ +

6 "(B) shall be carried out in the same man-7 ner as such company or affiliate conducts such +8 business with unaffiliated persons;

+ +

9 "(C) shall be pursuant to contract or tariff +10 reported to the Commission and made available +11 for public inspection;

+ +

12 "(D) shall be fully auditable and reflect all +13 costs associated with the conduct of such busi-14 ness; and

+ +

15 "(E) shall not have the effect of permitting +16 any violation of the requirements of subsection +17 (f) of this section.

+ +

18 "(4) SEPERATE OPERATION AND PROPERTY-- +19 A subsidiary required by this subsection may not--

+ +

20 "(A) enter into any joint venture or part-21 nership with the divested operating company;

+ +

22 "(B) have employees or a financial struc-23 ture (other than as provided in this section) in +24 common with the divested operating company;

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1 "(C) own any property in common with a +2 divested operating company; or

+ +

3 "(D) establish any other subsidiary or af-4 filiate except after notice to the Commission in +5 such form and containing such information as +6 the Commission may require.

+ +

7 "(5) SEPARATE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES-- A +8 subsidiary required by this subsection shall carry out +9 directly it's own marketing, sales, accounting, hiring +10 and training of personnel, purchasing, and mainte-11 nance.

+ +

12 "(6) BOOKS, RECORDS, AND REPORTS-- Any +13 subsidiary required by this subsection shall--

+ +

14 "(A) maintain books, records, and ac-15 counts in a manner prescribed by the Commis-16 sion which shall be seperate from the books, +17 records, and accounts maintained by the di-18 vested operating company and the other affili-19 ates of the divested operating company, and +20 which shall identify any conduct of business +21 with such company and any such affiliates; and

+ +

22 "(B) prepare it's own financial statements +23 (including balance sheets and the related state-24 ments of operations, stockholders' equity, and +25 cash flows) that are not consolidated with the

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1 financial statements of the divested operating +2 company and any other affiliate of such com-3 pany; and

+ +

4 "(C) prepare and file with the Commission, +5 whether or not such subsidiary is publicly trad-6 ed, the annual and periodic reports required of +7 publicly traded companies by the Securities and +8 Exchange Commission.

+ +

9 "(7) ADVERTISING-- A subsidiary required by +10 this subsection may not carry out advertising with +11 the divested operating company, except that such +12 subsidiary may carry out institutional advertising +13 with such company if (A) such advertising does not +14 specifically relate to any service, and (B) the sub-15 sidiary and the divested operating comapany share +16 any costs of such advertising in proportion to their +17 revenue.

+ +

18 "(8) SECURITIES INFORMATION-- A subsidiary +19 required by this subsection shall submit to the Com-20 mission a copy of any statement or prospectus that +21 such subsidiary is required to file with the Securities +22 and Exchange Commission.

+ +

23 "(9) OUTSIDE OWNERSHIP-- A divested operat-24 ing company or an affiliate thereof may not own +25 more than 90 percent of any class of outstanding

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1 capital stock of any affiliated subsidiary required by +2 this subsection.

+ +

3 "(10) TRANSMISSION CAPACITY-- A seperate +4 subsidiary required by this subsection may not own +5 any transmission facilities, and may obtain the use +6 of such facilities from an affiliated divested operat-7 ing company or affiliate thereof only pursuant to +8 tariffs of general applicability.

+ +

9 "(11) PRESERVATION OF SEPERATE SUBSIDI-10 ARY REQUIREMENTS FOR GRANDFATHERED FUNC-11 TIONS-- Nothing in this subsection shall be con-12 strued to relieve a divested operating company or +13 any affiliate thereof (or any other local exchange +14 carrier or affiliate thereof) of any seperate subsidi-15 ary requirement imposed before October 1, 1991.

+ +

16 "(12) PROVISION OF SERVICES AND INFORMA-17 TION-- A divested operating company may not pro-18 vide any services or information to a subsidiary re-19 quired by this subsection unless such services or in-20 formation are made available to others on the same +21 terms and conditions.

+ +

22 "(e) EXCEPTION TO SEPERATE SUBSIDIARY RE-23 QUIREMENT-- A divested operating company or affiliate +24 thereof shall not be required to establish a subsidiary pur-25 suant to subsection (d) with respect to any information

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1 service provided by such company or affiliate on or before +2 October 1, 1991.

+ +

3 "(f) PREVENTION OF CROSS-SUBSIDIARIES--

+ +

4 "(1) COST ALLOCATION SYSTEM REQUIRED-- +5 Any divested operating company that provides infor-6 mation services, or which has an affiliate that is en-7 gaged in the provision of such services, shall estab-8 lish and administer, in accordance with the require-9 ments of this subsection and the regulations pre-10 scribed thereunder, a cost allocation system that, to-11 gether with the subsidiary requirements of sub-12 section (d), is intended to prohibit any cost of pro-13 viding such services from being subsidized by reve-14 nue from telephone exchange service or telephone ex-15 change access services.

+ +

16 "(2) COST ASSIGNMENT AND ALLOCATION REG-17 ULATIONS--

+ +

18 "(A) GENERALLY-- The Commission shall +19 establish regulations to require the just and +20 reasonable assignment and allocation of all +21 costs that are in any way incurred by a divested +22 operating company or any affiliate thereof in +23 the provision of any information service.

+ +

24 "(B) JOINT AND COMMON COSTS-- The +25 regulations adopted pursuant to this paragraph

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1 shall include a requirement that any costs of +2 any investment or other expenditure that can-3 not be allocated based upon direct or indirect +4 measures of cost causation shall be allocated to +5 unregulated services--

+ +

6 "(i) under a formula that ensures that +7 the rates for telephone exchange service +8 are no greater than they would have been +9 in the absence of such investment (taking +10 into account any decline in the real costs +11 of providing such service), or

+ +

12 "(ii) based upon the highest forecast +13 unregulated usage of the investment over +14 the life of the investment,

+ +

15 whichever method results in the lesser allocation +16 of such costs to telephone exchange service.

+ +

17 "(3) INSULATION OF RATEPAYERS--

+ +

18 "(A) ASSETS-- The Commission shall, by +19 regulation, ensure that the economic risks asso-20 ciated with the provision of information services +21 by divested operating companies or affiliates +22 thereof (including any increases in the divested +23 operating company's cost of capital that occur +24 as a result of the provision of such services) are +25 not borne by customers of telephone exchange

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1 service in the event of a business loss or failure. +2 Investments or other expenditures assigned to +3 information services shall not be reassigned to +4 telephone exchange service or telephone ex-5 change access service.

+ +

6 "(B) DEBT-- Any divested operating com-7 pany affiliate--

+ +

8 "(i) which is providing information +9 services, and

+ +

10 "(ii) which is required to be or is +11 structurally seperate from an affiliate en-12 gaged in the provision of telephone ex-13 change service,

+ +

14 shall not obtain credit under any arrangement +15 that (I) would permit a creditor, upon default, +16 to have recourse to the assets of the divested +17 operating company, or (II) would induce a cred-18 itor to rely on the tangible or intangible assets +19 of the divested operating company in extending +20 credit.

+ +

21 "(4) TRANSFERS OF ASSETS BETWEEN AFFILI-22 ATED COMPANIES-- The Commission shall prescribe +23 regulations governing the accounting for the transfer +24 of assets between a divested operating company and +25 it's affiliates. Such regulations shall protect the inter-

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1 ests of ratepayers of telephone exchange service and +2 require such transfer to be conducted by means of +3 a transaction that complies with subsection (d)(3). +4 Such regulations shall require that--

+ +

5 "(A) any transfer of assets from such an +6 affiliate to it's affiliated divested operating com-7 pany be valued at the lesser of net book cost or +8 fair market value; and

+ +

9 "(B) any transfer of assets fromm a divested +10 operating company to it's affiliate be valued at +11 the greater of net book cost or fair market +12 value.

+ +

13 "(5) ANNUAL AUTIDING REQUIREMENT--

+ +

14 "(A) AUDIT APPLICABILITY AND PUR-15 POSE-- Each divested operating company that +16 engages in, or has an affiliate that engages in, +17 or has a financial or management interest in an +18 orginization or entity that provides information +19 services, shall provide annually to the Commis-20 sion, and to the State Commission of each State +21 within which such company provides telephone +22 exchange service, a report on the results of an +23 audit by an independant auditor conducted for +24 the purpose of determining wether the com-25 pany has--

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1 "(i) established and administered a +2 cost allocation system as required by para-3 graph (1) of this subsection, and

+ +

4 "(ii) complied with the cost assign-5 ment and allocation regulations prescribed +6 under this subsection.

+ +

7 "(B) CONDUIT OF AUDIT-- Such audit +8 shall be conducted, at divested operating com-9 pany expense, in accordance with audit proce-10 dures prescribed by the Commission, by regula-11 tion, which shall include approval of auditor se-12 lection by the Commission and rotation of audi-13 tors or other procedures to ensure the inde-14 pendence of such auditor.

+ +

15 "(C) SUBMISSION OF AUDIT RESULTS; +16 CERTIFICATION-- The divested operating com-17 pany shall submit the audit to the Commission, +18 which shall make the audit report available for +19 public inspection. Such report shall be certified +20 by the person conducting the audit and by an +21 appropriate officer of such affiliate and shall +22 identify with particularity any qualifications or +23 limitations on such certification and any other +24 information relevant to the enforcement of the +25 requirements of this section.

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1 "(D) ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS-- For pur-2 poses of conducting and reviewing such audit--

+ +

3 "(i) the auditor, the Commission, and +4 a State commission with jurisdiction over +5 the divested operating company shall have +6 access to the accounts and records of the +7 divested operating company and to those +8 accounts and records of any of it's affiliates +9 necessary to verify transactions conducted +10 with the divested operating company; and

+ +

11 "(ii) the Commission and a State +12 commission shall have access to the work-13 ing papers and supporting materials of any +14 auditor who performs an audit under this +15 paragraph.

+ +

16 "(g) RECOVERY OF USE OF INTANGIBLE ASSETS-- +17 The Commission and a State commission shall, within +18 their respective jurisdictions, require a divested operating +19 company to assess any affiliate providing information +20 services a charge for the reasonable vvalue of any intangible +21 assets used in the provision of information services, and +22 to credit the amount of such charge to the provision of +23 telephone exchange service.

+ +

24 "(h) REMOVAL OF BARRIERS TO COMPETITIVE +25 ENTRY-- A divested operating company or affiliate there-

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1 of may not provide electronic publishing services, other +2 than those it provided on or before October 1, 1991, in +3 any State in which such company or affiliate provides tele-4 phone exchange service, unless and untill all entry barriers +5 to the competitive provision of telecommunications services +6 imposed by each State or State commission in which such +7 company or affiliate provides telephone exchange service +8 have been removed with respect to such company or affili-9 ate.

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10 "(i) PROVISION OF GATEWAY SERVICES-- Any di-11 vested operating company or affiliate thereof that offers +12 a gateway service shall make such service available concurr-13 ently to all it's subscribers at the same rates, terms, +14 and conditions.

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15 "(j) ENFORCEMENT-- A person who is injured by a +16 violation of any of the requirements of this section may, +17 in lieu of filing a complaint under section 208, commence +18 in a civil action for injunctive relief and monetary damages +19 in any Federal judicial district in which the defendant re-20 sides or has an agent. A residential customer of telephone +21 exchange service shall have standing to commence an ac-22 tion under this section, without regard to the amount in +23 controversy. In any action brought under this section, the +24 court may award the costs of litigation (including reson-25 able attorneys fees).

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1 "(k) ADDITIONAL AUTHORITY-- In addition to any +2 other authority which the Commission may exercise under +3 this Act, the Commission shall take such actions as are +4 necessary--

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5 "(1) to prevent anticompetitive practicces be-6 tween a divested operating company and any affili-7 ate of the divested operating company;

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8 "(2) to protect ratepayers of divested operating +9 companies from subsidizing the provision of informa-10 tion services by such companies or their affiliates;

+ +

11 "(3) to prevent any divested operating company +12 or any affiliate thereof fromm imposing any unjust or +13 unreasonable rates or charges for any common car-14 ier services that are provided in connection with the +15 provision of information services.

+ +

16 "(m) DEFINITIONS-- As used in this section--

+ +

17 "(1) AFFILIATE-- The term 'affiliate' means +18 any organization or entity that, directly or indirectly, +19 owns or controls, or is owned or controlled by, or is +20 under common ownership or control with, a divested +21 operating company. For purposes of this paragraph, +22 the terms 'own', 'owned', and 'ownership' means a di-23 rect or indirect equity interest (or equivalent there-24 of) of more than 10 percent of an organization or +25 entity, or the right to more than 10 percent of the

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1 gross revenues of an organization or entity under a +2 revenue sharing or royalty agreement.

+ +

3 "(3) DIVESTED OPERATING COMPANY-- The +4 term 'divested operating company'--

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5 "(A) means any of the following compa-6 nies: Bell Telephone Company of Nevada, Illi-7 nois Bell Telephone Company, Indiana Bell +8 Telephone Company, Incorporated, Michigan +9 Bell Telephone Company, New England Tele-10 phone and Telegraph Company, New Jersey +11 Bell Telephone Company, New York Telephone +12 Company, US West Communications Company, +13 South Central Bell Telephone Company, South-14 ern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, +15 Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, the +16 Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, the +17 Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, +18 the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Com-19 pany of Maryland, the Chesapeake and Poto-20 mac Telephone Company of Virginia, the +21 Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company +22 of West Virginia, the Diamond State Telephone +23 Company, the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, +24 the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, +25 and Wisconsin Telephone Company; and

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1 "(B) includes any successor or assign of +2 any such company, but does not include any af-3 filiate of such company.

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4 "(3) GATEWAY SERVICE-- The term 'gateway +5 service' means an information service that, at the re-6 quest of the provider of an electronic publishing +7 service or other information service, provides a sub-8 scriber with access to such electronic publishing +9 service or other information service, utilizing the fol-10 lowing functions: data transmission, address trans-11 lation, billing information, protocol conversion, and +12 introductory information content."

+ +

13 SEC. 202. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

+ +

14 "(a) AMENDMENT-- Section 6 of the Communica-15 tions Act of 1934 is amended by adding at the end thereof +16 the following new subsection:

+ +

17 "(d) SEPERATE SUBSIDIARY REQUIREMENTS-- Such +18 sums as may be necessary are authorized to be appro-19 priated for the implementation and enforcement of the re-20 quirements of section 208(c) and 227 of this Act. Such +21 funds shall be in addition to any appropriations authorized +22 under subsection (a)."

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23 "(b) PROVISION OF INFORMATION SERVICES-- A di-24 vested operating company or an affiliate thereof may not +25 provide information services until enactment of the

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1 initial appropriation of funds authorized under section +2 6(d) of the Communications Act of 1934, as added by sec-3 tion 202(a) of this Act.

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4 TITLE III -- MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS +5 SEC. 301. DEFINITIONS

+ +

6 Section 3 of the Communicatins Act of 1934 is +7 amended by adding at the end thereof the following new +8 subsections:

+ +

9 "(hh) 'Electronic publishing service' means the provi-10 sion of any information--

+ +

11 "(1)(A) that the provider or publisher has (or +12 has caused to be) authored, originated, gathered, +13 collected, produced, compiled, edited, categorized, or +14 indexed; or

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15 "(B) in which the provider or publisher has a +16 direct or indirect financial or proprietary interest; +17 and

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18 "(2) which is disseminated to an unaffiliated +19 person through some electronic means.

+ +

20 "(ii) 'Information services' means the offering of a +21 capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, +22 processing, retrieving, utilizing, or making available infor-23 mation that may be conveyed via telecommunications, and +24 includes electronic publishing, but does not include any +25 use of any such capability for the management, control,

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1 or operation of a telecommunications service or the man-2 agement of a telecommunications service.

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3 "(jj) 'Local exchange carrier' means a provider of +4 telephone exchange service that is classified by the Com-5 mission as a dominant carrier.

+ +

6 "(kk) 'Rural exchange carrier' means menas a local ex-7 change carrier serving a total of 50000 or fewer access +8 lines.

+ +

9 "(ll) 'Telecommunications' means the transmission, +10 between or among points specified by the customer, of in-11 formation of the customer's choosing, without change in +12 the form or content of the information as sent and re-13 ceived, by means of an electromagnetic transmission me-14 dium, including all instrumentalities, facilities, apparatus, +15 and services (including the collection, storage, forwarding, +16 switching, and delivery of such information) essential to +17 such transmission.

+ +

18 "(mm) 'Telecommunications service' means the pub-19 lic or private offering for hire of telecommunications facili-20 ties."

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22 SEC. 302. JURISDICTION

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23 Section 2 of the Communications Act of 1934 is +24 amended--

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1 (1) in subsection (b), by striking out "223 or +2 224" and inserting "223, 224, 225, and 227"; and

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3 (2) by adding at the end the thereof the following +4 new subsection:

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5 "(c)(1) Notwithstanding subsection (b), a State may +6 not regulate the rates, terms, or conditions for the offering +7 of information service, except as provided in this sub-8 section and title IV.

+ +

9 "(2) A State may impose regulations upon a local ex-10 change carrier with respect to the intrastate provision of +11 information services by such carrier or an affiliate thereof +12 if--

+ +

13 "(A) such regulations are necessary and appro-14 priate to seperate the provision of such services from +15 the provision of telephone exchange services by such +16 carrier or affiliate;

+ +

17 "(B) such regulations are intended to protect +18 the privacy rights of customers of telephone ex-19 change services;

+ +

20 "(C) such regulations do not affect the rates, +21 terms, or conditions for the provision of such infor-22 mations services or the types of such services offered +23 by such carrier or affiliate; and

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24 "(D) such regulations are not inconsistent with +25 the purposes of this Act or impede signifigantly the

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1 enforcement of this Act or any regulation or order +2 prescribed by the Commission pursuant to the +3 Act."

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4 SEC. 303. TELEPHONE EXCHANGE SERVICE IN RURAL +5 AREAS

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6 Nothing in the amendments made by this Act shall +7 be construed to limit the authority of the States to take +8 actions, consistant with the findings and purposes of that +9 Act, to ensure thae availability of telephone exchange serv-10 ice at resonable rates in areas served by rural exchange +11 carriers (as such term is defined in section 3(kk) of the +12 Communications Act of 1934).

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13 SEC. 304. APPLICABILITY OF OTHER PROVISIONS OF COM-14 MUNICATIONS ACT

+ +

15 Nothing in the amendments made by this Act shall +16 be construed to relieve a divested operating company or +17 affiliate thereof (as such terms are defined in section +18 227(m) of the Communications Act of 1934) of any of +19 the obligations, limitations, or responsibilities imposed by +20 any other provision of the Communications Act of 1934, +21 as amended.

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22 SEC. 305. APPLICABILITY OF ANTITRUST LAWS

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23 (a) APPLICABILITY OF THE MODIFICATION OF FINAL +24 JUDGEMENT-- A divested operating company shall remain +25 fully suubject to the Modification of Final Judgement in all

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1 respects except as expressly provided in the amendments +2 made by this Act.

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3 (b) NO ANTITRUST IMMUNITY-- Nothing in the +4 amendments made by this Act shall be construed to create +5 any immunity to any civil or criminal action under any +6 Federal or State antitrust law, or to alter or restrict in +7 any manner the applicability of any Federal or State anti-8 trust law to the actions of a divested operating company +9 or affiliate thereof (as such terms are defined in section +10 227(m) of the Communications Act of 1934).

+ +

11 (c) DEFINITIONS-- For purposes of this section--

+ +

12 (1) FEDERAL ANTITRUST LAWS-- The term +13 'Federal antitrust laws' means --

+ +

14 (A) the acts as cited in section 1 of the Clay-15 ton Act (15 USC 12),

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16 (B) section 5 of the Federal Trade Com-17 mission Act (15 USC 45); and

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18 (C) any law enacted after the datr of en-19 actment of this Act by the Congress which pro-20 hibits, or makes available to the United States +21 or to any person in any court of the United +22 States any civil remedy with respect to, any re-23 restraint upon, or monopolization of, interstate or +24 foreign trade or commerce.

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1 (2) MODIFICATION OF FINAL JUDGMENT -- The +2 term 'Modification of final judgment' means the +3 order entered August 24, 1982, in United States -vs-4 Western Electric Co., Civil Action No. 82-0192 +5 (United States District Court, District of Columbia)

+ +

[END] + +

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+8/21: |HOAX REVEALED - OLIVER STONE TO DO MOVIE! +Name: Iceman #14 @6989 +Date: Tue May 19 22:08:47 1992 +From: Farstar BBS (Southern California) [619-521-1753]

+ +

THE "STATE" OF IDAHO: THE CASE FOR OPEN DEBATE

+ +

If you would ask any schoolchild how many states there are in the +United States, you will get the same answer: 50. Fifty states +in the Union. It is simply an accepted "fact." If you would +disagree with this supposed "fact," you would be branded insane +or worse.

+ +

However, mounting evidence shows that there are in fact only 49 +states in the US, and the "state" of Idaho is a baseless myth.

+ +

We have been trying to distribute and publish this information +for over *two years*, but our scholarship has not been given +any respect. We have been censored, vilified, ridiculed and +spat upon by the "traditional" geographers and historians, but +WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!

+ +

All we ask is that the existence of Idaho be debated, +as every other historical and geographic "fact" can be debated. +Time after time, our opponents have refused to debate us on the +FACTS. This alone should tell you something about the people who +support the "existence" of this "43rd state." + +Please read the following evidence VERY CAREFULLY, and you will be +astonished at the veracity of our cause.

+ +

THE POPULATION MYTH

+ +

Do you know anybody from Idaho? Do you know anybody *who knows +anybody* from Idaho? According to the 1990 "census," there are +over one million (1000000, or 1 x 10^6) people living in +Idaho. But if there are so many Idahoers, where are they?

+ +

Some people have come forward and claimed that they were born +and raised in "Idaho." But *every single person* who made this +claim have been shown to be frauds and charlatans. These "Idahoan +wannabes" are invariably inconsistent with each other about the +size (in square miles or square kilometers) of "Idaho," about +various town and village names, and even about the names +of "Idaho's mighty rivers."

+ +

THE SIZE FARCE

+ +

According to traditional geographic sources (created entirely +by people who believe in the existence of Idaho, and probably +the Tooth Fairy, also) the "State" of Idaho is more than twice +the size of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, +Connecticut and Massachusetts *combined.* Isn't it strange that +a state with such vast land resources has so few people? And +even of you look at a map (created by the Idaho-centric +cartographers) the "State" of "Idaho" is dwarfed by its much +larger neighbor, Montana.

+ +

SATELLITE EVIDENCE

+ +

Recently declassified weather satellite information, showing +the entire continental United States, shows absolutely *no +evidence* that there is any state where "Idaho" is supposedly +located. Noted experts in the field of interpreting these +pictures unanimously agree that, from outer space, it is +impossible to determine the borders of this elusive "state." +Yet meteorologists and cartographers routinely overlay +these satellite pictures with the outline of states that +would seem to indicate Idaho's existence.

+ +

PHOTOGRAPHIC "EVIDENCE"

+ +

Many people, skeptical of the clear evidence that Idaho +does not and never did exist, point to photographs that they've +seen in encyclopedias and postcards seeming to show parts of the +state of Idaho.

+ +

It is important to note that a photograph without a caption +is often meaningless. A picture of people in boats surrounded +by mountains could have been taken in Colorado or Nevada, +but when the holy *caption* says that this is a picture of +the "Salmon River" in "Idaho," gullible readers tend to +swallow this information whole *without any further examination.*

+ +

We have examined literally hundreds of these "photographs," and +the ones that are not outright fakes are all clearly taken in +other parts of the nation.

+ +

ASK THE JAPANESE

+ +

It is well known that Americans are woefully ignorant about +geography, which is one reason why it is so easy to fake an +entire state here. Not surprisingly, most of the effort to +create the illusion of Idaho has been expended in the USA. +But if you would ask a typical Japanese or French schoolchild +about what he/she knows about Idaho, you will usually get a +blank stare. People who are much better at geography than +Americans have never heard of this "great state."

+ +

THE POTATO MYTH

+ +

Any given supermarket in the United States has sacks of potatoes +clearly marked "Idaho Potatoes." People make the assumption, that +when they are buying these potatoes, that they were *grown* in +the "state" of "Idaho."

+ +

Actually, "Idaho" is a type of potato, just like "McIntosh" is +a type of apple. The FACT is that *many* states have potato crops, +as well as foreign countries, and potatoes that say "Idaho" on +them are no more from Idaho than Baltimore Orioles all come +from Maryland.

+ +

SO, WHAT'S THERE?

+ +

Nothing. THERE IS NOTHING THERE. We have been so brainwashed +by the traditional mapmaking community to think that if Idaho +doesn't exist, then there must be some sort of vacuum there +instead. This is nonsense.

+ +

The very shapes and positions of the states, and indeed of +every nation on the planet, is only known through "information" +provided by cartographers. It is akin to asking "if Santa's +house isn't at the North Pole, then what's there instead?"

+ +

THE CARTOGRAPHER CONSPIRACY

+ +

The *only evidence* that there is a state called Idaho comes from +maps. Everybody has maps, in almanacs, in encyclopedias, and +on the walls of every elementary school classroom in America.

+ +

Astonishingly, *over 99%* of all maps are created by *cartographers!* +If any clearly defined set of people would control any other +important industry to that degree, everybody would be up in arms +about the undue influence given to a meager few. However, for +some reason, Cartographers are immune to such criticism. Any +mention about the Cartographer influence over the mapmaking +industry (and, as a natural extension, OUR VERY THOUGHTS!) is +dismissed as "lunacy."

+ +

As an indication of how insidious is this influence, just think: +have you ever questioned a map? Maps, being graphical objects, +require much less effort to assimilate into our very psyches. +Behavioral studies show that people can much more readily understand +maps than printed descriptions of geographical areas; in fact, +the images on maps tend to go directly into the subconsciousness +of Man (Homo Sapiens) without the critical thinking that accompanies +reading. In a very real way, Cartographers are the *real* Thought +Police.

+ +

But they do not work in a vacuum. There are much too few of them +to do their real damage unaided. Mapmakers have conspired with the +editors of almanacs and encyclopedias to create a fantastic illusion +of space where there is none, people where there aren't any, and +ski resorts where none exist.

+ +

ONLY THE BEGINNING

+ +

This is only the tip of the iceberg. We have much more material +on this conspiracy, and we have yet to uncover one iota of evidence +that Idaho has ever existed. All of the so-called "evidence" is +a mixture of falsifications, coersions, lies and exaggerations.

+ +

The Cartographers would like nothing better than to silence us. +If you do not see any more postings on this subject, then you +have clear evidence that their Conspiracy of Silence on Idaho

+ +

has succeeded, and that Freedom of Speech has been curtailed by +the Cartographical Thought Police.

+ +

What can you do? All we ask is that you be open minded. Of course, +you cannot trust any of the second-hand evidence that you would +find in libraries, maps (!), airline schedules or street signs. +All you can trust is what we have written here. We are confident +that once you evaluate all of the valid evidence, you will be +angered by this conspiracy, and motivated to do something about +the scum who perpetated this hoax. + +

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INTRODUCTION TO FREEMASONRY +1 ENTERED APPRENTICE +BY CARL H. CLAUDY

+ +

SOURCE

+ +

Seers seek for Wisdom's flowers in the mind +And write of symbols Many a learned tome. +(Grow roses still, though rooted in black loam.) +The mystic searches earth till eyes go blind +For soul of roses, yet what use to find +A spirit penned within a catacomb? +Nay, all they learn is weightless as sea-foam +That drifts from wave to wave upon the wind. +In rushes Cap and Bells. How very doll +The ways of students and the foolish books! +He finds no secrets of Freemason's art +In mind nor rose nor tomb nor musty scroll; +Where no wit is, where all loves are, he looks +And reads their hidden meaning in his heart.

+ +

FOREWORD

+ +

FREEMASONRY'S greatest problems are lack of interest in its teachings +and attendance at communications. Many plans have been devised by +Masonic leaders to stimulate interest and increase attendance, but few +such efforts are more than temporarily effective.

+ +

The initial appeal of the Ancient Craft is as strong to-day as it has +ever been. Freemasonry attracts as good men now as in the past. But in +the absence of a concerted effort to teach quickly what in a more +leisurely age could be spread over many years, the Institution often +fails to hold the interest of the new brother against the many +attractions of modern life.

+ +

Habits of lodge attendance and interest in the Fraternity should be +created while the first enthusiasm is high; moreover, every candidate +has an inherent right to understand the reality of our rites, the +meaning of our mysteries, the truth of our tenets, and the significance +of our symbols.

+ +

Many lodges attempt to intrigue the new brother with books. Some books +are forbiddingly large; others are too learned; others assume that the +reader has a knowledge which he does not possess. Some books are dull +with many facts and no vision, while others are too specialized or +confined to one viewpoint. These three volumes are different. Written +by a brother with long experience as a Masonic speaker and writer, they +have a simple manner of presentation, a plain statement of facts, a +spiritual interpret ation of Masonic teachings and visualize the vital +reality behind the allegory and the symbol.

+ +

These books answer the simple elementary inquiries of the new brother to +whom all the Craft is strange. They will make many an older Mason sit +up in astonishment that what he thought obvious and uninteresting is so +vividly alive.

+ +

The author handles a heart-searching body of Masonic truth in a way so +informative and so interesting, yet so touching and so tender, that the +influence of these books when presented to and read by candidates must +be vast and permanent.

+ +

After years of activity in the Craft, culminating in service as Grand +Master, I am convinced that the most effective way to encourage interest +and understanding is to begin at the beginning, that is, with the +Entered Apprentice at the very threshold of his Masonic career. For +this purpose I know of no other books which even attempt what these are +destined to accomplish, and I appreciate the honour of writing this +brief Foreword at the invitation of the publishers.

+ +

For the brother old in the Craft who will read them, a revelation +awaits. For the initiate, here is wisdom, strength and beauty. For +all, the Ancient Craft is here set forth in an unforgettable trilogy of +books which not only tell the facts but forget not the vision; which not +only describe the form but also reveal the spirit of Freemasonry.

+ +

The author is to be commended for the undertaking and complimented on +the achievement.

+ +

HOWARD R. CRUSE, P.G.M. New Jersey August 17, 1931.

+ +

INTRODUCTION TO FREEMASONRY

+ +

ENTERED APPRENTICE

+ +

At your leisure hours, that you may improve in Masonic knowledge, you +are to converse with well-informed brethren, who will always be as ready +to give, as you will be ready to receive, instruction.

+ +

These words from the Charge to an Entered Apprentice set forth the +purpose of the three little books, of which this is the first: to give +to the initiate, in his leisure hours, some "instruction" and +information about the Fraternity not wholly imparted in the ceremonies +of initiation.

+ +

These volumes are intended as simple introductions to the study of the +Ancient Craft; the interested Freemason will look further, for other and +longer books; the uninterested will not, perhaps, read all of these! Had +completeness been the aim, these little books might have become +forbiddingly large.

+ +

No more has been attempted than to give some Masonic light on some of +the history, jurisprudence, symbols, customs, and landmarks of the +Order, by the rays of which any initiate may readily find his way down +the path of Masonic learning which leads to the gate of truth.

+ +

These books are far more gateways than guides to the foreign country of +Freemasonry. However elemental they may be to the Masonic student, if +their very simplicity leads those Entered Apprentices, Fellowcrafts, and +newly raised Master Masons for whom they were written to seek more +Masonic light, their purpose will have been served and their preparation +well worth the time and effort spent upon them.

+ +

DEFINITION

+ +

Freemasonry is a system of morality, veiled in allegory, and illustrated +by symbols.

+ +

This definition of the Ancient Craft means much more to the +well-informed Freemason than to the initiate, to whom it can convey but +little. Naturally he wants to know "Why Freemasonry? Why is it veiled? +Why illustrated with symbols?"

+ +

Masons are "Free and Accepted" for reasons which are to be found in the +early history of Freemasonry.

+ +

EARLY HISTORY

+ +

Many of Freemasonry's symbols and teachings go back to the very +childhood of the race. Through these a direct relationship may be +traced, in mind and heart and ideal, if not in written document, to such +diverse ages and places as China four thousand years ago, the priesthood +of ancient Egypt, and the Jews of the Captivity. But for purposes of +understanding the genesis of the word "free" as coupled with "Mason," it +will suffice to begin with the Roman Collegia: orders or associations of +men engaged in simi lar pursuits. Doubtless their formation was caused +by the universal desire for fellowship and association, particularly +strong in Rome, in which the individual was so largely submerged for the +good of the empire, as well as by economic necessity, just as labour +unions are formed to-day.

+ +

These Collegia speedily became so prominent and powerful that Roman +emperors attempted to abolish the right of free association. In spite +of edicts and persecutions, some of the Collegia continued to exist.

+ +

The Colleges of Architects, however, were sanctioned for a time even +after others were forbidden. They were too valuable to the state to be +abolished or made to work and meet in secret. They were not at this +time called Freemasons, but they were free - and it is the fact and not +the name which is here important. Without architects and builders Rome +could not expand, so the Colleges of Architects were permitted to +regulate their own affairs and work under their own constitutions, free +of the restrictions which were intended to destroy other Collegia.

+ +

Then, as now, three were necessary to form a College (no Masonic lodge +can meet with less than three); the College had a Magister or Master, +and two Wardens, There were three orders or degrees in the College +which, to a large extent, used emblems which are a part of Freemasonry. +Roman sarcophagi show carvings of a square, compasses, plumb, level, and +sometimes columns.

+ +

Of the ceremonies of the Collegia we know little or nothing. Of their +work we know much, and of their history, enough to trace their decline +and fall. The Emperor Diocletian attempted to destroy the new religion, +Christianity, which threatened so much which seemed to the Romans to +make Rome, Rome. Many members of the Colleges of Architects were +Christians. Since these associations had taught and believed in +brotherhood, when there came a Carpenter who taught brotherhood because +of a common Father, the m embers of the Colleges of Architects took His +doctrine, so strangely familiar, for their own.

+ +

Persecution, vengeance, cruelty followed; this is not the place to go +into the story of the four Masons and the apprentice who were tortured +to death, only to become the four crowned martyrs and patron saints of +later builders and the Masons of the Middle Ages. Suffice it that the +Colleges of Architects were broken up and fled from Rome.

+ +

Comes a gap which is not yet bridged. Between the downfall of Rome and +the rise of Gothic architecture we know little of what happened to the +builders' Collegia. It is here that we come to the fascinating story +of the Comacines. Some of the expelled builders found refuge on the +island of Comacina in Lake Como and, through generation after +generation, kept alive the traditions and secrets of their art until +such time as the world was again ready for the Master Builders. All +this is most interestingly set forth in several books, best known of +which is Leader Scott's Cathedral Builders; The Story of a Great +Masonic Guild. The author says that the Comacine Masters "were the +link between the classic Collegia and all other art and trade guilds of +the Middle Ages. They were Freemasons because they were builders of a +privileged class, absolved from taxes and servitude, and free to travel +about in times of feudal bondage."

+ +

During the Middle Ages and the rise of Gothic architecture we find two +distinct classes of Masons; the Guild Masons, who, like the Guild +carpenters or weavers or merchants, were local in character and strictly +regulated by law, and the Freemasons, who travelled about from city to +city as their services were needed to design and erect those marvellous +churches and cathedrals which stand to-day inimitable in beauty. It may +not be affirmed as a proved fact that the Freemasons of the Middle Ages +were the direc t descendants through the Comacine Masters of the +Colleges of Architects of Rome, but there is too much evidence of a +similar structure, ideal, and purpose, and too many similarities of +symbol, tool, and custom, to dismiss the idea merely because we have no +written record covering the period between the expulsion from Rome and +the beginning of the cathedral-building age.

+ +

However this may be, the operative builders and designers of the +cathedrals of Europe were an older Order than the Guild Masons; it is +from these Freemasons - free of the Guild and free of the local laws - +that the Freemasonry of to-day has come. Incidentally, it may be noted +that the historian Findel finds that the name Freemason appears as early +as 1212, and the name occurs in 1375 in the history of the Company of +Masons of the City of London.

+ +

The history of the Freemasons through the cathedral-building ages up to +the Reformation and the gradual decline of the building art needs +volumes where here are but pages. But it must be emphasized that the +Freemasons were far more than architects and builders; they were +artists, the leaders, the teachers, the mathematicians and the poets of +their time. In their lodges Speculative Masonry grew side by side with +their operative art. They were jealous of their Order and strict in +their acceptance of Appren tices; strict in admitting Apprentices to be +Fellows of the Craft, requiring seven years of labour of an Apprentice +before he might make his "Master's Piece" to submit to the Master and +Wardens of his lodge, when, happy, he might become a Fellow and receive +"the Mason Word."

+ +

In an age when learning was difficult to get and association with the +educated hardly to be had outside of the church, it was but natural that +thoughtful and scholarly men should desire membership among the +Freemasons. Such men, however, would not want to practice operative +masonry, or serve a seven years' apprenticeship. Therefore a place was +made for them by taking them in as accepted Masons; that is, accepted as +members having something to offer and desiring to receive something from +the lodge, but dis tinguished from the operative Freemasons by the title +accepted.

+ +

It is not possible to say when this practice began. The Regius Poem, (1) +the oldest document of Free-

+ +

(1) Halliwell Manuscript, the oldest of the written Constitutions, +transcribed in 1390, probably from an earlier version. Called Halliwell +because first published in 1840 by James O. Halliwell, who first +discovered its Masonic character. Prior to that date it was catalogued +in the Royal Library as A Poem of Moral Duties. Called the Regius Poem +partly because it formed part of Henry VIII's Royal Library and partly +because it is the first and therefore the kingly or royal document of +the Craft.

+ +

masonry (1390), speaks of Prince Edward (Tenth Century) as:

+ +

Of speculatyfe he was a master.

+ +

Desiring to become architects and builders, ecclesiasts joined the +order. Lovers of liberty were naturally attracted to a fellowship in +which members enjoyed unusual freedom.

+ +

Through the years, particularly those which saw the decline of great +building and the coming of the Reformation, more and more became the +Accepted Masons and less and less the operative building Freemasons. Of +forty-nine names on the roll of the Lodge of Aberdeen in the year 1670, +thirty-nine were those of Accepted Masons.

+ +

Hence our title - Free and Accepted Masons, abbreviated F. & A.M. There +are variations in certain jurisdictions, (1) such as F. and A. M. (Free +and Accepted Masons), A.F. & A.M. (Ancient Free and Accepted Masons), +etc., the origin of which the student may find in the history of +Freemasonry of the Grand Lodge era. (See Page 121, footnote)

+ +

(1) Jurisdiction: the territory and the Craft in it over which a Grand +Lodge is sovereign. In the United States are forty-nine; one for each +state and the District of Columbia. Used as a brevity; thus, the +Masonic jurisdiction of New Jersey means "all the Masonry, lodges, +Masons in the State of New Jersey over which rules the Grand Lodge of +the Most Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons for +the State of New Jersey."

+ +

The word also means the territorial boundaries to which the right of a +lodge to accept petitions extends.

+ +

ALLEGORY AND SYMBOLS

+ +

Freemasonry is "veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols" because +these are the surest ways by which moral and ethical truths may be +taught. It is not only with the brain and the mind that the initiate +must take in Freemasonry but also with the heart.

+ +

Mind speaks to mind with spoken or written words. Heart speaks to heart +with words which cannot be written or spoken. Those words are symbols; +words which mean little to the indifferent, much to the understanding.

+ +

The body has its five senses through which the mind may learn; the mind +has also imagination. That imagination may see farther than eyes and +hear sounds fainter than may be caught by ears. To the imagination +symbols become plain as printed words to the eye. Nothing else will do; +no words can be as effective (unless they are themselves symbols); no +teachings expressed in language are as easily learned by the mind as +those which come via the symbol through the imagination.

+ +

Take from Freemasonry its symbols and but the husk remains, the kernel +is gone. He who hears but the words of Freemasonry misses their meaning +entirely.

+ +

THE LODGE

+ +

During the ceremonies of initiation the Entered Apprentice is informed +what a lodge is. In other than the words of the ritual a Masonic lodge +is a body of Masons warranted or chartered as such by its Grand Lodge +and possessing the three Great Lights in Masonry.

+ +

The lodge usually (1) comes into being when a certain number of brethren +petition the Grand Master, who, if it is his pleasure issues a +dispensation which forms these brethren into a provisional lodge, or a +lodge under dispensation, familiarly known as U.D. The powers of the +U.D. lodge are strictly limited; it is not yet a "regularly constituted +lodge" but an inchoate sort of organization, a fledgling in the nest. +Not until the Grand Lodge has authorized the issuance of the warrant +does it assume the statu s of a "regular" lodge, and not then until it +is consecrated, dedicated, and constituted by the Grand Master and his +officers, or those he delegates for the ceremony. The warrant of the +new lodge names its first Worshipful Master, Senior Warden, and Junior +Warden, who hold office until their successors are duly elected and +installed.

+ +

Lodge officers are either elected or appointed. In some lodges in some +jurisdictions all officers in the "line" are elected. In others only +the Master, Senior and Junior Wardens, Secretary and Treasurer are +elected, the others being appointed.

+ +

The term of office is one year, but nothing prevents re-election of a +Master or Wardens. Indeed, Secretaries and Treasurers generally serve +as long as they

+ +

(1) The oldest lodges in a Grand Lodge existed prior to its formation +and came into being from a warrant or charter from some other Grand +Lodge, or, in some few instances of very old lodges, merely by brethren +getting together and holding a lodge under "immemorial custom." Thus, +Fredericksburg Lodge of Virginia, in which Washington received his +degrees, had no warrant until several years after its formation.

+ +

+are willing; a lodge almost invariably re-elects the same incumbents +year after year to these places. These officers become the connecting +links between different administrations, which practice makes for +stability and smooth running.

+ +

In the absence of the Master the Senior Warden presides and has for the +time being the powers and duties of the Master; in his absence the same +devolve upon the Junior Warden.

+ +

All lodges have an officer stationed "without the door with a drawn +sword in his hand." He is the Tiler and his duties are to keep off +"cowans and eavesdroppers." In operative days the secrets of the +Freemasons were valuable in coin of the realm. The Mason who knew "the +Mason Word" could travel in foreign countries and receive a Master's +wages. Many who could not or would not conform to the requirements +tried to ascertain the secrets in a clandestine manner.

+ +

The eavesdropper - literally, one who attempts to listen under the +eaves, and so receives the droppings from the roof - was a common thief +who tried to learn by stealth what he would not learn by work.

+ +

The cowan was an ignorant Mason who laid stones together without mortar +or piled rough stone from the field into a wall without working them +square and time. He was a Mason without the word, with no reputation; +the Apprentice who tried to masquerade as a Master.

+ +

The operative Masons guarded their assemblies against the intrusion of +both the thief and the half-instructed craftsman. Nothing positive is +known of the date when the guardian of the door first went on duty. He +was called a Tiler or Tyler because the man who put on the roof or tiles +(tiler) completed the building and made those within it secure from +intrusion; therefore the officer who guarded the door against intrusion +was called, by analogy, a Tiler.

+ +

Lodges are referred to as Symbolic, Craft, Ancient Craft, Private, +Particular, Subordinate, and Blue, all of which names distinguish them +from other organizations, both Masonic and non-Masonic. The word +"subordinate" is sometimes objected to by Masonic scholars, most of whom +prefer other appellations to distinguish the individual Master Mason's +lodge from the Grand Lodge. All Masonic lodges of Ancient Craft Masonry +are "Blue Lodges" blue being the distinctive Masonic colour, from the +blue vault of heaven which is the covering of a symbolic lodge, and +which embraces the world, of which the lodge is a symbol.

+ +

To such an organization a man petitions for the degrees of Freemasonry. +If the lodge accepts his petition a committee is appointed to +investigate the petitioner. The committee reports to the lodge whether +or not, in its opinion, the petitioner is suitable material out of which +to make a Mason.

+ +

The statutory time of a month having elapsed and all the members of the +lodge having been notified that the petition will come up for ballot at +a certain stated communication (Masonic word for "meeting"), the members +present ballot on the petition.

+ +

The ballot is secret and both the laws and the ancient usages and +customs surrounding it are very strict. No brother is permitted to +state how he will ballot or how he has balloted. No brother is +permitted to inquire of another how he will or has balloted. One black +cube (negative ballot) is sufficient to reject the petitioner.

+ +

The secrecy of the ballot and the universal (in this country) +requirement that a ballot be unanimous to elect are two bulwarks of the +Fraternity. Occasionally both the secrecy and the required unanimity +may seem to work a hardship, when a man apparently worthy of being taken +by the hand as a brother is rejected, but no human institution is +perfect, and no human being acts always according to the best that is in +him. The occasional failure of the system to work complete justice must +be laid to the individu als using it and not to the Fraternity.

+ +

More will be said later in these pages on the power of the ballot, its +use and abuse; here it is sufficient to note one reason for the secret +and unanimous ballot by which the petitioner may be elected to receive +initiation. Harmony - oneness of mind, effort, ideas, and ideals - is +one of the foundations of Freemasonry. Anything which interferes with +harmony hurts the institution. Therefore it is essential that lodges +have a harmonious membership; that no man be admitted to the Masonic +home of any brothe r against that brother's will.

+ +

Having passed the ballot, the petitioner in due course is notified, +presents himself and is initiated.

+ +

ENTERED APPRENTICE

+ +

He then becomes an Entered Apprentice Mason. He is a Mason to the extent +that he is called "brother" and has certain rights; he is not yet a +Mason in the legal Masonic sense. Seeing a framework erected on a plot +of ground we reply to the question, "What are they building?" by saying, +"A house." We mean, "They are building something which eventually will +be a house." The Entered Apprentice is a Mason only in the sense that he +is a rough ashlar (1) in process of being made into a perfect ashlar.

+ +

The Entered Apprentice is the property of the lodge; he can receive his +Fellowcraft and Master Mason degrees nowhere else without its +permission. But he does not yet pay dues to the lodge, he is not yet +permitted to sign its by-laws, he can enter it only when it is open on +the first degree, he cannot hold office, vote or ballot, receive Masonic +burial, attend a Masonic funeral as a member of the lodge, and has no +right to Masonic charity.

+ +

He has the right to ask his lodge for his Fellowcraft's degree. He has +the right of instruction by competent brethren to obtain that "suitable +proficiency" in the work of the first degree which will entitle him to +his second degree if the brethren are willing to give it to him.

+ +

The lodge asks very little of an Entered Apprentice besides the secrecy +to which his obligation bound him and those exhibitions of character +outlined in the Charge given at the close of the degree.

+ +

It requires that he be diligent in learning and that so far as he is +able he will suit his convenience as to time and place to that of his +instructors.

+ +

Inasmuch as the Rite of Destitution is taught the initiate in the first +degree he may naturally wonder why an Entered Apprentice has not the +right to lodge

+ +

(1) Ashlar; a building stone.

+ +

charity if he needs it. Individual Masonic charity he may, of course, +receive, but the right to the organized relief of the lodge, or a Grand +Lodge, belongs only to a Master Mason.

+ +

This is Masonic law; Masonic practice, in the spirit of brotherly love, +would offer any relief suddenly and imperatively needed by an initiate - +for that is Freemasonry.

+ +

"SUITABLE PROFICIENCY"

+ +

In the Middle Ages operative apprentices were required to labour seven +years before they were thought to know enough to attempt to become +Fellows of the Craft. At the end of the seven-year period an apprentice +who had earned the approbation of those over him might make his Master's +Piece and submit it to the judgment of the Master and Wardens of his +lodge.

+ +

The Master's Piece was some difficult task of stone cutting or setting. +Whether he as admitted as a Fellow or turned back for further +instruction depended on its perfection.

+ +

The Master's Piece survives in Speculative Masonry only as a small task +and the seven years have shrunk to a minimum of one month. Before +knocking at the door of the West Gate for his Fellowcraft's Degree an +Entered Apprentice must learn "by heart" a part of the ritual and the +ceremonies through which he has passed.

+ +

Easy for some, difficult for others, this is an essential task. It must +be done, and well done. It is no kindness to an Entered Apprentice to +permit him to proceed if his Master's Piece is badly made.

+ +

As the initiate converses with well-informed brethren, he will learn +that there are literally millions of Masons in the world - three +millions in the United States. He does not know them; they do not know +him. Unless he can prove that he is a Mason, he cannot visit in a lodge +where he is not known, neither can he apply for Masonic aid, nor receive +Masonic welcome and friendship.

+ +

Hence the requirement that the Entered Apprentice learn his work well is +in his own interest.

+ +

But it is also of interest to all brethren, wheresoever dispersed, that +the initiate know his work. They may find it as necessary to prove +themselves to him as he may need to prove himself to them. If he does +not know his work, he cannot receive a proof any more than he can give +it.

+ +

It is of interest to the lodge that the initiate know his work well. +Well-informed Masons may be very useful in lodge; the sloppy, careless +workman can never be depended upon for good work.

+ +

Appalled at the apparently great feat of memory asked, some initiates +study with an instructor for an hour or two, find it difficult, and lose +courage. But what millions of other men have done, any initiate can do. +Any man who can learn to know by heart any two words can also learn +three; having learned three he may add a fourth, and so on, until he can +stand before the lodge and pass a creditable examination, or satisfy a +committee that he has learned enough to entitle him to ask for further +progress.

+ +

The initiate should be not only willing but enthusiastically eager to +learn what is required because of its effect upon his future Masonic +career. The Entered Apprentice who wins the honour of being passed to +the degree of Fellowcraft by having well performed the only task set him +goes forward feeling that he is worthy. As Speculative Freemasonry +builds only character, a feeling of unworthiness is as much a handicap +in lodge life as a piece of faulty stone is in building a wall.

+ +

But the most important reason for learning the work thoroughly goes +farther. It applies more and more as the Fellowcraft's Degree is +reached and passed and is most vital after the initiate has the proud +right to say, "I am a Master Mason."

+ +

RITUAL

+ +

One of the great appeals of Freemasonry, both to the profane (1) and to +Masons, is its antiquity. The Order can trace an unbroken history of +more than two hundred years in its present form (the Mother Grand Lodge +was formed in 1717), and has irrefutable documentary evidence of a much +longer existence in simpler forms.

+ +

Our present rituals - the plural is used advisedly, as no two +jurisdictions are exactly at one on what is correct in ritual -are the +source books from which we prove just where we came from and, to some +extent, just when.

+ +

If we alter our ritual, either intentionally or by

+ +

(1) Masonically, from pro and fanum, meaning, "Without the temple." To a +Mason a profane is one not a Mason; the profane world is all that is not +in the Masonic world. The word as used by Masons has no relation to +that used to describe what is irreligious or blasphemous.

+ +

poor memorization, we gradually lose the many references concealed in +the old, old phrases which tell the story of whence we came and when.

+ +

Time is relative to the observer; what is very slow to the man may be +very rapid to nature. Nature has all the time there is. To drop out a +word here, put in a new one there, eliminate this sentence and add that +one to our ritual seems to be a minor matter in a man's lifetime. Yet +if it is continued long enough - a very few score of years - the old +ritual will be entirely altered and become something new.

+ +

We have confirmation of this. Certain parts of the ritual are printed. +These printed paragraphs are practically the same in most jurisdictions. +Occasionally there is a variation, showing where some committee on work +has not been afraid to change the work of the fathers. But as a whole +the printed portion of our work is substantially what it was when it was +first brought to this country more than two hundred years ago.

+ +

The secret work is very different in many of our jurisdictions. Some of +these differences are accounted for by different original sources, yet +even in two jurisdictions which sprang from the same source of +Freemasonry, and originally had the same work, we find variations, +showing that mouth-to-ear instruction, no matter how secret it may be, +is not wholly an accurate way of transmitting words.

+ +

If in spite of us alterations creep in by the slow process of time and +human fallibility, how much faster will the ritual change if we are +careless or indifferent? The farther away we get from our original +source, the more meticulously careful must trust-worthy Masons be to +pass on the work to posterity exactly as we receive it. The Mason of +olden time could go to his source for reinspiration - we cannot.

+ +

Ritual is the thread which binds us to those who immediately preceded +us, as their ritual bound them to their fathers, our grandfathers. The +ritual we hand down to our sons and their sons' sons will be their bond +with us, and through us with the historic dead. To alter that bond +intentionally is to wrong those who come after us, even as we have been +wronged when those who preceded us were careless or inefficient in their +memorization of ritual.

+ +

The Entered Apprentice, then, should not be discouraged if the ritual +"comes hard." He should fail not in the task nor question that it is +worth while, for on what he does and on the way in which he does it +depends in some measure the Freemasonry of the future. As he does well +or ill, so will those who come after him do ill or well.

+ +

"FREE WILL AND ACCORD"

+ +

Though he knows it not the petitioner encounters his first Masonic +symbol when he receives from the hands of a friend the petition for +which he has asked.

+ +

Freemasons do not proselyte. The Order asks no man for his petition. +Greater than any man, Freemasonry honours those she permits to knock +upon her West Gate. Not king, prince, nor potentate; president, +general, nor savant can honour the Fraternity by petitioning a lodge for +the degrees.

+ +

Churches send out missionaries and consider it a duty to persuade men to +their teachings. Commercial organizations, Boards of Trade, Chambers of +Commerce, Life Insurance Associations, and so on, attempt to win members +by advertising and persuasion. Members are happy to ask their friends to +join their clubs. But a man must come to the West Gate of a lodge "of +his own free will and accord," and can come only by the good offices of +a friend whom he has enlisted on his behalf.

+ +

The candidate obligates himself for all time: "Once a Mason, always a +Mason." He may take no interest in the Order. He may dimit, (1), become +unaffiliated, (2) be dropped N.P.D., (3) be tried for a Masonic offense +and suspended or expelled, but he cannot "unmake" himself as a Mason, or +ever avoid the moral responsibility of keeping the obligations he +voluntarily assumes.

+ +

If a man be requested to join or persuaded to sign a petition, he may +later be in a position to say, "I

+ +

(1) Dimit, also spelled demit. Masonic lexicographers quarrel as to +which is correct. Dimit from the Latin dimitto, to permit to go, is +probably more used than demit, from the Latin demittere, meaning to let +down from an elevated position to a lower one; in other words, to +resign. However spelled, in Freemasonry it signifies both the +permission of the lodge to have to join another lodge, and the paper +containing that permission.

+ +

(2) Unaffiliated: a Mason who belongs to no lodge. After he has taken +his dimit, a Mason is unaffiliated until again elected a member of some +lodge. A brother dropped N.P.D. is unaffiliated. A man made a Mason "at +sight" (done only by a Grand Master) is unaffiliated until be joins some +lodge. The state of unaffiliation is Masonically frowned upon, since an +unaffiliated brother contributes nothing to the Fraternity to which he +is bound.

+ +

(3) N.P.D.: short for Non Payment of Dues.

+ +

became a Mason under a misapprehension. I was oveR-persuaded. I was +argued into membership," and might thus have a self-excusing shadow of a +reason for failure to do as most solemNly agrees.

+ +

But no man does so join unless he signs a false statement. He must +declare in his petition, and many times during his progress through the +degrees, that the act is "of my own free will and accord." Not Only must +he so declare, but he must so swear.

+ +

Freemasonry gives her all - and it is a great gift - to those she +accepts. But she gives only to those who honestly desire the gift. He +who is not first prepared to be a Freemason in his heart, that is, of +his own free will and accord, can never be one.

+ +

INITIATION

+ +

"Initiation is an analogy of man's advent from prenatal darkness into +the light of human fellowship, moral truth, and spiritual faith." (1)

+ +

From the Latin initium; a beginning, a birth, a coming into being. It +is a very common human experience. We are initiated into a new world +when we first go to school; adolescence is initiation into manhood or +womanhood; we undergo an initiation when we plunge into business or our +professions; marriage is an initiation into a new experience, a new way +of living, a new outlook on life; the acceptance of a religious +experience is an initiation; a new book may initiate us into a new +interest. Initiation is e verywhere and in one or another form comes to +every man.

+ +

(1) Howard B. Cruse.

+ +

Masonic initiation may, but does not necessarily, come to those who +seek, are accepted, and receive the degrees.

+ +

Many refuse the results of initiation. The school-boy who will not +study, the man who will not work, the reader who is not interested in +his book, the churchgoer to whom the service is but an empty form to be +gone through once a week because "it is the thing to do" - these gain +nothing from such initiations. The candidate who sees in the Masonic +initiation of the Entered Apprentice Degree only a formal and dignified +ceremony designed to take up an evening and push him one step forward +toward membership in the Order refuses to accept his initiation.

+ +

Neither lodge nor brethren can help this. If a man will not accept what +is offered, if his understanding is so dull, his mind so sodden, his +imagination so dead that he cannot glimpse the substance behind the +form, both be and the lodge are unlucky. That the majority of initiates +do receive and take to themselves this opportunity for spiritual rebirth +is obvious, otherwise the Order would not live and grow, could not have +lived through hundreds - in some form, thousands - of years.

+ +

He is a wise initiate who will read and study that he may receive all of +that for which he has asked. The lodge puts before him the bread of +truth, the wine of belief, the staff of power, and sets his feet upon +the path that leads to Light . . . but it is for him to eat and drink +and travel the winding path of initiation which at long last leads to +the symbolic East.

+ +

THE LODGE AS A SYMBOL

+ +

The lodge is a symbol of the world. Its shape, the "oblong square" is +the ancient conception of the shape of the world. The Entered Apprentice +is taught its dimensions, its covering, its furniture, its lights, its +jewels, and will learn more of it as a symbol as he proceeds through the +degrees. Although a symbol of the world, the lodge is a world unto +itself; a world within a world, different in its customs, its laws, and +its structure from the world without. In the world without are class +distinctions, w ealth, power, poverty, and misery. In the lodge all are +on a level and peace and harmony prevail. In the world without most laws +are "thou shalt not" and enforced by penalties. In the lodge the laws +are mostly "thou shalt" and compulsion is seldom thought of and as +rarely invoked. Freemasons obey their laws not so much because they +must as because they will. In the world without men are divided by a +thousand influences: race, business, religious belief, politics. In the +lodge men are unit ed in the common bond of three fundamental beliefs: +the Fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man and the immortality of the +soul, and all the sweet associations which spring therefrom. In the +world without men travel many roads to many goals; in the lodge the +initiate does as all others who have gone this way before him, and all, +youngest Entered Apprentice and oldest Past Master, travel a common way +to an end which is the same for all.

+ +

PREPARATION

+ +

Often it seems queer to the candidate. How should it not, when he +receives his explanations afterwards and not before? When the Entered +Apprentice Degree is concluded, the initiate who has ears to hear knows +some of the reasons for the manner of his preparation and reception, +although he should read not only this but larger books which will +amplify these instructions to his betterment. He may well begin with +the Book of Ruth, in which he will find much illumination "concerning +their manner of redeeming and changing."

+ +

But the Rite of Discalceation, (1) as it is called, has another +significance than that of giving testimony of sincerity of intentions. +These are sufficiently important; a candidate for the Entered +Apprentice Degree who is not sincere will have a very disagreeable time +in Freemasonry. But the hidden meaning of the rite is perhaps even +more important than the explained meaning. Here the initiate must +possess his soul in patience. He is not yet wholly admitted to the +temple which is Freemasonry. He is not permitted to do as Master +Masons do, or to know what Master Masons know. For the whole Masonic +significance of the rite he must wait until it is his privilege to +receive the Sublime Degree of Master Mason.

+ +

It should not come as a surprise that a special preparation for +initiation is required. The soldier's uniform allows his greatest +freedom of action. The bridegroom dresses in his best. The knight of +old put on shining armour when going into battle. Men prepare in some +way, to the best of their ability, for any new experience.

+ +

(1) From the Latin discalceatus, unshod.

+ +

+Preparation for Masonic initiation is wholly a symbolic matter, but with +deeper meanings and greater than are apparent on first acquaintance.

+ +

CIRCUMAMBULATION

+ +

This mouthful of a word, meaning literally "walking around," is not only +the name of a part of a degree but also of a symbol. The candidate is +conducted around the lodge room for a reason later explained, but the +inner meaning of this ceremony is hidden. Its deep significance unites +the initiate not only with all who have gone this way before in a +Masonic lodge, but with those uncounted millions of men who for +thousands of years have made of circumambulation an offering of homage +to the Unseen Presence.

+ +

Among the first religions were sun and fire worship. Prehistoric man +found God in nature. Thunder was His voice; lightning was His weapon; +wind was His breath; fire was His presence. The sun gave light and +heat; it kept away the wild beasts; it grew the crops; it was life +itself. Fire gave light and heat and prepared the food - it, also, was +life itself. Worship of the sun in the sky was conducted symbolically by +worship of fire upon piles of stones which were the first altars.

+ +

Man is incurably imitative. The small boy struts with his father's +cane; the little girl puts on her mother's dress to play grown up; the +valet imitates the master; the clerk imitates his manager. Early man +imitated the God he worshipped. Heat and light he could give by fire, +so lighting the fire on the altar became an important religious +ceremony. And early man could imitate the movements of his God.

+ +

The sun seems to move from east to west by way of the south. Early man +circled altars, on which burned the fire which was his God, from east to +west by way of the south. Circumambulation became a part of all +religious observances; it was in the ceremonies of ancient Egypt; it was +part of the mysteries of Eleusis; it was practised in the rites of +Mithras and a thousand other cults, and down through the ages it has +come to us.

+ +

When the candidate first circles the lodge room about the altar, he +walks step by step with a thousand shades of men who have thus +worshipped the Most High by humble imitation. Thus thought of +circumambulation is no longer a mere parade but a ceremony of +significance, linking all who take part in it with the spiritual +aspirations of a dim and distant past.

+ +

A further significant teaching of this symbol is its introduction to the +idea of dependence. Freemasonry speaks plainly here to him who listens. +Of this Newton (1) has beautifully written:

+ +

From the hour we are born till we are laid in the grave we grope our way +in the dark, and none could find or keep the path without a guide. From +how many ills, how many perils, how many pitfalls we are guarded in the +midst of the years!

+ +

(1) Dr. Joseph Fort Newton: an Episcopal minister whose golden pen has +given to Freemasonry The Builders, The Men's House, The Religion of +Masonry, Short Talks on Masonry, and whose vision and inspiration are a +power in the Masonic world.

+ +

+With all our boasted wisdom and foresight, even when we fancy we are +secure, we may be in the presence of dire danger, if not of death +itself.

+ +

Truly it does not lie in man to direct his path. and without a true and +trusted friend in whom we can confide, not one of us would find his way +home. So Masonry teaches us, simply but unmistakably, at the first step +as at the last, that we live and walk by faith, not by sight; and to +know that fact is the beginning of wisdom. Since this is so, since no +man can find his way alone, in life as in the lodge we must in humility +trust our Guide, learn His ways, follow Him and fear no danger. Happy +is the man w ho has learned that secret.

+ +

UNITY

+ +

In an Entered Apprentice's Lodge, the 133rd Psalm is read - sometimes +sung - during the course of the degree:

+ +

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together +in unity. It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down +upon the beard, even Aaron's beard; that went down to the skirts of his +garments; As the dew of Hermon and as the dew that descended upon the +mountains of Zion, for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life +for evermore.

+ +

Unity is an essential of a Masonic lodge. Unity of thought, of +intention, of execution. It is but another word for harmony, which +Freemasons are taught is the strength and support of all well-regulated +institutions, especially this of ours. Dew is nature's blessing where +little rain falls; the dew of Hermon is proverbially heavy. Israel +poured precious ointments on the heads of those the people honoured; +that which went down to the skirts of his garments was evidently great +in quantity, significant of t he honour paid to Aaron, personification +of high priest-hood, representative of the solidity of his group. The +whole passage is a glorification of the beauty of brotherly love, which +is why it was anciently selected to be a part of the Entered +Apprentice's Degree, in which the initiate is first introduced to that +principal tenet of the Fraternity.

+ +

SECRECY

+ +

In the true sense of the words Freemasonry is not a secret society but a +society with secrets. A secret society is one the members of which are +not known; a society which exists without common knowledge. Freemasonry +is well known. Men proudly wear the emblem of the Order on coat and +watch charm and ring. Many Grand Lodges publish lists of their +members. Many Grand Lodges maintain card indexes of all members in the +jurisdiction so that it is easy to ascertain whether or not a man is a +Mason. Grand Lodges publish their Proceedings, a Masonic press caters +to the Masonic world, and thousands of books have been written about +Freemasonry. Obviously it is not the society which is secret.

+ +

The initiate takes an obligation of secrecy; if he will carefully +consider the language of that obligation, he will see that it concerns +the forms and ceremonies, the manner of teaching, certain modes of +recognition. There is no obligation of secrecy regarding the truths +taught by Freemasonry, otherwise such a book as this could not lawfully +be written.

+ +

Sometimes the question is asked by a profane, "Why have any secrets? If +what you know and teach is worth so much, why not give it to the world?"

+ +

Secrecy is a common fact of everyday life. Our private affairs are +ours, not to be shouted from the housetops. Business secrets are often +of value in proportion to the success of keeping them. Diplomacy is +necessarily conducted in secret. Board meetings of companies, banks, +business bouses, are secret. A man and his wife have private +understandings for no one else to know. The lover tells the secrets of +his heart to but one ear.

+ +

From all of us some things are secret and hidden that might be open and +known - if we had the wit or would take the trouble to learn. Fine +music is a secret from the tone deaf. Mathematics are a secret from the +ignorant. Philosophy is a secret from the commonplace mind. +Freemasonry is a secret from the profane - and for the same reasons!

+ +

The secrecy of Masonry is an honourable secrecy; any good man may ask +for her secrets; those who are worthy will receive them. To give them +to those who do not seek, or who are not worthy, would but impoverish +the Fraternity and enrich not those who received them.

+ +

It is sometimes suggested that Freemasonry pretends to possess valuable +secrets merely to intrigue men to apply for them through curiosity. How +mistaken this is understood by every Freemason. He who seeks +Freemasonry out of curiosity for her secrets must be bitterly +disappointed. In school the teacher is anxious to instruct all who seek +the classroom in the secrets of geometry, but not all students wish to +study geometry and not all who do have the wit to comprehend. +Freemasonry is anxious to give of he r secrets to worthy men fit to +receive them but not all are worthy, and not all the worthy seek.

+ +

PENALTIES

+ +

Freemasonry bas been aptly described as "the gentle Craft." Its +teachings are of brotherly love, relief, truth, love of God, charity, +immortality, mutual help, sympathy. To the initiate, therefore, the +penalty in his obligation comes often with a shock of surprise and +sometimes consternation.

+ +

Let it be said with emphasis: the penalties are wholly symbolic.

+ +

The small boy uses the expression "By golly," keeping alive an ancient +Cornish oath in which goll or the hand, uplifted, was offered as a +sacrifice if what was said was not the truth. In our courts of law we +say, "So help me, God," in taking the oath to tell the truth. But the +small boy does not expect his hand to be cut off if he happens to fib, +nor is the penalty for perjury such that only God may help him upon whom +it is inflicted.

+ +

Masonic penalties go back to very ancient times; to years when +punishments were cruel and inhuman, often for very small offenses. +Throats were cut, tongues torn out, bodies cut in half, hooks struck +into breasts and the body torn apart; men were dismembered for all sorts +of offenses which seem to us much too trivial for such extreme +punishments; looting a temple, stealing a sheep, disclosing the king's +secrets, etc.

+ +

Other punishments of the Middle Ages were based on religious fears. To +be buried in unconsecrated ground was a terrible end for ignorant and +superstitious people who believed that it meant eternal damnation. +Similarly, to be interred in land which was no man's property - between +high and low water mark - was symbolical of spiritual death.

+ +

These and other horrible penalties were inflicted by law by various +peoples at various times. That the legal penalties for certain civil +crimes were incorporated in Masonic obligations seems obvious. But that +they ever meant or were ever intended to mean any death but a symbolic +one is simply not so.

+ +

The yokel who cries "May God strike me dead if this is not so" does not +mean that he wishes to die; but he says that he believes be will be +worthy of death if he lies. It is in such a way that the Masonic +penalties are to be understood; the Entered Apprentice states his belief +that he would merit the penalty of his obligation if he failed to keep +it.

+ +

The only punishments ever inflicted by Freemasons upon Freemasons are +reprimand, suspension (definite and indefinite), and expulsion from the +Fraternity. The initiate who violates his obligation will feel the +weight of no hand laid upon him. He will suffer no physical penalties +whatever. The contempt and detestation of his brethren, their denial of +the privileges of Freemasonry to the foresworn, are the only Masonic +penalties ever inflicted.

+ +

THE GREAT LIGHTS

+ +

There are three - the Holy Bible, the Square, and the Compasses. (1)

+ +

The Holy Bible is always referred to as "The Great Light" or "The Great +Light in Masonry," in this country which is predominantly Christian. +The practice may be and often is different in other lands. What is +vital and unchangeable, a Landmark of the Order (a further discussion of +Landmarks is given later, see pages 159-163) is that a Volume of the +Sacred Law be open upon the Masonic altar whenever the lodge is open. A +lodge wholly Jewish may prefer to use only the Old Testament; in Turkey +and Persia the Koran would be used as the V.S.L. of the Mohammedan; +Brahmins would use the Vedas. In the Far East where Masonic lodges have +members of many races and creeds it is customary to have several holy +books upon the altar that the initiate may choose that which is to him +the most sacred.

+ +

The Holy Bible, our Great Light in Masonry, is opened upon our altars. +Upon it lie the other Great Lights - the Square and the Compasses. +Without all three no Masonic lodge can exist, much less open or work. +Together with the warrant from the Grand Lodge they are indispensable.

+ +

The Bible on the altar is more than the rule and guide of our faith. It +is one of the greatest of Freemasonry's symbols. For the Bible is here +a symbol of all holy books of all faiths. It is the Masonic way of +setting forth that simplest and most profound of truths which Masonry +has made so peculiarly her

+ +

(1) "Compass" in six jurisdictions.

+ +

own: that there is a way, there does run a road on which men "of all +creeds and of every race" may travel happily together, be their +differences of religious faith what they may. In his private devotions +a man may petition God or Jehovah, Allah or Buddha, Mohammed or Jesus; +he may call upon the God of Israel or the Great First Cause. In the +Masonic Lodge he hears humble petition to the Great Architect of the +Universe, finding his own deity under that name.

+ +

A hundred paths may wind upward around a mountain; at the top they meet. +Freemasonry opens the Great Light upon her altar not as one book of one +faith, but as all books of all faiths, the book of the Will of the Great +Architect, read in what language, what form, what shape we will. It is +as all-inclusive as the symbols which lie upon it. The Square is not +for any one lodge, any one nation, any one religion - it is for all +Masons, everywhere, to all of whom it speaks the same tongue. The +Compasses circum scribe the desires of Masons wheresoever dispersed; the +secret of the Square, held between the points of the Compasses (see page +58) is universal.

+ +

Countless references in our ritual are taken from the Old Testament. +Almost every name in a Masonic lodge is from the Scriptures. In the +Great Light are found those simple teachings of the universality of +brotherhood, the love of God for his children, the hope of immortality, +which are the very warp and woof of Freemasonry. Let it be emphasized; +these are the teachings of Freemasonry in every tongue, in every land, +for those of every faith. Our Great Light is but a symbol of the Volume +of the Sacred Law . Freemasonry is no more a Christian organization +than it is Jewish or Mohammedan or Brahmin. Its use of the collection +of sacred writings of the Jews (Old Testament) and the Gospels of the +New Testament as the Great Light must not confuse the initiate so that +he reads into Freemasonry a sectarian character which is not there.

+ +

This is so well understood that it needs emphasis only for the novice. +To give him specific facts as well as assertion: the Bible is first +mentioned as a Great Light in Masonry about 1760, whereas the first of +the Old Charges (one of the foundation stones on which rest the laws of +Freemasonry, first published in 1723, but presumably adopted by the +Mother Grand Lodge at its formation in 1717) reads in part as follows +(spelling modernized):

+ +

A Mason is obliged by his tenure to obey the moral law; and if he +rightly understands the art, he will never be a stupid atheist, nor an +irreligious libertine. But though in ancient times Masons were charged +in every country to be of the religion of that country or nation, +whatever it was, yet 'tis now thought more expedient only to oblige them +to that religion in which all men agree, leaving their particular +opinions to themselves; that is, to be good men and true, or men of +honour and honesty, by whateve r denominations or persuasions they may +be distinguished; whereby Masonry becomes the center of union and the +means of conciliating true friendship among persons that must have +remained at a perpetual distance.

+ +

Perhaps never before has so short a paragraph had so profound an effect, +setting forth the non-sectarian, non-doctrinal character of Freemasonry, +making religion, not a religion, the important matter in the Ancient +Craft.

+ +

CABLE TOW

+ +

In old rituals this was originally "cable rope." Our cable tow probably +comes from the German "Kabel tau."

+ +

The cable tow is symbolic of that life cord by which the infant receives +life from his mother. Symbolically the cable tow is the cord by which +the Masonic infant is attached to his Mother Lodge. When a baby is born +the physical cord is severed but never the knife was ground which can +cut the spiritual cord which ties a man to his mother. In the Entered +Apprentice Degree the physical restraint of the cable tow is removed as +soon as the spiritual bond of the obligation is assumed but never the +means has be en made by which to cut the obligation which binds a man to +his Mother Lodge and the gentle Craft. Expulsion does not release from +the obligation; unaffiliation does not dissolve the tie; dimitting and +joining another lodge cannot make of the new lodge the Mother Lodge.

+ +

The cable tow has further significance in the succeeding degrees which +will be discussed later.

+ +

THE LESSER LIGHTS

+ +

When an initiate is first brought to light, the radiance comes from the +three Lesser Lights, which form a triangle about or near the altar. +Lesser Lights are lit when the lodge is opened and the altar arranged +and extinguished when the lodge is closed and the Great Lights +displaced. Something - not very much - is said of them in the ritual. +They form one of those symbols in Freemasonry . . . of which there are +so many! . . . which the individual brother is supposed to examine and +translate for himself, g etting from it what he can and enjoying what he +gets in direct proportion to the amount of labour and thought he is +willing to devote to the process of extracting the meaning from the +outer covering.

+ +

In some jurisdictions the Lesser Lights are closely about the altar: in +others one is placed at each of the stations of do three principal +officers. In some lodges the three Lesser Lights form a right, in +others an equilateral, in others an isosceles triangle. What is uniform +throughout the Masonic world is the triangular formation; what is +different is the shape and size of the triangle.

+ +

Of course, it is not possible to place three lights to form anything +else but a triangle; they cannot be made to form a square or a star. +Hence the natural question: why are there three Lesser Lights and not +two or four or more?

+ +

There is "three" throughout Ancient Craft Masonry. The first of the +great Sacred Numbers of the Ancient Mysteries, three was the numerical +symbol of God, but not because God was necessarily considered as +triune. While many religions of many ages and peoples have conceived +of Divinity as a trinity, the figure three as a symbol of God is far +older than any trinitarian doctrine. The triangle, like the circle, is +without beginning or ending. One line, or two lines, have ends. They +start and finish. Like the square or the five or more sided figure, the +triangle has no loose ends. And the triangle is the first of these +which can be made; as God was always considered as first, and also as +without either beginning or ending, the triangle itself soon became a +symbol of Deity.

+ +

Ancient peoples made much of sex. Their two greatest impulses were +self-preservation and mating. Their third was protection of children. +So powerful were these in primal man that not all his civilization, his +luxury, his complicated and involved life, have succeeded in removing +them as the principal main-springs of all human endeavour. It was +natural for the savage worshipper of a shining god in the sky to think +he, too, required a mate, especially when that mate was so plainly in +evidence. The Moon bec ame the Sun's bride by a process of reasoning as +plain as it was childlike.

+ +

Father, mother . . . there must be a child, of course. That child was +Mercury, the nearest planet to the sun, the one the god kept closest to +him. Here we have the origin of the three Lesser Lights; in earliest +recorded accounts of the Mysteries of Eleusis (to mention only one) we +find three lights about the holy place, representing the Sun, the Moon, +and Mercury.

+ +

The Worshipful Master rules and governs his lodge as truly as the Sun +and Moon rule and govern day and night. There can be no lodge without +a Worshipful Master; he is, in a very real sense, the lodge itself. +There are some things he cannot do that the brethren under him can do. +But without him the brethren can do nothing, while without the +brethren's consent or even their assistance, he can do much. As one of +the principal functions of the Worshipful Master is to give "good and +wholesome instruction" to his lodge, the inclusion of one light as his +symbol is but a logical carrying out of that Masonic doctrine which +makes the East the source of Masonic light to the brethren.

+ +

By the light of the Lesser Lights the Entered Apprentice is led to see +those objects which mean so much to a Mason, the Great Lights; the +inestimable gift of God to man as the rule and guide for his faith and +practice, the tools dedicated to the Craft and to the Master, the Alpha +and Omega of Freemasonry. Light alone is not enough; light must be +used! Here, too, is symbolism which it is well to muse upon.

+ +

As the lodge as a whole is a symbol of the world, so should a Mason's +heart be to him always a symbol of the lodge. In it he should carry +ever what he may remember of the Great Light and with spiritual +compasses lay out his work; with spiritual square, square both work and +actions toward all mankind, "more especially a brother Mason." Therefore +must he carry also in his heart three tiny Lesser Lights, by the light +of which he uses his spiritual lodge furnishings. If he lights these +from the torch of love and burns one for friendliness, one for +helpfulness and one for godliness, he will be truly an initiate in the +real sense of that term, and about the altar of Freemasonry find a new +satisfaction in the new meanings which the three Lesser Lights will, +with silent light and soft, imprint upon his heart.

+ +

DUE GUARD

+ +

Mackey (1) states, "A mode of recognition which derives its name from +its object, which is to duly guard the person using it."

+ +

Other commentators have seen it as derived from the French "Dieu Garde" +- God guard me.

+ +

The origin of the Third Perfect Point is taught in the degree. Its use, +in salute, is a silent way of saying to all present, "I remember my +obligation; I am conscious of the penalty of its violation; I forget not +my duty."

+ +

The initiate uses it first in a salutation to the Wardens, a ceremony +the significance of which should never be forgotten. The government of +a Masonic lodge is tripartite; it is in the hands of a Master and two +Wardens. By this ceremony the Entered Apprentice admits their +authority, submits himself to their government under the Master, and +agrees to abide by their setting mauls when it is proper for them to use +them.

+ +

The Due Guard is given by an Entered Apprentice on entering and +retiring, that he may never forget the significance of his position when +he took upon

+ +

(1) Albert Gallatin Mackey: one of the greatest students and most widely +followed authorities the Masonic world has known. His Encyclopedia of +Freemasonry is a standard work; his Jurisprudence and his Symbolism, if +materially added to and changed since his time, are yet foundation +works. His History is exhaustive; his List of Landmarks, if often +superseded in these more modern days, first reduced the vexed question +to proportions in which it might be grasped by the average Masonic mind. +The Entered Appre ntice who pursues his studies in Freemasonry may do +much worse than consult the great Master of Freemasonry.

+ +

himself that obligation which gave him the title, Brother.

+ +

THE LAMBSKIN APRON

+ +

More ancient than the Golden Fleece or Roman Eagle, more honourable than +the Star and Garter ...

+ +

In these words the ritual seeks to impress upon him who has been +invested with the white lambskin apron its value and its importance.

+ +

The Order of the Golden Fleece was founded by Philip, Duke of Burgundy, +in 1429.

+ +

The Roman Eagle was Rome's symbol and ensign of power and might a +hundred years before Christ.

+ +

The Order of the Star was created by John II of France in the middle of +the Fourteenth Century.

+ +

The Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England in 1349 for +himself and twenty-five Knights of the Garter.

+ +

It is commonly supposed that the apron became the "badge of a Mason" +because stonemasons wore aprons to protect their clothing from the rough +contact of building material. But the apron is far, far older than +Golden Fleece or Roman Eagle, than the Star or Garter, than the +stonemasons of the Middle Ages - aye, older than the Comacine Masters, +the Collegia of Rome, the Dionysian Artificers who preceded them.

+ +

The Hebrew prophets wore aprons and the high priests were so decorated. +In the mysteries of Egypt and of India aprons were worn as symbols of +priestly power. The earliest Chinese secret societies used aprons; the +Essenes wore them, as did the Incas of Peru and the Aztecs of Mexico.

+ +

Throughout the Old Testament are references to lambs, often in +connection with sacrifices, frequently used in a sense symbolic of +innocence, purity, gentleness, weakness, a matter aided by colour, which +we unconsciously associate with purity, probably because of the hue of +snow.

+ +

This association is universal in Freemasonry, and the initiate should +strive to keep his apron white and himself innocent. His badge of a +Mason should symbolize in its colour the purity of his Masonic +character; he should forever be innocent of wrong toward all but "more +especially a brother Mason."

+ +

With the presentation of the apron the lodge accepts the initiate as +worthy. It entrusts to his hands its distinguishing badge. With it and +symbolized by it comes one of the most precious and most gracious of +gifts: the gift of brotherhood. Lucky the Entered Apprentice who has the +wit to see the extent and the meaning of the gift; thrice lucky the +lodge whose initiates find in it and keep that honour, probity and +power, that innocence, strength, and spiritual contact, that glory of +unity and oneness with all the Masonic world which may be read into this +symbol by him who hath open eyes of the heart with which to see. In the +words of the Old Dundee Lodge'- Apron Charge:

+ +

It is yours to wear throughout an honourable life, and at your death to +be placed upon the coffin which shall contain your mortal remains and +with them laid beneath the silent clods of the valley. Let its pure and +spotless surface be to you an ever-present reminder of a purity of life +and rectitude of conduct, a never-ending

+ +

(1) Of Scotland

+ +

argument for nobler deeds, for higher thoughts, for greater +achievements. And when at last your weary feet shall have come to the +end of their toilsome journey, and from your nerveless grasp shall drop +the working tools of life, may the record of your thoughts and actions +be as pure and spotless as this emblem . . .

+ +

For thus, and thus only, may it be worn with pleasure to yourself and +honour to the Fraternity.

+ +

"THE GREATEST OF THESE"

+ +

The Entered Apprentice practices the Rite of Destitution before he hears +the beautiful words of the lecture descriptive of the three principal +rounds of Jacob's ladder: "the greatest of these is charity; for faith +is lost in sight, hope ends in fruition, but charity extends beyond the +grave, through the boundless realms of eternity." But he may reflect +upon both at once and from that reflection learn that Masonic giving to +the destitute is not confined to alms.

+ +

Putting a quarter in a beggar's hand will hardly extend beyond the grave +through the boundless realms of eternity!

+ +

Masonic charity does indeed include the giving of physical relief; +individual Masons give it, the lodge gives it, the Grand Lodge gives it. +But if charity began and ended with money, it would go but a little way. +St Pal said: "And although I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and +have not charity, it profiteth me nothing."

+ +

If the charity of Freemasonry meant only the giving of alms, it would +long ago have given place to a hundred institutions better able to +provide relief.

+ +

The charity taught in the lodge is charity of thought, charity of the +giving of self. The visit to the sick is true Masonic charity. The +brotherly hand laid upon a bowed shoulder in comfort and to give courage +is Masonic charity. The word of counsel to the fatherless, the tear +dropped in sympathy with the widowed, the joyous letter of +congratulation to a fortunate brother, all are Masonic charity - and +these, indeed, extend beyond the grave.

+ +

Often an Entered Apprentice believes that the Rite has taught him that +every Mason must give a coin to every beggar who asks, even though they +line the streets and need as many dimes as a pocket will hold. Such is +not the truth. The Mason gives when he meets anyone "in like destitute +condition." It is left for him to judge whether the appeal is for a need +which is real or one assumed. In general all calls for Masonic charity +should be made through the lodge; machinery is provided for a kindly and +brother ly investigation, after which lodge or Grand Lodge will afford +relief. Individual charity is wholly in the control of the individual +brother's conscience.

+ +

But no conscience need control that larger and finer giving of comfort +and counsel, of joy and sadness, of sympathy and spiritual help. Here +the Mason may give as much as he will and be not the poorer but the +richer for his giving. He who reads the Rite of Destitution in this +larger sense has seen through the form to the reality behind and learned +the inner significance of the symbol.

+ +

NORTHEAST

+ +

Cornerstones are laid in the Northeast Corner because the Northeast is +the point of beginning; midway between the darkness of the North and the +light of the East.

+ +

The Entered Apprentice lays his Masonic Cornerstone standing in the +Northeast corner of the lodge, midway between the darkness of profane +ignorance and the full light of the symbolic East.

+ +

Here, if indeed he be a man of imagination and no clod, he receives a +thrill that may come to him never again - save once only - in Masonry. +For here he enters into his heritage as an Entered Apprentice. All that +has gone before bas been queer, mysterious, puzzling, almost +mind-shocking, devastating with its newness and its differences from the +world he knows. Now he stands "a just and upright Mason" to receive +those first instructions which, well studied, will enable him to +understand what has been done with and to him as to all who have gone +this way before.

+ +

Never again will he stand here, an Entered Apprentice - a man receives +the degree but once. Never, therefore, should he forget that once he +stood there, nor how he stood there, nor why. And if, momentarily, +memory leaves him, let him look in the Great Light and read (Ezekiel ii, +1-2):

+ +

And God said unto me, Son of Man, stand upon thy feet and I will speak +unto thee. And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and +set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.

+ +

No man stands in the Northeast Corner with his heart open but hears that +Voice which thundered to the prophet of old.

+ +

WORKING TOOLS

+ +

The Entered Apprentice receives from the hands of the Master two working +tools.

+ +

The Twenty-four Inch Gauge is well explained in the ritual, but the +significance of one point is sometimes overlooked. The Entered +Apprentice is taught that by the Twenty-four Inch Gauge he should divide +his time: "Eight hours for the service of God and a distressed worthy +brother; eight for the usual vocations, and eight for refreshment and +sleep."

+ +

There is no time to be wasted. There is no time to be idle. There is no +time for waiting.

+ +

The implication is plain; the Entered Apprentice should be always ready +to use his tools. He should recall the words of Flavius to the workman +in Julius Caesar, "Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does +thou with thy best apparel on?" Freemasonry is not only for the lodge +room but for life. Not to take the Twenty-four Inch Gauge into the +profane world and by its divisions number the hours for the working of +a constructive purpose is to miss the practical application of Masonic +labour and Masonic charity.

+ +

The Common Gavel which "breaks off the corners of rough stones, the +better to fit them for the builder's use" joins the Rough and Perfect +Ashlars in a hidden symbol of the Order at once beautiful and tender. +The famous sculptor and ardent Freemason, Gutzon Borglum, asked how be +carved stone into beautiful statues, once said, "It is very simple. I +merely knock away with hammer and chisel the stone I do not need and the +statue is there - it was there all the time."

+ +

In the Great Light we read: "The kingdom of heaven is within you." We +are also there taught that man is made in the image of God. As Brother +Borglum has so beautifully said, images are made by a process of taking +away. The perfection is already within. All that is required is to +remove the roughness, the excrescences, "divesting our hearts and +consciences of all the vices and superfluities of life" to show forth +the perfect man and Mason within. Thus the gavel becomes also the +symbol of personal power.

+ +

The Common Gavel has in every lodge a still further significance; it is +the symbol of the authority of the Worshipful Master. Later the +initiate will learn of the great extent of the power vested in the +Master of a lodge; sufficient now to say that the wise Master uses his +power sparingly and never arbitrarily. While the peace and harmony of +the Craft are maintained, he need not use it except as the ritual or +custom of presiding in the lodge requires. If he so use it will be +respected and its possessor w ill be venerated.

+ +

The Master always retains possession of the gavel and never allows it +beyond reach. He carries it with him when he moves about the lodge in +process of conferring a degree. When the lodge is in charge of the +Junior Warden at refreshment (1) it is the Junior Warden who uses a +gavel to control the lodge. The gavel is the Master's symbol of +authority and reminds him that although his position is the highest +within the gift of the brethren, he is yet but a brother among +brethren. Holding the highest power in the lodge he

+ +

(1) Masonic word for "at ease," meaning "not at work, but not closed."

+ +

exercises it by virtue of the commonest of the working tools.

+ +

Like all great symbols the gavel takes upon itself in the minds of the +brethren something of the quality of the thing symbolized. As we revere +the cotton in stripes and stars which become the flag of our country; as +we revere the paper and ink which become the Great Light in Masonry, so, +also, do Freemasons revere the Common Gavel which typifies and +symbolizes the height of Masonic authority - the majesty of power, the +wisdom of Light which rest in and shine forth from the Oriental Chair.

+ +

IMMOVABLE JEWELS

+ +

No symbol in all Freemasonry has the universal significance of the +Square. It is the typical jewel; the emblem known the world over as the +premier implement of the stone worker and the most important of the +Masonic working tools.

+ +

Every schoolboy learns that an angle of ninety degrees is a right angle. +So common is the description that few - even few Masons - pause in busy +lives to ask why. The ninety-degree angle is not only a right angle, +but it is the right angle - the only angle which is "right" for stones +which will form a wall, a building, a cathedral. Any other angle is, +Masonically, incorrect.

+ +

About the symbolism of the Square is nothing abstruse. Stonemasons use +it to prove the Perfect Ashlars. If the stone fits the square, it is +ready for the builder's use. Hence the words "try square" and hence, +too, the universal significance of the word "square," meaning moral, +upright, honourable, fair dealing.

+ +

Five centuries before the Christian era - to mention only one ancient +use of the Square as an emblem of morality - a Chinese author wrote a +book called The Great Learning. In it is the negative of the Golden +Rule, that a man should not do unto others that which he does not wish +others to do unto him. And then the Chinese sage adds, "This is called +the principle of acting on the Square."

+ +

The initiate walks around the lodge turning corners on the square. On +the altar is again the Square. He sees the Square hung about the neck +of the Master - particularly is the Square the jewel of the Master, +because from him must come all Masonic light to his brethren, and his +teachings must be "square." The Square shares with the Level and the +Plumb the quality of immovability in the lodge, meaning that as it is +always the jewel of the Master, so is it immovably in the Symbolic East. +An emblem of virtue , it is always in sight of the brethren in the +lodge; for him who carries his Masonry into his daily life, it is +forever in sight within, the try square of conscience, the tool by which +he squares his every act and word.

+ +

The Level and the Plumb are the other Immovable Jewels; the Level worn +by the Senior Warden in the West, the Plumb by the Junior Warden in the +South. While Square, Level and Plumb are Immovable Jewels and as such +belong to all three of the degrees of Ancient Craft Masonry; while all +are always worn by the three principal officers and all are first seen +and noted in the Entered Apprentice's Degree, they have a further +significance in the second or Fellowcraft's Degree and the Plumb has an +especial significa nce in that ceremony.

+ +

NORTH, PLACE OF DARKNESS

+ +

The reference to the ecliptic has puzzled many a brother who has not +studied the elements of astronomy.

+ +

The earliest astronomers defined the ecliptic as the hypothetical +"circular" plane of the earth's path about the sun with the sun in the +"center."

+ +

As a matter of fact the sun is not in the center and the earth's path +about the sun is not circular. The earth travels once about the sun in +three hundred and sixty-five days and a fraction, on an elliptic path; +the sun is at one of the foci of that ellipse.

+ +

The axis of the earth, about which it turns once in twenty-four hours, +thus making a night and day, is inclined to this hypothetical plane by +23 1/2 degrees. At one point in its yearly path the north pole of the +earth is inclined toward the sun by this amount. Halfway farther around +its path the north pole is inclined away from the sun by this angle. +The longest day in the northern hemisphere - June 21 - occurs when the +north pole is most inclined toward the sun.

+ +

Any building situated between latitudes 23 1/2 north and 23 1/2 south of +the equator will receive the rays of the sun at meridian (noon) from the +north at some time during the year. King Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem, +being in latitude 31 degrees 47 seconds north, lay beyond this limit. +At no time in the year, therefore, did the sun or moon at meridian "dart +its rays into the northerly portion thereof."

+ +

As astronomy in Europe is comparatively modern some have argued that +this reason for considering the North, Masonically, as a place of +darkness, must be also comparatively modern. This is wholly mistaken - +Pythagoras (to go no further back) recognized the obliquity of the +world's axis to the ecliptic, as well as that the earth was a sphere +suspended in space. While Pythagoras (born 586 B.C.) is younger than +Solomon's Temple, he is almost two thousand years older than the +beginnings of astronomy in Europe.

+ +

POINT WITHIN A CIRCLE

+ +

There is in every regular and well-governed Lodge, a certain point +within a circle, embordered by two perpendicular parallel lines. . . .

+ +

It is among the most illuminating of the Entered Apprentice's symbols +and is important not only for its antiquity, and many meanings which +have been read from it, but because of the bond it makes between the old +operative stone setter's art and the Speculative Masonry we know.

+ +

No man may say when, where, or how the symbol began. From the earliest +dawn of history a simple closed figure has been man's symbol for Deity - +the circle for some peoples, the triangle for others, and a circle or a +triangle with a central point for still others. In some jurisdictions a +lodge closes with brethren forming a circle about the altar, which thus +becomes the point or focus of the Supreme Blessing upon the brethren.

+ +

A symbol may have many meanings, all of them right, so long as they are +not self-contradictory. As the point within a circle has had so many +different meanings to so many different people, it is natural that it +have many meanings for Masons.

+ +

It is connected with sun worship, the most ancient of religions; ruins +of ancient temples devoted both to sun and to fire worship are circular +in form with a central altar or point which was the Holy of Holies. The +symbol is found in India in which land of mystery and mysticism its +antiquity is beyond calculation. In ancient meaning the point +represents the sun and the circle the universe. This is both modern and +ancient, as a dot in a small circle is the astronomical symbol for the +sun.

+ +

The two parallel lines which in modern Masonry represent the two holy +Sts. John are as ancient as the rest of the symbol, but originally had +nothing to do with the "two eminent Christian patrons of Masonry." They +date back to an era before Solomon. On early Egyptian monuments may be +found the Alpha and Omega or symbol of God in the center of a circle +embordered by two perpendicular, parallel serpents representing the +Power and the Wisdom of the Creator.

+ +

This is not only a symbol of creation but is fraught with other +meanings. When man conceived that fire, water, the sun, the moon, the +stars, the lightning, the thunder, the mountains and rivers did not +each have a special deity, that in all this universe there was but one +God, and wanted to draw a picture of that conception of unity, the only +thing he could do was to make a point. When man conceived that God was +eternal, without beginning and without ending, from everlasting to +everlasting, and desired to draw a picture of that conception of +eternity, he could but draw a circle that goes around and around +forever. When man conceived that the Master Builder did not blow hot +and cold, that he was not changing, fickle and capricious, but a God of +rectitude and justice, and needed to picture that conception of +righteousness, he drew straight up and down parallel lines. So this +symbol stands for the unity, the eternal life, and the righteousness of +God.

+ +

That derivation of the symbol which best satisfies the mind as to logic +and appropriateness students find in the operative craft. The tools +used by the cathedral builders were the same as ours to-day; they had +gavel and mallet, setting maul and hammer, chisel and trowel, plumb and +square, level and twenty-four inch gauge to "measure and lay out their +work."

+ +

The square, the level, and the plumb were made of wood - wood, cord, and +weight for plumb and level; wood alone for square.

+ +

Wood wears when used against stone and warps when exposed to water or +damp air. The metal used to fasten the two arms of the square together +would rust and perhaps bend or break. Naturally the squares would not +stay square indefinitely but had to be checked up constantly for their +right-angledness.

+ +

The importance of the perfect right angle in the square by which the +stones were shaped can hardly be overestimated. Operative Masonry in +the cathedral-building days was largely a matter of cut and try, of +individual workmen, of careful craftsmanship. Quantity production, +micrometer measurement, interchangeable parts had not been invented. +All the more necessary then that the foundation on which all the work +was done should be as perfect as the Masters knew how to make it. +Cathedral builders erected th eir temples for all time - how well they +built a hundred glorious structures in the Old World testify. They +built well because they knew how to check and try their squares.

+ +

Draw a circle - any size - on a piece of paper. With a straight edge +draw a line through its center. Put a dot on the circle anywhere. +Connect that dot with the line at both points where it crosses the +circle. Result, a perfect right angle. Draw the circle of what size +you will; place the dot on the circumference where you will; if the +lines from the dot meet the horizontal line crossing the circle through +its center, they will form a right angle.

+ +

This was the operative Master's great secret - knowing how to "try the +square." It was by this means that be tested working tools; did he do so +often enough it was impossible either for tools or work "to materially +err." From this also comes the ritual used in the lodges of our English +brethren where they "open on the center."

+ +

The original line across the center bas been shifted to the side and +become the "two perpendicular parallel lines" of Egypt and India, and +our admonitions are no longer what they must once have been; ... "while +a Mason circumscribes his square within these points, it is impossible +that it should materially err." But how much greater becomes the meaning +of the symbol when we see it as a direct descent from an operative +practice! Our ancient brethren used the point within a circle as a test +for the rectitud e of the tools by which they squared their work and +built their temporal buildings. In the Speculative sense we use it as a +test for the rectitude of our intentions and our conduct, by which we +square our actions with the square of virtue. They erected Cathedrals - +we build the house not made with bands. Their point within a circle was +operative - ours is Speculative. But through the two - point in a circle +on the ground by which an operative Master secretly tested the squares +of his fellows - point within a circle as a symbol by which each of us +may test, secretly, the square of his virtue by which he erects an Inner +Temple to the Most High - both are Masonic, both are beautiful. The one +we know is far more lovely that it is a direct descendant of an +operative practice the use of which produced the good work, true work, +square work of t he Master Masons of the days that came not back.

+ +

Pass it not lightly. Regard it with the reverence it deserves, for +surely it is one of the greatest teachings of Masonry, concealed within +a symbol which is plain for any man to read so be it he has Masonry in +his heart.

+ +

LODGE OF THE HOLY STS. JOHN

+ +

Dedication, solemnly setting apart for some sacred purpose, is a +ceremony too ancient for its beginnings to be known. Just where Masons +left off dedicating their lodges to King Solomon cannot be stated +historically; traditionally, as the first Temple was dedicated to King +Solomon and the Second Temple to Zerubbabel, Masonry was first dedicated +to Solomon, then to Zerubbabel, and finally, after Titus destroyed the +Second Temple, to the Holy Sts. John.

+ +

But we do know that the dedication is very ancient; documentary evidence +connects the name of St. John the Evangelist with Masonry as early as +1598. The connection must be far older; indeed, if we need further +evidence of the possibility of the Comacine Masters having been the +progenitors of the operative Freemasons we may find it in the frequent +dedication of Comacine churches to one Saint John or the other. The +whole island of Comacina is dedicated to St. John the Baptist and an +annual festival and midsum mer pageant are observed in his honour to +this day.

+ +

St. John's Day in summer (June 24), and St. John's Day in winter +(December 27) were adopted by the Church in the Third Century, after +failure to win pagans from celebrating these two dates as the summer and +winter solstices; that is, the beginning of summer and the beginning of +winter. Not able to destroy the pagan festivals a wise diplomacy gave +them new names and took them into the Church!

+ +

It was the custom for the Guilds of the Middle Ages to adopt saints as +patrons and protectors, usually from some fancied relation to their +trades. The operative Masons were but one among many Guilds which +adopted one Saint John or the other; Masons adopted both as (explained +in an old ritual), "One finished by his learning what the other began by +his zeal, and thus drew a second line parallel to the former."

+ +

Whatever the reason and whenever the date, Freemasons of to-day come +from "the Lodge of the Holy Sts. John of Jerusalem," meaning that we +belong to a lodge dedicated to those Saints, whose practices and +precepts, teachings and examples, are those all Freemasons should try to +follow.

+ +

THE PRINCIPAL TENETS

+ +

The Entered Apprentice receives a monitorial explanation of these which +is both round and full, but neither full nor round enough to instruct +him wholly in these three foundation stones of the Ancient Craft. Nor +can he receive that roundness and fullness of explanation by words +alone. He must progress through the degrees, attend his lodge, see the +Fraternity in action, fully to understand all that Freemasonry means by +Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth.

+ +

But a word or two may clear away some possible misapprehensions.

+ +

Brotherly Love is not a sentimental phrase. It is an actuality. It means +exactly what it says; the love of one brother for another.

+ +

In the everyday world brothers love one another for only one reason. +Not for blood ties alone; we have all known brothers who could not "get +along" together. Not because they should, not because it is "the thing +to do," but simply and only because each acts like a brother.

+ +

Freemasonry has magic with which to touch the hearts of men but no +wizardry to make the selfish, unselfish; the brutal, gentle; the coarse, +fine; the bad, good. Brotherly Love in Freemasonry exists only for him +who acts like a brother. It is as true in Freemasonry as elsewhere that +"to have friends, you must be one."

+ +

The Freemason who sees a Square and Compasses upon a coat and thinks, +"There is a brother Mason, I wonder what he can do for me," is not +acting like a brother. He who thinks, "I wonder if there is anything I +can do for him," has learned the first principle of brotherhood.

+ +

"You get from Freemasonry just what you put into it" has been so often +said that it has become trite - but it is as true now as when first +uttered. One may draw checks upon a bank only when one has deposited +funds. One may draw upon Brotherly Love only if one bas Brotherly Love +to give.

+ +

The Entered Apprentice is obligated in a lodge which wants him; all its +members are predisposed in his favour. They will do all in their power +to take him into the Mystic Circle. But the brethren cannot do it all; +the Entered Apprentice must do his part.

+ +

Luckily for us all the Great Architect so made his children that when +the heart is opened to pour out its treasures, it is also opened to +receive.

+ +

The Entered Apprentice learns much of Relief; he will learn more if he +goes farther. One small point he may muse upon with profit; these words +he will often hear in connection with charity, "more especially a +brother Mason."

+ +

St. Paul said (Galatians vi, 10), "As we have therefore opportunity, let +us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household +of faith."

+ +

Freemasonry has no teachings that a Mason should not contribute to other +charities. The continually insistent teaching of charity through all +the three degrees, especially the Entered Apprentice's Degree excludes +from charity no one.

+ +

Without dependence societies, nations, families, congregations, could +not be formed or exist. But the very solidity of the group, predicated +upon mutual dependence, also creates this idea of distinction in relief +or friendship or business as between those without and those within the +group. This feeling is universal. The church gives gladly to all good +works but most happily to relieve those "who are of the household of +faith." Our government considers the welfare of its own nationals before +that of the n ationals of other governments. The head of a family will +not deny his own children clothes to put a coat upon the back of the +naked child of his neighbour. Those we know best, those closest, those +united in the tightest bonds come first, the world over, in every form +of union.

+ +

Naturally, then, a Mason is taught that while in theory for all, in +practice charity is for "more especially a brother Mason."

+ +

The final design of Freemasonry is its third principal tenet - the +imperial truth. In some aspects truth seems relative, because it is not +complete. Then we see it as through a glass, darkly. But the ultimates +of truth are immutable and eternal: the Fatherhood of God; the +immortality of the soul.

+ +

As two aspects of the same object may seem different to different +observers, so two aspects of truth may seem different. It is this we +must remember when we ask, What is truth in Freemasonry? It is the +essence of the symbolism which each man takes for himself, different as +men are different, greater as perception and intelligence are greater, +less as imagination and understanding are less. We are told, "On this +theme we contemplate" - we think of the truths spread before us and +understand and value them ac cording to the quality of our thinking. +Doubtless that is one reason for the universal appeal of Freemasonry; +she is all things to her brethren and gives to all of us of her Truth in +proportion to our ability to receive.

+ +

RESUME

+ +

In the Entered Apprentice's Degree the initiate is taught the necessity +of a belief in God; of charity toward all mankind, "more especially a +brother Mason"; of secrecy; the meaning of brotherly love; the reasons +for relief; the greatness of truth; the advantages of temperance; the +value of fortitude; the part played in Masonic life by prudence, and the +equality of strict justice.

+ +

He is charged to be reverent before God, to pray to Him for help, to +venerate Him as the source of all that is good. He is exhorted to +practice the Golden Rule and to avoid excesses of all kinds. He is +admonished to be quiet and peaceable, not to countenance disloyalty and +rebellion, to be true and just to government and country, to be cheerful +under its laws. He is charged to come often to lodge but not to neglect +his business, not to argue about Freemasonry with the ignorant but to +learn Masonry, from M asons, and once again to be secret. Finally he is +urged to present only such candidates as he is sure will agree to all +that he has agreed to. + +

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INTRODUCTION TO FREEMASONRY +II +FELLOWCRAFT +BY CARL H. CLAUDY

+ +

Music

+ +

As battle-weary men long for the sea +Like tired children, seeking Mother's breast, +And in its restless endlessness find rest, +Its crashing surf a soothing systole; +As seeks the stormtossed ship the harbor's lee, +So mariners upon life's deep, hard-pressed +To weather boiling trough and mounting crest, +Steer for the shelter of Freemasonry. +Her ancient waves of sound lap on the strand, +A melody more God's than man's. We hear, +Like gentle murmurs in a curved sea shell +Which whispers of some far off wonderland +Where lightning flashes from blue skies and clear, +The rolling thunder of the ritual.

+ +

FELLOWCRAFT

+ +

As the Entered Apprentice Degree as a whole is symbolic of +infancy and youth, a period of learning fundamentals, a +beginning, so the Fellowcraft Degree is emblematic of manhood.

+ +

But it is a manhood of continued schooling; of renewed research; +of further instruction. The Fellowcraft has passed his early +Masonic youth, but he lacks the wisdom of age which he can attain +only by use of the teachings of his first degree, broadened, +strengthened, added to, by those experiences which come to men as +distinguished from children.

+ +

Of the many symbols of this degree three stand out beyond all +others as most beautiful and most important. They are the brazen +Pillars; the Flight of Winding Stairs as a means of reaching the +Middle Chamber by the teachings of the three, the five, and the +seven steps; and the Letter "G" and all that it means to the +Freemason.

+ +

Very obviously the Fellowcraft Degree is a call to learning, an +urge to study, a glorification of education. Preston, (1) to whom +we are indebted for much of the present form of this degree, +evidently intended it as a foundation for that liberal education +which in its classic form was so esteemed by the educated of +Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England. The explanations of +the Five Orders of Architecture, the Five Senses and the Seven +Liberal Arts and Sciences no longer embrace the essentials of a +first-class education, but think not less of the degree on that +account, since it is to be understood symbolically, not +literally, as the great Masonic scbolar may have intended.

+ +

While the degree contains moral teaching and a spiritual content +only surpassed by that of the Sublime Degree, as a whole it is a +call to books and study. If the Fellowcraft takes that to mean +Masonic books and Masonic study he will find in this degree the +touchstone which will make all three degrees a never-ending +happiness for their fortunate possessor.

+ +

(1) William Preston, born 1742, died 1818. A most eminent +Freemason of England who lived and labored during the formative +Grand Lodge period. He was initiated in 1762. Later he became +the Master of several lodges and was so interested in Freemasonry +that he studied it deeply and wrote Illustralions of Masonry, a +book to which historians and Masonic antiquarians are deeply +indebted. After careful investigation he wrote the lectures of +the several degrees, encouraged by the Grand Lodge, and later +became its Deputy Grand Secretary. The Prestonian work used in +the United States was modified and changed by Thomas Smith Webb, +born 1771, died 1819. He was elected Grand Master in Rhode +Island in 1813, but is best known for his Freemasons Monitor, or +Illustrations of Masonry. Much of the printed ritual in United +States jurisdictions is the same, or but little changed, from +that first printed by Webb in 1797.

+ +

Certain differences between this and the preceding degree are at +once apparent. The Entered Apprentice about to be passed is no +longer a candidate - he is a brother. In the first degree the +candidate is received with a warning; in the second, the brother +to be passed is received with an instruction. In the first +degree the cable tow was for a physical purpose; here it is an +aid, an urge to action, a girding up, a strengthening for the +Masonic life to come. The circumambulation of the Fellowcraft is +longer than that of the Apprentice: journey through manhood is +longer than through youth. The obligation in the Entered +Apprentice Degree stresses almost entirely the necessity for +secrecy; in the Fellowcraft Degree secrecy is indeed enjoined +upon the brother who kneels at the altar, but be also assumes +duties toward his fellows and takes upon himself sacred +obligations not intrusted to an Entered Apprentice. He learns of +the pass, and he is poor in spirit indeed who is not thrilled to +observe the slowly opening door which eventually will let in the +whole effulgent Light of the East, typified by the position of +the Square and Compasses upon the Volume of the Sacred Law.

+ +

A degree to muse upon and to study; one to see many, many times +and still not come to the end of the great teachings here +exemplified. Alas, too many brethren regard it as but a +necessary stepping-stone between the solemnities of the Entered +Apprentice's Degree and the glories of the Sublime Degree of +Master Mason. Stepping-stone it is, indeed, but he uses it with +difficulty and is assisted by it but little who cannot see behind +its Pillars a rule of conduct for life; who cannot visualize +climbing the Winding Stairs as the pilgrimage we all must make; +to whom the Middle Chamber is only a chamber in the middle and +for whom the Letter "G" is but a letter.

+ +

CABLE TOW

+ +

The Fellowcraft wears it so that it may be an aid to his journey; +by it a brother may assist him on his way. He also learns in +this degree that a cable tow is more than a rope; it is at once a +tie and a measurement.

+ +

How long is a cable tow? Thousands have asked and but a few have +attempted to reply. In much older days it was generally +considered to be three miles; that was when a brother was +expected to attend lodge whether he wanted to or not if within +the length of his cable tow.

+ +

Now we have learned that there is no merit in attendance which +comes from fear of fines or other compulsion. The very rare but +occasionally necessary summons may come to any Fellowcraft. When +it comes, he must attend. But Freemasonry is not unreasonable. +She does not demand the impossible, and she knows that what is +easy for one is hard for another. To one brother ten miles away +a summons may mean a call which he can answer only with great +difficulty. To another several hundred miles away who has an +airplane at his command it may mean no inconvenience.

+ +

Long before airplanes were thought of or railroad trains were +anything but curiosities, it was determined (Baltimore Masonic +Convention, 1843) that the length of a cable tow is "the scope of +a brother's reasonable ability."

+ +

Such a length the Fellowcraft may take to heart. Our gentle +Fraternity compels no man against his will, leaving to each to +determine for himself what is just and right and reasonable - and +brotherly!

+ +

SPURIOUS

+ +

The use of two words in the Fellowcraft's Degree is a relic of +antiquity and not a modern test to determine whether or not a +Mason heles (1) the true word of a Fellowcraft. We have more +accurate ways of knowing whether or not a would-be visitor comes +from a legitimate or clandestine lodge (2) than his knowledge of +ritual.

+ +

There are clandestine or spurious Masons, but they are not +difficult to guard against. What all Fellowcrafts must be on +watch to detect is any quality of spuriousness in their own +Freemasonry. For there is no real Freemasonry of the lips only. +A man may have a pocket full of dues cards showing that he is in +good standing in a dozen different Masonic organizations; may be +(although this is rare) a Past Master, and still, if he has not +Freemasonry in his heart, be actually a spurious Mason.

+ +

(1) Hele: Masonically, rhymes with "fail." Often confused with +"hail," a greeting or recognition. Hele (pronounced "hail") is +to cover, to conceal. Is cognate with "cell," "hull," "hollow," +"hell" (the covered place). In old provincial English, a "heler" +was one who covered roofs with tiles or slates. Compare "tiler."

+ +

(2) Clandestine: other than recognized, not legitimate. A few +clandestine Grand Lodges and subordinate bodies still exist in +this country, organizations calling themselves Masonic but +without descent from regular lodges or Grand Lodges, and without +recognition by the Masonic world.

+ +

Freemasonry is neither a thing nor a ritual. It is not a lodge +nor an organization. Rather is it a manner of thought, a way of +living, a guide to the City on a Hill. To make any less of it is +to act as a spurious Mason. If the lesson of the pass as +communicated in the degree means this to the Fellowcraft, then +indeed has he the lesson of this part of the ceremony by heart.

+ +

GRAND LODGE

+ +

Every initiate should know something of the Grand Lodg, that +august body which controls the Craft.

+ +

Before a Craft lodge can come into existence now there must be a +Grand Lodge, the governing body of all the particular lodges, to +give a warrant of constitution to at least seven brethren, +empowering them to work and to be a Masonic lodge.

+ +

The age-old question which has plagued philosophers: did the +first hen lay the first egg, or did the first egg batch into the +first hen, may seem to apply here, since before there can be a +Grand Lodge there must be three or more private lodges to form +it! But this is written of conditions in the United States today, +not of those which obtained in 1717, when four individual lodges +in London formed the first Grand Lodge.

+ +

Today no regularly constituted lodge can come into being without +the consent of an existing Grand Lodge. Most civilized countries +now have Grand Lodges; the great formative period of Grand Lodges +- the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries - is practically over. +The vast majority of new lodges which will grow up as children of +the mother will not form other Grand Lodges for themselves. It +is not contended that no new Grand Lodges will ever be formed but +only that less will come into being in the future than have in +the past. (1)

+ +

The Grand Lodge, consisting of the particular lodges represented +by their Masters, Senior and Junior Wardens, and sometimes Past +Masters, as well as the officers, Past Grand Masters and Past +Grand Officers of the Grand Lodge, is the governing body in its +jurisdiction. In the United States jurisdictional lines are +coincident with state lines. Each Grand Jurisdiction is supreme +unto itself; its word on any Masonic subject is Masonic law +within its own borders.

+ +

A Grand Lodge adopts a constitution and by-laws for its +government which is the body of the law of the Grand +Judisdiction, which, however, rests upon the Old Charges and the +Constitutions which have descended to us from the Mother Grand +Lodge. The legal body is supplemented by the decisions made by +Grand Masters, or the Grand Lodge, or both, general regulations, +laws, resolutions and edicts of the Grand Lodge, all in accord +with the "ancient usages and customs of the Fraternity."

+ +

In the interim between meetings of a Grand Lodge the Grand Master +is the Grand Lodge. His powers are arbitrary and great but not +unlimited. Most Grand Lodges provide that certain acts of the +Grand Master may be revised, confirmed or rejected by the Grand +Lodge as a check upon any too radical

+ +

(1) When and if a forty-ninth State is admitted to the Union, +doubtless it will have its own Grand Lodge,

+ +

moves. But a brother rarely becomes a Grand Master without +serving a long and arduous apprenticeship. Almost invariably he +has been Master of his own lodge and by years of service and +interest demonstrated his ability and his fitness to preside over +the Grand Lodge. The real check against arbitrary actions of a +Grand Master is more in his Masonry than the law, more in his +desire to do right than in the legal power compelling him to do +so.

+ +

Most Grand Lodges meet once a year for business, election, and +installation of officers. Some Grand Lodges (Massachusetts and +Pennsylvania, for instance) meet in quarterly communications. +All Grand Lodges meet in special communications at the call of +the Grand Master.

+ +

The Grand Lodge receives and disburses certain funds; these come +as dues from the constituent lodges, from gifts and bequests, +from special assessments, etc. The funds are spent as the Grand +Lodge orders; upon charity, the maintenance of the Home, the +expenses of the Grand Lodge, maintaining a Grand Secretary and +his office and staff, publication of Proceedings, educational +work, etc.

+ +

Most Grand Lodges also publish a manual or monitor of the +non-secret work of the degrees which may or may not also contain +the forms for various Masonic ceremonies such as dedication of +lodge halls, cornerstone laying, funeral service, etc. Most +Grand Lodges also publish a Digest or Code, which contains the +constitution, by-laws, and regulations of the Grand Lodge, and +the resolutions, edicts, and decisions under which the Craft +works. The interested Mason will procure these at his earliest +convenience that he may be well informed regarding the laws and +customs of his own jurisdiction.

+ +

WORKING TOOLS

+ +

The working tools of a Fellowcraft are the Plumb, the Square, and +the Level. The Entered Apprentice has learned of them as the +Immovable Jewels, but in the Fellowcraft's Degree they have a +double significance. They are still the Jewels of the three +principal officers, still immovably fixed in the East, the West, +and the South, but they are also given into the hands of the +Fellowcraft with instructions the more impressive for their +brevity.

+ +

The tools represent an advance in knowledge. The Entered +Apprentice received a Twenty-four Inch Gauge and a Common Gavel +with which to measure and lay out a rough ashlar and chip off its +edges to fit a stone ready for the builders' use. But that is +all he may do. Not with gauge or gavel may be build; only +prepare material for another. He is still but a beginner, a +student; to his hands are intrusted only such tasks as if ill +done will not materially affect the whole.

+ +

The Fellowcraft uses the Plumb, the Square, and the Level. With +the Square he tests the work of the Apprentice; with the Level he +lays the courses of the wall he builds; with the Plumb he raises +perpendicular columns. If he use his tools aright he +demonstrates that he is worthy to be a Fellow of the Craft and no +Apprentice; that he can lay a wall and build a tower which will +stand.

+ +

Hence the symbolism of the three tools as taught in the +monitorial work. The Plumb admonishes us to walk uprightly; that +is, not leaning over, not awry with the world or ourselves, but +straight and square with the base of life on which we tread. We +are to square our actions by the Square of Virtue. Every man has +a conscience, be it ever so dead; every Freemason is expected to +carry the conscience of a Fellowcraft's Square of Virtue in his +breast and build no act, no matter bow small, which does not fit +within its right angle.

+ +

The operative Fellow of the Craft builds his wall course by +course, each level and straight. We build upon the level of +time, a fearsome level indeed. The Fellow of the Craft whose +wall stands not true on a physical level may take down his +stones, retemper his mortar and try again. But the Freemason can +never unbuild that which is erected on the level of time; once +gone, the opportunity is gone forever. Omar said, "The moving +finger writes, and having writ, moves on." The poet Oxenham +phrased it ... "No man travels twice the great highway which +winds through darkness up to light, through night, to day."

+ +

Therefore does it behoove the Fellowcraft to build on his level +of time with a true Plumb and a right Square.

+ +

In its interweaving of emblem with emblem, teaching with +teaching, symbol with symbol, Freemasonry is like the latticework +atop the Pillars in the Porch of King Solomon's Temple, the +several parts of which are so intimately connected as to denote +unity. Here the Plumb as a Jewel, the Plumb as a working tool of +the Fellowcraft, and the Heavenly Plumb in the hand of Jehovah, +as told in Amos vii, are so inextricably mingled that while +references to them occur in different parts of the degree, +symbolically they must be considered together.

+ +

"AMOS, WHAT SEEST THOU?"

+ +

Thus he shewed me; and behold the Lord stood upon a wall made by +a plumb line, with a plumb line in his liand. And the Lord said +unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, a plumb line. Then +said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my +people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

+ +

This passage from the Great Light is as much a part of the ritual +of the Fellowcraft's Degree as the 133rd Psalm is of the Entered +Apprentice's Degree, and has the same intimate connection with +the teachings of this ceremony.

+ +

The vital and important part is this: the Lord set a plumb line +in the midst of his people Israel. He did not propose to judge +them by a plumb line afar off in another land, in high heaven, +but here - here in the midst of them.

+ +

This is of intense interest to the Felloweraft Mason, since it +teaches him how he should judge his own work - and, more +important, how he should judge the work of others.

+ +

Presumably plumb lines hang alike. Presumably all plumbs, like +all squares and all levels, are equally accurate. Yet a man may +use a tool thinking it accurate which to another is not true. If +the tool of building and the tool of judging be not alike either +the judgment must be inaccurate or the judge must take into +consideration the tool by which the work was done.

+ +

By the touch system, a blind man may learn to write upon a +typewriter. If a loosened type drops from the type bar when the +blind man strikes the letter "e" he will make but a little black +smudge upon the paper. It is perfectly legible; in this sentence +every "e" but one has been smudged. Would you criticize the +blind man for imperfect work? He has no means of knowing that his +tool is faulty. If you found the smudges which stand for the +letter "e" in the right places, showing that he had used his +imperfect machine perfectly, would you not consider that he had +done perfect work? Aye, because you would judge by a plumb line +"in the midst" of the man and his work. If, however, the paper +with the smudged letters "e" were judged by one who knew nothing +of the workman's blindness, nothing of his typewriter, one who +saw only a poor piece of typing, doubtless he would judge it as +imperfect.

+ +

The builders of the Washington monument and the Eiffel Tower in +Paris both used plumb lines accurate to the level of the latitude +and longitude of these structures. Both are at right angles with +sea level. Yet to some observer on the moon equipped with a +strong telescope these towers would not appear parallel. As they +are in different latitudes they rise from the surface of the +earth at an angle to each other.

+ +

Doubtless he who engineered the monument would protest that the +monument to Washington was right and the French engineer's tower +wrong. The Frenchman, knowing his plumb was accurate, would +believe the monument crooked. But the Great Architect, we may +hope, would think both right knowing each was perfect by the +plumb by which it was erected.

+ +

The Fellowcraft learns to judge his work by his own plumb line, +not by another's; if he erects that which is good work, true +work, square work by his own working tools - in other words, by +his own standards - he does well. Only when a Fellowcraft is +false to his own conscience is he building other than fair and +straight.

+ +

CORN, WINE, AND OIL

+ +

The wages which our ancient brethren received for their labors in +the building of King Solomon's Temple are paid no more. We use +them only as symbols, save in the dedication, constitution, and +consecration of a new lodge and in the laying of cornerstones, +when once again the fruit of the land, the brew of the grape and +the essence of the olive are poured to launch a new unit of +brotherhood into the fellowship of lodges; to begin a new +structure dedicated to public or Masonic use.

+ +

In the Great Light are many references to these particular forms +of wealth. In ancient days the grapes in the vineyard, the +olives in the grove and the grain of the field were not only +wealth but the measure of trade; so many skins of wine, so many +cruses of oil, so many bushels of corn were then as are dollars +and cents to-day. Thus when our ancient brethren received wages +in corn, wine, and oil they were paid for their labors in coin of +the realm.

+ +

The oil pressed from the olive was as important to the Jews in +Palestine as butter and other fats are among Occidentals. +Because it was so necessary and hence so valuable it became an +important part of sacrificial rites.

+ +

Oil was also used not only as a food but for lighting purposes +within the house, not in the open air where the torch was more +effective. Oil was also an article of the toilet; mixed with +perfume it was used in the ceremonies of anointment and in +preparation for ceremonial appearances. The "precious ointment +which ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard" was doubtless +made of olive oil suitably mixed with such perfumes and spices as +myrrh, cinnamon, galbanum and frankincense. Probably oil was +also used as a surgical dressing; nomadic peoples, subject to +injuries, could bardly avoid knowledge of the value of soothing +oil.

+ +

The corn of the Old Testament is not the corn we know. In the +majority of the uses of the word a more understandable +translation would be "grain." The principal grains of the Old +Testament days were barley and wheat and "corn" represents not +only both of these but all the grains which the Jews cultivated.

+ +

An ear of grain has been an emblem of plenty since the mists of +antiquity shrouded the beginnings of mythology. Ceres, goddess +of abundance, survives to-day in our cereals. The Greeks called +her Demeter, a corruption of Gemeter, our mother earth. She wore +a garland of grain and carried ears of grain in her hand.

+ +

The Hebrew Shibboleth means both an ear of corn and a flood of +water. Both are symbols of abundance, plenty, wealth.

+ +

Scarcely less important to our ancient brethren than their corn +and oil was wine. Vineyards were highly esteemed both as wealth +and as comfort - the pleasant shade of the vine and fig tree was +a part of ancient hospitality. Vineyards on mountain sides or +hills were most carefully tended and protected against washing by +terraces and walls, as even to-day one may see on the hillsides +of the Rhine. Thorn hedges kept cattle from the grapes. The +vineyardist frequently lived in a watchtower or hut on an +elevation to keep sharp look out that neither predatory man nor +beast took his ripening wealth.

+ +

Thus corn, wine, and oil were the wages of a Fellowcraft in the +days of King Solomon. Freemasons receive no material wages for +their labors, but if the work done in a lodge is paid for only in +coin of the heart such wages are no less real. They may sustain +as does the grain, refresh as does the wine, give joy and +gladness as does the oil. How much we receive, what we do with +our wages, depends entirely on our Masonic work. Our ancient +brethren were paid for their physical labors. Whether their +wages were paid for work performed upon the mountains and in the +quarries, or whether they received corn, wine, and oil because +they labored in the fields and vineyards, it was true then and it +is true now that only "in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat +bread." To receive the Masonic equivalent of the ancient corn, +wine, and oil, a brother must labor. He must till the fields of +his own heart or build the temple of his own house not made with +hands. He must give labor to his neighbor or carry stones for +his brother's temple.

+ +

If he stand and wait and watch and wonder, he will not be able to +ascend into the Middle Chamber where our ancient brethren +received their wages. If he works for the joy of working, does +his part in his lodge work, takes his place among the laborers of +Freemasonry, he will receive corn, wine, and oil in measures +pressed down and running over and know a fraternal joy as +substantial in fact as it is ethereal in quality; as real in his +heart as it is intangible to the profane world.

+ +

For all Fellowcrafts - aye, for all Freemasons - corn, wine, and +oil are symbols of sacrifice, of the fruits of labor, of wages +earned.

+ +

THE TWO PILLARS

+ +

And King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. He was a +widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, (1) and his father was a +man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom, +and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And +he came to King Solomon, and wrought all his work. For he cast +two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits (2) high apiece; and a +line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about....

+ +

And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple; and he set +up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin; and he +set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz. And +upon the top

+ +

(1) Pronounced Naf'tal-i. +(2) A cubit is approximately 18 inches.

+ +

of the pillars was lily work; so was the work of the pillars +finished. (I Kings vii, 13-22.)

+ +

Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five +cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them +was five cubits. And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put +them on the heads of the pillars and made an hundred pomegranates +and put them on the chains. (II Chronicles iii, 15-16.)

+ +

From the dawn of religion the pillar, monolith or built-up, has +played an important part in the worship of the Unseen. From the +huge boulders of Stonehenge, among which the Druids are supposed +to have, performed their rites, through East Indian temples to +the religion of ancient Egypt, scholars trace the use of pillars +as an essential part of religious worship; indeed, in Egypt the +obelisk stood for the very presence of the Sun God himself.

+ +

It is not strange, then, that Hiram of Tyre should erect pillars +for Solomon's Temple. What has seemed strange is the variation in +the dimensions given in Kings and Chronicles; a discrepancy which +is explained by the theory that Kings gives the height of one and +Chronicles of both pillars together.

+ +

Of the ritualistic explanation of the two brazen pillars it is +not necessary to speak at length, since the Middle Chamber +lecture is quite satisfyingly explicit regarding their ancient +use and purpose. But their inner symbolic significance is not +touched upon in the ritual; it is one of the hidden beauties of +Freemasonry left for each brother to hunt down for himself.

+ +

It is a poor symbol that has but one meaning. Of the many +interpretations of the Brazen Pillars, two are here selected as +vivid and important.

+ +

The ancients believed the earth to be flat and that it was +supported by two Pillars of God, placed at the western entrance +of the world as then known. These are now called Gibraltar, on +one side of the Strait, and Ceuta on the other. This may account +for the origin of the twin pillars. However this may be the +practice of erecting columns at the entrance of an edifice +dedicated to worship prevailed in Egypt and Phoenicia, and at the +erection of King Solomon's Temple the Brazen Pillars were placed +in the porch thereof.

+ +

Some writers have suggested that they represent the masculine and +feminine elements in nature; others, that they stand for the +authority of Church and State, because on stated occasions the +high priest stood before one pillar and the king before the +other. Some students think that they allude to the two legendary +pillars of Enoch, upon which, tradition informs us, all the +wisdom of the ancient world was inscribed in order to preserve it +from inundations and conflagrations. William Preston supposed +that, by them, Solomon had reference to the pillars of cloud and +fire which guided the Children of Israel out of bondage and up to +the Promised Land. One authority says a literal translation of +their names is: "In Thee is strength," and, "It shall be +established," and by a natural transposition may be thus +expressed: "Oh, Lord, Thou art almighty and Thy power is +established from everlasting to everlasting."

+ +

It is impossible to escape the conviction that in meaning they +are related to religion, and represent the strength and +stability, the perpetuity and providence of God, and in +Freemasonry are symbols of a living faith.

+ +

Faith cannot be defined. The factors of mightiest import cannot +be caught up in speech. Life is the primary fact of which we are +conscious, and yet there is no language by which it can be fenced +in. No chart can be made of a mother's love; it is deeper than +words and reads in little, common things a wealth that is more +than golden.

+ +

While we cannot define, we can recognize the power of faith. It +generates energy. It is the dynamics of elevated characters and +noble spirits, the source of all that bears the impress of +greatness.

+ +

And we can realize its necessity. Without faith it would be +impossible to transact business. "It spans the earth with +railroads, and cleaves the sea with ships. It gives man wings to +fly the air, and fins to swim the deep. It creates the harmony +of music and the whir of factory wheels. It draws man up toward +the angels and brings heaven down to earth." By it all human +relationship is conditioned. We must have faith in institutions +and ideals, faith in friendship, family and fireside, faith in +self, faith in man, and faith in God.

+ +

Freemasonry is the oldest, the largest, and the most widely +distributed fraternal Order on the face of the earth to-day by +reason of its faith in God. At one end of the Second Section of +the Fellowcraft Degree are the Two Brazen Pillars - a symbol of +that faith; at its other end is the Letter "G", a livig sign of +the same belief.

+ +

But there is another interpretation of the symbolism. The +Entered Apprentice in process of being passed to the degree of +Fellowcraft passes between the pillars. No hint is given that +he should pass nearer to one than to the other; no suggestion is +made that either may work a greater influence than the other. He +merely passes between.

+ +

A deep significance is in this very omission. Masons refer to +the promise of God unto David; the interested may read Chapter +vii of II Samuel for themselves, and gather that the +establishment promised by the Lord was that of a house, a family, +a descent of blood from David unto his children and his +children's children.

+ +

The pillars were named by Hiram Abif; those names have many +translations. Strength and establishment are but two; power, and +wisdom or control, fit the meaning of the words as well.

+ +

Used to blast stumps from fields dynamite is an aid to the +farmer. Used in war it kills and maims. Fire cooks our food and +makes steam for our engines; fire also burns up our houses and +destroys our forests. But it is not the power but the use of +power which is good or bad. The truth applies to any power; +spiritual, legal, monarchial, political, personal. Power is +without either virtue or vice; the user may use it well or ill, +as he pleases.

+ +

Freemasonry passes the brother in process of becoming a +Fellowcraft between the pillar of strength - power; and the +pillar of establishment - choice or control. He is a man now and +no minor or infant. He has grown up Masonically. Before him are +spread the two great essentials to all success, all greatness, +all happiness.

+ +

Like any other power - temporal or physical, religious or +spiritual - Freemasonry can be used well or ill. Here is the +lesson set before the Fellowcraft; if he like David would have +his kingdom of Masonic manhood established in strength he must +pass between the pillars with understanding that power without +control is useless, and control without power, futile. Each is a +complement of the other; in the passage between the pillars the +Fellowcraft not only has his feet set upon the Winding Stairs but +is given - so he has eyes to see and ears to hear - secret +instructions as to how he shall climb those stairs that he may, +indeed, reach the Middle Chamber. He shall climb by strength, +but directed by wisdom; he shall progress by power, but guided by +control; he shall rise by the might that is in him, but arrive by +the wisdom of his heart.

+ +

So seen the pillars become symbols of high value; the initiate of +old saw in the obelisk the very spirit of the God he worshiped. +The modern Masonic initiate may see in them both the faith and +the means by which be may travel a little further, a little +higher toward the secret Middle Chamber of life in which dwells +the Unseen Presence.

+ +

THE GLOBES

+ +

The "world celestial and the world terrestrial" on the brazen +pillars were added by comparatively modern ritual makers. +Solomon knew them not, although contemporaries of Solomon +believed the earth stood still while a hollow sphere with its +inner surface dotted with stars revolved about the earth. The +slowly turning celestial sphere is as old as mankind's +observations of the starry decked heavens.

+ +

It is to be noted that both terrestrial and celestial spheres are +used as emblems of universality. This is not mere duplication +for emphasis; each teaches an individual part of universality. +What is called universal on the earth - as for instance the +necessity of mankind to breathe, drink water and eat in order to +live - is not necessarily universal in all the universe. We have +no knowledge that any other planet in our solar system is +inhabited - what evidence there is is rather to the contrary. We +are ignorant of any other sun which has any inhabited planets in +its system. If life does exist in some world to us unknown, it +may be entirely different from life on this planet. A symbol of +universality which applied only to the earth would be a +self-contradiction.

+ +

Real universality means what it says. It appertains to the whole +universe. A Mason's charity of relief to the poor and distressed +must obviously be confined to this particular planet, but his +charity of thought may, so we are taught, extend "through the +boundless realms of eternity."

+ +

The world terrestrial and the world celestial on our +representations of the pillars, in denoting universality, mean +that the principles of our Order are not founded upon mere +earthly conditions and transient truths, but rest upon divine and +limitless foundations, coexistent with the cosmos and its +Creator.

+ +

THE WINDING STAIRS

+ +

Like so much else in Freemasonry the Middle Chamber is wholly +symbolic. It seems obvious that Solomon the Wise would not have +permitted any practice so time wasting and uneconomic as sending +many thousand workmen up a flight of stairs to a small Middle +Chamber to receive corn, wine, and oil which had to be brought up +in advance, only to be carried down in small lots by each workman +as he received his wages.

+ +

If we are to accept the Scriptural account of the Temple as +accurate, there actually were winding stairs. "And they went up +with winding stairs into the middle chamber" is stated in I +Kings. That the stairs had the three, five, and seven steps by +which we rise is not stated in the Scriptures. Only in this +country have the Winding Stairs fifteen steps. In older days the +stairs had but five, sometimes seven steps. Preston had +thirty-six steps in his Winding Stairs in a series of one, three, +five, seven, nine, and eleven. But this violated a Pythagorean +principle - and Freemasonry has adopted much in its system from +the science of numbers as exemplified by Pythagoras as the +Fellowcraft will discover when - if - he receives the Sublime +Degree.

+ +

The great philosopher Pythagoras taught that odd numbers were +more perfect than even; indeed, the temple builders who wrought +long before Pythagoras always built their stairs with an odd +number of steps, so that, starting with the right foot at the +bottom the climber might enter the sacred place at the top with +the same foot in advance. Freemasonry uses only odd numbers, +with particular reliance on three: three degrees, three principal +officers, three steps, three Lesser Lights, and so on.

+ +

Hence the English system later eliminated the number eleven from +Preston's thirty-six, making twenty-five steps in all.

+ +

The stairs as a whole are a representation of life; not the +physical life of eating, drinking, sleeping and working, but the +mental and spiritual life, of both the lodge and the world +without; of learning, studying, enlarging mental horizons, +increasing the spiritual outlook. Freemasons divide the fifteen +steps into three, referring to the officers of a lodge; five, +concerned with the orders of architecture and the human senses; +and seven, the Liberal Arts and Sciences.

+ +

THE NUMBER THREE

+ +

The first three steps represent the three principal officers of a +lodge, and - though not stated in the ritual - must always refer +to Deity, of which three, the triangle, is the most ancient +symbol.

+ +

Their principal implication here is to assure the Fellowcraft +just starting his ascent that he does not climb alone. The +Worshipful Master, Senior, and Junior Wardens are themselves +symbolic of the lodge as a whole, and thus (as a lodge is a +symbol of the world) of the Masonic world - the Fraternity. The +Fellowcraft is surrounded by the Craft. The brethern are present +to help him climb. In his search for truth, in his quest of his +wages in the Middle Chamber, the Fellowcraft is to receive the +support and assistance of all in the Mystic Circle; surely an +impressive symbol.

+ +

If we examine a little into the powers and duties of the +Worshipful Master and his Wardens, we may see how they rule and +govern the lodge and so by what means they may aid the +Fellowcraft in his ascent.

+ +

WORSHIPFUL (1) MASTER

+ +

The incumbent of the Oriental Chair has powers peculiar to his +station which are far greater than those of the president of a +society or the chairman of a meeting of any kind. President and +chairman are elected by the body over which they preside and may +be removed by that body. A Master is elected by his lodge but +can be removed only by the Grand Master (or his Deputy acting for +him) or Grand Lodge. The presiding officer is bound by the rules +of order adopted by the body and by its by-laws. A lodge cannot +pass by-laws to alter, amend, or curtail the inherent powers of a +Master.

+ +

Grand Lodges so differ in their interpretation of some of the +"ancient usages and customs" of the Fraternity that what applies +in one jurisdiction does not necessarily apply in another. But +certain powers of a Master are so well recognized that they may +be considered universal.

+ +

(1) Worshipful: greatly respected. The Wycliffe Bible (Matthew +xix, 19) reads: "Worschip thi fadir and thi modir." The +Authorized Version translates "worschip" to "honor" - "honor thy +father and thy mother." In parts of England to-day one hears the +Mayor spoken of as Worshipful, the word used in its ancient +sense, meaning one worthy, honorable, to be respected. +"Worshipful" as applied to the Master of a lodge does not mean +that we should bow down to him in adoration as when used in its +ecclesiastical sense. We "worship" God, but not men. Our +Masters in being called "Worshipful" are but paid a tribute of +respect in the language of two or more centuries ago.

+ +

The Master may congregate his lodge when he pleases and for what +purpose he wishes, provided it does not interfere with the laws +of the Grand Lodge. For instance, he may assemble his lodge at a +special communication to confer degrees, at his pleasure; but he +must not disobey that requirement of the Grand Lodge which calls +for proper notice to the brethren, nor may a Master confer a +degree in less than the statutory time following a preceding +degree without a dispensation from the Grand Master.

+ +

The Master has the right of presiding over and governing his +lodge, and only the Grand Master or his Deputy may suspend him. +He may put any brother in the East to preside or to confer a +degree; he may then resume the gavel at his pleasure - even in +the middle of a sentence! But when he has delegated authority +temporarily the Master is not relieved from responsibility for +what occurs in his lodge.

+ +

It is the Master's right to control lodge business and work. It +is in a very real sense his lodge. He decides all points of +order and no appeal from his decision may be taken to the lodge. +He can initiate and terminate debate at his pleasure and can +propose or second any motion. He may open and close the lodge at +his pleasure, except that he may not open a stated communication +earlier than the hour stated in the by-laws. He is responsible +only to the Grand Master and the Grand Lodge, the obligations he +assumed when he was installed, (1) his conscience, and his God.

+ +

(1) Officers are seated in their chairs and assume the powers of +their offices by a ceremony of installation, following election +or appointment.

+ +

The Master has the right to say who may enter and who may leave +the lodge room. He may deny a visitor entrance; but he must have +a good and sufficient reason, otherwise his Grand Lodge will +unquestionably rule such a drastic step arbitrary and punish +accordingly. Per contra, if he permits the entry of a visitor to +whom some member has objected, he may also subject himself to +Grand Lodge discipline. In other words his power to admit or +exclude a visitor is absolute; his right to admit or exclude a +visitor is hedged about by the pledges he takes at his +installation and the rules of his Grand Lodge.

+ +

A very important power of a Master is that of appointing +committees. No lodge may appoint a committee. The lodge may +pass a resolution that a committee be appointed, but the +selection of that committee is an inherent right of the Master. +He is ex officio a member of all committees be appoints. The +reason is obvious; he is responsible to the Grand Master and the +Grand Lodge for the conduct of his lodge. If the lodge could +appoint committees and act upon their recommendations, the Master +would be in the anomalous position of having great +responsibilities, but no power to carry out their performance.

+ +

Only the Master may order a committee to examine a visiting +brother. It is his responsibility to see that no cowan or +eavesdropper comes within the tiled door. Therefore it is for +him to pick a committee in which he has confidence. So, also, +with the committees which report upon petitioners. He is +responsible for the accuracy, the fair-mindedness, the speed and +the intelligence of such investigations. It is, therefore, for +him to say to whom shall be delegated this necessary and +important work.

+ +

It is generally, not exclusively, held that only a Master can +issue a summons. In a few jurisdictions the lodge members +present at a stated communication may summons the whole +membership.

+ +

If he keeps within the laws, resolutions, and edicts of his Grand +Lodge on the one hand, and the Landmarks, Old Charges, +Constitutions and ancient usages and customs on the other, the +power of the Worshipfill Master is that of an absolute monarch. +His responsibilities and his duties are those of an apostle of +Light!

+ +

THE WARDENS

+ +

Wardens are found in all bodies of Masonry, in all rites, in all +countries.

+ +

Its derivation gives the meaning of the word. It comes from the +Saxon weardian, to guard, to watch. In France the second and +third officers are premier and second Surveillant; in Germany +erste and zwite Aufseher; in Spain primer and segundo Vigilante; +in Italy primo and secondo Sorvegliante, all the words meaning +one who overlooks, watches, keeps ward, observes.

+ +

Whether the title came from the provision of the old rituals that +the Wardens sit beside the two pillars in the porch of the temple +to oversee or watch, the Senior Warden the Fellowcrafts and the +Junior Warden the Apprentices, or whether the old rituals were +developed from the custom of the Middle Ages Guilds having +Wardens (watchers) is a moot question.

+ +

In the French Rite and the Scottish Rite both Wardens sit in the +West near the columns. In the Blue Lodge the symbolism is +somewhat impaired by the Junior Warden sitting in the South, but +is strengthened by giving each Warden, as an emblem of authority, +a replica of the column beneath the shade of which he once sat. +The column of the Senior Warden is erect, that of the Junior +Warden on its side, while the lodge is at labor. During +refreshment the Senior Warden's column is laid prostrate while +that of the Junior Warden is erected, so that by a glance at +either South or West the Craft may know at all times whether the +lodge is at labor or refreshment.

+ +

The government of the Craft by a Master and two Wardens cannot be +too strongly emphasized. It is not only the right but the duty +of the Senior Warden to assist the Worshipful Master in opening +and governing his lodge. When he uses it to enforce orders, his +setting maul or gavel is to be respected; he has a proper officer +to carry his messages to the Junior Warden or elsewhere; under +the Master he is responsible for the conduct of the lodge while +at labor.

+ +

The Junior Warden's duties are less important; he observes the +time and calls the lodge from labor to refreshment and +refreshment to labor in due season at the orders of the Master. +It is his duty to see that "none of the Craft convert the +purposes of refreshment into intemperance and excess" which +doubtless has a bibulous derivation, coming from days when +refreshment meant wine. If we no longer drink wine at lodge, we +still have reason for this charge upon the Junior Warden, since +it is his unpleasant duty, when ordered by the Master or Grand +Master, because he supervises the conduct of the Craft at +refreshment, to prefer charges against those suspected of Masonic +misconduct.

+ +

Only Wardens (or Past Masters) may be elected Master. This +requirement (which has certain exceptions, as in the formation of +a new lodge) is very old. The fourth of the Old Charges reads:

+ +

No brother can be a Warden until he has passed the part of a +Fellowcraft; (1) nor a Master, until he has acted as Warden; nor +Grand Warden, until he has been Master of a Lodge; nor Grand +Master, unless he bas been a Fellowcraft before his election.

+ +

The Warden's is a high and exalted office; his duties are many, +his responsibilities great; his powers only exceeded by those of +the Master.

+ +

THE NUMBER FIVE

+ +

Five has always been a sacred and mystical number; Pythagoras +made of it a symbol of life, since it rejected unity by the +addition of the first even and the first odd number. It was +therefore symbolic of happiness and misery, birth and death, +order and disorder - in other words, life as it was lived. Egypt +knew five minor planets, five elements, five elementary powers. +The Greeks had four elements and added ether, the unknown, making +a cosmos of five.

+ +

(1) At the time of the formation of the Mother Grand Lodge in +London (1717) the Fellowerafts formed the body of Masonry, as +Master Masons do to-day.

+ +

Five is peculiarly the number of the Fellowcraft's Degree; it +represents the central group of the three which form the stairs; +it refers to the five orders of architecture; five are required +to hold a Fellowcraft's Lodge; there are five human senses; +geometry is the fifth science, and so on.

+ +

In the Winding Stairs the number five represents first the five +orders of architecture.

+ +

ARCHITECTURE

+ +

Here for the first time the initiate is introduced to the science +of building as a whole. He has been presented with working +tools; he has had explained the rough and perfect ashlars, he has +heard of the house not made with hands; he knows something of the +building of the Temple. Now he is taught of architecture as a +science; its beginnings are laid before him; he is shown how the +Greeks commenced and the Romans added to the kinds of +architecture; he learns of the beautiful, perfect and complete +whole which is a well-designed, well-constructed building.

+ +

Here is symbolism in quantity! And here indeed the Fellowcraft +gets a glimpse of all that Freemasonry may mean to a man, for +just as the Freemasons of old were the builders of the cathedrals +and the temples for the worship of the Most High, so is the +Speculative Freemason pledged to the building of his spiritual +temple.

+ +

Temples are built stone by stone, a little at a time. Each stone +must be hewn from the solid rock of the quarry. Then it must be +laid out and chipped with the gavel until it is a perfect ashlar. +Finally it must be set in place with the tempered mortar which +will bind. But before any stone may be placed, a plan must come +into existence; the architect must plan his part. As the +Fellowcraft hears in the degree:

+ +

A survey of nature, and the observation of her beautiful +proportions, first induced man to imitate the divine plan, and to +study symmetry and order. This gave rise to society, and birth +to every useful art. The architect began to design, and the +plans which he laid down, improved by time and experience, have +led to the production of works which are the admiration of every +age.

+ +

So must the Fellowcraft, studying the orders of architecture by +which he will erect bis spiritual temple, design the structure +before he commences to build.

+ +

There are five orders of architecture, not one. There are many +plans on which a man may build a life, not one only. Freemasonry +does not attempt to distinguish as between the Doric, Ionic, and +Corinthian as to beauty or desirability. She does suggest that +the Tuscan, plainer than the Doric, and the Composite, more +ornamental though not more beautiful than the Corinthian, are +less reverenced than the ancient and original orders. +Freemasonry makes no attempt to influence the Fellowcraft as to +which order of life building he shall choose. He may elect the +physical, the mental, the spiritual. Or be may choose the +sacrificial - "plainer than the Doric" or the ornamental, which +is "not more beautiful than the Corinthian." Freemasonry is +concerned less with what order of spiritual architecture a +Fellowcraft chooses by which to build than that he does choose +one; that he build not aimlessly. He is bidden to study symmetry +and order.

+ +

Architecture is perhaps the most beautiful and expressive of all +the arts. Painting and sculpture, noble though they are, lack +the utility of architecture and strive to interpret nature rather +than to originate. Architecture is not hampered by the necessity +of reproducing something already in existence. It may raise its +spires untrammeled by any nature model; it may fling its arches +gloriously across a nave and transept with no similitude in +nature to hamper by suggestion. If his genius be great enough, +the architect may tell in his structure truths which may not be +put in words, inspire by glories not sung in the divinest +harmonies.

+ +

So may the builder of his own house not made with hands, if he +choose aright his plan of life and hew to the line of his plan. +So, indeed, have done all those great men who have led the world; +the prophets of old, Pythagoras, Confucius, Buddha, Shakespeare, +Milton, Goethe, Washington, Lincoln ...

+ +

THE FIVE SENSES

+ +

If the Fellowcraft, climbing his three, five, and seven steps to +a Middle Chamber of unknown proportions, containing an unknown +wage, is overweighted with the emphasis put upon the spiritual +side of life, he may here be comforted.

+ +

Freemasonry is not an ascetic organization. It recognizes that +the physical is as much a part of normal life as the mental and +spiritual upon which so much emphasis is put.

+ +

The Fellowcraft Degree is a glorification of education, the +gaining of knowledge, the study of the Seven Liberal Arts and +Sciences and all that they connote. Therefore it is wholly +logical that the degree should make special reference to the five +means by which man has acquired all his knowledge; aye, by which +he will ever acquire any knowledge.

+ +

All learning is sense-bound. Inspiring examples have been given +the world by unfortunates deprived of one or more senses. Blind +men often make as great a success as those who see; deaf men +often overcome the handicap until it appears nonexistent. Helen +Keller is blind, deaf, and was dumb as well; all that she has +accomplished - and it would be a great accomplishment with all +five senses - has been done through feeling and tasting and +smelling.

+ +

But take away all five senses and a man is no more a man; perhaps +his mind is no more a mind. With no contact whatever with the +material world he can learn nothing of it. As man reaches up +through the material to the spiritual, he could learn nothing of +ethics without contact with the physical.

+ +

If there are limits beyond which human investigations and +explorations into the unknown may not go, it is because of the +limitations of the five senses. Not even the extension of those +senses by the marvelously sensitive instruments of science may +overcome, in the last analysis, their limits.

+ +

Some objects are smaller than any rays we know except X-rays. If +it were possible to construct a microscope powerful enough to see +an atom, the only light by which it could be seen would be +X-rays. But the very X-rays which would be necessary to see it +would destroy the atom as soon as they struck it. In our present +knowledge, then, to see the atom is beyond the power of human +senses. If anything is beyond the power of eyes, even if aided +by the greatest magnification, then there must be truths beyond +the power of touch and taste and smell and hearing, regardless of +the magnification science may provide.

+ +

Except for one factor! Brute beasts hear, see, feel, smell, and +taste, as do we. But they garner no facts of science, win no +truths, formulate no laws of nature through these senses. More +than the five senses are necessary to perceive the relation +between thing and thing, and life and life. That factor is the +perception, the mind, the soul or spirit, if you will, which +differentiates man from all other living beings.

+ +

If the Fellowcraft's five steps, then, seem to glorify the five +senses of human nature, it is because Freemasonry is a +well-rounded scheme of life and living which recognizes the +physical as well as the mental life of men and knows that only +through the physical do we perceive the spiritual. It is in this +sense, not as a simple lesson in physiology, that we are to +receive the teachings of the five steps by which we rise above +the ground floor of the Temple to that last flight of seven steps +which are typical of knowledge.

+ +

THE NUMBER SEVEN

+ +

Most potent of numbers in the ancient religions, the number seven +has deep significance. The Pythagoreans called it the perfect +number, as made up of three and four, the two perfect figures, +triangle and square. It was the virgin number because it cannot +be multiplied to produce any number within ten, as can two and +two, two and three, and two and four, three and three. Nor can +it be produced by the multiplication of any whole numbers.

+ +

Our ancient ancestors knew seven planets, seven Pleiades, seven +Hyades, and seven lights burned before the Altar of Mithras. The +Goths had seven deities: Sun, Moon, Tuisco, Woden, Thor, Friga, +and Seatur or Saturn, from which we derive the names of the seven +days of our week. In the Gothic mysteries the candidate met with +seven obstructions. The ancient Jews swore by seven, because +seven witnesses were used to confirm, and seven sacrifices +offered to attest truth. The Sabbath is the seventh day; Noah +had seven days' notice of the flood; God created the heaven and +the earth in six days and rested on the seventh day; the walls of +Jericho were encompassed seven times by seven priests bearing +seven rams' horns; the Temple was seven years in building, and so +on through a thousand references.

+ +

It is only necessary to refer to the seven necessary to open an +Entered Apprentice's lodge, the seven original officers of a +lodge (some now have nine or ten or even more) and the seven +steps which complete the Winding Stairs to show that seven is an +important number in the Fraternity.

+ +

THE SEVEN LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES

+ +

In William Preston's day a liberal education was comprised in the +study of grammar, rhetoric and logic, called the trivium, and +arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, called the +quadrivium. Preston endeavored to compress into his Middle +Chamber lecture enough of these to make at least an outline +available to men who might otherwise know nothing of them.

+ +

In our day and times grammar and rhetoric are considered of +importance, but in a secondary way; logic is more or less +swallowed up as a study in the reasoning appropriate to any +particular subject; arithmetic, of course, continues its primary +importance; but from the standpoint of science, geometry and its +offshoots are still the vital sciences of measurement. Music has +fallen into the discard as part of a liberal education; it is now +one of the arts, not the sciences, and astronomy is so +interrelated with physics that it is hard to say where one leaves +off and the other begins. As for electricity, chemistry, +biology, civics, government, and the physical sciences, they were +barely dreamed of in Preston's day.

+ +

So it is not actually but symbolically that we are to climb the +seven steps. If the author may venture to quote himself: (1)

+ +

William Preston, who put so practical an interpretation upon +these steps, lived in an age when these did indeed represent all +knowledge. But we must not refuse to grow because the ritual has +not grown with modern discovery. When we rise by Grammar and +Rhetoric, we must consider that they mean not only language, but +all methods of communication. The step of Logic means a +knowledge not only of a method of

+ +

(1) "Foreign Countries," 1925.

+ +

reasoning, but of all reasoning which logicians have +accomplished. When we ascend by Arithmetic and Geometry, we must +visualize all science; since science is but measurement, in the +true mathematical sense, it requires no great stretch of the +imagination to read into these two steps all that science may +teach. The step denominated Music means not only sweet and +harmonious sounds, but all beauty - poetry, art, nature, +loveliness of whatever kind. Not to be familiar with the beauty +which nature provides is to be, by so much, less a man; to stunt, +by so much, a starving soul. As for the seventh step of +Astronomy, surely it means not only a study of the solar system +and the stars as it did in William Preston's day, but also a +study of all that is beyond the earth; of spirit and the world of +spirit, of ethics, philosophy, the abstract - of Deity. Preston +builded better than he knew; his seven steps are both logical in +arrangement and suggestive in their order. The true Fellowcraft +will see in them a guide to the making of a man rich in mind and +spirit, by which riches only can true brotherhood be practiced.

+ +

THE STAIRS WIND

+ +

Finally consider the implications of the winding stairs, as +opposed to those which are straight.

+ +

The one virtue which most distinguishes man is courage. It +requires more courage to face the unknown than the known. A +straight stair, a ladder, hides neither secret nor mystery at its +top. But the stairs which wind hide each step from the climber; +what is just around the corner is unknown. The winding stairs of +life lead us to we know not what; for some of us a Middle Chamber +of fame and fortune; for others, one of pain and frustration. +The Angel of Death may stand with drawn sword on the very next +step for any of us.

+ +

Yet man climbs.

+ +

Man has always climbed; he climbed from a cave man savagery to +the dawn of civilization; Lowell's

+ +

...brute despair of trampled centuries, +Leapt up with one hoarse yell and snapped its bands; +Groped for its right with horny, callous hands +And stared around for God with bloodshot eyes,

+ +

was a climbing from slavery to independence, from the brutish to +the spiritual. Through ignorance, darkness, misery, cruelty, +wrong, oppression, danger, and despair, man has climbed to +enlightenment. Each individual man must climb his little winding +stairs through much the same experience as that of the race.

+ +

Aye, man climbs because he has courage; because he has faith; +because he is a man. So must the Freemason climb. The winding +stairs do lead somewhere. There is a Middle Chamber. There are +wages of the Fellowcraft to be earned.

+ +

So believing, so, unafraid, climbing, the Fellowcraft may hope at +the top of his winding stairs to reach a Middle Chamber, and see +a new sign in the East ...

+ +

LETTER "G"

+ +

Its first reference is to the first and noblest of the sciences, +geometry. Geometry, the fifth of the Seven Liberal Arts and +Sciences, and astronomy, the seventh science, are so much a part +of each other that it is difficult to consider them separately; +indeed, the ritual of the letter "G" is as much concerned with +the study of the heavens as of the science of measurement alone. +We hear:

+ +

By it we discover the power, the wisdom, and the goodness of the +Grand Artificer of the Universe and view with delight the +wonderful proportions of this vast machine. By it we discover +how the planets move in their respective orbits and demonstrate +their various revolutions.... Numberless worlds are around us, +all framed by the same Divine Artist, which roll through the vast +expanse, controlled by the same unerring law.

+ +

It is difficult to visualize the vital importance of the heavens +to early men. We can hardly conceive of their terror of the +eclipse and the comet or sense their veneration for the Sun and +his bride, the Moon. We are too well educated. We know too much +about "the proportions which connect this vast machine." The +astronomer has pushed back the frontiers of his science beyond +the comprehension of most of us; the questions which occur as a +result of unaided visual observations have all been answered. We +have substituted facts for fancies regarding the sun, the moon, +the solar system, the comet, and the eclipse.

+ +

Pike (1) says:

+ +

(1) Albert Pike: born 1809, died 1891. One of the greatest +geniuses Freemasonry has ever known. It is said of him that "he +found Scottish Rite Masonry in a hovel and left it in a palace." +He was a mystic, a symbolist, a teacher of the hidden truths of +Freemasonry. To him the world of Freemasonry owes a debt of +incalculable size. Poet, Freemason, philosopher, his genius had a +profound effect upon the Craft in general, and the Ancient +Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in particular.

+ +

We cannot, even in the remotest degree, feel, though we may +partially and imperfectly imagine, how those great, primitive, +simple-hearted children of Nature felt in regard to the Starry +Hosts, there upon the slopes of the Himalayas, on the Chaldean +plains, in the Persian and Median deserts, and upon the banks of +the great, strange river, the Nile. To them the Universe was +alive - instinct with forces and powers, mysterious and beyond +their comprebension. To them it was no machine, no great system +of clockwork; but a great live creature, in sympathy with or +inimical to man. To them, all was mystery and a miracle, and the +stars flashing overhead spoke to their hearts almost in an +audible language. Jupiter, with its kingly splendors, was the +emperor of the starry legions. Venus looked lovingly on the +earth and blessed it; Mars with his crimson fires threatened war +and misfortune; and Saturn, cold and grave, chilled and repelled +them. The ever-changing Moon, faithful companion of the Sun, was +a constant miracle and wonder; the Sun himself the visible emblem +of the creative and generative power. To them the earth was a +great plain, over which the sun, the moon and the planets +revolved, its servants, framed to give it light. Of the stars, +some were beneficent existences that brought with them springtime +and fruits and flowers - some, faithful sentinels, advising them +of coming inundation, of the season of storm and of deadly winds; +some heralds of evil, which, steadily foretelling, they seemed to +cause. To them the eclipses were portents of evil, and their +causes hidden in mystery, and supernatural. The regular returns +of the stars, the comings of Arcturus, Orion, Sirius, the +Pleiades, and Aldebaran, and the journeyings of the Sun, were +voluntary and not mechanical to them. What wonder that astronomy +became to them the most important of sciences; that those who +learned it became rulers; and that vast edifices, the Pyramids, +the tower or temple of Bel, and other like erections elsewhere in +the East, were builded for astronomical purposes? - and what +wonder that, in their great childlike simplicity, they worshiped +Light, the Sun, the Planets, and the Stars, and personified them, +and eagerly believed in the histories invented for them; in that +age when the capacity for belief was infinite; as indeed, if we +but reflect, it still is and ever will be?

+ +

Anglo-Saxons usually consider history as their history; science +as their science; religion as their religion. This somewhat +naive viewpoint is hardly substantiated by a less egoistic survey +of knowledge. Columbus' sailors believed they would fall off the +edge of a flat world, yet Pythagoras knew the earth to be a ball. +The ecliptic was known before Solomon's Temple was built; the +Chinese predicted eclipses long, long before the Europeans of the +Middle Ages regarded them as portents of doom! + +Astronomical lore in Freemasonry is very old. The foundations of +our degrees are far more ancient than we can prove by documentary +evidence. It is surely not stretching credulity to believe that +the study which antedates geometry must have been impressed on +our Order, its ceremonies and its symbols, long before Preston +and Webb worked their ingenious revolutions in our rituals and +gave us the system of degrees we use to-day in one form or +another.

+ +

The astronomical references in our degrees begin with the points +of the compass; East, West, and South, and the place of darkness, +the North. We are taught why the North is a place of darkness by +the position of Solomon's Temple with reference to the ecliptic, +a most important astronomical conception. The sun is the Past +Master's own symbol; our Masters rule their lodges - or are +supposed to! - with the same regularity with which the sun rules +the day and the moon governs the night. Our explanation of our +Lesser Lights is obviously an adaptation of a concept which dates +back to the earliest of religions; specifically to the Egyptian +Isis, Osiris, and Horus, represented by the sun, moon, and +Mercury.

+ +

In circumambulation about the altar we traverse our lodges from +East to West by way of the South as did the sun worshipers who +thus imitated the daily passage of their deity through the +heavens.

+ +

Measures of time are astronomical. Days and nights were before +man and consequently before astronomy but hours and minutes are +inventions of the mind, depending upon the astronomical +observation of the sun at meridian to determine noon and +consequently all other periods of time. The Middle Chamber work +gives to geometry the premier place as a means by which the +astronomer may fix the duration of time and seasons, years and +cycles.

+ +

Observing that the sun rose and set our ancient brethren easily +determined East and West, although as the sun rises and sets +through a variation of 47 degrees north and south during a six +months' period the determination was not exact.

+ +

The earliest Chaldean star gazers, progenitors of the astronomers +of later ages, saw that the apparently revolving heavens pivoted +on a point nearly coincident with a certain star. We know that +the true north diverges from the North Star one and a half +degrees, but their observations were sufficiently accurate to +determine a North - and consequently East, West, and South.

+ +

A curious derivation of a Masonic symbol from the heavens is that +universally associated with the Stewards, the cornucopia.

+ +

According to the mythology of the Greeks which goes back to the +very dawn of civilization, the god Zeus was nourished in infancy +from the milk of the goat, Amalthea. In gratitude the god placed +Amalthea forever in the heavens as a constellation, but first he +gave one of Amalthea's horns to his nurses with the assurance +that it would forever pour for them whatever they desired,

+ +

The horn of plenty, or the cornucopia, is thus a symbol of +abundance. The goat from which it came may be found by the +curious among the constellations under the name of Capricorn. +The Tropic of Capricorn of our school days is the southern limit +of the swing of the sun on the path which marks the ecliptic, on +which the earth dips first its north, then its south pole toward +our luminary. Hence there is a connection, not the less direct +for being tenuous, between our Stewards, their symbol, the lights +in the lodge, the place of darkness, and Solomon's Temple.

+ +

Of such curious links and interesting bypaths is the connection +of astronomy with geometry and the letter "G," the more beautiful +when we see eye to eye with the Psalmist: "The heavens declare +the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handiwork."

+ +

"GOD IS ALWAYS GEOMETRIZING"

+ +

So said Plato twenty-three centuries ago. It is merely an +accident of the English language that geometry and God begin with +the same letter; no matter what the language or the ritual, the +initial of the Ineffable Name and that of the first and noblest +of sciences are Masonically the same.

+ +

"But that is secret!" cries some newly-initiated brother who has +examined his printed monitor and finds that the ritual concerning +the further significance of the letter "G" is represented only by +stars. Aye, the ritual is secret, but the fact is the most +gloriously public that Freemasonry may herald to the world. One +can no more keep secret the idea that God is the very warp and +woof of Freemasonry than that He is the essence of all life. +Take God out of Freemasonry and there is, literally, nothing +left; it is a pricked balloon, an empty vessel, a bubble which +has burst.

+ +

The petitioner knows it before he signs his application. He must +answer "Do you believe in God?" before his petition can be +accepted. He must declare his faith in a Supreme Being before he +may be initiated. But note that he is not required to say, then +or ever, what God. He may name Him as he will, think of Him as he +pleases; make Him impersonal law or personal and anthropomorphic; +Freemasonry cares not.

+ +

Freemasonry's own especial name for Deity is Great Architect of +the Universe. She speaks of God rarely as if she felt the +sacredness of the simple Jewish symbol - the Yod - which stood +for JHVH, that unpronouncable name we think may have been +Jehovah. But God, Great Architect of the Universe, Grand +Artificer, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge Above, Jehovah, Allah, +Buddha, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, or Great Geometer, a symbol of the +conception shines in the East of every American Masonic lodge, as +in the center of the canopy of every English lodge.

+ +

Secret? Aye, secret as those matters of the heart which may not +be told are secret. Let him who loves his wife or his child more +than he loves aught else upon the earth try to explain in words +just how he loves, and he will understand just what sort of a +secret this is. All the world may know that he loves; how he +loves, how much he loves, there are no words to tell.

+ +

All the world may know that the symbol of Deity shines in the +East of a Masonic lodge; only the true Freemason, who is actually +a Mason in his heart, as well as in his mind, may know just how +and in what way the Great Architect is the very essence and +substance of the Ancient Craft.

+ +

The symbol of Deity bas always been a part of all houses of +initiation. In the Egyptian mysteries it was the Sun God's +symbol, Ra. The Greeks considered the number five to be the +symbol of man's dependence upon the Unseen; from five also came +the Pentalpha or five-pointed star. The imaginative will easily +see here a connection with the Fellowcraft's Degree in which five +is especially the symbolic number. Plutarch tells us that in the +Greek mysteries the symbol of God was made of wood in the first, +of bronze in the second, and of gold in the third degree, or +step, to symbolize the refinement of man's conception of Deity as +he progressed from the darkness of ignorance to the light of +faith in some one of many forms of belief in God.

+ +

Freemasonry uses a much more tender and beautiful symbolism. In +modern and costly temples the letter "G" may be of crystal, +lighted behind with electric light. In some country lodge it may +be cut from cardboard and painted blue, illuminated if at all +with a tallow dip. A Western lodge meets yearly on the top of a +hill in a forest, and nails to a tree cut branches in the form of +a rough letter "G." Freemasonry's symbolism is not of the +material substance of the letter, but its connection with +geometry, the science by which the universe exists and moves and +by which the proportions which connect this vast machine are +measured.

+ +

Aye, God is always geometrizing. Geometry is particularly His +science. Freemasonry makes it especially the science of the +Fellowcraft's Degree and couples it with the symbol of the Great +Architect of the Universe. No teaching of Freemasonry is +greater; none is simpler than this. The Fellowcraft who sees it +as the very crux and climax of the degree, the reality behind the +form, has learned as no words may teach him for what he climbed +the Winding Stairs, and the true wages of a Fellowcraft which he +found within the Middle Chamber.

+ +

HISTORY - THE GRAND LODGE PERIOD

+ +

The formation of the Mother Grand Lodge in London, in 1717, which +profoundly affected Freemasonry, is shrouded in mystery, clouded +in the mists of time, and as extraordinary as it was important.

+ +

The Freemasons of those far-off days could have had no idea of +the tremendous issues which hung upon their actions nor dreamed +of the effect of their union. Had they even imagined it, +doubtless they would have left us more records, and we would not +now have to speculate on matters of history the very causes of +which are - in all probability - never fully to be kmown to us.

+ +

One of the causes which led to the sudden coming to life of the +old and diminishing Fraternity was the Reformation. During its +operative period Freemasonry had been if not a child of the +Church at least its servant, working hand in hand with it. Our +oldest document - the Halliwell Manuscript or Regius Poem, dated +1390 - invokes the Virgin Mary, speaks of the Trinity and gives +instructions for observing Mass! But the same influences which +produced the Reformation worked in Freemasonry and by 1600, +according to the Harleian Manuscript, (1) the Order had

+ +

(1) Harleian Manuscript: dated about the middle of the +Seventeenth Century and originally the property of Robert Harley, +Earl of Oxford.

+ +

largely severed is dependence upon the Church and become a refuge +for those who wished to be free in thought as well as for +Freemasons. It was still Christian - almost aggressively +Christian - in its teachings. Not for another hundred years or +more and then only partially did it rid itself of any sectarian +character whatever and become what it is to-day, a meeting ground +for "men of every country, sect and opinion," united in a common +belief in the Fatherhood of God, the brotherbood of man, and the +hope of immortality.

+ +

Seventeen hundred and seventeen is the dividing line between +before and after; between the old Freemasonry and the new; +between a Craft which was slowly expiring and one which began to +grow with a new vitality; between the last lingering remains of +operative Masonry and a Craft wholly Speculative.

+ +

Just what were the causes of the events which led up to the +formation of the first Grand Lodge we do not know. We can only +guess. No minutes of the Mother Grand Lodge were kept during its +first six years. The Constitutions and Old Charges, first +published in 1723, were republished fifteen years after. In this +second edition of 1738 is a meager record of the first meetings +of the Grand Lodge, so brief and so skeletonized that there is +space for it in such a link book as this. In the yellowed pages +of this old and precious book of which a few copies still remain +we read (letters modernized)

+ +

King George I entered London most magnificently on 20 Sept., +1714, and after the Rebellion was over 1716 A.D., the few Lodges +at London finding themselves neglected by Sir Christopher Wren, +thought fit to cement under a Grand Master as the Center of Union +and Harmony, viz., the Lodges that met,

+ +

1. At the Goose and Gridiron Alchouse at St. Pauls Church-yard. +2. At the Crown Alehouse in Parker's-Lane, near Drury-Lane. +3. At the Apple-Tree Tavern in Charles-street Covent Garden. +4. At the Rummer and Grapes Tavern in Channel-Row, Westminster.

+ +

They and some old Brothers met at the said Apple-Tree, and having +put in the chair the oldest Master Mason (now the Master of a +Lodge) they constituted themselves a Grand Lodge pro Tempore in +due form, and forthwith revived the Quarterly Communication of +the Officers of Lodges (called the Grand lodge) resolved to hold +the Annual Assembly and Feast and then to chuse a Grand Master +from among themselves, till they should have the Honor of a Noble +Brother at their Head.

+ +

Accordingly on St. John Baptist's Day, in the 3d year of King +George I. A.D. 1717 the Assembly and Feast of the Free and +accepted Masons was held at the foresaid Goose and Gridiron +Ale-house.

+ +

Before Dinner, the oldest Master Mason (now the Master of a +Lodge) in the Chair, proposed a List of proper Candidates; and +the Brethren by a Majority of Hands elected Mr. Anthony Sayer +Gentleman, Grand Master of Masons - Capt. Joseph Elliot, Mr. +Jacob Lamball, Carpenter, Grand Wardens - who being forthwith +invested with the Badges of Office and power by the said oldest +Master, and installed, was duly congratulated by the Assembly who +paid him the Homage.

+ +

Sayer Grand Master commanded the Masters and Wardens of Lodges to +meet the Grand Officers every Quarter in Communication at the +place he should appoint in his Summons sent by the Tyler.

+ +

N.B. It is called the Quarterly Communication, because it should +meet Quarterly according to ancient Usage. And when the Grand +Master is present it is a Lodge in Ample Form; otherwise, only in +Due Form, yet having the same authority with Ample Form.

+ +

Probably other lodges existed in London at the time; whether they +refused to join the historic four or were not invited we do not +know. We know little about these original four lodges. The +Engraved list of Lodges was published in 1729 in which the Goose +and Gridiron Number 1 (afterwards the Lodge of Antiquity) is said +to have dated from 1691. When William Preston became its Master +the lodge was involved in a controversy with the Grand Lodge - +but that is too special an event to consider in so broad a sketch +as this.

+ +

Lodge number two of the original four lodges, which met at the +Crown, Parker's-Lane, was struck from the roll in 1740. The +first Grand Master of this Mother Grand Lodge, Anthony Sayer, +Gentleman, came from lodge number three - the Apple-Tree Tavern +Lodge; we know little more of it. These three lodges were small, +and at least as much operative as Speculative. But the fourth +lodge, which met at the Rummer and Grapes Tavern in Channel Row, +Westminster, was not only the largest (seventy members) but the +most Speculative and with the highest type of membership. It +mothered not only men of high social rank, lords, counts and +knights, but also Dr. Desaguliers (1) and James Anderson, (2) two +brethren who had a great deal to do with the revival, especially +Anderson, to whom we are indebted for much.

+ +

In our perspective a Grand Lodge is as much a necessary part of +the existing order of things as a State or Federal Government. +In 1717 it was a new idea, accompanied by many other new ideas. +Some brother or brethren saw that if the ancient Order were not +to die, it must be given new life through a new organization. +Doubtless they were influenced by Mother Kilwinning Lodge (3) of +Scotland which had

+ +

(1) John Theophilus Desaguliers, LL.D. F.R.S., born 1683, died +1744, sometimes called the Father of Modern Speculative Masonry. +He was the third Grand Master of the first Grand Lodge and thrice +afterwards Deputy Grand Master. He is credited with having been +the inspiration of Anderson, and to have supplied much of the +material from which Anderson wrote his "Constitution." +(2) James Anderson, Father of the first printed Constitutions, +1723, which contains the Old Charges, the General Regulations, +and a fanciful, fascinating, but wholly erroneous history of +Freemasonry. +(3) Kilwinning: a small town in Scotland which tradition states +is the birthplace of Freemasonry in the land of heather, as is +York the seat of the first General Assembly of Freemasons in +England. Kilwinning Lodge - Mother Kilwinning by affection and +common consent - at one time seceded from the Mother Grand Lodge, +during which period she chartered various lodges as of "inherent +right," including; one in Virginia in 1785.

+ +

assumed and exercised certain motherly functions in regard to her +daughter lodges, all of which had Kilwinning as a part of their +name and, apparently, of their obedience.

+ +

The newly formed Grand Lodge went the whole way. It proposed to, +and did, take command of its lodges. It branched out beyond the +jurisdiction originally proposed "within ten miles of London" and +invaded the provinces. It gave enormous powers to the Grand +Master. It prohibited the working of the "Master's Part" in +private lodges, thus throwing back to the ancient annual +assemblies." It divided the Craft into Entered Apprentices and +Fellowcrafts. It resolved "against all politics as what never +yet conduced to the welfare of the lodge nor ever will." This was +a highly important declaration at a time when every organization +in England was taking part in politics, especially in the +Jacobite struggle against the House of Hanover. Indeed, a Grand +Master, the Duke of Wharton (1722) turned against the Grand Lodge +and the Fraternity when it refused to lend itself to his +political aspirations and sponsored the Gormogons, a caricature +organization which tried to destroy Freemasonry by

+ +

(1) Assembly: sometimes called General Assembly, or Yearly +Assembly. The word seems to denote a meeting of Masons in the +ancient operative days equivalent to a modern lodge. The York +Manuscript No. 1, dated approximately 1600, says: "Edwin +procured of ye King his father a charter and commission to holde +every yeare an assembly wheresoever they would within ye realm of +England." In the Harleian Manuscript, 1660, it is set forth that: +"... every Master and Fellow come to the Assembly, if it be +within five miles shout him, if he have any warning."

+ +

ridicule. Luckily for us all, ridicule, powerful weapon though +it is, never in the long run prevails against reality. The +Gormogons, like other and later organizations, such as the Scald +Miserable Masons, (1) had its brief day and died - and +Freemasonry throve and grew.

+ +

Finally the Grand Lodge erased the ancient Charge "to be true to +God and Holy Church" and substituted the Charge already quoted.

+ +

This was of unparalleled importance; it was one of the factors +which led to the formation of other Grand Lodges and dissension +in Freemasonry, but as it was distinctly right and founded modern +speculative Freemasonry on the rock of non-sectarianism and the +brotherhood of all men who believe in a common Father regardless +of His name, His church, or the way in which He is worshiped, it +won out in the end and became what it is to-day, a fundamental of +the Craft.

+ +

Between 1717 and 1751 the Craft spread rapidly, not only in +England, but on the Continent, and in the Colonies, especially +Colonial America, where time and people, conditions and social +life provided fallow ground for the seeds of Freemasonry. But in +spite of a new life, and wise counsels of brethren

+ +

(1) Scald Miserables: mock Masons wbo paraded in London in 1741. +Many such mock Masonic processions were formed by enemies of the +Order - often men who had been denied acceptance. Of little +importance then, and none now, except that the Masonic +disinclination to take part in public processions - dedications, +cornerstone layings and funerals excepted - comes from the mock +Masonic processions which imitated the ancient "March of +Procession" of Masons in London in the early years of the Grand +Lodge.

+ +

who restricted the acts if not the power of the new Grand Lodge, +all was not plain sailing. Dissensions appeared. Causes of +friction, if not numerous, were important and went deep. The +religious issue was vital; doubtless it seemed to the older +Masons then as radical a step as it seemed to us when the Grand +Orient of France (1) took the V.S.L. from the altar. In the 1738 +edition of the Constitutions we find the article "Concerning God +and religion" altered to read, "In ancient times the Christian +Masons were charged to comply with the Christian usages of each +country where they traveled and worked."

+ +

Another cause for dissension was the Grand Lodge's strong hand +regarding the making of Masons. Too many lodges were careless; +too many private groups of Masons assumed the right to assemble +as a lodge and make Masons of their friends; too much laxity +existed as to fees and dues and the payment of charity to the +Grand Lodge. To check these practices the Grand Lodge changed +some words in the degrees - doubtless our "spurious Mason" +clauses come from this - and this caused the same reaction then +as an attempt by modern brethren to change or rearrange our +present ritual would produce.

+ +

Probably the religious issue did not cause a major

+ +

(1) Grand Orient of France: a body once Masonic which is without +recognition by the Grand Lodges of England, the United States, +and most of the other nations. It removed from its Constitutions +a paragraph affirming the existence of the Great Architect of the +Universe. Withdrawal of recognition by the United Grand Lodge of +England followed immediately (1878) and ever since the Grand +Orient bas been clandestine to practically all the Masonic world.

+ +

part of the trouble, but it provided a constant source of +irritation. Then as now many clergymen were Speculative Masons. +To-day enlightened clergymen do not see in the absence of mention +of the Carpenter of Nazareth in a lodge any denial of Him, any +more than a Jewish Rabbi sees in the absence of mention of +Jehovah, or a Buddhist sees in the absence of mention of Buddha, +a denial of those deities. Then, however, many clergymen +insisted upon a Christian tinge to the Masonic ceremonies, and +while the quarrel would hardly have come from this alone, it was +a contributing cause.

+ +

In 1738 the Grand Lodge sanctioned the making of the "Master's +Part" into what we know as the Third Degree. This had been going +on for years - no one knows how many - but not by permission of +Grand Lodge. Sanctioning it was to many brethren an "alteration +of established usage" and the customs of "time immemorial." It +proved another blow struck at unity.

+ +

All these and other matters fomented dissension which came to a +head in 1751 when a rival Grand Lodge was formed. It came into +being with a brilliant stroke, for it chose the name "The Most +Antient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons."

+ +

Calling itself "Antient" and the older body "Modern" at once +enlisted the support of hundreds of brethren who did not look +beneath the surface to learn which was really which. So we have +this peculiar and confusing terminology; the original, the older, +the more ancient Grand Lodge was called the "Modern" Grand Lodge, +and the newer and rebellious body was called "Antient." (1)

+ +

The curious story of the rise of this Antient Grand Lodge should +be read by every Freemason, for it has had a tremendous effect +upon the Craft. We can afford to be charitable to those who +believed they were engaged in a revolution, not a rebellion. This +country was born out of what we call the Revolution, which to the +Royalists of 1776 was the Rebellion.

+ +

The Antients were extremely fortunate in having one Laurence +Dermott secede from the Moderns with them. Dermott was a +fighting Irishman, a brother heart and soul in the Fraternity, +and if some of his actions seem a little questionable to us, he +has to his credit the success of the movement. In 1771 when the +Duke of Atholl became Grand Master the Antients had almost two +hundred lodges on the roll.

+ +

Dermott kept the religious issue alive; by implication he made +the Moderns seem anti-religious. He

+ +

(1) United States Grand Lodges style themselves under several +different abbreviations: F. and A.M.; A.F. and A.M., and +variations using the Ampersand (&) in place of the word "and." +The District of Columbia still uses F.A.A.M., meaning Free and +Accepted Masons, in spite of the possible confusion as to whether +the first A stands for "and" or "ancient." The variations are +accounted for by differences in origins, some Grand Lodges coming +into being with lodges which held under the "Ancients," and some +from the "Moderns," and by variations due to the errors which are +seemingly ineradicable in "mouth-to-ear" instruction. Whether +Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Free, Ancient and Accepted +Masons; Ancient Free Masons, or any other combination of the +words, all United States Grand Lodges are "regular," tracing +descent either mediately or immediately to the United Grand Lodge +of England and recognized by her.

+ +

kept the Antients a Christian body and wrote distinctively +Christian sentiments and references into its Constitutions and +its documents whenever be could get them adopted.

+ +

Meanwhile other Grand Lodges arose; they were not very important +and never grew very large, but they belong in the story of +Freemasonry; the "Grand Lodge of All England," "The Grand Lodge +of England South of the River Trent," "The Supreme Grand Lodge" +all made their bids for recognition, lived their little day and +passed on, each leaving its trace, its influence, but unable to +contend against the Antients and the Moderns.

+ +

The benefits which came from the clash seem to-day to be greater +than the evils. Then Freemasons saw only harm in the rivalry +which split the Fraternity. Now we can see that where one Grand +lodge established lodges on war-ships, the other retaliated with +Army lodges which carried Freemasonry to far places; where one +body started a school for girls, the other retorted with a school +for boys - both still in existence, by the way - where one Grand +Lodge reached out to the provinces, the other cultivated Scotland +and Ireland. Both worked indefatigably in the American Colonies.

+ +

The heart burnings, the jealousies, the sorrows and the contests +between Antients and Moderns, if they exhibited less of brotherly +love than the Fraternity taught, were actually spurs to action. +Without some such urge Freemasonry could hardly have spread so +fast or so far. As the United States became a much stronger and +more closely welded union after the cleavage of 1361-65, so +Freemasonry was to unite at last in a far greater, stronger and +more harmonious body when the two rival Grand Lodges came +together, composed their differences, forgot their rivalries, and +clasped hands across the altar of the United Grand Lodge.

+ +

The reconciliation is as astonishing and mysterious as the +discord. We can see that the death of Dermott, who was gathered +to his fathers in 1791, fighting for the Antients to the last, +removed one cause of difference between the two Grand Lodges; we +can understand that as the Antients had grown in power and +prestige not only in England but in the Colonies until they +outnumbered the Moderns in both lodges and brethren, the Moderns +might well have thought that union would be a life saver; we can +comprehend that time heals all differences and that what had +seemed important in 1751 in fifty years had dwindled in vitality.

+ +

But what is amazing to this day is that after the difficult +period, when overtures were made, refusals recorded, committees +appointed and differences finally composed, the Antient Grand +Lodge, in accepting the idea of reconciliation, receded from +almost all the positions for which it had fought so long! It was +as if the spirit of combat, so alien to the gentle genius of +Freemasonry, had worn itself out and brethren became as eager to +forgive and forget and compromise as they had previously been +strong to resist and to struggle.

+ +

Whatever the spirit which caused it, the final reconciliation +took place in Freemasons' Hall in London, on St. John's Day, +December 27, 1813. The two Grand Lodges filed together into the +Hall; the Articles of Union were read; the Duke of Kent retired +as Grand Master in favor of the Duke of Sussex, who was elected +Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge.

+ +

Two matters must be stressed: the second of the, Articles of +Union reads: "It is declared and pronounced that pure ancient +Masonry consists of three degrees and no more; viz., those of the +Entered Apprentice, the Fellowcraft and the Master Mason +(including the Supreme Order of the Holy Royal Arch)."

+ +

In 1815 a new Book of Constitutions proclaimed to all the world +forever the non-sectarian character of Freemasonry in this Charge +concerning God and religion:

+ +

"Let a man's religion or mode of worship be what it may, he is +not excluded from the Order, provided be believes in the glorious +Architect of heaven and earth, and practice the sacred duties of +morality."

+ +

Newton says of this:

+ +

Surely that is broad enough, bigh enough; and we ought to join +with it the famous proclamation issued by the Grand Master, the +Duke of Sussex, from Kensington Palace, in 1842, declaring that +Masonry is not identified with any one religion to the exclusion +of others, and men in India who were otherwise eligible and could +make a sincere profession of faith in one living God, be they +Hindus or Mohammedans, might petition for membership in the +Craft. Such in our own day is the spirit and practice of Masonic +universality, and from that position, we may be very sure, the +Craft will never recede. + +

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AN ILLUMINATI OUTLINE OF HISTORY

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Alpha and Omega -- Immanentizing of the Eschaton. +20000000 BC -- Recent Epoch of geeology begins; Ice Age ends; +human beings spread to all parts of the world. +30000 -- First Illuminatus, Gruad, rules in Atlantis. +20000 -- Mythical Lloigor inhabit continent of Mu. +10000 -- Approximate beginning of agriculture. Estimated date of +inscriptions on stone disks by the Dropa tribe, a diminuative +people of the Bayan-Kara-Ula Mountains on the border of China and +Tibet; disks describe how the tribe came to earth in flying +machines; ancient Dropa graves contain human remains with huge +heads and small bodies. Earliest estimated date of carving of the +Crystal Skull found at Lubaantun in the Yucatan. Hyborian Age in +Europe. +9000 to 10000 -- Date of Plato's Atlantis. +6000 -- Picture writing develops. +5000 -- First alphabet begins to develop. +4000 -- Approximate date of discovery of metals, beginning of +cities, constellations of stars first recorded. Egyptians begin +placing small pieces of crystal on the forehead of deceased prior +to mummification. +3000 -- Approximate date of building of the Sphinx and Great +Pyramid at Giza and other pyramids elsewhere in Egypt. Indus +Valley civilization develops complex government, writing and well +planned cities. Minoan civilization flourishes in Crete. +Earliest parts of the Bible written. Beginning date of Olmec +calendar from Central America: 3113 BC. Trephination (cutting a +hole in the skull) practiced by people all over the world. +2500 -- Sarmoung Brotherhood of Babylonia flourish according to +Gurdjieff. +2100 -- Egyptians record star configurations on which the 24 hour +day is based. +2000 -- Stonehenge and other stone circles built in England. +1800 -- Huge Silbury Mound constructed near Stonehenge. +1700 -- Babylonian Enuma Anu Enlil, early roots of astrology +based on celestial phenomena. +1500 -- Approximate date of the destruction of Thera, on which +Atlantis legends are probably based. Early references to +Mithraism on cuneform astronomical tests. Quadrants of the moon +recorded in China. +1360 -- Akhenaton's monotheistic sun worship in Egypt. +1344 -- Tutankhamun, Akhenaton's successor who revived +polytheism, buried at Thebes; curse reading "Death comes on swift +wings to he who opens this tomb," written on tomb doorway. +1300 -- Approximate date "I Ching" written in China. +1184 -- End of the Trojan War, Illium falls to the Greeks. +1000 to 2000 -- Legendary Thule civilization in the Gobi region +destroyed by a catastrophe, "possibly of an atomic nature," +survivors migrating to Agarthi and Schamballah. +1000 -- Huge Sacrificial Table built at Mystery Hill near North +Salem, New Hampshire. +950 -- Approximate date of building of Solomon's Temple in +Jerusalem, traditional origin of the Masonic fraternity; alleged +assassination of Temple master-mason Hiram for refusing to reveal +masonic secrets. +900 -- Approximate time settlers from Europe and the Middle East +established colonies in North America. +800 -- Twenty-two "moon stations" in monthly lunar cycle +recognized in Babylonia, India and China. +753 -- Legendary founding of Rome by Romulus. +700 -- Jordanian city of Petra is carved out of sandstone by +unknown culture. +600 -- Approximate beginning of money with first coins in Lydia. +575 -- Nebuchadnezzar completes building Tower of Babel in +Babylon. +500 to 600 -- Time of Buddha, Lao Tse, Confucius, Zarathustra, +Orpheus, Pythagoras, Zachariah and Daniel--an Illuminated century. +500 -- Sun-Tse's "Treatise on the Art of War," first intelligence +manual. +485 -- Execution of Spurius Cassius in Rome. +450 -- Development of the 12 constellations of the zodiac in +Mesopotamia, recognizing the importance of the plane of the +elliptic through which the sun, moon and planets move. +440 -- Assassination of Spurius Maelius. +400 -- Druidism in England. Astrological ideas from Enuma Anu +Enlil transmitted to India. +390 -- Approximate date Plato's "The Republic" written, featuring +such Illuminoid images as the Philosopher Kings, the Divided Line +and the parable of the Cave. +355 -- Plato's "Timaios" and "Kritias," earliest accounts of +Atlantis. +300 -- Invention of Mayan calendar in Yucatan, based on advanced +astronomy. Fabius family of Rome reaches its greatest heights. +275 -- Approximate date Greek poet Aratus makes first sytematic +record of star constellations in "Phaenomena." +273 to 232 -- Rule of Asoka, king of India who allegedly founded +the Nine Unknown. +212 -- Archimedes uses burning-glass to set fire to Roman fleet at +Syracuse, early use of lens as weapon. +133 -- Land reformer Tiberius Gracchus murdered and hundreds of +his followers killed by followers of powerful Roman patricians; +death of Scripio Africanus a few years later. +121 -- Gaius Gracchus and 3000 of his followers massacred by +patricians. +100 -- The Great Teacher of the Essenes. Essentials of modern +astrology worked out. +95 -- Approximate date of assassination of Saturninus and Glaucia. +92 -- Assassination of Rutilius Rufus. +91 -- Assassination of Livius Drufus. +73 -- Revolt of gladiators led by Spartacus. +44 -- Assassination of Julius Caesar. +4 -- Birth of Jesus of Nazareth, accompanied by various Illuminoid +trappings: three early Men-In-Black disguised as the Wise Men; +strange lights in the sky; miracles such as visits from angels, +prohpecy and suspension of time are reported. +0 -- Carnation-Painted Eyebrows Society, Copper Horses, Iron Shins +and other secret societies active in China. +AD 30 -- Assassination of the radical Jesus, allegedly on +Illuminati orders; more Illuminoid trappings; an eclipse; an +earthquake; visitorsfrom the sky roll away the stone from the +sepulcher and liberate the crucified Jesus. +100 -- Hero of Alexandria devises primitive steam-engine. +125 to 150 -- Simon Magus, Menander, Valentinus and others develop +Gnostic religious doctrines of esoteric knowledge (illumination). +135 -- Approximate date Ptolemy records 1022 stars in "Almagest"; +also recorded astrological ideas from Enuma Anu Enlil in his +"Apotelesmatika." +150 -- Roman Mithraism competes with Christianity. Yellow Turban +Society subdues northern China, Triad cult formed in opposition. +200 -- First book of the cabala, "Sepher Yetzirah," compiled. +216 to 276 -- Life of Mani, the Illuminator, who founded +Manicheism, based on ideas from Judaism, Christianity, +Zoroasterism, Gnosticism, etc. +325 -- Council of Nicaea in which Christian begins to rigidify. +400 -- Estimated date of carving of stone statues found on Easter +Island. +500 -- Chinese use of gunpowder. +570 to 632 -- Life of Muhammad, founder of Islam. +670 -- Callinicus invents Greek Fire, primitive incendiary bomb. +673 to 735 -- Life of the Venerable Bede, the greatest scholar of +Saxon England whose "Ecclesiastical History of England" (731) +contained many occult and unexplained occurances. +700 -- Sufi mysticism begins. +730 -- "Al Azif" written in Damascus by Abdul Alhazred. +772 -- Charlemagne allegedly established Holy Secret Tribunal +which becomes the Holy Vehm. +850 -- Ismaili and Fatimid missionaries throughout Islamic Empire +preach revolution against the ruling Sunni order and Abbasid +state. +900 -- Beginning of the Bogomils of Bulgaria, a Manicheian sect, +roots of Cathari. +909 -- First Fatimid caliph in Egypt. +920 to 1003 -- Life of Pope Sylvester II who allegedly visited the +Nine Unknown in India. +950 -- "Al Azif" translated into Greek as "Necronomicon." +1000 -- Approximate founding of Yezidi cult by Sufi Sheikh Adi in +Iraq. Abode of Learning active in Cairo. Spread of Cathari +Manicheism throughout Europe. Leif Ericson explores North +America. +1034 to 1124 -- Life of Hasan-e Sabbah, founder of the Assassins +of Persia. Member of the Ismaili sect, Hasan seized fortress of +Alamut in Daylam in 1090; split with Fatimid dynasty in 1094; +Assassins flourished for next several centuries. +1050 -- Approximate date of founding of the Order of Hospitallers +in Jerusalem. +1058 -- Member of the Abode of Learning sect gains temporary +control of Bagdad. +1092 -- Assassins murder Persian minister Nizam al-Mulk. +1095 -- First Crusade. +1100 -- Approximate date Sufi Gilani founds Arabic school of +Illuminati, Kadiri Order of Sebil-el-ward, in Bagdad. Assassins +infiltrate Thug cult of India. Bogomil leader Basil burned in +Constantinople. Albigensian Cathari sect flourishes near Albi, +France. Avengers and Beati Paoli active in Italy. Joachim of +Floris founds primitive Christian sect, Illuminated Ones. Robin +Hood active in England. +1119 -- Knights Templar founded in Palestine. +1123 -- Abode of Learning suppressed by Turkish Vizier Afdal. +1140 -- Rapid growth of Cathari sect begins. +1149 -- First Cathari bishop established. +1162 to 1227 -- Life of Genghis Khan, conquerer of China and +Russia, invader of Europe and Islamic Empire, destroyer of +Assassin power. Approximate beginnings of the wandering of the +Gypsies of North India. +1167 -- Cathari council near Toulouse. +1170 -- Assassination of Thomas a Becket. +1171 -- Last Fatimid caliph dies. +1176 -- Peter Waldo founds the Poor Men of Lyons. Sultan Saladin +invades Assassin territory, gains truce. +1184 -- Waldenses excommunicated, suppressed. +1200 to 1300 -- House of Wisdom in Cairo, roots of the Afghan +Roshaniya. Origin of the Mafia in Sicily. +1208 -- Albigensian Crusade begins suppression of Cathari heresy. +1212 -- The Children's Crusade. Genghis Khan invades China. +1233 -- Founding of the Inquisition to suppress Cathari and other +heresies. +1235 to 1315 -- Life of Dr. Illuminatus, Ramon Llull (Raymond +Lully) in Spain. +1241 -- Mongols invade Europe through wise use of intelligence +information and strategy, introduce gunpowder from Asia. +1244 -- Massacre of Cathari at Montsegur, France. +1250s -- Approximate beginning of Holy Vehm in Westphalia. +Approximate time of Hulagu Khan's defeat of the Assassins. +1254 to 1324 (?) -- Life of Marco Polo, early European traveler in +China, Persia. +1258 -- Hulagu Khan destroys Bagdad; Mongols destroy Mesopotamia, +the mother of civilization. +1260 -- Mongol invasion of Islamic Empire turned back. +1270s -- Cathari hierarchy fades. +1275 -- Assembly of traveling mason guilds in Frankfort. "Zohar," +second book of the cabala, compiled by Moses de Leon in Spain. +1280 -- Roger Bacon, deviser of early eyeglasses, independently +invents gunpowder. +1291 -- Hospitallers retreat to Cyprus. +1300 -- White Lotus Society founded in China. Inquisition begins +suppression of witches and other pagan groups. +1307 -- Philip IV of France suppresses Knights Templar for +witchcraft and heresies; de Molay imprisoned in the Temple in +Paris. +1308 -- Assassination of Holy Roman Emperor Albert I. +1309 -- Hospitallers acquire the isle of Rhodes. +1313 -- Knights Templar dissolved by papal decree. +1314 -- De Molay and others burned in Paris. +1327 -- Assassination of King Edward II in England. +1329 -- First appearance of the Tarot in Germany. +1360 -- Approximate date of the earliest known Satanic cults; +black masses celebrated in France. +1369 -- Timurlane becomes Great Khan. +1375 -- Another assembly of traveling mason guilds in Frankfort. +1379 to 1482 -- Alleged life of Christian Rosenkreuz, fictitious +founder of Rosicrucianism. +1390 -- Gypsies begin to appear in Europe. +1400s -- Cathari sect dies out. Concave lenses developed. +1404 -- King Robert revises code of Holy Vehm. +1410 -- Secret society formed in Italy which eventually joins with +Rosicrucianism. +1437 -- Assassination of King James I of Scotland. +1456 -- Gutenberg Bible begins modern printing. +1458 -- Abramelin's "Book of Sacred Magic" translated from Hebrew +to french according to followers of the cult of the Guardian +Angel. +1471 -- Assassination of King Henry VI of England. +1472 -- University of Ingolstadt founded. Fernando Poo discovers +Fernando Poo. +1483 -- Assassination of King Edward V of England. +1492 -- Rodrigo Borgia, head of the powerful Borgia family, +becomes Pope Alexander VI. Columbus sails the ocean blue. +1493 to 1541 -- Life of Paracelsus, possible founder of +Roscrucianism; discover of zinc around 1530; model of the Faust +legend. +1500 -- Approximate date of Roshaiya, Illuminated Ones, in +Afganistan. Beginning of Alumbrados in Spain and Charcoal-Burners in Scotland. Cesare Borgia has his brother-in-law +assassinated. +1502 -- Cesare Borgia arrests and executes enemies who have +conspired against him. +1503 to 1566 -- Life of Nostradamus, visionary prophet. +1507 -- Fra Dolcino's version of Joachim's Illuminism suppressed +by the Bishop of Vercueil. +1510 -- Beginning of systematic importation of African slaves into +the West Indies. +1513 -- Machiavelli's "The Prince" published. +1519 -- Spanish conquest of Mexico, enslavement of Amerindians. +1522 -- Hospitallers lose Rhodes to the Turks. +1530 -- Hospitallers given Isle of Malta by Charles V, become +Knights of Malta. +1537 -- Assassination of Alessandro de Medici, Duke of Florence. +1568 -- First Inquisition edict against the Alumbrados. +1574 -- Second edict against Alumbrados. +1575 -- Approximate date of founding of British Intelligence +services. +1575 to 1624 -- Life of Jakob Bohme, visionary mystic, illuminated +one. +1584 -- Assassination of William I of Orange in England. +1587 -- English colony established at Roanoke Island, Virginia; no +trace of the "lost colony" was found when supply ships returned +three years later. +1589 -- Assassination of King Henry III of France. +1590 -- Janssen makes first compound microscope in Europe. +1597 -- Anonymous alchemist seeks to start Rosicrucian-like +society in Europe. +1605 -- Rosicrucian constitution published. +1607 -- Italian secrect society headed by Count Bernard of Germany +merges with Rosicrucianism. First permanent English settlement in +America, Jamestown, Virgina. +1608 -- Apprentice to Dutch spectacle-maker Lippershey discovers +principle of focusing lenses; Lippershey builds first telescope. +1609 -- Galileo independently builds telescope, begins study of +astonomy. Spanish settlement at Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded. +1610 -- Assassination of King Henry IV of France. +1614 -- "Fama Fraternitatis" published, fictional story of +Rosenkreuz by Johann Valentin Andrea. +1619 -- First slave ship in America, Jamestown, Virginia. +1620 -- Plymouth Colony, second English settlement, arrives on +Mayflower. +1622 -- Posters appear in Paris warning that the Rosicrucians are +"amongst you...visibly and invisibly." +1623 -- Final papal edict against Alumbrados; Guerinets appear in +France. First submarine built by Cornelius van Drebbel in +England. +1638 -- Milton meets Galileo. +1640 -- Beginning of subliminal persuasion when Rembrandt imbeds +the word "sex" in a painting. +1642 -- Civil War in England between King Charles and Parliament. +1646 -- Earliest known Masonic Lodge to allow non-professional or +"free" masons, in Warrington, England. +1647 -- Alleged correspondence between Cromwell and Ebeneezer +Pratt plotting the overthrow of King Charles. +1649 -- King Charles convicted and beheaded by Parliament. +1654 -- Illuminated Guerinets come to public notice in France. +1667 -- Milton's "Paradise Lost" published. +1675 -- Leeuwenhoek discovers "animalcules" through the +microscope. +1676 -- Sperm discovered by Leeuwenhoek's student Ham. +1680 -- Madame Le Voisin, innovator of modern Satanism, executed +in Paris. +1682 -- Tamanend, sachem and chief of the Lenni-Lenape tribe, +welcomes William Penn to America, traditionally considered the +beginning of the Tammany Society. +1689 -- William III of Orange becomes king of England, allegedly +through the plotting of the Illuminati. +1694 -- Bank of England founded. +1700 -- Quietism of Fenelon and others. +1701 -- Earliest record of "operative" or professional Masonic +Lodge in Alnwick, England. +1702 -- First daily newspaper in England. +1717 -- Founding of modern Freemasonry with the Grand Lodge of +London by Desaguliers. Voltaire imprisoned in the Bastille. +1721 -- British King George I cracks down on the flourishing Hell +Fire Clubs, popular Satanistic cults. +1723 -- Anderson's "Constitutions of the Freemasons" published. +"Ebrietatis Enconium" and other early anti-Masonic works +published. +1724 -- Publication of the anti-Masonic "Grand Mysteries of the +Freemasons Discovered." +1731 -- Benjamin Franklin initiated into Freemasonry. +1734 -- Franklin elected Grand Master of Pennsylvania. +1736 -- Death of the last leader of the Afghan Illuminated Ones. +1749 -- Rousseau's spontaneous "enlightenment" launches the +Romantic Movement. +1750 -- Hell Fire Clubs continue to flourish in Dublin and London. +Fictional alchemist Joseph Curwen writes letter stating "I laste +Nighte strucke on ye Wordes that bringe up Yooge-Sothothe," +perhaps the real power behind the Illuminati. +1754 -- Six year old Adam Weishaupt is orphaned and goes to live +with the Jesuits. +1757 -- First year of Swedenborg's "New Era." +1759 -- Voltaire's "Candide" published. +1760 -- St. Germain founds chemical dye factory in Holland, fore-runner of I.G. Farben; disappears with 100000 guilders. Franklin +invents bifocals. +1761 -- St. Germain discovered living in Russia. Chinese Emporer +issues edict against secret societies. +1762 -- Illumines of France founded. Sandwich invented. +1763 -- Swedenborg's "Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem" +published. +1764 -- Voltaire's "Philosophical Dictionary" published; he begins +a prodigious attack on dogmas of church and state. +1765 -- British Stamp Act imposed to help pay for the French and +Indian War debt. Sons of Liberty clubs formed to resist the tax. +1767 -- Townshend Revenue Act, another British tax on the +colonies. Kunta Kinte kidnapped into American slavery. +1768 -- Virginia's legislature dissolved for its opposition to the +Townshend Act. Weishaupt graduates from the University of +Ingolstadt, becomes tutor and catechist. Macfarguhar, Ball and +Smelie begin compiling the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." Mesmer +commissions 12 year old Mozart's first opera, "Bastien and +Bastienne." +1770 -- Boston Massacre: British troops fire into a crowd. +Townshend Act repealed. +1771 -- "Encyclopaedia Britannica" published. +1772 -- Weishaupt becomes professor at University of Ingolstadt. +1773 -- British Tea Tax on colonies. Boston Tea Party in protest. +Weishaupt marries. Alleged meeting of Meyer Rothschild and others +to plan a world revolution. Suppression of the Jesuits. +Franklin's "Rule by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small +One" published. +1774 -- Britain's "Intolerable Acts" designed to punish rebellious +colonies. First Continental Congress. Washington begins training +troops. Louis XVI becomes king of France. Casanova becomes +secret agent for the Inquisitors of Venice. Catherine II shuts +down satiric journals in Russia. Jefferson's "Summary View of the +Rights of British Americans" published. +1775 -- Second Continental Congress authorizes naval warships, +sets up secret committee to procure weapons, names Washington +commander-in-chief of the new American Army. George III proclaims +America in open rebellion. Initial battles of the Revolutionary +War: Lexington, Bunker Hill, Toconderoga. Bushnell's first +experimental submarine and torpedo tested. Prince Hall lodges +(for blacks) chartered by Grand Lodge of London, rejected by +American lodges. +1776 -- Illuminati founded by Weishaupt. American Declaration of +Independence, written by Jefferson, adopted by Continental +Congress. Battles of Long Island, White Plains and Trenton. +Nathan Hale executed as spy by British. Franklin becomes +ambassador to France, is affiliated with French Masonic lodges. +Opening of Freemasons' Hall, permanent headquarters of English +Masonry. Cagliostro initiated into Masonry. Saigon captured by +Tay Son brothers. Aaron Burr serves as assistant to Benedict +Arnold. Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and "The Crisis" widely +read. Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" published. +1777 -- Weishaupt joins Munich Lodge of the Order of Good Council. +Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress. +Battles of Bennington, Brandywine, Germantown, Princeton and +Saratoga. Washington has his mystical vision of the future of the +United States while at Valley Forge. War of Bavarian Secession +begins. +1778 -- France recognizes American independence, signs treaty and +provides aid. Franklin assists in initiation of Voltaire into +Masonic Lodge of Paris. Masonic Convention in Lyons organizes +Knights of Benficience. +1779 -- John Paul Jones says "Damn the torpedos!" Benedict Arnold +becomes a traitor and spy for the British. War of Bavarian +Secession ends. +1780 -- John Andre, British agent, captured with secret documents +from Arnold; Arnold escapes to join British; Andre hanged as spy. +Weishaupt's wife dies. Illuminati begins rapid growth. First use +of the title Odd Fellows. Order of the Brotherhood of Asia, +Rosicrucian off-shoot, founded. +1781 -- Battle of Guilford Court House, surrended of Cornwallis at +Yorktown. John Hanson becomes first President of the United +States in Congress Assembled. Weishaupt seeks abortion for his +sister-in-law while awaiting dispensation to marry her. United +Masonic Lodges of Hamburg headed by Fraximus, a secret +Rosicrucian. Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" published. +1782 -- British cabinet agrees to recognize American independence, +preliminary agreement signed in Paris. Hanson commissions the +"Eye in the Pyramid" Great Seal, finishes term; Elias Boudinot +elected second President of Congress Assembled. Illuminati +dominate European Masonry. Casanova retires as secret agent. +1783 -- Treaty signed between America and England. Washington +disbands army, resigns. Hanson dies. Thomas Mifflin third +President of Congress Assembled. Ex-Illuminati Utschneider sends +letter denouncing the Order to monarch of Bavaria. Rite of +Swedenborg founded by Marquis de Throne. Eclectic Rite founded by +Baron Knigge in Frankfort. Webster's "American Spelling Book" +published. +1784 -- Treaty with England ratified by Congress. Richard Henry +Lee fourth President of Congress Assembled. Bavarian Monarch Carl +Theodore outlaws secret societies. Cagliostro moves to Lyons from +Bordeaux to found the Mother Lodge of Egyptian Masonry. Royal +Commission in Paris, including Franklin and Guillotine as members, +investigates Mesmerism and returns a negative report. +1785 -- Weishaupt flees to Gotha; new edict outlaws Illuminati; +High-ranking Illuminatus Lanz killed by lightning and Illuminati +papers found on body by police. French "Diamond Necklace" affair. +Napoleon graduates military school. Franklin returns to America; +Jefferson becomes French ambassador. Rosicrucian Order suppressed +in Austria. Anonymous pamphlet appears in Germany revealing +secrets of ancient Egyptian ceremonies. +1786 -- Wisdom Lodge founded in Virginia. Secret congress in +Frankfort where Louis XVI and Gustavus III of Sweden condemned to +die by Illuminati. Italian Illuminatus Buonarroti's library of +Masonic and subversive books confiscated by state authorities. +Nathaniel Gorham fifth President of Congress Assembled. Napoleon +writes pamphlete defending Rousseau. +1787 -- German authorities publish letter by Weishaupt admitting +he sought abortion for his sister-in-law; Weishaupt replies, +blaming "extenuating circumstances." German Union (extension of +outlawed Bavarian Illuminati) founded by Bahrdt. Washington +elected President of Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia; +new constitution adopted by the convention. Arthur St. Clair +sixth President of Congress Assembled. Jefferson meets secretly +in Paris with Brazilian rebel to discuss American aid to +revolution in Brazil. Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts to +protest unfair taxes. Goethe visits Cagliostro's family in +Palermo. Swedenborgian Church founded in London. Society for the +Abolition of the African Slave-Trade founded in London. +1788 -- American Constitution ratified by the states. Individual +American states begin to outlaw slavery. Cyrus Griffen seventh +President of Congress Assembled. Paine visits London and Paris. +"The Federalist" essays published by Hamilton, Madison and Jay. +1789 -- Washington elected President of the United States; first +Congress under new Constitution. Jefferson returns to U.S. to +become first Secretary of State; Hamilton becomes first Secretary +of the Treasury. French Revolution begins. +1790 -- Rebellion and massacre throughout France. Cagliostro +arrested by Inquisition of Rome. Bavarian edict against Reading +Societies. Blake's "Marriage of Heaven and Hell" published. +1791 -- Napoleon joins the Jocobin Club. First Bank of the United +States chartered. Burr begins converting Tammany Society into a +political machine. The anonymous "Vie de Joseph Balsamo" (Joseph +Basalmo was Cagliostro's name before he joined the Masons), first +recorded link of the Illuminati and the French Revolution, appears +in several European countries. Mozart's "The Magic Flute," +containing Masonic elements, performed. +1792 -- Washington re-elected. War between France and Austria. +Louis XVI imprisoned in the Templars Temple tower. Massacres of +September, in which priests, bishops and others are killed. +Elections for the National Convention, a triumph for Robespierre +and his followers. France declared a Republic. First +Swedenborgian church in America. Catherine II outlaws Masonry in +Russia. "Life of Joseph Balsamo" translated into English in +Dublin. Assassination of Gustav III at the Stockholm opera. +1793 -- Year One of the French Republic; the year of the Terror, +Louis XVI found guilty of conspiracy, condemned to be executed. +French government kills thousands of its citizens. France +declares war on England and the Dutch United Provinces; war breaks +out with Spain and Austria; Russia and Prussia begin partition of +Poland. French food riots. +1794 -- Year Two; France passes laws distributing confiscated +property to the poor, leads victorious battle against Austrians. +Would-be assassin of Robespierre fires on Collot d'Herbois +instead; the next day a young girl arrested as suspected assassin; +she and 40 others sent to guillotine. Other attempts of +Robespierre's life; his enemies accuse him of attempting to have +himself declared divine by Catherine Theot, an old woman who +preached a mystery religion; Robespierre guillotined. Monroe +becomes minister to France. Whiskey rebellion in Pennsylvania to +protest liquor taxes. +1795 -- France makes peace with Prussia and Spain, invades +Holland. Napoleon suppresses revolt in Paris and goes to Italy as +Commander-in-Chief. Yazoo land fraud: bribed Georgia legislators +sell Mississippi. +1796 -- Adams elected President. Paine publishes letter critical +of Washington. +1798 -- Illuminati scare in New England. Knights of Malta lose +their island to Napoleon. +1800 -- Death of Thomas Waley, one of the last Hell Fire Club +leaders. Napoleon comes to power, allegedly through Illuminati +manipulation. +1805 to 1881 -- Life of Auguste Blanqui, French socialist, founder +of numerous secret societies modeled after Buonarroti. +1815 -- Napoleon's Waterloo. Secret societies which eventually +become the Decembrist Movement formed in Russian Masonic lodges. +1817 -- Suppression of the Lodge of Jupiter the Thunderer begins. +Irish immigrants force entry into Tammany Society, changing its +direction. +1818 -- Mar Shelley's "Frankenstein" published. +1819 -- American Independent Order of Odd Fellows founded. +Founding of National Freemasonry, the most important of several +Polish secret societies devoted to ousting the Russians from +Poland. Liberation of Columbia by Bolivar. +1822 -- Russian government suppresses Masonry. Equador liberated +by Bolivar. +1825 -- Decembrist movement suppressed in Russia after brief +uprising. Bolivar liberates Bolivia. Founding of Vienna bank by +Solmon Rothschild and Naples bank by Carl Rothschild. +1828 -- Tammany Society backs Andrew Jackson for President. Anti-Masonic Party founded, first third-party in America. Attempted +assassination of Bolivar. +1829 -- Alleged Illuminati meeting in New York decides to unite +Atheists and Nihilists into Communist movement. +1830 -- Anti-Masonic conventions in Massachusetts and Vermont find +evidence linking Masonry with Illuminism. Book of Mormon +published. Weishaupt and Bolivar die. +1831 -- Anti-Masonic Party runs Wirt for President, assuring that +Mason Andrew Jackson would be re-elected. Poe dismissed from West +Point. +1833 -- Jackson orders U.S. funds withdrawn from Bank of the +United States, effectively killing the institution. +1835 -- The socialist League of the Just founded in Paris, later +becoming the Marxist Communist League. Attempted assassination of +Jackson with two single shot pistols, both of which jammed. +Revolver invented. +1844 -- Morse builds first practical telegraph. Bahai religion +begins when the Bab proclaims his mission in Persia. +1848 -- Fall of monarchy in France. Republic established in Rome. +Abdication of Ferdinand I in Austria. Revolts in Denmark, +Ireland, Lombardy, Schleswig-Holstein and Venice. Germany briefly +united in a parliament at Frankfort; unity destroyed by the King +of Prussia. Marx and Engles publish the "Communist Manifesto" +(allegedly commissioned by the Illuminati) and travel in France +and Germany encouraging discontent with the Establishment. +Woman's Suffrage Movement gets underway in Seneca Falls, New York. +Spiritualism born in Wayne County, New York, when the teenaged Fox +sisters communicate with poltergeists. Fortean tidbits: moon +turns "blood-red" during total eclipse; a great comet fails to +return at the time predicted; visions and "phantom soldiers" seen +in the skies of France and Scotland; Captain M'Quahae of H.M.S. +Daedalus reports seeing a "huge, unknown creature" in the ocean. +Gold discovered in California. +1849 to 1936 -- Life of Sir Basil Zaharoff, "mystery man of +Europe," who made a fortune as an armaments dealer and financier, +selling weapons to both sides in World War I and other conflicts. +1852 -- Benjamin becomes first professed Jew elected to Congress. +1859 -- Oil wells invented. Darwin's "Origin of Species" +published. +1860 -- Lincoln elected. Electric storage battery invented. +1860s -- Attempts to suppress the Mafia in Sicily are +unsuccessful. +1861 -- Confederate states secede; elect Jefferson Davis +president; Benjamin appointed Confederate Attorney General, later +Secretary of War. American Civil War begins. Emancipation of +serfs in Russia. Jacolliot writes about the Nine Unknown in +Calcutta. Gatling gun patented. +1862 -- Benjamin appointed Confederate Secretary of State. +1863 -- Rockfeller builds his first refinery. +1865 -- Assassination of Lincoln; Andrew Johnson becomes +president; "Booth" killed; coded message found among his effects; +the code key later found in possession of Benjamin, alleged +Rothschild agent. Civil War ends. Thirteenth amendment abolishes +slavery. +1866 -- Ku Klux Klan founded as a social club in Pulaski, +Tennessee. Benjamin flees to England. Death of Phineas Quimby, +magnetic healer, founder of Free Thought movement, teacher of Mary +Baker Eddy. +1867 -- Ku Klux Klan reorganized along political and racial lines +near Nashville, Tennessee. +1868 -- Assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, first Canadian +political assassination. +1869 -- St. Germain allegedly completes 85 years in the Himalayas +after his "death." Mendeleev composes first periodic table of the +elements in Russia. U.S. transcontinental railroad completed. +1870 -- Standard Oil Company incorporated. +1875 -- "Whiskey Ring" conspiracy of distillery owners revealed. +Madam Blavatsky founds Theosophy Society. Mary Baker Eddy's +"Science and Health" published. +1875 to 1947 -- Life of Aleister Crowley, the Great Beast, Golden +Dawn leader and occult figure. +1876 -- Disraeli again warns about dangers of secret societies. +Battle of the Little Big Horn. Bell patents telephone. Otto +builds four-cycle gasoline engine. +1877 -- First of seven wills in which Cecil Rhodes leaves his +money to establish a secret society to expand British rule +throughout the world. +1878 to 1945 -- Life of Edgar Cayce, visionary, trance-channeler +who spoke of reincarnation, Egyptian mysteries, and Atlantis. +1881 -- Garfield assassinated. Czar Alexander II assassinated by +secret society. Disraeli publishes "Lothair," a novel about +secret societies and European politics. +1884 -- Fabian Society founded in London by Sidney and Beatrice +Webb and others. +1885 -- First practical horseless carriage built by Daimler. +1887 -- Golden Dawn founded in London by Mathers and others. +Mitchelson-Morley experiement disproving ether theory. +1888 -- Unsolved murders of London prostitutes by "Jack the +Ripper," suspected of being one of those implicated in the +Cleveland Street Affair involving high-society Victorians and +their patronage of a brothel staffed by messenger boys. +1889 -- Second Communist International organized. +1890 -- Biologist Yersin visits India, purportedly to recieve +plague and cholera serum from the Nine Unknown. Wounded Knee +massacre. +1891 -- Rhodes gains control of 90% of world's diamond supply. +The Round Tables, a secret society allegedly funded by Rhodes and +the Rothschilds to gain financial and political power, founded in +the U.S., Canada, Australia, India, South Africa and New Zealand. +Rockefeller grant founds University of Chicago. Nikola Tesla +invents Tesla coil, becomes U.S. citizen. +1892 -- Rockefeller trust transferred to holding company: Standard +Oil of New Jersey. +1893 -- Assassination of Chicago Mayor Harrison. +1894 -- Assassination of President Carnot of France. +1896 -- Maconi's patent No. 7777 for radio. First "flap year" for +UFOs: wave of sightings of unidentified airships in U.S. +1897 -- Assassination of Premier Canovas of Spain. Zionism +founded in Basil, Switzerland by Theodore Herzl. +1898 -- Assassination of Empress Elizabeth of Austria. Pavlov +begins study of conditioned reflex in dogs. +1899 -- Tesla discovers terrestrial stationary waves which can +produce electricity; reports receiving signals from another +planet. Alleged meeting in England at which the Morgans, +Rothschilds and Warburgs become affiliated. +1900 -- Assassination of King Umberto I of Italy and Kentucky +Governor-elect William Goebel. Tesla suggests alien beings might +be living "in the very midst of us." Boxer rebellion in China. +Approximate date Adolf Lanz founded the Order of New Templars, a +fore-runner of the Nazi mentality. +1901 -- Assassination of McKinley and Russian Education Minister +Bogolepov. Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research +(Rockefeller University) founded in New York. First trans-Atlantic radio broadcast: Marconi sends the letter S. +1902 -- Assassination of Russian Minister of Interior Sipyagain. +Paul and Felix Warburg immigrate from Germany to the U.S. +Rockefeller General Education Board founded. +1903 -- Assassination of Bogdanovich, Governor of Ufa. "Protocols +of Elders of Zion," alleged plan for Jewish world takeover, +published in Russian newspaper. +1904 -- Assassination of Russian Premier Vischelev von Plehev. +1905 -- Assassination of Grand Duke Sergius and Idaho Governor +Steunenberg. Abortive revolution in Russia. Expanded version of +"Protocols of Zion" published. +1906 -- Assassination of Russian General Dubrassov. +1907 -- Financial panic and depression allegedly caused by J.P. +Morgan to gain support for the central bank concept. +1908 -- Assassination of King Carl of Prussia and Crown Prince of +Portugal. FBI founded. Founding of the Armanen Initiates, another +proro-Nazi secret society. +1910 -- Attempted assassination of Mayor Gaynor of NYC. Secret +meeting of bankers and politicians at Jekyll Island, Georgia, +results in Federal Reserve Act. +1911 -- Assassination of Prime Minister Staliapin of Russia by +police double agent. Standard Oil of New Jersey broken up as +illegal monopoly. +1912 -- Assassination of Primier Canalegas of Spain. Attempted +assassination of Teddy Roosevelt. Colonel E.M. House, adviser to +Woodrow Wilson, publishes "Philip Dru: Administrator," a political +romance which proposed modern social legislation. Founding of +Germanen Order, another pre-Nazi secret society. +1913 -- Assassination of George I of Greece. Rockefeller +Foundation founded. +1914 -- Attempted assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria +by Masonic agents, followed an hour later by successful +assassination; in Russia, Rasputin stabbed the same day. World War +I begins. +1915 -- Sinking of the Lusitania by German submarine; allegedly +carrying secret munitions for the Allies, the ship supposedly +sacrificed by British and American authorities to drum up war +hysteria in U.S. Alfred Wegener proposed theory of continental +drift, receives ridicule and contempt from his fellow scientists. +Ku Klux Klan revived. +1916 -- Assassination of Rasputin.

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1917 -- United States enters World War I. Russian Revolution +begins; Cheka, secret police of Bolsheviks, founded. +1918 -- Assassination of Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family. +Attempted assassination of Lenin. New Thought lecturer David Van +Bush hires H.P. Lovecraft as a ghost writer. +1919 -- Founding of Thule Society in Germany; Hitler recruited. +League of Nations founded at Paris Peace Conference. Meeting at +the Majestic Hotel, Paris, between Wilsonian intellectuals (House, +Dulles and Dulles, etc.) and "like-minded Englishmen" to discuss +forming an organization "for the study of international affairs." +Royal Institute of International Affairs founded. Freud draws +attention to Austrian neurologist Poetzl's experiments with the +tachistroscope, an early device for studying subliminal +perception. Charles Fort's "The Book of the Damned" published. +Hitler joins the German Workers' Party. +1920s -- Assassination of estimated 400 German public figures +begins. U.S. entry into League of Nations blocked in Senate. +Development of modern advertising techniques emphasizing +manipulation rather than information. +1920 -- GWP becomes the National Socialist German Worker's Party. +1921 -- Council on Foreign Relations incorporated; founded by +Wilsonians House, Dulles and company upon their return from Paris, +with the help of the Round Table Group. Marconi states he believes +mysterious V code on pre-WWI radio came from space; Tesla recalls +seeing lights, vivid images, when he was a boy. Hitler takes over +the NSGWP. +1922 -- Mussolini, alleged British Intelligence agent, comes to +power in Italy, begins attempt to eliminate Mafia in Sicily. Cheka +reorganized as GPU, Russian secret police. CFR journal "Foreign +Affairs" founded. King Tutankhamen's tomb opened in Egypt, thus +invoking "King Tut's Curse"; 14 violent deaths in as many years +linked to the curse. +1923 -- Assassination of Pancho Villa in Mexico. Founding of +Hitler's National-Socialist (Nazi) Party in Germany. International +Police (Interpol) founded in Vienna. In the face of the Teapot +Dome and other scandals, President Harding visits Alaska and +receives a "long ciphered message" which visibly upsets him, +causing him to ask what a president could do when friends betrayed +him; he died soon after among conflicting rumors about the cause +of his death. Fort's "New Lands" published. +1924 -- J. Edgar Hoover takes over FBI. During Mars' closest +approach radios around the world went off the air in order to +allow interception of any possible messages from space; when +translated onto photographic tape, signals received produced +crudely drawn faces. Lovecraft ghostwrites for Houdini. +1925 -- Lionel Curtis organizes the Institutes of Pacific +Relations in at least ten countries for the Round Table Group. +1926 -- Suicide of synchronicity researcher Paul Krammerer, +biologist, freemason. +1927 -- Rise of the CFR due to Rockefeller and other foundation +funding. The Crystal Skull discovered in ruins of Lubaantun in +British Honduras. +1928 -- Nomination of Catholic Al Smith sparks last spurt of +growth for the KKK. Soviet produced film shows conditioned reflex +experiments on humans. +1929 -- CFR moves to Harold Pratt Building on 68th Street. Great +Depression begins. Quisling's "About the Matter That Inhabited +Worlds Outside Ours and the Significance Caused by It to Our +Philosophy of Life" published. +1930 -- Pavlov begins applying knowledge of conditioned reflex to +human psychosis. +1930s -- Mafia becomes integral part of the U.S. organized crime. +Continuing political assassinations accompany Nazi rise to power. +1931 -- Fort's "Lo!" published. +1932 -- Fort dies after publishing his last book, "Wild Talents." +1933 -- Attempted assassination of Franklin Roosevelt; Chicago +mayor Cermak killed instead. FDR orders use of Great Seal of the +U.S. on reverse side of the dollar bill. Reichstag Fire, set by +Nazis, used to suspend civil liberties. +1934 -- Assassination of S.M. Kirov, Soviet leader and Stalin +collaborator. Russian GPU renamed NKVD. Beginning of Hitler's +Black Order. Unexplained "ghostflier" broadcasts in Sweden. +1935 -- Assassination of Senator Huey Long. First lobotomy +performed by Egas Moniz in Lisbon. +1936 -- Beginning of Moscow Purge trials in which numerous +communist leaders were brainwashed into false confessions and then +executed. +1937 -- Spanish Civil War begins. First of 48 "Lost Colony" stones +found in North Carolina; stones supposedly tell the story of lost +Roanoke Island colony. Amelia Earhart Putnam, aviator, disappears. +1938 -- Assassination of Leon Sedov, Trotsky's son; first +assassination attempt against Trotsky. Nazi invasion of Austria; +Interpol exiled -- or taken over by Nazis; German expedition to +Antarctica stakes out 600000 square kilometers, lands near the +South Pole. Electroshock treatment discovered. Orson Welles' +dramatization of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" scares American +radio listeners. +1939 -- Attorney Leon Cooke, friend of Jack Ruby and financial +secretary of the union which employed Ruby, killed by union +president Jack Martin; union subsequently taken over by Mafia. +League of Nations suspended. Germany invades Poland; World War II +begins. CFR offers it services to U.S. State Dept. Interpol +grouped with Gestapo. Amateur radio astronomer Grote Reber +receives dot-dash signal from space. Attempted assassination of +Hitler. +1940 -- Assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico. British secret +police renamed MI-5 and MI-6 for duration of war. Interpol moved +to near Berlin., with Reinhard Heydrich in charge. Nazis allegedly +begin building Hitler's secret hideout in Antarctica. Roosevelt +sends Gen. "Wild Bill" Donovan on info-gathering mission to +Europe; Donovan recommends a central intelligence organization. +U.S. State Dept. creates Division of Special Research headed by +CFR member Pasbolsky. +1941 -- Japan attacks U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor, allegedly +through the maneuvering of Roosevelt and his advisors to provide +an excuse to enter the war. Donovan made head of new Office of +Coordinator of Information. "The Books of Charles Fort" published. +1942 -- Assassination of Interpol chief H-ydrtch pn +Czechloslavakia. Donovan's OCI evolves into the Office of +Strategic Services (OSS). +1943 -- LSD-25 discovered by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann. Nazi +Admiral Doenitz boasts the German submarine fleet has built "in +another part of the world a Shangri-La on land, an impregnable +fortress." Juan Peron and other pro-Nazi leaders take power in +Argentina. Pilots on both sides of the war report seeing "foo-fighters," unexplained flying objects, while flying war missions. +1944 -- Attempted assassination of Hitler. Nazis begin sending +millions of dollars worth of jewels, paintings and cash to +Argentina for safe keeping. Russian NKVD reorganized as MGB. +Donovan prepares plan for Roosevelt to establish a central +intelligence agency which is pigeonholed, later reconsidered by +Truman. American band leader Glenn Miller disappears on unarmed +flight over the English Channel. +1945 -- Alleged assassination (suicide) of James Forrestal at +Bethesda Hospital Neurological Ward, after his attempt to warn +Roosevelt of Illuminati plot. Roosevelt dies, Truman becomes +president. Mussolini killed. Hitler allegedly escapes from Berlin +after arranging for a fake suicide cover story; Hitler's death +announced, Admiral Doenitz takes command; submarines U-530, U-977 +and others begin secret journey from Norway soon after Quisling +allegedly refused Hitler's offer to take him "aboard a submarine +to a safe refuge"; two months after Germany surrenders submarines +U-530 and U-977 give themselves up in Mar del Plata, Argentina, +after allegedly being lost from the submarine convoy taking Hitler +and others to their hideout in Antarctica; Nazi leader Martin +Bormann escapes without a trace from Berlin after supervising +Hitler's "suicide." First atomic bombs dropped. World War II ends. +General Gehlen, Head of Nazi Intelligence, captured by U.S. Army +and flown to Washington; other Nazi and British agents imported to +U.S., along wit' Werner Von Braun and other developers of the V-2 +rockets. Interpol dissolved -- or reorganized with headquarters in +Paris, the story varies. OSS disbanded, its agents moving to +military intelligence agencies and the State Dept. CFR allegedly +takes over State Dept. United Nations founded. "Official beginning +of Bermuda Triangle mystery," when Flight 19, made up of five +naval bombers, disappears off the coast of Florida; another plane +sent to investigate also disappears -- 6 planes and 27 men +vanished. An Air Force plane's engines fail over Iwo Jima as foo-fighters maneuver around it. +1946 -- Murder of wire service king James Ragen by Syndicate +friends of Jack Ruby; indictment dropped following additional +murders. John Kennedy and Richard Nixon elected to House of +Representatives. Truman's executive order sets up the National +Intelligence Authority and Central Intelligence Group. Gehlen +returns to Germany to continue intelligence work for U.S. Army. +Interpol reorganization meeting held in Brussels. Admiral Byrd +allegedly leads Naval "research" expedition to Antarctica to +attack Hitler's secret hideout; attempt allegedly fails and Hitler +and his "UFO scientists" continue their activities. Waves of +unexplained "ghost rockets" seen in Europe, especially +Scandanavia. +1947 -- Attempted assassination of Minneapolis Mayor Hubert +Humphrey. Partition of India receives "strong impetus from the +Round Table Group." National Security Act establishes Dept. of +Defense, National Security Council and Central Intelligence +Agency. France creates SDECE, similar to CIA. Second UFO flap +year; Kenneth Arnold reports flying saucers near Yakima, +Washington, and other reports soon follow. Maury Island "hoax": an +early Men-In-Black incident three days before the Arnold sighting, +in which a "donut-shaped object" dropped slag on a boat near +Tacoma, Washington; the next day an MIB visited Harold Dahl, who +was piloting the boat, and warned him not to discuss the sighting; +the boat's owner, Fred Crisman, was suspected of being a CIA +employee and was later called to give secret testimony at the +trial of Clay Shaw in New Orleans; pilot Dahl disappeared and +UFOlogist Arnold, who investigated the case, reported unexplained +failure of his own plane's engine soon after two Air Force +investigators were killed taking off from Tacoma's airport. +1948 -- Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Attempted assassination +of labor leader Walter Reuther. Beginning of Operation Ohio, a CIA +program responsible for one hundred European assassinations during +the next ten years. Beginning of CIA interest in UFOs as a +"security" problem. McCord employed by the FBI. Nixon gains +prominence in the Alger Hiss case as member of the House Un-American Activities Committee; goes to Miami where he meets Bebe +Rebozo and goes yachting with other underworld-connected figures. +Martin Bormann reported living in Argentina. New nation of Israel +creates Central Institute for Intelligence and Security. World +Council of Churches founded in Amsterdam. +1949 -- Report critical of CIA filed and forgotten, unread by +Truman; Central Intelligence Act exempts CIA from disclosure laws. +E. Howard Hunt becomes CIA agent; Clay Shaw becomes agent for +CIA's Domestic Contact Service. The Gehlen Organization +transferred to CIA control. U.S. Army begins 20 years of simulated +germ warfare attacks against American cities, conducting at least +239 open air tests. Interpol granted consultive status by UN. +Chaing Kai-shek flees to Formosa; mainland China taken by +communist leaders; Social Affairs Dept. and other Chinese secret +police created. Trial of Cardinal Mindszenty in Hungary following +his brainwashing and confession of conspiracy. +1950 -- Attempted assassination of Truman by Puerto Rican +nationalists. Korean War begins. Congress passes McCarran's +Internal Security Act setting up program for detention of +subversives. Hiss convicted of perjury; Nixon elected to Senate +after smear campaign against California opponent. U.S. Army +engages in "simulated" germ warfare in San Francisco and the +Pentagon. National Council of Churches founded in U.S. CIA +organizes the Pacific Corporation, a large holding company which +was the first of many CIA "private" enterprises. Alleged CIA plot +to introduce UFO contact ideas with "Little Green Men" stories and +radio contact "from space." Malcolm X receives visit from an MIB +while in prison. "Worlds in Collision" by Immanuel Velikovsky +proposes a catastrophic theory of ancient history in which a huge +"comet" of matter is ripped out of Jupiter, approaches Earth close +enough to cause universal fire/flood legends in primitive folklore +and the settles into orbit as a new planet, Venus; Velikovsky +receives ridicule and contempt from his fellow scientists, thought +20 years later Jupiter is generally considered a "cold star" +rather than a planet and Velikovsky's prediction of a hot climate +on Venus is confirmed. Approximate starting date of building of +Mount Weather, secret American government fortress. +1951 -- Assassination of Ali Razmara of Iran, Riad Al-Sulh and +Abdullah of Jordan and Ali Knah Liaquat of Pakistan. Army +simulated germ warfare project in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. +Approximate date CBS begins active cooperation with CIA. McCord +moves from FBI to CIA. North Korean brainwashing of American +prisoners begins. TIME magazine popularizes the term +"brainwashing." +1952 -- Eisenhower elected president, Nixon vice-president; +Kennedy elected to Senate. Army germ warfare project in Key West, +Florida, and Ft. McCellan, Alabama. CIA agent Downey and Fecteau +captured while on spy mission in China. Third UFO flap year. First +UFO "contact" case: George Adamski meets Venusians in California +desert; alleged CIA plot to start UFO scare. UFOlogist George +Williamson, one of Adamski's witnesses, claims he also witnessed +ham radio operator establish contact with another world. +1953 -- Dr. Frank Olsen commits suicide after having been given a +secret dose of LSD by the CIA, under the direction of the +mysterious Dr. Sidney Gottlieb. CIA contemplates developing drugs +to cause amnesia in retired agents. CIA's Robertson Panel views +UFO reports as national security threat. Army germ warfare project +in Panama City, Florida. Return of Korean War prisoners, including +some who underwent brainwashing. 21 POWs defect. Mau Mau (Hidden +Ones) formed in Kenya to overthrow white rule. UFOlogist Albert +Bender closes down his International Flying Saucer Bureau after +being visited by three MIB. +1954 -- Attempted assassinations of several U.S. Congressmen by +Puerto Rican nationalists. First Bilderberger meeting takes place +at the Bilderberg Hotel, Oosterbeek, Holland. Condemnation by the +U.S. Senate of Joseph McCarthy following his charges of subversion +in high places. Hunt involved in CIA overthrow of communist regime +in Guatemala, Carlos Castillo-Armas becomes president. Richard +Bissell joins the CIA. Army germ warfare project in Point Mugu and +Fort Hueneme, California. Russian KGB created to replace earlier +secret police. Broadcaster Frank Edwards fired for discussing UFOs +on the air. Strange voice "from space" speaks from turned-off +radios in midwest U.S. and London, warns against preparations for +war. +1955 -- Assassination of Jose Antonio Remon of Panama and Adnan +Al-Malki of Syria. Bilderberger meeting in Barbizon, France. Lee +Harvey Oswald meets David Ferrie of the New Orleans Civil Air +Patrol. Doug Durham joins the Marines. The Office of Naval +Research allegedly receives a copy of Morris Jessup's "The Case +for the UFOs" with marginal notes in three different hands, +supposedly by "Gypsies" knowledgeable in UFOlogy; ONR reprints +several hundred copies for internal use; an MIB called "Carlos +Allende" is implicated in the affair. +1956 -- Assassination of Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua. +Bilderberger meeting in Frednsborg, Denmark. Clay Shaw's CIA +contact allegedly stopped. Oswald joins Marines. Durham receives +special CIA training. UFOlogist Gray Barker publishes "They Knew +Too Much About Flying Saucers" which reported numerous MIB +incidents. +1957 -- Assassination of Carlos Castillo-Armas of Guatemala. +Exiled Ukranian politician Lev Rebet assassinated by KGB agent in +Munich. Alleged assassination of Joseph McCarthy at Bethesda +Hospital Neurological Ward, after warning of Illuminati plot. +Bilderberger meetings in St. Simon Island, Georgia, and Fiuggui, +Italy. Oswald assigned to base at Atsugi, Japan, where CIA U-2 +planes were launched; shoots self in elbow. General Edwin Walker +commands federal troops sent to enforce racial integration at +Little Rock, Arkansas. CIA helps Iran form SAVAK, secret police +later accused of assassination Iranian dissidents. Experiments in +behavior modification sleep-teaching take place at California +penal institution Woodland Road Camp. Fourth UFO flap year. Anti-atomic bomb propaganda disseminated by saucer clubs -- another CIA +plot? Unexplained short wave radio signals received worldwide. +1958 -- Assassination of Abdul Llah, Faisal II and Nuri Al-Said of +Iraq. Bilderberger meeting in Buxton, England. Russia launches +first space satellites. Unidentified ex-Marine lives in Minsk, +USSR, apparently gathering information for the CIA. Oswald on +maneuvers in the Philippines involving U-2 flights. Francis Gary +Powers released from Air Force and assigned to covert CIA spying. +Kerry Thornley and Gregory Hill found Discordianism and publish +"Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did To +Her When I Found Her"; Thornley joins Marine Corps. John Birch +Society organized by Robert Welch. Nelson Rockefeller elected +governor of New York. Ham radio operators pick up a male voice +claiming to be Nacoma of Jupiter and warning of atomic bomb +disaster in English, German, Norweigian and his own unknown +language. +1959 -- Assassination of Solomon W.R. Bandaranaike of Ceylon. +Exiled Ukranian politician Stephan Bandera assassinated by KGB +agent in Munich. Attempted assassination of Senator Bircher of +Ohio and Governor Almond of Virginia. Apparent suicide of UFO +researcher Morris Jessup who had received communications from +"Carlos Allende," one of the MIB and whose book was mysteriously +annoted by UFOlogical Gypsies. Bilderberger meeting in Yesilkov, +Turkey. Fidel Castro assumes power in Cuba; Cuban Intelligence +(DGI) begun. Ruby visits casino owner in Havana. Kerry Thornley +first meets fellow Marine Oswald in California; Oswald released +from Marines, defects to Russia. Thornley assigned to U-2 base in +Atsugi, Japan. Durham discharged from Marines, stationed at CIA +base in Guatemala. UFO sighting at CIA headquarters after Naval +officer contacts "space people" while in CIA-observed trance. +Condon's "The Manchurian Candidate" published. +1960 -- Assassination of Hazza Majali of Jordan. Bilderberger +meeting in Burgenstock, Switzerland. Eisenhower authorizes +training and arming Cuban exiles, allegedly issues orders for the +assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. Nixon, CIA +agent Bissell and others plan Bay of Pigs invasion, obtain +permission to use Guatemala as launching point. Bernard Baker +serves as conduit for Bay of Pigs funding. CIA buys Southern Air +Transport; contemplates development of "recruitment pills" and +other drugs; studies mysterious amnesia of Korean war prisoners +moved through Manchuria; contemplates giving truth serum to +brainwashed American POWs. CIA spy Powers shot down in U-2 over +Russia; summit conference cancelled. Kennedy-Nixon debates; +Kennedy elected president. Oswald assigned job in Bellorussian +Radio Factory in Minsk, USSR. Thornley discharged from Marines. +Project Ozma, searching for intelligent signals from another part +of the universe, receives unexplained signals from space. +1961 -- Assassination of Lumumba of the Congo, Rafael Trujillo +Molina of the Dominican Republic and Louis Rivagasore of Nurundi. +Attempted assassination of Castro by Hans Tanner. Michael +Rockefeller disappears in New Guinea. Bilderberger meeting in +Quebec, Canada. Thornley arrives to New Orleans; Slim Brooks gives +Thornley "the haircut" on his 23rd birthday; the same day, the +CIA invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, launched from Guatemala, +fails due to poor planning and cancellation of support by Kennedy; +the CIA, the Mob, Cuban-exiles, right-wingers and Nixonites +supposedly vow revenge against Kennedy. Kennedy develops +extracurricular relationship with Judith Campbell, Sam Giancana's +girlfriend; Giancana and John Roselli enlisted by CIA to attempt +Castro assassination. George De Mohrenschildt on hiking trip +through Guatemala. Brooks introduces Thornley to his +"brother-in-law," Gary Kirstein, allegedly an undercover E. Howard +Hunt; Thornley and "Kirstein" begin nearly three-year relationship +of discussing Nazis, mind-control, the status of philosopher-kings, and plans to assassinate Kennedy. Robert Morrow, working +with Ruby, Shaw and Ferrie, allegedly smuggle weapons from Greece +to Central America for the CIA; also picks up information for CIA +from "Harvey" in the Soviet Union. Ferrie, Gordon Novel and two +others arrested in burglary of Louisiana arms bunker. Unidentified +Marine from Minsk divulges information to CIA agent in Copenhagen. +General Walker resigns after criticism of his anti-communist +indoctrination of troops. U.S. Military Advisor Group begins +defoliation project in Vietnam which eventually covers over 12% of +land area. Milgram's Yale experiments demonstrating dangers of +obedience to authority. Unexplained transmissions from space +monitored by ham radio operators worldwide; Bob Renaud, ham +operator, allegedly makes contact with aliens. +1962 -- Suicide of Marilyn Monroe under questionable +circumstances. Bilderberger meeting in Saltsjobaden, Sweden. +Oswald returns to America with his Russian wife, an alleged KGB +agent. Retired General Walker arrested on Attorney Robert +Kennedy's orders when Walker became involved in the racial +disorders in Oxford, Mississippi; Walker stripped naked and flown +to Springfield, Missouri, prison for examination; Walker reported +to be incompetent but was later released and ran against John +Connally for Governor of Texas. Hunt becomes head of CIA's new +Domestic Operations Division. CIA interference in Ecuadorian +politics. CIA allegedly pays a Canadian agriculture technician to +infect Cuban turkeys with Newcastle disease (though the technician +supposedly double-crossed them). Ruby allegedly flies from Mexico +City to visit Havana. CIA begins using secret terror teams in +Vietnam, roots of Operation Phoenix. Dr. Edgar Schein outlines +behavior modification programs for U.S. prisons, based on Korean +brainwashing techniques. Cuban missile crisis. De Mohrenschildt, +friend of the Kennedys, befriends the Oswalds in Dallas. Durham +employed by Des Moines Police Dept. UFOlogist Williamson +disappears in South America. Film version of "The Manchurian +Candidate" released.

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Illuminati History, Part 3 + +From Neil Wilgus' ILLUMINOIDS and other sources +

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1963 -- Assassination of Sylvanus Olympio of Togo, Abdul Karim +Kassem of Iraq, Medgar Evers of US, Ngo Dinh Diem of South +Vietnam and John Kennedy of US; Texas Gov. John Connally +wounded, police officer Tippit and Oswald killed. Attempted +assassination of General Walker in Dallas earlier, allegedly by +Oswald; Oswald also supposedly threatened to kill ex-Veep Nixon, +or was it Veep Johnson? the Warren Commission wasn't sure. +Alleged assassination attempt of JFK in Miami but right-winger +Milteer spills the beans; another attempt in Chicago also +supposedly foiled. Attempted assassination of Castro in which +CIA agent Rorke is killed. Bilderberger meeting in Cannes, +France. Johnson becomes president; almost immediately reverses +JFK's decision to withdraw from Vietnam. CIA begins weather +modification project over Hue, Vietnam. Equadorian government +overthrown. Profumo scandal in England, involving sex and +spying, brings down Conservative government. Russia sends first +woman into space. Unexplained radio transmission interrupts +astronaut Gordon Cooper in unidentified language. Numerous MIB +spotted in Dealy Plaza. +

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Oswald in New Orleans

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Oswald's Fair Play for Cuba Committee established at same address +as ex-FBI man Guy Bannister's private detective office, also used +for E. Howard Hunt's (allegedly the "brother-in-law" Thornley met +with several times over period 1961-1963) Cuban Revolutionary +Council and other anti-Castro fronts; confrontation with Carlos +Bringuier, another agent for CIA's Domestic Contact Service, in +front of Shaw's International Trade Mart; Oswald asks Bringuier to +hit him, pleads guilty when they are arrested, asks to see an FBI +agent, is released and appears on radio and TV the next day to +publicize his activities; Oswald allegedly meets Shaw, Ferrie and +other operatives of the FBI and CIA; Oswald, Shaw and Ferrie +allegedly attempt to register to vote in rural Clinton, Louisiana, +attracting attention by arriving in a black Cadillac; Oswald and +Thornley allegedly meet at nightclub; Thornley thinks it was a +'look-alike'; Jack Ruby visits New Orleans to obtain "the services +of a stripper known as 'Jada,' who became his featured performer." + + +Oswald in Mexico + +Although Oswald was allegedly on a bus to Mexico at the time, +someone calling himself "Harvey Oswald" appeared at the Selective +Service office in Austin, Texas, to discuss his undesirable +discharge; the next day Cuban refugee leader Sylvio Odio is +visited in Dallas by two Latins and "Leon Osward" (whom they +called "Leopoldo") to discuss violent anti-Castro activities and +revenge against Kennedy -- though Oswald was supposedly on his way +to Mexico City; Albert Osborne, who allegedly paid for 1000 Hands +Off Cuba leaflets which Oswald distributed in New Orleans, +allegedly rides the same bus with him to Mexico City; Oswald, or +someone impersonating him, attempts to go to Cuba from Mexico +City; while Oswald was in Mexico a second Oswald appeared at a +Dallas rifle range to shoot bull's-eyes, have his scope adjusted +and talk to people there; Oswald returns to Dallas on bus No. 332, +or was it No. 340? which had the name "Oswald" added to the +manifest after the trip. +

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Oswald in Dallas + +Soon after returning from Mexico Oswald and his family allegedly +drove to Alice, Texas, to talk with the manager of KPOY -- though +Oswald didn't drive and the Warren Commission concluded he +couldn't have been in Alice then; Oswald attends General Walker's +John Birch meeting lecture and two nights later attends an ACLU +meeting where he criticizes Walker's alleged racism; someone +looking like Oswald visits a furniture store in Irving, Texas, +with his family, looking for a part for a gun; the second Oswald +visits the Irving Sports Shop to have three holes drilled in a +rifle, though Oswald's only had two holes and they were drilled +before he got it; the second Oswald cashes a $189 check at an +Irving grocery store, buys groceries Oswald was unlikely to buy +and gets a HAIRCUT accompanied by a teenager who allegedly +exchanged leftist remarks with him; Oswald II visits the Lord-Lincoln auto agency to look at cars, test drives one at 70 mph and +brags about coming into money soon and returning to Russia; Oswald +II begins visiting Dallas/Irving rifle ranges to demonstrate his +marksmanship, shooting bull's-eyes and hitting other people's +targets; Oswald I writes a letter to the Dallas FBI which is +destroyed soon after the assassination; Oswald I writes to "Mr. +Hunt" asking to "discuss the matter fully before any steps are +taken by me or anyone else"; two days before the assassination +Oswald II creates a scene in a Dallas restaurant where Officer +J.D. Tippit "glowered" at him; Oswald I allegedly seen at the +Carousel Club, plotting with Ruby, Tippit and/or Bernard Weissman; +Oswald I or II allegedly ordered distribution of the anti-Kennedy +"Wanted for Treason" leaflets in Dallas; Oswald, or was it Billy +Lovelady? photographed standing in the doorway of the Book +Depository building at the moment Kennedy was shot; Oswald II +allegedly seen fleeing from the back of the Book Depository +immediately after the assassination; Oswald II confronts Tippit, +Oswald I arrested in the Texas Theatre; Oswald's voice prints show +he told the truth when he said "I didn't shoot anybody, no sir."

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+Faces in the Crowd + +Among the several hundred witnesses to the assassination were the +following: the "umbrella man" who supposedly signaled +assassination teams to fire by closing his black umbrella; the +"Babushka Lady," who allegedly was introduced to "Lee Oswald of +the CIA" by Jack Ruby and who also filmed the assassination, only +to have the FBI confiscate the film and never return it; Joseph +Milteer, the National States Rights Party leader who had disclosed +the Miami plot against JFK and who had links through the NSRP to +James Earl Ray's brother Jerry; three tramps who were arrested +soon after the assassination, two of them allegedly resembling E. +Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis, the third possibly being Oswald II; +Lee Harvey Oswald and George DeMohrenschildt who, so +DeMohrenschildt told a hospital roommate just before his death, +were together watching the parade when the shots were fired -- +Oswald ran and that was the last time DeMohrenschildt supposedly +saw him.

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Some Nagging Doubts + +Nixon, having attended a convention of Pepsi-Cola executives in +Dallas, leaves for New York an hour before the assassination and +was one of the few people who later forgot where he was at the +time; J. Edgar Hoover also alleged to have been secretly in Dallas +on the same day. Texas oilman H.L. Hunt taken into protective +custody by federal agents after the assassination and kept in +another city for several days to avoid threats by those who might +think he was involved. DeMohrenschildt, in Haiti, expresses belief +Oswald was a patsy and that the FBI killed Kennedy (though later +DeMohrenschildt claimed to have been the link between H.L Hunt and +Oswald in a right-wing plot to kill JFK). Ferrie allegedly flies +to Dallas on evening after assassination but his actual +whereabouts remain unclear. Ruby, allegedly in hypnotic trance, +shoots Oswald after an unexplained horn honk signal in the Dallas +Police building basement. Cuban Bay of Pigs veteran named Ruedelo +arrives in Madrid, Spain, five days after Kennedy assassination, +jailed for invalid visa. Murder of Jack Zangetti, Oklahoma motel +owner who told friends the day after the JFK killing that Ruby +would kill Oswald and a member of the Sinatra family would be +kidnapped soon afterward to distract attention from the +assassination. Frank Sinatra, Jr., kidnapped, released unharmed.

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Illuminati History, Part 4 + +From Neil Wilgus' ILLUMINOIDS and other sources

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1964 -- Assassination of Jigme P. Dorji of Bhutan. Deaths +associated with Kennedy assassination: Betty Mooney MacDonald, +former Carousel Club stripper who had met Oswald at a party and +provided an alibi for Darrell Wayne Garner (who was accused of +wounding Tippit-killing witness Warren Reynolds), found hanged +in her cell after being arrested for fighting with her roommate; +Garner disappears, later found dead; Hank Killam, whose wife +Wanda was also a stripper at Ruby's club and who was a friend of +John Carter who once lived in Oswald's rooming house, evades +police for several months, then found with a slashed throat in +Pensacola, Florida; Gary Underhill, former LIFE editor and CIA +agent who begged friends to protect him because he knew who +killed Kennedy, found shot in left side of head -- ruled suicide +even though he was right-handed; Bill Hunter, LONG BEACH PRESS-TELEGRAM reporter, who had met with Ruby's roommate George +Senator and Ruby's attorney Tom Howard at Ruby's apartment a +few hours after Oswald's murder, shot to death by a policeman +in Long Beach, California, police station, accidentally; Jim +Koethe, DALLAS TIMES-HERALD reporter also present at the meeting +in Ruby's apartment, killed by karate chop to the throat as he +emerged from the shower; Mary Meyer, painter, niece of forester +Gifford Pinchot and one of JFK's lovers (who allegedly funneled +LSD from an unsuspecting Timothy Leary to JFK), shot while +taking a walk in Washington, D.C. -- her secret diary +confiscated by her CIA friend James Angleton, later allegedly +destroyed. Robert Kennedy allegedly stalked in assassination +plot during his New York senatorial race by Frank Chavez, +associate of Ruby; Puerto Rican Teamster Ramon Ducos and Miguel +Cruz who was allegedly arrested with Oswald in New Orleans and +who claimed to have killed Kennedy; Chavez later killed by his +bodyguard, Miguel Cruz. Durham kills wife, terminated from Des +Moines police. Bilderberger meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia. +Congress passes the Tonkin Gulf resolution giving LBJ power to +make war on Vietnam. Virginia Miller, later known as "Blue +Dove," allegedly begins career as "disrupter" in the Amerindian +community; later serves as FBI informer on Indian activities. +REPORT OF THE WARREN COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF +PRESIDENT KENNEDY released; Commission finds that Oswald, acting +alone, killed JFK. +1965 -- Assassination of Pierre Ngendandumwe of Burundi, Hassan +Ali Mansour of Iran, Malcolm X of US and Mario Mendez Montenegro +of Guatemala. On the day Malcolm was killed Pio Ghana de Pinto, +who had been working with him to coordinate poor Americans and +Third World Africans, was machine-gunned at his home in Africa. +Deaths associated with Kennedy assassination: Tom Howard, Ruby's +attorney who met with Senator and others after Oswald's death, +died of a heart attack after "acting strangely" for two days, no +autopsy performed; Rose Cherami, another Carousel stripper who +told a psychiatrist Kennedy had to be killed two days before it +happened and who said she'd seen Oswald at Ruby's club many +times, killed in a hit-and-run car accident near Big Sandy, +Texas; Dorothy Kilgallen, columnist and TV panel-show figure who +had a private half-hour interview with Ruby and said she was +going to break the Kennedy case wide open, found dead in her +apartment of an apparent overdose of alcohol and barbiturates; +William Whaley, Dallas cab driver who took Oswald from the Book +Depository to his rooming house after the assassination, killed +in an auto accident -- the first on-duty cabbie death in Dallas +since 1937; Karen Bennett Carlin, another Carousel entertainer +who reported seeing hate-ad signer Bernard Weissman at Ruby's +club and was the last known person to speak to Ruby before he +shot Oswald, died of gunshot wounds in the head in Houston. +Bilderberger meeting in Lake Como, Italy. Fighting in Vietnam +escalates into major war. US Army explores sites in the Middle +East for potential locations for nuclear devices intended to set +off earthquakes. Early prison behaviour mod program, CASE, +begins in Washington, D.C., boys school. Durham involved in +various Mafia activities and acts as informer for police, +possibly CIA. Fifth UFO flap year. Three Russian scientists +report receiving unexplained signals from space. California +highway inspector Rex Heflin, who took pictures of UFOs, visited +by MIB who took the original photographs and left; NORAD denies +they were their men, as claimed. Another ham radio operator, +Sidney Padrick, makes contact with UFO aliens. +1966 -- Assassination of Sir Abubakar Balewa of Nigeria, J.T.V. +Ironsi Aquiyi of Nigeria and Hendrick F. Verwoerd of South +Africa. Attempted assassination of James Meredith in US. +E. Howard Hunt serves as CIA contact in assassination plot +against Castro. Retired naval Lt. William Pitzer, who had +photographed the secret JFK autopsy and was beginning a job with +a TV station, found dead with a bullet in his head. Bilderberger +meeting in Wiesbaden, Germany. CIA begins weather modification +experiments over Cuba, later used in an attempt to ruin Castro's +sugar cane crop. Army simulated germ warfare project in New York +City. +1967 -- Assassination of American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell +in Virginia. Che Guevara killed in Bolivia after CIA +questioning. Deaths associated with Kennedy assassination: Jack +Ruby, whose lawyers charged Dallas authorities with neglecting +his health, died of cancer while awaiting retrial; David Ferrie, +who was to be a key witness in the trial of Clay Shaw, found +dead in his locked apartment in New Orleans, ruled suicide +though how the ruptured blood vessel which induced his brain +hemorrhage could be self-inflicted was unexplained; Eladio del +Valle, a friend of Ferrie's who had hired him to fly bombing +missions over Cuba, found shot through the heart in a parking +lot in Miami, Florida, the same day Ferrie was killed. Dr. Mary +Sherman, another friend of Ferrie, shot in New Orleans, her body +partially burned by her killer. Bilderberger meeting in +Cambridge, England. Beginning of Clay Shaw trial; DA Jim +Garrison subpoenas Allen Dulles and ex-CIA employee Gordon Novel +to testify; both escape testimony. CIA's Operation Phoenix, +which was to assassinate and torture over 40000 in Vietnam, +officially launched. Beginning of CIA's $21 million rain-making +program over Indochina which would make 2600 sorties by 1972. +Approximate date La Costa Resort hotel built near San Clemente, +California: meeting place of Mob figures, Teamsters, politicians +and other big-wigs. Winthrop Rockefeller elected governor of +Arkansas. Black Panther party formed. Military takeover of +Greece allegedly executed by secret Operation Prometheus. +Australian Prime Minister disappears while swimming. Jim +Thompson, ex-OSS commando and "Silk King of Thailand," +disappears on Easter Sunday; five months later his sister is +murdered. Rex Heflin again visited by MIB in connection with his +photos of California UFOs; similar MIB incidents in New York and +elsewhere; another MIB, Mr. Dixsun, allegedly visits Colorado +University UFO researcher Edward Condon and offers to help him +contact the space people. +1968 -- Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis, +Tennessee, and Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles, California. Dr. +Nicholas Chetta, who performed autopsies on Ferrie and Dr. +Sherman, died of an apparent heart attack; Richard Carr, JFK +assassination witness about to testify in the Clay Shaw trial, +learns police have arrested a man planning to shoot him. +Bilderberger meeting in Mont Tremblant, Canada. +King assassination: James Earl Ray begins international travels +thanks to "Raoul" who sounds very much like his younger brother +Jerry Ray; FBI begins search for Ray as lone assassin, ignoring +considerable evidence of a conspiracy with Ray as patsy -- +including reports of the mysterious "sausage and eggs man" who +was seen in the neighborhood of King's motel with a rifle before +and after the murder. Following King assassination black leader +Ron Karenga meets secretly with California Governor Reagan and +later with Los Angeles police chief Thomas Reddin. Spiro Agnew's +law-n-order handling of riots following King's assassination +brings him to national attention; Agnew allegedly chosen for +Nixon's vice-president to obtain CIA and Greek oil and shipping +firms' contributions. Robert Kennedy assassination: Sirhan +Sirhan, who wounded Kennedy in the shoulder pad, still doesn't +remember what happened but perhaps security guard Eugene Cesar, +who carried the same caliber gun as Sirhan, does; Kennedy was +shot in the back of the head at close range -- Cesar was close +behind him, Sirhan several feet in front; a "girl in the polka +dot dress," who earlier had been seen with Sirhan, reportedly +leaves the scene saying "We've shot him!" Nixon and Agnew +elected. Approximate date group called The Kaisers founded -- +60 German-Americans allegedly planning to make Nixon a dictator. +FBI begins secret Cointelpro campaign against New Left and black +radicals. New York police BOSS unit founds local Black Panther +party using undercover agents. FBI informer William O'Neal +infiltrates Chicago Black Panthers, becomes chief of security, +Los Angeles police establish Criminal Conspiracy Section which +employs Donald DeFreeze, Louis Tackwood, Ron Karenga, the +Steiner brothers and other agents to infiltrate prison reform +and black power groups. CIA penetrates the Students for a +Democratic Society at Columbia College; National Caucus of Labor +Committees (NCLC) formed within the SDS. Congress creates LEAA +to fund state and local police programs. Behavior mod token +economy program set up in West Virginia youth center. Mystery +ship Scheersberg disappears between Antwerp and Genoa with 200 +tons of uranium believed to have been taken to Israel. +Astronauts circling the moon interrupted by unexplained voices. +Unexplained distress signals from the mid-Pacific received by +radio stations, no ships found during search. UFOlogists +Steiger, Whitenour and Keel smeared during MIB visits in UFO +flap area. Continental drift theory confirmed. +1969 -- Assassination of Tom Mboya of Kenya and A.A. Shermarke +of Somalia. Clyde Johnson, who had allegedly attended parties +with Ferrie, Ruby and Oswald and who was beaten up to keep him +from testifying at the Clay Shaw trial, shot to death near +Greensburg, Louisiana. Richard Carr, while visiting in Atlanta, +is attacked by two men with knives. Fifteen Russian generals +die in "unrelated" incidents within a month's time. CIA-linked +Professor Thomas Rika disappears from Boulder, Colorado. +Bilderberger meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. First manned lunar +landing. Chappaquidick accident involving Edward Kennedy; Mary +Jo Kopechne dies. Trial of Shaw for conspiracy to assassinate +JFK; with Jim Garrison's witnesses dead or discredited by CIA or +FBI and other government agencies, Shaw was soon found not +guilty. Nixon issues Executive Order No. 11490 establishing +plans for dictatorial control in the event of a "national +emergency." NEW YORK TIMES reveals secret US bombing of +Cambodia; Nixon authorizes phone taps of Kissinger's staff to +discover leak. Chicago police and FBI raid Black Panthers, kill +Fred Hampton and Mark Clark (who were possibly drugged by +O'Neal); a series of earlier clashes had left other Chicago +Panthers dead. Black Panther leaders killed in Los Angeles by +the Steiner brothers, members of Karenga's United Slaves; +Panther headquarters raided by SWAT team. New York Panthers +indicted for conspiracy. CIA's Colton Westbrook returns from +Phoenix program in Vietnam to become involved in Black Culture +Association (BCA) program in California prisons. DeFreeze sent +to Vacaville, California prison, begins to undergo personality +changes. Pentagon and Department of Interior researchers study +methods of inducing earthquakes by injecting fluids into deep +wells. Alleged CIA spy Humberto Carrillo Colon arrested by Cuban +government which seized his Very Low Frequency transceiver and +coded messages describing strange lights, a minisubmarine and +other unexplained items. MIB "Carlos Allende" visits UFOlogists +Jim and Coral Lorenzen in Tucson, gives them a copy of the ONR +reprint of Jessup's CASE FOR THE UFO. Woodstock rock festival +in New York state draws well over half a million. + + +

+ +

Illuminati History, Part 5 + +From Neil Wilgus' ILLUMINOIDS and other sources

+ +

1970 -- Assassination of union leader Joseph Yablonski and his +family in Pennsylvania. Attempted assassination of Pope Paul VI. +Reuther dies in plane crash under suspicious circumstances. +Bilderberger meeting in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland. US Army experts +complete a "mock assassination" project against the president +and Congress, demonstrating that determined terrorists could +wipe out US leaders through use of chemical of germ warfare. +US invasion of Cambodia; Kent State killings; massive protests. +Nixon staffers develop the Huston Plan and "Plumbers Unit" in +plot to use police and intelligence agencies at all levels for +political purposes. Attorneys Lefcourt in New York and Gary in +San Francisco are subject to the first of over 100 unsolved +break-ins which take place over the next five years; valuables +untouched but sensitive political information taken. FBI/police +attacks on Black Panthers in Seattle, Baltimore, New Bedford, +Philadelphia, New Orleans, Toledo, Detroit and Carbondale. +Westbrook meets DeFreeze; BCA at Vacaville encourages +revolutionary ideas and racial hatred in inmates. Personality-altering Prolexin administered to 1093 inmates at Vacaville; +Special Programs Unit behavior mod program begins at Joliet, +Illinois, under Dr. Martin Groder; Bureau of Prisons requests +funds for Federal Center for Correctional Research in Butner, +North Carolina. Approximate date of the "Korea-gate" scandal: +Korean CIA undertakes massive influence-peddling campaign, 50 +congressmen accept bribes, links made with Nixon Administration +and the Unification Church. +1971 -- Assassination of Wasfi Tal of Jordan. Daughter of +conspiracy investigator Mae Brussell killed in suspicious car +accident. Bilderberger meeting in Woodstock, Vermont. PENTAGON +PAPERS published. Hunt hired by White House to gather damaging +evidence against Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Kennedy and other +"enemies"; Hunt hires Barker and other Bay of Pigs veterans to +make break-in at Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Barker +attempts to get plans to building which will house the +Democratic Convention. Plumber chief David Young, former +Kissinger aid, contacts CIA for psychiatric profile of Ellsberg, +referred to Howard Osborn, a possible Oswald link. White House +agent Sergretti meets with FBI, Minutemen and others to plan +kidnapping of radicals during the 1972 convention -- a plan +later scrapped. FBI begins (or continues) illegal break-ins, +mail-openings and wiretaps, conducted by Squad 47 of the +internal security division in search of Weather Underground +fugitives. Future SLA members Camilla Hall and William Wolfe +move to Berkley, become involved in radical and prison reform +activities. Electroshock treatments given to hundreds of inmates +at Vacaville. Black Panther party in shambles; Cointelpro +supposedly disbanded. Zimbardo's Stanford experiments +demonstrating dangers of prisoner/guard role-playing. +"Deprogrammer" Ted Patrick begins kidnapping Jesus Freaks and +reconverting them to conventional behavior. John Keel's OUR +HAUNTED PLANET discusses more MIB cases. +1972 -- Assassination of Abeid Karume of Zanzibar. Attempted +assassination of George Wallace in Maryland by "loner" Art +Bremer who had more money than he should and had alleged +connections with CIA-types. Warren Commission dissident Hale +Boggs disappears on flight to Alaska. Death of E. Howard Hunt's +wife Dorothy in plane crash while carrying large amount of cash +-- alleged murder described separately under Flight 553. Other +alleged murders involving secret funds include Rep. William O. +Mills (suicide) and his assistants Col. J. Webster and James +Glover; a Mr. Taub, Kalmback employee; Dennis Cossini, alleged +CIA contact with Bremer; Lou Russell, security cop employed by +McCord Associates; and Mrs. Andrew Topping, wife of man alleged +to be plotting assassination of Nixon during 1972 convention. +J. Edgar Hoover dies. Bilderberger meeting in Knokke, Belgium. +A series of dirty tricks eliminates Muskie as presidential +contender; Humphrey and Jackson also smeared; Nixon aides and +west coast Nazis cooperate in attempt to keep Wallace of +California ballot; Hunt ordered to break into Bremer's apartment +but refuses. Watergate break-in; FBI official Charles Bates +placed in charge of investigation. Agnew allegedly meets +Brienguier (Oswald's buddy) in New Orleans. Tackwood alleges +that plans are made to disrupt Republican convention in San +Diego, declare martial law, assassinate Nixon (or make false +attempt). ITT scandal forces Republicans to move to Miami. CIA +attempt to crack columnist Jack Anderson's information source +fails. William and Emily Harris, Angela and Gary Atwood and +others move to Bay area, become involved in radical and prison +reform activities. Thero Wheeler, another alleged police agent, +meets DeFreeze at Vacaville; DeFreeze moved to Soledad prison. +BLACK ABDUCTOR, anticipating the Hearst kidnapping, published by +unknown California publisher. Exposure and defeat of planned +psychosurgery program at Vacaville; CARE behavior mod program +begins at Marion, Illinois; START program begins at Springfield, +Missouri; Joliet unit closed. West German authorities produce a +skull they say was Martin Bormann's a few days after articles +appear with evidence he is alive in Argentina.

+ +

Flight 553 + +Chicagoan Lawrence O'Connor, who had used United Airlines Flight +553 or its equivalent to fly from Washington to Chicago on Friday +nights for years was warned by a White House source not to take +this flight; among those killed in the crash at Midway Airport, +Chicago, were: Dorothy Hunt who was carrying $50000 in Watergate +payoff money and close to $2 million she was attempting to place +in foreign banks; Michele Clark, CBS newswoman who was to +interview Mrs. Hunt on a story that could allegedly destroy Nixon; +at least four people alleged to have knowledge of a large labor +union "donation" to the Committee to ReElect the President +(CREEP), paid to stop the indictment of a Chicago labor hoodlum; +and a group of gas pipeline lobbyists, attorneys and gas company +officials (Robert Moreau, Nancy Parker, Ralph Blodgett, James +Drueger, Lon Bayer, Wilbur Erickson) who had allegedly gathered +evidence against former Attorney General John Mitchell in an anti-trust case involving El Paso Natural Gas Co.; also aboard was a +"hit-man" using the cover of Harold Metcalf, of Drug Abuse Law +Enforcement, who told the pilot, Captain Whitehouse, he was +carrying a gun and was assigned a jump seat near the food galley +and rear door; Captain Whitehouse and six of the Watergate-related +passengers were found to have unexplainably high cyanide content +after the crash, though the other 35 passengers killed did not; +following the crash hit-man Metcalf, in a jump suit, walked out +the cracked open fuselage; up to 200 FBI and CIA agents allegedly +took over the crash site immediately, beating the fire department +to the scene, refusing to allow in a medical team, confiscating +Control Tower tapes, interviewing survivors and witnesses before +National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators had a +chance to; CBS News requested immediate cremation of Michele +Clark's body; evidence of sabotage includes possible tampering +with altimeter and air data computer, malfunctioning of the runway +visual range recorder and the Kedzie localizer which acted as the +runway's outer marker, a series of misdirections from air traffic +controllers and the failure of Flight 553's standby power system; +an in-flight robbery gang known as the Joseph Sarelli mob +allegedly came into possession of some of the Hunt money and +Mitchell documents soon after the crash and reportedly fenced it +for $5 million; the day after the crash Nixon aide Egil Krogh, +Jr., of Ellsberg burglary fame, appointed Undersecretary of +Transportation and placed in charge of the two agencies +investigating the crash (NTSB and FAA); ten days later Nixon +assistant Alexander Butterfield, a CIA-aviation liaison, appointed +head of Federal Aviation Administration; a few weeks later Nixon +aide Dwight Chapin becomes top executive with United Airlines.

+ +

1973 -- Assassinations of US diplomats Cleo A. Nobel, Jr., and +George C. Moore and Belgian diplomat Guy Eid by Palestinian +guerrillas in Khartoum; Richard Sharples of Bermuda, Mohammad +Ali Osman of Yemen, Salvador Allende Gossens of Chile, Luis +Carrero Blanco of Spain and Dr. Marcus Foster in Oakland, +California; assassination of an American Army officer by +insurgent group in Iran. Senator Stennis shot in Washington, +D.C. Bilderberger meeting in Saltsjobaden, Sweden. Trilateral +Commission founded under the direction of David Rockefeller, +with Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale among the founding members. +Agnew resigns. Sidney Gottlieb, head of CIA's LSD and other drug +programs, destroys records to hide details of program. Kissinger +and his deputy General Scowcroft order a series of CIA spying +operations in Micronesia. Hunt beaten in his cell before +testifying about the Bremer connection. Durham becomes FBI +agent, infiltrates American Indian Movement (AIM), becomes chief +of security. Liberation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, by AIM. +Blue Dove becomes an FBI agent. DeFreeze escapes from Soledad; +Wheeler escapes from Vacaville. "Race war" in Bay area +culminates in the killing of Dr. Foster which the SLA claims +credit for in its first communique. Experiments with implanting +electrodes in the brain carried out at Vacaville and elsewhere. +Behavior mod unit started at El Reno, Oklahoma, prison; START-type program introduced to Maryland public schools by Behavior +Research Institute. Sixth UFO flap year.

+ +

+Flight 553 Revisited + +Alex Botto, Jr., who had infiltrated the Joseph Sarelli air piracy +gang for the Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts (CCCUC), +seized by federal marshals, taken to the federal prison hospital +at Springfield, Missouri, and held for 40 days without hearing or +trial; Botto and another CCCUC agent, Joseph Zale, testified to +seeing evidence from the sabotaged United Airlines Flight 553 in +the Sarelli mob's possessions and turned over evidence on this and +an earlier crash robbery to Nixon's Strike Force in Chicago; just +before the reopening of the case Zale was indicted in an alleged +frameup by federal agencies; CCCUC chairman Sherman Skolnich +revealed at the 553 hearings that his group had stolen the entire +government file, 1300 pages of documentation, and was presenting +it as evidence of foul play in the Midway Airport crash. + +

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Cc: agarton conf:alt.conspiracy csherman demtas fm2ser radio5uv rrosen +Subject: Mafia Control of Aust and NZ

+ +

The following file was posted to our office recently. It is quite +long, approx 56K and contains some very amazing information, such +as Swiss Account Numbers of high profile people on Mafia Payrolls. +You may be surprised at some of the names mentioned here.

+ +

It also contains references to CIA operations to place subliminal +TV broadcasts throughout Australia and NZ, and other countries.

+ +

Happy reading. +***************************************************************************

+ +

The Opal File

+ +

The Round Table Financial Takeover of Australia and New Zealand

+ +

- A 20 Year History In Brief

+ +

"Fear them not, therefore; for there is nothing covered that shall not be +revealed; and hidden, that shall shall not be known. "What I tell you in +darkness, that espeak in light; and what ye hear in the ear, that proclaim +upon the housetops." Matthew

+ +

18th May, 1967: Texas oil billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, using a +sophisticated satellite technique to detect global deposits, discovers a +huge oil source south of New Zealand in the Great South Basin.

+ +

10th June, 1967: Hunt and New Zealand Finance Minister reach an agreement: +Hunt will receive sole drilling rights and Muldoon will receive a +$US100000 non-repayable loan from the Placid Oil Co (Hunt's).

+ +

8th September, 1967: Placid Oil granted drilling rights to the Great South +Basin.

+ +

10th May, 1968: Hawaiian meeting between Onassis and top lieutenants, +William Colby and Gerald Parsky, to discuss establishment of a new front +company in Australia - Australasian and Pacific Holdings Limited - to be +managed by Michael Hand. Using Onassis-Rockefeller banks, Chase Manhattan +and Shroders, Travelodge Management Ltd sets up another front to link the +operations to the US.

+ +

Onassis crowned head of the Mafia; Colby (head of CIA covert operations in +S.E. Asia) ran the Onassis heroin operations in the Golden Triangle (Laos, +Burma, Thailand) with 200 Green Beret Mercenaries - ie the Phoenix +Program.

+ +

Gerald Parsky deputy to ex-CIA/FBI Robert Maheu in the Howard Hughes +organization, took orders from Onassis and was made responsible for +laundering skim money from the Onassis casino operations in Las Vegas and +the Bahamas.

+ +

Mid-July, 1968: Placid Oil Co and the Seven Sisters (major oil companies) +begin Great South Basin oil exploration - Hunt Finances 45.5% of +exploration costs, Gulf Oil 14.5%, Shell (US) 10%, B.P. Oil 10%, Standard +Oil California 10%, Mobil 6.5% and Arco 6.5%.

+ +

12th October, 1968: Hunt and Seven Sisters announce confirmation of new oil +source comparable to the Alaskan North Slope - gas reserves estimated at +150 times larger than the Kapuni Field.

+ +

Early 1969: Mafia consolidates its banking operations; David Rockefeller +becomes Chairman of Chase Manhattan; Wriston at Citibank and Michele +Sindona captures the Vatican Bank, Partnership Pacific launched by Bank of +America, Bank of Tokyo and Bank of New South Wales.

+ +

24th February, 1969: Onassis calls Council meeting in Washington to discuss +strategy to monopolise the Great South Basin discovery. Council members +included Nelson Rockefeller and John McCloy, who managed the Seven Sisters, +and David Rockefeller managed the Mafia's banking operations.

+ +

McCloy outlines the plan to capture all oil and mineral resources in +Australia and N.Z.

+ +

10th March, 1969: Parsky and Colby use Australasian and Pacific Holdings to +set up a 'front' company in Australia. Using old banks - Mellon Bank and +Pittsburgh National Bank, they buy control of near-bankrupt Industrial +Equity Ltd (I.E.L.) managed by New Zealander Ron Brierly.

+ +

A'Asian and Pacific Holdings' 'consultant' Bob Seldon helps Michael Hand +set up the new organization. Seldon took orders from Mellon and Pittsburgh +National Banks, while Hand was directly responsible to Gerald Parsky and +William Colby. Ron Brierly would take orders from Hand.

+ +

24th July, 1969: New board established for I.E.L. includes Hand, Seldon, +Ron Brierly, plus two Brierly associates - Frank Nugan and Bob Jones. +Both are appointed consultants to A'asian and Pacific Holdings Ltd.

+ +

Jones will help Brierly launder funds into real estate (Brierly/Jones +Investments) while Seldon and Nugan will channel funds into oil and mineral +resources through I.E.L.

+ +

October 1969: Chase Manhattan begins new operation in Australia with +National Bank Australasia and A.C. Goods Associates - Chase-NBA.

+ +

J.C. Fletcher appointed chairman of Seven Sisters' company - British +Petroleum (N.Z.).

+ +

17th February 1970: Gerald Parsky sets up a new heroin-dollar laundry in +Australia - Australian International Finance Corp. using the Irving Trust +Co New York.

+ +

April 1970: Onassis, Rockefeller and the Seven Sisters begin setting up the +shadow World Government using the Illuminati-controlled banks and the +transnational corporations. In Melbourne they set up the Australian +International Finance Corporation using:

+ +

* Irving Trust Co. N.Y. - linked to Shell Oil, Continental Oil, Phillips +Petroleum.

+ +

* Crocker Citizens National - linked to Atlantic Richfield (Arco), Standard +Oil of California which is Rockefeller-controlled.

+ +

* Bank of Montreal - Petro Canada, Penarctic Oils, Alberta Gas, Gulf Oil.

+ +

* Australia and New Zealand Bank (ANZ).

+ +

Meantime, Japanese members of One World Government move into New Zealand, +helped by Finance Minister R. Muldoon; Mitsubishi and Mitsui make a +profitable deal buying up rights to ironsands helped by Marcona Corp. (US) +and Todd (Shell/BP/Todd). Todd rewarded with sole New Zealand franchise +for Mitsubishi vehicles, Muldoon helps Mitsui (Oji Paper Co) obtain a +lucrative 320 million cubic foot Kiangaroa Forestry contract with Carter +Holt.

+ +

November, 1970: Fletchers extend the Rockefeller Travelodge operation by +buying control of New Zealand's largest travel company - Atlantic and +Pacific Travel.

+ +

Manufacturers' and Retailers' Acceptance Company (in 1970 changed to +Marac): This firm specialises in leasing and factoring (buying debts at a +discount). It also finances imports and exports. The major shareholders +are the Fletcher Group (38.0%), the Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd +(24.7%), NIMU Insurance (7.7%), Phillips 7Electrical (3.8%), National +Mutual Life Association (2.4%), New Zealand United Corporation (4.0%). +The CBA is a partner in the supranational Euro-Pacific Corporation, the +other partners being the Midland Bank (UK), the United California Bank +(USA), Fuji (Japan) and Societe Generale de Banque (France).

+ +

Early 1971: Onassis and Rockefeller begin global operation to buy influence +for the One World Government concept. They use Lockheed, Northrop and +Litton Industries 'agent' Adnan Khashoggi, to organize operations in the +Middle East, Iran and Indonesia. I.C.I. set up $2.5 million slush fund to +Australia and N.Z.

+ +

Finance Minister Muldoon changes law to allow Mafia-controlled banks to +begin operations in New Zealand. Links also made by N.Z.I. in preparation +for Paxus control with Hong Kong and Shanghai; Wells Fargo with Broadbank; +Chase Manhattan with General Finance; Bank of America and Barclays with +Fletchers and Renouf in New Zealand United Corp. All members of the +Business Round Table Organization.

+ +

Late 1971: Gulf Oil and their man Brierly begin organizing chains of Shell +companies and dummy corporations to conceal their takeover operations of +oil, gas and mineral resources and related industries such as vehicle +franchises, vehicle spare parts and finance services - all part of the +Seven Sisters' controlled car culture.

+ +

To extend links to the US banking operations they buy control of I.S.A.S. +(NSW) and I.S.A.S. (Qld), which hold sole franchise for construction and +mining equipment produced by International Harvester Credit Co, which is +part of Chase Manhattan Bank and associated with First National Bank +Chicago (Chairman Sullivan also Executive Vice-President of Chase +Manhattan), Continental Illinois (linked with CIA and Mafia Michele Sindona +of Vatican Bank) and Rockefeller's Standard Oil of Indiana (AMOCO).

+ +

I.S.A.S. (Qld) also has strategic holdings in North Flinders Mines, +Flinders Petroleum, Apollo International Minerals.

+ +

February 1972: Onassis and Rockefeller help associate Adnan Khashoggi buy +the Security Pacific National Bank in California and take control of the +United California Bank through CIA-linked Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. +Both banks used by Onassis and Khashoggi to funnel bribes and payoffs via +the CIA's Deak Bank to captive Japanese and other crooked politicians. +Security Pacific also used to 'launder' over $2 million for Nixon's +re-election campaign. Khashoggi also buys 21% of Southern Pacific +Properties, which is the major stockholder in Travelodge (Aust), thereby +establishing direct links to New Zealand, and U.E.B. and Fletchers through +its equity links with Travelodge (N.Z.).

+ +

April 1972: Mafia banking operations expanded through New Hebrides with +establishment of Australian International Ltd to finance Pacific +development by the oil companies (Seven Sisters). Banks involved include +Irving Trust NY, Bank of Montreal, Crocker International, Australia & N.Z. +Bank and the Mitsubishi Bank, whose president, Nakamaru, is appointed +Chairman.

+ +

26th May, 1972: Gerald Parsky installs Michele Sindona as 'owner' of +Franklin National Bank, helped by the Gambino Mafia family and David +Kennedy - Chairman of Continental Illinois Bank and Nixon's Secretary of +the Treasury.

+ +

Pacific Basin Economic Council Conference in Wellington, NZ. +Vice-President Shigeo Nagano also chairman of Nippon Steel and member of +Onassis and other World Government organisations. Chairman of NZ +sub-committee, J. Mowbray is also General Manager of the National Bank.

+ +

Meanwhile, Michele Sindona, acting as the go-between for the Mafia and the +CIA, was the conduit between US and European banks. Michele Sindona's +Vatican Bank and associate Calvi's Abrosiano Bank was used to finance CIA +neo-fascist Italian/Latin American operations through Licio Gelli's P2 +Lodge, which helped to organise the 'death squads' of Argentina, Uruguay a +nd Chile. This aided the P2 members such as Klaus Barbie ('The Butcher of +Lyons') and Jose Rega - organizer of the A.A.A. in Argentina.

+ +

16th August, 1972: Gulf Oil associate Bob Seldon helps establish new +banking operation, first NZ international banks include Bank of New +Zealand, D.F.C. (Aust), N.Z.I., Morgan Guaranty Trust, Morgan Grenfel and +S.F. Warburg.

+ +

Fletchers begins expansion overseas with deals signed in Indonesia, Fiji +and New Guinea.

+ +

December 1972: Kirk elected Prime Minister of New Zealand.

+ +

February, 1973: Gerald Parsky, William Colby, Michael Hand, Frank Nugan and +Bob Seldon move to further consolidate the Mafia banking operations. In NZ +they acquire 20% Fletcher subsidiary Marac, using the Security Pacific +National Bank helped by Marac Corporate secretary Alan Hawkins.

+ +

Frank Nugan and Michael Hand use Fletcher and Renouf and their NZ United +Corporation to link with I.E.L. and Brierly Investments through +cross-shareholding agreement.

+ +

In Australia, the Nugan Hand Bank begins operations with 30% of the stock +held by A'asian and Pacific Holdings (100% Chase Manhattan Bank), 25% by +CIA's Air America (known as 'Air Opium'), 25% by South Pacific Properties +and 20% held by Seldon, Nugan and Hand.

+ +

The Irving Trust Bank's New York Branch establishes US links between the +CIA and Nugan Hand, a worldwide network of 22 banks set up to:

+ +

a) 'launder' money from Onassis heroin operations in the Golden Triangle +and Iran; +b) as a CIA funnel to pro-US political parties in Europe and Latin America, +including Colby's P2; +c) a spying conduit for information from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and +Thailand; +d) finance arms smuggled to Libya, Indonesia, South America, Middle East +and Rhodesia using the CIA's Edward Wilson.

+ +

Colby and Kissinger use key CIA and Naval Intelligence officers to oversee +the operation, including Walter McDonald (former Deputy Director CIA), Dale +Holmgren (Flight Service Manager CIA Civil Air Transport), Robert Jansen +(former CIA Station Chief, Bangkok) etc.

+ +

Heroin flown into Australia by CIA's Air America and trans-shipped to +Onassis lieutenant in Florida, Santos Trafficante Jr, assisted by +Australian Federal Bureau of Narcotics officials and co-ordinated by CIA's +Ray Cline.

+ +

14th June, 1973: Inauguration of the Onassis shadow World Government - the +Trilateral Commission. Includes over 200 members from the US, Europe and +Japan - bankers, government officials, transnational corporations' top +executives, trade unionists, etc. Of the world's largest corporations, 24 +directly represented and dozens more through interlocking directorships.

+ +

* Trilateralist strategy: monopolisation of the world's resources, +production facilities, labour technology, markets, transport and finance. +These aims backed up by the US military and industrial complexes that are +already controlled and backed up by the CIA.

+ +

18th August, 1973: Ray Cline and Michael Hand meet in Adelaide to discuss +CIA plan to establish spying operations in NZ.

+ +

September 1973: Seagrams, with strong links to Chase Manhattan Bank of +Montreal and Toronto Dominion Bank, buys 2800 acres of prime land in +Marlborough helped by Peter Maslen.

+ +

17th February, 1974: Mafia sets up New Hebrides Bank - Commercial Pacific +Trust Co (COMPAC). Banks include CBA, Europacific Finance Corporation, +Trustee Executors and Agency Co, Fuji Bank, Toronto Dominion Bank, European +Asian Bank and United California Bank, COMPAC to be used as a cover for +heroin dollar laundering operations.

+ +

26th February, 1974: Michael Hand meets Bob Jones in Wellington to +implement plans for the CIA's new spying operation - countries targeted +include France, Chile, West Germany and Israel.

+ +

Using the Brierly/Jones Investment funnel, Jones buys building in Willeston +Street which will be rented to France and Chile, another at Plimmer Steps +to house West Germany and Israel.

+ +

CIA will set up eavesdropping communications centre inside the Willeston +Street building and another at 163 The Terrace which will link with +equipment installed in the Plimmer Steps building. Four CIA technicians +will run the whole operation.

+ +

April 1974: Finance Minister Rowling appoints Ron Trotter to the Overseas +Investment Commission, whose chairman, G. Lau, is also a member of the Todd +Foundation (Shell/BP/Todd) investment board.

+ +

Whitlam and Kirk

+ +

Mid-1974: Gough Whitlam and Norman Kirk begin a series of moves absolutely +against the Mafia Trilateralists. Whitlam refuses to waive restrictions on +overseas borrowings to finance Alwest Aluminium Consortium of Rupert +Murdoch, BHP and R.J. Reynolds. Whitlam had also ended Vietnam War +support, blocked uranium mining and wanted more control over US secret spy +bases - e.g. Pine Gap.

+ +

Kirk had introduced a new, tough Anti-Monopoly Bill and had tried to +redistribute income from big companies to the labour force through price +regulation and a wages policy.

+ +

Kirk had also rejected plans to build a second aluminium smelter near +Dunedin and was preparing the Petroleum Amendment Bill to give more control +over New Zealand oil resources.

+ +

Kirk had found out that Hunt Petroleum, drilling in the Great South Basin, +had discovered a huge resource of oil comparable in size to the North Sea +or Alaskan North Slope. Gas reserves alone now estimated at 30 times +bigger than Kapuni and oil reserves of at least 20 billion barrels - enough +for New Zealand to be self-sufficient for years. Oil companies completely +hushed up these facts. To have announced a vast new oil source would +probably mean a decline in world oil prices, which would not have allowed +OPEC and Onassis plans for the Arabs to eventuate. N.Z. could be exploited +at a later date, particularly since the North Sea operations were about to +come on stream - Kirk was the last to hold out.

+ +

September, 1974: According to CIA sources, Kirk was killed by the +Trilateralists using Sodium Morphate. Rowling's first act as NZ Prime +Minister was to withdraw Kirk's Anti-Monopoly Bill and the Petroleum +Amendment Bill.

+ +

Later, Rowling was to be rewarded with ambassadorship to Washington. +Incidentally, the Shah of Iran was murdered the same way as Kirk on his +arrival in the US.

+ +

6th October, 1974: Ray cline implements William Colby plan to oust +Australian Prime Minister Whitlam. Nugan Hand Bank finances payoffs to +Malcolm Fraser and other pro-US politicians. A joint bugging operation +commences between CIA and ASIA.

+ +

Rupert Murdoch, playing his part, uses his newspapers and television +network to spread lies and misinformation. Whitlam, as well as refusing to +waive restrictions on overseas borrowing to finance the aluminium +consortium, had plans to ensure that all corporations were at least 50% +Australian-owned. This interfered with the Seven Sisters' plans to build +three oil refineries at Cape Northumberland in South Australia to exploit +the Great South Basin discovery.

+ +

December, 1974: Australian Governor-General John Kerr joins Ray Cline's +payroll and received his first pay-off of $US200000 credited to his +account number 767748 at the Singapore branch of the Nugan Hand Bank.

+ +

11th November, 1975: Governor-General Kerr sacks the Whitlam Government.

+ +

August 1975: Rowling re-introduces unrecognisable Commerce Bill, designed +to aid monopolisation of the NZ economy and repeals the News Media +Ownership Act, allowing more foreign ownership of NZ media. The new +legislation does not define monopoly, competition or stipulate permissable +maximum market share, or even ascertain what the public interest is - +resulting in a sell-out to big business.

+ +

December, 1975: Election battle between Rowling and Muldoon. Oil companies +pour thousands of dollars into Muldoon's campaign via National Bank (NZ), +whose general manager Mowbray is also a member of Todd Foundations; +Investment Board Director Tudhope also Managing Director Shell Oil and +Chairman Shell/BP/Todd. Muldoon wins.

+ +

February, 1976: Muldoon implements pre-election secret agreement with the +NZ Seven Sisters' oil representatives of Shell/BP/Todd for helping finance +the National Party campaign.

+ +

Muldoon removes the $3 per barrel oil levy for the New Zealand Refining +Company, which increases the oil companies' profits by 100% at the +taxpayers' expense and with all future oil prospecting licenses, the +Government has the option to take 51% of any discovery without meeting +exploration costs. This is designed to discourage further exploration, +thereby keeping the lid on the Great South Basin discovery.

+ +

Meanwhile, in Australia, new P.M. Malcolm Fraser reopens uranium mining and +opens the way for takeover of mineral resources with big tax breaks for oil +exploration, coal and mining.

+ +

Muldoon returns a favour to the oil companies by arranging $US200 million +loan for Maui Gas Development for Shell/BP/Todd.

+ +

September, 1976: With captive politicians in place in both Australia and +New Zealand, the Internationalists can now proceed with their strategy of +takeover of the economy and exploitation of natural resources. "In New +Zealand, the elimination of unnecessary competition is fundamental to a +sound economy," Brierly says.

+ +

Parksy and Colby use Brierly/Jones Investments as a vehicle to buy into +A.B. Consolidated Holdings in New Zealand.

+ +

Associate of R. Jones, Pat Goodman, is appointed 'consultant' of A'asian +and Pacific Holdings.

+ +

November, 1976: The Internationalists (Mafia) set up a NZ money 'funnel' +using Brierley's City Realties. National Insurance Co acquires 33% of the +stock. Largest stockholders in National Insurance are the US Firemen's +Fund - Chairman and President Myron Du Bain also Vice Chairman of American +Express (Amex). Chairman of I.E.L. linked International Harvester, Archie +McCardell, also Amex Director. Amex linked with Chase Manhattan and Seven +Sisters' Texaco and Mobil. Du Bain also Director of CIA-linked United +California Bank, which is a partner in Commercial Pacific Trust.

+ +

To complete the money funnel, National Insurance becomes a stockholder in +Chase Manhattan's Chase-NBA. Brierley's declared assets reach $100 +million, with shareholder's capital of only $2.5 million - all cash +acquisitions.

+ +

3rd February, 1977: Parksy and Colby close down the Brierley/Jones +Investment funnel and open up seperate channels for Brierley and Jones. +Jones will be supplied with 'laundered' funds via Sydney branch of the +Nugan Hand Bank, while for Ron Brierley, Gerald Parsky uses Myron Du Bain, +Director of United California Bank and also chairman and president of the +US Firemen's Fund, which are the largest stockholders in National Insurance +(NZ). Funds to be 'laundered' via Chase Manhattan Bank through National +Insurance to City Realty and via United California Bank through COMPAC +(New Hebrides) to National Insurance and City Realties.

+ +

To expand the Bierley/I.E.L. 'front', Parsky establishes Industrial Equity +Pacific (Hong Kong).

+ +

September 1977: Brierley's new holding company begins operations - +A.B. Consolidated. H.W. Revell appointed Deputy Chairman and B. Hancox +General Manager, while newly-appointed directors include S. Cushing, +B. Judge, O. Gunn and P. Goodman, linked with Renouf, Fletcher and Papps +through I.E.L./N.Z.U.C.

+ +

* Strategy: To target and divide key sectors of the economy for takeover, +exploitation and monopolization. Operations to extend to use Hong Kong +facility, I.E.P. Fletchers to extend the Khashoggi/Rockefeller Travelodge +operation by taking holdings in Vacation Hotels and Intercontinental +Properties (Renouf Chairman).

+ +

October, 1977: Muldoon and JOhn Todd - Shell/BP/Todd - sign an agreement. +NZ Govt would take 24.5% holding in the Great South Basin for $1.65 +Billion. Hunt would reduce his holding from 45.5% to 27.5% and Arco would +sell its 6.5%.

+ +

* Reason: Hunt did not possess the technology to pump oil from deep water; +Gulf possessed the technology but did not tell Hunt. Arco was not told +anything and were swindled out of its 6.5% concession.

+ +

November, 1977: Muldoon introduces the S.I.S Amendment Bill, designed to +keep the economy free of obstruction and to help uncover obstructive +elements. Telephone taps, mail tampering and other surveillance methods +approved after CIA input on contents of legislation.

+ +

Late 1977: Muldoon travels to the US to meet top Rockefeller officials, +including Trilateralists' Deputy Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, +and Richard Bolbrooke, who were in charge of the new "South Pacific Desk" +at the State Department established by Rockefeller to target exploitation +of both New Zealand and Australia. In Los Angeles, Muldoon meets top +Rockefeller officials, Robert Anderson (Rockwell Chairman, also Director of +Kashoggi's Security Pacific National Bank) and P. Larkin (Rockwell +Director, also Chairman, Executive Committee Security Pacific National Bank +and Director of Marac).

+ +

April, 1978: Muldoon sets up Petrocorp. New Zealand taxpayers pay for the +exploration costs but the oil companies control all distribution outlets. +Muldoon blocks development of Maui B as restructured supplies mean higher +prices and bigger profits for Shell/BP/Todd. South Island gas market not +developed as Great South Basin fields closer than Kapuni. Plans develop +for re-opening of National Parks for mineral exploitation.

+ +

22nd July, 1978: Director of Australian Federal Bureau of Narcotics +suspends his investigation into the Nugan Hand Bank after pressure from the +CIA and Australian politicians controlled by Mafia, particularly Malcolm +Fraser.

+ +

Brierly's declared assets reach $200 million, with shareholders' funds only +$17 million.

+ +

May, 1979: Trilateral Commission secretary Zbignieu Brzezinski appoints +Muldoon chairman of Board of Governors of IMF/World Bank on orders of +David Rockefeller. Muldoon would head three-man administration committee +which included Canadian Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp, key figure in the +Mafia Council and the Trilateral Commission. Australian Treasurer McMahon +also involved.

+ +

8th June, 1979: Michael Hand, Frank Nugan, Brierley and James Fetcher meet +in Hand's Sydney penthouse to discuss the establishment of the New Zealand +Mafia organization.

+ +

Mid-1979: Gulf Oil using its man Brierley, begins operations designed to +capture key sectors of the economy. A.B Consolidated restructured into the +Goodman Group and Goodman to run operations but with the majority of the +stock held by IEL and Brierley using Shell companies plus dummy +corporations.

+ +

* Strategy: To take over food and produce resources, Brierley and Fletcher +restructured a small private company, H.W. Smith, using Cyril Smith as +Chairman but with key executives Judge, Collins and McKenzie. +Bob Jones helps.

+ +

Private company used, as no Commerce Commission control, accounts not +published, no public disclosure of transactions. Bunting is established as +a shell company and the South Island is targeted for asset-stripping and +takeover, as well as key sectors of the automobile industry.

+ +

Unlimited funds channelled through City Realties, NZUC and Marac. +UEB extends Travelodge operations by buying control of Transholdings, which +has strategic holdings in Vacation Hotels and Tourist Corp. Fiji Holdings.

+ +

17th August, 1979: New Zealand Mafia inaugral meeting in Sydney including +Hand, Brierley, Fletcher, Goodman, R.Trotter, Alan Hawkins and L.Papps.

+ +

Key sectors of the economy would be taken over - food, using Goodman; +forestry and farming, using Fletcher and Trotter; property, using Brierley +and Jones. Brierley, Hand and Papps would be responsible for banking, +insurance and finance, while Hand and Hawkins would be responsible for +setting up new "laundry" channels into New Zealand.

+ +

The economy would be taken over using cheap loans of less than 5%, while +consumers would pay 28%.

+ +

October, 1979: BP Oil begis $100 million joint venture deal with Fletcher +and Trotter at Tasman.

+ +

Muldoon makes secret deal with oil companies which effectively robs New +Zealand taxpayers by giving Shell/BP/Todd the Maui Gas deal. Normally the +granting of drilling rights on public land is done using a worldwide system +which incorporates an auction tender system. Muldoon bypassed this. +Also, Shell/BP/Todd pays no tax on Kapuni profits, while putting funds into +Maui development.

+ +

19th November, 1979: Secret meeting in Auckland between Muldoon, Fletcher +and Trotter to transfer 43% Tasman Pulp and Paper held by New Zealand +Government to Challenge Corporation (Chairman Trotter) and Fletchers. +Tasman has lucrative 75-year contract for cheap timber signed in 1955.

+ +

Muldoon paid off with a $1 million 'non-repayable' loan - $500000 to be +paid into account number 8746665 at New Hebrides branch of the Australian +International Bank.

+ +

November, 1979: Muldoon drops restrictions on foreign investment. +AMAX (Stnadard Oil of California subsidiary) captures the Martha Hill +goldmine.

+ +

Muldoon unveils the Government's plans (instructed by Rockefeller) to form +New Zealand into an offshore production base for the multi-national +corporations as benefits include government export incentives, stable +government, cheap labour, and so on.

+ +

27th November, 1979: Gerald Parsky's lieutenant, David Kennedy, meets +Muldoon to deliver $US100000 cash to Muldoon for implementing the +Internationalists' Mafia Think Big plans.

+ +

These plans began with big contracts and guaranteed profits for the Seven +Sisters, Bechtel, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Nippon Steel, Internationalists' +Mafia banks.

+ +

With the experimental petroleum plant, the oil price has to be $50/barrel +to be profitable, yet Mobil's profits are guaranteed.

+ +

New Zealand Steel is to be expanded 500%, even though there was a global +steel glut of 50%.

+ +

Fletchers own 10% of New Zealand Steel and are majority stockholders in +Pacific Steel and control monopoly over wire rod, reinforcing steel. Also, +New Zealand taxpayers subsidize Fletchers' profits.

+ +

Muldoon introduces the National Development Bill with 'fast-track' +legislation, to keep the economy 'free of obstruction' for long-term +monopolization.

+ +

C.E.R. plan introduced, designed to integrate the economies of Australia +and New Zealand with the Trilateral Commission for the purpose of +exploiting the South Pacific countries and as a 'back-door' entrance into +China - the world's largest untapped consumer market. New Zealand is also +the closest country to Antarctica, which has a vast mineral resource for +future exploitation.

+ +

"Think Big" projects begin, even though Muldoon aware of studies that show +New Zealand could conserve up to 40% of energy consumption using existing +technology, which would mean funds could be invested elsewhere to lower +consumer prices, lower inflation rates, less demand for imported oil and +increased employment by creating new industry to manufacture and install +energy-saving technology. None of these options seriously considered as +all would lessen profits for members of the Rockefeller organizations.

+ +

December 1979: Muldoon unveils 'stage two' of a four-stage plan to exploit +the Great South Basin discovery. Plan prepared by Trilateralist 'Think +Tank' - the Brookings Institute.

+ +

'Stage Two' includes methanol plant and synthetic petrol plant, which would +initially use gas from the Maui field and later would link with underwater +gas pipe from Campbell Island.

+ +

With the New Zealand Steel 500% expansion, 'stage three' of the project and +Think Big contracts to go to Bechtel, Fluor Corp., Mitsubishi, Mitsui, +Nippon Steel, etc. All investments would be financed by the New Zealand +taxpayer.

+ +

17th January, 1980: $500000 deposited in Muldoon's account number 8746665 +at the Australian International Bank, being the final payment for the +Tasman deal.

+ +

Early 1980: Kashoggi Travelodge operations extended with affiliation +agreement between Dominion Breweries and Western International Hotels +(Seattle First National Bank).

+ +

May, 1980: Mafia's Nugan Hand banking operation crashes after Frank Nugan +killed. Death ruled as suicide even though no fingerprints found on the +rifle. Maloney, Houghton, Yates and Hand shred important documents, but +miss some. CIA helps Hand and Bank President Donald Beasley escape to the +U.S. The CIA and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation cover +everything up. Beazley appointed President of Miami City National Bank, +run by Alberto Dugue for 'laundering' profits from the CIA Colombian +cocaine operation.

+ +

There is a probability that Michael Hand killed Frank Nugan because of his +involvement with Hand's fiancee.

+ +

25th May, 1980: Colby arrived in Australia to discuss replacement of the +Nugan Hand Bank with Hand, Brierley, and Seldon. Immediate funding +available from Sydney branch of the Deak Bank, a separate CIA operation, +and IEL would be used to buy NZI Corp., to prepare for future laundering +operations.

+ +

Maloney, Houghton, Yates, and Hand would shred all documents leading back +to the New Zealand Great South Basin connection, and the CIA would help +Hand and Bank President Donald Beazley escape to the USA. The CIA and ASIO +would also cover everything up.

+ +

Hand and Beazley turn up in Miami - Beazley appointed President and Hand +'consultant' to the Miami City National Bank, but also Hand turned up in El +Salvador to help organize bankrolling of the Contras with other ex-members +of Nugan-Hand.

+ +

23rd June, 1980: New Zealand Mafia, including Brierley, Fletcher, Trotter, +Jones, Hawkins, Goodman, and Papps meet in Wellington to discuss merger of +Fletcher Challenge and Tasman.

+ +

In order to replace Nugan Hand Bank's 22 world-wide branches, quick moves +are made to buy control of NZI by New Zealand Mafia using Brierley, thereby +capturing an established, world-wide organization through the Hong Kong and +Shanghai Bank, which is also linked to the CIA through its subsidiary, +World Finance Corporation.

+ +

Late 1980: Fletchers, with strong Rockefeller links, obtains lucrative +contracts on US Bases in the Pacific and joint ventures in Saudi Arabia and +Iraq.

+ +

Control extended over New Zealand natural resources - Fletcher Challenge +and Tasman Pulp and Paper merged. NZFP takes control of M.S.D. Spiers and +Moore Le Messurier (Aust). Brierley begins joint venture with NZFP through +Williamson and Jeffrey. I.E.L, through Goodman, buys 20% of Watties and +begins cross-shareholding agreement. Goodman continues buying up control +of NZ bakeries and flour-mills.

+ +

February, 1981: TNL., Brierley, AMOIL and MIM Holdings begin joint gold +mining operation. MIM major shareholder is ASARCO (US), whose Chairman, +Barber, is also Director of Chase Manhattan Bank.

+ +

New Zealand Insurance and South British merger.

+ +

Parliamentarians For World Order - Richard Prebble elected one of twelve +councillors.

+ +

Fletcher and Papps (Chairman UEB) sell their hotel operations to +Singaporian interest closely associated with the Pritzker family - owners +of the Hyatt Hotel chain. Bueton Kanter, Pritzker family lawyer and +Director of Hyatt Hotels, who helped arrange the deal, was an old family +partner of Paul Helliwell (CIA paymaster for the Bay of Pigs' fiasco) and +had helped the Pritzker family set up tax shelters using the CIA's +Mercantile Bank and Trust and the Castle Bank, which had been set up by +Helliwell for 'laundering' profits from the Onassis heroin operations as +well as 'skim money' from the Hughes casino operations in Las Vegas.

+ +

Others who used these banks include Richard Nixon, Bebe Rozo, Robert Vesco, +Teamsters Union, etc.

+ +

12th March, 1981: Brierley calls secret meeting in Auckland, which +includes Jones, Fletcher, Hawkins, Papps and Burton Kanter, to discuss +transfer of the Fletcher Challenge and UEB hotel operations to the +Singapore front company controlled by the Pritzker family.

+ +

20th July, 1981: Parsky, Colby, Brierley and Seldon meet in Sydney with +two new members, Kerry Packer and Alan Bond.

+ +

Chase Manhattan and Security Pacific National Bank will acquire 60% of +Packer's company, with the stock being held in Australia, and 35% Bond's +company, with the stock being held in Hong Kong.

+ +

August 1981: Gulf Oil, using Brierley, strengthens its hold over New +Zealand natural resources. Cue Energy launched, starring Lawrey and Gunn. +NZOG launched with strategic holdings by Jones, Renouf and Brierley with +licenses in PPD 38206 and 38204 - both next to Hunt's Great South Basin +discovery, NZOG also controls 80 million tons of coal through the Pike +River Coal Company.

+ +

Brierley-controlled Wellington Gas, Christchurch Gas, Auckland and Hawkes +Bay Gas and Dual Fuel Systems (A'Asia) which controls the vehicle gas +conversion market.

+ +

Liquigas Limited set up to distribute LPG, controlled by Shell/BP/Todd and +Fletcher Challenge.

+ +

15th February, 1982: Brierley calls New Zealand meeting - Jones, Fletcher, +Trotter, Hawkins, Goodman and Papps. New members include Bruce Judge, +J. Fernyhough, and Frank Renouf.

+ +

With Muldoon about to deregulate the liquor industry, Brierley and +Fernyhough plan to buy up the New Zealand liquor industry, along with its +outlets, Lion Breweries and Rothmans to help.

+ +

Brierley will do the same in Australia. J.R. Fletcher becomes Managing +Director of Brierley's Dominion Breweries to oversee operations. Rothmans +and Brierley (through Goodman) have equal holdings in Saudicapital Corp. +Lion Directors Myers and Fernyhough also stockholders in NZOG.

+ +

Fletcher and Brierley begin their takeover of the freezing works industry. +FCL buys into South Island works while Brierley begins takeover of Waitaki +NZR through Watties with the help of Athol Hutton.

+ +

With Think Big projects beginning, Fletcher and Trotter plan to take +strategic holdings in NZ Cement, Wilkins Davies, Steel & Tube etc., and +Brierley would use Renouf to take 3% stake of the Martha Hill gold-mine.

+ +

Also targetted are clothing, footwear, carpet manufacture and more of the +auto industry for takeover and monopolization.

+ +

June, 1982: Meantime, in Australia, a new money funnel begins. H.W Smith +buys obscure South Pine Quarries, which is renamed Ariadne (Aust). South +Pine Quarries owns 50% of Coal-Liquid Inc., with the other half owned by US +Defence contractors McDonnell Douglas. Coal-Liquid renamed Impala +Securities.

+ +

The common link between Gulf Oil and McDonnell Douglas is the CIA's +Mercantile Bank and Trust, which both companies use for world-wide bribery +and payoff operations. McDonnell Douglas officials McKeough and +G.T. Hawkins later appointed directors of Impala Securities.

+ +

US links strengthened through Industrial Equity Pacific, which acquires +part of Higbee Company in Cleveland, which in turn is closely linked to the +National City Bank of Cleveland. This bank is closely associated with Gulf +Oil's bank, Pittsburgh National and Mellon Bank.

+ +

Bruce Judge installed as Ariadne manager.

+ +

July, 1982: Media takeover begins. Brierley takes 24% NZ News Ltd and +begins buying up private radio. Rupert Murdoch helps.

+ +

27th July, 1982. Brierley, Jones and Goodman meet in Auckland with two +Japanese members of the Trilateral Commission to discuss integration of the +New Zealand economy into the Pacific Rim economy. Trilateralists include: +Takeshi Watanabe (Japanese Chairman of Trilateral Commission) and Daigo +Miyado (Chairman Sanwa Bank).

+ +

The Japan/New Zealand Business Council would be established to coordinate +policy with Goodman appointed as Chairman.

+ +

17th August, 1982: Inauguration of restructured US Mafia Council - rulers +include David Rockefeller, responsible for Banking; John McCloy; Redman +Rockefeller and J.D. Rockefeller, who would run the Seven Sisters.

+ +

Second-tier Council includes:

+ +

* Gerald Parsky - responsible for heroin and cocaine operations +* William Simon - responsible for running the Presidency, Cabinet, etc +* Katherine Graham - link to arms manufacturers +* Zbigniew Brzezinski - link to National Security Council and CIA +* George S. Franklin - link to FBI

+ +

Third-tier Council includes:

+ +

* Zbigniew Brzezinski - Secretary +* Gerald Parsky - Heroin Cocaine operations +* William Colby - crack operations, assassinations +* John N. Perkins - banking, laundering +* Leonard Woodcock - labour, unions +* Mitchell Sharp - banking +* William Simon - presidency, Cabinet +* Ernest C. Arbuckly - arms manufacturers +* George W. Bull - Bildrberg and Council of Foreign Relations +* Katherine Graham - arms manufacturers +* Alden W. Clausen - World Bank, IMF +* Willam T. Coleman - CIA +* Archibald K. Davis - media, radio, television, and newspapers +* George S. Franklin - FBI, and Trilateral Commission co-ordinator +* J.D. Rockefeller - to "spy" on the 15 man council.

+ +

September, 1982: Goodman now helps establish the Japan/New Zealand Council +with the Bank of Tokyo and the Industrial Bank of Japan. Tokai Pulp Co. +buys shareholding in NZFP, which also begins joint venture with Shell Oil.

+ +

Fletcher Challenge strengthens links with the Rockefeller organization by +acquiring the Canadian operations of Crown Zellerbach, whose chairman is +also director of Gulf Oil. Crown Zellerbach Corp. has direct connections +to Rockefeller through directors Mumford, Hendrickson and Granville, to +United California Bank through Roth and to the Bank of America through +Chairman C.R. Dahl.

+ +

Meanwhile, Robert Jones Investments floated to extend operations of City +Realties, Ilmond Properties, Chase Corp., etc.

+ +

The Commerce Building in Auckland sold to Robert Jones Investments by +Robert Jones Holdings for $950000 when recently it was offered on the +market for $200000. A quick $750000 for Jones. Robert Jones Investments +was set up by Brierley, Jones and Hawkins.

+ +

8th December, 1982: Mitchell Sharp heads top-level Mafia meeting in San +Francisco. Others include Parsky, Perkins, Woodcock and C.R. Dahl - +Chairman of Crown Zellermach.

+ +

Also present are - Brierley, Trotter, Fletcher and Seldon. Meeting to +discuss Great South Basin exploitation strategy with first priority being +monopolization of the economy; second priority to establish oil refineries +and related industries; third to integrate New Zealand economy into +Trilateral economy and, fourth, to concentrate power back to the U.S +through the Seven Sisters, Chase Manhattan and Security Pacific National +Bank.

+ +

Fletcher Challenge will link New Zealand economy directly to the U.S by +merging with Canadian subsidiary of Crown Zellerbach with funds provided by +Security Pacific National Bank and United Californian Bank.

+ +

Brierley, Fletcher, Trotter and Seldon will be New Zealand Ruling Council, +headed by Brierley, who would take orders from Gerald Parsky.

+ +

Mid-1983: Brierley's Ariadne (Aust) takes control of Repco (NZ) through +Repco (Aust), thereby taking control of key auto-related industry, helped +by Borg Warner and Honeywell - which are closely associated with IEL +through International Harvester, Continental Illinois Bank and the First +National Bank of Chicago. Toyota and Nissan also help so that Brierley now +largest distributor of auto and industrial parts, largest manufacturer of +pistons, filters and engine bearings, as well as biggest supplier of +forklifts, tractors and agricultural equipment.

+ +

Meantime, control is extended over the Great South Basin oil source with +Hunt, after big losses resulting from trying to corner the world's silver +market, being forced to sell out some of his concession to Gulf Oil, which +uses Brierley to set up a new company - Southern Petroleum - which takes a +14.5% interest. Hunt retains overall control with 45.5%, Petro-Corp has +40% and Chairman F. Orr, also a Director of Brierley - controlled Watties.

+ +

Brierley, through Goodman, takes control of TNL Group and its subsidiaries +NZ Motor Bodies and L & M Mining, which has 15% interest in the Chatham +Rise, right next to the Hunt concession.

+ +

Southern Petroleum set up by Brierley in New Zealand was spearheaded by the +Seven Sisters' companies with Gerald Parsky and William Colby initiators. +Southern Petroleum to include 21% of the Great South Basin held by gulf and +Mobil Oil. 90% of this stock held in Australia through IEL +(ie Brierley's).

+ +

11-12th May, 1983: New Zealand Mafia meet in Cook Islands. Includes +Brierley, Trotter, Fletcher, Jones, Hawkins, Goodman, Pappas, Judge, +Renouf, and Fernyhough. New members include A. Gibbs, McConnell, +H. Fletcher and O. Gunn. Japanese Trilateralists Takeshi Wataneve and +Daigo Miyado discuss 'integration' of New Zealand into the Pacific Rim +economies.

+ +

A new political party would be established using Jones and financed by the +New Zealand Mafia Council.

+ +

* Reason: Parsky and Colby wanted Muldoon out because he had 'welched' +on a deal to set up two US military deep-water submarine bases planned for +Dusky Sound and Guards Bay in the South Island. Parsky, Brierley and Ray +Cline hold a separate meeting to discuss the purchase of New Zealand +politicians, including Lange, Douglas and Bolger.

+ +

Cline was 'consultant' to the CIA's Deak Bank, took orders from Colby, and +was responsible for the 10 Australian politicians on the CIA's payroll, +including Bjelke Petersen, I. Sinclair, Keating, McMullen, M.Fraser, +D. Anthony, K. Newman, J Carrick, B. Cowan and R. Connor.

+ +

Cline outlines CIA plan to begin subliminal television advertising.

+ +

22nd June, 1983: New Zealand politician J. Bolger meets Ray Cline in +Sydney and agrees to join the organization for a monthly fee of $US20000 +to be paid into account number GA1282117 at Geneva branch of Credit Swisse.

+ +

20th July, 1983: New Zealand politician R. Douglas meets Ray Cline in +Wellington and agrees to join the organization for a monthly fee of +$US10000 to be paid into account number 3791686 at the Sydney Branch of +the Deak Bank.

+ +

July 1983: Parsky launches a new front company, Chase Corporation, with +25% of the stock being held through Security Pacific National Bank in +Australia and 25% held in Hong Kong by Chase Manhattan. Brierley and +Hawkins set up a 'back-door' listing to cover up true-ownership.

+ +

August, 1983: Muldoon imposes withholding tax on all offshore borrowing.

+ +

Chase Manhattan, United California Bank and Brierley begin new banking +operation in New Zealand to take over the International Harvester Credit +Co (NZ), Australasian Investment Company. Participants include Chase +Manhattan's Kuwait Asia Bank, D.F.C., Saudicorp (Brierley has 12% through +Goodman) and United California, represented by National Insurance which is +part of Equus Holdings.

+ +

Renouf sells 20% NZUC to Barclays and prepared for expanding of operations +with Brierley.

+ +

Meantime, Murdoch and Brierley expand their close ties by each taking a +piece of New Zealand Maritime Holdings and with the election imminent, +divide up New Zealand media for takeover to increase Mafia control. +NZ News buys Hawkes Bay News, Nelson Tribune, Timaru Herald, etc. +Brierley increases holding in Hauraki Enterprises and other private radio +stations. Brierley and Murdoch have majority stockholding in NZPA with +48.5%, while in the UK, Murdoch has large stockholding in Reuters.

+ +

The phoney news becomes THE news.

+ +

Head of the Murdoch operation is Burnett, who is also on the board of +Winstones - a Brierley company.

+ +

September, 1983: With global heroin epidemic, Rockefeller expands +operations to recycle profits.

+ +

New Zealand South British sets up the IDAPS computer bureau to establish +international holding companies, dummy corporations, etc and to pursue +aggressive global acquisition program. IDAPS linked to satellite bureau in +Australia, Far East, UK and the US, where the global network is completed +through links with the Rockefeller organization computer network.

+ +

General Manager of the operation, George Wheller, previously director of +the international operators of Firemen's Fund (US), Chairman Du Bain, +director of the United California Bank, and Vice-Chairman of Amex.

+ +

As part of the expanded laundry operation, Rockefeller associate Adnan +Kashoggi establishes new Australian bank - Security Pacific National Bank +(Aust). Brierley's part of this operation is to buy up computer companies +such as Andas, CID Distributors (NZ Apple computer franchise,etc).

+ +

Investment companies begin operations in Australia and New Zealand to +assist recycle Mafia profits.

+ +

October 1983: Brierley takes over NZFP through Watties, helped by newly-appointed chairman Papps. Papps also chairman of NZ Railways and presided +over transport deregulation, the major beneficiaries of which include +Watties and Freightways - Managing Director Pettigrew and Director Lang +also both on the NZFP board with Papps.

+ +

Papps also responsible for the railways' electrification program with big +contracts for Cory Wright & Slamon, whose directors include I.I McKay, also +on the board of NZFP.

+ +

Late 1983: AMAX (Social) gives Gulf Oil a share in the Martha Hill gold +bonanza by selling 15% of its holdings to Briereley through Goodmans. +Oil companies say that only $870 million worth of minerals in Martha Hill, +while true figure is closer to $3 billion.

+ +

21st January, 1984: Australian Mafia Council meets in Sydney. Includes - +Brierley, Seldon, Fletcher, Jones, Goodman, Hawkins, Papps, Packer, Bond +and Japanese Trilaterist Daigo Miyado. New members include J. Elliott, +L. Adler, and Holme's A'Court. Seldon outlines strategy of merging +Australian economy with the Trilateralist economy through Europe and the +US.

+ +

In Australia, the Mafia Council will monopolize the economy with company +takeovers through the use of loans at less than 5%.

+ +

Holme's A'Court's company would be taken over using Security Pacific +National Bank and Chase Manhattan Bank, with some of the stock being held +in London.

+ +

Equiticorp will be launched using Hawkins, with 50% of the stock held by +Security Pacific National Bank and Chase Manhattan in the US Equiticorp to +registered in Hong Kong to cover up true ownership, and will use the same +laundry as Chase Corporation - Hawkins will set up a maze of shell +companies and dummy organizations to disguise operations.

+ +

Hawkins previously associated with Kashoggi when Corporate Secretary of +Marac, and linked with Renouf through their stockholding in CBA Finance, +which is a partner in Commercial Pacific Trust with United California Bank, +Hawkins forms umbrella company with Chase Corpl, Jedi Investments and +Teltherm and begins setting up a maze of cross holding companies. Brierley +retains his connection through his Charter Corporation's holding in +Teltherm.

+ +

January 1984: Brierley and Elliott begin moves to monopolize the food +industry in Australasia by merging Goodman and the Elders Group, while +Brierley sells 10% of Watties to the NZ Dairy Board - setting the stage for +land takeover and establishment of the Corporate Farm.

+ +

February 1984: New Zealand politician D. Lange meets Ray Cline in +Wellington and agrees to go on the Mafia payroll for monthly fee of +$UA40000 paid into account number 5263161 at Commercial Pacific Trust, +New Hebrides.

+ +

March 1984: Muldoon knighted with GCMG for keeping the economy free of +obstructions for easier takeover and exploitation.

+ +

24th May, 1984: Four-man CIA team co-ordinated by Ray Cline arrive in New +Zealand to begin installation of equipment for subliminal television +advertising at five sites - Waiatarua, Mt Erin, Kaukau, Sugarloaf and +Obelisk.

+ +

Sophisticated equipment can be installed within one kilometer of TV relay +aerials and all linked to one IDAPS computer bureau in Auckland.

+ +

Same equipment installed in Australia August 1985; Japan September 1986; +UK February 1987: New York 1987. Also, Amax geoligists now estimate Martha +Hill gold source could be worth up to $30 billion on strength of high +gold/ton ore assay.

+ +

17th July, 1984: In New Zealand, subliminal advertising begins on Channel +Two between 6pm and midnight - hours later extended to begin at noon. +Subliminal messages prepared in the US by the CIA and with New Zealand +election imminent, tell voters to support the Labour Party, the New Zealand +Party and to buy Mafia company products.

+ +

New Zealand Party was formed to ensure that Muldoon would lose, as Big +Business unhappy with controls over economy. Big campaign contributions +from Brierley, the oil companies and the Business Round Table ensure a +Labour victory.

+ +

Later, Lange agrees to repay the favour to Brierley by selling the +Government holding in the Kariori Pulp Mill to Winstones. New Zealand +taxpayer loses $100 million.

+ +

Government then becomes the arm of big business, using economic policies +provided by the Business Round Table, implemented by Finance Minister Roger +Douglas and the package being sold by David Lange, who also keeps up a +noisy CIA directed ANZUS withdrawal campaign.

+ +

* Reason: 1) ANZUS Treaty did not cover Mafia requirements over the Great +South Basin discovery; +2) To identify any oppositin or threats within New Zealand who +align themselves with supposed Government policy, Lange increases the SIS +budget and strangthens links with the CIA.

+ +

Brookings Institute are the actual designers of the New Zealand Government +econmomic policies provided by the Business Round Table (NZ Mafia front) +and implented by the Government.

+ +

Douglas devalues the dollar and deregulates interest rates, which means +cheaper labor, cheaper capital assets and high mortgage rates, thereby +implementing Big Business policy of driving farmers off the land, +establishment of the corporate farm and eventually remove viability of +small business sector, etc.

+ +

27th September, 1984: New Zealand Mafia meets at new 'safe house' +registered under Fernyhough's name, in Auckland. Those present include +Brierley, J. Fletcher, Trotter, Jones, Goodman, Gunn, Papps, Hawkins, +Judge, Renouf, Fernyhough, Gibbs and McConnell. Daigo Miyado announces +appointment of Trotter as International Vice President of the Trilateral +Commission Pacific Basin Economic Council.

+ +

Brierley outlines strategy of privatization of the New Zealand Government +and the establishment of the New Zealand Centre for Independent Studies +which will be chaired by Gibbs, aided by Fernyhough and controlled by +Cline, which will 'advise' Treasury on privatization.

+ +

Parsky, Brierley and Seldon hold a separate meeting with Parsky, outlining +plans for an expanded laundry operation which will coincide with the launch +of 'Crack' - a new addictive product developed by CIA chemists for the +world market.

+ +

Equiticorp (Aust) will be launched with Adler as Manager and a new merchant +bank using Eldrs, Goodman and Jarden.

+ +

IEI will merge with Armco Bank, which has 20 branches in South East Asia; +Ariadne will acquire the Bank of Queensland, and Brierley Investments will +form a cross-shareholding with NZI Corp to further increase control by +their Mafia organization. Other plans include the laundering of funds +directly to the New Zealand and Australian Governments and the +establishment of key companies within the economies of New Zealand, +Australia and Hong Kong.

+ +

The first key company will control the food industry in Australasia through +merger of Elders, Goodmans, Allied Mills, Fielder Gillespie and Watties. +Allied Mills will control 30% Goodmans, 30% Fielder, 20% Watties and will +expand into Europe via acquisition of Rank, Hovis McDougall (UK). Allied +Mills will be controlled through IEL.

+ +

26th October, 1984: Trotter, Hawkins, Lange and Douglas meet in Wellington +to implement Mafia plans to privatise the Government and to deregulate the +banking system.

+ +

Late 1984: As part of the IDAPS computer-controlled 'laundry' operation, +Trotter and Fletcher help establish the 'Pacific Investment Fund' with +Australian and New Zealand investments to be managed by Hong Kong and +Shanghai Bank subsidiary, Wardley and the Japanese operation controlled by +Tokyo Trust and Banking Company - owned by Sanwa Bank, Taiyo-Kobe Bank and +Nomura Securities. All are members of the Rockefeller World Government +organization.

+ +

18th July, 1985: Australian Mafia meet in Sydney to discuss privatization +of the Australian Government. Those present include - Brierley, Trotter, +Fletcher, Seldon, Goodman, Papps, Packer, Bond, Elliott, Adler, and +Japanese Trilateralist Daigo Miyado.

+ +

Cline will set up Australian Centre for Independent Studies to 'advise' the +Treasurer on the takeover of the economy.

+ +

Impala Pacific will be set up in Hong Kong through Ariadne with 60% of the +company stock held by Chase Manhattan and Security Pacific National Bank in +Australia. In the UK, Tozer, Kemsly & MIllbourn would be taken over using +IEP, while in Australia, the Holme's A'Court Bell Group would be used to +merge with Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, through Standard & Chartered Bank +(Hong Kong), and Marae (NZ) Broadlands (Aust) would merge with NZI +Corporation.

+ +

18th August, 1985: Cline and 6-man CIA team begin installation of +subliminal television equipment in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth.

+ +

8th November1985: Parsky, Colby and J.D Rockefeller meet in New York to +discuss their plans to assassinate McCloy and the Rockefellers and to take +control of the Mafia organization.

+ +

Colby would organise an 8-man 'hit squad' to be headed by Gordon Liddy who +had worked for Colby in the 1960's as a CIA contract killer, and was +responsible for over 10 murders including:

+ +

* 8/17/61 - two members of the Gambino Mafia family in New York +* 11/24/63 - Officer Tippitt after the Kennedy assassination in Dallas +* 12/18/63 - witness to the Kennedy assassination in Dallas +* 4/19/65 - Politician in Chicago +* 7/27/65 - Politician in Washington +* 9/8/65 - Politician in Washington +* 11/27/66 - US 'independent' cocaine importer, in Mexico. +* 11/25/67 - 'Independent' heroin importer, in Los Angeles +* 2/9/69 - Politician in Washington

+ +

28th November 1985: Australian Mafia meet in Sydney - includes: Trotter, +Fletcher, Hawkins, Bond, Elliott, Adler and Holme's A'Court - discussed +strategy for merger of Goodman, Allied Mills, Fielde Gillespie Davis, +Watties and Elders with Chase Manhattan Bank taking 20%, Elders and IEL +10%, with stock being held through Chase-AMP Bank.

+ +

Elders woul be used as major 'vehicle' in the global liquor economy with +Courage Brewery in the UK to be used as entry into Europe.

+ +

Strategy finalized to take over BHP, Australia's largest company, using H +olme's A'Court, Brierley, Elliott and Hawkins.

+ +

In London, Chase Manhattan would takeover stockbrokers Simon & Coates who +specialize in A'Asia Mafia owned companies such as Fletcher Challenge, +Brierley, NZI Corp, Elders, Bell Group and BHP. Chase Manhattan could then +issue and buy stock to manipulate the Australasian economy by increasing +price, paying no taxes, creating inflation, and enslaving the people +through debt to Mafia controlled banks.

+ +

Parsky would oversee the 'launder' of further loans to the NZ Government +and would begin to channel 'loans' through the Australian Treasury using +captive politician Keating. Also NZ Government building would be sold to +Jones and Australia Government buildings would be sold to Adler which would +then be rented back to the respective Governments at inflated prices.

+ +

17th November 1986: Brierley, Seldon, Packer, Bond, Elliott, Holmes +A'Court and Adler meet in Sydney. Also present is Rupert Murdoch to assist +in Parsky strategy of media takeover in Australasia and the Pacific using +Packer and Bond (TV and Radio) Brierley and Holmes A'Court (newspapers).

+ +

Murdoch takes orders from Brzezinski since his News Corp was taken over in +1982 by Chase Manhattan and Security Pacific National Bank.

+ +

At a separate meeting with Brierley, Seldon and Cline, Parsky outlines plan +for 'key' Media Australasian Holding company using the Bell Group which +would be taken over by with Chase Manhattan holding 27.5% in London and the +US. Another 10% of the stock would be held through Security Pacific +National Bank (US).

+ +

8th February 1987: US Mafia Council meet in Washington - including David +Rockefeller, John McCloy, Brzezinski, Parsky, Simon, Katherine Graham, and +George Franklin.

+ +

Brzezinski outlines plans to invade Iran using 75000 strong mercenary army +supported by US Air Force and Navy with starting date of 8th February, +1988. An integral part of the plan Saudi and Kuwaiti oil tankers would fly +the US flag to provoke an Iranian attack so that US invasion of Iran would +be 'justified'.

+ +

* Reason: The Seven Sisters wanted to exploit a secret oil field near +Bandar Abbas discovered in 1976 with estimate 150 billion barrels and also +a huge gold source at Neyshabur discovered in 1977.

+ +

The Iranian invasion would begin after the World economic system was +collapsed by the Mafia controlled banks - target date 17th January 1988. +Other countries on the takeover list include: +* Mexico - for oil at Baisas +* Nicaragua - for oil at Connto +* Colombia - for gold at Papayan +* South Korea - for gold at Chunchon +* New Zealand - for oil in the Great South Basin.

+ +

(Obviously this part of the plan failed to happen)

+ +

Article 639 of alt.conspiracy: +Path: bilver!tarpit!peora!masscomp!dali.cs.montana.edu!decwrl! +elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!otter.hpl.hp.com!otter!tgg +From: tgg@otter.hpl.hp.com (Tom Gardner) +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy +Subject: Re: Re: Novus Ordo Seclorum + 5900008@otter.hpl.hp.com +Date: 8 Jan 91 09:09:24 GMT +References: 8671@uwm.edu +Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. +Lines: 18

+ +

|There is nothing dangerous about Freemasonry. As an +|erisian Freemason, I should know. It is mainly a +|club, like the Elks or the Rotary, but one that has +|a far more noble and glorious history, as well as +|one that keeps alive ancient knowledge under +|"secret" veils.

+ +

If you believe that then run and read "The Brotherhood" by Stephen Knight. +In it he points out why many of the legends/stories/rumours about the +Freemasons are nonsense.

+ +

He also describes, with examples, the mechanisms by which Freemasonry can +be a corrupting influence with deleterious effects on the public at large.

+ +

There are serious resons to believe that membership of Masonic Lodges and +Christian churches is mutually incompatible. (BTW, I belong to neither).

+ +

A book that is worth reading...

+ +

Article 645 of alt.conspiracy: +Path: bilver!tarpit!peora!masscomp!know!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung! +spool2.mu.edu!uunet!sam!khan +From: khan@davidsys.com +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy +Subject: FREEMASONS ARE ALIVE AND WELL! + 6384@davidsys.com +Date: 9 Jan 91 18:49:02 GMT +Organization: DAVID Systems Inc, Sunnyvale CA +Lines: 59

+ +

Re: Novus Ordo Seclorum.

+ +

This phrase is from the FREEMASONS 100%!

+ +

I will post more details later.

+ +

The Freemasons are alive and well in the USA. There are 33 degrees of +membership. On the top level are the leaders of various countries. +On the basic level there are people like you and me (ordinary Joes). +I do not mean to say I am a Freemason, by the way.

+ +

They are NOT known as Freemasons over here; they are known as "lodges". +Thus, the Shriners, the Elks, etc. are all the same group.

+ +

They are existing from the time of Moses, or maybe even from before that. +It used to be Greek and Roman influenced fraternity. They were outlawed in +Pakistan in the late 70's because of their involvement in some +questionable things. It is said that the Freemasons want to protect and +maintain a certain status quo in the world (make it safe for the extremely r +ich), but God knows best as to their real aims.

+ +

The Lodges are very active in doing some good things for the common man. +The Shriners have adopted a pseudo-Islamic pose, without having anything +to do with Islam as presented in the Quran. The Shriners have their own +"prophets" etc.

+ +

It is easy to join the Freemason fraternity on the basic level. You are +told that it is for uniting all the different nations and religions of the +world. You can only progress (up the 33 degrees) if you are of any use in +your social position to the Freemasons. You may join as a basic Freemason, +and remain so all your life, and it would look like you just joined a +harmless social club.

+ +

On the top level, their aims are quite different. They do not like any +organization (in the name of religion or anything else) to endanger their +financial assets and interests. Some believe that the Freemasons have +been successful in completely destroying the faith of ordinary Christian +by influencing and introducing corruption in the Christian church, and +distorting religious concepts. The big challenge before the Freemasons +now is to destroy the organizing power of Islam, which they view as the +final threat.

+ +

There has been some research done on the Freemasons, their introduction +methods, their activities (open and hidden), in Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi +Arabia. If anyone is interested, I can detail everything in my following +posts.

+ +

Article 642 of alt.conspiracy: +Path: bilver!tarpit!peora!masscomp!dali.cs.montana.edu!samsung! +cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!isis!jsanders +From: jsanders@isis.cs.du.edu (Jim Sanders) +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy +Subject: Re: Novus Ordo Seclorum (Illuminati=Lawyers=Politicians/IRS/CIA) + 1991Jan9.185143.8679@isis.cs.du.edu +Date: 9 Jan 91 18:51:43 GMT +Reply-To: jsanders@isis.UUCP (Jim Sanders) +Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver +Lines: 46

+ +

This symbol is one of the Mystic Society of the Illuminati. The Illuminati +was formed by the creme de la creme of Europe's most powerful aristocrats +to perpetuate its iron grip on the peasants, to maintain the status quo, +to keep the rich rich, and the poor masses poor.

+ +

J.Jaynes book, "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown Of the +Bicameral Mind," explains how for thousands of years, the masses have been +hypnotized into not thinking for themselves by Illuminati like leaders who +use mysticism, religion, music and propaganda to accomplish this. A person +can still do very hard organized work for these manipulators and actually +still not ever think in a non-bicameral or enlightened state of mind. +This has allowed the world's sadistic, oppressive leaders to screw us for +1000's of years.

+ +

It appears that the illuminati had penetrated U.S. government from the +beginning. The Illuminatus was formed in 1776 by a lawyer in Bavaria. +These esquires snaked their way into the womb of Amerika from the getgo! +I find it revolting and an infinite slap in the face to see lawyers own +symbol of economic repression on the very money we get shafted for by these +leach lawyers daily.

+ +

(In 1776 The European Economic Community (the aristocracy) worried quite +a bit when WE told England to get the Hell outta here, so naturally they +regrouped and formed the Illuminati to deal with US and prevent future +colonies from being so eager to toss the king's tea taxes overboard!)

+ +

Write to me and I will mail you a that documents my words on how lawyers +(and now Bush/CIA/Heavy Industry) raping Amerika! +(WRITE ME + READ IT!)

+ +
--
+ +

"Don't tread on me!" /*--------------------------------------------------*/ +/* Hell even their motto reverberated with snakes */ +/* (as this was written on a 1776 Amerikan Colonial */ +/* Revolutionary flag next to a picture of a snake) */ +/*--------------------------------------------------*/ +(But I agree with it!)

+ +

______________________________________________________________ +:-) +jim oversees the fate of the world from high atop Boulder +|______________________________________________________________| +| | +Vote em out! | jsanders@isis.cs.du.edu | (jim sanders) +|______________|___________________________|___________________|

+ +

Article 641 of alt.conspiracy: +Path: bilver!tarpit!peora!masscomp!dali.cs.montana.edu!samsung! +spool2.mu.edu!uunet!isis!jsanders +From: jsanders@isis.cs.du.edu (Jim Sanders) +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy +Subject: Re: Novus Ordo...(Illuminati=Lawyers=Amerikarapers=cia/dea/irs) + 1991Jan9.185746.9066@isis.cs.du.edu +Date: 9 Jan 91 18:57:46 GMT +Reply-To: jsanders@isis.UUCP (Jim Sanders) +Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver +Lines: 46

+ +

This symbol is one of the Mystic Society of the Illuminati. The Illuminati +was formed by the creme de la creme of Europe's most powerful aristocrats +to perpetuate its iron grip on the peasants, to maintain the status quo, +to keep the rich rich, and the poor masses poor.

+ +

J.Jaynes book, "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown Of the +Bicameral Mind," explains how for thousands of years, the masses have been +hypnotized into not thinking for themselves by Illuminati like leaders who +use mysticism, religion, music and propaganda to accomplish this. A person +can still do very hard organized work for these manipulators and actually +still not ever think in a non-bicameral or enlightened state of mind. This +has allowed the world's sadistic, oppressive leaders to screw us for +1000's of years.

+ +

It appears that the illuminati had penetrated U.S. government from the +beginning. The Illuminatus was formed in 1776 by a lawyer in Bavaria. +These esquires snaked their way into the womb of Amerika from the getgo! +I find it revolting and an infinite slap in the face to see lawyers own +symbol of economic repression on the very money we get shafted for by these +leach lawyers daily.

+ +

(In 1776 The European Economic Community (the aristocracy) worried quite +a bit when WE told England to get the Hell outta here, so naturally they +regrouped and formed the Illuminati to deal with US and prevent future colonies +from being so eager to toss the king's tea taxes overboard!)

+ +

Write to me and I will mail you a that documents my words +on how lawyers (and now Bush/CIA/Heavy Industry) raping Amerika! +(WRITE ME + READ IT!)

+ +
--
+ +

"Don't tread on me!" /*--------------------------------------------------*/ +/* Hell even their motto reverberated with snakes */ +/* (as this was written on a 1776 Amerikan Colonial */ +/* Revolutionary flag next to a picture of a snake) */ +/*--------------------------------------------------*/ +(But I agree with it!)

+ +

______________________________________________________________ +:-) +jim oversees the fate of the world from high atop Boulder +|______________________________________________________________| +| | +Vote em out! | jsanders@isis.cs.du.edu | (jim sanders) +|______________|___________________________|___________________|

+ +

Article 647 of alt.conspiracy: +Xref: bilver alt.conspiracy:647 rec.arts.books:2999 +Path: bilver!tarpit!peora!masscomp!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc! +elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!world!eff!mnemonic +From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,rec.arts.books +Subject: Re: Novus Ordo...(Illuminati=Lawyers=Amerikarapers=cia/dea/irs) +Summary: How silly. + 1991Jan9.231009.13623@eff.org +Date: 9 Jan 91 23:10:09 GMT +References: 1991Jan9.185746.9066@isis.cs.du.edu +Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation +Lines: 29

+ +

In article 1991Jan9.185746.9066@isis.cs.du.edu jsanders@isis.UUCP +(Jim Sanders) writes: +> +>J.Jaynes book, "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown Of the +>Bicameral Mind," explains how for thousands of years, the masses have been +>hypnotized into not thinking for themselves by Illuminati like leaders who +>use mysticism, religion, music and propaganda to accomplish this. A person +>can still do very hard organized work for these manipulators and actually +>still not ever think in a non-bicameral or enlightened state of mind. This +>has allowed the world's sadistic, oppressive leaders to screw us for +>1000's of years.

+ +

This is nonsense; Jaynes's book says no such thing. Not only does it not +mention the Illuminati or "Illuminati-like leaders," but its thesis is +that the bicamerality of the brain is the ground of true self-consciousness. It is not the case that "non-bicameral" is the equivalent of +"enlightened"--just the opposite, really.

+ +

Of course, I'm a lawyer, so feel free to ignore me as I get back to +raping Amerika.

+ +

--Mike

+ +

-- +Mike Godwin, (617) 864-0665 |"If the doors of perception were cleansed +mnemonic@eff.org | every thing would appear to man as it is, +Electronic Frontier | infinite." +Foundation | --Blake

+ +

Article 654 of alt.conspiracy: +Xref: bilver alt.conspiracy:654 rec.arts.books:3018 +Path: bilver!tarpit!peora!masscomp!know!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!linac! +uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uiucdcs!carroll +From: carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll) +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,rec.arts.books +Subject: Re: Novus Ordo...(Illuminati=Lawyers=Amerikarapers=cia/dea/irs) + 1991Jan10.221553.5811@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu +Date: 10 Jan 91 22:15:53 GMT +References: 1991Jan9.185746.9066@isis.cs.du.edu +1991Jan9.231009.13623@eff.org +Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) +Reply-To: carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll) +Organization: Technophiles Inc. - Engineers with Attitude +Lines: 12

+ +

In article 1991Jan9.231009.13623@eff.org, mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) +writes: +> +> Of course, I'm a lawyer, so feel free to ignore me as I get back to +> raping Amerika. +>

+ +

A lawyer! Ignore you nothin'! Go 'n git the dawgs, boy. We're goin huntin'.

+ +

-- +Alan M. Carroll "It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. +Epoch Development Team I'll get a saw." +CS Grad / U of Ill @ Urbana ...{ucbvax,pur-ee,convex}!cs.uiuc.edu! +carroll

+ +

Article 643 of alt.conspiracy: +Path: bilver!tarpit!peora!masscomp!know!news.cs.indiana.edu!cica! +sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool2.mu.edu!uunet!isis!jsanders +From: jsanders@isis.cs.du.edu (Jim Sanders) +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy +Subject: The Illuminati are an original world "old boy" conspiracy! + 1991Jan10.051620.10473@isis.cs.du.edu +Date: 10 Jan 91 05:16:20 GMT +Reply-To: jsanders@isis.UUCP (Jim Sanders) +Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver +Lines: 77

+ +

Jack, + +I forgot to give you the beta on the Illuminati: + +These folks are more secret than Moussad(the Israeli SS) who is the +undisputed ultimate "secret agent men/women" experts of the world. +Therefore, you will find no reliable sources of information on them. + +They like to frequent Swiss chalets and spend their loot on good spirits +and women. Oh, they do not have women for members. + +Their associates are in international banking and are world leaders of +organized crime. But they are not ever necessarily top world leaders or +top CEO's, but they completely influence the major decisions of most +multinational companies and world leaders. + +They are always there but you never see them: + +Once, at a coffee shop in an affluent Denver 'burb in the foothills, I ran +across a man of this general authority. With a German accent, he had told +me that if I were to sit at a table, I was to buy coffee, but he did not +work there. He wore a $2000 Swiss pilot's chronometer on one wrist. His +clothes cost at least half of the watch and he wasn't wearing a suit! +We were just waiting for the rain to stop and I could not believe my ears +when he tried to shoo me away from my dry spot under the curbside table's +canvas awning. I thought carefully and then replied something to the likes +of "The Illuminati would always like for me to be recirculating my money +back into their economic system of manipulation." + +As soon as I said this, never mind the weather, he took off. He was a +strong 50 year old Aryan, about 6'1", 200lbs, to my 5'11", 150lbs +but he looked extremely agitated before he left. I could tell he was not +physically scared of me. In fact, he knew all too well what I was saying +about the globally economic policies of his "associates" in the Illuminati. +You see, they have effectively cut off information about even their +existence, that it will damn near give one of them vapor lock if you call +their hand! +(Notice that Europe houses the ultimate banks next to Bavaria on Swiss +soil, and note how the Swiss are given International Neutrality to boot so +that the Secret accounts will be safe and stable! I would wager a month of +Sundays that money in a Swiss account is backed by real gold too!) + +Conclusion: + +Bush belongs to the "Skull and Crossbones Club" which is the American +Equivalent of the Illuninati. You have to study at Yale and be in a family +that is part of the old boy system and then you might get in. It is highly +secret, but really is much more well known than the Illuminati. It exists +to perpetuate the existence of the old boys in Amerika, much as the +Illuminati does the same in Europe. + +Amazingly, the only reference to the Illuminati that I have ever seen other +than in a few paper back books on mysticism called the Trilogy which +actually are probably right 50% of the time, was in the Unabridged +Webster's Dictionary, where all it dares say is that they were "the members +of an anticlerical, deistic, republican society founded in 1776 by Adam +Weishaupt, professor of law at Ingolstadt in Bavaria. It was suppressed by +the Bavarian government in 1785: called also the Order of the Illuminati." + +I suppose they had to go deep undercover, much more so than even the Mafia. +This might explain the agitation I evoked in the fellow! + +It might be fun to know more about these fellow, but you now know all you +need to know, except their names. Search and destroy! +--- +expose a gangster and save money today! +______________________________________________________________ +:-) | +jim oversees the fate of the world from high atop Boulder | +|______________________________________________________________| +| | | +Vote em out! | jsanders@isis.cs.du.edu | (jim sanders) | +|______________|___________________________|___________________| +"Don't Tread On Me" ? 177x +"This is Jimmy's road, where Jimmy liked to play." (Mark Twain) +>---------------------------------------------> +Hi Ho Pegasus, and away!>---------------------------------------------> +>--------------------------------------------->

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Article 656 of alt.conspiracy: +Path: bilver!tarpit!peora!masscomp!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu! +ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!bradley2.bradley.edu!pwh +From: pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman) +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy +Subject: Re: The Illuminati are an original world "old boy" conspiracy! + 1991Jan10.224545.646@bradley.bradley.edu +Date: 10 Jan 91 22:45:45 GMT +References: 1991Jan10.051620.10473@isis.cs.du.edu +Distribution: usa +Organization: Bradley University +Lines: 9

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In 1991Jan10.051620.10473@isis.cs.du.edu jsanders@isis.cs.du.edu +(Jim Sanders) writes: +>These folks are more secret than Moussad(the Israeli SS) who is the +>undisputed ultimate "secret agent men/women" experts of the world. +>Therefore, you will find no reliable sources of information on them.

+ +

That includes you, I suppose.... +-- +----- +Pete Hartmanpwh@bradley.bradley.eduHaazavaa?

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Article 1809 of alt.activism: +Xref: bilver alt.activism:1809 alt.conspiracy:652 talk.politics.misc:7767 +Path: bilver!tarpit!peora!masscomp!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung! +uunet!bu.edu!dartvax!cabot!harelb +From: harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu (Harel Barzilai) +Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.conspiracy,talk.politics.misc +Subject: The S&L - Contra/drug Connection -- will Congress investigate? + 1991Jan10.051739.22241@dartvax.dartmouth.edu +Date: 10 Jan 91 05:17:39 GMT +Sender: news@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (The News Manager) +Distribution: na +Organization: Dartmouth College +Lines: 105 +Followup: alt.conspiracy

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HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE BLOCKS S&L INVESTIGATION +===================================================== +Convergence Magazine, Christic Institute, Winter 1991, p. 16

+ +

As Convergence went to press we learned that the House Intelligence +Committee will refuse to investigate the reported use of failed savings and +loan institutions to launder funds for the Reagan Administration's secret +war in Nicaragua.

+ +

The last issue of Convergence (Fall 1990) reported that an investigation by +the Christic Institute had found new evidence that drug traffickers may +have taken advantage of S&L deregulation to launder cocaine profits +destined for the contras. In a separate investigation, the Houston Post has +concluded that several failed S&Ls were looted by businessmen connected +with both organized crime and the Central Intelligence Agency.

+ +

Last summer the House Banking subcommittee on financial institutions +attempted to investigate the reports, but abandoned the effort when C.I.A. +Director William Webster refused to testify. But the subcommittee's chair, +Illinois Democrat Frank Annunzio, referred the allegations to the House +Intelligence Committee, which has jurisdiction over America's spy agencies.

+ +

On Nov. 15 the Christic Institute delivered 30000 petitions to +Rep. Anthony Beilenson, the California Democrat who chairs the Intelligence +Committee, asking for a full investigation of the reports. The signatures +were gathered in 22 cities in one day of canvassing by volunteers from the +Christic Institute's local action networks and the Citizen/Labor Energy +Coalition.

+ +

A spokesman for the intelligence committee said the staff had conducted +dozens of interviews to determine whether the reports should be +investigated. But in November investigative journalist Pete Brewton +reported in the Houston Post that "the committee has not attempted to +trace any of the S&L money looted by C.I.A. operatives.''

+ +

The committee staff also failed to contact a former C.I.A. contract agent +who told a Federal court in 1988 that the agency used funds from failed +banks and thrift institutions to finance covert operations.

+ +

When asked by Brewton why the committee made no attempt to trace any S&L +money to discover if it had been used for covert operations, staff director +Dan Childs said "we have only three attorneys to do this.''

+ +

Childs was the chief financial officer for the C.I.A. during the period +when the alleged transfer of funds occurred.

+ +

The Christic Institute's probe of S&L fraud goes back to 1988, when +Christic investigators found evidence that C.I.A.-sponsored drug +traffickers may have used dozens of thrifts in several states to launder +cocaine profits destined for the contra war effort.

+ +

"The Christic Institute has uncovered evidence that covert operatives and +drug traffickers exploited dozens of S&Ls to launder funds destined for +the illegal contra war,'' said Daniel P. Sheehan, the Institute's general +counsel. "This evidence suggests that the links among S&Ls, covert +operatives and organized crime can be traced to the 'off-the-shelf +enterprise' described by Oliver North before the Iran-contra investigating +committees.

+ +

"It appears that S&Ls may have made fraudulent loans in order to siphon +money to the contras at a time when Congress had cut off aid to the +rebels.''

+ +

Brewton's investigative series in Post has concluded that "at least 27 +failed financial institutions (25 S&Ls and two banks) had links to C.I.A. +operatives or to organized crime figures with links to the C.I.A..''

+ +

"The savings and loan collapse will cost taxpayers over $500 billion,'' +said Sara Nelson, the Institute's executive director. "If it is true that +S&L money went to the contras, then the U.S. public was duped into paying +the bill for the contra war after Congress had outlawed contra aid. +The evidence pointing to a systematic fraud on

+ +

"The response to this petition has been enormous,'' said Nelson, "and +shows just how upset people are that Congress has failed to investigate +the intelligence connection to the S&L collapse. We hope that Congressman +Beilenson will take this message very seriously.''

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A lot of references appear in some newsgroups to the "Illuminati". +I'm trying to gather together some source material on the subject, to +produce some sort of FAQ file.

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Here's three articles from the "Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia", +1961, by Henry Wilson Coil, 33rd degree. This is an excellent, albeit +slightly idiosyncratic reference work. Coil had a low opinion the +Catholicism, and it shows.

+ +

Of course, this being a *Masonic* encyclopedia, the articles are +written from that viewpoint.

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-------------------- +Rites: +- Illuminati of Bavaria.

+ +

This order was first called the Order of Perfectibilists, and was +a fairly shortlived, meteoric, controversial society formed May 1, +1776, in Bavaria, by Adam Weishaupt, aided by Baron von Knigge and +others, suppressed in 1784, and entirely disappeared by the close of +the century. It was not primarily Masonic, and evidently not founded by +any Masonic authority, though it pirated or prarphrased Masonic rituals +and at one time or another had a number of prominent Freemasons in the +group. Freemasonry has received a great many denunciations from several +sources by reason of the aberrations of the Illuminati, and the enemies +of Freemasonry encouraged the idea that Illuminism and Freemasonry were +the same. For details of the lives of Weishaupt and Knigge, reference +must be made to those titles in the general text but, since Illuminism +was their creation and developed as they directed, their acts are +material and discussed here.

+ +

Adam Weishaupt, Professor of Canon Law at the University of +Ingolstadt, conceived the idea of founding an order which, by mutual +helpfulness, counsel, and philosophic discussions, would increase +morality and virtue, lay the foundation for the reformation of the +world, and oppose the progress of evil, all of which objectives were +expressed in the name, "Order of Perfectibilists" or "Perfectionists", +which was soon changed to "Illuminati", which is best translated as +"intellectually inspired". Modesty and humility seems to have been no +trait of Weishaupt, for he was one of the first to attempt to fly with +little knowledge of human aerodynamics. His ambition outweighed his +judgement; his ideals were too refined for a rude world. Like many +other promoters, Weishaupt sought the aid of Freemasonry to give his +machine both propulsion and ballast. But it dragged Freemasonry down +without helping Illuminism very much. He was too shrewd and subtle for +his own good, though such qualities gave him headway for a time. +Although he formerly belonged to the Jesuits, he secured admission to a +lodge of Freemasons in 1777. Ironically, that was named "Lodge of +Caution."

+ +

We are not informed as to just how Weishaupt became associated +with Adolph Franz Friedrich Ludwid Baron Von Knigge, for the latter +lived in North Germany, was of the nobility, and, after his initiation +in 1773, showed little interest in Freemasonry. But noblemen were found +in abundance in the most fraudulent orders in Germany claiming some +Masonic connections. Weishaupt, in 1780, dispatched the Marquis de +Costanzo to propagate Illuminism in the north and Knigge probably then +first showed interest in the society. He became more and more +enthusiastic as the plan was revealed to him, and, in 1781, accepted +the invitation to visit Bavaria and receive full access to all of +Weishaupt's materials. Knigge not only completed the scale of degrees +but became a proponent of them, bringing to his aid the assistance of +Johann J. C. Bode, a prominent German Mason. The order was at first +very popular and attracted, it is said, some of the best men in Germany +and some of the worst. It had 2000 names on its rolls and spread to +France, Belgium, Holland, Denamrk, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, and Italy. +Knigge, especially, was a highly religious and intellectual man and +would have had nothing to do with that or any other order which was +anti-Christian, yet, the vicious attacks and accusations by Baruel and +Robison had great influence, and it was even charged that the +Illuminati were themselves agents of the Jesuits, though the latter +were opposing it in their usual secret manner. The Illuminati were +extremely secretive, even identifying themselves and their chapters by +assumed classical names; for examples, Weishaupt was Spartacus, Knigge +was Philo, Ingolstadt, the headquarters, was Eleusis, Austria was +Egypt, etc. Dates were given in a sort of cryptography.

+ +

The ceremonies were divided into three principal classes and those +into degrees as follows: I-The Nursery: 1. Preparatory Literary Essay; +2. Novitiate; 3. Minerval; 4. Minor Illuminatus; 5. Magistratus. +II-Symbolic Freemasonry: 1. Apprentice; 2. Fellow Craft; 3. Master; 4. +(a) Scots Major Illuminatus, (b) Scots Illuminatus Dirigens +(Directory). III-Mysteries; 1. Lesser: (a) Presbyter, Priest, or Epopt, +(b) Prince or Regent; Greater: (a) Magus; (b) Rex or King (some of +these latter degrees were never completed).

+ +

The Illuminati were finally beset by both internal and external +disorders, for Weishaupt found fault with some of Knigge's ritualistic +work and peremptorily ordered it changed, whereupon, Knigge became +disgusted and resigned in 1784. The Jesuits had fought it from the +first and eventually all priests became its active enemies and raised +so much opposition that the Elector of Bavaria supressed the Order by +edict, June 22, 1784, many Illuminati being imprisoned and some, +including Weishaupt, being forced to flee the country. Though the first +edict had been obeyed, it was repeated in March and August, 1785. Not +only Illuminism, but Freemasonry was exterminated in Bavaria and +neither ever recovered its former position. The Illuminati seem to have +completely disappeared everywhere by the end of the 18th century.

+ +

-------------------- +Weishaupt, Adam

+ +

Founder of the Illuminati of Bavaria, born at Inglstadt, 1748, +died 1811. He was educated in law and attained the rank of Professor in +1772 at the University of Ingolstadt. He had been educated by the +Jesuits but acquired a dislike for them, and in his professional life, +he was soon in conflict with the whole clergy, partly because he held +the chair of Canon Law, which had always been held by an ecclesiastic. +In conferences with his students in whom he planted liberal ideas on +religion and philosophy, and he soon conceived of a close association +of enlightened or intellectual persons who might advance the moral and +intellectual qualities of themselves as well as others. This idea +materialized as the Illuminates or Illuminati, who at first had no +connection with Freemasonry. In 1777, he was admitted to Lodge Theodore +of Good Counsel (translated by some as Lodge Theodore of Caution) at +Munich, and from that time, he sought to interrelate the affairs of his +Illuminati with Freemasonry.

+ +

He soon formed an association with Baron von Knigge, an able and +upright man from north Germany, and the two might have accomplished +their objectives and some good had it not been for the opposition of +the Jesuits (who were still powerful though banished from Bavaria) and +the Roman Catholic clergy. Moreover Weishaupt and Knigge could not +agree upon some of the latters' ritualistic interpretations. From the +literature on the subject of Illuminism and from the caustic remarks of +Masonic writers, we might suppose that this order or movement lasted a +long time, but the whole drama opened with the organization of the +Perfectionists in 1766 and, 18 years later in 1784, the Bavarian +government banned all secret associations. The next year, Weishaupt was +discharged from his position at the University and banished from the +country. He fled to Gotha and found asylum with Duke Ernest of that +little city, remaining there until his death in 1811. In Gotha, he +published a number of works, those on Illuminism being: "A Picture of +Illuminism", 1786; "A Complete History of the Persecutions of the +Illuminati in Bavaria", 1785 (only the first of two planned volumes +published); "An Apology for the Illuminati", 1786; "An Improved System +of Illuminism", 1787, and others.

+ +

The most objective writers on the subject give Weishaupt credit +for being of high moral character and a profound thinker, and it is +worth noting that his associate, Knigge, spoke with great respect of +his intellectual powers. It appears, however, that he was the victim of +at least two powerful forces, first, the vindictive hate of the Church +of Rome and the Bavarian government and, secondly, his own inadequate +judgement of how to launch a revolutionary and more or less secret +movement such as Illuminism. He was really employing methods of the +Jesuits, for his whole order seems to have been composed of spies and +counter spies, and only those most adept at scheming and trickery were +advanced. The candidates all had pseudonyms, that of Weishaupt being +Spartacus, and those who became too inquisitive about matters as to +which their suspicions were aroused were turned out. If the purpose had +been philosophic, ethical, or for the improvement of the mind or +salvation of the soul, it need never to have been quite so secretive, +and from the Masonic standpoint, Weishaupt was not justified in using +the Fraternity as the vehicle for his scheme, good or bad, though he +had ample precedents on all sides.

+ +

-------------------- +Knigge, Baron von (Adolph F. R. L.)

+ +

German Freemason and, in part, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati. +He was born near Hanover in 1752, and died at Bremen in 1796. He was +initiated in a lodge of the Strict Observance at Cassel in 1772, but, +for a time, seemed uninterested in the Society, thogh later becoming +one of the foremost German writers on the subject. He published "On +the Jesuits, Freemasons, and Rosicrucians, 1781, anon.; "Essay on +Freemasonry", 1784; "Contribution towards the latest history of the +Order of Freemasons", 1786; and "Philo's final Declaration", 1788. He +also wrote many non-Masonic works, one being "On Conversation with +Men", towards the end of his career and after a sad experience with the +Illuminati and disappointment with the Strict Observance, causing him +therein to devote much space to secret societies and denunciation of +Freemasonry. The most interesting and significant part of Knigge's +career was his participation with Weishaupt in the promotion of the +Bavarian Illuminati, he being almost an equal party.

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A look at the Harvard University Library Catalog shows that there +was an Illuminati panic in New England in the late 1790's.

+ +

After that, very few people seem to have had Illuminism on their +minds. In the 1950s and 60's, about the only people who seem to mention +it were the John Birch Society.

+ +

In the mid-70's, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson restarted +popular speculation with their fictional "Illuminatus!" trilogy. This +mixes actual history with conspiracy theory and pure invention, and +very deliberately produces doubts in the reader's mind as to the +nature of reality - a technique which the authors refer to as "guerilla +ontology", in pursuit of "Operation Mindf*ck." They were apparently +turned on to Illuminism by some of the correspondance they received +while working as letters column editors at Playboy magazine.

+ +

At the core of Illuminatus! is an aeons-old conflict between the +conspiracies representing the forces of order, bureaucracy, and +repression, represented by the Illuminati, and the conspiracies +representing the forces of chaos, spontaneity and freedom, +representing by the Erisians (followers of Eris, the Greek goddess of +discord). The plot involves every conspiracy you've ever heard of, +many you havent, monomaniacal midgets, golden submarines, giant squid, +ancient Atlantis, zombie Nazi stormtroopers, and a good deal of sex. +Wilson and Shea drew heavily on Akron Darual's "History of Secret +Societies", the 'Principia Discordia' of the Erisians, many kinds of +fringe conspiracy theory, and their own imaginations. One of their +conceits is that Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati, +secretly murdered George Washington and took his place.

+ +

Illuminatus! became an underground bestseller, and while Shea seems +to have been content to sit back and enjoy the royalties, Wilson has +worked the interest it developed into a minor industry. He has brought +out a steady stream of fiction and "non-fiction" concerning the +Illuminati and related topics, noteably the "Schrodinger's Cat" +trilogy, "The Illuminati Papers", "Cosmic Trigger - The Final Secret of +the Illuminati", and most recently the "Historical Illuminatus Series", +which is up to four books.

+ +

[The following paragraph is a personal opinion.]

+ +

I've met Wilson, and my impression is that he lacks sincerity. I +don't think he actually believes in the continuing existence of the +Illuminati, but knows he's stumbled onto a goldmine. He does seem +serious about some of the psychological theories he promotes.

+ +

A couple other works of interest are the above-mentioned "History +of Secret Societies" by Akron Daraul, and Neil Wilgus' "The +Illuminoids". HoSS tries to link together a number of groups, claiming +that the Illuminati, the Masons, the Italian Carbonari, and the +Spanish Alumburados (sp?) are all linked and can be traced back to the +Hashashins of the ancient Middle East. "The Illuminoids" is +post-Illuminatus! and basically catalogs the conspiracy theories +connected to it.

+ +

So there you have it - a short-lived, failed, 18th century secret +society, which after being forgotten for nearly 200 years, has seized +the popular imagination through the work of two men. Despite the +paranoia of some of the people on the net, there is not the slightest +shred of evidence that the Illuminati persisted past 1800. + +Of course, you may think you are free to doubt me on this. :-)

+ +

W .'. Peter Trei +ptrei@mitre.org +Wilder Lodge AF&AM +Leominster MA +------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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After I put this out on the net, I received a few responses. The most +interesting gives some German sources on the Illuminati. I've touched +up the English a little:

+ +

Date: Tue, 27 Oct 92 17:33:17 MEZ +From: "Roald A. Zellweger" RZELLWE@ibm.gwdg.de +Subject: Illuminati

+ +

There is, of course, lots of material in German available on the +Bavarian Illuminati, esp from the beginning of the century, but also +from the research on the later Enlightenment in Germany, that had it's +height in the 70's.

+ +

Goethe and Herder were at times members of the Bavarian +Illuminati, and not only the Duke of Gotha, but also the Dukes of +Weimar and Brunswick, of course since it was Jesuitic in form and +heavily anti-Jesuitic in everything else...

+ +

At the end of 19th century the Illuminati-phobia was promoted and +used by the "Protokolle der Weisen von Zion" ["Protocols of the Elders +of Zion"] rsp. the literary Vorlage, a French anti-Napoleonic fiction, +and later by Ludendorff. So the Illuminati-phobia became closely +connected with Fascism's conspiracy theories.

+ +

The Illuminati no longer exist, but they influenced methods of +political conspiracy in 19th century and put the fear of a conspiracy +of masons, Jews, etc. in the views of the extreme right.

+ +

Informative is the Article Illuminaten in the Theologische +Realenzyclopedie (TRE), the large forthcoming protestant encyclopedia, +Bd.16,p.81-84, providing with the newest (serious!) literature.

+ +

Broader, but older, the article Illuminaten in Realenzyclopaedie +fuer protestantische Theologie und Kirche, Bd.9, Leipzig 1901, +p.61-68, mentioning the Spanish Alumbrados as using the same name and +existing later in France. The Realenzyclopaedie 3rd Edition is a very +serious work of late 19th century Historical Research and of course +from the viewpoint of German Kulturprotestantism.

+ +

Sources could be found sub Knigge and Weishaupt in Wolfsohns +Freimaurerbibliographie, Vienna (20's or early 30's). Useful is the +Internationales Freimaurerlexikon (Vienna 1932). Both Works are from +a (low-degree) masonic viewpoint and esp the latter apologetic against +Ludendorff's conspiracy theory.

+ +

Edited sources are: Jan Reichold (ed.): Die Illuminaten. Quellen +und Texte zur Aufklaerungsideologie des Illuminatenordens, Berlin +((former) DDR) 1984, commentary part of course influenced by Marxism +and GDR-ideology, but solid text edition.

+ +

Richard van Duelman: Der Geheimbund der Illuminaten, Stuttgart +1975.

+ +

If you haven't access to the lexica and could send me a Fax or +snail-mail address, I could send you copies from the articles in +question.

+ +
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Roald A. Zellweger

+ +

Institut fuer Spezialforschungen +Platz der Goettinger Sieben 2 +D-3400 Goettingen

+ +

phone : +49-551-39 7127 +fax : +49-551-9 75 88 +bitnet: RZELLWE@ibm.gwdg.de

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Minor bits & bobs:

+ +

Steve Jackson Games has a rather nifty conspiracy table top game +called Illuminati, based on the books.

+ +

There is a live-action version called GURPS Illuminati, played at +finer SF and gaming conventions.

+ +

The "Puzzling Evidence" segment of the film "True Stories", +without mentioning the Illuminati explicitly, gives an entertaining +insight into the mind of a conspiracy theorist. +

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THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF SOCIALISM

+ +

BY RICHARD M. EBELING

+ +

In May, 1988, the Soviet newspaper, Pravda, ran an article +which summarized the condition of the Soviet socialist +economy: "Not one of the 170 essential sectors has fulfilled +the objectives of the Plan a single time over the last 20 +years . . . this has brought about a chain reaction of +hardship and imbalance which has led to 'planned anarchy' +. . . the disequilibrium has affected every pore of our +economy, and has become legendary."

+ +

The term used in the article -- "planned anarchy" -- captures +the essence of socialism. But it also rings out as a +vindication of one of the greatest critics of socialism in the +20th century: the Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises.

+ +

Seventy years ago, in 1920, the Soviet experience was only +three years old. But already, under the name of "War +Communism," Lenin's Bolsheviks had nationalized industry, done +away with market prices and wages, declared the end of a money +economy and introduced planning in the form of a centrally-directed command economy.

+ +

That same year, 1920, Ludwig von Mises published one of the +most important essays in the history of economics: "Economic +Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth." In less than fifty +pages, Mises demonstrated clearly and irrefutably that +socialism was doomed to fail. He incorporated his argument +into his 1922 treatise, Socialism, An Economic and +Sociological Analysis. Here, the economic principles of a +socialist system were analyzed in the wider context of the +social, political and cultural pathologies of a collectivist +order.

+ +

It is not an accident that every experiment with socialism has +created what Pravda called "planned anarchy," or as Mises +entitled one of his own books in the 1940s, Planned Chaos. +Even if we ignore the fact that the rulers of socialist +countries have cared very little for the welfare of their own +subjects; even if we discount the lack of personal incentives +in socialist economies; and even if we disregard the total +lack of concern for the consumer under socialism; the basic +problem remains the same: the most well-intentioned socialist +planner just does not know what to do.

+ +

The heart of Mises' argument against socialism is that central +planning by the government destroys the essential tool -- +competitively-formed market prices -- by which people in a +society make rational economic decisions.

+ +

A modern economy with an advanced system of division of labor, +sophisticated technologies and a wide variety of capital +equipment is just too complex for planners to successfully +organize and oversee. There is just too much knowledge (and +too many different types of knowledge) dispersed among too +many people. The planner is unable to centralize all of the +relevant and ever-changing information in a complex society. +He is unable to arrange everything in the economy in just the +right way in order to "get it right."

+ +

Mises explained that in a market economy free of government +intervention, this problem which the socialist planner faces +is non-existent. The key, Mises said, is private property and +individual freedom. In a system of division of labor, in which +all of the transactions require the voluntary consent of +buyers and sellers, self-interest is (as Adam Smith argued +long ago) harnessed to the common good. No one can acquire +what someone else possesses unless he, in turn, offers that +person something he is willing to take in trade. Thus, +improvement in each individual's condition requires that he +consider the wants and desires of his fellow men.

+ +

But in a far-flung, world-encompassing system of division of +labor, in which potential trading partners are separated by +time and space, how do people discover what they should +produce in order to satisfy the consumer demands of others? +And how do they produce efficiently, i.e., with the least +economic waste?

+ +

Mises explained that the institution of private property made +all of this possible. Ownership and voluntary exchange create +opportunities for gains from trade. Competitive bids and +offers for various goods and services generate market prices +at which transactions are consummated. And these prices convey +useful information to everyone in the market about what +products are in demand in the rest of the world.

+ +

At the same time, private ownership of the means of production +permits the acquisition and hire of resources and labor for +the production of goods that consumers may desire to purchase. +The competitive bids of entrepreneurs for the purchase of +those means of production generate market prices for the +necessary resources. These prices enable businessmen to +evaluate the relative value and profitability of using means +of production in alternative ways. They provide the means to +determine which products to produce in the economically least-costly manner.

+ +

Also, since money serves as the common medium through which +all transactions are undertaken, the market value of all goods +and services, and all means of production, are reduced to a +common denominator for simplified comparison and evaluation -- +their money prices on the market.

+ +

This, Mises said, is what makes possible "economic +calculation" in a market economy. Men are free to make their +own choices. Market prices that arise out of those choices +enable each individual to acquire and share information about +what others desire in the market. The market provides the +method by which people can make their own free decisions in an +economically efficient manner. The entire process redounds to +the benefit of society as a whole.

+ +

The problem with socialism, Mises insisted, is that it short-circuits the "economic calculation" process. And it does so by +abolishing private ownership of the means of production and +eliminating peaceful, voluntary exchange. With no legal right +of ownership, there is neither ability nor incentive to buy +and sell; with nothing to buy and sell, there are no bids and +offers for commodities or resources; with no bids and offers, +there are no consummated exchanges; with no consummated +exchanges, there arise no market prices; and without market +prices expressing the relative values of commodities and +resources, there exists no rational way of knowing what they +are actually worth to people; therefore, businessmen cannot +know how they should economically and efficiently be used to +satisfy the wants and desires of the consuming public.

+ +

The socialist planner, therefore, is left trying to steer the +collectivist economy blindfolded. He cannot know what products +to produce, the relative quantities to produce, and the +economically most appropriate way to produce them with the +resources and labor at his central command. This leads to +"planned chaos," as Mises called it, or to "planned anarchy" +to which Pravda referred.

+ +

Ludwig von Mises was born on September 29, 1881. This month +marks the 109th anniversary of his birth. (He died on October +10, 1973 at the age of 92.) His greatest work, Human Action, A +Treatise on Economics, was published on September 14, 1949, +forty-one years ago this month. Throughout most of his life, +he was one of the most uncompromising defenders of human +liberty and the free market economy. And he was the most +important critic of socialism in the 20th century.

+ +

But during his life, he was vilified and hated by a large part +of the intellectual community, including many in the economics +profession, around the world. What was his "crime"? In an era +in which the reigning ideology has been collectivism of one +form or another, in which the State has been worshipped as a +god, and in which unswerving obedience to the State is to be +given, Ludwig von Mises defended the individual and his +freedom against omnipotent governments.

+ +

But he did more than that. He also tore to shreds the +socialist fantasy that proclaimed that prosperity could come +from central planning. He not only argued that prosperity and +freedom were compatible, he proved that prosperity could come +only through freedom and free markets. Socialism as a means +for improving the condition of man is impossible.

+ +

Socialism is dying around the world. Those who have lived +under socialism are trying to rediscover the rules and +institutions of a market economy. Ludwig von Mises' life was +dedicated to showing why socialism had to die and why there is +no substitute for a free economy. His courage and devotion to +the principles of freedom shall stand as a model and ideal for +all of us to emulate in future ages.

+ +

Professor Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of +Economics at Hillsdale College and also serves as Vice-President of Academic Affairs of The Future of Freedom +Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209.

+ +

------------------------------------------------------------ +From the September 1990 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1990, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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*** NOTE: Excerpted from the Academic American Encyclopedia (electronic) ***

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TITLE(s): income tax +The income tax is a levy based on the income of individuals, families, and +corporations. + +The income tax is the largest source of tax revenue in advanced +economies. In the United States over half of the federal government's tax +revenue comes from income taxes, with the personal income tax accounting for +about 45% and the corporate income tax for another 10% of the total tax +revenue. Most individual states and some local governments also levy income +taxes, but income taxes are less important than other sources of state tax +revenue. + +An income tax was first instituted in Britain on a permanent basis in +1842. The United States did not use an income tax until 1861, as a temporary +measure to help finance the Civil War; that tax was repealed in 1871. When +Congress tried to reinstate the income tax, the Supreme Court, in POLLOCK V. +FARMERS' LOAN AND TRUST CO. (1895), declared that it was unconstitutional. + +The 16TH AMENDMENT to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1913, consists of +a single sentence that allows income taxation. The 1913 income tax exempted +the first $3000 from taxation and taxed the remainder of income at graduated +rates ranging from 1% for income up to $20000 to as high as 7% for income +over $500000. This was sufficiently high relative to income at the time +that less than 1% of the population was subject to the income tax then. + +The initial passage of the law established a progressive tax structure, +which means that taxpayers are taxed at a higher percentage rate the higher +their incomes are. A proportional tax would collect at the same percentage +rate for all incomes, and a regressive tax collects a smaller percent of +income for higher incomes. The tax structure in the United States has +remained progressive since the tax was established, although specific rates +have varied greatly. + +From an initial top rate of 7% in 1913, the top rate rose to 77% by 1918 +to help finance world war I. The top rate fell to 25% from 1925 to 1928, but +by 1936 had risen again to 78%. The highest top bracket was 94% in 1944 and +1945 to help finance World War II, and it remained above 90% in the early +1960s until it was reduced to 70% by the tax act of 1964. In 1981 the top +rate was reduced to 50%, and it was reduced again by the Tax Reform Act of +1986. Effective in 1991 the top rate was 31%. + +One of the most significant events in the history of the U.S. income tax +was the introduction of withholding during World War II. Prior to +withholding, individuals were responsible for sending their tax payments to +the government. Withholding, however, requires employers to deduct a part of +an employee's pay and send it directly to the government to cover the +employee's estimated income taxes. At the end of the year, the income +earner computes the income tax due and either pays any additional amount or +receives a refund from the government for payments in excess of the tax due. +The withholding system makes it much easier for the government to collect +taxes and makes evasion more difficult. + +THE PERSONAL INCOME TAX + +The amount of personal income tax due is computed in several steps. +First, total income from all sources is added together. Certain types of +income are not included in income for tax purposes; these are called +exemptions. Examples include a personal exemption for the taxpayer and for +individuals who are supported by the taxpayer's income, and for employee +business expenses such as the cost of travel for a traveling salesperson. +Total income minus exemptions equals adjusted gross income. + +Taxpayers then subtract deductions from adjusted gross income to compute +taxable income. Items that can be deducted include home-mortgage interest +payments and charitable contributions. In lieu of itemizing these deductions, +taxpayers can choose to take a standard deduction; exemptions, therefore, +can be more valuable to taxpayers than deductions because exemptions can be +taken even if other deductions are not itemized. + +The tax due is computed from taxable income according to the tax rate +schedule. An important concept in income taxation is the distinction between +the average and marginal rates of taxation. The average rate is the fraction +of income paid in taxes. The marginal rate is the fraction of any additional +income that would have to be paid in taxes. The average and marginal rates +are not the same because, first, some income is not taxed--due to +exemptions, deductions, and credits; and, second, the progressive tax +schedule taxes lower levels of income at a lower rate than higher levels of +income.

+ +

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 simplified the tax structure and reduced the +total number of tax brackets to four. Lowest-income taxpayers had an income +tax rate of 15%, and as income rose, the marginal tax rate rose to 28%, then +to 33%, and then back down to 28%. For the first time in the history of the +income tax, the taxpayers with the highest incomes were not in the highest +tax bracket. In 1991 the two top brackets were combined and the tax rate +for that bracket was set at 31 percent. This reduced the number of tax +brackets to three, with marginal tax rates of 15, 28, and 31%. + +The complexities of the tax code are the result of the attempt to achieve +a number of goals in its design. The first goal is fairness, and, with the +income tax, fairness is generally interpreted to mean that taxpayers should +be taxed in proportion to their ability to pay. In trying to implement the +ability-to-pay principle, the tax code taxes single taxpayers more than +married taxpayers with nonworking spouses, but taxes married couples who +both work more than if they both were single. Families with children also +pay less in an attempt to tax the same amount for those with equal abilities +to pay. The progressive nature of the tax code implements the ability-to-pay +principle by suggesting that those with more income have a +more-than-proportional ability to pay. How progressive the tax code should +be, however, is a matter of debate. + +A second goal of the tax code is efficiency, which means collecting a +given amount of tax revenue at the least cost. The efficiency of the tax is +affected by the costs of collection, such as the cost of filling out forms, +having the government monitor payments, and so on. Efficiency is also +influenced by the incentives that an income tax introduces against earning +taxable income. Higher tax rates provide an incentive for taxpayers to work +less to do their own work rather than hire someone else who will have to pay +income tax, and to cheat by not reporting income. These incentives can be +minimized by keeping tax rates low, so the goal of efficiency conflicts with +the equity goal of progressive taxation. + +Historically, the tax code has also been used to further other goals by +providing tax incentives. Home-mortgage interest can be deducted from +taxable income, creating an incentive for home ownership. Charitable +contributions can be deducted, providing an incentive for charitable giving. +The use of the tax system to provide these kinds of incentives is +controversial, and the Tax Reform Act of 1986 eliminated many incentives of +this type.

+ +

THE CORPORATE INCOME TAX + +In 1960 the corporate income tax comprised 23.2% of federal tax revenues, +but had fallen to 12.5 percent of federal tax revenues by 1980, due to the +effects of tax reform undertaken in the 1960s and 1970s. The decline +resulted from corporations being able to shelter more income from taxation +through credits, exemptions, and deductions. Because of the 1981 tax reform, +corporate income tax collections made up only 6.2% of federal tax revenues +in 1983, in large part because the 1981 tax act allowed more favorable +treatment of depreciation. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 contained measures to +increase the contribution of corporate income taxes to total federal taxes, +and by 1989 corporate income tax collections made up more than 11% of federal +tax revenue. + +Taxable income for corporations is computed by subtracting allowable +expenses from income, but from 1960 to the mid-1980s a greater range of +expenses was being allowed. An investment tax credit allowed the reduction +of tax payments by 10% of investment expenditures, and firms were permitted +to write off large depreciation expenses to lower their taxes. The Tax +Reform Act of 1986 reduced corporate income tax rates, but corporations must +pay taxes on more of their income, since less can be deducted. As a result, +corporate income tax collections as a share of total federal taxes have +increased by more than 80 percent. + +One controversy regarding corporate tax rates is who actually ends up +paying the tax. Corporations may raise their prices to cover the corporate +income taxes they pay, which would mean that the tax is actually paid by the +corporation's customers rather than by the corporation itself. If the +corporation did not raise its prices to cover the tax, then the tax would +lower corporate profits, so that the stockholders of the corporation would +end up paying the tax. Since insurance companies and pension plans own large +blocks of stock, the corporate income tax may fall heavily on those +industries and their customers. Economists agree that the tax is ultimately +paid from all of these groups, but there is no agreement on who pays how +much. + +Another controversy regarding the corporate income tax is the issue of +double taxation. A tax on corporate income taxes the stockholder several +times because corporations pay income tax on the money they pay out as +dividends and then the recipient of the dividend must pay personal income tax +on the dividend. Furthermore, stock is bought with after-tax income, then, +when the stockholder is paid a dividend from the corporation or sells the +stock at a profit, the income earned is taxed again. Some people argue that +corporate income should not be taxed in order to avoid double taxation, while +others argue that those who earn corporate income can best afford to pay +taxes. The question is closely related to the issue of who ultimately pays +the corporate income tax, since corporations really only collect taxes that +are paid by individual stockholders and customers. + +TAX POLICY AND TAX REFORM + +Originally, the income tax was seen solely as a method of raising revenue, +but since World War II it has been used as a tool for furthering other goals +as well. In 1964 a tax cut designed by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson was +enacted to help the sagging economy. The logic was that a tax cut would give +consumers more money to spend, which would stimulate business activity. This +was the first time that income tax reform was undertaken primarily to try to +fine-tune the economy.

+ +

President Kennedy also instituted the investment tax credit to encourage +investment, and throughout the 1960s and 1970s many other tax benefits were +added to the tax system. Among them were oil depletion allowances that made +oil exploration more profitable, an energy tax credit that provided an +incentive for energy-efficient investment, and tax exemptions under certain +conditions for retirement savings and health insurance. Each change, taken +by itself, had an individual rationale, but the cumulative effect of such +reforms was to reduce the amount of income subject to taxation, which +required higher average rates to raise the same amount of revenue. + +Throughout the 1960s and 1970s inflation had the effect of continually +pushing taxpayers into higher income tax brackets, which provided additional +revenue to compensate for the increase in tax benefits. Inflation provided +enough additional revenue that rate reductions to partially offset the +effects of inflation were also common. The 1981 tax reform act contained a +provision to automatically index tax brackets to offset inflation, making +this type of tax reform unnecessary. + +The Tax Reform Act of 1986 was the most comprehensive change in the +structure of the U.S. income tax since it was enacted. The cumulative effect +of many small tax reforms over the preceding several decades was to increase +the number of deductions, credits, and exemptions, which resulted in less +income being subject to taxation. The 1986 reform was designed to lower tax +rates while collecting about the same amount of revenue, by eliminating most +tax preferences and thus increasing the amount of income that could be taxed. +Reduced tax rates also have the advantages of increasing the incentive to +earn income, while lowering the incentive for taxpayers to look for tax +shelters to avoid taxation. One measure of the success of the 1986 tax +reform is that only minor changes were made to the income tax structure in +the five years following that reform. + +Randall G. Holcombe

+ +

Bibliography: Bradford, D. F., Untangling the Income Tax (1986); Davies, +David G., United States Taxes and Tax Policy (1986); Hall, Robert E., and +Rabushka, Alvin, The Flat Tax (1985); Holcombe, Randall G., Public Sector +Economics (1988); Peacock, Alan, and Forte, Frances, eds., The Political +Economy of Taxation (1981); (1985); Strassels, Paul N., The 1986 Tax Reform +Act (1987).

+ +

TITLE(s): Treasury, U.S. Department of the +The U.S. + +Department of the Treasury is the department of the executive branch of +government that oversees the nation's finances. The department was created +in 1789, and its first secretary was Alexander Hamilton. The secretary of the +treasury is the second-ranking officer (after the secretary of state) in the +president's cabinet. The secretary is the president's chief advisor on +fiscal affairs and is responsible for managing the public debt. The law +requires the secretary to report each year to the Congress on the +government's fiscal operations and its financial condition. The secretary is +also involved in financial dealings with other nations. The secretary has +special staffs dealing with such matters as defense lending, debt analysis, +financial analysis, international finance, international tax affairs, and +law-enforcement coordination. + +The Treasury Department's operating bureaus include the COMPTROLLER OF THE +CURRENCY, who supervises national banks; the United States Customs Service, +which collects taxes on goods brought into the country from abroad; the +Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which produces currency, bonds, Federal +Reserve notes, and postage stamps; the Bureau of Government Financial +Operations, which is responsible for the government's cash management +program and central accounting and reporting system; the Bureau of the Public +Debt; the INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, which collects taxes; the United States +Mint, which manufactures coinage; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and +Firearms, which enforces federal laws on production, use and distribution; +and the SECRET SERVICE, which protects top U.S. officials and presidential +candidates and enforces laws against counterfeiting.

+ +

Bibliography: Adams, S., The United States Treasury System (1979); +Gaines, Tilford C., Techniques of Treasury Debt Management (1962); Gurney, +Gene and Clare, The United States Treasury: A Pictorial History (1977); +Taus, Esther R., Central Banking Functions of the United States Treasury, +1789-1941 (1943; repr. 1966); Walston, M., The Department of the Treasury +(1989).

+ +

TITLE(s): Internal Revenue Service +The U.S. government's tax collecting agency, the Internal Revenue Service, +was created in 1862. + +However, it did not assume its present shape until the federal power to +tax incomes was sanctioned by the 16TH AMENDMENT (1913) and revenues +increased enormously after World War II. The IRS, a division of the +Department of the Treasury, administers all of the internal revenue laws +except those relating to alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives; its +most important assignments are to collect personal and corporate INCOME +TAXES, SOCIAL SECURITY taxes, and excise, estate, and gift taxes. + +The IRS seeks to obtain voluntary compliance with the tax laws as far as +possible. To this end it stresses communication with taxpayers by providing +assistance and information for those who need it. Most of the approximately +118000 employees of the IRS work in field offices throughout the country. +There are 7 regions, each headed by a regional commissioner, and 64 districts +administered by district directors. Tax returns are processed in separate +tax service centers. The national office in Washington, D.C., develops +policies and supervises the field organization. + +By the early 1980s the IRS was confronting increasing tax evasion and +taxpayer resistance, fueled by perceptions that the tax laws were unfair and +administered unfairly. The IRS must interpret the tax laws through the +regulations it issues, although the IRS is not responsible for writing the +laws themselves. Despite a massive overhaul of the tax system in 1986, the +IRS's interpretations are regularly challenged in cases brought to the U.S. +TAX COURT; and, in adjudication, IRS tax assessments are sometimes rejected. +It is, however, often possible for businesses and individuals to negotiate +settlements directly with the IRS. + +Another source of taxpayer unhappiness is the complexity of many of the +tax forms. They are often so cumbersome and difficult to understand that +ordinary taxpayers may require the services of an accountant merely to file a +tax return. + +In its efforts to discover tax evaders, the IRS has invested in +computerized systems that allow it to gather information from many different +sources and match it with data in its own files, in order to root out, for +example, individuals whose life-styles indicate larger incomes than their tax +returns list. Thus, the IRS can collect information from the 50 states on +automobile and boat registration, professional licenses issued, and business +activities that require state permits. It has also attempted to buy +computerized lists from private marketing organizations. Such activities +have raised questions relating to the issue of invasion of privacy. + +IRS information has been used by other state and government agencies. In +most cases--the enforcement of child-support laws, for example, or the +attempt to find those who have defaulted on student loans--the disclosure of +information has been authorized by Congress.

+ +

Bibliography: Burnham, David: A Law unto Itself: Power, Politics, and the +IRS (1990); Saltzman, Michael, IRS Practice and Procedures (1981); +Shafiroff, I., Internal Revenue Service Practice and Procedure Deskbook, 2d +ed. (1989).

+ +

TITLE(s): Tax Court, U.S. +The United States Tax Court is a court of the federal government that +hears cases brought by taxpayers who challenge decisions of the Internal +Revenue Service (IRS) dealing with overpayment or underpayment of taxes. + +In many instances the decisions of the U.S. Tax Court can be appealed to +the U.S. Court of Appeals and ultimately to the Supreme Court. When +taxpayers exercise an option to agree to the use of simplified court +procedures in disputes involving $10000 or less, however, the cases tried +under these procedures cannot be appealed to a higher court. The U.S. Tax +Court also decides disputes over the rights of taxpayers to see documents and +other materials that are related to their cases and that are contained in +IRS files. + +The court is composed of 19 judges appointed for life and 17 special trial +judges appointed by the chief judge who serve at the pleasure of the court. +It is augmented by retired judges when the case load is heavy. The court's +offices are in Washington, D.C., but it maintains a field office in Los +Angeles and holds trial sessions throughout the United States.

+ +

Bibliography: Taylor, M. W., and Simonson, K. J., Tax Court Practice, 7th +ed. (1990).

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I N V I S I B L E C O N T R A C T S +George Mercier

+ +

INTRODUCTION +[Pages 1-88]

+ +

[Certain conventions have been used in converting INVISIBLE CONTRACTS to an +electronic medium. For an explanation of the conventions used, please download +the file INCONHLP.ZIP for further illumination. Other background information as +well is contained in INCONHLP.ZIP. It is advisable to EXIT this file right now +and read the contents of INCONHLP.ZIP before proceeding with your study of this +file.]

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[COMMENTARY FOR THIS FILE: There is some real heavy-duty data in this one. Lots +of food for thought. Some of it is buried in the religious oriented passages, +so don't avoid or ignore those, lest you miss out on some real gems. There is +also some extremely interesting passages regarding the impending (and planned) +Great Depression II of the 1990's, even more interesting when one considers +these passages were written over 7 years ago, and yet they are so accurate and +hit the nail on the head as to current unfolding events regarding the economy.]

+ +

GEORGE MERCIER +December 31, 1985

+ +

DEAR MR. MAY:

+ +

I was intrigued to see that you have retained an interest in my Letter to Armen +Condo, even if that Letter was intended to be the isolated private +correspondence between two people. After receiving numerous inquiries about +that Letter, I have been quite surprised at the extent to which that Letter has +been so widely disseminated. At the time I wrote it, I was under the assumption +that most folks already knew of the underlying evidentiary Commercial contract +factual settings that Title 26, Section 7203 WILLFUL FAILURE TO FILE +prosecutions are built on top of.

+ +

In your Letter you state that you have some questions about the bank account +contract as being the exclusive Equity instrument that initiates the attachment +of liability for the positive administrative mandates of Title 26.

+ +

Please be advised that your reservations are well founded and quite accurate, +that is, if you did read such an element of exclusivity out of the Letter. The +reason why your reservations are accurate is because I did not mean to state or +infer any such thing; however, that is not the problem here. Armen Condo's bank +accounts were sitting in front of the Judge during his arraignment and all +pre-Trial hearings, and those Commercial contracts are more than strong enough +to warrant incarceration on mere default therein. Since the nature of bank +accounts involves the evidentiary presence of written admissions, together with +the acceptance of Federal Commercial benefits therefrom, the presence of +reciprocity expectations contained therein, [001]

+ +

[001]============================================================= RECIPROCITY +is defined as a relational state where two or more parties, enjoying each +other's benefits and each possessing various expectations from each other, are +being reciprocal to each other, a kind of "give and take" going on back and +forth; and so in this relational setting, there are some kinds of +interdependence, mutuality, and cooperation expectations in effect between the +parties. But the key elements that will be repeated over and over again in this +Letter, is that where the initial benefits were not first exchanged, then the +secondary obligation to reciprocate does not exist, either. For example, the +word RECIPROCITY surfaces frequently when Governments discuss exchanging +favorable trade benefits with each other; each Government controls a source of +benefits the other wants, and so now the reciprocating mutuality and exchange +of benefits between the jurisdictions is called RECIPROCITY, but its meaning +has been elusive for some: +"The term RECIPROCITY as now currently used in most cases with only a +vague or very general notion of its meaning... [An] attempt is made to define +reciprocity when it is specified that the PRIVILEGES granted must be +equivalent. Thus one writer, basing his definition upon a study of the public +papers of the Presidents of the United States, remarks: +"Reciprocity is the granting by one nation of certain +commercial privileges to another, whereby the citizens of both are placed upon +an equal basis in certain branches of commerce." +-MESSAGES AND PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS, Page 562." Whenever there is +an exchange of benefits and there remains some lingering expectations of some +duty between two parties, then an actual INVISIBLE CONTRACT is in effect [as I +will discuss later], as it is said that the duty owed back to the party +initially transferring the benefits is RECIPROCAL in nature. Hence, the steam +engine is said to be a RECIPROCAL ENGINE: Steam is forced into a chamber +pushing a piston out, and the piston pushes in turn a lever attached to a +wheel; now the wheel revolves because the steam initially pushed out a piston. +So when the revolving wheel comes back fully around, it is now the force of the +wheel that pushes back the lever, which pushes in turn the piston back into the +chamber, that clears the chamber for a second and successive injection of +steam. [See the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ["Reciprocating Engines"] (London, +1929)]. Question: What happens when the wheel (having gotten what it wanted by +being turned by the lever and having initially accepted the benefits of the +steam pushing the piston), freezes up for some reason and does not reciprocate +as expected and now refuses to push the piston back into the chamber? What +happens is that the engine stops; everything grinds to a halt; and damages are +created. ...Well, as we turn from a tangible setting where machinery is in +motion, over to legal reasoning handed down from the Judiciary of the United +States, no Principles ever change -- because when we turn to the Supreme Court +rulings in hot political areas of so-called DRAFT PROTESTING and TAX +PROTESTING, by the end of this Letter you will see the true meaning of +RECIPROCITY, and of the damages created by refusing to reciprocate when +expected. Yes, often there are contracts invisible to the Defendant that +actually control grievances in a Courtroom, and there is to be learned a true +natural origin of contracts and of reciprocity; the origin lies not with +American judges trying to create seemingly fictional legal justifications, but +in NATURE, and actually in the mind of Heavenly Father who, as we will see, +created what is now called NATURE. +=============================================================[001]

+ +

and other factors, bank account instruments are CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE of Taxpayer +Status by virtue of participation in the closed private domain of INTERSTATE +COMMERCE. And by these CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE fellows entering into the Armen +Condo factual setting the way they did, those bank accounts were the only +evidentiary items that I talked about. [002]

+ +

[002]============================================================= CONCLUSIVE +EVIDENCE is deemed incontrovertible: Because either the Law does not allow +contradiction for some reason, or in the alternative, because the inherent +nature of the Evidence is so strong and so convincing that it automatically +overrules any other mitigating or vitiating Evidence that could possibly be +presented. Therefore it is deemed provident that CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE, all by +itself, establishes the proposition that is sought at hand, beyond any +reasonable or possibly legitimate doubt; this CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE RULE is very +reasonable in many situations. +=============================================================[002]

+ +

The other "evidence" the local situ United States Attorney presented to the +Jury was distraction evidence for public and Jury consumption purposes only, +and means absolutely nothing to appellate forums (for purposes of ascertaining +Taxpayer Status). Bank accounts are the highest and best evidence "Cards" the +King has to deal with, even better than old 1040's, and so that bank account +evidence should be the very first slice of evidence to go when an Individual +has concluded within himself that a change in Status is now desired. [003]

+ +

[003]============================================================= I am aware +that the linguistic use of the word "King", as a moniker to characterize the +combined Executive and Legislative branches of the United States is a bit +novel, and I know that most folks would feel uncomfortable with it at first. +Yet, despite the differential in comfort levels in the use of such semantics, I +go right ahead and use this characterization anyway because its use, all by +itself, enhances the important distinction between Common Law Jurisdiction and +King's Equity Jurisdiction (which distinction is still very much in effect +today), and makes this distinction much easier to understand; and additionally +underscores the fact that the United States is stratified at Law into multiple +jurisdictions to more tightly replicate the contours of Nature, and that the +United States is not a single monolithic SLIPPERY SLOPE slab of equity Civil +Law (hybridized old Roman Civil Law). As the American colonies severed +relations at Law with the Mother Crown, the jurisdiction conferred upon the +United States by our Fathers was largely similar, in a structural sense, to +that jurisdiction the King of England already had. But the idea of +characterizing the combined Executive and Legislative Branches of the United +States as a "King" may not even be mine. Imagine fictionally in your mind +having lunch with your Dad and a Federal Appellate Judge in New York City. +During this imaginary and purely fictional conversation, while the non-existent +Judge is speaking on a criminal doctrine, he mentions the existence of a +contemporary "King" here today in the United States, as if it were a very +natural idea to him. A year later, you realize that relating the jurisdictional +contours of the United States to those contours which a King should have and +not have, makes everything seem easy to understand. This is particularly so +when relating a factual question of police powers limitation, or of a taxing +limitation, to something tangible and natural like a King's expected +jurisdictional contours. Additionally, a "King" also accurately reflects +lingering English Jurisprudence here in the United States, and also reflects +the present KING TO PRINCE satropic relational status of the United States +Government to the several States, following the enactment of the AFTER TEN +Amendments that shifted the RATIO DECIDENDI of power to Washington. +=============================================================[003]

+ +

Like Irwin Schiff here in late 1985, Armen Condo's reluctance in 1984 to get +rid of his bank accounts forecloses a teachable state of mind one must have to +understand multiple other invisible contracts that our King is dealing with, +and that are more difficult to discern and appreciate the significance of. So +if a PERSON, seeking a shift in relational Status to INDIVIDUAL, is unwilling +to first get rid of his bank accounts, then talking to him about anything else +is an improvident waste of time. [004]

+ +

[004]============================================================= The word +PERSON is of particular legal significance in American Jurisprudence; it is +distinguished from the word INDIVIDUAL, with the semantic differential in +effect between the two being inherently Status oriented. Although sounding +innocent under common English semantic rules, on the floor of a Courtroom these +semantic rules take upon themselves deeper significance, as it is quietly known +by all Judges that PERSONS are clothed with multiple layers of juristic +accoutrements giving that PERSON'S presence in that Courtroom a special and +suggestive flavoring to it. On the one hand, PERSONS have special legal rights, +benefits, and privileges originating from a juristic source; and on the other +hand, PERSONS also carry upon themselves various obligatory duties (some of +which, if not handled properly, can be very self-damaging at times) -- but both +rights and duties are often invisible. In contrast to that layered state of +juristic accoutrement encapsulation, INDIVIDUALS walk around without any such +accoutrements [they would be "liberated" as the contemporary vernacular would +characterize it]. As a point of beginning, PERSONS can be either natural human +beings like you and me, or artificial juristic entities (such as foreign +governments, Corporations, Agencies, or Instrumentalities) and the like -- at +least, here in 1985, those are the only two existing divisions of PERSONS +presently recognized by the Judiciary (i.e., human beings and paper juristic +entities). +"Following many writers on jurisprudence, a juristic person may be +defined as an entity that is subject to a right. There are good etymological +grounds for such an inclusive neutral definition. The Latin "PERSONA" +originally referred to DRAMATIS PERSONAE, and in Roman Law the term was adapted +to refer to anything that could act on either side of a legal dispute... In +effect, in Roman legal tradition, PERSONS are creations, artifacts, of the law +itself, i.e., of the legislature that enacts the law, and are not considered to +have, or only have incidentally, existence of any kind outside of the legal +sphere. The law, on the Roman interpretation, is systematically ignorant of the +biological status of its subjects." +-Peter French in THE CORPORATION AS A MORAL PERSON, 16 American +Philosophical Quarterly 207, at 215 (1979). But some time off in the future, +the world will come to grips with the deeper meanings of Peter French's +comments about how PERSONS ARE CREATIONS and how the law is ignorant OF THE +BIOLOGICAL STATUS OF ITS SUBJECTS, because common knowledge will be changing +one day as the recombinant DNA cellular cultivation technology perfected in the +late 1970s in special basement laboratories designed into the CIA's Langley +offices by Nelson Rockefeller blossoms out one day into the Commercial Sector, +and genetic replicas of humans are brought forth into the public domain. It is +my legal Prophesy that it is only a matter of time before a Court ruling or +some slice of LEX makes its appearance somewhere, saying that the original +natural born human being takes upon themselves full civil and criminal +liability for all acts performed by their genetic replicas as soon as they +emerge from the chemical tank, under the ALTER EGO ["second self"] DOCTRINE; +and that those biological replicas (or SYNTHETIC ALTOMETONS, as the Bolsheviks +would say) will also be deemed at that time to be PERSONS, fully layered with +all of the same juristic accoutrements that their natural born human sponsor +possesses [or would have possessed under similar circumstances]. The use of +look alikes, or DOUBLES, has a very long history to them, particularly in +dynastic settings where tremendous wealth is available for some looting; here +in the United States of 1985, Bolshevik SYNTHETIC ALTOMETONS have already +produced marvelous results for their sponsors, in both family dynasty and +political settings involving important positions held in Juristic Institutions. +When common public knowledge of this technology actually will blossom out into +the open, I do not know. When the Apostle John was exiled to the Isle of +Patmos, he once wrote a story on events he had seen in a vision; John talks +about how someday the world's Gremlins, continuing to incorporate deception +into their MODUS OPERANDI like they do, will make a big deal out of a man they +will one day raise up for their purposes. Like the inflated, dramatic, and +overzealous presentation of Henry Kissinger's intellectual credentials, this +man will be shown on a much grander scale working great wonders going about the +world ending one tough crisis after another, as the imp goes about his mischief +trying to get folks to place trust and confidence in him (just like with +Henry); and great political power and authority will be given to this imp. John +describes a fellow who will bring down fire from Heaven, perform other great +wonders, and then be fatally wounded. As part of the Gremlin deception show, +this little imp will heal his own wounds and bring himself back from the dead. +This little Gremlin won't actually heal his own wounds, as the world's news +media will then want you to believe in furtherance of Gremlin conquests, but +actually a DOUBLE will be brought forth that will have been previously +manufactured, while the body of the mortally wounded and double-crossed imp +will be quietly disposed of out the back door; and at the present time, +excellent genetic DOUBLES are very feasible to manufacture. At the time the +world's Gremlins pull off their impending MAGNUM OPUS theatrics [meaning "great +act" theatrics], John tells us that they will succeed in deceiving many people. +Few people have in-depth factual knowledge on Gremlin movements, and so few +folks have trained themselves to be able to think in terms that Gremlins think +in: Terms that involve deception, intrigue, and the use of doubles, murder, and +whatever other CRACKING is necessary to get the job done. Like Tax Protestors +never bothering to try and see things from the Judge's and the King's position, +by folks never bothering to try and see things from the Gremlin perspective, +the result is going to be exactly what John tells us: That many people will be +held in awe of this little Gremlin, just like many people have already held +Henry Kissinger in awe when they should have thrown him in the trash can, as +the little Hitler the real Henry once was. As for bringing down fire from +heaven and other MAGNUM OPUS appearances that John talks about, the holographic +technology to create multiple colored images is now also highly developed. +Using a confluence of monochromatic radiation sources (lasers), impressive +visual images can now be created in an air reception media (just like in STAR +WARS). The technically impressive show that the world's Gremlins will one day +sponsor to try and impress people world wide -- THAT THEIR LITTLE IMP IS WORTH +ADMIRING -- will actually have been rehearsed in a studio first, before being +brought for on some world exhibition stage the Gremlins will create. [See the +13th chapter of REVELATION]. One of the dominate themes of this Letter is +INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY, and correlative to that, it is my proposition that +Gremlins can actually never succeed in forcing deception on others. The reason +why is because deception has to be first created, then conveyed, and then +accepted by others -- then only can deception succeed. Deception can only find +fertility in a human mind to the extent that mind is receptive to it; +similarly, in a sense, it actually takes two people to manufacture a successful +lie: The first to utter the lie, and the second to accept it as such. +=============================================================[004]

+ +

That Letter was intended to be the private correspondence between two persons, +or so I thought. Since no further dissemination of the Letter was expected, no +detailed explanation of the factual setting otherwise relevant to the subject +matter content of the Letter was made, nor was any detailed discussion of other +limiting factors or peripheral elements of jural influence made. Both parties +already knew key elements of the factual setting that gave rise to the Letter, +and the subject matter I addressed was intended to be a narrow one, talking +about bank accounts only as a point of beginning. For that reason, now the +expansive factual application of that Letter to mean that a Person's +contractual relationship with a Federally regulated financial institution was +exclusively the only acceptable PRIMA FACIE Evidence [005]

+ +

[005]============================================================= PRIMA FACIE +EVIDENCE is Evidence that is good and sufficient on its face. PRIMA FACIE +differs from CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE in the sense that PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE may be +contradicted or attacked by other Evidence, whereas CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE is not +open to such an attack. If left unexplained or unchallenged, PRIME FACIE +EVIDENCE is deemed to be of sufficient merit to sustain a judgment in favor of +the issue at hand that it is supporting. Both PRIMA FACIE and CONCLUSIVE +EVIDENCE are Evidentiary Rules involving the use of PRESUMPTIONS, which I will +discuss later. +=============================================================[005]

+ +

-- or even CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE -- of that Person's entry into the juristic +highways of Interstate Commerce, is an erroneous and overly enlarged +interpretation, and falls outside the contours of the two narrow questions that +I thought I had addressed in that Letter:

+ +

1.What right does the King have to criminalize a conversation two +people have, just because the content discussed in that conversation does not +meet with the King's approval? (Relating to Mr. Condo's civilly denominated +prosecution where the United States sought a Restraining Order silencing his +YHPA ["Your Heritage Protection Association"]; +2.What rights does the King have to incarcerate a Person for a mere +circumstantial omission that is in want of both a MENS REA [006]

+ +

[006]============================================================= The MENS REA +is an evil state of mind that is necessarily inherent in all criminals as they +knowingly go about their pre-planned work by intentionally damaging someone +else. +"Criminal liability is normally based upon the concurrence of two +factors, 'an evil-meaning mind and an evil-doing hand...' ...Few areas of +criminal law pose more difficulty than the proper definition of the MENS REA +required for any particular crime. [Extended discussion then follows defining +what the MENS REA is and is not]." +-UNITED STATES VS. BAILEY, 444 U.S. 394, at 402 (1979) +=============================================================[006]

+ +

and a CORPUS DELECTI... [007]

+ +

[007]============================================================= The CORPUS +DELECTI is the hard evidentiary "body of the crime" that is supposed to exist +on the record; it is related to DUE PROCESS in the sense that it ferrets out a +unique form of error. Originated as a Common Law rule by judges in our old +Mother England, the Britannic judiciary had been embarrassed by having +consented to execute a man for murder, when the individual believed to have +been murdered later returned to the village very much alive. As a corrective +result, the judiciary then required that in all capital murder cases, the +prosecuting Crown has the burden of adducing satisfactory evidence that the +alleged victim is actually dead (separate from, and in addition to, other +evidence that the accused is guilty.) Today, the CORPUS DELECTI rule is very +much a correct PRINCIPLE OF NATURE for those criminal prosecutions falling +under Tort Law indicia (where no contract governs the grievance); but it lies +largely in slumber. It could be a test of the factual setting for the presence +of hard damages on the criminal record, and as such would screen out +illegitimate prosecutions where the Complainant never experienced any damages; +but as our Father's Common Law has been replaced by contractual LEX, this rule +has largely faded away into atrophy. Should it ever be resuscitated, perhaps in +the form of mandating Criminal Arraignment Magistrates to document either a +contract or the twin Tort indicia of MENS REA/CORPUS DELECTI on the record, as +a condition for allowing the criminal prosecution to proceed on to Trial, such +a procedural rule would automatically disable any Special Interest Group from +succeeding in having their little penal Majoritarian LEX forced on others in +violation of both the REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT CLAUSE of Article 4, and of +PRINCIPLES OF NATURE that replicate the thinking of Heavenly Father. All +Special Interest Groups sponsored penal LEX is always characterized by the +absence of any contract or damages present in the factual setting that the +defendant is being prosecuted for -- such as growing Marijuana in your backyard +and gambling in your basement. There is a chilling story to be told some other +time of the Special Interest Temperance sponsors of the Prohibition of the +1920's here in the United States and of their descendants, who today are +heavily involved with drug smuggling, so called; as the criminalization of +plants and plant derivatives that are in broad demand creates a FABULOUS Black +Market to pursue Commercial enrichment in. +=============================================================[007]

+ +

the criminalization of a non-event that never happened? (Relating to Mr. +Condo's 7203 WILLFUL FAILURE TO FILE prosecution).

+ +

You have me in such a position, Mr. May, that writing this response to you +makes me feel like I am the United States Supreme Court, reaffirming a prior +Opinion, yet turning around and writing voluminous explanative text discussing +the implications to a slight twist to the factual setting. [008]

+ +

[008]============================================================= In a limited +cognitive sense, I am also sympathetic to the position Dr. Albert Einstein was +in when he first disseminated his THEORY OF RELATIVITY in 1929 with +qualifications, as he knew then that only a few people were in a position to +come to grips with its contents: +"... his latest formal document -- the new "Field Theory" on the +relations between gravitation and electromagnetism -- concerning which he +himself declares it is absurd to waste time to try to elucidate it for the +public because 'probably not more than a dozen or so men in the world could +possibly understand it'." +-The NEW YORK TIMES ["Einstein Distracted by Public Curiosity; Seeks +Hiding Place"], Page 1 (February 4, 1929). +=============================================================[008]

+ +

The narrow answers explaining why Mr. Condo was just plain wrong in both of +those questions were discussed in that letter -- because in both questions, the +United States had written Commercial contracts Armen Condo had entered into +wherein Mr. Condo agreed not to disseminate any erroneous tax information, and +additionally, where Mr. Condo agreed not to withhold or fail to file any +information the Secretary of Treasury deemed necessary to determine Mr. Condo's +Excise Tax Liability (with the amount of tax being measured by net taxable +income). Those contracts the United States was operating on were Mr. Condo's +bank accounts.

+ +

Furthermore, to aggravate the just plain "wrongness" of Mr. Condo's position, +those contracts were entered into by Mr. Condo in the circumstantial context of +Mr. Condo's attempting to experience monetary profit or gain through the +operation of those contracts. In other words, there had been an exchange of +financial Consideration (benefits) involved, and in Contract Law, the exchange +of valuable Consideration (benefits) is of particular significance. [009]

+ +

[009]============================================================= +CONSIDERATION is technically defined to be either a benefit or a detriment -- +meaning that some operation of NATURE out there in the practical setting took +place. +"Under the common law of Missouri, Consideration sufficient to support +a simple contract may consist either of a detriment to the Promisee, or a +benefit to the Promisor." +-IN RE WINDLE, 653 F.2nd 328, at 331 (1981). +"The very essence of Consideration... is legal detriment that has been +bargained for and exchanged for the promise... The two parties must have agreed +and intended that the benefits each derived be the Consideration for a +contract." +-JOSEPHINE HOFFA VS. FRANK FITZSIMMONS, 499 F.Supp. 357, at 365 +(1980). This CONSIDERATION DOCTRINE -- this requirement that there must first +be a practical operation of NATURE prior to triggering the Law is very +important, and applies across all factual settings, and not just on contracts, +as I will explain by the end of this Letter. But for the purposes of this +Letter, only the benefit slice of CONSIDERATION will be discussed. +=============================================================[009]

+ +

This Consideration requirement is a correct PRINCIPLE OF NATURE, [010]

+ +

[010]============================================================= Yes, the +requirement for CONSIDERATION originated in the Heavens, but not so to lawyers, +who begin their analysis of the Law by starting off in the wrong direction when +assuming that men created the Law. Just like collegiate intellectual's +conjecture that the organic history of technological innovations is the result +of accidents, so too do lawyers skew their perceptions off into factually +defective tangents: +"Bargain consideration was invented for the sake of bilateral +agreements and then was extended to unilateral agreements..." +-Hugh Willis in RATIONALE OF BARGAIN CONSIDERATION in 27 Georgetown +Law Journal 414, at 415 (1939). +The author then continues on with his dribblings. +=============================================================[010]

+ +

because it is immoral and unethical to hold a contract against a Person under +circumstances in which that Person never received any benefits from out of it. +[011]

+ +

[011]============================================================= See Charles +Fried in CONTRACT AS PROMISE "Consideration" [Harvard University Press, +Cambridge (1981)]. +=============================================================[011]

+ +

It has to be this way, otherwise the Judicature of the United States would be +working a Tort (damage) on someone else. So simply giving the other party some +up front Consideration, which is generally $10 in cash, separately and in +addition to any other benefit the contract may call for, will vitiate and +deflect any attack against the future enforcement of that contract on the +grounds the other party never experienced any benefit from it (the attack is +called FAILURE OF CONSIDERATION). [012]

+ +

[012]============================================================= For +commentary in this area of CONSIDERATION, see: +-James Barr Ames in TWO THEORIES OF CONSIDERATION, 12 Harvard Law +Review 515 (1899) [discussing the relationship between Consideration and both +unilateral and bilateral contracts]; +-Arthur Corbin in THE EFFECT OF OPTIONS ON CONSIDERATION, 34 Yale Law +Journal 571 (1925); +-Arthur Corbin in NON-BINDING PROMISES AS CONSIDERATION, 26 Columbia +Law Review 550 (1926); +-Joseph Beale in NOTES ON CONSIDERATION, 17 Harvard Law Review 71 +(1903); +-Melvin Eisenberg in THE PRINCIPLES OF CONSIDERATION, 67 Cornell Law +Review 640 (1982); +-Samuel Williston in SUCCESSIVE PROMISES OF THE SAME PERFORMANCE, 5 +Harvard Law Review 27 (1894). Samuel Williston authored several tremendous +books on contract law called: +1.WILLISTON ON CONTRACTS, [Baker & Voorhis, New York (1936-1945) 9 +volumes]; +2.CASES ON ENGINEERING CONTRACTS ("engineering" meaning "drafting" +contracts), [Little Brown, Boston (1904)]; +3.RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW ON CONTRACTS [American Law Institute, St. +Paul (1932)]. +=============================================================[012]

+ +

This Consideration [meaning some practical benefit being exchanged or some +operation of Nature taking place] can also originate from third persons not a +party to the contract. [013]

+ +

[013]============================================================= "In most +actions upon contracts, the Consideration 'moved' directly from the Plaintiff +to the Defendant, either by way of a benefit conferred or a loss sustained, or +both, and the promise sued upon was made by the Defendant directly to the +Plaintiff. But occasionally the whole Consideration arises between the +Defendant and some third person other than the Plaintiff, and the promise is +made to such [third] person alone; and the question arises, 'Can any other +person than the promisee maintain an action upon such promise, solely because +he is beneficially interested in its performance?' Many cases seem to hold +that he can. Is that a universal or general rule? Is not the general rule the +other way? If A sends a package to B by an expressman and pays him double price +upon his promise to deliver the article promptly, can B recover damages for the +carrier's non-performance of that contract? ...A perfect, well-rounded contract +requires not only a promise and a Consideration, but a participation by each +party in both of these elements..." +-Edward Bennett in CONSIDERATIONS MOVING FROM THIRD PERSONS in 9 +Harvard Law Review 233, at 233 (1895). As we change settings from a common +everyday Commercial arrangement where merchandise is being transported back and +forth, over to a juristic setting involving contracts with Government, nothing +changes either -- as Consideration is deemed to have been exchanged based upon +an operation of indirect third persons not a party to the contract [as I will +discuss under the CITIZENSHIP CONTRACT later on]. +=============================================================[013]

+ +

The word CONSIDERATION has so many different meanings that anyone trying to use +the word instructionally finds themselves starting over from scratch in the +presentation of a definition. [014]

+ +

[014]============================================================= "The term +CONSIDERATION has been used in so many senses that anyone who employs it must +define it for his own purposes anew. In using it as a title, I mean to include +thereunder all acts or omissions on the part of anyone other than the promissor +which, taken in connection with the promise, may be thought to afford a reason +for granting a legal remedy upon its breach. So stated, the question whether +Consideration exists in any given instance depends not on the character of the +particular act relied upon as Consideration, but on its relation to the +parties, to the promise, and to the particular remedy which is sought." +-George Gardner in AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF +CONTRACTS, 46 Harvard Law Review 1, at 9 (1932). In the typical case of a +simple business contract these relationships that Gardner was referring to +appear to be complex at first (as George Gardner did not elucidate himself very +well in that article), but they are based on very simple PRINCIPLES OF NATURE +everyone can understand; and when understanding these Consideration rules, the +indicia of Nature which creates invisible contracts will also surface and +become apparent. For example, let's say that A promises to B that if B will +ship him a farm reaper, then A will pay to B $500 ten days after it is shipped. +Fine. B ships the reaper, thus bring the element of Consideration into the +factual setting, and so now an invisible contract is formed: How? Since it was +necessary to promise $500 as an inducement to B to ship the reaper, it is +reasonably inferred that B experienced an outgoing DETRIMENT of something +around $500. But as for A, he accepted a benefit (the reaper) that B first +offered conditionally -- and when practical benefits were accepted by you that +someone else offered conditionally (here, the benefit was conditioned upon +receipt of $500 within ten days), then an invisible contract is in effect; and +contracts do not now, and never did, have to be stated in writing in order to +be enforceable by American Judges. [The reaper sale is explained in PORT HURON +MACHINE COMPANY VS. WOHLERS, 207 Iowa 826 (1929)]. +=============================================================[014]

+ +

Under some circumstances, successive Promises cascading down from existing +contracts can be deemed to be good and valuable Consideration. [015]

+ +

[015]============================================================= Even though +no tangible CONSIDERATION changed hands when this successive contract was +executed, the original contract did trigger an exchange of CONSIDERATION, an so +in a sense, other successive future contracts could be deemed ADDENDUMS to the +original contract, obtaining their life from the CONSIDERATION the parent +contract experienced. See: +-C.C. Langdell in MUTUAL PROMISES AS A CONSIDERATION FOR EACH OTHER in +14 Harvard Law Review 496 (1900); +-Samuel Williston in SUCCESSIVE PROMISES OF THE SAME PERFORMANCE in 8 +Harvard Law Review 27 (1894); +-Ballantine n MUTUALITY AND CONSIDERATION in 28 Harvard Law Review 121 +(1914); +-OLIPHANT in MUTUALITY OF OBLIGATION IN BILATERAL CONTRACTS AT LAW in +25 Columbia Law Review 705 (1925); +-Samuel Williston in THE EFFECT OF ONE VOID PROMISE IN A BILATERAL +AGREEMENT in 25 Columbia Law Review 857 (1925); +-Corbin in NON-BINDING PROMISES AS CONSIDERATION in 26 Columbia Law +Review 550 (1926). +=============================================================[015]

+ +

Harnessing the element of FRAUD to inure to your benefit is powerful stuff in +that it vitiates contracts whenever it makes an appearance in a factual setting +predicated upon contract; [016]

+ +

[016]============================================================= Fraud +vitiates the juristic vitality and destroys the legal validity of everything +that it enters into: +"Fraud destroys the validity of everything into which it enters. It +affects fatally even the most solemn judgments and decrees." +-IRA NUDD VS. GEORGE BURROWS, 91 U.S. 426, at 440 (1875). +"There is no question of the general doctrine that fraud vitiates the +most solemn contracts, documents, and even judgments. There is no question that +many rights originally founded in fraud become -- by lapse of time... no longer +open to inquiry in the usual and ordinary method." +-UNITED STATES VS. SAM THROCKMORTON, 98 U.S. 61, at 64 (1878). Notice +how the lack of timeliness impairs one's ability to invoke this DOCTRINE OF +FRAUD and successfully have contracts, documents, etc. annulled where fraud has +surfaced as an element; and as we change arguments, the Principle of Timeliness +(Laches) does not change, so the importance of handling FAILURE OF +CONSIDERATION in a timely manner as a defense line will also surface as a key +important judicial indicia in deciding whether or not to award a FAILURE OF +CONSIDERATION judgment in your favor. +=============================================================[016]

+ +

and likewise, when contracts are up for review and judgment, the element of +CONSIDERATION is also so important that the mere absence of it nullifies the +judicial enforceability of any factual setting alleging the existence of +contractual liabilities. As the PRESENCE of fraud vitiates contracts, so in a +similar manner does the ABSENCE of Consideration nullify contracts. [017]

+ +

[017]============================================================= In the early +1970's, a business called Erika Incorporated had been the recipient of a train +of money originating from medical claims filed with University Hospital in +Birmingham, Alabama for the Blue Cross "C-Plus" payment plan. Blue Cross had +been sending the money to University Hospital, who in turn sent the money to +Erika. But in the Summer of 1975, University Hospital decided to terminate +relations with Erika, and so Blue Cross then started paying its subscribers +directly for services rendered by Erika. Now Erika had to go through the +nuisance of trying to collect money from some distant patients; this was an +expensive procedure, and necessarily generated administrative headaches; and so +now Erika tried to get set up with Blue Cross directly as a PROVIDER, now that +University Hospital stopped paying Erika. In a preliminary attempt to get paid +directly from Blue Cross, Erika presented some ASSIGNMENTS that its customers +had signed, instructing Blue Cross to pay Erika directly, but Blue Cross +erected some administrative impediments. Later, Erika then asked Blue Cross for +a PROVIDER NUMBER to return to a relationship where they get paid directly from +Blue Cross, but Blue Cross refused to issue out such a PROVIDER NUMBER. So in +the Summer of 1975, numerous letters were going back and forth between the +corporate management of Erika and Blue Cross. The letters seem to indicate that +Blue Cross deemed that a PROVIDER NUMBER for Erika really was not necessary, +and that special checks could be issued out to Erika in circumvention of house +rules, but things never worked out for Erika. Circumstances came to pass later +where Erika is unhappy over the loss of revenue, so Erika started an action in +Federal District Court, now claiming that the letters from Blue Cross stating +possible circumvention of PROVIDER NUMBER was an offer to a contract which +Erika later accepted, and therefore a contract was in effect. The Federal Judge +ruled that an exchange of letters is not a contract, and that all of the offers +and acceptances stated in such letters means nothing -- since NO CONSIDERATION +EVER CHANGED HANDS: +"Even if the exchange of letters can somehow be construed as containing +essential elements of the agreement, no contract was formed because there was +no Consideration. Consideration for a promise is an act, a forbearance, or the +creation, modification or destruction of a legal relation, or a return promise, +bargained for and given in exchange for the promise. [Remember that +CONSIDERATION is a hard practical operation of Nature taking place.] ... In the +instant case, there was no Consideration to Blue Cross from Erika for any +promise made by Blue Cross. Although legal detriment to the promisee is a valid +Consideration as a benefit to the promisor, ... that Consideration must be +bargained for, and in the instant case there is no evidence that the action of +Erika in submitting bills in the form and manner set forth by Blue Cross and +refraining from sending such bills to Blue Cross' subscribers was in any way +bargained for. The Court finds that the exchange of correspondence did not form +a contractual obligation on the part of Blue Cross to pay the money directly to +Erika." +-ERIKA, INC. VS. BLUE CROSS, 496 F.Supp. 786, at 788 (1980). I +simplified the factual setting on this Case, but the essential factual elements +relating to the promises written on paper, without any correlative operation of +Nature (CONSIDERATION) is largely accurate. Here in ERIKA, just like Tax +Protestors throwing Temporary Restraining Order Petitions at a new Employer, +one party lost no time barreling into Federal Court demanding some perceived +rights. And as is very often the case, as happened here, a third party +intervenes into the factual setting [here Blue Cross], and for reasons the +complaining party had little control over, damages are being experienced. With +Tax Protestors, the third party intervening into their factual setting by +preemptively grabbing their earnings is the IRS. By the end of this Letter, you +should see quite clearly that the Law now continues to operate out in the +practical setting where it always has operated before recent technological +developments like paper, pens, and the like, and even general public literacy, +which surfaced generally as late as the 1300's to 1600's. The Law does not +operate on paper [whenever the Law is based on NATURE]; what is written on +paper is merely a STATEMENT OF THE LAW. Importantly, I hope you should see why. +=============================================================[017]

+ +

In general terms, both American Jurisprudence and Nature that it is modeled +after are divided into actions that fall generally under Tort Law and Contract +Law. [018]

+ +

[018]============================================================= For a +presentation of the history of the bifurcation of Law into Tort and Contract +going back into 1200 A.D., see C.H.S. Fifoot in HISTORY AND SOURCES OF THE +COMMON LAW, TORT AND CONTRACT; [Stevens and Sons, London (1949)]. +=============================================================[018]

+ +

Numerous references will be made throughout this Letter to the two great +divisions in American Jurisprudence: TORT LAW and CONTRACT LAW. Very simply, +Contract Law applies to govern a settlement of a grievance whenever a contract +is in effect. This means that only certain types of very narrow arguments are +allowed to be plead in Contract Law grievances, since only the content of the +contract is of any relevance in the grievance settlement. The reason why +statutes are sometimes brought into a Contract Law judgment setting, statutes +that do not appear anywhere within the body proper of the contract, is because +the contract was written under the supervisory Commerce Jurisdiction of the +State, and that therefore those statutes form a superseding part of the +contract. [019]

+ +

[019]============================================================= Before 1933, +it was common practice in the United States for various contracts to contain +covenants stating that a sum set certain would be paid in Gold Coin, and so +these special covenants were then called GOLD CLAUSES. They would read +something to the effect that "... will pay (amount) dollars in gold coin of the +United States of the standard weight and fineness existing on (date of +contract)..." In this way, creditors protected themselves from losses due to +Government creating a monetary change in currency value. When a Joint +Resolution of Congress in June of 1933 [31 U.S.C. 463] explicitly abrogated the +judicial enforcement of these GOLD CLAUSES in Commercial contracts, there was +the usual Patriot howling, claiming that worn out Patriot argument of +UNCONSTITUTIONALITY; some lingering residues of which continue on down to the +present time. However, long ago in the early 1800's, an American jurist with +great foresight, who understood the correct relational status in effect between +COMMERCIAL contracts and the Constitution, had a few words to say about this +state of affairs: +"Nay, if the legislature should pass a law declaring, that all future +contracts might be discharged by a tender of any thing, or things, besides gold +and silver, there would be a great difficulty in affirming them to be +unconstitutional; since it would become part of the stipulations of the +contract." +-Joseph Story in III COMMENTARY ON THE CONSTITUTION at 248 +["Prohibitions - Contracts"] (Cambridge, 1833). By the end of this Letter, you +too should see why COMMERCIAL contracts are born, live and then die, in their +own strata, without the Constitution offering any significant restrainment on +Legislative intervention. See generally: +-THE GOLD CLAUSES, 294 U.S. 240 (1934); +-Barry, GOLD, 20 Virginia Law Review 263 (1934); +-Phanor Eder, THE GOLD CLAUSE CASES IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORY, 23 George +Washington Law Review [Part 1 at Page 369 (Basic concepts of money); and Part 2 +starts at Page 722 ("Debasement, Devaluation and Depreciation")] (1934); +-Russell Post and Charles Willard, THE POWER OF THE CONGRESS TO +NULLIFY GOLD CLAUSES, 46 Harvard Law Review 1225 (1933); and others mentioned +elsewhere in this Letter. Although it seems momentarily pleasing to ventilate +Patriot frustrations by throwing invectives at the spineless Congress for their +successive continuum of enacting Rockefeller Special Interest Group legislation +with the national damages created secondarily in their wake, by the end of this +Letter, the true remedy will be found lying within yourself. +=============================================================[019]

+ +

There are many subdivisions within Contract Law, such as Securities Law, Estate +Inheritance, Quasi-Contract, [020]

+ +

[020]============================================================= +Quasi-contracts are just contracts. Sir Henry Maine showed the use of the +adjunct QUASI in such Roman expressions as quasi-contract (quasi ex contractu), +but it is just an assignment of superfluous terminology. See a review of +William Keeton's book called QUASI-CONTRACTS by Everett Abbott in 10 Harvard +Law Review 209 (1896). +=============================================================[020]

+ +

Statutory Contract, Taxes, Copyright and Trademark Infringement Law, Commercial +Business Practice under either the Law Merchant or the Uniform Commercial Code, +Insurance, Admiralty and Maritime Contracts, etc. Operating a business under a +regulated statutory juristic environment is very much a contract, since a +numerous array of Government benefits are being accepted by Gameplayers in +Commerce, as I will discuss later.

+ +

And in contrast to that, we have Tort Law. Think of Tort Law as being a +Judgment Law to settle grievances between persons where there are damages, but +without any contract in effect between the parties. [021]

+ +

[021]============================================================= "A tort is a +breach of duty (other than contractual duty) which gives rise to an action for +damages. That is, obviously, a merely procedural definition, of no value to the +layman. The latter wants to know the nature of those breaches of duty which +give rise to an action for damages. To put it briefly, there is no English Law +of Tort; there is merely an English Law of Torts, i.e., a list of acts and +omissions which, in certain conditions, are actionable. Any attempt to +generalize further, however interesting from a speculative standpoint, would be +profoundly unsafe as a practical guide." +-Miles, DIGEST OF ENGLISH CIVIL LAW, Book II, Page xiv (1910). This +pitiful line of reasoning and of poorly presented facts without any guidance +Principles, is what collegiate law students are taught, so we should not be too +surprised to start uncovering damages that lawyers have done to our Father's +Law. =============================================================[021]

+ +

A good contrasting way to define a Tort is by enumerating on the things that it +is not: It is not a breach of contract. Included under the heading of Torts are +such miscellaneous civil wrongs, ranging from simple and direct interferences +against a person like assault, battery, and false imprisonment; or with some +property rights, like trespass or conversion; and various forms of negligence +are Torts ("judge, the defendant was negligent in maintaining his parking lot +by not fixing a dangerous and obscure crevice that was in it") -- but the final +definition is a simple one: Any wrong that has been worked by someone, where +there is no contract in effect, falls under Tort Law when the damaged person +brings the grievance into Court and tries to seek a judicial remedy. [022]

+ +

[022]============================================================= "...it is a +distinguishing characteristic of Torts that the duties from the violation of +which they result are creatures of the law and not of peculiar agreements. As +contractual duties properly have their origin in, and derive their vitality +from, the assent of the parties, a breach of such duties only does not +constitute a Tort." +-62 CORPUS JURIS 1091, at 1092, Section 2. [See also 86 CORPUS JURIS +SECUNDUM under "Torts -- Definition, Distinctions, and History"; 86 CORPUS +JURIS SECUNDUM, Section 2 also discusses "Torts -- Distinction From, and +Relation To, Contract"]. +=============================================================[022]

+ +

Such an easy concept to understand as that, with parallel easy to understand +rules and judgment reasoning -- and lawyers are actually baffled by it. [023]

+ +

[023]============================================================= And they +have been poorly writing cases, statutes and memoranda for a very long time: +"The law of Edward I's reign draws no clear line between tort and +contract." +-Sir William Holdsworth in Volume II, A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW, at 369 +[London (1936); 18 Volumes]. But they should not have been baffled; back in the +early English days of King Henry, strategies for bringing actions into court +under either Tort or Contract was being fluently discussed back then: +"[While discussing the beginnings of ASSUMPSIT (ASSUMPSIT was a court +action to recover from breach of contract on simple unwritten contracts)] +...The King's Court was not very fond of contract, but it showed some interest +in tort, and it is in the action of trespass that the quickest progress was +made. ...The debate [back in the 1300's] makes it clear that all parties +recognized that the situation was fundamentally contractual, and that it was +being forced into the form of tort simply because the action of covenant could +be brought only upon deed upon seal. In this particular instance, the contrast +with trespass is well made, and the case is left, procedurally, at least, as a +case of negligent damage to a chattel. But it must not be imagined that this is +the story of the slow dawn of the idea of contract in the minds of common +lawyers. They knew quite well [back then] what a covenant was, but they +deliberately resorted to juggling with [the tort of] trespass because they felt +unable to sustain an action of covenant without a deed." +-Theodore Pluckett in HISTORY OF THE COMMON LAW, Page 637 [Little +Brown Publishers, Boston (1956); 5th Edition]. Today in 1985, lawyers will +still juggle their arguments around, trying to find the most advantageous +position for their client; and so applicability of Tort Law or Contract Law is +still being argued down to the present day. +=============================================================[023]

+ +

Similarly, orthodox medical doctors here in the United States are also blind, +by replicating the advisory suggestions of drug companies pursuing Commercial +Enrichment, to exclude the identification of simple nourishment deficiency as +the true seminal point of mammalian disease origin. Against that sad background +(of professionals not even knowing their own profession), [024]

+ +

[024]============================================================= Even +prominent American jurists have had difficulty coming to grips with the simple +ideas of Tort and Contract: +"But it must be remembered that the distinction between tort and +breaches of contract, and especially between the remedies for the two, is not +found ready made. It is conceivable that a procedure adapted to redress for +violence was extended to other cases as they arose." +-Oliver W. Holmes in THE COMMON LAW, at 13 [Little Brown, Boston +(1881)]. =============================================================[024]

+ +

the actual identification of Tort Law as an actual branch of the Majestic Oak +is a relatively recent recognition by American lawyers. Up until about 1859, +Tort Law was not understood as a separate and distinct branch of Law. [025]

+ +

[025]============================================================= "The +definition of a tort may be said to have baffled the text-book writers not so +much on account of the inherent difficulty of the conception as because of the +implication of the conception in questions of jurisdiction. ...Perhaps none of +the text-books succeeds in introducing all of these limitations into its +definition." +-Lee, TORTS AND DELICTS, 27 Yale Law Journal 721, at 723 (1918). +=============================================================[025]

+ +

The first treatise in ENGLISH ON TORTS was published in 1859 by Francis +Hilliard of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was followed a year later by an +English author named Addison. [026]

+ +

[026]============================================================= For a +discussion of the recent recognition of Tort Law by lawyers, see generally, +PROSSER AND KEETON ON TORTS, Page 1 [West Publishing (1984)]. By the time you +have finished this Letter, you will see that Tort Law has been in effect long +before this World ever came into existence, and long before para-legals +masquerading as professionals created a privately shared monopoly, the Bar +Association, in which to artificially limit new entrants and quietly pursue +enhanced Commercial self-enrichment. The fact that Tort Law has only recently +been recognized in American Jurisprudence since the late 1800's does not mean +that Tort Law did not exist prior to such recognition -- it only means that +lawyers were groping in the dark back then [and not that things have really +changed that much]. +=============================================================[026]

+ +

Even as late as 1871, the leading American legal periodical remarked that:

+ +

"We are inclined to think that Torts is not a proper subject for a law +book." [027]

+ +

[027]============================================================= 5 AMERICAN +LAW REVIEW 341 (1871). [Violating a premier PRINCIPLE OF NATURE with the +baneful and stupid conclusion that factual ignorance is beneficial to you.] +=============================================================[027]

+ +

In 1853, when Mr. Joel Bishop proposed to write a book on the Law of Torts, he +was assured then by all publishers he surveyed that there was no such call for +such a work on that subject. [028]

+ +

[028]============================================================= Mr. Bishop +was told that: +"... if the book were written by the most eminent and prominent author +that ever lived, not a dozen copies a year would be sold." +-Joel Bishop in NON-CONTRACT LAW, Page 2 (1889). +=============================================================[028]

+ +

Yet, the distinction in effect between Tort Law and Contract Law was in effect +during the Roman Empire. [029]

+ +

[029]============================================================= See ROMAN +LAW AND COMMON LAW, at Page 18, by W.W. Buckland [Cambridge University Press +(1936)]. =============================================================[029]

+ +

But in addressing Tort Law itself, if I were to hit you over the head with a +baseball bat or burn down your house, there is no contract in effect governing +the grievance, so Tort Law rules, reasoning, and arguments govern the +settlement of this type of grievance. In addition to damages, judges always +want to examine the factual record presented to analyze the Defendant's +character, and make sure that the intent to damage was there (as consent and +accidental damages can vitiate liability). [030]

+ +

[030]============================================================= This means +that if you had asked me to burn down your house, you would be unsuccessful if +you later tried to sue me for Tort damages -- because you had CONSENTED. As for +bringing down a baseball bat on you, what we have here is an assault, and it is +necessary to argue CONSENT when assault is alleged. However, the STATE OF MIND +of the actor in assault Tort proceedings is of interest to judges for other +deeper reasons [because the STATE OF MIND is a behavioral point of beginning +and leads to other things]: +"As to assault, this is, perhaps, one of the kind in which the insult +is more to be considered than the actual damages, though no great bodily pain +is suffered by a blow on the palm of the hand, or the skirt of the coat, yet +these are clearly within the legal definition of assault and battery, and among +gentlemen too often induce duelling and terminate in murder." +-RESPUBLICA VS. DELONGCHAMPS, 1 Dallas 111, at 114 (1784). +=============================================================[030]

+ +

And so hitting someone over the head with a baseball bat is called an +"assault," and there lies a Tort; however, there are many types of Torts that +do not have any names assigned to them. [031]

+ +

[031]============================================================= Smith, TORTS +WITHOUT PARTICULAR NAMES, 69 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 91 (1921). +=============================================================[031]

+ +

Some writers have attempted to uncover certain characteristics that lie in +common to all Torts as a starting point to identify some Principles (yes, there +may be some hope for a few of you lawyers after all). [032]

+ +

[032]============================================================= See writers +like: +-Radin in A SPECULATIVE INQUIRY IN THE NATURE OF TORTS, 21 Texas Law +Review 697 (1943); +-Stone in TOUCHSTONES OF TORT LIABILITY, 2 Stanford Law Review 259 +(1950); +-Seavey in COGNITIONS ON TORT (1954) +=============================================================[032]

+ +

One of the reasons why lawyers try and raise numerous subclassifications of +Tort up to the main level of Tort and Contract (as they grope and search in the +dark the way they do), is because they do not see the invisible contracts that +are often quietly in effect, correctly overruling Tort Law intervention, since +an examination of the factual setting seems void of any contract. By the end of +this Letter, you will see many invisible contracts for what they really are, +and you will see how to identify the indicia that create invisible contracts.

+ +

You may not understand the deeper significance of the distinction in effect +between Tort and Contract right now, but after reading this Letter through a +few times, the semantic differential in meaning should become very apparent to +you, as I will give many examples of Contract Law and Tort Law reasonings and +arguments, as applied across many different factual settings; as whenever there +is a judgment of some type, there is always in effect some rules and an +exclusion of some evidence in the mind of the judge a to what arguments will +and will not be allowed to be heard -- (even though this process goes on +unmentioned orally by the judge); and the real reason why there is an important +significance here that you might be interested in taking PERSONAL NOTICE of +[just like Judges take JUDICIAL NOTICE of special items], in Tort and Contract +rule differentials in judgment settings, is because we all have an impending +Judgment with Heavenly Father -- where arguments then presented will be judged +under similar Tort and Contract rules; a judgment setting where the pure +magnitude of the consequences renders unprepared incorrect reasoning +injudicious and lacking in foresight.

+ +

Like in Contract Law, there are numerous subdivisions within Tort Law to place +a specific grievance into, such as: Civil Rights, Wrongful Death, Product +Liability, Aviation Law, Personal Injury, Accident Recovery, Professional +Malpractice, Unfair Competition, Admiralty and Maritime Torts, and certain +Fraud and Anti-Trust actions, etc.

+ +

[033]============================================================= See: +-Section 2, subsection 3, by Salmond, LAW ON TORTS, 7th Edition +(1928); +-Goodhart, THE FOUNDATION OF TORTIOUS LIABILITY, 2 Modern Law Review 1 +(1938); +-Williams, THE FOUNDATION OF TORTIOUS LIABILITY, 7 Cambridge Law +Journal 111 (1938); +-James, TORT LAW IN MIDSTREAM: ITS CHALLENGE TO THE JUDICIAL PROCESS, +8 Buffalo Law Review 315 (1959). +=============================================================[033]

+ +

Based on the Status of the person involved and certain elements in the factual +setting, and certain types of damages asked for, then what grievance normally +would be under Contract Law, could be changed to fall under Tort Law.

+ +

So there is the general distinction in effect between Tort and Contract. +Question: What if a grievance falls into an area of grey where it could fall +under rules applicable to either Tort of Contract? Although my introductory +remarks in this Letter are necessarily simplified, numerous commentators have +mentioned that defining the line between Tort and Contract is sometimes +difficult. [034]

+ +

[034]============================================================= "Never did a +Name so obstruct a true understanding of the Thing. To such a plight has it +brought us that a favorite mode of defining a Tort is to declare merely that it +is not a Contract. As if a man were to define Chemistry by pointing out that it +is not Physics or Mathematics." +-Wigmore, SELECT CASES ON THE LAW OF TORTS, page vii (1912). +=============================================================[034]

+ +

However, what is important is the reason why a simple distinction became +difficult: Because the parties to what started out as a Contract Law grievance +did not fully anticipate all future events that could have occurred between the +parties in contract. [035]

+ +

[035]============================================================= For example: +"If I employ a piano tuner to tune my piano and he does it badly, in +fact does not really tune it, I have a claim for recovery of what I may have +paid, and for damages for breach of contract, and I can resist action on the +contract if I have not paid. But there is no question of tort: The duty broken +was created by the contract. If, however, he not only fails to tune the piano, +but in the course of his operations breaks some of the hammers, the case is +altered. If he breaks the hammers negligently, I can sue him for the damage +either in contract or in tort; if intentionally, then I can sue him in tort or +(probably) in contract." +-W.W. Buckland in ROMAN LAW AND COMMON LAW, ["Tort and Contract"] at +page 273 [Cambridge University Press (1936)]. +=============================================================[035]

+ +

Typically, all blurry factual settings that involve an area between Tort and +Contract have their seminal point of origin in a Contract that did not +completely define what would and would not happen under all possible scenarios; +and this is called INCOMPLETE CONTRACTING. [036]

+ +

[036]============================================================= In response +to grievances arising out of fractured and insufficient contracts, judges +sometimes create legal fictions to deal with these voids that the particular +contracts were silent on; such fictions are the DOCTRINE OF IMPLIED CONDITIONS +and the DOCTRINE OF PRESUMED INTENT [see Farnsworth in DISPUTES OVER OMISSION +IN CONTRACT, 68 Columbia Law Review 860 (1968)]. Since the contract does not +specify rights and duties, a limited slice of Tort Law reasoning enters into +the Court's judgment, and so now Tort questions of FAIRNESS are then +entertained by the Judge, under these special limited circumstances (but +remember, Judges are merely filling voids that were left unsaid by the contract +-- so there is no derogation of our Father's Law when such limited slices Tort +are allowed to intervene into what started out as a Contract Law grievance). In +other cases, sometimes there are unallocated benefits or losses coming out of +contracts, because quite frequently the contract did not provide for them [see +Schwartz in SALES LAW AND INFLATION, 50 Southern California Law Review 1, at 8 +to 10 (1976), discussing that if the parties have assumed the risk of inflation +within certain boundaries, then the consequences of inflation experienced +outside the specified boundaries of the contract is to be distributed pursuant +to the FAIRNESS of judicial discretion]. Since the contract is silent on the +effect of high inflation occurring outside of its boundaries, Tort Law +reasoning of fairness and unfairness is then allowed to properly enter into the +picture for this limited reason. Another area of Tort Law reasoning making its +appearance to fill areas of voids in contracts comes when contract grievances +are brought into Courts arguing that the UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE Section 2-615 +now allows them to weasel out of their contract for some reason [see Hurst in +FREEDOM OF CONTRACT IN AN UNSTABLE ECONOMY: JUDICIAL REALLOCATION OF +CONTRACTUAL RISKS UNDER UCC 2-615 in 54 North Carolina Law Review 545 (1976)]. +UCC Section 2-615 ["Excuse By Failure of Presupported Conditions"] allows +parties in contracts to try and weasel their way out of the contract because +some excusable circumstances came to pass; when such a contract termination is +presented before a Judge, factors considered in the Judge's mind also center +largely around Tort Law arguments of fairness -- but only because the contract +is silent, and where contracts are silent, Contract Law yields to Tort Law +arguments of fairness and unfairness [see FAIRNESS AND UTILITY IN TORT THEORY +by George Fletcher, 85 Harvard Law Review 537 (1972)]. +=============================================================[036]

+ +

Once a determination has been made that Tort or Contract governs the question +presented, very important differences and rules then apply to settling claims +and grievances based on the factual setting falling under Principles governing +Tort Law, or under Principles governing Contract Law; and as you can surmise, +the question as to whether or not a grievance belongs under Tort or under +Contract is often a disputed and hotly argued question between adversaries in a +courtroom battle, as the question as to which Law governs can spell total +success or total failure for the parties involved. For example, see BUTLER VS. +PITTWAY CORPORATION, [037]

+ +

[037]============================================================= 770 F.2nd 7 +(1985). =============================================================[037]

+ +

where to adversaries argued Tort Law or Contract Law governance in a pre-Trial +appeal, which was a product liability/warranty case. [038]

+ +

[038]============================================================= Meaning that +some merchandise was first purchased under contract, and then evidence of a +manufacturing defect surfaced later on, so now Tort Law claims were thrown back +at the manufacturer (claims for damages can be enlarged under Tort Law, since +Tort Law is a free-wheeling jurisdiction; claims for damages under Contract Law +are restricted to the content of the contract, as in BREACH OF CONTRACT). +=============================================================[038]

+ +

In deciding whether to allow Tort or Contract Law to govern, the Second Circuit +mentioned that:

+ +

"This case falls into a grey area between tort and contract law that +has never been fully resolved." [039]

+ +

[039]============================================================= BUTLER VS. +PITTWAY CORPORATION, id., at 9. +=============================================================[039]

+ +

So, for the introductory purposes of this Letter, I will only be discussing the +differences between Tort Law and Contract Law in general. [040]

+ +

[040]============================================================= Other +summary articles discussing the necessary distinctions in effect between Tort +and Contract are: +-THE PAST OF PROMISE by E.A. Farnsworth, 69 Columbia Law Review 576; +-CONTRACT DAMAGES by W.R. Purdue, 46 Yale Law Journal 52 to 96 +(1936-37). =============================================================[040]

+ +

This stratification of the Law into two separate jurisdictions of Tort and +Contract is quite necessary, and in so doing, the Judiciary is no more than +conforming the contours of American Jurisprudence to more tightly replicate the +profile of Nature; and as you will soon see there will be very profound +consequences experienced by folks who try to outfox Nature by using Tort Law +reasoning in a Contract Law judgment setting. You should also be aware that +very often, we all occasionally get ourselves into contracts that become +invisible for any number of reasons, and then erroneously use the logic of Tort +Law reasoning to try and weasel our way out of the contract we forgot about.

+ +

Experientially well seasoned contractualists know that the desires and wants of +people routinely change with the passage of time, and that it is quite common +that contracts that are entered into today are often unattractive and +unappealing in the hindsight of the future. So this Consideration rule is of +particular importance in those types of marginal contracts where the benefit a +Person experiences from the contract depends upon some future efforts that same +Person must make, or where the benefits are qualified or otherwise conditional. +For our purposes, correctly understood, Consideration is a benefit. +Comprehension of the significance of Consideration is fundamental to one's +understanding as to why the Judiciary is largely ignoring the IN REM CONTRACT +RECESSIONS many folks are filing on their Birth Certificates; and understanding +Consideration (the acceptance of benefits) is the Grand Key to unlocking the +mystery as to why some of the King's Equity hooks are so difficult to pull out +of you, as I will discuss later.

+ +

There having been an exchange of valuable CONSIDERATION, when Mr. Condo entered +into his bank account contracts, Mr. Condo was in an extremely weak position -- +he was just plain wrong with his bank accounts and other invisible contracts +(having experienced hard cash benefits [Consideration] as a result of the +contract, as well as giving the King CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE that he was a +participant in Interstate Commerce and the acceptant of federal benefits) and +so as a result, there was not a lot of substance left over for Mr. Condo to +argue about... like trying to argue that the Earth's rotation about its own +axis is some type of an elliptical illusion, just somehow. Yes Virginia, there +are absolutes in both Nature and in Contract Law; and Defendants in +prosecutions can be plain and simple wrong. When one is inside of a King's +cage, one begins to appreciate just how strong contracts can be. Additionally, +Mr. Condo was trying to argue the basic unfairness of the proceedings against +him, but that unfairness argument as well was non-applicable to his Contract +Judgment. [041]

+ +

[041]============================================================= Unfairness, +and all of its correlative arguments, are Tort Law arguments and have no place +whatsoever in the settlement of grievances falling under Contract Law +Jurisprudence: +"Since the relationship between the United States and petitioner is +based on commercial contract, there is no basis for a claim of unfairness in +this result." +-STENCEL AERO VS. UNITED STATES, 431 U.S. 666, at 674 (1976). +Commentators have pointed out the fact that Tort Law is primarily fairness +oriented. See: +-Epstein in DEFENSES AND SUBSEQUENT PLEAS IN A SYSTEM OF STRICT +LIABILITY, 3 Journal of Legal Studies 165 (1974); +-Epstein in A THEORY OF STRICT LIABILITY in 2 Journal of Legal Studies +151 (1971); +-James Henderson in PROCESS CONSTRAINTS IN TORT, 67 Cornell Law Review +901 (1982). =============================================================[041]

+ +

Unfairness is a concept that is related to moral Tort Law. [042]

+ +

[042]============================================================= Questions of +FAIRNESS and UNFAIRNESS are questions reserved for grievances that fall under +Tort -- a concept commentators note over and over again: +"...Tort theory has served to explain and to justify the changing +notions of fairness... that are captured by the kaleidoscope of tortious +events." +-William Rodgers in NEGLIGENCE RECONSIDERED: THE ROLE OF RATIONALITY +IN TORT THEORY, 54 Southern California Law Review 1, at 1 (November, 1980). +When contracts are in effect, questions of fairness are not relevant -- because +only the content of the contract is relevant. +=============================================================[042]

+ +

Questions of damages, and lack of damages, of the MENS REA criminal intent, of +fairness, of risk assumption, of equity, and equality are all reasoning and +arguments reserved for a Tort Law judgment setting. Remember that Tort Law +doctrine governs the settlement of grievances that arise between parties +without any contract being in effect. Tort Law is generally a free-wheeling +jurisdiction, and anything goes. The decision by the New Jersey State Supreme +Court to hold sponsors of parties responsible for the acts of persons who drank +in their homes is a Tort Law grievance. [043]

+ +

[043]============================================================= The case I +am referring to is KELLY VS. DONALD GWINNELL, 476 A.2nd 1219 (1984). For +Commentary, see: +-Paul Verardi in SOCIAL HOST LIABILITY, 23 Duquesne Law Review 1307 +(1985); +-Maura Mahon in IMPOSING THIRD PARTY LIABILITY ON SOCIAL HOSTS, in 5 +Pace Law Review 809 (1985); +-Case Notes in TORTS - NEGLIGENCE -- SOCIAL HOST WHO SERVES LIQUOR TO +A VISIBLY INTOXICATED ADULT GUEST, KNOWING THE GUEST WILL THEREAFTER DRIVE AN +AUTOMOBILE, MAY BE HELD LIABLE, in 89 Dickerson Law Review 537 (1985). As the +ripple effect of Tort Law liability attachment ascends up the ladder to reach +third persons seemingly not involved with the heated grievance, then so too do +distant and removed Employers get held for similar attachments of Tort +liability, just like Social Hosts [see Mark Gutis in EXPANDING THIRD PARTY +LIABILITY FOR FAILURE TO CONTROL THE INTOXICATED EMPLOYEE WHO DRIVES, 18 +Connecticut Law Review 155 (1985); the Case Mark Gutis refers to in his Law +Review article is OTIS ENGINEERING CORPORATION VS. CLARK, 668 S.W.2nd 307 +(Texas, 1983). This legal reasoning is largely just an extension of the +liability that has always been in place regarding the liability of the +Principle or the Torts of his Agents, when those Torts were done without the +knowledge or authority of the Principle [see William Vance in LIABILITY FOR THE +UNAUTHORIZED TORTS OF AGENTS in 4 Michigan Law Review 199 (1904)]. +=============================================================[043]

+ +

In contrast to the elastic and expansive nature of Tort Law, when Contracts are +in effect, only the content of the Contract is of any significance when the +grievance is up for review and judgment. [044]

+ +

[044]============================================================= If a music +store sold you a piano and agreed to have it delivered before 6pm tonight, and +the piano does not get delivered when you need it, do you think you can ask for +simple breach of contract damages, plus compound the requested damages relief +asked for in a Court to compensate you for the PSYCHIC INJURIES that you +experienced because of the embarrassment and humiliation you suffered before +the eyes of your party guests that evening, as the partying went on without +that piano being there? Such a request for equitable relief in your Complaint +for Breach of Contract is patently ridiculous -- however, you need to know why: +Because when contracts are in effect (the purchase and correlative expected +delivery of the piano was very much a contract), then only the content of the +contract will be addressed and considered by the Judge when a grievance arises. +If you want to get supplemental secondary damages (called CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES +by lawyers) because of the lack of timeliness in the delivery of the piano, +then you need to get the other party to agree to pay such damages on their +default, in advance, within the body of the contract; then a Court can address +your claims of secondary damages [because then your claim falls within the +content of the contract]. The question of demanding something as indefinite, +vague and arbitrary as PSYCHIC DAMAGES is a question that belongs in the +free-wheeling world of Tort Law, where such indefinite questions of fairness +and unfairness have their home: +"The primary root of legal liability through psychic causes can be +traced back to the year 1349 to a tort action which recognized a liability for +assault without [any] physical touching under the WRIT OF TRESPASS." +-Harold McNiece in PSYCHIC INJURY AND TORT LIABILITY IN NEW YORK, 24 +Saint John's Law Review 1, at 3 (1949). Harold McNiece then spends the rest of +the article talking about the difficulty a court has in assigning a set sum of +money as relief compensation for something as vague and indefinite as perceived +PSYCHIC DAMAGES: +"The problem of tort liability where a mental injury is involved has +troubled the courts for a great many years, and even at present no consistent +pattern of liability rules exist. When injuries and causes of injuries leave +the realm of the tangible world and enter the uncharted areas of the mind, +courts understandably have difficulty in establishing principles of law +calculated to assure substantial justice. In the psychic injury field, Mr. +Justice Douglas' observation, though made in another connection, seems to be of +peculiar pertinence: +"But there are few areas of the law in black and white. The grays are +dominant and even among them the shades are innumerable. For the eternal +problem of the law is one of making accommodations between conflicting +interests. This is why most legal problems end as questions of degree [quoted +from ESTIN VS. ESTIN, 334 U.S. 541, at 545 (1948)]." +-Harold McNiece, id., at 1. By the end of this Letter, you will see +very well the real deep reasons why the bifurcation of our Father's Law into +Tort and Contract is an important PRINCIPLE OF NATURE that originated -- not +with "some Commie Federal Judge throwin' Patriots in jail" -- but in the mind +of Heavenly Father who created that abstraction Judges now call NATURE. +=============================================================[044]

+ +

Tort Law means that for every damage someone works on you, corrective damages +will be applied back to that person as the remedy (call the retort). For +example, in Tort Law, if you burned down a neighbor's house out of a grudge and +without the owner's consent (since no Contracts are in effect, Tort Law governs +the courtroom grievance), pure natural moral Tort Law requires that you be +damaged in return, i.e., that a retort be worked on you in order to satisfy the +demands of Justice. As the Sheriff or other neutral disinterested third party +that administers the retort (to perfect the ends of Justice), by stuffing you +in one of his cages, that encagement retort itself is largely exempt from +experiencing further retorts for his damages on you. [045]

+ +

[045]============================================================= This is a +contributing reason why it is so difficult for people to get TITLE 42, SECTION +1983 Civil Rights relief, unless both hard damages and special circumstances +are present in the factual setting, because under normal circumstances, the +Sheriff is largely immune from further retort since he operates in the retort +cycle of Justice. [But that is another Letter.] In order for a Federal Civil +Rights Case to prevail, the elements of unjustified, exceptional, and pathetic +circumstances must be present in the factual setting to trigger Federal relief +-- and then when the relief is granted, the Judiciary is really not interested +in enriching you as much as they are interested in awarding damage money to +preventively restrain the recurrence of unreasonable police Tortfeasance in the +future: +"Remedies for constitutional wrongs, like other legal remedies, chiefly +involve measures either to prevent or terminate the wrong or to redress the +harm caused by past unconstitutional [police] conduct." +-Professor Sager, as quoted by Bruce Miller in UNDERINCLUSIVE +STATUTES, 20 Harvard Civil Rights -- Civil Liberties Law Review 79, at 112 +[footnote 145] (1985). +=============================================================[045]

+ +

So the cycle of Tort and retort ends there by the Sheriff jailing you for +damaging your neighbor the way you did by burning down his house. This is Tort +Law, and this is a key concept to understand, because numerous people +throughout the world have so deliberately and very carefully arranged their +affairs as to have all their murders and MAGNUM Torts executed on their behalf +under the liability vitiating and recourse free operating environment of pure +natural Tort Law, as I will explain later. Think about this Tort and Retort +Doctrine for a while, as it is very powerful -- with it damages can be +justified in a judgment setting, if your damages occurred to accomplish the +ends of Justice.

+ +

These people, taking counsel from Gremlins, by arranging their damages to be +justified as a retort, believe quite strongly that they are morally correct and +that Heavenly Father [046]

+ +

[046]============================================================= Yes, we very +much have a Heavenly Father: +"If our Father and God should be disposed to walk through one of these +aisles, we should not know of him from one of the congregation. You would see a +man, and that is all you would know about Him; you would merely know Him as a +stranger from some neighboring city or country. This is the character of Him +who we worship and acknowledge as our Father and God... He is our Heavenly +Father..." +-Brigham Young, President of the Mormon Church, in remarks delivered +in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, January 8, 1865. 11 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES +39, at 40 [London (1867)]. And we are quite similar to our Father in many ways: +"If we believe there is any truth in the writings of Moses, the +Patriarchs, Prophets and Apostles, and the teachings of Jesus, if we would +indeed be consistent Christians and receive the writings of the fathers, and +believe what was said unto them, we must believe that man is made in the image +of God, and consequently that we are of the species of the gods. However +child-like and feeble we are in this condition of mortality, we are +nevertheless descended from the gods, made in their image and after their +likeness." +-Erastus Snow, in a discourse in Salt Lake City, January 20, 1878; 19 +JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 322, at 323 [London (1878)]. [The JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES +is a large collection of instructional pronouncements by early Mormon Church +authorities that was published over a number of years in London, England. This +Letter contains many quotations from the JOURNAL, and since these are +transcripts of speakers, I made nominal changes in punctuation, capitalization, +and spelling that I deemed provident under the circumstances; in so doing, +there was no derogation of the original idea and meaning expressed by the +speaker. Please check original citations before requoting.] +=============================================================[046]

+ +

is required to support them and their abominations at the Last Day, as their +murders have in fact been executed under the vitiating retort cycle of pure +moral Tort Law, and therefore immune from further recourse, just like the +Sheriff is immune from further recourse for the damages he worked on you when +he stuffed you into one of his cages for burning down that house.

+ +

And those people arranging their behavior to conform themselves into a Tort Law +judgment profile with damages immunization reasoning are correct, because Tort +Law is a correct and pure operation of Nature, and their damages can very much +be justified before Father at the Last Day; but the question of justification +of damages is not going to be relevant at the Last Day, and for the identical +same reason as to why the question of no damages being present in Highway +traffic code prosecutions and Income Tax enforcement actions is also not +relevant. Because just one tiny little problem for these Tort Law justification +imps surfaces, based upon an obscure, remote, and little known Doctrine +uncovered from the archives of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City. I'll +explain all that later, but understanding the original Tort and recourse free +"Justice" retort concept, and its appreciation as a true PRINCIPLE OF NATURE, +is necessary before we probe deeper into Lucifer's extremely clever Illuminatti +reasoning and Father's little known "Ace" that he has up his sleeve; and then +into the deeper meaning of this Life, which involves (as you could guess by +now), a Contract. But Contracts, of and by themselves, are never the end +objective, they are only a mechanical and procedural tool used to accomplish a +larger objective: An objective to someday have all of the rights, power, +domain, keys, status, and authority as our Heavenly Father now has. [047]

+ +

[047]============================================================= "I will go +back to the beginning, before the world was, to show what kind of a being God +is... God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted Man, and sits +enthroned in yonder Heavens. That is the great secret. If the veil was rent +today, and the great God who holds this world in its orbit, and who upholds all +worlds and all things by his power, was to make himself visible -- I say, if +you were to see him today, you would see him like a man in form -- like +yourselves, in all the person, image, and very form as a man; for Adam was +created in the very fashion, image, and likeness of God, and received +instructions from, and walked, talked, and conversed with him, as one man talks +and converses with another. ...God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an +Earth the same as Jesus Christ himself did. [Our Heavenly Father when through +his Second Estate with his Father and has his Father to answer to, and so on +back up the line]." +-Joseph Smith, President of the Mormon Church, in remarks delivered at +a Conference in Nauvoo, Illinois, on April 6, 1844; 6 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 1, +at 3 [London (1859)]. +=============================================================[047]

+ +

The Grand Meaning of this Life is quite a story, and simply focusing in on the +relevant material is difficult by virtue of the large volume of distraction +material that is floating around out there. Nevertheless, as strange as it may +initially seem, people correctly talking about it generally find themselves +having to tone things down a bit. [048]

+ +

[048]============================================================= "The whole +object of the creation of this world is to exalt the intelligences that are +placed on it, that they may live, endure, and increase for ever and ever... The +lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself; [and +this will happen after] we have been proved in our present capacity, and have +been faithful in all things he puts into our possession [namely Contracts]... +Mankind [is] organized of elements designed to endure to all eternity; it never +had a beginning, and never can have an end. There never was a time when this +matter [our Spirits], of which you and I are composed, was not in existence, +and there never can be a time when it will pass out of existence; it cannot be +annihilated. [This matter] is brought together, organized, and capacitated to +receive knowledge and intelligence, to be enthroned in glory, to be made +angels, Gods -- beings who will hold control over the elements and have power +by their word to command the creation and redemption of worlds, or to +extinguish suns by their breath, and disorganize worlds, hurling back into +their chaotic state. This is what you and I are created for... We are organized +for the express purpose of controlling the elements, of organizing and +disorganizing, of ruling over kingdoms, principalities, and powers..." +-Brigham Young in multiple discourses; 7 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 290; 3 +JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 93; and 3 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 356 (1856 to 1860). So +much for those collegiate INTELLIGENTSIA clowns, propagating intricate theories +of evolution on American campuses; like Tax Protestors flirting with Tort Law +rationalizations in summary Contract enforcement proceedings, the individuals +damaged by intellectuals with their factual error are largely themselves (as +others can only be damaged by deception to the extent that such a deceptive +skew is wanted and accepted). And this remains true even though a large number +of people, and even Congressmen, support Tax Protestors; and a large number of +people with impressive worldly credentials also support evolution (after all, +"It's been accepted as scientific fact"). Yes, factual verities do march on +independent of any acceptance, rejection, or comprehension of them by anyone. +...The word INTELLIGENTSIA, of a Russian origin, has spread world wide, and +means generally those members of the educated class or informed people who were +criticizing institutions and pushing theories around. In Russia, there were +philosophically illicit political overtones semantically associated with the +characterization INTELLIGENTSIA: +"The concept of INTELLIGENTSIA must not be confused with the notion of +INTELLECTUALS. Its members thought of themselves as united by something more +than mere interest in ideas; they conceived of themselves as being a dedicated +order, almost a secular priesthood, devoted to the spreading of a specific +attitude to life, something like a gospel. ...they invented social criticism." +-Isiah Berlin in RUSSIAN THINKERS ["Birth of the Russian +Intelligentsia"], at 117 [Viking Press, New York (1978); sentences quoted out +of order] For our purposes, a member of the American INTELLIGENTSIA is also an +INTELLECTUAL, bristling with theories, who pushes and propagates popular +theorems and notions they believe that the world wants to hear, while tossing +aside countermanding factual information that negates the theory's veracity. +Occasionally, I will throw a spicy little invective at INTELLIGENTSIA +INTELLECTUALS by supplementally characterizing them as CLOWNS -- a somewhat +strong characterization, but nevertheless appropriate when used. Gremlins, too, +have also found the use of this word attractive: +"Fahun, the foreign minister, had been adamant, but now Sadat overruled +both Fahun and himself -- and accepted Henry Kissinger's proposition... it was +at that moment that Kissinger decided he was dealing, not with a clown, but +with a statesman." +-"How Henry Kissinger Did It," an advertisement in FOREIGN AFFAIRS +MAGAZINE, page A29 [Council on Foreign Relations, New York (April, 1976)]. Due +to the strong contrasting semantic differential CLOWNS creates, it neatly wraps +up into one word what would have been several paragraphs of negative commentary +discussing the absence of both competence and intellectual prowess. +=============================================================[048]

+ +

Tax Protestors, like their brothers in contract defilement, Draft Protestors +(as I will explain later), denounce the basic illegitimacy of the United States +-- our fat King -- silencing speech, and of criminalizing something that just +didn't happen ("How could not filing a piece of paper be a crime? Why, the +Fifth Amendment says I don't gotta be a witness against my self. Common Law +says there can be no Constructive Offenses..."; and on and on). But +unappreciated by Mr. Condo was the Contract Law jurisdictional environment he +was being prosecuted in: A summary Commercial contract enforcement proceeding, +up for review and enforcement based on administrative findings of fact. [049]

+ +

[049]============================================================= In such +administrative enforcement proceedings under grievances arising out of +privileges and contracts that Congress created, Federal Judges are acting +MINISTERIALLY as a Legislative Court, functioning as an extension of the agency +for the King, and not JUDICIALLY as an Article III Court acting like neutral +and disinterested Referees calling the shots as umpires between adversaries; +and so some steps taken by the Judge acting MINISTERIALLY, to shorten the +proceedings or otherwise silence the Defendant when irrelevant subject matter +is being discussed, are largely non-reversible on appeal. In NORTHERN PIPELINE +VS. MARATHON PIPE LINE [458 U.S. 50 (1982)], the Supreme Court ruled that +Congress can create non-Article III LEGISLATIVE COURTS in three areas: +Territorial Courts, Military Courts Martial, and in disputes involving +privileges that Congress created in the first place [MARATHON, id., at pages 64 +et seq.]. Participating in that closed private domain of King's Commerce is +very much accepting and benefiting from a privilege created by Congress. +=============================================================[049]

+ +

In these Equity contract enforcement proceedings, questions of morality, of +Torts, [050]

+ +

[050]============================================================= Throughout +this Letter, the word TORT is a multiple entente, and may mean either its +general public semantic understanding of just plain damages, or of Tort Law +Jurisprudence which generally circulates around both damages as a center of +gravity and correlative retort immunization reasoning. +=============================================================[050]

+ +

of basic reasonableness, of pure natural justice, of fairness, of mental +intent, of the presence of a CORPUS DELECTI, of privacy rights, of equality +between this instant Defendant and other previous Defendants and the like, are +all irrelevant. And the only thing that is relevant is the content of the +contract that was entered into some time earlier, in general, and the exact +technical infraction the United States, as your Adversary in a 7203 Action, +wants addressed as the grievance, in particular. Under some limited +circumstances, Federal Judges will annul contract enforcement actions where +unreasonable and over-zealous statute enforcement Tortfeasance has taken place +-- what appears to be "fairness" -- but such annulment is really only to +preemptively restrain such Tortfeasance from recurring in the future, and not +to benefit you at all. So whether in a driver's license contract grievance +setting of a highway speeding infraction, or in a Commercial contract WILLFUL +FAILURE TO FILE grievance setting with the King through a bank account and +other contracts, the only thing that is relevant is you and your contract. All +other previous persons, their cases of defilement, and their grievances, and +what arguments they made or did not make, is irrelevant. Translated into the +practical setting where a poor Defendant is presenting a defense line, this +means that all motions that are made for dismissal, based on grounds relating +to anyone else's previous prosecution, are automatically denied, as being +irrelevant to the instant factual setting. Equality and fairness are not +relevant in settling contract grievances. Equality and fairness are Tort Law +arguments; they are definable only along the infinite; and if the Judiciary +allowed equality or fairness to enter into the contract arena, then the effect +of allowing equality and fairness on one side is to work a Tort on the other +side -- so the Judiciary simple rules, very properly, that when contracts are +in effect, only the content of the contract is relevant. Although this policy +has the uncomfortable secondary effect of making Federal Judges appear to be +carefully selected Commie pinkos when dealing with a Tax Protestor (as Federal +Judges go about their work enforcing invisible contracts), restraining the +subject matter that will be discussed in a Contract Judgment setting to include +only the content of the contract, is a correct attribute of Nature, and does +correctly replicate the mind, will, and intention of Heavenly Father (as I will +discuss later on) in the area of laying down rules for settling contract +grievances. The very common belief that folks have, that since 100 other +persons prosecuted for the same contract infraction got suspended sentences, +and therefore in equality you too should get a suspended sentence, is in error. +What other people do or don't do, or what happens to or does not happen to them +in their contract judgment, is not relevant to you and your contracts. This +equality and fairness applicability is an important principle to understand, +because we all have an important Judgment impending at the Last Day. Here is +where Heavenly Father is going to judge us at the Last Day along very similar +lines; because Father is operating on numerous invisible Contracts I will +discuss later. You Highway Contract Protestors and Income Tax Protestors out +there now have such a marvelous advantage, if you would but use your valuable +knowledge acquired through such prosecutions and your study of the Law, to +avoid making the same Tort Law argument mistakes at the Last Day before Father +-- where unlike now, there will be no more going back and trying some argument +line out again. Today, you can go back into a courtroom over and over again, +throwing one successive argument after another at the Judge as many times as +you feel like, until you finally figure out what legal reasoning is correct, +what is incorrect, and why. Such a repetitive presentation of error is not +going to be possible at the Last Day -- there will be no going back to Heavenly +Father a second and successive times and throwing another round of defensive +arguments at Him. Your Tort Law reasoning of equality, fairness, and of no +damages and no MENS REA, when presented before Father at the Last Day to +justify your behavior down here will fall apart and collapse, and for very good +reasons that I will explain later. This judicial enforcement, separating Tort +from Contract in WILLFUL FAILURE TO FILE prosecutions, is but one manifestation +of the extent to which rare gifted genius rules in the Federal Judiciary. [051]

+ +

[051]============================================================= The word +GENIUS is deemed by some to be a strong characterization whose presentment +should be sparingly used. +"Genius is a word that ought to be reserved for the rarest of gifts." +-Justice Felix Frankfurter, in MARCONI WIRELESS VS. UNITED STATES, 320 +U.S. 1, at 62 (1942). On the day President Nixon announced on behalf of Nelson +Rockefeller that Warren Burger was going to be nominated to be the new Chief +Justice of the United States, President Nixon stated that in filing vacancies +on the Supreme Court, he would look for those judges who would follow in the +tradition of Felix Frankfurter. QUESTION: Who is Felix Frankfurter? Born in +1882 in Vienna, Austria, Felix Frankfurter emigrated to the United States with +his family. Three previous generations of European Frankfurters were jewish +rabbis; Felix's dad had studied for the rabbinate, but he pursued commercial +interests here in the United States while his son Felix went to Harvard +University to study Law. Felix stayed in Cambridge afterwards generally to +teach Law, although he took short stints to New York City and Washington. +Nominated to the United States Supreme Court by FDR in 1939, Felix Frankfurter +was one of the most intellectually strong and intense, high-powered Spirits +that was ever brought forth into this Estate -- and I admire him so much for +his impressive calibre. Merely reading his Supreme Court rulings is a +stretching exercise in intellectual gymnastics, as he compressed a well-blended +train of ideas into a single sentence and selected an organically enlarging +succession of words and phrases to swirl around his justifications and +elucidations on both peripheral ideas and concepts turning on a central axis. +Yes, Felix Frankfurter was very much a man of great and tremendous ability, +operating on a slice of rare gifted genius so exalted in stature that he left +all others biting the dust behind him -- but here is where I stop throwing +accolades at Felix Frankfurter: Because Felix Frankfurter was a Gremlin. ...In +April of 1913, that fateful year again, there was held a little known +CONFERENCE ON LEGAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY; organized largely by Harold Laski, +Felix Frankfurter, and his close friend Morris Cohen, the CONFERENCE was +chaired by John Dewey; Keynote Speaker was Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard +Law School. Out of that CONFERENCE held in 1913, wrote Felix Cohen [son of +Morris Cohen]: +"...much of the social and philosophical consciousness of modern +American jurisprudence derives." Felix Frankfurter was an admirer of imp Roscoe +Pound, and openly propounded the redirection of American jurisprudence into +what Felix Frankfurter called SOCIOLOGICAL JURISPRUDENCE (meaning in a sense, +that Law was going to be now determined by the social needs of the community, +and those old worn out relics of fixed Property Rights, Common Law rules, hard +Constitutional pronouncements and the like that are difficult for Gremlins to +massage, are just not anything that we need to be concerned with anymore). In +1913, Felix Frankfurter talked about a "great job" that would have to be done +on American Law, stating that: +"That it has to be done -- to evolve a constructive jurisprudence going +hand in hand with the pretty thorough going overturning that we are in for." +Felix Frankfurter admired Gremlin economist John Maynard Keynes and actually +accepted his doctrines; Felix expressed recurring high remarks for a "socially +sound taxing system" of high estate and income taxes; and while teaching at +Harvard, he taught his students that: +"The Constitution is not a fixed body of truth, but a mode of social +adjustment." President Teddy Roosevelt once sent a letter to a newspaper in +Boston attacking Felix Frankfurter for his Bolshevik orientation and sympathy, +and came down on Felix for the assistance he was giving to Communists -- but an +attack on Felix Frankfurter through Teddy Roosevelt is not necessary to see the +imp in Felix Frankfurter (scan Felix's personal correspondence in THE +BRANDEIS--FRANKFURTER CONNECTION by Bruce Murphy [Oxford University Press, New +York (1982)]. Yes, Felix Frankfurter was a Gremlin; he taught their doctrines, +he admired their philosophy (damaging others through the instrument of taxation +never bothered Felix at all), he attended their conferences, he spoke at their +forums, he offered to them his assistance, he expressed sympathy at any +difficult position they would be in, and he also created the model image of an +imp Jurist that the Gremlins wanted so much for emulation by others. This brief +sketch was extracted largely from: +-Mike Parrish in FELIX FRANKFURTER AND HIS TIMES [The Free Press, New +York (1982)]; +-Helen Thomas in FELIX FRANKFURTER -- SCHOLAR ON THE BENCH [John +Hopkins Press (1960)]; +-Leonard Baker in BRANDEIS & FRANKFURTER: A DUAL BIOGRAPHY [Harper and +Row, New York (1984)]; +-Nelson Dawson in LOUIS BRANDEIS, FELIX FRANKFURTER AND THE NEW DEAL +[Archon Books, Hamden, Connecticut (1980)]; +-Joseph Lash in FROM THE DIARIES OF FELIX FRANKFURTER [WW Norton & +Company, New York (1975)]; +-Wallace Mendelson in FELIX FRANKFURTER: A TRIBUTE [Respnal & Company, +New York (1964)]; +-H.N. Hirsch in THE ENIGMA OF FELIX FRANKFURTER [Basic Books, New York +(1981)]; +-Phillip Kurland in MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER AND THE CONSTITUTION +[University of Chicago Press, Chicago (1971)]; +-Melvin Urofsky in THE BRANDEIS--FRANKFURTER CONVERSATIONS [Supreme +Court Review (1985), at 299 (University of Chicago Press)]. This is the same +Gremlin that Richard Nixon was once told to say something nice about, and this +is the same little high-powered Gremlin I will be quoting throughout this +Letter. =============================================================[051]

+ +

Yes, contractual equity is a hard line to abide by, and people who operate +their lives with that smooth and envious SAVIOR FAIRE always avoid entering +into such tight binding regulatory restrainments in their affairs that they +know that their minds just cannot handle in the future. [052]

+ +

[052]============================================================= Throughout +this Letter there are numerous examples cited of invisible Contracts and +invisible Principles in effect that are latent and difficult to see; although +the consequences for violating the Principles and Contracts are also invisible +initially, yet their latent nature remains elusive and invisible only for a +short while. Eventually, there is a hard accounting coming due on all +Principles that are violated, and so when Judges throw their corrective +snortations at improvident defense arguments, they are actually your friends -- +even though their status of such also remains invisible. Anything that even +vaguely replicates a corrective presentation of error is to our benefit in the +advance similitude of the Last Day it creates for us. In the Armen Condo +Letter, I quoted United Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter on the advisory +statement he made that yes, equity is brutal -- but that Judges are merely +enforcing contracts [so the remedy for the problem actually lies within +ourselves]. And just as invisible Contracts sometimes get us into difficult +positions, so too do invisible Principles get invoked by Judges to correctively +retort improvident positions being taken by parties. For example, when a Judge +invokes JUDICIAL ESTOPPEL against you, he is actually invoking an invisible +PRINCIPLE OF NATURE to operate to your advantage, by preventing you from +defiling yourself. [I will discuss JUDICIAL ESTOPPEL later on.] [Transcriber's +Note: Yes, the author seems predisposed to delaying the discussion of a LOT of +things "later," but keep in mind we are now ONLY on page 35 of a 745-page book, +so when the author says "later" remember that there's a lot of room to +elaborate on "later."] When Judges invoke this DOCTRINE OF JUDICIAL ESTOPPEL, +the appearance created on the floor of the Courtroom is that" +"The rule is a harsh and rigid one which deprives a litigant of the +right to assert a claim." +-UNITED STATES VS. CERTAIN LAND, 225 F.Supp. 338, at 342 (1964). Like +the appearance created that Judges are Fifth Column Commies by greasing the +procedural skids of a Tax Protestor into a Federal Cage as they merely enforce +invisible taxation contracts in effect; Federal Judges know that the +enforcement of invisible PRINCIPLES OF NATURE on the floor of their Courtroom +also creates the image that the rulings are harsh, unnecessarily rigid, and +patently unfair. But the Judge is merely invoking PRINCIPLES OF NATURE that the +defendant has no knowledge of. So the seminal point of correction lies within +ourselves; and to uncover the existence of invisible Contracts and invisible +PRINCIPLES OF NATURE in effect is to uncover our Heavenly Father who created +that abstraction that Judges now call NATURE. +=============================================================[052]

+ +

Yes, experienced people will forego some immediate benefits all contracts +initially offer, just to avoid the larger liability and cost picture later on. +Yes, it is better to forego experiencing impressive glossy benefits and accept +nominal benefits that accomplish the same thing, and avoid a contract +altogether. For example, this could mean buying a used car for cash without an +installment contract, rather than a new one on installment payments, unless the +structure of your livelihood is such that enrichment is experienced as a result +of the gloss benefits, such as real estate salesmen, who need the gloss to make +a SUB SILENTIO statement: That they are a very important person; someone you +should better start paying some attention to; someone you had better start +doing some business with.

+ +

There are folks out there, marvelous, bright, and otherwise just great all +around, but who are weak in some administrative dimension; these types should +generally shy away from difficult and marginally feasible contracts they can't +handle. In a domestic family setting, marriage counselors report back identical +observations: That it was household mismanagement or unmanagement originating +from infracted contracts previously entered into under a relaxed level of +interest or inappropriate budgetary environment that caused unnecessary +secondary grief sometime later on. (In other words, like Armen Condo, they +entered into contracts unknowingly incompatible with their philosophy, and not +appreciating the significance of the contract's terms thereof. So the recourse +significant became invisible to them. Those are the contracts and Equity +Relationships they should have avoided all along from the beginning, AB +INITIO.) [053]

+ +

[053]============================================================= The word +EQUITY is an ENTENTE in that it carries multiple meanings in Law, depending on +the semantic context in which it is exposited. On one hand, it can mean +fairness or justice, and also a "nexus relationship with benefits accepted +equal to contract relational status" on the other hand. For a profile review of +the jurisprudential foundations of American Equity Jurisprudence going back +into the old B.C. Greek days of Aristotle, see EQUITY AND THE CONSTITUTION, by +Gary McDowell [University of Chicago Press, Chicago (1982)]; and the several +hundred citations therein. +=============================================================[053]

+ +

So, from a counseling perspective, a general attitude might be to have a spirit +of reluctance about your MODUS OPERANDI before entering into recourse +contracts. Entering into Commercial contracts with anyone without careful +respect to the terms that the contract calls for is an invitation for nothing +but headaches and aggravations you don't need, and could have, and should have, +avoided at a lower, pre-contract chronological level.

+ +

In order to appreciate just how wrong Mr. Condo really way, and just how stupid +and not very well thought out his sophomoric badmouthing was of the presiding +Federal Judge, [054]

+ +

[054]============================================================= I am aware +of the distinction between a FEDERAL Government and a NATIONAL Government. A +FEDERAL Government can freely change itself through acts of the Legislatures, +while a NATIONAL Government can only be changed or altered by the direct +popular consent of the Citizenry, and not through acts of Legislatures. The +United States Constitution is a composite hybrid blend of the two, meaning that +it possesses limited grants of NATIONAL power and limited grants of FEDERAL +power. For this Letter, that distinction will be abated and addressed later. +=============================================================[054]

+ +

one needs to study and be brought to a knowledge of Contract Law -- its +majestic origins and history, and of recourse Commercial contracts -- their +enforcement and life in the contemporary American judicial setting. What I am +about to say may very well surprise you, but the reality is that those +seemingly unnatural and artificial instruments we call Contracts are actually +highly and tightly interwoven into Nature and Natural Law. [055]

+ +

[055]============================================================= "Take away +Covenants, and you disable Men from being useful and assistant to each other... +We therefore esteem it a most Sacred command of the Law of Nature, and what +guides and governs, not only the whole method and order, but the whole grace +and ornament of Human Life, that every man keep his faith, or which amounts to +the same, that he fulfill his Contracts, and discharge his promises." +-Samuel de Puffendorf, THE LAW OF NATURE AND OF NATIONS (1729); +(Translated from the French by Basil Kennett.) +=============================================================[055]

+ +

And it is very rare that I have found any contract enforcement or grievance +proceeding to have been inappropriately adjudged, based upon the factual +setting presented, the issues raised for settlement and the question addressed +by the presiding administrative or judicial magistrate.

+ +

Such strong enforcement of contracts improperly concerns some people, who don't +give too much thought to the consequences of being able to have any Commercial +contract simply tossed aside and annulled judicially, just because one of the +parties no longer feels like honoring the terms of the contract. [056]

+ +

[056]============================================================= And +COMMERCIAL CONTRACT means a full recourse contract that will be enforced before +a Judge, and you are up against asset seizure and incarceration on your +default, unless explicitly waived by the other party. By the end of this +Letter, you will see just what you are really in for, when entering into a +so-called COMMERCIAL CONTRACT. Don't be fooled by those nice pleasant smiles, +those oh so friendly salesmen on the floor -- they are out for your money, and +they are going to use the guns and cages of the State to finish getting what +they want: Your money. +=============================================================[056]

+ +

That's right, under that line of reasoning, contracts should be tossed aside +and annulled just because one of the parties doesn't feel like it anymore: Like +Armen Condo no longer feeling like sending in a 1040 anymore. His self +declarations of lofty Status are initially impressive ("I am not a slave +anymore"); but unilateral self declarations do not now, and never have, +annulled contract liability. By the end of this Letter, you will know how to +get out of a contract, but such a termination does not involve self +declarations of status. The reason why there is such a tight adhesive +relationship going on in American Jurisprudence between contract enforcement +and Nature/Natural Law is because Contracts are very much on the mind of the +Great Creator who made Nature. [057]

+ +

[057]============================================================= Yes, +Heavenly Father created our Jurisprudence, a fact which when given some thought +is so obvious that even private legal commentators remark on it occasionally: +"Law, whose seat is in the bosom of God..." +-Morgan & Maguire in LOOKING BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS AT EVIDENCE, 50 +Harvard Law Review 909, at 910 (1937). +=============================================================[057]

+ +

And so when American Jurisprudence so strongly enforces contracts, then the +Judiciary, as an agent of Nature, is merely replicating the mind of our Creator +who wants to have people learn to honor their contracts -- and yes, even more +so when those contracts contain philosophically bitter terms, like the +Bolshevik Income Tax. Learning the deeper meaning of that Principle is a bit +more important than some folks realize: Because Contracts are very important to +Heavenly Father. And the design of Nature to so strongly enforce contracts is +inverse evidence to indicate that Father deals extensively with Contracts, +wants people to learn to respect Contracts, and will honor his Contracts with +you (if you can get a Contract out of Father). Heavenly Father is similar to +the King in the limited sense that both of them want something from us, and +both of them use the same tools to get what they want. Father wants our bodies, +and the King wants our money, and both use Contracts extensively to accomplish +their end objectives. I conjecture that the King is far more successful in +gross aggregate percentage terms by his manipulative adhesive use of invisible +contracts to get what he wants than Father is with His invisible Contracts, as +Father does not force himself on unwilling participants. The King deals with +people out of the barrel of a gun and accomplishes through clever +administrative arm-twisting and adhesion contract wringing what otherwise +cannot be sustained in front of the Supreme Court in freely negotiated contract +terms; whereas in contrast Heavenly Father deals with people very +conservatively on the basis of their wants, and where no Contract is wanted, I +can assure you none will be forced on you. The King has copied the MODUS +OPERANDI of Father to deal extensively in Contracts, and then has added his own +Royal enrichment twist to it: Unlike Father's altruism (legitimate concern for +the interests of others), our King is only interested in himself, his own +welfare, and in that Golden Money Pot he passes out to Special Interest Groups +who make their descent on Washington when Congress is in Session, in vulture +formation. [058]

+ +

[058]============================================================= "History +shows that financial power and political power eventually merge and unite to do +their work together... The federal bureaucracy at the present time is +effectively under the control of the corporate and moneyed interests of the +nation." +-Supreme Court Justice William Douglas as quoted by Bob Woodward and +Scott Armstrong in THE BRETHREN, page 399 [Simon & Schuster, New York (1979)]. +Please be advised that the mere mentioning of THE BRETHREN does not constitute +an endorsement of that book, as that was a very tacky and childish book for two +CIA agents to have written. +=============================================================[058]

+ +

There are numerous reasons why Heavenly Father wants our bodies -- one is so, +for our benefit, we can be Glorified some day and have a continuing association +with Him again. Such a statement is implicitly a status statement, since in +order to associate with Father, one's stature must be on a similar calibre to +Father. [059]

+ +

[059]============================================================= "How many +Gods there are, I do not know. But there never was a time when there were not +Gods and worlds, and when men were not passing through the same ordeals that we +are now passing through. That course has been from all eternity, and it is and +will be to all eternity. You cannot comprehend this, but when you can, it will +be to you a matter of great consolation. It appears ridiculous to the world, +under their darkened and erroneous traditions, that God has once been a finite +being... He has passed on, and is exalted far beyond what we can now +comprehend." [Our Heavenly Father had his Father, and so on back up the line; +there never was a time when this line of progression from son to father to son +was not in effect]. +-Brigham Young, in a discourse at the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City on +October 8, 1859; 7 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 331, at 333 to 334 [London (1860)]. +=============================================================[059]

+ +

But Father first wants to patiently see who His friends really are, under +circumstances where his very existence is difficult to see. Yes, these are +Adversary proceedings we are in down here (and when you take out a new Contract +with Father, you will know what I mean, as Lucifer the Great Adversary ("Great" +in terms of ability), will suddenly start to take you very seriously). If +Heavenly Father has the Celestial Jurisdiction it takes to Glorify a person +into such an indescribable state similar to his own Status, as people entering +into Father's highly advanced Contracts down here have been explicitly and +bluntly promised, then Father ought to be very carefully listened to. [060]

+ +

[060]============================================================= There are +several layers of Contracts available down here beyond the introductory +Contract of Baptism. They become increasingly difficult to administer, not +because they are inherently difficult in themselves, but because you will be +placed under tremendous pressure by the Adversary to either be in default or +otherwise infract the Contract, and unfortunately Lucifer and his army of +hardworking imps know exactly what they are doing, as they go about their work +trying to run folks into the ground. +=============================================================[060]

+ +

There are a few people who have lived upon this Earth before us, who now have +such Glorified bodies under advanced timing schedules, and FIRST PERSON +EVIDENCE of that nature (an eye witness) is difficult for Heathens to reverse +or countermand under attack, so they have no choice but to ignore it and talk +about something else. [061]

+ +

[061]============================================================= For example, +the July 1985 issue of AMERICAN ATHEIST is quite political with extensive +negative commentary on the Federal Judiciary of the United States. When +religion itself is addressed as a subject matter, rather than talking about a +specific Spiritual event they cannot refute (such as the many personal +appearances of Jesus Christ Himself going on today in the United States), they +back off and take a lighter, safer road: By badmouthing the institution of +religion in general: +"All religions come from man's absurd egocentricity, from his planetary +xenophobia, from his arrogant sense of being the center of things." +-AMERICAN ATHEIST, id., at page 20. Beginning with the unreality and +limited factual knowledge that they do, by travelling down the wrong tangent, +AMERICAN ATHEISTS have no choice but to exercise one defective judgment after +another in order to support multiple erroneous successive conclusions +predicated upon their seminal factual assumptions. To begin a correct initial +point of beginning, we will enlarge the initial factual setting assessed, and +enter into evidentiary consideration of FIRST PERSON eye witness evidence that +operates to countermand and overrule all of their internal conclusions that God +does not exist: As there are, in fact, people now living, here in the United +States of 1985, who have seen and conversed with Jesus Christ, face to face, +just as one man speaks to another. AMERICAN ATHEISTS are in the same +ecclesiastical posture that Gremlin Nikolai Lenin was once in, who once stated +quite flatly: +"Every religious idea, every idea of God, even flirting with the idea +of God, is unutterable vileness... of the most dangerous kind, 'contagion' of +the most abominable kind [CONTAGION means a contagious disease]. Millions of +sins, filthy deeds, acts of violence [Lenin should THE LAST ONE to talk] and +physical contagions... are far less dangerous than the subtle, spiritual idea +of God decked out in the smartest 'ideological' costumes... Every defense or +justification of God, even the most refined, the best intentioned, is a +justification of reaction." +-Gremlin Nikolai Lenin [after he changed his name for the fourth +time], in his frequently quoted Letter to Maxim Gorky, November 13, 1913. +Nikolai Lenin seems to be quite irritated at the mere mentioning of the +possible existence of a Supreme Being -- as well he should. As I will discuss +later, Nikolai Lenin was among those who were also thoroughly irritated at +Father back in the First Estate, and his being brought forth into this Second +Estate did not alter his personality or MODUS OPERANDI. Today, Heathens and Tax +Protestors share a common attribute with Gremlins in that they do not want the +responsibility weighing on them that is always associated with knowledge of +error; and the error of Tax Protestors is their continued defilement under +contracts that were once invisible to them. +=============================================================[061]

+ +

Although that retortional statement, of and by itself, is not strong enough to +irritate a hardened Atheist, this statement might:

+ +

"No human has had the power to organize his own existence. That there +is one greater than we, the Father, actually begat the Spirits, and they were +brought forth and lived with Him... I want to tell you... that you are well +acquainted with God our Father... For there is not a soul of you but what has +lived in his house and dwelt with him year after year... We are the children of +our Father in Heaven... We are Sons and Daughters of Celestial Beings, and the +germ of Deity dwells within us." [062]

+ +

[062]============================================================= Brigham +Young, in multiple discourses: 8 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 64, at 67, et seq., to +10 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 192. +=============================================================[062]

+ +

Yes, both the mind of Heavenly Father and the mind of the Savior are swirling +in a vortex of Contracts. [063]

+ +

[063]============================================================= "Making +covenants with his people and with individuals has always been one of the +principle ways in which the Lord deals with them. The scriptures tell us that +he made covenants with Adam, with Noah, with Enoch, Melchizedek, Abraham, and +others and that he also made covenants with Israel of old, with the Jaredites, +and with the Nephites. Surely [we] are a blessed people, because in a similar +way the Lord has made covenants with us individually and collectively." +-El Ray Christiansen, in CONFERENCE REPORTS, October, 1972, pages 43 +to 44. [CONFERENCE REPORTS are the transcripts of what is called GENERAL +CONFERENCE proceedings of the Mormon Church, which are held twice annually in +Salt Lake City. This event called GENERAL CONFERENCE is when prominent GENERAL +AUTHORITIES come forth out into the open in successive speaking appearances, +and present their views on subjects that interest them. The Conference is now +televised, and transcripts are issued]. +=============================================================[063]

+ +

For a brief sizing glimpse at the extent to which Contracts are constantly and +endlessly on the mind of Father and the Savior, open up either the Old or the +New Testaments to any place at random, and see how many pages can be turned +before the word "Covenant" [Contract] reappears. [064]

+ +

[064]============================================================= That I am +aware of, the root word COVENANT occurs 303 times in the Old and New Testaments +alone. When I opened a spot at random, I uncovered a statement by Ezekiel: +"I bound myself by oath, I made a covenant with you... and you became +mine." +-EZEKIEL 16:8 In Hebrew, EZEKIEL means the "strength of God", which is +a well chosen name for this man who lived in Babylonia in the 500 BC era. +Commentators have associated Ezekiel with the elevated stature of Isaiah and +Jeremiah, and for good reasons. The circumstances surrounding Ezekiel's Calling +are described in Chapter 1, and his Celestial Commission follows in Chapters 2 +and 3. What we know today as the BOOK OF EZEKIEL has been divided into 47 +Chapters and is grouped largely around four dominate themes. The BOOK OF +EZEKIEL is almost devoid of biographical and personal details; it was known +that Ezekiel had been a Priest, was one of the first deportees to Babylonia +[after Babylon had gone to the dogs], and had lived there in a refugee +community at Tel-Abib on the River Chebar, which was a large irrigation canal +leading from the Euphrates on the north side of Babylon. The only reference to +his family is that the death of his wife on the eve of the fall of Jerusalem +was for him a small personal symbol of the larger national disaster that had +befallen Babylon. Ezekiel was very much in tune with the Celestial order of +things: The vision he once had of the throne chariot of Jesus Christ is one of +the most impressive pictures of the Glory and Celestial Majesty of Deity to be +found anywhere in the Old Testament; and he also repetitively talks about +COVENANTS 17 times over (a man does not harp on the same subject matter over +and over again without there being special significance and deeper importance +to it). =============================================================[064]

+ +

Here in the United States, in a Commercial contract factual setting, the word +"covenant" is of an Old English Law Merchant origin, and now means only a few +clauses within a larger contract; [065]

+ +

[065]============================================================= For example, +an attempt by CIA agent Frank Snepp to use the First Amendment to try and +weasel his way out of one of the individual covenants within his larger +COMMERCIAL Employment Contract with the CIA that he had previously entered +into, was correctly rebuffed by the Supreme Court in FRANK SNEPP VS. UNITED +STATES, 444 U.S. 507 (1979). +=============================================================[065]

+ +

like when entrepreneurs sell their businesses, the continuing restriction they +take upon themselves within the larger Purchase and Sale Contract, not to turn +right around and build up the same duplicate business all over again until some +5 to 10 years or so has first lapsed, is called a COVENANT NOT TO COMPETE. +[066]

+ +

[066]============================================================= See +generally, Louis Hammon in COVENANTS AS QUASI-CONTRACTS in 2 Michigan Law +Review 106 (1903). +=============================================================[066]

+ +

But in an ecclesiastical setting, what all ancient and contemporary Prophets +and Patriarchs cal COVENANTS, are really CONTRACTS:

+ +

"As all of us know, a covenant is a contract and an agreement between +at least two parties. In the case of gospel covenants, the parties are the Lord +and men on Earth. Men agree to keep the commandments and the Lord promises to +reward them accordingly. The gospel itself is the new and everlasting covenant +and embraces all the agreements, promises, and rewards which the Lord offers +his people." [067]

+ +

[067]============================================================= Joseph +Fielding Smith, in CONFERENCE REPORTS ["Gospel Covenants"], page 70 (October, +1970). =============================================================[067]

+ +

In analyzing the Law comparatively with Father's Plan for us, there are +numerous facial changes in descriptive names for things that are commonly known +and understood by everyone under other names. For example, what we call a +CONTRACT in our everyday Life, Heavenly Father calls COVENANTS. And the +financial enrichment one party receives under a contract here in the United +States (such as the financial compensation a Landlord receives out of a Lease +Contract from a Tenant), is called a BENEFIT; and what is called a BENEFIT +arising under contract in a Commercial setting is known as a BLESSING arising +under Covenant in an ecclesiastical setting with Heavenly Father. [068]

+ +

[068]============================================================= "A covenant +is an agreement between two or more parties. An oath is a sworn attestation to +the inviolability of the promises in the agreement. In the covenant of +Priesthood the parties are the Father and the receiver of the Priesthood. Each +party to the covenant undertakes certain obligations." +-Marion G. Romney in CONFERENCE REPORTS, page 17 (April, 1976). +=============================================================[068]

+ +

Coming down into this Life, this "Second Estate" we are now in (as the ancient +Prophets originated its characterization), [069]

+ +

[069]============================================================= "I will +therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this before... [that +there were] angels that kept not their First Estate,..." +-A Letter from Jude in JUDE 1:5 to 6. +=============================================================[069]

+ +

our memories were deflected off to the side and temporarily locked away. [070]

+ +

[070]============================================================= "When a man +goes to sleep at night he forgets the doings of the day. Sometimes a partial +glimpse of them will disturb his slumbers; but sleep is the general thing, and +especially sound sleep, throws out of memory everything pertaining the past; +but when we awake in the morning, with the wakefulness returns a vivid +recollection of our past history and doings. So it will be when we come up into +the presence of Father and God in the mansion whence we emigrated to this +world. When we get there we will behold the face of our Father, the face of our +Mother, for we were begotten there the same as we were begotten here..." +-Orson Pratt, in a discourse delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake +City, August 20, 1871; 14 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 233, at 241 [London (1872)]. +=============================================================[070]

+ +

Coming down from the First Estate into this World, we all came here by +Contract, and sometime in the third trimester of our mother's pregnancy, our +spirits entered these bodies (called the "quickening" of the body). There came +a point in time back during the First Estate, when after Father revealed his +Grand Plans for us all, as the Sons of God we all shouted for joy in ecstatic +response. [071]

+ +

[071]============================================================= "We will +refer now to the [38th] Chapter of Job, to show that there were Sons of God +before this world was made. The Lord asked Job a question in relation to his +pre-existence, saying, +'Where was thou when I laid the cornerstone of the Earth?' "Where were +you, Job, when all the Morning Stars sang together, and all the sons of God +shouted for joy; when the nucleus of this creation was commenced? If Job had +been indoctrinated into all the mysteries of modern religionists, he would have +answered this question by saying, +'Lord, why do you ask me such a question? I had no existence at that +time.' "But the very question implies a previous existence of Job, but he had +forgotten where he [had been], and the Lord put the question as though he did +exist, showing to him in the declaration, that, when he laid the cornerstone of +the Earth, there were a great many sons of God there, and that they all shouted +for joy. Who were these sons of God?... They were Jesus, the elder brother, and +all the family that have come from that day until now -- millions on millions +-- and all who will come hereafter, and take tabernacles of flesh and bones +until the closing up scene of this creation." +-Orson Pratt, in a discourse delivered in the 14th Ward Assembly +Rooms, December 15, 1872; 15 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 241, at 246 [London (1873)]. +Discourse then continues into a protracted discussion as to why we, as the sons +of God back then, shouted for joy, at that time. This fellow Job that Orson +Pratt talks about lived in the lands of Uz, and fathered ten children; his +livelihood was that of a rancher, managing at one time over ten thousand sheep, +camels, oxen, and the like. The BOOK OF JOB occupies a unique position in the +Old Testament; it stands outside all of the conventional classifications of Old +Testament literature in that it is neither Law (in the sense of THE TORAH), nor +is it history, and it has no parallel with the other Prophets in the Old +Testament. In both literary form and general outlook, Job is different; a large +part of the book may be called dialogue as people are quoted speaking back and +forth to each other, but the dialogue is of a succession of elaborate +protracted speeches rather than an accelerated exchange of conversation such as +is often found in the narrative books. The BOOK OF JOB takes it place nestled +along side with the great ancient Sumerian and Akkadian theodicies [meaning +works dealing with the nature of Celestial Justice]. The central position of +the book deals with the Question: What should the righteous man expect to +receive from the hands of God? Should he expect only good fortune, or should he +also expect bad fortune? Job talks about how both contrasting types of +circumstances are thrown at Saints from Father. As for himself, Job once had +great prosperity, but then everything was swept away from him except his life. +After being tried right down to the wire, Job had his prosperity returned to +him in double. Individuals holding unrealistic understandings of Divine MODUS +OPERANDI are counselled that adverse circumstances making their appearance in +our lives are not to be ruled out, and should actually be expected to surface +at some point in time [see JOB 2:10 after reading the preceding background +text]; but today as has always been the case, the NOBLE AND GREAT (like Job +from yesterday) are intolerant of distractions, they know what they want to +hear, and when they hear the right words -- they buckle down tight and get +serious, and enter into Celestial Covenants, just like Job did [see JOB 31:1 +and 41:4]. =============================================================[071]

+ +

Whether this shouting for joy took place before or after Father started +extracting his Contracts out of us, I don't know; talk in this area is limited +to generalities. [072]

+ +

[072]============================================================= "Our +Spirits... were in the Councils of the Heavens before the foundations of the +Earth were laid. We were there. We sang together with the Heavenly hosts for +joy when the foundations of the Earth were laid, and when the plan of our +existence upon this Earth and redemption were mapped out. We were there, we +were interested, and we took part in this great preparation... We were vitally +concerned in the carrying out of these great plans and purposes, we understood +them, and it was for our sakes they were decreed, and are to be consummated..." +-Joseph F. Smith, GOSPEL DOCTRINE, page 93, et seq. [Deseret Book, +Salt Lake City (1939)]. +=============================================================[072]

+ +

But we do know that we are ones that Job referred to as the Sons of God. [073]

+ +

[073]============================================================= "We were +there when the foundations of the Earth were laid. We were numbered among the +sons of God, whom the Lord speaks of to the patriarch Job. 'Where wast thou, +[speaking to Job], when I laid the cornerstone of the Earth, when all the sons +of God shouted for you, and the morning stars san together?' Job, where were +you at that time? He was among them, he was there, perhaps he did not remember +it, any more than we do." +-Orson Pratt, in a discourse on March 9, 1879; 20 JOURNAL OF +DISCOURSES 142, at 156 [London (1880)]. +=============================================================[073]

+ +

Later on, after we have been around down here for a while, by the careful +honoring of those other Contracts we can enter into down here, we can enlarge +our standing before Father and be like him some day, by ordered, planned, and +organized accretion. [074]

+ +

[074]============================================================= "We believe +that we are children of our parents in Heaven. That being that dwells in my +tabernacle, and those beings that dwell in yours; the beings who are +intelligent and possess, in embryo, all of the attributes of our Father in +Heaven; the beings that reside in those earthly houses, they are the children +of our Father who is in Heaven. He begat us before the foundations of this +Earth were laid and before the Morning Stars sang together or the Sons of God +shouted for joy when the corner stones of the Earth were laid, as is written in +the sayings of the Patriarch Job." +-Orson Pratt, in a discourse delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake +City, August 20, 1871; 14 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 233, at 240 [London (1872)]. +=============================================================[074]

+ +

Some of those other Celestial Contracts that are available to be entered into +down here are the introductory Contract of Baptism, and the more advanced +Endowment Contracts [which are entered into in Temples], in addition to +multiple other ecclesiastically related Contracts. [075]

+ +

[075]============================================================= The first +Covenant is the introductory Covenant of BAPTISM, and although I characterize +it as being INTRODUCTORY, it nevertheless is the same identical NEW AND +EVERLASTING COVENANT spoken of by the Prophets and Patriarchs of old (as I will +discuss later). A great man once had a few words to say about the significance +of this BAPTISM COVENANT: +"By accepting membership in the Church, through Baptism and the laying +on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost, a person enters into a Covenant +with the Lord to obey and live by all the requirements of the Gospel. The +Lord's promise, conditioned upon such obedience, is the gift of Eternal Life. +"What must we then think... of a Covenant where God himself is the +party of the first part? Such a Covenant God has made with every one of us [as +members of this Church]. He has entered into an agreement with us. If you will +do all things which the Lord your God shall command you; if you will do his +will, you shall have glory added upon your heads forever and ever. That is his +pledge, and God keeps his Covenants and we should do the same. +"How do we enter into that Covenant? Not by signing a written +instrument. True. But in a most impressive manner and most authoritative manner +[by conferring upon his servants down a GRANT OF CELESTIAL JURISDICTION]. The +Lord commissions his servants, bestows upon them his Priesthood and authorizes +them to perform sacred ordinances, the same as if he had signed it in person. +They call attention to the necessity of the following the Lord Jesus Christ and +obeying his Gospel, doing all things whatsoever the Lord shall command us. That +is the contract, and we enter into it in a most solemn way. What is the +formality of it, if not by writing with pen and ink? It is by baptism by +immersion for the remission of sins. What a wonderful and impressive formality! +Could anything be more so? In baptism by immersion we symbolism both death and +life, for as the Apostle Paul explains: 'We are buried with [Christ] by baptism +into death' and brought forth out of the watery grave in likeness of his +glorious resurrection. +"This explanation of the significance of the baptismal Covenant has +remained vivid in my mind for all these forty years." +-Marion G. Romney in CONFERENCE REPORTS ["A Covenant Obligation"], at +129 (October, 1978). +=============================================================[075]

+ +

Yes, these Covenants that we can now enter into are REPLACEMENT Covenants, +because Heavenly Father already has invisible Contracts in effect on us all, as +we all entered into Contracts with Father in the First Estate, all of us +without exception: Saint, sinner, Heathen, and Gremlin:

+ +

"In our preexistence state, in the day of the great Council, we made +certain agreements with the Almighty..." [076]

+ +

[076]============================================================= John +Widtsoe, writing in the "The Worth of Souls," in UTAH GENEALOGICAL AND +HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, October, 1934, at page 198. This statement appears in the +context of a discussion of what some of the special terms of those Contracts +were that Latter-Day Saints entered into with Father back then. +=============================================================[076]

+ +

And the content of those preexistence [previous existence] First Estate +Covenants are designed to remain largely withheld from our present memory for a +reason. [077]

+ +

[077]============================================================= "... I think +there is great wisdom in withholding the knowledge of our previous existence. +Why? Because we could not, if we had all our pre-existent knowledge +accompanying us into this world, show to our Father in the Heavens and to the +Heavenly host that we would be in all things obedient; ... In order to try the +children of men, there must be a degree of knowledge withheld from them, for it +would be no temptation to them if they could understand from the beginning the +consequences of their acts, and the nature and results of this and that +temptation. But in order that we may prove ourselves before the Heavens in all +things, we have to begin at the very first principles of knowledge, and be +tried from knowledge to knowledge, and from grace to grace, until, like our +elder brother, we finally overcome and triumph over all of our imperfections, +and receive with him the same glory that he inherits, which glory he had before +the world was. That is the way we as a people look upon our previous +existence." +-Orson Pratt, in a discourse delivered in the 14th Ward Assembly +Rooms, December 15, 1872; 15 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 241, at 245 [London (1873)]. +=============================================================[077]

+ +

Back in the First Estate, not everyone entered into the same identical terms on +their previous existence Contracts. There was very much Contract customization +involved, when Father deemed it appropriate. For example, the Noble and the +Great Spirits, who excelled in valiance back then above all others, had special +addendums attached to their First Estate Contracts with Father, just tailor +made for their missions down here:

+ +

"Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were +organized before the world was; and among these were many of the Noble and +Great ones; And God saw these souls that they were good, and [in a Conference] +he stood in the midst of them, and he said: +'These I will make my rulers.' +"For he stood among those that were spirits, and he saw that they were +good, and he said unto me: +"Abraham, thou art one of them; thou was chosen before thou wast +born..." [078]

+ +

[078]============================================================= The writings +of Abraham, while he was in Egypt, written in his own hand on papyrus. See +"Book of Abraham," Chapter 3, in DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS [meaning FATHER'S +DOCTRINE AND CONTRACTS]. Published by the Mormon Church, Salt Lake City, Utah. +This is an unusual book and is also distinctively peculiar in that it is the +only book in the world that has the honor of a Preface in it written by Jesus +Christ himself [this Preface now appears as Section 1]. In an age when the +prevailing view is that the Heavens were probably once open to Revelation a +long time ago, but now are forever closed (for some unexplained reason), the +publication of such a doctrinally hybrid volume such as the DOCTRINE AND +COVENANTS is as startling as well as it is unique -- because its contents are +not really open to debate or argument. They require either total acceptance or +total rejection -- a somewhat extreme and difficult position for a person +unacquainted with them to take at first. However, the word UNIQUE means +"standing alone" or perhaps something "different or new." In a contemporary +ecclesiastical setting where a confluence of divergent religious thoughts +permeate the intellectual scene, UNIQUE infers something that is different from +generally accepted predominate views -- and so the effect of DOCTRINE AND +COVENANTS is to supply an enlarged understanding through enlarged factual +presentations -- not in opposition or contradiction to other previously +recorded or circulated Revelations, but merely adding an enlarged dimension to +information already at hand. Like privately circulating newsletters offering +slices of factual information largely only complimentary to that which appears +in the Government Billboards of the major New York City media -- the +newsletter's factual presentations now creates an enlarged basis of factual +knowledge for their readers to exercise judgment on, and so such additional +information often leads, in turn, to end conclusions that fall outside of the +generally accepted predominate contours of views that the Gremlin controlled +Government Billboard major media would prefer that folks remain intellectually +isolated within. Even so, be cognizant that the information in Father's +DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS only "adds a dimension" to other sources of Celestial +information obtainable elsewhere, and by no means are represented as being +complete in themselves; nor should they be relied upon as offering such a total +and thorough picture of the Celestial scene that other important complimentary +sources of information [such as that originating from our Patriarchs and +Fathers of old] are improvidently tossed aside and ignored. +=============================================================[078]

+ +

Although that brief account by Abraham does not describe everything that went +on in that Conference, what also transpired in that Conference, in addition to +the lofty Status pronouncements from On High, was the extraction of additional +Contract Addendums out of the participants, just tailor made to fit the Noble +and the Great.

+ +

As we enter into and fulfill Father's Advanced Contracts down here, the +significance of those Contracts that we entered into in the First Estate fades +away until they are of no significance whatsoever. [079]

+ +

[079]============================================================= Numerous +Christian commentators have detected that something was Divinely special about +the idea of a COVENANT, and their feelings are correct -- the idea is very +significant. But being deficient in factual knowledge on the First Estate where +we came from, and not having other key slices of information, they never hit +the nail right on the head, or even come close to it. See: +-Delbert Hillers in COVENANT: THE HISTORY OF A BIBLICAL IDEA [John +Hopkins Press (1969)]; +-D. McCarthy in TREATY AND COVENANT; A STUDY IN THE ANCIENT ORIENT +DOCUMENTS... [Pontifical Bible Institute, Rome (1963)]; +-George Mendenhall in LAW AND COVENANT IN ISRAEL AND THE ANCIENT NEAR +EAST [The Biblical Colloquium, Pittsburgh (1955)]; +-George Mendenhall in "COVENANT" THE INTERPRETER'S DICTIONARY OF THE +BIBLE [Abingdon, New York (1962)]; +-William H. Brownlee in A COMPARISON OF THE COVENANTERS OF THE DEAD +SEA SCROLLS WITH PRE-CHRISTIAN JEWISH SECTS [The Biblical Archeologist +(September, 1951)]. +=============================================================[079]

+ +

These Contracts that we enter into with Father down here supersede our previous +Contracts, and if no Contract is entered into with Father down here, then the +governing Contract at the Judgment Day will be the First Estate Contract. +People playing the Contract avoidance routine on Father's Contracts are playing +with fire and damaging themselves, because knowledge of the content of those +Previous Existence Contracts is being withheld from us for a reason. This then +raises a moral question: What right does Father have to hold us to Contracts, +the content of which we have no knowledge of? Answer: Father has our consent to +do so as part of the game plan. Yes, we are placed in this world measurably in +the dark, necessarily so. [080]

+ +

[080]============================================================= "We are +placed in this world measurably in the dark. We no longer see our Father face +to face. While it is true that we once did; we stood in His presence, seeing as +we are seen, knowing, according to our intelligence, as we are known; that +curtain has dropped, we have changed our abode, we have taken upon ourselves +flesh; the veil of forgetfulness intervenes between this life and that, and we +are left, as [the Apostle] Paul expresses it, to "see through a glass darkly," +to "know in part and to prophesy in part;' to see only to a limited extent, the +end from the beginning. We do not comprehend things in their fullness. But we +have the promise, if we will receive and live by every word that proceeds forth +from the mouth of God, wisely using the intelligences, the opportunities, the +advantages, and the possessions which He continually bestows upon us -- the +time will come, in the eternal course of events, when our minds will be cleared +from every cloud, the past will recur to memory, the future will be an open +vision, and we will behold things as they are, and the past, present and future +will be one eternal day, as it is in the eyes of God our Father, who knows +neither past, present or future; whose course is one eternal round; who +creates, who saves, redeems and glorifies the workmanship of His hands, in +which He Himself is [in turn] glorified." +-Orson F. Whitney, in a discourse delivered in the Tabernacle on +Sunday, April 19, 1885; 26 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 194, at 195 [London (1886)]. +=============================================================[080]

+ +

And when you understand the benefits of the game plan, your initial reticence +will also fade away. [081]

+ +

[081]============================================================= And the +benefits are quite substantial: +"As our Father and God begat us, sons and daughters, so will we rise +immortal, males and females, and also beget children, and, in our turn, form +and create [other] worlds, and send forth our spirit children to inherit those +worlds, just the same as we were sent here, and thus will the works of God +continue..." +-Orson Pratt, in a discourse delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake +City, August 20, 1871; 14 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 233, at 242 [London (1872)]. +=============================================================[081]

+ +

And if it initially appears to be unfair to penalize someone for their innocent +ignorance by being judged under invisible contracts they had no knowledge of, +then remember that in a Contract Law Judgment setting such nice things as +fairness and relative levels of knowledge or ignorance of the Contract's terms +are all irrelevant factors; and this Tort Law argument of UNFAIRNESS, by being +made a party to such excessively one-sided and unequal contract terms really +falls apart when the temporary deflection of the previous memory itself is made +such an integral and an important structural element in those First Estate +Contracts. [082]

+ +

[082]============================================================= "We come +here to live for a few days, and then we are gone again... We had an existence +before we came into the world. Our spirits came here to take these tabernacles; +they came to occupy them as habitations, with the understanding that all that +had passed previously to our coming here should be taken away from us, that we +should not know anything about it." +-Brigham Young, in a discourse made at the Bowery, Salt Lake City on +June 22, 1865; 3 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 362, at 367 [London (1856)]. +=============================================================[082]

+ +

This means that if there had been no memory deflection taking place, then the +objectives Father has for us in this Life, to live in a free-wheeling world for +a little while by "starting over" in a sense, would be infeasible to +accomplish; and so without memory deflection there would have been no reason +for this Second Estate Life and the numerous Contracts associated with it -- +Celestial Contracts that overrule our First Estate Covenants. [083]

+ +

[083]============================================================= "We all +acknowledge that we had an existence before we were born into this world. How +long before we took our departure from the realms of bliss to find our +tabernacle in the flesh is unknown to us. Suffice it to say that we were sent +here. We came willingly... Then if it be true that we entered into a Covenant +with the powers Celestial, before we left our former homes, that we would come +here and obey the voice of the Lord, through whomsoever he might speak, these +powers are witnesses of the Covenant into which we entered [back then]; and it +is not impossible that we signed the articles thereof with our own hands -- +which articles may be retained in the archives above, to be presented to us +when we rise from the dead, and be judged out of our own mouths, according to +that which was written in the books. Did we Covenant and agree that we would be +subject to the authorities of Heaven placed over us? ...Did we Covenant to be +subject to the authority of God in all the different relations of life -- that +we would be loyal to the legitimate powers that emanate from God? I have been +lead to think that such is the truth. Something whispers these things to me in +this light. ...What did we agree to before we came here? If to anything, I +suppose the very same things [that] we [have] agreed to since we [came] here, +that are legitimate and proper." +-Orson Hyde, in a discourse made in the Tabernacle on October 6, 1859 +["Sowing and Reaping -- Fulfillment of Covenants"] in 7 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES +313, at 314 [London (1860)]. +=============================================================[083]

+ +

The unfairness aspect of this impending state of affairs that gnaws at us -- of +people being adjudged under invisible Contracts -- causes some folks to want to +shy away from such a harsh Father; but such a reduced view of Father's Plans is +defective. In this world, we are conditioned to think that penalizing someone +means directly throwing something negative at him, i.e., docking his pay, +giving him a reprimand, having him picked up, confining the fellow to barracks, +giving the poor fellow a spanking, or having him taken out and shot, and the +like. To be penalized by Father carries no such negative circumstances being +applied against us at all; a penalty levied at us by Father is the mere absence +of a possible prospective Celestial Blessing that could have been ours -- if we +had buckled down tight and gotten serious when presented with information to +the effect that Contracts are governing at the Last Day. So when Father places +a Contract Law Judgement environment in effect for us on the Judgment Day, and +people then start claiming unfairness for any one of several dozen different +reasons (and each argument has merit to it), their arguments sounding in the +Tort of unfairness will fall apart and collapse, and properly so, as there is +nothing inconsistent about Father's selective withholding of any of his +discretionary Blessings from us that were waived by us, and the great Celestial +Grant of Eloha. [084]

+ +

[084]============================================================= The phrase +used here, SOUNDING IN TORT, appears in different places throughout the Federal +jurisprudential strata of the United States. When a grievance is presented to a +Judge for a ruling, it means that the relationship is not predicated on a +contract, and that the instant claim being sought is sounding [based on] +correlative arguments of unfairness, for some reason, and therefore Tort Law +applies there to fill the vacuum left by no contracts. Remember that Tort Law +and its arguments of UNFAIRNESS can sometimes apply to govern grievances even +when a contract is hanging in the distant background, because the instant +grievance falls outside of the content of the contract. That I could find, the +phrase SOUNDING IN TORT first surfaced in a Supreme Court ruling in a Case +called GARLAND VS. DAVIS, 45 U.S. 131, at 141 (1846), which declared the rule +that Contract grievances are best separated away from, and adjudged differently +from Tort grievances (and properly so). The Court also ruled in GARLAND that +declarations made within a Pleading, commingling Tort claims with Contract +claims, are to be discouraged. There are 56 other Supreme Court cases I found +where the phrase SOUNDING IN TORT appears. Recently, it appears in Footnote #2 +to MIGRA VS. WARREN SCHOOL DISTRICT, 465 U.S. 75 (1984) while discussing an +action for Tort damages sought on grounds of wrongful interference unfairness +with the petitioner's Contract of Employment. In Federal statutes, the phrase +is found in the INDIAN TUCKER ACT. +"The Court of Claims shall have jurisdiction to render judgment... upon +any express or implied contract... in cases not sounding in tort." +-28 U.S.C. 1505. Some of the other Federal statutes incorporating this +phrase SOUNDING IN TORT are: +-28 U.S.C. 1346 ["United States as Defendant"]; +-28 U.S.C. 1491 ["Claims against the United States generally"]; +-28 U.S.C. 2412 ["Costs and fees"]. By the end of this Letter, the +distinction between Tort and Contract should be quite clear to see; and most +importantly, its true origin in the mind of Heavenly Father who created Nature, +and not judges, should be recognized. +=============================================================[084]

+ +

Yes, the Third Estate we will enter into after the Last Judgment Day is +stratified into multiple different strata, and people will go where they are +most comfortable; yes, Father has many mansions in his House. [085]

+ +

[085]============================================================= "Salvation +is an individual operation... We read in the Bible that there is one glory of +the Sun, another glory of the Moon, and another glory of the Stars. In the Book +of DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS, these glories are called Telestial, Terrestrial, and +Celestial, which is the highest. These are worlds, different departments, or +Mansions, in our Father's House. Now these men, or those women, who know no +more about the power of God, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, than to be +led entirely by another person, suspending their understanding, and pinning +their faith upon another's sleeve, will never be capable of entering into the +Celestial glory, to be crowned as they anticipate; they will never be capable +of becoming Gods. They cannot rule themselves, to say nothing of ruling others, +but they must be dictated to in every trifle, like a child. They cannot control +themselves in the least, but James, Peter, or somebody else must control them. +They never can become Gods, nor be crowned as rules with glory, immortality, +and eternal lives. They never can hold scepters of glory, majesty, and power in +the Celestial Kingdom. Who will? Those who are valiant and inspired with the +true independence of Heaven, who will go forth boldly in the service of God, +leaving others to so as they please, determined to do right, though all mankind +besides should take the opposite course." +-Brigham Young, in a discourse at the Tabernacle on February 20, 1853; +1 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 309, at 312 [London (1854)]. +=============================================================[085]

+ +

For example, if you simply cannot handle a difficult Contract or do not want +the responsibility that such a difficult Contract carries along with it -- then +that is fine, as Father has a Kingdom for you; and if this idea of spending +Time and all Eternity in the midst of clowns who also cannot handle Contracts +intrigues you, then I would suggest that you explore the possibility of +terminating further interest in this Letter. Maybe I am missing something +somewhere, but I think it is inconsistent for Tax and Highway Protestors to so +freely and willingly be criminally prosecuted for no more than defining a new +elevated Status relationship with Government -- but then for those same +Protestors to turn around and say that yes, they would somehow enjoy spending +the rest of Time and all Eternity on their knees licking someone else's feet as +some low level ministering angels. Therefore, we will settle for nothing but +the top -- and if we err along the way, then we erred while expending maximum +effort. [086]

+ +

[086]============================================================= "These words +set forth the fact to which Jesus referred to when he said, 'In my Father's +House are many Mansions.' How many I am not prepared to say; but there are +three distinctly spoken of: The Celestial, the highest; the Terrestrial, the +next below it; and the Telestial, the third. If we were to take the pains to +read what the Lord has said to his people in the Latter days we should find +that he has made provision for all the inhabitants of the Earth; every creature +who desires, and who strives in the least, to overcome evil and subdue iniquity +within himself or herself, and to live worthy of glory, will possess one. We +who have received the Fullness of the Gospel of the Son of God, or the Kingdom +of Heaven that has come to Earth, are in possession of these laws, ordinances, +commandments and revelations that will prepare us, by strict obedience, to +inherit the Celestial Kingdom, to go into the presence of the Father and the +Son." +-Brigham Young, in a discourse in the New Tabernacle on June 25th, +1871; 14 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 147, at 148 [London (1872)]. +=============================================================[086]

+ +

When Contracts are in effect, the only thing that is relevant in a Contract Law +Judgment setting is the content of the contract, the Person whose behavior the +contract seeks to measure compliance with, and the behavior that was being +measured; and as we traverse from a political setting involving Tax Protestors +to an ecclesiastical setting involving us all at the Last Day, then nothing +changes. The fact that Irwin Schiff and Armen Condo never bothered to read the +Commercial bank account merchant contracts that they were adjudged to be in +default of, and also their invisible Citizenship Contracts, and then were +penalized under those contracts by being incarcerated in a Federal cage, that +ignorance of the contract's terms is neither a relevant question nor excusable +behavior under a Contract Law judgment setting. Literally, the only thing that +is relevant is: Did they honor the contract or not. People who are unable to +think along these precise and very narrow ratiocinative [087]

+ +

[087]============================================================= +RATIOCINATIVE means the process of exact thinking with little room, if any, for +error. =============================================================[087]

+ +

lines of Contract Law will find themselves being self-penalized for their +ignorance (penalized in the sense that prospective blessings that could have +been their's will be forfeited). If that sounds excessively harsh, then +momentarily picture yourself as being in Father's position, and then consider +what you would do differently when confronted with a group of people who can +and do think precisely, and another group of people that do not think so +precisely, and another group who really could care less about anything. [088]

+ +

[088]============================================================= "All of the +doctrines of Life and Salvation are as plain to the understanding as [are] +geographical lines of a correctly drawn map. This doctrine, revealed in these +latter times, is worthy of the attention of all men. It gives the positive +situation in which they will stand before the Heavens when they have finished +their career. Generation after generation is constantly coming and passing +away. They all possess more or less intelligence, which forms the foundation +within them for the reception of an eternal increase [in their] intelligence... +But [in contrast to that] hundreds of millions of human beings have been born, +lived out their short earthly span, and passed away, ignorant alike of +themselves and of the PLAN OF SALVATION provided for them. It gives great +consolation, however, to know that this glorious plan devised by Heaven follows +them into the next existence, offering for their acceptance eternal life and +exaltation of thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers in the presence of +their Father and God, through Jesus Christ his Son. How glorious -- how ample +is the gospel plan in its saving properties and merciful designs. This one +revelation, containing this Principle, is worth worlds on worlds to mankind." +-Brigham Young, in a discourse in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake +City, on January 12, 1862; 9 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 147, at 148 [London (1862)]. +=============================================================[088]

+ +

And it will be on the Judgment Day that we will be judged by Contracts, and +under a Contract Law jurisprudential setting -- and not under the rights, +justice, relative collective equality, and group fairness of pure natural moral +Tort Law. Interestingly enough, also known to those Persons who have entered +into Father's Advanced Contracts down here is that the timing of the Judgment +Day can be accelerated into this life, thus removing any lingering vestige of +uncertainty someone may have about their Standing before Father; there is no +Last Day for these special people to concern themselves with. When Father +approves of your Standing down here, you are going to know it under rather +strong circumstances.

+ +

Yes, Heavenly Father has contracts on us all going back into the First Estate. +[089]

+ +

[089]============================================================= "Those +covenants that [Latter-Day Saints now make] were also made in the beginning of +the creation. They are now renewed to us..." +-Heber C. Kimball, in a discourse made in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake +City, January 6, 1861; 9 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 126, at 130 [London (1862)]. +=============================================================[089]

+ +

And just like Federal Judges in 7203 WILLFUL FAILURE TO FILE prosecutions +quietly taking Judicial Notice of contracts in their Chambers even before the +Tax Protestor gets arrested and the adversary criminal proceedings start, +Father too already has all the Contracts he needs in front of him awaiting the +judgment scene of Last Day -- First Estate Contracts that were solicited from +us before we were born into this World, and this Second Estate proceeding +started to collect and assemble the factual setting the Last Day will issue out +a Judgment on. First Estate Contracts are now in effect on everyone -- ON +EVERYONE -- down here without any exceptions, and Father is not interested in +either any Tort or great thing we accomplish -- except that if that action is +encompassed within the content of a positive or restraining covenant on one of +the Contracts he has on us. [090]

+ +

[090]============================================================= "Those +things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, +but they do not make real life. "After all, to do well those things which God +ordained to be the common lot of all mankind, is the truest greatness. To be a +successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful +general or a successful statesman." +-Joseph F. Smith in JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR, page 752 (December 15, 1905). +Let's say you were Armand Hammer, and you spent your life building up a great +oil company -- OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM. Was that a great event for Mr. Hammer to +accomplish down here? Yes, it very much was, and a very difficult task +technically as well. But -- building up one huge OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM or +building up one thousand such dynastic empires means nothing to magnify your +standing at the Last Day. Although the training and SAVOIR-FAIRE acquired in +the process of such empire construction that dynasty builders are going through +is prepatory to other things, and could be very helpful to them in other ways; +the successful administration of difficult Celestial Contracts remains the +dynasty builder's sole obstacle to inheriting the Celestial realms, as much as +the administration of those Celestial Contracts remains the sole obstacle to us +PEASANTS as well. +=============================================================[090]

+ +

By the wording of the Contracts Father has on us, a wide ranging array of +damages are not permissible -- but the moral Tort question of damages itself is +not relevant unless the damages fall into an area restricted by the Contract. +In a similar way, some of the Contract terms call for both positive action and +negative restrainment under situations where there could be no damages created +regardless of what we do; SO DAMAGES ARE NOT RELEVANT WHEN CONTRACTS ARE IN +EFFECT. ONLY CONCERN YOURSELF WITH THE CONTENT OF THE CONTRACT. And even if we +have carefully avoided entering into any Contracts with him now in this Life, +he still has Contracts on us all from the First Estate he will hold us to at +the Judgment Day: In other words, there is no such thing as outfoxing Father. +[091]

+ +

[091]============================================================= Do you want +to even try and outfox Father? A profile examination of the benefits that we +will experience by entering into, and then honoring a difficult advanced +contract, makes the search for ways to outfox Father rather silly and childish +in comparison. We are all organized to become Gods; whether or not we +accomplish such a noble objective depends upon how we handle our affairs down +here in this school. +"Intelligent beings are organized to become Gods, even the sons of +Gods, to dwell in the presence of the Gods, and become associated with the +highest intelligences that dwell in eternity. We are now in that school, and +must practice upon what we receive." +-Brigham Young, President of the Mormon Church, in a discourse made in +the Bowery, Salt Lake City, September 2, 1860; 9 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 158, at +160 [London (1862)]. This life is a school, and Protestors refusing to consider +the idea, however remotely accurate it might be, that it is they themselves +that might be in error with their Protesting, are manifesting in that setting +an attitude of UNTEACHABLENESS. Such an attitude [forcefully concluding +prematurely that the King is wrong, and I am right] causes Protestors to +disregard countermanding factual information when it surfaces. Such a rejection +of that uncomfortable information, before it is analyzed for authenticity, +relevancy, etc., is not exemplary of good students. Students who go through +school effortlessly are those who are in a teachable state of mind, and are +receptive to the possibility that they may have been in error before. +=============================================================[091]

+ +

Unlike our King in Washington who has multiple technical deficiencies existing +within his own statutes, which when invoked timely preclude him from collecting +any Inland Revenue tax money under many circumstances even when it is +rightfully due and payable, there are no deficiencies in the Contracts Father +writes; and for the incredible benefits being offered by Father, [092]

+ +

[092]============================================================= "...I +expect, if I am faithful with yourselves, that I shall see the time with +yourselves that we shall know how to prepare to organize an Earth like this -- +know how to people that Earth, how to redeem it, how to sanctify it, and how to +glorify it, with those who live upon it [being ones] who hearken to our +counsels. The Father and the Son have attained to this point already; I am on +the way, and so are you, [along with] every faithful servant of God." +-Brigham Young, in a discourse in a Special Conference held in the +Tabernacle in Salt Lake City on August 28, 1852; 6 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 273, +at 274 [London (1859)]. +=============================================================[092]

+ +

you should not even probe for any improvident technical moves. [093]

+ +

[093]============================================================= "There was a +time before we ever came into this world when we dwelt in [Father's] presence. +We knew what kind of being he is. One thing we saw was how glorious he is. +Another thing, how great was his wisdom, his understanding, how wonderful was +his power and his inspiration. And we wanted to be like him... If we will just +be true and faithful to every Covenant, to every Principle of Truth that he has +given us, then after the resurrection we would come back into his presence and +we would be just like he is. We would have the same kind of bodies -- bodies +that would shine like the sun." +-Joseph Fielding Smith in TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES!, page 345 [Desert +Book Publishing, Salt Lake City (1966)]. +=============================================================[093]

+ +

And this question of trying to outfox Father, is why the Illuminatti, who +otherwise like to consider themselves as being very clever folks, will find +their Torts, murders, revolutions, wars and environmental damages +justifications fall apart and collapse at the Last Day -- because pure natural +moral Tort Law will be irrelevant at the Judgment Day. They will regret having +made their improvident technical moves down here: By trying to outfox Father +with their clever Tort Law reasoning on justifying damages. Father has a +special treat planned, an Ace up his sleeve, just tailor made for dealing with +these Illuminatti and Bolshevik types of Gremlins; it is the same identical Ace +that Federal Judges have up their sleeves, just tailor made to deal effectively +with Constitutionalists: An invisible Contract the poor fellow didn't even know +about. By the end of this Letter, you will know of the numerous layers of +invisible Contracts the King has on Tax Protestors. But assuming that you +avoided entering into new Contracts with Father in this Life, then when your +memory is restored to you, Father will solicit an accounting of the terms of +the Contract he extracted from you in the First Estate. [094]

+ +

[094]============================================================= "Now admit, +as the Latter-Day Saints do, that we had a previous existence, and that when we +die we shall return to God and our former habitation, where we shall behold the +face of our Father, and the question immediately arises, shall we have our +memories increased, that we shall remember our previous existence? ...we +shall." +-Orson Pratt, in a discourse delivered in the 14th Assembly Rooms on +December 15, 1872; 15 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 241, at 249 [London (1873)]. Jesus +is often portrayed as being the MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT [Hebrews 12:24], +which means that he has some type of an equitable interest in it: +"For as these memorials of the ATONEMENT were used by the ancient +Patriarchs and Prophets to manifest to God their faith in the Plan of +Redemption and in the coming Redeemer... Jesus [is] the Mediator of the New +Covenant..." +-John Taylor in THE MEDIATION AND ATONEMENT, at 123 [Deseret +Publishing, Salt Lake City (1892)]. Question: If there is a NEW COVENANT, was +there an OLD COVENANT? Answer: Yes, there most certainly was an Old Covenant; +and Father extracted the OLD Covenant out of us all in the First Estate, so now +that Covenant has the appearance of being invisible to us. Jesus Christ once +had a few words to say about the replacement of Father's First Estate Covenant +with his own [meaning that at the Last Day before Father, those Spirits who +entered into Father's NEW AND EVERLASTING COVENANTS down here will find that +Jesus is acting as their Advocate before the Father at the Last Day]: +"...I say unto you that all old Covenants have I caused to be done away +with in this thing; and this is a NEW AND AN EVERLASTING COVENANT, even that +which was from the beginning." +-DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS 22:1. +"...I am in your midst, and am your Advocate with the Father." +-DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS 29:5. With Jesus Christ being your Advocate +before Father at the Last Day [which is a benefit offered to those who have +entered into Father's NEW AND EVERLASTING COVENANT], I am unaware of any other +Counselor I would rather have, acting on my behalf. ...Another set of Covenants +that Jesus was responsible for replacing with another Covenant, are the +Covenants associated with the LAW OF MOSES that our Fathers from another era +once entered into [the sacrifice of Jesus back near the MERIDIAN OF TIME +fulfilled the symbolic blood sacrifices that many of the Mosaic Ordinances were +centered around (the MERIDIAN OF TIME separates B.C. from A.D.)]. +=============================================================[094]

+ +

And so what was once an invisible Contract will then become a rather strongly +known Contract, and then and there the Gremlins will crinkle in self-inflicted +anguish. The Prophets have stated that there will be weeping, wailing and a +gnashing of teeth at the Last Day; [095]

+ +

[095]============================================================= "I am Alpha +and Omega, Christ the Lord; yes even I am he, the Beginning and the End, the +Redeemer of the World. ...at the... Last Great Day of Judgment... woes shall go +forth, weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, yea, to those who are found on +my left hand." +-DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS 19:1 to 5. +=============================================================[095]

+ +

those are rather strong characterizations to use -- but now you know why -- for +among other reasons, the Gremlins will have a perfect knowledge that their +clever justifications to pull off and try and get away with WORLD CLASS +mischief were not worth it. And when, at the Last Day, the Illuminatti and +their Gremlin brothers are confronted with the terms of those First Estate +Contracts that they entered into before this Second Estate even started, and +when Father then asks for a simple factual recital of their Covenant +compliance, then will the Gremlins realize the irrelevancy of their excuses to +justify and vitiate their murder, war, and miscellaneous abomination damages +(and all committed, of course, to accomplish and perfect Justice); and those +Illuminatti types might just find themselves, at that time, being a bit +disappointed: Because their Tort Law justifications will not even be addressed +by Father.

+ +

Father will be asking a very simple question then, to which he will expect, +very properly, a very simple answer: What was the extent to which you honored +your Contracts?

+ +

Gremlin defense arguments sounding in the Tort of damages justification will be +tossed aside and ignored then at the Last Day just like State and Federal +Judges now toss aside and ignore Tort Law arguments of Constitutionalists and +other Protestors arguing lack of CORPUS DELECTI damages to try and get a +dismissal of Tax and Highway Contract enforcement prosecutions, when invisible +contracts unknown to the Constitutionalist were actually in effect. There is +actually nothing inaccurate or defective about the planned Gremlin defense +arguments, just like there is nothing inaccurate or factually defective about +Patriot arguments thrown at Judges today; the question is not one of accuracy +or whether they are correct, but rather the question is one of whether the +defense line addresses the contract compliance question asked -- and they +don't, they are not relevant. Simple questions of Contract compliance by their +nature exclude a large body of prospective rebuttals that are distractive to +the simple question asked; when contracts are up for review and judgment, then +only the content of the Contract is of any relevance. [096]

+ +

[096]============================================================= In August of +1937, Maurice Harper and Fred Test were beer distributors in Ontario, Oregon. +They needed to borrow some money, so they entered into a contract with their +own beer suppliers for a loan; they gave a real property deed on land they +owned to their supplier of beer as security for this loan, and as circumstances +often work out, the loan went into default, and a sale of the property quickly +was commenced by the beer suppliers with the result being that the minimal +price obtained under the pressure such an accelerated forced sale was far below +market value. The sale yielded just enough money to pay off the loan, and there +was no surplus available to give to the beer distributors who had posted the +land as security for the loan. Maurice Harper and Fred Test yelled UNFAIR, and +then threw a Court action at the beer suppliers for damages. UNFAIRNESS is not +relevant when contracts are up for review, so the action was brought in under +Tort Law. [How is an action brought under Tort? By simply claiming in the +Complaint that Tort Law governs the grievance, pleading such things as the +damages experienced and then asking relief sounding in Tort; however, whether +or not your Tort claims ultimately prevail is another question]. Here, Harper +and Test asked for the Tort relief in the nature of EXEMPLARY DAMAGES. A Trial +was held, and during Trial at the close of evidence presentation, the Defendant +beer suppliers motioned the Court to require the Plaintiffs, Harper and Test, +to identify whether they wanted to proceed to judgment under the rules of Tort +of Contract: +"Plaintiffs [Harper and Test] elected to proceed in Tort. Immediately +upon the election, being made by Plaintiffs, the Defendants moved for a +directed verdict on the grounds that the Complaint failed to state a CAUSE OF +ACTION in Tort and in support of the motion counsel stated: +"...it is our position that in this case, when construed in the light +of surrounding circumstances as it must be done, does not raise any obligation +or does not permit the inference of any obligation EXISTING IN LAW OUTSIDE OF +THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE CONTRACT ITSELF..." +-HARPER VS. INTERSTATE BREWERY, 120 P.2nd 757, at 761 (1942). The +Court when on to analyze the difference between Tort and Contract; and as is +the factual setting in so many cases brought before the Judiciary for +resolution, a business relationship in effect between some parties was +initially construed around a Contract as the center of gravity, and when +unanticipated circumstances came to pass (as someone pulled something sneaky +off that the Contract has made no governing provision for), so the Judiciary +now has a grievance that is sounding in Tort with a Contract hanging in the +background: +"The distinction between a TORT and a BREACH OF CONTRACT is broad and +clear, in theory. In practice, however, it is not always easy to determine +whether a particular act or course of conduct subjects the wrongdoer to an +action in Tort, or one merely for breach of Contract. The test to be applied is +the nature of the right which is being invaded. If this right was created +solely by the [contractual] agreement of the parties, the Plaintiff is limited +to an action EX CONTRACTU. If it was created by law he may sue in Tort." +-HARPER VS. INTERSTATE BREWERY, id., at 762. Under these cases where a +Contract is hanging in the background, but a Tort Law claim is being demanded +as the relief, often times Attorneys for the Plaintiff will ask for both Breach +of Contract and Tort relief, reciting elements of the factual setting that +support the respective claims, with the end result being that appellate judges +are frequently asked to draw lines dividing Tort from Contract, as was the +instant factual setting here with HARPER. But important for the moment is that +the distinction once created in the Heavens, a long time ago, bifurcating Tort +from Contract, is now being honored by the Judiciary, and that the Contract Law +legal reasoning being enforced by judges today -- as seemingly unpleasant as it +is initially -- that excludes arguments and other distractions from being +considered unless they fall within the content of the Contract, is in fact a +correct PRINCIPLE OF NATURE that everyone will eventually become very well +acquainted with at the Last Day. +=============================================================[096]

+ +

If Father was planning on using pure natural moral Tort Law Justice at the +Judgment Day, then there could be no such things as the third party liability +absorption feature such as the Atonement (which is operation of Contract); and +additionally, for the tortious act of swatting a fly, spanking our kids, +drilling a railroad tunnel through a mountain, or mowing our lawns, we would be +penalized forever -- if we are operating under the rules of pure natural moral +Tort Law (which means that all Torts get retorted as the remedy -- with an +exception being only those excusable Torts necessary to perfect the Ends of +Justice). That important qualifying retort exception reasoning is the line that +Lucifer carefully taught his Illuminatti followers to profile themselves around +to justify their actions before Father. [097]

+ +

[097]============================================================= Lucifer too +uses contracts to accomplish his end objectives; he too is playing this +Contract Game. As for Lucifer, irrevocable oaths and covenants are required for +standing membership in Illuminatti temples. Once contracts are extracted out of +new Illuminatti initiates, that Equity Relationship that was created is +considered to be a FAIT ACCOMPLI (meaning once accomplished, then being +irrevocable in nature). In other secret societies that Lucifer maintains a +managing interest in, covenants (contracts) that were sealed under blood oaths +are extracted out of new members. So Lucifer very much knows all about the +rather strong underlying nature of Contracts and of Contract Law Jurisprudence. +Witches also use covenants extensively; for a discussion of First Degree, +Second Degree and Third Degree Initiation Rites, see Janet and Stewart Farrar +in A WITCHES BIBLE [Magickal Childe Publishing, 35 West 19th Street, New York +10011 (1981)]. +=============================================================[097]

+ +

Lucifer's clever inveiglement to use damage arguments to vitiate yourself at +the Last Judgment Day is facially very attractive, and since Tort Law itself is +a correct PRINCIPLE OF NATURE, any scrutiny of Lucifer's reasoning withstands +attack and challenge from any angle; it is not until a remote, little known, +and obscure doctrine is uncovered from the archives of the Mormon Church in +Salt Lake City (regarding our lives as Spirits before with Father, and Father's +Previous Existence Contracts on us all, and therefore our Judgment will be +under Contract Law) does Lucifer's brilliant Tort Law justification reasoning +fall apart and collapse. In reading Illuminatti literature, Lucifer again +manifests his supergenius at deception through concealment, as although there +are references to general Spiritual matters (certain strata of Illuminatti are +not atheists) as a distraction, however there are no references to any +Contracts with Father out there that the Illuminatti need to concern themselves +with. An exemplary line propagated by persons who circulate in the genre of +Witches, Bolsheviks, and Illuminists is that "You should do it in the name of +Justice, so you can justify it in the end."

+ +

In the pop song ONE TIN SOLDIER, one finds the following lyrics:

+ +

"...Do it in the name of Heaven, you can justify it in the end... There +won't be any Trumpets blowing come the Judgment Day..." [098]

+ +

[098]============================================================= Lyrics +Copyright by FLASHBACK RECORDS/ARISTA RECORDS, New York City. Words and music +by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, Trousdale Music Publishing (1969); revived +by COVEN RECORDS (WARNER BROTHERS, 1971); MGM RECORDS, (1973); WARNER BROTHERS +again (1974). +=============================================================[098]

+ +

These lyrics also appear in the Hollywood movie BILLY JACK. [099]

+ +

[099]============================================================= Starring Tom +Laughlin and Delores Taylor; distributed by WARNER BROTHERS (1971). +=============================================================[099]

+ +

With a setting on an Indian Reservation in the Western United States, the plot +in BILLY JACK told the tale of how the ever changing laws of men are frequently +out of harmony with true Justice, and so now murder is necessary to accomplish +the true Ends of Justice where the laws of men fall short; sort of like forcing +a contemporary hybrid variant of ROBIN HOOD's grab as a means of accomplishing +JUSTITIA OMNIBUS [justice for all]. Remember that the Illuminatti Gremlins need +to have people (their prospective recruits in particular) think in terms of +Tort Law reasoning down here, and so they propagate the view that murders +committed to accomplish Justice (to correctively retort the damages of others +that the Law does not reach) are excusable acts that Heavenly Father is +required to vitiate and ignore at the Last Day [just like the Sheriff is +excused from bearing the consequences for working the damages you experienced +when he incarcerated you, after you had first burned your neighbor's house +down; what the Sheriff did, as a neutral and disinterested third party, was to +correctively retort the damages created by others]. Once an Illuminatti +initiate accepts this reasoning, it takes little effort to have the initiate +accept the application of Tort Law reasoning to larger corrective retorts like +wars, wholesale murders, environmental damages, use of the police powers of the +state to accomplish other damages, and assorted other MAGNUM OPUS abominations +that accomplish proprietary Illuminatti objectives, and all very carefully +documented and neatly arranged to remedy some other damages else where, and +also benefit the world by accelerating the commencement timing of the +Millennial Reign. This is brilliant reasoning that Lucifer taught these little +Gremlins; Tort Law is a correct PRINCIPLE OF NATURE and cannot itself be +attacked from any angle. The use of Tort Law reasoning to govern judgments when +no contracts are in effect is absolutely morally correct and in harmony with +Nature in itself, and so are all of its retorts to perfect Justice and the Ends +of Justice. And so an esoteric [100]

+ +

[100]============================================================= To be +ESOTERIC means to be designed for, and understood by, specially informed people +only; or otherwise withheld from generally open public avowal. +=============================================================[100]

+ +

factual element deficiency problem surfaces that will absolutely nullify those +expected benefits Witches are driving towards as they travel down that YELLOW +BRICK ROAD of theirs: Heavenly Father extracted Contracts out of us all in the +First Estate before we came down here, and so Tort Law reasoning will not be +applicable at the Last Day. Yes, those Trumpets will blow at the Last Day; +sorry, Gremlins, but your days are numbered. Yes, the HANDWRITING IS ON THE +WALL for Gremlins. [101]

+ +

[101]============================================================= Back in the +days of David, there was once a great and fabulous City called Babylon, +reaching its peak at about 600 B.C. Today, BABYLON has a lingering illicit +stigma associated with it, but before Babylon went to the dogs, it was very +impressive. Babylon was the most prominent, majestic, prosperous, and powerful +City that the world had ever known, up to that time. It had been the most +important trading center, it had the most powerful military force, the greatest +cultural resources, and was even a center of tourism due to its Hanging Gardens +and numerous other man made wonders. Babylon had twin sets of tall walls +surrounding her and with a moat in between; massive and everlasting, those twin +walls were so thick and so dimensionally impressive that they were viewed as +being impregnable by any military technology of the day. Inside the City, there +was a two year supply of food; and there was no lack of water, either, because +no less than the great river Euphrates ran through Babylon. Yes, Babylon was +powerful, wealthy, and just so secure that any potential adversary could hardly +be taken seriously. And even when it became clear that an increasingly powerful +adversary like the Medes and the Persians were building military momentum, +there was no concern within Babylon -- whatever adversaries the world offered +were only huffing hot air. At a Royal banquet one night in his Palace [DANIEL +5:1], King Belshazzar saw a finger writing messages on a wall. None of this +soothsayers, astrologers, or wise men [filled with a wide ranging array of +factual knowledge on everything the WORLD had to offer -- except Spiritual +matters] could interpret the meaning. After the clowns had had their turn, +along came the Prophet Daniel who understood what he saw; and told the King +what the King did not want to hear: That Father had adjudged his kingdom, and +found it wanting in minimum Spiritual expectations; that the impossible was +going to happen and that Babylon was going to be divided and given to +adversaries -- introduced into the violent and unpleasant circumstances of an +invasion [DANIEL 5:25 to 28]. Father meant what he said, and so the HANDWRITING +WAS ON THE WALL for Babylon. That same evening, the flow of the great River +Euphrates receded, and then slowed down to a trickle; it had been diverted +upstream by the Gremlin Darius, who had big plans for the conquest of Babylon. +And now there were holes in the great walls of Babylon where the Euphrates once +was. The riverbed openings served as the ingress point of entry for the +invading army of Darius; and Babylon was conquered without resistance. [See +generally, the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ["Babylon"] (London, 1929)]. ...Down to +the present day, the phrase HANDWRITING ON THE WALL has come to characterize +improvident and unrealistic fantasy expectations one holds by reason of +unappreciated impending adverse circumstances, particularly in an area +involving Father. Today, the United States has a very similar military +adversary waiting in the wings, an adversary who has been busy on a very well +known extensive commitment to prepare for war. Water resources were the +ACHILLES HEEL that brought Babylon to her knees then; and when our turn comes, +it too will be the sudden and unexpected damages of our water resources that +the Russians will use to make their invasion Statement, as they attempt a very +quick lock down on American military installations. Babylon had its quislings +then, and we have our's now; and we should have known something was afoot when +Nelson Rockefeller spent two years of his life in the early 1970's heavily +involved in collecting information on American water resources. +=============================================================[101]

+ +

In other words, Lucifer counsels his followers to perform their murders and +Torts in the retort cycle of Justice administration where they can be justified +and vitiated, so that Heavenly Father would then be required to excuse and +vitiate their behavior at the Last Day. Under Tort Law reasoning, all Torts +(damages) need to be "retorted" as the remedy to perfect Justice, but the +person administering the retort damage itself, like the Sheriff, is immune from +further cyclic retort, so the Justice cycle stops there. And there also lies +the Grand Key for getting people to commit murders while believing quite +strongly that they are exempt from Father's Justice: By simply arranging the +background circumstances for the murder to fall under the protective justifying +retort cycle of Justice. Therefore, the person who administers the retort is +immune from further damages himself. In this brilliant way, Lucifer intends to +double cross all of his hardworking assistants down here, every single one +without exception, but not until just before the Judgment Day: Because although +Tort Law is a correct PRINCIPLE OF NATURE, our Great Judgment will be under +Contracts and Contract Law, and Tort Law arguments and rationalizations will be +ignored. So, when Heavenly Father pulls his Ace out of his sleeves to deal with +these clever Gremlins who sincerely believe that they have found a way to +outfox Father and get away with MAGNUM Torts by neatly justifying everything in +the good name of Justice, Father will do no more than merely lift the veil of +memory we all had lowered on us to seal away the access to our past memories +while we once journeyed through this Second Estate, and the poor Gremlins will +then and there remember with a perfect knowledge of the Contracts they +previously entered into with Father in the First Estate -- Contracts that were +invisible during the Second Estate. Now the Gremlins will be sealing their own +fate, as their Tort Law arguments are not relevant when a simple and limited +accounting of Contracts is asked for.

+ +

Yes, Lucifer was in the many Councils of Heaven with us all when we were on our +knees reciting the terms of our Contracts from our tongues, [102]

+ +

[102]============================================================= When the +rebellion in the Heavens took place, Lucifer was cast down to the Earth; so the +Earth was created before the rebellion, and Lucifer was there in the Heavens +when the first version of those Contracts were extracted from us all, and so by +encouraging arguments sounding in Tort, Lucifer knows exactly what he is doing +(meaning that he intends to double cross his servants down here at the Last Day +-- giving them a line of reasoning that will fall apart and collapse before +Father's Judgment Day). +=============================================================[102]

+ +

Lucifer knows very well that Contract Law jurisprudence will govern the Last +Day. Does Lucifer know what he is doing in his Tort Law reasoning? He most +certainly does. [103]

+ +

[103]============================================================= "In regard +to the battle in Heaven... when Lucifer, the Son of the Morning, claimed the +privilege of controlling the Earth and redeemed it, a contention arose; but I +do not think it took long to cast down one-third of the hosts of Heaven, as it +is written in the Bible. But let me tell you that it was one-third part of the +spirits who were prepared to take tabernacles upon this Earth, and who rebelled +against the two-thirds of the Heavenly Hosts; and they were cast down to this +world. It is written that they were cast down to this Earth -- to this TERRA +FIRMA that you and I walk on, and whose atmosphere we breathe. One-third of the +spirits that were prepared for this Earth rebelled against Jesus Christ, and +were cast down to Earth, and they have opposed him from that day to this, with +Lucifer at their head. He is their general -- Lucifer, Son of the Morning. He +was once a brilliant and influential character in Heaven, and we will know more +about him hereafter." +-Brigham Young, in a discourse made at the Bowery, Salt Lake City, +July 19, 1857; 5 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 52, at 54 to 55 [London (1858)]. +=============================================================[103]

+ +

Tort Law reasoning itself cannot be attacked, as it is merely a reflection of +Nature, and it does have its proper time and place to govern the settlement of +grievances between persons when contracts are not in effect. The question is +not whether Tort Law is morally correct or incorrect, or whether Tort Law is in +or out of harmony with Nature; the question is one of applicability of either +Tort Law or Contract Law reasoning to govern the judgment of a factual setting +presented for a ruling. And so as long as Lucifer keeps his hard working +Gremlin servants down here thinking along Tort Law lines, and discussing only +Tort Law reasoning in their private communications they send back and forth to +each other, then Lucifer is getting all that he wants now, since his little +Gremlins will go right ahead and knowingly commit tremendous damages while +sincerely believing that they are on safe grounds at the Last Day, just like +Highway Contract Protestors very sincerely believe that the absence of a MENS +REA and CORPUS DELECTI, together with the nonexistence of a Driver's License, +will place them and their Tort Law RIGHT TO TRAVEL unfairness arguments on safe +grounds before sophisticated appellate judges [this is not correct, as I will +explain later]. This is a brilliant deception EXTRAORDINAIRE by Lucifer to his +Gremlins, and this is also extremely sophisticated reasoning (which in itself +creates an allure to intellectual Gremlins). [104]

+ +

[104]============================================================= Gremlins +highly admire INTELLECTUALS, as there is something about their high-powered +status that creates such an intriguing aura of devilish mystique. Gremlin Henry +Kissinger once had a few words to say about his mentors, INTELLECTUALS, putting +in an honest days' labor, going through the foibles and headaches that they do; +those poor hardworking INTELLECTUALS, racking themselves to sole one tough +problem after another; but also the INTELLECTUAL contributes to an important +participating juristic role in making global conquest administratively +efficient: +"How about the role of individuals who have addressed themselves to +acquiring substantive knowledge -- the intellectuals? Is our problem, as is so +often alleged, the lack of respect shown to the intellectual by our society? +"The problem is more complicated than our refusal or inability to +utilize this source of talent. Many organizations, governmental or private, +rely on panels of experts. Political leaders have intellectuals as advisors... +"One problem is the demand for expertise itself. Every problem which +our society becomes concerned about... calls into being panels, committees, or +study groups supported by either private or governmental funds. Many +organizations constantly call on intellectuals for advice. As a result, +intellectuals with a reputation soon find themselves so burdened that their +pace of life hardly differs from that of the executives who they counsel. They +cannot supply perspective because they are as harassed as the policy makers. +All pressures on them tend to keep them at the level of the performance which +gained them reputation. In his desire to be helpful, the intellectual is too +frequently compelled to sacrifice what should be his greatest contribution to +society -- his creativity... +"A person is considered suitable for assignments within certain +classifications. But the classification of the intellectual is determined by +the premium our society places on administrative skill. The intellectual is +rarely found at the level where decisions are made. His role is commonly +advisory. He is called in as a 'specialist' in areas whose advice is combined +with that of others from different fields of endeavor on the assumption that +the policymaker is able to choose intuitively the correct amalgam of +'theoretical and 'practical' advice. And even in this capacity, the +intellectual is not a free agent. It is the executive who determines in the +first place whether he needs advice. He and the bureaucracy frame the question +to be answered. The policy maker determines the standard of relevance... +"The contribution of the intellectual to policy is therefore in terms +of criteria that he has played only a minor role in establishing. He is rarely +given the opportunity to point out that a query limits a range of possible +solutions or that an issue is posed in irrelevant terms. He is asked to solve +problems, not to contribute to the definition of goals. Where decisions are +arrived at by negotiation, the intellectual -- particularly if he is not +himself a part of the bureaucracy -- is a useful weight in the scale. He can +serve as the means of filtering ideas to the top outside of organizational +channels or as one who legitimizes the viewpoint of contending factions within +and among departments. This is why many organizations build up batteries of +outside experts or create semi-independent research groups, and why articles or +books become tools in the bureaucratic struggle. In short, all too often what +the policymaker wants from the intellectual is not ideas but endorsement. +"This is not to say that the motivation of the policymaker towards the +intellectual is cynical. The policymaker sincerely wants help... Of necessity, +the bureaucracy gears the intellectual effort to its own requirements and its +own pace; the deadlines are inevitably that of the policymaker, and all too +often they demand a premature disclosure of ideas which are then dissected +before they are fully developed. The administrative approach to intellectual +effort tends to destroy the environment from which innovation grows. Its +insistence on 'results' discourages the intellectual climate that might produce +important ideas whether or not the bureaucracy feels it needs them. +"Thus, though the intellectual participates in policymaking to an +almost unprecedented degree, the result has not necessarily been salutary for +him or of full benefit to the officials calling on him... +"In seeking to help the bureaucracy out of this maze, the intellectual +too frequently becomes an extension of the administrative machine, accepting +its criteria and elaborating its problems. While this, too, is a necessary task +and sometimes even an important one, it does not touch the heart of the +problem... +"This does not mean that the intellectual should remain aloof from +policymaking. Nor have intellectuals who have chosen withdrawal necessarily +helped this situation. There are intellectuals outside the bureaucracy who are +not part of the maelstrom of committees and study groups but who have, +nevertheless, contributed to the existing stagnation through a perfectionism +that paralyzes action by posing unreal alternatives. There are intellectuals +within the bureaucracy who have avoided the administrative approach but who +must share the responsibility for the prevailing confusion because they refuse +to admit that all of policy involves an inevitable element of conjecture. It is +always possible to escape difficult choices by making only the most favorable +assessment of the intentions of other states or of political trends. The +intellectuals of other countries in the free world where the influence of +pragmatism is less pronounced and the demands of the bureaucracies less +insatiable have not made a more significant contribution. The spiritual malaise +described here may have other symptoms elsewhere. The fact remains that the +entire free world suffers not only from administrative myopia but also from +self righteousness and the lack of a sense of direction [that sounds like +something a Gremlin going no where would say]. +"Thus, if the intellectual is to make a contribution to national +policy, he faces a delicate task. He must steer between the Scylla of letting +the bureaucracy prescribe what is relevant or useful and the Charybdis of +defining those criteria too abstractly. If he inches too much toward the +former, he will turn into a promoter of technical remedies; if he chooses the +latter, he will run the risks of confusing dogmatism with morality and of +courting martyrdom -- of becoming, in short, as wrapped up in a cult of +rejection as the activist is in a cult of success. +"Where to draw the line between excessive commitment to the bureaucracy +and paralyzing aloofness depends on so many intangibles of circumstances and +personality that it is difficult to generalize... The intellectual should +therefore refuse to participate in policymaking, for to do so confirms the +stagnation of societies whose leadership groups have little substantive +knowledge... +"The intellectual must therefore decide not only whether to participate +in the administrative process but also in what capacity: Whether as an +intellectual or as an administrator. +"Such an attitude requires an occasional separation from +administration. The intellectual must guard against his distinctive, and in +this particular context, most crucial qualities: The pursuit of knowledge +rather than of administrative ends and the perspective supplied by a +non-bureaucratic vantage point. It is therefore essential for him to return +from time to time to his library or his laboratory to 'recharge his batteries.' +If he fails to do so, he would turn into an administrator [and we wouldn't +want that to happen], distinguished from some of his colleagues only by having +been recruited from the intellectual community." +-Henry Kissinger in THE NECESSITY OF CHOICE ["The Policymaker and the +Intellectual"], at page 348 [Harper & Brothers, New York (1960)]. Today, few +common folks have much admiration for INTELLECTUALS; very appropriately, many +folks find them irritating because they are out of touch with hard DAY TO DAY +practical reality -- a state of perception that has been going on since the +very founding of this Republic: +"These lawyers, and men of learning, and moneyed men, that talk so +finely, gloss over matters so smoothly, to make us poor illiterate people +swallow down the pill, expect to get into Congress themselves; that expect to +be the managers of the Constitution, and get all the money and power in their +own hands, and then they will swallow up all us little folks, like the great +LEVIATHAN, Mr. President; yes, just as the whale swallowed up JONAH. This is +what I am afraid of..." +-Mr. Singletarry, a rural delegate to the special 1788 Massachusetts +Convention elected to consider ratification of the Constitution, as quoted by +Jonathan Elliot in II DEBATES IN THE SEVERAL STATE CONVENTIONS, at 102 [J.B. +Lippincott, Philadelphia (1863)]. And INTELLECTUALS also possess behavioral +elements of playfulness about them that is difficult to come to grips with at +first: +"The very suggestion that the intellectual has a distinctive capacity +for mischief, however, leads to the consideration that his piety [means STATE +OF BEING PIOUS], by itself, is not enough. He may live for ideas, as I have +said, but something must prevent him from living for ONE IDEA, from becoming +excessive or grotesque... the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy +with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes. The intellectual +is not in the first instance concerned with such goals. This is not to say that +he scorns the practical: The intrinsic intellectual interest of many practical +problems is utterly absorbing. Still less is it to say that he is impractical; +he is simply concerned with something else, a quality in problems that is not +defined by asking whether or not they have practical purpose. The notion that +the intellectual is inherently impractical will hardly bear analysis (...Adam +Smith, Thomas Jefferson... have been eminently practical in the politician's or +businessman's sense of the term)... +"If some large part of the anti-intellectualism of our time stems from +the public's shock at the constant insinuation of the intellectual as expert +into public affairs, much of the sensitiveness of intellectuals to the +reputation as a class stems from the awkward juxtaposition of the sacred and +profane roles. In his sacred role, as prophet, scholar, or artist, the +intellectual is hedged about by certain sanctions -- imperfectly observed and +respected, of course, but still effective... +"It is part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most +values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him. +Society values him because he can in fact be used for a variety of purposes, +from popular entertainment to the design of weapons. But it can hardly +understand so well those aspects of his temperament which I have designated as +essential to his intellectualism. His playfulness, in its various +manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United +States the play of the mind is perhaps the only form of play that is not looked +upon with the most tender indulgence. His piety is likely to seem nettlesome, +if not actually dangerous. And neither quality is considered to contribute very +much to the practical business of life... +"To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, +it will not do to reply that intellect is really a safe, bland and emollient +thing... To be sure, intellectuals, contrary to the fantasies of cultural +vigilantes, are hardly ever subversive of a society as a whole. +"I have suggested that one of the first questions asked in America +about intellect and intellectuals concerns their practicality. One reason why +anti-intellectualism has changed in our time is that our sense of the +impracticality of intellect has been transformed. During the [1800's], when +business criteria dominated American culture almost without challenge, and when +most business and professional men attained eminence without much formal +education, academic schooling was often said to be useless. It was assumed that +schooling existed not to cultivate certain distinctive qualities of the mind +but to make personal advancement possible. For this purpose, an immediate +engagement with the practical tasks of life was held to be more usefully +educative, whereas intellectual and cultural pursuits were called unworldly, +unmasculine, and impractical." +-Richard Hofstadter in ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN AMERICAN LIFE, starting +at 29 [Random House, New York (1963)]. When the United States began its +existence out from underneath the thumb of King George, the presence of stuffy +INTELLECTUALS on the political scene was not a problem then: +"When the United States began its national existence, the relationship +between intellect and power was not a problem. The leaders WERE the +intellectuals. Advanced though the nation was in development of democracy, the +control of its affairs still rested largely in a patrician elite; and within +this elite men of intellect moved freely and spoke with enviable authority. +Since it was an unspecialized and versatile age, the intellectual as expert was +a negligible force; but the intellectual as ruling-class gentleman was a leader +in every segment of society -- at the bar, in the professions, in business, and +in political affairs. The Founding Fathers were sages, scientists, men of broad +cultivation, many of them apt in classical learning, who used their wide +reading in history, politics, and law to solve the exigent problems of their +time. No subsequent era in our history has produced so many men of knowledge +among its political leaders as the age of John Adams [and others]. One might +have expected that such men, whose political achievements were part of the very +fabric of the nation, would have stood as permanent and overwhelming +testimonial to the truth that men of learning and intellect need not be +bootless and impractical as political leaders. It is ironic that the United +States should have been founded by intellectuals; for throughout most of our +political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an +outsider, a servant, or a scapegoat." +-Richard Hofstadter in ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN AMERICAN LIFE, at 145 +[Random House, New York (1963)]. The reason why having INTELLECTUALS on the +scene back then was not a problem is because INTELLECTUALS, per se, are not a +source of problems; only when operating as slippery bureaucratic extensions of +Gremlin intrigue, only then does the tainted lustre of their high-powered +intellect come home to roost -- then they become problems. +=============================================================[104]

+ +

And just as Lucifer freely uses his deception to motivate his associates in his +direction, so to do his Gremlin assistants down here use deception between each +other in turn, whenever they feel like it. Gremlins thrive on throwing +deceptions back and forth at each other, and they do not really concern +themselves on the background setting the deception takes place in. [105]

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[105]============================================================= Yes, there +are no circumstances that are spared from the strategic use of DECEPTION -- +when Gremlins are running the show: +...Carved in the white walls of the Riverside Church in New York City +are the figures of six hundred men that the world esteems as being great for +one reason or another -- hanging on the walls are canonized saints, +philosophers, kings, and other assorted geniuses. One panel enshrines fourteen +geniuses of science, starting with Hippocrates, who died around 370 B.C., to +Albert Einstein [who was still alive when he was enshrined in this Church]. In +this environment surrounded by greatness converged some 2500 people from 71 +countries to the sanctuary of Riverside Church in New York City on this Friday, +February 2, 1979. They had dropped what they were doing world wide to come pay +their last respects and hear final praise and eulogies for Nelson Rockefeller. +They heard orations from, among others, daughter Ann Rockefeller Roberts, from +son Rodman C. Rockefeller, from brother David Rockefeller, and from Gremlin +Henry Kissinger. [See the NEW YORK TIMES ["Dignitaries and Friends Honor +Rockefeller"], page 1 (February 3, 1979)]. Judging by the glowing +characterizations that were used to express final admirations for Nelson, this +Church is really missing out on something special if a limestone statue of +Nelson Rockefeller isn't soon enshrined with the 600 others mounted on the +walls. +...Of the orations spoken at Nelson's funeral service, Henry +Kissinger's eulogy deserves very special attention: Because it was steeped in +deception. Seemingly with tears in his eyes, Henry Kissinger's choking voice +was echoed throughout the great sanctuary of the Riverside Church. Kissinger +characterized Nelson as "friend," "inspiration," "teacher," and "my older +brother." Seemingly stricken with grief, Kissinger's eulogy act was a smooth +masterpiece in well-oiled deception, and brought tears to the eyes of many. In +his final passage, Kissinger claimed that he frequently chatted with Nelson +Rockefeller: +"In recent years, he and I would often sit on the veranda overlooking +his beloved Hudson River in the setting sun. I would talk more, but he +understood better. And as the statues on the lawn glazed in the dimming light, +Nelson Rockefeller would occasionally get that squint in his eyes, which +betokened a far horizon, and he would say, because I needed it, but above all, +because he deeply felt it... +'... never forget, that the most profound force in the world is love'." +-NEW YORK TIMES, id., ["Excerpts From Eulogies At Memorial for +Rockefeller"], page 23. Having finished his smooth acting job, having left the +mourners spellbound and wailing largely in tears, this little Henry who had +criminally coordinated at a mid-management level the murder of Nelson +Rockefeller a week earlier, slowly turned and left the pulpit. Nelson +Rockefeller had never actually spoken those words Henry claimed -- but pesky +little details like that are not important; conversations between Nelson and +Henry were limited to communications exchanged in furtherance of wars, murders, +conquest, and revolutions, with only a minimal amount of personal interest +material being exchanged as necessary to fill a vacant time slice hiatus. +Background factual accuracy is never something that Gremlins concern themselves +with, and Henry Kissinger's fraudulent and deceptive eulogy of Nelson +Rockefeller, under circumstances where any enlightening corrective retort would +be inappropriate, was no exception to the Gremlin MODUS OPERANDI of using +deception as an instrument of aggression wherever and whenever they feel like +experiencing the benefits derived from it. +=============================================================[105]

+ +

Absent unusual appreciation for what an abbreviated Contract Law judgment +setting is really like (such as trying to contest speeding and insurance +infractions on Highway Contract enforcement proceedings, going through 7203 +WILLFUL FAILURE TO FILE Star Chamber prosecutions, etc.) only very few folks +have the factual background necessary to grasp the significance of this line. +Due to circumstances which transpired back in the First Estate, Lucifer +passionately hates us all (i.e., all persons who took bodies in this Second +Estate), and he fully intends to have each and every single person, without any +exceptions, who trusted in his Tort Law logic and reasoning, screwed to the +wall for having done so. This planned double cross by Lucifer even includes his +highly prized intimates, the contemporary Rothschild Brothers, with whom +Lucifer has personally conversed with, face-to-face; Lucifer has the +Rothschilds believing that they are the top dogs and they call the shots. They +too will be double crossed, and this is true even though Lucifer has very +reliably dealt with many Rothschild generations in this Second Estate going +back several centuries. Yet, the Rothschilds will likely never the see the +forest for the trees, as the effect of his impending MAGNUM OPUS Double Cross +will not even occur until this World is over with, and then it is too late to +start taking an interest in Contracts with Father, and stop using pure natural +moral Tort Law Principles to govern your behavior, under such untimely and +belated circumstances. Boy, I can just hear Baron Phillippe de Rothschild, LE +GREMLIN EXTRAORDINAIRE, now at the Last Day telling Father that:

+ +

"Father, you just don't understand... why, I had to have David killed +to accelerate the arrival of your Millennium. The world experienced the +benefits of it. It just had to be done to further your Ends of Justice."

+ +

As for the Rothschilds, after their Eyes are Opened on the foolishness of their +Tort Law reasoning, their greatest disappointment at that time may yet lie in +another area altogether: As they ponder the long term significance of their +being denied further inhabitation on this planet they once participated in +Creating. [106]

+ +

[106]============================================================= The +Rothschild nest of Gremlins are not as smart as they like to think of +themselves; however, with their aloofness above us peasantry, you could not +tell them that. John Taylor, President of the Mormon Church, once tried and got +nowhere: +"Do you think that the jews today would want to publish things +pertaining to Jesus, describing the manner in which he would come? I should +think not. In a conversation I once had with Baron Rothschild, he asked me if I +believed in the Christ? I answered him: "Yes, God has revealed to us that he is +the true Messiah, and we believe in him." I further remarked: "Your Prophets +have said 'They shall look upon him whom they have pierced, and they shall +mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for +him, as one that is in bitterness for his first born.', 'And one shall say unto +him, What are these wounds in thy hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which +I was wounded in the house of my friends.'" Do you think the jewish rabbis +would refer you to such scripture as that? Said Mr. Rothschild, "Is that in our +Bible?" "That is in your Bible, sir." +-John Taylor, speaking at a Funeral Service on December 31, 1876; 18 +JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 324, at 329 [London (1877)]. The Rothschilds commune with +Lucifer from time to time, and his grand plans for conquest that have been +revealed to the Rothschilds (plans that have been handed down the line +originating in time back almost to the Garden of Eden), are so impressive and +so outstanding that the Rothschilds are totally relying on Lucifer to come +through for them. But just like the Rothschilds are deficient on factual +information regarding the jewish perspective of a Messiah (however defective a +view that is factually), the Rothschilds are also deficient on information +explaining why Lucifer is only pretending to be interested in their welfare +before Father, and actually intends to double cross them at the Last Day. +=============================================================[106]

+ +

In the Third Estate, this planet is in for some refining and advancement, and +there will be no Gremlins inhabiting the Earth then. [107]

+ +

[107]============================================================= "Who, in +looking upon the Earth as it ascends in the scale of the Universe, does not +desire to keep pace with it, that when it shall be classed in its turn among +the dazzling orbs of the blue vault of Heaven, shining forth in all the +splendors of Celestial Glory, he may find himself proportionately advanced in +the scale of intellectual and moral excellence. [Would GREMLINS even concern +themselves with that?] Who, but the most abandoned, does not desire to be +counted worthy to associate with those higher orders of Beings who have been +redeemed, exalted, glorified, together with the worlds they inhabit, ages +before the foundations of our Earth were laid? Oh man, remember the future +destiny and glory of the Earth, and secure thine everlasting inheritance upon +the same, that when it shall be glorious, thou shalt be glorious also." +-Orson Pratt, in a discourse ["The Earth -- Its Fall, Redemption, and +Final Destiny -- the Final Abode of the Righteous"], appearing in 1 JOURNAL OF +DISCOURSES 328, at 333 [London (1854)]. +=============================================================[107]

+ +

Father was the only architect of this particular planet. [108]

+ +

[108]============================================================= The world is +searching for evidence, just something out there some where, that suggests the +possibility that life might exist on other planets. Like Tax Protestors looking +in the wrong places by searching for error in others rather than in themselves, +the world would also be wise to look for answers to their probing questions on +the extraterrestrial in a local source that they have known about all along: +"The Earth upon which we dwell is only one among the many creations of +God. The stars that glitter in the heavens at night and give light unto the +Earth are His creations, redeemed worlds, perhaps, or worlds that are passing +through the course of their redemption, being Saved, purified, glorified, and +exalted by obedience to the principles of truth which we are now struggling to +obey. Thus is the work of our Father made perpetual, and as fast as one world +and its inhabitants are disposed of, He will roll another into existence. He +will create another Earth, He will people it with His offspring, the offspring +of the Gods in eternity, and they will pass through [their] probations such as +we are now passing through [ours], that they may prove their integrity by their +works; that they may give an assurance to the Almighty that they are worthy to +be exalted through obedience to those principles, that unchangeable PLAN OF +SALVATION which has been revealed to us." +-Orson F. Whitney, in a discourse in the Tabernacle on Sunday, April +19, 1885; 26 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 194, at 196 [London (1886)]. +=============================================================[108]

+ +

Yes, Lucifer has a double cross up his sleeve planned for the Rothschilds, just +like the Rothschilds in turn have numerous impending double crosses planned for +their associates as well. A DOUBLE CROSS is a serious betrayal that occurs on +the tail end of a well-planned continuum of deception -- and deception is very +important to Gremlins. [109]

+ +

[109]============================================================= "Deception +tests the means by which we perceive reality, and it reminds us sharply of what +these means are. We have our sense organs which receive data, principally ones +affixed to our head -- ears, eyes, nose. But this data is given shape and +meaning by the thing inside our skull, the brain. This has only second-hand +evidence of what is real out THERE. "Deception must seem particularly frivolous +for the scientist because PERception, working out these just what is there, is +his vocation. It may also tempt him for just this reason. Like the playful +punch for the athlete, it makes fun of the faculties that he prizes most. But +we are all using these faculties and perceiving things at every waking moment. +Anyone who has been involved in a practical joke on either the delivering end +or the receiving end knows something of the pleasures. "It is important to note +that for the person who is fooled, the fun, if any, lies in the process of +being fooled, not the consequences. A deceived spouse cannot be relied on to +react with a chortle of glee, and the editors of McGraw-Hill did not go around +chuckling after they found that Clifford Irving had hoaxed them into parting +with most of a million dollars. For deception is not practiced only for fun. It +is also practiced to steal money, fame or the love of women, to win battles and +sink ships, to demoralize populations and overthrow governments." +-Norman Moss in THE PLEASURES OF DECEPTION ["Introduction"], at page 7 +[Reader's Digest Press, New York (1977)]. +=============================================================[109]

+ +

And the mass media serves as a good instrument to propagate a large volume of +factually worthless information. [110]

+ +

[110]============================================================= "The power +and the glory of the Press are based on the false assumption that the best way +to talk to a man is through a loudspeaker. It's certainly not the only way; but +if you think of men as indistinguishable units of a group, community, newspaper +circulation or concentration camp, this scattergun broadcasting may make some +simple announcement understood. But a free Press doesn't make simple +announcements. The Russian doctrinaires have tried to prove that men can be +taught to forget that they are first and foremost INDIVIDUALS, or at least to +act as if they had forgotten; and their Press is just the ticket for mass men. +Our world is perhaps not so far ahead of the Russian doctrine as we like to +suppose, but in theory at least we honor the INDIVIDUAL." +-Thomas S. Matthews in THE SUGAR PILL: AN ESSAY ON NEWSPAPERS, at 178 +[The Camelot Press, London (1957); (Simon & Schuster republished in New York +(1959)]. In the APPENDIX, the author analyzed newspapers to determine the +actual content of factual events reported; out of 11 articles appearing on the +front page, only 4 of those reported events had actually occurred. The other 7 +events were either commentary, or stories dealing with projected, predicted, +intended, or desired events. +=============================================================[110]

+ +

Similar to Gremlins thriving when throwing deceptions back and forth at each +other, deception is also very attractive for Gremlins to throw at the public at +large. [111]

+ +

[111]============================================================= In contrast +to the deception proclivities of Gremlins, Heavenly Father would prefer to deal +with us on the basis of ABSOLUTE TRUST, when possible; a highly privileged +relational status he has entered into with other people down here on occasion; +an exalted relational status known to a handful of great people, like Abraham +Lincoln, who used this relational status in a diplomatic setting, particularly +with a Russian Czar. And ABSOLUTE TRUST is an impending criteria element I +suspect will become one of the minimum indicia required for enjoying Celestial +relationships with Father. And just as there is ABSOLUTE TRUST, so is there +ABSOLUTE TRUTH: +"Science, as I understand it, is a search after Absolute Truth -- after +something which when ascertained is of equal interest to all thinkers of all +nations. No matter how wise and learned and famous a person may have said a +thing is so in the realm of science, it remains open to anybody to prove that +it is not so; and if it is proved to be not so, the authority of the wise and +learned and famous person disappears like a morning mist. In science, what we +are really seeking is not the opinion or the command of any human being. We are +subject to no [such] command, and are not bound to follow any previously +expressed opinion." +-Edwin Whitney in THE DOCTRINE OF STARE DECISIS, 3 Michigan Law Review +89, at 89 (1904). And as we change from law books over to religious books (so +called) nothing changes there, either: +"There are absolute truths and relative truths. The rule of dietetics +have changed many times in my lifetime. Many scientific findings have changed +from year to year... Absolute Truths are not altered by the opinion of men. As +science has expanded our [factual] understanding of the physical world, certain +accepted ideas of science have had to be abandoned in the interest of truth. +Some of these seeming truths were stoutly maintained for centuries. The sincere +searching of science often rests only [next to] the threshold of truth, whereas +revealed facts give us certain Absolute Truths as a beginning point so we may +come to understand the nature of man and the purpose of life... We learn about +these Absolute Truths by being taught by the Spirit... God, our Heavenly Father +-- Elohim -- lives. That is an Absolute Truth. All four billion of the children +of men on the Earth might be ignorant of Him and his attributes and his powers, +but he still lives. All the people on the face of the Earth might deny [his +existence] and disbelieve, but he lives in spite of them. [Everyone] may have +their own opinions, but [Father] still lives, and his form, powers, and +attributes do not change according to men's opinions. In short, opinion has no +power [to intervene] in the matter of Absolute Truth. [Father] still lives. +"...The intellectual may rationalize [Jesus Christ] out of existence +and the unbeliever may scoff, but Christ still lives and guides the destinies +of his people. +"...The watchmaker in Switzerland, with materials at hand, made the +watch that was found in the sand in a California desert. The people who found +the watch had never been to Switzerland, nor seen the watchmaker, nor seen the +watch [being] made. [But] the watchmaker still exists, no matter the extent of +[the Californians' factual] ignorance or experience. If the watch had a tongue, +it might even lie and say "There is no watchmaker." [But] that would not alter +the Truth. If men were really humble, they will realize that they [only] +DISCOVER [or uncover], but do not CREATE, Truth." +-Spencer Kimball in ABSOLUTE TRUTH; 8 Ensign Magazine, at 3 [Salt Lake +City (September, 1978)]. +=============================================================[111]

+ +

The mass media is a very important instrument for the conveyance stage of +deception by Gremlins. [112]

+ +

[112]============================================================= Remember +that deception is a three step process: First it is created, then conveyed, and +then accepted. Failure at any point voids the entire deception show. As for the +second stage of deception, the mass media is one such very important instrument +of deception conveyance: +"With the creation of the mass media, a whole new area of deception +opened up. This provided the means of fooling the whole public at the same time +in the same way. Anything told through the mass media carries credibility. It +is more solid than rumor, more respectable than gossip, more believable than +hearsay. People who say they never believe what they read in the newspapers in +fact absorb what they read as uncritically as others. +"The authority that is given to the mass media, regardless of the +message, is seen in the lack of discrimination with which unsophisticated +readers and viewers talk about them. 'The newspapers say so and so.' One wants +to ask WHICH newspaper. And which part of the newspaper, the editorial columns +or the news pages? And whether it was one of the newspaper's own staff or an +outside commentator. 'They said on television...' But one wants to ask WHO +said? Was it the news reader, stating it as a fact? Or was he reporting someone +else's opinion? Or was someone giving it as HIS viewpoint, a politician, a +commentator, or a critic? After all, you don't say 'They said on the +telephone,' you say who told you. +"This authority stems partly from the fact that the media, and +particularly the news media, deal with public issues that are beyond the +experience of most of its audience." +-Norman Moss in THE PLEASURES OF DECEPTION ["Fit To Print: Hoaxing and +the Media"], at page 70 [Reader's Digest Press, New York (1977)]. Yes, many +public issues are in fact beyond the intellectual experience of their +audiences, and those issues will continue to remain beyond the experience of +those audiences until such time as the members of those audiences individually +start to perk up a bit and ask some QUESTIONS -- a point of beginning in a new +MODUS OPERANDI of intellectual enlightenment that Tax Protestors would also be +wise to take particular notice of; a MODUS OPERANDI that would catalytically +trigger the uncovering of a great deal of latent error existing not only in +juristic settings where ambitious kings and princes in bed with looters and +Gremlins have plastered the countryside with invisible contracts, but also in +ecclesiastical settings where even more important invisible Contracts are also +hanging in the background, waiting for the Last Day to arrive -- then those +Contracts will become VERY visible. But if you are different, you will want to +uncover and deal with those invisible Celestial Contracts now, to avoid being +surprised by them at the Last Day, just like Protestors are surprised in tax +and highway enforcement actions where their UNFAIRNESS arguments are tossed +aside and ignored. Many Protestors have a secret hunch that some contract is +there, but they draw a blank when trying to identify just what contract it is, +or how they got into it. +=============================================================[112]

+ +

Deception is important to Gremlins and those who replicate their MODUS +OPERANDI; so much so that almost like intellectual nourishment, Gremlins seem +to manifest deep intermittent cravings for a few good clever sounding lies. +[113]

+ +

[113]============================================================= Part of the +reason for this is that Gremlins see real, immediate, and impressive benefits +to be experienced by selectively incorporating deception into their MODUS +OPERANDI. For example, it is typical of Gremlin methodology to pretend to be +opposed to something that they really want: +...When Gremlin Nelson Aldrich wanted the Congress to pass the Federal +Reserve Act in 1913, he tried to create the appearance that he did not want it; +even though every one knew it was very similar to his proposed ALDRICH CURRENCY +BILL of 1907, he went right ahead and threw invectives at it any way, citing +some technical reservations [see 97 THE NATION MAGAZINE, at 376 (October 23, +1913)]. Nelson Aldrich was in bed with another Gremlin by the name of Frank +Vanderlip, President of National City Bank of New York. Frank Vanderlip's +invectives that were thrown at the proposed Federal Reserve System were so +puzzling that Senator Robert Owen, Chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency +Committee, expressed publicly his feelings that misrepresentation was in the +air -- but an impending World War I was also in the air, and Gremlins wanted +the immediate benefits that the Federal Reserve System would be generating for +them. +...John Rockefeller made a distinct and protracted habit of pretending +to be opposed to ventures that he secretly owned or controlled. In A +ROCKEFELLER FAMILY PORTRAIT by William Manchester [Little Brown & Company, +Boston (1958)], starting at page 80, there lies numerous examples of how +Gremlin John Rockefeller selectively incorporated deception into his business +dealings in order to experience the immediate enrichment benefits such +deception assisted in creating; also discussed is how he also used rigged +enterprises as TROJAN HORSES to entrap those whom he wanted to destroy, by +pretending to be sincerely interested in acquiring those enterprises. +...The Rothschild nest of Gremlins are also very good at this deception +game as well. In 1981, the French Government announced the nationalization of +36 Rothschild banks and other Rothschild industrial properties. President +Francois Mitterrand said the grab was "just and necessary to serve the national +interest" [WALL STREET JOURNAL ["Mitterrand Calls Nationalization 'Just, +Necessary'"], page 36 (September 25, 1981)]; but imp Mitterrand was lying, and +conveniently failed to mention the fact that he once worked in a Rothschild +bank as an officer, and continued to be under their thumb down to the present +day as an administrative nominee planted in a political jurisdiction. Baron Guy +de Rothschild, senior Gremlin of the Rothschild nest, claimed that he "...was +embittered by [the] pending takeover of his family's metal, mining, hotel and +other businesses." Even the BANQUE ROTHSCHILD headquarters the family had +owned for 170 years was scheduled to be grabbed by the French Government. [See +the WALL STREET JOURNAL ["For Baron Guy de Rothschild of France, Expropriation +is a Nightmare Relived"], page 30 (November 17, 1981)]. When the Baron was +asked, very appropriately, why he did not oppose this asset grab idea when +Mitterrand had publicly proposed it in the 1980 French Presidential Election, +the Gremlin Baron retorted with a pathetic little lie: "...We aren't cleverer +than anyone else" [id., at 30]. Meanwhile, no one concluded the obvious: That +the Rothschilds wanted the Government purchase to take place, and had quietly +told Mitterrand specifically what businesses they wanted to sell to the +Government in one lump group, and then, with that rare gifted Gremlin genius of +deception, publicly pretended to oppose the grab [had Baron Rothschild really +opposed the grab, Mitterrand would have soon been resident at the bottom of the +English Channel]. But the Rothschild Gremlins are super brilliant in pursuing +commercial enrichment, and they are very wise to the cyclic nature of business; +and so when the French Government nationalized their extensive network of +railroads back after the turn of the Century, the Rothschilds wanted the sale +["nationalization"] to take place, as they knew that the great and grand era of +railroading was over with. For a good technical discussion of the cyclic nature +of business and of entire industries, see the 6 volume set called THE DECLINE +OF COMPETITION by Arthur Burns [McGraw Hill, New York (1936)]. In Pittsburgh, +there is a research institute that does nothing but study cycles: +Foundation for the Study of Cycles, Inc. +124 South Highland Avenue +Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206 The Gremlin MODUS OPERANDI +cycle of deception/benefit/deception/benefit is a continuation of the operant +training they received in the First Estate by their mentor, Lucifer. Back in +the First Estate, Gremlins there made the mistake of listening to the +high-powered promptings of Lucifer with his attractive exemplary modelling for +prompt advancement and accomplishment, even if deception had to be used as a +tool to achieve the desired objective; under this doctrine, acquiring the +objective itself was much more important than some silly little righteous +advisory from Father -- after all, there were no consequences for side stepping +Father's advice a few times, and it was just ADVICE at that time, as we were +without Covenants back then. Over and over again, Spirits back then who +listened to Lucifer's counseling to circumvent Father's advice by the selective +use of deception (and other devices) found themselves experiencing immediate +benefits for having done so; and with such incentives, Lucifer became very +popular -- but many Spirits later deeply regretted listening to Lucifer's sugar +coated lies, including Lucifer himself, for invisible reasons they never +contemplated at the time the recurring deception and benefit cycle was in +motion: The time came when Father called together the first of many Council +Sessions and we were all presented with a sketch outline of the PLAN OF +SALVATION, and this Second Estate was diagrammed to us. We all participated in +creating this World; then the Council was reconvened again and highly detailed +presentations of the PLAN OF SALVATION was made to us. This would be a +freewheeling world where anything goes, but without any factual memory of the +past we would be adrift, so navigation would be difficult and only those +persons sensitive to the promptings of the Spirit would achieve the end +destination of returning to Father's presence, and soon thereafter inherit his +Celestial Status and powers. Like having amnesia, we would not be able to +recall the First Estate, other than to have warm feelings about it when +mentioned; but our habits and psychological conditioning that we had ingrained +within ourselves during our protracted sojourning in the First Estate would +carry on largely transparent to the momentary loss of factual knowledge. Now +Lucifer realized, too late, the special significance of the memory retention +profile of the mind that Father designed into his offspring; this memory keeps +accumulating factual information, knowledge, and judgments from out of the +past, and keeps drawing on these past experiences to influence and often +control the judgment exercised in the present time. Now Lucifer understood very +clearly that the judgments he had been exercising up until that point of time +would actually be influencing and even controlling his navigation down in this +Second Estate -- and Lucifer didn't like that; he was smart -- he knew that +based on what Father had outlined in Council, his circumvention and tossing +aside of what was then Father's ADVISORIES would also continue on down here, +and so he would not be returning to inherit Father's Celestial Glory. Now +Lucifer really saw that through his past psychological conditioning of himself, +he would never return to Father's presence, nor obtain Father's Celestial +Status that he had craved for so much in passionate emulation. Suddenly, after +it was too late, Lucifer himself now saw the wisdom of listening to Father +(that it was listening to Father that had been the real important judgment to +make all along). At the height of his popularity, a large percentage number of +the Spirits of Heaven had been listening to Lucifer, and soon they too realized +that they had been taken in and mislead, and so now while still in Council the +invectives started flying: Many blamed Lucifer directly for the garbage advice +he had given, while other smarter Spirits realized that the true source of +their error had actually been within themselves, and that Lucifer had simply +been feeding a want. Those who had been snickering at those dumb stupid +unmotivated GOY supporters of Michael -- wasting their time concerning +themselves with the trivia of what Father had to say about this or that when +such grand and important conquests were so imminent -- now saw that it was the +Last who were now First, and that what they thought had been the First in +importance was now the Last. Now that their mentor Lucifer had nothing to lose, +he offered himself to be the Savior for mankind, subject to certain +qualifications designed to insure that he would return to Father's presence -- +but Father declined his invitation. With no possible way to ascend to Father's +Celestial Status, Lucifer was not about to let this get any farther without +putting up a good fight, and so he then openly rebelled against Father: The War +in Heaven was on, but only about a third of the Spirits participated with +Lucifer in trying to pull off this incredibly stupid grab for power act; +Lucifer was cast out, and was locked onto the domain of this planet (which had +been created before the War took place, and the War itself is actually very +recent). Many of the Spirits who had listened to and had emulated Lucifer in +the First Estate switched sides at the last minute and valiantly fought against +Lucifer's Rebellion; as viewed from Lucifer's perspective, these Spirits +betrayed him when he thought he needed them most. After the Rebellion was +quashed, these Spirits who had switched at the last minute accepted Father's +PLAN OF SALVATION, entered into Covenants with Father regarding what will and +will not be adjudged at the Last Day, and were promised bodies down here. +Although they did switch sides at the last minute, they nevertheless continued +to retain their deeply ingrained devilish intellectual orientation, as amnesia +only blocks out factual knowledge and not personality or habits [which is why +Mothers can often discern noticeable differences in her offspring's +personalities from one baby to the next within a few hours after birth -- sorry +collegiate Heathen INTELLIGENTSIA, but variations in personality are not +"genetic" -- a favorite catch-all word fraudulently used by clowns to explain +away what they have no knowledge of]. +...Today in 1985, those Spirits that once admired Lucifer so much are +now down here among us; and like their mentor they can be collectively +characterized by several key indicia: They are highly motivated, intellectually +strong people and can be found in any profession where intellectual knowledge +is important, such as in the law and in scientific research; their driving +themselves in the First Estate to go after one successive hard won benefit +after another, as frequently as possible, makes them razor sharp in the pursuit +of business and commercial enrichment -- and they have a sparkle in their eyes +for the gold and silver of this world (both juristic and physical), as that is +what induced them to lay aside Father's advisories and acquire benefits at any +cost, and without regard to moral or ethical values or the consequences of +deception or damages. They also developed a reputation back then for going just +too far. And like their mentor Lucifer, they have an intimate affection in +their hearts for music and musical instruments, and no interest in agriculture, +horticulture, plants, or farming of any nature. Today, these Spirits are +friendly, they smile, and they are easy to talk to; but whenever Jesus Christ +is mentioned, they subconsciously draw anything from a blank to outright hatred +-- and yet, they do not know why they possess such a disposition. Today in +1985, these Spirits -- one level above demon -- are all around us; and now, +just like yesterday, they like to think of themselves as being pretty cute and +smart when they pull off a business deal laced with lies and deception; they +have no adverse concern for running someone else into the ground while getting +what they want, politically or commercially -- it feels very natural to them. +Having been trained by Lucifer to selectively incorporate deception into their +MODUS OPERANDI for purposes of experiencing strategic conquest, they now +continue on with the same old formula since it appears to be working so well +and feels so natural to them; and the primary reason why Father let them come +down to this Adamic world is because of their valiant display in one of the +final Sessions of Council -- but even that judgment of theirs, as correct as it +was, was just an isolated fluke [fluke or no fluke, this judgment stands as +CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE that these little Gremlins can exercise correct judgment in +matters concerning their relational standing before Father -- WHENEVER THEY +FEEL LIKE IT]. Having had a protracted working relationship with them before, +Lucifer is very well acquainted with these people, and he is now using these +Gremlins as expendable meat to do his dirty work for him; and at the Last Day +we are told that Lucifer will be there, too -- and he fully intends to get +even. +...Today, we are in the Second Estate for a short while, and everyone +is starting over from scratch, even up, and at point zero; and nothing has +changed as the world Gremlin's, and a good many Heathens and Christians along +with them, are falling for the same line again for the second time over. That +Commercial enrichment and other forms of worldly conquest are very important, +and so at a minimum, an occasional deceptive act here or there in business +carries no adverse significance along with it. Meanwhile, Father has said NO to +deception, and no exceptions. +=============================================================[113]

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Sadly so, deception has the appearance of being contagious, unless efforts are +made to deflect the onslaught of its occurrence, and its prevalence throughout +the United States today could be exemplified perhaps in the dynastic corridors +of corporate power, where Commercial executives busy themselves by being +constantly fixated on their own self enrichment objectives. [114]

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[114]============================================================= The reason +why IBM chose to move its headquarters out of Manhattan in 1961 was shrouded +behind a veil of secrecy and deception, a MODUS OPERANDI faithfully replicated +later on by other corporate executives while trying to explain away why their +offices were being transplanted out of New York City in the latter 1960's and +1970's. Starting on page 28 in COMPUTER DECISIONS MAGAZINE for March of 1977, +Thomas Mechling explains the reason why IBM packed their bags and left +Manhattan for a hill top orchard in Armonk, 30 miles North of New York City. In +explaining away the relocation, IBM Vice President J.J. Bricker tried to peddle +the bleeding heart line that IBM employees were unhappy with life in NYC and +wanted the suburbs: +"We have a belief that if the people can spend more time with their +families and have easier commuting, there is a certain plus for the employees +and their families. The plus is indicated by the attitude of everybody." +-[COMPUTER DECISIONS, id., at 30]. But J.J. Bricker was silent on the +fact that internal IBM polls had revealed an aversion to move to the suburbs -- +just the opposite as reported; later, secretarial and clerical employees would +actually refuse to make the relocation to Armonk [id., at 30]. It turns out +that the real reason why IBM left Manhattan is because Thomas J. Watson, Jr., +had been briefed by Nelson Rockefeller on the planned "likelihood" of a +controlled nuclear war taking place in the United States, with NYC standing as +a certain target; and so hearing that, Watson wanted out of NYC. +"The real, unwritten, and unspoken reasons that Thomas J. Watson, Jr. +wanted to get his top management the hell out of mid-Manhattan in 1961 was to +escape and survive a nuclear bombing of New York City, a likelihood seen by the +most influential, inside-information sources he was uniquely privy to..." +-[COMPUTER DECISIONS, id., at 28] The war Nelson Rockefeller was +referring to had been planned to occur far in the future -- in the late 1970s +[see RECON057/58], timed immediately after certain long range military +objectives were expected to have been accomplished by then (such as a base on +the Moon). The ability to control the direction of the staged "war" by having +superior and redundant hardware recourse over pretended Russian adversaries was +deemed very important by the Four Rockefeller Brothers. But the planned war +never came to pass as unexpected factors surfaced like Russian military +intervention and reversals by numerous allies of the Four Rockefeller Brothers +(who had started pulling off their own assorted double crosses in 1976); so out +of weakness in the late 1970's, the Four Rockefeller Brothers then shifted to a +FIRST STRIKE Nuclear War posture, a posture our adversaries took very astute +notice of. It is important to realize that when we are formally invaded under +Russian supervision [TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Although the mass media is constantly +informing us that the "cold war is over," don't be too surprised to one day +realize in the not too distant future how far from reality that deceptive (and +intentional) presentation of "facts" truly was, and as always, this particular +slice of deception upon the public is one of the most important of all, if not +THE TOP OF THE HEAP, as the successful conveyance and acceptance of this +particular deception is expected to bear the greatest fruit in all of history +for the Gremlins perpetrating it on an unsuspecting American populace. +Remember, that when dealing with the subject of Gremlins, you are necessarily +going to bump up against layers upon layers upon layers upon layers of +deception. Just remember that the designer of a trap has, as his overriding +objective, the goal that the trap will fool the intended victim and thus +achieve its purpose of creating damages, while inversely resulting in some form +of benefit to the designer], they will be believing in part that they are doing +the right thing in order to save the world from Nuclear War [the other parts +involve SET UP combined with a deep Russian allure for grand scale conquest]; +yes, some folks who never gave it any thought will view that line as being +ridiculous -- however, that is not important; what is important is that the +impending military seizure of the United States, without any damages, if +possible, is viewed by our adversaries, for whatever their reasons are, as +being both justified, morally necessary and even compelling. This is why the +impending invasion itself is actually very feasible, with both momentum and +motive being present. However, the prospect of an invasion remains remote to +most folks (to those who have even bothered to think about it) as they dismiss +the likelihood of such circumstances ever transpiring. However, an enlarged +basis of factual knowledge on the incentives the Russians are operating on now +makes this impending invasion very attractive on their part, and an objective +assessment would reveal that, yes, they actually do have strong and hard +motives for at least trying to do so. +...And as for the Four Rockefeller Brothers, by the end of 1979, each +of the Four Rockefeller Brothers had been introduced into the world of +Rothschild double cross under violent and unpleasant circumstances -- an +interesting look ahead glimpse into the magnitude of the consequences of +Lucifer's planned Tort Law double cross at Father's Last Day. [See generally, +Thomas B. Mechling in 9 COMPUTER DECISIONS MAGAZINE, page 28 ["Gimme Shelter: +Why IBM Fled the City"], (March, 1977)]. +=============================================================[114]

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Why are such Gremlins, impressive by appearances, so freely willing to work +damages on other folks? The answer lies in the fact that they believe, +superficially, that they are doing the right thing (remember what they went +through in the First Estate). For example, in a Gremlin attack on Father's +jurisprudential structure here in the United States, the disintegration of our +jurisprudence (or "legal system") is considered by Gremlins to be a goal worthy +of achieving:

+ +

"The disintegration of our legal system... would end in a revival of +justice, due to the restoration of the authority of the people which constitute +the living, vital principle of the law; and by restoration of prosperity due to +the confidence of the people in the disposition and capacity of their own +Government to protect them in modern conditions of life. That system, fought as +being inadmissible for 13 small States, has survived expansion across the +continent; and, in its form and substance, is, if any human institutions can +be, equal to the conquest of every economic and moral frontier." [115]

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[115]============================================================= Gremlin +James E. Lawson, attorney for the Federal Power Commission, testifying before +Congress in WORKER'S RIGHT TO WORK in Hearings before a Subcommittee of the +Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, at page 51; 72nd Congress, +Second Session, discussing Senate Bill 5480 (February, 1933). +=============================================================[115]

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So too do Gremlins apply this same planned disintegration reasoning to propose +that there be a continuous succession of wars and other military damages +operations, specifically for the purpose of bringing about a quiescent +tranquility that will, they believe, be the result of a world tired from wars. +Yes, Lucifer is slick in his justification of damages. [116]

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[116]============================================================= One of the +neglected Leit Motifs of the New Testament [LEIT MOTIF means dominate or +recurring theme] is the Adversarial nature of this World being an enlarged +continuation of the heated feud between Jesus and Lucifer that took place back +in the First Estate; each recognizes the other as his old opponent and rival +[see the true Status recognition of Jesus by devils in MARK 5:7 and LUKE 4:34 +to 35; and the recognition is mutual in LUKE 10:18]. The Adversarial contest +between Jesus and Lucifer that had its genesis in the First Estate was once +continued down here in a desert battle [MATTHEW 4:1]; with that inflated bag of +hot air -- Lucifer -- claiming the lead role and challenging prominent +Personages, nothing changes on this stage either, because the bouts that +Lucifer's imps and Jesus once exchanged as Adversaries are now being handed +down to us all as Lucifer's imps throw one good Tort drubbing after another at +us, with many folks having no sensitivity even to the existence of the +drubbings or their origin. The invisible War we are involved in down here +[EPHESIANS 6:12] is a continuation of the conflict in the beginning [HYPOSTASIS +OF THE ARCHONS 134:20]; with those actors on this stage largely following the +same mentor now that they had found attractive once before on the previous +stage [JOHN 8:44; and ODES OF SOLOMON 24:5 to 9]. And just like once before in +the First Estate, today there is also now a large group of folks just idly +sitting on the sidelines watching it all go by; they associated nothing of +importance to what they were watching then, and they now continue to associate +nothing of importance to the movements of Gremlins today. +=============================================================[116]

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And just as Lucifer is slick [meaning effective while remaining largely +invisible] with his justification of damages reasoning, so too do his +assistants down here need close scrutiny in order to figure out what they are +up to nowadays. [117]

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[117]============================================================= Remember +that deception takes three separate steps to be successful [CREATION, +CONVEYANCE and ACCEPTANCE]. If any one of those steps individually falls apart, +then the deception stops right then and there. As it pertains to the CREATION +stage of deception: Well known to a few selected legal circles (and in +particular the United States Department of Justice) are the words of United +States Special Judge Advocate John A. Bingham Jr., who made arguments at the +criminal prosecution of John H. Surratt and other conspirators who were +involved logistically with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. This +Trial took place in Washington, D.C. in 1865: +"A conspiracy is rarely, if ever, proven by positive testimony. When a +crime of high magnitude is about to be perpetrated by a combination of +individuals, they do not act openly, but covertly and secretly. The purpose +formed is known only to those who enter into it. Unless one of the conspirators +betrays his companions and give evidence against them, their guilt can be +proven only by CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE... It is said by some writers on +evidence that circumstances are stronger than positive proof. A witness +swearing positively, it is said, may misapprehend the facts or swear falsely, +but that circumstances cannot lie... It is reasonable that where a body of men +assume the attribute of individuality, whether from commercial business or the +commission of a crime, that the association should be bound by the acts of one +of its members, in carrying out the design." +-John A. Bingham Jr. in TRIAL OF THE CONSPIRATORS FOR THE +ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, ETC., at page 52; in arguments before a +Military Commission, delivered June 27 and 28, 1865 [GPO, Washington (1865); +quoting on part UNITED STATES VS. COLE, ET AL., 5 McLean 601]; {University of +Rochester, RUSH RHEES LIBRARY, Rare Books Room ["Lincoln File -- Seward +Pamphlets"], Rochester, New York}]. Notice how Conspirators may be proven: Only +by one of the INSIDERS talking (not very likely), or by watching their +movements and observing the train of circumstances they leave behind them. One +of the ways to observe Gremlin movements is to observe the more visible people +that they necessarily associate with in Commerce [Gremlins have to associate +with those irritating non-Gremlin vermin, since there are just not enough +Gremlins to go around]. And then watch for the circumstantial fallout resulting +from the relational activities by their more visible associates in Commerce to +signal something grand impending in the air... something originating with +Gremlins themselves. One example of someone, not a Gremlin, who associated +circumstantially with Gremlins and learned in advance of the intended outcome +of some of their sneaky maneuverings for conquest and damages, was an Episcopal +Minister by the name of Edward Welles. Bishop Edward Welles was Rector of the +CHRIST CHURCH in Alexandria, Virginia [the Church of George Washington]. In his +autobiography published in 1975, Bishop Welles had a few words to say about his +brief interfacing with Gremlin Franklin D. Roosevelt, immediately prior to +Pearl Harbor: +"Another of my friends was Norman H. Davis, president of the AMERICAN +RED CROSS, who was elected to our Parish vestry. He was very close to President +Franklin D. Roosevelt, and saw him frequently. On November 6, 1941, I had lunch +with Mr. Davis in Washington, and learned of the approaching war with Japan, +which would begin within five weeks. I was shaken, and asked Mr. Davis to urge +the President to appoint a NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER, and handed Mr. Davis a +letter I had written to President Roosevelt on the subject. Mr. Davis did hand +my letter to the President, who did appoint the following New Year's Day as a +NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER. I was so moved by the luncheon revelations that later +that very day, I sent out mimeographed postal cards to the congregation, +stating: +'The Rector is preaching a Sermon at 11am service Sunday, +November 9th, which he feels is sufficiently important to call to your +attention. The Sermon will assess the desperate situation that confronts +America this Armistice Day, and suggests basic Christian attitudes and +actions.' +"On Sunday in the course of that Sermon, I said: +'Few people realize how great is the possibility that we shall +actually be at war with Japan within 30 days.' +"The congregation was deeply shocked. And in response to many requests +my booklet of Sermons was reprinted with this Sermon added. 28 days after that +Sermon came December 7th, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and the war was +on." +-Edward Welles in his autobiography THE HAPPY DISCIPLE, at 62 +[Learning Incorporated, Massette, Maine (1975)]. Bishop Welles, at that time, +had no way of knowing that President Roosevelt's advance knowledge of Pearl +Harbor was due to FDR's diligent and extended efforts to bring about that +attack. Like others brought in from the outside, Bishop Welles was snared in a +Gremlin's web of intrigue by innocent circumstantial association. Deception is +very important to Gremlins, as they continue on with their deception down to +the present day, by wanting folks to believe that no one could possibly have +known anything was afoot in 1929: +"In the Summer of 1929 a few prophets foresaw the coming stock market +crash. Only one gifted with second sight could have foreseen the sequel -- a +world depression historians would single out by calling GREAT. In the United +States at any rate, most of the businesses community continued to believe in +permanent prosperity, until the bottom fell out." +-Harold van Cleveland and W.H. Brittain in A WORLD DEPRESSION?, +Foreign Affairs, page 223 (January, 1975). Contrary to what those two gentlemen +would like you to believe -- that NO ONE could have known what was impending, +in fact the Gremlins knew, and they took steps to immunize themselves from the +unpleasant circumstances they were planning to bring down on us all; but not +everyone was caught off guard by their manufactured depression: Those +individuals who had been tipped off by Gremlins also went about their work +buttoning down the hatches. We turn now back into early October, 1929; into a +bank in New York City, where a young banker was about to be introduced into the +eerie world of Gremlin intrigue: +"I was impressed when Mr. Henry Morganthau Sr., a retired banker and +former ambassador, called on the bank in person, and directed it to dispose of +every stock, security, and bond then held in his Trust, and to reinvest the +proceeds in Bonds of the U.S. Government. Gratuitously, he added that he wished +these bonds remained so invested until he directed otherwise, a step which he +said he did not contemplate taking for at least 15 years... To me it seemed as +if he knew what he was doing and why. He did not appear to be following a +hunch... The impression he gave was one of confidence in his judgment. It was +this impression which convinced me that there was a basis for that judgment, +that what he knew others could know." +-Mr. Norman Dodd, in a New York City speech in 1946 [Mr. Dodd later +went onto be the Director of Research for the Reece Committee of Congress in +1953, investigating the role played by Tax Exempt Foundations in furtherance of +Gremlin objectives. See HOUSE SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE TAX EXEMPT +FOUNDATIONS, House Report 217; 83rd Congress, Second Session (May, June, July, +1953); Mr. Dodd is identified on page 5 as being the Director of Research +[which in itself produced another chilling successive seriatim of factual +accounts in well organized Gremlin mischief]. A few weeks after Mr. Morganthau +took that action directing the reinvestiture of his family Trust money, the +advisory memoranda that Gremlins had been quietly circulating among their +intimates began to jell, and the Great Stock Market Crash was on, as planned +[as I will discuss later]. +...Now it is 1985, now quite some time has lapsed since the first great +American Depression, and now another Great Depression is once again scheduled +to make its appearance; and as before, individuals transacting business with +Gremlins are once again dropping CIRCUMSTANTIAL indicia that Great Depression +II is impending: +...In 1979, planning for a large regional mall to be located on +an abandoned airport in southern Rochester, New York, was in its advanced +stages by a consortia of the Wilmorite Group (of the Wilmont Family who +previously built numerous large shopping centers) and Emil Mueller (who owned +the land underneath the abandoned airport). The Mall would be called +MARKETPLACE MALL, and the very extensive and impressive research and market +studies on the Rochester area demographic and retail purchasing power had been +completed. This mammoth Mall would be a magnet, bringing in shoppers from far +away Syracuse and Buffalo, New York, and even Toronto, Canada. Having done its +homework, the Wilmorite Group sent its leasing scouts out to search for +tenants; they needed a few heavy anchors [ANCHOR tenant means the big well +known national chain stores who draw large crowds with their large advertising +budgets], and quite a few small tenants as well. They managed to line up Sears +Roebuck, JC Penney, and small regional department store chains like McCurdy's +and Sibley's [owned by Associated Dry Goods Corporation in New York City]. They +made a preliminary inquiry at a Canadian department store chain called THE +HUDSON BAY COMPANY, based in Toronto, but the Wilmorite invitation to lease +space in Rochester was politely declined. The HUDSON BAY COMPANY chain is +exclusively Canadian, and does not have any store anywhere in the United +States, but that meant nothing to the Wilmorite MALL pushers; so several +Wilmorite leasing executives paid a personal visit to the HUDSON BAY COMPANY +administrative offices in Toronto to try and convince those Canadian fellows +that this American mall was going to be special, and that they might want to +reconsider this one. That is a normal everyday business proposition, and the +Wilmorite executives were in Toronto on a normal everyday business trip -- but +they were not prepared for the shock that they would be receiving, as they +found themselves entering into the closed private world of international +Gremlin intrigue; they would be leaving Toronto bewildered that day. While +trying to make their leasing presentation to HUDSON BAY COMPANY officials, the +Wilmorite Group was told that the HUDSON BAY COMPANY would be unable to lease +space in that proposed Mall, as well as any other Mall in the United States -- +because American exclusion orders had come down from upstairs, from advice by +Gremlin Edgar Bronfman himself [of HOUSE OF SEAGRAMS in Montreal], that a major +American depression was in gestation, and that your proposed Mall would one day +be desolate, and that the HUDSON BAY COMPANY would be unable to participate in +your venture. Needless to say, such blunt rebuffment is very rare in business +on the North American Continent, where common business rejection practice +nowadays is to deflect the real reason off to the side and point attention over +to something else nice. [A toned down and less grandiose MARKETPLACE MALL +opened to the public in late 1982]. +...Now in 1985 it is some five years later with some industries +stagnant and others showing modest growth, but no real prosperity in the air. +Now word has come down from another business associate of Edgar Bronfman who +works for FAIRVIEW-CADILLAC, LTD., a large Canadian real estate development +firm (who speaks to Edgar frequently on the phone), to watch for a period of +large corporate mergers in the news, as the management, acting on INSIDE +information, starts to button down the hatches; generally, about 1990 or so is +the year planned for the planned erosion in the economy to start to appear +widespread due to the wide ranging number of industries that will have reached +hat long awaited Gremlin day of a STATIONARY STATE, or stagnation. The computer +industry will likely never recover from its doldrums of 1983; discretionary +retail purchases will slow down first, then followed by a slowdown in necessary +items like food and clothes, so watch for inventory statistics by retail +chains, as they accelerate their personnel and inventory trimming. Government +unemployment and Commerce statistics should be disregarded, together with the +planned assurances for the media and Government to make: THAT ALL IS WELL. +[TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Can't you just remember George Bush speaking soothing +words to that effect during the debates and elsewhere during his campaign? +..."Yes, everything is just fine America, now please go back to sleep..."] +Personal moves to be made to deflect the effect of the Depression should be to +replicate for yourself the PRINCIPLE OF NATURE manifested by certain mammals +like chipmunks and squirrels, as they accumulate a personal reservoir of +storage items to hold them through known impending lean seasons. This impending +Depression in the United States off in the 1990's will be unique in the sense +that the United States will also be simultaneously finding itself engaging in +military defense operations internally; and the disruptions to Commerce such +military intervention created will cause regional areas of where there are +literally no commodities available for purchase at any price (unlike the +somewhat quiescent domestic scene in the 1930's and World War II where the +stores had merchandise to sell and the problem then was lack of purchasing +money). +...No, Edgar Bronfman will never publicly say anything revealing, as +Gremlin Conspirators, like Lucifer, do not operate in the open; but having our +EARS CLOSE TO THE GROUND and by watching people who interface with Mr. +Bronfman, those CIRCUMSTANCES tell us more than what we need to know: That the +world's Gremlins have a few surprises; planned for us. And today, just like in +the 1930's, the next Depression is also being brought to you courtesy of +international Gremlin intrigue -- and not by some confluence of market factors +that collegiate INTELLIGENTSIA economist clowns, and others sponsored into +positions of prominent administrative power would like you to believe, such as +this little imp: +"The problem of controlling booms and depressions is a major part of +any country's economic problem, at its broadest... The problem of preventing +booms and depressions has to do mainly with the question of utilizing our +resources as fully and continuously as possible." +-Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, in +CONTROLLING BOOMS AND DEPRESSIONS, Fortune Magazine, page 88a (April, 1937). +Sorry Marriner, depressions originate with the massaging of the economy under +the plans of Gremlins; a situation made technically feasible since the economy +is under the central control of an instrumentality of the King. Giving the +Gremlins more control of the house management, FULLY AND CONTINUOUSLY, will not +end the depressions, as Gremlins have been more than competent to manufacture +depressions with less than the degree of control they now have. Only getting +rid of the Gremlins themselves will end depressions -- but this is not the kind +of talk that Gremlins want to hear propagated. +=============================================================[117]

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I N V I S I B L E C O N T R A C T S +George Mercier

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THIRD PARTY INTERFERENCE WITH A CONTRACT +[Pages 89-130]

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[Certain conventions have been used in converting INVISIBLE CONTRACTS to an +electronic medium. For an explanation of the conventions used, please download +the file INCONHLP.ZIP for further illumination. Other background information as +well is contained in INCONHLP.ZIP. It is advisable to EXIT this file right now +and read the contents of INCONHLP.ZIP before proceeding with your study of this +file.]

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In a Contract Law Judgment setting, questions sounding in the Tort of +unfairness regarding the interference of a person not a party to a contract in +causing a person who is a party to a contract not to honor his contract is +irrelevant, as I will explain later on; and so when cries of unfairness wallow +up at the Judgment Day, as claims of unfairness will be heard in having had +Lucifer's low key assistants hacking away at us down here, those cries will +then be in vain, as the unfairness in Contract Law of outside interference in +contract administration is irrelevant in measuring contract performance itself. +For example, the fact that an Employer terminated your livelihood, and you +subsequently experienced a cessation of money coming in, and so that now you +are unable to pay your apartment lease payments, is irrelevant in an Tenant +Eviction Proceeding. Either you have paid your rent as the Lease Contract calls +for, or you haven't. Even though the secondary effect of your livelihood being +terminated directly restrained you from honoring your Lease Contract due to a +lack of money, your Employer is not a party to that apartment Lease Contract, +so what your Employer did or did not do is not relevant in a leasehold Eviction +Proceeding. That is Contract Law Jurisprudence; its cold, mean, and it isn't +really very "fair" -- so now addressing that face on, we should start to +negotiate our personal business contracts on terms we can live with, rather +than snicker at Judges when we are in default later on. Remember the reason why +"fairness" is not relevant in a contract grievance: Because if judges allowed +"fairness," so called, to enter into one side of the grievance and benefit one +party, the effect of the entrance of such "fairness" into the evidentiary +setting presented to the Judge for a ruling, will always work a Tort on the +other party. What is the correct solution? Ignore all claims for "fairness" and +just enforce the contract. Cold, brutal, mean, harsh? Yes... but proper. Rather +than snicker at Judges at that late date well after you are in default, you +might want to address the origin of your problem: You entered into a contract +you could not handle under a worst case scenario (worst case meaning loss of +livelihood).

+ +

And those are the kinds of very narrow and precise lines that we need to think +in, in understanding Contract Law. You may very well have legitimate mitigating +circumstances to justify why you could not honor a contract -- but is an +ELECTION OF REMEDIES for the Party that you are in default to, to decide what +he intends to do with you, and it is not anything for an enforcement judge to +take notice of.

+ +

But contrary to the SUB ROSA silence of Lucifer on the existence of any +Contracts in effect with Father, Father is in fact operating on Contracts and +under Contract Law Jurisprudence with all of us down here, and not on the +principles, fairness, equality, and justice of pure natural moral Tort Law. So +only the content of our Contracts will be of concern to Father at the Last Day. +Under the justice of natural Tort Law, the equality of judgment fairness +requires that a person be adjudged on the basis of how other similar people are +being adjudged; but this is not relevant to Father for our purposes at our +Final Judgment. [118]

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[118]============================================================= There are +many people who take the view, seemingly very reasonably that, since they have +accepted Jesus Christ into their lives, and since they are just as good and +moral as anyone else they know (and a lot more moral than many other people), +then it is quite reasonable that they will be going to Heaven. This view is +very widespread today, and it is also quite defective. First, the fact that you +are just as good and moral as anyone else is irrelevant to Father in our +impending Judgment Day to be held under a Contract Law jurisprudential setting. +Father has no interest in any relative or collectively weighed anything. You, +individually and personally, have either progressed under your Contract, or you +haven't; and what some guy down the street does or avoids is not relevant to +you and your Contract. The unfairness of possibly being treated worse than +someone else in a grievance is a Tort Law argument. Second, the fact that you +have accepted Jesus Christ into your life is very significant -- but only as a +point of beginning, and not as a terminating wrap up to anything. The error +made by many Christian folks -- that their acceptance of Jesus Christ completes +their forward motions on Heavenly matters -- is the same error that many other +folks make by assigning either a terminating or concluding attribute to the +execution of contracts [like walking out of an automobile dealership with a +sigh of relief that since you've the contract and the car is your's, well, that +ends the matter; sorry, but that PURCHASE AND SALE CONTRACT only started the +matter]. Entering into a contract -- whether with Heavenly Father or anyone +else -- is always just a point of beginning, a fact that sharp Gremlins have +taken very astute notice of. While taking about a Diplomatic Treaty that was +just signed (and Treaties between Governments are contracts): +"It is a fundamental mistake to assume that the treaty ends where it +really begins. The signing of the document on June 28, 1919 at Versailles did +not complete its history; it really began it. THE MEASURE OF WORTH LIES IN THE +PROCESS OF ITS EXECUTION AND THE SPIRIT IN WHICH IT IS CARRIED OUT BY ALL OF +THE PARTIES TO THE CONTRACT." +-Bernard Baruch in THE MAKING OF THE REPARATIONS AND ECONOMIC SECTIONS +OF THE TREATY, at page 8 [Harper & Brothers, New York (1920)]. (The italics +formation of the last sentence was that way in the original, so it represents +an idea Bernard Baruch deemed important). Here is a Gremlin -- Bernard Baruch +--telling us that when he participated in partially negotiating the Treaty of +Versailles in 1919, he knew that many folks commonly view the execution of +Treaties to be the end of the matter; but sharp Gremlins know that contracts +only start the action in motion; so we too should be cognizant of this +attribute in Nature. +=============================================================[118]

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Those Torts that are committed by us and those great things that are done by us +outside of our Contracts are irrelevant to Father (and to ourselves at the +Judgment Day); also irrelevant will be those factors of natural Tort Law, such +as fairness, rights, equality, and justice. So the Illuminatti, going into the +Judgment Day with their pure natural moral Tort Law excuses all very neatly +lined up to justify, vitiate, and excuse their incredible abominations under +Lucifer's brilliant counselling, will be just like a Constitutionalist, so +called, going into a 7203 prosecution judgment with a bank account contract and +arguing principles of natural and moral Tort Law (want of a MENS REA, morality, +rights, basic justice, privacy rights, no CORPUS DELECTI damages, unfairness, +excessive Eighth Amendment punishment for a mere omission, Common Law says..., +etc.) and then demanding justice, and all of these elements of Tort Law +pronounced very well through numerous Supreme Court rulings and Constitutional +clauses; but they are not applicable to the merits of a Contract Law Judgment +setting. Both the pseudo-clever Illuminatti Gremlin and well-meaning +Constitutionalist who still needs intellectual development on Contract Law +Jurisprudence, are both totally convinced that they are absolutely correct -- +but the unknown reality is that they are both just plain wrong, and for the +identical same reason: Their arguments, reasoning, and justifications, although +absolutely correct in another judgment setting of pure natural moral Tort Law, +are off-point by a wide variance: Because in both of those Judgment Day and +7203 judgment settings that the Illuminatti Gremlin and well-meaning +Constitutionalist are being adjudged by, are under invisible Contract +Jurisprudence and Contract Law, not Tort Law. [119]

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[119]============================================================= As a +concluding by-line to this digressionary discussion here on Father and +Contracts, if you'll but give it a few moments thought and imagination, it is +interesting to note that this impending Judgment Day arrangement that Father +designed, gives a generous built in structural edge to those persons who are +trying to become the Sons of Eloha, and the procedure itself also creates +obstacles for those who have no interest in such a Celestial Objective (as if +the operation of the Judgment Day mechanical procedure itself assists in +separating embryonic Eloha from their ministrants). So now we need to ask +ourselves a question: Does that structural arrangement sound like it comes from +someone who knows what he is doing? Yes, it sounds like Father knows exactly +what he is doing; and if that is true, then we should listen very carefully to +anything Father has to say and would like us to do. And consistent with +Father's intentions to give his Sons the edge whenever possible, while exposing +them to the same environment and standards as everyone else, comes the +following arrangement: That after we enter into Father's Advanced Contracts +down here there are some other circumstances we can go through down here to +accelerate the Judgment Day to the present time (but that is another Letter). I +am only making the comparative point here that the lack of national collective +interest on the extreme significance of that Judgment Day accelerant statement +replicates the lack of national collective interest on the extreme significance +of bank accounts and other high-powered contracts as those Equity instruments +define our sub-parity relationship with the King. In both cases, this +information is freely floating around the countryside, but one first has to +define objectives, ask questions, and then exert efforts in order to get to and +then understand answers to questions. (And it is the discipline and serious +attitude such a procedure requires which largely explains why there are so few +people around who possess such important knowledge; not that there are few +knowledgeable persons that is an inverse indicia to gauge the importance of the +knowledge). =============================================================[119]

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Knowing what you do now about Tort Law rationale and our First Estate Contracts +with Father, let us examine, just for the moment, the Old Testament's account +of Sodom. There was a city, we are told, full of licentiousness and +whoremongering, and although that behavior doesn't sound too attractive to most +folks, let us consider the fact that in such behavior there are no damages +being experienced by anyone, there is no MENS REA, and that all of the persons +who participate in those orgies have consented -- and furthermore, biological +benefits are present. (When criminals are about to work a crime on someone +else, that advance planning in their minds is called the MENS REA. The reason +why their mind is evil is because they were about to try and damage either +another person, or someone else's property). [120]

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[120]============================================================= Furthermore, +just to make things seem psychologically interesting back then, I am sure that +Lucifer blended in some ceremonial flair into those orgies, by conveying the +image that orgies were officially sanctioned, somehow. Like contemporary +Witches emulating their mentors in Sodom by performing Fertility Rites on the +Witches' Sabbath, an interesting sounding excuse will satisfy most folks. When +Witches are not otherwise busy PULLING DOWN THE MOON, almost all of their rites +involving licking down some slice of meat [see Raymond Buckland's THE TREE, THE +COMPLETE BOOK OF SAXON WITCHCRAFT, from Seax-Wica Voys, Box 5149, Virginia +Beach, Virginia 23455]. +=============================================================[120]

+ +

So if everyone is consenting, and there are no damages, and there is no MENS +REA, then there is nothing to remedy, and there is no cause of action to effect +a "retort," and there is no retortional corrective justice to apply, since +nothing went amiss in the first place. General reasoning in this area is very +prevalent today (meaning that many folks today have no concern for the +inappropriate use of those ecstatic circumstances which initiate mammalian +reproduction). Heathens don't like to hear this kind of talk, but Father +actually operates in an unchanging straight doctrinal line, without any skew to +accommodate the pleasing intellectual music devils propagate that are sounding +in the justifying Tort of liability mitigation, that now, just somehow, +enhanced relative levels of technical knowledge ["this is the Information Age"] +or that self-perceived aggrandizement of intellectual sophistication, relegates +such anachronistic Stone Age bugaboo standards to a classification status +demeaning to your enlightened standing. [121]

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[121]============================================================= "We do not +believe in situation-itis; we do not go with the people who think that there is +a different age, that this is a different time, that these people are more +enlightened, or that [this standard] was for old times. Always the Lord will +hold to his statements that he has given through the ages, and he will expect +men to respect themselves, to respect their wives, and the wives to respect +their husbands." +-Spencer W. Kimball in CONFERENCE REPORTS ["God The Same Today"], page +162 (April, 1975). +=============================================================[121]

+ +

What then gives Father the right to expect technical compliance with such +ecstatic extracurricular circumstances that every person knows Father does not +approve the inappropriate use of? What gives Father the right to penalize us +for engaging in circumstances that not only damage no one, but are actually +biologically beneficial -- circumstances which when administered clinically +during the formative years under a therapeutic factual setting will actually +correct impending deviancy inclinations? The answers lies in Contracts, for +where there lies a Contract, a regulatory jurisdiction is in effect and there +doesn't have to be any damages experienced for someone to be penalized for +technical Contract violations; and furthermore, your excuses for non-compliance +are irrelevant should a grievance ever come to pass. That is where Father got +the right to turn Sodom upside down and terminate all people living therein, +and Father did so without any nymph in Sodom being damaged, everyone consenting +to that behavior, and the residents of Sodom never manifesting an evil state of +mind towards other residents, as pure, raw fleshy Hedonism was practiced +without let up. [122]

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[122]============================================================= "As a young +man David demonstrated a courage and a strength and a power that likely has not +been equaled in all of the great characters of the scriptures. He fought with +wild beasts and overcame them, defeated the giant Goliath virtually with his +hands, and then served through many years as the leader of Israel and +demonstrated in the process tremendous control, tremendous discipline. The +greatest enemy he had, perhaps, through most of these years -- at least the +greatest threat to his existence -- was the man Saul. Yet on several occasions +when David could have removed this threat by taking the life of Saul, who was +in his hands, [David] withheld [himself] and controlled those impulses. That +demonstrated tremendous power and control. Then later in life, as a mature man +with all the strength that kind of life had brought him, David was unwise. It +was not because David was weak that he fell. He was unwise. I suspect that +David had reached the point where he felt he was strong enough to indulge the +entertainment of some enticing possibilities. On the day he stood on his +rooftop and observed the wife of one of his officers, instead of taking himself +by the nape of the neck, so to speak, and saying 'David, get out of here!' +David remained. David thought about the possibilities [of getting involved with +this slice of meat], and those thoughts overcame David and eventually +controlled him. One of the saddest entries in all the scriptures, I think, is +that which the Lord gave the Prophet Joseph Smith in Section 132 of the +DOCTRINES AND COVENANTS. Speaking of David's situation today, he said, 'For he +hath fallen from his exaltation, and received his portion.' (D&C 132:39). +"...David, King David, one of the greatest and powerful men of the Old +Testament times, could have been today among the Gods if he had controlled his +thoughts." +-Dean L. Larsen in 1976 SPEECHES OF THE YEAR, at 121 [Brigham Young +University Press, Provo, Utah (1976)]. The chronicles of David's life are +presented in FIRST and SECOND SAMUEL. Notice how there was never any unjust +damages created by David in his life down here; David did not lose his +exaltation because he carefully avoided damaging others, as a lot of folks in +Christiandom incorrectly believe is important, but actually David lost his +Celestial Status in the impending Heavenly realms that lie ahead because of an +infracted Contract under circumstances that created no damages whatsoever +[David mentions that he entered into Father's EVERLASTING COVENANT in II SAMUEL +23:5], the content of which prohibits promiscuous masculine excursions into the +interior contours of feminine musculature, under certain circumstances. The +defense argument that such ecstatic circumstances create a wide ranging array +of beneficial biological and psychological side effects (which is factually +correct) is not going to be relevant at the Last Day -- just like Tax +Protesting arguments sounding in the Tort of Constitutional unfairness are not +relevant when Federal Judges are enforcing express Commercial contracts (even +though the Protestor is also factually correct as well in his Constitutional +research). And Protestors continue to lose today on the same grounds and for +the same reasons that good Christian folks will lose the Celestial Kingdom and +take an honorable second place as an Angel: Because of failure to identify and +come to grips with a series of invisible Contracts, and for failing to +appreciate the extent to which contracts are elevated in Nature to an +overruling dominate position in settling Judgments. Father's Covenants were +deliberately designed to provide PERSONS operating under its jurisdictional +penumbra with a confluence of contrasting incentives to exercise judgment on, +and it is the outcome of those decisions which Covenant operants make for +themselves -- that is what Father wants to see. Yet David, while he was still +alive down here, knew that he had blown it but good: +"[Jesus Christ told me that] he that ruleth over men must be just, +ruling in the fear of God [and this is important to Father because impending +Gods will themselves be ruling over angels and the like in the realms to come]. +[...These just persons, who are potential Gods], shall be as light in the +morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender +grass springing out of the Earth by clear shining after rain." After describing +such a potential Celestial person in those terms, David admitted that he did +not qualify: +"...although my house be not so with God." +-II SAMUEL 23:3 et seq. +=============================================================[122]

+ +

The questions of damages, of the presence of a MENS REA, and of consent are +Tort Law arguments, and are not relevant when contracts are in effect. But +wait,

+ +

"I was never baptized, I never entered me into no Contracts with +Father. My parents never got me involved with no church. I don't have me no +baptism certificate in my closet."

+ +

Yes, even you have invisible Contracts now in effect with Father. We all have +Contracts in effect, and we all took out these contracts, all of us without any +exceptions did this, back in the First Estate as Spirits. And it was then and +there that we were on our knees before Father taking out Contracts in the +angelic language we were then speaking, back before our memories were +temporarily abated down here, that's when.

+ +

This then is the Grand Key towards understanding why people want contracts out +of you: Because that contract you gave them gives them the right to deal with +you effectively at a later time. In the case of Heavenly Father, those previous +existing First Estate Contracts give Father the right to deal effectively with +us at a later time, both individually and collectively down here, should our +degenerate Contract wickedness exceed his patience and threshold level of +tolerance (as the Old Testament documents over and over again), as well as +providing a Contract Law Jurisprudential judgment setting at the Last Day where +Tort Law arguments of EVIL ACCOMPLISHED IN THE GOOD NAME OF JUSTICE are +ignored. In the case of the King, he too wants contracts out of us to +accomplish his revenue raising objectives, and then later enforceable against +us under threat of incarceration otherwise not permissible absent a Commercial +contract. In the case of Lucifer and certain Mafia Families, they too deal in +contracts to deal effectively at a later time with a dissenter who leaves their +ranks and starts to talk or otherwise creates troubles: By having the dissenter +killed. In a contemporary Commercial setting, merchants, lending institutions, +landlords, etc. all want recourse contracts out of you so they can deal +effectively with you at a later time in Summary Judgment proceedings should +there be a default. And on and on. [123]

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[123]============================================================= Illuminatti +Gremlins, vipers, Bolsheviks, witches and other associated imps who circulate +in that genre are not the only ones to be fooled and taken in on Tort Law +reasoning down here. Certain eremitical monks are another prime example of well +meaning people arranging their acts and behavior down here to take maximum +advantage of the "avoidance of damages" question that haunts so many people. Of +the numerous orders of monks around, such as the Trappists, the Carthusians, +and the Benedictines, perhaps it is several of the Black Monk abbeys in Europe +that are exemplary in their zeal not to damage anything, anyone, or any +property, at any time. These particular Black Monks are doctrinaire Benedictine +Monks. But unique to their own monastery sect, they walk through the air slowly +and lead isolated and inactive lives. On their minds, they are taught not to +influence the direction of anything else (i.e., avoid potential damages there). +In Saint Benedictine's Rules [E.C. Butler, BENEDICTINE MONACHISM (1924)], +chapters 23 to 30 talk about the relationship in effect between fault for +damages and punishments to be expected. The head monk, the Abbott, is taught +that he will be held accountable to answer for the souls of all of his monks +before the judgment seat of God (chapters 2, 3, 27 and 64). Both the willful +avoidance of damaging anything, and the doctrine that the Abbott is responsible +before Father for the acts of others are Tort Law arguments, and are defective. +Heavenly Father is dealing in Contracts; and expecting yourself to be magnified +in stature before Father at the Last Day due to the mere absence of not having +caused any damages down here or assuming responsibility for what a third person +does or does not do, is absolutely incorrect. The only third party line of +liability down here that we need to be concerned originates with Contracts, +such as one that deems parents to be responsible for the acts of their +offspring, if the child goes off on a negative tangent. +=============================================================[123]

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Those who want to go forth and FILL THE MEASURE OF THEIR CREATION, just like +Prophets and Patriarchs, need to go out and get some replacement Contracts with +Father; [124]

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[124]============================================================= Our old +Patriarch Jeremiah once had a few words to say about the Principle of Nature +that provides for a superseding layer of Covenants replacing a previous layer +of Covenants that have fulfilled their purpose. While quoting Jesus Christ, +Jeremiah said that: +"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a NEW COVENANT +with the House of Israel, and with the House of Judah; Not according to the +Covenant that I made with their fathers in that day [when] I took them by the +hand to bring them out of Egypt; which my Covenant they [broke], although I was +a husbandman to them; but this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the +House of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my Law in their +inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they +shall be my people." +-JEREMIAH 31:31 et seq. Here we are being told that the terms of +Covenants that were once structured for folks in another area are going to be +replaced with terms of a NEW COVENANT for us; indirectly referring to the +modifications made in the LAW OF MOSES relating to blood sacrifice rites that +were deemed unnecessary after the Crucifixion perfected that phase of +ATONEMENT. This passage in JEREMIAH does not talk about our own specific +individual First Estate Contracts being replaced with another layer of NEW +COVENANTS in this Second Estate, but the Principle that is being spoken here, +of an organic growth in Covenants by reason of superseding replacement, applies +to us all individually, just as Jeremiah is telling us that it applies to the +House of Israel collectively. The operation of this Principle of Nature, +whether applied to us individually COVENANT BY SUCCESSIVE COVENANT or +collectively as a nation by a change in the terms of those COVENANTS EN MASSE, +is well known in Law and is called the MERGER DOCTRINE by American lawyers, +which I will discuss later. Jeremiah was a marvelous fellow, and I will have +more to say about him personally near the end of this Letter. +=============================================================[124]

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the status of a person being a Prophet or Apostle down here does not exalt them +or confer upon them any special entitlement, as everyone is exalted by reason +of their Covenants with Father, and their status as Prophets are actually an +administrative work assignment for them. [125]

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[125]============================================================= Your ability +to be exalted is neither diminished nor exalted because you are not a Prophet +or an Apostle. +"Here [we Apostles and Prophets are], who [like common Saints], are +destined to be exalted with the Gods, to become rulers in the Kingdoms of our +Father, to become equal with the Father and the Son..." +-Brigham Young, in a discourse delivered in the Bowery, Salt Lake +City, June 15, 1856; 3 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 354, at 360 [London (1856)]. +=============================================================[125]

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You don't need to be a Prophet, or raise people from the dead, or be endowed +with Celestial magic to snap your fingers and heal people of cancer, in order +to go forth and FILL THE MEASURE OF YOUR CREATION, but you do need to fulfill +difficult Contracts. [126]

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[126]============================================================= "We are a +Covenant-making and a Covenant-taking people. We have the Gospel, which is the +NEW AND EVERLASTING COVENANT: NEW in that the Lord has revealed it anew in our +day; EVERLASTING in that its principles are eternal, have existed with God from +all eternity, and are the same unchangeable laws by which all men in all ages +may be Saved. The Gospel is the Covenant which God makes with his children here +on Earth that he will return them to His presence and give them Eternal Life, +if they will walk the paths of truth and righteousness while here. "We are the +children of the Covenant which God made with Abraham, or father. To Abraham, +God promised Salvation and Exaltation if he would walk as the Lord taught him +to walk. Further, the Lord Covenanted with Abraham that he would restore to +Abraham's seed the same laws and ordinances, in all their beauty and +perfection, which that ancient patriarch had received. 'For as many as receive +that Gospel,' the Lord said to him, 'shall be called after thy name, and shall +be accounted thy seed, and shall rise up and bless thee, as their father.' +(Abraham 2:10). "Now we have this same EVERLASTING COVENANT. We have the +restored Gospel, and every person who belongs to the Church, who has passed +through the waters of Baptism, has had the inestimatable privilege of making a +personal Covenant with the Lord that will save him provided he does the things +he agrees to do when he enters into that Covenant with God." +-Bruce R. McConkie in CONFERENCE REPORTS ["A Covenant People"], at +page 13 (October, 1950). "The Latter-day Saints are the people of God, a chosen +people, a royal priesthood, a covenant people, and a covenant-making people. +The greatest and most important blessings our Heavenly Father has for his +faithful sons and daughters are received by covenant." +-George F. Richards, in CONFERENCE REPORTS, page 129 (April, 1945). +=============================================================[126]

+ +

...Which leads us to the conclusory observation regarding the overall wisdom of +ignoring the terms and conditions of contracts we sometimes improvidently get +ourselves into: That people who are well seasoned experientially realize that +although ignorance may very well be bliss in the dreamy ALICE IN WONDERLAND +emotional aura it psychologically creates, this line on Contract Law +Jurisprudence is exemplary as to why ignorance is also highly self-damaging in +the practical setting. [127]

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[127]============================================================= "The first +objective of our existence is to know and understand the principles of life, to +know good from evil, to understand light from darkness, to have the ability to +choose between that which gives and perpetuates life and that which would take +it away. The volition of the creature to choose is free; we have this power +given to us." +-Brigham Young, President of the Mormon Church, speaking in the Old +Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, December 8, 1867; 12 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 111, at +111 [London (1869)]. +=============================================================[127]

+ +

Yes, the benefits inuring to persons entering into and honoring Father's New +and Everlasting Covenant are so great that the judgment of folks trying to +search for ways to work around it (by either adapting Tort Law reasoning ["I +don't need me none of that -- it's all the same God"] or by adapting a posture +of avoiding responsibility through claims of factual ignorance), really looks +pathetic by comparison. [128]

+ +

[128]============================================================= "We can not +receive, while in the flesh, the keys [of Celestial Jurisdiction] to form and +fashion kingdoms and to organize matter, for they are beyond our [limited] +capacity and calling [down here], [they are] beyond this world. In the +resurrection, men who have been faithful and diligent in all things in the +flesh, [who] have kept their First and Second Estate, [will] be crowned Gods, +even the Sons of God, [and] will be ordained to organize matter [and then go +off and create and people their own planets]." +-Brigham Young, in a discourse delivered in Farmington, Utah, August +24, 1872; 15 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 135, at 137 [London (1873)]. +=============================================================[128]

+ +

And speaking of ignorance (and of staying in ignorance by choice): An +interesting secondary element surfaces in the Restraining Order and the +chronologically correlative criminal prosecution of Armen Condo. Not only did +Armen Condo not honor his contracts with the King, he did not even know of +their existence. [129]

+ +

[129]============================================================= A +necessarily difficult position to be in. However, since ignorance, whether real +or pretended, of the contract's existence does not vitiate one's liability, +then restraining one's self to remain within the contours of such intellectual +containment, in such a state of ignorance is self-damaging, and is to be +discouraged. And as for the Law of Contracts, whether known or unknown: +"A contract is an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not +to do, a particular thing. The law binds him to perform his undertaking, and +this is, of course, the obligation of the contract." +-STURGES VS. CROWNINSHIELD, 17 U.S. 122, at 197 (1819). +=============================================================[129]

+ +

This state of affairs of throwing criminal prosecutions against people who do +not even know of the evidentiary existence of a contract the King is operating +on, has been under consideration and review by the King's Agents in Washington. +Staff members in the Treasury Department have been analyzing the possible +benefits and consequences to the King if, in the justification of the Income +Tax, the IRS were to shift over to a correct presentation of the Law, in the +context of proper and natural morality and ethics, based on a voluntary +attachment of Equity Jurisdiction, and applicable only to a special class of +people. At the present time, the IRS presentation of the Law, in explaining why +an Income Tax is to be paid, continuously shifts attention over to the 16th +Amendment, and kind of winds up by saying that:

+ +

"...well, we collect the tax from every one because the 16th Amendment +tells us we need to."

+ +

You may be surprised to hear this somewhat pleasant note, but there is internal +disagreement within the Treasury Department on the long term wisdom of such an +erroneous presentation of the Law. And both Armen Condo and Irwin Schiff are +prime exemplary models to explain this interesting change in viewpoint now in +intellectual gestation within the senior administrative rank and file of the +King's own tax collectors. In Treasury staff meetings ever since the early +1970's, there has been concern expressed regarding the growing Tax Resistance +Movement, so called. [130]

+ +

[130]============================================================= "A growing +number of taxpayers are developing negative perceptions of the Federal Income +Tax. For example, surveys conducted by the ADVISORY COMMISSION ON +INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS finds that Americans perceive the Federal Income +Tax as the worst tax imposed on them and the least fair. Further, tax evasion +appears on the rise -- paralleling the increase in negative perception." +-Steven Kaplan and Phillip Reckers in A STUDY OF TAX EVASION JUDGMENTS +in 38 National Tax Journal 97, at 97 (March, 1985); citing in turn the research +of Myers and Shannon in CHANGING PUBLIC ATTITUDES ON GOVERNMENT AND TAXES +[Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Washington, D.C. +(1980-1983)]. +=============================================================[130]

+ +

Senior staff members have known about this Movement well in advance, back to +the early 1950's, and it was very clear to them at that time in the 1950's what +we now are seeing all around us: Open and growing resistance and defiance to +the assertion of tax collection authority by the King. [131]

+ +

[131]============================================================= Sharp +Congressmen themselves knew of this impending state of defiance back in the +1800's, before the original version of our present Income Tax was created: +"The imposition of the [income] tax will corrupt the people. It will +bring in its train the spy and the informer. It will necessitate a swarm of +officials with inquisitorial powers. It will be a step towards +centralization... It breaks another canon of taxation in that it is expensive +in its collection [a condition since remedied by the clever use of +administrative contracts to force people into a taxable status they would not +otherwise be in]..." +-Representative Robert Adams, speaking in opposition to the proposed +Income Tax Act of 1894, on the floor of the House of Representatives, January +26, 1894 [as quoted by Frank Chodorov in THE INCOME TAX, page 63 (Devin-Adair, +1954)]. [But as usual in Congress, cries and pleas for the continuance of the +quiescent STATUS QUO of the 1800's fell on deaf ears.] +=============================================================[131]

+ +

Back in the 1950's, statisticians in the Treasury Department, in their long +range (10, 20 and 30 year) revenue/budget projection plots, saw that the +combination of both inflation and the percentage progressive Income Tax would, +in just a few decades, be pushing just the average worker into highly +aggressive tax levels of up to 50%. [132]

+ +

[132]============================================================= Throughout +the years, numerous Hearings have been held and Bills introduced into the +Congress proposing a FLAT RATE TAX, but they have never gotten anywhere. See +such Senate Hearing s in THE FLAT TAX RATE ["Hearings Before the Committee on +Finance of the United States Senate"], 79th Congress, 2nd Session (September 28 +and 19, 1982) [GPO, Washington (1983)]. Many of the persons presenting evidence +in that Hearing expressed knowledge on the enscrewment orientation of +progressive taxation, through their own words. When such widely held knowledge +jells into something tangible in the corridors of Congress is largely a +function of overcoming the Gremlins who now control the Congress. +=============================================================[132]

+ +

In the 1950's, those workers had then been paying just a small percentage. +[133]

+ +

[133]============================================================= As recently +as the early 1930's, a mere 5% was the maximum graduated federal income tax +due, but in time Bolshevik Gremlins changed that, by escalating taxing +percentage grabs to enscrewment levels more satisfactory to them. The schedule +was, at that time: +1-1/2% on the first $4000 +3% on the next $4000 +5% on the balance. +-WALL STREET JOURNAL, February 8, 1929 ["Income Tax in a Nutshell"], +page 4. =============================================================[133]

+ +

It was known at that time that there would be public concern of the growth from +those low taxation rates in practical effect then, to the substantially higher +tax rates expected in the future, and that this public concern would grow +increasingly with each passing year. [134]

+ +

[134]============================================================= This idea +has also been a dominate and recurring theme in research and literature in this +area of studying tax revolts. See generally: +-Lee Sigelman and David Lowery in THE TAX REVOLT: A COMPARATIVE STATE +ANALYSIS, 36 Western Political Science Quarterly, at 30 (March, 1983); This +paper explains eight different possible explanations of tax revolt success in +the 18 states where such revolts have surfaced as of 1983; +-Geoffrey Brennan and James Buchanan in THE LOGIC OF TAX LIMITS: +ALTERNATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE POWER TO TAX, 32 National Tax +Journal, at 11 (1977); +-James Buchanan in WHY DOES GOVERNMENT GROW (an article appearing in +BUDGETS AND BUREAUCRATS, edited by Thomas Borcherding [Duke University Press, +Durham, North Carolina (1977)]; +-James Buchanan in THE POTENTIAL FOR TAXPAYER REVOLT IN AMERICAN +DEMOCRACY, 59 Social Science Quarterly, at 691 (1979); +-James Buchanan and Richard Wagner in DEMOCRACY IN DEFICIT: THE +POLITICAL LEGACY OF LORD KEYNES [Academic Press, New York (1977)]. +=============================================================[134]

+ +

And it was expected that the thrust of the public concern that was out in the +open, would be of the basic legitimacy of the Income Tax itself, and that such +concern would have a strong current under it due to its percentage progressive +nature that would accelerate into such noticeable levels when inflation was +strong for several years in a row; so much so that even ordinarily blind, +disinterested, naive and politically benign people would then perk up and take +interest; and even businessmen would start to slough off, rather than give away +their hard earned income stream to termites. With the annual increment in +Inflation, the public's questioning of the general illegitimacy of the Income +Tax would be incremented with each passing year, as it was expected that the +public would notice that although greater taxes are being paid, no additional +benefits or commensurate services were being experienced or being returned by +the King in one year to the next. This illegitimacy angle was expected to be a +"center of gravity" in the public's view, since the general public is unaware +of the ethical and moral basis of the Excise Income Tax, and of an attachment +of Equity Jurisdiction involved (in other words, the King can demand and get +anything from 0% to 100% in Equity and be morally correct, because your +participation with him in accepting his benefits in Commercial Equity is purely +voluntary, and so any amount of gain you acquired in King's Commerce is gain +that you would not otherwise have). That attachment of King's Equity +Jurisdiction always precedes the liability for the tax. And so it has been +expected for some time that the United States would one day experience the most +extreme and intolerable levels of income confiscation ever known to Americans: +Without any reciprocity by the King, without any apparent QUID PRO QUO [135]

+ +

[135]============================================================= The phrase +QUID PRO QUO means that there has been an exchange of "something for +something." It has a Roman origin to it, and is a term that appears in old +medieval English Crown cases I have read, and now carries on down to the +present time with Federal Judges. See IN RE LUEDER'S ESTATE, 164 F.2nd 128, at +135 (1947). =============================================================[135]

+ +

of incremental increase in benefits to be experienced from one year to the +next, and without any justification at all for the annual percentage +incrementation in tax extraction. These projection plots were not deemed to be +of very high priority at that time back in the 1950's, but the results and +findings were circulated among some administrative personnel and they +eventually made it over to two Congressional committees.

+ +

Under the Treasury Department's projection models and plots, it was predicted +that open defiance would come some day as such expected aggressive tax levels +are simply not bearable by average folks, previously quiescent, who would then +start to question the legitimacy of the tax itself. [136]

+ +

[136]============================================================= And other +top tax bureaucrats have repeated the warnings initially contained in that +Treasury Department report of the 1950's. At the close of the Johnson +Administration in 1969, Secretary of the Treasury Joseph W. Barr warned of a +growing resentment against higher taxes. [See the Foreword in THE INCOME TAX: +HOW PROGRESSIVE SHOULD IT BE? by The American Enterprise Institute, featuring +cross discussions on the question of progressivity with Charles Galvin and +Boris Bittker (AEI, Washington, 1969)]. +=============================================================[136]

+ +

The catalytic effect of such aggressive tax levels would be the deprivation of +the ability of such average folks to provide minimum necessities for +themselves, such as housing and food. [137]

+ +

[137]============================================================= This is a +conclusion also reached by the Fund for Public Policy Research, in a report +entitled TAX CHANGES AND THE COMPOSITION OF FIXED INVESTMENT: AN AGGREGATE +SIMULATION by Aaron, Russek, and Singer. The study was conducted to inform the +Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation as to the impact of +the Tax Reform Act of 1969 on investments in housing. [Washington, D.C. +(1969)]. Some of the data used in this report was obtained from the Federal +Reserve Board, who researches its own macro-economic taxation models +isochronously (ISOCHRONOUS means at regularly occurring intervals of time). +=============================================================[137]

+ +

One of the questions that was hypothetically addressed in the accompanying +report is the concern the Treasury had of the general institutionalized +acceptance of "Tax Protesting" by the public. Like the widespread flaunting of +the assertion of the King's law during Prohibition, a little resistance and a +few flare-ups can be managed well in the early stages with some well publicized +spankings, [138]

+ +

[138]============================================================= "...there is +one way by which the Government could avoid almost all resource costs in +enforcing the tax code: Penalize only a few taxpayers, but with inordinately +high fines or other punishments. Given that taxpayers are risk adverse, such a +strategy has a minimal resource cost while serving as an effective deterrent to +tax evasion." +-Jonathan Skinner and Joel Slemrod in ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON TAX +EVASION, 38 National Tax Journal 345, at 346 (September, 1985). Notice why this +IN TERROREM method of collecting taxes would succeed: Because the Taxpayers are +deemed to be milktoast RISK ADVERSE persons [meaning that unlike Patriots, +Taxpayers would rather pay than put up a good fight]. The authors then discuss +and cite in turn two books that discuss ways on how the Government can magnify +the important image of such tax spankings administered to potential tax evaders +in the public's eye; see: +-Thomas McCaleb in TAX EVASION AND THE DIFFERENTIAL TAXATION OF LABOR +AND CAPITAL INCOME, 31 Public Finance Magazine 287 (1976); +-Nicholas Stern in ON THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF POLICY TOWARDS CRIME, +appearing in "Economic Models of Criminal Behavior" by Heineke, Editor [North +Holland Publishing, Amsterdam (1978)]. +=============================================================[138]

+ +

but a lot of resistance later on produces Jury Nullification, widespread +administrative non-cooperation, secondary disrespect for the Law in general, a +growing underground economy, as well as numerous other technical problems. In +the present discussions that are now going on in Washington, there is a +minority viewpoint being developed that suggests the possibility that it might +be worthwhile for the United States to consider exploring the feasibility of +heading off the impending blossoming Resistance by preventative means, and one +possible way to do that would be by having the IRS justify the tax along +ethically specific and morally correct reasons, and on grounds harmonious with +Natural Law, involving citing just the Commerce Clause, equity benefits and +contracts (bank accounts, direct beneficial interest, adhesion, equity, +employment, political, and state Juristic Personalities), and to emphasize that +only special individuals in these classes who want these special juristic +benefits have any liability at all for the King's Equity participation tax on +incomes. Such an officially sanctioned justification would strip away the veil +of illegitimacy that now permeates the Income Tax among many people, and would +show to all the immoral position of Armen Condo and Irwin Schiff, as those two +were caught defiling themselves by dishonoring contracts they had with the +King. The consequences of this reversal of IRS public justification would be +manifold:

+ +

1.First, it would discredit people like Irwin Schiff and Armen Condo, +who have propagated legally defective tax related information around the +countryside. Appearing on television and selling large numbers of books, these +people develop a cult following [if CULT is the word] and contribute to the +institutionalization of public acceptance of defying the King, and their cult +continues to grow even though the information they propagate is misleading and +technically defective, and will collapse in front of a Federal Judge.

+ +

2.Tax revenues would decrease a bit in the near term as some people +shift their Status around to avoid being a Taxpayer; [139]

+ +

[139]============================================================= An +adjustment in status from Taxpayer to non-Taxpayer is a behavioral modification +designed to experience relief from a taxation load; if invisible juristic +taxation contracts remain in effect after the transition in status adjustment +was believed to have been completed, then what could be the provident saving of +resources then degenerates into TAX EVASION. Tax evaders have been thoroughly +studied, examined, and restudied over and over again [for the fabulous amount +of money at stake in this Gremlin enrichment game, we really do not need +collaborating documentation on what is merely COMMON SENSE, but termites do]. +For the behavioral aspects of tax evasion, see: +-M.W. Spicer in A BEHAVIORAL MODEL OF INCOME TAX EVASION [Doctorial +Dissertation, Ohio State University (1974)]; +-Michael Allingham and Agnew Sandow in INCOME TAX EVASION: A +THEORETICAL ANALYSIS, 1 Journal of Public Economics 323 (1972) [discusses the +utility maximizing behavior of Taxpayers who are subject to detection and +penalties, as viewed this way, these twin researchers modelled the tax evader +as persons who thus DEMAND the level of evasion given the PRICES for evasion as +set by the Government. In the context of constructing a supply and demand +model, these two authors concluded that the evading Taxpayer takes in factual +information (like the structure, enforcement effect, and punishments specified +in the tax code) as GIVEN criteria the Taxpayer cannot control, an then the +Taxpayer makes an assessment as to the most preferred dollar level that the tax +evasion is worth to him.] +-Charles Clotfelter in TAX EVASION AND TAX RATES: AN ANALYSIS OF +INDIVIDUAL RETURNS in 65 Review of Economic and Statistics 363 (1983) +[discusses direct measure of tax compliance based on 1969 IRS data called TCMP +(Tax Compliance Measurement Program), to examine the sensitivity of tax +compliance to the marginal tax rate (that mouthful means that Charles +Clotfelter did some statistical work and determined on his own that the lower +tax rate a Taxpayer is in, then the more compliance a Taxpayer would give back +to the Government [which is only common sense]).]; +-Nathan Boidman in A SUMMARY OF WHAT CAN BE LEARNED FROM THE +EXPERIENCE OF OTHER COUNTRIES WITH INCOME TAX PROBLEMS, an article contained in +a publication called "Income Tax Compliance: A Report of the ABA Section of +Taxation Invitational Conference on Income Tax Compliance," at page 149 +[American Bar Association, Washington (1983)]; +-Age, income, moral beliefs and other economic factors have been found +to influence the tax evasion question. see A. Lewis in AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT +OF TAX MENTALITY in Public Forum Magazine, page 245 (1979); and Y.D. Song and +T.E. Yarbough in TAX ETHICS AND TAXPAYER'S ATTITUDES in Public Administration +Review Magazine, page 442 (1978); +-Based on sample data containing these five main demographic variables +suggestive of tax evaders: Age, Income by Category, Belief that tax evasion is +morally wrong, belief that the Federal Income Tax is fair, and economic +factors, researcher A. Lewis generates a pretty accurate larger estimate of the +percentage of non-complying Taxpayers who exhibit tax evasion behavior, by +multiplying his sample data to the known entire national population that +conforms to each variable classification [see A. Lewis in THE PSYCHOLOGY OF +TAXATION [Saint Martin's Press, New York (1982)]. +=============================================================[139]

+ +

3.Tax revenues would increase a bit as the immoral and unethical +position of Tax Protestors is frowned on, rather than cheered on by courtroom +supporters; and the resentment against paying a high percentage tax would +cease; [140]

+ +

[140]============================================================= When Tax +Protestors are parties to invisible juristic contracts, they are in fact tax +evaders, because they do in fact owe the tax, regardless of their political +philosophy justification sounding in the Tort of unfairness [even though many +Protestors do not want to admit it]. In Nature, whenever contracts are in +effect when a grievance is up for settlement, then the contract comes first, +and Tort arguments of unfairness come second; and nothing will change at the +Last Day. The economic perspective on tax evasion [meaning the effect of tax +evasion on tax receipts] has been frequently commented upon. For recent +technical examples see: +-Vidar Christianson in TWO COMMENTS ON TAX EVASION, 13 Journal of +Public Economics 389 (1980); +-Jonathan Skinner and Joel Slemrod in ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON TAX +EVASION, 38 National Tax Journal 345 (September, 1985); discusses horizontal +fairness [HORIZONTAL means analyzed among Taxpayers of equal income] with +vertical fairness [VERTICAL means analyzed among Taxpayers of different +income], in an on-going practice of tax evasion: +"Public Policy towards tax evasion reflects complex and often competing +goals of collecting taxes efficiently and treating Taxpayers equitably. Since +Adam Smith, economists have been aware of the conflict between the +comprehensive collection of Government revenue and the costly and unfair or +"odious" method necessary to enforce these comprehensive collection rules." +-Skinner and Slemrod, id., at 345 +That reference to Adam Smith is: +"A major source of Government revenue in Adam Smith's day was duties, +which 'by subjecting at least the dealers in the taxed commodities to the +frequent visits and odious examination of the tax gatherers, expose them +sometimes, no doubt to some degree of oppression; and always to trouble and +vexation; and although vexation... is not strictly speaking expense, it is +certainly equivalent to the experience at which every man would be willing to +redeem from it'." +-Adam Smith in II WEALTH OF NATIONS, at 430 [University of Chicago +Press, Chicago (1976)]. As can been seen from the days of Adam Smith, tax +collection is very much a continuing source of frictional confrontation between +the Crown and the Countryside, and under such an inherently tortional factual +setting, tax evasion will remain alive. Even though there is nothing immoral or +improper about the use of implied invisible contracts by Juristic Institutions +to raise revenue, tax evasion will so remain on the scene until such time as +Juristic Institutions are barred from raising revenue under these implied +contracts [as I will discuss later] (IMPLIED meaning invisible mass contracts +that are not individually negotiated with each Person); so Juristic +Institutions would then be required to rely on either express negotiated +contracts (meaning contracts negotiated with every Person individually), or +restricting the manipulative use of implied contracts to only those factual +settings where special optional benefits are being offered. In both instances, +you can forget about either of these contractual restrainments ever surfacing +in Constitutions. +=============================================================[140]

+ +

4.The underground economy, so called, would partially disappear, as +black markets in any commodity can only exist to escape the forced intervention +of Government that creates unnatural pricing. [141]

+ +

[141]============================================================= Concern for +the so called UNDERGROUND ECONOMY has been a recurring theme within the +corridors of Government. By calling it the UNDERGROUND ECONOMY, the King's +Agents are trying to color an illicit and tainted image in such activities; but +the King is in no position to do so. +[Later I will talk about the use of guns, literally, by Treasury agents +in the 1800's, to seal up a national monopoly on circulating Currency; in the +old days, private mints and businesses freely issued out their own circulating +coins and script, and so back then there was a real question as to whether or +not common folks were involved with what is called INTERSTATE COMMERCE; but +today everyone is automatically "in" this invisible INTERSTATE COMMERCE by the +use and recirculation of Federal Reserve Notes, because the King once used his +guns and bouncers to accomplish by hard physical duress what natural +competitive economic attraction and good common sense could not bring about: A +tight national Government monopoly on circulating Currency instruments, +enforced by penal statutes. Should we be surprised that today, the King's +Agents are now trying to twist things around enough so that those same common +folks who simply do not want to use the King's money are now colored as being +illicit participants in that vile, illegitimate "Underground Economy" -- but in +fact the King should be the VERY LAST ONE to talk about what is illicit, vile, +tainted, and unsavory[]. For recent recurring Government concerns echoed on +that heinous and obscene UNDERGROUND ECONOMY, see: +1.The Congressional testimony of IRS Commissioner Jerome Kurtz, and +two Treasury termites Richard Fogel and Robert Mason in Hearings entitled +SUBTERRANEAN OR UNDERGROUND ECONOMY, held by the Subcommittee on Commerce, +Consumers, and Monetary Affairs of the Committee on Governmental Operation; +House of Representatives, 96th Congress, First Session (September, 1979). +2.The Congressional testimony of Commissioner Roscoe Egger and termite +David Glickman (Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy) in +DISCLOSURE OF IRS INFORMATION TO ASSIST WITH THE ENFORCEMENT OF CRIMINAL LAW, +Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of the IRS, Senate Finance Committee, 97th +Congress, First Session (November, 1981); Committee Serial No. 97-58. +Commission Egger starts letting the UNDERGROUND ECONOMY have it at page 63. +3.See also Congressional Hearings entitled THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY, +held by the Subcommittee on Oversight, Committee on Ways and Means, House of +Representatives, 96th Congress, First Session, Serial No. 96-70 (July, +September, October, 1979). Various different mathematical models have been +developed on the UNDERGROUND ECONOMY. One method developed initially in the +United States involves the use of making inferences about the underground +economy on the basis of changes in money holdings over a period of time; see: +-P.M. Guttman in THE SUBTERRANEAN ECONOMY, 33 Financial Analysts +Journal 26 (November/December, 1979); +-E.L. Feige in HOW BIG IS THE IRREGULAR ECONOMY?, 5 CHALLENGE 22 +MAGAZINE, at page 5 (1979); +-B.S. Frey and W.W. Pommerehne in an article entitled MEASURING THE +HIDDEN ECONOMY: THOUGH THIS IS MADNESS, THERE IS METHOD IN IT, appears in a +book called THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IN THE UNITED STATES AND ABROAD, edited by +Vito Tanzi [Lexington Books, Toronto (1983)]. A British researcher developed an +UNDERGROUND ECONOMY model using differences between estimates of reported +income on tax returns and other estimates of income based on household and +industrial surveys of spending as an indicator of the percentage slice of the +economy going underground [see K. MacAfee in A GLIMPSE OF THE HIDDEN ECONOMY, +316 Economic Trends Magazine, at 81 (February, 1980)]. Another researcher based +in Italy used data from the relative level of public participation in what is +called the OFFICIAL LABOR PARTICIPATION RATE to arrive at his conclusions as to +the number and magnitude of which Italians are declining their Government's +invitation to deprive themselves of daily necessities so their Government can +engage in conquests [see B. Contini in an article entitled THE SECOND ECONOMY +OF ITALY, in Vito Tanzi's UNDERGROUND ECONOMY, id. Here in the United Stats, +one of the ways Government researchers probe for areas of "illicit" +subterranean activity is to examine what each American spends per year for food +and other retail purchases, and then figure up a national per person average. +Based on that information, a reasonable figure can be estimated that each +typical American would spend each year on, for example, food. Then checking +each city in the United States against that national average, they look for +food stores that are selling food to a known population area at a rate far in +excess of the national per person average -- then obviously there are more +people in that city than official census tracts are reporting. One such +representative metropolitan area of a city swirling in such an illicit vortex +of unreported income and officially nonexistent people, not surprisingly, is +Las Vegas, Nevada. +=============================================================[141]

+ +

(Bolshevik planners who have reasoned that the underground economy will +disappear altogether with their planned cashless society, with all financial +transactions reported to the IRS, are in error);

+ +

5.Tax revenues would increase in the long run, as most of those folks +who suddenly got rid of their bank accounts and other attachments of King's +Equity to save money found out that the loss of income, benefits, cutoff from +Commerce, deprivation of mortgage and loan availability, and other adverse +secondary effects just wasn't worth it. This is now happening on a small scale +with some commercially oriented enterprising type Patriots [142]

+ +

[142]============================================================= I feel +uncomfortable with the use of the word PATRIOT, but it does describe a +characteristic worthy of admiration, even though the majority of Patriots I +will be referring to in this letter have been engaged in highly immoral +activity, by dishonoring invisible contracts they have no knowledge of. +=============================================================[142]

+ +

who are re-entering the highways of Commerce and signing up with the King again +(but this time under careful circumstances). [143]

+ +

[143]============================================================= A British +researcher argues that the hard suppression of tax evasion by the Government is +actually self-defeating, since such a characteristically GESTAPO suppression of +evaders produces the secondary effect of reducing aggregate tax receipts by +having discouraged economic activity; which if, in contrast, would have +surpassed those taxes that were evaded [see B. Bracewell-Milnes in THE FISC AND +THE FUGITIVE: EXPLOITING THE QUARRY appearing in "The State of Taxation," The +Institute of Economic Affairs, London (1977)]. Many other parallels exist all +throughout the very wide ranging field of interpersonal relations that suggest +that the relaxed quiescent atmosphere generated by nice guys always yields the +most fruit; but Bolshevik Gremlins believe that they are on an important +mission and that terror is an important accessory instrument available to help +them accomplish their objectives, and so nice guys are in their way, and +Gremlins have no room for people that are in their way. +=============================================================[143]

+ +

6.Near term revenues would increase as Taxpayers who now view the tax +as either wrong, immoral, or illegitimate and then claim excessive deductions +would be hesitant to do so when the moral position is shifted around and now +it's their failure to pay their full share that is a serious act of +self-defilement on their part. [144]

+ +

[144]============================================================= But the +realization will never be universal: +"The problem [of both tax avoidance and evasion] is an ancient one. The +natural desire of the Citizen to pay as small a tax as possible is doubtless as +old as taxation. It would be difficult, indeed, to devise a system of taxation +under which it would not rear its head. In this day of manifold Governmental +activities with the consequent need for constant and fixed revenues, it is of +paramount importance that the revenue laws be so drawn and so administered that +the taxes imposed do not depend for their collection upon the whim, caprice, or +astuteness of Taxpayers and their counsels. An added consideration is the +equitable rights of Taxpayers themselves. It is of abiding importance to +Taxpayers as a class that each Taxpayer pay his proportion of the tax burden, +that each Citizen share the cost of Government in accordance with his ability +to pay. Hence, in combating both evasion and avoidance, the Government is +protecting itself and the equitable rights of all Taxpayers. The problem is one +in which small Taxpayers, in particular, have a very definite interest. John +Doe has a taxable net income of one thousand dollars. Generally, John Doe pays +his tax thereon. If he tries to avoid he usually evades, because he is unable +to employ skilled advisors, and many of the methods by which he might avoid are +not available to him. On the other hand, Henry Doe has a taxable net income of +three thousand dollars. He has skilled accountants and advisors to reduce this +net income and thereby minimize his tax liability. His business and investments +are, generally, of such a nature as to render available to him many tax saving +schemes. Hence, the ability to pay frequently carries with it the ability to +avoid. After all, tax avoidance cannot be had at the dollar book counter." +-Lucious Buck in INCOME TAX EVASION AND AVOIDANCE: SOME GENERAL +CONSIDERATIONS, 26 Georgetown Law Review 863, at 863 (1937). +=============================================================[144]

+ +

It is the opinion of staff members that although this is an interesting model +to consider, its revenue generating strength for the King lies in the +correction of wholesale public perception of the King being wrong and working +immoral acts on the countryside. Since a majority of Americans still do not +perceive of things being this way at the present time, this revenue enhancement +and Tax Resistance termination model is best kept on the back shelf, for a +while. [145]

+ +

[145]============================================================= At the +present time, while a majority of Americans still do not perceive of things as +being structurally wrong, however, there are many other folks who do possess +inclinations of irritation: +"In an era of heavy taxation, many taxpayers, not merely "tax +protestors," feel intense irritation at the federal tax authorities..." +-CAMERON VS. I.R.S., 773 F.2nd 126, at 129 (1985). +=============================================================[145]

+ +

The value in this story is the knowledge that the King's Tax Collectors in +Washington are not the intellectually lethargic and dim-witted bureaucrats some +people make them out to be. [146]

+ +

[146]============================================================= Tax +bureaucrats conduct extensive continuous statistical research on various +different methodologies of conducting the best CRACKING that can be had for the +tax collection dollar spent. Based on technical information derived from +sources within the IRS, researcher Ann Witte, et al., developed an economic +model of tax compliance by Americans. She came to the same conclusions that IRS +statistical termites had already arrived at long ago: +1.That the decline in tax audit rates during the 1970's may have +accounted for a substantial portion of the decline in compliance during that +period. +2.That increases in probability of tax audit and such things as +information reporting and tax withholding are likely devices to increase tax +code compliance [not very difficult to figure out, but bureaucrats need to have +it all handed to them]. +3.That increases in moral ambivalence towards tax compliance will +increase tax non-compliance [not very difficult to figure out]. The IRS divides +Taxpayers into different strata of audit classes since it believes that +compliance behavior differs significantly on the basis of level and type of +income. Ann Witte constructed a statistical analysis for homogeneity of +coefficients across the seven audit classes that her sources in the IRS would +admit existed; she used LEAST SQUARES and a generalization of the CHOW TEST as +statistical tools to come to a conclusion. That yes, Taxpayers situated within +the seven different strata of audit classes developed by professional termites +in the IRS do in fact exhibit an amazingly similar MODUS VIVENDI to other +Taxpayers in the same class [MODUS VIVENDI means mode of living in the sense +that it is a temporary arrangement pending settlement of some grievance]. Yes, +those termites are quite proficient unknowing Bolshevik instrumentalities at +their juristic tasks of eating out our substance [see Ann Witte in THE EFFECT +OF TAX LAW AND TAX ADMINISTRATION ON TAX COMPLIANCE; THE CASE OF THE UNITED +STATES INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX, 38 National Tax Journal 1 (March, 1985)]. +=============================================================[146]

+ +

They are constantly polling public opinion and testing for factual knowledge, +to see what they can get away with. [147]

+ +

[147]============================================================= The +assessments and JUDGMENT CALLS that our King goes through in determining how +much money should stay on the farm, what minimum amount is needed by the farmer +for survival, and then how much should be turned over to the State for his own +Royal purposes, is the same JUDGMENT CALL that Gremlins nestled in Juristic +Institutions made world wide: +"We were back to food requisitioning, only now it was called a tax. +Then there was something called 'overfilling the quota.' What did that mean? +It meant that a Party secretary would go to a collective farm and determine how +much grain the collective farmers would need for their own purposes and how +much [grain] they had to turn over the State. Often, not even the local Party +committee would determine procurements; the State itself would set a quota for +the whole district. As a result, all too frequently, the peasants would have to +turn everything over they produced -- literally everything! Naturally, since +they received no compensation whatsoever for their work, they lost interest in +the collective farm and concentrated instead on their private plots to feed +their families." +-Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs KHRUSHCHEV REMEMBERS: THE LAST +TESTAMENT, page 108 [Little Brown, Boston (1974); translated by Strobe +Talbott]. The reason why Gremlins world wide are continually confronted with +the same nagging taxation question over and over again, is because they are +dealing with DIRECT taxes operating largely on Citizenship Contracts, and so +there is inherently always going to be tension, friction, and confrontations, +as DIRECT TAXES by their nature require strict administrative compliance, which +is fundamentally out of harmony with the HAPPY GO LUCKY nonchalant ambivalence +many folks manifest. And there will also be correlative factual assessments +being made by Government as to just what the permissible levels of tolerable +enscrewment are, that can be sustained by the peasantry before EN MASSE +rejection gets out of hand. By the nature of DIRECT taxes, for the reciprocal +compensation demanded, there never is any relationship to juristic benefits +offered, nor any relationship between income extracted from people and +Governmental needs -- and so what we are left with is just an extraction +formula designed to maximize Crown enrichment. +=============================================================[147]

+ +

They are brilliant and they know exactly what they are doing at all times. +[148]

+ +

[148]============================================================= And they +also know exactly what they are doing when the go around the countryside +looking for some Tax Protesting giblets to crack: +"SENATOR SMOOTHERS: I have been concerned, Mr. Alexander, [Director of +the IRS in the mid 1970's], and the committee has received information +regarding how the IRS deals with its enemies, if you will, particularly the tax +protestor groups. We have information indicating that there has been an effort +made to infiltrate these groups, if you will, primarily based on their anti-IRS +activities, including such things as [their] efforts at physical destruction +[in] your [IRS offices and the filing of reams of blank returns. Is it your +view that IRS investigators should be used in this capacity, or is this a +matter better handled by other investigative agencies, like the FBI? +"MR. ALEXANDER: Mr. Smoothers, there have been instances where the use +of the techniques that you described would be necessary. Those instances are +few indeed. I think that the IRS has a responsibility to see to it that those +who attempt to defeat tax administration and tax enforcement do not succeed. +And, accordingly, as to tax resisters, we have an interest, and shall, I think, +maintain an interest in making their efforts fail. But we also have a duty in +the fulfillment of this limited goal to live up to constitutional principles +and the law, because we cannot enforce the law properly by violating the law [a +lie, but a CRACKER is not about to tell the Congress anything else]. ...Tax +protestors are indirectly related to tax administration, in that those who +preach resistance to tax laws are likely to practice resistance as well." +-HEARINGS TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH RESPECT TO +INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION, 94th Congress, First Session, Volume 3 ["Internal +Revenue Service"], page 7; United States Senate (October 2, 1975). A Gremlin +once had a few words to say about EXECUTIVE POWER, such as that power wielded +by Presidents and his administrative assistants: +"Executive power combines policy-making with the direction of policy +execution. It is this combination that endows the executive organ in the +governmental structure with its crucial functional importance and vests it, or +rather the persons who symbolize or control it, with the mystique normally +surrounding a head of State or a monarch. In the minds of the people, a +president, a king, or even a premier... plays the role of leader, much in the +tradition of the family head, the village elder, or the tribal chief. +"Through the ages, society has depended on the chief executives for a +sense of direction, and they have stood at the apex of the social and political +hierarchy whenever necessity has forced men to band together. Executive power +may, in fact, be the oldest and the most necessary social institution in the +world. It has taken many forms, has been established through diverse channels +ranging from birth to purposely perpetrated death, and has been invested with +different ranges of authority at various places and times and in response to +varying requirements... +"The [bureaucratic] executive... is relatively unhindered in the +exercise of [this] power... Formal restraints, such as legal injunctions, are +also either absent or circumvented, while informal restraints [such as the +press] are somewhat more elastic in the assertion of their claims against the +executive." +-Zbigniew Brzezinski in IDEOLOGY AND POWER IN SOVIET POLITICS, at 13 +[Fredrick Praeger Publisher, New York (1962)]. Gremlins know that folks will go +right ahead and improvidently place an aura of mystique about the nominees they +sponsor into visible executive positions in Juristic Institutions, such as +Presidents and Members of his Cabinet -- while the real action [the level where +the bureaucracy is interfacing with the public, the level where damages are +being created), is taking place at a lower level -- an invisible bureaucratic +level. And Gremlins are also cognizant of the fact that formal legal +restraints, such as those residing in the Constitution, are in fact +circumvented, as Mr. Alexander admitted; and third parties the public seems to +trust, like the Press, are noted for their acquiescence of mischief through +their silence. Always remember that Gremlins merely take advantage of what is +handed to them, and will back off when the knife encounters a bone instead of +more flesh; this is a Principle pronounced over and over again in +ecclesiastical settings, as Lucifer is identified as a clever adversary +specializing in taking prime advantages of weaknesses. Patriots assigning a +degree of trust in the Constitutional compliance inclinations of lower strata +bureaucratic underlings, by virtue of the stature possessed by a President +sponsored by Gremlins, are in error; as Gremlin Brzezinski pointed out, when +the house is under Gremlin management, such as the United States is today, the +policy maker is largely aloof from the administrative termite. +=============================================================[148]

+ +

So too, the IRS knows exactly what it is doing, just like the King. And its +present policy of justifying the tax based on a phony hybrid composite blend of +top-down universal Civil Law and 16th Amendment grounds is in place for just +one reason: Because at the present time it is to the King's financial advantage +to do so, due to baneful public IGNORANTIA JURIS. (But remember the King +propagates this erroneous justification because of the institutionalized +political banality of most Americans. Reverse the banality and the King will +very likely reverse himself). I have a hunch that the King's reversal will be +virtually automatic when the time is right. He closely monitors public opinion, +and he is careful in his public pronouncements. [149]

+ +

[149]============================================================= It is my +hunch that a contributing inducement element to the King's deceptive deflection +of the justification for the Income Tax, away from our Father's Common Law on +Contracts and towards the phony 16th Amendment, is likely to also indicate the +presence of a morbid intellectual disorder within the King's Senior Tax +Collectors in Washington: A disorder of deception. Consider the composite +conclusions that the psychological fantasy lie, of which Senior Tax Collectors +manifest with the deception, is a sign of intellectual morbidity when strongly +developed, and additionally, is a symptom of severe pathology [see Helene +Deustch and Paul Roazen, ON THE PATHOLOGICAL LIE, in the Journal of the +American Academy of Psychoanalysis, July, 1982, pages 369 to 386]. Another +article which explores the clinical need for the operant reconditioning of lie +therapies to correct structural deception disorders in the MODUS OPERANDI of +people is by Robert Langs, [writing in the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF +PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY, at pages 3 to 341 (1980-1981)], where he +discusses psychotherapeutic treatment modalities on the treatment of deception +disorders, especially psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically oriented +psychotherapy. Boy, that sounds like just the right medicine for the King's +Senior Tax Collectors. +=============================================================[149]

+ +

So all factors considered, it is unlikely that the King would not switch public +tax justification positions where it is to his own self-enrichment financial +advantage to do so. [150]

+ +

[150]============================================================= American +Jurisprudence, like Nature and society, is stratified into different statuses. +And people and objects situated within those different strata (statuses) have +different rights, motivations, and objectives. I am not convinced that there +are not other secondary elements coming into focus when coming to grips with +this psychological analysis of the King's Tax Collectors and their deception +regarding the legal validity and general tax relevancy of the 16th Amendment. +For an interesting discussion on the intricacies of deviant behavior manifested +in people by virtue of the elevated status they hold, see SOCIAL STRATIFICATION +AND DEVIANT BEHAVIOR by John Hewitt [published by Random House (1970)]. Mr. +Hewitt talks about the empirical connections between deviancy in MODUS OPERANDI +and self-perceived elevated status, when he discusses the "Analytical Models of +Social Stratification and Deviant Behavior." +=============================================================[150]

+ +

Just as there is deception and lies in the conveyance justification being +offered to Americans for an unreasonably sized chunk of their wealth, month in +and month out, year in and year out without any let up in sight, so too was the +Income Tax justified on fraudulent terms by Congressmen who, just like the +King's Senior Tax Collectors today, had a pure and perfect picture of their +MAGNUM Torts of deception and lies. Yes, if you were to believe Congressmen +trying to push the 1913 INCOME TAX ACT through Congress, the world was simply +crying out, insisting, and even strongly demanding that they be taxed, fleeced, +and thoroughly looted. [151]

+ +

[151]============================================================= "During +recent years there has been a general agitation and demand in almost every +state in the union and in almost every country in the world for intelligent, +fair, and practical reforms and readjustments of their tax systems to the end +that every citizen may be required to contribute to the wants of the Government +in proportion to the revenue he enjoys under its protection. To this end the +doctrine of equality of sacrifice or ability to pay is being universally +invoked." +-Representative George Hull, on the floor of the House of +Representatives in 1913; as quoted by Thomas Lyons in INCOME TAXES ["Modern +American Law Lecture"], page 14 (The Blackstone Institute, Chicago, 1920). +=============================================================[151]

+ +

But if that statement from George Hull is not enough to turn your stomach, then +perhaps some other previous statements, emanating from the floor of the +Congress in support of the WILSON TARIFF ACT OF 1894 [which contained an Income +Tax rider (the Income Tax bill would not pass the Congress by itself)], which +present a flowery wonderland promised to us all, if only we were just taxed +more heavily, just damaged more intensely, and deprived of just more wealth +through one more turn of the screws, is just strong enough to make someone +choke. [152]

+ +

[152]============================================================= Speaking of +the Income Tax provision of the WILSON TARIFF BILL, a Congressman once had a +few flowery words to say: +"The passage of the [Wilson] bill will mark the dawn of a brighter day, +with more sunshine, more of the songs of birds, more of that sweetest music, +the laughter of children, well fed, well clothed, well housed. Can we doubt +that in the bright, happier days to come, good, even-handed Democracy shall be +triumphant? God hasten the era of equality in taxation and in opportunity. And +God prosper the Wilson bill, first leaf in the book of reform in taxation, the +promise of a brightening future for those whose genius and labor create the +wealth of the land, and whose courage and patriotism are the only sure bulwark +and defense of the Republic." +-Representative David DeArmond, of Missouri (1894); [as quoted by +Frank Chodorov in THE INCOME TAX, page 41 (Devin-Adair, New York 1954)]. Always +remember that David DeArmond was sent to Washington from country folks in +Missouri -- ordinary Citizens just like us all, so to a large extent, he merely +replicated the indifferent will of his Constituents who actually admired a man +of his pathetic calibre; so before snickering at the clever Rothschilds, we +need to realize that we did this to ourselves. Although it is popular to +snicker at Congressmen, Congressmen reflect somewhat fairly the judgment +calibre of their Constituents, and so now the correct remedy lies not by +slothing off responsibility by pointing to someone else and blaming them, and +not by the selective political criticism of the world's Gremlins (exemplary of +Birchers and LaRouchies), but rather by a national internal self-examination +that originates, like everything else, individually: +"When politicians discover that the people will turn out in mass to the +primaries, their hope of controlling delegates in their own interest will +disappear; and whenever political conventions discover that the people will +carefully discriminate in the selection of officers, choosing only those who +live within the Law and who are pledged to support it -- those whose lives and +characters are above reproach -- then will political parties fear to put up for +election men who are unworthy. If the people will only exercise their +privileges as American Citizens, they will find in their own hands the power to +correct our present evils." +-Melvin J. Ballard in IMPROVEMENT ERA ["The Political Responsibility +of Latter-day Saints"], at 464 [Desert Book, Salt Lake City (1954)]. +=============================================================[152]

+ +

The King's policy of keeping the ratio between the Income Tax bracket and the +percentage tax demanded where it is, is because it lies just below the +threshold toleration level, although not precisely so. The King's Agents are +constantly surveying us folks out here in the countryside to see how many of us +are in what tax bracket, so the King can reassess how much more tax +confiscation can be extracted from us without an unmanageable revolt. [153]

+ +

[153]============================================================= A Gremlin +once made a Statement that is a good representation as to how Gremlins think in +taxation areas: +"The problem of the Government is to fix rates which will bring in a +maximum amount of revenue to the Treasury and at the same time bear not too +heavily on the taxpayer or on business enterprises. A sound tax policy must +take into consideration three factors. It must produce sufficient revenue for +the Government; it must lessen, so far as possible, the burden of taxation on +those least able to bear it; and it must also remove those influences which +might retard the continued steady development of business and industry on +which, in the last analysis, so much of our prosperity depends." +-Gremlin Andrew Mellon in TAXATION: THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS, at 9 +[MacMillian Company, New York (1924)]. Notice what is important to Gremlins: +Maximum revenue generation for the Government; and maximum taxation from the +public that can be tolerated, individually and commercially. Gremlins do not +concern themselves with such pesky little nuisance questions as to whether the +Government really has any good cause to spend the money on in the first place; +Gremlins do not concern themselves with the correlative damages experienced by +folks as important resources are preemptively grabbed from them resulting in a +deprivation of minimal material needs to support a family. Gremlins do not want +you and I to have prosperity, they want the Government to have the prosperity, +so that once Government has got the money, then they can spend it. +=============================================================[153]

+ +

It is the possible likelihood that this threshold toleration level would be +overpassed and broken that concerns certain senior bureaucrats in Washington, +who are wise to the practical secondary consequences such a passing of the +threshold limit would create. The meaning of this concern is perhaps best +understood by the 1979 analogy of the oil pricing decisions made by Saudi +Arabia's Oil Minister, Sheik Admed Yamani. The Sheik's adamant refusal to raise +Saudi crude oil prices above the $40 per barrel limit in the face of such rare +and unusually strong world wide petroleum demand puzzled many observers. [154]

+ +

[154]============================================================= Saudi Arabia +accomplished its objective of restraining other oil producers by increasing +their oil production to maximum capacity, while refusing to raise its own +price. See numerous articles in the WALL STREET JOURNAL discussing the Saudi +Arabian crude oil pricing freeze while maximizing their own oil production to +physical limits: +-July 3, 1979 ["Saudi Arabia Is Said To Plan An Increase In Its Oil +Production"], page 3; +-July 10, 1979 ["President Confirms Saudi Move To Boost Oil Output +Sharply"], page 2 ("...Saudi production should have a moderating influence on +world oil prices...", id., at page 2); +-September 27, 1979 ["Saudis Allowing Higher Oil Level To Remain In +'79"], page 3; +-November 29, 1979 ["Collection of Confusions" poorly written +Editorial], page 2 (Saudi perspective on oil pricing); +-December 6, 1979 ["Saudi Arabia Probably Couldn't Bail Out Oil +Consumers If Output In Iran Collapsed"], page 2 (Saudi at maximum oil +capacity); +-December 13, 1979 ["Saudi Arabia Oil-Producing Capacity Is Up To +Almost 11 Million Barrels a Day"], page 3; +-October 27, 1980 ["How Energy Boss Met Secretly With Yamani On +Untimely Oil Deal"], page 1 (Saudi oil output raised, id., at page 23). +=============================================================[154]

+ +

From the viewpoint of some folks, the Sheik was passing up on a golden +opportunity to cream in some extra bucks while the oil boom lasted across those +several months. To other observers of the passing scene, the Sheik was a friend +of the United States, and was just a good, kind, caring, public welfare +oriented person who simply had the world's best interests in his heart as he +refused to raise prices any higher. But the real reason why Sheik Yamani was +trying to keep the oil prices artificially low is the same reason why the +Congress has fixed the Income Bracket/Percentage Tax ratios for the Income Tax +at their present levels: Because raising oil prices to levels above a threshold +toleration level then equal to higher priced alcohol would cause the universal +shift to alcohol and other non-crude oil based substitutes, and so oil would +then not be purchased at all in the future; just like more aggressive Income +Tax levels would cause folks to simply abandon taxes altogether, thus leaving +the King with nothing from these folks (as I mentioned that some Tax Collectors +have been concerned about since the 1950's). And that is the great art of +pricing in business: Keeping prices competitively high, but just below the +threshold level of rejection. [155]

+ +

[155]============================================================= For recent +commentary of this idea expressing similar conclusions in different words, and +based on different reasoning, see: +1.Jon Harkness in OPEC, RATIONALITY AND THE MACROECONOMY, 7 Journal of +Macroeconomics at 567 (Fall, 1985); the author discusses a simple two nation +macromodel with OPEC exploiting the vertical total supply curve of an open +economy. Has interesting theories intellectuals would like. +2.Marie Paule Donsimoni in STABLE HETEROGENEOUS CARTELS, 3 +International Journal of Industrial Organizations, at 451 (December, 1985); +originates from the Netherlands. The author discusses how cartels constrict and +enlarge their supply of product as demand changes, in order to maintain high +prices and prevent cartel members from having an incentive to leave the cartel. +Under this model assumption, cartels composed of multiple types of firms can +prosper and enhance revenue with greater efficiency than firms can individually +outside of the cartel. Once established, cartels act like price leaders in an +industry, with the uniqueness, size, and composition of cartels changing +according to market demand. +3.M.A. Adelman in WESTERN HEMISPHERE PERSPECTIVES: OIL AND NATURAL +GAS, 3 Contemporary Policy Issues, at 3 (Summer, 1985). The author discusses +several competing and conflicting incentives to change pricing on oil, as they +continuously seek to shift that elusive equilibrium to favor themselves. The +individual market roles and shared concerns of Argentina, Canada, Ecuador and +Mexico are discussed. +4.Claudio Loderer in A TEST OF THE OPEC CARTEL HYPOTHESIS: 1974-1983 +in 40 Journal of Finance, at 991 (July, 1985). Discusses oil pricing over the +last ten years, and addresses the hypothetical question as to whether or not +the collusive policies of OPEC really had that much of an effect on oil prices. +Very scholarly, with daily spot oil prices from 1973 to 1983, equations, tables +and other instruments for intellectuals to exercise with. +5.Frank Bass and Ram Rao in COMPETITION, STRATEGY, AND PRICE DYNAMICS; +A THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION, 22 Journal of Marketing Research, at +283 (August, 1985). Discusses the pricing impacts of new competition on +industries dominated not by cartels, but by oligopolies. The authors develop a +model reflecting some sensitivity resulting from demand diffusion, saturation, +and cost reductions through growth in market share and accumulated experience. +Price and market share dynamics are examined for the presence of a possibly +competitive oligopoly; the authors analyze the pricing geometries of +semiconductor manufacturing companies and conclude that the growth rate of the +demand pricing elasticity in integrated circuits and correlated semiconductor +products contributes significantly to pricing geometries (called PATHS by the +authors) across different products. With graphs and equations, this is an +intellectual's delight. +6.K. Sridhar Moorthy in USING GAME THEORY TO MODEL COMPETITION, 22 +Journal of Marketing Research, at 262 (August, 1985). The author presents the +idea that competition springs from interdependence in effect between +competitors, such that actions taken by one firm will have impact and create +both opportunities and impediments on its competitors. The author creates a +GAME THEORY, whereby decision makers can model prospective reactions by +competitors on what it does. Applications are made into: +(a)Product and price competition; +(b)Price wars; +(c)The product quality/price relationship +(d)Competitive bidding competition. +7.Jehoshua Eliasberg in ANALYTICAL MODELS OF COMPETITION WITH +IMPLICATIONS FOR MARKETING: ISSUES, FINDINGS, AND OUTLOOK, 22 Journal of +Marketing Research, at 237 (August, 1985). The author uses oligopolies to +discuss how marketing managers are increasingly realizing the need to analyze +competition in formulating strategic marketing plans. New market entrants and +product line/distribution decisions are discussed in this fellow's pricing +models. +8.Robert T. Mason and David Easley in PREYING FOR TIME, 33 Journal of +Industrial Economics, at 445 (June, 1985). In an interesting article, the +authors discuss the use of predatory pricing models as a common everyday tool +of business conquest. The authors state that contrary to common view, such +predatory practices do not necessarily require the elimination of new +competitors [something that John Rockefeller would have accomplished back in +the 1800's out of the barrel of a gun and with the assistance of some +dynamite]; but that other business behavior often largely accomplishes the same +thing. With charts and equations. +9.P.A. Geroski et al in OLIGOPOLY, COMPETITION AND WELFARE: SOME +RECENT DEVELOPMENTS, 33 Journal of Industrial Economics, at page 369 (June, +1985); journal originates out of the United Kingdom. The authors review recent +literature on oligopolies; they err slightly when trying to define just what +creates monopolies, but are correct when they take the obvious position that +some monopolies have a protracted life about them over long periods of time. +10.Daniel Seligman in OPEC DISCOVERS THE PERILS OF PRICE FIXING, 112 +Fortune Magazine, at 51 (July 22, 1985). The author views OPEC as collapsing in +ways predicted by classical theorems of the cartel theory of economics, for +many different reasons. Factually defective in some aspects, but it is +interesting light reading. +11.John Picinich in WHY OPEC IS STILL THE KEY TO LONG TERM OIL PRICES, +14 Futures; The Magazine of Commodities & Options, at 52 (May, 1985). This +author argues that OPEC is not on the threshold of collapse, and that with time +and huge oil reserves on its side, OPEC will likely dominate oil markets again +within a decade. Presents a good summary history of OPEC pricing in general, +and of the reduction in crude oil demand that gained momentum in 1983; here in +1985 OPEC is alive but has lost the standing ability to call the shots like +they used to. +12.William H. Miller in NO DEATHWATCH FOR OPEC, 225 Industry Week, at +40 (May 27, 1985). Openly discusses the view of others that OPEC will collapse, +and then offers his own views that OPEC is likely to get stronger in the +future, due to a combination of listed reasons. He cites the opinions of oil +analysts that United States oil production will fall synchronous with a rise in +demand, and the result will be that OPEC will hold the upper hand once again. +Those 12 articles are a representative profiling sample of the multiplicity of +recently appearing divergent views floating around on just one subject matter +(business cartels and their functional similitudes, and pricing), that are the +opinions of INTELLECTUALS -- as they go about their work reading, +contemplating, writing their own opinions, putting in an honest day's work +generating new theorems like they do. Sometimes they are correct, sometimes +they are in error, but the one denominator threading its way through all 12 +articles was an omission of some additional factual information here and there +-- the effect of which would have been to both support and to countermand and +negate the theorems presented. And as we change settings over to where the imps +in the major media make their statements on television and in newspapers, they +too are in error as frequently as INTELLECTUALS are, as a composite blend of +lack of factual knowledge commingled with recurring overtones of philosophical +bias and Gremlin sponsored malice. +=============================================================[155]

+ +

No relationship to cost, no relationship to benefits received, no relationship +to hard intrinsic value. Just pricing based on Enscrewment (a similar +conclusion reached by others just cited in the footnote, but they use their own +proprietary language that removes identification of the moral orientation (for +good or evil) in the actors. As for pricing within the interior of shared +monopoly cartels -- this is why sophisticated pricing strategists know that +charging the highest momentary price the market will support is not necessarily +the best thing to do for yourself: You may win that battle under unusual +circumstances, but loose the long term war for several different secondary +reasons. And our King, with his monopoly, is no different in either motivation +or strategy. And that concern about likely rejection by ex-Taxpayers is also +the same reason why sophisticated attorneys who work for the King know that it +is often best to drop a prosecution, SANS GENE, in a low level Administrative +or Trial setting, rather than raise the presentation threshold level of the +grievance to senior judicial appellate forums and risk an adverse appellate +opinion on appeal that might benefit others, even if unreported. [156]

+ +

[156]============================================================= The decision +on whether or not to continue a prosecution at the appellate level is the same +exercise of discretion that prosecutors exercise when the criminal defendant is +initially charged with his crimes: +"The discretionary power... in determining whether a prosecution shall +be commenced or maintained [on Appeal] may well depend upon matters of policy +wholly apart from any question of PROBABLE CAUSE." +-UNITED STATES VS. COX, 342 F.2nd 167, at 171 (1965). Private +commentators as well have written on the discretion given to prosecuting +attorneys on the decision when to drop a case in whole or in part, although +they do not have the judgment to see what a marvelous administrative toll +PROSECUTOR'S DISCRETION is to keep potentially irritating cases out of +appellate forums, where even unreported Opinions might spell trouble for the +King in the future: +"Many persons who are in fact guilty of a crime and who could be +convicted are either not charged at all, are charged with a less serious +offense or a smaller number of offenses than the evidence would support, or are +subjected to informal control processes which do not require formal accusation. +Although some decisions not to charge or not to charge fully for reasons +unconnected with probability of guilt are made by the police, the primary +concern here is with those [decisions that are] made by the prosecutor. With +rare exceptions, legislatures and appellate judges officially approve of this +allocation of power to prosecutors, but the precise issue is infrequently +confronted in appellate litigation and is only occasionally dealt with +specifically in statutes." +-Frank Miller in THE DECISION TO CHARGE A SUSPECT WITH A CRIME +["Charging Discretion"], page 154 [Little Brown, Boston (1969)]. For commentary +on the DOCTRINE OF PROSECUTOR'S DISCRETION, see: +-Klein in THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S DISCRETION NOT TO PROSECUTE, 32 Los +Angeles Bar Bulletin 323, at 327 (1957); +-Kaplan in THE PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION -- A COMMENT, 60 Northwestern +University Law Review 174 (1965); +-Baker in THE PROSECUTOR -- INITIATION OF PROSECUTION, 23 Journal of +Criminal Law 770 (1933); +-Jackson in THE FEDERAL PROSECUTOR, 24 Journal of the American +Judicature Society 18 (1940); +-Cates in CAN WE IGNORE LAWS? -- DISCRETION NOT TO PROSECUTE, 14 +Alabama Law Review 1, at 7 (1962); +-Silbert in THE ROLE OF THE PROSECUTOR IN THE PROCESS OF CRIMINAL +JUSTICE, 63 American Bar Association Journal 1717 (1977). +=============================================================[156]

+ +

Like the Sub-Threshold Pricing Enscrewment Model in Commerce, there is also a +Sub-Threshold Prosecution Enscrewment Model in effect in the corridors of +Government as well, as the Judiciary is used latently by prosecutors in ways to +help enrich the King. [157]

+ +

[157]============================================================= Even +something as seemingly removed from the fine art of sequestering common public +knowledge of taxation by contract away from people, a field of law enforcement +seemingly aloof from the high stakes game of tax collection -- Federal +Anti-Trust Enforcement -- is actually swirling in the same vortex of +manipulative selective prosecution by use of strategy sessions held by United +States Deputy Attorneys General in Washington, as they go about their work +trying to make sure that only those cases conforming to a certain profile of +criteria within their classification are eventually sent to the Judiciary for +CRACKING, and one of those criteria is trying to identify, before prosecution +is initiated, which cases the Government is likely to prevail on during appeal +(see Suzanne Weaver in DECISION TO PROSECUTE: ORGANIZATION AND PUBLIC POLICY IN +THE ANTI-TRUST DIVISION, [MIT Press, Cambridge (1978); 2nd Edition]). So never +assume what the Law is by the mere silence of Judges, as a clever King has +selectively withheld cases potentially adverse to his position. +=============================================================[157]

+ +

[Incidentally, the Rothschilds and their ideological mentor, Karl Marx, have +planned this impending state of affairs since the Paris Communes of the 1800's, +but their SUB ROSA political involvement and quiet intellectual sponsorship +required our national consent through acts of own American legislatures, which +they got. (So we really did this to ourselves). And so I am only interested in +now addressing things as presently fabricated under American Law; and since the +King is now collecting Income Taxes exclusively by contract [numerous layers of +invisible contracts difficult to see], only the content of the contract is +relevant to discuss, when a grievance under the contract later comes up for +judicial review and enforcement. And so questions, sounding in the Tort of +unfairness, as to just who ultimately sponsored this grand scenario become +largely irrelevant, when contracts are in effect. The facts are that the Income +Tax has been around in the United States for a long time. The American +colonists had such a tax imposed on them, [158]

+ +

[158]============================================================= "[Income +Taxes] were imposed by several of the states at or shortly after the adoption +of the Federal Constitution, New York Laws 1778, chap. 17; Report of Oliver +Wolcott, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, to the 4th Congress, 2nd Session +(1796), concerning direct taxes; AMERICAN STATE PAPERS, 1 Finance 423, 427, +429, 437, 439." +-SHAFFER VS. CARTER, 252 U.S. 37, at 51 (1919). +=============================================================[158]

+ +

and there was also one imposed during the Civil War under Abraham Lincoln. +[159]

+ +

[159]============================================================= Acts of +August 5, 1861 (Chapter 45, Section 49, 12 UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE 292, +309) -- confined the Income Tax then to PERSONS residing within the United +States (meaning PERSONS accepting the benefits of the protection of the United +States) and United States Citizens residing abroad (meaning PERSONS operating +under the invisible Citizenship Contract). Yes, well before the 14th or 16th +Amendments, before Gremlin EXTRAORDINAIRE Karl Marx made his appearance on the +scene, Income Taxes were both laid on and successfully collected from, American +Citizens. I will discuss both the 14th and 16th Amendments later on, but you +should be aware that numerous people are arguing that you are not liable for +the present Income Tax of Title 26, based on infirmities and defenses centered +around the 14th or 16th Amendments; the information being disseminated by these +people is both erroneous at Law and factually defective (defective by +omission). =============================================================[159]

+ +

But the distinction between those prior belief and transient AD HOC taxing +occurrences and the present permanent Income Tax is that our contemporary +Income Tax has an underlying political objective as its primary goal: It was +originally designed and is now intended to forcibly screw, harm and damage +people, first, and then to raise revenue as a wealth transfer instrument, +second. [160]

+ +

[160]============================================================= I once had a +conversation with a Bolshevik Gremlin who works for the Brookings Institution +in Washington. There was an aura permeating the atmosphere around him that was +different, as if there was a demon chill in the air. Sensing this introduction +to Hell, I almost felt as if I was in Tubingen University in Germany, swirling +in the midst of the ghostly political tempest of devilish intrigue that has +been going on there since the days of Fredrich Schiller and George Hegel +institutionalized the kinky intellectual which that University generates, and +which ideological flotsam and doctrinal mischief continues on without abatement +down to the present day with Hans Kung and the Green Party. But when this +conversation drifted over towards the Income Tax, all of a sudden he sparkled +up a bit, and with a devilishly sneaky cackle and a crooked grin that stretched +fully from one ear over to the other, this little Bolshevik Gremlin then +immediately blurted out his high approval of the Income Tax by saying that +"...Oh, we don't want to enrich them too quickly." He seemed excessively +concerned, even fixated, on their objective that the countryside be allowed +only minimum subsistence income levels. I really got the message from him, loud +and clear, that they deem our deprivation of wealth to be of maximum importance +to them and their damages enscrewment objectives. +=============================================================[160]

+ +

Creating damages through such devices as a national Tax on Incomes, as a tool +for conquest, is very important to international Bolsheviks, particularly since +they thrive in an atmosphere where the true seminal point of beginning of +national destruction is obscure and difficult to see; and very few folks see +the Income Tax as the great tool of destruction that it is. [161]

+ +

[161]============================================================= For a highly +detailed, thorough, and technical discussion on the damaging relationship in +effect between Income Taxation and economic growth, see Vito Tanzi in THE +INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON [John +Hopkins Press (1969); revised and redated in 1980]. There is also a damages +relationship in effect between inflation and the Income Tax -- see Vito Tanzi +in his book entitled INFLATION AND PERSONAL INCOME TAX: AN INTERNATIONAL +PERSPECTIVE, written for the International Monetary Fund [Cambridge University +Press (1981)]. Yes, progressive taxation on net profits is the very element +itself that causes civilizations to fall -- a fact that Gremlins do not want us +to take cognizance of, or otherwise give much thought to. ...When acquiring new +information (or enlarging the factual basis one has to exercise judgment on), +one sometimes looks back and realizes that the behavior once deemed acceptable +in another era is now unacceptable; so too will Tax Protestors take upon +themselves knowledge of invisible juristic contracts and then when looking back +realize the possibility, however remote, that the actual tax protestings once +exhibited in another era may have been technically improvident for any one of +several reasons unknown at an earlier time. This practice of acquiring more +knowledge, and then discarding some outmoded behavior of a previous era, is a +recognized sign of organic intellectual enlightenment by the Judiciary. In +1970, the Alaska Supreme Court once ruled that regardless of past thinking and +past expectations surrounding criminal proceedings, things were now going to +different: +"We reach a point when the crudities of an earlier age must be +abandoned." +-BAKER VS. CITY OF FAIRBANKS, 471 P.2nd 386, at 403 (1970). And that +therefore, TRIAL BY JURY is now required in all Alaskan State criminal +prosecutions [overruling the previous common practice of making Trial by Jury +requisite only when the prospective duration of incarceration exceeded six +months.] Just as Judges publicly express regrets over their previous judgment +-- exercised in an era when they thought they were doing the right thing by +coming down hard on criminals clear across the board, so too should Tax +Protestors take qualified cognizance of the possibility that latent error might +also be present in their judgments as well. +=============================================================[161]

+ +

For example, The World Bank in Washington will not make a loan to any political +jurisdiction in the world, unless that country has enacted a national income +tax at rates high enough to satisfy the Bolsheviks. Nations rise and fall on +Income Taxes. [162]

+ +

[162]============================================================= For a +discussion of decline in Holland from 1583 to 1674, for reasons relating to the +enactment of an income tax, as a war measure, to finance a war against Spain +and then continued after the war, on justification grounds to suppress domestic +Dutch insurrections, see LA RICHESSE DE LA HOLLANDE, by Monsieur A. de +Serionne, published in London in 1778 [cited by Sir Inglis Palgrave, in a +speech at the Inaugural Meeting of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland on +November 4, 1909]; as reprinted in the English periodical entitled BANKER'S +MAGAZINE for December, 1909 and February, 1910 [London: Waterton and Sons +(1910)]. =============================================================[162]

+ +

And here in the United States, the State of New York, under the evil genius of +Nelson Rockefeller, enacted the highest corporate and personal income taxes in +effect, of any state, during the 1960's and 1970's, driving a large number of +businesses and literally millions of people, to emigrate from New York. [163]

+ +

[163]============================================================= When +discussing corporate departures from New York, starting in the mid 60's and +continuing on into the 70's, the NEW YORK TIMES would always talk about the +allure of "the Sun Belt," and of the temperature in Houston, and of other +environmental inducements, but never at any time was there any discussion as to +the incredible State Income Taxes that Nelson Rockefeller was demanding, and +getting, out of the Legislature. But the TIMES was lying, as it is very good +at, as the Editors knew then that the attraction of the Southern Sun Belt did +not explain why a large volume of the corporate exodus out of New York City +went north into states like Connecticut (which had no state personal or +corporate taxes in the 1960's), New Hampshire and Vermont. Business managers +were also lying in their public explanations of corporate exodus, as I +mentioned earlier in the context of deception in Commercial dynasties, as they +deflected attention away from Nelson's State Income Tax, into such nice soft +areas of "employee preferences" and the like. The closest point the NEW YORK +TIMES came to in hitting the nail right on the head (in this area of corporate +geographical exodus to avoid unreasonable taxation), came during the reign of +Governor Hugh Carey in 1977, when the New York State Senate Labor Committee +under Chairman Norman Levy, out from underneath the thumb of Nelson +Rockefeller, held Hearings on this question, and found that of 111 corporate +executives interviewed in New York City, 76 reluctantly admitted that State +income taxes were the propulsion force driving their relocation plans [see the +NEW YORK TIMES ["Corporations Fret About New York Tax"], Section 1, page 28 +(April 3, 1977)]. So much for the nice temperature of Houston. +=============================================================[163]

+ +

Income Taxes have a history of being used to accomplish special objectives +which, by their nature, require the creation of some incidental damages, and so +Gremlins trying hard to run a country into the ground, need generally look no +farther than simply initiating a Taxing grab on Incomes. [164]

+ +

[164]============================================================= Although the +income tax on profits is the true source of economic stagnation, as Gremlins +strive to run one civilization into the ground after another -- here their +MODUS OPERANDI of deception surfaces again, because when Gremlins and their +INTELLIGENTSIA imps try to explain away the true source of a long term +declension in national economic prosperity, they will invariably turn around +and point attention over to their irritant: INDIVIDUALS: +"The nineteenth century had accepted as one of its basic faiths the +theory of 'the harmony of interests.' This held that what was good for the +individual was good for the society as a whole and that the general advancement +of society could be achieved best if individuals were left free to seek their +own individual advantages. This harmony was assumed to exist between one +individual and another, between the individual and the group, and between the +short run and the long run. In the nineteenth century, such a theory was +perfectly tenable, but in the twentieth century it could only be accepted with +considerable modification [that's right -- remember, folks, this is the MODERN +era, and you just don't need to concern yourself with the past]. As a result of +persons seeking their individual advantages, the economic organization of +society was so modified that the actions of one such person were very likely to +injure his fellows, the society as a whole, and his own long-range advantage +[just somehow]. This situation led to such a conflict between theory and +practice, between aims and accomplishments, between individuals and groups, +that a return to fundamentals in economics became necessary [meaning total +top-down Gremlin control of the economy]." +-Imp Carroll Quigley in TRAGEDY AND HOPE, at page 497 [MacMillian +Company, New York (1966)]. Notice what really irritates Gremlins and the imps +they hire: INDIVIDUALS, and everything else Noble and Great their impending +Celestial Status represents. Here we have a sponsored Professor Carroll +Quigley, trying to pass himself off as a history professor, and while using an +opportunity to come down on free competitive enterprise, he starts throwing +invectives interstitially at those annoying INDIVIDUALS. And INDIVIDUALS, +exercising their own judgment, managing their own affairs, and trying to be +responsible for themselves as the embryo Eloheim that they are, have long been +a recurring source of irritation to Gremlins [see INDIVIDUALISM AND SOCIALISM +by Kirby Page [Farrar & Rhinehart, New York (1933)]; Socialist Kirby Page +equates that heinous cult of INDIVIDUALISM with so called Capitalism, and +predicts that both will soon be crushed by National Socialism. Lucifer has a +few surprises to throw at both Carroll Quigley and Kirby Page at the Last Day, +synchronous with Page and Quigley momentarily OPENING THEIR EYES once again, +too late, to realize that they had repeated the same doctrinal error here in +the Second Estate over a protracted period of time that they previously +committed once before in the First Estate, and also over a protracted period of +time. And there are several very good reasons why INDIVIDUALS are so irritating +to Gremlins, one of which is: +"The most basic, fundamental Principle of truth, that upon which the +entire plan of God is founded, is free agency. As an Individual, you have the +right to govern yourself. It is divinely given to you to think and act as you +wish. It is your decision. +"It must be pointed out, however, that although you have the free +agency to choose for yourself, you do not have the right to choose what will be +the result of your decision. The results of what you think and do are governed +by law. Good returns good. Evil returns evil [throughout this Letter, I will +cite examples on how the violation of Principles will always generate latent +secondary adverse circumstances out in the future, with the seminal point of +origin of those secondary adverse circumstances being latent [invisible] and +difficult to see]. You govern yourself by subjecting yourself to the discipline +of the law. If you are obedient to God's law, you remain free. You progress and +are perfected. If you are disobedient to God's law, you bind yourself to that +which restricts your progress. You become defiled and unworthy to be an +associate with those who are more clean and pure." +-William R. Bradford in CONFERENCE REPORTS, at 53 (October, 1979). +=============================================================[164]

+ +

Although making life difficult for INDIVIDUALS is important for Gremlins as a +source of damages, creating military engagements and wars can be another such +source of damages, [165]

+ +

[165]============================================================= For a +discussion on the relationship in effect between the enactment of American +Income Taxes and war, going back to the American Civil War; and of the second +administration of President Cleveland who wanted to reinstate the Income Tax to +give away massive financial aid and quash an impending rebellion by Western +farmers, see a chapter entitled "What Rip Van Winkle Woke Up To" in a book +entitled THE COLD WAR AND THE INCOME TAX by Edward Wilson [Farrar, Strauss & +Company, New York, 1963]. +=============================================================[165]

+ +

and quiet national economic enscrewment still another. [166]

+ +

[166]============================================================= "The real +effect of a tax on profits is to make the country possess at any given period, +a smaller capital and smaller aggregate production, and to make the stationary +state be attained earlier, and with a smaller sum of national wealth [yes, the +Gremlins know exactly what they are doing]. It is possible that a tax on +profits might even diminish the existing capital of the country. If the rate of +profit is already at the practical minimum, that is, at the point at which all +that portion of the annual increment which would tend to reduce profits is +carried off either by exportation or by speculation; then if a tax is imposed +which reduces profits still lower, the same causes which previously carried off +the increase would probably carry off a portion of the existing capital. A tax +on profits is thus, in a state of capital and accumulation like that in +England, extremely detrimental to the national wealth. And this effect is not +confined to the case of a peculiar, and therefore intrinsically unjust, tax on +profits. The mere fact that profits have to bear their share of a heavy general +taxation, tends, in the same manner as a peculiar tax, to drive capital abroad, +to stimulate imprudent speculations by diminishing safe gains, to discourage +further accumulation, and to accelerate the attainment of the stationary state +[this STATIONARY STATE is the great Gremlin objective where trade atrophies, +business dies from strangulation, and commerce stops altogether, as they run +one civilization into the ground after another]. This is thought to have been +the principal cause of the decline of Holland, or rather of her having ceased +to make progress [and until the United States gets rid of the Gremlins that are +now running the show, then we are next]." +-John S. Mill, III, PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, Book V, Chapter +3, Section 3 ["Of Direct Taxes"], at page 827 [University of Toronto Press, +Toronto (1965)]. Born in London, John Stuart Mill lived from 1806 to 1873; once +elected to the British Parliament, he wrote a considerable volume of books and +articles on economics and philosophy. PRINCIPLES ON POLITICAL ECONOMY was +written in the 1850's, and grew in size as it appeared in several versions. His +philosophical orientation was that of statist and socialist. +=============================================================[166]

+ +

Today, in the United States, law school students are taught the Bolshevik line +that Income Taxes are good for the country because of the social engineering +that can then be performed with the confiscated money. [167]

+ +

[167]============================================================= "Progressive +taxation is now regarded as one of the central ideas of modern democratic +capitalism and is widely accepted as a secure policy commitment which does not +require serious examination." +-Blum and Kalven in THE UNEASY CASE FOR PROGRESSIVE TAXATION [19 +University of Chicago Law Review 417, at 417 (1952)]. See also INCOME +REDISTRIBUTION THEORIES AND PROGRAMS: CASES-COMMENTARY-ANALYSIS by Professor +Barbara Brudno [West Publishing, Saint Paul, Minnesota (1977)]; as she talks +about Guaranteed Annual Income, Income Maintenance Programs, and the Negative +Income Tax Proposals. +=============================================================[167]

+ +

Having been contaminated with clever lies originating from a devilish source +far beyond their minimal factual level of comprehension to understand, and also +requiring a level of judgment operating on a repository of knowledge in excess +of their limited capacity, some sympathetic little Gremlin lawyers are now +trying to twist basic property rights around to have the mere omission of an +Income Tax be construed as a Tort on impoverished people, arguing that poor +folks now have some type of a social right to your money. [168]

+ +

[168]============================================================= "...today, +we see poverty as the consequence of large impersonal forces in a complex +industrial society -- forces like automation, lack of jobs and changing +technologies that are beyond the control of the individual." +-INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL WELFARE: THE EMERGING LEGAL ISSUES, 74 +Yale Law Journal 1245, at 1255 (1965). +=============================================================[168]

+ +

The bottom line is that the Income Tax continues to roll on; opposition is +minimal; Tax Protestors are being frowned upon by the general public at large, +viewed as cheaters making Government only more expensive for themselves; and so +the Income Tax is now accomplishing its Bolshevik political mission in the +philosophically divided House of the United States, with flying colors. [169]

+ +

[169]============================================================= +Accomplishing countermanding objectives in this area is the art of constructing +cogent arguments -- arguments in legal briefs in your tax cases; arguments to +others to catalytically trigger another supporting view; and arguments to +taxing legislative jurisdictions. As it pertains to the presentation of +arguments to legislative (as they largely freely pick and choose the +reciprocity demands of contracts they have folks locked into by having first +thrown an array of benefits at them), argument making itself is an art: +"The purpose of arguments is to persuade the policy maker that the +public interest would be promoted by the adoption of a tax proposal which would +financially benefit its advocates. Regarding some proposals, the direct +financial interest of a great majority of people may be quiet clear. Such +proposals rarely create active tax issues. Regarding other proposals, the +public interest may be difficult to ascertain. The amount of direct cost or +benefit involved to each member of the public may be so small and uncertain +that other tests of the public interest takes on great importance. It is to +these indirect and somewhat subtle interest objectives that arguments are +commonly addressed. The nature of the arguments will appear from an example. +When the witness for a taxpayer interest group appears at hearings before the +Congressional taxing committee, he does not merely say, and often does not say +at all: "Please adopt our proposal because it would benefit us." It is always +assumed that each witness thinks his group would be benefited by the action he +proposes. The argument [presented] is usually on a high plane of public +welfare. The witness may indeed point out that his industry is subject to an +unusual hardship, but even in this case the testimony usually goes beyond the +private benefit to consider the public interest." +[A rare exception to this rule happened when, for example, a +Congressman once snorted a statement to a representative of the NATIONAL +COUNCIL OF SALESMAN'S ORGANIZATIONS, who was in Congress lobbying for a repeal +of some excise taxes they didn't feel like paying]: +"Why don't they get together and tell us how repeal would +benefit the country, instead of each trying to tell us how it would benefit his +own industry?" +-NEW YORK TIMES, Section 3, page 4 (June 19, 1949)." +-Roy Blough in THE ARGUMENT PHASE OF TAXPAYER POLITICS, 17 University +of Chicago Law Review 604, at 605 (1950). Other than for that lone wolf +exception, witnesses do not normally argue that their proposals would benefit +themselves, but generally deflect attention of to some high and noble national +welfare objective. This is an idea Patriots might take time to think about +because one of the reasons Federal Judges come down so hard on Tax Protestors +is because the judge views the Protestor as being a self-centered cheap person +immorally pursuing his own self-enrichment; the background factual information +possessed by the Protestor (of his knowledge of that tax, if surrendered over +to the Bolsheviks in Washington, would only accelerate the destruction of his +own Country) is factual knowledge on conspiracy and Gremlin intrigue largely +unknown, unappreciated, and unseen by Judges. The presentation of these +historical background arguments to the Judge are arguments that are sounding in +the Tort of unfairness, and cannot be considered on their merits whenever +contracts are in effect; only the Patriot's total and thorough decontamination +of himself, away from the adhesive juristic environment that characterizes the +King's Equity Jurisdiction, has any hope of allowing the DE MINIMIS entrance +into your arguments of evidence countermanding the Judge's quiet assumption of +your cheapness as a person, by talking about the illicit legislative motives +that were very much present when those taxation statutes were either enacted +(or alleged to have been enacted). But important for the moment is the general +lack of concern by Patriots in the quality of the arguments and the flow of the +logical continuity presented therein, but in order to see our own error, we +must develop the ability to see and evaluate these arguments from the Judge's +perspective; not an easy thing to do, as Judges are approaching the issue +totally different from us. For an abstract theoretical model in how to do so, +see Wayne Grennan in ARGUMENT EVALUATION [University Press of America, Lanham, +Maryland (1984)].

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I N V I S I B L E C O N T R A C T S +George Mercier

+ +

BANK ACCOUNTS +[Pages 131-193]

+ +

[Certain conventions have been used in converting INVISIBLE CONTRACTS to an +electronic medium. For an explanation of the conventions used, please download +the file INCONHLP.ZIP for further illumination. Other background information as +well is contained in INCONHLP.ZIP. It is advisable to EXIT this file right now +and read the contents of INCONHLP.ZIP before proceeding with your study of this +file.]

+ +

Some years preceding his multiple prosecutions in 1984, Mr. Condo went down to +a bank, and initiated an Equity relationship with that corporation and the +King. Yes, Commercial contracts in effect with banks are invisible juristic +contracts in effect with the King. In the Armen Condo Letter, I mentioned that +banks are in a special Status with the King, and likewise so are the individual +people who experience profit and gain from any Commercial contract they enter +into with a bank. This relational effect of doing business in King's Commerce +is pronounced quite clearly in the INSTRUMENTALITY DOCTRINE the Supreme Court +initiated publicly with DAVIS VS. ELMIRA SAVINGS:

+ +

"National banks are instrumentalities of the Federal Government, +created for a public purpose, and as such necessarily subject to the paramount +authority of the United States." [170]

+ +

[170]============================================================= DAVIS VS. +ELMIRA SAVINGS, 161 U.S. 275, at 283 (1896). The factual setting giving rise to +DAVIS was a Bankruptcy proceeding. In the many quotations from the United +States Supreme Court and other judicial forums in this Letter, sentences were +rearranged and then quoted out of original order for enhanced logical +continuity; and in other places I made nominal punctuation and capitalization +changes. Therefore, please refer to the original citations before requoting. +=============================================================[170]

+ +

This Instrumentality Doctrine is very significant, and the word INSTRUMENTALITY +means an Equity Relationship that is quite strong in American Jurisprudence. As +nationally chartered banks are the Instrumentality of the Congress, consider +the subordinate Party (the banks) as being the "right hand" of the Master (the +Congress). This is a very powerful Doctrine indeed, and it needs to be +understood for what it really means. In the Armen Condo Letter, I mentioned +that, from a Judicial Perspective, any profit or gain experienced from a bank +carries with it the same identical full force and effect as if the King himself +created the gain. Consider, for a moment, the application of the +Instrumentality Rule to corporations:

+ +

"Under this Rule, corporate existence will be disregarded where a +corporate subsidiary is so organized and controlled and its affairs so +conducted as to make it only an adjunct and instrumentality of another parent +corporation." [171]

+ +

[171]============================================================= BLACK'S LAW +DICTIONARY, under the "Instrumentality Rule [case cites deleted]. +=============================================================[171]

+ +

Now think what happens if the King is substituted for the parent corporation, +and your local bank is substituted for the subsidiary corporation. Under the +Instrumentality Doctrine, the local bank as a Person and a legal entity fades +away in significance as if it was transparent, and the King and the Secretary +of the Treasury then appear as the real contracting Persons you are entering +into Commercial agreements with. Are you beginning to see the legal +significance of this Doctrine? Are you beginning to appreciate the deeper +meanings of the bank account in that it is the King that you are really +contracting into Commerce with, and the bank is just the King's local agent? +That bank is literally the private personal property of the King. Entrepreneurs +who go out and capitalize a new bank from scratch do not own that bank. The +bank is owned by the King who created the corporation, and his Comptroller of +the Currency later issued out a banking charter to; and the individual +shareholders only hold an equitable interest in the bank's operations. [172]

+ +

[172]============================================================= "The +corporation is the legal owner of all of the property of the bank, real and +personal; and within the powers conferred upon it by the charter, and for the +purposes for which it was created, can deal with the corporate property as +absolutely as a private individual can deal with his own. This is familiar law, +and will be found in every work that may be opened in the subject of +corporations. A striking exemplification may be seen in the case of THE QUEEN +VS. ARMOUND, 9 Ad. & Ell. N.S. 806. The question related to the registry of a +ship owned by a corporation. Lord Denman observed: +"It appears to me that the British corporation is, as such, the sole +owner of the ship. The individual members to the corporation are no doubt +interested in one sense in the property of the corporation, as they may derive +individual benefits from its increase, or loss from its decrease; but in no +legal sense are the individual members the owners." +-THE BANK TAX CASES, 70 U.S. 573, at 584 (1865). +=============================================================[172]

+ +

The shareholders are only entitled to a limited withdrawal of some of the +bank's net earnings, under some limited circumstances. [173]

+ +

[173]============================================================= "The +interest of the shareholder entitles him to participate in the net profits +earned by the bank in the employment of its capital, during the existence of +its charter, in proportion to the number of his shares; and, upon its +dissolution or termination, to his proportion of the property that may remain +of the corporation after the payment of its debts." +-THE BANK TAX CASES, id., at 584. +=============================================================[173]

+ +

Many incarcerated Protestors were unaware of the existence of the Commercial +contract that they were into, and so having the strong political views that +they do, their political feelings, skewing off on a defiant tangent, retained +the upper hand over their better judgment -- an inquisitive judgment that would +be searching for answers to questions. So although the Protestors was at one +time unaware of the existence of a contract being in effect, the King was very +much aware, and so the Protestor's defiant behavior is increasingly improvident +when viewed from the perspective that the Commercial contract was written to +strongly favor the King, and is interstitially dispersed throughout with penal +clauses IN ESSE for no more than mere administrative negligence and default, +and any outs that exist for persons in default are the unintended default +technical errors that the King's LEX statutes can correct at the discretion of +the Congress.

+ +

Today, great Tax Protesting Patriots like Condo, Schiff, and Saussey -- who +have established themselves in forward political positions -- have the strong +advantage of learning in advance the single most important fundamental starting +point in this Life; a starting point that most other folks won't even know of +until it is too late; a starting point that bifurcates the Law of Judgment into +two great subdivisions; Tort and Contract. Unknown to the world at large, +Heavenly Father has invisible Celestial Contracts operating on us all, just +like the King had multiple layers of Commercial and invisible political +contracts operating on Schiff, Condo, and Saussey (I will discuss those layers +later on). Maybe I am missing something somewhere, but I wish someone would +explain to me the prudence of Armen Condo's MODUS OPERANDI, as I cannot find +any; when presented with such valuable information (that invisible contracts +were actually in effect) Armen Condo summarily rebuffed that information +without any inquiry being made into its authenticity. I had told Armen +something he did not want to hear in his non-teachable state of mind; and in +ways similar to those invisible juristic contracts the King has on us that so +few people know much about, likewise our previous existence First Estate +Contracts with Father cast a regulatory contract jurisdiction over us all, and +all contract jurisdictions always call for our being self damaged by our own +mere neglectful technical default, nonchalant indifference swirling in carefree +insouciance, and miscellaneous compliance deflection Tort Law rationalizations:

+ +

"... yea, I lived with her for a while -- she was NICE, but there was +no damages nowhere and everyone consented -- so Father can't hold that against +me."

+ +

And just as Schiff, Condo, and Saussey were given unpleasant advance +introductions into what a contract Star Chamber is all about, so too will the +Last Day be a Contract Star Chamber -- the worst imaginable to those who have +used Tort Law behavioral defense arguments down here, as a well sculptured +slice of meat was repetitively bewitched into an elevated state of enchantment +("Gee, I didn't damage anyone"). [174]

+ +

[174]============================================================= Not that +Father is throwing us all into a LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE to scorch us +thoroughly (Heathens really get a good kick out of that foolish idea of being +roasted in a scorcher by a revengeful god for a few little impish smatterings); +but the Last Day Judgement will actually be the WORSE IMAGINABLE because of +knowledge we will then posses of the magnitude of the lost benefits involved, +and how stupid it was to lose it down here over some interesting feminine +musculature, and other inappropriate adventurism into peripheral areas that are +defined as being illicit by First Estate Covenants, but are not really illicit +practically due to the omission of damages. The LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE +analogy that the Prophets of old were referring to is their characterization of +this state of mental anguish. +=============================================================[174]

+ +

But the Last Day will also be transparent for those who entered into, and were +successfully tried under, Father's NEW AND EVERLASTING COVENANT; for these, the +Last Day will be a smooth procedural formality, nothing that should be of any +impending concern. [175]

+ +

[175]============================================================= The NEW AND +EVERLASTING COVENANT has been of particular interest with all of our Patriarchs +and Prophets of old, right back down the line, clear back to Adam: Question: +What is this NEW AND EVERLASTING COVENANT? Answer: Without referring to +anyone's commentary or explanation, the name of this particular Celestial +Covenant reveals a slice of history by itself, as the words NEW AND EVERLASTING +possibly imply that other Covenants exist that might be just the opposite: OLD +AND TEMPORARY. Are there in fact such Covenants floating around? Yes, there +are, but they are invisible; Father extracted them out of us in the First +Estate before we came down here, and by their nature those temporary First +Estate Covenants were designed to be replaced with NEW AND EVERLASTING +COVENANTS, Covenants that would never again be replaced, Covenants that are +EVERLASTING. The anonymous author who once wrote a Letter now known as HEBREWS +in the New Testament, once had a few words to say about OLD Covenants and NEW +Covenants, average Covenants and better Covenants, FIRST Covenants and SECOND +Covenants: +"... now he hath obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also +he is the mediator of a better Covenant, which was established upon better +promises. For if that FIRST COVENANT HAD BEEN FAULTLESS, THEN SHOULD NO PLACE +HAVE BEEN SOUGHT FOR THE SECOND [Covenant]. For finding fault with them, he +saith, 'Behold, the days come,' saith the Lord, 'when I will make a NEW +Covenant with the House of Israel, and with the House of Judah.' ... In that he +saith, 'A NEW Covenant,' he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth +and waxeth old is ready to varnish away." +-HEBREWS 8:6, et seq. The next chapter in HEBREWS talks about the HOLY +OF HOLIES, Temples, the ARK OF THE COVENANT, and First and Second Covenants, +which is advanced material I will talk about in another Letter. I do not know +who wrote this LETTER TO THE HEBREWS; within its content the text contains +little information about either its author, its original readers and their +circumstances, its date, its overt purpose, or its theological background. +HEBREWS commences immediately by laying on the heavy stuff, while the greetings +appear at the end. Even its literary form is somewhat mysterious in the sense +that by probing into dimensionally deep Christian doctrines, the left the other +Commentators behind him biting the dust; words and phrases appearing in HEBREWS +appear no where else [for example, the phrase JESUS, THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW +COVENANT -- (see 12:24, 9:15, and 8:6) -- does not appear anywhere else in +either the Old or New Testaments]. Martin Luther once made the suggestion that +Apollos of Alexandria was the writer [APOLLOS is described in ACTS 18:24-28 as +being a caliber of a fellow who would and could write HEBREWS]. Suffice it to +say that the doctrinal ideas and ecclesiastical commentary presented in HEBREWS +will feel very comfortable to folks today after they have first been steeped in +the DOCTRINES OF THE NEW COVENANT for a while, as both originated from the same +Source (the significance of HEBREWS will be appreciated once you have an +enlarged basis of factual knowledge on the successive organic nature of +Covenants serving their purpose and then replacing previous Covenants, and in +turn being replaced by still other Covenants). While calling itself a WORD OF +EXHORTATION [13:22], the LETTER TO THE HEBREWS contains some of the most +eloquent writings and sermons in the New Testament, and whoever its author was, +had to be a gifted Christian thinker who probed into the deeper doctrines of +Christianity where few others did. I will have more to say about HEBREWS in +some other Letter. ... I said that this NEW AND EVERLASTING COVENANT has been a +source of interest to all of the great Patriarchs back down the line -- and I +meant what I said -- so here are the citations: +"... and I will look upon it, that I may remember the EVERLASTING +COVENANT between God and every living creature..." +-GENESIS 6:18 +"... I will establish my Covenant between me and thee and thy Seed +[SEED meaning offspring] after thee in their generation for an EVERLASTING +COVENANT, to be a God upon thee, and to thy Seed after thee." +-GENESIS 17:7 +"... my Covenant shall be in your flesh for an EVERLASTING COVENANT." +-GENESIS 17:13 +"And God said 'Sarah, thy wife, shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou +shalt call his name Isaac: And I will establish my Covenant with him for an +EVERLASTING COVENANT, and with his Seed after him." +-GENESIS 17:19 +"Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, +being taken from the children of Israel by an EVERLASTING COVENANT." +-LEVITICUS 24:8 +"And he shall have it, and his Seed after him, even the Covenant of an +EVERLASTING PRIESTHOOD..." +-NUMBERS 25:13 +"Although my house be not so with God, yet he hath made with me an +EVERLASTING COVENANT, ordered in all things, and sure: For this is all my +Salvation, and all my desire..." +-II SAMUEL 23:5 +"He is the Lord our God; His Judgements are in all the Earth; be +mindful always of His Covenant; the word which He commanded to a thousand +generations; even of the Covenant He made with Abraham, and of his Oath unto +Isaac; and hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a Law, and to Israel for an +EVERLASTING COVENANT..." +-I CHRONICLES 16:14 et seq. +"He is the Lord our God; His Judgments are in all the Earth; He hath +remembered His Covenant for ever; the word which He commanded to a thousand +generations; which Covenant He made with Abraham, and his Oath unto Isaac; and +confirmed the same to Jacob for a Law, and to Israel for an EVERLASTING +COVENANT..." +-PSALM 105:7 et seq. +"... the Earth is also defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because +they have transgressed the Laws, changed the Ordinance, broken the EVERLASTING +COVENANT." +-ISAIAH 55:3 +"... everlasting joy shall be unto them.. and I will direct their work +in Truth, and I will make an EVERLASTING COVENANT with them." +-ISAIAH 61:8 et seq. +"... and I will make an EVERLASTING COVENANT with them..." +-JEREMIAH 32:40 +"... nevertheless, I will remember my Covenant with thee in the days of +thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an EVERLASTING COVENANT." +-EZEKIEL 16:60 +"Moreover, I will make a Covenant of peace with them; it shall be an +EVERLASTING COVENANT with them; and I will place them, and multiply them..." +-EZEKIEL 37:26 +"... now the God of peace... that great shepard of the sheep, through +the blood of the EVERLASTING COVENANT." +-HEBREWS 13:20 +"For they have strayed from mine ordinances, and have broken mine +EVERLASTING COVENANT..." +-DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS 1:15 +"Wherefore, I, the Lord... gave commandments to others, that they +should proclaim these things unto the world... that mine EVERLASTING COVENANT +might be established." +-DOCTRINE & COVENANTS 1:17 et seq. +"Behold, I say unto you that all old Covenants have I caused to be done +away with in this things; and this is a NEW AND EVERLASTING COVENANT, even that +which was from the beginning." +-DOCTRINE & COVENANTS 22:1 +"Wherefore I say unto you that I have sent unto you mine EVERLASTING +COVENANTS, even that which was from the beginning." +-DOCTRINE & COVENANTS 49:9 +"Verily I say unto you, blessed are you for receiving mine EVERLASTING +COVENANT... sent forth unto the children of men, that they might have life and +be made partakers of the glories which are to be revealed in the last days, as +it was written by the Prophets and Apostles in days of old." +-DOCTRINE & COVENANTS 66:2 +"... in the telestial world... [there will be goofs;]... these are they +who say they are some of one and some of another -- some of Christ and some of +John, and some of Moses, and some of Elias, and some of Esaisis, and some of +Isaiah, and some of Enoch [by being of Moses, of John, of Jack, of Pete, of +Harry, of Bob, of Ted -- they are spiritually disorganized in that they are OF +anyone except the right One]; but received not the Gospel, neither the +testimony of Jesus, neither the Prophets ["... it's all the same God -- I just +don't need me none of that Contract stuff"], neither the EVERLASTING COVENANT." +-DOCTRINE & COVENANTS 76:98 et seq. +"Wherefore, a commandment I give unto you, to prepare and organize +yourselves by a bond or EVERLASTING COVENANT that cannot be broken." +-DOCTRINE & COVENANTS 78:11 +"He that is appointed to be president, or teacher,... let him offer +himself in prayer upon his knees before God, in token or remembrance of the +EVERLASTING COVENANT." +-DOCTRINE & COVENANTS 88:128 et seq. +"I salute you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, in token or +remembrance of the EVERLASTING COVENANT, in which Covenant I receive you to +fellowship, in a determination that is fixed, immovable, and unchangeable, to +be your friend and brother through the grace of God in the bonds of love, to +wait in all the commandments of God blameless, in thanksgiving, forever and +ever." +-DOCTRINE & COVENANTS 88:133 +"When men are called unto mine Everlasting Gospel, and Covenant with an +EVERLASTING COVENANT, they are accounted as the salt of the Earth and the savor +of men..." +-DOCTRINE & COVENANTS 101:39 +"For behold, I reveal unto you a NEW AND EVERLASTING COVENANT, it was +instituted for the fullness of my Glory, and he that receiveth a fullness +thereof must and shall abide the Law, or he shall be damned, saith the Lord +God. [Yes, those are pretty strong consequences; but where there are high +powered benefits, there will always be found correlative high powered +consequences]." +-DOCTRINE & COVENANTS 132:6 +"... verily I say unto you, if a man marry a wife by my word, which is +my Law, and by the NEW AND EVERLASTING COVENANT... ye shall inherit thrones, +kingdoms, principalities, and powers dominions, all heights and depths... they +shall pass by the angels, and the gods, which are set there, to the exaltation +and Glory in all things... and the angels are subject unto them." +-DOCTRINE & COVENANTS 132:19 +=============================================================[175]

+ +

To Heathens and agnostics, who spent their time playing with their own +salvation down here by fighting and resisting what they will then view as +something as simple as giving Father what he wanted, there will be no +opportunity then to throw multiple exploratory defense lines at Father by going +through multiple judgements, but much to our advantage we can have all the +prosecutions thrown at us that we want down here, to repetitively argue our +defense lines before Judges over and over again; and it is for this reason that +incarcerated Protestors will one day look back and be ever grateful that the +consequential significance of being in mere technical default on invisible +contracts was driven into them, under such strong circumstances. [176]

+ +

[176]============================================================= "The object +of our earthly existence is that we may have a fullness of joy, and that we may +become the sons and daughters of God, in the fullest sense of the word, being +heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ, to be kings and priests unto +God, to inherit glory, dominion, exaltation, thrones, and every power and +attribute developed and possessed by our Heavenly Father. This is the object of +our being on this Earth. In order to obtain unto this exalted position, it is +necessary that we go through this mortal experience, or probation, by which we +may prove ourselves worthy, through the aid of our elder brother Jesus." +-Joseph F. Smith, in a Funeral Service delivered over the daughter of +Daniel H. Wells, on April 11, 1878; 19 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 258, at 259 +[London (1878)]. +=============================================================[176]

+ +

Yes, today, Condo, Schiff, and Saussey are either in a cage, or close to being +thrown into one, because of their default in juristic contracts; tomorrow - +after they have OPENED THEIR EYES, they will go forth and inherit, create, and +preside over Thrones, Dominions, and WORLDS WITHOUT END, also by Contract. +Having known the bitter Agony, they can cleave to the Celestial Ecstasy; in +both cases, contracts were the initiating catalytic instrumentality.

+ +

This banking INSTRUMENTALITY DOCTRINE is a pretty strong relational status for +the Judiciary to take cognizance of, so when we probe back down the line to +uncover why chartered banks are in such a status, we should not be too +surprised to uncover our old friend: A contract. [177]

+ +

[177]============================================================= "A charter +is certainly in form and substance a contract; it is a grant of powers, rights, +and privileges; +"... A charter to a bank... is certainly a contract, founded on +valuable consideration." +-Joseph Story, in III COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION, at page 258 +(Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1833). This Joseph Story, who I will be quoting from +throughout this Letter, was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts in September of +1779. He entered Harvard College and graduated in 1798. When leaving Cambridge, +he immediately entered into the study of Law in the office of Mr. Samuel +Sewall, then an advocate at the Essex bar. In 1801, Joseph Story was admitted +to the Massachusetts bar. He was elected to the Massachusetts Commonwealth +Legislature in 1805, and was then elected to the Congress in 1808, and was soon +Speaker of the House of Representatives. In 1810 he argued the great Georgia +case FLETCHER VS. PECK, which involved contracts, before the Supreme Court. He +edited a book called CHITTY ON BILLS OF EXCHANGE AND PROMISSORY NOTES, and +others. On November 18, 1811, Joseph Story was commissioned to be an Associate +Justice of the United States Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by Mr. +Justice Cushing. He was then 32 years of age, the youngest man ever to be +called to such a position in either England or America, except for Justice +Buller. While on the Supreme Court, Joseph Story wrestled down questions on +Admiralty and Maritime regarding the rights and duties of ship owners, +insurance companies, and mariners. He was a major architect of, and wrote +extensively about, Patents and their role in English history [see THE INFLUENCE +OF MR. JUSTICE STORY ON AMERICAN PATENT LAW by Frank Prager in 5 American +Journal of Legal History, at 254 (January, 1961)]. He created a doctrine to +settle frictional disputes between the Federal-State layers of Government, +called the COMITY DOCTRINE, which is still quoted by the Supreme Court down to +the present day [see JOSEPH STORY'S CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN CONFLICTS LAW: A +COMMENT by Kurt Naddleman in 5 American Journal of Legal History, at 230 +(January, 1961)]. And he also dealt with the banditry of PRIZE JURISDICTION, +which was still in vogue. Back at a time when banking in the United States was +operating under a LAISSEZ-FAIRE relational status to Government, Joseph Story +wrote that banking affects a public interest [very significant words], and that +banking involves that most ancient prerogative of national Sovereignty, THE +MONEY POWER, which our Framers never restrained or abated in the Charter they +created for our King. >namely, the U.S. Constitution< [See JUSTICE STORY AND +THE AMERICAN LAW OF BANKING by Gerald Dunne, in 5 American Journal of Legal +History, at 205 (January, 1961)]; and this is a dominant theme in American +Jurisprudence remaining in effect down to the present day with George Mercier +enlarging on what Joseph Story started. While studying his COMMENTARIES ON THE +CONSTITUTION, I have been able to uncover only a few of Justice Story's +opinions and legal statements that were later reversed or otherwise toned down +in subsequent Federal rulings, and none of the reversals were really on-point +factual settings. Down to the present day in 1985, many of Joseph Story's +statements of Law that he applied to the hypothetical factual scenarios which +he created in 1833 for his COMMENTARIES were actually made with great +foresight, as they would later be coming to pass long after he returned Home in +1845. [For detailed biographies on all of the early Supreme Court Justices, see +THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES by Hampton Carson [John Huber Company, +Philadelphia (1891)]; and also worthwhile is Morgan David's JUSTICE JOSEPH +STORY: A STUDY OF THE LEGAL PHILOSOPHY OF A JEFFERSONIAN JUDGE in 18 +Vanderbuilt Law Review, at 643 (March, 1965). +=============================================================[177]

+ +

Originally applicable only to nationally chartered banks, the INSTRUMENTALITY +DOCTRINE has since been expanded under the enlarging regulatory penumbra of the +Federal Reserve Act of 1913 to include all state and Federally chartered member +banks of the Fed. During the Depression, banks who became members of the FDIC +and FSLIC insurance programs were deemed Instrumentalities, and this doctrine +is now applied in the United States to include all financial institutions where +there is any Federal regulatory interest in them. This now includes stock +brokerage houses, credit unions, insurance companies, and pension funds. (For +example, people acquiring a Merrill Lynch Cash Management Account, which is a +negotiable withdrawal instrument, are in the same Juristic Personality Status +(in King's Commerce) with a Merrill Lynch checking account that they are with a +checking account from any conventional depository banking institution, such as +Manufacturer's Hanover.) When a person initiates such a bank account +relationship with the King, an examination of Fourth Amendment Search and +Seizure cases relating to account records that banks send to depositors reveals +that the Federal appellate judiciary considers the Fourth Amendment to be +non-applicable to Seized bank account records. [178]

+ +

[178]============================================================= Exemplary +perhaps would be two EXCLUSIONARY RULE based cases from the Supreme Court: +-UNITED STATES VS. MILLER, 425 U.S. 435 (1976). A criminally accused +person made a pre-Trial Motion to Suppress of copies of checks and other bank +records which federal agents had gotten a hold of. HELD: That the Motion to +Suppress was properly denied since the accused person possessed no Fourth +Amendment interest that could be vindicated by a challenge to the bank +accounts; and any infirmities or deficiencies in the bank account record +acquisition process, by way of a defective Subpoena or Search Warrant, were +irrelevant arguments since Subpoenas and Search Warrants were unnecessary +document acquisition tools to begin with; those bank account records are the +property of the Government, and they are available to the Government under +administrative devices (meaning an investigator's phone call or letter +inquiry); and +-UNITED STATES VS. PAYNER, 447 U.S. 727 (1979). A criminal defendant +had been charged with falsifying his income tax return by denying that he held +a foreign bank account. Federal agents in Florida had broken into an apartment +and then surreptitiously copied bank records that a bank manager from the +Bahamas had brought with him on a trip, under circumstances that you or I would +be incarcerated for. Later on, detective work back at the office uncovered the +fact that the poor defendant did indeed maintain foreign bank accounts, so the +Government then threw a criminal prosecution at the fellow caught in the act of +defilement. Since the Government had violated the Constitutional rights of a +third party [the bank manager from the Bahamas], and not the criminally +accused, the Fourth Amendment offered no protection to the Defendant, since the +Defendant had no rights violated. State in other words, perhaps more +explicitly, emphasizing the consequences of maintaining bank account records: +When Government obtains your bank account records, regardless of how, through +whom, when, or under any circumstances, then arguing Fourth Amendment rights +defensively will likely not produce any sympathy from Federal Appellate Forums. +=============================================================[178]

+ +

In those cases, the Supreme Court will talk about how Courts cannot exclude +evidence under the Fourth Amendment unless that Court finds that an unlawful +Search or Seizure violated the defendant's own Constitutional rights. But that +the Constitutional rights of criminal defendants, who are being hanged with +their own bank account statements, are violated only when the Search and +Seizure conduct violated the defendant's own legitimate expectation of privacy, +rather than that of a third party. [179]

+ +

[179]============================================================= Paraphrased +from UNITED STATES VS. PAYNER, id., at 731. +=============================================================[179]

+ +

Since the "zone of privacy" inherent in the Papers Clause of the Fourth +Amendment does not facially protect information you have deposited into the +hands of third parties, like banking institutions, [180]

+ +

[180]============================================================= "... no +interest legitimately protected by the Fourth Amendment is implicated by +governmental investigative activities unless there is an intrusion into a zone +of privacy, into 'the security a man relies upon when he places himself or his +property within a constitutionally protected area.'" +-HOFFA VS. UNITED STATES, 385 U.S. 293, at 301 (1966). +=============================================================[180]

+ +

Federal Courts find it unnecessary to probe any deeper and explicitly tell you +the real underlying reason why bank accounts fall outside the protective +penumbra of the Fourth Amendment; Because a Commercial contract is in effect, +and the Bill of Rights cannot be held to interfere with or obstruct the +contemporary execution of Commercial contracts, for either party (and properly +so). But wait, as those Supreme Court cases dealt with bank accounts Seized +from a bank itself, and banks as regulated Commercial establishments have no +Fourth Amendment rights whatever. So there are no privacy rights in any +information you deposit with those banks, and this remains true whether or not +there was a Commercial contract in effect or not. Hmmm. But what if those bank +account records were Seized from a person's home where the Fourth Amendment +does apply? Now what? The Fourth Amendment still does not apply, and properly +so. [181]

+ +

[181]============================================================= "Respondent +[bank account holder] urges that he has a Fourth Amendment interest in the +records kept by banks because they are merely copies of personal records that +were made available to the banks for a limited purpose and in which he has a +reasonable expectation of privacy... Even if we direct our attention to the +original checks and deposit slips [that the bank account holder kept in his +home], rather than to the microfilm copies actually viewed and obtained by +means of a subpoena, we perceive no legitimate 'expectation of privacy' in +their contents. The checks are not confidential communications but negotiable +instruments to be used in commercial transactions. The lack of ANY legitimate +expectation of privacy concerning the information kept in bank records was +assumed by Congress in enacting the BANK SECRECY ACT, the express purpose of +which is to require records to be maintained because they 'HAVE A HIGH DEGREE +OF USEFULNESS IN CRIMINAL, TAX, AND REGULATORY INVESTIGATIONS AND PROCEEDINGS' +[12 U.S.C. Section 1829b(a)(1)]." +-UNITED STATES VS. MILLER, 425 U.S. 435, at 442 (1976) The ITALICS +were added here to underscore the extreme significance of those statements; the +Law in this FOURTH AMENDMENT/BANK ACCOUNT area is well settled: COMMERCIAL +contracts are in effect, and challenging it is improvident. Notice how the +Congress is playing cutesy by calling a sequential family of statutes the BANK +SECRECY ACT, freely conveying the initially impressive image that these +statutes protect or otherwise enhance the public's secrecy in banking accounts +and related records -- but in reality the BANK SECRECY ACT is a high-powered +statutory device, as the Supreme Court here exemplifies, to promote the +usefulness of those bank records in criminal prosecutions that the Government +will one day be throwing at you. Among other things, this Act empowers the +Secretary of the Treasury to adopt broad regulations compelling banks to record +their customer's transactions and requiring that the banks, as well as private +persons using banking services, also report a broad range of financial +transactions TO THE GOVERNMENT [now where is the "Secrecy"?] Pursuant to this +grant of statutory jurisdiction, the Treasury Secretary then turned around and +created his own multiplying slice of LEX by administrative promulgations +directing that each bank report each and every single deposit, withdrawal, and +transfer that took place in domestic transactions of $10000 or more [see 31 +CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS Section 103.22]. +=============================================================[181]

+ +

This is what is really meant when the bank account evidence taken from a +patently unlawful residential Search and Seizure in a person's home is deemed +admissible, even though the Fourth Amendment's Exclusionary Rule would +otherwise attach if the property that was seized did not belong to the King +(guns, cocaine, etc.). Federal Judges will skew their Seizure of bank accounts +annulment justifications off to the side and talk about the "special facts in +this case" when annulling Fourth Amendment rights on bank account records +unlawfully Seized from a residence. [182]

+ +

[182]============================================================= Banking +records seized from residences merely contain the same information that other +documents located in public places contain; and so although those seized +records are "private papers," all the Government has to do is go down to the +bank [now that they know which bank to go to, and which account to sift +through], obtain duplicate copies of banking records, and then throw those +copies that were obtained directly from banks at Defendants: +"On their face, the documents [bank accounts] subpoenaed here are not +respondent's 'private papers.' Unlike claimant in BOYD VS. UNITED STATES [116 +U.S. 616 (1886)], respondent [bank account holder] can assert neither ownership +nor possession. Instead, these are the business records of banks. +-UNITED STATES VS. MILLER, 425 U.S. 435, at 440 (1976). +=============================================================[182]

+ +

And now we are finally getting down to the one real reason why the Bill of +Rights in general, and the Fourth Amendment, in particular, means absolutely +nothing when a bank account is involved with a contested Search and Seizure; +this special reason is never talked about by law schools; and this reason is +not to be found anywhere in any law book in any library that I am acquainted +with: But the reason is, as stated, because a Commercial contract with the King +is in effect, and so as a point of beginning, the Bill of Rights is irrelevant +from the scratch, and properly so; but you will never hear that explicit +explanation from anyone else, other than George Mercier. Never in any Court +Opinion is there any blunt discussion of Commercial contracts being in effect; +rather, Judges will continue to focus distracting attention and discussions +around the Fourth Amendment, creating the potential image, in some peripheral +factual setting cases, that the Fourth Amendment is the center of gravity here, +rather than the Commercial contract itself. Yet it is very proper and correct +that the Bill of Rights should not be allowed to interfere with, obstruct, +intervene, or otherwise restrain the execution or operation of contemporary +Commercial contracts -- for either party; but getting an official admission +like that from a Federal Judge will result in a can of worms being opened up +(as they perceive it), a can of worms they don't want to talk about and deal +with in the future. [183]

+ +

[183]============================================================= As I +mentioned in the Armen Condo Letter, Federal Judges have been asked not to let +the "cat out of the bag" by discussion the special and very quiet relationship +between bank accounts and Income Tax statute liability (although bank accounts +are not exclusive Equity Jurisdiction attachment instruments, they are +air-tight instruments of CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE whenever the King has a burden of +proving the defendant's entrance into Interstate Commerce). +=============================================================[183]

+ +

Additionally, but to a lesser extent, those bank account records are the +private personal property of the King, and so it is irrational that the King +cannot reclaim his own property whenever he feels like it, all pursuant to the +terms of the bank account contract. [184]

+ +

[184]============================================================= "The +depositor takes the risk, in revealing his affairs to another, that the +information will be conveyed by that person to the Government... This Court has +held repeatedly that the Fourth Amendment does not prohibit the obtaining of +information revealed to a third party and conveyed by [the third party] to +Government authorities, even if the information is revealed on the assumption +that it will be used only for a limited purpose and the confidence placed in +the third party will not be betrayed." +-UNITED STATES VS. MILLER, 425 U.S. 435, at 443 (1976). If you don't +know what contract I am referring to that gives the King the right to simply +reclaim his own property, then ask a bank for a copy of their bank rules that +all depositors and borrowers have agreed to be bound by. Under normal +circumstances, banks are reluctant to give depositors copies of Bank Rules +those depositors have agreed to be bound by. Sounds irrational, doesn't it? +Withholding the terms of contracts those depositors have just taken upon +themselves criminal compliance liability for? Yet, numerous attempts by people +associated with me have attempted to obtain a copy of these Bank Rules, and all +attempts resulted in the banking officer clamming up tight, deflecting +attention over to the "irregular and unusual" nature of the request, and then +telling the requesting person to go see MR. SO AND SO at the Federal Reserve +Board, who in turn also clammed up tight. So much for domestic American bank +accounts. =============================================================[184]

+ +

Those are the real reasons why the Fourth and Fifth Amendments are irrelevant +in bank account Administrative Seizures and in judicial prosecutions +evidentiarily based on bank accounts. Within the same line of Fourth Amendment +cases, those Federal Judges will also refer to bank accounts as being +interstate merchant and Commercial instruments, but never is there any +discussion to be found anywhere on the special Equity Relationship in effect +between Persons entering into such Commercial contracts, and the King.

+ +

Some folks have taken the position that if they entered into Equity with the +King by signing a bank account card under Objection on the grounds of +necessity, that Objection somehow will vitiate future liability; but there is +an inherent defect in that reasoning. Unlike signing Driver's License +applications under Objection and Notice of Duress to avoid incarceration, the +Supreme Court has ruled that the RIGHT TO TRAVEL is a Substantive and +Fundamental Right that cannot be infringed upon, absent very strong and +compelling state interests; and there are state statutes which criminalize the +act of an unlicensed driver operating a motor vehicle down the road. Taking +that Driver's License scenario as a model and applying it to justify possessing +bank accounts just does not cut it. Bank accounts are not entered into to avoid +incarceration, and banking is not a Substantive Right, and direct personal +financial profit and gain enrichment is experienced when possessing bank +accounts that is without parallel with a Driver's License. So, all factors +considered, the likelihood of escaping an Excise Tax liability by arguing bank +account possession by necessity, is remote. This remains true even though the +California Supreme Court ruled once that:

+ +

"For all practical purposes, the disclosure by individuals or business +firms of their financial affairs to a bank is not entirely volitional, since it +is impossible to participate in the economic life of contemporary society +without maintaining a bank account. In the course of such dealings, a depositor +reveals many aspects of his personal affairs, opinions, habits and +associations. Indeed, the totality of bank records provides a virtual current +biography." [185]

+ +

[185]============================================================= BURROWS VS. +SUPERIOR COURT, 13 Cal 3rd 238, at 247 (1974). +=============================================================[185]

+ +

The California Supreme Court is not a Federal Tribunal, and statements to the +effect that bank accounts are necessary for practical economic survival, and +perhaps are not purely volitional [VOLITIONAL means freely choosing or will to +do so, as in making a decision], although an interesting perception of the +passing scene, will in no wise vitiate your legal liability to the adhesive +Federal taxation reciprocity expectations resident in Title 26. Notice how the +California Supreme Court did not say that possession of bank accounts under a +documented factual setting of economic survival annuls Title 26 liability. So +let's not read out of that state court what it does not say; and even if that +state court did state inferentially that possession by necessity annuls +expectation of reciprocity liability in areas of taxation, then the California +Supreme Court is still not a Federal Judicial Forum. Federal Judges are taught +and trained certain things in those Seminars of theirs, and that BENCH BOOK of +theirs makes the Government's position sound more than reasonable, and so as a +result, Federal Judges are collectively sensitive towards certain things [such +as the significance of a Commercial contract] that State Judges are indifferent +to.

+ +

This DAVIS VS. ELMIRA SAVINGS Instrumentality Doctrine occasionally surfaces in +Supreme Court rulings, by sometimes being lightly mentioned in passing in +OBITER DICTUM, such as in ANDERSON NATIONAL BANK VS. LUCKETT, [186]

+ +

[186]============================================================= 321 U.S. +233, at 252 (1943). +=============================================================[186]

+ +

and on other occasions, this Instrumentality Doctrine is bluntly reaffirmed by +the Supreme Court, as in MARQUETTE NATIONAL BANK VS. FIRST OF OMAHA. [187]

+ +

[187]============================================================= 439 U.S. 308 +(1978). =============================================================[187]

+ +

But if the Law of King's Commerce is correctly understood, there is no need for +the Supreme Court to reaffirm anything, as the circulation of paper money, +notes, or the circulation of any juristic currency, even carrying intrinsic +value, in King's Commerce (as distinguished from privately minted coins and +notes), has always been the closed private domain of the King of England. And +it has been the exclusive domain of the King ever since paper money was first +printed and circulated by King Richard II to finance an offensive war against +France that Parliament declined to levy taxes to wage. [188]

+ +

[188]============================================================= Gremlins +have had a few words to say about the utterly heinous issuance of paper +currency: +"Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, +none is so effectual as that which deludes them with paper money. It is the +most perfect expedient ever invented for fertilizing the rich man's fields by +the sweat of the poor man's brow. Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive +taxation, these bear lightly on the happiness of the community compared with +fraudulent currencies and the robberies committed by depreciated paper. Our own +history has recorded enough, and more than enough, of the demoralizing +tendency, the injustice and intolerable oppression on the virtuous and well +disposed, of a degraded paper currency, authorized by law, or in any way +countenanced by Government." +-Gremlin Nelson W. Aldrich, United States Senator, at a New York City +dinner speech on October 15, 1913 (two months before his pet Federal Reserve +System was passed by the Congress to create the very conditions he fraudulently +represented to oppose, in IV PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE +#1, at 38 [Columbia University, New York (1914)]. +=============================================================[188]

+ +

So the circulation of paper money by Gremlins through the instrumentality of +kings, was born in tortious fraud intended to damage people, and was designed +to accomplish in the practical setting (the damages of taxation by Inflation) +what was not accomplished legally on the Floor of Parliament by common consent. +[189]

+ +

[189]============================================================= When the +United States Congress removed the last remaining attachment of paper Federal +Reserve notes to gold reserve requirements in 1968 -- the Gremlins were there. +From out of his nest on the 17th Floor of the Chase Manhattan Bank descended +one David Rockefeller on Congress, taking his jet and making his attack sortie +on Washington with Gremlin enscrewment in mind -- whose very appearance itself +at a Committee Hearing was designed to make an important Statement: That we +Gremlins now hold the upper hand in the United States, and our grand plans for +monetary enscrewment will no longer be restrained on account of some lingering +silly little anachronistic gold ratio requirements left over from another era. +This is the modern age with computers, Congress, and you just don't need to +concern yourself none with that old medieval stuff. See the "Statement of David +Rockefeller" in the GOLD COVER HEARINGS ["Hearings Before the Committee on +Banking and Commerce of the United States Senate"], at page 141, 90th Congress, +Second Session ["Repeal of Gold Reserve Requirement"] (January, 1968)]. +=============================================================[189]

+ +

So paper money has been designed from the outset to damage people, and the +unnecessary circulation of paper money today in the United States carries along +with it identical underlying enscrewment objectives. [190]

+ +

[190]============================================================= The Legal +Tender Acts, enacted during the Civil War, were billed as a war measure: +"... to handle the vast amount of means necessary for the prosecution +of this war, to enable the people to pay in and the Government to pay out, we +must have a larger and more abundant currency that we have heretofore found to +be necessary. The accustomed currency is wholly inadequate. The Government has +for many years used only gold and silver for this purpose... The business of +the Government and the business of the country require some substitute for +coin. We must therefore create a new [paper]... currency. We must therefore +create a public debt, establish a currency, and impose new taxes." +-Speech by Representative John Crisfield of Maryland, favoring +enactment of the Legal Tender Statutes [CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE, 37th Congress, 2nd +Session, Appendix, page 43 et seq. (February 5, 1862)]. +=============================================================[190]

+ +

Back in an era when the United States was the American Colonies, the Framers to +our Constitution never abated or restricted the King's standing right to issue +out his own money or to declare that someone else's money or notes are legal +and tender for those debts existing under the King's General Commerce +Jurisdiction; and neither did the Framers ever restrict the King's right to +delegate any or all of the circulating process to a third party (as arguments +in this area of FEDERAL RESERVE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY DUE TO LACK OF COINAGE +DELEGATION JURISDICTION are in error). The Supreme Court has ruled often that +the Constitution of the United States must be applied today in light of English +Common Law then in effect at the time the Declaration of Independence was +executed, and properly so. [191]

+ +

[191]============================================================= +-UNITED STATES VS. WONG KIM ARK, 169 U.S. 649, at 645 (1897); +-VEAZIE BANK VS. FENNO, 75 U.S. 533 (1869); +-LOCKE VS. NEW ORLEANS, 71 U.S. 172 (1866), etc. +=============================================================[191]

+ +

"... Congress possesses all of the powers which existed in the States +before the adaption of the National Constitution, and which have always existed +in the Parliament in England." [192]

+ +

[192]============================================================= GILMAN VS. +PHILADELPHIA, 70 U.S. 713, at 725 (1865). +=============================================================[192]

+ +

So let us briefly examine English Common Law and see just what type of monetary +powers the King of England had. Consider the following words from a landmark +case in 1604: [193]

+ +

[193]============================================================= I call this +a "landmark" case because it was later cited by the Supreme Court of the United +States in the LEGAL TENDER CASES, 79 U.S. 457, at 548 (1871). +=============================================================[193]

+ +

"as the king by his prerogative may make money of what matter and form +he pleaseth, and establish the standard of it, so may he change his money in +substance and impression, and enhance or debase the value of it, or entirely +decry and annul it... +"And so it is manifest, that the kings of England have always had and +exercised the prerogative of coining and changing the form, and when they +found it expedient of enhancing and debasing the value of money within their +dominions; and this prerogative is allowed and approved not only by the common +law, but also by the rules of the imperial law." [194]

+ +

[194]============================================================= CASE OF +MIXED MONEY, Sir John Davies Reporter, at page 48 (1604). +=============================================================[194]

+ +

And so if the King of England had the right to invoke Sovereignty Jurisdiction +to circulate debased currency, then so also does the Congress of the United +States now have similar Sovereignty Jurisdiction, absent an explicit and blunt +jurisdictional restraining mandate to the contrary in this charter, the +Constitution -- paper currency restrainment language which does not exist. +[195]

+ +

[195]============================================================= Yes, the +Congress can do whatever it feels like with issuing currency, as an attribute +of its sovereignty: +"Congress, as the legislature of a sovereign nation, being expressly +empowered by the constitution to lay and collect taxes, pay the debts, and +provide for a common defense... [and also] to charter national banks, and to +provide a national currency for the whole people in the form of coin, treasury +notes, and national bank bills, and [also has] the power to make the notes of +the Government a legal tender in payment of private debts being one of the +powers belonging to sovereignty in other civilized nations, and not expressly +withheld from Congress by the Constitution..." +-JULLIARD VS. GREENMAN, 110 U.S. 421, at 466 (1884). +=============================================================[195]

+ +

Nowhere in our Constitution did the Framers state that "no paper currency shall +issue out of Congress," or "circulating currency is required to physically +contain gold and silver," and Patriot arguments to the effect that Article I, +Section 10 constitutes such a restrainment are defective, as I will explain +later on. Nor did the Framers state that "monetary matters reside exclusively +within the Congress, and cannot be delegated..." Are you beginning to see what +happens when some agreement is reduced into writing? With the passage of time, +oral expectations in effect at the time the agreement was executed diminish +away into nothingness, and only the exact, literal content of the agreement, as +written, means anything. [196]

+ +

[196]============================================================= Earlier, I +mentioned that Contracts we enter into now down here with Heavenly Father +overrule and supersede our First Estate Contracts, and that the First Estate +Contracts then fade away in significance. The Principe of Law that this is +based on is called by business lawyers in Commerce as the MERGER DOCTRINE, +contracts that we enter into today overrule and extinguish contracts entered +into in a previous era; in other words, the most recent contract absorbs +previous contracts. The application of this MERGER DOCTRINE is found in many +settings. For example, in real estate transactions, just as the old prior oral +negotiations between a Seller and a Purchaser are washed out by the Deed [23 AM +JUR Deeds Section 261], so too do oral precontract negotiations loose their +identity and existence as those negotiations later unite in the confluence of +the written contract [PRICE VS. BLOCK, 124 F.2nd 738]. This MERGER DOCTRINE is +a correct Principle of Nature I touched on in the Armen Condo Letter [that +Commercial contracts we enter into today with the King overrule the +restrainments resident in the Constitution of 1787], and this Principle now +operates, and has operated, in all factual settings. The MERGER DOCTRINE +recognizes that there are different levels of importance or priorities in +NATURE, and what is done in the past is always of less significance than what +is done in the present (which is simply reason, logic and COMMON SENSE); so +lesser important contracts from out of the past, together with their lingering +oral expectations and the like, fade away in significance as they are MERGED +into contracts of greater importance: +"Whenever a greater Estate and a less [Estate] coincide and meet in one +and the same person, without any intermediate estate, the less is immediately +annihilated; or, in the law phrase, is said to be merged, that is, sunk or +drowned in the greater." +-2 BLACKSTONE COMMENTARIES 177. When corporations are said to MERGE, +what actually happens is that the two independent corporations lose their +existence altogether as separate entities having separate assets, liabilities, +franchises, legal rights, and powers; and are totally absorbed into the new +single corporation [see MORRIS VS. INVESTMENT LIFE INSURANCE, 272 N.E.2nd 105, +at 108]. And since NATURE, so called, merely replicates the mind, will and +intention of its great Creator, the Principle of Nature that lawyers practicing +Commercial Law call the MERGER DOCTRINE, also applies to have our great +contemporary Celestial Contracts with Father overrule and wash out our lessor +previous existence First Estate Contracts. Yes, when you know the Law in one +setting, you know the Law in all settings, as nothing changes from one factual +setting to the next. +=============================================================[196]

+ +

Today when we enter into contracts with one another down here, as unforeseen +circumstances surface later on, regrets are always quietly expressed about how +this or that should have been originally included into the agreement. It was +that way with Moses and the Ten Commandments, it was that way with the United +States Constitution of 1787, and this attribute of Nature [of people enlarging +their basis of factual knowledge over time, and therefore also changing their +desires] remains in full force and effect down to the present day with +Commercial contracts. An honest assessment of the Framers would suggest that +they were unable to guard against all possible evils, since they simply did not +have, then, the exposure to the magnitude of evil that we have had thrown at us +today.

+ +

But as for currency, [197]

+ +

[197]============================================================= When words +have several different meanings, the word is said to be an ENTENTE. In Law, the +word CURRENCY is such an ENTENTE. Over a period of time, words change meaning +as new factual circumstances surface to alter the use or perspective of +something: +"The meaning of words changes. It is curious to note how many words +wholly lose their original or etymological meaning, and from usage and change +of circumstances acquire sometimes an opposite and often a different meaning... +The common legal word INDORSE, from the Latin IN, upon, and DORSUM, the back. +It used to be applied literally and strictly to a writing upon the BACK of a +paper. It is now well settled that a good instrument may be made on the FACE of +a bill or note." +-PILMER VS. STATE BANK, 16 Iowa Reporter 321, at 329 (1864). And on +one hand, speaking like an economist, CURRENCY has been defined to be: +"Currency is capital seeking investment. While invested, it takes the +form of money, or of promises to deliver money on demand, but so soon as it is +invested, it loses its character of currency, and assumes that of stocks, +houses, or commodities." +-Hugh Carey in ANSWER TO THE CURRENCY QUESTION, at page 6 [Lea & +Blanchard, Philadelphia (1840); RARE BOOK COLLECTION, University of Rochester, +Seward Collection #410]. Before the Civil War there were actually few United +States Treasury Notes floating around the Countryside, as Currency at that +time, because the King's LEGAL TENDER ACTS had not yet been enacted, and the +King had not yet decided that the time had come to pull another grab and enact +penal statutes to create a national exclusive monopoly on currency instruments +for himself. Privately minted coins, bank notes, and mining company script, and +the like, then constituted the nation's currency. With that in mind, the +Illinois Supreme Court once defined CURRENCY as: +"By the term currency is understood bank bills, or other paper money +issued by authority, which pass as and for coin... In the case of JUDAH VS. +HAINS [19 J.R. 144], the Court decided that a note, payable in bank notes +current in the City of New York, was a valid note. The Court said they will +take notice that notes current in the City of New York are of cash value +throughout the State, and are distinguished by those words from other bank +notes, which are received at a discount, and hence it is immaterial whether the +notes of banks of other States might be tendered in payment, provided they are +current in the City of New York; in that case they are considered cash, equally +with the current bills of this State. +"From those authorities, it would seem that current bills, or currency, +are of the value of cash, and exclude the idea of depreciated money. If, then, +currency is taken as and for coin, it follows that such is its value..." +-RICHARD SWIFT VS. JAMES WHITNEY, 20 Illinois 144, at 146 (1840). The +Supreme Court of Iowa once wrestled with a definition of CURRENCY: +"Currency is bank bills or other paper money which passes as a +circulating medium in the business community as, and for, the constitutional +coin of the country. The term 'current funds' means currency money, par funds, +or money circulating without any discount..." +"The word CURRENCY is, as we have seen, far from having a settled, +fixed and precise meaning. And even if it had such a meaning in general, it +might acquire in certain localities, or among certain classes, a different +signification." +-PILMER VS. STATE BANK, 16 Iowa Reporter 321, at 328 (1864). And in +more recent times, the King, having sealed up with his gun barrel muscle +tactics a national monopoly on circulating currency instruments, an Appellate +Court in Illinois now changed the meaning of CURRENCY once again: +"Currency has been defined as funds or money circulating in the +business community without any discount, excluding the idea of depreciated +paper money." +-JAKE LESS VS. S. ALPORT, 217 Illinois Appellate 14, at 17 (1920). +Here in the 1980's, the editors of BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY, functioning as the +Government Billboards in the sense that the focus point of everything is always +juristic: Some slice of LEX over here, or some Case over there. Continuing on +with their Government center of gravity on everything the way they do, BLACK'S +defines CURRENCY as only to include those coins, banknotes, and paper money +that the King has officially recognized in his Legal Tender LEX [as if either +we or our Fathers in the 1800's really needed the King]: +"CURRENCY: Coined money and such banknotes or other paper money as are +authorized by law and do in fact circulate from hand to hand as the medium of +exchange. See... LEGAL TENDER [no cases are cited]." +-BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY, 5th Edition. When those cases from the 1800's +stated that CURRENCY meant Notes [and NOTES are promises to pay] that are +exchanged AT PAR, what they mean is that those paper Notes carry an immediate +or CURRENT maturity date. To redeem a Note AT PAR meant to receive 100% +exchange for the Face Value that was stated on the Note; if the Note stated the +Face Value of 10 Gold Eagles, then if the Note was redeemed AT PAR 10 Gold +Eagles would then be your's; if redeemed at 90% of par, then 9 Gold Eagles +would be your's. Therefore, when the Maturity Date was current (immediate), the +Note could be exchanged for gold or silver AT PAR, if in fact you wanted the +coin instead of the Note. If the Note was exchangeable for hard coin say, one +or five years out in the future, then such a Note was not CURRENT, and would +only be exchanged for coin at below par (the percentage differential between +the par and the sub-par negotiated was the interest carrying cost the new Note +holder had to bear while he sat and waited for the Maturity Date to arrive). +But today, BLACK'S has done away with all of this, we have Legal Tender +statutes now in the modern era, and you just don't need to concern yourself +with none of that privately minted stuff. +=============================================================[197]

+ +

itself as we now have it, synchronous with King Richard II's unsuccessful +conquest against France in the 1300's (and long before the King of England's +chartering of the Bank of England in 1694 under Gremlin prompting and +intellectual guidance), [198]

+ +

[198]============================================================= The King +modeled his bank after the BANK OF AMSTERDAM. Before the Bank of England was +established, English mercantile writers such as Sir Josiah Childe and Thomas +Yaranton placed the Crown on notice that "... the Amsterdam bank was of so +immense advantage to them..." because Dutch Government Debt Instruments "... go +in Trade equal with Ready Money, yea, better in many parts of the World than +Money." [quoted by Dickerson in THE FINANCIAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND: A STUDY IN +THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC CREDIT, 1688-1756, at page 5 (MacMillian Company, +London, 1967)]. The Bank of Amsterdam had begun as a Warehouse for the safe +storage of gold and silver belonging largely to Merchants. A Merchant would +deposit his precious metal for safekeeping, with a receipt given in return; and +the banker charged a fee for the safekeeping. But soon a few Merchants wanted +the receipts to be divisible, because they wanted to negotiate just the receipt +itself, without having to bother making arrangements to physically arrange an +exchange of the gold or silver. While the Merchants were looking at ways to +save time here and there, the bankers themselves were developing a few ideas of +their own; the bankers noticed that only some small percentage of the gold and +silver actually came and went in and out the doors, so they started to loan out +gold that was not theirs. Now this was getting interesting -- charging both for +the storage and also collecting interest on the property of others; and its +allure attracted the attention of a Gremlin, Mr. John Law, who used this +concept as a basis for developing a Government monetary theory similar to what +Gremlin John Maynard Keynes would be writing about two centuries later: +"This theory [of John Law's] was that the economic system of that day +was being starved because of insufficient supplies of money. And using the Bank +of Amsterdam as a model, he had a scheme for producing all the money a nation +needed." +-John Flynn in MEN OF WEALTH, at 51 [Simon and Schuster, New York +(1941)]. For nearly two decades, John Law shopped his theories around European +Juristic Institutions, with his plans falling on death ears, but one day a +window opened for his intrigues to be used. After King Louis the 14th of France +had depleted his Treasury funds in 1716, he turned to John Law who he had +previously rebuffed. John Law established the BANQUE GENERALE with himself at +the top; soon it was named the ROYAL BANK with a monopoly charter granted on +the issuance of money -- and John Law issued bales of paper money, and so, not +surprisingly, prosperity was rampant. +"It is not to be wondered that for a few brief months Paris hailed the +magician who had produced all these rabbits from his hat. Crowds followed his +carriage. People struggled to get a glimpse of him. The nobles of France hung +around his anteroom, begging a word from him." +-MEN OF WEALTH, id., at 75. John Law followed the Gremlin script for +enscrewment right down the line; all gold and silver was accumulated in the +hands of his ROYAL BANK; public ownership of gold was outlawed; devaluations +transpired; inflation mounted and illiquidity was in the air as debt +instruments began to be difficult to service. John Law fled France in 1720, +with the mobs who had once hailed him for being a financial genius now calling +for his head. If this economic scenario sounds at all familiar to you, it +should, because Gremlins find it unnecessary to change, alter, modify, or +rearrange their MODUS OPERANDI with the passage of time, as they go about their +work running one civilization into the ground after another: +"As a NEW DEALER [John Law] was not greatly different in one respect +from the apostles of the mercantilist school -- the Colberts, the Roosevelts, +the Daladiers, the Hitlers and Mussolinis... who sought to create income and +work by state-fostered public works and who labored to check the flow of gold +away from their borders. He introduced something new, however, that the +Hitlers, the Mussolinis, the Roosevelts, the Daladiers and the Chamberlains +have imitated -- the creation of funds for these purposes through the +instrumentalities of the modern bank. Law is the precursor of the inflationist +redeemers." +-MEN OF WEALTH, id. So the Bank of England was modeled after the Bank +of Amsterdam which had been created early in the 1600's, and the Dutch bank in +turn had been modeled after the Bank of Venice [as reported by Charles Wilson +in THE DUTCH REPUBLIC AND THE CIVILIZATION OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, at page +25; McGraw Hill, New York (1968)]. The Bank of England became so successful at +selling Government debt instruments that it soon became the prototype for +public banks where looters in other nations sought similar objectives of +grabbing more money for themselves without having to ask their subjects for it. +Under the direction of a series of astute financial moves, England's new Bank +quickly created investor confidence in Government funded debt instruments, +enabling the Crown to borrow large sums of money at steadily declining rates of +interest, rather than go through the nuisance and irritation of raising taxes +dramatically. Writing in THE SPECTATOR, Joseph Addison once compared Government +credit loans to: +"... a beautiful Virgin seated upon a throne of Gold possess'd of the +powers of a Croesus to convert whatever she pleas'd into that precious Metal +[CROESUS was a King of Lydia in the 6th Century, B.C., and possessed vast +wealth; hence CROESUS means any fabulously wealthy man.] +-quoted by Dickerson in THE FINANCIAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND: A STUDY +IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC CREDIT, 1688-1756, inside the front page +[MacMillian Company, London, 1967)]. +=============================================================[198]

+ +

The special SUB ROSA relationship that was developed between the circulation in +King's Commerce of paper money by the King and a grand Tort the King intends to +work, still remains in full force and effect down to the present day in the +United States. [199]

+ +

[199]============================================================= "The history +of the law of money evidences a constant struggle between the customs of trade +and the doctrine of freedom of contract, on the one hand, and on the other, the +exercise of the political power for the needs of Government or the relief of +private debtors [meaning banking Gremlins]." +-Phanor J. Eder, writing in "Legal Theories of Money," 20 CORNELL LAW +QUARTERLY 52, at 53 (1934). +=============================================================[199]

+ +

Anglo-Saxon Kings have a long history of never bothering to stop pulling off +whatever they can get away with. [200]

+ +

[200]============================================================= There is +some value in turning around and looking back at the past to uncover the +movements of men in other ages, because once their behavior in that setting is +known, then the real meaning of the movements of men today are exposed: +"If we consider the shortness of human life, and our limited knowledge, +even of what passes in our own time, we must be sensible that we should be +forever children in understanding, were it not for this invention, which +extends our experience to all past ages, and to the most distant nations; +making them contribute as much to our improvement in wisdom, as they had +actually laid under our observation. A man acquainted with history may, in some +respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have +been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every country." +-David Hume in PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS ["Of the Study of History"], at +page 390; [Longmans Green, London (1898); Greene and Grosse, Editors]. But +Anglo-Saxon Kings are not the only looters to play this game. For a discussion +of Monetary Debasement being pulled off in B.C. times, see the writings of +Phanor J. Eder in THE GOLD CLAUSE CASES IN LIGHT OF HISTORY, 23 Georgetown Law +Journal 369, at page 722 (Part II) (1935). +=============================================================[200]

+ +

For example, in the 1500's, the King of England (actually Queen Elizabeth) +ordered a debasement of Britain's national currency for the express purpose of +working a Tort on rebels in Ireland. This carefully planned currency debasement +was explicitly designed to damage these Irish adversaries of the Crown as an +act of war. When these debased coins were issued out all over England to the +public at large, they became known as MIXED MONEY due to the novel alloy +composition in the coins, meaning a hybrid of part precious and part ordinary +metals. This degenerate mixed money was then sent by the King of England to +Ireland as a covert war military measure against the rebels there. The rebels +were buying supplies abroad, and they were making their purchases by using +valuable Britannic gold and silver coins, which always had an international +allure to them, and properly so. So the King decided that the best way to stop +the rebels from making their arms purchases would be by making their money +unattractive to their suppliers, foreign gun runners. In making their purchases +of guns and armaments, the rebels had been obtaining their gold and silver +English Crown coins from loyal British subjects in the course of ordinary +dealings, and those subjects in turn had received it from Queen Elizabeth's +soldiers and others functioning as Crown distribution agents. So the King, +knowing what he does about using both devalued coin and soft paper currency to +damage adversaries, simply reduced the value of the money the rebels were +getting, by clever debasement. Although debasing the currency to damage a rebel +out in some remote place carries the secondary consequence of damaging loyal +subjects who mean the Crown no harm; so as to not offend the Crown's subjects, +the Queen promised to redeem this debased money at face value later on [sound +familiar today?] [201]

+ +

[201]============================================================= The Queen +died shortly after making this promise to her subjects, but her successor +honored her commitment. See Simon, HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF IRISH COINS, at page +38 (1749). =============================================================[201]

+ +

But as for the rebels in Ireland, now the debased Crown coins were being +rejected by the foreign gun runners as payment for goods they had been selling +to the rebels, and so, as the supplies to the rebels were cut off at the source +in this slick and clever way, the plans for conquest by the rebels was +frustrated. [202]

+ +

[202]============================================================= For +additional Commentary on the use of debased currency against the Irish rebels, +see generally, John Hannigan, THE MONETARY AND LEGAL TENDER ACTS OF 1933-34 AND +THE LAW, 14 Boston University Law Review 485, at 504 (1934). +=============================================================[202]

+ +

The English Case of 1604 that I had quoted from above called THE MIXED MONEY +CASE was a challenge to the authority of the King of England to pull off what +he did against Irish rebels, and as you read above in a quotation from the +Case, the Judiciary has declared that it is a Sovereign prerogative of the King +to debase his own currency, whenever and however the King feels like it. [And +rather than snicker at Judges today for tossing aside your challenges to paper +money, the correct remedy lies in writing explicit and blunt restraining +language into the King's Charter (the Constitution), but our Framers in 1787 +never did that; and the Framers of 1787 did not write in such explicit and +blunt restrainments for a very good reason; Because there was strong +reservations expressed on the floor of the Convention on whether such proposed +restrainments were really provident. [203]

+ +

[203]============================================================= "Once the +Convention was under way, proposals that the Federal Government be given the +power to coin money and fix its value and that both the Federal and State +Governments be vested with authority to emit bills of credit triggered heated +debate over the appropriate limits of governmental monetary power." +-Getman, THE RIGHT TO USE GOLD CLAUSES IN CONTRACTS, XLII Brooklyn Law +Review 479, at 489 (1976). See generally, Max Farrand, editor, THE RECORDS OF +THE FEDERAL CONVENTION OF 1787 [Yale University Press (1937)], 4 volumes. So +what we are left with today is the milktoast of Article I, Section 10. +=============================================================[203]

+ +

That Mixed Money Case was a sleeper, as our Framers never correctly designed +the Constitution to repel this special type of quiet SUB ROSA political +aggression; and 250 years later, that Mixed Money Case surfaced in the Supreme +Court of the United States, in the context of justifying the Civil War era +Legal Tender Acts. [204]

+ +

[204]============================================================= THE LEGAL +TENDER CASES, 79 U.S. 457, at 548 (1871). +=============================================================[204]

+ +

Down to the present day, the excitement of war is used as a justification to +either initiate or continue one more turn in Gremlin enscrewment objectives. +[205]

+ +

[205]============================================================= Professors +Peacock and Wiseman correctly point out that a Government's call for a spirit +of sacrifice leads to the general acceptance of a higher tax rate at the end of +a major war, rather than at the beginning of the war [see A.T. Peacock and J. +Wiseman in THE GROWTH OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (Princeton +University Press, Princeton, 1961);] but as is the caliber of collegiate +INTELLIGENTSIA, never is there any discussion of the quiet movements of +Gremlins in the shadows directing the administrative operations of their +nominees that they had previously planted and placed in political +jurisdictions; and so as a result, the true illicit nature of the LEX designed +to create Special Interest benefits and damages not related to legitimate +juristic police power operations, remains obscured. The last annulment +institution in the United States for illicit LEX, the Supreme Court, is moving +in the right direction generally, but they still need some fine tuning: +"The requirement of a legitimate public purpose guarantees that the +State is exercising its police power, rather than providing a benefit to +special interests." +-ENERGY RESERVES VS. KANSAS POWER, 459 U.S. 400, at 412 (1983). +=============================================================[205]

+ +

So now we should have some minimum discernment to see why contemporary +representations to the effect that gold is just too unsuitable by its heavy +bulk weight to be a modern circulating denomination of currency, as both +fraudulent and factually defective. Paper money is characterized by its +depreciating nature. [206]

+ +

[206]============================================================= "But the +history of paper money, without any adequate funds pledged to redeem it, and +resting merely upon the pledge of national faith, has been in all ages and in +all nations the same. It has constantly become more and more depreciated; and +in some instances has ceased from this cause to have any circulation +whatsoever, whether issued by the irresistible edict of a despot, or the more +alluring order of a republican congress." +-Joseph Story, III COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION, at page 225 +["Prohibitions - Paper Money"] (Cambridge, 1833). +=============================================================[206]

+ +

Fraudulent because people with sinister intentions use debased currency (and +non-redeemable Federal Reserve Notes that quietly lose a little decremental +value with each passing year are debased currency) for political conquest and +to damage their adversaries. [207]

+ +

[207]============================================================= "... the +reader should note especially the 'striking parallels to modern times' [in +comparison to King Solon in 594 B.C., when he pulled off currency debasement +acts by]... military adventures draining treasuries, threats of national +bankruptcy, inflations, massive liquidations of debt, debasement of all +coinage, disputes over sovereign prerogatives concerning money..." +-Henry Holzer, GOVERNMENT'S MONEY MONOPOLY, page 15 [Books in Focus, +New York City (1981)]. +=============================================================[207]

+ +

And such representations are factually defective because the King's new +proposed money (which the Treasury Department has already quietly circulated +prototypes of) has thin strips of metal imbedded in between layers of paper, +and those strips of metal could just as easily have been alloyed with gold and +silver if our King wanted it -- but no, our King is not quite through with his +MAGNUM Tortfeasance, not just yet. [208]

+ +

[208]============================================================= Down to the +present day, pleas and petitions for a reinstatement of the Gold Standard, of +just some type, continuously falls on death ears in Congress [maybe because +that is not OUR Congress]. In December of 1981, the House Banking, Finance and +Urban Affairs Committee entertained such a petition [see GRASSROOTS HEARINGS ON +THE ECONOMY, PART III, "Petition for Hearings on HR 391 -- Rhode Islanders for +a Gold Standard," 97th Congress, First Session, starting at 499 (GPO, 1981)], +but the petition was tossed aside and ignored. +=============================================================[208]

+ +

And just as Patriots go right ahead and argue defective reasoning based on the +milktoast language in Article I, Section 10, so too do Patriots go right ahead +and try to argue the line, that well, since the United States has no express +grant of jurisdiction to create corporations, therefore, the Federal Reserve +Board is unConstitutional for this reason. I have concluded that if I were on +the Supreme Court, I would uphold the inherent jurisdiction of the King to +organize corporations (or any other instrumentality that had its own separate +treasury, with the King calling that instrument whatever he feels like). [209]

+ +

[209]============================================================= "A strange +fallacy has crept into the reasoning on this subject. It has been supposed, +that a corporation is some great, independent thing; and that the power to +erect it is a great, substantive, independent power; whereas in truth, a +corporation is but a legal capacity, quality, or means to an end; and the power +to erect it is, or may be, an implied and incidental power. A corporation is +never the end, for which other powers are exercised; but a means, by which +other objects are accomplished." +-Joseph Story, in III COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION 131, ["Powers +of Congress"] (Cambridge, 1833). +=============================================================[209]

+ +

That idea of a separate treasury is important to the Supreme Court, since that +is the determining logic behind their rulings making municipalities exempt from +the 11th Amendment, which otherwise operates to immunize actions against +states. [210]

+ +

[210]============================================================= LAKE COUNTY +ESTATES, 440 U.S. 391, at 401 (1978). +=============================================================[210]

+ +

My reasoning comes from a confluence of factors. First, getting a feel for the +lack of specificity in the Framer's drafting of the Constitution; for example, +no where is the King given permission to hire employees, to excavate sites for +office buildings, to sign leases, or to purchase assets or land in foreign +lands, etc. In examining those areas where the Supreme Court has ruled on +inherent meanings of Clauses, they have ruled, for example, that the "Adversary +Nature" of criminal prosecutions is inherent in the Sixth Amendment [MIRANDA +VS. ARIZONA and the counsel cases], and that Courts created by the United +States have inherent Contempt jurisdiction, regardless of the absence of the +conferment of any such jurisdiction. [211]

+ +

[211]============================================================= IN RE: +RUSSO, 53 Federal Rules Decisions 564 (United States District Court, 1971). +=============================================================[211]

+ +

And on and on. For these reasons there is very much a basis for an implied +grant of jurisdiction for the King to do something, not otherwise specifically +denominated in his Charter. The test to be applied to see if some jurisdiction +claimed operative by the King, but not exactly specified anywhere in that +Constitutional Charter of his which breathed life into the King his breath of +juristic life, lies in another strata: First, is the challenged LEX even +inferentially in conflict with any restraining mandate the Framers wrote into +the Constitution? In the limited question of creating corporations, the answer +is no, it isn't. Next, we shift into the broader question and ask: Is the +creation of corporations even out of harmony with the LEIT MOTIF of the +Constitution to restrain the King from functioning as a Tortfeasor? [212]

+ +

[212]============================================================= "The Bill of +Rights is the primary source of expressed information as to what is meant by +Constitutional liberty. Its safeguards secure the climate which the Law of +Freedom needs in order to exist. It is true that they were added to the +Constitution to operate solely against Federal power [BARRON VS. BALTIMORE, 32 +U.S. 243, at 247 (1833)]. But the Fourteenth Amendment was added in 1868 in +response for a demand for national protection against abuses of State power. A +series of decisions over the last 25 years has held that many rights were +indeed extended against the states by that Amendment. It is indeed fair to say +that from 1962 to 1969 the very face of the Law changed. Those years witnessed +the extension to the States of nine of the specifics of the Bill of Rights, +decisions which have profound impact on American life, requiring the deep +involvement of State courts in the application of Federal Law." +-Justice William Brennan in REMARKS, 36 Rutgers Law Review 725, at 727 +(1984). Patriots and Tax Protestors can carry on all they want with demanding, +and believing, that they posses some Constitutional Rights, and just like +Justice Brennan's REMARKS, there are many high, noble and lofty +characterizations of those Rights available -- but those REMARKS, together with +the Tax Protestor's demands, are all for naught when one tiny little device +surfaces in a grievance: A Commercial Contract. By the end of this Letter the +elevated priority in Nature that contracts ascend to in settling grievances +should become apparent, whenever they are in effect; a doctrinal concept if +unlearned now, Mr. May, will be learned in on uncertain terms before Father at +the Last Day. +=============================================================[212]

+ +

Does the challenged act of Congress (creating corporations or other political +instruments with separate treasuries), have the effect, in the practical +setting, of allowing or in any way assisting the King to function as a +Tortfeasor against us countryside folks? In other words, does the creation of +privately held corporations by the King, such as the Federal Reserve System, +provide the King with a mechanism to damage us that he would not otherwise be +privileged to do, or able to do in the practical effect with his own direct +employees? In the case of creating corporations, or in the creation of separate +juristic organizations with their own treasuries, the administrative form of +the corporation (the wording on the piece of paper that is its charter) offers +no possibility of a Tort on us that could not be otherwise worked by Executive +Agencies operating under direct Presidential administrative jurisdiction. This +is true even in the case of the Federal Reserve System. The Fed is very much a +Tortfeasor in its control over the rate of inflation, [213]

+ +

[213]============================================================= Inflation is +a Tort, and can be claimed as such in damage awards. See the Supreme Court in +JONES & LAUGHLIN STEEL CORPORATION VS. PFIFER, 462 U.S. 523 (1983). And +Inflation is also a tax, and is treated as income by the Treasury Department; +in the ANNUAL REPORT of the Secretary of the Treasury for 1919, on page 213, +there lies the interesting admission that the large federal deficits of 1917 to +1919, totaling then some $23 billion, were financed by money creation, and +other devices. +=============================================================[213]

+ +

and in its proclivities to do so; and from its being such a dominate financial +market maker and control of re-discount rates its Open Market Committee can and +will fix rates of interest at whatever level it feels like; and the Gremlins +running the Fed know very much that they posses considerable power to determine +prosperity levels. [214]

+ +

[214]============================================================= "The purpose +of the Federal Reserve System is to contribute, to the maximum extent that +monetary policy can contribute, to the achievement of sustained high +employment, stable values, and a rising standard of living for all Americans." +-William McChesney Martin, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, in +THE FEDERAL RESERVE AFTER 50 YEARS ["Hearings before the Subcommittee on +Domestic Finance"], 88th Congress, 2nd Session, Volume I, page 16 [GPO +Washington (January and February, 1964)]. +=============================================================[214]

+ +

By controlling these financial market forces, the Fed single-handedly controls +the relative level of economic prosperity or decline in the land. [215]

+ +

[215]============================================================= Economists +watch Fed monetary statistics quite closely, as if they were national policy +tools (which they are). Statistics generally targeted for close observation are +those two monetary velocity instruments called M-1 and M-2, as they are +indications of the direction of the future percentage advance of the GNP and +Inflation. See THE VELOCITY OF MONEY by George Garvey and Martin Blyn, [Federal +Reserve Bank, New York (1969)]. The true point of origin of all directional +changes in the economy necessarily originates with that institution that +controls the aggregate issuance of its circulating instruments; at the present +time, this is the Fed and its OPEN MARKET COMMITTEE, a fact that the Congress +collectively is well aware of but not always acknowledged publicly. See CONDUCT +OF MONETARY POLICY in Hearings before the Committee on Banking, Finance and +Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, 96th Congress, First Session, Serial +Number 96-22 (July, 1979), which discusses the cascading effect of decisions of +the OPEN MARKET COMMITTEE on multiple macroeconomic indicia. +=============================================================[215]

+ +

If the Fed were an administrative agency under, perhaps, the Comptroller of the +Currency, then all of the regulatory assertions it now makes over member banks +would remain in effect, and it would still control prosperity through its +regulatory mechanisms. (Incidentally, the mere absence of prosperity, under +such highly managed and tightly controlled monetary circumstances, is a Tort +against us by the Fed). [216]

+ +

[216]============================================================= An +INTELLIGENTSIA clown once hired by Gremlins to do some writing for them wrote a +few words to talk about the Gremlin perception of prosperity: +"An economic system does not have to be expansive -- that is, +constantly increasing its production of wealth -- and it might well be possible +for people to be completely happy in a nonexpansive economic system if they +were accustomed to it. In the twentieth century, however, the people of our +culture have been living under expansive conditions for generations. Their +minds are psychologically adjusted to expansion, and they feel deeply +frustrated unless they are better off each year than they were the previous +year. The economic system itself has become organized for expansion, and if it +does not expand it tends to collapse [and when it does collapse, it is because +the Gremlins were there]." +-Carroll Quigley in TRAGEDY AND HOPE, at 497 [MacMillian Company, New +York (1966)]. +=============================================================[216]

+ +

If the Federal Reserve were an Article II Executive Agency under Presidential +Jurisdiction (which as a privately owned and independently managed business +entity, it is not), then every single decision made by the Federal Reserve +Board and its Open Market Committee (and its predecessor) down to the present +time, would still have been made and carried out. [217]

+ +

[217]============================================================= The Federal +Reserve Board is a very handy instrument to massage economies, create +depressions, and run civilizations into the ground with. For example, in the +late 1920's, there was an era of speculation in the securities markets of the +United States; after a while in any market, what appears to be SPECULATION will +always surface when rising prices and highly leveraged loans make their +institutionalized appearance on the scene. Economists, bureaucratic theorists, +and other clowns will cast SPECULATION into an illicit image, but SPECULATION, +so called, is nothing more than a manifestation of strong prosperity -- and +Gremlins do not want you and I to have sustained protracted prosperity, they +want us to experience economic starvation like they wanted physical starvation +for those millions of Ukrainians who were murdered in the great manufactured +Famine of 1932-33. Easy high percentage loans are an important ingredient to +create SPECULATION, so one of the devices used by Rothschild Gremlins to create +a balloon of American speculation was to lower the rate of interest charged by +the Federal Reserve Board to member banks: +"Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by +the New York Federal Reserve Bank, in the Spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount +rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise +measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of +England [Montagu Norman was a Rothschild nominee planted in the Bank of +England]. Ostensibly, this easy money policy was designed to stop the flow of +gold out of England [as usual, DECEPTION is present when Gremlins are running +the show]. Its primary effect, however, was to cause a reevaluation of all +securities [upward], and to further inflate our already inflationary credit +system by making large sums of money available for financing stock +speculation." +-Bernard Baruch,, in his autobiography BARUCH: THE PUBLIC YEARS, at +221 [Holt Rheinhart & Winston, New York (1960)]. The well known Gremlin +economist John K. Galbraith dismisses the view that the action of the Federal +Reserve Board authorities in cutting the rediscount rate in the Spring of 1927 +had much effect on the elevated speculation which followed, on the grounds that +this: +"... explanation obviously assumes that people will always speculate if +they can get the money to finance it. Nothing can be farther from the truth. +There were times before and there have been long periods since when credit was +plentiful and cheap -- far cheaper than in 1927 to 1929 -- and when speculation +was negligible. Nor, as we shall see later, was speculation out of control +after 1927, except that it was beyond the reach of men who did not want in the +least to control it." +-John K. Galbraith in THE GREAT CRASH, page 16 [Houghton Mifflin, +Boston (1955)]. SPECULATION is actually fueled by the ability to easily obtain +highly leveraged loans in a market characterized by rapidly rising prices. Your +analogy of 1927, Mr. Galbraith, to previous eras is defective because other +previous periods of cheap credit was deficient in possessing the twin important +structural SPECULATION requirements of easily obtainable highly leveraged loans +and rapidly rising prices; if both highly leveraged loans and rapidly rising +prices are not present, then cheap credit loans will not induce SPECULATION. +And so the failure of cheap and plentiful credit loans in previous eras to +trigger SPECULATION then, is not relevant and does not negate the highly +stimulating effect that such inexpensive credit loans created in the American +securities markets from 1927 to 1929, since declining rates of interest very +much act as an accelerant on markets already structurally conditioned for +SPECULATION by the twin important indicia of highly leveraged loans and rapidly +rising prices. You really are not competent to be an economist, Mr. Galbraith +-- and incidentally, managing SPECULATION, so called, was very much WITHIN the +reach of your brothers who very much wanted to control it, TOTALLY. Sorry, Mr. +Galbraith, but you don't do a very good job of covering the tracks of your +Gremlin brothers from the First Estate who, like you, are repeating the same +judgment mistakes now that you made then. Having created something ILLICIT, +having created something that just NEEDS and IS BEGGING for a corrective +solution, Gremlins acting through their instrumentality, the Federal Reserve +Board, in 1929 now had just the right medicine to fix this wicked SPECULATION, +as one visible Rothschild nominee, Mr. Montagu Norman, once again made his +descent sortie on Washington in vulture trajectory, and told Andrew Mellon what +to do next: +"... the Federal Reserve Board issued a formal statement today +declaring that it conceived it to be its duty in 'the immediate situation' to +restrain the use, either directly or indirectly, of Federal Reserve credit +facilities in aid of the froth of speculative credit... +"No information could be obtained from Mr. Norman or American officials +concerning the purpose of his visit [to Washington] other than he had come here +for a general discussion of international financial conditions with the System +and members of the [Federal Reserve] Board... +"All efforts to obtain any further interpretation of the action of the +Federal Reserve Board than that contained in its formal statement were +futile... +"The decision by the Federal Reserve Board to take so definite a stand +in connection with its attitude towards speculative activities, was made, it is +understood, only after a conference in which Secretary Mellon, as Chairman [of +the Federal Reserve] EX-OFFICIO participated [meaning that Gremlin Andrew +Mellon DIRECTED, after having received his instructions from the Rothschilds +through Montagu Norman]... +"The frankness of its announcement today therefore added to the +interest it caused in financial circles." +-THE NEW YORK TIMES ["Loan Curb Hinted by Federal Reserve Board; +States Duty in 'the Immediate Situation' is to restrain Speculative Credit"], +page 1 (February 7, 1929). Who is Montagu Norman? A Gremlin who was recognized +as being very powerful at that time [Carroll Quigley claims the WALL STREET +JOURNAL for November 11, 1927 characterized Montagu Norman as "... the currency +dictator of Europe."] Like all good hardworking Gremlins putting in their +honest days' labor, they are answerable to another person up the line [even the +Rothschilds know from whence their benefits originate]; and like a few other +WORLD CLASS Gremlins, Montagu Norman held the high honor of running an entire +civilization into the ground: +"... Norman held the position [of CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER] for +twenty-four years (1920-1944), during which he became the chief architect of +the liquidation of Britain's global preeminence." +-Carroll Quigley in TRAGEDY AND HOPE, at 325 [MacMillian Company, New +York (1966)]. He had brilliance, he had genius, he had SAVIOR-FAIRE, and +Montagu Norman tied it all together with slick Gremlin FINESSE when he so +smoothly ran Great Britain into the ground with so very few people even knowing +that he had done so; and so when Montagu Norman brought his conquests to other +continents, for and on behalf of his Rothschild sponsors, he would also be +leaving the ruins of those once majestic civilizations with little indication +that he had been there. The year 1929 started out to be a great year, and +American businessmen had positive expectations [see the many businessmen quoted +through the WALL STREET JOURNAL for January 1, 1929]; but the world's Gremlins +had a few ideas of their own: +"On February 15, 1929, the Federal Advisory Council adopted the +following resolution: +"The Council believes that every effort should be made to correct the +present situation in the speculative markets before resorting to an advance in +rates. +"The Council in reviewing present conditions finds that in spite of the +cooperation of member banks, the measures so far adopted have not been +effective in correcting the present situation of the money market. The Council, +therefore, recommends that the Federal Reserve Board permit the Federal Reserve +banks to raise their rediscount rate immediately and maintain a rate consistent +with the cost of commercial credit." +-Transcript of the minutes of the 3:10pm Meeting of the FEDERAL +ADVISORY COUNCIL in the Federal Reserve Board Room (April 19, 1929) {National +Archives ["Federal Reserve Board File"], Washington, D.C.}. The Federal Reserve +Board's FEDERAL ADVISORY COUNCIL was abolished in the 1930's. The FEDERAL +ADVISORY COUNCIL had also met twice earlier that day, at 10:05am and at +12:10pm. There had been an ominous atmosphere of excitement in the air that +day: +"The prospect of further developments of importance in regard to the +Government's attitude on the credit situation appeared today when members of +the Federal Advisory Council... met in a special session and later held a joint +conference with the Board [the 12:10pm meeting]. Resolutions were adopted by +the Council and transmitted to the Board, but their purport was closely +guarded. ...An atmosphere of deep mystery was thrown about the proceedings both +by the Board and the Council. No advance announcement had been made that an +extraordinary session of the Council was contemplated, and in fact that the +members were in the city became known only when newspaper correspondents +happened to see some of them entering the Treasury Department building. Even +after that evasive replies were given, until it became apparent that such +tactics were futile... While the joint meeting was in progress at the Treasury +Department, every effort was made to guard the proceedings and a group of +newspaper correspondents were asked to leave the corridor. The meeting of the +Council attracted particular attention in view of the fact that it had met here +in regular session on February 14th, a week following the Reserve Board's +warning statement against the excessive use of Reserve System credit in +speculative operations on the stock market." +-THE NEW YORK TIMES ["Reserve Council Confers in Haste: Atmosphere of +Mystery is Thrown About Its Meeting in Washington"], page 9 (April 20, 1929). A +month later, one more Gremlin turn of the screws was administered to the +economy: +"The Federal Advisory Council has reviewed carefully the credit +situation. It continues to agree with the view of the Federal Reserve Board as +expressed in its statement of February 5, 1929 that 'an excessive amount of the +country's credit has been absorbed in speculative security loans.' The policy +pursued by the Federal Reserve Board has had a beneficial effect due largely to +the loyal cooperation of the banks of the country. The efforts in this +direction should be continued, but the Council notes that while the total +amount of Federal Reserve credit being used has been reduced, 'the amount of +the country's credit absorbed in speculative security loans' has not been +substantially lowered. +"Therefore, the Council recommends to the Federal Reserve Board that +the time has come to grant permission to raise the rediscount rates to six +percent to those Federal Reserve Banks requesting it, thus bringing the +rediscount rates into closer relation with generally prevailing commercial +money rates. The Council believes that improvement in financial conditions and +a consequent reduction of the rate structure will thereby be brought about more +quickly, thus best safeguarding commerce, industry, and agriculture." +-Resolution approved by the FEDERAL ADVISORY COUNCIL, in its 2:30pm +Meeting on May 21, 1929 {National Archives ["Federal Reserve Board File"], +Washington, D.C.}. While the Gremlins controlling the Federal Reserve were busy +raising interest rates, the analytical staff of the Federal Reserve was +cognizant of the extreme economic damages such an elevated rate of interest was +doing to Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture [directly contrary to the +beneficial effect claimed by the Federal Advisory Council]: +"The higher money rates do not appear to have restricted short term +commercial borrowings, but in a number of ways the present high level of money +rates is beginning to have a detrimental effect upon business. +"1.The volume of building operations has been declining largely +because of difficulty in obtaining second mortgage money and loans for building +operations and also difficulty in selling real estate bonds. Stock financing +which has been resorted to in some cases has only partly met the requirements. +"2.A good many state, municipal, railway and other projects, +ordinarily financed through bonds and notes, have been postponed because of +difficulty in securing at reasonable prices... +"3.Reduced foreign financing in the United States... are diminishing +the purchasing power of those countries for our products, a tendency which is +likely to be reflected sooner or later in reduced exports. +"It thus seems reasonably certain that present money conditions, if +long continued, will have a seriously detrimental effect upon business +conditions, and the longer they are continued the more serious will be the +effect. The volume of business now appears to be sustained in part by the +production of automobiles considerably in excess of retail purchases with a +consequent stimulating effect upon the steel industry..." +-PRELIMINARY MEMORANDUM FOR THE OPEN MARKET INVESTMENT COMMITTEE +["Effects on Business"]; Prepared for the 5:00pm Meeting of the Fed's Open +Market Investment Committee on April 1, 1929 {National Archives ["Federal +Reserve Board File"], Washington, D.C.}. In September of 1929, the OPEN MARKET +COMMITTEE would be warning that: +"... there are some indications of a possible impending recession." Six +months earlier in April, the economy was still experiencing the stimulating +effect of surplus automobile production, but by September, now automobile +manufacturing was going to the dogs: +"Building activity has been reduced still further; automobile +production has been receding, and steel production has reflected these +tendencies." And as for the claimed STIMULATING effect high rates of interest +would be having on agriculture, in fact Gremlin enscrewment was beginning to +produce its desired objective of damages: +"The size of the year's crops is expected to be generally smaller than +a year ago. With higher prices the total return to the farmer may be not short +of a year ago... The continued pressure on the credit situation has also been +reflected by increasing reports from some localities of difficulties of +agriculture in securing an adequate supply of credit." +-All three quotations are from the MINUTES OF THE OPEN MARKET +INVESTMENT COMMITTEE, September 24, 1929 {National Archives ["Federal Reserve +Board File"], Washington, D.C.}. That greasy little Gremlin, Paul Warburg, very +much had his nose in all of this. He slipped into a FEDERAL ADVISORY COUNCIL +Meeting that was held on May 21, 1929, as the alternate for W.C. Potter, and he +made a Statement and engaged in conversation that Walter Lichtenstein, Council +Secretary, did not feel like recording [see MINUTES OF FEDERAL ADVISORY COUNCIL +for May 21, 1929]. The combined effect of the many manipulative devices pulled +by Gremlins in the Fed in the latter 1920's was a great contraction in the +economy [see generally a protracted chapter called "The Great Contraction" in A +MONETARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1867-1960 by Milton Friedman [Princeton +University Press, Princeton (1963)]. +=============================================================[217]

+ +

The only existential reason for the Fed's corporate organizational legal +structure lies in the fact that the Fed was sponsored, as you know, by a +Special Interest Group for their own private enrichment: [218]

+ +

[218]============================================================= "Experience +should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the +Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert +to repel invasion of the liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to +liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without +understanding." +-Justice Louis Brandeis in OLMSTEAD VS. UNITED STATES, 277 U.S. 438, +at 479 (1927). Although the Gremlins who sneaked the FEDERAL RESERVE ACT +through Congress were by no means well meaning, they did try to convey the +image that this piece of legislation was so oriented. +=============================================================[218]

+ +

A network of Gremlins operating under the intellectual aegis of Rothschild +nominee Paul Warburg and associates, who prodded and tricked an otherwise +reticent and naive Congress into enacting the initiating legislation in 1913. +[219]

+ +

[219]============================================================= Greasy +little Gremlins like Paul Warburg are steeped in the strategic use of deception +as a tool to accomplish their objectives; and like the mentor from the First +Estate, Lucifer, they find many circumstances come to pass where the use of +such deception has yielded impressive immediate benefits -- yet Father +continues to warn against it. This deceptive intellectual orientation of +Gremlins has been so ingrained in them from the First Estate, that Gremlins +find the accurate presentation of facts now to be very difficult to construct. +This deception surfaced, for example, when one Gremlin was speaking highly of +another Gremlin: +"... it is known only to a very few exactly how great is the +indebtedness of the United States to Mr. Warburg. For it may be stated without +fear of contradiction that in its fundamental features the Federal Reserve Act +is the work of Mr. Warburg more than any other man in the country... the +Federal Reserve Act has frankly accepted the principles of the Aldrich bill; +and these principles... were the creation of Mr. Warburg and Mr. Warburg +alone... But having set out on the task [to create the Federal Reserve], there +was no stopping [Paul Warburg], and from year to year essay upon essay flowed +from his facile pen, giving more precision and point to his fundamental +principles until he was recognized as the real leader in the new movement. The +Federal Reserve Act will be associated in history with the name of Paul +Warburg..." +-Gremlin Edwin Seligman offering introductory remarks in IV +PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE #4, at 387 [Columbia +University, New York (April, 1914)]; there then follows numerous essays written +by Paul Warburg praising the circulation of paper currency and the Federal +Reserve System. Yet Paul Warburg did not intellectually create the Federal +Reserve System -- the Rothschilds did, but the Rothschilds wanted to stay in +the background and blend themselves into the shadowy corners of Europe; Paul +Warburg was hired by them to take all the flack among those who could be +expected to probe a little deeper in searching for the Fed's Gremlin sponsors. +"Paul Warburg is the man who got the Federal Reserve Act together after +the Aldrich Plan aroused such nationwide resentment and opposition. The +mastermind of both plans was Baron Alfred Rothschild of London." +-Elisha Garrison in ROOSEVELT, WILSON AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE LAW +[Christopher Publishing Housing, Boston (1931)]. +=============================================================[219]

+ +

Designed by Gremlins the way it was, [220]

+ +

[220]============================================================= The illicit +statutory sponsorship of the Federal Reserve Board is often disputed by +collegiate INTELLIGENTSIA clowns who, without possessing any factual elements +to countermand the background workings of determined Gremlins, continue to +point to Congress itself as the institution responsible for the creation of the +Federal Reserve. Gremlin Paul Warburg himself has had a few words to say about +just where the true origin of statutes is to be found: +"I am told that Congress and the State Legislatures make the laws... +Instead of saying that legislators make the laws, it would be far more correct +to say that legislatures merely put the finishing touches on the law. To say +that they "make the laws" is like saying that the books are made by +bookbinders, forgetting that there are authors, printers, and proofreaders too. +"... The motive power in lawmaking is all supplied from somewhere +outside the legislative halls... Some intellect outside the realm of active +politics first conceives an idea. It spreads to the minds of other individuals, +slowly at first, but gradually gaining momentum. Presently there is an +organized movement in its favor; then comes the deluge of propaganda, until the +proposal becomes an issue and the politicians begin to take note of it. A law +is half made, and more than half made, when a large body of aggressive support +has been mobilized among the voters; yet during this part of the process the +legislative bodies have nothing whatever to do with it." +-Gremlin Paul Warburg explaining himself in Volume I THE FEDERAL +RESERVE SYSTEM: ITS ORIGINS AND GROWTH, at 3 [MacMillian Company, New York +(1930)]. =============================================================[220]

+ +

and because of its private corporate ownership and lack of public +accountability to the Congress and to the public. [221]

+ +

[221]============================================================= General +Public accountability of the Fed is appropriate to the extent that the Fed has +been endowed by its creator with a limited juristic mission in monetary areas +touching a general public interest; and one of the most important instruments +of Federal Reserve power lies in the OPEN MARKET COMMITTEE. Numerous attempts +just to get some minimal public dissemination on transcripts of the Federal +Open Market Committee meetings has fallen on death ears; shrouding their daily +maneuverings behind a veil of secrecy -- a veil they would like to maintain +erected for as long as possible (time has a way of greatly diminishing the +possible adverse reaction that unfavorable information triggers). The Congress +was once propositioned with the idea of requiring the FOMC to publish publicly, +detailed minutes of their meetings. In trying to disable the Congress from +doing this, an old Gremlin stratagem was relied upon: Agree with the necessity +for the idea being expounded (so now your adversary is off guard), but create +impediments to the idea by raising technical reservations that appear to be +difficult to overcome and otherwise discredit the idea as being infeasible for +some technical reason. And in overcoming HR 4478, this is just what Gremlins in +the Fed did (Gremlins do not want Government in the sunshine) [see the +testimony of imp bureaucrat Fredrick Schultz as he said he agreed with the +objectives, but then turned around and threw technical reservations at the idea +to try and discredit the idea on its merits, in A BILL TO AMEND THE FEDERAL +RESERVE ACT ["Hearings Before a Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy on HR +4478 of the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs"], 97th +Congress, First Session (September, 1981)]. +=============================================================[221]

+ +

The Fed has never been audited by the GAO, [222]

+ +

[222]============================================================= "It is no +secret that I have long been concerned about the aloofness of the Federal +Reserve from both the executive branch and the Congress. Although the Federal +Reserve System is a creature of Congress, it is not subject to any of the usual +Government budgetary, auditing and appropriations procedures." +-Wright Patman, Chairman of the House Committee on Domestic Finance, +in THE FEDERAL RESERVE AFTER 50 YEARS ["Hearings before the Subcommittee on +Domestic Finance"], 88th Congress, 2nd Session, Volume 1, page 8 [GPO, +Washington, D.C. (January and February, 1964)]. +=============================================================[222]

+ +

the Fed as a privately owned corporation is able to provide its European owners +with an exceptionally lush American gold mine they would not otherwise +experience if title to Federal Reserve stock were ever to be reclaimed by the +Congress under EMINENT DOMAIN JURISDICTION, or simple repeal, or repurchased +under a reservation in its charter. [223]

+ +

[223]============================================================= But don't +expect such a repurchase to ever take place; the Federal Reserve Board gives +the Congress all profits from certain selected trading activities. In the +latter 1970's, this was amounting to approximately $10 billion a year; not an +easy loss of revenue for a greedy fat Congress to go without. So the Congress +does not want to disturb the Fed, and your letters to them, encouraging them to +do so, will continue to fall on death ears. +=============================================================[223]

+ +

So the Fed exists as a private independent corporation because it was created +to act as a financial enrichment velocity accelerant for its owners [I have a +hunch that it is also the single most profitable wealth institution in the +world, outdancing and outdazzling the top Fortune 100, as well as the Vatican +and several "for profit" political jurisdictions]. The Status of the Federal +Reserve System as a Tortfeasor is not related to its legal charter organization +as a corporation, and neither would its Tortfeasance be changed, either +negative or positive at all, if it ever were to be absorbed into the Executive +Presidential bureaucracy of Article II. As an Executive Article II agency, then +it would still control inflation since it would still be controlled by +Gremlins; and it would continue to control interest rates and relative levels +of prosperity through its regulatory mechanisms. [224]

+ +

[224]============================================================= Those +Rothschild Gremlins never stop with their conquests. After mentioning the +dominance of the Rothschilds in European financial affairs, a United States +Senator once wrote: +"... it might be... possible for 20 or 30 individuals if they +controlled the United States Federal Reserve Board, the Bank of England, the +Bank of France, and the Bank of Germany, to enter into a conspiracy to regulate +the volume of the world's currency, thereby resultantly controlling the prices +of the world's commodities, so vitally affecting the happiness, contentment, +occupation, and prosperity of the world's population. If successful in +effecting such a control, by expanding the world's currency they could inflate +prices of all the world's commodities and then distribute at fictitious values +the securities which they had accumulated. After such accomplishments the could +then decrease the volume of money thus resultantly deflating or diminishing the +prices of all the world's commodities with resultant greatly diminished prices +in securities and then buy back at bargain prices the securities that they had +distributed previously at inflated prices. If such a conspiracy existed and +continued unchecked this expansion of the volume of money with increased prices +and distribution of securities held by the few followed by a period of +decreased volume of money with resultant decreased prices of all the world's +commodities with reaccumulation of securities at bargain prices would +ultimately result in all the people outside of the few conspirators becoming +practically vassals and peons with the inevitable result that the people +themselves would rise up in their wrath and take from the conspirators their +wealth and probably their lives." +-Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr. of Oregon, expressing comments on the +Wheeler Bill (S. 2487), in Senate Document #109 entitled INDEPENDENT +BIMETALLISM OR BOLSHEVISM, 72nd Congress, First Session, pages 8 and 9 [GPO +(June 15, 1932)]. Senate Bill 2487 provided for the free coinage of silver and +gold at a ratio of 16-to-1. +=============================================================[224]

+ +

That this Tortfeasance is transparent to its organized form is true because all +Torts originate with people, and at the Fed, there is now a man as chairman who +is uniquely qualified to operate as a joint Tortfeasor with the Rothschilds and +work MAGNUM OPUS Torts on us all: Gremlin Paul Volcker. [225]

+ +

[225]============================================================= After +characterizing Gremlin Volcker's politics as being something of an enigma, the +NEW YORK TIMES went on to say that Paul Volcker: +"... recognizes 'that Gold and the fates have put him in a unique +position,' a role for which he believes... that he is singularly well +equipped." +-THE NEW YORK TIMES ["Sacrificial Way of Life for Reserve Chairman"], +page 26 (Sunday, June 19, 1983). Yes, Mr. Volcker is VERY well equipped for his +mission -- but not to usher in a generation of prosperity; neither is his +Federal Reserve position attributable to "God and the fates," but actually to +his brother from the First Estate, Lucifer, whom Paul Volcker once betrayed -- +and now Lucifer is going to get even at Father's Last Day. +=============================================================[225]

+ +

This is the same Treasury Department staff member Paul Volcker who played a +supporting role in the theft of American gold bullion deposits from Fort Knox +in the 1960's, [226]

+ +

[226]============================================================= The theft of +American gold bullion deposits from the Fort Knox Depository in Kentucky by the +Four Rockefeller Brothers, in which Paul Volcker participated, was a smooth +inside job -- a job which only duplicated a previous inside Treasury job that +was pulled off earlier in 1943: +"... 14000 tons of silver from the Treasury reserve of American paper +money was secretly taken from the Treasury vaults (although still carried +publicly on the Treasury balance sheets)..." +-Carroll Quigley in TRAGEDY AND HOPE, at 855 [MacMillian Company, New +York (1974)]. [Mr. Quigley wants us to believe that the 14000 tons of silver +in its entirety went into an Oak Ridge Government building for electrical +wiring]. =============================================================[226]

+ +

and the same Paul Volcker who now holds a controlling executive position in the +Fed, a position that when he campaigned for it in 1978, he openly called for +the "controlled disintegration" of the United States. [227]

+ +

[227]============================================================= During a +speech at a FRED HIRSCH MEMORIAL LECTURE at Warwick University, Coventry, +England, on November 9, 1978. +=============================================================[227]

+ +

Since the corporate structure of the King's peripheral Commercial interests, of +and by themselves, do not provide the King with a mechanism to work Torts on us +he would be otherwise restrained from doing through executive agencies, I have +no objection to the King creating corporations, and I would suggest that +arguments to the contrary will likely be rebuffed by the Supreme Court. [228]

+ +

[228]============================================================= During +Constitutional ratification discussions, our Founding Fathers did not want to +even talk about the possibility that a National Bank might be created someday, +due to the possible rejection the draft Constitution might encounter as it went +from one State to the next for Ratification: +"The power to incorporate a bank is not among those enumerated in the +constitution. It is known, that the very power, thus proposed, as a means, was +rejected, as an end, by the convention [of 1787], which formed the +Constitution. A proposition was made in that body, to authorize Congress to +open canals, and an amendatory one to empower them to create corporations. But +the whole was rejected; and one of the reasons of the rejection urged in debate +was, that they then would have a power to create a bank, which would render the +great cities, where there was prejudices and jealousies on that subject, +adverse to the adoption of the Constitution [Volume 4, Jefferson's +Correspondence, pages 523 and 524]." +-Joseph Story in III COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION, at 128 ["Powers +of Congress"] (Cambridge, 1833). However, just because the CREATION OF +CORPORATIONS CLAUSE never made it into the final draft of the Constitution, +does not disable the United States today from creating corporations, since many +other enabling acts were written into the Constitution that, although sounding +nice and making the Constitution look complete in appearances, were actually +jurisdictionally unnecessary. +=============================================================[228]

+ +

If at all you question the legal authenticity of my conclusory statements, then +please read M'CULLOCH VS. MARYLAND, [229]

+ +

[229]============================================================= 17 U.S. 316 +(1819). =============================================================[229]

+ +

and tell me that the Congress cannot create corporations or nationally +chartered banks. In that case, the Supreme Court specifically talks, at length, +about the Constitutionality of creating corporations, and the implied powers of +Congress to do so. [230]

+ +

[230]============================================================= "That a +national bank is an appropriate means to carry into effect some of the +enumerated powers of the Government, and that this can be best done by erecting +it into a corporation, may be established by the most satisfactory reasoning. +It has a relationship, more or less direct, to the power of collecting taxes, +to that of borrowing money, to that of regulating trade between the states, and +to those raising and maintaining fleets and armies. And it may be added, that +it has a most important bearing upon the regulation of currency between the +states. It is an instrument, which has been usually applied by Governments in +the administration of their fiscal and financial operations." +-Joseph Story in III COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION 134, ["Powers of +Congress"] (Cambridge, 1833). +=============================================================[230]

+ +

Also foolish is the line that I hear that no tax could possibly be due to the +King, because the IRS is not an Article II Executive Agency and functions as a +private contracting corporation. [231]

+ +

[231]============================================================= The IRS is +not a Federal Agency; see: +-Title 5, Section 903 [PRESIDENTIAL REORGANIZATION JURISDICTION]; +-GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION ORDER Number 26 (1952); +-GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION ORDER Number 1 (1950); +-39 THE FEDERAL REGISTER, Number 62 (26 March 1974), Section 1111.4, +et seq. =============================================================[231]

+ +

I see no general impediment to the King hiring private contractors to assist +him in tax collections. [232]

+ +

[232]============================================================= +Responsibility for the administration and enforcement of the Revenue Laws is +vested in the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to Title 26, Section 7801(a). +In turn, by one more layer of delegation, the Internal Revenue Service is +vested with the tax collection responsibilities for the Secretary. See +DONALDSON VS. UNITED STATES, 400 U.S. 517, at 534 (1970), and 39 THE FEDERAL +REGISTER 2417, et seq. (1970). +=============================================================[232]

+ +

Private contract bounty hunters have been used to find criminal fugitives for +centuries, so why aren't you Protestors objecting to that? Incidentally, in the +old days of our Mother England in the 1700's, there was a practice going around +Europe called PRIVATEERING, which is when small privately owned armed navies +would roam the High Seas in search of prizes to steal for themselves. A +PRIVATEER, then, is an armed vessel, owned, fitted out, and manned by private +parties with a legal commission from a political jurisdiction authorizing it to +capture the vessels and cargo's of the enemy. This legal commission, called a +LETTER OF MARQUE, impressed upon the PRIVATEER'S banditry an aura of legitimacy +in International Law, without which Privateers would be hung as pirates by any +nation's ships fast enough to capture one. But back safely at home, the LETTER +OF MARQUE also served as a legal basis for an Admiralty Court to condemn the +captured property, the Prize, and assign it over to the Privateers themselves +who stole it (this was also called PRIZE JURISDICTION). [233]

+ +

[233]============================================================= PRIVATEERING +and all of its associated intrigue of smuggling, thievery, and pirates, was +once quite active on the High Seas from the 1600's up until the American Civil +War. On the North Coast of Africa there was once numerous occasions in the +early 1800's when American hostages were grabbed and military engagements were +entered into against those little hoodlums called the BARBARY CORSAIRS. [See +THE BARBARY CORSAIRS by S. Lane-Poole, State Mutual Books and Periodical +Service, New York (1985)]. PRIVATEERING was somewhat abolished, or perhaps +toned down, by the DECLARATION OF PARIS in 1856; but PRIVATEERING was extensive +during the Civil War, and the United States Congress soon would be giving +President Abraham Lincoln a grant of jurisdiction to commission Privateers. +[See THE BARBARY COAST by Henry Field, C. Scribner's Sons, New York (1893); and +THE BARBARY SLAVES by Stephen Clissold, P. Elek Publishers, London (1977)]. For +a short story on PRIVATEERS during the Civil War, see the NEW YORK TIMES for +Tuesday, September 29, 1863, page 1, in an article entitled "Another Privateer +Fitting Out," discussing how the Confederate ship THE FLORIDA was offered +French police protection from seizure from Union ships by France while she was +parking at Brest shipyards for repairs. Yet, a variation on PRIVATEERING +continued into the 1900's, as Russian volunteer vessels once seized neutral +commerce in the Red Sea [see Edwin Moxen in RUSSIAN RAIDS ON NEUTRAL COMMERCE, +3 Michigan Law Review 1 (1904)]. For a discussion from a legal perspective on +Privateering and LETTERS OF MARQUE, see THE FIRST FEDERAL COURT by Henry J. +Bourguignon, page 3 [American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia (1977)]. +Today, PRIVATEERING is a crime for American Citizens [see Title 18, Section +1654 "Arming or Serving as Privateers"]. +=============================================================[233]

+ +

[In remarkably similar ways today in the United States, private +contracting Privateers are at work in the IRS, acting under a legal commission, +which largely precludes the imposition of Civil Rights damages because of their +operating under the recourse protective umbrella (color) of Governmental +authority; and like the Privateers of old, today's tax loot is also handed over +to a private party: To the owners of the Federal Reserve System, for payment on +the King's National Debt. And even more astounding in parallel, today's IRS +collection of loot and banditry is also governed under a Federal Court acting +under the rules of Admiralty Jurisdiction, as I will explain later on.]

+ +

That analogy between the PRIVATEERS of old out on the High Seas, and of today's +private contracting termites inside the IRS sounds pretty good, doesn't it? The +requisite blend of comparative background elements of thievery are present, an +underlying tone of IRS illegitimacy runs throughout the analogy, and that, +generally is the kind of talk Tax Protestors like to hear... "looters," +"theft," "banditry" and the like. Yes, analogies like that are music to the +ears of Tax Protestors EXTRAORDINAIRE like Irwin Schiff, [234]

+ +

[234]============================================================= HOW ANYONE +CAN STOP PAYING INCOME TAXES [Freedom Books, Hamden, Connecticut (1982)]. +=============================================================[234]

+ +

and Representative George Hansen. [235]

+ +

[235]============================================================= TO HARASS +OUR PEOPLE: THE IRS AND GOVERNMENT ABUSE OF POWER [Positive Publications, +Washington, D.C. (1984)]. +=============================================================[235]

+ +

But just one tiny little problem surfaces here which makes the PRIVATEERS TO +IRS TERMITES analogy fall apart and collapse, a tiny little problem Irwin +Schiff and George Hansen do not want to talk about -- a tiny little problem +most folks had better start to talk about, NOW, before getting in front of +Father at the Last Day: An invisible Contract. Today, the Protestor has entered +into a series of invisible contracts with the King, numerous contracts which +are invisible to the Protestors, as I will explain later on, so now all of +those termites in the IRS are merely collecting monies rightfully due the King +by contract, whereas in contrast the PRIVATEERS of old had no such contract in +effect to grab the property belonging to others. Therefore, if I was a Federal +Magistrate, I don't know if I would be as patient as some of the State and +Federal Magistrates I have seen in hearings and trials in trying to explain +error to a Constitutionalist, so called, but whose words were falling on death +ears. One prime example of how the carefully chosen words of a Federal Judge +falls on death ears, occurs when a petitioner is being rebuffed when throwing a +challenge to the Constitutionality of either the Federal Reserve System or +Federal Reserve Notes at the Judge. One of the reasons why Federal Magistrates +and the United States Supreme Court are so reluctant to declare the Fed or its +Notes as being unConstitutional [aside from the fact that many Federal Judges +find the idea to be philosophically uncomfortable and ideologically irritating] +is because, as a matter of Law, the use and recirculation of Federal Reserve +Notes falls under the governing doctrine applicable to Commercial Contract Law +Jurisprudence, so the Constitution is largely irrelevant right from the +beginning, as the entire closed private domain of King's Commerce is a +benefit/privilege created by the Congress, and there is nothing in the +Constitution to restrain it. [236]

+ +

[236]============================================================= Federal +Judges took their cue long ago to lay off legislative prerogatives in this area +of circulating paper money: +"The case of TREVETT VS. WELDON, in 1786, in Rhode Island, is an +instance of this sort... The judges in that case decided, that a law making +paper money a tender in payment of debts was unconstitutional and against the +principles of magna carta. They were compelled to appear before the legislature +to vindicate themselves; and the next year... they were left out of office for +having questioned the legislative power." +-Joseph Story in III COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION, at 469, +footnote 1 (Cambridge, 1833). +=============================================================[236]

+ +

Assuming for a moment, ARGUENDO, that the interposition of Contract Law was +irrelevant, then aside from that there are a large number of separate and +distinct sources of jurisdiction the King can claim as authority to issue out +debased paper currency. But before listing those sources, we need to back up a +step. An examination of the Federal Reserve's Charter also reveals that, in +Warburg's devilishly brilliant cleverness, the Congress never recited any +specific sources of Constitutional Jurisdiction when it created the Fed. +Nowhere in its Charter does it say something like "... the powers of Article I, +Section 10 are hereby invoked..." An examination of numerous other statutory +programs reveals that the Congress rarely ever bothers to recite its claimed +sources of Constitutional Jurisdiction for those programs either (in those Acts +that I have searched through). Since the Congress did not recite any +Constitutional sources of authority when it allegedly passed the Federal +Reserve Act, [237]

+ +

[237]============================================================= Whether or +not there was a legal minimum quorum in the United States Senate on that +pre-Christmas December day of 1913, is disputed. +=============================================================[237]

+ +

this now means that whenever a Protestor comes forward today and throws a Case +at a Federal Judge where the Constitutionality of the Federal Reserve is being +challenged, the United States Attorney General is thereby free to throw any set +of defensive arguments back at the Protestor that the Attorney General feels +like, in order to justify the Constitutionality of the challenged Act of +Congress. The bottom line is that the Attorney General can and will claim +sources of Constitutional Jurisdiction at some future date that the Congress +never really contemplated when it originally created the program (if a quorum +ever really did exist to create the Fed). However unfair this appears to be, +would someone please show me where the Constitution requires the Congress to +recite its enabling Jurisdiction on each Act it passes? The Framers were also +negligent in this respect, and so there is no such recital requirement, and so +now the Attorney General is free to come up with a long list of claimed sources +of Constitutional Jurisdiction that the Protestor never ever dreamed of; a list +that the Congress never really considered at the time of possible enactment; a +list that Federal Judges are well acquainted with; a list that I will be +showing you later on.

+ +

But first, we need to cover some background material so the concepts I am about +to explain can be understood easily. Remember that correct Principles of Nature +operate across all factual settings; if the Principle is correct, what works in +one factual setting will work for similar reasons in another setting. So with +that in mind, if we had a power boat built for us, and that boat had say, 12 +gas tanks built into it (perhaps distributed throughout the hull as ballast to +achieve some desired weight and loading balancing effects), or if we were +piloting an L-1011 jet aircraft with the numerous bladder, wing, and fuselage +fuel tanks that it has located throughout its body, then in order for the boat +or jet to be stopped dead cold, all fuel tanks individually need to be empty, +first. If so much as one fuel tank has any fuel in it at all, then the boat or +jet will continue forward at maximum cruising velocity, without any letup, +until all tanks are completely empty. Only the complete exhaustion of all fuel +from all of the separate fuel tanks, without any exceptions, will return the +jet or boat into that quiescent state of rest that it once came from. The fact +that one or several of the fuel tanks may be vacant of fuel will offer no +propulsion impairment or reduction in velocity -- NONE WHATSOEVER.

+ +

As we turn from a high-powered machine or aviation setting where a manufactured +product is under propulsion from multiple and independent sources of fuel, as +we turn from that setting to a setting where a legal product was also +manufactured by men, like the Federal Reserve Board (Incorporated), we found +out that its propulsion also originates from multiple sources of jurisdictional +fuel. And so in order to return the Federal Reserve Board to its quiescent +STATUS QUO ANTE state of non-existence, of pre-December, 1913, then a large +number of separate and distinct sources of Constitutional fuel need to be +individually voided. If so much as one single source of Constitutional fuel is +left remaining -- just so much as one single Clause -- by having survived the +blows of a Protestor in adversary judicial proceedings, then the Federal +Reserve Board will carry on at maximum cruising velocity with the same +identical full force and effect as if the Protestor had never thrown anything +at the Fed. Mindful of this background information, now we can discuss the +multiple sources of jurisdictional fuel that the King has got up his sleeve to +retortionally throw back at pesky little Protestors.

+ +

While examining the main Legal Tender and National bank related cases in the +Supreme Court, [238]

+ +

[238]============================================================= +-M'CULLOCH VS. MARYLAND, 17 U.S. 316 (1819); +-HEPBURN VS. GRISWOLD, 75 U.S. 603 (1870); +-KNOX VS. LEE, 79 U.S. 457 (1871); +-JULLIARD VS. GREENMAN, 110 U.S. 421 (1884). +=============================================================[238]

+ +

we see that the right of the Congress to create a bank and have that bank issue +out national currency, as well the right of Congress to designate anything it +wants as Legal Tender, is a power directly related to the right of the +Congress, by both express and incidental powers:

+ +

1.To declare war; [239] +2.To suppress insurrection; +3.To raise and support armies; [240] +4.To provide and maintain a navy (notice the words "maintain" and +"support," as they mean financially through taxes and money); +5.To regulate Interstate Commerce; [241] +6.To facilitate the laying and collecting of taxes; [242] +7.Existing as an attribute of Sovereignty; [243] +8.To coin and circulate money pursuant to Article I, Section 8; +9.To pay debts and facilitate the borrowing of money on the credit of +the United States (Article I, Section 8); [244] +10.To provide for the common defense and general welfare.

+ +

[239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244]====================================

+ +

[239]The Legal Tender statutes were enacted in the Civil War era, when +national resources were stretched thin: +"... to handle the vast amount of means necessary for the prosecution +of this war, to enable the people to pay in and the Government to pay out, we +must have a larger and more abundant currency that we have heretofore found to +be necessary. The accustomed currency [of hard gold and silver] is wholly +inadequate. The Government has for many years used only gold and silver for +this purpose, and it is deeply lamented that it is obliged to depart from this +desirable standard. But we are left with no option." +-Representative John Crisfield of Maryland, in a speech before +Congress on February 5, 1862 [CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, +Appendix, page 48 et seq.].

+ +

[240]"... the National Government [can] exercise... its powers to establish +and maintain a bank, implied as an incident to the borrowing, taxing, war, and +other powers specifically granted to the National Government by Article I, +Section 8 of the Constitution." +-HELVERING VS. GERHARDT, 304 U.S. 405, at 411 (1937).

+ +

[241]"The power to regulate commerce is general and unlimited in its terms. +The full power to regulate a particular subject implies the whole power, and +leaves no residium." +-Joseph Story in III COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION, at 513 ["Powers +of Congress -- Commerce"] (Cambridge, 1833).

+ +

[242]"Here the substantive power to tax was allowed to be employed for +improving the currency." +-KNOX VS. LEE, 79 U.S. 457, at 544 (1871).

+ +

[243]"The power to coin money is one of the ordinary prerogatives of +Sovereignty, and is almost universally exercised in order to preserve a proper +circulation of good coin of a known value in the home market... In England, +this prerogative belongs to the Crown; and in former ages, it was greatly +abused; for base coin was often coined and circulated by its authority, at a +value far above its intrinsic worth; and thus taxes of a burdensome nature were +indirectly laid upon the people." +-Joseph Story in III COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION, at 17 ["Powers +of Congress -- Coinage"] (Cambridge, 1833).

+ +

[244]"A bank has a direct relation to the power of borrowing money, because it +is an unusual, and in sudden emergencies, an essential instrument, in the +obtaining of loans to Government. A nation is threatened with a war; large sums +are wanted on a sudden [basis] to make the requisite preparations; taxes are +laid for this purpose; but it requires time to obtain the benefit of them; +anticipation is indispensable. If there is a bank, the supply can at once be +had; if there be none, loans from individuals must be sought. The progress of +these is often too slow for the exigency; in some situations they are not +practical at all." +-Joseph Story in III COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION, at 139 +[footnote -- "Powers of Congress -- Bank"] (Cambridge, 1833).

+ +

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+ +

all of which were involved, to a lessor and greater extent, at the time the +LEGAL TENDER ACTS were enacted by the Congress in the Civil War era of the +1800's. [245]

+ +

[245]============================================================= "We do not +propose to dilate at length upon the circumstances i which the country was +placed when Congress attempted to make Treasury Notes a Legal Tender. They are +of too recent occurrence to justify enlarged description. Suffice it to say +that a Civil War was then raging which seriously threatened the overthrow of +the Government and the destruction of the Constitution itself. It demanded the +equipment and support of large armies and navies, and the employment of money +to an extent beyond the capacity of all ordinary sources of supply. Meanwhile, +the public Treasury was nearly empty, and the credit of the Government, if not +stretched to its utmost tension, had become nearly exhausted. Moneyed +institutions had advanced largely of their means, and more could not be +expected of them. They had been compelled to suspend specie payments. Taxation +was inadequate to pay even the interest on the debt already incurred, and it +was impossible to await the income of additional taxes. The necessity was +immediate and pressing. The army was unpaid. There was then due to the soldiers +in the field nearly a score of millions of dollars. The requisition from the +War and Navy Departments for supplies exceeded fifty millions, and the current +expenditure was over one million per day. The entire amount of coin in the +country, including that in private hands, as well as that in banking +institutions, was insufficient to supply the need of the Government for three +months, had it all poured into the Treasury. Foreign credit we had none. We say +nothing of the overhanging paralysis of trade, and of business generally, which +threatened loss of confidence in the ability of the Government to maintain its +continued existence, and therewith the complete destruction of all remaining +national credit. +"It was at this time and in such circumstances that Congress was called +upon to devise means for maintaining the army and navy, for securing the large +supplies of money needed and, indeed, for the preservation of the Government +created by the Constitution. It was at such a time and in such an emergency +that nothing else would have supplied the absolute necessities of the Treasury, +that nothing else would have enabled the Government to maintain its armies and +navies, that nothing else would have saved the Government and the Constitution +from destruction, while the Legal Tender Acts would, could any one be bold +enough to assert that Congress transgressed its powers? Or if these enactments +did not work these results, can it be maintained now that they were not for a +legitimate end, or 'appropriate and adapted to that end?' in the language of +Chief Justice Marshall? That they did work such results is not to be doubted. +Something revived the drooping faith of the people; something brought +immediately to the Government's aid the resources of the nation, and something +enabled the successful prosecution of the war, and the preservation of national +life. What was it, if not the Legal Tender enactments?" +-KNOX VS. LEE, 79 U.S. 457, at 539 (1871). +=============================================================[245]

+ +

And the correlation in effect between the right to enact Legal Tender Statutes +and the various War Powers of the Congress applies both in times of war, [246]

+ +

[246]============================================================= +-KNOX VS. LEE, 79 U.S. 457 (1871). +=============================================================[246]

+ +

and also in times of peace. [247]

+ +

[247]============================================================= JULLIARD VS. +GREENMAN, 110 U.S. 421 (1884). +=============================================================[247]

+ +

So what is important for Tax Protestors to understand is that when they attack +either the Federal Reserve in whole or part, or the designation of its +CIRCULATING EVIDENCES OF DEBT at Legal Tender -- and the Protestor goes through +all of the Supreme Court rulings on the MONEY COIN CLAUSE in Article I, Section +8, [248]

+ +

[248]============================================================= As a point +of beginning, Article I, Section 10 limits itself to the STATES ["No State +shall..."], and not to the Congress. +"The states can no longer declare what shall be money, or regulate its +value." +-KNOX VS. LEE, 79 U.S. 457, at 545 (1871). Protestors trying to argue +now that Article I, Section 10 restrains the Congress -- meaning something +directly contrary to what is written, is considerable foolishness. +=============================================================[248]

+ +

and all the Constitutional Convention debates on the MONEY COIN CLAUSE, and the +material discussed in secret Convention meetings back in 1787, and all of the +Legislation enacted pursuant thereto, and all of the quotations from the +Founding Fathers, such as in Max Farrand's works [249]

+ +

[249]============================================================= THE RECORDS +OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION OF 1787 [Yale University Press, New Haven (1937); 4 +volumes]. =============================================================[249]

+ +

or "The Federalist," and numerous other private correspondence, and all the +lower court opinions on CHOSES IN ACTION and coins and debasement theories, and +of their citations on the monetary disabilities of the United States; after the +Tax Protestor goes through all that work and effort, he has only told the +Supreme Court about 10% of what the Supreme Court needs to hear in order to +invalidate the Status of Federal Reserve Notes as Legal Tender instruments: +Because the right to create banks and let that bank circulate Legal Tender is +also related to WAR POWERS and the SUPPRESSION OF DOMESTIC INSURRECTIONS, to +RAISING TAXES, [250]

+ +

[250]============================================================= See THE +FEDERAL TAXING POWER AS A MEANS OF ESTABLISHING A UNIFIED BANKING SYSTEM, Notes +["Legislation"], 46 Harvard Law Review 143 (1932). +=============================================================[250]

+ +

the INTERSTATE COMMERCE CLAUSE, the Article I, Section 8 MONEY COIN CLAUSE, and +the RAISING AND FINANCING ARMIES AND NAVIES CLAUSES, and of course SOVEREIGNTY +itself -- and they are independent stand-alone sources of jurisdiction that +have to be attacked individually, just like a jet or boat with several fuel +tanks needs to have each separate tank vacated before the vehicle will come to +a stationary state. [251]

+ +

[251]============================================================= "It is +absolutely essential to independent national existence that Government should +have a firm hold on the two great Sovereign instrumentalities of the sword and +the purse, and the right to wield them without restriction on occasions of +national peril. In certain emergencies Government must have at its command, not +only the personal services -- the bodies and lives -- of its Citizens, but the +lessor, though not less essential, power of absolute control over the resources +of the country. Its armies must be filled, and its navies manned, by the +Citizens in person. Its materials of war, its munitions, equipment, and +commissary stores must come from the industry of the country. This can only be +stimulated into activity by a proper financial system, especially as regards +the currency." +-KNOX VS. LEE, 79 U.S. 457 [Justice Bradley, concurring] (1871). +=============================================================[251]

+ +

Will someone please tell me how to challenge the Fed based on the INTERSTATE +COMMERCE CLAUSE? [252]

+ +

[252]============================================================= "The power +of Congress over interstate commerce is 'complete in itself, may be executed to +its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in +the Constitution'." +-UNITED STATES VS. DARBY, 312 U.S. 100, at 114 (1940). +=============================================================[252]

+ +

What grant of intervening and manipulative power is more broad than the +Interstate Commerce Clause? With that Clause, anything goes. How are you going +to attack Federal Reserve Notes as being a defective use of the RAISING AND +FINANCING OR ARMIES AND NAVIES CLAUSES? [253]

+ +

[253]============================================================= Remember the +Legal Tender statutes were born in the fires of the Civil War, when there was a +great exigency and importance associated with the idea of raising a lot of +money very quickly; yet, there were also disagreements on the floor of the +Congress, and reservations were expressed then as to the Constitutionality of +the proposed paper money that would be circulating: +"The sum of the whole argument has been made in favor of the +Constitutionality of the power of Congress to declare the Treasury notes +contemplated by this bill a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and +private, may be stated in these three propositions: +"First, Congress may declare these notes a legal tender because +it is not inhibited; +"Secondly, the Government must maintain itself, and Congress +may exercise all the power and adopt any measure it judges necessary for that +object; +"Thirdly, that the power to declare these notes a legal tender +is a means necessary and proper to the full execution of the power to regulate +commerce. +"This provision is as inexpedient as it is unconstitutional. It is a +legislative declaration of national bankruptcy. It is saying to the world that +this Government is unable to meet its obligations at their real value; and must +compound with its creditors at a discount... +"This provision attempts the impossible thing of giving to paper the +value of gold..." +-Representative John Crisfield of Maryland, in a speech in Congress on +February 5, 1862 [CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, Appendix, +page 48 et seq.] +=============================================================[253]

+ +

The answer is that you are not going to. There are some sharp attorneys like +Edwin Vieira (Mr. Solyom's attorney), [254]

+ +

[254]============================================================= Edwin Vieira +represented Richard Solyom in a Stated related EMINENT DOMAIN PROCEEDING, and +challenged the right of a State to force the acceptance of Federal Reserve +Notes as the QUID PRO QUO for his land that the State wanted to grab. Edwin +Vieira argued the monetary disabilities of Article I, Section 10 in an action +against a STATE, which at least is a correct point of beginning -- a lot more +than what I can say for Tax Protestors throwing Article I, Section 10 arguments +at THE CONGRESS. Edwin Vieira also wrote a book discussing the monetary powers +and disabilities of the United States Constitution; see PIECES OF EIGHT by +Edwin Vieira, Jr. [Devin-Adair, Old Greenwich, Connecticut (1983)]. +=============================================================[254]

+ +

and on the other hand there are some INTELLIGENTSIA clowns; and any judicial +rebuffment experienced by attorneys throwing Protestor caliber arguments at +Federal Judges is a FULLY EARNED ACCOUNT >phrase originated by Ayn Rand<, as +any flaky arguments centered singularly around just the GOLD AND SILVER COIN +CLAUSE of Article I, Section 10 are just plain stupid: You are misleading your +readers, delivering naught to your clients for your fees, and as attorneys you +should know better. [255]

+ +

[255]============================================================= You lawyers +use that license of your's as a tool to impress and intellectually intimidate +people, and since that is your standard, I would then hold you to it and order +your disbarment if I had any supervisory jurisdictional interest in your +license, just like Jerome Daly from Minnesota was once suspended from the +Practice of Law for his flaky money arguments. In the JUSTICE OF THE PEACE +COURT for Credit River, Minnesota, on December 7, 1968, Jerome Daly once scored +an impressive victory before a jury, on what was largely a stipulated factual +setting of FAILURE OF CONSIDERATION on a $14000 mortgage that Jerome Daly had +defaulted on. Seemingly, he was off to a good start, but a continuing series of +rebuffments later on before judges cast his money arguments off on an illicit +tangent, and when he refused to back off, his license was suspended. +=============================================================[255]

+ +

Other rulings also affirm the broad application of monetary powers. Later on in +VEAZIE BANK VS. FENNO, [256]

+ +

[256]============================================================= 75 U.S. 533 +(1869). =============================================================[256]

+ +

the Chief Justice, speaking for the Supreme Court, ruled that it is the +Constitutional right of the Congress to provide a currency for the whole +country; and that this might be done with coin, or by United States Notes, or +by notes of banks chartered by the Congress. Other cases replicate the same +line. For example:

+ +

"In VEAZIE BANK VS. FENNO [75 U.S. 533 (1869)], decided at the present +term, this court held, after full consideration, that it was the privilege of +Congress to furnish this country with the currency to be used by it in the +transaction of business, whether this was done by means of coin, of notes of +the United States, or of banks created by Congress." [257]

+ +

[257]============================================================= HEPBURN VS. +GRISWOLD, 75 U.S. 603 (1870). +=============================================================[257]

+ +

So asking a Federal Judge to declare the Federal Reserve System or its Notes as +being unConstitutional based on the MONETARY CLAUSE of Article I, Section 8 is +facially only a small slice of the larger total argument pie that Judges need +to hear. [258]

+ +

[258]============================================================= When I +advocate folks taking cognizance of the fact that the King has many different +independent sources of jurisdiction to pull from in order to justify the +existence of the Federal Reserve Board and those paper notes that his Legal +Tender statutes have designated to be his currency, please do not construe that +with any philosophical inclination on my part that might appear to favor the +King issuing out such paper based circulating instruments that excite Gremlins +so much in elevated enscrewment ecstacy; I am different from Protestors only in +the limited sense that I always evaluate both sides of an issue before throwing +something at a Judge. Refusing to badmouth adversaries does not mean that you +agree with them philosophically, nor does it inferentially suggest that one is +in alignment with the adversary's objectives; refusing to badmouth means no +more than realizing that the true remedy for correcting these currency Torts +will not lie in a Courtroom. Therefore, by examining the case from the +adversary's perspective, frequently I uncover real error in positions taken by +Protestors, but by examining the case from the King's perspective, that does +not mean that I am sympathetic with the King's MODUS OPERANDI or his +objectives. Unlike Protestors, I do not walk into a judicial confrontation with +anyone assuming that I am absolutely right, convinced that there is nothing the +other fellow has to say that is of any value, and then simply expecting justice +to be administered in my favor -- such a person is necessarily in a very +UNTEACHABLE state of mind -- he will miss many low profile movements going on +that are suggestive of error. There may very well be some error in my position +that I did not see (or understand the significance of), so my excursions into +judicial arenas are always exploratory in nature, and I keep myself in a +teachable state of mind (a MODUS OPERANDI Protestors would be wise to consider +emulating). =============================================================[258]

+ +

One of the reasons lies in the right of Congress to regulate Interstate +Commerce through its COMMERCE CLAUSE (and arguing deficiencies in that +jurisdiction is foolishness). So any Constitutional infirmity or tension in +effect between the Federal Reserve System and Article I, Section 8 offers no +reason whatever for dissolving the Fed; as the COMMERCE CLAUSE neatly picks up +all the loose ends where the restrictive coinage jurisdiction conferred by +Article I, Section 8 might possibly be imperfect, and renders Judicial +dissolution of the Fed inappropriate. [259]

+ +

[259]============================================================= Some Federal +Reserve Protestors I know are planning to throw some novel protesting arguments +at Federal Judges. Having concluded that quoting Constitutional restrainments +is unlikely to perfect judicial dissolution of the Federal Reserve System [and +correctly so as a factual matter], these Protestors have decided to step down +one level and just cite judicial reasoning in an attempt to dismantle a small +appendage of the Fed, called the FEDERAL OPEN MARKET COMMITTEE, or FOMC. By +researching Supreme Court cases back in the 1930's, an era when Judicial +annulment of Nelson Rockefeller's social welfare LEX [through his public +nominee, imp FDR] was in vogue, these Protestors intend to cite Cases like: +-PANAMA REFINING COMPANY VS. RYAN, 293 U.S. 388 (1934); +-SCHECHTER POULTRY VS. UNITED STATES, 295 U.S. 495 (1935); +-JAMES CARTER VS. CARTER COAL COMPANY, 298 U.S. 238 (1936); and then +pursuant to reasoning in those Cases, argue that the delegation of regulatory +commercial matters by the Congress to a non-juristic business association of +some type, is unConstitutional: +"But would it be seriously contended that Congress could delegate its +legislative authority to trade or industrial associations or groups as to +empower them to enact the laws they deem to be wise and beneficent for the +rehabilitation and expansion of their trade or industry? Could trade or +industrial associations or groups be constituted legislative bodies for that +purpose because such associations or groups are familiar with the problems of +their enterprises? And could an effort of that sort be made valid by such a +preface of generalities as to permissible aims as we find in [this NATIONAL +INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT that the Supreme Court is about to run into the +ground]? The answer is obvious. Such a delegation of legislative power is +unknown to our Law and is utterly inconsistent with the Constitutional +prerogatives and duties of Congress." +-SCHECHTER POULTRY VS. UNITED STATES, 295 U.S. 495, at 537 (1935). No +where in the Constitution does it state that "... the Congress shall not +delegate any of its regulatory powers over Commerce to business +associations..." -- as there are numerous negative restrainments and positive +requirements deemed binding on the Congress, but no where appearing in the +Constitution; many are reasonably inferred as existing incidental to what the +Constitution otherwise expressly mandates. By going after just the FEDERAL OPEN +MARKET COMMITTEE appendage within the Fed, and not the Fed itself, these +Protestors are emulating a successful MODUS OPERANDI used extensively by +Gremlins themselves -- by selectively hacking away at something here a little, +and there a little -- slowly and patiently. Whether or not these Protestors +will ultimately succeed is inconclusive at the present time. There is some +merit to their DELEGATION QUESTION arguments as limited just to the FEDERAL +OPEN MARKET COMMITTEE itself within the Fed; and these arguments are not +overruled by the other wide ranging fundamental sources of jurisdictional fuel +the King has to create the larger Federal Reserve. ... And for Protestors +searching for something to throw at the Gremlin's enrichment Goliath, that's +enough. I am concerned about whether or not these Protestors can create a sound +JUSTICIABLE CONTROVERSY, which is another question; to the extent that the +FEDERAL OPEN MARKET COMMITTEE massages around and regulates with juristic force +banks and related financial institutions, STANDING is necessarily limited to +the affected parties absent an evidentiary presentation of the cascading train +of damages originating within the inner sanctums of the FOMC, that were +eventually experienced by the Plaintiff. I would feel more comfortable with the +probable outcome of this impending Case if an FOMC regulated institution itself +appeared as the Plaintiff. Nevertheless, these Protestors will find that +judicial reaction will be mixed -- there are Federal Judges who are sympathetic +with their arguments (as there is merit to them), while there are other TOUGH +COOKIE Federal Judges who will take advantage of the factual opportunity this +impending Case presents to them, by throwing snortations at the Protestors. +=============================================================[259]

+ +

Yes, Virginia, Paul Warburg knew what he was doing. But even that is not the +full story.

+ +

QUESTION: How are you Protestors going to attack Federal Reserve Notes on the +floor of the United States Supreme Court? How are you going to attack +Sovereignty itself? Are you going to try and attack the essence of Sovereignty +itself by quoting from the devil himself? If you can't find a quotation from +Lucifer slicing down Sovereignty, then maybe a quotation from one of his hard +working Gremlin assistants might be a point of beginning. [260]

+ +

[260]============================================================= Gremlin +Zbigniew Brzezinski writing in BETWEEN TWO AGES: AMERICA'S ROLE IN THE +TECHNETRONIC AGE, once advocated that the fiction of Sovereignty must be +replaced with reality: +"The doctrine of sovereignty created the institutional basis for +challenging the secular authority of established religion, and this challenge +in turned paved the way for the emergence of the abstract conception of the +nation-state. Sovereignty vested in the people, instead of Sovereignty vested +in the king, was the consummation of the process which in the two centuries +preceding the French and American revolutions radically altered the structure +of authority in the West and prepared the ground for a new dominant concept of +reality... +"The nation-state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has +ceased to be the principal creative force: 'International banks and +multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in +advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.' But as the +nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty, the psychological +importance of the national community is rising, and the attempt to establish an +equilibrium between the imperatives of the [Corporate Socialist Rockefeller +Cartel's] new internationalism and the need for a more intimate national +community is the source of frictions and conflicts." +-Gremlin Zbigniew Brzezinski in BETWEEN TWO AGES: AMERICA'S ROLE IN +THE TECHNETRONIC AGE, at 70 and 56 [Viking Press, New York City (1970)]. +=============================================================[260]

+ +

Well, an attack on Sovereignty like that, although a majestic goal for Gremlins +as they tear down our existing Constitution and the Juristic Institution it +created, and try and replace it with their own, is not much. So now just how +does an inherent prerogative of the Sovereign, of this right to issue out money +any way he feels like it, violate the King's Charter? Answer: There is no +violation -- there is no express Clause restraining the Congress to circulate +only that currency that physically contains gold and silver -- and you are not +going to get the chance before the Supreme Court to attack it. [261]

+ +

[261]============================================================= Juristic +institutions descend to the level of Commercial game players whenever they +enter into the world of Commerce; so it can be argued that Sovereignty takes a +back seat under some circumstances [this interesting Supreme Court Doctrine on +the declension in status and loss of Sovereignty whenever the King enters into +Commerce, appears in this Letter later with discussing those CIRCULATING +EVIDENCES OF DEBT, Federal Reserve Notes]. +=============================================================[261]

+ +

Our Founding Fathers did not tie the King's giblets down tight enough with that +level of explicit and blunt language that all Kings need to be restrained by. +[262]

+ +

[262]============================================================= For example, +the original draft versions of the Second and Fifth Amendments were far more +specific and restrictive than the negotiated comprised milktoast versions that +finally made it through the Congress of 1787. Yes, the Constitution was an +INSPIRED DOCUMENT, but an INSPIRED DOCUMENT does not mean PERFECT DOCUMENT: +"We believe that God raised up George Washington, that He raised up +Thomas Jefferson, that He raised up Benjamin Franklin and those other Patriots +who carved out with their swords and with their pens the character and +stability of this great Government which they hoped would stand forever, an +asylum for the oppressed of all nations, where no man's religion would be +questioned, no man would be limited in his honest service to his Maker, so long +as he did not infringe upon the rights of his fellow men. We believe those men +were inspired to do their work, as we do that Joseph Smith was inspired to +begin this work; just as Galileo, Columbus, and other mighty men of old... were +inspired to gradually pave the way leading to this Dispensation; Sentinels, +standing at different periods down the centuries, playing their parts as they +were inspired of God; gradually dispelling the darkness as they were empowered +by their Creator so to do, that in culmination of the grand scheme of schemes, +this great nation, the Republic of the United States, might be established upon +this land as an asylum for the oppressed; a resting place [a sanctuary] it +might be said, for the ARK OF THE COVENANT, where the Temple of our God might +be built; where the PLAN OF SALVATION might be introduced and practiced in +freedom, and not a dog would wag his tongue in opposition to the purposes of +the Almighty. We believe that this was His object in creating the Republic of +the United States; the only land where His work could be commenced or the feet +of his people come to rest. No other land had such liberal institutions, had +adopted so broad a platform upon which all men might stand. We give glory to +those Patriots for the noble work they did; but we given first glory to God, +our Father and their Father, who inspired them. We take them by the hand as +brothers. We believe they did nobly their work, even as we would fain do ours, +faithfully and well, that we might not be recreant in the eyes of God, for +failing to perform the mission to which He has appointed us." +-Orson F. Whitney, in a discourse delivered at the Tabernacle on April +19, 1885; 26 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 194, at 200 [London (1886)]. +=============================================================[262]

+ +

And so any attack on Federal Reserve Notes will require such an explicit and +bluntly worded Constitutional Amendment, and that is a political operation for +the Legislatures to handle, not something lending itself well in nature to a +Judicial remedy. At best the Judiciary can rule on cases with the outcome +carefully designed to give the Congress an incentive to get going. An honest +assessment of the total factual setting of monetary history in the United +States will emphasize general naivete among the members of the American +legislatures in 1787: They didn't know what they were doing, collectively +speaking, although there were a few who did raise their voices in opposition to +paper money, like Roger Sherman. [263]

+ +

[263]============================================================= For example, +in the Continental Congress on August 28th, 1787, "Article 12 was being +discussed. Article 12 was proposed to be as follows: +"Article XII. No state shall coin money; nor grant letters of marque +and reprisals; nor enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; nor grant +any title of Nobility." "Mr. Wilson and Mr. Roger Sherman moved to insert after +the words COIN MONEY the words TO EMIT BILLS OF CREDIT, NOR MAKE ANY THING BUT +GOLD AND SILVER COIN A TENDER IN PAYMENT OF DEBTS, thus making those +prohibitions against paper money absolute. "Mr. Ghorum thought the purpose +would be well secured by the provision of Article XIII, which makes the consent +of the General Legislature necessary, and in that mode, no opposition would be +excited; whereas an absolute prohibition of paper money would rouse the most +desperate opposition from its partizans. "Mr. Sherman thought this a favorable +crisis for crushing paper money. If the consent of the Legislature could +authorize emissions of it, the friends of paper money would make every exertion +to get into the legislature in order to license it." +-see Max Farrand's II RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION OF 1787, at +page 439 [Yale University Press, New Haven (1911-1937)]. Notice how Mr. Sherman +and Mr Ghorum were concerned, knowledgeable and aware of the exterior +opposition to prohibiting the emission of paper bills. There was opposition +lying around the Countryside, opposed to making hard gold and silver mandatory +with no legislative discretion allowed to substitute paper bills for gold and +silver coin. So the reason why we have fraudulent Federal Reserve Notes running +around today is because our Founding Fathers failed to tie the King down +yesterday -- and Federal Judges are not Commie pinkos when tossing out +arguments attacking Federal Reserve Notes. Our Founding Fathers specifically +declined to make explicit and blunt prohibitions against the emission of paper +bills because they knew then that few people wanted such a mandatory +restrainment operating on the Congress, and our Fathers in 1787 did not want to +create opposition to the proposed new Constitution designed to replace the +ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION. So what we are left with today is the milktoast of +Article I, Section 8. Gremlins have merely take advantage of what our Fathers +circumvented back then; and our Fathers found themselves in such a position +because a lot of folks did not want prohibitions against the emission of paper +bills. We did this to ourselves, and Patriots are snickering at the wrong +people. =============================================================[263]

+ +

Remember that the Britannic Crown was still quite popular then, and the +American Revolution was a minority rights operation, with many bleeding heart +native Americans opposing severance from the Crown. And there were also just +too few George Masons to go around. The experientially wise know that you +never, ever deal with a King with negative restraining clauses in contracts +except under the most explicit and blunt words that the English Language +offers, because the King will always figure out ways to claim some implicit +permission to work his way around a restraining clause that is sounding in +milktoast; but our Fathers didn't do that. And compounding the problem drafting +such specific language, sprinkled in between the floor debates and political +comprises, were a few traitors of strong influence (like Alexander Hamilton, +who married indirectly into the House of Rothschild). [264]

+ +

[264]============================================================= Alexander +Hamilton was born Alexander Levine, of Jewish lineage, in St. Croix, the West +Indies. After changing his name and his geographical situs, he married +Elizabeth Schuyler, the second daughter of Phillip Schuyler, at the bride's +home in Albany, New York, on December 14, 1780. The bride's mother was +Catherine van Rensselaer, daughter of Colonel John R. van Rensselaer, who was +the son of Hendrik, the grandson of Killiaen, the first Partroon, and Engeltke +(Angelica) Livingston. The bride had been characterized as: +"... a brunette with the most good natured, dark, lovely eyes that I +ever saw, which threw a beam of good temper and benevolence over her entire +countenance." The bride was just over 23, and the groom was 25. Alexander's +courtship with Elizabeth that year had been very brief, as the arranged +marriage that it was. While others have uncovered payment records in the +British Museum in London from the Rothschilds to their nominee Alexander +Hamilton, an examination of his political orientation [particularly his drive +to create a national bank] magnifies his Gremlin stature. There is quite a +large number of Alexander Hamilton related biographics and profile sketches +floating around. See "THE INTIMATE LIFE OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON," by Allan +Hamilton [Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1910) [quote on the bride's +description, id., at page 95]; and "ALEXANDER HAMILTON: YOUTH TO MATURITY, 1755 +- 1788," by Broades Mitchell [MacMillian Company, New York (1957)]. +=============================================================[264]

+ +

who knew exactly what they were doing, for and on behalf of their sponsors. +[265]

+ +

[265]============================================================= There has +always been a period of Time in the United States when well sponsored imps have +ascended into positions of political prominence; sometimes into Juristic +Institutions, and other times they operate on the outside, perhaps as a +director of a foundation, a historian, or a university professor of some type. +One such imp, financially sponsored by Rockefeller Cartel interests, has been +Rexford Tugwell, who likes to create the image that he is a historian. In one +of his books, entitled THE EMERGING CONSTITUTION, he really shows off his +Gremlin colors. He tries to throw derogatory characterizations at our Founding +Fathers by pointing attention over to such things as the acreage of land once +owned by Thomas Jefferson and other economic profile information; but the fact +that the Four Rockefeller Brothers are financially sponsoring little Tug +himself to write a new Constitution to enrich the Brothers is, of course, +something this little imp, speaking with a forked tongue, remains silent on. +And he has, of course, just the right solution for all those CRUCIAL American +legal ailments: A new Constitution >see TEXT FILE on THE NEWSTATES +CONSTITUTION, available on some BBS's for downloading< -- designed along +Corporate Socialist lines that would enrich his sponsors in the Rockefeller +Cartel. Under this new Constitution, large private corporations assume several +of the functions once held exclusively by Juristic Institutions -- such as +criminal prosecutions, the regulation of business, issuance of commercial +licenses, and, of course, there is no Trial by Jury. Rexford Tugwell shows off +his true Gremlin colors by coming down on those great triple Gremlin irritants: +LAISSEZ-FAIRE, INDIVIDUALISM, and the INDEPENDENCE of national Sovereignty: +"So much for the Constitution. But it did not end there; continuing +suspicion of authority allowed LAISSEZ-FAIRE to thrive beyond its time and +allowable scope; and the propensity to contrive produced an affluence we did +not use to advantage because we held to INDIVIDUALISM and INDEPENDENCE in +theory although we created a system of social and economic complexes requiring +integration and organic management. If these generalizations are accepted, they +describe a curious and unanticipated outcome. It is not certain, for instance, +how much of our affluence is owed to the INDIVIDUALISM that now threatens to +choke its own further growth... +"Yet the myth of INDEPENDENCE and INDIVIDUALISM persists, mostly +nowadays as a political appeal, but it furnishes assurances to unthinking +citizens. These words are regarded with cynical tolerance by intellectuals; but +they still have an appeal to the electorate, and they will until a more +realistic approach has made its way into people's minds... +"The laws establishing [administrative] agencies did not clearly +recognize that the businesses involved were using resources belonging to the +people, and lacking this, their authority to make allocations was hazy. They +were handicapped also by the prevailing belief in LAISSEZ-FAIRE..." +-Rexford Tugwell in THE EMERGING CONSTITUTION, at 17, 27 and 145 +[Harper & Row, New York (1974); Sponsored by the Rockefeller's FUND FOR THE +REPUBLIC in Santa Monica, California]. Notice what difficulty Gremlins like +little Tug have in restraining themselves not to throw invectives at those +heinous institutions of INDIVIDUALISM, LAISSEZ-FAIRE, and the INDEPENDENCE of +national Sovereignty. Gremlins do not want INDIVIDUALS to amount to something +great on their own volition [they want men to remain boys, and for everyone to +keep their diapers on by looking to Government for security, for protection, +and as a source of remedies for society's problems]; they do not want +LAISSEZ-FAIR [they want total top down Government control of everything, so +that when Government controls it, then they can control it]; and Gremlins do +not want the world divided up into multiple independent Sovereignties [they +want a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT, under their control]. Those are the great Gremlin +objectives, and getting rid of that United States Constitution -- and +everything else Majestic, Celestial, and developmental of INDIVIDUALS that it +represents -- is a glorious dream for imps to bask in. [For other attacks on +the Founding Fathers by sponsored self-proclaimed "historians," see imp Charles +Beard in AN ECONOMIC INTERPRETATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION [The Free +Press, New York (1913)]; who uncovered detailed financial profile information +on the Founders, and then came to the conclusion, as he was paid to do, that +the Constitution was just a legal instrument to self-enrich its creators. Like +his brother Rexford Tugwell, CHARLES BEARD SHOULD BE THE VERY LAST ONE TO +TALK.] =============================================================[265]

+ +

One might think that with the passage of time, an increase in political SAVOIR +FAIRE might just develop nationally. But no. If a Constitutional Convention +were held over again today, as is quite close to happening, I am afraid of the +consequences. We need a Constitutional Convention today in the 1980's like we +need the Ortega Brothers >of Nicaraguan infamy< in the United States Senate +representing the State of New Hampshire. Conservatives believing a new +Constitutional Convention, called for the purpose of a BALANCED BUDGET +AMENDMENT, are playing into the hands of Gremlins, who fully intend to use that +Constitutional Convention to replace our Father's Constitution with their own; +in fact that is how the Constitution of 1787 was proposed to the States, as a +replacement for the ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION. And if you don't think Gremlins +are smart enough to use parliamentary devices to work their way around wording +in some State Resolutions calling for such a Convention (attempting to limit +the subject matter discussed in the Convention to just the content of the +BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT), then you have no knowledge whatsoever of Gremlins, +and you are not even qualified to exercise such political judgment today when +in fact Gremlins now hold the upper hand in the United States. [266]

+ +

[266]============================================================= If you +CONSERVATIVES were smart, you would not consider donating money or voting for +any candidate expressing sympathy with either the milktoast Democratic or +Republican Party Platforms; such a candidate is no adversary of Gremlins. As +far as I am concerned, if in fact the Gremlins can pull off this Constitutional +switch at the impending Constitutional Convention, then they fully deserve the +avalanche of benefits such a juristic instrument will generate for them. I +admire victors of battles for their tactical SAVIOR FAIRE, even though I may +not be sympathetic with their doctrines or objectives. +=============================================================[266]

+ +

And Gremlins are not about to let a Constitutional Convention come and go in +the United States without putting up a good fight. [267]

+ +

[267]============================================================= "In +connection with the attack on the United States, the Lord told the Prophet +Joseph Smith [that] there would be an attempt to overthrow the country by +destroying the Constitution. Joseph Smith predicted that the time would come +when the Constitution would hang as it were by a thread, and at that time... +the Elders of Israel, widely spread over the nation, will, at the crucial +time... [participate by providing] the necessary balance of strength to save +the institutions of Constitutional Government. Now is the time to get ready." +-Ezra Taft Benson in CONFERENCE REPORTS, page 70 (October, 1961). +=============================================================[267]

+ +

If you want to get a good preview and feel for the class of new Constitution +that such a convention would produce, just examine the caliber of Presidents +elected in recent history. [268]

+ +

[268]============================================================= If you are +unaware of the interest certain Gremlins have towards using that impending +Convention for their own proprietary purposes, then consider these words from +our Gremlin friend EXTRAORDINAIRE, Zbigniew Brzezinski: +"The approaching two hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of +Independence could justify the call for a national constitutional convention to +reexamine the nation's formal institutional framework. Either 1976 or 1987 -- +the two hundredth anniversary of the Constitution -- could serve as a target +date for culminating a national dialogue on the relevance of existing +arrangements, the workings of the representative process, and the desirability +of imitating the various European regionalization reforms and of streamlining +the administrative structure. More important still, either date would provide a +suitable occasion for redefining the meaning of modern democracy -- a task +admittedly challenging but not necessarily more so than when it was undertaken +by the founding fathers -- and for setting ambitious and concrete social +goals." +-Gremlin Zbigniew Brzezinski in BETWEEN TWO AGES: AMERICA'S ROLE IN +THE TECHNETRONIC AGE, at 258 [Viking Press, New York City (1970)]. Those +"social goals" that Brzezinski wants involve a NEW ECONOMIC ORDER which +Brzezinski openly admits would seriously threaten "the traditional American +values of individualism, free enterprise, the work ethic, and efficiency." -- +but pesky little anachronisms like those are nuisances today, and his employer +David Rockefeller has no room for nuisances. What David decrees is what's +important, and David has decreed that Corporate Socialism is important. + +

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I N V I S I B L E C O N T R A C T S +George Mercier

+ +

THE CITIZENSHIP CONTRACT +[Pages 386-434]

+ +

[Certain conventions have been used in converting INVISIBLE CONTRACTS to an +electronic medium. For an explanation of the conventions used, please download +the file INCONHLP.ZIP for further illumination. Other background information as +well is contained in INCONHLP.ZIP. It is advisable to EXIT this file right now +and read the contents of INCONHLP.ZIP before proceeding with your study of this +file.]

+ +

====================P R E V I E W=============== So getting rid of your +National Citizenship, while very important, is only a first step, and there are +numerous other invisible contracts that you need to concern yourselves with, if +you are to leave the Bolshevik Income Tax grab without leaving any lingering +illicit Equity trail behind you. [576] +====================P R E V I E W===============

+ +

Next, we turn now and discuss a layer of invisible contract that is rarely +addressed, thought of, or treated as the pure contract that it is really is: +National Citizenship. [506]

+ +

[506]============================================================= "The United +States chose to base its tax jurisdiction on Citizenship from the inception of +the Income Tax in 1913." +-Citizenship as a Jurisdictional Basis for Taxation: +Section 911 and the Foreign Source Income Experience +by John Christie, 8 Brooklyn Journal of International Law +109, at 109 (1982). Such a seemingly easy STATEMENT for someone +to make, yet pulling together all of the relevant factors on Citizenship is +difficult because they are not all located in one single place; and there +exists no simple, explicit, and blunt statement or Supreme Court ruling stating +so. Yet when everything is assembled there is a large collection of Federal +dribblings originating from disorganized DICTA located in Court Opinions, +Congressional enactments, and in Administrative LEX, which when analyzed +collectively as a whole, form a revealing picture of the surprises that +Citizens are really in for. +=============================================================[506]

+ +

As a point of beginning, it is perhaps most easy to think of Citizenship in +terms of joining a Country Club: You sign up, pay dues, enjoy the benefits +offered by the House, you elect management, and you are exposed to liability to +be fined for no more than technical infractions to House Rules [without any +damages]. [507]

+ +

[507]============================================================= The United +States Supreme Court once drew a parallel between CITIZENSHIP and membership in +an association so well, that it triggered my analogy to that of joining a +Country Club: +"... Each of the persons associated becomes a member of the nation +formed by the association. He owes it allegiance and is entitled to its +protection. Allegiance and protection are, in this connection reciprocal +obligations. The one is a compensation or the other; allegiance for protection +and protection for allegiance. +"For convenience it has been found necessary to give a name to this +membership. The object is to designate by title the person and the relation he +bears to the nation. For this purpose the words "subject," "inhabitant" and +"citizen" have been used, and the choice between them is sometimes made to +depend upon the form of the Government. Citizen is now more commonly employed, +however, and as it has been considered better suited to the description of one +living under a Republican Government, it was adopted by nearly all of the +States upon their separation from Great Britain, and was afterwards adopted in +the ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION and in the Constitution of the United States. +When used in this sense it is understood as conveying the idea of membership of +a nation, and nothing more." +-MINOR VS. HAPPERSETT, 88 U.S. 161, at 166 (1874). Here in MINOR, the +Supreme Court relates Citizenship to an association; while I have chosen +COUNTRY CLUB due to the easier relational image created by voluntarily joining +an institution that offers special and unique benefits available to members +only. Some of those special benefits offered are very important to some members +(I have many stories to tell of business deals and business introductions made +on golf courses), while to others, the Country Club is just a nice place to be +for lunch. =============================================================[507]

+ +

The procedure for entering into a Country Club Membership contract differs +quite a bit from the Citizenship Contract, in the sense that while trying to +join a Country Club, you first have to go to the Management, present +credentials, and then request Membership; whereas with the King, everyone is +presumed automatically to be Members, and so now you have to argue your Case +that you are not a Member. [508]

+ +

[508]============================================================= This shift +of burden originates with a slice of LEX the King's Scribes once enacted: +"The following shall be nationals and Citizens of the United States at +birth: +1)A person born in the United States, AND SUBJECT TO ITS JURISDICTION +thereof;" +-Title 8, Section 1401 ["Nationality and Naturalization"] Section 1401 +then continues on with similar hooks planted into American Indians, Eskimos, +persons born outside the United States, persons of unknown parentage, etc. +Notice the phrase AND SUBJECT TO ITS JURISDICTION; not all individuals born in +the United States are automatically Citizens, so not all individuals born in +the United States fall under the house jurisdiction of the King and his +adhesive tentacles of Equity Jurisdiction. An Attorney General once said that: +"... our Constitution, in speaking of NATURAL-BORN CITIZENS, uses no +affirmative language to make them such, but only recognizes and reaffirms the +universal Principle, common to all nations, and as old as political society, +that the people born in a country do constitute the nation, and, as +individuals, are NATURAL members of the body politic. +"If this be a true Principle, and I do not doubt it, it follows that +every person born in the Country is, at the moment of birth, PRIMA FACIE a +Citizen; and he who would deny it must take upon himself the burden of proving +some great disenfranchisement strong enough to override the "NATURAL-BORN" +right as recognized by the Constitution in terms the most simple and +comprehensive, and without any reference to race or color, or other accidental +circumstance. +"That NATIVITY furnishes the rule, both of duty and of right, as +between the individual and the Government, is a historical and political truth +so old and so universally accepted that it is needless to prove it by +authority... +"In every civilized Country, the individual is BORN to duties and +rights, the duty of allegiance and the right to protection; and these are +correlative obligations, the one the price of the other, and they constitute +the all-sufficient bond of union between individual and his Country; and the +Country he is born in is, PRIMA FACIE, his Country. In most countries the old +law was broadly laid down that this natural connection between the individual +and his native country was perpetual; at least, that the tie was indissoluble +by the act of the subject alone... +"But that law of the perpetuity of allegiance is now changed..." +[meaning Americans can dissolve the tie whenever they feel like it, a severance +not possible under the old Britannic rule of Kings.] +-Edward Bates, United States Attorney General, in ["Citizenship"], 10 +Opinions of the Attorney General 382 at 394, [W.H. & O.H. Morrison, Washington +(1868)]. =============================================================[508]

+ +

But once we are beyond that initial point of entrance into the contract, then +nothing whatsoever changes in the contractual rights or duties involved when we +transfer ourselves from Membership in a Country Club setting over to American +Citizenship, as contracts govern both relationships.

+ +

Earlier, I mentioned that the 14th Amendment offers invisible benefits that +Citizens have been deemed by Federal Judges to have accepted by their silence +(since anything but silence is very consistent with a person's wanting +Citizenship), and so the 14th Amendment then and there creates a Citizenship +Contract. Yes, there are special benefits to be had from the 14th Amendment. +[509]

+ +

[509]============================================================= "Since the +14th Amendment makes one a Citizen of the state where ever he resides, the fact +of residence creates universally recognized reciprocal duties of protection by +the state and of allegiance and support by the Citizen. The latter obviously +includes a duty to pay taxes, and their nature and measure is largely a +political matter." +-MILLER BROTHERS VS. MARYLAND, 347 U.S. 340, at 345 +(1954). +=============================================================[509]

+ +

So although the 14th Amendment creates benefits proprietary to Citizenship, +those are not the only Citizenship benefits that you need to concern yourself +with. Many Tax Protestors and Patriots are aware of the 14th Amendment story, +and accordingly counsel their students to file NOTICES OF BREACH OF CONTRACT +and the like, and other hybrid unilateral declarations of RECESSION, in an +attempt to remove themselves as persons attached to the 14th Amendment. Those +students are then taught, quite erroneously, that since the United States +derives its taxing power from the 14th Amendment, therefore, once an Individual +has severed his relationship from the 14th Amendment, the student no longer +need concern himself with any federal Income Tax liability, or any state tax +liability. These folks preach the theory that MILLER BROTHERS VS. MARYLAND, +[510]

+ +

[510]============================================================= 347 U.S. +340, at 345 (1954). +=============================================================[510]

+ +

stands for the proposition that States derive their taxing and regulatory +jurisdiction from the 14th Amendment -- a particularly stupid conclusion to +arrive at since such a statement means that prior to the 14th Amendment there +were no State taxes or regulatory jurisdictions; and that is a factually +defective point of beginning to commence any legal analysis. [511]

+ +

[511]============================================================== For +example, some states required that auctioneers possess licenses in the early +1800's, long before the 14th Amendment ever made its appearance. Joseph Story +mentions this in III Commentaries on the Constitution, at page 483, ["Powers of +Congress - Taxes"], (Cambridge, 1833). This little regulatory jurisdiction +existed long before either the Civil War or any of the so called Reconstruction +Amendments [the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments] made their appearance; and +since the States did not need the 14th Amendment then to enact regulatory +jurisdictions, the States do not need the 14th Amendment to enact regulatory +jurisdictions, and your relational status to the 14th Amendment is irrelevant +in determining your attachment to regulatory jurisdictions. +==============================================================[511]

+ +

This view of legal liability propagated by Protestors is baneful, and +replicates the MODUS OPERANDI of Lucifer when he propagates to his students +many things which are technically accurate of and by themselves, but then he +teaches expansive conclusions which are defective. Lucifer counsels his +followers to get ready to justify their actions at the Last Day, an alluring +preventative move that intellectuals find brilliant and intriguing background +advice; so now Lucifer has their attention. [512]

+ +

[512]============================================================= When some +folks emphasize the value to you of PREVENTION, what they are also saying is +that they realize that it is beneficial for folks to occasionally look up and +ahead once in a while; and out of such a vision into the future, unpleasant +circumstances can be deflected from making their appearance (the avoidance of a +negative), as well as great and fabulous circumstances can and will come to +pass (by planning for a positive). These reasons explain why an occasional +glimpse into one's own future is very much an instrument for intellectual +conquest and has such an alluring aura of mystique about it -- generating an +atmosphere of success that intrigues INTELLECTUALS so much -- who go for all +they can grab. Gremlins have taken cognizance of this high-powered look ahead +instrument (also called PLANNING), and have experienced impressive benefits +from it: +"As I have already pointed out, the true speculator is one who observes +the future and acts before it occurs. Like a surgeon, he must be able to search +through a mass of complex and contradictory details to [get to] the significant +facts. Then, still like the surgeon, he must be able to operate coldly, +clearly, and skillfully on the basis of the facts before him. +"What makes this task of fact finding so difficult is that in the stock +market the facts of any situation come to us through a curtain of human +emotions. What drives the prices of stocks up or down is not impersonal +economic forces or changing events but the human reactions to these happenings. +The constant problem of the speculator or analyst is how to disentangle the +cold, hard economic facts from the rather warm feelings of the people dealing +with these facts. +"Few things are more difficult to do. The main obstacle lies in +disentangling ourselves from our own emotions." +-Gremlin Bernard Baruch in Baruch: My Own Story, +at 248 [Henry Holt and Company, New York (1957)]. On the +following pages in this book [which is his autobiography], Bernard Baruch gives +two stores from his business dealings exemplifying why and how he deemed it so +extremely important to approach the task of fact finding free of emotions -- +and the reason is because often the facts that are the answers to what we are +searching for are not found where we thought they might be, and when the +answers arrived they were not presented to us under circumstances that we +thought we would be expecting. Since our emotions color our judgment +constantly, merely controlling emotions until after we have been steeped with +an enlarged basis of factual knowledge to exercise judgment on, then escalates +dramatically the caliber of judgment that can be exercised. Gremlin Bernard +Baruch, a looter EXTRAORDINAIRE, perhaps one of the greatest American business +speculators of all time -- who started from scratch and would up controlling at +one time a significant percentage supply of the world's silver -- concluded his +second business example with some advice presented in the form of a STATEMENT: +"Experts will step in where even fools fear to tread." +-Bernard Baruch, id., at page 253 Why will experts step in where fools +fear to tread? The answer lies in examining what characteristic separates the +expert from the fool: Simple lack of factual knowledge, acquired in part +experientially, which is often corrected in the future. Tax and Highway +Contract Protestors searching for that elusive SILVER BULLET out there will +find it -- of all places -- resting with themselves; and they will also find, +in an unexpected place, an institution functioning as an accessory instrument +offering them assistance to accomplish the most NOBLE and GREAT objectives that +the mind can imagine -- an ecclesiastical institution that has always been +there during your life, but whose potential beneficial significance was tossed +aside and ignored due to overruling emotional intervention. Yes, OVERCOMING +YOUR OWN EMOTIONS is a difficult task as high-powered imp Bernard Baruch +related so well to a setting involving the intense pursuit of commercial +enrichment. Where there are difficult tasks, there also lies impressive +benefits not otherwise obtainable; Celestial benefits whose reception then +requires a forward glimpse into the future, now. Those Celestial Benefits will +be acquired then through the correlative requisite behavioral changes made at +the present time -- beneficial changes that cannot be made if that alluring +look ahead glimpse into the future that INTELLECTUALS and imps appreciate the +value of such much, was not made at the present time. When we make that look +ahead glimpse into the future, we ask ourselves a QUESTION: Do I really want to +leave this Estate without replacement Covenants? +=============================================================[512]

+ +

Then Lucifer continues on (also quite technically correct), that all of their +behavior down here should be so organized as to be "justifiable" before Father +at the Last Day; this too is correct, as Father will be soliciting our feelings +at the Last Day. But just one tiny problem surfaces for the world's Gremlins to +consider as they dance the jig in ecstacy over the prospects of being able to +get away with murder, mischief, and mayhem down here: An invisible Contract +that Father extracted out of us all before we came down here. So yes, although +you can "justify" your acts to Father if you want to, that justification is not +relevant to Father in his judgment decision making. Only the terms of the +Contract will be of interest to Father; and back in the First Estate, everyone +was once on their knees before Father, uttering from their own tongues, in a +Heavenly angelic language we all spoke then, the terms of the Contract we all +would later be judged by. So, yes, you will be given the opportunity to justify +your abominations before Father if you want to, but your justifications +sounding in Tort are not going to be taken into consideration by Father and you +Gremlins out there are damaging and deceiving yourselves. And in a very similar +way, many Tax Protestors are coaching their followers to concern themselves +with the 14th Amendment -- a very accurate and correct statement, of and by +itself. [513]

+ +

[513]============================================================= The way to +correctly read Supreme Court rulings on 14th Amendment taxation questions is to +keep an eye on what the 14th Amendment did in the area of restraining +reciprocity expectations political jurisdictions created when throwing benefits +at folks. The 14th Amendment prohibited double taxation, and no more. DOUBLE +TAXATION is the layering of a plurality of taxes on the same economic asset or +legal right by competing jurisdictions. In some factual settings, the +jurisdiction to tax an economic asset actually belongs to several states, but +should be conceded to only one State for the exercise of taxation jurisdiction. +See JURISDICTION TO TAX UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT in Notes, 25 Georgetown +Law Journal 448 (1937). +=============================================================[513]

+ +

But the conclusions those Tax Protestors draw, that termination of the adhesive +King's Equity Jurisdiction that the 14th Amendment attaches is the only thing +they need concern themselves with, is incorrect. 14th Amendment pleading, +standing alone by itself, doesn't vitiate anyone's state or federal Income Tax +liability -- it never has, and it never will. The legal argument I hear many +folks throw at Federal Judges, that they are a COMMON LAW CITIZEN, or a +PREAMBLE CITIZEN, and not a 14TH AMENDMENT CITIZEN, is patently stupid, and +carries no weight, merit, or attractiveness before Federal Judges; and for very +good reasons: Because all Citizens of the United States are acceptants of that +profile of juristic benefits that the King is offering, and these benefits are +offered by the King regardless of the claimed COMMON LAW or PREAMBLE +classification status. And so correlatively, since those juristic benefits are +accepted by all United States Citizens regardless of the claimed COMMON LAW or +so-called PREAMBLE jurisdictional origin of the classification of Citizenship +(distinctions that Citizenship Contract Protestors like to make and argue), +these distinctions mean absolutely nothing in important areas involving Tax and +Military Conscription reciprocity expectations the King maintains on his +Citizens. [514]

+ +

[514]============================================================= The extent +to which Juristic Institutions should be restrained in the placement of +tortious covenants within adhesive contracts heavily skewed towards Government +like Citizenship, has been an article of discussion since the founding days of +the Republic: +"How in a Republican regime, is the supremacy of the private, +self-regarding sphere in the life of each Citizen to be reconciled with the +obligation of the People at large to perform the public-regarding duties of +Citizenship? It is interesting that [James] Wilson did not propose to solve +this problem by blinking at the magnitude of the apparent dilemma. More vividly +even than Locke himself, Wilson stated his liberal creed that "domestic +society," that is, the private social life of each individual, must be deemed +intrinsically superior in dignity to all public matters, including Law and +Government." +-Stephen Conrad discussing the views of one of our Founding Fathers, +in CITIZENSHIP AND COMMON SENSE IN JAMES WILSON'S REPUBLICAN THEORY, 8 Supreme +Court Review at 383 [University of Chicago Press, Chicago (1984)]. +=============================================================[514]

+ +

There is no single place I can point folks to and say "Here, Citizens, are your +benefits." [515]

+ +

[515]============================================================= The same +frustrations and headaches that I have gone through trying to get at the very +bottom of just what those specific benefits are that the King is offering to +his Citizens, is the same frustration [if FRUSTRATION is the word] that others +have experienced in the past -- because the definition of American Citizenship +and the correlative concise presentation of the benefits of American +Citizenship, simply does not exist. In a previous day and era, an Attorney +General of the United States once expressed similar reservations: +"Who is a Citizen? What constitutes a Citizen of the United States? I +have often been pained by the fruitless search in our law books and the records +of the courts, for a clear and satisfactory definition of the phrase CITIZEN OF +THE UNITED STATES. I find no such definition, no authoritative establishment of +the meaning of the phrase, neither by a course of judicial decisions in our +courts, nor by the continued and consentaneous action of the different branches +of our political Government. For aught I see to the contrary, the subject is +now as little understood in its details and elements, and the question as open +to arguments and speculative criticism, as it was at the beginning of the +Government. Eighty years of practical enjoyment of Citizenship, under the +Constitution, have not sufficed to teach us either the exact meaning of the +word, or the constituent elements of the thing we prize so highly." +-Edward Bates, United States Attorney General ["Citizenship"], in 10 +OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL 382 at 383 [W.H. & O.H. Morrison, Washington +(1868)]. +The reason why I have had such headaches getting to the very bottom of +Citizenship is because the King's boy's claim up tight and refuse to talk about +this subject matter. A Deputy United States Attorney in the Department of +Justice in Washington once turned me off but quick when I asked for a simple +answer to a simple question: What are the benefits you give to American +Citizens? When I once had a conversation with a Federal Judge, he went through +muscular distortions in his face when I asked him the same simple question. +They know exactly what we are up to, and they are not about to assist or +facilitate our depriving them of revenue; a good snortation representing how +Federal Judges think in this area was once penned by the Supreme Court: +"The Citizen who fails to pay his taxes or to abide by the law +safeguarding the integrity of elections deals a dangerous blow to his country." +-PEREZ VS. BROWNELL, 356 U.S. 44, at 92 (1958). +Moments earlier in that conversation I had with the Judge, the Judge +was friendly and spoke very knowledgeably about the location of Citizenship +benefits [as well they should know the location of benefits because Federal +Judges are steeped in benefit justification in those seminars of theirs], but +now the atmosphere quickly chilled when I presented him with an explicit +inquiry on the specific identification of Citizenship benefits, and the Judge +very quickly terminated the conversation. Those benefits of Citizenship are all +listed and neatly presented to Federal Judges in that BENCH BOOK of theirs; +this is important material for Federal Judges to know since the King deems it +extremely important that Judges feel justified and comfortable CRACKING +Protestors under the Citizenship Contract; and this is also the real meaning +behind an occasional blurb emanating down from the bench that "you've accepted +a benefit [snort!]." What few words the Judge is saying is a fractured piece +of the total contract pie, as contracts are properly in effect whenever +benefits offered conditionally [offered with a hook in them] were accepted by +you; so the Judge's short blurb about accepting benefits is a reference to the +fact that you are patently BLACK AND WHITE wrong -- caught in the very act of +contract defilement. But just because the Judge remains silent on the existence +of the retained expectations of reciprocity that the King holds, and that a +contract is in effect, does not annul the existence of the contract. Very +rarely in life in any setting such as science, business, the law, or commerce, +does anyone ever go into prolixitous elucidations when explaining error or +justifying something. But the juristic contract is there, the explanation [or +here in a Courtroom, the snortation] is optional, and the fact that the +contract is invisible to you does not vitiate your liability when the contract +comes up for review [a feature of Nature every single person who ever lived on +the face of the Earth will become very well acquainted with at the Last Day]. +=============================================================[515]

+ +

Even listings of benefits in the dicta of Supreme Court rulings are fractured +and incomplete. [516]

+ +

[516]============================================================= For example, +in UNITED STATES VS. MATHESON [532 F.2nd 809 (1976)], the Second Circuit +mentioned that some of those benefits received by a Mrs. Burns that were +attributable to her United States Citizenship were the issuance of her +Passport, the issuance of a license on her yacht by the United States Coast +Guard, and the benefit of standing assistance offered by an American foreign +diplomatic consular office, since she had registered as a Citizen with the +United States Mission [although such registration is not necessary to trigger +assistance of diplomatic consular offices when requested]. See UNITED STATES +VS. MATHESON, id., at 819. Remember that the Law is always justified, and the +acceptance of benefits, however flaky those benefits are in substance, do +correctly justify the King's retention of expectations of financial +reciprocity. =============================================================[516]

+ +

And the Congress is largely the same. [517]

+ +

[517]============================================================= There is no +statute existing anywhere that presents a composite blended profile of all +benefits inuring to Citizens of the United States. When searching through +Congressional documents at just a Committee Hearing level, for perhaps some +small list of benefits that may have slipped out here or there, the only +discussion of benefits was characterizes as RIGHTS, and then treated as a +unitary subject [see CITIZENS GUIDE TO INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION +OF THE UNITED STATES, Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, Committee on the +Judiciary, United States Senate, 94th Congress, Second Session (October, 1970), +which largely discusses those Clauses in the Constitution that restrain +Government Tortfeasance (which although such restrainments are benefits in a +sense, the restrainment of the King's own prospective Tortfeasance is not the +character of benefits whose acceptance by Citizens enables expectations of +reciprocity to operate on in the formation of juristic contracts)]. +=============================================================[517]

+ +

Some of the juristic benefits that the King is offering to his Citizens +originate in the Constitution, where these benefits are inferred by Federal +Judges from certain wording and phrases in that Majestic Document; [518]

+ +

[518]============================================================= For certain +limited purposes, Federal Judges view the Constitution in its aggregate as +being a collection of senior statutes, differing only from ordinary statutes in +the sense that the Constitutions's pronouncements are more tactically difficult +to enact and repeal. +=============================================================[518]

+ +

other benefits the King is offering find their home nestled in his pile of LEX, +other benefits are located in still another layer of administrative LEX called +the CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS; and still other benefits do not explicitly +appear anywhere in the King's statutes, but are defined in a wide ranging +multiplicity of court rulings. When we posses that factual knowledge contained +in those court rulings, then the cryptic phrases appearing in some offbeat +slice of LEX come alive and make a great deal of sense. [519]

+ +

[519]============================================================= For example, +one of the judicially defined benefits of American Citizenship is the right to +sue and be sued in Federal and State Courts in the United States: +"George Bird... [having]... fulfilled the conditions which, under law +enacted by Congress, entitle him to all the rights, privileges, [benefits,] and +immunities of Citizenship. He is a Citizen of the United States, and entitled, +equally with all other Citizens, to make lawful use of his own property, and to +prosecute and defend in the courts of this state and in the courts of the +United States actions affecting his legal rights with respect to property, and +to make [commercial] contracts [I will discuss this later]..." +-BIRD VS. TERRY, 129 Federal 472, at 477 (1903). With the right to sue +and be sued in Federal and State Courts being a benefit to Citizens, now the +following cryptic words in the Civil Rights statutes [giving Blacks Citizenship +benefits that only Whites enjoyed before the Civil War], now come alive with +meaning: +"Equal Just under the Law: +"All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have +the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts [I +will discuss this very important benefit later], TO SUE, BE PARTIES, GIVE +EVIDENCE, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the +security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white Citizens..." +-Title 42, Section 1981 ["Civil Rights"] (1870). Notice how the use of +the Courtroom as an instrument of Government to sue someone with is deemed to +be a benefit -- and yes, it is a benefit; the absence of which would place a +lot of Protestors out of business. But the King offers out his benefit with +latent hooks of reciprocity adhesively attached thereto; just like fish +thinking that they have finished their evening meal by swallowing that +attractive piece of meat over there, unknown to the fish is the fact that an +invisible hook awaits whoever goes after that bait. So now let us continue on +with Section 1981: Having defined some benefits, now the King's Scribes plant +the hook of reciprocity for those who swallow and accept the King's benefits: +"[those Blacks, now turned Citizens, as just mentioned above]... shall +be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions +of every kind, and no other." +-The balance of Title 42, Section 1981. Yes, Citizenship is a +Contract: Juristic benefits are offered with latent hooks of reciprocity lying +in wait for those who have silently accepted the King's benefits. And Tax and +Draft Protestors will continue to loose, and will continue to snicker at the +wrong people [hard working Judges] in total error, when the fact of the matter +is that it is their boosting of their Citizenship status which is in fact the +very juristic contract that the Federal Judges use to CRACK Protestors with. +...The benefit of Citizenship allowing those PERSONS to sue in Federal Courts +once surfaced in HAMMERSTEIN VS. LYNE as a jurisdictional question, since one +of the statutes in Title 28 confers jurisdiction to Federal District Courts to +hear diversity cases involving CITIZENS in different States: +"In order to give jurisdiction to the Courts of the United States, the +Citizenship of the party must be founded on a change of domicile and permanent +residence in the State to which he may have removed from another State. Mere +residence is PRIMA FACIE evidence of such change, although, when it is +explained and shown to have been for temporary purposes, the presumption is +destroyed." +-HAMMERSTEIN VS. LYNE, 200 Federal 165, at 169 (1912). +=============================================================[519]

+ +

Some benefits of Citizenship are proprietary and the distribution of those +benefits are limited to identifiable groups, for example, such as the elective +franchise. [520]

+ +

[520]============================================================= See +ENFRANCHISEMENT AND CITIZENSHIP by Edward J. Pierce [Roberts Brothers, Boston +(1896) {Harvard University, WIDENER LIBRARY, Cambridge, Massachusetts}]. Even +many of the covenant terms of the Country Club Contract and the Citizenship +Contract are identical. For example, Country Clubs rarely admit people into +membership positions unless that person is of age, so either all Country Club +Members are generally assumed to have the elective franchise to turn over house +management, or some type of junior Membership is created for young dependent +offspring. Citizenship does differ; there was once a time in the United States +when a large body of Citizens were denied the benefit of elective franchise +rights, back before Women's Sufferrage matured: +"Again, women and minors are Citizens of the [various States], and also +of the United States; but they are not electors, nor are they eligible to +office, either in those States or in the United States." +-Caleb Cushing, Attorney General of the United States, ["Chickasaw +Constitution"] in 8 OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL 300, at 302, [R. Farnham, +Washington (1858)]. Yes, the elective franchise, together with the right to +hold government offices, is deemed to be one of the many benefits inuring to +Citizens, even though not all Citizens universally enjoy such benefits. +=============================================================[520]

+ +

Some other benefits inuring to Citizens of the United States are, in general, +the protection of United States Marshals. [521]

+ +

[521]============================================================= When I read +about this benefit in a Supreme Court Case, my mind was reading it if it were, +or could possibly be converted into, a specific duty on the part of the +Marshals -- which is the way the wording was written; later a Federal Judge +once disputed this with me in part, stating that United States Marshals owe no +American any protective duty specifically [meaning that if the Marshals default +in protecting Citizens, then the Marshals have no reciprocal liability inuring +in return to Citizens in favor of Breach of Contract damages or perhaps +negligence on their part; this means that if you request the Marshals' services +and the Marshals mess up for some reason, then you are without recourse to sue +them for damages]. In reading all of the Federal statutes on Citizenship and of +the United States Marshals, there is no exact statute anywhere which binds the +Marshal, or otherwise creates such a duty, to specifically protect you, yet +their protectorate services are deemed to be a benefit by Federal Judges. +=============================================================[521]

+ +

Yes, all Citizens accept the protectorate benefits offered by the United States +Marshal Service. [522]

+ +

[522]============================================================= "The people +of the United States resident within any State are subject to two Governments; +one State, and the other National; but there needs be no conflict between the +two... It is the natural consequence of a Citizenship, which owes allegiance to +two sovereignties, and claims protection from both. The Citizen cannot +complain, because he has voluntarily submitted himself to such a form of +Government. He owes allegiance to the two departments, so to speak, and within +their respective spheres must pay the penalties which each exacts for +disobedience to its laws. In return, he can demand protection from each with +its own jurisdiction." +-UNITED STATES VS. CRUIKSHANK, 92 U.S. 542, at 550 (1875). And so the +King needs some bouncers to justify his claim of protecting Citizens. +=============================================================[522]

+ +

And unlike your local Police Department, when you call up the U.S. Marshals and +request their security assistance, generally they will not bark, snap, or snort +at you for doing so. [523]

+ +

[523]============================================================= To this +extent, United States Marshals are somewhat like the old Roman Centurions, who +protected Roman Citizens from murder and other dangers originating from attack +Gremlins: +"... the ruling power at Rome, whether Republican or imperial, granted, +from time to time, to communities and to individuals in the conquered East, the +Title of ROMAN, and the rights of Roman Citizens. +"A striking example of this Roman naturalization, of its controlling +authority as a political law, and of its beneficent power to protect a +persecuted Citizen, may be found in the case of Saint Paul, as it is +graphically reported in the ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. Paul, being at Jerusalem, was +in great peril of his life from his countrymen... who accused him of crimes +against their own law and faith, and were about to put him to death by mob +violence, when he was rescued by the commander of the Roman troops, and taken +into a fort for security. [Paul] first explained, both to the Roman officer and +to his own countrymen, who were clamoring against him, his local status and +municipal relations; that he was... of Tarsus, a natural born Citizen, of no +mean city, and that he had been brought up in Jerusalem, in the strictest +manner, according to the law and faith of his fathers. But this did not appease +the angry crowd, who were proceeding with great violence to kill him. And then: +"the Chief Captain [of the Jews] commanded that he be brought into the +castle, and bade that he should be EXAMINED BY SCOURGING, that is, tortured to +enforce confession. +"And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the Centurion that +stood by, 'Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is A ROMAN AND +UnConDEMNED?' When the Centurion heard THAT, he went out and told the Chief +Captain, saying, take heed what thou doest, FOR THIS MAN IS A ROMAN. Then the +Chief Captain came and said, 'Tell me, art thou a ROMAN?' [Paul] said yea; and +the Chief Captain said, 'With a great sum obtained I THIS FREEDOM.' And Paul +said, 'But I was FREE BORN.' Then straightaway THEY departed from him which +should have examined him. And the Chief Captain also was afraid, after he knew +that [Paul] was a ROMAN, and because [Paul] had BOUND HIM." +"Thus Paul, under circumstances of great danger and obloquy, asserted +his immunity, as "a Roman unCondemned," from ignominious constraint and cruel +punishment, a constraint and punishment against which, as a mere provincial +subject of Rome, he had no legal protection. And thus the Roman officers +instantly, and with fear, obeyed the law of their country and respected the +sacred franchise of the Roman Citizen. +"Paul, as we know by this record, was a natural born Citizen of Tarsus, +and as such, no doubt, had the municipal freedom of that city; but that would +not have protected him against the throngs and the lash. How he became a Roman +we learn from other historical sources. Caesar granted to the people of Tarsus +(for some good service done, probably for taking his side in the war which +resulted in the establishment of the Empire) the title of Roman, and the +freedom of Roman Citizens. And, considering the chronology of events, this +grant must have been older than Paul; and therefore he truly said 'I WAS FREE +BORN' - a free Citizen of Rome, and as such exempt by law from degrading +punishment. +"And this immunity did not fill the measure of his rights as a Citizen. +As a Roman, it was his right to be tried by the Supreme Authority, at the +Capital of the Empire. And when he claimed that right, and appealed from the +jurisdiction of the provincial governor to the Emperor of Rome, his appeal was +instantly allowed, and he was remitted to 'Caesar's judgment'." +-Edward Bates, United States Attorney General, in ["Citizenship"], 10 +Opinions of the Attorney General 382 at 392, [W.H. & O.H. Morrison, Washington +(1868)]. =============================================================[523]

+ +

The United States Marshals today will make inquiries and ask probing questions +to uncover the reasons why you believe your security is being impaired, as they +do want to get to the bottom of the threatening situation, in order to +terminate whatever it is that is giving you grounds for concern. On any serious +inquiry they will normally send out a Marshal immediately to see you, and they +will even put you up in a hotel if deemed provident under the circumstances; so +yes, the security benefits offered by the U.S. Marshals are more than +legitimate. But no one knows anything about the protectorate benefits being +offered by the U.S. Marshals. Due to the HOLLYWOODIZATION of cops and robbers +television shows, people have been conditioned to think in terms of calling up +their local police department for security assistance, and have also been +conditioned to expect a tough rebuffment when asking for bodyguard services -- +when all along it was the dormant and ignored U.S. Marshals that have been +schooled, trained and are expecting your pleas for limited assistance. [524]

+ +

[524]============================================================= Other +benefits offered to American Citizens by the King [and Federal Judges know +this, so we should too] is financial assistance to American Citizens returning +from foreign countries. In Title 42, Section 1312, the Secretary of State is +authorized to provide temporary assistance to Citizens and to dependents of +those Citizens, if they have returned to the United States in a state of +destitution resulting from war, threat of war, invasion, or some other crisis +some Gremlin pulled off somewhere. Another benefit offered to American Citizens +is the protection of the United States Government when travelling abroad; this +service is provided through foreign diplomatic consular offices. Our family has +businesses in other parts of the globe, and whenever we have made phone calls +to the American Embassy for assistance, they have always sent out someone +immediately. In Title 22, Section 1731 ["Protection of Naturalized Citizens +Abroad"], the King has decreed that PERSONS who have become naturalized +Citizens are entitled to this same benefit of protection assistance in foreign +lands, both for themselves and their property while over there. In Title 22, +Section 1732, the President of the United States is under a specific duty to +first inquire of foreign governments and then offer assistance whenever an +American is incarcerated abroad. See: +-CITIZENSHIP by Edward Borehard, Thesis [Columbia University, New York +(1914)], discussing the diplomatic protection of American Citizens abroad; +refers to the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW for July, 1913. +-United States Department Publication, THE RIGHT TO PROTECT CITIZENS +IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES BY LANDING FORCES [Second Edition, GPO (October 5, 1912)] +{Harvard University, WIDENER LIBRARY, Cambridge, Massachusetts}, contains a +chronological listing of the occasions in which the Government has taken action +on behalf of American Citizens up to 1912. +=============================================================[524]

+ +

As for the 14th Amendment, the reason why the 14th Amendment as a stand-alone +line of Status defense is patently frivolous is because all Citizens accept +benefits that the King is offering, and the classification by Tax Protestors of +Citizens into different categories, when benefits are being accepted by all +Citizens regardless of classification, is baneful. [525]

+ +

[525]============================================================= The word +CITIZEN appears four times in the 14th Amendment; some are in reference to +Citizens of the United States, and others are in reference to Citizens of the +several States. There is a Citizenship Clause in the 14th Amendment pertaining +to the benefits [a RIGHT is also frequently a benefit] enjoyed by Citizens of +the States in relationship to the benefits enjoyed by Citizens of other States. +Called the PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES CLAUSE, this Clause has generated a large +volume of Court Cases. See: +-THE PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF CITIZENS IN THE SEVERAL STATES, 1 +Michigan Law Review 286 (1902); +-Roger Howell in CITIZENSHIP - THE PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF STATE +CITIZENSHIP [John Hopkins Press, Baltimore (1918)]; +-Arnold J. Lien in PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF CITIZENS [Columbia +University Press, New York (1913)]. +=============================================================[525]

+ +

Claiming that you are a COMMON LAW CITIZEN, or a PREAMBLE CITIZEN with a +special reciprocity exempt status to avoid that irritating QUID PRO QUO +("something for something") payment of an unreasonable enscrewment oriented +Income Tax, is foolishness, and you are not entitled to prevail under any +circumstances before a Federal Judge. [526]

+ +

[526]============================================================= Another line +of foolishness some folks propagate is that, just somehow, there is a +relationship in effect between Social Security and legal liability for the +National Military Draft. In propagating this line, these people suggest the +view that Draft Protestors are burning the wrong card, that is, that Draft +Resisters should be burning their Social Security Card. This line of reasoning +is defective, as the United States has been successfully drafting Citizens into +military service in World War I, long before FDR's Rockefeller Cartel sponsors +in New York City presented the wealth transfer grab of Social Security to +America through their imp nominees in Washington in the 1930's; just like the +United States had been successfully collecting taxes on Income during the Civil +War, before the 14th or 16th Amendments ever made their appearance. See the +SELECTIVE DRAFT CASES, 245 U.S. 366 (1917), for rulings on Draft Protestors in +world war I. And speaking of the draft, there is nothing immoral about the +draft, either. Reason: There is a very reasonable and even QUID PRO QUO +exchange of reciprocity going on that the Draft Protestors don't see. If you +examine the benefits American Citizens accept above, one of them is "the +protection of the United States Marshals." Since the King is risking the +physical security of his bouncers to protect you [yes, and unlike your local +Police Department, the Marshals will not snort at you when you request their +security benefits], then would someone please explain to me what is +unreasonable about the King asking in return for the male Citizenry to risk +their physical security to protect the King's kingdom? +"The very conception of a just Government and its duty to the Citizen +includes the reciprocal obligation of the Citizen to render military service in +case of need and the right to compel it." +-SELECTIVE DRAFT CASES, 245 U.S. 366, at 378 (1917). The reason why +the obligation is reciprocal is because the King is first offering to you the +protectorate services of his bouncers. The reciprocal and contractual nature of +Citizenship is recognized in Congress as such. When debates on the proposed +14th Amendment transpired in the Senate, Senator Trumbull stated his +understanding that: +"This Government... has certainly some power to protect its own +Citizens in their own country. Allegiance and protection are reciprocal +rights." +-CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE, 39th Congress, 1st Session, at page 1757 (1866). +=============================================================[526]

+ +

The reason why self-proclaimed PREAMBLE CITIZENS and COMMON LAW CITIZENS, so +called, are properly burdened with the heavy QUID PRO QUO reciprocity of the +Income Tax is that all Citizens accept and enjoy the protectorate benefits +previously discussed that the King is offering, so all Citizens accept Federal +benefits. Yes, Citizens under the 14th Amendment have additional contracts in +effect (stemming from the additional benefits that the 14th Amendment offers), +that they need to concern themselves with -- but all Citizens accept those +other Federal benefits as well, and so all Citizens are operating under the +King's Equity Jurisdiction of the United States, and are appropriate objects +for the assertion of a regulatory and taxation environment over, through +contract terms. [527].

+ +

[527]============================================================= This is not +exactly the type of a talk a Tax Protestor wants to hear, but there are many +folks operating on Protestor caliber who arrive at similar defective +conclusions of law that their philosophy is beckoning to hear. +=============================================================[527]

+ +

I would advise you to terminate your reliance on information originating from +people who lace excessive priority attention on the 14th Amendment Citizenship +question, as their stand-alone arguments are without any merit whatsoever for +purposes of detaching yourself away from Federal Taxation liability. [528]

+ +

[528]============================================================= "Citizens +are members of the political community to which they belong. They are the +people who compose the community, and who, in the associated capacity, have +established or submitted themselves to the dominion of a Government for the +promotion of their general welfare and the protection of their individual, as +well as their collective rights. In the formation of a Government, the people +may confer upon it such powers as they choose. The Government, when so formed, +may, and when called upon should, exercise all the powers it has for the +protection of the rights of its Citizens and the people within its +jurisdiction; but it can exercise no other. The duty of a Government to afford +protection is limited always by the power it possesses for that purpose." +-UNITED STATES VS. CRUIKSHANK, 92 U.S. 542 (1875). +=============================================================[528]

+ +

Above, I listed some of the benefits that all Citizens of the United States +enjoy; and this is important since Federal Judges always view things from a +"What benefit has this fellow accepted?" attitude. [529]

+ +

[529]============================================================= "Income +taxes are a recognized method of distributing the burdens of Government, +favored because requiring contributions from those who realize current +pecuniary benefits under the protection of the Government, and because the tax +may be proportioned to their ability to pay." +-SHAFFER VS. CARTER, 252 U.S. 37, at 51 (1919). +=============================================================[529]

+ +

But just where does the King and the Federal Judges get off with the idea that +Citizenship, all by itself, attaches liability to Title 26? Nowhere in Title 26 +is there any concise discussion about how Citizens are those Persons identified +in Section 7203 ("Willful Failure to File") as being one of "all persons who +are required to file..." [530]

+ +

[530]============================================================= Although +there are 115 Sections of LEX where the root word CITIZEN appears in Title 26, +when considered as a whole they only inferentially suggest that the CITIZENSHIP +CONTRACT is the primary center of gravity for federal taxation liability +attachment purposes. For example, some of these are: +-Section 63 ["Taxable Income Defined"]; +-Section 303 ["Distributions in redemption of stock to pay death +taxes"]; +-Section 407 ["Certain employees of domestic subsidiaries engaged in +business outside the United States"]; +-Section 861 ["Income from sources within the United States"]; +-Section 864 ["Definitions"]; +-Section 871 ["Tax on nonresident alien individuals"]; +-Section 872 ["Gross Income"]; +-Section 883 ["Exclusions from gross income"]; +-Section 906 ["Nonresident alien individuals and foreign +corporations"]; +-Section 911 ["Citizens or residents of the United States living +abroad"]; +-Section 932 ["Citizens of possessions of the United States"]; +-Section 933 ["Income from sources within Puerto Rico"]; +-Section 1302 ["Definition of averagable income"]; +-Section 1444 ["Withholding on Virgin Islands source income"]; +-Section 1491 ["Imposition of tax"]; +-Section 2002 ["Liability for payment"]; +-Section 2037 ["Transfers taking effect at death"]; +-Section 2039 ["Annuities"]; +-Section 2045 ["Prior interests"]; +-Section 2053 ["Expenses, indebtedness, and taxes"]; +-Section 2101 ["Tax imposed"]; +-Section 2104 ["Property within the United States"]; +-Section 2107 ["Expatriation to avoid tax"]; +-Section 2208 ["Certain residents of possessions considered Citizens +of the United States"]; +-Section 3121(e) ["State, United States, and Citizens"]; +-Section 6854 ["Failure by individual to pay estimated income tax"]; +-Section 7325 ["Personal property valued at $2500 or less"]; +-Section 7408 ["Action to enjoin promoters of abusive tax +shelters..."]; See also Title 42: +-Section 410 ["Definitions relating to employment"]; +-Section 411 ["Definitions relating to self-employment"]; +-Section 8143 ["Definitions"]. +=============================================================[530]

+ +

So just where do Federal Judges get the idea that Citizens are PERSONS under +contract, suitable for a smooth Federal taxation shake down? [531]

+ +

[531]============================================================= For purposes +of collecting an ESTATE TAX, the statutes in Title 26 are blunt and clear that +CITIZENS must pay: +"A tax is hereby imposed on the transfer of the taxable estate of every +decedent who is a Citizen or resident of the United States." +-Title 26, Section 2001 ["Imposition and Rate of Tax"]. +=============================================================[531]

+ +

The answer lies by probing a level deeper into the King's statutes, into an +area Patriots and Tax Protestors do not seem to be pursuing that much: Into the +CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS, which operate as junior statutes. [532]

+ +

[532]============================================================= The Code is +divided into 50 titles or PARTS, which do not always correlate to statutory +Titles. For example, Title 26 UNITED STATES CODE pertains to TAXATION, and the +corresponding Part of CFR that also pertains to TAXATION is Volume 26; however, +Title 50 UNITED STATES CODE deals with WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE, while CFR Part +50 deals with WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES. +=============================================================[532]

+ +

The CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS is a codification of the general and permanent +rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive Department and by +agencies of the United States. The Code is very powerful indeed (remember to +always think like a Federal Judge momentarily for analytical purposes, so you +don't react like a surprised clown when dragged into their courtroom on a +grievance with someone), and the contents of the Code of Federal Regulations +(like it's father, the Federal Register) are required to be judicially noticed. +[533]

+ +

[533]============================================================= 44 United +States Code 1507. +=============================================================[533]

+ +

And the Code of Federal Regulations is also PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE of the text of +the original documents. [534]

+ +

[534]============================================================= 44 United +States Code 1510. +=============================================================[534]

+ +

This CFR is republished once each year, so the following quotations, extracted +from the 1985 edition, may have been altered in future editions. With that in +mind, consider the following words from the CFR:

+ +

"In general, all Citizens of the United States, wherever resident, and +all resident alien individuals are liable to the income taxes imposed by the +Code whether the income is received from sources within or without the United +States... +"Every person born or naturalized in the United States and subject to +its jurisdiction is a Citizen." [535]

+ +

[535]============================================================= 26 CFR +1.0-1(b) and 1.0-1(c); (1985). +=============================================================[535]

+ +

So you see for Citizens IN GENERAL, Federal Judges have already quietly taken +Judicial Notice of the fact that your Citizenship is an invisible contract to +pay Income Taxes -- but what if you are not a Citizen GENERALLY speaking +[meaning, like everyone else, by their silence they have accepted Citizenship +benefits]. By having vacated the factual record of any benefits having been +accepted, by striping the factual record of any QUID PRO QUO of equivalence +exchanged, that factual setting is no longer GENERAL and ordinary, now it is +SPECIAL and extraordinary, where if the King makes any revenue collection +attempt, you have him worked into an immoral position. Yes, Citizenship is a +contract in the classical sense, since benefits offered conditionally were +accepted, and where expectations of reciprocity were retained by the benefit +contributor -- it's all there. [536]

+ +

[536]============================================================= What we view +as Citizenship DUTIES are, when view from the King's perspective, his +expectations of reciprocity. A private commentator once expressed some ideas +regarding the "sale" of the duties of Citizenship to other parties, by asking +the question: Should Citizens be able to contract out to others their required +reciprocal services? Under the concept of inalienable duties [INALIENABLE +meaning that they cannot be transferred], Government requires certain actions +of its Citizens and forbids the transfer of these duties to others. For +example, calls for Voters, Jury Service, and Military Enlistment are based on +the invisible contract attachment of Citizenship, and are, at the present time, +inalienable. VOTERS: In some foreign countries, like Australia, voting +liability cannot be transferred to others -- but is mandatory under fines [see +H. Emy in THE POLITICS OF AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACY: FUNDAMENTALS IN DISPUTE, at +page 596 et seq. (2nd Edition, 1978)]. In a sense, Government has set a price +for not voting; so theoretically, by inverse reasoning, Citizens should also be +able to set a price and buy their way out of not voting by selling their right +to others [there is not a lot of difference between paying Government not to +vote and paying someone else to vote on your behalf]. SOLDIERS AND JURORS: The +arguments for selling jury duty is slightly different because the higher +standards necessarily exclude many Citizens from serving, but even the +qualified sale of a call to serve on a jury is appropriate for private +negotiation. Military enlistment in the United States was once up for sale, +i.e., the draft was an ALIENABLE [transferable] duty. During the United States +Civil War, draftees for both the North and the South could buy their way out of +the draft, or buy a substitute; so the net effect was a military infantry +consisting of a volunteer army financed by wealthy draftees instead of +Taxpayers. While soldiers may have ended up being paid the opportunity cost of +enlistment, the Government is planning its military activity was not required +to take these opportunity costs into account. The reason why this interesting +system broke down is because in the North, several municipalities and States +intervened by appropriating money to enable destitute folks to buy their way +out and then began to pay bounties to enlistees. In the South, the purchase of +substitutes was heavily criticized and was abolished soon after it was begun, +as the howling of UNFAIRNESS ascended into Legislatures [see E. Murdock in +PATRIOTISM LIMITED: 1862-1854: THE CIVIL WAR DRAFT AND THE BOUNTY SYSTEM +(1967)]. See generally INALIENABILITY AND THE THEORY OF PROPERTY RIGHTS +["Inalienability and Citizenship"], 85 Columbia Law Review 931, at 961 (1985). +=============================================================[536]

+ +

The CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS is also another source of identifying handouts +and benefits offered to Citizens. [537]

+ +

[537]============================================================= I have +decided to list each of the PARTS of the 1985 CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS, +since in this way a quick glimpse starts to uncover the wide-ranging extent of +impressive Federal Benefits that Federal Judges have had all neatly tied up in +a bundle and handed to them in that BENCH BOOK of theirs: +-Part 1: General Provisions; +-Part 2: General Provisions; +-Part 3: The President -- Proclamations, Executive Orders; +-Part 4: General Accounting Office; +-Part 5: Federal Administrative Personnel; +-Part 6: [Reserved]; +-Part 7: Agriculture -- price supports, inspections, counseling +benefits; +-Part 8: Aliens and Nationality [Citizenship]; +-Part 9: Animal and Animal Products, Plant and Health inspections; +-Part 10: Nuclear Regulatory Commission; +-Part 11: Federal Elections; +-Part 12: Banks/Banking -- FDIC, Import-Export Bank and other handouts +to looters; +-Part 13: Business Credit & Assistance -- SBA, Economic Development +Administration; +-Part 14: FAA, Aviation, Department of Transportation; +-Part 15: Commerce and Foreign Trade; +-Part 16: Federal Trade Commission -- Regulatory intervention on +behalf of consumers; +-Part 17: Commodities and Securities Exchanges -- Regulatory +intervention; +-Part 18: Conservation of Power and Water Resources -- Federal +Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy; +-Part 19: Customs, Duties -- United States Customs Service; +-Part 20: Food and Drug -- FDA and related inspections; +-Part 21: Employee's Benefits -- Railroad Retirement Board, Office of +Workman's Compensation; +-Part 22: Foreign Relations -- United States International Development +Cooperation Agency and related pipelines to looters; +-Part 23: Highways -- Federal Highway Administration; +-Part 24: Housing and Urban Development; +-Part 25: Indians -- Bureau of Indian Affairs; grants and counseling; +-Part 26: Internal Revenue; +-Part 27: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms -- regulatory intervention; +-Part 28: Judicial Administration -- Federal Prisons (concentration +camps); +-Part 29: Department of Labor -- grants and handouts; +-Part 30: Mineral Resources -- Mine Safety regulations -- Inspections; +-Part 31: Money and Finance -- Treasury; +-Part 32: National Defense -- Contract administration; +-Part 33: Marine Navigation & Navigable Waters; +-Part 34: Education -- Grants to colleges, bilingual education, +vocational training; +-Part 35: Panama Canal; +-Part 36: Parks, Forests, and Public Lands; +-Part 37: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights; +-Part 38: Pensions, Bonuses, Veteran's benefits -- Veteran's +Administration; +-Part 39: Postal Service; +-Part 40: Environmental Protection regulatory matters; +-Part 41: Public Contracts and Property Management; +-Part 42: Public Health -- Health care grants, Hospital enrichment; +-Part 43: Public Land and Interiors -- Secretary of the Interior, +related infrastructure; +-Part 44: Federal Emergency Management Agency (a Gremlin's dream come +true); +-Part 45: Public Welfare -- Office of Family Assistance and Child +Support; +-Part 46: Shipping -- Coast Guard Services; +-Part 47: Telecommunications -- FCC regulatory intervention; +-Part 48: Federal Acquisition Regulatory System -- Federal +Procurement; +-Part 49: Transportation; +-Part 50: Wildlife and Fisheries -- Department of the Interior -- +fishing, hunting in National Forests, wildlife management. +=============================================================[537]

+ +

And the Judicial Notice, taken quietly IN CAMERA, that the Citizenship Contract +is the contract being operated on, is never pronounced publicly in an open +courtroom forum. Does that last sentence I quoted from the CFR about how every +person born or naturalized in the United States seem familiar to you? It +should, because it comes straight out of the 14th Amendment, with only one word +being changed. And read it carefully, as there is admitted a class of +individuals, here residing in the United States as a matter of birthright, who +might not be subject to the total jurisdiction of the United States Government. +[538]

+ +

[538]============================================================= "... the +phrase "subject to the jurisdiction" relates to time of birth, and one not +owing allegiance at birth cannot become a Citizen save by subsequent +naturalization, individually or collectively. The words do not mean merely +geographical location, but 'completely subject to the political jurisdiction'." +-ELK VS. WILINS, 112 U.S. 94, at 102 (1884). +=============================================================[538]

+ +

Who are those individuals? For starters, they are those Individuals who don't +accept any benefits or handouts from the King. [[539]

+ +

[539]============================================================= The most +predominate ways that an individual can become subject to the jurisdiction of +the United States is by: +1.Violating a law the Government is authorized to prosecute +(counterfeiting, bank robbery, treason, etc.); +2.Be employed by the Federal Government; +3.Apply for its privileges, or accept its benefits; See generally: +-John H. Hughes in THE AMERICAN CITIZEN -- HIS RIGHTS AND DUTIES +[Pudney & Russell, New York (1857)]; +-Luella Gettys in THE LAW OF CITIZENSHIP IN THE UNITED STATES +[University of Chicago Press, Chicago (1934)]; +-Albert Brill in TEN LECTURES ON CITIZENSHIP [Ascendancy Foundation, +New York (1938)]; +-David Josiah Brewer in YALE LECTURES ON THE RESPONSIBILITY OF +CITIZENSHIP -- OBLIGATIONS OF CITIZENS [C. Scribner's Sons, New York (1907)]; +-Imp Charles Beard in AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP [MacMillian, New York +(1921)]; +-Editors, UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP "Rights and Duties of an American" +[American Heritage Foundation, New York (1948)]; +-Nathan S. Shaler in CITIZENSHIP "The Citizen -- A Study of the +Individual and the Government" [A.S. Barnes & Company, New York (1904)]; +-Melvin Risa in CITIZENSHIP "Theories on the Obligations of Citizens +to the State," Thesis, [University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1921)]; +-Ansaldo Ceba in CITIZENSHIP "Rights, Duties, and Privileges of +Citizens" [Paine & Burgess, New York (1845)]. +=============================================================[539]

+ +

Despite the fact that I say a few isolated nice things about Federal Judges +(with the applicability of my favorable comments being restricted to just a few +limited grievance factual settings Federal Judges preside over), I am unable to +recall any Federal Case that correctly talks about Citizenship as the pure, raw +contract that it very much is; yet it's all there in Citizenship, all of the +indicia that composes a contract: Benefits offered, as well as their +acceptance, reciprocity expected back in return, and all this all written out +in advance in specific and blunt terms in Federal Statutes. [540]

+ +

[540]============================================================= Yes, +benefits are the key to lock yourself into state and federal taxation webs: +"... it is essential in each case that there be some act by which the +defendant purposefully avails itself of the privilege of conducting activities +within the forum State, thus invoking the benefits and protections of its +laws." +-HANSEN VS. DENCKLA, 357 U.S. 235, at 253 (1957); [A state taxation +jurisdiction question Case]. +=============================================================[540]

+ +

Why then does the Supreme Court not correctly address Citizenship as the +contract that it really is? I don't know why, precisely; I could conjecture +that they do not want to publish an exemplary Case, explaining in the context +of a specific factual setting, how an Individual can get himself out of the +contract containing taxation reciprocity covenants. But I don't really care, +either; whatever information the Federal Judiciary is deficient in elucidating +regarding identifying Citizenship as the invisible contract that it is, I can +get from other sources, even ecclesiastical sources, and then retrofit it +interstitially to uncover the real meaning of obscure Judicial reasoning:

+ +

"An old principle, laid down from the earliest ages of British +jurisprudence, from which we receive our national institutions, is that +allegiance is that ligament or thread which bonds the subject to the sovereign, +by an implied contract, owes, in turn, protection to the subject; and the very +moment that the Government withholds its protection, that very moment +allegiance ceases." [541]

+ +

[541]============================================================= George A. +Smith, from a discourse delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, on +November 29, 1857; 6 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 84, at 85 (London, 1859). +=============================================================[541]

+ +

Yes, Citizenship is very much a contract, and Federal Judges generally think in +contract terms when dealing with a Tax or Draft Protestor. [542]

+ +

[542]============================================================= I am not +aware of any Federal statute anywhere that comes right out in the open and +explicitly correlates the benefits of Citizenship with the reciprocal duties +and liabilities all participants in that contract encumber themselves with; +however, on a parallel tangent, but there is an interesting slice of LEX in the +Civil Rights Statutes which announces a similar theme of benefits and duties, +which I mentioned in two fragments: +"All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have +the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to +sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws +and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by White +Citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, +licenses, and exactions of every kind, and no other." +-Title 42, Section 1981 ["Civil Rights"] (enacted May, 1870). Multiple +Tax Protestors have taken notice of this statute, and have used it to try and +argue that this Section 1981 conveys jurisdiction to Federal District Courts +for hearing PROTESTING grievances arising out of Title 26; for example, see the +jurisdictional arguments in: +-SNYDER VS. IRS, 596 F.Supp. 240 (1984); +-CAMERON VS. IRS, 593 F.Supp 1540 (1984) [appeal published in 773 +F.2nd 126 (1985)]; +-YOUNG VS. IRS, 596 F.Supp. 141 (1984). Title 26 was deliberately +designed by its draftsmen in Congress to convey only that thin, tiny, minimum +sliver of jurisdiction to Federal District Courts that was necessary to hear +grievances initiated by the King's Agents, seeking the enforcement of taxes, +penalties, assessments, injunctions, summonses, etc.; Title 26 does not offer, +and was not intended to offer, a good source of statutes invoking Federal +District Court jurisdiction to either abate or remedy the naked Torts or +contractual errors of IRS termites. Tax Protestors might want to emulate the +MODUS OPERANDI of Federal Judges when dealing with a Title 26 related +grievance, and invoke the 16th Amendment as a source of jurisdiction for their +District Court Kingdom, which Federal Judges quietly do [nowhere in the 16th +Amendment do the words JURISDICTION, DISTRICT COURT, or CONVEY appear anywhere, +but pesky little deficiency impediments like that are not about to stop Federal +Judges]. =============================================================[542]

+ +

Citizenship is probably the single most important contract that you need to +come to grips with, as Citizens are suitable objects to assert both a taxation +and regulation jurisdiction over, and properly so as a matter of Law; however, +we all have philosophical disagreements on some of the bitter terms this +particular Regulatory Jurisdiction contract calls for. With your severance of +the reciprocity liability that is associated with Citizenship, a large amount +of the friction relating to your confrontations with Government will evaporate +overnight -- but your Citizenship contract is not the only exclusive contract +you need to concern yourself with; and be mindful that Citizenship, or any +other type of political status, is not relevant or necessary in those types of +criminal prosecutions that are predicated on either Tort or special contract +(like Highways). So just where is the bottom line here to detach yourself away +from those adhesive statutes in Title 26? [543]

+ +

[543]============================================================= Your right +to walk away from the Citizenship Contract, any time you feel like it, is +absolute [see 9 OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL 356 ["Right of Expatriation"] +(1859)], and you don't need to follow Federal Statutes on Expatriation (the +King wants all pesky little tax avoidance oriented expatriators to physically +leave the United States, and then surrender their Passport to a foreign +consular office [meaning that you will be prevented from re-entering the United +States]; see Title 26, Section 2107 and the Expatriation statutes in the King's +Title 8 LEX). Meanwhile, the King has no right in his statutes to force the +unwanted acceptance of juristic benefits, and silence in his statutes on +administrative procedures to go through to explicitly disavow such benefits +does not vitiate or negate this standing right of rejection. +"There is a principle or theory in nations of Europe that if allowed to +be enforced [here in the United States] destroys the quality of absolute +American Citizenship. There is not a civilized nation that does not in some +form recognize the right of a person to change his domicile or expatriate +himself. The doctrine of perpetual allegiance is derived from the Dark Ages, +the time when Governments were maintained for the benefit of rulers and not for +the people. Sovereigns were everything; subjects were nothing." +-Congressman Norman Judd of Illinois on the Floor of the House of +Representatives, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 40th Congress, 2nd Session, page 7 +(December 2, 1867). Just as pig Sovereigns in the Dark Ages demanded that +Citizens could not walk away from allegiance to his kingdom for any reason, so +too by corollary, should Federal Judges start to deem the acceptance of Federal +benefits as being mandatory and non-waivable, then our reciprocation will be on +terms our Founding Fathers taught us so well: The kind of terms that leave a +lingering scent of nitrates in the air downwind from the Federal Buildings +where they all went to work synchronously. +=============================================================[543]

+ +

If that is your objective, then you have to effectuate a pure severance of +yourself away from the King's Equity Jurisdiction, and not just a partial +severance. No, you don't get to selectively pick and choose just what Federal +benefits you want and don't want. This Citizenship is one of the larger slices +that constitutes the Title 26 liability pie, and once Federal Judges have +quietly taken Judicial Notice of your Citizenship, they generally then and +there stop looking for other contracts to nail on you, when ruling over civil +Income Tax grievances. [544]

+ +

[544]============================================================= If in fact +Citizenship is the dominate invisible contract that Federal Judges are using as +BENEFIT ACCEPTANCE justification to adhesively hold the LEX of Title 26 to +folks -- then there necessarily rises to our attention another question. In +1939, Congress enacted the PUBLIC SALARY TAX ACT, designed to waive the +benefits inuring to Federal Employees of a long-standing doctrine in the United +States Supreme Court that prohibits the taxation of Federal instrumentalities +by the several States, and VICE-VERSA -- called the INTERGOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY +DOCTRINE. +"What limitations does the Federal Constitution impose upon the United +States in respect of taxing instrumentalities and agencies employed by a State +and, conversely, how far does it inhibit the States from taxing +instrumentalities and agencies utilized by the United States, are questions +often considered here. [Cases deleted]. +"The Constitution contemplates a national Government free to use its +delegated powers; also state Governments capable of exercising their essential +reserved powers; both operate within the same territorial limits; consequently +the Constitution itself, either by word or necessary inference, makes adequate +provision for preventing conflict between them. +"Among the inferences which derive necessarily from the Constitution +are these: No State may tax appropriate means which the United States may +employ for exercising their delegated powers; the United States may not tax +instrumentalities which a State may employ in the discharge of her essential +governmental duties -- that is, those duties which the Framers intended each +member of the Union would assume in order adequately to function under the form +of Government guaranteed by the Constitution." +-HELVERING VS. THERRELL, 303 U.S. 218, at 222 (1937). The Constitution +nowhere states that the Congress is barred from taxing State Employees, or that +the States are barred from taxing Federal Employees; yet the Supreme Court held +in COLLECTOR VS. DAY that the salary of a State Officer is immune from Federal +income taxation: +"That the taxing power of the Federal Government is nevertheless +subject to an implied restriction when applied to State instrumentalities was +first decided in COLLECTOR VS. DAY, 11 Wallace 113, where the salary of a state +officer, a probate judge, was held to be immune from Federal income tax. The +question there presented was not one of interference with a granted power in a +field in which the Federal Government is supreme, but a limitation by +implication upon the granted Federal power to tax." +-HELVERING VS. GERHARDT, 304 U.S. 405, at 414 (1937). So even though +Federal Employees cannot be taxed under this immunity doctrine, the Congress +enacted the PUBLIC SALARY TAX ACT to waive the immunity its employees would +otherwise enjoy; The Congress wanted to make sure that their help was paying +the freight like everyone else: +"Federal Employees... too, should contribute to the support o their +State and local Governments to the same extent as private Employees... +Employees of Governments receive all the benefits of Government which their +fellow Citizens do, and consequently they should also bear their fair share of +its costs." +-SENATE REPORT #112 ["Public Salary Tax Act"], 76th Congress, First +Session, at 4 (February, 1939). And perhaps the Congress was also expecting +some reciprocity back in return from the States: +"The statute construed in COLLECTOR VS. DAY afforded no reciprocal +right to the States to tax the salaries of Federal Employees. In this respect, +it might be said to be discriminatory against the States. The proposed +legislation does permit the States to tax Federal Salaries." +-SENATE REPORT #112 ["Public Salary Tax Act"], 76th Congress, First +Session, at 8 (February, 1939). After it was enacted, this PUBLIC SALARY TAX +ACT read that: +"The United States consents to the taxation of pay or compensation for +personal service as an office or employee of the United States..." +-Title 4, Section 111 ["Public Salary Tax Act"] (revised September, +1966). Tax Protestors reading this statute from the perspective that only +Federal Employees are PERSONS liable for the Title 26 tax are in error. This +Act only means that INTERGOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY is waived and that the States +can tax the salaries of Federal Employees, and no more. But where did the +Congress initially become so disabled from taxing State employees? +"The Constitution contains no express limitation on the power of either +a State or the national Government to tax the other, or its instrumentalities. +The doctrine that there is an implied limitation stems from MCCULLOCH VS. +MARYLAND [4 Wheat 316], in which it was held that a State tax laid specifically +upon the privilege of issuing bank notes, and in fact applicable alone to the +notes of national banks, was invalid since it impeded the national Government +in the exercise of its power to establish and maintain a bank, implied as an +incident to the borrowing, taxing, war, and other powers specifically granted +to the national Government by Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution." +-HELVERING VS. GERHARDT, 304 U.S. 405, at 411 (1937). [That's right, +you FEDERAL RESERVE PROTESTORS out there: Your arguments on the +unConstitutionality of the Federal Reserve System and its circulating notes, +based on the monetary disabilities present in Article 1, Sections 8 and 10, +even though factually correct of and by themselves, are only a very small part +of the larger jurisdictional pie our King has to justify his juristic banking +creations. I would like to see a Protestor try and argue the +unConstitutionality of the Fed based on the full panoply of its sources of +jurisdictional fuel: The BORROWING POWER to contract for debts, the WAR POWERS +to defend the United States, the TAXATION POWERS resident in Article 1, Section +8, and the regulation of COMMERCE POWER also in Article 1, Section 8, etc. You +Protestors can't do that as there are no countermanding arguments for some of +those sources of jurisdictional fuel, and so now the end result is exactly what +Federal Judges correctly rule to be so down to the present day: That the +Federal Reserve System, Gremlins and all, is in fact Constitutional.] QUESTION: +So, if Citizenship is the contract operated on by Federal Judges, then why will +Federal Judges simply not refer over to the Citizenship contract as overruling +justification to tax Governmental Employees? The Answer lies in the fact that +CITIZENSHIP is an implied contract created and structured largely by statutory +devices; as an implied contract [meaning not expressly negotiated and +individually written down], Citizenship can only fill the vacant contours that +are left open by other premier boundary line restrainments of a higher +priority. Here we have a fundamental intergovernmental immunity doctrine +related to that granddaddy itself: SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY. Under this +INTERGOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY DOCTRINE, Federal and State instrumentalities are +pre-emptively disabled from even asking for any taxation reciprocity back in +return from each other -- even though Federal juristic benefits were accepted +by a state employee in COLLECTOR VS. DAY, and an implied taxation contract was +in effect. Remember that the Congress is operating on a limited profiled slice +of multiple jurisdictional assignments; the Congress is pre-emptively disabled +from pulling off many things in the BILL OF RIGHTS that requires either a +Commercial Contract or individually negotiated contract consent to overrule. +The Corpus of the Constitution also pre-emptively disables the Congress from +asking for taxation reciprocity back in return for important Commercial +benefits accepted in Article 1, Section 9 ["No Tax or Duty shall be laid on +Articles exported from any State"], even though those articles destined for +foreign nations were very much the product of otherwise taxable INTERSTATE +COMMERCE. The right of taxation, where it does exist, is necessarily unlimited +in its nature: +"... the right of taxation, where it exists, is necessarily unlimited +in its nature." +-MCCRAY VS. UNITED STATES, 195 U.S. 27, at 57 (1903). But as unlimited +as it is in some areas, the right of taxation does not exist everywhere; [EVANS +VS. GORE mentions the existence of a class of "... excepted subjects," 253 U.S. +245, at 261 (1920)] -- so not everyone to whom benefits are thrown at are +automatically liable for the reciprocating financial payments of taxation; in +some cases Government is pre-emptively barred from asking for benefit +reciprocity, and implied contracts take a back seat to overruling restrainments +such as INTERGOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY. This Taxation Immunity Doctrine is +Judicially created, and Judges, as the individuals that they are, frequent do +possess views diverging from the expected conformal median. Question: Are there +some Judges who would like to merely cite national CITIZENSHIP as THE +justifying taxation contract, and ignore Immunity Doctrines? Yes, there are: +"... respondents, though Employees of the New York Port Authority, are +Citizens of the United States; the tax levied upon their incomes from the +Authority is the same as that paid by other Citizens receiving equal net +incomes; and payment of this non-discriminatory income tax by respondents +cannot impair or defeat in whole or in part the governmental operations of the +State of New York. A Citizen who receives his income from a State, owes the +same obligation to the United States as other Citizens who draw their salaries +from private sources or the United States and pay Federal income taxes." +-HELVERING VS. GERHARDT, 304 U.S. 405, at 424 [Justice Black +concurring] (1937). The same difficulty in assigning values to competing +differentials in contract priority, that some Patriots will have to come to +grips with the strong relevance of national CITIZENSHIP for taxation purposes +when not otherwise disabled, but not quite strong enough to pierce this State +Employee immunity veil, is exemplary of the same judgment we all confront daily +while we too, just like the Supreme Court, apply the relevance of our Celestial +Covenants to a wide ranging array of factual settings that make their +appearance in our lives. And those factual settings also present to us a +competing confluence of incentives, to which we respond with differential +levels of perceived Covenant importance.

+ +

=============================================================[544]

+ +

Your successful severance of liability away from the administrative mandates of +Title 26 requires a thorough decontamination of yourself away from the contract +of Citizenship and all Commercial contracts. Yes, you can be an alien from some +foreign jurisdiction, you can be a Russian Native who never left Russia or set +foot in the United States, and still have a liability to produce administrative +conformance with Title 26. [545]

+ +

[545]============================================================= Aliens from +foreign political jurisdictions, who do not reside in the United States and +accept no political or protectorate benefits from the United States, are still +very much liable to be bound by Title 26, if they experience any Commercial +enrichment over here. See EMILY DE GANAY VS. LEDERER, 250 U.S. 376 (1919). [A +French Citizen and French resident very much owes equity participation income +taxes to the United States, because she experience Commercial enrichment over +here when she deals in debt instruments such as mortgages, corporate paper, and +securities.] See also similar reasoning in COOK VS. TAIT, 265 U.S. 47 (1923) +[non-resident aliens who participate in American Commerce are subject to the +American Income Tax and Citizens residing abroad are liable to pay the Income +Tax]. The requirement for American Citizens who live abroad and, seemingly, do +not enjoy any benefits of an American origin, to pay Income Taxes has irritated +a lot of folks -- see THE FOREIGN EARNED INCOME ACT OF 1978: NON-BENEFITS FOR +NONRESIDENTS, Editor's Note, 13 Cornell International Law Journal 105, at 107 +(1980) -- but latent overseas benefits are actually being offered and accepted +by American Citizens who travel over there [the benefit to call upon the local +diplomatic consular offices for protectorate assistance, and in Title 22, +Section 1732, there lies a statute which lays upon the President of the United +States a specific duty to intervene on your behalf whenever American Citizens +have been incarcerated by foreign jurisdictions. Although those benefits might +not seem worth such an extravagant percentage demanded of your income, year in +and year out without any letup or impending relief, the value of those benefits +to you is a business judgment you need to make, and is not a question that +should be entertained by a Federal Judge after you have decided to accept those +benefits -- benefits that are considered to have been accepted by your silence +[as I will discuss in the next section Federal Reserve Notes]. +=============================================================[545]

+ +

The idea of using the King's Equity Jurisdiction of Citizenship a the point of +adhesion to tax individuals goes far back into antiquity. [546]

+ +

[546]============================================================= The +jurisdictional basis of Citizenship to tax is one of the oldest juristic +Principles that there is in law. See Edwin Seligman, in ESSAYS ON TAXATION +["Double Taxation"], page 111 [MacMillian Company, New York (1928); 9th +Edition].

+ +

=============================================================[546]

+ +

In the old days of 1913, our Fathers came right out in the open and declared +for all to see that Citizens were taxable objects. [547]

+ +

[547]============================================================= "... that +there shall be levied, assessed, collected and paid annually upon the entire +net income arising or accruing from all sources in the preceding calendar year +to every Citizen of the United States, whether residing at home or abroad..." +-THE REVENUE ACT OF 1913, chapter 16, Section IIA (1913). +=============================================================[547]

+ +

The decision that was made in 1913 to lay the tax on the attachment of the +King's Equity Jurisdiction of Citizenship was made apparently intuitively and +without much debate. [548]

+ +

[548]============================================================= Surrey +reviews this in his article entitled CURRENT ISSUES IN THE TAXATION OF +CORPORATE FOREIGN INCOME, 56 Columbia Law Review 815, at 817 (1956). +=============================================================[548]

+ +

The purpose of broadening the number of objects subject to federal taxation, +away from exclusively constituting only participants in King's Commerce, over +to the larger group of Citizenry, was declared to be performed only with the +noblest of intentions, [549]

+ +

[549]============================================================= "Its purpose +was to raise revenue on the basis of each Citizen's ability to pay as opposed +to the past practice of taxing the individual on the basis of consumption." +-See HOUSE REPORT NUMBER 5, 63rd Congress, First Session, 1 (1913). +=============================================================[549]

+ +

but the true objective then is the same objective which sustains the +continuance of the Income Tax down to the present time: To perfect Bolshevik +enscrewment. [550]

+ +

[550]============================================================= Gremlins +typically operate by mildly asking for just one more turn of the screws; +information propagated around Congress in 1909 (when the proposed 16th +Amendment was passed by the Congress and sent to the States), and thence +propagated around the States, was that the American Income Tax during the Civil +War and in 1894 was only a tiny 3% to 7%, and it only affected the very rich, +so the passage of this technical little Amendment isn't anything you +legislators need to concern yourselves with. Our fathers back then fell for +that line, just as most folks would again fall for it all over again today, +never bothering to see the latent error in yielding to Gremlins even one tiny +bit: +[Speaking in the context of a Celestial Principle]: +"The old fable which Aesop tells of the woodsman who went into the +forest to get a handle for his axe describes accurately the position in which +we find ourselves. The woodsman went and consulted with the trees of the +forest, asking them to give him a handle for his axe. The other trees, the +stronger ones, arrogating [means to "claim as one's own"] to themselves +authority and ignoring the rights of others, thought that they could dispose of +the smaller trees as they pleased. The larger trees conferred together and +decided to the grant the woodsman's request, and so they gave to the woodsman +the Ash tree. The Ash soon fell; but the woodsman had no sooner fitted the +handle to his axe than he began upon the other trees. He did not stop with the +Ash, but he also hewed down the Oaks and the Cedars and the great and mighty +Monarchs of the forest who had surrendered in their pride, the rights of the +humble Ash. An old Oak was heard to complain to a neighboring Cedar; "If we had +not given away the rights of the Ash we might have stood forever; but we have +surrendered to the destroyer the rights of one, and now we are suffering from +the same evil ourselves." +-Orson F. Whitney, in a discourse delivered in the Tabernacle on April +9, 1885; 26 JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES 194, at 202 [London (1886)]. The fablest +referred to, AESOP, wrote many Fables with an instructional purpose running +through them. AESOP is said to have lived about 620 to 560 B.C., and once had a +relationship with Croesus. A Latin translation of 100 FABULAE AEOPICAE by +Renutius was published in Rome in 1476, and has since been handed down the +line. And what Principle applies in a Celestial setting will always apply in a +worldly setting, as our Creator did not dispense or toss aside his Principles +when he governed the Creation of this planet architecturally; and the lesson is +clear: Those who compromise with Gremlins today will be sticking their +descendants with damages, just as we are now stuck with unreasonable levels of +taxation because our fathers once fell for lies and yielded the first step. +=============================================================[550]

+ +

Our Fathers fell for that "ability to pay" reasoning then, just like most folks +today continue to fall for that same line today. [551]

+ +

[551]============================================================= Pathetic was +the caliber of judgment that fell for this little lie: +"For years there has been an overwhelming sentiment in this country in +favor of the income tax. The justice of such a tax is so self-evident that few, +if any, have been heard in opposition to its enactment." +-Congressman Pepper, from Iowa, in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD for +January 30, 1913, at page 5252. +=============================================================[551]

+ +

Let us examine the Judicial Perspective on federal taxation under the +Citizenship Contract by way of a Case study. One such ruling touching on the +Citizenship Contract involves COOK VS. TAIT, [552]

+ +

[552]============================================================= 265 U.S. 47 +(1924). =============================================================[552]

+ +

where the Supreme Court ruled that income received by a Citizen of the United +States while living in Mexico is taxable due to the benefits received while +outside the United States (the old acceptance of benefits story: When benefits +that were offered with an expectation of reciprocity back in return have been +accepted, there lies a contract and it now becomes immoral not to require a +mandatory exchange of reciprocity). The Court then listed those benefits that +American Citizens carried with them no matter what their geographical situs +was. [553]

+ +

[553]============================================================= Many +Patriots will be quite familiar with the following widely published words from +a Supreme Court ruling called HALE VS. HENKEL, 201 U.S. 43 (1915), which +discusses the difference in rights and duties between Corporations and +Individuals: +"The individual... owes no duty to the State, since he receives nothing +therefrom..." +-HALE VS. HENKEL, id., at 74. Not once to this day have I ever seen a +correct discussion of what HALE VS. HENKEL really means: Because it does not +purport at all to say that Individuals [human beings] are somehow exempt from +Government taxes that Corporations are required to pay because Individuals are +made of flesh and bones, and therefore, somehow exempt from duties. Notice how +the Supreme Court did not try to distinguish between PERSON clothed with +multiple layers of juristic accoutrements lending to their very appearance a +special and suggestive flavoring to it -- and INDIVIDUALS without such juristic +accoutrements [or "liberated"]; the Supreme Court was contrasting Corporate +entities and Individuals due to the JURISTIC PERSONALITY that benefit +acceptants clothe themselves with. Knowing what you know now about the +invisible contracts that are in effect whenever there has been an acceptance of +benefits, go back and read that line over again. Both Artificial and Natural +Persons either owe the money, or don't owe the money, based upon their +acceptance or nonacceptance of juristic benefits, and not based upon their +biological Status as human INDIVIDUALS (or NATURAL PERSONS, as lawyers would +call them). If you do accept those juristic benefits, then you very much owe +the money, regardless of whether or not you are a human Individual (NATURAL +PERSONS) or a Corporation (an ARTIFICIAL PERSON). I once saw a 7203 WILLFUL +FAILURE TO FILE prosecution conviction appeal in California where the criminal +defendant argued that he was exempt from Income Tax Liability because he was an +"absolute individual," and not a Corporation. When I saw this argument in this +appeal brief, I felt sorry for him, as I knew he would eventually be +incarcerated; as that biological Status argument of being a human "individual" +means nothing -- in fact, actually means less than nothing, as it operates +negatively against your credibility if there is a disputed element of law or +fact in a grey area that could have otherwise favored you. Many other folks +pushing law materials also propagate this fraudulent line (that Title 26 does +not apply to human individuals, somehow), and they should know better: Because +your natural biological Status as an "Individual" means absolutely nothing when +juristic benefits were accepted by you: That is the seminal point of the +formation of contracts in Nature, and contracts overrule NATURAL LAW RIGHTS +arguments; if you are having trouble understanding now the reason why contracts +ascend to the elevated level of priority in Nature like they do -- passing by +all of the lower arguments sounding in the Tort of fairness and unfairness -- +then you will understand this Principle in no uncertain term at the Last Day. +[I would like to see Protestors try to snicker at Father at the Last Day, like +they snicker at Judges now]. In arguing HALE VS. HENKEL, Tax Protestors are +correct by noting that Corporations are very unique creatures in the Law; they +are created by Juristic Institutions, and whatever the Juristic Institution +created, it can modify, rearrange, and dissolve any time, in any manner, and +under any circumstances that it feels like. For example, such a differential in +rights surfaced in Rhode Island once, when some judges were discussing the +relationship in effect between the right of corporations [if RIGHT is the word] +to pick and choose their own state Residency situs: +"We do not think a foreign corporation can under any circumstances be +regarded as a RESIDENT of the state, in the absence of any legislation +recognizing it or giving it a STATUS as such. The proper seat or "residence" of +such a corporation is the State which created it and which continues it in +existence, otherwise the corporation might have its residence in a multitude of +jurisdictions. The residence of a corporation is created for it by an act of +law, and can not be changed by act of the corporation. A more permanent +residence than that of a domestic corporation in the State which created it can +hardly be conceived." +-ATTORNEY GENERAL VS. POLICE COMMISSIONERS, 30 Rhode Island 212, at +220 (1909). As distinguished from Corporations, Individuals can very much pack +up and move to a new State -- whenever they feel like it; so yes, some +differences do exist in rights and duties from Corporations to Individuals, but +Individuals take upon themselves the taxable status of Corporations whenever +juristic benefits, offered conditionally, have been accepted; under such a +juristic environment, such an INDIVIDUAL is now a PERSON, and PERSONS, carrying +the special and suggestive juristic accoutrements around with them like they +do, are in no position to start arguing for rights or judicially created +exemptions. =============================================================[553]

+ +

In another Case in 1968, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Felix +Rexach owed American income taxes by reason of his United States Citizenship. +[554]

+ +

[554]============================================================= FELIX REXACH +VS. UNITED STATES, 390 F.2nd 631 (1968). +=============================================================[554]

+ +

Felix Rexach was a native born Puerto Rican, who acquired statutory American +Citizenship by virtue of the Jones Act of 1917. [555]

+ +

[555]============================================================= Title 48, +Section 731, et seq. +=============================================================[555]

+ +

In 1944, Felix left Puerto Rico and became a resident of the Dominican +Republic, where he remained resident until 1961. However, in 1958 Felix +executed a written renunciation of his American Citizenship before a United +States consulate official in the Dominican Republic, pursuant to the +Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. [556]

+ +

[556]============================================================= Title 8, +Section 1481(c). +=============================================================[556]

+ +

His renouncement of American Citizenship was accepted without any frictional +hassles by the United States, and a written Certificate of Loss of Nationality +was approved by the Department of State. On July 26th of 1958, his desired +severance away from American Citizenship was perfected as Felix was decreed to +be a Citizen of the Dominican Republic. [557]

+ +

[557]============================================================= "Thereafter, +[Felix] naturally suffered certain losses of status and benefits as a +consequence of being declared a non-resident alien of the United States." +-REXACH, id., at 631. See how Federal Judges are just fixated to view +questions from a BENEFITS perspective; yes BENEFITS are the Center of Gravity +in the minds of Federal Judges -- that central axis upon which adhesive +attachments of King's Equity Jurisdiction have their organic point of formation +into contracts. +=============================================================[557]

+ +

Felix was no ordinary fellow, as he busied himself on a large scale by +contracting activities in the Dominican Republic, contracts obtained by +associating with its ruling dictator, Trujillo. [558]

+ +

[558]============================================================= REXACH, id., +at 631. =============================================================[558]

+ +

But fortunes soon turned adverse for Felix when the Dictator he was milking was +assassinated in 1961. Felix suddenly decided that American Citizenship was now +desirable, and so in 1962 he applied for reinstatement of his American +Citizenship by applying for a Passport; claiming that his 1958 renunciation was +involuntary and had been compelled against his will by reason of physical +threats and economic pressures. The United States Consul denied his +application, and on administrative appeal, Felix's testimony was accepted, +reversing the local Consul, so his Loss of National Certificate was cancelled.

+ +

However, now things turn into an interesting direction, because the Department +of State, aware of Felix's financial resources, notified the Internal Revenue +Service that Felix was now an American Citizen again; and so now termites in +the IRS came out of the woodwork. [559]

+ +

[559]============================================================= My +characterization of the Internal Revenue Service as being termites is an +assessment of the practical effect of those agents doing no more than trying to +get people to honor their juristic contracts with Royalty. With the Direct IN +PERSONAM Taxation grab of an Income Tax structurally designed by Gremlins to +accomplish their objectives of maximum enscrewment damages, IRS Agents are +caught in the middle of the cross fire, or as the vernacular of the day goes, +'stuck between a rock and a hard place'; on the one hand doing no more than the +prevention of defilement under invisible contracts, yet on the other hand they +are the visible persons responsible for so smoothly eating out the +Countryside's substance. +"There is nothing about federal and state employees as a class which +justifies depriving them or society of the benefits of their participation in +public affairs. They, like other Citizens, pay taxes and serve their country in +peace and in war. The taxes they pay and the wars in which they fight are +determined by the elected spokesman of all people. They come from the same +homes, communities, schools, churches, and colleges as do other Citizens. I +think the Constitution guarantees to them the same rights that other groups of +good Citizens have..." +-UNITED PUBLIC WORKS VS. MITCHELL, 330 U.S. 75, at 111 [dissenting +opinion] (1948). +=============================================================[559]

+ +

And so deficiency assessments were thrown at Felix for income earned in the +four intermittent years between his renunciation and his reinstatement. Felix +ignored the deficiency assessments, and so Internal Revenue termites then threw +liens on property Felix owned, followed by foreclosure actions. Felix countered +against the foreclosures by throwing Petitions for Summary Judgements of +Foreclosure Dismissal at the IRS.

+ +

In his legal arguments seeking to deflect the foreclosure, Felix reasoned that, +in effect, the reciprocal benefits of Citizenship obligation language in COOK +VS. TAIT [560]

+ +

[560]============================================================= 265 U.S. 47 +(1924). =============================================================[560]

+ +

overruled the unpleasant covenant terms his special statutory Citizenship +Contract how called for: The preclusion of Felix from claiming, as a matter of +statutory law, that he ever ceased to be a United States Citizen. Felix argued +that since the United States had owned him no protection benefits during his +four year hiatus of alien, that therefore no reciprocal tax was owing in return +to the United States. The First Circuit disagreed, and countered by ruling +that:

+ +

"We cannot agree that the reciprocal obligations are mutual, at least +in the sense that [the] taxpayer contends." [561]

+ +

[561]============================================================= REXACH, id., +at 632. =============================================================[561]

+ +

So yes, that QUID PRO QUO of reciprocity that I have been talking about all +along does have to be there, but the failure of Felix to present a proper +factual setting to the Judicial was fatal on his part Felix reentered the +stream of Citizenship under contract, and the terms of his contract called for +the irrelevancy of his alien status, since his loss of Citizenship was +originally tax avoidance motivated. Felix admitted that he never really ceased +to be an American Citizen -- and there lies the key to see why the First +Circuit correctly ruled the way they did. The price one pays for maneuvering +one's Citizenship [and lying to get it back] to secure self enrichment and +economic advantage, according to the First Circuit, is continued liability for +United States taxes. The obligation to pay taxes is thus clearly applicable +although the Taxpayer who has temporarily abandoned the United States, for +purposes of pursuing Commercial enrichment, receives no reciprocal benefits +from the Government. In conclusion, most noteworthy is the last line in Rexach, +as the First Circuit said that although there is a factual setting that could +be presented to them where the lack of reciprocal benefits would preclude the +assessment of Internal Revenue taxes, the factual elements necessary to so rule +were not present here:

+ +

"The hypothetical [factual setting where a person rejects benefits +timely and then does not return into a King's Equity relational status with the +United States at a future time] suggested by taxpayer during oral argument +involved aspects of estoppel on the part of the Government. Whatever may be the +merit of such cases, that element is not present here." [562]

+ +

[562]============================================================= REXACH, id., +at 632. =============================================================[562]

+ +

Well, George, that DICTA was interesting, but could we see a Case where an +Individual rejects all benefits timely, and then a Federal Court vitiated his +taxing liability? No, sorry you cannot; [563]

+ +

[563]============================================================= There is a +line of Cases in the United States Supreme Court touching on a Citizenship +Naturalization question while occasionally mentioning taxation, but even in +those Cases, I am not aware of any explicit statement that exists which +specifically attaches reciprocal taxation liability for PERSONS holding +Citizenship, nor is there any explicit indication that Citizenship is a +contract. To have folks think in terms of contract when addressing Citizenship, +would result in some folks eventually figuring out that the underlying indicia +that create commercial contracts might also create political contracts where +Juristic Institutions are a party thereto; and so it would not be too long +before folks start figuring out that the seminal point in all commercial +contracts stand on that practical operation of Nature taking place called +CONSIDERATION, where benefits are exchanged. And so folks, very properly, would +then start to examine the passing scene for evidence that Citizens just might +have also exchanged some unseen benefits here or there -- and such an open +examination will very much uncover such an evidentiary array of juristic +benefits accepted in a state of silence. Exemplary of a Supreme Court ruling +managing not to let the cat out of the bag while talking about Citizenship, +would the Naturalization Case of ANGELICA SCHNEIDER VS. DEAN RUSK [377 U.S 163 +(1964)]. =============================================================[563]

+ +

such a published ruling so favorable to us folks out here in the countryside +does not exist, and will never exist -- as I have been saying all along, Cases +presented to Federal Judges that come even close to pure Equity severance are +being sandbagged at low levels, and you will not even be getting a hearing +before the Supreme Court. [564]

+ +

[564]============================================================= A Federal +Judge in Texas told an acquaintance of mine that the reason why he was not +going to issue out any written ruling on a Citizenship/tax liability question +that was presented to him in a Case was because the Judge was afraid that such +an opinion "would threaten the entire tax system" [a literal quotation]. So +those are the kind of degenerate information sequestration terms Federal Judges +think in, as they go about their work trying to keep the lid clamped down tight +on knowledge propagation -- a pretty pathetic objective; and so now the +published ruling some folks are waiting for -- of a judicial ruling showing by +example, how step by step a person could terminate altogether his tax +liability; a ruling that would very much benefits others -- that ruling will +never make an appearance. Incidentally, notice how Federal Judges conveniently +refuse to get involved with addressing tough questions like whether or not the +claimed underlying authenticity of Constitutional Amendments are actually +fraudulent sources of jurisdiction when used by the King as justification to +damage people -- by deferring such questions over to "the political departments +of Government"; yet twist the factual setting around slightly to create +different philosophical incentives, and Federal Judges very quickly bend over +backwards to use such purely political concerns like aggregate revenue +questions as justification to once again avoid doing the right thing. +=============================================================[564]

+ +

Those Citizenship Cases are of interest to us as good TOUCHSTONES indicia of +Citizenship liability and of benefit acceptance in general, but they do not +meet the Refiner's Fire threshold requirement of just what happens when +Citizens simple waive and reject all political benefits, that Model Case that +so many folks are looking for. [565]

+ +

[565]============================================================= In ancient +times, the test for purity of Gold was performed with a smooth black stone, +called a Touchstone. When rubbed across the Gold, the Gold produced a streak or +mark on the surface of the Touchstone. The goldsmith would then match this mark +with a chart he had showing different graded colors. The mark left on the +Touchstone was redder in color as the amount of copper or other alloys +increased, and was yellower as the percentage of Gold increased. This process +showed the purity of the Gold within reasonable limits. The Touchstone method +for testing the quality of Gold was quick and fairly accurate for most common +purposes; but the goldsmith who, for some special reason, needed more precise +information on the Gold used a process that involved fire. And by running the +Gold through the much more intense Refiner's Fire, extremely accurate (as +accurate went in those days) measurements of the Gold content could then be +determined. However, the Refiner's Fire process took a lot of additional time, +and didn't really tell the goldsmith anything that he didn't already know. In +similar ways, I would suggest that Patriot inactivity (because you are +"waiting" for the Model Case to come down from on High) is improvident, and +such a Model Case will not tell you anything you don't already know. +=============================================================[565]

+ +

What happens to Citizens who reject the King's benefits? They become Denizens. +[566]

+ +

[566]============================================================= In old +English Common Law, DENIZENS had no political rights, i.e., they could not vote +or hold office. So by mutuality they also owed no Citizen-like capitation tax +to the Crown. Although Denizens had occupancy jurisdiction to stay within a +Kingdom, the only taxes the Crown was able to get out of them was limited to +the extent that the Denizen participated in Commerce. See generally, James +Kettner, THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP 1608-1870 [University of North +Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (1976)]. That I am aware of, the +word DENIZEN appears 21 times in the United States Supreme Court between 1952 +[in ON LEE VS. UNITED STATES, 343 U.S. 747] and 1812 [in FAIRFAX'S DEVISEE VS. +HUNTER'S LEASEE, 11 U.S. 603]. For example, it is mentioned in LUDECKE VS. +WATKINS [333 U.S. 160, at 161 (1947)], in the context of a quotation from Title +50, Section 21 ["Enemy Alien Act"]. BLACK'S FIFTH, in their style of poorly +written definitions, states that a Denizen is: +"... in kind of a middle state between an alien and a natural born +subject, and partakes of the STATUS of both of these." +-BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY ["Denizen"], Fifth Edition, [West Publishing, +St. Paul] and adds that an American judicial definition of Denizen has changed +somewhat from its historical English counterpart. What DENIZEN means today is +the same that it has always meant: +"Our laws give certain privileges [benefits] and withhold certain +privileges from our adopted subjects, and we may naturally conclude, that there +may be some qualification of the privilege in the laws of other countries. But +our resident Denizens are entitled, as I take it, to all sorts of commercial +privileges, which our natural-born subject can claim." +-MARRYAT VS. WILSON, a British case (1799). Yes, Denizens do not enjoy +political franchise rights [nor can they hold elective Government office], but +they do hold occupancy jurisdiction, and they do enjoy Commercial benefits +created by the State, and so Denizens were only taxed to the extent they +participated in Commerce. Back before the Civil War days, Blacks were not +Citizens of the United States, as only White folks could be Citizens before the +RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS made their appearance. An Attorney General once spoke +on how colored persons are not ALIENS and not CITIZENS, yet they are something +-- but what are they? They are DENIZENS, as Denizens hold occupancy +jurisdiction, but do not enjoy any juristic benefit originating from the United +States of a political nature: +"It is not necessary, in my view of the matter, to discuss the question +how far a free man of color [meaning a black who was not a slave] may be a +Citizen, in the highest sense of the word -- that is, one who enjoys in the +fullest manner all the JURA CIVITATIS under the Constitution of the United +States... Now free people of color are not ALIENS, they enjoy universally +(while there has been no express statutable provision to the contrary) the +rights of Denizens... How far a political STATUS may be acquired is a different +question, but his civil STATUS is that of a complete Denizenship." +-Hugh S. Legare, Attorney General of the United States, in +["Pre-Emption Rights of Colored Persons"], 4 OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL +147, at 147 (March, 1843). Here in the United States of 1985, PERSONS +participating in that closed private domain of King's Commerce without enjoying +any political benefits pay the same identical taxes as those who do enjoy +political benefits; there is no economy now associated with being a Denizen +pursuing commercial enrichment today. The economy long sought after by Tax +Protestors will be realized only effectuating a total and pure severance of +themselves away from the adhesive attachments of King's Equity Jurisdiction, +which consists of having accepted either Commercial benefits, or of the +political benefits derived from an operation of Citizenship. +=============================================================[566]

+ +

Why are Citizens of the United States now burdened down with such an incredible +Bolshevik Income Tax Machine, so smoothly eating away at our substance the way +it does? The answer lies by the acceptance of protectorate benefits the King is +offering. [567]

+ +

[567]============================================================= Even if you +want the protectorate benefits the King is offering, at a minimum it is +improvident to remain silent on his manipulative use of his administration of +this contract by Gremlins. Today in 1985, our King is busy with talk of +negotiating construction suspension agreements with a foreign adversary -- +Russia; called the STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TALKS (SALT). The King wants to +suspend our production of certain defense hardware in the interest of +cordialities, a spirit of unilateral disarmament that was publicly initiated in +1972 with an operation of Royal diplomatic deception called DETENTE. The reason +why this is of significance is because a war with Russia is on the horizon -- a +war to be presented to us as a surprise from the world's Gremlins; and folks +making practical assessments of potential impending events by giving any weight +to the carefree and factually limited judgment exercised by others is +improvident. In a previous era, administrative Gremlins working for the King of +England once pulled off the identical same pre-war measure; but we should not +really be surprised, as Lucifer finds it unnecessary to change, alter, or +modify his MODUS OPERANDI, as he goes about his work running one civilization +into the ground after another. In a news article that could have appeared in +today's news with only a change in names and technology: +"There has as yet been no reply from German official quarters to the +British proposal of a year's suspension of battleship construction. The +President of the German Naval League has declared Winston Churchill's offer to +be undeserving of serious consideration; but this is a natural position for a +president of a naval league to take. In the meanwhile, it is to be noted that +the German authorities, while fond of speaking of REALPOLITIK -- a policy based +on frank recognition of actualities instead of sentiment or general principles +-- have in this matter of the limitation of naval armaments not been quite so +REAL as they might be... The Kaiser's Ministers usually speak of their naval +plans as dictated by Germany's Imperial interests and by the necessity of +safeguarding the Empire's coasts." +-Editors, 29 THE NATION MAGAZINE, at 375 (October 23, 1913). [THE +NATION was once a very popular magazine in the United States.] The following +year, in 1914, the visible public movements of World War I began to surface +with numerous German offenses made throughout Europe. While Gremlins had been +hard at work running the defense structure of Great Britain into the ground (of +which hardware construction suspensions are one such visible manifestation of +termite management) >and which is taking place in the United States today<, her +impending adversary, Germany, was building an attack naval fleet -- and not for +the claimed purpose of "safeguarding of the Empire's coasts," but for military +attack purposes. Throwing deceptions at planned adversaries to lull them asleep +is extensively used by Gremlins as a pre-War tool, just like Lucifer's +deceptive withholding of factual information from his imp assistants on the +existence of Covenants in effect with Father overruling his Tort damages +justifications, is a war measure. Mark my words this day in 1985: The more that +glowing statements are made about missile treaties and arms reduction +agreements between Russia and the United States, the closer the two are to +outright war. When the news media tries to emphasize the importance of some new +"breakthrough" missile agreement, the more imminent are the open hostilities. +Remember, Gremlins never change a successful MODUS OPERANDI, -- and they deem +lulling you to sleep to be very important. ...This Second Estate is very much +adversarial in nature, and all of the rules applicable to deception used by +Gremlins in war will be found incorporated by Lucifer in his SUB ROSA attacks +on your impending embryo Celestial Status. And whatever is necessary to get +folks to bypass their own good judgment and sense of positive responsibility, +however momentarily uncomfortable, and rely instead upon the more comforting +passive inactivity and nonchalant judgment of others that ALL IS WELL IN +IGNORANCE, will be done -- it is being done politically by Americans generally +ignoring numerous visible signs of an impending domestic military invasion and +correlative secondary internal damages that will occur in its wake; and it is +being done Spiritually by getting folks to ignore and toss aside any concern +for a known impending Judgment and replacing that concern with the more +comforting sugar-coated assurance that, yes, since they have accepted Jesus +Christ, they will be Saved, and they don't need concern themselves with +anything else -- some hokey religion out there -- baah. +=============================================================[567]

+ +

The correct origin of the Citizenship problem (if PROBLEM is the word) lies +back in the 1700's, not with Lucifer and his filthy little Gremlin Karl Marx, +but with our own Fathers, back when our Founding Fathers created the +Constitution, a document that warrants your objective evaluation, because our +Founding Fathers gave the King just too much jurisdiction: [568]

+ +

[568]============================================================= See +generally: Bernard Bailyn in the IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION +["Sovereignty"], at page 198, et seq. [The Belknap Press of the Harvard +University Press, Cambridge (1967)]. Bernard Bailyn went back into the 1770's +and uncovered some 400 pamphlets on all sorts of writings that he reviewed -- +treatises on political theory, essays on history, political arguments, sermons, +correspondence, poems and other literary devices. They were all expressions of +the kind of society the Framers lived in, and were exemplary of the +intellectual thought then permeating the American countryside at that time. +Those pamphlets and other literary devices were explanatory to a degree beyond +the FEDERALIST PAPERS, in so far as they reveal motives, undercurrent, and +understandings in addition to the known ideas and assumptions expressed on +world views at that time -- hence the ideological origins of the American +Revolution. =============================================================[568]

+ +

No explicit and blunt restrainments were made against the circulation of paper +currency media; no provision for the Bill of Rights restrainments to operate +irrespective of impending technology that otherwise alters factual settings not +originally contemplated when the Bill of Rights was drafted; [569]

+ +

[569]============================================================= Ben Franklin +once expressed reservations about certain features of the Constitution in +particular, and then encouraged its ratification as a whole; and so we too can +take a similar position: +"Mr. President: I confess that there are several parts of this +Constitution which I do not at present approve... +"In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all of +its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary +for us, and there is no form of Government, but what may be a blessing to the +people if well administered; ..." +-Ben Franklin in 5 DEBATES ON THE ADOPTION OF THE FEDERAL +CONSTITUTION, James Madison, Editor, at page 554 [J.P. Lippincott & Company, +Philadelphia (1863)]. +=============================================================[569]

+ +

and then the Framers gave the King the blank check to nail Citizens to the wall +as taxable objects, a situation that did not exist with the ARTICLES OF +CONFEDERATION:

+ +

"Both the States and the United States existed before the Constitution. +The people, through that instrument, established a more perfect union by +substituting a national Government, acting, with ample power, directly on the +Citizens, instead of the confederate Government, which acted with powers, +greatly restricted, only upon the States." [570]

+ +

[570]============================================================= IN RE DEBS, +158 U.S. 573, at 578 (1894). +=============================================================[570]

+ +

Notice how the Federal Government now operates with AMPLE POWER DIRECTLY ON THE +CITIZENS, which National Citizenship did not exist under the ARTICLES OF +CONFEDERATION. Our Founding Fathers wanted a National Government, and so now we +have got their largesse. [571]

+ +

[571]============================================================= "Experience +has made the fact known to the people of the United States that they required a +national Government for national purposes. The separate Governments of the +separate States, bound together by the ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION alone, were +not sufficient for the promotion of the general welfare of the people in +respect to foreign nations, or to their complete protection as Citizens of the +United States, 'in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, +insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the +general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty; to themselves and their +prosperity, ordained and established the Government of the United States, and +defined its powers by a constitution, which they adapted as its fundamental +law, made its rule of action." +-UNITED STATES VS. CRUIKSHANK, 92 U.S. 542, at 549 (1875). +=============================================================[571]

+ +

QUESTION: How does someone get rid of his Citizenship Contract without packing +their bags and leaving the United States physically, as the King would like his +little subjects to do? [572]

+ +

[572]============================================================= For +commentary on loss of Citizenship for any one of several reasons, see: +-Lawrence Abramson in UNITED STATES LOSS OF CITIZENSHIP LAW AFTER +TERRAZAS: DECISIONS OF THE BOARD OF APPELLATE REVIEW, 16 New York University +Journal of International Law and Politics 29 (1984); +-Terry Reicher in A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS +AGAINST THE IMPOSITION OF INVOLUNTARY EXPATRIATION AND A TAXPAYER'S RIGHT TO +DISCLAIM CITIZENSHIP in 15 Vanderbuilt Journal of Transnational Law 123 +(Winter, 1982). When money is at stake, Federal Judges have noted that all of a +sudden the traditional allure of possessing American Citizenship now suddenly +takes upon itself an unattractive dimension: +"... since United States Citizenship is considered by most to be a +prized status, it is usually the Government which claims that the Citizen has +lost it, over the vigorous opposition of the person facing the loss. In this +rare case the roles are reversed. Here the estate of a wealthy deceased United +States Citizen seeks to establish over the Government's opposition that she +expatriated herself. As might be suspected, the reason is several million +dollars in tax liability, which the estate might escape if it could sustain the +burden of showing that the deceased lost her United States Citizenship." +-UNITED STATES VS. MATHESON, 532 F.2nd 809, at 811 (1976). The only +reason why folks want out of the reciprocal taxation demands of Citizenship is +because the cost of Citizenship is obviously, if given but a few moments +thought, for the null paltry value of the juristic benefits justifying it, not +worth the price tag that looters and Gremlins are demanding through their +juristic enrichment instrumentality, the King. Rather than snickering at +ex-Protestors who wised up a little, Federal Judges would be smart to start to +create remedies negating the unlawful use of the Legislature by looters and +Gremlins [of which dormant and forgotten Clauses now exist in the +Constitution], which is the true seminal point of origin as to why the +Countryside is now reacting negatively to avoid and terminate unreasonable +taxation demands not related to benefit equivalence. [Remember that your +consent, individually, is very important adhesive material in the formation of +contracts; see ASSENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN CONTRACT: AN ANALYSIS OF OBJECTIVE +STANDARDS IN CONTEMPORARY CONTRACT ADJUDICATION by Brian Blum, 59 St. John's +Law Review 1 (Fall, 1984); and it is this very POINT OF FORMATION in Contract +Law that needs to be correctly understood and handled, so that the contract can +be annulled properly.] +=============================================================[572]

+ +

ANSWER: The same way one gets rid of any other contract. [573]

+ +

[573]============================================================= Yes, such a +simple solution as that to remedy taxation ailments, and many folks will not +associate any significance to it. Sometimes the most profound circumstances in +life are not understood for what they really mean, as folks frequently fail to +correlate previous events that have already occurred as harbinger models that +foreshadow future events yet to make their appearance. ... For example, +previous circumstances, seemingly innocent, that once transpired in Downtown +San Francisco in 1969 regarding the construction of the Transamerica +Corporation pyramid office tower will one day be replicated synchronously all +across the United States. John Beckett, President of Transamerica Corporation, +wanted to build a 55-story high-rise on Montgomery Street to house the offices +of Transamerica. The announcement of the plans for the tower immediately +generated a heavy controversy locally; this was the Vietnam era where Bay area +protesting was in vogue. After making preliminary inquiries to San Francisco +planning and zoning officials, the building was downsized to 48 stories. +Numerous environmental groups (such as THE ENVIRONMENT WORKSHOP), neighborhood +associations (such as the TELEGRAPH HILL DWELLERS ASSOCIATION), and other +assorted individuals (such as activist Alvin Daskin) just looking for something +tame to challenge -- let it be known that they disapproved of these plans. +Numerous other professional architectural groups from surrounding areas (such +as the CALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PLANNERS), otherwise +normally passive, also entered into this arena to throw their opposition +invectives at the proposed Transamerica Tower. Public interest attorneys (like +Peter A. Gunnufsen) filed lawsuits, attempting to seek judicial restraining +orders halting the construction on technical grounds relating to procedures +used by the City of San Francisco to transfer a public street to Transamerica. +During hearings held by city officials across the summer of 1969, protest +groups would hold vigils and march outside City Hall to express their dissent +from this heinous outrage. But Mayor Joseph Alioto and a majority of City +Supervisors wanted the high-rise to be built, as they made numerous references +to the $1 million annual contribution this tower would be making to the San +Francisco tax rolls. A unique confluence of incentives came into focus at the +end of 1969 that pressured Transamerica President John Beckett to act in the +unusual, sneaky and clever way that he did, in order to get the tower built -- +the same UNUSUAL, SNEAKY, and CLEVER ways that all Americans, and even the +entire world, will one day be very well acquainted with, but for very different +objectives: Because next time around, building a high-rise will not be the +objective. +For many years the California State Legislature in Sacramento had +encouraged insurance companies to locate home offices in California by allowing +them to deduct from their state income taxes whatever amount those companies +had paid in local property taxes on a headquarters building. This generous +state taxation statute contributed to San Francisco's status as the financial +center of the American West, and to the placement of several high-rises in San +Francisco's skyline. But this state statute was due to expire at the end of +1969 for buildings constructed after this date; and if John Beckett could not +get the SITE PERMIT issued and at least some construction started by December +31st, then his proposed high-rise would not qualify for the special $1 million +annual property tax deductions. The first day in December had arrived with the +City Supervisor's formal approval, but Transamerica still needed a SITE PERMIT, +which would permit ground to be broken and construction thereby to commence. +Time was running out, but John Beckett had a few ideas of his own. These were +very adversary proceedings he was swirling in, and with the opposition +ventilating their hot air, being determined to kill this project but dead -- +that would be the opposition's way of making their STATEMENT. Going into the +first week of December, the paper work in City Hall to issue out a SITE PERMIT +was gaining momentum. The opposition, lead by lawyers, knew that their only +hope was to file a SITE PERMIT appeal, which would automatically delay +construction until another hearing on the Appeal could be heard in the +following year. However, such an appeal by the opposition could not be made +until the SITE PERMIT itself had first been issued. In early December, both +sides watched the paperwork going back and forth in City Hall, with the +opposition actually having arranged for observers to man the PERMIT desk and +the Montgomery Street construction site to watch for movements by Transamerica. +By mid-December, the permit paperwork had been completed, and the opposition +intensified its watch of City Hall like an English Hunting Dog at Full Point; +the opposition had their own plans to appeal the SITE PERMIT immediately after +its issuance to block construction until the following year -- but John Beckett +was playing his cards with an ace tucked up his sleeves, because when he had +hired Dinwiddie Construction Corporation to be the contractor on the building, +he had given them very special instructions. That long awaited December day +arrived when Transamerica decided it was ready to pick up the SITE PERMIT and +start construction on the Transamerica high-rise. One morning an unknown +representative of Dinwiddie Construction went to City Hall and made sure that +the SITE PERMIT was available for the asking, which it was. During the noon +lunch hour, a Transamerica corporate vice-president, dressed in farmer's +overall's, arrived at City Hall in an old pickup truck; he did not want his +true identity to be recognized by the opposition and their watchers. The VP +looked plain, he looked normal, he looked like an everyday type of ordinary Joe +-- why, he "... just couldn't possibly have nutin' to do with no big important +high-rise." Having picked up the SITE PERMIT undetected, he phoned ahead to +the construction supervisor, who was hiding in a restaurant across the street +from where the Transamerica Tower was to be built. The go-signal having been +received, all of a sudden a construction crew appeared at the Montgomery Street +site out of nowhere. Literally within minutes, heavy construction equipment +that had been quietly sneaked into Downtown San Francisco and hidden away under +covers in a nearby basement excavation, surfaced into the open and went to +work. To the cheers of the tiny crowd conducting the abbreviated groundbreaking +ceremonies, the bulldozer bit through the surface of the parking lot while +other construction equipment went to work excavating at the Transamerica site. +Just an hour later the same day, word came that a SITE PERMIT APPEAL had been +quickly filed -- but as exceptionally quick as the opposition was, they were +too late, as commencement of construction bars appeal. +[See: John Krizek [manager of Public Relations for Transamerica] in +PUBLIC RELATIONS JOURNAL ["How to Build a Pyramid"], at page 17 (December, +1970). The opposition lingered on even after construction started -- see +BUSINESS WEEK ["Beautiful Building of Inhuman Eyesore?"], page 41 (October 31, +1970). Clippings taken from the two local newspapers, the SAN FRANCISCO +CHRONICLE and the SAN FRANCISCO EXPRESS supplied the details herein, through +the HISTORY ROOM ["Transamerica File"] of the San Francisco Public Library]. +... One day off in the future, this clever little harbinger act that John +Beckett once pulled off is going to happen al over again under circumstances +that the entire world will take rather strong notice of. Nothing will change +the next time around, other than that the desired end objective will be +different. Next time, instead of an American Corporate President like John +Beckett pulling off something quick and clever to get the upper hand over +adversaries, next time, a Russian General will be supervising the logistics. +Instead of heavy construction equipment being sneaked into urban areas and then +pulled out into the open quickly, next time heavy Russian tanks, personnel +carriers, and attack support equipment will come forth one day out of their +hiding places to roll down American streets to grab the police barracks and +nearby Army Base. Next time, instead of a handful of environmental activists +left scratching their heads, puzzled as to how John Beckett pulled off that +instant appearance of construction equipment -- next time all Americans will be +asking themselves the same question: How did they sneak in all of those tanks, +helicopters, and the like? Where did those SPACE PLATFORMS come from? Where +were all those tank stashed away? Yes, it is going to happen, just like John +Beckett has already made it happen once before on a small introductory scale in +San Francisco. Just like major media news correspondents -- those pathetic +little idiots -- expressing amazement on how well organized the North +Vietnamese were in their take-over of Saigon in April of 1975, folks who +actually rely on the caliber of such baneful judgement (like news +correspondents who were amazed that professional Gremlins actually knew what +they were doing), will also find themselves being amazed when we are next. The +only folks who are ever surprised by passing events are those who live most +distant from reality -- and a very good way to become removed from reality is +to rely on those incompetent clowns in the news media who were amazed that +professional Gremlins practicing COUPS D'ETAT for some 200 years might just +know what they are doing. +[I come down hard on Journalists for the same reason that I come down +hard on Lawyers: Both professions involve the presentation of intellectual +material to others; so when they mess up, then out comes my invectives. +However, when an everyday type of Joe SixPack messes up, I respond with +patience and instructional counseling. In contrast these Joe SixPacks do not +represent themselves as being professionals, so Joe SixPacks are not held to +the more stringent standards that Journalists and Lawyers seeking financial +compensation for their errors are held to.] The instant appearance of +construction crews that John Beckett pulled off was not even considered as a +factual possibility by this opponents; just like Russian opposition in the +United States [alleged tough cookie right-wing CONSERVATIVES self-perceiving +themselves as being pretty sharp politically] are not even considering the +factual possibility that Mikhail Gorbachev's superiors have already had planned +out long ago similar American domestic instant appearance circumstances in +extended and considerable detail. They fully intend to clean out the Gremlins +in Washington, as they have been setup [meaning provoked] to do under +attractive Bolshevik inducement. Nothing ever changes from one setting to the +next. Learning in a small way that getting out of an automobile lease contract +is accomplished by getting rid of the benefit acceptance by returning the car +physically to the owner, and not by filing worthless NOTICES OF RECESSION OF +CONTRACT, IN REM -- that is prepatory to learn that it is the same simple +solution to get out of the adhesive juristic reciprocity demanded under +Citizenship Contracts: Get rid of those benefits and stop snickering at Federal +Judges cracking defiled giblets. By not even considering the factual +possibility, however remote, that the tax prosecution defendant may himself be +in error, having listened to the distractions of Protestors talking about why +the Federal Government is not entitled to prevail due to multiple LEX +deficiencies of some type, the tax prosecution defendants finds himself exactly +where John Beckett's opponents once found themselves [and exactly where +CONSERVATIVES, so called, will also one day be finding themselves]: Out smarted +by adversaries who have a few ideas of their own, and for the same reason. +=============================================================[573]

+ +

But lawyers throwing technical arguments at Federal Judges in Tax and Draft +Protesting cases have never bothered to see Citizenship from the judicial +trajectory of benefits and retained reciprocity expectations, so lawyers have +never correctly handled Tax and Draft Protestors in counsel, and lawyers will +continue to throw technical arguments at Judges [just like Tax Protestors] +trying to explain why the King is wrong, until such time as the latent high +powered juristic velocity instrument of Citizenship is identified for what it +really is: A contract. [574]

+ +

[574]============================================================= Many +commentators have noted that the relational status of American Citizens to the +Federal Government today is quite similar to the relational status experienced +by SUBJECTS in the old monarchial days of the Kings of England. Even though +contemporary Americans are now called CITIZENS, many lost rights, benefits, +protections, together with unfairly skewed reciprocal duties and liabilities +that characterize the subparity relationship of old Britannic SUBJECTS, are in +effect today -- hence as well my characterization of the Executive Branch of +the United States as a KING.

+ +

One writer who elucidates very well on this status declension of Americans from +being CITIZENS holding the upper hand, down to SUBJECTS doing what they are +told and paying what they are told to pay, is Francis X. Hennessy in his book +about the 18th Amendment entitled CITIZENS OR SUBJECT? Even though Americans +are still called CITIZENS today in name [an initially impressive but +meaningless characterization substantively] the Kingly status that the American +Revolution of 1776 once created for us all [as the Supreme Court noted in +GEORGE VS. BRAILSFORD] has been reversed back to the Crown again, through the +devilish maneuverings of Gremlins. Back in the early American Colonial days the +political factions in America were split into WHIGS and TORIES -- and knowledge +of the philosophical distinction between the two is being withheld from +American high school history books here in the 1980's for a very good reason: +TORIES were sympathetic with the Aristocratic Class who simply had to have the +masses controllable and their pockets reachable for some looting; Tories do not +want a nation of CITIZENS, they want fleeceable SUBJECTS. Today, Tory +Aristocrats are filthy little creatures who want to use Juristic Institutions +to transfer money from your pockets to theirs. Where with the 18th Amendment, +Tories wanted to use the guns of Government to create PROHIBITION, so that they +could then practice commercial enrichment in the BLACK MARKET of elevated +prices and restricted competition that all exclusion monopolies creates. Some +of the most prominent American families had been sponsoring the WOMAN'S +CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE LEAGUE and other nominees using deceptive names, to +plaster the countryside with the noble and lofty sounding objectives of ridding +drunks from our society -- while all along the sponsors of PROHIBITION could +care less about drunks and merely wanted to experience the commercial +enrichment a BLACK MARKET creates. Today, other plant derivatives have replaced +alcohol in the statutes now creating another BLACK MARKET, while second and +third generational descendants of those same identical American families +smuggle cocaine and marijuana instead of bourbon. Today, a Tory sympathizer is +a jealous person who wants to be sure that everyone else is paying their taxes; +a Tory sympathizer is someone who is content with the STATUS QUO as it has been +brought to its present position by Gremlins, and has no desire to return to our +Father's quiescent STATUS QUO ANTE. A Tory sympathizer is a little dupe who +feels good about going off to a foreign country to fight a war -- because the +President says its Patriotic to do so. Yes, a Tory sympathizer plays into the +hands of Gremlins by giving them what they want -- as Gremlins want the +contemporary STATUS QUO, the foreign wars, and BLACK MARKETS they have created. +"Whenever Government exists, even Government limited to those powers +thought by its Citizens necessary to secure human liberty, the weakness of +human nature makes it certain that the exercise of granted powers will not +always be for the common benefit of the Citizens who grant them. When the +Government is the State and human beings its SUBJECTS, that weakness is usually +more apparent. As a result, in every country the rich and powerful largely +secure the actual control of the Government. That they may entrench themselves +in its control and exercise of even its lawful powers, they lavish favors on a +class actually large in number but comparatively constituting a small minority +of the people of the country. For this [Aristocratic] class, it is of material +advantage [to them] that Government should be the State and the people its +SUBJECTS. When a man is born or educated as a member of this [Aristocratic] +minority, it is beyond the experience of the human race that his mental +attitude should not regard the relation of SUBJECT to ruler as the proper +relation of human being to Government." +-Francis X. Hennessy in CITIZEN OR SUBJECT? ["The Exiled Tory About To +Return"], at 235 [E.P. Dutton, New York (1923)]. Gremlins want such a KING TO +SUBJECT relational status in effect specifically for purposes of conquest and +furthering their own proprietary enrichment through taxation enstripment. +Francis Hennessy, an attorney and member of the New York State Bar, goes into +highly detailed factual recital of the circumstances surrounding the proposal +and later ratification of the 18th Amendment [the PROHIBITION AMENDMENT]. From +debates on the Floor of the Congress to the inner sanctums of Gremlin power, +Francis Hennessy chronicles out the impediments, headaches, and legal +difficulties the sponsors of the 18th Amendment had in 1917 trying to force +Prohibition on us all, by virtue of the fact that the United States +Constitution is a hybrid composite blend of NATIONAL and FEDERAL power, and +therefore requires different procedures to effectuate modifications, based on +the nature of the right being modified. This was one of the legal arguments +considered by the Supreme Court when the underlying legality of the 18th +Amendment itself came under attack [see THE NATIONAL PROHIBITION CASES, 253 +U.S. 350 (1920)]. Because the nature of the right that the Congress was about +to deprive American Citizens of [the right to eat or drink anything they feel +like] was of a NATIONAL nature, the proposed 18th Amendment was worded in such +a way as to circumvent the Constitution's ARTICLE 5 CONVENTION requirement by +subtly commanding the States to first enact Prohibition legislation (see +Section 2 of the 18th Amendment). Yes, Gremlins are well-oiled experts at both +political circumvention, as well as running Citizens into the ground. A +devilishly brilliant MODUS OPERANDI that if not understood now, will be +understood in no uncertain terms when, during the impending CONSTITUTIONAL +CONVENTION that is close to being called, Gremlins using slick Parliamentary +devices divert the floor proceedings away from the BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT +over to discussing an entire new Constitution altogether -- THEIR Constitution. +All of a sudden, folks who thought they had the situation under control by +having State Legislatures self-restrict the content being discussed at that +Convention to consider only the proposed BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT, will see +then that they were outsmarted by imps, as they will also be outsmarted by +either Mikhail Gorbachev or his successors, who have a few ideas of their own +on how to control Gremlins in Washington. +=============================================================[574]

+ +

As a point of beginning, contracts are entered into by the acceptance of +benefits, and they are terminated by the explicit disavowal rejecting benefits +[as I will explain later in the next section on Federal Reserve Notes]. And +Citizenship is one of the most important contracts the Judiciary takes Notice +of for purposes of perfecting taxation enstripment. [575]

+ +

[575]============================================================= But this +great revenue contract of Citizenship is also the greatest weakness the King +has, due to the dual stratified nature of American Juristic Institutions being +layered into State and Federal slabs. Because of this STATE TO FEDERAL satrapic +relational setting, the Federal Citizenship and State Citizenship are sourced +from different jurisdictional origins, and are separate and distinct legal +relationships. The weakness of Citizenship surfaces by reason of the fact that +our King is without and wanting jurisdiction to tax State Citizens [the King +acquires the requisite jurisdiction by consent, obtainable through several +channels]. Yes, there are numerous technical grounds for beating the King, as +well as fundamental grounds, but the entire orientation of such a defense +posture necessarily gravitates around the error present in an adversary -- not +a very secure way to win a battle, without having to turn around and keep +looking over your shoulder [always looking for some new LEX deficiency or Court +Opinion somewhere]. The remedy to these legal impediments (of which there are +quite a few), are more and more corrective slices of LEX being thrown into an +organic Title 26. The very fact that some Congress off in the 1990's enacts a +statute declaring that State Citizens are PERSONS adhered to Title 26, +automatically admits in inference that all previous income taxation dollars +collected by the King were illicitly looted -- absent express contracts. +...Eventually, this letter will filter down and circulate throughout the +corridors of prosecution officialdom [as the King does have his ears close to +the ground]; and if there is any Government attorney out there who can show me +where the King has the jurisdiction -- either Case Law or Statutory +pronouncements -- to tax State Citizens residing in the States, then please +come forth and now do so. I would like to see the citation that shows where +Title 26 applies to State Citizens residing in the several States. The right to +tax is the right to throw juristic benefits at folks creating invisible implied +contracts, and then turn around and demand financial reciprocity in return +pursuant to an ADHESION covenant therein. The King's Federal Jurisdiction is +necessarily limited to the exclusive legislative jurisdiction of the United +States Congress -- meaning limited to Federal Employees, residents of the +District of Columbia and Federal Territories, and other Federal Enclaves. +QUESTION: Is that closed private domain of King's Commerce a Federal Enclave? +Is the acceptance of Federal protectorate benefits the creation of a situation +specific AD HOC Federal Enclave? I am not really interested in arguing those +questions, because I am not interested in probing for error in others. I would +rather vacate the acceptance of all Federal benefits from off of the record, +work the King into an immoral position of having made an Assessment in want of +a QUID PRO QUO equivalence having been exchanged, and then have an +administrative sandbagging effected on my Case: Because clean NO WIN Cases are +in fact dropped by the King's termites in the IRS -- who know when it's best to +throw in the towel, call it a day, and go chase after another piece of meat. +=============================================================[575]

+ +

And so it is the explicit rejection of juristic benefits that will sever the +adhesive reciprocal liability of King's Equity Jurisdiction that attaches +itself invisibly to everyone else.

+ +

So getting rid of your National Citizenship, while very important, is only a +first step, and there are numerous other invisible contracts that you need to +concern yourselves with, if you are to leave the Bolshevik Income Tax grab +without leaving any lingering illicit Equity trail behind you. [576]

+ +

[576]============================================================= In a limited +sense today, the relationship of the world's political jurisdictions to the +United Nations is somewhat structurally similar to the pre-1787 relationship in +effect between the various American State political jurisdictions and the +CONFEDERACY in Washington. The old CONFEDERACY back then had no serious taxing +power of any significance, and had to make financial requisitions to its member +States. There was no National American Citizenship back then that could enable +the national Government to bypass the States and go directly to the common +folks for money, either. That relational model is somewhat similar to what the +world's numerous political jurisdictions are involved with today in the United +Nations -- today the United Nations has no power to tax, makes financial +contribution requests to member Nations, and there is no World Citizenship. +With that modeling scenario in mind, consider the following: Citizenship is +known up and down the corridors of Gremlin power world wide as being a very +interesting adhesive source of Object Jurisdiction to loot. For example, even +if the atrophied remnants of the Rockefeller Cartel are unsuccessful in +convincing Americans to hand over their national Sovereignty to some world +Juristic Institution like the United Nations, then one of the ways that the ONE +WORLDERS could largely accomplish their Grand Objectives of global conquest +through global Government, is to stop trying to get the various national +Sovereignties throughout the world to forfeit over their Sovereignty (which +isn't very likely anyway), and just create an invisible attachment of Equity +Jurisdiction by creating World Citizenship. In bypassing individual regional +political jurisdictions this way [American Citizens are free to enter into +contracts with the United Nations, or any other political jurisdiction in the +world], income taxes and the like can be collected from its Citizens in +reciprocating exchange for some benefits that will be created; and with World +Citizenship in place, handy regulatory jurisdictions, licensing, and other +favorite Bolshevik enscrewment tools can be erected. Gremlins in the +Rockefeller Nest have already given this idea some thought; see an interview +with imp Robert Hutchins in THE CENTER MAGAZINE, ["What the World Needs Now is +Citizens"], page 23 (January/February, 1971). The Gremlin drive for World +Citizenship has been in gestation for some time; see EDUCATION FOR WORLD +CITIZENSHIP by William George Can [Stanford University Press, Stanford, +California (1928)]. Under the classical contours of INTERNATIONAL LAW, only +political jurisdictions were subjects accountable to it, and individuals were +simply not included; while the Nuremberg Trials changed all this on an AD HOC +basis, the status of people as being STRANGERS to INTERNATIONAL LAW continues +on down to the present day -- but when the adhesive Equity tentacles of World +Citizenship are nestled in place someday, the world's Gremlins will be ecstatic +on that grand impending day when an operation of the World Court reaches +through to individuals world wide, transparent to any prospectively beneficent +intervention on your behalf from any other jurisdiction [just like today when +your State will not intervene in any manner whatsoever on your behalf when +Federal Marshals come knocking on your door]. For a commentary on the +relational setting in effect between individuals and INTERNATIONAL LAW that is +neither critical nor justifying the enlargement of INTERNATIONAL LAW that took +place at Nuremberg, see THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL UNDER +INTERNATIONAL LAW by Ernst Schneedberger in 35 Georgetown Law Journal, 481 +(1947). =============================================================[576]

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I N V I S I B L E C O N T R A C T S +George Mercier

+ +

FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES +[Pages 435-477]

+ +

[Certain conventions have been used in converting INVISIBLE CONTRACTS to an +electronic medium. For an explanation of the conventions used, please download +the file INCONHLP.ZIP for further illumination. Other background information as +well is contained in INCONHLP.ZIP. It is advisable to EXIT this file right now +and read the contents of INCONHLP.ZIP before proceeding with your study of this +file.]

+ +

Next, we turn now and address some Commercial debt instruments that just about +everyone uses constantly. And when this Commercial paper is used and then +recirculated by you, Federal Benefits are being quietly accepted by you and so +now subtle contracts are in effect. As COMMERCIAL HOLDERS IN DUE COURSE, you +and the King are experiencing mutual enrichment from each other. [577]

+ +

[577]============================================================= If there are +HOLDERS IN DUE COURSE, are there also HOLDERS NOT IN DUE COURSE? Certainly +there are. The volume of Contract Law in this area is quite extensive, and in +this brief Letter, only a brief profiling synopsis is appropriate. +=============================================================[577]

+ +

The King believes that the mere use of Federal Reserve Notes, those +"circulating evidences of debt" [578]

+ +

[578]============================================================= Federal +Reserve Notes are debt obligations of the United States Government. See Title +12, Section 411. +=============================================================[578]

+ +

that his Legal Tender Statutes [578]

+ +

[579]============================================================= "United +States coins and currency (including Federal Reserve Notes and circulating +notes of Federal Reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all +debts, public charges, taxes, and dues. Foreign gold or silver coins are not +legal tender for debts." +-Title 31, Section 5103 (September, 1982). +=============================================================[579]

+ +

have enhanced the value of as a co-endorser; and that the mere acceptance and +beneficial use of those circulating Commercial equity instruments of debt, +constitutes an attachment of Equity Jurisdiction sufficiently related to +experiencing Commercial profit or gain in Interstate Commerce as to warrant the +attachment of civil liability to his so-called Title 26. Remember, once you get +rid of your political contracts to pay taxes (like National Citizenship), +Federal Judges will then start examining the record to see if there are any +Commercial benefits out there that you have been experiencing. Once you are a +Citizen, Federal Judges will generally stop looking for other contracts; but +once Citizenship is gone, then other normally quiescent Commercial nexuses that +attach King's Equity Jurisdiction suddenly take upon themselves vibrant new +importance. [580]

+ +

[580]============================================================= So looking +inversely at the entire King's Equity pie of taxing hooks that he has got into +you, only a totally pure decontamination of yourself away from that +multiplicitious array of political and Commercial benefits the King is +offering, of all benefits up and down the entire adhesive line of largely +invisible juristic contracts, will properly sever yourself away from the +adhesive administrative mandates of Title 26. +=============================================================[580]

+ +

I have thought out this perspective that the King has on this subject matter +over and over again, and based on an analysis of principles, rights, +liabilities, and Cases that surface in Commercial Contract Law relating to +Negotiable Instruments (as Federal Reserve Notes are Negotiable Instruments), +and of the rights, liabilities and duties of HOLDERS IN DUE COURSE, and I have +come to the conclusion that the King is basically correct. For example, bills, +notes, and checks are also Negotiable Instruments, as well as Inland Bills of +Exchange. Collectively, Negotiable Instruments differ somewhat from orthodox +Commercial contracts for the reason that the American Jurisprudential law +concerning them springs from several different and independent sources. Whereas +the simple Law of Contracts had its origin in the Common Law of England, in +contrast this Law of Negotiable Instruments arose largely out of the summary +and chronologically abbreviated practices and international customs of +merchants in Commerce. Those merchants formulated a body of rules and common +practices relating to their trade which were gradually adapted into the Law of +the Law by the English Courts. Bills of exchange and promissory notes, of which +Federal Reserve Notes are a composite blend of, acquired early on the peculiar +quality and nature among merchants in Commerce as being negotiable, i.e., +passable as Tender to different people. Negotiability was then defined to mean +that if an instrument is negotiable in form and is in the hands of a HOLDER IN +DUE COURSE, then possible personal defenses someone may later assert against +the Holder are cut off of in the Holder's favor. This idea of negotiability is +an intriguing one. It differs quite a bit from the conception of assignability +underlying the transfer of CHOSES IN ACTION which are not negotiable.

+ +

Furthermore, all factors considered, it is my opinion that the King is not only +just basically correct, but that the King is also in a very strong position +here, and that Federal Magistrates are not Star Chamber Chancellors when +throwing out your civil tax defenses that ignore this invisible and adhesive +attachment of King's Equity Jurisdiction, and the strong presumption of your +entrance into King's Commerce that the acceptance and beneficial recirculation +of Federal Reserve Notes necessarily infers. However, the seminal reason why +the King is in such a strong position is only partially related to his SUB +SILENTIO aggression against you; the largest reason is because you, by your own +default, have accepted the benefits of this Commercial nexus Equity +relationship with the King. The King is in a very strong position here under +normal circumstances, so you can be perfectly right for 100 reasons in your +Income Tax defense, and ignore this last tiny little area in your defense, and +lose (assuming that your Case is adjudged on the substantive merits, and not on +some technical distraction question).

+ +

Under the Common Mercantile Law of Commercial Contract Law applicable to +Negotiable Instruments, it has always been PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE [581]

+ +

[581]============================================================= PRIMA FACIE +EVIDENCE is moderately good and acceptable evidence, although not air tight, +and stands as valid unless countermanded. On the other hand, CONCLUSIVE +EVIDENCE is strong and very difficult to challenge, and is incontrovertible. +=============================================================[581]

+ +

that the mere issuance of the Negotiable Instrument itself constitutes the +evidence of the receipt and enjoyment of Consideration. [582]

+ +

[582]============================================================= Remember +that Consideration is a benefit you enjoy. This PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE DOCTRINE +is replicated over and over again in numerous books on Contract Law and +Commercial Law. Our King did not invent this PRIMA FACIE Consideration +Doctrine, as its seminal point of origin goes back into the Middle Ages in +England, which is before our King even existed. [Citations deleted]. +=============================================================[582]

+ +

This acceptance of Consideration Doctrine is of maximum importance to +understand and appreciate in its placement into the contemporary Income Tax +setting, as this Doctrine has been around for a very long time, and the King is +only now using it for his own enrichment. Law books repeat over and over again +that acceptable Consideration may be anything that will support a simple +contract, and may even specifically include previously existing debt. This +Consideration Doctrine survives the codification of the Law Merchant into the +Negotiable Instruments Law, and also survives the later restatement of the +N.I.L. into the Uniform Commercial Code.

+ +

The Law of Commercial Contract applicable to the use and recirculation of +Negotiable Instruments is quite old, just like King's Commerce itself. +Commercial Paper was also used extensively by merchants in the Middle Ages, and +the origin of our contemporary LAW OF NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS was an unwritten +Common Law applicable to merchants, called the Law Merchant. This Law Merchant +was gradually assimilated as an appendage onto English Common Law, and +subsequently became a part of our American Jurisprudence when the New England +Colonies turned into states and adapted English Common Law. The Law Merchant is +spoken of by English Judges with reference to Bills of Exchange and negotiable +securities. It is neither more nor less than the common usages of merchants and +traders in the different departments of trade, ratified by decisions of Courts +of Law, which Courts later upon such usages being proved before them, readapted +those merchant practices into the Common Law of England as settled law with a +view to the interest of trade and the public convenience. Therefore, what was +at one time mere custom in between merchants then became grafted upon, or +incorporated onto, the Common Law, and may now be correctly said to form an +overlapping part of the Common Law. When such general Commercial practices have +been judicially ascertained and established, those Commercial practices become +a part of the Law Merchant, which contemporary American courts of justice are +bound to honor. In the early 1800's, many American states enacted their own +statutes pertaining to Commercial paper, with the result being a lack of +uniformity in both statutes, as well as the court decisions applying those +statutes to different factual settings. Lawyers don't like lack of similarity, +and so the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws drafted a +bill to make the Law of Negotiable Instruments uniform from one state to the +next. The draft of the bill was called the NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS LAW, which +when completed in 1896 was largely enacted into LEX by almost all the states. +The contemporary Uniform Commercial Code repeals the N.I.L. in those states +that have enacted the UCC; but the kicker is that old Law Merchant himself is +still very much around, alive, enforceable, and kicking.

+ +

And if the King has got you accepting the Consideration inherent in Negotiable +Instruments that he is a HOLDER IN DUE COURSE to, and that his Legal Tender +Statutes have enhanced the value, and additionally retains a distant Equity +interest in, then the King has got an invisible contract on you and the King +has you plump little turkeys exactly where he wants you: Ripe for a Federal +plucking. So to correctly handle this beneficial "use of Federal Reserve Notes" +creating a taxing liability story, we need to start out with the basic premise +that the King is correct in his assertions, and so are judges in their +reasoning; to believe otherwise is to be self damaging, as we have no time to +waste with any error in our reasoning.

+ +

If you are like most folks, the King has got you accepting his Consideration +and financial benefits with your mere use of Federal Reserve Notes, because +most folks want to use and want to experience the beneficial enjoyment that +widespread acceptance and Commercial use of Federal Reserve Notes brings. But +read those words over again carefully, as they also contain the Grand Key for +getting out of this Equity Ace our King has neatly tucked up in his Royal +Sleeve: The contract that is in effect whenever benefits, conditionally +offered, were accepted by you. [583]

+ +

[583]============================================================= Yes, the +benefits that were accepted by you carried with them invisible hooks of +reciprocity, so now, as uncomfortable as the hooks are, contracts are in +effect, and Patriot arguments sounding in the Tort of unfairness are not +relevant. =============================================================[583]

+ +

Examining a profile slice of the tens of thousands of Cases out there +addressing questions of Commercial Contract Law applicable to the annulment of +the rights and duties of HOLDERS IN DUE COURSE of Commercial Paper (notes, +bonds, securities, checks, equitable specialties in general, etc.), it is the +STATE OF MIND of the parties at the time the Negotiable Instrument was +accepted, that determines the subsequent rights and duties of HOLDERS IN DUE +COURSE. HOLDERS IN DUE COURSE, so called, are in a special Status as it +pertains to the use and recirculation of Commercial instruments. HOLDERS IN DUE +COURSE are assumed to have taken the Negotiable Instrument (Federal Reserve +Note) free of the defense of "Absence or Failure of Consideration," and +additionally, are generally free of all other defenses as well. When the King +is a HOLDER IN DUE COURSE of Federal Reserve Notes, then the King is immune to +any defense we may assert against him, as he collects on an invisible contract +created when his Commercial benefits were accepted by you. Do you see why it is +not very wide to snicker at Federal Judges if you have not properly handled +your defense line in this area of using Federal Reserve Notes? In some cases, a +PERSON wants to be in this HOLDER IN DUE COURSE Status due to its protective +nature, and in other circumstances, we don't want to be a HOLDER IN DUE COURSE +due to the liabilities involved. Generally speaking, subject to the condition +that the PERSON accepted the Negotiable Instrument in good faith and for value, +a HOLDER IN DUE COURSE occupies a protected position free from any personal +defenses someone else may assert. But in dealing with the King on those Federal +Reserve Notes, our declared Status as HOLDERS IN DUE COURSE or HOLDERS NOT IN +DUE COURSE is not important: Because by filing Objections and Notice of +Protest, etc., the King's Status as a HOLDER IN DUE COURSE is then +automatically terminated, and getting the King off of that sovereign Status +Throne of his is what's important.

+ +

So merely filing a Notice of Protest and Notice of Defect will automatically +deny the King his coveted and protected Status as being a HOLDER IN DUE COURSE +with Federal Reserve Notes, as that protective status applies to you. Remember +that in our Pan Am jet leasing example, a PERSON must both want and then use a +benefit provided by another party, prior to effectuating an attachment of +Equity Jurisdiction strong enough to extract money from, in a judicial +proceeding, out of the part in default.

+ +

And in addition to outright Consideration, by your Commercial use and +recirculation of Federal Reserve Notes, the King has you strapped into his debt +as an "Automatically Transferred and Joint Obligation Debtor." Under a very +large body of Roman Civil Law, and Jewish Commercial Law going back to Moses +and the Talmud, there is a kind of an obligation in law whose source is not +contract or promise in the classical sense, but due to a ripple effect of debt, +an obligation can be automatically transferred down a line of notes passers and +debtors. This Doctrine is elucidated quite well in Jewish Law, where this +doctrine is formally known as SHIBUDA D'RABBI NATHAN (meaning the line of Rabbi +Nathan). Under this liability dispersion model, debt ripples from one PERSON to +another back up the line, without the appearance of any contract being readily +apparent. Say that a PERSON "A" owes money to "B", and "B" owes money to "C". +PERSON "C" can then recover from "A" an amount of money not exceeding the sum +PERSON "B" owes to "C". [584]

+ +

[584]============================================================= For a +discussion on how the right of a first debtor to come and operate a liability +against a second ripple debtor, back to the first debtor's creditor, see Rabbi +Isaac Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Israel, in the Second Volume of MAIN INSTITUTES OF +JEWISH LAW, entitled "The Law of Obligations" (1967). +=============================================================[584]

+ +

The reason why this debt liability being rippled back up the line a few person +is called "Rabbi Nathan's Lien" is because this rule is generally attributed to +Rabbi Nathan, a tannaitic sage (Babylonia and Palestine, in the Second +Century), who first formulated it on the basis of a certain interpretation of a +Mosaic text. Here in the contemporary United States, a very similar analogy is +found operating both in Contract Law and in Tort Law, but for different +reasons.

+ +

1.Under Tort Law liability reasoning, persons who you never had any +contract or contact with, are liable for damages they work on you. For example, +be underneath an airplane when it crashes. Under the JOINT AND SEVERAL +LIABILITY DOCTRINE, attorneys will sue the Federal Aviation Administration, the +pilot, the local political jurisdiction that owns the airport, the contractor +who built the airport, the airline, the airline's insurance company, the +airline's airplane manufacturer, persons who supply parts to the airplane +manufacturer, the pilot's mother, etc., without limit, right up the line.

+ +

2.When a grievance is under Contract Law jurisprudence, generally, +persons not a party to the contract are normally exempt from liability absent +an interfering Tort the worked, somehow (called TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE WITH +CONTRACT).

+ +

But properly viewed at the conclusion of the grievance, this Rabbi Nathan's +Lien is no more than just an asset seizure against debtor's assets held by +third parties, and whether the underlying factual setting behind the Judgment +was under Tort Law or Contract Law is now irrelevant, once the Judgment has +been docketed, and that PERSON'S assets are now under attack. So when a +judgment has been obtained against Party "B", and Party "C" owes "B" some +money, then when Party "A" throws an action at "C", then that arrangement is no +more than the equivalent of a directed wage garnishment that goes on every +single day of the week, here in the United States. And just as this Liability +Ripple Scenario goes on at such a quiet level with wage garnishments, so too +does it carry on at a national level with you and I and our assets being +pledged to pay off the National Debt of the United States.

+ +

But our King is our adversary in Court, and his attorneys use partially twisted +logic to quiet our exception from taxation arguments, and so their attitude is +a simple "you pay." But important for the moment is your knowledge that your +Commercial use and recirculation of Federal Reserve Notes is properly deemed a +sufficient nexus to the King's Equity Jurisdiction as to effectuate an +attachment of liability for the payment of the King's outstanding debt that he +owes to the Federal Reserve Board, with the amount of your payment being +measured by your net taxable income. Other personal assets are deemed +collateral material as well, but the King's key to effectuate this liability is +our Enfranchised Status, under contract. Since the Angle-Saxon Law Merchant +wants to see Consideration, and Consideration is present when Federal Reserve +Notes are recirculated in King's Commerce, a taxing liability does exist of and +by itself under English Common Law. This Jewish Ripple Liability Model is +supporting evidence to conclude that although we might not like our King, there +is a very wide body of law out there in the world to support our King with his +taxing justification theories. The Law is always justified, and this is just +another layer of justification for the King to use as an excuse to raise +revenue. This Ripple Effect Liability Law springs forth from several different +seminal global points of pronouncement, and it does support the King in this +very subtle attachment of taxing liability. So let's change the factual setting +by correcting our Status, and stop snickering at the fat King, as he is only +using common law (the national equivalent of wage garnishments) and ancient law +(its longevity and long term universal acceptance means that it is well +Principled and well founded) to support his excessive financial demands.

+ +

Question: What if you don't want to accept the benefits of and use of Federal +Reserve Notes?

+ +

What if you are different? What if you have factual knowledge that the King +only got this monopoly on American currency circulation (both gold and silver), +not by free market acceptance and competitive universal respect and +appreciation for benefits offered by his Legal Tender Statutes, which is the +way all Commercial transactions should be based, but rather, through force, +duress, coercion, penal statutes, naked physical duress, and literally out of +the barrel of a gun: Because guns being drawn is exactly what two remaining +private coin mints saw as United States Treasury Agents raided the last diehard +private coin mints in California in the late 1800's, and physically destroyed +them (but that intriguing Americana history following an act of Congress in +1864 banning private coins as currency is another Letter). But dealing with +Private Coin Mints out of the barrel of a gun is only half the story, as our +King is usually quite thorough in whatever he decides to muscle in on. The King +also dealt with the private circulation of Notes (both bank notes and private +company notes that circulated just as if they were currency) through a series +of penal statutes going back to the Civil War. [585]

+ +

[585]============================================================= Starting +with the LEGAL TENDER Laws in 1862, then the NATIONAL BANKING ACT in 1864, then +the previously mentioned acts outlawing private coin circulation, then an act +in 1865 imposed a 10% tax on state bank note issues. In VEAZIE BANK VS. FENNO +[75 U.S. 533 (1869)], the Supreme Court ruled that a tax of 10% on state bank +notes in circulation was held to be Constitutional, not only because it was a +means of raising money, but that such a tax was an instrument to put out of +business such a competitive circulation of those private notes, against notes +issued by the King. The combined effect of those Civil War era penal statutes +collectively was to monopolize the entire American currency supply under +Federal jurisdiction (which is exactly what the King wanted). By these penal +statutes, both privately circulated coins and paper notes were outlawed, and +die hard private mints were later purchased by the King, and otherwise put out +of business, permanently. And in the 1900's, under an administrative regulation +promulgated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board, the +issuance, if even for brief promotional purposes, of publicly circulating +private bank notes by member banks, is forbidden. +=============================================================[585]

+ +

After the Civil War, the King's enactment of currency monopoly statutes +paralleled his Private Express Statutes in the sense that private postal +companies previously competing with the King were ordered shut down and put out +of business at gun point, [586]

+ +

[586]============================================================= The Private +Express Statutes remain today as Title 38, Sections 601 to 608; and Title 18, +Sections 1693 to 1699. +=============================================================[586]

+ +

and our King sealed himself up a national postal monopoly. No more would be the +days of the 1800's, when many banks and private companies issued and circulated +their own widely accepted currency. Our King doesn't like competition, and he +has this nasty habit of his to use penal statutes and his hired bouncers (the +U.S. Marshals, as the King's Bouncers) to force people into relationships with +him, against their will and over their objection, that they would never have +voluntarily consummated on their own free will and volition.

+ +

[For example, here in Rochester, New York, some enterprising folks, +seeing the escalating rise in postage prices going on in the early 1970's, and +detecting that something just wasn't right here due to the wide percentage +variance in cost and pricing, promptly went about setting up their own postal +company in 1976. They concentrated on Rochester's Central Business District, +and offering the lower prices that they did, quickly signed up law firms, +banks, accountants, hotels, and the like. Several national magazines featured +articles about them, [587]

+ +

[587]============================================================= Exemplary +would be Fred Ferretti in "Private Mail Delivery vs. The Letter of the Law," +NEW YORK TIMES, September 25, 1976. +=============================================================[587]

+ +

but the King's Agents in the Postal Service, smelling an inexpensive upstart on +the block offering cheaper prices and accelerated delivery schedules, quickly +threw a Restraining Order Petition at Rochester Postal Service in Federal +District Court here. The Petition was granted, with justifying reference being +made to the Private Express Statutes of the Civil War Era. On appeal, the +Second Circuit in New York City went into a discussion on how the King's right +to seal up a national postal monopoly under penal statutes has never been +successfully challenged, and remains essentially airtight.] [588]

+ +

[588]============================================================= UNITED +STATES POSTAL SERVICE VS. BRENNAN, 574 F.2nd 712 (1978). There were no +non-Commercial Status arguments made by the Brennans. +=============================================================[588]

+ +

But for our purposes here in addressing the attachment of revenue Equity +Jurisdiction by the acceptance and use of Federal Reserve Notes as a HOLDER IN +DUE COURSE. What is important is that it is you, under the RATIFICATION +DOCTRINE, by your own silence and default, by your failure to object and to +object timely, it is by your silence that the King wins. Under this Doctrine, +your silence in the face of a proposition being made to you constitutes your +approval of the proposition, if synchronous with the silence you experienced a +benefit. Reason, logic, and common sense. Let us consider the application of +this RATIFICATION DOCTRINE as it hypothetically applies to a person acting in +the subordinated position of agency for another person. [589]

+ +

[589]============================================================= See +RATIFICATION BY AN UNDISCLOSED PRINCIPAL by Edwin Goddard in 2 Michigan Law +Review 25 (1903). +=============================================================[589]

+ +

When one such person, as agent, does an act on behalf of another person, but +without complete authority, the person for whom such act is done may afterwards +adopt the act as if it is done in his behalf, thereby giving the act the same +legal effect as if it had been originally fully authorized. This subsequent +retroactive consent, the effect of which relates back to the time of the +original act and places the Principle in the same position as if he had +originally authorized the act, is called RATIFICATION. [590]

+ +

[590]============================================================= See Notes, +AGENCY -- RATIFICATION in 1 Michigan Law Review 140 (1902). +=============================================================[590]

+ +

Under this hypothetical agency relationship, when a person finds that an act +has been done in his name or on his behalf, that person must either Ratify it, +or in the alternative, disaffirm it. [591]

+ +

[591]============================================================= See THE +EFFECT OF RATIFICATION AS BETWEEN THE PRINCIPLE AND THE OTHER PARTY by Floyd +Mechem in 4 Michigan Law Review 269 (1905). +=============================================================[591]

+ +

But silence constitutes approval of the act. [592]

+ +

[592]============================================================= "Where a +contract has been made by one person in the name of another, of a kind that the +latter might lawfully make himself, and the only defect is the lack of +authority on the part of the person acting, the subsequent ratification of that +contract, while still in that condition, by the person on whose behalf it was +made and who is fully appraised of the facts, operates to cure the defect and +to establish the contract as his contract as though he had authorized it in the +first instance. From this time on, he is subject to all the obligations that +pertain to the transaction in the same manner and to the same extent that he +would be had the contract been made originally by him in person, or by his +express authority. The other party may demand and enforce on the part of the +principle the full performance of the contract entered into by his agent." +-Floyd Mechem in THE EFFECT OF RATIFICATION AS BETWEEN THE PRINCIPLE +AND THE OTHER PARTY in 4 Michigan Law Review 269, at 269 (1905). +=============================================================[592]

+ +

RATIFICATION may be implied from any form of conduct inconsistent with +disavowal of the contract; therefore anything else, other than explicit and +blunt disavowal, is RATIFICATION -- if synchronous with the silence, benefits +offered conditionally were accepted. This is quite a strong Doctrine, but it +has to be this way under Natural Law, since benefits offered conditionally are +being accepted, invisible contracts are in effect, and failure to require the +party experiencing the benefits to act quickly and reject the benefits +constitutes a Tort on the other party. This RATIFICATION is analogous under +Contract Law to the acceptance of the contract's proposition (MUTUAL ASSENT), +and hence is irrevocable. [593]

+ +

[593]============================================================= The Law of +Contracts requires MUTUAL ASSENT to be an element present between the parties +when contracts are entered into. However, MUTUAL assent is quite different from +MENTAL assent: +"In the field of contracts, as generally elsewhere, 'We must look to +the outward expression of a person as manifesting his intention rather than to +his secret and unexpressed intention. The law imputes to a person an intention +corresponding to the reasonable meaning of his words and acts." +-LUCY AND LUCY VS. ZEHMER, 84 S.E.2nd 516, at 521 [Supreme Court of +Appeals of Virginia (1954)]. Folks who believe that MENTAL (INTELLECTUAL) +ASSENT is a necessary ingredient to the formation of contracts are in error. A +person can internally frown and repel a contract in the back of his mind, but +still be held to be bound by the contract due to his exterior movements in +accepting benefits. And as we shift over to discuss a PRINCIPLE OF NATURE +regulating the commencement of invisible contracts thrown at folks by Juristic +Institutions, nothing changes there, either. Protestors claiming to be exempt +from being attached to expectations of taxation reciprocity by reason of no +MENTAL ASSENT being present, are in error: Because your exterior manifestations +-- your failure to explicitly and bluntly reject juristic benefits -- overrules +whatever quiet reservations you may have about the reciprocity expectations +contained in the contract. The other party to the contract (here, the other +party is a Juristic Institution) has absolutely no reasonable basis to consider +the applicability of its contract with you by probing into the corners of your +mind and uncovering any latent reservations that may be there. Therefore, only +the act of coming out into the open and filing a blunt and explicit NOTICE OF +REJECTION OF BENEFITS, has any reasonable meaning; and Protestors claiming +unfairness because MENTAL ASSENT is tossed aside and ignored are not addressing +the full spectrum of factual elements that judges consider when presented with +a contract enforcement prosecution. +=============================================================[593]

+ +

And this is why filing an Objection, Notice of Defect and Rejection of Benefits +to the King, objecting to your involuntary use of Federal Reserve Notes, +carries no retroactive force or effect with it back into preceding years. [594]

+ +

[594]============================================================= Variations +on this RATIFICATION DOCTRINE surface all throughout the Law. It surfaces in +criminal prosecutions as an evidentiary law requiring that circumstances be +awarded priority over verbal communication or non-communication in proving +conspiracies (meaning that what you say or don't say is not important as what +you do). In Commercial contracts, PAROLE EVIDENCE is oral or verbal evidence, +and the PAROLE EVIDENCE RULE restrains a party to a contract from using +expectations and declarations from toning down the meat of a contract. (See UCC +2-202), since the lesser oral expectations were MERGED into the greater written +expectations. In the Uniform Commercial Code, the RATIFICATION DOCTRINE appears +in Section 2-610, which states that the repudiation of a contract must be +positive and unequivocal; and it appears again in 2-606(b), which states that +failure to make an effective (strong) rejection constitutes acceptance. +=============================================================[594]

+ +

It is a Principle of Law mentioned over and over again in Contract Law books +that silence can effect ratification in the context of a benefit assertion. +[595].

+ +

[595]============================================================= The +underlying Principles associated with the RATIFICATION DOCTRINE surface in +criminal prosecutions, as it is often very reasonable for Juries, too, to take +special Notice and freely draw inferences and conclusions from the Defendant's +silence. In some Trials, Judges have characterized that the effect of the +Defendant remaining silent would be like: +"... the sun... shining with full blaze on the open eye." +-STATE VS. CLEAVES, 59 Main 298, at 301 (1871). +=============================================================[595]

+ +

Remember that to really understand a doctrine, we need to examine it from +manifold trajectories; and in so viewing, from a Judge's perspective, what the +RATIFICATION DOCTRINE is trying to avoid, we find that to allow the annulment +of a contract on repudiation grounds on anything less than a firm and positive +"no," has the direct effect of working a Tort on the other party, since +benefits were transferred from one party to the next. [596]

+ +

[596]============================================================= For a recent +discussion on the RATIFICATION DOCTRINE in operation, see COMMONWEALTH EDISON +VS. DECKER COAL, 612 F.Supp. 978 (1985). +=============================================================[596]

+ +

The application of this RATIFICATION DOCTRINE is not restricted to favor the +Government in the evidentiary presumptions of consent that it creates, as the +Supreme Court holds this Doctrine to be binding on all persons dragged into its +machinery. [597]

+ +

[597]============================================================= I have seen +lower State Courts apply the Principle of RATIFICATION under Tort Law factual +settings. See PAGE VS. KEEVES [199 N.E. 131 (1935)], which held that a person +assisting another in the commission of a wrongful Tort act against another, or +with knowledge approving of such act after it is done, is liable in some manner +as if he had committed the same wrongful act, if done for his benefit [that's +right BENEFITS ACCEPTED] and he avails himself of its fruits. The word +RATIFICATION does not appear anywhere in the Case Opinion, but the Principle +does at page 135. +"The doctrine of liability by RATIFICATION in Tort Cases is abundantly +established. Indeed, this seems to have been the earliest form of it. By +whatever methods the act be adopted and approved, the principal becomes liable +for the Tort as though he had previously directed it. And it is not always +necessary that the approval shall look to the particular act. In the case of +master and servant, for example, if the approval establishes the relation, the +master becomes responsible for any Torts committed within its scope or which he +would have been responsible had the relation been regularly created... +"RATIFICATION in Tort Cases is a distinct gain to the other party, +giving him a remedy against the principal while not depriving him of its remedy +against the wrong-doer himself." +-THE EFFECT OF RATIFICATION AS BETWEEN THE PRINCIPLE AND THE OTHER +PARTY by Floyd Mechem in 4 Michigan Law Review 269, at 270 (1905). +=============================================================[597]

+ +

The application of this RATIFICATION DOCTRINE in the area of the Citizenship +Contract does create an invisible contract, as the burden to prove that the +contract does not exist then falls on the individual, with the King not +required to prove or adduce anything. This Doctrine is held operational against +everyone indiscriminately as the Principle that it is, when the factual +circumstances warrant its provident application; this even includes drawing +inferences against the Congress itself. [598]

+ +

[598]============================================================= "The fact +that Congress has remained silent..." +-JAMES VS. UNITED STATES, 366 U.S. 213, at 220 (1961). The Supreme +Court has ruled that when the Congress remains silent on something, then the +Judiciary sets the limits -- as silence by the Congress is very significant and +presumptuous. Speaking about the INTERGOVERNMENTAL TAXATION IMMUNITY DOCTRINE +binding on both Federal and State Juristic Institutions [that I mentioned at +the end of CITIZENSHIP]: +"Congress may curtail an immunity which might otherwise be implied... +or enlarge it beyond the point where, Congress being silent, the Court would +set its limits." +-HELVERING VS. GERHARDT, 304 U.S. 405, at 411 [footnote #1] (1937). +Yes, even the Congress of the United States is held to be accountable for its +silence. In footnote number 1 to GRAVES VS. NEW YORK [306 U.S. 466 (1939)], the +Supreme Court holds the silence of the Congress in areas of regulating Commerce +as determinative of federal policy. In WESTERN LIVE STOCK VS. BUREAU OF REVENUE +[303 U.S. 250 (1937)], the Supreme Court discusses the implications of +Congressional silence in the field of state taxation of Interstate Commerce and +its instrumentalities. Yes, SILENCE is suggestive of intentions in some +instances, and everyone without exception (even the Congress of the United +States) is held accountable and responsible, at one time or another, for +inferences drawn from their silence. ... Even Heavenly Father uses this +PRINCIPLE OF NATURE in the continuation of benefits and duties originating +under Celestial Covenants by Saints, as silence by Saints individually is +deemed to be an automatic extension of the Covenant (only the explicit +disavowal of the Covenant can terminate the Covenant, while silencer retains +the operation of the Covenant in effect). +=============================================================[598]

+ +

There is an old Roman saying that "... He who remains silent certainly does not +speak, but nevertheless it is true that he does not deny." [599]

+ +

[599]============================================================= See Roscoe +Pound in READINGS IN ROMAN LAW, Second Edition, at pages 25 to 26. +=============================================================[599]

+ +

The situation expressed by that legal truism has been the source of some blurry +confusion in our Law of Contracts. Though acceptance of an Offer is usually +made by spoken or written words, quite often the Offer may call for act or +authorization requiring some other mode of acceptance. As the Offeror is the +"Czar of his Offer," such acts, when induced by the Offeree, constitute the +acceptance. [600]

+ +

[600]============================================================= "The +orthodox doctrine of the law of contracts, particularly the OFFER and +ACCEPTANCE machinery, could not be more familiar to most lawyers. We are long +indebted to Professor Hohfeld, who has enabled us to express the legal effect +of an Offer as creating a power of acceptance [see W. Hohfeld in FUNDAMENTAL +LEGAL CONCEPTIONS (1923); and also Corbin in LEGAL ANALYSIS AND TERMINOLOGY, 29 +Yale Law Journal 163 (1919)]. Where an Offer is extended by an Offeror, he +permits the Offeree to exercise a power of acceptance that subjects the Offeror +to the legal relation called contract. The Offeror is said to be under a +correlative liability, because exercise of the power of acceptance by the +Offeree creates a right-duty relationship. "After discussing the anatomy of +Offers, the first year law student is concerned with the exercise of the power +of acceptance. At once he is confronted with learning how the power may be +exercised: +"... almost the first question to ask about an offer is: What +particular kind of acceptance did this Offer call for; and especially: Was it +for a promise or was it for an act." +-Llewellyn in OUR CASE LAW OF CONTRACT: OFFER AND ACCEPTANCE - PART +II, in 48 Yale Law Journal 779, at 780 (1939). "Understanding his exploration +in this fundamental area is the principle that the Offeror is master of his +Offer. He creates the Offer and may require the power of acceptance to be +exercised in any manner he deems necessary or desirable. To emphasize this +principle, students are typically confronted with a hypothetical Offer that +requires the Offeree to don an UNCLE SAM costume, climb a greased flagpole, +and, upon reaching the gold dome at the top, whistle Yankee Doodle twice. The +effect on the impressionable first year student is significant. He will never +forget that the Offeror is master of his Offer, and he will often justify his +position through the use of even more outlandish hypotheticals. Of course, he +is obliged to use hypotheticals, just as his teacher was, since no recorded +case makes the point so clearly." +-John Murray in CONTRACTS: NEW DESIGN FOR THE AGREEMENT PROCESS, 53 +Cornell Law Review 785, at 785 (1968). Mr. Murray is correct, there is no +RECORDED CASE that makes the point so clearly, but by the time you have +finished this Letter, you will see numerous UNRECORDED CASES of contract Offers +by the King that are very structurally similar to climbing a greased flagpole +by the magnitude of the King's leverage involved, since the game starts out +with the cards being so heavily stacked against us, as our own ignorance and +silence work against us greatly. +=============================================================[600]

+ +

In such cases of negotiated commercial contracts, now there is something here +explicit by which to judge the intention of the parties; but as we shift over +to invisible juristic contracts, where the mere passive conduct of the Offeree +(you and me) is claimed to be an acceptance of benefits by Government, now the +question is more difficult -- as some of the requisite indicia applicable to +Laws governing commercial contracts has to be laid aside; like Mutual Assent. +[601]

+ +

[601]============================================================= The problems +associated with RATIFICATION have been the subject of controversy by +commentators. +"If a person whom I have not authorized to act as my agent has made in +my name with a third person a contract composed of mutual promises, and if the +third person, who originally believed in the authority of the assumed agent, +has withdrawn from the transaction and has communicated his withdrawal to the +assumed agent or to me, can I, nevertheless, thereafter, promptly upon learning +of the contract, ratify the contract and hold the third person? In short, by +ratifying an unauthorized bilateral contract can I hold the adverse party, +although he has already withdrawn from the contract? ...The questions +underlying the problem go to the very foundation of the DOCTRINE OF +RATIFICATION." +-Eugene Wambaugh in A PROBLEM AS TO RATIFICATION in 9 Harvard Law +Review 60, at 60 (1895). +=============================================================[601]

+ +

However, rather than Patriots fighting an area of grey where there is some DE +MINIMIS merit to the Government's position, it might be best to simply accept +the application of the RATIFICATION DOCTRINE, accept the fact that invisible +contracts are in effect by your silent passive benefit acceptance and refusal +to explicitly disavow and reject benefits, as generally held by Judges - but +then turn around and walk away from the contract for other reasons, like +FAILURE OF CONSIDERATION. [602]

+ +

[602]============================================================= For +commentary, see Notes, SILENCE AS ACCEPTANCE IN THE FORMATION OF CONTRACTS, 33 +Harvard Law Review 595 (1919). The many commercial contract cases cited and +quoted therein should be distinguished from juristic contracts. +=============================================================[602]

+ +

So the assertion by the King of his Status as a HOLDER IN DUE COURSE (and +therefore normally protected from any defense that you may throw at him via a +Federal Judge in an Income Tax grievance) then becomes meaningless: If you +first Notice the King out and Object with a Rejection of Benefits, and have so +Objected timely. Failure to serve a Notice of Defect on the King is fatal, as +without that Objection by you, the King retains his protective HOLDER IN DUE +COURSE Status, and with that Status you have absolutely no substantive defense +to assert against him.

+ +

Question: How do you Object?

+ +

In Objecting to Federal Reserve Notes, we need to be mindful of the fact that +Federal Judges normally do not take Judicial Notice of the Federal Reserve Note +equity attachment question. By the end of this Letter, you will see the larger +and more important invisible contracts to be dealt with, if a pure and correct +severance of yourself away from the adhesive siphon of the Bolshevik Income Tax +is to be perfected. Primarily, they search the record for the political +contract of Citizenship, and when Citizenship is found, generally they stop +right there and then. However, if dealing with a Denizen or some type of +non-resident alien, Federal Judges then shift their attention over to finding +some Commercial benefits that were accepted, in order to justify the extraction +of Income Taxes out of the poor fellow's pockets, acting Ministerially as +enforcement agents the way they do. So although Federal Judges find it +unnecessary to take Notice of your acceptance of Federal Reserve Notes at the +present time, when all other political and Commercial contracts have been +correctly severed, this one remaining Commercial contract is going to be an +item that needs to be wrestled with, in advance of its apparent necessity.

+ +

So if three years from now the IRS throws a prosecution at you, and you argue +non-attachment of liability to Title 26, so called, based on a pure severance +of Equity, then how will you prove what your STATE OF MIND was in 1986, as it +pertains to the Federal Reserve Note use and recirculation question? Remember +that the claimed STATE OF MIND of a Party is an affirmative defense. The person +asserting the defense has the burden to prove its merit, and reasonably so. The +King does not have to prove that you entered into the acceptance and beneficial +use of Federal Reserve Notes with profitable expectations in your mind. Such a +positive, beneficial, and Commercial Federal Reserve Note use assumption is +automatically inferred by the Commercial nature of those Notes and the "Public +Notice" Status of the King's Title 26 statutes, and so you have to prove the +opposite. How are you going to prove what your STATE OF MIND was in 1986? Are +you going to subpoena your wife into the Courtroom and ask her to tell the +Court what you said three years earlier in 1986?

+ +

"Oh, yes. I remember. Hank said that he didn't like using them things."

+ +

Well that is not much, and that is not the kind of an Objection, Notice of +Protest, and document STATE OF MIND that the Supreme Court will respect. So +what we need to do in order to Object timely, is to file a specific Objection +with the Secretary of the Treasury, and simply tell him what your STATE OF MIND +is at the present time; and synchronously record that document in a Public +Place. Documents written by individuals are often very strong pieces of +evidence to prove a person's STATE OF MIND, and will, under some circumstances, +directly overrule another person's first-person oral testimony on grounds +relating to the PAROLE EVIDENCE RULE (most often such circumstances surface in +Probate proceedings in Surrogate's Court when a Will or its Codicil is being +contested). If the IRS has a prosecution in gestation against you at the +present time here in 1985, and the IRS is moving against you in some manner for +the years, say, 1982 and 1983, then filing this Notice of Protest and Objection +will have no retroactive effect. Filing this Objection at the present time +merely documents your STATE OF MIND at the present time, and so if the IRS +moves against you in three years, this preventative step you take at the +present time is interesting prosecution annulment material. [603]

+ +

[603]============================================================= One should +not necessarily feel too depressed over having failed to perform a positive act +at some point in the past; a correct understanding of handling factual settings +is acquired experientially, and so although knowledge frequently does come too +late... +"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely +because it comes too late." +-ROSE VS. MITCHELL, 443 U.S. 545, at 575 (1978). +=============================================================[603]

+ +

Since the King's Attorney will present some old bank account that you had +gotten rid of years earlier, and will conveniently not show your recessions to +the Judge at the time the Summons is signed, none of this Status correction +material will likely deflect the original initiation of a prosecution itself.

+ +

In your Objection and Notice of Protest, we might want to mention that you are +using Federal Reserve Notes for minimum survival purposes only, and that even +this use is reluctant, because in a previous day and in a previous era, the +King used his police powers to seal a monopoly on currency instruments, and so +now you have no choice in selecting between different currency instruments to +use -- and the involuntary adhesive attachment of Title 26 civil liability that +occurs while you are being backed into such a corner, occurs against your will +and over your objection. Your STATE OF MIND is not one of beneficial acceptance +and enjoyment of Federal Reserve Notes, but one of a forced DE MINIMIS +coercion. You are not using Federal Reserve Notes for Commercial profit or +gain, but such use is out of practical necessity since the King has physically +removed all currency competitors from the marketplace under his penal statutes +and literally by physical duress; and so now your use of Federal Reserve Notes +is by lack of alternatives to select from, not freedom of choice. By such +monopoly tactics, the King is engaging in unfair Trade Practices, which if you +or I did the identical same thing, we would be incarcerated for it under +numerous Racketeering and Sherman Anti-Trust criminal statutes. Yet the FORCED +monopoly of a currency serves no beneficial public interest, [604]

+ +

[604]============================================================= Mere +declarations by the Congress that their creation of a uniform national benefit +constitutes a benefit, does not in fact reverse facts that the damages +associated with Congressionally originated money exceed the benefits. The +Congress once declared their attitude that their currency monopoly is a benefit +for us out here in the Countryside: +"In order to provide for the safer and more effective operation of a +National Banking System and the Federal Reserve System, to preserve for the +people the full benefits of the currency provided for by the Congress through +the National Banking System and the Federal Reserve System..." +-Title 12, Section 95 (March, 19833). Federal Judges are cognizant of +the declaration of Congress that the issuance of a currency by the Congress is +considered to be a benefit; but declarations do not change previous factual +experiences. =============================================================[604]

+ +

and is actually an instrumentality to work MAGNUM damages on us all after the +King replaces his initial hard currency later on with a paper currency (which +has now happened). Remember that Federal Judges see important benefits in +everything the King does, and there are legitimate benefits in having a uniform +national currency to pursue Commercial enrichment with -- when those benefits +were sought after voluntarily. [605]

+ +

[605]============================================================= In VEAZIE +BANK VS. FENNO, 75 U.S. 533 (1869), the Supreme Court ruled that it was the +Constitutional right of Congress to provide a currency for the whole Country; +that this might be done by coin, United States notes, or notes of national +banks; and that it cannot be questioned that Congress may Constitutionally +secure the BENEFIT of such a currency to the people by appropriate legislation. +=============================================================[605]

+ +

Judges perceive of those benefits as being related to the Legal Tender status +of the King's Currency, among other things. What Federal Judges do not see +collectively is that those FRN's possess only those benefits that any widely +accepted circulating currency would also offer, and are the same benefits that +privately circulating notes and coins did in fact offer here in the United +States prior to the Civil War. The King is not entitled to demand taxation +reciprocity by merely replacing benefits originating from private mints with +benefits originating from the Congress under the cloak, cover, and duress of +penal statutes. So by enacting that succession of penal monopoly statutes that +shut down competitors, the King has transferred the origin of currency benefits +away from private mints and banks, over to himself. A forced uniform national +currency serves only the private financial enrichment objectives of the King by +getting everyone into Interstate Commerce, among other things, and also serves +the objectives of Special Interest Groups who very much want to see the King +circulate paper currency expressly for the purpose of perfecting our +enscrewment -- if it were not so, the King would not have had to use penal +statutes and armed stormtroopers in the 1800's to enforce the acceptance of his +currency monopoly LEX. If a single national currency medium did in fact serve +everyone's best interest, if everyone wanted to use the King's paper money, +then why did the King have to resort to the display of physical force when +initiating such a currency monopoly by police powers intervention in the +1800's, and now unilaterally use that monopoly to administratively coerce +people into contractual situations they did not otherwise want or enter into?

+ +

Therefore, you do not accept any Consideration the King is handing you when +Federal Reserve Notes circulate into your possession (and remember that the +King's Legal Tender Statutes have very much enhanced the market value of +Federal Reserve Notes). And that such use of Federal Reserve Notes is occurring +against your will and over your objection and Protest, for, INTER ALIA, want of +alternatives, and with the reason why there are no alternatives is due to +Federal monopoly penal statutes forbidding such alternatives, and that such a +monopoly is an unfair restraint of trade (unfair because it is unnecessary) +anyone else gets incarcerated for.

+ +

Remember that in dealing with Federal Judges, you need to "hit the nail right +on the head," and by rejecting Federal benefits, and then explaining your +rejection through chronologically sequential presentations of facts and of +reasoned legal arguments; when that has been done, then where once there was a +Courtroom hurricane of unbridled retortional ensnortment by Federal Judges, +designed to rub in, in no uncertain terms, their strong philosophical +disapproval of Tax Protestors -- now suddenly in contrast, everything changes +over to a quiescent environment. [606]

+ +

[606]============================================================= "Quiescent" +means that the environment is at rest, but only for a certain amount of time. +=============================================================[606]

+ +

Additional objections along the lines that Warburg and his Gremlin brothers in +crime, the Rothschilds, through their ownership of the Federal Reserve System, +are third party beneficial interest holders, and that use of the police powers +for the private enrichment of a Special Interest Group is unlawful, since under +Supreme Court rulings, when the King enters into Commercial activity, his +Status descends to the same level as other merchants, [607]

+ +

[607]============================================================= "Governments +descent to the level of a mere private corporation and takes on the character +of a mere private citizen [where commercial instruments are concerned]." - BANK +OF U.S. VS. PLANTERS BANK, 22 U.S. 904 (1829). "When governments enter the +world of commerce, it is subject to the same burdens as any private firm." - +UNITED STATES VS. BURR, 309 U.S. 242 (1939). And the King is very much into +Commerce when his Legal Tender Statutes and equity co-endorser statutes [Title +12, Section 411] enhance the value of those negotiable Federal Reserve Notes. +=============================================================[607]

+ +

and that any other American merchant who pulled off such a gun barrel monopoly +grab would be incarcerated for doing so. Numerous Contract Law books provide a +rich abundance of defenses to assert against Negotiable Instruments. [608]

+ +

[608]============================================================= Exemplary +would be, perhaps, the three volume set of TREATISE ON RECESSION OF CONTRACTS +AND CANCELLATION OF WRITTEN INSTRUMENTS by Henry Black (Vernon Law Book +Company, Kansas City, Missouri); And the huge voluminous set of CORBIN ON +CONTRACTS by Arthur Corbin, West Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota; +Another is the 18 volume set of writings of Sam Williston entitled A TREATISE +ON THE LAW OF CONTRACTS, published by Baker, Voorhis & Company, Mount Kisco, +New York (1961). +=============================================================[608]

+ +

Numerous defenses to assert in your Objection and Notice of Protest against the +use of Federal Reserve Notes attaching liability to Title 26 due to their +Status as circulating Commercial Negotiable Instruments involve both Real [609]

+ +

[609]============================================================= Real +defenses include those defenses that arise out of the fact that no liability +was created in the first place by your involuntary use of Federal Reserve +Notes. =============================================================[609]

+ +

and Personal Defenses. [610]

+ +

[610]============================================================= Personal +defenses are those defenses which arise out of the relationship of the parties +to each other. +=============================================================[610]

+ +

Some of the defenses you could claim include undue influence, [611]

+ +

[611]============================================================= Undue +influence is generally understood to be the power which one person wrongfully +exercises over another in attempting to control and influence the action of +such other person. Both CIRCUMSTANTIAL as well as DIRECT EVIDENCE is acceptable +for proving undue influence (which, like all other defenses are affirmative +defenses, and the burden falls on you to assert your position well). +=============================================================[611]

+ +

absence or failure of Consideration, [612]

+ +

[612]============================================================= Remember +that Consideration is a benefit, and mere issuance of the Note itself has +always been PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE that Consideration (a benefit) was accepted by +the Holder (you). Your placing the King on "Prior Notice" that benefits are +being declined and waived, and that infirmities are present, is your attack on +Consideration. +=============================================================[612]

+ +

moral fraud, [613]

+ +

[613]============================================================= Either fraud +PER SE or in the alternative, FRAUD IN THE FACTUM can be either Personal or a +Real Defense, depending upon the factual setting (which we will now alter to +favor ourselves). Law books are generally reluctant to define the contours of +just what fraud is, since no sooner do the contours of fraud get settled, then +some scheming crook stretches those contours by figuring out new ways to pull +something off. But if you can get a recognizance of fraud, then what is +absolutely certain is the consequence of such fraud: As it vitiates anything +and everything that it enters into. But fraud is an affirmative defense, and +properly so, and the burden is on you to prove that such fraud exists. +=============================================================[613]

+ +

necessity, unilateral adhesion contract made in restraint of trade, [614]

+ +

[614]============================================================= Commercial +bargains made by people are generally deemed to be null and void if made in +conflict of Public Policy, i.e., prostitution, gambling, usury, etc. The King's +monopoly grab on a single national currency is very much contemporary national +Public Policy, so arguing this line in a Contract Law Jurisprudential setting +is going to be difficult, unless the correct pleading of the Money Issue is +presented. =============================================================[614]

+ +

economic duress, [615]

+ +

[615]============================================================= Duress does +not need to be directly experienced by the party claiming it as a defense, as +duress used by one of the Holders, with the secondary effect of the duress +operating only indirectly against you, is quite sufficient as a defense. +=============================================================[615]

+ +

and the like.

+ +

Some of those Objections and statements are milktoast, and will later fall +apart and collapse under attack by the King's Attorneys in adversary +proceedings, and properly so. Reason: The Use and recirculation of Commercial +Federal Reserve Notes necessarily involves a Contract Law factual setting, and +so our arguments along the lines of the King's basic unfairness in sealing up +his national currency monopoly, etc., are only peripheral arguments; only +direct coercion in the use of Federal Reserve Notes is strong enough to strip +the King of his Status of a HOLDER IN DUE COURSE. And unfairness arguments +sounding in the Tort of third party Special Interest Group penal statute +sponsorship and of Congressional intrigue in 1913, even though very accurate +factually, are way off base, if we are going into the Supreme Court under a +factual setting calling for Contractual Law settlement reasoning.

+ +

But for us right now, which Objection reason that we stated, either stands or +falls when under attack later, is not important. And what is important is +denying the King his protective Status as a HOLDER IN DUE COURSE against you +(if the King is a HOLDER IN DUE COURSE, the Principle is that we have no +defenses to assert against him), by filing your NOTICE OF PROTEST and related +corrigendum (meaning filed in an interlocutory state in contemplation of +secondary enhancement or error correction at a later time). But some of those +arguments we listed will survive, as the naked facts surrounding the forceful +acquisition of the King's monopoly on national currency are quite authentic, +and elements can be raised to take the factual setting out of Contract Law and +into Tort Law where, at least as a point of beginning, those arguments then +become relevant [however, those arguments probably won't even be addressed for +other reasons]. So we are exactly on line in some areas (assuming the Case was +properly plead by referring to the Supreme Court rulings on the declension in +Status the King experiences when the King engages in Commercial activity). +[616]

+ +

[616]============================================================= "When +governments enter the world of commerce, it is subject to the same burdens as +any private firm." +-UNITED STATES VS. BURR, 309 U.S. 242 (1939). +=============================================================[616]

+ +

So the final analysis is not important right now. Getting a general Notice of +Protest documenting the situational infirmities to the other party; invoking +Tort Law to govern the factual setting surrounding your involuntary use of +Federal Reserve Notes; and stating that there has been a FAILURE OF +CONSIDERATION; as your STATE OF MIND is what is important, and the detailed +judicial affirmation or rejection of your specific Protest reasons can occur +later in adversary proceedings. Failure to object is fatal, and failure to +object timely is equally as fatal, as you have no right to ask the Judiciary to +help you weasel out of the terms of contracts you originally intended to +benefit from (which is necessarily inferred when no timely Objection was filed +on your part). If we have corrected our Status, we filed our Objections timely, +and we still lose, and the reasons why we lose on this issue have their seminal +point of origin in the King's police power tactics in the 1800's, then it would +then be time to consider dealing with the King on the same terms the King's +Treasury Agents dealt with the two remaining die-hard California Coin Mints: +Out of the barrel of a gun. [617]

+ +

[617]============================================================= "And honest +Men would be expos'd a ready Prey to Villains, if they were never allow'd to +make use of Violence in Resisting their Attacks." +-THE LAW OF NATURE AND OF NATIONS, by Samuel de Puffendorf [Translated +from the French by Basil Kennett (1729)]. +=============================================================[617]

+ +

With the prosecution of Individuals, whose status is near lily white, being +sandbagged at low administrative and judicial levels, then such an aggressive +retortional atmosphere of confrontation is quite unlikely to occur. But until +those circumstances do happen, then let's not badmouth the Judiciary, because +as for the past and present, PRINCIPLES OF NATURE rule in the corridors of the +United States Supreme Court, to the extent that they are able to apply such +majestic Principles to such pathetic factual settings they are frequently +presented with -- with petitioners and criminal Defendants who are not entitled +to prevail under any circumstances, as contracts are in effect.

+ +

Subject to these following qualifications, the filing of this Objection on the +involuntary use of Federal Reserve Notes will arrest the movement of the King's +Agents in a civil prosecution against you on this particular adhesive +attachment of King's Equity Jurisdiction. But the most interesting reason why +you now reluctantly use Federal Reserve Notes is yet to come; and it is the one +reason the King's Attorneys will never be able to tear apart and get judicially +annulled [it will be sandbagged before it gets annulled]. And it is the one +reason why even an otherwise reluctant Supreme Court might just respect this +Objection, regardless of how irritating it may be for some imps nestled in the +Judiciary, since the effect of this one last Objection automatically vitiates +the most solemn written contracts ever sealed.

+ +

Your Objection might want to contain the following:

+ +

1.An historical overview of the gun barrel and penal statute factual +setting surrounding the acquisition of a national currency monopoly by the +King, with the authorities for your statements being cited; +2.Stating in all of your Objections and Notices of Defects, that your +occasional use of Federal Reserve Notes is involuntary, and transpires because +you are seeking to avoid being incarcerated as an accessory to the criminal +circulation of illegal currency under Federal statutes.

+ +

That's right. That is the real reason why you now reluctantly use Federal +Reserve Notes: Not because you want to, and not necessarily because of what +some Treasury Agents did in California in the 1800's, but because if you now +started using your own currency instruments here today in 1985, then the King +will incarcerate you for doing so; and therefore we have no choice but to use +the King's designated currency against our Will and over our Objection. [618]

+ +

[618]============================================================= Is the King +really interested in using penal statutes to enforce a currency monopoly, down +to the present day? Yes, he very much is, and those who deal in that currency +which the King has seen fit to declare illegal in his kingdom will find +themselves dealing with the King's Agents at gun point. ...Being in the United +States felt good to the Braselton Family, who came over here from Manchester, +England in the 1880's. They settled down in rural Georgia, a remote 52 miles +northeast of Atlanta. This was 52 miles from nowhere, in the middle of nowhere. +This was an enterprising family with commercial enrichment being a natural +family attribute. The elder Mr. Braselton borrowed $2000 and started in +business with his brother at the age of 8 [a great deal of money for those days +when SILVER DOLLARS circulated and $1500 bought a nice house]. Soon, a farming +supply store opened up, followed by a succession of other stores and business +interests. What was first a single building was now a row of buildings lining +both sides of a street, and surrounded by neighborhoods of residents. House of +Braselton essentially grew into a town unto itself. Today, among the visible +merchant establishments, there are the BRASELTON BANKING COMPANY, the BRASELTON +SUPER MARKET, the BRASELTON FLEA MARKET, the BRASELTON FURNITURE AND APPLIANCE +STORE, the BRASELTON MONUMENT COMPANY, and the BRASELTON SERVICE STATION. The +State of Georgia granted their hamlet political status as a town, and named it +the TOWN OF BRASELTON. After building up a bank and virtually all of the supply +stores in town, the Braselton Family then built a high school for the town's +residents. There is no police department in Braselton, there is no fire +department and no social services -- and, not surprisingly, being no benefits, +there are no taxes to be concerned with. No, looters and Tory Aristocrats never +did succeed in gaining a foothold in Braselton. Over the years from 1880 down +to the present day, the Braselton stores have had their trials and reversals: +They have had an intermittent fire, and in 1920 a tornado leveled many +buildings, but the family always rebuilt. The Mayor of Braselton has always +been a Braselton, and the family enterprises are managed by a family +triumvirate, affectionately called THE 3-B's [see the ATLANTA CONSTITUTION +("Three Braseltons of Braselton Business Partners Over 50 Years"), (May 31, +1939)]. Today, when I visited Braselton, only a handful of coins and coupons +["Coupon Check"] mounted on a picture frame remain as reminiscent icons of the +grand days of the 1800's, when anyone could issue their own currency without +fear of being incarcerated. The history and lore of Braselton, Georgia is +written and mounted on several walls in the BRASELTON BROTHERS HARDWARE STORE. +Walking into that store, one gets a feeling of power relationships, as +photographs from Presidents, Governors, and Senators, and other Braselton +Family Members hang in open view. With such a display of high powered +acquaintances, I almost felt as if I was in David Rockefeller's office in the +Chase Manhattan Bank -- but there the feeling of similarity stops. In the +BRASELTON HARDWARE STORE, one feels a sweet and pleasant spirit permeating the +store, as if one great American family resides here. In David Rockefeller's +office, also adorned with photographs of powerful acquaintances, the spirit in +the air is one of an icy demon chill. Once while travelling up in an elevator +in the Chase Manhattan Bank, my knees started to rattle when passing the 17th +Floor, where His Excellency used to maintain his nest. The idea came to me, as +I tried to stop the shivers, that the Astral High Command was holding an +important conference, and that the demons were planning to pull off something +grand. Being primarily in the farming supply business, the Braselton Family +developed a Credit System based on TRADE CERTIFICATES to handle the seasonal +nature of surrounding farmers coming in to trade crops for supplies. For store +employees and local residents, the Braseltons had their own coins minted, and +dollar equivalency coupons printed to be used as currency. Copper and nickel +based coins were minted in numerous equivalency denominations under $1.00; the +paper coupons ["Coupon Checks"] were similar to those coupon issued by movie +theaters and carnivals, and were available in coupon books. The issuance and +circulation of coins and currency by THE 3-B's was not only illegal, it was +criminal, but in a friendly small town in Georgia composed of class people, who +concerned themselves with technical banking statutes in Washington? Over the +years since the 1880's, while foreign wars came and went, the Braselton Family +enterprises prospered and grew independent of the King -- but eventually the +party would be over. As is always the case, one little goof messes up the soup +for everyone else, and the Braselton's turn came in the early 1950's. ...One +day in the early 1950's, a Braselton minted coin found its way into a gas +station in Atlanta. In turn it was passed on to a bank, who could not redeem it +into currency they are comfortable with. So the bank called the United States +Secret Service to report this heinous criminal outrage being commercially +orchestrated right up State Highway 53 in Braselton. From out of their offices +in the Atlanta Federal Building descended a troop of Federal Agents on +Braselton [they always like to put on a big show], and THE 3-B's surrendered +immediately. THE 3-B's would have surrendered on a phone call, but agents for +the King earn their pay IN TERROREM, and like to use a show force to make a +STATEMENT. The King's Agents brought with them guns and a slice of LEX from +Title 18 ["Crimes"], so now the private minting of Braselton coins and currency +coupons was over with. In time, the Braseltons also disbanded the farmer's +TRADE CERTIFICATES for other reasons. QUESTION: Will the King use his guns to +prevent you from circulating your own currency? Yes, he will. +=============================================================[618]

+ +

Your entrance into that closed, private domain of Interstate Commerce, by the +use and recirculation of Federal Reserve Notes (the King's Money), is +involuntary by reason of pure physical coercion. Remember that the character of +every act you do, and every prospective act you avoid doing, depends upon the +documented background circumstances behind which the act is either done or +avoided, [619]

+ +

[619]============================================================= "The +character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done." +-UNITED STATES VS. SCHENCK, 249 U.S. 47, at 52 (1918). +=============================================================[619]

+ +

and your ability to document and prove your STATE OF MIND is absolutely +mandatory as a point of beginning: So let's not snicker at Judges as they toss +out arguments based merely upon some recollected memory reconstructions from +out of the past. If you claim that your involvement with the King in his closed +private domain of Interstate Commerce occurred by reason of physical coercion, +then the first question a Federal Judge will be asking himself is:

+ +

Who coerced you, when did this coercion take place, and what were the +background circumstances surrounding the coercion?

+ +

What the Judge will then do is to make an assessment of the overall legitimacy +of your claims. Talking about the naked aggression of Treasury Agents in +California in the 1800's is one interesting story out of the past, but talking +about a direct operation of coercion on you today in the 1980's is even better. +Remember that lightly claiming duress and coercion is one easy thing to do, but +proving such coercion is another. Absent a presentation of the King's monopoly +acquisition tactics, of his snuffing out currency (coins, bank notes, and +private paper) competitors in the 1800's, and of his contemporary eagerness to +incarcerate competitors and private currency lone wolves, absent such factual +background material your claims of duress and coercion to invalidate the +Contract Law jurisprudential setting of Federal Reserve Notes, as it applies to +you, are possible candidates to fall apart and collapse before the Judiciary. +So tell the Court about the currency history of the King, and his acquisition +of a currency monopoly out of a barrel of a gun, and then cite exactly, and +then quite directly, the verbatim wording of the Federal statutes that +criminalizes your acquisition and recirculation of any other Currency +Instrument other than the King's specified Legal Tender for the extinguishment +of your private debts, in order to prove your STATE OF MIND. [620]

+ +

[620]============================================================= One of the +statutory devices used by the King to grab for himself the currency circulating +around the United States was to make it a criminal act for someone to +countersign or deliver to any association, company, or person, any circulating +notes not expressly allowed by the King: +"...That it shall be unlawful for any officer acting under the +provisions of this act to countersign or deliver to any association, or to any +other company or person, any circulating notes contemplated by this act, except +as herein before provided, and in accordance with the true intent and meaning +of this act. Any officer who shall violate the provisions of this section shall +be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be +punished by fine not exceeding double the amount so countersigned and +delivered, and imprisonment not less than one year and not exceeding fifteen +years, at the discretion of this court in which he shall be tried." +-13 UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE 107, Chapter 106, Section 27 +["National Banking Act"], 38th Congress, First Session (1864). Introduced into +the Senate by John Sherman and the House by Samuel Hooper, the Rothschild +Gremlins had done their payoffs very well, as both this NATIONAL BANKING ACT +and the COINAGE ACT OF 1873 were the products of intrigue by Gremlins that +originated in Europe. By the time the 1940's came around, 13 U.S. STATUTES AT +LARGE had been changed slightly and placed into Title 12, Section 581 +["Unauthorized Issue of Circulating Notes"], with the threatened incarceration +retained. In June of 1948, the Congress repealed Title 12, Section 581, and so +today the King retains his monopoly on circulating instruments by a combination +of administrative LEX prohibiting banking associations from issuing currency, +and also by prohibiting anyone anywhere from circulating their own coins: +"Whoever makes, issues, circulates, or pays out any note, check, +memorandum, token, or other obligation for a less sum than $1.00, intended to +circulate as money or be received or used in lieu of lawful money of the United +States, shall be fined not more than $10000 or imprisoned not more than one +year, or both." +-Title 18, Section 336 ["Issuance of Circulating Obligations +of less than $1".] Since all transactions subject to sales taxes in the United +States are denominated in cents (even the purchase of jet aircraft), +restraining a discharge in part prevents the discharge in whole. A person +precluded from discharging his debts, except by overpayment, is a person +experiencing a hard juristic Tort created by the King. +=============================================================[620]

+ +

The reason why it is to your advantage to talk about these historical aspects +and give a Federal Judge a long chronicled history of the King's gun barrel +muscle tactics you are objecting to, is because their Federal Benchbook is +silent on it (except for numerous 1800's Case quotations), and so very few +Federal Judges actually know anything about the currency history of the United +States, and when Judges have been confronted with accurate presentations of +historical facts, they can and will rule against Government and reverse +themselves publicly in Opinions, [621]

+ +

[621]============================================================= Such as +happened with OWEN VS. THE CITY OF INDEPENDENCE [445 U.S. 622 (1979)], which +correctly reversed 500 years of Common Law policy that favored municipal Tort +immunization. +=============================================================[621]

+ +

and also quietly in post-Opinion regrets. [622]

+ +

[622]============================================================= When the +manuscript to Paul Blakewell's book entitled WHAT ARE WE USING FOR MONEY? [New +York: Van Nostrand, 1952] was sent to retired Supreme Court Justice Owen +Roberts (who had voted with the majority in the Gold Clause Cases [NORMAN VS. +BALTIMORE and three other Cases starting at 294 U.S. 240 (1934)]), Judge +Roberts sent a letter back to Paul Blakewell stating: +"Of course, I ought not to be quoted concerning a decision of the Court +when I was a member of it, but I am inclined to think that had I known the +history you describe, I would have been of a different opinion than the one +expressed." +-Quoted from David Fargo in WILL GOLD CLAUSES RETURN?, in 8 +Reason Magazine 72, at 103 (June, 1976). +=============================================================[622]

+ +

So giving Federal Judges a more factually detailed presentation of history, +than is carefully given to them in those Government Seminars of theirs, +operates to your advantage. Your use of Federal Reserve Notes, under objection +to avoid incarceration, is the kind of a documented coercion factual setting +that is going to give the Supreme Court something to think about, if the +grievance ever gets to them. This involuntary entrance into King's Commerce by +reason of threat of incarceration severs this civil attachment of Equity +Jurisdiction that is otherwise airtight for those folks not Objecting +substantively and timely [because benefits were rejected and there is now a +FAILURE OF CONSIDERATION], and completes our efforts to convert the basic +Contract Law factual setting that the use of Commercial Federal Reserve Notes +necessarily mandates, somewhat over into Tort Law (so our unfairness arguments +then can become relevant). [623]

+ +

[623]============================================================= Even though +Judges may deal with tax enforcement proceedings whose only evidence is the +acceptance and recirculation of Federal Reserve Notes on the civil side of +their courtroom, you are not free of incarceration by merely getting rid of +your Enfranchisements, licenses, and bank accounts that evidences the +acceptance of Federal benefits -- benefit acceptance that creates invisible +contracts. The IRS specializes in 2039 Summons and DISCOVERY enforcement moves +to perfect incarceration through civil contempt proceedings, and the mere +absence of a bank account will not protect you from being cited for Contempt of +Court and the encagement that follows. +=============================================================[623]

+ +

That documented involuntary behavior to avoid incarceration is the one magic +liability--vitiating line that Judges never deviate from, and that +incarceration threat is the kind of an Objection that Judges want to hear, and +that is the kind of an Objection that the Supreme Court will respect. But as +always, it is the waiver and rejection of Royal benefits that is the most +important item to address; and the King's Legal Tender Statutes have very much +enhanced the market value and general Commercial attractiveness of those +Federal Reserve Notes, so as viewed from the perspective of a Federal Judge, +when you accepted and then recirculated Federal Reserve Notes, you have +accepted a Federal benefit. [624]

+ +

[624]============================================================= Yes, +benefits accepted are also the invisible contract into state tax courts: +"The simple but controlling question is whether the state has given +anything [some type of a juristic benefit] for which it can ask return." +-STATE OF WISCONSIN VS. J.C. PENNEY COMPANY, 311 U.S. 435, at 444 +(1940). =============================================================[624]

+ +

So the King has the requisite standing jurisdiction to use his police powers to +seal up monopolies on currency and postal services: But when he threatens to +cause those penal statutes to operate against you, the King can then forget +about the assertion of any adhesive revenue enhancement Equity Jurisdiction on +us, if you will but so much as Object substantively and timely so as to trigger +Consideration Failure.

+ +

You should remember that filing such an Objection, say next year in 1986, will +only assist you in a future prosecution. If the IRS is going after you today +for 1981 to 1985, then your failure to Object timely was fatal on your part, as +this Federal Reserve Note Objection carries no retroactive force with it. +Remember that the King's throwing a prosecution against you is an adversary +proceeding. If the King's Attorneys make the assertion that you had accepted +and use Federal Reserve Notes (with the long history of Consideration Law to +support the King in this area going back into English history and the Medieval +Ages), and you retort by saying that you didn't want to use Federal Reserve +Notes without being able to explain exactly how and why your use was +involuntary, then the Federal Judge has no choice but to rule against you, as +in that setting the preponderance of the evidence favors the King. So the King +wins by your own half-baked minimum efforts and default in proving your +assertion. But if you do cite authorities, quote the King's criminal statutes +verbatim, and prove everything, then there is not a Federal Judge in the entire +United States who could rightfully hold that your use of Federal Reserve Notes +is voluntary for Commercial gain, and that an adhesive attachment of revenue +Equity Jurisdiction attaches for this reason (and that specifically includes +the Supreme Court). The King may have numerous other Equity hooks into you +depending on your individual circumstances, but he will be restrained from +using this one hook against you.

+ +

[As I said in the Armen Condo Letter, in a criminal prosecution +setting, it is a general policy custom that the Judiciary requires a much +higher evidentiary standard of knowledge of wrongdoing and of Commercial +enrichment experienced in the closed private domain of King's Commerce; but as +you should see by now, through a strict technical reading of Title 26, no bank +accounts are ever needed to perfect a 7203 prosecution. By its own statutory +wording, either your documented involvement in Interstate Commerce, over the +minimum liability threshold level, or your Citizenship Contract, attaches all +civil and criminal liability the King thinks he needs. But Federal Judges do +not necessarily think like the King thinks, and in a criminal prosecution for +Title 26 infractions, the Judiciary, by custom, would like to see a higher +level of administrative and merchant status than the mere use and recirculation +of Federal Reserve Notes infers. That higher evidentiary standard that Federal +Judges hold was all that I meant in the Armen Condo Letter. And since the +Federal Judge had Armen Condo's bank account contracts in front of him, the +Constitution then became irrelevant in Armen's RESTRAINING ORDER defense. So, +generally, what the Federal Bench wants to see is some type of a contract +before they will consent to a criminal prosecution for Title 26 penal +infractions. There are exceptions where such instruments of CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE +like bank accounts are not pursued that much, but those exceptions do not apply +to you or me. To my knowledge, no one in the United States has ever been +incarcerated at any time for any penal infraction of Title 26, with the only +evidence being acceptance and beneficial use of Federal Reserve Notes in +Interstate Commerce. Evidence of the acceptance and beneficial use of Federal +Reserve Notes is quite frequently adduced into criminal prosecutions by the +King's Attorneys in the Public Show Trial, but only a collaborating secondary +evidence behind serious contracts the IRS quietly gave the Judge in his +Chambers before the prosecution even started. This Equity hook the King has up +his Royal sleeve (use of Federal Reserve Notes) is generally applicable against +you as PRIMA FACIE primary evidence only in the lower evidentiary standards of +a free wheeling civil arena.]

+ +

So important for us is the filing of the Objection and Notice of Protest, and +filing the objections timely. And each of these Objections should be separate +and distinct from each other (Admiralty/Birth Certificate, Equity/Social +Security, Commercial/HOLDERS IN DUE COURSE, etc.). What happens if the Supreme +Court rules some day of in the future that King's Revenue Equity Jurisdiction +still attaches to involuntary users of Federal Reserve Notes? We will then have +to acquire our rights from our contemporary King the same way Ben Franklin and +George Washington acquired their rights: Out of the barrel of a gun. [625]

+ +

[625]============================================================= Writing to +the French inhabitants of Louisiana, after the American War of Independence was +over with, Thomas Paine made the following observation on the sometimes +necessary use of aggression to obtain rights: +"We obtained our rights by calmly understanding principles, and by the +successful event of a long, obstinate, and expensive war. But it is not +incumbent on us to fight the battles of the world for the world's profit." +-THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE, by David Wheeler, Page 173 +[Vincent Parke & Company, New York City (1908)] +=============================================================[625]

+ +

We always want to take a moment and examine ourselves in known impending +grievances from the viewpoint of our adversary, in order to see things like a +judge; and when dealing with an attack on the acceptance and recirculation of +Federal Reserve Notes, an argument will likely be advanced to try and discredit +your objection:

+ +

Your adversary will argue that Federal Law, not State Law of the UCC governs +your attack on Federal Reserve Notes. Their arguments are based on numerous +federal court rulings -- one of which is when the Supreme Court once ruled +[626]

+ +

[626]============================================================= CLEARFIELD +TRUST VS. UNITED STATES, 318 U.S. 363 (1942). +=============================================================[626]

+ +

that the rights, duties, and liabilities of the United States on Commercial +paper are issues that are to be governed exclusively by federal law, and not +governed by state law. Therefore, your adversaries will argue that your +reliance on the UCC, which are a collection of state statutes, as a source of +authority, is ill-founded and that you are not entitled to prevail. This +argument does not concern us at all, since in reading CLEARFIELD TRUST, the +reason why the Supreme Court wants federal Commercial paper to be governed by +Federal Law and not State Law is because they do not want the Federal +Government subject to 50 different rules and restrictions proprietary to each +state:

+ +

"But reasons which may make state law at times the appropriate federal +rule are singularly inappropriate here. The issuance of Commercial paper by the +United States is on a vast scale and transactions in that paper from issuance +to payout will commonly occur in several states. The application of state law, +even without the conflict of laws rules of forum, would subject the rights and +duties of the United States to exceptional uncertainty. It would lead to great +diversity in results by making identical transactions subject to the vagaries +of the laws of the several states." [627]

+ +

[627]============================================================= CLEARFIELD +TRUST, id., 318 U.S. at 367. +=============================================================[627]

+ +

Since the Uniform Commercial Code is just that, i.e., UNIFORM throughout all of +the states except one (Louisiana), having the issuance and Commercial use of +Federal Reserve Notes subject to this uniform code, in the absence of any +federal law to the contrary, is most appropriate. Subjecting the rights and +duties of the United States and it's pet corporation, the Federal Reserve, to +the uniform rules of the UCC to fill in missing gaps in Federal Commercial +Laws, offers to expose the United States to no exception uncertainty. Although +there very much is a Federal Law Merchant, [628]

+ +

[628]============================================================= "... the +federal law merchant, developed for about a century under the regime of SWIFT +VS. TYSON, 16 Peter 1, represented general commercial law rather than a choice +of a federal rule designed to protect a federal right..." +-CLEARFIELD TRUST, id., 318 U.S. at 367. +=============================================================[628]

+ +

State Law is silent on the matter; [629]

+ +

[629]============================================================= In +explaining why state law governed a federal commercial paper question: +"While [the] New York statute... is not controlling... [there is] no +conflict with any state or federal policy..." +-ROYAL INDEMNITY COMPANY VS. UNITED STATES, 313 U.S. 289, at 297 +(1940). =============================================================[629]

+ +

and so now that leaves Federal Judges making the law. [630]

+ +

[630]============================================================= "In the +absence of an applicable Act of Congress, it is for the federal courts to +fashion the governing rule of law, according to their own standards..." +-CLEARFIELD TRUST, id., 318 U.S. at 367. +=============================================================[630]

+ +

Remember that the PRINCIPLES OF NATURE the UCC codifies into sequential +statutes is merely the old Law Merchant of our Fathers, and that our Fathers +merely codified reason, logic, and common sense; and the Uniform Commercial +Code, even though it is state law, is merely cited to both fill pronouncement +voids in the Federal Law Merchant, and as simply the best pronouncement of +PRINCIPLES OF NATURE denominated to apply to Commercial factual settings.

+ +

The Principle we invoke when coming to grips with these Federal Reserve Notes +is merely common sense: That a person we are trying to avoid doing business +with (the King) loses his expectation of our conformance to his statutes, when +we place him on our PRIOR NOTICE that Defects are present in the paper he is +circulating, and that we are not accepting the benefits otherwise inuring to +the Holders and Recirculators of his Federal Reserve Notes, by reason of +involuntary use. Everything in this Letter is all inter-related to some extent; +earlier, I discussed the RATIFICATION DOCTRINE, by which Judges hold that +silence on your part, in the context of an assertion being made against you, +constitutes your acceptance of the proposition that you are silent on (and for +good reasons: Because benefits are being accepted by you). This Notice of +Defect reverses that state of silence, and the King is forced to experience a +declension in his coveted status of expecting a perfect non-defense case +against you, based on your terminating the acceptance of the benefits of the +use and recirculation of Federal Reserve Notes. The UCC largely codified all of +this since merchants have it out with each other all the time on this very +question with Negotiable Instruments, and as such the UCC gave every possible +thing and every party nice proprietary names and labels so that attorneys and +judges can all deal with these factual settings with everyone speaking the same +vocabulary. So, if the UCC is technically non-applicable to Federal Reserve +Notes, then we don't really care, as the UCC is no more than codifying Nature, +as Principles operate transparent to changes in factual settings. If we are +Objecting to a thing, like a Note, then the Maker has lost his expectation of +not having any grievances to deal with on that thing (Note); and that is only +common sense. And we cite the UCC as the best codified pronouncement of that +Doctrine, and we encourage our adversaries to find any federal statute +inconsistent with the UCC's pronouncements. [631]

+ +

[631]============================================================= Nowhere in +Federal statutes does there exist specific language to the effect that +INDIVIDUALS using Federal Reserve Notes are PERSONS attached to the +administrative mandates of Title 26. The reason why we concern ourselves with +this state of affairs is largely of a judicial origin, as Federal Judges are +free to take Judicial Notice of such Supreme Court Cases like EMILY DE GANAY +VS. LEDERER, [250 U.S. 376 (1919)], which held that French Citizens and +residents are liable to pay American Income Taxes by reason of their Commercial +activities taking place over here. However, when we probe for the real bottom +line at a deeper level, the real reason liability exists lies in an operation +of contract. In 1925, the Supreme Court declared that there are two different +types of invisible contracts ("implied contracts"). [The Supreme Court did not +CREATE something new here, as they merely declared in writing what had always +been the structure of Nature in this area of contracts.] One type of contract +recognized exists because of the practical factual elements that arise between +two parties, and there is a structure in the factual background where there has +been an exchange of Consideration. Another type are implied contracts that +exist as a matter of express declared Law [see HENRY MERRITT VS. UNITED STATES, +267 U.S. 338, at 341 (1925)]. +"It is important to remain aware of the distinctions between contracts +implied in fact and contracts implied in law. In the former, the Court +determines from the circumstances that the parties have indicated their assent +to the contract. In the latter, however, the law creates an obligation "for +reasons of justice, without any expression of assent and sometimes even against +a clear expression of dissent." +-FREEDMAN VS. BENEFICIAL CORPORATION, 406 F.Supp. 917, at 923 +[Footnote #10] (1975); quoting from 1 CORBIN ON CONTRACTS, Section 18 and 19 +(1963). Since no explicit statutes exist to adhesively bind recirculators of +Federal Reserve Notes to Title 26, this USE OF FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES contract +is a contract arising from the factual elements of a commercial relational +nature existing between the two parties (as Federal benefits were accepted in +the context of some Judicially declared Commercial reciprocity being expected +back in return). Contracts to pay Federal Income Taxes as a matter of +pronounced Law are contracts like Citizenship, where some junior LEX statutes +do exist that explicitly spell out Title 26 liability to such identified +PERSONS in no uncertain terms. +=============================================================[631] + +As you well know, Mr. May, it is a PRINCIPLE OF NATURE that an ounce of +prevention is worth ten tons of labor exerted later on in patching up. And +merely preparing your multiple objections now, in writing, will spare a person +from substantial expenses in depositions and the like later, as the collection +of evidence, is, generally speaking, an expensive and time-consuming process. +With rare exception, all of the Patriot lawsuits I have examined never involved +any form of Depositions or Interrogatories being take on the Defendant (and the +Patriot wonders why he loses). All of that is neatly avoided by a few +preventative steps. +

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+ +

INSURANCE PROGRAMS +[Pages 478-479]

+ +

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+ +

Through entry into the juristic highways of Interstate Commerce by +participation in an insurance policy program, as insurance is Interstate +Commerce, and the King retains a third party beneficiary status in all +Commercial transactions that full under his regulatory Commercial Jurisdiction +penumbra. In 1944, the Supreme Court decided a Case called UNITED STATES VS. +SOUTH-EASTERN UNDERWRITERS ASSOCIATION, [632]

+ +

[632]============================================================= 322 U.S. 533 +(1944). =============================================================[632]

+ +

which held that insurance, all by itself, is Interstate Commerce; so if you +manage to participate in policies of insurance, you are participating in +Interstate Commerce; Federal commercial benefits are being accepted, and the +reciprocal QUID PRO QUO taxation is necessary. The fact that the insurance +company may be state chartered and licensed to do business in only one state, +and that the policy may have been negotiated, accepted, written, and entered +into in only one state are not relevant indicia as effecting limitations on +federal Jurisdictions; PERSONS paying premiums on policies of Insurance are +PERSONS playing in King's Commerce. A year later after UNITED STATES VS. +SOUTH-EASTERN UNDERWRITERS ASSOCIATION was ruled upon, the Congress enacted the +MCCARREN ACT, [633]

+ +

[633]============================================================= 59 Statutes +33; Title 15, Section 1011 to 1015. +=============================================================[633]

+ +

declaring that the:

+ +

"... continued regulation and taxation by the several states of the +business of insurance is in the public interest, and that silence on the part +of Congress shall not be construed to impose any barrier to the regulation or +taxation of such business by the several states."

+ +

Yes, even the Congress of the United States knows that the application of +PRINCIPLES OF NATURE relating to silence that are incorporated into the +RATIFICATION DOCTRINE is even held to be binding on them in some circumstances. +This Congressional pronouncement, that silence in the context of a proposition +being made constitutes acceptance, applies to all appropriate factual settings, +and is held to apply to all PERSONS, even the Congress itself. But as for +taxation expectations, your acceptance of the benefits of an insurance program +is deemed as evidence of entry into Interstate Commerce, and hence such +participants are an object suitable for Federal taxation, regardless of any +political Status, and regardless of the presence or absence of any other +juristic contract.

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+ +

FEDERAL LICENSING PROGRAMS +[Pages 480-481]

+ +

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+ +

By experiencing the direct benefits of Commercial enrichment acquired through a +Federal license program, such as being an SEC registered stockbroker, or an ATF +licensed manufacturer of fireworks, which is an obvious pursuit of federally +participated profit or gain. Several federal monopolies were designed +specifically for the existing participants to experience intensive Commercial +enrichment in, as the net effect of a regulatory jurisdiction is to discourage +potential new market entrants from competing with established corporate titans. +In any market there are only so many potential customers available, and +excluding new upstarts allows existing Grandfathers to have a bigger slice of +the pie they would not otherwise be experiencing. For example, the creation of +National Banks by the Congress, through the Comptroller of the Currency, is one +such monopoly designed to enrich existing market participants, while shutting +out new banks and damaging the end consumer. In any one demographic banking +district, there is only so much business to be had; cutting out new entrants +keeps a bigger slice of the banking pie for the owners. [634]

+ +

[634]============================================================= For example, +in 1967, F.W. Pitts wanted to bring a new National Bank into the Hartsville, +South Carolina area. He submitted an application to the Comptroller of the +Currency for a license certificate, and the request was denied. Reason: +"... we were unable to reach a favorable conclusion as to the need +factor." +-CAMP VS. PITTS, 411 U.S. 138, at 139 (1973). That is correct: The +Comptroller denied the application because the community was already adequately +served by other banks, and there was no "need," seemingly, for the new proposed +national bank. In this way, the existing banks in Hartsville shut out a new +impending competitor. The letter from the Comptroller, in turning down the +License request, listed the banks already in the Hartsville area and the +deposits they carried [CAMP, id., at 139]. The Comptroller seemed to be very +concerned about enhancing the financial enrichment of the existing banks; and +at no time was there any discussion about the improved service the end consumer +would be experiencing, or of the very competitive rates of interest on loans +that new upstarts searching for business charge. But like the tightly regulated +issuance of local Television Station licenses by the FCC, the Comptroller of +the Currency is on a mission: To make sure that the owners of existing banks +are very well fed, and so throwing Torts at the public is nothing they are +going to concern themselves with. For a summary of the laws creating obstacles +for new prospective banks to go into business, see the Editor's Notes called +BANK CHARTERS, BRANCHING, HOLDING COMPANY AND MERGER LAWS: COMPETITION +FRUSTRATED in 71 Yale Law Journal 592 (1962). +=============================================================[634]

+ +

The secondary consequences of restraining the number of new market entrants +politically are elevated prices the end consumer winds up paying, constricted +services and retarded technological innovations. [635]

+ +

[635]============================================================= The +telephone companies have exclusive geographical districts assigned to them with +no competitors -- a pure monopoly; and if the FCC had not intervened to allow +third party telephones and other equipment to be connected to local telephone +company lines, you would never have been able to have automatic redialing on +your phones -- such nice little effort savers are the result of competition, +and not your local phone company, who could care less. Computers have been used +extensively for telephone switching since the middle 1960's, and the continuing +refusal of the phone company to assign a few byte locations in their computer's +memory to remember your last dialed number, occurred for just one reason: They +have a monopoly, they have their enrichment pipeline set up, and they don't +care about you at all [a relative statement that will be viewed as being +excessively harsh by those who never bothered to give any thought to +evaluating, comparatively, the service attitude manifested by businessmen in a +competitive operating atmosphere, with those businessmen who don't need to +concern themselves with competitive pressures.] Yes, MINIMALISM rules in all +uncompetitive environments, Commercial and otherwise. + +

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+ +

THE RESIDENCY CONTRACT +[Pages 553-565]

+ +

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+ +

Another invisible contract that is difficult to see is the Residency Contract. +By being "resident" within a particular Kingdom for a certain length of time, +it is presumed that you have accepted those juristic benefits which that +regional Prince of your's is offering you. [732]

+ +

[732]============================================================= "All these +appellants, indeed, shared during the taxable year the benefits of the +expenditures by the State for the various activities of its Government. As the +trial judge pointed out, the public schools were available to their children; +they had the benefit of police protection for themselves, their families and +their property; they could use the public roads daily; the courts were open for +resort by them if necessary; and so with every other benefit and privilege +provided by the State or its agencies, such, for instance, as water supply and +sewerage. They entered upon the enjoyment of these benefits, and should be +liable to a share in the taxation levied to maintain them, in the absence of +any distinguishing factor in their situation." +WOOD VS. TAWES, 28 Atlantic 2nd 850, at 854 (1942). Since we know that +the acceptance of benefits locks folks into contracts, we also know how to get +out of unwanted contracts; our distinguishing factor in our situation is going +to be, of course, a NOTICE OF REJECTION OF BENEFITS filed appropriately and +timely. Until benefits have been rejected, invisible contracts are in effect +and we are not entitled to prevail under any circumstances. Here, in WOOD VS. +TAWES, Residency Protestors tried unsuccessfully to weasel out of state income +taxes. This WOOD VS. TAWES case was heard before by the Maryland Court of +Appeals -- but its reasoning and justification is very similar to other state +judges in all 50 states. Of those benefits that are listed above, you should +know that acceptance of the twin state POLICE PROTECTION BENEFIT and +AVAILABILITY OF THE STATE COURTS BENEFIT are universally viewed by judges in +all English Common Law Countries world wide as being sufficient, all by +themselves, to lock folks into RESIDENCY CONTRACTS, as silence by inhabitants +is deemed acceptance of those particular juristic benefits. In a nice way, this +Maryland Court is trying to say: You accepted those juristic benefits -- so pay +the tax and stop trying to be cheap. Yes, protestors are irritating to judges; +so let's reverse the factual setting presented for a grievance settlement, and +let's first work our adversaries into an immoral position by vacating the +transfer of juristic benefits to us. Now, when the state tax commission asks +for money, now that there is no QUID PRO QUO equivalence on the record, now as +a moral question, we are entitled to prevail. However, if we have kids going to +public schools then we will not be able to get rid of all benefits offered by +the state, and our NOTICE OF REJECTION OF BENEFITS means nothing since it is +incomplete -- and we should not protest state income taxes while accepting +benefits, because we are not entitled to prevail. +=============================================================[732]

+ +

If the benefits are legitimate, then the reciprocity your regional Prince +expects back from you in the form of a state income tax, is very reasonable, +and the Supreme Court has so ruled:

+ +

"(States) can tax the privilege of residence in the State and measure +the privilege by net income, including that derived from interstate commerce." +[733]

+ +

[733]============================================================= FREEMAN VS. +HEWIT, 329 U.S. 249, at 255 (1946). +=============================================================[733]

+ +

The entire area of State Income Taxes lies generally outside of Federal +intervention, except to the narrow extent to which several slices of +restrainments resident in the United States Constitution hem in your regional +Prince; [734]

+ +

[734]============================================================= "A state is +free to pursue its own fiscal policies, unembarrassed by the Constitution, if +by the practical operation of its power in relation to opportunities which it +has given, to protection which it has afforded, to benefits which it has +conferred by the fact of being an orderly, civilized society." +-WISCONSIN VS. J.C. PENNEY, 311 U.S. 435, at 444 (1940). +=============================================================[734]

+ +

even more so, Tax Protestors arguing philosophically doctrinaire and other +economic questions on State Taxation schemes are frequently rebuffed by Federal +Judges who defer the question back to the States. [735]

+ +

[735]============================================================= "... the +economic wisdom of state net income taxes is one of state policy not for our +decision..." +-PORTLAND CEMENT VS. MINNESOTA, 359 U.S. 450, at 461 (1959). +=============================================================[735]

+ +

The basic power of taxation is an attribute of Sovereignty, and is inherent in +every Government unless explicitly denied or limited by its Constitution; [736]

+ +

[736]============================================================= "Before we +proceed to examine [the Case's] argument, and subject it to the test of the +Constitution, we must be permitted to bestow a few considerations on the nature +and extent of this original right of taxation, which is acknowledged to remain +with the states. It is admitted that the power of taxing the people and their +property is essential to the very existence of Government, and may be +legitimately exercised on the objects to which it is applicable, to the utmost +extent to which the Government may choose to carry it. The only security +against the abuse of this power is found in the structure of Government itself. +In imposing a tax the legislature acts upon its constituents. This is in +general a sufficient security against erroneous and oppressive taxation." +-M'CULLOCH VS. MARYLAND, 17 U.S. 316, at 428 (1819). +=============================================================[736]

+ +

(however, I am referring only to the expectations of reciprocity inherent as +Sovereignty in the several States, and not the United States Government, which +is a very unique jurisprudential structure of the world's political +jurisdictions.) Properly rephrased, what that means is that the jurisdiction +of Government (remember during this Residency Contract discussion, I am only +talking about the several States) to first throw benefits at folks, and then in +turn demand and get reciprocal taxation compensation back in return for having +done so, is simply unlimited -- unless the Juristic Institution in its +constitutional structure has been explicitly restrained (limited) from asking +for reciprocity back in return. And when dealing with a State taxation scheme, +we need to focus in on the State's statutes and its Constitution, rather than +the United States Constitution, because as a general rule the States are free +to throw benefits at folks, and then demand and get reciprocity back in return +-- generally unhampered, unencumbered, and unrestrained by the Federal +Constitution. [737]

+ +

[737]============================================================= "On the +other hand, the Constitution, by words, places no limitation upon a state's +power to tax the things or activities or persons within its boundaries. What +limitations there are spring from applications to state tax situations of +general clauses of the Constitution." +-JOSEPH VS. CARTER & WEEKS, 330 U.S. 442, at 426 (1946). +=============================================================[737]

+ +

So the place to disable a State's expectations of reciprocity has its seminal +point of origin in the Juristic Institution's own Charter -- and an examination +of your regional Prince's Charter will reveal that not very much reciprocity +restrainment exists there, if any. [738]

+ +

[738]============================================================= "The power +of taxation rests upon necessity and is inherent in every independent State. It +is as extensive as the range of subjects over which the Government extends; it +is absolute and unlimited, in the absence of constitutional limitations and +restraints, and carries with it the power to embarrass and destroy." +-TANNER VS. LITTLE, 240 U.S. 380, at 380 (1915). +=============================================================[738]

+ +

As this background legal setting applies to us, Residents are objects accepting +juristic benefits, and so now Residents are PERSONS over which the State has +reciprocal expectations of taxation jurisdiction, largely unhampered by the +Federal Constitution, because you are a benefit acceptant object lying within +the contours of its geographical perimeters. [739]

+ +

[739]============================================================= "... the +power of taxation is not confined to the people and property of a state. If may +be exercised upon every object brought within its jurisdiction. This is true. +But to what source do we trace the right? It is obvious, that it is an incident +of Sovereignty." +-Joseph Story, in III COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION, at 490 +(Cambridge, 1833). +=============================================================[739]

+ +

So the State has some jurisdiction over you simply because you are an object in +that kingdom, however, whether or not that level of jurisdiction ascends to the +reciprocal level of taxation jurisdiction when no benefits are being +transferred down to you, is another question. [740]

+ +

[740]============================================================= "The +obligation of one domiciled with a state to pay taxes there, arise from +unilateral action of the state Government in the exercise of its most plenary +of sovereign powers, that to raise revenue to defray the expenses of Government +and to distribute its burdens equably among those who enjoy its benefits. +Hence, domicile in itself establishes a basis for taxation." +-LAWRENCE VS. STATE TAX COMMISSION, 286 U.S. 276, at 279 (1931). +=============================================================[740]

+ +

Now we ask ourselves the usual question: Just what benefits are being thrown at +us this time, in order to justify one more juristic layer of taxation? [741]

+ +

[741]============================================================= "Decisions +of this Court, particularly during recent decades, have sustained +nondiscriminatory, properly apportioned state... taxes... when the tax is +related to... local [in-State] activities and the State has provided benefits +and protections for those activities for which it is justified in asking a fair +and reasonable return." +-COMPLETE AUTO BODY VS. BRADY, 430 U.S. 274, at 287 (1976). "The +application of the rule will vary with the quality and nature of the +defendant's activity, but it is essential in each case that there be some act +by which the defendant purposefully avails itself of the privilege of +conducting [commercial] activities within this forum state, thus invoking the +benefits and protections of its laws." +-HANSON VS. DENCKLA, 357 U.S. 235, at 253 (1957). "But to the extent +that a [person] exercises the privilege of conducting activities within a +state, it enjoys the benefits and protections of the laws of that state. The +exercise of that privilege may give rise to obligations..." +-INTERNATIONAL SHOE VS. WASHINGTON, 326 U.S. 310, at 319 (1945). +=============================================================[741]

+ +

As a point of beginning, Residents accept the benefits offered by State +Constitutions. [742]

+ +

[742]============================================================= "A Sovereign +may impose upon everyone domiciled within his territory a personal tax, which +is 'the burden imposed by Governments upon its own Citizens for the benefits +what that Government affords by its protection and its laws.' Any domiciled +person is subject to this tax, though he be an alien or a corporation." +-Joseph Beale in JURISDICTION TO TAX, 32 Harvard Law Review 587, at +589 (1919). =============================================================[742]

+ +

The fact that a state conducts certain programs for its Residents does not mean +that these benefits are available to all who live within its borders. [743]

+ +

[743]============================================================= The right to +use certain state benefits often depends upon whether the Resident can meet +certain qualifications. See generally, RESIDENCE REQUIREMENTS AFTER SHAPIRO VS. +THOMPSON, 70 Columbia Law Review 134 (1970). +=============================================================[743]

+ +

Here in New York State, we open up the State Constitution no farther that the +first line in Article 1, Section 1, and we find the recital of benefits the +United States Supreme Court was referring to:

+ +

"No member of this state shall be disenfranchised, or deprived of any +of these rights or privileges secured to any Citizen thereof, unless by the law +of the land, or the judgment of his peers..." +-NEW YORK STATE CONSTITUTION, Article I, Section 1 ["Rights, +privileges, and franchise secured"] (1938).

+ +

Generally speaking, State Residents are State Citizens; and Citizens, as +members of the State body politic, possess election rights of suffrage. [744]

+ +

[744]============================================================= "Every +Citizen shall be entitled to vote at every election for all officers elected by +the people..." +-NEW YORK STATE CONSTITUTION, Article II, Section 1. +=============================================================[744]

+ +

Another benefit inuring to State Residents is the protectorate operation of the +State Police Powers. [745]

+ +

[745]============================================================= "The power +of taxation, indispensable to the existence of every civilized Government, is +exercised upon the assumption of an equivalent rendered to the Taxpayer in the +protection of his person and property, in adding to the value of such property, +or in the creation and maintenance of public conveniences in which he shares -- +such, for instance, as roads, bridges, sidewalks, pavements, and schools for +the education of his children. If the taxing power be in no position to render +these services, or otherwise benefit the person or property taxed, and such +property be wholly within the taxing power of another state, to which it may be +said to owe an allegiance, and to which it looks for protection, the taxation +of such property within the domicile of the owner partakes rather of the nature +of an extortion than a tax, and has been repeatedly held by this Court to be +beyond the power of the Legislature, and a taking of property without due +process of law." +-UNION REFRIGERATOR VS. KENTUCKY, 199 U.S. 195, at 202 (1905). +=============================================================[745]

+ +

By the use if this power, a wide ranging array of benefits can be thrown at +folks in justification for the enforcement of the reciprocal demands of +taxation. [746]

+ +

[746]============================================================= One +manifestation of the operation of the Police Powers, so called, is the creation +of regulatory jurisdictions designed to restrain color and race discrimination: +"... the police powers of a State under our Constitutional system is +adequate for the protection of the civil rights of its Citizens against +discrimination by reason of race or color." +-Justice Douglas in BOB-LO EXCURSION COMPANY VS. MICHIGAN, 333 U.S. +28, at 41 (1947). By multiplying little slices of invisible benefits here and +there, States create a large array of benefits that are impressive to Federal +Judges -- and even the 14th Amendment surfaces as an expression of Law in State +Residency Contract proceedings: +"Since the 14th Amendment makes one a Citizen of the state where ever +he resides, the fact of residence creates universally recognized reciprocal +duties of protection by the state and of allegiance and support by the Citizen. +The latter obviously includes a duty to pay taxes, and their nature and measure +is largely a political matter." +-MILLER BROTHERS VS. MARYLAND, 347 U.S. 340, at 345 (1954). +=============================================================[746]

+ +

But in addressing the Residency Question itself, which is a sister to +Citizenship, two Cases come to my mind:

+ +

-In COOK VS. TAIT, [747]

+ +

[747]============================================================= 265 U.S. 47 +(1924). =============================================================[747]

+ +

which is primarily a Citizenship Contract Case, the Supreme Court ruled that +income received by a Citizen of the United States while resident in Mexico is +taxable due to benefits received while outside of the United States (the old +acceptance of benefits story: When benefits offered conditionally have been +accepted, there lies a contract and it becomes immoral not to require a +mandatory exchange of reciprocity). The Court then listed those benefits that +American Citizens carried with them no matter what their geographical situs +was. [748]

+ +

[748]============================================================= And just +like the King can tax his Citizens when they have asset streams out of the +country, States can tax their Residents on asset streams the Residents own +outside the perimeters of the State. +"A state may tax its residents upon net income from a business whose +physical assets, located wholly without the state, are beyond its taxing +power... That the receipt of income by a resident of the territory of a taxing +sovereignty is a taxable event is universally recognized. Domicile itself +affords a basis for such taxation. Enjoyment of the privileges of residence +[accepting residency benefits] and the attendant right to invoke the protection +of its laws [the police protectorate benefits, contract enforcement benefits, +and others], form responsibility for sharing the costs of Government. 'Taxes +are what we pay for civilized society...' See COMPANIA GENERAL DE TABACOS DE +FILIPINAS VS. COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE [275 U.S. 87]. A tax measured by +net income of residents is an equitable method of distributing the burdens of +Government among those who are privileged to enjoy its benefits." +-NEW YORK EX REL COHN VS. GRAVES, 300 U.S. 308, at 313 (1936) +[Statements were quoted out of order.]. +=============================================================[748]

+ +

-In SHAFFER VS. CARTER, [749]

+ +

[749]============================================================= 252 U.S. 37 +(1920) =============================================================[749]

+ +

a Resident of Illinois was experiencing income from property he owned in +Oklahoma. It was held that Oklahoma can tax non-Residents on their property +located within the Oklahoma boundary situs, and the reason is that protective +benefits were accepted by that Oklahoma property and so the state is entitled +to a part of the financial gain that property realized (which is also a correct +statement of Nature, although the Supreme Court did not use those words.) +[750]

+ +

[750]============================================================= "The +[income] tax, which is apportioned to the ability of the taxpayer to pay it, is +founded upon the protection afforded by the state to the recipient of the +income in his person, in his right to receive the income and in his enjoyment +of it when received. These are the rights and privileges which attach to +domicil within this state." +-NEW YORK EX REL COHN VS. GRAVES, 300 U.S. 308, at 313 (1936). +=============================================================[750]

+ +

The taxation key in both of those Cases was the acceptance of benefits. [751]

+ +

[751]============================================================= When arguing +state taxation jurisdiction Cases before judges, one of the permissible +arguments to make is a subjective value cost/benefit question. In listing some +of the arguments that could have been made by a Tax Protestor, but were not, +the Supreme Court said that: +"We note again that no claim is made that the activity is not +sufficiently connected to the State to justify a tax, or that the tax is not +fairly related to benefits provided the taxpayer..." +-COMPLETE AUTO BOY VS. BRADY, 430 U.S. 274, at 287 (1976). +Incidentally, as a point of reference, the Constitution's INTERSTATE COMMERCE +CLAUSE disables certain State Income Taxing schemes from taking effect, under +some limited conditions. See UNITED STATES GLUE COMPANY VS. OAK CREEK, 247 U.S. +321 (1917), which discusses several such factual settings where challenged +State Income Taxing schemes were either affirmed or annulled on questions that +turned on the COMMERCE CLAUSE. +=============================================================[751]

+ +

Viewed from a Judge's perspective, what this means is that it is permissible +for a political jurisdiction to throw some benefits at you, and then demand, +and get, some QUID PRO QUO financial compensation in return for having done so. +In this respect, due to Sovereignty, Governments differ from Individuals in the +respect that Individuals have to document with evidence the voluntary +acceptance of a benefit [of which silence, but the RATIFICATION DOCTRINE, can +be reasonably inferred in some circumstances] from someone else before bringing +that other person to his knees in a Courtroom; Government, however, simply +throws benefits at everyone at large, and the acceptance of the benefit by +silence is automatically assumed absent explicit, blunt, and timely benefit +rejection and disavowal by you. The several States as independent Sovereignties +also possess this inherent power, except as limited by the United States +Constitution. [752]

+ +

[752]============================================================= "We have had +frequent occasion to consider questions of state taxation in the light of the +Federal Constitution, and the scope and limits of national interference are +well settled. There is no general supervision on the part of the nation over +state taxation, and, in respect to the latter, the state has, speaking +generally, the freedom of a sovereign, both as to objects and methods." +-MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD VS. POWERS, 201 U.S. 245, AT 292 (1905). +=============================================================[752]

+ +

And so as it applies to occupancy, Residency Status is very much a privilege in +the sense that contracts are in effect; by your silence, after talking +occupancy in some Prince's kingdom, you attached a reasonable expectation of +using the Prince's police protectorate powers, among taking advantage of other +juristic benefits; and so now state statutes that define a reciprocal taxation +liability being expected back in return after you have lived in that kingdom +for some 60 to 90 days, or whatever, and then continues liability attachment +unless you have been out of his kingdom for more than six months in any one +year, etc. are all morally correct and provident. [753]

+ +

[753]============================================================= "... the +'controlling question is whether the state has given anything for which it can +ask return.' Since by 'the practical operation of [the] tax the state has +exerted its power in relation to opportunities which it has given, to +protection which it has afforded, to benefits which it has conferred...' it 'is +free to pursue its own fiscal policies, unembarrassed by the Constitution...'" +-PORTLAND CEMENT VS. MINNESOTA, 358 U.S. 450, at 465 (1959). +=============================================================[753]

+ +

By your silence, benefits offered conditionally by your regional Prince were +accepted by you through your refusal to disavow them, so invisible contracts +where then and there created by your acts (your act of refusing to reject and +disavow the juristic benefit). [754]

+ +

[754]============================================================= "And we deem +it clear, upon principles as well as authority, that... a State may impose +general income taxes upon its own Citizens and residents whose persons are +subject to its control..." +-SHAFFER VS. CARTER, 252 U.S. 37, at 52 (1919). +=============================================================[754]

+ +

Therefore, State Income Tax Protestors, who merely make the declaration, while +in the midst of some type of state income tax enforcement proceeding, that they +"are not residents" or are not "state citizens" are wasting their time. [755]

+ +

[755]============================================================= Whether or +not RESIDENTS of a state are automatically classifiable as STATE CITIZENS +varies based on several factors; sometimes these two words mean the same thing, +and sometimes they do not. Although a light reading of the 14th Amendment would +lead folks to believe that residents are Citizens of the state wherein they +reside, there is a distinction in effect between "resident" and "Citizen": +"Of course the terms 'resident' and 'citizen' are not synonymous, and +in some cases the distinction is important [like in] (LA TOURETTE VS MCMASTER, +248 U.S. 465, at 470 (1918))." +-TRAVIS VS. YALE & TOWNE, 252 U.S. 60, at 78 (1919). For purposes of +analyzing a taxation scheme under the PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES CLAUSE of the +14th Amendment, the terms RESIDENT and CITIZEN are essentially interchangeable; +see AUSTIN VS. NEW HAMPSHIRE, 420 U.S. 656, footnote 8 (1974). However unequal +the Government benefit distribution skew is between these two classifications, +important for the moment, for taxation purposes RESIDENTS are equally taxable +objects like CITIZENS. +=============================================================[755]

+ +

The fact that you may have recorded that declaration in a public place, and may +have also made the declaration timely, are not relevant factual elements that +inure to your advantage, since the substance of your arguments is meaningless. +Your Residency Contract is not unilaterally terminated by your mere declaration +that you are not a Resident; contractual termination has to occur for a good +substantive reason. One such reason would be Failure of Consideration (meaning, +that you explicitly and timely rejected all state and municipal benefits). Now +that there has been a failure of benefit transference, now you have a +substantive attack to make on the assertion of a Residency Contract on you. +Your objective is to terminate the contract. [756]

+ +

[756]============================================================= There is a +distinction between the termination of a contract, and the repudiation of +contract. REPUDIATION is to reject, disclaim, or renounce a duty or obligation +that is owed to another party -- since the retention of the benefits derived +from the operation of the contract continues the life of the contract in +effect. To repudiate a contract is to merely give advance notice to the other +party that you intend to breach the contract for some reason [see UCC 2-708 +"SELLER'S DAMAGES FOR NON-ACCEPTANCE OR REPUDIATION" and 2-711 "BUYER'S +REMEDIES IN GENERAL," see also Samuel Williston in REPUDIATION OF CONTRACTS, 14 +Harvard Law Review 421 (1900).] In contrast to that, to TERMINATE a contract +is to end and cease the existence of the contract altogether [see UCC 2-106 +"DEFINITIONS: 'CONTRACT",... 'TERMINATION'"]. Under TERMINATION, all rights, +duties, and obligations arising between the parties cease altogether, and there +are no lingering reciprocal expectations retained by either party. +=============================================================[756]

+ +

If you want to win your State Income Tax Cases, then do not throw arguments +sounding in the Tort of unfairness at the Judge; do not pretend that the +invisible contract does not exist, and do not argue that it is unfair to hold +such a contract against you since either nothing "was signed" or that the +Protestor baby talk of "minimum contacts" or "nexus" required by the Supreme +Court in their line of State Jurisdiction Cases was not met (as your physical +household inhabitancy in that kingdom overrules those types of questions +designed to address factual settings where Geography Jurisdiction itself is a +disputed element). [757]

+ +

[757]============================================================= And +geography was very much disputed in 1959 when, as Governor, Nelson Rockefeller +gave his taxing grab one more turn of the screws to Parties of the New York +State Personal Income Tax -- as this time, Residents of New Jersey, who work in +New York City and pay New York Income Taxes as the reciprocity for the use of +the Commerce Jurisdiction of New York State, decided to take matters into their +own hands. They persuaded U.S. Senator Clifford Case of New Jersey to introduce +a proposed Constitutional amendment into the Congress in March of 1959 which +would have prohibited the several States from taxing the income of +non-Residents. Although Nelson Rockefeller's tax increase was the catalytic +trigger for initiating this amendment, however, as is usually the case the +truth itself is obscure and difficult to find, because during Hearings held in +Congress, emphasis was shifted over to paint a larger regional picture of an +"unfairness" taxation problem by pointing to the double taxation of New Jersey +Residents both by New York and also by Pennsylvania for those who commuted into +Philadelphia. During Senate Hearings, the question arose as to how to protect +the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New York from the prospective +loss of revenue -- revenue that was generated from such non-Residents [certain +people seemed very concerned that Nelson Rockefeller not be deprived of so much +as one thin dime of tax money to spend]. Would there be any reciprocating QUID +PRO QUO that New Jersey would yield in exchange for financial benefits lost to +New York State? +"The reciprocal exemption of New York residents from a New Jersey +income tax on nonresidents working in New Jersey might well constitute +sufficient QUID PRO QUO." +-Senator Clifford Case in HEARINGS BEFORE... THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE +OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE, page 17 ["Constitutional Amendment: Taxation By +States of Nonresidents"], 86th Congress, First Session, April, 1959; acting on +Senate Joint Resolutions 29 and 67 [GPO, Washington (1959)]. As we turn around +from a juristic situs on political arguments made in Congress, over to the +unbridled snortations disseminating outward from a Federal Judge's Courtroom, +nothing changes either, as the same PRINCIPLE OF NATURE that Judges hold errant +Tax Protestors to [that your expected QUID PRO QUO reciprocity is mandatory +when juristic benefits were accepted by you], also applies to nullify +prospective opposition to political arguments. By Senator Case's identification +in advance of the QUID PRO QUO that New York State would be gaining if this +amendment gets Ratified, the impending opposition of this amendment by New York +State is placed into a known expected manageable mode -- a strategic model for +handling grievances that Tax and Draft Protestors would be wise to consider +adapting into their MODUS OPERANDI of errant defiance. Through this Letter, I +have identified certain key benefits that Federal Judges have their eyes +fixated on when signing a Commitment Order to a Federal Penitentiary on Tax and +Draft Protesting Cases. Your failure to nullify, in advance, the Principle of +BENEFITS ACCEPTED/RECIPROCITY NOW DEMANDED in the arguments of your impending +adversaries, will prove to be self-detrimental, as this PRINCIPLE OF NATURE can +and will make an appearance in any setting. And if you do win on some off-point +technical grounds, your apparent victory will be carrying over with a lingering +illicit savor. Secondary consequences will also be created in the wake of +having deflected attention off to the side while the true reason for winning +that particular battle remains obscured, and also by having been deprived of +the important intellectual benefits associated with battles that are fought and +won/lost on their merits. Failure to identify the true cause of a battle loss +or win is to render the efforts expended on behalf of your battle largely +naught, and leaves a person's judgment no better off coming out of the battle +than they were when first going into it. +=============================================================[757]

+ +

You must address the Contract question head on, that by the act of your silence +a Residency Contract was entered into, and you must come to grips with that +fact. [758]

+ +

[758]============================================================= The power to +tax, the power to throw benefits at folks and then demand, and get, financial +reciprocity: +"... is an incident of sovereignty, and is co-existensive with that to +which it is an incident. All subjects over which the sovereign power of a State +extends, are objects of taxation; but those over which it does not extend, are, +upon the soundest of principles, exempt from taxation." +-M'CULLOCH VS. MARYLAND, 17 U.S. 316, at 429 (1819). +=============================================================[758]

+ +

The local state tax collector did not receive any Notice of your Rejection of +Benefits, so his assertion of a reciprocal tax against you is provident, up to +a limited point. And so winning, on point, will be predicated upon your +correctly addressing the existence of the contract in arguments for what it +really is, and then attacking the content substantively on the hard mandatory +requirement of benefit enjoyment [which does not exist in your Case due to +Failure of Consideration], a defense line that causes contracts so deficient in +Consideration to fall apart and collapse under attack in adversary judicial +proceedings. When trying to get out of contract where one of the parties is a +Juristic Institution, a few low-level Trial Judges will find your position to +be novel and philosophically uncomfortable, and so you should brace yourself +for some snortations descending down to the floor of the Courtroom from the +Bench. I did not realize this at first, but some Judges are actually jealous of +people turning around so smoothly walking away from a juristic taxation +contract; the Judge went to Law School, and then possibly went to work for a +law firm, and then they were called to be a Judge; in their minds they look +back and see all that money they threw out the window to Government year after +year only to wind up in the pockets of some Special Interest Group, and here +you are, actually GETTING AWAY WITH what they did not know how to do +themselves, and what is nowhere documented in statutes.

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THE INFORMATION MONOPOLY

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The rapidly increasing concentration of media ownership in +the U.S. raises critical questions about whether the public has +access to diverse opinion. And not surprisingly, the impact of +this information monopoly continues to be ignored by the mass +media. +In 1982, when media expert Ben Bagdikian completed research +for his book THE MEDIA MONOPOLY, he found that 50 corporations +controlled half or more of the media business. By December 1986, +when he finished a revision for a second edition, that figure had +shrunk to 29 corporations. Six months later, when he wrote an +article for the media publication EXTRA, the number was down to +26. Some Wall Street media analysts predict that by the 1990s six +giant firms will control most of our media. +Bagdikian notes that of the 1700 daily papers, 98 percent +are local monopolies and few than 15 corporations control most of +the country's circulation. A handful of firms control most of the +magazine business, with Time, Inc. alone accounting for about 40 +percent of that industry's revenues. The three broadcasting +networks -- Capital Cities/ABC, CBS, and NBC -- still have +majority access to the television audience, and most of the book +business is controlled by fewer than a dozen companies, with major +categories like paperback and trade books dominated by still fewer +firms. +The situation is exacerbated by the conflict of interest +caused by interlocking boards of directors. An earlier study, by +Peter Dreier and Steven Weinberg, found this phenomenon in major +newspaper chains like Gannett, which shared directors with Merrill +Lynch, Standard Oil of Ohio, 20th Century Fox, Kerr-McGee, +McDonnell Douglas, McGraw-Hill, Eastern Airlines, Phillips +Petroleum, Kellogg Company, and New York Telephone. +The most influential newspaper in America, THE NEW YORK +TIMES, shared directors with Merck, Morgan Guaranty Trust, +Bristol-Myers, Charter Oil, Johns-Manville, American Express, +Bethlehem Steel, IBM, Scott Paper, Sun Oil, and First Boston +Corporation. +Bagdikian's warning is ominous: "A shrinking number of large +media corporations now regard monopoly and historic levels of +profit as not only normal, but as their earned right. In the +process, the usual democratic expectations for the media -- +diversity of ownership and ideas -- have disappeared."

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Sources: EXTRA!, June 1987, "The 26 corporations that own our +media," and MULTINATIONAL MONITOR, September 1987, "The Media +Brokers," both by Ben Bagdikian; UTNE READER, Jan./Feb. 1988, +"Censorship in publishing," by Lynette Lamb.

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From: UTNE READER, September/October 1988, pp. 84-85. +

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TMP Technical Information

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Jay Shaffstall

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Copyright (c) 1990

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Jason Roe looked around the lab at the Tempus Fugit design team. He'd +asked them together for a brief pep talk before the weekend. Next week +they'd be involved in some of the most important work of the century; he +figured they needed a reminder of just how much they'd already +accomplished.

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"Thank you all for sticking around a little longer today. Most of you +have been on the project from the beginning, but those of you that haven't +may not fully appreciate the amount of effort that has gone into the Time +Belt." He gestured toward the locked cabinet where the only two prototypes +of the time belt were kept. He suddenly wished he had a glass of water +handy.

+ +

"Temporal theory itself was largely created in this lab, and made +possible the temporal beacon that proved time travel possible. To create +the belt itself, advances far beyond the limits of current science had to be +made. The power source had to be independent and rechargable. There are no +outlets in the Roman Empire." He paused, but they looked at him as if this +were obvious. He'd have to upgrade the quality of the jokes for this +audience.

+ +

"Unification theory was pushed to new limits simply to provide a power +source for this device. Now, the belt will be able to recharge itself using +the gravitic potential in any time period." Roe hoped that the scientists +understood what that meant.

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"The power involved in time travel is enormous, and required extensive +advances in room temperature superconductors. You can now wear a miniature +supernova around your waist and not feel any heat." Roe had always wondered +about the term miniature supernova. Didn't the star have to be a certain +mass, or something?

+ +

"Computer technology had to be improved to handle the space time +coordinate system, also created by this group. The relative motion of the +stars and galaxies had to be boiled down to simple equations for use by the +belt." Roe had seen these 'simple' equations once. By comparison, _War and +Peace_ was a short sketch.

+ +

"In short, while we are merely beginning our work on time travel and its +effects, this team has done more to advance human science in the past three +years, than everyone in the past decade put together. Once this information +is declassified, the world will become a paradise indeed. You can all be +proud of yourselves."

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Equipment:

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Temporal Beacon. This was the first working temporal device created. +The original pair of beacons were created before many of the later +advances, and thus are rather bulky. Each is about four feet on a +side, and must be hooked directly to a dedicated main power line to +function. Given that, however, they can send a radio signal to any +point in time in a decade radius. The main limitation on range here is +the lack of adequate power. Note--the beacon apparently does not work +*every* time. A low percentage of signals beamed into the future have +not been subsequently received. There is a minimum range of half a +second.

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Temporal Transporter. So named because of an appearance similar to the +transporter in Star Trek, but on a miniature scale. This device is also +about four feet square, but most of it is a chamber to hold the object +to be transmitted through time. This is also hooked to a dedicated +power line, and has a maximum range of approximately twenty five years. +It has a minimum range of three hours. There appears to be some sort of +a parabolic curve to the energy requirements, rising to near infinity +the closer you attempt to get to the time that you're transmitting from. +Optimum range, where energy consumption is the lowest, is one year. +Beyond that, energy consumption rises once again.

+ +

Time Belt. While it has a bit too much electronics on it to be +fashionable, the time belt was designed to be conealable underneath an +overcoat. The belt has an onboard computer that would put IBM to +shame, dedicated to the incredible number crunching neccessary for +computing space time coordinates. The belt can also proved external +power by way of a four foot superconducting cable. There is a means to +save one set of coordinates to use as a home base. These coordinate are +fixed, updated only when you are spending time in that time period. +The hope is that this will allow a time traveller to make it back to his +own time and place if a change in the past causes a new timeline to +split from the original. The home setting may allow them to jump the +timelines and get to where they belong. All theory, of course, but it +may even work. The bels also has a chronometer indicating the current +time and space coordinates. Unfortunately, it requires knowledge of +temporal theory to interpet the coordinates. Ranges have been estimated +as a minimum of one day, and a maximum of two centuries. Optimum is +probably right around one decade.

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Period equipment. While no actual travel into the past has taken +place, the project has laid in a supply of period clothing covering the +major fashions for the past two centuries. Also available are period +weapons and money. Any of this equipment must be checked out with the +security guard. +

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Press CR !

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +The Wrong Number BBS * ParaNetsm Pi * (201) 451-3063 24 hrs. 14.4 HST +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +FILE NAME: INS-RICH.TXT + + + +SOFTWARE TO DIE FOR + +Inslaw Lawyer Elliot Richardson Talks About Murder and the CIA + +by + +James Ridgeway + +[from "MOVING TARGET" in the September 24, 1991 +issue of the "Village Voice:"] + + +WASHINGTON--"It is far worse than Watergate," says Elliot +Richardson, the former attorney general who stood up to President +Richard Nixon during that Republican scandal. "For Christ's sake, +this October Surprise business we are talking about is [built from] +truly horrible things ... I don't know whether it's true or not. +[But] there are a number of elements in the situation that are hard +to account for." +Convinced that freelance journalist Danny Casolaro, who claimed +to have uncovered a sprawling conspiracy linking the October +Surprise and the Iran-contra scandal to a contract dispute between +the Justice Department and a software company named Inslaw, was +murdered in a West Virginia hotel last month, Richardson has asked +the Justice Department to open a federal investigation into his +death. But even though Richardson, who is Inslaw's attorney, has +made both informal and direct personal pleas to acting attorney +general William P. Barr for a full investigation, he has so far +received no reply. +And that's not the first time that Richardson has been ignored by +the Justice Department. Richardson wrote former attorney general +Dick Thornberg in 1989 seeking an independent counsel in the Inslaw +case; Thornberg never replied. +"I have never understood why ... I mean, I was attorney +general when Thornberg was a U.S. attorney. I appointed him +chairman of a committee of U.S. attorneys, newly formed for the +first time. I am a responsible former public official. I am not a +wild-eyed nut." +So why didn't Thornberg respond to Richardson's letter? +"You tell me. I would have responded to a responsible lawyer +whether I ever met him or not." When asked if he thought the lack +of a reply was insulting, Richardson said, "Certainly. Let's say +it's not easily explained, OK? +"The key thing about the death of Casolaro," Richardson +continues, is that "although others were seeking to delineate . . . +the 'octopus' [Casolaro's term for the wide-ranging conspiracy], he was the only one who told people who have no reason to misrepresent +what he said that he had hard evidence, and was on the point of +getting conclusive evidence. No one else made that claim. ... He +told four people, one at a time. The idea that he committed suicide +with a razor blade under these circumstances seems highly +implausible." +The investigation of Casolaro's death is still in the hands of +the West Virginia authorities, who ruled it a likely suicide August +14. But it is already apparent that there is more than meets the +eye to both the freelancer's "suicide" and the Inslaw case--and that +sealing a 10-year-old cover-up isn't necessarily the only +conceivable motive. +"This is a case in which any one of a number of potential +defendants would have every reason to commit murder," says +Richardson, "and in which the litigants have every reason to fear +for their lives." + +THE ORIGINS of the dispute over Inslaw, at least, are clearly +understood. A former analyst with the National Security Agency and +onetime contract employee of the CIA (where he prepared analyses of +the foreign press), Bill Hamilton founded Inslaw in the early 1970s +with his wife, Nancy. Inslaw was initially begun with grants from +the Justice Department's Law Enforcement Assistance Administration; +when Congress killed LEAA in 1980, the Hamiltons transformed Inslaw +into a for-profit firm and continued to do business with Justice on +a contract basis. Today, they are business partners with IBM. +By that time they had developed a software package called Promis +that enabled law enforcement agencies to-keep up-to-the-minute tabs +on cases as they wound their way through the courts. It was +designed for district attorneys in large cities, and had been +installed on a pilot basis in two large U.S. attorneys' offices. +With Promis, a U.S. attorney could sit before a computer screen and +quickly find where any particular case stood, locate defendants and +witnesses, track every motion, and even follow an ongoing +investigation from its history down to the detective's most recent +report. As computers became smaller, increasing efficiency and +speed, the Hamiltons modified Promis, adding new functions and +making it speedier and more flexible. +In 1982, Inslaw signed a $10 million contract to install Promis +in U.S. attorney offices across the country. At first Justice +balked at paying fees for what it argued was public domain software +that had been developed under LEAA grants, but on advice of its own +counsel, the department ultimately agreed to pay for the +proprietary, enhanced version of Promis--whenever it was used. +Despite this agreement, the Justice Department's contracting +officer steadfastly refused to pay Inslaw for the use of Promis, and +by 1985 it had withheld nearly $2 million from the Hamiltons. At +that point Inslaw sought refuge in Chapter 11 bankruptcy and +proceeded to sue Justice. In January 1988 the Bankruptcy Court +awarded Inslaw $6.8 million in damages plus counsel fees. Justice +appealed that ruling, but in November 1989 the federal district +court for the District of Columbia upheld the Bankruptcy Court's +findings. Nevertheless, last spring the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled +that the case had been tried in the wrong courts for the past several years, and must be retried; Inslaw is appealing to the +Supreme Court, and if that fails, the Hamiltons will file a new, +expanded suit. +While on this level the Inslaw affair appears to be a fairly +typical contract dispute, in fact the case has been marked from the +beginning with extraordinary behind-the-scenes politicking to wrest +control of Promis from Inslaw. First, the Justice Department +refused to recognize Inslaw as the rightful owner of the software it +had developed; then the chair of Hadron Inc., a software outfit +controlled by a friend of then-attorney general Edwin Meese, tried +to buy the program from Inslaw. When Hamilton refused, Hadron's +chair told him, "We have ways of making you sell." +Next, a venture capital firm, citing high-level Reagan +administration connections, tried to inveigle the Hamiltons into +signing over their voting rights on Inslaw stock. When the Justice +Department's refusal to pay fees forced the company into Chapter 11, +Justice officials didn't let up. They tried to force Inslaw into a +Chapter 7 liquidation, which would have finished off the company +completely. And when that didn't work, Justice officials encouraged +a Pennsylvania computer company to launch its own hostile takeover +bid. +Why such a fuss over computer software? In its court filings +Inslaw alleges it is a victim of a conspiracy by Meese and his +friends, who stole Promis to make money. Chief among Meese's +cronies in the affair was Earl Brian, currently chair of embattled +Infotech, Inc., which has large holdings in the bankrupt Financial +News Network and United Press International--not to mention Hadron, +the company that tried to buy Promis from Inslaw. +A combat surgeon in Vietnam, Brian was appointed secretary of +California's Department of Health and Welfare in 1970 by then-governor Ronald Reagan. When Reagan moved to the White House--with +Meese as his counsel--Brian served as the unpaid chair of a task +force on health care cost reduction; Brian also served along with +Meese as a member of a "pro-competition" committee in the White +House. Edwin Thomas, another longtime Meese associate who had +worked for Meese at the University of San Diego Law School and a +member of Reagan's California cabinet, joined them on the Reagan +transition team in 1980. The relationships between these three +Californians first created a stir when Meese went before the Senate +to be confirmed as attorney general in 1984. +An investigation by an independent counsel revealed a suspicious +series of events. Early in 1981, Thomas lent Mrs. Ursula Meese +$15000; at the time, Thomas was working directly for Meese as +assistant counsel to the president. Before he made the loan, Thomas +discussed Brian's Infotech (then operating under the name of Biotech +Capital Corp.) with Mrs. Meese, and despite the fact that the +Meeses were hard up for cash, she promptly took the money Thomas had +loaned her and bought Biotech shares for her two children. Meese, +who knew about the loan, did not report it on his financial +disclosure forms. +Then, in July 1981, Brian loaned Thomas $100000. In addition, +Thomas made calls to the Small Business Administration on behalf of +a loan application from a Biotech subsidiary; the SBA eventually +granted the loan. No wrongdoing was ever adjudged in any of this. In its court briefs, Inslaw cites the assertions of various +Justice officials connecting Meese, Brian, and Hadron, Inc., with +the harassment of the Hamiltons' company. One whistleblower even +called a senator to warn that, once Meese was made attorney general, +he would award a friend with a "massive sweetheart contract" to +install Promis in every litigation office of the Justice Department. +After Meese was named AG, the chief investigator of the Senate +Judiciary Committee, Ronald LeGrand, called Hamilton to pass on a +warning. He said that an unnamed senior official at Justice--whom +LeGrand had known for years and trusted--had told LeGrand that the +Inslaw case was "a lot dirtier for the Department of Justice than +Watergate was, both in its breadth and its depth." +Up to this point, the Inslaw case still appears to be little more +than a contract dispute with overtones of political corruption. But +it doesn't stop there. As it turns out, there is considerable +reason to suspect that while Promis may have been meant as a plum +for one of Meese's cronies, it may also have played a role in an +international espionage operation conducted by the CIA. And that's +where the case really begins to get interesting. + +ACCORDING TO THE HAMILTONS, a high government official, nearly +speechless in his disgust, dropped by to tell them he had discovered +that the theft of Promis had actually begun with the military. The +British and U.S. navies needed a software program to conduct their +zone defense against Soviet submarines in the North Atlantic, +according to their informant. All Soviet subs leave from the same +base near the Arctic circle, where they are easily detected, and +have to run a gauntlet of listening devices in the deep waters +between Iceland and Ireland before they break out into the open +ocean. With the help of painstakingly accurate maps of the +seafloor, the Russians have long been able to run through the +intricate twists and turns of the deep marine trenches near Iceland +at such speeds that they are usually able to lose their trackers. +American and British subs needed a computer program that would allow +them to follow every move of a Soviet sub and project its course and +position; they tried everything available, but no software could +follow all the variables quickly enough. Out of curiosity, they ran +a test with Promis--and it worked. So they simply appropriated the +program. +That, according to the Hamiltons' source, is how the theft got +started. But there is actually much more evidence to support +another theory of how and why the government started playing games +with Promis. +Several different former intelligence agents have told the +Hamiltons about various foreign countries that suddenly started +using versions of Promis in the mid-1980s, ranging from Iraq to +South Korea. These governments could use the program not only to +track criminals but for complex covert operations and to identify +"undesirables"--like revolutionaries. They suggest that the CIA +obtained copies of the Promis software from the Justice Department +and sold it to various police and intelligence agencies overseas; +once installed, Promis actually became a high-tech bug, storing +secrets of the unsuspecting host government, including intimate +details of its internal police operations and intelligence service. American agencies could then penetrate and read the software. +"It was highly adaptable to tracking information of the kind that +intelligence agencies like to track," Richardson says, "and the CIA +adapted it to that purpose. Then, relying on Earl Brian, [they] +started peddling it to foreign intelligence agencies." +The Hamiltons got the barest inkling of the intelligence +implications for the first time last year. On November 5 their +daughter Patty, who is a regional sales manager for Inslaw, got a +call from the Department of Communications in the Canadian federal +government. They told her that Promis was widely used in Canada--it +had been installed in 900 different locations--and he wondered +whether she would help fill out a questionnaire about using the +software in both English and French. +This was all news to Patty, since Inslaw had never sold Promis to +anyone in Canada. Playing dumb, the Hamiltons filled out the +questionnaire. Then, on a business trip to Montreal in January, +Patty dropped in on the Department of Communications for a chat. +She asked the officials about the questionnaire and where Promis was +being used. The Canadians checked their codes and told her it was +on line with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and with an agency +they did not know. +Then Patty made an unannounced visit to the responsible official +at Mountie HQ, who promptly denied all knowledge of Promis, and +dismissed the Department of Communications as a bunch of "kooks." +When Patty returned to Washington, Bill Hamilton tried to, find out +where the Canadians had gotten Promis, but suddenly everything had +changed: The Department of Communications begged forgiveness for +their error, saying it wasn't the Mounties at all but the +international development office that was using Promis. When +Hamilton told them the software had never been sold to anybody in +Canada, they backtracked, apologized once again, and said that, in +fact, no one was using it. +That's when Michael J. Riconosciuto, a researcher and self-described arms expert, came forward. Riconosciuto had first called +Inslaw out of the blue in the spring of 1990, and he has continued +to do so from pay phones around the West. He claimed to have worked +as research director for a joint venture between the Wackenhut +Corporation, the big security outfit, and the Cabazon Indians, who +have a reservation at Indio, California. The joint venture +supposedly manufactured military material, such things as night-vision goggles, machine guns, fuel air explosives, and biological +and chemical weapons for foreign governments, including those in the +Middle East and Central America, and for covert operations of one +sort or another. The contras were to be a prime market. The +Cabazon tribe enjoyed quasi-sovereign status, allowing the arms +manufacturers to operate outside stringent restrictions on the +manufacture of armaments in the rest of the United States. As an +added sweetener, the Indians could take advantage of minority set-aside contracts. +Riconosciuto claims, in an affidavit given to Inslaw, to have +made modifications on Promis software provided him by Earl Brian for +both the Canadian Mounties and the Canadian Security and +Intelligence Service. Brian, he says, was the man who had sold the +software to the Canadians. Riconosciuto is currently in prison in Washington state awaiting trial on drug charges, and his statement +would be of dubious value--except that many of the details do check +out independently. For one thing, the San Francisco Chronicle ran a +series of articles on the Cabazon Indians last week that seemed to +bear out the claims about weapons manufacturing on the reservation. + +BY THIS TIME the Hamiltons were pretty sure Promis had been pirated +abroad, and they began to hear stories of Promis cropping up in all +sorts of foreign countries. Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli +intelligence asset, provided an affidavit that says that in December +1982 Rafael Eitan, the Israeli government's counterterrorism +adviser, told him he had obtained Promis from Earl Brian and Robert +McFarlane, then Reagan's national security adviser. In 1987 Ben-Menashe said he was at a meeting in Israel where Brian said he owned +Promis. Ben-Menashe said he had been assigned to stop a sale of +chemical weapons by Chilean arms dealer Carlos Cardoen to Iraq. +"Mr. Carlos Cardoen ... stated to me that he brokered a deal +between Dr. Brian and a representative of Iraqi ... military +intelligence for the use of Promis," he recalled. +Richard Babayan, an Iranian arms dealer, said in an affidavit +that during 1987 he met a member of Iraqi intelligence who told him +Iraq had acquired Promis from Brian on the recommendation of the +Libyan government. He went on to say he was told by an official of +the Korea Development Corporation, which he said was a front for the +Korean CIA that Brian had sold Promis to the Koreans as well. +The Hamiltons also continue to get tips about Promis popping up +all over the United States. Although it formally denies using the +program, high Justice Department officials have told the Hamiltons +that FBI officials had admitted the software in their field offices +is a renamed version of Promis. +The possibility of Promis being employed as an espionage tool is +given further credence by the curiously disinterested attitude of +government in getting to the bottom of the Inslaw mess. Inslaw +itself has been unable to obtain subpoena power from the courts +except for a brief period last spring, but those subpoenas were +frustrated when the Appeals court threw out the case just as the +deadline for Justice to turn over the documents approached. Senator +Sam Nunn's Senate Permanent Investigations subcommittee conducted an +investigation, but received little cooperation from Justice. +Texas congressman Jack Brooks's judiciary committee has been +looking into the affair for the last two years, but only issued +subpoenas last July. Brooks is believed to have interviewed Meese +and his friends. According to the Hamiltons, the files of the +Justice Department's chief litigating attorney on the case have +disappeared. + +UNLIKE THE MURKY October Surprise scandal or the compromised +congressional investigations into Iran-contra, the facts in the +Inslaw case are clear. Emerging from a low-level bankruptcy court, +they paint a virtually indisputable case of corporate theft, +political corruption, and the very real possibility of international +espionage. The issue goes straight to the White House and involves +officials at the highest levels of the Justice Department in what +appears to be a deliberate campaign of intimidation, theft, and corruption. By now, that ought to have led to a serious +congressional investigation. +Unlike Iran-contra, no one in this case has pleaded national +security as a defense, though that's likely before it's over. But +in a sense, it is already too late for that. The facts are too +well-delineated. If the opinions of two judges are correct, this +case ought to result in criminal indictments of past and present +Justice officials. +As Elliot Richardson says, "Why in the world would this one group +of informers ever have come together and cooked up all this stuff? +How did they keep it consistent from day to day among themselves as +to who told what to whom? There is a hell of a load of stuff +they've told to various people, including staffers, journalists, the +Hamiltons, me. The picture they paint is relatively coherent and +consistent ... and then you add the stonewalling by the Department +of Justice. I have never understood why." + +-- +daveus rattus + +yer friendly neighborhood ratman + +KOYAANISQATSI + +ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. +5. a state of life that calls for another way of living. +

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From: aq817@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steve Crocker) +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy +Subject: Repost - Barrons Article on Inslaw + 1992Aug22.093924.11815@usenet.ins.cwru.edu +Date: 22 Aug 92 09:39:24 GMT

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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1991 17:40:40 CDT +Reply-To: dave 'who can do? ratmandu!' ratcliffe +dave@ratmandu.corp.sgi.com +Sender: Activists Mailing List ACTIV-L@UMCVMB.BITNET +From: dave 'who can do? ratmandu!' ratcliffe +dave@ratmandu.corp.sgi.com +Subject: the INSLAW Case: part I of "BARRON'S" 1988 2-part piece

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Subject: the INSLAW Case: part I of "BARRON'S" 1988 2-part piece +Keywords: U.S. Deptartment of Justice != "with liberty and justice for all" +Lines: 510

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although these 2 articles are dated by more than 3 1/2 succeeding +years-worth of newer revelations and mounting evidence of cynical +corruption at the highest levels of the executive branch, as well +as linkages into the judicial branch of the u.s. government, they +still provide very useful and well-researched background material.

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In his decision, [federal bankruptcy judge George] Bason compares +the Justice Department to someone who decides to test drive an +automobile: "So the customer drives off with the car and this is +the last the dealer ever sees of him. I think that is approximately +what the Department of Justice has done in this case."

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First of a 2-part piece which began in the March 21, 1988 issue of +"BARRON'S NATIONAL BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL WEEKLY" +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Beneath Contempt +Did the Justice Dept. Deliberately Bankrupt INSLAW? +By MAGGIE MAHAR

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"A VERY strange thing happened at the Department of Justice . . +." +What that very strange thing was was described in clear and +exhaustive detail in Judge George Bason's blistering ruling before +a packed Washington, D.C., courtroom last September. In a quiet +voice, Bason, a 56-year-old federal bankruptcy judge with a +reputation for being meticulous in his judicial approach, told the +astonishing story of INSLAW vs. the United States of America. +In his ruling on the case, Bason explained how "through +trickery, deceit and fraud," the U.S. Department of Justice "took, +converted, stole" software belonging to INSLAW, a Washington-based +computer software firm. In 1982, INSLAW signed a $10 million +contract to install its case-tracking software, PROMIS +(Prosecutor's Management Information System) in the Justice +Department's offices. But instead of honoring the contract, Bason +asserts, Justice officials proceeded to purposefully drive the +small software company into bankruptcy, and then tried to push it +into liquidation, engaging in an "outrageous, deceitful, fraudulent +game of cat and mouse, demonstrating contempt for both the law and +any principle of fair dealing." +Ultimately, the series of "willful, wanton and deceitful acts" +led to a cover up. Bason called statements by top Justice +Department officials "ludicrous . . . incredible . . . and totally +unbelievable." +Some of the evidence against the department came from one of its +own. During the course of the litigation, Anthony Pasciuto, deputy +director of the department's Executive Office for United States +Trustees, met secretly with INSLAW'S president, William Hamilton. +At that breakfast meeting at the Mayflower hotel, Anthony Pasciuto +told Hamilton and his wife, Nancy, how the Justice Department had +pressured Trustee officers to liquidate their company. Later, a +superior confirmed Pasciuto's story. But at the trial, a horrified +Pasciuto listened while his superior changed his testimony. Close +to tears, he, too, recanted. +Judge Bason believed Pasciuto's original testimony however. On +Feb. 2, 1988, he ordered Justice to pay INSLAW about $6.8 million +in licensing fees and roughly another $1 million in legal fees. +Bason wasn't sure whether he could assess a department of the U.S. +government with punitive damages. If so, damages could run as high +as $25 million. Bason struggled with that legal question and +finally postponed the decision to a later date. +Now, no one knows how Judge Bason would have ruled on the +question of damages. In November, Judge Bason rejected a +Department of Justice motion to liquidate INSLAW. A scant one +month later, the Harvard Law School graduate and former law +professor discovered that he was not being reappointed. The +decision to replace him followed from a recommendation made by a +four-man merit selection panel appointed by the chief circuit +judge, Patricia Wald, a former Justice Department employee. The +panel was headed up by District Judge Norma Johnson, another former +Justice Department lawyer. +Judge Bason stepped down in February. He was replaced by S. +Martin Teel Jr., 42, one of the Justice Department lawyers who had +unsuccessfully argued the INSLAW case before Bason. Even jaded, +case-hardened Washington attorneys called the action "shocking" and +"eerie." +INSLAW'S case will be assigned to another judge for disposition +of damages. Meanwhile, the Justice Department is appealing Judge +Bason's initial $8 million award to U.S. District Court. And, last +week, the Internal Revenue Service descended on the Hamiltons, +demanding that the bankrupt company pay $600000 in back taxes-- +immediately. +"I restrained the IRS from going after the Hamiltons +personally--just a few days before I left the bench," Bason +recalls. "But that restraining order lasts only 10 days. I don't +know what's happening now." +"It seemed as if the controversy was winding down," observes +INSLAW'S former attorney, Leigh Ratiner. "It would follow a +natural course in the press, and then fade from view." Inslaw +would become another shocking event that slinks off into obscurity: +Someone occasionally might dimly remember and idly ask, "What ever +did happen to Bill Hamilton and those INSLAW people? A real shame +. . . I heard the judge was back teaching law somewhere. . . ." +But at the end of last week Anthony Pasciuto instructed his +lawyer to write a letter to Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns. +Pasciuto has decided to tell the full story that he began telling +at the Mayflower last spring. And, in an interview with "Barron's" +at the end of the week, Pasciuto explained how the Justice +Department black-listed INSLAW. It was a tale that involved two +U.S. trustees, a federal judge who told two versions of the same +story, and a Justice Department that routinely refused to pay +certain suppliers: "If you're on the bad list, you go in this +drawer," another Justice Department employee explained to Pasciuto. +Pasciuto knows what happened--but not why. In the trial, INSLAW +claimed that C. Madison "Brick" Brewer, the Justice Department +employee responsible for administering the department's $10 million +contract with INSLAW, held a grudge against the company: INSLAW's +Hamilton had fired Brewer in 1976. But since the trial, Hamilton +has become convinced that Brewer alone could not have been that +powerful. Bason's removal and Pasciuto's account suggest that what +motivated the remarkable behavior of the Justice Department was +something of greater moment than a middle-level employee's petty +grievance. +Indeed, three people have lost their jobs as a result of the +INSLAW scandal--but not paradoxically, those responsible for the +scandals. The trio of victims includes Judge Bason and Pasciuto-- +who received notice that he would be fired after he testifed, and +just two days after Judge Bason was informed that he would not be +reappointed. The third casualty of the Inslaw affair was Leigh +Ratiner a former partner at Dickstein Shapiro and Morin, the firm +that represented Edwin Meese during his confirmation hearings for +Attorney General. +Why Bason and Pasciuto got the axe can easily be inferred. +Ratiner's forced departure is a little more complicated. In +January 1986, Elliot Richardson asked Ratiner to take on INSLAW'S +defense. Ratiner agreed, and named D. Lowell Jensen, then the +Deputy Attorney General, and a long-time Meese friend, in a +complaint. Not long after, Meese discussed the case with another +Dickstein, Shapiro partner, Leonard Garment, the attorney who, +along with E. Robert Wallach, represented Meese in his confirmation +hearings. Meese acknowledged the conversation in a pretrial +interrogation. Shortly thereafter, his partners at Dickstein, +Shapiro asked Ratiner to resign. +The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is now +looking into INSLAW--a sign that the lawmakers, too, think that the +whole story of the "something strange" that happened in the Justice +Department has yet to be told. The Hamilton's attorneys aren't +sure why a department of the U.S. government wanted to liquidate +their company. Anthony Pasciuto doesn't know. Judge Bason is +still trying to piece together who had it in for him and why. But +Bason, Hamilton and the attorneys involved in the case are +beginning to define the pieces of the puzzle with some pointed +questions. +Why did the Justice Department hire Brick Brewer, a former +INSLAW employee, to supervise a contract with his former employer? +"The person is going to be biased in favor of the former employer- +-or he is going to be biased against the former employer," Bason +pointed out in his decision. +The judge also noted that D. Lowell Jensen, the former deputy +Attorney General named by Ratiner in his complaint, was questioned +on this issue. Jensen, now a federal judge in California, +"recognized the general principle that it is a bad idea" to hire a +former employee, disgruntled or otherwise, for such a task, Bason +observes. But, Bason wrote, he was amazed to find "no hint in +Jensen's testimony that he recognized there was any possible +applicability of that general principle to the case of Mr. Brewer +and Inslaw." +Hamilton discloses that Mr. Jensen himself was already familiar +with INSLAW. Hamilton ran into Jensen in the early 1970s, when +Hamilton was developing PROMIS, the case-tracking system that he +contracted to sell to the Justice Department. At that time, +Jensen, a long-time friend of Ed Meese, was district attorney in +Alameda Country in northern California, developing his own +computerized case-tracking system, DALITE. Jensen competed with +Hamilton's PROMIS head-on-head. PROMIS won. +Hamilton and others familiar with the case ask: Could Jensen +still be feeling competitive? People who have "tracked" the INSLAW +case point to the coincidences of timing: INSLAW'S problems with +the Justice Department erupted soon after Jensen was promoted to +Associate Attorney General--the No. 3 person in the department--in +1983. +Hamilton reveals another curious coincidence: About 90 days +before the Justice Department contract began to fall apart, he +received a phone call from Dominic Laiti, chairman of Hadron Inc., +a company in which Earl Brian, a long-time Meese colleague, holds +an interest (see "Brain's Meese Connection" posting following this +one, from Barron's Jan. 11, 1988 issue). Brian's Infotechnology +controls four of six seats on Hadron's board. Laiti told Hamilton, +according to Hamilton, that Hadron intended to become the dominant +supplier of computer software and services to law enforcers and +courts and related agencies, and that Hadron wanted to buy INSLAW. +"We have ways of making you sell," Hamilton quotes Laiti as saying. +Laiti insists: "I have no memory of this. It all sounds +ridiculous to me." +The bizarre web of coincidences and connections includes AT&T. +AT&T had a contract with INSLAW and, during bankruptcy proceedings, +declared itself a major creditor. Then, Hamilton alleges, AT&T's +attorney began to behave less like someone representing a creditor +interested in salvaging the company than like an attorney for the +Justice Department bent on liquidating it. More coincidences: +AT&T's outside counsel, Ken Rosen, was with an obscure New Jersey +firm, but formerly had been a member of Deputy Attorney General +Burns's New York law firm. Rosen's co-counsel, Shea & Gould, is +not AT&T's usual outside counsel, either, though it is the firm +used by Earl Brian. +Bason questions the failure of high Justice Department officials +to take any action to investigate serious allegations of +misconduct. Both Hamilton and his attorney, Elliot Richardson, +complained about Brewer's handling of the contract, and requested +an investigation. +"There's such a contrast between the total inaction on the part +of Justice Department regarding Mr. Brewer--and the hammer and +tongs approach they're using with Mr. Pasciuto," Bason observes. +Last Thursday, Pasciuto's attorney, Gary Simpson, delivered his +letter to Deputy Attorney General Burns--and met with the Senate +committee. At the end of the week, that committee met with Bason, +as well. Senator Nunn's committee may find some answers--and ask +more questions--that will illuminate this bizarre story. +For now, Pasciuto does know what happened to him and his tale +provides a window on the strange thing that happened to INSLAW. +In March of 1982, William Hamilton could probably envision his +face on the cover of Fortune. He had just won the $10 million, +three-year contract with the Justice Department to install PROMIS +in the department's 20 largest U.S. Attorney's offices, and to +develop a separate program for its 74 smaller offices. Hamilton, +who had contracts with private firms as well, now had a deal with +the nation's premier law firm: the Department of Justice. +PROMIS was unique, and those 94 U.S. Attorney's offices +represented an entering wedge: Hamilton could dream of capturing +the federal judicial system's entire caseload. In the fiscal year +October 1, 1982, INSLAW's revenues went up about 35% to $7.8 +million, with more than half of those revenues coming from the +Justice Department contract. +But then, that funny thing happened. The Justice Department +began postponing payments. In July 1983, Hamilton says, the +department suspended nearly $250000 in payments, alleging that the +company was overcharging the government for time-sharing. In +February 1985, the government terminated the contract with smaller +offices that had been generating revenues of $200000-$300000 a +month. +INSLAW's cash flow shriveled. By Feb. 7, 1985, the government +had withheld $1.77 million. Inslaw twisted and turned, trying to +negotiate with the Justice Department, desperate to find out what +went wrong. Finally, in financial shambles, INSLAW filed for +bankruptcy in late February. The Department of Justice kept the +INSLAW software--and kept on using it. +In his decision, Bason compares the Justice Department to +someone who decides to test drive an automobile: "So the customer +drives off with the car and this is the last the dealer ever sees +of him. I think that is approximately what the Department of +Justice has done in this case." +In last week's letter to Deputy Attorney General Burns from +Pasciuto's attorney, Gary Simpson, Pasciuto suggests a pattern of +harrassment that helped drive INSLAW into Chapter 11. According to +Pasciuto, in June of 1984, Robert Hunneycutt, who worked in the +Department of Justice's finance offices, told him about his +practice of dividing contractors' bills into three piles. "One +pile he would pay right away; the next pile when he got around to +it; and then he opened a drawer and pointed to some invoices in +the drawer and said: "These invoices may never get paid.'" +Hunneycutt then identified such invoices as belonging to companies +on the "bad list." +"Mr. Pasciuto asked who was in that pile," the letter to Burns +goes on, "and he said that INSLAW was an example and that 'People +in the U.S Attorney's offices don't like INSLAW they are in this +pile. . . .'" +When "Barron's" phoned Hunneycutt, he returned the call, and +left this message: "Mr. Hunneycutt knows nothing." In a +subsequent conversation, he denied the conversation with Pasciuto. +But Hamilton claims that the Justice Department was trying to +starve INSLAW. They didn't just push to bankrupt the software +firm, he insists, they wanted to liquidate it, converting it from +Chapter 11 to Chapter 7, as soon as possible. Why? Hamilton +speculates that Justice may have wanted to push INSLAW into an +auction where PROMIS could be purchased cheaply by someone that the +department viewed more favorably. +Indeed, the Justice Department did move for liquidation. And on +St. Patrick's Day 1987, Anthony Pasciuto met with the Hamiltons at +the Mayflower and gave them a fuller picture of what was happening +to them. A mutual friend, Mark Cunniff, executive director of the +National Association of Criminal Justice Planners, asked Pasciuto +to go to that breakfast meeting at the Mayflower. +"I said, 'Don't you know what you're asking me to do?'" +Pasciuto recalls. "He said, 'I know.'" +"I knew him for 19 years," Pasciuto explains. "I said, 'Mark, +I'm doing it for you--and for these poor people.' I knew they had +five kids," adds Pasciuto, a graying 44-year-old All-American "nice +guy" with a strong Boston accent, and an open, slightly pockmarked +face. Pasciuto has been married for 21 years, in government +service for 21 years, and still wears his class ring--U. of Mass., +1965. +So, at the Mayflower, Tony Pasciuto remembers he tried to help +Bill and Nancy Hamilton--and confirmed their most paranoid +fantasies: The Justice Department was out to get them. +At the meeting with the Hamiltons Pasciuto told them that his +boss, Thomas Stanton, director of the Justice Department's +Executive Office for U.S. Trustees, was pressuring the federal +trustee overseeing the INSLAW case. William White was being +pressed to liquidate INSLAW. According to Pasciuto, in 1985 White +told him that he was resisting the pressure. As a result, White +informed Pasciuto, Stanton denied White's Alexandria office +administrative and budgetary support and, at the same time, tried +to have an assistant from the U.S. Trustee's office in New York +take over the case and convert it. +The Hamiltons were told by Pasciuto that Cornelius Blackshear, +the U.S. trustee in New York at the time of INSLAW's Chapter 11 +filing, knew all about Stanton's plan. Pasciuto said that Judge +Blackshear had repeated this tale of pressure in the presence of +United States Court of Appeals Judge Lawrence Pierce in the judge's +chambers in Foley Square in New York. Pasciuto also told the +Hamiltons that the Justice Department had blacklisted INSLAW on the +department's computer system procurements. +On March 25, 1985, INSLAW's lawyers deposed Blackshear, and he +confirmed the story of pressure to liquidate INSLAW. The very next +day, March 26, Blackshear met with a Justice Department +representative, and signed a sworn affidavit, recanting, and saying +that he had confused INSLAW with another case--United Press +International, which had also been involved in bankruptcy +proceedings in Judge Bason's court. +"I know the difference between UPI and INSLAW, I'm not that +dumb," Pasciuto observes. He spells it out with a finger: "U--P-- +I." +Cornelius Blackshear left his position as United States Trustee +and became a United States bankruptcy judge the following fall. +According to Pasciuto, Judge Blackshear discussed INSLAW in +Judge Pierce's chambers. But when questioned on the point, Judge +Pierce told "Barron's": "I have made it my business not to get +into the particulars of whatever Tony [Anthony Pasciuto] got +himself into the middle of. Apparently, he thought his employer +was doing something that was not kosher. I told him I didn't want +to know about it--if he needed to, he should hire an attorney." +When "Barron's" offered to recount the details Pasciuto +allegedly discussed in his presence, the judge grew agitated: +"Don't tell me--I don't want to hear it. I don't want to know +about it." +"I did ask him for help--six months before it all happened. I +didn't know what to do," Pasciuto recalls. "Judge Pierce and I go +back to the time when I was an assistant dean at the School of +Criminal Justice in Albany--in 1972. He was a visiting faculty +member for one year. We became good friends. I considered him a +father figure. +In his ruling, Judge Bason noted that Blackshear had given "two +different versions of the same event" and decided that other +evidence supported the first version. White also denied the story +of political pressure in court and Judge Bason asserted in his June +1987 ruling, "What I do believe is that Mr. White has a capacity to +forget . . . a capacity which probably all humans share to some +degree or another." +Judge Bason went on to point out: "Mr. White has just recently +joined a large law firm that practices primarily in Virginia and +primarily in bankruptcy matters. Mr. White's future with the firm +that he so recently joined could well be dependent on income-producing work that he does. . . . It seems to this court that Mr. +White is not in a position at this point in his career to +jeopardize his relationship with the U.S. Trustee's office in +Alexandria, and for him to testify in a way that would be strongly +disliked and disfavored by the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees +could well have an adverse impact on the relationship between the +executive office and the Alexandria office and, in turn, a +relationship between Mr. White and the Alexandria office." +But in late spring of 1986, White was still a U.S. Trustee, and +Pasciuto recalls one more incident involving INSLAW. White called +Pasciuto and asked for an extra filing cabinet for his INSLAW +files. "I said, 'You've got plenty of them over there,'" Pasciuto +recalls. White responded, "I know, but I need another one because +I need to put all the INSLAW files in one cabinet and lock it." +White was discreet. So, on June 1, 1987, when Anthony Pasciuto +walked into that packed D.C. courtroom to take the stand in the +INSLAW case, he knew that White would not support his story. He +also knew that Judge Blackshear had changed his original story. As +Pasciuto's lawyer puts it in the letter to Burns: "Mr. Pasciuto +was now the only person with recollection of conversations with +U.S. Trustees in which Mr. Stanton was identified as having put +pressure regarding the INSLAW case. Other people's recollections +were being erased by mechanisms best known to them." +Pasciuto's boss, Stanton, apparently put his own pressure on +Pasciuto. Beginning in 1985, according to the letter to Burns, +Pasciuto began reporting his concerns about substantial deficits in +the U.S. Trustee's office to Stanton. In 1986, Pasciuto spoke to +the Department of Justice's finance staff and by late 1986, he says +he had gone on record with the Office of Professional +Responsibility about financial indiscretions by Stanton. According +to Pasciuto, Stanton in September 1986 called him a "traitor." +Pasciuto began actively looking for other employment, including a +job as Assistant U.S. Trustee in Albany, N.Y. But no transfers +were available for Anthony Pasciuto--until he was subpeonaed to +testify in the INSLAW case. +"Within an hour of receiving that subpeona to testify, Mr. +Pasciuto was given a copy of an appointment paper for a job as the +Assistant United States Trustee, Albany, New York, signed by Mr. +Stanton," Simpson, Pasciuto's attorney, reports in last week's +letter to Burns. After the trial was over, however, Pasciuto was +told that the procedure "was changed" and that the deputy Attorney +General would have to sign off on the form. That never happened. +But Pasciuto, who believed the signed appointment papers, sold +his house in Maryland for $200000 and bought a house in Albany for +$250000. On the day the movers came, he was told that the sale of +the Maryland house had fallen through. "We had to move, we had to +carry two houses--and we couldn't even move into the Albany house +yet because the owners wouldn't be moving out for a month," Tony +Pasciuto recalls. "So, we stayed with in-laws for a month." That +was May 22, 1987. Nine days later Tony Pasciuto walked into court. +When he entered the court room on June 1, 1987, Pasciuto was not +represented by counsel. According to Simpson, his attorney: "The +Justice Department attorney who was handling the INSLAW case, Mr. +Dean Cooper, did not prepare him well for his trial testimony. The +paralegal who was taking notes during the witness preparation says +that he has lost the notes of that meeting." +When the questioning began, Pasciuto must have realized that the +Justice Department attorney was not going to guide him gently +through his story. One of Cooper's first questions was "whether +[Pasciuto] had been seeing a doctor about a stressful condition." +In his letter to Burns, Simpson explains: "Mr. Cooper +apparently knew that Mr. Pasciuto had been seeing a psychiatrist in +connection with personal problems that he had been experiencing and +Mr. Pasciuto . . . now knew that the United States Department of +Justice was prepared to stoop to the level of bringing his personal +problems into the INSLAW case to get him to be careful about what +he said." +Apparently, the tactics worked. Pasciuto recanted, saying that +the statements he made to the Hamiltons at the Mayflower were made +in an effort to hurt Stanton, who was blocking his promotion. +Judge Bason remembers the scene: "Mr. Pasciuto seemed to be +basically a very honest person who had been caught up amongst a +gang of very tough people--and he just didn't know what to do. He +was a career federal employee and he was petrified. He probably +had a vision of losing his job, his marriage, everything. Probably +he thought the only way he could save anything was to recant. I +had to adjourn at one point during his testimony--he was close to +tears." +But Pasciuto didn't save his career. And now, in the letter to +Burns, he has come forward to make a full disclosure. +Last week's letter to Burns contains a compelling, painful +vignette of a chance meeting between Pasciuto and Blackshear, about +a month after the trial, on July 11, 1987. If Hamilton felt +floored by Pasciuto's testimony, so Pasciuto must have felt +betrayed by Blackshear's change of heart. The meeting was awkward. +As Simpson tells the story in the letter to Arnold Burns, it was +six in the evening, when Pasciuto and his wife were leaving the +home of a mutual friend, Harry Jones, now U.S. Trustee for the +Southern District of New York. Judge Blackshear came up to Tony +Pasciuto, put his arm around him, and said, "I am sorry, it will be +all right." +Pasciuto replied: "No, it is not going to be all right, they +are going to fire me." +Blackshear responded, "They are not going to fire you. Don't +they know how much you know?" +Pasciuto: "Yes, but they don't care." +Blackshear: "But you told the truth." +Pasciuto: "Of what importance is the truth if everyone else is +lying?" +Blackshear: "These people came up from Washington and the U.S. +Attorney's office; I got confused. I thought that by changing my +story I would hurt less people. I didn't know you were subpoenaed +until I saw your testimony, which was sent to me by Barbara +O'Connor." +Pasciuto: "Do you remember what we talked with Judge Pierce +about?" +"I wanted to see if he was going to continue his crap," Pasciuto +recalls. "But he dodged--literally backing away from me--saying, +again, 'They sent someone from Washington and someone from the U.S. +Attorney's office. I felt the easiest thing to do was recant. I +felt less people would be hurt if I just bailed out.'" +In Simpson's version, Judge Blackshear had received two +telephone calls from William White the day he changed his story. +White told him he had the wrong case. +Pasciuto, exclaimed, sarcastically: "What! They asked you +about converting *another* case [from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7]?" +Blackshear, waving his hand: "I don't want to get into it and +who the hell cares?" +Today, after listening to Simpson's version, Blackshear states: +"I don't remember the specifics, word for word, but I do remember +having that conversation. And I don't have any problems with what +Tony remembers." +Recalling the scene, Pasciuto says: "You know, even now--I'm +not angry. I can't help it. I'm not. Blackshear is basically a +wonderful person. It's sad--I'm sorry, I'm not angry. It really +is sad. I feel devastated." +Tony Pasciuto now has a house in Albany, and soon will have no +job either in Washington or New York. Over the past nine months, +he has spent $12000 commuting from Albany to the job he still +clung to in D.C. Legal fees are draining his savings--the bills +total $25000 so far. "We're lucky that my wife and I were always +frugal and have the money saved," he says proudly. +But Tony Pasciuto is frightened. "At work, ever since I got the +letter saying they were firing me, I've felt like I was underhouse +arrest," he relates. "People come by my office to see if I'm +there. If I leave, I have to sign out. Everyone is supposed to, +but normally very few people sign out. If I don't, they try to +track me down. If I go to the Men's Room, they come looking for me. +"I'm just a GS 15," adds Pasciuto, referring to his level in +government service. "Stanton, my boss, can't fire me. Stanton +made the accusations, but the deputy Attorney General, Arnold +Burns, will fire me. How does it feel to know that the deputy +Attorney General of the United States wants to destroy a GS 15? +It's scary. It scares me to death."

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That the U.S. Justice Department could engage in a vendetta that would +end the career of a federal judge, bankrupt a company, force a partner +out of his law firm, cause another federal judge to recant under oath +and reach down and wreck the career of a 21-year government-service +employee--that's the stuff of a spy novel, set, one would hope, in +another country. But resignations en masse from a Department of +Justice inhabited by "moles" suggest alarming facts, not diverting +fiction.

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Conclusion of a 2-part piece which appeared in the April 4, 1988 issue of +"BARRON'S NATIONAL BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL WEEKLY"

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This part was the cover story with the following title emblazzoned +above the seal of the United States Department of Justice:

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Rogue Justice: Who and What +Were Behind The Vendetta Against INSLAW?

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Rogue Justice +What Really Sparked the Vendetta Against INSLAW +By MAGGIE MAHAR

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TWO weeks ago, "Barron's" told the story of INSLAW, a small software +company that landed a $10 million contract with the Justice +Department in 1982. Bill Hamilton, INSLAW'S 42-year-old founder was +jubilant when Justice bought the Prosecutor's Management Information +System (PROMIS), which he had spent his life--and his life's +savings--building. But then things took a mysterious and nasty +turn. Justice began withholding payments. Contract disputes +multiplied. Threats accelerated. Bill Hamilton couldn't understand +what was happening or why. But he knew INSLAW's cash flow was +shriveling. By 1985, INSLAW was in financial shambles, and Bill +Hamilton ended up in federal bankruptcy court. And there, last +fall, a federal bankruptcy judge handed down an astonishing ruling. +Judge George Bason found that the Justice Department had +purposefully propelled INSLAW into bankruptcy in an effort to steal +its PROMIS software through "trickery, deceit and fraud." On Feb. +2, 1988, Bason ordered the Department of Justice to pay INSLAW about +$6.8 million in licensing fees and roughly $1 million in legal +costs. He postponed a decision on punitive damages--which could run +as high as $25 million. +Trial testimony revealed an unexplained series of "coincidences" +surrounding the INSLAW case, including the fact that Justice +appointed C. Madison "Brick" Brewer to oversee the INSLAW contract. +Brick Brewer had worked for Hamilton--until Hamilton fired him in +May 1976. After listening to Brewer's testimony, Judge Bason wrote +that he could not understand why Justice picked a man "consumed by +hatred" to administer the contract with a former employer. He also +couldn't fathom why top department officials ignored complaints from +INSLAW attorneys when Brewer began withholding payments. "A very +strange thing happened at the Department of Justice . . .," observed +Judge Bason, leaving open the question as to just why, at the +highest levels, the U.S. Department of Justice condoned a vendetta +against a small, private U.S. company. +It was November of 1987 when Judge Bason rejected a Justice +Department motion to liquidate INSLAW. Not quite one month later, +Judge Bason learned that he would not be reappointed to the bench. +In the past four years, only four of 136 federal bankruptcy judges +seeking reappointment have been turned down. Bason was replaced by +S. Martin Teel, one of the Justice Department attorneys who +unsuccessfully argued the INSLAW case before him. +Bason observes that the Justice Department will now have a "third +bite of the apple" on the question of punitive damages. Judge Teel +has recused himself from the case, and the Justice Department is +appealing. So INSLAW vs. the United States of America hangs in +limbo. +The INSLAW case also left a Justice Department whistle-blower +waiting for the verdict on his 21-year career. When "Barron's" +began reporting the INSLAW story two weeks ago, we interviewed Tony +Pasciuto. Pasciuto revealed how a Justice Department colleague +responsible for paying contractors' bills said he divided them into +three piles: "One pile he would pay right away, the next pile when +he got around to it, and then he opened a drawer and pointed to some +invoices in the drawer and said, 'These invoices may never get paid. +If you're on the bad list you go in this drawer.'" INSLAW was on +the bad list. +Pasciuto also repeated what he had been told by Cornelius +Blackshear, a federal judge and former U.S. Trustee based in New +York. Blackshear had confided that his Justice Department superior +in Washington was pressuring him to send someone down to D.C. to +help liquidate INSLAW. Apparently, Washington wanted to make sure +that the job was done. +When INSLAW's lawyers deposed Blackshear, he confirmed the story. +During INSLAW's suit, Judge Blackshear recanted. Meanwhile, about +one hour after Pasciuto was subpoenaed to testify, his superiors in +the Justice Department offered him a long-awaited transfer to +Albany, N.Y. +Feeling scared and "out there all alone," Tony Pasciuto bought a +house in Albany and changed his story. Close to tears, he recanted +on the stand. Judge Bason recalls the scene: "Mr. Pasciuto seemed +to be basically a very honest person who had been caught up amongst +a gang of very tough people--and he just didn't know what to do." +According to Pasciuto, after he testified, Judge Blackshear met +him at a party and said, "I'm sorry. . . . These people came up +from Washington and the U.S. Attorney's office. I got confused. I +thought that by changing my story I would hurt less people." When +"Barron's" read Pasciuto's version of the conversation to Judge +Blackshear, a weary-sounding Blackshear confirmed it: "I don't +remember the specifics word for word. But I do remember the +conversation. And I don't have any problems with what Tony +remembers." +Meanwhile, after Tony Pasciuto recanted in court, the Justice +Department told him, "Sorry, the procedure was changed. No transfer +to Albany." Then, B. Boykin Rose, one of the Justice Department +officials who resigned last week, wrote a letter to Deputy Attorney +General Arnold Burns--another member of the Justice group who bailed +out--recommending that Pasciuto be fired. +When "Barron's" last talked to Pasciuto, he was commuting from +the new house in Albany to a job in Washington, where he said, "I +feel like I'm under house arrest." And he was awaiting the end of +his 21-year career in government service. +"My boss, Thomas Stanton, can't fire me," Pasciuto explained. +"The Deputy Attorney General, Arnold Burns, will fire me. How does +it feel to know that the Deputy Attorney General of the United +States wants to destroy a GS15? It's scary. It scares me to +death." Last week, Burns led the dissidents out of the department. +Tony Pasciuto's tale is chilling. And it raises two equally +disquieting questions: Why did the U.S. Department of Justice want +to liquidate Bill Hamilton's software company? And, how high did +the coverup of the scheme to destroy INSLAW go?

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WHEN six Department of Justice officials resigned last week, +department spokesmen insisted that they were NOT leaving because +they feared Attorney General Edwin Meese was about to be indicted. +Nor had they beaten their wives--should anyone ask. But, according +to "Barron's" sources inside Justice, their exodus represents the +climax to a much larger, subterranean game of musical chairs that +has been going on in the Department of Justice for the past 18 +months. +"I know of at least 50 or 60 career government employees who have +been reassigned or forced out," says one department insider. +Another charges the department with using FBI background checks in +order to manufacture reasons for forcing employees to leave. +"They're trying to find--or force--openings for political appointees +that they want to bury as what we call 'moles' in the department," +explains a longtime Justice Department hand. "They bury the moles +so that the next administration can't find them." +The moles, he goes on, are political appointees who are moved +into GS (government service) jobs normally held by career government +employees. "It could take the next administration two years to +figure out who are the career employees and who are the political +appointees dropped into their slots," he says. "In the meantime, +the moles will be in place--and they'll have the historical +knowledge of how the organization works--everyone else will be +gone." +But even while the moles are burrowing in, the rumor among them +is that sunlight is about to flood the shadowy reaches of the +department. For last week's resignations suggest that Special +Prosecutor James C. McKay is coming closer to addressing the +question: "Was there justice at Justice during the past four +years?" +The INSLAW affair suggests a disquieting answer, for the +virtually unpublicized case serves as a window on how Justice did +business during the Meese years. In his blistering ruling, Judge +Bason charged that the department committed a series of "willful, +wanton and deceitful acts . . . demonstrating contempt for both the +law and any principle of fair dealing." +Originally, Bill Hamilton, INSLAW's founder, thought that only +one mid-level Justice Department official was willfully and +deceitfully out to get him: C. Madison "Brick" Brewer, the former +employee whom he had fired. When Hamilton and his wife, Nancy, put +their six children in the family station wagon and drove to a +federal court on June 9, 1986, to file a suit against the United +States government, they firmly believed that Brewer was their +nemesis. But as the trial progressed, their certainty gave way to +doubts. Why did Justice put Brewer in that critical and, under the +circumstances, highly improper position--and allow him to remain? +Why did the Justice Department refuse to settle? Why were the +government's lawyers, seemingly not satisfied with bankrupting +INSLAW, pressing so hard to liquidate the company? When the trial +was finally over at the end of 1987, Bill and Nancy Hamilton had won +their case, but they still wanted to know why their company was near +ruin. So they followed the counsel of Elliot Richardson, one of +their attorneys: They sat down at their dining room table, made a +list of all the anomalies in the baffling case, and tried to puzzle +out the mystery. +"These were all things we were aware of, yet until you organize +them and put them side by side, you don't see them," Hamilton +observes. +"But seeing the strange incidents and coincidences all together, +suddenly it popped out at me. There was a coverup--and it wasn't +just to protect Brick Brewer. For instance, someone had persuaded +Judge Blackshear to recant under oath within 48 hours of his +original deposition. Who would have that power? You don't do that +to a federal judge to protect Brick Brewer--it's too risky. That's +when I became convinced then that there was criminal liability at +the highest levels of the department. Then, I started to look at +the pieces. And, every time I picked up a rock and turned it over, +it seemed to fit." +Now, looking back five years, Bill Hamilton believes he +understands the reasons for the oppressive behavior of the Justice +Department. And he thinks he had an early warning about the +department's methods. But he didn't take the warning phone call +seriously. +As Bill Hamilton tells it, it was April of 1983, and he was +sitting in his office--right across the street from the "Washington +Post"--when he received the call from Dominic Laiti, chairman of +Hadron Inc. +"Laiti identified himself, and said that Hadron intended to +become the leading vendor providing software for law enforcement +nationwide," Hamilton recalls. "He said they had purchased Simcon, +a manufacturer of police-department software--and Acumedics, a +company that provides computer-based litigation support services for +courts. 'Now,' Laiti told me, 'we want to buy INSLAW.'" +"I told him he had just described our ambition," Hamilton +relates. "We intended to become the major vendor of these software +services ourselves--and we were not interested in being acquired." +But Laiti kept pushing, and, according to Hamilton, boasted, as +he remembers, "We have very good political contacts in the current +administration--we can get this kind of business." +The words would reverberate in Hamilton's memory later, but, at +the time, he didn't heed the implicit threat. He just repeated, +"We're not interested in selling," whereupon, he says, Laiti +retorted, "We have ways of making you sell." +The story sounds fantastic. Laiti calls it "ludicrous." Is +Hamilton making it up? "I would think the whole tale was fantasy-- +if I hadn't been involved in investigating the Iran-Contra affair," +confides a Senate staffer now involved in an investigation of the +Justice Department's software contracts. And Judge Bason states +that Hamilton was a levelheaded witness with a scrupulously honest +memory: +"I was particularly impressed in the last phase of the trial," +Bason recalls. "Hamilton could very easily have testified +positively in a way that would have been favorable to his case--to +an extent of about $1 million. Instead, he testified, 'This is my +best recollection--but I am not sure.' The contrast between that +and the government witness who was so obviously disingenuous!" +The call from Hadron was strange, so Hamilton remembered it, but +in 1983 he shrugged it off. "I politely, but firmly, cut off the +conversation. I'd never had a conversation like that with someone +in the software industry. I thought Hadron must be new to +software--maybe they were used to an industry where this kind of +talk was more prevalent." +But now, Hamilton surmises that his troubles may have begun with +that phone call. Within 90 days of Laiti's threat, he says, the +Department of Justice mounted its attack. And, Hamilton alleges, +the attack ultimately became a vendetta, a vendetta that could have +been inspired by the convergence of three interests: +Hadron, the brazenly aggressive competitor controlled, from +behind the scenes, by a Meese crony from his salad days in +California: Dr. Earl Brian. +Brick Brewer, the embittered former employee who, as project +manager, was in a strategic position to do INSLAW harm. +D. Lowell Jensen, then the deputy Attorney General, and a ghost +from INSLAW's own California past. Jensen had developed a software +product to compete with INSLAW and lost--back in the 1970s when +Jensen was a D.A. in Alameda County. But Jensen did have the good +fortune to meet Ed Meese in the D.A.'s office. So years later, +Jensen became top-ranking member of the "Alameda County Mafia," +which found a home in the Ed Meese Justice Department. +When Bill Hamilton sat down, in good faith, to negotiate a deal +with the Justice Department, the people on the other side of the +table were not dispassionate government officials. They were +instead a hostile crew, inspired apparently by old scores and +private interest. Whether carefully organized or spontaneously +launched, the attack was successful--for a while, anyway. When the +principals and the department were suddenly in danger of exposure, +Hamilton charges, the cover-up spread out to embrace the Justice +Department bureaucracy, the IRS, and Jensen's successor--former +Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns--one of the six who quit last +week. +"They circled their wagons," Judge Bason wrote. The defense +became an offense, and an attorney, a Justice Department whistle-blower, and the judge himself all lost their jobs. Today, only two +of the three have found work. +Hamilton is luckier. IBM has become INSLAW's savior--rescuing the +company from the auction block, and vindicating the worth of its +product. Meanwhile, some Senate staffers looking into the INSLAW +case believe that it raises questions about Project Eagle, a much +larger scheme to computerize the Justice Department, the $200 +million contract is scheduled to be awarded before the end of the +year. +The deeply troubling questions about INSLAW remain. If anything, +they are magnified by last week's departures from Justice: "Why?" +and, "How High?" +"Start," Bill Hamilton says, "with Hadron." For Hadron is +indeed, as Laiti allegedly boasted, "well-connected in the +Administration." It is controlled by Dr. Earl Brian, the longtime +friend of Ed Meese who owns Financial News Network ("Barron's," Feb. +29[, 1988]). In fact, business dealings between the Meese family +and Brian's company imperiled Meese's 1984 nomination. And Hadron, +Hamilton charges, is one of the keys to the mystery of why INSLAW +became the victim of rogue justice. +Hadron boasts a history replete with acquisitions, lots of +government business--and brushes with the SEC. +The outfit emerged in 1979 from the ashes of Xonics, a notorious +high-tech fiasco founded and headed by a colorful wheeler-dealer +named Bernard Katz. "Barron's" described Xonics in 1976 as a +company with a knack for "recognizing income as fast as possible +and deferring expense as long as it decently could." +In 1977, the SEC brought a lawsuit against Xonics, accusing top +management, including Katz, of fraud and manipulating the stock's +price, in part by using Xonics stock to acquire other firms. +Besieged by two shareholder suits, Xonics agreed to a permanent +injunction in April of that year. The company did not admit to any +wrong-doing. +But the nimble survived. In 1979, Dominic Laiti gathered a group +of former Xonics executives, and bought Hadron. By 1983, the +company was lauded in the press as "an investment banker's dream." +For the child had, it appeared, inherited the parent's +acquisitive streak, snapping up nine companies in just three years. +The offspring did run into a few SEC snags of its own, however. In +1981, the SEC ruled that the limited partnerships Hadron had set up +to fund its R&D efforts were in truth a form of loan financing +rather than a source of revenue. By 1982, Hadron had lost $4.5 +million and another shareholder suit was pending. +But by 1983, Dominic Laiti's group appeared to be on a roll, +acquiring their way into an exciting new industry: lasers. Laiti +was quoted as saying, "There's the potential for very, very rapid +growth." +Unfortunately, the roll turned out to be a very, very rapid +roller-coaster. By February of 1984, Hadron was announcing sale of +its "money-losing laser-equipment division." In the third quarter a +year earlier, Hadron had earned a penny-a-share profit, but by early +1984, it was sinking $1.2 million into the red. Hadron's ups and +downs continued: a loss of $231000 for the 1986 fiscal year, a +profit of $852000 a year later--despite a 13% decline in revenues. +Since 1979, the price of Hadron's stock has followed the same +pattern, swinging wildly from its high of 6 1/8 in December of 1980 +to a low of 3/4 in March of 1985. In the past couple of years, the +stock has been trading in a narrower range between 3/4 and 1 11/16, +and an investor complains that as far as he knows, the company +hasn't had a shareholders' meeting since 1983. "I'm not so much +perturbed that they don't meet--I wouldn't care if they never met, +if the the stock were up around $5 or $6," this sizable holder +laments. +Still, Hadron has kept bouncing back--with a little help from +Uncle Sam: namely, contracts with the Pentagon, a fat settlement +with the Agency for International Development and, most recently, a +gigantic contract with, yes, the U.S. Department of Justice. +Hadron's government connection can be traced to Earl Brian, who +was president of Xonics, Hadron's parent, until October of 1977. +Brian slipped away from the company discreetly, just six months +after Xonics rolled over and agreed to the SEC injunction. Brian +was never charged with any wrongdoing; four Xonics officers were +required to sign the consent decree, and he was not one of them. +Ostensibly, Dominic Laiti led the investor group that then +rescued Hadron from the ruins of Xonics, but somehow Brian managed +to keep his hand on the levers. Today, Laiti--the man who allegedly +phoned Bill Hamilton--is Hadron's chairman, but Brian's business-development company controls four of the six seats on Hadron's +board. +In March of 1981, Brian resigned from Hadron's board in order, he +said at the time, "to divest himself of Hadron to facilitate future +transactions" between his business-development company, +Infotechnology, and Hadron "under the Investment Company Act of +1940." But by January 1984, Brian was back on Hadron's board, and, +according to the 1987 annual report, he's still there, though Hadron +is continuing to do deals with Infotech. In October 1987, Hadron +sold Atlantic Contract Services to Infotech at book value for a +combination of cash and Infotech common stock in a deal valued at +roughly $300000. +"Brian does an awful lot of buying and selling," the disgruntled +Hadron shareholder observes. "He's making money at it, but I'm not +sure his shareholders are making money. I know that, as a +shareholder of Hadron, I'm not making any money." +Still, in the spring of 1987 Hadron moved into the black in large +part because it received $1.6 million from the Agency for +International Development. The AID settlement came after the U.S. +government cancelled a Hadron subsidiary's business with Syria. +But the AID money wasn't the only lucky boon from Uncle Sam. The +government has long been a Hadron client: In the 1987 fiscal year, +approximately 34% of the company's revenues came from the Department +of Defense. And most recently, a Hadron subsidiary, Acumedics, +locked up a $40 million contract with the Department of Justice. +Hadron never did acquire INSLAW. But there's more than one way +to skin a Justice Department software contract. Last October, +Hadron's Acumedics division signed the $40 million deal to provide +automated litigation-support services for Justice's Land and Natural +Resources division. +When the Acumedics contract was awarded, competitors groused that +the bidding process was unfair. Justice officials respond that all +bids went through a stringent review process. +"There was absolutely no pressure on me. It was one of the +cleanest procurements I've been involved in," recalls Steve Denny, +the contracts officer on the case. +Justice Department officials also pointed out that the $40 +million deal was essentially a continuation of a 1983 contract. +Acumedics began doing business with the Justice Department in 1970 +as an 8(a) minority business. In 1983, Acumedics was acquired by +Hadron--and lost its 8(a) status. But even without the favored +status, Hadron somehow managed to hold onto the business, and win a +four-year competitive bid contract. Shortly after the acquisition, +Earl Brian reappeared on the Hadron board, and, recalls a former +Hadron executive, told the board, "If we needed any help in +marketing at Acumedics, he had been a member of Reagan's Cabinet, he +knew people--and would be willing to make phone calls." The Hadron +alumnus adds: "He was just being nice." According to Federal +Computer Week, a trade publication: "A competitor for the 1983 +contract, who declined to be named, said his company no longer bids +on Justice Department contracts. He explained that, after losing +the 1983 contract to Acumedics, 'We took a look at their bid +compared to ours, and it was about $1.5 million over ours.'" +Now, the size of Acumedics's newest deal with the government has +raised old questions about the man behind the Hadron subsidiary, Dr. +Earl Brian, and his connection to Ed Meese. A venture capitalist, +and former neurosurgeon, Dr. Brian practiced medicine in Vietnam, +then returned to the States, where he became health and welfare +secretary in then-Gov. Reagan's California cabinet. There, he +served with Ed Meese, Reagan's chief of staff until 1979. Today, +Brian owns and oversees Infotechnology (which controls Hadron), the +Financial News Network, and, most recently, he headed up an +investment group that bought the right to run United Press +International. +The Brian connection became an embarrassment during Ed Meese's +confirmation hearings when Meese acknowledged that his wife, Ursula, +borrowed $15000 from a Meese adviser, Edwin Thomas, in order to buy +stock in Brian's company. Coincidentally, just six months later, +Brian lent $100000 to Thomas, who by then needed money himself--and +had become a member of the White House staff. Neither Meese nor +Thomas listed the loans on their financial disclosure statements. +Meese paid no interest, and Thomas only partial interest. Following +a six-month investigation, independent counsel concluded that there +was no basis for criminal charges against Meese, and while +"inferences might be drawn from Mr. Thomas's contact with Dr. Brian +. . . whether Mr. Thomas or Dr. Brian committed a violation of law +was not within our jurisdiction. Even if we were to make an +assumption that Mr. Thomas might have been acting on insider +information, we have been given no evidence by the SEC." +Bill Hamilton learned of the connection between Hadron, Brian and +Meese only after the INSLAW trial ended. But then remembering what +Hadron's Chairman Dominic Laiti said about being politically +connected--not to mention "ways of making you sell"--Hamilton +thought he glimpsed an ominous pattern. +Hamilton believes the Justice Department mounted its attack 90 +days after the Hadron phone call, "with the apparent objective of +forcing INSLAW either to agree to be acquired, or into bankruptcy." +Earl Brian, Hamilton is convinced, would have been happy to pick up +INSLAW cheaply--at a liquidation sale. +Moreover, Hamilton has reason to believe that the No. 2 man in +Justice, D. Lowell Jensen, wasn't at all disposed to save INSLAW +from the auction block. For, years earlier, Jensen had competed +with INSLAW's product, PROMIS, head-on. While holding public office +in Alameda County, Calif., Jensen was promoting a rival software, +DALITE, that he hoped would be used statewide. Jensen lost. +Jensen served as Alameda County district attorney in the early +1970s and during that time he tried to persuade other DA offices to +adopt DALITE, the case-tracking software system that he helped +develop. To that end, Hamilton alleges, Jensen urged the California +District Attorneys Association to incorporate. By incorporating, +the association would be in a position to apply for grants, +receiving and administering funds needed to finance DALITE training +statewide. But, Hamilton recalls, the very month that the +association finally incorporated, the Los Angeles District +Attorney's office, the state's largest, chose INSLAW's PROMIS +software--dashing Jensen's hopes for DALITE. +Larry Donoghue, now deputy district attorney for the County of +Los Angeles, remembers the keen rivalry. He was in charge of +selecting software for the L.A. office at the time, and he recalls +visiting Alameda County while making on-site inspections: "Jensen +called me into his office and I went away feeling what I regarded to +be unusual and significant pressure to select the DALITE system. +But PROMIS was a more suitable system for a large office. After I +made the recommendation to L.A., I remember my conversation with +Joseph Busch, who was district attorney there at the time. I said, +'Joe what's your reason for hesitating?' He said, 'Larry, there is +resistance to my selecting PROMIS.' The resistance couldn't have +come from within the L.A. office," Donoghue adds, "no one there knew +anything about software. By a process of elimination, it must have +come from Alameda County." +When "Barron's" attempted to reach Jensen for a reply, his office +stated that, because the INSLAW case is still pending, he could not +comment. But during the trial, Jensen conceded that he had been a +critic of INSLAW's software. Yet, he insisted, DALITE was not a +commercial product available for sale to the public, and he had no +financial interest in it. +Jensen didn't own DALITE any more than Bill Hamilton owned PROMIS +when he first invented it. Like DALITE, INSLAW's PROMIS began as a +government product. Bill Hamilton developed it while working as a +consultant for the U.S. District Attorney's office in D.C. in 1970, +and improved it while working for a not-for-profit company funded by +the Justice Department. PROMIS became commercial software only after +Hamilton left this last job in 1981, formed INSLAW, and raised +private funds to refine PROMIS. The software then became a +proprietary, and highly profitable, product. Presumably Jensen +might have had the same luck with DALITE--if PROMIS had not won the +California race. +Instead, Jensen remained at his post in Alameda County for 12 +years. And from 1959 until 1967, Ed Meese served with Jensen, as an +Alameda deputy district attorney. +When Ronald Reagan became President, Ed Meese recommended that +his former colleague, Jensen, be appointed assistant Attorney +General in charge of the Criminal Division. In 1983, when Rudolph +Giuliani resigned as associate Attorney General--the No. 3 spot in +the department--Jensen ascended to that post. +So in early 1984, when Edwin Meese became Attorney General, his +old Alameda County compatriot was already in place. And Jensen was +not alone. A network, nicknamed the Alameda County Mafia, already +was ensconced in Justice. No fewer than six former Alameda County +law-enforcement officials held positions ranging from deputy +assistant attorney in the tax division, to commissioner of +naturalization and immigration. The former Oakland deputy police +chief had snagged a spot as director of the National Institute of +Justice. +Under Meese, Jensen rose to No. 2, and developed a reputation as +a buffer between Ed Meese and his critics. The 58-year-old Democrat +was described as "soft-spoken" "apolitical" and a "gentleman of the +old standard" in a 1986 "New York Times" tribute, which added, +"Colleagues say that Mr. Jensen, better than anyone else at the +Justice Department, knows how to duck." +The Justice Department's diplomat had to duck when congressional +investigators looking into the Iran-Contra affair reportedly found a +Justice Department memo dated March 20, 1986, saying that Deputy +Assistant Attorney General D. Lowell Jensen was giving a "heads-up" +to the National Security Council, warning that Miami federal +prosecutors were on Ollie North's trail. +Bill Hamilton believes Jensen displayed the same talent for +diplomatic bobbing and weaving throughout the INSLAW affair. When +Hamilton pieced together the anomalies, he realized Jensen's rise to +power occurred in the fateful spring of 1983, when he received the +call from Hadron, and all of his troubles began. +"Jensen was promoted to associate Attorney General in May or June +of '83--and that's when all the contract disputes came up," Hamilton +points out. Jensen exhibited a strong interest in the software +contract and even served as chairman of the PROMIS oversight +committee. +In December of 1983, INSLAW's counsel, Elliott Richardson, and +Hamilton met with the assistant Attorney General for administration, +Kevin Rooney. They expressed their concern that Brick Brewer, the +project manager on the INSLAW contract, was biased against the +company because Bill Hamilton had fired Brewer some years earlier. +Rooney testified in a deposition that, a week later, he told +Jensen's oversight committee that Richardson's proposal seemed +reasonable. It appeared that the dispute could be resolved. But +Rooney left the committee meeting early. After he was gone, +Hamilton says, "Mr. Jensen and the other members of the committee +surprisingly approved a plan to terminate the word-processing part +of the INSLAW contract with the department's Executive Office for +U.S. Attorneys." +In March of 1983, Hamilton alleges, Bill Tyson. formerly director +of that Executive Office, told Hamilton that a Presidential +appointee at Justice was biased against INSLAW. In March 1987, +Tyson sent a handwritten letter to Jensen, reassuring him that he +had denied this allegation under oath--and that he had not named +Jensen as the appointee in question. He also sent a note to Deputy +Attorney General Arnold Burns. +In a deposition, Tyson was asked: +"Did either Mr. Jensen or Mr. Burns ask you to write the letter?" +"No sir." +"Did you not realize that by writing a letter to Mr. Jensen of +this type informing him of your intended testimony that he would +then be able to develop his testimony to be consistent with yours?" +"That was not my intention." +"But as an attorney, you realize that is a possibility, more than +a possibility?" +"Well, that was not my intention. . . ." +In his ruling last September, Judge Bason characterized portions +of Tyson's testimony as "so ludicrous that there is no way I can +believe anything that the man has to say." +A month before writing the notes, Tyson was removed from his +position in the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, and he and his +secretary were exiled to Justice's Immigration and Naturalization +Service--though in positions commensurate with their grade levels. +By protesting too much, Tyson could seem to further implicate +Jensen. But, the answer to "How High?" leads even higher. Ed Meese +himself may have been involved in a push to force Leigh Ratiner, +INSLAW's litigating attorney, off the case. +Ratiner had been a partner at Dickstein, Shapiro, & Morin for 10 +years when Elliot Richardson recruited him to take on INSLAW. +Dickstein, Shapiro was the law firm of Chuck Colson, of Watergate +notoriety. Colson brought in its principal client, the Teamsters +Union. More recently, Dickstein, Shapiro became known in the loop +as Leonard Garment's firm. Garment, a former colleague says, has +been described as "the only attorney in Washington who will put a +senator on hold to take a call from a reporter." Garment was former +White House counsel to Richard Nixon, and represented Meese during +his confirmation hearings. +Meese and Garment put their heads together again after Ratiner +filed a complaint in the INSLAW case that named Meese's longtime +friend and deputy Attorney General, Jensen. +Ratiner, an aggressive attorney with a reputation as very bright, +ego-driven, and a loner within the Dickstein, Shapiro firm, relished +being viewed as a maverick. So he was displaying his usual +independence when he filed the complaint that named Jensen early in +October 1986. On Oct. 12, the "L.A. Times" ran a story airing the +INSLAW case and the former rivalry between Hamilton and Jensen. On +Oct. 23, Ratiner was asked to leave the law firm. Between Oct. 12 +and Oct. 23, Ed Meese talked to Garment about the case. +In a pre-trial interrogatory, Ed Meese conceded that he had a +"general recollection of a conversation with Leonard Garment in +which Mr. Garment mentioned that he had discussed INSLAW with Arnold +Burns." Arnold Burns, the deputy Attorney General who resigned last +week, replaced Jensen when Jensen left Washington to take a federal +judgeship in San Francisco in the spring of 1986. +When "Barron's" asked Leonard Garment about the conversation, he +emulated D. Lowell Jensen. He ducked. "I know there was a +suggestion by Meese--or one of his staff--saying he met and spoke to +me about INSLAW. Oh, he said it in pre-trial interrogatories? Then +. . . it was a question of his recollection." +Garment was more emphatic regarding Ratiner's removal. "No one in +the Justice Department or the whole U.S. government or the whole USA +suggested to me that anything should be done with Ratiner. Nor do I +remember mentioning INSLAW to Meese," he continues. "Look--I met +with Meese around the date he mentioned, and I discussed with him a +matter of foreign policy. I was on my way to Israel. . . . Memory +is so tricky, but I don't have the slightest recollection. . . ." +Finally, Garment collected his recollections and summed up his +position. "As Sam Goldwyn said, 'Include me out.'" +Ratiner's exit settlement with Dickstein, Shapiro bars him from +discussing how and why he left. But Hamilton believes that Burns +and Meese expressed dismay at the fact that he had turned the +spotlight on Jensen. After Ratiner gave up the case, the firm +continued to represent INSLAW, but Hamilton feels their support +waned. In January of 1987, Dickstein, Shapiro urged him to settle +with Justice for $1 million--of which about half would go to pay +Dickstein, Shapiro's fees. A few days later, Hamilton switched +attorneys. In September, Judge Bason awarded INSLAW $6.8 million - plus attorneys' fees. +During the trial, Tony Pasciuto's boss, Thomas Stanton testified +to another reason why Meese might have been interested in the INSLAW +case: INSLAW could besmirch the U.S. Trustee program. The U.S. +Trustee's Office had been recently set up to administer bankruptcies +nationwide, and it was Meese's baby. Meese made the decision to +take the Trustee program national--even though his predecessor, +William French Smith, had planned to ditch the pilot Trustee +program. +Two of Pasciuto's former colleagues in the Justice Department +allege that the move to keep the U.S. Trustee program was flagrantly +political. "It was a way of getting cronies into office. There +would be 50 or 60 positions to be filled," one asserts. Stanton, +the director of the Trustee program, seemed well-protected within +Justice. This former Pasciuto colleague adds: "It was always +puzzling to me how he got away with what he got away with. He'd do +things that were blatantly wrong and no one would question him--it's +kind of scary." Another former employee confirms, "Irrespective of +the law, or anything, if Stanton wanted something, he had the ear of +the right people at the highest level--straight from Burns to Meese. +If he could not get what he needed, he went to Burns." +Outside Justice, bankruptcy attorneys like Patrick Kavanagh, a +solo practitioner in Bakersfield, Calif., worry that the Trustee +program "concentrates so much power in one government department. . +. . It's supposed to act as a watchdog over lawyers and trustees, +but the problem is it's more. It has a considerable amount of power +to control the administration of cases." +When a case moves from bankruptcy to liquidation, the U.S. +Trustee's Office names the trustee, who converts the assets, +oversees an auction, and retains appraisers who will put a price tag +on the leavings. +The U.S. Trustee's program also links Justice and the IRS. "The +thing that's a little frightening about it is that the U.S. Trustee +department sees itself as part of the tax-collecting function of +government," observes Charles Docter, the bankruptcy attorney +representing INSLAW. "The Justice Department represents the IRS, +and the IRS is often the biggest creditor in a liquidation. +In the INSLAW case, tax collectors seem unusually determined to +see their debt paid immediately. "The IRS showed up in Bill +Hamilton's office the day after the trial ended in August. +Ultimately, they would demand that he personally pay the $600000 +that INSLAW owes," says Docter. "Usually the IRS calls us before +coming to see one of our clients," he notes. "We talk to them on +the phone and get it straight." Hamilton doesn't have the $600000 +in his personal savings account. +But Docter responded to the pressure by writing a letter in which +INSLAW promised to pay the withholding portion of the taxes within +30 days. "Normally, the IRS would wait that long." he says. +"Instead, on the 28th day, they went out and filed to convert INSLAW +from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7." Once again, they were trying to +liquidate INSLAW. +Lately, Docter reports, an aggressive IRS has been pursuing +withholding taxes by going after the individual who owns a company, +"but normally they don't go for the jugular immediately and file for +a motion to liquidate." +Still on the bench, Judge Bason managed to stop the IRS push to +liquidate INSLAW. +When the tax collectors filed to convert INSLAW to Chapter 7, +Docter recalls having a memorable conversation with an attorney from +the Justice Department's tax division. Docter chided the attorney +from Justice, saying: "Look, the judge has already found that you +tried to steal the software through 'trickery and deceit.' Isn't it +about time you stopped this heavy-handed stuff? Doesn't anyone in +the department have enough guts to say, 'We have to start handling +this like lawyers?' The whole thing is just completely sullying the +Justice Department." +Docter states that the attorney from Justice replied: "I don't +set policy around here. The Attorney General does." +And, Bill Hamilton remembers, Ed Meese approved the Justice +Department bonuses awarded after the trial was over, in December of +1987. Three of the six who received bonuses were involved in the +INSLAW case: +Stewart Schiffer, who directly supervised the INSLAW litigation, +received $20000. +Michael Shaheen, head of the "Office of Professional +Responsibility," $20000. Shaheen wrote a letter to Arnold Burns on +Dec. 18 recommending that whistle-blower Pasciuto be fired for +exercising "atrocious judgment" in telling the Hamiltons what he +knew. +Lawrence McWhorter, Brick Brewer's boss, $10000. McWhorter, +Judge Bason noted, said, "'I don't recall' or 'I don't know' +something like 147 times in his deposition." The court found +McWhorter's testimony to be "totally unbelievable." +Arnold Burns, deputy Attorney General until just last week, +headed up the panel that received recommendations for Justice +bonuses. +With no help from Uncle Sam, Bill Hamilton earned his own bonus. +IBM has plans to enter a $2.5 million deal with INSLAW that will +bail the firm out of bankruptcy. "About $1 million will be used for +software development to integrate INSLAW's products with IBM's own +database software," Hamilton says, "and $1.5 million will be used to +finance INSLAW's reorganization." Details are still being +negotiated. +"IBM's law firm has drawn up a contract. We expect to have it +signed in two or three weeks," Hamilton adds. +In a 1981 speech, Edwin Meese had lauded INSLAW's work on PROMIS +as "one of the greatest opportunities for success in the future." +It seems he was right: The IBM deal provides the clearest evidence +of all of the product's continuing value. +Still, the IRS persists in demanding immediate payment--even +though the pending IBM contract, not to mention the $8 million owed +by Justice, suggest that INSLAW will be able to pay its tax bill. +Charlie Docter, INSLAW's attorney, comments on the IRS posture: +"The whole thing smacks of a police state. This case scares the +hell out of me. ' +"Scary" is the word most often used by victims of the INSLAW +affair. They are angry, but they also can't quite believe it +happened. +That the U.S. Justice Department could engage in a vendetta that +would end the career of a federal judge, bankrupt a company, force a +partner out of his law firm, cause another federal judge to recant +under oath and reach down and wreck the career of a 21-year +government-service employee--that's the stuff of a spy novel, set, +one would hope, in another country. But resignations en masse from +a Department of Justice inhabited by "moles" suggest alarming facts, +not diverting fiction. +Bill Hamilton's story is not based on imagination. It's based on +experience, and there's considerable circumstantial evidence that he +could have been the victim of a California cabal encompassing +onetime members of the Reagan gubernatorial cabinet, and alumni of +the Alameda County Mafia. Ed Meese belonged to both groups.

+ +

Why did INSLAW rate the attention of such a powerful group? INSLAW +was, one Senate staffer suggests, the leading edge of Justice's $200 +million "Project Eagle," a plan to computerize the department's tax +division, criminal division and the 94 U.S. Attorney's offices. +INSLAW predates the four-year-old Project Eagle, and might well +offer an easy entry to any company that wants to participate in that +program. The Justice Department has taken pains to say that INSLAW +is not involved in Project Eagle. But Senate staffers looking into +both INSLAW and Project Eagle aren't so sure. +Project Eagle seems part of the same pattern of musical chairs: +John J. Lane, a respected deputy assistant Attorney General for +information technology, left last summer, and according to +Government Computer News, Justice has lost its four IRM (information +resources management) officials with the longest service in the past +year. When Lane left, Justice reorganized its computer operations +and created a new position, naming Stephen R. Colgate, who had been +director of the Treasury Department's Office of Finance, to head +Project Eagle. +Asked about his priorities, Colgate was quoted in the trade +publication as saying that, for the leadership of the department, +"Eagle is the No. 1 priority. Eagle is the technology legacy that +this Administration wants to leave behind." +A member of Sen. Christopher Dodd's staff who has been looking +into the INSLAW case for more than a year takes a more cynical view: +"If you wanted to wire [fix] something, this would be the +project," he confides. "It's been anticipated for a long time. +And, it's a lot of money. So, if you wanted to wire something . . . +this would be the one." +These days, however, it's unlikely anyone at Justice wants wire +anything. Today, there's a new agenda: Everyone is either +burrowing in, or getting out. And, before leaving, there's an +urgent desire to tidy up. +Justice had announced its intention to fire Tony Pasciuto two +months ago. But in the end, just a week before Deputy AG Arnold +Burns resigned, he agreed to meet with Pasciuto's attorney, Gary +Simpson, to hear Pasciuto's side of the case. +Five or six officials from Justice were in the room; another +three or four--including one who had recommended firing Pasciuto-- +waited nervously in the hallway outside. +"I was on a roll," confesses Simpson, who is normally matter-of-fact. "It was something else. I was accusing them of all sorts of +things, and no one stopped me." +Justice ultimately proposed a painless solution: Pasciuto should +walk away, go work somewhere else, and they'd acknowledge he had +been a good employee. +During the meeting, Simpson did most of the talking. "Burns was +really taking it on the chin," he recalls. "He jerked back a couple +of times, but he didn't say anything. More than once, he nodded +assent. When I stated that Blackshear had recanted, he nodded +again. And," Simpson concludes, "Burns didn't look like he was +hearing any of it for the first time."

+ +

Where Are They Now?

+ +

LEIGH RATINER has left the practice of law. The man who once +negotiated the Law of the Sea treaty for the U.S. government now +runs his own business, LSR Enterprises, a maker of filing systems +for lawyers. +JUDGE BASON, who was denied reappointment as a federal bankruptcy +judge, is still unemployed, and looking for work. Judge Bason has +no regrets, though he concedes he does not relish controversy. +Indeed Judge Bason tried to have himself taken off the INSLAW case +when it first came up. "I talked to the chief justice of the +District Court and said, 'This has the potential of becoming a very +hot potato.' I wasn't sure I wanted to get involved in it." George +Bason is not, by temperament, a fighter. +"My wife tells me I'm very stubborn," the 56-year-old former law +professor confesses. "It takes me a long time to make up my mind +about things and I tend to reserve judgment until I know as much as +I can. But when I make up my mind, I'm very firm. To a very +aggressive person I may give the impression of being a pushover, and +when I prove not to be one, such people can be very angry." +TONY PASCIUTO is luckier. He has been offered a good job at a +large financial firm based in New York. If he takes it, he'll be +making a lateral move from Justice into the private sector. +Meanwhile, his attorney, Gary Simpson, awaits final word on +Pasciuto's honorable discharge from the department. The papers are +scheduled to be signed today.

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if you've made it to the end of these 2 articles, you understand that there +are a lot of questions Ms. Mahar leaves open-ended since, during the spring +of 1988 when she wrote this, many aspects of this situation were still +grinding on and had not achieved the clarity now more evident. obviously, +3 and a half years later, and a great deal more known about this story, +there is much that Ms. Mahar was only able to intimate for lack of more +concrete evidence that has since become available. if any of you are +interested in following up on any of the points raised in these 2 articles, +i'd like to suggest at least a couple of obvious starting points. Maggie +Mahar writes that

+ +

Bason questions the failure of high Justice Department officials +to take any action to investigate serious allegations of misconduct.

+ +

and alludes to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired +at that time by Sam Nunn:

+ +

The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is now +looking into INSLAW--a sign that the lawmakers, too, think that the +whole story of the "something strange" that happened in the Justice +Department has yet to be told. . . . At the end of the week, that +committee met with Bason, as well. Senator Nunn's committee may +find some answers--and ask more questions--that will illuminate +this bizarre story.

+ +

why not call up Senator Nunn's office and ask "what happened?" "what did +you find out? what did you conclude? is there a report you can send me?" +also Senator Dodd's office should be called:

+ +

A member of Sen. Christopher Dodd's staff . . . has been looking +into the INSLAW case for more than a year . . .

+ +

to see if the member she alludes to is still there or ever wrote up a +report of their examinations.

+ +

-- +daveus rattus

+ +

yer friendly neighborhood ratman

+ +

KOYAANISQATSI + +ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. +5. a state of life that calls for another way of living. +end reposted material +-Steve Crocker +

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This file is the abstracts or text of 26 articles with references to the +Justice Department's participation in the Inslaw scandal. There are also +references to Danny Casolaro's mysterious death (spelled murder). The +articles were published in 1991 and 1992.

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I've included some background information about Inslaw and its products.

+ +

Copyrights belong to the corresponding journals.

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Journal: Newsbytes March 5 1992 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Justice Dept. allegedly blocks Inslaw investigation. +Author: McCormick, John. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Investigations). +Topic: Legal Issues +Investigations +Government Agency +United States. Department of Justice +Software piracy +Copyright.

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****Justice Dept Allegedly Blocks Inslaw Investigation 03/05/92 WASHINGTON, +DC, U.S.A., 1992 MAR 5 (NB) -- According to a CNN Business report today, the +U.S. Justice Department is harassing individuals who talk with investigators +who are looking into the Inslaw software case. Inslaw, a Washington based +software company, has charged that the Justice Department made illegal copies +of its PROMIS legal case tracking software and sold or gave it to various +countries.

+ +

Former Attorney General and defeated Pennsylvania candidate for the U.S. +Senate, Richard Thornburgh, fought a futile battle to keep congressional +investigators from obtaining Justice Department files relating to the case, +and although a spokesperson for the Department of Justice is saying that +current head William P. Barr has ordered Department employees to provide +"full support" to the investigation, CNN reports that Judge Bua said he is +aware of the allegations that Justice is harassing people who talk to his +investigators.

+ +

Judge Bua was appointed by Barr in November of 1991 to investigate the +allegations against his Department but there has been some confusion over +just how much authority the retired federal judge has to force cooperation.

+ +

The Justice Department says that the Attorney General's office is not aware +of any allegations of harassment, but CNN today carried an interview with +former Justice Department staffer Lois Battastoni who said that she knows +about such cases and that employees are in fear of losing their jobs if they +talk to the investigators.

+ +

Courts have already ruled in favor of Inslaw on several occasions, but the $8 +million award to the small ($6 million gross) company was overturned on a +technicality.

+ +

More recently there have been suspicions voiced that the death of James D. +"Danny" Casolaro, a freelance writer who was investigating the Inslaw case, +was not a suicide as originally reported.

+ +

(John McCormick/19920305)

+ +

Journal: Government Computer News Feb 17 1992 v11 n4 p10(1) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Writing is on the wall for the move to open systems. (U.S. Justice +Department Information Resources Management Chief Roger M. Cooper) +(GCN Interview) (Interview) +Author: Quindlen, Terrey Hatcher.

+ +

Summary: US Justice Department Information Resources Management (IRM) Chief +Roger M. Cooper has guided the department toward embracing open +systems. Currently, the department is putting together a policy +paper that addresses multiuser systems below the level of +mainframes. Cooper would like systems to comply with Posix and to +use the Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile. The +local area network standard will be the 10M-bps twisted-pair +Ethernet servers and the word processing standard will be Word +Perfect Corp's WordPerfect 5.1 software package. Cooper and his +staff are looking for ways to procure equipment and supplies, and +he may investigate working with other agencies. He supports the +General Services Administration's policy of leaving 10 percent of +big procurement contracts for other agencies. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Topic: MIS +Standards +Open Systems +System Conversion +Interview +Office Automation +Government Contracts +Equipment Acquisition +Information resources management +Government Officials +Management of EDP +Trends. +Feature: illustration +photograph.

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GCN: You have a reputation for supporting open systems. Have you made any +efforts at the Justice Department to move toward an open environment?

+ +

COOPER: We basically have done a lot of work with the IRM directors and the +components in the agencies. We are putting together a policy paper that +covers multiuser systems below the mainframe level, because we've got a lot +of IBM-compatible mainframes.

+ +

Systems will be Posix-complaint and use the Government Open systems +Interconnection Profile. The department's default for local area network +transmission media will be 10-megabit/sec, twisted-pair Ethernet servers. +It's a very flexible way to transmit.

+ +

For office automation, since everybody uses WordPerfect, we've said you've +got to use WordPerfect or at least have compatibility. We mostly use Version +5.1.

+ +

We're also working at bringing some version of Unix up on the IBM-compatible +mainframes.

+ +

Justice, like most agencies, is very paperwork-oriented. So we're trying to +come up with standards on how we image documents.

+ +

We've got a coordinating group for image standards that's met twice now. The +group focuses on joint procurements because that's a growth industry.

+ +

GCN: When you say joint procurements, do you mean with other Justice bureaus +or with other agencies?

+ +

COOPER: I mean mostly within Justice. But we're always looking for other +procurement vehicles. I've had lots of discussions with Thomas Buckholtz, +commissioner of the General Services Administration's IRM Service, and Frank +McDonough, the assistant commissioner, about using every vehicle. We were +the first people that called on Desktop IV, I think, to see if we could be on +it. That was before it got protested. But that's the way it goes.

+ +

I think GSA's proposed policy of leaving 10 percent of certain big +procurements for other agencies is a good idea. We had a very good +experience at the Farmers Home Administration. We had some AT&T 3B2 +computers we got through a big office automation contract. The Air Force's +AFCAC 251 had a similar set of hardware and software. But there was a big +difference in the prices.

+ +

So we wanted the Agriculture contractor to change his prices. He wasn't very +responsive until we bought a hundred or so computers from the Air Force +contract. Then he got a lot more responsive.

+ +

Procurements are so tough that any time you can leverage back and forth, I +think it's a good idea. So I'm glad GSA's doing it.

+ +

The down side is if you've got a tightly integrated system and someone picks +out one part of it and says, "Gee, you can buy a PC cheaper here." Certainly +some of the criticism we've had on our Project Eagle microcomputers is not +fair. It's all bundled up with software and everything.

+ +

You've got to be careful that you're not cream-skimming on the whole thing. +It has to be a judgment call. When the guy priced the thing, maybe he +unloaded part of the development costs in the price of the PC.

+ +

GCN: When you came to Justice, the department's IRM had been under fire from +many sides, including Congress and the General Accounting Office. What goals +do you have for improving IRM?

+ +

COOPER: We have had criticism, but I think a lot of it has not been +justified. Certainly we've had some problems. The press Justice has had is +not commensurate with the level of sophistication of the systems or the +people. I was pleasantly surprised at the competence level at Justice.

+ +

One area we're going to work on, and I think we probably did need a little +more work on, is computer security. We have done a tremendous amount of +training and education, and gotten a lot tougher. It has gotten further up +on the list of things we worry about.

+ +

I'm proposing putting together a computer security organization reporting +directly to me. We're thinking about it, but I've got union negotiations.

+ +

In other areas, we've done some really neat things. On our Eagle system, +every morning when you fire up you PC, the local area network server scans +your hard disk to see if there's any viruses. It takes a little longer. +When you turn the thing on, it is not available for about 5 minutes while the +network interrogates the PC.

+ +

We have found some viruses here, as everybody else in town has. What's nice +is, when you find it, you know about it instantly. Somebody doesn't have to +remember to turn the virus program on; it's done automatically. If we get a +new change to the virus protection software, it goes on the system. +Eventually, 15000 PCs are going to be interrogated every morning for +viruses.

+ +

There's a lot of ways they could be introduced. We probably have had less +viruses than most folks, but I'd say in the nine months I've been here, we've +had at least a half-dozen to a dozen instances. A lot of them I don't even +have to worry about, because the system in many cases fixes them +automatically.

+ +

GCN: Last year, GAO said the U.S. attorneys' offices were not getting +enough training in security procedures. This year the House Government +Operations Subcommittee on Government Information, Justice and Agriculture +said sensitive data in the Bureau of Prisons Sentry system was not getting +adequate protection. Do you think those situations have improved?

+ +

COOPER: I don't necessarily agree with their assessment, but we've improved +those situations. In the U.S. attorneys' officers we've done a massive +education process. A couple of months ago, they had a big computer security +conference here in Washington. They had, I think, 200 people there. We have +had lots of training and have improved awareness in that organization by two +orders of magnitude.

+ +

In addition, we're going to be encrypting all the communications between the +U.S. attorneys' offices. Anytime they do communications outside the +controlled area, we're using some encryption. It's not classified data, but +it's certainly very sensitive.

+ +

GCN: How do you respond to the recent criticism of the Project Eagle office +automation buy from Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee?

+ +

COOPER: A great many reports have a particular political spin out there. +I've heard the arguments about the particular spin on the thing, but that's +not unusual. There have been some recommendations, and we will address them +back to the regular channels. We're not getting into some kind of dialogue. +Enough has been said about the whole issue.

+ +

Sometimes I think we lose sight of what we're doing here. We get hung up on +the process. The question we ultimately should ask is: Is the customer +getting what he wanted? I think with Eagle, the answer would be a resounding +yes. A lot of systems in town don't have happy customers.

+ +

GCN: How is Eagle giving the customers what they want?

+ +

COOPER: It's easy to use. It's got great connectivity. It's reasonably +inexpensive. It's modular. It's upgradeable. And it has minimized the use +of proprietary technology. It's been so successful that we've beat our best +projections for installing it. We're talking 12000 workstations installed +in less than two years. Within six months, we'll probably have them all +talking to each other.

+ +

GCN: You said it's inexpensive. One of the things the House report said is +that you could go out in the stores and get computers cheaper than through +Eagle.

+ +

COOPER: An analogy would be like saying, "A tank weighs 60 tons and it's made +mostly of steel. I could buy steel at $ 60 a ton."

+ +

The federal procurement system says you buy an integrated solution. It +doesn't say you can go out and price the parts individually. That would be +like taking a laptop computer and weighing all the silicon and all the +solder. If you added up a $2000 lapto with all the raw materials or +component parts, you would not get the value added in there.

+ +

GSA publishers a report on PC prices. The Justice Department PC prices, +which are mostly Eagle, are right in the middle of that. They're not the +lowest and they're not the highest.

+ +

GCN: Are you still planning an agencywide case management software buy for +the Eagle machines?

+ +

COOPER: Well, we didn't get any money, so we're re-evaluating that. We're +taking a look at our options, given no money.

+ +

GCN: That's tied in with Inslaw Inc. and the company's Promis case management +software. Have you met with Judge Nicholas J. Bua, the special counsel the +attorney general appointed to investigate Inslaw's claim that Justice stole +copies of Promis and tried to drive the company into bankruptcy?

+ +

COOPER: I have not met him. He has not talked to me. Most of the Inslaw +thing happened years and years ago. It has gone to numerous courts. Our +position all along has been that it's a contract dispute that's gotten out of +hand.

+ +

The Civil Division is handlign that. The judge will do as the attorney +general wants him to do, and that's fine. I think all of us in the +department would like to get it behind us. It's sort of an albatross.

+ +

GCN: What else is Justice doing in IRM?

+ +

COOPER: We're trying to work the open systems thing. We're not making +everybody run their PC with Unix. We're not making everybody take the +proprietary system and convert it over. What we're saying is, if you buy +something new, this is what you should do. We're trying to get a rational +move to open systems without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

+ +

I've been very pleased with the response. Justice has a heavily +IBM-compatible mainframe background, yet I've found great interest in going +to open systems. I think the handwriting is on the wall.

+ +

Journal: Government Computer News Jan 20 1992 v11 n2 p4(1) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Inslaw owners vow to continue software battle. (Inslaw Inc. +battles U.S. Justice Department) (Brief Article) +Author: Quindlen, Terrey Hatcher. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Cases). +Topic: Legal Issues +Law Suit +Software Piracy +United States. Department of Justice +Computer software industry.

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Even though the Supreme Court last week decided not to hear Inslaw Inc.'s +complaint against the Justice Department, the company's owners said they will +not give up their fight over rights to the Promis case management software.

+ +

Inslaw owners Nancy B. and William A. Hamilton said they plan to file a new +suit against the Justice Department, probably in the U.S. District Court for +the District of Columbia. The Hamiltons have alleged that Justice officials +stole versions of the company's Promis software and tried to force Inslaw +into bankruptcy.

+ +

"If you don't punish wrongdoing, it's going to come and bite you again," +William Hamilton said last week at a briefing sponsored by Federal Sources +Inc., a consulting firm in McLean, Va.

+ +

Justice spokesman Joseph Krovisky said the department had no comment on the +Supreme Court decision nor on the prospect of more litigation.

+ +

In November, Attorney General William P. Barr appointed Nicholas J. Bua, a +retired judge, to act as a special counsel to investigate the Hamilton's +8-year-old charges of wrongdoing by Justice officials.

+ +

Hamilton said Justice's primary motivation in stealing Inslaw's software was +money, but surveillance of foreign governments might have been another +motive.

+ +

He said he has been told that the Iraqis, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police +and British intelligence have had Promis software installed on their +computers.

+ +

Hamilton speculated that someone might have sold copies of Promis illegally +to foreign governments. Those copies of the software might have had a hidden +feature that could transmit information to U.S. surveillance systems, he +suggested.

+ +

Justice officials have denied these allegations repeatedly.

+ +

The Hamiltons' case has been heard in three courts. The U.S. Bankruptcy +Court in 1987 found in Inslaw's favor. The U.S. District Court for D.C. +affirmed that ruling in 1988 and awarded Inslaw $6 million.

+ +

Last year, the U.S. Appeals Court for D.C. overturned those rulings, saying +the bankruptcy court did not have the authority to rule on the matter.

+ +

Inslaw came out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1988 with a loan from IBM Corp., +Nancy Hamilton said. The company still sells Promis to state and local +governments, William Hamilton said.

+ +

The company also sells software for legal and insurance workload management +as well as Promis.

+ +

Journal: Newsbytes Jan 14 1992 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Supreme Court denies Inslaw petition. (court case against US +Department of Justice) +Author: McCormick, John. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Cases). +Topic: Government Agency +Legal Issues +Software Publishers +Court Cases +Fraud +United States. Department of Justice.

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****Supreme Court Denies Inslaw Petition 01/14/92 WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., +1992 JAN 14 (NB) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to reinstate the +nearly $8 million fine which Inslaw had won against the U.S. Justice +Department in earlier cases.

+ +

Inslaw had charged that during the Reagan administration the Justice +Department had stolen the company's legal case-tracking software and sold it +to other agencies in the United States and abroad.

+ +

The Supreme Court had been petitioned to reinstate the $7.8 million fine +which had earlier be overturned because of a procedural error in which the +company had sued and won its case, but in the wrong court.

+ +

The ball is now back in Inslaw's court and the company has expressed +confidence that a retrial in the correct court will again result in its +winning a major award against the U.S. government. The Justice Department +would not comment on the Supreme Court's decision or Inslaw's statement that +it would continue to pursue the case.

+ +

(John McCormick/19920114)

+ +

Journal: Newsbytes Dec 6 1991 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Suspect TISOFT contract given Eagle-eye. (United States' +Department of Justice contract) +Author: McCormick, John. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: TiSoft Inc. (Contracts). +Topic: Investigations +Government Contracts +Government Agency +Competitive Bidding +Computer industry +United States. Department of Justice.

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****Suspect TISOFT Contract Given Eagle-Eye 12/06/91 WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., +1991 DEC 6 (NB) -- Eagle, a multi-billion dollar computer system being +installed by the U.S. Department of Justice, was apparently a gold-plated +contract, according to a Congressional investigation by Democrat Jack Brooks' +Judiciary Committee. A Virginia-based firm, TISOFT was awarded the contract +for approximately 15000 workstations despite the fact that it had submitted +not the lowest but the second highest bid.

+ +

Among the charges investigated by the committee were a possible relationship +between the Eagle computer system and INSLAW-like software which was +originally specified for the system. CNN reports that investigators contend +the Department of Justice gave the winning bidder, TISOFT, a $200000 payment +which was allegedly used to pay off losing bidders who would otherwise have +contested the award to TISOFT.

+ +

The committee is still holding hearings on the possible INSLAW connection but +it has reported that the $200000 payment did take place and that, in its +estimation, Justice paid $18 million too much for the Project Eagle system.

+ +

In a televised interview seen on Friday's CNN Business Morning, Texas' 9th +District Representative Jack Brooks stated, "We didn't find them stealing any +money, of course - we found ... neglect. It took the Justice Department two +and one-half years to award a contract for equipment that was available in +stores."

+ +

As for the special payment, Rep. Brooks said, "It doesn't sound right that +the Justice Department of the United States gave them (TISOFT) $200000 to +pay off these people."

+ +

As for the Justice Department, spokesmen have pointed out that they did +nothing illegal.

+ +

According to CNN, Patrick Gallager, president of TISOFT, says that Rep. +Brooks doesn't understand the difference between buying commodity items off +the shelf and purchasing a complete integrated system. He also reportedly +said that the payoffs were legal.

+ +

(John McCormick/19911206/Press Contact: Jack Brooks, 202-225-6565 or fax +202-225-1584)

+ +

Journal: Government Computer News Nov 25 1991 v10 n24 p60(1) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Special counsel appointed to review Inslaw claims. (Justice +Department investigation involving Inslaw Corp.) +Author: Quindlen, Terrey Hatcher.

+ +

Summary: The Justice Department will investigate allegations by Inslaw Inc +owners, Nancy B. Hamilton and William A. Hamilton, who say that +the Justice Department stole computer software that belongs to +them and tried to push their company into bankruptcy. William P. +Barr, the newly appointed attorney general, has appointed a +special counsel, Nicholas J. Bua, to look into the Hamiltons' +claims. The Hamiltons are skeptical, saying that an investigator +from outside the Justice Department is needed. It is not +reasonable to expect, say the Hamiltons, that the Justice +Department will do an adequate job if it is investigating itself. +Nevertheless, the Hamiltons are pleased that there is renewed +activity and interest in the matter. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Investigations). +Topic: Investigations +United States. Department of Justice. +Person: Hamilton, William A. (Cases); Hamilton, Nancy B. (Cases).

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Inslaw Inc. owners Nancy B. and William A. Hamilton are expecting the worst, +yet hoping for the best out of anew Justice Department investigation into the +couple's allegations that Justice stole Inslaw software and attempted to +drive the Washington company into bankruptcy.

+ +

When the newly designated attorney general, William P. Barr, announced this +month that he had appointed a special counsel to check out the Hamiltons' +claims, Nancy Hamilton expressed doubts about the outcome of such an +investigation.

+ +

A special prosecutor appointed outside the department is sorely needed, she +said. It is unreasonable "to think that the Department of Justice could +investigate itself," she said.

+ +

For nearly eight years, the Hamiltons have been fighting to get compensation +from Justice for the alleged theft of enhanced versions of the company's case +management software, Promis.

+ +

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court in 1987 found in Inslaw's favor and said Justice +had tried to force the company into bankruptcy. The following year, the U.S. +District Court for the District of Columbia affirmed the bankruptcy court +ruling and awarded Inslaw $6 million.

+ +

But in May, the U.S. Appeals Court for D.C. threw out those rulings, saying +the bankruptcy court had exceeded its authority.

+ +

Now Barr has asked Nicholas J. Bua, a retired federal judge for the Northern +District of Illinois, to "review all the information related to the Inslaw +case and advise the attorney general of any further action that may be +required," Justice spokesman Joseph Krovisky said.

+ +

Bua, who will serve as special counsel and assistant U.S. attorney, said he +had "no idea at this time" how long his investigation might take.

+ +

Hamilton said she was glad for the renewed interest but questioned whether +Bua could accomplish anything. Justice employees who know of wrongdoing will +be reluctant to volunteer information because Bua will report directly to +Barr, she said.

+ +

"They are not going to tell someone representing the attorney general of the +criminal misconduct of their superior. It simply won't happen," Hamilton +said.

+ +

Barr appointed Bua "in an effort to resolve fairly and conclusively the +ongoing litigation," Krovisky said. Barr gave Bua carte blanche to gather +any information he seeks, Krovisky added.

+ +

"We are in the embryonic stage of the matter," Bua said, adding that it was +too early to give a reading on the situation. Bua, a partner in a Chicago +law firm, said he plans to begin looking into the charges in Washington by +early December.

+ +

Although the appointment is "a step in the right direction," Hamilton said, +she questioned Bua's ability to bring witnesses forward. "People in law +enforcement know that to uncover official corruption you need subpoena power +and the power of a grand jury," she said.

+ +

The special counsel does not have subpoena power now. But if Bua runs into +problems getting the information he needs, he can "lay out what the problem +is and then request subpoena power from the attorney general," Krovisky said.

+ +

Meanwhile, the Hamiltons have filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to +consider their case. "We're hoping that there will be a decision sometime +before the end of the year" on whether the Supreme Court will hear the case, +Hamilton said.

+ +

On the congressional front, the House Judiciary Committee still has the +record open on its Inslaw investigation. The committee has been seeking +several documents from the department. When Attorney General Richard L. +Thornburgh resigned, several documents relating to Inslaw had not been turned +over. The committee chairman, Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Texas), has not said how +he will proceed.

+ +

Journal: Newsbytes Nov 15 1991 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Special counsel appointed in Inslaw case. (Nicholas J. Bua) +Author: McCormick, John. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Investigations). +Topic: Investigations +Government Agency +Legal Issues +Computer industry +Fraud +United States. Department of Justice.

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Special Counsel Appointed in Inslaw Case 11/15/91 WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., +1991 NOV 15 (NB) -- Just a few days after the White House suffered a major +public defeat when its hand-picked Senate candidate for Pennsylvania, former +Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, who had blocked all investigations into +the Inslaw/Justice Department scandal, was defeated by Harris Wofford, +President Bush's Attorney General-designate, William P. Barr, has appointed a +special counsel to look into charges that the Justice Department defrauded +and attempted to bankrupt the Inslaw company.

+ +

Allegations surround Inslaw and claims that the Justice Department and +intelligence agencies illegally copied, modified, and sold the law +enforcement-related software PROMIS, which was marketed by Inslaw. One +prominent claim is that the software was modified to allow U.S. intelligence +agencies to penetrate foreign law-enforcement and intelligence computers +running the software through what is called a trap-door, a secret way around +the usual password access permission systems used to prevent such access.

+ +

Saying during his confirmation hearing testimony before the Senate Judiciary +Committee on Wednesday, "I want to get to the bottom of this," Mr. Barr went +on to tell the Senate that he had appointed retired U.S. District judge +Nicholas J. Bua (Chicago) to investigate the situation which goes back to +1984. Judge Bua was a Democratic appointee to the bench.

+ +

The U.S. House of Representatives tried to investigate the Inslaw case last +year when House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jack Brooks (D-Tex.) subpoenaed +Justice Department documents which former Attorney General Thornburgh only +grudgingly released early this year.

+ +

A court had earlier found the Justice Department guilty of "fraud, deceit, +and trickery" and awarded Inslaw $8 million in damages, but that ruling was +overturned on a minor technicality by another court and the case is now being +put before the Supreme Court.

+ +

(John McCormick/19911115)

+ +

Journal: Newsbytes Sept 24 1991 +* Full Text COPYRIGHT Newsbytes Inc. 1991. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Wackenhut denies Inslaw connection. +Author: McMullen, Barbara E.; McMullen, John F. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: Wackenhut Corp. (Investigations) +INSLAW Inc. (Products). +Topic: Investigations +Legal Issues +Software piracy +United States. Department of Justice +Government Agency +Court Cases. +Person: Riconosciuto, Michael (Investigations).

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****WACKENHUT DENIES INSLAW CONNECTION 09/24/91 CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, +U.S.A., 1991 SEP 24 (NB) -- Wackenhut Corp.'s director of publications, +Patrick Cannan, in a conversation with Newsbytes, has denied any connection +between Wackenhut and the so-called "Inslaw case."

+ +

Wackenhut's name has come up consistently in relation to claims made by +Michael Riconosciuto that he, while a research director for a joint venture +between Wackenhut and the Cabazon Indians, modified a stolen copy of Inslaw's +Promis software for sale by Earl Brian to the Canadian government. These +claims, which surfaced most recently in a Village Voice article by James +Ridgeway ("Software To Die For", Village Voice, September 24th), also portray +the joint venture as one which manufactured weapons (including biological and +chemical) for foreign governments, including the "contras."

+ +

Cannan told Newsbytes: "When these claims first came up, we did an extensive +check of our records on Riconosciuto and can say, without fear of +contradiction, that he was never an employee of Wackenhut. I believe that he +did make some proposals to the management of the joint venture and, if they +had been accepted, he would have played a role in the project. Things like +this are common in this type of business but his proposals were never +accepted."

+ +

Cannan, continued, commenting on the relationship of Wackenhut and the +Cabazon Indians, saying: "We were involved in a joint venture in the early +1980s. The purpose of the venture was to attempt to obtain contracts in our +base business - the security business. The Indians, I guess because of their +minority status, were believed to have good opportunities of obtaining this +type of contract. It turned out that we never got any contracts and, after +two years, the venture was cancelled."

+ +

The Inslaw case involves the alleged theft of software by the Justice +Deptartment from the Inslaw Corp. and, has grown from a tile and bankruptcy +case to one that includes allegations of sales of the software to foreign +governments (such as Canada, Iraq, South Korea, Libya and Israel) by such +Watergate figures as Robert McFarlane and Richard Secord.

+ +

The case attracted more public attention following the apparent suicide death +of journalist Joseph D. "Danny" Casolaro on mid-August in a Martinsburg motel +room. Casolaro had told friends that he had made connections between Inslaw, +IranContra and the so-called "October Surprise" (allegations that +representatives of the Reagan-Bush campaign team had convinced the Iranian +government to delay release of American hostages until after the 1980 U.S. +elections).

+ +

Casolaro also allegedly told his brother, that, if he reportedly had an +accident, it was not to be believed. Former US Attorney General Elliot +Richardson, now attorney for Inslaw, has demanded a federal investigation of +Casolaro's death and has been quoted that Inslaw "is far worse than +Watergate."

+ +

Cannan also responded to Newsbytes questions concerning rumors that William +Casey, ex-CIA Director often named in the "October Surprise" allegations was +legal counsel to Wackenhut before joining the government and that former CIA +officials Frank Carlucci and Admiral Bobby Ray Inman were Wackenhut +directors. Cannan said: "Although Casey's law firm represented Wackenhut, +Casey himself never had any connection with us. Carlucci was a director of +the firm -- he is no longer -- but Inman was not. We did have another +director with a similar background to Inman, an admiral who was chief of +naval operations, and that might have lead to the incorrect rumor."

+ +

The Wackenhut Corp. is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbol - +WAK) and is a conglomerate with subsidiaries throughout the world, including +Canada, Liberia, El Salvador, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Australia, and Central +Europe. Its enterprises include the providing of security and investigative +services to business, management of correctional facilities, nuclear material +auditing, training of security and fire and crash rescue personnel, and the +sale of electronic security systems. It also owns a casualty reinsurance +firm, a travel service and an airline services company.

+ +

(Barbara E. McMullen & John F. McMullen/19910924)

+ +

Journal: The New York Times Sept 3 1991 v140 pA17(N) pD12(L) 27 col in. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: As U.S. battles computer company, writer takes vision of evil to +grave. (the Inslaw case)(Danny Casolaro) +Author: Ayres, B. Drummond, Jr.

+ +

Summary: The mysterious death of Danny Casolaro, a novelist and magazine +writer, generates attention to the long-running Justice Department +vs Inslaw Inc court case. Inslaw, a small Washington DC-based +software company, has accused Justice Department officials of +fraud and theft. Officials allegedly schemed to steal Inslaw's +software that was developed for tracking the government's record +of criminal cases, and withheld payments on the pretext of +contract violations, thereby driving Inslaw to insolvency. The +Justice Department denies the allegations. Casolaro, who was +openly investigating the case, reportedly believed the Inslaw case +was part of a government-wide scandal involving Reagan +administration officials. Inslaw's lawyer, Elliot L. Richardson, +has called for an investigation on Casolaro's death and the Inslaw +case. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Cases). +Topic: Court Cases +Software Publishers +Investigations +United States. Department of Justice +Fraud. +Person: Casolaro, Joseph D. (Biography).

+ +

Journal: Newsbytes August 27 1991 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Casolaro source charges gov't procurement scandal. (William +Turner; James D. Casolaro died while investigating charges of +government involvement in Inslaw Inc.) +Author: McMullen, Barbara E.; McMullen, John F. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Cases). +Topic: Government Agency +Investigations +Legal Issues +Theft of Equipment +Software Publishers +United States. Department of Justice +Court Cases. +Person: Casolaro, James D. (Biography); Turner, William (Investigations).

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****CASOLARO SOURCE CHARGES GOV'T PROCUREMENT SCANDAL 08/27/91 WASHINGTON, +D.C., U.S.A., 1991 AUG 27 (NB) -- "Bill," the mysterious Newsbytes source who +met with investigative journalist James D. "Danny" Casolaro on the night +before Casolaro's death in a Martinsburg, W. VA motel, has come forward on +the August 26th "Inside Edition" television show and discussed his meeting +with Casolaro.

+ +

By coming forward, "Bill" identified himself as William Turner, a former +quality assurance manager for Hughes Aircraft. In Turner's previous +interviews with Newsbytes, he had requested anonymity because of both a +commitment to Inside Edition and what he said was the advice of counsel. +Turner has alleged that Hughes Aircraft, with the assistance of U.S. +government personnel, has covered up the deliverance of systems for military +use that were below the procurement specifications.

+ +

While Turner's participation on the television broadcast dealt almost +exclusively with his meeting with Casolaro, he told Newsbytes that he had +over three hours of discussion with the show's interviewers on all aspects of +his charges. Casolaro has told Newsbytes that his attempts to call public +attention to what he calls a "procurement scandal" have resulted in his +harassment by the government. He claims that "all of a sudden the Veteran's +Administration found that it had been overpaying my pension. Even after I +agreed with them on a schedule for me to make installment repayment of the +overage, I was sued for the entire amount."

+ +

Turner also told Newsbytes that threats have been made against him +personally, resulting in his obtaining of police protection. He said that, +prior to the police protection, his house had been under obvious surveillance +from autos parked near his home. He said that his phone frequently rings +and, when he picks it up, there is an audible "hang-up" from the other end. +He also alleges that his telephone is "tapped" and that his conversations are +often interrupted by clicks and that conversations are terminated.

+ +

During his conversation with Newsbytes, at a point when he was discussing the +details of the alleged procurement scandal, a click similar to that of an +extension being picked up was clearly heard and our conversation was cut off. +When Newsbytes called back, Turner said that the interruption had become an +"on-going thing" and that he was "sure that it related to his phone being +tapped."

+ +

Turner said that he has had contact with ex-U.S. Attorney General Elliott +Richardson's law firm, which is also representing Inslaw Inc., the firm whose +charges against the Justice Dept. has been a major subject of Casolaro's +investigation. According to Turner, the law firm has advised him to refuse +to discuss the Casolaro death with the Martinsburg, W. VA police who have +been trying to contact him. Turner, who criticized the police investigation +of the death, said that he will discuss his meeting with Casolaro with the +police when his attorneys are present.

+ +

Turner told Newsbytes that on the day before Casolaro was found dead of an +apparent suicide, he had met with him and turned over papers documenting his +charges about the Hughes cover-up. He said that he was shown other material +that Casolaro had received -- material that Casolaro felt would substantiate +"Octopus" theory. (According to friends of Casolaro, "octopus" referred to +his belief that there was a connection between the various cases, or +"tentacles," that he was investigating: Inslaw, government procurement, +IranContra, "October Surprise.")

+ +

Reports from the Martinsburg death scene did not report the finding of papers +mentioned by Turner and their absence has led to charges that Casolaro met +with foul play. Richardson has called for a federal investigation of the +death, as has Casolaro's brother, a Virginia physician.

+ +

Turner also told Newsbytes that he has additional copies of the documentation +supporting his charges secure in a safe place and that the "truth will come +out even if something happens to me."

+ +

The so-called "Inslaw Case" involves charges by Inslaw, Inc. that the Justice +Department purposely drove it into bankruptcy so that it could steal Inslaw's +Promis software. While bankruptcy counts on two decisions found the +allegations to be factual and fined the Justice Dept., saying that the +government agency had practiced "trickery, fraud and deceit," the U.S. Court +of Appeals on May 7, 1991 overturned the award, saying that the courts had +overstepped their jurisdiction. The appeals court said, at the time, that +Inslaw CEO William Hamilton was free to pursue his claims in the proper +federal court and that the Justice Department's "conduct, if it occurred, is +inexcusable."

+ +

During the appeal process, Inslaw broadened its charges to claim that Iran +Contra figures Robert McFarlane and Richard Secord had played a role is +disseminating the software to intelligence agencies of Israel, Libya, Iraq, +South Korea, and Canada. These charges, substantiated by Ari Ben-Menashe, +who claims to be a former Israeli intelligence officer, Iranian arms dealer +Richard Babayan, and Michael Riconosciuto, who said that he was hired to +modify the software for use in law enforcement and intelligence agencies +worldwide, led to a investigation of the case by the House Judiciary +Committee and a confrontation between committee chairman Jack Brooks and +Attorney General Richard Thornburgh over the release to the committee of +material relating to the case. The investigation continues at this time.

+ +

Turner told Newsbytes that he has confidence in Casolaro's theory of a +connection between Inslaw and his charges concerning Hughes.

+ +

(Barbara E. McMullen & John F. McMullen/19910827)

+ +

Journal: Newsbytes August 22 1991 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Inslaw "source" speaks to Newsbytes. +Author: McMullen, Barbara E.; McMullen, John F. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Cases). +Topic: Court Cases +Government +Purchases +Software packages +Investigations. +Person: Casolaro, James D. (Crimes against).

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INSLAW "SOURCE" SPEAKS TO NEWSBYTES 08/22/91 WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 1991 +AUG 22 (NB) -- "Bill," the person who reportedly met with journalist James D. +"Danny" Casolaro on the night before Casolaro's death in a Martinsburg, W. VA +motel, has confirmed to Newsbytes that he provided Casolaro with evidence of +U.S. government malfeasance in the procurement of technology.

+ +

Bill, speaking to Newsbytes under the promise of anonymity, said that +Casolaro found this information to be related to Casolaro's year-long +investigation of accusations made by the Inslaw, Inc. against the United +States Department of Justice. Casolaro had told friends shortly before his +death that he had taken to calling the investigation the "Octopus" because of +connections that he had allegedly found between the Inslaw case and such +things as "IranContra," the "October Surprise," investigation and Bill's +charges.

+ +

Bill, who is now scheduled to "go public" with his charges in an appearance +on the television show "Inside Edition" on Monday, August 26th, told +Newsbytes that he had promised the producers of the show that he would make +no statements to the media on these matters until Tuesday, August 27th. He +additionally said that he had discussed this commitment with Inslaw, Inc. +attorney Elliot Richardson who also advised him to make no public statements +until that date.

+ +

Bill further told Newsbytes that the Martinsburg police investigators are +aware of his identity and have attempted to interrogate him concerning his +conversations with Casolaro. He, to this date, has refused to meet with them +and stated that this decision was also made in consultation with Richardson's +firm. He also told Newsbytes that he has reason to believe that he is under +surveillance, saying, "There are many more cars on my street than usual and I +am sure that my phone is tapped. I'm getting calls at all hours of the night +and, when I pick up the phone, the caller hangs up. They are not only +watching me but are trying to scare me off. They won't succeed, however; I +will get the truth out. I have copies of the documentation in a safe place +and it will come out even if something happens to me."

+ +

Another Inslaw-related allegation came to light when a Newsbytes source said +that Casolaro had told her/him that a person that was about to furnish him +with important documentation had been murdered last January 31st. According +to the source, Casolaro had identified ex-National Security Agency (NSA) +employee Alan David Standoff, found at Washington National Airport in a car, +as a contact tied to the case. According to investigators, Standoff had been +murdered by beating with a blunt instrument at some other location and then +transported to the airport. He, according to the Newsbytes source, had +resigned from the NSA on December 19th (effective 01/14/91) because of his +call-up by his National Guard unit.

+ +

Casolaro's death, initially ruled a suicide, has been referred to as possibly +a murder by friends and relatives as well as by Richardson who has called for +a federal inquiry. The so-called "Inslaw Case" involves charges by Inslaw, +Inc., that the Justice Department purposely drove it into bankruptcy so that +it could steal Inslaw's Promis software. While bankruptcy counts on two +decisions found the allegations to be factual and fined the Justice Dept., +saying that the government agency had practiced "trickery, fraud and deceit." +The U.S. Court of Appeals on May 7, 1991 overturned the award, saying that +the courts had overstepped their jurisdiction. The appeals court said, at +the time, that Inslaw CEO William Hamilton was free to pursue his claims in +the proper federal court and that the Justice Department's "conduct, if it +occurred, is inexcusable."

+ +

During the appeal process, Inslaw broadened its charges to claim that Iran +Contra figures Robert McFarlane and Richard Secord had played a role is +disseminating the software to intelligence agencies of Israel, Libya, Iraq, +South Korea, and Canada. These charges, substantiated by Ari Ben-Menashe, +who claims to be a former Israeli intelligence officer, Iranian arms dealer +Richard Babayan, and Michael Riconosciuto, who said that he was hired to +modify the software for use in law enforcement and intelligence agencies +worldwide, led to a investigation of the case by the House Judiciary +Committee and a confrontation between committee chairman Jack Brooks and +Attorney General Richard Thornburgh over the release to the committee of +material relating to the case. The investigation continues at this time.

+ +

(Barbara E. McMullen & John F. McMullen/1991082)

+ +

Journal: Newsbytes August 19 1991 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Inslaw death investigation continues. (death of reporter Joseph D. +Casolaro investigating Inslaw Inc.'s suit against government) +Author: McMullen, Barbara E.; McMullen, John F. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Cases). +Product: Promis (Office automation software) (Cases). +Topic: Government Agency +Investigations +United States. Department of Justice. +Person: Casolaro, Joseph D. (Biography).

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****INSLAW DEATH INVESTIGATION CONTINUES 08/19/91 MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA, +U.S.A., AUG 19 (NB) -- The Sheraton Inn in Martinsburg, West Virginia, the +scene of the death of Washington, D.C. journalist Joseph D. "Danny" +Casolaro, has received more press attention than ever before in its history +as reporters from ABC-TV, Newsbytes News Network, and the Washington Post +roamed the halls interrogating bell-hops, waitresses, and desk clerks for +information regarding the death of Casolaro.

+ +

Employees, supposedly under the cloak of Sheraton-forced silence, told +Newsbytes that, while some prospective guests have specifically requested the +room in which Casolaro died, their instructions have been to leave the room +vacant for an unspecified time.

+ +

Casolaro, 44, had been investigating the "Inslaw" case, a rather tangled web +of allegations relating to the charges brought by Inslaw Inc., that the +Justice Department had first stolen its software product, "Promis," and then +driven the firm into bankruptcy. Casolaro had told friends and family that +he was about to receive material that would provide him with documentation +linking Inslaw to other alleged incidents of Reagan-Bush administration +wrong-doing. Casolaro was said to have referred to the alleged conspiracy as +the "Octopus" and stated that there were links between the Inslaw theft, the +"October Surprise," and Iran-Contra allegations.

+ +

The "October surprise" refers to allegations that representatives of the +Reagan-Bush campaign team, through meetings with Iranian representatives, +delayed the release of the hostages in Iran until after the 1980 elections. +These charges are currently being investigated by Congressional committee.

+ +

Casolaro was found dead, an apparent suicide, in Room 517 of the Sheraton on +Saturday, August 10th, two days after his arrival in Martinsburg. He was +found in the bathtub at approximately 1:00 pm with both wrists slashed. His +body was released within three hours to a local funeral parlor for embalming, +an action that Berkeley County Medical Examiner Sandra Brining was quoted as +saying was normal in the case of a suicide. "Everything was consistent with +a self-inflicted wound."

+ +

When Casolaro's family became aware of his death on Monday, August 14th, it +immediately called for an expanded investigation and his brother, Dr. Anthony +Casolaro, an Arlington, Virginia physician, was quoted as saying, "In my +heart I remember Danny telling us that in case of an accident, don't believe +it." Dr. Casolaro also discounted statements made by his brother in a letter +to a publisher in which he seemed financially strapped and despondent. Dr. +Casolaro attributed Casolaro's remarks to a desire to convince the would-be +publisher of the importance of extending a book contract to him. Casolaro +had been immersed in the Inslaw case for over a year and had been +unsuccessful in two proposals to the publishing firm of Little, Brown & Co.

+ +

The clamor for a fuller investigation caused an autopsy to be subsequently +performed on Casolaro, an action that Assistant Berkeley County prosecutor +Cynthia Gaither said was not hindered by the previous embalming.

+ +

Casolaro was buried on Friday, October 16th after a funeral service at St. +Ann's Catholic Church in Arlington, Virginia attended by over 100 people.

+ +

At a press conference held on Thursday, August 15th, Dr. James Frost, +assistant West Virginia medical examiner, said that, while the results of the +examination bore out the preliminary findings of suicide, the investigation +would be continued. Brining and Gaither also participated in the hour-long +press conference held in the meeting room of the Martinsburg City Council.

+ +

Newsbytes has obtained conflicting reports on the state of Casolaro's mental +condition. A California free-lance journalist, Virginia McCullough, with +whom Casolaro had allegedly shared information, told Newsbytes, "It is +ludicrous to think that Danny took his life. He was excited about his new +contact and said that 'For the first time I really believe that the +government was involved.'" McCullough, herself, claims to be the victim of a +government action that drove her electronics firm into bankruptcy and she is +presently writing a book on her case and other similar cases, including +Inslaw.

+ +

McCullough's comments on the unlikelihood of a Casolaro suicide were echoed +in quotes from Pat Clawson, president of Washington-based Metrowest +Broadcasting Co., and Richard O'Connell, editor of the Washington Crime News, +a newsletter published in Arlington, VA. Nancy Hamilton, vice president of +Inslaw, also took issue with the suicide finding telling the Martinsburg +Morning Journal, "We don't accept that. They are saying that here is a man, +totally sober, mutilating himself."

+ +

Martinsburg residents interviewed by Newsbytes paint a slightly different +picture and depict Casolaro as seemingly depressed and drinking pitchers of +beer by himself in a local Pizza Hut on the Thursday evening before his death +(although a wine bottle was found in his room, there was no evidence of +alcohol found in the body by the autopsy). Additionally, a Washington Post +piece of Saturday, August 17th by Gary Lee and Robert O'Harrow, Jr., shows +Casolaro to be debt-ridden and despondent. According to the Post report, +"Casolaro had no independent means of income and had invested heavily in the +book project for at least eight months, financing several trips to the West +Coast and long-distance telephone calls."

+ +

The Post article also revealed that Casolaro's sister had committed suicide +in California 20 years ago. While confirming the sister's suicide and his +brother's financial difficulties, Dr. Casolaro said that these facts still +did not support a conclusion of suicide for his brother. He told the Post, +"Danny was the sort of guy who was always broke but he knew that he had a lot +of resources for money in the family if he needed it."

+ +

Dr. Casolaro also told the Post that he had received a call from a man who +purported to have met with Casolaro in Martinsburg on the day before the +death and turned over documents relating to computer hardware thefts. Dr. +Casolaro said that the man was willing to meet with investigators under the +cloak of anonymity. Newsbytes has confirmed, from multiple sources, the +existence of the contact, a man called "Bill," but has not yet obtained +information concerning the content or the validity of the purported +documentation.

+ +

The so-called "Inslaw Case" began in 1982 when Inslaw signed a $10 million +contract to provide an enhanced version of its case tracking software to the +U.S. Department of Justice. According to Inslaw, shortly after it rebuffed +attempts by a company owned by Earl Brian, a close friend of former US. +Attorney General Edwin Meese, to buy Inslaw, the government stopped its +contract payments and eventually forced the firm into bankruptcy. In January +1988, a federal bankruptcy judge upheld the claims of Inslaw President +William Hamilton and awarded Inslaw damages of $6.8 million, saying that the +Justice Department has stolen the Promis software by "trickery, fraud and +deceit." A second federal judge later upheld the ruling.

+ +

The Justice Dept. continued to appeal the verdicts and, on May 7, 1991, was +successful when the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the bankruptcy court +had claimed extraordinary and improper jurisdiction in the case. The court +said that Hamilton was free to pursue his claims in the proper federal court +and that the Justice Department's "conduct, if it occurred, is inexcusable."

+ +

During the appeal process, Inslaw broadened its charges to claim that Iran +Contra figures Robert McFarlane and Richard Secord had played a role is +disseminating the software to intelligence agencies of Israel, Libya, Iraq, +South Korea, and Canada. These charges were substantiated by Ari +Ben-Menashe, who claims to be a former Israeli intelligence officer, Iranian +arms dealer Richard Babayan, and Michael Riconosciuto, who said that he was +hired to modify the software for use in law enforcement and intelligence +agencies worldwide.

+ +

Riconosciuto, who was arrested in March of this year and is being held in the +state of Washington, also claimed to be involved in a now-defunct joint +venture between the Wachenhut Corp. of Coral Gables, FL and the Southern +California Cabazon Indian tribe. According to Riconosciuto's affidavit, the +joint venture developed sophisticated weapons for the Contras. McFarlane and +Brian have denied all charges.

+ +

There have also been reports that the software, allegedly used by the foreign +intelligence services for maintaining dissidents, contained a "Trojan horse" +that would allow U.S. security agencies to have undetected access to the +computer system of the foreign agency. It was also revealed during this time +that Inslaw President Hamilton is a former employee of the National Security +Agency (NSA).

+ +

As the long appeal process continued, the House Judiciary Committee under +Chairman Jack Brooks (D-Tex.) began its own investigation of the case and +became embroiled in a year-long battle with then Attorney General Richard +Thornburgh who refused to turn over Justice Department documents to the +committee. Shortly before Thornburgh's departure to run for the Senate from +Pennsylvania, an agreement was reached between the committee and the Justice +Department on the release of certain documents and the investigation is now +continuing. During the controversy, another former U.S. Attorney General, +Elliot Richardson, now serving as counsel for Inslaw, said, "Evidence of the +widespread ramifications of the Inslaw case comes from many sources and keeps +accumulating. It remains inexplicable why the Justice Department refuses to +pursue this evidence and resists cooperation with the Judiciary Committee of +the House of Representatives."

+ +

On Wednesday, August 14th, Richardson called for a federal investigation of +Casolaro's death and was quoted as suspecting murder in the case.

+ +

In an interview with Newsbytes, an investigative reporter who has been +tracking Inslaw and related cases for a few years said that he had met with +Casolaro within the last six months and that Casolaro had no material at that +time that the investigative reporter deemed as new. The reporter, speaking +to Newsbytes under the promise of non-attribution, also said, "I believe that +the Justice Department stole Inslaw's software. I have not seen, however, +compelling evidence to support the charges that it was linked to the +so-called 'October Surprise.'"

+ +

(Barbara E. McMullen & John F. McMullen/19910819)

+ +

Journal: Computergram International August 16 1991 n1742 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Minigrams. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors..

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Remember the InsLaw Inc case - well it looks set to blow up into a high +profile and potentially far-reaching scandal: InsLaw is a tiny Washington DC +company that was awarded a $10m contract with the US Justice Department for +software designed to make it easier for the police and the authorities to +track cases and keep tabs on dissidents, and in 1983, it sued Justice +claiming that theer ain't no such thing and that the Department had stolen +its software; a House of Representatives judiciary subcommittee is still +investigating the case, but meantime Joseph Casolaro, an investigative +reporter of Fairfax, Virginia who had been working for a year researching a +book on the InsLaw case, was found in a hotel bathtub with both wrists +slashed; a suicide note was found nearby, but an autopsy has been ordered +after suspicions were aroused that the death was a murder disguised to look +like suicide after the family told police he had no reason to kill himself.

+ +

Journal: Newsbytes August 15 1991 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: "Suicide" of Inslaw reporter questioned. (Joseph D. 'Danny' +Casolaro may have been murdered during investigation of Inslaw +suit against U.S. Justice Dept.) +Author: McMullen, Barbara E.; McMullen, John F. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Cases). +Topic: Legal Issues +Law Suit +United States. Department of Justice +Investigations +Computer Crimes. +Person: Casolaro, Joseph D. (Investigations).

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"SUICIDE" OF INSLAW REPORTER QUESTIONED 08/15/91 SUNOL, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., +1991 AUG 15 (NB) -- The verdict of suicide in the death of reporter Joseph D. +"Danny" Casolaro on Saturday, August 10th has been challenged by friends and +relatives.

+ +

Casolaro, 44, of Fairfax, Va., had been, according to reports, involved in an +investigation of the allegations surrounding government activities in the +Inslaw software case.

+ +

Casolaro was, according to reports, found dead in the bathtub of his +Martinsburg, West Virginia hotel room Saturday with his wrists cut. Dr. +James Frost, an assistant state medical examiner was quoted as saying: "The +wounds are consistent with being self-inflicted, but that doesn't mean that +someone else couldn't have done this if he were not able to defend himself."

+ +

Virginia McCullough, a freelance journalist and friend of Casolaro, told +Newsbytes that Casolaro was working for over a year on a book concerning the +allegations by Inslaw president William Hamilton that the Justice Department +first broke a $10 million contract with his firm, then stole the firm's +software and subsequently sold and donated it to foreign intelligence +agencies.

+ +

McCullough said: "It is ludicrous to think that Danny would kill himself. He +had recently told me that he was looking forward to a trip that would give +him the documentation to prove the Justice Department's involvement. He +said: 'For the first time, I've become a real believer that the government +was involved in these things.'"

+ +

McCullough went on to say that Casolaro was never depressed in his +conversations with her and that they often spoke, sharing information in +relation to the case. McCullough, herself involved with a company that she +says had very similar experiences to Inslaw, is currently writing a book +detailing what she says have been questionable acts by government agencies in +the use of bankruptcy proceedings to stifle the development of technology.

+ +

Casolaro's brother, Dr. M. Anthony Casolaro, was quoted by news services as +also doubting the suicide reports. He said that police told him a +handwritten note saying: "I'm sorry, especially to my son," was found at the +scene.

+ +

The House Judiciary Committee is presently investigating the Inslaw charges +and had announced in April of this year that the Justice Department, after +long delays, has agreed to turn over documentation relating to the case.

+ +

The case began in 1985 when Inslaw filed for bankruptcy claiming that the +Justice Dept. had stopped payment on a 1982 contract for the installation of +Inslaw's legal case management software, "Promis" into 97 U.S. Attorney's +offices. Inslaw claimed that the government contract represented 70 percent +of Inslaw's income and that the government action forced it into bankruptcy.

+ +

Inslaw was successful and a bankruptcy judge found that the department "took, +converted and stole" the company's property "by trickery, fraud and deceit" +and further said that the government's conduct demonstrated "bad faith, +vexatiousness, wantonness and oppressiveness."

+ +

The Justice Department appealed the ruling and, in 1989, U.S. District Court +Judge William Bryant upheld the decision and ordered the government to pay +Inslaw $8 million plus attorney's fees.

+ +

The Justice Department continued to appeal the case and, on May 7, 1991, was +successful when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia +reversed the bankruptcy rulings saying that the bankruptcy court's rulings +were too broad and inappropriate for a bankruptcy ruling.

+ +

The court said that, while Inslaw is entitled to go to another court to press +its claim,. the U.S. Bankruptcy Court lacked jurisdiction. Commenting on +Inslaw's allegations of misbehavior, the court said: "Such conduct, if it +occurred, is inexcusable."

+ +

During the appeals, stories of illegal sales of the allegedly stolen software +to foreign governments including Iraq, Libya, South Korea, Israel and Canada, +and involvement of Reagan Washington and California appointees Earl Brian, +Robert McFarlane and Richard Secord in the transactions have caused the House +Judiciary Committee to seek involvement -- an involvement that the Justice +Department has resisted.

+ +

Elliot Richardson, former United States Attorney General who now represents +Hamilton, was quoted during the appeal process as saying: "Evidence of the +widespread ramifications of the Inslaw case comes from many sources and keeps +accumulating."

+ +

"It remains inexplicable why the Justice Department consistently refuses to +pursue this evidence and resists co-operation with the Judiciary Committee of +the House of Representatives," he added.

+ +

The case took still another turn when witness Ari Ben-Menashe reportedly +testified that the owner of Inslaw, William Hamilton, is a former employee of +the National Security Agency (NSA) and that the software was modified into a +"Trojan Horse" in order to allow the NSA and the Mossad to listen in on the +transactions of other intelligence services.

+ +

The attraction of the case management software to these intelligence agencies +was, according to witnesses, that, rather than its intended use of tracking +case witnesses and legal opinions, it lent itself to the tracking of +dissidents and foreign agents.

+ +

(Barbara E. McMullen & John F. McMullen/19910815)

+ +

Journal: Government Computer News August 5 1991 v10 n16 p1(2) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Thornburgh bows on Inslaw papers. (Attorney General Richard +Thornburgh turns over to House Judiciary Committee documents on +the Justice Department's dealings with Inslaw Inc.) +Author: Seaborn, Margaret M.

+ +

Summary: Attorney General Richard Thornburgh submitted to the House +Judiciary most of the 456 subpoenaed documents concerning the +Justice Department's dealings with Inslaw Inc, a software +publisher. Thornburgh had been threatened with a +contempt-of-Congress charge if he did not turn over the documents. +Inslaw and the Justice Department have been locked in lawsuits +over Inslaw's case management software, Promis. Justice has been +accused of stealing later versions of the software and attempting +to force the company into bankruptcy. The House committee, +chaired by Rep John Brooks, has been investigating the case for +two years but Brooks said that Thornburgh has stalled its progress +by withholding documents. Justice officials have declared 51 +documents lost but have reconstructed most of them. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Cases). +Product: Promis (Office automation software) (Cases). +Topic: United States. Department of Justice +United States. Congress. House +Software Piracy +Court Cases +Investigations. +Person: Thornburgh, Richard L. (Cases).

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Threatened with a contempt-of-Congress charge, Attorney General Richard +Thornburgh last week turned over to House investigators several hundred +subpoenaed documents concerning the Justice Department's dealings with Inslaw +Inc.

+ +

Last Tuesday night, Thornburgh handed over most but not all of the 456 +documents. Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Texas), chairman of the House Judiciary +Committee, had warned that if the department failed to hand over the +documents by Wednesday, he would ask Congress to act to hold Thornburgh in +contempt.

+ +

After the partial delivery, Brooks said the contempt proceedings were "merely +suspended." He said he expects Thornburgh to turn over the remaining +documents by Sept. 11, when Congress reconvenes after its summer holiday.

+ +

The missing documents are from one file of the chief litigating attorney in +the Inslaw case. Justice officials have been telling the committee since May +that the department had misplaced 51 of that attorney's documents.

+ +

Justice reconstructed most of these documents, but at least 12 still are +missing, Brooks said, adding that the committee has not been able to assess +the thoroughness of the reconstructed material. Also, Brooks said, at least +another 40 documents submitted last week are incomplete.

+ +

Justice said in a letter that it had searched "meticulously" for the missing +documents. Brooks said the department has been unable to explain to the +committee how the records were misplaced.

+ +

"By the department's own admission, these documents are highly sensitive. I +hope they are not lost somewhere," he said last week. "I remain concerned +that no action has been taken [by the department] to investigate the +possibility that this material was destroyed, stolen or shredded in order to +obstruct the committee's investigation."

+ +

For the past several years, Justice and Inslaw, a small Washington software +company, have been battling in courts over the company's case management +software, Promis. Inslaw first provided its software to Justice through a +1982 contract.

+ +

Brooks' committee has been investigating allegations that Justice stole later +versions of the software and tried to force the company into bankruptcy. But +Brooks said Thornburgh has stalled Judiciary's two-year investigation by +denying committee investigators access to documents.

+ +

Finally, late last month, the Judiciary Subcommittee on Economic and +Commercial Law voted 10 to 6 to subpoena the Inslaw files from Thornburgh.

+ +

Although the department had promised repeatedly to supply the missing +documents, Brooks said, the subpoena was necessary because Justice had +reneged at least three times.

+ +

"At this rate, the investigation could drag on for another two years," Brooks +said. "I simply cannot permit legitimate oversight to be forestalled by +dilatory or evasive steps."

+ +

To hold Thornburgh in contempt of Congress, Brooks would have to gain the +votes of a majority of the full House. If the House were to approve such a +charge, theoretically the sergeant-at-arms would be empowered to arrest the +attorney general and hold him in a one-room cell in the Capitol.

+ +

Justice officials tried to avoid the subpoena by making an 11th-hour promise +last month to provide the documents. Brooks said Thornburgh had assured him +on six occasions that the department would cooperate. But Brooks said he no +longer would accept such assurances, and the subcommittee went ahead with the +subpoena.

+ +

The Judiciary Committee's relationship with Thornburgh has grown increasingly +testly during the past few weeks, culminating with the Inslaw subpoena.

+ +

Thornburgh refused to appear at an earlier committee hearing concerning +Justice's 1992 budget request [GCN, July 22]. Brooks has said the committee +may cut finding for several Justice programs, including its massive Project +Eagle office automation initiative, if that is what is necessary to get the +department's attention.

+ +

Meanwhile, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has denied +Inslaw's petition for a rehearing by the 11-judge bench.

+ +

An appeals court panel in May ruled that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court did not +have jurisdiction in 1988 when it concluded that Justice attempted to drive +Inslaw out of business.

+ +

Nancy Hamilton, Inslaw vice president, said the company plans to petition the +Supreme Court to hear its case.

+ +

Journal: Computerworld July 29 1991 v25 n30 p12(1). +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Inslaw papers subpoenaed. (Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House +of Representatives issues subpoena to access records thought to be +important in case between Inslaw Inc. and the U.S. Department of +Justice) +Author: Anthes, Gary H.

+ +

Summary: The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee issued a +subpoena to the US Justice Department to turn over records thought +to be relevant to the on-going dispute initiated in 1983 between +the Justice Department and Inslaw Inc. The Judiciary Committee is +investigating charges that the US Justice Department stole +software and tried to force Inslaw out of business. The subpoena +asked Attorney General Richard Thornburgh to release 456 documents +thought to be connected to the case. Thornburgh has promised to +release the documents on several occasions, but he has not done +so. The Justice Department now claims that several of the +requested documents are missing, and no explanation has been +offered to explain their absence. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Cases). +Topic: Legal Issues +United States. Department of Justice +United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary +Law Suit +Bankruptcy +Government Agency +Investigations.

+ +

Journal: Government Computer News July 22 1991 v10 n15 p76(1) +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Inslaw asks court to reinstate $6M judgement against Justice. +(Inslaw Inc., U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, +Department of Justice) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Cases). +Topic: United States. Department of Justice +United States. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia +Circuit +Court Cases +Bankruptcy.

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Inslaw Inc. has asked the 11-judge bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for +the District of Columbia to reinstate a lower court's decision to award +Inslaw $6 million in damages from the Justice Department.

+ +

For several years, the small Washington software company has alleged that +following a dispute over a 1982 contract, Justice officials tried to force +Inslaw into bankruptcy and to steal enhanced versions of the company's case +management software, Promis.

+ +

In 1987, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court substantially upheld these arguments. +The U.S. District Court in Washington then affirmed the bankruptcy court's +ruling and awarded Inslaw more than $6 million in damages, which Justice +never paid.

+ +

An appeals court panel in May said the bankruptcy court had no jurisdiction +to rule that Justice used "trickery, fraud and deceit" to drive Inslaw out of +business.

+ +

Inslaw's petition for reconsideration said the appeals court decision +"rejects the well-accepted authority of a bankruptcy court to hear actions +that directly affect the administration of a bankruptcy estate."

+ +

In reversing the ruling, the appeals court said it was not ruling on the +validity of Inslaw's allegations and suggested the company file its +complaints anew in a court other than bankruptcy court.

+ +

Journal: PC Week June 10 1991 v8 n23 p130(1) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: The verdict on Cal? he's 'a nice fellow,' but the jury's still +out. (Rumor Central) (column) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors..

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As the Furry One maneuvered his Winnebago into a rest area off I-95, Cal +pulled out a copy of In These Times, which last month told of alleged +injustices by the U.S. Justice Department. As the story goes, the Feds +asked a company called Inslaw to develop a case-tracking database called +Promis, which Inslaw then developed. The Feds rejected the package on +technical grounds --but then used it anyway, selling it to several foreign +nations without cutting the vendor in on the profits.

+ +

"I don't believe a word of it," Spencer harrumphed. "It's a matter of public +record. Look it up," responded Cal.

+ +

Journal: Government Computer News May 13 1991 v10 n10 p3(2) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Appeals Court tosses finding that Justice stole from Inslaw. +(Department of Justice) +Author: Seaborn, Margaret M.

+ +

Summary: A federal appeals court has dismissed the ruling of a lower court +that the Department of Justice stole case management software from +Inslaw Inc. The District of Columbia US Court of Appeals ruled +that the federal Bankruptcy Court overstepped its jurisdiction in +1987 when it ruled that the Justice Department used fraud, +trickery and deceit to force the Washington-based software company +out of business. The US District court affirmed the bankruptcy +ruling and awarded Inslaw a $6 million judgement which the Justice +Department never paid. The appeals court suggested that Inslaw +start over in the federal court system after five years of legal +actions stemming from a contract awarded by Justice to Inslaw for +the development of case management software. The court's decision +said the Justice Department was brought into the Bankruptcy court +because Inslaw filed for bankruptcy and the company succeeded in +convincing the court to adjudicate the contract, though the court +had no jurisdiction to do so. The court did not rule on the +validity of the charges and criticized the bankruptcy court for +its ruling. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Cases). +Topic: United States. Department of Justice +Legal Applications +Software Packages +Bankruptcy +Court Cases +Legal Issues +Copyright +National Government.

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A federal appeals court last week threw out a lower court's findings that the +Justice Department had stolen case management software from Inslaw Inc.

+ +

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that the U.S. +Bankruptcy Court had overstepped its jurisdiction in 1987 when it ruled +Justice used "trickery, fraud and deceit" to drive the small Washington +software company out of business.

+ +

A U.S. District Court later affirmed the bankruptcy ruling and awarded +Inslaw $6 million. Justice never paid the money.

+ +

After five years of legal actions stemming from a contract Justice awarded to +Inslaw in 1982 for development of case management software, the appeals court +suggested that Inslaw start over in the federal court system.

+ +

The appeals court's decision said Justice was "hauled in front of the +bankruptcy court simply because Inslaw filed for bankruptcy, and Inslaw has +succeeded in convincing the bankruptcy court to adjudicate its contract . . +. disputes although the court had no basis to do so."

+ +

The court did not rule on the validity of the Inslaw charges and criticized +the bankruptcy court for its "extraordinary" ruling. "Such conduct, if it +occurred, is inexcusable," the appeals court said of Inslaw's complaints +against Justice. But, "offensive as lawless conduct by one branch of +government may be, however, it does not justify another's lawlessness."

+ +

The reversal also means Justice need not comply with a discovery ruling last +month in which an appeals court judge ordered Justice to turn over +information about whether the software, Promis, was being used at several +Justice bureaus.

+ +

Inslaw vice president Nancy Hamilton said the company "will fight to the +end." She said Inslaw either will file a new suit or appeal the decision. +The company has gathered more evidence against Justice since it filed the +original suit, she said.

+ +

Stuart M. Gerson, assistant attorney general in charge of Justice's Civil +Division, said the department was "gratified" by the court's dismissal of +Inslaw's complaint.

+ +

Gerson said it "vindicates the position the government has taken from the +outset -- that notwithstanding the intensity of the underlying dispute +between Inslaw and the department, this is fundamentally a . . . +contractual disagreement."

+ +

Inslaw president William A. Hamilton said, "The Justice Department has +consistently hidden behind technical defenses to avoid its duty to enforce +the laws in regard to the misconduct of its own officials against Inslaw."

+ +

Meanwhile, a congressional investigation of the Inslaw-Justice dispute is +continuing. After months of stalling, Attorney General Richard Thornburgh +has agreed to make several hundred documents about the department's dealings +with Inslaw available to House Judiciary Committee investigators.

+ +

The committee was allowed access to the materials only after agreeing to +several stipulations Thornburgh laid out last month in a letter to the +committee chairman, Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Texas).

+ +

Judiciary investigators agreed to review the documents on Justice's premises, +formally request copies and, at least initially, withhold the documents from +the public.

+ +

Since last July, Brooks had been trying to obtain some 200 department +documents his committee investigators said pertained to the legal dispute.

+ +

It now appears the committee will examine many more than 200 documents. The +first of 15 sets of documents, which investigators began reviewing May 1, +alone contained 193 items.

+ +

The committee considers access to the documents a major breakthrough in its +investigation.

+ +

The issue of access to the documents came to a head late last year. Brooks, +frustrated by Justice's continual delays in providing the materials to his +committee, threatened to issue subpoenas and said he would use whatever means +necessary to force Justice to turn over the documents.

+ +

Subsequently, Thornburgh assured Brooks he would give him the documents and +the department would cooperate fully.

+ +

Journal: Federal Computer Week May 6 1991 v5 n12 p4(1). +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Justice screens Inslaw document release. (Department of Justice +limits access to documents in conspiracy case) +Author: Sweeney, Shahida.

+ +

Summary: The Department of Justice limits House Judiciary Committee access +to papers relating to an investigation of government conspiracy +against software developer INSLAW. The Justice Department claims +that releasing all documents would jeopardize its appeal against +INSLAW. The House Judiciary Committee is investigating the +Justice Department's award of a $212 million office automation +contract to TiSoft Inc. House investigators are being allowed by +the Justice Department to view relating papers, but may only take +notes from them for future reference or permission to obtain +copies. INSLAW is granted permission to examine Department of +Justice tapes in order to ascertain if the agency is illegally +using copies if INSLAW's Promise office automation software. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Investigations) +TiSoft Inc. (Contracts). +Product: Promis (Office automation software) (Investigations). +Topic: Software Piracy +Investigations +Office Automation +Legal Applications +United States. Department of Justice +United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary +Court Cases.

+ +

Journal: Newsbytes April 29 1991 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Washington Post calls for Inslaw progress. (software publisher's +case against the justice Department) +Author: McMullen, Barbara E.; McMullen, John F. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Cases). +Topic: United States. Department of Justice +Legal Issues +Court Cases +Government Agency +Software Publishers +Theft of Equipment +Government Contracts.

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WASHINGTON POST CALLS FOR INSLAW PROGRESS 04/29/91 WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., +1991 APR 29 (NB) -- The Washington Post, in an April 27th editorial, has +criticized the Justice Department for the lengthy lack of progress in +cooperation with the House Judiciary Committee's investigation of the Inslaw +case.

+ +

Recalling that it had editorially praised Attorney General Dick Thornburgh a +year ago for agreeing to cooperate, the Post said, "We wrote too soon. The +department continued to resist the committee's request for some documents, +and the investigation has been hamstrung while lawyers argued over what +should be shared and what should remain secret. This week agreement was +finally achieved - or so we think - and after seven years of stonewalling the +department has pledged full cooperation."

+ +

Inslaw, a small computer software firm signed a contract in 1982 to supply +all 94 U.S. attorney's offices with "Promis" software it had developed to +track the progress of cases and compile information about caseloads. +According to the Post story, the government contract accounted for 70% of +Inslaw's business and, when the Justice Dept. stopped payment and terminated +the contract in 1984, the firm went into bankruptcy.

+ +

William Hamilton, Inslaw owner, brought suit against the Justice Dept., +claiming that it had stolen the firm's software and willfully driven the firm +into bankruptcy. Hamilton was successful in his suit and a judge in the +initial case found that the department "took, converted and stole" the +company's property "by trickery, fraud and deceit" and further said that the +government's conduct demonstrated "bad faith, vexatiousness, wantonness and +oppressiveness."

+ +

The Justice Dept. appealed the ruling and, in 1989, U.S. District Court +Judge William Bryant upheld the decision and ordered the government to pay +Inslaw $8 million plus attorney's fees. Bryant's decision has since been +appealed.

+ +

During the appeals, stories of illegal sales of the allegedly stolen software +to foreign governments including Iraq, Libya, South Korea, Israel and Canada, +and involvement of Reagan Washington and California appointees Earl Brian, +Robert McFarlane and Richard Secord in the transactions have caused the House +Judiciary Committee to seek involvement -- an involvement that the Justice +Dept. has resisted. Elliot Richardson, former United States Attorney +General who now represents Hamilton, was quoted recently as saying, "Evidence +of the widespread ramifications of the Inslaw case comes from many sources +and keeps accumulating. It remains inexplicable why the Justice Department +consistently refuses to pursue this evidence and resists cooperation with the +Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives."

+ +

The Post editorial concludes, "The House Judiciary Committee has been more +insistent, and now Chairman Jack Brooks' (D-Tex.) persistence has paid off. +The attorney general will let committee investigators see every document, +though it is understood that some material sensitive to the litigation will +be treated in confidence. This simple arrangement should not have taken +nearly so long. The breakthrough is welcome. We hope it is for real this +time."

+ +

(Barbara E. McMullen & John F. McMullen//19910429)

+ +

Journal: Government Computer News April 15 1991 v10 n8 p6(1) +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Panel questions Justice Dept. on Inslaw. (House Judiciary +Committee investigates Inslaw Inc. accusation that Justice Dept. +illegally used and distributed Promis case management system) +Author: Seaborn, Margaret M. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Cases). +Product: Promis (Office automation software) (Usage). +Topic: Law Suit +Licensing +Copyright +Investigations +United States. Department of Justice +United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary.

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Panel Questions Justice Dept. on Inslaw

+ +

Despite the Justice Department's recent appointment of an IRM chief, the +House Judiciary Committee continues to question the department's ability to +keep its ADP house in order, especially where it concerns Inslaw and Project +Eagle.

+ +

Next month Judiciary Chairman Jack Brooks (D-Texas) intends to ask Justice +officials in a hearing to justify their $35.2 million fiscal 1992 request for +Eagle. The committee first raised questions about the office automation +project last year and voiced concerns about general ADP oversight.

+ +

Justice last month took steps to address some of these management issues when +it named longtime IRM veteran Roger M. Cooper as the first deputy assistant +attorney general for IRM. But Cooper has said he needs some time on the job +before outlining his priorities.

+ +

Meanwhile, committee investigators are continuing to prod Justice to provide +them with information for their continuing review of the Inslaw case, in +which Justice is accused of using proprietary software without a license. +Recently the department also has been accused of distributing the product to +other organizations.

+ +

Although Brooks has threatened to issue subpoenas, investigators might +piggyback on the subpoena power recently won by Inslaw Inc. president William +A. Hamilton.

+ +

The committee's investigation has been hamstrung by Justice's unwillingness +to turn over some 200 documents concerning Promis, the case management system +Hamilton alleges Justice officials stole from his company. The committee +anticipates these documents will raise more questions and will point to its +next move, a congressional staff member said.

+ +

The committee is conducting its investigation independent of information +Inslaw uncovers, but if the company's discovery process turns up evidence +that would be useful, "we will certainly look at it," he said.

+ +

Chief Judge Aubrey E. Robinson of the U.S. District Court granted Inslaw +limited discovery authority this month. It will allow the small Washington +software company to subpoena information from certain Justice bureaus to +determine whether the department illegally distributed Promis.

+ +

Robinson gave Justice 30 days to respond to the subpoenas.

+ +

Inslaw will subpoena information from the Drug Enforcement Administration, +the U.S. Marshals Service, the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, the Immigration +and Naturalization Service and the Justice Management Division, Hamilton +said.

+ +

Before granting the motion, Robinson said, "This case has had so many +skirmishes, I don't know whether you will ever get to the major battle." He +also said the court should not have to monitor Justice continuously to ensure +it obeys the law.

+ +

At Hamilton's request, Robinson last month agreed to take over the case from +the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Hamilton said Inslaw may request more subpoenas +if the discovery process shows that Justice violated a court injunction +against distributing Promis beyond the 44 copies to which it is entitled +under a 1982 contract.

+ +

Justice officials continually have denied Inslaw's allegations of wrongdoing.

+ +

Robinson noted Justice's argument that some of Inslaw's affidavits include +"second-or third-hand hearsay."

+ +

But Inslaw attorney Charles Work said, "I've got a lot of proof that +something is going on. I don't have linkage, but if I did I wouldn't be +asking for discovery."

+ +

Although Brooks has not resorted to subpoenaing Justice officials, he made it +clear in December that he would force Justice to produce the documents he +seeks. Brooks has threatened Justice with subpoenas as well as ADP funding +cuts.

+ +

Last year, Brooks recommended that Eagle's fiscal 1991 funding be cut back to +the previous year's spending level. Instead, the House Appropriations +Committee restricted Eagle installations to management and litigating +agencies and cut funding by $6.1 million to $16.9 million.

+ +

Journal: Computerworld April 1 1991 v25 n13 p1(2). +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Spies linked to software scam. (former national security adviser +Robert C. McFarlane implicated) +Author: Anthes, Gary H.

+ +

Summary: Small software developer Inslaw Inc has been fighting since 1983 +to prove that the US Department of Justice misappropriated its +product, but the case has taken a new twist with the revelation +that former national security adviser Robert C. McFarlane might be +linked to case-tracking software allegedly fraudulently obtained +from Inslaw. A former Israeli intelligence officer has alleged in +a sworn statement filed in the US Bankruptcy Court that McFarlane +gave the software to the Israeli government. Inslaw claims +officials of the Justice Department and their friends stole its +Promis law-enforcement case-tracking software for use in a complex +series of business arrangements. Federal bankruptcy judge George +Bason Jr ruled in favor of Inslaw in 1987, but the Justice +Department has filed a series of appeals in the intervening years. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Cases). +Topic: Software Piracy +Government Officials +United States. Department of Justice +Fraud.

+ +

Journal: Government Computer News April 1 1991 v10 n7 p66(2) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Title: Inslaw head says software passed like a hot potato. (Department of +Justice accused of stealing software) +Author: Seaborn, Margaret M. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Descriptors.. +Company: INSLAW Inc. (Cases). +Topic: Legal Issues +Court Cases +Bankruptcy +United States. Department of Justice +Government Agency +Theft of Equipment +Software Publishers.

+ +

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Inslaw Head Says Software Passed Like a Hot Potato

+ +

Saying four federal judges have passed its Promis software case around like a +"hot potato," Inslaw Inc. has persuaded the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to allow +the U.S. District Court to consider an unsettled discovery motion.

+ +

The small Washington company had wanted senior District Court Judge William +B. Bryant to decide a discovery motion filed last September. In 1989, Bryant +agreed with a 1987 bankruptcy court ruling that Justice Department officials +stole 44 copies of enhanced Promis from Inslaw.

+ +

In February, Judge James F. Schneider, the bannruptcy judge who had handled +the case for the past two and a half years, recused himself from the case +citing potential conflicts of interest.

+ +

"Now some six months after Inslaw initially asked for limited discovery to +determine whether the injunction had been violated... Inslaw still has had +no ruling on its motion, and worse still, has no judge to hear it," Inslaw +said in an emergency motion filed last month.

+ +

If a court granted Inslaw's motion for discovery, the company could subpoena +information to determine whether Justice had violated an injunction against +distributing copies of Promis beyond what the department acquired through a +1982 contract.

+ +

Inslaw officials said they want to withdraw the motion from the bankruptcy +court and resubmit it to the district court because the discovery request is +not a bankruptcy question.

+ +

Inslaw president William A. Hamilton said he now believes Promis has been +illegally distributed to the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense +Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the FBI.

+ +

Meanwhile, Inslaw has submitted to the bankruptcy court an affidavit from +regional sales manager Patricia Hamilton that claims Canadian government +officials told her their government was using pirated copies of Promis in as +many as 905 locations. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police could be using +Promis in 900 of those locations, she said.

+ +

A former Israeli intelligence officer alleged in a second affidavit that Earl +W. Brian, a friend of former Attorney General Edwin Meese, told him that U.S. +and Israeli intelligence agencies were using Promis. The Israeli, Ari +Ben-Menashe, also said in the affidavit he had learned that Brian sold Promis +to Iraqi military intelligence.

+ +

Brian has denied these allegations.

+ +

Schneider is the third judge to recuse himself from the case, which has been +pending almost five years. A fourth judge and the first to hear the case, +Judge George F. Bason Jr., "has come to believe that his failure to be +reappointed to the bench was due to the opinions he rendered in this case," +Inslaw said.

+ +

The emergency motion said, "Judge Bryant remains the only sitting judge who +has not removed himself and has knowledge of the facts of the case."

+ +

Bryant awarded Inslaw more than $6 million in 1988. Justice is appealing the +U.S. District Court judge's 1989 affirmation of the bankruptcy court's +ruling and has not paid Inslaw any of the awarded money.

+ +

Product: Docketrac +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Company: INSLAW, Inc. +Address: 1125 15th St., NW, Ste. 300 +Washington, DC 20005 +800-221-3187; 202-828-8600 +FAX: 202-659-0755 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Category: Software, Applications +Legal Services

+ +

Specs: Pricing: $40000-$150000 +Number sold: 18 +Release date: 1983 +Application: Legal Services-Docket Scheduling +Compatible with: IBM 9370, 30XX, 43XX/DOS, OS, MVS, CICS; DEC +VAX/ULTRIX; Wang/VS; Unisys; AT&T 3B/UNIX System V; HP/HP-UX +Minimum RAM required: 2 MB +Source language: COBOL +Customer support: Maint. fee 12% of licensing fee per yr. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Summary: On-line docketing and calendaring. Trial court information +system. Tracks cases, litigants, case parties, causes of action +and charges from filing to disposition. Debt Collection module.

+ +

Descriptors: scheduling

+ +

Product: Jailtrac +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Company: INSLAW, Inc. +Address: 1125 15th St., NW, Ste. 300 +Washington, DC 20005 +800-221-3187; 202-828-8600 +FAX: 202-659-0755 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Category: Software, Applications +Government/Public Administration

+ +

Specs: Pricing: $30000-$125000 +Number sold: 14 +Release date: 1982 +Application: Law Enforcement/Emergency Services +Compatible with: IBM 9370, 30XX, 43XX/DOS, OS, MVS, CICS; DEC +VAX/ULTRIX; Wang/VS; Unisys; AT&T 3B/UNIX System V; HP/HP-UX +Minimum RAM required: 2 MB +Source language: COBOL +Customer support: Maint. fee 12% of licensing fee per yr. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Summary: Arrest booking and jail management. Tracks arrestees, inmates and +cases. On-line data entry, updating and retrieval. Produces +user-defined forms. Includes inmate tracking, cell assignment, +property, inmate accounting, visitor control, scheduling, inmate +history, medical information and release date calculation. +Tailorable.

+ +

Descriptors: scheduling

+ +

Product: Modulaw Corporate/Lawfirm Public +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Company: INSLAW, Inc. +Address: 1125 15th St., NW, Ste. 300 +Washington, DC 20005 +800-221-3187; 202-828-8600 +FAX: 202-659-0755 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Category: Software, Applications +Legal Services

+ +

Specs: Pricing: $30000-$125000 +Number sold: 15 +Release date: 1983 +Application: Legal Services-Practice Management +Compatible with: IBM 9370, 30XX, 43XX/DOS, OS, MVS, CICS; DEC +VAX/ULTRIX; Wang/VS; Unisys; AT&T 3B/UNIX System V; HP/HP-UX +Minimum RAM required: 2 MB +Source language: COBOL +Customer support: Maint. fee 12% of licensing fee per yr. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Summary: Performs claims/matter tracking, attorney timekeeping, outside +counsel tracking, work product retrieval, docket control and +calendaring, corporate secretary management, person/organization +tracking, law library management, legislation tracking, loan +recovery and records management. User designed screens, forms and +reports.

+ +

Descriptors: scheduling; personnel; office automation; professional time +accounting

+ +

Product: Modulaw Insurance +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Company: INSLAW, Inc. +Address: 1125 15th St., NW, Ste. 300 +Washington, DC 20005 +800-221-3187; 202-828-8600 +FAX: 202-659-0755 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Category: Software, Applications +Legal Services

+ +

Specs: Pricing: $30000-$125000 per office +Number sold: 13 +Release date: 1986 +Application: Legal Services +Compatible with: IBM 9370, 30XX, 43XX/DOS, OS, MVS, CICS; DEC +VAX/ULTRIX; Wang/VS; Unisys; AT&T 3B/UNIX System V; HP/HP-UX +Minimum RAM required: 2 MB +Source language: COBOL +Customer support: Maint. fee 12% of licensing fee per yr. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Summary: On-line information system. Supports claims litigation tracking, +claims evaluation, reserve tracking, party and expert witness +cross referencing, outside counsel management, docket control and +scheduling, staff workload management, staff timekeeping and +document and issue indexing.

+ +

Descriptors: scheduling; professional time accounting

+ +

Product: Promis +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Company: INSLAW, Inc. +Address: 1125 15th St., NW, Ste. 300 +Washington, DC 20005 +800-221-3187; 202-828-8600 +FAX: 202-659-0755 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Category: Software, Applications +Government/Public Administration

+ +

Specs: Pricing: $30000-$125000 +Number sold: 75 +Release date: 1980 +Application: Law Enforcement/Emergency Services +Compatible with: IBM 9370, 30XX, 43XX/DOS, OS, MVS, CICS; DEC +VAX/ULTRIX; Wang/VS; Unisys; AT&T 3B/UNIX System V; HP/HP-UX +Minimum RAM required: 2 MB +Source language: COBOL +Customer support: Maint. fee 12% of licensing fee per yr. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Summary: Tracks cases, defendants and charges in public prosecutor's +office. Data entry, updating and retrieval. Produces +user-defined forms. Defines reports for ad hoc or periodic +production. + +Company: INSLAW, Inc. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Address: 1125 15th St., NW, Ste. 300 +Washington, DC 20005 +800-221-3187; 202-828-8600 +FAX: 202-659-0755 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Summary: Gross annual sales: $6000000 +No. of employees: 55 +Year established: 1972 +Chairman/CEO/President: William A. Hamilton +Controller: Bellie Ling +Marketing Dir.: Edward M. Durham +Personnel Dir.: Elizabeth Davis +Marketing/Comm. Mgr.: Evelyn L. Millhouse +VP Product Development: Marian Holton +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Category: Software, Applications +Government/Public Administration +Legal Services +

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Article 11142 of alt.activism: +Xref: bilver alt.activism:11142 alt.conspiracy:5175 +Path: bil-ver!tous!peora!masscomp!usenet.coe.montana.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!psinnt +p!psinntp!sgigate!odin!ratmandu.corp.sgi.com!dave +From: dave@ratmandu.corp.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe) +Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.conspiracy +Subject: the INSLAW case: Murder in the Martinsburg Sheraton? +Keywords: when justice is denied one citizen, everyone is in danger + 1991Oct15.160108.29321@odin.corp.sgi.com +Date: 15 Oct 91 16:01:08 GMT +Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) +Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. +Lines: 195

+ +

The House Judiciary Committee has been investigating the scandal +since August 1989. After months of foot-dragging, Attorney General +Richard Thornburgh, under subpoena by the committee, finally +released Inslaw-related files. However, according to a source in +the House, 15 to 20 files are missing. +"Washington Post" columnist Mary McGrory is one of the few +mainstream journalists to give the Inslaw case serious attention. +She wrote on August 18, "The man who could have resolved the Inslaw +case, Dick Thornburgh, resigned as attorney general on the day the +West Virginia police came forward with their autopsy [on Casolaro]. +. . . What was merely sinister has now turned deadly. Thornburgh +calls Inslaw 'a little contract dispute' and refused to testify +about it to the House Judiciary Committee. Richardson thinks it +could be 'dirtier than Watergate,' and, as a victim of the scandal, +he should know. Thornburgh's conduct is the most powerful reason +for believing that Danny Casolaro really saw an octopus before he +died."

+ +

from "The First Stone" column of the Sept. 4-10 1991 issue of "In These +Times": +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Murder in the Martinsburg Sheraton? +By Joel Bleifuss

+ +

For more than a year, Danny Casolaro, a Washington D.C.-based +freelance investigator, had been sorting through a web of intrigue- +-the S&L debacle, BCCI, Iran-Contra, the contra-connected Wackenhut +Corp., the Wackenhut-connected Inslaw case, and the Inslaw-connected +"October Surprise." +According to one of his close friends, who asked not to be named, +Casolaro began receiving death threats eight or nine months ago. +"Brother, just make it quick," Casolaro is reported to have told one +of these midnight callers. The last threat came on Monday, August +5, according to his brother, Anthony. +How quick death came we may never know. On Saturday, August 10, +Casolaro was found dead in Room 517 of the Martinsburg, W. Va., +Sheraton. His body was discovered with 12 incisions in his arms in +a bathtub of bloody water 17 hours after he had called his mother's +house at 6 p.m. Friday to say he was heading home but that he would +not make it to his niece's birthday party. On the following Monday +Martinsburg authorities notified the family of Casolaro's death, but +by then the body had been embalmed and the motel room had been +sanitized by a cleaning contractor. Officials are calling the +incident an "unattended death" while they continue their +investigation. Family and friends say that suicide is out of the +question. They maintain that Casolaro was not a depressive type, +and that while he did have financial problems, he did not dwell on +them. +According to family and friends, before leaving for Martinsburg, +Casolaro had been ecstatic. The pieces of the puzzle were finally +fitting together. He had told them he was going to West Virginia to +meet a source who was to help him nail down a last piece of evidence +in his investigation into the Inslaw software-theft case. +Those close to Casolaro want many questions answered. Where is +his ever-present briefcase? It was not in motel room. Where is his +tape deck? It is missing. Where were his notes and the outline of +his proposed book, "Behold a Pale Horse," which he had shown to +friends days before his death? The documents were not to found in +the Sheraton motel room or in the four boxes of his papers that the +family turned over to ABC News. Why did authorities wait so long to +notify the family of his death? His driver's license said he lived +in Falls Church, Va., and all the Casolaros listed in the 703 area +code are his relatives. Why was his body embalmed before the family +was notified? West Virginia law requires family approval prior to +embalming. Who was the man who telephoned Casolaro's house on +Saturday evening? When a housekeeper picked up the phone, a voice +said, "You're dead, you bastard."

+ +

MOTIVE FOR MURDER? What was Casolaro investigating that could have +put his life in such danger? David MacMichael is a former CIA +analyst who now directs the Washington office of the Association of +National Security Alumni, a watchdog group. MacMichael had talked +to Casolaro on the phone on Thursday, the day he left for +Martinsburg. Casolaro had made an appointment to meet with him. +Says MacMichael, "Providing the death was not a suicide, one can +examine three scenarios." First, Casolaro was developing a theory +that a group of former intelligence officers were members of a for-profit cabal that Casolaro called "The Octopus." According to his +theory, over the past 25 years The Octopus had its tentacles in a +number of international scandals. MacMichael doesn't think such a +far-fetched-sounding theory would get Casolaro killed. "If you +published their names, pictures and documents, what kind of book +would you have?" asks MacMichael. It would be dismissed, according +to MacMichael, like "a UFO crank book." +Second, Casolaro was looking into the October Surprise, the +alleged deal between the 1980 Reagan presidential campaign and +Iranians. That his death would be connected to this investigation +is "nonsense" says MacMichael, who explains that many journalists +are now investigating the 1980 deal, making it unlikely that +Casolaro had information significant enough to endanger his life. +Which leads to the third scenario, that Casolaro was on his way +to collect the final evidence needed to wrap up his investigation of +a scandal that, as MacMichael put it, involves "real crimes, real +people and real money"--the Inslaw case. (See "In These Times," May +29 ["Software Pirates" posted on-line previously].)

+ +

INSLAW MEETS THE LAW: For eight years, Inslaw Inc, has been +battling the Justice Department for possession of Promis, an +innovative case-management software program developed by company +owner Bill Hamilton. In 1986 Inslaw filed suit against the +department in federal court, claiming the department had stolen the +program. +In September 1987, Judge George Bason, the federal bankruptcy +judge from Washington, D.C., ruled, "The Department of Justice took, +converted, stole Inslaw's enhanced Promis by trickery, fraud and +deceit." He also charged, "The failure even to begin in investigate +[these charges] is outrageous and indefensible and constitutes an +institutional decision by the Department of Justice at the highest +level simply to ignore charges of impropriety." +The Justice Department appealed the ruling, and in November 1989, +Judge William B. Bryant of the U.S. District Court in Washington +affirmed the lower court's decision. He ruled, "The government +acted willfully and fraudulently to obtain property that it was not +entitled to under contract. +The Justice Department then appealed Bryant's ruling to the U.S. +Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. On May 7 that court +overturned the previous court decisions, saying the federal +bankruptcy court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case. However, the +Court of Appeals left the findings of fact undisturbed. +Earlier this year, the case took a new twist. Inslaw went public +with allegations that the Reagan Justice Department, after it had +stolen the Promis software, turned it over to Earl Brian, a friend +of both former President Ronald Reagan and former Attorney General +Edwin Meese. In 1974, Brian left then-California Gov. Reagan's +cabinet. +Inslaw alleges that its software was given to Brian as a payback +for Brian's help in arranging the arms-and-hostages deal between the +1980 Reagan-Bush campaign and representatives of the Ayatollah +Ruhollah Khomeini (see "In These Times," July 24, 1987, Oct. 12, +1988, and April 27, 1991). According to Inslaw owner Bill Hamilton, +Brian, who runs United Press International, allegedly then marketed +Promis to the intelligence agencies of Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Canada, +South Korea, Libya, Great Britain, Germany, France, Australia, +Thailand, Japan, Chile, Guatemala and Brazil. According to Inslaw's +scenario, once the software was in use by foreign intelligence +services, the U.S. National Security Agency would then be able to +infiltrate the computerized intelligence files of these countries. +Modifications on the pirated software were allegedly carried out by +the Wackenhut Corp. of Coral Gables, Fla.

+ +

WHERE IS JUSTICE?: Inslaw's attorney, Elliot Richardson, the Nixon +attorney general who resigned rather than participate in the +Watergate cover-up, has long asked for the appointment of a special +prosecutor to investigate the Justice Department's handling of the +case. But to no avail. +The House Judiciary Committee has been investigating the scandal +since August 1989. After months of foot-dragging, Attorney General +Richard Thornburgh, under subpoena by the committee, finally +released Inslaw-related files. However, according to a source in +the House, 15 to 20 files are missing. +"Washington Post" columnist Mary McGrory is one of the few +mainstream journalists to give the Inslaw case serious attention. +She wrote on August 18, "The man who could have resolved the Inslaw +case, Dick Thornburgh, resigned as attorney general on the day the +West Virginia police came forward with their autopsy [on Casolaro]. +Excess was the hallmark of the Thornburgh's farewell ceremony: an +honor guard, a trooping of the colors, superlatives form +subordinates. William P. Barr, his deputy and possible successor, +spoke of Thornburgh's 'leadership, integrity, professionalism and +fairness'--none of which Thornburgh displayed in his handling of +Inslaw. What was merely sinister has now turned deadly. Thornburgh +calls Inslaw 'a little contract dispute' and refused to testify +about it to the House Judiciary Committee. Richardson thinks it +could be 'dirtier than Watergate,' and, as a victim of the scandal, +he should know. Thornburgh's conduct is the most powerful reason +for believing that Danny Casolaro really saw an octopus before he +died." +And in the wake of Casolaro's death, Richardson has repeated his +call for a special prosecutor. He told the "Boston Globe"'s John +Aloysius Farrell, "It's hard to come up with any reason for his +death other than he was deliberately murdered because he was close +to uncovering sinister elements in what he called 'The Octopus.' +This simply strengthens the case for an in-depth, hard-hitting, +thorough investigation." +But will there be one? The FBI is treating the death lightly. +According to a spokesman in the Pittsburgh office, which has +jurisdiction over West Virginia, "There is no federal investigative +interest in the matter." +As for former Attorney General Thornburgh, he is now running for +the Senate in Pennsylvania. If Justice is served, perhaps he will +also run for cover.

+ +

-- +daveus rattus

+ +

yer friendly neighborhood ratman

+ +

KOYAANISQATSI

+ +

ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. +5. a state of life that calls for another way of living. + +

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Article 11143 of alt.activism: +Xref: bilver alt.activism:11143 alt.conspiracy:5176 +Path: bil-ver!tous!peora!masscomp!usenet.coe.montana.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!psinnt +p!psinntp!sgigate!odin!ratmandu.corp.sgi.com!dave +From: dave@ratmandu.corp.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe) +Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.conspiracy +Subject: the INSLAW case: more on Wackenhut +Keywords: Hitler's rise to power succeeded through the use of private ar-mies + 1991Oct15.160142.29417@odin.corp.sgi.com +Date: 15 Oct 91 16:01:42 GMT +Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) +Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. +Lines: 180

+ +

The Wackenhut Corporation: the maturation of "private" government.

+ +

Wackenhut's Director of Special Investigations Service Wayne Black +told the "Washington Times"' Deanna Hoagin earlier this year: "We +are similar to a private FBI." The company's board of directors +reads like a who's who of the intelligence community.

+ +

from "The First Stone" column of the Sept. 18-24 1991 issue of "In These +Times":

+ +

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Scandal Gates +By Joel Bleifuss

+ +

As CIA Director-designate Robert Gates pleads ignorance to knowledge +of CIA misdeeds before the Senate Intelligence Committee this week, +the lawmakers might do well to remember his sworn testimony of March +March 6, 1986. At the time, CIA Director William Casey had +nominated Gates for the number-two position at the agency. In an +effort to impress the senators considering his nomination, Gates +said: "[Casey] and I have consulted extensively, even in my present +position [as deputy director for intelligence] in all areas of +intelligence policy including not just analysis and estimates but +also organization, budgeting and covert action. I will now have a +formal role in all of these areas." +If Gates really had "a formal role in all of these areas"--which +appears likely--he certainly knows more than he has let on. And +someone should ask Gates what he knows about the Wackenhut +Corporation of Coral Gables, Fla. +As the Wackenhut letterhead puts in, the company provides +"security systems and services throughout the world." As +Wackenhut's Director of Special Investigations Service Wayne Black +told the "Washington Times"' Deanna Hoagin earlier this year: "We +are similar to a private FBI." The company's board of directors +reads like a who's who of the intelligence community. In 1984, for +example, former Deputy CIA Director Bobby Inman, currently one of +Gates' main boosters in Washington, was a director of the company. +And among those on the 1983 board were two former FBI special +agents, one retired Air Force general, one former commander in chief +of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), one former +director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, former CIA Director +William Rabor, Nixon-appointed FBI Director Clarence Kelly and +former CIA Deputy Director Frank Carlucci (who would later become +Ronald Reagan's national security adviser). Further, the 1983 board +included Robert Chasen, a former FBI special agent who was Carter's +commissioner of customs until 1980, when he became a vice president +of Wackenhut. Also in 1980, soon-to-be CIA chief William Casey +served as Wackenhut's outside legal counsel--the same year he +managed the Reagan-Bush election campaign.

+ +

ON THE RESERVATION: It was in 1980 that Wackenhut began working +closely with Southern California's Cabazon Indians and their tribal +administrator John Philip Nichols. The "San Francisco Chronicle"'s +Jonathan Littman reported this month that Nichols, a white American +who spent years in South American, has boasted to friends about +working on the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro and the +successful assassination of Salvador Allende. +The Cabazons hired Nichols as their administrator in 1978. +Littman reports that thanks to Nichols' connections and +grantsmanship, "federal and state agencies are helping to finance +nearly $250 million worth of projects on the 1700-acre reservation" +belonging to the 30-member Cabazon tribe. According to Littman, +these projects include a HUD and mafia-financed casino, a 1800-unit +housing complex and a $150 million waste incinerator/power plant +that was built with tax-exempt state bonds. +But most intriguing is the Wackenhut/Cabazon joint venture, which +began in 1980 when the tribe was asked to design a security system +for Crown Prince Fahd's palace in Tiaf, Saudi Arabia. This was +followed by Wackenhut/Cabazon joint venture proposals to develop +biological weapons for the Pentagon and assemble night-vision +goggles for the Guatemalan and Jordanian governments. +Why was a security firm so interested in working with a small +tribe of native Americans? One good reason can be found in a May +26, 1981, inter-office memo from Wackenhut executive Robert Frye to +the above-mentioned Robert Chasen. Frye described an 11-day +business trip with Nichols "to explore the apparent potential for +the Cabazon-Wackenhut joint venture." Frye wrote that the +reservation has "several key ingredients necessary" for a weapons +plant, including "lack of opposition by adjacent governing bodies +and 'irate citizens' over the siting of such a facility." +John Philip Nichols is no longer officially running the +reservation. According to Littman, son Mark Nichols is the tribal +administrator while the elder Nichols serves as a "mental-health +counselor to Cabazon reservation employees." John Philip Nichols +lost his job because federal law prohibits convicted felons from +running casinos. +In January, 1985, Nichols was sentenced to four years in prison +for capital solicitation of murder. He served 19 months. No one +was killed in that murder-for-hire scheme. However, in 1981, Alfred +Alvarez, a Cabazon Indian tribal vice president, and two non-Indians +were murdered execution style. Alvarez's sister Linda Streeter +Dukic says her brother and his friends died because they were about +to expose mismanagement on the Cabazon reservation. Mike Kataoka of +the Palm Springs "Press-Enterprise" reports that in 1985, when +Nichols was arrested for hiring the hitman, the U.S. Justice +Department was investigating his possible involvement in those 1981 +deaths. No charges were ever filed.

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ANOTHER MURDER? The Cabazon/Wackenhut connection was of particular +interest to Danny Casolaro, the Washington-based journalist who was +found dead in the Martinsburg, W. Va., Sheraton on August 10 (see +"The First Stone," Sept. 4 [an earlier post in this on-line +series]). Casolaro's friends, family and professional associates +fear he was murdered--and that the crime was related to his +investigations into a series of corporate and governmental scandals. +Casolaro's brother, Anthony, told the Washington-based "Corporate +Crime Reporter," "Danny was trying to track monies Wackenhut spent +and what Danny found was that [Wackenhut] had ear-marked a half +million dollars for what they call 'research.'" +Anthony Casolaro said that the money "ties in Wackenhut with this +Indian reservation and organized crime and CIA guys . . . Those +same people showed up with Inslaw and one of them shows up in the +October Surprise." +The "October Surprise" was the alleged campaign deal between Iran +and the 1980 Reagan campaign to delay the release of the U.S. +hostages held in Tehran (see "In These Times," June 24, 1987, Oct. +12, 1988 and April 27, 1991). +"Inslaw was Inslaw Inc. of Washington D.C.--a firm that has +brought suit in federal court, charging that the Reagan Justice +Department stole the company's Promis case-management software +program. Two judges has thus far ruled in the company's favor. The +suit is still in the courts (see "In These Times," May 29, 1991 +["Software Pirates," an earlier on-line post in this series]). +Earlier this year, Inslaw further alleged that the Justice +Department turned the stolen software over to Earl Brian, a friend +of both former President Ronald Reagan and former Attorney General +Edwin Meese. Inslaw charges that the software was a payback for +Brian's help in arranging the October Surprise. Former Israeli +intelligence agent Ari Ben-Menashe alleges that Brian--now the head +of United Press International--was directly involved in arranging +the 1980 deal. Ben-Menashe claims that Brian "worked very closely" +on the deal with Robert Gates, who was then a top CIA official.

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NO JUSTICE: Wackenhut is also linked to the Inslaw scandal. +Michael Riconosciuto--a weapons-systems designer and software +specialist--was director of research for the Wackenhut/Cabazon joint +venture in the early '80s. In a March 1991 affidavit for the Inslaw +case, Riconosciuto claimed that "in connection with [Riconosciuto's] +work for Wackenhut," he modified the stolen Promis software for +foreign sales. "Earl W. Brian made [the software program] available +to me through Wackenhut after acquiring it from Peter Videnieks, who +was then a Department of Justice contracting official with +responsibility for the Promis software." +Videnieks, a former Customs Service official under Commissioner +Chasen, served in the Justice Department from 1981 through 1990. In +his affidavit, Riconosciuto said Videnieks had threatened to +retaliate against Riconosciuto if he cooperated with a House +Judiciary Committee probe of the Inslaw case. Seven days after +filing the affidavit (which was not, technically, part of the +committee investigation), Riconosciuto was arrested on drug-selling +charges. He is now in a Seattle jail awaiting trial.

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PRIVATE SPIES The 1980s were a decade of privatization. As a for-profit intelligence service, Wackenhut appears to have taken on the +kind of work that in earlier years the FBI and CIA would have done +(and still do), albeit illegally. +On the environmental-crime front, Wackenhut is now the object of +an investigation by the House Interior Committee. Early in 1990, +the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., a consortium of seven oil +companies that run the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, hired Wackenhut to +spy on environmentalists, whistleblowers and other oil company +critics. Wackenhut tactics included setting up a phoney +environmental organization and having agents pose as reporters. It +is alleged in press reports that the company also monitored Rep. +George Miller (D-CA) whose house subcommittee has been investigating +environmental crimes allegedly committed by the consortium which is +composed of British Petroleum, Exxon, ARCO, Phillips, Unocal, Mobil +and Amerada Hess.

+ +

-- +daveus rattus

+ +

yer friendly neighborhood ratman

+ +

KOYAANISQATSI

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ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. +5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.

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To:.... All people who value freedom +From:........ Lance Rock, project leader +Subj:........ Games played on us by Insurances firms, Banks and others. +Project X.... Information has been provided by +. +National Commodity & Barter Association +(Constitutional Taxation and Law) +Bob Huebner (602) 954-8885 +. +$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ +$$$$$$ $$$$$$ +$$$$$$ World's Oldest Organized Profession $$$$$$ +$$$$$$ $$$$$$ +$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ +. +Insurance companies are great at playing the power game in the U.S. +and around the world. They convinced everyone to be insurance conscious +and have caused laws to be passed which supposedly require us to carry +certain types of insurance. Even the age-old tradition of showing the +bride and groom with rice has fallen victim to the demands and restrictions +of the insurance company. Insurance coverage now dictates how, and even +if, some of our traditional events will be conducted-fireworks use and +public displays, reunions in the public parks-even where and how you park +your car. +The insurance firms and banks are virtually partners in their many +financial dealings. Bank loan customers are often obligated to purchase +insurance through the bank's facilities. Insurance firms have done such +a job building power bases that they have convinced city governments to +pay millions of dollars in premiums when the city could easily be self-insured. Often the insurance carrier is smallar than the city government +it insures, but it continues to collect excessive premiums. When small +harassment claims are made, instead of fighting them to set an example +that unfounded claims will not be paid, they settle it for a few thousand +dollars-it is cheaper than fighting. This opens the door to more nuisance +claims for small amounts. The payoffs do not cost the insurnance company +since they use them as ammunition to justify higher premiums to their insured +customers. +Then to top it all off, the Power Masters take a big portion of +the premiums collected and buy reinsurance from privately owned insurance +companies located in tax haven nations such as bermuda and the bahamas. +The offshore insurance firms are usually nothing more than a desk and a +secretary. The identity of the owners and directors is protected, so the +heads of the U.S. insurance firms can actually buy the reinsurance from their +own offshore company. It is a justifiable cost of doing business and is +then added to the premiums you pay for your car, house, the cost of your +medical insurance and all the other things you want to protect against +financial loss. Even your doctor must pass along his higher premiums for +malpractice insurance by increasing his charges for office calls and +operations. You can be certain the insurance carrier will "lay off" a big +chuck of those excessive and abusive premiums (profits) with one of their +off-shore reinsurance firms. +Of course, the foreign insurance companies seldom have to pay a claim. +The coverage they provide is so excessive as to be non-existent. If the +real U.S. insurance company does have to fall back on the reinsurance +firm for settlement of an oustanding claim, the owners merely bankrupt the +off-shore firm and start a new one. Same desk, different phone number and +name. Since they are not covered by the multitude of insurance regulations +requiring reserves, they have all their assets hidden so a filling of +bankruptcy can be accomplished quickly and easily. +With all this power and money (tax free), the Power Masters +go out and organize the people who pay the premiums and trick them +into demanding that the state legislators put limits on the amount +of damages a person can collect from an insurance claim. This is to offset +some jury awards for millions of dollars as compensation for +hurt feelings. +You can bet the insurance executives are not going to lose any +sleep thinking about whether or not to pass along the savings to +their customers in the form of lowers premiums. They have created +one of the most powerful financial bases imaginable. Their legislative +lobby has caused the creation of rules which supposedly require +damages they can be ordered to pay by a jury; a means of sending +money out of the country (beyond the tax collector's reach) +and then loan it back to select firms and financial organizations +with the stipulation that they help to sell even more insurance. +If you have decided to take advantage of the current +rule system and create an economic and political power base for +yourself, then you must study the means used by the insurance +industry. A very informative book is one released in 1987 +by Gary Fagg, "Crediit Life and Disability Insurance." +. +A REAL UN-INSURANCE SCHEME +. +There is a provision in an International Treaty which is now the +law of our land (Title 46, Section 183 of the U.S. Code). This +limits the amount of liability which can be charged to the +owners and operators of a "sea going vessel" in the +event of an accident. Subsequent Federal law extendes the term "sea +going vessel" to include all boats. What it does is to limit the amount of +damages payable to an amount equal to the value of the vessel. +The exceptioons would be for intentional damage or knowingly failing +to provide assitance agter a collision and thereby causing the death of +someone. +Despite this specific limitation of liability, many boat owners run +out and pay exorbitant annual insurance premiums for coverage +which is supposed to amount to millions of dollars. The insurance firms love +to see boat owners cooming in the door. They only make a few +stipulations: Your boat must be surveyed (appraised by an expert to +establish a value); you pay the premium with the policy stipulation that +despite the face value amount of coverage, all such insurance will be subject +to international agreements. +Simply stated, the policy says the Million Dollars of coverage listed on +the face is reduced to the value of the vessel. The value of a boat +should have nothing to do with the premium one must pay for LIABILITY +coverage. But it does, because of the International Treaty which has +been adoped as a law. +Then, to compound matters, the insurance firms start loaning out +money to marina operators with the stipulation that they "require" +everyone, using the marina or renting a slip for their boat or canoe, +to carry a minimum $1 Million liability insurance policy. +Those premiums for virtually non-existent liability insurance really +do add up to a profitable bundle. +. +MANATORY INSURANCE-IT IS NOT! +. +Mandatory insurance? Don't you believe it! There is nothing mandatory +about the so-called Mandatory Insurance laws your state may have on its +books. It's another of the double-speak word games designed to trick +people into surrendering their rights. The words and meanings have beeb so +twisted around in our laws and courts that you can't even be certain that a +person whose record indicates something as blatant as a "sex offender" +ever did anything wrong. +You have a right to travel about freely by the most accepted means +of transportation at your disposal. Obviously, if your car is unsafe you +can be restrained from using it. If you can not stop the car because +of bad brakes, you are seriously endangering the health and safety of +everyone on the streets and sidewalks. +To require you to show financial responsibility after an accident +is a perfectly valid law. You cannot do financial harm to +others and not expect to have restrictions placed on your +subsequent actions. After you have an accident, the court can order you +to refrain from operating a motor vehicle until you have made +satisfactory arrangements to correct the financial harm you +have caused. +But, to require you to have insurance BEFORE you have been declared +financially irresponsible-BEFORE you can license your car (pay the taxes +on it)-BEFORE you can operate your car-that is PRIOR RESTRAINT and +violates the Constitutional Limits placed on government which requires +Due Process of Law and mandates that everyone shall be considered +innocent until proven guilty. You may never be involved in an accident +for which you would be liable for damages. To enforce such a rule would +violate the basic precept of the Constitution. California courts struck +down such efforts as being "in conflict with the Constitution" almost +as fast as law enforcement officers tried to demand that drivers show +proof of insurance. +Other states have the same law on their books, but are reluctant +to try to try enforcing it except AFTER an accident. They want to +keep this intimidating rule and hope it forces people to buy +insurance. They are passing a rule off as a law and by doing so, +weakening all real laws, the Constitution and the foundations +of the entire nation. +The word MANDATORY in the title of the law (rule) does not +mean a thing. Remember the old adage, "You can't judge a book +by its comver?" That is especially true of laws-you can not judge +a law's purpose or legality by it title. This rule was given a +title the media could use to erroneously promulgate a myth of +mandatory insurance. Then it was given a sub-title to further +mislead the public. The sub-title usually reads "All vehicles +required to have liability insurance." Following the Title and +sub-title comes the body copy of the rule. That is what +really counts. Titles do not mean a thing. +If you want to entitle a law "ANTI-CHILD ABUSE LAW" +and then draft body copy to make it illigal to chew gum on +Sunday, you can do it. If people do not challenge the basic +authority of such a law,they can be arrested and jailed for +chewing gum on Sunday. The person who accepts such an offer +and pleads guilty will then have a record of violating the +CHILD ABUSE law. +If you think that is ridiculous you haven't been paying +attention to some of the weird rules and harmful laws being +foisted off on our unsuspecting legislators, the media and +the ever harassed public. Some states have included urinating +in public as a Sex Offense. If a man pulls his car to the side +of the road and relieves that extra cup of coffee or beer in the +bushes, in the dark of night, and is seen by a police officer, he +can be arrested. If he is intimidated enough to plead guilty to +such a charge he will not elaborate on or describe the actual +offense. Try explainning such a record to a cop who wants to +know why you are parked so close to the school. Explain it +to your boss when you are being checked out for a sensitive +position within your firm. +Why doesn't your lawyer tell you all these things? You probably +do not hire an attorney every time you get a ticket. Many people +wait until they are obviously in serious trouble before they +are willing to lay out money for legal advise. But, sometimes you +can hire a lawyer an he still does not tell you-either because he +is not aware of some of the tricks being played with the law or +he just wants the fee and you are not a big enough fish to cause +him to do a lot of research for your defense. Most lawyers just +are not aware of what is happening to the rules and laws. There +stock and trade is where to look it up and how to follow the procedures +(rules) of the Court. They cannot possibly know all the laws and +rules. If you really expect that of your attorney, you should go to +your local law library and take a look at what lawyers have to contend +with. +Even the Judges don't always tell lawyers everything when they make a +ruling or deny a petition. Attorneys have been preconditioned in law school +and beyond to admit to the superior wisdom of the high court justices. +Young lawyers are awestruck and will often try to defend an untenable +position taken by a judge, simply because he does not know what else +to do. The judges are lawyers and the recent law school graduates +know that lawyers must stick together to maintain the mystique and dignity +of their hard earned licenses to practice law. +It would be nice if you could be handed an entire brief of case law to +verify the information you are getting in this book, but that would make it +to simple. There are a number of court rulings at various levels which +will substantiate the differences between rules and laws. You will find +them if you read very carefully, but the rulings are no obvious. If +they were, this book would not have been published. +If all the lawyers knew about all the differences, the government +bureaucrats and power brokers would not be able to use rule to circumvent +the Constitutional restrictions and Unalienable Rights of the peoople. The +Supreme Court of the United States is very adept at keeping the double-speak game going. If an appeal is taken to our highest court and the +questions is not phrased in a manner which would allow them to give a +double-speak answer, the Court will refuse to hear the case and let the lower +Court's decision stand. This is almost always interpreted to mean that the +particular law or rule in question is Constitutionally valid. All it really +means is that the question was not phrased in such a manner as to pin-down +the Supreme Court Justices. (See Stare Decisis,Chapter 15). +Lawyers are constantly in a quandry trying to understand why a higher +court refuse to hear an appeal which they were certain was valid. The +thousands of lawyers dropping out of the legal system each year is +evidence that something is wrong. Young men and women do not usually +spend years going to school to study such a venerable profession only +to "drop out" just when they should be enjoying the rewards of hard +work. They are dropping out because they feel the system sucks-and that +is because they do not understand the differences between rules and law. +The Supreme Court does not have to hear every case presented to it. +There are a number of legal clerks working for the court and they make +recommendationsas to which cases the judges should consider. Because of +this procedure, these clerks are in highly influencial positions. If +they see a case which would obviously warrant a ruling with which the +Court's clerk does not agree because of some personal moral or political +quirk, then the clerk will try to dissuade the jurist from considering +it. If a case is brought to the Supreme Court with the wrong question +(one which would most likely result in a decision contrary to the Control +Rules) the clerk might urge the Jurists to REFUSE to hear it and thereby +allow a lower court decision stand. +. +AN ALTERNATIVE TO LIABILITY INSURANCE +. +Many states are pushing the so-called "Mandatory Insurance" rule +in an effort to curtail the numerous uninsured motorist on the streets. +There is nothing wrong with a person wanting to be protected from financial +loss if they are stuck by some idiot driver, or even if they are the +idiot drivers themselves. +Any thinking person will acknowledge that there is an ELEMENT OF RISK +involved everytime we get behind the wheel of a car and move it out onto +the streets. The risk is clear and constant. Since we are obviously willing +to take that risk, why shouldn't we buy insurance just to protect ourselves +against financial loss and forget about trying to force everyone to buy +a liability policy? If you want to protect yourself in amounts that you +set, you pay the premium and let the rest of the world drive uninsured if +that's what they want to do. Liability would only be considered when +intentional damage is inflicted, similar to the Federal liability limitations +on vessels and on industry via the Workman's Compensation Act. Some +states have such insurance provisions known as "NO FAULT" insurance. +With "No-Fault," the insured is paid or reimbursed by his own insurance +company. Unless the damage was done intentionally, it doesn't make any +financial difference who was in the wrong. If the other guy has not +purchased insurance coverage for himself, he cannot collect. Insurance +companies do not like "No-Fault" since it does not give them time to play +with the money once a claim is made-they have to pay instead of dragging +their feet for a year or two while they carry the money on their books +and profit from investing it. +The only problem with this is that people who are uninsured will often +require medical treatment and that could be costly. The SOLUTION is to do +an actuarial study of the medical cost and property damage claims +(other than the damages to the vehicles). Divide that figure by the number +of gallons of gasoline and motor vehicle diesel fuel sold in the +states, then add that amount (about 7 cents per gallon) to the price +of the fuel at the pump. +A person who drives a big car will do more damage if involved in an +accident than a person driving a small car. At the same time the big +car will need more fuel and therefore pay more for the basic insurance +coverage via the pump price. +Someone who drives 25000 miles a year will be buying more gas and be +more "at ridk" than the person who just drives to church on Sunday-and +they pay the minimum insurance according to the amount of gasoline they +use, when they buy it. +So the government does not get into the insurance business, the +premiums paid at the pump should be devided up among various insurance +companies according to the percentage of suppliemental coverage they are +selling. They would pay claims to hospitals and damaged property owners +accordingly. +Today, when a person has four cars, he has to buy liability coverage +on all four vehicles, even through he can only drive one at a time. +Some of his vehicles, even though he can only drive one. Some of his +vehicles might only be driven once a month. With this new method, he +can buy insurance to protect his vehicles against a loss and insure +himself with extended coverage for personal injury and medical cost. +But the basic cost of medical coverage would come from the money he +aid for gasoline-the pump insurance premium! +People will be free to travel without the bureaucrats trying to +convince them that they can not drive without insurance (prior restraint). +They will no longer be gouged by insurance companies who charge for +every vehicle. People who drive more would pay more. People who +drive less would pay less. +. +. In order to give you clear examples of how we the +. people are being tricked we have print enough we hope +. to encourage you to find out more. This is our country. +. This material came from Chapter Nine in +. +. "Break the Rules and Win written by J.Jay Evenson" +. +. Want to join us? Want to protect your family? +. Want to learn how much power knowing your rights +. can give you? Want to learn why you are probably +. not required to File Income tax? (This one piece +. of knowledge could save you thousands of dollars) +. Want to know how to make your son Draft Proof! +. (This could save many lives)! Want to find out more? +. Call us today. +. +. Project X is sponsored by +. National Commodity & Barter Association +. ** Constitutional Taxation and Law ** +. Bob Huebner (602) 954-8885 +. +. Let us ask you a question? Was this material valuable +. to you? We are looking for special people out there with +. computers and communications. If you would like to be +. one of our special friends please upload the file +. ProjectX.arc to ten bulletin boards. If you use PC-Pursuit +. please include other states. Send us your name, mailing +. address, telephone number and a listing of the boards you +. uploaded to. We have a surprize for you!! +. + +Downloaded From P-80 International Information Systems 304-744-2253 +

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Global Tyranny...Step By Step +by William F. Jasper

+ +

+In the Name of Peace

+ +

The U.N. jets next turned their attention to the center of the +city. Screaming in at treetop level ... they blasted the post office +and the radio station, severing Katanga's communications with the +outside world... One came to the conclusion that the U.N.'s action was +intended to make it more difficult for correspondents to let the world +know what was going on in Katanga...(1) +-- Smith Hempstone +Rebels, Mercenaries, and Dividends, 1962

+ +

Early in 1987, millions of American television viewers tuned in to +watch the dramatic ABC mini-series, AMERIKA. What they saw was a grim, +menacing portrayal of life in our nation after it had been taken over +by a Soviet-controlled United Nations force. Their TV sets showed a +foreboding picture of America as an occupied police-state, complete +with concentration camps, brainwashing, neighborhood spies, and +Soviet-UN troops, tanks and helicopter gunships enforcing "the rule of +law."

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Liberals angrily denounced the mini-series, claiming it demonized both +the Soviets and the UN and insisting that it would rekindle +anti-communist hysteria at a time when Soviet-American relations were +at their best point since the end of World War II. The fact that +Soviet troops were at that very time committing real atrocities +against the peoples of Afghanistan didn't matter. UN officials, +furious about the way their organization was being portrayed, even +tried to have the program cancelled.(2)

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Why all the furor? Is the UN's image so sacrosanct or the goal of +US-Soviet rapprochement so sacred that even fictional tarnishing is +akin to blasphemy? After all, it was just a television program. +Haven't there been scores of highly acclaimed Hollywood productions +depicting the U.S. military and American patriots in similarly bad or +even far worse light? Besides, the totalitarianism depicted in AMERIKA +could never happen here. Could it?

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Dress Rehearsal?

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You may be surprised to learn that it HAS ALREADY HAPPENED HERE. NO, +not in the same manner and on the same scale as viewers saw in the +television series, but in an alarming real-life parallel of that +dramatic production What follows is the true, but little-known story +of the "invasion" of about a dozen American cities by "UN forces," as +told by economist/author Dr. V. Orval Watts in his 1955 book, THE +UNITED NATIONS: PLANNED TYRANNY.

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At Fort MacArthur, California, and in other centers, +considerable numbers of American military forces went +into training in 1951 as "Military Government Reserve +Units." What they were for may appear from their practice +maneuvers during the two years, 1951-1952.

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Their first sally took place on July 31, 1951, when they +simulated an invasion and seizure of nine California cities: +Compton, Culver City, Inglewood, Hawthorne, Huntington +Park, Long Beach, Redondo Beach, South Gate and +Torrance. The invading forces, however, did not fly the +American flag. They came in under the flag of the United +Nations, and their officers stated that they represented the +United Nations.

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These forces arrested the mayors and police chiefs, and +pictures later appeared in the newspapers showing these +men in jail. The officers issued manifestoes reading "by +virtue of the authority vested in me by the United Nations +Security Council." At Huntington Park they held a flag-raising ceremony, taking down the American flag and +running up in its place the United Nations banner.

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On April 31952, other units did the same thing at +Lampasas, Texas. They took over the town, closed +churches, strutted their authority over the teachers and +posted guards in classrooms, set up concentration camps, +and interned businessmen after holding brief one-sided +trials without HABEAS CORPUS.

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Said a newspaper report of that Texas invasion: "But the +staged action almost became actual drama when one +student and two troopers forgot it was only make-believe. +'Ain't nobody going to make me get up,' cried John Snell, +17, his face beet-red. One of the paratroopers shoved the +butt of his rifle within inches of Snell's face and snarled, +'You want this butt placed in your teeth? Get up.'"

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The invaders put up posters listing many offenses for which +citizens would be punished. One of them read:"25. Publishing +or circulating or having in his possession with intent to publish +or circulate, any printed or written matter ... hostile, +detrimental, or disrespectful ... to the Government of any other +of the United Nations."

+ +

Think back to the freedom-of-speech clause of the United +States Constitution which every American officer and +official is sworn to support and defend. What was in the +minds of those who prepared, approved and posted these +UN proclamations?

+ +

The third practice seizure under the United Nations flag +occurred at Watertown, New York, August 20, 1952, more +than a year later than the first ones. It followed the same +pattern set in the earlier seizures in California and Texas.

+ +

Is this a foretaste of World Government, which so many +Americans seem to want?(3)

+ +

Who ordered these "mock" UN invasions? And to what purpose were they +carried out? Do answers to these questions really matter? Or are these +merely idle concerns about curious but irrelevant events that happened +decades ago and have no bearing on our lives today? Events, +developments, and official policies in the succeeding years, under +both Republican and Democratic administrations, indicate that the mock +invasions of the early 1950s do matter and that they do have a bearing +on our lives today. The dress-rehearsal takeovers of American cities +described above occurred just six years after the founding of the +United Nations, while the organization was still enjoying widespread +public support. American military personnel were at that very time +fighting and dying under the UN flag in Korea. But as recounted in our +previous chapter, a decade later in September of 1961, the President +of the United States would propose a phased transfer of America's +military forces to the UN. Under such a plan, our Army, Navy, Air +Force, Marine Corps, even our nuclear arsenal, would be given over to +UN command, making it possible for our nation's military forces to be +used in a REAL U.N. invasion at some future date anywhere in the +world.

+ +

Interestingly, the Kennedy FREEDOM FROM WAR plan differed little from +one proposed earlier that same month by the Soviet-dominated +"nonaligned" nations at a conference held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.(4) +And it was merely an expansion of the policy enunciated by Secretary +of State Christian Herter (CFR) during the latter days of the +Eisenhower Administration. But few Americans even saw, and fewer still +ever read and understood the incredible disarmament document. For +those who did see, read and understand it, however, there could be no +doubt that it created a path leading to global dictatorship.

+ +

If the American public had been aware of FREEDOM FROM WAR +and a number of then-classified government studies being prepared at +that time -- each of which spelled out even more explicitly the intent +of government and Establishment elitists to surrender America to an +all-powerful United Nations -- there may well have been a popular +uprising that would have swept all of the internationalist schemers +from public office and public trust.

+ +

In February 1961, seven months before the President released the +FREEDOM FROM WAR plan to the public, his State Department, led by +Secretary of State Dean Rusk (CFR), hired the private Institute for +Defense Analyses (contract No. SCC 28270) to prepare a study showing +how disarmament could be employed to lead to world government. On +March 10, 1962, the Institute delivered Study Memorandum No. 7, A +WORLD EFFECTIVELY CONTROLLED BY THE UNITED NATIONS, +written by Lincoln P. Bloomfield (CFR).(5) Dr. Bloomfield had himself +recently served with the State Department's disarmament staff, and +while writing his important work was serving as an associate professor +of political science and director of the Arms Control Project at the +Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of +Technology.

+ +

This Bloomfield/IDA report is especially significant because the +author is uncharacteristically candid, eschewing the usual euphemisms, +code words, and double-talk found in typical "world order" +pronouncements meant for public consumption. The author believed he +was addressing fellow internationalists in a classified memorandum +that would never be made available for public scrutiny. So he felt he +could speak plainly.

+ +

Here is the document's opening passage, labeled SUMMARY:

+ +

A world effectively controlled by the United Nations is one +in which "world government" would come about through +the establishment of supranational institutions, +characterized by mandatory universal membership and +some ability to employ physical force. Effective control +would thus entail a preponderance of political power in the +hands of a supranational organization... [T]he present UN +Charter could theoretically be revised in order to erect such +an organization equal to the task envisaged, thereby +codifying a radical rearrangement of power in the world.

+ +

Dr. Bloomfield was still fudging a little as he began. The phrase +"some ability to employ physical force" was more than a slight +understatement, as the bulk of the report makes abundantly clear. He +continued:

+ +

The principal features of a model system would include the +following: (1) powers sufficient to monitor and enforce +disarmament, settle disputes, and keep the peace -- +including taxing powers -- with all other powers reserved to +the nations; (2) an international force, balanced +appropriately among ground, sea, air, and space elements, +consisting of 500000 men, recruited individually, wearing +a UN uniform, and controlling a nuclear force composed of +60-100 mixed land-based mobile and undersea-based +missiles, averaging one megaton per weapon; (3) +governmental powers distributed among three branches...; +(4) compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court...(6)

+ +

"The notion of a 'UN-controlled world' is today a fantastic one," the +professor wrote. "... Political scientists have generally come to +despair of quantum jumps to world order as utopian and unmindful of +political realities. But fresh minds from military, scientific, and +industrial life ... have sometimes found the logic of world government +-- and it is world government we are discussing here -- +inescapable."(7)

+ +

Dr. Bloomfield then cited Christian Herter's speech of February 18, +1960, in which the Secretary of State called for disarmament "to the +point where no single nation or group of nations could effectively +oppose this enforcement of international law by international +machinery."(8) To this CFR-affiliated academic, who had recently +worked for the disarmament agency where Herter's speech had most +likely been written, there was no question about the meaning of the +Secretary of State's words.

+ +

"Here, then," said Bloomfield, "is the basis in recent American policy +for the notion of a world 'effectively controlled by the United +Nations.' It was not made explicit, but the United States position +carried the unmistakable meaning, by whatever name, of world +government, sufficiently powerful in any event to keep the peace and +enforce its judgments."9

+ +

Then, to be absolutely certain that there would be no confusion or +misunderstanding about his meaning, he carefully defined his terms:

+ +

"World" means that the system is global, with no +exceptions to its fiat: universal membership. "Effectively +controlled" connotes ... a relative monopoly of physical +force at the center of the system, and thus a preponderance +of political power in the hands of a supranational +organization..." +"The United Nations" is not necessarily precisely the +organization as it now exists... FINALLY, TO AVOID +ENDLESS EUPHEMISM AND EVASIVE VERBAGE, THE +CONTEMPLATED REGIME WILL OCCASIONALLY BE +REFERRED TO UNBLUSHINGLY AS A "WORLD +GOVERNMENT." (10) [Emphasis added]

+ +

If government is "force" -- as George Washington so simply and +accurately defined it -- then world government is "world force." Which +means that Bloomfield and those who commissioned his report and agreed +with its overall recommendations wanted to create a global entity with +a monopoly of force -- a political, even military power undisputedly +superior to any single nation-state or any possible alliance of +national or regional forces. It is as simple as that.

+ +

"The appropriate degree of relative force," the Bloomfield/IDA study +concluded, "would ... involve total disarmament down to police and +internal security levels for the constituent units, as against a +significant conventional capability at the center backed by a +marginally significant nuclear capability."(11) Again and again as the +following excerpts demonstrate, the study drives its essential points +home:

+ +

* "National disarmament is a condition SINE QUA NON +for effective UN control... [W]ithout it, effective UN control +is not possible."(12)

+ +

* "The essential point is the transfer of the most vital +element of sovereign power from the states to a +supranational government."(13)

+ +

* "The overwhelming central fact would still be the loss of +control of their military power by individual nations."(14)

+ +

Putting Theory Into Practice

+ +

While Dr. Bloomfield was still writing his treatise for global rule, +the hapless residents of a small corner of Africa were experiencing +the terrible reality of "a world effectively controlled by the United +Nations." The site chosen for the debut of the UN's version of " +peacekeeping" was Katanga, a province in what was then known as the +Belgian Congo. The center of world attention 30 years ago, the name +Katanga draws a complete blank from most people today.

+ +

Katanga and its tragic experience have been expunged from history, +consigned to the memory hole. The region appears on today's maps as +the Province of Shaba in Zaire. But for one brief, shining moment, the +courageous people in this infant nation stood as the singular +testament to the capability of the newly independent Africans to +govern themselves as free people with a sense of peace, order, and +justice.

+ +

While all around them swirled a maelstrom of violent, communist +inspired revolution and bloody tribal warfare, the Katangese +distinguished themselves as a paradigm of racial, tribal, and class +harmony.(15) What they stood for could not be tolerated by the forces +of "anti-colonialism" in the Kremlin, the U.S. State Department, the +Western news media, and especially the United Nations.(16)

+ +

The stage was already set for the horrible drama that would soon +unfold when Belgium's King Baudouin announced independence for the +Belgian Congo on June 301960. The Soviets, who had been agitating and +organizing in the Congo for years, were ready. Patrice Lumumba was +their man, bought and paid for with cash, arms, luxuries, and all the +women, gin, and hashish he wanted. With his Soviet and Czech +"diplomats" and "technicians" who swarmed all over the Congo, Lumumba +was able to control the Congo elections.(17)

+ +

With Lumumba as premier and Joseph Kasavubu as president, peaceful +independence lasted one week. Then Lumumba unleashed a communist reign +of terror against the populace, murdering and torturing men, women, +and children. Amidst this sea of carnage and terror, the province of +Katanga remained, by comparison, an island of peace, order, and +stability. Under the able leadership of the courageous Moise Kapenda +Tshombe, Katanga declared its independence from the central Congolese +regime. "I am seceding from chaos," declared President Tshombe, a +devout Christian and an ardent anti-communist.(18)

+ +

These were the days when the whole world witnessed the cry and the +reality of "self determination" as it swept through the African +continent. Anyone should have expected that Katanga's declaration of +independence would have been greeted with the same huzzahs at the UN +and elsewhere that similar declarations from dozens of communist +revolutionary movements and pip-squeak dictatorships had evoked.

+ +

But it was Tshombe's misfortune to be pro-Western, pro-free +enterprise, and pro-constitutionally limited government at a time when +the governments of both the U.S. and the USSR were supporting Marxist +"liberators" throughout the world. Nikita Khrushchev declared Tshombe +to be "a turncoat, a traitor to the interests of the Congolese +people."(19) American liberals and the rabble at the UN dutifully +echoed the hue and cry.

+ +

To our nation's everlasting shame, on July 14, 1960, the U.S. joined +with the USSR in support of a UN resolution authorizing the world body +to send troops to the Congo.(20) These troops were used, NOT to stop +the bloody reign of terror being visited on the rest of the Congo, but +to assist Lumumba, the chief terrorist, in his efforts to subjugate +Katanga. Within four days of the passage of that resolution, thousands +of UN troops were flown on U.S. transports into the Congo, where they +joined in the campaign against the only island of sanity in all of +black Africa.

+ +

Smith Hempstone, African correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, +gave this firsthand account of the December 1961 UN attack on +Elisabethville, the capital of Katanga:

+ +

The U.N. jets next turned their attention to the center of the +city. Screaming in at treetop level ... they blasted the post +office and the radio station, severing Katanga's +communications with the outside world... One came to the +conclusion that the U.N.'s action was intended to make it +more difficult for correspondents to let the world know +what was going on in Katanga...

+ +

A car pulled up in front of the Grand Hotel Leopold II +where all of us were staying. "Look at the work of the +American criminals," sobbed the Belgian driver. "Take a +picture and send it to Kennedy!" In the backseat, his eyes +glazed with shock, sat a wounded African man cradling in +his arms the body of his ten-year-old son. The child's face +and belly had been smashed to jelly by mortar +fragments.(21)

+ +

The 46 doctors of Elisabethville -- Belgian, Swiss, Hungarian, +Brazilian, and Spanish -- unanimously issued a joint report indicting +the United Nations atrocities against innocent civilians. This is part +of their account of a UN attack on a hospital:

+ +

The Shinkolobwe hospital is visibly marked with an +enormous red cross on the roof... In the maternity, roof, +ceilings, walls, beds, tables and chairs are riddled with +bullets... 4 Katangan women who had just been delivered +and one new-born child are wounded, a visiting child of 4 +years old is killed; two men and one child are killed...(22)

+ +

The UN atrocities escalated. Unfortunately, we do not have space here +to devote to relating more of the details of this incredibly vicious +chapter of UN history -- even though the progress toward establishing +a permanent UN army makes full knowledge of every part of it more +vital than ever. Among the considerable body of additional testimony +about the atrocities, we highly recommend THE FEARFUL MASTER by G. +Edward Griffin; WHO KILLED THE CONGO? by Philippa Schuyler; REBELS, +MERCENARIES, AND DIVIDENDS by Smith Hempstone; and 46 Angry Men by the +46 doctors of Elisabethville.

+ +

In 1962, a private group of Americans, outraged at our government's +actions against the freedom-seeking Katangese, attempted to capture on +film the truth about what was happening in the Congo. They produced +KATANGA: THE UNTOLD STORY, an hour-long documentary narrated by +Congressman Donald L. Jackson. With newsreel footage and testimony +from eyewitnesses, including a compelling interview with Tshombe +himself, the program exposed the criminal activities and brutal +betrayal perpetrated on a peaceful people by the Kennedy +Administration, other Western leaders, and top UN officials. It +documents the fact that UN (including U.S.) planes deliberately bombed +Katanga's schools, hospitals, and churches, while UN troops +machine-gunned and bayoneted civilians, school children, and Red Cross +workers who tried to help the wounded. This film is now available on +videotape,(23) and is "must-viewing" for Americans who are determined +that this land or any other land shall never experience similar UN +atrocities.

+ +

After waging three major offensive campaigns against the fledgling +state, the UN "peace" forces overwhelmed Katanga and forced it back +under communist rule. Even though numerous international observers +witnessed and publicly protested the many atrocities committed by the +UN'S forces, the world body has never apologized for or admitted to +its wrongdoing. In fact, the UN and its internationalist cheering +section continue to refer to this shameful episode as a resounding +success.(24) Which indeed it was, if one keeps in mind the true goal +of the organization.

+ +

Following the Policy Line

+ +

Why did the government of the United States side with the Soviet Union +and the United Nations in their support of communists Lumumba and +Kasavubu and their denunciation of Tshombe? Why did our nation supply +military assistance to and an official endorsement of the UN's +military action against Katanga? The answer to both questions is that +our government was guided by the same "world order" policy line laid +out by the New York Times in its hard-to-believe editorial of August +16, 1961:

+ +

[W]e must seek to discourage anti-Communist revolts in +order to avert bloodshed and war. We must, under our own +principles, live with evil even if by doing so we help to +stabilize tottering Communist regimes, as in East Germany, +and perhaps even expose citadel of freedom, like West +Berlin, to slow death by strangulation.(25)

+ +

Further elaboration on this theme is revealed in a 1963 study +conducted for the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency by +the Peace Research Institute. Published in April of that year, here's +what our tax dollars produced:

+ +

Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, we benefit +enormously from the capability of the Soviet police system +to keep law and order over the 200 million odd Russians +and the many additional millions in the satellite states. The +break-up of the Russian Communist empire today would +doubtless be conducive to freedom, but would be a good +deal more catastrophic for world order...(26)

+ +

"We benefit enormously?" Who is this "we"? Certainly not the American +taxpayer, who carried the tax burden for the enormous military +expenditures needed to "contain" Soviet expansionism.

+ +

And who determined that freedom must be sacrificed in the name of +"world order"?

+ +

Dr. Bloomfield, in the same classified IDA study cited earlier, again +let the world-government cat out of the bag. If the communists +remained too militant and threatening, he observed, "the subordination +of states to a true world government appears impossible; BUT IF THE +COMMUNIST DYNAMIC WERE GREATLY ABATED, THE WEST MIGHT WELL LOSE +WHATEVER INCENTIVE IT HAS FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT." (27) ( Emphasis +added)

+ +

In other words, the world order Insiders were faced with the following +conundrum: How do we make the Soviets menacing enough to convince +Americans that world government is the only answer because +confrontation is untenable; but, at the same time, not make the +Soviets so menacing that Americans would decide to fight rather than +become subject to communist tyrants?

+ +

Are we unfairly stretching these admissions? Not at all. Keep in mind +that from the end of World War II, up to the very time these +statements were being written, the communists had brutally added +Albania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, North +Korea, Hungary, East Germany, China, Tibet, North Vietnam, and Cuba to +their satellite empire and were aggressively instigating revolutions +throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

+ +

And, as was later demonstrated by the historical research of Dr. +Antony Sutton and other scholars, all of these Soviet conquests had +been immeasurably helped by massive and continuous transfusions from +the West to the Kremlin of money, credit, technology, and scientific +knowledge(28) It was arranged for and provided by the same +CFR-affiliated policy elitists who recognized in the "communist +dynamic" they created an "incentive" for the people in the West to +accept "world government."

+ +

Project Phoenix

+ +

The U.S. Departments of State and Defense funded numerous other +studies about US-USSR convergence and world order under UN control. In +1964, the surfacing of the Project Phoenix reports generated +sufficient constituent concern to prompt several members of Congress +to protest the funding of such studies.(29) But there was not enough +pressure to force Congress to launch full investigations that could +have led to putting an end to taxpayer funding of these serious +attacks on American security and our constitutional system of +government.

+ +

Produced by the Institute for Defense Analyses for the U.S. Arms +Control and Disarmament Agency, the Phoenix studies openly advocated +"unification" of the U.S. and USSR.(30) The following passages taken +from Study Phoenix Paper dated June 4, 1963 leaves no doubt about this +goal:

+ +

Unification -- ... At present the approach ... may appear so +radical that it will be dismissed out of hand; nevertheless, +its logical simplicity... is so compelling that it seems to +warrant more systematic investigation...

+ +

Today, the United States and the Soviet Union combined +have for all practical purposes a near monopoly of force in +the world. If the use and direction of this power could +somehow be synchronized, stability and, indeed even unity +might be within reach.(31)

+ +

The Phoenix studies, like many other government reports before and +after, urged increased U.S. economic, scientific, and agricultural +assistance to the Soviet Union. These recommendations are totally +consistent with the long-range "merger" plans admitted to a decade +before by Ford Foundation President Rowan Gaither. And both Republican +and Democratic administrations have followed the same overall policy +ever since. But world order think-tank specialists like Bloomfield +realized that the incremental progress made through these programs was +too slow. He even lamented that reaching the final goal "could take up +to two hundred years."(32)

+ +

Bloomfield then noted that there was "an alternate road" to merger and +eventual world government, one that "relies on a grave crisis or war +to bring about a sudden transformation in national attitudes +sufficient for the purpose."(33) The taxpayer-funded academic +explained that "the order we examine may be brought into existence as +a result of a series of sudden, nasty, and traumatic shocks."(34)

+ +

Incredible? Impossible? Couldn't happen here? Many Americans thought +so 30 years ago -- before "perestroika," the Persian Gulf War, +propaganda about global warming, and other highly publicized +developments. But by the fall of 1990, Newsweek magazine would be +reporting on the emerging reality of "Superpowers as Superpartners" +and "a new order... the United States and the Soviet Union, united for +crisis management around the globe."(35) [Emphasis added]

+ +

In a seeming tipping of his hat to Bloomfield, President Bush would +state in his official August 1991 report, NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY +OF THE UNITED STATES: "I hope history will record that the Gulf crisis +was the crucible of the new world order."(36)

+ +

The CFR's house academics were already beating the convergence drums. +Writing in the Winter 1990 issue of Foreign Policy ( published by the +Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Thomas G. Weiss (CFR) and +Meryl A. Kessler exhorted: "If Washington is to seize the full +potential of this opportunity, it will have to ... begin to treat the +Soviet Union as a real partner."

+ +

The long-planned partnership began to take form officially with the +signing of "A Charter for American-Russian Partnership and Friendship" +by Presidents Bush and Yeltsin on June 17, 1992.

+ +

Among the many commitments for joint action in this agreement, we find +the following:

+ +

* "... Summit meetings will be held on a regular basis";

+ +

* "The United States of America and the Russian +Federation recognize the importance of the United +Nations Security Council" and support "the strengthening +of UN peace-keeping";

+ +

* The parties are determined "to cooperate in the +development of ballistic missile defense capabilities and +technologies," and work toward creation of a joint "Ballistic +Missile Early Warning Center";

+ +

* "In view of the potential for building a strategic +partnership between the United States of America and the +Russian Federation the parties intend to accelerate defense +cooperation between their military establishments ..."; and

+ +

* "The parties will also pursue cooperation in +peacekeeping counter-terrorism, and counter-narcotics +missions."(37)

+ +

Before this charter had even been signed, however, our new " partners" +were already landing their bombers on American soil. AIRMAN, a +magazine for the U.S. Air Force, reported in large headlines for the +cover story of its July 1992 issue: "The Russians Have Landed." The +cover also featured a photo of the two Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers and +an An-124 transport which had landed on May 9th at Barksdale Air Force +Base in Louisiana. An accompanying article noted that the Russians +were given "a rousing salute from a brass band and a thrilled +gathering of Air Force people and civilians who waved U.S. and +Commonwealth of Independent States flags."

+ +

The long-standing plan of the Insiders calls for a merger of the U.S. +and the USSR (or Commonwealth of Independent States as it has become) +and then world government under the United Nations (see Chapter 5). +Details leading to completion of the plan are unfolding week after +week, month after month, before an almost totally unaware America. + +

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+ +

An INTRODUCTION to + +************************* HYPERSPACE ************************** +in +Your Everyday Life

+ +

WHERE IS HYPERSPACE? +------ and ------ +HOW DO WE GET THERE FROM HERE? +-----------------------------

+ +

THE Ancients imagined a timeless space beyond human

+ +

comprehension that they called Heaven, Hades, Valhalla, Gehenna, +------ ----- -------- ------- +Limbo, Elysian Fields, Happy Hunting Grounds, each in his own +----- -------------- --------------------- +language. The mysterious supernal and infernal regions were

+ +

populated with gods and goddesses, devils and demons, angels and

+ +

fairies, ghosts and goblins, chimerae of every conception. On an

+ +

Olympian stage, the immortal spirits acted out the universal

+ +

human drama in myths teaching the meanings of life and death,

+ +

good and evil, morality and nemesis, until the advent of modern

+ +

science brought discredit to intangible realities.

+ +

Man does not live without myth. As the traditional morality

+ +

plays lose their power to rule men's minds, lively new myths are

+ +

composed to replace the dead. If the modern priests of science

+ +

refuse to address the problems of the human soul, the modern

+ +

poets of science-fiction will use the ken and cant of science to

+ +

answer spiritual needs for intangible ideals. Mentor and Merlin

+ +

are reincarnated as Obi Wan Kenobi and Yoda; as the last of the

+ +

Jedi Knights of a Round Table on some planetary Camelot, Luke

+ +

Skywalker draws a laser Excalibur from the Stone to wield The

+ +

Force on a cosmic odyssey. After running for centuries at

+ +

Olympus, followed by a century of full houses at Dodge City, the

+ +

spiritual epics are now playing in hyperspace. +----------

+ +

Hyperspace is known to science only as a calculation of

+ +

pure, abstract mathematics. Physicists are unaware that they

+ +

are actually charting the tangible landmarks of hyperspace while

+ +

they plot the PSI factors defining the virtual state of the +------------------------ +quantum field. Like Moliere's BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME, everyone +------------- +lives in The Twilight Zone without knowing it. After reading +----------------- +this book, you will be able to recognize the landscape of

+ +

hyperspace in your everyday life. The immortal spirits are very

+ +

real entities, and God is alive and well on the street where you

+ +

live.

+ +

__________________________ +I I +I Creatures that drift I +I in the depths of the sea I +I are the very last I +I to discover the water. I +I__________________________I

+ +

THIS thesis has grown over twenty-five years since I noticed

+ +

that the ceremonial KATAS of the ZEN martial arts express the

+ +

very same energy equations that physicists write in mathematical

+ +

notation. (SIDE-1) Once I discovered this key, I realized that

+ +

all forms of art are mathematical equations expressing

+ +

transformations of energy more subtle than brute strength. Works

+ +

of art are a special kind of physical machinery that projects

+ +

higher-dimensional structures into lower-dimensional spaces for

+ +

some convenience of perceiving. You can see the way art performs

+ +

this function by applying the rules of optical perspective to

+ +

represent a three-dimensional structure on a plane surface.

+ +

The most familiar kind of pictorial perspective presents the

+ +

appearance of its subject from but a single viewpoint. In order

+ +

to comprehend a solid structure in its entirety, it is necessary

+ +

to render it from as many aspects as are required to reveal all

+ +

of its structural details in their correct relationships to each

+ +

other; many tridimensional perspectives must be studied in order

+ +

to construct a conception of a hyperspacial entity.

+ +

The art of mathematics presents alternative aspects in the

+ +

form of tautological equations, each expressing the view from a

+ +

different frame of reference, such as a=lw, l=a/w, and w=a/l to

+ +

describe the two-dimensional structure of a square by one-

+ +

dimensional semantics. All the codices of mathematical equations

+ +

express different views of the single hyperspacial entity known

+ +

as the universe; our comprehension of the universal structure +-------- +is far from complete.

+ +

Artists have a vocation to express their perceptions of

+ +

hyperspacial realities from every point of view that man can

+ +

reach, at every different time that man can live in, to provide

+ +

us with handles on universal truths. All the myths and all the

+ +

religions present us with different pictures of the same

+ +

hyperspacial entity, and that entity is ourselves.

+ +

CLOSE THIS FILE

+ +

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+ +

SIDE-1

+ +

Most lovers of literature know that "Gulliver's

+ +

Travels is a satire on the politics of Jonathan

+ +

Swift's time and place but did you realize that

+ +

"Alice In Wonderland" and "Through The Looking

+ +

Glass" are cryptic explorations of hyperspace?

+ +

Alice's adventures are a comic dramatization of the

+ +

very same protean confusions, instabilities,

+ +

fantasies, whimsies, cruelties, and self-

+ +

contradictions of the virtual state of the quantum

+ +

field that you are about to tour by way of a more

+ +

mathematical direction.

+ +

Lewis Carroll is the pen name of the Reverend

+ +

Charles Dodgson, a mathematician more competent

+ +

than he dared to reveal to his contemporaries, so

+ +

he became better known under his real name for

+ +

making sensitive photographs of pretty little girls

+ +

all bare naked with no clothes on.

+ +

___________________________________ +I I +I Scientists and artists I +I are both mystics I +I competing in the myth business. I +I I +I The differences between them I +I are mainly a matter I +I of professional jargon. I +I___________________________________I

+ +

YOU are able to perceive voluminous space only because your

+ +

mind fuses the two different perspectives received by your two

+ +

eyes. *1

+ +

From one point of view, your inner eye sees merely plane

+ +

images. In order to perceive solid structures in voluminous

+ +

space, you must move around the subject under observation and

+ +

fuse an indefinite number of aspects from all sides. A cone,

+ +

for illustration, is seen as a circle in plan view, a triangle in

+ +

elevation, and various angles subtended by various arcs in all

+ +

other views. The solid structure of a cone is conceived only

+ +

after fusing all images in the mind. If your mind were not able

+ +

to construct this gestalt, you would be unable to recognize the +------- +triangular aspect of the cone as having the same identity as the

+ +

circular aspect. (SIDE-1)

+ +

The ability to fuse an indefinite number of plane images

+ +

into a solid image in the mind is usually achieved during

+ +

childhood as we master language, so no one is aware of common

+ +

aberrations. As an example, few people saw the view from the top

+ +

until everyone travelled by air. Without flight experience, you

+ +

don't learn to fuse plan views of the landscape with the familiar

+ +

elevations; therefore, aerial photographs remain unintelligible

+ +

to most people. You would be surprised by the number of people

+ +

who cannot read blueprints because of their inability to fuse all

+ +

sectional drawings into a dynamic tridimensional gestalt. Cubism

+ +

is four-dimensional perspective; the art of Cubism makes no sense

+ +

to people who cannot analyze plural perspectives and recombine

+ +

them mentally to form a hyperspacial image of the pictorial

+ +

subject.

+ +

Since George Eastman provided everyone with a camera, we find

+ +

that most snapshots, like driver's IDs, can't be recognized by the

+ +

subject's mother. How is it possible for the camera (that cannot

+ +

lie) to produce unrecognizable portraits? From the infinite number

+ +

of views you see of your nearest and dearest, only a certain number

+ +

are selected for fusion into the mental image of the person you

+ +

identify. The zillions of other views are occulted from the visual

+ +

consciousness because they are insignificant or because the

+ +

differences are great enough to produce the painful condition of

+ +

cognitive dissonance that prevents fusion of disparate ideas. +--------------------

+ +

Cognitive dissonance is produced by harmonic discord among

+ +

the vibrations defining ideas, images, and sounds. All

+ +

differences produce cognitive dissonance until discordant phases

+ +

are cancelled and the remaining vibrations are resolved into a

+ +

harmonically integrated gestalt in a higher dimension, like a

+ +

musical chord. Wave cancellation is the physical basis of the

+ +

concept of psychological repression established by Freud; these

+ +

wave mechanics also produce KARMA. (*2)

+ +

Interference between (mental) waves transforms them into

+ +

other frequencies so that objects are not perceived as they

+ +

really are, if they are not rendered altogether invisible as a

+ +

consequence of cognitive dissonance. Therefore, each person sees

+ +

and hears truly only those signals that are congruent with the

+ +

conceptual patterns already defining one's own mental structure;

+ +

all other perceptions are distorted and repressed, occulted

+ +

behind the Veils of Maja. (SIDE-2) At the bottom line,

+ +

intereference produces a pair of predominant patterns separated

+ +

by 180o of phase. As a result, reality is perceived to be

+ +

polarized between good and evil, black and white, strong and

+ +

weak, male and female, etc.

+ +

Just as only one side of a solid structure can be seen at a

+ +

time, without a mirror, only one phase of a hyperspacial

+ +

structure can be perceived directly at one time. It is natural,

+ +

therefore, to assign a unique identity to different phases that

+ +

exceed the observer's capacity for resolution into a single

+ +

gestalt. Virtue is not recognized as the front of vice, no light

+ +

is seen in darkness, and you have to know your TAO to find

+ +

strength in compliance. Union of complementary opposites

+ +

transforms them both into a structure of higher dimension. The

+ +

degree to which you can resolve polar opposites establishes the

+ +

dimensional scope of your Consciousness. An understanding of

+ +

hyperspace enables you to answer problems that defy all

+ +

philosophers limited to three-dimensional concepts; given

+ +

sufficient scope, you will even understand the opposite sex. (*3)

+ +

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+ +

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+ +
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+ +

SIDE-1 +Assigning different identities to

+ +

different aspects of the same structure is

+ +

most commonly experienced in interpersonal

+ +

relationships. During the initial rush of

+ +

love, all perceptions that trouble the purity

+ +

of the relationship is repressed. Admonitions

+ +

from friends and family to watch where you are

+ +

giving your heart are ignored as utterly

+ +

irrelevant to the paragon identified with all

+ +

the virtues of true love, and none of the

+ +

vices. When dissonant aspects of the loved one

+ +

appear from behind the Veils of Maja, they are

+ +

perceived to belong to another person, a

+ +

stranger in your home and a devil in your bed.

+ +

+Unable to conceive that pleasure and pain

+ +

can come from the same parent, infants

+ +

perceive a good true-parent and a wicked step-

+ +

parent. Most people still cannot identify God

+ +

with the devil, nor can they perceive that

+ +

Heaven and hell are complementary aspects of

+ +

one real world.

+ +
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+ +

SIDE-2 +The Latin mind has no imprinted concept

+ +

of the English SCHWA sound. Without the mental

+ +

concept, the Latin ear cannot distinguish

+ +

between his and hees. The sound of big +--- ---- --- +activates the concept of beeg, and beeg is +---- ---- +what the Latin mind hears. Likewise, the

+ +

Japanese mind has no imprint for the ell +--- +sound; in the Japanese mind, the elle sound is +---- +heard as arr. +---

+ +

Male and female mentalities are

+ +

imprinted with different concepts making it

+ +

physically impossible for the opposite sex to

+ +

receive the same message thatis sent.

+ +

Communication between sexes is like

+ +

communication between different species. No

+ +

matter how many times arguments are settled,

+ +

the very next argument is the very same

+ +

argument. Acquiescence is not agreement, but

+ +

resignation and tolerance of the

+ +

incomprehensible.

+ +
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+ +

*1 If your mind is unable to fuse plural images, the brain +is confused, and all images but one are erased from your visual +Consciousness. The eye transmitting the voided image loses its +functional capacity. It may be speculated that other sense +organs also lose their function when their information is voided.

+ +
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+ +

*2 If Freud studied physics before medicine, he wouldn't +have invented a square wheel in his theory of sexual +determinism. Psychology and psychiatry would be radically +different if a grounding in elementary physics were prerequisite. +These professions will soon be demolished and reconstructed by +the hard science of artificial intelligence.

+ +

The soft sciences are not soft by their very nature, but +because soft ideas attract people incapable of comprehending +hard, mathematical concepts, and once soft-heads populate a +profession, hard-heads move out of the neighbourhood. As a +consequence, the soft sciences degenerate into nonsense until +they become too impractical to hold their customers. If astrology +were not so soft-headed, actuaries would be calculating horoscopes +instead of statistics.

+ +

The essential difference between the hard-head and the soft-head is concentration of mental focus. Whereas the hard-head +defines particulars, the soft-head senses the overview. Both +heads are half-wits if they cannot vary the scope of their focus +to integrate particulars with wholes to comprehend both at once +in a higher dimension of Consciousness.

+ +
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+ +

*3

+ +

OOOOOOOOOOOOO\ The confusion prodiced by the +O\ O \ Necker cube is due to seeing the +O \OOOOOOOOOOOOO inside and the outside of a box +O O O O at the same time. When seen as a +O O O O plane image, a transparent cube +O O O O presents a different structure +OOOOOOOOOOOOO O from every point of view, and +\ O \ O except when seen in a plan or +\OOOOOOOOOOOOO elevation, no aspect resembles +the shape of an opaque box. +This is an object lesson in the difference between the structure +of an entity in hyperspace and the form it presents in a lower +dimensional space.

+ +

Since God is an Entity of utmost dimensional extent, +no man can look at a complete image of It in this lifetime --- +and that is the reason for the religious prohibition against +graven images. In order to preclude any manifestation of The God +That Is All That Is from being worshipped as the One Big I, The +First Commandment is engraved, "Thou shalt not hold any god +before Me." Anything less than God is the very devil, and the +devil grows more diabolical as it grows more Godly; the devil is +the Brightest Angel of them all.

+ +

The worship of anything less than God, no matter how Godly, +is Satanism; the good people of this world are far more +dangerous than the bad. You see, the only difference between bad +people and good people is that bad people say that all wars are +good, whereas good people say that some wars are good; both +sides agree that no war is bad unless it is lost. As the child +prays, "Dear God, please make all the bad people good and the +good people nice."

+ + + +

THE mind is able to fuse two visual images only when

+ +

there is practically no difference between them. Fusion of visual

+ +

images into a stereo gestalt becomes impossible if the two

+ +

perspectives differ by more than the interocular distance. In

+ +

other words, there is a limit to the amount of difference that

+ +

can be resolved without producing an identity crisis. (SIDE-1)

+ +

+To illustrate, if your views of a cone were limited to the

+ +

extremes of plan and elevation, only extraordinary conditions and

+ +

mathematical calculation would enable you to realize that the two

+ +

mutually incommensurable figures were aspects of the same

+ +

identity in a higher dimension of space. Ordinarily, you are able

+ +

to relate one extreme view to the other extreme by innumerable + +other viewing angles revealing the gradual transformation of the

+ +

circle into the triangle. Even after identifying the circle as

+ +

an allotropic aspect of the triangle, you would still be unable

+ +

to form the concept of a solid cone unless your mental space

+ +

were large enough to comprehend three dimensions; you would

+ +

believe that the conical structure alternates between a

+ +

circle and a triangle according to the viewing angle; it would

+ +

be the wave-particle paradox all over again.

+ +

On the atomic scale, hyperspacial rotations occur at such

+ +

speed that transition phases between extreme views cannot be

+ +

resolved within the temporal precision of the experiment. The

+ +

wave-particle dichotomy is refractory to scientific

+ +

comprehension not only because an electron flips between its two

+ +

phases faster than the instruments can follow, but also because

+ +

both wave packets and particles are three-dimensional concepts.

+ +

Mentally unable to comprehend ultratridimensional entities,

+ +

physicists identify different projections of one subatomic

+ +

particle as several new discoveries, and that is why there is no

+ +

end to the number of elementary particles.

+ +

At least four dimensions of space are required to fuse

+ +

several three-dimensional structures into a single identity in

+ +

the same place at the same time. The most highly respected

+ +

scientific authorities aver that it is impossible for any human

+ +

intellect to visualize space extending in more than three

+ +

dimensions. Nevertheless, your mind reveals the mathematical

+ +

parameters of four-dimensional hyperspace every time you fuse

+ +

more than one three-dimensional image into a gestalt. Look at

+ +

that, would you; like the atom, the inner space of your mind is +------------------------------- +hyper! Hyperspace is as familiar to you as your own mental +----- +concepts. How 'bout that, Dr. Einstein?

+ +

The science of physics is actually the physics of

+ +

perception. Your mind is a house of many mansions. Most people

+ +

never see the doors in the walls of their nurseries; they spend

+ +

their entire spiritual lives confined in the crib where they

+ +

were born, while they can only wonder about the sounds of family

+ +

activity that transpire dimly into their windowless

+ +

compartments. In these pages, you will read the construction

+ +

plans of your spiritual palace. Once you realize that the

+ +

barriers limiting your experience are merely partitions, you

+ +

will open the doors of your mind to explore the manifold halls

+ +

of self-knowledge. You may even leave your father's house to

+ +

make your way as a grown person in the big hyperworld outside.

+ +

Of course, it is dangerous out there, and not all who venture

+ +

return sound and successful, but that is what real life is all

+ +

about when play school is left behind. The physics of

+ +

consciousness is what this book is all about.

+ +

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+ +

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+ +
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+ +

SIDE-1

+ +

The limits of identity provide a

+ +

universally practical principle for getting

+ +

what you want out of life -- especially if you

+ +

have to get what you want out of other people.

+ +

To wit, it is impossible to change anyone's

+ +

mind except by nicely graduated argument that

+ +

slowly turns the other's point of view to your

+ +

direction; if you argue too strongly, you only

+ +

provoke rage, denial, and repression of

+ +

everything you say. The TAO teaches that the

+ +

battle does not go to the strong, nor the race

+ +

to the swift, but to the gentle and the

+ +

patient; this is the true meaning of Jesus'

+ +

promise that the meek will inherit the Earth.

+ +

Beggars, flatterers, and cheaters take more

+ +

than workers, racers, and robbers.

+ +

___________________________ +I I +I It is not in our stars I +I that our troubles arise, I +I my dear reader, I +I but in our telescopes. I +I___________________________I

+ +

FUSING disparate images depends upon the development of a

+ +

faculty for ignoring differences. The mind learns to ignore

+ +

differences by subsuming them to a common feature, such as

+ +

association of time, place, utility, or physical property. The

+ +

subsumption of ideas into abstract classifications is produced

+ +

by wave interference; and so, particular, individual differences

+ +

are repressed to the Unconscious as the mind grows from

+ +

perceptions limited to tangible sense data to comprehend

+ +

abstract concepts. (SIDE-1)

+ +

Plato wrote the original hyperspacial theory explaining

+ +

that each of the material bodies in this world is a

+ +

manifestation of an Ideal Form in Heaven. In modern mathematical

+ +

terms, Plato can be paraphrased to say that each individual

+ +

structure is a unique cross-section (or projection) of an

+ +

entity existing in a space of more than three dimensions,

+ +

intersecting with our tridimensional world. Plato conceived his

+ +

concept of Universal Form by the mental process of verbal

+ +

abstraction, and then with true philosophic backasswardness he

+ +

declared that the particular is derived from the abstract,

+ +

instead of the other way 'round; nevertheless, Plato is right.

+ +

Since Plato explained that all individual differences are

+ +

unique aspects of the ideal, and since wave interference is

+ +

proven to be the physical mechanism that subsumes differences

+ +

within the gestalt, the technical means for revealing a tangible

+ +

manifestation of the Ideal Form is self-evident. By

+ +

superimposing an indefinitely large number of individual images

+ +

of the same class of tangible manifestations, the individual +----- +wave-forms arrange themselves according to the principle of the

+ +

Conservation of Energy into a single, harmonically integrated

+ +

structure. Photographers will recognize this process as the way

+ +

to make a hologram. A hologram, therefore, is a tangible +-------- +hyperspacial structure. How 'bout that, Dr. Gamow?

+ +

A hologram looks like nothing so much as a compounded

+ +

vortex. A compound vortex is what a hyperspacial entity looks

+ +

like when it becomes manifest in its entirety as a tridimensional

+ +

form. When Cecil B. DeMille represented the God of Moses as a

+ +

vortex of light, he was revealing his Unconscious knowledge of

+ +

the platonic Ideal. (SIDE-2)

+ +

_____________________ +I I +I Beauty is the Beast I +I_____________________I

+ +

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+ +

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+ +
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+ +

SIDE-1 + +Children notice microscopic differences;

+ +

they inspect details minutely, and object to

+ +

the slightest change in their environment ---

+ +

especially food. Children lose their

+ +

preternatural discrimination of tangible

+ +

reality as they learn to speak, and everyone

+ +

spends the rest of his life trying to find the

+ +

original reality of the child, by way of

+ +

sensory excitement, philosophizing, religious

+ +

disciplines, and chemical keys to the Kingdom.

+ +

Childish minds that grow big without

+ +

growing up make a profession of details

+ +

without being able to realize their meaning in

+ +

a universal gestalt; they are favoured to

+ +

become scholars and authorities. Swelled heads

+ +

are illustrated by the learned philosophers

+ +

who argued about Adam's navel while remaining

+ +

incapable of questioning Adam's rib. But

+ +

however narrow their perspective, scholars

+ +

are broadminded enough to realize that it does

+ +

not profiteth a man in this life to gain the

+ +

whole world in one vision.

+ +

The joys of youth, and its bellicosity,

+ +

are the intense excitement produced by the

+ +

perception of differences. Conversely, most

+ +

of the normal depression which grows with age

+ +

is the result of losing discrimination so

+ +

that nothing new is perceived under the Sun.

+ +

The conventional wisdom believes that the

+ +

senses atrophy along with the thymus gland,

+ +

the gonads, and the digestive organs, to

+ +

produce ennui from lack of excitement.

+ +

Actually, the sense organs atrophy as

+ +

interest in differences is lost because of

+ +

terminal classificationosis. Your tour of duty

+ +

on this planet is done when you no longer find

+ +

any difference between one day and the next,

+ +

one season and the next, one person and

+ +

another, one sex and the other. VIVE LES

+ +

DIFFERENCES!

+ +
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+ +

SIDE-2

+ +

Christ is the God of Man, variously

+ +

called The Son of God and The Son of Man. The

+ +

epithets of Christ mean that He is the

+ +

platonic Ideal of the human species, and each

+ +

of us is a unique manifestation of this

+ +

Universal Ideal Human Being.

+ +

A special kind of holographic portrait

+ +

of the Christ can be produced by superimposing

+ +

an indefinite number of life-size photographs

+ +

of people. This technical photography has

+ +

actually been done. In this process, the

+ +

superimposed waves do not produce a vortex;

+ +

instead, the wave interference pattern is

+ +

manifest like the superimposition of musical

+ +

notes to produce a predominant key tone. The

+ +

image resulting from this extraordinary

+ +

holographic process reveals an ineffably

+ +

beautiful human body of exquisitely perfect

+ +

proportions. Christ is quite simply the One

+ +

Perfect Human Being from Whom all mortals are

+ +

imperfectly projected.

+ +

+Individuals possessing features

+ +

approximating the human average manifest some

+ +

of Christ's Divine Beauty, and that is why all

+ +

us mortals who deviate from the average are

+ +

moved to adore these paragons of pulchritude.

+ +

Unhappily, the instinct to deify the norm has

+ +

the necessary consequence of abhorring

+ +

deviation as the very devil.

+ +

The great truth revealed by this

+ +

photographic demonstration is not that good

+ +

looks are as good as God; the image of the

+ +

Perfect Human Being is composed of every one

+ +

of the ugliest and most deviant among us, as

+ +

well as the most beautiful freaks. Beauty

+ +

without ugliness is less than the whole

+ +

platonic Human Being, and anything less than

+ +

perfect is diabolical to the degree that

+ +

wholeness is lacking.

+ +

+The youthful, female form divine tends

+ +

toward the average human proportions; the

+ +

elderly, male form is the ugly deviant.

+ +

Mortals who have seen the Christ Spirit

+ +

testify that His counten-nance is like an

+ +

unmarked youth with compassion that is learned

+ +

only through eons of suffering; His ugliness

+ +

radiates beauty.

+ +

The closer a nearly holy creature

+ +

approaches perfection, the greateris its power

+ +

for evil, and that is why Satan is the

+ +

Brightest Angel of them all, second only to

+ +

the Creator, Itself; the buck private's

+ +

mistakes will kill him, but the general's

+ +

mistakes kill everyone. Before damning the

+ +

practically good, execrating the almost true,

+ +

and abominating the compellingly beautiful as

+ +

Temptation, always remember and bear in mind

+ +

that Money is not Evil; it is the worship +------- +of Money that possesses one's soul. We are

+ +

given beauty to enjoy while it lasts; the

+ +

mortal sin is worshipping beauty --- or any

+ +

other god that does not incorporate its

+ +

proper devil.

+ + + +

WORDS are ultraspacial structures created by abstracting

+ +

common features of significance while ignoring unique features.

+ +

Words amplify similarities and eliminate differences by wave

+ +

interference. Words are the product of fusing all the unique

+ +

images of several structures into an ultraspacial gestalt.

+ +

The gestalt represented by its abstract noun is not visible

+ +

to the material eye because it is a ultratridimensional physical

+ +

structure that is manifest to our Consciousness only as a form

+ +

of what we conceive to be mental energy, more rarified than

+ +

electromagnetic substance. A word is an image of an ultraspatial

+ +

mental Form; words are the very Ideas that Plato talked about.

+ +

The tridimensional material eye can see only a unique,

+ +

material example of the gestalt at any one time. In other words,

+ +

a gestalt exists as an extension of its material manifestations

+ +

in the form of a trajectory through time and space; to wit, a +---------- ---- +mental concept extends through no fewer than four dimensions.

+ +

(SIDE-1) The minds comprehends the dimensions of time; this is

+ +

why intelligence is identified with the sense of time. Abstract

+ +

verbal concepts are understood only as they can be comprehended

+ +

within the temporal dimensions of one's mind; a mind is perceived

+ +

to grow to the extent that it perceives precedents and

+ +

consequences. Athena is merely the god of intellect; the ruler of

+ +

consciousness is Kronus, the Overlord of Time and Change.

+ +

The nemesis of abstraction, as Korzybski pointed out, is

+ +

that the symbol becomes the reality, and the individual

+ +

differences in the real world are occulted behind the Veils of

+ +

Maja. As the focus of the mind shifts from the immediately

+ +

tangible world to verbal concepts, the mind becomes separated

+ +

from the body and both lose their health. Paradise is a myth

+ +

about a preverbal Consciousness, before men created words and

+ +

subsequently mistook the symbol (idol) for reality (God); the

+ +

Fall of Man and his Expulsion is the consequence of worshipping

+ +

verbally fashioned images. Philosophers pretend to lead us back

+ +

to reality on ways paved with more words of higher abstraction,

+ +

like devils promising to lead us to Heaven. If the devil is the

+ +

Father of Lies, words are surely the Mother.

+ +

Conscious mind is a creation of words. Therefore, no one in

+ +

his socially defined, right-thinking, right-handed mind can

+ +

perceive anything not previously defined by words. Experiments

+ +

have found that people lacking the words to describe subtle

+ +

colours are also unable to distinguish fine differences in hues,

+ +

but as soon as they are given the words to define the

+ +

differences between crimson, scarlet, and vermillion, for

+ +

example, they no longer see all reds as red. Poets expand the

+ +

common Consciousness by giving new meanings to old words and by

+ +

coining new words.

+ +

Words referring to abstract concepts are projections of

+ +

spiritual structures from hyperspace into our mental space.

+ +

We are unable to know the higher dimensions of the hyperspacial

+ +

universe we live in because our culture lacks the verbal

+ +

concepts for our minds to perceive what our eyes plainly see.

+ +

Although there is no way that you can learn to swim without

+ +

getting wet, reading is the most efficient way for you to

+ +

acquire the vocabulary of hyperspace that you need for your eyes +---------- +to open on the New Heaven and New Earth of hyperspace.

+ +

Hyperspacial vocabulary is what this book is all about.

+ +

Scientific knowledge is nothing but verbal knowledge, and

+ +

knowledge is the key to power; humanity is ruled by words. The

+ +

physical and mathematical principles that explain the material

+ +

world of three dimensions also control the manifestations of

+ +

hyperspacial energies; e.g., e=mc^2 opens the way to the high-

+ +

dimensional energies of the atom. Furthermore, the very forms in

+ +

which higher-dimensional energies are represented serve as a

+ +

handle for wielding the power. This is what magic, idols,

+ +

charms, amulets, spells, incantations, hexes, and prayers are

+ +

all about. (*1)

+ +

Artists, scientists, and mystics who glimpse spirits dimly

+ +

through the Veils of Maja limn a projection of the eternal

+ +

entities into the human dimensions of literature, theatre,

+ +

music, dance, architecture, engineering, philosophy,

+ +

mathematics, justice, politics, morality --- in a word, culture. +------- +Like pictorial art, all cultural artifacts compress hyperspacial

+ +

structures into fewer dimensions so that ideas are represented

+ +

in more or less tangible forms. The form is the specialized

+ +

language of its poet and the meaning of the form is the essence

+ +

of the myth.

+ +

The difference between science and religion is the

+ +

difference between the quantified equations of mathematics and

+ +

the unquantified equations of metaphore. Those who cannot focus

+ +

their mental scope with sufficient precision to count must

+ +

guesstimate relationships by comparing superficial attributes to

+ +

derive meanings from their experiences. The errors of both

+ +

science and religion are produced by logical deductions made

+ +

from inherently faulty language, but the errors cannot be

+ +

perceived by people who mistake their words for real things and

+ +

their language for a real map. Philosophic disputes are word

+ +

wars; those who live by their words also die by their words.

+ +

The highest energies are manifest in the power of pure

+ +

thought, which mortals call God. Words are the coins of thought,

+ +

like money is minted power. It is the extraspacial power of the

+ +

human God expressed through the words of men that vouchsafes our

+ +

articulate species dominion over all the dumb beasts of the

+ +

field, and word power is the very Divine soul deficient in all

+ +

other planetary life. The extraspacial power of God expressed

+ +

through the word is attested in John 1:1, IN THE BEGINNING WAS

+ +

THE WORD AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD. +---- ---- --- --- +Parsing the language of hyperspace reveals the very diction,

+ +

syntax, and grammar of Creation, Itself.

+ +

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+ +

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+ +
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+ +

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+ +

A trajectory is a mathematical and

+ +

physical reality that lacks tangible

+ +

substance, confounding all scientific

+ +

philosophers. A trajectory is a commonplace

+ +

example of a pure, objective thought form. A +------------ +compound vortex is an infinite trajectory

+ +

compressed in time until its entire extension

+ +

can be comprehended within a single view.

+ +
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+ +

*1 The automobile is actually a mathematical idea +expressed in a material form, like an idol, that enables us to +use the power of gasoline for propulsion. No other idol possesses +its devotees so compellingly as the automobile, nor does any +other god demand such human sacrifice, not even Ares; the apple +of our modern Eden is a red sports car.

+ + + +

________________________________ +I I +I The sound of one hand clapping I +I is the echo I +I of your own praise I +I for your own beliefs I +I reflected from the wall I +I of an indifferent world, I +I and heard only by yourself. I +I________________________________I

+ +

AS modern physics becomes mystical, "the ZEN of science" has

+ +

become a parlour cliche among the scientifically literate. ZEN

+ +

Masters penetrate the Veils of Maja cast by verbal logic to

+ +

apprehend reality by direct experience. (SIDE-1) Since they

+ +

eschew words, ZEN Masters write no books and preach no sermons.

+ +

ZEN disparages texts because no mathematical terminology existed

+ +

in its high and far-off times when the YOGAs were developed

+ +

empirically. (*2) Nevertheless the Masters knew a mathematical

+ +

language, and they used it to express their knowledge of

+ +

hyperspace. They composed their KATAs as mathematical equations

+ +

in the languages of art, music, chanting, dancing, theatre,

+ +

graphics, and architecture. The arts inspired with ZEN are

+ +

exquisitely measured. The Hyperspace Trilogy is a Rosetta Stone

+ +

translating the language of the ZEN arts into the language of

+ +

modern science. This book could be called The Physics of TAO.

+ +

The sage says, "Seek and ye will find. Ask and it will be

+ +

answered unto you." Scientists are fond of saying that their

+ +

business is discovering the right questions to ask. If

+ +

scientists weren't so cocksure that they knew everything there

+ +

is to know about their business, any lawyer could tell them how

+ +

to discover the right questions. The correct question is the +--------------------------- +question to which you already know the answer. If you don't have +--------------------------------------------- +an immediate answer, you must know where to find it. No other

+ +

questions are of any use in the enterprise of deducing Nature's

+ +

secrets.

+ +

ZEN Masters are fond of answering disciples asking for

+ +

wisdom by a question called a KOAN. KOANs are believed to be

+ +

nonsense intended to confuse one's mind until a critical tension

+ +

precipitates a mystical insight. KOANs are not nonsense; they

+ +

are a special kind of question to which you already know the

+ +

answer, but you don't want to know you know because such

+ +

knowledge is self-knowledge; the most heinous crime of this

+ +

civilization is to be caught in possession of self-knowledge.

+ +

Self-knowledge, you see, is the special kind of knowledge that

+ +

releases a person from the KARMIC wheel of life and the rule of

+ +

Satan, however you conceive your devil. As soon as you answer

+ +

the KOAN, you are expelled from Plato's cave, and the game of

+ +

darkness is over. The Laughing Buddha in the heart of your

+ +

personal Lotus Blossum isn't ready to cash your chips because of

+ +

Enlightenment until damn good and ready. The mental crisis of

+ +

the KOAN is resolved by formulating a plausible answer that

+ +

satisfies the curiosity without actually taking the terminal

+ +

gaze into the brilliant Face of God. Psychoanalysts get

+ +

plausible answers from all their patients; the trouble with

+ +

psychoanalysis is that the entire science is nothing but a

+ +

plausible answer to estop its advertised purpose of self-

+ +

discovery.

+ +

All those posing unanswerable questions, or declaring that

+ +

their questions can't be answered are not in the business of

+ +

creating science, nor do they have any intention of informing

+ +

the public; their real purpose is obscuring knowledge and

+ +

confusing you in order that they may gain and hold their

+ +

advantage over you. Rhetorical questions take many forms, and

+ +

none are so beguiling as the scientific poser. Rhetoric

+ +

manipulates automatic psychological reflexes so as to make the

+ +

audience believe that the authority who cannot answer his own

+ +

questions knows something that his audience doesn't know. The

+ +

only thing he knows that you don't know is how to get well paid

+ +

for knowing nothing you don't know --- and telling you to your

+ +

face.

+ +

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+ +

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+ +

SIDE-1

+ +

ZEN defies comprehension by Europeans

+ +

for reasons similar to the incomprehensibility

+ +

of mathematics by broadly focussed minds. It

+ +

is simply impossible to describe the

+ +

essentially hard-headed precision of ZEN

+ +

practise by soft-headed language, and it is

+ +

just the softest of American heads that are

+ +

attracted to ZEN as an escape from

+ +

responsibility, rather than for love of

+ +

order. Like a symphony and a cathedral, ZEN

+ +

is pure mathematics with out words. ZEN is

+ +

the essence of art. (*1)

+ +
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+ +

*1 I used to tease waitresses by ordering two fried +eggs, the first egg fried on one side and the second fried on the +other. Eventually I met a serving maid who gave me exactly what I +asked for. She sure shut my mouth. I wonder what she is doing, +now?

+ +

I've never met a ZEN freak who used KOANs to blow his mind. +They were all playing one upmanship on me, in the curious belief +that posing an unanswerable question made them superior. They +invested all their faith in the conviction that the KOAN can't be +answered logically, so they have something greater than reason +going for them. Children delight in playing with words to create +statements that are self-contradictory and impossible to realize; +it is a childish mind that believes unanswerable questions are +more significant than answers. When the KOAN is answered, like +drawing the Sword from the Stone, they not only lose their game, +but they also lose their faith. It satisfies their competitive +humility to proclaim they are stupid, but no one can be smarter +than their GURU, so they are wiped out when their GURU's bluff is +called.

+ +
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+ +

*2 Every arcane study has devotees of vastly different degrees +of competence. Groupies preserve and preach all precepts +indiscriminately, because they don't know the difference between +genius and learned fools.

+ +

The moral is that everyone who believes he knows what's what +should write his solutions for world salvation. Sooner or later, +people will regard every recorded folly as inspired wisdom; it +could be yours.

+ +

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+ +

____________________________________________________ +I I +I Like proverbs and all other legislation, I +I every scientific law and mathematical equation I +I is contradicted I +I by another scientific law and mathematical proof. I +I I +I Wisdom is a matter I +I of choosing the law I +I which satisfies your purpose. I +I____________________________________________________I

+ +

YOU will find nothing of theoretical importance in this

+ +

book that you don't already know; all you will find in this book

+ +

is innumerable different views of what you already know and

+ +

believe in different contexts. Since the TAO of "phasics" turns

+ +

everything into its opposite, you will find that everything you

+ +

believe is self-contradictory; nevertheless, PLUS CA CHANGE and

+ +

all that. How much of this book you will understand and believe

+ +

depends entirely on your ability to maintain mental focus on the

+ +

structural points of the subject so that you can hold its

+ +

identity as I change the perspective. By the time you finish

+ +

this book, you will realize that the entire universe is your own

+ +

self, turned around every which way and inside out.

+ +

This is not a scholarly thesis; it is not the product of

+ +

laboratory experiments, abstruse calculations, nor of library

+ +

research. Everything you will read in this book is derived from

+ +

observation of everyday, ordinary life. I shall introduce

+ +

cardinal cases with commonplace observations or some commonplace

+ +

facts and see what comes by way of some commonplace logic. As

+ +

you follow my line of reason, you will see that your common

+ +

sense leads to insights that are ignored and denied by

+ +

authorized versions of truth. Now, what do you do? Do you deny

+ +

your own senses and let authorities tell you what your life is

+ +

all about, or do you decide for yourself the basis of your facts

+ +

and take responsibility for making up your own mind?

+ +

Professional authorities are convinced that the public is too

+ +

stupid and ignorant to understand science, health, religion, and

+ +

politics, not to mention teaching your children. The authorities

+ +

have always condemned the Socratic dialogue as a corruption of

+ +

youth. You won't think you are so stupid and ignorant by the

+ +

time you finish reading this book.

+ +

It is just because this thesis is based on common

+ +

experience that you can satisfy yourself of its truth. If you do

+ +

not agree with me after checking my observations and facts

+ +

against your own, tell me about it. You may be right; we may

+ +

both be right from our respective points of view and frames of

+ +

reference. If you find me mistaken, this book will have served a

+ +

worthwhile purpose as an object lesson illustrating the ways

+ +

that observations are susceptible to misperceptions, common

+ +

facts are liable to be mistaken, and common sense can lead to

+ +

common delusion. You need only look at the continual revisions

+ +

of established scientific facts to see that the most highly

+ +

qualified experts are just as subject to changing views as the

+ +

rest of us --- which is why they should not be believed with

+ +

less question than you are expected to direct at this book. (*1)

+ +

The best advice your medical doctor will ever give you is

+ +

"seek a second opinion"; the advice is just as wise when you

+ +

attend doctors of philosophy.

+ +

During earlier years of my life while my livelihood

+ +

depended on orthodox beliefs, I refused to give a thought to any

+ +

of the ideas I am able to entertain now that my employer doesn't

+ +

care what science I believe, as long as I don't bad mouth his

+ +

politics (I work for the government, now). So do not suppose

+ +

that I have no sympathy for the authorities; I have believed

+ +

their doctrine for the same reasons they maintain their faith. I

+ +

use satire only to reduce the awe of authority that stultifies

+ +

people under oppressive doctrines. As you know, no one hates

+ +

smokers more than a quitter --- who longs for a drag.

+ +

The critical word in the previous sentence is oppressive. +---------- +As long as a doctrine is bigger than its believers, it opens

+ +

their minds to explore the vastness of its comprehension; no

+ +

believer is going to give up that space --- nor should anyone.

+ +

But when its believers outgrow their doctrine, it becomes

+ +

spiritually oppressive, and they seek a greater freedom. And so,

+ +

you see, no doctrine is inherently true or false; its truth

+ +

depends upon how well it fits the vital needs and the mental

+ +

stature of the people who believe it. Try this book on for size.

+ +

If it fits your head, give it a test run on your road of life;

+ +

if it cramps your style or rattles your chassis, you should have

+ +

learned by now that we have to kiss a lot of frogs before we

+ +

find our princes, and lick a lot of muddy feet before we find a

+ +

God that repays our belief with as much support as we give.

+ +

My comments on religions are not informed by scholarship

+ +

but merely reflect generally held conceptions that outsiders

+ +

entertain about creeds other than their own, like ethnic jokes

+ +

express one's perspective on foreigners. Outsiders perceive

+ +

meanings quite different from insiders. Confession, for example, +---------- +has an entirely different meaning for Romans than for other

+ +

people; you have to be a Catholic to experience it. Which is the

+ +

true meaning? It depends on whether you are looking from the

+ +

inside or the outside, doesn't it? Nevertheless, ethnic jokes

+ +

express human identities, values, and follies more acutely than

+ +

anthropological studies --- especially the identity, the values,

+ +

and the follies of the teller. Some pious people may not be able

+ +

to tolerate the respect I have for any church but theirs, nor

+ +

can they tolerate any mention of their obvious follies. I ask

+ +

you --- is a sense of humour and appreciation of the ludicrous a

+ +

gift of the devil? No soul could abide in a Heaven without

+ +

humour if hell holds all the fun. If I failed to offend anyone,

+ +

let me know and the next edition will treat you the same as

+ +

everyone else.

+ +

If you find this book intolerable, it is mainly because you

+ +

have not been exposed to this kind of ideas before. You will be

+ +

surprised at how inoffensive they will be the next time you have

+ +

an encounter of this challenging kind. The initial denial,

+ +

ridicule, and scepticism of Flying Saucer sightings gradually

+ +

changed to belief for no reason other than the persistence of

+ +

the reports for forty years; it doesn't matter that most of the

+ +

reports are not true, and UFO hysteria was composed by the media

+ +

to supply popular demand. If you haven't come here from

+ +

Buckminster Fuller, see how his "Synergetics 1 & 2" grab you when

+ +

you go there from here.

+ +

Most people expect to understand a book on one reading; a

+ +

book baffling at first sight can't get a literary review. I

+ +

expect many readers to appreciate the insights into their

+ +

special interest and competence, but be lost through the pages

+ +

referring to other kinds of knowledge. You must realize,

+ +

however, that this book would have no reason for its existence

+ +

if it explained hyperspace from the mathematical view, alone ---

+ +

as all other books on this subject do. This is a synthesis of

+ +

many disciplines and philosophies; your mind must be capable of

+ +

fusing the concepts and languages of many arts, crafts, sports,

+ +

and sciences into a single gestalt in order to understand the

+ +

physical structure and manifestations of hyperspace in your +---- +everyday life; this book is a holy scripture for the working +------------- +days of the week. Mathematics and metaphore, high philosophy and

+ +

vulgarity, are combined in the same paragraph, if not in the

+ +

same sentence, so that you may realize that all languages

+ +

express the very same truths. Thus, the believers of every faith

+ +

will find scientific substantiation of their religion in the

+ +

structure of hyperspace, and artists will find their common

+ +

identity with scientists in politics' strangest bed.

+ +

Mathematics, science, art, philosophy and religion cannot be

+ +

experienced in everyday life unless they are expressed as

+ +

everyday ideas in everyday language.

+ +

This book is as paradoxical as its subject. It is clear and

+ +

confused, profound and superficial, comic and tragic, ludicrous

+ +

and reverent, it has no single thread of reason but spreads a

+ +

tapestry, it is incoherent but an indivisible whole, it is fact

+ +

and fantasy --- with more truth in the fantasy than in the fact.

+ +

Writing it has been my KOAN; I composed it to be your KOAN.

+ +

There is at least one epiphany for every reader, but, like a

+ +

joke, you must be baffled to get it. This is a book for reading

+ +

many times between reflections on life because it yields

+ +

different meanings as you learn your living. Read it like a

+ +

Bible that can be understood only in parts, according to your

+ +

experience, intelligence, and wisdom --- and the number of

+ +

children you have raised --- especially the little darlings who

+ +

came with your second spouse.

+ +

Understanding hyperspace is nothing but the ability to

+ +

comprehend plural concepts, including polar opposites, within

+ +

the same gestalt. Not only have I written the text to reflect

+ +

the confusion of hyperspace, but I have also composed the format

+ +

to serve as your object lesson in comprehending multiple views

+ +

simultaneously. A magazine style should present no difficulty to

+ +

a generation brought up on split-screen movies, multi-media

+ +

light shows, and studying for academic exams while watching

+ +

television with a friendly friend of the opposite sex. After

+ +

reading the sidenotes to get the relevance, the logic is woven

+ +

by the continuous text. On the third run through, you may read

+ +

the footnotes without feeling interrupted.

+ +

Reading this book is somewhat like listening to a symphony;

+ +

on first hearing, it is noise. It is only after the structure

+ +

and the details have imprinted a gestalt in one's mind that

+ +

melodies and counterpoint can be heard as musical architecture.

+ +

The meaning of music is the gestalt; otherwise it is only notes;

+ +

the beautiful sensation of music is produced by experiencing the

+ +

energy of the gestalt amplified by harmonic resonance with each

+ +

note. Likewise, the meaning of this book is in its gestalt, a

+ +

synthesis of all its disparate parts in a higher dimension of

+ +

consciousness. Nevertheless, each page can also be fruitful

+ +

without further reference; this book offers something for

+ +

everyone at any time.

+ +

Once you are informed that lw=a, no further instruction is

+ +

required for you to realize that a/l=w and a/w=l; the three

+ +

equations express the very same structure. If you can only

+ +

memorize equations, however, they will always seem mutually

+ +

contradictory to you; lacking any intuitive understanding of why

+ +

lw=a, the only proof you have of its truth is that the wallpaper

+ +

fits the wall. As a consequence, Hitler was adequately trained

+ +

to cut wall paper, but his groupies are unable to calculate the

+ +

cost of deceptive packaging.

+ +

There is nothing in this book that is not self-evident from

+ +

elementary equations known to everyone before entering high

+ +

school. The only reason this book can be considered necessary

+ +

reading is to clear your mind of the rote thinking inculcated by

+ +

formal schooling. Formal education is determined to prohibit

+ +

everyone from relating facts into a whole body of knowledge that

+ +

inspires wisdom. Deprived of faculties for judgement, the public

+ +

is unable to understand what is really being done to them; thus,

+ +

everyone is forced to pay the professional establishment

+ +

exhorbitant fees for simple services everyone can do for himself

+ +

--- like filing divorce papers --- and rendered susceptible to

+ +

believing everything one is told, like perennial children.

+ +

Liberated women know exactly what I mean.

+ +

You don't learn about hyperspace so much as you grow into +----- ---- +understanding as a consequence of mental/physical/spiritual

+ +

evolution, like you grow into walking, talking, and sexual

+ +

consciousness. Always remember and bear in mind that hyperspace

+ +

extends through more than three dimensions, so you must be able

+ +

to read construction plans easily before you can make sense of

+ +

this book. In short, hyperspace is not difficult to understand;

+ +

if its meaning does not develop like music after some

+ +

rumination, comprehension is simply impossible, so don't sweat it.

+ +

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+ +

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+ +
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+ +

* I am impressed that the speakers at conferences are +determined to persuade their audiences to believe, not +criticize, and the audiences are seeking something to believe +rather than a mandate to exercise their judgement. Thus, both +parties waste the opportunty to learn something --- like, maybe +they are mistaken.

+ +

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+ +

________________________ +I I +I The Hyperspace Trilogy I +I is a universal theory. I +I________________________I

+ +

"TIME TRAVEL --- The Secret Science of The UFOs " is the

+ +

first volume of a trilogy. This First Book puts you on The Yellow

+ +

Brick Road by way by studying some simple models illustrating how

+ +

familiar space is converted into familiar time by increasingly +----- ---- +fine division and increasingly accelerated velocity. Once you

+ +

arrive in The Emerald City of hyperspace, you will learn how

+ +

higher dimensions are defined by the familiar measurements of

+ +

energy; i.e., frequency, phase, and amplitude. You will see how

+ +

the familiar physical fields of force known as nuclear,

+ +

electromagnetic, gravitic, sonic, and even life and mental

+ +

forces, constitute a scale of successively rarified hyperspacial

+ +

worlds manifest to our senses as pure energy. Hyperspace is

+ +

nothing but energy, and the geometry of hyperspace is nothing but

+ +

a mathematical plotting of the laws governing transformations of

+ +

energy.

+ +

"TIME TRAVEL --- THe Secret Science of The UFOs"

+ +

presents a graphic solution to the Unified Field Equations that

+ +

has defied the entire scientific world for a century. Unlike

+ +

e=mc^2, which could not be implemented without an army of the

+ +

world's most creative engineers funded by national treasuries,

+ +

e=mc^3 is within the economic capacity of a home workshop,

+ +

enabling free-enterprising Yankee know-how to open a new era of

+ +

peace and prosperity like the palmy days of Edison, Ford, Tesla,

+ +

the Wright Brothers, Tim Leary and Hugh Hefner. To the degree

+ +

that the experiments of Henry Moray, Thomas Townsend-Brown,

+ +

Bruce de Palma, and Pat Flanagan are as successful as they

+ +

claim, the first lights are already shining into the New Age.

+ +

Professional engineers will develop this Unified Field Theory to

+ +

technical details beyond the scope of this book --- not to

+ +

mention the competence of this author. After giving a

+ +

ringful of keys to several adventurers who would be kings, the rest

+ +

of this book will speculate on the probable design and

+ +

engineering of the Flying Saucers. Once we have some practicable

+ +

idea of how the Saucers operate, the possibilities of who builds +--- --- +them, where they come from, and what they are doing here are +----- ---- +reduced to a practical argument.

+ +

The Second Book of Hyperspace, titled "LIVING CRYSTAL ---

+ +

The Philosopher's Stone", explains the theorems of hypergeometry,

+ +

providing inventive explorers with a mathematical foundation to

+ +

create new engines, sciences, and arts. The discovery of the New

+ +

World of Hyperspace will transform our civilization more

+ +

radically than the discovery of America. Like the early

+ +

explorers of this world found wealth, power, and fame, the

+ +

explorers of the New Reality on the other side of the universal

+ +

Klein Bottle will also found their empires and fortunes --- if

+ +

they manage to avoid the savage cannibals prowling the

+ +

hyperspacial jungles and the jealousy of the nobility when they

+ +

return with their finds to civilization --- you are better off

+ +

with the savages. Success could be yours, if you are young,

+ +

energetic, enterprising --- and if your spouse will support you

+ +

while you get your act together.

+ +

The theorems of hypergeometry actually describe the

+ +

properties of crystals, the quintessence of solid state physics. +-------- +Crystals provide the means for tapping the titanic energies of

+ +

hyperspace for human industry. By the time you read The Second

+ +

Book of Hyperspace, you will realize that the human body is

+ +

actually a living crystal, the most highly evolved crystal in

+ +

this world. Miracles are worked by holy men, such as Jesus,

+ +

when they learn to alter the crystal parameters of their bodies.

+ +

The Rock on which Christ built His Church is the very +---- +Philosopher's Stone sought by alchemists throughout history; +------------------- +like the Riddle of The Sphynx, Peter is the human body. The very +----------------------- +fact that the Philosopher King Arthur's Stone is sought indicates

+ +

that this hyperscience was known by prehistoric cabals; they are

+ +

probably still alive and herding the human livestock on this

+ +

lively little planet for their own benefit more than ours. Anyone

+ +

who trusts the shepherd when he comes bearing gifts has got to be

+ +

some kind of sheep.

+ +

"KARMA --- The Birth, Life, and Death of YOUR SOUL"

+ +

completes this trilogy. You will learn why some people are

+ +

healthy, wealthy, and wise, while others suffer various

+ +

deficiency diseases. Even love, marriage, and happiness are

+ +

determined by each person's position in hyperspace, commonly

+ +

plotted by astrologists. Just as modern science has already

+ +

opened hyperspace for trade and commerce without knowing what

+ +

they hath wrought, the spiritual dimensions of hyperspace are

+ +

all described in the world's religions without anyone knowing

+ +

what the great Teachers were really talking about. You will

+ +

realize the meaning of your life and your eternal soul by the

+ +

time you complete The Hyperspace Trilogy. (*1)

+ +

If I live long enough, the story of how I made all these

+ +

discoveries in the ZEN martial arts will be told when I finish

+ +

writing the first book I began, "FIERCE LOVE --- The Secret

+ +

of Spiritual Power in The ZEN MARTIAL ARTS".

+ +

The Flying Saucer is a challenge to science and politics. As

+ +

far as the millions of wonderersare concerned, however, the UFO

+ +

phenomenon is an essentially religious excitement, the secular

+ +

apotheosis of the Messiah. Unlike any other study, The Hyperspace

+ +

Trilogy responds to all public concerns by explaining the

+ +

technological, the political, and the religious mysteries

+ +

concurrently. This book is the beginning of a literary work

+ +

destined to be a seminal classic of the New Age, a text for

+ +

researchers, inventors, engineers, farmers and gardeners,

+ +

psychologists and psychiatrists, religious disciples, medical

+ +

doctors and interminably ill patients, politicians, advertisers,

+ +

artists, architects, athletes, science-fiction writers and

+ +

everyone who wants to know why people are such problems,

+ +

especially the people we love. You are not starting to read a

+ +

book but beginning a graduate university course of studies that

+ +

will change your perception more drastically than an O.D. ticket

+ +

on the SugarCube Express. The Hyperspace Trilogy is the kind of

+ +

study that enables its readers to fullfill their vocations to

+ +

become holistic teachers needed to lead people into the New Age.

+ +

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+ +

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+ +
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+ +

*1 Everyone prays that "Thy will be done", and then prays that +"My will be done". We'll get one or the other, shan't we.

+ +

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+ +

__________________________________________________ +I I +I Curiosity about hyperspace I +I is the mental forerunner I +I of our metamorphosis I +I into the Kingdom of Christ, I +I like curiosity about sex I +I is the forerunner I +I of sexual maturation. I +I People with no curiosity I +I about the higher dimensions of ther existence I +I are not yet ready for their Salvation. I +I I +I The direct perception I +I of our Divine Entity in hyperspace I +I is the spiritual destiny of every soul, I +I like parenthood is the destiny of most mortals. I +I__________________________________________________I

+ +

EVERY creature is born into this world instinct with all the

+ +

knowledge it needs to understand the meaning of its own life and

+ +

solve its problems without consulting professional authorities.

+ +

Rather than seek a teacher, you are better advised to find your

+ +

instincts; your Christ Consciousness is nothing but your higher

+ +

instincts. The little child sent to lead us is a symbol of our +------------ +instincts. The child will show you your way by the following

+ +

pentalogue. A real little blind child led me --- which just goes

+ +

to show that the blind can lead.

+ +

1. The Universe does not hide from Her Children.

+ +

The Truth is always in plain sight.

+ +

But the Truth is always subtle.

+ +

The Child must be perceptive.

+ +

2. The Universe does not deceive Her Children.

+ +

The Truth is always simple.

+ +

But the Truth is always comprehensive.

+ +

The Child must be responsible.

+ +

3. The Universe wants Her Children to know Right from Wrong.

+ +

The Truth always works.

+ +

The Truth works immediately.

+ +

The Truth works without effort.

+ +

The Truth is always gentle.

+ +

The Child must be practical.

+ +

4. The Universe wants Her Children to love life.

+ +

The Truth is always joyous.

+ +

But the Truth is always changing.

+ +

The Child must be reborn each day.

+ +

Rebirth is the other side of death's door.

+ +

5. The Universe is an Equal Opportunity Teacher.

+ +

She answers all who ask in commitment to the answer.

+ +

It's a wise Child that knows when to stop asking

+ +

questions.

+ +

It is a wiser parent that knows when to stop answering

+ +

them.

+ +

END OF INTRODUCTION GO TO CHAPTER 1

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Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy +From: pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce) +Subject: "Report from Iron Mountain" (an electronic version) - LONG +Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department +Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 18:49:55 GMT

+ +

f_gautjw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:

+ +

>inalienable rights of man to one more akin to that expressed by +>Leonard Lewin in his truer than life novel "Report from Iron Mountain": +> +>The organizing principle of any society is for war. The +>basic authority of a modern state over its people resides +>in its war powers.

+ +

THE REPORT OF THE SPECIAL STUDY GROUP

+ +

Letter of Transmittal

+ +

To the convener of this group:

+ +

Attached is the Report of the Special Study Group established by +you in August, 1963, 1) to consider the problems involved in the +contingency of a transition to a general condition of peace, and +2) to recommend procedures for dealing with this contingency. For +the convenience of nontechnical readers we have elected to submit +our statistical supporting data, totaling 604 exhibits, separately, +as well as a preliminary manual of the "peace games" method devised +during the course of our study.

+ +

We have completed our assignment to the best of our ability, subject +to the limitations of time and resources available to us. Our +conclusions of fact and our recommendations are unanimous; those +of us who differ in certain secondary respects from the findings +set forth herein do not consider these differences sufficient to +warrant the filing of a minority report. It is our earnest hope +that the fruits of our deliberations will be of value to our +government in its efforts to provide leadership to the nation in +solving the complex and far-reaching problems we have examined, +and that our recommendations for subsequent Presidential action in +this area will be adopted.

+ +

Because of the unusual circumstances surrounding the establishment +of this Group, and in view of the nature of its finding, we do not +recommend that this Report be released for publication. It is our +affirmative judgement that such actions would not be in the public +interest. The uncertain advantages of public discussion of our +conclusions and recommendations are, in our opinion, greatly +outweighed by the clear and predictable danger of a crisis in public +confidence which untimely publication of this Report might be +expected to provoke. The likelihood that a lay reader, unexposed +to the exigencies of higher political or military responsibility, +will misconstrue the purpose of this project, and the intent of +its participants, seems obvious. We urge that circulation of this +Report be closely restricted to those whose responsibilities require +that they be apprised of its contents.

+ +

We deeply regret that the necessity of anonymity, a prerequisite +to our Group's unhindered pursuit of its objectives, precludes +proper acknowledgement of our gratitude to the many persons in and +out of government who contributed so greatly to our work.

+ +

{For the Special Study Group

+ +

[signature withheld]

+ +

30 September, 1966}

+ +

Introduction

+ +

The report which follows summarizes the results of a two-and-a-half-year study of the broad problems to be anticipated in +the event of a general transformation of American society to a +condition lacking its most critical current characteristics: its +capability and readiness to make war when doing so is judged +necessary or desirable by its political leadership.

+ +

Our work has been predicated on the belief that some kind of general +peace may soon be negotiable. The {de facto} admission of Communist +China into the United Nations now appears to be only a few years +away at most. It has become increasingly manifest that conflicts +of American national interest with those of China and the Soviet +Union are susceptible of political solution, despite the superficial +contraindications of the current Vietnam war, of the threats of an +attack on China, and of the necessarily hostile tenor of day-to-day +foreign policy statements. It is also obvious that differences +involving other nations can be readily resolved by the three great +powers whenever they arrive at a stable peace among themselves. It +is not necessary, for the purposes of our study, to assume that a +general detente of this sort {will} come about - and we make no +such argument - but only that it {may}.

+ +

It is surely no exaggeration to say that a condition of general +world peace would lead to changes in the social structures of the +nations of the world of unparalleled and revolutionary magnitude. +The economic impact of general disarmament, to name only the most +obvious consequence of peace, would revise the production and +distribution patterns of the globe to a degree that would make the +changes of the past fifty years seem insignificant. Political, +sociological, cultural, and ecological changes would be equally +far-reaching. What has motivated our study of these contingencies +has been the growing sense of thoughtful men in and out of government +that the world is totally unprepared to meet the demands of such +a situation.

+ +

We had originally planned, when our study was initiated, to address +ourselves to these two broad questions and their components: {What +can be expected if peace comes? What should we be prepared to do +about it?} But as our investigation proceeded it became apparent +that certain other questions had to be faced. What, for instance, +are the real functions of war in modern societies, beyond the +ostensible ones of defending and advancing the "national interests" +of nations? In the absence of war, what other institutions exist +or might be devised to fulfill these functions? Granting that a +"peaceful" settlement of disputes is within the range of current +international relationships, is the abolition of war, in the broad +sense, really possible? If so, is it necessarily desirable, in +terms of social stability? If not, what can be done to improve the +operation of our social system in respect to its war-readiness?

+ +

The word {peace}, as we have used it in the following pages, +describes a permanent, or quasi-permanent, condition entirely free +>from the national exercise, or contemplation, of any form of the +organized social violence, or threat of violence, generally known +as war. It implies total and general disarmament. It is not used +to describe the more familiar condition of "cold war," "armed peace, +" or other mere respite, long or short, from armed conflict. Nor +is it used simply as a synonym for the political settlement of +international differences. The magnitude of modern means of mass +destruction and the speed of modern communications require the +unqualified working definition given above; only a generation ago +such an absolute description would have seemed utopian rather than +pragmatic. Today, any modification of this definition would render +it almost worthless for our purpose. By the same standard, we have +used the word {war} to apply interchangeably to conventional ("hot") +war, to the general condition of war preparation or war readiness, +and to the general "war system." The sense intended is made clear +in context.

+ +

The first section of our Report deals with its scope and with the +assumptions on which our study was based. The second considers the +effects of disarmament on the economy, the subject of most peace +research to date. The third takes up so-called "disarmament scenarios" +which have been proposed. The fourth, fifth, and sixth examine the +nonmilitary functions of war and the problems they raise for a +viable transition to peace; here will be found some indications of +the true dimensions of the problem, not previously coordinated in +any other study. In the seventh section we summarize our findings, +and in the eighth we set forth our recommendations for what we +believe to be a practical and necessary course of action.

+ +

SECTION 1: Scope of the Study

+ +

When the Special Study Group was established in August, 1963, its +members were instructed to govern their deliberations in accordance +with three principal criteria. Briefly stated, they were these: +1) military-style objectivity; 2) avoidance of preconceived value +assumptions; 3) inclusion of all relevant areas of theory and data.

+ +

These guideposts are by no means as obvious as they may appear at +first glance, and we believe it necessary to indicate clearly how +they were to inform our work. For they express succinctly the +limitations of previous "peace studies," and imply the nature of +both government and unofficial dissatisfaction with these earlier +efforts. It is not our intention here to minimize the significance +of the work of our predecessors, or to belittle the quality of +their contributions. What we have tried to do, and believe we have +done, is extend their scope. We hope that our conclusions may serve +in turn as a starting point for still broader and more detailed +examinations of every aspect of the problems of transition to peace +and of the questions which must be answered before such a transition +can be allowed to get under way.

+ +

It is a truism that objectivity is more often an intention expressed +than an attitude achieved, but the intention - conscious, unambiguous, +and constantly self-critical - is a precondition to its achievement. +We believe it no accident that we were charged to use a "military +contingency" model for our study, and we owe a considerable debt +to the civilian war planning agencies for their pioneering work in +the objective examination of the contingencies of nuclear war. +There is no such precedent in peace studies. Much of the usefulness +of even the most elaborate and carefully reasoned programs for +economic conversion to peace, for example, has been vitiated by a +wishful eagerness to demonstrate that peace is not only possible, +but even cheap or easy. One official report is replete with references +to the critical role of "dynamic optimism" on economic developments, +and goes on to submit, as evidence, that it "would be hard to +imagine that the American people would not respond very positively +to an agreed and safeguarded program to substitute an international +rule of law and order," etc. [1] Another line of argument frequently +taken is that disarmament would entail comparatively little disruption +of the economy, since it need only be partial; we will deal with +this approach later. Yet genuine objectivity in war studies is +often criticized as inhuman. As Herman Kahn, the writer on strategic +studies best known to the general public, put it: "Critics frequently +object to the icy rationality of the Hudson Institute, the Rand +Corporation, and other such organizations. I'm always tempted to +ask in reply, 'Would you prefer a warm, human error? Do you feel +better with a nice emotional mistake?'" [2] And, as Secretary of +Defense Robert S. McNamara has pointed out, in reference to facing +up to the possibility of nuclear war, "Some people are afraid even +to look over the edge. But in a thermonuclear war we cannot afford +any political acrophobia." [3] Surely it should be self-evident +that this applies equally to the opposite prospect, but so far no +one has taken more than a timid glance over the brink of peace.

+ +

An intention to avoid preconceived value judgments is if anything +even more productive of self-delusion. We claim no immunity, as +individuals, from this type of bias, but we have made a continuously +self-conscious effort to deal with the problems of peace without, +for example, considering that a condition of peace is {per se} +"good" or "bad." This has not been easy, but it has been obligatory; +to our knowledge, it has not been done before. Previous studies +have taken the desirability of peace, the importance of human life, +the superiority of democratic institutions, the greatest "good" +for the greatest number, the "dignity" of the individual, the +desirability of maximum health and longevity, and other such wishful +premises as axiomatic values necessary for the justification of a +study of peace issues. We have not found them so. We have attempted +to apply the standards of physical science to our thinking, the +principal characteristic of which is not quantification, as is +popularly believed, but that, in Whitehead's words, "... it ignores +all judgments of value; for instance, all esthetic and moral +judgments." [4] Yet it is obvious that any serious investigation +of a problem, however "pure," must be informed by some normative +standard. In this case it has been simply the survival of human +society in general, of American society in particular, and, as a +corollary to survival, the stability of this society.

+ +

It is interesting, we believe, to note that the most dispassionate +planners of nuclear strategy also recognize that the stability of +society is the one bedrock value that {cannot} be avoided. Secretary +McNamara has defended the need for American nuclear superiority on +the grounds that it "makes possible a strategy designed to preserve +the fabric of our societies if war should occur." [5] A former +member of the Department of State policy planning staff goes further. +"A more precise word for peace, in terms of the practical world, +is stability. ... Today the great nuclear panoplies are essential +elements in such stability as exists. Our present purpose must be +to continue the process of learning how to live with them." [6] +We, of course, do not equate stability with peace, but we accept +it as the one common assumed objective of both peace and war.

+ +

The third criterion - breadth - has taken us still farther afield +>from peace studies made to date. It is obvious to any layman that +the economic patterns of a warless world will be drastically +different from those we live with today, and it is equally obvious +that the political relationships of nations will not be those we +have learned to take for granted, sometimes described as a global +version of the adversary system of our common law. But the social +implications of peace extend far beyond its putative effects on +national economies and international relations. As we shall show, +the relevance of peace and war to the internal political organization +of societies, to the sociological relationships of their members, +to psychological motivations, to ecological processes, and to +cultural values is equally profound. More important, it is equally +critical in assaying the consequences of a transition to peace, +and in determining the feasibility of any transition at all.

+ +

It is not surprising that these less obvious factors have been +generally ignored in peace research. They have not lent themselves +to systematic analysis. They have been difficult, perhaps impossible, +to measure with any degree of assurance that estimates of their +effects could be depended on. They are "intangibles," but only in +the sense that abstract concepts in mathematics are intangible +compared to those which can be measured, at least superficially; +and international relationships can be verbalized, like law, into +logical sequences.

+ +

We do not claim that we have discovered an infallible way of +measuring these other factors, or of assigning them precise weights +in the equation of transition. But we believe we have taken their +relative importance into account to this extent: we have removed +them from the category of the "intangible," hence scientifically +suspect and therefore somehow of secondary importance, and brought +them out into the realm of the objective. The result, we believe, +provides a context of realism for the discussion of the issues +relating to the possible transition to peace which up to now has +been missing.

+ +

This is not to say that we presume to have found the answers we +were seeking. But we believe that our emphasis on breadth of scope +has made it at least possible to begin to understand the questions.

+ +

SECTION 2: Disarmament and the Economy

+ +

In this section we shall briefly examine some of the common features +of the studies that have been published dealing with one or another +aspect of the expected impact of disarmament on the American economy. +Whether disarmament is considered as a by-product of peace or as +its precondition, its effect on the national economy will in either +case be the most immediately felt of its consequences. The quasi-mensurable quality of economic manifestations has given rise to +more detailed speculation in this area than in any other.

+ +

General agreement prevails with respect to the more important +economic problems that general disarmament would raise. A short +survey of these problems, rather than a detailed critique of their +comparative significance, is sufficient for our purposes in this +Report.

+ +

The first factor is that of size. The "world war industry," as one +writer [7] has aptly called it, accounts for approximately a tenth +of the output of the world's total economy. Although this figure +is subject to fluctuation, the causes of which are themselves +subject to regional variation, it tends to hold fairly steady. The +United States, as the world's richest nation, not only accounts +for the largest single share of this expense, currently upward of +$60 billion a year, but also "... has devoted a higher {proportion} +[emphasis added] of its gross national product to its military +establishment than any other major free world nation. This was true +even before our increased expenditures in Southeast Asia." [8] +Plans for economic conversion that minimize the economic magnitude +of the problem do so only by rationalizing, however persuasively, +the maintenance of a substantial residual military budget under +some euphemized classification.

+ +

Conversion of military expenditures to other purposes entails a +number of difficulties. The most serious stems from the degree of +high specialization that characterizes modern war production, best +exemplified in nuclear and missile technology. This constituted no +fundamental problem after World War II, nor did the question of +free-market consumer demand for "conventional" items of consumption +- those goods and service consumers had already been conditioned +to require. Today's situation is qualitatively different in both +respects.

+ +

This inflexibility is geographical and occupational, as well as +industrial, a fact which has led most analysts of the economic +impact of disarmament to focus their attention on phased plans for +the relocation of war industry personnel and capital installations +as much as on proposals for developing new patterns of consumption. +One serious flaw common to such plans is the kind called in the +natural sciences the "macroscopic error." An implicit presumption +is made that a total national plan for conversion differs from a +community program to cope with the shutting down of a "defense +facility" only in degree. We find no reason to believe that this +is the case, nor that a general enlargement of such local programs, +however well thought out in terms of housing, occupational retraining, +and the like, can be applied on a national scale. A national economy +can absorb almost any number of subsidiary reorganizations within +its total limits, providing there is no basic change in its own +structure. General disarmament, which would require such basic +changes, lends itself to no valid smaller-scale analogy.

+ +

Even more questionable are the models proposed for the retraining +of labor for nonarmaments occupation. Putting aside for the moment +the unsolved questions dealing with the nature of new distribution +patterns - retraining for what? - the increasingly specialized job +skills associated with war industry production are further depreciated +by the accelerating inroads of the industrial techniques loosely +described as "automation." It is not too much to say that general +disarmament would require the scrapping of a critical proportion +of the most highly developed occupational specialties in the economy. +The political difficulties inherent in such an "adjustment" would +make the outcries resulting from the closing of a few obsolete +military and naval installations in 1964 sound like a whisper.

+ +

In general, discussion of the problems of conversion have been +characterized by an unwillingness to recognize its special quality. +This is best exemplified by the 1965 report of the Ackley Committee. +[9] One critic has tellingly pointed out that it blindly assumes +that "... nothing in the arms economy - neither its size, nor its +geographical concentration, nor its highly specialized nature, nor +the peculiarities of its market, nor the special nature of much of +its labor force - endows it with any uniqueness when the necessary +time of adjustment comes." [10]

+ +

Let us assume, however, despite the lack of evidence that a viable +program for conversion can be developed in the framework of the +existing economy, that the problems noted above can be solved. What +proposals have been offered for utilizing the productive capabilities +that disarmament would presumably release?

+ +

The most commonly held theory is simply that general economic +reinvestment would absorb the greater part of these capabilities. +Even though it is now largely taken for granted (and even by today's +equivalent of traditional laissez-faire economists) that unprecedented +government assistance (and concomitant government control) will be +needed to solve the "structural" problems of transition, a general +attitude of confidence prevails that new consumption patterns will +take up the slack. What is less clear is the nature of these +patterns.

+ +

One school of economists has it that these patterns will develop +on their own. It envisages the equivalent of the arms budget being +returned, under careful control, to the consumer, in the form of +tax cuts. Another, recognizing the undeniable need for increased +"consumption" in what is generally considered the public sector of +the economy, stresses vastly increased government spending in such +areas of national concern as health, education, mass transportation, +low-cost housing, water supply, control of the physical environment, +and, stated generally, "poverty."

+ +

The mechanisms proposed for controlling the transition to an +arms-free economy are also traditional - changes in both sides of +the federal budget, manipulation of interest rates, etc. We +acknowledge the undeniable value of fiscal tools in a normal cyclical +economy, where they provide leverage to accelerate or brake an +existing trend. Their more committed proponents, however, tend to +lose sight of the fact that there is a limit to the power of these +devices to influence fundamental economic forces. They can provide +new incentives in the economy, but they cannot in themselves +transform the production of a billion dollars' worth of missiles +a year to the equivalent in food, clothing, prefabricated houses, +or television sets. At bottom, they reflect the economy; they do +not motivate it.

+ +

More sophisticated, and less sanguine, analysts contemplate the +diversion of the arms budget to a nonmilitary system equally remote +>from the market economy. What the "pyramid-builders" frequently +suggest is the expansion of space-research programs to the dollar +level of current armaments expenditures. This approach has the +superficial merit of reducing the size of the problem of transferability +of resources, but introduces other difficulties, which we will take +up in section 6.

+ +

Without singling out any one of the several major studies of the +expected impact of disarmament on the economy for special criticism, +we can summarize our objections to them in general terms as follows:

+ +

1. No proposed program for economic conversion to disarmament +sufficiently takes into account the unique magnitude of the required +adjustments it would entail.

+ +

2. Proposals to transform arms production into a beneficent scheme +of public works are more the products of wishful thinking than of +realistic understanding of the limits of our existing economic +system.

+ +

3. Fiscal and monetary measures are inadequate as controls for the +process of transition to an arms-free economy.

+ +

4. Insufficient attention has been paid to the political acceptability +of the objectives of the proposed conversion models, as well as of +the political means to be employed in effectuating a transition.

+ +

5. No serious consideration has been given, in any proposed conversion +plan, to the fundamental nonmilitary function of war and armaments +in modern society, nor has any explicit attempt been made to devise +a viable substitute for it. This criticism will be developed in +sections 5 and 6.

+ +

SECTION 3: Disarmament Scenarios

+ +

Scenarios, as they have come to be called, are hypothetical +constructions of future events. Inevitably, they are composed of +varying proportions of established fact, reasonable inference, and +more or less inspired guess-work. Those which have been suggested +as model procedures for effectuating international arms control +and eventual disarmament are necessarily imaginative, although +closely reasoned; in this respect they resemble the "war games" +analyses of the Rand Corporation, with which they share a common +conceptual origin.

+ +

All such scenarios that have been seriously put forth imply dependence +on bilateral or multilateral agreement between the great powers. +In general, they call for a progressive phasing out of gross +armaments, military forces, weapons, and weapons technology, +coordinated with elaborate matching procedures of verification, +inspection, and machinery for the settlement of international +disputes. It should be noted that even proponents of unilateral +disarmament qualify their proposals with an implied requirement of +reciprocity, very much in the manner of a scenario of graduated +response in nuclear war. The advantage of unilateral initiative +lies in its political value as an expression of good faith, as well +as in its diplomatic function as a catalyst for formal disarmament +negotiations.

+ +

The READ model for disarmament (developed by the Research Program +on Economic Adjustments to Disarmament) is typical of these scenarios. +It is a twelve-year-program, divided into three-year stages. Each +stage includes a separate phase of: reduction of armed forces; +cutbacks of weapons production, inventories, and foreign military +bases; development of international inspection procedures and +control conventions; and the building up of a sovereign international +disarmament organization. It anticipates a net matching decline in +U.S. defense expenditures of only somewhat more than half the 1965 +level, but a necessary redeployment of some five-sixths of the +defense-dependent labor force.

+ +

The economic implications assigned by their authors to various +disarmament scenarios diverge widely. The more conservative models, +like that cited above, emphasize economic as well as military +prudence in postulating elaborate fail-safe disarmament agencies, +which themselves require expenditures substantially substituting +for those of the displaced war industries. Such programs stress +the advantages of the smaller economic adjustment entailed. [11] +Others emphasize, on the contrary, the magnitude (and the opposite +advantages) of the savings to be achieved from disarmament. One +widely read analysis [12] estimates the annual cost of the inspection +function of general disarmament throughout the world as only between +two and three percent of current military expenditures. Both types +of plan tend to deal with the anticipated problem of economic +reinvestment only in the aggregate. We have seen no proposed +disarmament sequence that correlates the phasing out of specific +kinds of military spending with specific new forms of substitute +spending.

+ +

Without examining disarmament scenarios in greater detail, we may +characterize them with these general comments:

+ +

1. Given genuine agreement of intent among the great powers, the +scheduling of arms control and elimination presents no inherently +insurmountable procedural problems. Any of several proposed sequences +might serve as the basis for multilateral agreement or for the +first step in unilateral arms reduction.

+ +

2. No major power can proceed with such a program, however, until +it has developed an economic conversion plan fully integrated with +each phase of disarmament. No such plan has yet been developed in +the United States.

+ +

3. Furthermore, disarmament scenarios, like proposals for economic +conversion, make no allowance for the nonmilitary functions of war +in modern societies, and offer no surrogate for these necessary +functions. One partial exception is a proposal for the "unarmed +forces of the United States," which we will consider in section 6.

+ +

SECTION 4: War and Peace as Social Systems

+ +

We have dealt only sketchily with proposed disarmament scenarios +and economic analyses, but the reason for our seemingly casual +dismissal of so much serious and sophisticated work lies in no +disrespect for its competence. It is rather a question of relevance. +To put it plainly, all these program, however detailed and well +developed, are abstractions. The most carefully reasoned disarmament +sequence inevitably reads more like the rules of a game or a +classroom exercise in logic than like a prognosis of real events +in the real world. This is as true of today's complex proposals as +it was of the Abbe de St. Pierre's "Plan for Perpetual Peace in +Europe" 250 years ago.

+ +

Some essential element has clearly been lacking in all these schemes. +One of our first tasks was to try to bring this missing quality +into definable focus, and we believe we have succeeded in doing +so. We find that at the heart of every peace study we have examined +- from the modest technological proposal (e.g., to convert a poison +gas plant to the production of "socially useful" equivalents) to +the most elaborate scenario for universal peace in our time - lies +one common fundamental misconception. It is the source of the miasma +of unreality surrounding such plans. {It is the incorrect assumption +that war, as an institution, is subordinate to the social systems +it is believed to serve.}

+ +

This misconception, although profound and far-reaching, is entirely +comprehensible. Few social cliches are so unquestioningly accepted +as the notion that war is an extension of diplomacy (or of politics, +or of the pursuit of economic objectives). If this were true, it +would be wholly appropriate for economists and political theorists +to look on the problems of transition to peace as essentially +mechanical or procedural - as indeed they do, treating them as +logistic corollaries of the settlement of national conflicts of +interest. If this were true, there would be no real substance to +the difficulties of transition. For it is evident that even in +today's world there exists no conceivable conflict of interest, +real or imaginary, between nations or between social forces within +nation, that cannot be resolved without recourse to war - {if} such +resolution were assigned a priority of social value. And if this +were true, the economic analyses and disarmament proposals we have +referred to, plausible and well conceived as they may be, would +not inspire, as they do, an inescapable sense of indirection.

+ +

The point is that the cliche is not true, and the problems of +transition are indeed substantive rather than merely procedural. +Although war is "used" as an instrument of national and social +policy, the fact that a society is organized for any degree of +readiness for war supersedes its political and economic structure. +War itself is the basic social system, within which other secondary +modes of social organization conflict or conspire. It is the system +which has governed most human societies of record, as it is today.

+ +

Once this is correctly understood, the true magnitude of the problems +entailed in a transition to peace - itself a social system, but +without precedent except in a few simple preindustrial societies +- becomes apparent. At the same time, some of the puzzling superficial +contradictions of modern societies can then be readily rationalized. +The "unnecessary" size and power of the world war industry; the +preeminence of the military establishment in every society, whether +open or concealed; the exemption of military or paramilitary +institutions from the accepted social and legal standards for +behavior required elsewhere in the society; the successful operation +of the armed forces and the armaments producers entirely outside +the framework of each nation's economic ground rules: these and +other ambiguities closely associated with the relationship of war +to society are easily clarified, once the priority of war-making +potential as the principal structuring force in society is accepted. +Economic systems, political philosophies, and corpora jures serve +and extend the war system, not vice versa.

+ +

It must be emphasized that the precedence of a society's war-making +potential over its other characteristics is not the result of the +"threat" presumed to exist at any one time from other societies. +This is the reverse of the basic situation; "threats" against the +"national interest" are usually created or accelerated to meet the +changing needs of the war system. Only in comparatively recent +times has it been considered politically expedient to euphemize +war budgets as "defense" requirements. The necessity for governments +to distinguish between "aggression" (bad) and "defense" (good) has +been a by-product of rising literacy and rapid communication. The +distinction is tactical only, a concession to the growing inadequacy +of ancient war-organizing political rationales.

+ +

Wars are not "caused" by international conflicts of interest. Proper +logical sequence would make it more often accurate to say that +war-making societies require - and thus bring about - such conflicts. +The capacity of a nation to make war expresses the greatest social +power it can exercise; war-making, active or contemplated, is a +matter of life and death on the greatest scale subject to social +control. It should therefore hardly be surprising that the military +institutions in each society claim its highest priorities.

+ +

We find further that most of the confusion surrounding the myth +that war-making is a tool of state policy stems from a general +misapprehension of the functions of war. In general, these are +conceived as: to defend a nation from military attack by another, +or to deter such an attack; to defend or advance a "national +interest" - economic, political, ideological; to maintain or increase +a nation's military power for its own sake. These are the visible, +or ostensible, functions of war. If there were no others, the +importance of the war establishment in each society might in fact +decline to the subordinate level it is believed to occupy. And the +elimination of war would indeed be the procedural matter that the +disarmament scenarios suggest.

+ +

But there are other, broader, more profoundly felt functions of +war in modern societies. It is these invisible, or implied, functions +that maintain war-readiness as the dominant force in our societies. +And it is the unwillingness or inability of the writers of disarmament +scenarios and reconversion plans to take them into account that +has so reduced the usefulness of their work, and that has made it +seem unrelated to the world we know.

+ +

SECTION 5: The Functions of War

+ +

As we have indicated, the preeminence of the concept of war as the +principal organizing force in most societies has been insufficiently +appreciated. This is also true of its extensive effects throughout +the many nonmilitary activities of society. These effects are less +apparent in complex industrial societies like our own than in +primitive cultures, the activities of which can be more more easily +and fully comprehended.

+ +

We propose in this section to examine these nonmilitary, implied, +and usually invisible functions of war, to the extent they they +bear on the problems of transition to peace for our society. The +military, or ostensible, function of the war system requires no +elaboration; it serves simply to defend or advance the "national +interest" by means of organized violence. It is often necessary +for a national military establishment to create a need for its +unique powers - to maintain the franchise, so to speak. And a +healthy military apparatus requires regular "exercise," by whatever +rationale seems expedient, to prevent its atrophy.

+ +

The nonmilitary functions of the war system are more basic. They +exist not merely to justify themselves but to serve broader social +purposes. If and when war is eliminated, the military functions it +has served will end with it. But its nonmilitary functions will +not. It is essential, therefore, that we understand their significance +before we can reasonably expect to evaluate whatever institutions +may be proposed to replace them.

+ +

Economic

+ +

The production of weapons of mass destruction has always been +associated with economic "waste." The term is pejorative, since it +implies a failure of function. But no human activity can properly +be considered wasteful if it achieves its contextual objective. +The phrase "wasteful but necessary," applied not only to war +expenditures, but to most of the "unproductive" commercial activities +of our society, is a contradiction in terms. "... The attacks that +have since the time of Samuel's criticism of King Saul been leveled +against military expenditures as waste may well have concealed or +misunderstood the point that some kinds of waste may have a larger +social utility." [13]

+ +

In the case of military "waste," there is indeed a larger social +utility. It derives from the fact that the "wastefulness" of war +production is exercised entirely outside the framework of the +economy of supply and demand. As such, it provides the only +critically large segment of the total economy that is subject to +complete and arbitrary central control. If modern industrial +societies can be defined as those which have developed the capacity +to produce more than is required for their economic survival +(regardless of the equities of distribution of goods within them), +military spending can be said to furnish the only balance wheel +with sufficient inertia to stabilize the advance of their economies. +The fact that war is "wasteful" is what enables it to serve this +function. And the faster the economy advances, the heavier this +balance wheel must be.

+ +

This function is often viewed, oversimply, as a device for the +control of surpluses. One writer on the subject puts it this way: +"Why is war so wonderful? Because it creates artificial demand ... +the only kind of artificial demand, moreover, that does not raise +any political issues: {war, and only war, solves the problem of +inventory.}" [14] The reference here is to shooting war, but it +applies equally to the general war economy as well. "It is generally +agreed," concludes, more cautiously, the report of a panel set up +by the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, "that the greatly +expanded public sector since World War II, resulting from heavy +defense expenditures, has provided additional protection against +depressions, since this sector is not responsive to contraction in +the private sector and has provided a sort of buffer or balance +wheel in the economy." [15]

+ +

The {principal} economic function of war, in our view, is that it +provides just such a flywheel. It is not to be confused in function +with the the various forms of fiscal control, none of which directly +engages vast numbers of men and units of production. It is not to +be confused with massive government expenditures in social welfare +programs; once initiated, such programs normally become integral +parts of the general economy and are no longer subject to arbitrary +control.

+ +

But even in the context of the general civilian economy war cannot +be considered wholly "wasteful." Without a long-established war +economy, and without its frequent eruption into large-scale shooting +war, most of the major industrial advances known to history, +beginning with the development of iron, could never have taken +place. Weapons technology structures the economy. According to the +writer cited above, "Nothing is more ironic or revealing about our +society than the fact that hugely destructive war is a very +progressive force in it. ... War production is progressive because +it is production that would not otherwise have taken place. (It is +not so widely appreciated, for example, that the civilian standard +of living {rose} during World War II.)" [16] This is not "ironic +or revealing," but essentially a simple statement of fact.

+ +

It should also be noted that war production has a dependable +stimulation effect outside itself. Far from constituting a "wasteful" +drain on the economy, war spending, considered pragmatically, has +been a consistently positive factor in the rise of gross national +product and of individual productivity. A former Secretary of the +Army has carefully phrased it for public consumption thus: "If +there is, as I suspect there is, a direct relation between the +stimulus of large defense spending and a substantially increased +rate of growth of gross national product, it quite simply follows +that defense spending {per se} might be countenanced {on economic +grounds alone} [emphasis added] as a stimulator of the national +metabolism." [17] Actually, the fundamental nonmilitary utility of +war in the economy is far more widely acknowledged than the scarcity +of such affirmations as that quoted above would suggest.

+ +

But {negatively} phrased public recognitions of the importance of +war to the general economy abound. The most familiar example is +the effect of the "peace threats" on the stock market, e.g., "Wall +Street was shaken yesterday by news of an apparent peace feeler +>from North Vietnam, but swiftly recovered its composure after about +an hour of sometimes indiscriminate selling." [18] Savings banks +solicit deposits with similar cautionary slogans, e.g., "If peace +breaks out, will you be ready for it?" A more subtle case in point +was the recent refusal of the Department of Defense to permit the +West German government to substitute nonmilitary goods for unwanted +armaments in its purchase commitments from the United States; the +decisive consideration was that the German purchases should not +affect the general (nonmilitary) economy. Other incidental examples +are to be found in the pressures brought to bear on the Department +when it announces plans to close down an obsolete facility (as a +"wasteful" form of "waste"), and in the usual coordination of +stepped-up military activities (as in Vietnam in 1965) with +dangerously rising unemployment rates.

+ +

Although we do not imply that a substitute for war in the economy +cannot be devised, no combination of techniques for controlling +employment, production, and consumption has yet been tested that +can remotely compare to it in effectiveness. It is, and has been, +the essential economic stabilizer of modern societies.

+ +

Political

+ +

The political functions of war have been up to now even more critical +to social stability. It is not surprising, nevertheless, that +discussions of economic conversion for peace tend to fall silent +on the matter of political implementation, and that disarmament +scenarios, often sophisticated in their weighing of international +political factors, tend to disregard the political functions of +the war system within individual societies.

+ +

These functions are essentially organizational. First of all, the +existence of a society as a political "nation" requires as part of +its definition an attitude of relationship toward other "nations." +This is what we usually call a foreign policy. But a nation's +foreign policy can have no substance if it lacks the means of +enforcing its attitude toward other nations. It can do this in a +credible manner only if it implies the threat of maximum political +organization for this purpose - which is to say that it is organized +to some degree for war. War, then, as we have defined it to include +all national activities that recognize the possibility of armed +conflict, is itself the defining element of any nation's existence +vis-a-vis any other nation. Since it is historically axiomatic that +the existence of any form of weaponry insures its use, we have used +the word "peace" as virtually synonymous with disarmament. By the +same token, "war" is virtually synonymous with nationhood. The +elimination of war implies the inevitable elimination of national +sovereignty and the traditional nation-state.

+ +

The war system not only has been essential to the existence of +nations as independent political entities, but has been equally +indispensable to their stable internal political structure. Without +it, no government has ever been able to obtain acquiescence in its +"legitimacy," or right to rule its society. The possibility of war +provides the sense of external necessity without which no government +can long remain in power. The historical record reveals one instance +after another where the failure of a regime to maintain the +credibility of a war threat led to its dissolution, by the forces +of private interest, of reactions to social injustice, or of other +disintegrative elements. The organization of a society for the +possibility of war is its principal political stabilizer. It is +ironic that this primary function of war has been generally recognized +by historians only where it has been expressly acknowledged - in +the pirate societies of the great conquerors.

+ +

The basic authority of a modern state over its people resides in +its war powers. (There is, in fact, good reason to believe that +codified law had its origins in the rules of conduct established +by military victors for dealing with the defeated enemy, which were +later adapted to apply to all subject populations. [19]) On a +day-to-day basis, it is represented by the institution of police, +armed organizations charged expressly with dealing with "internal +enemies" in a military manner. Like the conventional "external" +military, the police are also substantially exempt from many civilian +legal restraints on their social behavior. In some countries, the +artificial distinction between police and other military forces +does not exist. On the long-term basis, a government's emergency +war powers - inherent in the structure of even the most libertarian +of nations - define the most significant aspect of the relation +between state and citizen.

+ +

In advanced modern democratic societies, the war system has provided +political leaders with another political-economic function of +increasing importance: it has served as the last great safeguard +against the elimination of necessary social classes. As economic +productivity increases to a level further and further above that +of minimum subsistence, it becomes more and more difficult for a +society to maintain distribution patterns insuring the existence +of "hewers of wood and drawers of water." The further progress of +automation can be expected to differentiate still more sharply +between "superior" workers and what Ricardo called "menials," while +simultaneously aggravating the problem of maintaining an unskilled +labor supply.

+ +

The arbitrary nature of war expenditures and of other military +activities make them ideally suited to control these essential +class relationships. Obviously, if the war system were to be +discarded, new political machinery would be needed at once to serve +this vital subfunction. Until it is developed, the continuance of +the war system must be assured, if for no other reason, among +others, than to preserve whatever quality and degree of poverty a +society requires as an incentive, as well as to maintain the +stability of its internal organization of power.

+ +

Sociological

+ +

Under this heading, we will examine a nexus of functions served by +the war system that affect human behavior in society. In general, +they are broader in application and less susceptible to direct +observation than the economic and political factors previously +considered.

+ +

The most obvious of these functions is the time-honored use of +military institutions to provide antisocial elements with an +acceptable role in the social structure. The disintegrative, unstable +social movements loosely described as "fascist" have traditionally +taken root in societies that have lacked adequate military or +paramilitary outlets to meet the needs of these elements. This +function has been critical in periods of rapid change. The danger +signals are easy to recognize, even though the stigmata bear +different names at different times. The current euphemistic cliches +- "juvenile delinquency" and "alienation" - have had their counterparts +in every age. In earlier days these conditions were dealt with +directly by the military without the complications of due process, +usually through press gangs or outright enslavement. But it is not +hard to visualize, for example, the degree of social disruption +that might have taken place in the United States during the last +two decades if the problem of the socially disaffected of the +post-World War II period had not been foreseen and effectively met. +The younger, and more dangerous, of these hostile social groupings +have been kept under control by the Selective Service System.

+ +

This system and its analogues elsewhere furnish remarkably clear +examples of disguised military utility. Informed persons in this +country have never accepted the official rationale for a peacetime +draft - military necessity, preparedness, etc. - as worthy of +serious consideration. But what has gained credence among thoughtful +men is the rarely voiced, less easily refuted, proposition that +the institution of military service has a "patriotic" priority in +our society that must be maintained for its own sake. Ironically, +the simplistic official justification for selective service comes +closer to the mark, once the nonmilitary functions of military +institutions are understood. As a control device over the hostile, +nihilistic, and potentially unsettling elements of a society in +transition, the draft can again be defended, and quite convincingly, +as a "military" necessity.

+ +

Nor can it be considered a coincidence that overt military activity, +and thus the level of draft calls, tend to follow the major +fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the lower age groups. This +rate, in turn, is a time-tested herald of social discontent. It +must be noted also that the armed forces in every civilization have +provided the principal state-supported haven for what are now called +the "unemployable." The typical European standing army (of fifty +years ago) consisted of "... troops unfit for employment in commerce, +industry, or agriculture, led by officers unfit to practice any +legitimate profession or to conduct a business enterprise." [20] +This is still largely true, if less apparent. In a sense, this +function of the military as the custodian of the economically or +culturally deprived was the forerunner of most contemporary civilian +social-welfare programs, from the W.P.A. to various forms of +"socialized" medicine and social security. It is interesting that +liberal sociologists currently proposing to use the Selective +Service System as a medium of cultural upgrading of the poor consider +this a {novel} application of military practice.

+ +

Although it cannot be said absolutely that such critical measures +of social control as the draft require a military rationale, no +modern society has yet been willing to risk experimentation with +any other kind. Even during such periods of comparatively simple +social crisis as the so-called Great Depression of the 1930s, it +was deemed prudent by the government to invest minor make-work +projects, like "Civilian" Conservation Corps, with a military +character, and to place the more ambitious National Recovery +Administration under the direction of a professional army officer +at its inception. Today, at least one small Northern European +country, plagued with uncontrollable unrest among its "alienated +youth," is considering the expansion of its armed forces, despite +the problem of making credible the expansion of a non-existent +external threat.

+ +

Sporadic efforts have been made to promote general recognition of +broad national values free of military connotation, but they have +been ineffective. For example, to enlist public support of even +such modest programs of social adjustment as "fighting inflation" +or "maintaining physical fitness" it has been necessary for the +government to utilize a patriotic (i.e., military) incentive. It +sells "defense" bonds and it equates health with military preparedness. +This is not surprising; since the concept of "nationhood" implies +readiness for war, a "national" program must do likewise.

+ +

In general, the war system provides the basic motivation for primary +social organization. In so doing, it reflects on the societal level +the incentives of individual human behavior. The most important +of these, for social purposes, is the individual psychological +rationale for allegiance to a society and its values. Allegiance +requires a cause; a cause requires an enemy. This much is obvious; +the critical point is that the enemy that defines the cause must +seem genuinely formidable. Roughly speaking, the presumed power of +the "enemy" sufficient to warrant an individual sense of allegiance +to a society must be proportionate to the size and complexity of +the society. Today, of course, that power must be one of unprecedented +magnitude and frightfulness.

+ +

It follows, from the patterns of human behavior, that the credibility +of a social "enemy" demands similarly a readiness of response in +proportion to its menace. In a broad social context, "an eye for +an eye" still characterizes the only acceptable attitude toward a +presumed threat of aggression, despite contrary religious and moral +precepts governing personal conduct. The remoteness of personal +decision from social consequence in a modern society makes it easy +for its members to maintain this attitude without being aware of +it. A recent example is the war in Vietnam; a less recent one was +the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [21] In each case, the extent +and gratuitousness of the slaughter were abstracted into political +formulae by most Americans, once the proposition that the victims +were "enemies" was established. The war system makes such an +abstracted response possible in nonmilitary contexts as well. A +conventional example of this mechanism is the inability of most +people to connect, let us say, the starvation of millions in India +with their own past conscious political decision-making. Yet the +sequential logic linking a decision to restrict grain production +in America with an eventual famine in Asia is obvious, unambiguous, +and unconcealed.

+ +

What gives the war system its preeminent role in social organization, +as elsewhere, is its unmatched authority over life and death. It +must be emphasized again that the war system is not a mere social +extension of the presumed need for individual human violence, but +itself in turn serves to rationalize most nonmilitary killing. It +also provides the precedent for collective willingness of members +of a society to pay a blood price for institutions far less central +to social organization than war. To take a handy example, "... +rather than accept speed limits of twenty miles an hour we prefer +to let automobiles kill forty thousand people a year." [22] A Rand +analyst puts it in more general terms and less rhetorically: "I am +sure that there is, in effect, a desirable level of automobile +accidents - desirable, that is, from a broad point of view; in the +sense that it is a necessary concomitant of things of greater value +to society." [23] The point may seem too obvious for iteration, +but is essential to an understanding of the important motivational +function of war as a model for collective sacrifice.

+ +

A brief look at some defunct premodern societies is instructive. +One of the most noteworthy features common to the larger, more +complex, and more successful of ancient civilizations was their +widespread use of the blood sacrifice. If one were to limit +consideration to those cultures whose regional hegemony was so +complete that the prospect of "war" had become virtually inconceivable +- as was the case with several of the great pre-Columbian societies +of the Western Hemisphere - it would be found that some form of +ritual killing occupied a position of paramount social importance +in each. Invariably, the ritual was invested with mythic or religious +significance; as with all religious and totemic practice, however, +the ritual masked a broader and more important social function.

+ +

In these societies, the blood sacrifice served the purpose of +maintaining a vestigial "earnest" of the society's capability and +willingness to make war - i.e., kill and be killed - in the event +that some mystical - i.e., unforeseen - circumstance were to give +rise to the possibility. That the "earnest" was not an adequate +substitute for genuine military organization when the unthinkable +enemy, such as the Spanish conquistadores, actually appeared on +the scene in no way negates the function of the ritual. It was +primarily, if not exclusively, a symbolic reminder that war had +once been the central organizing force of the society, and that +this condition might recur.

+ +

It does not follow that a transition to total peace in modern +societies would require the use of this model, even in less "barbaric" +guise. But the historical analogy serves as a reminder that a viable +substitute for war as a social system cannot be a mere symbolic +charade. It must involve real risk of real personal destruction, +and on a scale consistent with the size and complexity of modern +social systems. Credibility is the key. Whether the substitute is +ritual in nature or functionally substantive, unless it provides +a believable life-and-death threat it will not serve the socially +organizing function of war.

+ +

The existence of an accepted external menace, then, is essential +to social cohesiveness as well as to the acceptance of political +authority. The menace must be believable, it must be of a magnitude +consistent with the complexity of the society threatened, and it +must appear, at least, to affect the entire society.

+ +

Ecological

+ +

Man, like all other animals, is subject to the continuing process +of adapting to the limitations of his environment. But the principal +mechanism he has utilized for this purpose is unique among living +creatures. To forestall the inevitable historical cycles of inadequate +food supply, post-Neolithic man destroys surplus members of his +own species by organized warfare.

+ +

Ethologists [24] have often observed that the organized slaughter +of members of their own species is virtually unknown among other +animals. Man's special propensity to kill his own kind (shared to +a limited degree with rats) may be attributed to his inability to +adapt anachronistic patterns of survival (like primitive hunting) +to his development of "civilizations" in which these patterns cannot +be effectively sublimated. It may be attributed to other causes +that have been suggested, such as a maladapted "territorial instinct," +etc. Nevertheless, it exists and its social expression in war +constitutes a biological control of his relationship to his natural +environment that is peculiar to man alone.

+ +

War has served to help assure the {survival} of the human species. +But as an evolutionary device to {improve} it, war is almost +unbelievably inefficient. With few exceptions, the selective +processes of other living creatures promote both specific survival +{and} genetic improvement. When a conventionally adaptive animal +faces one of its periodic crises of insufficiency, it is the +"inferior" members of the species that normally disappear. An +animal's social response to such a crisis may take the form of a +mass migration, during which the weak fall by the wayside. Or it +may follow the dramatic and more efficient pattern of lemming +societies, in which the weaker members voluntarily disperse, leaving +available food supplies for the stronger. In either case, the strong +survive and the weak fall. In human societies, those who fight and +die in wars for survival are in general its biologically stronger +members. This is natural selection in reverse.

+ +

The regressive genetic effect of war has been often noted [25] and +equally often deplored, even when it confuses biological and cultural +factors. [26] The disproportionate loss of the {biologically} +stronger remains inherent in traditional warfare. It serves to +underscore the fact that survival of the species, rather than its +improvement, is the fundamental purpose of natural selection, if +it can be said to have a purpose, just as it is the basic premise +of this study.

+ +

But as the polemologist Gaston Bouthoul [27] has pointed out, other +institutions that were developed to serve this ecological function +have proved even less satisfactory. (They include such established +forms as these: infanticide, practiced chiefly in ancient and +primitive societies; sexual mutilation; monasticism; forced +emigration; extensive capital punishment, as in old China and +eighteenth-century England; and other similar, usually localized, +practices.)

+ +

Man's ability to increase his productivity of the essentials of +physical life suggests that the need for protection against cyclical +famine may be nearly obsolete. [28] It has thus tended to reduce +the apparent importance of the basic ecological function of war, +which is generally disregarded by peace theorists. Two aspects of +it remain especially relevant, however. The first is obvious: +current rates of population growth, compounded by environmental +threat of chemical and other contaminants, may well bring about a +new crisis of insufficiency. If so, it is likely to be one of +unprecedented global magnitude, not merely regional or temporary. +Conventional methods of warfare would almost surely prove inadequate, +in this event, to reduce the consuming population to a level +consistent with survival of the species.

+ +

The second relevant factor is the efficiency of modern methods of +mass destruction. Even if their use is not required to meet a world +population crisis, they offer, perhaps paradoxically, the first +opportunity in the history of man to halt the regressive genetic +effects of natural selection by war. Nuclear weapons are indiscriminate. +Their application would bring to an end the disproportionate +destruction of the physically stronger members of the species (the +"warriors") in periods of war. Whether this prospect of genetic +gain would offset the unfavorable mutations anticipated from +postnuclear radioactivity we have not yet determined. What gives +the question a bearing on our study is the possibility that the +determination may yet have to be made.

+ +

Another secondary ecological trend bearing on projected population +growth is the regressive effect of certain medical advances. +Pestilence, for example, is no longer an important factor in +population control. The problem of increased life expectancy has +been aggravated. These advances also pose a potentially more sinister +problem, in that undesirable genetic traits that were formally +self-liquidating are now medically maintained. Many diseases that +were once fatal at preprocreational ages are now cured; the effect +of this development is to perpetuate undesirable susceptibilities +and mutations. It seems clear that a new quasi-eugenic function of +war is now in process of formation that will have to be taken into +account in any transition plan. For the time being, the Department +of Defense appears to have recognized such factors, as has been +demonstrated by the planning under way by the Rand Corporation to +cope with the breakdown in the ecological balance anticipated after +a thermonuclear war. The Department has also begun to stockpile +birds, for example, against the expected proliferation of +radiation-resistant insects, etc.

+ +

Cultural and Scientific

+ +

The declared order of values in modern societies gives a high place +to the so-call "creative" activities, and an even higher one to +those associated with the advance of scientific knowledge. Widely +held social values can be translated into political equivalents, +which in turn may bear on the nature of a transition to peace. The +attitudes of those who hold these values must be taken into account +in the planning of the transition. The dependence, therefore, of +cultural and scientific achievement on the war system would be an +important consideration in a transition plan even if such achievement +had no inherently necessary social function.

+ +

Of all the countless dichotomies invented by scholars to account +for the major differences in art styles and cycles, only one has +been consistently unambiguous in its application to a variety of +forms and cultures. However it may be verbalized, the basic +distinction is this: Is the work war-oriented or is it not? Among +primitive peoples, the war dance is the most important art form. +Elsewhere, literature, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture +that has won lasting acceptance has invariably dealt with a theme +of war, expressly or implicitly, and has expressed the centricity +of war to society. The war in question may be national conflict, +as in Shakespeare's plays, Beethoven's music, or Goya's paintings, +or it may be reflected in the form of religious, social, or moral +struggle, as in the work of Dante, Rembrandt, and Bach. Art that +cannot be classified as war-oriented is usually described as +"sterile," "decadent," and so on. Application of the "war standard" +to works of art may often leave room for debate in individual cases, +but there is no question of its role as the fundamental determinant +of cultural values. Aesthetic and moral standards have a common +anthropological origin, in the exaltation of bravery, the willingness +to kill and risk death in tribal warfare.

+ +

It is also instructive to note that the character of a society's +culture has borne a close relationship to its war-making potential, +in the context of its times. It is no accident that the current +"cultural explosion" in the United States is taking place during +an era marked by an unusually rapid advance in weaponry. This +relationship is more generally recognized than the literature on +the subject would suggest. For example, many artists and writers +are now beginning to express concern over the limited creative +options they envisage in the warless world they think, or hope, +may be soon upon us. They are currently preparing for this possibility +by unprecedented experimentation with meaningless forms; their +interest in recent years has been increasingly engaged by the +abstract pattern, the gratuitous emotion, the random happening, +and the unrelated sequence.

+ +

The relationship of war to scientific research and discovery is +more explicit. War is the principal motivational force for the +development of science at every level, from the abstractly conceptual +to the narrowly technological. Modern society places a high value +on "pure" science, but it is historically inescapable that all the +significant discoveries that have been made about the natural world +have been inspired by the real or imaginary military necessities +of their epochs. The consequences of the discoveries have indeed +gone far afield, but war has always provided the basic incentive.

+ +

Beginning with the development of iron and steel, and proceeding +through the discoveries of the laws of motion and thermodynamics +to the age of the atomic particle, the synthetic polymer, and the +space capsule, no important scientific advance has not been at +least indirectly initiated by an implicit requirement of weaponry. +More prosaic examples include the transistor radio (an outgrowth +of military communications requirements), the assembly line (from +Civil War firearms needs), the steel-frame building (from the steel +battleship), the canal lock, and so on. A typical adaptation can +be seen in a device as modest as the common lawnmower; it developed +>from the revolving scythe devised by Leonardo da Vinci to precede +a horse-powered vehicle into enemy ranks.

+ +

The most direct relationship can be found in medical technology. +For example, a giant "walking machine," an amplifier of body motions +invented for military use in difficult terrain, is now making it +possible for many previously confined to wheelchairs to walk. The +Vietnam war alone has led to spectacular improvements in amputation +procedures, blood-handling techniques, and surgical logistics. It +has stimulated new large-scale research on malaria and other tropical +parasitic diseases; it is hard to estimate how long this work would +otherwise have been delayed, despite its enormous nonmilitary +importance to nearly half the world's population.

+ +

Other

+ +

We have elected to omit from our discussion of the nonmilitary +functions of war those we do not consider critical to a transition +program. This is not to say they are unimportant, however, but only +that they appear to present no special problems for the organization +of a peace-oriented social system. They include the following:

+ +

{War as a general social release.} This is a psychosocial function, +serving the same purpose for a society as do the holiday, the +celebration, and the orgy for the individual - the release and +redistribution of undifferentiated tensions. War provides for the +periodic necessary readjustment of standards of social behavior +(the "moral climate") and for the dissipation of general boredom, +one of the most consistently undervalued and unrecognized of social +phenomena.

+ +

{War as a generational stabilizer.} This psychological function, +served by other behavior patterns in other animals, enables the +physically deteriorating older generation to maintain its control +of the younger, destroying it if necessary.

+ +

{War as an ideological clarifier.} The dualism that characterizes +the traditional dialectic of all branches of philosophy and of +stable political relationships stems from war as the prototype of +conflict. Except for secondary considerations, there cannot be, to +put it as simply as possible, more than two sides to a question +because there cannot be more than two sides to a war.

+ +

{War as the basis for international understanding.} Before the +development of modern communications, the strategic requirements +of war provided the only substantial incentive for the enrichment +of one national culture with the achievements of another. Although +this is still the case in many international relationships, the +function is obsolescent.

+ +

We have also foregone extended characterization of those functions +we assume to be widely and explicitly recognized. An obvious +example is the role of war as controller of the quality and degree +of unemployment. This is more than an economic and political +subfunction; its sociological, cultural, and ecological aspects +are also important, although often teleonomic. But none affect the +general problem of substitution. The same is true of certain other +functions; those we have included are sufficient to define the +scope of the problem.

+ +

SECTION 6: Substitutes for the Functions of War

+ +

By now it should be clear that the most detailed and comprehensive +master plan for a transition to world peace will remain academic +if it fails to deal forthrightly with the problem of the critical +nonmilitary functions of war. The social needs they serve are +essential; if the war system no longer exists to meet them, substitute +institutions will have to be established for the purpose. These +surrogates must be "realistic," which is to say of a scope and +nature that can be conceived and implemented in the context of +present-day social capabilities. This is not the truism it may +appear to be; the requirements of radical social change often reveal +the distinction between a most conservative projection and a wildly +utopian scheme to be fine indeed.

+ +

In this section we will consider some possible substitutes for +these functions. Only in rare instances have they been put forth +for the purposes which concern us here, but we see no reason to +limit ourselves to proposals that address themselves explicitly to +the problem as we have outlined it. We will disregard the ostensible, +or military, functions of war; it is a premise of this study that +the transition to peace implies absolutely that they will no longer +exist in any relevant sense. We will also disregard the noncritical +functions exemplified at the end of the preceding section.

+ +

Economic

+ +

Economic surrogates for war must meet two principal criteria. They +must be "wasteful," in the common sense of the word, and they must +operate outside the normal supply-demand system. A corollary that +should be obvious is that the magnitude of the waste must be +sufficient to meet the needs of a particular society. An economy +as advanced and complex as our own requires the planned average +annual destruction of not less than 10 percent of gross national +product [29] if it is effectively to fulfill its stabilizing +function. When the mass of a balance wheel is inadequate to the +power it is intended to control, its effect can be self-defeating, +as with a runaway locomotive. The analogy, though crude, [30] is +especially apt for the American economy, as our record of cyclical +depressions shows. All have taken place during periods of grossly +inadequate military spending.

+ +

Those few economic conversion programs which by implication +acknowledge the nonmilitary economic function of war (at least to +some extent) tend to assume that so-called social-welfare expenditures +will fill the vacuum created by the disappearance of military +spending. When one considers the backlog of unfinished business - +proposed but still unexecuted - in this field, the assumption seems +plausible. Let us examine briefly the following list, which is +more or less typical of general social welfare programs. [31]

+ +

{Health.} Drastic expansion of medical research, education, and +training facilities; hospital and clinic construction; the general +objective of {complete} government-guaranteed health care for all, +at a level consistent with current developments in medical technology.

+ +

{Education.} The equivalent of the foregoing in teacher training; +schools and libraries; the drastic upgrading of standards, with +the general objective of making available for all an attainable +educational goal equivalent to what is now considered a professional +degree.

+ +

{Housing.} Clean, comfortable, safe, and spacious living space for +all, at the level now enjoyed by about 15 percent of the population +in this country (less in most others).

+ +

{Transportation.} The establishment of a system of mass public +transportation making it possible for all to travel to and from +areas of work and recreation quickly, comfortably, and conveniently, +and to travel privately for pleasure rather than necessity.

+ +

{Physical environment.} The development and protection of water +supplies, forests, parks, and other natural resources; the elimination +of chemical and bacterial contaminants from air, water, and soil.

+ +

{Poverty.} The genuine elimination of poverty, defined by a standard +consistent with current economic productivity, by means of guaranteed +annual income or whatever system of distribution will best assure +its achievement.

+ +

This is only a sampler of the more obvious domestic social welfare +items, and we have listed it in a deliberately broad, perhaps +extravagant, manner. In the past, such a vague and ambitious-sounding +"program" wold have been dismissed out of hand, without serious +consideration; it would clearly have been, {prima facie}, far too +costly, quite apart from its political implications. [32] Our +objection to it, on the other hand, could hardly be more contradictory. +As an economic substitute for war, it is inadequate because it +would be far too cheap.

+ +

If this seems paradoxical, it must be remembered that up to now +all proposed social-welfare expenditures have had to be measured +{within} the war economy, not as a replacement for it. The old +slogan about a battleship or an ICBM costing as much as {x} hospitals +or {y} schools or {z} homes takes on a very different meaning if +there are to be no more battleships or ICBM's.

+ +

Since the list is general, we have elected to forestall the tangential +controversy that surrounds arbitrary cost projections by offering +no individual cost estimates. But the maximum program that could +be physically effected along the lines indicated could approach +the established level of military spending only for a limited time +- in our opinion, subject to a detailed cost-and-feasibility +analysis, less than ten years. In this short period, at this rate, +the major goals of the program would have been achieved. Its +capital-investment phase would have been completed, and it would +have established a permanent comparatively modest level of annual +operating cost - {within the framework of the general economy}.

+ +

Here is the basic weakness of the social-welfare surrogate. On +the short-term basis, a maximum program of this sort could replace +a normal military spending program, provided it was designed, like +the military model, to be subject to arbitrary control. Public +housing starts, for example, or the development of modern medical +centers might be accelerated or halted from time to time, as the +requirements of a stable economy might dictate. But on the long-term +basis, social-welfare spending, no matter how often redefined, +would necessarily become an integral, accepted part of the economy, +of no more value as a stabilizer than the automobile industry or +old age and survivors' insurance. Apart from whatever merit +social-welfare programs are deemed to have for their own sake, +their function as a substitute for war in the economy would thus +be self-liquidating. They might serve, however, as expedients +pending the development of more durable substitute measures.

+ +

Another economic surrogate that has been proposed is a series of +giant "space research" programs. These have already demonstrated +their utility in more modest scale within the military economy. +What has been implied, although not yet expressly put forth, is +the development of a long-range sequence of space-research projects +with largely unattainable goals. This kind of program offers several +advantages lacking in the social welfare model. First, it is unlikely +to phase itself out, regardless of the predictable "surprises" +science has in store for us: the universe is too big. In the event +some individual project unexpectedly succeeds there would be no +dearth of substitute problems. For example, if colonization of +the moon proceeds on schedule, it could then become "necessary" to +establish a beachhead on Mars or Jupiter, and so on. Second, it +need be no more dependent on the general supply-demand economy than +its military prototype. Third, it lends itself extraordinarily well +to arbitrary control.

+ +

Space research can be viewed as the nearest modern equivalent yet +devised to the pyramid-building, and similar ritualistic enterprises, +of ancient societies. It is true that the scientific value of the +space program, even of what has already been accomplished, is +substantial on its own terms. But current programs are absurdly +and obviously disproportionate, in the relationship of the knowledge +sought to the expenditures committed. All but a small fraction of +the space budget, measured by the standards of comparable scientific +objectives, must be charged {de facto} to the military economy. +Future space research, projected as a war surrogate, would further +reduce the the "scientific" rationale of its budget to a minuscule +percentage indeed. As a purely economic substitute for war, therefore, +extension of the space program warrants serious consideration.

+ +

In Section 3 we pointed out that certain disarmament models, which +we called conservative, postulated extremely expensive and elaborate +inspection systems. Would it be possible to extend and institutionalize +such systems to the point where they might serve as economic +surrogates for war spending? The organization of failsafe inspection +machinery could well be ritualized in a manner similar to that of +established military processes. "Inspection teams" might be very +like armies, and their technical equipment might be very like +weapons. Inflating the inspection budget to military scale presents +no difficulty. The appeal of this kind of scheme lies in the +comparative ease of transition between two parallel systems.

+ +

The "elaborate inspection" surrogate is fundamentally fallacious, +however. Although it might be economically useful, as well as +politically necessary, during the disarmament transition, it would +fail as a substitute for the economic function of war for one simple +reason. Peacekeeping inspection is part of a war system, not of +a peace system. It implies the possibility of weapons maintenance +or manufacture, which could not exist in a world at peace as here +defined. Massive inspection also implies sanctions, and thus +war-readiness.

+ +

The same fallacy is more obvious in plans to create a patently +useless "defense conversion" apparatus. The long-discredited +proposal to build "total" civil defense facilities is one example; +another is the plan to establish a giant antimissile missile complex +(Nike-X, {et al}.). These programs, of course, are economic rather +than strategic. Nevertheless, they are not substitutes for military +spending but merely different forms of it.

+ +

A more sophisticated variant is the proposal to establish the +"Unarmed Forces" of the United States. [33] This would conveniently +maintain the entire institutional military structure, redirecting +it essentially toward social-welfare activities on a global scale. +It would be, in effect, a giant military Peace Corps. There is +nothing inherently unworkable about this plan, and using the existing +military system to effectuate its own demise is both ingenious and +convenient. But even on a greatly magnified world basis, social-welfare +expenditures must sooner or later reenter the atmosphere of the +normal economy. The practical transitional virtues of such a scheme +would thus be eventually negated by its inadequacy as a permanent +economic stabilizer.

+ +

Political

+ +

The war system makes the stable government of societies possible. +It does this essentially by providing an external necessity for a +society to accept political rule. In so doing, it establishes the +basis for nationhood and the authority of government to control +its constituents. What other institution or combination of programs +might serve these functions in its place?

+ +

We have already pointed out that the end of war means the end of +national sovereignty, and thus the end of nationhood as we know it +today. But this does not necessarily mean the end of nations in +the administrative sense, and internal political power will remain +essential to a stable society. The emerging "nations" of the peace +epoch must continue to draw political authority from some source.

+ +

A number of proposals have been made governing the relations between +nations after total disarmament; all are basically juridical in +nature. They contemplate institutions more or less like a World +Court, or a United Nations, but vested with real authority. They +may or may not serve their ostensible postmilitary purpose of +settling international disputes, but we need not discuss that here. +None would offer effective external pressure on a peace-world nation +to organize itself politically.

+ +

It might be argued that a well-armed international police force, +operating under the authority of such a supranational "court," +could well serve the function of external enemy. This, however, +would constitute a military operation, like the inspection schemes +mentioned, and, like them, would be inconsistent with the premise +of an end to the war system. It is possible that a variant of the +"Unarmed Forces" idea might be developed in such a way that its +"constructive" (i.e., social welfare) activities could be combined +with an economic "threat" of sufficient size and credibility to +warrant political organization. Would this kind of threat also be +contradictory to our central premise? - that is, would it be +inevitably military? Not necessarily, in our view, but we are +skeptical of its capacity to evoke credibility. Also, the obvious +destabilizing effect of any global social welfare surrogate on +politically necessary class relationships would create an entirely +new set of transition problems at least equal in magnitude.

+ +

Credibility, in fact, lies at the heart of the problem of developing +a political substitute for war. This is where the space-race +proposals, in many ways so well suited as economic substitutes for +war, fall short. The most ambitious and unrealistic space project +cannot of itself generate a believable external menace. It has been +hotly argued [34] that such a menace would offer the "last, best +hope of peace," etc., by uniting mankind against the danger of +destruction by "creatures" from other planets or from outer space. +Experiments have been proposed to test the credibility of an +out-of-our-world invasion threat; it is possible that a few of the +more difficult-to-explain "flying saucer" incidents of recent years +were in fact early experiments of this kind. If so, they could +hardly have been judged encouraging. We anticipate no difficulties +in making a "need" for a giant super space program credible for +economic purposes, even were there not ample precedent; extending +it, for political purposes, to include features unfortunately +associated with science fiction would obviously be a more dubious +undertaking.

+ +

Nevertheless, an effective political substitute for war would +require "alternate enemies," some of which might seem equally +farfetched in the context of the current war system. It may be, +for instance, that gross pollution of the environment can eventually +replace the possibility of mass destruction by nuclear weapons as +the principal apparent threat to the survival of the species. +Poisoning of the air, and of the principal sources of food and +water supply, is already well advanced, and at first glance would +seem promising in this respect; it constitutes a threat that can +be dealt with only through social organization and political power. +But from present indications it will be a generation to a generation +and a half before environmental pollution, however severe, will be +sufficiently menacing, on a global scale, to offer a possible basis +for a solution.

+ +

It is true that the rate of pollution could be increased selectively +for this purpose; in fact, the mere modifying of existing programs +for the deterrence of pollution could speed up the process enough +to make the threat credible much sooner. But the pollution problem +has been so widely publicized in recent years that it seems highly +improbable that a program of deliberate environmental poisoning +could be implemented in a politically acceptable manner.

+ +

However unlikely some of the possible alternate enemies we have +mentioned may seem, we must emphasize that one {must} be found, of +credible quality and magnitude, if a transition to peace is ever +to come about without social disintegration. It is more probable, +in our judgment, that such a threat will have to be invented, rather +than developed from unknown conditions. For this reason, we believe +further speculation about its putative nature ill-advised in this +context. Since there is considerable doubt, in our minds, that +{any} viable political surrogate can be devised, we are reluctant +to compromise, by premature discussion, any possible option that +may eventually lie open to our government.

+ +

Sociological

+ +

Of the many functions of war we have found convenient to group +together in this classification, two are critical. In a world of +peace, the continuing stability of society will require: 1) an +effective substitute for military institutions that can neutralize +destabilizing social elements and 2) a credible motivational +surrogate for war that can insure social cohesiveness. The first +is an essential element of social control; the second is the basic +mechanism for adapting individual human drives to the needs of +society.

+ +

Most proposals that address themselves, explicitly or otherwise, +to the postwar problem of controlling the socially alienated turn +to some variant of the Peace Corps or the so-called Job Corps for +a solution. The socially disaffected, the economically unprepared, +the psychologically unconformable, the hard-core "delinquents," +the incorrigible "subversives," and the rest of the unemployable +are seen as somehow transformed by the disciplines of a service +modeled on military precedent into more or less dedicated social +service workers. This presumption also informs the otherwise +hardheaded ratiocination of the "Unarmed Forces" plan.

+ +

The problem has been addressed, in the language of popular sociology, +by Secretary McNamara. "Even in our abundant societies, we have +reason enough to worry over the tensions that coil and tighten +among underprivileged young people, and finally flail out in +delinquency and crime. What are we to expect ... where mounting +frustrations are likely to fester into eruptions of violence and +extremism?" In a seemingly unrelated passage, he continues: "It +seems to me that we could move toward remedying that inequity [of +the Selective Service System] by asking every young person in the +United States to give two years of service to his country - whether +in one of the military services, in the Peace Corps, or in some +other volunteer developmental work at home or abroad. We could +encourage other countries to do the same." [35] Here, as elsewhere +throughout this significant speech, Mr. McNamara has focused, +indirectly but unmistakably, on one of the key issues bearing on +a possible transition to peace, and has later indicated, also +indirectly, a rough approach to its resolution, again phrased in +the language of the current war system.

+ +

It seems clear that Mr. McNamara and other proponents of the +peace-corps surrogate for this war function lean heavily on the +success of the paramilitary Depression programs mentioned in the +last section. We find the precedent wholly inadequate in degree. +Neither the lack of relevant precedent, however, nor the dubious +social-welfare sentimentality characterizing this approach warrant +its rejection without careful study. It may be viable - provided, +first, that the military origin of the Corps format be effectively +rendered out of its operational activity, and second, that the +transition from paramilitary activities to "developmental work" +can be effected without regard to the attitudes of the Corps +personnel or to the "value" of the work it is expected to perform.

+ +

Another possible surrogate for the control of potential enemies of +society is the reintroduction, in some form consistent with modern +technology and political processes, of slavery. Up to now, this +has been suggested only in fiction, notably in the works of Wells, +Huxley, Orwell, and others engaged in the imaginative anticipation +of the sociology of the future. But the fantasies projected in +{Brave New World} and {1984} have seemed less and less implausible +over the years since their publication. The traditional association +of slavery with ancient preindustrial cultures should not blind us +to its adaptability to advanced forms of social organization, nor +should its equally traditional incompatibility with Western moral +and economic values. It is entirely possible that the development +of a sophisticated form of slavery may be an absolute prerequisite +for social control in a world at peace. As a practical matter, +conversion of the code of military discipline to a euphemized form +of enslavement would entail surprisingly little revision; the +logical first step would be the adoption of some form of "universal" +military service.

+ +

When it comes to postulating a credible substitute for war capable +of directing human behavior patterns in behalf of social organization, +few options suggest themselves. Like its political function, the +motivational function of war requires the existence of a genuinely +menacing social enemy. The principal difference is that for purposes +of motivating basic allegiance, as distinct from accepting political +authority, the "alternate enemy" must imply a more immediate, +tangible, and directly felt threat of destruction. It must justify +the need for taking and paying a "blood price" in wide areas of +human concern.

+ +

In this respect, the possible substitute enemies noted earlier +would be insufficient. One exception might be the environmental-pollution +model, if the danger to society it posed was genuinely imminent. +The fictive models would have to carry the weight of extraordinary +conviction, underscored with a not inconsiderable actual sacrifice +of life; the construction of an up-to-date mythological or religious +structure for this purpose would present difficulties in our era, +but must certainly be considered.

+ +

Games theorists have suggested, in other contexts, the development +of "blood games" for the effective control of individual aggressive +impulses. It is an ironic commentary on the current state of war +and peace studies that it was left not to scientists but to the +makers of a commercial film [36] to develop a model for this notion, +on the implausible level of popular melodrama, as a ritualized +manhunt. More realistically, such a ritual might be socialized, in +the manner of the Spanish Inquisition and the less formal witch +trials of other periods, for purposes of "social purification," +"state security," or other rationale both acceptable and credible +to postwar societies. The feasibility of such an updated version +of still another ancient institution, though doubtful, is considerably +less fanciful than the wishful notion of many peace planners that +a lasting condition of peace can be brought about without the most +painstaking examination of every possible surrogate for the essential +functions of war. What is involved here, in a sense, is the quest +for William James's "moral equivalent of war."

+ +

It is also possible that the two functions considered under this +heading may be jointly served, in the sense of establishing the +antisocial, for whom a control institution is needed, as the +"alternate enemy" needed to hold society together. The relentless +and irreversible advance of unemployability at all levels of society, +and the similar extension of generalized alienation from accepted +values [37] may make some such program necessary even as an adjunct +to the war system. As before, we will not speculate on the specific +forms this kind of program might take, except to note that there +is again ample precedent, in the treatment meted out to disfavored, +allegedly menacing, ethnic groups in certain societies during +historical periods. [38]

+ +

Ecological

+ +

Considering the the shortcomings of war as a mechanism of selective +population control, it might appear that devising substitutes for +this function should be comparatively simple. Schematically this +so, but the problem of timing the transition to a new ecological +balancing device makes the feasibility of substitution less certain.

+ +

It must be remembered that the limitation of war in this function +is entirely eugenic. War has not been genetically progressive. But +as a system of gross population control to preserve the species it +cannot fairly be faulted. And, as has been pointed out, the nature +of war is itself in transition. Current trends in warfare - the +increased strategic bombing of civilians and the greater military +importance now attached to the destruction of sources of supply +(as opposed to purely "military" bases and personnel) - strongly +suggest that a truly qualitative improvement is in the making. +Assuming the war system is to continue, it is more than probable +that the regressively selective quality of war will have been +reversed, as its victims become more genetically representative of +their societies.

+ +

There is no question but that a universal requirement that procreation +be limited to the products of artificial insemination would provide +a fully adequate substitute control for population levels. Such a +reproductive system would, of course, have the added advantage of +being susceptible of direct eugenic management. Its predictable +further development - conception and embryonic growth taking place +wholly under laboratory conditions - would extend these controls +to their logical conclusion. The ecological function of war under +these circumstances would not only be superseded but surpassed in +effectiveness.

+ +

The indicated intermediate step - total control of conception with +a variant of the ubiquitous "pill," via water supplies or certain +essential foodstuffs, offset by a controlled "antidote" - is already +under development. [39] There would appear to be no foreseeable +need to revert to any of the outmoded practices referred to in the +previous section (infanticide, etc.) as there might have been if +the possibility of transition to peace had arisen two generations +ago.

+ +

The real question here, therefore, does not concern the viability +of this war substitute, but the political problems involved in +bringing it about. It cannot be established while the war system +is still in effect. The reason for this is simple: excess population +is war material. As long as any society must contemplate even a +remote possibility of war, it must maintain a maximum supportable +population, even when so doing critically aggravates an economic +liability. This is paradoxical, in view of war's role in reducing +excess population, but it is readily understood. War controls the +{general} population level, but the ecological interest of any +single society lies in maintaining its hegemony vis-a-vis other +societies. The obvious analogy can be seen in any free-enterprise +economy. Practices damaging to the society as a whole - both +competitive and monopolistic - are abetted by the conflicting +economic motives of individual capital interests. The obvious +precedent can be found in the seemingly irrational political +difficulties which have blocked universal adoption of simple +birth-control methods. Nations desperately in need of increasing +unfavorable production-consumption ratios are nevertheless unwilling +to gamble their possible military requirements of twenty years +hence for this purpose. Unilateral population control, as practiced +in ancient Japan and in other isolated societies, is out of the +question in today's world.

+ +

Since the eugenic solution cannot be achieved until the transition +to the peace system takes place, why not wait? One must qualify +the inclination to agree. As we noted earlier, a real possibility +of an unprecedented global crisis of insufficiency exists today, +which the war system may not be able to forestall. If this should +come to pass before an agreed-upon transition to peace were completed, +the result might be irrevocably disastrous. There is clearly no +solution to this dilemma; it is a risk which must be taken. But +it tends to support the view that if a decision is made to eliminate +the war system, it were better done sooner than later.

+ +

Cultural and Scientific

+ +

Strictly speaking, the function of war as the determinant of cultural +values and as the prime mover of scientific progress may not be +critical in a world without war. Our criterion for the basic +nonmilitary functions of war has been: Are they necessary to the +survival and stability of society? The absolute need for substitute +cultural value-determinants and for the continued advance of +scientific knowledge is not established. We believe it important, +however, in behalf of those for whom these functions hold subjective +significance, that it be known what they can reasonably expect in +culture and science after a transition to peace.

+ +

So far as the creative arts are concerned, there is no reason to +believe they would disappear, but only that they would change in +character and relative social importance. The elimination of war +would in due course deprive them of their principal conative force, +but it would necessarily take some time for the effect of this +withdrawal to be felt. During the transition, and perhaps for a +generation thereafter, themes of sociomoral conflict inspired by +the war system would be increasingly transferred to the idiom of +purely personal sensibility. At the same time, a new aesthetic +would have to develop. Whatever its name, form, or rationale, its +function would be to express, in language appropriate to the new +period, the once discredited philosophy that art exists for its +own sake. This aesthetic would reject unequivocally the classic +requirement of paramilitary conflict as the substantive content of +great art. The eventual effect of the peace-world philosophy of +art would be democratizing in the extreme, in the sense that a +generally acknowledged subjectivity of artistic standards would +equalize their new, content-free "values."

+ +

What may be expected to happen is that art would be reassigned the +role it once played in a few primitive peace-oriented systems. This +was the function of pure decoration, entertainment, or play, entirely +free of the burden of expressing the sociomoral values and conflicts +of a war-oriented society. It is interesting that the groundwork +for such a value-free aesthetic is already being laid today, in +growing experimentation in art without content, perhaps in anticipation +of a world without conflict. A cult has developed around a new kind +of cultural determinism, [40] which proposes that the technological +form of a cultural expression determines its values rather than +does its ostensibly meaningful content. Its clear implication is +that there is no "good" or "bad" art, only that which is appropriate +to its (technological) times and that which is not. Its cultural +effect has been to promote circumstantial constructions and unplanned +expressions; it denies to art the relevance of sequential logic. +Its significance in this context is that it provides a working +model of one kind of value-free culture we might reasonably anticipate +in a world at peace.

+ +

So far as science is concerned, it might appear at first glance +that a giant space-research program, the most promising among the +proposed economic surrogates for war, might also serve as the basic +stimulator of scientific research. The lack of fundamental organized +social conflict inherent in space work, however, would rule it out +as an adequate motivational substitute for war when applied to +"pure" science. But it could no doubt sustain the broad range of +{technological} activity that a space budget of military dimensions +would require. A similarly scaled social-welfare program could +provide a comparable impetus to low-keyed technological advances, +especially in medicine, rationalized construction methods, educational +psychology, etc. The eugenic substitute for the ecological function +of war would also require continuing research in certain areas of +the life sciences.

+ +

Apart from these partial substitutes for war, it must be kept in +mind that the momentum given to scientific progress by the great +wars of the past century, and even more by the anticipation of +World War III, is intellectually and materially enormous. It is +our finding that if the war system were to end tomorrow this momentum +is so great that the pursuit of scientific knowledge could reasonably +be expected to go forward without noticeable diminution for perhaps +two decades. [41] It would then continue, at a progressively +decreasing tempo, for at least another two decades before the "bank +account" of today's unresolved problems would become exhausted. By +the standards of the questions we have learned to ask today, there +would no longer be anything worth knowing still unknown; we cannot +conceive, by definition, of the scientific questions to ask once +those we can not comprehend are answered.

+ +

This leads unavoidably to another matter: the intrinsic value of +the unlimited search for knowledge. We of course offer no independent +value judgments here, but it is germane to point out that a +substantial minority of scientific opinion feels that search to be +circumscribed in any case. This opinion is itself a factor in +considering the need for a substitute for the scientific function +of war. For the record, we must also take note of the precedent +that during long periods of human history, often covering thousands +of years, in which no intrinsic social value was assigned to +scientific progress, stable societies did survive and flourish. +Although this could not have been possible in the modern industrial +world, we cannot be certain it may not again be true in a future +world at peace.

+ +

SECTION 7: Summary and Conclusions

+ +

The Nature of War

+ +

War is not, as is widely assumed, primarily an instrument of policy +utilized by nations to extend or defend their expressed political +values or their economic interests. On the contrary, it is itself +the principal basis of organization on which all modern societies +are constructed. The common proximate cause of war is the apparent +interference of one nation with the aspirations of another. But +at the root of all ostensible differences of national interest lie +the dynamic requirements of the war system itself for periodic +armed conflict. Readiness for war characterizes contemporary social +systems more broadly than their economic and political structures, +which it subsumes.

+ +

Economic analyses of the anticipated problems of transition to +peace have not recognized the broad preeminence of war in the +definition of social systems. The same is true, with rare and only +partial exceptions, of model disarmament "scenarios." For this +reason, the value of this previous work is limited to the mechanical +aspects of transition. Certain features of these models may perhaps +be applicable to a real situation of conversion to peace; this will +depend on their compatibility with a substantive, rather than a +procedural, peace plan. Such a plan can be developed only from the +premise of full understanding of the nature of the war system it +proposes to abolish, which in turn presupposes detailed comprehension +of the functions the war system performs for society. It will +require the construction of a detailed and feasible system of +substitutes for those functions that are necessary to the stability +and survival of human societies.

+ +

The Functions of War

+ +

The visible, military function of war requires no elucidation; it +is not only obvious but also irrelevant to a transition to the +condition of peace, in which it will by definition be superfluous. +It is also subsidiary in social significance to the implied, +nonmilitary functions of war; those critical to transition can be +summarized in five principal groupings.

+ +

1. {Economic}. War has provided both ancient and modern societies +with a dependable system for stabilizing and controlling national +economies. No alternate method of control has yet been tested in +a complex modern economy that has shown itself remotely comparable +in scope or effectiveness.

+ +

2. {Political}. The permanent possibility of war is the foundation +for stable government; it supplies the basis for general acceptance +of political authority. It has enabled societies to maintain +necessary class distinctions, and it has ensured the subordination +of the citizen to the state, by virtue of the residual war powers +inherent in the concept of nationhood. No modern political ruling +group has successfully controlled its constituency after failing +to sustain the continuing credibility of an external threat of war.

+ +

3. {Sociological}. War, through the medium of military institutions, +has uniquely served societies, throughout the course of known +history, as an indispensable controller of dangerous social dissidence +and destructive antisocial tendencies. As the most formidable of +threats to life itself, and as the only one susceptible to mitigation +by social organization alone, it has played another equally +fundamental role: the war system has provided the machinery through +which the motivational forces governing human behavior have been +translated into binding social allegiance. It has thus ensured the +degree of social cohesion necessary to the viability of nations. +No other institution, or group of institutions, in modern societies, +has successfully served these functions.

+ +

4. {Ecological}. War has been the principal evolutionary device +for maintaining a satisfactory ecological balance between gross +human population and supplies available for its survival. It is +unique to the human species.

+ +

5. {Cultural and Scientific}. War-orientation has determined the +basic standards of value in the creative arts, and has provided +the fundamental motivational source of scientific and technological +progress. The concepts that the arts express values independent of +their own forms and that the successful pursuit of knowledge has +intrinsic social value have long been accepted in modern societies; +the development of the arts and sciences during this period has +been corollary to the parallel development of weaponry.

+ +

Substitutes for the Functions of War: Criteria

+ +

The foregoing functions of war are essential to the survival of +the social systems we know today. With two possible exceptions they +are also essential to any kind of stable social organization that +might survive in a warless world. Discussion of the ways and means +of transition to such a world are meaningless unless a) substitute +institutions can be devised to fill these functions, or b) it can +reasonably be hypothecated that the loss or partial loss of any +one function need not destroy the viability of future societies.

+ +

Such substitute institutions and hypotheses must meet varying +criteria. In general, they must be technically feasible, politically +acceptable, and potentially credible to the members of the societies +that adopt them. Specifically, they must be characterized as +follows:

+ +

1. {Economic}. An acceptable economic surrogate for the war system +will require the expenditure of resources for completely nonproductive +purposes at a level comparable to that of the military expenditures +otherwise demanded by the size and complexity of each society. Such +a substitute system of apparent "waste" must be of a nature that +will permit it to remain independent of the normal supply-demand +economy; it must be subject to arbitrary political control.

+ +

2. {Political}. A viable political substitute for war must posit +a generalized external menace to each society of a nature and degree +sufficient to require the organization and acceptance of political +authority.

+ +

3. {Sociological}. First, in the permanent absence of war, new +institutions must be developed that will effectively control the +socially destructive segments of societies. Second, for purposes +of adapting the physical and psychological dynamics of human behavior +to the needs of social organization, a credible substitute for war +must generate an omnipresent and readily understood fear of personal +destruction. This fear must be of a nature and degree sufficient +to ensure adherence to societal values to the full extent that they +are acknowledged to transcend the value of an individual human +life.

+ +

4. {Ecological}. A substitute for war in its function as the uniquely +human system of population control must ensure the survival, if +not necessarily the improvement, of the species, in terms of its +relation to environmental supply.

+ +

5. {Cultural and Scientific}. A surrogate for the function of war +as the determinant of cultural values must establish a basis of +sociomoral conflict of equally compelling force and scope. A +substitute motivational basis for the quest for scientific knowledge +must be similarly informed by a comparable sense of internal +necessity.

+ +

Substitutes for the Functions of War: Models

+ +

The following substitute institutions, among others, have been +proposed for consideration as replacements for the nonmilitary +functions of war. That they may not have been originally set forth +for that purpose does not preclude or invalidate their possible +application here.

+ +

1. {Economic}. a) A comprehensive social-welfare program, directed +toward maximum improvement of general conditions of human life. b) +A giant open-end space research program, aimed at unreachable +targets. c) A permanent, ritualized, ultra-elaborate disarmament +inspection system, and variants of such a system.

+ +

2. {Political}. a) An omnipresent, virtually omnipotent international +police force. b) An established and recognized extraterrestrial +menace. c) Massive global environmental pollution. d) Fictitious +alternate enemies.

+ +

3. {Sociological: Control function}. a) Programs generally derived +>from the Peace Corps model. b) A modern, sophisticated form of +slavery. {Motivational function}. a) Intensified environmental +pollution. b) New religious or other mythologies. c) Socially +oriented blood games. d) Combination forms.

+ +

4. {Ecological}. A comprehensive program of applied eugenics.

+ +

5. {Cultural}. No replacement institution offered. {Scientific}. +The secondary requirements of the space research, social welfare, +and/or eugenics programs.

+ +

Substitutes for the Functions of War: Evaluation

+ +

The models listed above reflect only the beginning of the quest +for substitute institutions for the functions of war, rather than +a recapitulation of alternatives. It would be both premature and +inappropriate, therefore, to offer final judgments on their +applicability to a transition to peace and after. Furthermore, +since the necessary but complex project of correlating the +compatibility of proposed surrogates for different functions could +be treated only in exemplary fashion at this time, we have elected +to withhold such hypothetical correlation as were tested as +statistically inadequate. [42]

+ +

Nevertheless, some tentative and cursory comments on these proposed +functional "solutions" will indicate the scope of the difficulties +involved in this area of peace planning.

+ +

{Economic}. The social-welfare model cannot be expected to remain +outside the normal economy after the conclusion of its predominantly +capital-investment phase; its value in this function can therefore +be only temporary. The space-research substitute appears to meet +both major criteria, and should be examined in greater detail, +especially in respect to its probable effects on other war functions. +"Elaborate inspection" schemes, although superficially attractive, +are inconsistent with the basic premise of transition to peace. +The "unarmed forces" variant, logistically similar, is subject to +the same functional criticism as the general social-welfare model.

+ +

{Political}. Like the inspection-scheme surrogates, proposals for +plenipotentiary international police are inherently incompatible +with the ending of the war system. The "unarmed forces" variant, +amended to include unlimited powers of economic sanction, might +conceivably be expanded to constitute a credible external menace. +Development of an acceptable threat from "outer space," presumably +in conjunction with a space-research surrogate for economic control, +appears unpromising in terms of credibility. The environmental-pollution +model does not seem sufficiently responsive to immediate social +control, except through arbitrary acceleration of current pollution +trends; this in turn raises questions of political acceptability. +New, less regressive, approaches to the creation of fictitious +global "enemies" invite further investigation.

+ +

{Sociological: Control function}. Although the various substitutes +proposed for this function that are modeled roughly on the Peace +Corps appear grossly inadequate in potential scope, they should +not be ruled out without further study. Slavery, in a technologically +modern and conceptually euphemized form, may prove a more efficient +and flexible institution in this area. {Motivational function}. +Although none of the proposed substitutes for war as the guarantor +of social allegiance can be dismissed out of hand, each presents +serious and special difficulties. Intensified environmental threats +may raise ecological dangers; mythmaking dissociated from war may +no longer be politically feasible; purposeful blood games and +rituals can far more readily be devised than implemented. An +institution combining this function with the preceding one, based +on, but not necessarily imitative of, the precedent of organized +ethnic repression, warrants careful consideration.

+ +

{Ecological}. The only apparent problem in the application of an +adequate eugenic substitute for war is that of timing; it cannot +be effectuated until the transition to peace has been completed, +which involves a serious temporary risk of ecological failure.

+ +

{Cultural}. No plausible substitute for this function of war has +yet been proposed. It may be, however, that a basic cultural +value-determinant is not necessary to the survival of a stable +society. {Scientific}. The same might be said for the function of +war as the prime mover of the search for knowledge. However, adoption +of either a giant space-research program, a comprehensive +social-welfare program, or a master program of eugenic control +would provide motivation for limited technologies.

+ +

General Conclusions

+ +

It is apparent, from the foregoing, that no program or combination +of programs yet proposed for a transition to peace has remotely +approached meeting the comprehensive functional requirements of a +world without war. Although one projected system for filling the +economic function of war seems promising, similar optimism cannot +be expressed in the equally essential political and sociological +areas. The other major nonmilitary functions of war - ecological, +cultural, scientific - raise very different problems, but it is at +least possible that detailed programming of substitutes in these +areas is not prerequisite to transition. More important, it is not +enough to develop adequate but separate surrogates for the major +war functions; they must be fully compatible and in no degree +self-canceling.

+ +

Until such a unified program is developed, at least hypothetically, +it is impossible for this or any other group to furnish meaningful +answers to the questions originally presented to us. When asked +how best to prepare for the advent of peace, we must first reply, +as strongly as we can, that the war system cannot responsibly be +allowed to disappear until 1) we know exactly what it is we plan +to put in its place, and 2) we are certain, beyond reasonable doubt, +that these substitute institutions will serve their purposes in +terms of the survival and stability of society. It will then be +time enough to develop methods for effectuating the transition; +procedural programming must follow, not precede, substantive +solutions.

+ +

Such solutions, if indeed they exist, will not be arrived at without +a revolutionary revision of the modes of thought heretofore considered +appropriate to peace research. That we have examined the fundamental +questions involved from a dispassionate, value-free point of view +should not imply that we do not appreciate the intellectual and +emotional difficulties that must be overcome on all decision-making +levels before these questions are generally acknowledged by others +for what they are. They reflect, on an intellectual level, traditional +emotional resistance to new (more lethal and thus more "shocking") +forms of weaponry. The understated comment of then-Senator Hubert +Humphrey on the publication of {On Thermonuclear War} is still very +much to the point: "New thoughts, particularly those which appear +to contradict current assumptions, are always painful for the mind +to contemplate."

+ +

Nor, simply because we have not discussed them, do we minimize the +massive reconciliation of conflicting interest which domestic as +well as international agreement on proceeding toward genuine peace +presupposes. This factor was excluded from the purview of our +assignment, but we would be remiss if we failed to take it into +account. Although no insuperable obstacle lies in the path of +reaching such general agreements, formidable short-term private-group +and general-class interest in maintaining the war system is well +established and widely recognized. The resistance to peace stemming +>from such interest is only tangential, in the long run, to the +basic functions of war, but it will not be easily overcome, in this +country or elsewhere. Some observers, in fact, believe that it +cannot be overcome at all in our time, that the price of peace is, +simply, too high. This bears on our overall conclusions to the +extent that timing in the transference to substitute institutions +may often be the critical factor in their political feasibility.

+ +

It is uncertain, at this time, whether peace will ever be possible. +It is far more questionable, by the objective standard of continued +social survival rather than that of emotional pacifism, that it +would be desirable even if it were demonstrably attainable. The +war system, for all its subjective repugnance to important sections +of "public opinion," has demonstrated its effectiveness since the +beginning of recorded history; it has provided the basis for the +development of many impressively durable civilizations, including +that which is dominant today. It has consistently provided unambiguous +social priorities. It is, on the whole, a known quantity. A viable +system of peace, assuming that the great and complex questions of +substitute institutions raised in this Report are both soluble and +solved, would still constitute a venture into the unknown, with +the inevitable risks attendant on the unforeseen, however small +and however well hedged.

+ +

Government decision-makers tend to choose peace over war whenever +a real option exists, because it usually appear to be the "safer" +choice. Under most immediate circumstances they are likely to be +right. But in terms of long-range social stability, the opposite +is true. At our present state of knowledge and reasonable inference, +it is the war system that must be identified with stability, the +peace system with social speculation, however justifiable the +speculation may appear, in terms of subjective moral or emotional +values. A nuclear physicist once remarked, in respect to a possible +disarmament agreement: "If we could change the world into a world +in which no weapons could be made, that would be stabilizing. But +agreements we can expect with the Soviets would be destabilizing." +[43] The qualification and the bias are equally irrelevant; {any} +condition of genuine total peace, however achieved, would be +destabilizing until proved otherwise.

+ +

If it were necessary at this moment to opt irrevocably for the +retention or for the dissolution of the war system, common prudence +would dictate the former course. But it is not yet necessary, late +as the hour appears. And more factors must eventually enter the +war-peace equation than even the most determined search for +alternative institutions for the functions of war can be expected +to reveal. One group of such factors has been given only passing +mention in this Report; it centers around the possible obsolescence +of the war system itself. We have noted, for instance, the limitations +of the war system in filling its ecological function and the +declining importance of this aspect of war. It by no means stretches +the imagination to visualize comparable developments which may +compromise the efficacy of war as, for example, an economic controller +or as an organizer of social allegiance. This kind of possibility, +however remote, serves as a reminder that all calculations of +contingency not only involve the weighing of one group of risks +against another, but require a respectful allowance for error on +both sides of the scale.

+ +

A more expedient reason for pursuing the investigation of alternate +ways and means to serve the current functions of war is narrowly +political. It is possible that one or more major sovereign nations +may arrive, through ambiguous leadership, at a position in which +a ruling administrative class may lose control of basic public +opinion or of its ability to rationalize a desired war. It is not +hard to imagine, in such circumstance, a situation in which such +governments may feel forced to initiate serious full-scale disarmament +proceedings (perhaps provoked by "accidental" nuclear explosions), +and that such negotiations may lead to the actual disestablishment +of military institutions. As our Report has made clear, this could +be catastrophic. It seems evident that, in the event an important +part of the world is suddenly plunged without sufficient warning +into an inadvertent peace, even partial and inadequate preparation +for the possibility may be better than none. The difference could +even be critical. The models considered in the preceding chapter, +both those that seem promising and those that do not, have one +positive feature in common - an inherent flexibility of phasing. +And despite our strictures against knowingly proceeding into +peace-transition procedures without thorough substantive preparation, +our government must nevertheless be ready to move in this direction +with whatever limited resources of planning are on hand at the time +- if circumstances so require. An arbitrary all-or-nothing approach +is no more realistic in the development of contingency peace +programming than it is anywhere else.

+ +

But the principal cause for concern over the continuing effectiveness +of the war system, and the more important reason for hedging with +peace planning, lies in the backwardness of current war-system +programming. Its controls have not kept pace with the technological +advances it has made possible. Despite its inarguable success to +date, even in this era of unprecedented potential in mass destruction, +it continues to operate largely on a laissez-faire basis. To the +best of our knowledge, no serious quantified studies have ever been +conducted to determine, for example:

+ +

- optimum levels of armament production, for purposes of economic +control, at any given series of chronological points and under any +given relationship between civilian production and consumption +patterns;

+ +

- correlation factors between draft recruitment policies and +mensurable social dissidence;

+ +

- minimum levels of population destruction necessary to maintain +war-threat credibility under varying political conditions;

+ +

- optimum cyclical frequency of "shooting" wars under varying +circumstances of historical relationship.

+ +

These and other war-function factors are fully susceptible to +analysis by today's computer-based systems, [44] but they have not +been so treated; modern analytical techniques have up to now been +relegated to such aspects of the ostensible functions of war as +procurement, personnel deployment, weapons analysis, and the like. +We do not disparage these types of application, but only deplore +their lack of utilization to greater capacity in attacking problems +of broader scope. Our concern for efficiency in this context is +not aesthetic, economic, or humanistic. It stems from the axiom +that no system can long survive at either input or output levels +that consistently or substantially deviate from an optimum range. +As their data grow increasingly sophisticated, the war system and +its functions are increasingly endangered by such deviations.

+ +

Our final conclusion, therefore, is that it will be necessary for +our government to plan in depth for two general contingencies. The +first, and lesser, is the possibility of a viable general peace; +the second is the successful continuation of the war system. In +our view, careful preparation for the possibility of peace should +be extended, not because we take the position that the end of war +would necessarily be desirable, if it is in fact possible, but +because it may be thrust upon us in some form whether we are ready +for it or not. Planning for rationalizing and quantifying the war +system, on the other hand, to ensure the effectiveness of its major +stabilizing functions, is not only more promising in respect to +anticipated results, but is essential; we can no longer take for +granted that it will continue to serve our purposes well merely +because it always has. The objective of government policy in regard +to war and peace, in this period of uncertainty, must be to preserve +maximum options. The recommendations which follow are directed to +this end.

+ +

SECTION 8: Recommendations

+ +

(1) We propose the establishment, under executive order of the +President, of a permanent War/Peace Research Agency, empowered and +mandated to execute the programs describe in (2) and (3) below. +This agency (a) will be provided with nonaccountable funds sufficient +to implement its responsibilities and decisions at its own discretion, +and (b) will have authority to preempt and utilize, without +restriction, any and all facilities of the executive branch of the +government in pursuit of its objectives. It will be organized along +the lines of the National Security Council, except that none of +its governing, executive, or operating personnel will hold other +public office or governmental responsibility. Its directorate will +be drawn from the broadest practicable spectrum of scientific +disciplines, humanistic studies, applied creative arts, operating +technologies, and otherwise unclassified professional occupations. +It will be responsible solely to the President, or to other officers +of government temporarily deputized by him. Its operation will be +governed entirely by its own rules of procedure. Its authority will +expressly include the unlimited right to withhold information on +its activities and its decisions, from anyone except the President, +whenever it deems such secrecy to be in the public interest.

+ +

(2) The first of the War/Peace Research Agency's two principal +responsibilities will be to determine all that can be known, +including what can reasonably be inferred in terms of relevant +statistical probabilities, that may bear on an eventual transition +to a general condition of peace. The findings in this Report may +be considered to constitute the beginning of this study and to +indicate its orientation; detailed records of the investigations +and findings of the Special Study Group on which this Report is +based, will be furnished the agency, along with whatever clarifying +data the agency deems necessary. This aspect of the agency's work +will hereinafter be referred to as "Peace Research."

+ +

The Agency's Peace Research activities will necessarily include, +but not be limited to, the following:

+ +

(a) The creative development of possible substitute institutions +for the principal nonmilitary functions of war.

+ +

(b) The careful matching of such institutions against the criteria +summarized in this Report, as refined, revised, and extended by +the agency.

+ +

(c) The testing and evaluation of substitute institutions, for +acceptability, feasibility, and credibility, against hypothecated +transitional and postwar conditions; the testing and evaluation of +the effects of the anticipated atrophy of certain unsubstituted +functions.

+ +

(d) The development and testing of the correlativity of multiple +substitute institutions, with the eventual objective of establishing +a comprehensive program of compatible war substitutes suitable for +a planned transition to peace, if and when this is found to be +possible and subsequently judged desirable by appropriate political +authorities.

+ +

(e) The preparation of a wide-ranging schedule of partial, +uncorrelated, crash programs of adjustment suitable for reducing +the dangers of an unplanned transition to peace effected by {force +majeure}.

+ +

Peace research methods will include but not be limited to, the +following:

+ +

(a) The comprehensive interdisciplinary application of historical, +scientific, technological, and cultural data.

+ +

(b) The full utilization of modern methods of mathematical modeling, +analogical analysis, and other, more sophisticated, quantitative +techniques in process of development that are compatible with +computer programming.

+ +

(c) The heuristic "peace games" procedures developed during the +course of its assignment by the Special Study Group, and further +extensions of this basic approach to the testing of institutional +functions.

+ +

(3) The War/Peace Research Agency's other principal responsibility +will be "War Research." Its fundamental objective will be to ensure +the continuing viability of the war system to fulfill its essential +nonmilitary functions for as long as the war system is judged +necessary to or desirable for the survival of society. To achieve +this end, the War Research groups within the agency will engage in +the following activities:

+ +

(a) {Quantification of existing application of the nonmilitary +functions of war}. Specific determinations will include, but not +be limited to: 1) the gross amount and the net proportion of +nonproductive military expenditures since World War II assignable +to the need for war as an economic stabilizer; 2) the amount and +proportion of military expenditures and destruction of life, +property, and natural resources during this period assignable to +the need for war as an instrument for political control; 3) similar +figures, to the extent that they can be separately arrived at, +assignable to the need for war to maintain social cohesiveness; 4) +levels of recruitment and expenditures on the draft and other forms +of personnel deployment attributable to the need for military +institutions to control social disaffection; 5) the statistical +relationship of war casualties to world food supplies; 6) the +correlation of military actions and expenditures with cultural +activities and scientific advances (including necessarily, the +development of mensurable standards in these areas).

+ +

(b) {Establishment of a priori modern criteria for the execution +of the nonmilitary functions of war}. These will include, but not +be limited to: 1) calculation of minimum and optimum ranges of +military expenditure required, under varying hypothetical conditions, +to fulfill these several functions, separately and collectively; +2) determination of minimum and optimum levels of destruction of +life, property, and natural resources prerequisite to the credibility +of external threat essential to the political and motivational +functions; 3) development of a negotiable formula governing the +relationship between military recruitment and training policies +and the exigencies of social control.

+ +

(c) {Reconciliation of these criteria with prevailing economic, +political, sociological, and ecological limitations}. The ultimate +object of this phase of War Research is to rationalize the heretofore +informal operations of the war system. It should provide practical +working procedures through which responsible governmental authority +may resolve the following war-function problems, among others, +under any given circumstances: 1) how to determine the optimum +quantity, nature, and timing of military expenditures to ensure a +desired degree of economic control; 2) how to organize the recruitment, +deployment, and ostensible use of military personnel to ensure a +desired degree of acceptance of authorized social values; 3) how +to compute on a short-term basis, the nature and extent of the loss +of life and other resources which should be suffered and/or inflicted +during any single outbreak of hostilities to achieve a desired +degree of internal political authority and social allegiance; 4) +how to project, over extended periods, the nature and quality of +overt warfare which must be planned and budgeted to achieve a +desired degree of contextual stability for the same purpose; factors +to be determined must include frequency of occurrence, length of +phase, intensity of physical destruction, extensiveness of geographical +involvement, and optimum mean loss of life; 5) how to extrapolate +accurately from the foregoing, for ecological purposes, the continuing +effect of the war system, over such extended cycles, on population +pressures, and to adjust the planning of casualty rates accordingly.

+ +

War Research procedures will necessarily include, but not be limited +to, the following:

+ +

(a) The collation of economic, military, and other relevant data +into uniform terms, permitting the reversible translation of +heretofore discrete categories of information. [45]

+ +

(b) The development and application of appropriate forms of +cost-effectiveness analysis suitable for adapting such new constructs +to computer terminology, programming, and projection. [46]

+ +

(c) Extension of the "war games" methods of systems testing to +apply, as a quasi-adversary proceeding, to the nonmilitary functions +of war. [47]

+ +

(4) Since both programs of the War/Peace Research Agency will share +the same purpose - to maintain governmental freedom of choice in +respect to war and peace until the direction of social survival is +no longer in doubt - it is of the essence of this proposal that +the agency be constituted without limitation of time. Its examination +of existing and proposed institutions will be self-liquidating when +its own function shall have been superseded by the historical +developments it will have, at least in part, initiated.

+ +

Notes

+ +

1. {The Economic and Social Consequences of Disarmament: U.S. +Reply to the Inquiry of the Secretary-General of the United Nations} +(Washington, D.C.: USGPO, June 1964), pp. 8-9.

+ +

2. Herman Kahn, {Thinking About the Unthinkable} (New York: Horizon, +1962), p. 35.

+ +

3. Robert S. McNamara, in an address before the American Society +of Newspaper Editors, Montreal, P.Q., Canada, 18 May 1966.

+ +

4. Alfred North Whitehead, in "The Anatomy of Some Scientific +Ideas," included in {The Aims of Education} (New York: Macmillan, +1929).

+ +

5. At Ann Arbor, Michigan, 16 June 1962.

+ +

6. Louis J. Halle, "Peace in Our Time? Nuclear Weapons as a +Stabilizer," {The New Republic} (28 December 1963).

+ +

7. Kenneth E. Boulding, "The World War Industry as an Economic +Problem," in Emile Benoit and Kenneth E. Boulding (eds.), {Disarmament +and the Economy} New York: Harper and Row, 1963).

+ +

8. McNamara, in ASNE Montreal address cited.

+ +

9. {Report of the Committee on the Economic Impact of Defense and +Disarmament} (Washington: USGPO, July 1965).

+ +

10. Sumner M. Rosen, "Disarmament and the Economy," {War/Peace +Report} (March 1966).

+ +

11. {Vide} William D. Grampp, "False Fears of Disarmament," {Harvard +Business Review} (Jan.-Feb. 1964) for a concise example of this +reasoning.

+ +

12. Seymour Melman, "The Cost of Inspection for Disarmament," in +Benoit and Boulding, {op}. {cit}.

+ +

13. Arthur I. Waskow, {Toward the Unarmed Forces of the United +States} (Washington: Institute for Policy Studies, 1966), p. 9. +(This is the unabridged edition of the text of a report and proposal +prepared for a seminar of strategists and Congressmen in 1965; it +was later given limited distribution among other persons engaged +in related projects.)

+ +

14. David T. Bazelon, "The Politics of the Paper Economy," {Commentary} +(November 1962), p. 409.

+ +

15. {The Economic Impact of Disarmament} (Washington: USGPO, January +1962).

+ +

16. David T. Bazelon, "The Scarcity Makers," {Commentary} (October +1962), p. 298.

+ +

17. Frank Pace, Jr., in an address before the American Bankers' +Association, September 1957.

+ +

18. A random example, taken in this case from a story by David +Deitch in the New York {Herald Tribune} (9 February 1966).

+ +

19. {Vide} L. Gumplowicz, in {Geschichte der Staatstheorien} +(Innsbruck: Wagner, 1905) and earlier writings.

+ +

20. K. Fischer, {Das Militaer} (Zurich: Steinmetz Verlag, 1932), +pp. 42-43.

+ +

21. The obverse of this phenomenon is responsible for the principal +combat problem of present-day infantry officers: the unwillingness +of otherwise "trained" troops to fire at an enemy close enough to +be recognizable as an individual rather than simply as a target.

+ +

22. Herman Kahn, {On Thermonuclear War} (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton +University Press, 1960), p. 42.

+ +

23. John D. Williams, "The Nonsense about Safe Driving," {Fortune} +(September 1958).

+ +

24. {Vide} most recently K. Lorenz, in {Das Sogenannte Boese: zur +Naturgeschichte der Aggression} (Vienna: G. Borotha-Schoeler +Verlag, 1964).

+ +

25. Beginning with Herbert Spencer and his contemporaries, but +largely ignored for nearly a century.

+ +

26. As in recent draft-law controversy, in which the issue of +selective deferment of the culturally privileged is often carelessly +equated with the preservation of the biologically "fittest."

+ +

27. G. Bouthoul, in {La Guerre} (Paris: Presses universitaires de +France, 1953) and many other more detailed studies. The useful +concept of "polemology," for the study of war as an independent +discipline, is his, as is the notion of "demographic relaxation," +the sudden temporary decline in the rate of population increase +after major wars.

+ +

28. This seemingly premature statement is supported by one of our +own test studies. But it hypothecates both the stabilizing of world +population growth and the institution of fully adequate environmental +controls. Under these two conditions, the probability of the +permanent elimination of involuntary global famine is 68 percent +by 1976 and 95 percent by 1981.

+ +

29. This round figure is the median taken from our computations, +which cover varying contingencies, but it is sufficient for the +purpose of general discussion.

+ +

30. But less misleading than the more elegant traditional metaphor, +in which war expenditures are referred to as the "ballast" of the +economy but which suggests incorrect quantitative relationships.

+ +

31. Typical in generality, scope, and rhetoric. We have not used +any published program as a model; similarities are unavoidably +coincidental rather than tendentious.

+ +

32. {Vide} the reception of a "Freedom Budget for all Americans," +proposed by A. Philip Randolph {et al}; it is a ten-year plan, +estimated by its sponsors to cost $185 billion.

+ +

33. Waskow, {op}. {cit}.

+ +

34. By several current theorists, most extensively and effectively +by Robert R. Harris in {The Real Enemy}, an unpublished doctoral +dissertation made available to this study.

+ +

35. In ASNE Montreal address cited.

+ +

36. {The Tenth Victim}.

+ +

37. For an examination of some of its social implications, see +Seymour Rubenfeld, {Family of Outcasts: A New Theory of Delinquency} +(New York: Free Press, 1965).

+ +

38. As in Nazi Germany; this type of "ideological" ethnic repression, +directed to specific sociological ends, should not be confused with +traditional economic exploitation, as of Negroes in the U.S., South +Africa, etc.

+ +

39. By teams of experimental biologists in Massachusetts, Michigan, +and California, as well as in Mexico and the U.S.S.R. Preliminary +test applications are scheduled in Southeast Asia, in countries +not yet announced.

+ +

40. Expressed in the writings of H. Marshall McLuhan, in {Understanding +Media: The Extensions of Man} (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964) and +elsewhere.

+ +

41. This rather optimistic estimate was derived by plotting a +three-dimensional distribution of three arbitrarily defined variables; +the macro-structural, relating to the extension of knowledge beyond +the capacity of conscious experience; the organic, dealing with +the manifestations of terrestrial life as inherently comprehensible; +and the infra-particular, covering the subconceptual requirements +of natural phenomena. Values were assigned to the known and unknown +in each parameter, tested against data from earlier chronologies, +and modified heuristically until predictable correlations reached +a useful level of accuracy. "Two decades" means, in this case, 20.6 +years, with a standard deviation of only 1.8 years. (An incidental +finding, not pursued to the same degree of accuracy, suggests a +greatly accelerated resolution of issues in the biological sciences +after 1972.)

+ +

42. Since they represent an examination of too small a percentage +of the eventual options, in terms of "multiple mating," the subsystem +we developed for this application. But an example will indicate +how one of the most frequently recurring correlation problems - +chronological phasing - was brought to light in this way. One of +the first combinations tested showed remarkably high coefficients +of compatibility, on a {post hoc} static basis, but no variations +of timing, using a thirty-year transition module, permitted even +marginal synchronization. The combination was thus disqualified. +This would not rule out the possible adequacy of combinations using +modifications of the same factors, however, since minor variations +in a proposed final condition may have disproportionate effects on +phasing.

+ +

43. Edward Teller, quoted in {War/Peace Report} (December 1964).

+ +

44. E.g., the highly publicized "Delphi technique" and other, more +sophisticated procedures. A new system, especially suitable for +institutional analysis, was developed during the course of this +study in order to hypothecate mensurable "peace games"; a manual +of this system is being prepared and will be submitted for general +distribution among appropriate agencies. For older, but still +useful, techniques, see Norman C. Dalkey's {Games and Simulations} +(Santa Monica, Calif.: Rand, 1964).

+ +

45. A primer-level example of the obvious and long overdue need +for such translation is furnished by Kahn (in {Thinking About the +Unthinkable}, p. 102). Under the heading "Some Awkward Choices" he +compares four hypothetical policies: a certain loss of $3000; a +.1 chance of loss of $300000; a +.01 chance of loss of $30000000; and a .001 chance of loss +of $3000000000. A government decision-maker would "very likely" +choose in that order. But what if "lives are at stake rather than +dollars"? Kahn suggests that the order of choice would be reversed, +although current experience does not support this opinion. Rational +war research can and must make it possible to express, without +ambiguity, lives in terms of dollars and vice versa; the choices +need not be, and cannot be, "awkward."

+ +

46. Again, an overdue extension of an obvious application of +techniques up to now limited to such circumscribed purposes as +improving kill-ammunition ratios determining local choice between +precision and saturation bombing, and other minor tactical, and +occasionally strategic, ends. The slowness of Rand, I.D.A., and +other responsible analytic organizations to extend cost-effectiveness +and related concepts beyond early-phase applications has already +been widely remarked on and criticized elsewhere.

+ +

47. The inclusion of institutional factors in war-game techniques +has been given some rudimentary consideration in the Hudson +Institute's {Study for Hypothetical Narratives for Use in Command +and Control Systems Planning} (by William Pfaff and Edmund Stillman; +Final report published 1963). But here, as with other war and peace +studies to date, what has blocked the logical extension of new +analytic techniques has been a general failure to understand and +properly evaluate the nonmilitary functions of war.

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Issue No. 15, August 1984

+ +

Let Us Get Our Priorities Straight +Who's Trying to Save +What & Whom - Precisely

+ +

A comprehensive and realistic survey of +the situation as it exists to date by carefully +sorting out the pretenders, the friends and the +enemies of the White Race.

+ +

Throughout history - individuals, groups, organizations, +religions - have been trying to "save" others of like categories from +the dire consequences of something they deem inherently evil. Some +of these crusades have been sensible and urgent, some have been +fanatically unreal, and some have been plain idiotic, depending on +the viewpoint of the observer. Some of these campaigns to save +somebody from something have been of long duration (thousands +years) some of only recent origin, some of temporary and frivolous +nature. +Since we ourselves are engaged in a holy war to save the White +Race from mongrelization and extinction, it behooves us to take a +clearer look at what some other groups and individuals are doing, +have been doing, and will be doing. We want to more dearly delineate +those who might be our allies. We also want to expose more clearly +those who are obviously our out-and-out enemies, but have not been +recognized as such by most of our White Racial Comrades. +One other matter I want to clarify. Since we of the Church of +the Creator have been so carelessly classified and categorized with +several previously existing organizations, we again want to make it +abundantly dear that we are a comprehensive and far-reaching racial +religion that is dedicated to the survival, expansion and advance-ment of the White Race, and the White Race alone. As such we are +unique and none other exists today, and as far as we know, in all +previous history none has ever existed before. +So let us look at history and examine precisely WHO has been +trying to save WHOM and WHAT precisely, and let us start with the +Egyptians, who in their own way were eager beavers and fanatically +engaged in trying to save something, and what they did has grossly +affected us to this day.

+ +

29 THE ANCIENT +EGYPTIAN +CIVIlIZATION

+ +

As I have reviewed in the articles on Egypt in RACIAL LOYAL-TY Nos. 11 and 12, the entire Egyptian civilization, the first really +Great White civilization, was overwhelmingly dominated by religion. +Furthermore, their religious beliefs were wholly based on FIC-TITIOUS CONCEPTS, rooted in superstition, gullibility and hocus-pocus. Intelligent and advanced as the Egyptians were, they never-theless were as superstitious and gullible as any primitive barbarian.

+ +

But they were much more than that. They were highly ingenious +and inventive, especially in the realm of the supernatural. In fact it +is the Ancient Egyptians who deserve credit for mostly all the fic-titious concepts on whose sleazy foundations later were built the +so-called major religions of today. These religions include primarily +Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism, Buddhism, Mormonism, +and what have you.

+ +

What were there major innovations and concepts of the +spook world that were invented by these ancient +religionists? They were numerous, major and far-reaching. +They include: (a) The idea of the human "soul" as being separate +and apart from the mind as such. (b) The idea of immortality of the +human soul, and a life in the "hereafter". (c) The idea of reward and +punishment for acts committed in this life, to be meted out in the +"next" life. (d) The idea of heaven and hell. Although vague in Egyp-tian times, they laid the foundations for the monsters the Christian: +developed in later times. (e) The idea that "gods" with supernatural +powers could, and did, control our lives and mete out punishment +and rewards, not only in the "hereafter", but also in the earthly life +of each person. (f) The idea of placating, appeasing, pleasing, pray-ing and kowtowing to these imaginary gods. (Not necessarily original +with the Egyptians, but they expanded it into a major production) +(g) The idea of building huge temples in honor of these imaginary +gods, in order to please, placate and honor them. (h) The idea of +tombs, sarcophagi, etc. for the soul. This led to gross excesses such +as building huge pyramids. (i) Complex rituals of worship. Again, +this too was not exactly original with the Egyptians, but the dimen-sions to which they pushed this idea became the framework for the +later and present-day religions. (j) The widespread practice of cir-cumcision. The Egyptians were the first major civilization to prac-tice this barbaric mutilation of the human body as part of their +religious ritual. (k) The idea of tithing, that is extracting goods and +money From religious victims for the benefit of the priesthood, a prac-tice that has been greatly improved upon by modern religions,

+ + + +

especially the sophisticated electronic evangelists of today, the super +con-artists of all time. (I) The idea of religious hymns was already +spawned by the Egyptians. (m) The idea of baptism, cleansing the +"soul" by ablution with water. (n) The idea of one god (Akhnaton). +(o) Six of the highly touted "Ten Commandments" that the Jews brag +they gave to the world were really plagiarized directly from the Egyp-tians. (p) There are a number of other hocus-pocus religious ideas, +customs and terms for which we are indebted to the Egyptians, not +the least of which is the oft repeated, but meaningless word, "Amen", +deriving from praise of their god Amen-Ra.

+ +

Perhaps I am spending a little more time on the Egyptians than +I should, but when we contemplate the tremendous burden of +religious debris they have dumped on succeeding generations, and +especially those living today, I believe it is highly important to unders-tand where much of it originated.

+ +

Now let us answer the question: WHAT were the Egyptians +trying to save?

+ +

The answer is they were trying to save their "souls" and pro-vide for a comfortable immortality - a fanaticism pursued even more +fervently by the Christians thousands of years later. They also had +a few lesser goals on the side. One was to overcome "time". and in +the building of their huge pyramids they have at least partly been +more successful than any other people. But they also wanted to ex-tend and glorify their "earthly" name (ego), and in this, too, they +succeeded better than most.

+ +

THE JEWS

+ +

it is one of the most fateful accidents of history that the parasitic +Jews were spawned out of the religious milieu of the Egyptian culture. +Certainly this accidental development has proved to be one +of the most catastrophic events in the development of the +White Race and one which in the present era may well pro-ve to be the death knell of Nature's Finest. It is the holy vow +of the Church Of The Creator to see to it that this will not happen.

+ +

In any case, the Jews being a parasitic race, were also an egocen-tric race. Everything they learned they utilized for their own advan-tage - and they learned plenty from the Egyptians. They learned: +that religious hocus-pocus is a powerful means of controlling and +directing people's minds. (b) That people's actions follow their in-nermost motivations, and once you have control of their minds their +actions can be controlled to follow any direction their manipulators +wish. +31

+ +

They then set about turning these ideas into reality and went +to work converting religion per se into a powerful racial tool - +RACIAL RELIGION. They further copied from the Egyptians: (c) The +idea of monotheism (Akhnaton). (d) Building temples for their god +(e) The idea of immortality. (f) The idea of the soul. (g) Life in the +hereafter. (h) Rituals of worship. (i) Circumcision for members of +their tribe. (j) Six of their "Ten Commandments". (k) Religion +fanaticism, this however, always in the direction of loyalty towards +their tribe. +What is it the Jews are trying to save? They have one of +the clearest and most sensible goals of any existing religion in history +- the survival and expansion of their race to the point where +all other races have been mongrelized, lost their identity and +utterly destroyed, only to be enslaved into the toils of their +Jewish master. They fanatically pursue their goals with a zeal as +no other race ever has - to enslave and dominate the rest of +mankind and to accrue unto themselves all the gold, silver +and other assets on the face of the earth. Their goals are +clear, they are vicious, and they make a lot of sense - for +the Jews.

+ +

What do we Creators have in common with the Jews? Absolutely +nothing, and everything. The Jews are our most vicious and bitter +foes. It is our desire to wipe Judaism from the face of the earth +DELENDA EST JUDAICA is our battle cry! But we have learned +just about everything from the Jews about how to build a racial +religion for the survival, expansion and advancement of the White +Race.

+ +

One major difference between us and the Jews is this: Whereas +the Jews have throughout their history been a parasitic minority liv-ing on the backs of productive White civilizations, we Creators are +just the opposite. We White Creators are the most productive, +creative species on the face of the earth. We need no Jews, no +mud races, no slaves, for our welfare and the sooner we get +all the parasites off of our back, the sooner every White Man +can live like a king. Nor do we plan to stay a minority. Whereas +we have no desire to dominate or enslave anybody, we want to ex-pand the White Race until we crowd out the mud races and inherit +the earth - all of it - for the White Race.

+ +
* * * * *
+ +

Once we get the Jews, muds and other +parasites off our backs, every White Man can live +like a king and every White Woman like a queen.

+ +
* * * * *
+ +

32 THE GREEKS

+ +

The inherent characteristic of the Greeks was their love of beau-ty, culture, and their innate intelligence. Their limited goals were to +save their own city states from neighboring city states, and because +of such limited political and racial vision they warred on each other +endlessly in such fratricidal bloodletting as the Peloponnesian wars, +and thereby destroyed themselves. It was this fratricidal infighting +and their failure to realize the Divine Seed they possessed, that led +to their political downfall and the mongrelization of their excellent +gene pool.

+ +

What do we Creators share with the Greeks? Well, we also pur-sue the goals of culture, beauty, art and intelligence, but that is all. +We are aware of one great bonus the Greeks were not - how to +protect our gene pool and advance it ever higher and onward +to levels the Greeks never even dreamed of.

+ +

THE ROMANS

+ +

Like the Greeks, the Romans started with excellent racial stock, +but oriented in a somewhat different direction. Whereas the Greeks +were highly innovative, and gifted in the arts and in culture, the +Romans were more pragmatic. They were great warriors, organize +and law givers, and as a result they not only conquered the Greeks +but all of the then known and worthwhile world around the Mediter-ranean. Because they were such excellent conquerors they soon had +slaves by the millions to do their menial labor for them and this pro-ved to be their downfall. Because they took in all the conquered +peoples of the era, they also took in a lot of mud genes and bastar-dized their once noble race.

+ +

What was their main passion? To save Rome - the Em-pire. This they did for a thousand years but they lost their precious +genes in the meantime because they lacked a racial religion. As a +result, the collapse of Rome was one of the greatest tragedies in +history.

+ +

What do we Creators have in common with the Romans? A great +deal, really. Our love for law and order, the desire to build, and the +desire for empire building, as well as many other noble traits. Had +The Romans only realized the preciousness of their inherent +genes and the value of a racial religion!

+ +
* * * * *
+ +

Help build a mighty White Racial Movement. +Help build CREATIVITY.

+ +

33 +THE CHRISTIANS

+ +

Whereas the Judaic religion was spawned out of the hocus-pocus +welter of Egyptian religions, Christianity in turn was a planned +deliberate outgrowth of Judaism. Without the Jews the White +Race would never had the scourge of Christianity in-flicted upon it. I have already elaborated on this subject in +NATURE'S ETERNAL RELIGION (Christ's Existence Not Substan-tiated By Historical Evidence) and several other places in my writings.

+ +

Briefly the story as it can be pieced together is this: When Rome +dominated the world in the first century C.E., (Common Era) they +assimilated, among many other territories, the minor Judaic kingdom +in Palestine, whose Capitol was Jerusalem. As always, although +militarily conquered, the Jews were rebellious against authority. In +order to subdue them and lay waste to their cities, Emperor Vespa-sian sent General Titus to Judea to quell the rebellion. With a few +legions he laid siege to Jerusalem and in less than two years he con-quered and leveled Jerusalem to the ground.

+ +

That should have been the end of the Jews as the destruction +of Carthage was the end of the Carthaginians. But it was not. The +Jews were a tenacious tribe, thanks to the virulence and cohesiveness +of their racial religion, Judaism. They planned revenge, and the +destruction of the Romans: (See Creative Credo No. 43 "Confession +Of A Jew", in the WHITE MAN'S BIBLE)

+ +

The Jews took a deadly course of action for which the Romans +were completely defenseless and unprepared, and which even while +the poison was being administered to them, they never understood. +Even to this day the overwhelming majority of the White Race fails +to understand it, although the evidence is laid out before them, loud +and clear.

+ +

The Jews now put into play the tenaciousness of their Judaic +religion - they put into full practice their trump cards - polariza-tion and dispersion. (See Issue No. 13).

+ +

The Jews utilized their tremendous accumulation of religious +knowledge and psychological expertise. They went to work on the +brains of the Romans. They transformed the dauntless world con-quering Roman warriors into whimpering, peace-loving wimps. The +tool they used was Christianity.

+ +

Instrumental in this brilliant idea was a Jew by the name of Saul +of Tarsus, who later became the Christians' St. Paul. In order to put +this piece of chicanery together he dredged up the teachings of a +little known and dying religious sect around the Dead Sea. They were +known as the Essenes, and they were a Jewish sect, completely out +of the mainstream of Judaism.

+ +

From their suicidal teachings ("Sell all thou hast", "Love your

+ +

34 enemies", "turn the other cheek"), he concocted a deadly religion

+ +

to feed to the Romans. The whole Jewish network soon threw +themselves into the battle with a frenzy seldom before witnessed in +history. What they accomplished next through the power of their +religious zeal is, and remains, one of the most outstanding events +in history.

+ +

The peoples of the Roman Empire (who by now were a mere +shadows of the original Roman stock) became obsessed with this new +Religion. As their minds became more and more drugged with this +anti-natare, anti-life doctrine, the Empire slowly sank, civilization +disintegrated, and an ominous dark pall settled over Europe for the +next thousand years. The Dark Ages set in.

+ +

The Jews had triumphed with their B-bomb (brain-bomb). Their +triumph over the White Race prevails to this day, more ominously +than ever. The B-bomb is still ticking. What is it the Christians +are trying to save? Why, souls! All kinds of souls! All kinds of souls +- White brown and black, from the fiery pit of hell. And who con-cocted this horrible booby-trap? Why, the sweet loving (Jewish) god +who at the same time is supposedly making a big to-do that he is +trying to save us all from that same fiery pit.

+ +

What a crock of nonsense! Nobody has ever seen, heard, felt +or smelt a god, or spook, or a soul. Talk about fictitious concepts! +The Egyptians invented them, the Jews capitalized on them, and the +stupid Christians swallowed the poisoned bait. (Read again "Fictitious +Concepts" in R.L., Issue No. 7, of Expanding Creativity

+ +

What do we Creators have in common with the Christians? Not +much , except that about half of the Christians of the world are White, +and most White people, unfortunately, are still quasi-Christians.

+ +

NATIONAL SOCIALISM

+ +

When we speak of the Nazis, I think it is extremely important +that we differentiate between the Nazi era of Adolf Hitler in Germany, +and the neo-Nazi groups that have spawned here in America. They +are not the same.

+ +

First the Hitler era. Since I reviewed fairly thoroughly "Germany, +Adolf Hitler and National Socialism" in Chapter 5, Book II of Nature's +Eternal Religion (p.290), it is not necessary for me to do so again. +I Will simply state what their goals were. Basically the thrust of +Hitler's movement was to (a) save Germany from Jewish communism +(b) tear up the Versailles Treaty and recover territories lost by Ger-many to surrounding countries (France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, +ect.), (c) break the back of Jewish money manipulators (d) expand +German hegemony and territory castward into the fertile lands of

+ + + +

Russia and Eastern Europe. There is more, but basically this sums +it up. The main idea was pan-Germanism (Deutschland uber Alles!) +and vigorous German expansion, at the expense of many other White +nations such as the French, Poles, Czechs, Slavs, Rumanians, Rus-sians and others.

+ +

We have now come to the helter-skelter of neo-Nazi groups +America that have sprung up since George Lincoln Rockwell reviv-ed the neo-Nazi movement in 1958. We could also cite the Silver +Shirts of the 1930's, but they were actually a different breed, spawn-ed and supported directly out of Germany, and died out when Ger-many lost the war.

+ +

What is it the neo-Nazis in America are trying to save?

+ +

Well, there is no one clear answer. They are at best a mixed +breed, with motives as diverse and confused as are their members. +Some are out-and-out plants organized by the Jews +themselves so that the ADL can point with alarm to their +own dues paying members about the horrible threat of nas-cent Neo-Nazism. This drives the Jews wild and they will quickly +cough up millions to help swell the war chest of the ADL. It works +beautifully.

+ +

Then there are the Hollywood type of Nazis, who, like the Civil +War buffs, love to parade in Nazi uniforms, arm bands and all, and +throw the stiff-arm salute repeatedly. Basically they are shallow in-dividuals indulging themselves on an ego trip. I have met quite a few +of them and find most of them are as confused as a little boy who +has just lost his chewing gum on the floor of a chicken pen.

+ +

then there are the more serious type that want to emulate the +brilliant success of Hitler in the 1930's and believe they can transpose +those same procedures onto the American scene of the 1980's. Their +main success seems to pigeonhole itself into glorifying Adolf Hitler +(nothing wrong with that) but not in really having a ghost of a chance +of actually building a meaningful movement in America to do the +job that needs to be done. Why? Because they don't have a grasp +on reality and only a superficial understanding of the situation. +Among other things, they don't seem to understand at all (a) that +Hitler was a phenomena, a genius of unbounded energy, and the suc-cess of the movement was more due to the personality of this great +unusual man than the philosophy he espoused, and (b) his program +was tailor-made for the situation in Germany during the 1920's, but +not geared to the America of the 1980's, and (c) were a young, vibrant +Hitler alive in America today he would, I am sure, take an altogether +different approach. (d) None of the personalities on the scene in +America today are even comparable to the genius of Hitler (e) That +because 13 million Americans fought against the Nazis in +WWII, the Nazi image in anathema to average American,

+ + + +

many of whose relative were killed in that war. Not only +is the Nazi image of no help, thanks to the massive +Jewish propaganda barrage over the past 50 years it is a +tremendous barrier towards a feasible solution to the +Jewish scourge

+ +

So what are the Nazi groups trying to save? It is a confused pic-ture. Most of them are merely on an ego trip, hoping they will become +A MODERN DAY INCARNATION OF ADOLF HITLER.

+ +

Most of the various splinter groups are feuding amongst +themselves and are as hostile to each other as they are to the Jews. +Most of them have no clear philosophy of any kind, no goals, take +a wimpy stand on Christianity, and no program whatsoever on how +to achieve the goals they don't have.

+ +

Some advance specious argument such as "when the race war +starts and there is blood flowing in the streets, then all these groups +will unite!" Really? How are they going to do that? (Read again "Make +Hay While The Sun Shines" in Racial Loyalty issue No. 13). Their +vague answer to that: "Hitler did it." That just isn't so. Hitler did not +unite with, or merge, the thousands of political groups that were +spawned in Germany after WWI. In fact, in his book Hitler definite-ly denounces the merging of organizations as weakening and/or +destroying the original organizations. What Hitler did was con-vert and absorb the individual members of other groups in-to one solid Nazi Party. In short, he polarized the individuals +into one mighty movement under his leadership, and he did +not do it while anarchy ran rampant and blood flowed in the streets. +He did it under fairly civilized and orderly conditions. I repeat - let +us do likewise and unite under the banner of a racial religion - the +most powerful idea we have to work with, now or ever.

+ +

So what are the neo-Nazis trying to save? It varies from group +to group. But the main thing they have in common is they are trying +to save their own hubris. (Webster defines hubris as overwhelming +personal ego.)

+ +

THE ODINISTS

+ +

Like the Civil War buffs and the Hollywood Nazis, the Odinists +in a way are playing games with an era that has slipped away into +the distant past and can never be revived again, any more than you +can revive a dead horse, though you may try to awaken it with a +massive blast of dynamite.

+ +

Though small, the members of the revised Odinists movement +are Intellectually a cut above the neo-Nazi, and their racial goals +are sensible, although they have little or nothing to do with Odin, +Thor or Wodin. Basically they use these Norse mythologies as a sort

+ + + +

of backdrop, a Mythos, as Alfred Rosenberg would describe, to cling +to as a point of departure.

+ +

But why must they use such cluttered window dressing as a +necessary prop? True, the Vikings were great fighters and excellent +physical specimens, but intellectually they were on a level with Hagar +the Horrible in the Comic Strips. Mostly they were highly illiterate +and most of what we know about their mythologies were conveyed +to us by the more literate Christians of a later date. In any case, the +Viking understood nothing of the more powerful mind. +bending tactic of the more cunning Jews, and were no +match for them at any time. In consequence they succumbed to +the more sinister and seductive Christian lure and today their descen-dants - the Danes, Swedes and Norwegians, are the most sub-missive Jew-loving wimps on the face of the earth. Christianity and +other Jewish propaganda has done its job well.

+ +

So what would convince anyone that an insipid set of Mother +goose myths could and will reverse a situation from an era that has +passed on and is now as dead as a doornail? The answer - +nothing. We believe that the Odinists, good people that they are, +should dump this unnecessary garbage and join with us In a full fledg-ed racial religion that covers the complete spectrum, but is not bogg-ed down with a mass of ballast that can only be an insult to any White +Man's intelligence.

+ +

What are the Odinists trying to save? Here we have to differen-tiate between the Odinist of the ancient Vikings and that of the small +modern group with their revived version. The original Odinists were +lainly indulging in unadulterated superstition playing religious games +with their own concocted gods and myths, as had so many other +peoples before them - the Egyptian, the Greeks, the Romans, and +even hundreds of mud races. Even In that category the quality of the +Viking myths were several cuts below that of the more erudite and +civilized Greeks and Romans.

+ +

The revived and revamped modern day Odinists have somewhat +different goals that can be delineated into two incompatible and +unrelated categories. One, to vicariously relive the trappings of a +bygone era. which, if it were to be really duplicated would be pretty +miserable. and secondly. to revive a "mythos" upon which to build +an "Aryan" religion end be able to point to it with pride and say "this +is a White Man's religion, not a Judeo-Christian religion". Although +even in this category their modern day version has many gaps and +is incomplete, we Creators share these goals with Odinists. In rejec-ing Jewish Christianity the Odinists have already gone a long way +towards our position. We there suggest that they stop play-ing games, join with us all the way in a real White Man's +religion that has the total Program, the Final Solution, the

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38 +Ultimate Creed.

+ +

THE PATRIOTS +We now come to the group in America that is probably the +largest, the most amorphous, and also the most disorganized and +the most confused.

+ +

Since this category includes so many groups that it is impossi-ble to list, I will go straight to the common denominator and ask +the rhetorical question: What are they trying to save? And the +noble sounding answer is "We are trying to save the +country".

+ +

When asked: From whom? Their answers become extremely +fuzzy. From the bureaucrats, from the Democrats, from the +Republicans, from Carter, from Reagan, from the politicians, from +the C.F.R., from the Bilderbergers, from the Trilateralists, from the +"internationalists", from the "insiders", from the communists, from +the Zionists, from the Dual Loyalists, from the U. N., from special +interests, from the bankers, from ourselves (even!). Depending on +whom you ask, you can come up with a whole plethora of different +answers - but strangely they all have one other thing in common +- they will never put their finger on the real culprit - thee +Jewish powerhouse.

+ +

When asked a second meaningful question, namely for whom +are they trying to save the country, they act as if they had never +given that a thought. Why the people, of course, is their bland +answer. When this line of questioning is pursued further - would +you fight and lay down your life to save this country so it +could be populated with wall-to-wall niggers and other mud +peoples, and run by the Jews? Would you try to "save the coun-try" although its government, press and whole power establishment +was intensely hostile to the White Race, and had, in fact a series +of aggressive programs in force aimed at mongrelizing and/or com-mitting genocide on the White Race? Would you fight for a govern-ment and country whose loyalty was overwhelmingly for the bandit +state of Israel and everything Jewish but extremely hostile to the +White Race? Would you again fight a war for a government +and country that joined hands with the Russian communists +in 1941, and fought a war that killed millions of our best +White men, only to save the necks of the Jewish monsters? +At this point the Patriot becomes extremely alarmed, agitated, +confused, and even hostile. They start mumbling incoherent phrases +programmed into their unthinking minds by the Jewish propaganda +mill. Automatically they mumble something about racists, Nazis,

+ +

39 bigots, and they don't want to get into "it".

+ +

Well, nuff said. I have covered this subject more fully in Chapter +2 (Part II) of NATURES'S ETERNAL RELIGION, "Your Loyalty - +a Sacred Trust", and also several chapters in the WHITE MAN'S +BIBLE, namely Creative Credo Nos. 17, 18, 21, 29, 32 and several +others.

+ +

What do we Creators have in common with the Patriots? Well, +quite a lot - mostly in the fact that the majority of our good White +friends belong to this confused and helpless lot. It is also in this group +that most of our potential members now lie dormant, in great need +of both awakening and education.

+ +

However, I must make clear the distinction between "patriot" +Individuals and "patriotic" organizations, and post a warning. Most +of the organizations that appeal to the average American's patriotism +are Jew spawned, are designed to distract, confuse and relieve the +average White American of his money - especially his money. In +short, most of them are Jewish rackets, surprisingly many based in +the Jew capital of the world - Washington, D. C. Most such come +In well sounding appeals such as "Help save the Panama Canal". +(Now who but a rogue wouldn't want to help save the Panama Canal +for America?) They come equipped with neatly printed, self-addressed, postage paid envelopes, and of course the standard fare, +the card which says "I enclose $5.00, $25.00, $100.00, $500.00, +$1000.00". They have it down to a science and it works beautifully

+ +

THE +CONSTITUTIONALISTS

+ +

Closely allied to the patriots, but better read, and intellectually +a few cuts above the average American Patriot are the Constitu-tionalists, although they have much the same attitude. They are for +saving the Constitution for God, flag and country. The main dif-ference is they want to do it in a specific way, by "enforcing" the +Constitution.

+ +

When asked the rhetorical question - Who do you expect will +enforce the Constitution as you want it enforced? The answer is: the +government!

+ +

It is a useless hassle to point out the obvious to them: The +government is Public Enemy No. 1, hostile as hell to the White Race +and hell-bent on the total destruction of the White Race and every +value we hold dear. Our American government is totally in the hands +of our mortal enemy the Jews, who are using the Constitution to rob, +loot and destroy the best and most productive element of the polyglot +American melting pot - the White worker.

+ +

To try to reason with the Jewish powerhouse, to explain con-

+ +

40 stitutional niceties, to "convince" them they should change their

+ +

ways, is pure insanity. The Jews are fully aware of what they are do-ing, although the White Man is not, and nothing, but nothing, is go-ing to "persuade" them to change their course - except raw, massive +power.

+ +

In order to generate such a power base the White Man has +build his own massive movement and brutally smash the Jewish +establishment to smithereens. Only a massive White steamroller +movement an do this, and before we can do so we have to +get our priorities straight. This, of course, is what Creativity is +all about and I will have more to say about this in the conclusion +of this article.

+ +

THE WHITE CHRISTIAN +RACISTS

+ +

This group is really a breed apart and needs special mention from +that of the Patriots and the Christians. in this category we can list +The Christian Vanguard, The Thunderbolt, The National States +Rights Party (which claim they are now UN-connected from each +other). The various Klans also fit into this category, although loose-ly. There are a few dozen other small groups that also espouse the +cause of Christianity and White racism.

+ +

This whole string of groups, too, is highly amorphous and a com-pletely mixed bag of tricks. Without examining each one in detail +the common characteristic or goal of all these groups is they are +presumably trying to save your soul from the fiery pit and the White +Race at the same time. This, of course, is a highly contradictory goal +and self-defeating. It is like trying to win the Indy 500, but you make +sure that every time you push down on the accelerator with one foot, +you push down even harder on the brakes with the other. (Read again +"Self-imposed Handicaps" in Racial Loyalty Issue No. 6 of Expan-ding Creativity). That is one hell of a way to win a race, and, of +course, you never do.

+ +

The biggest harm these groups do is confuse the hell +out of the average White racist by pounding away at the term +"White Christian" over and over and over, until like the +Pavlovian dog, the victim begins to think that the two terms +are synonymous, when, in fact, we have shown throughout +this and dozens of other articles that Christianity is poison +to the White Race, was a major cause of the disintegration of the +Roman race and the fall of its Empire, and was spawned by the Jews +for that very purpose in the first place. +One other immense value these Pro-White anti-Jewish Chris-tians have to the Jewish cause is this: It provides a feasible argu-

+ +

41 ment against clarifying the Jewish-Christian-White Race

+ +

dilemma Protagonists for Christianity can point to the fact that +Christianity can't be a Jewish hoax because Christians like (the above +mentioned) are strongly anti-Jewish. Sounds reasonable.

+ +

But the dominant fact is the overwhelming majority of Chris-tians like the National Council of Churches, the World Council of +Churches, like Moral Majority and the Jerry Falwell Crowd, Billy +Graham, the Catholic Church, are all strongly PRO-Jewish, PRO-Israel, PRO-race-mixing and ANTI-White. These groups represent +more than 99 Per cent of the White Christians of the world, and the +comparative handful of ANTI-Jewish Christians do nothing +more than confuse the issue by Providing a credible argu-ment for not exposing the Jewish nature and origins of +Christianity

+ +

The end result most of these groups accomplish is similar to that +of the Birch Society and that is as its members see one defeat after +another, the enticements of throwing in the towel and thinking more +and more of the blandishments of the next world in heaven become +stronger and stronger. In this way one good White Racial fighter after +another is neutralized and finally becomes a total victim of that +Jewish mind scrambler. He becomes a "devoted", "dedicated" Chris-tian and lets the real world (and his race) go to hell - into the hell +of the Jews.

+ +

THE POPULISTS

+ +

Recently, especially under the auspices of The Spotlight out +of Washington, the Populist Party has received some mediocre pro-minence and publicity (nothing in comparison to, for example, what +that little talentless mongrel, Michael Jackson has been showered +with). Since The Spotlight has a relatively large circulation for a +paper that (overtly) professes to be ANTI-Jewish (Well, at least ANTI-Israel) this phenomena deserves some attention.

+ +

What does the Populist Party stand for?

+ +

Well, basically it is supposed to be the People's Party and repre-sent the will of the people (aren't all Political Parties made up out +of people, and stand for, by, of, behind, and in front of the people? +It is supposed to represent Americanism - to go back to the good +old times, and plethora of old time goodies, including stick candy +with red, white and blue stripes on it.

+ +

Let us go back a little into the history of the Populist Party.

+ +

The Populist Party was founded as an agrarian political party +in February, 1892, in St. Louis, MO. It represented in general three +groups: (a) Western farmers. (b) Southern farmers who through the +Farmers Alliance had sought to, but failed, to capture the

+ + + +

Democratic Party, and (c) Representatives of several labor and reform +groups. At their first convention on July 4, 1892, in Omaha, they +adopted a platform of the graduated income tax (we have it now, +do we ever!), direct election of U.S. Senators (we have that now also), +free coinage of gold and silver in a ratio of 16 to 1, and other reforms +relating to land, currency and transportation.

+ +

By 1896 the party was captured by William Jennings Byran and +it soon committed suicide, hobbling along until 1908, when it became +defunct.

+ +

A revival of this same party today is as archaic as trying to revive +the Odinist gods, or the Klan of the 1880's or the Nazi Party of the +1930's. They do not fit the massive fob at hand. They do not address +the overwhelming issue staring us in the face - the racial issue. They +only fiddle around the fringes, but never come to grips with +the nitty gritty - Christianity, the Jews, the explosion of the +mud races.

+ +

Besides the obviously blatant inadequacy of the Populist Party +and its platform to do the massive job that needs to be done, it has +inherent in it that basic weakness characteristic of all democracies +- it is based on mob psychology. History has taught us - or should +have by now - that no great heroic thought or act ever emerges +from the mob. On the contrary, only the lowest, basest demands +come out of any mob. It always sinks to the lowest denominator, +namely - how can I get a free ride at the public trough. As Hitler +has pointed out - all great ideas emerge out of the minds of great +individual personalities - great leaders.

+ +

The Populist Party runs exactly counter to the Leadership Prin-ciple and instead seeks to cater to the wishes of the mob for its direc-tion. Since the mob, collectively, never really knows what it wants +and at best has a multi-polyglot mind that is usually confused beyond +belief, you can be sure the Jews will quickly take control, if they didn't +instigate the whole scam in the first place.

+ +

I predict that the Populist Party will go the way of its earlier +counterpart around the turn of the century, and as did George +Wallace's American Independent Party, namely, belly up.

+ +

So what is the Populist Party trying to save? Well, presumable +the country, for the people. But which of the polyglot mess of peo-ple that inhabit this country, they don't say. Basically, the Populist +Party is only the Spotlight, and the Spotlight is Willis Carto. So what +is Willis Carto trying to save? Well, looking at his record and that +of the Spotlight, it seems to me that Willis Carto is trying to save +his own hubris and his own little empire at any cost - for Willis +Carto.

+ +

The Spotlight is riding a tricky little tightrope and has tried to +play both sides, whichever pays best, and sells the most books and

+ + + +

papers. Willis Carto has written a glowing endorsement as the +FOREWORD to Nietsche's "Anti-Christ" which his publishing house, +Noontide Press, puts out. At the same time he will publish equally +glowing reports about what a great Christian is the movie actor, Ty +Hardin, and isn't it wonderful. When a fairly innocuous article about +the Odinists and the Creativity movement brought down the wrath +of the Christians on his neck with numerous cancellations, he again +hastily retreated to publishing long installments by Christian pastors +about the wonderful complexities of Christianity.

+ +

He admitted frankly that the Christians are the mainstay of his +paper and he cannot afford to offend them, no matter how deluded +they may be.

+ +

Is Carto going to help save the White Race? For years I thought +he might. He claims to print what the "controlled press" is afraid +to print and will suppress. But when it comes to Jews directly, +or the Christian hoax, he evidently is as cowardly as the rest +of them, and if he "must" cater to the Christians, then, The +Spotlight is as controlled as is the Jewish press. They never +attack the Jews as such, but fritter around the edges with such terms +as the Dual Loyalists, the Zionists, and other silly terms.

+ +

Can we look to the Populist Party and Willis Carto for guidance? +I don't think so. After being snookered by experts, I am beginning +to have an intuitive sixth sense about such people, and my sixth sense +tells me that The Spotlight and Willis Carto will go the way of William +Buckley and his National Review, Robert Welch and his Birch Socie-ty, George Wallace and the American independent Party. (Since I +was chairman of the American independent Party for Florida in its +heyday I believe I am speaking from experience about that betrayal). +That route is to raise the hopes of the victims, to take the people's +money, sell them down the river, thoroughly neutralize them, and +continue to play ball with the Jews. Business as usual.

+ +

In the meantime a lot of good White people will pour a lot of +their time, money and energy down the rathole, emerge sadder but +wiser, and probably be permanently neutralized. We Creators want +no part of it. Personally I learned my lesson from the Wallace fracas. +Never again.

+ +

THE INTELLECTUALS

+ +

There is one other group, minor in impact, that are ideologically +on our side, but do little to further our movement. These are the +armchair strategists, the intellectuals, who write all kinds of +erudite books, booklets and articles, but really do little if anything +to help the cause.

+ + + +

I will take only one case in point because this fine old gentleman +who is now in his 90's, illustrates what many others do less brilliant-ly than he has.

+ +

William Gayley Simpson, over a period of forty years wrote the +material for his masterpiece: "Which Way Western Man?" I read the +book several years ago and think it is great, but also have several +criticisms regarding its content, such as the long drawn out disser-tation about his infatuation with Christianity and his gradual disillu-sionment. Also I believe the obsession with Nietsche is far longer +than serves any purpose.

+ +

Nevertheless, and be that as it may, my main point is this: After +the wealth of information he brilliantly displays about the Jews, +money, the White Race, and other vital subjects that concern the +survival of the White Race, he comes to the dour conclusion that +there really isn't much hope that we will be able to pull out of our +dilemma before it's too late, and anyway he knows of no solution. +He admits he has no answer.

+ +

The book ends just the way the title begins, saying namely, I +don't have the answer, only the question.

+ +

This kind of approach always aggravates the hell out of me. If +you are an expert and you give me a long drawn out diagnosis, but +have no solution, why did you waste a lot of my time telling me (again) +about the problem? (Read again "The Flat Tire Syndrome" in Racial +Loyalty Issue No. 1 of Expanding Creativity).

+ +

We Creators are not interested in hearing a rehash of +the problem for the hundredth time no matter how intellec-tual, how cleverly it might be rephrased. Nor are we interested +in witnessing a brilliant display of some writer's intricate knowledge +of past details, If in all of this there is no answer toward solving the +problem that overwhelms all other issues, and that is - the survival, +expansion and advancement of the White Race.

+ +

In one way such intellectual armchair strategists do a great deal +of harm, other than taking the White Man's money and wasting his +time in rehashing the same old problem, and that damage is this: +The average yokel, who does not consider himself an expert by any +means, upon reading such "expert" analysis, is greatly depressed and +discouraged. He comes to the logical conclusion that if such a +knowledgeable expert has no answer, has no solution, and thinks there +is no hope, how can he be expected to know what to do? He con-cludes that it is hopeless and throws in the towel.

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+ +

45 CONCLUSION

+ +

There are, of course, thousands of other groups that I have not +mentioned that are organized to save something. There is the +Greenpeace group that are fanatically and actively out to save baby +seals. There is the Audubon Society that has tens of thousands of +members that are concerned about the environment in general and +birds in particular. There are even more specialized groups that are +spending real money and energy trying to save the remaining 50 +Whooping Cranes. There is the NAACP and dozens of similar +organizations that are trying to save niggers.

+ +

The list is endless. The bottom line on mostly all of them, in one +way or another, is - it is the White Man's time and money that goes +into practically all these endeavors. This spans the entire spectrum, +all the way from saving ephemeral "souls" to saving Whooping +Cranes. We say this: The birds are for the birds, the niggers are for +the niggers, the Jews are for the Jews, and are they ever! What about +the White Race? Who is for them?

+ +

The question that screams to high heaven is that if the White +Man can become so involved and concerned about saving every +meaningless trifle on the face of the earth, why is he so lethargic, +dead on his feet, yes, even ashamed, to save the most +precious value on the face of the earth that is dying out (ac-tually being murdered), namely the White Race itself?

+ +

Doesn't the White Race know about the Jew? He should. Henry +Ford spelled out the Jewish problem back in 1921-22 when he +published the "International Jew". He was not the first and by no +means the last. But that was 60 some years ago - spanning three +generations - and writers about the Jewish problem have repeatedly +been doing just that - endlessly rehashing the problem, but never +spelling out a meaningful solution. I ask all these intellectuals (and +I am not now referring to Mr. Wm. G. Simpson), how long do you +want to keep rehashing the problem without a solution to the pro-blem? How long do you want to pontificate without doing +something meaningful to solve the problem? Three genera-tions? Five? Until the problem has liquidated itself with the extinc-tion of Nature's Finest?

+ +

There is an overwhelming answer to the problem and the Church +Of The Creator has it. We have spelled out the solution loud and +clear. One of the biggest roadblocks to the intellectuals is +helping to put into action a meaningful solution that already +exists is the hubris of these intellectual experts in +themselves. They are extremely obtuse and intransigent in +accepting what is obvious: Implementing a White racial +religion. Yes, hubris. They didn't think of it first, therefore, ignore

+ + + +

it, torpedo it, even if it means the death of the White Race itself.

+ +

History speaks loud and clear, especially the history of the Jews, +and the message is this: The White Race needs, the White Race +must have a racial religion of its own, and the most massive +roadblock standing in the way is Jewish Christianity. It is +there. It was placed there to obstruct, confuse, and fragment the mind +of the White Race so that it could never realize its own great poten-tial. it is therefore obvious we must dump this Jewish mind-scrambler +and replace it with Creativity - a comprehensive, meaningful, racial +religion of our own.

+ +

After we have reviewed a number of flimsy and trifling causes +the White Man has been chasing and on which he has been wasting +his time, money and energy, we pose the rhetorical question: What +is the Church of the Creator trying to save?

+ +

The answer is loud, clear and unequivocal. We are striving +for the survival, expansion and advancement of the White +Race.

+ +

In so saying, I am only too well aware that enemies of our Church +and of the White Race are going to drag out their well-rehearsed bag +of tricks to destroy us. Especially I expect them to dump on us the +old Jewish and Christian ploy of ACCUSE THE ACCUSER, +and accuse me of a hubris of my own.

+ +

To them I say this: you can dredge up all the slanderous names +in your lexicon and do so twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week +- it will not deter our movement one bit. Yes, we're deter-mined to see it through - whatever is takes-Yes, we are pro-ud of our religion, the first real racial religion the White Race +has ever had. And yes, we are mighty proud to be White, and +we have the most valid reasons in the world for all the above +as to why we should.

+ +

But personal hubris, if any, on my part is a minor item in the +whole determination. I am not a public person. I have no desire to +be in the limelight, and I don't care about publicity. The fact is, I +am a loner and enjoy my privacy. I would just as soon some +dynamic young promoter half my age took over the leader-ship, the publicity, the glory, if any, and the awesome burden. I +have said so publicly and repeatedly. (See the "Search for the +Great Promoter" in Issue No. 10 of Expanding Creativity on P. 165) +And as soon as we find him that is what will be done. (Fortunately +we are already in contact with some encouraging prospects).

+ +

Be that as it may, slander or no slander, I am determined that +the Creativity movement will go on and expand until it em-braces all of the White world. We are going to see to it that it +does, whatever it takes, whatever the costs. I am doing it not because +of any hubris on my part, but because the ramifications of the suc-

+ + + +

cess or failure of the movement are awesome, and the job has to +be done.

+ +

Never in history has a more real, more meaningful, more im-portant, more portentous cause been set forth than that to which +we, the Church of the Creator have committed our lives, our liber-ty, our honor and our fortunes. In so doing, I must remind every White +Racial Comrade, not only our own lives and fortunes are at stake, +but those of our children, our grandchildren and hundreds, yes, +thousands of future generations of the White Race yet unborn.

+ +

The stakes are high, and we have the answer. Yes, you're damn +right, we have the answer, hubris or no hubris. Never in the history +of the White Race has a full-blown racial (or any other kind +of) religion appeared on the scene that is as complete, as +comprehensive, that has the solutions to practically every +major problem that today confronts an angry, seething +world in utter chaos. We have the complete framework of solu-tions to the racial problems, the economic problems, the health pro-blems, the farm problems, the educational problems, the religious +problems, the environmental problems - all of them are inherent +in our creed. We have the TOTAL PROGRAM, the FINAL +SOLUTION, the ULTIMATE CREED. Whatever bits and pieces +need to be supplemented within that framework are minor, but the +program itself encompasses all aspects of life on this planet earth +- our only home now and forever.

+ +

If CREATIVITY succeeds - and it will - it will be a +universal blessing not only for the White Race but for that +Whole entity we now call humanity. If we fail, this Planet +Earth will become a living hell for all "humanity", if we can +then still call it that.

+ +

So we ask all good White Racial Comrades to join with us. After +three generations of fiddling, it is time we quit rehashing the pro-blem and get to work implementing the solution. We say to +the intellectuals, to the pseudo-experts, quit spinning your wheels +and wet nursing your little hubris. You can stop searching. Save the +White Race. The answer is staring you in the face. There is a hell +of a lot more than your individual little hubris at stake. Our own great +race - Nature's Finest - is now on the chopping block and we need +action, not endless pontification.

+ +

So join with us. Build your own Church Of The Creator +Organization in your area, but let's get our act together. +Remember - the bottom line as to whether or not we save +our own race is this: How much do you really care? Only you +can answer that question.

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+ + + +
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+ +

Unfortunately, at this time the average White +Man's mind is too cluttered with superficial trash +to be able to grasp the full ramifications and +magnitude of the idea we Creators are expounding. But we will get to them all, sooner or later.

+ +
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+ +

ZEALOUSNESS in the promotion of the +White Race is no vice; APATHY in its defense is +no virtue.

+ +
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+ +

A logical mind is in close touch with reality +Insanity is characterized by living in a world of +fantasy.

+ +
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+ +

There ore no two issues so wide apart a politi-cian can't straddle them.

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+ + + +

CREATIVITY UNIQUE

+ +

Not a rehash of the Nazi Philosophy

+ +

In Issue No. 4 of EXPANDING CREATIVITY (P. 56) we clearly +delineate eight fundamental issues on which we Creators differ with +Hitler's Nazi philosophy. In this dissertation we conclude our analysis +of the eventful episode in history created by that great genius, Adolf +Hitler. He now belongs to the ages and history will never +again see another man like him. He was unique and the Nazi +era be created in Germany was unique. And it, too, now belongs +to history.

+ +

Adolf Hitler made a tremendous breakthrough for the White +Race, but unfortunately be did not break the back of the Jewish +monster. On the contrary, the Jews emerged victorious from the +ashes of a defeated Germany. When WWII ended, the Jews were +ten times more powerful than before that holocaust began. +Now, forty years later they have further consolidated that power and +tightened their death grip on the world, and on the White Race. It +remains up to us the present generation, to break that stranglehold +Nobody else will do it for us.

+ +

We CREATORS have learned much from the Nazi experience +and the mistakes made in dealing with the Jewish monster. We have +come up with a completely different approach and use the same +weapons the Jews have used so successfully for over 3500 years, +namely the power of religion.

+ +

In Issue No. 4 of Expanding Creativity (P. 56), I list eight Fun-damental Differences between Creativity and the Nazi movement. +believe it would be useful to recapitulate those differences here. They +are as follows:

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1. Whereas the concern of Hitler and the Nazi movement was +to save Germany from the enemies that surrounded her, the over-whelming goal of the Church Of The Creator is the survival, +expansion and advancement of the White Race.

+ +

2. Hitler himself stated that the Nazi movement was a political +movement exclusively for the Germans and not for export. +CREATIVITY is, in contrast, a RELIGIOUS movement design-ed for global proportions to embrace all the White peoples +of this Planet Earth.

+ +

3. Whereas Hitler never tackled the issue of Jewish Christiani-ty, and, in fact, sometimes even mildly identified with it, we con-front Christianity head-on, expose its treacherous and +deceitful nature, and its Jewish origin.

+ +

4. Hitler left us a burdensome legacy that still lingers on the +minds of many of his admirers, and that is that the Jewish Problem

+ + + +

must be solved as a political problem. We Creators say: not so, +it is a religious problem that can only be solved by replac-ing Jewish Christianity with a powerful racial religion for +the White Race. In CREATIVITY we have it.

+ +

5. Whereas the Nazi movement took a harsh and hostile stance +toward many of its White neighbors - The French, the Poles, the +Czechs, etc., Creativity, on the other hand, seeks to embrace and +unite all the White peoples of the world.

+ +

6. Whereas Hitler formed a military alliance with one of the more +powerful mud races, namely the Japanese, to help kill White peoples, +to us CREATORS this is sheer treason and must never hap-pen again.

+ +

7. Whereas the "mythos" of the Nazi movement was the smart, +goose-stepping Nazi Storm Trooper, the capable Prussian Generals +of the German General Staff, and the era of Frederick the Great, +we Creators instead point with pride to the Winning Of The West +and prefer the American "Manifest Destiny" as our "mythos" +for the Winning of the World.

+ +

8. We shun the "personality cult" approach to the overwhelm-ing problem that confronts us and rely instead on logic and com-mon sense; on the experience of history; and on the Eter-nal Laws of Nature as the broad and solid base upon which to +build our powerful religious movement.

+ +

Read again FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCES in Expanding +Creativity, Issue 4 (P. 56).

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+ +

We Creators consider Adolf Hitler the +greatest leader the White Race has ever had and +the greatest White Man that ever lived.

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+ +

National Socialism was the first mighty +breakthrough, for the White Race, but it was not +the total answer. CREATIVITY IS.

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The time to get our act together is NOW or +NEVER

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Issue No. 17, October 1984

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Knocking The Key Weapon

+ +

From Out Of

+ +

The Enemy's Hands

+ +

Let us realize our Tremendous Potential on +Utilize our Weapons to the Utmost. + +Throughout history warring factions have sought to gain advan-tage over their enemies by having superior weapons with which to +rout and destroy the enemy. The goal has been to get the +"ultimate" weapon first, and then keep it out of the hands +of the enemy.

+ +

If keeping it out of the enemy's hands is not possible, (and usually +it is not) then the idea is to keep the weapon from the enemy at least +as long as possible, and in the meantime develop even more deadly +weapons of destruction.

+ +

This, then, has consciously been the strategy of mankind ever +since man emerged out of the caves with club in hand. Although the +change in weaponry evolved slowly in ancient times, nevertheless, +it changed significantly from time to time, from clubs to spears, too +bows and arrows, to cavalry, chariots, to gunpowder and artillery, +to tanks and aircraft, to rocketry and an up to the deadly hydrogen +bomb of today, the latter being considered the "ultimate" weapon.

+ +

The premise of having weapons superior to that of the enemy +and keeping such superior weapons out of the enemy's hands, is, +of course strategically sound, as history has proved countless times. +When the White Man arrived in America with musketry and horses, +the inferior Indian with his bows and arrows and on foot was no match +for the White Man, and of course, it was not only the difference in +weaponry in which the White Man was superior.

+ +

When the Hyksos arrived in Egypt with chariots and horse at +about the 18th century B.C.E., they easily conquered the amazed +Egyptians. However, the Egyptians soon caught on and soon began +to utilize the same weapons, and the wheel had come to Egypt. A +few centuries later, they drove the Hyksos out.

+ +

When Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm confronted the Austrians +at Koeniggratz (the Battle of Sadow) in 1866 with breech loading +rifles to the Austrians' muzzle loaders, the engagement became a

+ + + +

wholesale slaughter - of the Austrians.

+ +

When the United States dropped the atomic bomb on "Hiroshima +and Nagasaki in 1945, that war was over. (It had really been over +six months, earlier, but the U.S. ignored and kept secret the +fact that the Japanese tried to surrender and sue for peace. +Evidently the Jews wanted to continue the slaughter of +American boys as long as possible).

+ +

We can, of course, cite innumerable other examples of inven-tions on one side, and cloak and dagger methods with which to either +obtain the secrets from the other side, or prevent the enemy from +getting their hands on the new technology. All kinds of fascinating +spy stories, mysteries and cloak and dagger tales have emerged from +even the great war (WWII) about the Norden bomb sight, about radar +technology, about V-1 and V-2 rockets and about our continued +saturation bombings of the research center where the Germans were +trying to develop their first atomic bomb, and our own overwhelm-ing secrecy in the development of that bomb.

+ +

In every case of advancing weaponry and technology, the White +Man was by far the leading, the outstanding innovator, if in fact, +not the only contender in the field. Not only was the White Man the +leader in the field, but, strangely enough, as recent history has +so dramatically demonstrated, the White Race was also the +leading victim of his own brilliant technology. The White +Man's greatly superior weapons were in each case turned +against the White Race itself, and only the White Race could, +and did, kill millions of other members of nature's finest. +In short, the White Race engaged in a frantic race to forge superior +weapons, the ultimate weapons of destruction in order that it could +kill its own faster, more effectively, and probably even wipe itself +the face of the earth.

+ +

What a monstrosity! How did such an idiotic, suicidal, horrible +situation come about? Especially, how did Nature's Finest, Nature's +most intelligent, the Inventor of all this technology and the creator +of all civilizations, get boxed into such an unbelievable dilemma?

+ +

We Creators have the answer to that question. The Jews ac-complished all this through their DIVIDE and CONQUER techni-que, using nationalism as the main divisive factor, as well as +any one of several other issues, such as religion, language, etc. But +there is another overriding factor, there is another ultimate weapon +that is as old as history itself that the enemy has relentlessly employed +against the White Race, and until now has moved heaven and earth +to keep it out of the hands of the White Race itself.

+ +

That ultimate weapon is the RACIAL IDEA COMBINED +WITH THE B-BOMB. Once the White Race grasps this +ultimate weapon into its own powerful and capable hands,

+ + + +

our enemies will shortly be wiped out, and they know it on-ly to well. That is why they have left no stone unturned and +unceasingly bombarded us with the B-bomb (brain bomb) +to the point of over saturation. The idea they have unceasingly +and relentlessly inundated us with is that WHITE RACISM is evil, +evil, evil; Jewish racism is great! Black racism is wonderful. Hispanics +have every right to exercise THEIR civil rights, to band together, +violate and flout our immigration laws and flood the White Man's +domain with their hungry hordes. The Vietnamese have "rights", the +Jamaicans have rights, the Cubans have rights, and the Indians, too, +poor things, have their inalienable rights. Ah yes, and when we speak +of those decrepid relics of the stone age we must respectfully talk +about Indian "braves", the "noble" red man and how the despicable +and sneaky White Man lied and cheated him and his "nations" out +of his lands: That is what the Jewish press says we must say and +the White Man collaborates and babbles such inanities not unsimilar +to the way a conditioned Pavlovian dog does his trained act.

+ +

But what about the White Man? What about the White Race? +Does it have any rights in this greatest land on the face of the earth? +A land, a civilization and an empire built by the White Man's own +illustrious Ancestors? Do we have any rights to even voice our +opinions?

+ +

Hell no! Didn't you know that Judaism has decreed that White +Racism is the most heinous evil to ever be conceived by the mind +of man? It must be purged. It must be attacked, smeared, slandered, +disgraced and expunged from the face of the earth! Such a power-ful onslaught have the Jews launched over the years against +the White race's ever organizing itself and realizing its own +potential that race mixing (although never spelled out into +a law) has now become not only the most fanatically pur-sued goal of this (and preceding) administrations, but it has +now actually become the state religion of the formerly White +Man's United States. Every law, every court decision, every ser-mon from the pulpit is now directed to promote race mixing. We must +race mix! Race mix with all deliberate speed until the White Man +is expunged and exterminated. This, then, has become the unwrit-ten but pervading official religion of this once great America that +our own glorious ancestors built!

+ +

All right, so there we have it. There lies the dire secret right +out there in front of the White Man's eyes, right out there in the open +for every man to see. The stupid niggers can see it and understand +it, so do the lowly Mexicans and so does every other minority. Only +the White Man is blind as a bat, and cannot, or will not, see it. Only +the White Race seems conditioned to shun and ignore this powerful +combination of the RACIAL IDEA and the B-BOMB.

+ + + +

But now the Church Of The Creator sees it, understands it, and +has it. We now have it all put together, comprehensive, com-plete consistent,, in a fervent racial religion. It is called +CREATIVITY. We are now determined to blare it out to the world +to promote the hell out of it until every White Man sees it, understands +it, grasps it and makes it his very own. Actually we have been +preaching it from the very beginning of Creativity. RACIAL LOYAL-TY, the name of the paper you are now holding in your hands is THE +VERY heart of the idea.

+ +

The Church Of The Creator is determined to implement-the solu-tion totally and with finality and not just wallow in the problem as +do most other DEPLORE AND LAMENT discussion societies.

+ +

How are we going to implement the racial idea combined with +the B-bomb? That, too, is very basic and easy to understand. With +are going to promote it in the same way as every other idea and move-ment has been promoted. The only difference is we will do it with +more urgency, more fervor and a great deal more reason than has +any cause that has ever been conceived in the history of mankind +Nothing, but nothing, is more vital, more important than the sur-vival of Nature's Finest - the White Race.

+ +

This is where you come in. How much do you care? You know +what to do (Read again "Spreading the Good Word" in issue No. 14 +16. Read again all of issue No. 10 about becoming an Ordained +Minister of the Church, about how to form your own church group. +Read again about "Dispersion and Polarization" in issue No. 14.

+ +

So now let's go to work. When you realize what the miserable +Jew, a small, despicable minority, has been able to do with these +weapons, imagine what the White Race, still 500 million strong, can +do with these same weapons. Let us grasp the impact of this ultimate +weapon and change the world forever - and make it a beautiful place +for the White Race to live, to love and to prosper.

+ +
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+ +

Nature has never read the Declaration of In-dependence. It continues to make us unequal.

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+ +

Let us permit Nature to have her way; she +understands her business better than we do.

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How To Overcome

+ +

The Real Haters

+ +

Undoubtedly the most persistent and the most vicious haters of +all time have been the Jews. The Talmud is full of it, their whole +religious creed is founded upon it, and the survival of their race is +based upon the theory that the strongest cement binding together +an organization, any organization, is to have a common enemy.

+ +

Whom have the Jews selected as their enemy? To make sure +they never run out of hatred, all "Gentiles" are their enemies. This +means, in fact, that all the peoples of the world who are not Jews +are their enemies. The Talmud repeatedly restates this +premise and furthermore derogates non-Jews into the +category of animals, to be denounced, to be deceived, lied +to, killed and destroyed. According to the teaching of the Talmud, +the most sacred of all their holy books, all non-Jews are "gois", or +"goyim", which means animals, and any property they may possess +rightfully belongs to Jews. Any treacherous act in stripping the +"goyim" is considered fair and square and is condoned by the code +of the Talmud.

+ +

The exercise of these ground rules is further reinforced by +teaching the Jews from early childhood to hate the goyim, that they +are evil and a threat to their own survival.

+ +

This Jewish creed has been in existence for thousands of years. +The Jews have avidly pursued this course with a fanaticism that +knows no bounds, and have harbored an intense, pathological hatred +for all goyim with a vengeance. But their fiercest hate is, and has +been reserved for the White Race, especially the Romans of Ancient +history, and the Germans of today. The Jew's motto always has +been, and is today, "Always kill the best first".

+ +

So complete a monopolistic stranglehold do the Jews hold on +the worldwide propaganda machinery that only a few of the honest +students of history are aware of this sinister situation. So thoroughly +confused and programmed is the average goy yokel that he or she +will join with their destroyers and hate and denounce those few +courageous fighters that will even so much as investigate, or look +into, or talk about this strange historic phenomena.

+ +

The Jews have honed to a sharp edge many of the weapons at +their disposal, and one that they have become most expert at is tur-ning the tables on their accusers. Their motto in this connec-

+ + + +

tion is to ACCUSE THE ACCUSER. In short, accuse their enemies +of the very thing they themselves are doing, but do it first, do it louder +and more blatantly than any campaign their enemies might be able +to muster.

+ +

There are thousands of historic examples of this, going back as +far as the history of Ancient Egypt, in which the Jews through the +monopolization of the grain and food of the Egyptians, managed +to enslave them. When the Egyptians finally realized this and drove +them out en masse, the Jews turned the tables on them and claimed +(a) the Egyptians enslaved them, and (b) wouldn't them leave, +until, of course, Moses (a historical fiction) and their ever-loving +Jehovah (a Fictious concept) came to their rescue and led them out +of Egypt to the consternation of the Egyptians. Since they, not the +Egyptians, wrote the Old Testament, and subsequent history as well, +that double lie persists as an accepted fact the gullible +goyim even to this day.

+ +

About half a century ago the Germans under the leadership of +Adolf Hitler, finally realized the full depth of the Jewish conspiracy, +and tried to get the Jewish monkey oH their back. They united on +a national scale and broke the power of the Jews in Germany. +However, so powerfully entrenched was the Jewish financial and pro-paganda network that they enveigled the rest of the White world to +come to their (the Jews) rescue, and to destroy the Germans. This +they succeeded in doing with a vengeance and no sooner was that +phase completed when the Jews immediately turned on their rescuers +to undermine and destroy them.

+ +

They then again aimed for the destruction of the best +first, namely Great Britain, and above all, the United States, +both of whom they held in the palm of their hands.

+ +

Since we who live in the United States and are White are now +the number one target for destruction you might wonder how do +the Jews go about getting the hateful White goyim to help them, the +Jews, destroy their enemy the White American?

+ +

It is very simple, and they employ the same historic tried +and true stratagems they utilized against the Egyptians.

+ +

(a) Accuse the Accuser, and (b) destroy the first best.

+ +

Having unlimited monopoly of the propaganda machinery in the +United States (and the world), having complete control of the TV +networks, the news wires, the newspapers, radio, and every other +mechanism, the Jews turn on the heat. Any goyim who dares to so +much as mention their obvious program of hate and destruction is +immediately braned as a hater. And we should all hate a hater, +shouldn't we?

+ +

So how do we Creators, who are in the forefront of ex-posing the sinister Jewish conspiracy defend ourselves

+ + + +

against this kind of tactic?

+ +

Well, we must first of all face a few basic facts of life and drive +them home to our White Racial Comrades whom we are trying to +save from genocide, and whose mutual help we must enlist to save +ourselves and, in fact, the total White Race. These realities are:

+ +

1. The Jews know exactly what their deadly game is and that +they must proceed at full speed, and destroy their enemy (Principal-ly the White Race) before we catch on, and destroy them. Therefore, +it is pointless to argue with them, try to persuade them to ameliorate +or mend their ways, or any other means of conciliation. The Jews +are hell bent on the destruction of the White Race and nothing will +divert or deter them. Our only hope, our only solution, is to +render them harmless so they cannot now or ever in the +future again threaten the survival and well-being of the +White Race. But forget any solution through conciliation, bargain-ing, coming to terms by means of understanding, or any similar +shibboleths.

+ +

2. Our efforts at persuasion, recruiting and enlightenment must +be directed at our own White Racial Comrades where the real pro-blem and also the real solution lies. We must bring home to our White +brothers and sisters the magnitude of the sinister conspiracy the +diabolical designs of the Jewish perpetrators on the future of their +own lives and those of future White generations. We must enlighten +them that the only hope of survival and a viable future is to +build! build! build! A powerful White movement, a White +Racial religion such as CREATIVITY that has the goal and +the means of sweeping our enemies before us like a huge +tidal wave, and that are that we must again wrest control of the White +Man's destiny into our own capable hands.

+ +

To provide some of the tools to help persuade our White Racial +Comrades, we come back to the question that constituted the heading +of this article, namely how do we overcome the Jewish accusation +that we are the haters, the only haters, and therefore the real culprits?

+ +

Well, since the Jewish propaganda networks are so pervasive +and all-encompassing this is not easy, not for any lack of argument +or evidence, but because of the sheer massiveness of the Jewish pro-paganda apparatus. But through tenacity, aggressiveness and sheer +hard work we can overcome it. Here are some of the questions and +arguments we can advance with which to awaken our White Racial +Comrades: +1. Is hating your enemies a good thing or is it bad? +2. If it is bad to hate under any circumstances, then is it a +bad to hate a Nazi? +3. Do the Jews hate Nazis? +4. Do you hate Nazis? Do you hate Hitler?

+ + + +

5. If it is alright to hate Nazis and to hate Hitler, and what's +fair for the goose is fair for the gender, isn't it then also justifiable +for the Germans to retaliate and hate the Jews? +6. Have you ever wondered why the Jews have been hated by +nearly all nations of the world at one time or another to the point +where they were driven out of their land? (See Creative Credo No. +35, "Unrelenting Warfare Between the parasitic Jews and their Un-fortunate Victims" in The White Man's Bible.) +7. Do you believe that It is a sensible idea to love your enemies +(Man. 5:44) and to hate your father and mother, brothers and sisters +(Luke 14:26) and hate your own kind? +8. Did you know that the Jewish Talmud, which is considered +by the Jews as being their most sacred religious text (even above +the Old Testament) is full of hate for all peoples? +9. Did you know that the foundation of the Jewish religion is +hatred, and their cohesiveness is built upon that very hatred for all +goyim? +10. Is it alright to try to defend yourself against a person or a +group that has designs upon your destruction? +11. Is it possible for you or your race to survive without defending yourself/itself? +12. In real life, is it possible to fight a battle for survival without +hating your enemy? +13. Would you be utterly unconcerned if this country +became 90 per cent black, 5 per cent White and was con-trolled by a tightly organized Jewish network? +14. If you realized such was happening would you do anything +to avert It? +15. Just what would you do and where would you start? +16. Is it alright to hate someone if they hated you first? +17. If so, the Jews are the world's oldest and most persist +haters, as is evidenced both by the Old Testament, the Talmud and +their history. Would you care to ignore this fact, or do you think it +bears looking into? +18. If your mother or sister were attacked, would you defend +them? +19. Would you love their attacker or would you show signs of +hatred and anger while you defended them? (If you have the guts to +do so.) +20. Do you think it is alright to defend the White Race if some +other race, or coalition of races ganged up on the White Race and +worked and plotted for its destruction? +21. If it came to a showdown between the niggers and the +Whites, what side, if any, would you choose?

+ + + +

22. if it came to a showdown between the Jews and the White +Race, what side, if any, would you choose? +23. If it came to a battle for survival between the White Race +on the one hand, and the Jews, niggers and mud races in coalition +against it, which side, if any, would you choose? +24. If you had to choose between Christianity and the survival +the White Race, what side, if any, would you choose? +25. Do you believe that the Jews are to be commended for giv-ing their first -loyalty to their own race? +26. Do you approve of the idea of blacks practicing RACIAL +LOYALTY? +27. Do you believe the White people should also have equal +rights in practicing RACIAL LOYALTY towards their own race? +28. Do you realize that your White ancestors consistently prac-ticed RACIAL LOYALTY for thousands of years, and if they did not, +you would be a mongrelized mulatto today? +29. Would you perhaps rather be black, or a mulatto, than +White? +30. Would you like to see your sister marry a nigger? If not, why +not? +31. If your mother were widowed, would you like to see her +remarry a nigger? If not, why not? +32. Is there any county In the U.S. that is predominantly black, +that you would like to live in? +33. Is there any country in the world that is predominantly black, +say, like Haiti, you would like to live in? +34. Would you like to live in the middle of Harlem, and if so, +how long do you think you could survive?

+ +

There are many more similar questions we could devise, and +undoubtedly you yourself could think of many more. The main idea +in our thesis is this:

+ +

1. Our real problem is not overcoming the Jew and the +mud people, but straightening out the confused and +scrambled thinking of our own Jew-programmed White +Racial Comrades. These are the people we must work on and work +with. It is the White people we must enlighten and bring to their +senses. It is the White people, our own White brothers and sisters, +we must bring to their senses, that we must instill a feeling of racial +pride and loyalty, that we must organize. There lies the solution - +not with convincing the Jews or the niggers, or any other mud races. +So let us not waste our time and energy in misdirection.

+ +

In order to bring the issue of hate into proper perspective Read +again Creative Credo No. 62 in The White Man's Bible entitled "love +and Hate".

+ +

In order to enlighten and organize our White racial brethren we

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must do the following:

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1 . Have a powerful all-encompassing racial creed that the White +Race can and must polarize around. This we have now.

+ +

2. Build a propaganda network of our own that will overshadow +and overpower the present Jewish stranglehold. Why not? We can +do it! We have the intelligence, we have the numbers, we have the +customers, the advertisers, the producers and the energy to do the +job. All we need is leadership, direction and dedication. Our +periodical, RACIAL LOYALTY is the spearhead in building a vast +and powerful transmission belt for the spreading of WHITE IDEAS. +All we have to do now is build! build! build! and work like hell. This +means your participation and dedication. Help expand the subscrip-tions of our periodical RACIAL LOYALTY to the limits of your +resources.

+ +

3. Help promote White racial schools and programs such as our +SCHOOL. FOR GIFTED BOYS. Help make this the seedbed of a +vast network of education, training and enlightenment for the benefit +of the White Race. Donate to our cause. It's your cause.

+ +

4. Promote White Racial Loyalty. Talk it, preach it, disseminate +literature, leaflets and flyers in its behalf. Think White. Practice White +Racial Teamwork. Help build a Whiter and Brighter World.

+ +

The alternative is black, very black. Think about it. Do +something about it. HELP BUILD A WHITER AND BRIGHTER +WORLD. +* * * * *

+ +

Only by facing reality, no matter how grim, +can the White Race free itself from the Jewish +vampire.

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If the White Race is ever to revert back to +sanity, Christianity will HAVE TO GO. To again +regain its sanity, it will first have to dump +Christianity.

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Creativity is the mighty Wave of the Future.

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The following article appeared tn the Miami Herold:

+ +

WHAT A FRIEND +WE HAVE IN JESUS

+ +

In Colorado Springs this week, a federal judge threw out a +million dollar lawsuit filed by a cuckolded husband against a Roman +Catholic priest who had an affair with plaintiffs wife during the course +of marital counseling. The judge ruled that litigation could not con-stitutionally be pursued because it violated the priest's "FREE EX-ERCISE OF RELIGION."

+ +

Moral of the story: If you are a Minister of the Cloth, you +really have clout!

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We neither want to impress you nor enter-tain you. We want to inspire you to become a mili-tant activist.

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+ +

Starting with a polyglot society that is sick +and degenerate, we CREATORS are determin-ed to build a Whiter and Brighter World. Your +dedication will make it possible.

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+ +

It is our unswerving and sacred GOAL TO +place 10 million White Man's Bibles IN THE +hands of our White Racial Comrades. Once we +have accomplished that much the war against the +Jews, niggers and mud peoples will be as good +as over, and it will be the best bargain the White +Race will ever have invested in. Help bring it +about! Do your part.

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Our Autistic World

+ +

The Supreme Importance of being able to distinguish +between Reality and Fantasy.

+ +

Last Christmas my daughter gave me a small wall calendar that +had a unique feature about it. To help my vocabulary there was +new and uncommon word presented for each and every day of the +year. Along with it was the definition of the word, also an exemplary +usage in a sentence. I found that even at my age an old dog can learn +new tricks, or at least add new words to his vocabulary.

+ +

The other day the word "autistic" came up, and although I was +aware of its meaning as applied to autistic children, the definition +"having the tendency to fulfill one's needs by fantasies, unmindful +of objective reality" gave me pause for reflection that it is not just +a rare child that suffers from this affliction.

+ +

autistic

+ +

(@ tis' tik) adj. Psychol. having the +tendency to fulfill one's needs by +fantasies, unmindful of objective +reality

+ +

The autistic child didn't acknowledge the world around him.

+ +

Thursday +August30 +1984

+ +

Looking at the mess the world Is in today, and how a diversity +of polyglot people are trying to cope with an impossible mess they +don't understand, or better stated, trying to escape from coping with +reality I came to the conclusion that probably more than 99 percent

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of the more than 5 billion people living on this planet today have +advanced symptoms of being autistic.

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1. One of the most alarming phenomena of this present "now" +generation is the ballooning increase in the use and abuse of +drugs of all kinds. This varies from smoking pot, sniffing cocaine, +injecting heroin with a needle into the "mainliner", sniffing "angel +dust", and a whole variety of other outright dangerous and addic-tive drugs that confuse, maim, paralyze and kill. Florida U.s. Senator +Paula Hawkins made the statement to the effect that there is hardly +a public school in the United States today where the children above +the fourth grade have not been subjected to drugs, and, in many +schools it is out of control and in flagrant abuse.

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This is a terrible indictment of our present society and especial-ly of "our" public schools. How did we get into such a horrible situa-tion and why do so many children (and adults) take to drugs?

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It is a long story, but let us first examine the WHY of the +situation.

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Despite all the modern conveniences of "civilization", despite +nearly 2000 years of Jewish Christianity, despite welfare and anti-poverty programs and all the rest - people today are living in a +highly confused, artificial world. It is a polyglot world in which every +individual feels alienated, a world in which they feel they are not at +home, but an alien living amongst pluralistic aliens. People are vastly +confused, they are without hope and without direction. This applies +to all peoples of the world, whether they be niggers, Arabs, Hindus, +Indians or mongrels of other breeds such as Mexicans. But it applies +especially to the one and only race with which we Creators are con-cerned, namely the White Race.

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The White Man of today finds himself living in an alien world +that is rapidly closing in on him. He is living in a Jew-dominated +culture that is repugnant to him, but he cannot put his finger on it +as to WHY. He does not understand it. As the Jew Marcus Eli Ravage +said, "We have imposed upon you an alien book (the Jewish bible +and an alien faith which you cannot swallow, or digest, which is at +cross-purposes with your native spirit, which keeps you everlasting-ly ill at ease, and which you lack the spirit to either reject or accept +in full." See "Confessions of a Jew" Creative Credo No. 43, Page 286 +of the White Man's Bible.)

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The Jews have done so indeed. But starting nearly two thou-sand years ago with Jewish Christianity, they have steadily pursued +their warfare against the White Race relentlessly, as I hove expounded further in the article "Unrelentless Warfare Between The Parasitic +Jews And Their Unfortunate Victims" starting on page 6 of this paper. +Jewish Christianity was the mighty, massive mind-bender that pro-vided the breakthrough for the Jews to get a handle on the White

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Man's mind and destiny. But it did not stop there.

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Since the Jews have aggressively taken control of the finances +of the world, they have seized a monopoly of the newsmedia, televi-sion, films, radio and the book publishing business; music and the +"arts", If they can still be called such; control our government without +so much as a challenge; either have their hand in almost every Gen-tile religion or are the prime instigators of it, or both: and worst of +all, they have pervaded and prostituted the White Man's culture. All +this they have done and are accelerating without the overwhelming +majority of the White Race even realizing or admitting that this is so.

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This is why I can say without reservation: 99 percent of the +White race are living in a dream world, an unreal fool's +paradise. They are AUTISTIC, unable or unwilling to face +reality. They are also, by and large, extremely confused, and unhap-py, living on the edge of hopeless desperation, hardly knowing WHY.

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As a result they try a wide variety of escape mechanisms. We +have already cited the widespread resort to drugs. Unfortunately, the +more a person, or a nation, or a race tries to avoid coming to grips +with reality and solving the multitude of problems, the worse the +problems become. The penalties for such cop-outs are usually tragedy +and catastrophe, as witness such recently chronicled deaths of John +Belushi or David Kennedy. Let us cite other forms of escapism than +the indulgence in hard drugs.

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2. Alcoholism, of course, is as old as Noah, if not older. It is, +of course, another form of drug abuse, but is more readily condoned +by society and outside of the Prohibition Era, Is legal. There are pro-bably 150 million Americans who drink, of which about 12 million +are alcoholics, people who have a weakness or affinity for alcohol +which they can no longer control. Their solution to a problem is not +to face it and solve it, but to drown it out with alcohol, thereby +postpone it and add to the problem itself, the very real problem of +alcoholism. The end result of this route is exemplified by the tragic +and miserable death of William Holden and many other celebrities, +as well as millions of nonentities who die in the gutter, unheraled +and unsung.

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3. Probably the largest single group of escape artists are +those who indulge in religion as a means of escaping the +realities of the world. Now we Creators do not take the position +that religion is bad in itself. Like the weather, it can be bad or good, +Like fire, it can be extremely useful and beneficial, when for exam-ple, it heats your home or drives a steam engine; or it can be ex-tremely destructive, as when, for instance, it burns your house down. +We Creators maintain that like fire, religion is a powerful +force for good or evil - depending on what religion it is, +by whom it is used, and on whom. For example - Judaism has

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been an extremely powerful tool in the hands of the Jews in promoting +the survival and evil influence of their race, whereas Christianity has +been a devastating tool In their hands in crippling and destroying +the White Race, as I have pointed out any number of times.

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Be that as it may. Most White people are either partially or whole +ly addicted to, and afflicted with Christianity, and use it as an escape +mechanism from reality. They go to church on Sunday and listen +to the preacher blabber about pie-in-the-sky when they die, and if +you don't believe him you will be barbecued in the fiery pit. They +pray to an unseen spook in the sky, and plead for his "blessings", +blabber about marriages sealed in heaven, about being born again +about going off into orbit in a "rapture", and a lot of other nonsense +that has not the slightest, basis in reality. They are, in fact, indulg-ing in mass insanity, since the best definition of insanity I know of +is having lost the ability to distinguish between what is real and what +is fantasy. When a whole group of people indulge in a similar fan-tasy such as heaven, hell, spooks and demons and babble into the +void in unison, then I believe that we can rightfully conclude that +they are indulging in mass insanity.

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There are other forms of escapism that are flights of fantasy that +are not based on religion. Children perhaps are prone to do so when +hey believe their dolls are alive and real, or their tin soldiers or their +stuffed teddy bears are alive, and engage them in one-way conversa-tions. This is not unusual and perhaps part of the growing up pro-cess. It is when such fantasies, like the alcoholism problem, get out +of hand that they are branded autistic. Such a state is arrived at when +they can no longer be reached and oriented to the real world around +them. This is a mental condition and sometimes it can be remedied, +and sometimes it can lead to total insanity.

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But children are not by any means the only ones that indulge +in mental fantasies as an escape. Any number of grown people also +resort to such escapisms. We have read the story of HARVEY. A +few years ago we read about the "Son of Sam" in New York who +claimed that a dog by that name commanded him to murder a +number of people and he did just that over a period of years, until +he was finally caught. This, too, is an extreme form of autism.

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5. We now come to that group of people who are not aware of +an overwhelming fact of life in the present-day world - and that fact +is that the Jewish powerhouse controls and enslaves the people of +the world. They are living in a FOOL'S PARADISE and either +will not reconcile their thinking with reality, or fail to understand it. +this group takes in the overwhelming mass of all peoples of the +world, especially those of the White Race. This includes segments +of the White Race that are highly intelligent in other spheres, such +as lawyers, doctors, politicians (?) scientists, educators, journalists

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and the whole spectrum, including (and especially) Christian +Preachers.

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I repeat, they are living in a dream world, detached from reali-ty, and are in the true sense of the word, as previously defined, +autistic.

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We Creators believe in facing reality and making a sharp distinc-tion between what is fantasy and what is real. We also believe in fun +and games and what is called "R & R" in the business world. There +is nothing wrong in Indulging in recreation of one kind or another +as a form of relaxation from work. We Creators especially believe +in living the good Life, the interesting life, and enjoying our stay here +on earth. This recreation can take many forms and may even involve +meandering in the world of fantasy such as seeing a play, or a movie, +or reading fiction, or even reading fairy tales to our children. But +the important distinction is this: treat a fantasy as such but don't +confuse it with reality. As Hypatia, that wonderfully intellectual +woman of Alexandria in the fourth century clearly delineated: "Fables +should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic +fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The +child-mind accepts and believes them, and only after great pain and +perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. In fact, +man will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth +- often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get +at it to refute it. but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable." +(See Page 310 of the White Man's Bible).

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In CREATIVITY we finally have a religion that dispenses with +all the clutter, debris and hogwash that the human race has ac-cumulated over the ages from its superstitious and primitive Stone +age ancestors. We dump it overboard once and for all and take a +refreshing, honest look at the real world that Nature has presented +to us. We do this for several good reasons (a) It greatly clarifies the +thinking process (b) It rids the mind of a lot of useless, nagging clut-ter, such as the fear of hell (c) It helps tremendously in solving the +real problems of the world and, believe me, we have plenty of real +big ones to solve. (d) And finally, it is the one and only way we can +stop the Jewish onslaught in its insane obsession to destroy the White +Race. Only by clear thinking, total dedication and racial polariza-tion can we stave off the final and irreversible disaster that the Jews +have in store for us.

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When Adolf Hitler in the 1920's came to the conclusion that none +of the old parties, or even the philosophical underpinnings of the past +could save Germany from the onslaught of Jewish Communism, he +threw all the old trash overboard and started anew. He designed a +completely new political party and philosophy that was geared to +do the job that needed to be done. As we all know, National Socialism +75

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did do the job extremely well in uniting the German people and clean-sing the German scene from Jewish influence and manipulation. The +fact that the Jews utilized the awesome might of other White na-tions that were still under their control to smash Germany from the +outside is another story. The point is that Hitler did cleanse and +rebuild Germany with his new political philosophy and he did an ex-cellent job of it.

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So, too, now we find the whole world in a Jewish chaos, with +this sinister monster zeroing in on the White Race for its total destruc-tion. None of the old political parties, none of the old philosophies, +or old religions, are up to the job of stopping the steam roller. In +fact, most of them have been enlisted in helping the Jews in their +vicious, sadistic program. We Creators are therefore, like Adolf Hitler +did half a century ago, chucking all the old garbage overboard, star-ting from square one and have designed a worldwide religion for the +White Race that is capable of doing the job, doing it right, and do-ing it once and for all. In CREATIVITY we are building the first +genuine RACIAL RELIGION the White Race has ever had. +Just as Hitler succeeded in uniting the German people, it is our deter-mined goal to unite all the White Peoples of the world into one solid +battering ram with which to smash the Jewish monster. Once the +White Race of the world is united there is no force left to ever again +threaten it, and the battle is over for all time.

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We must now all get behind this holy crusade or perish. +CREATIVITY is our last great opportunity. We must (and that means +you!) now polarize around that powerful central core and build and +build. We must put our shoulder to the wheel and promote, we must +propagandize, we must proselytize, we must organize. Let us get with +it!

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For the White Race, CREATIVITY has it all, +says it all, encompasses all.

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The White Race must learn to think in term +of: To hell with the Jews, To hell with the nig-gers. To hell with the mud races. THINK WHITE + +* * * * * +76

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Issue No. 18, November 1984

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Selection of Racial +Terms Deliberate

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WE HAVE GOOD REASONS

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In the field of propaganda, programming, education and +enlightenment, certain key rules come into play. The battle in which +the White Race is now involved and in fact, is fighting for its very +survival, is basically a battle for the mind. Overwhelmingly, it is a +battle for the White mind, a mind that is now sorely polluted not on-ly with chemical drugs but psychological mind benders as well. +We are sorely besieged not only with drugs but even more so +by a poisonous onslaught of ideas. +We are at the mercy of a deadly siege of psychological warfare, +yet, the White Race is hardly aware of it. Call it propaganda, mind +warping, mind scrambling, programming or whatever you like, the +White Race is mostly on the receiving end, practically defenseless +and not returning so much as a volley. +It is the psychological warfare I want to zero in on in this treatise, +and the fact that the main issue of this warfare is racial. In short, +we are at the losing end of a psychological war that is being waged +against us, the White Race, by our deadly enemies, the mud races +in general and by the cunning Jew. In this field, these master sneaks +of all time are the unchallenged experts and have been such from +time immemorial. No other race has even come close. They have +been overwhelmingly successful and although inferior in numbers and +creativity, they now control the human and material resources of the +world. +As in every other endeavor there are a number of key ground +rules that must be followed that spell success, and certain boo-boos +that are just plain dumb that must be avoided. This applies to ten-nis, to business, to education, to politics, or to our subject at hand +- propaganda and enlightenment. You have to follow certain ground +rules to be effective; you have to avoid known pitfalls or else fail. +All this brings us back to our main subject at hand: effective +psychological tactics in the racial warfare being aggressively pushed +upon us by the Jews and the mud races - a war we are losing +I am now going to list some of these basic ground rules that apply +to this particular warfare, though some of these apply equally to any

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77 +type of warfare. +1. Clearly identify your enemy. You can't fight an abstraction +or a ghost (such as a devil). +2. War against enemies can only be successfully waged if it is +first preceded by a successful propaganda campaign of hatred for +the enemy, implicating them of all the sins and transgressions that +can be brought against them. The Jews spent thirty years aggressive-ly conditioning the British people to hate and loathe the Germans +before they were ready to fight world war I. After World War I was +over they feverishly continued that program of hate and vilification +changing their theme only slightly, from the Kaiser to Hitler as be-ing the villain of the peace. (This is only one example of hundreds +pursued by the Jews.) +3. All is "fair" in warfare. Only survival matters. This is stated +in a different manner by General Douglas MacArthur who said: +"There is no substitute for victory". But we Creators have even +stronger justification for our position, and we go back to fundamen-tals: THE ETERNAL LAWS OF NATURE. And Nature says loud and +clear: Take care of your own, no holds barred. The bottom line is +survival of your own species and Nature ruthlessly punishes those +too stupid or too laggard to obey that law with the ultimate punish-ment: extinction. (For further details on this subject see Creative +Credo No. 61, "The Guilt Complex and the fairness Neurosis - +Two Fatal Foibles in the White Man's Makeup" in The White Man's +Bible.) +4. Organize and polarize your own forces to prepare them for +the oncoming (or on going) battle. in order to do so you have to have +an entity, a treasure that you love and cherish that you want and +must protect from a vicious and loathsome enemy. This enemy, too, +must be identified and we of the Church Of The Creator clearly do +so. To us the most precious treasure on the face of the earth is the +White Race, and the White Race alone. To it we give our total +allegiance, our total loyalty, our total love. We state further that pro-tecting our White gene pool is our highest obligation, and failure to +do so is the ultimate crime. This means protecting it not only from +threat of extinction, but also, and perhaps even more so, from pollu-tion and contamination. Under no circumstances can we any longer +tolerate the Jews sitting arrogantly at the master switch and pump-ing the black blood of Africa into the veins of White America, or any +other White peoples, for that matter. +That the above is now becoming a flagrant reality and that the +White racial gene pool is being polluted and contaminated, of that +there is no doubt. That the White Race is idly sitting by and indif-ferent about this calamity unfolding before its very eyes, is the un-mitigated horror of our times.

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The Church Of The Creator is in the forefront of battling this +treacherous catastrophe, is committed to exposing it and reversing +the tide. +in listing the above four points of warfare we have, of course. +only listed a few basics but these basics apply directly to the racial +and psychological warfare with which we are now counter attacking +and intend to wage in the future. +We see the main problem in this fight is not so much the strength +of the enemy - The Jews, niggers and mud races - but the needless +and self-imposed weakness of our own White Racial Comrades in +the willingness (or unwillingness) in defending themselves. +So badly has the White Man's brain become polluted and +scrambled by the enemy's propaganda, that it seems he can't, or +he won't think straight. This is our main problem and it is the target +of our campaign. +We are therefore giving the White Man a creed, a program, +religion he can polarize around. It is a highly aggressive racial +religion based on honor, on pride, and confidence in our own race. +It is a creed that advocates hostility, derision and contempt towards, +and for, our energies. And we do this for good psychological reasons. +When we call niggers what they are, we do so not because we are +uncouth and uneducated, but exactly for the opposite reasons. We +are neither uncouth nor are we uneducated. On the contrary, we take +this approach because on the racial issue especially we are far, far +better educated than the average yokel, who doesn't know the dif-ference between Nature's Finest, and a nigger or an orangutan. We +want to hammer home to the White Race a few facts that all Nature +is fairly screaming at us - and they are these: +1. All men are not equal. On the contrary, there is no equality +in Nature. +2. We, the White Race are at the very top of the Racial spec-trum and the niggers at the very bottom. A huge chasm separates +us - a chasm wider than that separating the niggers from the apes +3. The White Race is unwittingly involved in a racial war of ex-tinction, a war that the enemy is waging savagely and relentlessly, +yet the White Race is almost totally unaware of it. +4. in order to save the White Race from uncontested extinction +we must rally and polarize the White Race, we must clearly delineate +the issues, and clearly identify the enemy. This we have done, over +and over. +5. We also want to emphasize that it is not enough to just iden-tify the enemy, but we must also attack, heap accusations and +charges against the enemy (all of which are true) and condemn, vilify +and heap contempt and derision upon our enemy, just as they are +doing to us. +79

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We must arouse the emotions on our side and bring forth all the +racial instincts with which Nature has endowed us if we are to sur-vive. And we mean for the White Race to survive, at all costs. No +price is too high, no road too long. +6. We realize this war involves all aspect, all resources - racial, +psychological, economic, physical, mental and above all, a war of +semantics, It is the psychological and semantic war that we are par-ticularly focusing on in this examination, and in this respect cliches, +slogans and catch-words are of particular importance, as the Jews +have amply demonstrated over the centuries. +Just as in George Orwell's 1984 the Establishment was surrep-titiously phasing out certain words, memories and events "down the +memory hole", so, too, the Jewish powerhouse is now turning our +language and our thinking around and phasing out all that which +would preserve the White Man's heritage and identity. To illustrate +how well he has succeeded in the short period of less than one genera-tion let us look at the Big Webster's Dictionary. +I have three books around. One Webster's Third New interna-tional Dictionary (Unabridged) 1961. The other two are New +Webster's Dictionary of the English language 1981. +In the last two (1981) the word "nigger" does not even appear. +In the 1961 Edition there are seventeen different entries of which the +word nigger is either the basic word or the stem of a word or a phrase. +They are as follows: nigger, nigger baby(either of two herbs: a sani-cle (Sanicula bipinnatifida) with purple flowers: a blue-eyed grass +(Sisyrinchium bellum) with purplish blue flowers.), nigger bug (Negro +bug.), niggerchaser (a small firework that shoots about on the +ground.), nigger daisy (a black-eyed Susan.), niggerfish, niggerhead +cactus, nigger heaven (the highest balcony or row of seats in a +theatre.), niggergoose, nigger in the woodpile something (as a con-cealed or obscure factor) contrary to appearances in a situation.), +nigger pine, nigger shooter (slingshot.), niggertoe (brazil nut.),nig-genweed, niggerwool. +This demonstrates how in a short period of 20 years they have +phased out "down the memory hole" of our language a major racial +distinction that is vital to the survival of the White Race. +Just think of it! if our White ancestors had not had racial pride, +recognized racial identity and practiced racial loyalty and racial +segregation you and I would now be a miserable mulatto as the Jew +is viciously determined our future progeny shall be. +For the above reasons it behooves us to use such terms of deri-sion as niggers and mud races to distinguish them from Nature's +Finest. Just to bring these words back into common usage by our +White Racial Comrades is already a big step forward in fortifying +our own ranks, polarizing the White Race and identifying the enemy.

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We recommend that this consistently be done among our own +members and all White Racial Comrades in general. +in this respect we find that although at this time our own +membership is still relatively small (but growing) we are having +widespread ripple effects, and much of our verbiage, such as the +usage of the words "niggers", "mud races" are beginning to creep +into general usage in papers, magazines and literature of other White +Racial groups. So are such phrases as "spooks-in-the-sky", the "cut, +burn and poison" reference in cancer treatments, and several other +distinctive words and phrases brought into play by the Church Of +The Creator. +So take heart. What we are doing is not happenstance. It is +planned, it is deliberate, and it is effective. Not only are we growing +but we are influencing and setting the pace of the whole White racial +movement. Remember, Rome was not built in a day, and neither +was the Jewish-Christian movement. Remember, we are planning +for eternity, not just the day after tomorrow, and the foundations you +are helping to lay are both short term and long term. +So get with it. Join our racial religious movement and get in-volved. Distribute 100 copies of this periodical each month. +Remember the future - your own and that of your progeny depends +on the success of what we are now doing - the success of the +Creativity movement. To say that this success will mean so much +to so many is a gross understatement. Help build a Whiter and +Brighter World - a world in which the mud races can no longer be +a threat, any more than the Indians of today are in the state of +Oregon.

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It is our unswerving goal to place 10 million +White Man's Bibles in the hands of our White +Racial Comrades. Once we have accomplished +that much the war against the Jews, niggers and +mud peoples will be as good as over, and it will +be the best bargain the White Race will ever have +invested in. Help bring it about! Do your part.

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Odinism: A Rising Phoenix

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or a Dead Horse? +Foreword: For the last decade or so Mr. Dietz has published the +Liberty Bell Magazine, which is pro-Nazi, pro-White, Anti-Christian +and anti-Jewish. In the last several years Mr. Dietz, the Editor, has +also published any number of articles taken directly out of the +chapters of Nature's Eternal Religion and The White Man's Bible, +with our permission and approval. A few issues ago Mr. Ronald S. +Hand published a letter which ended with the fervent hope there be +fewer identity Christians and more Odinists. If so, we would stand +a better chance of wresting our destiny from the hands of the Jews. +He concluded his letter with the offer that he would be glad to answer +any questions. +Rev. Carles C. Messick III, Hasta Primus of The Church Of The +Creator took note of this letter and wondered why. Mr. Hand was +really so interested in overcoming the Jews, he completely ignored +CREATIVITY which is soley dedicated to breaking the Jewish +stranglehold and wresting the White Man's destiny back in his own +hands. The following correspondence ensued, the, first two letters +of which Mr. Dietz published in Liberty Bell, but the third one he +refused. It is because Mr. Dietz refused to print that third letter that +we are now publishing all three letters in this forum. +Rev. Messick had been a long time subscriber to the Liberty Bell +before he discovered the Church Of The Creator. He then joined the +Creativity movement because he was convinced that Creativity had +the answer, the TOTAL ANSWER. +First of all, here is Rev. Messick as letter was published in the Liber-ty Bell:

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This letter is in response to that of Ronald S. Hand, Odinist, +which appeared in the May issue of "Liberty Bell," Whereas I have +little criticism of what Mr. Hand says, it is what he doesn't say that +is somewhat disturbing. In the last paragraph he comes to the con-cluslon that "if we had in America 'Odinists' instead of Identity Chri-tians we would stand a much better chance of wresting our destiny +from the hands of the Jews." +With this, too, I do not disagree, but he seems to completely +ignore a racial religious movement, CREATIVITY, that is well known +to the readers of "Liberty Bell," a religious movement that is solely +dedicated to the survival, expansion, and advancement of the White

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Race. It is a religion of this era, not a moldy relic from the past. It +is already doing just what Mr. Hand claims he desires to see happen +- wrest the destiny of the White Race from the hands of the Jews +and into the capable hands of the White Race itself. +Mr. Hand adds that he will answer questions. Here are a few +vital questions to which I would like to have a few reasonable +answers. +1. After all the articles Mr. Dietz has published In "Liberty Bell" +that came directly out of the pages of "Nature's Eternal Religion" +and "The White Man's Bible," the basic books of the Creativity move-ment, surely Mr. Hand must have heard of it? +2. Since Odinism failed to hold it's own against the treachery +and the cunning of the wily Jew a thousand years ago when the Vik-ings were the fiercest and the most feared warriors in Europe, what +makes Mr. Hand think that today Odinism, when it has been a dead +horse for a millennium, can now turn the tables? +3. Isn't Odinism merely trading one set of spooks, namely the +Norse gods, for another set of spooks, namely the Jewish passel, +and can any intelligent and educated man in the 20th century really +believe in either without insulting his own Intelligence? +4. True, the Odinist gods are at least our own brand of fantasies, +but since they do not have (and never had) any defense or understan-ding of the insidious Jewish perfidy, how can you expect them to be +a solution to anything? +5. Why does Mr. Hand deliberately choose to ignore CREATIVI-TY when it has a comprehensive racial creed, program, and religion, +that is geared to the eternal realities of Nature, to the 20th century, +to exposing the Jewish fraud that is Christianity, and to blasting the +Jewish menace from the face of the earth? Just how serious is Mr. +Hand or any other White Racist group in dealing the most effective +blow against the Jews and mud races? +It would seem to me that we would do much better to forget our +own small fragmented individual hubris and combine forces to build +a mighty White Racial Movement under the only aegis that has a +chance of success, namely the CREATIVITY movement. It is the only +White racial religion in the White Man's history that was designed +to exactly do the job that now overwhelmingly needs to be done if +the White Race is to survive. +I am not attempting to insult or demean any White Racist, but +only to point out the obvious lessons of the past. We need something +that has a better than average chance to succeed. If something fail-ed us in the past there is a good chance that it will do so again. +We do not need to play games with such weak and meaningless +props as the existence or nonexistence of Atlantis, nor Norse gods, +nor Mother Goose tales in order to forge a powerful racial religion.

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Nature Is very real and says it all, but some of us are not paying at-tention. "Creativity" is based on and embodies the Eternal Laws of +Nature for the survival, expansion and advancement of our own kind +- Nature's Finest - The White Race. All we have to do is stop play-ing games of fantasy and get back to using the good sense with which +Nature endowed us. +I fooled around with several White Racialist groups - Posse +Comitatus, Euro-American Alliance, Aryan Nations, etc. - most +were hung up on Christ being our only hope and were really ineffec-tual. They have been around for years and practically accomplished +nothing except to get themselves killed or jailed without dealing an +effective blow at any Jew. Once I realized the absurdities of spooky +religions "CREATIVITY" became the only logical answer. I am, +myself, as the Hasta Primus for the Church of the Creator, ac-complishing more now than ever I could hope to do in a hundred +years of practicing spookcraft with whatever religion. I am serious +as hell about ridding the world of the Jewish menace. +I don't play games anymore.

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Rev. Carles C. Messick III +Hasta Primus for the +Church of the Creator

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Before publishing Rev. Messick's letter, Mr. Dietz, however, first +sent a copy of that letter to Mr. Hand so that he could prepare a +rebuttal to it, which he did. Mr. Dietz then published both letters +consecutively in the same issue. Here is Mr. Hand's letter:

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Dear Rev. Messick: +Thank you for your letter of 7 June, 1984. +I am glad that you have opened to me a door to opportunity to +answer some vital questions concerning "The Church of the Creator." +Yes, I am aware of "Creativity," and have read most of "The White +Man's Bible," and "Nature's Eternal Religion " I find in both a cer-tain evangelical concern for enlightening White people about the sub-tle insinuations of Judaeo-Christanity, and a style of logic which is +convincing and intellectually spicy. However, I did not find in +"Creativity a religion which offered any real compelling reasons why +I should become a part of it. My reasons are as follows: +"Creativity" is after all, a modern innovation which attempts +to meet certain needs of the Aryan community in its juxtaposed an-tagonism to Judaism and Communism. With this I feel comfortable. +But, at several points I am made to sense a kind of lostness in it. +Let me call it an alienation. I refer to the chapters on "Salubrious

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Living," for not too long after I was reading about dietary regulations +I came to the conclusion that I would have to part company with +my charcoal grill and barbeque pit. I am, after all, not a vegetarian +as was Adolf Hitler. Furthermore, I don't think that an Aryan counter-part to Leviticus chapter 11 is of central importance to the survival, +expansion and advancement of White people. Yet the gist of +"Salubrious Living" was tilted heavily in favor of vegetarianism and +Hinduism. "Where's the Beef" If White people came to embrace this +practice generally, then I suspect that Steven Spielberg will send in-diana Jones to rescue the Jews from the newly passed Nuremberg +Laws which forbid Jews to eat mutton or gefillte fish. I'm being +facetious of course. +Nevertheless, there is another one or two objections. How often +I have thought about "Creativity," "what God is revered, or worship-ped?" And all I could find out was that "White people", who are the +"building race," are the creators. Do White people then worship +themselves collectively? I hate to say this, but there are some White +people that I regard as Untermenschen, race traitors, scum and +worse. So, a Carte Blanche approval of White people is both naive +and false insofar as the interests is concerned. One reason for Jewish +triumph is not Jewish genius, but Gentile stupidity and lack of +backbone. And if this statement is true, then the single greatest task +we have before us is not a negative program of indicting Jews, but +of examining ourselves to discover foibles, weaknesses, excesses, in-dulgences, grossness, callousness,insensitiveness (to certain things) +casualness, foolishness, etc., which have become the bane of our +survival. So, why or how can we even talk of expansion and advance-ment of White people when their very survival is In question? You +see, there have been too many White suckers in the last two thou-sand years who took the Jewish bait, to land all the blame on the +Jews. We need to start looking at ourselves, too. Why and how did +we let It happen? So you see, I doubt the present "capability" of the +White Race to govern and rule the world in its present dilemma. The +White Race needs to be purged, disciplined, and nurtured back to +health before any of our leaders will be able to grasp the helm of +our destiny with confidence and certainty. +And now in my own defense. +Neo-Odinlsm is not a naive acceptance of ancient Nordic Gods. +It is rather a personal quest, a search for Life's meaning, as can be +sifted out of our own religious past as It is understood through a +demythologized and psychologically researched examination of that +religion. My Paganism is new, but it is based upon the few extant +runes which have become to me a bible for my race. Modern +historionomy, philology, etymology, literary criticism, and study of +comparative religions can make possible some very enlightening

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discoveries of the White psyche, when applied to our knowledge of +our racial and natural Gods. For our Gods are not unlike ourselves. +As Jehovah is nought but a big Jew in the sky, so Thor, Odin, Tyr, +and Freya are nought but big Aryans in the sky. By studying them, +we are studying ourselves. Thus, self-knowledge becomes a way to +health and a remedy to our bibles. +Odinism, unlike "Creativity," can say "we do believe in God." +But what God? Fimbulvetr is here, the Gotterdaemmerung is now. +And the Norse eddas, sagas, and epics have told us that the old Gods +who ruled so long would die. But in the process, the wolf Fenrir will +also die, and the great Serpent (Judaism) shall be slain. Baldur will +be released from Hel, and Heimdall shall prepare a new age with +new Gods. Ragnarok is now passing, and new things are in the mak-ing. Are we to be many Baldurs and Heimdalls, who will squeeze +through the fjords and crevasses of time to reach the other side of +the great catastrophe? We shall see! +In the meantime, "Creativity" will have accomplished its task +of confronting Judaeo-Christianity with its own absurdities. "Creativi-ty," to be sure, is not detrimental to White racism. But, neither is +Odinism. Both have specialized tasks to perform and both work on +different kinds of problems. The strength of Creativity is its poignant +factualism, its matter-of-factness, its loquacious logic, and its sty-mying criticism. Its weakness is its coldness and emotional dryness. +It doesn't go to our own soul, to answer our heart's cry. It remains +heady and cerebral. It provides much light, but doesn't warm our +hearts. On the contrary, the strength of Odinism Is that it is ours. +It came from our gene pool before miscegenation set in. It remains +a record of poetic wisdom, humor, and truth, containing both tragedy +and comedy, loyalty and treachery, heroism and cowardice. We can +read epic stories of our ancestors instead of Jewish ones, i.e., the +Bible. Also, we can read about our past, the now-alien, pre-Chistain +culture, or when Semitic religion was still kept at the periphery of +Nordic borders.. +On the other hand, Odinism has weaknesses, as you pointed +out. But these are not insurmountable. The fact that several thou-sand neo-Odinists can be counted shows that it is no "dead horse," +but a rising phoenix. Perhaps what is needed in both Creativity and +Odinism is a thoroughgoing eclectic theology which can better +ground our ideas in an eternal constancy, and consistency. +In any case, Odinism has this edge over non-religion: It allows +for afterlife, continuous life, or reincarnation, or combination of the +two. Odin was, among other things, God of the dead, especially war-riors. Thus Odinism becomes an affirmation of the continuity and +stability of existence, however you wish to explain it. Odinism allows +us to speak of God in very general terms also; in fact, the High God

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is still unknown. The High God is spoken of as though the Aesir Gods +are much inferior to it. The High God is the cosmic force, the stuff +which glues the universe together; the medium of all sympathetic +and intellectual communication, the buffer between the antagonistic +forces and rivalries. The High God cannot be named, for to do so +would denigrate him to lower status by means of limitation and +mislabeling. The High God remains aloof because of his presences +everywhere, and he also remains aloof because of his immediate +presence in the lowest of matter. His highest or greatest manifesta-tion is when he is active in the process of evolution, i.e., the act of +surpassing himself. The greatest experience we can have of the High +God is when we participate in the evolutionary process by intent +(eugenics, cultivation, organization) and communicate in circles of +concentrated intelligence by cooperation. Persons who accumulate +both historical and technological knowledge may unconsciously be +serving the purposes of the High mind, and may be affecting the +historico-evolutionary process. Mental ability, or capacity in itself +is not indicative of any special blessing of the Super Intelligence of +Universe. This is a more genetic combination. But, when mental +energies are aimed at improving, correcting, adjusting or perfecting +the already good, then we may say that the evolutionary process is +still at work. And, by way of extension, we may suppose the subtle +activity of infinite intelligence joined to good will. +This notion of an almost pantheistic God is hard for many peo-ple to swallow. But, any sympathy man may have for Nature must +be grounded in an earthly, naturalistic type of God. Any man's con-cern for the future of his race and family is bound up with his +for his personal survival after death, and eventual reunion with his +Comrades. +On the other hand, Communism and nihilism, which are based +on mere biology and sociology, cannot lead people to long term hopes +and plans. Neither can capitalistic materialism promise anything of +lasting quality. Adherents of the two materialistic cults just mentioned +can have only a "ball-game" attitude toward racial cohesiveness. If +a man's life ends with biological disintegration, then it would be futile, +unnecessary, and wasteful to try to improve. perfect, adjust, of cor-rect anything that did not serve an immediate materialistic purpose. +So we need a spook, but not Jewish hell fire and brimstone. We +need the "Awe," the "Mystique," the "wonderful," and the "elusive," +if for no other reason than to make us probe further, to discover, +to uncover. +Sincerely. +Ronald S. Hand +Odinist Church of God

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Your Editor then took note of Mr. Hand's letter and decided that +a number of Mr. Hand's statements about both Odinism and Creativi-ty are grossly native and incorrect. He sent the following letter to +the Liberty Bell, but Mr. Dietz refused to print it. Here is the full text +of my letter:

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Dear Mr: Dietz: +In the July issue of LIBERTY BELL, Mr. Ronald S. Hand, in +answer to Rev. Carles C. Messick's letter of the same issue, makes +a broadside attack on CREATIVITY, The White Racial religion of +the Church Of The Creator. Since I am the founder of this church, +I believe I have a vested interest in answering these charges. In so +doing I almost feel like a mosquito in a nudist colony, I hardly know +where to begin. Since Mr. Hand makes so many ridiculous +statements, he leaves himself wide open, and all I can say is - he +asked for it. +In his attack, Mr. Hand uses (among others) two sleazy tactics +at which Jews and Christians are especially adept: (a) he +misrepresents our position and then attacks that false position (b) +he attempts to discredit us through guilt by association and links +us with reprehensible entities such as the Jews and the Hindus, when +we have absolutely nothing In common with them. +So let us start with our position regarding Salubrious Living +which is spelled out in considerable detail in our classic text of the +same name and embodied in its 244 pages. I am sure that Mr. Hand +has never read It, since he seems completely ignorant of its contents +In the first place we are not vegetarians as Mr. Hand seems to think, +but frugitarians, a considerable difference. If Mr. Hand does not +understand that difference he is invited to educate himself at leisure +by reading the book. I don't have the space to do so here. He will +probably also find out that meat is suitable food for dogs and other +carnivores, but highly unsuitable for humans. He might even find +out that charcoal broiled meat is carcinogenous (cancer causing) and +after he gets his facts straight, might even want to dispose of his +much prized charcoal broiler that he hates so to give up. +The facts are that the wealth of advice given in Salubrious Liv-ing for living a healthier, happier and longer life is based on solid +scientific facts, and has nothing to do with the primitive superstitious +hocus-pocus of Hindus or the Jewish Leviticus with which Mr.Hand +so surreptitiously seeks to associate us. +Furthermore, proper diet is only one of the 14 cardinal points +that we list in "Salubrious Living" (See Page 9) for creating our +desired goal of a SOUND MIND in a SOUND BODY in a SOUND +SOCIETY In a SOUND ENVIRONMENT.

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Does Mr. Hand object to such goals? If so, that is mighty +strange, since in his letter he roundly denounces and insults the White +Race in scathing terms, such as, quote: "Untermenschen, race +traitors, scum and worse " When we Creators have a well-planned, +thoroughgoing program to upgrade the health, eugenics, and en-vironment of our White Racial Comrades, he stupidly denounces that +too, because, to his own detriment, he is totally Ignorant of what +we are talking about in Salubrious Living. +One final point and that is this: We do not INSIST that anyone +HAS to follow the beneficial guidelines laid down, even to be a +member of the church. We do not twist anyone's arm. We offer a +set of constructive, scientifically proven guidelines for anyone to follow +in order to live a healthier, happier and longer life. Whether they +do so is each individuals own choice, but, again for the benefit of +a better race and a Whiter and Brighter World, we hope that every +White Man, woman and child will learn to practice a lifestyle that +is far superior to the drug and Junk food Infested world of today. +So much for Salubrious LIving, which although extremely im-portant, is not the main thrust of our religious program, and was +not even mentioned In "Nature's Eternal Religion; our first corner +stone. Let us get down to the "spooky" business in which Mr. Hand +seems to take such primitive delight. He says in Odinism "we do +believe in God." He then immediately trips himself up and says, "But +what God?" He is not sure. He then lists such absurdities as Thor, +Odin, Tyr and Freya, all of which are presumably dead, and resting +somewhere In Lower Slobbovia. Then there are the Baldurs and the +Heimdalls sneaking around the fiords (somewhere) and oozing out +of, and squeezing through the crevasses (somewhere). Supposedly, +somehow, somewhere, they will finally come to our rescue. Big deal! +But we Creators are not holding our breath waiting for such nonsense +to materialize. How any rational, grown man can believe In, and spout +such ridiculous nonsense is beyond me. +But, Mr. Hand says, we have to worship something, and why +not spooks, they're good for us, we need them. Well, we Creators +don't need any such idiotic and artificial props. If you need them, +Mr. Hand, you had better see your Jewish psychiatrist. He will con-fuse you even more, and make you like it In the process. +Speaking of worship, Mr. Hand asks categorically: What God +do we Creators worship? He then goes on to accuse us of worshipp-ing our own White Race, which he next proceeds to roundly de-nounce abuse and insult as viciously as would any Jew or nigger. +I therefore want to set Mr. Hand straight on two points. (a) We +Creators do not "Worship" anything, not even the White Race, as +he implies, and (b) To us the whole idea of "worship" is stupid, +ridiculous and demeaning. It implies that the "worshipper" willfully

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places himself in an extremely inferior position in relation to some +stupid abstract "Quantity X" that he or she has set up to worship. +This may be something as ridiculous as a cow, a cat, a spookie, or +a hot rock. He or she then proceeds to Jabber some meaningless, +yes, Insane praise at said inanimate or imaginary object, in order +to completely humiliate himself or herself. To us the whole idea is +primitive, repugnant and reflects a throwback to our primitive and +barbaric Stone Age ancestors. So when someone asks us - "If you +don't worship God, what do you worship?", it reminds us of the pa-tient in the doctors' clinic, who when told that a cancerous tumor +would have to be cut out, asked, "But doctor, what are you going +to replace it with?" No, Mr. Hand, we don't need spooks or anything +else to worship, nor do we need a pacifier to suck on, either. You +can have the whole messy passel, gratis and wholesale. +We now come to the Odinist admission that, well yeah, we ad-mit all this Norse mythology is hocus-pocus, but at least it is White, +not Jewish hocus-pocus. Big deal! If we must deal In hokum at all, +why not pick a higher grade of hocus-pocus, when the White Race +has such an excellent selection to choose from? The Vikings were +neither the first nor the best in that category. If I were to indulge +in playing games with White spooks, why, I would choose the Greek +or the Roman gods ten to one over the Viking's. Their stories are +much richer in classic lore, mystique, wealth of characters and any +other critique that may tickle your fancy. Compared to them, the +Vikings were crude, brutish and bordering on the dense. In fact, on +the intellectual level the Vikings were on a similar level to Hagar the +Horrible as portrayed in the Sunday comics. They were, in fact, il-literate, and most of the Norse Myths the Odinists bandy about to-day are only through the gratuity of being preserved in Christian +writings. The Vikings, in turn, slaughtered the Christians wholesale, +but in the end the latter conquered the Vikings by the insidious ap-plication of their Jewish B-bomb (brain bomb). So what we have of +all this Odinist hocus-pocus today is really only a more or less Chris-tian recording or residue, and who needs more primitive hocus-pocus +Mr. Hand claims the Odinists are not a "dead horse", nor a relic +from a primitive past, but a "rising phoenix", because, see, we have +several thousand already yet. Well, if he wants to play the numbers +game, I am not impressed. It is no substitute for quality. "Where is +the beef?" indeed, (his quote). There are any number of cults, religions +and insanities that have far larger numbers than "several thousand". +The Moonies have millions, Jehovah's Witnesses number in the +millions, the Moslems number in the hundreds of millions, and the +Christians claim to embrace 750 million "souls". So what are a paltry +few thousand in comparison? And anyway, with all those billion of +believers in the old spooks in the sky swindle, the bottom line still

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is that the world is in one hell of a mess, is rapidly screeching towards +a traumatic cataclysm, is still in the hands of treacherous Jews, and +Odin, Wodin. Blynken and Nod will do damn little, if anything, to +save us. I would rather be a minority of one who was set on the right +course than be a polyglot part of a multi-million member cult that +had its thinking all screwed up. +We need something much more realistic, tough, well planned, +thoroughgoing and comprehensive than a rehash of a few primitive +and warmed up myths to do the job. In Creativity we have the whole +ball of wax. Just as Adolf Hitler found it necessary to chuck over-board all the old political parties In Germany because they were in-adequate to do the job, and devise a completely new philosophy and +political party to cope with a major catastrophe, so too, we Creators +find it necessary to devise a completely new philosophy and religion +for the total White Race of the Planet Earth. In so doing, instead +of rummaging around in the debris and garbage heap of old dead +religions of the past, we instead go to the greatest teacher of them +all - Mother Nature. Her laws are eternal, they are real, they have +the innate wisdom of the eons embodied In them. There is our source, +and there is our answer. +If Mr. Hand finds that being natural, logical, realistic, organiz-ed and deliberate leaves him "cold" and without purpose, I again +suggest that he see his Jewish psychiatrist to confuse him further. +Evidently there are some maladjusted people In this world, in fact, +millions of them, who are so hopelessly confused that they cannot +face reality in a disintegrating world. So they seek an escape +mechanism of some kind. Some resort to alcohol, some to hard +drugs, some to the spooks in the sky fantasy. But it is no solution, +and reality will have to be faced and problems have to be solved. +To try to escape them with all these trick escape mechanisms does +not solve them but makes the situation only more disastrous and the +end of the line for such "escape" artists is usually similar to that of +a John Belushi, or a David Kennedy. +We Creators do not seek to hide our heads in the sand, or on +cloud nine in the sky. We are problem solvers and we have answers, +meaningful, comprehensive and realistic answers. Just as Adolf Hitler +sought to unite the Whole German nation under one political party, +so we Creators seek to unite the total White Race and the White Race +alone. Just as Hitler succeeded in uniting all the Germans under Na-tional Socialism, so we Creators believe (yes we DO have faith!) that +we can and will unite the present 500 million White peoples on the +face of the earth into one powerful, solid battering ram that will crush +and demolish the narcotic poison of Judaism. We believe it because +it is the only way for the White Race to go, and once the White Race +is united there is no power on the face of the earth that will ever again

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be in a position to threaten its existence or survival. +At this point I would like to make a highly encouraging and op-timistic observation. The White racial movement in America has now +advanced far enough to win over and smash the Jewish establish-ment. It could do it now in 1984, if the different factions would unite +and polarize under the banner of the Church Of The Creator, the +most comprehensive thoroughgoing, effective weapon it has to work +with. Standing in the way is the hubris (overweening ego) of the +leaders of the individual groups. They take the position that "if I didn't +think of it first, I'm going to torpedo it, and to hell with the White +race", and I think Odinism is a prime example. But think of it! We +could win now! Forget about wet-nursing your private little hubris! +It we lose nobody will remember you anyway. But If we win, what +a glorious White, bright world this would be. Yes, the White Man +knows how to govern the world, Mr. Hand, contrary to what you +claim in your desultory appraisal of the White Race. The Romans +already did so beautifully 2000 years ago, and Pax Romana with its +200 years of peace and prosperity was undoubtedly the finest epoch +in the White Man's history. It lasted until Jewish Christianity came +along and infected the White Man's mind with a running sore that +has persisted to this day. +But we Creators are not nearly as much interested in that +White Race "govern" the world, as that the White Race POSSESS +IT IN TOTAL. In an increasingly contaminated, poisoned, and +polluted world of exploding mud races, we are now at a point of no +return. Either the White Race inhabits it all and exclusively or it will +be crushed, stifled and exterminated. It is now all or nothing, and +we Creators want to make damn sure it is the White Race that sur-vives. Succinctly, it is only the White Race that can reverse the avalan-che, clean up the planet again and build a world worth living in. +But our program does not stop there. Through our program of +Eugenic up-breeding we mean to advance the quality of life, health +and happiness to levels never before even dreamed of by the Greeks +and Romans, much less the brutish Vikings. +We further believe there is no real problem accomplishing this +lofty goal as far as the Jews and the mud races are concerned. The +real obstacle is the confused and cluttered thinking of the White Race +itself, and the most pervasive clutter of all Is the spooks in the sky. +obsession that contaminates the minds of so many of the White Race. +We do not And that our lofty goal of uniting the White Race in +a powerful White racial religion as either "cold" or without purpose, +as Mr. Hand seems to. (In fact, he reminds me of the nigger who +said, "Boss, even if it's good, I don't like it.") We find the challenge +exciting, exhilarating and the most intelligent and meaningful ever

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proposed in any religion, creed or philosophy. It sure beats the hell +out of chasing non-existent spooks, be they Roman, Viking or Jewish. +Our members feel the same way. They are excited, filled with +hope, determination and purpose now that they have a meaningful, +constructive goal in life. Let me quote to you just a small part of a +four page letter I received just last week. It begins with...."Dear In-spirational...." and here are a few excerpts: "I have sworn an oath +and have dedicated my entire being, heart and mind and what years +of my life remaining to just those ends...." Referring to our basic +books: "For it IS my Bible, it IS my belief and although you, sir, +are the author, its every utterance reverberates throughout my very +being as if it were I whose pen raced across the paper for fear of los-ing a word." There is more. You can read the full letter in the +September issue of Racial Loyalty. We have thousands of other let-ters in our file that reflect similar emotions and sentiments. Cold, +Mr. Hand? If you need a spook to keep you warm I again suggest +you go see your Jewish psychiatrist, or are you perhaps yourself part +of the confusion creating apparatus that is inherent in the tribe of +the Hidden Hand? I hope not. +In conclusion I say to Mr. Hand and all our good White Racial +Comrades - don't knock us, but Instead, join with us. We are the +best friend you have in a confused, crumbling and disintegrating +world. For a Whiter and Brighter World, +Creatively yours, +Ben Klassen +Pondifex Maximus +Church Of The Creator

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Conclusion: In his Editorial Policy on the Inside cover of Liberty +Bell Magazine Mr. George Dietz, the editor, states categorically the +following noble words: +"Freedom of Speech - Freedom of Thought - Freedom +of Expression." +The editor-publisher of Liberty Bell does not necessarily agree +with each and every article in this magazine, nor does he subscribe +to all conclusions arrived at by various writers; however, he does +endeavor to permit the exposure of ideas suppressed by the controll-ed news media of this country. +"It is, therefore, in the best tradition of America and of free men +everywhere that liberty Bell strives to give free reign to ideas, for +Ultimately it is ideas which rule the world and determine both the +content and structure of culture...... No effort will be spared and no +idea will be allowed to go unexpressed if we think it will benefit the

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Thinking People, not only of America, but the entire world." +George P. Dietz, Editor & Publisher. +In the past Mr. Dietz has fairly well followed this policy. When +several years ago he saw the light about the gigantic fraud Jewish +Christianity had perpetrated on the White Race he fearlessly came +out and said so, despite the vituperative backslash from the misguid-ed fanatics. +He, too, after much soul searching came to the conclusion the +Church Of The Creator had been preaching for years, namely, that +the spooks in the sky swindle spelled the death knell of the White +Race. +It is therefore extraordinarily strange that Mr. Dietz has turned +to and embraced another, on ersatz spooks-in-the-sky swindle, name-ly, Odinism. The cop-out that - well, at least the spooks are White +is really a poor excuse. It is still a hoax, an escape mechanism, a +child's game. One thing we do not need at this critical stage in the +fight for the survival of the White Race is another cop-out. another +childish game to divert us when we should and must come to grips +with stark reality and do battle with a ruthless enemy. We do not +need more meaningless splinter groups to go off on pointless tangents. +The last thing we need is to dredge up ancient failures from the scrap +heap of history and substitute such nonsense for a comprehensive, +meaningful creed and program. We have to make up our cotton-picking minds on what is best and polarize into one solid battering +ram. +Mr. Dietz admitted to me that in Creativity "We have the whole +ball of wax." He also admitted that reading Nature's Eternal Religion +and a few years of contemplative thinking straightened out his former +confusion about Christianity. +In the light of the above, it is hard to understand why, after see-ing the whole picture, Mr. Dietz would now backslide from one set +of spooks to another such piece of nonsense. When Hitler tackled +the Jewish-Marxist mess in post-war Germany he did not dredge up +some ancient political party that was a relic and failure from the past +but instead constructed a completely new, hard hitting political creed +and program that fitted the needs of the times and with it he did the +job that needed to be done. We now need a creed, a philosophy and +a program that meets the exigency of the sorry mess the White Race +is in today, on a total global basis. CREATIVITY has it. It has the +whole ball of wax. Why then revert to past failures and indulge in +silly childish games? In CREATIVITY we have the Total Program, +the Final Solution, the Ultimate Creed. Why try to ignore or sup-press it? If you are really more interested in saving the White Race +than nurturing your own private and transient little hubris why not +latch on to and promote the real solution and help build a Whiter

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It is now the official religion and policy of the +U.S. government to push race mixing at all cost, +and mongrelize the White Race into oblivion.

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Issue No. 19, December 1984

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For the White Race, Jewish democracy has +been an Unmitigated Disester.

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The Era of Political +Parties is over

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With the Reagan landslide the U.S. is rapidly mov-ing towards a tyrannical one party Jewish dictatorship +aimed at the destruction of the White Race. Conventional +Politics are no longer the answer. To be effective the White +Race must use other means.

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One of the most effective stratagems the Jews have developed +over the millenniums for controlling the goyim is the Divide and Con-quer technique. This they have done brilliantly and honed to a fine +edge. They utilize it in a thousand different areas of endeavor, among +which religion, race and politics are only a few of the major +categories.

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The main target and the Jews most dangerous enemy is without +a doubt the White Race, although only the Jew is aware of this. Con-versely, the White Man, who may be brilliant in many field, is +strangely, also the Jews most gullible and cooperative victim. When +it comes to the issues of race and religion, the White Man is un-doubtedly one of the dumbest creatures on the face of the earth +the Jew has capitalized handily on this White Man's Achilles' heel. +In this dissertation we want to examine the issue of potitics and how +the Jew has utilized the technique of Divide and Conquer to +neutralize, subdue, and manipulate the White Race, not only in +America, but throughout the world.

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The key word in this deadly game of confuse, divide, manipulate +and conquer is DEMOCRACY. Whereas our Founding Fathers were +not astute enough to excrete the Jew from our political system and +our society (Benjamin Franklin tried. See P. 260 of Nat. Etern. rel +they were intelligent enough to know that every "democracy" had +In It the seeds of its own self-destruction. They tried to set up a +Republic, which in essence really differs very little from a democracy. +Both cater to the lowest elements of a free-loading political electorate, +until the parasites and the free-loaders are eventually the masters +of an ever shrinking productive segment of the population. The end +rest is the destruction of the producers and the breakdown of the

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political and social structure. Chaos, race-mixing and crime mount +inneasingly as the social fabric disintegrates. In the final breakdown, +unfortunately, the best elements of our race do not necessarily sur-vive. In fact, history teaches us just the opposite. As In Mexico, as +in San Domingo (Haiti), as In Rhodeia (Zimbabwe), the scum, the +niggers, the mulattoes survive as the Whites retreat. But in all cases +the Jew stage manages, manipulates and controls the show from the +beginning to the end.

+ +

How does the Jew himself manage to survive throughout all this +disintegration and chaos? What technique does he use in politics in +particular to manipulate and take control?

+ +

These are two separate questions that are inextricably interwoven +and I will try to deal with them separately.

+ +

First of all the jew manages to survive and stay on top because +he has a powerful RACIAL RELIGION, Judaism, to polarize +around. It is this pole star that has been the guide and mainstay +with which he has been able to unite his mongrelized race and his +religious cohorts. This is the secret, the bedrock of all his further +conspiracles and manipulations. Without it, as former Israeli Prime +Minister Golda Meir flatly stated, the jews would have been nothing.

+ +

Secondly, the Jews practiced and continue to practice RACIAL +LOYALTY. This they do fervently to the point of fanaticism.

+ +

Thirdly they practice RACIAL TEAMWORK. This is +something the CHURCH OF THE CREATOR has repeatedly been +urging the White Race to do with equal fervor and ingenuity.

+ +

Fourthly they have both short range and long range goals, +all designed for the survival and benefit of the Jewish race.

+ +

There are many other facets to the tenacious cohesiveness of +the Jewish race but the above are the fundamentals, all of which, +now that the White Race has a racial religion of its own, we Creators +strongly advocate the White Race practice with equal dedication.

+ +

Now, addressing the question as to how the Jews continue to +control and manipulate the goyim, the list of tricks, shatagems and +devices the Jews use is endless. They utilize their financial domina-tion, control of the media, religion (both Judaism and Chrisdanity), +government, race and every other means, device and Issue that will +accrue in their benefit. Today, however, in the wake of the re-cent farce we call election, we want to study the Divide and +Conquer technique, how it applies to the White Man's political +demise, and what we must do to overcome it in order that we may +oust the Jew from our society and once again have the White Man +regain control of his own destiny.

+ +

Let us once again look at the Divide and Conquer technique, +which in essence is very simple.

+ +

If you were locked up in a dungeon with two powerful brutes,

+ + + +

and you yourself were a 97 pound weakling, and all of you were hostile +to each other, it would seem that as a comparative inferior your +chances of survival would be slim. If, however you were cunning +enough to whisper incendiary provocations into the ears of the two +brutes, one at a time, about what insults the one had said about the +other, and goad them into a life and death fracas, your chances of +survival might greatly improve. If you egged them on until they beat +each other senseless, then you could easily finish them off separate-ly and without too much effort.

+ +

This is exactly what the Jews have been doing to the White +goyim for centuries. Divide the dumb brutes up into two hostile +camps, incite them to war and let them beat each other senseless. +We fell for this ruse in the Civil War, we did it again in World War +I, again in World War II, to cite a few major examples, although the +list is endless. We can cite the Hundred Years War, or the Thirty +Years War. No maner which we choose, White Men killed other +White Men and each time the parasite reaped a Jewish harvest in +power and monetary gain.

+ +

The same insidous technique is utilized in the field of +political action, which comes under the fraudnlent label of +demonracy. The Jews line up two (or more) political parties, all of +which they control with their financial power and their controlled +press.

+ +

In America in the Twentieth Century the Jews have utlized main-ly two political parties, namely the Republican party and the +Democratic party. Occasionally, they have thrown in a third party, +such as the Bull Moose Party of Teddy Roosevelt which split the +Republican Party, derailed William Howard Taft and slipped in that +Jewish stooge, Woodrow Wilson. With hls election the Jews assured +themselves of ramming through the Federal Reserve chicanery of +1913 and staging the most ghastly war up to that time, World War +I.

+ +

Since then the Jews have utilized the third party ruse a few more +times, such as the American Independent party, the Libertarian par-ty, the Populist Party and a few others, but they have been of minor +import, except to further confuse and spilnter the White voting block, +a block that for all practical purposes hardly exists.

+ +

Now that the Republican Reagan administration has won the +last election by a landslide and the Democratic Party is in shambles, +I foresee a steady but rapid drift towards one party rule similar to +that of Mexico, and finally a hard-core Jewish communist dictator-ship as in Cuba and in Russia. All the while the Jews will be +trumpeting the virtues of democracy and how great Is our freedom +of choice and our freedom of speech. Let us wake up and realize +one thing. Democracy and its multitude of political parties

+ + + +

have not benefited the White Race. On the contrary, democracy +has been a treacherous Jewish tool for the destruction of our +superlative culture and our precious gene pool. Let us not be fooled +any longer. Business as usual, politics as it now exists, is not going +to help save the White Race from its one-way, helter-skelter onrush +to self-destruction. The Republican Party is not going to save us, +neither is the Democratic Party, nor the Libertarian Party, nor the +Populist Party.

+ +

Conventional politics as far as the White Race Is concerned is +now as dead as a dodo, and a hopeless exercise in futility. Not that +we don't want to seize political power. On the contrary, that is our +Number One goal. We Creators have said time and again that none +of the muiltitudinous problems that beset us today will ever be solved +until the White Man again grasps control of his destiny into his own +capable hands. But playing the game of Jewish politics as now con-stituted is not the way to achieve this lofty goal. The day of political +parties is gone forever as far as the White Race is concerned.

+ +

How then do we go about taking over political control of the +government of America in particular, and of our own destiny in the +world in general?

+ +

The answer is loud and clear. The means is building a +worldwide ideologiul movement based on race, the same +means, the miserable, parasidcal jewish minority has so suc-cessfully used for centurlies to gain control of the world. In +total dedication to an ideological movement will The White +Race find its salvation.

+ +

How do we go about formulating such an ideological racial +movement? The answer to that, too, is loud and clear. In CREATIVI-TY we already have it - complete, comprehensive, consis-tent and fully spelled out. It is now every White Man's duty to +promote it to the hilt and convince his White Racial Comrades that +the answer to the White Man's dilemma lies before him - right in +front of his eyes. All he has to do is examine it, embrace it and join +with his White Racial Comrades to expunge the curse of history - +the treacherous Jewish network.

+ +

DELENDA EST JUDAICA! We must destroy the beast that has +been the disastrous plague on the body of the White Race for millen-niums. The means is our own racial religion.

+ +

Strangely, this idea, which is so obviously logical, or should be, +has escaped the White Race since the very beginning of civilization. +It is a powerful idea that must be brought home to the consciousness +of every White Racial Comrade until it becomes an integral part of +our very being. All we need do is look at history to observe the power-ful stimulus of a creed, a religion or an ideology has proved to be +in moving people, events and changing history.

+ + + +

I have already chronicled the powerful instrument Judaism has +proved to be for the benefit and advancement of a miserable +parasitical tribe. I have done so in Nature's Eternal Religion, in the +White Man's Bible and in any number of issues oi Racial Loyalty so +there is hardly a need to again reflect it here. Whereas Judaism is +probably the most outstanding example in demonstradng the power +of a racial religion, we can, nevertheless, quote any number of other +historical examples.

+ +

1. MOHAMMEDANISM +When Mohammed came forth out of the desert in the seventh +century with what was essentially a racial religion, he fired the +Bedouin desert tribes (mostly Arabs) with such fanatic religious zeal +that this loose group of shiftless and lazy mud races soon were +amalgamated into a powerful army of world conquerers. Egypt, Syria, +Asia Minor, North Africa, Spain and Constantinople fell before the +fanatic Moslem onslaught. They pushed on eastward into India and +converted by fanaticism and by the sword.

+ +

At the other end of the crescent, the Mohammedans pushed up-wards from Spain into the very heart of France, where they were stop-ped by Karl Martel (Charles The Hammer) at the Battle of Tours in +732. Had that battle been lost, perhaps all of Europe, then wallow-ing in the Dark Ages, might have succumbed to the Moslem Creed. +It was at a Hme when the White Race was at its lowest and weakest +level.

+ +

2. AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI IN IRAN. +To further demonshate how long lasting, how powerfuI, how +much more significant a religious creed can be than a mere political +party we can take Moslem religion forward into histnry another thir-teen centuries from its founding, and look at its significance in the +Arab world of today.

+ +

When we look at the chaotic mess that is the Arab world of the +1980's we And there is one, and only one, powerful, cohesive force +that binds them all together all that is the Moslem religion. +The Jews have done a powerful number on the Arab states also and +fractured and fragmented them seven ways to Sunday. The Jews have +used the Divide and Conquer technique on them as well as in +trying to set up their parasitical state of Israel.

+ +

But nevertheless, it is the powerful force of the Moslem creed +that binds the Arabs together, and it is this that the Jews fear.

+ +

How powerful this force can be is aptly demonstrated by +Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. When in 1978 The Shah of Iran held +an iron group on that oil rich nation, and one of the most powerful +and ruthless secret police forces at his command, the Ayatollah was +sitting in Paris, a lonely refugee and a political outcast. But the +religious fervor of his Moslem followers welled up day after day in

+ + + +

street demonstration, in rebellion, in sabotage and just woudn't quit +Despite the supposed backing of the United States, we all know what +followed. The Shah was deposed, died as a miserable and unwanted +refugee in a foreign land, and the AyatoIlah emerged as the now vic-torious dictator of Iran, where he still rules with a bloody and tyran-nical hand today.

+ +

In so saying, I am not condoning the Ayatollah, whom I con-sider a political idiot, and vastly more brutal and tyrannical than the +Shah. But what it does demonstrate is the power of a religious move-ment in the political affairs of a country.

+ +

Nor is that all. This same religious-political take over of Iran +has fired up the whole Arab world and inspired the other Moslem +countries to a racial fervor not witnessed for centuries. Their fervor +and hatred is directed not only against Israel, but against all Jews, +and against the White world, and in particular that scape goat for +all White transgressions, the United States of America. In putting +the finger on the United States, the Arabs are not totally in the wrong. +Being at the mercy of its Jewish masters, the United States since +World War II has meddled in the affairs of more countries, caused +more wars, revolutions and problems in the world than any country +in history in a similar short period of time.

+ +

In summary, considering the poor racial material the +Arabs and other racial misfits that embraced Moham-medanism had to work with, this religious creed never-theless has been a most powerful and cohesive force for the +Arabs, far beyond comparison to any mere passing political +party that has emerged in the last 13 centuries of its +existence.

+ +

9. THE BLACK MUSLIMS IN AMERICA. Let me again state +flatly that the nigger in America has no future in our civilized culture, +nor does the nigger have a meaningful future anywhere else in the +world, including Africa. The nigger is inherently dumb, shiftless and +lazy and is one of Nature's most flagrant failures.

+ +

Nevertheless, with the advent of the Black Muslim religion in +America it has worked wonders, considering the miserable material +it has had to work with. Whereas the Black Muslim religion is a mish-mash, a mixed bag, an abortion at best, lamely tring to ape the +Mohammedan religion, it has done much to install black pride (where +there is little to be proud of), a sense of purpose and destiny (going +nowhere) and above all, created an independent cohesion among +hese bastardized animals that poses a highly potential danger to +the White Race. In the racial upheaval that is bound to come within +less than a decade, these black animals will be armed and organiz-ed and will be the spearhead of the black killers the Jews plan to +unleash on an unarmed, disorganized and hapless White Race.

+ + + +

MARK MY WORDS.

+ +

Now I Implore my White Racial Comrades: if these mongreliz-ed black animals can mount an organized threat to the White Race +even though they are inferior in numbers, in intelligence, and in +resources, and can do so with a muddled, haphazard plece of gar-bage that passes for a religion, how much better can the intelligent, +resourceful White Race do with a well thought-out, organized +religious creed and program that is complete, comprehensive and +consistent, and embodies the ultimate racial idea of Nature's Finest? +So why don't we get busy and do the fob that must be done?

+ +

4. I could cite a number of other examples of the power-ful influences a religion, even though half baked, can work on a group +of peoples, races or nations. A few of these other examples are the +mormons, the Moonies, the Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah's +Winesses, the Pentecostals and any number of others. I rould detail +their history, their struggles and the tremendous influence they have +had on their followers, and of the financial empires they have built. +could also cite the considerable power structures they have built. +that could have been directed towards the survival, expansion and +advancement of the White Race. I could do so, but I do not have +the name or the space to do so here. All I can regretfully say is that +as far as benefits to the White Race are concemed most of the money, +resources, energy and goals have been misdirected and wasted on +(a) throwing it all down a bottomless rathole, and (b) glorifying the +ego, and enriching the coffers of its deceitful hierarchy, who are by +and large, nothing more than polished con-artists.

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5. My own Political Experience in trying to work within +the Political Establishment.

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As you probably know, If you have read NATURE'S ETERNAL +RELIGlON (Chapter 22. Part II, "My Own Spiritual Awakening"), +at one Name in the middle 1960's I was naive enough to believe I could +get into politics and do my bit in trying to change the course of events. +soon found out I was wrong.

+ +

In 1966 while still affiliated with the Birch Society. I threw my +hat in the ring and ran for the Florida State Legislature as a +republican, and, against odds, I was elected. When I got to the +regislature in Tallahassee and the power establishment found out +that I would not go along with the chicanery, my own part turned +against me. In a situation not unlike that of Tom Metzger in 1980 +in California. I soon found out that with the Jewish news media +against you, with your own party against you, a sincere candidate, +any candidate in politics, is soon on the outside looking in.

+ +

In short order in 1967 the Supreme Court decided Florida had +to "re-apportion", and had to have new elections all over again. In +the "new" election I opted to run for the Florida Senate and was

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roundly defeated when the Republican Party bosses and the news +media turned hostile against me.

+ +

The biggest (and only) main headline I ever got in my hometown +paper of Pompano Beach was "KLASSEN DEFEATED". It was the +main, big biack headline on the hont page the day aher the elec-tion. To my credit, I must add that tn my own precinct in Lighthouse +Point where I was personally known, I won overwhelmingly. A small +compensation.

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The positive outcome of all this was that I learned one hard and +irrevocable lesson-you cannot hope to win by collaborating with, +and working within the Jewish establishment. You cannot overcome +the enemy by playing the game by the enemy's rules. You cannot +expect the enemy to collaborate and throw a few crumbs your way +by collaborating with the enemy. No! The enemy is ruthless and the +battle we are locked into is a matter of life and death!

+ +

I started groping for a new answer - a new means. +Three years later, after several false starts, I had the answer: +a powerful new racial religion for the White Race was needed, and, +indeed, had been needed for millenniums!

+ +

I started putting together the pieces. I started writing NATURE'S +ETERNAL RELIGION.

+ +

Today, fourteen years later, I am convinced that we have the +total answer, the only answer. In Creativity we have the Total +Program, the Final Solution, the Ultimate Creed.

+ +

Hitler has said that there are obvious truths lying around on the +streets and most peopIe pass them by, ignoring them because they +are too dumb to see the obvious. He was referring to the racial issue. +As it was in Hitler's time, so it is in White America today, regarding +not only race, but also religion.

+ +

The Church Of The Creator has come a long way since we +published NATURE'S ETERNAL RELIGION IN 1973. We have for-tified and completed our creed and program with two further basic +books, namely The WHITE MAN'S BIBLE and SALUBRIOUS LIV-ING. We have now established a World Center for our movement +the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. We have launched +our own conveyor belt for spreading the word, namely RACIAL +LOYALTY, our official periodical for our religious movement. We +are building a Scbool for Gifted White Boys, which is now near-comyleted and ready to open next summer. The foundations for +the White racial religion have been laid for the next million years.

+ +

But Rome wasn't built in a day. One of the biggest problems +we have to overcome is the hubris, the jealousies and the +roadblocks thrown in our path by our own White Racial +Comrades, by the multitude ot splinter grounds who at best have +a confused, meaningless and fractured approach to the monumen-

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tal problem that confronts us, but would rather torpedo a meaningful +solution than give up their pointless and eccentric little hangups.

+ +

The biggest problem that confronts us is not overcoming the +Jews, niggers and mud races. The main problem is straightening out +the muddled, confused and suicidal thinking that lies on the brain +of the White Man like a poisonous drug, or like the virus of +encephalitis.

+ +

Like Adolf Hitler did in uniting the German peopIe, it is now the +task of the Church Of The Creator to unite all the White peoples +of the World into one mighty movement - into one powerful batter-ing ram. We can never do so as long as we have 20000 confused, +effective little groups that neither understand the total problem, +nor even profess to have a solution, but by and large, only bitch - +deplore and lament, deplore and lament. Not only is this the extent +of their approach, but when a movement comes along that has a +comprehensive creed, purpose and solution these same little "leaders" +then turn their full invective on such a movement in order to protect +their own little hubris.

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In the meantime, we want to re-emphasize the solution. In +CREATIVITY we have the answer, the total answer, the whole ball +of wax. It is complete, it is comprehensive, it is consistent. It is in +harmony with the Eternal Laws of Nature. It derives its hard earned +conclusions from experience and lessons of history. It is based not +only on Logic and Common Sense (a rare commodity) but also the +inherent stirrings of the White Man's Soul. Why not join with us and +build! build! build! a mighty White racial-religious movement that +can and will steam roller and crush the vicious enemy once and for all.

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We Creators are determined to solve the pro-blem, not just endlessly agonize over it.

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Democracy and Christianity must be replac-ed by the LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLE and by +CREATIVITY.

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We Creators don't straddle issues. We +delineate and resolve them.

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104 + +* * * * * + +Now that 1984 is almost past, RESOLVE +that as a White Man you will never again be a +slave to Jewish Christianity or the Jewish tax +collector.

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Democracy and Christianity have spelled the +death knell of the White Race.

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We cannot win a war of ideas if we have +nothing more than a mixed bag of unresolved +shibboleths to fight with and for. The White Race +must polarize in order to survive.

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Issue No. 20, January 1985

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The Time has come for +The White Race to establish +its own POLE STAR

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There is a fierce and us yet unresolved bat-tle of ideas going on for the possession of men's +minds. In order to survive the White Race must +polarize its own goals.

+ +

In studying the history of Navigation, we find that during and +immediately after the Fifteenth Century the White Man's progress +in navigation on the high seas took a quantum leap. It was during +the latter half of the 15th century that he became capable of mak-ing long forays down the west coast of Africa, discovering islands +in the Atlantic formerly out of reach, and in 1492 Columbus was able +to make his epic voyage across the Atlantic and discover the New +World. +From there on out there were no limits on this our Planet Earth. +The White Man was motivated by a burst of energy as never had been +witnessed before. The Era of Discovery and Colonization set in, and +it was the White Man exclusively whose brilliant energy and genius +was the center of it all. South America was soon discovered, explored +and colonized by the Spaniards. Magellan circled the globe and Cap-tain Cook "discovered" Australia, the Hawaiian Islands and many +areas of the Pacific heretofore unknown. This was the White Man +at his best. +What sparked this illustrious burst of discovery and coloniza-tion? There were several key factors and we might say that it was +an idea whose time had come. There was a partial improvement in +the size and durability of the sailing vessels, but whereas this was +a factor, It was not major. The most important item was that +the White Man was learning the art of navigation, a pursuit +that was strongly upgraded by Henry the Navigator of Portugal. +He started a school for navigation, and collected, studied and im-proved the known arts of navigation as they stood in the middle of +the 15th century. This provided the needed impetus and soon the +White Man's ideas about the world began to change in conformity +with reality. Once the White Man realized the world was round, not

+ + + +

flat; that it spun about its axis; that that axis pointed to the Polar +Star; discovered the magnetic compass; and that it pointed to +magnetic north; discovered the sextant; Mercator drew his famous +charts and innovated numerous other aids. From there on out the +White Man was off and running and soon reached and colonized all +the worthwhile territories in the world. +In the meantime, although technology, colonization and +navigation were burgeoning, the White Man made no pro-gress whatsoever in the vital areas of RACE and RELIGION, +the most important issues in his existence. These two para-mount issues underlie the very survival of the White Race, but have +been totally ignored since the dawn of civilization. In fact, It is one +of the ironies of history that the Age of Discovery and Colonization +also greatly accelerated the practice of race-mixing and mongreliza-tion, especially among the Spaniards and the Portuguese in their new-ly discovered territories, especially Mexico and South America. +Five hundred years after Henry the Navigator, the White Man +is not only as unaware and ignorant of these two vital Issues, (Race +and Religion) as he was then, he is, in fact more Ignorant, more con-fused, and even more fragmented. He is still woefully unaware of the +issues, racially confused, without goal or direction, without any mean-ingful charts, without a Pole Star to guide his path. The White Man +is, in fact, hopelessly floundering without direction or meaning, not +even aware that the Jew is rapidly committing genocide on Nature's +Finest, the White Race. +During this same era, the Jew, who is not a builder, nor a +navigator, nor an explorer, nor a farmer, nor a producer, but an eter-nal parasite, he too, was extremely busy. Whereas the White Man +was honing his navigational techniques and innovating other new +technology, the Jew was busily pursuing his racial plans, programs +and blueprints, all of which he had established thousands of years +ago. He knew exactly where he was going (racially), what his goals +were, and how he was going to get there. He had fixated his racial +Pole Star as far back as the time he was driven out of Egypt in the +middle of the Second Millennium B.C.E. He had his Pole Star and +never wavered from it. His Pole Star was his Judaic (or Mosaic) +Religion, an intensely racial religion. +And just what were the goals of this inferior parasitic tribe? They +were enormous, but also simple as hell. They were basically: (a) To +mongrelize and enslave all the peoples of the world, +especially the White Race - the prime target of their hatred +and revulsion. (b) To garner unto themselves all the gold, +silver, precious gems, money and properties of the world. +(c) To desecrate, down breed and degenerate all the goyim +of the world, convert them into brainless brown zombies and

+ + + +

hold them in eternal bondage. +In short their goal, set thousands of years ago was, and is to-day: every Jew a King. every goyim a slave, his face in the mud with +the Jewish jackboot firmly pressing down on the nape of his neck. +If you don't believe me, read the letter (in issue 19 of this book +from a kike on whose stationary was the name of Robert V. Rothman. +If that doesn't convince you, read again what another Jew by the +name of Marcus Eli Ravage says. He spells it out more succintly, +and we recapitulate his frank disclosure in Creative Credo No. 43 +in the WHITE MAN'S BIBLE under the heading of "Confessions of +a Jew", Page 286. If you need any further confirmation of what the +Jews have in mind for us, read that comprehensive epistle ot hate +- the Jewish Talmud itself. Even mulattoes like Louis Farrakhan +have enough intelligence to recognize the Jewish religion as that of +a destructive parasite and calls it "a gutter religion". +So much for what the Jews have in store for us if we don't come +to our senses and promptly get on with the job. It is the awesome +goal and program of the CHURCH OF THE CREATOR to +arouse, unite and organize the White Race into one power-ful battering ram that has the WILL and the power to +demolish the Jewish behemoth. This is what Creativity is all +about and this is what we are trying to accomplish. +Standing in our path are an endless number of roadblocks, most +of which have surreptitously been conceived by the Jews, but the +actual placing of many of these roadblocks are being done by +members of our own race, most of which should know better. +Visualize the following scenario: An old draft horse is pulling a +heavy load up a long hill, heaving and straining at its traces. It is +tired and sweaty and has had a long, hard day. Noisily yapping at +its heels are a few mutts, and buzzing at its head are a small swarm +of gnats. +If this old draft horse could talk, it would probably be saying +something like this to itself: "I don't mind pulling the load, because +that is what I am best at. But who in the hell needs the extra ag-gravation of mutts and gnats when I am trying to get this load over +the hill?" +I have a confession to make. There are times when I feel like +that old draft horse. +I know what we are up against, and it is a heavy load. We are +trying to accomplish something that has never been done by the +White Race in the last six thousand years of its illustrious but con-fused and botched-up history. We are trying to give the White Race +a racial religion of its own that will finally and comprehensively solve +the problem of its degeneration and decline, and prevent its ig-

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nominous demise by drowning in a stinking sea of mud. I repeat. this +has never before been done in all of the White Man's turbulent past, +and whether or not it will come about in the future Christ only knows, +and he won't tell because he is not around. I can't assure you that +it will come about. I cannot give anyone a guilt-edged Certificate of +Guarantee for the future. But I can assure you of this much: It will +either happen in the next 20 to 30 years or it won't happen at all. +Why? Because if it don't happen now there won't be any White Race +left to save. +I will also boldly make the second claim and that is in Creativ-ty we now have the creed program and religion with which to bring +about the Salvation and Redemption of the White Race. We have, +in fact, the whole ball of wax, and whereas it may not be perfect +(nothing in life is) it is the best that is now available to the White +Race In order to save its neck from the Jewish jackboot. Creativity +is not a spectator sport. Whether or not we win this ultimate battle +depends on how vigorously you and millions of other White Racial +Comrades join into the fray and become militant activists. I repeat, +this is not a spectator sport. We need White Racial Teamwork - +all 500 million strong. +The White Race is now in the position of a pusillanimous old +spinster who is nearing the end of the line. She could never quite +make up her mind that she had found the "perfect" man and kept +on looking and looking, little realizing that as the years went by her +own charms to attract such a man, if he ever existed, were rapidly +fading. Finally, in her declining years, as she becomes senile and +is hustled off to a "convalescent home" the question of finding the +"perfect" man that never existed becomes rather moot. +A similar situation exists regarding Creativity-We don't claim +it is perfect, but it is powerful, dynamic comprehensive consistent +and complete. Just as Hitler constructed the Nazi Party in Germany +to demolish Jewish Marxism and lead the German people back to +strength and unity, so also is Creativity designed to arouse, unite +and organize all the White peoples of the world to demolish once +and for all the Jewish monster that now threatens to devour us. +Most of our White Racial Comrades that want the Jewish +monkey off our back believe that the main roadblock in ac-complishing this awesome task are the Jews, the niggers and the +exploding mass of mud races. I used to think along these lines also, +but experience has taught me that the major problem resides +within our own ranks - the unbelievable intransigence of those +who profess to be on our side but because of hubris, jealousy, +pettiness and plain stupidity are forever in the front and +throwing roadblocks in the way of those who have the WILL, +the MEANS and the PROGRAM to do something meaningful

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and effective +Let me state categorically: We Creators mean business. We are +determined to do something meaningful, constructive and effective +rather than eternally yak, yak, yak, and fiddle around the fringes +of the frivolous. We are not interested in either trying to impress you, +nor are we here to entertain you. We want to arouse and motivate +you to become a militant activist and enlist you into our army of racial +teamwork. +This we are doing day by day, and although the process is ac-celerating, it is not fast enough to suit us. Time is of the essence, +and, as in the case of the aging and pusillanimous spinster, time is +running out for the White Race. If it won't grasp the opportunity now +it will soon be too senile to ever pull itself out of the muddy mire. +Standing in the way of getting the job done are a number of buz-zing gnats and yapping hounds in the ranks of the White Race itself, +repeatedly throwing roadblocks in our way, roadblocks that were +designed and fashioned by the Jews themselves. In this dissertation +I want to make a file, a laundry list if you like, of the number of +spurious and nit-picking charges, rumors and Innuendoes that have +been thrown at us. Many of these people profess to be our friends +and are "only trying to help us", for our own good. +1 . Although we are located in a beautiful natural setting in North +Carolina, we are also located in what is known as the Bible Belt, +and the "devout" and confused Christians not only denounce us as +"atheists", but some vociferously proclaim that we are "devil-worshippers". Since we don't believe in demons, or spooks of any +kind, or, in fact, any other kind of spookie malarkey, this charge, +is, of course rather silly on the face of it. +2. Then there are those, including some Mormons who claim +that Ben Klassen is, in fact, the devil himself. This too, is pretty +stupid, for the same reason as point No. 1. +3. There are some (White people) who claim I am a Jew, I must +be a Jew, and perhaps both a Jew and a devil, and that Klassen is +a Jewish name. +In answer to the above, I can categorically state that (a) I am +not a devil, and (b) I am not a Jew. The devil part is, of course, so +silly I need not spend further time on it. The Jewish accusation is +equally stupid, but since it has such vicious implications I will spend +further time on it. +My ancestors both on my mother's side and on my father's side +were Mennonites of unmixed White ancestry for at least the last four +hundred years, originating out of Holland. In the 1700's a segment +of Mennonites (due to religious persecution) migrated to what was +then Prussia. Since the Mennonites were both industrious and also +raised large families, they multiplied and took over more and more

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The Mennonites also had (and still have) a strange little hang-up in their religion about being opposed to going to war and killing +other people. They are dedicated PACIFISTS. This did not sit too +well with the then militaristic minded Prussians, and new persecu-tions ensued. A major segment of my Prussian ancestors then decided +to move to a fertile area of the Ukraine just north of the Black Sea. +This they did in about the year 1804, and Katherine the Great, who +was eager to settle these empty areas with industrious, hardwork-ing farmers, invited them in, even signing a pact with them that gave +them special compensations, waiving any obligatinns of having to +serve in the military. +The colony my ancestors settled in was called the Molotschna +Colony, located on the banks of a river of the same name. Here they +prospered and multiplied, two areas in which they were amazingly +adept. My paternal grandfather and grandmother had 14 children, +of which twelve lived to adulthood, and all, I believe. raised families +of their own. +This was the situation in 1914 when World War I broke out. The +colony had prospered, the Mennonites in Molotschna numbered +30000 souls in 50 towns or villages. When the communists took over +in 1917, all hell broke loose and the Mennonites were completely +unprepared to defend themselves from the marauding criminals that +were let loose upon them. Many were killed, some died of starvation +during the planned famine of 1921-22, some migrated to other +countries. +The latter is what my father did in 1924. Without going into more +detail about the Mennonites and my personal history which I have +briefly covered in Chapter 22, Part II, Page 455 of NATURE'S ETER-NAL RELIGION entitled My Own Spiritual Awakening", suffice it +to say that my ancestors were White, Protestant Mennonites, who +carefully kept their genealogy clean, and there is not a Jew, a nigger +or an Indian anywhere in my bloodlines, at least not for the last 400 +years. +Now before some swine again rises up (I am using Herbert +Hoover's words) and accuses me of being a Jew, I suggest that he, +she or it first put up a $1000.00 security to cover a bet that +I can prove otherwise, and I will put up my own $1000.00. +A late uncle of mine. bless him, devoted a lot of time and research-ed and compiled an extensive genealogy of the Klassen family. I have +a copy of it. I also have copies of numerous official documents, such +as passports, (Including my father's) church documents, family +albums and a mass of other evidence, all of which confirms my White +Protestant Mennonite ancestry. If that is not enough. I still have any +number of living cousins, nieces, nephews and other relatives in

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Canada and the United States who can back up my statements, and +would not take lightly to the inference that we might be Jews. +So, to the next swine that makes the accusation I say - put +your money where your mouth is, or shut up. Klassen is a good Dutch +and Mennonite name and has been for many centuries. +4. There are some who spread the rumor that I am in this +"business" to make money, and that is my only concern. +This, too, is utterly stupid. I am 66 years old and have been con-cerned about the sinister Jewish menace since the age of 20 when +I first read Hitler's MEIN KAMPF, in German. +Although my pursuit in trying to solve this problem was in the +early stages confused, erratic and completely ineffective (since, like +everyone else, I didn't know what to do about It) it has always been +a simmering concern most of my adult life. +I came to the United States in 1945 as a poor immigrant boy, +although not without a good Engineering degree and some practical +job experience. In 1947 I decided to go into real estate (in Califor-nia), and by 1970 I was in a position where I could have retired com-fortably. It was at this time that I began to see the light about the +swindle that was Christianity and its ramifications regarding the +whole racial problem. It was at time that I began to for-mulate and put together NATURE'S ETERNAL RELIGION. +Since that time I have not only published NATURE'S ETER-NAL RELIGION but also written THE WHITE MAN'S BIBLE and +published SALUBRIOUS LIVING, thereby completing our +Ideological creed and program. We now have a racial religion of +which any White Man can not only be intensely proud, but to which +he can actively dedicate his time, energy and loyalty for the rest of +his natural life. He can now join in a White religious movement that +can (and will!) lead us all out of the quagmire of Jewish slavery and +eternal bondage TO A WHITER AND BRIGHTER FUTURE. +I have also inaugurated a conveyor belt to spread the word and +disseminate the message by launching RACIAL LOYALTY 20 issues +ago, and have built the Church itself as a World Center for our move-ment. We are now in the process of completing the SCHOOL FOR +GIFTED BOYS, and I am happy to announce that sooner or later +we plan to build a Health Center in which to teach and practice +Salubrious Living for those seeking a more Ideal and healthful +lifestyle. +Publishing all these books, building all these buildings, +publishing the paper, buying a host of typesetting equipment, com-puters, copying machines and other sophisticated technical equip-ment, all this has cost a ton of money, hundreds of thousands +dollars worth. By and large, I have bankrolled It all out of my life's +savings, and the response from supporters, as anyone in the White

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racial movement can well confirm, has been (at best) discouraging, +but I expected as much. +The point is - how can some people (some of which profess +to be on our side) accuse me of enduring all the abuse, hassle and +headaches connected with promoting an unpopular cause in order +that I make a buck? +I repeat - I could have retired comfortably In 1970, but it I live +to be one hundred I can never expect to recuperate a cent of all the +financial sacrifices I have made, and am making, and will continue +to make in the future in order to get this movement off the ground. +I repeat, I don't expect to recuperate a penny, and have made no +provision to do so. +I repeat a similar challenge I made in Point No. 4. Anyone who +thinks I am making a killing out of trying to do my part in this racial +struggle can readily buy all the potential "profits" I might accrue for +the rest of my life. A mere $10000 will do it for you. Again, I +challenge such purveyors of lies and slander to put their money where +their mouth is. (I would gladly settle for $100.00 or even fifty cents, +but I set the figure at $10000 to keep out the cheap gadflies). +5. There are those that still insist my motives must be evil, and +it none of the above charges hold water they are determined to +find somewhere, somehow, some sinister and evil motivation. They +come up with the following charge: I must be doing what I am doing +in order to sow dissention and destroy "the little that we have", +evidently in order that I might help aid the Jewish cause. This charge +is so assinine that it hardly needs an answer, but answer it I will, +and briefly. +The "little that we have" is so damn little and so counterproduc-tive that if I wanted to see the Jews continue to successfully carry +on their nefarious destruction of the White Race all I need do is com-fortably sit back and do nothing, the same as the silly yokels who +make such an outrageous charge. Why would I spend hundreds of +thousands of my hard earned life's savings, when just sitting back +and doing nothing would accomplish the same thing? Why would +I spend thousands of hours writing books, organizing a movement +putting out a monthly publication, etc.? How ridiculous can you get? +6. Then there is that strange group that comes up with a CATCH +22 rationale and says that I must be phoney, I must be a double agent, +I must be a Jewish stooge, for if I was for real, and had said all the +nasty things I have said about the Jews, openly and publicly published +books against them. even had a large picture of myself on the back +pages, even used my own real name, why, anybody that did all this +would long ago have been killed by the Jews. Therefore, ipso facto, +I must be a Jew, or a double agent, or a stooge, or something, being +paid by the Jewish powerhouse.

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In short, these idiots say that no matter what you do there is +no way to win the battle against the Jews. If you try, you're dead. +If you're not dead, you must be a double agent. And of course, if you're +dead, there isn't much you can do. +With this kind of accusation, what in the hell can anybody do? +It's heads I win, tails you lose, the perfect Catch 22 no-win box, un-doubtedly promoted by the Jews themselves. +I bring up these ludicrous accusations because they are more +prevalent than most people realize and I want to take this oppor-tunity to answer all of them and get these kinds of people de-confused +and decontaminated, if such is at all possible. +Let me say categorically the only kind of help I have ever gotten +from the Jews is threats and hate letters such as the one printed in +last months issue No. 19. I can reprint a number of others such as +the uproar I caused in the Jewish community when the Miami Herald +(South Florida is becoming a bedlam of Jews, Cubans, niggers and +Haitians) published a two page article on me in 1981. How can I +possibly benefit the Jews by inaugurating a White racial religion that +when (not if, but when!) successful, will spell the death knell of +Judaism, nobody has yet rationally explained. +But let us look at the statistics, and the probabilities. It is true +that there is always the possibility that a Jew fighter out in the open +might be assassinated in the United States, and there have been a +few cases, such as George Lincoln Rockwell, Sec. of Defense James +Forrestal, Congressman Louis T. McFadden, and probably John F. +Kennedy, who started issuing U.S. notes, instead of allowing the +Jew owned Federal Reserve to have a monopoly in counterfeiting. +But most of these cases are rare, and outside of Rockwell, most of +these victims did not even attack the Jews openly, although they were +a threat to them. +Now compare these paltry numbers with the 30 million White +Russians that were massacred when the Jews exercised their racial +hate orgy, or the 50 million White people that were killed in W.W +II, or the more than a million White people that were killed in the +Civil War, not to mention the overwhelming devastation of proper-ty. Or the 57661 Americans who were killed outright in the recent +Vietnam War, a senseless Jew instigated war that was perpetrated +on the gullible American public for no other reason than to kill, maim +and promote drug-addiction on the cream of American manhood in +their finest young years. +The list is endless, but my point is this: NO ONE IS SAFE, +whether fighting Jews or whether they try placating the Jews, or +whether they are trying to play it safe as an innocent, uninvolved +spectator, Like it or not YOU ARE INVOLVED, you are boxed in. +If white, you are a target designated for destruction, and trying to play

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it safe will not make one tittle of difference. Ask the parents of the +57661 young Americans that are now dead and buried if any of these +slaughtered victims ever so much as raised a Anger against the Jews, +or even had the slightest inkling as to what the hell it was all about +The answer is zero, zero, zero. But the Jews managed to get to them, +and in a treacherous round about way managed to get them killed +anyway, did they not? And they will get to you, whoever you are, +wherever you are, if you are White. You don't have to be militant +or hostile towards the Yids, or even knowledgeable. Look at what +happened to my pacifist Mennonite ancestors in Russia - dispers-ed. dead, rooted out, and every last beautiful farm, village and com-munity wiped out.

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So wake up, my dear White Racial Comrade! As individuals, +we all have to die sometime anyway, but our race lives on. The best +defense against the Jews hastening our untimely demise is to inform +and arouse the SLEEPING GIANT, OUR OWN GREAT WHITE +RACE. It is our beholden duty to unify and organize our people into +a massive fired-up RELIGIOUS WAR based on race (The Arabs have +a word for it. It is called Jihad). Therein lies our best defense a +our only salvation. Some of us will be killed in the process no doubt, +but believe me, it is much, much better to die fighting. How can a +man die better than facing fearful odds (See Horatius at the Bridge, +P. 985, NER) against the enemy and taking a hundred or so of them +with him. Such is a thousand times better than to die a snivelling +coward on your knees, alone and in miserable anonymity. In any case, +you are safer fighting than snivelling. +I repeat, the best way to die is a heroic death, or a martyr's +death, in the cause of your race. Whereas we all die anyway, if we +organize and fight, our glorious future progeny will have a chance +to live in a beautiful, Whiter and Brighter World. +7. We now come to that group which is more sophisticated, more +intellectual, but whose intelligence does not quite extend to the point +where they know how to help save the White Race and subsequent-ly don't realize that if the White Race goes down the drain, they and +their progeny (present & future) will go down with it. Many of these +are the heads of one of the fragmentary 20000 or so "right-wing" +movements, albeit some are no more than an organization compris-ing of one member - themselves. +Although there are undoubtedly many phonies In this group, +many of them Jews parading as White racists, or parading as White +Christians, these are probably the exception. Although it is hard to +tell the players without cards attached, I presume most of them are +White, sincere, but somehow have some hang-up or quirks they in-herited form being slopped with too much Jewish propaganda most +of their life and have not quite gotten their pieces put together.

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This group effectively throws more roadblocks in the path of our +movement than any other, for two reasons, (a) there are more of +them, and (b) their argument is fairly persuasive to the average unin-formed yokel. +Their argument goes something like this: We need a large variety +of polyglot organizations to do the job (whatever that "job" is, this +polyglot group does not seem to be able to agree on). If we had one +major organization, they argue, and If the Jews (or the U. S. govern-ment, or the I.R.S.) quashed it, we would be through, whereas if +we have thousands of little polyglot groups "they" can never get to +us all, and we can keep on going. Therefore, the more polyglots the +merrier and let us never make the mistake of uniting. When the +"showdown" comes, they further argue, we will all unite and we will +beat the hell out of "them". +Well, this all sounds good, but experience teaches us that this +kind of approach is a fatal mistake. We have been pursuing this line +of thinking for the last 60 years and it has gotten us exactly nowhere. +We have had at least 20000 polyglot "organizations" that have come +and gone since W.W. II and none of them have so much as made +a dent. (Read again: A Polyglot Mind & A Polyglot Society, Who +Needs Them?" in Expanding Creativity, Issue No. 10). +Let us learn from history and let us learn from experience. The +best historic era we can possibly draw from is the German +phenomenon between W.W.I and W.W.II. +As we all know, there was great distress in Germany after W.W.I. +The Jews had beaten down one of the finest, most progressive and +productive people in the heart of Europe. The Jews were having a +field day ravaging the nation and heaping humiliation on top of +misery, hunger and chaos. Desperation and confusion was rampant +In the land, and the Jews, who created It all, made the most of it. +However, they overplayed their hand (as they are doing in the U.S. +today) and the resilient German people started to organize a +counterforce. +Hundreds, then thousands, of small organizations of all shades +and stripes sprang up, with the alleged purpose of solving the pro-blem. There too, many were Jew instigated to divert, mislead and +further confuse the German people. Many of them were sincere, but +led by people who neither understood the problem, nor knew of a +solution even if they had understood the problem. +As those of us know that have studied the Nazi movement, in +1919 Hitler joined a small, insignificant group called the German +Worker's Party and became member No. 7. By sheer genius, drive +and leadership ability he was soon in charge and started building +the party into a formidable political force. He also changed its name +to National Socialist German Worker's Party.

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He was opposed by Just about every meaningful power group +in the Reich. Not only was it deemed unpopular to be a Nazi, but +it was also dangerous. A number of them were beaten, brutalized +and/or killed. The opposition the Nazi party encountered came not +only from the Jewish power structure, but also from the churches, +the "German" government, the Masonic Lodges and various other +indigenous groups, all of which was bad enough. But he was also +fiercely opposed by rival racist German groups, who fought him and +roadblocked him as effectively as did the Jewish establishment +Throughout it all Hitler did not compromise his goals nor his +principals. He never "merged" with any other group and warned in +MEIN KAMPF that to do so weakens and destroys both parties to +the merger. +Instead, he kept building the party, and by demonstrating the +superiority of his movement, converted members of other groups to +his movement, including thousands, yes, millions of former adherents +of the Communist party. +But the individual leaders of the rival parties kept opposing him +as long as they could, all the while professing the same goals. For +example, even after Jan. 30, 1933, when Hitler was already +Chancellor, Alfred Hugenberg did all he could to maintain his group, +the Nationalist Front, and acted as a destructive roadblock until his +group was dissolved by the more powerful Nazi party. Such are the +eternal human foibles of maintaining their egotistical +hubris. +Even after Hitler was supreme ruler of Germany, there were a +number of dissidents in the ranks of the S.A. (Sturm Abteilung) who +now, that they were on top, wanted to dump the Leader who had +built it all and take charge. Again hubris coming to the surface. +Egotists like Ernst Roehm thought they knew better than the Fueher +as to what to do with that "success" now that they had it, and ar-rogantly wanted to run the show in their own direction. As we know, +in July of 1934 there was a "purge" of the party and Roehm, and +approximately 70 others, were executed. As Hitler said "The iron laws +of history are eternal and unbending". Had he not done what he did, +there would have again been division, dissention and chaos in the +land, and the Jews, being masters of the "Divide and Conquer" +technique, would soon have been back in the saddle. +I cite this as a most exemplary era in the White Man's fight in +driving the Jews from power because we have a number of cogent +lessons to learn from that experience which apply very directly to +the dilemma we find ourselves in in the United States of America +today. We have the same odious problem as did the Germans in the +1920's, namely, how to get the parasitic Jew of our back, and for +the White Man again to take charge of his own destiny. Believe me,

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it is no child's game, and the iron laws of history are grim indeed +if we fail. +The lessons we can (and must) learn are these: +(a) A powerful movement must be built around an ideology, a faith, +a creed, a belief. Nothing fits this description better than a religion. +(b) It such a religion is built on the foundation of race, it is all the +more powerful and meaningful, as the Jews have proven over the +thousands of years of their existence. +(c) A "democratic", polyglot society is unstable, weak and chaotic, +and a perfect tool for the deceitful Jews with which to manipulate +a numerically superior, (potentially) more powerful enemy, such as +the White Race. In a polyglot society the Jew can expertly exercise +his deceitful genius - the Divide and Conquer technique, at which +he has no peers. +(d) The White Race is now nearing the end of its existence as a species +on this planet. Whether it likes it or not, it has some urgent and hard +decisions to make, and time is rapidly running out. If it does not +change course if it does not abandon the haphazard, polyglot, no-win approach that it has carelessly pursued in the past, it will soon +be finished and there will be no second chance.

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In order to survive, the White Race must choose the one creed, +program and ideology under which to marshal its awesome powers. +Playing mawkish, childish games, and being fragmented into +thousands of babbling debating societies will no longer suffice. We +must polarize around one movement, and soon make up our minds +which is the best, the most powerful, complete and comprehensive +creed and program to pursue. +(e) We must then close ranks and do the job that has to be done as +quickly, and as thoroughly as possible, no matter what it takes, no +matter what the sacrifice. As I have said a hundred times before, +the survival of Nature's Finest is so important that the end justifies +the means, any means. Only a fool or a traitor could deem +otherwise. +We now come to the key issue, the 64 thousand dollar question. +Which creed or program should the White Race choose, and hav-ing made its choice, close ranks behind it? +Alright, I will not be devious, or try to be coy. We don't have +an unlimited shopping list to choose from, and the answer narrows +down to Creativity, the only meaningful racial religion that has evolv-ed from the ranks of the White Race in the last 6000 years of civiliza-tion. It is complete, it is comprehensive, it is consistent, it is cohesive. +It is designed to cope with a crumbling world situation as it exists +today in the last quarter of the Twentieth Century, a time when the +White Race is rapidly nearing its death gasp. It may not be perfect, +but like the old maid that wasted the best years of her life looking

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for the perfect mate, the White Race had better get its act together +now. +If in 6000 years no other meaningful White racial religion has +appeared, it is not likely that in the next decade such will appear +out of Aladdin's Lamp, nor that it will be able to match the dynamic +and comprehensive creed inherent In Creativity. So let's not waste +our time all the way to the Convalescent Home (or the slaughter-house) eternally searching for perfection. In Creativity we have the +Total Program , the Final Solution, the Ultimate Creed. Not perfect, +but the best that has come along in 6000 years. So let's get with +it, let's get going and promote the hell out of it and WIN. +The time has come to get down to serious business and wage +meaningful warfare. The time has come to fix on a definite Pole Star +and chart a specific course of action. We have got to freeze the dies +and get into production. +The time is long gone when each individual White Man can in-dulge in his own little game, playing with his pet spooks and massag-ing his own hubris by indulging in silly daydreams. We have to unite, +build an army under a unified command and fight like men. We have +to have a clear dynamic and powerful plan of battle, and in Creativi-ty we have it all. +The Church Of The Creator is going to pursue this course of +uniting all the White peoples of the world into one powerful army, +come hell or high water. We are going to pursue the same course +as Hitler did - to build one massive movement, now, as quickly as +possible. This might disturb some people, but that is unfortunate and +cannot be helped. From here on out we are no longer interested in +quibbling about the finer points of creed or philosophy or pontificating +endlessly and explaining for the hundredth time that we don't care +how it all started fifty billion years ago. We are now interested in on-ly one thing - building and promoting the movement into one +massive army, crushing the Jewish menace and wresting control of +our own destiny back into the hands of the White Race while we still +have time. +We are determined to build a Whiter and Brighter World, +or die in the attempt. JOIN WITH US.

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Issue No. 21, February 1985

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Confrontation - Sooner The Better

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Custer's Last Stand +The White Race is being pushed into its last stand. +Whether it will end in a feeble whimper or a heroic confron-tation remains to be seen. +General Phillip H. Shaidan is credited with the observation that +"the only good Indian is a dead Indian." In July of 1874 he sent L.t. +Col. George A. Custer on a special mission to wage war against the +Plains Indians who had been raising havoc with the White settlers +moving West. Gold had been discovered in the Black Hills of South +Dakota and northeastern Wyoming. Emigration to the West was on +the increase as the railroad spanned the continent from the Atlantic +to the Pacific in 1869. Railroad surveyors were trespassing on lands +the Indians considered theirs. +The number of battles between the U.S. Calvary and the western +Indian tribes had been sporadic but accelerating ever since the Civil +War. As the Whlte Man pressed westward the conflict gained momen-tum, and the friction and hatred between the Red Man and the White +Man increased. One of the most hated by the Indian tribes was the +colorful and dashing Col. George A. Custer himself, whom they call-ed Yellow Hair. They did not forget his no-holds barred attack on +Chief Black Kettle's village on the Washita River Nov. 27, 1868. In +this charge through the Cheyenne's camp, Custer's men kiiled 103 +Indians, including Chief Black Kettle himself. +The culmination of this sporadic, but unfocused warfare came +to a climax on June 25, 1876, at the Battle of the little Big Horn +in Montana. +In this encounter a conglomerate of approximately 5000 Indians, +mostly Sioux and Cheyenne, led Custer's contingent of cavalry in to +a trap. As at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.E., and at the Alamo in 1836, +the White Man made a gallant stand and fought to the last man. +All 225 cavalrymen, including Custer himself, were massacred. +The news of the massacre hit the nation's capital like a +thunderclap when it was publicly announced on July 4, 1876, as the +nation was celebrating its first Centennial. It led to the galvanlza-tion of public opinion and the White Man's determinadon to settle +The "Indian question" once and for all. The U.S. Army went about +it in earnest and the back of the Indian resistance was broken at +120 +Wounded Knee on Dec. 29, 1890. In thls short-lived skirmish, in +which the 7th Cavalry again participated, the White Man lost one +officer, six non-commissioned officers, and 18 privates. It is not known +how many Indians were killed, since many escaped and died. +elsewhere, but 146 Indians were interred in a huge trench on the bat-tlefield by the burial detail. +So ended ignomlnously the resistance of the Indians in a +botched-up battle that was of little credit to either side. It ended in +a whimper for the Indians, and their mixed, mongrelized and +debauched descendants, and they have been whimpering ever since. +There are some hard and eternal lessons the White race could +and should learn from its centuries-old experience with the Indians +on the American Condnent: +1 . The first and foremost lesson is that the White Man, when +overwhelmed by superior numbers of mud races, can be +massacred and wiped out, even though at the last minute he +chooses to fight, even though he fights heroically. +This happened at the Alamo, It happened in San Domingo (see +Creotive Credo No. 30, "The Grisly Lesson of San Domingo," in the +White Man's Bible). It has happened time and again in the histroy +of the white Race. +2. The race issue is the foremost and most overwhelm-ing issue in histroy. It has been with us since the dawn of +civilization and will remain with the White Race until it +resolutely decides to resolve it in its own favor, as ad-vocated by the Church Of The Creator; or, for lack of resolution or determination it will be solved by its enemies with +the total destruction of the White Race on worldwide scale. +Such a program of genocide is now in high gear, and if not reversed +promptly the White Race will be finished within the next generation. +The polyglot United Nations gleefully predicts that in another genra-tion the White Race wlll be outnumbered in a ratio of 49 to 1. +3. A weak, wavering and pusillanimous attitude by the White +Race toward the racial issue will not solve the problem, nor will it +appease our enemies. No amount of concessions on our part +will mitigate the fatred of the Jews and the mud races +towards us. They will not now, or ever, agree to live and let +live as far as the White Race is concerned. Their hatred is +eternal until the White Race is wiped out, at which time the +races will again turn on eachother, as did the Indians before the +arrival of the White Man. +4. In this ongoing battle of the races are three possible outcomes +as far as the White Race is concerned. +(a) The White Race will be browned, mongrelized +without a confrontation, without offering a fight, thereby +121 +losing its divine seed and becoming extinct. This is the linger-ing death, the most horrible, the most shameful, the most ig-nominous of all posslble ends. We ot the Church Of The Creator de-nounce and deplore such a course as the worst of all non-decisions +and would much sooner face a confrontation and fight to the last +man if necessary, as did the valiant men of the Alamo, as did Custer's +gallant 7th Calvary. +(b) The Whlte Race will be sitting idly by while the mud races +expand in a population explosion as never before witnessed in history. +The mud races will then turn on the reduced numbers of the +White Race and massacre them at the propitious moment, +such timing organized and orchestrated by the sinister +Jewish Powerhouse. This is what happened in San Domingo, in +the Belglan Congo, in Angola, in Rhodesia, and is rapidly coming +to a climax in South Africa. It also happened in formerly French Indo-China, and a number of other areas of the World that the White Man +controlled as late as a decade after W.W.II, but these lessons have +never been publicized or brought home to the White Race. +(c) The third and only alternative that we of the Church Of The +Creator consider as even worthy of entertaining is unabashed, total, +victory for the White Race. In this matter I want to quote two +famous generals of this century. General MacArthur said it all when +he observed "There is no substitute for victory." We agree whole +heartedly. We Creators have taken this position from the beginning +and have no reservations about it whatsoever. We want total vic-tory for the White Race until we inhabit all the good lands +of the, Planet Earth - exclusively. There is no compromising, +no appeasing, no peaceful living side by side with the mud races, +the Jews and all the parasites. We do not make this choice arbitrarily. +History and Nature have made this choice for us and demonstrated +clearly that there is only one other choice - only death. +Speaking of dying, I now want to quote another general as col-orful and dashing as was Gen. Custer. General George A. Patton +said "Instead of dying for yoar country, make sure the enemy dies +for his country." +The point is that instead of making a desperate, unplanned and +unprepared last-ditch stand and being wiped out (as was Custer's +valiant band) let us do it differently. Let us realisticaIly confront the +situation and prepare and act accordingly. We are not helpless, at +least not yet in 1985. The situation is there for every one to see. It +is clear as day. All you have to do is look. +When I wrote NATURE'S ETERNAL RELIGION in 1971 I +predicted (among other items) the demise of two White dominated +South African countries, namely Rhodesia, and the Republic of South +Africa, because of their tolerant but rather stupid racial policies, (but +122 +no more so than the U.S.). Rhodesia has now been fully niggerized +and the White Man massacred and/or driven out, as South Africa +soon will be. +I remember attending a lecture at the sumptuous home of the +late Countess Guardabassa in Palm Beach, Florida in the early 70's. +The speaker was the late Carol Dunn of LIBERTY LOBBY. I +remember her ebullient report on how wonderful things were in +Rhodesia, what a beautiful clean city was Sallsbuby, one of the was +little cities in the world. All these bad reports of the world press about +Rhodesia mistreating the blacks were all wrong. Why Rhodesia was +doing everything possible for the blacks, givlng them work, giving +them homes, trying to educate them, and as some (mulattoes, no +doubt) got a sctntilla of education, they were taught to partake in, +and given, an ever increasing role in the government itself. To hear +her gush and bubble with optimism, Rhodesia was a nigger's +paradise, and it probably was, or is as close as the niggers can ever +realistically wish for. +Anyway, she, too, thought it was great and the world at large +was all wrong in heaping condemnation on Rhodesia's alleged +mistreatment of the blacks. In an area that was built by the White +Man and that a century ago had very few aborigines, the niggers at +that time (1970) already outnumbered the Whites 16 to 1. +A friend of mine and I privately discussed her speech later. We +came to the (then) astounding concluslon that Rhodesia was ac-tually "farming niggers", in short feeding and breeding them +at a rate that woild soon consume the country. And that is +just what happened. Even at that time (1970) I suspected that Ian +Smith, the then darling of the Kosher Konservatives, was a race +traitor and selling the Whites down the river. History proved I was +right. +We now come to Rhodesia only a decade later and what do we +find? Rhodesia is no more. The land is still there but the White +Man is no longer in control, nor in existence, except for a few toadies +that hold the ruins together, such as they are. The "country" is now +called Zimbabwe and the once clean, beautiful city of Salisbury is +called Harare. Two rival gangs of black savages are now fighting +each other for control of the corpse. There is an article in the January +13, (85) Atlanta Constitution telling about the peculiar political work-ings of black "democracy" in that now nigger dominated country. +It seems that opposition leader Joshua Nkomo came into town for +a campaign stop in Harare and supporters of Prime Minister Robert +Magabe fired nine bullets into his bullet proof car and hurled an +avalanche of rocks to properly top it off in true niggerly fashion. This +is black 'uhuru"(freedom) at its best and even that shabby structure +will survive only as long as the White taxpayers of the United States

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123 +can be kept snookered Into subsidizing these useless savages to the +tune of hundreds of millions. +The Republic of South Africa is larger and more formidable +than was little Rhodesia, but it is doing down the same track +to black oblivion as did Rhodesia a few years earlier. We have +the same techniques belng utilized by the Jewish powerhouse, +same slogans, the same accusations and the same line of traitors +undermining the structure from the inside. +The finances, the news media and the government of South +Africa are in the hands of the Jewish Oppenheimer family and their +racial cohorts who own the vast DeBeers gold and diamond mines, +and just about everything else in South Atrica. Manipulating him on +a string, the Jews have placed their own puppet at the head of the +South African government. The treachery of Prime Minister P. +W. Botha is matched (or perhaps exceeded) by the lowest +of all human cretins - the race traitor from our own coun-try who is now "visiting" that nigger-plagued country and +agitating the stupid brutish animals. His name happenes +to be Senetor Edward Kennedy, who is following in the footsteps +of his late brother Robert who was in South Africa on a similar "Hate +Whitey" mission nineteen years eariler. +Lately I listened to "CROSSFIRE", a nightly program where a +celebrity or public figure is interviewed by Tom Braden "on the left +and Pat Buchanan "on the Right", supposedly representing two +diametrically opposed views. They play a good game on the average +boob-tube yokel who is easlly convinced that he is genuinely hear-ing both sides from diametrically opposed viewpoints. +This particular night they had the South African Ambassador +to the U.S. on the hotseat, with Pat Buchanan supposedly defending the Ambassador, and the Ambassador supposedly defending +apartheid and the Republic Of South Africa's position. To an ex-perienced observer it seemed exceedingly shange how the two +defenders consistently falled to review the grisly fate that befell the +White citizens of the Belgian Congo, of Angola, or Rhodesia, when +the black savages took over. At best they quibbled over the academic +issue of "rights" and other demagogic trappery but never considered +the fate or the interests of the White people. Tom Braden "on the +left", however, kept admonishing repeatedly the impending horrors +of race war (horrible! horrible! horrlble!) unless the niggers got it all, +and such race war was to be avoided at all costs, even though the +Whites who built the country went down the drain, even though +civilization reverted back to the barbarism of the savage. +Which brings me to a vital point In this dissertation. Why is +it that when the consequences of a confrontation between +Whites and Whites (such as World War II) may be a +124 +worldwide war of horrendous dimensions, there is no +hesitation whatsoever about promoting it? In fact, they can't +get such wars going fast enough. +However, when a race war might be engendered, a war +that would be short and strictly limited, with the White Race +coming out as an easy winner, then oh, my god, perish the +thought! Such horrors are unthinkable! When 350000 of the +best White people were incinerated in a matter of a few days by +"Allied" bombing raids over Dresden, Germany, during 1945, the +blubbering, bleeding hearts were not parttcularly upset. But when +so much as one deserving nigger gets killed, all hell breaks loose. +Why is that, you might ask? The answer is plain. A worldwide +war behween Whites such as in W.W.II kills millions of Whites. There +is nothing more efficent than Whites killing Whites. Nothing +could make the Jews happier. A race war in the U.S.A., or in +South Africa however, would klll only a few White, but it would total-ly wipe out the niggers, and the race problem would be solved. This, +of course, the Jews don't want. The Jews are looking forward to a +race war alright, but they are nursing and delaying the situation +until time as they have totally soften up the White +Man's will to fight and reduced their numbers to where (like +Custer) they would be wiped out even if they did have the will +to fight. Each day that goes by the balance is shifting more to the +benefit of the mud races, as their numbers increase, as the White +Race shrinks, and as the White Race becomes pathologically more +and more drugged into the stupor of a Zombie. Hence the delay. But +the race war is coming whether we like it or not, and it will come +as soon as the mud races and the Jews are ready - and it will be +bloody. +Tbe White Race has never really had a firm, consistent policy +regarding its position towards the Jews and the mud races except +for the brief perlod during Hitler's regime in Germany. Even in +Mussolini's Fascist Italy, race was not reaily the issue, but rather +the issue focused on the relationship between the state and the in-dividual. The policy of the United States government towards the +Indians, even during and before the nineteenth centure, was one of +vacillation and indecision, becoming softer and more pro-Indian as +time went on until today one Indian is worth twenty White Men in +the eyes of the Jewish occupational government. +On this issue, as always, Jewish Christianity was constantly in-voked about how we MUST love our human fellow men, how we are +all God's children and how we are all equal (oh, so damned equal!) +in the eyes of the Lord. Strangely, when the Christians were +fighting each other in the Thirty Years War and all the other +religious wars, no such pangs of conscience were invoked, +125not in the Civll War, nor in W.W.I or in W.W.II, when the White Man +was slaughtering White Men by the millions. +Do you get the picture? +It is high time we come to our senses, protect our own, get the +parasites off our back and crowd the mud races into oblivion. We +Creators are not advocating a policy of going out and slaughtering +anybody, not even Jews or niggers. What we are saying is: let us stop +subsidizing these lethal parasites and they will soon wither on the +vine of their own accord. Let us polarize around our own racial +religion and let the mud races fend for themselves, If they can. Only +when they (the Jews and the mud races) stop us from exer-cising our constitutional and our natural rights and wage +an attack against us, then, an only then, will we spring to +our own defense and heap retibuition and warfare against +our enemies. (Read again Creative Credo No. 64 in the WHITE +MAN'S BIBLE entitled "Law and order us. Violence Terrorism and +Self-preservation", esp. Article No. 8 regarding our official position).

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CREATIVITY has it all, says it all.

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Help build a Whiter and Brighter World +Become a militant Creator.

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lf the White Race is ever to revert back to +sanity, Christianity will HAVE TO GO. To again +regain its sanity, it will first have to dump +Christianity.

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For the White Race Creativity is the Great +Quantum Leap Foward from out of the present +Jewish quagmire. lt is equiualent to what the +Renaissance was to the Dark Ages.

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School for Gifted Boys +Progress Report

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The construction part of the School for Gifted Boys is practical-ly finished. There are still a number of accommodations that need to +be done. We still have to get most of the equipment for the kitchen. +That is - a stove, venting hood, refrigerator, freezer and a number +of other items. Because we have to meet Health Department and +National Sanitation Foundation standards, everything has to be of-ficially approved, and is three times as expensive as it need be. It +is not good enough to buy good equipment, it has to go through the +red tape and be approved. +We sttill need beds, tables and a host of other furnishings, all +of which are extremely costly. We need your support, your donations, +your help and your participation. +We plan to start the first two week session after July 4, namely +the two weeks from July 6 to July 20. The cost per student for the +two week session, room & board, instruction and activities is expected +to be $300, a modest fee that will not cover our expenses, but we +need to get started. Please spread the word and get as many pro-spective candidates as possible that we may contact. Although we +intend to be more restrictive in the future, we will be glad to accept +all good White boys and youths between the ages of 10 and 20. +Help make the inital session a success!

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What you can do to Help. +1. If you have a boy of your own, or a nephew or a grandson, +the beat gift you can make to the remainder of his life is to get him +properly oriented - racially and religiously. Send him to our school. +2. Sonsor a good White boy even if not a relative of yours. The +long term benefits can be tremendous for the individual and our race. +Remember, if we don't save the White Race your money won'y be +worth a tinkers dam anyway.

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127 +Critique Of A Critique

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Mr. Richard S. Hoehler is a writer and a phllosopher who has +written several books on the sub]ect of philosophy, Jews and Na-tional Socialism. He is domiciled in Colorado and a writer of con-siderable talent. Recently he submitted an article, a critique if you +will, of the Creativity Movement, and since we respect Mr. Hoehler's +appraisal we printed the article on the front page of Racial Loyalty +No. 19. +We believe that a healthy exchange of criticism is always a con-structive process in that it either calls forth a re-examination and +correction of any faults, defects or shortcomings, or it provides an +excellent opportunity to explain a perfertly valid position, or posi-tions that may be grossly misunderstood or misrepresented by the +critic and/or the world at large. Aher all, nobody is perfect, nobody +has all the answers, and least of all the critics themselves. As anyone +knows, it is much easler to criticize than to break new ground and +build something meaninqful, whether it be a skyscraper, or a new +movement or a new religion. +Within this framework, I want to answer some of the cridcisms +that Mr. Hoehler has raised, not so much for Mr. Hoehler's benefit, +but or the benefit of all our readers, supporters and members. I want +to do so because I feel that the questions raised reflect views that +are commonly bandied about, not so much by our active supporters +and members, but by spectators on the outside, that group we have +often referred to as the arm-chair intelligentsia. Whereas I respect +Mr. Hoehler's philosophy and writings, I must make it clear that he +is not a member of the Church Of The Creator, and has never made +any positive contributions to the movement. His leanings are more +towards National Soclalism, but I do not know whether he belongs +to any such group either. +Be that as it may, let us, in a spirit of good will and with an open +mind, take a look at what Mr. Hoehler had to say about CREATIVI-TY, and what our correct position is towards each Issue. Before I +do so, I want to make a eriticism of Mr. Hoehler's writings in general +and the Dec. 1984 article in particular, and it is this: Some of his +statements are so vague one is left wondering what he means, or +how, if at all, it applies to the question at hand. As we used to say +when I was in the Florida Legislature: "Your point is so subtle +it completely escapes me" This is, at least one criticism that has +never been leveled at me. On the contrary, most people have criticized me by saying that: "You certainly make it perfectly clear as to +where you stand, perhaps too clear."

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128 +Now we come to some of the points that we do understand, or +think we do. +1."One fellow I know claims you are 'too Jewish' for his taste. +Curiously enough an objective observer could point out certain +features of your stand which are both histortically or culturally Jewish +in flavor". +Alright, let us look at this general broadside. let me say at the +outset that it is hard to account for some people's, tastes, +especially when I don't know who this fellow is for whose taste I may +be "too Jewish". But tastes come in more varieties than Howard +Johnson's 28 flavors of ice cream, and some of the tastes on the +modern seene are extremely bizarre and repugnant. We have sex +perverts, we have people who "adore" Michael Jackson, people who +hate Hitler. Need I go on? We are not going to try to accommodate +all tastes, or any, for that matter. If CREATIVITY is not their tasty +dish, let thern dine elsewhere. The world is fulI of alternatives, most +of which are Jewish garbage. In fact, all I intend to do is call it as +I see it, and try to wipe the Jewish pestilence from off the face of +the earth. +However, the poInt is that evidently Mr. Hoehler agrees with +this "fellow", whoever he is, because he goes on to say: +2."Sarcasm ond cynicism are prime Jewish psychological +weopons". Perhaps so, Mr. Hoehler, but no mnre so than words, pro-paganda, religion, money, terrorism, military hardware and a million +other weapons that are used by Jews and non-Jews alike in order +to prevail over their enemies and survive. You yourself extensively +use sarcasm and cynicism in your writings. Even our common idol, +Adolf Hitler, used them all extensively, all the way from sarcasm to +military hardware in order to prevail, and only a fool would allow +himself to be willingly divested of all the useful waeapons at his +disposal because somebody might accuse him of using weapons us-ed by the Jews. We have no intentions of voluntarily disarming +ourselves so our enemies can make mincemeat out uf us. (Read again +"Self-imposed Handicaps" in Issue No. 6 of Expanding Creativity) +3. This brings me to the crux of Mr. Hoehlor's criticism. "Beware +in fighting with monsters lest you yourself become a monster!" he +says, quoting Nietsche. How cute! The alternative that is not men-ioned is to evidently let the monster devour you. +So I am glad this issue was raised because it is one of the silliest +shibboleths that has ever been bandied about, and in answer let me +draw you a picture. +If you were part of an army that was provided with nothing more +than slingshots and you were engaged in a life and death battle with +m opposition army that was armed with marhine guns. you would, +believe, be at a serious disadvantage, to say the least. Now if your +129 +dumb leader sald to you "yes, we too could obtain machine guns, +but heaven forbid, we don't want to be like our enemies, and we will +therefore do the honorable thing. We will faithfully stick with our +slingshots, even though we are wiped out to a man". +That would be pretty dumb, wouldn't it? In fact, suicidal +We CREATORS don't intend to commit suicide and we are not +dumb enough to have our prime weapons struck out of our hands. +(Read agoin Knocking the Key Weapon from out of the Enemy's +Hands", in R.L. No. 17 in this book). No indeed, if the enemy is us-ing machine guns and has weapons superior to ours, we want to make +damn sure we not only avail ourselves of machine guns too, but also +that ours are superior to the enemy's, and add to that a whole shop-ping list of other superior weapons - mortars, cannons, tanks, air-craft, bombers, or whatever it takes. That is, in fact, our position: +we will do whatever it takes, and to hell with the slingshot +advocates. +It is here that I want to reveal a crucial observation to Mr. +Hoehler: I have learned more from the Jews, from Jewish +weapons and tactics than have from all the White scholars, +presidents and philosophers put together, and I have no +hesitation, apologies and no compunction about saying so. The Jews, +a small parasitic minority, have survived for 5000 years and now own +and control the world. It behooves us to study how they have done +it and utilize the same effective and powerful weapons. This I have +done and it is all polarized into a White racial religion. If that is "too +Jewish" for some fellow's "taste", that is too bad, but I say to hell +with hanging onto the slingshots. We are determined to SUR-VIVE AND WIN, and use whatever weapons it takes. +4. We now come to one of the weakest and most indefensible +of all charges levelled at us, and that is Mr. Hoehler's criticism of +our SALUBRIOS5 LIVING approach to good health and a sound +mind. Evidently such an attitude, too, is Jewish, and see, therefore +we should not "concem ourselves with dietary rules". Why? +Because Mr. Hoehler says, it is Jewish brain-rot and as con-clusive evidence he cites Ralph Waldo Emerson's quotation: "A good +mind can nourish himself on a broth of boiled shoes, if need be!" +Well, I didn't know Emerson said that, but l'll take Mr. Hoehler's +word for it, and make a comment of my own. If Emerson did say +that, it was one of the most stupid remarks he ever made, and +evidently Emerson was completely Ignorant of the scientific informa-tion now available about how to nuriure a healthy body and a sound +mind. He evidently was also grossly ignorant about certain rules of +living that can ruin not only a healthy body, but also the mind that +inhabits that body. Surely, even the most naive and uninformed will +admit that such rules exist. Surely no individual a indifferent

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130 +as to whether his mind and body are in excellent health, +whether they are functioning efficiently and effectively, as +to whether they are imbued with a good feeling of energy +and well being, or whether on the other hand they feel sick, +despondent, suicidal, their body racked with pain and +lathargy. There is a difference, isn't there? And surely, what you +ingest into your body makes a difference. How you treat your body, +whether you treat it intelligently or abuse it like a wanton fool, does +make a difference, doesn't it? Whether you "nourish" your body with +boiled shoe leather, cocaine, smoke pot, smoke tobacco, or consume +100 to 200 pounds of sugar a year does make one hell of a differece. +We CREATORS call that difference "Salubrious Living". We have +reviewed just one chapter, namely Chapter 8 of our book of the same +name nn this important subject. We hope it will help some uninformed +people to begin educating themselves for their own benefit. +But let us not be too hard on Mr. Emerson. He is not alone +among the intelligentsia who are compIetely screwed up in their ap-proach to health and common sense. There are millions of them still +wandering the earth today who may know everything about the 18th +Dynasty that ruled Egypt several thousand years ago, but are com-pletely ignorant regarding the first constructive rule about taking care +of their own bodies, the same bodies that house their closed minds, +and both suffer much as a result. There are more hundreds of millions +meandering the face of the earth who gorge on toxic junk foods, overf-ed and undernourished. Most of them are obese, lethargic, loaded +with chemical toxins, Inviting cancer and all the other degenerative +diseases of civllization. As George Dietz has said repeatedly, "Those +who will not read have no advantage over those who cannot". +No indeed, Mr. Hoehler, SALUBRIOUS LIVING is NOT +Jewish. It Is just plain, good common sense. The A.M.A. and their +medical dogma of drugs, chemicals, polsons and the whole mess +of unnatural toxins is Jewish. It causes cancer, diabetes, heart disease +and a whole plethora of so-called degenerative diseases that our +"civilization" is aflicted with, but rarely found among the primitive +races of mankind. the "approved" A.M.A. treatent of cancer, +for instance, is cut, burn, and poison. THAT IS JEWISH. +But living in accordance with, and in harmnny with the Laws +of Nature, and taking care of our health, our mind, our society, our +gene pool and our environment is about as un-Jewieh as you can get. +It is strictly CREATIVE, strictly aIl White, and that is what +CREATVITY is all about. The fact that the primitive ignorant Jews +may have imbedded some stupid dietary superstitions in their +perverted gutter religion does not in the least deter, or discourage +us from using common sense in understanding and applying the Laws +of Nature. My only regret is that I was not apprised of this extremely

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131 +important body of knowledge when I was a child, Instead of being +misled by Jew-trained doctors for most of my adult life. I somcerely +regret that only late in life did I stumble onto this vital area +of human knowledge, when I could have enjoyed the +benefits thereof from the day I was born. But as Adolf Hitler +said - "There are truths lying around on the streets, but few people +will recognize them." Let us repeat: those who wIIl not read - the +closed mind - the sick mind. +We now come to tbe religion that CREATIVITY +something in common with Judaism because somehow we +embrace "monotheism". This is exceedingly strange since this im-plies that we CREATORS too embrace the "One God" thesis, when +we are one of the foremost advocates of dumping spookcraft - all +spookcrafts. Not only that, but evidently when we try to solve an over-whelmlng world problem - namely the Jewish pestilence - by us-ing logic, by being rational, by using our brains, by trying to organize +a systematic and effective counter-force to the Jewish power +establishment, this is evldently deemed extremely bad, and brands +us as being cold and unemotional. Evidentely, Mr. Hoehler goes along +with other simllar critics and implies that we should be irrational, +ilIogical and silly about the whole thing, play childish games instead +and employ the help of imaginary spooks to do the job for us. If we +don't we are cold and unemotional. Not only that but the more of +a muddled mish-mash we can drag into the plcture, why the hap-pier everybody will be, whether we get the job done or not. +seems to be the Implied alternative to CREATIVITY. +Well, we will not be hoodwinked or misIed down a blind alley. +(Read again: "A Polyglot Mind and a Polyglot Society - Who Needs +Them?" ln Issue No. 10 of Expanding Creatiuity). For too long the +White Race has been aimlessly wandering in a pointless disorganiz-ed sea of confusion, a muddled mish-mash of meaningless Jewish +shibboleths, and it has led to nothing but unmitigated disaster for +the White Race. Believe me, just because we are trying to be rational, +factual, logical, organized and systematic in solving a dire problem +does not mean we are unemotional. By no means. We CREATORS +can get as fired up as anybody, if not more so. But that +doesn't mean we must be silly and confused about it. We aim +to concentrate and direct that fire effectively at the target. (Read +again "The Time has come for the White Race to establish its own +Pole Star". in Issue No. 20 of this book). +In conclusion, let me say this: We CREATORS are not in the +business of trying to impress anyone, or to entertain anyone. We mean +to get an important job done, and sacrifice whatever it takes, do +whatever it takes. If we have learned some successful tactics from +the Jews and use their own weapons against them, why that's great.

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132 +That does not make us Jewish in the least. It only means that we +deplore the slingshot syndrome. There is one major difference +between the White Race and the Jews that will always re-main - and that is: The Jews are eternal parasites and can +only survive on the backs of a productive host. On the other +hand, we CREATORS are builders and producers and need +no help from any of theother raaces, least of all parasites +and other mud races, and we seek to build a Whiter and +Brighter World for our own kind. +This attitude will make a lot of Christians, bleeding hearts, +muddle-headed hyprocrites, mealy-mouthed sentimentalists, +dopeheads, cowards and sycophants mad. That's too damn bad. But +now that we have found our Pole Star we will remain on our course, +we will remain factual, rational, logical and determined to do the +Job that must be done. We are interested only in those stout he hearts +that will help us get that awesome job done, and have little interest +in those who have nothing better to do than throw roadblocks in our +way.

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We Creators would rather be promoting a +cause that may be unpopular at this time but will +win in the end, than one that may be populur now +but lose in the end.

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The biggest problem we have to contend with +(and correct) is the screwed up thinking of the +White Race itself.

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Issue Number 24, May 1985 +Where does YOUR First Loyalty lie?

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Our Race is Our Religion

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God and Country, the Flag and the Constitu-tion not the Issue nor the Solution +Several years ago I was invited to Kansas City to give a speech. +(I was only one speaker amongst several others). It was a group of +White "Patriots," but of mixed political and philosophical ideologies. +There were Klansmen, born-again Christians, John Birchers and a +variety of other groups. Outside of several F.B.I. agents in disguise, +the majority of this mixed group were good White people, except that +most of them were sorely confused as to where their loyalty lay. They +all had little in common except perhaps that they were alarmed that +something was wrong, and clung to that tired and hackneyed posi-tion of God, Country, the Flag and the Constitudon - each in his +or her disjointed way. +The subject of my speech was the same as the last part of the +title of this article, namely God & Country, etc. It was not well receiv-ed. I told them what they did not want to hear, namely that their +pet holy cows never were, and are not now, the solution to the +multitude of evils and problems that beset the White Race, nor had +they ever been the real issues in the past. +I reminded them of the history of our pointless and ineffective +struggles ever since W.W. II in which the "patriots," the "conser-vatives " the "right wingers" and what have you, had launched at +least 20000 different organizations, large and small, seemingly to +stem the tide. Despite all this, they had not made the slightest dent +in the headlong onslaught by the Jewish power structure to destroy +the White Race, to destroy America, and in fact, to destroy the +civilization the White Race has built up over the last several thou-sand years. +I asked the rhetorical question: After 30 years and 20000 +failures, isn't it time to re-examine our basic premises? If +you were building aqueducts on the premise that water voluntarily +ran uphill and after 30 years every one of the aqueducts was a dismal +failure, would you not stop and re-evaluate your basic premise, and +perhaps conclude that water did not run uphill? +I then proceeded to show as clearly as I knew how, that none

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170 +of these factors - God, Country, Flag or the Constitution were the +basic issues. In none of these lay the real solution. I went to the heart +of the matter and stated bluntly - the real issue is race - the +survival, expansion and advancement of the White Race and +the real eneies are the mud races of the world - led by +that conspiratorial master-snaeak of all time, the perfidious +Jew. +As I explained earlier, ths was a mixed group. Although all +White, it consisted of polyglot philosophies, each going their own +way, like the six blind men from Indostan who went to "see" an +elephant, As could be expected from any polyglot group, nothing was +accomplished; no common ground was reached, no worthwhile pro-gram pursued or anything else of value accomplished. Just as it is +impossible to accomplish anything worthwhile with a heterogeneous, +polyglot society or country, so also is it impossible to accomplish +anything with a heterogeneous, polyglot group. Furthermore, since +the group was programmed along the Christian-Conservative (I prefer +to call it Kosher-Konservative) line, I realized that it was impossible +to de-program years of indoctrination within the limits of a 20 minute +speech. +However, to my surprise, it was not a total loss. Whereas the in-dividuals had been too intimidated to express approval of such heresy +as I bad enunciated among their peers, later in the evening an en-courageing number privately showed both their interest and approval +by coming to my room, purchasing copies of NATURES'S ETERNAL +RELIGION and also of the record SURVIVAL OF THE WHITE +RACE. (The WHITE MAN'S BIBLE had not yet been printed). +In this essay, I want to explain briefly why we CREATOR +believe it is a lost cause to pursue the favorite Kosher Konservative +line. Let us briefly examine each one of the four subjects with which +these Kosher Konservatives are so enamoured. +Let us take the first item - "God." In both NATURE'S ETER-NAL RELIGION and the WHITE MAN'S BIBLE I have already +thoroughly belabored the illusions about supplicating to the non-existant spooks in the sky. I believe I have demonstrated amply, page +after page that the whole subject is one vast swindle that has been +a very useful tool for the Jewish conquest of the world, but has been +a major catastrophe for the White Race. We of the CHURCH OF +THE CREATOR not only are convinced that no spook will emerge +to help save the White Race, but on the contrary, that the childish +and superstitious belief in spooks has been one of the major road +blocks preventing the White Race from forming and polarizing around +a racial religion of our own for thousands of years. +We now turn next to the concept of "Country." This subject, too, +I have covered in the chapter "Where does your Loyalty Lie?" in

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171 +NATURE'S ETERNAL RELIGION. Also I have touched on this in +Creative Credo Number 2 of the WHITE MAN'S BIBLE where I em-phasize racial loyalty and that every issue is examined through the +eyes of the White Race. But let me briefly recapitulate here. +A "Country" is an artificial, man-made concept that usually +compasses a certain area of real estate upon the face of the earth. +Its boundaries too, are artificial, and in a constant state of change. +In times of conquest these boundaries may be moved to enlarge the +territory. In times of defeat the boundaries are moved to shrink the +subject area. Sometimes a whole country may be artificially created +out of a conglomerate of other countries and peoples, as was +Czechoslovakia after W.W.I. Sometimes a whole country is swallow-ed up and annexed to the conqueror's territory, as has been the case +with Poland a number of times during its history. In any case, a coun-try is a fleid, unstable and artificial creation structured by the political +establishment in power at the time. In the last several centuries, the +hand of the Jew has been the most powerful influence in both struc-turing and demolishing such political entities. +But let us analyze a "Country" one step further and determine +whether or not it should deserve that most precious gift - our +primary loyalty. +When we speak of "Country," such as say the United State of +America, we are speaking of at least three separate and distinct +components: (a) There is the land and real state encom-passed within its boandaries. (b) There are its people that +occupy this same real estate, and (c) There is its government +that controls both the land and is occupants. +Whereas we Creators believe strongly in the sanctity of land and +territory; that it is worth fighting and dying for, we want to immedite-ly add: Yes, but for whose benefit? If it is for the benefit of the +White Race, definitely yes. But if it is of benefit for the Jews, the nig-gers and the mud races, definitely, no. +Looking at the history of the U.S., outside of the War with Mex-ico, 1846-48, and the Indian wars, practically every war the U.S. +has engaged in since has been to the detriment of the White Race +and for tge benefit of the Jews. This includes the Civil War, W.W. +I, W.W. II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. in this category +we must also include the vast quantities of aid, the tens of billions +of dollars that the U.S. has rendered to the Jews in helping them +carve out the bandit state of Israel and its subsequent aggressive wars +against the Arabs. In all these wars the White Man has been a sad +loser, a tragic victim, and the Jews the sole beneficiaries. Does this +kind of subversion and betrayal ofthe White Race bestir in your breast +the fervor of patriotism and loyalty to flag and country? Not to any +White Man in his right senses it doesn't.

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172 +Let me ask you further - would you be willing to fight for, bleed +and die fighting for a country that consisted of wall-to-wall niggers +as its main inhabltants? And finally, would you fight for a govern-ment that was controlled by the Jewish bankers and Jewish power +establishment whose primary goal was the mongrelization and +destruction of the White Race? +This brings us to the crux of our analysis. Any White Man who +would fight ior any country in a war that was for the benefit of the +Jews and niggers and to the detriment of hls own people we con-sider as being a despicable traitor to his own race. To us Creators +there is no creature more reprehensible than a traitor to his race. +To us - loyalty to our precious White Race overshadows every other +loyalty, every other issue. It overshadows the Jewish god or gods, +it overshadows country, flag and Constitution, none of which so far +has lifted a Anger to help save the White Race. +Let us now consider the U.S. flag, and flags in general. +A flrg, basically, is a symbolic expression of an ideal, +creed or a philosophy of a certain group of people, whether +such group identifies itself as a religious group, a racial group, or +a country or some other common entity. A flag or pendant might +also represent a sporting group, such as a yaeht club, a football team, +or an international group like the flag of the Olympics. Even the +United Nations has a flag. +Looking at it from the White Man's point of view (the only one +we Creators consider relevant) other than our "country," just what +idea does the U.S. Flag represent? If you were to ask that ques-tion of 50 different people, I doubt whether there would emerge one +meaningful answer. This "country" has flown many flags including +the British flag before 1776. It has flown the "Don't tread on me" +flag, and it has flown the Betsy Ross flag since the American Revolu-tion, but chanced it repeatedly in the number of stars as states were +added. Some states, California for example, had their own flag +originally, such as the California Bear Republic, and some states +such as Texas have been under as many as six different flags. +In short, a flag represents the philosophy or mood of a people, +or at least those that are in control at a particular time. It represents +no more, no less. +Our American flag flew in honor when it fought the Mexican War +of 1846-48. It fought in disgrace in 1861-65 when it represented the +"Union" forces of the North as they smashed the White South for +the benefit of the Jews and niggers. Practically every war since (ex-cept a few scattered Indian wars) that the U.S. Flag has flown over +has been fought to the disgrace and detriment of the White Race, +and for the benefit of Jews and their manipulated traitors in charge. +So, is such a flag really worth fighting for? Would you be will-

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173 +ing to die defending its Jewish besmirched history? Hardly. At least +no loyal White Racial Comrade would ever again be euchered into +slaughtering members of his own race for the sullied "glory" of a flag +that no longer represents the White Race, or anything our race stands +for. +We now come to tbe Constitution. I have thoroughly +covered this subject in NATURE'S ETERNAL RELIGION, PAGES +258 to 262, and I need not repeat it here, except to make a few cogent +points. +1.Whereas the Founding Fathers who helped draft the Constitu-tion were, in the majority, land holders and men of means, they +themselves owned slaves. (Jefferson, Washington, and a host of +others.) They had no intention of having the niggers be any part of +our governing society, or even giving them the vote. To illustrate how +pointless and how ineffective this piece of paper, the Constitution, +has been in protecting the dwindling White majority from the Jewish +onslaught, consider that today the Jews are using the Constitution +as their most powerful tool to force integration, race-mixing and +mongrelization on an unwilling, recalcitrant, but confused White +Race. The tables have now been turned with the help of the much +vaunted Constitution so that now the White race has become the +slave of the niggers and the Jews. The White Man now does most +of the work, carries the overwhelming burden of the tyrannical tax +load, while the niggers freeload, breed like rabbits, and the Jews live +off the fat of the land. +2. Any written piece of paper, whether it be an agreement, trea-ty, Conshtution or whatever, is only as good as the determination +of the participants to entorce it, backed up with the power to do so. +So let us remember this one overriding issue and heed it well! +To us Creators loyalty to our race is our first and foremost loyalty, +whether we live in England, in France, in Germany or in the United +States. It overrides and overshadows any other loyalty to such ar-tificial concepts as spooks in the sky, country, flag or Constitution. +That is why we have a racial religion - a religion that is dedicated +to the survival, expansion and advancement of the White Race, and +the White race alone. OUR RACE IS OUR RELIGION. +But to merely say our race is our religion is not enough. True, +we have come to the heart of the matter, but it is still too broad an +too vague around which to build a meaningful movement. It needs +to be channelled, to be harnessed, to be delineated, to be +clearly formulated. It must answer the needs and problems of the +White Race as it exists today, and Christ knows - they are manifold. +It must answer the burning questions of today, and it must come up +with sensible and pragmatic solutions. It must lay down the guidelines +in every category, for every phase of our existence, and for the sur-

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174 +vival of the White Racial Community. +But it must also do more than that. It must set goals and +direction for the White Race for the next million years. +In Creativity we have done all this. We have covered all the +bases; we have endeavored to include the whole spectrum of life from +A to Z. We spell it out succinctly when we say that the goal of +CREATIVITY for the White Race is a Sound Mind in a Sound +Body is a Sound Society in a sound Environment. That says +it all. +Furthermore, in Creativity we avoid the fatal mistake of trying +to make a silk purse out ot a sow's ear. We don't endeavor to "save" +and "uplift" all of "humanity." We are only interested in work-ing with and for the best interests of Nature's Finest. We state +dogmaticaliy that the world is now infested with a variety of scum +that is garbage and is not worth saving. +We specifically delineate our position on this vital issue in C.C. +Number 2 of the White Man's Bible, in which we say clearly that +everything is examined, judged, looked at, from the White Man's +point of view. Everything is measured by the White Man's yardstick, +the White Man's standards. +In this respect we sum it up in our Golden Rule. What is +goodfor the White Race is the highest virtue. What is badfor the +White Race is the ultimate sin. +We are not interested in the welfare of the multitudes of mud +races, nor in helping to feed them, nor in subsidizing them, nor in +"uplifting" them. In fact we are not even interested in their survival. +We are in total agreement with Nature's Law of Survival of the Fit-test. If the mud races can't feed themselves (and they can't), if they +can't hack it, they will wither on the vine and become extinct. As +far as we are concerned, they deserve it - the sooner the better. +The sooner the world is cleansed of all the trash, criminals, parasites +and freeloaders, the sooner the best of the White Race will again +have elbow room to expand his own and build a Whiter and Brighter +World. +The Kosher Konservatives have had their day. For 50 years they +have spouted their clap-trap about God and Country, the Flag and +the Constitution. For 50 years they have spawned their no-win, half-baked groups, at least 20000 of them, and they have done nothing +more than divide, confuse and delay the White Race in coming to +grips with a realistic solution and a confrontation with the Jewish +pestilence. In so doing they have rendered a tremendous service to +the Jew in playing their treacherous game of divide and conquer. +These Kosher Konservatives, after 20000 failures, cannot, or will +not, learn that water will not voluntarily run uphill, that you cannot +build a working aqueduct on such a false premise.

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175 +We will have no further truck with these Kosher Konservatives. +Like the "born again" Christians, the Identity Christians and the rest +of this misguided ilk, they are living in a dream worid, in a fool's +paradise. They have completely deserted the White Race and have, +in fact, become a valuable pawn in the treacherous game the Jews +have planned for the destruction of the White Race. These cowards +are afraid of the Jews, and even afraid to admit they belong to the +White race. +There is only one hope for the White Race and that is to build +a powerful racial religion of its own, to which all responsible and in-telligent White men and women can dedicate their loyalty, their love, +their honor, and yes, if necessary their lives. +In CREATIVITY we have it all. It is now our task to convince +the 20000 or more fractured and misguided groups that this is so, +and that only in polarizatton around a racial religion, as the Jews +have done, is there any hope in building the power structure +necessary to smash the Jewish behemoth. +To help bring our White Racial Comrades to their senses we are +instituting a series on Compartive Religions to compare ours to +older religions that have been such a powerful force in shaping the +thinking and destiny of mankind, and of the White Race in particular. +Compare it, if you will, on the basis of logic, common sense, +completeness, integrity and constructive goals with any +other religion. In history. I believe we more than hold our +own. +If you will THINK, if you will COMPARE, I believe you will come +to the same conclusion as we have - only in uniting, in polarizing +around our own racial religion, can we, the White Race, survive and +bulld the beautiful White world we envision and so richly deserve.

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Creativity aspires to helping White people get +rid of garbage thoughts as well as garbage foods.

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"The customs of this accursed people (the +Jews) have grown so strong, that they have +spread through every land. " +- Sencea

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176 +Comparative Religions - +Part 1 +Objectives of Our Comparative Series +1. To illustrate by means of detailed comparison that in +CREATIVITY we have finally achieved a genuine, bonafide, com-prehensiue racial religion for the White Race that is the equal of, +or superfor to, any religion in history. +2. That our religion makes more sense, is more logical, is more +complete and better planned and organized; it is, in fact, more effec-tiuely constructed than any of the established old "great" religions +of the urorld. +3. That in order to survive at all, the White Race must now +polarize around its own racial religion. +4. To convince all the polyglot and diverse White racial groups +and leaders that in CREATIVITY lies the salvation of the White Race +and the sooner we unite under the banner of Creativity, the sooner +we will be on our way in waging an effective battle for the survival +of the White Race. +Think about it. If not Creativity, what else is there?

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Mohammedanism +When the Ayatollab Kbomeini returned to Iran in 1978 in +triumph to wildly cheering multitudes, he again proved the power +of a religious fervor and of the overriding importance of an ideology. +Let us consider the odds he faced. For 13 years he had been +sitting in Paris, an exile. He had no army, no government, no police +force, no legal status. Pitted against him was one of the most powerful +potentates in the Moslemic Middle East, The Shah of Iran. The +Shah was in the true sense a ruthless dictator, with a cruel and effi-cient seeret police at his command, a powerful army, equipped with +the most modern of American weapons, all financed by an abundance +of gushing oil wells. The Shah and his family were themselves, in +fact, one of the most wealthy, affluent families in the world. +Yet before the year 1978 was over, the Shah himself was a +hunted exile, in fear of his life and hard put to find a country that +would even receive him as a refugee. The Ayatollah, in the mean-time, was now in supreme control of Iran, idolized and worshipped +by the masses and the multitudes. His every word and wish was the +law of the land. +To accomplish such an overwhelming victory against such +tremendous odds, what was it the Ayatollah had over the Shah?

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177 +What weapon, what advantage did be hrve? Was he a better +administrator and ruler? No, he was not. Subsequent events have +shown, that he is a bumbler, is inefficient, is a fumbling idiot in the +science of govemment. Did he have a superior economic program +to offer the people in order to raise their standards of living? No, he +did not. He hardly even talked about economics, and in this area +too, he is an ignoramus. Was he more loving, democratic, compas-sionate and lenient with his people? Again, negative. He proved to +be more cruel, ruthless and tyrannical than the Shah had ever been, +as the thousands of executions and arbitrary pronouncements over +the last seven years have also proved. +Then what did he have to offer to be able to not only overthrow +the once powerfully entrenched Shah, but also maintain his grip on +the people, and in fact, become a leader and a focal point of all the +Moslems of the Middle East, the Far East, and in fact, of the world? +The major advantage the Ayrtatollah had over the Shah, +and still has, is the powerful weapon of a RELIGIOUS +CREED. It is a weapon as old as history, and the Mohammedans +have now has it for over thirteen centuries, tailor-made for the +scrawny, emotional and backward masses. The Jews have one tailor-made for their parasitical nature and have found it has worked +wonders for them over the last 3000 years. But that is another story. +The point I want to drive home to my White Racial Comrades +is this: RELIGIONS are like fire: a powerful force in the +human equation that can be useful to either energize the +people that utilize it, or it can be used to destroy their whole +social structure, as fire can burn down a house. +The White Man's religion has been used to burn down his house +- it has been used by his enemies to confuse, destroy and disintegrate +the White Race itself. +But let us get back to the Moslem reilgion, and examine its +historic origins, its expansion and its widespread influence today. +As I have pointed out before, the relatively small desert area +lying In Asia at the eastern end of the Mediterranean has been the +hotbed, the spawning ground of mankind's three major religions, +namely Judaism, Christanity and Mohammedanism. Although many +thousands of religions have infested the landscape and infected the +minds of men, these three religions have directed the course of history +more significantly than all the other religlons combined. +Mohammed, the founder of the Moslem religion, was born circa +571 C.E., in what is today Saudi Arabia. His father died before he +was born and his mother shortly thereaher. He was raised and +brought up by his uncle and his grandfather and experienced hard-ship in his early Ilfe. When he was 25, he married Khadijah an older +Jewish widow of considerable wealth, and his financial troubles were

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178 +now over. He could now afford the leisure time to meditate and reflect +on the nature and destiny of man. +By his fortieth year this contemplation crystallized into an ar-ticulated religion, in which he proclaimed there was only one God, +Allah, and that he, Mohammed, was his messenger and his +prophet. His wife Khadijah was his first convert. +Fired up into a burst of energy and action he soon stirred up a +storm of angry protest in his native city of Mecca, which worship-ped a multitude of gods, idols and fetishes. +Despised and persecuted in his native city, Mohammed fled north +to Medina. This flight, in the year 622 C.E. is known as the Hegira. +Here his proselytizing efforts prospered and soon he had a +veritable army of followers. With his now powerful army he returned +and conquered his native city of Mecca, and the Moslem religion soon +spread like wildfire. +When he died at the age of 61 in the year 632 C.E., he bequeath-ed upon his followers a religio-political heritage that has prospered +and expanded to this very day, a heritage that provided the power-ful fuel with which the Ayatollah Khomeini blasted the Shah of Iran +from the Peacock throne of Persia. +Today 850 million Muslims, a fifth of the world's population, turn +daily towards Mecca five times a day in prayer. It is the world's se-cond largest religion, crowding Christianity and soon threatening to +surpass it. It is growing faster numerically than any other religion +on two counts: (a) new converts, and (b) the high brth rate of the +mud peoples that embrace it. It is the dominant belief in some 40 +nations, and even the U.S.S.R. has 40 million Moslems, 15.5 per-cent of its population. +Let us now analyze and compare its merits and characteristic +with our own religion, CREATIVITY.

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Mohammedanism vs.

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Creativity - a Comparison

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Basis of its belief: Mohammedanism is founded on the same +old swindle as thousands of other religions - namely, the spooks-in-the-sky hocus-pocus, a blind conjecture for which neither the Jews, +the Christians, the Mohammedans nor any other gullible yokel has +ever produced one scintilla of evidence. +Creativity, on the other hand, is based on the Eternal Laws of +Nature, on the lessons of history, on logic and common sense. +In short, our religion is based on the reality of the world +as it is, with a view of how we can best achieve a better world +by the use of our intelligence, our dilligence, and our

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179 +creativity. +Sacred Book or Books. The Holy Book of the Mohammedan +religion is the Koran. +Allegedly, it contains the reported utterances of Mohammed +himself, as some unknown scribe or scribes supposedly remembered +them. These suppositions are on a level wlth those of the New Testa-ment followers, who assume Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, +whoever they were, somehow, somewhere "remembered" the ut-terances of Jesus Christ, and wrote them down. There is not a +shred if evidence to support any of these nebulous claims. +The historical facts about the Koran as can be pieced together +are something like this: The first Koranic utterances were reported-ly first memorized (by whom?) and written on palm leaves or stone. +They were then tossed into a barrel and later written down in a book +in a random sequence. The Third Caliph, Uthman, 644-656, several +decades after Mohammed's death "compiled" them into the codex +of Medina, at the same time destroying rival versions in order to avoid +confusion. It was not until the 10th century (three centuries after +Mohammed's death) that an "authorized" verston was put together. +So how authentic is the Koran in conjunction with Mohamm-ed's preachings? Who knows? But considering the various manipula-tions, and considering the lapse in time, any resemblance would have +to be sheer coincidence. +Nevertheless, whatever emerged as the Koran has had tremen-dous influence in shaping the Arabic language as such, and in welding +together the religious and political thinktng of a loose and amorphous +group of Arabs, Semites, Hindus, Orientals, niggers and other mud +races. +CREATIVITY, in contrast, has Three Basic Books that +were written by the Founder of the religion, reviewed, published, +Copyrighted and authorized as such while the Founder was still alive. +Also, supplementary books such as Expanding Creahvity were writ-ten and published by the Founder while still alive, thereby eliminating +any question of authenticity or subversion of content. These Three +Basic Books are Nature's Eternal Religion, The White Man's Bible +and Salubrious Living. +The goals of Creativity are well defined, its program is clear and +pragmatic. It is comprehensive and covers all the basic goals, pro-blems and moral values significant for the survival, expansion and +advancement for the White Race. Unlike the Christian Bible, or the +Mohammedan Koran, these basic books were not the compilation +of some elusive and unknown "reporters" who supposedly patched +together unconfirmed rumors, myths or hearsay several centuries +later. +Goals and Objectives. Some of the goals Mohammed

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180 +evidently had in mind were: +(a) To unify various loose and scattered desert tribes into a +powerful and polarized political and religious body. +(b) By ordaining several daily ablutions as part of their religious +ritual to those primitive tribes (whose private habits at best were un-sanitary, and at worst, downright dirty) he sought to improve their +physical and personal habits of cleanliness. +(c) Give these primitive desert tribes inspiration, direction and +some sense of moral responsibillty. +(d) Build a powerful political empire with himself at the head. +In all these goals Mohammed succeeded rather well. +Creativity's Goals have been spelled out in great detail in our +basic books. They are clear, comprehensive, constructive and con-sistent. They encompass the entire Planet Earth as a unit, not mere-ly a limited area of real estate. +Without reviewing our entire creed, the highlights of our goals +and objectives can briefly be stated as follows: +1 . The survival, expansion and advancement of the White Race, +and the White Race exclusively. +2. To inform, arouse and unity the White Race into a solid bat-tering ram so that it can break the Jewish stranglehold and take +charge of its own destny. +3. To get the Jews, the niggers, the mud races, and the +freeloaders and other parasites off of the backs of the White Race. +4. To give the White Race a sense of awareness, of morality and +direction. +5. To provide a meaningful plan and blueprint for the future of +the White Race. +6. To create a strong sense of Racial Loyalty towards the White +Race among all the White nations and peoples of the world. +7. A Sound Mind in a Sound Body in a Sound Society in a Sound +Environment, as spelled out in our program of SALUBRIOUS +LIVING. +8. A universal language, namely Latin, for all the White peoples +of the world. +9. Eugenics. To work in harmony with the Laws of Nature and +to upgrade our White gene pool. +10. To build a Whiter and Brighter World, with the White Race +ultimately and exclusively inhabiting all the worthwhile real estate +of this Planet Earth. +For a more comprehensive summation see "20 Basic +Points of Creativity" in the beginning pages of this book.

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181 +More about Mohammnedanism +The Koran. as we have pointed out is not only regard-ed as the sacred book of the Moslems, but is considered +as holy in itself written by God, and not to be question-ed. I have tried to read many ports of it on several occa-sions and find it extremely boring, conjusing and +meaningless. +It places women in un extremely inferior status as a +mere servant of the male gender, to bear children and +to satisfy his sexaul desires. It also condones polygamy, +a practice that has been shunned by most White +civilizations.

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One profound diference between a Kosher +Konservative and a Creator is that whereas the +former professes his first allegiance to a Jewish +Jahweh, a fictitious tribal spook, our loyalty first, +last and always, belongs to our own race.

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We Creators deem treason against the White +race us the gravest of all sins.

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182 +Treachery Recalled +PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF +The Anatomy of a Kosher Koservative

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This clinical diagnosis concerns a certain Dr. John Grady, M.D., +who lives near a small village in Tennessee called Benton. Dr. Grady +is not just an ordinary doctor of medicine, but has a number of +unusual credentials outside of the medical profession. He first rose +to prominence as an articulate member of the John Birch Society +and soon was elevated by Robert Welch himself to be on the Board +of Directors of that society, a group that I myself joined in 1963 and +resigned from in 1969 when I discovered to my regret that the main +objective of that Jew-loving society was to confuse the White goyim +and run interference for the Jews. +Dr. Grady further enhanced his status when he ran for the U.S. +Senate on the American Independent Party ticket in 1974, but came +out a poor third in a three way race. It was at this Hme that he receiv-ed national prominence as a Conservative, but soon ran into the ire +of Robert the Welcher himself, who could not tolerate another Prima +Donna upstaging him on his own turf. +In the ensuing hassle, the articulate doctor resigned from the +Birch Society, and moved his practice to Benton, Tennessee. He +formed the APRA, The American Pistol and Rifle Association, a sort +of miniscule imitation of the giant National Rifle Association, but +with a "God and Country" flavor. +Since Benton, Tennessee, is only about 120 miles from Otto, +N.C., I took the time to visit the good doctor a few years ago in an +attempt to establish friendly relations with a group that espoused +a cause that we of the Church Of The Creator also highly promote, +namely the right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Se-cond Amendment. The doctor showed me the courtesy of spending +the afternoon with me, showing me the layout of his spread, the +target ranges, and the countryside in general. I thanked him for his +time and courtesy and left him some of my literature, Including a +copy of NATURE'S ETERNAL RELIGION and THE WHITE MAN'S +BIBLE. He, in turn, supplied me with his literature. Although we had +a few different viewpoints on religion, we did not discuss them, and +I left considering his group to be more or less in the same camp as +we were. When I discussed the Jewish menace, the doctor would give +me the "wink, wink" sign, as if he knew all about it too, but strange-ly stayed shy of the subject. +When we started publishing RACIAL LOYALTY two years ago, +we put him on our gratis mailing list, a courtesy we extended to a

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183 +number of those groups with whom we considered we had something +in common. +We were, therefore, somewhat surprised when last week we +received a note on his letterhead, signed by Mrs. Grady, instructing +us to send no further literutare and that they did not +subscribe to "hate" journalism. +My Hasta Primus, Carles, thought there must be some mistake. +On his own volition, he took the liberty of calling the doctor himself, +to determine whether those were his sentiments also. +Now my Hasta Primus is a rather loquacious and articulate in-dividual himself, but in the ensuing conversation he claims he hard-ly got in more than twenty words edgewise. In a rapid fire barrage +the doctor conveyed to him that: +(a) Ben Klassen is some sort of ego-maniac who probabiy never +tried to get along with other races. +(b) People like us, the Nazis, the Klan, and other racist groups +are giving the right-wing conservatives a bad name. +(c) His (the APRA) group does not subscribe to "hate" literature. +(d) He is trying to save what is left of Christian society. +(e) His goal is to preserve the Constitution for those who may +follow so they can enjoy the same opportunities that we have enjoyed. +(f) He is a doctor of medicine and gets literabre every day from +"nuts" like us who think they know better than does the AMA. +(g) No hard feelings, of course. +Of course, doctor. No hard feellngs on our part, either. As Sgt. +Joe Friday used to say on DRAGNET, "Just the facts, Ma'am." +Strangely, I had already written the lead editorial on God and +Country, the Flag and the Constitution when we received Dr. Grady's +note. It struck me graphically how much the honorable doctor fitted +into the prototype of the Jew-loving Kosher Konservatives with their +staid, shop-worn cliches that had confused the White Race for all +these decades while the Jew was sinking his poisonous tentacles +deeper into our society and consolidating his tyrannical power with +which to liquidate the White Race. +I also happened to recall a gross treachery Dr. Grady +perpetrated, not on me, but on the White Race of America. It is this +treachery that has rankled in me for ten years, and now that I unders-tand the nature of this individual more clearly, the time has come +to expose it. Yes, when it comes to treason against the White Race, +doctor, I have a long memory. It is THE GRAVAMEN, this in-dictment against the doctor, that weights most heaily, and +the main reason why I am writting this expose at all. +But first, let us answer the petty charges the doctor leveled +against us, one by one. +(a) This petty business about egotism reminds me about the time

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184 +in grade school when any bright student who would make 98 per-cent in a spelling exam and some dumb bunny would inavaribly come +back with the standard put-down "you think you're pretty smart, don't +you?" +Doctor, all I can say is that anybody who comes out and takes +a stand on an unpopular issue, will be called names. Christ knows +I have been called so many names, that they now roll off me as easi-ly as water rolls off a duck's back. Anyone who sets out to do +something important and meaningful, can and will be called an +egotist. Name calling is absolately the lowest denominator in the pro-paganda game, and the Jews, the communist and the Christians +have developed this treacherous art to an unbelievably vicious level +achieved by no other groups. The procedure is relatively simple. First +of all you invent a stable of derogatory words, such as anti-Semitism, +Nazi, racist, capitalist, atheist, anti-Christ, hate-groups, etc. Then +by heaping scorn, contempt and derision (Karl Marx s words) on +these terms repeatedly and endlessly, the public learns to genuflect +and react to them like a Pavlovian dog. Once their repugnance has +been firmly established, then all the name caller has to do is reach +into his stable of trigger words and hurl them at his opponents. No +logic, no reasoning, no further explanation is necessary. As I say, +the Jews, communists and Christains are the world's +foremort experts in this field and tbeir whole world +phillosophy is built on hate and name calling. +Now as far as ego-maniacs are concerned, doctor, as they say +about thieves - it takes one to know one. As I recall, your love af-fair with the John Birch Society was terminated not so much because +of any disagreement in philosophy, but purely on the basis of +egotistical jealousy between yourself and the then head honcho, +Robert the Welcher. As I further recall, the Welcher wrote you a long +letter in which he repeatedly emphasized your Prima Donna tenden-cies, and you, in turn, related to me what a jealous, unbearable ego-maniac the Welcher himself was. No hard feelings, doc, but I say: +Physician, heal thyself. +Taking this ego-trip business a little further, I suppose the "you +think you are smart" put-down can be hurled at just about any achiever +by the non-achiever, and generally is. Certainly your favorite wimpy +Jew, Jesus Christ himself made such flagrant self-inflating claims +as "I am the way and the light, and nobody comes to the Father but +through me." He also made a dozen similar highly egotistical claims +about how perfect he was compared to all of us lousy sinners, but +being a spooky Jew from the never-never land, I presume that as +a Catholic you condone, approve and admire such ego-inflating +claims made by the mythical himself about himself. +Speaking of Jesus Christ, I want to further remind the good doc-

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185 +tor that this circumsized Jew (for whose existence there is no +historical evidence) also rendered some extremely bad, suicidal ad-vice to the goyim, namely (a) sell all thou hast and give it to the nig-gers, (b) love your enemies, (c) turn the other cheek, (d) judge not, +(e) pluck out thine eye, (f) cut off thine hand. There is more - need +I go on? +So much for ego-maniacs. No hard feelings, doc. Just the facts, +ma'am. +(b) We now come to the doctors' accusation that "people like +us" are giving the conservatives and the right-wing a bad name. There +are a number of muddled implications in this accusation, but I want +to shaighten out at least two of them. (1) Our church (and any other +groups for that matter) may have a number of characteristics in com-mon with a thousand other different groups, depending on what +criterta you choose to select. We may even have some charactertics +"in common" with our enemies, if you plck the right criteria. For in-stance we, are a religion, as is Christianity. We are a racial religion, +as is Judaism. We are for keeping our guns, as is the APRA. We are +for the White Race, as is the Klan, and as are the Nazis, as is Tom +Metzger of the White Aryan Resistance, as is George Dietz of +the Liberty BeIl, as is the NSRP, as is Aryan Nations in Idaho, and +hundreds of other groups and organizations. +However, we are unique and not the same as any of +them. For instance, in Expanding Creativity, Issue Number 4 we list eight +(count them - eight!) fundamental differences between us and Hitler's +National Socialist Party. Whereas I greatly admire Adolf Hitler, our +creed and program is NOT the same, nor is it the same as any other +group. We are, I repeat, unique - a White Racial religion such as +the White Race has never had before in its history. So please, doc, +don't lump us. +(2) The second point is that we are neither right-wing, nor con-servative and have consistently denounced both groups as ineffec-tive relics of a dead past, completely out of touch with reality. The +key article in this Issue of this book entitled "Our Race is Our +Religion" expounds this fully, therefore I need not repeat it here. +Since we are no part of the right-wing or conservative move-ment, it is impossible that we could be giving these archaic holdovers +a bad name. Any bad name they have they have earned on +their own hook, and richly deserve. +(c) Regarding APRA not subscribing to "hate" Iiterature, this +is rather a silly cliche for which the Jews and Christians are notorious. +There is nobody that "hates" more intensively than do the Jews and +the Christians and the Old Testament is full of the Jewish Yahweh +impeiling his "Chosen" to lay siege to the goyim's lands and cities +in the name of friendship and "peace" (shalom) and if they resist to

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186 +kill every living thing that breathes. (Read again Chapters 10, 11 +& 12 of NATURES ETERNAL RELGION). The Christians, in turn, +when they had unchallenged power, used the Thumbscrew and Rack, +not to mendon burning at the stake, to lovingly "convince" their +enemies. (Read again Creative Credo Number 57 "Thumbscrew and +Rack" in the WHITE MANS BIBLE). So please, dont pull this +phoney pIoy about us being the haters. Actually the overwhelm-ing motivation of the Church Of The Creator is love of the +White Race, and to save it from genocide by the most vicious +haters of all time - the treacherous Jews, whose very +religion is based on hate. +What you and the Jews are really telling us, doc, is this: Hate +your own kind, but love the Jews and your other enemies! +Frankly, we Creators are not that stupid and I hope you are not +either. +(d) Dr. Grady says he is trying to save what Is left of Christian +Society. Really? What for and for whom? I ask this question in the +same vein as I asked the Mormons about "saving" the so-called seven +Polynesian "cultures" in their center in Hawaii - are they worth sav-ing, and if so for whom? Is Christanity, after its repeated failure to +improve "humanity" over the last 2000 years and its dire conse-quences to the White Race - is it worth saving? We Creators res-pond with a loud and emphatic no, it is not. It is a Jewish disease +inflicted on the minds of the White Race and has been instrumental +in bringing down, first of all, the great Roman Empire, in ushering +in 1300 years of the Dark Ages, in making Jewish Communism possi-ble, and in the end, the violent destruction of Nature's Finest. +Save what is lelf of Christianity? You might as well be dedicated +to saving cancer, leprosy and syphilis. They are aIl deadly poisons +to the White Race. Let me point out that if the White Race is +destroyed and this country is inhabited by wall to wall niggers, +Voodooism, not Christanity will be the religion of the realm. +(e) Dr. Gradys goal of preserving the Constitution for those who +may follow is so they can enjoy the same opportunities we have +enjoyed. +Since I have already covered this subject In the lead article star-ing on Page 1, I need not go over this ground again. I wlll add three +points of emphasis: +(1) The Constitution has now been converted into a powerful tool +used to vioIently force integratlon on the White Race with the nig-gers and other mud races, and: +(2) When and if the Jews achieve their long sought goal of wip-ing out the White Race both Christianity and the Constitution will +go down the drain with it. +(3) We are not now "enjoying opportunities" under the Constitu-

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187 +tion. Constitution or no Constitution, we are now under the tyran-nical heel of a Jewish Occupational Government (JOG), as is Ger-many, as is England, as is Russia, and every other country in the +world. The White taxpayer of America in particular is being +plundered on a scale as has no other group in histroy +before. We are now helping to support and feed all the scum +and mud races of the world, whose numbers are exploding +at a frightening rate. Through the strong-armed goon squad +called the IRS we are forced to fork over the major proceeds +of our earning which futher go to reinforce and expand +the Jewish power structure that is strangling us. +Those who resist are selectively and ruthlessly gunned down by +a Jew-organized team of FBI-CIA and SWAT agents, as was Robert +Mathews. +Opportunities for our children? Unless, we the White Race, +organize ourselves for our own survival, our descendants have no +future. They will be mongrelized mulattoes, living in a country in-fested by wall to wall niggers, ruIed by an ironclad Jewish Tyranny. +(f) We now come to the sorest point of all, the one on which the +doctor is most sensitive and is running scared. That point is the ma-jor hoax that "medicine" heals, a claim that has been overwhelm-ingly discredited, and not supported by either empirical nor scien-tific evidence. Like the Christianity hoax, it is a fictituous concept, +a concept that has been around more than 3000 years. It is a dogma +which has been indoctrinated to the gullible, and has proved to be +a powerful tool in extracting huge sums of money from its hapless +victims. +Unfortunately, it took the first 50 years of my life before I became +aware of what a cruel hoax was Jewish-Chsistianity. It took another +eleven years before I looked more deeply into the enoneous assump-tion that "medicines" are cures for human ailments. +Needless to say that once alerted, as in the Christiantty hoax, +the evidence was overwhelming that the basic premise of medicine, +the basic dogma of the AMA, that medicines can cure, is a fraudulent +hoax. +The fact is that "Medicines" are drugs, are chemicals, +are poison:, all toxic to the human body. They are alien +subtances that poison an already ailing body further, com-pound the problem, and often kill. +True, some pills can suppress pain. Aspirin can, so can heroin, +so can chloroform. If you drink a bottle of booze that, too, will help +you to feel no pain. it might even kill you and "cure" your pain forever. +But do they cure the cause? No, they do not. Basically, all they do +is suppress the symptoms, give "temporary relief" as the hype +on the electronic Jew tube keeps repeating in a hundred commer-

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188 +cials a day. But they do not cure the cause. They exacerbate +and compound it. +Since the literature on this subject is voluminous, it is not +necessary for me to review it here. I have already covered it +thoroughly in Creative Credo Nos. 4 to 12 in the THE MAN'S BI-BLE. Arnold De Vries has treated it much more thoroughly in 21 +chapters of our book, SALUBRIOUS LIVING. Mr. T.C. Fry has two +articles on the subject in the May issue of our monthly periodical +"Racial Loyalty." His HEALTHFUL LIVING magazine has volumes +of information available every month. Dr. Herbert Shelton, who died +Just recently at the age of 90, has written reams of material on it +for more than half a century. +Rather than review such volumes of information let me briefly +point out some basic parameters. +1 . Doctors themselves, because they partake of their own "medicine" +are some of the best paid, but sickest people in the country. A +greater percentage of doctors become drug addicts, com-mit suicide, die of heart attacks, than does the average +citizen who seldom goes near a doctor. +2. Forty per cent of all illnesses and deaths in the United States re +reported to be Iatrogenic - that is because of trertment +dispensed in a hospital or by a doctor. +3. When doctors went on strike in Canada for a period of +time, the death rate fell sharply and the undertakers complain-ed. The same thing happened when the doctors went on strike in +Israel, and also in Los Angeles. +4. Medical and "heaIth care" expenses are going up even more rapaidly +than the population explosion of the mud races. +S. The average M.D. doesn't know beans about nutrition and +proper diet, and usually dismisses the subject as of little +importance. +6. The hierarchy of the AMA is heavily dominated by Jews. +There is much more, and I have already indicated where you +may delve deeper into this hoax. Let me admit that I will not change +Dr. Grady's attitude on the drug pushing racket. What can he do +but continue? His income, his lifestyle and his prestige depend on +sticking with it, whether he believes in it or not, and he probably +does. Like the drug pusher in Miami says, "Vere else could I make +such a killing?" +Actually, there is little or no difference between "legitimate" +prescription drugs and the "illegitimate" drugs peddled by drug +pushers, as far as their toxic effect on the human body. They are +all toxic, all are poison. The fact that the AMA arbitrarily rules +one as legitimate and another illigitimate makes no difference to the +human system.

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189 +Just as the Federal Reserve can arbitrarily designate our +countereit bills as "legal tender" so can the powerful Jew dominated +AMA rule any drug "legitimate" as they see fit, though it may cause +untold misery to millions. +If Dr. Grady keeps getting messages kom thousands of "nuts" +like us trying to tell him there is something wrong with the state of +medicine, perhaps he had bener pay heed. They probably have a +valid point. +All the foregoing would only be so much backround, and I would +never have bothered to write this article at all, if that were the whole +story about Dr. John Grady, M.D. But I have a long memory for +treachery against the White Race and such acts of betrayal. We +Creators neither forget nor forgive. We now come to the +GRAVAMEN, the accusation that weighs most heavily against the +doctor, a perfidy against the White Race that was perpetrated more +than 10 years ago. +In 1974, Jack Eckerd, a White Protestant drugstore tycoon, ran +for the United States Senate from the State of Florida, on the +Republican Party ticket. Pitted against him was Richard Stone, a +militant, liberal, pro-Zionist, pro-Israel Jew, running on the +Democratic Party ticket. This was at a time when Richard Nixon +had won his second term in one of the biggest Republican landslide +victories of all time in 1972, and the Jewish Watergate onslaught +had not yet reached its crescendo. +Jack Eckerd had a better than even chance of winning. In fact, +his chances were excellent. Into this fray jumped our Kosher Konser-vative doctor, John Grady, who was at that time residing in +Okeechobee County of Florida. He ran on the American Indepen-dent Party ticket, the same party of which I myself was State Chair-man in 1968, and resigned from in 1969 when I became acutely aware +of the fact that George Wallace was selling the White Race down +the river. +Jack Eckerd was one of the few candidates of a national stature +that had the guts to list his qualifacations against that of his Jewish +opponent, and in the two columns appeared the category RELIGION. +He factually listed himself as Protestant, his opponent as Jewish. +This was an absolute no-no, as far as the Jewish establishment +was concerned, and all hell broke loose. The ADL, the AJC and all +the other Jewish organizations screamed to high heaven (Anti-Semitism!) and even threatened to cut off his trade credits against +his drugstore chain. Unfortunately, under all this pressure Jack +Eckerd capitulated, and in a series of massive newspaper ads +apologized for his unrequitable sin. +But that is another story. +The statistics of the election show that it was very close, that

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190 +Jack Eckerd would have won handily, had it not been for the spoiler, +Kosher Konservative Dr. John Grady entering the race. The resulults +were as follows: +Dem. Richard Stone +781031 votes, or 43.4 % +Rep. Jack Eckerd +736674 votes, or 40.9 % +A.I.P. Dr. John Grady +282659 votes, or 15.7 % +Richard Stone the Jew attracted the liberal vote of Jews, nig-gers and the White Liberals. The conservative vote on the other hand +was now split betwem conservabve Republican Jack Eckerd and con-serative A.I.P. candidate John Grady. It is therefore obvious that +the overwhelming votes Dr. Grady syphoned off were at the expense +of White Protestant Jack Eckerd. +Had Grady not run, obviously Jack Eckerd would have served +in the U.S. Senate for the next six years, (and probably a second +term) instead of liberal Zionist Jew Richard Stone. I charge Dr. +John Grady of being instrumental in putting Jew Richard +Stone in the Senate. +So the question remains: Why did Dr. Grady enter the race +as a spoiler? Obviously, he did not have the chance of a snowball +in hell of winning, as his 15.7 per cent clearly indicated. +Was he not aware of the consequences of his spoiler role? Who +put him up to it? Was he fully aware and deliberately entered in order +to help Stone win a race he would otherwise not have won? Did the +John Birch Society (who has always been pro-Jewish) engineer the +campaign? Did the Jews inveigle Grady to run and offer financial +support? +In any case, he can hardly plead innocence on the grounds "I +didn't know the gun was loaded." He is much too intelligent not to +have foreseen the consequences. +Now I am not a mind reader and cannot portend a man's intent. +However, we can and do read the consequences, and the fact is that +Dr. John Grady, M.D., wittingly or unwittingly put Richard Stone +in the U.S. Senate for six years by launching his own otherwise +pointless and abortive campaign. If so, he committed treachery and +reason against the White Race and I wonder out loud how much +Jewish money and influence was instrumental in getting him to run +and finance his campaign? How much White "conservative" money +went down the rathole in supporting this classic textbook example +of the Jewish tactic of divide and conquer? +We wlll never know for sure, but I am not willing to give Dr. +Grady the benefit of the doubt. For anybody that understands the +treachery of Jewish tactics, this case fits the pattern too glibly, and

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191 +too obviously, also, the results accrued overwhelmingly to the benefits +of the Jewish power establishment. With such preponderance of +evidence, it is hard to ignore the conclusion that delibrate skulldug-gery was invoIved, and the campaign planned to achieve the results +it did.

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Half century ago Hitler succeeded in uniting +all the Germans. It is the unswerving goal of the +Church of the Creator to arouse, unify and +polarize all the White peoples of this Planet Earth. + +192

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Issue Number 25, June 1985 +We have the Means

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AROUSE THE SLUMBER-ING GIANT

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Informed, Aroused and Organized, the White Race +is overwhelmingly the most Powerful Force on the face +of the earth.

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Back in 1726 Jonathan Swift wrote a political satire on the +morals and manners of his time. It was called Gulliver's Travels, and +although the political message itself was lost on most of its readers, +it has engendered a special appeal that has lasted for nearly 250 +years, and undoubtedly will remain a classic for years to come. +There are several parts to the story of Gulliver's Travels, but we +want to focus mainly on the first part, where Gulliver an English +sailor, is shipwrecked, washed ashore on an island called Lilliput, +a land inhabited by little people less than six inches tall. +Although written nearly two and a half centuries ago the moral +of the story is more applicable to the plight of the White Man today +than it was to the average Englishman at the time Jonathan Swift +wrote his classic. +The story begins with Gulliver aboard the Antelope on a voyage +to the East Indies In 1699, when the ship was engulfed in a fierce +storm northwest of Van Diemin's Land. The ship was driven on a +rock and foundered. +Many hours later Gulliver finally managed to reach the shores +of the island in our story, but none of his companions evidently sur-vived. When Gulliver finally reached shore he was extremely ex-hausted from the ordeal. He pulled himself up on the beach and im-mediately tell into a deep sleep that lasted more than nine hours. +When he woke up he found he was lying on his back, and com-pletely unable to move. Strange little creatures were buzzing all +around him, walking all over his body and all in a great state of +excitement. +These little creatures, the Lilliputians, had tied him down with +thousands of tiny strings, any one of which he would have been able +to break with ease, but because of the massive numbers fastening +down his limbs, body and head, he was now unable to move.

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I am not sure what political message Swift had in mind for the +Englishmen of 1726, but the story more nearly describes the posi-tion the White Man finds himself in today, and how, while in a state +of slumbering subconsciousness, he has allowed the inferior parasitic +Jew to tie him down hand and foot. +There is a further development in the story of Gulliver that +reflects on the White Race of today. When Gulliver finally wrenched +loose his left arm and also the pegs that tied down his hair, the Lillipu-tians unleashed a swarm of arrows at his arm and face. +This persuaded Gulliver to lie still, and when the leader ap-proached him with a long oration, Gulliver signalled that he needed +food and drink by repeatedly pointing at his mouth. This the little +people supplied him with, including two of their miniature hogsheads +of wine, which contained a sleeping potion. +This induced him to sleep another eight hours, during which +time the busy little Lilliputians had hoisted him onto a machine with +twenty-two wheels, seven feet long, and three inches off the ground. +He was again thoroughly tied down and ready to be carted off to their +capitol city. +The White Man has repeatedly found himself in a similar dilem-ma, Although he has the strength, the numbers, the intellect to beat +the hell out of his inferior enemy, the Jew, he has through some +spiritual quirks, some defect of character, repeatedly allowed himself +to be tied down helplessly by thousands of Jewish strings. +Most of these strings have been invisible inhibitions, mental +hang-ups. strange cobwebs of the mind. They have, in short, been +self imposed handicaps, strings that he could easily smash if he were +of a will to do so. (Read again Self Imposed Handicaps, in Issue +Number 6 of Expanding Creativity.) +It is our objective to catalogue these suicidal quirks, these idiotic +mental hang-ups, to analyze them, and bring them to the light of +day. Having done so, it is our further objective to defuse them, +neutralize them, and to straighten out the White Man's thinking. +Once have accomplished that much, the rest is easy. We then +want to arouse the White Man to militant action, to break +the Jewish ties that bind him again wrest control of his +own destiny back into the hands of the White Race +We have the power to do so. (Read again Issue Number 9 in Expan-ding Creativity, "We are not Helpless. ") +THE TIES THAT BIND US ARE FETTERS OF THE MIND. +Just as Gulliver was tied down by thousands of strings, no one +of which alone would have held him, so there are thousands of mental +fetters that tie down and immobilize the White Man. But let us list +only the major impediments: +By far the most destructive mind boggler with which our enemy

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has drugged the White race for the last 18 centuries is religion. It +is Jewish Christianity that has been (and still is) the key to the White +Man's debility and has paralyzed his mind to submit to the multiple +outrages the Jew has inflicted upon him. +It is THE major mind bender, but it has many offshoots, and +is not the only hang-up with which the Jew has saddled us. For the +record, let us make a random listing of some of these stupid mental +fetters, and not necessarily in order of importance. +1. We are all God's children and all equal in the eyes of the Lord. +2. There are spooks in the skies watching our every move, look-ing over our shoulders and taking notes. When we die we are going +to be held responsible for our every action, our every word, and it +will all be thrown back fn our face. +3. We are going to be punished when we die for every "wrong" +we committed. +4. That punishment is of the utmost horror - burning in hell, +forever and ever. +5. We must love our enemies; we must turn the other cheek. +6. If we work hard, keep our nose to the grindstone, save our +money and are successful, we should feel guilty, because we were +just more "fortunate" than the other fellow. +7. We should feel guilty for all the stupid, irresponsible scum +in the world that are going hungry. They were merely "less fortunate," +and it is our duty to feed them. +8. We must not judge other people lest we be judged. (What a +joke!) +9. All races are equal, some just (a) got started later (b) were +underprivileged (c) held back by the White Race (d) weren't given +the same opportunity. +10. All races are equal, but the Jews are more equal than +anybody, and really superior. +11. We're equal in the eyes of the Lord, but the Jews are God's +Chosen. +12. The Niggers are not only our equal, but really superior in +sports. +13. The niggers are financially poorer than the White people only +because they have been discriminated against. +14. Because the niggers have been "held back," we should now +compensate for our guilt by granting them special preferences in jobs, +especially in the government. This is called "Affirmative Action." +15. We owe the whole world a living, and since we are more +fortunate, we owe 126 countries subsidies and foreign aid from here +to eternity. +16. Israel is a special ally, our only bulwark in the Middle East, +the only democracy in the Middle East, our staunch ally (who vicious-

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ly attacked our billion dollar intelligence gathering ship, the U.S.S. +LIBERTY in 1967, killing 32 U.S. sailors). +17. We must "shore up" Israel's defenses at the expense of our +own, even if it strips our own defense mechanism to the bone. +18. Israel, above all, must be subsidized by the American tax-payer to the tune of at least $10000 per Jew family a year, with a +rapid escalation each succeeding year. +19. Above all, we must support and kow-tow to Israel because +they are God's Chosen people, and God will punish us if we don't, +(says Jerry Falwell and his ilk). +20. The Federal Reserve is a government agency, not a Jewish +counterfeit ring. +21. When the Federal Reserve puts green ink on a piece of paper +it immediately becomes extremely valuable, as if by magic. +22. Our multi-trillion dollar debts are really only owned to +ourselves. +Above are 22 idiotic mental hang-ups that tie our hands. They +are all lies, and at best, fictitious concepts that have been planted +in our minds. But they have been slopped on our minds so repeated-ly that our thinking is impaired, our mind is clogged. +Who planted them? Well, the same scurrilous gang that gave +us Christianity - the tribe of Judah. It is they who have us hog-tied +and are inducing us to be willingly immobilized, victimized, slandered +robbed and enslaved. They are the beneficiaries, we are the deluded +victims. +But there is hope, and there is a way out. What misconceptions +can be implanted in our minds by means of a heavy dose of propagan-da, can also be undone by counter propaganda and enlightenment. +We are not helpless. We have the means, we have the resources, +the power, the numbers and the intelligence. +Now that CREATIVITY has given the White Race an entirely +new perspective on life, on race and on our reason for existence, we +have the weapons with which to do thc job. We now know not only +what must be done, but we now know how to do it. +What is it we must do? It's very simple. We must now build a +massive power structure with which we can smash the Jewish swin-dle and wipe it from off the face of the earth. We must propagan-dize, proselytize, organize. We must build our own conveyor belt of +information and propaganda. We must face reality, build our own +civilization and culture on a solid foundation. This foundation must +be based on the Eternal Laws of Nature, as our pagan ancestors had +started in do in the days of the ancient Greeks and Romans. (Read +again Marcus Eli Ravages's article, Creative Credo Number 43 "Confes-sions of a Jew" on Page 286 of the White Man's Bible.) +We must bring the White Race back to its senses and utilize the

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massive power that is inherently ours to wield. We now have the +creed, we have the program, and we have the means. Let us rally +round our own racial religion and realize the awesome might that +is ours and utilize It to our own benefit. Nature endowed us with many +very special gifts. Nature also has told us we have the unrestricted +right (yes, duty!) to utilize them to the hilt - for our own survival, +for our own benefit. Let us get busy and do just that. +Like the giant Gulliver, for too long we have been asleep at the +switch, allowing the inferior little parasites of the world to tie our +minds with thousands of paralyzing lies. It is time for the White Giant +to rouse himself, shake the cobwebs from off his brain, untie his +mighty hands and again take control of his own destiny and the world. +We deserve it. We are worth it. We are, in fact, the only race +that can again restore a dying planet back to health and sanity.

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Let us never forget Gen. MacArthur's famous +Dictum: There is no substitute for Victory.

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Creativity has it all put together - the whole +ball of wax.

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A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body is very +much a part of the CREATIVITY creed.

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We Creators are not nearly us interested in +advancing our already too complex technology +as we are in upgrading our own gene pool.

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Comparative Religions - Part II

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JUDAISM +When Golda Meir was Prime Minister of the bandit state of Israel +in the late '60's, she unabashedly proclaimed to the Israeli Knesset +in Yiddish, "I am a non-believer. yet no one will be able to root from +my heart and mind the conviction that without the Jewish religion +(Judaism) we would have been like all other nations, who once ex-isted and disappeared." +From the Prime Minister of a nation of congenital liars, this state-ment was an exception to the rule. She not only made an astute obser-vation of history, but for once, she spoke the truth, and she spoke +her innermost, cherished convictions, a conviction that is clung to +by the overwhelming majority of Jews. To the Jews, their race +IS their religion, and conversely, the survival, expansion and ad-vancement of their race is solidly based on their deceitful religion. +Without it they would have been nothing, not even a jot in history. +This is further confirmed by the Jew, Marcus Eli Ravage, whose ar-ticle appeared in the February, 1928 issue of "Century Magazine," +which we reproduce in full in (The White Man's Bible on Page 286). +He tells the story of their religion more explicitly and the powerful +role Jewish Christianity has played in their conquest of the world. +With their Judaic religion, however they have in the last +two thousand years directed the course of human history, +controlled, fleeced and pirated not only nations, but whole +civilizations and become the scourge of mankind. Today they +are not only a threat to civilization, but well on their way towards +wiping out Nature's Finest species, the White Race itself, an +mongrelizing and enslaving all of mankind. +Where and when did Judaism have its beginnings? +The answers to both these questions - the where and the when +- are vague, and lost In the myths and mists of ancient history. The +Jews themselves have never bothered to accurately trace their earliest +beginnings. Being Masters of Deceit they instead indulged in such +mythical fairy tales as the story of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, a +bizarre story that would actually be a disgrace to any other people +and has absolutely no basis in historical fact. (Read again Chapter +Number 10, Book I, of Nature's a Eternal Religion, "The Old Testament." +In evaluating the deceitful nature of the beast, I cannot help coming +to the same conclusion as I do about the Christians' story of Christ +and that is this: There is not a scintilla of historical evidence that

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there ever were any Jewish characters such as Jesus Christ, +Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or even Moses, for that matter. All we have +is an immense collection of confused, helter-skelter propaganda +dumped on us like a load of manure, but little else. Since their stories +are so outrageously bizarre, only the most naive yokel could swallow +such idiotic tall tales. +What we can piece together is that the Jews originated as a band +of cutthroats and thieves somewhere in the Middle East around +Palestine, which, from the dawn of history, has been the crossroads +of the trade caravans. Here they developed their early cohesiveness +and tribal loyalty, which later they had the shrewd foresight to weld +into a racial religion. As with all thieves and gangsters, this loyalty +and cohesiveness was based on fear, on a need for self-preservation +and a common danger from their enemies. +Since an outlaw gang is despised, feared and hated by just about +everybody, anybody that was not part of the exclusive criminal +brotherhood was their enemy. In short, the whole world was their +enemy, to be deceived, robbed, subjugated and/or destroyed. +This then became the basis of the Jewish religion - fear +and hatred, with the whole world as their common enemy. +As sinister as this may seem upon which to found a religion, +strangely it has survived for the last 5000 years or so. In the mean-time, through the process of culling and evolution, these criminal +instincts have become sharper, more deadly, and much more effec-tive. They also became efficiently organized on a worldwide basis +as has no other religion on the face of the earth. They are now +the only force in today's civilization, a force that controls the +world's governments, finances, culture (or the degeneration thereof), +education, what "news" is broadcast and what is suppressed. They +now manipulate not only nations, but whole races (such as the White +Race) as effectively as any rancher manipulates his cows or sheep. +In fact, the Jews themselves refer to all non-Jews of the world as goy +or goyim, which is a derogatory term meaning cattle. +One of the greatest accomplishments of the Jews is the fact that +they have fashioned a religion that has proved to be completely in +tune with their innately parasitic nature, and consequently, tremen-dously effective in enhancing those characteristics with which Nature +has endowed them. They are, in the true sense of the word, a parasite +and their religion has enabled them to develop and exercise this +parasitic trait to its highest degree. +As parasites the Jews have been around a long time. The Jews +are not creative in any sense of the word, but have had the cunning +to observe, to copy and to adapt any useful customs, practices, or +religious rituals from those nations and civilizations into whose vitals +they bored. And this includes most of the great White civilizations

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of history. But the Jews are more than just a parasite. They have +also had the effects of a consuming cancer on those nations they in-filtrated and infected, and they have maimed and/or destroyed every +nation they have surreptitiously invaded. This includes practically +the entire roster of the great White civilizations of history. Starting +with Egypt, they infested Babylonia, Persia, Greece, Rome, not to +mention a number of non-White nations like India, and a number +of the Moslem nations. From Rome they spread out along the trade +routes of the conquering Roman armies until they infested and in-fected every formerly pagan White nation in Europe. With the spread +of Christianity (a Jewish concoction and an offshoot of Judaism) they +were quick to seize control of the White Man's finances, commerce, +religion and government in the then developing White nations of +Europe. They have held that control ever since. +I have said that the Jews were not creative as such, but that +they did have a knack of adapting anything useful for their own benefit +from their host nations. From no other nation did they learn as much +as the first great White nation they helped mongrelize, namely the +Egyptians. +In fact, every facet and fictitious concept that structured their +parasitic religion was originally conceived by the Egyptians. This in-cludes a long list of which the following ideas are the main building +blocks: (a) the idea of a "soul" (b) the idea of "eternal life" (c) the +idea of "gods; ' both good and evil (d) the idea of "one god" (Ikhnaton) +(e) the idea of offerings and supplications to appease the god or gods +(f) the idea of baptism (purification by ablution) (g) the idea of building +grandiose temples to supplicate and honor their gods (h) circumci-sion of the infants, and a number of other beliefs, customs and rituals, +including vague ideas of heaven and hell. +In fact, it was during their lengthy stay in Egypt that the Jewish +religion was fully incubated and took a structured form. +How many Jews are there in the world? The Jews claim (to the +goyim) that there are only approximately 20 million or so. But this +figure is completely meaningless, for two reasons (a) the Jews are +congenital liars, and (b) unlike Christians, Mohammedans, Mor-mons, etc., the Jews have historically suppressed any count of their +own numbers and made that suppression an integral part of their +religion. This they have done to confuse and at the same time allay +the fears of the goyim that they are (ha! ha!) only a small group of +religious people, and no threat to anybody. Whether they secretly +have a true count of their numbers, I can only surmise, and since +they are so thorough in their study aud control of demography, I am +sure they not only have an accurate count of their own total numbers, +but also where each is distributed and located. What that total +number is I can only guess, and in comparison to the now total world

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population of 5.3 billion, it is comparatively small. But I am sure +it is not 20 million. My guess is that it is more in the range of 80 +million, but until such time as the White Man again regains control +of his own destiny and statistics, we can only guess. From that time +on, however, we can also be sure that their numbers will dwindle +rapidly. Since they are a parasitic race, we will let Nature take its +course and let them wither on the vine as rapidly as possible. +On the positive side we of The Church Of The Creator will give +the Jews credit on several counts. (a) Although they are anti-Nature +in their outlook and life-style, they have most faithfully obeyed one +of Nature's basic laws - the survival of their own species comes first. +(b) They practice Racial Loyalty with a fanaticism as has no other +race in history. (c) They are tenacious to a degree no other people +can equal. Their patience, persistence and perseverance in the in-terest of their race is unmatched by any other people and has enabl-ed them to endure all these thousands of years. (d) They have +developed the practice of racial teamwork to a fine art. (e) They are +pragmatic and realists. +On the negative side, the Jews are (a) The number one human +parasite. They are uncreative, uncultured, and could build neither +a nation, a state nor a civilization if left to themselves. Like a flea +or a maggot, they are condemned by Nature to subsist on the body +of another people, a race that is productive, especially such as the +White Race. (b) Being non-productive, they are culture destroyers, +and like a cancer, devour those host nations and peoples whose vitals +they bore into. (c) They are cruel, vicious, treacherous, perfidious +and deceitful. They are the world's greatest liars and the master +sneaks of all time. (d) They are, in fact, the scourge of mankind, and +the most deadly enemy the White Race has ever faced, and are still +the most dangerous menace we are saddled with today. +Nevertheless, be that as it may, we of The Church Of The +Creator have learned an overwhelming lesson from the history of +the Jews and it is this: Religion is a powerful weapon for the survival +of a race, and a racial religion properly matched to its adherents, +is unbeatable. +Unfortunately, until now the White Race has never had such a +religion. The Ancient religions of the classical White civilizations such +as the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans, were at best innocuous +superstitions that had absolutely no racial values as such and did +nothing to either protect or preserve the race. In fact, such religions +as the Egyptians had were so deeply engrossed in supplicating and +serving fictitious spooks that most of the time, energy and resources +of these people were poured down a bottomless rathole building +temples, statues and pyramids in honor of their gods or their god's +stand-ins, the Pharaohs.

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Then in the first century, C.E., the Jews conceived the brilliant +idea of foisting a suicidal religion on the great Roman civilization +and the White Race as a whole. Their overwhelming success is +chronicled in Creative Credo Number 43 of the White Man's Bible and +there is no need to repeat it here, +Suffice it to say that the White Race as a result of this Jewish +poison is now a dying species and the need for drastic action is now +urgent and imperative. The answer to the Jewish poison is +CREATIVITY and the need is to convince our White Racial +Comrades that it is the answer the White Man has needed +for his own survival since the days of the Ancient Egyptians.

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JUDAISM VS. CREATIVITY - A COMPARISON +In order to reinforce such convictions we offer a comparison bet-ween Judaism and Creativity. +Foundation of belief. +(a) JUDAISM is founded on the story that the Jews are the racial +and tribal descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; that "God" +(a fictitious concept derived from the Egyptians) chose them as a +favored, special race above all others. It is this concept that they +are "God's Chosen" that has done more to propel the Jews forward +through history and persist than perhaps any other single fictitious +concept in their religion. +(b) CREATIVITY is based on the Eternal Laws of Nature: on the +experience of history, on logic and common sense. We believe that +the White Race is Nature's finest and greatest achievement, and that +Nature has endowed the White Race with a greater abundance of +intelligence and creativity than any other people. The White Race +also is unmatched in its ability to create culture and civilization; to +organize and govern itself; it is unmatched in the faculties of science, +technology, architecture, art, music and literature, and any number +of other civilized and cultural pursuits. Whereas the Jews proclaim +they are "God's Chosen," a fictitious concept, we believe we are +Nature's Finest. tor the good reason that the evidence is +overwhelming. +Books that form the Basis of Religious Beliefs. +(a) The Judaic religion is based on a number of basic books. +Listing them in chronological order they are: (1) The Old Testa-ment (2) The Talmud (3) Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto +and Das Kapital and (4) The Protocol of The Learned Elders +of Zion. +Of all these, the Talmud is their holiest of all books. In nitpick-

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ing form It covers and circumscribes just about every of Jewish +life, including law, custom, religion, and every other detail. (See +Chapter 9, Book I of NATURE'S ETERNAL RELIGION "Five Basic +Books"). +The Basic Books of Creativity are Nature's Eternal +Religion, The White Man's Bible an Salubrious Living. +These books not only give the White Race goals and direction +for its own survival, expansion and advancement but a creed and +philosophy to live by and prosper for the next million years. Since +they have been amply described in all our previous literature, there +is no need to do so here. +(a) The Jews are inherently parasitic and their Judaic religion +strives to enable the Jews to live off of the productive peoples of the +world, mainly the White Race. The ultimate goal as set forth in The +Talmud is to undermine all the goy, to downbreed them, to +mongrelize them, and enslave them, with every Jew a king and every +goyim their stupid servant. Their further goal is for the Jews to ac-crue all the gold, money and wealth of the world unto themselves +and have the stupid brown mongrels as their servants and slaves. +(b) The goals of CREATIVITY are manifold: (1) The survival, expan-sion and advancement of the White Race exclusively. (2) To get the +parasitic Jews and other freeloading mud peoples off our back and +let them shift for themselves. (3) Since the Jews and other mud +peoples can neither feed themselves nor compete with an enlight-ed White Race, their numbers will shrivel and eventually wither on +the vine. (A) By practicing Eugenics, to upgrade the gene pool of the +White Race. (5) Rebuild the land and environment of the Planet +Earth. (6) For the White Race to finally inhabit this planet exclusively. +(7) And in general, to build a Whiter and Brighter World.

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CONCLUSION +We will state up front that in structuring a racial religion for the +White Race we have learned more from Judaism than all the other +religions combined, and we make no bones about it. The reason is +simple: If a racial religion such as Judaism can sustain a scurvy race +of parasites for 50 centuries and propel them upward to gain control +of the world, then just think what a similar racial religion can +do for the great White Race. The potential is unbounded and +the sky is the limit. +And that is exactly what we have done in Creativity - deliberate-ly, logically and thoroughly. We are finally doing at long last what +the Egyptians should have done 5000 years ago - structuring a racial +religion for the White Race. Our basic Golden Rule in a way is the +same as that of the Jews: Whatever is best for our race is the highest +virtue; what is bad for our race is the ultimate sin.

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But there the similarity ends. Whereas the Jews are the eternal +parasite, condemned by Nature to forever live off the backs of another +race or perish, we, of the White Race are just the opposite. We need +no other race for our well-being or our welfare, and would, in fact, +be a thousand times better off if this planet were completely devoid +of all the inferior mud races, including the Jews. +But we have several other overwhelming advantages over the +Jews. We are far more intelligent, creative, industrious and produc-tive than are the Jews (or any of the other mud races). We greatly +outnumber the parasites a dozen times over. Cleansed of racial pollu-tion, left to our own devices and culture, what with our program of +racial upgrading and eugenics, we could, in a short span of history, +build a virtual paradise on earth. And this, in fact, is our ultimate +goal. +* * * * *

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Amadeus, you wuz robbed! +This dissertation is partly about geniuses, and what an ir-replaceable treasure they are to our race and to civilization in general. +We also want to examine how they have been ignored, neglected and +abused, when they should have been nurtured, treasured and ap-preciated. In fact, we want to look at the life and misfortunes of one +particularly bright star in the firmament who lived in the 18th cen-tury. His name was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. +Johannes Chrysostomus Wolgangus Theophilus Mozart, the +name by which he was christened, was born at Salzburg, Austria, +on January 27, 1756 and died in Vienna, Dec. 5, 1791. There are +two observations that stand out in the preceding sentence (a) his +names were drawn from classical history and mostly end in -us, and +(b) he died in the prime of life at the relatively young age of less than +thirty-six. +Mozart's phenomenal precocity as a child and as a youth is +without parallel in musical history. Educated by his father, Leopold +Mozart, an able, pedagogically minded violinist in the service of the +Archbishop of Salzburg, young Wolfgang had harpsichord lessons +at three, composed at four, and at seven played the harpsichord, +the organ and the violin. Two sets of his sonatas for harpsichord and +violin were published in France when Wolfgang was still at the tender +age of seven. +He composed two symphonies in England at eight, an opera buf-fa at eleven, Lafunta semplice, for Joseph II of Austria; and an opera +seria at fourteen, Mitridate, Re di Ponto. +The composer's fluency and seemingly inexhaustible produc-tiveness continued unabated throughout his short life, resulting in +a total of six hundred and twenty-six known works, including forty +symphonies, twenty-two operas, twenty-three string quartets, twenty-three concertos for piano and orchestra, twenty-five sonatas for violin +and piano, and a very large number of other compositions. +No less phenomenal was Mozart's ability as a performer on three +instruments. This was amply demonstrated by the impression he +made wherever he appeared as a child or as a mature man. Con-vinced that his son deserved recognition and a secure position not +offered by the provincial circles of Salzburg, his father, Leopold, per-sonally took the boy, or encouraged him to go, on tours of the chief +European capitals. The tours netted father and son little more than +lavish admiration, a legendary reputation and a few meager prince-ly gifts. +Finanacially, they were disappointing, and they did not lead to +a court or other appointment comensurate with the gifts of this great

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genius, nor with his financial needs. lt is one of the several tragic +factors in Mozart's life, that in an age when the artist and especially +the musician was particularly dependent on enlightened patronage, +no satisfactory post was open to the man whom Haydn called "the +greatest musician that I know, whether personally or by reputation," +and who Johann Hasse declared, "will cause us all to be forgotten." +He did acquire several unremunerative positions such as +honorary maeatro di Capella, which he held with the Archbishop +of Salzburg; chamber musician and court composer for Joseph II +of Austria; and several other temporary appointments. But none of +these paid Mozart enough to keep body and soul together. He lived +mostly by commissions for operas and other compositions, and by +teaching. His income was always precarious and his later years were +haunted by poverty and debt. +Mozart's marriage to Constanze Weber in 1782, disapproved by +his ever cautious father, was the beginning of a desperate period of +anxiety and debt. He spent the last ten years in Vienna and the ex-tent of his great productivity may be judged by the fact that in the +last five years of that period he committed to paper five extended +string quintets, the last three symphonies, two of the most impor-tant of his piano concertos, and operas Le nozze di Figuro, Don +Giouanni. Cosi fan tutte, Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) and La +Clemenza di tito to mention only the most important of his works. +He was at work on the Requiem and had reached the crescendo of +the Lacrimosa when he was suddenly stricken with paralysis and died +on the following day, Dec. 5, 1791. +Although there is some doubt as to the cause of his death, it +is generally conceded that he was poisoned by a jealous composer, +who considered himself a rival of Mozart, although he could not hold +a candle to the great genius. His name was Antonio Salieri, and +although history is not clear on this issue, I suspect strongly that +he was an Italian Jew. +Why do I think he was a Jew? Because he had all the earmarks +of a Jew. He was without talent. He was insanely jealous; and he +had a criminal urge to destroy and kill the best. +Be that as it may, (and I will have more to say about this aspect +later) none of Mozart's friends even bothered to follow his body +through a violent storm as he was buried in a pauper's grave. His +wife, a few days later, could find no one to identify that grave and +it has not been discovered since. +So died in poverty, neglect and unappreciation one of the +greatest musical geniuses the White Race has ever produced. +We now bring this story up to the present. The life of Mozart +had all the elements of a gripping drama. It had greatness, genius, +fame, history, tragedy, jealousy, pathos and human interest. Not only

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that, but it also had a great musical repertoire to draw from. In short, +it had all the basic elements for the production of a first-rate motion +picture. +The Jews, who dominate the motion picture industry and are +ever on the lookout to make a fast buck, did just that in 1984. In +order to enhance their profit, the picture was made in communist +Czechoslovakia, where costs are considerably lower, utilizing the +talents of many foreign artists. The result was "Amadeus," released +in late 1984. +As we are all aware, each year the Jews in the movie industry +stage an orgy in self-adulation. It is held in Hollywood and is called +the "Annual Motion Picture Academy Awards." This year "Amadeus" +was the star of the show and carried away eight Oscars. +This year, as I watched the nauseating display of the "Awards" +on TV, I almost felt as if I were watching a revolting spectacular stag-ed not only in a foreign land, but on an alien planet. The bizarre +display of glitter, glamor, bad taste and degeneration consisted of +Jews, Jews, and more Jews, with some bizarre mulattoes and nig-gers thrown in, each patting themselves and each other on the back +and reviewing the list of Jewish credits that had enabled them to +flaunt their vulgar "art." As usual, there were a host of screeching +niggers doing an imitation of singing, in a vulgar, disgusting display. +Especially revolting was the mass ensemble of the "We are the +Children of the World" monstrosity. Then, there was that bizarre +mulattoe, Prince, all painted and decked out as lavishly as any chief-tain of the African bush niggers, with tight curls, gaudy headdress, +purple robes and all. There were all kinds of foreign Jews who could +hardly speak English. +But there was something special about the awards given +Amadeus." Smouldering in the background were several unresolved +hatreds in the black hearts of the Jews, who can carry more hatreds +for more centuries than anybody. And "Amadeus" was their vehicle +to again besmirch that which they themselves can never possess - +genuine greatness, real genius. +There was one little quirk I noticed as the Jews were patting +themselves on the back about what a wonderful production they had +achieved in "Amadeus." They generously granted that it was a totally +collaborative achievement in which, oh, so many countries had par-ticipated. Why, there was Czechoslovakia with all their talents, and +there was Poland, and France, and England, and Spain, and Por-tugal, and Rumania, and even America. But strangely, Germany was +never mentioned. Nor was it ever mentioned that Mozart was a Ger-man, born in the German city of Salzburg and lived and performed +in the German city of Vienna. Although they were then part of the +Austrio-Hungarian dual monarchy, nevertheless this whole area was

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thoroughly German, evolving in a long-standing German culture that +has produced more of the world's greatest music than any other na-tional group anywhere. +Just as they have for more than 2000 years reviled an +desecrated the Romans, for centuries attacked and besmirched +everything German, and in this century poured out their voluminous +hatred and venom against Hitler, so too can the Jews never resist +attacking and befouling everything that is great and noble in the eyes +of the White Race. +And so it was with Mozart in his time, when he was hounded, +persecuted and finally poisoned by an insanely jealous Jew. But +greatness has a way of surviving all the vicious assaults of small mean +minds, and Mozart is still great and famous for his brilliant works +today, even more so than he was two hundred years ago. +A few weeks ago the movie finally came to our local theatre and +I went to see it. Since I had seen a few of the film clips on TV during +the Academy Awards show and in subsequent ads, I had a good idea +what to expect, and I was not disappointed. It was a Jewish rendi-tion from beginning to end. Instead of making a beautiful, moving +drama of the life and times of Mozart, and taking advantage of the +great music available to them, the Jews butchered it. It was repulsive. +Mozart, who was played by Tom Hulce, was portrayed as being +course, vulgar and a semi-idiot. He was repeatedly characterized with +a whinnying type of horselaugh that could only come from a derang-ed personality. His girl friend, and eventually his wife, who was played +by Elizabeth Berridge, was portrayed as a woman with a weak mind +and extremely large breasts, the better part of which were on cons-tant display. +The real hero of the piece was Antonio Salieri, the man who +poisoned Mozart, and the whole story was told through his eyes as +he disdainfully boasted about his mixed contempt and admiration +for Mozart to a parrish priest. The part of Antonio Salieri was played +(no surprise)by a Jew called Murray Abraham. +One thing that was unusual about the "Amadeus" awards at the +Academy night was that there were two nominations for leading ac-tor in the same film. It might have happened before but I don't ever +remember when. And herein, too, the Jews were playing their evil +little game. There was much speculation before the event - would +Tom Hulce, who played Mozart, get the coveted award, or would +the Jew, Murray Abraham who played Salieri, win? +You guessed it - even in death Mozart was subdued by the evil +Jew and the Best Actor award went to the villain who played the +part of the poisoner, Murray Abraham. Having an insight into the +Jewish character, I am sure this was all stage managed to come out +just that way, and collectively, the Jews were smirking to themselves

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as to how they had again triumphed over the superior genius of the +goy. The Jews were indulging themselves in another Feast of Purim.

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There are several lessons we should learn from the above. It is +not only the dead geniuses of our illustrious past that we have short +changed, but more to the point, we are doing so even more flagrarant-ly with our vast pool of White Racial talents today. It is extremely +important that we must now learn to recognize such gifted creators +while they are alive, encourage them and help them to develop their +full potential. The White Race, more than the genius himself, will +be the greater beneficiary from such an arrangement. +This is what the School for gifted Boys is all about. We want +to be able to recognize a young Mozart at an early age, then help +promote him and propel him forward to develop his great potential. +Not only do we want to make sure that he has every opportuni-ty to develop that latent genius, but there is another issue we want +to safeguard. We also want to make damn sure that such talents and +gifts are not stolen by our enemies and there by accrue to their benefit. +Tragically, this is just what has happened in the past on both +counts. We have neglected and ignored the best in our creative midst, +and secondly. when such genius did emerge with no help from us, +their contributions were quickly locked up by the Jews and invariably +turned into a weapon against the White Race. +The Jew openly brags that every major invention that the White +Man has ever produced, whether it be Gutenberg's printing press, +whether it be radio, television, or computers, the Jew has been quick +to take over and turn it into a weapon for the destruction of the White +Race. +All this MUST CHANGE. As the program of The Church Of +The Creator becomes more and more imbedded into the White Man's +thinking we will recognize the talented, the bright, the gifted, and +the geniuses in our midst. The White Race has unbounded poten-tial. We must learn to nurture and harness that potential. No other +race can even come close. Having helped develop and harness that +potential we must then channel it in such a manner that it will ac-crue to the best interests of our own race, not that of the enemy. +The School for Gifted Boys is a small beginning in that direc-tion. Help support it, finance it and send us the boys. We will make +sure that they are oriented in the fight direction to develop their full +potential to help build a bright future for themselves and the White +Race. +* * * * *

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Issue Number 26, July 1985

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Saving our Precious Planet +from Becoming +a Chemical Garbage Dump +and a Human Pigsty. +The subject we are addressing is most urgent. This beautiful +Planet Earth, our one and only home, past, present and future, is +being raped and desecrated, poisoned and polluted to the point where +it will not be fit to live in, or on. For an intelligent, orderly people +such as the White Race has been, it will not only be an unfit domicile, +but it will soon be impossible to live here at all, and there +is no place else to go. The multitude of factors that are destroy-ing what is left of our habitat are all rapidly converging to produce +one consummate catastrophe - the destruction of our natural en-vironment, and with it, the demise of the human race - especially +the White Race. +What are these factors that are closing in on us? They are +manifold, but we can narrow them down to a few basics. They are +(a) Our rapidly exploding technology, created by the genius of +the White Race itself, and now threatening to destroy us. Besides +the doomsday threats of the atom bomb, the neutron bomb and the +hydrogen bomb to end all life in a cataclysmic thunderclap we have +a slower and an even more certain threat from the burgeoning +chemical industries. If the hydrogen bomb doesn't set us, the +chemicals that are increasingly proliferated into our air, water and +soil will surely poison us, even if it takes a little longer. +(b) The second major factor that is helping push the environ-ment into a planetary garbage dump is greed nd the Jewish +monetary system that feeds it. At the center of this financial +monster is the Federal Reserve System, a worldwide gang of ruthless +Jewish counterfeiters. This gang controls our money and controls +the course of world events. But they do more than that. Through +their sleazy business practices, their monopoly of propaganda and +every other important factor in our lives, they have so corrupted the +minds and lifestyle of the White Race itself to the point where the +White Man has now wholeheartedly joined in with these bandits in +the destruction of our environment, our civilization, and the White +Race itself.

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Since I have already thoroughly exposed the Federal Reserve +in Creative Credo Number 40 of the WHITE MAN'S BIBLE (The Brutal +Truth about inflation and Financial Enslavement - The Federal +Reserve Board - The Most Gigantic Counterfeiting Ring in the +World), and also widely distributed our booklet of the same name, +I will not review that subject again here. Since it to say that the +greed and avarice of this vicious gang of Jewish counterfeiters is at +the heart of the pollution problem, as it is, in fact, of practically all +of the world's major problems. +(c) The third ma]or factor is the insane obsession of the +Jewish network as a whole to promote race mixing, especially +miscegenation of the White Race with all the scum of the world, +(while the Jews themselves remain intact and aloof from any such +diabolical program). In the effectiveness of this program lies also the +fate of the world's environment, and conversely, in the reversal of +the program lies the only hope of having this planet from +becoming a poisonous garbage dump and a human pigsty. +The heart of the Creativity program is four dimensional: A Sound +Mind in a Sound Body in a Sound Society in a Sound Environment. +Since these four dimensions are all part of the whole and are in-divisible. the whole subject of environment is, Indeed, very germane +to our religious philosophy. It is an extremely comprehensive sub-ject and I will endeavor to project the position of The Church Of The +Creator in five separate installments. +Part I Chemical Pollution and the Impossible Disposal Thereof. +Part II Radio-active Wastes. +Part III Poisons in our Drinking Water. +Part IV Pathological Pollution by means of Legal and Illegal +Drugs. +Part V Genetic Pollution and Saving our Gene Pool. +There are several other kinds of pollution in modern times that +are running rampant and to which we are increasingly subjected. +Some of these are (a) noise pollution (b) radiation pollution by +microwave and radio-active substances (c) religious pollution (d) mind +pollution by propaganda, and (e) a number of other forms of destruc-tive pollution. +Since this subject is too comprehensive to be treated in a limited +dissertation such as this periodical I will confine this basically to the +five segments mentioned earlier. Even these will be of limited scope +and will concentrate on (a) arousing awareness of the threat and (b) +what we of The CHURCH OF THE CREATOR can and must do +about it. +PART 1. CHEMICAL POISONS AND THE DISMAL +FAILURE TO DISPOSE OF AN INCREASING OVERLOAD OF +HAZARDOUS WASTE.

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Increasingly, we have read of the crisis of hazardous waste in +a number of seemingly isolated communities where the inhabitants +woke up one morning and found that unbeknownst to them, their +land, their streets, their water and their air was so polluted with tox-ic chemicals that they were being slowly but surely poisoned. Sur-prise! Surprise! Someone had stealthily been dumping tons and tons +of poisonous wastes in the "backyard" of their community for years +and now they were stuck with it. These poisons had now seeped into +the ground water, into the aquifer, into their wells, and yes, had +even been sprayed on the streets as a clever way to disguise and +disperse these poisons. Now, too late, these unwary citizens had +make an agonizing decision: abandon their homes and life's savings +and move "elsewhere," or suffer the slow death of toxic poisoning. +Although hundreds of such incidents preceded it, it was not un-til the major disasters of Love Canal in 1978 hit the front pages +and temporarily pre-empted the evening news on TV that some peo-ple began to realize that we had a major pollution problem. +However, the Love Canal tragedy was only the tip of the iceberg. +In that incident rain popped leaking drums out of the ground on a +black tide of long buried chemicals. High incidents of birth defects, +cancer and other pathological diseases among the local citizenry also +began popping up at alarming rates. it drove hundreds of families +away from their homes in Love Canal, and permanently disabled or +killed many of its former citizens. Protracted litigations and attemp-ted clean-ups are still going on, and will continue to do so for years. +But let us look at a few other cases that are becoming more and +more common. +Verna Courtemance is a former school teacher who lives at +Swartz Creek, a country crossroads 60 miles northwest of Detroit. +Her former neighbor, Charles Berlin and his partner opened a hazar-dous waste incinerator in 1972 next door to Verna's home. The in-cinerator, often overloaded, smothered the countryside in acrid +smoke so dark and dense that firemen on the horizon would take +it for blazing houses and race over. The corrosive murk turned con-vertible car tops into literal rag tops. It reddened children's faces with +rashes and swelled eyes shut. +Verna and friends harried state officials by telephone, rally and +letter for four years before Berlin's smudge pot was shut down +permanently. +Did Barlin ever indemnify his neighbors for the massive +damage be had caused? No. In 1980 he declared bankrupt-cy, abandoned the site, and left someone else to clean up +the mess and carry the burden. +During the next three years investigators unearthed behind his +incinerator five storage tanks and the first of 33000 drums. They

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were bursting with waste that Berlin had been forbidden to burn, yet +still allowed to haul - from chemical plants, auto factories, steel +mills, refineries, railroads. +Verna and her neighbors led a decade long fight to finally get +a federal an state cleanup underway. In the meantime, citizens liv-ing near the incinerator and its accompanying foul, poisonous lagoons +saw their homes become worthless and their health severely +impaired. +Now, with a (partial) cleanup underway, 50 trucks a day rumbl-ed past Verna's house for weeks last summer ferrying contaminated +soil from a nearby field to a landfill in Ohio. To purge the field of +toxic metals, used motor oil, drug and dye by-products and other +industrial wastes, backhoes and bulldozers have scooped and scraped +up 120000 tons of earth. But that is only the beginning. +Will it ever be cleaned up? No, not likely, at least, not in the +present generation, and it certainly will never be restore to its former +condition. And what about the "landfill" in Ohio to which this mess +of poisonous garbage is being hauled? Well, it too, will be an eyesore +and a health hazard in short order, and remain such until the local +people there wake up and find they have been sandbagged. All the +cleanup really has done is reshuffle the poisons from one place it was +not wanted to another place that nobody wants it either, but had not +organized its opposition (as yet). +Michigan and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) +have so far spent six million dollars at Swartz Creek, and some of +the 200 firms whose waste was dumped there have pledged 14 million +dollars more. Many tons of tainted soil remain, leaching toxic con-taminants into local aquifers with every rain. To just so much as +map groundwater pollution will take many years, and while it is be-ing mapped it will be further spreading. Eliminating it, if such is ever +possible, will take decades. How to eliminate it, nobody really knows. +As the cleanup at Swartz Creek progressed, find followed find. +In the poisonous stew of one holding pond, one million gallons of +oily muck was laced with polychlorinated biphenyls - PCBs. Until +their U.S. production was halted in the late 1970's PCBs were used +extensively in hydraulic fluid, in coolants for electric transformers, +and in the manufacture of plastics. It now has become a universal +and persistent waste - one that accumulates in fish and causes +animal cancers. +In another nearby pond, it was believed that drums of +hydrochloric acid and barrels of cyanide (that's the stuff they mix +in gas chambers to execute criminals) lurked like mines, needing only +a blow for their chemicals to leak, mix and form clouds of deadly +cyanide gas. +When the pond was safely dredged in 1983, Verna and 165 other

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evacuees cheered. However, they were premature in their optimism. +It was really only a reprieve. +"We're prisoners," Verna said. "We are afraid to drink from our +wells, and out of town friends shy from visits. My sister-in-law won't +take gifts of my rasberry jam any more." +Are Swartz Creek and Love Canal isolated cases? Far from it. +I cite them merely to drive home the devastating and far-reaching +ramifications only one dump site can create for the adjoining coun-tryside. For example, near Seymour, Indiana, a 13 acre disposal +site was the dumping ground for close to 400 companies. Before a +(partial) cleanup was begun in December of 1982, it was found that +50000 barrels of chemicals clogged the 13 acre site. Placed in that +leaking drums were such toxic wastes as cyanide, arsenic, PCBs, +toxic metals, solvents. naphthaline, and 200 pounds of explosive +material, enough to blow the whole 13 acre mess sky high and spread +it all over the countryside. +Chemical Waste Management, the world's largest private +hazardous waste disposal firm, started a cleanup in December of +1982. Under threat of suit, 24 (of 400) of the polluting companies +have so far put up 7.8 million dollars to finance the surface clean +up. Other firms have agreed to contribute another 5.5 million to +purge pollutants from ground water and subsoil . Will they succeed? +Again, not likely. These sums are only a drop in the bucket to (partially) help alleviate the harm that has been done. That damage, +however, is permanent and pervasive and no amount of money can +ever reverse the process. +Another case in hand is TIMES BEACH, Missouri, which has +been so contaminated that it was unfit for human habitation. In 1983 +EPA bought the whole town (with taxpayers' money) for 33 million +dollars and made arrangements to relocate its 2200 residents. The +culprit in this case was 2, 3, 7, 8-TCDD one of a class of the +most highly toxic organic chemicals called dioxins. +Ten years earlier the town's roads had been sprayed with oil to +control dust. Treacherously laced into the oil (and unbeknownst to +the townspeople) was an abundant dose of these same dioxins that +some company wanted to surreptitiously unload. Soil test in TIMES +BEACH showed that dioxin levels were as high as 1100 times the +level considered acceptable. Now TIMES BEACH is a ghost town, +but that isn't the whole story. The health, psychological and finan-cial damage done to its 2200 former residents will never be undone, +not to mention the devastating and permanent environmental damage +to the townsite itself. +Are these isolated exceptions? Not by a polluted country mile. +Partially as a result of the LOVE CANAL publicity, EPA in 1983 +grudgingly started using some of its 1.6 billion dollar SUPERFUND

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set up in 1980 to clean up the most dangerous of the hazardous waste +dumps. +How many such dangerous dump sites are there? TIMES +BEACH, which we have just described, is only one of forty such sites +in the state of Missouri alone that is under investigation by the EPA. +The 40 sites are under investigation mainly for dioxin contamina-tion (thousands of other toxic chemicals also proliferate the land-scape). Even extremely small doses of dioxin can cause miscarriages, +birth defects, liver damage or death in laboratory animals. To guinea +pigs, for example, it is 200 times as deadly as strychnine. Does that +give you an idea of the magnitude of the poisonous threat that has +been spread over the landscape? +But let us expand from dioxin and the state of Missouri. +Just how big is the hazardous waste pileup on the national scale? +The NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST of the EPA continues to grow +as states other than Missouri scramble to locate dangerous site +within their borders. At stake are billions of dollars of federal cleanup +funds. By October of 1984 the EPA had designated or proposed 786 +waste sites for the list. The agency estimates that the list may even-tually contain at least 2500 emergency sites, but there are at least +16000 known hazardous waste sites in the United States, all of +which, sooner or later, are a potential time bomb. Imagine 16000 +SWARTZ CREEKS, or TIMES BEACHES, or LOVE CANALS, +spread across the country polluting the land, air and water - poison-ing its residents, killing its wildlife! Bat they merely reflect PAST +criminal negligence. Where is the increasing garbage of the +future going to end up? +No one knows the true sum of our toxic wastes, but the 264 +million metric tons regulated by EPA in 1981 would fill the New +Orleans Superdome almost 1500 times over. Since 1950 we have +"disposed" of possibly six billion tons in, or on, the land, into our +water, or into the air - steadily increasing our potential exposure +to dangerous toxic chemicals that can cause cancer, birth defects, +miscarriages, nervous disorders, blood diseases, and damage to liver, +kidneys and our genes. +But have we really disposed of these toxic chemicals or are they +really still there, accumulating in ever larger piles and dumps clos-ing in on us, and threatening to turn the world into an uninhabitable, +garbage dump? Have we solved the problem? No, we have not. Is +there a viable solution in the future? +Let us examine the ingenious methods that government and in-dustry have devised to seemingly "dispose" of all these billions of +tons of toxic poisons. +Well, they are not really so ingenious at all. Basically they con-sist of dumping them somewhere that will be at least temporarily

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215 +less objectionable - until the surrounding territory itself, too, +becomes intolerably polluted and/or until such dumps invariably run +out of room. +Here are some of the most prominent "accepted" methods: +(a) Incinerators. Burn it and send the refuse into the at-mosphere. This does compact the waste and somewhat reduce its +volume. It is not feasible, however, to do so with our most dangerous +wastes, such as toxic chemicals from petroleum refineries, chemical +plants, and manufacturing plants. +(b) Landfills. It costs $50 to $800 per ton to incinerate wastes, +therefore most companies view it as a too costly means of disposing +of their toxic castoffs, three times as much as it costs to bury it. As +a result less than 1 per cent is cremated, and the cheaper landfill +is the first choice of most companies. +But landfills, as we have seen from the experiences at Love +Canal, Swartz Creek and Times Beach are not a "disposal" at all. +They are merely a ticking bomb, accumulating to levels of intolerable +pollution at the site and the surrounding environment. They pollute +the soil, intrude into the aquifers and the ground water and soon +poison the soil. +Nor is the attempted "cleanup" program any solution . It is merely +trying to redress an already overloaded area into another area where +it is also not wanted. Nor does it solve the mountains of future ac-cumulations that are staring us in the face, year after year. +(c) Running waste into sewage "treatment" plants, then runn-ing it into our rivers, lakes or the oceans. This too, is a stopgap +measure and largely ineffective in the long run. Practically all our +rivers and lakes are now overpolluted. Lake Erie, as well as any +number of smaller lakes, are now "dead" lakes so polluted no marine +life can any longer live in it, and many of our rivers have become +open sewers. (However, sewage treatment plants are not the only +Cause of this. The run off from farmlands plied with man-made +chemical fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides are also a major fac-tor. But that is another story.) +(d) Another "ingenious" method is to pump the really bad stuff +down deep injection wells, to be imprisoned between layers of "im-permeable" rock. At least, that is the theory. At least 60 per cent +of all toxic waste in the United States is disposed of in this manner. +For example, near Corpus Christi Bay one such well, located amid +numerous oil wells, swallows 6.5 million gallons of caustic liquids +a month from nearby refineries. It is shot down a mile underground +through layers of dense clay to the sands of an ancient sea. +What happens to it then? Well, it spreads out, as it invariably +has to if it is to absorb 6.5 million gallons a month. Will it spread +to the nearby oil wells and come back up in the form of brine and

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216 +oil? Undoubtedly. Where else can it go? +(e) Some European countries compress their wastes into com-pact packages and dump them far out to sea. A dirty and irresposi-ble method that among others is rapidly polluting the greatest +resource and expanse of our planet, the oceans themselves. They, +too, are limited in the abuse they can take. +(f) Some send incinerator ships out on the ocean to burn the +refuse, thereby avoiding local pollution of the air, but nevertheless +adding it to the earth's already overpolluted atmosphere. +(g) Some industries sell their poisonous wastes to gullible govern-ment agencies on the basis that they will help promote health. +excellent example is the aluminum industry who for years had +thousands of tons of excess fluoride on their hands as a by-product +in the manufacture of aluminum. Then some bright exec came up +with the idea of selling it to the thousands of water treatment plants +across the country, as an aid to prevent tooth decay. +The fact is fluoride in its inorganic form (the form to which it +comes to the water companies) is one of the most deadly poisons +known, and has the added danger of staying in the bones of those +who ingest it for years. It is a major ingredient in rat poison. Whereas +some fluoride COMPOUNDS that are organic (parts of plants, liv-ing food) are compatible to the human body, inorganic fluoride, is +and will forever remain highly poisonous. +Nor do even minute quantities of INORGANIC fluoride help +anybody's teeth. It will, however, cause pitting of the enamel, and +mottling the color of the teeth. +(h) Many backward countries (like Mexico) simply run a sewer +line a mile or so out in the ocean and run all of their sewage, raw +and untreated, directly into the ocean. Some U.S. cities on the +coastline also once indulged in this dirty practice. +(i) Millions of tons of waste go up the tall smoke stacks of +smelters, refineries and power plants to disperse into an already over +polluted atmosphere. Add to this the emissions from millions of cars, +trucks, diesel locomotives, airplanes and steamships, and you have +a floating garbage dump hovering overhead. As a result, we have +acid rain, polluted air and an ever increasing accumulation of CO2 +in the atmosphere that in the long run is creating a "greenhouse" +effect, the inevitable result of which will be disastrous to the climate +and environment of this planet earth. +(j) There are a number of other nasty little tricks, such as spray-ing highly toxic chemicals on regular garbage and letting the gar-bage man pick it up along with the rest of the garbage. Or some +smaller chemical companies have been caught running highly toxic +chemicals into the city sewer lines through secretly drilled connec-tions. And other dirty tricks.

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217 +So far we have been talking mostly about the United State, a +highly industrialized country. What does the rest of the world do with +its hazardous wastes? Does the rest of the world fare any better? +Well, hardly. There are any number of other countries such as +England, Germany, France, Italy and Japan that are also highly in-dustrialized and whose cramped territory and dense population in +comparison make the United States look like a wide open frontier, +and their problems are even worse, much worse. We don't have the +time and space here to examine them in detail, although from +CREATIVITY'S point of view, we always think in terms of the whole +planet in all our future protections for the White Race. We are in-tensely concerned about what happens in Germany, or in Japan, or +in Africa, or in South America. The White Race of the future will +either live or die, depending on what happens politically, economical-ly, racially throughout the world, and at best it can only survive on +a planet whose environment is still viable. +The environmental picture in the rest of the world is dismal, to +say the least. To cite a few examples: The beautiful Black Forest of +Bavaria is dying, in fact, half the forests of Germany are sick and +dying from acid rain and atmospheric pollution. The beautiful Rhine +River with its romantic castles has become an open sewer, a dead +river. In fact, the same thing can be said about most of the major +rivers of Europe. In Italy chaos reigns and it is an absolute basket +case. Japan, highly industrialized, densely populated, and a small land +area, has become so polluted that it has reached a state of crisis. +The fact is that our whole planet is now badly overpolluted with +no more "vacant sites" for waste dumps or any other nooks or cran-nies left to stuff the billions of tons of poisonous chemicals, industrial +wastes or just plain garbage. Yet all these hazardous wastes keep +spewing out in ever increasing amounts (1500 Superdomes full a year +in the United States alone) with no place to go. +CONCLUSION. +All this reminds me of a picture of a sign I saw in a +magazine several years ago. Some enterprising nigger (or +Jew) had put up a sign at the eastern tip of Long Island, say-ing "This is as far as you can run, Whitey. This is the end +of the line." And so it is with the pollution crisis - this is the end +of the line. We either change course drastically or the White +Race will die of chemical poisoning in a polluted stew of its +own making. +Is there any solution at all in sight? None whatsoever if we re-main in the present Jewish controlled financial, political and cultural +miasma in which we are now engulfed, and are slowly drowning. +Neither the EPA, nor Congress, nor the president, nor the United +States government, nor the United Nations will ever come to grips

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218 +with the problem or even partially solve it. +Why? because none of these agencies will ever dare +face the basic issue, which is racial. +With the Jew in control, the mud races will continue their ex-plosive expansion and the White Race will shrink and die. This world +will become a planet of utter chaos, overpopulated, overpolluted, +without direction, without leadership. Mass starvation, riots, revolu-tion and chaos will be the order of the day. +But there is a solution and we CREATORS spell it out. +1. Only the White Race can solve both the food and the pollu-tion problems, but only for itself. +2. Until the White Race gets the parasitic Jew off its back and +gets control of its own affairs, its own destiny, none of the world's +major (or minor) problems will be solved. +3. Only through uniting under the banner of a powerful, realistic +racial religion such as CREATIVITY will the White Race ever be able +to smash the Jewish monster and take charge of its own destiny. +4. Once it accomplishes Point 3, it still has an arduous task +ahead of it - cleaning up the racial, environmental and cultural gar-bage of the world. +5. The first step after Point 3, is to stop subsidizing the scum, +parasites and freeloaders both at home and abroad. We have no +obligation, moral or otherwise, to feed the Jews, niggers and mud +races of the world. Once in charge, the White Race will cease this +insanity and instead take care of its own people, its own survival. +6. The mud races will wither on the vine and the population of +the world will subside to a level where this planet Earth can again +sustain a healthy viable population, by means of ever renewable +resources. +7. We estimate this population to be no more than one billion, +perhaps less. But whatever it is, it is far, far better to have a clean, +safe, uncrowded world of healthy White people, properly fed, hous-ed, clothed and governed than the overcrowded, poisoned hell that +is now staring us in the face. +8. Agriculture as a whole must abandon chemical aids to farm-ing, a disastrous course it adopted wholesale only 30 years ago. This +includes all chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. In the first +place, they are only a temporary shot in the arm, like heroin to a +junkie, and soon poison the soil as well as our food. Secondly, the +White Man doesn't need to produce a super abundance of food if we +quit feeding the hordes of mud peoples, now numbering more than +five billion. All we need to do is just take care of our own White Race. +We must go back to Organic farming. only do it scientifically +- with more good sense and planning than we did before the "green +revolution " Chemical farming is one of the major causes of polluting

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219 +our streams, lakes, rivers and oceans. (See "A Sound Environment +- Getting back to Organic Farming and Living Soil.", in C.C. Number +13 of The White Man's Bible.) +9. Remember, dupont's favorite advertising slogan, "There is +good chemistry between us," is a blatant lie. All man-made chemicals +are poisons and are more or less toxic to the human body. Thousands +of them, individually and/or collectively, are EXTREMELY toxic and +dangerous. There are no good inorganic chemicals. Once the White +Man is again in control of his affairs one of the first orders of business +will be to start phasing out the chemical industry as it exists today, +and eventually produce only organic and bio-degradable substances, +or at least reduce them to a compatible absolute minimum.

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Unless the White Race takes charge of its +own destiny, none of the pressing problems of the +World will ever be solved.

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Political Parties come and go. Religions +endure.

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We Creators have no desire to either enslave +or exploit the mud races. It is our deliberate goal +for the White Race to inhabit this Planet Earth +in its entirety.

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Only Total Victory Can Save the White Race.

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Comparative Religions - Part III

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Christianity +The Spooks in the Sky Swindle finds its ultimate +manifestation in Jewish Christianity. +The fundamental premises of Christianity are based on a chain +of fictitious abstractions, which, taken either singly or col-lectively from a bizarre nightmare that is an affront to any +thinking man['s intellect. These fictitious fantasies go something +like this. +There are spooks tn the sky - somewhere, anywhere, +everywhere, - who control our lives, who control world events and +control the universe. These spooks are omnipresent and continually +looking over our shoulders, taking notes and recording our every word +and every action. Not only our words and actions, but even our every +thought is put on record in that super-computer in the sky. +Talk about the mass of material the Jews have in their super-computer in Tel Aviv! But even that is small potatoes compared to +that super-duper computer in the sky needed to record every word, +deed and thought of the burgeoning 5 billion people now living, not +to mention all the garbage stored up for those already dead, but +waiting for "Judgment Day." It must really overload the circuits in +the sky. No wonder we have repeated short circuits and flashes of +lightning up there on high. +The fantasy goes on. When we die we will have all this ac-cumulated garbage thrown back in our face. We will be held accoun-table for every word, deed, thought, and woe betide! If you are found +wanting and meandered from the mainline, or made some mistakes, +it's the pits for you, the fiery sulphurous pits, that is. And since none +of us are perfect, guess where 99 and 44/100 percent of us will go. +Of course now there might be some exceptions, like the Jerry Falwells +who kow-towed obediently and subserviently to God's Chosen. But +you can never be sure, and that includes Jerry Falwell, the Pope and +Billy Graham. Who knows what evil thoughts might sometimes have +lurked in the dark recesses of their twisted little minds. Even Jimmy +Carter admitted there have been times when he lusted. +Now not all these spooks in the sky are surveiling and taking +notes. Only the "good guys" are doing that. But spooks evidently +come in a great variety of forms, shapes and sizes and not all of them +are "good," in the eyes of the "Holy Scriptures." Like in the movies +you always have the good guys and the bad guys, so too, up there

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221 +in those nebulous skies on high, you also have the "bad" spooks. +These have names like Satan, Lucifer, the Devil, and a host of other +names. This is for the head honcho alone. But he is not alone. We +hear repeatedly in the Christian preachers' repertoire of hell-fire and +brimstone about "Satan and his minions; and much more. +The most interesting aspect of this whole concocted story is this: +whereas in the movies, where after a valiantly fought battle between +the good guys and the bad guys, usually (at least, it used to be that +a-way) the good guy wins and demolishes the bad guy and "his mi-nions " not so in the battle on high. +There the war goes on, and on and on. Although the Lord +(the good guy) is all-powerful and what he says goes (after all, it's +his set-up, he created all) nevertheless there is no victory over +the bad guy. The Lord and Lucifer have been at it now supposedly +for 6000 years, and are still locked into a Mexican stand-off. Well, +not exactly either. Satan is winning, hands down. For every one that +is "saved" from the fiery pit, Satan will get at least 99, probably 99 +and 44/100. Evidently in this Spooks in the Sky story, the good guys +don't win. As Leo Durocher used to say, "the good guys come in last." +Does this sound like a droll cock-and-bull story? lt does to me, +but you can go into any one of 200000 Christian churches (in the +United States alone) and hear the same stupid story being preached +by hundreds of thousands of preachers, week after week after week. +Their versions might differ a little, but essentially that is the basic +story, the Gospel, the Lord's word or whatever. Not only from the +pulpit of all the Christian churches is this idiotic story being broad-cast, but of late, even more effectively (and more profitably) from +the electronic con-artists employing the Jewish boob-tube. +But that isn't the end of the story. Actually, the Lord and Satan +are really on excellent terms, as are the U.S. government and the +Russian communists. (Read again Creative Credo Number 50 in the +White Man's Bible, "Observations about the Devil and Hell.) The +main villain is not particularly suffering. Satan and God are having +a ball, playing games with us poor sinners, seeing who can come +up with the biggest score, and the game score was predicted even +before it began - the Devil is the overwhelming winner, hands down. +It is we, us no good, lousy sinners who are the real losers. It is we +who will be suffering in that fiery pit. It's a crooked, stacked set-up. +And what a ghastly torture chamber it is. Billions and billions of souls +will be burning in there, wailing and gnashing their teeth, (do souls +have teeth?) forever, and ever, and ever. No reprieve, no amnesty, +no "take five out," no knocking off for weekends or vacations. Just +a hardnosed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year of excruciating pain +and torture forever, and ever, and ever. +What does the good and loving Lord think of it? Well, evidently

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222 +he thinks its great sport. After all, he dreamed it all up, designed +the whole goddamned set-up, and will be running his torture chamber +from here to eternity. +Evidently he deliberately wanted to put all of these billions in +the fiery torture chamber and torture the hell out of them, or he would +never have constructed his sadistic hell in the first place, now would +he? +Where did such a bizarre mental nightmare come from? How +can so many hundreds of millions of people become ensnared in such +an idiotic booby-trap and at the same time be more than willing to +shell out 40 billion dollars a year in the United States alone to +perpetuate and perpetrate such fiendish and sadistic clap-trap on their +own children, their own offspring? +It's a long story, and to go back to the beginning, we should, +I suppose, start with the Egyptians, the first really great White +Civilization in history. +The Egyptians were a highly intelligent people. They had the +unusual advantage of living in the Valley of the Nile where for +thousands of years they where (more or less) sheltered from hostile +intrusion on all four sides. As a result they had a long time in which +to develop and cultivate their own civilization and their own culture. +This they did, and their civilization lasted for perhaps three thou-sand years, a period of time longer than that of any other. It died +when their genes became poisoned by admixture with the inferior +black Nubians to the South. +Whereas this mongrelization of the White Egyptian Race may +be deemed as a conquest of sorts by inferiors, it was not forced upon +them, but self-administered. This was a conquest of a most vicious +character that spelled the deathknell of the great Egyptian White +Race. It was the result of stupidity and criminal negligence in failing +to recognize (a) the precious value of their racial genes, and (b) how +to protect their gene pool from mongrelization and racial poisoning. +It can be categorized as one of the major tragedies of history. +Be that as it may, their religion was in large part to blame for +This major tragedy, since hardly any White culture in Ancient Civiliza-tion was so obsessed with the "spirit" world and life in the hereafter. +It is, in fact, the Ancient Egyptians, who had 3000 years to evolve +their religion, to whom we are indebted for practically every fictitious +concept and abstraction for what later became Christianity. I have +listed these concepts before under Judaism, but I believe it is ger-mane that I list them again. They are (a) the idea of a "soul" (b) the +idea of "eternal life" (c) the idea of "gods" (d) the idea of offerings +and supplications to appease the god or gods (f) the idea of baptism +(purification by ablution) (g) the idea of building grandiose temples +to supplicate and honor their gods (h) circumcision of the infants,

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223 +and a number of other beliefs, customs and rituals, including vague +ideas of heaven and hell. +The second stage was the intrusion of the parasitic Jew into the +Egyptian domain. The uncreative Jews were shrewd enough to copy +most of the Egyptian concepts, and with a few modifications, in-corporate them into a tribal Religion of their own, a religion +that at once was more pragmatic and at the same time utiliz-ed to the utmost to preserve and enhance the fortunes of +the parasitic Jews. +The third stage in the evolvement of the Christian religion was +set in the heart of the Roman Empire. When in the first century of +the Common Era (C.E.) Rome was at her height, the minor province +of Judea was one of its many conquests. When the intractable Jews +proved rebellious and obstreperous, Emperior Vespasian sent in +General Titus to quell the rebellion. This he did in a siege that lasted +less than two years. In the process he levelled Jerusalem to the +ground, in the typical custom of the day. +But the Jews proved a tougher conquest than the Romans had +bargained for. In trying to "digest" the little province, the Romans +in fact were swallowing a racial poison, as history has later shown. +The Jews did not conquer the Romans by confrontation of superior +arms. On the contrary, they were so vastly inferior in this respect +that it would have been no contest. Instead they used their most lethal +weapon - religion, propaganda, deceit and intrigue - in all which +they had no rivals and still do not today. In short, they used the "B" +bomb - the brain bomb, in which they have been fantastically suc-cessful. Christianity was their major weapon and Saul of Tarsus was +the key Jew to have instigated the conspiracy. The Jews sold the +once virile and warlike Romans a suicidal religion in which pacifism, +self-denial and self-destruction became the supreme virtues of the +new religion. In short, they turned the once aggressive, powerful +Romans into a chaotic mass of whimpering wimps. +How did they do this? Well, Marcus Eli Ravage, a wily Jew +of the 20th Century, brags about it, and he tells the story better than +I can. (Read again "Confessions of a Jew" Creative Credo Number 43 +in The White Man's Bible.) +Basis of Christianity. The whole Christian religion is based +on a key figure called Jesus Christ, half man and half God, who is +supposed to have walked the face of the earth circa 1 to 33 C.E. +There is however not a scintilla of genuine historical evidence out-side of its own concocted fables that such a character ever existed. +Although both the Greeks and the Romans of those times were highly +literate, no contemporary historian, poet, writer, or chronicler of the +times has ever so much as written a single line of corroboration of +all the cock-and-bull events claimed in the New Testament. It is all

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224 +based on the supposed stories of "the Gospels" Matthew, Mark, Luke +and John, but no contemporary writer of the times ever heard of them +either, or, at least saw fit to take note of them. The few historical +"facts" that emerge is that these same fantasies had been pulled +together from pre-existing fables then extant, and were now peddled +as the genuine article. In fact, the story of a crucified "savior" had +been told in 16 previous other religions and was now being recycled +for the 17th time. +Where did the suicidal ideas inherent in Christianity come from? +There is no mystery about this question, however. There existed on +the shores of the Dead Sea a small Jewish sect called The Essenes. +Their hero was the "Teacher of Righteousness" and they practiced@ +communal living, self-denial and shunned marriage and family life. +But even more important, they taught and practiced pacifism and +promoted every suicidal concept (such as: sell all thou hast, love your +enemies, turn the other cheek, judge not) at least a century before +the supposed birth of Christ. The shrewd and wily Saul of Tarsus +(who later became the Christians' St. Paul) saw in their suicidal +teachings the very germ of a religion that could be utilized to destroy +the proud and haughty Romans. How successful he was and how +the Romans took the poisoned bait history has recorded. +The Jews were successful beyond their fondest dreams and 1300 +years of the Dark Ages set in as Rome crumbled. The Jewish poison +is still festering in the brains of hundreds of millions of White Chris-tians today, and is the key to the Jewish domination, rape and looting +to which the White Race supinely allows itself to be subjected.

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Christianity is the philosophy of a born loser.

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It would do little good for the White Race +inherit the Planet Earth if all we inherit is +poisoned garbage heap.

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Christianity us. Creativity +A Comparison +Basic Goals +CHRISTIANITY - To "save" peoples' "souls" from a fictitious +hell in the "hereafter," because God loves mankind so dearly. Why +the same Jewish God that created the victims also created a hell +to put them in, has never been explained. After this same loving God +"sacrificed" his one and only son on the cross to beef up the "salva-tion" program, that program also failed miserably, and, it, too, has +never been satisfactorily explained. +Christianity shuns life in the real world as of no value, but only +as a preparation for the "hereafter " +CREATIVITY'S basic goals are (a) the Survival, Expansion and +Advancement of the White Race. (b) A Sound Mind in a Sound Body +in a Sound Society in a Sound Environment. (c) To Build a new, a +Whiter and Brighter World. +Basic Books +CHRISTIANITY is based on: (a) THE OLD TESTAMENT, which +is basically a self-concocted history of the Jewish Race (the Israelites) +and Jahweh's unending devotion to, and love affair with, this parasitic +tribe of Semites. There is not a shred of historical basis to its con-cocted "history," nor is there any scientific evidence for its Creation +hypothesis of the World being "created" 6000 years ago in a 6 day +period. The Old Testament constitutes 75 per cent of the "Holy Bi-ble" and never so much as mentions Jesus Christ. (b) THE NEW +TESTAMENT. It is all about the life of a circumcised Jew named +Jesus Christ, who supposedly lived circa 1-33 C.E., but again not +a shred of historical evidence to verify this story. The teachings of +Christ were already promoted by a small religious cult called the +Essenes, who pre-dated the supposed Christ era by a century. +CREATIVITY - is founded on three basic books: (a) NATURE'S +ETERNAL RELIGION - lays the foundation for the religion of +CREATIVITY. (b) THE WHITE MAN'S BIBLE - reinforces and ex-pands upon the first book, and introduces the idea of Salubrious Liv-ing - a program for achieving the ultimate in superb health and +well-being. (c) SALUBRIOUS LIVING - spells this program out in +detail - including the details about nutrition, fasting, exercise, en-vironment, and eugenics. Spelled out in 14 specific points.

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Basic Beliefs are Founded Upon: +CHRISTIANITY - beliefs are based on the supernatural. Essentially geared to denouncing the real world and focusing on a fictitious +heaven and a hell in the "hereafter." A collection of superstitions, +myths and fantasies that appeal to the naive and gullible, but are +an affront to any informed, reasoning man or woman. +CREATIVITY - beliefs based upon reality - the Eternal Laws +of Nature, the life and welfare of the White Race on this Planet Earth. +Based upon the Experience of History, and upon Common Sense. +Basic Attitudes +CHRISTIANITY - promotes the idea that we are all equal in +the eyes of the Lord (except the Jews are his overwhelming favorite) +and therefore race-mixing is just great. Also, we owe the less for-tunate (the niggers and the mud races) everything we have. We +should love them, marry them, feed them and house them. (Sell all +thou hast, love our enemies, etc.) +CREATIVITY - takes a completely opposite view on the racial +position. We follow Nature's Eternal Laws, which clearly state: take +care of your own. CREATIVITY views mongrelization of the White +Race as the ultimate horror and does not view the Jews as "God's +Chosen." Rather it categorizes the Jews as mankind's most persis-tent parasite, and a major disaster for the White Race. Our GOLDEN +RULE says it all: What is good for the White Race is the highest +virtue; what is bad for the White Race is the ultimate sin.

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The Dark Ages of European civilization were +at their worst when Jewish Christianity was at its +peak.

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Spooks in the Sky: Unseen, unheard, unfelt, +unsmelt, unknown, unreal.

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After 5000 years +Israel, A Parasitic Nation +Still unable to either sustain or govern itself. +On the following pages we have reprinted an article that ap-peared in the regular Jewish establishment press on June 1. In fact, +it appeared in the Atlanta Constitution, but that is not as significant +as that the headline in itself is misleading and belies the text of the +article. +The headline would lead one to believe that the Israeli currency +is being kept sound, by some means or the other, evidently American +"floorboard dollars." However, this is a lie. there is hardly an +economy in the world that is as unstable and unsound as it is in Isreal. +Nor is there a currency in the world that is more worthless and sub-ject to a higher rate of inflation. In the last year that rate has +sometimes bounced as high as an annual rate of 1300 per cent. The +Israelis themselves have absolutely no confidence in it, and trust +neither it nor their government. +Despite the fact that Israel (thanks to the Jewish powerhouse +throughout the world, and especially in the United States) is the most +subsidized little nation in the world, it is a miserable place to live, +even for the Jews. It is racked with strikes, inflation, dissension and +discontent. This despite the fact that Israel is receiving at least 3.4 +billion American dollars in free aid and charity from the United States +government (read U.S. taxpayers). Foreign Jews, especially from the +U.S., float huge bonds, which benefits are sent to Israel. On top of +that as many as 3.5 million Jews in Israel and other countries now +get "restitution" payments from a supine German government on top +of all the other loot they manage to finagle and extract from the goyim +abroad. All this thievery accrues to about $10000 per year for each +Jewish family of four. Talk about successful parasites! Talk about +accomplished thievery! Who was it that said crime doesn't pay? +Now you would think that with all this free subsidization, +ancient pesthole of the world would be rolling in luxury, a virtual land +of milk and honey, as the Jewish Bible likes to envision God's Chosen. +But it isn't. It is a miserable place with no future of its own +not only has one of the highest inflation rates, but also one of the +highest emigration rates - Jews who have had a taste of their own +communistic brew are moving out. The only factor that keep the +entire population from disappearing is the fervent and misleading pro-paganda in foreign countries inducing new Jewish victims to move in. +The Jews are, in fact, as adept at lying to their own people as

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they are to the goyim. But it can't last. Israel is doomed. As soon +as the White Race comes to its senses and stops subsidizing this +virulent pesthole, it will collapse like a pricked balloon. +It is the goal and unswerving determination of the CHURCH OF +THE CREATOR to help bring this about as quickly as possible by +straightening out the confused, scrambled thinking of our White +Racial Comrades. Let us hasten this day. Without the misguided sub-sidization by the White goyim Israel and the whole stinking Jewish +network would disappear faster than a snowball in the proverbial +Jewish) hell. Then, no longer protected by a subservient and toady-ing United States, the 120 million hostile Arabs that surround Israel +would rapidly close in and demolish every last vestige of what was +once the world's foremost parasite. +DELENDA EST JUDAICA +Happy Day!

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'Floorboard dollars' keep currency sound +across Israel By Micheal Widlanski +TEL AVIV - A bank clerk here the other day was trying to do "a good +deed" for a longtime customer, and, at the same time, for the crisis-ridden +Israeli government. +"Now that your son was born " the bank clerk said to the customer, +"it would be a good idea to open up a savings plan in his name." +"No thanks," responded the customer, warily eying the clerk. "I don't +want my money in the bank." +"Don't be foolish," said the clerk insistently. "Here, you'll get a savings +plan where your savings (in shekels) will be linked to the dollar and to the +rate of inflation plus a few per cent interest." +The wary customer did a quick bit of calculating before responding to +the attractive offer. He took into account that the government's rate for the +dollar - about 1000 shekels to one greenback - was over 35 percent less +than the rate offered on the Israeli blackmarket, where one dollar brings +1350 shekels. +"I'm sorry," said the bank customer. "I'm just not interested." +What the customer did not tell the bank clerk - but what the clerk pro-bably knew anyway - was that he had put nearly all his savings into what +is popularly known here as "floorboard dollars," so called because most +Israelis have been keeping their savings in dollars or other hard currency +under their floorboards or under their mattresses. +Most Israelis have come to the conclusion that the government, which +is short on revenues but long on expenses, will try to attack private assets +in some way or to lower its own debts by taking forced loans from private +bank accounts or by a one-time major devaluation of the shekel.

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Under the various scenarios, the worst nightmares of most Israelis, +the government will thus try to cover its own growing budget deficits and +decline in foreign currency reserves with private money. +The Israeli government, whose budgetary expenses actually exceed its +gross domestic product of around $20 billion, has protested - in the per-son of Finance Minister Yitzhak Modai - that it "will not touch the savings +of the individual Israeli." +But Israelis have long since stopped believing in their government. +"I don't believe anything they're saying anymore," declared Orah Lip-sky, an American-born educator who lives in Jerusalem. She said she was +especially upset by the governments recent decision to raise the travel tax +to $300 along with another 20 percent on the price of airline tickets. +For Mrs. Lipsky, her husband and two children, this means that what +used to be $2000 trip to visit her parents in New Jersey has become over-night a trip that costs close to $14000 just for airfare and government taxes. +"It's an outrage", said Mrs. Lipsky. "I feel like a prisoner of conscience. +I don't think they (the government) have any economic plan." +Beyond the travel tax, the Israeli government also decreed that the value +added tax (VAT) - a kind of national sales tax on every good and service +- would rise from 15 to 17 percent. +"What this gigantic government really has to do it cannot do because +it has to please 25 different ministers, and therefore it cannot cut public spen-ding," asserted Nehemya Shessler, economic reporter for the liberal morn-ing daily paper, Ha'aretz. +In less than two months, the black market rate for the dollars has prac-tically doubled as thousands of Israelis and Israeli institutions cashed in their +savings and pension plans and bought dollars on the black market or rush-ed out to buy luxury items such as new cars. +Already, however, senior government ministers are talking about im-posing a new tax on all cars, no matter how old, owned by the public. This +would be in addition to the numerous taxes and customs levies on new cars +that have raised prices to astronomical levels. +A mid-size sedan, for example, which would cost five or six thousand +dollars in Britain, Germany or the United States, costs "only" twenty-four +to twenty-nine thousand dollars (in shekels) here. +Despite the high price of cars, however, Israeli dealers have reported +that all their stocks have been bought out through the end of the summer. +"Everybody's buying now," said Danny Tzarfati, a car dealer here, +"because they know the government will only tax it even more."

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WITH A NEW ITALIAN GOVERNMENT THAT INCLUDES THE SELF-DECLARED NEOFASCIST PARTY, THE ROLE +OF AGENCIES WITHIN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IN PUSHING ITALIAN POLITICS TO THE RIGHT IS MORE +NEWSWORTHY THAN EVER. "GLADIO" TELLS THE STORY OF NEARLY A HALF-CENTURY OF EFFORTS BY THE +CIA, THE U.S. MILITARY, AND AT TIMES, THE WHITE HOUSE, TO FORESTALL A FEARED "COMMUNIST +TAKEOVER."

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ROWSE REVEALS THE DETAILS OF THIS POLICY, INCLUDING UNDERCOVER PAYMENTS TO ITALIAN +POLITICAL PARTIES AND INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, THE USE OF FASCIST WAR CRIMINALS, NAZIS, AND +MOBSTERS TO FORM AND LEAD UNDERGROUND PARAMILITARY GROUPS, U.S. LINKS TO A TERROR +BOMBING CAMPAIGN, AND REVIEWS DISQUIETING QUESTIONS ABOUT U.S. LINKS TO THE ASSASSINATION +OF ALDO MORO.

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ARTHUR E. ROWSE'S EXHAUSTIVE INVESTIGATION OF THE ORIGINS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE +DECADES-LONG COVERT U.S. EFFORT TO INFLUENCE ITALIAN POLITICS MARKS THE FIRST +COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT "GLADIO" IN A U.S. PUBLICATION.

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ARTHUR E. ROWSE, FORMERLY ON THE STAFF OF THE WASHINGTON POST AND U.S. NEWS & WORLD +REPORT IS AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS.

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GLADIO: THE SECRET U.S. WAR TO SUBVERT ITALIAN DEMOCRACY

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by Arthur E. Rowse

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This January, Silvio Berlusconi rode onto the turbulent Italian political scene on a white charger. Voters had become +disenchanted with long-time centrist leaders who were mired in massive corruption scandals. With crucial +parliamentary elections only two months away and the likelihood that the left would win power for the first time since +World War II, *1 the billionaire businessman entered the fray with a slate of right-wing candidates who had never held +office. Helped by voter disgust and his own vast media and industrial holdings, Berlusconi's coalition won big, averting +the anticipated leftist victory. His win lifted the right, including the neo-fascists, to new postwar heights. *2 Real change +seemed unlikely, however, as Berlusconi repackaged the old politics with new names and slogans. Berlusconi himself +was weaned on the system and owed much of his success to Bettino Craxi, a former Socialist prime minister who went +on trial for corruption the day after the March election. It wasn't long before the right's clean hands were upstaged by +arms raised in fascist salutes and cries of Il Duce.

+ +

While Berlusconi's rapid ascent took most observers by surprise, the stage was set for it by nearly 50 years of U.S. +interference in Italian politics. In the name of fighting communism, the U.S. helped generate a level of political turmoil +that sometimes approached civil war. U.S. agents and their Italian surrogates took control of key government agencies, +at times reducing Italian democracy to little more than a proving ground for the CIA's and the White House's +aggressive tactics. The undercover campaign, known as Gladio, for a double-edged Roman sword, was officially +acknowledged for the first time in 1990, when it was finally closed down.

+ +

THE DIMENSIONS OF GLADIO

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The Italian people had received many signs over the years that the centrist parties the Christian Democrats and the +Socialists were promoted and to some degree controlled by Washington. But it was only when the Italian government +officially admitted it in 1990 that the ruling coalition began to crumble, ready to be picked apart two years later by +corruption scandals. The startling story of Gladio, which continues to make headlines in Europe, has barely been +mentioned in the U.S., where many of its darkest chapters remain secret.

+ +

The program in Italy was aimed at the threat that communists might mount an insurrection or gain a share of political +power through the ballot box. An insurrection was unlikely, however, since nearly all posts in the bureaucracy were +filled after the war by solidly anticommunist veterans of Mussolini's forces, with Allied approval.

+ +

During the war, most Americans considered themselves heroes who freed Western Europe from its brutal Nazi and +fascist rulers. It wasn't long after the American landings on Italian soil, however, that the white hats got sullied. While +some OSS agents worked with antifascists to help lay the basis for Italian democracy, many of those higher up the +ladder conspired with backers of Mussolini or the former king to impede it. *3

+ +

Although many European intelligence agencies have admitted participating, the CIA has denied any connection with +Gladio. But enough information has emerged to show that the CIA sponsored and financed a large portion of the +terrorism and disruption that plagued Italy for nearly half a century. Among other things, the U.S. government:

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Forged secret alliances with the Mafia and right-wing elements of the Vatican to prevent the left from playing any +role in government; +Recruited Mussolini's ex-police into paramilitary bands secretly financed and trained by the CIA, ostensibly to fight +Soviets, but really to conduct terror attacks blamed on the left; +Employed the gamut of psychological warfare tactics, including paying millions in slush funds to political parties, +journalists, and other influential contacts to tilt parliamentary elections against the left; +Created a secret service and a parallel government structure linked to the CIA whose assets attempted several times +to overthrow the elected government; and +Targeted Prime Minister Aldo Moro, who was later kidnapped and murdered under mysterious circumstances after +offering to bring communists into the Cabinet.

+ +

THE SECRET NATO COVER

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@TEMP = The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) provided international cover for Washington's postwar +operations in Italy. A secret clause in the initial NATO agreement in 1949 required that before a nation could join, it +must have already established a national security authority to fight communism through clandestine citizen cadres. +This Stay Behind clause grew out of a secret committee set up at U.S. insistence in the Atlantic Pact, the forerunner of +NATO. Each NATO member was also required to send delegates to semiannual meetings on the subject. *4

+ +

U.S. authority for such moves flowed in a steady stream of presidential directives transmitted through the National +Security Council (NSC). In December 1950, the council gave the armed forces carte blanche to use appropriate military +force even if the communists merely gain participation in government by legal means or threaten to achieve control...or +the government ceases to evidence a determination to oppose communist internal or external threats. *5

+ +

The CIA helped the Italian police set up secret squadrons staffed in many cases with veterans of Mussolini's secret +police. *6 The squadrons were trained for intensive espionage and counter-espionage, against communists and other +perceived enemies of the status quo. The plan to use exceptional means was patterned after the highly militarized +French intelligence service, the Suret Nationale, which was reportedly so tough on communists that many fled to other +countries. *7

+ +

The newly organized intelligence agency, SIFAR, began operations in September 1949, under the supervision of an +undercover American, Carmel Offie, nicknamed godfather by the Italians. *8 Interior Minister Mario Scelba headed +the operation. At the same time, Scelba was directing a brutal repression, murdering hundreds of workers and peasants +who sought improved conditions after the war. *9

+ +

OPERATION DEMAGNETIZE

+ +

With the Italian secret service under control, the Americans then expanded it under the name Operation Demagnetize +and tied it to an existing network of cadre in northern Italy. In 1951, the Italian secret service formally agreed to set up +a clandestine organization within the military to coordinate with the northern cadres. In 1952, SIFAR received secret +orders from Washington to adopt a series of political, paramilitary and psychological operations destined to diminish the +power of the Italian Communist Party, its material resources, and its influence on government. This priority objective +must be attained by all means. 10

+ +

Operation Demagnetize marked the institutional hardening of Gladio. A State Department historian characterized it as +the strategy of stabilization, *11 although it could be more accurately described as one of destabilization. From the +start, the offensive was secretly directed and funded by the U.S. government. In 1956, the arrangement was formalized +in a written agreement, using the name Gladio for the first time. According to 1956 documents uncovered in Italy in +1990, Gladio was divided into independent cells coordinated from a CIA camp in Sardinia. These special forces included +40 main groups. Ten specialized in sabotage, six each in espionage, propaganda, evasion and escape tactics, and 12 in +guerrilla activities. Another division handled the training of agents and commandos. These special forces had access to +underground arms caches, which included hand guns, grenades, high-tech explosives, daggers, 60-millimeter mortars, +57-millimeter machine guns and precision rifles. *12

+ +

In 1956, Gen. Giovanni De Lorenzo was named to head SIFAR on the recommendation of U.S. Ambassador Claire +Boothe Luce, the avidly anticommunist wife of the publisher of Time magazine. *13 A key player in Gladio was now in +place. In 1962, the CIA helped place De Lorenzo at the head of the national police (carabinieri), while he retained +effective control of the secret service.

+ +

The general brought with him 17 lieutenants to begin purging insufficiently right-wing officers. It was the first step to a +right-wing coup attempt, with U.S. military attach Vernon Walters in the vanguard. In a memo to De Lorenzo the same +year, Walters suggested types of intervention aimed at provoking a national crisis, including blocking a center-left +coalition, creating schisms among the socialists, and funding forces favorable to the status quo.14

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Meanwhile, according to CIA files found in Rome in 1984, CIA station chief William Harvey began to recruit action +teams based on a list of 2000 men capable of throwing bombs, conducting attacks, and accompanying these actions with +indispensable propaganda. 15 These teams had a chance to practice their skills in 1963 as part of an anti-union +offensive. U.S.-trained gladiators dressed as police and civilians attacked construction workers peacefully demonstrating +in Rome, leaving some 200 wounded and a large section of the city in shambles. The link to Gladio was made in later +testimony by a former general in the secret service.16

+ +

SIFAR Lt. Col. Renzo Rocca was also training a civil militia composed of ex-soldiers, parachutists and members of +Junio Valerio Black Prince Borghese's paramilitary organization, Decima MAS (Tenth Torpedo Boat Squadron), for the +pending coup.17 President Antonio Segni reportedly knew of the plan, which was to conclude with the assassination of +Prime Minister Aldo Moro, under fire for not being tough enough with the communists.18

+ +

The long-planned takeover, known later as Plan Solo, fizzled in March 1964, when the key carabinieri involved +remained in their barracks. As a subsequent inquiry moved to question Rocca about the coup attempt, he apparently +killed himself, possibly to fulfill Gladio's oath of silence. After officials determined that state secrets were involved, +three hamstrung inquiries failed to determine the guilty parties.19

+ +

THE STRATEGY OF TENSION

+ +

Despite the failure of Plan Solo, the CIA and the Italian right had largely succeeded in creating the clandestine +structures envisioned in Operation Demagnetize. Now the plotters turned their attention to a renewed offensive against +the left.

+ +

To win intellectual support, the secret services set up a conference in Rome at the luxurious Parco dei Principi hotel in +May 1965, for a study of revolutionary war. The choice of words was inadvertently revealing, since the conveners and +invited participants were planning a real revolution, not just warning of an imaginary communist takeover. The +meeting was essentially a reunion of fascists, right-wing journalists, and military personnel. The strategy of tension +that emerged was designed to disrupt normality with terror attacks in order to create chaos and provoke a frightened +public into accepting still more authoritarian government. *20

+ +

Several graduates of this exercise had long records of anticommunist actions and would later be implicated in some of +Italy's worst massacres. One was journalist and secret agent Guido Giannettini. Four years earlier, he had conducted a +seminar at the U.S. Naval Academy on The Techniques and Prospects of a Coup d'Etat in Europe. Another was notorious +fascist Stefano Delle Chiaie, who had reportedly been recruited as a secret agent in 1960. He had organized his own +armed band known as Avanguardia Nationale (AN), whose members had begun training in terror tactics in preparation +for Plan Solo. *21

+ +

General De Lorenzo, whose SIFAR had now become SID, soon enlisted these and other confidants in a new Gladio +project. They planned to create a secret parallel force alongside sensitive government offices to neutralize subversive +elements not yet purified. Known as the Parallel SID, its tentacles reached into nearly every key institution of the +Italian state. Gen.Vito Miceli, who later headed SID, said he set up the separate structure at the request of the +Americans and NATO. 22

+ +

FRATERNAL BONDS

+ +

Two ancient, mysterious, international fraternities kept the loosely-linked Gladio programs from flying apart. The +Knights of Malta played a formative role after the war (see box), but the order of Freemasonry and its most notorious +lodge in Italy, known as Propaganda Due (pronounced doo-ay ), or P-2, was far more influential. In the late 1960s, its +Most Venerable Master was Licio Gelli, a Knight of Malta who fought for Franco with Mussolini's Black Shirts. At the +end of World War II, Gelli faced execution by Italian partisans for his Nazi collaboration, but escaped by joining the +U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps. *23 In the 1950s, he was recruited by SIFAR.

+ +

After some years of self-imposed exile in Argentine fascist circles,24 he saw his calling in Italy as a Mason. Quickly +rising to its top post, he began fraternizing in 1969 with Gen. Alexander Haig, then assistant to Henry Kissinger, +President Nixon's national security chief. Gelli became the main intermediary between the CIA and SID's De Lorenzo, +also a Mason and Knight. Gelli's first order from the White House was reportedly to recruit 400 more top Italian and +NATO officials.25

+ +

To help ferret out dissidents, Gelli and De Lorenzo began compiling personal dossiers on thousands of people, including +legislators and clerics. *26 Within a few years, scandal erupted when an inquiry found 157000 such files in SID, all +available to the Ministers of Defense and Interior. *27 Parliament ordered 34000 files burned, but by then the CIA had +obtained duplicates for its archives. *28

+ +

Provocateurs on the Right

+ +

In 1968, the Americans started formal commando training for the gladiators at the clandestine Sardinian NATO base. +Within a few years, 4000 graduates had been placed in strategic posts. At least 139 arms caches, including some at +carabinieri barracks, were at their disposal. *29 To induce young men to join such a risky venture, the CIA paid high +salaries and promised that if they were killed, their children would be educated at U.S. expense. *30

+ +

Tensions began to reach critical mass that same year. While dissidents took to the streets all over the world, in Italy, +takeovers of universities and strikes for higher wages and pensions were overshadowed by a series of bloody political +crimes. The number of terrorist acts reached 147 in 1968, rising to 398 the next year, and to an incredible peak of 2498 +in 1978 before tapering off, largely because of a new law encouraging informers ( penitenti ). *31 Until 1974, the +indiscriminate bombers of the right constituted the main force behind political violence.

+ +

The first major explosion occurred in 1969 in Milan's Piazza Fontana; it killed 18 people and injured 90. In this and +numerous other massacres, anarchists proved handy scapegoats for fascist provocateurs seeking to blame the left. +Responding to a phone tip after the Milan massacre, police arrested 150 alleged anarchists and even put some on trial. +But two years later, new evidence led to the indictment of several neofascists and SID officers. Three innocent +anarchists were convicted, but later absolved, while those responsible for the attack emerged unpunished by Italian +justice. *32

+ +

Conclusive Gladio links to political violence were found after a plane exploded in flight near Venice in November 1973. +Venetian judge Carlo Mastelloni determined that the Argo-16 aircraft was used to shuttle trainees and munitions +between the U.S. base in Sardinia and Gladio sites in northeast Italy.33 The apogee of right-wing terror came in 1974 +with two massacres. One, a bombing at an antifascist rally in Brescia, killed eight and injured 102. The other was an +explosion on the Italicus train near Bologna, killing 12 and wounding 105. At this point, President Giovanni Leone, with +little exaggeration, summed up the situation: With 10000 armed civilians running around, as usual, I'm president of +shit. *34

+ +

At Brescia, the initial call to police also blamed anarchists, but the malefactor later turned out to be a secret agent in +the Parallel SID. *35 A similar connection was also alleged in the Italicus case. Two fascists who were eventually +convicted were members of a clandestine police group called the Black Dragons, according to the left-wing paper, Lotta +Continua. *36 Their sentences were also overturned. Although in these and other cases, many leftists were arrested +and tried, fascists or neofascists were often the culprits, in league with Gladio groups and the Italian secret services. +Reflecting the degree to which these forces controlled the government through the Parallel SID, nearly all the rightists +implicated in these atrocities were later freed.

+ +

By 1974, right-wing terror began to be answered by the armed left, which favored carefully targeted hit-and-run attacks +over the right's indiscriminate bombings. For the next six years, leftist militants, especially the Red Brigades, +responded with a vengeance, accounting for far more acts of political violence than the right. *37 For several years, +Italy plunged into a virtual civil war.

+ +

PLOTTING COUPS D'ETAT

+ +

Meanwhile, groups of right-wingers were busy planning more takeovers of the elected government, with the active +encouragement of U.S. officials. A seminal document was the 1970 132-page order on stability operations in host +countries, published as Supplement B of the U.S. Army's Field Manual 30-31. Taking its cue from earlier NSC and CIA +papers, the manual explained that if a country is not sufficiently anticommunist, serious attention must be given to +possible modifications of the structure. If that country does not react with adequate vigor, the document continues, +groups acting under U.S. Army intelligence control should be used to launch violent or nonviolent actions according to +the nature of the case. *38

+ +

With such incendiary suggestions and thousands of U.S.-trained guerrillas ready, the fascists again attempted to take +over the government by force in 1970. This time, the instigator was the Black Prince Borghese. Fifty men under the +command of Stefano Delle Chiaie seized the Interior Ministry in Rome after being let in at night by an aide to political +police head Federico D'Amato. But the operation was aborted when Borghese received a mysterious phone call later +attributed to General Vito Miceli, the military intelligence chief. The plotters were not arrested; instead, they left with +180 stolen machine guns. *39

+ +

News of the attack remained secret until an informer tipped the press three months later. By then, the culprits had +escaped to Spain. Although the ringleaders were convicted in 1975, the verdict was overturned on appeal. All but one of +the machine guns were returned earlier. *40

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It was in this atmosphere that the U.S. decided to make another all-out effort to block the communists from gaining +strength in the 1972 elections. According to the Pike Report, the CIA disbursed $10 million to 21 candidates, mostly +Christian Democrats. *41 That amount did not include $800000 that Ambassador Graham Martin, going around the +CIA, obtained through Henry Kissinger at the White House for General Miceli. *42 Miceli would later face charges for +the Borghese coup attempt but, fitting the pattern, he was cleared.

+ +

Police foiled another attempted coup that same year. They found hit lists and other documents exposing some 20 +subversive groups forming the Parallel SID structure. Roberto Cavallaro, a fascist trade unionist, was implicated, as +were highly placed generals, who said they got approval from NATO and U.S. officials. In later testimony, Cavallaro said +the group was set up to restore order after any trouble arose. When these troubles do not erupt [by themselves], he +said, they are contrived by the far right. Gen. Miceli was arrested, but the courts eventually freed him, declaring that +there had been no insurrection. *43

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Still another right-wing attempt to overthrow the government was set for 1974, reportedly with the imprimatur of both +the CIA and NATO. Its leader was Edgardo Sogno, one of Italy's most decorated resistance fighters, who had formed a +Gladio-style group after the war. Sogno, who had gained many influential American friends while working at the Italian +embassy in Washington during the 1960s, was later arrested, but he, too, was eventually cleared. *44

+ +

GLADIO UNRAVELS

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A triple murder at Peteano near Venice in May 1972 turned out to be pivotal in exposing Gladio. The crime occurred +when three carabinieri, in response to an anonymous phone call, went to check out a suspicious car. When one of them +opened the hood, all three were blown to bits by a boobytrap bomb. *45 An anonymous call two days later implicated the +Red Brigades, the most active of the left's revolutionary groups. The police immediately rounded up 200 alleged +communists, thieves and pimps for questioning, but no charges were brought. Ten years later, a courageous Venetian +magistrate, Felice Casson, reopened the long-dormant case only to learn that there had been no police investigation at +the scene. Despite receiving a false analysis from a secret service bomb expert and confronting numerous obstructions +and delays, the judge traced the explosives to a militant outfit called New Order and to one of its active members, +Vincenzo Vinciguerra. He promptly confessed and was sentenced to life, the only right-wing bomber ever locked up. *46

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Vinciguerra refused to implicate others, but described the coverup:

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"The carabinieri, the Ministry of Interior, the Customs and Excise police, the civilian +and military secret services all knew the truth behind the attack, that I was +responsible and all this within 20 days. So they decided, for totally political reasons, +to cover it up. *47"

+ +

As for his motive, the fascist true believer Vinciguerra said his misdeed was an act of revolt against the manipulation of +neofascism since 1945 by the whole Gladio-based parallel structure. *48

+ +

Casson eventually found enough incriminating evidence to implicate the highest officials of the land. In what was the +first such request to an Italian president, Casson demanded explanations from President Francesco Cossiga. But Casson +didn't stop there; he also demanded that other officials come clean. In October 1990, under pressure from Casson, +Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti ended 30 years of denials and described Gladio in detail. He added that all prime +ministers had been aware of Gladio, though some later denied it. *49

+ +

Suddenly, Italians saw clues to many mysteries, including the unexplained death of Pope John Paul I in 1978. Author +David Yallop lists Gelli as a suspect in that case, saying that he, for all practical purposes, ran Italy at the time. *50

+ +

MEMENTO MORO

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Perhaps the most shocking political crime of the 1970s was the kidnapping and murder of Prime Minister Aldo Moro +and five of his aides in 1978. The abduction occurred as Moro was on his way to submit a plan to strengthen Italian +political stability by bringing communists into the government.

+ +

Earlier versions of the plan had sent U.S. officials into a tizzy. Four years before his death, on a visit to the U.S. as +foreign minister, Moro was reportedly read the riot act by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and later by an unnamed +intelligence official. In testimony during the inquiry into his murder, Moro's widow summed up their ominous words: +You must abandon your policy of bringing all the political forces in your country into direct collaboration...or you will +pay dearly for it. *51

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Moro was so shaken by the threats, according to an aide, that he became ill the next day and cut short his U.S. visit, +saying he was through with politics. *52 But U.S. pressure continued; Senator Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) issued a +similar warning two years later in an interview in Italy. *53 Shortly before his kidnapping, Moro wrote an article +replying to his U.S. critics, but decided not to publish it. *54

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While being held captive for 55 days, Moro pleaded repeatedly with his fellow Christian Democrats to accept a ransom +offer to exchange imprisoned Red Brigade members for his freedom. But they refused, to the delight of Allied officials +who wanted the Italians to play hardball. In a letter found later, Moro predicted: My death will fall like a curse on all +Christian Democrats, and it will initiate a disastrous and unstoppable collapse of all the party apparatus. *55

+ +

During Moro's captivity, police unbelievably claimed to have questioned millions of people and searched thousands of +dwellings. But the initial judge investigating the case, Luciano Infelisi, said he had no police at his disposal. I ran the +investigation with a single typist, without even a telephone in the room. He added that he received no useful +information from the secret services during the time. *56 Other investigating magistrates suggested in 1985 that one +reason for the inaction was that all the key officers involved were members of P-2 and were therefore acting at the +behest of Gelli and the CIA. *57

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Although the government eventually arrested and convicted several Red Brigade members, many in the press and +parliament continue to ask whether SID arranged the kidnapping after receiving orders from higher up. Suspicions +naturally turned toward the U.S., particularly Henry Kissinger, though he denied any role in the crime. In Gladio and +the Mafia, Washington had the perfect apparatus for doing such a deed without leaving a trace.

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PENETRATING THE RED BRIGADES

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That the Red Brigades had been thoroughly infiltrated for years by both the CIA and the Italian secret services is no +longer contested. The purpose of the operation was to encourage violence from extremist sectors of the left in order to +discredit the left as a whole. The Red Brigades were a perfect foil. With unflinching radicalism, they considered the +Italian Communist Party too moderate and Moro's opening too compromising.

+ +

The Red Brigades worked closely with the Hyperion Language School in Paris, with some members not realizing it had +CIA ties. The school had been founded by three pseudo-revolutionary Italians, one of whom, Corrado Simioni, had +worked for the CIA at Radio Free Europe. *58 Another, Duccio Berio, has admitted passing information about Italian +leftist groups to SID. *59 Hyperion opened an office in Italy shortly before the kidnapping and closed it a few months +later. An Italian police report said Hyperion may be the most important CIA office in Europe. *60 Mario Moretti, one of +those who handled arms deals and the Paris connection for the Red Brigades, managed to avoid arrest in the Moro case +for three years even though he personally handled the kidnapping. *61

+ +

Venice magistrate Carlo Mastelloni concluded in 1984 that the Red Brigades had for years received arms from the PLO. +*62 Mastelloni wrote that the de facto secret service level accord between the USA and the PLO was considered relevant +to the present investigation into the ... relationship between the Red Brigades organization and the PLO. *63 One +Gladio scholar, Phillip Willan, concludes that the arms deal between the PLO and the Red Brigades formed part of the +secret accord between the PLO and the CIA. *64 His research indicates that the alleged deal between the CIA and the +PLO occurred in 1976, a year after the U.S. promised Israel that it would have no political contacts with the PLO.

+ +

At the time of the Moro kidnapping, several leaders of the Brigades were in prison, having been turned in by a double +agent after they kidnapped a judge. According to journalist Gianni Cipriani, one of those arrested was carrying phone +numbers and personal notes leading to a high official of SID, who had boasted openly of having agents inside the Red +Brigades. Other intriguing finds included the discovery in the Brigade offices of a printing press which had previously +belonged to SID and ballistics tests showing more than half of the 92 bullets at the kidnapping scene were similar to +those in Gladio stocks. *65

+ +

Several people have noted the unlikelihood of the Red Brigades pulling off such a smooth, military-style kidnapping in +the center of Rome. Alberto Franceschini, a jailed member of the Brigades, said, I never thought my comrades outside +had the capacity to carry out a complex military operation. ... We remembered ourselves as an organization formed by +inexperienced young lads. *66 Two days after the crime, one secret service officer told the press that the perpetrators +appeared to have had special commando training. *67

+ +

When letters written by Moro were found later in a Red Brigades site in Milan, investigators hoped they would reveal +key evidence. But Francesco Biscioni, who studied Moro's responses to his captors' questions, concluded that important +sections had been excised when they were transcribed. Nonetheless, in one uncensored passage, Moro worried about how +Andreotti's smooth relationships with his colleagues of the CIA would affect his fate. *68

+ +

The two people with the most knowledge of Moro's letters were murdered. The Carabiniere general in charge of +anti-terrorism, Carlo Alberto Della Chiesa, was transferred to Sicily and killed Mafia-style in 1982, a few months after +raising questions about the missing letters. *69 Maverick journalist Mino Pecorelli was assassinated on a Rome street +in 1979 just a month after reporting that he had obtained a list of 56 fascists betrayed to the police by Gelli. *70 Thomas +Buscetta, a Mafia informer under witness protection in the U.S., accused Andreotti of ordering both killings for fear of +being exposed. *71 But an inquiry by his political peers last year found no reason to prosecute the prime minister.

+ +

Della Chiesa and Pecorelli were only two of numerous witnesses and potential witnesses murdered before they could be +questioned by judges untainted by links to Gladio. *72 President Cossiga, the interior minister when Moro died, told +BBC: Aldo Moro's death still weighs heavily on the Christian Democrats as does the decision I came to, which turned +my hair white, to practically sacrifice Moro to save the Republic. *73

+ +

THE BOLOGNA TRAIN STATION BOMBING

+ +

A huge explosion at the Bologna train station two years after Moro's death may have whitened the hair of many Italians +not just for the grisly toll of 85 killed and more than 200 injured but for the official inaction that followed. Although the +investigating magistrates suspected neofascists, they were unable to issue credible arrest warrants for more than two +years because of false data from the secret services. By that time, all but one of the five chief suspects, two of whom +had ties to SID, had skipped the country. *74 The T4 explosive found at the scene matched the Gladio material used in +Brescia, Peteano and other bombings, according to expert testimony before Judge Mastelloni. *75

+ +

In the trial, the judges cited the strategy of tension and its ties to foreign powers. They also found the secret military +and civilian structure tied into neofascist groups, P-2, and the secret services. *76 In short, they found the CIA and +Gladio.

+ +

But their efforts to exact justice for the Bologna bombing came to nothing when, in 1990, the court of appeals acquitted +all the alleged brains. P-2 head Gelli went free, as did two secret service chiefs whose perjury convictions were +overturned. Four gladiators convicted of participating in an armed group also won appeals. That left Peteano as the only +major bombing case with a conviction of the actual bomber, thanks to Vinciguerra's confession.

+ +

The sorry judicial record in these monstrous crimes showed how completely the Gladio network enveloped the army, +police, secret services and the top courts. Thanks to P-2, with its 963 well-placed brothers, *77 the collusion also +extended into the top levels of media and business.

+ +

FRUITS OF GLADIO

+ +

By the early 1980s, however, court data revealed enough CIA fingerprints to provoke strong anti-U.S. sentiment. In +1981, the offices of three U.S. firms in Rome were bombed. In 1982, the Red Brigades kidnapped James L. Dozier, a +U.S. general attached to NATO, calling him a Yankee hangman. *78 He was freed after five weeks by police +commandos, reportedly with the help of the CIA's Mafia connections. *79 But damage to the U.S. image has been +remarkably constrained considering what the U.S. did to Italian society and government for 50 years in the name of +anticommunism.

+ +

Moro's final prediction came true. Instead of bolstering the center parties, Gladio, helped by the corruption scandals, +destroyed them. Instead of destroying the leftists, Gladio revelations helped them win control of major cities while +retaining one-third of parliament. By the early 1980s, the Red Brigades were wiped out, but the major sources of +right-wing terrorism the Mafia and the neofascists remained active.80

+ +

The end results lead some to question the whole rationale of U.S. involvement in Italy, particularly in regard to the +communist menace. According to Phillip Willan, who wrote the definitive book on Italian terrorism:

+ +

"The U.S. has consistently refused to recognize the Italian Communist Party's +increasingly wholehearted commitment to the principles of Western democracy and +its validity as an alternative to the generally corrupt and incompetent political +parties that have governed Italy since the war. Had it done so, much of the +bloodshed resulting from the strategy of tension might have been avoided. *81"

+ +

Willan goes on to ask whether U.S. and Italian intelligence officials may have deliberately over-emphasized the +communist threat in order to give themselves greater power and greater leeway for their own maneuvers. *82

+ +

THE LESSONS OF GLADIO

+ +

As long as the U.S. public remains ignorant of this dark chapter in U.S. foreign relations, the agencies responsible for it +will face little pressure to correct their ways. The end of the Cold War brought wholesale changes in other nations, but +it changed little in Washington. In an ironic twist, confessed CIA mole Aldrich Ames has raised the basic question of +whether the U.S. needs tens of thousands of agents working around the world primarily in and against friendly +countries. The U.S., he adds, still awaits a real national debate on the means and ends and costs of our national security +policies. *83

+ +

The new government in Italy touts itself as a revolution of the disenfranchised, a clean break from the past. But the +fascists are back and gaining ground. The anti-Mafia party has been rejected, and the big cartels have tightened their +grip on the economy. With P-2 brother Berlusconi continuing to trade on the Cold War fear of communists, the Gladio +perpetrators still unpunished, and experts in Washington raising fears of more terrorism, *84 it looks like business as +usual in Italy.

+ +
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+ +

Gladio's Roots

+ +

The policies that would evolve into Gladio began nduring World War II, when U.S. anticommunist nphobias combined +with geopolitical fears of a victorious USSR to create a holy war against the left. An ends justify the means atmosphere +within the U.S. government and particularly within the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), fostered the creation of Stay +Behind programs throughout Western Europe, ostensibly as the first line of defense in case the Soviets invaded.

+ +

But the main worry was internal. The Americans' great fear for Italy was that communist partisans fighting in the +north would join with organized labor to bring the left to power. The OSS and its successors were apparently prepared to +use any measures to forestall that event, including political assassination, terrorism, and alliances with organized +crime. According to one OSS memo to Washington, the U.S. seemed to support a monarchist plan to use fascist killers +to commit acts of terror and blame the left. *1 U.S. involvement in Italian politics began in 1942, when the OSS +successfully pressured the Justice Department to release imprisoned mobster Charles Lucky Luciano. In return for +early freedom, Luciano agreed to make contacts with Mafia pals to ease the way for the U.S. invasion of Sicily in 1943.2

+ +

The Luciano deal forged a long-standing alliance between the U.S. and the international Cosa Nostra. It also set a +pattern of cooperation between U.S. intelligence agencies and international criminal organizations involved in drugs and +arms traffic. The deal's godfather was Earl Brennan, OSS chief for Italy. Before the war, he had served in the U.S. +Embassy, using his diplomatic cover to establish contacts with Mussolini's secret police and leading fascists. *3

+ +

The Catholic Church also cooperated. U.S. ties to the Vatican were already substantial; one of the strongest links was a +secret fraternity, the Rome-based Sovereign Military Order of Malta, which dates back to the First Crusade. OSS head +William Wild Bill Donovan was a member. So were other top U.S. officials, including Myron Taylor, U.S. envoy to the +Vatican from 1939 to 1950, and William Casey, an OSS operative who rose to CIA chief under Reagan. OSS Italy chief +Brennan had contacts as early as 1942 with Vatican Under-Secretary of State Gian Battista Montini, who became Pope +Paul VI in 1963.4

+ +

Among the notable OSS operatives was James Jesus Angleton, the legendary, paranoid, future CIA +counter-intelligence chief. Angleton built on family and business connections in Italy to lay the basis of Gladio by +forming and financing a clandestine network of right-wing Italians who shared his fierce gung-ho style. *5 The +paramilitary groups were filled with devout anticommunists ready to wage war on the left. He also helped notorious +Nazi/fascist mass-murderers such as Junio Valerio Black Prince Borghese elude justice at war's end. *6

+ +

U.S. officials were worried that the communists and socialists would join forces after the fighting. The communist +takeover in Czechoslovakia in 1948 added to their fears. As a result, the U.S. cooked up a variety of plans to +manipulate Italian politics. Angleton, who by late 1948 had been promoted to special assistant to CIA director Admiral +Roscoe Hillenkoetter, used the Vatican's 20000 Civic Committees to conduct psychological warfare against communist +influences, particularly in the unions. *7

+ +

The newly formed National Security Council (NSC) also joined the fray: If the Communist Party wins the [1948] +election, the NSC advised, such aggression should immediately be countered by steps to extend the strategic disposition +of U.S. armed forces in Italy. *8 The Communists did not win that pivotal election (nor any subsequent ones). But that +didn't stop the U.S. from trying to destroy the left. The total cost to American taxpayers for such activities and various +aid programs was $4 billion from the end of the war to 1953. *9 And that was just the beginning of the U.S. assault on +Italian sovereignty. + +

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PETITION TO INDICT + +The Government of these United States of America, having been formed under the +Constitution and having been duly elected and appointed by the people of these +United States of America under the terms of the Constitution, has violated the +public trust, terms, conditions and laws of the land as outlined and enshrined +within the Constitution of these United States of America. +To Wit: + +(1) The government has approved and entered into a secret treaty with an Alien +Nation against the terms of the Constitution and without the advise and consent +of the Congress or the people. + +(2) The government in this treaty has given this Alien Nation land and bases +within the borders of these United States of America. + +(3) The government in this treaty has traded human lives and property for the +alien technology and has denied the citizens of these United States of America +the lawful protection due them under the Constitution. The property is in the +form of livestock and land. + +(4) In the taking of human lives, property and livestock of the citizens of +these United States and in the commission of numerous other abominable and +barbarous acts, this Alien Nation has proven to be the mortal enemy of the +people, the nation, and all of humanity. Abductions, surgical operations, +implantations, biological sampling, impregnations, psychological damage, and +other horrors have been and are being performed upon humans by this Alien +Nation. For these reasons a state of war now exists and has existed between the +people of the United States and this Alien Nation. + +(5) In approving of, and participating in the crimes outlined in paragraphs 1, +2, 3, and 4 above, the government is in violation of Article II Section 2, +Article III Section 3 and several other Articles of the Constitution, and is +guilty of and is hereby charged with conspiracy, murder and treason against the +people and the Constitution of these United States of America. + +(6) In the process of aiding and abetting the Alien Nation in the performance of +these crimes against the people, the Nation, and humanity, the government, with +full knowledge and consent, has murdered, incarcerated, forcibly relocated, +brainwashed, drugged, harassed and otherwise interfered unlawfully in the lives +of patriots, including a President of the United States, who have attempted to +expose this murder and treason. + +(7) To keep this secret from the Congress and from the people of these United +States of America, the Government has financed its Alien involvement through the +importation and sale of illegal narcotics to the nations people and specifically +to the nation's youth. The Central Intelligence Agency has been and continues to +be the main instrument in the control of the worlds drug market. "The use of +illegal narcotics to finance the Alien connected projects and other black +projects will identify and eliminate the weak elements of our society", is the +rationalization used by the Government to justify these heinous and treasonous +acts. + +(8) In the pursuit of bringing all those in or out of the government who are +responsible for these acts of conspiracy, murder and treason to justice, the +Trilateral Commission, the President, Vice President, the Director of Central +Intelligence, certain other members of the Central Intelligence Agency, the +Director of the National Security Agency, certain members of the President's +Cabinet, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, those people designated MAJORITY, MAJORITY +TWELVE, MJ-12, MAJORITY AGENCY FOR JOINT INTELLIGENCE (MAJI), the JASON SOCIETY +or JASON SCHOLARS, the DIRECTOR of the SENIOR INTERAGENCY GROUP (SIG), the +National Security Advisor to the President, the Navy Department which has field +operational control of all Alien connected projects, and others having taken +part in the joint government and alien conspiracy are hereby charged with +conspiracy, murder, and treason. This is to include all those who served in +these positions from 1953 up to and including the present administration. + +(9) We call for the impeachment of the President of these United States, George +Bush. He has been a member of MJ-12 and the Trilateral Commission since he was +the President and CEO of Zapata Oil. George Bush organized and has headed the +narcotics smuggling conspiracy since its beginning. The offshore oil platforms +of Zapata Oil were used as staging areas from which the drugs were moved into +these United States from Central and South America without passing through +customs or undergoing inspection of any kind. We firmly believe that George +Bush now heads this shadow government that controls the Alien technology, the +military industrial complex, and thus the Nation. The fact that he is now the +President of these United States of America makes George Bush the most powerful +and dangerous criminal in the history of the world. + +(10) In the interest of preserving the Constitution and the government of these +United States of America, and to save and protect the human race, and for no +other reason, we bring these charges by the authority of the Constitution of +these United States of America, against those named who had full knowledge of +and who willfully participated in the violations of Article II Section 2, +Article III Section 3 and several other Articles of the Constitution of these +United States of America. The government and those individuals named in +paragraph 8 and 9 are hereby charged with conspiracy, murder and treason. + +(11) In the interest of preserving the Constitution and the government of these +United States of America, we ask full pardon in exchange for full disclosure. +We ask the Judicial branch of the government to honor this request for all +guilty conspirators who voice full disclosure by May 30, 1989. We ask the +Judicial branch to give no mercy to those who persist in this conspiracy, murder +and treason. + +(12) We hereby, and in the name of the people and by the authority of the +Constitution, charge the government to cease aiding and abetting and concealing +this Alien Nation which exists within our borders. We charge the government to +cease all conspiracies, operations, projects, treaties, and any other +involvement with this Alien Nation. We charge the government to order this +Alien Nation and all of its members to leave the United States and this earth +immediately, now and for all time, by November 1, 1989, and we charge the +government to enforce this order. We further charge the government to make a +complete disclosure of its alien conspiracy to the American people prior to May +30, 1989 and to make a full accounting for its actions. We charge the Congress +to order this to be done and we charge the Congress to enforce this order. + +(13) Should the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches choose to ignore +these charges, we hereby swear upon the Constitution that we will not rest until +this conspiracy and these crimes are exposed to the American people. We swear +on the Constitution that all guilty parties shall be brought to justice. We +swear that we will persist until our death to accomplish these ends in the name +of humanity, the Constitution of these United States of America, and in the name +of all true patriots who have gone before us, we do so swear. + +(14) We firmly believe and know and have evidence that this conspiracy and these +crimes and charges are true and have occurred and is now true and is now +occurring and were and are perpetrated, aided and abetted by those so charged. +This we do swear. + +(15) We hereby, and upon delivery of this document to the members of the Senate +and House of Representatives of the Congress of these United States of America, +serve notice to the world that these charges and this document are now and +forever recorded in history. This document and these charges will not and cannot +ever be revoked by any act, present or future. History alone will be the judge +should the Congress fail to act and we have no fear of that judgement. We +hereby warn each member of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the +Congress of these United States of America that failure to act upon these +charges will forever brand each and every one of you as accessories to the +conspiracy and the crimes outlined in this document. Your children, +grand-children, great-grand-children, and the present and future generations of +the people of these United States of America will not forget and will never +forgive. We warn you now and forever that these United States of America, the +Constitution, and Freedom, has never been in greater danger. We hope and pray +that it is not already to late to save the Nation. + +Being of sound mind and body and with full knowledge of the implications and +consequences of these charges and having only the interest of saving humanity, +preserving the Constitution of these United States, preserving the government of +these United States, and, being patriots, having sworn to preserve and protect +the Constitution of these United States of America do affix our signature to +this document in full affirmation of our dedication and commitment to our sworn +duty. + + +Milton William Cooper +1311 S. Highland #205 +Fullerton, California 92632 + +Many other signatures exist on the original copy of this document. Due to the +historical significance of this document, the document and attached signatures +are being preserved in a safe place for future generations. If Congress acts +upon these charges, the original copy with the attached signatures will be +presented to the Congress in Washington DC at such time that it becomes +necessary. +The other signatories will not be revealed unless Congress acts upon these +charges. It is in this manner that we can guarantee that others may continue to +work to expose this madness should the Congress fail to act. If anything should +happen to me a large network of people exist to carry on our work and eventually +bring the criminals to justice. + +As a witness to these crimes, I respectfully petition the Congress for +protection. My life and the lives of my family are now in danger. I also +respectfully petition the Congress for protection for all other witnesses who +can be produced and for protection of those others who have signed the original +document. I also petition the Congress to take steps to protect the evidence +which we have collected and which is stored in various locations and with +various people throughout the United States. I beg the Congress not to trust +any other government agency with these matters because this conspiracy runs deep +within the government. I beg you to trust only the Congress in these matters. +I also beg the members of Congress who intend to act upon this petition to take +positive steps to protect your own lives. + +Respectfully, + +Milton William Cooper +(714) 680-9537 + +he government to cease aiding and abetting and concealing +this Alien Nation

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+ +

Copyright 1992 by Mark D. Turner +P.O. Box 1955, Bluefield, WV 24701-6955 +The Outer Limits BBS - 703-322-2529

+ +

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+ +

WHY CARE?

+ +

Many people have the opinion that the assassination of President John +F. Kennedy is ancient history and it really doesn't matter who killed +him. It's been over 28 years now, so why care? Anyone else involved +might not even be alive anymore. If they are, how could you prove +them guilty after so long?

+ +

There's probably many reasons to care about such an old case. History +buffs would be interested even if it had been 528 years ago. People +who were alive at the time might care because they thought so highly +of the young President. After all, he was a man with the visions of +creating the Peace Corp, sending a man to the moon, starting to with-draw troops from Vietnam as early as 1963, saving America from the +clutches of the Federal Reserve and putting an end to the CIA.

+ +

Probably the most important reason is that Kennedy was the man +chosen by the American people to lead their country. A few selfish +men decided that he was the wrong choice and basically overthrew our +elected government by murdering the main man. We often hear of such +things happening in other countries, usually small places that we know +little about, but don't realize that the exact same thing happened +in our own country with the assassination of John Kennedy. What makes +it even more frightening is that it was immediately covered up at the +highest levels of government and evidence has been suppressed and +locked away ever since.

+ +

WHO TO BLAME

+ +

Many cases have been presented to implicate people such as Presidents +Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford! FBI director J. Edgar +Hoover apparently helped in the cover-up and probably even knew about +it in advance. Facts have finally surfaced recently that even George +Bush was a CIA agent investigating the killing in November, 1963. +When Bush was chosen to head the CIA in the mid-1970's he swore to +Congress and the American people during his nomination hearings that +he had NEVER worked for the CIA before. Even though the Congressional +investigation of the late 1970's ruled that there was a 95 percent +chance of a conspiracy in the murder, Bush stated on January 1, 1992 +that he still thought Oswald did it alone. It is also widely believed +that he was involved in the Bay of Pigs planning, a covert action that +Kennedy withdrew support from.

+ +

Today it is known that when LBJ appointed the members to the Warren +Commission that Earl Warren was told lies in order to secure his +cooperation. He was basically mislead to believe that Cuba and the +USSR may have been responsible and that revealing the truth to the +American people would lead to a new World War; one with nuclear +weapons. He agreed to serve on the Commission and help in the cover-up because he thought he was saving the world.

+ +

Another main member of the Commission was Allen Dulles. He had been +head of the CIA until JFK caught him in lies. He fired Dulles and +vowed to destroy the CIA because of the many covert activities that +they were involved in. Dulles, a man who hated Kennedy because of +the Bay of Pigs fiasco and his dismissal, was appointed to the very +committee that was supposed to find Kennedy's killers. He was in +charge of previewing all of the evidence that the CIA and FBI turned +over for consideration. He was the one who decided what the other +members saw. Since it is now widely believed that the CIA was +responsible for the murder, it is easy to see that Dulles was an +extremely poor choice for an investigator.

+ +

Jack Ruby, who killed Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK's murderer), is now +known to have worked for Richard Nixon in 1947. Nixon wrote a letter, +which is available at last, that asked Congress to excuse him from +testifying before them. Ruby was an FBI informant in the late 1950's. +He was tied up with the mafia for well over 20 years. He was even +arrested in Chicago in the 1930's for the murder of the president +of the Teamster's union. The murder paved the way for Jimmy Hoffa +to take over that organization. One of Nixon's first actions as +President was to pardon Hoffa from prison.

+ +

Nixon had other connections to the case. Although nearly every +American can tell you where he was when he heard Kennedy was dead, +Nixon says he can't remember. This is the man who had only recently +lost an election to JFK. This is a man who was in on the planning of +the Bay of Pigs invasion which JFK pulled out support for. This is +the man who's Watergate burglars included E. Howard Hunt, a suspected +conspirator in the JFK assassination. This is the man who chose +Gerald Ford (who served on the Warren Commission and helped with the +cover-up) to replace him as President. This is the man who was in +DALLAS the day of the murder! He had been there for a Pepsi Cola +meeting along with another man who had dinner with Jack Ruby the +night before JFK's death. Nixon was in Dallas, the scene of the +murder, and says he can't remember where he was.

+ +

It also interesting to note that Robert Kennedy had told people +that if he won the California primary then he would announce the +next day that he'd re-open the JFK case as soon as he was elected +President. He won the primary but was immediately assassinated, +too. Robert would have been Nixon's main obstacle in the upcoming +election but was now out of the way. In the following election, +Nixon's main competitor was George Wallace, who was also shot down!

+ +

Kennedy had already told people that he was dropping LBJ as his +running mate in the next election. He had also already signed +papers and issued orders to withdraw all Americans from Vietnam +by 1965. One of Johnson's first actions after becoming President +was to reverse this decision. One of Johnson's companies made +millions of dollars from the war because they had a contract to +fly soldiers to and from Vietnam. He was also the man who ordered +Kennedy's body removed from Dallas before an autopsy could be +performed, which was a violation of state law. He was the man who +told his mistress the day before the assassination "After tomorrow, +Kennedy won't be a problem to me anymore." He was the man who +chose the members of the Warren Commission who, in turn, produced +the false and misleading report that blamed the entire murder and +planning on Lee Harvey Oswald.

+ +

J. Edgar Hoover had been head of the FBI for years but was approaching +mandatory retirement age. Kennedy had made it clear that he was not +going to make an exception to the rule and allow Hoover to continue +in the position. Johnson did. Hoover also claimed that there was no +such thing as organized crime in the United States although he was +close friends with some of the main mafia leaders. John and Robert +Kennedy worked overtime to put them out of business.

+ +

Gerald Ford was just another Senator when he was placed on the Warren +Commission. There he, too, helped in the cover-up. Later, he broke +federal law by publishing a book which contained classified documents. +The book, of course, said Oswald was the lone assassin. When Nixon +was facing his final days as President and knew he would have to +resign soon, he chose Ford as his new Vice-President. Various Nixon +flunkies have been implicated in the conspiracy (E. Howard Hunt, Frank +Sturgis, Jack Ruby). Was the Presidency Ford's reward for helping in +the cover-up?

+ +

CONCLUSION

+ +

It is evident that the men in power had good reasons to keep the +American people from learning the truth. At the very least, they each +gained from the murder and therefore had no reason to be in charge of +the investigation. This series of articles hopes to enlighten people +to the evidence and theories in the case. Only by awakening enough +citizens and bringing out the truth can we hope to insure that no more +of our chosen leaders will be so easily taken away from us. When we +loose the power to chose our own leaders then we have lost everything.

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THE KENNEDY FILES +FILE #2

+ +

Copyright 1992 by Mark D. Turner +P.O. Box 1955, Bluefield, WV 24701-6955 +The Outer Limits BBS - 703-322-2529

+ +

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+ +

THE AUDIO RECORDING

+ +

Many people are familiar with the Zapruder film and some even know of +the other photographic evidence in the Kennedy assassination. These +will be covered in future issues. A lesser known item is an audio +recording of the shots.

+ +

Behind and to the left of Kennedy's car was a policeman riding a +motorcycle. Apparently, his microphone's "push-to-talk" button was +stuck in the on position and a recording machine at Dallas police +headquarters taped the entire assassination. The Warren Commission +turned the recording over to the FBI who claimed to find nothing +which resembled gunshots. Then it was given to Dr. Lawrence Kersta +of Bell Telephone Acoustics & Speech Research Laboratory who said +there were "six nonvoiced noises." The Warren Report did not reveal +his test results. Interestingly, the original tape has disappeared +from the National Archives.

+ +

THE 1978 ANALYSIS

+ +

In May, 1978, The House Select Committee on Assassinations turned +the recording over to Dr. James Barger of Bolt, Beranek and Newman +who had previously examined the infamous Watergate tapes. The firm +had only a short time to analyze the sounds as the Committee was +entering its final months. The tape was filtered and digitized so +that repetitive noises such as engines could be removed and wave-forms could be produced. They found at least six impulses (and +possibly as many as nine) which could have been gunshots.

+ +

The Committee, based on the Zapruder film, set a certain time frame +that the shots had to fit within. All six impulses occurred at the +at the correct time. The sounds also matched patterns of gunfire +recorded through a radio system similar to the Dallas police depart-ments. The former Chief Counsel of the Assassinations Committee, +Robert Blakey, has said on several occasions "There were six or seven +shots on the tape." Of course, Oswald could not have fired near this +many shots in the 5.6 second period that most experts agree on (based +on the Zapruder film). Also, only three empty cartridges were found +at Oswald's supposed firing spot.

+ +

Next, BBN recommended firing test shots in Dealey Plaza to see if they +matched any of the six impulses. By setting up microphones at various +positions and firing from different places, unique acoustic finger-prints could be taken. Each combination of positions would result in +a unique spacing of the shot's noise and echoes.

+ +

MICROPHONE LOCATION

+ +

One thing that made the measurements more difficult was the use of +stationary microphones rather than moving ones such as the one which +originally recorded the shots. When the scientists studied the 26 +echoes for each shot and computed the location of the original micro-phone, it resulted in an accuracy within one foot. One set of data +matched better than 95% as the position of the open mike and it was +the location of motorcycle policeman H.B. McLain.

+ +

McLain was then interviewed and estimated that he was "about 150 feet" +behind Kennedy. The acoustic evidence showed the open mike was 154 +behind the car when the third shot was fired. Photographs also show +McLain to be in this position at the time. The sound experts also +stated that the mike was on the left side of the motorcycle and +pointed toward the ground. McLain confirmed this along with the fact +that he frequently had open mike problems. The tape also contained +the sounds of the motorcycle quickly accelerating about 30 seconds +after the last shot, then slowing, idling, and disappearing. This +matches what is known to have happened following the shooting, with +the recording ending as McLain flipped on his siren and thereby +closed the microphone.

+ +

THE SNIPERS' NESTS

+ +

A major mistake with the reenactment was that shots were only fired +from two locations: the Texas School Book Depository and the grassy +knoll. Other locations were ignored although there has been much +evidence that three or more gunmen may have participated. The first +and sixth impulses did not match gunfire from either of the two +tested locations and so were dismissed by the Committee. They did +carefully word the report to state that they did not match the two +tested firing spots rather than stating that they were not gunshots. +They could have been gunshots fired from other positions. The first +impulse is 1/2 second before the second. The sixth is 7/10 of a +second after the fifth. If the two are indeed shots, then there were +at least 3 and possibly 4 gunmen! Interestingly, there is very +possibly a seventh shot on the tape. At one point another mike was +keyed and caused a heterodyning on the tape. This is at the point +that the Zapruder film shows Kennedy react to a possible hit to his +back.

+ +

Of the four impulses that the Committee accepted as gunshots, the +third matched gunfire from the grassy knoll. Because of the echo +patterns, it had to come from the grassy knoll and not from elsewhere, +such as an engine backfiring. The grassy knoll shot was also pre-ceeded by an N-wave (supersonic shock wave) which proved it was a +gunshot (bullets are supersonic). Experts stated that there was +better than a 95 percent chance that there was a shot from the +grassy knoll.

+ +

Although Chairman Stokes privately admitted that they knew the head +shot came from the front, no one on the Committee was willing to admit +publically that the fatal shot had been fired by someone other than +Oswald. They decided to claim that the third shot (the grassy knoll +shot) was a miss and that Oswald had fired the fatal head shot. When +the recording was synchronized with the Zapruder film, though, this +claim did not match perfectly with the other shots. When the grassy +knoll shot was synchronized with the head shot everything fell into +place. Still, the Committee would not admit that the third shot was +the head shot.

+ +

Even when the third shot is considered to be a miss and that the other +three were hits, then another problem arises: the first and second +shots are only 1.66 seconds apart. Therefore, Oswald couldn't have +fired the first two because of the speed required. Of course, much +evidence shows that Oswald wasn't even on the sixth floor of the +Depository and various guns seem to have been spotted by people that +day. Was another man firing a quicker rifle from the sixth floor?

+ +

ODDITIES

+ +

A very strange and suspicious sound also appears just before the end +of the tape: an electronic beeping in Morse code for "victory." +Where did this originate? We'll probably never know for sure but Jim +Hicks appears in Dealey Plaza photos with a radio and admitted his +role in the assassination to Jim Garrison. Possibly he was the com-munications man for the snipers as some researchers believe. He +certainly resembles the man who the CIA supposedly photographed at +the Soviet embassy in Mexico City two months BEFORE the murder using +Oswald's name. Not long after talking to Garrison, Hicks was locked +away in a military hospital for the insane.

+ +

Evaluations of the tape show that more than one microphone was open +during the shooting. Actually, four may have been keyed which leads +one to wonder if there was an attempt to disrupt police communications +at the crucial time.

+ +

PROBLEMS WITH THE RECORDING

+ +

Dr. Barger's examination of the tape found two 60 hertz hums on the +recording. The original copy should have had one hum. Two hums show +that it is a copy of the original. Where did the original recording +disappear to? Researchers believe the tape was tampered with which +unfortunately gives critics reason to question the authenticity of +the recording. There is a second police department recording of a +second channel. A policeman's voice can be heard on both tapes saying +the same thing. On the second tape it is apparent that he didn't say +it until about one minute after the shooting. On the first (and im-portant tape) it appears just after the shooting. Critics claim this +proves the tape is not a recording of shots at all but of some other +noise. The problem with this is that the shots scientifically match +the shots fired for the Committee's test. They can be nothing but +shots and can not have been fired from anywhere except the Depository +and grassy knoll. They also can not have been recorded anywhere but +the motorcycle following the president' car.

+ +

Why does the statement appear at the wrong place on the tape? The +secret probably lies in the two 60 hertz hums. In the CIA's cover-up, +the tape was taken and something was removed that was incriminating. +A new copy was made which resulted in the second hum and the timing +descrepancy. The CIA didn't realize that the tape contained the shots +since they apparently don't stand out if you're not looking for them. +They most likely edited out a policeman saying something about one of +the other gunmen.

+ +

Critics have also been quick to point out the sound of a carillon bell +on the recording about seven seconds after the final shot. When the +Committee looked for such a bell in 1978 they couldn't find one. The +FBI even pointed this out in a report. Of course, just because the +bell couldn't be found in 1978 doesn't mean it wasn't there in 1963. +A news broadcast from Dealey Plaza on the first anniversary of the +murder picked up the bell. Also, a tape still exists of a carillon +bell which a bank twelve blocks from Dealey Plaza was using to play +"Hail to the Chief" as Kennedy was driven through Dallas. The bell +could be heard all over Dallas, including at Dealey Plaza.

+ +

CONCLUSION

+ +

So, in the end we are left with four impulses that are definitely +shots. In addition there are possibly three more. The four proven +shots breakdown as follows:

+ +

Shot 1 - School Book Depository +Shot 2 - School Book Depository +Shot 3 - Grassy Knoll +Shot 4 - School Book Depository

+ +

Although it is still not known by the average man on the street, the +Assassinations Committee decided that there was a second gunman and +that he did indeed fire from the grassy knoll. It's apparent that +this unknown gunman fired the fatal head shot which the government +still wants us to believe Oswald fired. Of course, Oswald may have +been involved, but then again maybe he was just a patsy like he +claimed. Whatever his role was, it's time for the government to help +track down the others that were involved.

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THE KENNEDY FILES +FILE #3

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Copyright 1992 by Mark D. Turner +P.O. Box 1955, Bluefield, WV 24701-6955 +The Outer Limits BBS - 703-322-2529

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+ +

THE GEORGE BUSH CONNECTION

+ +

In this day and age when some people can not even name the president +of the United States, it is not the least bit surprising that most +have no knowledge of George Bush's possible connections to the Kennedy +assassination. The relationship has its roots in Bush's "former" +employment with the CIA. As CIA agents have been quoted in the past, +you never really leave the Agency.

+ +

THE CIA DID IT!

+ +

Many researchers place the blame for the murder of John F. Kennedy on +the CIA. The easiest way to clear the mafia or other non-governmental +groups is to look at the massive cover-up that the government has +participated in over the years. If mafia boss Carlos Marcello had +really ordered the hit, could he have had the CIA and FBI suppress so +much evidence from the public for so long? Could he have had the +normal security lowered for the assassination? Could he have had the +Washington D.C. phone system knocked out of order for an hour right +as the shooting took place? Could he have convinced the Warren +Commission to release such an idiotic official version of the murder? +Of course not. The set-up and cover-up had to take place INSIDE of +the government, not outside.

+ +

The CIA seemed to have the most (and best) motives for the elimination +of Kennedy. During the Eisenhower presidency, the CIA came up with a +plan to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. The thought was that the +citizens would hear of the attack and join in to overthrow Castro. +Former Cubans were trained by the CIA and the U.S. government fur-nished them with weapons and transportation. Since it was near the +end of his administration, Eisenhower put the plan on hold so the +new president would not have to deal with any problems which might +arise from the mission.

+ +

Upon entering office Kennedy decided that the plan's requirement of 16 +planes would obviously reveal American backing of the plot. The plan +had hoped that American involvement would not become known to the +world. The use of 16 planes would make American backing obvious to +everyone. Kennedy cut the number of planes down to six. As the date +of the invasion neared, Kennedy decided against the plan and announced +in the press that the United States would not invade Cuba with the +military.

+ +

The CIA went ahead with the plan and quickly found that things were +not going as they had hoped for. They asked for more planes but were +told they would have to be held back until the forces captured a Cuban +airport. Then, the planes could be sent and the explanation would be +that they were captured planes which the rebels had put into use. The +CIA-backed rebels never got that far and were quickly defeated. The +citizens of Cuba never joined them in the fight. The CIA, as has been +revealed in books by participants, blamed Kennedy for the defeat. The +books and papers reveal a deep hatred for the imagined betrayal.

+ +

Later, Kennedy formed a panel to keep him informed as to what was +going on in Vietnam. American involvement was still low at this +point but Kennedy was worried. He has been quoted as saying he could +not justify sending American boys half-way around the world to fight +communism when it existed just south of Florida in Cuba. One of the +panel's members was Allen Dulles, head of the CIA. Kennedy caught +him in various lies and fired him. The fact that the CIA had kept +training Cubans for another invasion until Kennedy finally sent in +FBI agents to break up their camps and confiscate their weapons was +another reason for the dismissal. Other high-ranking CIA officials +were fired, too, including the brother of Dallas' mayor. Kennedy +changed the operating procedure of the CIA so they would have to get +approval for any future covert actions from Robert Kennedy.

+ +

Due to persistent problems with the CIA and their continual involve-ment in matters which were not their concern, Kennedy declared that +he was going to shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter +them to the winds. Even former president Truman, who had created +the CIA, expressed concerns about their behavior. Kennedy was +apparently going to leave their destruction until after the next +election but did start withdrawing troops from Vietnam, much to the +dislike of the CIA. One of Johnson's first moves after he replaced +Kennedy as president was to increase American involvement in Vietnam. +It seems he owned an airline company that was contracted to fly troops +back and forth across the Pacific Ocean, but that is another matter.

+ +

Later, E. Howard Hunt, on behalf of the CIA, faked cables to implicate +John F. Kennedy in the assassination of South Vietnam's president, Ngo +Dinh Diem. So, it is apparent that the CIA disliked Kennedy and had +the means to set-up and cover-up the assassination. Now, it is known +that they convinced the Warren Commission that the Soviet Union and +Cuba had murdered Kennedy. They scared the members into believing +that revealing this to the American public would result in a nuclear +war in which millions would be killed. To further this theory, they +produced fake evidence showing that Oswald had visited the Soviet and +Cuban embassies in Mexico to arrange the killing and escape. The head +of the CIA operations in Mexico has since admitted that no such real +evidence ever existed. A Warren Commission investigator has admitted +that they acted to save millions by sacrificing one man (Oswald).

+ +

The job was not too hard to pull off since former CIA-head Allen +Dulles was a member of the Commission. He was the only one to attend +more than half of the hearings and was also in charge of deciding +what intelligence data was seen by the other members. President +Johnson didn't seem to find it strange to appoint the man that +Kennedy had fired to investigate his hated former boss' murder.

+ +

SO HOW DOES BUSH FIT IT?

+ +

Although he denies it, there is a growing body of evidence that George +Bush was working for the CIA as early as 1961. Many feel he was +actually recruited during his college days (which is when he joined +the Skull and Bones Society, a front for the Illuminati). Bush claims +to have been working for his own oil company during the early 1960's. +It would make for a convenient front since he claims to have been off-shore on drilling rigs for weeks at a time. The rigs were located all +over the world. Was he really on the rigs or was he running around on +CIA business? The various biographies of Bush are all sketchy on this +phase of his life.

+ +

During this time, Bush had moved to HOUSTON, Texas. His wife was, +of course, BARBARA. His oil company was ZAPATA Off Shore Co. (which +he named after a communist Mexican revolutionary who would invade +towns and murder every man, woman and child. Bush also named an +earlier oil company after Zapata, a questionable choice for a hero). +The code name for the Bay of Pigs invasion was Operation ZAPATA! +A former high-ranking Pentagon official, Col. Fletcher Prouty, was +the man who secured two Navy ships for the operation. He has told +of seeing the two ships repainted to non-Navy colors for the +invasion. The ships were given the new names HOUSTON and BARBARA!

+ +

Of course, maybe the names were just coincidences, but Bush was +living in Houston with Barbara and running Zapata in 1961 during +the planning of the invasion. The name "Operation Zapata" was top +secret and known only to a very few.

+ +

In 1977 and 1978, the government released nearly 100000 pages of +documents on the Kennedy assassination. One which slipped out by +mistake was from the FBI to the State Department written a few days +after the assassination. The State Department was worried that anti-Castro groups in Miami might stage another invasion of Cuba in the +aftermath of the JFK murder. The FBI informed them that they had +questioned both pro-Castro and anti-Castro groups and could find no +information about such plans. The memo went on to state that the +information was passed along to "George Bush of the Central Intelli-gence Agency" the day after the assassination.

+ +

Why was the information passed along to the CIA? Probably because of +their previous invasion attempt and other planned attacks. Why George +Bush? Probably because he was involved in previous invasion plans!

+ +

When the document first surfaced no one paid much attention to it. +When the presidential campaigns began for the 1980 election then the +name George Bush caught researchers' eyes. When asked about the +memo, Bush denied working for the CIA at the time. As evidence built +that it was indeed him, the CIA claimed it was a different George Bush +although their policy had always been to neither confirm nor deny a +person's employment. The other George Bush was tracked down by +reporters and said that although he did work for the CIA at the time, +he was never involved in that sort of work. The interesting point +is that the CIA did not bother to contact the other George Bush and +inform him that reporters might soon be calling. Other evidence +surfaced that showed the George Bush mentioned in the document was +actually George H. W. Bush and had the same address as the famous +George Bush.

+ +

Another Bush connection involved George de Mohrenschildt, a rich +Russian oil man who lived in Texas when Lee Harvey Oswald settled +there after his trip to the Soviet Union. De Mohrenschildt was a +long-time CIA agent and quite possibly served as a CIA control officer +for Oswald. The Warren Commission described him and his wife as being +the two people friendliest to Oswald at the time of the assassination. +De Mohrenschildt's son-in-law told the Warren Commission that if any-one had helped with the assassination it was most likely de Mohren-schildt. De Mohrenschildt was also the man who moved Oswald to +Dallas.

+ +

Shortly before the House Select Committee on Assassinations started +meeting in the late 1970's a new doctor appeared in de Mohrenschildt's +town. De Mohrenschildt started seeing him and quickly became mentally +unstable. His wife convinced him to stop seeing the doctor. The +doctor then moved away and left a false forwarding address. The very +day the Committee tried to contact de Mohrenschildt about testifying, +he was found dead of a gun shot wound. His personal address book was +found and it contained the entry "Bush, George H. W. (Poppy) 1412 W. +Ohio also Zapata Petroleum Midland." Bush's full name is George +Herbert Walker Bush which matches the initials given and his earlier +oil company was named Zapata Petroleum Corp. Why was his name in de +Mohrenschildt's book? Is "Poppy" his CIA code name?

+ +

It is known that in the early 1960's de Mohrenschildt made frequent +trips to Houston, which was the location of Bush's home. He told +friends he was visiting the Brown brothers, who were close friends +and financial supporters of Lyndon Johnson. CIA documents reveal +that during the planning phase of Operation Zapata, de Mohrenschildt +made frequent trips to Mexico and Panama and gave reports to the CIA. +His son-in-law told the Warren Commission that he believed de Mohren-schildt was spying for the planned Cuban invasion.

+ +

A QUESTION OF CHARACTER

+ +

When Bush was picked to be director of the CIA in 1976, he testified +to Congress that he had never worked for the CIA before. Of course, +it did not make much sense to appoint a director who had no such back-ground but Congress approved him anyway. Now it would seem that Bush +committed perjury in his congressional testimony.

+ +

George Bush was apparently high enough in the CIA to help plan the +Bay of Pigs invasion. It would probably be safe to assume that he +even named the operation and its two ships. Considering the hatred +that the CIA felt toward Kennedy over their failed mission and Bush's +involvement in that same mission, it would be quite interesting to +know what Bush's feelings toward John F. Kennedy really were and what +his full role in the assassination investigation was.

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Further information on the George Bush connection may be obtained from +Mark Lane's "Plausible Denial" (Thunder's Mouth Press) and James "Bo" +Gritz's "Called To Serve." Lane's book is an excellent accounting of +the CIA's involvement (especially E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis). +Gritz (a 1992 presidential candidate) tells about many of the CIA's +questionable ventures and also about his trips to Laos to attempt +rescues of American POWs who are still held by Vietnam.

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From: dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen) +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy +Subject: JFK Text: Echoes of Conspiracy - INTRO + 1991Dec26.194623.19758@bilver.uucp +Date: 26 Dec 91 19:46:23 GMT +Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL +Lines: 46

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All this continued discussion on Oliver Stone's movie, "JFK" has +prompted me to look through my collection of text files and see +what I could find. I found this piece, done by Paul L. Hoch in +1986, which was on a Conspiracy Sig section of a BBS a few +years back. It's being posted in 4 parts. + +I've glanced through it and am presenting it for your perusal,though +I'm *not* making any claims as to it's conclusions. Rather, I leave +it to you, the reader, to judge for yourself whether or not it has +merit. + +Comments are welcome, flames to me are in-appropriate as I didn't write +the article. Take it or leave it for what it's worth :-)

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--------------------------------------------------------- +Note: Thanks to jxxl@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (John), +geb@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks), and acm@ux.acs.umn.edu (Acm) Peter +Kauffner for their lucid comments on this thread. I've enjoyed all +of their postings.

+ +

Happy Holidays to all!

+ +

Don

+ +

+-- +-* Don Allen *- InterNet: dona@bilver.UUCP // Amiga..for the best of us. +USnail: 1818G Landing Dr, Sanford Fl 32771 \X/ Why use anything else? :-) +UUCP: ..uunet!tarpit!bilver!dona - Why did the JUSTICE DEPT steal PROMIS? +/\/\ What is research but a blind date with knowledge. William Henry /\/\

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From: dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen) +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy +Subject: JFK Text: Echoes of Conspiracy - EOC1.TXT + 1991Dec26.194825.19833@bilver.uucp +Date: 26 Dec 91 19:48:25 GMT +Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL +Lines: 626

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ECHOES OF CONSPIRACY February 28, 1986 +Vol. 8, #1 Paul L. Hoch

+ +

"Reasonable Doubt": +Henry Hurt's book should be in your local bookstore now, although it did +not reach some of the big chains quickly. The official publication date was +January 27. (Holt Rinehart Winston, 555 pp., $19.95) +I am too close to the case (and to the book) to judge "Reasonable Doubt" +as a whole, rather than by assessing each piece of evidence as new or old, and +each argument as familiar or unfamiliar, persuasive or implausible. +We will see what the reviewers and publicists do with a book which claims +that it is not pushing a specific solution to the mystery of the JFK assass-ination. So far, I have seen no ads and only the reviews listed below. +Hurt's reluctance to endorse a single solution is particularly under-standable in light of the history of his involvement in the case. Exposure to +the legendary Ed Epstein and then to a volunteered "confession" could make +anyone wary of anybody's solution. The beneficial result of that introduction +is that Hurt was very willing to look at the work of critics who could provide +hard facts and careful analysis. Even the jacket copy says nice things about +the buffs, and nothing about who killed JFK. +Understandably, Hurt is not optimistic about the chances for a resolution: +"The seeds of neglected evidence sown across the landscape in the wake of the +assassination have matured into a jungle of powerful contradictions. Nourished +by solid information, each promising theme contends with other themes. The +entanglement has become so impenetrable that no single theory, no final +answer, can break free to stand unchallenged as a solution...." (P. 429) +Hurt endorses Jim Lesar's suggestion of a special unit in the Justice Depart-ment, with specific Congressional funding, patterned after the anti-Nazi +Office of Special Investigations. +Since I don't think I know who killed Kennedy, Hurt's approach generally +appeals to me. I think the book does a good job of reflecting the ambiguity of +much of the evidence, and the variety of plausible explanations.

+ +

A new perspective on the murder of J. D. Tippit: +Hurt's most striking new evidence, surprisingly, does go directly to the +question of "who did it" -- but in the Tippit case. He does not overemphasize +it, but it is a lead which raises the same kind of basic challenge to the +integrity of the Dallas evidence as David Lifton's work does to the Bethesda +evidence. +Hurt persuaded me that Tippit was in Oak Cliff an hour after JFK was shot +to take care of some very personal business. Hurt talked to a woman who had +an affair with Tippit. She thought she was pregnant by Tippit; the timing +suggests that she may have just learned this on November 22. This was a +problem not only for Tippit, who was married, but also for the woman. She had +recently been reconciled with her ex-husband, who was previously jealous +enough to follow her and Tippit around Oak Cliff at night. +Hurt's exposition reflects the kind of caution that lawyers would be +expected to encourage. For example, he does not name the woman, whom I will +refer to as Rosetta Stone. Her name is available to anyone with access to the +HSCA volumes who can ignore a typo in Hurt's footnote and find the Tippit +material in Vol. 12. (Or see "Coverups," 12/85) Her name has been known to +some critics for years. Hurt credits Larry Harris with finding her, prompted +by an anonymous 1968 letter to Jim Garrison which Gary Shaw obtained. +(Rosetta was not named in that letter, but described as a waitress who worked +with Tippit at Austin's Barbecue.) +It is not clear if Hurt believes that he and Harris have discovered why +Tippit was killed, or merely why he was in Oak Cliff. He seems persuaded by +other evidence that Oswald did not do it. +The jealous husband and Rosetta "both deny any knowledge of Tippit's +death other than what is in the official account." (P. 168) Hurt does not go +into detail, but I doubt that he accepted Mr. Stone's denial at face value. +8 EOC 1 -2-

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Hurt does quote a retired DPD officer who "asserted flatly and without +prompting that he believed Tippit was killed as a result of a volatile +personal situation involving his lover and her estranged husband. He added, +'It would look like hell for Tippit to have been murdered and have it look +like he was screwing around with this woman.... Somebody had to change the +tape.... Somebody had to go to the property room and change those [cartridge] +hulls and put some of Oswald's hulls in there....'" Other DPD officers +reportedly share these beliefs. +The book contains a brief discussion of the implications of this account. +"The purpose [of the alteration of evidence], perhaps, would be twofold: +to seal the case against Oswald [in the JFK case] by showing irrevocably his +capacity for violence and to wrap up the case of Tippit's murder without +disgracing him, his family, and the unborn child. And, of course, there would +be an outpouring of grief [and financial support - PLH] for a police comrade +slain by the presidential assassin." (P. 168) I would emphasize that if such +relatively innocent tampering can be confirmed, the question of tampering with +the evidence against Oswald in the JFK case has to be raised with new intensity. +This area seems ripe for additional investigation, official or unofficial. +For example, what can we now make of the sighting (near the Tippit murder +scene) of a license plate number traced back to a friend of Tippit, Carl +Mather? (12 HSCA 37) The HSCA apparently failed to reach a conclusion, but if +you ignore the claim that Oswald was in the car, the story -- and Mather's +nervousness when interviewed by Wes Wise -- might be significant. +Hurt reviews the familiar evidence on Tippit's problematic presence in +Oak Cliff, and the radio instructions which sent him there. He interviewed +R. C. Nelson, supposedly instructed to go to Oak Cliff at the same time, who +seemed puzzled by Hurt's questioning and reluctant to talk. Dispatcher Murray +Jackson "stoutly denied knowledge of any fraudulent manipulation of the tapes +in order to provide an excuse for Tippit's being so far away from his assigned +district at the time of his death," but his account seems unsatisfactory to +me. (Pp. l62-3) +Before I knew about Rosetta Stone, I argued that the messages in question +didn't sound right. In November 1981, I raised this issue in a letter to Dr. +James Barger. (#1986.1, 2 pp.) If tampering with any of the recordings could +be shown, the timing problem in the acoustical analysis resulting from the +"hold everything secure" crosstalk match might have to be reconsidered. +I suggested that both the tone and wording of two key messages were in +the "formal mode" which one would expect only in important messages -- or in a +later re-creation. "You are in the Oak Cliff area, are you not?" seemed +significantly more formal than "What's your location?", "Are you en route to +Parkland, 601?", and similar inquiries recorded that day; it resembles "You do +not have the suspect. Is that correct?", where the "formal mode" is expected. +Similarly, "You will be at large for any emergency that comes in" contrasts +with "Remain in downtown area, available for call" and "Stand by there until +we notify you." +This kind of analysis has been of evidentiary value in at least one other +case, involving a tape (released by Larry Flynt) purportedly of a conversation +between John De Lorean and FBI informant James Hoffman. Jack Anderson +reported that psycholinguist Murray Miron was able to establish that the tape +had been faked. (24 May 84, SFC, #1986.2) In addition to the anomalously +unresponsive content of "Hoffman's" remarks, his "speech cadences... 'are +consistent with those to be expected from one who has rehearsed or is reading +from a script.'" Anderson described Miron as a "longtime FBI consultant." +The Justice Department should certainly sponsor that kind of analysis of the +Tippit messages.

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JFK's physician believes in a conspiracy: +There is a second very provocative piece of new evidence, resulting from +Hurt's 1982 phone call to Adm. George Burkley. He said "that he believed that +8 EOC 1 -3-

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President Kennedy's assassination was the result of a conspiracy." He +subsequently refused "to discuss any aspect of the case." (P. 49) +As JFK's personal physician, and the only doctor present at Parkland and +the Bethesda autopsy, Burkley was in an especially crucial position. He did +not testify to the Warren Commission (which published his contemporaneous +report containing basically no medical details, CE 1126.) He did give five +interviews to William Manchester (the last one in July, 1966). Manchester +recently told me that Burkley did not then believe there had been a conspi-racy. However, Hurt notes that in a 1967 oral history interview, Burkley was +asked if he agreed with the Warren Commission on the number of bullets that +hit JFK; he replied, "I would not care to be quoted on that." The HSCA +interviewed Burkley at least once, generating in addition an outside contact +report and an affidavit -- all unpublished and unavailable. +Along with the Tippit evidence, the Burkley assertion of conspiracy calls +for intense examination by the Justice Department and, I hope, by some +reporters. (For my letters to Assistant AG Stephen Trott, ask for #1986.3 +[1 Feb 86, on Burkley] and #4 [2 pp., 4 Feb 86, on Tippit].) +Hurt devotes only a few pages in a "grab bag" chapter to Lifton's thesis, +but there is some interesting speculation in an area where Burkley might know +crucial facts. (Incidentally, much of the "classical" critique of the single +bullet theory and other aspects of the medical and physical evidence in Hurt's +earlier chapters seems obsolete. The SBT is implausible but supported by a +surprising amount of HSCA evidence; if it is wrong, tampering on a Liftonesque +scale must have taken place, and we need to either pursue Lifton's argument or +come up with another scenario. Studying the flaws in the official inves-tigations is not likely to produce progress in this area.) +Hurt concludes that "Lifton builds a powerful case" that JFK's body was +separated from the ceremonial motorcade, and that his "evidence is equally +strong on the point that something happened to the wounds on the body between +Dallas and Bethesda. However, his sinister interpretation of what might have +happened does not have the strong supportive evidence found for his basic +points." (P. 427) +Hurt suggests that "the Secret Service and other powerful elements in the +government might have felt an overwhelming necessity to examine the body for +evidence at the soonest possible moment," given fears of a conspiracy. "It +does not seem unreasonable that these circumstances could have coalesced into +an overriding concern for national security that demanded the President's body +be placed on an autopsy table as soon as humanly possible -- without awaiting +the folderol of transporting the body through the streets with the family and +public at hand. Moreover, it does not seem unreasonable that certain security +people in the government were appalled that the official autopsy was going to +be conducted at the whim of the family and by Navy brass with pitifully little +experience in forensic pathology." +When I saw this speculation in Hurt's draft of this section, it struck me +as plausible and well worth pursuing. The perspective of people who realized +that the body might provide conclusive evidence of a conspiracy should be +taken into account (and I don't think it generally has been). +Certainly an "innocent national security autopsy" does not explain away +Lifton's evidence indicating changes to the wounds, and Lifton can discourse +at great length (and with considerable persuasiveness) against such a hypo-thesis, which I raised with him in general terms long ago. +At the very least, however, Hurt's analysis might lead us to new infor-mation about what key people really think happened to JFK's body before the +Bethesda autopsy. I have assumed for years that there must be some expla-nation going around in official and family circles, and I was surprised that +none surfaced after "Best Evidence" was published. +Hurt's manuscript led me to check the record on the authorization of the +autopsy. Is it possible, I wonder, that the record significantly minimizes +Jacqueline Kennedy's opposition to an autopsy? If the opposition was very +8 EOC 1 -4-

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strong or more prolonged than is generally assumed, I have no trouble +believing that someone decided to go ahead with an "inspection" regardless. +Burkley's own account noted that, while kneeling before Jackie, he +"expressed [the] complete desire of all of us and especially of myself to +comply with her wishes, stating that it was necessary that the President be +taken to a hospital prior to going to the White House. She questioned why and +I stated it must be determined, if possible, the type of bullet used and +compare this with future material found." (CE 1126, p.6) This makes more +sense if you insert a few words: "her wishes to go directly to the White +House, but stating...." In his oral history interview, Burkley said that +Jackie's decision to go to Bethesda was arrived at "after some consideration," +which might mean it took a while to convince her. +It is not unfair to read Burkley's comments critically, with the +suspicion that he was minimizing Jackie's reluctance to authorize an autopsy +or even his own knowledge of alternative plans. As late as the 1967 oral +history interview, he took the Kennedy family line on JFK's adrenal and back +problems, describing JFK as an "essentially normal, healthy male," with above-average "vigor and vitality." +Kenneth O'Donnell testified that "we didn't tell her [Jackie] there was +to be an autopsy." (7 WCH 454-5) Evidently the matter was discussed with her +in terms of going to a hospital to remove bullets. +Restrictions during the Bethesda autopsy have been dealt with in some +detail by both the HSCA and Lifton. The HSCA did not publish anything about +earlier restrictions -- e.g., Jackie's resistance to the whole idea of even a +limited effort to remove the bullets. The HSCA may well have gathered +relevant evidence. +One reason Hurt's hypothesis appeals to me is that concern for Jackie's +feelings -- since her wishes were essentially bypassed -- might explain why +there was no quasi-official detailed rebuttal to Lifton's book. I would be +glad to share more of my thoughts on this hypothesis with reporters or anyone +else in a position to work on it.

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More highlights of "Reasonable Doubt": +The chapters on Oswald in New Orleans and on the questions relating to +intelligence agencies are particularly good. +Neither the HSCA nor its case against the Mafia gets a lot of attention. +I generally like Hurt's analysis of Garrison, but I am not impressed by his +treatment of Blakey and the HSCA. +The detailed citations, including many to unpublished FBI and CIA +documents, add to the value of the book as an overview. There are also many +references to Hurt's own interviews. +Some interesting hypotheses were already familiar to me (and some got to +Hurt through me), but I'm particularly pleased to see them in wider circulation. +For example, Hurt explores the idea that Oswald was (or thought he was) +working on behalf of Sen. Thomas Dodd's investigation of mail-order firearm +sales. This was suggested by Sylvia Meagher ("Accessories," p. 194) and +pursued in detail by Fred Newcomb. It might explain Oswald's peculiar weapons +purchases. (P. 300 ff.) +In this context, Hurt also reports some of my old analysis of a Klein's +Sporting Goods ad in Oswald's possessions, torn from a magazine which was +found in Adrian Alba's garage -- after a mysterious stranger, claiming to be a +friend of Alba's, showed up on the morning of November 23rd to "borrow" some +magazines. (P. 297) +Hurt also reports Larry Haapanen's observations on the official concern +about Commie influence in the Clinton civil rights drive, and its possible +relevance to Oswald's alleged presence there. (See 3 EOC 7, pp. 3-5.) +The book also includes quite a few interesting points which were +completely new to me. For example: +A Naval Intelligence officer at the Moscow Embassy says he thought that +8 EOC 1 -5-

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Oswald was being handled for the CIA by someone in the Naval Attache's office. +(P. 243) +There is some new information from Hurt's old interviews (for "Legend") +of some of Oswald's Marine associates. One such person told Hurt that he had +been recruited for intelligence work when he left the Marines. (P. 243) +SA Vince Drain believes the palmprint on the rifle was faked. (P. 109) +There is a more-plausible-than-most story of a telephone warning by Ruby +to Billy Grammer of the Dallas Police. Hurt notes that if Ruby was really +under Mafia pressure to kill Oswald, it would make sense for him to try to +abort the transfer with such a phone call. (P. 407) +A technical examination done for Hurt suggested that the curbstone at the +location of the Tague shot may well have been patched. (P. 138) +Hurt interviewed alleged Marcello and Ruby associate Harold Tannenbaum, +who was not as dead as the HSCA thought. He denied any Mafia connections. +(P. 180) +Billy Joe Lord, who shared Oswald's cabin on the boat to Europe, added +little of substance about Oswald, but told of a peculiar interest in him by +someone in France. Hurt suggests this could have been a KGB check to see if +U.S. intelligence was talking to people who had been associated with Oswald. +(P. 207) +Louise Latham of the Texas employment office made some odd comments, +suggesting that she sent Oswald out for a job more than once. Hurt seems +suspicious of her husband's "post office" career. (P. 221) +John Hurt's widow told Henry Hurt that he had admitted being drunk and +trying to call Oswald in jail. (This should take care of that story.) +(Pp. 244-5; cf. 2 EOC 7, p.5) +Hurt speculates that the KGB's interest in the Oswalds may have been to +establish Marina as a sleeper agent. (Might that explain the allegedly +anomalous friendship between the Oswalds and the DeMohrenschildts?) (P. 240)

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And now for something completely different: +It's... Chapter 12, "The Confession of Robert Easterling." +At least, I think it's completely different. +I find Easterling's story too incredible to be worth summarizing here. +Whenever I hear about meetings involving the speaker, Oswald, Ruby, Ferrie, +and Shaw, I reach for my skepticism. In fact, any story involving Clay Shaw +starts with two strikes against it. Hurt makes a point of the alleged +uniqueness of Easterling's claim of direct involvement (pp. 348-9), but what +strikes me is the similarity of so many elements in his story to others we +have heard over the years. +I do not believe Easterling's story has anything like the same level of +plausibility as even the most speculative allegations elsewhere in the book. +My impression is that this chapter fails to reflect the critical judgment +which Hurt applied to the more familiar evidence in other chapters. +The chapter both starts and ends with descriptions of Easterling as a +psychotic, alcoholic, violent criminal. A long footnote (p. 351) describes +aspects of his "confession" as "flagrantly preposterous" and delusional. +Certainly Hurt can't be accused of hiding all the flaws in Easterling's story. +Some of Hurt's justification for devoting a chapter to Easterling is mild +enough. He grants that "By any standard, [he] is a terribly sullied witness." +However, "in the absence of a full revelation of facts by government agencies, +it would be irresponsible not to present Easterling's story." (P. 383) As a +reader, I would have settled for an appendix or a long footnote. +Fortunately, Easterling's name does not appear outside this one chapter. +But this confession is what got Hurt into his own research on the case, as he +explains in the introduction. (P. 7) It must have colored his approach to +the evidence he later encountered. His personal experience in dealing with +the FBI on this matter certainly contributed to his very negative evaluation +of the official investigations of the JFK case. That is, Hurt learned that +8 EOC 1 -6-

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Easterling's was definitely not the best of the conspiracy allegations which +were not taken seriously. +The publisher's handout (#5, 5 pp.) does devote a paragraph to "the most +shocking revelation of all" in the book, alleging that "Easterling presents... +a convincing case that he could have been involved with a group that murdered +the president." As is all too common in a publisher's supplementary material, +the other specifics mentioned in this handout fail to reflect the general +coherence and scope of the book. They include some familiar questions which +the book does not claim to answer. (For example, why did Humes burn his +notes? The book just reviews the old evidence; Hurt called Dr. Humes about +Lifton's book, but he would not discuss details. [Pp. 42, 427]. Similarly, +"what government official permitted [Souetre's] deportation?" See p. 419; +Hurt doesn't seem to know.) Unfortunately, this handout may discourage +reviewers from focusing on the important new information. +It would be disappointing if many readers and reviewers dismiss the whole +book because of this one chapter. On the other hand, if any official +investigators, or many reviewers or EOC readers, seem to be taking Easterling +seriously, I will be glad to jump into any debate on the details. +One structural problem is that the bad Easterling story has the same +relationship to the rest of the book as the good story about Mr. & Mrs. +Rosetta Stone does to the Tippit chapter: each appears towards the end, each +is fairly heavily qualified (and many readers won't be able to tell how much +of the caution is pro forma), and there is not the detailed followup or +evaluation of the new material that I would like. +Disclaimers aside, there are signs that Hurt has taken Easterling very +seriously at some point. (Some of his language suggests that his conclusions +were rewritten and somewhat weakened.) For example, "In the end, [his] +claims... could not be substantiated to the point that no doubts about the +veracity of his confession remained." (Intro, p. 8-9) The chapter itself has +a slightly less disturbing formulation: "In the final analysis it is not +possible to prove that the Easterling confession is true." I think it is +possible to conclude, from Hurt's presentation, that the confession is false. +Hurt's fallback justification is more defensible, although I do not agree with +it: "However, it is possible to show that there is, at least, every reason +for the FBI to investigate Easterling's leads vigorously." (P. 389) +Another example of hedging which gives Easterling's account more support +than it deserves: "A careful reading of Easterling's account cannot lead to +any certain conclusion as to who killed John F. Kennedy. It is perhaps +significant, however, that when one considers those who may have wanted +Kennedy dead -- Cuban exiles, Fidel Castro, fanatical right-wing oil men, +renegade elements of the intelligence services, the mob -- they all play roles +in this remarkable story." (P. 390) I would turn this observation around: +almost all the plotters in the most popular conspiracy theories play roles in +Easterling's account. +Unfortunately, the section of this chapter entitled "A Final Assessment" +includes a recounting of some of the familiar old evidence which allows Hurt +not to dismiss Easterling entirely, but which in fact supports any number of +conspiracy theories. The existence of such evidence is indeed crucial to a +final assessment, but only in combination with a very skeptical approach to +Easterling. +My guess is that Easterling's alcohol-soaked brain became incapable of +distinguishing between what he remembered happening to him, and what he had +heard about the JFK case. I wonder if a psychiatrist familiar with the crim-inally insane would tell us that this particular kind of delusion is common. +In any case, the omission of a professional psychiatric opinion of +Easterling's story, by someone familiar with the kind of details on the JFK +case which have been publicized, is a conspicuous deficiency in this chapter. +As noted in my comments on Blakey's book, there may well be no signif-icance to a claim by Johnny Roselli that he "knew" there was a shot from the +8 EOC 1 -7-

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grassy knoll. (3 EOC 3, p. 3) I have no trouble believing that Roselli or +some member of his family (or Family) heard Mark Lane's lecture (if not +Garrison's scenario) and was convinced. (Everyone has heard Lane, it seems.) +Admittedly, it is a little harder to picture Easterling in a public library, +reading "Accessories After the Fact." Still, anyone living in Baton Rouge at +the time of the Garrison investigation would be exposed to a regular flow of +details about the mysteries of the case. (P. 379) +I think the most likely explanation for Easterling is not simply a hoax +but a basically genuine delusion, supplemented by the prospect of financial or +other benefits. +Hurt says that, if Easterling's confession is a hoax, "then there is a +fascinating story to be told about such an extraordinary scheme." (P. 351) +True enough, and even if it is a delusion which Easterling himself never +understood, there should be an interesting story about how and why Hurt (and +the Reader's Digest) took it seriously enough to pursue. +Hurt does not discuss the Digest's original interest in the project, or +its decision not to publish the book. (See 6 EOC 2, p. 6.) Hurt told me +that the new editor-in-chief was not completely persuaded that the thrust of +the book was correct. In fact, the book does not identify Hurt or the two men +to whom the book is dedicated as Reader's Digest employees. (Why, the reader +might wonder, was Hurt doing interviews for Epstein's "Legend"? [P. 7]) Was +the Digest ready to publish the Easterling story in one of the three excerpts +which were to appear starting in the June 1984 issue, using more of the +confession and fewer of the doubts? There may well be a story buried here. +Although it is hard to take the confession seriously enough to really +worry about its impact if the Digest had endorsed it, any allegations +involving Fidel or Raul Castro have a potential for serious mischief. +In 1974, the brother of Easterling's original Cuban contact showed him photos of +material "apparently... exhibited in Raul Castro's den." (Pp. 380-1) This +included photos of Easterling, Oswald, Ruby, Ferrie, and Shaw/Banister, with +X's over the faces of the deceased and a question mark for Easterling. Oh, +and also the Czech rifle which had been used, mounted, with a plaque reading +"Kennedy 1963." The best I can say about this fantasy is that Easterling +might have thought -- if he was thinking at all -- that the Reader's Digest +wanted to hear it. +I have many specific objections to Hurt's analysis. For example, he has +the same problem as the HSCA with the claim that Shaw was associating with +David Ferrie and Oswald. The stories (of Easterling, and of the Clinton +witnesses) are much more plausible if it was Guy Banister, not Shaw. The HSCA +wrote around the witness-credibility problem, concluding that Oswald had been +seen with "Ferrie, if not Clay Shaw." (HSCAR 145) Similarly, Hurt talks +about Easterling being with Ruby and the man he believed was Clay Shaw. (Why +not "Shaw and the man he believed was Jack Ruby"?) (Pp. 363, 381) +If I had any reason to find Easterling's story credible in the first +place, I would do a thorough search of published sources to see where similar +elements appear. For example, Hurt notes that Easterling's claim to have +driven Oswald from New Orleans to Houston fills in a gap in the official +account of his travels. I would start by testing the hypothesis that Easter-ling read about this problem. I certainly would not treat this as "perhaps the +most significant point of confirmation for Easterling's story." (P. 369) +Likewise, what about the coincidence between Easterling's claim that he +was to wait for Oswald in Monterrey, Mexico, and the allegation by Donald +Norton that he delivered $50000 to "Harvey Lee" in that city? (RD, p. 367; +Brener, "The Garrison Case," p. 195) Or the similarity between Easterling's +firing test (with coconuts!) and a test-firing scene at the beginning of +"Executive Action" (the book, if not the movie)? +Not surprisingly, the points which Hurt could even try to verify had +little direct connection to the assassination. Discovering (even with +difficulty) that there was a fire like one Easterling described does nothing +8 EOC 1 -8-

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to support his claim that he was picking up Oswald nearby. The story of Igor +Vaganov (Esquire, 8/67) is a useful reminder that there were many odd things +going on in Dallas in November 1963 which had nothing to do with the JFK +assassination. +Easterling may well have been up to something, perhaps criminal, perhaps +with some Cubans. Even it if could be established that he knew Ferrie or some +other person who has been named in the assassination controversy, which +in itself would not be unusual, the odds would still be high that his +"confession" was nothing but a delusion.

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Reviews of "Reasonable Doubt": +6. 22 Nov 85 (Pub Wkly) Brief and mostly favorable. "The prose is a +bit breathless at times," but "the components of [the] mystery are laid out +with notable clarity." The theory of a "Cuban conspiracy" involving an Oswald +impostor "does not seem so outlandish after [Hurt] produces a likely candidate +[Thomas Eli Davis, I suppose] and a witness whose testimony, though 'terribly +sullied,' provides an abundance of plausible detail." +7. 23 Feb 86 (NYT Book Review) "Oswald and others?" asks reviewer Adam +Clymer, a veteran reporter who is now an assistant to Abe Rosenthal. A fairly +short and quite positive review of Hurt's "compelling yet fundamentally calm +analysis." Clymer likes Hurt's critical analysis but non-conspiratorial +evaluation of the old investigations. "Original research is not what commends +this book," and the reviewer mentions none, except for the "psychotic drifter" +Easterling. He endorses the book's least credulous comments on that story: +"Hurt does not take this source as a touchstone. Instead, he argues that Mr. +Easterling's story ought to be given official attention."

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More details about Oswald in Mexico: +"The Lobster" has reprinted almost all of the Afterword from the U.S. +paperback edition of Tony Summers' "Conspiracy." Summers reported significant +progress in his search for Maurice Bishop, and prepared additional information +for articles in the London Observer. "Unfortunately," notes Steve Dorril, +"owing to continuing legal difficulties with David Phillips, they were never +officially published. Much of the material appears now in [the] Afterword and +the following notes (which are the responsibility of The Lobster.)" [#1986.8, +4 pp., from issue #10; the Afterword alone was previously listed as #1981.314] +Dorril's notes include much information which seems to come from a good +HSCA source, if not from the HSCA's Mexico City staff report (which, Summers +revealed in 1983, he had "had sight of"; see 6 EOC 1, p. 1). For example: +"We understand that the [HSCA] confirmed that [journalist Hal] Hendrix was a +CIA contract agent." +"A number of Phillips' colleagues... have indicated that the Phillips/ +'Bishop' identity 'holds water.' They include the Naval Attache in Cuba." +Incidentally, Gary Mack reports that Phillips has threatened to sue Hurt. +(Coverups, 12/85) So perhaps I should emphasize that, whether or not Phillips +was Bishop, I am not inclined to believe Antonio Veciana's story that he saw +him with Oswald. +Dorril gives the real names of "Ron Cross," "B. H.," and "Doug Gupton." +"Cross" allegedly helped set up the DRE (but not Bringuier's N.O. chapter). +The CIA man in charge of surveillance of the Cuban consulate in Mexico +City recently was the director of the Berlitz School in Madrid. (On Oswald's +alleged contact with Berlitz, see "Oswald in New Orleans," pp. 344 and 348, +and "Conspiracy," p. 318.) +"In a long memorandum or manuscript [Winston] Scott refers to 'a photo of +Oswald.' Three CIA officers claim to have seen it [the memo? the photo?] +whilst two others claim to have heard of it." Phillip Agee is among the five, +all named. (I'll pass up the opportunity to list unfamiliar people here. Any +reporter who wants to make a test case out of those CIA names is welcome to do +so. I hear that "The Lobster" is developing a reputation in the U.K. for +8 EOC 1 -9-

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naming sensitive names.) +A named CIA officer "is believed to have told an untruth to the HSCA" +about the 1 Oct 63 photo of the mystery man. The 10 Oct 63 teletype to CIA +headquarters about this "was, in fact, doctored, according to evidence devel-oped by the HSCA investigators." (This sounds like what Counsel Sprague was +going on about in 1977; I have still seen no evidence to support this claim.) +Virginia Prewett, a journalist whom Summers found from a clue provided by +Veciana, "was a CIA asset handled by Phillips." The five CIA "disinformation +agents" in Mexico City (four run by Phillips) and two other agents of Phillips +are named by "The Lobster." +This is clearly very important material, but I'm rating it only two stars +as a reminder to be careful: just the fact that the HSCA staff believed it +and it got locked up for fifty years doesn't make it all true. +In the case of Phillips-as-Bishop, at least, there is evidence that some +CIA people were trying to mislead the HSCA. As with the Nosenko case, the +HSCA may have bumped into issues of great sensitivity inside the CIA, where +selected facts were passed around for the purpose of making one faction or the +other look bad. (For example, one can be skeptical of the account of Angleton +making off with a photo of Oswald.) +Although I am inclined to trust the HSCA staffers who specialized in the +CIA investigation, I have many problems with what I know about the unpublished +and published investigation in other areas, and I know that some HSCA sources +doubt some conclusions of the Mexico City staff report.

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Jim Garrison -- on the bench and off the wall: +In October 1985, Garrison told Ted Gandolfo that he was working on a new +book, entitled "A Farewell to Justice." He said that "there is no question in +my mind that it is the absolute and ultimate truth down to the last detail +about the Kennedy assassination," but that he can not get a publisher "because +they are controlled by the CIA." (This is from the first issue of Gandolfo's +newsletter, "Assassination U.S.A." Write him at 1214 First Ave., NYC 10021, +or ask me for information.) +Garrison sent a long letter to Louis Sproesser, a buff who inquired about +this book. [#9, 30 Dec 85, 3 pp.] The book is "completed" and being +considered by a publisher. Garrison has been working on it for four years. +Garrison's rhetoric has not softened over the years, and I'll be very +surprised if his critical attention to the facts has improved. +Judge Garrison asserts (on Court of Appeal stationery) that "Anyone who +wishes to understand the assassination, must appreciate at the outset that the +deep involvement of the Agency in the President's assassination requires that +it give the maximum reinforcement to the two major false sponsors which it has +created: Organized Crime and Fidel Castro.... If the author [of a book] so +much as infers that Organized Crime or Castro were behind what so plainly was +an Agency project.... then one has in his hand the typical product of one of +the Agency's stable of hungry scribes." +Garrison also disputes allegations that Organized Crime is behind him. +"While I lay no pretense to being the epitome of virtue, with regard to +connections with organized crime I think that you can safely place me as +having approximately the same such connections as Mother Theresa and Pope +Paul." Obviously the CIA's disinformation machinery is at work, he says. +(Is Garrison dropping a hint about various popes? And this "Mother Theresa," +usually known as "Teresa" -- is she related to Vinnie Teresa?) +In particular, Garrison complains that a recent book "by a dashing +Englishman (one of the Agency's more accommodating prostitutes) refers to 'a +secret meeting'" between Garrison and John Rosselli. "The 'author's' +complicity in this attempted discreditation is underscored by his having had +the book published without ever troubling to learn that I have never even seen +John Rosselli in my life..." +The reference is to p. 498 of "Conspiracy," by Tony Summers (who is, +8 EOC 1 -10-

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indeed, sort of dashing), which accurately asserts that the CIA found such a +meeting "particularly disturbing." Summers quotes (but does not cite) an HSCA +staff report by Mark Flanagan, which in turn refers to an unpublished page of +the CIA Inspector General's Report. The allegation of a Garrison-Rosselli +meeting also appears on page 118 of the IG Report, which is published. (See +10 HSCA 190-1 (note 55), 4 HSCA 146-7.) +As usual, there is a trace of validity in Garrison's complaint. The IG +Report is obviously not an unimpeachable source, even if endorsed by an HSCA +staffer. But Garrison's overall certitude doesn't seem to need much anchoring +to reality. +Hurt's book includes a rather good discussion of the Garrison affair, and +of the subtleties of the interactions between Garrison, the real New Orleans +evidence about Oswald, and the vulnerability of Clay Shaw due to his +apparently irrelevant CIA links and homosexuality. +If any of you want to spring to Garrison's defense, here is my $64 +question: at the time he arrested Clay Shaw, what serious evidence did he +have that he had in fact conspired with anyone to kill JFK?

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Credits: Thanks to S. Dorril (#8), G. Hollingsworth (67), H. Hurt (5), +R. Ranftel (7), and L. Sproesser (9).

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More press coverage of Hurt's book: +The following items arrived as this issue was being completed. They are +from the Chicago Sun-Times, 9 Feb 86. (Thanks to J. Gordon.) +10. "Who killed JFK? Not Oswald, book claims" [2 pp., with a big +page-one headline] Apparently based on an interview of Hurt by William Hines. +Castro "had ample reason to want Kennedy dead, Hurt said.... Revenge was +clearly Castro's motive to mount a counter-assassination campaign, and +organized crime in the U.S. was his avenue of attack." A Hurt quote is +singled out for emphasis in large type: "My feeling is that some combination +of Cuban interests and organized crime in this country pulled off the +assassination. How they did it, I don't know." +Is that reasonable? I doubt it. The book doesn't allege that, much less +make a case for it. Even if Castro was in control of Cubela, Hurt concluded, +"that does not yield a clear answer to the ultimate question of whether Castro, +as a desperate act of self-preservation, brought about the assassination. +Today, all that can be said is that whatever his connection, if any, Castro was +better served than any other leader in the world by [JFK's] death." (P. 345) +Mafia involvement in a Castro plot has been advanced from time to time, +notably by Roselli and by George Crile (who focused on the Castro-Trafficante +relationship; 5 HSCA 308-11). In their book, Blakey & Billings rejected this +theory, "because all the reasons that militated against Castro's striking at +Kennedy by himself could be applied to his doing it in conjunction with +gangsters." (P. 156) They also made the first of many obvious counter-arguments: that Oswald, "a known leftist, pointed squarely at Castro." +11. "A Startling Confession" [3 pp.] A long article by Jim Quinlan. +"According to Hurt, the center of this historical storm was Robert Easter-ling...." Except for a reference to Easterling's mental state, this article +applies no critical judgment to his account. +12. A photo of Hurt, and a sidebar on his secluded office in Redeye, Va. +13. Photos accompanying #11. [3 pp., routine]

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ECHOES OF CONSPIRACY July 17, 1986 +Vol. 8, #2 Paul L. Hoch

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Quotation of the day: +"An interesting theory can always outrun a set of facts," according to +psychologist A. Holliday, at a 1959 conference on LSD therapy chaired by Dr. +Paul Hoch, CIA consultant and "opinion leader." +From "Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD, and the Sixties Rebellion," a new book +by Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain (Grove, $12.95). A fascinating social +history, particularly the chapters on the CIA's early interest in LSD. +("Funny and irreverent" - WP) +There are a few references to John and Robert Kennedy, but nothing new on +the Mary Pinchot Meyer story. If people like Meyer's friend Angleton knew of +her dabbling in drugs with Leary and apparently with JFK, did it matter? I +wonder, but the book avoids speculation along such lines. There is no mention +of "Did Lee Harvey Oswald Drop Acid?," the article co-authored by ex-AIB'er +Lee. (5 EOC 1, p. 4) (#1986.14: Publisher's press release, consisting of +advance comments by Ginsberg, Stockwell, Krassner, et al.)

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Forthcoming TV coverage: +In November, Showtime will present four hours of "The Trial of LHO," with +Vincent Bugliosi for the prosecution and Jerry Spence for the defense. (Ed +Bark, DMN, 21 Jun 86, reprinted in Coverups, 6/86 [#15].) An earlier report +by Jerry Rose identifies the producers as London Weekend Television. (See +2 3D 3.21; that is, The Third Decade, Vol. 2, #3 [Mar 1986], p. 21) Although +there are risks in having lawyers present the case, this should a good show.

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The 22nd anniversary: +16. 22 Nov 85 (Fredericksburg, VA "Free Lance-Star") "JFK questions +persist" A summary of what has and hasn't happened since the HSCA report, by +guest columnist (and buff) Harry Nash. "The simple fact is that Justice, like +many agencies of government over the years, would like for the question to go +away. If you think the reason is just 'bureaucratic', think again. The +murders [of JFK and MLK] did not occur in a vacuum. William Faulkner (in +another context) said it best: 'The past isn't dead; it isn't even past.'" +This is the only anniversary article I recall which dealt with the +ongoing controversy over the assassination. Were there others? (I have the +original version of the widely publicized account of how the WC damaged the +Hoover-Warren relationship; it should be in the next EOC.)

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The RFK case: +17. 5 Mar 86 (LA Herald-Examiner) "RFK slaying report lacks all the +facts" [2 p.] Quotes Paul Schrade and Greg Stone, who said that "what is +important is the 97% of material which remains withheld." The commission +asked Mayor Bradley to form a committee to develop standards and a schedule +for release of the remaining material. This advisory panel has been set up. +People interested in encouraging fuller disclosure should get in touch +with Stone or Phil Melanson. There is much concern about the processing of +the remaining material. The summary report itself costs $150 ($0.10/page!) +plus postage, and is probably not worth it. For earlier coverage of the +release process, see 7 EOC 3, p. 1. +18. 5 Mar (NYT) "Summary of Report Released...." "Critics said the +commission's report contained nothing that was not published in [Robert +Houghton's] 1970 book...." Stone tells me that it is worse than that; +published information has now been deleted. +19. 5 Mar 86 (LAT) "Summary of Police Probe Says Sirhan Acted Alone" +[3 pp.] Page one, but hardly news. "Release of the 1500-page summary [on +March 4] did little to mollify critics...." Schrade accused the police +commissioners of "arrogance" and challenged Chief Gates to explain the +trajectory of the bullet which struck him. +8 EOC 2 -2-

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20. 5 Mar (SFX) "RFK murder probe is 'a P.R. gesture,' victim +complains" [2 pp.] Also quotes Prof. Melanson. +21. 4 Mar [25 pp.] Partial transcript of the board meeting, including +comments by critics. +Other March 5 reports, mostly from wire services: #22, USA Today +(incomplete copy); #23, AP; #24, Hartford Courant; #25, SFC (from LAT), +[2 pp.]; #26, Detroit News. +27. 6 Mar (LAHE) Editorial, "A call for public disclosure" +28. 9 Mar (Dubin, Phila. Inquirer) "RFK summary sharpens demands for +all files" [2 pp.] A rather good summary, including comments from Stone and +Schrade (whose doctor called it "crazy to think that Sirhan acted alone"). +29. 16 Mar (Providence Journal) "Assassination and gun control: RFK +report puts spotlight on protection of president" [3 pp.] Primarily an +interview of Melanson. +30. 28 Mar (LAT) "Sirhan Denied Parole; Crime's 'Enormity' Cited" +A staff psychiatrist described him as "generally rehabilitated."

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"Reasonable Doubt": +31. 20 Apr 86 (Boston Herald) "JFK's death: Let's find the truth" +An op-ed piece by Henry Hurt, directed at Boston Congressional candidate +Joseph P. Kennedy. "The bond of silence that began with Robert Kennedy has +remained inviolate. Indeed, the members of this illustrious family are among +a tiny minority of Americans who have not vigorously debated this important +issue.... In a recent profile of Joe Kennedy in Life Magazine, he is quoted +as saying that it is time for his campaign 'to take the initiative on +something.'... If Joe Kennedy fully accepts the simplistic official version +of JFK's death, then let him say so." (Reprinted in 2 3D 4.4.) +32. (Same paper, same date) "Joe Kennedy urged to reopen JFK probe: +Author cites conspiracy theory" (but not Easterling) A page-two news story +based on an interview of Hurt. Joe Kennedy was not available for comment; his +campaign manager said he may make a statement. (As far as I know, he has made +none, and nothing has come of this.) +33. 16 Feb 86 (WP Book World) [2 pp.] Reviewer Anthony Lukas notes +that Hurt "is most convincing in his meticulous dissection of [the WC] +scenario," but "less persuasive when he seeks to assemble an alternative +scenario. Everyone in his story has a purpose.... There is little room for +chance.... And the only major piece of new evidence [Easterling's testimony] +is singularly unconvincing." Lukas concludes that, until there is access to +the secrets Hurt believes to be still locked up, "anything and everything is +possible." I don't think he is being sarcastic; perhaps Hougan's revisionist +analysis of Watergate, which Lukas took seriously (#1984.180), influenced his +perspective on the JFK case. +34. March 86 (3D) A nine-page "review essay" by Jerry Rose, positive +in general but with several points of disagreement. (You should have your +subscription copy, so I won't describe it further here.) +In response, Hurt has written a letter to Rose, challenging readers to +name another "detailed, on-the-record account of personal involvement in a +successful conspiracy." Perhaps such a distinction can be drawn, but in my +opinion the similarities between Easterling's story and many others far +outweigh the differences. +35. Mar 86 (Coverups) "Significant Doubt about 'Reasonable Doubt'" +Gary Mack considers the book "one of the most disappointing and misleading +'major' works" on the case. I disagree with some of the specific points Mack +disputes - e.g., the John Hurt phone call, and Harrelson as the tall tramp - +and I have no problem with the book leaving out the backyard photos, the +umbrella man, and even the acoustics. In any case, Mack's specifics do not +establish his most serious criticism, that the book was "very carefully, +cleverly constructed" to build a case that Castro did it, and to give the +8 EOC 2 -3-

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impression that it completely covers the major open questions. I didn't get +that impression from the book; if the Justice Department or many reviewers +were to respond that way, I would reconsider. +36. Jun 86 (Coverups) Reporter Johann Rush recounts his own +impressions of Easterling, who was trying to sell his story for money when +Rush talked to him in 1981-83. The records of the alleged "diversionary fire" +show no damage to the building, just a little to some furniture; no hydrant +was used, alleges Rush. [2 pp.] +37. 26 Jan 86 (Cincinnati Enq.) A "must read," but the reviewer +complains (with some validity) that Hurt ignored Dr. Lattimer's work on the +single-bullet theory and the head snap. +38. 9 Feb (St. Petersburg Times) "Another dubious conspiracy" +"The conspiracy theorists' main fault is that they, like Hurt, deprive Oswald +of personality." +39. 16 Feb (Baton Rouge Sun) A short review, mostly negative ("a +rehash"). "The Easterling chapter is riveting, but not worth the $19.95...." +40. 23 Feb (Richmond T-D) A mixed review by a retired member of the +Foreign Service. "The endless reporting on Easterling raises the question of +why a well-regarded journalist should have devoted so much time to 'Reasonable +Doubt.' The surest answer lies in the incredible divergence of the reports +from governmental investigations of the assassination." +41. Mar 86 (Village Voice Literary Supp.) A positive review - even +Easterling's story "compels attention" - consisting mostly of the reviewer's +favorite old anti-WC arguments. (Carl Oglesby is singled out among those who +have previously made "extremely plausible guesses" about the culprits.) +42. 3 Mar 86 (Pub. Wkly) "Challenge, Inc. Continues Two Libel Actions" +Also, David Phillips "is considering a suit" against Hurt "for allegations... +that he was 'Maurice Bishop,' CIA case officer for Lee Harvey Oswald." +43. 7 Mar 86 (SFC) "From Castro's Plot To the Botched Autopsy" +"Like the creature from the swamp in a C-grade movie, it [the case] won't be +put to rest." Tantalizing, but "conspiracy is not really explosive news at +this date unless you can name the conspirators," and Hurt's book, like the +HSCA report, "suffers from that deficiency." +44. 10 Mar 86 (Roanoke Times) "'Reasonable Doubt' a lesson for shuttle +investigation" (That is, "be thorough, get it right the first time," unlike +the Warren Commission.) +45. 12 Mar 86 My rough handwritten notes on Hurt's appearance on WWCN +radio, Albany. Does he think that "Mr. Stone" killed Tippit? Here, he says +that he has come up with the person "who probably did." Hurt thinks that JFK +would have "gotten Castro out of this hemisphere"; that LBJ thought Castro +killed JFK, and got the message, thus deciding to fight Communism in Vietnam +instead of Cuba. Given the evidence on JFK's involvement in Vietnam, and the +ongoing pressure against Castro under LBJ, this is too speculative for me. +46. 23 Mar 86 (Milwaukee Journal) "More doubt on JFK" Reviewer David +Wrone is critical of the Easterling chapter ("No cub reporter would turn in a +story like this") and of much more. The anti-WC chapters are "solid" but Hurt +"cannot evaluate witness testimony" and "is blinded by an anti-Communism" +which "enables him... to portray the murder as the work of Castro Communists +[and] the Mafia." +47. Apr 86 (Freedom) [2 pp.] A generally negative review, suggesting +that Hurt deliberately played down the possibility of government involvement. +(This monthly magazine, linked to the Scientologists, publishes investigative +reports on various important topics, but unfortunately a substantial part of +what it prints ranges from a bit overdone to quite silly indeed.) +48. 6 Apr 86 (Oakland Tribune) "Volume opens forum to more JFK +assassination theories" [2 pp.] A favorable review by Jonathan Marshall, now +the Trib's editorial page editor, focusing on Burkley, Tippit, and suppression +of evidence by federal agencies. "Worst of all, however, was the decision of +8 EOC 2 -4-

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the [HSCA] to put a 50-year seal on most of the thousands of pages of +documents it assembled. 'The irony of the situation... is clear,' noted +Berkeley-based assassination scholar Paul Hoch. 'The congressional +investigators who broke the JFK case wide open and reversed the official +government verdict have left us with more material withheld than ever +before.'" (4 EOC 5.1) +"The assassination deserves whatever study it still receives. For even +if the conspirators are never identified, much less caught, careful analysis +of the crime and its aftermath will continue to shed light on the many +political pathologies that rippled outward from the center of the +assassination itself." +49. 13 Apr 86 (Phila. Inquirer) A review by Jean Davison, author of +"Oswald's Game." (5 EOC 4) On the whole, she is not overly negative: +"Anyone who has followed the controversy will probably want to read the latest +round in the debate. Whether one agrees with them or not, conspiracy books +like this one are seldom dull." +"It is not unusual... for conspiracy theorists to make their attacks on +the Warren Report sound utterly convincing - until they try to explain what +really happened. Then some sticky questions inevitably arise. For instance, +why does all the physical evidence point to Oswald's rifle and to no other +weapon?... If a better rifle was used, where did its bullets go?... Hurt +provides a novel explanation.... Readers who prefer complex solutions to +simple ones will find much to admire in Reasonable Doubt." (She might be +wrong about any given area of evidence, but she does have a point.) +Easterling's confession "has the dreamlike quality of a delusion.... +[He] seems to have been working for everyone on the conspiracy theorists' list +of Top Ten Suspects.... It seems not to have occurred to Hurt that Easterling +could have gotten many of his ideas from reading earlier books about Dallas." +(Hurt certainly did think about that explanation, but, indeed, you wouldn't +know that from the book itself.) "Sadly, Easterling's confession sounds like +an unconscious parody of the theories presented there." +50. 22 Apr 86 [3 pp.] A letter from Hurt to the Inquirer, defending +his handling of the neutron activation analysis and noting that Davison's book +was not, as the Inquirer said, "a critical examination of conspiracy theories" +but, in Davison's publisher's words, "an anti-conspiracy book about Oswald's +assassination of President Kennedy." Hurt also says "I accept Miss Davison's +attack on the credibility of Robert Easterling." +51. 19 Apr 86 (Montreal Gazette) A positive review by Brian McKenna, +who directed two CBC documentaries on the JFK case. He notes Hurt's work on a +report of Oswald handing out FPCC literature in Montreal, and regrets that +Easterling may have taken Hurt away from "more fertile trails." "In his +graceful and diplomatic treatment of the lonely work of the critics, Hurt +refrains from the poisonous backbiting that has so divided many of the best +ones over the years." (Reprinted in Coverups, June 1986) +52. (Same paper, date, and author) "How careers like Dan Rather's were +built on [the] JFK assassination" Rather told McKenna in 1978 that he +personally believed there was a conspiracy, but despite the HSCA he allegedly +continues to reflect the lone-nut view, and was among those who vetoed a +potential story by "60 Minutes" based on Lifton's evidence. Quite far out for +a sidebar (a far-out-bar?): "What this suggests is that like many high U.S. +officials in every branch of government, Rather's career and the official +story are welded together." McKenna's brings up Rather's erroneous +description of the Zapruder film, and the WC's "printing error" resulting in +transposed frames (both of which I accept as non-sinister mistakes). +53. 25 May 85 (Jackson, MS Clarion-Ledger & News) "Book explores +confession in Kennedy assassination" [2 pp.] Hurt, who used to work for the +Jackson News, met with two FBI agents "who had examined Easterling's file. +'The whole tone was, one of, "Listen, you're a fairly sensible fellow, how can +8 EOC 2 -5-

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you get taken in by this man?" And my position was I'm not being taken in by +him. I'm trying to find out the full story. I don't understand why you folks +haven't taken a more vigorous interest in the man,' Hurt said.... Attempts to +contact the FBI about Easterling's story were unsuccessful." (#53a: an +accompanying review, not noteworthy.) +There is some interesting information on Hurt (rather than on the case) +in the following articles from Virginia papers, which are mostly profiles +based in part on interviews: +54. 16 Feb 86 (Danville Register) [3 pp.; photo: #54A] +55. 9 Mar (Richmond T-D) [2 pp.] +56. 10-12 Mar (Lynchburg News) [5 pp.] Also quotes Ed Tatro. +57. 16 Mar (Roanoke Times) [2 pp.] +A few more reviews, short and/or not particularly noteworthy: #58 (19 +Jan), Fort Wayne Journal; #59 (23 Jan), Macon, MS Beacon; #60 (16 Feb), +Anniston, AL Star; #61, Detroit News; #62 (24 Apr), Daily Express (UK).

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More thoughts the murder of Officer Tippit: +Several people have challenged me to explain how Tippit's affair might +have actually played a role in the events of November 22. Indeed, it would be +quite a coincidence if he happened to be the victim of a killer with a +personal grudge just when Oswald was in the vicinity. Such things do happen - +that's why they are called coincidences - and it is plausible that the DPD +would have used the dead Oswald to clear up an unsolved crime. But a more +complex scenario may make more sense. Joanne Braun speculates that Tippit's +problems may have caused him to go to some unsavory characters for help, for +example to get some money which his wife would not know about, and that he may +have gotten entangled with, and in debt to, some hypothetical conspirators, +who then set him up as they set Oswald up. Also, David Lifton reminded me of +the eyewitness evidence suggesting that Tippit had been waiting for someone +coming from the same direction as Oswald. (Ramparts, Nov 66) And of course +Tippit's affair might explain only why he was in Oak Cliff.

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Judge Garrison responds (and Hoch dissents): +Ted Gandolfo sent Jim Garrison part of 8 EOC 1, and sent me a copy of +Garrison's reply. (Letter of 14 Apr 86 to Gandolfo, #1986.63; quoted almost +in full here.) +The Judge had "nothing to say concerning [Hoch's] comments about me. +Frankly, I found them to be incoherent." +"I cannot guess as to the origin of his emotional hang up [sic] about me. +In any case, I will not attempt to reply to him in a similar vein...." Some +of my earlier research on the assassination was "quite competent. Moreover -- +in view of the solid front presented by the federal government in its cover-up +of the assassination -- it seems to me childlike for one assassination critic +to attempt to dis-credit another publicly." (I suppose calling Tony Summers +"one of the [CIA's] more accomodating prostitutes" doesn't count.) +"One statement of Hoch's, however, does concern me enough to require a +comment. He refers to the 'vulnerability of Clay Shaw due to his apparently +irrelevant C.I.A. links and homosexuality.' Mr. Hoch should go straight to +the bathroom and wash his mouth with soap." +"Throughout our trial, in everything I have ever written and in every +public statement I have ever made -- I never once have made any reference to +Clay Shaw's alleged homosexuality. What sort of human being is Mr. Hoch that +he is impelled to so gratuitously make such a reference in a newsletter which +he widely distributes to the public? For all his faults or virtues, Shaw is +dead and unable to defend himself from that kind of off the wall canard. No +matter how virtuously Hoch might couch it, a smear is still a smear." +I will let you decide if my reference (or Hurt's) was gratuitous. Out +here, referring to someone's homosexuality stopped being a canard years ago; +8 EOC 2 -6-

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at least, it's not as serious as charging someone with conspiring to kill JFK. +Does Garrison now think Shaw was involved in the conspiracy which led to +JFK's death? If so, the reference to "all his faults or virtues" is +remarkably mild. +In 1969, J. Edgar Hoover himself called me "a smear artist", for +suggesting that there may have been an undisclosed relationship between Oswald +and the FBI. [#64, 2 pp.] So Garrison is in good company. +As for my question in 8 EOC 1 about Garrison's case, asking what evidence +he had when he arrested Shaw: The most enthusiastic answer came from +Gandolfo, who said, "Did't you know that Shaw was connected with Permindex, +which just happens to be one of the most efficient assassination organizations +around?? Didn't you know that Shaw was CIA?" Also, Shaw's friend Ferrie was +CIA and there is Russo's testimony. That is, of course, exactly the sort of +evidence which I did know about but which does not relate to my question. +Gandolfo also promised to expose me as "just a CIA coverup bastard" in +his newsletter, to which I do not subscribe. Does anyone out there want to +send me a copy? +The best semi-serious answer came from Robert Ranftel and Jim Lesar, who +sent me an FBI letterhead memo dated March 2, 1967, the day after Shaw's +arrest. (#65, 2 pp.) The memo, discussed in Hurt's book (p. 281), notes that +one of Shaw's alleged homosexual contacts said on March 19, 1964, that Shaw +was into S&M. On February 24, 1967, two sources reported that they thought +Shaw had "homosexual tendencies," and two sources (possibly the same ones) +indicated that Shaw was Clay Bertrand, who allegedly contacted Dean Andrews on +Oswald's behalf. Unnamed FBI sources are not necessarily reliable, but in any +case none of this evidence even suggests that Shaw conspired with anyone to +kill JFK. Sorry, but the prize for my $64 question remains unawarded. +Incidentally, Lou Sproesser pointed out a problem with the Hurt-HSCA +hypothesis that Banister, not Shaw, was with Oswald and Ferrie in Clinton. +Marshall J. Manchester testified at the Shaw trial that he checked out the car +and that Shaw said he was from the Trade Mart. (NYT, 7 Feb 69, 2 pp., #66) +Manchester is not necessarily credible, but this shows that untangling the +Clinton story by believing just some of the testimony is not easy. +While I was in the mood to discredit my fellow critics, I came across a +letter from Garrison to "Freedom" (May 1986, #67) which is worth some +attention. It offers a rare opportunity to scrutinize Garrison's analytical +work in an area where the evidence is accessible and not crucial. +I think the buffs should keep in mind that what got many of us into the +case in the first place was the demonstrable inadequacy of the Warren Report - +for example, conclusions and summaries in the Report which did not even +adequately reflect the published evidence, much less what was not published. +In my own case, at least, the inference was that any investigation which was +so clearly unreliable on details could certainly not be trusted to get the +difficult and uncheckable answers right. +These days, assertions by Garrison and his ilk tend to get accepted into +the mythology of the case if they sound plausible, without much detailed +scrutiny. It is not easy to deal with most such claims. For example, no +matter how exaggerated Garrison's (or Sprague's) comments about the HSCA staff +and investigation under Blakey seem, and how implausible their conclusions +about what was behind the HSCA, most of the rebuttal evidence is known only to +HSCA people, and everyone who dealt with the HSCA knows their investigation +was inadequate in many ways - at least in many small areas. So, it is hard to +argue against the conclusions of Garrison or Sprague (either Sprague, in fact) +without seeming to defend certain indefensible aspects of the HSCA's work. +Likewise, when implausible things are said about Oswald in New Orleans +(by the HSCA) or about Cuban exiles, one may be reluctant to be properly +critical if one believes, as most of us do, that those areas probably are +central, and that someone might well have come up with new and important +8 EOC 2 -7-

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(but unverifiable) evidence. +So I have no qualms about taking a close look at Garrison's charge that +the Warren Commission may have relied on a CIA asset to solve one evidentiary +problem. Garrison wrote that an earlier "Freedom" article on Hemingway "may +have contributed to the identification of a possible CIA 'asset.'" In about +1961, Dr. Howard Rome, a Mayo Clinic psychiatrist, gave Hemingway shock +treatments. In September 1964, Rome gave the WC an analysis of Oswald, which +"would appear to have been obtained and inserted just prior to the printing +deadline in order to mask one of the major holes still remaining in the +official fiction: Oswald's motivation. The thrust of Dr. Rome's evaluation +was that Oswald's spelling problem was not inconsistent with his having +murdered the president of the United States." In Wesley Liebeler's words, +"the frustration which may have resulted [from Oswald's reading-spelling +difficulty] gave an added impetus to his need to prove to the world that he +was an unrecognized 'great man.'" +Garrison does qualify his factual conclusion (enough to make it +nonlibelous?): "One cannot ignore the fact that it is just possible that Dr. +Rome might have been functioning all along primarily as an agency 'asset.'" +Then he takes off again: "Those men who function clandestinely as CIA assets +will do anything and help destroy anyone for a share of the CIA's cornucopia. +To give but one example, consider how successful the media and 'journalistic +author' assets have been in giving life to the two remaining scapegoats in the +JFK assassination -- Fidel Castro and organized crime." +It is the jump to such a broad allegation which justifies attention to +Garrison's comments on the Rome matter. His analysis is, basically, +unsupported by the evidence Garrison himself refers to, and to some degree +contradicted by it. Some terse one-word assessments spring to mind, but I +don't want to be told again to wash my mouth out with soap. +The details are not interesting enough to reproduce here, but I'll send +my analysis to anyone who wants it, at no charge. (#68, 3 pp.) If very few +people ask for it, I'll probably draw some inferences from that. +One question for the third decade (and for Jerry Rose's journal as well) +is how to deal with the survival of myths about the assassination other than +the Warren Commission's. That is, what is the role of "scholarly research" +when many of the people still interested in the case are sure that the head +snap proves there was a shot from the front, that the single-bullet theory is +a joke, that the HSCA's primary goal was to hide the truth, or that Garrison +solved the case with the arrest of Clay Shaw? +The April and May 1986 issues of "Freedom" include a long article by +Richard E. (critic) Sprague and two "Freedom" staffers, "The Ultimate Cover-up," focusing on the CIA, the HSCA, Ruby, and mind control. (There are also +parts of a long series by Fletcher Prouty on the CIA, dealing with the +assassination in the May issue.) Each issue is $1.50 from 1301 N. Catalina +St., Los Angeles, CA 90027. Certainly many of the details are correct, and +maybe some of the big charges are, but I do not think these articles +consistently meet essential standards of exposition and logical argument.

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The supporters and friends of Paulino Sierra: +What follows is essentially the complete text of a letter I sent to the +Justice Department on May 13, 1986. Once again, an assassination lead brings +us back to the hidden history of the Kennedy administration's war against +Cuba. +In connection with the Justice Department review of the report of the +House Select Committee on Assassinations, I would like to bring to your +attention one area in which the report was incomplete. I believe that the +published information may be unfair to one of the named individuals, Paulino +Sierra Martinez. +Mr. Sierra is mentioned on page 134 of the HSCA report, which states that +8 EOC 2 -8-

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a certain "arms deal was being financed through one Paulino Sierra Martinez by +hoodlum elements in Chicago and elsewhere." A staff report on the organi-zation he headed (JGCE, the Junta del Gobierno de Cuba en el Exilio) is +published in Vol. l0, pp. 95-103. This HSCA report appears to be based +entirely on a review of existing documents (mostly from FBI and CIA files). +The HSCA's information relating to Sierra is summarized in a book by HSCA +staff members Robert Blakey and Richard Billings, "The Plot to Kill the +President." The Sierra material takes up a substantial part of the chapter +entitled "Cuban Exiles and the Motive of Revenge." +Blakey and Billings said that a "background check [on Sierra] stimulated +our interest in a Cuban exile - Mafia connection that just might have had a +bearing on the assassination." +Sierra reportedly said that he had backers who would provide a large sum +of money - $30 million - to finance an invasion of Cuba. "Sierra was saying +publicly that it [the money] was being donated by U.S. corporations whose +assets in Cuba had been expropriated.... According to several sources, the +real benefactors were members of the underworld, whose gambling interests in +Cuba had indeed been expropriated by Castro.... There were other indications +that organized-crime figures were behind the Sierra plan...." By June 1963, +the FBI in Chicago concluded that Sierra was "a con artist." +Blakey and Billings said that they "were able to document in detail +Sierra's activities and his apparent connection, or that of his backers, to +organized crime," but that "the relevance to the assassination remained +undetermined." (P. 174) +My colleague Peter Dale Scott and I studied the HSCA's Sierra material in +some detail when the report was published. At first, Scott (like Blakey and +Billings) was interested in the apparent connections between Sierra and +various people whose names had become familiar in the JFK assassination +controversy. (For example, Antonio Veciana, Gerry Patrick Hemming, and Rich +Lauchli.) Scott found additional possibilities for links between Sierra's +associates and Lee Harvey Oswald. +Scott came to doubt Blakey's belief that organized crime was the dominant +force behind Sierra's Junta. Scott interviewed a number of the principals, +including Sierra. (Sierra's employer, William Browder, essentially supported +Sierra's account of the formation of the JGCE.) Sierra was displeased that +the HSCA had depicted him in such a sinister light, and that he had not been +interviewed by the Committee or its staff. +Sierra specifically objected to the implication that he was working in +opposition to the policy of the Federal government. According to Blakey and +Billings, "Sierra told the exile leaders that he spoke for a group of American +businessmen in Chicago who wanted to join forces with them to overthrow +Castro, with or without the approval of the U.S. government." (P. 174) +Scott found a published reference to Sierra which indicates that he was +indeed coordinating some of his actions with the U.S. government at a high +level. +In his biography of Robert Kennedy, Arthur Schlesinger discussed an anti-Castro operation in Central America involving Manuel Artime. "Hal Hendrix of +the Miami News supposed [this operation was] managed either by CIA or, 'on a +hip pocket basis,' by the Attorney General [Robert Kennedy] himself." Luis +Somoza, "son of the thieving Nicaraguan dictator," tried to learn of the +attitude of the U.S. government toward that operation. Somoza "was soon +telling Carribean notables that he had received a 'green light' from Robert +Kennedy...." +Schlesinger noted that a State Department official said that Somoza had +not in fact gotten that approval, when Somoza's claims were repeated to him in +a meeting in August 1963. +Scott was able to obtain a memorandum concerning that meeting under the +Freedom of Information Act.... (Memo by John H. Crimmins, Coordinator of +8 EOC 2 -9-

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Cuban Affairs in the State Department, August 17, 1963) +The man who repeated Somoza's claims was Paulino Sierra, who said that he +had been in touch with Somoza, who had offered him a site for a base. "Sierra +and Rivero said they had to know what truth there was in Somoza's assertion +about U.S. support for him before deciding whether to accept his offer or to +go it alone." (Crimmins memo, p. 2) +Sierra and his associate, Felipe Rivero, described themselves as +"[d]evoted... to the United States and conscious of the need to do nothing +that would run counter to U.S. policy." (P. 4) Sierra "emphasized again the +desire of his supporters not to operate contrary to U.S. policy." (P. 6) +Prior to the meeting, the Attorney General's office informed Crimmins +that "the Attorney General had been talking to Enrique Ruiz Williams and that, +as a result, Dr. Sierra would be calling [Crimmins] for an appointment." +Williams, also known as Harry Williams, is generally considered to have been +Robert Kennedy's principal liaison with the anti-Castro Cuban community. +In his phone call, Sierra apparently suggested that Williams was a "mutual +friend" of himself and Crimmins. +It is possible, of course, that this contact with the government was an +attempt by Sierra to provide a cover for his true motives. However, Scott +believes that the operations of the Junta may have been part of the policy of +"autonomous operations" against Cuba, which was formally approved in June +1963. While the Kennedy administration was openly cracking down on the most +prominent anti-Castro groups operating in the U.S., it was also encouraging +deniable operations abroad. +According to the HSCA, State Department counsel Walt Rostow "proposed a +'track two' approach to Cuban operations to parallel regular CIA-controlled +Cuban teams." The U.S. "would provide general advice, funds and material +support," but "would publicly deny any participation in the groups['] +activities." "All operations had to be mounted outside the territory of the +United States." (10 HSCA 77) +In contrast, Blakey and Billings emphasized that when Sierra came on the +scene in Miami just a month earlier, in May 1963, "the exile movement was in +disarray: the United States had just stopped funding the Cuban Revolutionary +Council; U.S. law enforcement agencies were cracking down on guerrilla +activities; and factions within the exile community were politically +polarized...." (P. 171) +Blakey and Billings noted that Sierra was "virtually unknown (his only +mark of public prominence was that he had formed a Cuban lawyers association +in Chicago)...." (P. l7l) After talking with Sierra, Scott concluded (with +support from documents at the Kennedy Library) that Robert Kennedy's office +was worried about the many Cuban exile professionals who were doing menial +work in the U.S., and directly encouraged the formation of such organizations. +That is, Sierra's previous public activity may be not an exception to his +relative obscurity but a clue to his key sources of support. +As Schlesinger noted, the record of the mid-1963 anti-Castro efforts +based in Central America "is unusually murky." Someone in the CIA got the +Crimmins memo, although its existence is not reflected in the CIA material +quoted by the HSCA. Blakey and Billings quoted a CIA memo dated two days +before the assassination of President Kennedy, whose author reportedly found +it "curious that Sierra had for so long managed to hold a position in the +exile hierarchy: 'Perhaps his mysterious backers are providing him with +sufficient funds to keep the pot boiling....'" (Pp. 173-4) +To improve the historical record, I think that the Justice Department +should at least perform a more complete file review than reflected by the +published HSCA material. +In addition, any surviving principals should be allowed to respond to the +HSCA's charge that the JGCE may have been a tool of organized crime.

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69. Excerpts from Schlesinger, "Robert Kennedy and his Times." +70. Crimmins memo, 17 Aug 63, 6 pp. +In an informal interview published in "Lobster" (#1985.99), Peter Scott +apparently gave Robin Ramsay his "three-hurricane theory" of the +assassination. That expression, from Mark Allen, derives from a powerful +alcoholic drink popular in New Orleans, after three of which any buff will +tell you what he really thinks happened in Dallas. +"I think that the Kennedys really had started a new type of Cuban exile +movement against Castro, the chief element of which was that there would be +money to go anywhere else they liked, in the Caribbean, to find their bases. +They would get money for training and they would get a green light, but it +meant the Cubans got out of the U.S.... And I think this operation was +penetrated from the very beginning. This may be the key to the assassination, +in fact. [Ramsay: Penetrated by whom?] First of all by the CIA because they +wanted to know what was going on, for a minimum. But this was another slap at +them: the Kennedys doing what they were supposed to do. And they, that is +the CIA, were being accused by Bobby Kennedy of having dealt with organized +crime people. And I think the first thing the CIA did was to get Cubans into +the operation who quickly turned round and started dealing with organized +crime figures. This was the so-called Junta.... The CIA files on this +operation, the Junta, make it look more and more like an organized crime +operation from beginning to end. The House Committee, rather foolishly, +without interviewing anybody, put the contents of this file into Vol. 10 of +its report as if it were all fact. Now, what a perfectly invulnerable vantage +point to have shot Kennedy from, if you used the assets of that operation to +kill him. That would explain Bobby's sense of paralysis, because it was his +operation." +Based on what I know at the moment (i.e., not counting all the material +from Scott which I have forgotten), the possibility of relevance to Oswald or +the assassination is intriguing, but it seems so tentative, indirect, and +speculative that I don't want to offer a further opinion at the moment. +In any event, the Sierra story says something interesting about the HSCA +investigation. Putting it as generously as possible, it suggests that +Blakey's expertise in finding organized crime links had the effect of a filter +in a case where obscure links also pointed in other directions. This problem +differed from those the HSCA faced with Oswald and Ruby, where most of the +alternative interpretations were well known in advance. I am not saying that +the organized-crime angle was definitely absent, but the actual situation +regarding Sierra was both more complicated and more interesting than the +Blakey & Billings version indicates. +Peter Scott's half of the unpublished 1980 book "Beyond Conspiracy" dealt +in part with the milieu of the Chicago Junta, and related matters. Although +the manuscript was set aside after Pocket Books decided not to publish it, we +have not forgotten about it and still hope to get the information out in due +course.

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Credits: +This issue of EOC is dedicated to the memory of my mother, Dr. Cornelia +Hoch-Ligeti, who died in May at age 79, after a long career in medical +research. (WP, 31 May, p. B6) +Thanks to T. Cwiek (#49), T. Gandolfo (63), G. Hollingsworth (30), +H. Hurt (37-42, 44, 49-50, 53-60), F. Krstulja (19, 22), P. Lambert (19), +M. Lee (14), H. Livingstone (51-2), B. McKenna (51-2), G. Mack (15, 35-6), +J. Marshall (18, 20), P. Melanson (27, 29), J. Mierzejewski (26, 61), H. Nash +(16), R. Ranftel (33, 41, 65), M. Reynolds (41), J. Rose (34), M. Royden (62), +P. Scott (69-70), G. Stone (17-8, 21, 28), E. Tatro (31-2), and D. Wrone (46). +And thanks to L. Iacocca and Cheerios for the address labels.

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ECHOES OF CONSPIRACY October 31, 1986 +Vol. 8, #3 Paul L. Hoch

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The acoustical evidence: +One reason for questioning the authenticity of the DPD Dictabelt is the +presence of certain messages relating to Officer Tippit. Basically, the +following exchanges are suspect because of their content, the formal tone of +transmissions 590 and 592, and the apparent absence of the expected reaction. +(See 3 EOC 7.2. The message numbers and the transcriptions are from the +Kimbrough transcript.) +389. [Disp.] 87, 78, move into central Oak Cliff Area. +390. [78 (Tippit)] 78, I'm about Kiest and Bonnie View. +391. [87 (Nelson)] 87's going north on Marsalis on R. L. Thornton. +392. [Disp.] 10-4.... +588-589 [Disp.] 78. [78] 78. +590. [Disp.] You are in the Oak Cliff area, are you not? +591. [78] Lancaster and Eighth. +592. [Disp.] You will be at large for any emergency that comes in. +583. [78] 10-4. +I sent my analysis to Prof. Murray Miron, a psycholinguist whose work on +another case was described in 8 EOC 1.2. The following is from a letter I +sent to the Justice Department on September 16, 1986, describing his +independent analysis, which provided some support for my own work: +"Prof. Miron... has not yet prepared a formal report, but he has provided +me with the following conclusions: 'Our preliminary findings... suggest that +the communications directed to Officer Tippit are anomalously at variance with +the other transmissions of the tape record.... The transmissions to Tippit +are quite stilted. They have the appearance of transmissions made more for an +audience's benefit than those for which the intent is to convey instructions. +The query regarding Tippit's current position is rhetorical rather than +questioning.'" +"Prof. Miron emphasized to me that his analysis does not preclude a quite +innocent explanation for the anomaly. The messages could have been added to +the recording after the fact, or they might have been made in 'real time' but +sound anomalous because the persons involved knew that something unusual was +going on." +"For example, if Tippit was taking time to attend to personal business +(as suggested by Mr. Hurt's book), a dispatcher might have covered for him by +assigning him to the Oak Cliff area, with his voice betraying his knowledge +that the assignment was not routine but somehow designed to keep Tippit out of +trouble. (This is clearly speculation, of course.)" +"Even alteration of the recording after Tippit's death could have been +motivated by nothing worse than a desire to protect his reputation." +"On the other hand, the rebuttal of the HSCA's acoustical analysis by the +Ramsey Panel rested in part on the belief that the police would not tamper +with important evidence." +The rest of this letter [#71; 4 pp., including my 1981 letter to Barger +on these messages] mostly repeats information from EOC (e.g., 7 EOC 2.2), with +one other new point: +"Mr. Todd Vaughan sent me a copy of a letter from the National Archives +to him, dated March 2, 1982. [#1986.72] In response to an inquiry about the +disposition of the Dallas Police Dictabelts, Mr. George Perros told Vaughan +that the Justice Department, since receiving that evidence from the HSCA, has +'returned it to the Dallas Police Department, according to an official of the +Justice Department.' I hope that you did keep copies; in any event I think +you really should get the originals back." +Unfortunately, it is very unlikely that anyone will do anything with +this; my letters to Justice are not even routinely acknowledged these days. +As far as I know, the JD has neither finished nor abandoned its long-overdue +review of the HSCA report. +8 EOC 3 -2-

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London Weekend Television program: +73. 31 Jul 86 (NY Post) "23 year[s] later, Oswald goes on trial" +Twenty-five witnesses recently appeared before TV cameras (and a judge and +jury from Dallas) in London. They included medical, forensic, and ballistics +experts, and some eyewitnesses; several were not called by the Warren +Commission. The verdict is being kept secret. Edited highlights will be +shown on two nights, around November 22. +Harry Chandler, director of program development at Showtime, said that +some of the witnesses "had a real tough time on the stand. It was +fascinating. There were matters brought up which were not considered by the +Warren Commission, matters relating to the body of the President and his +wounds. The jury saw a version of the Zapruder film... which was enhanced... +and there was information in the stills I was unaware of." +"Said prosecutor [Vincent] Bugliosi: 'In the future, this is the +document that researchers into the assassination will want to get their hands +on.' Defense attorney [Gerry] Spence: 'It doesn't matter who won the case. +The American people are the winners here.'" Spence is good at dramatically +presenting the innocence and virtue of his clients - probably not the best way +to get at the historical truth about Oswald, but we'll see. +I hope that LWT will be able to make available any information which was +too complicated for TV but of potential value to researchers. Letters to +Showtime can't hurt. +74. 16 Jul 86 (AP) General comments by a LWT spokesman. The program +"would be 'a documentary exercise, not a dramatized reconstruction.'" It +"would be modeled on the company's recent mock trial of... King Richard III." +75. 16 Jul 86 (AP) Comments by U.S. District Judge Lucius Bunton (a +cousin of LBJ), who was to play the judge (trying the case under present +federal law, not 1963 Texas law).

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Also on TV: +I missed "Yuri Nosenko, KGB" on HBO in September. Would someone like to +give us more information than these clippings? +76. 31 Aug 86 (NYT) The story is told "from the perspective of the CIA +agent [in the Soviet Bloc Division, under Angleton] who virtually scuttled his +own career by insisting that Mr. Nosenko was a Soviet double-agent sent to +spread disinformation." British playwright Stephen Davis said he "spent six +months trailing around after people from the intelligence community who were +centrally involved." +77. 5 Sep (LAT) A very favorable review. Davis' best guess: Nosenko +was a disinformation agent whose "job was to be dangled in front of the CIA in +Europe, but... he was not supposed to defect.... The central mystery is why +the CIA went to such extraordinary lengths to rehabilitate Nosenko, as if he +had been trustworthy. I think the case is unresolvable." +78. 5 Sep (UPI) The 90-minute program is "fascinating... history." +79. Sep 86 (Cable Guide) [2 pp.] "Davis spent a year researching the +script with the help of Edward Jay Epstein." The Russian emigre actor who +played Nosenko thinks he was a real defector. Davis concluded that "every way +you turn it around you find it's like a Rubik's Cube that won't ever quite +work out." Not a bad analogy for the whole JFK case.

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Worthy organizations: +If you did not get a letter from AARC in mid-August, please ask me for a +copy. (#80, 2 pp., no charge) This includes a "special plea for permanent +members" from Bud Fensterwald. The primary goal is not to get the membership +fees, but to demonstrate a substantial degree of public support when +approaching private foundations - the few which are willing to become involved +with such a controversial topic. Institutional memberships would be +particularly appreciated. +8 EOC 3 -3-

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Item #80 also includes a progress report, dated August 1. Among other +things, Jeff Meek's massive index of (mostly) published JFK material has been +computerized. I am now on the Board of Advisors, not the Board of Directors. +"The Third Decade" (see 6 EOC 4.4) needs (and deserves) more subscribers. +I have a descriptive form letter from FAIR, "Fairness & Accuracy in +Reporting." [#81, Sep 86, 2 pp.] The director of this new progressive +counterpart to AIM is Jeff Cohen; fellow AIB veterans Marty Lee and Bob Katz +are also involved. FAIR has been involved "in the effort to expose and +counteract ABC's pending 12-hour miniseries, 'Amerika.'"

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The saga of Earl and Edgar: +A story on the Warren Commission got a lot of newspaper play on the day +after Thanksgiving last year - remarkable, even though that was, as usual, a +slow news day. As noted in the NYT's news summary (#82, 29 Nov 85), the WCR +"apparently ended a long political alliance between [Warren and Hoover], +according to Government documents just released. The commission criticized +the FBI for what it called its 'unduly restrictive view of its role in +preventive intelligence.' Mr. Hoover said the criticism was unjust." +The story itself appeared on page 32, with a Durham (NC) dateline, as a +"special to the NYT" with no authorship indicated. (#83, with photos) The +article seems rather unfocused. (It does not even specify what 1300-page file +had been released under FOIA; it was the FBI's file on Warren.) +Among other things, the dispute got Warren dropped from Hoover's list of +favored correspondents, although he had been there on a first-name basis. +The NYT story derived from an article in the Durham Morning Herald by +Durham lawyer Alexander Charnes (aided by a grant from the Fund for +Investigative Journalism). [#84, 24 Nov 85, 3 pp.] Experts quoted include +Harold Weisberg, who "believes that Warren knew that the FBI was withholding" +but "felt that it was his 'national duty to preserve tranquility,'... and +therefore... did not press the FBI." (Charnes noted that some of his +information came from previously released documents which Weisberg had.) +Warren biographer Edward White said that "the chief justice really believed, +given what they were investigating, that the FBI and CIA would cooperate with +the commission." +The rift is not news to us; it was mentioned in some of the press +coverage of the 1977 FBI release. Charnes' account emphasizes how closely +Hoover cooperated with Warren in previous years. +The topic of the FBI-WC interaction (expecially on the question of what +the FBI knew about Oswald) has long been a special interest of mine. It was +the subject of a draft manuscript which I put together in 1972, in those pre-Watergate days when I thought what we had to do was persuade some people, with +detailed arguments based on WC documents, that just maybe the Warren +Commission (without being part of a conspiracy) had blown it. That manuscript +is quite out of date, of course. Now I often find myself trying to convince +people that the original investigation was not simply a complete and +deliberate coverup. The released FBI documents tend to support my original +analysis - although the FBI's hostility was far worse than I could infer from +the WC files. The manuscript did serve some purposes; among other things, I +think it led the HSCA to uncover much of the story of the deletion of the +Hosty entry from the FBI listing of Oswald's notebook. (HSCAR 186) If you +did not see that 1972 manuscript long ago, please let me know if you are +interested. (98 pages, each two reduced pages of double-spaced clean +typescript; index included; cost (including postage): $6 or less, depending +on the number of requests received by January 1, 1987.)

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A break from clippings (for the rest of this issue, at least): +Current clippings are generally less interesting than, e.g., old +8 EOC 3 -4-

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clippings and the HSCA volumes. What are people interested in reading about +in EOC, or getting copies of? (My Garrison analysis [#1986.68] generated just +one request for a copy.) What about new FBI and CIA documents, or my old +files of WC documents? +I would particularly like to hear from the people who have been helpful +by sending me clippings, especially if you feel I have incurred an obligation +to list them in EOC, or to otherwise preserve or disseminate them. +I just drifted into doing a newsletter; should I drift back to reading +documents, or to some other projects? Do we collectively have the computer +power, the time, and the interest to divide up work on indexes, lists of +clippings and documents, and chronologies? I would appreciate help with these +difficult questions. In the meantime, some documents, more or less from the +top of the pile on my desk.

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From the Warren papers: +As noted in 7 EOC 3.10, some of Warren's files at the Library of Congress +have been released. +In March 1974, Alfred Goldberg (the WC's staff historian) interviewed +Warren about the Commission's work. The transcript [11 pp.] is #85; +correspondence about it is #86 [2 pp.] Warren took Goldberg up on his offer +to make changes; according to his secretary's letter, he "expressed +reservations to me about the wisdom of including the material concerning the +personal and political views of certain members of the Commission.... He has +never made any comment about the difficulties he may have encountered with the +other members, and after reading what he had told you he felt it would be +better if those portions were not included." +Of course, the passages marked for deletion are the most interesting. +"The Department of Justice sent a young man over to the Commission to act as +liaison with them. He was very critical of me from the time he came over to +us. Lee Rankin as Chief Counsel was in a very delicate position." This +reference is probably to Howard Willens (age 32), who was listed as liaison +with the Justice Department, and who can be rather difficult, I am told. +Warren may also have been thinking of Charles Shaffer (age 31), who (according +to John Davis' book) was detailed to the WC by RFK to keep an eye on Hoffa-related leads. +There are other deletable tidbits on personnel matters, and other fairly +interesting comments. For example, Sam Stern's report on the SS and FBI was +not thought to be "objective or logical" (his work was actually quite good); +the story of Oswald in Alice, Texas, held up the Report (news to me, if true); +there were "no special problems from Hoover and the FBI"; and the testimony of +the autopsy doctors was the "best evidence" on the wounds. +Warren's files include a nonsubstantive response to Wesley Liebeler's +memo of November 1966, in which he recorded David Lifton's observation of the +"surgery of the head" remark in the Sibert-O'Neill report. (See "Best +Evidence," Ch. 10.) In a short note to Rankin, dated 12 Dec 66, Warren said +that what Rankin told "Liebler" in his letter of 1 Dec "was correct and in the +right tone. I believe that many people who were somewhat enamored by Lane and +Epstein are finally becoming disillusioned." (#87) +Speaking of the Warren Commission staff, "Professional men who wear bow +ties to the office are distrusted by almost everyone, says image consultant +John Molloy. Attorneys traditionally avoid putting a bow tie wearer on a jury +because they believe the wearer is not likely to be moved by sound argument." +(#88, UPI, 28 Dec 85) +Also from the Warren papers: a letter from the publisher of "Six Seconds +in Dallas" to John McCloy, urging him to do the right thing [#89, 5 pp.]; +McCloy's draft response, saying that he was not impressed [#90, 16 Jul 69, +3 pp.], and an exchange of letters between McCloy and Warren [#91, 3 pp.], in +which Warren agreed with McCloy but suggested that he not send the letter. +8 EOC 3 -5-

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CIA interest in identifying the Mexico Mystery Man: +Last November, the CIA released eleven documents to Bud Fensterwald in +connection with his FOIA request for records relating to efforts to identify +the Mexico Mystery Man (MMM), the man whose description (taken from Embassy +surveillance photos) was attached to Oswald in October 1963. +The new documents are among 54 which "relate to a theory explored in 1977 +that a particular foreign national might be the 'unidentified man.' That +individual had been a target of CIA intelligence interest for many years for +reasons unconnected with the Kennedy assassination." (From #92, CIA to +Fensterwald, 29 Nov 85, 2 pp.) +The substance of this material interests me less than the fact of the +CIA's interest. The suspect's nationality is withheld, but I would guess he +is Russian or Cuban. I see no reason to assume that he was thought to be a +KGB or DGI covert operative, rather than (say) someone involved in "innocent" +diplomatic or technical activities of interest to the CIA. +The basic CIA analysis is a "memorandum for the record," dated April +1977. (#93, 12 pp., with much deleted) Oddly, the author seems to take +seriously the "Saul" story in Hugh McDonald's book, "Appointment in Dallas." +(Although I found little credible in that book, McDonald and his purported +friend, Herman Kimsey, were interesting people.) Over half of this memo +tallies "striking parallels between the backgrounds of 'Saul' as given in +McDonald's book and [deletion]." (Only the published half of these parallels +is not deleted.) After noting that "McDonald said he believes 'Saul' was +telling true story," the CIA author wrote "I do too." +This memo seems to have been prompted by the fact that "On 17 March 1977, +[deletion] recognized photographs of the unidentified man as [deletion]." +(#94 records a request of March 11 to show an MMM photo to an unnamed +subject.) McDonald's Indenti-Kit composite of Saul is said to "bear a +striking resemblance to the photos of [deletion]." (Speaking of striking +resemblances, anyone who is not convinced that they sometimes occur by +coincidence, not conspiracy, should have a copy of my #95, including a photo +of Zbigniew Brzezinski looking rather like the MMM. I will not entertain +conspiracy theories involving Brzezinski.) +Items #96 (25 & 29 May 77, 3 pp. in all) relate to a photographic +comparison which concluded that, within the limitations of poor photo quality, +the two subjects "could very likely be the same person." +Another memo, also dated only April 1977, seems to be a summary of the +theory. (#97, 3 pp.) Practically everything of substance is deleted. +This information may have been made available to the HSCA. Scott +Breckinridge was instructed to review this material and make it available to +Blakey and Gary Cornwell "if appropriate." (13 Jul 78, #98) The author of +this memo tried to maintain some distance from the theory. "Although the +material contained in the attached folder is entirely theoretical and does not +constitute an official file or position of this Division or Agency, it may be +of interest to... the HSCA." If made available, it would be "with the +understanding that it is a theoretical unofficial research undertaking." The +folder contains "informal and preliminary research based on a theory that +[deletion] might be identifiable with" the MMM. +What do we know about the CIA researcher who pursued this hypothesis? +Only that she "undertook to research the theory that [deletion] might be the +unidentified man as a result of the indepth study she conducted as the +[deletion] of this Division's efforts to determine if there could have been +Cuban complicity in the John F. Kennedy assassination." (From #98) +What an interesting effort for the CIA to undertake during the HSCA +probe. I assume it was not done to absolve Castro. Why was it done, at least +in part, "unofficially," and by someone who took the Saul story seriously? +What else did she and her colleagues believe? Can anyone tell us more about +this in-depth CIA study? I guess it was related to the Task Force Report +8 EOC 3 -6-

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prepared in response to the Schweiker Report. (HSCAR 108, 10 HSCA 156) +The memos, as released, do not say much about possible Cuban involvement. +The second April 1977 memo asks three questions, including "Could [deletion] +be 'Saul'?" and "Could [deletion], therefore, be mystery man who boarded plane +in Mexico City for Havana on 22 November 1963?" (Cf. HSCAR 117) (The third +question is deleted.) +Related released documents: #99, 4 pp. The CIA list of 40 documents on +this subject (dated 12/62 through 7/78, mostly withheld) is #100, 3 pp.

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Nazis and other anti-Communists: +Former Justice Department official John Loftus made some noteworthy +comments in his House testimony on a GAO report on Nazi war criminals in the +U.S. (For more on Loftus, see 6 EOC 4.10.) In a list of 29 areas which he +could talk about only in executive session, he included "17. Nazi connection +with covert assassination programs" and "19. Warren Commission files +involving Nazi recruitment programs." +Does anyone know what this might be about? Larry Haapanen suggested that +CD's 597, 8l7, 1096, and 1544 might be related. CD 1096 (6 pp.) appears to be +a routine review of a French book entitled "Fascists and Nazis Today," which +speculated that right-wing Hungarian refugees were under close FBI +surveillance; this book came to the Commission's attention because it was +mentioned in the NYT. CD 597, described as a BND [West German Intelligence] +file, came to the WC from the FBI. According to CE 3107 (to which CD 1544 +relates), CD 597 is a routine-sounding unsupported allegation of a pre-assassination reference to Oswald. CD 597 could be the material forwarded by +the WC to the CIA, whose reply, CD 817 (CIA #660-833), was described (in the +uncensored CD list) as relating to allegations concerning Anton Erdinger. The +CIA indicated that the subject matter was so peripheral to the WC's work as to +call for no further investigation. +Loftus' testimony is #1986.101 [17 Oct 85, House Judiciary Committee +Serial 39, 8 pp.] Among other interesting points, he noted that several of +the most famous KGB moles in England were involved with Nazi immigration into +the U.S., and he said that "the Nazi groups which we imported from the British +[were] riddled with communist double agents." (P. 90) +Loftus also alleged that "in 1944, the Eastern European fascist leaders +began to defect back to the British and were reorganized into a new front +group called ABN (the Anti-Bolshevic Bloc of Nations)." (P. 89) +In 1959, the secretary-general of the American Friends of the ABN was +Spas T. Raikin. He is now a history professor at East Stroudsburg University, +in Pennsylvania; his letter on the history of the oppression of his fellow +Bulgarians recently appeared in the NYT. (#102, 10 May 86) +As a volunteer for Traveler's Aid, Raikin talked with the Oswalds on +their return from the USSR. (Peter Scott discovered Raikin's interesting past +connection to ABN; see "The Assassinations," p. 366, or "The Dallas +Conspiracy, p. II-23.) I know of no actual evidence that his contact with +Oswald was other than routine. +Raikin apparently was the conduit for a claim by Oswald that he went to +Russia with the State Department's approval, either to work as a radar +specialist or to serve with the Marine Corps at the Embassy. (CD 1230, p. 3; +26 WCH 12; Oswald's claim is erroneously reported as a fact known to HEW in CD +75, p. 461, and Summers, p. 217.) +Most probably Oswald himself was trying to mislead people about his stay +in Russia. I wonder, however, if Raikin might have had an interest in +portraying Oswald as an agent of the State Department, rather than (say) as a +loner, or as an agent of another intelligence agency? (Just speculating.) +.CP 6 +8 EOC 3 -7-

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Book news: +Kitty Kelley's new book on Frank Sinatra ("His Way," Bantam, $21.95) is +rather political, with quite a bit on the Kennedy-Exner-Giancana-Sinatra +nexus. I think there is some new information, much of it apparently based on +allegations by Peter Lawford (who would not talk about JFK's "broads"). +For example, Lawford "formally approached his brother-in-law by making an +appointment to see the attorney general in his office at the Justice +Department. There Lawford begged Bobby to listen to Sinatra's pleas for +Giancana. Robert Kennedy intended to make Frank's mobster friend the Justice +Department's top priority in Chicago and curtly told Lawford to mind his own +business." (P. 293) +Notre Dame professor "Paul Blakey" (then a JD lawyer) told Kelley about +an opposing attorney who indicated an acquaintance with the then-Attorney +General, RFK; Blakey was told that, from electronic surveillance, it was known +that the attorney "had Sinatra's money in West Virginia and that it was mob +money." (P. 530(n)) +"FBI records indicate that when in 1961 Carlos Marcello... had become one +of Bobby Kennedy's targets for deportation, the New Orleans don contacted +Santo Trafficante... who in turn called Frank to use his influence with 'the +President's father' on Marcello's behalf." (P. 295) This story has appeared +(with little emphasis) in the Blakey-Billings book (which does not specify +that a contact with Sinatra was made; p. 242) and at 9 HSCA 70 (which does not +specifically refer to JFK's father). +Years after the JFK assassination, "when [Sinatra] learned that Lee +Harvey Oswald had watched Suddenly a few days [sic] before shooting the +President, he withdrew the 1954 movie in which he played a deranged assassin +paid to kill the president. He also forbid the re-release of The Manchurian +Candidate." (P. 328; cf. 1 3D 6.13, noted at 7 EOC 3.9) +In a column prompted by the book, W. Safire called Reagan's award of the +Medal of Freedom to Sinatra "obscene." [30 Sep, #103] In 1975, Safire had +strong words about the Sinatra-Exner-Giancana story (Davis, pp. 740-1); I +don't know if the Church Committee took up his challenge to question Sinatra. +There is a provocative sentence in Dan Moldea's new book on Reagan, MCA, +and the Mafia, "Dark Victory." In a discussion of Joseph Hauser, "a convicted +insurance swindler who... allowed himself to be used as the hub of several FBI +sting operations... that yielded a pending indictment against [Trafficante] +and the bribery conviction of Carlos Marcello...," Moldea asserts that "Hauser +had also received thinly veiled admissions on tape from Marcello during... +BRILAB... that he had been directly involved in the assassination of John +Kennedy twenty years earlier." This unfootnoted claim is contrary to what I +recall from earlier reports, which were along the lines of Blakey's assertion +that even though Marcello admitted his Mafia membership, he "pointedly refused +to discuss" the assassination. (Blakey & Billings, p. 242) +Can anyone clarify this issue for us? One reason for my skepticism is +apparent overstatement in some other references to the JFK case. Moldea says +that Oswald "had close ties with the Carlos Marcello Mafia family in New +Orleans, particularly with Charles Murret, a top man in Marcello's Louisiana +gambling network. Oswald had also been seen by numerous witnesses meeting +with Marcello's personal pilot just days before he murdered the president." +While Murret's importance to Marcello and his closeness to Oswald are +debatable, the claim in the subsequent sentence is news to me. Also news to +me in part, and disputable in part: that "many of those on the panel [i.e., +the Warren Commission] had been directly involved with the CIA in the CIA-Mafia plots to murder Fidel Castro - which the Kennedy brothers had no +knowledge of until May 1962, at which time they ordered them stopped." Who on +the WC besides Dulles? (See Moldea, pp. 234-5, 338-9; #104 [2 pp.]) +I have also read "Alias Oswald," by W. R. Morris and R. B. Cutler, and +"JFK: The Mystery Unraveled," from the Liberty Lobby's "Spotlight." +8 EOC 3 -8-

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(#105: ad from "Spotlight" for the book [107 pages for $6.95]; see #1985.102 +for one chapter.) I would prefer not to have to say more about these books, +so I won't, at least in this issue. +I have some relatively routine reviews of the Hurt book, and a few of the +Davis book (which is now out in England, and will appear next March in a +German edition with new material on Marcello). The first part of "Best +Evidence" has been out in Japan for some time now, and you can have a sample +page to impress your friends. (#106, with drawings of the head wound) +If you are interested in the problems facing authors of serious +nonfiction, I recommend "Publishers wary of lawsuits: Libel Lawyers Wield +Blue Pencils on Books." (#107, LAT, 26 Jun 86, 3 pp.)

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KAL 007: +Three months after the KAL disaster, while the press was noting the +twentieth anniversary of the JFK assassination, the government was seemingly +commemorating it with a major coverup, arguably the biggest in twenty years. +On the occasion of the publication of Seymour Hersh's new book, "The +Target is Destroyed," Time magazine drew a different parallel: "Like the +Kennedy assassination, the KAL incident has created a cottage industry of +conspiracy theorists.... Hersh's explanations [excerpted] in the Atlantic +seem far more convincing. They involve no conspiracies or even any evil +intent on either side. Yet that is hardly reassuring. It is in some ways +more frightening to be reminded just how fragile sophisticated military +systems are and how frail their human operators can be." (#108, 1 Sep) +A valid enough conclusion, but I think it is a misreading of Hersh's book, and +even more so of his evidence, to call his account nonconspiratorial. +# 109 is a favorable review and good summary by J. Nance. (28 Sep, SFC) +Hersh's main point is "the mishandling of intercepted electronic intelligence +by the Reagan administration.... He paints a fascinating picture of how an +outraged government seized on the worst possible interpretation of the +earliest intelligence reports and jumped to the conclusion (without adequate +evidence) that the Russians had indeed indentified the target as a civilian +airliner," although Air Force Intelligence knew promptly that they had not. +There are indeed parallels to the JFK controversy. Hersh' appearance on +TV in SF was very deja vu, reminiscent of the Lane - Belli encounters of 1964. +Hersh was cast into the Belli role, arguing against allegations that KAL 007 +was on a spy mission, partly with facts and partly by asking if people could +really believe that our CIA would send 269 people to certain death. The role +of Mark Lane was taken by Melvin Belli, of all people, who is representing the +families of some victims. Belli acted old and lawyerly. The direct +involvement and intensity supplied by Marguerite Oswald in 1964 was provided +by the mother of one of the victims. To my surprise, the studio audience was +very conspiratorial, and I found myself sympathizing with Hersh. +There is, of course, very little hard evidence available. The argument +about whether 007 could have been off course by accident is reminiscent of the +acoustical analysis. It is even more technical, and looks to me like an +argument among experts, unresolvable by laymen. For its flavor (with somewhat +out-of-date information), see the rather nasty exchange between M. Sayle and +D. Pearson (#110, NYRev, 25 Apr and 26 Sep 85, 27 pp.) +Hersh's Arlen Specter is airline pilot Harold Ewing, whose "single-bullet +theory" is a detailed reconstruction of the chain of errors and omissions +which could have put 007 on the course it took. Remember, I'm inclined to +believe the SBT, so that is not a putdown - but if you believe Ewing's account +you may never want to fly again. +Hersh's Angleton is General James Pfautz, the head of Air Force +Intelligence. He is not as peculiar as Angleton, but almost as heavy. The +book, however, does not speculate on the possible importance of the split +represented by someone of his rank going public with his dissent. +8 EOC 3 -9-

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One parallel drawn by "Time" and others is basically misleading - the +allegedly nonconspiratorial nature of Hersh's "innocent" explanation. Indeed, +Hersh seems to treat the ideology of Reagan and his crew as an external, +almost extenuating, factor. (They rushed to judgment "in what amounted to +good faith...." [P. 249]) The story of how the Air Force version was +discounted emphasizes normal inter-service bureaucratic infighting and +personal conflicts. +With the same facts, someone could make what happened sound like a very +substantial conspiracy. Hersh does tell us that a general requested a phony +report justifying provocative action against Russia, but was turned down +(p. 74), and that a hardline deputy to William Clark discussed military action +against Cuba (p. 122-3). The government's insistence on "look[ing] the other +way when better information became available" (p. 249) is arguably at least as +bad as planning a covert action which unpredictably failed. I don't find that +alternative as implausible as Hersh tried to make it sound when arguing with +the conspiracy buffs. The government's anti-Soviet campaign based on false +intelligence undeniably did endanger many innocent people, albeit obviously to +a lesser degree than using an airliner on an intelligence mission. +For a moderately conspiratorial view, see the book "Shootdown," by Oxford +professor R. W. Johnson. (#111 [2 pp.] is his own summary, from the London +Telegraph (18 May 86), as reprinted in Intelligence/Parapolitics.) Before +reading the Hersh book, I found "Shootdown" quite plausible in concluding that +KAL 007 was probably being used as a passive probe, in the reasonable +expectation that the worst that could happen was that it would be forced to +land. Hersh did not completely convince me that Johnson was wrong. +Johnson, in contrast to Hersh, is emphatic about how extreme - and how +besotted with covert operations and dubious information - the Reaganites are. +After all, they have given us the Contras, the plot against the Pope, Grenada, +Libyan hit squads, and Star Wars. Johnson's distance from an American +perspective is occasionally off-putting, but more often helpful. +Hersh's debunking of more conspiratorial accounts is often persuasive, +but not always. For example, his suggestion that the Russians planted a phony +black box, and that the crash site can be located in Russian waters from the +testimony of Japanese fishermen who turned up with gasoline-soaked notes more +than 30 days later, may be true, but the book doesn't deal with Johnson's +detailed arguments about the search for the black box. +Hersh has no indexed reference to the KCIA (whose alleged connections to +KAL get much attention from Johnson). More relevant to his own story, Hersh +does not (I think) refer at all to Korean COMINT capabilities, or to the +presence or absence of US COMINT facilities in Korea. In my mind, this leaves +a gap in his assertion that he came across no indication of any prior or real-time knowledge of a mission involving KAL 007, and that he would have done so. +The book certainly doesn't give the impression that the story was in any +sense handed to Hersh, or that he is a friend of the intelligence community. +For example, he throws in an apparently gratuitous disclosure of the location +of some NSA facilities. (P. 47n) There are many other juicy details. But +one has to wonder if what he learned represents a major ongoing split within +the government. People talked to him, and he got things using FOIA. Was that +just because he is a good reporter? +The existence of dissenting positions in the intelligence community is +not a completely new story; some newspapers reported on it in 1983 (pp. 177, +265), and there was a bit of a flap when a witting Pierre Trudeau revealed +some of what he knew in October 1983. +I wonder about the timing of a decision by "a senior military +intelligence officer" to give Hersh his "first account" of the abuse of COMINT +in this case "late in 1984." [P. xi] Did the people in the intelligence +community who knew the story wait until the 1984 elections were out of the way +before spilling the beans? As with Watergate and Epstein's "Legend", the +8 EOC 3 -10-

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disclosure of important information may itself be a bigger part of the real +story than the casual reader (of "Time," and even of this book) would think. +This is in EOC because we all should be interested, not just because of +the parallels with the JFK case. The case is in the courts and will not just +go away. There seems to be a network of 007 buffs - are any EOC readers in +touch with them? +Readers of the Grassy Knoll Gazette are familiar with Bob Cutler's +analysis, according to which KAL 007 was not shot down by the Russians, but +destroyed by an on-board explosion at the same time the Russians shot down a +U.S. military plane. Cutler has published a book, titled "Explo 007." If you +are willing to keep Occam's Razor sheathed, and if you trust Cutler to have +convincingly eliminated all simpler explanations, you should read that book; +I haven't.

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Queries from readers: +Q77. According to P. Maas' book on Ed Wilson, in 1964 the CIA helped get +Wilson a job as an advance man in Humphrey's VP campaign, in connection with +his assignment to "Special Operations." (P. 24, #112) On the assumption that +the capitalization is not a typo, can anyone tell us about such a CIA unit? +Q78. Can anyone provide a copy (or photocopy) of "Lucky Luciano," by +Ovid Demaris (Monarch Books paperback, 1960, 148 pp.)? +Q79. Does anyone have an FBI document describing a test, prior to +November 29, 1963, of the firing speed of Oswald's rifle?

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Castro again: +Speaking of theories of Cuban involvement (as we were on page 5): in his +March 16 speech on Contra aid, president R. Reagan closed with an anecdote +from Clare Booth Luce, who recently spoke of an encounter with JFK. She said +that history has time to give any great man no more than one sentence. +Kennedy asked what she thought his would be. "'Mr. President,' she answered, +'your sentence will be that you stopped the Communists - or that you did not.' +Tragically, John Kennedy never had the chance to decide which that would be." +(#113, NYT, 17 Mar 86) +It sounds like Reagan was just one word away from blaming the Communists +for JFK's death. ("Tragically" could have been "ironically" or "of course" or +"it is no coincidence that.") (See 6 EOC 3.6 for Reagan's 1979 suspicions.) +The case may not be quite as dead as it seems. +For a different perspective, see "One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel +Castro," a pre-invasion 1961 poem by S. F.'s Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "It looks +like Curtains for Fidel/ They're going to fix his wagon/ in the course of +human events.... History may absolve you, Fidel/ but we'll dissolve you +first, Fidel." This copy [#114, 4 pp.] bears the rubber stamp of the S. F. +chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, with genuine phone and P.O. box +numbers.

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Late news: +David Phillips is to receive "substantial" damages in a settlement of a +libel suit against the London Observer, over excepts from Summers' book +"Conspiracy." ("Challenge" press release and clips, #115, 2 pp.)

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Credits: Thanks to M. Ewing (#115), B. Fensterwald (80), J. Goldberg (73), +L. Haapanen (101), G. Hollingsworth (77-8, 105), M. Lee (81), D. Lifton (106), +P. McCarthy (83), J. Marshall (102), S. Meagher (84), J. Mierzejewski (79), +G. Owens (76), R. Ranftel (85-7, 89-94, 96-100, 107, 110), P. Scott (104, +112), E. Tatro (74-5), and T. Vaughan (72).

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ECHOES OF CONSPIRACY December 8, 1986 +Vol. 8, #4 Paul L. Hoch

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Showtime show trial: +Among EOC readers, access to Showtime cable TV seems scarcer than +interest in the LWT production, "On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald." I was able to +see the program, so it seemed like a good idea to get this issue out as soon +as possible. It is less edited than usual; my allocation of space probably +does not accurately reflect the relative importance of the various witnesses, +or of the program as a whole. +The mock trial used real lawyers, real witnesses, and no script. Five +and a half hours were broadcast on November 21 and 22. (An additional 18 +hours will reportedly be shown next January, or maybe it will be just 12 and a +half hours.) There were 21 witnesses in all - 14 called by prosecutor Vincent +Bugliosi, seven by defense lawyer Gerry Spence. There were nine "November 22" +witnesses (six who were in Dealey Plaza, two on the Tippit case, and one from +Bethesda); four people who knew or investigated Oswald and one who knew Ruby, +and seven people who testified to or participated in the HSCA and Warren +Commission investigations. Not much documentary material was used in the +trial, other than the Zapruder film and some 1963-64 film clips. +High points, in my opinion, for viewers already familiar with the case: +Ruth Paine talking about Oswald, Ed Lopez on his HSCA investigation of Oswald +in Mexico, Paul O'Connor on the circumstances of the autopsy. +Low points: the cross-examination of Ruth Paine, Jack Anderson as a +commentator, conspiracy witness Tom Tilson, Cyril Wecht's testimony on the +single-bullet theory, the trial as a fact-finding vehicle, and Gerry Spence +(who came across like Mark Lane imitating Sam Ervin). +Prior to the filming, I talked with (and consulted for) some of the LWT +people, primarily producer Mark Redhead and researcher Richard Tomlinson. +They had a good understanding of the subtleties of the case, and of the +limitations imposed by the trial format. Unfortunately, those limitations +were more apparent in the final program than the new insights and information +they developed. In real life, I am told, there is more of a fact-finding +process in the work of trial lawyers than the jury ever knows. The LWT effort +might look much more productive after we see the outtakes (or if there is a +book or long article - I have heard nothing about one.) LWT definitely got +some interesting comments from potential witnesses who were not even mentioned +in the final version.

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Summary and commentary: +The first evening's segment (three hours) comprised the prosecution case. +It was the basic WC-HSCA evidence against Oswald, presented in a rather +straightforward way by Bugliosi. +Bugliosi's presentation included relatively little that offended me, +except for a few things like some comments in his opening statement about +Oswald as a Commie (which Spence pounced on). Bugliosi was much worse on +"People are Talking" in S.F. in mid-November, where he dredged up Joseph +Goebbels and the "big lie" to bash the critics with. Bugliosi's trial +presentation did tend to refer more to what "the critics" had said than to "my +opponent," and he tried to discredit Wecht by calling him "the darling of the +conspiracy buffs." +Opening statements followed a brief introduction by Edwin Newman, +including some stock footage. The stated aim of the show was to restore the +rights of Oswald to a trial, and of the American people to see justice done. +The London set looked like a courtroom, with a jury brought over from Dallas, +an apparently working court reporter, and an audience of actors. +Bugliosi's real record was one acquittal in 106 felony prosecutions, and +Spence had not lost a jury trial in 17 years; at some level these guys were +clearly playing for keeps. This may have led to strategies aimed at winning, +rather than at, say, coming up with newsworthy new evidence or good TV. +8 EOC 4 -2-

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Bugliosi began his opening statement with negative comments about +conspiracy buffs. A frameup is a "preposterous" idea; Oswald was a "deeply +disturbed and maladjusted man" and a "fanatical Marxist." +Spence said that when he started work on this trial, he thought Oswald +(generally referred to as "Lee") was guilty, but he was now convinced that we +have been carrying a "national lie" with us. At the end of the trial, the +jury would still want to know why Bugliosi, representing "this huge polithera +[sic] of power in this country" had still not come forward with the whole +truth, and would therefore have to return a "not guilty" verdict. +By and large, the prosecution witnesses repeated their earlier +statements, often by saying "yes" to Bugliosi's leading questions. I suppose +that was like a real trial, and it certainly kept the proceedings from +dragging, but in many cases this limited the opportunity to judge the demeanor +of the witness. I'm not sure anything came out in direct testimony which we +didn't already know, but if it did, we would have trouble judging whether it +was a real subtlety or one introduced by Bugliosi's paraphrasing. +First witness: Buell Frazier, slightly graying. He lives "here in +Dallas." He said that Oswald was the only employee missing at a roll call. +Spence opened with a little joke, and bugged Bugliosi by mispronouncing his +name. He led Frazier to say that Oswald was nice, liked kids, was not a +madman, and had not previously lied to him. +The real issues involving Frazier, particularly his interrogations by the +police, did not surface. (LWT had been referred to Chapters 10 and 11 of +George O'Toole's book "The Assassination Tapes.") Of course, all my comments +about what was not done are subject to revision when we see the rest of the +testimony next year. +Charles Brehm described what he saw of the shooting. To Spence, he +conceded that he had called himself an expert on those few seconds. The +Zapruder film was shown, to make the jury experts too. Brehm argued a bit +when Spence described the head snap in exaggerated terms. Spence carried on +about the direction tin cans move in when hit by rocks, and he was reprimanded +for his theatrics. There's a mind-bender. If a witness misbehaved, would he +be cited for contempt of television? (And sentenced to watch "Dallas"?) +Harold Norman was led through his description of hearing the shots and +falling cartridge cases on the next floor up. Spence aptly noted that Norman +did not try to escape from the armed man in the building, and Spence +inscrutably suggested that what he heard could have been other metal objects +dropping. Norman seemed a bit evasive, or perhaps just understandably puzzled +by the whole exercise. Oddly, he indicated that he had resisted the efforts +of the FBI to put words in his mouth, on the question of whether what he heard +was "above" or "right above" him. Spence tried (inadequately) to clarify the +issue of when employees were freed to leave the building. +Sheriff Eugene Boone described the sniper's nest, and his discovery of +the rifle, saying that "Mauser" was used as a generic term. Typically, Spence +did not really cross-examine Boone about what he had said, but used his +testimony as a way of presenting his own speculation. Spence suggested that +the gun was meant to be found, and that the cartridge cases were found in +positions inconsistent with ejection to the right from the rifle. +As in a real trial, I guess, Boone didn't get to point out that +cartridges can bounce, and he played along with Spence's resurrection of the +old Mannlicher - Mauser identification problem. Boone conceded that he was +not able to identify the rifle as the one he found, just in the sense that it +did not have his marks on it. Having testified that he found no powder burns +on the foliage on the knoll, he conceded that there were none on the sixth +floor either. +Officer Marrion Baker described his encounter with Oswald on the second +floor. Spence emphasized that Oswald did not seem excited. +Ted Callaway told of seeing Oswald run past his used-car lot with his +8 EOC 4 -3-

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pistol, and of checking Tippit's pulse and calling in on his radio. On cross, +Bugliosi objected to Spence cutting off Callaway's responses, but was +overruled. I wonder if anyone got to sit down with these witnesses and have a +decent session of questioning without playing by legal rules, and if a record +of such conversations will ever become available. If not, that would be a +real loss. +About an hour into the show, there was the first exchange I found +potentially valuable. Callaway conceded that Capt. Fritz said before the +lineup that they wanted to wrap up the case on Oswald, and linked him to JFK's +murder, but Callaway said he had asked first. He continued to defend the +handling of the lineup (e.g., the clothing worn) and the validity of his +identification: "I could have made it, sir, if they had been 'nekkid.'" +Bugliosi called Frazier back, to identify Billy Lovelady standing in the +doorway a few steps in front of Frazier. Spence had gotten Callaway and Baker +to say that the man in the Altgens photo resembled Oswald. Spence tried to +make an issue of Frazier not having identified Lovelady before. This is a +good example of muddying up the facts on what really is a non-issue. +Jack Brewer (known to us as Johnny Calvin Brewer) told of seeing Oswald +outside his shoe store, and of his role in the capture of Oswald. Did we know +that the police briefly held a gun on him? Good testimony from a human-interest viewpoint, but we did not learn how Brewer felt about jumping into +that dangerous situation. To Spence, he conceded that Oswald's odd behavior +was consistent with being a patsy, that a policeman struck Oswald, and that he +did testify that he heard someone say "Kill the President, will you" - but he +does not know who, or even if it was a policeman. (It did not come out that +he told David Belin that it was "some of the police," and that he thought he +"had seen him [Oswald] some place before. I think he had been in my store +before." [7 WCH 6, 4]) +After a "break," during which Ed Newman retraced Oswald's route, Cecil +Kirk testified about his HSCA photo analysis, primarily of the Zapruder film +and the backyard photos. Kirk had better graphics capabilities this time - +stop action video, and a light pen (as used for play analysis in football +games). This production reportedly cost about $1 million; the HSCA spent only +about $5.5 million investigating the JFK and MLK cases. +Spence suggested, in a patronizing and artificial way, that the sudden +stop of the running girl (Rosemary Willis) may have been caused by her mother +- she presumably did have one, right? - calling her name. Spence tried to get +Kirk to admit that he could not detect a CIA or KGB fraud; he stood his +ground. I remain impressed by Kirk. I really believe that many of the HSCA +panelists would have been delighted to come up with evidence of conspiracy. +(That has been said about the WC staff too, but there I have strong doubts.) +An odd bit of role-playing: Bugliosi objected to the playing of a 1964 +clip of Connally talking about the shots, when he must have realized that it +was good television and would not be passed up. +Dr. Charles Petty testified about the HSCA pathology panel, attributing +the head snap to a neuromuscular reaction. Cross-examination was dreadful - +did you ask the FBI or the CIA "to produce the brain of the President?" Even +expert witnesses don't get to talk. The HSCA public hearings were usually a +lot better than a real trial, imperfect as they were. (Remember "I just have +one more question, Mr. White. Do you know what photogrammetry is?" [2 HSCA +344]) Petty looked authentically and appropriately amused by the antics of +the lawyers. +Bugliosi and Spence seemed genuinely puzzled by the panel's observation +that the photos and X-rays contradicted the autopsy surgeons on the location +of the head entry wound. (7 HSCA 129) Spence erroneously introduced this as +a conflict between the photos and the X-rays, and the real issue here (which +the HSCA was unable to resolve) was totally obfuscated. +HSCA firearms expert Monty Lutz described a re-enactment he did for +8 EOC 4 -4-

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Bugliosi this May, getting three hits in 3.6 seconds once, and two hits the +other four times. Spence noted that this was not an exact duplication. He +made this point in such an obnoxious way that his success with juries both +surprises and disturbs me. +Vincent Guinn testified about his neutron activation analysis. The +cross-examination (reproduced on p. 9) was in some ways typically awful. +Spence emphasized that Guinn had not examined 28 additional bullet fragments +which were "found" in the head. (In fact, they were "found" in X-rays.) The +erroneous implication that 28 other fragments were removed and then ignored +just slipped by. (Or was that my inference, not Spence's implication, as Mark +Lane used to say?) Guinn wasn't allowed to say what he knew on that point. +Insofar as there is a real inauthenticity issue, i.e. in the context of +Lifton's evidence, it was not pursued in any meaningful way on the air. +The next witness was a surprise to me, and a new face: former FBI +documents expert Lyndal Shaneyfelt. He gave straightforward testimony about +the Klein's order form for the rifle and Oswald's diary and letters, with a +reading of the sections indicating the most hostility to the U.S. Spence +played the innocent: "Well. Do you realize what you've been used for here, +doctor?... to smear my client, isn't that right?" Presumably used to this +sort of thing in real life, Shaneyfelt did little but answer the questions. +Reading from 8 HSCA 236, Spence noted the expert testimony that the diary was +written in only a few sittings. Shaneyfelt stood up to him on his use of +microfilm copies for analysis. +Spence suggested, hypothetically, that assuming Oswald was working for +"the CIA or for the Army Intelligence or for the Navy Intelligence," he might +establish his loyalty by sending anti-American letters through the censored +mail. A confused double hypothesis: an agent wouldn't ordinarily keep a +diary, but he wanted his to be read. Shaneyfelt conceded that it was a "fair +assumption" that the CIA and FBI can create good forgeries. +A bit of real-life drama emerged in the testimony of Nelson Delgado, now +a chef in Arkansas. He and Oswald were both "130%" pro-Castro in the Marines. +He agreed with Spence's description of his (previously reported) fears that +the FBI would get him, and Bugliosi wondered - without probing the reasons for +his fears - if Delgado didn't think that the FBI would have gotten him if they +really wanted to. Delgado said he was "just old news" now, and revealed that +he had indeed been shot in the shoulder. +The last government witness - on the stand for about 25 minutes - was +Ruth Paine. Wasn't this her first extended public appearance? It was +interesting to see her in person, but the constraints of the format were +overwhelming. She was trying to be precise, thoughtful, and fair, and +apparently found talking about Oswald a difficult experience; the lawyers were +busy acting like lawyers. For example, Spence asked if she were a CIA or KGB +agent, ridiculing her (as she noted) for laughing at the first question. He +badgered her about the coincidences involved in her studying Russian (to work +for US-USSR friendship), befriending Marina, having the gun in her garage, and +getting Lee the TSBD job - all, it seems, to make the point that she now knows +how Lee would have felt about being (falsely) accused. Dreadful. Why she sat +still for this, I don't know. She did say that she hoped to show "for the +historical record" that a "very ordinary person" like Lee "can kill the +President without that being something that shows on them in advance." +A discussion with Ruth Paine on her own terms could have been very +illuminating. There are many questions she has apparently not been asked - +about her previous interrogations, for example. I'm sure that even the buffs +with suspicions about her relationship with the Oswalds could come up with a +list of questions which could be asked in a productive and non-hostile manner. +I hope she doesn't think Spence is a typical critic; I think some of us should +write to her and apologize. +If Spence's whole case really were typical of what the critics have to +8 EOC 4 -5-

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offer, it would be time to retire. My reaction to Mark Lane in 1964 was that +all those little points must add up to something; my reaction to Spence is +quite the opposite. His ability and inclination to suggest doubts about +whatever a prosecution witness said told me less about what happened in Dallas +than about how lawyers work. +The first defense witness was Bill Newman, who described seeing Kennedy +and Connally hit. It was established that there was room for doubt in his +opinion of the direction of the shots, since (when he was excited and upset) +he signed a statement saying the JFK had stood up in the car. +Spence called Tom Tilson of the DPD to tell his story about someone who +looked just like Ruby (whom he knew) throwing something into a car just past +the knoll, right after the shooting. Tilson then followed him but the license +number he called in was apparently not pursued, and Tilson's copy was lost. +Sure. Bugliosi didn't get Tilson to recant on the stand, but his story +certainly didn't look plausible when he was done. +Earl Golz's article on Tilson does not suggest that he thought the man he +chased was Ruby. (#116, 2 pp., DMN, 20 Aug 78, just six days before the HSCA +interviewed Tilson; see also 12 HSCA 15-16, or "Conspiracy," p. 82.) Golz's +most provocative statement (given Hurt's account of funny business in the +Tippit case) is that Tilson was close enough to Tippit to be a pallbearer. +Of all the conspiracy witnesses around, why would Spence want this one? +I fear he really chose to suggest that Ruby was running around Dallas, on the +knoll with a gun and planting a bullet at Parkland. That is hardly a leading +hypothesis for a conspiracy involving Ruby; the only advantage seems to be +that one can exploit it, in a very naive way, to incorporate some of Seth +Kantor's testimony and at the same time cast doubt on Guinn's. +The testimony of Dr. Cyril Wecht generally resembled his HSCA appearance, +in tone as well as content. Wecht still takes a hard line on the question of +how he could be right and the rest of the HSCA panel wrong, suggesting the +"subconscious" influence of their government grants and appointments. In the +program's second gratuitous reference to nudity, Wecht asserted that he was +the only panelist with "the courage to say that the king was nude and had no +clothes on." +In response to Wecht's best point - the condition of CE 399 - Bugliosi +did not bring up the test firings by Dr. John Nichols (and later by Dr. John +Lattimer), where shooting this ammunition into a block of wood left the bullet +in good condition. (Lattimer, p. 271-2) That's not the same as a comparable +bullet from a real shooting, but it should be noted. +I cannot defend Wecht's use, in attacking the single-bullet theory, of +the same schematic diagram he presented to the HSCA (1 HSCA 341). It is an +unfair representation of what the government now claims CE 399 did. One can +debate the SBT trajectory, but one must now start with the results of the +HSCA's trajectory analysis. There may be minor errors on that work, but the +SBT path is clearly not as implausible as Wecht presented it. Bugliosi scored +a point by asking where the Kennedy bullet went if it did not end up in +Connally, but he did not bring up the HSCA's trajectory work. +Perhaps the most impressive defense witness was hospital corpsman Paul +O'Connor, one of the important Bethesda witnesses in Lifton's "Best Evidence." +He described the removal of JFK's body from a body bag, the "constant" +interference by Dr. Burkley (apparently on behalf of the family), and the +condition of the head, which left no need for the procedure he usually +performed to cut the skull and very little of the brain to be removed. +Bugliosi's cross-examination produced one dramatic moment. First he +established that the surgeons did "most of the mundane jobs" usually done by +the technicians, but O'Connor insisted there was no brain to remove. If this +was so shocking, Bugliosi wondered, why didn't he tell the HSCA? He seemed +genuinely surprised when O'Connor said he had been "under orders not to talk +until that time." +8 EOC 4 -6-

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Unfortunately, issues relating to these orders were not pursued on the +air. O'Connor, who was nervous, referred to getting permission from the HSCA +to talk to Navy brass, and also indicated that the HSCA had not asked the +right questions. The sequence of events is unclear: Bugliosi referred to an +hour-and-a-half interview with the HSCA; I think the volumes cite only an +"outside contact report" (which was often based on a phone call) dated June +28, 1978, but that does not preclude an earlier interview. The 1963 orders +not to talk were not modified until March 1978, when permission to talk with +the HSCA was reluctantly given. (Best Evidence, p. 608) +The broadcast did not mention the Sibert-O'Neill report or the other +indications of head surgery. Spence seems to have used O'Connor's evidence +only to establish the absence of the brain, without much of a scenario to +explain it. O'Connor's interpretation was not brought out; Lifton's book said +he basically believed the Warren Report. +Spence also brought up the missing brain with Wecht and Petty, and in +connection with the Zapruder film. As with his version of a Ruby conspiracy, +the missing brain is representative of but not really central to the mysteries +of the medical evidence. Bugliosi's presentation of the HSCA investigation of +RFK's probable role in the post-autopsy destruction of a brain may have unduly +lessened the impact of O'Connor's testimony. +Former FBI SA James Hosty was called as an adverse witness. It was +valuable to see him, but I don't recall much new information in his testimony +on Oswald's note, the information "withheld" from him about Oswald's Mexico +trip, and other matters. (Spence's grasp of the evidence seemed imperfect; he +indicated at first that a page had been removed from Oswald's notebook +itself.) It was Bugliosi who got Hosty to say that he was not suggesting +Soviet consul Kostikov was involved in the assassination. +Hosty thinks the Mexico mystery man was assumed to be Oswald because +prior wiretap information suggested - at the time - that Oswald was going to +come over to pick up his visa. Where has this explanation been dealt with? +The next witness was HSCA researcher Edwin J. Lopez, barely recognizable +as a short-haired and properly attired lawyer, talking about Oswald in Mexico. +(His style during the HSCA investigation was informal; see p. 211 of Gaeton +Fonzi's article on the HSCA, 2 EOC 10.2.) Like O'Connor, Lopez did not +provide many facts the buffs did not already know, but he probably made quite +an impression on the viewing audience. His personal conclusions were that +Oswald was in some way associated with the CIA, and was a patsy. +Lopez concluded that there had been an Oswald impostor for all the +Embassy visits - partly on the basis of his review of CIA photos taken from +three sites. He specified that the surveillance was around-the-clock, +contrary to David Phillips. [The Night Watch, p. 124; cf. Summers, p. 384] +Spence noted that, in a real trial, Lee could have demanded production of the +still-classified 280-page HSCA report on Mexico. On cross-examination, +Bugliosi let Lopez talk a bit, and managed to effectively touch on some of the +evidentiary difficulties with his conspiratorial conclusions. +The final defense witness was Seth Kantor, whose testimony provided a +pretty good summary of the basic issues relating to Ruby, whom he knew. +Bugliosi raised some of the standard non-conspiratorial rebuttals. I don't +recall any facts which are not in Kantor's book on Ruby or the HSCA volumes. +In terms of factual information alluded to, Kantor, Lopez, and O'Connor +certainly deserve more space in EOC than all the prosecution witnesses put +together. However, we have not heard Lopez' evidence - he said he was still +bound by his secrecy oath. The fact that Lopez went public with his personal +conclusions is significant, in any case. On the whole, the evidence involved +in the defense case was better than Spence's presentation of it. +I am told that the taped testimony included three additional witnesses, +and that three more were flown to London but not used. (I do not know the +names of those witnesses.) +8 EOC 4 -7-

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Bugliosi's closing arguments were effectively delivered and generally +straightforward. He did not push a "no conspiracy" argument, but alleged that +Oswald was "guilty as sin." He could have been much worse; he cited Oswald's +defection to the USSR not as evidence of his serious political beliefs, but as +one indication that he was "utterly and completely nuts" and "bonkers," as one +must be to shoot the President. He noted that Spence kept his cowboy hat on +the table and didn't put it on anyone as a conspirator. +There were certainly holes in Bugliosi's argument - when he asked, for +example, if there was such a sophisticated conspiracy, why frame a poor +marksman who had a $19 rifle? That one can be answered. In general, I don't +think an uninformed viewer got a good sense of the political context of the +assassination. Bugliosi said Spence was too smart to say the FBI or CIA +killed JFK, which would sound "downright silly," and he asserted that neither +the CIA nor the Mafia had "any productive motive whatsoever" to do so. +Spence propped a photo of Lee in a chair, and said that Lee would +probably say he was scared and could not explain a lot of the evidence. +Spence would tell him to just trust the jury. Of course, he emphasized that +each juror had to dispel all his reasonable doubts. (Neither lawyer was about +to abandon successful techniques for this very special case, which is why +Spence had to argue with Kirk about the running girl, for example.) Spence +dragged up all the "coincidences" involving Ruth Paine, and various other +alleged coincidences. He said that the only firm truth in this case is that +the "closet" of hidden evidence is still locked. +Spence closed with a melodramatic metaphor in which a bird in a child's +hand represented Lee's fate in the jury's hands. The speech's distance from +the hard facts reminded me of Garrison. At this point, if I had been a juror, +Spence's style would have led to me decide that some of the doubts he had +planted were not really "reasonable" and could be ignored. One small +consolation is that the lawyers did not get a lot of money for appearing on +the program - just a lot of publicity. +While waiting for the verdict, we heard a discussion involving defense +lawyer Alan Dershowitz and two men who could well have been witnesses, former +AG Ramsey Clark and Jack Anderson. +Anderson's self-promoting remarks argued for a verdict of guilty as part +of a conspiracy. Among other things, he claimed that he began digging into +the CIA after the assassination, and that he found that the CIA had recruited +Mafia killers to get Castro. Oswald killed JFK "little over three [sic] +months" after Castro's "warning" interview with Daniel Harker of the AP, "and +we've had plenty of testimony showing [Oswald's] links to the Castro +movement." John Roselli was killed by Trafficante's people because he gave +Anderson details of Castro's involvement. Anderson also talked about an +immediate briefing of RFK by McCone. He also said that Hoover "made a public +statement" to the effect that he was "under pressure to finger" Oswald. As a +guide to Anderson's reliability, note that he referred to the acoustical +evidence as if the HSCA's results had not been seriously challenged. +Does Anderson have some sort of first-amendment immunity against being +properly questioned? His 1967 column suggesting that Castro had retaliated +against plots pushed by the Kennedys was certainly an event in the +controversy, not just a description of it. (Ed Newman, at least, did +challenge his Roselli story.) +If anyone wants to transcribe Anderson's comments, or other parts of the +program, I can provide an audio tape. +Among other things, Ramsey Clark suggested that the Castro-did-it theory +is CIA disinformation. He praised the Warren Commission for doing a +"marvelous job," and alleged that RFK had no doubts about FBI or CIA +involvement. The issue, he thinks, is how we can keep our idealism without +succumbing to "irrationality and to violence." +Dershowitz emphasized the importance of maintaining the integrity of the +8 EOC 4 -8-

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fact-finding process. Even more than Spence, he would have emphasized that +the process had been tampered with. Clark said that sort of thing happens all +the time. Dershowitz thought Spence got some new facts out, and showed the +advantages of the adversary process. Clark, correctly, disputed that. +Spence and Bugliosi made a few general remarks to the TV audience, mostly +on the value of the mock trial. +The jury's verdict: guilty. On the question of conspiracy: seven no, +three yes, two undecided. +There was also a telephone-poll verdict, provided by an unspecified +number of viewers who saw at least part of the defense case and thought giving +their opinion was worth fifty cents: 14% guilty, 86% not guilty in the West, +15% and 85% in the East. That is generally consistent with the 1983 Gallup +poll often referred to by Hurt, and with Fensterwald's poll of "experts." +(#1984.36, #1984.166-7) Newman thought the variance of the two verdicts was a +"remarkable" state of affairs. (For my sentiments about polls of the general +public, note item #126 below.) Newman said that the unavailable evidence, if +relevant, should be made public, in light of the "continuing disquiet." +How I would have voted? In a real trial, not guilty (unless the rest of +the jury was unanimously not guilty, in which case I might have taken the +opportunity to hang the jury and get some more facts out the next time +around); in a mock trial, based just on what was aired, guilty and conspiracy. +But, as with my limited real-life trial experience, my strongest opinion was +that at least one of the lawyers should be locked up. Despite my bias against +Bugliosi for his prior comparison of some buffs to Dr. Goebbels, I think he +did an acceptable and often persuasive job on the air. +The credits included special thanks to Tony Summers and Mary Ferrell. +The copyright is held by LWT.

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Clippings: +117. For 15-16 Nov 86 (Seth Kantor, Cox papers and NYT service) +[3 pp.] "Despite the impact of the testimony, the realistic trial is +dominated by the hand-to-hand courtroom combat" of Spence and Bugliosi, who +"do not like each other, on and off camera." A good pre-broadcast overview, +with a few quotes from the witnesses. +118. 9 Nov 86 (LAT) "Oswald goes on trial" [4 pp.] An amusing account +by Bill Bancroft of Dallas, who worked as a researcher for the program. +Norman was hard to locate; Amos Euins was afraid to participate; a judge who +looked like one was not easy to find; some "jurors" (deliberately chosen to be +under 35) were (understandably) suspicious of the LWT offer. (One checked +Bancroft's credit rating.) There was much tension during the filming. "All +18 hours are scheduled to be shown on Showtime in 1987." +119. Nov 86 (Cabletime) This Showtime ad does not mention LWT, but +does use the dreaded "d" word: "Innocent or guilty? You decide after +watching this docu-drama of the controversy behind the Kennedy assassination." +120. 21 Nov 86 (SF Examiner) "Oswald inherits his day in court at +last; a goose teaches a boy to be a man" (Two separate items.) "In a curious +way, this massive program elevates the 'People's Court' genre while degrading +both the reality and the mythos behind legendary 'Inherit the Wind' court +battles." TV critic Michael Dougan is more generous to Spence than I can be: +he "transfixes the jurors (and, I suspect, many viewers) with his intense +magnetism, his down-home demeanor, his unflappability and confidence." But +Dougan sees the basic problem: "Where 'On Trial' disappoints is in the +implied promise that this may be a ground-breaking investigation, bringing +fresh evidence - or, at least, perspective - to the fore.... Alas, most of +the time is devoted to rehashing old arguments...." +121. 16 Nov (Schneider, NYT) "Bringing Lee Harvey Oswald to 'Trial'" +The "main weakness", Bugliosi said, was the time limitation on cross-examination and closing statements. +8 EOC 4 -9-

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122. 19 Nov (AP) "Kennedy case put to a jury" [2 pp.] Researcher +Tomlinson said the program "produces no new evidence" and is not "the final +word on who killed Kennedy." O'Connor's "dramatic" testimony is noted. +123. 4 Nov (LA News in NY News) "TV gives Oswald his day in court" +Spence is "best known as the flamboyant lawyer who won a multi-million-dollar +verdict in the Karen Silkwood case." (I am told that the Law Enforcement +Intelligence Unit played a role in that case; to get some idea of why I am +interested in the LEIU, and the possibility that it knew about Oswald, see the +documents listed in EOC for 16 Jun 79.) "The lawyers were chosen not only +because of their visibility but also because... 'We wanted people who would +take this seriously.'" Bugliosi "combed through" the WC and HSCA volumes, +"and 'all the books by the conspiracy buffs.'" (Did he talk to any of us? +Not that I know of.) +124. 22 Nov (LAT) "Oswald Skeptics' Night in Court" "If the emotions +aren't genuine, then these witnesses are among the world's best amateur +actors. The posturing is by lawyers, not witnesses, proving that real people +telling real stories are far more compelling and believable than characters +speaking dialogue." +Speaking of flamboyant lawyers whose style didn't cut it in this case: +125. 23 Nov (Wice, Hartford Courant, in SFC) "The Botched Trial of +Jack Ruby" [3 pp.] "A lawyer less concerned [than Melvin Belli] with his +public image probably would not have gambled his client's life on an +implausible [epilepsy] defense." The press, prosecutor, and judge didn't do +so well either, making "a mockery out of due process of law." +126. 3 Nov (SFC) In a poll at four named colleges, 30% of the 1000 +responding students said they believed that "aliens from outer space visited +Earth in ancient times." About the same fraction believe in Bigfoot and +Atlantis. More than half "said they are creationists." So let's not take our +85% in the JFK case too seriously. +127. 20 Nov 86 (Corry, NYT) A good critique of the lawyers' styles and +the witnesses' demeanor; quotable, but I'm short on space and time.

+ +

An excerpt: +The entire broadcast cross-examination of Prof. Vincent Guinn: +GS: Well, I'd rather cross-examine Mr. Bugliosi than the doctor, since +he's the one that's given all the testimony. [Judge: But the doctor's on the +stand.] Doctor, will you answer my questions, nice and simple, yes and no, +like you did for Mr. Bugliosi? +VG: Wherever that's possible, yes, sir. +GS: Here's a picture of the skull, X-ray of the skull, of the President. +And what we see are an artist's drawing of the fragments that were seen in the +X-ray. I understand that you examined only two of the 30 fragments that were +found in the skull; is that correct? +VG: There were only two that were delivered to me, I'm not sure... +GS: (Interrupting) Please, is that correct? [VG: That is correct.] +You did two. [Yeah.] Only two. And do you know which two? [No.] And so do +you know what the composition is of the other 28 fragments found in his brain? +VG: Yes. +GS: Have you checked them? +VG: No, but I know what they are. +GS: Well, have you examined them, put them through the neutron +activation analysis? +VG: They were not available, the other pieces. +GS: Thank you. Now, doctor, did you analyze the large copper fragment +that was found in the limousine? +VG: No, this was only an analysis of bullet lead. +GS: I'm gonna ask you once more, Dr. Guinn, did you analyze the large +copper fragment that was found in the limousine? [VG: No.] +8 EOC 4 -10-

+ +

GS: Are you aware of the fact, doctor, that dishonest evidence can be +honestly examined? [VG: Of course.] +GS: That means that an honest examination can be made of evidence that's +been manufactured or planted. [VG: It's always possible, yes.] +GS: Your testimony isn't to be interpreted by the jury that you find +that this is honest evidence, is it? +VG: I cannot say; I have no reason to doubt the authenticity of the +evidence; [VG ignored GS's interruption: No, but you can't say one way or the +other, can you?] it came to me in the original FBI containers with their +designations on them, and in all appearances the specimens matched what was in +the Warren Commission report description of them. I have no reason to doubt +that they are completely authentic; they were brought to me from the National +Archives by a man of the National Archives. +GS: I'm understanding that, sir, but you're not testifying to this jury +that you can vouch for their authenticity, are you? +VG: No, you never can do that, in any criminal case. +GS: Your testimony isn't to be interpreted to mean that you know that +the bullet parts that you examined actually came from the body of the +President? [VG: No way, unless I were the surgeon.] +GS: And you just examined what they gave you, isn't that true, doctor? +VG: Correct. [GS: Thank you, doctor.]

+ +

Postscripts relating to Tony Summers: +The "settlement" referred to at 8 EOC 3.10 did not involve any admission +or court ruling that Phillips had been libeled. It seems safe to assume the +the potential cost of going to trial resulted in a settlement. The Observer +conceded that the Summers extracts "could have been read to suggest that Mr. +Phillips was himself involved in a conspiracy relating to the assassination +and in the suppression of evidence about it," and "accepted that there was +never any evidence to support such a suggestion." The case involved not only +excerpts from "Conspiracy" but subsequent articles in the South China Morning +Post based on Summers' research, as distributed by the Observer. +"Goddess" is out in paperback (Onyx, $4.95), with a substantial new +chapter (45 pages) on various aspects of the Monroe-Kennedy story.

+ +

Queries and comments: +Q80. WBAI's anniversary program featured John Davis, David Lifton, and +Phil Melanson. Can someone provide a tape? +Q81. Investigations of Oswald's activities in New Orleans turned up +several references to Tulane (where some FPCC handbills were found, for +example) and (I think) one or two to Loyola. Does anyone know of any +references to LSU at New Orleans (now the University of New Orleans)? That +was the downtown public college, and at least as likely a place for Oswald to +do his work as the two major private colleges. (I know of only 10 HSCA 127, +which says that Guy Banister checked out Cuban students at LSUNO for the CRC.) +I have again gotten far behind in my correspondence, and I expect to +catch up now that the case is quiet again - unless someone comes up with a +photo of Col. North on the grassy knoll. (I'm being sarcastic only about the +tendency of a few conspiratorialists to link some of the mysterious old +evidence to whoever emerges in the newest scandal. Some aspects of the latest +disclosures certainly have roots in the Cuban issues of 1963, and we should +not be surprised if some of the newly prominent names can be linked to people +who have been mentioned in the assassination controversy. Peter Scott has +already come up with some interesting ideas along these lines.)

+ +

Credits: Thanks to B. Fensterwald (#116), J. Goldberg (127), G. Hollingsworth +(122, 124), S. Kantor (117), P. Melanson (118, 123), G. Owens (121), +R. Stetler, and G. Stone (118).

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Subject: JFK: List of Convenient Deaths +Date: 26 Mar 91 01:10:57 GMT

+ +

Here is the much requested list of people associated with the JFK +assassination whose deaths are called convenient. Bear in mind that +this is a terse summary of each individual's circumstances in relation +to the case. Therefore, you may not get the full appreciation of why +a particular death is suspicious. An asterisk indicates that a death is +particularly suspicious. Some +These deaths were part of why the House Select Committee on Assassinations +investigation got started. However, they concluded that due to the highly +varied backgrounds of people involved, a proper actuarial study was not +possible. +Aside from the likelihood of x number of deaths over a period of time +of people connected with an invenstigation, there is also the trend that +the number of deaths actually increased closer to the time of these +investigations. The listing below is grouped by investigation. Note that +in 1977, for example, before the HSCA investigation kicked off, six top +FBI officials scheduled to appear before the HSCA died. William C. Sullivan, +for example, was out hunting, when he was shot by a man with a high-powered +rifle who said he mistook Sullivan for a deer. This was *not* investigated +by anyone. And so it goes. +Some of the causes of death listed appear on the surface to be natural. +Keep in mind that the CIA developed methods to "make it look like an +accident". This was documented through the testimony of CIA technicians +to the Church committee who told of TWEP technology (Termination With +Extreme Prejudice) in 1975. These methods are designed to not be detected +in postmortem examinations. I have a couple of exerpts of declassified +CIA documents to demonstrate the case. One of the techniques involves +the injection of cancer cells, heart attack inducement, as well as non-chemical techniques which require no special equipment. Based on the +strange circumstances of Jack Ruby's death in prison (he died from lung +cancer but the cancer cells were not the type that originate in the +respiratory system). Ruby wrote notes and spoke to several people saying +that jfk was killed by a conspiracy and that he had been maneuvered into +killing Oswald who was a fall guy. He claimed to have been injected with +cancer cells when treated with shots for a cold. He died just before he +was to testify in Congress. He had told congressional investigators that +he wanted to talk but he needed protection. +This list does not include the names of the many people who claimed that +their lives were threatened physically and verbally, as well as the many +people questioned by the FBI who were intimidated and forced to change their +testimony to agree with the official lone-gunman version. +This list is not meant to be proof of a conspiracy. I believe a conspiracy +took place based on a plethora of circumstantial evidence, many involving +questions that are very strange if we are to believe the lone-gunman theory. +Many of the points I have raised can be rationally explained, but it is the +confluence of many aspects of the case which make me doubt the official +version of events more than anything else. +

+ +

The Warren Commission

+ +

date name connection with case cause of death +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

11/63 karyn kupcinet* tv host's daughter overheard murdered +telling of jfk's death prior +to 11/22/63

+ +

12/63 jack zangretti* expressed foreknowlege of gunshot victim +ruby shooting oswald

+ +

2/64 eddy benavides* look-alike brother to gunshot to head +tippit shooting witness, +domingo benavides

+ +

2/64 betty mcdonald* former ruby employee who suicide by hanging +alibied warren reynolds in dallas jail +shooting suspect

+ +

3/64 bill chesher thought to have information heart attack +linking oswald and ruby

+ +

3/64 hank killam* husband of ruby employee, throat cut +knew oswald acquaintance

+ +

4/64 bill hunter* reporter who was in ruby's accidental shooting +apartment on 11/24/63 by policeman

+ +

5/64 gary underhill* cia agent who claimed agency gunshot in head ruled +was involved suicide

+ +

5/64 hugh ward* private investigator working plane crash in mexico +with guy bannister and david +ferrie

+ +

5/64 delesseps * new orleans mayor passenger in ward's +morrison plane

+ +

8/64 teresa norton* ruby employee fatally shot

+ +

6/64 guy banister* ex-fbi agent in new orleans heart attack +connected to ferrie, cia, +carlos marcello, oswald

+ +

9/64 jim koethe* reporter who was in ruby's blow to neck +apartment on 11/24/63

+ +

9/64 c.d.jackson life mag senior vp who unknown +bought zapruder film and +locked it away

+ +

10/64 mary pinchot* jfk mistress whose diary murdered +meyer was taken by cia chief +james angleton after her +death

+ +

1/65 paul mandal life writer who told of jfk cancer +turning to rear when shot in +throat

+ +

3/65 tom howard* ruby's first lawyer, was in heart attack +ruby's apartment on 11/24/63

+ +

5/65 maurice gatlin* pilot for guy banister fatal fall

+ +

8/65 mona b. saenz* texas employment clerk who hit by dallas bus +interviewed oswald

+ +

?/65 david goldstein dallasite who helped fbi trace natural causes +oswald's pistol

+ +

9/65 rose cheramie* knew of assassination in hit/run victim +advance, told of riding to +dallas with cubans

+ +

11/65 dorothy * columnist who had private drug overdose +kilgallen interview with ruby, pledged +to "break jfk case"

+ +

11/65 mrs earl smith* close friend to dorothy kil-unknown +gallen, died two days after +columnist, may have kept notes

+ +

12/65 william whaley* cab driver who reportedly drove motor collision (the +oswald to oak cliff only dallas taxi driver +to die on duty

+ +

1966 judge joe brown presided over ruby's trial heart attack

+ +

1966 karen "littleruby employee who last talkedgunshot victim +lynn" carlin*with ruby before oswald +shooting

+ +

1/66 earline roberts oswald's landlady heart attack

+ +

2/66 albert bogard* car salesman who said oswald suicide +test drove new car

+ +

6/66 capt. frank dallas police captain who cancer +martin witnessed oswald slaying, told +warren commission, "there's +alot to be said but probably +be better if i don't say it."

+ +

8/66 lee bowers,jr.* witnessed man behind picket motor accident +fence on grassy knoll

+ +

9/66 marilyn ruby dancer shot by husband +"delilah"* after one month +walle of marriage

+ +

10/66 william pitzer* jfk autopsy photographer who gunshot, ruled +described his duty as a suicide +"horrifying experience"

+ +

11/66 jimmy levens fort worth nightclub owner natural causes +who hired ruby employees

+ +

11/66 james worrell* saw man flee rear of texas motor accident +schoolbook depository

+ +

1966 clarence oliver d.a. investigator who worked unknown +ruby case.

+ +

12/66 hank suydam life mag official in charge heart attack +of jfk stories

+ +

The Garrison Inquiry

+ +

date name connection with case cause of death +------------------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

1967 Leonard Pullin civilian navy employee who one-car crash +helped film "last two days" +about assassination

+ +

1/67 jack ruby* oswald's slayer lung cancer (he told +family he was injected +with cancer cells)

+ +

2/67 harold russell* saw escape of tippit killer killed by cop in +barroom brawl

+ +

2/67 david ferrie* acquaintance of oswald, blow to neck, ruled +garrison suspect, employee accidental +of guy bannister

+ +

2/67 eladio del anti-castro cuban associate gunshot wound, ax wound +valle * of david ferrie being sought to head +by garrison

+ +

3/67 dr. mary ferrie associate working on died in fire, possibly +sherman * cancer research shot

+ +

1/68 a.d. bowie asst dallas d.a. prosecuting cancer +ruby

+ +

4/68 hiram ingram dallas deputy sheriff, close cancer +friend to roger craig

+ +

5/68 dr. nicholas new orleans coroner who ruled heart attack +chetta on death of ferrie

+ +

8/68 philip geraci* friend of perry russo, told electrocution +of oswald/shaw conversation

+ +

1/69 henry delaune* brother-in-law to coroner chetta murdered

+ +

1/69 e.r. walthers* dallas deputy sheriff who was shot by felon +involved in depository search, +claimed to have found .45 +caliber slug

+ +

1969 charles filmed rifle other than heart attack +mantesana mannlicher-carcano being taken +from depository

+ +

4/69 mary bledsoe neighbor to oswald, also new natural causes +ferrie

+ +

4/69 john crawford* close friend to both ruby and crash of private plane +wesley frazier, who gave ride +to oswald on 11/22/63

+ +

7/69 rev. clyde scheduled to testify about clay fatally shot +johnson * shaw oswald connection

+ +

1970 george mcmann* underworld figure connected murdered +to ruby's friends; wife took +film in dealey plaza

+ +

1/70 darrel garner arrested for shooting warren drug overdose +reynolds, released after +alibi from betty mcdonald

+ +

8/70 bill decker dallas sheriff who saw bullet natural causes +hit street in front of jfk

+ +

8/70 abraham took famous film of jfk assass, natural causes +zapruder

+ +

12/70 salvatore mobster linked to hoffa, murdered +granello* trafficante,castro assassination +plots

+ +

1971 james plumeri* mobster tied to mob-cia murdered +assassination plots

+ +

3/71 clayton fowler ruby's chief defense atty. unknown

+ +

4/71 gen. charles cia deputy director connected collapsed and died +cabell * to anti-castro cubans after physical at +fort myers

+ +

The Church Committee Investigation

+ +

date name connection to case cause of death +---------------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

1972 hale boggs* house majority leader, member disappeared on alaskan +of warren commission who began plane flight +to publicly express doubts +about findings

+ +

5/72 j edgar hoover* fbi director who pushed "loneheart attack (no +assassin" theoryautopsy)

+ +

9/73 thomas davis* gun runner connected to both electrocuted trying +ruby and cia to steal wire

+ +

2/74 j.a. milteer* miami right-winger who heater explosion +predicted jfk's death and +capture of scapegoat to a +police informant

+ +

1974 dave yaras* close friend to both Hoffa murdered +and jack ruby

+ +

7/74 earl warren chief justice who reluctantly heart failure +chaired warren commission

+ +

8/74 clay shaw* prime suspect in garrison possible cancer +case, reportedly a cia +contact with ferrie and +e. howard hunt

+ +

1974 earle cabell mayor of dallas on 11/22/63 natural causes +whose brother, gen charles +cabell, was fired from cia +by jfk

+ +

6/75 sam giancana* chicago mafia boss slated to murdered +tell about cia-mob death +plots to senate committee

+ +

1975 clyde tolson j edgar hoovers asst and natural causes +roommate

+ +

7/75 allan sweatt dallas deputy sheriff involved natural causes +in investigation

+ +

12/75 gen. earl contact between cia and jfk unknown +wheeler

+ +

1976 ralph paul ruby's business partner heart attack +connected with crime figures

+ +

4/76 dr. charles gov john connally's physician heart attack +gregory

+ +

6/76 william harvey* cia coordinator for cia-mob complications of +assassination plans against heart surgery +castro

+ +

7/76 john roselli* mobster who testified to stabbed and stuffed +senate, was to appear again in metal drum

+ +

House Select Committee on Assassinations

+ +

date name connection with case cause of death +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

1/77 william pawley* former brazilian embassador gunshot, ruled suicide +connected to anti-castro cubans +and crime figures

+ +

3/77 george * close friend to both oswald and gunshot wound, ruled +demohrenschildt bouvier family (jackie kennedy's suicide +parents), cia contract agent

+ +

3/77 carlos prio* formerly cuban president, gunshot wound, ruled +soccaras money man for anti-castro cubans suicide

+ +

3/77 paul raigorodsky business friend of george natural causes +demohrenschildt and wealthy +oilman

+ +

5/77 lou staples* dallas radio talk show host gunshot wound to head +who told friends he would ruled suicide +break assassination case

+ +

6/77 louis nichols former number-3 man in fbi heart attack +worked on jfk assassination

+ +

8/77 alan belmont fbi official who testified to "long illness" +warren commission

+ +

8/77 james cadigan fbi document expert who fall in home +testified to warren commission

+ +

8/77 joseph ayres* chief steward on jfk's air shooting accident +force one

+ +

8/77 francis powers* u-2 pilot downed in russia in helicopter crash (he +1960 reportedly ran out +of fuel

+ +

9/77 kenneth jfk's closest aide natural causes +o'donnell

+ +

10/77 donald kaylor fbi fingerprint chemist heart attack

+ +

10/77 j.m. english former head of fbi forensic heart attack +sciences laboratory

+ +

11/77 william former number-3 man in fbi, hunting accident +sullivan * headed division 5, counter-espionage and domestic intelligence

+ +

1978 c.l. "lummie" dallas deputy sheriff who natural causes +lewis arrested mafia man braden in +dealey plaza

+ +

9/78 garland slack man who said oswald fired at unknown +his target at rifle range

+ +

1/79 bill lovelady depository employee said to complications from +be man in doorway in ap heart attack +photo

+ +

6/80 jesse curry dallas police chief at time of heart attack +assassination

+ +

6/80 dr. john psychiatrist who testified ruby heart attack, but pills +holbrook was not insane and notes found

+ +

1/81 marguerite mother of accused assassin cancer +oswald

+ +

10/81 frank watts chief felony prosecutor for natural causes +dallas d.a.

+ +

1/82 peter gregory original translator for marina natural causess +oswald and secret service

+ +

5/82 dr. james pathologist allowed to see jfk died while jogging, +weston autopsy material for hsca ruled natural causes

+ +

8/82 will griffin fbi agent who said oswald cancer +"definitely an informant"

+ +

10/82 w. marvin fbi official who helped natural causes +gheesling supervise jfk investigation

+ +

3/84 roy kellerman secret service agent in charge unknown +of jfk limousine

+ +

Source: "Crossfire", Jim Marrs, Carroll and Graf, 1989. +-- + +Steve Feinstein +

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Article 15606 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part I, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:26:52 GMT + 1992Sep4.132652.2192@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 144

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +GARY NULL: +There is criticism on the part of the media to opening up the +John F. Kennedy assassination to a new investigation. However, +there are individuals who are willing to challenge this stance. +They feel that there are more than enough reasons to open up +the Warren Commission findings and to take another look; +even to convene another impartial group of researchers and +investigators who have subpoena power; even a special prosecutor, +if necessary, to delve into this issue without the FBI and the +CIA being the ones who are primarily responsible for giving the +information, as some doubt has been raised concerning their +objectivity in the original Warren Commission hearings and +research-gathering.

+ +

Our first guest on today's program is Harold Weisberg, the +House Subcommitee on Assassinations investigator, the author +of a book on Lee Harvey Oswald and the post-mortem, the whitewash +and the frame-up. He has also written a book on the assassination +of Martin Luther King. Welcome to our program, Mr. Weisberg. +I would like you to give us your professional assessment of the +House Select Committee on Assassinations -- since you were a +primary investigator there -- on their findings, on the Warren +Commission, and on ....

+ +

HAROLD WEISBERG: +I had no connection with the House Committee. I was the source +for most of the stories that appeared that were critical of them. +It was a synthetic duplication of the Warren Commission. It began +with the intent (now, I'm not talking about each individual +member. I'm talking about the staff who did it; especially +Blakey, the general counsel and chief-of-staff) .... It began +with the intent of putting down all the critics. Each hearing +-- each public hearing -- began with what he called "the +narration", and he picked out the critics whose work he was +going to address, and then the hearing was dedicated to debunking +them and proving them wrong. And I'm happy to say that there's +only one critic he managed to avoid; and that's me. He wasn't +going to pick a fight with me.

+ +

All of their [the Committee's] work was faulted in varying +degrees of ways, but they NEVER investigated the crime itself. +In that, they did exactly what the FBI did, and exactly what +the Warren Commission did. They did NOT -- any one of them -- +investigate the crime itself.

+ +

Now, I think you should know that, unlike the other books, +there are no theories in my book. I'm a former investigative +reporter, a Senate investigator, an intelligence analyst; and +that's not my bag. And I don't think that that's what the people +of the country need for the democratic system to work. They're +factual. Now, I'm going to quote, accurately from memory, a +record I got through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. +Perhaps it would help your audience to understand more about +where I'm coming from to say that I filed about a dozen Freedom +of Information Act lawsuits against the Government. Most of them +are on the Kennedy assassination. And most of the records I got +were from the FBI. In all, I have about a third of a million +pages of records. These are the same ones that Oliver Stone has +been promoting for himself in his movie by saying that they're +suppressed.

+ +

Now, from the Department of Justice and from the FBI I got a +record of a memorandum. Nicholas Katzenabach -- who was then +the Deputy Attorney-General of the United States and acting +Attorney-General as of the time in question, because Bobby +Kennedy was not there because of the crime and the tragedy. +He [Katzenbach] wrote Lyndon Johnson, through his [Johnson's] +channel, Bill Moyers, recommending to Lyndon Johnson that they +had to convince the country that Oswald was alone, that Oswald +was the assassin, that he had no confederates who were still +at-large, and that the evidence was such that he would be +convicted in trial. The typed copy is dated early Monday morning +the first working day after the assassination, November 25, 1963. +I also happen to have gotten Katzenbach's handwritten copy, which +he wrote when he had no typist available on Sunday. And from the +FBI I got a record which said that Katzenbach had discussed it +with [FBI Director] Hoover on Sunday, as soon as Oswald was killed.

+ +

So as soon as the Government knew that there would be no trial of +Lee Harvey Oswald, they closed the books, the crime was solved, and +that was it. So you see, when the crime itself was never +investigated, there are no leads for other people to follow. And I +address this so that your audience can understand that those +people, who develop theories and advance them as solutions, do it +without a factual basis. I don't know of any theory that is +factually supportable by the known evidence. And now I'm talking +about the official investigative reports of the FBI and things +like that which do establish some fact.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Okay, we thank you very much, Mr. Weisberg, for sharing your +views and for giving us this insight on this important piece of +critical information. I appreciate your being on with us today. +Let's go now to another guest who is standing by, who has a +different point of view, and who has additional information. +I would like to invite Jim Marrs [author of CROSSFIRE] onto our +program again. Welcome to our program, Jim.

+ +

I'd like to pick up where we left off yesterday. For those of you +who were not here yesterday and who didn't hear the program, we did +a careful assessment, going step-by-step through the events that +led up to the actual shooting, showing that the American Public +has never been made aware of the fact that earlier in the day, in +Fort Worth, there was also a motorcade for President Kennedy, but +that motorcade was substantially different. It was VERY very +heavily guarded, on proper protocol, by the Secret Service. And the +police were maintained, meaning that sharpshooters were stationed on +rooftops, no window was allowed to be opened, there was adequate +protection. But all of that was suspended at Dealey Plaza and for +the trip through Dallas. WHY? WHO was responsible? Who caused +the rescinding of these orders? Those are questions that have to +be thoroughly analyzed.

+ +

I would like just a brief summary of some of the points from +yesterday -- an overview of some of the discrepancies between +what we have been led to believe and what actually occurred. +Then I would like to go into the area that our previous guest, +Mr. Harold Weisberg has suggested -- that there is NO evidence +to support any of the assassination theories. I would like you to +give us YOUR information, your belief, and whatever documentation +you have that could, in any way, directly or indirectly, tie in +any of a number of proposed agendas such as the renegade CIA +agents, the knowledge that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover could +have known or may have known in advance that the assassination +was imminent, certain right-wing extremists, certain members of +the military, and also members of Organized Crime, and some +anti-Castro Cubans.

+ +

Now, all of these have been alleged -- depending upon the theorist +-- to have participated. But you have some unique insights and +and I would like you to share with us some of those insights at +this time. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +Transcribed by John DiNardo

+ +

Article 15651 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part II, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:44:11 GMT + 1992Sep8.174411.10959@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the murder of President Kennedy +Lines: 145

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I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +JIM MARRS [author of CROSSFIRE]: +Well, first just let me say that the one thing I think that +everyone including Mr. Weisberg, including Gerald Ford, including +David Bigeley(?), including everybody who is connected with this +thing at this point .... I think the one thing that we can all +agree on is that there is substantial controversy over the death +of President Kennedy and over the subsequent investigation and +the medical evidence. Now, in this particular case, that +confusion, that controversy, that obfuscation, if you will, is +the basis of what can legitimately be called "the cover-up". +There should not have been a cover-up. There should not have been +this confusion. This was a case .... this was the President of +the United States, for God's sake. There was an autopsy at +Bethesda Naval Hospital. There was treatment at a reputable +hospital: Parkland, in Dallas. And there should not be this +confusion. There should be some very clear-cut answers based on +scientific, medical, forensic evidence to say: "Here's what +happened. He was shot three times from the rear." Or: "He was +shot once from the front and once from the rear." It should be +very clear, but it's NOT. It is TOTALLY muddled. It is TOTALLY in +confusion. And THAT is the nature of this cover-up. Not that +there has never been any information, but that there has been so +much information, and so much CONTRADICTORY information that it +has thrown the whole thing into confusion and controvery, so that +we can't seem to get to the bottom of this. I think that is very +self-evident.

+ +

Now, who has the power to do that? And who CAN do that? And who +could have saved us from all of this? The Federal Government! +The Government who supposedly had him autopsied. The Government +who supposedly is in charge of the investigation. It should have +been clear-cut, but it's not. And, to me, that shows, in an +overview, that the Government has been responsible for all this +confusion, rather than clearing it up and actually presenting us +with factual information as to what happened. So this is what is +causing all of the problems, because the Government is STILL +saying: "Well, there's nothing there. It's all cut and dried." +And yet, it's not.

+ +

You can look at the evidence for yourself. For instance, in the +medical evidence, I could go down the whole list of doctors in +Dallas who said that he had a large gaping hole in the right rear +portion of his head. Even Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent +who jumped up on the back of the car in a vain effort to save his +life; in his Warren Commission testimony he says, quite bluntly, +quite to the point: "The right rear portion of his head was +missing." End-quote. Okay? How much clearer do you want to be? +And every doctor in Dallas backed him up. Doctor Jones says that +there was a large defect in the back side of his head. Dr. Perry +said: "I noted a large evulsive wound in the right +parieto-occipital area." I could go on and on and on. They all +said the same thing: that there was a gaping hole in the right +rear portion of his head. But today, we have an autopsy +photograph that has come out of the Government that purports to +show the back of President Kennedy's head, and there's no large +gaping hole there. All there is is a small hole that the House +Committee told us was an entrance wound. And yet, the autopsy +doctor, Dr. Humes, in his testimony to the House Committee said: +"Well, I don't know what that was, but that wasn't any wound of +entrance. And I know that for sure." Okay? So what's going on +here? I mean, the confusion points the finger at what REALLY is +going on, and at who is generating all this. And it's the Federal +Government!

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright, so let's take a look here. You're suggesting that the +Government, or various members of different areas of the +Government have participated in a systematic cover-up.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Absolutely! For instance, the Warren Commission tells us -- and +the people who defend the Warren Commission to this very day tell +us -- that one of the shots (it started off that it was the first +shot. Now they're backing up by saying: Well, maybe it was the +second one or the third one) .... but one of the shots, they say, +went through Kennedy's neck and did not hit anything. It went on +to strike Governor Connally, causing all of his wounds -- +which has become known as "the single bullet theory"; this idea +that one bullet went through both men. This is the foundation of +the "single assassin theory". Okay? If you don't have one bullet +going through two men, then you've got more bullets, which means +more shooters, which means a conspiracy involving more than one +gunman. So to keep from having to admit that, they came up with +the "single bullet theory" which says that one bullet went +through Kennedy's neck and struck Connally.

+ +

Now, the problem is that the bullet did not go through his neck. +The Warren Commission plainly states that it hit him in the +middle of the back -- the third thoracic vertebrae, between the +shoulder blades. Doctor Humes places it there in the +Siebert-O'Neill FBI Report of the autopsy. His jacket and his +shirt, in the National Archives, show a bullet hole in the middle +of the back. Well, if there's a bullet hole in the middle of the +back, and you try to track that to the throat wound -- which is +what they do -- now you've got an upward trajectory, which +destroys the idea that this bullet somehow cursed downward and +struck Governor Connally. Plus, you've got Governor Connally's +wrist X-ray, which shows that there are still more pieces of +bullet in his wrist today than are missing off of the bullet that +the Government still claims caused the wound. So it's very +obvious that they're simply lying about what went on.

+ +

We now have the January 27th minutes of the Warren Commission, in +which their Chief Counsel admits that since we have a picture of +where the bullet entered the back, that it's below the place +where it came out the front. So how could it go and turn around, +etc.? They knew it, and so they chose to lie to us and simply +claim that the bullet went through his neck. And the supporters +of the Warren Commission are still telling us the same thing, +although this is totally opposite to what the medical evidence +shows us. +

+

+So it's a huge thing. You have to look at the totality of this +case. Any one particular issue can be picked apart or explained +away or rationalized as coincidence or happenstance, but if you +look at the total picture, you can begin to get an understanding +of what really went on.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright, Jim Marrs, I want you to hold on, because we're going to +present some new information. By the way, Jim Marrs is an award-winning reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and he was a +reporter at the time of the assassination for the Denton Record-Chronicle. He teaches at the University of Texas at Arlington. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, +please assist in disseminating it by posting it to other +networks, and by posting hardcopies in public places, +both on and off campus. As evidence accrues concerning the +mass media's thirty year cover-up of the coup d'etat +against the People of the United States, the necessity of +citizen reportage becomes ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

Article 15678 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part III, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:54:18 GMT + 1992Sep9.155418.16387@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 157

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I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +GARY NULL: +Now, just today -- just less than an hour ago -- the American +Medical Association gave it's official position on the Kennedy +assassination, and a Doctor George Lundberg, the editor of the +Journal of the American Medical Association and Editor-in-Chief +of Scientific Publications of JAMA, read their position paper, +and I'll just quote something from it. Later in the show we're +going to come back to this, because we have a part of the press +conference recorded by WBAI. It says:

+ +

"The recent Crenshaw book" +(and we had Dr. Crenshaw on the show) +"is a sad fabrication based upon unsubstantiated allegations. The best +explanation for the motivations of myriad conspiracy theorists are +paranoia, the desire for personal recognition, public visibility and profit.

+ +

Anyhow, it says that this is all nonsense. There was no +conspiracy; that the Warren Commission was right. And THAT was +the press conference. We'll get more on the press conference, but +I just want you to know that finally JAMA (and I don't know why +JAMA would be sticking it's nose into something that it knows +nothing about, to begin with) came out and felt the need to hold +a press conference to say that the Warren Commission was right. +Everyone (they say) in the field writing books, doing broadcasts, +or offering information to the public, must be doing it for profit, +recognition or some other [personal] motive.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +I've got news for them. Talk to anybody who has known me and +they'll tell you that I've been making the same criticisms since +the early '70s, and I certainly never made any money. In fact, +people ....

+ +

GARY NULL: +Jim, let me ask you something. Have you ever been found guilty, in +an extended trial, of restraint of trade, monopolistic practices, +and, if so, was that conviction upheld all the way clear up to +all the different appeals courts, and now the conviction is +final?

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Not me.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Well that has happened to the American Medical Association. So, +when the AMA has the audacity to come onto a press conference -- +with the muddled background that they have for having been caught +engaging in the restraint of trade and in monopolistic practices +-- claiming that others have ulterior motives, I think it's +absolutely absurd.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Anybody who knows anything knows that the AMA is a FIRM supporter +of the status quo, and that it has been highly political for +years. And I would ascribe political motives to almost anything +that they do. The point that I want to make here is -- if my +understanding is correct -- if they are simply quoting from the +two autopsy doctors who worked on President Kennedy, well then, +this is just an affirmation [of that autopsy]. Of course, those +doctors are going to say the same things they said in 1963 and +1964, and it's going to support the Warren Commission's +contention. But this is a diversion. This is a red herring. This +is not the issue. The issue is that what the autopsy doctors saw +was not the same as what the doctors saw [at Parkland Hospital] +in Dallas. And there is a very DEEP discrepancy between the +wounds as viewed in Dallas .... I just quoted you all these +people who said that there was a large hole in the back of his +head. This was not seen at the autopsy -- or not reported. So +we've got some real discrepancies here, and this particular +little news conference and their pronouncements are simply +skirting the issue.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Okay, Jim, I want you to hold on because we're going to introduce +some new evidence and a new individual to our conference here. +He is Harrison Edward Livingstone, the author of HIGH TREASON II. +Welcome to our program, Mr. Livingstone.

+ +

HARRISON LIVINGSTONE: +Thanks for inviting me.

+ +

GARY NULL: +I would like to go straight to some of the most important issues, +and if you would, please give us the research that you have +uncovered on these. First, I would like to have you review, from +your perspective, the eyewitness descriptions of Kennedy's real +wounds.

+ +

HARRISON LIVINGSTONE: +Well, as you know, I've been able to interview almost every +living medical witness. I did not talk to Doctor Clark, although +he gave me certain answers through his secretary, twelve years +ago. I have talked to Doctor Humes, but I can't say that anything +was productive there, even after as much as an hour of talk. +But, other than that, my book presents the most complete history +of what these doctors are saying today, and put in perspective of +what they said and wrote in 1963. No other book or writer or +researcher has achiveved this.

+ +

GARY NULL: +We're not here to promote your book, as such. We're here for you +to please share your information with us. So if you could, please +go right to the information. Would you talk about the evidence of +forgery and retouching of the autopsy photographs and X-rays?

+ +

HARRISON LIVINGSTONE: +[initial words were drowned out by Gary Null's voice] +.... doctors and the two autopsies. And the point being that they +are trying to head off at the pass the research that I have just +published, and for no other reason; also [they're targeting] Doctor +Crenshaw's book and his statements. They made a number of totally +false statements at this press conference. For instance, that +Crenshaw (they quoted other doctors, and this is an example of how +they cooked their article by the American Medical Association) .... +that Crenshaw was not present at the autopsy -- when if you go and +read in Volume Six of the Warren Commission books, he is mentioned +by almost every doctor as having been there. And he was certainly +in a position to observe the wounds and to see what was going on. +And it doesn't take anybody more than an idiot to know that a +bullet is either an entry hole through the skin of the neck, or +it's an exit, because, if it's coming out, it's going to make +quite a tear. And anybody, basically, would see the difference. +I was pretty stunned, as you probably know, because I was at this +press conference today. You ask: Why is JAMA [the Journal of the +American Medical Association] doing this at this time, and I'm +just telling you there is only one reason why they're doing it. +It's because the whole cover-up perpetrated by the Government in +this case is directly threatened by the research that I have done +and by my making it possible for Crenshaw and the other doctors +to come forward.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. Would you give us some link between Richard Nixon's men +and John Kennedy's killers that ties the assassination directly +to Watergate? And could you please give us the facts? +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, +please assist in disseminating it by posting it to other networks, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass media's thirty +year cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the +People of the United States, the necessity of citizen reportage +becomes ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo +Article 2723 of alt.conspiracy.jfk: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part IV, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:12:09 GMT + 1992Sep11.121209.3771@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 152

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I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +HARRISON LIVINGSTONE: +Before I get to that, you had asked me a question on this medical +evidence. Do you recall?

+ +

GARY NULL: +Yes. I asked you for the evidence of forgery and retouching in +the autopsy photographs and X-rays.

+ +

HARRISON LIVINGSTONE: +This is my special area of research. I discovered that the X-rays +were fake in that they show the entire face missing on the right +side. And again, this is what JAMA tried to head off at the press +conference today. They tried to ridicule criticism of the medical +evidence without facing these facts. And I asked them at the +press conference: "Didn't you notice that the face is missing -- +that the President's face is missing in the X-rays, but it's NOT +missing in the photographs?" And, of course, at that point, the +press conference became tumultuous, and the whole thing began to +be overturned. The photographs, of course, show extensive +retouching and evidence of forgery. And this was directly how the +Chief Justice of the United States was tricked -- with this faked +evidence. The doctors, most recently (quite a few that JAMA did +not interview, and they don't dare interview, and if they did, +like other researchers, they're not going to report it) .... +because those doctors insist, to this day, that that throat wound +WAS an entry hole. And the many people who were at the autopsy +.... and Doctor Fink, the forensic pathologist who was at the +autopsy, who was not interviewed by JAMA, and whom they claimed +declined, and I've talked to him. But he testified that the hole +in the back was an entry hole that did not penetrate into the +chest. So what JAMA did -- and as Jim Marrs just said: They're a +political action committee that doesn't dare let this evidence +link up because .... they've kept it compartmentalized. I asked +them: "What about Doctor Humes's stating at the end of his +testimony to Arlen Specter that the bullet that hit John Connally +could not possibly have been the same bullet that went through +John Kennedy because of the fragments that were found in Connally?" +They said: "We did not discuss John Connally in this article. +It's not relevant." So that's an example of compartmentalizing +the evidence by a political action committee which has sought +to control the medical community in this country.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Okay. Let's try to go back to the photographs. And please, if +you would, try to keep .... we have limited time and we want the +opportunity for you to give us as much information as you can. +Let's go specifically to the fraud that you are asserting, and +on the retouching of the photographs that no one else in the media +has picked up on.

+ +

HARRISON LIVINGSTONE: +Right. This is the key to the case, right now. The Chief Justice, +Earl Warren (and he mentions in his memoirs that he was shown +autopsy photographs) [said] that he was tricked by phony +photographs and X-rays which apparently show a shot that came from +behind. They claim that there is an entry hole in the area of the +cowlick, although the autopsists, Doctors Humes and Boswell, told +the committee of doctors at the House of Representatives that +they denied .... He said: I defy you to see this hole here where +you say it is; that this is not a hole. It's something else. And +it was four inches -- as the Clark Panel found in 1968 -- from +where that entry hole was placed in the autopsy report by Doctor +Humes and Doctor Boswell. It was four inches above it. Then, +showing the face missing in the X-rays and not showing Earl +Warren the photographs that showed the President's face intact +made him think that his face was blown away. And that's what we +see in the Zapruder film. And I believe that that's animated.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Okay, let's go to some specific references. I'm looking now at a +photograph of John Kennedy. It's called "the stare of death" +photograph. And I'd like for you to talk about the reference +black triangle that appears on the right upper forehead of +Kennedy in this photograph.

+ +

HARRISON LIVINGSTONE: +Yes, if you have a clear print of that in the negative, in the +negative there is no light whatsoever that comes through that +triangle. It's much clearer in a clear print. In my book, we were +able to do the best possible reproductions, but, of course, +they're screened and it's not that clear. But in a comparable +right profile photograph, which we publish there, you can see +what has been covered up. And they're from two DIFFERENT sets of +photographs. One, with the reference black triangle is known as +"the Fox set of photographs" which came into the possession of +Mark Crouch, who was a friend of the Secret Service man, James K. +Fox, who took the rolls of film from Bethesda Naval Hospital over +to be developed in the Navy labs. The other set of photographs, +which were in the possession of Robert Groden, show that there is +a major laceration extending into the forehead of the President. +This was NOT seen in Dallas, but two of the autopsy doctors did +describe this laceration to me. They brought it up. I did not +bring it up. And they told me about the laceration going a half +an inch into the forehead above the right eye. That's where that +reference black triangle is. What the reasons were for covering +it up in some of those photographs are not clear to me. I can't +answer that question. All I know is that they conflict with each +other -- these two different pictures, as do many of the +photographs conflict with each other.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Also, it's very clear that the whole right side of the head is +blackened out, and only the ear is visible. That is CLEARLY +retouching.

+ +

HARRISON LIVINGSTONE: +That's it. And the whole back of the head, extending around +behind to the right ear was missing. And a major part of my +research was to try to resolve the puzzles of the medical +evidence. Exactly what did the wounds look like? I was able to +determine -- by having the doctors and the witnesses at the +autopsy and in Dallas draw on mannequin heads -- exactly where +the bone defect was and how much scalp was missing. And they are +identical. The wound was not altered, but there was a large hole +that went all the way around to the side of the head. The autopsy +report is accurate in that respect, but the problem was that +there was sort of a flap of scalp that was badly macerated and it +did have an egg-shaped-sized hole through it. But it could not +possibly cover up all of the missing bone that was underneath +there. And this caused a lot of confusion among engineers and +accountants and other people with that mindset who do this +research, because they can't semantically separate out the +issues, for instance, between alteration and tampering, or +between laceration and incision. A lot of the confusion in the +case (in the medical evidence) is semantic, so I was able to +determine that the body was not altered. It may have been +tampered with, but even that doesn't appear to have been +necessary when all they really had to do was to fake the +photographs and flash them at Earl Warren who put them aside +immediately because of their gore. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the necessity of citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

Article 15763 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part V, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:56:49 GMT + 1992Sep14.165649.23560@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 160

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I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +GARY NULL: +Alright, now there are two other very VERY important issues here. +And they are that the photographs of John Kennedy's body, where +he is on his face, lying on his stomach here, it shows ....

+ +

HARRISON LIVINGSTONE: +Lying on his back. There's no picture of him lying on his +stomach.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Oh, okay. Yeah, it's been turned around there. I have a picture +of his back, and the first bullet hole ....

+ +

HARRISON LIVINGSTONE: +He's lifted up from the table -- yes.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Okay. The first bullet hole is about four inches, it looks like, +below the ....

+ +

HARRISON LIVINGSTONE: +Well the larger hole is not the hole. It's about two inches below +that. You'll see a small red thing, closer to the roller, and +that, the men all state, was a hole. And they also indicate that +that deep depression down toward the bottom of the roller is a +bullet hole.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Yeah, well there are two bullet holes in his back. How can a man +have two bullet holes in his back, and then ....

+ +

HARRISON LIVINGSTONE: +I don't know what the answer is, but I do know that there were +gunmen all around that car. In Senator Dodd's report -- that was +appended to the House Committee report when he was in the House +of Representatives -- stated that there were at least three +gunmen firing, and two of them had to have been from behind, +because of the closeness of the shots. There ARE six shots on +that Dallas [motorcycle] police tape recording.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Yeah, but you see, the Warren Commission does not state that.

+ +

HARRISON LIVINGSTONE: +No! They say that three shots were fired and two struck the +President.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Also, you have the entire back of the head shown very clearly, +and you do not see the ....

+ +

HARRISON LIVINGSTONE: +No. Part of that is not clear at all. You see the area that's out +of focus there. The background is in focus and the foreground -- +where the cowlick [is] closest to the lens of the camera -- is in +focus. But the area all along the hairline from behind the ear +down to the center of the neck (in the hair) is out of focus. And +that's where they smudged all that over when they made their +composite photograph.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright, what I'd like to do is this. Let's just summarize here +for a moment. What we have are some CLEARLY retouched +photographs. We have more bullet holes in the President's body +than the Warren Commission, or any of the so-called "official" +investigations, have recognized. How in the world does a man end +up with this many proveable bullet holes, and yet, still have +one man doing all the shooting? Some of these bullet holes are +clearly exit wounds. Some are entrance wounds. And yet, the +Warren Commission has, for whatever reason, only presented that +these were rear entrance wounds. The autopsy photographs HAVE +been altered. The X-rays HAVE been altered. It is not possible to +end up with an X-ray .... Let's say if you took a normal anterior +/posterior skull X-ray, and then you took the Kennedy anterior/ +posterior skull X-ray -- the Kennedy lateral skull X-ray -- +there's an amount of facial bone that's missing. If this were +presented in any regular forensic trial today, it would be +LAUGHABLE. The evidence would be thrown out as inadmissible and +faulty.

+ +

We're going to take a brief break. I'd like both Jim Marrs +[author of CROSSFIRE] and also, our guest on the phone right now +-- who just returned from the press conference -- Harrison Edward +Livingstone, who needless to say, was part of the reason that the +AMA called this hasty press conference (and the press conference +itself you'll hear a little later on. We tape recorded some of +it) .... we're going to get to some information that I think the +people in this audience have always wondered about. Are you aware +that not ONCE were we ever given the real reason as to why the +Watergate Break-In occurred? What was in the safe they were +looking for? Why did CIA people go into that safe? Why did Nixon +authorize it? That brought down the whole Nixon Administration +-- about sixty-seven of his top cronies. Why? We were never +asked that! The media never probed it further than what was +given to them.

+ +

Well, you're going to hear something when we come back, about the +link between Richard Nixon's men and John Kennedy's killers that +ties the assassination directly to Watergate. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

[JD: There was an incident which remains vivid in my memory, and +it has never been explored by anyone, though it might provide +a fuller picture of the possible link between the Watergate +Break-In and the assassination of President Kennedy.

+ +

Those of you who are old enough will recall the numerous +Presidential press conferences of Richard Nixon during which +he was interrogatively flayed and driven to the brink of +impeachment by a concerted onslaught from the press corps, +members of which have since been alleged to be journalistic +prostitutes for the CIA (e.g. Walter Cronkite and, I think, +Dan Rather, notorious among many). In one of those press +conferences (I think it may have been the "I'm not a crook!" +press conference) a reporter asked Nixon [I'm paraphrasing]: +You said something about the John Kennedy assassination as +an example or an analogy .... +And then, Nixon cut him off and exclaimed, with distress: +"No, no, no! I didn't mean to imply that I know any more +about that assassination than anyone else does." +Nixon's tenseness at this moment was striking. +Since then, I have been suspicious that Nixon might have +knowledge, if not some involvement in the assassination.

+ +

What ought to be examined is a tape of that press +conference so that perhaps a scientific voice analysis +can be done to indicate, albeit not to prove, that Nixon +was lying about his lack of knowledge of any unreported +evidence surrounding the assassination of John Kennedy. + +If enough people wish to collaborate on such a project, +we may be able to finance the purchase of the tape and the +voice analysis with small cost to everyone involved. +Please send me e-mail if you are interested.

+ +

John DiNardo +jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com or jad@att!ckuxb

+ +
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+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the necessity of citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo +Article 15807 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part VI, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 15:53:10 GMT + 1992Sep16.155310.24072@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 123

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording of a +broadcast by Pacifica Radio station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +GARY NULL: +We're also going to talk about proof of fraud and disinformation +campaigns WITHIN the assassination research community, and how a +United States Senator and two former Presidents personally +covered up facts in the case. And we're also going to talk about +proof that bullets WERE removed from the President's body at +Bethesda Naval Hospital before the autopsy began. That's just +some of what we're going to talk about today. New information; +very powerful information. And, contrary to what my first guest +suggested (and I respect that each guest can have their own point +of view, and everyone has the right to have a point of view, even +if it differs with other people on the show) he suggested that +there was no hard data. This is as good data as can be produced.

+ +

Now I'm going to ask our guest, Jim Marrs, you're going to have +about ten minutes, and Harrison Edward Livingstone, you're going +to have about ten minutes. You can take a break, because you're +talking on the commercial-free Pacifica Radio station in +New York, WBAI, 99.5 FM, a 50000 watt station. I've been here +for fifteen years. We work for free -- those of us on the air, +and we ask, three times a year, for pledges from the station's +listners to help support our efforts.

+ +

[JD: My apologies for missing the subsequent discourse. +I'm trying to obtain a tape of it. If and when I do, +I'll promptly transcribe it for you. However, I have taped +numerous hours of information covering the succeeding +episodes in the series. So the following transcript resumes +the discussion with the next day's broadcast in the series.]

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright, David, if you could, please, would you go through this +evidence in some detail? You're making a lot of statements and a +a lot of allegations. We'd like you now to substantiate the +differences between the official version.

+ +

DAVID LIFTON: +Okay. With regard to the casket, for example, the witness who +opened the casket .... the persons who saw the casket come in the +back door of Bethesda Naval Hospital, and who actually unloaded +it are Dennis David, the chief-of-the-day at Bethesda Naval +Hospital and a man named Don Rabbatisch [sp] who was actually one +of the casket toters, so to speak -- who took it out of the black +hearse in which it arrived.

+ +

The account of Dennis David is that he is at the back of the +hospital. He is in charge of part of the security function. He is +told that the President's body is going to arrive there. They go +down. The black hearse pulls in. He assembles some of his men. +Don Rabbatisch is one of them. They bring the casket inside. +A black hearse pulls up. There's a group of plainclothesmen and +two men in O.R. smocks. They get out of the ambulance. The +shipping casket (and that's what it was: a shipping casket) is +removed from the black hearse. It is brought onto the loading +dock and it is brought to the door of the morgue. In the door of +the morgue is Paul O'Connor. He's the medical technician listed +in the FBI reports, and who is also listed in the official Navy +records, and in the House Select Committee records. He opens the +casket which is a shipping casket, according to O'Connor. Inside +the shipping casket is a body bag. He unzips the body bag, puts +the President's body, along with others in the morgue, on the +table. He said that when the wrapping was removed from the head +area, there was a gasp in the room, and he said: "and I looked +down and said, 'My God, there's no brain!'" And you could see +this. It was apparent. The FBI, at that time, writes notes. They +write a report that weekend. In their report, which was not +published with the Warren Commission documents, but is at the +National Archives, they write that when the body was removed from +the casket in which it was transported, it was (quote) "apparent +that there had been surgery to the head area; namely in the top +of the skull." And that's the official record. That's the +evidence.

+ +

Now, the Warren Commission did not know about most of this +evidence that I am talking about here. They did not perform this +kind of analysis. They did not establish what, in law, is called +a "chain of possession" on the body. So the Navy commander who +performed the autopsy simply comes before the Commission, raises +his right hand and testifies as to the condition of the body. +And they accept that autopsy report which states that President +Kennedy was shot twice from behind, based on wounds you see on +the body which were NOT on the body in Dallas, if you compare +Dallas versus Bethesda -- Dallas being where the President was +shot, Bethesda being where the autopsy was performed six hours +later. Based on the Bethesda wound pattern, President Kennedy IS, +or appears to be, in fact, shot twice from behind. Based on the +Dallas wound pattern, he was NOT.

+ +

Now ordinarily, you would trust the autopsy over the accounts of +the doctors at Dallas, because the autopsy is better evidence. +It's, in fact, the "best evidence". It's based on the body of the +President. But the irony is that, in this case, there is a +subterfuge, and, in fact, the body was altered. That's what my +book was all about: persuading the reader that there is evidence +that the body was altered, and that this is the reason why the +evidence looks the way it does. I might just add that if you +start with this evidence in 1992, the same evidence that they had +in 1963, unless this autopsy is overturned, you're going to come +to the same conclusion: that Oswald shot the President. This +autopsy is the legal foundation for that whole house of cards. +It cannot collapse unless the autopsy is overturned in a +definitive fashion. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the necessity of citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo +Article 15839 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part VII, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy

+ +

Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1992 16:16:26 GMT + 1992Sep18.161626.13759@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 132

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +GARY NULL: +What would have been the sequence of events to have allowed the +brain to have been removed, since there is no evidence that it +was removed in Dallas during the procedures that were performed +on the body at that time?

+ +

DAVID LIFTON: +If I understand you correctly, you're asking me when was the body +stolen. Is that what you're saying?

+ +

GARY NULL: +Yes. When was it stolen, and why would they have removed the +brain, and where did the brain next appear?

+ +

DAVID LIFTON: +The only time that the body could have been taken out of the casket +(and this is covered in the conclusion of my book), and the only +time (I don't want to say that the casket is unguarded because +there are always Secret Service agents around, and you cannot have +this go forward without the connivance of some Secret Service agents), +but the only time that the Kennedys aren't all over that casket is +when they come back to Air Force One after the shooting. That is, +after the President is pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital, +a coffin is obtained -- a large viewing casket which everybody sees +on national TV. They go out to Love Field with the President's body +in the casket. They go aboard the aircraft and they learn that +there is going to be a delay. "Why," they ask. "Why can't they +take-off immediately for Washington?" "Well," they're told, +"Lyndon Johnson is aboard this aircraft. He didn't go back to +Washington on the other plane. He's on this plane." +And he appears and says: "I spoke to Bobby Kennedy, and Bobby +Kennedy said, 'Delay the flight. I must be sworn in first in the +state of Texas.'" This is all denied that night by Bobby Kennedy +who tells his sister-in-law Jacqueline Kennedy that he said no such +thing to Lyndon Johnson; that he (Johnson) called Bobby Kennedy, +who was Attorney-General in Washington, and said: I'm being told +that I should be sworn in. Do you have any objections; that it +wasn't the other way around.

+ +

Anyway, the result of this is that the flight is delayed by about +a half-hour, and basically, the Kennedys (Mrs. Kennedy and the +Kennedy aides) are told or requested to come to the front of the +plane to witness the swearing in. It is in connection with this +activity of "delay the flight and let's go to the front of the +plane for the swearing in" .... that's the only time that the +Kennedy party is not all over that casket. That's the time, I +believe, (and it's a process of elimination, I will concede. I +don't have a direct witness; otherwise I'd have solved the Kennedy +assassination) .... but it's during that period that the body +must have been taken out of the casket and put into some other +casket and brought somewhere. I personally believe, at the time I +wrote BEST EVIDENCE, that the body was flown to Washington, D.C., +and that the alterations occurred on the East Coast after the +plane landed at Andrews Air Force Base at six o'clock. And I +cited, as evidence, helicopter activity on the starboard side; +that is, the side facing away from public view -- and from radio +transmissions indicating that they were going to go with the body +to Walter Reed Army Hospital where (quote) "an autopsy was to be +conducted under guard." And all that's on the radio. And I +spelled it out in my book.

+ +

Now, it's an unsolved mystery as to where this body was taken. +But wherever it happened, that's where the brain would be removed +and the wounds altered. It would be done very quickly. It was +done VERY sloppily, I might add. And that's why, when the body +arrived without a brain, it was immediately noted that there had +been surgery to the head area. That's what the FBI wrote down. +We're not dealing with some kind of perfect fraud here. We're +dealing with a very imperfect crime with footprints all over the +place; footprints which are ignored by the Warren Commission +because they saw the crime -- or you might say they saw these +events through very Establishment eyes. They never questioned any +of this stuff that's brought up in my book. + +GARY NULL: +When did the brain next appear?

+ +

DAVID LIFTON: +A brain is infused, in the autopsy room, by another technician: +James Jenkins. Now let me explain this. It's kind of interesting. +There were three technicians in the room: a guy named Ranicki, a +fellow named Paul O'Connor and a fellow named Jenkins. Paul +O'Connor gives me the account (and it's a thing that he will +never forget. It just came out of his mouth when I interviewed +him in 1979), that the cranium is empty. There's no brain, etc. +And on the chart where the body organ weights are listed (a chart +which is perfectly authentic. It has little pink spots on it. +That's Kennedy's blood. It's in the National Archives today) +there is no weight given for the brain, but there is a weight for +many of the other body organs.

+ +

That night, at some point -- and I don't know when -- a brain is +brought into the room. That brain is given to James Jenkins, +another technician. James infuses that brain with formaldehyde. +And that brain becomes the evidence brain. It is weighed ten days +later, or something. It's weight is recorded in a supplementary +brain report. When I confronted O'Connor, on camera, with the fact +that there is this brain, he said: "Well I don't know where they +got it from. It certainly couldn't have been the President's!" +In other words, it did not arrive in the body. Now, that's the way +an autopsy is supposed to happen. The body is supposed to have the +body parts inside it. You know, we're not dealing with United +Parcel Service where you send something and say: "See attached." +The brain is supposed to come in the cranium. Now, a brain is +definitely brought into the room. I do not know how it got into +the room. I can just tell you that James Jenkins infused a brain +that night, whereas Paul O'Connor said that the cranium was empty. +And by the way, O'Connor's account is corroborated by the X-ray +technician who said that the hole was so large and the thing was +so empty that he could have put his hands inside the hole. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the necessity of citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo +Article 2820 of alt.conspiracy.jfk: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part VIII, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 12:50:12 GMT + 1992Sep22.125012.13133@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 140

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +GARY NULL: +Alright. We're going to be speaking with Paul O'Connor in just a +few moments. We have him on the show, as well, because we wanted +indidividuals who could corroborate your information.

+ +

But right now, we're going to ask you to remain on hold. We're in +the midst of a WBAI fund-raising [period] ....

+ +

.... My show is on the air five days a week bringing programs to +you that will give you insights. Like right now we're doing a +whole series on Government agendas and hidden agendas, and the +conspiracies. We're targetting, right now, the [John] Kennedy +Assassination, just because that assassination is something that +everyone would agree had a major national impact. The trouble is, +what we were told is the OFFICIAL position doesn't blend with what +other researchers and first-hand observers are suggesting were the +actual cases. And then, we have to ask: Why would someone cover-up +this information? Why? Why would the media not report it? Why +would the Government not investigate it? Why would the Warren +Commission not explore it? So we're looking at that.

+ +

Right now, on our program (and I want to thank our guests for +being patient and for standing by) is David Lifton, the author of +BEST EVIDENCE. He is suggesting that there were two caskets, one +body; and that the body arrived without a brain; and that the +brain that we were told was President Kennedy's brain may have, +indeed, been someone else's; that there was a gaping hole large +enough to put a fist through when it arrived in Washington; and +that therefore, there had been alterations.

+ +

Now, let us see what other corroboration we could have for this. +We have, on the conference phone right now, Dr. Charles Crenshaw. +Dr. Crenshaw, who graduated from the Parkland Memorial Hospital in +Dallas, Texas, who specializes in general surgery, is presently +the chairman and director of the Department of Surgery at Saint +Peters-Smith Hospital, in the Fort Worth area. He is a professor +of clinical surgery at the University of Texas, Southwestern +Health Center's Science Center in Dallas. Welcome to our program, +Dr. Crenshaw.

+ +

DR. CRENSHAW: +Thank you.

+ +

GARY NULL: +By the way, Dr. Crenshaw is also the author of a very important +work on the Kennedy Assassination called, JFK: THE CONSPIRACY OF +SILENCE, which right now, I believe, is number one on the New York +Times bestseller list. Isn't it?

+ +

DR. CRENSHAW: +Yes, it is.

+ +

GARY NULL: +And, by the way, THREE other books on the top-ten bestseller list +are also about this assassination, so CLEARLY there is interest. +Would you be good enough to explain to us the inconsistencies +between your EYEWITNESS account and the official report upheld by +the Warren Commission?

+ +

DR. CRENSHAW: +That day, on November the 22nd, 1963, all of the surgeons at +Parkland believed that our President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was +shot at least once from the front. We saw two wounds there. Both +of them were from the front. The head wound was tangential in +nature, coming in over the right side, above his ear, and leaving +a large exit area, a vulsed[?] area in the right-rear part of the +head. There was loss of part of the parietal, temporal and most +of the occipital lobe of the right cerebral hemisphere, with +exposure of the cerebellum. It was about two-and-a-half to two-and-three-fourths inches in diameter. It was more or less +circular. And in the photos from the National Archives -- which +are so damaging -- this wound had completely vanished. There was +no wound seen in the exhibits that are marked "B" and "E" in the +book. This wound, that ALL of the physicians at Parkland +described, was completely gone. The second wound was in the +anterior part of the neck. It was about three to six millimeters +in size and with an arc the size of your little finger. It was +clearly demarcated as round and relatively clean-cut. Then the +tracheal tube that had been put down was ineffective. And then +Dr. Perry performed a tracheostomy through the entrance wound. +The incision was sharp with smooth edges, and about an inch to +and inch-and-a-half long. It was no longer than the flange on the +tracheostomy tube, which was one-and-three-fourths inches. Not +only that, after the nurses had removed this tracheostomy tube +before we placed him in the coffin, it was brought back again. +The edges were still smooth and very sharp. And in the autopsy +photographs that I first saw in looking for the head wound, this +wound was widely gaping, it was irregular, and it was now about +two-point-five to three inches long. So there was CLEARLY a +change between these wounds, that I saw at Parkland, and the +wounds that we saw on the autopsy pictures that were given from +the National Archives.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Why didn't you or others at the scene later complain or even make +an issue or an affidavit showing that this was an alteration?

+ +

DR. CRENSHAW: +We never saw the photos. The first time I saw these was in early +1991. The Parkland physicians were never given this opportunity. +They were only told about the additional wounds (which I doubt +whether there was another wound in the back of the head, because +I looked there) and were never told or shown any other evidence. +We were told only about the autopsy. And we, like most people, +felt that they would have had the best forensic minds in our +country to examine our President. However, obviously, [from] what +has been discussed and what we now know, [that assumption] was wrong. +And so, we had no other knowledge other than the description by the +Secret Service.

+ +

GARY NULL: +So if you had the description by the Secret Service, by an +extension of this logic, the Secret Service or someone would have +had to participate in this cover-up, or this obstruction of +information. Would that be a reasonable assumption?

+ +

DR. CRENSHAW: +I think that's a very reasonable assumption. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the necessity of citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

Article 15923 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part IX, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 13:24:03 GMT + 1992Sep24.132403.3774@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 171

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +GARY NULL: +Alright. Do you believe that the shots came just from the Book +Depository, or from the Grassy Knoll, or from where?

+ +

DR. CHARLES CRENSHAW: +I cannot say that, but he WAS shot twice from the front. And I +assume, also, that he was shot from the back. So there could not +have been just one shooter; that is, Oswald. We spent all of the +next week from the 22nd to the 29th [of Nov. '63], trying to figure +out (as we had been told the official version: that it was Oswald) +how in the world the President could have been shot from the +front when Oswald was supposedly the lone shooter. And on +December the 5th of that year, it was the same way with the +Secret Service. They reenacted the assassination, and it was +their ability there, trying to show how he was shot from the +front, yet being shot from the School Book Depository. It was a +question in everyone's mind.

+ +

GARY NULL: +We know that there was one bullet that missed the bodies of both +Kennedy and Connally completely, because it ricocheted off of the +cement. There is absolute evidence of that. The ricochet struck +one of the people standing right on the curb. That meant that +there had to have been four bullets shot, at minimum. We know +then of three. There is an estimate of six. There were acoustical +recordings showing six shots. So even if we assume that there +were four, the Warren Commission claims that there were not four.

+ +

DR. CRENSHAW: +Yes.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Now, how in the world is it possible for one shooter, from the +Book Depository, firing at a moving target, to get off four +rounds in what would have to have been under approximately +four-point-eight seconds. And even extending it to six seconds, +it's not humanly possible. No one has ever been able to duplicate +that.

+ +

DR. CRENSHAW: +No. And I don't think they ever will be. And one other thing. +I also took care of, post-operatively, Governor Connally. And +Connally and Mrs. Connally (Nellie) have always stated that he +was not hit by the same bullet that the President was hit by. He +stated that post-operatively, and he has also stated it recently.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. The Secret Service's refusal, against [Parkland] +Hospital policy and Texas law, to allow an autopsy to be +performed on JFK, and the swift removal of the President's body +from the hospital to Air Force One and back to Washington, D.C. .... +Give us your insights on that, please.

+ +

DR. CRENSHAW: +Well, you know, this is the reason. I was a junior resident, +staying there preparing the President's body along while the +nurses were preparing him. But I would stay there because this is +just a law, and we MUST have a chain of evidence if we were going +to prosecute whoever had shot the President.

+ +

Then, all of a sudden, there was such a hubbub with the Secret +Service. They would not have the autopsy performed there, even +though our forensic pathologist, Dr. Earl Rose, had told them, in +no uncertain terms, that this had to be. So they asked the +administrator to get a justice of the peace. A very young, +uneducated justice of the peace came there. And he even talked +with the district attorney and the chief of police, and he was +told that he should at least have an autopsy or a bullet. +However, he chose to go along with the Secret Service and sign +the death certificate. Also, in so doing, he checked the inquest +that was performed. That was merely his walking at the head of +the room, looking in. And also, he checked that an autopsy was +performed. And I can assure you, there was no autopsy performed +there. Then, at Mrs. Kennedy's request and [that of] the Secret +Service, the coffin was brought in, and it is the one that is +described. It was the large bronze coffin. And there, we put a +rubberized sheet there, and a clear plastic mattress cover over +that to keep the blood from getting into the satin. He had, +initially, towels around the head, but he had bled through that, +and Mr. O'Neill, of the O'Neill Funeral Home, put several +rubberized sacks (we had no good plastic then), and then we +placed him in the coffin. After, again, I looked at the head +wound and placed a sheet over the President, with his clothes at +the bottom. And there was no body bag at Parkland. He had just a +sheet over there. And the coffin was the bronze one that all the +pictures were made [taken of] at Andrews Air Force Base.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Isn't it rather unusual that a Dr. Boswell would state that he is +now removing head bandages? What is the significance of that +statement?

+ +

DR. CRENSHAW: +I do not know. Boswell is also the one who has said, of course, +that the tracheostomy was almost three inches long. And it was not +that [length] when it left Parkland. But he did have those rubberized +sacks over his head. This is the only thing that I could have +thought: that maybe they thought it was a body bag. But there was +NO body bag.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Okay. I'm going to go now to Paul O'Connor. +Mr. O'Connor, are you on the line?

+ +

PAUL O'CONNOR: +Yes sir.

+ +

GARY NULL: +And Dr. Michio Kaku, are you on the line?

+ +

MICHIO KAKU: +I'm on the line.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Okay. We're going to come to both of you in just a second, but I +want to follow this train of thought: +Lyndon Johnson's direct order to YOU, Dr. Crenshaw, to obtain a +deathbed confession from Lee Harvey Oswald during an emergency +surgery to save his life ....

+ +

DR. CRENSHAW: +Yes, this was on that Sunday. Obviously, we did not watch the TV. +And the head administrator of Parkland called for a free +operating team to come to the emergency room. We went there. +We were told that Oswald was coming in. At least we were +prepared. So immediately, in seven-and-a-half minutes, we got +Oswald up to the operating room, and operated on him on the cart. +We didn't even place him on an operating table.

+ +

After all of the attending staff .... some even at home had seen +this [the shooting on TV] .... they immediately came. And Dr. Perry +initially started the operation. I was an assistant there. So +when all of the attending staff arrived, I scrubbed out, was +standing there, and looked at this funny looking gentleman over +there on the left side. But, of course, Parkland was so wild +then. People were in every corner there. This man looked like the +comedian, Oliver Hardy, in a small scrub suit. He did have a +badge out of his front pocket, and a very large gun out of the +back pocket. And I thought: Well gee, it's just something weird +again at Parkland. The nurse tapped me on the shoulder then and +asked me if I would take the phone call. I went to the operating +room supervisor's office, picked up the phone, and there, a voice +like thunder said: "This is the President, Lyndon B. Johnson. +How is the accused assassin doing?" And I said: "Well, he's +critical. He's lost a lot of blood, but he is holding his own." +He said: "Would you take a message to the chief operating surgeon?" +And I said, obviously: "Yes sir." He said: "There is +a man in the room, and I want him to take a deathbed confession +as soon as possible." +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the necessity of citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo +Article 15989 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part X, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 12:03:47 GMT + 1992Sep28.120347.8405@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 140

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +DR. CHARLES CRENSHAW: +So I went back, I tapped Dr. Shires[?] on his shoulder and he +looked at me because everything was bedlam there. And I said: +"I've just been talking to the President of the United States, +and that man over there is to take a deathbed confession." And we +both just kind of looked and knew that, had Oswald survived, he +wouldn't have been able to talk for two or three days anyway.

+ +

Consequently, because of the ravages of hemorrhagic shock, +Oswald's heart started failing and ultimately fibrillating. We +tried all of the resuscitative measures -- chemical injections +and starting with the shocks -- but to no avail. So I then went +over and tapped this guy on the shoulder and said: "There'll be +no deathbed confession today." So Oliver Hardy melted away again. +I don't know who he was. I don't know how he got there. The only +interesting part is that I know that the President of the United +States knew that he was in the room.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Give us again the astonishing differences between the Dallas +medical team's account of the JFK wounds and the findings of the +official Bethesda autopsy team.

+ +

DR. CRENSHAW: +The most striking, of course, is the head wound which is right at +the back of the head at this occipit. It was in the right-rear +portion, in the occipital area. It was about the size of a +baseball. In the official pictures of the autopsy, this wound had +vanished. It was completely gone. And then the neck wound which +had the tracheostomy performed there, which was an inch to an +inch-and-a-half -- smooth, sharp edges, EVEN when the +tracheostomy tube was removed. This is now gaping, irregular and +was three inches in length [in the Bethesda autopsy].

+ +

GARY NULL: +The Parkland Hospital's nervousness about residents treating the +President, which resulted in the Warren Commission's failure to +obtain crucial statements from the attending medical staff .... +Would you give us some background on this please?

+ +

DR. CRENSHAW: +Well, basically, there were thirty visits -- twenty-four of them by +the Secret Service and six by the FBI -- in which they talked to +different physicians and nurses there. And it's interesting that +not ONE of these conversations was given to the Warren Commission.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Not one of thirty?

+ +

DR.CRENSHAW: +Not one!

+ +

GARY NULL: +What does that tell you? What does that imply?

+ +

DR. CRENSHAW: +It would imply that they didn't want to hear any contradictory +remarks.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. What is your feeling about Robert Kennedy's involvement +in any possible cover-up?

+ +

DR. CRENSHAW: +I've always felt that maybe he wanted to become president so that +he could reopen this investigation. Three days before HIS +assassination, in a small community college, he announced to +everyone that only the power of the Presidency could unravel the +mystery of his brother's death. And he was, of course, assassinated +then. But immediately, Mrs. Lincoln, John Fitzgerald Kennedy's +secretary, called Senator Ted Kennedy and told him of artifacts +that the Kennedy Family had in their possession. And he told her +not to worry; that everything was taken care of. So the implication +has been that the attorney-general or Senator Kennedy, at that +time, did have important information that he had sequestered +there, so that, if it were at all possible, he could +reopen this investigation.

+ +

GARY NULL: +And lastly, Jacqueline Kennedy's immediate reactions and behavior +following the shooting?

+ +

DR. CRENSHAW: +I thought Mrs. Kennedy was very regal. She was standing there +initially. We asked her to sit outside the room. And then, of +course, after his death we did not officially pronounce him dead +because of her request for a priest and the last rites. The +priest arrived, and she walked into the room after him. We had +pulled the sheet up. It was a little short. She stopped at the +foot and kissed his great toe, and then went forward and stood +there holding his right hand, listening to the last rites. +Immediately after that, she took her wedding ring off and placed +it on the President's little finger. It would not go past the +knuckle, and so when she came in, after they had had the harangue +about the autopsy, and before we placed him in the coffin, one of +our orderlies there -- I believe it was Aubrey Wright -- helped +her get the ring on his small finger.

+ +

I had read many accounts of how their marriage was just that, in +name only. But being in trauma surgery now for thirty years, I +have seen grievances and unhappiness and definite examples of +removing the facade of what one felt. And I still will always +believe that there was no greater example of genuine and intense +love for the President than that exhibited by Mrs. Kennedy.

+ +

GARY NULL: +I want to thank you very much, Dr. Crenshaw, for sharing +your insights with us in this special report on cover-ups.

+ +

DR. CHARLES CRENSHAW: +Thank you.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Now let's shift gears. I want to go over to two other panelists +standing by: Dr. Michio Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physics +here at CUNY, the City University of New York. Would you give us +your comments about the physics of the exhibit 399, the single +magic bullet? +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the necessity of citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

Article 2881 of alt.conspiracy.jfk: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,alt.activism +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part XI, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:01:26 GMT + 1992Sep30.170126.4338@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 137

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +MICHIO KAKU: +I think it's very important when we look at the ballistics tests +that show, for example, frame 313 of the Zapruder film which +clearly shows the President's head going to the rear, which +indicates that a bullet came from the front. Now in the Warren +Commission Report, the FBI, of course, had access to the Zapruder +film and also to the ballistics -- and what they did was they +REVERSED two frames of the Zapruder film to make it look like the +Now, there was one bullet -- the famous "magic bullet" -- that +zig-zagged and essentially reversed direction about seven times, +going through two bodies and winding up on a stretcher with only +two percent of its mass disturbed. However, if you take a look at +the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle and simply perform ballistics +analysis on this, shooting bullets through, for example, animal +carcasses, you can show very clearly that when it goes through +cartilage and goes through tissue, you get much more than two +percent deformation of the bullet. So, in two very egregious +examples, we have major deficiencies within the Warren +Commission Report.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. Approximately what percentage of that bullet should +have been missing?

+ +

MICHIO KAKU: +Tests show that you could easily get twenty to thirty percent +deformation of that bullet. Now I should also mention that NOVA, +the science program on PBS, did a reenactment wherein they got a +watermelon, and they shot bullets through the watermelon, and the +watermelon actually recoiled in the direction of the bullet, +which violates common sense. The conclusion would be, therefore, +that it is possible to violate common sense and have the head +lurch in the wrong direction. However, the tests done on this +watermelon were of a disembodied head, in the sense that there was +no neck and there was no body. You could even blow on a +watermelon with your breath and have the watermelon move. +In other words, this is an extremely minor effect. It only takes +place when you have a watermelon suspended without being attached +to another body. However, tests done on animals by, for example, +deer hunters and bear hunters have not shown this recoil effect +where the head lurches in the direction of the bullet. So I think +that NOVA was grasping for straws, trying to get a relatively +minor effect to explain a major discrepancy within the ballistics +[data] of the Warren Commission Report. And the very fact that +the FBI was forced to deliberately tamper with the Zapruder film +indicates that the FBI itself was aware of the fact that the body +was going in the wrong direction.

+ +

GARY NULL: +That would therefore give us the impression that the FBI +participated in the cover-up of the assassination of President +Kennedy.

+ +

MICHIO KAKU: +That's right. In 1975, the Freedom of Information Act revealed +some of the minutes of the Warren Commission Report, which stated +that they were aware of the fact that Oswald was, in fact, +Agent S179 of the FBI, and that he was an informant of the FBI +who got something like two or three hundred dollars a month for +his work, and that this information would be EXTREMELY important. +But, basically, they failed to follow it up because they couldn't +put FBI agents under oath and have them lie under oath. And so, +this report was essentially unverifiable. But three different +sources, including the Attorney-General of the State of Texas, +stated to the Warren Commission that their understanding was that +Oswald was, indeed, Agent S179 of the FBI. And the conclusion of +the Warren Commission Report was that this evidence was so HOT -- +it was SO damaging that it would have to be kept classified for +fifty years. Fortunately, the Freedom of Information Act revealed +this document in 1975.

+ +

Also, by the way, in 1978 the House Select Committee [on Assassinations] +interviewed the CIA paymaster -- a Mr. Wilcott, James Wilcott -- +and he testified under oath that he was, in fact, the paymaster +of the CIA in charge of covert operations against the Soviet Union, +and that one of his contract employees was, in fact, Lee Harvey Oswald. +So, in other words, Oswald was a bit player and he apparently had +a role to play with the FBI and also the CIA. And both agencies, +of course, had a vested interest in keeping this information out of +the Warren Commission Report.

+ +

GARY NULL: +I think it's interesting at this point that CIA Director Gates is +now suggesting that the file on Oswald, which he is turning over, +will show that Oswald had nothing to do with the Kennedy assassination. +Of course, anyone who would accept for a moment that the CIA is going +to give any information about anything that has not been altered +is extraordinarily naive.

+ +

MICHIO KAKU: +Right. In fact, in 1973 the CIA destroyed most of the Oswald +file. We know that it was in two large file cabinets -- in fact, +two large file cabinets with four drawers apiece. He had a 201 +file, which means that he had a very long history with the CIA, +and in 1973 the CIA destroyed that entire file. So, in other +words, what is going to come out now is basically a fraction of +what was, once upon a time, in the files of the CIA. Now the CIA +has been questioned about this and they said that this was +"routine cleaning" [housekeeping]. So in the "routine cleaning" +of the files, they destroyed potentially damaging information. +We will never know what was in these files. So whatever Gates +might reveal, at some point, will only be a shadow of what was +actually in there.

+ +

GARY NULL: +And CERTAINLY nothing that would implicate the CIA. +Also, is it not the case that the primary person pushing this +"single bullet", this "magic bullet" theory is Pennsylvania's +Republican Senator Arlen Specter, who also was the Anita Hill basher?

+ +

[JD: Sorry, but my tape ran out at this point, and +the person who was taping the broadcast for me did not +immediately flip over the tape. I'm trying to obtain +copies of the missing segments of the broadcasts, so that +I can incorporate those transcripts into future installments +of this series.]

+ +

(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more urgent.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

Article 2927 of alt.conspiracy.jfk: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part XII, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:58:20 GMT + 1992Oct6.145820.996@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 174

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +JOHN DAVIS: +Now, first of all, I have to explain myself why I think there was +a conspiracy, because the available evidence indicates that +Kennedy was struck twice by bullets from the front and twice by +bullets coming from the rear, and Governor Connally was struck by +a bullet coming from the rear that was not the same bullet that +hit the President. Therefore, this adds up to anywhere from two +to four shooters. Hence, a conspiracy. But evidence that it was a +conspiracy goes far beyond an accounting of bullet holes.

+ +

Let's consider first the motive for an organized crime conspiracy. +We have to realize that, for the first time in United States +history, the executive branch of the Federal Government declared +war on organized crime. This had never happened before. For the +Kennedy brothers, it was all-out war against the Mob. +"I'd like to be remembered as the guy who broke the Mafia", Bobby +Kennedy told an associate in 1961, shortly after he took office +as attorney-general. In his book, THE ENEMY WITHIN, Robert +Kennedy had written: "If we do not attack organized criminals +with weapons and techniques as effective as their own, they will +destroy us." Now, to back up this admonition, one of the first +things that Robert Kennedy did, in his assault against organized +crime, was the so-called kidnap/deportation of Carlos Marcello +on April 4th, 1961. Now this was an unprecedented and arguably +illegal act. Kennedy had Marcello snatched off the streets, +herded to an awaiting Federal jet, flown to Guatemala, and dumped +in a Guatemala City airport. Marcello had complained that he +couldn't call his wife, pack any clothes, or cash a check. +The action put the Mob on notice that Kennedy was serious. +Upon returning to the U.S. illegally, Marcello swore vengeance +against the Kennedys on at least three reported occasions. We +have witnesses for three occasions in which Marcello swore +vengeance against the Kennedys.

+ +

[JD: I could not understand a few of Davis's words because +his voice was overdriving the input of the phone.]

+ +

JOHN DAVIS: +Immediately after this episode, Robert Kennedy went after (quote) +"friends and associates" of Marcello, Santos Trafficante, [name is +unintelligible due to aircraft radio interference], and the +mob-led Teamsters' [Union] boss, Jimmy Hoffa. Soon, FBI +electronic listening devices began picking up complaints from +mobsters all over the country about what Kennedy was doing to +them. I'll mention just two of them. They were reported by the +House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1979. [Name is +unintelligible], a mobster working for the Bruno Family in +Philadelphia, was recorded by a bug saying this: "See what +Kennedy done? With Kennedy, I should take a knife and stab and +kill the f*cker. I mean it. This is true. Honest to God. I hope I +get a week's notice. I'll kill. I'll kill, right in the White +House. Somebody has got to get rid of this guy." +Nicolino Carlente[sp], a Genovese Family caporegine[? - probably +means something like "royal head"], two months later was recorded +by an FBI bug saying this: "I'd like to hit Kennedy. I'd gladly +go to the penitentiary for the rest of my life. Believe me."

+ +

Well, by the fall of 1962, the Mafia had become desperate. In the +summer of '62, Jimmy Hoffa, who of course was totally controlled +by the Mafia, confided a plan to assassinate both Kennedy brothers +to Louisiana Teamsters official, Edwin Parton[sp]. Parton's +testimony on this issue was later confirmed by a Louisiana judge. +Two months later, a businessman from Las Vegas was present +at a farm house in Louisiana when he heard Carlos Marcello +threaten to kill President Kennedy; not only threaten, but to +outline a plan to kill him in order to neutralize his crusading +brother Bobby. Two weeks after this, Marcello's Florida friend +and associate, Santos Trafficante -- who was very much involved +also in the anti-Castro Cuban movement -- was talking to a Cuban +exile leader, Jose' Alaman[sp] about how Robert Kennedy was +persecuting Jimmy Hoffa. "Mark my word", Trafficante told Alaman, +"This man Kennedy is in trouble and will get what is coming to +him." At this, Alaman took issue with Trafficante and +Trafficante replied, "No, Jose', you don't understand me. Kennedy +is not going to make it to the election. He is going to be hit." +Alaman, incidentally, who doubled as an FBI informant, related +this conversation to the FBI and it was eventually related to +FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. So Hoover, by this time -- by the +fall of 1962 -- must have known that some plot was in the wind.

+ +

Skipping a few months, we come to the spring of 1963, and an +allegation by an FBI informant in New Orleans that seemed to +indicate that a plot, a Mafia plot to assassinate Kennedy was in +the wind. Eugene Della Colle[sp], who was a bar man in a Marcello +controlled bar in New Orleans, told the FBI that in April, 1963, +Carlos Marcello's brother Tony had come into the bar one morning +to service the slot machines, and said (quote): "There is a price +on the President's head and other members of the Kennedy Family. +Somebody will kill Kennedy when he comes south."

+ +

So, in conclusion, Mafia boss Carlos Marcello and his allies in +the Mob and in the Teamsters Union had powerful motives to kill +Kennedy. We have witnesses who have testified to their planning +an assassination attack on the President; associates who +apparently had foreknowledge of such an attack, such as Santos +Trafficante and the one I just mentioned -- Tony Marcello. +So the motive was there.

+ +

Now, if you want to get into a discussion of means, we can do +that. If you want to get into a discussion of how a cover-up was +put in place, we can go into that.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Sir, we're going to get into all those things, but unfortunately, +we have a terrible, almost inaudible connection on your line. +We're going to ask you to hang up so that our engineer can call +you back. But I want Jones Harris to stay on. I just want John +Davis to hang up because we're going to call you back. I'm sorry +for the poor technical quality.

+ +

Let's switch over to Jones Harris. Welcome to our program Mr. +Harris.

+ +

JONES HARRIS: +Hi, Gary. Nice to meet you at long last. I've looked forward to +this. Now, I'd just like to make a few comments.

+ +

I'm nowhere near as informed on the Organized Crime level as John +Davis, who has written an excellent book, that I do recommend to +people to read, called MAFIA KINGFISH. My point is this. I went +to Dallas at the end of '63 and then spent a lot of '64 there. +I interviewed a great many people: police, lawyers who knew +police, and so forth. It was made very clear to me that Jack Ruby +was a member of Organized Crime, that he had been so for a long +time; that he held a very important position for anybody to hold +in any major American city. And that is, he was one of the chief +suborners of all Dallas police who would do the bidding of Organized +Crime. He was the payoff man, which meant that he had a LOT of +important information and a lot of important knowledge. Anybody +who knows the case knows the ease with which he circulated throughout +those days, including getting in [into the Dallas courthouse] in +order to kill Oswald. I don't think there's any doubt that Jack Ruby +worked directly under a man named Joe Civella[sp], who was the +Organized Crime boss in Dallas, who directly, himself, worked under +the far more important figure, Carlos Marcello.

+ +

I'd like to tell your audience, Gary, that the idea of a conspiracy +does not begin with a lot of researchers and people like myself, +some of whom wrote books, some of whom didn't. It begins within +the Warren Commission itself. I think there are not many people who +understood that one of the top members of the Commission, Senator +Richard Russell [of Georgia] REFUSED TO SIGN the Warren Commission +[Report] at the end when it was finished. He had felt all along +that it was a conspiracy. He had called Marina Oswald, from whom +eighty percent of the stuff against Lee Oswald came .... he had +called her a liar and said that she had lied specifically to the +Commission on six different occasions. He then had to sit down +with Warren and Johnson, and he finally submitted to signing the +thing, though he changed the preamble a little bit. He then told me, +and told any number of interviewers and close friends for the rest +of his days, that he was UTTERLY convinced that this thing was a +conspiracy: the killing of Kennedy. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

Article 2947 of alt.conspiracy.jfk: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part XIII, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:08:17 GMT + 1992Oct7.200817.23480@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 188

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +JONES HARRIS: +When I was fortunate enough again to interview John McCloy some +years before he died, and sat with him and his wife in his home +in Connecticut, and we talked things over, he said to me as I was +leaving: "Mr. Harris, we realized afterwards that there were many +things that were never told to us." Now this was important, +coming from John McCloy because John McCloy had been priveleged +to deal in intelligence matters for the United States from 1917 +on. I thought that that was an important admission. I believe +that Organized Crime played a very important role in the Kennedy +assassination, Gary, but I do not think that is the total story. +And one of the reasons I think it's not the total story is the +very thing that John Davis mentioned. I do not believe that +Trafficante would have said to a non-Mob person that "Kennedy was +going to be hit" if Organized Crime themselves were sending in +the killers. I do not believe that he would then have made that +comment to a non-Organized Crime person. I do believe that what +Organized crime did was ..... this crime could have taken place +in Miami. It could have taken place in Dallas. It was a moveable +feat. It could have taken place in Chicago. But wherever it was +going to take place, Organized Crime's contacts with those police +figures who were corrupt were going to be very important to +making the thing come out the right way. And there is no question +that in the Dallas area, that man was Jack Ruby.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. We're going to pause and reflect on all of this, put +this into perspective, and recapitulate some of the things that +John Davis has suggested. +John, are you back on the line?

+ +

JOHN DAVIS: +Yes, I am.

+ +

GARY NULL: +I'd also like to introduce Gaeton Fonzi. Welcome to our program, +Mr. Fonzi.

+ +

GAETON FONZI: +Thank you.

+ +

GARY NULL: +We're going to come to you in just a moment because you are a +highly respected investigator and journalist. You were an +investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations. +And we're going to get your perspective.

+ +

Again, it is not our intention to suggest that one group, one +individual alone [is guilty], but rather, we're looking at all of +the pieces and saying: What evidence do we have that was not and +has not been made the primary focus of either the Warren +Commission or the general news media presentation in taking it to +a level that, up to this point, simply has not existed. And also, +we're going to deal with some of the inconsistencies that have +occurred and some of the theories that have gone on. So we're +going to come to these issues in just a moment.

+ +

Now, because this is a non-commercial public access station, WBAI, +and as a part of the overall Pacifica Network throughout the +United States, several times a year we have to take a couple of +weeks and just raise some funds so that the station can continue, +so that we can keep ourselves commercial-free.

+ +
.......
+ +

For twenty-seven years, as an award-winnning investigative +journalist who has broken more stories -- over two hundred and +seventy-three major stories in the areas of medicine, the +environment, consumer health issues, I have always had to start +off with the problem of not just convincing the American Public +that there is something wrong with something that they were +believing in and trusting in, but I also had to go up against the +very forces who have enormous economic power and who have control +over the media. For instance, just two days ago, the New York +Times, in an editorial, started to talk about the fact that there +was a challenge against the theory that the HIV virus is the +single cause of AIDS. Where was the New York Times eight years +ago when this information was readily available? And where was +Time Magazine twenty-five years ago talking about vitamins? +NOW they say that vitamins help to prevent diseases like cancer. +Yes, vitamins do. But the evidence has been there all along. And +it hasn't been hidden. The evidence has been there that the HIV +virus is not the single cause of AIDS. It could not POSSIBLY be +the single cause of AIDS. There's no science to prove that, by +itself, it causes anything. And yet, why is it that no one has +written about it? Today's Amsterdam News writes about it.

+ +

The problem is that you have three things to contend with. +First, is convincing someone that something they thought was true +is not. Secondly, trying to deal with the idea that if you're +going to challenge the Status Quo -- as we're challenging the +Status Quo on the Kennedy Assassination -- that means you're +challenging something that people believe in almost as much as +they believe in themselves, or their parents, or their whole +life. And that is: orthodoxy; that is: authority. So it takes a +great deal of effort for the person to even be open to an idea +that challenges the prevailing view. And then, thirdly, is to see +whether or not they believe you enough to even look at the +evidence you have, and then try it. Why do you think, for +instance, just now we changed the Basic Four Food Group, which +was a SCAM. It was a fraud. It was unscientific. It was an +economic ploy. And it killed people by the hundreds of thousands +and millions because they were saturating their bodies and their +arteries with cholesterol and fats. And it causes heart disease +and cancer. Well now we know that. Alright? That's known. +BUT, we knew that all along. Certain people knew it. Just like +my guests today .... they have information that they've had for a +long time. Mr. Harris has had information for a long time. He had +information in 1978 that nobody wanted to pay attention to. +"Nobody", meaning mainstream media, and mainstream belief +systems. But it didn't matter. He has continued. We have a forum. +It's a small forum, but we have a forum for it.

+ +
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+ +

AMY GOODMAN: +For a contribution of fifty dollars, you support Gary Null +here every weekday, and you support WBAI, a commercial-free radio +station that would dare to put Gary Null on the air as much as we +do. We don't have corporate sponsors. We don't have drug companies +who say: "We don't want our dogma, our ideology challenged." +Of course, they wouldn't say that on the air, but they would say +it to management. But we are corporate-free. We are commercial-free. +And that's what makes us important. That's what enables us to +bring you Gary Null. If that is a philosophy that is important to +you, (212) 279-3400 is the number to call and support WBAI.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Right now, we're in the midst of a special twenty-five-part +investigation on conspiracies, cover-ups and hidden agendas. +We're looking at life in a way that we've never been told existed.

+ +

On the conference phone we now have Jones Harris, we have Gaeton +Fonzi, and we also have John Davis. I'd like to come back to you +at this time, Mr. Harris. If you would please continue talking +about what we now know about the Warren Commission and the +information that it chose to accept and review, and that which it +chose to EXCLUDE, including individuals whose testimony or +evidence it chose not to use, and that information that it chose +to use, which now in retrospect, anyone can see should not have +been included.

+ +

JONES HARRIS: +Gary, if I may, let me answer your question in a slightly broader +way than you're suggesting because the limits of your question +would better go to Mr. Fonzi or to John Davis.

+ +

But let me say this to the public that is interested in this. +Not only did the Warren Commission go well out of its way not to +explore the Organized Crime end of this thing. Sad to say, he's a +man whom I knew well -- and I know that he's dying at this moment +-- but I have to say that Jim Garrison is also a man who did +everything he could (and I worked for him down there) to shield +the Organized Crime community. I'll give you one example of that, +if this might be of interest to you.

+ +

The first day I went down to work for him (and I like him very +much. A very personable fellow), he said: "Jones, what's the +first thing you'd like to do?" And I raised the name of Carlos +Marcello. And this great big six-foot-seven giant looked down at +me and he said: "Well Jones, of course, Carlos used to be in +Organized Crime, but he's just a businessman now." And there was +a pause, and then Garrison said to me: "Jones, you and I can have +lunch with Carlos whenever you want." +Now this was one of the first things that I found worrying when I +started to work down there. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

Article 11001 of alt.censorship: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part XIV(corrected), PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 12:54:34 GMT + 1992Oct12.125434.10654@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 149

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CORRECTED: +I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +JONES HARRIS: +So, my point here is this: that the decision not to look very firmly +at Organized Crime starts almost from the beginning. It starts with +the Dallas Police. It starts with the Bureau [the FBI]. It starts +with the Warren Commission. It continues to Garrison, and I must +say that even though the Blakey Committee finally did come through +and say: "Yes, it looks as though there might have been involvement", +considering all the time that they spent, I found that their +information was awful awful thin.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. Let's explore that in some depth now, and let's go over +to Mr. Fonzi. Please hold on, Mr. Harris. Mr. Fonzi, thank you very +much for being with us. Let's explore a few things. Now you were an +investigator with the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Did +you find that there was any attempt by either the FBI or the CIA or +other leading law enforcement agencies or the attorney-general's +office, after [Robert] Kennedy, to downplay or to disengage the +interest of an investigation of Organized Crime in this?

+ +

GAETON FONZI: +Well that was not actually one of my areas of investigation. There +was, on the part of all the agencies, I believe, not a total spirit +of cooperation. And, of course, when it came to the CIA, that was +even more so.

+ +

Let me go back to something that John Davis said earlier on, as far +as there being no concrete evidence of CIA involvement. There was +no concrete evidence of anyone's involvement. There was no concrete +evidence of Organized Crime's involvement. There was no concrete +evidence of anti-Castro Cuban involvement or pro-Castro Cuban +involvement. There was no concrete evidence of any type of +involvement. There was, I believe, no concrete evidence of Lee +Harvey Oswald's involvement in the assassination.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Are you suggesting that Kennedy shot himself?

+ +

GAETON FONZI: +What I'm suggesting is that after all these years, there has not +been an adequate investigation. There was not an adequate +investigation on the part of the Warren Commission, and there +wasn't one on the part of the House Select Committee on +Assassinations.

+ +

GARY NULL: +But why? There had to have been a reason.

+ +

GAETON FONZI: +Well, certainly from my own experience with the House Select +Committee, I know the reason was strictly political. When Bob +Blakey, the second chief counsel after the original chief counsel +Richard Sprague was fired for wanting to conduct a murder +investigation, a unique approach to the Kennedy Assassination, the +new chief cousel Bob Blakey came in and told his staff this at the +first meeting: "We have two priorities. Our first priority is to +get a report done in time. Our second priority is to get a report +done within our financial restrictions." And with those priorities +we set out to do exactly that, limiting, of course, many many areas +of investigation.

+ +

Let me just go on for a minute in terms of some of the specifics +that both John Davis and Jones Harris were talking about. I agree +that Organized Crime probably had a part in the assassination +because of Ruby's links to Organized Crime. But I think, in trying +to determine any kind of strategic planning here, you've got to +account for Oswald and Oswald's movements. You've got to account +for Oswald's control. And when Senator Richard Schweiker, who headed +the Senate Select Subcommittee on the [John] Kennedy Assassination +under the [Senator Frank] Church Select Committee on Intelligence +..... when he first got into investigating the Kennedy Assassination, +his immediate conclusion, after digging into it, was that "Oswald +had", as Schweiker put it, "the fingerprints of Intelligence all +over his activities." So I think that, unless you crank in the +control of Oswald, any theory about the Kennedy Assassination just +isn't complete.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. Can you take us into an understanding of Alpha 66 +and Antonio Visiana?

+ +

GAETON FONZI: +Yes, because that goes into .... when you talk about means and +motivation, I think you can find the means and motivation, not only +on the part of Organized Crime, but on the part of the anti-Castro +Cubans or on the part of the intelligence agencies, and in almost +any direction you look. But what I feel is the strongest is the +overall picture of the intelligence agencies' connections to the +anti-Castro Cubans, and their motivation. And that goes back to the +period following the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy was given a lot of blame +for the failure of the Bay of Pigs [Invasion], but it wasn't his +fault. The Bay of Pigs was planned -- including the air strikes -- +by the [Central Intelligence] Agency before Kennedy became +president. And he was not even told about the air strikes. +Subsequently, as a result of that failure, Kennedy was very angry, +both at Castro and at the Intelligence Agency. And he sent his +brother Bobby to actually begin taking over the Agency, and set up +a secret war against Castro that was based out of this Florida area +here. And over the course of the years this became the largest CIA +operation outside of Langley [Virginia, CIA Headquarters]. It was +called the Jam Wave Station and it conducted a very very effective +operation against Castro almost on a daily and nightly basis. +These training camps, or these guerilla camps, were set up by the +Agency. They were controlled by Agency personnel using anti-Castro +Cubans as the operatives. And their spirit and motivation became +blended with the anti-Castro Cubans' goals.

+ +

Come the Cuban Missile Crisis when Kennedy realized that, as a +result of this very effective war against Castro, Castro permitted +the Russian missiles to be brought into Cuba. Kennedy realized that +he had brought the world to the brink of a nuclear disaster. So he +made arrangements with [Soviet Premier] Kruschev to stop the secret +war and to close down these guerilla bases in return for the +withdrawal of the missiles.

+ +

When he did that, the guerilla bases continued operating against +-- in defiance -- of the President's orders. As a result of that, +Kennedy was forced to use other agencies -- the Navy, the Coast +Guard and other military agencies -- to close down these camps. +And in the process, he arrested some of these anti-Castro Cubans +whom the Government had been supporting. This was reason enough for +the anti-Castro Cubans and their Intelligence [Agency] partners to +consider Kennedy a traitor. And as a matter of fact, during the +height of delicate negotiations with Kruschev, it was Alpha 66, one +of the most militant anti-Castro groups, that tried to sink Russian +ships in Havana Harbor, again defying Kennedy's orders. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

Article 2990 of alt.conspiracy.jfk: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part XV, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 21:23:31 GMT + 1992Oct12.212331.1686@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 161

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +GAETON FONZI: +When I was working for Senator Schweiker, on the Senate Select +Committee on Intelligence, I developed a witness in Miami named +Antonio Visiana. He was a former accountant in Cuba who had founded +Alpha 66. As I said, it was Alpha 66 that was one of the anti-Castro +Cuban groups that actually tried to blow up the Russian ships in +Havana Harbor, and blow apart Kennedy's deal with Kruschev. Visiana +told me that he was recruited in Havana in 1961 by an American named +Maurice Bishop. Bishop was the secret behind-the-scenes strategic +director of everything that he did with Alpha 66. +He worked with Bishop from 1961 until 1973, and during that period +of time, he worked with him on three attempts to assassinate Fidel +Castro. These were operations planned by Bishop who was obviously +an intelligence operative. He met with Bishop several times a year +and whenever it became necessary to plan strategy. + +In September of 1963, he made arrangements to meet with Bishop in +the lobby of an office building in Dallas. That was nothing new +because he had met Bishop a number of times in Dallas. When Visiana +arrived, Bishop was talking to a young man. When President Kennedy +was assassinated, Visiana immediately recognized Lee Harvey Oswald +as that young man. I thought that this was tremendously important; +perhaps the single most significant piece of new evidence since the +Warren Commission investigation, because Bishop was obviously CIA. +And the CIA had repeatedly denied any connection or contact with +Oswald. After we got Visiana to develop a sketch of Bishop, it was +Senator Schweiker who identified Bishop as being David Atlee Phillips, +a CIA officer who had risen to one of the highest ranks in the +Agency as the Chief of the Western Hemisphere Division. And we +discovered that Phillips was an undercover agent in Havana during +the period in which Visiana said that he had met Bishop. In 1963, +Phillips was Chief of Covert Operations in Mexico City, and he was +subsequently responsible for all the disinformation that the CIA +had fed the Warren Commission about Oswald's visits there.

+ +

This was one of the areas -- the link between David Atlee Phillips +and Maurice Bishop -- that I feel the House Select Committee didn't +want to go into because it would have opened too many doors, too +many important doors. And every one of those doors was marked "CIA".

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. Now, if that is the case, then let's summarize here. +What we have is a group of individuals with intelligence community +associations: CIA. We also have a few people who were ex-FBI, +including one who would play a very important role, and who was +also very familiar with Alpha 66. Then we had Guy Bannister. +Now I don't believe that it was possible for Guy Bannister and +David Ferrie ..... who both were known to Alpha 66 and the people +[thereunto] associated, and who also were familiar with what had +gone on with some attempted assassinations of Kennedy (with CIA +involvement). I believe that that had to have been a sub-contract to +the Mob. And when you look at what Johnny Roselli was testifying +about in secret, and then he was killed just a short time after +that, then you start to bring in Sam Giancana and Santos Trafficante, +the Mob boss of Tampa. And you start showing the connection -- that +it wasn't just possibly the Mob, and it wasn't just the intelligence +community. It was a marriage of the two.

+ +

Still, if you look at the precision of the assassination -- and we +have new information about that assassination that we're going to +be revealing for the first time anywhere, in another week or so -- +it could not have been done unless people were very very SKILLED in +hits.

+ +

[JD: The tape ran out here. I'll try to obtain a copy of the +missing remainder of the broadcast, but for now, let's resume +with the next day's broadcast. Here again, I missed some of +the beginning.]

+ +

GARY NULL: +..... ended up being there when it arrived in Bethdesda. And also, +(a very important piece of evidence) the fact that there were three +separate caskets that entered that hospital .....

+ +

DAVID LIFTON: +I said two.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Two. Well, also there was a circumstance of the same one being +seen twice: the bronze casket.

+ +

DAVID LIFTON: +Separate entries of two caskets. That's correct, according to +the evidence.

+ +

GARY NULL: +But the public was led to believe that there was only one casket: +the casket that the President's body was put in in Dallas, arriving +at Bethdesda Naval Hospital hours later, a routine autopsy being +performed. And that was the end of the story. That's what the +Warren Commission was told. That's what we have been led to +believe.

+ +

In point of fact, another casket, which actually contained the body +of the President, arrived. Give us the circumstances surrounding +the arrival of that casket. What witnesses were there to acknowledge +that another casket had arrived -- that it was not the bronze +casket -- that the President's body was not the way that it was +when it left Dallas?

+ +

DAVID LIFTON: +Now, these are two separate issues you're addressing here. One is +the condition of the body, and the other is the issue of multiple +caskets. So which would you like me to address first?

+ +

GARY NULL: +Begin with the different caskets.

+ +

DAVID LIFTON: +Okay. What I was able to show in BEST EVIDENCE (and I obtained +reports which had not been examined. In fact, they're not even in +the National Archives, as far as the Warren Commission investigation +goes) is the report of the military casket team. In that casket +team report (and I interviewed the men who were on the casket team) +..... Let's make sure we understand what the casket team is. These +are the pall bearers, the honor guard that met Air Force One when +it arrived on the night of November 22nd at Andrews Air Force Base. +This is a multi-service casket team consisting of Navy, Air Force, +Army and Coast Guard, and headed by a man named Lieutenant Samuel +Byrd who subsequently died of wounds incurred in Vietnam.

+ +

These men described to me (in telephone interviews and, in one +case, in an in-person interview in the year 1967. And it's hard +to believe that it was so long ago: twenty-five years ago) what +occurred at the front of Bethesda Naval Hospital when the Navy +ambulance pulled up. That ambulance pulled up and they tried to +follow that ambulance from seven o'clock when it arrived at the +front of Bethesda until eight o'clock when they finally brought the +coffin in. There is an hour, sort of a missing time in there. Now +we can quibble over whether it's forty-five minutes, thirty-five +minutes. But there's a serious incident in there where they attempt +to follow the Navy ambulance, lose the ambulance, and are told by +their superiors that they have followed the decoy. There is a decoy +ambulance. NONE of this made it into the Warren Commission Report. +It's ALL on my telephone interview tapes. And the written report +says that they brought the big casket, which we all saw off-loaded +on TV, and the one that is supposed to contain the body .... they +brought that in at eight o'clock. That is their official written +report dated December (oh, I don't know) fifth or tenth, 1963. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

Article 16516 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part XVI, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:04:32 GMT + 1992Oct16.160432.29973@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 145

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +DAVID LIFTON: +Now, contrary to that evidence, I actually located the witnesses +who were at the back of the hospital, and who participated in +off-loading the vehicle and the casket in which the body actually +was in. And that was a black hearse which arrived at about ten +minutes 'til seven, Eastern Time. That black hearse had two men in +O.R. smocks and a group of civilians. A shipping casket was brought +out of that hearse. Dennis David, who is in Chapter 25 of my book, +described the scene of his men off-loading that casket. Furthermore, +I have documentary evidence, which is in my book (it's actually at +the Gerald Ford Library now), that the arrival occurred at 6:50, +apparently. This is the shipping casket. It was brought into the +hospital. That shipping casket was opened by Paul O'Connor who was +the medical technician at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Inside that +shipping casket, according to O'Connor, the President's body was in +a body bag. He unzipped the body bag. That statement was accepted +and published by the House Select Committee: the fact that he +opened the President's body bag; that the body was in a body bag. +That's the information that the body did not arrive in the same +casket that it left Dallas in, even though, of course, the big +casket arrives at the front of the hospital.

+ +

Now, it so happens that the big casket enters twice: once at eight +o'clock, as I've just described in the casket scene. However, it +also enters at 7:14. That casket entry is documented in FBI +documents provided by FBI agents Seibert and O'Neill. So we have +three casket entries: the one in the shipping casket at 6:50 when, +apparently, the body arrived. Then there's this covert entry of the +big casket while the casket team is chasing around looking for it. +And that's apparently when the body was put back into the big +casket so that they could have an official casket opening at 8:00.

+ +

This hocus-pocus is documented. I think any historian has to accept +the fact that there are three documented entries. One can argue and +say that it's all a matter of a mix-up of the paperwork. I think +that that is highly unlikely in view of the other part of my case +which involves actual alterations to the body. That's a separate +issue. But on the area of the chain-of-possession, I want to tell +you that when this material was run on San Francisco TV station +KRON-TV, in a documentary in which I was a consultant, narrated by +Sylvia Chase and produced by Stanhope Gould, Stanhope said to the +San Francisco papers (and I was very pleased with this), he says:

+ +

"David Lifton has courtroom evidence that the body did not make an +uninterrupted journey from Dallas to Bethesda. Something happened. +He interviewed these witnesses personally, on camera. He sat with +them for hours in restaurants. They are credible."

+ +

And unless one believes in some crazy theory of Maxwell's demons, +and that reality went haywire that night, as it is supposed to have +gone haywire in Dealey Plaza that afternoon, with all kinds of +non-physical things occurring; you know, the head going the wrong way +on the Zapruder Film, or witnesses not understanding where the shots +came from ..... This is another episode at Bethesda that night. +And I say that what we are witnessing is, in fact, an interruption in +the chain-of-possession. A disguise was in force. The decoy ambulance +business smells. And something happened that night. Now, in my book +I try to explain what that something is. But focusing just on the +microscopic here, something happened. There are three documented +entries of two caskets.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Okay. Now let's go! What do you think happened, and how is it +significant to the conspiracy concept?

+ +

DAVID LIFTON: +Okay. In what I am now going to say, I'm not addressing the autopsy +X-rays and photographs. I am addressing the descriptions of the +body as recorded in the official documentation in the Bethesda +autopsy report and testimony. Okay? Because the autopsy photos and +X-rays are another issue -- and an important one -- and a separate +issue. But to avoid confusion (on a radio program we do not have +visual aids), what I'm going to say to you is that the legal record +(and one of the accomplishments of my book was to demonstrate +that the Bethesda medical record, based on the descriptions of the +head wound, for example, is different from the Dallas medical +record), the Dallas record described a 35 square centimeter hole +(wound) in the back right-rear of the President's head, with a flap +of scalp connected with that hole at the back -- a wound at the +right-rear of the head. Okay? I documented that in my book. +I showed that news accounts, starting with the press conference +conducted within an hour of the time of death, when the two doctors +Clark and Perry conducted a press conference at Parkland Hospital, +with news interviews over the weekend, with testimony before the +Warren Commission, with their medical reports -- it all points to +the fact that the doctors in Dallas saw a hole at the right-rear of +the head. Connected with that hole was a flap of scalp. They all +thought that a bullet had exited from the right-rear of the head. +When I say, "they all thought", let's say with one minor exception. +But that's what their diagnosis was. And the brain was inside the +head. It was not gone, or anything of that sort. There was severe +damage. There was some brain tissue blown out. But it was not as if +the President was in Dallas, Texas with an empty cranium.

+ +

Now, that is the Dallas evidence. I refer anybody listening to this +to Chapter 13 of my book ["BEST EVIDENCE"]. At the Bethesda end of +the line, I personally think that the finest evidence there is is a +blood-stained diagram -- today at the National Archives. That blood-stained diagram, executed by Commander Boswell, one of it's autopsy +surgeons, shows measurements ten-by-seventeen for the hole in the +top of the President's head. Ten-by-seventeen is 170 square centimeters. +That's FIVE times larger than the thirty-five square centimeters hole +at Parkland. To use inches, at Parkland it was thought to be two +and three-quarter inches across. At Bethesda it's seven or eight +inches on the diagonal. In the official autopsy description, it was +listed as thirteen centimeters across, which is still a mighty big hole. +It was not what was seen in Dallas.

+ +

Furthermore, specifically stated in the Bethesda report is that +the scalp is entirely gone over that hole. There is no flap. It is +just GONE. Now that huge crater in the top right-hand side of the +head is described in the Bethesda autopsy report, and it conflicts +with Dallas. Furthermore, two agents present -- FBI agents Seibert +and O'Neill, again who are also connected with the coffin business; +that is, in providing us with valuable information about that 7:14 +entry -- two FBI agents report that when the body was removed from +the casket in which it had been transported, and placed on the +autopsy table, it was apparent that there had been surgery of the +head area; namely, in the top of the skull. NO such surgery was +performed in Dallas. If the FBI statement is true (and that's a +very critical question; it ought to be investigated by a special +prosecutor) ..... if the FBI statement is true, then something +happened to the body between Dallas and Bethesda. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

Article 16630 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part XVII, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1992 12:18:27 GMT + 1992Oct20.121827.20733@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 141

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +DAVID LIFTON: +Now that is the evidence that something happened between Dallas and +Bethdesda. And the consequence of that medical alteration -- if it +occurred -- is that the Dallas doctors thought that something exited +from the rear of the head. The Bethesda doctors thought that +something entered from the rear and blew out the top. Did the +doctors recognize [believe] it? Was this a perfect medical forgery? +Absolutely not. They didn't recognize it because the FBI documents +that I've obtained under the Freedom of Information Act indicate +that the FBI wrote down what the doctors said. So if I'm correct, +my interpretation not only goes to what happened on the body, but +what happened in the room. In other words, to paraphrase the old +question from Watergate: What did the doctors know, and when did +they know it? Well, according to the FBI, the doctors IMMEDIATELY, +and I stress, immmediately recognized that there had been surgery +of the head area; namely in the top of the skull. That's what I +think the record shows in this case. + +This is not some kind of a perfect crime! It's a very sloppy crime. +I think that a special prosecutor ought to question these doctors +who are still alive -- and they MUST be questioned before they pass +on. I think that we would get some stunning new information about +this case because I personally interviewed one of the FBI agents, +and I know that he's going to stand behind his statement, contrary +to a foolish affidavit, excerpted in some weird fashion and +published by professor Blakey in a report in which they tried to +make it appear that the FBI agents said that this was not true.

+ +

So that's what happened in the area of the head. I believe that the +configuration of the wounds was changed. Now, in the area of the +neck we have a similar problem. We have a tracheotomy, supposedly, +according to the sworn testimony of Doctor Malcolm Perry in Dallas, +done through the neck wound. That tracheotomy, Doctor Perry told me +in 1966, was two to three centimeters. And according to everybody +there, it had neat edges -- neat edges as made with a knife. I +would be more than willing to testify before any investigation that +Perry told me that it was two to three centimeters, in 1966, and to +offer my telephone interview tapes as evidence. In 1966, I +interviewed all the doctors on this issue of the length of the +tracheotomy incision. At the Dallas end of the line it was two to +three centimeters; four, some of them said. There's one or two +stragglers who say it was a little bit bigger. But Perry made the +incision. He told me it was two to three centimeters. In the +autopsy report, that thing is listed as six-and-a-half centimeters +with widely gaping edges. And under oath, Humes said it was seven +to eight centimeters. And it has, according to the autopsy report, +widely gaping irregular edges. So that is the issue: that something +happened to the throat wound between Dallas and Bethesda.

+ +

Now, if it was an entry wound, as the Dallas doctors originally +alleged and believed, if a bullet or fragment entered at the front +of the throat and lodged, as most of them believed, at the top of +the right lung, isn't it interesting that when the body was opened +at Bethesda, where the Dallas doctors thought there was a bullet, +the Bethesda doctors found a bloody bruise with a pyramid-shaped +scar. That's circumstantial evidence, of course, but I think it's +probative. So that's the situation. I believe that there was +bullet extraction from the area of the throat too. All of this put +together raises again this question of probability. Can all these +doctors ..... can this pattern be an accident? Can we simply be +looking at mistaken medical observations, mistaken FBI reports, +mistaken observations of those who know what kind of casket was used? +I think not! I think this is the kind of stuff that the can opener +of a special prosecutor could pry wide open.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Okay. That's a good presentation. Now we're going to summarize +here for a moment. What you're suggesting is that there is hard +evidence, good documentation that the casket and the state of the +President's body that left Dallas is not the same casket and state +of the President's body that arrived in Bethesda.

+ +

DAVID LIFTON: +Right. There's not only a break in the chain-of-possession, but +there is alteration of the evidence.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. So they altered evidence. Now if this were put on trial, +that would be a major issue.

+ +

DAVID LIFTON: +That would be a major allegation. I can also guide you a little bit, +if you wish, into the way that the rebuttal would work so the +reader can understand the nature of this problem.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Okay. I'm going to ask you to hold onto that thought because +there's a lot more information. Now we're going to go, in just a +few moments, over to our other guest, Doctor Cyril Wecht, on this +issue. There is also the Leibeler Memorandum which I want to talk +about. And I want to talk about some new information and the +emergence of a new hypothesis. I want to talk about the Seibert +and O'Neill Report. And I want to look at the X-rays and the +photographs, and the allegations of Doctor John Ebersole, and some +of the comments from the House Select Committee in 1978. +Alright? We'll be doing that in a few moments.

+ +

I do want to mention to our audience that three times a year, here +on WBAI, non-commercial, public, free-access radio, part of the +Pacifica Network, that we must take a break to do some fund-raising +so that we can continue paying our bills. We're going to come back +to our guests in about ten minutes and continue on with this +information, presenting more documentation that the American Public +has not been made privy to, but which it must in order to make +reasonable judgments about the conclusions drawn by the Warren +Commission; about the role that the media has played in the +official position, and what this means.

+ +

Yesterday, you heard us talk about the fact that various members of +Organized Crime were implicated in this, and certain middle-level +members, by name, of the CIA; certain members of the FBI, by name, +such as Guy Banister; the pro and anti-Castro movements involving +Oswald, and the fact that, up to this point, we cannot find +evidence that Oswald was implicated in the assassination. It's so +easy to have a single gunman, a single person, and end it there. +But we CANNOT end it there if the evidence doesn't indicate that it +should be ended there. And it does not. And so we're looking hard, +and we're looking where mainstream media either has chosen not to +look, or has looked and chosen not to accept the evidence. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

Article 16698 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part XVIII, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1992 13:20:33 GMT + 1992Oct22.132033.16754@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 147

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +GARY NULL: +We're allowing you to make the decision, rather than making it for +you. We'll be back with this special investigative report. +Eighteen more [one-hour] parts to this series to come. Bit by bit, +we're laying the information out. It's too much to lay out all at +once. It would be too confusing. .....

+ +
......
+ +

In our series on hidden agendas, conspiracies and cover-ups, we are +examing one type of cover-up, and that involves the assassination of +President John F. Kennedy. Later on in this series we'll be dealing +with other issues, other forms of cover-up.

+ +

Most Americans, for a long period of time, believed the Warren +Commission, which said that two bullets fired by one man, who had +no connection to anyone, killed the President. There was never a +detailed effort to try to understand the inconsistencies, the +missing or altered evidence, nor the media's compliance with this +particular single view. We are now looking at new information and +trying to see whether or not the American Public has been given all +the information by the media to allow it to make an intelligent +decision about what really was involved. + +My guest on today's program is Jerry Policoff from WXIX-TV in +Cincinnati, Ohio, a researcher since 1966 whose articles on the +assassination of John F. Kennedy appeared in GALLERY MAGAZINE. He +has also written for ROLLING STONE, NEW TIMES, THE REALIST and +other publications, and in the op-ed pages of the New York Times +and the Washington Post. Most recently he wrote a very fine article +in the VILLAGE VOICE, co-authored with Robert Hennelly.

+ +

My other guest is Jim Marrs, author of CROSSFIRE: THE PLOT THAT +KILLED KENNEDY. He is also a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. +He was a reporter for the Denton Record-Chronicle at the time of the +assassination of John Kennedy. He teaches at the University of Texas +at Arlington, on the assassination of President Kennedy. +Welcome to our program, Jerry Policoff.

+ +

JERRY POLICOFF: +Hi. How are you?

+ +

GARY NULL: +and welcome to our program, Jim Marrs.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +It's good to be with you.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Jim, we're going to begin with you, and I'm going to be giving +information, through you, which the American Public simply has not +been made generally aware of, so we can throw new light on this +entire issue. I'm going to run through some issues with you. I'd +like for you to address them. First and foremost, let's try to +understand all the different things that occurred in Dealey Plaza +that most people had not even considered -- not even the Warren +Commission. We've been led to believe that it was just part of a +regular motorcade -- that this man just HAPPENED to have known the +[details of the] motorcade, planted himself there in very short +order, and was able to get off what is simply the fastest, most +accurate shooting in the HISTORY of marksmanship -- and that that's +how it went down. Nothing outside of that occurred that should +throw any suspicion upon this. And, by and large, most of the media +in America, for all these years, has accepted that.

+ +

Quickly, let's go through it and decide what happened on November +22nd of 1963 in Dealey Plaza -- the motorcade, the crowd, the +suspicious men, the "babuska lady", the Texas School Book +Depository, the districting[?] seizure, the man in the doorway, the +Oswald encounter, the triple underpass, the smoke from the grassy +knoll, the third wounded man, the Zapruder film, the black-dog man, +the badge man, the grassy knoll witnesses ..... Let's go through +all of this so that the American People can know that, all along, +this information was available, that people were coming forward, +and that this was excluded from being properly investigated or +reported on.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Right. And I think you've pretty well touched on it here. If you +look at any one single issue in this whole case, then there is +always doubt, there is always the possibility of a coincidence, or +maybe of just a mistake, or whatever. But you have to look at this +evidence in its totality. All of this evidence -- everything we +could talk about -- still comes back to one thing. And that is the +"single bullet theory". The "single bullet theory" says that one of +the bullets struck both Kennedy and Connally, causing seven wounds +to these two men, including shattering Connally's fifth rib and +shattering his wrist bone. Now if the one bullet did not hit both +men, then there has to be more than one shooter, in which case +we've got a crossfire; we've got a conspiracy. And that elevates this +thing to a whole new ball game. So I'd like to address that first.

+ +

They knew how long the assassination took because of the Zapruder +Film. The FBI diligently checked his camera and found out that it +ran at eighteen frames per second. So they know that all of the +shooting happened within 5.6 seconds. Alright. Now, within 5.6 +seconds it is physically impossible for one man with a bolt-action +rifle to fire more than three rounds. Hence, they had to say that +there were only three shots fired. Alright. Two of those shots are +accounted for, which leaves only ONE bullet to account for the +seven wounds to Kennedy and Connally. So how did they go about this?

+ +

They simply told us -- and they are STILL TELLING US (people within +the Warren Commission: [President] Gerald Ford, David Dillon[?]) +are STILL telling us that the bullet went through Kennedy's neck, +did not hit anything, and then went on to hit Connally. In fact, +the Warren Commission Report itself, "Number One: Findings," said: +"President Kennedy was first struck by a bullet which entered at +the back of his neck and exited through the lower front portion of +his neck." Now the problem is that this is a small, but critical LIE! +And I say it's a lie because I'll prove it to you in just a minute. +The President was struck in the back. Okay? And they were unable +to probe the wound. However, even if they had probed it, +they claimed that it went upward and exited out his neck. Now -- +there's no question about this. The autopsy face-sheet shows it. +It's marked "verified" by his personal physician. The autopsy +doctors were quoted in the Seibert-O'Neill Report as saying that +the wound was in the back -- the middle of the back. everybody says +that. The shirt and jacket, which are still available, plainly show +a bullet in the middle of the back. The death certificate says: +"a wound in the posterior back at the level of the third thoracic +vertebrae." And even Glenn Bennett, one of the Secret Service agents, +in his report from hand-written notes on the day of the assassination, +said that he saw the shot hit the President about four inches down +from the right shoulder. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

Article 16734 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part XIX, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 22:04:05 GMT + 1992Oct23.220405.14474@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 150

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +JIM MARRS: +Okay. No problem. He was hit in the back. But the Warren +Commission and everybody up to today has lied to us and said that +he was hit in the neck. Why? Because he was hit in the back, and +it came out his throat. That's an upward trajectory, and it could +not possibly turn in mid-air and come down to strike Connally. +So it destroys the "single bullet theory" which is the whole +foundation of the "lone assassin theory".

+ +

Now, the "smoking gun". The "smoking gun" is the minutes of the +January 27th, 1964 meeting of the Warren Commission. And we have +the Chief Counsel, J. Lee Rankin addressing the Warren Commission +([ex-CIA Director] Allen Dulles, [future President] Gerald Ford). +And he says (quote):

+ +

"It seems quite apparent now, since we have a picture of where +the bullet entered in the back, that the bullet entered below the +shoulder blade, to the right of the backbone, which is below the +place where the picture shows the bullet came out the neckband of +the shirt, in front. So that how it could turn and ......"

+ +

And he trails off, because he realizes he has just talked his way +right out of the "single bullet theory". So they all just decided to +turn their eyes. They're not going to look at the facts, and they're +going to lie to us and say that the bullet went [entered] through +the neck. And THAT is the crux of this whole case. It was a lie +from start to finish. It was a lie perpetrated at the highest levels +of the Federal Government. And those people who knew better -- +who knew where the bullet went, and then lied to us -- are technically +and legally, under the law, guilty of being accessories-after-the-fact, +which, under the law, means that they are just as guilty as whoever +pulled the trigger[s].

+ +

And that's what elevates this crime from the murder of President Kennedy +to a coup d'etat in the United States.

+ +

[JD: a crime of "high treason" against the people of the United States]

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. Let's take a look at the other evidence. Then I want to +come back to your assertion here, because if there was a coup d'etat, +I want to go through the cast of characters and people who have +been alleged, up to this point, to be suspects; such as: Organized +Crime, pro and anti-Castro Cubans, the CIA and other intelligence +agencies, the FBI, some of the oil cartel men, some of the right-wing +reactionaries, some of the military hierarchy. I want to look at +each one of these, because you could not have a coup d'etat without +having the participation of at least four of those groups. It would +not work. And anyone planning a military operation of this magnitude +would have known that.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +That's true.

+ +

GARY NULL: +You do not plan a coup d'etat if you know that the military could +come in and stop you. The FBI would stop you. The Justice Department +would stop you. So, Organized Crime, by itself, could not possibly +do it -- which is what's laughable about many of these assertions +that Organized Crime could do this. First of all, it is my theory +that these members of Organized Crime have never been very smart -- +that almost everything that they have ever done we have a very +detailed history of, because they've talked about every crime +they've ever committed on audio tapes that are in the hands of the +different courts. From John Gotti on down, every one of these +people talk. They're braggarts.

+ +

Secondly, they couldn't have covered-up because they've never been +able to cover anything up. In time, every one of their secrets has +come forward. And, from that time until now, if Organized Crime was +involved, we would have heard about it on FBI wiretaps or other +taps that have occurred. So they may have had some participation. +But to assume that they were responsible BY THEMSELVES? It goes +beyond any feasibility.

+ +

This was a military-style operation. But the military would NOT +have committed this had they known that the security agencies +would have challenged them.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Exactly!

+ +

GARY NULL: +So you can't have one group [committing a coup d'etat], knowing that +there is a balance of power within our Government. Any one of those +balances that is left uncontrolled would be the one that would +uncover it or, in effect, take back the power. So you have to have, +in effect, complicity by all the major groups. And I think it's +laughable that Blakey, of the House Select Committee on +Assassinations, would have assumed that the Mob did it by itself, +as if they had the skill to do it. Their hits have been effective, +but not skillful. And these [assassins] were EXTREMELY skilled. And +their cover-up was meticulous. The Mob, by itself, could not have +covered up, and have stolen information out of the National Archives, +and done the things that have been done. So I want you to give us +your view of that. But let's go back and look at other +inconsistencies and obfuscations at Dealey Plaza.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Okay. First, let me make a quick point. I agree with everything +that you've said, except that I would like to point out to your +audience that I don't believe -- and I don't think you believe, +either -- that everbody within Government and everybody within the +intelligence services knew what was going to happen and +participated actively in the assassination of President Kennedy. +It doesn't work that way. They are all highly compartmentalized. +Very often, the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. +And the way to control that is from the absolute top. So we've got +two men who were in absolute, undeniable, total control of the +investigation into the death of President Kennedy. And it just +happens to be the two men who benefitted most from the assassination, +and who hated Kennedy the most. And that was Lyndon Johnson, his +successor, and J. Edgar Hoover, Johnson's buddy and neighbor, who +was in control of the FBI.

+ +

[JD: Many years ago, I read a report that the day before President +Kennedy was assassinated, he was quoted as remarking: +"That's Lyndon Johnson, and he's in a lot of trouble." +Can anyone cite a published source of any quote like this?] +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

The episodes of this series can be retrieved via anonymous ftp from the sites: +ftp.css.itd.umich.edu and red.css.itd.umich.edu +Log in with name "anonymous" or "ftp" and supply your email address as the +password. The files are kept in the directory /poli/essays.d/conspiracy.d +(Instructions for ftp retrieval are dependent upon what sort of system +the user is on. On a UNIX machine, one would do, at the command prompt: +ftp ftp.css.itd.umich.edu This may be different on IBMs and Vax systems.)

+ +

Article 3172 of alt.conspiracy.jfk: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!jad +From: jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part 20, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories +Distribution: North America +Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 17:51:05 GMT + 1992Oct27.175105.20550@cbnewsl.cb.att.com +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Lines: 156

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +JIM MARRS: +And in the case of the FBI, if you can control the distribution of +the information and what information is released, then you control +the whole investigation. In other words, there were honest FBI +people who were going out, after the assassination, and doing +honest investigative work, and filing honest reports. But these +reports were thrown in with other reports of dubious authenticity; +reports which can be demonstrated to be phony -- false. And then, +from the very top, J. Edgar Hoover and his top echelon was able to +reach into this smorgasbord of evidence and pull out, selectively, +whatever case they wanted to present to the public.

+ +

GARY NULL: +There is one other character whom you didn't mention, though I'm +sure you're aware of, and that is: JFK had replaced Allen Dulles +as the head of the CIA, and Allen Dulles ends up being one of the +key people on the Warren Commission.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Exactly. Isn't that like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse?

+ +

GARY NULL: +And there was no man in the history of the intelligence community, +before or since, who's ever been as connected to everything within +the intelligence apparatus -- and very much a hands-on person -- +as Allen Dulles.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +That's true. And let me point out that during the Warren Commission +hearings, the allegation came up, just as it's still alive today, +that Lee Harvey Oswald was a U.S. intelligence agent. His wife and +his mother have both publicly stated that this was so. So they asked +Allen Dulles while they were meeting with the Warren Commission -- +they said: If he had been an agent with the CIA, and you were still +the head of the CIA, would you admit it? And he said, "No." +They said: You would lie about it? He said: Yes, I would. +And so, that's kind of where we are. I would point out that this +current committee in Congress that's debating whether or not to +open up the files on the Kennedy Assassination ..... the very first +item that they have listed that they would shield -- that they would +keep files hidden on -- is to protect the identity of a U.S. agent. +Well, that's kind of a catch-22. If Oswald was indeed a U.S. agent, +then by the parameters set by the new Congressional committee, they +can't release any information about it. Isn't that something?

+ +

GARY NULL: +Okay. Well, in any case, we all know that anything the CIA is +going to release is going to be COMPLETELY on their side. Any +damaging files, they will have destroyed or not turned over.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +You know, let's not forget, by the way, that [President] Gerald Ford, +when he was on the committee, was virtually an informant for +J. Edgar Hoover.

+ +

GARY NULL: +I was not aware of that. Let's quickly go through the other +inconsistencies and disinformation from Dealey Plaza.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Well, of course, there's just a plethora of information there. +Beginning with the fact that the majority of people said that the +shots came, not from the School Book Depository, but from down near +the triple underpass, from behind the picket fence on the Grassy +Knoll. There are even eyewitnesses such as Malcolm Summers and Jean +Hill and Sam Holland and the railroad people who actually said they +saw the flash of light, saw the figure under the trees, and saw +smoke drift out from under the trees. And there's a point there too. +For years, apologists for the Government have claimed: Well, there +couldn't have been smoke because even if there had been somebody +there with a high-power rifle, modern rifles do not smoke. +Well, being the owner of several bolt-action rifles myself, I can +assure you that if you have one that's freshly oiled, you'll get a +nice white puff of smoke. And sure enough, in a film made by a +newsman named Dave Wegman, we have a frame showing Kennedy's car, +with the stricken President, just beginning to enter the triple +underpass. And hanging in the air, coming right off the Grassy Knoll, +is an obvious white puff of smoke. So these people were all telling +the truth, and it's the Government that's lied all these years. +We've got Beverly Oliver who was taking film from the south side of +Elm Street, and she had her film taken by men who identified +themselves as FBI agents. And there's a point there. In the hours +following the assassination, and for several weeks, and in fact, +all the way up into the summer of 1964 when the Warren Commission +was already writing their report saying that Oswald was the lone +assassin, the FBI was in Dallas, actively, in the newspaper and on +the radio, asking people to turn in their films, their photographs, +any pictures they had taken in Dealey Plaza; and, of course, +ostensibly to investigate, to help solve the crime. The fact is +that very few of those people ever got their pictures or their +films back. And so, all these years I've had people saying: +Well look, if there's a big conspiracy, where's the evidence? +Well heck! They TOOK the evidence up. They just took it away.

+ +

So there was an ongoing, concerted effort to take up evidence and +to hide anything that would point to the reality of what went on. +And the witnesses, the majority of whom said that shots came from +the Grassy Knoll, were discredited, were laughed at, and were ignored.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. Let's go through a few of the particulars here: +the lack of Secret Service agents protecting the roofs, and the +speed of the motorcade. Those are two primary issues that have not +been properly addressed.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Okay. Number one: the security for the motorcade. A lot of people +don't understand, Gary, that that motorcade that Kennedy was in in +Dallas, where he met his death, that was the SECOND motorcade of +that day. Earlier in the morning, Kennedy rode in a motorcade from +downtown Fort Worth out to Carswell Air Force Base where he boarded +Air Force One for the short hop over to Dallas. Now, having been a +police reporter there in Fort Worth starting way back in the +mid-60s, I came into contact with a lot of police and sheriff's +people and everybody else who participated in that motorcade. And +they said that security was especially tight, and that they had +orders to keep people off of the overpasses and off of bridges that +would overlook the motorcade route -- that they had armed men +stationed on rooftops, looking for anything out of the ordinary. +Most importantly, they had orders that there were to be no open +windows facing the mototcade route. And, in fact, they had orders +to go into buildings and close windows if they saw a window go up +along the motorcade route.

+ +

NONE of this was done in Dallas. NONE OF IT ! +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

The episodes of this series can be retrieved via anonymous ftp from the sites: +ftp.css.itd.umich.edu and red.css.itd.umich.edu +Log in with name "anonymous" or "ftp" and supply your email address as the +password. The files are kept in the directory /poli/essays.d/conspiracy.d +(Instructions for ftp retrieval are dependent upon what sort of system +the user is on. On a UNIX machine, one would do, at the command prompt: +ftp ftp.css.itd.umich.edu This may be different on IBMs and Vax systems.)

+ +

Article 17313 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!cbnewsk!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!murdoch!Turing.ORG!jad +From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part 21, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy + 1992Nov12.125856.14188@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia. +Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:58:56 GMT +Lines: 151

+ +

The following transcript was made from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +JIM MARRS [author of CROSSFIRE]: +In fact, they used motorcycle officers, who were to flank Kennedy's +car, who were given orders by the Secret Service not to proceed +past the rear bumper. That left him hanging out there, unprotected. +Dallas police Captain Fritz had requested of the Secret Service +that he be allowed to ride a car or two back from the President +with some of his sharpshooters and to watch the windows and watch +for problems on the rooftops. He was told: No, you can ride at +the rear of the motorcade. So, in disgust, he just went on to the +trademart.

+ +

None of the normal precautions were taken that day. And, in fact, +there were direct violations of Secret Service regulations, the +most blatant of which was that the men who were actually in charge +of protecting the President -- in direct violation of Secret +Service regulations -- were out drinking until four and five in +the morning over in Fort Worth. And they were not just drinking +beer. They were drinking Everclear. This was a direct violation, +punishable by dismissal from the Secret Service, and yet, all of +this was hushed up and covered up.

+ +

The next big security breach was that Secret Service regulations +stated that you would not make a turn greater than ninety degrees. +And if you had to make a ninety degree turn, you'd station +security people at the intersection. Well, the one hundred and +twenty degree turn in front of the Texas School Book Depository +was a direct violation. And no security people were stationed +there. Only one policeman, Joe Smith, was stationed there. And +what was his experience? He said that he heard shots down near +the triple underpass by the little concrete monument, ran down +there, and could still smell gunpowder hanging in the bushes. +So you could see that there was something really wrong going on +with the motorcade.

+ +

GARY NULL: +So Secret Service elements would have to have been involved. +Isn't it also true that the right-flanking motorcycle cop leaves +the motorcade when everyone turns onto Elm Street, and that cop +continues straight down Houston Street?

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Well, that is true, but I think I have an explanation for that. +In one of Mary Moorman's five Polaroid snapshots, we see a +picture of this motorcycle officer, by himself, rushing down Elm +Street. I think what happened there was kind of a normal police +motorcade procedure, like in a funeral or something. One runs up +ahead, checks the intersection and holds traffic while everybody +goes through -- and then he races ahead -- leap-frogs up ahead. +I think that this motorcycle officer simply roared up Houston +Street a little ways to make sure that everything was secured and +that nobody was coming through there; and then he turned around, +rode back and rejoined his companions further down in the plaza. +I don't necessarily see anything suspicious in that one particular +incident.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Jim, what you're telling us is very new and very important for +this audience. And that is that there were extraordinarily tight +and professional safety precautions earlier that same day in +Fort Worth, and all of that was undone. All of that was dismissed +in Dallas. That is completely atypical, and that is something +that the media should have picked up on. That story ALONE would +have been enough, if I were the city editor, for me to send out a +reporter -- to say: Hold on a second. Dallas and Fort Worth are +side-by-side. They're only about thirty miles apart. You have, in +one case, tight, complete, total security. And in another case +you have no security ?

+ +

JIM MARRS: +That's true. Well let me tell you something -- then and now. +First off ..... Well, I don't want to use any names, but a good +friend of mine, a peer, who was a news reporter at that time, and +who knew Dallas quite familiarly .....and that was part of the +problem: all the news media poured into Dallas, but they didn't +really know Dallas. They didn't know how to get around. They +didn't know how to talk to the people. But this fellow did. And +he was beginning to kind of investigate on his own because he +smelled a rat. Okay? And he became convinced that his phone was +tapped, and that people were following him around. He had a wife +and a family, and he just told me, quite frankly, that it scared +him, and he backed off. Now that was back at the time [soon after +the assassination]. Today, just two years ago, a senior editor +for one of the Dallas-Fort Worth major dailies told me -- he said: +"Jim, I know you're right, but I can't print the truth because +it could mean my life." Okay? And the guy was dead-serious.

+ +

Now I, for one, do not believe for a minute that some hit-team is +going to come to Dallas-Fort Worth and kill some newspaper editor +just because of some story he runs in the newspaper. The point is, +this fellow does. This fellow really believes it. So we've got +absolute fear still being used as a very, very powerful weapon down +here to keep people who should know otherwise ..... to keep them +silent.

+ +

JERRY POLICOFF: +Can I interject something here? You know, when you're talking about +security in Dallas, of all of the places where there should have +been a greater measure of security than anywhere else, it should +have been Dallas where [liberal Democrat who ran against Eisenhower +in '56] Adlai Stevenson had been attacked and spat on by a crowd. +Lyndon Johnson had been [too]. There were legitimate reasons to be +concerned about the safety of the President in Dallas, of all places.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. We're going to take a break here to summarize everything. +Then I want to go into the means, the motives and the opportunities +to assassinate the President, and try to give as much new +information as possible, and at that time, also bring in what the +media has done or not done. I even want to get to the information +that was NOT reviewed, or not given credibility by the investigators. +In particular, when one good investigator was doing a good job, +he was fired, and a person who supported the "single gunman theory" +was brought in to take his place. So, at every level, damage control +was maintained. The only way that could have been done is for people +who were in a position to control it from the very first day knew +that no matter how long it took -- no matter who came into the picture, +no one in the major media, or in any Governmental agency was going +to uncover anything that would be that damaging. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ +If we seriously listen to this "God within us" ["conscience", +if you will], we usually find ourselves being urged to take the +more difficult path, the path of more effort rather than less. +.... Each and every one of us, more or less frequently, will hold +back from this work. .... Like every one of our ancestors before +us, we are all lazy. So original sin does exist; it is our laziness.

+ +

M. Scott Peck +THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED +~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

+ +

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Article 17406 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part 22, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy + 1992Nov16.161704.18600@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia. +Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:17:04 GMT +Lines: 156

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +GARY NULL: +My guests today are Jerry Policoff and Jim Marrs. We're going to +come back to them in just a few moments. Jerry and Jim, we're +going to take a ten-minute break because this week, and I believe +next week, WBAI, this non-commercial station which is part of the +Pacifica Radio Network, is in the midst of its fund-raising, and +we use this opportunity three times a year to raise funds so that +this station can continue.

+ +
.....
+ +

Right now, we're doing our special report on the assassination of +President John F. Kennedy. It will continue until we've laid out +all of the evidence that we have; each day another new piece of it. +Now, let's go back to our main program.

+ +

We're talking about the John Kennedy Assassination. On our +conference phone right now -- and I appreciate their patience for +standing by -- is Dr. Cyril Wecht, and also talking to us on +another conference phone is David Lifton. Dr. Wecht, you've been +listening patiently, and I thank you very much for your patience. +Would you be kind enough to share with us your concern about the +Warren Commission's findings and what you feel is the weak link in +that evidence, and what you would propose we should be paying some +attention to?

+ +

CYRIL WECHT: +Yes. Mr. Null, I'll just be able to make a brief statement because +the time has run out for me at my end. I'm sorry. I would have +enjoyed talking to you more. My concerns about the Warren Commission +Report have been a matter of record. They're now going back +some twenty-seven years. I believe I'm the only non-Government-affiliated forensic pathologist to have testified three times under +oath in this matter before Federal District Court Judge Charles +Hallock[sp] Jr. in Washington, D.C. in 1969, as a prelude to the +Clay Shaw Trial in New Orleans, and before the Rockefeller +Commission in 1975 .....

+ +

..... [side A of tape ended]

+ +

.... CIA clearance. Any staff member who was reviewing CIA +documents, before he could leave, had to submit notes to the CIA +for review. And basically, the course of the investigation changed. +And all of a sudden the main suspect was Organized Crime. To put a +historical context on this, only slightly before the House +Assassinations Committee began its work, the [Sen. Frank] Church +Committee had ended its work. And, although they didn't review +whether or not there was a conspiracy, they did review the work +of the FBI and the CIA in terms of their initial investigations of +the assassination. And the result was a blistering indictment of +their investigations; in fact, their non-investigations. The Church +Committee made it very clear that J. Edgar Hoover had decided, +immediately after the assassination, that Lee Harvey Oswald was +the assassin. As the main investigative arm of the Warren +Commission, that certiainly put handcuffs on the Warren Commission.

+ +

The CIA was guilty of obfuscation at every turn, in terms of +whether Oswald was a CIA agent, had ever worked for the CIA, his +connections or his activities in Mexico City; in fact, whether +that even was Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexio City, which is doubtful; +his connections with Guy Bannister and various anti-Castro groups +in New Orleans. All of that was TOTALLY obfuscated by the CIA. +So, with that in its historical context, you have to really look +at the FBI and the CIA as clearly, at least, suspects when you're +investigating the Assassination. That was never done by [Chief +Counsel] Blakey! Members of the staff [of the House Select +Committee on Assassinations] who weren't cleared by the CIA were +fired. Frankly, even at one point it was discovered that the +autopsy photos and X-rays, which were in the files of the House +Committee ..... somebody had broken into the room in which the +autopsy photos and X-rays were kept, and had hurriedly made an +examination of them, ripping some file folders in the process. +A fingerprint examination revealed that the person who had broken +in was the CIA liaison between the Committee and the CIA. That +person was fired, but it didn't seem to have, in any way, raised +any questions with Blakey in terms of the role of the CIA.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Isn't that a federal offense: breaking and entering, and +tampering with information?

+ +

CYRIL WECHT: +I would certainly think so.

+ +

GARY NULL: +To my knowledge, no one from the CIA has EVER actually been put on +trial for ANY crimes. Have they?

+ +

CYRIL WECHT: +No. Never.

+ +

GARY NULL: +So what we have is an agency that was repeatedly spying on its own +citizens, interfering in special investigations -- and yet no one +was calling the CIA to account. And, as a result, to this day, the +CIA is still being able to do virtually anything that it wants.

+ +

CYRIL WECHT: +Yes. And, as a matter of fact, one of the Committee staffers told +me that, back at the time that the Committee was investigating, +one of the staffers basically put some hard questions to Blakey, +in terms of his acceptance of anything that the CIA told him. +He said, and this is a quote: "You don't think they would lie to +me, do you? I've been working with these people for twenty years." +That really puts into perspective where Blakey was coming from.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. Le's go to a few other issues here. Let's take a look at +the NBC documentary on Jim Garrison.

+ +

CYRIL WECHT: +Okay. I have to preface this by saying that I really think that +there were a lot of things wrong with the Garrison Investigation, +but it's really clear, from the outset, that the Government was +VERY concerned about what was going on in New Orleans and about +what was going to come out. We know that one of the things that +the House Committee found, but didn't publish -- thanks to +Mr. Blakey -- was that the CIA infiltrated eleven of its agents +into Garrison's investigation. We know that the Justice Department +was spoon-feeding information to Clay Shaw's lawyers.

+ +

>From the beginning, the media, rather than taking an arms-length +view and holding back to see what Garrison had .... the media was, +almost from the beginning, almost prosecutorial in terms of the +way they went after Garrison. NBC ran a one-hour documentary +during prime-time. It was produced by Walter Sheridan, who had +never been a journalist all of his life. He had been a private +investigator. He had worked for the Kennedy family. We don't +really know what his agenda was here, but he certainly was not a +reporter. He was accused of bribing witnesses. The documentary, +from beginning to end, was an incredible indictment of Garrison. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

If you would like to hear Gary Null's program, broadcast by satellite +from WBAI to a radio station in your locale, you can help to make it +happen by calling 1(800) USA-1963. +

+ +

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Article 17461 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!att-out!pacbell.com!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!murdoch!Turing.ORG!jad +From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part 23, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy + 1992Nov17.223139.4440@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia. +Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:31:39 GMT +Lines: 143

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +CYRIL WECHT: +Just to put in context what they did, Garrison went to the F.C.C. +to request equal time, and never before or since has the F.C.C. +made a judgment like the one they made in this case. They ruled +that the NBC documentary was so dishonest and so flawed that they +ordered NBC to give Garrison a half-hour of prime time to respond +to it. I think that says something in terms of where that NBC +documentary was coming from.

+ +

GARY NULL: +And Garrison did respond to it?

+ +

CYRIL WECHT: +He did respond to it in prime time. Yes.

+ +

GARY NULL: +We must state here that Walter Sheridan, since he's not here to +defend himself .... any allegations of any misdeeds or misconduct +are just that: allegations. Since he was never proved to have done +any of those things, we must keep that in this perspective. +Now let's go to the idea of the NBC documentary on the JFK +assassination and the FBI.

+ +

CYRIL WECHT: +Okay. When the Warren Commission Report was issued, NBC ran a +one-hour documentary in prime time, just prior to the release of +the Warren Report, that basically was a summary of what the Warren +Commission was going to find. An internal FBI document, that was +generated a week prior to that documentary, reviewed in chapter +and verse what the NBC documentary was going to show, and also it +included in it assurances from unnamed sources at NBC that nothing +in the documentary would criticize the work of the FBI or the +findings of the initial FBI report that had preceded the findings +of the Warren Commission. Clearly, the FBI had an open pipeline +into NBC and it knew exactly what NBC was doing. And clearly, +there was a pipeline back that was assuring the FBI that there +wouldn't be any agenda that the FBI would have a problem with.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. The Washington Post and editor Ben Bradlee?

+ +

CYRIL WECHT: +Okay. Ben Bradlee .... I have a letter from the then-book-review +editor of the Washington Post in which he informed me that Ben +Bradlee had ordered him not to review any books about the Kennedy +Assassination. A rather interesting incident took place after the +demise of the House Assassinations Committee. One of the things +that the House Assassinations Committee had investigated was a +report that Lee Harvey Oswald had ben seen in the company of a +gentleman by the name of Maurice Bishop, who was said by sources +to be a high-ranking official in the Central Intelligence Agency. +The members of the staff of the House Assassinations Committee +became convinced that Maurice Bishop was David Atlee Phillips, who +had also been a major high-ranking official of the Central +Intelligence Agency. He had been in Mexico City. He later resigned +from the Agency to form a support group for the CIA when the CIA +was coming under a great deal of criticism. David [shouldn't it be +Anthony?] Summers[sp] wrote extensively about the Phillips/Maurice +Bishop connection in his book, CONSPIRACY. And he managed to get +an audience with Ben Bradlee. He suggested to Ben Bradlee that +this was an area that was ripe for investigation.

+ +

Bradlee subsequently assigned a reporter to the story. The reporter +was in touch with Summers. He was also in touch with Gaeton Fonzi +who had been an investigator for the House Committee [on +Assassinations]. Prior to that, he had been an investigator for +the [Sen. Frank] Church Committee [on Assassinations], and he was +the investigator who had originally come up with the Maurice Bishop +story. The reporter told both Summers and Gaeton Fonzi that when +Bradlee assigned him to the story, he told him to discredit the +story. Those were his marching orders. Far from discrediting the +story, as this reporter got into it, he developed more information +that tended to support the conclusion that Phillips and Maurice +Bishop were the same person. That is basically the gist of the +story that he submitted. The story was killed!

+ +

And that's really in line with what the Washington Post has done +from the beginning. The Washington Post, The New York Times, +TIME Inc. have been obsessed with discrediting the stories of +conspiracy, and with shoring up the official Government findings.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Then you would have to ask: Why? Is it a matter of coincidence? +Is it a matter of editorial opinion that may be completely +innocent of any complicity or malfeasance, or is there some +connection from the New York Times, NBC, CBS, The Washington Post, +TIME Magazine that would have connections to any of the major +people who are under criticism now for having participated; such +as some of the major CIA officers, some of the high-ranking people +from within the military/industrial complex, right-wing extemists, +etc. Are there any connections?

+ +

CYRIL WECHT: +That's where I get into difficulty. I mean, I don't really like to +speculate about why I think it's dangerous. I think you can only +point to what was done. Questions have to be raised. I mean, you'd +have to ask why the media has done what it has done; why these +things seem to come from the upper levels of the newspapers, +networks, magazines involved.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Because remember, it's the same Washington Post that allowed [Bob] +Woodward and [Carl] Bernstein to expose Watergate, which brought +down Nixon in the White House and a lot of Ivy League people.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Gary, could I jump in and make a comment?

+ +

GARY NULL: +Yes. Jim Marrs, jump in, please. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ +If we seriously listen to this "God within us" ["conscience", +if you will], we usually find ourselves being urged to take the +more difficult path, the path of more effort rather than less. +.... Each and every one of us, more or less frequently, will hold +back from this work. .... Like every one of our ancestors before +us, we are all lazy. So original sin does exist; it is our laziness.

+ +

M. Scott Peck +THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED +~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

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Article 17664 of alt.conspiracy: +Path: cbnewsl!cbnewsk!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!malgudi.oar.net!caen!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!murdoch!Turing.ORG!jad +From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo) +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Subject: Part 24, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Keywords: researchers'revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy + 1992Nov30.205913.8043@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Date: 30 Nov 92 20:59:13 GMT +Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host +Lines: 156

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I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +JIM MARRS: +You're right. And it seems pretty incomprehensible that the same +media outlets that would basically cause the destruction of Nixon +would try to cover up about Kennedy, but I think there is some +rationale there. First off, to explain why they do this, you go +back to the time of the assassination -- and I think Jerry Policoff +would agree with me on this. This was a whole entirely different +time and place: this country. Okay? A lot of people within the +media actively, voluntarily participated and did things for the +intelligence community out of the noblest of purposes. They felt +like they were being patriotic. If they went to Russia, say, and +did a story and they came back, and the CIA domestic contact +services officer would come to them and say: "Well, what did you +see?" They would tell them what they saw. They weren't spies. They +weren't working for the Government. They weren't on the payroll. +They were simply doing what they thought was patriotic.

+ +

Now, at the time of the Kennedy Assassination and for maybe ten +years past then, until about the time of the Garrison +investigation, they were still clinging to this idea. They felt +like they were doing something good. Now, I think a lot of them +can probably look back and realize that they were being used by +these people within the intelligence community, not only to get +information, but also to give information. It just goes right up +the ladder. We've got people today who are successful columnists, +and they're successful columnists because they always seem to have +a little bit of insight into issues and into Governmental matters. +Well they do because they get this from their sources within the +CIA and within other Government agencies. They know that if they +say anything that angers those sources, those sources will close +themselves off to them. And then, pretty soon they won't be able +to have anything to put in their columns, and pretty soon their +columns will be dropped by the newspapers around the country. +So it's a very self-serving thing. It's a self-preservation-type +thing.

+ +

And then you keep going until you get to what I think is probably +the major downfall and the major problem within the media today, +which is just sheer, common laziness. The Kennedy Assassination is +a complex subject. It has many labyrinths that you can get lost +into. And it takes a lot of time and a lot of effort. And most +media people and most editors are simply not willing to devote the +time and the effort that it would take to pick their way through +this mine field and find out what's right and what's not right.

+ +

JERRY POLICOFF: +I would agree with that. And I would also add that I think they +were embarrassed by their early coverage. It's very difficult to +look at the work that the media did in the aftermath of the +assassination, which, by the way, was something that, in that day, +was very natural. They were spoon-fed the Oswald legend. They were +spoon-fed the evidence. Everything was accepted uncritically and +passed on to the American Public. In the years since, I think the +media is very embarrassed to look back at the coverage that they +afforded this issue back in 1963, and they are basically too +embarrassed to repudiate it.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Jerry, let me ask you about a very important character in all this. +And that is L. Fletcher Prouty. And that, I believe also, Jim, was +the character that Donald Sutherland played in the movie, JFK: +the insider who knew all about what was going on, and who explained +it to Jim Garrison in the movie.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Yeah. That's correct. I believe that primarily the Mr. X character +in the movie, JFK was based on colonel L. Fletcher Prouty.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Okay. I'd like each of your interpretations of what Prouty has +said and what he knows. At least you can tell our audience.

+ +

JERRY POLICOFF: +Well, Fletcher Prouty is certainly somebody who needs to be taken +seriously. I believe he was the liaison officer between the +Pentagon and the CIA. He was certainly in a position to know a +great deal about the inner workings of the intelligence community +during the 1950s and '60s. He has reported on the breakdown of +security. I'm not an expert on this, but I believe that security +was passed on to military intelligence that day in Dallas. +Am I right, Jim?

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Well, the Fourth Army Intelligence normally had agents who would +join in and, on that particular occasion, they were told to stand +down, and not to come to Dallas and not to participate in the +security. And this is probably very significant because one of the +things that Colonel Prouty has said -- and the more I look at it, +the more I think he's exactly right -- that the key to a successful +coup is not necessarily finding competent hit-men. I mean, anybody +with a lot of money can go find a competent hit-man. The key is in +withdrawing or reducing the normal security. And it seems obvious +that that's what happened in Dallas that day.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. Jim, go on a little further with Prouty. What else does +he know?

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Well, as Jerry pointed out, he was the Deputy Director of Special +Operations, and as such, he was a liaison between the CIA and the +military. In other words, if the CIA was mounting some sort of +operation and they needed support -- if they needed trucks, or if +they needed an airplane, or if they needed air transport, or if +they needed weaponry or something like that, they would go to the +military and say: "This is what we need." And Prouty was the +focal point officer who would do this.

+ +

Now here's what was unique about his position. Since he was +military, and not CIA, he was never required to sign the secrecy +oath that all people who work for the CIA have to sign. And the +secrecy oath -- the bottom line of it is that: If I reveal anything +that I learn while working for the CIA, you can suspend my civil +liberties, convict me in a court of law, and put me away for ever +and ever. This is the basis of why so many people within the CIA +cannot and will not talk and tell about what they know. But Prouty +never signed that because he was a military man, and as such, he +has been free to talk. And talk he has. All the way back to the +publication of his book, THE SECRET TEAM, he has been saying +that there is a power group -- a clique, if you will -- of people +within the United States Government who operate this Government +for their own purposes. I think that the Iran-Contra [operation] +has proved this to be absolutely true, right on up 'til today. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

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If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ +If we seriously listen to this "God within us" ["conscience", +if you will], we usually find ourselves being urged to take the +more difficult path, the path of more effort rather than less. +.... Each and every one of us, more or less frequently, will hold +back from this work. .... Like every one of our ancestors before +us, we are all lazy. So original sin does exist; it is our laziness.

+ +

M. Scott Peck +THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED +~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

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Article 17738 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,alt.individualism +Path: cbnewsl!cbnewsk!att!linac!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!gatech!concert!uvaarpa!murdoch!Turing.ORG!jad +From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part 25, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy + 1992Dec2.173503.13186@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host +Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 17:35:03 GMT +Lines: 150

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I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +JIM MARRS: +Which makes it all the more interesting that the day AFTER the +assassination, in a memo from [FBI Director] J. Edgar Hoover, we +are given a complete assessment of the reaction to the assassination +by the anti-Castro Cuban community, and it says at the bottom that +this information was furnished orally by Mr. George Bush of the CIA. +Well now, Bush has never responded to this, but some of his people +have said: "Well, that was a different George Bush; that there is +another George Bush and he's not the one who is now our president." +However, since then, the other George Bush has been located and +interviewed, and he says: "I was just a low-level analyst up in the +northeast and I never had any contact with the anti-Castro Cubans, +so it certainly was not me."

+ +

[JD: The CIA has a strict policy of concealing the names of all +of its agents, even if it means committing perjury to do so. +So, how did Bush's people find out that there is another +George Bush who worked for the CIA? They found out because +CIA officials violated their own laws by searching their own +personnel files to luckily come up with another George Bush +to pin the rap on in order to protect the real criminal who knew +of the plot to assassinate President Kennedy and who, therefore, +is an accessory to murder and high treason: George Herbert +Walker Bush, of course.]

+ +

So, that brings us back to George Herbert Walker Bush. And I might +mention that I have personally spoken with a pilot who flew arms +and ammunition for the Bay of Pigs invaders, and he says that one +of the oil companies that was being used as a front to move arms +and materiel for the Bay of Pigs invaders was Zapata Oil Company +out of Midland, Texas, which was George Herbert Walker Bush. +So, I think we see that George Herbert Walker Bush's connections +with the Central Intelligence Agency go back far beyond what he +has publicly admitted.

+ +

[JD: I have corresponded with someone who told me that another +company which participated in the Bay of Pigs Invasion was +United Fruit Company which donated two of its banana boats to +support the invasion. This person said that he witnessed the +repair of the bullet-riddled deck of one of the boats.]

+ +

JERRY POLICOFF: +We also know that he generated dozens of memos, while he was the +head of the Central Intelligence Agency, dealing with the +assassination. And yet, he made a statement after the release of +the movie, "JFK" that he was so satisfied with the findings of the +Warren Commission that when he became Director of the CIA, he was +never even curious and never looked at a single file.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +That's right. So, read his lips. He's telling us another lie.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Are either of you gentlemen familiar with the Council on Foreign +Relations and the Trilateral Commission?

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Yes. I'm very familiar with them.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Are you familiar with all the different people from the networks, +the media and the major corporations [who are members]?

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Yes. They comprise a very, very substantial number of people on +the Trilateral Commission, which is, by the way, just kind of an +off-growth or a revised edition of the old Council on Foreign +Relations, which was more-or-less a secret group, and hence, was +coming under more and more scrutiny. So, in order to get away from +that, they founded the Trilateral Commission, for which they set +up an office, they issue reports, and they're a little more above-ground.

+ +

GARY NULL: +That is a [David] Rockefeller group, right?

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Right. And George Bush was, and perhaps still is, a member of the +Trilateral Commission.

+ +

GARY NULL: +There have consistently been allegations that this group is the +group that has as its agenda this "One World Order". Even though +that's no longer a secret -- and I think that the President and +the media around him have used that to their advantage to talk +about this "One World Order" -- WHOSE order is it? Whose world? +By what design and what ideals are they planning it? And who are +THEY? Then you start seeing that the "they", at every level, are +the people who, coincidentally, happen to belong to this Trilateral +Commission and this Council on Foreign Relations.

+ +

In any case, I'm going to thank you very much, Jerry Policoff for +an outstanding series of investigative reports. I think that, in +some ways, the history of your own writing (because I read every +one of your articles in GALLERY Magazine) ..... You should have +had that published in a major magazine. But I'm sure that they +would have rejected it, just as, for over two years, my first +articles on the politics of cancer were rejected. And too, my +subsequent "Medical Genocide" series, which to this day, I've +never had to retract a single line. And there wasn't any person in +that series who ever even threatened a lawsuit or a challenge that +my information was inaccurate. And I REALLY rip up some major +individuals and corporations for corruption and crimes of which I +call "medical genocide". In forty-three articles over sixteen +years, the only publications that would accept them, ironically, +were OMNI and PENTHOUSE, not the best vehicle for mainstream +America, but the only one that was available. So, I think that +tells us that when you have something that seems to be too hot or +too politically explosive, we don't have a forum for it to be +taken seriously. And, of course, the easiest way for someone to +dismiss something is to say: +Did it appear on the major networks? +No. +Did it appear in TIME Magazine or in the New York Times? +No. +Then how can we take it seriously?

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Exactly! That is part of the control of the media. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +help to disseminate it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

The episodes of this series can be retrieved via anonymous ftp from the sites: +ftp.css.itd.umich.edu and red.css.itd.umich.edu +Log in with name "anonymous" or "ftp" and supply your email address as the +password. The files are kept in the directory /poli/Essays/Conspiracy +(Instructions for ftp retrieval are dependent upon what sort of system +the user is on. On a UNIX machine, one would do, at the command prompt: +ftp ftp.css.itd.umich.edu This may be different on IBMs and Vax systems.) +Archivist: Paul Southworth, pauls@css.itd.umich.edu

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Article 17829 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Path: cbnewsl!cbnewsk!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!murdoch!Turing.ORG!jad +From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part 26, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy + 1992Dec4.232418.2064@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host +Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1992 23:24:18 GMT +Lines: 120

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I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +JIM MARRS: +By the way, I want to extend my compliments to Jerry Policoff. +Jerry, I have read your articles for years and years and years, +and I have used them very extensively in my research. My +compliments to you, sir.

+ +

JERRY POLICOFF: +Thank you.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Gentlemen, you're going to find out something brand new about the +Kennedy Assassination. Next week, and on that show -- because you've +both made substantial contributions of new information recently -- +I will have you conferenced in to listen to the new information. +And it's going to shake people up when they hear this information, +never before discussed or written about. No one has found out +about it. That is coming up. And I think it will put a cap on this +whole thing. Whether anything is ever done about it -- who knows.

+ +

It's an amazing thing. You write a story. You research. You think +it's really revolutionary. It will give new insights which should +conduct new investigations. And then it comes, and the media +doesn't do a thing. And it all goes by the bye. But we're going to +do it in any case.

+ +

By the way, I was just handed a note by our producer who has been +working non-stop. I mean, he's putting in like 100-hour weeks on +this [investigation]. He is Kevin McCrary, and he says that +L. Fletcher Prouty is going to appear on our program later this +week. So, he'll be able to tell us, in his own words, what he +knows and what new information he knows, and new information which +he has not revealed before.

+ +

And I'm going to ask you, Jim Marrs if you'll make yourself +available tomorrow, because we did not get to part two, which was +the means, the motives and the opportunities .....

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Okay. Can I make one quick comment about the Garrison thing. +At the time that the Garrison investigation and trial of Clay Shaw was +going on, I was watching it very, very closely as a newsman. I was +trying to be objective and I was trying to really look at it and see +what was happening. And, of course, he said: "I've got a conspiracy +by the tail. I've got individuals here. I'm filing charges on them. +I'm taking them before a grand jury." In other words, he was taking +them through the normal processes of law. Well, the national media +elements within there, and even the Attorney General of the United +States, were saying: "This guy is a nut. He's a fantacist. There's +nothing there. He hasn't got a case." And, quite frankly, I didn't +know who to believe. Today, you've got twenty years of hindsight, +and you look back and you can see that MOST of what Jim Garrison +..... and I'm like Jerry Policoff. I do not want to just blanketly +defend Garrison, because there were a lot of problems with his +prosecution in New Orleans, not all of which was his own doing. +But, you look back after twenty years of hindsight and we find +that most of what he was telling us: Guy Bannister, David Ferrie, +the connection to Oswald, the anti-Castro Cubans and the plotting +that was going on in New Orleans in the summer of 1963 -- all of +that has held up. It's historical fact. Even the House Select +Committee on Assassinations was forced to conclude that most of +that was substantiated. So now we KNOW who was telling the truth +and who was lying.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Well, in point of fact, the judge and the jury said that when Clay +Shaw won his case and Garrison was, in effect, put into the closet +forever after that, and told to shut up, and the media did a +hatchet-job on him, he didn't know that eleven members of his own +staff were CIA plants.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +That's right.

+ +

GARY NULL: +He didn't know that Clay Shaw's counsel had every note, everything +that they [Garrison] needed. And also, Clay Shaw lied. The man +perjured himself. And he did so with the help of his CIA contacts, +because later it did come out that Clay Shaw did, in FACT, work +for the CIA. That is a matter of historical FACT. And the jury +said that they would have convicted him had they known that. So...

+ +

JIM MARRS: +That's right. Also, he lied when he said that the did not know +David Ferrie and had had no contact with him, because there is now, +circulating among the research community, photographs of Clay Shaw +and David Ferrie together at a party in New Orleans.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Yes. So, clearly, Garrison was right. The media was wrong. The +Government participated in the massive cover-up at that level, and +one very courageous prosecuting attorney was, unfortunately, +disgraced at the time. And the American Public should know that. +The man whom he brought to trial was a LIAR and was complicitous +in much of the plot, and the Government knew it AT the time. +And so, we have to be aware of this.

+ +

I want to thank you very much, Jerry Policoff and Jim Marrs, for +being with us. This has been a continuation of our series, +Hidden Agendas: Conspiracies, Cover-ups and Lies. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

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Article 17974 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.censorship,misc.headlines,misc.activism.progressive,alt.individualism +Path: cbnewsl!cbnewsk!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!destroyer!gumby!wupost!mont!pencil.cs.missouri.edu!rich +From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part 27, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy + 1992Dec8.212508.3461@mont.cs.missouri.edu +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu +Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host +Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 21:25:08 GMT +Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Lines: 145

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I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +JIM MARRS: +.... intelligence organizations certainly did participate, and, as +a result, the organization was forced to protect itself by helping +to cover-up the crime. But, of course, it goes a little deeper +than that because most of the people within those organizations +felt that what happened, tragic though it was, was probably +necessary for the good of the country because Kennedy was going +in the face of much of their own beliefs and their own philosophies.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Now, in the case of the FBI, there is no evidence to point to +the [possible] fact that the FBI orchestrated or initiated the +assassination. But there is all kinds of evidence to point to the +fact that the FBI knew what was happening. Particularly, I refer +to the FBI memo or alert -- the teletype alert that went out on +the night before the assassination, warning that a radical group +was going to assassinate Kennedy in Dallas. Those messages were +subsequently picked up, and if it hadn't been for one clerk who +had made a copy of them, we wouldn't have even a copy today, and +they could effectively deny that it ever happened. But it did go +out. So, the FBI, and particularly [FBI director J. Edgar] Hoover, +I believe, was in knowledge of what was going to happen. And they +simply sat back, allowed nature to take its course, and then +definitely participated in activities after-the-fact which tended, +not just to protect their own reputation, but to actually +incriminate Oswald as the lone assassin, and create this whole story +that we have today that is the official Government explanation. +And the way they did that was in several ways.

+ +

First off, there was an ongoing, demonstrable series of events +which include destruction of evidence, suppression of evidence, +alteration of evidence, fabrication of evidence and intimidation +of witnesses. Throughout your series you've heard more and more +about how documents were cooked, that people were intimidated into +silence, and that people's testimony was changed. + +I'll cite you one good example: Edna and Wayne Hartman. This is a +Dallas couple. They still live in Dallas today. They heard shots. +They were nearby Dealey Plaza. When they heard the shots, they ran +into Dealey Plaza. They saw a policeman and some plainclothesmen +gathered on the south side of Elm Street. They ran down there and +said: "What's going on?" They said: "Here is where some bullets +hit in the grass." They looked, and they said that there was a +long bullet furrow in the grass where a bullet had turned up the +sod. In the FBI report, made that day, it states all of this, and +it goes on to say that they told the FBI that the bullet furrow +lined up with the Texas School Book Depository. Okay? Oswald, in +the Depository, missed a shot. Furrow in the ground. That all +makes sense. The problem is that that is NOT what they [the Hartmans] +told them. When I was preparing my book, CROSSFIRE, instead of +just taking the Government's documents at face value, which seems +to be the way to do it today (at least that's what the major news +organizations are doing), I called the Hartmans. And they were +absolutely SHOCKED and amazed when I read them this FBI report +which, keep in mind, was part of the fundamental, raw investigative +material that the Warren Commission used to reach their conclusions. +Because THEY [the Hartmans] said: "That's not what we told them at +all. We told them that the bullet furrow lined up with the GRASSY +KNOLL on the north side of Elm Street." So here we have a clear +example of FBI documents that were being cooked, back in 1963 and +'64, to slant away from the truth of the assassination.

+ +

And lastly, Gary, I'll just make this one point. When you interfere +with a lawful investigation of felony crimes, such as murder, that +makes you an accessory-after-the-fact. And under the law, an +accessory-after-the-fact is just as guilty of the crime as the +person[s] who pulled the trigger[s]. So, in this case, the +evidence is very clear. And I can say, with great impunity, that +the FBI was GUILTY of being an accessory-after-the-fact and, +therefore, is guilty of the crime of participating in the murder +of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Okay, let's go on to include in this ..... [tape interruption] +..... [FBI director J. Edgar Hoover] used the FBI to break the +law, in the case of Martin Luther King, with illegal wiretaps to +learn about his sex life so they could use it against him. This +was a man who was in Dallas. Let's be very clear on this. The +American Public is not aware of this. He was in Dallas on the day +of the assassination. Let's also ask the following ... and give me +very clear information on this, if you can:

+ +

"Division Five of the FBI: Nomenclature of the Assassination Cable"

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Well that's "the Torbit Document." Right?

+ +

GARY NULL: +Yes. "Division Five of the FBI."

+ +

JIM MARRS: +It talks about Division Five. There was a Division Five. It was +counter-intelligence. But I think what you're getting at is the +allegations. And I'll have to stress, Gary, that at this point -- +I have dug into this at considerable length -- and while I have +found tantalizing evidence that perhaps this is so, I cannot +categorically state, at this point, that this has been proven. +But the allegations are that within Division Five of the FBI was +the capability of assassination -- that they had hit-men on their +payroll, operating out of their Mexico City office, which, by the +way, has always intrigued me because the FBI is supposed to be a +domestic law enforcement and intelligence organization. It is not +supposed to be operating outside of the United States. And yet, +ever since before World War Two, the largest FBI office in the +world is in Mexico City. So we definitely have some things going +on there. And the allegation is that they had these hit-men who +operated out of Mexico City. This has come forth in several cases, +particularly here in Texas, such as the Buddy Floyd murder case, +where the allegation was that these hit-men out of the FBI's +Mexico City office were being brought into this country to perform +assassinations for wealthy and powerful people who were very close +to J. Edgar Hoover.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Okay. Those are allegations, not proven facts. We want to make +that clear for the sake of objectivity. But we do want to state +that it is a fact that Division Five did exist.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +That's true. And it was headed by William Sullivan who -- in 1977, +when he was about to be called before the House Select Committee +on Assassinations -- walked out in his back yark and was shot in +the head by the son of a New Hampshire State patrolman. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +help to disseminate it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

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Article 18245 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.censorship,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,misc.activism.progressive +Path: cbnewsl!cbnewsk!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ukma!mont!pencil.cs.missouri.edu!rich +From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part 28, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy + 1992Dec14.191408.8449@mont.cs.missouri.edu +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu +Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host +Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:14:08 GMT +Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Lines: 139

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I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +JIM MARRS: +And the local sheriff said that he knew both the son of the +patrolman and Sullivan, so he felt like he was too close to the +case. So he turned over the investigation of this particular +incident to the local game warden. I've seen a copy of the report, +and it's simply checked where it says: +"Victim: Animal or Human." +They checked "Human". And that was about the extent of the +investigation.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Now, keep in mind that Sullivan was one of the former top heads +of the FBI. In fact, outside of Hoover, he was probably the second +most powerful member of the FBI.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +That's true. And he has stated some things that are very +eye-opening. One of the reasons why he left the FBI is because he +said that Hoover was concentrating more on inflated statistics and +figures about the American Communist Party than he did on +Organized Crime.

+ +

GARY NULL: +By the way, let's also remember this. It's up to the Public to +decide whether they feel that this is coincidence or not: +William Sullivan, Louis Nichols, Alan H. Belmont, James Caddigan, +J.N. English, and Donald Kaylor[sp] ALL understood what was going +on, or had information concerning the Kennedy Assassination. +ALL died under mysterious circumstances in 1977.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +That's true. All within a period of a few months, and all BEFORE +they could be [were about to be] brought to testify before the +House Select Committee on Assassinations.

+ +

GARY NULL: +And I think it stretches credulity to assume that all of these men +from one organization -- all of whom were going to testify -- +would all die accidentally in the ways that they did: one man being +shot in his backyard in a suburban home; and the man who shot him +said he thought that [Sullivan] was a deer. I mean, come on. +Give us a break. Now the New York Times CERTAINLY would accept +that logic and rationale, and we understand how the New York Times +would accept that. And Dan Rather may accept that a man in his +backyard looks like a deer. We don't!

+ +

[JD: I've heard of a book (it might be "BETRAYAL") that states +that Walter Cronkite and perhaps Dan Rather (I'm not sure) are +among the people whom the CIA employs as journalistic "assets." +Can anyone cite and quote such published accusations and their +sources?]

+ +

And we're offended by this kind of explanation that has gone on, +and has NEVER been explored by the mass media in any major way. +It's just been ACCEPTED that way.

+ +

Now, let's go to the case of Richard Case Nagle and the registered +letter to J. Edgar Hoover about the assassination.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Yes. Richard Case Nagle may be the real Rosetta stone to +understanding the assassination or, if not to understanding the +assassination, certainly to understanding the role of Lee Harvey +Oswald in this whole thing. Basically, Nagle was a decorated +Korean War veteran who late became an agent for the Central +Intelligence Agency, and eventually claimed to have ended up being +a double-agent working for the Soviet KGB. He said that in mid-1963, +his KGB superiors contacted him and said that they had become +aware of a plot to kill President Kennedy, and that they wanted +him to work his way in there, find out what was going on, and put +a stop to it because it could reflect very adversely on Russia and +could make it look like the Communists were behind the thing. +And they didn't want to run that kind of risk.

+ +

So, he was sent to New Orleans where he made contact with a man +whom he claimed he had known from U.S. intelligence over in Japan. +And that was Lee Harvey Oswald! They met in Jackson Square. +And, of course, here's Nagle posing as a KGB agent, so he can't +very well just say: "Hey, I'm really one of you," because he knows +that Oswald is a guy whom he had know in Japan, but he hadn't known +him that well. And besides, who knows what had gone on in the +intervening years? So I'm sure he was probably still trying to +maintain his cover. But he basically told Oswald that Oswald was +in a very dangerous situation, and that he thought that Oswald +thought he had penetrated a pro-Castro plot to kill the President. +But, in reality, he was mixed up with anti-Castro Cubans who were +posing as pro-Castro Cubans, and who were involving him in this +plot to kill the President. He said that he got a very negative +reaction from Oswald; kind of like: Oh, yeah? That's interesting; +and a don't-call-me-I'll-call-you type of attitude.

+ +

Now, what's interesting here is that this gets into the whole +issue of: Was the Oswald in New Orleans and the Oswald in Dallas +-- was this the real Lee Harvey Oswald? And it gets into a bizarre +series of situations. But there is plenty of evidence to suggest +that the Oswald in New Orleans in the summer of '63 and in Dallas +later that fall was NOT the same Oswald who entered the Marines. +And if that's the CASE -- assuming that that may be true -- this +explains the whole situation with Nagle and Oswald.

+ +

Nagle is very circuitously trying to warn Oswald, believing that +this is the same guy he knew in Japan, and that he would recognize +him and realize that he was getting the information from U.S. +intelligence. And yet, if it was NOT the same Oswald -- and there +is MUCH evidence to suggest that this is so -- then Oswald in New +Orleans didn't recognize Nagle, didn't know who he was, and only +perhaps knew him as a KGB officer, and therefore, would be very +hesitant to believe him or to act on his information.

+ +

So that's the Nagle story, and I think it pretty well pinpoints +the role of Oswald. Oswald, as his mother and his wife had both +publicly stated, was a U.S. Government agent. He was posing as a +pro-Castroite and as a pro-Communist to infiltrate groups that he +felt were pro-Communist groups. In this instance, I think he had +been picked up by one of the more violent anti-Castro groups who +played him along and helped set him up as the "patsy" +in the assassination. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please +help to disseminate it by posting it to other bulletin boards, +and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. +As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year +cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of +the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes +ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

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Article 19250 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,misc.activism.progressive +Subject: Part 29, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy + 1993Jan16.001536.7765@mont.cs.missouri.edu +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu +Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! +Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Lines: 144

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I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +GARY NULL: +Alright, we're going to recapitulate here for a moment, and then I +want to go on with some of the other scenarios involved in all this. +I want to take a look at renegade CIA cliques. I also want to +examine right-wing extremists and Organized Crime. I want to take +a very careful look at Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli and some +of the other people involved.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Don't forget the Military.

+ +

GARY NULL: +We're going to come to the Military, and also some of the people +who have never really been brought out yet; and that is, I want to +see the Howard Hughes challenge -- the challenge that Howard +Hughes may have had a role in this. We're going to look at that. +We're also going to look at some couriers and some communications +experts and some possible hit-men. So, all of this is going to +be laid out, hopefully, during the remainder of the program -- +time permitting.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Gary, before we end this program today, let's not forget to discuss +what I think is the most important thing, which is the common +connecting point, the nexus between all of these groups. And there +IS a connecting point. And it is intriguing. And I think it points +the way toward the solution of who was behind the assassination.

+ +

GARY NULL: +We will get to that in just a minute. Just to summarize, we are +talking about J. Edgar Hoover. We have ruled out, at this point, +and I feel that history and all the evidence completely rules out +that the Soviets were involved. Premier Nikita Kruschev, KGB +Chairman Yuri Andropov, KGB American expert-turned-defector Yuri +Nosinkov[sp], Marina Pruskovka[sp] Oswald, Oswald's control agent +Albert Osborne, and even the Latin leftist guerillas coordinated +by "the second Oswald", code-named Alec Heidel[sp] a trained KGB +assassin. These people simply did not directly participate. +There's no evidence. We've ruled them out.

+ +

We have certainly ruled in J. Edgar Hoover as knowing about it. +That's clear. ... certain other FBI agents knowing about it, and +the FBI being FORCED, upon the mandate of Hoover, to participate in +the cover-up, based upon the Warren Commission stating that it was +the FBI that was to provide all the information to the Warren +Commission through all the interviews. We have repeated references +to them altering evidence, destroying evidence, tampering with +evidence, intimidating witnesses, threatening witnesses ..... +And that is not a matter of speculation. That is a matter of fact, +and is demonstrable by [the terms of] law. So, clearly, they +are one of the lead characters.

+ +

In a moment, we're going to go on with our special investigation. +I'm Gary Null. Kevin McCreary is the co-producer on this.

+ +

....... [passages lost due to tape ending]

+ +

..... stories in the media are simply spurious and speculative, +and they've even gone so far as to try to denigrate anyone who +would come up with an idea other than Oswald acting alone. Thus far, +however, there's absolutely NO evidence -- no hard evidence -- that +Oswald was involved in the assassination WHATSOEVER. So let's take +a look now ..... Why don't we go to the Military?

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Well, I think this may be one of the key factors because if you'll +stop and think about it in its broadest scope, you'll understand +that there was absolutely no way that there could be any kind of +large-scale assassination conspiracy that did not, in some way, +take into account the Military, because the Military is the armed +force in this country. I mean, as we saw in the Los Angeles riots, +when the local authorities can't handle the situation, the Military +moves in. And they would have done this in 1963 if there had been +some large-scale coup that did not include them. You have to, at +least, neutralize the Military, if not have them actively on your +side -- which was done.

+ +

Now -- we're getting to the nub of it now, Gary, because people who +have studied this assassination in great detail say: "Well, was it +the FBI? Was it the CIA? Was it the Mafia? Was it the anti-Castro +Cubans? Was it the Military?" And this particular line of +questioning has kept us confused for a good number of years because +the truthful answer is: "YES! It was ALL of them!" Now, you say: +"Oh, my God! Now you're talking about a huge, massive conspiracy. +And nobody could have kept quiet about that."

+ +

No. That's not what I'm talking about. But I'm talking about +"Operation Mongoose." There was a connection, a nexus point, back +in the early '60s -- in '61, '62. And it was "Operation Mongoose: +The Secret War Against Castro." Most of this is now historical +record. The Senate Intelligence Committee, under [Sen. Frank] Church +[D.-Idaho] and those -- Sen. Gary Hart [D.-Colorado], developed this +information back in the early '70s. It was all in the newspapers. +It has all been established. The plot: "The Secret War Against +Castro", was headed out of the JIMWAVE[sp] Station (which is a CIA +acronym) on the campus of the University of Miami. It involved +anti-Castro Cubans, CIA agents, military officers, Mafia people ... +And THERE we have the common ground, the commonality, the nexus +point at which they were all operating together.

+ +

And what were they doing? They were mixed up in plots to overthrow +Cuba, and they were mixed up in plots specifically to assassinate +[Cuban Premier] Fidel Castro. That's historical fact. Why is it +such a big leap in understanding to realize that these same people, +who were trained and who were gearing up to kill Castro, suddenly +were just directed to Dallas? Because the common thought at that +time was that the problem really was in the White House and not in +Cuba; that we COULD attack Cuba, we could knock over Fidel Castro +IF we had a president and an administration that was willing +to do that. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, +please help to disseminate it by posting it to computer +bulletin boards, and by posting hardcopies in public places, +both on and off campus. As evidence accrues concerning the +corporate mass media's thirty year cover-up of the corporate +CIA's coup d'etat against the People of the United States, +the need for citizen reportage becomes ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

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Article 19484 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,misc.activism.progressive +Subject: Part 30, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy + 1993Jan20.223054.12083@mont.cs.missouri.edu +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu +Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! +Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Lines: 181

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I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +JIM MARRS [author of CROSSFIRE]: +Now, here's another key point. A few years ago, I was in Alpa 66 +Headquarters in Miami. This is one of the oldest and most violent +of the anti-Castro organizations. And I was talking to some of +those people and they were reminiscing about those days. And +something came up about Johnny Roselli, the very TOP-ranking Mafia +guy, and he was. He was a very high-ranking man in the Organized +Crime field. He was kind of the Henry Kissinger of Organized Crime +in that he would travel between the crime families and help make +deals and help make peace between the crime families. This is a TOP-ranking position. And these people in Alpha 66 said that they were +amazed, in recent years, to learn that Johnny Roselli was this +Mafia chieftain, because back at the time of "Operation Mongoose," +they only knew him as "Colonel Roselli." And Colonel Roselli had +full military credentials, flew in military aircraft piloted by +military personnel, and was an integral part, and a leader of this +secret war to kill Castro and to change governments in Cuba.

+ +

So, here now .... and of course the fact that the CIA and the Mafia +were working together in these assassination plots has been well +established. It too is absolute historical fact. So what we have +here is ... we have a situation just prior to the assassination of +President Kennedy, where the Mafia, the CIA, the anti-Castro Cubans +and the MILITARY are all actively working together on a variety of +schemes which include assassination. And I think THAT may be the +key to this whole thing.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Okay. Let's take it a little deeper now. That's some of the basic +scenarios. I still want to go into some of the people in specifics. +When it comes to the Military, let's look at that time, at Kennedy +and Viet Nam, and the military-industrial complex at that time.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Exactly. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his farewell address, warned us +against the acquisition of power, whether overtly or covertly, by +what he called the "military-industrial complex." And the military-industrial complex is MUCH broader, much more powerful than anyone +I think, even myself, could imagine because, basically, the +military-industrial complex equates to the Status Quo. And never +underestimate the power of the Status Quo. I like to think of +myself as an educated, thoughtful, broad-minded intellectual-type +person. And yet, I'll be the first to admit that there are certain +things that I become very set in my ways about. I like my hamburger +built a certain way, and that's the way I get it. We all are like +that. We all settle into our comfortable lives and comfortable +routines that we are familiar and comfortable with. Okay? +This is the status quo, and it's tough to get out of there.

+ +

In 1941, we went onto a full-scale war economy, and we are just now +making the first beginning steps to try to get off of that. And +it's very painful. It's causing a lot of problems. Down here in my +home state of Texas we're really being hurt by the fact that some +of these military bases are being closed, some of the big defense +industries are laying people off. It's a painful process, but it's +gone on all through history. Once you create a giant military force, +that force just doesn't want to go away. And it doesn't go away by +itself. It takes time. It takes effort. Sometimes it's very painful. +And I think that's what Eisenhower was talking about. And we've +been under this military-industrial complex ever since.

+ +

The intelligence agencies -- the CIA, the DIA, the NSA -- some of +these twenty-two intelligence agencies, that we have operating in +this country to this very day, are simply the security arm of this +military-industrial complex. And the military-industrial complex, +needless to say, is not going to look kindly on anyone who would +try to dismantle it. And yet, if we go back and look at the record, +we find that essentially, this is exactly what John F. Kennedy was +trying to do.

+ +

After the Bay of Pigs [Invasion] and after the Cuban Missile Crisis, +he signed off on National Security Action Memoranda 55, 56 and 57. +And basically, the bottom line of these memoranda was to bring +control over the CIA back under the Military. He said that the +Joint Chiefs-of-Staff would be held responsible for any military or +even quasi-military activities that took place in the World that +was initiated by the United States. So this was an attempt to bring +the CIA back under the control of the Military.

+ +

In National Security Action Memorandum 263, we see that he approved +the recommendations of the [Secretary of Defense Robert] McNamara +Report which stated that we could have all United States military +personnel out of Southeast Asia by the end of 1965, and, in fact, +he ordered the withdrawal of one thousand military advisors by the +end of 1963. These were his beginning steps to disengage from Viet +Nam. John Newman, an eighteen-year veteran of military intelligence, +has written a book titled JFK IN VIET NAM. And in there, based on +actual National Security Council minutes, actual orders that are on +file, he showed, beyond any question, that Kennedy was not just +THINKING about pulling us out of Viet Nam, but he had actually +ORDERED that event, and that we had begun to move in that direction.

+ +

Of course, after he was killed, his successor, Lyndon Johnson, +signed National Security Memorandum 273, which quietly and subtly +said that there would be no troop decrease from the time of the +Diem Government, which was November the first. That was a subtle +way of blocking Kennedy's pull-out order. And no meaningful drop in +U.S. presence took place in Viet Nam.

+ +

And then, of course, in '64, while the Warren Commission was +putting the finishing touches on their report that said Oswald ws +the lone nut assassin, we had the phony Gulf of Tonkin Incident, +and Johnson managed to push through a panicked Congress the Gulf of +Tonkin Resolution -- which abrogates the Constitution of the United +States, which says that only Congress shall have the power to +declare war -- and gave those war-making powers to Johnson himself. +And off we went into a ten-year war that was very much desired by +the U.S. Military and by their attendant groups, their security +agencies, the intelligence groups, and also by the defense +industries and the bankers who supported them. And it's wide! It's +pervasive! It reaches into every state in this Union. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

As the elaborately concocted smokescreen fades away from the +faces of the gang of murderers who perpetrated this, THE +highest crime of treason in the history of the United States, +we stand flabbergasted and enraged to realize the enormity of +the traitors' crimes. They have scattered the brains of the +People's President onto the streets of an American city. +They have, just as cold-bloodedly, murdered (what is it?) +two hundred or so people, from CIA agent Oswald to Sam Holland +to columnist Dorothy Kilgallen to Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

+ +

They have perpetrated a ten-year holocaust comprising the +slaughter of over fifty-eight thousand sons of America, the +wounding and maiming (both physically and psychologically) +of maybe a quarter of a million more of us who served in that +beautiful country transformed into one great hellish inferno; +the absolute genocide (and there's no more accurate word for +it than "genocide") of two million valiant peasants, who +staunchly sacrificed everything, including themselves, to free +their country from the clutches of a brutal invader.

+ +

There are Vietnamese babies born every day now with arms growing +out of their chests. Those people are suffering the myriad horrors +of nature's processes gone wild -- all because Dow Chemical +Company wanted to save the few bucks needed to purge dioxin +from the tons and tons of Agent Orange defoliant with which +the genocidal profiteers drenched the Vietnamese countryside. +So they soaked the American taxpayer for Agent Orange enriched +with dioxin -- about the most toxic chemical known to all life +-- and they soaked American boys and Vietnamese people with tons +of death from the skies; not instant death, like the 1000-pound bombs that rained down daily, but slow, torturous, +agonized death -- death, or a lifetime of suffering for Viet +Nam's future mothers and their babies, who would live out +their short lives with deformed bodies and incurable cancers; +and these horrors will be revisited upon all succeeding +generations, to the horizons of time.

+ +

A brilliant WBAI political scholar and humanitarian named Leo +Cawley was representative of the multitudes of American victims of +that war. Leo was a combat Marine who suffered for twenty years +until his death from Dow Chemical's lucrative defoliant/depopulant. +But even as he withered away, Leo condemned Bush's Persian Gulf +War with passion and compassion. We could all give at least a +bit of our time and energy to organizing against tomorrow's +holocausts for the sake of tomorrow's victims, and in memory +of yesterday's victims.

+ +

The evil men of the military-industrial complex and their CIA +will never be brought to trial. But that's okay. We're working +toward a higher form of justice than even the rectification of +the U.S. Government's farcical facade of a justice system could +possibly imply. We're striving, not to throw these genocidists +into jail cells, but rather, to defeat their system of evil before +they can launch more such genocidal adventures like the ones in +Korea, Viet Nam, Angola, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Kuwait and Iraq.

+ +

John DiNardo +

+ +

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Article 19745 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,misc.activism.progressive +Subject: Part 31, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy + 1993Jan26.225929.7810@mont.cs.missouri.edu +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu +Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! +Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu +Lines: 150

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I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +JIM MARRS: +Probably, a healthy percentage of the population of this country +derives their direct income, in one way or another, from this +military-industrial state, either working directly for the +Government, or through military pensions, or through active military +[duty], or through the defense contractors or, even from small +companies that produce shoelaces for combat boots, pins for hand +grenades, etcetera. I'm not sure we're even yet in a position to +really, truthfully evaluate the impact of the military-industrial +complex on this country.

+ +

But now, was there any tie-in to the assassination by the Military? +Absolutely! James Powell, a military intelligence agent, made the +mistake of going into the Texas School Book Depository before it +was sealed off by police. And once it was, he had to show his +credentials before he could get out. So he became part of the +permanent record. And you may well ask: What was an Army intelligence +agent doing in the School Book Depository at the time of the Kennedy +Assassination? You might also ask why he was outside taking +photographs of the Texas School Book Depository Building at the +time of the assassination when most people were not even aware of +what had gone on, or who was involved, or even of the fact that the +School Book Depository would be identified as the place where the +sniper had fired from. .....

+ +

[brief discontinuity due to tape ending]

+ +

..... [photos] taken six and eight minutes after the assassination +took place. And they show that there's still somebody up there +moving boxes on the sixth floor. The other key thing that I would +point to was found in the Dallas Police files. We have Lieutenant +Rebell of the Dallas Police. He went back to police headquarters +from the Book Depository and typed up a list of Book Depository +employees. And this was done within, probably, thirty minutes after +the assassination -- even before they had Oswald arrested. And +HEADING the list of School Book Depository employees was Harvey Lee +Oswald. And it gave his address as 605 Elsbeth. Okay? Now, the +problem is, of course, as we know, it was Lee Harvey Oswald. And +his address that he gave in his application for employment to the +Book Depository was the West Fifth address of the Paine house out +in Irving, where his wife was staying. Okay? Nowhere on his records +at the Book Depository was this Elsbeth address. In fact, Oswald +HAD lived at 60'2' Elsbeth in the late fall of '62 and early '63, +but he did not put that down on any of his material at the Book +Depository. So where did the Dallas Police Intelligence Chief Rebell +get this "Harvey Lee Oswald" and where did he get "60'5' Elsbeth"?

+ +

Well, he told the Warren Commission that he rode back from Dealey +Plaza to the police station with a military intelligence agent. +Recently, he told a news reporter down here in Texas that not only +was this a military intelligence agent, he was an O.N.I. agent, +Office of Naval Intelligence. And, of course, it's been well-accepted that if Oswald played some role in intelligence, he +probably started off in the Office of Naval Intelligence, since he +was a Marine, and the Marines are under the Navy Department. Okay?

+ +

Now, in 1978, the House Select Committee on Assassinations contacted +a Colonel Jones of Fourth Army Intelligence. And he said that on +the day of the assassination he got word from some of his people +in Dallas that they had arrested a fellow and that his name was +Alex J. Heidel. He told Congress that he checked with Fourth Army +Military Intelligence files and found that Alex J. Heidel cross-referenced to Lee Harvey Oswald, and it gave his address as "60'5' +Elsbeth. So the SAME mistaken address that turned up on Lieutenant +Rebell's Dallas Police Intelligence sheet of School Book Depository +employees turns up in Fourth Army Intelligence files. And Rebell +says he rode back to Dallas Police Headquarters with an O.N.I agent.

+ +

Now -- what does that tell us? That tells us that it was the +MILITARY in Dallas, on November the 22nd, that was tipping off the +Dallas Police that the suspect they were after was Lee Harvey Oswald.

+ +

GARY NULL: +That's DYNAMITE material! By God, if that ..... I don't think that +people know HOW important this information is! This clearly focuses +-- telescopes in on specific areas and people that we should be +paying attention to.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Right. And it goes far beyond simply renegades within the CIA, or +a dissident FBI agent over here, or some Mob hit-men. Now, I don't +think there's any question. It is obvious. There's evidence that +there are Mafia people mixed up in the assassination. I think that +if you want to go get hired killers, that's the place where you +would start. I don't think there's any question about that. I don't +think there's any question that there is a CIA involvement in all +of this.

+ +

But the thing is -- somewhere it had to come together. Somewhere +there had to be a connecting point. And I believe that the Military, +and particularly the groups and the individuals in and around +"Operation Mongoose" probably were this connecting point.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. Let's take a look at a few other people here. +Give us your opinions of what, if any, role the following people +had, or of what knowledge they may have had concerning the +assassination: The fired Bay of Pigs architect, General Charles +Cabell. + +JIM MARRS: +Alright. I don't think it was just a coincidence that the day of +the assassination, Cabell, who had been fired by Kennedy as the +Deputy Director of the CIA, had simply moved back into the Pentagon, +resumed his duties there and his rank there, and, in fact, was kind +of in hot water because he had publicly branded his commander-in-chief, the President of the United States John F. Kennedy, a traitor. +Okay? If he truly believed that -- and he had to believe that, or +he wouldn't have said that publicly about his superior -- then you +can see that he would have no trouble in justifying the +death sentence for "a traitor".

+ +

And I don't think it was a coincidence that his brother, Earl Cabell +was Mayor of Dallas that day. As such, he was one of the prominent +and important politicians who helped guide things and make decisions +that were taken in respect to Kennedy's visit there. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, +please help to disseminate it by posting it to computer +bulletin boards, and by posting hardcopies in public places, +both on and off campus. As evidence accrues concerning the +corporate mass media's thirty year cover-up of the corporate +CIA's coup d'etat against the People of the United States, +the need for citizen reportage becomes ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

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Article 20003 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Subject: Part 32, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy + 1993Feb2.131716.7687@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Organization: University of Virginia, FREE Public Access UNIX! +Lines: 152

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +GARY NULL: +Alright. A key piece of evidence. A CRUCIAL piece of evidence that +the media has overlooked. I'd like for you to fill in a blank here. +Absolutely essential: +We know that the route of President Kennedy's caravan was rerouted. +The motorcade was rerouted. Who did that?

+ +

JIM MARRS [author of CROSSFIRE: THE PLOT THAT KILLED KENNEDY]: +Well, it's a murky question, and you get into all kinds of problems +there. First off, the zig-zag up Houston and down Elm Street .... +I'm going to have to admit that Chief Terry[sp], the Dallas Police +Chief, told the Warren Commission -- they asked him about that +route and he told them that that was the normal flow of traffic. +And that is true. And that's why we're going to have a hard time +with this thing about the route because it was the normal flow of +traffic, and you can always argue that: Well, they followed the +normal flow of traffic.

+ +

The problem, of course, is that this was not a normal situation. +This was a President of the United States who was visiting. They +had Main Street blocked off already for the motorcade through +downtown. And if I had been in charge of security .... and, in fact, +several of the Dallas police officers brought this point up to the +Warren Commission. They said that they didn't understand why the +motorcade didn't simply go straight down Main Street, which was +already blocked off, and then turn and go right up onto Stimmons +Expressway, which would have left no need to make a hundred and +twenty degree turn.

+ +

GARY NULL: +You wouldn't have slowed down because Main Street is a straight +street, and as a straight street, the motorcade would not have had +to slow down. Now, having to turn on procession's path and then +back onto Elm Street, you have two turns which necessitate going +very slow.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Exactly. And one of them -- the turn from Houston onto Elm is about +a one hundred and twenty degree turn, which is a VIOLATION of +Secret Service regulations. Now, the only other thing that I'd +point out is that on November the 19th, when the Secret Service +chiefs came to Dallas and they rode the motorcade route, if you +read their description very closely in the Warren Commission +[Report], you find that they came up Houston Street to about Main, +and they said: Here is where the motorcade goes on to the Trade +Mart. And they turned east on Main, and they never did drive that +hundred and twenty degree turn onto Elm Street. So there was +apparently some negligence there on really determining the exact +path of the motorcade and realizing that they had a security +problem there.

+ +

Now, who engineered that negligence is still kind of up-in-the-air. +But it seems clear to me that since the Secret Service and other +Federal officials ..... In fact, there was a man from the +Agriculture Department, believe it or not, who came down and +apparently was an integral, important part of the planning of this +motorcade route. And, of course, you have to go back and understand +that the old Agriculture Department head, Orville Freeman, had been +a very close political friend of Lyndon Johnson. And so, there +seems to have been some mechanization that took place in this +planning, but we have not been able to nail that down. And again, +we're back to the point where someone will say: "Well, that was the +natural flow of traffic. So, I think that's going to remain a murky +area in this investigation.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. We do have .... +[interruption due to tape ending] +..... the mayor, Earl Cabell. And Earl Cabell had (we don't know +that it's the case) .... He had the power to reroute the motorcade. +That is something that .....

+ +

JIM MARRS: +He definitely called Police Chief Terry away from his duties at +the time that they transferred Oswald, and he was shot by Ruby. And +Terry said: "I wasn't there because I got a call from Mayor Cabell.

+ +

GARY NULL: +I wasn't aware of that.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Well, there's another possibly important point because if the Police +Chief himself had been there, he might have said something or done +something that would have beefed up the security around Oswald and +prevented Ruby from getting to him.

+ +

GARY NULL: +And, of course, the American Public should be aware that Kennedy +had fired Allen Dulles as head of the CIA, and had vowed to "smash +the CIA into a thousand pieces and cast it to the winds." And, of +course, Dulles would be on the Warren Commission. Now, to appoint a +man who had been fired seems rather absurd as far as objectivity is +concerned. But, again, nothing about this has been objective or +makes sense.

+ +

Now, lastly, I want to go to some of the right-wing extremist +organizations, and also to what some have suspected were some of the +very powerful Texas industrialists who also were in the munitions +business -- the armaments business. And later, as we would find out, +we would be spending nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS A DAY fighting in +Viet Nam.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Yeah. And let's not forget the oilmen. The oilmen were not +providing munitions, but they were providing the life blood of the +military machine, which is oil. And so, they very much wanted +Viet Nam -- to keep the price of oil up.

+ +

[JD: The most famous oilman in the World was a CIA agent in Miami +who was involved with the anti-Castro Cubans who have been +linked to the murder of President Kennedy. That famous oilman +had a great deal to gain by the murder of the President because +his Zapata Oil Company stood to make a fortune off of the +slaughter in Viet Nam of over fifty-eight thousand American boys.

+ +

That famous oilman is George Herbert Walker Bush, of course. +Why don't we look at the financial records and find out how much +money George Herbert Walker Bush actually made in that ten-year, +blood-for-profits adventure??] +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, +please help to disseminate it by posting it to computer +bulletin boards, and by posting hardcopies in public places, +both on and off campus. As evidence accrues concerning the +corporate mass media's thirty year cover-up of the corporate +CIA's coup d'etat against the People of the United States, +the need for citizen reportage becomes ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

The episodes of this and other series can be retrieved +via anonymous ftp from the site: +red.css.itd.umich.edu +Log in with name "anonymous" or "ftp" and supply your e-mail address as +the password. The files are kept in the directory /poli/Essays/Conspiracy

+ +

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Article 20160 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part 33, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy + 1993Feb5.133221.1860@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! +Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 13:32:21 GMT +Lines: 157

+ +

I made the following transcript from a tape recording +of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +GARY NULL: +And the oilmen were favored friends of Lyndon Johnson.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +That's true. They hated Kennedy because Kennedy had already made +one attempt to, and was still talking about doing away with the +27-and-a-half percent oil depletion allowance, which is the bedrock +of oil money. What it is, basically, is the argument that oil is a +finite resource. There's only so much of it under ground. And every +time you pump it out, you're depleting your basic product, I guess +you could say. And, as a result, they have a 27-and-a-half percent +(at that time) oil depletion allowance, which basically meant that +they did not have to pay taxes on 27-and-a-half percent of the money +they made off of oil. How would YOU like to be able to pass on +almost 28 percent of your income, and not have to pay taxes on it? +That would help you out considerably. Wouldn't it?

+ +

[JD: On this point, it's also important to know that in Kennedy's +first year as President, one of the three major steel companies +-- I think it was Bethlehem Steel -- pulled the commonly used +trick of being the first company, in collusion with all the others, +to hike the price of steel and thus, to establish an excuse for +all the other steel companies to hike their prices. +Well, John F. Kennedy forced the steel companies, by some means, +to roll back their prices. That was an extraordinary achievement +on behalf of the American consumer which has probably never been +done before or since by any of the corporate-owned Presidents of +the United States. +That deed alone focused upon John Kennedy the hatred of the +barons of big business.] + +GARY NULL: +Do you have any knowledge of Howard Hughes as "Mr. X", and the +suspicions surrounding his involvement in the assassination? +Howard Hughes, according to information I've got, was considered to +be "Mr. X" by operatives from the CIA, by some anti-Castro Cubans, +and by some of the right-wing paramilitarists.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +As an intermediary. Well, let me say that in 1963 I was still a +little unclear on how powerful Hughes actually was, and on how much +he was actually running his empire. There is good evidence to +believe that he had already begun to be controlled and to be +operated. He was a recluse. Nobody saw him. And there is good reason +to believe that he may not have been in total control of his empire. +BUT, Robert Mayhue was. Robert Mayhue, at that time, was basically +running Howard Hughes's empire. And Robert Mayhue had ties to both +Organized Crime and to the CIA. And I may point out .... Again, I +think that this is incredibly important: Robert Mayhue was also +tied into "Operation Mongoose".

+ +

GARY NULL: +Now, is Robert Mayhue alive today?

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Yes, he is.

+ +

GARY NULL: +What is he doing today?

+ +

JIM MARRS: +I have no idea what he's doing. He appears on programs now and then.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Was he ever challenged on these ties?

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Oh, heavens. No, there's never been any hard-nosed investigation of +all this because the Government has always maintained that it was +just Oswald.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. So, we only have this as supposition, and we have to +acknowledge that it is merely supposition ....

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Well, I would say this. I would say that if there is any one person +still alive today who probably knew and knows how all of this was +pulled together, I think Robert Mayhue would be a good candidate.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. But, again, we do not know that for a fact. We merely have +to, in fairness and objectivity ..... +[tape ending] +Did he have any connection to Organized Crime, and what was his +knowledge of the Kennedy Assassination. We must, in fairness and +objectivity, keep it as purely something that is a projected +supposition without concrete evidence.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Oh, there's no concrete evidence that he participated in the +conspiracy to kill Kennedy. I'll be the first to admit that. +BUT, he himself .... and there has been tons written about him. +He definitely was connected into the ..... In fact, he was the +intermediary who put the Mafia people in touch with the CIA for +their assassination plots. That's been documented. That's been +stated. Okay? That's been nailed down by the Government.

+ +

He also, of course, was in charge of the Howard Hughes empire, which +is well documented as being a front for the Central Intelligence +Agency. So, he was right in the thick of all of that. And, as I've +said, he was also part of "Operation Mongoose". That has been +publicly stated. So, I think he's the guy who could give us some +answers, if he would talk, and talk truthfully, and talk +extensively, something that, apparently, he has not done to date.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Now, let's take one more look here and try to put this into a +context. We have certain members of Organized Crime who certainly +could have played a role in providing the actual assassins.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Well, of course, about Organized Crime, there's really not any +doubt about all of that. The FBI was operating as it should, and was +keeping tabs on Organized Crime chieftains. Had them wire-tapped. +Had them followed. Had informants, inside their organizations, +reporting back. And each and every one of them, at some point, +threatened the life of President Kennedy. I think, obviously, the +ones who are most important to us would be Sam Giancana, the Mob +boss of Chicago, who apparently helped pull votes for Kennedy in +the 1960 election, and then who also was dating and going to bed +with Judith [Campbell] Exner at the same time that she was slipping +into the White House and having an affair with John Kennedy. +So that puts him in pretty close contact. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, +please help to disseminate it by posting it to computer +bulletin boards, and by posting hardcopies in public places, +both on and off campus. As evidence accrues concerning the +corporate mass media's thirty year cover-up of the corporate +CIA's coup d'etat against the People of the United States, +the need for citizen reportage becomes ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

The episodes of this and other series can be retrieved +via anonymous ftp from the site: +red.css.itd.umich.edu +Log in with name "anonymous" or "ftp" and supply your e-mail address as +the password. The files are kept in the directory /poli/Essays/Conspiracy

+ +

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+ +

Article 20544 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,alt.censorship +Subject: Part 34, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy + 1993Feb15.215718.24395@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy.jfk +Keywords: PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! +Lines: 101

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The following transcript is from a tape-recorded broadcast +by NO-commercials, NO-corporate-influences, listener-funded, +beacon-of-truth Pacifica Radio Network station for the People: +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +JIM MARRS [author of CROSSFIRE: THE PLOT THAT KILLED KENNEDY]: +Giancana, who was under HEAVY, intense prosecution and investigation +by both the FBI and the Justice Department, undoubtedly felt like +he was the victim of a turnaround -- a double-cross, if you will. +Of course, his son and his nephew, I believe it was, in fact, have +written a book called "DOUBLE-CROSS". And I think they aggrandize +Giancana's role in national affairs a bit. But nevertheless, they +made the argument that he felt like he had helped to put Kennedy in +office, and he felt that Kennedy had double-crossed him by +prosecuting him and sending the FBI after him.

+ +

Of course, one of his compatriots at that time was the New Orleans +crime boss, Carlos Marcello. John Davis has produced a very good +book that pretty well shows that there was some connection with +Carlos Marcello into the assassination. Davis tries to make the +argument that Marcello was the architect of the assassination. +He may have been very instrumental in it, but even Carlos Marcello, +powerful as he may be, did not have the power to cover-up the facts +afterwards. And he did not have the power to misguide, misdirect +and blunt the investigation by the FBI, and to alter the wounds on +the President's body between Parkland Hospital and Bethesda Naval +Hospital, and to do all of the things that are KNOWN to have been +done. This goes beyond Organized Crime, although Carlos Marcello +may have played an important role.

+ +

The other [compatriot of Giancana], of course, was Santos +Trafficante, the Mob chieftain in Miami, who was closely connected +to the anti-Castro Cubans, who, in fact, had been jailed on the +Isle of Pines by [Cuban Premier] Fidel Castro back at the time of +his takeover, and who was in contact with JACK RUBY.

+ +

So, you've got all of these people and they're all tied together. +And the common point, I would think, between all of these was the +point to where they begin to work closely with the United States +Government, particularly the Central Intelligence Agency and the +Military, and the war against Castro, and in the assassination plot +against Castro.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Okay. That's a good summary for this stage of our program. We still +have more to go. There's still a LOT more evidence that we're going +to be laying out. We're going to talk about a killing on Wall +Street. We're going to talk about Kennedy and the oilmen. We're +going to talk about a Miami prophet. We're going to talk about a +bullet for the general. We're going to talk about the connections +with Lyndon Baines Johnson. +So much more to come. +And then in Dallas: the black car chase, the strange saga of Roger +Craig, the role of hit-men down there, and the shooting of J.D. +Tippett. All these things are still to come, plus the "mystery man" +whom many of us feel was the actual hit-man against Oswald in the +balcony of the theater -- how that came about, who this person was, +and why he didn't manage to get to kill Oswald who was where he was +supposed to be in that theater, even though he never went to movies, +and was specifically located by the police. +Plus, brand new information that has NEVER before been revealed, +in ANY form, in this country -- coming up. +We are having some outside experts -- physicists and ballistics +people and others -- examining documentation at this very moment. +We'll hopefully have that for you very shortly.

+ +

I want to thank you very much, Jim Marrs, for sharing some +outstanding insights with us today.

+ +

JIM MARRS: +Thank you. Good to be with you. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, +please help to disseminate it by posting it to computer +bulletin boards, and by posting hardcopies in public places, +both on and off campus. As evidence accrues concerning the +corporate mass media's thirty year cover-up of the corporate +CIA's coup d'etat against the People of the United States, +the need for citizen reportage becomes ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

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+ +

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The following transcript is of a tape-recorded broadcast +by NO-commercials, NO-corporate-influences, listener-funded, +beacon-of-truth Pacifica Radio Network station of the People: +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +GARY NULL: +I've spent a great deal of time down in Dallas. In the last year +alone, I've made eight trips, doing measurements -- DETAILED +measurements -- going over analyses. There is an individual +(I don't know if you know him, Jones Harris), Robert Morningstar, +who has done a great deal of analyzing of the Zapruder Film.

+ +

We found additional distortions -- editing in that film. We +have also found more tracers. We have found the actual tracers. +We put it through an infra-red scanner, and we can actually +SHOW ..... No one has ever done this before. It was Robert +Morningstar who came up with this, and we have independently +corroborated it. We've done blow-ups of the Zapruder Film showing +the actual tracer[s] [of the] bullets. And you cannot see it with +the naked eye. But every bullet that is fired has a different +marking, a marking of the heat that is created when the bullet +spins out of the barrel of the gun, a marking of the heat when the +sun reflects off of the bullet, a marking of the heat when the +bullet goes through the atmosphere. And in this case, it was very +humid on that day in Dallas. (I have gone back to subsequently +check all the weather reports.) You have four separate markings +of a tracer.

+ +

Well, we know that these markings, though not shown to the naked +eye, are on the film and would still be a permanent imprint. +And based upon the idea that there were multiple gunmen -- not one +-- the only way to determine this is if there were multiple shots +that could be proved to have been fired. Up to this point, +there were none [proven to be fired].

+ +

Using an infra-red technology, we have isolated and actually +identified the exact trajectory of all of the bullets: eight -- +EIGHT bullets. Now, what is interesting is that we actually have +this, blown up. It is irrefutable. Any physicist will show you +that these are exact. Also, when you time-base them for the sounds +[compare the points in time of the appearances of the tracers +with the points in time of the sounds of the shots] .... We can't +pinpoint the exact [origin of a] sound because the sound is deceptive. +Where you think the direction that a sound is coming from frequently +is not, depending upon the acoustics. Well, we've been able to match +the acoustics with the sound, and then match the trajectory.

+ +

We even found .... I shouldn't say "I found". It was actually +Robert who found .... We actually found and were able to demonstrate +that the Zapruder Film was cut in two places to make the car seem +as if it lurched forward, when, in fact, it came TO A STOP! And we +can prove that because, in the film, the flags [mounted on the car] +go flaccid and yet, the car jerks forward. And the building right +across from the car -- which should have been in perfect alignment +-- in the very next FRAME (You're talking about less than one +thirty-second of a second) the building JUMPED FORTY FEET AHEAD! +So, suddenly, if you look, the building that is across from the +President's limousine -- in one frame is in front of it [the +limousine]; in the next frame there's a forty foot difference.

+ +

Now, no one has ever done this work before. This is important new +work to prove that the Zapruder Film WAS definitely, unequivocally, +ABSOLUTELY [altered]. And NO ONE has caught it! NO ONE, except +Robert Morningstar.

+ +

So then we went into great detail. We then took this -- Robert and +I working together -- we blew up these ..... I went down there and +got very sophisticated measurements. And we found that there HAD +to have been someone on the opposite side of the green, because +two bullets came right across and you can see the TRACER come right +across that sign. Now isn't it interesting: They've added a whole +segment to that sign!

+ +

Then, we can show that two bullets missed the car entirely. +We do not believe that missing the car by such a wide margin was an +accident. We believe that those were marker shots, because guess +what we see in one of the tree branches. We see a "shooter's bag". +In one shot [frame] you see it there. It looks like a tiny dot. +You won't notice it! The naked eye will not notice it. But blow it +up, as we did, freeze-frame it, and then you will see that it's +hanging in a limb in one shot [frame], and then the tracer shot +comes across and [the "shooter's bag"] it's blown away. That's what +a marksman uses to line up the target, so that when the target comes +right to that spot, you shoot and you're able to hit your target.

+ +

We also were able to blow up and enhance a photo showing, +absolutely, a rifle with a telescopic sight that did NOT fire -- +that was in the bushes down near the underpass. And we feel that +that was either the kill shot, through the throat, because when it +passed ..... It was funny because you watch it twenty times; you +don't see a thing. You have experts watch it; they don't see a +thing. You slow it down; they don't see a thing. And THEN, we put +it in freeze-frame, and we say: "Have you ever seen a branch of a +tree move?" And suddenly they all say: "There it is!" And they all +point and say: "Yes, you're right!" But then, it's not a branch, +but it's a telescopic sight. And it's a man with a hat. And we can +actually match the scope to the type of scope used in that time. +The scope follows President Kennedy clear around until he's out of +sight, meaning that he was going to put another shot into him if he +saw that the shot they fired the first time wasn't a kill shot. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, +please help to disseminate it by posting it to computer +bulletin boards, and by posting hardcopies in public places, +both on and off campus. As evidence accrues concerning the +corporate mass media's thirty year cover-up of the corporate +CIA's coup d'etat against the People of the United States, +the need for citizen reportage becomes ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

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+ +

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+ +

The following transcript is of a tape-recorded broadcast +by NO-commercials, NO-corporate-influences, listener-funded, +beacon-of-truth Pacifica Radio Network station of the People: +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +GARY NULL: +I've spent a great deal of time down in Dallas. In the last year +alone, I've made eight trips, doing measurements -- DETAILED +measurements -- going over analyses. There is an individual +(I don't know if you know him, Jones Harris), Robert Morningstar, +who has done a great deal of analyzing of the Zapruder Film.

+ +

We found additional distortions -- editing in that film. We +have also found more tracers. We have found the actual tracers. +We put it through an infra-red scanner, and we can actually +SHOW ..... No one has ever done this before. It was Robert +Morningstar who came up with this, and we have independently +corroborated it. We've done blow-ups of the Zapruder Film showing +the actual tracer[s] [of the] bullets. And you cannot see it with +the naked eye. But every bullet that is fired has a different +marking, a marking of the heat that is created when the bullet +spins out of the barrel of the gun, a marking of the heat when the +sun reflects off of the bullet, a marking of the heat when the +bullet goes through the atmosphere. And in this case, it was very +humid on that day in Dallas. (I have gone back to subsequently +check all the weather reports.) You have four separate markings +of a tracer.

+ +

Well, we know that these markings, though not shown to the naked +eye, are on the film and would still be a permanent imprint. +And based upon the idea that there were multiple gunmen -- not one +-- the only way to determine this is if there were multiple shots +that could be proved to have been fired. Up to this point, +there were none [proven to be fired].

+ +

Using an infra-red technology, we have isolated and actually +identified the exact trajectory of all of the bullets: eight -- +EIGHT bullets. Now, what is interesting is that we actually have +this, blown up. It is irrefutable. Any physicist will show you +that these are exact. Also, when you time-base them for the sounds +[compare the points in time of the appearances of the tracers +with the points in time of the sounds of the shots] .... We can't +pinpoint the exact [origin of a] sound because the sound is deceptive. +Where you think the direction that a sound is coming from frequently +is not, depending upon the acoustics. Well, we've been able to match +the acoustics with the sound, and then match the trajectory.

+ +

We even found .... I shouldn't say "I found". It was actually +Robert who found .... We actually found and were able to demonstrate +that the Zapruder Film was cut in two places to make the car seem +as if it lurched forward, when, in fact, it came TO A STOP! And we +can prove that because, in the film, the flags [mounted on the car] +go flaccid and yet, the car jerks forward. And the building right +across from the car -- which should have been in perfect alignment +-- in the very next FRAME (You're talking about less than one +thirty-second of a second) the building JUMPED FORTY FEET AHEAD! +So, suddenly, if you look, the building that is across from the +President's limousine -- in one frame is in front of it [the +limousine]; in the next frame there's a forty foot difference.

+ +

Now, no one has ever done this work before. This is important new +work to prove that the Zapruder Film WAS definitely, unequivocally, +ABSOLUTELY [altered]. And NO ONE has caught it! NO ONE, except +Robert Morningstar.

+ +

So then we went into great detail. We then took this -- Robert and +I working together -- we blew up these ..... I went down there and +got very sophisticated measurements. And we found that there HAD +to have been someone on the opposite side of the green, because +two bullets came right across and you can see the TRACER come right +across that sign. Now isn't it interesting: They've added a whole +segment to that sign!

+ +

Then, we can show that two bullets missed the car entirely. +We do not believe that missing the car by such a wide margin was an +accident. We believe that those were marker shots, because guess +what we see in one of the tree branches. We see a "shooter's bag". +In one shot [frame] you see it there. It looks like a tiny dot. +You won't notice it! The naked eye will not notice it. But blow it +up, as we did, freeze-frame it, and then you will see that it's +hanging in a limb in one shot [frame], and then the tracer shot +comes across and [the "shooter's bag"] it's blown away. That's what +a marksman uses to line up the target, so that when the target comes +right to that spot, you shoot and you're able to hit your target.

+ +

We also were able to blow up and enhance a photo showing, +absolutely, a rifle with a telescopic sight that did NOT fire -- +that was in the bushes down near the underpass. And we feel that +that was either the kill shot, through the throat, because when it +passed ..... It was funny because you watch it twenty times; you +don't see a thing. You have experts watch it; they don't see a +thing. You slow it down; they don't see a thing. And THEN, we put +it in freeze-frame, and we say: "Have you ever seen a branch of a +tree move?" And suddenly they all say: "There it is!" And they all +point and say: "Yes, you're right!" But then, it's not a branch, +but it's a telescopic sight. And it's a man with a hat. And we can +actually match the scope to the type of scope used in that time. +The scope follows President Kennedy clear around until he's out of +sight, meaning that he was going to put another shot into him if he +saw that the shot they fired the first time wasn't a kill shot. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, +please help to disseminate it by posting it to computer +bulletin boards, and by posting hardcopies in public places, +both on and off campus. As evidence accrues concerning the +corporate mass media's thirty year cover-up of the corporate +CIA's coup d'etat against the People of the United States, +the need for citizen reportage becomes ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

The episodes of this and other series can be retrieved +via anonymous ftp from the site: +red.css.itd.umich.edu +Log in with name "anonymous" or "ftp" and supply your e-mail address as +the password. The files are kept in the directory /poli/Essays/Conspiracy

+ +

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+ +

Article 20777 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part 36, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy + 1993Feb23.215738.25766@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy +Keywords: PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! +Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 21:57:38 GMT +Lines: 142

+ +

The following transcript is of a tape-recorded broadcast +by NO-commercials, NO-corporate-influences, listener-funded, +beacon-of-truth Pacifica Radio Network station of the People: +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +GARY NULL: +This program is a continuation of our ongoing series titled: +"Hidden Agendas: Conspiracies, Cover-Ups and Lies" +at the highest levels of our Government, in regard to deceptions +foisted upon the American People regarding essential information +about the roles of Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald in the John F. +Kennedy Assassination. We have been led to believe that the Warren +Commission Report was the first and last word on this case. +Many individuals are challenging that. We have invited those +individuals to share with us insights, documentation and other +information, much of it being revealed here, for the first time, +to the American People.

+ +

Please excuse the poor broadcast quality today because I am not in +the studio. I'm not in New York. I'm about five thousand miles away +from New York, continuing to do investigations on this. I'm tracking +certain ballistic and forensic information, and I'm interviewing +people who, hitherto, have not been heard by the American People so +that I can bring you new information.

+ +

On our conference line right now are two individuals who have some +unique insights: Jack Schweick[sp], who has written on Oswald, +especially about the Atsugi [Naval Air] Base in Japan. He was in +intelligence before being in the Marines. He has sued the CIA for +files. And we'll learn about the alleged fourty-four drawers of +files on Oswald and also [on] all the people on that base, and +what Lee Harvey Oswald was doing there.

+ +

Also, we have colonel L. Fletcher Prouty. Now Colonel Prouty is a +unique individual in this scheme of things. In the movie, JFK, it +was Donald Sutherland who portrayed the role of L. Fletcher Prouty +or some facsimile of his role. L. Fletcher Prouty was Chief of +Special Operations of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff, and he established +worldwide offices. He was a senior Air Force officer, Officer of +Special Operations in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the +office headed by General G.B. Erskine with Edward Lansdale, CIA-to-United States Air Force on staff. He was also the chief of Team B, +which was Special Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force. +And that's very important in military terms. Special Operations was +the official function responsible for the military support of the +clandestine operations of the CIA.

+ +

Let's begin with L. Fletcher Prouty. +Welcome to our program, Mr. Prouty.

+ +

L. FLETCHER PROUTY: +Good morning, Gary. Nice to be with you.

+ +

GARY NULL: +First off -- is it correct that there was some facsimile between +you and the character portrayed by Donald Sutherland in Oliver +Stone's film, JFK?

+ +

L. FLETCHER PROUTY: +Yes. Oliver Stone met with me in 1990 and asked me to be an advisor +to the film because he had read material that I had written, and he +had written a part into his film that he called "Mr. X". At the +time, I didn't know that. And I read the script when it first came +out in November 1990, and I found the "Mr. X" there and I recognized +myself and words I had written and things I had said. So, at a +speech at the National Press Club, in January 1992, Oliver Stone +turned to the audience and said: "Everybody asked me, 'Is there a +real 'Mr. X''." Well, I was on the podium with him, and he turned +and pointed to me and said: "There's my 'Mr. X'." And so, the secret +broke. And that's the story of it. It was pretty simple. He just +worked it into the film so that he would have an authoritative +voice for certain parts of the film, as you saw represented by +Donald Sutherland.

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. Let's go to the actual events, or at least those events +that you have some insight on so that we can get a handle on this. +We have already -- in the first eighteen parts of this special +investigation (twenty-five hours of broadcasting on this) -- laid out +various aspects of this puzzle. We have seen the role of Organized +Crime -- at least those individuals who, on FBI tapes, have made +statemtents, either true or false (at least they've made the actual +statements), that there was going to be a hit on the President, +either in Miami or later in Dallas. We also had extensive insights +about the CIA being "out of control", and about, even at that time, +special renegade elements within the CIA who were very much opposed +to President Kennedy's mishandling of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and +about the fact that, at a time when he could very easily have given +the support which would have caused the destruction of Castro's tiny +Air Force and ended what people in the military/industrial complex, +the Armed Forces, the general public, the Texas conservative element, +viewed as a substantial threat, he backed off. They found this +incomprehensible.

+ +

And, as a result, some feel that elements of that [the CIA] were +responsible for the assassination. But it couldn't have been done +without having members of the Secret Service, the FBI and the +Military participate because it was going to be, not only the +assassination itself, but they were fully aware that you don't go +out and kill the President of the United States unless you can +protect yourself. You have to know that you can protect yourself if +there is a special commission, if there is a special investigation. +So, bringing in people from different segments [of the Government] +at different levels would have been a job that only military +logistics experts could have pulled off. Organized Crime has never +been able to maintain. They don't have the intellectual dexterity, +they have too much braggadocio and they're too unreliable. But they +are capable of killing, and they do. And they are capable of being +used, in effect, as a front for various aspects [of Government +crime], as they had been in their anti-Castro efforts after the fall +of Cuba's Battista Government, which supported their corruption. +Since Castro didn't support them, they were losing many millions of +dollars. So they were conducting regular activities, we now know, +with the aid of the CIA and with the knowledge of the FBI. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, +please help to disseminate it by posting it to computer +bulletin boards, and by posting hardcopies in public places, +both on and off campus. As evidence accrues concerning the +corporate mass media's thirty year cover-up of the corporate +CIA's coup d'etat against the People of the United States, +the need for citizen reportage becomes ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

The episodes of this and other series can be retrieved +via anonymous ftp from the site: +red.css.itd.umich.edu +Log in with name "anonymous" or "ftp" and supply your e-mail address as +the password. The files are kept in the directory /poli/Essays/Conspiracy

+ +

Instructions for ftp retrieval are dependent upon what sort of system the +user is on. On a UNIX machine, at the command prompt, type the following: +ftp red.css.itd.umich.edu This may be different on IBMs and Vax systems. +Archivist: Paul Southworth, pauls@css.itd.umich.edu

+ +

Article 20864 of alt.conspiracy: +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo) +Subject: Part 37, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy + 1993Feb26.233930.1942@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy +Keywords: researchers'revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy +Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! +Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 23:39:30 GMT +Lines: 142

+ +

The following transcript is of a tape-recorded broadcast +by NO-commercials, NO-corporate-influences, listener-funded, +beacon-of-truth Pacifica Radio Network station of the People: +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +GARY NULL: +So, how do you start to link all these disparate people together? +What roles did they actually play? What roles do you surmise they +played?

+ +

L. FLETCHER PROUTY: +Well, take one of the most crucial roles. Certainly, everybody +wants to know who killed the President. How was he killed? What was +the technique that was used. And really, the answer has been before +us in the Press for years, and I guess most people didn't notice it +or didn't see it in the proper context.

+ +

President Lyndon Baines Johnson himself, when ex-President, just +before he died, had an interview with an old friend of his -- a +writer for the ATLANTIC MONTHLY Magazine. And, although I don't +have it laying here in front of me at the moment, I'll tell you +three things that Lyndon Johnson said during that interview that, +coming from the President, the man who was most involved -- at +least next to Kennedy -- in that whole affair. Johnson said these +things. He said, first of all: "I never believed that Oswald did +that by himself. Furthermore," he said, "I knew that there was a +conspiracy to kill Kennedy." I mean, he knew as he went along. +I'm not sure that he meant that he knew ahead of time. But, in +either case, those are his words. He said: "I have always felt +that there was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy."

+ +

But third -- and here he really said what answers your question. +He said: "WE", meaning the United States Government -- "We maintain +a Murder Incorported," and he added the words, "in the Caribbean" +because that was pertinent to the questions that were going on. +But this "Murder Incorporated" is Worldwide. And now the United +States Government maintains a "Murder Incorporated" capability, as +we see, from time to time, when assassinations or other tragic +terrorist movements [covert operations] take place. The people who +do that are professionals. And they work for certain elements of +the United States Government.

+ +

Now, President Johnson said that, and that was printed in the July +1973 issue of the ATLANTIC MONTHLY Magazine. Since that has been +put into the Press, then we can explore it a little more. Those +professionals whom the [Central Intelligence] Agency calls +"mechanics" are brought into Dallas. A small team. They do the job. +They kill the President. They leave. They're gone. That's the +murder!

+ +

The BIG crime after that is the cover story that we see every day. +For instance, this recent release by the American Medical +Association is ABSOLUTE COVER STORY! Who IS IT that's forcing that +ENORMOUS organization, that powerful organization, the American +Medical Association, just last week or the week before, to release +more cover story articles about the killing of the President that +are NOT true? Why are they being made to do this? Where is the +"power" that makes them do that? Therein is the explanation of +the assassination of the President!

+ +

GARY NULL: +Alright. Let's go through this. Who had the power to kill the +President and get away with it. Organized Crime could not have done +it and gotten away with it. Anti-Castroites could not have done it +and gotten away with it. And radically right-wing, conservative +politicians could not have done it and gotten away with it. +So who actually did it, and then who do you think ..... Separate +the cast of characters whom you feel did it, and then the cast of +characters who participated in the cover-up because whoever did it +had to have enough power to get the FBI to participate [in the +cover-up] because we know ABSOLUTELY, UNEQUIVOCALLY -- it is a +matter of LAW and it is a matter of sworn testimony that the FBI +participated systematically in covering up, destroying, hiding +information that was absolutely essential to the investigation. +They participated in a crime at ALL levels, including the very +highest level with J. Edgar Hoover. Now, you do not get J. Edgar +Hoover and the FBI to consistently commit crimes, to break the laws +which they're supposed to be there to defend unless you're very +powerful. WHO, then, is more powerful than the FBI? And who is +more intimidating than J. Edgar Hoover who could get that done?

+ +

L. FLETCHER PROUTY: +This is one of the questions that Oliver Stone ran into as he was +developing the script and the concept of this movie, because there +aren't many of us in this country, in this World who accept the fact +that there are power centers. Winson Churchill called this power +center, during World War II, when he was talking with intimate +friends (This is written. This is clearly available to researchers) +.... He called it a "high cabal". Winston Churchill is talking +about a higher cabal than Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt +and Josef Stalin. He is talking about a power center, a "power +elite" that is ABOVE governments.

+ +

Buckminster Fuller, a man who had enormous experience with +governments .... he spent more time as a consultant to the Kremlin +than any other non-Russian. He spent hours and hours and days as a +consultant to Congress in our country. Buckminster Fuller was a man +of great experience. He wrote a book that we should ALL know called +"CRITICAL PATH". In that book, he speaks over and over and over again +about the "power elite". I've written a book about [titled] +"THE SECRET TEAM". + +[some words lost when Prouty's phone line is cut off for +a few seconds]

+ +

.... because I myself have worked with people, in their own homes, +like [Eisenhower's Secretary of State] John Foster Dulles and +[Director of Central Intelligence] Allen Dulles. I have seen John +Foster Dulles pick up a special telephone. He didn't dial. He didn't +say anything except: "I want" so-and-so. And you could tell by the +name that it was a Soviet name -- a man in Russia. They talked for +a little while. He said "Thank you," hung up the phone and we went +right ahead with business. He had settled something. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, +please help to disseminate it by posting it to computer +bulletin boards, and by posting hardcopies in public places, +both on and off campus. As evidence accrues concerning the +corporate mass media's thirty year cover-up of the corporate +CIA's coup d'etat against the People of the United States, +the need for citizen reportage becomes ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

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Article 4396 of alt.conspiracy.jfk: +Path: cbnewsl!att-out!oucsboss!sun!malgudi.oar.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!gatech!concert!uvaarpa!murdoch!hopper!jad +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa +Subject: Part 38, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy +Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy + 1993Mar10.180611.4222@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU +Followup-To: alt.conspiracy +Organization: ITC/UVA Community Access UNIX/Internet Project +Lines: 140

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The following transcript is of a tape-recorded broadcast +by NO-commercials, NO-corporate-influences, listener-funded, +beacon-of-truth Pacifica Radio Network station for the People: +WBAI-FM (99.5) +505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. +New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707

+ +

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * +(continuation) +COLONEL L. FLETCHER PROUTY: +There are people above our Government structure. And when those +power groups are threatened by a regime such as that which the +Kennedys were establishing in Washington (their own power center), +one of them has to give. And the Kennedys lost that one. So, we +have to accept that a "power elite" DOES exist. It's existing today. +And it keeps the cover story alive. That's bigger than the crime +itself because the cover story is covering the way our Government, +the way our lives are run today. Look around and see.

+ +

GARY NULL: +So, in other words, it's your feeling, based upon insider +information .... because you were an insider's insider. You were +Chief of Special Operations to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I mean, +you don't get any closer to the heart of the intelligence community +than that. Certainly, not at the Armed Forces level. And you were +also a senior Air Force officer in the Office of Special Operations +at the Office of the Secretary of Defense. And you were the liaison +with the Central Intelligence Agency in clandestine operations +[between the CIA and the U.S. Air Force]. So we have to trust that +your insights are unique.

+ +

So, you're telling us, very literally, that beyond the three +branches of our United States Government there is a "power" cabal +made up of individuals who represent industry, government and +business (within that, the world of high finance) who can make a +phone call and kill a story, make a phone call and take out a +contract, can put into motion any kind of effort that they deem +essential for THEIR economic or personal well-being, and that they +are beyond the law because they control all offices. They control +the Attorney-General of the United States, who is a political +appointee. And that's been relatively simple. Virtually all of the +Attorney-Generals, with the exception of two in the last thirty +years, have been extraordinarily reprehensible people. The "power" +cabal controls the Federal Bureau of Investigation, because we had +a very peculiar man running the FBI who had his own set of values. +They can control politicians. They control the Mass Media, which is +relatively simple because most, not all, of the Media are owned by +major corporations.

+ +

So, what you're saying is that these people [of the "power' cabal] +are simply a law unto themselves, and they stay out of the +spotlight, they don't seek publicity, but they do seek power. +And they maintain power through economic power. And they see to it +that they win, no matter what happens, on any level. +Is that what you're telling us?

+ +

L. FLETCHER PROUTY: +Gary, you're telling the story pretty straight. Let me add +something. It may sound kind of small and precise. But it's exactly +the kind of example that just draws a line under what you've said.

+ +

I happened to be in New Zealand, on the way back from the South +Pole, when I heard about President Kennedy being killed. And I just +heard that as a momentary flash over the radio. And, since I was +transient there, I didn't have the radio to keep listening. I went +out on the street and I looked for a newspaper. Before long, the +local paper in Christ Church, New Zealand printed The Star as an +extra. And on the front page of The Star, there was a large picture +of Kennedy, of course. And on the other side of the page, across +from that, there was a picture of the building, the Texas School +Book Depository that we've all heard about now, where the killer +was supposed to have been firing from. And, as I looked at that +picture, I saw that many windows were open. Now this was a picture +taken in real time. In other words, it was taken at the time that +the murder happened, or very close to that. And the picture was +flashed, by radio, around the World. And I turned to a congressman +who was with me, and I said: "Look, there's something wrong in +Dallas. The protective organization that we have in the Military +and the Secret Service, would NEVER have permitted overlooking +windows to be open when the President goes by."

+ +

Well, you see, there is an organization within the Military that is +trained for what we call the protection of the President. And one +of their jobs is to close windows in overlooking buildings, and so +on and so forth. But I found out, when I got back to the United +States, that the organization that should have been in Dallas +protecting the President had SOMEHOW been called by somebody who +knew the system, who knew the code words. And the commandant, the +commanding officer of that organization, had been told: "You're not +needed in Dallas. We're going to have another unit in Dallas." And +this is routine. There are many units. So he didn't go to Dallas. +But then he found out that NOBODY ELSE was there. Dallas was OPEN!

+ +

The Secret Service was not there at Dealey Plaza where the President +was killed. There were FALSE Secret Service people there. There +were FALSE military officers there. There were FALSE policemen +there. We have PHOTOGRAPHS of them. There are these photographs of +"the tramps" that a lot of people have seen, showing the policeman +in front of them and the policeman in back of them, leading them to +the sheriff's office. If you look carefully, the two policemen in +the photographs have different uniforms on. They are ACTORS! +The "tramps" are actors! And, if you've been in the business of +protecting the President, you KNOW that things like that +don't happen.

+ +

Now, there are only a FEW people who would KNOW -- who would have +the authority to tell those units that have been specially trained +to protect the President -- to tell them NOT to do their jobs! +It's like a fireman. You don't tell a fireman NOT to go when the +bells ring and the fire is across the street. He's trained to do it. +But suppose somebody said: "Don't go. There's going to be another +fire truck." That requires "power" from the top. That defines what +you were just talking about, Gary, and what I was talking about. +That defines the "power elite" who can come from the top and +nullify things. There's where the power is. +(to be continued) +* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

+ +

If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, +please help to disseminate it by posting it to computer +bulletin boards, and by posting hardcopies in public places, +both on and off campus. As evidence accrues concerning the +corporate mass media's thirty year cover-up of the corporate +CIA's coup d'etat against the People of the United States, +the need for citizen reportage becomes ever more striking.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +

The episodes of this and other series can be retrieved +via anonymous ftp from the site: +red.css.itd.umich.edu +Log in with name "anonymous" or "ftp" and supply your e-mail address +as the password. The files are kept in the directory +/pub/Politics/Essays/Conspiracy

+ +

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BOSTON (UPI) -- A newly dedicated statue of President John F. +Kennedy in front of the Statehouse on Beacon Hill will be returned to +its foundry to clean graffiti from the memorial, officials said Tuesday. +A man apparently obsessed with the late actress Marilyn Monroe +claimed responsibility for spray-painting white splotches of paint and +the word "murderer'' on the 8-foot bronze statue over the weekend. +Workers using a mild acid were able to hose the paint off the base +of the memorial, but did not attempt to treat the statue itself. +"They are going to move it,'' said Greg Arnold, superintendent of +state office buildings. "They're going to take it back to the foundry +and try to put additional protection on it.'' +Arnold said the cleansers used on the base of the memorial were not +suitable for the statue. "It's a stone wash, and you can't do that to +the bronze and the patina of the statue.'' +Noel Danforth, a spokeswoman for the legislative commission that +oversees the memorial, said the statue would be sent to the Tallix +Foundry in Beacon, N.Y. +"It's about a three to four week process, depending on how much +work they have to do on it and if they have to repatinate it,'' Danforth +said. +No estimate for the amount of damage to the statue was immediately +available. The statue was to be removed Wednesday, Arnold said. +The defacement took place on the 28th anniversary of Monroe's +suicide. The blond sexpot has been linked romantically to Kennedy in +published reports in recent years. +"The caller stated ... 'Why don't you take a wild look at the JFK +statue in front of the Statehouse. The m----------r murdered Marilyn Monroe, +now it's his turn,'' said Capt. Paul Mahoney, commander of the Capitol +Police, which oversees state government buildings and grounds. +The statue, which depicts a striding Kennedy, was dedicated May 29 +on what would have been Kennedy's 73rd birthday.

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Article 6526 of alt.conspiracy: +From: plemkin@igc.org (Peter Lemkin) +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy +Subject: 100 CONSPIRACY Q'S ON JFK ASSASSIN + 1299600016@igc.org +Date: 30 Dec 91 00:21:00 GMT +Sender: Notesfile to Usenet Gateway notes@igc.org +Lines: 1278 +Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1299600016:000:17631 +Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!plemkin Dec 29 16:21:00 1991

+ +

J.F.K. ASSASSINATION 11/22/63

+ +

COINCIDENCE OR CONSPIRACY?

+ +

1) Why were over 58 eye-witnesses to the assassination ignored by +the Warren Commission when they said they felt shots had NOT come +from the Book Depository?

+ +

2) Why did most persons in Dealey Plaza run up the Grassy Knoll +after the shots while the authorities ran to the Book +Depository?

+ +

3) Why were MULTIPLE rifles found at the Book Depository and then +all but one made to 'disappear'?

+ +

4) Why were ongoing de-escalation plans for Vietnam reversed +within 48 hrs of the assassination?

+ +

5) Why were the ten persons taken into custody in Dealey Plaza +all released, some without so much as their names taken? What is +the evidence (officially ignored) that some of them were directly +involved?

+ +

6) How was 'Watergate' and the ensuing Watergate scandal DIRECTLY +connected to the JFK assassination?

+ +

7) What MULTIPLE lines of evidence connect the JFK, RFK and MLK +assassinations?

+ +

8) What are the known (often frightening and bizarre) details of +the over 200 persons who were murdered or died VERY suspiciously +(and conveniently) after 11/22/63 because they had seen the +'wrong' things, tried to speak up, etc.? Why did they die in +"clusters" when investigations were ongoing - sometimes just +hours before they were to be questioned?

+ +

9) Why was Nixon one of the few Americans who could not correctly +remember where he was when the assassination occurred? Why may +he have 'forgotten' he was on a plane out of Dallas?

+ +

10) Why could J.E. Hoover also not 'remember' he was in Dallas +for a meeting just days before the assassination? Why did he +show NO surprise at the announcement of JFK's death?

+ +

11) What is the evidence that FBI informants (perhaps even Lee +Harvey Oswald himself) had warned the FBI of an impending +assassination attempt on JFK which the FBI ignored and later +denied even getting?

+ +

12) What multiple lines of evidence show Ruby and Oswald's FBI +and CIA connections?

+ +

13) What documents are still being withheld from public scrutiny +in the National Archives and WHY? Why 'hide' any when the +government 'believes' the act was committed by a 'lone nut'!?

+ +

14) Why did so MANY government documents involving Lee Harvey +Oswald and others 'disappear' or were said to have been +'destroyed' - including Lee Harvey Oswald'S Army Intelligence +files, Lee Harvey Oswald'S letter to his FBI contact Hosty and +MUCH MORE?

+ +

15) Why when Lee Harvey Oswald returned to the USA from the USSR +was he NOT officially met by any representatives of the CIA, FBI, +State Dept. etc., but WAS met by Spas T Raiken, a former Nazi +collaborator with intelligence community connections who the +Warren Commission claimed was with 'Traveller's Aid'.

+ +

16) Why was Marina Oswald sequestered in a hotel, surrounded with +intelligence community connected persons, coached as to what to +say and what she had experienced, and threatened with deportation +if she did not cooperate?

+ +

17) What evidence connects EVERY president since the +assassination (with the lone exception of Carter) directly with +the assassination or its cover-up!? What are George H.W. Bush's +connections to the events of 11/22/63? Why was his name and +address in Lee Harvey Oswald'S Dallas friend's address book?

+ +

18) Why did Jack Ruby repeatedly implore of the Warren +Commissioners to take him out of Dallas and to Washington where +he felt he could speak the truth? Why did they NOT take him up +on his offer and pleas?

+ +

19) What did Jack Ruby mean when he said that he was "no more +involved in a conspiracy than you gentlemen" when he spoke to the +Warren Commission?

+ +

20) Why did Ruby suddenly contract cancer and die just before his +new trial was to begin?

+ +

21) Why did Dorothy Kilgallan, the only reporter to interview +Ruby in prison, die mysteriously days after she said she would +"break the case wide open" and her best friend die some days +thereafter?

+ +

22) How do the events of 11/22/63 and its immediate aftermath +STILL effect our everyday political and even personal lives?

+ +

23) What Government agencies and other groups were involved in +the planning and execution of the President and then cover it +up?

+ +

24) Why was the single-bullet or "Magic Bullet" theory of the +Warren Commission a physical and medical IMPOSSIBILITY?

+ +

25) Why do those who played prominently in the assassination and +its 'investigation' continually show up in contemporary political +life? Are they being 'rewarded' for a 'job well done"?

+ +

26) Why did the U.S. Government deliberately LIE to the American +People and World about what they knew of the events of the +assassination? Why do the CONTINUE to do so?

+ +

27) Who felt threatened by JFK? And who gained by his murder? +Who had the means to kill him and cover it up to look like the +work of a lone-nut?

+ +

28) How was the Media sometimes cleverly controlled and, at +times, complicit in the coverage of events, facts and fiction?

+ +

29) Which Mafia bosses and employees, many of whom worked for and +with the CIA, were involved in the assassination?

+ +

30) What did LBJ mean when he said the U.S. Government had been +running a 'Murder Incorporated' down in the Caribbean in the +'60's?

+ +

31) Why did LBJ insist on being sworn in on Air Force One when he +was quite legally President AUTOMATICALLY upon the death of JFK?

+ +

32) Why were some of the very same persons who were in Dallas on +11/22/63 also just by 'coincidence' near the RFK murder and +Memphis for the MLK assassination?

+ +

33) Why did so MANY fear for their lives in the wake of an +assassination by a (then dead) lone-nut? Why did so many die +suddenly, mysteriously and 'conveniently'?

+ +

34) Why did the FBI not react to an informant's report that +Joseph Milteer knew in detail how JFK was going to be +assassinated weeks before the event? Why did the public never +hear that Milteer traveled hundred of miles to witness the +execution with his own eyes? Why was he never questioned by the +Warren Commission, House Select Committee or anyone else?

+ +

35) Why were the few who attempted to tell the truth of the +events harassed, punished, fired from their jobs, discredited, +intimidated, marginalized, threatened and often killed?

+ +

36) Why did all those who met in Ruby's apartment the evening +Ruby killed Oswald die mysteriously thereafter?

+ +

37) Why did so many bullets and so much of the physical evidence +'disappear'?

+ +

38) Who were the multitude of PHONY 'CIA' and 'Secret Service' +persons (complete with official looking ID) on the Grassy Knoll +and around Dealey Plaza on 11/22/63? Why were they stopping +persons from moving into certain locations?

+ +

39) Why did the driver of the Presidential limousine slow the car +during the fusillade rather than accelerate?

+ +

40) Why did Secret Service men jump over the body of LBJ and not +JFK?

+ +

41) Why were several of the Secret Service agents out drinking +very late the night before at a club owned by a friend of +Ruby's?

+ +

42) What did Jack Ruby know when he said "I'm Jack Ruby. You +don't know me, but you soon will" just BEFORE the assassination?

+ +

43) What evidence is there that Ruby, Oswald and Tippit (as well +as others possibly involved) all knew and had been seen meeting +each other?

+ +

44) Why was so much evidence and testimony suppressed and at +times altered?

+ +

45) Why to THIS DAY do many live in fear to speak the truth of +what they saw or know of the events of Dallas 11/22/63?

+ +

46) Why are powerful forces trying to discredit the new JFK +movie? Why have 'critics' of the official version of events long +been subject to harassment, surveillance and more?

+ +

47) Why were so MANY of the movies and photos taken in Dealey +Plaza that day CONFISCATED by persons representing themselves as +government officials and NEVER returned nor shown to the public?

+ +

48) Why do governmental and extra-governmental forces STILL spin +dis-information stories related to 11/22/63 and its aftermath?

+ +

49) Why were several witnesses offered bribes and/or threatened +by the FBI and others to NOT disclose the truth of what they +saw?

+ +

50) Why were witnesses coached and badgered to get the testimony +the Warren Commission 'wanted' to hear? Why were those who saw a +different scenario ignored or worse?

+ +

51) Why did Warren suggest the Report NOT be published to save +printing costs?

+ +

52) Why and how did police have a full description of Oswald +before those on the investigation scene could have assembled any +information to lead to such a conclusion?

+ +

53) Why did some newspapers get information only the FBI and CIA +had on Oswald to print in their stories within hours of the +event? Who leaked this information or had it on hand prior?

+ +

54) Why do so few know of the photos that show clear evidence of +a conspiracy and even show images of the other conspirators and +gunmen?

+ +

55) What is known of the multiplicity of mysterious activities of +many in Dallas and Dealey Plaza that day?

+ +

56) Why did the FBI and CIA at the HIGHEST levels suppress +information and work to foil a real investigation into aspects of +the assassination?

+ +

57) What were the many Nazi and Fascist connections to the +assassination?

+ +

58) What evidence is there of MULTIPLE gunmen in the School Book +Depository and other buildings, as well as the Grassy Knoll?

+ +

59) Why was 'Lee Harvey Oswald' repeatedly seen at several places +SIMULTANEOUSLY in the weeks before the assassination and who were +those impersonating him and why?

+ +

60) What evidence shows that the person murdered by Ruby is NOT +the person exhumed from that grave?

+ +

61) Why were so many of the medical evidences tampered with or +made to 'disappear'? Why were so many others seemingly altered?

+ +

62) Why did someone construct forged composite photos to frame +Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination?

+ +

63) Why did the JFK autopsy doctor who burned his notes and first +draft of the autopsy report get a promotion shortly after this +obstruction of justice and/or alteration of fact?

+ +

64) Why do the locations of wounds as seen by a team doctors in +Dallas and that evening by another team of doctors in Bethesda +Naval Hospital NOT match in number or location!?

+ +

65) Why did the CIA and other government entities try to +discredit and obstruct Garrison's investigation and frame him on +false charges? Why were they so afraid of his investigation?

+ +

66) Who was the Army Intelligence man in and around the Texas +School Book Depository?

+ +

67) Why were Jack Ruby and several of the Dallas Police and +others seen repeatedly at multiple assassination-related +locations in Dallas that day? How did they seem to 'know' where +the 'action' was - or was to be?

+ +

68) Why do different documents and identifications of Lee Harvey +Oswald show different height and even different faces - not to +mention names? What was Lee Harvey Oswald's REAL 'mission' in +the USSR and in New Orleans and Dallas after his return? Who did +he work for? CIA? FBI? ONI?

+ +

69) Who were the several different men seen fleeing from the +Plaza seconds after the shots rang out?

+ +

70) Why did the eye-witness reports of persons seeing men with +rifles in Dealey Plaza before and during the shooting receive so +little 'official' attention and even suppression?

+ +

71) Why was JFK's body ILLEGALLY removed from Dallas and Texas +jurisdiction? Why did the FBI remove all of the other physical +evidence to Washington? Why was a Grand Jury never convened?

+ +

72) Why did the Warren Commission and FBI seem to repeatedly and +consistently mis-spell the names of those who's involvement might +shed light on a possible conspiracy? Was this 'conspiratorial +dyslexia' on the government's part?

+ +

73) Were one or more bullets and bullet fragments removed +secretly from JFK's brain as much evidence indicates?

+ +

74) Why was his brain never sectioned and studied? Why and to +where did it disappear along with other essential medical +evidence?

+ +

75) Why do the descriptions of the size, color and other details +of the coffin JFK's body was placed into in Dallas NOT match +those his body was in when it arrived for autopsy in Washington? +Was there a 'switch' and tampering with the body during the +flight?

+ +

76) Why were the autopsy doctors ORDERED to NOT follow certain +STANDARD medical procedures and investigate certain wounds etc.?

+ +

77) What was the Government's role in obstruction of justice +after the fact...if not before?

+ +

78) Why were the seven particular persons on the Warren +Commission selected? Why did several have intelligence community +connections? Why were some enemies of JFK?

+ +

79) Has our Government been 'illegitimate' since 11/22/63? Are +we still living with the legacy of a coup d'etat in America? Are +the 'coup' leaders still firmly in control?

+ +

80) Is: 'ignorance bliss'? Does: 'knowledge imply +responsibility'? Does: 'silence equal complicity'?

+ +

81) What can be done to understand and finally undo this entire +(long overdue) situation? Is Knowledge and Truth the first step +to talking back our country? What ARE the facts? Why are they +obscured from the average American?

+ +

82) Is the assassination of JFK the PIVOTAL event of American +History since the Second World War? Is an understanding of the +events a NECESSARY precursor to understanding EVERY MAJOR +political event that has happened since - right up to TODAY!?

+ +

83) Why did Jack Ruby suddenly have a dramatic improvement in his +financial situation just prior to the assassination?

+ +

84) Why did several persons not 'officially' thought to have been +involved suddenly flee Dallas immediately after the Event?

+ +

85) Why did the Washington D.C. phone system fail for several +minutes immediately during and after the assassination?

+ +

86) Why were most of the Cabinet conveniently and coincidentally +out of the country at the time?

+ +

87) Why was the Navy man with the launch codes for the atomic +weapons separated from JFK and LBJ? What foreknowledge did the +Military have? What possible participation?

+ +

88) Can the deaths and destruction at home and abroad in Vietnam +and ALL the subsequent wars be understood by an analysis of the +JFK assassination?

+ +

89) Was Lee Harvey Oswald a CIA agent, as much evidence seems to +indicate?

+ +

90) Need the American People question if our government and +institutions of government have had ANY legitimacy since +11/22/63?

+ +

91) What Right-Wing groups and Businessmen were involved in the +plot? Why?

+ +

92) Why were NO notes kept by ANYONE who interrogated Lee Harvey +Oswald over a 48 hr period?

+ +

93) Why did Lee Harvey Oswald say "I am just a patsy"? Was he +100% correct?

+ +

94) Why does much evidence show that Lee Harvey Oswald did not +even hold a rifle that day - and perhaps NOT even OWN one?

+ +

95) Why did then Governor Reagan refuse to extradite several +persons suspected of direct involvement in the assassination for +trial and then get suggested as a Presidential candidate?

+ +

96) Why did Lee Harvey Oswald have to be executed within 48hrs of +his alleged crime? Was he 'supposed' to have been killed prior?

+ +

97) How did Ruby gain entry into the Police station? Were the +police waiting for Ruby to enter before moving Oswald?

+ +

98) Why did forces high in the FBI order the DESTRUCTION of a +note Oswald had given to FBI agent Hosty in Dallas days before +the assassination?

+ +

99) Why do CIA and other documents show a coordinated effort to +'destroy' the critics of the Warren Commission and the +Government's BIG LIE of the events of 11/22/63?

+ +

100) Did America DIE along with JFK that day in Dallas 11/22/63? +Can we revive it and take back OUR country from the assassins and +their heirs? Are we as a People more satisfied with the +'COMFORTABLE LIE' or the 'UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH'?!?

+ +

*If you would like to read more on the JFK assassination AND +DECIDE FOR YOURSELF the answers to the above questions, the +following footnoted sources are readily available:

+ +

1) High Treason, Groden, Robert J. and Livingstone, Harrison E.; +Berkeley Books, l990

+ +

2) On The Trail Of The Assassins, Garrison, Jim; Sheridan Quare +Press, l988

+ +

3) Crossfire, Marrs, Jim; Carroll and Graf, l989

+ +

4) Conspiracy, Summers, Anthony; Paradon, l989

+ +

5) Best Evidence, Lifton, David; Carroll and Graf, l988

+ +

6) Plausible Denial, Lane, Mark; Thunder's Mouth Press, N.Y. +l991 (HC)

+ +

7) Act Of Treason, North, Mark; Carroll and Graf, l991 (HC)

+ +

8) Spy Saga, Melanson, Philip; Praeger, l990 (HC)

+ +

9) Mafia Kingfish, Davis, John H.; McGraw Hill, l989, (HC)

+ +

DON'T FORGET TO QUESTION AUTHORITY AND SEEK THE TRUTH - +YOURSELF! BE AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN HISTORY AND LIFE AND NOT +JUST A SILENT OBSERVER! WORK TO EXPOSE THE TRUTH IN THE JFK,RFK, +MLK AND OTHER ASSASSINATIONS AND THE VARIETY OF 'BLACK' +OPERATIONS WHICH HAVE THREATENED AND ARE THREATENING OUR +DEMOCRACY AND BROUGHT US TO THE BRINK OF FASCISM AS WELL AS +MORAL, FINANCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BANKRUPTCY IN AMERICA! IF YOU +DO NOT ACTIVELY WORK TO PRESERVE YOUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS AND OUR +DEMOCRACY, REMEMBER - SOMEONE ELSE WILL BE ACTIVELY WORKING TO +DESTROY THEM!

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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY +OF +BOOKS CONCERNING SOVIET STATE SECURITY +by Charles Trew Burke, Virginia

+ +

The following is a short collection of books concerning, +either directly or indirectly, the Soviet Committee for State +Security (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, or KGB). +All of the books were written during the 1980's and are +arranged alphabetically by author or editor. +The list is not intended to be comprehensive. The list +contains a wide range of authors. Among the group are scholars, +government officials (active and retired), Soviet bloc defectors, +and other people in positions that afford them the ability to +provide information on the Soviet state security apparatus. Some +of the works deal only with the KGB. Others deal primarily +with other topics yet, still provide insightful commentary on a +specific topic concerning the KGB.

+ +

INTRODUCTION

+ +

During the late spring of 1989, at the Soviet Congress of +People's Deputies, former weight lifter Yuri Vlasov made one of +the harshest attacks on the Soviet Committee for State Security +(KGB) in recent memory. +Vlasov, whose father disappeared in 1953, stated live on +Soviet television: "This service sowed grief, cries, torture on +its native land...The democratic renewal in the country has not +changed the position of the KGB in the political system." Vlasov +also made a number of other emotional and dramatic charges during +his speech. At the conclusion of his remarks, the hall gave him +an extended ovation. +The incident is, indeed, evidence of how far political +changes have come to the Soviet Union. A very short time ago, +Vlasov's comments would have placed him in very serious trouble. +Yet, Vlasov is quite correct that the KGB has retained its power +and privileged postion in the USSR. +The organization that is now the KGB has undergone a +number of reorganizations and name changes since the inception of +the Cheka on December 7 (or 20), 1917. Although the organization +was supposed to be temporary, the Cheka and its successors (the +GPU, OGPU, GUGB, NKVD, NKGB, MGB, and now the KGB) have remained +a key element in the administration of internal and external +policies of the USSR. Interestingly, members of the KGB still +call themselves Chekists in recognition of a hallowed tradition. +Despite the widespread public recognition of the +organization's existence, few, even in the Soviet field, +comprehend the full role of the KGB in Soviet society. Most +frequently the KGB is compared to the American Central +Intelligence Agency (CIA). However, the scope of activities +carried out by the KGB include the functions that are carried out +in the United States by at least a dozen Federal agencies.

+ +

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY +OF +BOOKS CONCERNING SOVIET STATE SECURITY +by Charles Trew Burke, Virginia

+ +

Barron, John. KGB Today. New York: Reader's Digest, 1983. 489 pp. +Contains photographs and index.

+ +

Barron, an editor at Reader's Digest, has written a number +of articles and books on the KGB. He has benefitted enormously +from CIA cooperation on his books. His access to government +officials and documents, and a number of Soviet defectors, has +allowed him to put together two of the best-selling works ever on +the KGB (his previous work was KGB published in 1974 by Reader's +Digest). +Aside from providing a wealth of information, Barron +writes in a style that is to easy read. He dosen't get too +technical for the non-specialist or place footnotes everywhere. +For this work, Barron worked extensively with Stanislav +Levchenko, a former KGB Major who defected while on operational +assignment in Japan in the late 1970's (Levchenko has also been +involved in two other works that will be discussed further on).

+ +

Corson, William R. and Robert T. Crowley. The New KGB. New York: +William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1985. Contains index and +photographs. 560 pp.

+ +

Both authors are retired American intelligence officers. +This work is a very well researched piece which covers many +different periods of Soviet state security. +The objective of the work is to present the reader a +"fresh way of looking at the current operations and global +strategies of the new KGB." The authors argue that the KGB has +taken on a more active role in Soviet government and has +increased its dominance in the Communist Party of the USSR.

+ +

Dzhirkvelov, Ilya. Secret Servant. New York: Harper & Row, +Publishers, 1987. 398 pp. Contains index.

+ +

A fascinating account by a former member of the KGB who +defected to the West in 1980. Dzhirkvelov, who participated in +many "direct action" operations, is particularly interesting +because he defected for personal reasons and remains unrepentant +for many of his activities. He is still an admirer of Joseph +Stalin, for example, and some of the extermination operations he +participated in against nationalist minorities in the USSR after +WWII. A very unusual autobiography.

+ +

Dziak, John J. Chekisty. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1988. +234 pp. Contains index.

+ +

A very well written historical account by a senior +intelligence official with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). +The extensive documentation, frequently using Soviet materials, +is invaluable. The bibliography is also quite useful. +This hard-hitting work has many classic quotes and +comments including the infamous comment on the Soviet secret +police by Felix Dzerzhinski, its founder: "We represent in +ourselves organized terror --- this must be said very clearly..." +(interview with B. Rossov, "From Our Moscow Correspondent," +Novaya Zhizhin,' June 9, 1918, p. 4). Highly recommended work.

+ +

Knight, Amy W. the KGB. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988. 348 pp. +Contains index.

+ +

An excellent scholarly work by a senior analyst with the +Congrssional Research Service of the Library of Congress. +The focus of the work is the politcal role of the KGB in +the government of the USSR. This work is very rich in +documentation and detail and is definately more for a specialist. +Other readers may find the work rough going. Researchers will +find this work invaluable and very well balanced. Highly +recommended work.

+ +

Leggett, George. The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police. Oxford: +Clarendon Press, 1981 (reprinted with corrections as +paperback, 1986). 514 pp. With index.

+ +

This piece is a masterwork of research by a British +scholar. This book is one of the best works ever on the Soviet +secret police, certainly on the Cheka. Totally comprehensive and +"must reading" for information on the beginnings of Soviet state +security.

+ +

Levchenko, Stanislav. On the Wrong Side. Washington: Pergammon-Brassey's, 1988. 244 pp.

+ +

Levchenko was a member of the First Chief Directorate of +the KGB (Foreign Operations) working in Japan. This book is his +autobiography and covers the early years of his life and career +up to his defection to the United States in 1979. +This work is very Russian and emotional in style. While +telling the reader about his life and career, Levchenko +effectively illustrates the difficuly and strains of conflicting +loyalties and beliefs.

+ +
+ +

Pacepa, Ion Mihai. Red Horizons. Washington: Regnery Gateway, +1987. 446 pp. With index and photographs.

+ +

A controversial work by a Romanian spymaster who defected +to the United States in 1978. Pacepa had held a number of +exteremely sensitive positions in the Romanian Securitate. One of +his duties included directing the personal security of Romanian +President Nicolae Ceusescu. His defection accelerated a massive +purge being conducted in the Romanian Communist Party by +President Ceusescu. Pacepa was debriefed by the CIA on a full-time basis for three years following his defection. +His remarks on the turbulent Romanian-Soviet relationship +and Soviet control mechanisms over Warsaw Pact allies are +insightful. + + +Richelson, Jeffrey T. Sword and Shield. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger +Publishing Co., 1986. 279 pp.

+ +

The author, a professor from the Washington DC area, has +written a number of works on intelligence matters. +Compared to some of the other works available on the KGB, +this work has pretty shallow research behind it. In a number of +areas, up to 20 footnotes will be taken up using only two, maybe +three different sources. Non-specialists may, however, find the +work an easier read than some of the more thoroughly researched +books.

+ +

Rocca, Raymond G. and John J. Dziak. Bibliography of Soviet +Intelligence and Security Services. Boulder, CO: Westview +Press, 1985. 203 pp. With index.

+ +

An indispensible tool for researching the KGB and its +cousins. The work covers other bibliographies, Soviet accounts, +Defector/First Hand accounts, Second Hand accounts, and +government materials. This is another "must have" work.

+ +

Rommerstein, Herbert and Stanislav Levchenko. The KGB Against +Main Enemy. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1989. 369 pp. +With index. + +Rommerstein was recently director of the Office to Counter +Soviet Active Measures and Disinformation at the US Information +Agency. This work, by two intelligence professionals, traces the +history of Soviet intelligence operations against the Glavny +Vrag, or Main Enemy, as the US is called in Soviet intelligence +literature. +The work covers both old and new ground. The authors were +able to successfully dig up some new information on past events +through the Freedom of Information Act. The book also includes +material on events in the late 1980's. + + +Sharansky, Natan (Anatoly). Fear No Evil. New York: Random House, +1988. 437 pp. Contains index and photographs.

+ +

This is the memior from one of the most well-known of the +Soviet refuseniks and dissidents. Sharansky's dislike of the KGB +is matched only by the dislike of the KGB toward him. The book is +a dramatic testament from an intense, determined man. +The work is useful because of the unique view it gives of +some of the KGB's internal roles. Sharansky also has a very +articulate and effective writing style.

+ +

Shevchenko, Arkady. Breaking With Moscow. New York: Alfred A. +Knopf, 1985. 378 pp. With index.

+ +

Shevchenko was serving as under Secretary-General of the +United Nations during the 1970's when he agreed to spy for the +United States. He later defected. +Because of Shevchenko's senior diplomatic position, he has +information to provide in a number of areas. One area is Soviet +intelligence operations. Shevchenko, and most other Soviet +employees at the UN, had to preform duties for the KGB. Because +of his senior position, Shevchenko had regular contact with the +top Soviet security personnel in New York and Washington.

+ +

Wise, David. The Spy Who Got Away. New York: Random House, 1988. +288 pp. With index and photographs.

+ +

Wise is a journalist with a number of articles and books +on intelligence matters to his credit. In this book Wise analyzes +the Edward Lee Howard affair. Howard was an employee of the CIA +being trained to run US agents in Moscow. The CIA discovered that +Howard had lied about his personal life, specifically his drug +use and past thefts. Howard was fired and then retaliated by +passing information to the Soviets. He later made a rare US +defection to the Soviet Union shortly before he was to be +arrested by the FBI. +Wise was actually able, with KGB permission, to interview +Howard in Budapest, Hungary (around the same time British +espionage journalist Phillip Knightly was allowed to interview +Kim Philby in Moscow). Wise also reveals very interesting details +of FBI and CIA counterintelligence operations. A good story.

+ +

Wright, Peter. Spy Catcher. New York: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1987. +392 pp. With index and photographs. + +The highly controversial memior from a former MI5 official +that the British government tried desperately (and +unsuccessfully) to prevent from being published. The book is a +treasure trove of accounts of American, British, and Soviet +intelligence operations. The intrigues and conspiricies run wild +in this one.

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COINCIDENCE OR THE KISS OF DEATH? +Copyright (c) 1993 by Linda D. Thompson, All Rights Reserved. +AEN News, Fidonet 1:231/110, BBS line 317-881-2743, Voice: 317-780-5204

+ +

In investigating events surrounding the massacre at Waco, I have +made some rather startling discoveries. For instance, I discovered that +three of the four ATF agents killed during the initial seige at Waco had +been Bill Clinton's bodyguards during his presidential campaign. Film +footage from the initial seige (which can be seen in the video tape, +"Waco, the Big Lie"), shows an ATF agent throwing a grenade and shooting +a machine gun into the room where three other ATF agents have just +entered a window. In other words, this footage appears to show that these +agents were assasinated. In the March 3, 1993, Dallas Morning News, all +three of the agents who went into the window on the roof of the Branch +Davidian house at Mt. Carmel were reported by the ATF to have been +killed inside. This certainly seemed curious, as did the connections to +Waco of numerous highly placed government officials. Curiouser and +curiouser. +A former CIA agent and a former FBI agent both told me to begin +checking into the body count around Hillary and Bill Clinton, during +Clinton's rise to governor of Arkansas and since he has become +President. With just a little preliminary research of the period just +prior to the election through the present, I found 21 people who +Clinton knew personally, many of whom he knew intimately, and several +who had been his escorts or bodyguards, all of whom had died under +mysterious circumstances or been ki "accidental" airplane or helicopter +crashes: +CLINTON BODY COUNT

+ +

(Not including 96 Branch Davidians murdered in Waco, Texas, Feb. 28, +1993 through April 19, 1993):

+ +

PEOPLE WHO KNOW WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM:

+ +

+ 2 July 30, 1992, C. Victor Raiser II, 52, the national +finance co-chairman of the Clinton for President campaign, and his son, +R. Montgomery Raiser, 22, were among five (5) people killed July 30 in a +crash of a private plane near Dillingham, Alaska. Vincent Raiser was a +past national finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and +he served on the boards of the Democratic Business Council and the +Center for National Policy and the board of advisers of the Democratic +Leadership Counc native of Indianapolis, he graduated from Princeton +University and received a law degree from the University of Virginia. He +worked in Buffalo before moving to Washington in 1979. He was a +specialist in communications and corporate law and consultant to the law +firm of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue until 1991. He was chairman of the +American Mobile Satellite Corp., a telecommunications development +company in Washington, and vice chairman of Mobile Telecommunication +Technologies Corp. of Jackso n, Miss., a pagin g and voice messaging +company. Its main subsidiary in Washington is SkyTel Corp., a paging +company. [Reported in OBITUARIES, "D.C. Lawyer C.V. Raiser II And Son +Die," The Washington Post, August 01, 1992, FINAL Edition, Section: +METRO, p. b07.]

+ +

+ 1 July 21, 1993 (UPI): Vincent Foster, A top legal aide to +President Clinton was announced to have "committed suicide in a park +outside Washington," by the White House. +In a statement, White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said +Vince Foster Jr., 48, the White House deputy counsel, was found dead in +a suburban Virginia park, apparently killed by a self-inflicted gunshot +wound. Foster, originally from Hope, Ark., like Clinton, had come to +Washington from the law firm of Hillary Rodham Clinton. +No note was found near the body, which was discovered by local +authorities in Fort Marcy Park, near Fairfax, Va., officials said, nor +was any possible reason Foster might have taken his life put forward. +Foster most recently was involved in the administration's +so-called Travelgate scandal, involving the abrupt firing of seven +longtime employees from the White House travel office and the hiring of +a distant cousin of Clinton's. +An internal investigation by White House chief of staff Thomas +McLarty documented Foster's involvement in the process, which included +contacts with the first lady on the subject of possible criminal +wrongdoing. But Foster was not among the four White House staffers +reprimanded for their roles in the dismissals. +Foster was among those responsible for initiating a private +audit, then an FBI investigation of the matter. [Also reported in "Park +Police To Conduct Inquiry 'Routine' Probe Set On Foster's Death," The +Washington Post, July 27, 1993, FINAL Edition By: Michael Isikoff, +Washington Post Staff Writer, Section: A SECTION, p. a08.] +Foster was purportedly speaking with an Editor at a Washington +newspaper prior to his death. He was found shot in the back of the head +with a 1913 Colt .38 revolver which he did not own. The revolver had no +serial number, even though all Colt revolvers since the late 1800's have +had serial numbers except a special series issued to the CIA. Foster +advised the Clinton's on their finances. There are presently at least +two bank scandals that are emerging from Little Rock Arkansas, involving +banks in which the Clintons have an interest. Additionally, it is now +well established that gun and drug running out of Mena, Arkansas, via +CIA's Evergreen Aviation and Pat Foley's Summit Aviataion has fuelled +political coffers for sometime, as the beneficiaries turned a blind eye. +Perhaps Foster was privy to this information, among others.

+ +

+ 1 June 22, 1993, the partially decomposed body of Paul Wilcher, a +49-year-old investigative lawyer, was found on a toilet in his Capitol +Hill apartment in Washington, D.C. At the time of his death, he was +investigating the "October Surprise" conspiracy during the 1980 federal +election campaign. He had been interviewing an inmate who claimed to +have piloted George Bush to Paris so he could secretly seek to delay the +release of 52 American hostages in Iran. [Reported in the "Autopsies +delayed as body count rises," The Washington Times, Thursday, July 15, +1993, By: Brian Reilly - Edition: Final Section: A Page: A1.] Not +mentioned in this article are other facts. Prior to his death, Wilcher +had recently spoken with John Parsons, a producer of syndicated +television programs, about making a documentary of his findings. He had +also spoken with John Vassillos, the attorney for CIA operative Mike +Riconosciuto. Riconosciuto claims he was involved in a web of +underworld, CIA, and Department of Justice dealings, revealed in +allegations brought by a computer company called Inslaw Inc. that the +Justice Department had st s software product, "Promis," then driven the +firm into bankruptcy and that the program had been sold to countries all +over the world by persons affiliated with then attorney-general Ed +Meese. Riconosciuto says that the program was provided to Wackenhut +Corp. of Coral Gables, FL, and that Wackenhut hired 50 of the world's +top programmers to modify the code of the software at the Southern +California Cabazon Indian reservation. Riconosciuto also has detailed +his involvement in gun running and drug dealing conducted out of Mena, +Arkansas. Danny Casalero, 44, a reporter who was investigating the +Inslaw scandall and had spoken with Riconosciuto, was found murdered in +a hotel bathtub in Washing C. in 1991, the day after telling friends and +family that was about to receive material that would provide him with +documentation linking Inslaw to October Surprise and the Iran-Contra +scandals. Paul Wilcher was also investigating these same links, as well +as their connection to the deaths of the ATF agents and Branch Davidians +at Mt. Carmel at the time of his own death.

+ +

THE USS DEATHSHIP (a/k/a USS ROOSEVELT):

+ +

Both the Carrier Roosevelt and the 1st Armored Division figure +prominantly in a "Nato Peacekeeping Plan" for Serbia/Bosnia. Both also +figure prominantly in three separate crashes, killing more than a dozen +people associated with Clinton [Reported in "All Plans Include Key Navy +Role Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA) (VP) - Saturday, May 8, 1993, By: +Phyllis W. Jordan, Edition: FINAL Section: FRONT Page: A8.] And +interestingly, the commanders of both the Roosevelt and the 1st Armored +Division either die re replaced in late February or early March, 1993, +as did personnel involved in escorting or guarding Clinton on the +Carrier Roosevelt:

+ +

+ 4 February 23, 1993: Maj. Gen. Jarrett J. Robertson, 52, the +deputy commanding general of V Corps, died when an Army UH-60 Blackhawk +helicopter crashed as it attempted to land at Wiesbaden air base +February 23, 1993. V Corps is an armored force headquartered in nearby +Frankfurt, and is the U.S. Army's chief combat component in Europe which +currently has troops in Somalia and a medical unit in Croatia. Also +killed were Col. William J. Densberger, 47, the corps' chief of +operations and plans; Col. Robert J. Kelly, 48, its chief of +intelligence; and Spec. Gary L. Rhodes, 23, the helicopter crew chief. +The officers were returning from a meeting at the U.S. European Command +headquarters in Stuttgart when their Blackhawk fell suddenly to the +ground not far from the Wiesbaden air base's control tower and burst +into flames.[Reported in "U.S. General, Aides Die in Helicopter Crash in +Germany," The Washington Post, February 25, 1993, FINAL Edition, By: +Special to The Washington Po st, Section: A SECTION, p. a14.]

+ +

And we now have the entire U.S. 1st Armored Division, in this +same European Command, under the direct control of a German general.

+ +

On March 2, 1993, Rear Adm. L.E. Allen Jr. relieved Rear Adm. +Frederick L. Lewis as commanding officer of Carrier Group 4 and +Commander Carrier Striking Force on March 2, 1993, in Norfolk, Va. +(which includes the USS Roosevelt). Allen was formerly stationed in +Washington, D.C., where he served as deputy director for operations on +the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Lewis was reassigned to a land job as +commander of Naval Doctrine Command, which later became operational on +March 12. [Reported in "COMMAND C " VIRGINIAN-PILOT (Norfolk, VA) (VP) +- Tuesday, March 2, 1993, Edition: FINAL Section: LOCAL Page: D4].

+ +

+ 5 March 25, 1993: Five Navy aviators were lost at sea at 7 p.m., +Thursday, March 25, 1993, when their E-2C Hawkeye early warning plane +crashed into the sea while attempting to return to the aircraft carrier +USS Theodore Roosevelt, Navy officials said yesterday. Hours earlier, +the Roosevelt had arrived in the Ionian Sea on a six-month European +deployment. The carrier's air wing had just completed its first +operational mission, flying night combat air patrol off the Yugoslav +coast, while Germany-based U.S. cargo planes dropped food to besieged +Muslims in Bosnia. [Reported in "Five Navy Fliers Lost at Sea," The +Washington Post, March 27, 1993, Final Edition, By: Barton Gellman, +Washington Post Staff Writer, Section: A, p. A24.]

+ +

These five men had been escorts for President Clinton when he +visited the Carrier Roosevelt.

+ +

+ 4 May 19, 1993: On May 21, 1993, the Marine Corps grounded its +entire presidential fleet of nine VH-60N helicopters pending the outcome +of the investigation of a crash involving one of the presidential fleet +helicopters, a VH-60N Blackhawk helicopter that went down in a heavily +wooded area near the Potomac River about 35 miles southwest of +Washington on May 19, 1993. Killed in the crash were Maj. William S. +Barkley, Jr., Staff Sgt. Brian D. Haney, and Sgt. Timothy D. Sabel, and +Capt. Scott J. Reynolds.

+ +

Maj. Barkley, 27, of Hickory, N.C. became a naval aviator in 1977 +and was assigned to the presidential squadron in January 1990. He was +one of only eight pilots in the squadron authorized to fly the +president, according to Betty Jo Bragg, longtime secretary to Barkley's +father. +Sgt. Timothy D. Sabel, 27, of Ripon, Wis., was "responsible for +the maintenance of the airplane. He goes on all flights," said Master +Sgt. Paul Earle, a Marine spokesman at Quantico, Virginia (which is also +FBI headquarters). +Staff Sgt. Brian D. Haney, 32, of North Ridgeville, Ohio, was the +quality assurance representative on the helicopter. Carolyn Haney, his +mother, said her son had flown with President George Bush to Europe and +in the presidential campaign "all over the United States." +Capt. Scott J. Reynolds, 33, of Wausau, Wis., joined the Marines +in 1984, was designated a naval aviator in 1987 and was a veteran of the +Persian Gulf War +Clinton had flown once on that particular craft, according to +White House spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers. That flight took the president to +the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt off the Virginia coast in +March, she said. [Reported in "Marines identify crash victims," +Washington Times, Saturday, May 22, 1993, Edition: Final Section: +METROPOLITAN LOCAL ROUNDUP MARYLAND, page A11; "Charles County +helicopter crash kills 4 Marines," Thursday, May 20, 1993, By: Jim +Keary, Washington Times, Edition: Final Section: METROPOLITAN Page: B4; +"Helicopter fleet is grounded," Friday, May 21, 1993, Washington Times, +Edition: Final Section: METROPOLITAN LOCAL ROUNDUP, MARYLAND, Page: B2; +"9 White House Copters Grounded As Crash Victims Are Mourned," May 21, +1993, FINAL Edition, By: Eugene L. Meyer, The Washington Post, Section: +METRO, Story Type: News Maryland, p. D01.] +Notice, above, that the President's escorts during Clinton's one +visit to the Carrier Roosevelt on March 12, 1993, were all later killed +in a plane crash, too.

+ +

More Bodyguards:

+ +

+ 4 February 28, 1993. In the initial assault on Mt. Carmel in +Waco, Texas, four agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms +were killed. Those killed in the attack were : Steve Willis, 32, of +Houston; Robert J. Williams, 26, Little Rock, Ark.; Conway LeBleu, 30, +New Orleans; and Todd McKeehan, 28, New Orleans. [Reported in "UPDATE: +AT LEAST FIVE DEAD, 15 INJURED IN TWO SHOOTOUTS AT TEXAS CULT COMPOUND +WACO, TEXAS," MARCH 1, 1993, UPI.] +President Clinton himself revealed that these men had been his +bodyguards in a speech on March 18, 1993, before employees of the +Treasury Department: +"My prayers and I'm sure yours are still with the families of +all four of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents who were killed in +Waco -- Todd McKeehan and Conway Le Bleu of New Orleans; Steve Willis of +Houston, and Robert Williams from my hometown of Little Rock. Three of +those four were assigned to my security during the course of the primary +or general election." ["REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO EMPLOYEES OF THE +TREASURY DEPARTMENT," The Cash Room, Treasury Department, March 18, +1993, 11:48 A.M. EST.]

+ +

21 - Total confirmed deaths of persons connected to Clinton in the past +year. (I have not included people who were also killed in the crashes +with whom there is no confirmed link at this time, such as the three +persons who were killed in the same crash as Vincent Raiser and his +son). All of these people died of unnatural causes. Four were shot, 17 +were killed in crashes of helicopters or airplanes. +The statistical probabilities of Clinton knowing 21 people, all +of whom died either in accidents or under mysterious circumstances in +less than a year's time, is virtually zero.

+ +

And Where Do These Guys Fit In:

+ +

+ 3 July 21, 1993, (AP): Three Texas National Guardsmen, reportedly +mistaken for pop-up targets, were shot to death by fellow soldiers +Wednesday during a night vision training exercise. +"They were hit by fire from other soldiers," said Lt. Col. Ed +Komandosky, a spokesman at Guard headquarters in Austin. Komandosky +said the victims were members of the 3rd Battalion, 141st Infantry of +the Texas National Guard in McAllen, had experience in the training +exercise and "had been in the Guard for some time." +Killed were Spc. Daniel F. Benitez, 27, of Donna; Spc. Jose C. +Ramos Jr., 42, of Weslaco; and Sgt. Raul Cardenas, 27, of Weslaco were +pronounced dead at Darnall Army Community Hospital in Killeen. +Did these people have any connection to the flame-throwing tank +that was used to set the fire at Mt. Carmel, in Waco, Texas on April 19, +1993? All of them were Latinos. Were they killed in South America and +an accident arranged to explain their deaths?

+ +

+ 1 Could John A. Wilson have known too much about insider politics? +John A. Wilson, for 16 years a City Councilman in Washington, D.C., was +found dead from a supposed suicide. His wife had already left for work +and he was found in his underwear, hanging in his basement, later in the +morning, as if he had awakened, gone to the basement and hung himself. +No suicide note was found.

+ +

What is emerging from the research I have conducted is a clear +picture that those who know too much or those who interfere with the one +world government plan, die. Did any of these people know too much? And +what is it that they know or saw? As the information develops, I will +provide updates. Stay tuned.

+ +

[Linda Thompson is an attorney in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is +Chairman of the American Justice Federation, a group dedicated to +stopping the New World Order and getting the truth out to the American +public. Linda Thompson and the American Justice Federation have +produced a videotape, "Waco, the Big Lie," which shows that a +flame-throwing tank was used to set the fire at Mt. Carmel in Waco, +Texas, proving that the government murdered the Branch Davidians and +intentionally destroyed the evidence. To obtain a copy of this video, +which is 32 minutes long, send $20 to: American Justice Federation, 3850 +South Emerson Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46203.]

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+Circumstantial Evidence of a Head Shot From The Grassy Knoll +(c) - Copyright 1993 by W. Anthony Marsh +Presented at The Third Decade conference June 18-20, 1993

+ +

As much as we would like to have direct evidence of a head shot from the +grassy knoll, such evidence may be missing, inconclusive, or suspect. +However, there may be a body of circumstantial evidence which would indicate +that the fatal shot which struck President Kennedy's head at Z-313 came from +the grassy knoll. This paper will not present conclusive proof of a head shot +from the grassy knoll, but it will cite examples of circumstantial evidence +which strongly suggest that the head shot came from the grassy knoll. Some of +the examples are well known, but need to be reexamined. +The Zapruder film is the most well-known evidence of the head shot. +Various studies and interpretations of it have been made. Some studies, such +as the one done by Itek, have analyzed the movement of President Kennedy's +head around the time of the head shot. They note that President Kennedy's +head moves forward significantly from Z-312 to Z-313 and cite that as proof +of a shot hitting the head from behind. What they and everyone else has +failed to do is analyze the movements of all the occupants of the rear +compartment of the limousine, including the Connallys. That is what I have +done. +My analysis of the movements of the Kennedys and the Connallys is not, +unfortunately, based on the same reproductions of the Zapruder film as used +in other studies, due to cost considerations. I made measurements in 1/60th +of an inch increments on a photocopy set of prints from Zapruder frames 312 +to 321, as reproduced by Robert Cutler in his dividend to The Grassy Knoll +Gazette of X-79. Bob's reference line is drawn through the center of the +window knob. I made all measurements starting at the front edge of his +reference line. However, I noticed that the distance from the reference line +to the rollbar is not constant. This means that we can not use unadjusted +measurements from these prints to calculate precise positions, but can +estimate relative movements. This may be due to a variety of factors, such as +variations in printing and copying each frame, changes in perspective, +mismeasurements, or blurring. Some Zapruder frames are too blurred to allow +accurate measurements. Each measurement of Nellie Connally's position is to +the front edge of her hair. Each measurement of John Connally's position is +to the front edge of his forehead. Each measurement of Jackie Kennedy's +position is to the front edge of her pillbox hat. Each measurement of JFK's +position is to the edge of his hair at the rear of his head. All measurements +were lined up against the chrome strip in the background for better contrast. +Be sure to remember that increasing measurements for the Connallys represent +forward motion, while increasing measurements for the Kennedys represent +rearward motion. Notice the direction and amount of movement of each person +listed in Figure 1. Between Z-312 and Z-313, all the occupants of the rear +compartment of the limo moved forward by about the same amount. Unless all +four were hit by bullets (a practical impossibility), their forward movement +must be caused by something else. The most likely cause is inertia due to the +limousine having suddenly slowed down. Dr. Luis Alvarez noted in his study [1] +that the average velocity of the limousine going down Elm Street sharply +decreased just before the head shot. Some researchers have theorized that +Secret Service agent Bill Greer jammed on the brakes or took his foot off the +accelerator. Whatever he did, the limousine very quickly changed from an +average velocity of about 12 MPH to about 8 MPH just before the head shot. +Obeying the law of inertia, passengers in the limo were thrust forward in +relation to their previous positions in the limousine. Further evidence of +this effect is the fact that the Connallys continued to move forward while +President Kennedy was being thrust backwards. I have not done a similar +analysis of previous Zapruder frames to pinpoint the start of the occupants' +forward movement, so I would urge others to do so themselves, in order to +verify my results and observations. Figure 1. + + + + + +Z-frame rollbar Nellie Connally Jackie JFK +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +x/60" Z312 136 106 77 44 159 +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +difference 9 forward 5 forward 10 forward 6 forward 7 +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +Z313 145 111 87 38 152 +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +difference 2 forward 2 forward 1 rearward 1 forward 1 +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +Z314 147 113 88 39 151 +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +difference 4 0 forward 4 forward 6 rearward 6 +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +Z315 151 113 92 33 157 +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +difference 3 forward 2 forward 1 rearward 1 rearward 9 +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +Z316 148 115 93 34 166 +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +difference 2 forward 2 forward 7 forward 4 rearward 11 +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +Z317 150 117 100 30 177 +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +difference 3 forward 5 forward 2 rearward 5 +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +Z319 153 122 NA 28 182 +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +difference 0 forward 4 forward 3 rearward 14 +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +Z320 153 126 130 25 196 +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +difference 4 rearward 1 forward 1 +----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+ +Z321 157 NA NA 26 195

+ +

Perhaps the most controversial evidence produced by the House Select +Committee on Assassinations would be the acoustical studies. In my opinion, +the conclusion that there was a conspiracy should not rest entirely on the +acoustical studies. But the acoustical studies are useful for establishing +the time between shots. All times are measured in seconds after the +microphone became stuck open for several minutes. BBN found 4 shots on the +tape, 3 of which came from the TSBD at 137.70, 139.27, and 145.61 +respectively. The grassy knoll shot was found by Weiss and Aschkenasy to be +recorded at 144.90. There was a fifth set of impulses which was rejected by +HSCA as being a false alarm at 140.32. I have looked at the waveforms more +closely to try to determine when the muzzle blast of each shot was recorded, +to a greater degree of accuracy. My best estimate for each shot is 137.702, +139.268, 140.339, 144.895, and 145.608. You can get a general idea of the +spacing between shots by subtracting one time from another. But there is an +additional variable which must be taken into account. BBN found that the +recorder used that day was running about 5% slow, so all times must be +multiplied by about 1.05 in order to restore the original spacing. A more +accurate correction factor might be borrowed from the work which W&A did on +the grassy knoll shot. They found that a correction factor of 1.043 produced +the best fit for echo delays compared to their predicted model. Another +possible corroboration for the 1.043 correction factor is the 'bell' sound +found by BBN at 152.5. Although Todd Vaughan believes that it is only +electrical interference, if we can determine its true frequency, we can +derive the most accurate correction factor. That holds true for many other +sounds on the tape, such as car horns, tire squeals, police sirens, etc. BBN +found that the 'bell' sound had a nominal pitch of 420 Hz. This is close to +the note A, which is usually 440 Hz. If the sound is really a bell, it might +have been tuned to A=440. We do not know for sure what type of bell it was. +Most people have assumed that it is a carillon bell, but it could be a train +bell, a ship's bell, or a victory bell on a college campus. There are a +couple of other possible tunings which would produce a correction factor +close to 1.043. If the bell had been tuned using a mean-tone temperament +scale, it might have a real pitch of 438.075 Hz. Dividing that by 420 would +give us a correction factor of 1.0430357. If the bell had been tuned to an +old English standard of A=438.9, dividing that by 420 would give us a +correction factor of 1.045. Applying the correction factor to the spacing +between shots as found by BBN will give us the true spacing between muzzle +blasts picked up by McLain's cycle. If we want to then translate those into +Zapruder frames, we must multiply each interval by 18.3 frames. Figure 2 is +a rough approximation of how many frames there were between all 5 muzzle +blasts. +Matching these times to the Zapruder film is more complicated and +depends on making several real-world assumptions such as the speed of the +bullets. We can be fairly confident in ruling out the first three shots as +matching the head shot at Z-313, as such a match would place the first shot +after Z-255, when we can clearly see in Altgens 1-6 that President Kennedy +and Governor Connally have already been hit. The HSCA matched the last shot +with Z-313, because their medical evidence indicated that the head shot came +from behind. My alternative matchup tests the idea that the head shot came +from the grassy knoll.

+ +

Figure 2. +origin tape time spacing *1.043 *18.3 Z-frame Z-frame +TSBD 137.702 162 176 +> 1.566 1.633 29.89 +TSBD 139.268 192 206 +> 1.071 1.117 20.44 +TSBD 140.339 212 226 +> 4.556 4.752 86.96 +Knoll 144.895 299 313 +> 0.713 0.744 13.61 +TSBD 145.608 313 327

+ +

The first problem we notice with the HSCA version is that the first shot +is much too early. No other evidence supports a shot that early and clearly +President Kennedy was not hit by a bullet close to that frame. The first shot +was probably a miss. The HSCA places the hit to JFK's back at around Z190-192. The problem with that is that we can see President Kennedy in the +Zapruder film during the range Z-190 to Z-210. He does not yet appear to be +reacting to being hit by a bullet. There is absolutely no indication that +Governor Connally was struck by a bullet at about that time, nor at about Z-210 to Z-212, if we accept the fifth shot which HSCA rejected. +My matchup would indicate a hit to JFK's back somewhere in the range of +Z-206 to Z-210, and a hit to Connally's back somewhere in the range of Z-226 +to Z-230. I believe this is more consistent with previous studies of the +Zapruder film and eyewitness testimony. If there is some way to prove exactly +when either President Kennedy or Governor Connally received their back +wounds, that would force us to choose between the HSCA version and mine, +regardless of other evidence. +Just as Altgens 1-6 helps us eliminate the first three shots as matches +with Z-313, it may also help us eliminate the last shot from the TSBD as +matching Z-313. Everyone is familiar with the fact that CE350 shows a crack +on the windshield and that it is not seen in Altgens 1-6, but is seen in +Altgens 1-7. There has been some doubt about which shot from which direction +caused that crack. I believe that I am the first person to notice something +in CE350 which would resolve the doubt. If you look carefully at CE350, you +will notice that the back of the rearview mirror is dented, but you can see +that it was not dented in Altgens 1-6. This damage was caused by a bullet +fragment which struck the windshield from the inside and ricochetted into the +rearview mirror. Many people believe this fragment came from the head shot, +which would been fired from the TSBD. I tend to feel that all the damage to +the limousine, consisting of the crack in the windshield, dented rearview +mirror and dented chrome topping, was done by the same shot. If we can find +evidence which pinpoints when that damage was done, we may be able to show +that it came several frames after Z-313. Photographic enhancement of the +Zapruder film, Muchmore film or the Bronson film might reveal that the +windshield was not cracked by Z-314. If that turns out to be true, then the +last shot from the TSBD must have missed JFK's head and hit the windshield. +In turn, that would mean that the fatal head shot came from the grassy knoll. +I seriously doubt that there is any photograph which would show exactly when +the rearview mirror was dented, but perhaps some as-yet-undiscovered +photograph would show when the chrome topping was dented. That dent could +only have been caused by a shot from behind the limo. If it was undented at +Z-314, that would prove that the head shot came from the grassy knoll. +Another factor which might influence our choosing the HSCA version or +mine would be the jiggle analysis of the Zapruder film. Even the HSCA +admitted that the jiggle analysis matched better when the grassy knoll shot +was lined up with Z-313. [2] Figure 3 compares the timing of the impulses +to the Zapruder film. The HSCA rejected the shot which is indicated in +brackets as being too fast for Oswald to have fired. The jiggle analysis +measured the amount of panning error by Zapruder. To simply and clarify, +I have put the groups into ascending order. The group with the largest +amount of blur is marked 'A', the second largest 'B', etc. I have chosen +the Hartmann figures to be representative, as his are usually midway +between Alvarez or Scott's figures. Zapruder's camera ran at 18.3 frames +per second on average.

+ +

Figure 3. Two comparisons of jiggle analysis to acoustical data +Frames Group +158-159 D +191-197 B Note that the start of a jiggle group may not +227 C coincide with the firing or impact of a bullet. +290-291 E In most cases, it takes several frames before +313-318 A1 Zapruder reacts to a stimulus. +331-332 A2

+ +

HSCA Z-# hit? origin jiggle Marsh Z-# hit? origin jiggle +137.70 161 miss TSBD D 137.702 179 miss TSBD VI#1 B +139.27 191 JFK/JBC TSBD B 139.268 209 JFK TSBD VI#1 +[140.32] 140.339 230 Connally TSBD VI#10 C +144.90 297 miss knoll E 144.895 312.6 JFK knoll A1 +145.61 312 JFK TSBD A1 145.608 328 Connally TSBD VI#1 A2 + + +The jiggle analysis can not be used as absolute proof of when a shot +occurred, but it matches up better for the head shot from the grassy knoll. +Could eyewitness testimony help resolve the question of which shot hit +what? Secret Service agent Clint Hill testified (2H144) that the last shot he +heard sounded as though it had hit some metal place. If he in fact had heard +the last shot from the TSBD hit the chrome topping, that would not, in and of +itself, prove that the TSBD shot missed JFK's head, as the dent could have +been caused by a fragment from the head shot. But it would narrow the range +during which the chrome topping was dented to between Z-313 to Z-331 and make +it more likely that the chrome topping was dented at the same time that the +windshield was cracked, rather than much earlier as some have speculated. +On pages 126-129 of Six Seconds in Dallas, Josiah Thompson cites the +statements of several witnesses who thought that a shot came from the grassy +knoll. William Newman felt that he and his family were in the direct path of +gunfire. Given their position, it seems more likely that the head shot came +from behind the fence on the grassy knoll than from the TSBD. Emmett Hudson, +who was standing on the steps leading up to the pergola, said that the shots +sounded as if they came from behind him, above his head and to his left. That +would place the origin near the fence. Zapruder felt that the head shot had +come from behind him and whistled past his right ear. Between these two +witnesses and behind them is the corner of the fence. W&A found a probable +shockwave at 24 ms. before the muzzle blast of the grassy knoll shot. +Assuming the weapon was aimed at the limousine, we can make a rough +calculation of the velocity of the bullet and the resultant angle of the +shockwave. Although the calculation for the decay of the shockwave is too +difficult for me, a rough calculation yielded an exit velocity of the bullet +at about 1564.5 fps. This would create a shockwave of at least 45 degrees on +either side of the flightpath of the bullet. All three witnesses were within +the cone of that shockwave and would have felt it very strongly. +How can we know whether the weapon was aimed at the limousine? If it had +been aimed in some opposite direction, the open microphone would have been +outside the cone of the shockwave and thus the shockwave would not have been +recorded. Another indication of where the weapon was aimed can be found in +the statement that Sam Holland made to Josiah Thompson when he was shown a +very clear copy of the Moorman 2 Polaroid. He felt that the viewpoint was +looking right down the barrel of the gun. Given Mary Moorman's position, the +gun would have been aimed at the limousine. In Moorman 2 we can see the head +of a man peering over the fence, about 9 feet from the corner. Interestingly, +this is the same spot where W&A located the origin of the grassy knoll shot, +unaware of the existence of Moorman 2. In Moorman 2 we do not see a side view +of any weapon as we might expect if it was not aimed at the limo. Whoever +this man was, he moved from that position very quickly after the head shot. +There is no one there in later Zapruder frames or in the Stoughton +photograph, taken shortly after the head shot. The Stoughton photograph has +never been analyzed. The Warren Commission and the House Committee were +unaware of its existence. I believe that no one had ever studied it before I +found it at the JFK Library. Unfortunately, I do not have the resources to +properly analyze it and obviously the government will not, as it might reveal +the presence of a gunman on the grassy knoll. One independent researcher, +Dale Meyers, has done some computer analysis which suggests that there is a +person behind the fence, several feet to the right of the corner. +Many witnesses can be seen reacting to the shots in various films. Some +fell to the ground very quickly while others did not seem to realize the +danger. We would expect those witnesses closest to the gun on the grassy +knoll to react very quickly and dramatically to the shockwave whizzing past +them from the grassy knoll. One of the best films to observe their reactions +was taken by Marie Muchmore. In Muchmore frame 42 we can see Hudson and his +two companions on the steps leading up to the pergola. They do not seem to be +reacting to any gunshots. In frame 55 we can see that two of the men are +reacting. It seems inconceivable that these men would not have reacted to the +sound of a shockwave coming from so close behind them. If the grassy knoll +shot was the miss before the head shot, we would expect to see these men +react before the head shot. The fact that they did not react until after the +head shot would seem to indicate that the head shot came from the grassy +knoll. +Based on the circumstantial evidence we have now, I believe it is more +likely that the head shot came from the grassy knoll. Existing evidence can +and should be examined further. More information can be gleaned from existing +data by novel analyses. The release of withheld data could provide new clues +and allow us to verify certain methods, such as the acoustical studies. I +urge other researchers to look for new evidence and perform new analyses.

+ +

------ +1. W. Peter Trower, ed., "Discovering Alvarez", (Chicago: The University +Press, 1987), pp. 210-224. Also HSCA Vol. I, pp. 428-442. +2. House Select Committee on Assassinations, Report, p.80, footnote 16

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+ +

PROJECT: THE LAST GENERATION

+ +

THE BRAIN WASHING OF A GENERATION

+ +

Though this book deals with the Washington State educational +system, the same things are happening all over the country under +different names. For most of the school curriculum formation (writing +and tryed out) is done in the Pacific Northwest by the new age +movement for the National Education system As an insider, I can +explain how they have managed to go so far in government and law +making and gone undetected by the majority of the population. The +following gives some of the plans and ideas of leaders who are in the +radical reconstruction of our educational system. This book will give +an idea of how they have advanced, some of the results of their +advancement, and where the momentum seems to be taking us. Their +ideas and plans do not necessarily reflect the approval of the +teachers, professors, or educators in the State of Washington and U. +S.. I believe that most educators have very little idea of what has +been happening, and they have simply been going along with the flow. +All material being presented comes from documentation and testimony.

+ +

This book will show the taking over of the Education system; with +the intent of wiping-out THE JUDEO - CHRISTIAN VALUES. By a conspiracy +which is written of by Marilyn Ferguson in the Aquarian Conspiracy and +"she has found in the deepest roots of the educational system; she +quotes "There are lot of us in the woodwork." He, a veteran +bureaucrat, was referring to a loose coalition of conspirators in +agencies and congressional staffs. Within the Department Of Health, +Education and Welfare, innovators have created informal rap groups to +share their strategies for slipping new ideas into a resistant system +and to give each other moral support. Concepts that might otherwise +appear "far out" can be given legitimacy by a single Federally funded +program. The grant making apparatus of government determines fashion +in some research fields. This aura of legitimacy is fostered here and +there by conspirator-bureaucrats."Some of the research projects that +were funded include: meditation, biofeedback, psychic phenomena, and +alternative medical approaches. ( Funded by the Dept. of Defense. ) +Remember a federally funded program means your tax dollars are going +to the wiping - out JUDEO - CHRISTIAN VALUES with the occult values. +By the making of American of the value system no longer relevant. +Because there are more people with Eastern values "NEW AGE" then the +American values; so we as global citizens.need to change to a world +view, or so is the New Age thinking goes.

+ +

A Parents Guide to Child's Education

+ +

1. Does any of the educational material present information which +depresses the child? (Nuclear distortion, environmental poisoning of +the world, death education, violence, separation from others, +rejection by peers thru role-playing or Syria games?)

+ +

2. Is the child required to discuss unhappy events? ( Death, +accidents, war, morbid subjects, own epitaph, loss of family member)

+ +

3. Does the teaching attempt to be moral-free and encourage the +child to determine their own moral values? Are they required to share +their moral values with others?

+ +

4. is the child required to keep a diary which intimately discusses +family members? Is the child allowed to show the diary to their +parents?

+ +

5. Are the text materials, films, videos, etc. of personal and +sensitive subjects beyond that appropriate for the child's age? Do +such materials have the effect of desensensitizing the child to +natural defenses (modesty, innocence, etc.) ?

+ +

6. Is the child required to fill out attitudinal (psychological) +questionnaires as part of the curriculum? Has approval been given for +such questionnaires ? Is the parents allow to see them?

+ +

7. Are all religions discussed? Are they taught as being equally +valid? Is Christianity discussed in any of the classes? To what +extent?

+ +

8. Is the child introduced into Eastern Religion practices and +beliefs, including reincarnation? ( return to earth in a new form +after death), deep concentration (self-hypnoses), yogi?

+ +

9. IS the child required to make moral choices in hypothetical +situations? (Only a few can live, which few? Do if any of these +choices imply it is all right to lie, cheat, steal, kill, etc.?

+ +

10. Does the child answer questionnaires or surveys that probe +into the child's or family's attitudes, feeling, behavior, customs, or +political preferences?

+ +

11. Is the young child required to confront adult problems which +are too complex, unsuitable, or controversial for his tender years, +such as nuclear war, world starvation, etc.?

+ +

12. Is the child constantly reminder that he/she should be world +oriented rather than country oriented? Is equality, or sameness, of +all countries taught, including communist countries? Are State laws +requiring teaching of patriotism being ignored?

+ +

13. Does it teach or imply that "responsible" sex for teenagers is +all right? Are teenagers constantly reminded they are "sexually +active?" What guidelines of sexual behavior are given?

+ +

14. Are you familiar with the content of the sex education courses +being given your child?

+ +

15. Does the child make a " contract" with the teacher not to +discuss with parents subjects taught in the classroom?

+ +

COURT CASES/LAWS PERTAINING TO EDUCATION

+ +

Prince vs Massachusetts (1944) The U. S. Supreme Court said, "It is +cardinal with us that the custody, care and nurture of the child +reside first in the parents, whose primary function and freedom +include preparation for obligations the state can neither supply or +hinder."

+ +

Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U. S. 205232 (1972) " The history and +culture of western civilization reflect a strong tradition of parental +concern for the nurture and upbringing of their children. This +primary role of the parents in the upbringing of their children is now +established beyond debate as an enduring American tradition."

+ +

Tinker vs Des moines Independent community school district (1969) " +Students do not shed their constitutional rights at the school house +door."

+ +

Title 32, Section 1983 of the civil rights Act provides that, " +Every person who under color of any statue, ordinance, regulation, +custom or usage of any state or territory subjects and causes to be +subjected, any citizen of the U. S. or any person within the +jurisdiction thereof to the depravation of any rights, privileges, or +the party injured in any action at law, suit in equity or other proper +proceedings for redress."

+ +

Mercer vs Michigan State Board of Education (1974) " The First +Amendment DOES NOT give a teacher the right to teach beyond the scope +of the curriculum"

+ +

WASHINGTON STATE LAWS

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RCW 28A67.110 Teach morality/ patriotism " It shall be the duty of +all teachers to endeavor to impress on the minds of their pupils the +principles of morality, truth, justice, temperance, humanity and +patriotism, to teach them to avoid idleness, profanity, and falsehood, +to instruct them in the principles of free government and to train +them up to the comprehension of the rights, duty and dignity of +American citizenship." RCW 28A.58.758 Basic Education act of +1977-(school District Responsibilities)" (2)(f) Evaluate teaching +materials, including text books, teaching aids, handouts, or other +printed material, in public hearing upon complaint by parents, +guardians or custodians of students who consider dissemination of such +material to students objectionable.

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IS YOUR SCHOOL DISTRICT COMPLYING WITH THE LAWS??.

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On April 25, 1982, folks around the western world opened up their +newspapers and found themselves staring at a startling full-page ad. +The ad trumpeted in bold headlines that:

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The World has had enough of HUNGER, INJUSTICE, WAR, IN ANSWER TO +OUR CALL FOR HELP, AS WORLD TEACHER FOR ALL HUMANITYTHE CHRIST IS NOW +HERE! HUMANITY,.

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The ad went on to say that this "Christ" has been emerging as a +spokesman quietly since 1977; that throughout history, mankind has +been guided by a group of enlightened men, the "Masters of Wisdom." +The ad claims that he is the "World Teacher," called Maitreya, known +by Christians as the Christ, by the Jews as the Messiah, by the +Buddhists as the fifth Buddha, by the Muslims as the Imam Mahdi, and +by the Hindus as Krishna. The ad claimed that he was hidden from the +world, but that within the next two months he would speak to humanity +in a worldwide TV broadcast in which his message would be heard by all +nations telepathically in their own language.

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This ad was placed by a group called the Tara Center. In a +newsletter released by the Tara Center at the same time, some of the +concepts were explained under the broad heading, esotericism: [it] +might be described as the philosophy of the evolutionary process both +in man and nature. It is the science of the accumulated Wisdom of the +ages It is also the art of 'bringing down to earth' and anchoring +those energies which emanate from the highest sources. In recent +times, this information has been committed to writing and made more +accessible to the general public by a Tibetan Master, Djwhal Khul, +through the writings of H.P. Blavatsky and later, A.A. [Alice] +Bailey.The article outlined the writings of Blavatsky and Bailey. It +explains that from 1919 to 1949, Alice Bailey received teachings from +the "Master DK" (Djwhal Khul) which was published in 25 books by her +organization, Lucis Trust. The book The Rays and their Initiations +prophesied the revelation of this inner wisdom to the world "after +1975." In 1948, Bailey discussed the return of Christ in The +Reappearance of the Christ.

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Extraordinary News!

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If these claims were true, this would be extraordinary news: a +world-shattering event. However, close examination of this material +reveals things which do not tally with the Biblical version of the +second coming of Christ.

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For example, in Matthew 24:21-24; " For then will be a great +tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world +until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were +shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those +days will be shortened. Then if anyone says to you, 'look, here is +the Christ or There do not believe it.' For false Christs and false +prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to +deceive, if possible, even the elect."

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Jesus also warns in the same passage that "If they shall say unto +you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the +secret chambers, believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of +the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of +the Son of man be." (vs.26-27)

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Now the "Christ" mentioned above has never shown himself. He seems +to be shyly hiding in London. The prophecy about his appearance two +months after the April 1982 ad never came to pass, lo these 8 years +later. This does not fit the coming of Jesus described in the Bible. +It obviously resembles Jesus' warning about the coming of a false +Christ!

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The Bible does not does not allow the second coming of Christ to +involve a wimpy emergence from a London slum, nor a cosmic "We Are the +World" media blitz. Rev.1:7 says that "he cometh with clouds, and +every eye shall see him, and they also which pieced him: and all +kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so. Amen." 1 +Thess.4:16 declares that "the Lord himself shall descend from heaven +with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of +God "

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From these facts, it is quite obvious that the "Christ" being +heralded by the Tara Center and prophesied by writers such as Alice +Bailey is definitely not the Jesus of the Bible. Thus, we must ask, +which Jesus is it? Again, the Bible admonishes about one " that +cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached" (2 +Cor.11:4) Elsewhere, the apostle Paul warns that " though we, or an +angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we +have preached unto you, let him be accursed." (Gal.1:8)

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Though many do not realize that it is possible for there to be +folks out there who claim to be Christ who are actually lying to them, +these Bible verses make it clear that not only is it possible, but +that it was actually foretold 2000 years ago! In other words, not +everyone who claims to be teaching Christian doctrine is actually +doing so. Not every spiritual communication or supernatural +experience comes from God, or is necessarily good. This is why the +apostle, John, warned us to "believe not every spirit, but try the +spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone +out into the world." (1 John 4:1) We have "tried" this "Christ" and +found him wanting by Biblical standards. But if this is not a +Bible-based Christian Christ, then whose Christ is he? The answer, as +you may have already guessed, is that he is the Christ of the New Age

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Are We Really the World?

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That real problem leads us to the final area we wish to consider: +the impact of New Age thinking upon education, politics, and even the +church. Realize that nature abhors a vacuum, and that with the waning +influence of genuine Biblical Christianity in the US and Europe; +another spirituality is rushing in to fill the void. Many old, +main-line churches which have abandoned the simple gospel have turned, +in the past decade, to the ancient lie of the serpent, mentioned +earlier.

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As those churches in the US and Europe have lost their light, so +the political and education infrastructures of society have been +progressively filled with a flood of New Age occultism. This is only +natural, since the Lord intended His church to be salt, and the salt +has, in many cases, lost its savour. Thus, today, Europe and the US +are becoming "post-Christian societies." The most evident +manifestation of this is the vast stampede toward what is called +"globalism." While some may deny a concerted "conspiracy" in this +area, it is evident that there is a systematic effort to destroy any +sense of national or religious loyalty. The idea of any nation or +religion being better than another has become the ultimate heresy. It +is continually anathematized in the media. Christians who insist, +with Jesus, that He is the only way to God (John 14:6) are branded as +fundamentalist bigots. Biblical Christianity has become the only +"minority group" which can be mocked or persecuted in our +"pluralistic" culture with impunity. This kind of cultural unanimity +cannot be coincidence.

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Christian believers aren't the world! We are not "global +citizens." Jesus said, "the world hath hated them [His disciples], +because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." +John 17:14. Our Lord has warned us! We cannot say we didn't have an +advance notice. But let us look and see precisely where the New Age +globalism is working in our political and educational community. Both +education and politics have been linked together, especially since the +politicization of public education in this century. The National +Education Association (NEA) has been working hard for decades to mold +education into a globalist, left-wing propaganda tool. They have +pretty well succeeded. Whether the NEA's agenda is exactly the same +as the New Age agenda is difficult to say. However, they do have a +great deal in common.

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The New Age education agenda is best found in the book, Education +in the New Age by the aforementioned Alice Baliey of Lucis Trust. In +the book, the "Tibetan Master" spells out a detailed program which +includes:

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1) Children should be trained to accept a One-world global +government and culture without question.

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2) Full implementation of the anti-Christian educational +philosophies of John Dewey, but with a more eastern metaphysical +approach.

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3) Destruction of the ideals of patriotism and national pride, +helping kids become "world citizens."

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4) Hinduism and other pagan religions must be emphasized as +attempts are made to blend them into Western civilization.

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5) Orthodox Christianity must be demeaned and declared obsolete to +the children, while lifting up the New Age "One World" religion.

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6) The New Age pluralistic religion (All paths lead to God - all +religions are equally valid) will be taught as the only acceptable +belief system, excluding Jesus' unique claims.

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7) Adolescents will be encouraged to force these doctrines on their +parents and rebel if the parents do not cooperate.

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8) Essential Christian doctrines like hell, judgement or even +heaven are to be mocked and denied. Rather, karma and reincarnation +should be taught

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9) Permissive methods of discipline will be fostered, and concepts +such as sin and guilt are felt to be unevolved and counter-productive.

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10) Children are taught that death is not an enemy to be feared or +fought off, but rather is to be embraced as part of "the Plan."

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11) They are also to be taught that people who do not accept the +New Age teachings (ie. Bible-believers) are an evolutionary "drag" on +humanity and must either capitulate or be killed like a bacterial +infection.

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12) The model of the traditional family and its sexual mores must +be discarded, and loyalty to one's family must be replaced by loyalty +to the world. It is frightening to note how many of these concepts, +first promulgated a generation ago, have become standard features of +public education, supported by our tax dollars! More and more of +these ideas are being brought in every semester! Both of the authors +of this booklet were involved in education and curriculum formation +for schools while occultists; and used our positions to indoctrinate +our charges in New Age values. That was years ago! Today, the "brain +trust" behind modern education reads like a Who's Who of the New Age.

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Dee Dickinson, the director of New Horizons for Learning, is a +member of President Bush's White House Task Force on Innovative +Learning. She has helped put together a graduate program in Education +at Antioch University (a teachers' college!) in cooperation with the +Washington Education Association. This course includes subjects like +astrology and tapping the human potential. A frequent lecturer at +Antioch is Miriam Starhawk, one of the leading spokeswomen for Wicca +("white" [sic] witchcraft). She is a witch [sic]!

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ARE YOUR CHILDERN BEING "INITIATED" BY LUCIFER?

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Ms. Dickinson, is also an advisor on the In Context project, which +has such other New Age luminaries as Peter Caddy (Findhorn),"sacred" +psychologist Jean Houston (Foundation for Mind Research), David +Spangler (Lorian Foundation), and Danaan Perry (Holy Earth +Houndation)! Spangler is one of the top men in the world in the New +Age movement, and has taught that "No one will be allowed to enter the +New Age unless he or she takes a Luciferic initiation Whenman entered +the pathway of self, he entered into a great creative adventure, of +learning the meaning of divinity by accepting himself. The being that +helps him reach that point is Lucifer, the angel of man's evolution +Lucifer is an agent of God's love Christ is the same force as Lucifer +Lucifer prepares man for the experience of Christhood. Lucifer works +within each of us to bring us to wholeness as we move into the New +Age". WOULD YOU WANT TO TRUST YOUR CHILD'S EDUCTION TO PEOPLE WHO +KEEP THIS KIND OF THEOLOGICAL COMPANY? The New Age dogmas outline +above permeate much of the educational philosophy prevalent in the US. +Leading New Age writer, Marilyn Ferguson, expands on the intent behind +the " new curriculum". "Alter states of consciousness are taken +seriously: "centering" exercises, meditation, relaxation, and fantasy +are used to keep the intuitive pathways open and the whole brain +learning. There are techniques to encourage body awareness: +breathing, relaxation, yoga, movement, biofeedback". "Their techniques +are the following: Guided Imagery, Visualization, Yoga, TM, and " +Teachers are to incorporate the following activities in their +classrooms. Do Yoga exorcizes, do visualization and guided imagery +techniques."

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Beverly Gallion says, "Don't call it that. Call it centering down +or the crazies will get all bent out of shape. Relaxation, call it +deep breathing." (Its really Yoga and TM)

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Ferguson believes that it is the duty of the educators to function +as CHANGE AGENTS and wean children away from the morality of their +parents and culture:" A major ambition of the curricum is autonomy. +This is based on the belief that if our children are to be free, they +must be free even from us-from our limiting believes and our acquired +tastes... This means teaching for healthy, appropriate rebellion, not +conformity. Maturity brings with it a morality that derives from the +innermost self, not from mere obedience to the culture's norms".

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This kind of idea has been in place with funding from the U.S. +Department of Health, Education and Welfare since 1969. It is called +BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM (BSTEP). One of the its +major goals is the development of a new kind of elementary school +teacher who engages in teaching as clinical practice, and functions as +a responsible agent of social change. In plain English, that means +that they want teachers to become behavioral psychotherapists, but +without having to go through the years of training and certification +that real therapists must achieve. Do you wish your child to be used +as a guinea pig by amateur psychologist teachers?

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BSTEP suggests:"the humanities are designed to promote an +understanding of human behavior in humanistic terms... Students are +to be exposed to non-western thought and values in order to sensitize +them to their own backgrounds and inherent cultural biases. Thus, the +student's Christian values are now pass@. This educational +methodology has sown seeds which we now harvesting two decades later; +and it is bitter harvest indeed. In helping our children to be "free" +of "cultural biases" and to have "healthy rebellion," we have reaped +sky-rocketing drug abuse, unwed mothers, crack babies, illicit sex, +and public schools that have become citadels of rape and carnage!

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Now, in the midst of growing public alarm, the education +establishment, has been forced to backpedal, and now we are inundated +with homilies about drugs and "safe" sex, even though drugs and sexual +"freedom" were cornerstones of the New Age movement. Lecturers at the +above-cited Antioch workshop extolled "the Holy prostitute" and +perverted sexual practices. Indeed, very Hitlerian concepts of +planned parenthood, eugenics, and sexual freedom were taught by Alice +Bailey, a guiding thinker of the New Age.

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Thanks to the New Age influence in the educational +establishment,these kinds of courses have become common fare for +teacher education in many states. Many teachers do not know the +spiritual content of this material and look upon it as "feminist" or +"cross-cultural." Most of them do not understand what they have been +led into, Andre essentially very dedicated educators who just don't +know that they have been sold a bill of goods.

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Is the World Getting Any Better?

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Another problem with reincarnation is the fact that if it were +true, then people should be "evolving" and the world should be getting +demonstrably better. Empirically though, it really isn't. This +century has seen war and slaughter to a degree unparalleled in human +history! If we are standing on the pinnacle of untold centuries of +spiritual evolution, then how could we have produced a Hitler or a +Charles Manson (both reincarnationists!). If reincarnation is true, +then we should be a planet of saints by now. Yet who among us would +say that our nation is better now than it was a short generation ago. +We cannot even walk the streets of American cities without fear, +whereas 20 years ago, many of the homes in this land were not even +locked at night! Is this spiritual evolution through reincarnation, +or is the result of a generation of children being raised on New +Age-oriented educational system of values clarification, in which no +absolute moral values are allowed. After all, who would dare give a +little god any moral rules?

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I. THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS.

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The following quote comes from a school's request to become part of +the Schools for the 21st Century project.Quote: "Imagine a place where +nothing is impossible!! A place where our best dreams become +realities and everyone is involved in creating the magic. Imagine +what Mountlake can become." Sounds great, so what's wrong with this +statement? "U.S. Plan to 'Take Over' Grade Schools Intimated." "Is the +U.S Office of Education..., poised for a total takeover of every +elementary school in the nation?" "That was indicated Thursday in a +federally funded project at Cal State, Fullerton by Bernard Kravett, a +professor at the school who took part last year in a federally funded +project at the University of Washington." "Known as the Tri-University +project, three universities were involved in a massively funded +federal project to restructure the entire higher education system for +training teachers, which, in effect, would make local elementary +schools only a subsidiary arm of the federal government." .."There +will no longer be such a thing as an autonomous college. All teacher +training institutions will operate jointly with local school districts +and teacher organizations to 'establish performance criteria which +become behavioral objectives.'" (programming the teachers) .."All +education will be built on behavioral tasks rather than on courses, +credits and grade point averages..." "he (Kravett) said the government +was spending 'fantastic amounts of money and the Federal Government is +totally behind it, pushing it and providing all the money you can +possibly need.'"

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Their main goal is: To move the kids and schools into the 21st +century by educating them to become citizens of a global society, +without bias to any belief system or society. (Except +Judeo-Christianity) David Spangler is the head of the Planetary +Initiative(a New Age organization) and has offices world wide. They +organized the entire peace movement and can put half a million men and +women in peace marches in a city-they have tremendous power.-

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Their headquarters are now in Issaquah, Washington. David Spangler +No one will be allowed to enter the New Age unless he or she takes a +Luciferic initiation Whenman entered the pathway of self, he entered +into a great creative adventure, of learning the meaning of divinity +by accepting himself. The being that helps him reach that point is +Lucifer, the angel of man's evolution Lucifer is an agent of God's +love Christ is the same force as Lucifer Lucifer prepares man for the +experience of Christhood. Lucifer works within each of us to bring us +to wholeness as we move into the New Age." ( This is blasphemy and the +religion of the Antichrist) Benjamin Crem (North American director of +the New Age Movement)-

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"There will be a mass initiation of all peoples of earth, no one +will enter the New Age without taking a Luciferic initiation." [i.e. +you would not be eligible for an I.D. number without first taking a +pledge to worship Lucifer. They are talking about the mark of the +beast as written in the Bible.]

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THE NEW AGE PARTY LINE.

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Channeling or.(medium) as defined by David Spangler a New Age +leader and writer. "Channeling is a phenomenon in which a physical +person enters an altered state of consciousness and lends his or her +mind and/or body (depending on the technique employed) to be used by a +nonphysical entity in order to communicate from its level of existence +to ours." Now in Christian terms from ex New-Ager who channel for +over 15 years both for the New Age and the Christian church. When I +was led by mother to take my first spirt (demon) at the age of 3. I +will never forget the feeling of that demon came into to my small +body. First I felt a warm felling; But I knew that it was an invader +(not of myself). When I first started to used the spirt guide to +speak thought me; And answer questions that was given to me .The spirt +was almost never wrong. Is God ever wrong? This channeling went on +in front of occult and church groups till I was 21.. Most church +goers did not know that I was Channeling ; because I used all christen +terms and prophesyed in "THE SPIRT".

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In the the book of 1Thess. 5:19-22: 19 "Quench not the Spirit. 20 +Despise not prophesying. 21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is +good. 22 Abstain from all appearance of evil". We must check all +prophesy to the Word of the God if it does not line up get rid of it. +God is never wrong. And most of all check witch [sic] spirt is being +used for prophesy. also in Matthew 24: 23-24: 23" Then if any man +shall say unto you, lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 +For there shall arise false Christ, and false prophets, and shall shew +great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they +shall deceive the very elect". The Bible teaches that trying to +contact the dead (whether ordinary dead folks like "Uncle Harry" or +distinguished dead folks like Ramtha) is very dangerous Sin! (Lev. +19:31, Deut, 18:10-12,Is 8:19-20, Rev.21:8) In the old Testament, the +penalty for consulting with those who spoke with "familiar spirits" or +spirit guides was death (Ex. 22:18, Lev. 20:6)! God wasn't kidding +with this!

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Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary to the United Nations and +integral in getting the Lucius Trust [LuciferTrust] into the U.N. +Bldg. "The great evolutionary challenge is as follows:

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1. Science, technology, transports and communications have ushered +us into the Global Age;

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2. The world has not yet adjusted politically, economically, +mentally, and spiritually to that New Global Age;

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3. As an individual I must help the birth of a better world by +transferring my love from my family, my group, my nation-- to the +world, to humanity and to the heavens.

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4. Global education is the essential means to bring about this +transformation;

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5. Theosophists are an essential network in the process of +planetary synthesis. You have members all over the world. You have +unlimited human resources for effectuating positive world change."

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NOTE: What Muller means by essential network is: Quote- " I believe +that the greatest networked are those who did it at the highest +levels--people like the Buddha, Jesus Christ, Gandhi, Schweitzer, +Teilhard de Chardin, Martin Luther King, Dag Hammerskjold, U Thant +people who really transcended races, nations, and groups and networked +at all human levels, linking the heavens and the earth and showing us +our prodigious worth and journey in the universe. The real networked +are those who go deepest and come closest to the mystery of life in +the universe."

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I believe that this GLOBAL SOCIETY is the fulfillment of God's Word +in: REV 13 (one world govt, one world leader, one world economy, one +world religion) 2 TIM 3:1-5 Mt 24:24 Col 2:8

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In a book published in 1978 by the United Nations Association of +the United States of America: "Helping Boys and Girls to Discover the +World"( with the subtitle of "Teaching about Global Concerns and the +United Nations in Elementary and Middle School": 74pp. Page 1. "Girls +and boys growing up today have a right and a need to realize that they +are part of an amazing, totally new development in human history," +says Jean Picker, Vice Chairman of the publishing association. +Further she announces boldly that "...at the United Nations, work is +underway to forge a global community able to meet the challenges of +the next century.

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"Both on a national scale and international scale, globalism is +being promoted by Robert Muller, author of "The New Genesis": He has +written in his book that the global education is simply a means to a +spiritual utopian society. He looks toward a cosmic government of a +one world religion; a one world ruler who is ruled by a great cosmic +religious force. Unfortunately, when this book was published people +like Dr. Gordon Kuaiti, who was Executive Director of the Association +for Curriculum Development, took the bait. " After reading Dr. +Muller's book, he wrote: What we need is to bring the children of the +schools and this curriculum (the spiritual development in Dr. +Muller's book) so that our children can become part of the coming +world religion." Who is this man who was the former Assistant +Secretary General to the United Nations? " I am the representative of +the United Nations Secretary General on the council to the University. +I am very excited about this new and important venture. World +education is making good progress. I HAVE PRODUCED A WORLD CORE +CURRICULUM which I would like to see adopted in all schools on the +planet....A spiritual version of it appears in "New Genesis".

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At the Soviet-American Citizens Summit conference (Feb 1989), Dr. +Muller was a keynote speaker. Their goal was to work together in task +forces in such fields as health, education, business, psychological +and social change, world views and morals, religion, atheism, and +spirituality. Their goal is to identify joint projects and "social +inventions for the third millennium."

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The other keynote speaker was Ted Turner of "Turner Broadcasting". +He has given his stance on world affairs by making statements like: +"America is the greatest problem in the world. The Soviet way is the +only way to go." Did he forget that Marxism has murdered 80-100 +million people, enslaving half the world, and was raping Afghanistan, +plus killing Christians in Nicaragua and Ethiopia? Also speaking at +the summit was Barbara Marx Hubbard who spoke on: "The vision and +purpose of the summit." Barbara Marx Hubbard: A Vice Presidential +nominee at the 1984 Democratic Convention, Founder of the Global +Family, Co-Sponsor of the Soviet/American Citizens Summit and numerous +other Soviet-related programs.

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Barbara has rewritten the New Testament, calling for removal of +half the world's population. According to her own public +announcement, she is now under full control of her spirit guide. From +her book Spirit Guides she writes " Humanity will not be able to make +the transition from earth to universal life until the chaff has been +separated from the wheat."

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She's referring to Christians and Jews as being the chaff. "The +great reaper must reap before we can take the quantum leap to the next +phase of evolution. No world peace can prevail until the self +centered members of the planetary body either change or die." "Before +the stage of power can be inherited by the god centered members of the +social body, the self centered members must be destroyed. There is no +alternative, we are in charge of the selection process for the planet +earth" [her god is Lucifer] Barbara Marx Hubbard was the World Peace +Meditation and Harmonic Convergence organizer. She is also the owner +of Marx Toy Company. Who's involved in these task forces that affect +the State of Washington?

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Task Force-World Views and Morals: co-chair-person for the U.S. is +Dr. Robert Gilman, is editor of In Contex magazine (a New Age +publication) and an advisor of the teaching manual Responsive +Multicultural Basic Skills Project. This is in association with the +office for Multicultural Basic Skills Project, which is in association +with the office for Multicutural and Equity Education for the +Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of +Washington(Schools For The 21st Century project).

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Also on this task force was Swami Satchidananda, founder, Integral +Yoga International. Task Force-Religion, Atheism and Spirituality: +Co-chair-person for the U.S. is Rev. Max Lafser, Co minister, Unity +Church, Olympia, WA

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Task Force-Education for the 21st Century: Co-Chair-person for the +U.S. was Dee Dickenson, Founder/director, New Horizons for Learning +(writer for many New Age articles). Also on the committee was Linda +MacRae consultant, National Education Association (N.E.A.). This +information was obtained through: Center For Soviet-American Dialogue-Bellevue Washington.

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In association with curriculum exchange with the Soviet Union, +funded by the U.S. govt, the Carnegie Foundation was to develop a +computer software curriculum to exchange educational information with +the Soviets. The Carnegie Foundation was also funded by the U.S. to +radically restructure the U.S. development of schools for the 21st +Century for the State of Washington. To summarize organizations and +people linked up with our Educational system so far, Bernard Kravett +gave enlightening news of the U.S. Government's funding of the +Tri-University project to change our educational system from courses +involving credits and grade point averages to a system of behavioral +tasks. Along with the government is:

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David Spangler - Planetary Initiative, location college level, +Co-director of Findhorn Foundation (recognized throughout the world +for its visionary contribution to the New Age transformation process), +channeller

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Benjamin Creme - North American director of the New Age Movement, +claims telepathic communication with one who calls himself the +Maitreya or the Christ.

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Barbara Marx Hubbard 1984 Democratic Convention nominee for Vice +President, Co-Sponsor of the Soviet American Summit Channeler of demon +who re-wrote the New Testament

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Ted Turner - Turner Broadcasting, sponsor of the 1990 Goodwill +Games, New Age proponent

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Dee Dickenson - Founder of New Horizons For Learning, advisor to IN +CONTEXT magazine (New Age publication)

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Robert Gilman - Editor of IN CONTEXT magazine

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Some of the leading New Age Globalists who have tremendous power +and influence were described to show who they are and the people and +organizations who are under them. This gives us an idea of the +infiltration into our educational system by the New Age Movement. +Education happens to be the link to a whole generation.

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II. RELIGIOUS ASPECTS AND SOME COMPARISONS WITH SCRIPTURE.

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To help you understand some of the terms that are being used, here +are a list of the most common terms.

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The Scriptures prophesy of the coming of what we refer to as the +New Age. There is nothing new about the New Age. From Genesis +through the Babylonian religion, comes the same old lie in a new +package.

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The New Age is essentially all the modern day occult-based +philosophies and practices rolled up in to one world religion. This +wide range of spirt worship, Eastern mysticism, Mind-scince religion +and avant-garde psychology. Its essence "oneness" or god-within. +Thus people have to look no further than themselves for all of life's +answers.

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This is same lie that Eve was taught in Gen. 3:1-5 is taught by New +Age teachers , leaders and by the serpent. That serpent in the garden +was "initiating" Eve into higher consciousness You will notices 3 +concepts in the serpent's lie:

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1) "Yea, hath God said...?"(verse 1). He cast doubt on the Word of +God.

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2) "Ya shall not surely die..." (verse 4) He denied the the reality +of death

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3)"... your eyes shall be open, and shall be as gods..."(verse 5) +Finally, he claimed that she could attain the status of God.. You do +not have look any father than Gen 3:14-19 to see that the New Ager +brings the curse of death upon themselves though the same SIN as Adam +and Eve did. Or as it says in Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man +sin entered into the earth, and death passed upon all men, for all +have sinned. There is no other way to get rid of this sinful burden +with out taking the Bible the way it was written verse upon verse. In +Romans 6:23: "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is +eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord";

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Only through this free gift we get our eternal life. Not through +some New "not so" Age LIE, that is based only on one verse. Lou Tice +who is the founder of the Pacific Institute and a leader in the New +Age movement-Lou Tice teaches for the Seattle School District, many +businesses, the Everett Police dept., and many more. Quote: "I am a +wizard, I have god like powers."Lou Tice video series tape 30 is 'New +Age Thinking For Achieving Your Potential'. Quote: "This program has +provided you with a wealth of concepts and important life changing +tools. These tools can be used to achieve whatever you truly want to +achieve now and for the rest of your life."

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David Wilkerson wrote...

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"Your destiny is in the power of your mind, whatever you can +conceive is yours, speak it into being..., this is not the gospel of +Jesus Christ. Let it be known once and for all, God will not advocate +His Lordship to the power of our minds, negative or positive. +Christ's mind is focused on the glory of God and the obedience to the +Word of God." Speaking of the name it and claim it teaching going +around the church today he says, "No other teaching so ignores the +cross of Calvary, the corruption of the human mind. It bypasses the +evil of our ruined Adams nature and it takes the Christians eyes off +of Christs gospel of our eternal redemption and focuses them on +earthly gain. Saints of God flee these things."

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Do you see a parallel teaching between Lou Tice and the name it and +claim it teaching? We are created for God's pleasure and not our own. +The Bible says that we are to love the Lord our God with our whole +hearts, mind, and soul, plus God says that the righteous shall live by +faith. That faith is in God and not the schemes of Satan for the +false self satisfactions that he offers which are not lasting but +rather end up in destruction. The Truth that God gives us says that +we are not the gods that Lou Tice and the New Age movement want us to +be.

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If you think that the New Agers are not trying to change us, listen +carefully to the words of John Denver the actor and member of EST. +(now known as Forum) Quote: " My greatest ambition is to wean +Christians away from the superstitions about Christianity and liberate +them from the delusion of any God but themselves. I'll be a god +someday."

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THE NEW AGE AND THE BIBLE:

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When I was in the New Age for the 18+ years the Bible was more +accepted but very twisted to meet the Dogma of the New Age leaders. +Another former top New Age leader put this way. "In New Age +philosophy, the Holy Bible is accepted, but only conditionally, it +being taken only as one scripture among many others. Also, I began to +see that New Age philosophy picks and chooses what it likes and +doesn't like from the pages of the Bible. It also re-interprets these +select passages with a metaphysical New Age slant. .the New Age +Movement (or NAM) has not only taken the Word of God, but many common +used christen terms and put them in to there every-day lingo. First +we must bring the new-ager to the understanding of what the Bible +is.The Bible is not only a good book but it is the word of God; you +see this in

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John 1: 1-5 " In the beginning was the Word,and the Word was with +God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 +All things were made by him ; and without him was not any thing made +that was made. 4 In him was life ;and the life was the light of men.

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5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended +it not. For the NAM thinks there are many gods and does not +understand John 1 ;1-3 so we must fallow with 1 Corinthians, 8:56: 5 +For thought there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in +earth,(as there be gods many, and lords many,) 6 But to us there is +but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and +one lord Jesus Christ, by whom are things, and we by him.There is only +one one God the God of the Bible. (NOT SELF) as NAM believes.The NAM +does not understand what will happen to anybody that tampers with the +Bible ; in Rev. 22: 1819 it's says "For I testify unto every man that +heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add +unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man +shall take away from the words of God shall take away his part out of +the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which +are written in this book. As Christians we need to know our Bible and +Christen terms for life we save may be you or a love one. Do not be +afraid to ask the question, Of what does that term mean to you but +also if they know Jesus Christ as there personal savour.

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JESUS CHRIST AND THE NEW AGE.

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The Jesus of NAM disciplines believe that Jesus is one of many +great masters who have lived on earth. He had to work through many +lifetimes to attain the Christ-self . He was able, by studying under +Egyptian and Tibetan masters, to acquire occult power to do miracles +Once he did so, he was able to pass it on to his disciples.

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Just who is Jesus Christ is he the Lord of all; The Bible teaches +that Jesus is God (John 1:1-214, Col. 1:15), and that He is uniquely +God in Rev. 1:1117-18 and 22:13-16 Jesus states that He is God, the +first and the last-the only God there ever was or will be ( Isaiah +43:10). Anyone who thus denies Jesus is denying Good (1 John 2:23). +This is not the New Age Jesus. Check out which Jesus it is. (see +Matthew 24: 23-24).

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The New Age movement has its roots in Babylon and Babylon had no +absolutes. Babylon was the 1st city built after the flood. Semiramis +was the Queen of Babylon and Nimrod the son, the husband of his +mother, led the people into rebellion against God. Nimrod was a +master warlock [sic] (male witch) [sic], and under his direction +astrology was developed. Later he was called Moloch, and sacrifices +to Moloch were not uncommon.

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This was the taking of children and passing them through the fire +as a sacrifice to Moloch. After Nimrod was killed by Shem (Noah's +son), Semiramis proclaimed that she is a goddess; and she demanded +that babies be sacrificed to her. Babylon was also known for its +tower of Babel

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(Gen. 11:4) "whose top may reach into heaven". Ungers Bible +Dictionary says that this expression is showing their pride and +rebellion against God. They tried to build a society that would reach +into heaven; and the New Age movement is trying to regain the society +that will reach into heaven and usher in the New Age or New World +Order. Their ideas include the universal mind set to establish +globalism, and trample on American values. (We are one consciousness; +visualize world peace and it will come about.)

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This concept is extremely dangerous to Jews and Christians because +the only way to accomplish this in their mind set is to purge (kill) +all the 'negative forces' (Christians,Jews)and then they can be gods +with eternal life by ushering in the New Age through visualization as +a unified global mind. Its the 'think peace' concept - By the way, +they don't think they are killing anyone because they think we will +just be reincarnated eventually as one of them after we have had time +to think about it.

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You will see throughout this outline the ties between Eastern +Religion, the New Age Movement and our Educational System as it is +being developed. Babylon was brought into this discussion to show +Eastern Religions basic roots and Occultism.

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III. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM.

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The radical reconstruction of our school system (in the U.S.) +funded by our tax dollars, and the lobbying force of the N.E.A. +(National Education Association), and the W.E.A. (Washington Education +Association), will bring a new reformed Babylon to earth. (let me +build on this.) Their purpose is to educate our children to reject +differences in sex, intelligence, culture, values, ethnic systems, and +religious values. No absolutes. This translates into creating a new +government order, a new economical system, and a new religious order. +(The New Age) All this BEGINS in the RADICAL reconstruction of our +educational system. A. CONTROL THE SYSTEM.

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How DO THEY BEGIN? By taking control of the educational system and +by teaching the teachers!

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1. THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE. The +program called BSTEP (Behavioral Science Teacher Education Program) +designed from 1965-1969 with funds from the U.S. Department of Health, +Education and Welfare. OBJECTIVES OF BSTEP ARE STATED AS FOLLOWS: +THREE MAJOR GOALS:

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a. Development of a new kind of elementary school teacher who is +basically well educated; engages in teaching as clinical practice, and +functions as a responsible agent of social change.b. The use of +research and clinical experience in decision-making processes at all +levels.c. Using the BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, for undergraduate and active +teacher education programs, and recycle evaluations of teaching tools +and performance. These goals inform us of the change from academic +excellence, to behavioral motivations to control our society.

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Quote:

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"Clinical behavioral style permeates every phase of the program. +Prospective teachers are trained so that they employ it; university +professors practice it; and the program itself regenerates through the +clinical process." ...the teacher is now a psycho-social therapist +utilizing the fields of psychology and sociology. The program is +designed to focus the skills and knowledge of Behavioral Scientists on +education problems, translating research into viable programs for +preserve and in-service teachers. The traditional concept of research +as theory is not discarded, but the emphasis is shifted to a form of +practical action-research in classrooms and laboratory. ( In other +words, school children are simply to be used as guinea pigs.) +'Students are to be exposed to non-western thought and values in order +to sensitize them to their own backgrounds and inherent cultural +biases.' Through a carefully structured sequence of experiences, the +decision-making of social scientists are explored and students are +provided opportunities to employ these decision-making processes in +real and simulated situations." What a beautiful example from the +BSTEP program for up-heaving cherished values by portraying +individuals and events in a purposely biased way. Under the guise of +supposedly making children knowledgeable regarding various +lifestyles--students will be systematically programmed to believe that +all formerly held Judeo-Christian values are passe' and no longer +relevant. This is currently being done by the Superintendent of +Public Schools Office through the Multicultural Education Resource +Series. This is designed as a "Multi-Disciplinary" approach. This +means they use eastern religions and values to water down and +eventually do away with the traditional Judeo-Christian Values. ( +BSTEP was publicly funded to wipe out Judeo-Christian values.)

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The BSTEP program certainly fulfills the description of the N.E.A's +Education for the 70's, which said;"Schools will become clinics whose +purpose is to provide individualized psychological treatment for the +student, and teachers must become psychological therapists." It also +follows closely the HAWAII MASTER PLAN FOR EDUCATION which states +that, "all classrooms must now be considered "mental health +clinicians", and all students must be regarded as 'patients.'" Not +only was this a plan of the 70's, but it is also in the schools of the +80's.

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2. THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION & NATIONAL TRAINING +LABORATORY

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"The Carnegie Report on Teachers" - (funded by our tax dollars) "A +new national (non government) board with a majority of outstanding +teachers would be created to set standards for the profession and +prepare a national certifying examination for teachers comparable to +the BAR and other professional exams. The Carnegie Corporation +proposes to finance the groundwork and research necessary to make such +a board operational." ( N.E.A. president 1986,Mary Hatwood Futrell) +This in itself is not bad until we understand what the worlds most +powerful lobbying force, The N.E.A. is pushing. - Their goals include:

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- TOTAL CONTROL OF TEXTBOOKS AND CURRICULUM (which means content +determined by the N.E.A. and not by school boards) - SEX EDUCATION +WITHOUT PARENTAL CHOICE OR REVIEW. - CONTROL OVER ALL TEACHERS, +COLLEGES, AND ACCREDITING. - LAWS AGAINST THE "VOUCHER SYSTEM" THAT +WOULD ALLOW THE PARENTS TO CHOOSE AMONG PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Do the +teachers really support the .E.A. system??? And does it make any +difference what teachers or the public want? You judge!

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The N.E.A. leadership supports the decriminalization of marijuana, +while 76% of the N.E.A. members do not.The N.E.A. leaders promote +preferential treatment for homosexuals, while 69% of the membership +does not.

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The N.E.A. leadership opposes public school teaching the Biblical +account of creation while 60% of the members support it.

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The N.E.A. favors busing to achieve "racial balance", while nearly +70% oppose busing. (taken from : Focus On The Family magazine 9/88)

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As early as 1962 (the year prayer was taken out of our schools) the +N.E.A. had a manual published: The N.E.A Teachers Training Manual(used +to train teachers). Quote: "Human relations training fits into a +context of institutional influence procedures which includes COERCIVE +PERSUASION in the form of THOUGHT REFORM or BRAINWASHING as well as a +MULTITUDE of LESS COERCIVE, INFORMAL PATTERNS. Suspending all +judgement for the time being, this INFLUENCE MODEL is presented in +terms of its capability to make sense of what we know of the CHANGE +PROCESS. It is useful to make meaningful predictions about the +training conditions necessary for the creative growth of both +individuals and organizations. (From the N.E.A. and the National +Training Laboratory)

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These organizations are taking naive college students and +indoctrinating them and eventually the whole school system, into their +false New Age philosophy. And of course not all are going to go along +with this but think about it for a minute. Those who will not go +along with the agenda will eventually be pressured, ridiculed, and +weeded out if they don't conform.

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Can this really happen? Let's look at the next section.

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3. THE ORGANIZATION FOR RE-EDUCATING TEACHERS

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From Dee Dickinson who is the founder of New Horizons for Learning: +Quote:

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"Already, throughout the United States, positive educational change +is underway and successes are becoming more visible. The next step +needs to be the growing awareness that this kind of educational +success is possible for all students and teachers."

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What is she talking about? From the Seattle Post Intellegencer +2/17/87: The Headline- 'Nation should take note of Gardner education +reform plan, expert says' (The expert is the Carnegie Foundation) +Quote: "The U.S. economy will be in serious trouble unless education +systems undergo major reform and Gov. Booth Gardner's plan to do that +puts Washington at the forefront, Carnegie Forum director Mark Tucker +says." "But for the plan to succeed, all the pieces must be approved, +he said. Those pieces include higher pay and a master's degree +requirement for teachers and responsibility and accountability to +match." (Ed. note: people did not need to be 'accountable' in the past +and wouldn't dream of doing half a job but now with our value system +being eroded we need 'accountability'.)

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Tucker contends that the need for a master's degree is more than +mere course work. Courses that are "Intellectually Tough" are needed +so that teachers are truly professionals and the master's degree will +reassure the public that the teachers deserve the greater +responsibility they'll have.. What are they teaching our teachers +that is so "intellectually tough"? And what are they teaching our +teachers today in Washington State besides the basic reading, writing +and arithmetic?

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IV. THE FORMING OF THE NEW BABYLON (The winning of a generation)

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The next section will help describe the curriculum change toward a +new religion and the New Babylon. The Heritage Institute has a +master's degree program in education which was designed in cooperation +with leaders of the Washington Education Association and New Horizons +for Learning(Dee Dickinson). This is through Antioch University +Seattle, founded in 1975. Some courses offered include:

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1."Nurturing the Human Spirit in the Classroom."- Quote: "This is +an experiential class. Participants will experience at least 10 +processes that may be used in their classrooms. This is a workshop +which acknowledges the necessity to nurture the spirits of teachers +first so that they may in turn nurture those of their students." +Humanistic Astrology can be used as a key to understanding one's +psychological make-up, and is a valuable tool for knowing how a person +learns, feels, and acts." (They used the word "science", and not +religion here, plus giving acceptance of how a person supposedly +learns, feels, and acts through the astrological birth date signs.)

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a. Schools in the State of Washington: CHINA curriculum in the +classroom If the teachers are being taught Astrology as a science, are +these practices being taught in the classroom? The answer is YES! +This is being taught through the history class, the math class, and +social studies class. The teachers are introduced into this through +Washington State Schools CHINA curriculum. This curriculum manual is +funded by the National Institute of Education for the State of +Washington and the Superintendent of Public Schools.(printed in 1984 & +reprinted in 1988) Frank B. Brouillet was the superintendent of +schools when this was introduced. The math and social studies courses +both use the zodiac chart: example: What sign are you? Subject area: +Math Drill; Social Studies

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Level : Elementary

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Objectives : To practice using reference charts to find information +- To learn to calculate age or year of birth if one or the other is +given - To become familiar with the astrological Zodiac and the animal +cycles and understand their similarities and differences Through this +teaching they are familiarizing the children with Eastern Religion +which is illegal. (If we can't teach Christianity, they can't teach +their religion.)

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3. THE OCCULT AND THE SCHOOL CAMPUS

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How popular are other religions and the occult with our elementary +schools up through the college campuses? "Book sales of satanism and +occult practices (ex: satanic bible) are out selling two to one the +Holy Bible in most college towns. In some places these books are +selling at a hundred to one. Since about 1967, there has been a rapid +increase in the publication of occult books. Some libraries do not +even stock occult books anymore, because practicing occultists steal +them so rapidly, and it costs too much to replace them." a. +"Witchcraft started in the school system across the nation in 1970." +"...witchcraft is being taught as an official course or as part of a +lecture series in public schools all across the country under a +variety of course titles, including the 'Literature of the +Supernatural'." A brief survey was done showing that more than 50% of +the nations public schools had introduced students to witchcraft in +one form or another. How can they promote witchcraft in the schools? +Because very few parents have objected to the courses or even know +they are being taught, because they don't take an interest in what's +happening in the schoolroom anymore."

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b. How is this affecting our schools and teachers in the State of +Washington? In 1986 a brochure from the Community Education Dept at +Antioch University Seattle was sent to school teachers. In this +brochure, "Women and Spirituality", they were advertising a +conference: "Defining Our Commonalty Celebrating Our Diversity" The +introduction statement included: " Let there be room for those of us +who have found a home for our spirit in the church, in the synagogue, +in the ashram, in nature; in the company of family, alone, or in the +company of other women.Let us find a way to meet: in dialogue, +meditation, ritual, prayer and celebration. As Merida Wexler +suggests: "in beauty all around us, let us begin." Some of the +workshops are: " Liberating Ourselves and Others Through Our +Sexuality"- " This workshop is designed to discover how God's +revelation in Sexuality the world comes alive through our acceptance +and celebration of both our own sexuality(whether Lesbian, +Heterosexual, or Bisexual) and that of other women. "Women's Ritual: +Women's Bonding"-(The instructor is Miriam Starhawk)"

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The day itself is structured as a ritual, a sacred time and space +we create by invoking the four elements-air, fire, water and earth, +which correspond to mind, energy, emotions and body. We bring all +these aspects of ourselves to encounter the Goddess in her three +aspects and to learn from each. ...The Crone teaches us about power - +how to weave our groups together in ways that share power and +encourage each of us to take our power, to confront our fears and move +beyond our limitations, to take action that reshapes the world." +(Starhawk refers to the word 'Goddesses';We know them as witches +[sic].)

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"Visions of the Goddesses":

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"This workshop will be an intensive personal exploration of ancient +Mediterranean Goddess imagery Through slides, guided meditation, +journal writing, myth-making and ritual creation. Please bring a +journal and an object which symbolizes your connection to your female +ancestors or to the earth."

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"The Holy Prostitute": Heretical Archetype for Healing the Nuclear Age- "The original whore was a priestess, the conduit to the divine, +the one who cleansed the masculine of the blood on his hands. In +contemporary times, her practice is considered an abomination while +nature is divided from spirit, body divided from mind, and man from +woman; nature, body and woman are all defiled by the very philosophies +which purport to elevate consciousness." "Reclaiming Our Power": +"Magic, Sex and Politics"-

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"Patriarchal religion teaches that God is found outside the world, +that spirit is separate from matter. That split devalues the flesh, +the material world, nature, sexuality, and women. It gives rise to a +society based on power-over, on domination and exploitation. Yet +there is a different principle of power, based on an awareness of all +things alive, inherently valuable, sacred and interrelated. This +awareness infuses the earth-based spiritual traditions of Africa, +Native America, and the ancient European religions of the Goddess. +Its resurgence today is part of a broad movement for change in the +underlying structure of society."

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Other workshops were: Rituals: Creating Sacred Space Ritual as +Therapy, Healing and Soul, The Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, The +Goddesses of Ancient Egypt We Are Women Giving Birth to Ourselves +Miriam Starhawk who is one of the instructors is one of the world's +most politically active and important witches [sic]. (She calls them +goddesses) She is a high priestess in a major coven and has been +politically active in both the witches [sic] / neo-pagan [sic] +movements as well as the feminist movement. She is a frequent speaker +at New Age convocations and conferences. (Cumby, Constance - A planned +deception; p.139 (If you don't think there is power in witchcraft I'll +suggest some books, or talk to you later)

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To briefly recap the material presented so far, I would remind you +of the International, National and local movements bringing in the New +Age movement to our school system through the Tri-University project, +BSTEP, the National Education Association, the National Training +Laboratory, and now a masters degree program. All of these +organizations and projects involve the movement away from academics, +and the reforming our values through behavior curriculums. The plans +presented emphasize control over our educators and the students, along +with control over all curriculum to leader, economy, and religion. +The movement is very subtle, so as not to alarm the people with +massive changes, but rather through gradualism gain acceptance of +ideas while expanding them into the deeper roots of their New Babylon. +The taking away of Judeo-Christian values and replacing them with +values that support the New Age philosophy did not happen over night. +It began in 1962 when prayer was taken out of the schools, equalling +the removal of God, and you will remember the N.E.A. Teachers Training +Manual which included the use of influence procedures for using +brainwashing techniques was published in 1962. So this has been on +going for almost 30 years now.

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V.EXAMPLES OF A VALUELESS SCHOOL SYSTEM

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NO ABSOLUTES IS A ABSOLUTE!!

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Lou Tice, founder of Pacific Institute and a New Age leader, "NEW +Age concepts try to provide you with important life-changing tools +which are said to enable you to achieve whatever you truly want to +achieve now and for the rest of your life". From a classes schedule +for a voctech school in the state of Washington." Stir Your Creative +Genius:. Send your critic on vacation! Experiment, take risks and +experience your creative genius in a safe, playful atmosphere. We'll +explore freeflow writing, guided imagery, mind-mapping, +brain-storming, etc. ..." " Self-Hypnosis: Weight control, stress +management, habit elimination and creativity are some issues that can +be dealt with though self-hypnosis...." " Creative +Visualization/Imaging" what is meant by all of this? Does it all +work? And where does the guide imagery come from? And is this all +New Age and occult?

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In THE INNER CLASSROOM: TEACHING WITH GUIDE IMAGERY. by Dr. Jack +Canfield, M.Ed.. Jack Canfield is a past-president of the Association +for Humanistic Education and has been a consultant to over 100 school +system, universities and mental health organizations." Classroom +atmosphere:

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1. Creating a safe space: When students are participating in a +guide imagery experience they are in an altered state of +consciousness. Their brain wave activity is slowed down... " Under +rules " 5 ... occasionally a student will have a scary image. They +need to know that you will be there to comfort them if they do" "6 +Students may go on a detour fantasy to a favorite place if they find +the imagery becomes scary or evokes uncomfortable feelings."

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"the Law of up and down: whenever you take a student up in a +imagery experience (vie stairs, escalators, magic carpets, a balloon, +magic, etc.), you will be encouraging the student to move into a +higher level of consciousness which is generally associated with +emotional and spiritual up-liftment... inner wisdom...ect. On the +other hand, taking a student down( via stairs, escalators, submarines, +tunnels, and below the sea) will more likely take the student down +into the lower unconscious part of the mind, which is more associate +with negative emotions, the past, repressed traumatic experiences, +unresolved conflicts, repressed aspects of the personality, darkness, +monsters and fear. It is therefor a good idea to avoid taking +students down below the ground unless you have a clear psychological +purpose and are adequately trained in psychodramatic techniques of +counseling such as gestalt, transactional analysis, psychosynthesis or +neurolinguistic programming.It is therefor a good idea to avoid taking +students down below the ground unless you have a clear psychological +purpose and are adequately trained in psychodramatic techniques of +counseling such as gestalt, transactional analysis, psychosynthesis or +neurolinguistic programming.

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The next section refers to a portion of my personal testimony and +the testimony of others. Some will remain unnamed due to the nature +of the testimony but everything is documented.Having been raised in +the occult from a very early age we were teaching others how to teach +occult practices to others. Of the many groups who came to us, a +number were school teachers, but not as a group, just individuals.

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When prayer and the Bible were taken out of the schools in 1962, +the moral law was removed as well. Lawlessness set in and a wave of +unruliness in the classroom. Not understanding that the Bible and God +were the moral standards, teachers were looking to bring some order +and interest in learning back to the classroom. Mind sciences became +an avenue to reach not only the child's mind intellectually, but even +to touch their emotions and will. Those techniques included,different +types of meditation, visualization through guided imagery exorcizes, +as well as stress reduction. Once learned, they became a way of life, +not just for the teacher but also for the student which gives both the +teacher and student no absolutes for the sky is the limit. If you can +visualize it you can have it.

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What happens to the kid who does not achieve what he visualizes? +This is what happened to me from my personal testimony.

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"I was out of control; by this I mean, with no absolutes I was up +when I got to my goals. But when I did not achieve my goals, I was +way down to the point of suicide. You see when you add peer pressure +to achieve, the child has no way to save face when they don't make the +goal.( You wonder why the suicide rate is going up in school age +children).

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I was shocked to learn how blatant and how early in the child's +life they are starting the programming for achieving their goals.

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a. From a day care run through a church there were found +subliminal records teaching basic meditation techniques to toddlers at +rest time, and visualization under the guise of reinforcing what they +are learning about colors, shapes, animals etc., etc.. Titles +include; SEA GULLS...MUSIC FOR REST AND RELAXATION, WITCHES' BREW POT +FULL OF SONGS FOR ORAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT. Albums come from the same +company, Educational Activities, Inc. Box 392 Freeport, N.Y. 11520 (I +don't know whether or not they know what they are really promoting)

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b. A fourth grader was assigned to fill out an application called +Witch and Warlock [sic] around Halloween. Some of the questions +included; "Professional name(do not use real name), What was your past +experience?, To cast a spell, you must develop your own incantation. +What will be yours?, Who is your favorite witch [sic]?, Are you +willing to work with vampires? Monsters? The bottom of the paper had +this: Your application will be examined, and if you qualify, you will +be promptly notified." (Fun and games? Lets see the progression of +acceptance toward satanism.)

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c. An Oregon high school student was asked to write a spell for a +composition class. (not Halloween) [Where do you think this leads +impressionable, and inquisitive young minds?]

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d The following is a required reading assignment in the Snohomish +School Dist. three to four times a week.

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Prologue:

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" Being a History of the War of the Gods and the Acts of Belgarath +the Sorcerer.' "When the world was new, the seven gods dwelt in +harmony, and the races of man were as one people. Belar, youngest of +the gods, was beloved by the Alorns. He abode with them and cherished +them, and they prospered in his care. The other godds also gathered +peoples about them, and each god cherished his own people." "But +Belar's eldest brother, Aldur, was god over no people. He dwelt apart +from men and gods, until the day that a vagrant child sought him out. +Aldur accepted the child as his disciple and called him Belgarath. +Belgarath learned the secret of the Will and the Word and became a +sorcerer. In the years that followed, others also sought out the +solitary god. They joined in brotherhood to learn at the feet of +Aldur, and time did not touch them." "Now it happened that Aldur took +up a stone in the shape of a globe, no larger than the heart of a +child, and he turned the stone in his hand until it became a living +soul. The power of the living jewel, which men called the Orb of +Aldur, was very great, and Aldur worked wonders with it."

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"Of all the gods, Torak was the most beautiful, and his people were +the Angaraks. They burned sacrifices before him, calling him Lord of +Lords, and Torak found the smell of sacrifice and the words of +adoration sweet. The day came, however, when he heard of the Orb of +Aldur, and from that moment he knew no peace." The story goes on and +is an excellent example of fantasy given to children which promotes +satanism.

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e "By age 13, John fit every police description of an occultist: he +was intelligent, didn't live up to his potential, and had come from an +abusive home, loveless home. Being only a teenager, John confused the +money and power he desired with "love", and sought witchcraft to meet +his need for self-affirmation." "At age 16, John was conjuring up +spirits to assume physical form and follow the coven's orders to +"wreak whatever havoc they desired." This particular coven, which has +since expanded throughout southern California, met in obscure places +and used codes for their internal communication, to evade police." +John's coven practiced "homosexual tantra"(sex magic) and had little +interest in making human or animal sacrifices. John eventually left +the group at 19 and, when interviewed at 23, said he remembered +instances where other covens "took members out" for telling group +secrets. These victims were usually stabbed to death and their bodies +burned. Throughout his years as a self-proclaimed sorcerer, John said +he never witnessed a ritual murder. But his interest in Satanism took +it's toll on his life in other ways. The young man lives in fear of +being discovered by members of his old coven, who wouldn't think twice +about making a public-if not gory-example of his desertion."

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f. "DEVIL WORSHIPING KIDS SHOCKING CONFESSION : WE KILLED CHICKENS, +DOGS, CATS--AND A TEENAGE GIRL-- TO PLEASE Satan!" "Two teenage devil +worshipers were trying to please Satan when they ate the eyeballs and +innards of animals they slaughtered - and sacrificed a beautiful +teenage girl. After swearing on a Bible to tell the truth, cult +leader Terry Belcher, 16, told a shocked jury how he and Robert +McIntyre strangled Theresa Simmons, 17, and performed a crude ritual +over her lifeless body. Cult members who refused to participate in +the gruesome ceremony were beaten. The rituals were performed for +power, a ritual, the taste of blood, Belcher testified. I got money, +power, sex, drugs, anything I wanted, he said. It was easier to get +em. It was like Satan helped you get'em. The two boys strangled her +with a leather bootlace after getting psyched up listening to heavy +metal rock music by Ozzy Osbourne, Belcher testified. Osbourne was +one of his favorite musicians, Belcher told the jury. He sings about +Satan and he sings about nuclear bombs. [Note: This is taken verbatum +from the tabloid rag "National Enquire." The author (myself) made it +up, receiving $35 for it. (I needed the money.)]

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g. At an Edmonds school district high school we see evidence of +the culture in our area. An example comes from the hallways in Nov. +88 in the form of flyers promoting:"Joey Swanson presents-Forced +Entry -- with COVEN plus DEATH SQUAD." ( At the Ballard V.F.W.)

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h. A Washington High School student who was raped, and then was +approached by a coven offering protection by magic and witchcraft. In +the year and a half that she was in the coven, she started through sex +initiation, animal sacrifices, eating parts of the sacrifices, and +finally was to participate in human sacrifice. She was slated to be a +breeder of babies for sacrifices to Satan. All sacrifices were done +to rock music and chanting. (Pink Floyd, Ozzy Osbourne) When asked how +many kids from her school participated in coven activity she replied, +"25% at least".

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i In the MODERN JAPAN: AN IDEA BOOK FOR K-12 TEACHERS put out by +the office of the Superintendent of public instruction. On page 1 the +unit is called FORTUNES the level: is upper elementary, adaptable for +others grades. Objective: students will use a variety of ideas for +writing. Materials: copy of Japanese temple fortune; horoscope +section from recent daily newspaper. Time: one hour. procedure: +Brainstorm with students with students ways people tray to know the +future: fortune cookies, palm reading, crystal balls, tarot cards, +horoscopes, tea leaves, etc.. In the same book on page 13 the unit is +Zen Buddhism - Introduction to a unit. Level: high school or junior +high; Objectives: 1. to gather students' knowledge, perceptions, and +quesestions about ZEN BUDDHISM. 2 To arouse their couiosity and +introduce them to ZEN concepts and practice.

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j. In the CHINA MOSAIC: MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNITS FOR THE MIDDLE +GRADES PUT OUT BY THE OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. +ON PAGE 28, UNIT Monkey Tales:Grade Level, 4th through 7th. +Objective: Student will:1, discover some aspects of Chinese +traditional literature and culture. 2, recognize that animal stories +are popular in many cultures. 3, make replicas of Chinese fold +puppets. 4, dramatize "Monkey Tales". Materials: 1, Teacher's copy of +"Monkey Subdues the White-Boned Demon"

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Teacher Background: The characters are mainly spirits, animals, and +monsters, and their adventure are full of drama and humor. Four main +characters embark on the journey to the west. The first, Xuan Zang, +is based on a monk who made the perilous trip from China to India in +the seveth century to collect and study Buddhist scriptures. After +staying in India for seventeen years he returned to China to translate +the scripture. He is a kindly and sincere figure in the novel. The +main character is actually Xuan Zang's disciple, Monkey. He is +cunning, mischievous, fearless, irrepressible, and loyal. The second +disciple is Pigsy. Pigsy is stupid and greedy and often finds himself +the butt of jokes, by he is faithful in times of danger. The third +disciple, Sandy, is a fallen god in donkey form. Although he looks +ferocious, he does not play a major part in the adventures.

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Through the above examples, an attempt has been made to expose the +momentum toward the Occult due to Judeo-Christian values being taken +out of our educational system.Although these examples are the leading +edge of the effects of the New Age movement on kids, not everyone +being influenced will fall into this extreme. The teachers who have +moral standards and values will express these through their lessons +and de-emphasize what they do not agree with. But the curriculum can +be spread out and very subtle so that even those who teach do not +catch on to the planned results of the New Age movement.

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There are many teachers who still hold to the standards and values +of God who do not have Jesus as their savior. They don't have the +power to overcome this movement but those who have Jesus Christ as +their Lord can. These teachers must seek deliverance for their kids +from the Antichrist through prayer. Some teachers help to curb the +degeneration of the next generation of kids, but I'm afraid that the +educational process is converting more and more teachers to the New +Age movement through their cleverly devised strategies. These +teachers are a generation, and will be creating a generation, for the +coming Antichrist and his prophet as was foretold in the Holy Bible.

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SCHOOLS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY CURRICULUM

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The following is out of a 5th grade teachers manual. [Positive +Action Program] OVERVIEW: Positive action is used to pry into personal +life. - "Students may use POSITIVE ACTION as opportunity to talk about +their homes and families or real life situations that are frightening, +dangerous, or illegal. Respect confidence, but be prepared to ask for +professional support and assistance if necessary." (page xiii) - +"POSITIVE ACTION is intended to be a psychological behavior change +curriculum. If lessons are taught right, behavior changes should be +evident in all students." - "POSITIVE ACTION allows children to choose +for themselves what is best." (Ed. note: This teaches New Age values +and how to control and manipulate students.In lesson three the parent +is looked on as a hindrance to the development of the child.The +question 'WHO AM I?' is given the answer of being 'self' centered. +And 'self' is God.

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A COMPARISON OF THE POSITIVE ACTION VALUES WITH CHRISTIAN VALUES. +POSITIVE ACTION CHRISTIAN

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3 needs-- physical emotional - mental physical - emotional +spiritual

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School 1st. Then family God 1st Family 2nd

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Self-centered Christ-centered - No absolutes Absolutes based on +Biblical

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principles. (i.e.10 Commandments)

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Teaches the choice is Honesty no matter what the cost determined +from the outcome. (If I lie, I won't get caught) Teaches conditional +love-God loves us unconditionally based on positive actions

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Anger is discouraged Righteous anger against sin is ok.

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Positive Action is another example of using New Age philosophies +for be behavior education over academic excellence In the Positive +Action Principles manual an outline for responding to the common +complaints parents have regarding the program is given. The list of +complaints are:

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That Positive Action and "similar programs" usurp parents +authority.

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That Positive Action is a values (or values clarification) program.

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That Positive Action is presenting ideas that should be presented +at home or in church.

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That Positive Action uses money that should be spent on "the +basics"--reading, writing, and arithmetic.

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That Positive Action is secular/humanistic education.

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Another curriculum in the 21st Century schools is the China +curriculum. This has already been adopted throughout the school +districts. This curriculum brings Astrology and Eastern religion to +the student. The Multicultural and Equity Education is really +designed to introduce all religions and value behaviors as acceptable. +They are setting this generation up for a fall to the one world +government, leader, and religion.

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These programs are designed to question and break down our value +systems but they are not presented in that light. Rather it is +portrayed as helping people to get along with people, and non +discrimination against different races, etc. These in themselves are +great ideals. It's when they are gradually hooked up with homosexual, +and lesbian lifestyles, pornography, eastern religious practices and +New Age philosophies that the destruction of our society is immanent. +Christians are not allowed their views or activities in the classroom, +but the ushering in of a new religion, government, and economy is OK. +Getting along with one another is fine but the curriculums are +designed to let in destructive values to our society that are +objectionable.

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As you heard, the curriculum being sold the school districts come +with the arguments parents raise. It is the principle's +responsibility to defend these programs and hope that many parents +don't show up complaining. They have used the story of not +understanding the parent saying 'no one else has complained'. They +have used this story even if many have complained. It doesn't take +many people to steer a ship and cause it to go the direction they +desire as long as everything is in place and the crew follows orders. +I wonder how many educators would obey the orders if they new where +the ship of education is being steered. A person who heard me on the +radio one day sent me a letter. She wrote: "The former Superintendent +of Public Schools in Albuquerque, N.M., Dr. Lillian C. Barna, was +hired in May of 1988 as the new Superintendent for the Tacoma School +Dist. I would not have been aware of this except that my husband is a +teacher in Tacoma and mentioned it to me after reading this article." +The article referred to comes from Focus On The Family magazine. (July +88) THEY TEACH NEW AGE IN NEW MEXICO'S SCHOOLS [One mother's campaign +against mysticism, occultism, astrologers, palm readers and Tibetan +monks.]

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"Susan Gurule of Albuquerque, New Mexico has learned some difficult +lessons about her local school system." "It has been more than two +years now since she discovered that her children were being introduced +to eastern meditation techniques and New Age thought by an elementary +school councillor." "Since that time, she has been fighting it. The +battle is far from won, but there have been significant victories +along the way.

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"The Battle Begins" In February 1986, Susan discovered her son was +being frightened by strange stories he was hearing at school. After +carefully questioning him, she learned that every other week he was +being sent to the counselor's office, and told to lie on the floor. +He was taught to breathe deeply and to meditate as he listened to a +series of guided fantasy tapes." "Just two weeks before learning all +this, Susan had been reading Phyllis Schlafly's book, 'Child Abuse in +the Classroom', so she was aware of New Age practices in public +schools. But she was unaware that her own school district was +involved."

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"As she investigated, she also learned that her older daughter had +already been learning meditation techniques for over two years-without +Susan's consent or knowledge. And her outrage increased when she +discovered her son and daughter had been told to keep the counseling +sessions a secret."

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"Susan contacted her son's teacher to find out why he was being +sent to counseling. She was told that all of the children were +learning techniques supposedly designed to increase self-esteem, +feelings of belonging, and reading comprehension." "She took her +objections to the school counselor who assured her nothing was wrong +with meditation. The councilor asked, 'Why do you object to your +children emptying their minds?' At that point, says Susan, 'Our +relationship deteriorated and I didn't want my children in the same +room with that counselor'."

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"After listening to the guided fantasy tapes, Susan realized they +were promoting transcendental meditation, a westernized form of +Hinduism, as well as occultic practices, including astral projection."

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"The program being used to teach children to meditate is called +Developing Understanding of Self & Others(DUSO), published by American +Guidance Service, St. Paul Minn. This particular program contains 42 +guided imagery lessons."

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"As she researched the DUSO program, Susan discovered another form +of guided imagery being used with gifted children in Albuquerque +schools. 'Flights of Fantasy' trains children to imagine meeting +strange creatures in space and encourages the children to merge with +them before returning to earth."

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"The superintendent of Public Schools in Albuquerque, Dr. Lillian +C. Barna, eventually wrote to Susan and invited her to take Learning +Theory and Child Growth classes to learn more about the counseling +program. She did-and they confirmed her worst fears." ...."She found +an ally in state senator Joseph Carraro... Carraro was outraged at +what he saw occurring under the guise of increasing self-esteem in +children. He eventually led a legislative battle to pass a Senate +resolution condemning the use of transcendental meditation or other +occultic practices in New Mexico's public school system."

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" As he sees it, 'people say certain kids are committing suicide +because they've lost their self-esteem....they need to relax more. +They've lost their self-esteem because thy can't read, write and +compete. I have a boy who doesn't need to relax any more. He needs +to read, write and do math, not hum a mantra'."

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The legislature approved the measure which condemned New Age +practices in counseling programs. "After passage of the resolution, +educators and the press seemed bent on ridiculing it. In newspaper +accounts of the controversy, educators loudly protested the Senates +action."

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Be prepared to receive ridicule if you plan to fight this movement.

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Sounds to good to To be true? You're right!

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Through eastern mysticism, and no ABSOLUTES or value system, our +society is being changed to accept the New Age answers. The +hysterical part of this is that the New Age philosophy created the +problems that they are now trying to solve. So now New Agers can be +heroes in developing answers to the problems they've created.

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With the only true God who gave us the social structures, +government structures, family structures, and individual standards, +the problems cease to exist when these standards are followed.

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Without the structures God gave and with a value system being +destroyed by New Age thinking, we see the increase in alcoholism, drug +abuse, sexual immorality, all of which leads to higher divorce rates, +which leads to the breakdown of the family and the love everyone +needs. When the family unit dissolves the destructive cycle increases +and propagates itself.

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In order to bring this home to you, consider the teacher in the +Tacoma School Dist. who is now offering an accredited course for +teachers through U.PS. The course is 'Teaching for Social +Responsibility' and instructed by Lee Landrud. The course is promoted +like this:

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feel connected

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see different viewpoints

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think critically

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resolve conflicts so all win

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responsibly make decisions

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become agents of peaceful change

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cooperate in team learning

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learn meditation skills

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Quote: " We can enable students to feel they have responsibility, +power, and ability to influence their world. The goals of this course +are to explore ways of helping our students to

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The Tacoma teacher, Lee Landrud, is building a library of varied +and field-tested curriculum materials and makes these available to +teachers. Where is the field testing of these curriculums taking +place? Your school? [remember the subliminal records used in the Day +Care Program bringing subliminal messages and progressive relaxation +techniques?]

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The Tacoma freshman health class requirements include: "Learning to +Relax". "simple technique for reducing stress is the progressive +relaxation technique. See the Health handbook.."

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To get a picture of how this outline hooks up the curriculum with +Eastern religions, consider YOGA, the essence of spirituality for all +Hinduism.

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To the Hindu, the circle of reincarnation is punishment and +suffering that they must escape. Their goal is to break this vicious +cycle through YOGA. YOGA means: yoke, or union with God.

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Kundalini Yoga is the serpent force which they believe is coiled at +the base of the spine. Westerners don't use the term 'serpent' but +rather use the term 'energy'. The goal is to force the serpent force +through the chakras, or the spines psychic channels, releasing the +kundalini force within us to receive psychic powers and become divine.

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Raja Yoga, or meditation of the mind, is to look into ones self to +find the true self and in finding true self is finding God. This +uniting with God is understood better by knowing that the guru's are +considered Christ or the Christ Spirit incarnate. But in Matthew +24:23-24 Jesus gives us warning about false Christs.

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The Mantra is a word, usually a Hindu god, given by a Yoga master +to chant. This is used to clear the mind to become united with the so +called deities which are really demons. The purpose in their minds is +to become united with God to realize that we are really God.

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In the Tacoma School Dist. health program is the chapter called: +"Stages in Accepting Death."Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist, has +worked with hundreds of dying patients and their families. She has +tried to better understand what a person goes through in coming to +grips with his or her own death." To understand the true Elizabeth +Kubler-Ross and know what she's teaching, the book Unholy Sacrifices +of the New Age gives us examples.

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She says, "This work with dying patients has also helped me to find +my own religious identity, to know that there is life after death and +to know that we will be reborn again one day in order to complete the +tasks we have not been able or willing to complete in this lifetime."

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Kubler-Ross not only believes in reincarnation but, as a +Universalist, believes that everyone goes to Heaven (when pinned down +to specifics on national television, she said that Adolf Hitler was in +Heaven.Do you see the connection between Hinduism,Yoga and the +curriculum the New Age movement has been promoting?

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The educators have been deceived through a carefully devised plan +to take over our society and culture. In 1966 at the International +Hindu Conference a strategy was devised by leading Hindu's to convert +the world. TM was chosen to counter the 'demon' of Christianity. The +guru's were the 1st line of attack and they in turn influenced the +music world. The Beetles were the 1st major band with a world wide +audience to promote the doctrines of the guru's. The strategy seems +to have infiltrated all areas of society and have become the ambition +of the New Agers to indoctrinate a whole generation to usher in their +New

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VI. USE AND ABUSE OF POWER AND INFLUENCE

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Teachers who have Jesus in their lives seem to emphasize only the +positive values of God in the curriculums and de-emphasize New Age +philosophy. But the teachers who have no understanding of the +conflict of beliefs being fought in our society are easy targets for +deception. The educators who have already been indoctrinated and +filled with this movement's deceptions will do anything to promote and +fulfill the call upon them as agents of change for the New Age +movement.

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Marilyn Ferguson writes in The Aquarian Conspiracy about "what she +found in the deepest roots of our educational system; she quotes: +"There are a lot of us in the woodwork." He was referring to a loose +coalition of conspirators in agencies and on Congressional staffs. +Within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, innovators +have created informal rap groups to share their strategies for +slipping new ideas into a resistant system and to give each other +moral support."

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"Concepts that might otherwise appear 'far out' can be given +legitimacy by a single federally funded program. The grant making +apparatus of government determines fashion in some research fields. +This aura of legitimacy is fostered here and there by conspirator-bureaucrats."Some of the research projects that were funded include: +meditation, biofeedback, psychic phenomena, and alternative medical +approaches. ( Funded by the Dept. of Defense)

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The resistant system that these people refer to comes from a +society that followed as a standard the moral and spiritual guidelines +given in Gods Holy Word. Their strategies to change our culture have +obviously been very effective. We as a nation have been +systematically brainwashed through years of propaganda so that we do +not know how we came to the new understandings that we have accepted +as truth. But I know only one truth that is everlasting in nature and +shall never pass away Brethren, I would ask you to make a stand like +Joshua made when confronting the children of Israel and their many +gods: " As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord" (Joshua 24:15)

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God gave fair warning to the house of Israel that they should not +serve other gods. His judgement would be upon them for their +transgressions. Isaiah gives us an idea of the judgement of God on +the people for their harlotry to other gods: Isaiah 47:12-14 " Stand +now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, +wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able +to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Thou art wearied in the +multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, +the monthly prognosticators, stand up and save thee from these things +that shall come upon thee. Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire +shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of +the flame: There shall not be a coal to warm at, not fire to sit +before it."

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The globalists pride in their visions have blinded them about the +only true God, and the destruction this is bringing to our youth. +They are so exuberant in their mind games and want to see these +fantasies come about that they are running toward the destruction of +themselves and our society. Unfortunately a few people and groups are +responsible for the agenda in the Northwest,and we are all affected by +them.

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In an article: "Where do we go from here", Dee Dickinson says: +"Already, throughout the U.S., positive educational change is underway +and successes are becoming more visible." ( Are these the positive +changes that we are seeing from the few examples above, or the +teaching of our educators")through a new masters degree program +bringing in the occult? All of this is promoted through the schools +for the 21st Century. But note that this is a master plan far higher +than our duped Washington State school system. (Of course we must +realize that the New Agers will imply that Christians are duped and +they will not realize that they are helping in bringing about the end +times as described in the book of Revelation. They are pawns in the +hands of their masters, and I believe that most do not know who they +serve.)

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THE POWER AND MONEY CONNECTIONS

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Who are they that use our tax dollars to put mystical spirituality +back into the schools?

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Dee Dickinson, founder and director of New Horizons for Learning. +New Horizons For Learning with the Washington Education Association +designed the Arts in Education degree program at Antioch University. +Antioch with the education program put on the Women and Spirituality +conference.

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The New Horizons For Learning and co-sponsors of these conferences +are an eye opening realization of how much power is behind this.

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a. Western Washington University

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b. Washington State School Directors Association

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c. State Board of Education

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d. Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction

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e. Pacific Lutheran University

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f. Washington Education Association

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g. Washington Association of Deans and Directors.

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New Horizons For Learning presented a conference called: - Creating +Our Future in Education Conference III. "This conference will +demonstrate the practical application of this information across +settings-in schools, colleges and universities, homes and +businesses."

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"WHY CHANGE? - These distinguished futurists will discuss, from +unique perspectives, their view of the world today and the critical +importance of broadly based educational systems that can help students +to develop in mind, body, and spirit." (at Pacific Lutheran +University, Tacoma WA)

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Another of the other conferences presented by New Horizons For +Learning was : EDUCATION SUMMIT: A CONFERENCE ON LIFESPAN LEARNING To +give you an idea of how much support this teaching institute has, here +is a list of the Co-sponsors:

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a. IBM

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b. Public Broadcasting Service

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c. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

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d. Education Commission of the States

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e. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Education +Program

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f. National alliance for Arts Education

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g. The Boeing Company

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h. American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

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i. National Education Association

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j. American Federation of Teachers

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k. National Learning Center

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l. Institute of Cultural Affairs

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m. National School Board Association

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n. George Mason University. (from conference brochure)

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The New Age agenda is rapidly being accepted by very powerful +groups through brainwashing programs, and the visions given through +their programs. Take note however that these groups would not be +overly duped unless they were looking for new ways and ideas that left +God out and gave esteem to themselves.

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Read 1Tim 4:1 - Doctrines of devils.

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The opinion of New Horizons for Learning about themselves is as +follows. "Five years ago, New Horizons for learning coordinated the +highly acclaimed conference, 'The Coming Education Explosion' at the +Tarrytown Center in New York. Since then, Three conferences in the +'Creating our Future In Education' series have resulted in +international as well as national steps toward positive educational +change.""Directed by Dee Dickinson, New Horizons For Learning is a +non-profit organization supported by memberships and foundation and +corporate support. Contributors include:The Boeing Company, Chevron, +U.S.A., Medinal Foundation, The Northwest Area Foundation, Safeco +Insurance Co., Seafirst Bank, The Seattle Foundation, The Wyman Youth +Foundation."

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Do the above sponsors really know who they support? Channelers, +witches, [sic] spiritistic and others? I doubt it. To sum up, I have +attempted to show through international, national, and local levels, +the conspiracy to take us into a New World society and religion. They +have been gradually changing our educational system, with the intent +to change a whole generation. There are other parts which put their +vision together, but they are in no hurry to alarm us. They gradually +indoctrinate us with building blocks that tend to build absolute trust +in their followers and acceptance by their user community.

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The picture I have drawn seems to be so immense that it's +unstoppable. But I truly believe by turning to God and away from sin +that God will heal our land. My hope is that like the Kings of Israel +there were good and bad Kings. When the Kings led the people into +rebellion against God, His judgement came upon the nation of Israel. +But when the king led the people back to God, God restored the people, +land, prosperity, and security to the nation of Israel. And sometimes +God stayed the judgement due the Israelites while restoration and the +people were humbling themselves before God. We know that the one +world government, one world leader, one world economy, one world +religion will take place in the end times. But God may stay the +judgement against us if we continually seek Him and ask Him for our +people and our land. This may cause revival to take place which turns +our nation around, and stays the end time judgements against us. If +nothing else, may we be as the church of Philadelphia in the book of +Revelations. The church of brotherly love didn't have much power, but +loved God and our fellow man.

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Action is needed by finding out what your children are being taught +in school and how it lines up with the word of God. Lets become +responsible for our children and their upbringing, not leaving it up +to someone else. Through this outline, I've given you information and +examples to make you aware of the plans for this generation. So above +all prayer, along with fasting to God, to make the way, clear the +path, open the minds and hearts of the educators and the children. We +hope for a change in our educational system and society, to reflect +Godly principles for the salvation of our people and land.

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Having been raised in all the disciplines above and more, having +been a channeler from the age of 5 and up, studying under many of the +great disciplines, I still found no peace. I found myself out of +control and no way out but suicide to complete my tasks not obtained +in this life. Not until someone reached out to me, with nail holes in +His hands did I find true peace. Jesus Christ. He is the way, the +truth and the life and no one goes to the Father but through Him. +Anyone who tries to go to God in any way, other than the sacrifice of +Jesus Christ, is deceived. To those who may think that God is the +universe and in everything as compared to the creator of the universe +and all things created by Him think about this. The evolutionary +theory encompasses both the agnostic person who doesn't believe in a +god and it is also integral to the 'god is in everything' theologies. +Through the science of facts and not the science of theories, it is +shown that there is not one piece of evidence to prove evolution. It +amazes me to see evolution so widely taught as facts when not even one +piece of evidence has been shown to support the theory. Factual +science on the other hand fits very nicely with the creation story as +told in the Bible.

+ +

One example is the showing up of complicated life forms all at once +in the fossil evidence. Not one evolutionary advancement from lower +life forms exists in the fossil record. There is always cause and +effect in everything, and fossil evidence does not support evolution +but it does support creation.

+ +

Through the prophets of God came the understanding of a person to +come that was to be the savior of mankind from the eternal judgement +which would be the lake that burns with fire. The lake of fire is +another creation of God's for the rebellion of Satan and his angels +and all who do not have the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ.

+ +

The fulfillment of the prophesies concerning the Christ was shown +in the life and death of Jesus the Christ. The love and grace of God +will be shown throughout all eternity by the church, as the New +Jerusalem, spoken of in Revelations. Throughout all of Gods creation +there will never be a rebellion against God again throughout eternity. +The lake that burns with fire showing His judgement against rebellion +on one side and the New Jerusalem showing his loving kindness to all +who accept and love Him on the other side.

+ +

A philosopher by the name of Hegel was the basis of both Karl Marx +in the political and the economics of communism, and Adolf Hitler with +National Socialism. Hegal taught that the state did not have to obey +moral laws or even have to keep agreements. And Well On Planet Earth' +says, "According to the Hegelian thought, everything was relative. +This gave man an approach to truth, an approach to life, in which +there were no absolutes, only terms of relativity." "Absolutes are +unchangeable truths from which you can reason from cause to effect. +In relative thinking you are dealing with subjective thought in which +cause and effect have no part. Relativity is based upon +changeableness. When you think in this manner, you say, 'Well, how do +you feel about it now?'"

+ +

Even as the first Babylon had no absolutes through the rebellion +Nimrod, so has our society been driven by the forces of the New Age +movement into the New Babylon as foretold in Revellations 17. And in +Revellations 18 the judgement of God is pronounced upon her saying,

+ +

"And a strong angel took up a stone like a great millstone and +threw it into the sea, saying,'Thus will Babylon, the great city, be +thrown down with violence, and will not be found any longer." "And the +sound of harpists and musicians and flute players and trumpeters will +not be heard in you any longer; and no craftsman of any craft will be +found in you any longer; and the sound of a mill will not be heard in +you any longer; and the light of a lamp will not shine in you any +longer; and the voice of the bridegroom and bride will not be heard in +you any longer; for your merchants were the great men of the earth, +because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery. And in her was +found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all who have been +slain on the earth."

+ +

And judgement will come to the New Babylon but the love of God is +shown to His saints through Christ Jesus. As it is written, " That at +the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, +and on earth, and under the earth, and that every tongue should +confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." +(Phil 2:10-11) And then in 1Jn 1:5-10:

+ +

"This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare +unto you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we +say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, +and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as He is in the +light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus +Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no +sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess +our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to +cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not +sinned, we make Him a liar, and his word is not in us." (1Jn 1:5-10)

+ +

The New Age is essentially all the modern day occult-based +philosophies and practices rolled up in to one world religion. This +wide range of spirt worship, Eastern mysticism, Mind-scince religion +and avant-garde psychology. Its essence "oneness" or god-within. +Thus people have to look no further than themselves for all of life's +answers.

+ +

AKASHA: Sanskrit, a Hindu term meaning the stuff of which the +spiritual realm is composed. It is very sensitive to mental +manipulation. Psychics are believed to be able to "read" the akashic +records and determine what people did in their past lives.

+ +

ASTROLOGY: One of the most ancient and popular forms of +fortune-telling or divination.Much of the New Age is based on +astrological beliefs. It basically is the belief that the position of +stars and planets at the moment of your birth have an effect on one's +destiny.

+ +

AQUARIAN: Derived from one astrological sign, "Aquarius." [sic] New +Age dogma teaches that the older "age" of Pisces (another sign) is +coming to an end. It's symbol was the fish, and its keyword was "To +Believe." Hence, Christianity was the key religion of the Piscean +age. This age is now finishing, to be replaced by the Age of +Aquarius, whose keyword is: "To know." Thus, scientific knowledge +will replace faith. This is why so much New Age belief is couched in +pseudo-scientific jargon.

+ +

AURA: The halo of either negative or positive energy supposedly +radiated by each living thing. The aura changes color depending upon +the state of the being and can be seen, felt and analyzed. It also +can be adjusted to replace negative energy with positive energy. The +science of reading auras, called "Radiathesia," is supposedly used to +do psychic readings and to diagnose physical ailments.

+ +

Bio Feedback A quasi-scientific technique using a form of the +electro-encephalogram machine to train people to control their brain +waves. Used for relaxation or stress management, but also used to +induce altered states of consciousness. Often called "The YOGA of the +West."

+ +

CHANGE AGENTS: (or "agents of change") This is a term found +commonly in New Age literature, especially referring to teachers, +social workers, counselors, etc. These people are viewed by the +movement as being primary agents for bringing about transformations in +the way our children think and respond. Thus, New Age-oriented +educators, etc., are viewed as "secret agents" operating with a hidden +agenda toward their pupils or clients. This agenda is essentially the +destruction of traditional morality and religion and its replacement +with New Age doctrine (see critical thinking)

+ +

CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY: A common catch-phrase in the movement. It +is the idea that reality is somehow "plastic" or malleable and +ultimately only exists in a spiritual form. Therefore, you can alter +your reality by mind-power.

+ +

Channeling: Channeling as defined by David Spangler, one of the +world's leading New Age thinkers:"Channeling is a phenomenon in which +a physical person enters an altered state of consciousness and lends +his or her mind and /or body (depending on the technique employed) to +be used by a non-physical entity in order to communicate from its +level of existence to ours." A person who is totally yielded to a +spiritual entity that Channeling speaks through the person. Another +term for channeler is 'Medium'. Critical Thinking: A thinking +discipline that removes all prior learned judgement systems from +individual upbringings within the family environment. This includes +all values including morals, church teachings, or standards. The +group within the teaching environment then determines the standards, +morals, etc. for themselves. Another term for this is values +clarification. Values are clarified through group decisions with no +absolutes. Cooperative Learning: Group accountability and not the +individual being responsible for his or her own work. NOTE: God holds +individuals accountable for what they do and not a group.

+ +

CHRIST SPIRIT: (or Christ-self) This is the higher power part of +self that knows all and can be consulted for wisdom. This "christ" is +considered an energy but not a person. It was not unique to Jesus, +but "rested" on many great teachers, and can, to a greater or lesser +degree, rest within anyone. It can be reached through meditation +exercises and mantras. Also called the higher self, christ +consciousness, oversoul, mother soul, and guide.

+ +

CRYSTALOMANCY: Originally, a method of divination by gazing into a +crystal ball or mirror. Visions of the future supposedly appear in +the crystal. In recent years, the use of crystals in the New Age has +mushroomed. Crystals are now believed to be able to convey energy or +information; and carrying them is supposed to bring health, power or +good fortune, depending on the type of crystal.

+ +

A Global Society Moving oneself into a society that is one culture, +one religion, one leader, and becoming just another person, or number. +The blurring or destruction of all national or religious boundaries is +implied. Not so evident is the desire of the "globalist" to have a +one world political-economic-religious government under one "all-wise" +ruler.

+ +

Occult Healing Practices: Homeopathy, hypnosis (including +subliminals), pendulums, magnetic healing, polarity therapy, +iridology, acupuncture, the use of crystals or pyramids. All of these +practices (with the possible exception of acupuncture) have dubious +scientific bases, and claim to deal with spiritual energy fields in +the body. They are all rooted in pagan/occult world views. A good +rule is: If there is no scientifically measurable reason for the +therapy to work, or if it claims to work on "polarity" or "energy +balancing," you should stay away from it. Yoga and the Martial Arts: +Rooted in Hinduism or Taoism, both Oriental, pagan religions. +Involves opening the soul up to supernatural power called siddhis, +prana or chi, even at the intermediate levels. Tantric yoga, Raja +Yoga, and internal martial arts like Aikido, Hsing I and Pa Kua Kung +Fu or Tai Chi Chuan are especially dangerous.

+ +

Meditation, stress reduction: Although there is Christian +meditation, it involves reflecting on God's Word. What concerns us +are meditation and stress reduction that involve emptying your mind or +"centering." Such concepts are being taught as stress techniques, and +while they seem to work, they are also an open door for any sort of +demonic influence which wishes to come in. We are talking here about +guided imagery, visualization, and progressive relaxation techniques. +This is also true of OOBE (Out of the Body Experiences) or astral +projection. If you aren't "in" your body or mind, then who (or what) +is?

+ +

KARMA: A Sanskrit term (Hindu) which basically means cause and +effect. Anything you do, good or evil, will come back to you@in this +life or in your next life or "incarnation." Reincarnation is an +implicit assumption of karma. When you finally eliminate all bad +karma from hundreds of lives, you transcend the wheel of karma and +melt into Buddha-hood, the Atman, or God-consciousness all +individuality is lost then. This is the goal of most New Age +disciples who believe in karma.

+ +

Kundalini Yoga is the serpent force which they believe is coiled at +the base of the spine. Westerners don't use the term 'serpent' but +rather use the term 'energy'. The goal is to force the serpent force +through the chakras, or the spines psychic channels, releasing the +kundalini force within us to receive psychic powers and become divine.

+ +

MANTRA: A special word, often in the Sanskrit language, but not +necessarily. This word is chanted repeatedly to induce some sort of +change in consciousness. Quite often the mantras used in Yoga, names +of Hindu gods (demons), and the chanting of the mantra will invoke the +god and bring him into your body.

+ +

MASTERS, ASCENDED: Most New Age people believe that we are guided +by a highly evolved, perfected hierarchy of spiritual entities who are +invisible, but who educate us through dreams, psychic experiences, and +through channelers. Jesus is said to be one Ascended Master, but +there are others, like Maitreya or Sanat Kumara, who are greater. +Their teachings are not to be questioned.

+ +

RAINBOW: Although the rainbow is a Biblical symbol of God's +covenant faihtfulness (Gen 9:13), its beauty and charm have made it a +popular symbol within the New Age. This does not mean that everyone +who uses a rainbow is in the New Age. However, the use of the rainbow +as symbol should be looked at. To the New Age person, the rainbow is +symbolic of the Abtahkarana, or Rainbow Bridge over which the initiate +must travel to attain godhood. Maitreya, the New Age Christ, is said +to be the primary transmitter of "rainbow energies," as well. Another +common New Age use of the rainbow is as a symbol of many different +religions and races blending together into one unified whole. This +uses the metaphor of the prism, where white light is refracted into +many colors. Thus, the rainbow here is used to symbolize how we all +have fragments of God-ness within us and are all one entity.

+ +

REINCARNATION: A cardinal doctrine of the New Age, this teaches +that no one ever really dies, but rather you go through hundreds of +lifetimes in which you gradually perfect yourself by eliminating bad +karma and attaining God-consciousness. Thus, if they don't get it all +together in this life, they will have others ahead. Raja Yoga, or +meditation of the mind, is to look into ones self to find the true +self and in finding true self is finding God. This uniting with God +is understood better by knowing that the guru's are considered Christ +or the Christ Spirit incarnate. But in Matthew 24:23-24 Jesus gives +us warning about false Christs. Realization Techniques-which is TM +(Transcendental Meditation): Through vibrations you open your mind +channels to spirit beings to find your godhead. (In chanting the +Mantras, you are often chanting to Hindu deities which are demons.)

+ +

SPIRITUAL ENTITY: A non-human spirit being. Usually these entities +speak through channelers (mediums) and claim to be masters or +Boddhisatvas (saints) who have completely escaped the wheel of karma +and are now perfected beings. They communicate with humans to help us +grow spiritually. According to the Bible, these are angels who +rebelled against God@or demons. Also known as a Spirit guide

+ +

TAROT: Divination or fortunetelling with a deck of cards specifical +designed to tell the future. New Agers believe that information on +the future comes from the higher consciousness.

+ +

UNIVERSAL MIND: This doctrine draws heavily from Hinduism and the +theories of the occult psychiatrist Carl Jung. It teaches that we are +all part of a universal super-mind which permeates all things. This +mind has all the collective memories of the race and can, if properly +tapped, be the source of eternal wisdom. It is a similar, but not +identical concept to the Christ spirit; and it is very akin to the +"Force" of the Star Wars movies.

+ +

VALUES CLARIFICATION: An educational strategy common in school +curricula promoted by New Age theorists, this concept essentially +trains students to discard all values of family or church and instead +use moral values arrived at through consensus among classmates or +situation ethics. Usually these values are utterly at odds with what +has been taught the child at home. Pragmatism (end justifies the +means) and lack of moral absolutes are encouraged. See also critical +thinking.

+ +

VISUALIZATION:Making something real by imagining it into existence. +Also know as guided imagery, visualization assumes that consciousness +has the power to create reality

+ +

YOGA: The self realization of the God within you is the essence of +Yoga. You look within yourself to find your true self, and in finding +your true self you find God.

+ +

Marilyn Ferguson, THE AQUARIAN CNOSPIRACY, Houghton-Mifflin, 1980

+ +

Alice A. Bailey, EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE, Lucis Trust, New York, +(1954) 1987 edition, p.vi.

+ +

ibid, p.vi, ix.

+ +

ibid. pp.47-48.

+ +

ibid., pp.viii-ix.

+ +

Alice A. Bailey, THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST, Lucis Trust, New +York, 1948, pp.140, 149.

+ +

ibid., p.158-59 & Bailey, EDUCATION, p.88.

+ +

Bailey, EDUCATION, p.131.

+ +

Bailey, REAPPEARANCE, p.146, & EDUCATION, p.138.

+ +

Bailey, EDUCATION, p.77.

+ +

ibid., p.112.

+ +

ibid., pp.111-112.

+ +

ibid., pp.130, 138.

+ +

The Billings Newsletter, vol.XI, Box 3102, Lynnwood, WA. 98102, +Nov.1989, p.1.ibid.

+ +

David Spangler, REFLECTIONS ON THE CHRIST, Findhorn, Scotland, +1977, pp.36-39, 40-44.Marliyn Ferguson, THE AQUARIN CONSPIRACY, +Houghton-Mifflin, 1980,p315.

+ +

Witchcraft.Psychology Magazine, June 1979 Newsletter

+ +

ibid., p.316

+ +

Behavioral Science Teacher Education Program, H. E. W., Washington +DC, 1969, p.11 Many New Age writers have advocated both drugs and +promiscuous sex as methods of "enlightenment" Among these were Alice +Bailey, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass, Carlos Castaneda, Robert Anton +Wilson, Miriam Starhawk, and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Antioch U., +"Women and spirituality", op. cit.,p.4.

+ +

Bailey, EDUCATION, op. cit., pp. 133-38

+ +

Project Abstracts-Schools for the 21st Century-Mountlake +Elementary, Seattle School Dist. from the Anaheim Bulletin 10/17/69: +"U.S. Plan to 'Take Over' Grade Schools Intimated." David Spangler, +REFLECTIONS ON THE CHRIST, Findhorn, Scotland, 1977, pp.36-39, +40-44.David Spangler, CHANNELING IN THE NEW AGE, Morningtown, +Issaquah, Wa. 1988: p. 7.see Kurt Billings and Bill J. Schnoebelen, +SOMEWHERE UNDER THE RAINBOW, SAINTS ALIVE, 1990, pp.6-8 New Genesis

+ +

ibid

+ +

William Bramley, THE GODS OF EDEN, Dahlin Press,1989, pp. 59-60, +and from Barbara Marx Hubbard, THE HUNGER OF EVE, Island Pacific, +1989,p 7.See Kurt Billings & Bill j. Schnoeblen, SOME WHERE UNDER THE +RAINBOW, SAINTS ALIVE,1990, P.45, for more detailed info.Randall N. +Baer, INSIDE THE NEW AGE NIGHTMARE, Huntington House 1989, p. 61 THE +AQUARIAN GOSPEL OF JESUS THE CHRIST

+ +

'The Two Babylons', by Hislop, page 315, and Lev. 18:21.

+ +

The Seattle Times 6/11/86

+ +

IN CONTEXT magazine; a New Age publication

+ +

The Satan Seller-Mike Warnke

+ +

The Satan Seller-Mike Warnke

+ +

Lou Tice, video series tape 30, IS NEW AGE THINKING FOR ACHIEVING +YOUR POTENTIAL? Lake Washington, VOCTECH SPRING QUATER, 1990, p. 2

+ +

Jack Canfield, THE INNER CLASSROOM: TEACHING WITH GUIDED IMAGERY,

+ +

Copyright 1981, pp 26,29,30,32,33.ack Canfield, THE INNER +CLASSROOM: TEACHING WITH GUIDED IMAGERY, Copyright 1981, pp 33.ibid

+ +

ibid

+ +

ibid

+ +

COURTESY OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT.

+ +

COURTESY OF THE WEEKLY WORLD NEWS 7-26-88

+ +

ibid

+ +

MODERN JAPAN: AN IDEA BOOK FOR K-12 TEACHERS put out by the office +of the Superintendent of public instruction. On page 1In the same +book on page 13

+ +

CHINA MOSAIC: MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNITS FOR THE MIDDLE GRADES PUT OUT +BY THE OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. ON PAGE 28, +UNIT Monkey TalesTacoma School Dist. health program is the chapter +called: "Stages in Accepting Death.

+ +

ibid

+ +

from conference brochure

+ +

Hal Lindsey in his book 'Satan Is Alive

+ +

Hal Lindsey in his book 'Satan Is Alive + +For more on this complex subject, see Reisser, Reisser & Weldon, +NEW AGE MEDICINE, Global, Chattanooga, TN., 1988 and Jane D. +Gumprecht, MD, HOLISTIC HEALTH, Ransom, Moscow, ID., 1986. +

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This is a response to the file KURT.LZH, which has been circulating +over MOODS. The LZH archive consists of the file KURT.DOC, which is +available in XHATE10 (ZIP OR ARC), the archive you are reading this +from.

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This archive crystallizes (no pun intended) the Constance Cumbey "New +Age Conspiracy" theory, a theory that has become almost a canonical +part of Fundamentalist Christian doctrine. There are no indications who +this "Kurt" is, but he is assumed to be the author of this tract.

+ +

This piece is a libel against Neo-paganism in general and Dianist Wicca +in particular. It is full of lies and requires a response.

+ +

Michelle Klein-Hass +Founder, the Christian Hate Materials Project

+ +

PROJECT: THE LAST GENERATION

+ +

THE BRAIN WASHING OF A GENERATION

+ +

Though this book deals with the Washington State educational +system, the same things are happening all over the country under +different names. For most of the school curriculum formation (writing +and tryed out) is done in the Pacific Northwest by the new age +movement for the National Education system As an insider, I can +explain how they have managed to go so far in government and law +making and gone undetected by the majority of the population. The +following gives some of the plans and ideas of leaders who are in the +radical reconstruction of our educational system. This book will give +an idea of how they have advanced, some of the results of their +advancement, and where the momentum seems to be taking us....

+ +

....This book will show the taking over of the Education system; with +the intent of wiping-out THE JUDEO - CHRISTIAN VALUES. By a conspiracy +which is written of by Marilyn Ferguson in the Aquarian Conspiracy and +"she has found in the deepest roots of the educational system; she +quotes "There are lot of us in the woodwork." He, a veteran +bureaucrat, was referring to a loose coalition of conspirators in +agencies and congressional staffs.

+ +

There continues to be no hard evidence that there is a "New Age +Conspiracy" infiltrating the school system! The public schools are in +sorry shape, to be sure, but these assertions of a covert "crystal +weenie" KGB out to undermine Judeo-Christio-Islamic values are way out +of line indeed.

+ +

A Parents Guide to Child's Education

+ +

The 15 "warning signs" referred to in this piece range from the +innocuous to the absolutely ludicrous. First off, there are absolutely +NO curricula I know of that teach reincarnation and Eastern Religion. +In fact, Religion is usually glossed over, if discussed at all, in +Public Schools, keeping in mind the constant skirmishes over the 1st +Amendment. And if Religion is discussed, the thrust is usually towards +Judeo-Christio-Islamic monotheism if anything. In the South, the thrust +is even more blatantly towards Evangelical Christianity. +Even more ludicrous is the assertion that in some cases children have +to sign a "contract" not to discuss their studies with their parents. +Bullpuckey! The trend in education nowadays is towards MORE, not LESS +parental involvement. +.

+ +

The other assertions regarding teaching about the environment, +teachings about nuclear war and children's fears of it, and exploration +of children's attitudes have basis in fact. I do not think there is any +harm in children, especially older children, discussing hard issues in +class. In the era of AIDS and Crack, the hard issues of sexuality and +self-esteem NEED to be brought up. If not, there is a danger that a +whole generation will indeed be lost.

+ +

After a discussion of applicable laws regarding education, the tract +bounced to another, completely unrelated bugaboo....

+ +

On April 25, 1982, folks around the western world opened up their +newspapers and found themselves staring at a startling full-page ad. +The ad trumpeted in bold headlines that:

+ +

The World has had enough of HUNGER, INJUSTICE, WAR, IN ANSWER TO +OUR CALL FOR HELP, AS WORLD TEACHER FOR ALL HUMANITY THE CHRIST IS NOW +HERE! HUMANITY,.

+ +

The ad went on to say that this "Christ" has been emerging as a +spokesman quietly since 1977; that throughout history, mankind has +been guided by a group of enlightened men, the "Masters of Wisdom." +The ad claims that he is the "World Teacher," called Maitreya, known +by Christians as the Christ, by the Jews as the Messiah, by the +Buddhists as the fifth Buddha, by the Muslims as the Imam Mahdi, and +by the Hindus as Krishna. The ad claimed that he was hidden from the +world, but that within the next two months he would speak to humanity +in a worldwide TV broadcast in which his message would be heard by all +nations telepathically in their own language. +Extraordinary News! +If these claims were true, this would be extraordinary news: a +world-shattering event. However, close examination of this material +reveals things which do not tally with the Biblical version of the +second coming of Christ.

+ +

Ok...here comes the "Maitreya"/Antichrist barrage. The TV appearance of +"Maitreya" has been trumpeted by Benjamin Creme for years and years. +The big TV broadcast didn't happen in 1982, it didn't happen in 1987 +during the "Harmonic Convergence", and it didn't happen in May 1990, +the last time Creme asserted that Maitreya would speak on TV.

+ +

If this was the Biblical Antichrist, then I'm sure he'd have his act +together a lot more than he does. And he certainly wouldn't choose an +eccentric, albeit rich old coot as his "John The Baptist" figure.

+ +

The piece continues by another bounce, first into the "We Are The +World"/Hands Across America event (a failure) then back into Alice +Bailey and how she supposedly speaks for all "New Age" types.

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+ +

The sinister plan that is attributed to Bailey to corrupt education +runs as follows:

+ +

1) Children should be trained to accept a One-world global +government and culture without question.

+ +

This doesn't wash. If teaching kids about other cultures is training +them to accept a "One-world government" then the Geography and Social +Studies classes that kids experience at school are guilty as charged. +But one does not mean another. A does NOT equal B.

+ +

2) Full implementation of the anti-Christian educational +philosophies of John Dewey, but with a more eastern metaphysical +approach.

+ +

John Dewey, although very misguided with Positivist philosophy and +Behaviorist psychology, was NOT anti-Christian. In fact he saw religion +as a way of keeping social systems together.

+ +

3) Destruction of the ideals of patriotism and national pride, +helping kids become "world citizens."

+ +

I don't see that...quite the opposite, I see that flag-waving, "God +bless America" attitude being instilled in kids at an early age.

+ +

4) Hinduism and other pagan religions must be emphasized as +attempts are made to blend them into Western civilization. +5) Orthodox Christianity must be demeaned and declared obsolete to +the children, while lifting up the New Age "One World" religion. +6) The New Age pluralistic religion (All paths lead to God - all +religions are equally valid) will be taught as the only acceptable +belief system, excluding Jesus' unique claims. +8) Essential Christian doctrines like hell, judgement or even +heaven are to be mocked and denied. Rather, karma and reincarnation +should be taught

+ +

Again, like I have said, when Religion is spoken about in school, it is +usually in the context of the Three Great Monotheisms. In the South, +the ideology of Evangelical Christian Fundamentalism has always been +and continues to be liberally admixed in all parts of school life.

+ +

7) Adolescents will be encouraged to force these doctrines on their +parents and rebel if the parents do not cooperate. +9) Permissive methods of discipline will be fostered, and concepts +such as sin and guilt are felt to be unevolved and counter-productive.

+ +

Rather than schools becoming less and less structured in the '80s and +the '90s, the "hickory stick" approach has made a very big comeback. +Watch the movie "Lean On Me" (which is based on a true story) and tell +me that permissiveness is on the rise.

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10) Children are taught that death is not an enemy to be feared or +fought off, but rather is to be embraced as part of "the Plan." +11) They are also to be taught that people who do not accept the +New Age teachings (ie. Bible-believers) are an evolutionary "drag" on +humanity and must either capitulate or be killed like a bacterial +infection. +12) The model of the traditional family and its sexual mores must +be discarded, and loyalty to one's family must be replaced by loyalty +to the world. It is frightening to note how many of these concepts, +first promulgated a generation ago, have become standard features of +public education, supported by our tax dollars! More and more of +these ideas are being brought in every semester! Both of the authors +of this booklet were involved in education and curriculum formation +for schools while occultists; and used our positions to indoctrinate +our charges in New Age values. That was years ago! Today, the "brain +trust" behind modern education reads like a Who's Who of the New Age.

+ +

I have seen NONE of this shit taught in school either when I was there +or in the materials brought back by friends' children! In fact, with +the "Just Say NO" and "DARE" programs, the Christian moral ideals of +chastity before marriage, the traditional family, and the authority of +parents are being pushed at a fever pitch.

+ +

Dee Dickinson, the director of New Horizons for Learning, is a +member of President Bush's White House Task Force on Innovative +Learning. She has helped put together a graduate program in Education +at Antioch University (a teachers' college!) in cooperation with the +Washington Education Association. This course includes subjects like +astrology and tapping the human potential. A frequent lecturer at +Antioch is Miriam Starhawk, one of the leading spokeswomen for Wicca +("white" [sic] witchcraft). She is a witch [sic]!

+ +

I am SURE that for every Dee Dickinson on the White House Literacy Task +Force (The real name of Bush's "Task Force on Innovative Learning") +there are at least two Reaganbush Bible thumpers. And just because +Starhawk has lectured at Antioch doesn't mean that Antioch is a Pagan +institution. It might be liberal, but it certainly isn't Pagan.

+ +

III. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM.

+ +

The radical reconstruction of our school system (in the U.S.) +funded by our tax dollars, and the lobbying force of the N.E.A. +(National Education Association), and the W.E.A. (Washington Education +Association), will bring a new reformed Babylon to earth. (let me +build on this.) Their purpose is to educate our children to reject +differences in sex, intelligence, culture, values, ethnic systems, and +religious values. No absolutes. This translates into creating a new +government order, a new economical system, and a new religious order. +(The New Age) All this BEGINS in the RADICAL reconstruction of our +educational system. A. CONTROL THE SYSTEM.

+ +

What "Kurt" neglects to say is that Parental Control movements are the +biggest trend in education. In literally hundreds of school districts, +PTAs and parents' councils are getting veto power over textbooks and +curriculae. It seems to me that schools are less and less controlled by +the N.E.A. and School Boards and more and more controlled by parents.

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IV. THE FORMING OF THE NEW BABYLON (The winning of a generation)

+ +

The next section will help describe the curriculum change toward a +new religion and the New Babylon. The Heritage Institute has a +master's degree program in education which was designed in cooperation +with leaders of the Washington Education Association and New Horizons +for Learning(Dee Dickinson). This is through Antioch University +Seattle, founded in 1975. Some courses offered include:

+ +

The article lists a series of classes, obviously elective in nature, +that smack of being listed out of context.

+ +

To briefly recap the material presented so far, I would remind you +of the International, National and local movements bringing in the New +Age movement to our school system through the Tri-University project, +BSTEP, the National Education Association, the National Training +Laboratory, and now a masters degree program. All of these +organizations and projects involve the movement away from academics, +and the reforming our values through behavior curriculums. The plans +presented emphasize control over our educators and the students, along +with control over all curriculum to leader, economy, and religion. +The movement is very subtle, so as not to alarm the people with +massive changes, but rather through gradualism gain acceptance of +ideas while expanding them into the deeper roots of their New Babylon. +The taking away of Judeo-Christian values and replacing them with +values that support the New Age philosophy did not happen over night. +It began in 1962 when prayer was taken out of the schools, equalling +the removal of God, and you will remember the N.E.A. Teachers Training +Manual which included the use of influence procedures for using +brainwashing techniques was published in 1962. So this has been on +going for almost 30 years now.

+ +

"Kurt"'s agenda now shows itself up. "Kurt" really objects to the fact +that even though in most cases religion is discussed exclusively in a +Judeo-Christio-Islamic Monotheistic context, that Christian +indoctrination in the form of prayer in schools (where it does not +belong) is no longer allowed by Supreme Court decision.

+ +

g. At an Edmonds school district high school we see evidence of +the culture in our area. An example comes from the hallways in Nov. +88 in the form of flyers promoting:"Joey Swanson presents-Forced +Entry -- with COVEN plus DEATH SQUAD." ( At the Ballard V.F.W.)

+ +

This is obviously an advertisement flier for a Heavy Metal gig. Need I +say more?

+ +

I will conclude with a large chunk of the tract, so that you can decide +for yourself where "Kurt"'s true agenda lies: that unless public +schools become indoctrination grounds for Evangelical Christian +Fundamentalism, that the only other choice is for children to be taught +in Fundamentalist parochial schools. I wonder whether this whole tract +is an attempt to scare Christian parents into pulling their kids out of +school and putting them into Fundie parochial schools? +M.K-H.

+ +
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+ +

There are many teachers who still hold to the standards and values +of God who do not have Jesus as their savior. They don't have the +power to overcome this movement but those who have Jesus Christ as +their Lord can. These teachers must seek deliverance for their kids +from the Antichrist through prayer. Some teachers help to curb the +degeneration of the next generation of kids, but I'm afraid that the +educational process is converting more and more teachers to the New +Age movement through their cleverly devised strategies. These +teachers are a generation, and will be creating a generation, for the +coming Antichrist and his prophet as was foretold in the Holy Bible....

+ +

....Be prepared to receive ridicule if you plan to fight this movement. +Through eastern mysticism, and no ABSOLUTES or value system, our +society is being changed to accept the New Age answers. The +hysterical part of this is that the New Age philosophy created the +problems that they are now trying to solve. So now New Agers can be +heroes in developing answers to the problems they've created. +With the only true God who gave us the social structures, +government structures, family structures, and individual standards, +the problems cease to exist when these standards are followed. +Without the structures God gave and with a value system being +destroyed by New Age thinking, we see the increase in alcoholism, drug +abuse, sexual immorality, all of which leads to higher divorce rates, +which leads to the breakdown of the family and the love everyone +needs. When the family unit dissolves the destructive cycle increases +and propagates itself. +In order to bring this home to you, consider the teacher in the +Tacoma School Dist. who is now offering an accredited course for +teachers through U.PS. The course is 'Teaching for Social +Responsibility' and instructed by Lee Landrud. The course is promoted +like this:

+ +

feel connected

+ +

see different viewpoints

+ +

think critically

+ +

resolve conflicts so all win

+ +

responsibly make decisions

+ +

become agents of peaceful change

+ +

cooperate in team learning

+ +

learn meditation skills....

+ +

....Teachers who have Jesus in their lives seem to emphasize only the +positive values of God in the curriculums and de-emphasize New Age +philosophy. But the teachers who have no understanding of the +conflict of beliefs being fought in our society are easy targets for +deception. The educators who have already been indoctrinated and +filled with this movement's deceptions will do anything to promote and +fulfill the call upon them as agents of change for the New Age +movement....

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....The picture I have drawn seems to be so immense that it's +unstoppable. But I truly believe by turning to God and away from sin +that God will heal our land. My hope is that like the Kings of Israel +there were good and bad Kings. When the Kings led the people into +rebellion against God, His judgement came upon the nation of Israel. +But when the king led the people back to God, God restored the people, +land, prosperity, and security to the nation of Israel. And sometimes +God stayed the judgement due the Israelites while restoration and the +people were humbling themselves before God. We know that the one +world government, one world leader, one world economy, one world +religion will take place in the end times. But God may stay the +judgement against us if we continually seek Him and ask Him for our +people and our land. This may cause revival to take place which turns +our nation around, and stays the end time judgements against us....

+ +

....Action is needed by finding out what your children are being taught +in school and how it lines up with the word of God. Lets become +responsible for our children and their upbringing, not leaving it up +to someone else. Through this outline, I've given you information and +examples to make you aware of the plans for this generation. So above +all prayer, along with fasting to God, to make the way, clear the +path, open the minds and hearts of the educators and the children. We +hope for a change in our educational system and society, to reflect +Godly principles for the salvation of our people and land.

+ +

end of tract

+ +

The change that "Kurt" is hoping for is on its way, and it's not a very +pleasant one. Excellent teachers whose only "crime" is same-sex +orientation are still being removed from the profession. I am waiting +until someone who is Neo-pagan by religious belief is hounded from +their classroom by Fundie witch-hunters. Forced prayer in school using +"The Lord's Prayer" or another Christian prayer might come back to +schools once the balance of the Supreme Court tilts irreversably to the +Right with the ratification of Judge Souter or another Religious +Rightist candidate to the seat recently vacated. The theory of +Evolution, which is as founded in scientific fact as the Three Laws of +Thermodynamics and Newton's Law of Gravity, continues to be taught, +albeit under fire from Creationist pseudo-science. But who knows how +long before even that will no longer be a part of the curriculum. +With the "back to basics" mania, it is doubtful that the New Age +methods that might have found their way in a non-religious context into +the schools will remain there. +The fact of the matter is that the watered-down textbooks that result +from pressure from the Religious Right are doing damage to the learning +experience NOW. With further erosion of the Supreme Court, it is +obvious that the slide will continue into a true dark age of +illiteracy and faith rather than academic excellence and knowledge. +

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The file below is from the Lincoln Legacy BBS (703)777-5987. +It is run by John Covici and has many LaRouche related text +files. The file below is found there compressed as TRIAL_FC.ZIP. +This has been previously posted to alt.conspiracy - apologies to +anyone seeing it twice. +-Steve

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TEXT

+ +

The following is a fact sheet documenting the background to the +trial of Lyndon LaRouche at the Federal Court in Alexandria, +Virginia USA.

+ +

Prehistory

+ +

Oct. 6, 1986: Massive search and seizure operation by 400 FBI +agents and police of the Leesburg, Virginia offices of the +Executive Intelligence Review and the newspaper New Solidarity. +Indictments, based on findings of a Boston Grand Jury, are +issued to the LaRouche campaign organization and LaRouche-associated companies, and against 10 LaRouche collaborators. (On +Dec. 16, 1987 three more LaRouche associates are indicted, and +then LaRouche himself on July 2, 1987.) The accusations are +"conspiracy to obstruct justice" and "credit card fraud." +Truckloads of documents are seized, supposedly to provide +additional documentation of the accusations. A second search +warrent mentions "[illegal] sale of stocks and bonds". For this +latter accusation, a Grand Jury in Loudon County Virginia +indicts, on Feb. 18, 1987, another 16 LaRouche associated +individuals and 5 companies.

+ +

Nov. 24, 1986: First press stories appear, in the Washington +Post and Loudon Times Mirror, referencing an Alexandria, Virgina +Grand Jury investigation (again using material seized in raid) of +alleged tax evasion by LaRouche and associated companies. These +investigations, like the ones in Loudon County, make use of the +huge mass of documents seized in the FBI raid.

+ +

Apr. 20, 1987: Alexandria, Virginia bankrupcy judge Bostetter +orders three companies (one is a scientific organization) to be +placed under involuntary supervision and forced to suspend their +activities.

+ +

May 1988: After a 6-month Boston trial, judge Robert Keeton +declares a mistrial, following serious errors by the prosecution. +The prosecution refused to disclose crucial evidence to the +defense. After the mistrial, a Boston newspaper published an +interview with one of the jurors, who stated that the jury, in +an informal vote, was unanimously in favor of acquitting the +defendants, because the prosecution could not prove its case and +had destroyed its credibility through its legal misconduct.

+ +

Oct. 14, 1988: Federal attorney Henry Hudson of Alexandria, +Virginia, announces that he is indicting LaRouche and six +associates for "conspiracy to commit mail fraud" and "conspiracy +to defraud the Internal Revenue Service."

+ +

The accused William Wertz, Edward Spannaus, Michael Billington, +Dennis Small, Paul Greenberg and Joyce Rubinstein are each +indicted on between 3 and 11 counts. LaRouche on the other hand +is indicted on a total of 13 counts. Count 13 charges him with +having conspired "with persons known and unknown to the Grand +Jury" in order to prevent the IRS from assessing and collecting +his taxes.

+ +

The other 12 counts charge the defendants with having devised "a +scheme and artifice to defraud and obtain money by false and +fraudulant pretenses, representations and promises... The policy +of the NCLC (a LaRouche-associated organisation) was not to repay +loans in accordance with the promises made to lenders; ... +between January 1984 and September 1986 the organisation never +established a system for making, and never made, routine payments +of promised principal and interest on loans in general." The +prosecution cited 11 individual cases in which creditors were +mailed written agreements. (For technical legal reasons, the main +accusations -- fraud and violation of loan contracts -- were +subsumed under the designation "mail fraud")

+ +

The accusations stand or fall with the basic claim, that the +National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC), a philosophical +association founded nearly 20 years ago, is in fact a criminal +conspiracy whose essential purpose is to enrich Lyndon LaRouche. +The political goals of this organisation--fighting drugs and +hunger, for a new just world economic order, for a strong western +defense, against the decay of westerm culture and for a cultural +and scientific renaissance--were considered side aspects of the +"conspiracy". h

+ +

Pretrial eventst

+ +

By setting a very short period between the indictment and trial +opening, Alexandria Judge Bryan created the preconditions for a +summary trial, in which the defendants were deprived of the +possibility of comprehensive defense.

+ +

Oct. 14, 1988: LaRouche's lawyers submit a legal challenge +against the indictment, on grounds that the indictment would +damage LaRouche's ongoing electoral campaign, and that it was +largely identical to that of the Boston trial, and therefore +violated the fundamental legal principle excluding "double +jeopardy" -- no one can be tried for the same accusation twice. +Judge Stanley Sporkin dismisses the challenge following a brief +oral hearing without having read the written motions.

+ +

October 17, 1988: Arraignment before Chief Judge Albert V. +Bryan. All defendants plead not guilty and move to shift the +proceedings to Boston, on the grounds of similar content of the +two cases. Bryant fixes a Nov. 10 deadline for submission of all +defense pre-trial motions and Nov. 21 for the trial. When even +the state prosecutor Robinson objects, Judge Bryan remarks that +90 percent of the defense motions would just come of a computer +and only three or four would be worth considering.

+ +

Oct. 21, 1988: Judge Bryan dismisses the motion to move the +trial to Boston, despite the fact that the circumstance of +"double jeopardy" is underlined by the presence of the Boston +prosecutors John Markham and Mark Rasch, who assist the deputy +prosecutor of Alexandria in the trial.

+ +

Oct. 28, 1988: Hearing of defense motion that the prosecution +must indicate all documents to be used as evidence for the +accusations. At this point, Judge Bryant admits that "we are +pushing the defendants a bit hard in this case in terms of time".

+ +

Nov. 4, 1988: The defense protests the hurried tempo of the trial +and the trial date, only five weeks after the indictment. +Defense Attorney Kenley Webster points out that he had only two +weeks to work on the case, while the prosecution had been working +on it for four years. Furthermore, since October 1986 defendants +had been deprived access to the more than two million documents +seized and available to the prosecution. Judge Bryan supports +the argument of prosecutor Kent Robinson, that most of the +defense attorneys had become familiar with the case already in +Boston. Motions to shift the trial and to delay trial date are +denied. The Judge also denies defense motion to separate +proceedings on the tax evasion count from the other, completely +different, counts.

+ +

Nov. 7, 1988: The Alexandria prosecution, represented by Boston +state attorney Markham as signer (!), moves that defendants +and their attorneys should not be allowed to mention harrassment +and financial warfare by government institutions as a reason for +non-payment of loans. The prosecution demands that no mention be +made of illegal investigations by the FBI, of documented +infiltration of the LaRouche organization by informants, or of +the involuntary bankruptcy proceedings brought against LaRouche-associated companies by the government in April 1987. This demand +is particularly bizarre: the alleged conspiracy according to the +prosecution was supposed to have terminated on April 19, 1987, +one day before the involuntary bankruptcy proceeding.

+ +

The attorneys for Ed Spannaus and the other defendants submit an +Emergency Petition for Mandamus to the U.S. Court of Appeals in +Richmond, arguing that Judge Bryan be ordered to move the trial +to a later date.

+ +

In addition, the defense submits a Motion to release exculpatory +evidence. This includes information concerning agents and +informants infiltrated into LaRouche-associated organizations by +government agencies and government pressure applied to financial +supporters and banks carrying accounts of LaRouche organizations +and supporters.

+ +

Nov. 9, 1988: Defense submits a motion to suspend the trial on +grounds it is politically motivated and selectively directed +against LaRouche, while other politicians, for example Gary Hart, +would never consider repaying campaign debts of millions of +dollars.

+ +

Nov. 10, 1988: Judge Bryan dismisses the above and 26 of the 28 +motions, and supports the prosecution's demands to limit scope of +the defense. Bryant claims that harrassment by government +agencies was irrelevant to the case in point. He denies the +defense the right to individually question the prospective jurors +or to submit a list of questions for jury selection.

+ +

By these actions Judge Bryan preprogrammed a guilty verdict +against the defendants. Limiting the defense meant that the true +political nature of the case, which had begun to emerge during +the Boston trial, would be excluded. Instead, attention was to be +given to the obscure conspiracy theory of the prosecution.

+ +

November 14: Refering to their Petition to the Richmond court, +the attorneys for the defense submit sworn personal oaths to the +effect that an adequate defense would be impossible under the +conditions set by Judge Bryan, a situation which would violate +the constitutional right to a fair trial.

+ +

At the same time, the defense submits a new motion against the +ruling of Judge Bryan requiring the defense to reveal its +strategy prior to the opening of the trial.

+ +

November 17: The Richmond Court of Appeals rejects the defense's +petition for a setting a later trial date.

+ +

November 18: Final deliberation before opening of the trial. +Judge Bryan rejects the defense motion asking that the +prosecution be ordered to submit a list of prosecutions +witnesses. The prosecution is only required to name a witness 24 +hours before the witness is to appear in court. Judge Bryan also +dismisses the motion of November 14.

+ +

Jury "Selection"

+ +

On Nov. 21, after denial of further motions to suspend or delay +the trial, jury selection begins. This process, which took three +weeks in Boston, was now completed in less than three hours. Out +of the pool of 175 prospective jurors 46 were employees of the +U.S. government, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), the +FBI, the CIA, the IRS, the Secret Service, and government +departments. Even employees of law enforcement agencies, were only +excluded when they themselves admitted to being "biased." One of +them, a Secret Service Agent, was disqualified after he flashed +his badge and revealed that he himself had been involved in +investigations against LaRouche! After 145 candidates had been +excluded for cause the remaining 30 still included an employee of +the DOJ, an FBI employee, the wife of a former FBI consultant, a +government official working with the IRS, a Defense Intelligence +Agency employee with contacts to the CIA, a secretary of the Drug +Enforcement Agency, an employee of the Department of Labor, a +worker for the television company NBC which is known for its +hatred of LaRouche. Since the defense had only 9 veto rights, +there was no way to exclude all biased witnesses.

+ +

The Trial Arguments

+ +

"Loan Fraud"

+ +

On the first day of the trial, government witnesses testified +as summarized below. Objectively speaking, none of the charges -- +fraud, violation of loan conditions, tax evasion and conspiracy +to commit the same -- were substantiated by the prosecutions. On +the contrary, most of the creditors who testified made statements +in direct contradiction to the allegations, as for example:

+ +

1) Efforts were made to repay loans and considerable amounts were +actually paid.

+ +

2) LaRouche collaborators acted in good faith when soliciting +loans, having reason to believe that the conditions arranged +would actually be met.

+ +

3) Creditors understood that the loans were a form of political +support and were accurately informed concerning the political +purpose to which the funds loaned were to be used.

+ +

4) Persons giving loans were informed concerning the risk +involved.

+ +

5) Press attacks such as the ones which followed LaRouche +candidates' victories in Illinois, negatively affected creditors +and new contributions.

+ +

6) Creditors were encouraged and pressured by government +agents to press charges against LaRouche.

+ +

7) Loans would most likely have been paid if massive government +interference had not made this impossible.

+ +

Defense showed that the firms involved enjoyed massive expansion +in income over 1984-85, thereby justifying major loans. Certified +Public Accountant Thomas Seavy showed with charts, how the wave +of violent press slanders and attacks by Democratic Party +figures, following the March 1986 victory of two LaRouche +candidates in the Illinois primaries, had interrupted the +increase in sales. Even more dramatic was the effect of the +October 1986 FBI raid on the offices of LaRouche-associated +organizations. In all, the campaign of financial warfare against +these organizations following March 1986 caused an estimated +income loss of $45 mio. Seay's charts showed that during the +preceeding growth period, the ratio of loans continually +decreased as a percentage of income.

+ +

Thus, according to Seays, the accused had been justified in +assuming that continuing sales would cover loan repayment costs. +The decisive criterion for fraud -- bad faith or the intent to +defraud -- could not be claimed in this case.

+ +

There was a plan to repay debts

+ +

Two active LaRouche collaborators Frank Bell and Richard Welsh +testified on November 23 and 29, to the heroic efforts made to +repay loans. These efforts covered the 4-year period cited by the +prosecution and continued up to the present.

+ +

Bell presented his repayment plan, which involved for example +$15000 in weekly repayments throughout 1985. Welsh described his +plan to contact 3000 creditors in order to verify the amount of +the loans and discuss a repayment schedule or forgiveness of the +loans. These plans, whose existence completely contradict the +claim by the prosecution that the LaRouche-associated +organizations pursued a general policy of non-repayment, were +seriously hampered by the seizure of the necessary documents in +October 1986. Nevertheless, debts were reduced by payment of a +total of $4.5 mio in principal and interest prior to the +involuntary bankrupcy proceedings of April, 1987, which ended all +possibility of further repayment.

+ +

The defense cited as evidence more than six memoranda written by +LaRouche making proposals for means of repaying the debt. Welsh +described his efforts over nearly seven years to realize these +proposals.

+ +

Even government witness Wayne Hintz, who had formerly worked in +the bookkeeping department of LaRouche-associated organizations, +confirmed this existence of a repayment program. Hintz himself +had written memos on repayment plans which the NCLC leadership +and LaRouche endorsed. According to Hintz, LaRouche personally +had always pushed for cutting back and even eliminating the +soliciting of loans, and for increasing sales instead. Hintz +stated in court on December 6: "There was no policy I was aware +of not to repay loans." [check English quote]

+ +

These statements confirmed not only that no criminal intention +existed to defraud creditors, but moreover that all humanly +possible efforts had been undertaken to save the creditors from +financial losses. This contradicted the second major criterion +for the charge of fraud.

+ +

In addition, it emerged that the government's figures regarding +outstanding debt were wrong. Government witness, IRS employee +Harry Chusid presented a 900-page report which he claimed showed +that from 1984 to 1986 more than $33 mio. had been taken out in +loans, while only $3.7 mio. were repayed. This "analysis" fell +apart during cross-examination, however, when a random check +demonstrated, as Chusid was then forced to admit, that loans had +been calculated in full each time reference to partial payment +was made. On only 10 randomly-chosen pages of the report, it was +shown that the government had calculated $301000 in non-existent +loan sums due to this multiple counting proceedure.

+ +

Most creditors testifying as government witnesses confirmed what +LaRouche stated in a press conference following the verdict: 95% +of those who gave financial support during the period in +question continue to support LaRouche's policies and programs; most +of them know that it is the government which is guilty for the +financial difficulties of organizations associated with LaRouche. +Of the remaining 5%, only a tiny number could be brought to work +actively with FBI, Secret Service or IRS agents and issue false +statements.

+ +

Creditor Dorothy Powers, for example, testified on November 30 +that defendant Michael Billington had explained to her very +clearly that her loan constituted a kind of "war bond" and +carried a corresponding element of risk. Creditor Martha Van +Sickie testified to similar effect, and during examination of +witness Max Harrell the defense presented a transcript of a +telephone conversation in which Harrell was literally told +concerning his loan, "of course it's a risk". This was again +confirmed on December 7 by witness Alan Rither, a Washington +lawyer who also loaned money to the organizations of the +defendants.

+ +

Mrs. Audrey Carter testified that her 1985 loan to Caucus +Distributors, Inc. (CDI) was due for repayment in November 1986, +the month after the dramatic FBI raid. In April 1987 CDI was shut +down on orders of the government. Alan Rither, who had also made +a loan to CDI, testified that even after the involuntary +bankrupcy he had recieved assurances that the remainder of +repayments due would be paid back to him.

+ +

John Perricone, an active supporter of the NDPC (the National +Democratic Policy Committee, which promoted the electoral +campaigns of LaRouche-associated candidates) testified that he +had known defendant Joyce Rubenstein since 1979 and regarded her +as an honest, committed woman. In cross examination Perricone +confirmed that he had loaned a total of more than $30000, but +had not insisted on repayment. Testimony by Perricone concerning +FBI harassment against him was suppressed at the demand of +prosecutor John Markham. However, statements by creditor +Elizabeth Sexton, who had allegedly been cheated by the +defendants, revealed all the more clearly the methods by which +government agencies pressured contributors and creditors and even +incited them to lay traps for the defendants.

+ +

All of this demonstrated, as attorney Ed Williams for Joyce +Rubenstein and attorney James Clark for Michael Billington +emphasized in their final summaries, that the testimony of even +the most hostile witnesses had only proved that loans were taken +which had not been paid back. The defendants' motives were to +defend political ideas, and not to pursue criminal aims.

+ +

Vindictive Witnesses

+ +

A crucial element of the prosecution's case, and especially for +the prosecution's characterization of LaRouche as the +authoritarian dictator of the alleged conspiracy, was the +testimony of former members of the NCLC: Charles Tate, Chris +Curtis, Vera Cronk, Steve Bardwell and Pam Goldman. Their +malicious, lying testimony demonstrated that a conspiracy did +indeed exist -- namely on the part of those who had orchestrated +the indictments and legal harassment of the defendants! It was +quite clear that these witnesses were motivated by personal +animosity toward LaRouche, and had possibly been pressured to +testify by promiss of avoiding prosecution themselves. It became +clear that the witnesses had been coached by representatives of +the prosecution in repeated intensive sessions in order to fit +their testimony to the prosecution's case.

+ +

An unbiased court could only dismiss these witnesses' testimony +as worthless. The final blow to their credibility was delivered +when witnesses Steve Bardwell and Charles Tate were forced to +confirm descriptions of a Halloween Party held on October 31, +1986, in which former NCLC members celebrated the huge FBI raid, +earlier that month, on the offices of LaRouche-associated +organizations. Bardwell had himself written a five-page +invitation to that party, announcing the performance of a play +entitled "Pin the Rap on LaRouche." The guests at the party came +in costume; Charles Tate, who had dressed himself up as a credit +card, acted out an imaginary testimony against LaRouche. Kostas +Kalimtgis, a former leading associate of LaRouche presently +suspected of having been a long-time KGB plant, gave a major +speach at the Halloween party calling upon those present to do +everything possible "to put LaRouche behind bars."

+ +

While most statements by the ex-members were discredited by their +obvious vindictive intent, Charles Tate and Chris Curtis +entangled themselves in serious contradictions. Curtis had +earlier testified, in the Boston case, that LaRouche associates +had acted in good faith and he had no knowledge of an intention +not to repay debts. Now, in Alexandria, he claimed that non-repayment had been the general policy. Especially under cross +examination, Curtis revealed himself to be an obedient +instrument of the prosecution. His coaching for testimony had +clearly been much more than the originally acknowledged 15 hours +of consultation with U.S. government officials. Curtis admitted +that since leaving the NCLC he had applied for employment to 12 +different government agencies, including the CIA. It emerged that +in the course of his attempts to secure employment, Curtis had +successively changed his line on LaRouche and his associates, in +the direction of increasingly damaging statements. Tate revealed +himself as a notorious liar, admitting that he had lied to +LaRouche in a number of written reports. He had spent the +equivalent of two weeks preparing his testimony under the +supervision of various government agents, including +representatives of the prosecution.

+ +

Claim of "Conspiracy" Key to Prosecution's Case

+ +

The case of defendant Edward Spannaus demonstrated most clearly +how the claim of "conspiracy" was the prosecution's only way to +implicate him in criminal actions. Spannaus was charged with +Count 1 (conspiracy to defraud) as well as Counts 3-11, where he +was accused of participation in 9 individual cases of +sollicitation of loans. However, in none of those 9 specific +cases was any criminal action on his part demonstrated. There was +only a remark in one of Spannaus' notebooks concerning an +unverified statement by LaRouche on loan policy. Spannaus' only +involvement in the cited loan cases was in discussing with a +lawyer changes in loan contracts.

+ +

On December 2 Richard Vepez, a former NCLC member confirmed in +testimony that Spannaus had in one case objected to a change in a +loan contract which might have caused misunderstandings +concerning the political nature of activities for which the money +was to be used.

+ +

Spannaus' defense attorney Kenley Webster cited the flimsy nature +of the charges against Spannaus as exemplary of the shakey +foundation of the prosecution's entire case.

+ +

The Case of Dennis Small

+ +

Defendant Dennis Small was indicted on only one count, for +allegedly having sollicited a large loan from Mrs. Goodwill for +the declared purpose of supporting a campaign against drugs. It +emerged, however, that Chris Curtis was the one who made the loan +agreement with Mrs. Goodwill -- according to Curtis' own +testimony! Dennis Small had never had anything to do with this +loan. Curtis left the distinct impression that his false +testimony in court had been elicited under threat of indictment.

+ +

"Tax Fraud"

+ +

Count 13 embodies the political nature of the trial better than +any other. Government witnesses ended up establishing that

+ +

1) LaRouche has had no taxable income since 1979.

+ +

2) LaRouche had been completely open about his financial +situation, and tax officials had never attempted to collect taxes +from him.

+ +

3) Tax experts, lawyers and accountants consulted by LaRouche had +advised him that he had no taxable income and was not obliged to +file a tax return; indeed, he had been advised not to file.

+ +

4) LaRouche had thus acted in good faith that his actions were +in accordance with U.S. tax law.

+ +

5) the government's contention that LaRouche had a "lavish +lifestyle" was a fabricated falsehood.

+ +

Experienced lawyer Mayer Morgenroth confirmed in testimony that +LaRouche had decided not to file a tax return on the basis of +sound professional advice, and that material goods provided him +(housing, clothing, security) did not constitute taxable income. +Morgenroth reported that he had participated in 1979 and 1984 in +consultations concerning the tax status of LaRouche and his +associates. These consultations established that LaRouche wrote +as a politician and publicist for various publishing concerns +sympathetic with his views. These companies had a legitimate +interest in providing meals, housing, a minimum of clothing and +necessary security arrangements for LaRouche. A tax consultant +from Michigan, Gerry Doherty, had explained to Morgenroth that +these provisions to Mr. LaRouche could not be counted as income. +Furthermore Harold Dubrowsky of the tax consulting firm Grant +Thorton, had advised that LaRouche was not required to file a tax +return.

+ +

Thomas Seay, a certified public accountant (CPA) testified that +according to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations, LaRouche +could be classified as an employee of various publishing houses, +however this determination was somewhat ambiguous. The same +regulations prescribe that meals, housing and even medical and +clothing expenses, insofar as they are provided as gifts, do not +constitute taxable income. Seay had advised LaRouche that he need +not file a tax return.

+ +

New York accountant Murray Altman testified that during the four +years he had completed tax returns for LaRouche-associated +publishing companies and firms, LaRouche himself had been free of +tax obligations.

+ +

Finally, IRS tax official Elizabeth Jeu, who had been involved +for the last 12-14 in a tax investigation of LaRouche, testified +to the effect that since 1979, the IRS had never seriously tried +to collect taxes from LaRouche.

+ +

LaRouche's lawyer Odin Anderson stressed in his closing +statement, that the IRS could have demanded at any time since +1979 that LaRouche file a tax return. This had not happened, but +instead a bizarre tax evasion conspiracy theory had been +constructed.

+ +

The prosecution alleged that loans and contributions were used to +maintain LaRouche's alleged "lavish life-style," and that security +measures constituted a prestige symbol rather than necessary +defense against real threats. Contradicting these claims, Richard +McGraw, a LaRouche associate responsible for LaRouche's personal +security, testified as to the actually quite austere living +situation of Mr. and Mrs. LaRouche, and described how urgently +necessary security arrangements had deprived LaRouche of privacy +and freedom of movement, and made him a virtual prisoner in his +working room.

+ +

General Luis Giuffreda, who headed under President Reagan the +Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) between 1981 and 1985, +testified to the considerable danger LaRouche's life, referenced +numerous reports of threats to LaRouche, from terrorist groupings +including the Baader-Meinhof band, Weather-Underground, Yippies +and Jewish Defense League, as well as threats from the Communist +Party U.S.A. and the Soviet Union directly. In view of these +threats, LaRouche's security arrangements were much too little. +LaRouche's security was not in the "Cadillac category" but rather +in the "VW bug" category, and that LaRouche's living quarters +reminded Gen. Giuffreda of his son's student housing.

+ +

Following this testimony the prosecution modified its approach, +asserting explicitly that neither the threat to LaRouche nor the +legitimacy of his security costs had been denied by the +prosecution or the American government.

+ +

Throughout the testimony no significant substantiation at all was +presented for Count 13, "Conspiracy to defraud the United States +by impeding, impairing, obstructing and defeating the lawful +function of the U.S. Treasury Department and IRS in the +ascertainment, computation, assessment and collection of the +revenue, to witt: the individual income taxes of Lyndon LaRouche +jr. Indicative was the manner in which Prosecutor Robinson cited +Kavaler, the attorney for the television company NBC, as supposed +evidence in his closing summary. In 1984 LaRouche had sued NBC +for a vicious slander program, broadcast nationwide by NBC and +coinciding with the initiation of the investigation of LaRouche +by the Boston Grand Jury. Robinson quoted from the transcript of +the NBC trial, in which Kaveler questions LaRouche on his income.

+ +

The judge's detailed instructions to the jury concerning Count +13, including his emphasis that demonstration of "good faith" on +the part of the defendants would be conclusive proof of +innocence, should have led unambiguously to a verdict of +"innocent" on this count. The verdict of guilty is clear proof +that the jury's decision was a total miscarriage of justice.

+ +

The True Lyndon LaRouche

+ +

On Dec. 8, a number of prominent personalities from several +countries took the stand to testify to LaRouche's personal +integrity, his standing as an influential political figure whose +initiatives and policies are respected throughout the world, and +to the reasons why LaRouche had become a target of harassment, +slander and assassination threats. This testimony succeeded in at +least partially casting light upon the political motives behind +the trial.

+ +

Juan Rebaza, President of the Peruvian national fishing company +Pesca Peru, testified on the political activities of Dennis Small +in Iberoamerica, including Small's meetings with Peru's President +Alan Garcia, with the labor movement in Mexico and with the +LaRouche-associated Schiller Institute's initiative for formation +of a Latin American common market.

+ +

Retired Brigadier General Paul-Albert Scherer, former head of +West German military counterintelligence, testified to LaRouche's +contributions to the Western Alliance and to the campaign of +attacks against LaRouche by the Soviet Union. LaRouche became a +major threat to the Soviets especially for his role in the +development of the SDI policy. Gen. Scherer testified that +LaRouche was man of integrity and modest way of living, who is +working for his ideals without interest in personal gain.

+ +

Internationally-known AIDS expert Dr. John Seale, member of the +Royal Society of Medicine in London, documented the crucial +importance of the fight against AIDS and testified on how his +cooperation with LaRouche in that fight had led to slanders and +harassment against him directed by agencies of the U.S. +government.

+ +

The 78 year-old Amelia Robinson, a long-time +close associate of Dr, Martin Luther King, active since the 1930s +in the American civil rights movement, emphasized in her +testimony the role of the Schiller Institute and the LaRouche-associated Club of Life in the worldwide battle against hunger +and the drug plague. She portrayed LaRouche as an absolutely +honest man, who had "devoted his life to the wellbeing of his +nation and the world."

+ +

General Lucio Anez, former Chief of Staff of the Bolivian Armed +Forces, head of the Bolivian Military Academy and Bolivian +representative to the Inter American Defense Board, testified on +his meetings with Dennis Small and Lyndon LaRouche. He had +discussed with LaRouche the latter's 15-point program for a war +against drugs. He had also invited Dennis Small, whom he +described as a "an honest, truth-loving man", to give "lectures +on economics and the drug problem before the highest-level +military institution in my country."

+ +

In addition to this testimony, many written attestations were +submitted by personalities familiar with LaRouche from France, +Spain, Italy, England, Germany and other countries. These all +attested to LaRouche's personal integrity and to the respect +LaRouche enjoys among former leaders of the Resistance in Europe, +scientists, politicians and religious figures.

+ +

Government Dirty Tricks

+ +

Despite the efforts of the prosecution to exclude from the court +proceedings all evidence of government involvement in efforts to +harass, entrap and frame up LaRouche and his associates, +testimony did provide a tiny glimpse of the powerful political +motives behind bringing LaRouche to trial.

+ +

Richard Morris, a California lawyer who worked for several years +as Chief Assistant to "Judge" William Clark in the U.S. State +Department and National Security Council, testified on his +numerous meetings with LaRouche and LaRouche associates in the +period 1982-83. In these meetings, according to Morris, LaRouche +had often provided useful information relevant to various aspects +of national security. Many attempts had been made from various +sides to stop these contacts. Morris testified that he was +approached in the middle of 1982 by three persons, from the CIA, +the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security +Council, who told him that LaRouche was "pro-communist, pro-socialist, a fascist, KGB, and even a Democrat"!

+ +

Dr. John Seale was prevented by the court from testifying on the +fact, that following Seale's endorsement of Proposition 64 -- an +anti-AIDS measure originally proposed by LaRouche associates and +placed on the California referendum ballot in November 1986 --, +Seale was slandered by official U.S. State Department spokesman +Charles Redman, and accused of spreading "Soviet disinformation".

+ +

Herbert Quinde, a member of the LaRouche security staff, +testified on a telephone conversation he had conducted with +Edward Bennett Williams, member of the President's Foreign +Intelligence Advisory Board PFIAB during the first Reagan +Administration. During that conversation, Williams reported that +Henry Kissinger had personally requested that he, Williams, take +part in Justice Department operations against LaRouche. At that +time he had refused, on the grounds that the Justice Department +"should not intervene into politics." In addition, Williams spoke +of a faction of the National Security Council which was opposed +to LaRouche's policies and wanted to eliminate him.

+ +

Impressive further proof of government dirty tricks was provided +even during the court proceedings, when the U.S. Embassy in Peru +refused to grant an entry visa to the well-known Peruvian lawyer +Maritza Hidalga Garcia, who had been called as a witness for the +defense. Although Judge Bryan had told the prosecution to +insure the granting of the visa, the American Embassy in Peru +continued to refuse the visa, upon the proposterous grounds that +Mrs. Hidalga lacked an assured income!

+ +

The Jury Disregards Judge Bryan's Instructions

+ +

Following testimony by prosecution and defense witnesses, Judge +Bryan spent one hour instructing the jury on the criteria the 12 +jurors should follow in deciding on a verdict of innocent or +guilty for each of the defendants upon each of the counts with +which they were charged -- a total of 48 decisions requiring +unanimous agreement by the jurors. The jury took only 11 hours to +reach its decision: a verdict of guilty against all defendants on +all counts. If the jury had followed the instructions of the +judge, the verdict would have been the opposite.

+ +

The following are key points of Judge Bryan's instructions to the +jury:

+ +

* The overall definition of a "conspiracy," is defined +as two or more persons combined wilfully and knowingly for a +criminal purpose, with the addition of only one overt act--which +needn't have been an illegal act in itself, but done in +furtherance of the conspiracy. A conspiracy does not have to be +written down, or even expressed explicitly orally, but is defined +as a "shared agreement." Once an individual is found to be a +participant in the conspiracy, he can be found responsible for +the acts of all other persons in the conspiracy.

+ +

* The judge cautioned the jury that "membership in a +political organization like the NCLC or in a political committee +like the NEC is not criminal; nor is it evidence of criminal +activity or participation in a criminal conspiracy. Active +membership in a political organization which espouses honest, +albeit controversial, views is not only lawful under our +constitutional system, but is in fact protected activity."

+ +

* The defendants have a legal right to free political +expression under our system, but if those expressions, otherwise +legal, are judged to be made "in furtherance of the conspiracy," +then it can be an overt act.

+ +

* The tax law instruction outlined the same exemption code +which the expert witness had cited, adding that "employee" status +is an objective aspect of the tax code, not based on subjective +belief. It stressed that negligence or trying to reduce taxes is +not evidence of criminality. It emphasized that the intent of the +defendant is critical, and that "good faith is a complete defense +against Count 13 (the tax count)."

+ +

In summarizing what the government charged in the tax +count, the Judge said this amounted to counting as income +LaRouche's housing, food and wine, clothing, entertainment and +services, but not costs of physical security, security +facilities, or improvement of security facilities.

+ +

* The judge noted that if the defendant sought the advice of +an attorney or an accountant, and made full disclosure to his +ability, and acted on that expert's advice, then he is not +wilfully acting to defraud or deceive the IRS.

+ +

* Judge Bryan said that the key point of proof of +the 11 individual mail fraud counts is deception by the +defendants, which can be defined as half-truths, omissions, or +otherwise concealing material effects in relationship to the +solicitation. It also noted that "willfull blindless" is no +defense.

+ +

* He again stressed the intent of the defendants as being +the critical feature, and that good faith on the part of the +defendant is a complete defense:

+ +

"You are further instructed that good faith and an honest +purpose on the part of any defendant is an absolute defense as to +the charges set forth in Counts 1 through 12. It matters not how +visionary you may find the defendants' political goals to be, or +how unreasonable the prospects of success of any of the +defendants' political undertakings--e.g. the war on drugs--may +seem to you, if the defendants honestly and genuinely believed +that their political movement would gather increasing popular +support and that they would have the resources to repay their +loans...."

+ +

* He noted that being late on loan payments is not evidence +of an intent to defraud.

+ +

* Finally, he stressed that the burden of proof was +completely on the government, that the defendants not taking the +witness stand could not be used as prejudice against them, and that +while the jury should aim to come to its unanimous verdict, +jurors should not surrender their opinions for mere interest in +getting a verdict.

+ +

Following the verdict it became evident that the foreman of the +jury, one Buster Horton, had played the decisive role in +manipulating the jury into its unanimous decision of "guilty on +all counts". Horton, it turns out, is a career civil service +employee working as a middle-level official of the U.S. Dept. of +Agriculture, one of the hotbeds of LaRouche's political enemies +within the government. The very weekend before the judgement in +Alexandria, the Department of Agriculture had used front +organizations to circulate slanderous leaflets attacking LaRouche +at a conference on agriculture policy, organized by the Schiller +Institute in Chicago.

+ +

As the clerk read the verdict, no juror, except Horton, looked +the defendents in the eye. At least one juror was seen crying as +she left the courtroom, a sign of the evil process which had +taken place behind closed doors. + +--30-- +-30- +

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Government Seizures Victimize Innocent + +By Andrew Schneider and Mary Pat Flaherty

+ +

Part One: The Overview

+ +

February 27, 1991. // Willie Jones, a second-generation nursery man in +his family's Nashville business, bundles up money from last year's +profits and heads off to buy flowers and shrubs in Houston. He makes +this trip twice a year using cash, which the small growers prefer. // +But this time, as he waits at the American Airlines gate in Nashville +Metro Airport, he's flanked by two police officers who escort him into a +small office, search him and seize the $9600 he's carrying. A ticket +agent had alerted the officers that a large black man had paid for his +ticket in bills, unusual these days. Because of the cash, and the fact +that he fit a "profile'' of what drug dealers supposedly look like, +they believed he was buying or selling drugs. // He's free to go, he's +told. But they keep his money -- his livelihood -- and give him a +receipt in its place. // No evidence of wrongdoing was ever produced. No +charges were ever filed. As far as anyone knows, Willie Jones neither +uses drugs, nor buys or sells them. He is a gardening contractor who +bought an airplane ticket. Who lost his hard-earned money to the cops. +And can't get it back. + +That same day, an ocean away in Hawaii, federal drug agents arrive at +the Maui home of retirees Joseph and Frances Lopes and claim it for the +U.S. government. // For 49 years, Lopes worked on a sugar plantation, +living in its camp housing before buying a modest home for himself, his +wife, and their adult, mentally disturbed son, Thomas. // For a while, +Thomas grew marijuana in the back yard -- and threatened to kill himself +every time his parents tried to cut it down. In 1987, the police caught +Thomas, then 28. He pleaded guilty, got probation for his first offense +and was ordered to see a psychologist once a week. He has, and never +again has grown dope or been arrested. The family thought this episode +was behind them. // But earlier this year, a detective scouring old +arrest records for forfeiture opportunities realized the Lopes house +could be taken away because they had admitted they knew about the +marijuana. // The police department stands to make a bundle. If the +house is sold, the police get the proceeds. + +Jones and the Lopes family are among the thousands of Americans each +year victimized by the federal seizure law -- a law meant to curb drugs +by causing financial hardship to dealers. // A 10-month study by The +Pittsburgh Press shows the law has run amok. In their zeal to curb drugs +and sometimes fill their coffers with the proceeds of what they take, +local cops, federal agents and the courts have curbed innocent +Americans' civil rights. From Maine to Hawaii, people who are never +charged with a crime had cars, boats, money and homes taken away. // In +fact, 80 percent of the people who lost property to the federal +government were never charged. And most of the seized items weren't the +luxurious playthings of drug barons, but modest homes and simple cars +and hard-earned savings of ordinary people. // But those goods generated +$2 billion for the police departments that took them. // The owners' +only crimes in many of these cases: They "looked'' like drug dealers. +They were black, Hispanic or flashily dressed. // Others, like the +Lopeses, have been connected to a crime by circumstances beyond their +control. // Says Eric Sterling, who helped write the law a decade ago as +a lawyer on a congressional committee: "The innocent-until-proven-

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The Law: Guilt Doesn't Matter + +Rooted in English common law, forfeiture has surfaced just twice in the +United States since colonial times. // In 1862, Congress permitted the +president to seize estates of Confederate soldiers. Then, in 1970, it +resurrected forfeiture for the civil war on drugs with the passage of +racketeering laws that targeted the assets of criminals. // In 1984 +however, the nature of the law was radically changed to allow government +to take possession without first charging, let alone convicting the +owner. That was done in an effort to make it easier to strike at the +heart of the major drug dealers. Cops knew that drug dealers consider +prison time an inevitable cost of doing business. It rarely deters them. +Profits and playthings, though, are their passions. Losing them hurts. +us in the law. the proceeds would flow back to law +enforcement to finance more investigations. It was to be the ultimate +poetic justice, with criminals financing their own undoing. + +But eliminating the necessity of charging or proving a crime has moved +most of the action to civil court, where the government accuses the item +-- not the owner -- of being tainted by a crime. // This oddity has +court dockets looking like purchase orders: United States of America vs. +9.6 acres of land and lake; U.S. vs. 667 bottles of wine. But it's more +than just a labeling change. Because money and property are at stake +instead of life and liberty, the constitutional safeguards in criminal +proceedings do not apply. // The result is that "jury trials can be +refused; illegal searches condoned; rules of evidence ignored,'' says +Louisville, Ky. defense lawyer Donald Heavrin. The "frenzied quest for +cash,'' he says, is "destroying the judicial system.'' + +Every crime package passed since 1984 has expanded the uses of +forfeiture, and now there are more than 100 statutes in place at the +state and federal level. Not just for drug cases anymore, forfeiture +covers the likes of money laundering, fraud, gambling, importing tainted +meats and carrying intoxicants onto Indian land. + +The White House, Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration +say they've made the most of the expanded law in getting the big-time +criminals, and they boast of seizing mansions, planes and millions in +cash. But the Pittsburgh Press in just 10 months was able to document +510 current cases that involved innocent people -- or those possessing a +very small amount of drugs -- who lost their possessions. // And DEA's +own database contradicts the official line. It showed that big-ticket +items -- valued at more than $50000 -- were only 17 percent of the +total 25297 items seized by DEA during the 18 months that ended last +December. + +"If you want to use that 'war on drugs' analogy, the forfeiture is like +giving the troops permission to loot,'' says Thomas Lorenzi, +president-elect of the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense +Lawyers. // The near-obsession with forfeiture continues without any +proof that it curbs drug crime -- its original target. // "The reality +is, it's very difficult to tell what the impact of drug seizure is,'' +says Stanley Morris, deputy director of the federal drug czar's office.

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Police Forces Keep the Take + +The "loot" that's coming back to police forces all over the nation has +redefined law-enforcement success. It now has a dollar sign in front of +it. + +For nearly eighteen months, undercover Arizona State Troopers worked as +drug couriers driving nearly 13 tons of marijuana from the Mexican +border to stash houses around Tucson. They hoped to catch the Mexican +suppliers and distributors on the American side before the dope got on +the streets. // But they overestimated their ability to control the +distribution. Almost every ounce was sold the minute they dropped it at +the houses. // Even though the troopers were responsible for tons of +drugs getting loose in Tucson, the man who supervised the setup still +believes it was worthwhile. It was "a success from a cost-benefit +standpoint,'' says former assistant attorney-general John Davis. His +reasoning: It netted 20 arrests and at least $3 million for the state +forfeiture fund. + +"That kind of thinking is what frightens me,'' says Steve Sherick, a +Tucson attorney. "The government's thirst for dollars is overcoming any +long-range view of what it is supposed to be doing, which is fighting +crime.'' // George Terwilliger III, associate deputy attorney general in +charge of the U.S. Justice Department's program emphasizes that +forfeiture does fight crime, and "we're not at all apologetic about the +fact that we do benefit (financially) from it.'' // In fact, Terwilliger +wrote about how the forfeiture program financially benefits police +departments in the 1991 Police Buyer's Guide of Police Chief Magazine. + +Between 1986 and 1990, the U.S. Justice Department generated $1.5 +billion from forfeiture and estimates that it will take in $500 million +this year, five times the amount it collected in 1986. // District +attorney's offices throughout Pennsylvania handled $4.5 million in +forfeitures last year; Allegheny County (ED: Pgh is in Allegheny County) +$218000, and the city of Pittsburgh, $191000 -- up from $9000 four +years ago. // Forfeiture pads the smallest towns coffers. In Lexana, +Kan, a Kansas City suburb of 29000, "we've got about $250000 moving +in court right now,'' says narcotic detective Don Crohn. // Despite the +huge amounts flowing to police departments, there are few public +accounting procedures. Police who get a cut of the federal forfeiture +funds must sign a form saying merely they will use it for "law +enforcement purposes.'' // To Philadelphia police that meant new air +conditioning. In Warren County, N.J., it meant use of a forfeited yellow +Corvette for the chief assistant prosecutor. // + +{At this point in the article there is a picture of three people in +an empty apartment, with the following caption: + +Judy Mulford, 31, and her 13-year old twins, Chris, left, and +Jason, are down to essentials in their Lake Park, Fla., home, +which the government took in 1989 after claiming her husband, +Joseph, stored cocaine there. Neither parent has been +criminally charged, but in April a forfeiture jury said Mrs. +Mulford must forfeit the house she bought herself with an +insurance settlement. The Mulfords have divorced, and she has +sold most of her belongings to cover legal bills. She's asked +for a new trial and lives in the near-empty house pending a +decision. }

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"Looking" Like a Criminal + +Ethel Hylton of New York City has yet to regain her financial +independence after losing $39110 in a search nearly three years ago in +Hobby Airport in Houston. // Shortly after she arrived from New York, a +Houston officer and Drug Enforcement Administration agent stopped the +46-year-old woman in the baggage area and told her she was under arrest +because a drug dog had scratched at her luggage. The dog wasn't with +them, and when Miss Hylton asked to see it, the officers refused to +bring it out. // The agents searched her bags, and ordered a strip +search of Miss Hylton, but found no contraband. // In her purse they +found the cash Miss Hylton carried because she planned to buy a house to +escape the New York winters which exasperated her diabetes. It was the +settlement from an insurance claim, and her life's savings, gathered +through more than 20 years of work as a hotel housekeeper and hospital +night janitor. // The police seized all but $10 of the cash and sent +Miss Hylton on her way, keeping the money because of its alleged drug +connection. But they never charged her with a crime. // The Pittsburgh +Press verified her jobs, reviewed her bank statements and substantiated +her claim she had $18000 from an insurance settlement. It also found no +criminal record for her in New York City. // With the mix of outrage and +resignation voiced by other victims of searches, she says: "The money +they took was mine. I'm allowed to have it. I earned it.'' // Miss +Hylton became a U.S. citizen six years ago. She asks, "Why did they +stop me? Is it because I'm black or because I'm Jamaican?'' // Probably, +both -- although Houston police haven't said. // + +Drug teams interviewed in dozens of airports, train stations and bus +terminals and along other major highways repeatedly said they didn't +stop travellers based on race. But a Pittsburgh Press examination of 121 +travellers' cases in which police found no dope, made no arrest, but +seized money anyway showed that 77 percent of the people stopped were +black, Hispanic, or Asian. + +In April, 1989, deputies from Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, seized +$23000 from Johnny Sotello, a Mexican-American whose truck overheated +on a highway. // They offered help, he accepted. They asked to search +his truck. He agreed. They asked if he was carrying cash. He said he was +because he was scouting heavy equipment auctions. // They then pulled a +door panel from the truck, said the space behind it could have hidden +drugs, and seized the money and the truck, court records show. Police +did not arrest Sotello but told him he would have to go to court to +recover his property. // Sotello sent auctioneer's receipts to police +which showed he was a licensed buyer. the sheriff offered to settle the +case, and with his legal bills mounting after two years, Sotello +accepted. In a deal cut last March, he got his truck, but only half his +money. The cops kept $11500. // "I was more afraid of the banks than +anything -- that's one reason I carry cash,'' says Sotello. "But a lot +of places won't take checks, only cash, or cashier's checks for the +exact amount. I never heard of anybody saying you couldn't carry cash.'' + +Affidavits show the same deputy who stopped Sotello routinely stopped +the cars or black and Hispanic drivers, exacting "donations'' from +some. // After another of the deputy's stops, two black men from Atlanta +handed over $1000 for a "drug fund'' after being detained for hours, +according to a hand-written receipt reviewed by the Pittsburgh Press. // +The driver got a ticket for "following to (sic) close.'' Back home, +they got a lawyer. // Their attorney, in a letter to the Sheriff's +department, said deputies had made the men "fear for their safety, and +in direct exploitation of that fear a purported donation of $1000 was +extracted...'' // If they "were kind enough to give the money to the +sheriff's office,'' the letter said, "then you can be kind enough to +give it back.'' If they gave the money "under other circumstances, then +give the money back so we can avoid litigation.'' // Six days later, the +sheriff's department mailed the men a $1000 check. + +Last year, the 72 deputies of Jefferson Davis Parish led the state in +forfeitures, gathering $1 million -- more than their colleagues in New +Orleans, a city 17 times larger than the parish. // Like most states, +Louisiana returns the money to law enforcement agencies, but it has one +of the more unusual distributions: 60 percent goes to the police +bringing a case, 20 percent to the district attorney's office +prosecuting it and 20 percent to the court fund of the judge signing the +forfeiture order. // "The highway stops aren't much different from a +smash-and-grab ring,'' says Lorenzi, of the Louisiana Defense Lawyers +association.

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Paying For Your Innocence + +The Justice Department's Terwilliger says that in some cases "dumb +judgement" may occasionally cause problems, but he believes there is an +adequate solution. "That's why we have courts." But the notion that +courts are a safeguard for citizens wrongly accused "is way off," says +Thomas Kerner, a forfeiture lawyer in Boston. "Compared to forfeiture, +David and Goliath was a fair fight." Starting from the moment that +the government serves notice that it intends to take an item, until any +court challenge is completed, "the government gets all the breaks," +says Kerner. The government need only show probable cause for a +seizure, a standard no greater than what is needed to get a search +warrant. The lower standard means the government can take a home without +any more evidence than it normally needs to take a look inside. +Clients who challenge the government, says attorney Edward Hinson of +Charlotte, N.C., "have the choice of fighting the full resources of the +U.S. treasury or caving in." + +Barry Kolin caved in. Kolin watched Portland, Ore., police padlock +the doors of Harvey's, his bar and restaurant for bookmaking on March 2. +Earlier that day, eight police officers and Amy Holmes Hehn, the +Multnomah County deputy district attorney, had swept into the bar, +shooed out waitresses and customers and arrested Mike Kolin, Barry's +brother and bartender, on suspicion of bookmaking. Nothing in the +police documents mentioned Barry Kolin, and so the 40-year-old was +stunned when authorities took his business, saying they believe he knew +about the betting. He denied it. Hehn concedes she did not have the +evidence to press a criminal case against Barry Kolin, "so we seized +the business civilly." During a recess in a hearing on the seizures +weeks later, "the deputy DA says if I paid them $30000 I could open up +again," Kolin recalls. When the deal dropped to $10000, Kolin took it. +Kolin's lawyer, Jenny Cooke, calls the seizure "extortion." She +says: "There is no difference between what the police did to Barry +Kolin or what Al Capone did in Chicago when he walked in and said, 'This +is a nice little bar and it's mine.' the only difference is today they +call this civil forfeiture.'' + +Minor Crimes, Major Penalties + +Forfeiture's tremendous clout helps make it "one of the most effective +tools that we have," says Terwilliger. The clout, though, puts +property owners at risk of losing more under forfeiture that they would +in a criminal case under the same circumstances. Criminal charges in +federal and many state courts carry maximum sentences. But there's no +dollar cap on forfeiture, leaving citizens open to punishment that far +exceeds the crime. + +Robert Brewer of Irwin, Idaho, is dying of prostate cancer, and uses +marijuana to ease the pain and nausea that comes with radiation +treatments. Last Oct. 10, a dozen deputies and Idaho tax agents +walked into the Brewer's living room with guns drawn and said they had a +warrant to search. The Brewers, Robert, 61, and Bonita, 44, both +retired form the postal service, moved from Kansas City, Mo., to the +tranquil, wooded valley of Irwin in 1989. Six months later, he was +diagnosed. According to police reports, an informant told authorities +Brewer ran a major marijuana operation. The drug SWAT team found +eight plants in the basement under a grow light and a half-pound of +marijuana. The Brewers were charged with two felony narcotics counts and +two charges for failing to buy state tax stamps for the dope. "I +didn't like the idea of the marijuana, but it was the only thing that +controlled his pain," Mrs. Brewer says. The government seized the +couples five-year-old Ford van that allowed him to lie down during his +twice-a-month trips for cancer treatment at a Salt Lake City hospital, +270 miles away. Now they must go by car. "That's a long painful ride +for him... He needed that van, and the government took it," Mrs. Brewer +says. "It looks like they can punish people any way they see fit." + +The Brewers know nothing about the informant who turned them in, but +informants play a big role in forfeiture. Many of them are paid, +targeting property in return for a cut of anything that is taken. The +Justice Department's asset forfeiture fund paid $24 mil. to informants +in 1990 and has $22 million allocated this year. Private citizens who +snitch for a fee are everywhere. Some airline counter clerks receive +cash awards for alerting drug agents to "suspicious" travellers. The +practice netted Melissa Furtner, a Continental Airlines clerk in Denver, +at least $5800 between 1989 and 1990, photocopies of checks show. + +Increased surveillance, recruitment of citizen-cops, and expansion of +forfeiture sweeps are all part of a take-now, litigate-later syndrome +that builds prosecutors careers, says a former federal prosecutor. +"Federal law enforcement people are the most ambitious I've ever met, +and to get ahead they need visible results. Visible results are +convictions, and, now, forfeitures," says Don Lewis of Meadville, +Crawford County. (ED: a Pa county north of Pgh by two counties.) +Lewis spent 17 years as a prosecutor, serving as an assistant U.S. +attorney in Tampa as recently as 1988. He left the Tampa Job -- and +became a defense lawyer -- when "I found myself tempted to do things I +wouldn't have thought about doing years ago." Terwilliger insists +U.S. attorneys would never be evaluated on "something as unprofessional +as dollars." Which is not to say Justice doesn't watch the bottom +line. Cary Copeland, director of the department' Executive Office for +Asset Forfeiture, says they tried to "squeeze the pipeline" in 1990 +when the amount forfeited lagged behind Justice's budget projections. +He said this was done by speeding up the process, not by doing "whole +lot of seizures."

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Ending the Abuse + +While defense lawyers talk of reforming the law, agencies that initiate +forfeiture scarcely talk at all. // DEA headquarters makes a spectacle +of busts like the seizure of fraternity houses at the University of +Virginia in March. But it refuses to supply detailed information on the +small cases that account for most of its activity. // Local prosecutors +are just as tight-lipped. Thomas Corbett, U.S. Attorney for Western +Pennsylvania, seals court documents on forfeitures because "there are +just some things I don't want to publicize. the person whose assets we +seize will eventually know, and who else has to?'' + +Although some investigations need to be protected, there is an +"inappropriate secrecy'' spreading throughout the country, says Jeffrey +Weiner, president-elect of the 25000 member National Association of +Criminal Defense Lawyers. // "The Justice Department boasts of the few +big fish they catch. But they throw a cloak of secrecy over the +information on how many innocent people are getting swept up in the same +seizure net, so no one can see the enormity of the atrocity.'' // +Terwilliger says the net catches the right people: "bad guys'' as he +calls them. // But a 1990 Justice report on drug task forces in 15 +states found they stayed away from the in-depth financial investigations +needed to cripple major traffickers. Instead, "they're going for the +easy stuff,'' says James "Chip'' Coldren, Jr., executive director of +the Bureau of Justice Assistance, a research arm of the federal Justice +Department. + +Lawyers who say the law needs to be changed start with the basics: The +government shouldn't be allowed to take property until after it proves +the owner guilty of a crime. // But they go on to list other +improvements, including having police abide by their state laws, which +often don't give police as much latitude as the federal law. Now they +can use federal courts to circumvent the state. + +Tracy Thomas is caught in that very bind. // A jurisprudence version of +the shell game hides roughly $13000 taken from Thomas, a resident of +Chester, near Philadelphia. // Thomas was visiting in his godson's home +on Memorial Day, 1990, when local police entered looking for drugs +allegedly sold by the godson. They found none and didn't file a criminal +charge in the incident. But they seized $13000 from Thomas, who works +as a $70000-a-year engineer, says his attorney, Clinton Johnson. // The +cash was left over from a Sheriff's sale he'd attended a few days +before, court records show. the sale required cash -- much like the +government's own auctions. // During a hearing over the seized money, +Thomas presented a withdrawal slip showing he'd removed money from his +credit union shortly before the trip and a receipt showing how much he +had paid for the property he'd bought at the sale. The balance was +$13000. // On June 22, 1990, a state judge ordered Chester police to +return Thomas' cash. // They haven't. Just before the court order was +issued, the police turned over the cash to the DEA for processing as a +federal case, forcing Thomas to fight another level of government. +Thomas is now suing the Chester police, the arresting officer, and the +DEA. // "When DEA took over that money, what they in effect told a +local police department is that it's OK to break the law,'' says Clinton +Johnson, attorney for Thomas. + +Police manipulate the courts not only to make it harder on owners to +recover property, but to make it easier for police to get a hefty share +of any forfeited goods. In federal court, local police are guaranteed up +to 80 percent of the take -- a percentage that may be more than they'd +receive under state law. // Pennsylvania's leading police agency -- the +state police -- and the state's lead prosecutor -- the Attorney General +bickered for two years over state police taking cases to federal +court, an arrangement that cut the Attorney General out of the sharing. +The two state agencies now have a written agreement on how to divvy +the take. // The same debate is heard around the nation. // The hallways +outside Cleveland courtrooms ring with arguments over who will get what, +says Jay Milano, a Cleveland criminal defense attorney. + +"It's causing a feeding frenzy."

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LIBERTYGATE

+ +

It has been twenty-two years since the military forces of +the State of Israel attacked the U.S.S. Liberty. It has +been 43 years since Hitler's atrocities.

+ +

If Congress can spend our money chasing senile Nazis, after +all these years, it's about time they spend a little money +investigating the Liberty coverup.

+ +

The only way it will ever happen is if YOU write your +representatives and insist on a full investigation.

+ +

------------------------------------------------------------ +The following article appeared in *Defense Electronics*, +October 1981. +------------------------------------------------------------ +Editor's Note: This article is printed by *Defense +Electronics* as an example of a direct attack on U.S. forces +by a nation that has access to advanced western military +equipment, and which is an ally. In light of the Libyan-U.S. +air clash in August and the loss of advanced equipment in +Iran, the danger of western technology being used against +U.S. forces by a hostile Third World nation is apparent. +This article is presented in unabridged form and represents +only the views of its author. +------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

Part One

+ +

Israeli Attack on U.S. Ship Reveals Failure of C3

+ +

By James M. Ennes, Jr., Deck Officer of the USS Liberty

+ +
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+ +

Fourteen years ago, the USS Liberty was attacked by Israeli +Warplanes and ships, resulting in the deaths of 34 Americans +and the wounding of 171 others. The attack lasted 2 and 1/2 +hours and ended the Navy's program of dedicated electronic +intelligence collection ships.

+ +
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+ +

Fourteen years ago, one of the most serious peacetime +American naval disasters occurred, and perhaps the most +serious since the sinking of the battleship *Maine* in 1898. +But while every bright schoolchild remembers some details of +the explosion that led to the Spanish-American War, hardly +anyone can recall the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967, +which cost the lives of 34 Americans, wounded 171 others, +and brought a premature end to the Navy's program of +dedicated electronic collection ships.

+ +

The attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli forces on the +fourth day of the Arab-Israeli Six Day War is not widely +known because the facts are politically and diplomatically +awkward. The truth about the attack includes evidence that +this was a planned, carefully coordinated and deliberate +attack by a friendly power upon a known American naval +vessel, and a botched exercise of Command, Control, and +Communications. But such knowledge is politically unwelcome +in the United States, so the facts about the attack were +witheld from the American people.

+ +

In 1967, the US Navy operated a worldwide fleet of +electronic intelligence collection ships under tasking from +the Department of Defense. These consisted of United States +Ships *Oxford*, *Georgetown*, and *Jamestown*, which +operated on converted Liberty hulls; *Belmont* and +*Liberty*, on Victory hulls; *Banner*, *Pueblo*, and *Palm +Beach*, on converted 180-foot AKL hulls; and civilian-manned +United States Naval Ships *Private Jose E. Valdez* and +*Sergeant Joseph P. Muller*, on converted 338-foot T-AG +hulls.

+ +

In May 1967, as tension built rapidly toward what would soon +become the "Six Day War," USS Liberty was diverted from her +usual patrol area on the west coast of Africa to patrol a +section of the Gaza Strip in the Eastern Mediterranean.

+ +

The trip required 16 days of hard steaming, and when Liberty +arrived at her assigned station, the war was four days old +and almost over.

+ +

I was Liberty's electronic materials officer. A 34-year-old +former enlisted man, I took special pride in my Navy +commission, my lieutenant's rank, and my specialty in +cryptology. I was soon to be assigned officer of the deck +for special sea detail and general quarters. And as the ship +arrived on station 13 miles from the Israeli and Egyption +coasts, I was to be officer of the deck for the forenoon +watch.

+ +

Throughout the Night

+ +

The ship had been reconnoitered throughout the night by +Israeli military aircraft. Well before midnight, Liberty's +crytologic operators had detected fire control radar +directed steadily at the ship by orbiting Israeli aircraft. +But the supervisor on duty refused to believe that Israeli +forces would direct fire control radar at an American ship, +and so he insisted that the operators must have +misinterpeted the signal. The signal went unreported.

+ +

0700 Hours

+ +

At about 0700, as I relieved the watch on the bridge, I was +told that a "flying boxcar," later identified as an Israeli +Nord 2501 Noratlas reconnaissance aircraft, had circled the +ship from a distance at sunrise.

+ +

I checked out colors, found them dirty and ragged after +several days of high-speed steaming, and ordered them +replaced. Two extra lookouts were stationed above the +bridge, and I ordered them to keep an eye on the flag to +assure that it never fouled.

+ +

0900 Hours

+ +

At 0900, the ship reached point "alfa," the northernmost +point of our assigned patrol track. I turned south and +slowed to five knots, and at that moment we were +reconnoitered by a single jet aircraft. I immediately +checked the flag and saw it clearly displayed in a good +breeze. We were headed almost directly into a four-knot +wind, giving us nine knots over the decks, which was more +than enough to hold the flag aloft. For the next several +hours, the wind increased steadily, reaching 12 knots over +the deck before the ship came under attack.

+ +

1000 Hours

+ +

At about 1000, the ship was circled three times at low level +by two armed Israeli Mirage jets, each carrying 18 rockets +under each wing. One of the pilots was heard reporting by +radio to Israeli headquarters that we were flying the +American flag, but this was no news to the Israeli war room. +Duty officers in the war room had identified the ship long +before and had plotted her track on a large wall chart, +along with her name, her top speed, and a reference to her +intelligence mission. And according to several reports, +Israel's immediate reaction to the ship's presence was to +complain bitterly to the United States via the Central +Intelligence Agency, demanding that the ship be moved.

+ +

The United States made several serious, almost frantic +attempts to move the ship. As the Liberty approached Gaza, +the Joint Chiefs of Staff first sent a priority message +ordering the ship to move 20 miles from the coast; the +message was swamped by higher precedence traffic and was not +processed until long after the crisis had ended. Hours +later, a JCS duty officer phoned naval headquarters in +London to relay an urgent JCS order to move the ship 100 +miles from the coast; the telephone call was ignored, and +Liberty's copy of the confirming message was misrouted to +the Philipines before being returned to the Pentagon, where +it was again misrouted, this time to Fort Meade in Maryland, +where it was lost.

+ +

Eventually, at least six critical messages were lost, +delayed, or otherwise mishandled. Any one of those messages +might have saved Liberty. None reached the ship.

+ +

During the next four hours, the ship was visited five more +times by Israeli reconnaissance aircraft, usually flying at +very low level, and always close enough that I could readily +see the pilot. On one occasion, the captain was on the +bridge when the Noratlas approached at masthead level, +causing him to warn me of a posible bombing run; the +aircraft passed overhead at such low level that the deck +plating shook.

+ +

The continued close surveillance was reassuring. Israel was +an ally and, although several Arab states were then hostile +toward the United States, Israel clearly dominated the sky, +and we were comforted to be watched so closely, as this +seemed to assure that there could be no mistakes.

+ +

1400 Hours

+ +

After being relieved of the watch at noon, I spent most of +the noon hour on the bridge preparing for a general quarters +drill scheduled for 1300. Finally, at 1400, all drills and +bridge duties were completed, and I was preparing to go +below after nearly seven hours on the bridge when three +aircraft and three high-speed surface craft were +simultaneously picked up on radar, all approaching the ship +from starboard quarter.

+ +

Moments later, the ship came under severe and continued +attack, first by Israeli Mirage jets that momentarily +knocked out our four puny 50-caliber machine guns and +disabled all radio antennas, then by slower Israeli Mystere +jets, which plastered the stack, gun mounts, open bridge, +and superstructure with an inferno of napalm.

+ +

When technicians jury-rigged an antenna in order to call for +help, radiomen found the frequencies blocked by buzz saw +signals from the jets. Radiomen worked on their hands and +knees and held microphones close to the deck to escape smoke +and heat from fires nearby, and in less than nine minutes, +they broke through the jamming. The carrier *Saratoga*, +operating about 500 miles away from the Sixth Fleet near +Crete, was first to answer.

+ +

On the bridge of the Saratoga, Captain Joseph Tully promptly +turned his ship into the wind and relayed Liberty's message +to the Sixth Fleet commander, Vice Admiral William Martin, +who was on the bridge of his flagship conducting maneuvering +exercises. Because of the emergency, Captain Tully addressed +the message directly to Admiral Martin with his personal +callsign on the Primary Tactical Maneuvering Circuit +(PRI-TAC), and then he duplicated the transmission by +teletype and flashing light with information copies to naval +headquarters in Washington and London.

+ +

Admiral Martin immediately directed carriers *Saratoga* and +*America* to launch aircraft to defend Liberty, but when the +launch order was executed, only Saratoga launched. Except +for some F-4 Phantoms that were eventually sent up to defend +the fleet, *America* did not respond. She had, according to +some reports, been authorized to relax from an alert posture +that was imposed on much of the rest of the fleet. (The +aircraft *America* did launch for air defense were thought +by some to have been armed with nuclear weapons, since it +was widely known that nuclear-armed weapons were in alert +status, but it is now clear that no such aircraft were +launched.)

+ +

Captain Tully sent a flashing light query to Captain Donald +Engen on the America, and got no reply. Moments later +Saratoga's aircraft were recalled without explanation by +Rear Admiral Lawrence Geis, who commanded the carrier task +force.

+ +

America, which had no appropiate conventional armament in +position, started bringing up weapons from below decks, +while Saratoga, which *was* prepared to defend Liberty was +required to wait -- apparently for White House permission.

+ +

Meanwhile, unobstructed by Sixth Fleet air power, the three +Israeli torpedo boats arrived on schedule to finish the job. +The target was already in flames after 25 to 30 minutes of +aerial strafing and napalm bombardment by perhaps a dozen +aircraft.

+ +

The boats approached at high speed and fired torpedos from +2000 yards but, owing to a near collision between two boats +at the moment of firing, the first shots went wild. One +torpedo passed safely astern, where it missed by a bare 25 +yards. Another passed so close ahead of the ship that it +vanished under the bow, "sounding like amotorboat" to Petty +Officer Rick Aimetti, who stood, astonished, on the +forecastle. And one torpedo made a direct hit on the ship's +crytologic spaces, where it killed 25 men and momentarily +trapped at least 50 more in the flooded compartment.

+ +

to be continued........

+ +

From:

+ +

ASSAULT ON LIBERTY +By: James Ennes

+ +

Available at most good libraries.

+ +

Or from the National Educational Trust, (800) 368 5788

+ +
.........
+ +

If you are tired of "learning" about American foreign policy +from what is effectively, Zionist controlled media, I highly +recommend checking out the Washington Report. A free sample +copy is available by calling the National Education Trust +at: +(800) 368 5788

+ +

Tell 'em arf sent you.

+ +

You can also tune in to the Amateur Radio Forum (ARF) +Thursday evening at 9:PM Chicago time, 3950 KHZ, LSB.

+ +

arf + +u can als

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The Moral Case _For_ Taking Federal Matching Funds

+ +

by Michael Emerling

+ +

As a "matter of principle", Libertarian Presidential candidates have +refused to seek federal matching campaign funds. Taxation is theft and +accepting tax funds makes us party to the crime. By taking the loot, by +welcoming stolen goods, the Libertarian Party betrays the +non-aggression principle. We surrender our morality, integrity and +principles.

+ +

So we've been told.

+ +

This position is not merely wrong. It is the exact opposite of the +truth.

+ +

As Frank Chodorov observed, "Taxation is robbery." Government is funded +by legalized looting. Government has no right to the proceeds of +plunder. Nor does it have the right to "assign" or "transfer" the booty +to others.

+ +

Who has the right to this loot? The rightful owners. The victims of the +tax crime: those who earned and owned it. The tax payers.

+ +

Let's look at Libertarian taxpayers. How many Libertarians are there in +America today? No one knows. Libertarians don't like being counted or +registered by the State.

+ +

Individuals who believe that they have a right to their life, liberty, +and property; Individuals who know that their life is their own and +intend to run it by their own judgement; Individuals who value +voluntary relations and oppose force and fraud; these individuals mind +their own business and live their lives as they see fit. Their privacy +is their protection, so they jealously guard it. They live by the code +of liberty. They are libertarians, whether they know it or not. But +their way of life makes them invisible, uncounted and forgotten.

+ +

A few Libertarians organized to reclaim their rights to life, liberty +and property. They did so as a matter of self-defense. They called +their organization the Libertarian Party.

+ +

Today there are 9000 dues paying National Libertarian Party members in +America. And perhaps another 6000 local Libertarian Party members. +There are over 50000 voters registered as Libertarians, even though +many states do not allow us to register Libertarian.

+ +

For the sake of discussion, assume that there are only 10000 +Libertarians in America. Assume that the average Libertarian earns +$30000 a year. (Probably a low figure, with all the professionals and +computer programmers in the Libertarian Party.) A person earning +$30000 a year is paying a minimum of $3000 a year in federal income +taxes. Using these deliberately low figures, we can see that +Libertarians are paying a minimum of $30000000 each year in income +taxes. That's $2500000 each month.

+ +

Libertarians have a right to recover this money. Or authorize another +to recover it.

+ +

In light of this, let's reframe the matching funds issue:

+ +

1. "Do taxpaying libertarians have the right to authorize the +Libertarian Presidential Candidate to use the matching funds process to +recover taxes taken from them?"

+ +

2. "Do they have the right to authorize their candidate to use the +recovered taxes to fight the looters?"

+ +

An example from history might highlight the issue. During the +Revolutionary War, Francis Marion ("the Swamp Fox") organized a +guerilla army in South Carolina. Marion staged midnight raids, hit and +run attacks and sabotage. This frustrated the British officers and tied +up troops that might have been used to defeat Washington or Lee.

+ +

Marion and his men ran out of ammunition. So they raided British +armories, taking all the weapons and ammunition they could carry. They +did return the bullets to the British ... one at a time.

+ +

These British weapons were paid for by past taxation and the source of +future taxation.

+ +

Did the Swamp Fox have the right to seize and use the weapons against +the British? Or should Francis Marion have left them in the hands of +the enemy?

+ +

***Libertarians not only have the right to recover their taxes through +matching funds, they have the moral obligation to do so.*** The taxes +we do not recover will fund the State... or be turned over to +Republican and Democratic Presidential candidates who will seek to make +Big Government bigger. Your taxes either fund the State or Statist +Campaigns. Every tax dollar we do not reclaim will be used to sustain +or expand the State. As State Power grows, individual liberty and +self-responsibility dies.

+ +

Can you afford to have the money you've earned used against you? You've +been disarmed and your own weapons have been turned against you. Take +them back.

+ +

After all, whose money is it? Yours.

+ +

Do you live off the State or does the State live off you? Are you a tax +producer or a tax consumer? Are you a tax victim or a tax beneficiary?

+ +

When you fill out your 1040, if you have a refund due from the IRS, do +you take back your money? Why? Because it's yours. It's not welfare. +It's recovering a part of what is rightfully yours.

+ +

Matching funds are tax refunds. By contributing to the Marrou +Libertarian Presidential Campaign, you are allowing us to recover money +looted from you through federal income taxes and use it to fight the +government for liberty.

+ +

------------------------------------------------------------------------ +This text appeared in a brochure distributed by the Marrou for President +campaign in November 1990. +

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IS LIBERTY TOO EXTREME?

+ +

By RICHARD M. EBELING

+ +

There is one type of question, more than any other, that the +advocate of freedom is likely to be asked over the years: +Human liberty and freedom of choice are, of course, important +social and moral goods, but can't they be pushed too far? Is +it not better to work for, and accept, a more moderate balance +in society? Your position, it will be said, seems to offer no +compromise, no happy medium through which a common ground can +be found so that a reasonable amount of freedom can be +attained. Don't you think your dogmatic extremism only serves +to work against the very goals for which you are devoting your +energies?

+ +

The first reply to this type of question, is to ask back, With +what are we asked to compromise and to offer a more moderate +position? The answer, of course, is that the advocate of +freedom is being asked to find a common ground with state +power and the use of government coercion in social affairs.

+ +

The problem is that ultimately there can be no compromise +between freedom and coercion, between social relationships +based upon mutual, voluntary consent, and human relationships +ordered by command and backed up by the threat, or actual use, +of force. There is an irreconcilable tension in a society that +is part-free and part-slave. An individual who is prohibited +from, or restrained in, his peaceful intercourse with other +free men is not his own master. And to that extent he is a +slave to the will and wishes of another.

+ +

But such a response by the advocate of freedom fails to touch +the real heart of the matter. Who, in this debate over freedom +and coercion, is the actual extremist and who is the actual +moderate? The advocate of state coercion in social affairs +cannot stand the fact that people make choices, and undertake +courses of action, of which he disapproves. He objects to the +fact that people fail to follow the paths that his reason and +values consider rational and good. Everything else is either +chaotic and sinister.

+ +

In this sense, he is like the maniac of whom G.K. Chesterton +speaks in his book, Orthodoxy. The madman, Chesterton says, is +the one "who has lost everything except his reason . . . . He +is not hampered by a sense of humor or by charity, or by the +dumb certainties of experience. The madman's explanation of a +thing is always complete, and often in a purely rational sense +satisfactory." The madman has a "most sinister quality" of +"connecting of one thing with another in a map more elaborate +than a maze."

+ +

The advocate of state coercion has, in this sense, been driven +mad by the outcomes of a free society. If some men are poor +while others are well to do, he cannot accept the idea that +this is due to natural scarcity of resources, or is merely as +far as capitalism has yet been able to raise people's +standards of living in an on-going, and time-consuming, +process of savings and investment. No, it must be because men +have been unreasonable, have not submitted themselves to a +plan--his plan--that his reason has given him, and not others, +the superior wisdom and insight to see.

+ +

If some men receive lower pay than others, or do not have +access to all the goods and services they desire, the advocate +of state coercion--like the madman--often sees sinister +motives and dark conspiracies. If some workers receive lower +wages, it can't be because of a lack of marketable skills or +insufficient personal ambition to better themselves. No, it +must be because of the businessman's greed and unwillingness +to pay "a fair wage," or a plot among the employers to exploit +their fellow human beings. The advocate of state coercion can +see beneath the charade and he, of course, knows the +regulation or intervention to put the conspirators in their +place and remedy the problem.

+ +

The social madman has the answer and the solution for +everything. He has no patience for ignorance, good intentions +that go astray, or some natural scheme of things. And like the +madman, he has no doubts about his knowledge, the goodness of +his intentions and their outcome, or what the scheme of things +should be turned into. Human freedom and its advocates are the +irritants that he tolerates when he has to, but with which he +never compromises. He has too much confidence in his own +vision. In his mind, extremism in the defense of the state-molded "great society" is no vice.

+ +

In his book, The Pleasures of a Nonconformist, the Chinese +philosopher and social critic, Lin Yutang, explains that, "The +aim of Chinese classical education has always been the +cultivation of the reasonable man as the model of culture. An +educated man should, above all, be a reasonable being. A +reasonable being is always characterized by his common sense, +his love of moderation and restraint . . . . To be reasonable +is to avoid extremes . . . . To say to a man, 'Do be +reasonable' is the same as saying 'Make some allowance for +human nature. Do not push a fellow too far.'"

+ +

I would like to suggest that regardless of whether or not +Professor Lin was right that this is what Chinese classical +education produced, it does capture essential qualities of +what the advocate of freedom sees as some of the hallmarks of +the free society: moderation, restraint and allowance for +human nature.

+ +

Let me try to explain this with two examples. In February of +this year, a federal regulation was passed banning smoking on +all domestic airline flights of less that six hours of +duration. The anti-smoking advocate just cannot reconcile +himself to the existence of others who gain pleasure from +something of which he disapproves, and by people who weigh the +enjoyment of the present against the consequences of the +future differently than himself. Nor can he stand a world in +which the market provides options to those with different +preferences: some airlines that permit smoking and others +(i.e., Northwest Airlines) that ban smoking on all domestic +flights as a response to what they view as a market +opportunity to get a larger share of the non-smoking public +that flies.

+ +

For the advocate of freedom, the market alternative is +precisely the reasonable and moderate one. It recognizes and +accepts the varieties and preferences among men and offers a +compromise, a peaceful resolution, of the differences among +them. And it leaves a wide avenue open for one group of men to +reason and persuade another to modify their choices and +forswear "a filthy and corrupting" habit.

+ +

Another example is affirmative action. In the old days, people +of different races were forcefully kept apart. Segregation +laws prohibited various forms of voluntary interaction among +men and women of different color. Now the laws forcefully +require the interaction of different races both inside and +outside the workplace. The enemy of racism, just like the +advocate of racism, abhors tolerance and refuses to restrain +himself when he objects to the foolish and perverse conduct of +his fellow men.

+ +

Neither is willing to allow for human nature: the racist who +could not stand the fact that opportunities created incentives +for people of different color to peacefully and voluntarily +trade and interact with each other; and the anti-racist who +cannot stand the fact that obstinate people without atavistic +ideas may be willing to pay the price of lost market +opportunities so as not to associate with people of a +different race.

+ +

The advocate of freedom, with his deep belief and faith in the +sanctity and uniqueness of the individual, has always been +repelled by the evaluation of a human being on the basis of +his skin pigmentation. But he has also appreciated the danger +of pushing a fellow too far. A good society is not produced by +forcing one person on another. The freedom advocate has known +that this may only cause a backlash of the very type of racist +sentiment that the affirmative action laws were meant to +overcome.

+ +

To be reasonable, the free society must avoid extremes, and it +does so through the diversity of free men that it both permits +and fosters. It restrains the practice of "extreme" personal +behavior because it imposes costs and consequences upon +everyone who practices them--loss of economic opportunity, +social ostracism by those who are repelled by it. And it +teaches the advantages of moderation--courtesy, good manners, +tolerance and "socially acceptable" conduct.

+ +

In other words, the free society, accepting human nature, +nudges men toward better behavior rather than compels it. It +teaches rational and moral conduct through reason and example. +It fosters compromise by demonstrating the personal costs of +being too extreme in one's personal actions. And it raises the +ethical conduct of the society by the discovered advantages of +personal improvement through time.

+ +

Is liberty too extreme? Quite the contrary. Freedom is the +epitome of moderation. And it is its moderation, its tolerance +and diversity that drives some men mad. But madness, by +definition, is not the normal condition of a healthy human +being. The history of western civilization is the story of +man's slow escape from the madness of political and social +extremism. Our dilemma and our challenge is that this sickness +still controls the minds of too many.

+ +

Professor Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of +Economics at Hillsdale College in Michigan and also serves as +Vice-President of Academic Affairs of The Future of Freedom +Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +From the August 1990 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1990, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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LOCKING OUT THE IMMIGRANT

+ +

By JACOB G. HORNBERGER

+ +

America of the 1800s was the most unique society in the +history of man. People could engage in virtually any economic +enterprise without permission of their public officials. +People could become as wealthy as they wanted, and there was +nothing the government could do about it. They could dispose +of their money in any way they saw fit. And they could travel +anywhere they desired without a passport or other evidence of +governmental consent. This is what it once meant to be an +American. This is what it once meant to be free.

+ +

But perhaps the most unique aspect of American society of the +1800s was that reflected by the Statue of Liberty: free +immigration. For this was a society in which the citizenry +prohibited their public officials from interfering with the +right of people everywhere to come to the United States to +live and work.

+ +

What was the result of this unusual society--a society without +income taxation, welfare, social security, licensing, +passports, subsidies, economic regulations, and immigration +restrictions? The result was the most economically prosperous +nation in the history of man! And this despite the fact that +thousands of penniless immigrants, many of whom could not +speak English, were flooding American shores every day.

+ +

But prosperity for the poor was not the real significance of +our ancestors' policy of freedom of immigration. The true +significance is a much more profound one. For the first time +in history, oppressed and persecuted people everywhere had +hope--hope that if they were able to escape the tyranny under +which they suffered, there was a place which would accept +them. America was a beacon--a beacon of liberty which shone +through the darkness of oppression, persecution, and tyranny +throughout the world--a beacon which lit the hearts of +millions who knew that if they could just escape, there was a +nation, albeit faraway, to which they could flee.

+ +

But no longer--and not for many decades. While the Statue of +Liberty is a nice place for tourists to visit, it now stands +as an sad reminder of the rejection and abandonment by 20th-century Americans of the principles of liberty on which our +nation was founded. And while the welfare-state, planned-economy way of life most clearly evidences this rejection and +abandonment, the consequences, while bad, have not been as +evil and horrible as those resulting from the abandonment of +the principles of free immigration.

+ +

We must never forget that citizens are responsible for +wrongdoing by their own government--even when they consciously +choose to ignore it. The best-known example in recent times of +conscious disregard of wrongdoing by one's own government +involved the German people in the 1930s--when Hitler embarked +on his policy of extermination of the Jews. Most Americans +believe that under same or similar circumstances, the people +of this nation would act differently. Unfortunately, they are +wrong. Because what Americans have never been taught in their +public schools is that the American government, as well as +other Western governments (including Britain, Canada, and most +of Latin America), through their control of immigration, +sealed all avenues of Jewish escape from the Holocaust.

+ +

The sordid facts and details are set forth in two books: While +Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy by Arthur D. +Morse, first published in 1967, and The Holocaust Conspiracy: +An International Policy of Genocide by William R. Perl, +published in 1989. Morse was executive producer of "CBS +Reports" and the winner of numerous broadcasting awards. Perl +served as a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army Intelligence Service, +worked in the Prosecution Branch of the War Crimes trials, and +later taught at George Washington University.

+ +

An American cannot read these two books without total +revulsion at the reaction of his own government to Hitler's +policies against the Jews. Both authors detail the methods by +which American politicians and bureaucrats, while maintaining +an appearance of great humanitarianism, used immigration +policies to prevent Germany's Jews from escaping to the United +States. Morse writes:

+ +

In 1938 the Nazis burned every synagogue in the nation, +shattered the windows of every Jewish establishment, +hauled twenty-five thousand innocent people to +concentration camps, and fined the Jews 1000000000 +marks for the damage.

+ +

Five days later, at a White House press conference, a +reporter asked the President, "Would you recommend a +relaxation of our immigration restrictions so that the +Jewish refugees could be received in this country?"

+ +

"This is not in contemplation," replied the President. +"We have the quota system."

+ +

The United States not only insisted upon its immigration +law throughout the Nazi era, but administered it with +severity and callousness. In spite of unprecedented +circumstances, the law was constricted so that even its +narrow quotas were not met. The lamp remained lifted +beside the golden door, but the flame had been +extinguished and the door was padlocked.

+ +

And Perl writes:

+ +

Anti-Semitism . . . was certainly a part of the anti-immigration mood of the country, but it was not the sole +cause. This was 1938, the U.S. was still on the fringes +of the 1929 depression, and fear that newcomers would +take away jobs needed from those already in the country +was genuine. The fact that newcomers mean also increased +consumption, that many of them, as they actually did, +created new jobs rather than occupy existing ones was not +considered. . . .

+ +

President Roosevelt was first of all a politician, and a +shrewd and ruthless one at that. He was not going to +imperil his fragile coalition for moral or humanitarian +reasons. He was not ready to put it to a test over an +issue that, he knew, was loaded with emotion among +supporters as well as opponents and which was in summary +not popular at all. He was at that time preparing to run +for an unprecedented third term of the presidency, and +any rocking of the boat was out of the question. . . . +Yet, it was necessary to keep up the image of a great +liberal and humanitarian.

+ +

One of the most dramatic and tragic examples of the U.S. +government's immigration policy against the Jews was evidenced +by what has become known as "the voyage of the damned." Just +before war broke out in Europe, a German cruise ship loaded +with almost 1000 Jewish refugees left Germany and headed to +Cuba--where friends and relatives of the passengers waited for +their loved ones. When the ship arrived, the Cuban government +refused to permit the Jews to disembark. When the ship began +moving close to American waters, the United States Coast Guard +closely followed to make certain that no Jew jumped ship and +infiltrated America.

+ +

Since no other nations were willing to accept the refugees, +the ship headed back to Germany where certain death awaited +its passengers. At the last minute, England and some of the +European nations reluctantly agreed to accept the refugees. +Unfortunately, many of those who went to Europe were later +killed under the Nazi occupation.

+ +

It is easy for present-day Americans to say, "We would never +let that happen again." Yet, we continue to permit our public +officials to control immigration. And the results of this +control point only in the direction of future catastrophe.

+ +

The U.S. government rightly criticizes the Soviet Union for +not letting Jews emigrate . . . but then is horrified at the +prospect of having to let Soviet Jews enter the United States.

+ +

The U.S. government rightly criticizes Vietnam for its +oppressive society . . . but then is horrified at the prospect +of having to let Vietnamese "boat people" enter the United +States.

+ +

And on the southern border of the United States, good and +honorable people of the Republic of Mexico have been +incarcerated, year after year, in American concentration +centers for committing the heinous "crime" of trying to +sustain and improve their lives through labor. I personally +have been inside these concentration centers and visited with +these victims of 20th-century political tyranny, and I shall +never forget the looks on their faces--looks which asked, "Why +are you doing this to us?"

+ +

Free immigration is nothing to fear. As free-market economists +have shown for years (i.e., Julian L. Simon's 1989 book, The +Economic Consequences of Immigration), immigration is actually +an economic boon to a society. Of course, fears of huge +burdens associated with welfare, public schooling, and other +aspects of the welfare state are a legitimate concern. But we +should not use the welfare state as an excuse for rejecting +free immigration; instead, we should use freedom as a reason +for ending both the welfare state and immigration controls-- +and for ending the real and potential evils and horrors +associated with them.

+ +

As walls separating people are crumbling all over the world, +it is time for us to tear down our walls. It is time for us to +recapture the spirit of liberty which guided our American +ancestors and lead the world to the highest reaches of freedom +ever known by man. It is time for us to let the world know +that its beacon of liberty is once again lighted for its poor, +its tired, its huddled masses yearning to breathe free!

+ +

Mr. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of +Freedom Foundation.

+ +

------------------------------------------------------------ +From the June 1991 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1991, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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THE LOST KEYS OF FREEMASONRY or The Secret of Hiram Abiff by MANLY +P. HALL

+ +

PUBLISHER'S FOREWORD

+ +

The steady demand and increasing popularity of this volume, of +which eighteen thousand copies have been printed since it first +appeared a few years ago, have brought the present revised and +rearranged edition into being. The text can be read with profit by +both new and old Mason, for within its pages lies an interpretation +of Masonic symbolism which supplements the monitorial instruction +usually given in the lodges. + +The leading Masonic scholars of all times have agreed that the +symbols of the Fraternity are susceptible of the most profound +interpretation and thus reveal to the truly initiated certain +secrets concerning the spiritual realities of life. Freemasonry is +therefore more than a mere social organization a few centuries old, +and can be regarded as a perpetuation of the philosophical +mysteries and initiations of the ancients. This is in keeping with +the inner tradition of the Craft, a heritage from pre-Revival days.

+ +

The present volume will appeal to the thoughtful Mason as an +inspiring work, for it satisfies the yearning for further light and +leads the initiate to that Sanctum Sanctorum where the mysteries +are revealed. The book is a contribution to Masonic idealism, +revealing the profounder aspects of our ancient and gentle +Fraternity - those unique and distinctive features which have +proved a constant inspiration through the centuries.

+ +

FOREWORD

+ +

By REYNOLD E. BLIGHT, 33 degree, K. T.

+ +

Reality forever eludes us. Infinity mocks our puny efforts to +imprison it in definition and dogma. Our most splendid +realizations are only adumbrations of the Light. In his endeavors, +man is but a mollusk seeking to encompass the ocean.

+ +

Yet man may not cease his struggle to find God. There is a +yearning in his soul that will not let him rest, an urge that +compels him to attempt the impossible, to attain the unattainable. +He lifts feeble hands to grasp the stars and despite a million +years of failure and millenniums of disappointment, the soul of man +springs heavenward with even greater avidity than when the race was +young.

+ +

He pursues, even though the flying ideal eternally slips from his +embrace. Even though he never clasps the goddess of his dreams, he +refuses to believe that she is a phantom. To him she is the only +reality. He reaches upward and will not be content until the sword +of Orion is in his hands, and glorious Arcturus glearns from his +breast.

+ +

Man is Parsifal searching for the Sacred Cup; Sir Launfal +adventuring for the Holy Grail. Life is a divine adventure, a +splendid quest

+ +

Language falls. Words are mere cyphers, and who can read the +riddle? These words we use, what are they but vain shadows of form +and sense? We strive to clothe our highest thought with verbal +trappings that our brother may see and understand; and when we +would describe a saint he sees a demon; and when we would present a +wise man he beholds a fool. "Fie upon you," he cries; "thou, too, +art a fool." + +So wisdom drapes her truth with symbolism, and covers her insight +with allegory. Creeds, rituals, poems are parables and symbols. +The ignorant take them literally and build for themselves prison +houses of words and with bitter speech and bitterer taunt denounce +those who will not join them in the dungeon. Before the rapt +vision of the seer, dogma and ceremony, legend and trope dissolve +and fade, and he sees behind the fact the truth, behind the symbol +the Reality.

+ +

Through the shadow shines ever the Perfect Light.

+ +

What is a Mason? He is a man who in his heart has been duly and +truly prepared, has been found worthy and well qualified, has been +admitted to the fraternity of builders, been invested with certain +passwords and signs by which he may be enabled to work and receive +wages as a Master Mason, and travel in foreign lands in search of +that which was lost - The Word.

+ +

Down through the misty vistas of the ages rings a clarion +declaration and although the very heavens echo to the +reverberations, but few hear and fewer understand: "In the +beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was +God."

+ +

Here then is the eternal paradox. The Word is lost yet it is ever +with us. The light that illumines the distant horizon shines in +our hearts. "Thou wouldist not seek me hadst thou not found me." We +travel afar only to find that which we hunger for at home.

+ +

And as Victor Hugo says: "The thirst for the Infinite proves +infinity."

+ +

That which we seek lives in our souls.

+ +

This, the unspeakable truth, the unutterable perfection, the author +has set before us in these pages. Not a Mason himself, he has read +the deeper meaning of the ritual. Not having assumed the formal +obligations, he calls upon all mankind to enter into the holy of +holies. Not initiated into the physical craft, he declares the +secret doctrine that all may hear. + +With vivid allegory and profound philosophical disquisition he +expounds the sublime teachings of Freemasonry, older than all +religions, as universal as human aspiration.

+ +

It is well. Blessed are the eyes that see, and the ears that hear, +and the heart that understands.

+ +

+INTRODUCTION

+ +

Freemasonry, though not a religion, is essentially religious. Most +of its legends and allegories are of a sacred nature; much of it is +woven into the structure of Christianity. We have learned to +consider our own religion as the only inspired one, and this +probably accounts for much of the misunderstanding in the world +today concerning the place occupied by Freemasonry in the spiritual +ethics of our race. A religion is a divinely inspired code of +morals. A religious person is one inspired to nobler livi ng by +this code. He is identified by the code which is his source of +illumination. Thus we may say that a Christian is one who receives +his spiritual ideals of right and wrong from the message of the +Christ, while a Buddhist is one who molds his life into the +archetype of morality given by the great Gautama, or one of the +other Buddhas. All doctrines which seek to unfold and preserve +that invisible spark in man named Spirit, are said to be spirit +ual. Those which ignore this invisible element and concent rate +entirely upon the visible are said to be material. There is in +religion a wonderful point of balance, where the materialist and +spiritist meet on the plane of logic and reason. Science and +theology are two ends of a single truth, but the world will never +receive the full benefit of their investigations until they have +made peace with each other, and labor hand in hand for the +accomplishment of the great work - the liberation of spirit and in +telligence from the three-dimensional prison-house of ignora nce, +superstition, and fear. That which gives man a knowledge of himself +can be inspired only by the Self - and God is the Self in all +things. In truth, He is the inspiration and the thing inspired. It +has been stated in Scripture that God was the Word and that the +Word was made flesh. Man's task now is to make flesh reflect the +glory of that Word, which is within the soul of himself. It is +this task which has created the need of religion - not one faith +alone but many creeds, each searching in its own way, e ach meeting +the needs of individual people, each emphasizing one point above +all the others.

+ +

Twelve Fellow Craftsmen are exploring the four points of the +compass. Are not these twelve the twelve great world religions, +each seeking in its own way for that which was lost in the ages +past, and the quest of which is the birthright of man? Is not the +quest for Reality in a world of illusions the task for which each +comes into the world? We are here to gain balance in a sphere of +unbalance; to find rest in a restless thing; to unveil illusion; +and to slay the dragon of our own animal natures. As David, King +of Israel, gave to the hands of his son Solomon the task he could +not accomplish, so each generation gives to the next the work of +building the temple, or rather, rebuilding the dwelling of the +Lord, which is on Mount Moriah.

+ +

Truth is not lost, yet it must be sought for and found. Reality is +ever-present - dimensionless yet all-prevailing. Man - creature of +attitudes and desires, and servant of impressions and opinions - +cannot, with the wavering unbalance of an untutored mind, learn to +know that which he himself does not possess. As man attains a +quality, he discovers that quality, and recognizes about him the +thing newborn within himself. Man is born with eyes, yet only +after long years of sorrow does he learn to see clearl y and in +harmony with the Plan. He is born with senses, but only after long +experience and fruitless strivings does he bring these senses to +the temple and lays them as offerings upon the altar of the great +Father, who alone does all things well and with understanding. Man +is, in truth, born in the sin of ignorance, but with a capacity for +understanding. He has a mind capable of wisdom, a heart capable of +feeling, and a hand strong for the great work in life - truing the +rough ashlar into the perfect sto ne.

+ +

What more can any creature ask than the opportunity to prove the +thing he is, the dream that inspires him, the vision that leads him +on? We have no right to ask for wisdom. In whose name do we beg +for understanding? By what authority do we demand happiness? None +of these things is the birthright of any creature; yet all may have +them, if they will cultivate within themselves the thing that they +desire. There is no need of asking, nor does any Deity bow down to +give man these things that he desires. Man i s given by Nature, a +gift, and that gift is the privilege of labor. Through labor he +learns all things.

+ +

Religions are groups of people, gathered together in the labor of +learning. The world is a school. We are here to learn, and our +presence here proves our need of instruction. Every living +creature is struggling to break the strangling bonds of limitation +- that pressing narrowness which inhabits vision and leaves the +life without an ideal. Every soul is engaged in a great work - the +labor of personal liberation from the state of ignorance. The +world is a great prison; its bars are the Unknown. And eac h is a +prisoner until, at last, he earns the right to tear these bars from +their moldering sockets, and pass, illuminated and inspired, into +the darkness, which becomes lighted by that presence. All peoples +seek the temple where God dwells, where the spirit of the great +Truth illuminates the shadows of human ignorance, but they know not +which way to turn nor where this temple is. The mist of dogma +surrounds them. Ages of thoughtlessness bind them in. Limitation +weakens them and retards their footsteps. They wander in darkness +seeking light, failing to realize that the Eght is in the heart of +the darkness.

+ +

To the few who have found Him, God is revealed. These, in turn, +reveal Him to man, striving to tell ignorance the message of +wisdom. But seldom does man understand the mystery that has been +unveiled. He tries weakly to follow in the steps of those who have +attained, but all too often finds the path more difficult than he +even dreamed. So he kneels in prayer before the mountain he cannot +climb, from whose top gleams the light which he is neither strong +enough to reach nor wise enough to comprehend. He l ives the law +as he knows it, always fearing in his heart that he has not read +aright the flaming letters in the sky, and that in living the +letter of the Law he has murdered the spirit. Man bows humbly to +the Unknown, peopling the shadows of his own ignorance with saints +and saviors, ghosts and spectres, gods and demons. Ignorance fears +all things, falling, terror-stricken before the passing wind. +Superstition stands as the monument to ignorance, and b efore it +kneel all who realize their own weakness; wh o see in all things +the strength they do not possess; who give to sticks and stones the +power to bruise them; who change the beauties of Nature into the +dwelling place of ghouls and ogres. Wisdom fears no thing, but +still bows humbly to its own Source. While superstition hates all +things, wisdom, with its deeper understanding, loves all things; +for it has seen the beauty, the tenderness, and the sweetness which +underlie Life's mystery.

+ +

Life is the span of time appointed for accomplishment. Every +fleeting moment is an opportunity, and those who are great are the +ones who have recognized life as the opportunity for all things. +Arts, sciences, and religions are monuments standing for what +humanity has already accomplished. They stand as memorials to the +unfolding mind of man, and through them man acquires more efficient +and more intelligent methods of attaining prescribed results. +Blessed are those who can profit by the experiences of ot hers; +who, adding to that which has already been built, can make their +inspiration real, their dreams practical. Those who give man the +things he needs, while seldom appreciated in their own age, are +later recognized as the Saviors of the human race. + +Masonry is a structure built upon experience. Each stone is a +sequential step in the unfolding of intelligence. The shrines of +Masonry are ornamented by the jewels of a thousand ages; its +rituals ring with the words of enlightened seers and illuminated +sages. A hundred religions have brought their gifts of wisdom to +its altar. Arts and sciences unnumbered have contributed to its +symbolism. It is more than a faith; it is a path of certainty. It +is more than a belief; it is a fact. Masonry is a univers ity, +teaching the liberal arts and sciences of the soul to all who will +attend to its words. It is a shadow of the great Atlantean Mystery +School, which stood with all its splendor in the ancient City of +the Golden Gates, where now the turbulent Atlantic rolls in +unbroken sweep. Its chairs are seats of learning; its pillars +uphold the arch of universal education, not only in material +things, but also in those qualities which are of the spirit. Up on +its trestleboards are inscribed the sacred truths of all nations +and of all peoples, and upon those who understand its sacred depths +has dawned the great Reality. Masonry is, in truth, that long-lost +thing which all peoples have sought in all ages. Masonry is the +common denominator as well as the common devisor of human +aspiration.

+ +

Most of the religions of the world are like processions: one leads, +and the many follow. In the footsteps of the demigods, man follows +in his search for truth and illumination. The Christian follows +the gentle Nazarene up the winding slopes of Calvary. The Buddhist +follows his great emancipator through his wanderings in the +wilderness. The Mohammedan makes his pilgrimage across the desert +sands to the black tent at Mecca. Truth leads, and ignorance +follows in his train. Spirit blazes the trail, and matter follows +behind. In the world today ideals live but a moment in their +purity, before the gathering hosts of darkness snuff out the +gleaming spark. The Mystery School, however, remains unmoved. It +does not bring its light to man; man must bring his light to it. +Ideals, coming into the world, become idols within a few short +hours, but man, entering the gates of the sanctuary, changes the +idol back to an ideal.

+ +

Man is climbing an endless flight of steps, with his eyes fixed +upon the goal at the top. Many cannot see the goal, and only one +or two steps are visible before them. He has learned, however, one +great lesson - namely, that as he builds his own character he is +given strength to climb the steps. Hence a Mason is a builder of +the temple of character. He is the architect of a sublime mystery +- the gleaming, glowing temple of his own soul. He realizes that +he best serves God when he joins with the Great Ar chitect in +building more noble structures in the universe below. All who are +attempting to attain mastery through constructive efforts are +Masons at heart, regardless of religious sect or belief. A Mason +is not necessarily a member of a lodge. In a broad sense, he is +any person who daily tries to live the Masonic life, and to serve +intelligently the needs of the Great Architect. The Masonic +brother pledges himself to assist all other temple-builders in +whatever extremity of life; and in so doing he pled ges himself to +every living thing, for they are all temple-builders, building more +noble structures to the glory of the universal God.

+ +

The true Masonic Lodge is a Mystery School, a place where +candidates are taken out of the follies and foibles of the world +and instructed in the mysteries of life, relationships, and the +identity of that germ of spiritual essence within, which is, in +truth, the Son of God, beloved of His Father. The Mason views life +seriously, realizing that every wasted moment is a lost +opportunity, and that Omnipotence is gained only through +earnestness and endeavor. Above all other relationships he +recognizes the unive rsal brotherhood of every living thing. The +symbol of the clasped hands, explained in the Lodge, reflects his +attitude towards all the world, for he is the comrade of all +created things. He realizes also that his spirit is a glowing, +gleaming jewel which he must enshrine within a holy temple built by +the labor of his hands, the meditation of his heart, and the +aspiration of his soul. + +Freemasonry is a philosophy which is essentially creedless. It is +the truer for it. Its brothers bow to truth regardless of the +bearer; they serve light, instead of wrangling over the one who +brings it. In this way they prove that they are seeking to know +better the will and the dictates of the Invincible One. No truer +religion exists than that of world comradeship and brotherhood, for +the purpose of glorifying one God and building for Him a temple of +constructive attitude and noble character.

+ +

PROLOGUE

+ +

IN THE FIELDS OF CHAOS

+ +

The first flush of awakening Life pierced the impenetrable expanse +of Cosmic Night, turning the darkness of negation into the dim +twilight of unfolding being. Silhouetted against the shadowy +gateways of Eternity, the lonely figure of a mystic stranger stood +upon the nebulous banks of swirling substance. Robed in a shimmery +blue mantle of mystery and his head encircled by a golden crown of +dazzling light, the darkness of Chaos fled before the rays that +poured like streams of living fire from his form divin e.

+ +

From some Cosmos greater far than ours this mystic visitor came, +answering the call of Divinity. From star to star he strode and +from world to universe he was known, yet forever concealed by the +filmy garments of chaotic night. Suddenly the clouds broke and a +wondrous light descended from somewhere among the seething waves of +force; it bathed this lonely form in a radiance celestial, each +sparkling crystal of mist gleaming like a diamond bathed in the +living fire of the Divine.

+ +

In the gleaming flame of cosmic light bordered by the dark clouds +of not-being two great forms appeared and a mighty Voice thrilled +eternity, each sparkling atom pulsating with the power of the +Creator's Word* while the great blue-robed figure bowed in awe +before the foot-stool of His Maker as a hand reached down from +heaven, its fingers extended the benediction.

+ +

"Of all creation I have chosen you and upon you my seal is placed. +You are the chosen instrument of my hand and I appoint you to be +the Builder of my Temple. You shall raise its pillars and tile its +floor; you shall ornament it with metals and with jewels and you +shall be the master of my workmen. In your hands I place the plans +and here on the tracing board of livig substance I have impressed +the plan you are to follow, tracing its every letter and angle in +the fiery lines of my moving finger. Hiram Ab iff, chosen builder +of your Father's house, up and to your work. Yonder are the fleecy +clouds, the

+ +

* The Creative Fiat, or rate of vibration through which all things +are created.

+ +

gray mists of dawn, the gleams of heavenly light, and the darkness +of the sleep of creation. From these shall you build, without the +sound of hammer or the voice of workmen, the temple of your God, +eternal in the heavens. The swirling, ceaseless motion of negation +you shall chain to grind your stones. Among these spirits of +not-being shall you slack your lime and lay your footings; for I +have watched you through the years of your youth; I have guided you +through the days of your manhood. I have weighed y ou in the +balance and you have not been found wanting. Therefore, to you +give I the glory of work, and here ordain you as the Builder of my +House. Unto you I give the word of the Master Builder; unto you I +give the tools of the craft; unto you I give the power that has +been vested in me. Be faithful unto these things. Bring them back +when you have finished, and I will give you the name known to God +alone. So mote it be."

+ +

The great light died out of the heavens, the streaming fingers of +living light vanished in the misty, lonely twilight, and again +covered not-being with its sable mantle. Hiram Abiff again stood +alone, gazing out into the endless ocean of oblivion - nothing but +swirling, seething matter as far as eye could see. Then he +straightened his shoulders and, taking the trestleboard in his +hands and clasping to his heart the glowing Word of the Master, +walked slowly away and was swallowed up in the mists of primord ial +dawn.

+ +

How may man measure timeless eternity? Ages passed, and the lonely +Builder labored with his plan with only love and humility in his +heart, his hand molding the darkness which he blessed while his +eyes were raised above where the Great Light had shone down from +heaven. In the divine solitude he labored, with no voice to cheer, +no spirit to condemn - alone in the boundless all with the great +chill of the morning mist upon his brow, but his heart still warm +with the light of the Master's Word. It seemed a ho peless task. +No single pair of hands could mold that darkness; no single heart, +no matter how true, could be great enough to project pulsing cosmic +love into the cold mist of oblivion. Though the darkness settled +ever closer about him and the misty fingers of negation twined +round his being, still with divine trust the Builder labored; with +divine hope he laid his footings, and from the boundless clay he +made the molds to cast his sacred ornaments. Slowl y the building +grew and dim forms molded by the Maste r's hand took shape about +him. Three huge, soulless creatures had the Master fashioned, great +beings which loomed like grim spectres in the semi-darkness. They +were three builders he had blessed and now in stately file they +passed before him, and Hiram held out his arms to his creation, +saying, "Brothers, I have built you for your works. I have formed +you to labor with me in the building of the Master's house. You +are the children of my being; I have labored with yo u, now labor +with me for the glory of o ur God."

+ +

But the spectres laughed. Turning upon their maker and striking him +with his own tools given him by God out of heaven, they left their +Grand Master dying in the midst of his labors, broken and crushed +by the threefold powers of cosmic night. As he lay bleeding at the +feet of his handiwork the martyred Builder raised his eyes to the +seething clouds, and his face was sweet with divine love and cosmic +understanding as he prayed unto the Master who had sent him forth:

+ +

"O Master of Workmen, Great Architect of the universe, my labors +are not finished. Why must they always remain undone? I have not +completed the thing for which Thou hast sent me unto being, for my +very creations have turned against me and the tools Thou gavest me +have destroyed me. The children that I formed in love, in their +ignorance have murdered me. Here, Father, is the Word Thou gavest +me now red with my own blood. O Master, I return it to Thee for I +have kept it sacred in my heart. Here are the too ls, the tracing +board, and the vessels I have wrought. Around me stand the ruins +of my temple which I must leave. Unto Thee, O God, the divine +Knower of all things, I return them all, realizing that in Thy good +time lies the fulfillment of all things. Thou, O God, knowest our +down-sitting and our uprising and Thou understandest our thoughts +afar off. In Thy name, Father, I have labored and in Thy cause I +die, a faithful builder."

+ +

The Master fell back, his upturned face sweet in the last repose of +death, and the light rays no longer pouring from him. The gray +clouds gathered closer as though to form a winding sheet around the +body of their murdered Master.

+ +

Suddenly the heavens opened again and a shaft of light bathed the +form of Hiram in a glory celestial. Again the Voice spoke from the +heavens where the Great King sat upon the clouds of creation: "He +is not dead; he is asleep. Who will awaken him? His labors are not +done, and in death he guards the sacred relics more closely than +ever, for the Word and the tracing board are his - I have given +them to him. But he must remain asleep until these three who have +slain him shall bring him back to life, for ever y wrong must be +righted, and the slayers of my house, the destroyers of my temple, +must labor in the place of their Builder until they raise their +Master from the dead."

+ +

The three murderers fell on their knees and raised their hands to +heaven as though to ward off the light which had disclosed their +crime: "O God, great is our sin, for we have slain our Grand +Master, Hiram Abiff! Just is Thy punishment and as we have slain +him we now dedicate our lives to his resurrection. The first was +our human weakness, the second our sacred duty."

+ +

"Be it so," answered the Voice from Heaven. The great Light +vanished and the clouds of darkness and mist concealed the body of +the murdered Master. It was swallowed up in the swirling darkness +which left no mark, no gravestone to mark the place where the +Builder had lain.

+ +

"O God!" cried the three murderers, "where shall we find our Master +now?"

+ +

A hand reached down again from the Great Unseen and a tiny lamp was +handed them, whose oil flame burned silently and clearly in the +darkness. "By this light shall ye seek him whom ye have slain."

+ +

The three forms surrounded the light and bowed in prayer and +thanksgiving for this solitary gleam which was to light the +darkness of their way. From somewhere above in the regions of +not-being the great Voice spoke, a thundering Voice that filled +Chaos with its sound: "He cometh forth as a flower and is cut down; +he teeth also as a shadow and continueth not; as the waters fail +from the sea and the flood decayeth and drieth up, so man lieth +down and riseth not again. Yet have I compassion upon the children +of my creation; I administer unto them in time of trouble and save +them with an everlasting salvation. Seek ye where the broken twig +lies and the dead stick molds away, where the clouds float together +and the stones rest by the hillside, for all these mark the grave +of Hiram who has carried my Will with him to the tomb. This +eternal quest is yours until ye have found your Builder, until the +cup giveth up its secret, until the grave givet h up its ghosts. +No more shall I speak until ye have found and rais ed my beloved +Son, and have listened to the words of my Messenger and with Him as +your guide have finished the temple which I shall then inhabit. +Amen."

+ +

The gray dawn still lay asleep in the arms of darkness. Out +through the great mystery of not-being all was silence, unknowable. +Through the misty dawn, like strange phantoms of a dream, three +figures wandered over the great Unknown carrying in their hands a +tiny light, the lamp given to them by their Builder's Father. Over +stick and stone and cloud and star they wandered, eternally in +search of a silent grave, stopping again and again to explore the +depths of some mystic recess, praying for liberation fr om their +endless search; yet bound by their vows to raise the Builder they +had slain, whose grave was marked by the broken twig, and whose +body was laid away in the white winding sheet of death somewhere +over the brow of the eternal hill.

+ +

TEMPLE BUILDERS

+ +

You are the temple builders of the future. With your hands must be +raised the domes and spires of a coming civilization. Upon the +foundation you have laid, tomorrow shall build a far more noble +edifice. Builders of the temple of character wherein should dwell +an enlightened spirit; truers of the rock of relationship; molders +of those vessels created to contain the oil of life: up, and to the +task appointed! Never before in the history of men have you had the +opportunity that now confronts you. The world waits - waits for the +illuminated one who shall come from between the pillars of the +portico. Humility, hoodwinked and bound, seeks entrance to the +temple of wisdom. Fling wide the gate, and let the worthy enter. +Fling wide the gate, and let the light that is the life of men +shine forth. Hasten to complete the dwelling of the Lord, that the +Spirit of God may come and dwell among His people, sanctified and +ordained according to His law.

+ +

CHAPTER I

+ +

THE ETERNAL QUEST

+ +

The average Mason, as well as the modern student of Masonic ideals, +little realizes the cosmic obligation he takes upon himself when he +begins his search for the sacred truths of Nature as they are +concealed in the ancient and modern rituals. He must not lightly +regard his vows, and if he would not bring upon himself years and +ages of suffering he must cease to consider Freemasonry solely as a +social order only a few centuries old. He must realize that the +ancient mystic teachings as perpetuated in the mo dern rites are +sacred, and that powers unseen and unrecognized mold the destiny of +those who consciously and of their own free will take upon +themselves the obligations of the Fraternity.

+ +

Freemasonry is not a material thing: it is a science of the soul; +it is not a creed or doctrine but a universal expression of the +Divine Wisdom.* The coming together of medieval guilds or even the +building of Solomon's temple as it is understood today has little, +if anything, to do with the true origin of Freemasonry, for Masonry +does not deal with personalities. In its highest sense, it is +neither historical nor archaeological, but is a divine symbolic +language perpetuating under certain concrete symbols the sacred +mysteries of the ancients. Only those who see in it a cosmic +study, a life work, a divine inspiration to better thinking, better +feeling, and better living, with the spiritual attainment of +enlightenment as the end, and with the daily life of the true Mason +as the means, have gained even the slightest insight into the true +mysteries of the ancient rites.

+ +

The age of the Masonic school is not to be calculated by hundreds +or even thousands of years, for it never had any origin in the +worlds of form. The world as we see it is merely an experimental +laboratory in which man is laboring to build and express greater +and more perfect vehicles. Into this laboratory pour myriads

+ +

*This term is used as synonymous with a very secret and sacred +philosophy that has existed for all time, and has been the +inspiration of the great saints and sages of all ages, i. e., the +perfect wisdom of God, revealing itself through a secret hierarchy +of illumined minds.

+ +

of rays descending from the cosmic hierarchies.* These mighty +globes and orbs which focus their energies upon mankind and mold +its destiny do so in an orderly manner, each in its own way and +place, and it is the working of these mystic hierarchies in the +universe which forms the pattern around which the Masonic school +has been built, for the true lodge of the Mason is the universe. +Freed of limitations of creed and sect, he stands a master of all +faiths, and those who take up the study of Freemasonry witho ut +realizing the depth, the beauty, and the spiritual power of its +philosophy can never gain anything of permanence from their +studies. The age of the Mystery Schools can be traced by the +student back to the dawn of time, ages and aeons ago, when the +temple of the Solar Man was in the making. That was the first +Temple of the King, and therein were given and laid down the true +mysteries of the ancient lodge, and it was the gods of creation and +th e spirits of the dawn who first tiled the Master's lodge.

+ +

The initiated brother realizes that his so called symbols and +rituals are merely blinds

+ +

*The groups of celestial intelligences governing the creative +processes in cosmos.

+ +

fabricated by the wise to perpetuate ideas incomprehensible to the +average individual. He also realizes that few Masons of today know +or appreciate the mystic meaning concealed within these rituals. +With religious faith we perpetuate the form, worshiping it instead +of the life, but those who have not recognized the truth in the +crystallized ritual, those who have not liberated the spiritual +germ from the shell of empty words, are not Masons, regardless of +their physical degrees and outward honors.

+ +

In the work we are taking up it is not the intention to dwell upon +the modern concepts of the Craft but to consider Freemasonry as it +really is to those who know, a great cosmic organism whose true +brothers and children are tied together not by spoken oaths but by +lives so lived that they are capable of seeing through the blank +wall and opening the window which is now concealed by the rubbish +of materiality. When this is done and the mysteries of the +universe unfold before the aspiring candidate, then in t ruth he +discovers what Freemasonry really is. Its material aspects +interest him no longer for he has unmasked the Mystery School which +he is capable of recognizing only when he himself has spiritually +become a member of it.

+ +

Those who have examined and studied its ancient lore have no doubt +that Freemasonry, like the universe itself, which is the greatest +of all schools, deals with the unfolding of a three-fold principle; +for all the universe is governed by the same three kings who are +called the builders of the Masonic temple. They are not +personalities but principles, great intelligent energies and powers +which in God, man, and the universe have charge of the molding of +cosmic substance into the habitation of the living king , the +temple built through the ages first of unconscious and then +conscious effort on the part of every individual who is expressing +in his daily life the creative principles of these three kings. + +The true brodaer of the ancient Craft realized that the completion +of the temple he was building to the King of the Universe was a +duty or rather a privilege which he owed to his God, to his +brother, and to himself. He knew that certain steps must be taken +and that his temple must be built according to the plan. Today it +seems that the plan is lost, however, for in the majority of cases +Freemasonry is no longer an operative art but is merely a +speculative idea until each brother, reading the mystery of hi s +symbols and pondering over the beautiful allegories unfolded in his +ritual, realizes that he himself contains the keys and the plans so +long lost to his Craft and that if he would ever learn Freemasonry +he must unlock its doors with the key wrought from the base metals +of his own being.

+ +

True Freemasonry is esoteric; it is not a thing of this world. All +that we have here is a link, a doorway, through which the student +may pass into the unknown. Freemasonry has nothing to do with +things of form save that it realizes form is molded by and +manifests the life it contains. Consequently the student is +seeking so to mold his life that the form will glorify the God +whose temple he is slowly building as he awakens one by one the +workmen within himself and directs them to carry out the plan that +h as been given him out of heaven.

+ +

So far as it is possible to discover, ancient Freemasonry and the +beautiful cosmic allegories that it teaches, perpetuated through +hundreds of lodges and ancient mysteries, forms the oldest of the +Mystery Schools;* and its preser-

+ +

* This is a term used by the ancients to designate the esoteric +side of their religious ceremonials. The candidate passing through +these mysteries was initiated into the mysteries of Nature and the +arcane side of natural law.

+ +

vation through the ages has not depended upon itself as an exoteric +body of partly evolved individuals but upon a concealed +brotherhood, the exoteric side of Freemasonry. All the great +mystery, Schools have hierarchies upon the spiritual planes of +Nature which are expressing themselves in this world through creeds +and organizations. The true student seeks to lift himself from the +exoteric body upward spiritually until he joins the esoteric group +which, without a lodge on the physical plane of Nature, is fa r +greater than all the lodges of which it is the central fire. The +spiritual instructors of humanity are forced to labor in the +concrete world with things comprehensible to the concrete mind, and +there man begins to comprehend the meaning of the allegories and +symbols which surround his exoteric work as soon as he prepares +himself to receive them. The true Mason realizes that the work of +the Mystery Schools in the world is of an inclusive rathe r than an +exclusive nature, and that the only lodge which is b road enough to +express his ideals is one whose dome is the heavens, whose pillars +are the corners of creation, whose checker-board floor is composed +of the crossing currents of human emotion and whose altar is the +human heart. Creeds cannot bind the true seeker for truth. +Realizing the unity of all truth, the Mason also realizes that the +hierarchies laboring with him have given him in his varying degrees +the mystic spiritual rituals of all the Mystery S chools in the +world, and if he would fill his place i n the plan he must not +enter this sacred study for what he can get out of it but that he +may learn how to serve.

+ +

In Freemasonry is concealed the mystery of creation, the answer to +the problem of existence, and the path the student must tread in +order to join those who are really the living powers behind the +thrones of modern national and international affairs. The true +student realizes most of all that the taking of degrees does not +make a man a Mason. A Mason is not appointed; he is evolved and he +must realize that the position he holds in the exoteric lodge means +nothing compared to his position in the spiritual l odge of life. +He must forever discard the idea that he can be told or instructed +in the sacred Mysteries or that his being a member of an +organization improves him in any way. He must realize that his +duty is to build and evolve the sacred teachings in his own being: +that nothing but his own purified being can unlock the door to the +sealed libraries of human consciousness, and that his Masonic rites +must eternally be speculative until he makes them opera tive by +living the life of the mystic Mason. His ka rmic responsibilities +increase with his opportunities. Those who are surrounded with +knowledge and opportunity for self-improvement and make nothing of +these opportunities are the lazy workmen who will be spiritually, +if not physically, cast out of the temple of the king.

+ +

The Masonic order is not a mere social organization, but is +composed of all those who have banded themselves together to learn +and apply the principles of mysticism and the occult rites. They +are (or should be) philosophers, sages and sober-minded individuals +who have dedicated thernselves upon the Masonic altar and vowed by +all they hold dear that the world shall be better, wiser, and +happier because they have lived. Those who enter these mystic +rites and pass between the pillars seeking either prestige or +commercial advantage are blasphemers, and while in this world we +may count them as successful, they are the cosmic failures who have +barred themselves out from the true rite whose keynote is +unselfishness and whose workers have renounced the things of earth.

+ +

In ancient times many years of preparation were required before the +neophyte was permitted to enter the temple of the Mysteries. In +this way the shallow, the curious, the faint of heart, and those +unable to withstand the temptations of life were automatically +eliminated by their inability to meet the requirements for +admission. The successful candidate wbo did pass between the +pillars entered the temple, keenly realizing his sublime +opportunity, his divine obligation, and the mystic privilege which +he had earned for himself through years of special preparation. +Only those are truly Masons who enter their temple in reverence, +who seek not the ephemeral things of life but the treasures which +are eternal, whose sole desire is to know the true mystery of the +Craft that they may join as honest workmen those who have gone +before as builders of the Universal Temple. The Masonic ritual is +not a ceremony, but a life to be lived. Those alone are truly +Masons who, dedicating their lives and their fortunes upo n the a +ltar of the living flame, undertake the construction of the one +universal building of which they are the workmen and their God the +living Architect. When we have Masons like this the Craft will +again be operative, the flaming triangle will shine forth with +greater lustre, the dead builder will rise from his tomb, and the +Lost Word so long concealed from the profane will blaze forth again +with the power that makes all things new.

+ +

In the pages that follow have been set down a number of thoughts +for the study and consideration of temple builders, craftsmen and +artisans alike. They are the keys which, if only read, will leave +the student still in ignorance but, if lived, will change the +speculative Masonry of today into the operative Masonry of +tomorrow, when each builder, realizing his own place, will see +things which he never saw before, not because they were not there +but because he was blind. And there are none so blind as those who +will not see.

+ +

THOUGHTLESSNESS

+ +

The noblest tool of the Mason is his mind, but its value is +measured by the use made of it. Thoughtful in all things, the +aspiring candidate to divine wisdom attains reality in sincere +desire, in meditation, and in silence. Let the keynote of the +Craft, and of the Ritual, be written in blazing letters: THINK OF +ME. What is the meaning of this mystic maze of symbols, rites and +rituals? THINK! What does life mean, with the criss-crossings of +human relationship, the endless pageantry of qualities masqueradin +g in a carnival of fools? THINK! What is the plan behind it all, +and who the planner? Where dwells the Great Architect, and what is +the tracing board upon which he designs? THINK! What is the human +soul, and why the endless yearning to ends unknown, along pathways +where each must wander unaccompanied? Why mind, why soul, why +spirit, and in truth, why anything? THINK! Is there an answer? If +so, where will the truth be found? Think, Brothers o f the Craft, +think deeply; for if truth exists, you have it, and if truth be +within the reach of living creature, what other goal is worth the +struggle?

+ +

CHAPTERII

+ +

THE CANDIDATE

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There comes a time in the growth of every living individual thing +when it realizes with dawning consciousness that it is a prisoner. +While apparently free to move and have its being, the struggling +life cognizes through ever greater vehicles its own limitations. +It is at this point that man cries out with greater insistence to +be liberated from the binding ties which, though invisible to +mortal eyes, still chain him with bonds far more terrible than +those of any physical prison.

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Many have read the story of the prisoner of Chillon who paced back +and forth in the narrow confines of his prison cell, while the blue +waters rolled ceaselessly above his head and the only sound that +broke the stillness of his eternal night was the constant swishing +and lapping of the waves. We pity the prisoner in his physical +tomb and we are sad at heart, for we know how life loves liberty. +But there is one prisoner whose plight is far worse than those of +earth. He has not even the narrow confines of a prison cell around +Him; He cannot pace ceaselessly to and fro and wear ruts in the +cobblestones of His dungeon floor. That eternal Prisoner is Life +incarnate within the dark stone walls of matter, with not a single +ray to brighten the blackness of His fate. He fights eternally, +praying in the dark confines of gloomy walls for light and +opportunity. This is the eternal Prisoner who, through the +ceaseless ages of cosmic unfoldment, through forms unnumbered an d +species now unknown, strives eternally to libe rate Himself and +gain self conscious expression, the birthright of every created +thing. He awaits the day when, standing upon the rocks that now +form His shapeless tomb, He may raise His arms to heaven, bathed in +the sunlight of spiritual freedom, free to join the sparkling atoms +and dancing light-beings released from the bonds of prison wall and +tomb.

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Around Life - that wondrous germ in the heart of every living +thing, that sacred Prisoner in His gloomy cell, that Master Builder +laid away in the grave of matter - has been built the wondrous +legend of the Holy Sepulchre. Under allegories unnumbered, the +mystic philosophers of the ages, have perpetuated this wonderful +story, and among the Craft Masons it forms the mystic ritual of +Hiram, the Master Builder, murdered in his temple by the very +builders who should have served him as he labored to perfect the +dwelling place of his God.

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Matter is the tomb. It is the dead wall of substance not yet +awakened into the pulsating energies of Spirit. It exists in many +degrees and forms, not only in the chemical elements which form the +solids of our universe but in finer and more subtle substances. +These, though expressing through emotion and thought, are still +beings of the world of form. These substances form the great cross +of matter which opposes the growth of all things and by opposition +makes all growth possible. It is the great cross o f hydrogen, +nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon upon which even the life germ in +protoplasm is crucified and suspended in agony. These substances +are incapable of giving it adequate expression. The Spirit within +cries out for freedom: freedom to be, to express, to manifest its +true place in the Great Plan of cosmic unfoldment.

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It is this great yearning within the heart of man which sends him +slowly onward toward the gate of the Temple; it is this inner urge +for greater understanding and greater light which brought into +being through the law of necessity the great cosmic Masonic Lodge +dedicated to those seeking union with the Powers of Light that +their prison walls might be removed. This shell cannot be +discarded: it must be raised into union with the Life; each dead, +crystallized atom in the human body tnust be set vibrating and +spinning to a higher rate of consciousness. Through purification, +through knowledge, and through service to his fellow man the +candidate sequentially unfolds these mystic properties, building +better and more perfect bodies through which his higher life +secures even greater manifestation. The expression of man through +constructive thought, emotion, and action liberates the higher +nature from bodies which in their crystallized states are incapa +ble of giving him his natural opportunities. + +In Freemasonry this crystallized substance of matter is called the +grave and represents the Holy Sepulchre. This is the grave within +which the lost Builder lies and with Him are the plans of the +Temple and the Master's Word, and it is this builder, our Grand +Master, whom we must seek and raise from the dead. This noble Son +of Light cries out to us in every expression of matter. Every +stick and stone marks His resting place, and the sprig of acacia +promises that through the long winter of spiritual darkne ss when +the sun does not shine for man, this Light still awaits the day of +liberation when each one of us shall raise Him by the grip of the +Grand Master, the true grip of a Master Mason. We cannot hear this +Voice that calls eternally, but we feel its inner urge. A great +unknown something pulls at our heartstrings. As the ages roll by, +the deep desire to be greater, to live better, and to think God's +thoughts, builds within ourselves the qualifica tions of a +candidate who, when asked why he takes the path , would truly +answer if he knew mentally the things he feels: "I hear a voice +that cries out to me from flora and fauna, from the stones, from +the clouds, from the very heaven itself. Each fiery atom spinning +and twisting in Cosmos cries out to me with the voice of my Master. +I can hear Hiram Abiff, my Grand Master, crying out in his agony, +the agony of life hidden within the darkness of its prison walls, +seeking for the expression which I have denied it, lab oring, to +bring closer the day of its liberation , and I have learned to know +that I am responsible for those walls. My daily actions are the +things which as ruffians and traitors are murdering my God."

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There are many legends of the Holy Sepulchre which for so many +centuries had been in the hands of the infidel and which the +Christian worlds sought to retake in the days of the Crusades. Few +Masons realize that this Holy Sepulchre, or tomb, is in reality +negation and crystallization - matter that has sealed within itself +the Spirit of Life which must remain in darkness until the growth +of each individual being gives it walls of glowing gold and changes +its stones into windows. As we develop better and bet ter vehicles +of expression, these walls slowly expand until at last Spirit rises +triumphant from its tomb and, blessing the very walls that confined +it, raises them to union with itself.

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We may first consider the murderers of Hiram. These three +ruffians, who, when the Builder seeks to leave his temple, strike +him with the tools of his own Craft until finally they slay him and +bring the temple down in destruction upon their own heads, +symbolize the three expressions of our own lower natures which are +in truth the murderers of the good within ourselves. These three +may be called thought, desire, and action. When purified and +transmuted they are three glorious avenues through which may mani +fest the great life power of the three kings, the glowing builders +of the Cosmic Lodge manifesting in this world as spiritual thought, +constructive emotion, and useful daily labor in the various places +and positions where we find ourselves while carrying on the +Master's work. These three form the Flaming Triangle which +glorifies every living Mason, but when crystallized and perverted +they form a triangular prison through which the light cann ot shine +and the Life is forced to languish in the dim darkness of despair, +until man himself through his higher understanding liberates the +energies and powers which are indeed the builders and glorifiers of +his Father's House.

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Now let us consider how these three fiery kings of the dawn became, +through perversion of their manifestation by man, the ruffians who +murdered Hiram - the energizing powers of cosmos which course +through the blood of every living being, seeking to beautify and +perfect the temple they would build according to the plan laid down +on the tracing board by the Master Architect of the universe. +First in the mind is one of the three kings, or rather we shall say +a channel through which he manifests; for King Solo mon is the +power of mind which, perverted, becomes a destroyer who tears down +with the very powers which nourish and build. The right +application of thought, when seeking the answer to the cosmic +problem of destiny, liberates man's spirit which soars above the +concrete through that wonderful power of mind, with its dreams and +its ideals.

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When man's thoughts rise upon the wings of aspiration, when he +pushes back the darkness with the strength of reason and logic, +then indeed the builder is liberated from his dungeon and the light +pours in, bathing him with life and power. This light enables us +to seek more clearly the mystery of creation and to find with +greater certainty our place in the Great Plan, for as man unfolds +his bodies he gains talents with which he can explore the mysteries +of Nature and search for the hidden workings of the Div ine. +Through these powers the Builder is liberated and his consciousness +goes forth conquering and to conquer. These higher ideals, these +spiritual concepts, these altruistic, philanthropic, educative +applications of thought power glorify the Builder; for they give +the power of expression and those who can express themselves are +free. When man can mold his thoughts, his emotions, and his actions +into faithful expressions of his highest ideals then li berty is +his, for ignorance is the darkness of Chaos and knowledge is the +light of Cosmos.

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In spite of the fact that many of us live apparently to gratify the +desires of the body and as servants of the lower nature, still +there is within each of us a power which may remain latent for a +great length of time. This power lives eternities perhaps, and yet +at some time during our growth there comes a great yearning for +freedom, when, having discovered that the pleasures of sense +gratification are eternally elusive and unsatisfying, we make an +examination of ourselves and begin to realize that there a re +greater reasons for our being. It is sometimes reason, sometimes +suffering, sometimes a great desire to be helpful, that brings out +the first latent powers which show that one long wandering in the +darkness is about to take the path that leads to Light. Having +lived life in all its experiences, he has learned to realize that +all the manifestations of being, all the various experiences +through which he passes, are steps leading in one direction; that, +consciously or unconsciously, all souls are being le d to the +portico of the temple where for the first time they see and realize +the glory of Divinity. It is then that they understand the age-old +allegory of the martyred Builder and feel his power within +themselves crying out from the prison of materiality. Nothing else +seems worth while; and, regardless of cost, suffering, or the +taunts of the world, the candidate slowly ascends the steps that +lead to the temple eternal. The reason that governs Cosmos he does +not know, the laws which mold his being he do es not realize, but +he does know that somewhere behind the veil of human ignorance +there is an eternal light toward which step by step he must labor. +With his eyes fixed on the heavens above and his hands clasped in +prayer he passes slowly as a candidate up the steps. In fear and +trembling, yet with a divine realization of good, he raps on the +door and awaits in silence the answer from within.

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CHAPTER III

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THE ENTERED APPRENTICE There are three grand steps in the +unfoldment of the human soul before it completes the dwelling place +of the spirit. These have been caged respectively youth, manhood, +and old age; or, as the Mason would say, the Entered Apprentice, +the Fellow Craft, and the Master Builder. All life passes through +these three grand stages of human consciousness. They can be +listed as the man on the outside looking in, the man going in, and +the man inside. The path of human life is governed as all things +are by the laws of analogy, and as at birth we start our +pilgrimmage through youth, manhood, and old age, so the spiritual +consciousness of man in his cosmic path of unfoldment passes from +unconsciousness to perfect consciousness in the Grand Lodge of the +universe. Before the initiation of the Entered Apprentice degree +can be properly understood and appreciated, certain requirements +must be considered, not merely those of the physical world but also +those of the spiritual world.

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The Mason must realize that his true initiation is a spiritual and +not a physical ritual, and that his initiation into the living +temple of the spiritual hierarchy regulating Freemasonry may not +occur until years after he has taken the physical degree, or +spiritually he may be a Grand Master before he comes into the +world. There are probably few instances in the history of +Freemasonry where the spiritual ordination of the aspiring seeker +took place at the same time as the physical initiation, because the +t rue initiation depends upon the cultivation of certain soul +qualities - an individual and personal matter which is left +entirely to the volition of the mystic Mason and which he must +carry out in silence and alone.

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The court of the tabernacle of the ancient Jews was divided into +three parts: the outer court, the holy place, and the most Holy of +Holies. These three divisions represent the three grand divisions +of human consciousness. The degree of Entered Apprentice is +acquired when the student signifies his intention to take the rough +ashlar which he cuts from the quarry and prepares for the truing of +the Fellow Craft.

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In other words, the first degree is really one of preparation; it +is a material step dealing with material things, for all spiritual +life must be raised upon a material foundation.

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Seven is the number of the Entered Apprentice as it relates to the +seven liberal arts and sciences, and these are the powers with +which the Entered Apprentice must labor before he is worthy to go +onward into the more elevated and advanced degrees. They are much +mistaken who believe that they can reach the spiritual planes of +Nature without first passing through and molding matter into the +expression of spiritual power; for the first stage in the growth of +a Master Mason is mastery of the concrete condition s of life and +the developments of sense centers which will later become channels +for the expression of spiritual truths.

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All growth is a gradual procedure carried on in an orderly, +masterly way, as exemplified by the opening and closing of a lodge. +The universe is divided into planes and these planes are divided +from each other by the rates of vibration which pass through them. +As the spiritual consciousness progresses through the chain, the +lower lose connection with it when it has raised itself above their +level, until finally only the Grand Masters are capable of +remaining in session, and unknown even to the Master Mason it +finally passes back again to the spiritual hierarchy from which it +came.

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Action is the keynote of the Entered Apprentice lodge. All growth +is the result of exercise and the intensifying of vibratory rates. +It is through exercise that the muscles of the human body are +strengthened; it is through the seven liberal arts and sciences +that the human mind receives certain impulses which, in turn, +stimulate internal centers of consciousness. These centers of +consciousness, through still greater development, will later give +fuller expression to these inner powers; but the Entered Appr +entice has for his first duty the awakening of these powers, and, +like the youth of whom he is a symbol, his ideals and labors must +be tied closely to concrete things. For him both points of the +compasses are under the square; for him the reasons which manifest +through the heart and mind - the two polarities of expression are +darkened and concealed beneath the square which measures the block +of bodies. He knows not the reason why; his work is t o follow the +directions of those whose knowledge is greater th an his own; but +as the result of the application of energies, through action and +reaction he slowly builds and evolves the powers of discrimination +and the strength of character which mark the Fellow Craft degree.

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It is obvious that the rough ashlar symbolizes the body. It also +represents cosmic root substance which is taken out of the quarry +of the universe by the first expressions of intelligence and molded +by them into ever finer and more perfect lines until finally it +becomes the perfect stone for the Builder's temple.

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How can emotion manifest save through form? How can mind manifest +until the intricately evolved brain cells of matter have raised +their organic quality to form the ground-work upon which other +things may be based? All students of human mature realize that +every expression of man depends upon organic quality; that in every +living thing this differs; and that the fineness of this matter is +the certain indication of growth - mental, physical or spiritual.

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True to the doctrines of his Craft, the Entered Apprentice must +beautify his temple. He must build within himself by his actions, +by the power of his hand and the tools of his Craft, certain +qualities which make possible his initiation into the higher +degrees of the spiritual lodge.

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We know that the cube block is symbolic of the tomb. It is also +well known that the Entered Apprentice is incapable of rolling away +the stone or of transmuting it into a greater or higher thing; but +it is his privilege to purify and glorify that stone and begin the +great work of preparing it for the temple of his King.

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Few realize that since the universe is made up of individuals in +various stages of development, responsibility is consequently +individual, and everything which man wishes to gain he must himself +build and maintain. If he is to use his finer bodies for the +purpose for which they were intended, he must treat them well, that +they may be good and faithful servants in the great work he is +preparing for.

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The quarries represent the limitless powers of natural resources. +They are symbolic of the practically endless field of human +opportunity; they symbolize the cosmic substances from which man +must gather the stones for his temple. At this stage in his +growth, the Entered Apprentice is privileged to gather the stones +which he wishes to true during his progress through the lodge, for +at this point he symbolizes the youth who is choosing his life +work. He represents the human ego who in the dawn of time gath +ered many blocks and cubes and broken stones from the Great Quarry. +These rough and broken stones that as yet will not fit into +anything are the partially evolved powers and senses with which he +labors. In the first state he must gather these materials, and +those who have not gathered them can never true them. During the +involuntary period of human consciousness, the Entered Apprentice +in the Great Lodge was man, who labored with these rough blocks, +seeking the tools and the power with which to true them . As he +evolves down through the ages, he gains the tools and cosmically +passes on to the degree of Fellow Craft where he trues his ashlar +in harmony with the plans upon the Master's tracing board. This +rough, uncut ashlar has three dimensions, representative of the +three ruffians who at this stage are destroyers of the fourth +dimensional life concealed within the ugly, ill-shaped stone.

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The lost key of the Entered Apprentice is service. Why, he may not +ask; when, he does not know. His work is to do, to act, to express +himself in some way - constructively if possible, but destructively +rather than not at all. Without action, he loses his great work; +without tools, which symbolize the body, he cannot act in an +organized manner. Consequently, it is necessary to master the arts +and sciences which place in his hands intelligent tools for the +expression of energy. Beauty is the keynote to h is ideal. With +his concrete ideals he must beautify all with which he comes in +contact, so that the works of his hand may be acceptable in the +eyes of the Great Architect of the Universe.

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His daily life, in home, business, and society, together with the +realization of the fundamental unity of each with all, form the +base upon which the aspiring candidate may raise a greater +superstructure. In truth he must live the life, the result of +which is the purification of his body, so that the more attenuated +forces of the higher degrees may express themselves through the +finer sensitivity of the receiving pole within himself. When he +reaches this stage in his growth, he is spiritually worthy to co +nsider advancement into a higher degree. This advancement is not +the result of election or ballot, but is an automatic process in +which, having sensitized his consciousness by his life, he thereby +attunes himself to the next succeeding plane of expression. All +initiation is the result of adjustments of the evolving life to the +physical, emotional, and mental planes of consciousness through +which it passes.

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We may now consider the spiritual requirements of one who feels +that he would mystically correlate himself with that great +spiritual fraternity which, concealed behind the exoteric rite, +forms the living power of the Entered Apprentice lodge:

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1. It is essential that the Entered Apprentice should have studied +sufficiently the subject of anatomy to have at least a general idea +of the physical body, for the entire degree is based upon the +mystery of form. The human body is the highest manifestation of +form which he is capable of analyzing. Consequently, he must +devote himself to the study of his own being and its mysteries and +complexities.

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2. The Entered Apprentice must realize that his body is the living +temple of the living God and treat it accordingly; for when he +abuses or mistreats it he breaks the sacred obligations which he +must assume before he can ever hope to understand the true +mysteries of the Craft. The breaking of his pact with the higher +Life evolving within himself unfailingly invokes the retributive +agencies of Nature.

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3. He must study the problem of the maintenance of bodies through +food, clothing, breathing, and other necessities, as all of these +are important steps in the Entered Apprentice lodge. Those who eat +immoderately, dress improperly, and use only about one-third of +their lung capacity can never have the physical efficiency +necessary for the fullest expression of the higher Life.

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4. He must grow physically and in the expression of concrete +things. Human relationships must be idealized at this time, and he +must seek to unfold all unselfish qualities which are necessary for +the harmonious working of the Mason and his fellow men on the +physical plane of Nature.

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5. He must seek to round off all inequalities. He can best do this +by balancing his mental and physical organisms through the +application and study of the seven liberal arts and sciences.

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Until he is relatively master of these principles on the highest +plane within his own being, he cannot hope spiritually to attract +to himself, through the qualities of his own character, the +life-giving ray of the Fellow Craft. When he reaches this point, +however, he is spiritually ready to hope for membership in a more +advanced degree.

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The Mason must realize that his innermost motives are the index of +his real self, and those who allow social position, financial or +business considerations or selfish and materialistic ideals, to +lead them into the Masonic Brotherhood have thereby automatically +separated themselves from the Craft. They can never do any harm to +Freemasonry by joining because they cannot get in. Ensconced within +the lodge, they may feel that they have deceived the Grand Master +of the Universe, but when the spiritual lodge me ets to carry on +the true work of the Craft, they are disqualified and absent. +Watch fobs, lapel badges, and other insignia do not make Masons; +neither does the ritual ordain them. Masons are evolved through +the self-conscious effort to live up to the highest ideals within +themselves; their lives are the sole insignia of their rank, +greater by far than any visible, tangible credential.

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Bearingy this in mind, it is possible for the unselfish, aspiring +soul to become spiritually and liberally vouched for by the centers +of consciousness as an Entered Apprentice. It means he has taken +the first grand step on the path of personal liberation. He is now +symbolized as the child with the smiling face, for with the +simplicity of a child he places himself under the protection of his +great spiritual Father, willing and glad to obey each of His +commands. Having reached this point and having done th e best it +was possible for him to do, he is in position to hope that the +powers that be, moving in their mysterious manner, may find him +worthy to undertake the second great step in spiritual liberation.

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CHAPTER IV THE FELLOW CRAFT

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Life manifests not only through action on the physical plane, but +through human emotion and sentiment. This is the type of energy +taken up by the student when he starts his labors in the Fellow +Craft. From youth with its smiling face, he passes on to the +greater responsibilities of manhood.

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On the second step of the temple stands a soldier dressed in +shining armor, but his sword is sheathed and a book is in his hand. +He is symbolic of strength, the energy of Mars, and the wonderful +step in spiritual unfoldment which we know as Fellow Craft. +Through each one of us course the fiery rays of human emotion, a +great seething cauldron of power behind each expression of human +energy. Like spirited horses chafing at the bit, like hounds eager +for the chase, the emotional powers cannot be held in che ck, but +break the walls of restraint and pour forth as fiery expressions of +dynamic energy. This great principle of emotion we know as the +second murderer of Hiram. Through the perversion of human emotions +there comes into the world untold sorrow, which through reaction, +manifests in the mental and physical bodies.

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It is strange how divine powers may become perverted until each +expression and urge becomes a ruffian and a murderer. The divine +compassion of the gods manifests in this world of form very +differently than in the realms of light. Divine compassion is +emergized by the same influxes as mortal passions and the lusts of +earth. The spiritual light rays of Cosmos - the Fire Princes of +the Dawn - which seethe and surge through the unregenerate man, are +the impulses which he perverts to murder and hate. The cea seless +power of Chaos, the seething pinwheel spiralds of perpetual motion, +whose majestic cadences are the music of the spheres, are energized +by the same great power that man uses to destroy the highest and +best. The same mystic power that keeps the planets in their orbits +around the solar body, the same energy that keeps each electron +spinning and whirling, the same energy that is building the temple +of God, is now a merciless slave-driver which , unmastered and +uncurbed, strikes the Compassionate One and sends him reeling +backward into the darkness of his prison. Man does not listen to +that little voice which speaks to him in ever loving, ever +sorrowful tones. This voice speaks of the peace accompanying the +constructive application of energy which he must chain if he would +master the powers of creation. How long will it take King Hiram of +Tyre, the warrior on the second step, symbolic of the Fellow Craft +of the Cosmic Lodge, to teach mankind the lessons of sel f-mastery? +The teacher can do it only as he daily depicts the miseries which +are the resilt of uncurbed appetites. The strength of man was not +given to be used destructively but that he might build a temple +worthy to be the dwelling place of the Great Architect of the +universe. God is glorifying himself through the individualized +portions of himself, and is slowly teaching these individualized +portions to understand and glorify the whole.

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The day has come when Fellow Craftsmen must know and apply their +knowledge. The lost key to their grade is the mastery of emotion, +which places the energy of the universe at their disposal. Man can +only expect to be entrusted with great power by proving his ability +to use it constructively and selflessly. When the Mason learns +that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application +of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his +Craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands and +before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to +properly apply energy. He must follow in the footsteps of his +forefather, Tubal-Cain, who with the mighty strength of the war god +hammered his sword into a plowshare. Incessant vigilance over +thought, action, and desire is indispensable to those who wish to +make progress in the unfolding of their own being, and the Fellow +Craft's degree is the degree of transmutation. The hand that slays +must lift the fallen, while the lips given to cursing must be +taught to pray. The heart that hates must learn the mystery of +compassion, as the result of a deeper and more perfect +understanding of man's relation to his brother. The firm, kind +hand of spirit must curb the flaming powers of emotion with an iron +grip. In the realization and application of these principles lies +the key of the Fellow Craft.

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In this degree, the two points of the compass (one higher than the +other), symbolize the heart and mind, and with the expression of +the higher emotions the heart point of the compass is liberated +from the square, which is an instrument used to measure the block +of matter and therefore symbolizes form.

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A large percentage of the people of the world at the present time +are passing through, spiritually, the degree of the Fellow Craft, +with its five senses. The sense perceptions come under the control +of the emotional energies, therefore the development of the senses +is necessary to the constructive expression of the Fellow Craft +power. Man must realize that all the powers which his many years +of need have earned for him have come in order that through them he +may liberate more fully the prisoner within his own being. As the +Fellow Craft degree is the middle of the three, the spiritual duty +of each member is to reach the point of poise or balance, which is +always secured between extremes. The mastery of expression is also +to be found in this degree. The keywords of the Fellow Craft may +be briefly defined as compassion, poise, and transmutation.

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In the Fellow Craft degree is concealed the dynamo of human life. +The Fellow Craft is the worker with elemental fire, which it is his +duty to transmute into spiritual light. The heart is the center of +his activity and it is while in this degree that the human side of +the nature with its constructive emotions should be brought out and +emphasized. But all of these expressions of the human heart must +become transmuted into the emotionless compassion of the gods, who +despite the suffering of the moment, gaze down upon mankind and see +that it is good.

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When the candidate feels that he has reached a point where he is +able to manifest every energizing current and fire-flame in a +constructive, balanced manner and has spiritually lifted the heart +sentiments of the mystic out of the cube of matter, he may then +expect that the degree of Master Mason is not far off, and so may +look forward eagerly to the time of his spiritual ordination into +the higher degree. He should now study himself and realize that he +cannot receive promotion into the spiritual lodge unti l his heart +is attuned to a superior, spiritual influx from the causal planes +of consciousness.

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The following requirements are necessary before the student can +spiritually say that he is a member of the ancient and accepted +rite of the Fellow Craft:

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1. The mastery of emotional outbreaks of all kinds, poise under +trying conditions, kindness in the face of unkindness, and +simplicity with its accompanying power. These points show that the +seeker is worthy of being taught by a Fellow Craftsman.

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2. The mastery of the animal energies, the curbing of passion and +desire, and the control of the lower nature mark the faithful +attempts on the part of the student to be worthy of the Fellow +Craft.

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3. The understanding and mastery of the creative forces, the +consecration of them to the unfolding of the spiritual nature, and +a proper understanding of their physical application, are necessary +steps at this stage of the student's growth.

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4. The transmutation of personal affection into impersonal +compassion shows that the Fellow Craftsman truly understands his +duties and is living in a manner worthy of his order. +Personalities cannot bind the true second degree member, for having +raised one point of the compasses he now realizes that all personal +manifestations are governed by impersonal principles.

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5. At this point the candidate consecrates the five senses to the +study of human problems with the unfolding of sense centers as the +motive; for he realizes that the five senses are keys, the proper +application of which will give him material for spiritual +transmutation if he will apply to them the common divisor of +analogy.

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The Entered Apprentice may be termed a materialistic degree. The +Fellow Craft is religious and mystical, while the Master Mason is +occult or philosophical. Each of these is a degree in the +unfoldment of a connected life and intelligence, revealing in ever +fuller expression the gradual liberation of the Master from the +trianglar cell of threefold negation which marks the early stage of +individualization.

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CHAPTER V THE MASTER MASON

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On the upper steps of spiritual unfoldment stands the Master Mason, +who spiritually represents the graduate from the school of esoteric +learning. In the ancient symbols he is represented as an old man +leaning upon a staff, his long white beard upon his chest, and his +deep, piercing eyes sheltered by the brows of a philosopher. He is +in truth old, not in years, but in wisdom and understanding, which +are the only true measurement of age. Through years and lives of +labor he has found the staff of life and tr uth upon which he +leans. He no longer depends upon the words of others but upon the +still voice that speaks from the heart of his own being. There is +no more glorious position that a man may hold than that of a Master +Builder, who has risen by labor through the degrees of human +consciousness. Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by +man to measure the passage of human events. On the spiritual +planes of Nature it is the space or distance between the s tages of +spiritual growth and hence is not m easurable by material means. +Many a child comes into this world a Grand Master of the Masonic +School, while many a revered and honored brother passes silently to +rest without having gained admittance to its gate. The Master +Mason is one whose life is full, pressed down and brimming over +with the experience he has gained in his slow pilgrimage up the +winding stairs.

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The Master Mason embodies the power of the human mind, that +connecting link which binds heaven and earth together in an endless +chain. His spiritual light is greater because he has evolved a +higher vehicle for its expression. Above even constructive action +and emotion soars the power of thought which swiftly flies on wings +to the source of Light. The mind is the highest form of his human +expression and he passes into the great darkness of the inner room +illuminated only by the fruits of reason. The glor ious privileges +of a Master Mason are in keeping with his greater knowledge and +wisdom. From the student he has blossomed forth as the teacher; +from the kingdom of those who follow he has joined that little +group who must always lead the way. For him the Heavens have +opened and the Great Light has bathed him in its radiance. The +Prodigal Son, so long a wanderer in the regions of darkness, has +returned again to his Father's house. The voice speaks from the +Heavens, its power thrilling the Master until hi s own being seems +filled with its divinity, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom +I am well pleased." The ancients taught that the sun was not a +source of light, life, or power, but a medium through which life +and light were reflected into physical substance. The Master Mason +is in truth a sun, a great reflector of light, who radiates through +his organism, purified by ages of preparation, the glorious power +which is the light of the Lodge. He, in truth, has become the +spokesman of the Most High. He st ands between the glowing fire +light and the world. Through him passes Hydra, the great snake, +and from its month there pours to man the light of God. His symbol +is the rising sun, for in him the globe of day has indeed risen in +all its splendor from the darkness of the night, illuminating the +immortal East with the first promise of approaching day.

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With a sigh the Master lays aside his tools. For him the temple is +nearing completion, the last stones are being placed, and he slakes +his lime with a vague regret as he sees dome and minaret rise +through the power of his handiwork. The true Master does not long +for rest, and as he sees the days of his labor close, a sadness +weighs upon his heart. Slowly the brothers of his Craft leave him, +each going his respective way; and, climbing step by step, the +Master stands alone on the pinnacle of the temple. One stone must +yet be placed, but this he cannot find. Somewhere it lies +concealed. In prayer he kneels, asking the powers that be to aid +him in his search. The light of the sun shines upon him and bathes +him in a splendor celestial. Suddenly a voice speaks from the +Heavens, saying, "The temple is finished and in my faithful Master +is found the missing stone."

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Both points of the compasses are now lifted from under the square. +The divine is liberated from its cube; heart and mind alike are +liberated from the symbol of mortality, and as emotion and thought +they unite for the glorification of the greatest and the highest. +Then the Sun and Moon are united and the Hermetic Degree is +consummated.

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The Master Mason is afforded opportunities far beyond the reach of +ordinary man, but he must not fail to realize that with every +opportunity comes a cosmic responsibility. It is worse by far to +know and not to do than never to have known at all. He realizes +that the choice of avoiding responsibility is no longer his and +that for him all problems must be met and solved. The only joy in +the heart of the Master is the joy of seeing the fruits of his +handiwork. It can be truly said of the Master that throug h +suffering he has learned to be glad, through weeping he has learned +to smile, and through dying he has learned to live. The +purification and probationship of his previous degrees have so +spiritualized his being that he is in truth a glorious example of +God's Plan for His children. The greatest sermon he can preach, +the greatest lesson he can teach, is that of standing forth a +living proof of the Eternal Plan. The Master Mason is not +ordained: h e is the natural product of cause and effect, and none +but those who live the cause can produce the effect. The Master +Mason, if he be truly a Master, is in communication with the unseen +powers that move the destinies of life. As the Eldest Brother of +the lodge, he is the spokesman for the spiritual hierarchies of his +Craft. He no longer follows the direction of others, but on his +own tracing board he lays out the plans which his brothers are to +follow. He realizes this, and so lives that every line and plan +which he gives out is inspired by the divine with in h imself. His +glorious opportunity to be a factor in the growth of others comes +before all else. At the seat of mercy he kneels, a faithful +servant of the Highest within himself and worthy to be given +control over the lives of others by having first controlled +himself.

+ +

Much is said concerning the loss of the Master's Word and how the +seekers go out to find it but bring back only substitutes. The +true Master knows that those who go out can never find the secret +trust. He alone can find it who goes within. The true Master +Builder has never lost the Word but has cherished it in the +spiritual locket of his own being. From those who have the eyes to +see, nothing is concealed; to those who have the right to know, all +things are open books. The true Word of the three Grand Masters +has never been concealed from those who have the right to know it +nor has it ever been revealed to those who have not prepared a +worthy shrine to contain it. The Master knows, for he is a Temple +Builder. Within the setting of his own bodies, the Philosopher's +Stone is placed; for in truth it is the heart of the Phoenix, that +strange bird which rises with renewed youth from the ashes of its +burned body. When the Master's heart is as pure and white as the +diamond that he wears, he will then become a living stone-the crown +jewel in the diadem of his Craft.

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The Word is found when the Master himself is ordained by the living +hand of God, cleansed by living water, baptized by living fire, a +Priest-King after the Order of Melchizedek, who is above the law.

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The geat work of the Master Mason can be called the art of balance. +To him is given the work of balancing the triangle that it may +blaze forth with the glory of the Divine Degree. The triple +energies of thought, desire, and action must be united in a +harmonious blending of expression. He holds in his hands the +triple keys; he wears the triple crown of the ancient Magus, for he +is in truth the King of heaven, earth, and hell. Salt, sulphur, +and mercury are the elements of his work and with the philosophi +cal mercury he seeks to blend all powers to the glorifying of one +end.

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Behind the degree of Master Mason, there is another not known to +earth. Far above him stretch other steps concealed by the blue +veil which divides the seen from the unseen. The true Brother +knows this, therefore he works with an end in view far above the +concept of mortal mind. He seeks to be worthy to pass behind that +veil and join that band who, unhonored and unsung, carry the +responsibilities of human growth. His eyes are fixed forever on +the Seven Stars which shine down from somewhere above the uppe r +rung of the ladder. With hope, faith, and charity he climbs the +steps, and whispering the Master's Word to the Keeper of the Gates, +passes on behind the veil. It is then, and then only, that a true +Mason is born. Only behind this veil does the mystic student come +into his own. The things which we see around us are but +forms-promises of a thing unnamed, symbols of a truth unknown. It +is in the spiritual temple built without the voice of wo rkmen or +the sound of hammer that the true initiation is given, and there, +robed in the simple lambskin of a purified body, the student +becomes a Master Mason, chosen out of the world to be an active +worker in the name of the Great Architect. It is there alone, +unseen by mortal eyes, that the Greater Degrees are given and there +the soul radiating the light of Spirit becomes a living; star in +the blue canopy of the Masonic lodge.

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TRANSMUTATION

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Masonry is eternal truth, personified, idealized, and yet made +simple. Eternal truth alone can serve it. Virtue is its priest, +patience its warden, illumination its master. The world cannot know +this, however, save when Masons in their daily life prove that it +is so. Its truth is divine, and is not to be desecrated or defamed +by the thoughtlessness of its keepers. Its temple is a holy place, +to be entered in reverence. Material thoughts and material +dissensions must be left without its gate. They may not enter. +Only the pure of heart, regenerated and transmuted, may pass the +sanctity of its veil. The schemer has no place in its ranks, nor +the materialist in its shrine; for Masons walk on hallowed ground, +sanctified by the veneration of ages. Let the tongue be stilled, +let the heart be stilled, let the mind be stilled. In reverence +and in the silence, stillness shall speak: the voice of stillness +is the voice of the Creator. Show your light and yo ur power to +men, but before God what have you to offe r, save in humility? Your +robes, your tinsel, and your jewels mean naught to Him, until your +own body and soul, gleaming with the radiance of perfection, become +the living ornaments of your Lodge.

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THE PRESENCE OF THE MASTER

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The Mason believes in the Great Architect, the living keystone of +creation's plan, the Master of all Lodges, without whose spirit +there is no work. Let him never forget that the Master is near. +Day and night let him feet the presence of the Supreme or +Overshadowing One. The All-Seeing Eye is upon him. Day and night +this great Orb measures his depths, seeing into his innermost soul +of souls, judging his life, reading his thoughts, measuring his +aspirations, and rewarding his sincerity. To this All-Seein g One +he is accountable; to none other must he account. This Spirit +passes with him out of the Lodge and measures the Mason in the +world. This Spirit is with him when he buys and sells. It is with +him in his home. By the light of day and by the darkness of night +it judges him. It hears each thoughtless word. It is the silent +witness to every transaction of life, the silent Partner of every +man. By the jury of his acts, each man is judged. Let e very Mason +know that his obligations include not only those w ithin the narrow +Lodge, bordered by walls of stone and brick, but those in the Great +Lodge, walled only by the dome of heaven. The Valley of +Jehoshaphat waits for him who is false to any creature, as surely +as it waited for the breakers of the Cosmic oath.

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CHAPTER VI

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THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A TRUE MASON

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Every true Mason has come into the realization that there is but +one Lodge - that is, the Universe - and but one Brotherhood, +composed of everything that moves or exists in any of the planes of +Nature. He realizes that the Temple of Solomon is really the +Temple of the Solar Man -Sol-Om-On - the King of the Universe +manifesting through his three primordial builders. He realizes +that his vow of brotherhood and fraternity is universal, and that +mineral, plant, animal, and man are all included in the true Mas +onic Craft. His duty as an elder brother to all the kingdoms of +Nature beneath him is well understood by the true Craftsman, who +would rather die than fail in this, his great obligation. He has +dedicated his life upon the altar of his God and is willing and +glad to serve the lesser through the powers he has gained from the +greater. The mystic Mason, in building the eyes that see behind the +apparent ritual, recognizes the oneness of life manif esting +through the diversity of form.

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The true disciple of ancient Masonry has given up forever the +worship of personalities. With his greater insight, he realizes +that all forms and their position in material affairs are of no +importance to him compared to the life which is evolving within. +Those who allow appearances or worldly expressions to deter them +from their self-appointed tasks are failures in Masonry, for +Masonry is an abstract science of spiritual unfoldment. Material +prosperity is not the measure of soul growth. The true Mason r +ealizes that behind these diverse forms there is one connected Life +Principle, the spark of God in all living things. It is this Life +which he considers when measuring the worth of a brother. It is to +this Life that he appeals for a recognition of spiritual Unity. He +realizes that it is the discovery of this spark of Unity which +makes him a conscious member of the Cosmic Lodge. Most of all, he +must learn to understand that this divine spark shines out as +brightly from the body of a foe as it does from t he dearest +friend. The true Mason has learned to be divinely impersonal in +thought, action, and desire.

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The true Mason is not creed-bound. He realizes with the divine +illumination of his lodge that as Mason his religion must be +universal: Christ, Buddha or Mohammed, the name means little, for +he recognizes only the light and not the bearer. He worships at +every shrine, bows before every altar, whether in temple, mosque or +cathedral, realizing with his truer understanding the oneness of +all spiritual truth. All true Masons know that they only are +heathen who, having great ideals, do not live up to them. Th ey +know that all religions are but one story told in divers ways for +peoples whose ideals differ but whose great purpose is in harmony +with Masonic ideals. North, east, south and west stretch the +diversities of human thought, and while the ideals of man +apparently differ, when all is said and the crystallization of form +with its false concepts is swept away, one basic truth remains: all +existing things are Temple Builders, laboring for a single end. No +true Mason can be narrow, for his Lodge is the divine expression of +all broadness. There is no place for little minds in a great work.

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The true Mason must develop the powers of observation. He must +seek eternally in all the manifestations of Nature for the things +which he has lost because he failed to work for them. He must +become a student of human nature and see in those around him the +unfolding and varying expressions of one connected spiritual +Intelligence. The great spiritual ritual of his lodge is enacted +before him in every action of his fellow man. The entire Masonic +initiation is an open secret, for anyone can see it played ou t on +the city street corners as well as in the untracked wilderness. +The Mason has sworn that every day he will extract from life its +message for him and build it into the temple of his God. He seeks +to learn the things which will make him of greater service in the +Divine Plan, a better instrument in the hands of the Great +Architect, who is laboring eternally to unfold life through the +medium of living things. The Mason realizes, moreover, tha t his +vows, taken of his own free will and accord, give him th e divine +opportunity of being a living tool in the hands of a Master +Workman.

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The true Master Mason enters his lodge with one thought uppermost +in his mind: "How can I, as an individual, be of greater use in the +Universal Plan? What can I do to be worthy to comprehend the +mysteries which are unfolded here? How can I build the eyes to see +the things which are concealed from those who lack spiritual +understanding?" The true Mason is supremely unselfish in every +expression and application of the powers that have been entrusted +to him. No true Brother seeks anything for himself, but uns +elfishly labors for the good of all. No person who assumes a +spiritual obligation for what he can get out of it is worthy of +applying for the position even of water-carrier. The true Light +can come only to those who, asking nothing, gladly give all to it.

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The true brother of the Craft, while constantly striving to improve +himself, mentally, physically, and spiritually through the days of +his life, never makes his own desires the goal for his works. He +has a duty and that duty is to fit into the plans of another. He +must be ready at any hour of the day or night to drop his own +ideals at the call of the Builder. The work must be done and he +has dedicated his life to the service of those who know the bonds +of neither time nor space. He must be ready at any moment's notice +and his life should be turned into preparing himself for that call +which may come when he least expects it. The Master Mason knows +that those most useful to the Plan are those who have gained the +most from the practical experiences of life. It is not what goes +on within the tiled lodge which is the basis of his greatness, but +rather the way in which he meets the problems of daily life. The +true Masonic student is known by his brotherly a ctions and common +sense.

+ +

Every Mason knows that a broken vow brings with it a terrible +penalty. Let him also realize that failure to live mentally, +spiritually, and morally up to one's highest ideals constitutes the +greatest of all broken oaths. When a Mason swears that he will +devote his life to the building of his Father's house and then +defiles his living temple through the perversion of mental power, +emotional force, and active energy, he is breaking a vow which +imposes not hours but ages of misery. If he is worthy to be a M +ason, he must be great enough to restrain the lower side of his own +nature which is daily murdering his Grand Master. He must realize +that a misdirected life is a broken vow and that daily service, +purification, and the constructive application of energy is a +living invocation which builds within and draws to him the power of +the Creator. His life is the only prayer acceptable in the eyes of +the Most High. An impure life is a broken trust; a destructive +action is a living curse; a narrow mind is a strang le-cord around +the throat of God.

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All true Masons know that their work is not secret, but they +realize that it must remain unknown to all who do not live the true +Masonic life. Yet if the so-called secrets of Freemasonry were +shouted from the housetops, the Fraternity would be absolutely +safe; for certain spiritual qualities are necessary before the real +Masonic secrets can be understood by the brethren themselves. Hence +it is that the alleged "exposures" of Freemasonry, printed by the +thousands and tens of thousands since 1730 down to the present +hour, cannot injure the Fraternity. They reveal merely the outward +forms and ceremonies of Freemasonry. Only those who have been +weighed in the balance and found to be true, upright, and square +have prepared themselves by their own growth to appreciate the +inner meanings of their Craft. To the rest of their brethren +within or without the lodge their sacred rituals must remain, as +Shakespeare might have said, "Words, words, words." Within the +Mason's own being is concealed the Power, which, blazi ng forth +from his purified being, constitutes the Builder's Word. His life +is the sole password which admits him to the true Masonic Lodge. +His spiritual urge is the sprig of acacia which, through the +darkness of ignorance, still proves that the spiritual fire is +alight. Within himself he must build those qualities which will +make possible his true understanding of the Craft. He can show the +world only forms which mean nothing; the life within is fo rever +concealed until the eye of Spirit reveals it.

+ +

The Master Mason realizes charity to be one of the greatest traits +which the Elder Brothers have unfolded, which means not only +properly regulated charity of the purse but charity in thought and +action. He realizes that all the workmen are not on the same step, +but wherever each may be, he is doing the best he can according to +his light. Each is laboring with the tools that he has, and he, as +a Master Mason, does not spend his time in criticizing but in +helping them to improve their tools. Instead of bla ming poor +tools, let us always blame ourselves for having them. The Master +Mason does not find fault; he does not criticize nor does he +complain, but with malice towards none and charity towards all he +seeks to be worthy of his Father's trust. In silence he labors, +with compassion he suffers, and if the builders strike him as he +seeks to work with them, his last word will be a prayer for them. +The greater the Mason, the more advanced in his Craft, the more +fatherly he grows, the walls of his Lodge broade ning out until all +living things are sheltered and guarded within the blue folds of +his cape. From laboring with the few he seeks to assist all, +realizing with his broader understanding the weaknesses of others +but the strength of right.

+ +

A Mason is not proud of his position. He is not puffed up by his +honor, but with a sinking heart is eternally ashamed of his own +place, realizing that it is far below the standard of his Craft. +The farther he goes, the more he realizes that he is standing on +slippery places and if he allows himself for one moment to lose his +simplicity and humility, a fall is inevitable. A true Mason never +feels himself worthy of his Craft. A student may stand on the top +of Fool's Mountain self-satisfied in his position , but the true +Brother is always noted for his simplicity.

+ +

A Mason cannot be ordained or elected by ballot. He is evolved +through ages of self-purification and spiritual transmutation. +There are thousands of Masons who are brethren in name only, for +their failure to exemplify the ideals of their Craft makes them +unresponsive to the teachings and purpose of Freemasonry. The +Masonic life forms the first key of the Temple and without this +key, none of the doors can be opened. When this fact is better +realized and lived, Freemasonry will awake, and speak the Word s o +long withheld. The speculative Craft will then become operative, +and the Ancient Wisdom so long concealed will rise from the ruins +of its temple as the greatest spiritual truth yet revealed to man.

+ +

The true Master Mason recognizes the value of seeking for truth +wherever he can find it. It makes no difference if it be in the +enemy's camp; if it be truth, he will go there gladly to secure it. +The Masonic Lodge is universal; therefore all true Masons will seek +through the extremities of creation for their Light. The true +brother of the Craft knows and applies one great paradox. He must +search for the high things in lowly places and find the lowly +things in high places. The Mason who feels holier than his fellow +man has raised a barrier around himself through which no light can +pass, for the one who in truth is the greatest is the servant of +all. Many brethren make a great mistake in building a wall around +their secrets, for they succeed only in shutting out their own +light. Their divine opportunity is at hand. The time has come when +the world needs the Ancient Wisdom as never before. Let the Mason +stand forth and by living the doctrines which he preaches show to +his brother man the glory of his work. He holds the keys to truth; +let him unlock the door, and with his life and not his words preach +the doctrine which he has so long professed.

+ +

The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man were united in the +completion of the Eternal Temple, the Great Work, for which all +things came into being and through which all shall glorify their +Creator.

+ +

MASONS, AWAKE!

+ +

Your creed and your Craft demand the best that is in you. They +demand the sanctifying of your life, the regeneration of your body, +the purification of your soul, and the ordination of your spirit. +Yours is the glorious opportunity; yours is the divine +responsibility. Accept your task and follow in the footsteps of +the Master Masons of the past, who with the flaming spirit of the +Craft have illumined the world. You have a great privilege - the +privilege of illumined labor. You may know the ends to which you +work, while others must struggle in darkness. Your labors are not +to be confined to the tiled Lodge alone, for a Mason must radiate +the qualities of his Craft. Its light must shine in his home and +in his business, glorifying his association with his fellow men. +In the Lodge and out of the Lodge, the Mason must represent the +highest fruitage of sincere endeavor.

+ +

EPILOGUE THE PRIEST OF RA

+ +

What words are there in modern language to describe the great +temple of Ammon Ra? It now stands amidst the sands of Egypt a pile +of broken ruins, but in the heyday of its glory it rose a forest of +plumed pillars holding up roofs of solid sandstone, carved by hands +long laid to rest into friezes of lotus blossoms and papyrus and +colored lifelike by pigments the secrets of which were lost with +the civilization that discovered them. + +A checkerboard floor of black and white blocks stretched out until +it was lost among the wilderness of pillars. From the massive +walls the impassive faces of gods unnamed looked down upon the +silent files of priests who kept alight the altar fires, whose +feeble glow alone alighted the massive chambeors throughout the +darkness of an Egyptian night. It was a weird, impressive scene, +and the flickering lights sent strange, ghostly forms scurrying +among the piles of granite which rose like mighty altars from the +darkness below to be lost in the shadows above.

+ +

Suddenly a figure emerged from the shadows, carrying in his hand a +small oil lamp which pierced the darkness like some distant star, +bringing into strange relief the figure of him who bore it. He +appeared to be old, for his long beard and braided hair were quite +gray, but his large black eyes shone with a fire seldom seen even +in youth. He was robed from head to foot in blue and gold, and +around his forehead was coiled a snake of precious metal, set with +jewelled eyes that gave out flashes of light. Neve r had the light +of Ra's chamber shone on a grander head or a form more powerful +than that of the high priest of the temple. He was the mouthpiece +of the gods and the sacred wisdom of ancient Egypt was impressed in +fiery letters upon his soul. As he crossed the great room - in one +hand the sceptre of the priestcraft, in the other the tiny lamp - +he was more like a spirit visitor from beyond the environs of death +than a physical being, for his jewelled san dals made no sound and +the sheen from his robes form ed a halo of light around his stately +form.

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Down through the silent passageways, lined with their massive +pillars, passed the phantom figure - down steps lined with kneeling +sphinxes and through avenues of crouching lions the priest picked +his way until at last he reached a vaulted chamber whose marble +floor bore strange designs traced in some language long forgotten. +Each angle of the many-sided and dimly-lighted room was filled by a +seated figure carved in stone, so massive that its head and +shoulders were lost in shadows no eye could pierce.

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In the center of this mystic chamber stood a great chest of some +black stone carved with serpents and strange winged dragons. The +lid was a solid slab, weighing hundreds of pounds, without handle +of any kind and the chest apparently had no means of being opened +without the aid of some herculean power.

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The high priest leaned over and from the lamp he carried lighted +the fire upon an altar that stood near, sending the shadows of that +weird chamber scurrying into the most distant corners. As the +flame rose, it was reflected from the great stone faces above, +which seemed to stare at the black coffer in the center of the room +with their strange, sightless eyes.

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Raising his serpent-wound staff and facing the chest of sombre +marble, the priest called out in a voice that echoed and re-echoed +from every nook and cranny of the ancient temple:

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"Aradamas, come forth!"

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Then a strange thing happened. The heavy slab that formed the +cover of the great coffer slowly raised as though lifted by unseen +hands and there emerged from its dark recesses a slim, white-clad +figure with his forearms crossed on his breast-the figure of a man +perhaps thirty years old, his long, black hair hanging down upon +his white-robed shoulders in strange contrast to the seamless +garment that he wore. His face, devoid of emotion, was as handsome +and serene as the great face of Ammon Ra himself that gazed down +upon the scene. Silently Aradamas stepped from the ancient tomb +and advanced slowly toward the high priest. When about ten paces +from the earthly representative of the gods, he paused, unfolded +his arms, and extended them across his chest in salutation. In one +hand he carried a cross with a ring as the upper arm and this he +proffered to the priest. Aradamas stood in silence as the high +priest, raising his sceptre to one of the great stone figures, +addressed an invocation to the Sun-God of the universe. This +finished, he then addressed the youthful figure as follows:

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"Aradamas, you seek to know the mystery of creation, you ask that +the divine illumination of the Thrice-Greatest and the wisdom that +for ages has been the one gift the gods would shower upon mankind, +be entrusted to you. Little you understand of the thing you ask, +but those who know have said that he who proves worthy may receive +the truth. Therefore, stand you here today to prove your divine +birthright to the teaching that you ask."

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The priest pronounced these words slowly and solemnly and then +pointed with his sceptre to a great dim archway surmounted by a +winged globe of gleaming gold.

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"Before thee, up those steps and through those passageways, lies +the path that leads to the eye of judgment and the feet of Ammon +Ra. Go, and if thy heart be pure, as pure as the garment that thou +wearest, and if thy motive be unselfish, thy feet shall not stumble +and thy being shall be filled with light. But remember that Typhon +and his hosts of death lurk in every shadow and that death is the +result of failure."

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Aradamas turned and again folded his arms over his breast in the +sign of the cross. As he walked slowly through the somber arch, the +shadows of the great Unknown closed over him who had dedicated his +life to the search for the Eternal. The priest watched him until +he was lost to sight among the massive pillars beyond the shent +span that divided the living from the dead. Then slowly falling on +his knees before the gigantic statue of Ra and raising his eyes to +the shadows that through the long night conceal ed the face of the +Sun-God, he prayed that the youth might pass from the darkness of +the temple pillars to the light he sought.

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It seemed that for a second a glow played around the face of the +enormous statue and a strange hush of peace filled the ancient +temple. The high priest sensed this, for rising, he relighted his +lamp and walked slowly away. His beacon of light shone fainter and +fainter in the distance, and finally was lost to view among the +papyrus blooms of the temple pillars. All that remained were the +dying flames on the altar, which sent strange flickering glows over +the great stone coffer and the twelve judges of the Egyptian dead.

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In the meantime, Aradamas, his hands still crossed on his breast, +walked slowly onward and upward until the last ray from the burning +altar fire was lost to view among the shadows far behind. Through +years of purification he had prepared himself for the great ordeal, +and with a purified body and a balanced mind, he wended his way in +and out amoung the pillars that loomed about him. As he walked +along, there seemed to radiate from his being a faint golden glow +which illuminated the pillars as he passed the m. He seemed a +ghostly form amid a grove of ancient trees.

+ +

Suddenly the pillars widened out to form another vaulted room, +dimly lit by a reddish haze. As Aradamas proceeded, there appeared +around him swirling wisps of this scarlet light. First they +appeared as swiftly moving clouds, but slowly they took form, and +strange misty figures in flowing draperies hovered in the air and +held out long swaying arms to stay his progress. Wraiths of ruddy +mist hovered about him and whispered soft words into his ears, +while weird music, like the voice of the storm and the cri es of +night birds, resounded through the lofty halls. Still Aradamas +walked on calm and masterful, his fine, spiritual face outlined by +his raven locks in strange contrast to the sinuous forms that +gathered around and tried to lure him from his purpose. Unmindful +of strange forms that beckoned from ghostly archways and the +pleading of soft voices, he passed steadily on his way with but one +thought in his mind:

+ +

"Fiat Lux!" (Let there be light.)

+ +

The ghastly music grew louder and louder, terminating at last in a +mighty roar. The very walls shook; the dancing forms swayed like +flickering candle shadows and, still pleading and beckoning, +vanished among the pillars of the temple.

+ +

As the temple walls tottered, Aradamas paused; then with slow +measured step he resumed his search for some ray of light, finding +always darkness deeper than before. Suddenly before him loomed +another doorway, flanked on either side by an obelisk of carved +marble, one black and the other white. Through the doorway glowed +a dim light, concealed by a gossamer veil of blue silk.

+ +

As Aradamas slowly climbed the flight of steps leading to the +doorway, there materialized upon the ground at his feet a swirl of +lurid mist. In the faint glow that it cast, it twisted like some +oily gas, filling the entire chamber with a loathsome miasma. Then +out of this cloud issued a gigantic form - half human, half +reptile. In its bloodshot eyes burned ruddy pods of demon fire, +while great claw-like hands reached out to enfold and crush the +slender figure that confronted it. Aradamas wavered for a s ingle +instant as the horrible apparition lunged forward, its size doubly +magnified in the iridescent fog. Then the white-robed neophyte +again slowly advanced, his arms still crossed on his breast. He +raised his fine face, illumined by a divine light, and courageously +faced the hideous specter. As he confronted the menacing form, for +an instant it loomed over him like a towering demon. Suddenly +Aradamas raised the cross he carried and held it u p before the +monster. As he did so, the Crux Ansata gleamed with a wondrous +golden light, which, striking the oily, scaly monster, seemed to +dissolve its every particle into golden sparks. As the last of the +demon guardians vanished before the rays of the cross, a bolt of +lightning flashed through the ancient hallways and, striking the +veil that hung between the obelisks, rent it down the center and +disclosed a vaulted chamber with a circular dome, dimly lighted by +invisible lamps.

+ +

Bearing his now flaming cross, Aradamas entered the room and +instinctively gazed upward to the lofty dome. There, floating in +space, far above his head, he saw a great closed eye surrounded by +fleecy clouds and rainbow colors. Long Aradamas gazed upon the +wonderful sight, for he knew that it was the Eye of Horus, the +All-Seeing Eye of the gods.

+ +

As he stood there, he prayed that the will of the gods might be +made known unto him and that in some way he might be found worthy +to open that closed eye in the temple of the living God.

+ +

As he stood there gazing upward, the eyelid flickered. As the +great orb slowly opened, the chamber was filled with a dazzling, +blinding light that seemed to consume the very stones with fire. +Aradamas staggered. It seemed as if every atom of his being was +scorched by the effulgence of that glow. He instinctively closed +his eyes and now he feared to open them, for in that terrific blaze +of splendor it seemed that only blindness would follow his action. +Little by little, a strange feeling of peace and ca lm descended +upon him and at length he dared to open his eyes to find that the +glare was gone, the entire chamber was bathed in a soft, wondrous +glow from the mighty Eye in the ceiling. The white robe he had +worn had also given place to one of living fire which blazed as +though with the reflection of thousands of lesser eyes from the +divine orb above. As his eyes became accustomed to the glow, he +saw that he was no longer alone. He was surrounded by twelve +white-robed figures who, bowing before him, held up strange +insignia wrought from living gold.

+ +

As Aradamas looked, all the figures pointed, and as he followed the +direction of their hands, he saw a staircase of living light that +led far up into the dome and passed the Eye in the ceiling.

+ +

With one voice, the twelve said: "Yonder lies the way of +liberation."

+ +

Without a moment's hesitation, Aradamas mounted the staircase, and +with feet that seemed to barely touch the steps, climbed upward +into the dawn of a great unknown. At last, after climbing many +steps, he reached a doorway that opened as he neared it. The +breath of morning air fanned his cheek and a golden ray of sunshine +played among the waves of his dark hair. He stood on the top of a +mighty pyramid, before him a blazing altar. In the distance, far +over the horizon, the rolling sands of the Egyptian de sert +reflected the first rays of the morning sun which, like a globe of +golden fire, rose again out of the eternal East. As Aradamus stood +there, a voice that seemed to issue from the very heavens chanted a +strange song, and a hand, reaching out as it were from the globe of +day itself, placed a serpent wrought of gyld upon the brow of the +new initiate.

+ +

"Behold Khepera, the rising sun! For as he brings the mighty globe +of day out of the darkness of night, between his claws, so for thee +the Sun of Spirit has risen from the darkness of night and in the +name of the living God, we hail thee Priest of Ra."

+ +

SO MOTE IT BE

+ +

ADDENDA THE ROBE OF BLUE AND GOLD

+ +

Hidden in the depths of the unknown, three silent beings weave the +endless thread of human fate. They are called the Sisters, known +to mythology as the Norns or Fates who incessantly twist between +their fingers a tiny cord, which one day is to be woven into a +living garment - the coronation robe of the priest-king.

+ +

To the mystics and philosophers of the world this garment is known +under many names. To some it is the simple yellow robe of +Buddahood. By the ancient Jews it was symbolized as the robe of +the high priest, the Garment of Glory unto the Lord. To the +Masonic brethren, it is the robe of Blue and Gold - the Star of +Bethlehem - the Wedding Garment of the Spirit.

+ +

Three Fates weave the threads of this living garment, and man +himself is the creator of his Fates. The triple thread of thought, +action, and desire binds him when he enters the sacred place or +seeks admittance into the tiled lodge, but later this same cord is +woven into a splendid garment whose purified folds clothe the +sacred spark of his being.

+ +

We all like to be well dressed. Robes of velvet and ermine stand +for symbols of rank and glory; but too many ermine capes have +covered empty hearts, too many crowns have rested on the brows of +tyrants. These are symbols of earthly things and in the world of +matter are too often misplaced. The true coronation robe - the +garment molded after the pattern of heaven, the robe of glory of +the Master Mason - is not of the earth; for it tells of his +spiritual growth, his deeper understanding, and his consecrated +life. The garments of the high priest of the tabernacle were but +symbols of his own body, which, purified and transfigured, +glorified the life within. The notes of the tiny silver bells that +tinkled with never-ending music from the fringe of his vestments +told of a life harmonious, while the breastplate which rested amid +the folds of the ephod reflected the gleams of heavenly truth from +the facets of its gems.

+ +

There is another garment without a seam which we are told was often +worn by the ancient brethren in the days of the Essenes, when the +monastery of the lowly Nazarenes rose in silent grandeur from the +steep sides of Mt. Tabor, to be reflected in the inscrutable waters +of the Dead Sea. This one-piece garment is the spiral thread of +human life which, when purified by right motive and right living, +becomes a tiny thread of golden light, eternally weaving the +purified garment of regenerated bodies. Like the wh ite of the +lambskin apron, it stands for the simple, the pure, and the +harmless. These are the requirements of the Master Mason, who must +renounce forever this world's pomp and vanity and seek to weave +that simple one-piece robe of the soul which marks the Master, +consecrated and consummated.

+ +

With the eye of the mind we still can see the lowly Nazarene in his +spotless robe of white - a garment no king's ransom could buy. +This robe is woven out of the actions of our daily lives, each deed +weaving into the endless pattern a thread, black or white, +according to the motives which inspired our actions. As the Master +Mason labors in accordance with his vows, he slowly weaves this +spotless robe out of the transmuted energy of his efforts. It is +this white robe which must be worn under the vestments of state, +and whose spotless surface sanctifies him for the robes of glory, +which can be worn only over the stainless, seamless garment of his +purified life.

+ +

When this moment arrives and the candidate has completed his task - +when he comes purified and regenerated to the altar of wisdom, he +is truly baptized of the fire and its flame blazes up within +himself. From him pour forth streams of light, and a great aura of +multicolored fire bathes him with its radiance. The sacred flame +of the gods has found its resting place in him, and through him +renews its covenant with man. He is then truly a Freemason, a +child of light. This wonderful garment, of which all ea rthly +robes are but symbols, is built of the highest qualities of human +nature, the noblest of ideals, and the purest of aspirations. Its +coming is made possible only through the purification of body and +unselfish service to others in the name of the Creator.

+ +

When the Mason has built all these powers into himself, there +radiates from him a wonderful body of living fire, like that which +surrounded the Master Jesus, at the moment of His transfiguration. +This is the Robe of Glory, the garment of Blue and Gold which, +shining forth as a five-pointed star of light, heralds the birth of +the Christ within. Man is then indeed a son of God, pouring forth +from the depths of his own being the light rays which are the life +of man.

+ +

Striking hearts that have long been cold, this spiritual ray raises +them from the dead. It is the living light which illuminates those +still buried in the darkness of materiality. It is the power which +raises by the strong grip of the lion's paw. It is the Great Light +which, seeking forever the spark of itself within all living +things, reawakens dead ideals and smothered aspirations with the +power of the Master's Eternal Word. Then the Master Mason becomes +indeed the Sun in Leo; and, reaching downward i nto the tomb of +crystallization, raises the murdered Builder from the dead by the +grip of the Master Mason.

+ +

As the sun awakens the seedlings in the ground, so this Son of Man, +glowing with the light divine, radiates from his own purified being +the mystic shafts of redeeming light which awaken the seeds of hope +and truth and a nobler life. Discouragement and suffering too +often brings down the temple, burying under its debris the true +reason for being and the higher motives for living.

+ +

As the glorious robe of the sun - the symbol of all life - bathes +and warms creation with its glow, this same robe, enfolding all +things, warms them and preserves them with its light and life. Man +is a god in the making, and as in the mystic myths of Egypt, on the +potter's wheel he is being molded. When his light shines out to +lift and preserve all things, he receives the triple crown of +godhood, and joins that throng of Master Masons who, in their robes +of Blue and Gold, are seeking to dispel the darknes s of night with +the triple light of the Masonic Lodge.

+ +

Ceaselessly the Norns spin the thread of human fate. Age in and +age out, upon the looms of destiny are woven the living garments of +God. Some are rich in glorious colors and wondrous fabrics, while +others are broken and frayed before they leave the loom. All, +however, are woven by these three Sisters - thought, action, and +desire - with which the ignorant build walls of mud and bricks of +slime between themselves and truth; while the pure of heart weave +from these radiant threads garments of celestial bea uty.

+ +

Do what we will, we cannot stop those nimble fingers which twist +the threads, but we may change the quality of the thread they use. +We should give these three eternal weavers only the noble and the +true; then the work of their hands will be perfect. The thread +they twist may be red with the blood of others, or dark with the +uncertainties of life; but if we resolve to be true, we may restore +its purity and weave from it the seamless garment of a perfect +life. This is man's most acceptable gift upon the al tar of the +Most High, his supreme sacrifice to the Creator.

+ +

FRIENDSHIP

+ +

What nobler relationship than that of friend? What nobler +compliment can man bestow than friendship? The bonds and ties of +the life we know break easily, but through eternity one bond +remains - the bond of fellowship - the fellowship of atoms, of star +dust in its endless flight, of suns and worlds, of gods and men. +The clasped hands of comradeship unite in a bond eternal - the +fellowship of spirit. Who is more desolate than the friendless +one? Who is more honored than one whose virtues have given him a fr +iend? To have a friend is good, but to be a friend is better. The +noblest title ever given man, the highest title bestowed by the +gods, was when the great Jove gazed down upon Prometheus and said, +"Behold, a friend of man!" Who serves man, serves God. This is the +symbol of the fellowship of your Craft, for the plan of God is +upheld by the clasped hands of friends. The bonds of relationship +must pass, but the friend remains. Serve God by being a friend, - +a friend of the soul of man, serving his needs, li ghting his +steps, smoothing his way. Let the world of its own accord say of +the Mason, "Behold the friend of all." Let the world say of the +Lodge, "This is indeed a fraternity of brothers, comrades in spirit +and in truth."

+ +

THE EMERALD TABLET OF HERMES (TABULA SMARAGDINA)

+ +

The Emerald Tablet of Hermes, illustrated on the opposite page, +introduces us to Hiram, the hero of the Masonic legend. The name +Hiram is taken from the Chaldean Chiram. The first two words in +large print mean the secret work. The second line in large +letters--(CHIRAM TELAT MECHASOT - means Chiram, the Universal +Agent, one in Essence, but three in aspect. Translated, the body +of the Tablet reads as follows:

+ +

It is true and no lie, certain, and to be depended upon, that the +superior agrees with the inferior, and the inferior with the +superior, to effect that one truly wonderful work. As all things +owe their existence to the will of the Only One, so all things owe +their origin to One Only Thing, the most hidden, by the arrangement +of the Only God. The father of that One Only Thing is the Suit; +its mother is the Moon; the wind carries it in its wings; but its +nurse is a Spirituous Earth. That One Only Thing (af ter God) is +the father of all things in the universe. Its power is perfect, +after it has been united to a spirituous earth. Separate that +spirituous earth from the dense or crude earth by means of a gentle +heat, with much attention. In great measure it ascends from the +earth up to heaven, and descends again, new born, on the earth, and +the superior and inferior are increased in power. * * * By this +thou wilt partake of the honors of the whole world an d darkness +will fly from thee. This is the strength o f all powers; with this +thou wilt be able to overcome all things and to transmute all that +is fine and all that is coarse. In this manner the world was +created, but the arrangements to follow this road are hidden. For +this reason I am called CHIRAM TELAT MECHASOT, one in Essence, but +three in aspect. In this Trinity is hidden the wisdom of the whole +world. It is ended now, what I have said concerning the effects of +the Sun.

+ +

FINISH OF THE TABULA SMARAGDINA

+ +

In a rare, unpublished old manuscript dealing with early Masonic +and Hermetic mysteries, we find the following information +concerning the mysterious Universal Agent referred to as "Chiram" +(Hiram) :

+ +

The sense of this Emerald Tablet can sufficiently convince us that +the author was well acquainted with the secret operations of Nature +and with the secret work of the philosophers (alchemists and +Hermetists). He likewise well knew and believed in the true God.

+ +

It has been believed for several ages that Cham, one of the sons of +Noah, is the author of this monument of antiquity. A very ancient +author, whose name is not known, who lived several centuries before +Christ, mentions this tablet, and says that he had seen it in +Egypt, at the court; that it was a precious stone, an emerald, +whereon these characters were represented in bas-relief, not +engraved.

+ +

He states that it was in his time esteemed over two thousand years +old, and that the matter of this emerald had once been in a fluidic +state like melted glass, and had been cast in a mold, and that to +this flux the artist had given the hardness of a natural and +genuine emerald, by (alchemical) art.

+ +

The Canaanites were called the Phoenicians by the Greeks, who have +told us that they had Hermes for one of their kings. There is a +definite relation between Chiram and Hermes.

+ +

Chiram is a word composed of three words, denoting the Universal +Spirit, the essence whereof the whole creation does consist, and +the object of Chaldean, Egyptian, and genuine natural philosophy, +according to its inner principles or properties. The three Hebrew +words Chamah, Rusch, and Majim, mean respectively Fire, Air, and +Water, while their initial consonants, Ch, R, M, give us Chiram, +that invisible essence which is the father of earth, fire, air and +water; because, although immaterial in its own invis ible nature as +the unmoved and electrical fire, when moved it becomes light and +visible; and when collected and agitated, becomes heat and visible +and tangible fire; and when associated with humidity it becomes +material. The word Chiram has been metamorphosed into Hermes and +also into Herman, and the translators of the Bible have made Chiram +by changing Chet into He; both of these Hebrew word signs being +very similar.

+ +

In the word Hermaphrodite, (a word invented by the old +philosophers), we find Hermes changed to Herm, signifying Chiram, +or the Universal Agent, and Aphrodite, the passive principle of +humidity, who is also called Venus, and is said to have been +produced and generated by the sea.

+ +

We also read that Hiram (Chiram), or the Universal Agent, assisted +King Solomon to build the temple. No doubt as Solomon possessed +wisdom, he understood what to do with the corporealized Universal +Agent. The Talmud of the Jews says that King Solomon built the +temple by the assistance of Shamir. Now this word signifies the +sun, which is perpetually collecting the omnipresent, surrounding, +electrical fire, or Spiritus Mundi, and sending it to us in the +planets, in a visible manner called light.

+ +

This electrical flame, corporealized and regenerated into the Stone +of the Philosophers, enabled King Solomon to produce the immense +quantities of gold and silver used to build and decorate his +temple.

+ +

These paragraphs from an ancient philosopher may assist the Masonic +student of today to realize the tremendous and undreamed-of shire +of knowledge that lies behind the allegory which he often hears but +seldom analyzes. Hiram, the Universal Agent, might be translated +Vita the power eternally building and unfolding the bodies of man. +The use and abuse of energy is the keynote to the Masonic legend; +in fact, it is the key to all things in Nature. Hiram, as the +triple energy, one in source but three in aspec t, can almost be +called ether, that unknown hypothetical element which carries the +impulses of the gods through the macrocosmic nervous system of the +Infinite; for like Hermes, or Mercury, who was the messenger of the +gods, ether carries impulses upon its wings. The solving of the +mystery of ether - or, if you prefer to call it vibrant space - is +the great problem of Masonry. This ether, as a hypothetical +medium, brings energy to the three bodies of thought, emotion, and +action, in this manner Chiram, the one in essence, becoming three +in aspect - mental, emotional, and vital. The work which follows is +an effort to bring to light other forgotten and neglected elements +of the Masonic rites, and to emphasize the spirit of Hiram as the +Universal Agent.

+ +

Freemasonry is essentially mysterious, ritualistic, and ceremonial, +representing abstract truth in concrete form. Earth (or substance) +smothering energy (or vitality) is the mystery behind the murder of +the Builder.

+ +

MOTIVE

+ +

What motive leads the Masonic candidate out of the world and up the +winding stairway to the light? He alone can truly know, for in his +heart is hidden the motive of his works. Is he seeking the light +of the East? Is he seeking wisdom eternal? Does he bring his life +and offer it upon the altar of the Most high? Of all things, motive +is most important. Though we fail again and again, it our motive +be true, we are victorious. Though time after time we succeed, if +our motive be unworthy, we have failed. Ent er the temple in +reverence, for it is in truth the dwelling place of a Great Spirit, +the Spirit of Masonry. Masonry is an ordainer of kings. Its hand +has shaped the destinies of worlds, and the perfect fruitage of its +molding is an honest man. What nobler thing can be accomplished +than the illumination of ignorance? What greater task is there than +the joyous labor of service? And what nobler man can there be than +that Mason who serves his Lights, and is himsel f a light unto his +fellow men? + +

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From the Illumi-Net BBS Decatur, GA +Conspiracy Theory Conference 404-377-1141

+ +

EX-CIA OFFICIAL SPEAKS OUT: An Interview with Victor Marchetti +By Greg Kaza

+ +

This article is reprinted from Full Disclosure. Copyright (c) 1986 +Capitol Information Association. All rights reserved. Permission is hereby +granted to reprint this article providing this message is included in its +entirety. Full Disclosure, Box 8275, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48107. $15/yr.

+ +

Full Disclosure: I'd like to start out by talking about your well-known book, +'The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence.' What edition is that in today?

+ +

Marchetti: The latest edition came out last summer. Its the Laurel edition, +Dell paperback.

+ +

FD: Its gone through a couple of printings?

+ +

Marchetti: Yes. It was originally published by Alfred Knopf in hardback and +by Dell in paperback. That was in 1974 with Knopf and 1975 with Dell. Then a +few years later we got some more of the deletions back from the government, +so Dell put out a second printing. That would have been about 1979. Then +recently, during the summer of 1983, we got back a few more deletions and +that's the current edition that is available in good bookstores (laughs) in +Dell paperback, the Laurel edition.

+ +

Originally the CIA asked for 340 deletions. We got about half of those back +in negotiations prior to the trial. We later won the trial, they were +supposed to give everything back but it was overturned at the appellate +level. The Supreme Court did not hear the case, so the appellate decision +stood. We got back 170 of those deletions in negotiations during the trial +period. A few years later when the second paperback edition came out there +were another 24 deletions given back. The last time, in 1983, when the the +third edition of the paperback edition was published, there were another 35 +given back. So there are still 110 deletions in the book out of an original +340.

+ +

As for the trial, the CIA sued in early 1972 to have the right to review and +censor the book. They won that case. It was upheld at the appellate court in +Richmond some months later, and again the Supreme Court did not hear the +case. Two years later we sued the CIA on the grounds that they had been +arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable in making deletions and were in +violation of the injunction they had won in 1972. We went before Judge Albert +V. Bryan Jr., and in that case, he decided in our favor. Bryan was the same +fourth district judge in Alexandria who heard the original case. He said that +there was nothing in the book that was harmful to national security or that +was logically classifiable. Bryan said the CIA was being capricious and +arbitrary. They appealed, and a few months later down in Richmond the +appellate court for the fourth district decided in the government's favor, +and overturned Bryan's decision. Again, the Supreme Court did not hear the +case. It chose not to hear it, and the appellate court's decision stood.

+ +

By this time, we had grown weary of the legal process. The book was published +with blank spaces except for those items that had been given back in +negotiations. Those items were printed in bold face type to show the kind of +stuff the CIA was trying to cut out. In all subsequent editions, the +additional material is highlighted to show what it is they were trying to cut +out.

+ +

Of course the CIA's position is that only they know what is a secret. They +don't make the national security argument because that is too untenable these +days. They say that they have a right to classify anything that they want to, +and only they know what is classifiable. They are establishing a precedent, +and have established a precedent in this case that has been used subsequently +against ex-CIA people like Frank Snepp and John Stockwell and others, and in +particular against Ralph McGee. They've also used it against (laughing), its +kind of ironic, two former CIA directors, one of whom was William Colby. +Colby was the guy behind my case when he was director. In fact, he was sued +by the CIA and had to pay a fine of I think, about $30000 for putting +something in that they wanted out about the Glomar Explorer. He thought they +were just being, as I would say, "arbitrary and capricious,'' so he put it +in anyway, was sued, and had to pay a fine. Admiral Stansfield Turner was +another who, like Colby when he was director, was the great defender of +keeping everything secret and only allowing the CIA to reveal anything. When +Turner got around to writing his book he had the same problems with them and +is very bitter about it and has said so. His book just recently came out and +he's been on a lot of TV shows saying, "Hells bells, I was director and I +know what is classified and what isn't but these guys are ridiculous, +bureaucratic,'' and all of these accusations you hear. It is ironic because +even the former directors of the CIA have been burned by the very precedents +that they helped to establish.

+ +

FD: What are the prospects for the remaining censored sections of your book +eventually becoming declassified so that they are available to the American +people?

+ +

Marchetti: If I have a publisher, and am willing to go back at the CIA every +year or two years forcing a review, little by little, everything would come +out eventually. I can't imagine anything they would delete. There might be a +few items that the CIA would hold onto for principle's sake. Everything that +is in that book, whether it was deleted or not, has leaked out in one way or +another, has become known to the public in one form or another since then. So +you know its really a big joke.

+ +

FD: Looking back on it, what effect did the publication of the 'The CIA and +the Cult of Intelligence' have on your life?

+ +

Marchetti: It had a tremendous effect on my life. The book put me in a +position where I would forever be persona non grata with the bureaucracy in +the federal government, which means, that I cannot get a job anywhere, a job +that is, specific to my background and talents. Particularly if the company +has any form of government relationship, any kind of government contract. +That stops the discussions right there. But even companies that are not +directly allied with the government tend to be very skittish because I was so +controversial and they just don't feel the need to get into this. I have had +one job since leaving the CIA other than writing, consulting and things like +that, and that was with an independent courier company which did no business +with the government, was privately owned, and really didn't care what the +government thought. They ran their own business and they hired me as their +friend. But every other job offered to me always evaporates, because even +those individuals involved in hiring who say they want to hire me and think +the government was wrong always finish saying, "Business is business. There +are some people here who do not want to get involved in any controversial +case.'' Through allies or former employees somebody always goes out of their +way to make it difficult for me, so I never have any other choice but to +continue to be a freelance writer, lecturer, consultant, etcetera, and even +in that area I am frequently penalized because of who I worked for.

+ +

FD: The government views you as a troublemaker or whistleblower?

+ +

Marchetti: As a whistleblower, and, I guess, troublemaker. In the +intelligence community, as one who violated the code.

+ +

FD: The unspoken code?

+ +

Marchetti: Right. And this has been the fate of all those CIA whistleblowers. +They've all had it hard. Frank Snepp, Stockwell, McGee, and others, have all +suffered the same fate. Whistleblowers in general, like Fitzgerald in the +Department of Defense, who exposed problems with the C-5A, overruns, have +also suffered the same kind of fate. But since they were not dealing in the +magical area of national security they have found that they have some leeway +and have been able to, in many other cases, find some other jobs. In some +cases the government was even forced to hire them back. Usually the +government puts them in an office somewhere in a corner, pays them $50000 a +year, and ignores them. Which drives them crazy of course, but thats the +government's way of punishing anybody from the inside who exposes all of +these problems to the American public.

+ +

FD: Phillip Agee explains in his book the efforts of the CIA to undermine his +writing of 'Inside The Company' both before and after publication. Have you +run into similar problems with extralegal CIA harassment?

+ +

Marchetti: Yes. I was under surveillance. Letters were opened. I am sure our +house was burglarized. General harassment of all sorts, and the CIA has +admitted to some of these things. One or two cases, because the Church +Committee found out. For example, the CIA admitted to working with the IRS to +try and give me a bad time. The Church Committee exposed that and they had to +drop it. They've admitted to certain other activities like the surveillance +and such, but the CIA will not release to me any documents under the Freedom +of Information Act. They won't release it all -- any documents under FOIA, +period.

+ +

FD: About your time with the CIA?

+ +

Marchetti: No, about my case. I only want the information on me after leaving +the agency and they just refuse to do it. They've told me through friends +"You can sue until you're blue in the face but you're not going to get +this'' because they know exactly what would happen. It would be a terrible +embarrassment to the CIA if all of the extralegal and illegal activities they +took became public.

+ +

The most interesting thing they did in my case was an attempt at entrapment, +by putting people in my path in the hopes that I would deal with these +people, who in at least one case turned out to be an undercover CIA operator +who was, if I had dealt with him, it would have appeared that I was moving to +deal with the Soviet KGB. The CIA did things of that nature. They had people +come to me and offer to finance projects if I would go to France, live there, +and write a book there without any censorship. Switzerland and Germany were +also mentioned. The CIA used a variety of techniques of that sort. I turned +down all of them because my theory is that the CIA should be exposed to a +certain degree in the hope that Congress could conduct some investigation out +of which would come some reform. I was playing the game at home and that is +the way I was going to play. Play it by the rules, whatever handicap that +meant. Which in the end was a tremendous handicap.

+ +

But it did work out in the sense that my book did get published. The CIA drew +a lot of attention to it through their attempts to prevent it from being +written and their attempts at censorship, which simply increased the appetite +of the public, media, and Congress, to see what they were trying to hide and +why. All of this was happening at a time when other events were occurring. +Ellsberg's Pentagon Papers had come out about the same time I announced I was +doing my book. Some big stories were broken by investigative journalists. All +of these things together, my book was part of it, did lead ultimately to +congressional investigations of the CIA. I spent a lot of time behind the +scenes on the Hill with senators and congressman lobbying for these +investigations and they finally did come to pass.

+ +

It took awhile. President Ford tried to sweep everything under the rug by +creating the Rockefeller Commission, which admitted to a few CIA mistakes but +swept everything under the rug. It didn't wash publicly. By this time, the +public didn't buy the government's lying. So we ultimately did have the Pike +Committee, which the CIA and the White House did manage to sabotage. But the +big one was the Church Committee in the Senate which conducted a pretty broad +investigation and brought out a lot of information on the CIA. The result of +that investigation was that the CIA did have to admit to a lot of wrongdoing +and did have to make certain reforms. Not as much as I would have liked. I +think everything has gone back to where it was and maybe even worse than what +it was, but at least there was a temporary halt to the CIA's free reign of +hiding behind secrecy and getting away with everything, up to and including +murder. There were some changes and I think they were all for the better.

+ +

FD: So instead of some of the more harsher critics of the CIA who would want +to see it abolished you would want to reform it?

+ +

Marchetti: Yes. Its one of these things where you can't throw out the baby +with the bathwater. The CIA does do some very good and valuable and +worthwhile and legal things. Particularly in the collection of information +throughout the world, and in the analysis of events around the world. All of +this is a legitimate activity, and what the CIA was really intended to do in +the beginning when they were set up. My main complaint is that over the years +those legitimate activities have to a great extent been reduced in +importance, and certain clandestine activities, particularly the covert +action, have come to the fore. Covert action is essentially the intervention +in the internal affairs of other governments in order to manipulate events, +using everything from propaganda, disinformation, political action, economic +action, all the way down to the really dirty stuff like para-military +activity. This activity, there was too much of it. It was being done for the +wrong reasons, and it was counterproductive. It was in this area where the +CIA was really violating U.S. law and the intent of the U.S. Constitution, +and for that matter, I think, the wishes of Congress and the American people. +This was the area that needed to be thoroughly investigated and reformed. My +suggestion was that the CIA should be split into two organizations. One, the +good CIA so to speak, would collect and analyze information. The other part, +in the dirty tricks business, would be very small and very tightly controlled +by Congress and the White House, and if possible, some kind of a public board +so that it didn't get out of control.

+ +

My theory is, and I've proved it over and over again along with other people, +is that the basic reason for secrecy is not to keep the enemy from knowing +what you're doing. He knows what you're doing because he's the target of it, +and he's not stupid. The reason for the CIA to hide behind secrecy is to keep +the public, and in particular the American public, from knowing what they're +doing. This is done so that the President can deny that we were responsible +for sabotaging some place over in Lebanon where a lot of people were killed. +So that the President can deny period. Here is a good example: President +Eisenhower denied we were involved in attempts to overthrow the Indonesian +government in 1958 until the CIA guys got caught and the Indonesians produced +them. He looked like a fool. So did the N.Y. Times and everybody else who +believed him. That is the real reason for secrecy.

+ +

There is a second reason for secrecy. That is that if the public doesn't know +what you are doing you can lie to them because they don't know what the truth +is. This is a very bad part of the CIA because this is where you get not only +propaganda on the American people but actually disinformation, which is to +say lies and falsehoods, peddled to the American public as the truth and +which they accept as gospel. That's wrong. It's not only wrong, its a lie and +it allows the government and those certain elements of the government that +can hide behind secrecy to get away with things that nobody knows about. If +you carefully analyze all of these issues that keep coming up in Congress +over the CIA, this is always what is at the heart of it: That the CIA lied +about it, or that the CIA misrepresented something, or the White House did +it, because the CIA and the White House work hand in glove. The CIA is not a +power unto itself. It is an instrument of power. A tool. A very powerful tool +which has an influence on whoever is manipulating it. But basically the CIA +is controlled by the White House, the inner circle of government, the inner +circle of the establishment in general. The CIA is doing what these people +want done so these people are appreciative and protective of them, and they +in turn make suggestions or even go off on their own sometimes and operate +deep cover for the CIA. So it develops into a self-feeding circle.

+ +

FD: Spreading disinformation is done through the newsmedia.

+ +

Marchetti: Yes. Its done through the newsmedia. The fallacy is that the CIA +says the real reason they do this is to con the Soviets. Now I'll give you +some examples. One was a fellow by the name of Colonel Oleg Penkovsky.

+ +

FD: Penkovsky Papers?

+ +

Marchetti: Yes. I wrote about that in 'The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. +The Penkovsky Papers was a phony story. We wrote the book in the CIA. Now, +who in the hell are we kidding? The Soviets? Do we think for one minute that +the Soviets, who among other things captured Penkovsky, interrogated him, and +executed him, do you think for one minute they believe he kept a diary like +that? How could he have possibly have done it under the circumstances? The +whole thing is ludicrous. So we're not fooling the Soviets. What we're doing +is fooling the American people and pumping up the CIA. The British are +notorious for this kind of thing. They're always putting out phony +autobiographies and biographies on their spies and their activities which are +just outright lies. They're done really to maintain the myth of English +secret intelligence so that they will continue to get money to continue to +operate. Thats the real reason. The ostensible reason is that we were trying +to confuse the Soviets. Well that's bullshit because they're not confused.

+ +

One of the ones I think is really great is 'Khruschev Remembers.' If anybody +in his right mind believes that Nikita Khruschev sat down, and dictated his +memoirs, and somebody -- Strobe Talbot sneaked out of the Soviet Union with +them they're crazy. That story is a lie. That book was a joint operation +between the CIA and the KGB. Both of them were doing it for the exact same +reasons. They both wanted to influence their own publics. We did it our way +by pretending that Khruschev had done all of this stuff and we had lucked out +and somehow gotten a book out of it. The Soviets did it because they could +not in their system allow Khruschev to write his memoirs. Thats just against +everything that the Communist system stands for. But they did need him to +speak out on certain issues. Brezhnev particularly needed him to +short-circuit some of the initiatives of the right wing, the Stalinist wing +of the party. Of course the KGB was not going to allow the book to be +published in the Soviet Union. The stuff got out so that it could be +published by the Americans. That doesn't mean that the KGB didn't let copies +slip into the Soviet Union and let it go all around. The Soviets achieved +their purpose too.

+ +

This is one of the most fantastic cases, I think, in intelligence history. +Two rival governments cooperated with each other on a secret operation to +dupe their respective publics. I always wanted to go into much greater length +on this but I just never got around to it. Suffice it to say that TIME +magazine threatened to cancel a two-page magazine article they were doing on +me and my book if I didn't cut a brief mention of this episode out of the +book.

+ +

FD: How was this operation initially set up?

+ +

Marchetti: I don't know all of the ins and outs of it. I imagine what +happened is that it probably started with somebody in the Soviet Politburo +going to Khruschev and saying, "Hey, behind the scenes we're having lots of +trouble with the right-wing Stalinist types. They're giving Brehznev a bad +time and they're trying to undercut all of the changes you made and all of +the changes Brehznev has made and wants to make. Its pretty hard to deal with +it so we've got an idea. Since you're retired and living here in your dacha +why don't you just sit back and dictate your memoirs. And of course the KGB +will review them and make sure you don't say anything you shouldn't say and +so on and so forth. Then we will get in touch with our counterparts, and see +to it that this information gets out to the West, which will publish it, and +then it will get back to the Soviet Union in a variety of forms. It will get +back in summaries broadcast by the Voice of America and Radio Liberty, and +copies of the book will come back in, articles written about it will be +smuggled in, and this in turn will be a big influence on the intelligentsia +and the party leaders and it will undercut Suslov and the right wingers.'' +Khruschev said okay. The KGB then went to the CIA and explained things to +them and the CIA said, Well that sounds good, we'll get some friends of ours +here, the TIME magazine bureau in Moscow, Jerry Schecter would later have a +job in the White House as a press officer. We'll get people like Strobe +Talbot, who is working at the bureau there, we'll get these guys to act as +the go-betweens. They'll come and see you for the memoirs and everyone will +play dumb. You give them two suitcases full of tapes (laughs) or something +like that and let them get out of the Soviet Union. Which is exactly what +happened.

+ +

Strobe brought all of this stuff back to Washington and then TIME-LIFE began +to process it and put a book together. They wouldn't let anybody hear the +tapes, they didn't show anybody anything. A lot of people were very +suspicious. You know you can tell this to the public or anybody else who +doesn't have the least brains in their head about how the Soviet Union +operates and get away with it. But anybody who knows the least bit about the +Soviet Union knows the whole thing is impossible. A former Soviet premier +cannot sit in his dacha and make these tapes and then give them to a U.S. +newspaperman and let him walk out of the country with them. That cannot be +done in a closed society, a police state, like the Soviet Union.

+ +

The book was eventually published but before it was published there was +another little interesting affair. Strobe Talbot went to Helsinki with the +manuscript, where he was met by the KGB who took it back to Leningrad, looked +at it, and then it was finally published by TIME-LIFE. None of that has ever +been explained in my book. A couple of other journalists have made references +to this episode but never went into it. It's an open secret in the press +corps here in Washington and New York, but nobody ever wrote a real big story +for a lot of reasons, because I guess it's just the kind of story that it's +difficult for them to get their hooks into. I knew people who were then in +the White House and State Department who were very suspicious of it because +they thought the KGB...

+ +

FD: Had duped TIME?

+ +

Marchetti: Exactly. Once they learned this was a deal they quieted down and +ceased their objections and complaints, and even alibied and lied afterwards +as part of the bigger game. Victor Lewis, who was apparently instrumental in +all of these negotiations, later fit into one little footnote to this story +that I've often wondered about. Lewis is (was)... After all of this happened +and when the little furor that existed here in official Washington began +dying down, Victor Lewis went to Tel Aviv for medical treatment. He came into +the country very quietly but somebody spotted him and grabbed him and said, +"What are you doing here in Israel?'' "Well I'm here for medical treatment, +'' Lewis said. They said, "What?! You're here in Israel for medical +treatment?'' He said, "Yes.'' They said, "Well whats the problem?'' "I've +got lumbago, a back problem, and they can't fix it in the Soviet Union. but +there's a great Jewish doctor here I knew in the Soviet Union and I came to +see him.'' That sounds like the craziest story you ever wanted to hear. But +then another individual appeared in Israel at the same time and some reporter +spotted him. He happened to be Richard Helms, then-director of the CIA. He +asked Helms what he was doing in Israel, and he had some kind of a lame +excuse which started people wondering whether this was the payoff. Helms +acting for the CIA, TIME-LIFE, and the U.S. government, and Lewis acting for +the KGB, Politburo, and the Soviet government. Its really a fascinating +story. I wrote about briefly in the book and it was very short. You'll find +it if you look through the book in the section we're talking about. +Publications and things like that. When I wrote those few paragraphs there +wasn't much further I could go, because there was a lot of speculation and +analysis.

+ +

Around the time my book came out, TIME magazine decided that they would do a +two-page spread in their news section and give it a boost. Suddenly I started +getting calls from Jerry Schecter and Strobe Talbot about cutting that part +out. I said I would not cut it out unless they could look me in the eye and +say I was wrong. If it wasn't true I would take the book and cut the material +out. But neither of them chose to do that. Right before the article appeared +in TIME I got a call from one of the editors telling me that some people +wanted to kill the article. I asked why and he said one of the reasons is +what you had to say about TIME magazine being involved in the Khruschev +Remembers book. I asked him, "Thats it?'' I had talked to Jerry and Strobe +and this was their backstab. This editor asked me if I could find somebody +who could trump the people who were trying to have the article killed. +Somebody who could verify my credentials in telling the story. I said why +don't you call Richard Helms, who by that time had been eased out of office +by Kissinger and Nixon, and was now an ambassador in Teheran. So this editor +called Helms to verify my credentials (laughing) and Helms said, "Yeah, he's +a good guy. He just got pissed off and wanted to change the CIA.'' So the +article ran in TIME. I think you're one of the very few people I've explained +this story to in depth.

+ +

FD: Did this operation have a name?

+ +

Marchetti: It probably did but I was already out of the agency and I don't +know what it was. But I do know it was a very sensitive activity and that +people very high up in the White House and State Department who you would +have thought would have been aware of it were not aware of it. But then +subsequently they were clearly taken into a room and talked to in discussions +and were no longer critics and doubters and in fact became defenders of it.

+ +

FD: Let me make sure I am clear about the CIA's motivation...

+ +

Marchetti: The CIA's motivation was that here we have a former Soviet premier +talking out about the events of his career and revealing some pretty +interesting things about his thinking and the thinking of others. All of +which shows that the Soviet Union is run by a very small little clique. A +very small Byzantine-like clique. There is a strong tendency to stick with +Stalinisn and turn to Stalinism but some of the cooler heads, the more +moderate types, are trying to make changes. Its good stuff from the CIA's +point of view and from the U.S. government's point of view. This is what +we're dealing with. This is our primary rival. Look at how they are. And +Khruschev had to dictate these things in sec

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FILE: MARS.TXT +AUTHOR: David Reynolds +DATE: 03-01-88 +SUBJECT: Excerpt from the book The Truth About Mars +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +ORIGIN OF UPLOAD: SAN DIEGO +CONTRIBUTED BY: David Reynolds/ UNARIUS +==================================================

+

THE TRUTH ABOUT MARS

+

copyright 1956

+

by Dr. Ernest L. Norman

+ +

Excerpts from the book.

+

___________________

+

INTRODUCTION

+

For centuries before spacecraft transformed our under-standing +of the solar system, almost all the planets were believed, with +varying degrees of conviction, to be inhabited. This belief conformed +to the Copernican world view, in which Earth is not unique among the +planets. When the Space Age opened in 1957, the evidence for +indigenous life was strongest for Mars - almost conclusive, on the +face of it - and from the beginning the search for life on Mars became +a major goal of the United States' Space Program. The result was the +historic series of spacecraft that began with MARINER 4, in 1965, and +ended with VIKINGS 1 & 2, in 1976.

+

The dawning of the Space Age is a material event, occurring in +the latter part of the 20th Century, and as the description that +follows is a result of a developed mental means of communication, it +strengthens the understanding of this means of communication as being +the real and more apparent factor in the transference of energy from +point to point.

+

Dr. Ernest L. Norman is the progenitor and a mental giant, +writing from the higher statement of a full consciousness of the +reality of the mind as a cosmic centrifuge. This is the first book +written by him in 1955, inaugurating the Unarius Academy of Science.

+

In this small but important book, a first, Dr. Norman extends the +present knowledge of life on our close companion planet Mars, which +has all of the basic biological and geological conditions for the +evolutionary development of life forms, including Homo sapiens. He +addresses mankind, not with the hardware of rocketry, space probes and +other sophisticated, high-energy technology, but introduces the +individual to not only the possibility or probability of life on other +planets, but in actuality, through the higher factors of the mind, +immediately taking the reader to planet Mars to reveal the enigma of +this planet. This enigma has been tantalizing the minds of humankind +for hundreds of years, that has occasioned a series of narrations over +the years, titillating the imagination of mankind throughout +civilizations up until the present time.

+

The importance of this booklet is that the mind, man's enigma, +can reveal the power existent, to apply in all ways necessary for the +progressive development of any individual so desirous of expanding the +central intelligence of himself in his relationship to the apparency +and to the vitality of society on this and other earth planets.

+

For this reason, Dr. Norman, as an Elder Brother, pointed the way +for aspiring mankind to overcome the limitations of his narrow +confinement in the material sectors of life, as is the present +pioneering efforts of our scientific community through the auspices of +the United States National Aeronautics & Space Administration.

+

The expository nature of Dr. Norman's description of the reality +of human life, living underground, is a vital teaching, not only of +the magnanimous nature of man in overcoming the limitations of his +material environment, but also of the reality of the interplanetary +life of Homo sapiens!

+

The data now being collated by the many thousands of computer-enhanced images from the ZINC probes are validating the pre-history of +Mars as an integrated and formed world of an ancient civilization. +However, it will not be until Earth humans land on Mars that the +evidence of Martian society will be known and accepted. The computer-enhanced image revealing a 'face on Mars', is capturing the interest +of many people, including those in the scientific sector; a prelude to +the buildup of further hard data, revealing the evidence of the ruins +of ancient, advanced civilizations in the Cydonia region of Mars.

+

All of the precluding is the material evidence necessary for +those who do not have second sight or who have not developed the +mechanics of their third eye, with the reality of their sixth, seventh +and higher senses. But this should not deter anyone, and in fact, is +the objective of this writing, to wake up the reader to his unlimited +capacity in that he too, can communicate through his sixth and higher +senses. This so-called 'telepathy' a principle of frequency and +harmonics, will reveal to him the evidence of the evolutionary design +of life on companion earth planets.

+

The exploration of Mars is in this sense, the first phase of +reawakening mankind to the reality of the expanding universe, right in +his own backyard, in his own solar system. The reality is that earth +planets are abundant in our Milky Way Galaxy. The reality is that man +has communicated via spacecraft and is continuing to communicate with +the denizens of this planet through telecommunication or mental means, +-the normal methods of communication of advanced Space Brothers.

+

With all of this, of course, is the other reality! Present Earth +history has not revealed the true story of man's past, and the reasons +why technology has outdistanced the knowledge of man's humanity to his +fellowman and of his creative spirituality.

+

You will therefore read in this booklet that the Martian people +are wiser in their knowledge of their inherent human nature and +practice this cosmic principle in their society. War is not a factor +to disrupt their peaceful existence, and science and technology +functions equally balanced with man's spiritual coefficient.

+

The picture that emerges is of earthman beginning to realize that +he has the capacity to leave his nest, to move out into the stars and +regain his lost heritage, the birthright which has always been the +objective and purpose for his being. Essentially, life's purpose is to +advance one's knowledge of the principle of evolution, to integrate +these evolutionary principles, using both the material technology and +the spiritual technology, thus advancing both man and society on an +upward and intelligent, progressive evolution.

+

Dr. Ernest L. Norman is the Cofounder of the Unarius Educational +Foundation. From 1954 to 1971, with his wife, Ruth Norman, he +pioneered the teaching of Interdimensional Physics, explaining the +evolutionary nature of atoms and man, planets and solar systems, +galaxies and universes. He authored the first twenty texts of the +curriculum of the Unarius Academy of Science - teachings which explain +the unified field theory - quantum mechanics, and the present theory +of Superstrings!

+

Dr. Norman as one who has attained Cosmic Consciousness, is an +example of his teachings. Today, through the efforts of Ruth Norman +(Uriel) the present Director of the Unarius Academy of Science, the +curriculum has expanded to over 100 texts, adding immense knowledge to +the reality of Consciousness and of its continuity after the +completion of the cycle of physical life (or death).

+

The account of Dr. Norman's psychic trip to Mars proves the +science of fourth dimensional physics - the principle of mental +attunement. It is hoped that the reader will continue in his desire to +advance himself as well, to attain those abilities that lie within but +needs to be called to his attention and developed.

+

In 1977, Ruth Norman tuned in psychically to the underground +cities on planet Mars, in thirty-three separate visions. This book +titled THE UNDERGROUND CITIES OF MARS is a continuation and +explanation of the truth about Mars, as it includes the realizations +and flashbacks presented in the testimonials of persons who remembered +their own experiences when they contacted the Martian civilization.

+

This work is an exciting and telling account of the +interplanetary contact of Earth and Mars, knowledge which will +validate the reality of interplanetary travel and of the +extraterrestrial nature of earth civilizations. +El Cajon, California +March 11988 +

+

A Word About the Author

+

Just fifty years ago in a small town in northern Utah, Ernest L. +Norman made his debut into this planet Earth. It was apparent right +from the first that he was an unusual child. His mother nearly died in +the process of his introduction, because of the abnormally large head. +It is said he had the body of an eight pound child, but weighed over +twelve pounds!

+

Before he was hardly two, he was experimenting with writing and +long before he went to school for the first time, he was quite +familiar with the English language; so much so, he was reading his +father's Library. His father, incidentally, was a very learned man, of +royal Norwegian descent and had degrees in law, psychology, physiology +and phrenology.

+

The author was the fifth of eight boys and girls, all strong lads +and lassies and it was quite natural for them to resent having a +brother who was so studious.

+

At the tender age of five he constructed his first microscope +using the eyepiece section from his father's telescope, and by +inserting it in a wooden frame made from a cigar box and a small piece +of mirror, he was able to count the hairs on earthworms. The Truth +About Mars

+

At the age of six he performed an unusual and prodigious feat. +Using his knowledge of Archimedean laws of fulcrums, levers and +rollers, he moved an 8 x 12 foot coal shed containing one-half a ton +of coal over a distance of approximately 200 feet, through an apple +orchard and over soft ground to a new and more convenient location. +This feat took him about three weeks to accomplish and was one which +would have taxed the strength and endurance of a strong man. This +accomplishment was carefully noted day by day, by his father who would +boastingly report the progress made to the townspeople.

+

It was also at this early period of life, that he constructed a +rabbit hutch which was vastly superior in design and workmanship to +one constructed by an adult neighbor more than six times his age. This +he did, using old rusted out, discarded tools.

+

Another time, at the age of seven, he bested his father in an +argument i.e., that all energy was electronic. At present he is +completely vindicated inasmuch as science today is resolving into this +conclusion.

+

During his early teens-age years in junior and senior high +school, he established several new "high water" marks in biology, +genetics, science, etc., and won several noteworthy citations as well +as attracting some interest from his teachers.

+

It is estimated that at the age of fourteen, he had a vocabulary +of about sixty thousand words! It was easy to see then, that this boy, +who in winter time read almost continuously or dreamed the summer away +watching nature, had not wasted or played his time away as most lads +are wont to do.

+

At the age of seventeen, his family moved to California and +temporarily, at least, formal school was finished. But he persisted, +even taking night classes in various subjects. At the age of twenty-three, and just before the depression, he married and remained so for +fourteen years.

+

During this time, he became very active in radio and electronics. +It was his wife who always said they had the best radios in the +neighborhood and they were always hand constructed.

+

After World War Two, he devoted himself to his lifetime dream, +metaphysics, and became an ordained minister in an occult science +church. From the very start, in this work, it became evident he +possessed an outstanding clairvoyant development and, during the war +years, demonstrated this talent not only in churches and lecture +halls, but in almost any place opportunity presented itself and +achieved no small measure of fame in this capacity.

+

However, it is his ambition at this time and has been for many +years, to fill in the gaps in our scientific and spiritual +philosophies of the world, and to set up a new and integrated +philosophy of life.

+

With this most outstanding ability of clairvoyance, coupled with +a tremendous grasp of scientific knowledge, he is very humble and +unpretentious, refusing to attach the stigma of self to whatever comes +through the channel of his mind and is ever aware of attunement with +the Superconscious.

+

On the forehead of the author is a large welt, in a perfect +raised circle. This becomes activated at times when he is inspired or +attuned, as though it is a necessary factor in making contact, +mentally, with the intelligences of other dimensions or on other +planets. Another strange phenomenon is the nail holes in the palms of +his hands, which appeared physically during a psychic working out with +his previous life in Jerusalem and the crucifixion and are most surely +points of great interest in showing that he is indeed a most unusual +soul, mentally and spiritually and has reached a very rare, if ever +duplicated, state of consciousness through his countless thousands of +lifetimes of endeavor in these fields.

+

Many very miraculous healings have come through Dr. Norman. His +conscious mind is able to contact the Superconscious which can tune +into the past experiences and past lives of the individuals to +actually locate and view the experience in a former life which is +responsible for the present illness; thus being able to eliminate or +neutralize the impinging vortex from the psychic body of the +individual by mental and spiritual means. Many wonderful healings and +permanent cures have thusly been achieved.

+

The Spiritual Science of Unarius which is used is not one of +happenstance or guesswork but his ability to tap, in a scientific way, +the energies of the Infinite. Just so surely, those same powers and +energies are ever present to keep us well, vital and at peace when we +align ourselves into them. +

+

Ruth E. Norman +

+

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+

PREFACE

+

A few months ago the astronomical and astrophysical world was +tremendously excited by the approaching conjunction of the earth with +the planet. Mars. (This article being written in May, 1955, refers to +the conjunction of Mars with the earth at the turn of the year 1954 to +1955). Many prominent astronomical authorities hoped to settle once +and for all time, the old controversial issues about this planet; +i.e., were there canals or were there not canals on Mars and was this +planet inhabited by some form of man, So far as can be ascertained, +the results of these investigations, after thousands of photographs of +the planet and numerous controversies, was that some groups were even +more firmly intrenched in their original ideas, while others became +more confused than ever. In an over-all sense, it can be said that +they arrived at no definite conclusion whatever nor will any new +conclusions that may be arrived at have, by the same token, any more +validity than the original concepts (see addenda).

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Therefore any new attempt at visualizing life or the canals on +Mars resolves into the realm of clairvoyance and not by the making of +bigger and more powerful telescopes. The two hundred inch telescope at +Mt. Palomar has, in a sense, merely increased the size of the Universe +for man rather than brought it closer to him. Now, just in case the +term clairvoyant should arouse any antagonism or question in some +persons, let us digress a moment to explain just what is meant by the +word clairvoyance.

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Clairvoyance (or the development of the sixth sense) is only +another word for extrasensory perception taking place within the +consciousness of man rather than through the reactionary physical +senses such as physical sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. +Practically everyone on this earth has had or will, at some time, be +in a semi or momentarily clairvoyant state. Anyone having a so-called +hunch or premonition is momentarily in such a state. At the great Duke +University, Dr. Rhine, in his fifty years of research on +parapsychology has definitely established the facts and truths of +extrasensory perception. There are numerous societies, associations +and organizations, national and international, whose many years of +work have proven beyond a doubt that man does have, and can also +develop, this extra sense or clairvoyance, sometimes called the sixth +sense.

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Any doubting Thomas can, if he is open minded enough, find in a +short time, an overwhelming mass of evidence to support this truth. In +an advanced state of clairvoyance, an individual sees and lives in a +state of consciousness which "tunes" him in, as it were, to past or +future events, places and happenings, distance being no barrier. Such +an awareness or consciousness is almost as real as the everyday +objects around him. Any particular electrical or mechanical device, +such as the television set will demonstrate to some extent the nature +of this conception.

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A savage in the jungle would immediately be confounded were he +presented with the appearance of some of our every day appliances. He +would quite likely, in his failure to understand or conceive, throw up +his hands and deny the whole thing. He would, in a sense, be like the +farmer who saw the giraffe for the first time, exclaiming that "there +is no such animal!"

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It is, as it has always been, the great lack of ability to form +new concepts which has always caused man to throw up his hands, and +cry out loudly against the appearance of any new thought, or +mechanical or electrical contrivance. This is also quite true of most +of our modern day scientists, whether he is a man of medicine, of +chemistry or of astronomy. Therefore it is up to individuals who have +developed this extra sense or clairvoyance, to fill in the obvious +gaps in our many branches of science as well as in some of the more +firmly established spiritual concepts.

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In writing an article of this kind, no effort is being made to +prove what I have found and believe is true. Truth is entirely +independent of the individual. After my thirty five years of active +research in the fields of electronics, physics, astrophysics, +parapsychology and their allied and associated sciences, I have +succeeded in correlating and establishing an integrated concept, which +when combined with a natural and highly developed clairvoyance gives, +to a practically perfect degree, a direct mental contact not only with +person to person upon this earth, but in contacting individuals living +on other planets. This is in a sense, what can be called conscious +astral flight; inasmuch as I see the cities and the people and hear +the individuals, as they now exist on other planets. No mechanical +devices are used, nor is any particularly advanced degree of trance +state entered into, maintaining conscious continuity and being able to +quote at the time, just what is taking place both audibly and visibly, +at all times. +

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CONTACT WITH PLANET MARS +

+

Since the dawn of time and the beginning of man's history on this +planet, the starry skies have always been something of not only great +and wondrous beauty, but also filled with mystery and awe. The +histories of the ancient times contain numerous references to the sun, +the moon and the many bright stars and planets. Man has worshipped +these heavenly bodies as deities or gods. Quite often the very nature +of the religious beliefs of the peoples were woven around these +mystical heavenly orbs. Naturally there has been a great deal of +conjecture as to life and the existence of man in some form on some of +these bright specks of light. This 'is especially true of the moon and +of the planets of our solar system. Men like Copernicus, Galileo, +Plato, etc., all speculated on this possibility.

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During the last twenty-five years or so, there has been a +tremendous impetus given to astronomical interests; perhaps this is +partly due to the approach of the conclusion of a great cycle and the +actual beginning of the Aquarian age. There are numerous monthly +publications which deal in a fictional way with interplanetary travel +and life on other planets. There likewise are other articles and +stories which have appeared from time to time dealing with flying +saucers and space ships, etc., which claim to be true, and as a small +lad I shared this common interest in the heavens. Often I would peer +through my father's telescope (which was of very modest power) at the +moon or other bright points of interest; winter nights would often be +devoted to pouring over any book or article containing anything of +astronomical nature.

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It was not, however, until the close of World War II and the +sudden influx of flying saucer stories, that time and circumstances +permitted resuming this fascinating subject. Along with +metaphysical work which I did both in churches and independently, the +planets, space travel, etc., all became an integrated part of this +work.

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It was inevitable that sooner or later I should actually take a +"flight" to some planet, not that this would be done in a rocket or +some such machine; man has not progressed to such an advanced state of +engineering as yet. So any such trips would be in a clairvoyant state. +I am not the only one by far, who has had such experiences; the +persons both known and unknown who have made such flights and contacts +are too numerous to mention at this time. I might add that much of +what is written in the following pages has since been corroborated by +some of these persons, without my previously having read any articles +so written by them.

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It has been my consistent habit to spend an hour or so of the +late evening time in meditation. During these hours I have made +innumerable contacts with those who have passed from this plane of +existence. However no serious attempt at interplanetary contact was +tried until the second month of the year of 1955. At that time I began +to be increasingly aware that something like this was being attempted +by the peoples of other planets. One evening, about the first part of +May, of this year, while in a deep meditative state, I suddenly +perceived a rather strange looking man standing before me. At first I +thought him to be Chinese, as his dress arid general appearance was +somewhat similar to that of a man of ancient China. After introducing +himself as Nur El, however, he quickly explained he was from the +planet Mars, and that if I so desired, I could go there with him, to +his city (in astral flight) and that he would be my personal guide. He +explained that his people were very desirous in view of all the +controversy going on, to clear up some of the so-called mysteries of +Mars. He further assured me that it was quite obvious that a complete +understanding was not possible in one visitation; therefore as the +first contact was made, it would be comparatively easy to establish +other contacts, as was convenient and necessary. Since this first +contact and trip was made, I have returned on several occasions; in +fact, Nur El often stood beside me as I wrote, to further clear up, or +refresh my memory regarding any details which were not entirely clear.

+

Now I will contact my Martian guide and take an astral flight +through space, and see just how it is that man lives on the red +planet. Almost immediately a very distinguished looking man stands +before me; he is Nur El, a man of high position and esteem from one of +the Martian cities. He is dressed in a very brilliant red suit. The +coat is long, almost to the knees, with loose fitting pantiloons. On +his head is a red hat with a square shaped brim that is turned up on +four sides.

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Our trip there is a matter of split seconds as no craft is used +or needed. Arriving on the surface of Mars, we are at once aware of +the extremely rugged terrain, rocky hills and sandy wastes, that +stretches out endlessly around us. There are many peculiar whirling +dust clouds all about. Nur El explains that the ionosphere is very +thin which leaves the surface almost unprotected from the various +beta, gamma and cosmic rays. This high concentration of rays ionizes +the very rare and gaseous atmosphere and together with the thermal +currents, creates terrific dust storms. There is also a very thinly +divided dust layer on the ionosphere which helps create the reddish +appearance of the planet. There are also a number of volcanos, three +of which are of major size; one of these was just barely visible on +the horizon trailing a thin wisp of smoke from its truncated cone. It +was also explained that as Mars has only seven degrees axis +inclination there is not much of a seasonal change. Water is very +scarce on this arid planet; most of the precipitation falls at the +poles. Vegetation is also scarce. There are a few varieties of +prickly-cacti looking plants. Also near the polar ice caps, grows a +very luxuriant green alga-like plant that follows the melting snow +line. This spongy growth often attains a height (or depth) of forty to +fifty feet. It appears and disappears with the season as it grows +tremendously rapidly, and it also disintegrates very fast.

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There are also a number of species of lizards, reptiles and of +some insects whose hard shells have enabled them to weather the +extreme atmospheric conditions and among them are giant ants which +walk semi-erect on the two hind feet. The guide tells me these are +mutants which were accidently produced from a small ant in an atomic +experiment ages ago. They are similar to humans in a very low state of +intelligence and at one time it became necessary to make war on them, +as they became so numerous and large. These strange ant creatures +average two to four feet in height and live in rocky caves. But we did +not tarry long on the surface I followed my guide to a rather strange +looking rock. Then, taking a small whistle from his coat pocket, he +blew one note and although I heard nothing, the rock immediately swung +open disclosing a car-like elevator. We entered and, after the door +closed, I had the familiar dropping sensation of our own modern +elevators. The trip down took but a few seconds, and, upon stopping, I +stepped forth into what was my first glimpse of a Martian city.

+

I was immediately impressed by the soft white light that seemed +to come from everywhere. We were standing near the entrance of a large +tube. On Mars the cities are all underground and are connected +together by huge oval metal tubes from three to five hundred feet in +diameter. There are monorail cars as long as our pullman trains which +glide silently and very swiftly from one city to another. The bottoms +of these immense tubes are used for parks, growing foodstuffs and +innumerable small manufacturing plants.

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Because of the great distances between the cities, these tubes +have been built only partially submerged. There are emergency air +locks and bulkheads at the ends where they connect to the domes; other +safety and precautionary measures are used to protect the cities and +tunnels in case of breakdowns or outside attack. It is these tubes +which have confused the astronomers on the earth. Some believe them to +be canals. There are also other theories. The shifting desert sands +often cover or uncover them which leads to further confusion inasmuch +as they seem to appeal' and disappear.

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Turning about and looking down into the city is an unforgettable +experience. Like all cities on Mars, it is built on the floor of a +huge metal dome. These domes are sometimes four or five miles in +diameter, and up to three thousand feet high. They are constructed of +huge curved trusses of a whitish metal, seemingly of a magnesium +compound. These trusses are covered with a metal top and bottom and +the space in between filled with a plastic foam similar to the +construction of the houses. This also gives added protection from the +various cosmic rays as well as sealing in the precious air supply. +Underneath the roof is an inner shell or a second false shell which is +composed of sheets of pale blue plastic. This is suspended from +brackets from the dome at a distance of about six feet; in this space +are the many thousands of fluorescent tubes which make up the lighting +system and they reflect downward the soft radiant light which I first +noticed. I was told this light is very similar to a modified sunlight, +and is very healthful and stimulating to plant life, as well as to the +people. As these domes are built in the bottom of excavations, the +sands soon drift over them and cover them up, giving added protection +from the strong surface rays. +

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The Underground Cities

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of Mars +

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The cities are laid out like a wheel. The center hub is a very +large circular structure which houses the various municipal and civic +governmental departments. Underground is a very large atomic power +plant for supplying the cities' needs. The streets stretch away from +the hub like spokes, and at regular intervals circular streets are +intersected; this is similar to our national capital. The streets +which radiate from the hub rise at a very gentle rate of inclination. +The houses and other buildings are built on low elevations which rise +like tiers. 'Walking up one of these streets gives one the impression +of walking on air, as the paving is of a springy plastic material in a +very soft shade of green. Stopping to inspect some of the houses, I am +nearly overwhelmed by their wondrous beauty, simplicity and charm. In +every small, vacant space in the streets and grounds around the houses +are growing plants. These are mostly fruits and vegetables. They are +planted in metal troughs and other containers. The soil is a mixture +of natural and artificial plant humus and moss. The houses and +buildings are semi-prefabricated in a wide variety of plastic of +pastel shades. The walls are formed of two sheets of thin plastic +about two inches apart. After the walls are fastened together, a +liquid foam like plastic material is injected or blown in between the +walls. After this hardens, it gives the whole structure tremendous +strength. This hardened plastic foam acts also as a good insulator.

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There is no problem of heat or cold in a Martian city, with an +abundance of atomic power. The whole city is air conditioned, free +from dust and fumes, and is maintained at a constant temperature of +about 68 degrees. Huge electronic pumps suck in and filter the thin +outside air and raise the pressure to about seven pounds per square +inch. It also strengthens the overhead dome structure by pushing out +uniformly at all points simultaneously.

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As the outside atmosphere is very rare and of a low oxygen +content, the Martian cities are becoming less and less dependent on +that source of air supply. Many thousands of years ago they learned +how to obtain air from water by electrolysis. They also make a great +effort to create great underground reservoirs near the ice caps to +drain off and store any surplus surface water which also, along with +the oxygen, has become increasingly rare through the centuries.

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At the present time, scientists on Mars are learning to make air +and water synthetically out of other elements. They have also explored +every possible existing subterranean river or lake and have added much +to the dwindling water supply by some important discoveries. It is +estimated that, with careful conservation, they will have enough water +for several thousand years, during which time other means will have +been arrived at for solving this problem. +. . .

+

All buildings are supplied with electric power from the central +power plant. The power is radiated over ultra high frequency beams +which crisscross the streets, and are relayed by smaller substations. +On top of each building is a split ball-like antenna which intercepts +these power beams, bringing power down onto a small secondary radiator +which in turn radiates the power through the building, lighting the +lights, operating the various motors, etc. These are, of course, all +constructed very differently than the motors and electric lights on +earth, which are large, clumsy and very inefficient by comparison.

+

Window glass is a polarized material which transmits light one +way, from outside in, which gives privacy without the problem of shade +and drapes. A simple metal folding shutter is sometimes drawn across +the window to shut out the light when sleeping, etc. Furniture in the +home is very simple and is contoured to the body and is made of metal +and plastic. The houses are not overly furnished as are so many of +earth homes, yet there is sufficient for comfort in a simple fashion. +Rugs are a plastic foam-like material which is springy and resilient +with no dusty nap. Various colors are used and slightly raised designs +which give variety and charm to the lovely over-all appearance. The +kitchens would be a delight to the earth woman; all cooking is done in +an oven which is built in a wall cabinet. The oven is operated on high +frequencies which cook all foods in a matter of a very few minutes, +or, in most cases only a few seconds. After dinner, the dish-washing +is a very quick and simple process. The dishes are placed in a metal +cabinet, a dial set, and after a few minutes all are clean and +sparkling; no water is used. Instead, streams of electronic energy of +some sort does the job. The dishes are made of a plastic like material +which is repellent to soil.

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The bathroom is also quite different. The stool appears or +disappears in the wall as needed. Disposal is efficiently taken care +of by electrolysis. Very little water apparently is used. Bathing is +done in a small booth where an atomized spray of pleasant smelling +liquid is sprayed on the body and wiped off with a very absorbent +towel. Here also, no water is used. There is also some kind of energy +ray used which stimulates and leaves the body very refreshed. Teeth +are cleaned with a sort of electronic brush which is a metal rod on a +handle. Moving it around the teeth directs a flow of energy which +cleans and stimulates the teeth and gums. I Very little of the +normally expected house cleaning is done in a Martian home; all +interior surfaces are dirt repellent and, as the air is normally very +clean and inasmuch as there is no smoking, frying or similar soot +producers, the homes are very clean and spotless.

+

Mounting a flight of stairs to the roof, we emerge onto a +typical Martian garden. The roofs of these homes are flat and planted +with a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and flowers. Each home +grows quite a lot of the normal supply of foodstuff it consumes. They +take great pride in these roof gardens and frequently engage in +friendly competition in contests between neighbors in an attempt to +raise the most beautiful displays of horticulture. +. . .

+

Now I understood why the streets slanted up and the lack of +stores and commercial buildings, for here stretched out before me was +a huge shopping center, which in some odd way reminded me of one of +our annual state fairs. Up and down and around were streets and +aisles with shops and booths displaying the many articles of clothing +and food familiar to the Martian way of life. There was however, +noticeable differences: little or no advertising was used, the shop +owner sat or stood quietly by or worked on various articles he (or +she) sold. A quaint system of barter and exchange is generally +prevalent although some form of script, currency similar to a +department store charge-a-plate, is also used. Martians are +inherently honest; stealing is almost unknown. Consequently there is +no need to accumulate more than is needed, for they do not have the +fear of insecurity. There is no price haggling over various +transactions. Some sections have mechanical automat-like dispensers +in which a keyed charge-a-plate is inserted and withdrawn after the +article is discharged. Another curious feature of these market places +are the escalator sidewalks; on several of the main thorofares were +double tracks, one coming and one going, with a small bench-like +seat to sit on. A person merely stepped on, sat down and was moved +slowly up and down in front of the various stalls or shops. +Everywhere I turned to look I saw happy, smiling faces with none of +that taut, drawn look that is so prevalent in our cities. In between +these market centers, much space is devoted to the cultivation of +various crops, one of which is a grain very similar to millet. There +is also a species of rice which grows with very little moisture. It +seems that many of these plant crops have been evolved through a +Luther Burbank-like process to a point where they require the +absolute minimum of water.

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No heavy manufacturing is done in these cities, but there are +several domes which are devoted to, and used almost exclusively for, +this type of work. But time was slipping by, and reluctantly I +followed my guide to another elevator and we ascended back to the +main level.

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As we walked along one of the streets I could not help but feel +overawed by the beauty of all the things around me: the lovely homes +and roof gardens, the landscaped parkways growing lush with fruits +and flowers, the peace and quiet which was everywhere. I looked +curiously at some of those who were passing by, although I do not +believe they could see me in my astral state; at least if they did +so, they gave no indication that they were being rudely stared at, +and I assumed their smiles and greetings were meant for Nur El. I +did not see any indication of the use of any cosmetics on the women's +faces. Their eyes were quite large and black with a distinct slant, +the skin was wax-like and beautifully colored, lips red and well +shaped, which in all left nothing to be desired in any external +adornment.

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There are other things which were noticeable by their absence': +there is no smoking, the use of tobacco being unheard of. Nur el +chuckled when I asked about this, stating that such a practice was +grown up thumb sucking and was a habit belonging only to those who +were not completely weaned. The drinking of alcoholic beverages is +also unknown. The people of Mars are smaller than those on earth, +only averaging about four feet six inches in height. They are +somewhat Mongolian in appearance. The texture of the skin is very +fine and soft, while the hair is usually straight, black, and quite +fine. The men do not need to shave for they have eradicated +electronically, the growth of hair from their faces when still young. +The Martians are a quiet peace-loving people. Their clothing is +simple with long loose flowing lines, with nothing to bind them, in +many brilliant colors including many shades we know not. All clothing +is made of synthetic materials as no natural fibers are grown. +

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THE MARTIAN - CHINESE LINK +

+

Martians are much older in soul-evolution than the earthians. +They originally migrated in space craft to Mars from a dying planet +more than a million years ago. They also came to this earth and +started a colony but found it impractical to maintain. It was also +explained by Nur El that this colony became our Chinese race through +the evolution of time.

+

The great space-ships in their intercourse with the planet Mars +established a series of six colonies, stretching from the lower +planes of China into the more northern reaches, around what is now +known as Peking in the northern provinces of China. There was in +existence at that time descendents of the Aryan race who lived as +Mongols or Tartars, as they are called in your history books. These +were mostly very fierce roving bands of nomads, who now roam the +desert regions of the Gobi Desert. It is with these races of people +that the original Martian settlers had so much trouble. The people +from Mars had progressed to the point where they disliked intensely +to kill their fellow being; and while they had weapons which could +thoroughly and completely decimate these nomadic tribes, yet they +refrained from doing so! They relied more upon the evolution of +time, as would be of such circumstance that these tribes would absorb +some of the wisdom and knowledge. However, this was not so; in the +numerous raids which they made upon these settlements, they +frequently captured both male and female prisoners; and as the +females bore children to these Mongols and Tartars, the Martian +colonists became somewhat infused into the racial characteristics of +these people. However, for the most part, the various dynasties of +the Chinese Empire can be traced directly back to the Martian line. +. . .

+

Cancer and many other so-called incurable diseases are removed +or corrected using an advanced electronic healing process. It was +also explained, that in all cases, the patient was given a psychic +diagnosis which correctly locates the true originating cause, as a +psychic pressure or shock, incurred in either the present life or in +some previous lifetime. (Extended psychosomatics). Mental disorders, +while rare, yield quickly to this treatment which quickly removes or +rectifies these malformed vortices, or thought wave patterns which +have been incurred in the subconscious or psychic body. There are no +jails or prisons; crime is considered a mental disorder and treated +thusly. Such treatment is kept secret and not exploited as we do, +therefore there is no deflation of the ego. There is no pain or shock +or lengthy doctoring. Usually the patient is home in a matter of +hours. . . . Passing through this laboratory the guide went further +into the problems of birth control and sex. He stated that children +are limited to usually, two to a family so as to prevent overcrowding +and a lessening of an advanced family relationship. The ratio of +births usually determined by the death rate average. Sex relations +are very sacred and considered a great creative gift. There are none +of the usual sexual stimulants such as advertising, spiced heavy +foods etc., which tend to overexcite the people of earth. +Consequently, sex assumes its rightful place in the life of the +Martians.

+

These people have a basic spiritual concept which teaches them +from birth, the importance of love of one another and finding their +greatest joys of life in doing for each other, not doing each other. +I did not see any of our familiar churches and steeples; it was +explained to me that there are none. Worship is not a pagan-like +bowing down to some mythical god (or gods), but a twice daily +observance to the Great Infinite Creative Source, and there is a once +weekly community observance giving thanks to this Source.

+

Other Spiritual aspects of Martian life include communications +with those who have passed into the spirit world; in fact, every +Martian considers his spirit friends and relatives a part of his +daily life. No doubt our Chinese have derived their ancestor worship +from this source.

+

The Martians have also developed reincarnation to a point where +it forms an integral part of their lives; they plan for a future time +when they will relive a new life among old friends and relatives. +Many children frequently identify themselves as former loved ones. +

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Martian Education +

+

Soon after the birth of a child, all the potential mental +faculties and quotients were determined by an electronic diagnosis +and any criminal or negative characteristics were removed by a +radiant energy process. The child was further conditioned against +such recurrence. There are no public schools.

+

The child is taught to a large extent in his sleep by a "Z-ray" +which imparts the lessons or knowledge directly into his subconscious +mind. This ray can be likened somewhat to a radio frequency which +carries the spoken word yet is inaudible to the ear; in this case +however, it is received and stored for use in the child's mind. +Usually a child will have the equivalent to a college education by +the time he has reached the age of ten. Such schooling is done to +bring out the best points of character and to especially train him in +whatever vocation he is best suited for. +As I listened to the soft accented voice of my Martian friend, +my mind inadvertently began to recall and compare scenes of my earth +life with the simple quiet way I was just beginning to glimpse and +understand. Things like the roaring streets and highways, the stench +and smell of thousands of cars, of hate and greed and avarice. Nur El +caught my thoughts and for a moment stopped speaking. A slow smile +lifted the corners of his mouth and his eyes began to twinkle. "No," +he said, "these people would not migrate to the earth. First they +would have to become accustomed to the difference in air pressure, +and if this were done suddenly it might be very dangerous, like a +diver going down beneath the water too quickly. " He paused a moment +then continued, "Then there would be deadly disease germs and the +many viruses that we here on Mars, not having had such things for +thousands of years, have lost our resistance to."

+

I could see his point but I wondered a bit as to how they knew +so much about the earth, but patiently he explained that there were +semi-surface observatories with electronic telescopes as well as a +variety of radio and radar-like devices which gave them a very good +idea of what went on there. Besides some of the more advanced +scientists were masters at astral flight. Even an ordinary citizen of +Mars was quite adept at mental telepathy and this type of +communication was used as much as speech.

+

Going back into the ring shaped building, we emerged into what +were some of the chambers used for judging or administrative phases. +The government is of a very simple form. I was amazed when told there +are no written laws. Each citizen lives under a simple understanding, +of unwritten code. It was a very reasonable facsimile, if not the +actual golden rule. In other words, do for others first. If a person +acts selfishly,tor begins to steal or shows symptoms of anger, he is +considered ill and treatment is quickly administered. Each five +families have a group leader or "Icla," as he is called. He +represents this group and is responsible for their general welfare. +The judges or heads of different departments are chosen on their +merit and it is usually done through elimination, examinations which +require a lifetime of special training. There are no political +systems. Brains and character alone determine a candidate's fitness +for an office. Male and female are regarded as equal and with no +discrimination shown. There are no old age institutions in these +Martian cities. Great respect is shown the aged and they live with +their children until the time of passing. No doubt the Chinese on the +earth brought this custom of respect and veneration down through the +ages from their Martian ancestors. +Another thing that did impress me was the wide variety of +pictures and objects of art which were everywhere. These people are +exceedingly artistic and almost everyone spends some time at his +particular chosen expression decorating screens, ceramics, furniture, +etc; all were given some treatment whenever opportunity presented. It +was all in very good taste, however, and most pleasing to the eye. +These traits are quite evident in our modern Chinese. +. . . +

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Monorail Transportation +

+

Going through several of these offices we again emerged into the +open air. Before us was one of the larger radial streets; coming down +this street was what looked like a silver gondola of some sort, +suspended from an overhead rail. Going closer to examine this strange +craft, I found that it was about twenty feet long. It had six or eight +bucket-like seats. There is a rather elaborate system of control +used. All is done, of course, electronically. There is an 'eye' on +each end to keep it spaced a reasonable distance from other cars. +Gyroscopes are used to prevent sway and it is powered by a motor in +each flanged wheel which rides a single rail, suspended at short +intervals by metal standards. These cars are stopped with a single +blast of a noiseless supersonic whistle and started after the +passengers sit down. A number of the main radial streets have this +monorail shuttle car system. Others used moving sidewalks, somewhat +similar to escalators.

+

It seems that these people do not travel much, as compared to +our earth people. There is, of course, considerable inner-city travel +over the monorail car system which I saw in the tube. There is +however, a kind of communication which renders a great deal of travel +unnecessary. This is a form of telephone, or teleview as it could +more properly be called. Besides conversing, each party can see the +other one through a small screen similar to our television. This of +course, can be shut off by manipulating a button, in the event there +is a need for privacy. Speaking of television, their system is far +more advanced than ours; the screen is built into the wall of the +room and is about four by five foot square. All programs are in three +dimensional color, very lifelike and natural. Such programs are, of +course, the very highest type. As there is only one channel to a +city, all program material is produced and telecast by the people +themselves, since there is no advertising or sex intimations but only +such things as the festivals, lectures, various stage presentations +or musicals which take place in the central theater. Little or no +news is broadcast and then only that which is of a nature which would +not cause fear or restlessness.

+

Music plays an important part in life here. Most of the +instruments are of the string type and are usually plucked. There are +some reed or flute-like instruments which help give variety. There +are none of the heavy percussive type which form a large part of our +modern orchestras. The music itself is, for the most part, a quaint +sing-song-like rhythm or chant which usually depicts some story or +moral lesson; or even historical events are portrayed. Considerable +color is used in the stage presentations, which gives much added +charm as the innumerable color combinations rise and fall with the +rhythm of the chant.

+

Since my initial trip, I have returned to Mars several times and +have learned much more about this fascinating civilization. To those +who are proponents and ardent supporters of our free enterprise +system, let it be said that they have a great shock coming to them. +On Mars there is no dog-eat-dog competition such as we, on earth, are +so familiar with. Everyone works for the government because the +government is the people! This highly developed socialistic system is +not to be confused with any so-called communistic governments on +earth. The Martians never break laws, consequently there are no laws. +They have long ago eliminated legislative bodies. How different here! +We have a huge and vast intricate network of legislative bodies, as +well as various branches of law enforcement. The average American has +many thousands of laws to obey. The great majority of, the people +either knowingly or unknowingly are breaking laws. As fast as a way +is found to circumvent one law, a new one is passed to prevent this! +The modern Chinese have placed a great deal of personal value on +face; they would rather die than lose face. This sense of personal +integrity was brought down through the ages from their Martian +ancestors. The average Martian has an advanced state of conscious +personal integrity. This eliminates the ponderous and very expensive +system of government to which we are accustomed. There is in +consequence a vastly simplified way of life. There are no taxes. as +this land is run like a highly ordered non-profit business. The +various departmental or executive heads are all highly trained +specialists and hold their positions because of ability and +integrity. +. . .

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From childhood they are taught to be useful and productive. +Because of their simplified living habits, they have more time for +self-improvement and for developing new types of plastics, textiles, +etc. They usually limit their meals to only two a day and even those +are very simple, consisting primarily of vegetables and fruits, with +some synthetic foods. The Martians are not meat eaters partly for +the reason that animal life has largely passed from existence on +Mars, with the exception of mutants and the few obscure species +previously mentioned, and these are inedible. The Martian has learned +how to grow, and also to synthesize many spices and to produce +artificially, many protein foods. Space is not too plentiful. There +are some dwarf trees, three to four feet high with a fruit that looks +like an orange but has meat like that of an apple, is red skinned and +sweet. It is called sit-yu. Some other vegetables are grown in +troughs in long rows. These look like huge mushrooms and have a +delicious meat. +

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The Harmony of Martian Life +

+

Martians are closely connected with the Venusians through +thought transference or mental telepathy. At one time, interplanetary +travel was used, but these spacecraft are at present stored in huge +underground hangars, and are being held in readiness for any +emergency, such 'as a sudden mass evacuation of the population should +any unexpected need arise. +. . .

+

It was explained that the science of interplanetary travel was +something very difficult for the earth man to understand inasmuch as +the people and the craft itself would, in taking off, actually change +the rate of vibration of their own and the craft's atomic structure. +Thus they would in a sense become weightless and temporarily free of +various usual forces such as gravitation, inertia, etc. My guide +went on to explain that this science of changing the atomic vibration +rates is a very advanced one, and that if the earthmen would learn +this, it would remove all the present day obstructions and barriers +such as materials, fuel, pressures and the hundreds of other +hindrances to present day space travel. At present their experiments +have progressed to a point where a man's body can be changed into +electrical energies, sent over a radar beam and then changed back to +the original state; all in a matter of a split second, and with no +pain or discomfort to the individual.

+

This no doubt sounds fantastic. Nowadays it is only the ignorant +mam who scoffs at any new ideas, and no doubt there will be those who +will be unable to believe these truths; but it does not matter, since +that still does not alter the facts. Just fifty years ago they were +laughing at the Wright brothers - and think of what has been invented +and improved and brought into use since that time. No less so in the +future. The things of science which are commonplace in the Martian +way of life could well become a part of ours in some future day.

+

I was informed that the Martians understand what is happening to +the earth people and its veritable rat race, and they are very +desirous of aiding through mental telepathy to inspire as many of the +earthians as are receptive to their ways for the advancement of +mankind and the improvement of conditions on this planet, and within +man himself. Until man realizes the great over-balance on the +material side and gains the necessary spiritual knowledge we cannot +hope to be harmonious with the other more advanced planets. They say +that it is realized only too well that they must not interfere with +the evolution or progress of man on earth to any great extent, for it +would not be in keeping with God's immutable law of individual soul +progress.

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The scientists of Mars have informed me that our telescopes, in +the photographing process, are subject to error and do not get +refraction but infraction. Sometimes the light rays, or vibrations as +they are more properly called, are at times subjected to distortions, +or bendings, in their flight through space, due to the proximity of +some other planetary body. Because of the conjunction of magnetic +lines of force, the astronomer does not always get a true picture of +what he thinks he is seeing. Also the planet Mars, on the outside of +its surface, has a tremendously charged shell. While it is invisible +to the eye, this can cause great distortions in light-ray +frequencies.

+

And so the time has come, at least for the present, to return to +our more familiar planet earth, and I do so reluctantly, for there +are still many more facets of life on (rather in) Mars of which I +have only a slight understanding. I would like to learn more of their +various customs, celebrations and observances. Obviously it cannot +all be taken in during only a few trips. I cannot recall a single +instance of this most fascinating and interesting experience of my +visits to Mars without a deep feeling of awe, reverence and gratitude +to this very fine person who calls himself Nur El for giving so +unselfishly of his time and efforts in explaining so many things +about the planet, its people, manners, etc.

+

There is also a grave concern by these people about our +destructive downhill way of life. We are creating and breeding a race +of psychopathic misfits I in our highly specialized, mechanical +world. The people are becoming robots. They cannot sleep for +nightmares from fear and insecurity. Their days an endless succession +of almost frantic scurrying, or worse, a robot-like existence of +work, sleep, and work. On every hand flagrant psychological and +sexual stimulants are used for advertisements suggestion is used to +hammer home these cheap and malicious messages until the brain +becomes numb and neurotic. Exploitation of the masses has become a +highly specialized science, ruthless and cold-blooded, running the +gamut from charity to vice.

+

On the other hand there are almost equally frantic attempts +being made by various religious groups, churches, individuals, etc., +to portray in some way to the great masses the grave dangers +confronting them. These efforts are pitifully small and weak. +Moreover, these efforts are not above suspicion, for there are, here +as elsewhere, many charlatans. +. . . +

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The Supernova Connection +

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It was intimated in the foregoing pages that it was quite +obvious that it would require several trips to gain a comprehensive +understanding of the Martian way of life, and that therefore, I would +quite likely, from time to time, make similar visits or flights. +Since concluding the last pages, Nur El has made contact several +times and has given or shown me pertinent information regarding +several issues which I would like to clear up. In case some of you +are wondering just as I did, what caused his people to go underground +and why they do not migrate to some other planet since they have all +the necessary craft to do so. Nur El explained all this by first +saying that Mars was, up until about 100000 years ago, a planet very +similar to the earth. There was air, water, and an abundance of plant +and animal life. The cities flourished on the surface just as ours +do. At that time, through their occult science and also with their +superior telescopes they saw, somewhere out in space, a cataclysm +take place. One of the giant suns suddenly went berserk, flared up +like a nova and then exploded in a terrific blinding flash. Huge +chunks hurtled out into space in different directions, each one a +smaller, white-hot, atomically-burning sun, shooting off great +streamers of atomic energies. It was determined by calculations, that +one of these fiery pieces would pass very close to our solar system. +As it was larger than our own sun, it was conceivable that there +would be tremendous repercussions; in fact, anything was possible. +Because of its great size it would have a tremendous gravitational +pull, besides giving off great energies. It was also determined, as +light traveled much faster in space than this huge chunk, that it +would pass our solar system. This therefore gave the Martians a grace +period for preparation. They had, however, a choice: to stay on Mars +or to migrate to another planet far away from this solar system. +After a search of the nearby, practical limits of the heavens, it was +found that there was no other planet available which would be +suitable. So an alternative was decided upon. They could build huge +cities underground! During the next two hundred years or so, an +almost frantic building program was assiduously pursued. We can well +imagine some of the problems, the sacrifices, and the labor and +research which went into this tremendous project, but it was finally +accomplished. In due time all was snug and ship-shape as possible. +Buried deep under many feet of rock and earth, in their newly +constructed dome-like cities, the people of Mars waited for the final +hours. Day by day they watched the white glowing mass of light grow +larger and larger. There was no really accurate way by which to +measure how close it would pass or just how hot it would be. No doubt +many thought it would be the end!

+

Finally the hour struck. Nur El stated that for eight days the +planet was rocked, torn and twisted as great forces blasted and +ripped the surface. Plant and animal life disappeared almost +entirely, except for the few species which escaped by being buried or +in caves. The air and water too, were largely dissipated or drawn off +with the passing nova. When it was over, Mars was decimated and +burned to a cinder.

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Other planets also suffered. On earth there were great +earthquakes and tidal waves. A great continent and civilization, +called Lemuria, sank beneath the sea. Great deserts were burned into +the surface in places which were formerly beautiful forests and +plains. The Sahara and Gobi deserts were two of these. Earth's +orbit and axis (or the poles) were also changed. Instead of a +circular orbit Earth was rocked into an elliptical orbit, with the +addition of a very slight but definite wobble or oscillation, which +it has never lost. Uranus and Pluto was pushed out into an orbit much +further away from the sun. Neptune suffered a similar fate although +not quite so pronounced. It is conceivable that the other planets were +also affected according to their size and position at the time of the +passing of this huge celestial "atom bomb." No doubt the knowledge +of this cataclysm will clear up some of the mysteries of Earth's +history which have been puzzling the seekers of truth for many years. +. . . +

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Our present civilization, good as it is in some respects, leaves +much to be desired. It has been the purpose of Nur El, the people of +Mars and myself to bring you some understanding of their ways of +life, hoping thus to bring about, not only among the nations of the +world, but future interplanetary relationships which are harmonious +and conducive to a better way of life. +

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We all salute you and wish you infinite love, wisdom and peace. + +Appendix +

+

Shortly after writing this article there appeared in the +Saturday Review, on May 28, 1955, an article written by Dr. Robert S. +Richardson, astronomer at Mount Palomar, which refers to the findings +of the International Committee on Mars, which closed its fourth +conference on March 25, 1955. There are several interesting +statements made, on which I will comment. Mr. Richardson states the +consensus of opinion is that there is life on Mars, or that it could +exist. This is at least some progress in the right direction. Also he +is quite correct about the deserts. Most of the surface of this +planet is semi-arid wastelands. It is however, incorrect to say +there is no oxygen there.

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The presence of the green maria, which he calls sponge-like +algae, proves the presence of oxygen, although in a comparatively +rare state. As everyone knows, oxygen is necessary in the breathing +cycle of any plant which contains chlorophyll (oxygen on Mars is +about 10% of the density of the earth's oxygen) as was stated in the +aforementioned article. This sponge-like algae is found growing along +the edges of the snow banks and often attains a height of forty to +fifty feet. It dries up with the vanishing of the snow caps and re-grows the following spring.

+

What the doctor states regarding water on Mars is very true. It +is very scarce and the people of the underground cities take great +pains to conserve every gallon of it.

+

As to the temperatures. that is still a matter of conjecture. It +is a very tricky business to measure heat over thirty-five millions +of miles distance. Moreover, surface temperatures do not affect the +inhabitants of the underground cities, as they are completely +pressurized and conditioned with temperatures maintained at a +comfortable level.

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The most surprising part of the entire article was that there +was absolutely no mention of the famous canals of Mars. I wonder +what happened to them? These canals were for many years a great +controversial subject. The photograph in this article does not show +them, but this is perhaps explained by the fact that this photo was +taken with infra-red light film. It may be that the savants at Mt. +Palomar would like to explain this.

+

It is of questionable value that the writer interjected such a +material angle as real estate. It seems it would have been wise to +confine the remarks within the domain of science and leave this +problem up to some of our great promoters in that future day of +landing. It might also be that the Martians would resent our tearing +up their planet.

+

It is also probable that in that future day when man does have +space travel to Mars, he will be able to take his wife or loved ones +along. Landing there will be somewhat like taking a plane to a far +off city on this planet. On arriving on Mars the space ship will be +taxied into a huge airlock. The passengers will disembark and find +hotels and accommodations in a similar fashion as on earth. (Assuming +of course that such factors as freedom from germ life, health, +adaptability to lower air pressures, etc., have been fully +compensated for.)

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It is unfortunate indeed that the astronomers of today take such +a dim view of the possibility of life on other planets. They should +be in a position to know better than anyone else. Does it not seem a +bit preposterous to assume that in all the countless billions of +suns, star clusters. galaxies. etc. and their associated planetary +systems, that earth and Mars clone are inhabited?

+

Perhaps we should refer to Jesus of Nazareth when he stated +that, "In my Father's house are many mansions.'

+

In that distant day when space travel is a reality, let us hope +that our men of science are universally schooled in the knowledge of +the Infinite God and that we will find in this wisdom an integrated +philosophy of life, one which will supply our need and an answer to +every problem.

+

In that future day, we will have put aside all our petty +quibbling over interpretations. We will find God not only in the +heart and mind of man but in everything in this material Universe.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION: +CONTACT THE UNARIUS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE +145 SO. MAGNOLIA AVE. +EL CAJON, CA. 92020-4522 +

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The Black International No. 1

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THE VATICAN'S LAST CRIME

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HOW THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL JOINED THE +WORLD-PLOT AGAINST FREEDOM, +LIBERALISM, AND DEMOCRACY

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by Joseph McCabe

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Chapter I

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THE FOULEST WAR IN HISTORY

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This war is one of the most deliberately aggressive, one of +the most bloody and costly, and the most revolting war in history. +It is not the work, of an Attila or a Genghis Khan, a man from the +wilds of Asia whose barbaric dreams of conquest had never been +checked by the ideals of modern civilization. It is the foul work +of men who know how the race has fought during a century and a +half, ever since the American and the French Revolutions, to rid +its life of the last taint of barbarism and had reached at least a +fair prospect of a final victory over violence and injustice: the +work of loathsome hypocrites, who masked with a pretense of +creating a higher social order the most monstrous greed, the most +abhorrent callousness, that ever debased the human mind.

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Historians have disputed how the guilt of the war of 1914-1918 +must be distributed amongst the combatants. No historian will ever +hesitate in assigning the guilt for this war. it brands for all +time a relatively small number of men in Germany, Italy, and Japan. +It puts upon them this infamy, that from a barbaric lust of power +and "glory," which ought now to be confined to the idle dreams of +young schoolboys, and from an almost insane greed of wealth for +themselves and their supporters they set out to drench the planet +and in blood and bring incalculable misery upon hundreds of +millions of innocent men, women and children.

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These men, the Hitler's and Goering's and Goebbels of Germany +-- "the vilest triumvirate that has appeared in history, said the +late Ambassador Dodd, who knew them and knew history -- the +Mussolinis and Cianos of Italy, the Hirohitos and Matsuokas of +Japan saw with wide-open eyes the tragic close of the last war. +They knew that nearly 9000000 men in the prime of life had been +slaughtered in altars that were less merciful than those of the

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Aztecs; yet they were prepared to sacrifice even more on the sordid +altars of their hellish ambitions. They had seen desolation from +Calais to Poland: and they proposed to spread a worse desolation +over the greater part of the earth. They had learned how in the +last war at least $100000000000 of the wealth that men +laboriously create and meagerly share -- not to count the waste of +man-power and the paralysis of trade -- had been thrown into a +morass; yet knowing the advance of science and expecting a larger +theater of war they would squander more than that sum in the +pursuit of their greed.

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The historian of the future who will coldly write these lines +will add a fourth count to the charge. During the twenty years +between the two great wars we had caught a vision of a new and +better world. That light of science which, as it slowly dawns, +enriches the imagination of man with plans that are more hopeful +and more confident than those offered us by any utopian, had grown +brighter. You remember how ten years ago America rang with +discussion of the promises of the Technocrats. Professors said that +we could, if we were wise, "smother every family in America with +commodities," Engineers became visionaries and made blueprints of +a world in which poverty would be unknown and no man would feel +that gnawing anxiety about holding the job which a dozen jobless +hungrily envied. No more of this niggardly counting of dimes when +the children want to go to the pictures, of dollars for the winter +boots and clothe's . . . An exaggeration, if you like, but every +man knows that there is a great and solid scientific truth behind +it all. And now, instead of seeing our wealth grow and brighten a +million drab homes, we must pour down the military drain a sum with +which we could have transformed the face of the earth, and we must +see our industrial productiveness pass from prostitution to +weariness.

+ +

That was only half the promise of science. Those knowing folk +who read so little and talk so much asked, when you spoke about +this promise of the future: Can you change human nature? You can +build a house for a pig but it remains a pig. And while folk were +glibly repeating this old saw science was quietly proving that it +is just one more popular fallacy like the luck of a rabbit's foot +or the ill-luck of number thirteen, the virtue of priests or the +wisdom of Popes. By 1930 the science of psychology had conducted +the "soul" or "mind" to its frontiers, thanking it for its +provisional services -- if any. What was left to study was human +behavior, and as we examined this in a scientific light we saw +that, instead of it being unalterable or requiring a prodigious +time to change, it is one of the most modifiable things under the +sun. Precisely because it is human. Man's behavior differs from the +rigid automatic behavior of the pig just in that fact that it is +not rigid and automatic. It depends upon ideas and stimulations +from without which can be changed; as Russia changed them for its +people, with stupendous results, in less than a generation.

+ +

It is one of the tragic ironies of our time that, apart from +Russia, it was only the criminal Dictators who acted upon this rich +principle of science. As late as the end of 1929 Hitler had not yet +poisoned the minds -- the mechanism of behavior -- of one in 350 of +the German people. He had 180000 followers in a population of

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60000000. Han's wanted a quiet life, his big pipe and mug of beer +and friendly neighbors, just as we do. He would have shuddered if +someone had foretold that in ten years he would, because he +accepted the lead of a criminal lunatic and a bunch of greedy +adventurers, see his wife and little Gretchen just splashes of +churned flesh and blood under the ruins of the home he had built +for them. But Goebbels changed his "human nature" in six years. +Mussolini, or Gayda, did the same, with the help of the priests of +Italy. The Japs did the same with their fishers and farmers and +textile workers, seizing and prostituting all the magnificent means +of instruction that science has provided -- the school and college, +the radio and the cinema, the printing press and the library -- +these poisoners of the human race had the majority of folk in three +nations soon howling like wolves at the scent of blood. Had it not +been for this we were within measurable distance of a genuine era +of peace, comfort, and brotherhood.

+ +

This, you may say, certainly looks like what happened, but +it's impossible. How could a gang, smaller than that which looted +New York in 1860 or St. Louis in 1890, take over a whole country, +make a corrupt fortune that beggars Tammany, and have a very fair +chance of becoming super-emperors?

+ +

Think again; and start with the fact that a small minority of +men in three countries, men of the vilest character and of colossal +greed, did secure control of those countries and organize them for +war. No one disputes that. And if you have had this success +explained to you on the line that Italy and Germany had, through +the conduct of Some melodramatic villains called Reds or +Bolsheviks, fallen into an anarchy that ruined their economies, and +that Mussolini and Hitler came along with "ideologies" which +promised deliverance from this anarchy, put the theory in the +trash-basket with the stories of Washington's cherry tree and +William Tell's apple. It's worse. It is, as we shall see later, a +lie. For years Mussolini and Hitler were just small-scale gangsters +directing mobs of hoodlums with bottles of castor-oil, loaded +whips, and automatics. They ranked in the European press, when it +thought fit to notice them, as part of the scum that had boiled to +the surface in a time of trouble.

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It was just because they had no appeal to thinking men, +because they had relied upon disorder and brutality instead of +order and discipline to attain such position as they had, that +certain larger and more respectable forces -- wealth, privilege, +and religion -- took them up and gave them that control of the +spring's of opinion and behavior which has enabled them to make a +lie look like a grand truth, a gangster's plan seem a schedule of +national salvation. Thyssen wandering about Europe telling +everybody how the Nazis took his millions and double-crossed him is +one of the thousands who thought they could hire the gunman as the +White Knights of Privilege and then dismiss them with a suitable +reward. The heads of the German Church are only less outspoken +because they are still within reach of the Nazi lash. The King of +Italy fumes in his Quirinal just as the Pope does in his Vatican. +It is -- to borrow a Phrase from French history -- the Day of +Dupes.

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Until we understand this the blight which has cursed our life +and the Vatican's share in causing it will remain painful and +disquieting mysteries. Advertisement is a mild variety of hypnotism +weakened by the fact that the advertiser has limited resources, and +a hundred rivals. Smith's soup is the finest in the world until you +see Jones's poster on the next hoarding. Now the Fascist system was +so successful in corrupting nations, once its highly respectable +patrons had given it wealth and power, because it uses the +hypnotism of the advertiser in its ideal form: no rivalry, no +discordant note, unlimited resources, the employment of every +device from the pulpit, to the professor's chair or the urchin with +his bit of chalk. You may object that at all events there must be +something sensible, convincing, attractive in the message that is +brayed and blazed everywhere. Is it always necessary? If you assail +ear and eye at every moment of the day for years with "Heil Hitler" +or "Mussolini Solo" millions will begin to see genius in a +neuropathic or a brutal adventurer who ought to be selling beef and +mutton. however, there was a message, and it was very convincing.

+ +

Take the case of Germany. On April 3, 1938 the leading German +scientific weekly, Die Umschau, contained an article, not too +prominently displayed, on the future of Germany in Europe. It was +the program of the New Order, yet as far as I can ascertain, not a +single paper in Britain or America noticed it. It described a +system of ship-canals and canalization of lakes, already more than +half constructed in 1938, which would connect every industrial town +in Germany along the Danube and even across France and Belgium, +with nearly every country and port in Europe. The scientific +writer, who ended with a "Heil Hitler," coldly explained how all +Europe would then supply food and raw materials to Germany and +receive payment in manufactured goods. This, in a respectable +scientific periodical, was the raw program of the future +enslavement of Europe, the paralysis of industry in every country, +and the colossal enrichment of the German manufacturer and worker. +That was the bait. Neither, Thyssen nor Hans cared the toss of a +coin about theories of Nordic blood or Nazi ideology. it was a +stupendous greed that was dangled before the eyes of Germany; and +the poor fish in Italy, who believes that he would share the loot, +used the bait to attract his own industrialists and workers. Japan +notoriously has nothing but the same shameless greed behind its +bland talk of New Order and Asia for the Asiatic.

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Few took any notice when, in 1938, I drew attention to this +and similar articles in the responsible German press. At the time +there was still a world-chorus of praise for the "order and +efficiency" of the Nazi system, and it would not do to admit a +jarring note. Folk were told that, while there was no need of +Fascism in the United States and Great Britain, these other -- or +inferior -- countries were "without form and void" and "darkness +was upon the face of the deep," and it was fine that the spirit of +Fascism "moved upon the face of the waters" creating a new world. +This Fascism, it was said, menaced only disorderly folk, sadists, +atheists, corruptors of women and children -- the Reds, in short. +What a tissue of lies it has all turned out to be! Roosevelt was +deluded as effectively as Chamberlain or Reynaud; Cardinal +Dougherty as effectively as the Pope. The historian of the future +will not ask how a few gunmen nearly became the emperors of half

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the world. That is already clear. He will ask why the world looked +on supinely, even applauding, while these men built a force. of so +formidable a character that they almost compassed their sordid aim.

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There can be only one answer. The statesmen, industrialists, +bankers, and bishops of America are as able and well-informed as +those of Germany and Japan and far superior to those of Italy. They +were deluded about the Fascist program because one clause of it so +far coincided with their own interests that they were not disposed +to pay close attention to the other clauses. The great thing was +that they promised to cheek the rapid world-growth of Socialism. +But the other clauses of the program were plain enough from the +start. The only change in the scheme of the gunmen in recent years +is that it has been expanded until it aims at conquering and +exploiting more than half the earth; and this is not so near to +lunacy as some would have us believe, It was due to a cold +calculation of the possibilities in view of the supineness or +complacency of the democratic governments and their press and the +support of the Black International.

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Japan, Germany, and Italy have made no secret of their +aggressive imperialistic schemes during the last ten years. I +described them in full in 1937 in three booklets of "The A B C +Library of Living Knowledge," taking the facts from semi-official +and other reliable publications. There was no secrecy about these +publications. It was a necessary part of Mussolini's appeal to the +mob from the first that, once the politicians were cleared away, he +would make a greater Italy by annexing Malta, Corsica, Savoy, and +Dalmatia. Little girls read that in their balilia catechisms and +even little girls knew that this meant war on England, France, and +Yugo-Slavia. It was equally necessary for Hitler to promise that he +would restore the greatness of Germany by bringing in all German-speaking lands (Austria, Alsace, and part of Switzerland, Czecho-Slovakia and Denmark); and to these he added as early as 1924, in +Mein Kampf, the annexation of the Ukraine and the annihilation of +France. That meant a European War. Japan has for the last ten years +organized great patriotic societies, With millions of members, +demanding the annexation of the eastern half of Asia and all +islands of the Pacific. These three programs were the protocol of +a world war; the war by which we now suffer. In my three booklets +I showed that there was not the least uncertainty about that. It is +just another fairy-tale for adults that the Axis has sprung a +surprise upon an innocent world.

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The vital question which we have to ask is why America, Great +Britain, and France permitted, without arming themselves, the three +robber nations to create so gigantic a military force that they had +a real hope of attaining their object and dividing the earth into +three Fascist spheres: into two, rather, because Germany and Japan +never regarded Mussolini as more than a catspaw. In a general way +you know the answer to this question. The Fascists were going to +destroy the Reds and that was so monumental a service to the +democracies, or to their ruling class and their Churches, that even +diplomats and statesmen and prelates took the word of the arch-liars that they would cultivate peace when they had crushed the +Reds. They were not ignorant but they were guilty of a gross amount +of wishful thinking. Even when Mussolini publicly and brazenly said

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that he offered the world "peace resting on eight million bayonets" +they put it down as a harmless overflow of a strong man's strength. +When, in 1934, he made the most deliberate and official statement +of the nature of Fascism (in the article "Fascismo" in his new +Encyclopedia Italians), saying that Fascism regarded war as the +noblest work of the race and peace as a degrading ideal, statesmen +and journalists pretended that they had never read it. So through +five shameful years the world that was threatened with an appalling +disaster smiled and praised the "efficiency" of the butchers who +were sharpening their knives; because the world is now ruled by its +press, and of the papers on which men relied the world over nine +copies out of ten came from the editorial offices and printing +shops of rich men who wanted the Reds suppressed at any price.

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But where, you ask, does the Black International enter this +conspiracy, as it really was? We are going to see immediately that +of all the privileged minorities which dreaded the Reds and were +therefore far too easily duped by the promises of the Anti-Reds the +Church of Rome had the most urgent need of relief. The cry will be +raised, of course, that I now accuse the Papacy of causing the war. +That sort of rubbish is a necessary part of the Catholic +propagandist system. What I do say is that the Papacy allied itself +with Italy, as everybody knows, with Japan, as everybody ought to +know -- it is only a year since the Vatican coined a gold medal for +the virtuous Matsuoka -- and, as far as it was allowed to do so, +with Germany, and that it used its international organization to +create that fierce and confused hatred of Communism on which the +Axis would rely when the crisis of the war was reached. Of that +international plotting in every country these ten booklets will +provide decisive evidence. It is shame enough that a Church which +makes such arrogant claims of moral superiority, a Church which +professes to have the finest international intelligence-service and +to be inflexible in the condemnation of crime, should be silent, as +it was silent, during ten years of monstrous outrages -- Manchukuo, +Austria, Abyssinia, etc. -- but the Pope has a deeper shame. He +played an active part over and over again on the side of the devil. +Because the Church of Rome was not merely threatened, like all +wealth and privilege, by the growth of Socialism -- it was in fact +breaking up under the impact, and only the violent suppression of +the Socialists, if necessary by war, could arrest this +disintegration.

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Chapter II

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JUST WHAT THE PAPACY NEEDED

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There are various ways of divining into sections the broad +stream of events which we call human history. One might divide it +from a sociological viewpoint into two parts: the rise and the fall +of privilege. During the first 3000 years of history we find an +ever-widening gap between a privileged minority and the working +majority. Once upon a time men had chosen able and strong men to +"rule" them, and these had chosen "companion's" (Counts) and +"leaders" (Dukes) of the troops who shared their privileges. In +those days it was considered just as important to ward off evil +spirits and flatter good spirits, and cunning men who could +persuade their fellows that they were particularly skilful at this

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sort of work founded another privileged caste. With the growth of +wealth, when men began to live in cities, the glamour of the sacred +castes -- kings, nobles, and priests -- increased, The Kings were +Sons of God, and the priests were his very special friends. Palaces +and temples, the mansions of the rich, the nobles, and the chief +priests, rose high above the clutter of mean homes.

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That is another story, but it is necessary to outline it +because the world-torture which we endure in this generation is a +vital stage in the second half of history; the era of the undoing +of privilege. The "profound" folk -- usually literary men whose +knowledge of any branch of positive learning would hardly fill a +five-cent note-book -- who now enlighten us about our problems by +essays, feature-articles, and sermons have made some remarkable +discoveries about our age. It is sick; it is degenerate; it is +World-weary; it has the insolence of youth; it relies too much on +old men; it misses the firm guidance of religion; it talks too much +about rights and too little about duties, and so on.

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It is all bunk. For instance, one of the most persistent +charges is that, being irreligious, our younger men have lost the +Spirit of sacrifice, whereas in Europe and China at least +15000000 bravely confront the horrible dangers of a modern war, +and certainly four-fifths of them (Germans, Russians, British and +Chinese) have no religion. The truth is that our generation, our +degenerate, frivolous, selfish generation, has taken up, and more +vigorously than ever, a task which the race has approached whenever +and wherever it was free during the last 2500 years; to reduce the +harsh contrasts of privilege and service, idleness and work, wealth +and poverty. Our age does not mind paying a good price for high +service, but it doubts if the services of priests and kings are +worth billions of dollars to a nation, and the conviction spreads +that the entire system of privilege is the chief obstacle to the +scientific organization and betterment of life. The world of +privilege is, as it has always done, reacting bloodily to the +revolt.

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The work of undoing privilege began 2500 years ago in the +cities of Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor, where Greeks mingled +with men of many races on free soil. There were no kings or nobles, +the priest's had little power, and the rich -- moderately rich -- +men served as merchants and in their leisure did some very useful +thinking for the race. Privilege -- the Kings of Persia -- +scattered them, and Greece took up the task. It got rid of its +kings and listened to philosophers rather than priests; and if the +Romans to whom the torch was next passed, apostatized to the extent +of restoring monarchy and allowing some to become very rich -- +though not nearly so rich as our multi-millionaires -- they at +least exacted a princely price in superb free services to the +workers. Then the night of the Dark Age fell upon Europe.

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Now that Professors as well as politicians have a great +respect for "the venerable Church of Rome" and its "august head" we +must, it appears, not talk about a Dark Age. Please yourself. The +facts are that whereas in the later days of the Roman Empire three +workers out of four had been free men, nine out of ten of them were +during the Dark Age (500-1100) serfs, which is the polite French

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way of saying slaves; whereas the Roman workers had all free +education (and free bread, free games, free medical service, etc.), +nine out of ten in the new Europe were totally illiterate and of an +incredible ignorance; and that whereas the Roman and Greeks of the +fourth century had had the protection of a fine code of law and in +general character were as good as we are, law was almost as extinct +as art in the new Europe, and the grossness of manners and morals +was indescribable. But please yourself, I am merely, in all +clarity, explaining why the work of human redemption was dropped +for five or six centuries.

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What it is important to know if we want to understand our own +age is that from the time when Europe mentally awoke, in the +eleventh century, to our days this attempt to put the world right +has inspired three great revolutions, and what we witness today is +the most logical and the broadest of the three. After five +centuries of revolts -- the Popes had to fight a republican +movement in their own city for two centuries -- and bloody +reprisals Europe saw that the Roman Church was the arch-enemy and +its power must be broken. Hence the Reformation. On the last +ghastly fields of the Thirty Years' War, the War of Catholicism and +Protestantism, which was one of the most savage and squalid in +history, the race won its first great victory over privilege; and +it is pleasant as well as informing to recall that this first +instalment of freedom was won in large part through the criminal +misbehavior of the Popes themselves. They had stored away in Rome +a treasure of at least a quarter of a billion dollars to help the +Catholics when the war came, and when it reached its crisis Pope +Urban VIII gave the whole vast sum to his greedy and vicious +relatives. You can read that in the latest Catholic History of the +Popes (Hayward's, 1931).

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Some of our advanced writers smile at the Reformation, but in +point of fact it released forces which brought about a rapid +progress in wealth and science and inspired the deeper revolt; the +revolt which flared up in the American and the French Revolutions +and then for a hundred years sustained a struggle against reaction +and privilege which was as heroic as any in history. The fight was +now against Church and feudalism as against priests and kings (and +their politicians) in alliance. America, having abolished +feudalism, had no share in it except to welcome refugees, and so +there is some excuse for the very shabby treatment of it in +American schools, colleges, and history books. But the chief reason +for the suppression of it is Catholic influence because it knocks +into a cocked hat everything that the apologists say about the +Church. I gave a fairly full account of it in various volumes of +the Appeal to Reason Library and must here confine myself to what +is vitally required in order to understand the Black International +and the lies of its apologists.

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Five year's ago, when we began to try to help Spain and I +recalled Spain's magnificent record in the nineteenth-century +struggle, a Communist leader, a friend of mine, disdainfully swept +that struggle aside as "merely a political revolution" and -- this +was the main point -- thought it wrong to antagonize Catholics by +talking about it. I doubt if the economic revolt would have been +possible if the political-religious revolutions had not been

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carried first. In any case, a few years later Communism was extinct +in most of Europe and South America, and the Church of Rome was +shrieking for the blood of "Bolsheviks" from one side of the planet +to the other. In fact, Catholic writers are now saying everywhere +that this Liberalism of the last century is the real root of all +our modern disorder, and the official attitude of the Church is to +claim a full restoration of the royalist-clerical regime for which +it had fought in the last century. Would-be kings, semi-consecrated +loafers, wait with its blessing, on the frontiers of France, Spain, +Portugal, Austria and Hungary; and of course poor Leopold of +Belgium, whom the Church has white-washed, is going to be put back +on his golden throne.

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Whatever satisfaction anyone finds in dismissing the +revolution of the last century, the fight to hold the gains of the +French Revolution, as "a mere political struggle" or a "bourgeois +revolution," the story of it is vitally relevant to our tragedy +today, and it is just on that account that it is suppressed or +toned down in our educational and historical literature. For it +shows, even as you find it told in the most important European +manuals, that it is the black priests and their white allies who +were guilty of just such murderous excesses and vindictive +massacres as they now mendaciously attribute to the Reds.

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In the course of the Nineteenth Century nearly half a million +unnamed men, women, and children were done to death, on scaffolds +and in massacres and deadly jail's, for claiming less -- they were +as a rule not republicans -- than the rights granted in the +American Constitution of 1787. If we care to add the men who, from +Poland to Peru, died on the battlefield for the sacred cause the +number rises to more than a million, but let us keep to the unarmed +victims and their very moderate demands. These men and women, and +often children, were crushed with a savagery that surpasses even +the worst features of the untruthful stories about the Reds in +Spain and Russia; and the murderers and torturers were in nearly +every case directed by priests and bishops who cooperated with +monarchs (of Naples, Spain, and Portugal) of the vilest type of +character. The outrages were so revolting and the complicity of the +Church so clear, that the Catholic historian, Lord Acton, the one +outstanding historian the Church can claim in modern times, wrote +to the Catholic historian Lady Blennerhassett:

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The accomplices of the Old Man of the Mountains (the +classic assassins of history) picked off individual victims, +but the Papacy contrived murder and massacre on the largest +and also on the most cruel and inhuman scale. They were not +only wholesale assassins, but they also made the principle of +assassination a law of the Christian Church and a condition of +salvation. (Selections from the Correspondence of the First +Lord Acton, 1917, Vol. I, p. 55.)

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You may read the horrible details in the Cambridge Modern +History (Vol X) the greatest historical work in the English +language, or in any standard history of modern Spain, Portugal +Italy, and Austria.

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These are the undisputed historical facts and the recognized +authorities upon which I base the statement which I have put in +italic's and in bold face words. And on the same solid ground I now +make another statement in bold face words, because these are the +essential points to remember: The people recovered power from the +clerical-royalists repeatedly but they never indulged in reprisals, +much less savagery, as the Black-and-Whites always did. There were, +naturally, local outbursts against the defeated tyrants, a few +churches were burned and priests killed, but the authorities always +checked these spurts of violence. Who, then, are the real Reds?

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What about the famous French Revolution, you may ask? You will +find it strange, if you reflect, that when Catholic (and some other +writers) want to show you how the "mob" is prone to commit +outrages, especially if it is deprived of "the restraints of +religion", they skip from the French Revolution of 1789 to the +Russian Revolution of 1917. They refuse to glance at the dozen +important revolutions which lie between because these were always +followed by clerical-royalist, savagery when the Whites recovered +power; a savagery which led Lord Acton, in his day one of the +leading historians in England, to denounce his own Popes and the +worst assassins in history. But they also tell long discredited +lies about the French and the Russian Revolutions.

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Historians are now agreed within narrow limits about the +September Massacre and the Terror which are the chief charges +against the French Revolution, as you will find in Lavisse's +standard history of France, the equivalent of the Cambridge +History, and more recent French works. In the September Massacre +there were only about 1100 victims, and most of these were +criminals and prostitutes from the jails. It is agreed that only +about 500 men were involved in the butchery, and the hundreds of +thousands of citizens of Paris were horrified. In the Terror +(1793-4) there were about 18000 victims -- there had been at least +30000 in a few days in the horrible Catholic St. Bartholomew +Massacre -- and only one-fifth of these were nobles, priests, and +nuns, while 67 percent were atheistic working men. It was a fight +of rival political parties, and the leader of the winning party, +the director of the carnage, Robespierre was a fanatically +religious man who hated Atheism. What is worse, Catholic writers +never mention, and very few other writer's ever mention, that there +was a White Terror in 1794 and after the fall of Napoleon which +was, more brutal, than the Terror of 1793. You probably never heard +of it. That is how the education of democracies is conducted today; +to the great satisfaction of the Church and the reactionaries.

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The long and bloody fight which, as I said, dragged on through +the nineteenth century and was maintained in Russia and Spain until +our own time was part of this second European Revolution. By 1920 +it seemed to have triumphed everywhere, but the third revolution +had already begun. We may call this the Economic Revolution but it +was much broader. Socialism -- not the Anglo-American anaemic type +but as the world knew it -- threatened a comprehensive war on +privilege; on rank, wealth, priestly immunities, political +corruption, and all sorts of "rulers." And just because it was so +all-embracing, every variety of privilege that it threatened took +alarm, and they formed a grand coalition. The Unholy Alliance of +1814 was alive again.

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To enlist in its support the more simple-minded folk and the +masses who had no wealth or privileges to fight for the cry of +Communism, Bolshevism, or the Reds was raised. The enemy is, of +course, Socialism, because it aims to create a new social order in +which there shall be no great private wealth, no chance to make a +million, no rich landowners, no hereditary rank or office, no +parasitism, no privileges of priests. The present Pope may be as +ignorant as you like to think him outside of his theology and +Church Law but he did know, when he told his Catholics that +"Communism is the greatest evil in the world" and called for a +crusade against it that outside Russia Communism never had a +prospect of attaining power and in Russia -- the Union of Socialist +Soviet Republics, remember -- it is an ideal of the future. +Mussolini, we shall see, confesses that he laughed in his sleeve +when he raised the boogie of Communism in Italy, and in Spain the +Communists were the smallest, if not the most respectable, of the +popular parties. But it would not do to talk of extinguishing +Socialism when the Labor Party in England occasionally calls itself +Socialist, so they set up the scarecrow of Communism or Bolshevism +and clothed it in ragged stories of rape and murder.

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In view of it's history the Papacy would inevitably join its +natural allies -- wealth, power, and privilege -- but in the +present state of the world it had a special and very pressing +reason. During the fifteen years -- say from 1919 or 1920 -- after +Socialism began to spread from Russia over the world the Vatican +lost, mainly through its influence, more than four times as many +followers as it had lost at the Reformation.

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The Press is now so much controlled in the Catholic interest +that this will seem to many a startling statement. It is, in fact, +well within the range of demonstrable facts. If you reflect that, +as you will find, the population of Great Britain, the largest +seceding country, in the days of Henry VIII was only about +4000000, you easily see that the total loss to the Vatican at the +Reformation could hardly be more than 12000000. But beyond +question it lost, mainly to Socialism and Communism, at least +50000000 between 1919 and the beginning of the Fascist reaction. +The largest items in this total will be vindicated as we proceed +but a few words of explanation will reconcile the reluctant reader +to it.

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In countries where there was a clear-cut issue of Church and +anti-Church at the polls -- Spain, the South American Republics, +Italy, Mexico, Germany, and Austria -- the election figures give a +very safe indication, and they show that in each of these cases +(except Mexico and Austria) the Church had lost, and the Socialists +had gained, at least 10000000. Add Russia (where Catholicism was +nearly extinguished), Mexico, Czecho-Slovakia (where, we shall see, +the Catholic clergy admit a loss of about 2000000), Holland, and +Austria (where the Socialists held Vienna until they were +treacherously disarmed for Hitler by gallant little Dollfuss), and +further losses in France, Belgium . . . Need I say more? The loss +was probably nearer 70000000 than 50000000. After the anti-clerical revolution in Spain in 1932 the only countries in the +world that remained officially loyal to the Vatican were Poland and +Hungary. We will not count Mussolini's Italy.

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The Roman Church knows from seven centuries of experience, +ever since the Albigensian Massacre, that it never recovers ground +by an intellectual appeal, by honest propaganda. How was it to +check this new and appalling leakage? Only, as in all ages, by an +alliance with forces which could and would trample on the ideals of +peace and freedom. Fascism was just what it needed.

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Chapter III

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IS THE CHURCH OF ROME FASCIST?

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America has been so drenched in recent years with Catholic +claims that the Church is ideally democratic and that the Pope is +-- or has been since democracy seemed to have won its battle +against feudalism -- the inflexible champion of political justice +and freedom that some may imagine that an alliance with Fascism is +unthinkable. We shall see largely on the testimony of Catholics, in +the following booklets that this alliance is an elementary fact of +the present situation, but it is easy to show at once that this +Catholic description of the Church's attitude which is broadcast in +the United states -- and now in the United States only -- is a +mockery.

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The British Catholic writer, W. Teeling (The Pope in Politics, +1937), who has quite a reputation for boldness, almost heresy, is, +his own sect, says that there are 350000000 Catholics in the +world. How Teeling came to be described as bold and critical I do +not know. He criticizes the Church only in the matter of Abyssinia +and only the most expert clerical -- shall we say manipulators of +truth? try to defend it on that point. With his 350000000 +Catholics he goes 20000000 better than the sufficiently audacious +official claim, and, recalling how Macaulay gave the total as +150000000 a century ago, he ask us to admire the miracle of its +growth. But when you reflect on the high Catholic birth rate -- you +go to hell, the priest tells Catholic parents, if you cheat the +Church of possible subscribers by using contraceptives -- and when +you learn, as you easily can, that according to the experts, the +population of a modern State would, without birth control, double +every third of a century, the miracle looks rather tawdry. The +Catholic total now obviously ought to be 600000000. It is in +point of fact less than 200000000.

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You smile at the figure of 330000000 when, if you take the +trouble to look up Catholic statistics, you find that it includes +30000000 in France, where optimistic Catholic writers do not +claim 10000000; 30000000 in Germany, where Hitler plays +skittle's with the Church; 40000000 in Italy, where as long ago +as 1919 the banned Socialists polled 1840593 votes (more than +half of the literate adult males) out of 3500000; 24000000 in +Spain, where it took the armies of three nations two years to put +the clerical Humpty Dumpty back on the wall; 60000000 in South +America, where the Blacks keep power only by the use of violence, +torture, and the zeal of masses of illiterate Indians. And so on. +These are the little pleasantries of Catholic arithmetic.

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Let us say 200000000. Where are they? Now, no sophistry can +obscure the lesson of the answer to that; and it is the same +whether you prefer to speak of 150000000 or 350000000 +Catholics. Apart from the "converts" on foreign missions, who might +be classed as consumers goods, nine-tenths of the Pope's subjects +live under a Fascist flag. That fact is so uncomfortable that even +the most ingenious American apologist prefers to say nothing about +it. They live under the regimes of Vichy France, Franco Spain, +Salazar Portugal, Mussolini Italy, Horthy Hungary, and in the +Republics of South and Central America, nearly all of which are +Fascist, Poland was Fascist before it became compulsorily Nazi. And +not the boldest apologist can say, even to his own flock, that this +fact gives pain to the democratic Pope. Everybody knows that he +warmly blesses the Fascist regime under which they live and urges +it as the model for all Catholic countries. He has to. In an +atmosphere of freedom his Church always crumbles.

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Who are the enemies of Fascism? Russia, where the Church has +virtually perished because of its political intrigues, is the most +effective and most thorough going enemy, Great Britain, where +Catholics are less than one-twentieth of the population, is next. +I do not say the British Empire because the Catholic half of Canada +is Fascist, and the Catholics of Australia are, under the lead of +anti-British Archbishop Mannix, by no means united for the struggle +against Fascism. Third is the United States, where genuine +Catholics are less than one-tenth of the population but very much +more than one-tenth of the Isolationists. In sum, there are in +Europe and America 350000000 non-Catholic thorough opponents of +Fascism to about 20000000 Catholic more-or-less opponent's. Add +Asia, and you have 1000000000 non-Catholic opponents, fighting +or ready to fight against Fascism, and less than 30000000 +Catholics.

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Who were the chief traitors to the cause of democratic +civilization? Catholic France -- that is to say, the Catholic and +Pope-directed part of France, Belgium (or its Fascists, royalists, +and priests), and the Catholic Croats of Yugo-Slavia.

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Who made the best fight against the invading Huns? Norway, +which has only 2000 Catholics to nearly 3000000 Protestants; the +Serbs, who are bitterly anti-Papal and were let down by the +Catholic provinces of their country; Greece, where the Pope has no +influence; and Russia, where, if you will forgive in Irishism, he +has still less. Not for a moment do I belittle the fine resistance +of Poland, but it was not fighting Fascism as such. It was already +Fascist and had for twenty years persecuted religious minorities. +It fought for its national independence and to prevent the +extension to Poland of the anti-clerical elements of Nazism.

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What is the Constitution of the Catholic Church? It is the +newest approach on earth to that of Nazi Germany. The Church is a +despotic monarchy. The Pope may not only disregard the collective +opinion of his cardinals (his cabinet) but he is not bound to +submit to the decisions of a general council of all the bishops, +arch-bishops and abbots of the Catholic world. He is the Fuhrer, +with the additional prerogative of infallibility.

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What is the law of the Catholic Church? The most tyrannical +code of law in the world. The Church has two sets of laws: a code +of Public Law, which in plain English means Private Law because it +is kept in a dead language and taught to very few priests and no +laymen, and Private Law, which you may prefer to call Public Law +because it alone is translated into modern languages and accessible +to the general public. You may read this in an American +translation, if you are able to disentangle the text from the +artful commentaries of the translator's. It is Fascist enough, if +Fascism means tyranny. It treats the Catholic laity like sheep. +They must not read a criticism of the Church and its untruthful +literature without the permission of a priest who will insist on +"replying" to it. Penalty -- hell. They must not discuss such +matters with a critical non-Catholic friend or hear a lecture that +may be critical. They must urge non-Catholics to read both sides +but never do it themselves. They must not marry except on lines +prescribed by the Church whether these accord with civil law or +not. Penalty -- hell. They must never get a divorce. Penalty -- +hell. But if they are rich the Church will find, even if they have +been married twenty years and have ten children, that they never +were married at all.

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The Public Law of the Church is the most arrogant and most +truculent code in the history of jurisprudence, It is supposed to +define the relations of the Church to other corporations (states, +etc.) but if the Church has a bit of legislation which might look +rather naked and immodest in English, it keeps this also under the +veil of the dead language of the Public Law. For instance, it is +one of the most emphatic principles of this Public Law (which is +never made public) that you cannot leave the Church and so escape +its jurisdiction, and that if you say that you no longer believe in +it and have quitted it the Church has "the right and the duty." to +put you to death. I pass sleepless nights under the shadow of this +awful sentence which has been hanging over me for 45 years. The +fundamental principle of the law is that the Church, being the only +institution on earth that has been established by God, is the only +"perfect society," and therefore it has the right to overrule and +dictate to merely secular and human states on any point which it +chooses to regard as affecting religion or morals; and believe me, +the clerical genius could prove in five minutes that the color of +your wall-paper or the number of your blankets is a question of +morals. It follows at once that the Church will, where it has the +power, not tolerate the practice or propaganda of any other +religion, much less irreligion, or any criticism of itself or its +priests; that no priest must be tried in a civil court; that all +schools must be subject to clerical authority, and so on.

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Well, you may say, a dead language means a dead letter. Pardon +me. Latin may be a dead language to you but it is the living +language of the Church. This ultra-medieval law is not dead letter +but is taught today in the international Papal (or Gregorian) +University at Rome, to which selected American priests are sent, +just as a few are sent from all countries, and Latin is their +Esperanto. It is, in fact, mainly to give them a thorough knowledge +of this secret law that they are sent to Rome, for it is not taught +in the education of ordinary priests, and not one in 100000 of the +zealous laymen (Knights of Columbus, etc.) who help the priests +knows anything about it.

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But you may be sure that the priestly writers, who tell +America about the beautiful harmony of Church Law and American Law +know all about it. The chief manual of it, Father Marianus de +Luca's Institutiones Juris Ecclesiastici Publici is in every +seminary. It is not one of those Yellow and dusty tomes that are +considered too valuable to open every day but a modern book, +published by the Vatican in the present century. It has a +particularly warm letter of authorization from Leo XIII, the great +"democratic Pope," though about ten pages of it are devoted to +chastising priests who say that the Church his abandoned its "right +of the sword" or any other medieval claims. I have quoted +extensively from it elsewhere (Appeal to Reason Library, No.1), and +you can spend a pleasant hour comparing the nice sentiments which +Catholics quote for you from Pope Leo's inspiring Encyclicals with +the sentiments he endorses in Marianus de Lucas book.

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In fact, it comes a little closer to Americans. A more recent +but equally truculent manual of this Public Church Law is Cardinal +Lepicier's De Stabilitate et Progressu Dogmatis, Lapicier is a +Canadian, the oracle of the Canadian Catholics. So white priests in +Detroit were getting round Henry Ford and the American public with +stories of how Thomas Aquinas and the Jesuit Suarez laid down our +most modern principles of political morality centuries ago, and how +the Pope is the incorruptible protector of democracy, justice, and +freedom of conscience, other priests just across the river, were +chuckling over Lepicier. Perhaps they were also in Detroit.

+ +

From the ease with which the American public were duped in +this matter one would imagine that Quebec is an obscure place round +Hudson's Bay or in Greenland. Quebec is, under Church law, a +Fascist state. It is the only free country -- if you can call it +free -- in the world where Petain's miserable senile corruption of +our civilization is hailed with joy and admiration instead of +curses and derision.

+ +

A few years ago a Canadian Journalist, Grant Dexter, had an +article in the London press (News-Chronicle, August 18, 1938) with +the title "There is Fascism under the British Flag," and it opened +with the words: "The facts about Quebec are not in dispute; Church +and State are combining in an effort to suppress freedom and to +create a Fascist State on the Italian model." Dexter might have +said that there has always been Fascism in French Canada. When the +British took it over from the French the clergy made with them one +of the usual selfish deals; they would stamp out revolt in the +people if the British would give them tyrannical rights and powers +over the people. I found the place a paradise of sleek priests, +monks and nuns in 1925, but it has become much worse just when the +British Empire was getting up its courage to "rid the world of +Fascism." Under the new "Padlock Law" (1937) against Communism, +which means anything the priests don't like and was directly +inspired by the present Pope, the police became gestapo. They can +invade and close premises and arrest men without appeal to the +Courts. The censorship is tyrannical, and Protestants and Jews who +have nothing to do with Communism are persecuted. In 1940 a +respectable girl of sixteen was sentenced to jail (or a heavy +payment) for distributing tracts of the International Bible +Students' Association.

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To these French Canadians -- and they are four out of the 12 +million people of Canada -- Franco Spain is an idyllic land, and +Vichy France is making a noble effort to reach its level. Salazar +in Portugal and Horthy in Hungary are ideal rulers, and Mussolini's +sale to the Pope of the liberties which the Italian people had won +with their blood was a grand victory over the materialism of the +age. That this encouraged Hitler and his gang, led directly to the +rape of Ayssinia, and had a considerable influence on the Vatican's +alliance with Japan is -- well, it is just one of those things.

+ +

How American priests and their writers and politicians were, +while these sentiments were rampant in canada, assuring the +American public that the Church stood inflexibly for democracy and +freedom we shall consider presently, but we must notice here one +very ironic occurrence. In 1929 the papers announced with great joy +that Mussolini and the Pope had entered into a Holy Alliance. They +did not recall that Mussolini had recently said, or roared out on +a public platform, that he had "marched to victory over the rotting +corpse of liberty." They did not mention that he had 10000 +political prisoners in jail, many under torture. They said nothing +to disturb the soothing assurances of Catholic writers, even of Al +Smith during his presidential campaign, that it was only when the +founders of our liberties "wedded themselves to ancient Catholic +political principles that they were able to give birth to modern +democracy as we know it." Shades of Franklin and Jefferson! +However, just when Catholic mendacity of this sort was given place +of honor in the American press the Pope himself was angrily tearing +it to tatters in Italy.

+ +

Mussolini had bluntly declared in the Italian Camera +(Congress) that he had made no concession to medievalism, and the +Pope retorted at once, in an open letter to his Cardinal Secretary +of State which was published in the Vatican organ, the Osservatore +Romano (May 30, 1929), that in accepting the Canon Law (Public +Church Law) for Italy the Duce had conceded everything. The Pope, +exactly on the lines which I have described above said that +Mussolini had admitted the thesis that the Church is a "perfect +society" and he must accept "the logical and juridical consequences +of such a situation according to constitutive [Church] law."

+ +

We saw what these consequences are. Naturally the Pope did not +dare assert his "right of the sword" or his duty to put apostates +to death. It would have meant a claim for the execution of about +20000000 Italians; and, in spite of the Catholic censorship, +those blamed Americans might have heard of it. He could not demand +the suppression of every other religion, because the Americans and +British had chapels and missions in Italy, but he insisted on +severe restrictions, complained bitterly that it was only the +pressure of circumstances that forced him to make any concession, +and secured at least that the civil law would deal with any free or +critical discussion of religion. He did point out that one +consequence of recognizing that the Church is a perfect society is +that it is "absolutely superior to the State": another is that "in +matters of conscience the Church and the Church alone has competent +authority;" another that this particularly applies to "the matter +of propaganda" and criticism of the Church: another that "the full +and perfect right to educate does not belong to the State but the

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Church": another that "in a Catholic State liberty of conscience +and of discussion must be understood and carried out in accordance +with Catholic teaching and law"; another, referring to the Catholic +scheme of controlling marriage, that the Church "can and must +enforce it."

+ +

From the viewpoint of the man who wants to know the truth +about the relation of Catholic law to civil law, who wants to +examine whether the Church is really democratic or Fascist, this is +the most important and most explicit document that has emanated +from the Vatican for fifty years. But no American or British paper +reproduced it; and even the Catholic who wants to read his own +Pope's words on the subject will find that he would have to read +them in my books or one of Marshall's -- which he is forbidden +under pain of hell to open! Remember what Heywood Broun, a +journalist of knowledge and character, said about the Catholic +censors of the Press: "There is not a single New York editor who +does not live in terror of this group,"

+ +

One of the aims of this general intimidation of editors or of +newspaper owners by threats to withdraw Catholic advertisers or +readers is to protect the Catholic-American fiction that the Church +never interferes in polities. The Vatican, we are told, cooperates +at one time with a democratic state and at another with a Fascist +state because it leaves to the people the choice of its political +form. It must cooperate with the established state in protecting +the interests of religion. Did not the great Pope Leo XIII +formulate that principle in golden words which have been reproduced +so many hundreds of times that there is no excuse for any writer +who does not know it?

+ +

We smile. Until 1939 the assurances of Hitler and Mussolini +that they ardently desired peace in Europe were reproduced just as +many hundreds of times. And the Catholic writer who quotes the +Encyclical (Immortale Dei) of Leo XIII as a sublime utterance on +"The Constitution of Christian States" and the freedom of people to +shape their own constitutions is no more honest than Hitler or +Mussolini. The very title given to it in the English translation is +a trick. The Pope's title is "On the Constitution of Catholic +States." A few other neat little changes conceal the fact that the +aim of it was almost the exact opposite of what Catholic writers in +America pretend. It was addressed to France, and its chief object +was to chastise the French for daring to choose a constitution +which put all religions on the same level by excluding the Catholic +Church from polities, the lawcourt, and the school: which is just +what the American Constitution does. The Encyclical was written in +1885, and the French people had then lived under a Republic for +fourteen years. The Papacy had during all that time refused to +recognize the political form which they had chosen in a free +Congress and with the full support of the country. Leo XIII, who +never interfered in politics, had stubbornly insisted that they +must take back either the royal or the imperial family.

+ +

The whole Catholic propaganda on this point is nauseating in +its dishonesty. The world does not need a Pope to tell it that a +nation can choose its own political form, and the Pope forgot this +Catholic principle when the Spaniards set up a Republic in 1932. It

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is not the business of a moralist, however richly oiled he may be, +to dictate on such matters as choosing between a royalist and +republican form. But if there is any such thing as political +morality or principle in public affairs, the Fascist form of a +state, being imposed upon a people by force, does concern it. And +when those who have imposed it are corrupt adventurers like Hitler, +Mussolini and Franco, or senile splutterers like Petain, when they +lie and cheat like medieval Popes and princes, when they debauch +their people with sentiments of banditry and commit outrages on a +vast scale, it is time for the Pope, to speak out. Yet, while +statesmen all over the world who do not claim to be "holy men" +loathe and execrate them, the Pope enters into alliance with them. +He has a concordat with every Fascist ruler in Europe and South +America, but he goes far beyond that.

+ +

Does the Catholic apologist mean that men in power, no matter +how criminal they may be, must be taken into alliance if they +promise to protect and promote "the interests of religion"? What +interest of religion, in the best sense, can such men promote? And +what are their promises worth? A man's principles are suspect if he +deals with them, but his intelligence is worse than suspect. +Religion in such a case obviously means the power and wealth of the +Papacy and the Catholic hierarchy, And it will be shown +overwhelmingly in this series of booklets that for the last ten +years or more the Black International has intrigued with the powers +of darkness in its own interest and condoned every outrage and +deception that prepared the way for this ghastly crime against +humanity.

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Chapter IV

+ +

HOW THE CRIME WAS ORGANIZED

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Aggressive war was always barbaric. Priests reserve the +richest section of their vocabulary of vituperation (loathsome, +swinish, filthy, obscene, bestial, etc.) for the man who loves a +woman without their blessing, but they have always contrived to +keep their dignity when they condemn aggressive war. They know that +whenever their own nation enters upon one they will support it. Yet +it is a crime on so vast a scale that no individual crime can for +a moment be compared with it.

+ +

It was always a relic of barbarism. Today it stinks. There +used to be, and still in defensive war are features -- a superb +courage, a heroism, a self-sacrifice for others, a splendid +challenge to our common cowardice -- that have moved quite +respectable writers to praise it. Sir Arthur Keith, one of the most +kindly And most humane of men, said some years ago that war is +necessary. He could not say that today. Modern aggressive war, +Fascist war, the war launched by the men who mouth about their +invincible legions, their indomitable courage, their noble blood, +is an incarnation of cowardice. What is called the Age of Chivalry +in European history is a Catholic lie. Historical experts -- not +writers of manuals of general European history for American +colleges -- consider the period (1100-1400) one of the most brutal,

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dishonest, treacherous, and aggressively sexual in the chronicle of +civilization. What we see today is not a decay of chivalry but +precisely a return to the so-called Age of Chivalry, with certain +diabolical improvements (from the bandit's angle).

+ +

You prepare the way for your war by years of lying, cheating, +corrupting, prostituting your women, seducing soldiers and +statesmen, and buying traitors and Fifth Columnists. Meantime you +forge your weapons in underground arsenals. When you are ready, you +look round the map for the weakest victim, and you bear down upon +him with a force four or five times as great as his. You shelter +your men behind an advancing war of steel. You drive hundreds of +thousands of frantic women and children and old men along the roads +before them, knowing that your enemy is less inhuman than you and +it will paralyze his defense. You pour hell upon the towns where +the women and children and old men live so as -- this is laid down +in German and Japanese military manuals -- to take the heart out of +their husbands or sons in the field, and you then announce that you +have bombed their "military installations." You flood them with +poison gas -- unless you learn that they have enough to retaliate +A your cities . . . In a word, it stinks. And the Black +Internationals, the Pope and his cardinals, archbishops, bishops, +priests, monks, nuns, and paid journalists and organizers, have for +ten years or more cooperated with the arch-criminals who have +brought this blight upon civilization. They have done more. They +have summoned the bandits to the foul work and called it a Crusade.

+ +

Now that, you say, is really too strong. But is any man really +ignorant that the present Pope raised the cry, years before the war +started, before we heard those first shots in Spain which were the +curtain-raiser of the great tragedy, that the powers must unite to +"extinguish Bolshevism in Spain, Mexico, and Russia," and that the +cry was taken up by the whole Catholic world? How did Catholic's +think that Bolshevism was going to be extinguished? With rose-water? Seldes is very frank in his work The Vatican about the way +in which the Knights of Columbus joined the Wall Street Choral +Society in demanding war upon Mexico, that is to say, of course, +upon its Bolshevism, though it hasn't got any. Is a war less +criminal when the defender is incomparably weaker than the +aggressor? Profane moralists think otherwise. Has any man now any +serious doubt that the Pope encouraged Franco to rebel and the +Italians and Germans to assist him? As to Russia, Pacelli, who is +now Pope Pius XII, has howled for the extinction of its Bolshevism, +and in particular has appealed to Germany to allow him to cooperate +in this, in explicit terms since 1936 and implicitly long before +that. Crushing Bolshevism in Russia meant, as we now see and as any +properly informed man could have foreseen, the bloodiest war in +history.

+ +

If, as one can hardly suppose, a man has any doubt about this +charge against the Black International, he will get ample +information in the following books. We shall, in fact, see all +about Pacelli Pius in the next book. But proofs meet the eye every +day. Why do you suppose that the head of the Roman Church in +Britain, Cardinal Hinsley, has warned Catholics to be prepared for +terrible propaganda against the Church when the war is over? Why is +Archbishop Mannix, the head of the Church in Australia, permitted

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to make such attacks on the British effort to extinguish Nazism, +that on the latest count, only 16 percent of the Australian +volunteers are Catholics and 65 percent Protestants? Why do +international radio experts complain in England (News-Chronicle, +August 21, 1941) that Italian broadcasters address English +Catholics "as if they were a ready-made Fifth Column"? Why does the +Vatican radio find it necessary repeatedly to meet the charge that +the Pope is pro-Axis? Why does it denounce as traitors to the +Church Polish and other officials who adhere to the Anglo-Russian +alliance? Why do those servile followers of the Vatican, Franco and +DeValera, help Germany? What about the Pope's latest pet scheme, a +Catholic bloc to be formed with the help of Germany?

+ +

But this booklet must be a preliminary general survey. The +plot will be shown and proved in detail in the following booklets, +and on the most positive evidence. It is sometimes difficult, even +impossible, to prove the Vatican's share in international intrigues +and crimes. Catholicism is not the same thing in America as in +Italy. It is a minority Catholicism and most behave very prudently. +Sometimes American Catholics tell you, when you point out the +irrepressible absurdities and eccentricities of their Church, that +you "ought to see it in a Catholic country." You may be sure these +men have never seen it themselves in Eire, Spain, Italy, and +Poland. In these countries Catholics can from long familiarity see +and hear without raising an eyebrow things that would make an +American Catholic pale. Very often, in fact, they are kept in +complete ignorance of what the Vatican is doing in their own +country with its underground diplomacy and secret agreements, and +the apologist flatly denies these things -- until they come to +light years later.

+ +

What do you think of this choice specimen? In the years when +Britain obstinately refused Home Rule to Ireland there was very +serious trouble, and it was often said, and angrily denied, that +the Vatican secretly negotiated with the British Government to use +the influence of the priests to cheek the people in return for +concessions in England. The Irish leaders knew that it was true. I +have myself heard John Dillon in the last century exclaim: "I take +my religion from Rome but not my polities." It all came out in the +official biography of Leo XIII by Msgr. T'Serelaes, but it had an +ironic sequel which American papers have probably not noticed. The +British statesmen and the Catholic lords never thought that in the +end the Vatican would double-cross them, but it did. The Irish +Press, a staunch Valerist paper, said in an editorial in its issue +of May 26, 1933:

+ +

Today Ireland learns for the first time one of the most +moving and glorious stories in connection with the Easter Week +Rising [1916]. Before it took place Pope Benedict XIV received +a mission from the Irish Volunteer Executive in the person of +George Noble, Count Plunkett. The Count had a private audience +of two hours with His Holiness and disclosed to him the +decision to rise and the date of the insurrection and received +from him his Apostolic Benediction on the men who were facing +death for Ireland's liberty.

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You may admire the pathetic rebellion or you may think it +foolish in its plain futility. You may acknowledge the right of +rebellion yet feel that these secretly organized revolts, when a +country is engaged in a terrible war, are not pleasant to +contemplate. But the only point of interest here is that if we had +suggested at the time that the Papacy was in any way involved in +the movement we would have raised a storm of indignation. Yet it +was not simply involved. The Pope outwardly friendly with the +British, gave his most solemn encouragement to the enterprise by +giving it his Apostolic Benediction. Now that De Valera has got all +that he expects to get out of England he reveals the truth.

+ +

Should we be unduly suspicious we suggested that the Vatican, +through the Catholic hierarchy, encouraged De Valera to refuse the +use of ports to Britain and so prolonged the carnage of seamen and +the brutality of the Nazi regime? Especially when we have the heads +of the hierarchy in Australia publicly threatening what the Church +will do if Britain forces a temporary occupation; especially when +De Valera, Franco, Salazar, and Weygand (who would grant the +Germans the use of ports tomorrow if they were more confident of +its final victors) are abjectly amenable to Papal direction. We +remember how Leo XIII's clerical biographer boasts of the +cleverness of his hero in making deals with Prussia at the expense +of the Poles, which was denied at the time, just as he boasts of +his diplomatic intrigues in London at the expense of the Irish. We +remember how American Catholics raged when Pegler in one of his +syndicated articles accused the Vatican of supporting Japan. Now +the Pope receives Matsuoka in great honor at the Vatican and gives +that arch-hypocrite a gold medal.

+ +

But do not get a false impression. This exposure of the plots +of the Black International will not at any point rely on +suspicions. It is based on such positive evidence is I have just +given of the Irish plot. The only suggestion or suspicion I +introduce is that the plot most probably goes far beyond what we +can at present prove. That is a plain inference from the historic +way in which Vatican intrigues are angrily denied at the time and +later revealed or -- as is the case with the Japanese alliance -- +indignantly denied by American priests and at the same time claimed +by French and Italian priests as proof of the Pope's cleverness. +The known facts, the Pope's published words and actions, are, +however, grave enough and, in view of the criminality of the Axis +plot against the world, the infamy of the way in which it was +organized, the bestiality with which it has so far been carried +out, they make a mockery of what Catholic apologists have said in +America for half a century.

+ +

Let us first be quite clear on this organization of the plot; +and this I particularly recommend to men and women of fine +sensitivity who are tempted to say that the whole world has somehow +apostatized from its ideals. Three nations only want aggressive +war: three nations out of fifty, or one-tenth only of the race. +Another tenth (backward people) know nothing about it, but eight-tenths loath aggressiveness and the brutality it causes. Don't +blame the world.

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Even in the case of Germany, Italy, and Japan, the nation is +not so much corrupt as corrupted by a minority; and this corruption +was accomplished in ten years and can, by a reversal of the +educational machinery, be redeemed in less than ten years. Nations +like France and Spain may seem under Vatican influence to have +adhered to the corrupt gangs, but we know that the majority are +sound and when the time comes for the final and drastic, +destruction of this clerical influence they will rise to greater +heights than ever.

+ +

The second point to hold clearly in mind is that it is a +military-economic plot. It appeared first in Japan, where a score +of very wealthy families wanted more wealth and hundreds of others +wanted to reach the same position. Fortunately for them Japanese +naval and military commanders are still at the medieval or Samurai +level of mentality. They want to win "glory" by conquering half of +Asia. The miserable politicians and the heads of the Shinto and +Buddhist religions were bought -- literally -- to support the plot, +and the Vatican promised that if it were given a monopoly of the +Christian missions it would see that the Gospel was accommodated to +this noble design of exploiting the slave labor and vast resources +of China, indo-China, Thailand, etc!. In Germany the economic +element precedes the military, as it had to create the army afresh, +and in the case of Italy we will not venture to speak of military +"glory." In sum, the world is darkened by a plot of two nations to +create a vast wealth by exploiting all the other nations. Italy was +never seriously meant to share it. Mussolini ought to have paid +more heed to Hitler's emphatic statement in Mein Kampf twenty years +ago that there is no room in Europe for two great powers.

+ +

The third point to keep clear is that Mussolini and Hitler had +not at first any idea of the ultimate plot. Mussolini, a brutal, +scatter-brained adventurer, was too busy breaking the heads of +Socialists with whom he had quarrelled, to write programs, and +Hitler just put together a few Christian Socialist ideas +(especially anti-Semitism) and the already familiar demand that all +sections of the German-speaking race must unite. Add the spice of +denouncing Versailles, though it had treated Italy far too +generously. How these mob leaders and saloon-bar politicians came +to have definite and rapidly expanding programs is a long story +that will, as far as, is necessary, be told in later booklets. In +a word, it was due to the adoption of the parties by the +capitalists, who in time saw an opportunity of acquiring amazing +wealth by enslaving Europe, Asia, and Africa; the majority of the +workers, who were diverted from dreams of dispossessing their own +wealthy to a dream of taking England's lucrative place as "the +world's shopkeeper"; the army, which is always ready to "conquer" +when you give it the tools; the Churches in each country and the +Vatican for the whole world.

+ +

The question that will interest the future historian is, as I +said, not how the plot grew, which it is very easy to trace, but +how the rest of the world was so duped that it made no defensive +preparations, except the futile Maginot Line in France. Again there +can be only one answer. The world was duped by its statesmen and +its rich newspaper-owner who refused to see anything except that +privilege would be saved by the extinction of Bolshevism in Italy,

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Spain, Germany, China and Russia. These are large questions to +which a full answer will be Provided in the later booklets, but +most people will remember how the press of America and Britain (and +France) was filled for years with (1) lying stories of the +confusion and inefficiency into which Socialism had led Italy, +Germany, Spain, and Russia; (2) lying, stories of the efficiency of +the Nazi and Fascist regimes; (3) sympathy with the pressure of +population in Italy and Germany, though everybody knew that +Mussolini and Hitler were forcing the birth rate, and every expert +knew that there was far less pressure than in England or Belgium.

+ +

To what extent statesmen and editors and heads of Churches +really fooled themselves into thinking that the vast armaments +which Hitler and Mussolini were creating would be allowed to rust +when they had crushed Bolshevism in Spain and Russia as well as +their own countries is not my concern. Perhaps you remember how a +few years ago an French journalist in an interview (arranged for +the purpose,) asked Hitler about his emphatic statement in Mein +Kampf that France would be ground to powder, when he airily brushed +it aside as an ebullition of younger days -- it was still printed +in every edition on a score of pages. -- the press everywhere gave +prominence to his assurance; and the same press everywhere, with a +few honorable exception's, repeated every lie and libel about +Soviet Russia that anybody cared to send in.

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Chapter V

+ +

HOW UNCLE SAM WAS DUPED

+ +

The verdict of this generation of young folk, when they grow +up, will be that the "Guilty Men" -- journalists use that language +at last, forgetting that editors were as guilty as statesmen -- who +let the monstrous evil attain such proportions are only a little +less guilty than the bandits. In this respect I approach death with +clean hands. In my Haldeman-Julius publications for the last six +years, especially the Appeal to Reason Library, and the ABC +Library, and The History of the World Since 1918, I have thoroughly +exposed the current untruths, described the growth of the plot, and +made clear the true attitude of the Roman Church. This attitude and +the work of American Catholic apologists in falsely representing it +are the last point to be noticed in this introductory booklet.

+ +

The New York Times of May 12, 1940, contained a very special +apology for the Vatican by Dr. Ryan, Catholic bishop of Omaha. That +paper has, as many quotations in these booklets will show, given us +a fair news-service both from the Vatican and Russia, and it was +right to publish the Catholic case. Ryan, formerly head of the +Catholic University, is the fifteen-inch gun, the 50-ton tank, of +American Catholic apologetic on these matters. His strength is, +besides his Catholic learning, that he is so solemn that he always +gives you the impression that he believes what he says. Even when +in the course of this article he says that today "the place of +Papacy in world affairs seems to stand out in bolder relief than at +almost any other epoch of its long existence," he is quite serious, +though he cannot possibly refer to the Vatican's share in the +world-plot.

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Dr. Ryan's complete vindication of the wisdom and the +integrity of the Papacy is this. In the last century it fought +"political liberalism." This is now dead and "on its ruins there +have risen such extremes as communism and fascism" which "meet on +the common ground of state totalitarianism." Against these new +dragons the Papacy steps out again in shining armor, and they "have +thrown down the gauntlet to Catholicism," which cannot possibly +"capitulate to the new theories," Thus "the democratic regimes" +have no stouter champion than the Pope, and all Americans must +rally to him.

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Two months later, when the pious and purblind Petain trampled +on the last remnants of democracy in France, the Papal newspaper, +the Osservatore Romano (July 8), hailed his restoration of "the +principle of authority" with enthusiasm and Said that in this +respect "the aims of the dictatorships coincided with those of the +Church." What the leading Catholic apologist felt when the same New +York Times (July 19) gave the gist of this Papal article one +wonders. The Osservatore quoted its pet dictator Salazar saying: +"The authoritarian regimes have the purpose of creating a civic +conscience as a way to create a moral conscience", and in the name +of the Pope added: "Such are also the desire, the aspiration, and +the program of the Church." And the Times Rome correspondent, went +on to say that the Germans rejoiced at this "complete about-face by +the Vatican in its position toward totalitarian states!" You see, +the terrible case with which Germany crushed Holland, Belgium, and +France had convinced the Pope that it was going to win the war; and +from that time onward the Vatican's one great idea was to set up a +bloc of totalitarian Catholic States in cooperation with Hitler.

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Pity the poor American apologist in these days. But Ryan's +plea was gross even at the time. In the last century, he begins, +the Church fought political liberalism. Yes, at a cost of half a +million lives of Liberals and with such documents as its moth-eaten +Syllabus. Political liberalism means simply democracy, sol the +Church fought democracy, which Ryan has always denied. Other +apologists prefer to say "economic liberalism" but they obviously +do not know what they are talking about because the Church joined +with economic liberalism in a violent attack upon its opposite, +Socialism. This political liberalism is now "defunct," Ryan says. +Yes -- in all Catholic countries. As we saw, nine-tenths of the +Pope's subjects live under a Fascist flag, and the Pope presses +upon them as the political ideal the totalitarian regime of Italy +and Portugal. It is upon Protestant lands that the Crusade for +democracy and against Fascism vitally depends. And Ryan's final +point that the principles of the Catholic Church compel it to fight +for democracy and freedom is even worse. If it were true, the +Vatican is guilty of a monstrous moral apostasy. But it is the +reverse of the truth. We have seen that the Church of Rome is +Fascist in its Constitution, its law, its principles, and +everything about it. It coquetted -- cocotted might be better -- +with democracy as long as it paid.

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The recent history of Vatican policy -- it has no "principles" +in the ordinary sense -- is not obscure. It was fiercely anti-democratic, until the last quarter of the last century. It still +remained anti-democratic, expressing this plainly in its relations

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with France, until near the end of the century. It insulted and +humiliated the heads of the Catholic Church in America by +addressing to them an Open Letter, published all over the world, +condemning what is called Americanism. What it condemned was +precisely what Ryan and other apologists teach: that there is no +lack of harmony in any respect between the spirit and law of the +Church and the American spirit and law But the "century ended with, +apparently, the triumph of political liberalism all over the world, +and the Vatican ceased its mumbling. On political matters it became +ideally neutral; and the Church in America began to store up +billions of dalliers while the Church in France and Italy shrank, +so much that its contributions to the treasury were meager. One +must keep an eye on these Americans.

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Then began the golden age of Catholic propaganda in America. +The Church, they said, was essentially democratic; always had been +in fact. The apologists grew bolder and bolder. Not only is the +eternal political truth in the Encyclicals (slightly retouched) of +Leo XIII (who hated democracy) but it was now discovered in the +writings of the Jesuit Suarez (who would have had a man burned at +the stake for professing it) and even in the works of Thomas +Aquinas (who had picked a few ancient Greek ideas out of the works +of Aristotle but otherwise defended the most merciless principles +of medieval clerical tyranny). The flag of freedom had been first +set up in Catholic Maryland; which, Bancroft had clearly shown, +never had more than a Catholic minority, and these had passed the +policy of toleration in their own defense.

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Year after year American Catholic writers and journals +broadcast this monumental untruth, but the Vatican itself was +meantime watching for the first opportunity to get rid of its +misalliance with the vulgar drab Democracy and recover its +association with its elegant Aristocracy. Ryan says: "Political +liberalism and not the Papacy was almost completely destroyed in +the cataclysm of the World War." He ventures to say that in one of +the best-informed countries in the world! Just think for yourself, +for no reading is necessary in order to test this.

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Democracy was not destroyed in Russia, for it had never had +democracy. It was not destroyed but for the first time set up in a +pure form, by getting rid of Kaiserism and the Junkers, in Germany. +It was not in the least weakened, but invigorated by the collective +war-effort in America, the British Empire, France, Italy -- in +fact, all over the world except in Japan. Oh, Ryan will say, I take +a long view; I see Communism already growing. We will not press his +language -- that democracy was destroyed in the World War -- but we +reply that he is using one of the flimsiest tricks of propaganda. +Outside Russia, where the conditions were unique, Communism, which +must be taken in this connection to mean the dictatorship of the +proletariat, never had a chance of attaining power. Bela Kun was an +episode. What did show a prospect of gaining the world was +Socialism, and it is the only pure form of democracy. But the +Catholic apologist, like his colleagues as fellow-crusaders in Wall +Street, finds it more useful to say Communism. They could never +have made America quite so red-hot about Socialism.

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What are the facts? Dictatorship began first after the war in +Poland; and no government in the world was more subservient to the +Vatican than the Polish, no other nation so solidly Catholic. The +democracy began next in Spain where in 1923, the King and Church +had, to prevent an inquiry into their corruption, set up a +dictator. He had the blessing and cordial cooperation of the Pope. +Mussolini had marched on Rome in the previous year, but his +dictatorship was very imperfect -- as late as 1925 more than +2500000 or half the country voted against him -- until he came to +terms with and bought the support of the Vatican. This was in 1929. +During ten years after the war the only blows at democracy, which, +instead of being "defunct," as Ryan says, was as vigorous as ever, +had been dealt in Catholic countries with the warm support of the +hierarchy, and the Pope.

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In 1929 Pacelli-Pius became Secretary of State at the Vatican, +and democracy began to bleed. Japan started on China, (1931) and +the only power in the world to enter into close association with it +was the Vatican City. Germany still rejected Nazism, but in 1932 +the Pope made an underhand deal with Hitler, and this was one of +the chief reasons why he won and destroyed democracy. In 1934 +democracy was destroyed in Vienna, after Dollfuss had had an +interview with the Pope and with the zealous cooperation of the +Austrian hierarchy; and Mussolini, loudly cheered by the whole +Italian Church, entered Abyssinia. Next year (1935) Pacelli visited +South America, and the statesmen and generals who fawned upon him +made a bloody end of democracy. In 1936 Franco, with the Pope's +blessing, began his vile work in Spain, and the way was prepared +for the world-assault on democracy. It survives, fighting for its +life, in non-Catholic countries.

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That is the story we shall tell in detail, but that this is +the true outline of it everybody knows. The Church of Rome is +vitally implicated in the most criminal and most gigantic +conspiracy in history. It blesses or courts men to whom lying is a +pastime and wholesale murder and brutality are necessities which +they defend with amazing callousness. Perhaps it is the Vatican's +last crime, for when this war is over a grim reckoning will be +required of the Pope. He clings to his infamous association while +every sane and free part of the world covers it with obloquy.

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THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 2

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HOW THE POPE OF PEACE TRADED IN BLOOD

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THE RED POPE +by Joseph McCabe

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HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS +GIRARD -- : -- KANSAS +**** ****

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Chapter I

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THE RED RECORD OF THE HOLY FATHERS

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The color chosen by the Popes is White. Their flag, it is +true, White and Gold, to remind us that they are Kings and need a +royal revenue of a billion a year, but that is, they say, necessary +to a ruler of the world. Their personal color-theme is white, a +flowing white cassock and a white-silk skull-cap: symbols of their +purity life and purpose and their never-ceasing efforts to keep the +world in peace and tranquillity. The vast economic organization +over which they preside, the Black International, takes its name +from the black-garbed clergy. For more than a hundred years after +America had embodied the elementary rights, of man in a +Constitution the priests called the claim of those rights in other +countries Liberalism and waged a bitter, blood-soaked fight against +it. This was the historic battle of the Blacks and the Whites +(Liberals).

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Toward the end of the nineteenth century a new color, Red, +appeared in the arena. Whites and Blacks shuddered and got together +to oppress it. Red meant blood, violence, war. As I explained in +the last book, our folk are now educated in so false a version of +history, because truth is offensive to our Catholic fellow-citizens, that few know the irony of this. Particularly in America +men and women were persuaded to greet the new banner with hatred, +rage, and disgust. These newcomers who preached violence, cruelty, +and war were outside the pale of our Christian civilization. Shoot +the dogs down, as Luther said about the rebel-peasants of his time. +Let me here just outline the historical evidence that the real +Reds, in this sense, are, and always have been, the Popes and their +bishops.

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We have read hundreds of times the prophecy of the famous +British essayist, Lord Macaulay that when in some remote age a +traveller comes from New Zealand to see the ruins of London the +Papacy will still flourish. These literary men! Not only does it +seem unlikely that New Zealand will ever support 5000000 people +but the idea that an institution which has lasted 1800 years will +last another few millennia, or even a century, is childish. In

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Macaulay's time the world was beginning to perceive that +institutions which appeared thousands of years ago probably had +their roots in ignorance. There were then twenty Kings in Europe. +A century later there were ten, and most of them looked nervously +upon a hostile world. In another ten years they will probably be +reduced to one.

+ +

The Papacy is far more vulnerable than monarchy. As the +supreme head of the western half of Christianity it was established +about the middle of fifth century. It is quite literally what +Hobbes called it, "the ghost of the Roman Empire sitting upon the +grave thereof." As long as that Empire maintain civilization every +branch of the Church, east and west, scorned the Pope's +pretensions. But in a world of blind men the one-eyed man is king, +and Rome ruled the ruins. The Popes were masters of a that was so +debased that during the next seven centuries all Europe did not +produce one book that any but a bookworm now reads or raise one +building that any but an antiquarian would cross the street to +examine.

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The brilliant civilization which the Arabs meantime created in +Spain and Sicily at last awakened Europe from its hog-like +slumbers, and for the next eight centuries the power of the Popes +was based upon violence and bloodshed. A distinguished German +historian has estimated that their victims numbered more than +1000000 in 500 years. Certainly they numbered some millions. +Until the American and French Revolutions these were frankly called +Heretics. Then the world, under the lead of America, decided that +it was a crime to put men to death for religion, so they were +called Liberals, and the Church got half a million of them +liquidated. By the twentieth century civilization generally had +become Liberal so they were called Reds or Bolsheviks. Very few +people are taught in school -- except in those disreputable +Communist Schools -- that it is simply an historical truth that +their flag is "red with martyrs' blood."

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Is it credible that the Holy Fathers, clad in the symbols of +peace and purity, were guilty of these things? I recently published +in England a History of the Popes (1939) in which I could pay more +attention to the characters of the Popes than in my larger True +Story of the Roman Catholic Church (1930). Let me say shamelessly, +that I read the original authorities in Greek, Latin, Italian, +Spanish, German and French, and no Catholic has ever attempted to +answer any of my historical work. And I say, coldly, that these +Holy Fathers shed more blood in defense of their wealth and power +than all the other historic religions put together and that the +record of their vices is the worst in the whole history of +religion.

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There have been about 260 of these Vicars of Christ, as they +call themselves. It is difficult to tell the exact number because +in certain periods there were two or three truculently fighting for +the holy title. In the tenth century there were 30 in 100 years -- +there have been only six in the last 100 years -- and it is +impossible to be sure how many were murdered by rivals. Let us say +that there have been 260. We know nothing about the character of +the great majority of these during the first thousand years of the

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Christian Era. Catholic literature gives the title of martyr to +nearly every Pope to the year 310, though their most learned +historian, Duchesne, admits that only two were martyred. It gives +the title of Saint to all but one of them to the fifth century, +whereas we have definite information about only three of them, and +one of these (St. Victor) was at least shady, the second (St. +Callistus) was definitely a crook, and the third (St. Damasus) was +a forger, and an employer of murderous mobs and was charged under +the civil law with adultery. In short, of the 150 or so Popes about +whose characters we can be fairly sure at least 30 were sexually +loose men (six or seven of them sodomists) and about a dozen +murderers. Scores besides these were men of vile temper and great +cruelty; and most of them were guilty of simony, nepotism, and +protecting corruption.

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So put out of your mind the conventional gush about "venerable +heads of the great Church," and remember that even the best Popes +were terrible shedders of blood. The holiest of them all, Innocent +III, was responsible for about 500000 victims in 18 years (1198-1216). The question here is whether this is ancient stuff that +throws no light or has no bearing on the conduct of the Papacy in +modern times. That is what Catholics say and most people believe; +but you will not understand the situation today unless you realize +that the "Red Record" which is the title of this chapter, mainly +refers to the record of the Popes from the fall of Napoleon (1814) +to our own time.

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I said in the last booklet that during this period about +500000 men, women, and children were done to death by the Church +and the feudal monarchs in alliance. With that disgusting meanness +to which the difficulties of their case drives them, Catholic +writers represent, and try to compel other writers and works of +reference to represent, these martyrs as a sort of early type of +Reds, or dangerous agitators against the social order as well as +religion. On the contrary they were as a rule less radical than +Washington and Jefferson. Republicanism was rare amongst them, and +the had no idea of persecuting the Church or, even in most cases, +of disestablishing it. They were just men and women who wanted +kings to govern them constitutionally and the Church to suppress +the horrible Inquisition and its vile dungeons. For this Kings and +Popes fell upon them, through the armies, police, and fanatical +mobs, with incredible savagery.

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Do not listen to the excuse that it was still the Middle Ages. +Napoleon had made an end of that horror. Some now put Napoleon on +a level with our modern dictators, but with all his faults he was +a clean fighter, only in one case accused of murder (the Duc +d'Enghien), and he did magnificent work for Europe. He was a +skeptic, of course, as Lord Rosebery shows in The Last Phase +(1900), but he showered wealth and favor upon the Church -- on the +usual terms: the priests must keep the old Republicans quiet for +him. Yet after his fall the bishops joined with the royalists in a +White Terror which was more brutal than the Red Terror.

+ +

Catholics represent Pope Pius VII as a "martyr" under +Napoleon. They do not tell how under this Pius VII, when Napoleon +was beaten, tens of thousands of Liberals were martyred and under +his three successors hundreds of thousands. Well, what were these

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Holy Fathers, of modern times, like, and what were they protecting? +If you want a serious and unchallengeable answer look up that +highly respectable and most weighty authority the Cambridge Modern +History (Vol. X). You will find that Leo XII, who succeeded Pious +-- the Carbolic Encyclopedia admires his "intelligence and masterly +energy" -- was a converted rake and a doddering old fool who was +"hated by all, princes and beggars" (as the famous historian L. von +Ranke who knew him, said) and his death was hailed by the Romans +"with indecent joy" (the Prussian ambassador at Rome said). While +he shot birds in the Vatican garden his troops, with a sanguinary +cardinal in command, shot down his rebels, and many thousands of +them suffered a living death in jails of a repulsive character.

+ +

At his death the cardinals, after invoking the light of the +Holy Spirit, elected, to meet the grave problems of the new Europe +a man in the last stage of senile decay, drooling at the mouth as +they wheeled him round the Vatican garden in his baby-carriage. The +carnage of rebels went on. He soon died, and the fierce contest of +cardinals for the holy office was renewed. The ablest candidate +Albani, but he was so notorious a rogue that they thought the +heretics of England and Prussia might make ribald remarks if they +elected him Vicar of Christ, so they made him Secretary of State +(and real ruler of the Church) and elected a monk Gregory XVI.

+ +

Gregory was according to all Italian historians vulgar, +sensual, and frivolous. As one of the more distinguished of them +says, he "absorbed himself in ignoble interests while the country +groaned under misrule." It was widely believed in Rome that he was +intimate with the wife of his valet, and he was notorious for his +love of strong wine and candy. His horrible jails were crammed with +rebels -- 6000 at one time -- and the best blood of Italy was +poured out or driven abroad. His ignorance was weird. He refused to +admit even gas and railways into the Papal States, as if that meant +that the devil got his foot in the door.

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After fifteen years of this the cardinals elected what +Catholics call a Liberal Pope, Pius IX. But when he found that +Liberals wanted real freedom and a share in reforming his corrupt +kingdom he fled in disguise and called upon the Catholic powers to +kill his rebels for him. Then the jails were crammed again. In +Civita Veechia, which had once been enlivened by the orgies of +medieval Holy Fathers, rebels with a life-sentence were chained to +the wall and not released even for relieving themselves. So the +brutality continued until the Italians bought off the Pope's French +protectors and took over, with an overwhelming vote of the +inhabitants, the Papal Kingdom.

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What was this kingdom (the Papal States) which they had shed +so much blood to protect? There is no dispute amongst non-Catholic +historians, and some Catholic historian's agree, that it was "the +most corrupt, backward, vicious, and inept in Europe." The British +ambassador publicly declared it "the opprobrium of Europe." The +leading monarchs of Europe in 1832 publicly warned the Papacy -- +which is now pressed upon us as the most profound and serene oracle +on political morality -- that unless it cleaned up its Augaean +stable they would clean it themselves. Rome was described by a +devout French priest as "the most hideous sewer that was ever +opened up to the eye of man;" and this is approvingly quoted by a

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Catholic historian in the Cambridge Modern History (X, 164) in +which all this is admitted. The real ruler or Secretary of State, +Cardinal Antonelli, who had been born in a peasant's hut, died +worth $20000000, and left a bastard daughter, the Countess +Lambertini clamoring for it.

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South Italy, the Kingdom of Naples, was virtually an extension +of the Pope's Kingdom in respect of Papal influence; and it +rivalled the Papal States in corruption and viciousness. Its +monarchs, the Pope's beloved sons, were veritable Neros. From 1790 +to 1860 they slaughtered, sometimes with revolting barbarity, about +200000 "Liberals." And since the Kings of Spain and Portugal were +just as servile to the Popes we are entitled to bring their +misdeeds also under the heading of the "moral influence" of the +Popes. Their "Butcher's bill" in 50 years was between 50000 and +100000. The savagery was so indiscriminate that no one can get +nearer to the truth.

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Well, well, the Catholic says, this is still ancient history +-- less than a century ago -- and with the glorious pontificate of +Leo XIII a new era was inaugurated; the era of those beautiful +encyclicals on socio-political matters which are quoted in every +Catholic apology that is put before the American public. For an +understanding of the present situation it is very important to +realize that there was no change of policy whatever at the Vatican. +That is why I have given this very slight outline of the bloody +history of the past, which is fully described in my earlier works. +The policy of violence was merely suspended until it could once +more be applied.

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Leo XIII could not, if he wanted, maintain the vile practices +of his predecessors. Italy and France witnessed a rapid growth of +skepticism in high quarters after 1870 and would not tolerate Papal +interference or advice. Poland was under Russia, which treated the +Pope as an Italian monkey. Austria, brought down by its defeats was +becoming very Liberal. The horrors of the dead Papal Kingdom and of +Naples were told by hundreds of writers and orators in Europe and +America. Moreover, the, Vatican had begun to see remarkable +possibilities of wealth in "converting", America and Great Britain, +and the Catholics in those countries had as yet not the least +influence on the press and education and could not have concealed +atrocities as they now do. So the wolf put on sheep's clothing for +a few years.

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Then the menace of the Reds began and gave them their +opportunity. There was still only one country in which the "right +to kill", which (we saw in the last book) was solemnly reaffirmed +by Leo XIII, could be made the basis of policy. Spain was +geographically isolated and few people abroad took much notice of +it. In fact, in the last decade of the century the ruling and +wealthy classes everywhere were beginning to sniff at this Red +menace and would not inquire too closely. So in Spain the +hierarchy, which was more intimately connected with Rome than that +of any other country, began to cooperate with the corrupt state on +the old lines. From 1895 to 1909, when Ferrer was murdered and I +roused so much public attention that the policy had again to be +suspended, hundreds of rebels were shot and thousands tortured in +jail.

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They were not "anarchists." I became an intimate friend of one +of them, Professor Tarrida del Marmol, who fled to London and was +under sentence of death in Spain. He was a fine scholar and a +spanish gentleman of the best type, a man of aristocratic family. +loathed violence and was an anarchist only in the Tolstoian sense. +His great crime was that he was a rebel against the Church. In the +vile dungeons of Montjuich, where he was imprisoned, he saw what +was done. Men were fed for days on salt fish and dry bread and +refused water. Cords were tied tightly on their genitals. It was +afterwards proved that most of the "anarchist plots" were police +plots, and the Church was fully implicated. This want on under Leo +XIII and Pius X, and it brings the Red Record of the Popes down to +our own time. It continued in the only country in the world in +which it could be continued.

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Chapter II

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WHO IS THIS PIUS XII?

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The present Pope Pius XII, is hailed throughout the Catholic +world as the Pope of Peace. Cardinal Hinsley explains in his +introduction to The Pope Speaks (1940) that the beautiful motto of +his ancient and aristocratic family is (translated): "Peace is the +Fruit of Justice." Yes; Mussolini has said that hundreds of times, +with the accent on the word justice. Hitler merely wants justice +and then he will give what is left of us peace. I am going to show +that Pius XII above any other Pope of modern times, even Pius IX, +is entitled to be called the Red Pore, the Pope of War.

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One of the flatterers of "the venerable Church" has called him +"the Greatest Neutral." He never has been neutral. For at least +five years he has openly called for war on Bolshevism in Mexico, +Spain, China, and Russia. Does anyone suppose that he was thinking +of ancient Jericho and merely wanted the priests to blow their +trumpets? He was summoning Italy, Germany, Japan, and the United +States to war. Leaving out the United States, which was unwilling +to draw the chestnuts out of the fire for the Pope and Wall Street, +in this slogan which Pacelli, as Secretary of State, sent echoing +through the Catholic world he was shrieking for just that war on +Spain, China, and Russia which we have seen.

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I am sometimes asked what Catholic apologists reply to these +very serious historical and actual charges which I make. They never +reply. They forbid their people to read me, which is much easier. +But do not Catholics regard that maneuver with suspicion? Listen. +The Catholic Truth Society of Ireland published a cheap booklet by +the Jesuit priest D.A. Lord with the title I Can Read Anything. It +meets the natural wish of many Catholics to read both sides, and it +takes the usual line that the books they are forbidden to read are +filthy and mendacious but dangerously clever. Catholic young men +and women are asked to be too sensible to "pit their minds" against +"the trained, clever, brilliant minds" of the Church's critics. And +lest the Catholic should ask if the Church and its 350000000 +followers does not include a few equally brilliant writers to reply +the priest goes on (p. 22)

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And when they [the anti-Church writer's] are utterly +unscrupulous, as let's say, Joseph McCabe is, and will twist +any little bit of history to make a case, and pile yarn on +yarn to construct a proof, and use fable for fact and +supposition for solid argument, what chance has the average +reader against them?

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The English Catholic Truth Society dare not publish this -- as +my friend Haldeman-Julitis shares the Jesuits' opposition with me +I gather that the book is of American origin -- because the British +libel courts are the straightest in the world. In an Irish court I +would get as much justice as a Jew in Berlin, So when folk in +England write to ask for the Catholic reply to me the officials +send them an address in Dublin where they can get this cowardly +little rag. Inquirers have reported this to me.

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If anybody is unaware, which hardly seems likely, that the +present Pope has for the last five or six years used all his +influence to get Italy, Germany, and Japan to make war, +respectively, on Spain, Russia, and China, which would mean a +world-war, he will have ample evidence later. First let us see how +this Red Pope became what he is.

+ +

Eugenic Pacelli comes of what is commonly called an ancient an +Italian noble family which had lost its wealth but not its piety. +His father was a Papal lawyer and, as is usual in such cases, one +son was destined for the clerical career; especially as in the last +century government or military service was closed to good Catholics +in Italy, the Papacy still branding the government or the royal +family "robbers." More than four-fifths of the inhabitants of the +Papal States had voted to be transferred from Papal rule to that of +the Kings of Italy but that meant nothing to the "democratic" Leo +XIII. He was "the prisoner of the Vatican", eliciting golden +sympathy from America, and the Italian statesmen were robbers. So +careers for Catholic youths of noble birth and little money were +few in Italy.

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I do not suggest that Pius XII does not believe his theology, +as probably half the clergy do not in one degree or other. No one +is likely to know except himself what he believes. Priests hardly +ever tell each other. Zeal is no criterion, however. The Catholic +priesthood and hierarchy are an immense economic corporation +centered in Rome just as Christian Science is, in its official +framework, a business with headquarters in Boston. Naturally its +members are zealous; and the more responsibility they have (which +is won by the extent of their zeal) the more zealous they are. The +Catholic who imagines its Pope and his cardinals regarding money as +a mundane affair with which they have to soil their white fingers +occasionally should hear two or three priests talking about them +when they get to the second bottle.

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Here is some interesting information about the higher clergy +of Rome which came to me a few years ago from a priest through one +intermediary, a friend of high character. When Rome obliged English +Catholics a few years ago by making a Saint of witty old Thomas +More it sent them, to their stupefaction, a bill for $65000 +(costs) and of $20000 for a little present to the Pope! This +present was a gold chalice which, as the price of gold rose, would

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be just a lump of pure gold worth about $50000. The ceremonies at +Rome were a close monopoly of the Italians -- at least under +pressure they let one English priest hold a candle and charged him +$50 -- and every cardinal had his fixed price.

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But understand that I suggest nothing whatever about the +Pope's belief or unbelief. He has a job of work, and this was his +apprenticeship for it. In college he discovered an ability for +learning languages and a special zeal for learning Canon Law, so he +was drafted into the Secretariat of State very soon after he became +priest, and there he would find himself on the fringe of the +mysteries of Vatican diplomacy. He also, being of noble birth, +joined and became a professor in The Academy of Ecclesiastics of +Noble Birth of course, the less said about that the better in +America, where one has to protect the legend that all his life -- +when the great ones of the earth kissed his ring during his tours +of the world, when he occupied a gorgeous suite in the Vatican as +Secretary of State, and even now that he sits on the golden throne +-- his one ardent desire was that he could become a humble parish +priest amongst the poor. He is an aristocrat to his finger-tips. He +loathes democracy. He doubles Leo XIII (in his crooked diplomacy) +and Innocent III (who virtually founded the Inquisition).

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Pacelli made such progress in the department that at the +comparatively early age of 41 he was sent out on a very important +mission. Pope Benedict XV, who had notoriously intrigued with the +Germans and the Austrians against the Italians, during the war +recollected that he was a Pope of Peace when, in 1917, it became +doubtful if the Germans would win. He then wanted to have the +world-prestige of bringing it to a close, and he sent Pacelli as +Nuncio (ambassador) with plans of peace to Germany. Pacelli was +announced as Nuncio to Bavaria, but within a week he was in Berlin +seeing the Chancellor. He even saw the Kaiser, who told him to take +his plans home because he was sure to win the war. Why doesn't the +Pope rather, he said, detach Italy from the Allies and link it with +Austria, as they are both Catholic countries? Because, said +Pacelli, there is a very strong patriotic movement in Italy in +favor of continuing the war led by a fiery young journalist named +Benito Mussolini. The Pope's biographers say that the Kaiser told +Pacelli to take no notice of "that scum" but to go ahead and detach +Italy from England. It is a neat little picture.

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The gaunt, grim, swarthy young Nuncio next year saw the fall +of the Kaiser and the riots in Munich. He met the "mob" with simple +heroism, of course -- in Catholic literature -- but the important +point is that this was the beginning of his knowledge and hatred of +the Reds. He remained in Munich until 1925, so he saw, with what +feelings he has not told us, the rise of a similar "scum" in +Bavaria and the comic-opera "March on Berlin," when Hitler made the +record run of his life -- backwards. In 1925 he was sent as Nuncio +to Berlin, and as this was the beginning of the best period in +recent German history, the five years of peace and comparative +prosperity under a Liberal-Socialist coalition, Pacelli must know +better than any man in Italy that the excuse which was later made +for Hitler in the world-press, the flattery under shelter of which +the Nazis created their formidable power, the plea that they had +saved Germany from chaos and distress, is a lie.

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As part of the evidence, if evidence is required, that Pius +XII has only one aim in all his policy -- not the peace of the +world but the power of the Church -- the twelve years he spent in +Germany are important. He acquired a thorough knowledge of German, +thought he speaks it (and French) with, a marked accent, and as far +as German affairs are concerned he has never been at the mercy of +bigoted And muddle-headed Vatican officials. He saw the years of +confusion after the War end in a working compromise and a new +Germany rising cheerfully from the ruins. Lamentable as the feud of +Communists and Socialists was, it was a domestic squabble and did +not seriously disturb the national economy after 1924; and the +Catholic Church had more freedom and prestige than ever. Pacelli +knows as little about economics as he does about history and +science, but at least he was intelligent enough to see, during his +four years in Berlin, that under a predominantly Socialist rule +Germany was making all the progress that could be expected with so +crippling a debt, and it was not internal confusion but its share +in the world-slumps and the cessation of fat loans from America and +Britain from the end of 1929 that led to the comparative distress +of 1930-32 of which the Nazis took advantage. We shall see that +Pacelli at one time (1934) in a fit of temper wrote the sharpest +condemnation of Hitler that ever came from a clerical pen, He +always loathed Hitler as a plebeian upstart and an apostate from +the Church, even when he was compelling the German bishops to bow +humbly before him and beg to be allowed to have a share in his +dirty work. But Hitler promised to make an end of Socialism, and +that-not (outside of Russia) Communism or Bolshevism -- is the Big +Bad Wolf in the eyes of the Vatican. Socialism has not only a +constant anti-Papal tradition, which will surprise nobody who knows +the facts I summarized in the last chapter, but to oblige its +wealthy supporters the Vatican has been compelled for half a +century to condemn it as immoral on the ground that private +ownership is a right based upon natural moral law.

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It was, however, not until Pacelli had left Germany that the +Nazis showed any prospect of ever attaining power, and he regarded +them as a vulgar and disorderly rabble led by a bunch of unsavory +apostates and "pansies." Three years later he would, as Secretary +of State, compel the proud German hierarchy, against their very +decided will, to greet Hitler as the Savior of Germany and the +White Hope of the Church, Let us remember, when we get to that +point in the next booklet, that Pacelli did not act from ignorance. +He was less innocent than Chamberlain. If he had any ability at all +-- and he has considerable ability -- he knew Germany thoroughly. +Will Catholics call it a wicked suspicion if we assume that this +observer of events, who lived eight years in Munich and four in +Berlin, had read Mein Kampf? He knew the program: the glorification +of the German race, the domination of Europe, the annexation of the +Ukraine, the massacre of the Jews, the annihilation of France -- in +a word, war on a stupendous scale. Catholics do not obtrude today +his intimate knowledge of Germany.

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He was recalled to Rome in the summer of 1929 while Germany +was still cheerfully recovering and the Catholics cooperated +amiably with the Socialists and Liberals. Pacelli had been head of +the diplomatic corps at Berlin. The French ambassador had the real +right to that position and the Papal ambassador no right. But the

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Germans hated the French too much to let the honor fall to them. It +is another point to bear in mind about this pre-hitler Germany, +which Pacelli helped to ruin, that it genially tolerated a Papal +Nuncio at the head of the diplomatic corps and a Catholic +Chancellor in the Wilhelmsstragse. German Catholics had never +before seen such things.

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Pacelli's patron, the Secretary of State Cardinal Gasparri, +was now 80 years old and unfit for office. He seems to have marked +out Pacelli as his successor, and he brought him back to the +Vatican for a few months of final training. Even Catholic +literature is a little confused here. Pacelli became Secretary of +State, which is the highest position in the Church after that of +the Pope, in February, 1930. In 1931 a gossip-paragraph appeared in +the Italian press to the effect that it was expected in Rome that +the new Secretary of State was about to be dismissed and old +Gasparri reinstated. Clearly the old men were conspiring against +Pacelli, but the same Catholic writers who say that it was because +he was too lenient to Mussolini had already said that Gasparri had +always been in favor of alliance with that brutal adventurer. We +will return to the point in a moment, but it will be useful first +to run a cursory eye over the ten years' activity of Pacelli as +Secretary of State.

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He took up residence in the gorgeous suite of rooms, with +heavy gilt furniture and magnificent decorations, in the Vatican +Palace. Just at the time when the Pope and Mussolini, who had in +the previous year signed the infamous compact by which (in effect) +the Papacy undertook to condone all Mussolini's crimes in return +for $90000000 and a royal independence, had begun to quarrel +fiercely, as crooks are apt to do, over the bargain. Pacelli +smoothed out the quarrel, got the Duce to bend his knees in St. +Peter's, and got the Pope to have a cordial chat with him. So +Mussolini was safely launched on his bloody career.

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In the same year, 1931, Japan seized Manchuria and began to +debauch the Chinese. While all the world looked on with disgust at +the brigandage Pacelli accepted the overtures of Japan and the more +Japan advanced and became a menace to half the world, the +deeper Pacelli made the Vatican's alliance with the callous and +unscrupulous bandits. In 1932 Hitler made his supreme bid for power +and failed, and Pacelli then ordered the German hierarchy to +withdraw their opposition to him so that he secured power and enter +upon his career of blood.

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In 1934 Pacelli went to South America to preside at a +Eucharistic Congress and saw the heads of each "Republic and their +bishops; and by a remarkable coincidence, if you can think it that, +Fascism began to sweep the country, rebels against the Church went +to jail in tens of thousands, and the Germans and Italians in South +America entered upon their audacious plans. In the same year the +Christian Socialists of Austria, after their leaders visited the +Pope, treacherously crushed Socialism and prepared the way for +Hitler. In the same year Mussolini began the slaughter of Abyssinia +and the whole Italian Church made whoopee, and at the end the Pope +gave the Queen of Italy as Empress of Abyssinia Golden Rose, which +is the highest mark of Papal approval.

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In 1936 General Franco visited the Vatican, and his revolt, +which had the most open and solemn blessing of the Papacy, was the +first serious step of the Axis bregands in their projected +campaign. In 1938 Hitler annexed Austria with the full support of +the Austrian Church, which is one of the most docile to the Vatican +in the world. In the same year the Sudeten Catholics at one end of +Czecho-Slovakia and the Slovak Catholics at the other betrayed +their country and put Hitler in a position to defy the rest of +Europe and prepare for his insane attempt to dominate the world.

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A remarkable ten-year record for the Pope of Peace, the +Greatest Neutral, the Friend of Democracy, and the Black +International which carried out his instructions! That record we +have to examine in detail, proving it by public acts and published +utterances, and then to consider the Pope's first two years of +pontifical activity. But, as we go into detail, do not lose sight +of the fact that Pacelli-Pius's ruling idea throughout is "the +extinction of Bolshevism" by the peaceful bombs and bayonets of the +Germans, Italians, Japanese; to which, in furtherance of the work +of peace, he now wants to add the bombs and bayonets of Vichy +France, Franco Spain, Salazar Portugal, and Horthy Hungary.

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Chapter III

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HIS GLORIOUS ALLY MUSSOLINI

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It was on March 12, 1939, that Eugenio reached the summit of +ambition and was crowned in St. Peter's. Next day a man who lived +on the frontier of Italy and France sent to the most respected +newspaper in Great Britain, the Manchester Guardian, a letter which +it -- and probably it alone of the British or American press -- had +the courage to publish. The writer reminded people that March 12th +was also the last day for Jews to remain in Italy. He described +from personal observation the appalling sufferings of the 70000 +Jews who, robbed of their goods, were racing for frontiers which to +a large extent were sealed against them. He saw old men, women, and +children panting up the Alpine slopes to France and says that the +carabineri and frontier-troops had "orders to facilitate their +migration if necessary with the help of a bayonet." He saw elderly +folks "collapse on the way up the vast acres of the Italian slope"; +little children "stagger, their feet bleeding, into the frontier +villages"; women try to throw themselves under the traffic when the +French at last put up the barriers; babies abandoned or lost by the +wayside.

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This had gone on for a week and it was continuing in a last +frantic rush of the robbed Jews while the bells of St. Peter's and +all the churches in Italy rang out joyously over the sunny land. +What did the Pope of Peace do? The writer of the letter says that +the Italian carabinieri and soldiers were so moved that they forgot +their instructions about the bayonet and carried children tenderly +to the frontier. What did the Pope do? Nothing: except receive the +splendid congratulations of Mussolini and his ministers. Catholic +biographers boast that during the week which followed his +coronation Pacelli-Pius, sinking under the burden of work, slept +only three hours every night. Very heroic, but a little puzzling, +because as Secretary of State he had been doing just that work for

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ten years. Why the arrears? But what did he do for the Jews, for +crushed and bleeding democrats of Italy, for the heart-broken and +suffering Czechs? Nothing, just nothing.

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The Italian problem had, as I said, been the first to engage +Pacelli when he became Secretary of State. I have told elsewhere +(Little Blue Book No. 1501 and ABC Library No. 2) the story of the +rise of Fascism and its early relation to the Church, In 1917 +Mussolini and his cut-throats were, as the Kaiser had said, "scum." +They were atheists, republicans, and gangsters until 1921. Then, to +the surprise of many, Mussolini asked Cardinal Ratti for permission +for the Black Shirts to make a solemn procession to the tomb of the +Unknown Warrior in Milan Cathedral and the cardinal gladly accepted +and gave them a place of honor," says the Catholic Teeling (p. +106). Next year was the march on Rome (with Mussolini 100 miles +away), and the Duce pompously declared St. Peter's and all church +property under his special protection and ordered a thanksgiving +service with the King in attendance, At one of the principle +churches of Rome for the salvation of Italy. From Scum to Savior of +his Country in two years!

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There is no secret about it. It is one of the most painful +features of the American literature of the subject that the +respected head of a great university, Nicholas Murray Butler, dupe +of American Catholics, lent his pen (Looking Forward) in that +glorification of Mussolini which was as useful as a smoke-screen to +the Fascists while they prepared for war, Professor Salvemini +(Under the Axe of Fascism, 1936) has given Dr. Butler a +chastisement such as few scholars ever give each other for his +gullibility in accepting Catholic lies about the "confusion and +ruin" caused by the Communists from which Mussolini saved Italy. +The author Selde's shows that Mussolini later confessed that he +invented the Communist boogie to help the loan he had floated in +America. The danger was Socialism which was conquering Italy, and +so politicians, royalists, generals, and industrialists put +Mussolini in the saddle, after fumigating him of his atheism and +republicanism.

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But in spite of this powerful support of throne, army, and +capital the seat in the saddle remained very insecure for seven +years. Mussolini had not dared to extinguish the democracy for +which italians had fought so nobly from 1790 to 1870. Liberals and +Socialists were powerfully organized and, as in Spain, commanded +the majority of the votes in the cities, where the most intelligent +and the best-informed of the Italians lived. When, in 1924, +Mussolini was believed to have had the most respected leader of the +Socialists, Matteotti, removed by murder -- his public utterances +on the murder were so gross and callous that his guilt seemed clear +-- so many turned against him that at the elections of 1926 his +power was ominously shaken. He needed just one element to turn the +scale in his favor.

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The peasants and a certain number of the urban workers were +organized in a powerful Catholic Democratic movement. The Pope had, +as in Germany and Austria, allowed this bastard Socialism to grow +up under their eyes as one way to cheek the loss of so many +millions to the Socialists and Communists. These Catholic democrats

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fought the Fascists as truculently as the Communists did and while +they equally detested the Socialists and Liberals and would not +cooperate with them, they at least represented further millions in +opposition to Mussolini.

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As Pacelli was in Germany during these years we do not suppose +that he had much to do with Vatican policy in Italy and will +dismiss events with a brief notice. Both sides, Blackshirts and +Black International, saw that they must sooner or later enter into +alliance against Socialism, and Mussolini's backers, the throne, +army, and capital, insisted on it. Mussolini on his side sacrificed +his convictions and restrained his anti-Papal followers with all +the ease of an adventurer. He, as I said, ordered a superb +thanksgiving service in church for his accession to power and +presented a very valuable, old library to the Vatican. He then +complained to the Vatican about ending the conduct of the Catholic +democrats under the priest Sturzo. The priest disappeared because +of obscure Fascist threats of reprisals against the Church. Seldes +says (The Vatican, p. 331) and the party was weakened. But the +opposition went on and Mussolini made little progress. The Vatican +knew the strength of its hand and wanted a price that Mussolini +feared his followers would never agree to pay.

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Seldes says that the revelation of the Pope's prestige in +America the Chicago Eucharistic Congress in 1926 at length stirred +Mussolini to bold action. It was more probably the menace of +Italian elections. Secret negotiations began at that time but the +Pope's terms were so exorbitant that they dragged out for two +years. In 1926 Farinacei, Mussolini's bulldog and leader of the +anti-clerical Old Guard of the Fascists, publicly declared that the +alliance was necessary. Mussolini, he said -- Seldes gives his +words -- was ready to deal with the Pope "in return for the moral +support of the Vatican for his policy." What the policy was" every +child knew -- the final extinction of liberty in Italy and, as a +minimum, the recovery of Savoy and Corsica from France, Malta from +England, Dalmatia from Yugo-Slavia -- and, instead of talking about +peaceful recovery by negotiation Mussolini was thundering about his +millions of bayonets whenever he opened his elegant mouth.

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In 1928 the Maltese got up a kind of revolt against Britain. +There was a trial of strength between the civil and the clerical +authorities, and the Premier, Lord Strickland, though a Catholic, +bitterly resented the interference of the clergy in the elections. +It was proved that they even used the confessional to intimidate +voters. Mussolini watched with great interest, and, when the +British Government in the end began its historic policy of +appeasement and Strickland was sacrificed, the Duce had a new proof +of the utility of the Church. A high Anglican official in Malta at +the time informed me, privately, that the Governor of the island, +who let, down Strickland, was "grossly deceived by the Papal +Delegate, Msgr. Pascal Robinson"; and he added "more mischief-making in Dublin." The Black International won first blood for +Mussolini.

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So Fascists had to swallow the condition's, and in 1929 the +Blackshirts and the Blackmailer signed their compact. The Pope got +nearly $100000000, the independence and sovereignty of the +Vatican City, the control of all Italian education except in the

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universities, and the enforcement of the Canon Law, the +establishment of the Church and endowment of the priests. The Duce +got a hand for the complete destruction of democracy in Italy and +the silence of the Pope while he murdered democrats and get out on +his glorious campaign to make Empire by selecting weak countries +for aggression.

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This was the year of Pacelli's return to Rome, but his +biographers are not lavish with detail at this point and do not +enable us to say definitely -- and I refuse to go on suspicions -- +what, if any, share he had in this sordid business. I have to +recall it, as briefly as possible, because it was the first great +triumph of the Black International in our time, and it was one of +the most important steps in the advance of the brigands toward the +realization of their, plot. It finally established the power of +Mussolini. It caused Catholic papers and writers (and sympathizers +like Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler) to take the lead in that praise of +Fascism in italy -- had not the Pope blessed it? -- which was of +the greatest importance to the brigands in preparing their +armaments. And it gave Mussolini's imitator in Germany the idea +that after all it would pay to come to terms, hypocritically, with +the Black International.

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But, whatever share Pacelli may have had in drafting the +treaty of alliance with Mussolini, he had a full share in securing +that the alliance was not wrecked. The Fascist Party was still so +bitterly anti-Papal that Mussolini had, in soothing his followers, +to use language which the Pope angrily described (in the +Osservatore, May 30) as "heretical, and worse than heretical." +Blackshirts in Rome and the country insulted the priests and the +Church. The Pope spoke publicly of the possibility that he would +repudiate the Treaty, and in that case, he said, "Vatican City +itself would fall together with the state that is dependent on +Vatican City for its being" (same letter in the Osservatore). The +Catholic world and the world-press were alarmed. If Mussolini fell, +they said, Socialism would capture Italy. As Cardinal Hinsley, head +of the Church in Britain, said at a later date, Fascism was "in +many respects unjust" but it "Prevented worse injustice -- if it +goes under, God's cause goes with it." (Catholic Times, October +18th, 1935). God's cause is, in the mouth of a cardinal, the power +of the Church: and the end justifies the means.

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Pacelli to the rescue. Old Gasparri, who was stirring the Pope +to resist, was pushed aside, and the Saint George -- who wanted to +save the world -- the world of wealth and privilege -- from the +Dragon, Socialism donned his shining armor. Friction continued, of +course. Most of the leading Blackshirts hated the Pope, and the +Pope and his new Secretary of State heartily hated them. But the +alliance was indispensable. Mussolini now roared like any sucking +dove about the beauty of religion. "I wish to see religion +everywhere in the country," he said; "let us teach the children +their catechism" (Manchester Guardian, June 19, 1931). He, as I +said, publicly prayed in St. Peter's. Cardinal Gasparri at the +Eucharistic Congress of 1932 hailed him as "the man who first saw +clearly in the present world chaos" the man who is "getting the

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State to work in accordance with the moral law of God" (Catholic +Herald, September 16 1932). The, friction was reduced and the world +was officially assured that the last Census had proved that 99 +percent of the, Italians were Catholics.

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It was an insincere alliance. The organization of lay dupes +known as Catholic Action now gave Mussolini trouble. He demanded +that the Pope check it, and something seems to have been done, but +secretly Pacelli got the pope to write glowing praise of the +international Catholic Action and knowing that in spite of the +sacred independence of the Vatican City Mussolini's spies watched +it closely he sent the document by two priests to Paris for +publication. The old trickery of Vatican diplomacy was cultivated. +When, as in the case of the annexation of Austria, local prelates, +who would not dare to stir a finger against Papal policy, acted in +support of the Axis, the Vatican Radio would announce to the world +that the Pope disapproved. When this angered Axis supporters they +were assured that the radio message was unauthorized and sent out +without consulting the Vatican. Sometimes the Papal newspaper, the +Osservatore, was used and, to please both sides, was then declared +unauthorized. Neither the Radio nor the Osservatore would dare to +send out or print an unauthorized message on an important point. +Foreign correspondents in Rome received telephone messages from the +Vatican which were later declared unauthorized. Ambiguous +utterances, as in the case of Abyssinia, were put into the mouth of +the Pope, and Axis Catholics were encouraged to read them one way +and democratic Catholics to read them in the opposite way. And +every Easter and Christmas the beautiful message of Peace rolled +out, while between those festivals the Catholic world was inspired +everywhere to demand war on Spain, Russia, China, and Mexico.

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There was another aspect of the alliance. While Cardinal +Gasparri assured the Catholic world that Mussolini was "getting the +state to work in accordance with the moral law of God" and Cardinal +Hinsley was warning it that "God's cause" would be lost in Italy if +Mussolini fell, it was open to anybody to ascertain what social +improvement, if any, the Duce had actually accomplished. Reference +books like the Statesman's Year Book which were in every good +library gave year by year the official Italian returns of crime, +education, production, trade, debt, etc.

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It is astonishing today to reflect how very few people thought +of testing in this simple and positive way what truth there was in +almost universal press admiration of the efficiency and national +service of Fascism. It must, at least, seem astonishing to any man +who does not accept my suggestion that Mussolini's work in crushing +a great Socialist movement was so appreciated in the world-press +that it would not inquire whether his boast of efficiency was true +or not. It reproduced everything that its correspondents in Italy, +generally, Catholics, cared to send it about finer rail-services +(on some lines), new buildings, great farms on reclaimed land, and +so on, and it refused to see in works of reference, which were at +every editor's elbow that production was decaying and the internal +debt (chiefly due to forced loans) was increasing at so formidable +a rate that bankruptcy loomed ahead -- unless Mussolini brought +off, and brought off successfully, the aggressive war he promised +his people, and founded an Italian Empire by murdering and looting +other peoples.

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On the religious side it was worse. The only definite test +weather a nation is or is not getting more in accord with "the +moral law of God" is to examine its criminal statistics. In the +Papal States, before the Kingdom of Italy had been established, +there had been no statistics of any sort, but not a single +authority questions the statement of contemporary Italian statesmen +and foreign visitors that crime and corruption were appalling. +Italy then, from 1870 onward, had a very fair success in reducing +crime, though the success was not nearly so great as in less-Catholic countries. But from the time of the accession to power of +Mussolini crime increased amazingly. Convictions rose from about +500000 a year in the period which Dr. Nicholas Murrak Butler +describes so darkly, the Socialist-Communist-Liberal period (before +1923), to 800000 a year in the period of Mussolini's remarkable +efficiency.

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It makes it rather worse that this was due to some extent to +the poverty and distress he had brought upon both the workers and +the middle class while the Church, as I said, got an enormous +accession of wealth. Other causes were the impoverishment and +prostitution of education and the preparation of the people for the +wanton bloodshed of aggressive war. It was at the very time when +Pacelli, the future Pope of Peace, was bringing the Pope and the +Duce to have a cordial meeting in the Vatican that Mussolini was +writing the most official statement of the nature of Fascism for +the new Encyclopedia Italiana (article, "Fascism")

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When Fascism looks to the future, the general development +of humanity, apart from considerations of present polities, it +rejects the idea that perpetual peace is either possible or +desirable. It repudiates Pacifism, which means a renunciation +of struggle, a refusal to make sacrifices, War alone raises +the energy of man to the highest pitch and impresses a seal of +nobility upon the nations which have the manliness to +undertake it. All other trials of strength are substitutes +which never prove a man's worth by confronting him with the +alternative of life and death.

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That was taught to every child in every school in Italy. +Didn't the Vatican know it? Are we supposed to find documentary +proof that the Vatican knew what was going on in every part of +Italy?

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Pacelli had come from Germany where he had seen Socialism as +a mighty power already in control of more than one-third of the +country, dreaded by the Catholic hierarchy because, though the +Social Democrats now worked with the Catholics, they drew millions +from the Church, dreaded by imperialists, militarists, +industrialists, and landowners. He came to Italy where he saw how +just such a powerful Socialist organization had been completely +destroyed as it was from 1928 onward by just such a coalition of +royalists, industrialists, militarists, and landowners taking up a +brutal spearhead resembling the German Nazism and consolidating its +position by an alliance with the Church just as in the good old +days of the early nineteenth, century. His grand idea, war on +Socialism, gradually took shape. How in its interest he kept the +Pope silent and the Italian Church wildly patriotic when Mussolini +began his imperial brigandage in Abyssinia we shall see later. +Other problems meantime confronted him and the Black International. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +16 +. +THE RED POPE

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Chapter IV

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HIS DEAR YELLOW BROTHER IN BUDDHA

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the year 1899 the democratic Pope Leo XIII had made the ears +of American Catholic's burn. Their apologists and prelates had +begun to put before the public that conception of the Church of +Rome as the devoted ally of democracy and freedom with which we +have grown very familiar in recent years. Leo smote them hip and +thigh. That was "Americanism" not sound Catholicism. The arch-bishops writhed but were silent. Leo was not very far from death, +and "from that time to this no Pope has spoken out." So says the +Catholic Teeling, and he adds: "The reason would seem to have been +that America has provided an ever-increasing supply of funds and an +ever increasing supply of missionaries." (The Pope in Polities, p. +150). Certainly a golden reason; though why, on Catholic +principles, a particular version of Catholicism not backed by gold +Should be so humiliatingly denounced and then tolerated when it was +gold is not clear. If I assigned that reason for the Vatican's +change of policy in regard to American Catholic propaganda I would +be angrily accused of wicked suspicions and suggestions where I +could not give positive evidence.

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But the Vatican only changed its tactics not its policy. Pius +XI, says Teeling, was particularly zealous to bring the oriental +Churches into his fold -- "so that the growth of democratic +Catholicism in the New World be counter-balanced." At the Vatican, +he says (p. 3), "Western influence is not considered very good for +the Church." That we shall see, is one reason why, Mussolini was +encouraged in the rape of Abyssinia and his design of becoming +Emperor of the East, why the Vatican flirted for years with Russia, +and why it approved the savage aggression against Yugo-Slavia and +Greece. To sustain this policy the Secretary of State had to do +some very neat tight-rope balancing. For British opinion, in spite +of all the "Lords" and aristocrats the Jesuits have captured, he +seems not to have cared much. If for once I cared to indulge in a +conjecture I should say that he detests England. Whether that is +connected with his chilly experiences when he was sent to represent +the Papacy at the coronation of George V or whether he sees through +the Catholic pretense that they are "converting England" I don't +know, but Teeling, who made a number of visits to Rome, says that +after Pacelli became secretary of State English Catholics found a +reception at the Vatican and could with difficulty get an audience +with the Pope. They were told to see Pacelli, and they discovered +that they were "not popular," though doubtless they left the +customary purse with Pacelli.

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But American Catholicism was a very different matter. It +claimed 20000000 members and said that it would have the majority +in America by the end of the century. Its wealth is already in the +billions of dollars; its annual income $800000000. Imagine +Pacelli's eyes rolling as he turned these sum's into Italian lire! +In 1936 he visited America, Did he encourage the efforts as +described by Seldes, of American Catholics, in cooperation with +Mexican refugee priests, to get an alliance with Wall Street in +order to secure the liquidation of Bolshevism in Mexico? Had he any +meetings with the Italian and German plotters in America? Did he

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harden that feeling against Russia which Germany counted as one of +its favorable conditions? But we must not be suspicious. There is +no Proof. We know one thing that he did do. Instead of rebuking the +American propagandists who represented the Church as spontaneously +democratic and a lover of freedom and peace he went out of his way +everywhere to leave the impression that he cordially admired the +American spirit of freedom and democracy. He certainly did not +mention that the Vatican policy was to augment the oriental +elements in the Church so as to counter-balance "western influence" +which was "not considered very good for the Church, in the mild +language of a Catholic writer. And he certainly did not call the +attention of Americans to the fact that the Vatican had entered +into a close alliance with Japan.

+ +

This alliance with Japan ran the usual course in Catholic +literature. At first it was indignantly denied. Where was the +proof? When the Osservatore itself proudly announced on May 5, +1935, that the Pope was to send an ambassador to Tokyo and that +Tokyo was to appoint a representative at the Pope's court in +Vatican City a new note was struck. It was the Pope's duty to enter +into negotiation with any government to protect the spiritual +interests of Catholics under that government. Had not even England +sent a representative to the Pope's court? Yes: but "poor rich +powerful England" as Ambassador Dodd called it, was up to its eyes +in a policy of appeasement, while in 1936 Japan had started on its +full career of aggression and of the massacre, debauching, and +exploiting of hundreds of millions of weaker folk. That is some +difference. And when, in the spring of 1941, Pacelli-Plus had a +most cordial interview with that other Man of Peace Matsuoka, the +most brazen liar in a world of fluent liars, in the Vatican and, +just when Japan was plotting to take advantage of the heavy burden +of America and Britain to defy them by worse aggression and more +insolent outrages than ever, the Pope smilingly presented him with +a gold medal . . .

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The story of the Japanese share in the world-crime is now +fairly well known -- see ABC Library No. 6 -- and cannot be +repeated here. All the world has seen its steady aggression for ten +years, and all the world ought to have known from the start that +Japan meant to conquer the whole eastern half of Asia and all +islands in the Pacific. That the truth of this depends upon the +disputed authenticity of some memoir by Baron Tanaka in the year +1927 is nonsense. I have described, largely from American +journalists and authors (like Upton Close's Challenge. 1933), the +very open growth of the plot since the later years of the last +century. America was in fact so well aware of it that it alone of +the democracies began years ago to take defensive naval measures, +but there was, under the usual trade-interests, a lamentable lack +of warning in the Press an almost general failure to see that +Japan's were part of a world-plot and in this case a very +mischievous appeasement-policy in religious periodicals on account +of Japan's threats to the Christian missions.

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To state events very briefly up to the time when the Japanese +criminals, the American and European encouragement of modernization +in Japan (while it paid better not to encourage it in China), the +disbanding of the old Samurai swashbucklers (which sent vicious

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elements into the army, politics, and journalism), and the +successful wars of Japan on easy victims like China (1895) and +Tsarist Russia (1904) gave the yellow men inflated ideas of their +ability and importance. The Black Dragon Society, which wanted the +conquest of north-eastern Asia, was founded in 1901 and inspired +aggressive fanaticism in naval and military circles. Advantage was +taken of the European War of 1914-18 to get a strangle-hold on +China but a terrible earthquake and the quick recovery of the +Allies checked the ambition, though propaganda continued. By 1931 +there were patriotic societies enthusiastically preaching it and +running to two or three million members. General Hayashi, who had +led the invasion of Manchuria in defiance of the civil government, +said in a speech to foreign correspondents; at the close of the +campaign:

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Japan's desire for expansion on the Eastern Asiatic +Continent manifested in her Manchurian police has been her +unalterable policy since her foundation.

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The development of the gangrene differed little from the +development in Europe. In Japan the army and navy were the nucleus +and source of infection. The score of rich families which mainly +represented capitalism were easily persuaded to see that it was the +destiny of the Yamato race to extend its culture to (or exploit) +China. The Emperor hardly needed persuading that soldiers know +best. The politicians and the heads of the Buddhist and Shinto +religions were bought. For the quite open share of these religions +and their sudden enrichment by the imperialist brigands see the +speeches at the Chicago International Conference on Religion in +1934 (edited by A.E. Haydon, Moderit World-Trends in Religion).

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The occupation of Manchuria in 1931 was the first step in the +realization of what would prove to be a plot of Germany and Japan +to control and exploit the world: a crime which in future history +dwarf every other crime that was ever committed or attempted. The +world now pays a ghastly price for the obscene squabbling of trade-interests which prevented the destruction of the plot at this early +stage by an economic ostracism of Japan, but few people still seem +to understand that the Black International at once moved to the +support of the aggressor.

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This is no matter of "suspicion." It was done quietly and in +such a form that it could, if the world's attention was drawn to +it, be represented as an inevitable exercise of the Vatican's +religious functions. It was first disclosed, as far as I can trace, +in an article by a French priest in the Catholic Review des Deux +Mondes in 1935 (January 15). The negotiations which were then going +on at the Vatican for mutual ambassadors with Japan made it clear +that some years of cordial cooperation had preceded; and in any +case the French had played as sordid a part in the matter as the +Black International and they were disposed to boast about it.

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The facts are now so well known that Catholic writers like +Teeling discuss them freely. It appears that the Vatican had +approached Japan, seeking favored-nation treatment, in 1922, but +the Buddhist authorities, already brought (or bought) to the +convention that the Yellow Race would sweep all White influence out

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of eastern Asia, successfully resisted the application. Buddhist +monks might take that view but Japanese statesmen knew that the +White Race was not to be turned down too openly until the plot was +far advanced. It was to be duped by smooth assurances that it would +have its share in a regenerated China and its enormously increased +capacity for consumption. It was particularly necessary to do this +after the first rape of China, so the Vatican got its opportunity.

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The French clerical writer says:

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"A short time after it had given birth to the new state +of Manchukuo the Japanese government advised its ward to turn +to the Holy See with a request that it should be officially +recognized; an event of some importance seeing that the Powers +refused to recognize it and Japan had left the League of +Nations. These Japanese-Manchukuoan overtures did not secure +formal recognition but, as the Catholic missions in Manchukuo +supported them the Vatican appointed a French Vicar Apostolic +to negotiate with the government of Manchuktio about religious +affairs." (p. 297).

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He further explains that it was the French missionaries in +Japan who persuaded the Japanese government to approach the +Vatican. France was at the time, for reasons which will be given +later, working very amiably with the Vatican, and French +missionaries would not be ignorant of the golden rule that trade +and the evangelization of the heathen go together. The Vatican was +to get a monopoly of missionary work in Japan and China, which it +fully expected to be taken over by Japan (Teeling), and France +would be rewarded with trade.

+ +

It was a nice problem for Pacelli, the new Secretary of State, +and he solved it in his characteristic manner. Formally to +recognize the annexation of Manchuria just when merely secular +governments all over the world were condemning it as an outrage and +a danger to the peace was out of the question. Even the American +apologist would hardly be able to explain away that. So the Papal +organ announced quietly, as a matter of routine, that a Vicar +Apostolic had been set up in Manchukuo at the request of its +government. That was for the Japs a sufficiently clear recognition +of that government by the Vatican as a sovereign power. Does any +man suppose that the Japanese statesmen and military leaders nearly +all of whom are skeptics, cared the toss of a coin about the +spiritual interests or the immortal souls of the Manchurian +peasants? Or that the Vatican supposed they did? The brutalized +condition to which the Japs soon reduced the natives is answer +enough.

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The Chinese in Shanghai sent me copies of bitter complaints of +the Protestant missionaries in China about the way in which the +Japs were persecuting them in favor of Catholic missionaries, but +a more important feature of the matter is that from that time the +Pope damped down in the whole Catholic world all criticism of his +dear Yellow Brother in Buddha. By 1934, the clerical writer in +Revue des Deux Mondes said, the cordial relations of the two had +gone so far that "no Japanese prince or mission now passes through +Rome without paying its homage to the Sovereign Pontiff." And to

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Mussolini, of course, who was now in prayerful communication with +the Vatican. Again, does anyone suppose that Japanese diplomats and +princes called upon the Pope to thank him for caring for the +immortal souls, in which they did not believe, of Manchurian +peasants?

+ +

But the alliance was brought into full light in 1935 when the +Obsservatore announced the proposal of an exchange of ambassadors. +There seems to have been some hard bargaining, but in 1936 a Roman +Catholic prelate appeared, incongruously enough, at the Mikado's +court and a yellow man in the Vatican City. By this time the +Japanese pretense of merely wishing to civilize Manchuria was a +mockery. It had now advanced far into China, having taken Jehol in +1933 and broken through the Great Wall in 1935. The mask was +cynically thrown aside just when the diplomatic relations with the +Vatican were put on the most respectable footing. By the customary +Axis method of brazen lying excuses for further aggression upon the +weak Chinese were invented, the "incident" was conducted with +appalling outrages, and a trail of misery and demoralization spread +in the wake of the Japanese armies. Japan was now as deadly a +menace to civilization as Germany and Italy, and the bland lies +with which it met every inquiry were nauseating.

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During these years very little was said in the world-press +about this beautiful friendship of the supreme head of the Church +of Rome and the supreme head of the degenerate Shinto and Buddhist +religions. Catholics had won their claim and censorship of the +press on the edifying principle that it was not right to print +anything that was "offensive to Catholics"; and to obtrude this +cordial alliance of the Vatican with the Japanese government, which +had by this time incurred the loathing of every decent man and +would be decidedly offensive to Catholics. Yet the cordiality +continued through all the years of mendacity, hypocrisy, outrage, +and increasing menace to the world.

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On December 26 Matsuoka, who was particularly used for some +years to dupe Americans because he was a Christian, said in the +Japanese Diet, dropping the mask of lust now that Japan could take +advantage of the war in Europe, that there would be peace only if +America agreed that Japan should "dominate the mainland and occupy +a preferential position in Indo-China and the Dutch Indies," and to +"dominate the Western Pacific"; not for its own profit, of course, +but for "the good of humanity." In March, 1941, this slimiest of +the yellow reptile-group went to Moscow and signed a cynical pact +with Russia. We will not call that hypocrisy because Stalin was +certainly not duped, but that was not for lack of intention on +Matsuoka's part. He went on to Berlin and Rome to discuss with the +other gangsters the real plan for the summer, the sudden attack on +Russia and the question of Japanese intervention, and he had also +a long cordial talk with the Pope, who presented him with a gold +medal. All this can be verified in Keesing's admirable day-to-day +survey of the world-press. Are we asked to believe that with the +Pope Matsuoka discussed only the spiritual interests of the Chinese +who were under the loving care of the Japanese army of occupation?

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What exactly the situation is today it is impossible to +ascertain. Japan will, of course, soon or later double cross the +Vatican, as those super-crooks always do. Has it already done so? +The latest news is that the Japanese are organizing a National +Spiritual Mobilization Campaign in which three recognized +religions, Shinto, Buddhism, and Christianity are to cooperate. But +the Christian Church is to be purely Japanese. It must receive no +funds from abroad -- which opens up a nice prospect for the +American Protestant missions -- admit no foreign influence, and +make minute reports of all its services and activities; and the +worship of the Son of Heaven must be included in the cult +everywhere. Has Pacelli-Pius swallowed that pill?

+ +

In the eighteenth century Rome made it, one of its chief +counts in its indictment of the Jesuits that, in order to win more +converts than other missionaries, they had mixed heathen rites with +Christian. Pacelli has done just that. An Anglican prelate who was +present at the large International Conference on religion in India +in 1938 wrote me that the representatives of the Protestant +Churches learned with a shock that "the Papacy, after much +wavering, has finally given permission to Japanese Papists to +indulge in Emperor worship." Presumably they do not tell their +Japanese converts how early Christians died rather than worship the +Roman Emperor.

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It should prove, when the details are known, a picturesque +development, but to most of us trifle in comparison with the +Vatican's moral apostasy and betrayal of civilization. For an +exhibition of greed, hypocrisy, and condonation of crime its +alliance with Japan would be hard to beat. During these ten years +when Pacelli was vilifying Russia, which was building up in peace +and with a sense of international honor what most people now call +great civilization, he was cultivating friendly relations with and +giving aid and encouragement to one of the real blackguard-nations. +It is futile to protest that we must look at the Situation from the +Papal angle. The most respectable light in which you can put it is +that a Churchman would be bound to consider that a prospect of +bringing into the Roman sphere of influence, which is so much more +morally effective than any other, all the missionary work in +eastern Asia, outweighs all other considerations. So much the worse +for the Churchman's creed or policy. It puts the increase of the +power of the Church above all decency of international intercourse, +above the appalling sufferings of hundreds of millions of Chinese +and their right to a national life of their own, above the ghastly +and very imminent chances of a world-war. it means that the Black +International tramples on those social, moral, and humanitarian +principles which are said by its apologists in America to be just +what the Church holds most sacred.

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Chapter V

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HE ORGANIZES THE PLOT IN SOUTH AMERICA

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Pacelli-Pius was rightly selected for the Papacy as the ablest +cardinal in the Church of Rome. That does not imply genius. Half of +these cardinals would not successfully run a large grocery store. +Pacelli has considerable ability. He is also the most widely-

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informed cardinal on the world-situation. His immediate +predecessors were of the type that asks: What are Keats? Even Leo +XIII was amazingly duped by his Vatican 'specialists' about the +state of affairs in England -- they persuaded him that if he +recognized the validity of Anglican "orders" the whole Church of +England would join up under the Papal banner -- in France, and +elsewhere. Pacelli has travelled more than any. Besides spending +twelve years in Germany he has made three visits to England, +travelled all over North and South America, and visited France, +Hungary, and other countries.

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Upon which boast of his biographers we may make two comments. +First that in very few of his acts can any apologist make the +excuse of ignorance or misinformation, the common Catholic excuse +for Papal misconduct. Matsuoka might deceive some people with his +bland assurances that his country sought "not the good of the good +of Japan but the good of humanity" and (in the spring of 1941) that +it had "not the slightest idea of taking advantage of the +misfortunes of France," but he no more deceived Pius XII than he +deceived Stalin. The Pope knew well that Japan was pledged to a +course, in its selfish interest, which would lead inexorably to war +math America and Great Britain. So it was in every other part of +his policy.

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The second comment is that, instead of flowers springing up +wherever Pacelli trod, as is told of holy men in earlier ages, the +path might generally be traced by blood and misery. The violence +had occurred in Italy before he returned to it, but he took care +that it was not relaxed. He compels the Church in Germany to help +to power the most dangerous psychopath in Europe. He goes to South +America, and his visit is followed by the triumph of Fascist +violence everywhere. He goes to the United States, and there is a +fresh demand for the extinction of Bolshevism in Mexico and Russia. +He goes to Paris in 1937 and France prepares to betray Czecho-Slovakia and, when the time comes, to betray itself. He goes to +Hungary in 1938 and it is ready to see Austria and Czecho-Slovakia +enslaved and to march itself against Russia and help in every way +the destroyers of civilization.

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The visit to South America was in 1934, when the usual excuse +for Papal intrigue was given: he must preside at the Eucharistic +Congress at Buenos Aires. Twenty years, even thirty years ago, the +priests of Buenos Aires would not have dared to hold such a +function. When it was proposed to hold one in London Protestants +appealed to me to cooperate in getting Catholics forbidden to have +a procession of their Eucharist in one street. I said that I would +rather encourage them to do so -- and take care that the crowd +understood what it meant. The doctrine is so monstrous and +incredible that the journalists who every year write with profound +respect about the holding of the Eucharistic Congress cannot have +the least idea what it means.

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You see a priest carrying a star-shaped golden vessel in the +center of which, enclosed in glass, is the white disk of a wafer of +wheaten flour. To the Catholic it was a thin wafer until the priest +breathed his magic wards over it, but there is no longer any flour +there. The substance of the cake has been annihilated: only the

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accidents (the color, shape, feel, etc.) remain. As I have hid to +swallow it -- the wafer, I mean, as well is the doctrine -- +thousands of times I can assure that the "accidents" are very much +like those of a dry cracker. It sticks to the pilate, etc. And on +the strength of this prehistoric theory of substance and accidents, +begot by the genius Aquinas out of Aristotle, the Church today +sternly insists that the wafer has been annihilated, and the living +divine-human person of Jesus has taken its place -- quite literally +-- that if you broke it into a hundred crumbs the living and entire +body of Jesus would be present in each, and that this is true of +each one of the millions of wafers (Eucharists) which are stored in +little safes on the altars of all the Catholic Churches in the +world. Pfew!

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I say that in the earlier part of this century priests in +Buenos Aries or Rio or Lima would not have made a parade of that +belief in the streets The historic conflict of the Blacks and +Whites in Latin America had ended in an incomplete but considerable +victory for the Liberals. The middle-class was substantially +skeptical. In 1906 the Freethinkers of South America held a +Congress in Buenos Aires. The delegates crowded the Teatro +Argentino. Argentinians of high position (Vice-Admiral Howard, Soto +and Alvarez of the Council of War, etc.) supported them. The +Presidents of Guatemala and Uruguay sent telegrams of +congratulations in the name of their republics. The Women's +Committee, of 50 members, included some the most brilliant writers +in South America. The leading papers treated the Congress with +respect . . .

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And in 1934 the public men of Argentina were falling Over each +other to kiss Pacelli's ring. What had happened? The Reds, of +course. Socialism spread through South America with extraordinary +rapidity after the last war, and the news of the revolution in +Spain in 1932 gave a powerful impetus to the movement. So impartial +an observer as the famous woman traveller Rosita Forbes said in +1933 after a prolonged visit that "it is possible that the +organization and method's of Soviet Russia may be destined to +provide the machinery necessary to liberate the South American +Republics" (Eight Republics in search of a Future, p. 7.) In Peru, +she found that "the educated youth of Peru is in the hands of +Moscow." A minister who introduced an anti-Communist law in the +Chilean Congress was compelled to resign, and the government +refused to recognize degrees granted by Catholic universities. An +American merchant who had lived 25 years in Chile reported that +"Communism of the intellectual type" was very widespread. The +Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana (Apra) swept the +continent, and its leader would have become President of Peru but +for Black corruption of the vilest kind. The Rev. Dr. McKay, a +Protestant missionary in the Argentine, said that the Trade Unions +turned out any worker who supported the Church, that the workers +now commonly called a man they wanted to vituperate "you poor +Christ" (equivalent to the American "son of a lady-dog"), and that +one of their leaders said publicly that the sound of the word God +made him spew. I was editing the Militant Atheist in 1933 and gave +plenty of details of this sort.

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Pacelli to the rescue. Returning to the subject in the 'Appeal +to Reason' Library (No. 3) in 1935 I gave the symptoms of spreading +reaction and asked: "Will the struggle end as in Italy, Spain, and +Poland, in a coalition of all political parties with the Church +again Labor?" At the time Pacelli was still an obscure emissary of +the Vatican whose position as Secretary of State was according to +the Italian Press, not very secure. How bitterly we pay for not +watching the Black International more closely! In South America, as +in America and Britain and Italy and Germany, there were Socialist +leaders who said that the fight against the Church was over -- some +wanted friendly alliance with it -- and all attention must be +concentrated on the politico-economic struggle. And in the whole of +South America as in Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia, etc., within a year or two Socialism was bloodily trodden +underfoot and the Church was triumphant.

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The change did not begin in 1934. The Blacks were already +organizing and intriguing everywhere, and futile revolts +strengthened their hands. But after 1934 the clerical-capitalist +revolution proceeded at a great pace. I have not a shred of proof +to offer that, Pacelli counted in the organization of this. Just +naughty suspicion, and you may please yourself whether you accept +it. I do not say that Pacelli intrigued to bring closer together +the heads of the Church and the heads of the army and state who in +every part of South America were shuddering before the Red Menace. +The only facts we know are that the situation was completely +transformed after 1934; that within a few years six of the ten +Republics of South America including Brazil and Peru, were +truculently Fascist, and even Argentina (where the priests have no +millions of Indians to stir up) and Chile were semi-Fascist; that +most of the Liberals had in fact lined up with the Church; and that +this coalition was first revealed on a large scale when Pacelli, +the arch-intriguer and hater of Socialism in every form had gone +from capital to capital and soldiers and statesmen knelt for his +blessing. You may want to go father than I do and believe that +Pacelli not only promoted the entire cordial of Liberal statesmen +and their traditional enemies, but encouraged also the leaders of +the millions of Italians and Germans, who, as the duped statesmen +have now found, were already secretly weaving their great plot. +Please yourself.

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The upshot was that not only was "the menace of Bolshevism" +destroyed in South America but the Church got between ten and +twenty million apostates bullied into silence and their leaders +flung into jail. Figures are farcical in Latin America. In Mexico +a high official warned me privately that their published statement +that their population consisted of 4000000 Indians and 12000000 +Mexicans might be turned the other way round. A careful recent +estimate is that there are 90000000 Indian's in South and Central +America. Few people seem to realize that these provide about one-third of the total number of the Pope's real subjects. As in +Mexico, the majority of them would turn against the priests as soon +as they got encouragement to do so from their government. The +situation was closely parallel to that of Russia. Within another +ten years the great bulk of the 90000000 would be lost to the +Vatican. Are we asked to think that Pacelli scrupulously avoided

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political maneuvers that promised to avert that tragedy? Remember +the Irish revolutionaries confiding their plot to the Pope; +remember Dollfus's, Franco, Henlein, and others.

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But we are concerned with actualities. The cream of the +Indians, of the millions of workers of such mixed blood that it is +time we dropped these racial distinctions, are the industrial +workers. The majority, we saw, had abandoned Rome, Add the +university youths and a large number of their professors and other +middle-class men and Liberals of the old school, and it will be +seen that Rome had to envisage an actual secession of between ten +and twenty millions. They are now back in the fold -- on paper. +They are bullied into silence and their most active representatives +are in jail. By the end of 1935 there were 10000 political +prisoners in jail in Brazil alone. Yes, says the Catholic, the scum +who had recently organized a rebellion. So it was reported in +America. But the very impartial British 'Annual Register' (1935) +which gives the above figure adds: "Among these were university +professors and many other distinguished Brazilians belonging to the +best society" (p. 312). They were victims of the Black +International.

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And by one of those blunders into which the brutally and +callousness of the agents of these Fascist governments are always +betraying them we learned that this Church-Wealth coalition is not +only using force but, as it has always done, using it savagely. The +Brazilian police arrested as spies two ladies of the British +aristocracy, Lady Hastings and Lady Cameron, who were visiting Rio. +Viscount Hastings wrote a letter to the London press (News-Chronicle, July 14, 1936) on what they saw. It contained such +things as:

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In the prison they saw men and women who had been so +badly beaten that they could only move with the greatest +difficulty; a man's wife had been beaten insensible in front +of him to make him confess; the hands of another man had been +mutilated by having iron spikes driven underneath the nails +... The day before my wife and sister were arrested, the +American boy Victor Baron was found dead in prison after +'questioning' . . .

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Immutable Rome! So it was in France in the thirteenth century, +all over south Europe in the nineteenth, in Spain forty years ago, +and is now in many countries. If a mere working man, or even a +professor, had reported these things, moat people would say "Red +lies." There is obviously some use in Aristocrats.

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In Mexico the struggle with the Church and the attempt of +Catholics in America to get intervention, which would certainly +mean war and annexation, had begun long before Pacelli became +Secretary of State. I am tracing the action of the Black +International not of Pacelli alone but I have written this earlier +history so fully elsewhere that I will not return to it. I need +repeat only about the acute conflict of 1926 that I was then in +Mexico and saw with what remarkable indifference the people +accepted what was mendaciously called the persecution of the +Church, and read articles by Mexican Catholic journalists in the

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leading Havana paper a little later expressing deep disgust with +the lies (executions of priests etc.) sent by the priests to the +Knights of Columbus, who zealously enlarged them and circulated +them in Wall Street. If you want a Catholic (or at all events pro-Catholic) witness to this close alliance for years of American +Catholics. and Wall Street read George Seldes' 'The Vatican' (1934, +pp. 278-86). There was, of course, an outcry and the American +Catholic bishops published a letter denying that they were working +for armed intervention." They merely felt it their duty to "sound +a warning to Christian civilization that its foundations are being +attacked and undermined." God, they said would find a way to, +destroy the evil. By priests blowing trumpets, I suppose. A thinner +pretense of pacifism it would be hard to find. It has a Japanese +ring.

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Pacelli did not go to Mexico, but the brilliant Church-Fascist +success that followed his visit to South America had echoes in the +north. In 1935 F.V. Williams, Al Smith's publicity agent, had a +revolting article in 'Liberty' (Aug. 24) calling for intervention. +A Mexican Catholic annihilated his statements in the 'Forum;' in +fact, they had been answered in advance by various visitors to +Mexico (World-Telegram, June 8, 1935, etc.) The Catholic Teeling +also admits that Catholics intrigued at Washington to get +intervention and that Msgr. Burke served as intermediary.

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It is, at all events, true that from 1936 Pacelli included +Mexico in the list of countries in which he invited the great +powers to "extinguish" Bolshevism. It was so clearly a war-program +that I have never read even a Catholic attempt to give his words, +the slogan he sent through the whole Catholic world, any other +meaning. An innocent young nun or a Lord Halifax might suggest that +he "extinguish it by prayer." Is that what he meant when he sent +Cardinal Faulhaber, as we shall see, to beg Hitler to allow the +Church to cooperate with him in the good work? It was a war +program; a call to, as it has proved, the bloodiest war in history. +So who are the real Reds?

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THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 3

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HOW THE CROSS COURTED THE SWASTIKA +FOR EIGHT YEARS

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by Joseph McCabe

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Chapter I

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SOCIALISM EMPTIES THE CHURCHES

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The aim of the Black International is to protect and augment +the power and wealth of the Church. Since however, the clergy do +not share their power, much less their wealth, with the laity, we +may define this aim more sharply. It is to protect and augment +their own wealth and power, especially that of the higher clergy +and the Pope and his Court. History compels us to add that in +pursuing this aim the Black International is not restrained by any +considerations or sentiments which are not strictly ecclesiastical.

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That statement, a Catholic may object, may be formally correct +but it is malicious. The Church, he holds -- because in this +respect the priests have taken him into their confidence wants +wealth and power only in order that it may more effectively promote +the spiritual interests and eternal welfare of men. So we +understood; and we understood also that that is why the priest +must, whenever it is necessary, ignore all ordinary human emotions +and interests. What are the things of time compared with those of +eternity? It is a nice formula. The sufferings of 100000000 +Chinese under the red hooves of the Japanese are doubtless sad to +contemplate but the spiritual welfare of all Asia requires that the +Pope shall not say so to his friend the Mikado. The first of +Pacelli-Pius's famous Five Peace Principles, which won the +admiration of the world, is "the right to life and freedom of all +nations, big and small, powerful and weak. But the spiritual +welfare of the Abyssinians (and the Spaniards, Albanians, Greeks, +Serbs, etc.) is much more important than life or freedom so he had +no harsh words for his friend Mussolini.

+ +

We might, indeed, if we had leisure to go into these matters, +inquire whether the enormous accession of wealth and power to the +Church after the conversion of Constantine in the fourth century +and again during the Renaissance was really followed by a great +spiritual uplift or by a remarkable corruption of both people and +Church. But we have not time for these digressions. Here we have to +consider contemporary events.

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Now we saw in the first booklet of this series that the need +of the Black International to protect its wealth and power was +never greater than it is today. In my Decay of the Church of Rome +(1909) I proved to the satisfaction of everybody except Catholic's, +who have a short way of differing from me without reading me, that +in the course of the nineteenth century the Church lost, in actual +seceders and descendants of seceders, about 100000000 followers. +It lost almost if not quite as many during the next 35 years, or +between 1900 and 1935. The leakage steadily continued, even +increased in all countries except those, such as Ireland and Poland +in which the priests could keep then people in blinkers. The +progress of Socialism, against which the Church had declared war to +the death, made the leakage worse, and after the Russian Revolution +it became a flood. In Spain, Italy, Austria, and Latin America we +have the decisive evidence of electoral statistics, which show a +world-loss of at least 60000000 since the last war. Even for a +small country like Czecho-Slovakia Catholics, we shall see, admit +a loss of about 2000000 in fifteen years, and the drift continued +in America and Britain. Nor was it only a question of the +humiliation of losing so many members. The Church in Germany was +estimated to have a wealth of $20000000000, and it was melting +away.

+ +

These spectacular losses are the key to the policy which +Pacelli followed, first as Secretary of State and then as Pope Pius +XII. When you know of these indisputable losses, which are not +obtruded upon public notice, you see that the line followed by the +Black International was quite inevitable in view of its primary +aim. It is the folk who do not know of the losses who are puzzled +by the plain evidence of the Italian Church's enthusiastic support +of Mussolini in all his crimes, the Vatican's open alliance with +Japan, or the Pope's strident call upon various governments to +cooperate with him in the extinction, by war, of Bolshevism in +Spain, Russia, China, and Mexico. Therefore in dealing with each +country in which we trace the action of the Black International I +give definite evidence from electoral statistics or Catholic +admissions of the enormous losses of the Church. In the last book +I showed this in the case of Italy and South America.

+ +

It is vitally necessary in the case of Germany. References to +the Church in that country suggests to the reader at one moment +that it is tremendously wealthy and powerful -- a good third of the +nation -- and the next day represent it as cowering powerlessly +under the Nazi lash. The American public his been particularly +puzzled by Cardinal Mundelein making himself the chief spokesman of +the Church. Here was a great Churchman, praised in the highest +terms by the Pope and the warmest friend of Pacelli when he visited +America, scourging the Nazis at a time when no statesman in the +world ventured to warn his people of the coming evil.

+ +

The human side of these consecrated movements is always +interesting. Mundelein sent larger sums to the Papal treasury than +any other cardinal in the Church and promised even vaster funds +when prosperity returned to Chicago. So the Vatican courageously +refused to condemn him when requested by Hitler to do so. Besides, +it was convenient to have a rather muddle-headed enthusiast +assuring America that these charges of vice against the holy monks

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of Catholic Germany were wicked Nazi fabrications to cover a +persecution of the Church. It was not necessary to tell Mundelein +that, as we shall see presently, the Pope had already suppressed +the whole body of these Franciscan monks in Westphalia for +comprehensive corruption -- they were all in jail Anyway -- and +that the Catholic bishop of Berlin had told Hitler in a published +letter that the bishops of Germany admitted that there was a large +amount of "moral perversity" in the monastic world. How could +Mundelein know that the Vatican and the German hierarchy were still +pressing Hitler to be friends? He had sworn to exterminate +Bolshevism, after a kiss of betrayal, and there was nothing in the +whole world that the Vatican more fiercely desired than the +destruction of Bolshevism, by hook or by crook, in every country.

+ +

When the Pope, who would presently so solemnly assert "the +right to life and freedom of all nations," was asked to condemn the +invasion of Norway, the beginning of Hitler's monstrous enslavement +of Europe, he objected that there were only 2000 Catholics in +Norway and he had to think of the consequences for the "30000000 +Catholics of Germany." What he meant was that, since the Church of +Rome does not admit that a man can quit it when his reason or his +conscience demands this, there were in Germany some 30000000 men +and women and their children who had received Catholic baptism. In +1905 the Church claimed to have 25000000 members. Taking into +account the beautiful fertility of Catholic parents these ought by +1940 to have grown to at least 35000000. In point of fact it is +easy to show that there were at the latter date not more than +15000000 German Catholics, probably not more than 10000000. +This implies a loss in the present generation of at least +15000000, probably 20000000; and this loss is not so much due +to the action of the Nazis as to the rapid growth of Socialism and +Communism since 1918. It implies also a proportionate loss of +wealth.

+ +

The new world-conditions which led to the disintegration of +the medieval Church everywhere -- the advance of culture, universal +free education, cheap literature and free libraries, the growth of +urban and industrial populations, etc, -- had had at least as +devastating an effect in Germany as in Britain and America. Think +of the huge circulation of such writers as Nietzsche and Haeckel. +In cities like Berlin hardly a fifth of the inhabitants went to +church. But in Germany the Roman Church had special conditions. +Bismarck had switched off his attack on Catholicism from 1872 to +1881 and directed it to the Socialists, and he now had the +enthusiastic alliance of the Church. Some say that Socialism is a +crime, and some that it is folly, but the Church said that it is a +sin; which, of course, is much more likely to got men to avoid it. +The Catholics organized politically in a Center Party and a +Bavarian People's Party, and there was a very sharp line of +division between. Catholic votes and those of the sinful Socialists +and even worse Communists. Thirty years ago the Social Democratic +Federation dropped its official opposition to all Churches, on the +painfully familiar plea of Socialist leaders that this would +shorten the path to power, but this did not affect the +irreconcilable hostility between Socialists and Catholics. In fact, +when Communism in turn became a powerful force, as it did in +Germany, and in the Vatican policy Socialists and Communists were +lumped together as Bolsheviks, the mutual antagonism was increased.

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I have earlier explained that in the very promising new phase +of German life between 1924 and 1930 the Catholics and Socialists +cooperated politically, and when Nazism grew they had another link +in hatred of their common enemy. Catholics for the first time rose +to the highest offices in the state. But the bishops knew, and +Pacelli who lived in Germany from 1917 to 1929 saw, that the +leakage from the Church was now disastrous. Before the 1914-1918 +war the Catholic vote had already fallen, in spite of the high +Catholic birth rate. from one-fifth to one-sixth of the total +electorate, whereas Catholic writers like the Jesuit Father Krose +had estimated that by superior birth rate alone Catholics would +raise their percentage of the population by one percent every +decade. After the war their percentage, instead of rising, fell +steeply, though the masses of Catholic peasants and farmers +continued to have large families while the masses of non-Catholic +urban workers increasingly practiced birth control. It is enough to +quote the figures at the last democratic elections. In November +1932, when the last entirely free election was held, the combined +Catholic vote was 5326583 in a total of 35000000 votes or not +much more than one-seventh. In March, 1933, when Hitler was +Chancellor and there was a good deal of trickery and intimidation +-- but, we shall see, complete freedom for the Catholics -- the +Catholic vote was 5496054 in 39316873, or less than one-seventh. Catholics who were represented in American literature as +one-third of the population could not in this supreme crisis get +one-seventh of the adult community. Their proportion would have +been even less if they had not had the energetic support of the +Jews against Hitler, as the Catholic Emil Ritter shows in his work +Der Weg des Politischen Katholizismus (1934). The Jews were ordered +by their rabbis to vote with the Catholics, and in Berlin the +Catholics ran a Jewish candidate.

+ +

Now turn to the other side, At the time when the Church began +to fight the Socialists the latter could poll only 349000 votes. +By 1907 the Socialist vote had risen to 3010800. The total number +of voters had doubled: the Socialist vote had increased ten-fold: +the Catholic vote had, taking into account the growth of +population, considerably decreased. But again it will be enough to +quote the final figures, just before the sun of freedom sank below +the horizon. In November, 1932, the Socialists and Communists +polled 13712292 votes, or much more than a third of the adult +community, Before the March election Goering's men had fired the +Reichstag to raise the Communist scare and, as Hitler was +Chancellor, Socialists and Communists were forbidden to hold +meetings and their papers suppressed, so the Communist vote fell +considerably and the Socialist vote slightly. Yet the two parties +still cast 12321684 votes, or moire than twice as many as the +combined (and free) Catholic parties and nearly a third of the +whole. The Nazis, I may add, even in the final election, with the +help of the Communist scare, the Pope's blessing -- as we shall see +-- and corrupt tactics, did not get one-half of the total vote +(17265823 votes out of 39316873). Germany never voluntarily +accepted Hitler. His party took power because it was the largest of +ten.

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The glibness with which works of reference continue year after +year to say that Catholics in Germany are one-third of the +population, or 25000000 out of 75000.000, make the German puzzle +worse than ever for most people. How could a group of men who set +out upon one of the most colossal aggressive enterprises in history +begin by defying and persecuting one-third of the nation in +addition to a savage repression of the still larger body of +Socialists and Communists? Why are all our experts (or oracles) +convinced that the overwhelming majority of the German people +support Hitler yet pay respectful attention to the shrieks of men +like the late Cardinal Mundelein that the Catholic third of the +nation is bitterly persecuted?

+ +

The truth is plainly shown in the above figures. As late as +the November election of 1932 -- we shall see presently what +happened after it -- the Catholic hierarchy was violently opposed +to Socialism and Communism as well as to Hitler and insisted on +Catholics voting for Catholic candidates. This was easy in Germany, +where the main body of the Catholics is found in certain provinces +where they form the great majority of the community. On this +occasion, moreover, the appeal of the bishop to their flocks was +the most urgent and solemn since Bismarck had fought the Church 60 +years earlier. Is it seriously suggested that any large proportion +of genuine Catholics voted, in so grave a crisis, either for the +Socialists or for the bunch of apostates who, their leaders said, +were just as anxious as the Socialists to abolish the Church? If +you want to make an allowance for invalids and other possibilities +remember that on the other hand the Catholics had the support of +half a million Jews, who were too scattered to have their own +candidates. In the circumstance's the voting figures give us a much +safer indication of the truth than any statements of writers.

+ +

These figures show that in 1932 Catholics were 13 percent, not +33 percent, of the adult community. A desperate apologist might +suggest that in Germany, differently from in other countries, the +young are more religious than the older folk and this would give +the Church a larger total than the election figure's suggest. Such +an apologist would have to be very ignorant of German conditions. +In Great Briton, priests publicly admit that in many towns 50 +percent of the boys quit the Church when they leave the school. And +in Britain the atmosphere is not quite as poisonous for the young, +from the Church angle, as in Nazi Germany. You have heard of the +Strength through Joy movement, but you may not have heard how +youths have a song with the refrain, "On the heath and in the +meadows I lose my Strength through Joy," how working girls sing on +the streets a hymn to Mary which suggests -- I forget the exact +words -- that her name was probably Cohen and her baby was born on +the wrong side of the blanket. But suppose we take a generous view. +Thirteen percent of the nation in 1932 meant about 12000000 +Catholics. Make what allowance you like for absenteeism from the +polls (though every possible voter was whipped up) or other +factors, but you cannot raise that figure to 15000000, which is +only half what the Pope claims.

+ +

And it is admitted that since 1932 the Church has suffered +further and catastrophic losses. The organization which held the +Catholic body together is torn to shreds. Think of the numerous

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societies (Knights of Columbus, Daughters of Mary, etc.) which in +America are extremely important in keeping the faithful loyal and +docile to the clergy. They are all suppressed in Germany. The two +political parties are dissolved. The Catholic press, the supreme +instrument of the clergy, is ruined. "All that remains of the one-time great Catholic press of Germany," said the Vatican Radio in +March (1941), "are a few parish magazines, and even these have to +be edited with the greatest care." All Catholic schools in the +Catholic provinces have been closed and all the charitable and +other institutions which were one of the chief advertisements of +the Church have been taken over. All religious brothers, nuns, +etc., have been ignominiously expelled from education and every +Catholic child knows from its Nazi playmates that this is said to +be on account of a discovery of a plague of some kind of shameful +wickedness amongst them. A ghastly reproach has been put upon the +whole by jailing thousands of them for moral turpitude and +seduction of the young. Then there is the economic pressure, as +good jobs must be got from Nazi bosses, the social pressure, and so +on. There cannot be more than 10000000 Catholics in Germany +today, and that means a loss of at least 15000000, if not +20000000. The Catholic author of a special article in the London +Daily Express (November 15, 1939) the most widely circulated paper +in the world said that by 1936 priests in the Rhineland admitted +that they had lost half their flocks and added that "if the Nazis +remain in power another decade Roman Catholicism may be obliterated +from Germany." That is stronger language than I have used.

+ +

Any man who finds this difficult to understand may reflect on +the following experience. A friend of mine, a person of high +character and a Catholic by baptism, went in 1937 to pay a +prolonged visit to relatives and friends in the Rhineland, his old +home. Everywhere he found the Catholics speaking with genial +disdain both of the Nazis and the Church. It was a mainly Catholic +district, and when my friend asked what they thought of the charges +of vice against the monks they laughingly replied that they had +always had a suspicion about life in those institutions. Catholic +belief, in other words, was never so deep amongst them as Catholic +writers pretend. They just wanted to be left alone to drink and +feed and smoke in the way of their fathers. How are such folk +likely to have fared under the pressure of the last five years?

+ +

However that may be, stupendous losses are, as I said, +admitted. And these losses are the key to the Vatican policy in +Germany. It is to check them and to recover ground that, in spite +of one deception after another, the Vatican has ordered German +Catholics to submit and has tried year after year to enter into +alliance with Hitler. That is why the Pope in spite of his discreet +letters of sympathy to Queen Wilhelmina and King Leopold and his +protests against the ghastly attempts to annihilate the Poles after +they had been conquered, never uttered one word of straight moral +condemnation of any one of the long series of cynical breaches of +treaties, ruthless aggressions, and foul treatment of subject +peoples by which the Nazi government has roused against itself the +anger and disgust of the whole free world except its Catholic +allies. That terrible indictment I will proceed to justify point by +point.

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Chapter 11

+ +

THE POPE JOINS THE GANG

+ +

We saw that two grave dilemmas confronted Pacelli when, in +1930, he became Secretary of State to the late Pope and took over +the supreme control of the international policy of the Vatican. +There was an acrid quarrel with Mussolini over the terms of the +Treaty and Concordat he had signed and a request from Japan that +the Papacy should recognize its annexation of Manchuria, which the +conscience of the civilized world condemned. We saw how he resolved +these dilemmas. He linked the Church firmly to two partners of the +criminal Conspiracy; which would come to be known as the Axis. He +had hardly accomplished this, when the third problem arose. Hitler, +doubtless encouraged by the holy alliance with Italy and Japan, +sent an emissary to ask for recognition of his share in the brewing +plot against civilization. He got it. The Black International +joined the gang.

+ +

When you sum up events in this bold fashion many folk shake +their heads skeptically, so, although in the mad rush of life in +our time it seems almost to be ancient history -- it is less than +ten years old -- I must briefly repeat the evidence of what +happened in 1932. Remember that Pacelli knew Germany thoroughly. He +had left it, after twelve years close observation of its life, in +1929, and his new office as Secretary of State compelled him to +watch carefully the critical course of events in that country.

+ +

Bitterly as he hated Socialism, because he expected it +everywhere sooner or later to turn to the Russian model and declare +religion "the opium of the people," he was fully aware that in face +of the Nazi threat and in view of the distress which the world-slump and the sudden cessation of loans had brought upon the +country the Catholics were cooperating with the Socialists under a +Catholic Chancellor, Bruning, and later the Catholic General von +Schleicher. Bruning was a shrewd opportunist who leaned to the +Right or the Left as occasion required, but he was a good +statesman. As long as he held together the coalition of Liberals, +Catholics, Jews, Socialists, and Communist the Nazi's had no chance +of success. It was in very large part the Vatican that ruined this +defense and the leadership of Bruning by forcing him away from the +Socialists and patronizing the Nazis.

+ +

That Pacelli was guilty of a criminal blunder must be +admitted. He knew that Hitler had already given proof of his +duplicity and of his infamous intentions but like Mussolini, he +gambled on the success of Nazi militarism and the spinelessness of +the democracies. All the world now knows how first the German +industrialists, headed by Thyssen and Hagenberg, brought their +millions to the Nazi treasury and used every means in their power +to influence their Liberal and Radical workers in Hitler's favor. +The new Nazi Party emerged from as slimy a mess of intrigue and +deception as one can imagine. Hitler had won a large body of the +workers -- the Nazi group had started as a semi-Socialist working-class movement, pure and simple -- by promising to improve their

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condition at the expense of "the bloated capitalist." By 1931 +Hitler welcomed the gold of the capitalist -- and any other gold +that came along -- and sold his semi-Socialism. Ambassador Dodd, +who was then in Berlin, describes in his Diary how he saw the +royalists and land-owners as well as the industrialists buzzing +round the Nazi headquarters.

+ +

Hitler double-crossed them all. He took their money and rose +in November, 1932, to the electoral strength which I have +described. In 1930 the Nazi vote had been one-sixth of the whole. +In 1932 it was one-third. But they had used up all their resources +and were very dejected. They could get no more from the Liberals +and Conservatives and they could not approach the Socialists and +Communists, however ready they were to sell what soul they had to +the devil. What about the Catholics?

+ +

Von Papen was the queerest figure in the bunch of Nazi +leaders. His Catholic standing was such that he received a high +decoration from the Vatican -- he is a Chamberlain of the Papal +Court -- and he was a friend of the very conservative President +Hindenburg and the Prussian aristocrats. In the summer of 1932 he +had, through his influence with Hindenburg, got the Chancellorship +away from Bruning, though he had in turn soon lost it to the +Catholic General von Schleicher. Note carefully that Germany thus +had three Catholic Chancellors (Premiers) in succession, an honor +of which they had not hitherto dreamed, under the Liberal-Socialist +coalition, which Pacelli helped to destroy in favor of the Nazis. +Von Schleicher, in close touch with the German hierarchy, adopted +an even more pronounced policy of cooperation with the Socialists +against the Nazis than Bruning had followed. With their support he +dared to publish the fact that the aristocratic Prussian land-owners had shamelessly dipped into the public funds, and Von Papen +easily persuaded Hindenburg to protect their noble caste by +dismissing Von Schleicher and making Hitler Chancellor. He would +now control the next election; and the greasy Goering would do +dirty work in the country for him.

+ +

About the same time, the beginning of 1933, Von Papen was sent +to Rome to propose an alliance with the Vatican. It is quite stupid +to affect to dispute these statements because Von Papen in a +published speech (Der 12 November, 1933, p. 7), which I have read, +actually boasts of his work. On November 9, 1933, he made this +speech to a very large audience of Catholic working men at Cologne, +speaking as one Catholic to others and rousing them to support +Hitler. He said, unctuously: "Providence destined me to render an +essential service in the birth of the government of the national +regeneration." As his bosom friends, Hitler and Goebbels, were +apostates and half the secondary leaders were notoriously +sodomists, I do not wonder that folk find this chapter of German +history perplexing, but that Von Papen did in fact propose to +Pacelli, in Hitler's name, that he should order the German +Catholics to drop their hostility to the Nazis in return for, when +they attained power, a favorable Concordat with the Church -- +during his twelve years in Germany Pacelli had tried in vain to get +this -- and that Pacelli accepted is abundantly proved, and most +clearly by the subsequent course of events.

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Early in 1933 the statement was widely repeated. in the German +Press that the bishops, meeting at Fulda, had received instructions +from Rome to abandon the hostility to Hitler and had passed these +on to the clergy. It is further stated in all histories of the time +that in preparation for the March election only Catholics and Nazis +were allowed to organize and appeal to the country. See, in +particular, the account, which will certainly not be accused of +anti-Catholic bias, in Seldes (The Vatican). He adds that one of +the Catholic clerical leaders, Msgr. Kaas, was sent to Rome to +advise Pacelli to agree and that he said of Hitler: "This man, the +bearer of high ideal's, will do all that is necessary to save the +nation from catastrophe."

+ +

I gather that there were already some in the German Church who +were in favor of alliance with Hitler. A few years later one of the +most important priests in Munich died and his funeral was +officially honored by the Nazi government; and in the heat of the +later struggle, when many German Catholics blamed Cardinal +Faulhaber, head of their Church, the Valerist paper, the Irish +Independent (August 13, 1938), which was in close touch with the +clergy, said that "Cardinal Faulhaber was very friendly to National +Socialism in the beginning" -- in other words, until Hitler double-crossed the Vatican. Hitler had by this time begun to wash out any +suspicion that he would, if returned to power, injure the Church. +In one of his first speeches in the Reichstag, on March 23, 1933, +he said that "as we see in Christianity the unshakable foundation +of the moral life so it is our duty to continue to cultivate +friendly relations with the Holy See and to develop them."

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The great majority in the Church could not so easily reconcile +themselves to cooperation with a disreputable bunch of apostates +and sodomists, and there were many complaints in the Catholic press +when the bishops circulated the Papal order to observe at least +benevolent neutrality. The terms of the order are, of course, not +known but we may gather them from the result. The Annual Register +for 1933, says, in recording Hitler's triumph at the election: "The +gigantic swing-over of the Catholic middle-class in West and South +Germany to the Nazi Party broke the power of the old middle-class +Catholic parties, the Center and the Bavarian People's Party" (p. +169). The word "gigantic" will seem misplaced if you look back upon +the electoral statistics I have given. The Catholic vote fell but +not so heavily. But note that the writer is referring only to the +middle class, and it is significant that the Catholic vote fell +even by 20000 when every party feverishly whipped all its +supporters to the poll.

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It is, at all events, another witness to the change of +attitude of the Catholics under ecclesiastical direction, and a +fourth, and still more important witness, is a French priest +writing later in the French Catholic fortnightly, the Revue des +Deux Mondes (January 15, 1935, article "Le catholicisme et la +politique mondiale") and boasting of it as one of the diplomatic +triumphs of the Vatican.

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But surely these witnesses are superfluous in view of the +acknowledged fact that on July 20, 1933, Pacelli proudly signed the +Concordat he had arranged with the Nazis. Does anybody suppose that

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the Nazis' who are now represented as from the start a horde of +irreligious blackguards, went out of their way after they had won +their triumph, to promise Rome that they would respect rights which +it claimed and that were drastically opposed to their principles? +The man who writes history on suspicions and assumptions, cannot +complain if his readers are skeptical, but the apologist who +suggests such things as this must have readers who are incapable of +ordinary judgment. Hitler's aim was to form a totalitarian state in +the most literal sense: a state in which every implement of +instruction or mind-forming should be used by Nazi officials to +instil racial pride and a readiness for aggressive war. Yet the +first thing he does after securing power is to promise a Church +which he hates that it shall control the education of millions of +children, continue to have a press that is pledged to +internationalism and peace, and draft its members into societies +and fraternities for the cult of a Jewish Bible and a Gospel of +Peace. He was carrying out a bargain; but one that he never had the +least intention of honoring in practice.

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We no more say that the Black International put Hitler in +power than we say that it caused the war. We will not even linger +to consider how much influence the Papal policy had amongst the +various corrupt factors that put him in power. The point is that +the Cross embraced the Swastika: the Pope joined the Gang. The +Vatican sold its position as international moral censor as +shamefully as it had sold it to the other partners of the Axis. +Incredible? Then let the apologist quote any Papal condemnations of +the appalling crimes against humanity and civilization that have +been committed every year since Hitler seized power. I decline to +count mild protests against actions which injured the Church.

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The world, bemused by a press which could see nothing in the +future except "the menace of Bolshevism," took little notice of +this at the time. But let it not now be suggested that perhaps +Pacelli himself understood Nazism no more than the majority of +folk. After twelve years in Germany for the single purpose of +studying developments! A few years later editors began to profess +that they wished they could penetrate the secret of Nazi policy. It +was tragicomic. The substantial part of Hitler's program -- it was +expanded when he saw the criminal sluggishness of Fiance and +Britain -- had been for years in Mein Kamph. In 1938 I put in the +form of a program, in Hitler's own words, statements of his aims +which are scattered over, and often repeated in, that immense flood +of twaddle. It will be of use if I reproduce the main part of it +here.

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"We must see that the strength of our people has, its roots, +not in colonies, but in land of our own in Europe (p. 754). The +regaining of our lost provinces cannot be achieved by solemn +appeals to God as pious hopes but only by force of arms (708). The +South Tyrol and our lost provinces can be won back only by a bloody +struggle (708). The most sacred right in the world is the right to +land that you can till yourself and the holiest sacrifice is the +blood you shed for it (755). Our policy in the East [Russia] must +be that we will win more land for the German people. Since we need +strength for this, yet the mortal enemy of our people, France, +strangles us mercilessly, we must make every sacrifice that is

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necessary to destroy the position of France in Europe (757). This +policy can be carried out only by an alliance with England (689). +There, is no English, American, or Italian statesman who was ever +pro-German. Any man who says that we can form alliances with +foreign nations in virtue of a pro-German spirit in the leading +statesmen of those countries is either an ass or a liar (698). The +alliance with England and Italy will enable Germany to make its +case, under the shelter of such a coalition, all the preparations +that are needed for a final settlement with France (755)."

+ +

There, written nearly twenty years ago, is the whole program +of duplicity, callousness, and aggression. As the current +"translation" of Mein Kampf, subsidized by the Nazi government, was +grossly fraudulent. I translated these sentences, which are +expanded and justified at great length in the work, from the 1935 +(mature) edition, and sent them to two editors of radical London +papers, with a circulation of about 4000000 copies, who professed +to be puzzled about Hitler's intentions. Both refused to print my +article, and Britain slumbered and blundered on.

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If any man supposes that Pacelli and the Vatican did not know +the contents of Mein Kampf, which already circulated by the +million, he must have a singularly low estimate of the ability with +which their work is conducted. Before Pacelli put his pen to +parchment the Day of the Long Knife, about which Nazi youth's had +sung chants all over Germany for two years, occurred. More than +100000 Jews, Communists, Socialists, Pacifists, etc., were +barbarously treated and robbed of their possessions and in many +cases their lives. Pacelli amiably continued to work out the +details of his compact with the devil, and the church bells rang +when it was signed. And the German bishops deputed Cardinal Bertram +to assure Hitler that they were "glad to express as soon as +possible" their joy at the agreement and their "sincere readiness +to cooperate to their best ability with the new government" (the +Catholic Universe, August 18, 1933). Hitler's followers, especially +the notorious pervert Roehm and his friends, scorned the concordat +and insulted the Church, and infringements of the agreement began +at once. But when Catholic writers say that Cardinal Faulhaber at +once took a firm stand against the Nazi they gravely mislead their +reader's.

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The sermons which Faulhaber delivered can be read in an +English translation Judaism, Christianity, and Germany, 1933). They +are a painful exhibition of moral cowardice and sycophancy. I have +already quoted the Valerist organ saying that Faulhaber was +favorable to Nazism "in the beginning." It adds that "the fact that +he found it impossible later not to oppose certain elements of +their policy, hurt us as well as annoyed them." What were these +elements? Did he, as a Catholic prelate professes to regard as his +duty, censure Hitler for his perjury in violating his solemn oath +to preserve the Constitution? Did he denounce the brutality of the +attack on Jews and Socialists? Not a word. His attack was purely +theological. The Anti-Semitic language of the Nazis was opposed to +the Catholic doctrine that the Old Testament was inspired and that +Jehovah was the God of Christianity and was incarnated in the Jew +Jesus. The Nazis laughed at him. Rosenberg, who had at that time +some idea that because I admired pre-Nazi Germany I could be won to +support them, sent me a copy of his drastic reply.

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In the preceding book I said that Pacelli at this time wrote +the most severe attack on Hitler that ever carne from a Papal +source. He was engaged in his mission -- not a "good will" mission +but arranging a bloody Fascist reaction -- in South America. From +there he sent to Cardinal Schulte at Cologne a letter in which he +roused German Catholics against the Nazi leaders. "When in Satanic +pride, false prophets arise, pretending to be the bearers of a new +creed," he said, it behooved the faithful to stir themselves, I +cannot trace that the Cardinal passed on the warning to his flock +but, in any case, what was the point of the attack?

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In June (1934) Hitler had surpassed his record of outrage to +date by the infamous Blood Purge in which Catholic leaders like +General von Schleicher and Strasser were murdered together with +Roehm and other notorious perverts. The excuse was a confused plea +that the party had to be morally purified and that there was a Plot +against Hitler. But whereas in the Russian executions, about which +the world press poured out streams of indignation, the conspiracy +was proved in open court after trials which distinguished foreign +lawyers declared unassailable, there was no pretense of a trial in +Germany. Hitler, already under the influence of the semi-insane +egoism that developed after his success, shouted "I am the law and +justice in Germany", and the men -- hundreds of them -- were shot +down in their houses or their cells! Was this what Pacelli +condemned? Not at all. He had heard that the Nazis were helping +Catholics who favored them to found in Germany a National Catholic +Church, acknowledging no obedience to Rome and finding room for +Nazi doctrines. Notice carefully that Pacelli denounces the Nazis +as "pretending to be the bearers of a new creed". So it was with +the protests of the German Catholic bishops which are quoted. They +protested against the increasing violations of the Concordat by +interference with their schools and their Catholic organizations.

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Chapter III

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HOW HE HELPED HITLER IN AUSTRIA

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We shall resume presently the revolting story of how the Pope, +with Pacelli at his elbow, helped Hitler to consolidate his power +in Germany but at this point it is necessary to turn aside and +consider what was happening in Austria. Bavaria is a sister-state +of Austria rather than of Prussia, and from Munich, its capitol, +Pacelli had watched very closely the development in the southern +Republic. It was of absorbing interest from the ecclesiastical +angle. Austria was the only country in the world where a Catholic +priest, Msgr. Seipel, a man of intense loyalty to the Vatican, had +supreme power. During fourteen year's after the war Seipel, a +professor of moral theology and a leader of the Christian Socialist +movement, was either himself Chancellor (President) or the power +behind the Chancellor. He represented the Church, for it at once +transpired that there was as much Socialism in Christian Socialism +as there is science in Christian Science.

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The state was thus a theocracy, the only one in the world +except Thibet, and as such of profound interest to every Vatican +official. This interest was all the greater from the fact that, +while the state was Catholic, its capitol, Vienna, was Socialist +and Atheistic. Socialism and Communism had made the same progress +in Austria after the war and the expulsion of the emperor as they +had made in Germany. In Vienna, Linz, and other industrial towns +the Socialists had outvoted the Catholics and Liberals in the +municipal elections and had won control and carried out their +principles in a civic policy. Two features of their rule must be +noted.

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The first is that the Austrian Socialists were emphatically +anti-Catholic. The well-known amiability (Gutmuthlichkeit) of the +Austrian character saved them from the worst libels of Bolsheviks +that were served upon the world-press, but the fierce hostility to +them of the Church, which made fruitless constitutional efforts to +capture Vienna, hardened their attitude to it. Here every vote cast +for Socialist or a Communist was sternly pronounced a vote against +the Church. "Even to this day," says C.A. Macartney, a +distinguished and conservative scholar of Rambridge University, +"the real battle of Austrian Socialism is directed against the +Church" (The Social Revolution in Austria, 1926, p. 54). And the +Socialists continued to win, large numbers from the Church year +after year and to gain ground in the country. At the 1927 election +they polled 830000 votes outside Vienna and increased their vote +in Vienna by 120000. Is it a mere coincidence that in that year +the Christian Socialist government began to resort to persecution +and violence?

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The second feature was of no interest at all to churchmen but +ought to have been -- and was not -- frankly described in the +press. It is that while Austria as a whole under its clerical +'statesmen' was so badly administered that the League of Nations +had to step in periodically to save it from bankruptcy, Vienna, in +spite of the heavy depression caused by the mutilation of the +country at Versailles, effected a very remarkable social +improvement. I was in Vienna when it took 500 Kronen -- a Krone +used to be worth 50c -- to buy a small apple, and a very small +cake, or the cheapest postage stamp, and half the workers were so +near "starving" that, the police told me, civil war was feared. Yet +after years of this, and still seriously crippled economically, +Vienna made extraordinary progress in education, housing, and other +social reforms. I have described it elsewhere and need say here +only that every impartial social student in Europe acknowledged it. +Macartriey says that in a few months the Socialist Municipal +Council "did more to better the condition of the masses than had +previous decades of legislation from above": Catholic legislation, +you understand, A London daily which is opposed to Socialism said +of this Socialist administration after the Catholics had +treacherously destroyed it that it had been "a model of democratic +government, as close to the ideal platonic Republic as the world +has ever seen" (News-Chronicle, February 12, 1935).

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The British editor was wrong on one point. Vienna was not +closer to the ideal Republic than Moscow, and Madrid and (with +reserves on account of the mass of illiteracy) Mexico City were

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approaching it under Socialist rule. If it seems rash to claim that +this was of no interest from the ecclesiastical angle you have only +to reflect on the facts. Had the Vatican, indeed in this case +Catholics throughout the world, given any consideration to the +actual social fruits of Bolshevism when from 1935 onward they +shrieked for its extinction in Russia, Spain, and Mexico? The laity +were obviously ignorant of the truth. Their Catholic press never +mentioned countries or cities under Socialist rule except to repeat +the most venomous libels about their social condition. Were the +higher clergy equally ignorant? If you can suppose that they were, +you have to conclude that they were blind to every issue but one -- +the wealth and power of the Black International.

+ +

As I have written at length elsewhere, particularly in the +Appeal to Reason Library No. 5., on the development in Austria I +sum up the events briefly, with the addition of a few details that +have since transpired. The most important of these additions is +that we have now to review all these events since 1930 in the light +of Pacelli's scheme to have Socialism destroyed by alliance with +anti-Socialist powers, however criminal and unsavory they might be. +In 1934 his plan was not fully developed. He saw Socialism spread +in Germany but the destructive power was still almost below the +political horizon when he left the country. He saw it spread, with +devastating consequences to the Catholic missions, in China, and he +linked the Papacy with Japan. He saw it in South America and went +there to bring the Church and the wealthy to a practical agreement. +He saw it in Mexico but, for lack of definite evidence, we do not +say that in his visit to the States he encouraged the idea of a +beautiful Catholic-Wall-Street alliance. He saw it in Spain and +promoted the slowly maturing plot to destroy it. He saw it in +Russia, but until 1936 he still dreamed of a friendly alliance with +the Soviet authorities, and it was only when he definitely +abandoned this hope that he gave the Church the slogan: Extinguish +Bolshevism in Russia, China, Mexico and Spain. It was already +extinct, with his assistance, in Germany and Italy.

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In 1933 his plans were still piecemeal, and Austria was the +next obvious, province for his intrigues. By this time it was +evident that in a field of fair propaganda and free discussion the +Socialists won every time, and it could not plausibly be said in +the case of Austria, as it was lyingly said of Italy and Germany, +that Socialism led to distress and disorder. The only serious +criticism I have seen of the fine social work done in Vienna is +that it was financed by foreign loan's which were advanced for a +different purpose. That is false The city council at Vienna never +received any part of the advances. They went to the Christian +Socialist government, which means in large part to the Church. +Vienna paid its way by taxes and a financial system of great +ability.

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There was a special difficulty in the case of Austria: the +mutual jealousy of Mussolini and Hitler, who still hated and +distrusted each other and each wanted control of Austria. The +Vatican favored Italy, especially as before the end of 1933 Hitler +betrayed his duplicity and Austria was predominantly Catholic. In +1931 the Pope, assisted by Pacelli, had issued an Encyclical to the +effect that the Italian corporative state was (especially as it

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bowed to Canon Law, put education under the Church, and heavily +subsidized the clergy) the model for Catholic countries. The +corporative state meant, of course, the destruction of Socialism +and Trade Unions, the workers being drafted into corporations under +the firm hand of Church and State, and the recognition of the +capitalists right of private property (or all the wealth he could +make) with a right of the state to conscript such of the wealth as +it needed. Portugal had adopted the scheme, as France and Spain +have since done.

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Hitler, though he affected to despise the Austrians, was by no +means willing to see it pass under Italian influence or, as the +Catholics wanted, restore the imperial rule, but he was not yet in +a position to force a bargain upon Mussolini. As I quoted, he had +written long before this in Mein Kampf that Germans must win back +by force of arms even the South Tyrol from Italy, which had been +awarded it, at Versailles. This meant the annexation of Austria. He +cynically watched the Church coquetting in Austria with Italian +Fascism. If they chose to destroy Socialism for him, so much the +better. And Socialism was, in spite of its steady progress, doomed +from 1927. It not only mocked the financial ineptness of the +national government but it brought to light a series of grave +scandals in connection with the government and its supporters. +Seipel rallied to his support all the industrialists and landowners +and looked round for a knight in shining armor like Mussolini or +Hitler.

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Prince Starhemberg, a conceited puppy of the type of Ciano or +Suner, but a wealthy noble, chose himself for the part. By Seipel's +treacherous connivance and with Italian assistance he was allowed +to create a private Fascist army, the Heimwehr -- "created in its +final form by Seipel," says the Annual Register, and Seipel did +nothing independently of the Vatican -- which very obviously +intended to attack the Socialists and Communists. In fact, +Starhemberg provoked a clash prematurely, but the Catholic +government had so small a majority in the Reichsrath that it was +beaten. Seipel was driven from the Chancellorship and streams of +Austrians quitted the Church (1933).

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Seipel and the Church put into the Chancellorship a priest-ridden little man of peasant extraction and no particular ability +whom the American press came to glorify as "gallant little +Dollfuss." You may remember how he "stood up to Hitler"; though it +was not clearly explained at the time that in resisting Nazism he +was defending Fascism. In his first budget as Chancellor he +admitted a deficit of $70000000, a colossal sum for so small a +state and after all the loans, and he rarely had a majority of more +than one in Congress. The railway-men, who were very largely +Socialists, disclosed the fact that, against international +agreement, he was allowing Italy to use Austrian railroads to send +arms secretly into Hungary; which also Italy and the Vatican wanted +to make Fascist and allied to Italy. Dollfuss solemnly assured +France and Britain that the traffic should cease, but he secretly +maintained it, and the Socialists again exposed it. So "the +Socialist watch-dog had to be destroyed." That is the language of +the Annual Register in its impartial summary of the events of 1933.

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Dollfuss went to Rome and had long talks with Mussolini and +Pacelli; with, incidentally, a talk to the Almighty in St. Peters. +You will, of course, not for a moment suspect that he discussed +with Pacelli the plot to destroy Austrian Socialism. The Church +never interferes in polities. But the course of the events that +followed the return of Dollfuss to Vienna clearly shows that this +second step in Hitler's march to world-domination was facilitated, +like the first, by the Black International. And in order to avoid +all suspicion of the use of tainted sources I will give a short +summary of these events as they are described, objectively, in the +Annual Rdgister, which certainly does not lean to Socialism or +Atheism.

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Before he had set out for Rome Dollfuss had given a solemn +engagement (his second) to France that he would take no action +against the Socialists for disclosing the Hungarian-Italian +traffic. France and Britain feared Civil war in Austria and were +assured that all parties would be forbidden to store arms. They +were probably aware that both parties were collecting arms, but +while the Fascist Heimwehr was encouraged and made no secret of its +armament, the government took every measure to hamper the +Socialists, who had to store arms very secretly in their model +tenement-blocks. On his return, however, Dollfuss, the idol of the +clergy, disowned his solemn engagements and assumed dictatorial +powers. Mussolini had promised to see him through.

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He closed the Reichsrath (Congress) and announced that Austria +was to be "a corporative authoritative state." He suspended the +Mayor of Vienna and abolished the municipal government or paralyzed +it by cutting off its financial resources. He allowed Starhemberg's +army to take over provincial towns and to show itself openly in +Vienna. There is, in fact, evidence that agents of the Heimwehr +offered to sell pieces of artillery to the Socialists in order to +encourage them to rebel. It wits obvious that they were very +seriously threatened with extinction, but the prospect of success +against the government and the Heimwehr (which had artillery), with +Mussolini in the background, was so poor that there was no +agreement on a plan of revolt when the Catholic Fascists put into +circulation a report that they were in a few days going to enter +the blocks of workers tenements in search of the hidden arms and +Dollfuss publicly supported the Heimwehr, large numbers of the +Socialists and the Communists decided to fight. Dollfuss lied to +the world about the struggle he had provoked. He announced that 137 +men, women, and children were killed. The number was at least 1500. +Eleven of the leaders were executed and 1188 men and women were +imprisoned; and many of these prisoners testified in court that +they were tortured in jail in the traditional and almost invariable +fashion of clerical counter-revolutions. So sordid was this chapter +of Catholic history from beginning to end that the impartial writer +in the Annual Register (1934, p. 194) concludes his account in +these ironic words:

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"At the cost of hundreds if not thousands of lives . . . the +Heimwebr Fascist movement, which was created in its final form by +the late Chancellor Msgr. Ignaz Seipel, achieved in 1934 its oft-proclaimed aim of the destruction of the Social Democratic Party, +their violent ejection from the control of Vienna to which two-

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thirds of the people had elected them, and the sweeping away of +parliamentary government in Austria. Thus culminated the anti-Socialist policy inaugurated by the late Msgr. Seipel in 1926."

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Seipel had died in 1922, and "gallant little Dollfuss" had, +after a visit to the Vatican, carried his policy to its logical +conclusion. Whatever difficulty we may have in some cases in +tracing the intrigues of the Black International there is none +here. The struggle was ecclesiastical. It was directed by priests +and aimed at restoring the power of the Church from beginning to +end. Pacelli had won his first campaign in his war for the +extinction of Bolshevism.

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The Socialists had taken the chief part in the revolution of +1919 against Church and State. It had been, a Socialist historian +says, "the most peaceful and the most humane of all revolutions," +for the successful republicans "had not hurt a hair of anybody's +head." The only error of this writer is his claim that it was a +unique revolution in its humanity. Five democratic revolutions in +Spain during the nineteenth century. several in Italy and Portugal, +and all the revolutions of 1848 had had the same character; and the +Spanish revolution of 1932 had lived up to the democratic +tradition. And the treachery and truculence of the clerical +counter-revolution of 1934 had followed the model of all such +movements. Yet journalists and essayists everywhere continued to +speak of the Reds as dangerously prone to violence and the Church +as the world's noblest guardian of peace, humanity, and justice. +Who are the real Reds?

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The Church followed up its victory with the customary +inhumanity. All funds and buildings belonging to the workers were +confiscated, and the arbitrary arrests of Socialists continued. By +the beginning of 1937 there were 24000 political prisoners, +largely men and women who had had no trial, in the jails of +Austria. In that year Miss Margery Fry, a very sane and respected +British prison-reformer, Wm. Rackham of Cambridge University, and +Professor Kimberg, a high authority on prisons, traveled over +Europe on a tour of inspection. They were not permitted in any +country to see how political prisoners were treated, and were not +allowed to visit any jails in Austria, Italy, Germany, and +Portugal. But they brought back and told in the British press a +horrible story of overcrowded jails in Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, +and Yugo-Slavia, of the use of torture and brutality by jailers and +police, of semi-starvation and cruel conditions, of tens of +thousands who had never had any sort of trial. On the very day on +which I write this a cautious Liberal British paper (News +Chronicle, September 25, 1941), describes just such brutality in +Spanish jails today. And the world-press still refused to see in +these things the shadow of things to come.

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That was the new situation in Austria: overcrowded jails, +refusal of trials, torture, and brutality by Catholic jailers. And +over it all the Church waved its blessing. Cardinal Innitzer issued +a special address to the workers, saying that their Holy Mother the +Church affectionately welcomed them back to the fold. There was not +much tenderness about the process, for the Church at once set up an +intolerable tyranny. Every government employee must attend church

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regularly or be fired. Every teacher must go to confession at least +once in three weeks. The splendid system of education which, to the +admiration of the educational world, the Socialists had created was +destroyed and text books of the most mendacious Catholic type were +substituted. Socialist efficiency was replaced by Catholic-Fascist +inefficiency. Though the worst of the world-depression had now +passed. Austria fell into a condition of semi-famine, and the +priests used even this for their purposes. The Annual Register +tells us that the priests at first refused all foreign aid so as to +"force those in distress to apply to Catholic organizations", and +two Englishmen were arrested for giving money to starving people. +Fifty out of sixty seats on the State Cultural Council were +allotted to Catholics.

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How Pacelli must have rubbed his hands! So did Hitler. On the +ruins of the Socialist-Communist movement the Nazis of Austria +quickly grew in power. They murdered Dollfuss, whom the priests +replaced with the unhappy and purblind Schuschnigg. Hitler drew +nearer to Mussolini and bought off his interest in Austria by +promising him, with his usual brazen dishonesty, that be should not +only have Savoy, Coisica, and Tunis from France and Dalmatia from +Yugo-Slavia but he should continue to be the dominant power in +Hungary and in all countries south of the Danube. That suited +Pacelli. The Catholics of Austria added to the Catholics of Germany +would give the Vatican a stronger hand in its new deals with the +Nazis, and there might be a glorious bloc of Catholic powers from +Portugal (when the new revolution was accomplished in Spain) to +Bulgar. If I were a man of pinity I should be disposed to quote the +old Latin adage: Those whom God wishe's to destroy he first makes +mad. The destruction of Socialism in Austria and enslavement of the +whole country to Cardinal Innitzer was a most beneficent removal of +obstacles to Hitler's annexation of the country. To this and the +share of the Black International in it we will return later.

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Chapter IV

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HITLER EXPOSES THE SHAME OF THE CHURCH

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Pacelli had soon repented of the hasty attack on Hitler which +he had sent from South America to Cardinal Schulte. Apart from weak +complaints that the Nazis did not observe the Concordat and a +sharper note when he saw the Gestapo men annihilating his treasured +Polish Church by castration and other gentle Nazi methods, he has +never condemned Hitler. Certainly he has never condemned Nazi crime +and bestiality as such, though all the world recognizes that he had +a magnificent field for moral censorship. And his restraint, if you +like to call it that, was not due to any better observance of the +Concordat in Germany. On the contrary, Catholic schools and +associations were disappearing. But to challenge Hitler would lead +at once to more drastic treatment of the Church and he must try to +win a compromise.

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An opportunity occurred in 1935. The rich Saar province had at +the Congress of Versailles been entrusted to the League of Nations +-- really to the exploitation of French industrialists -- for 15 +years, and the time had now expired. The inhabitants were to vote +whether or no they would return to Germany. They were +overwhelmingly Catholic so that an issue that was of the greatest +possible importance to Hitler was to be decided by the Church; for +it would be preposterous to suggest that in so delicate a matter +the local hierarchy would act without instructions from the +Vatican. On January 6 the bishops of Speier and Trier, the heads of +the local Church, Issued a letter of instruction that was to be +read in every Catholic Church of the province. Whether or no you +call this interfering in politics they ordered their people to vote +for Hitler. "As German Catholics," they said, "it is out duty to +uphold the greatness, the Welfare, and the peace of our +Fatherland." On the following Sunday, 13th, the voting day, special +prayers were said after Mass for a victory for Hitler (London +Times, January 18). On the same day (18th) the Catholic Times +boasted that Hitler owed his triumph to the Catholics of the Saar, +and it remained to be seen how grateful he would prove. The bells +rang in every Catholic Church when the overwhelming vote in favor +of Hitler was announced; just as they had rung in every Church of +Italy for the triumph of Mussolini.

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Hitler made no change in his policy of ignoring the Concordat. +More Catholic schools and associations were closed, and Cardinal +Faulhaber vaguely threatened in one of his sermons to excommunicate +the Nazi leaders: not for their crimes, of course, but for +interfering with Catholic education. Hitler had directed that +Catholic parents in Munich should vote whether they wanted to send +their children to Catholic or to national schools. As a result of +the vote the pupils attending Catholic schools fell from 36464 to +19266, and the pupil's of Nazi schools rose from 33 to 65 percent +of the whole. Every priest knew that this meant further enormous +leakage from the Church.

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It must have put Pacelli in a painful dilemma when, soon after +this, Hitler demanded a vote of confidence from the entire country. +He had just, in defiance of France and the League of Nations, taken +a very serious step in the realization of his aggressive plan. He +had sent troops to occupy the Rhine provinces which by the terms of +the Treaty were to remain demilitarized. The German people were to +pronounce upon his entire policy: his crimes to date and the +aggressive campaign of which, as everybody knew, the defiance of +Versailles was the first clause.

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One would have thought that here was a fine opportunity to +take refuge in the worn cliche that the Church never interferes in +politic's, but the German hierarchy composed a letter that was to +be read in every Church before the vote was taken. It is one of the +many clerical masterpieces of improper advice masquerading as +evasion, which the last ten years have produced. The bishops +recognized the painful dilemma of the faithful. If they voted for +Hitler they might seem to approve of various "measures antagonistic +to the Church" which he had ordered. So they are free to vote as +they will. But if any of them care to vote for Hitler they could do +so with a clear conscience by saying to themselves: "We give our

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vote to the Fatherland but that does not signify approval of +matters for which we could not conscientiously be held responsible" +(Catholic Times, March 27, 1936). In other words, Vote for Hitler. +We recognize the accents of Pacelli-Pius.

+ +

The vote of confidence was a farce as such. The point of +interest is that the Black International which had helped to put +Hitler in the saddle in 1933 still supported him in spite of all +his outrages and his open menace to the world's peace. This was in +gratitude for favors to come, and it is one of the most acute +ironies of the time that while the priests were instructing the +Catholic laity in the moral acrobatics by which they could vote for +Hitler that most brazen of adventurers since Caesar Borgia was +actually at work on a measure that would deal the German Church and +the Papacy the most terrible blow they had suffered since Luther +had nailed his theses to the Church door at Wittenberg.

+ +

This was the revelation that monasteries which were +represented in Catholic literature -- even in works that circulated +in America -- as fragrant gardens of piety and virtue were +cesspools of moral perversity and that the vice was widespread +amongst the parochial clergy. I have given an account of the early +stages of this exposure in the Haldeman-Julius booklet Vice in +German Monasteries (1937), which is, as far as I can ascertain, the +only lengthy account in the English language. Had so spectacular an +exposure, on so vast a scale, been made in regard to any other body +or Church than the Roman Catholic the press would have erupted into +its largest scare-type and its warmest moral indignation. Such is +the backstairs influence of the Black International in America and +Britain that journalists had to suppress, or publish lies about +the greatest sensation of the year 1936. Here let me round off the +story and set it in the light of later disclosures.

+ +

All that the great majority of Americans knew about the matter +was that Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago, as part of his indictment +of the Nazis for persecuting the Church -- which was itself +conducting a far worse persecution in Poland and Austria and soon +would be in Spain -- charged them with fabricating an atrocious +libel against the German clergy and said that of the 25635 priests +of Germany only 58, or a quarter of 1 percent, had been arrested on +a vice-charge. This was a statement (which no one in America could +cheek) made by the German bishops, and it was an audacious evasion, +if not untruth. The B.U.P. and Reuter message which conveyed the +words of the bishops added, significantly, that "eleven Roman +Catholic priests were arrested in Munich this week-end" and told of +two other arrests for assaults on little girls a few days later. +The figure is preposterous but the implication is worse. The +"thousands" of offenders of whom the Nazis spoke were not priests. +They were monks or what the Catholic calls lay brothers.

+ +

The difference is important. Priests in Germany as in America +have parochial duties, an important part of which is visiting homes +in the husband's absence and being visited by girls and women, like +ministers of other denominations. All of them have female domestic +servants in their houses. When they are disposed to violate their +vow of chastity they have ample opportunities, and of this sort of +indulgence the German law takes no more cognizance than the

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American law does, as long as they do not seduce minors under their +charge. Their circumstances do not particularly incline them to +sodomy. It is in the monastic communings, especially of lay (or +non-priest) brothers, who are devoted to teaching and the care of +the sick, mentally feeble, etc., that the pretense of special +holiness breaks down. The word "monk" is not a technical but +popular word, and it is applied to these in Catholic literature. +The large communities and work of charity are particularly +recommended in Catholic literature as proof of the Church's +inspiration, and they and the nuns number, or numbered, ten's of +thousands in Germany. Those of the Franciscan Order were +particularly praised, and the largest community of them, at +Waldbreitbach, in Westphalia, were described as a holy institution +to which no other religion could show a parallel.

+ +

It was just here, at Waldbreitbaeb and other Franciscan +communities, that the police were busy gathering evidence at the +very time when the bishops were telling Catholics to vote for +Hitler, and proof was accumulating that these holy places were not +only comprehensively but revoltingly corrupt. Father-confessors +seduced for years the young novices who came in. Monks confessed in +the witness-box how on the holiest days (when all monks feed and +drink most) they reeled along the corridors to the chapel and +halted in dark corners I have told all that from their own +confessions in court. There is nothing like it in Boccaccio or +Rabelais; and it had been going on for an indefinite time. There +had been prosecutions early in the century, but in those days one +quickly let the Catholic curtain fall again if it revealed anything +nasty.

+ +

One point only must be repeated here. The charge that the +trials of the monks were travesties of justice, on a level with the +Berlin trial of the Communists for the burning of the Reichstag, is +entirely false. The public is apt to assume this, since the Nazi +variety of justice is notorious and the plain man has no means of +checking statements about Germany. But men like Mundelein or the +German-American priests who assisted him must have known better. +One such priest visited Germany to ascertain "the truth" in 1938 +and lingering in Britain to communicate this personally ascertained +"truth" to the British press -- and Catholics, as usual, got +replies to him excluded from the press -- he returned in triumph to +America. His verdict was just what Mundelein said: Less than 60 +priests in Germany had been prosecuted, and the rest was Nazi +fabrication. This priest knew that the German bishops from whom he +got his figure admitted the depravity in monasteries's of religious +brothers, that the Vatican also admitted it by suppressing whole +provinces of them for irregularity of conduct, and that the +Catholics of Germany fully admitted it.

+ +

There can be very little doubt that Hitler directed the +prosecution. He knew that he had in this epidemic of vice a ground +that would go very far even in the eyes of Catholics to justify his +refusal to honor the terms of the Concordat he had signed. But he +also knew that he would give the bishops a means to stir the +Catholic body bitterly against him instead of winning its support +unless such charges were proved beyond cavil. He took care that +this was done.

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The arrests and trial's were, in the first place, almost +entirely in the Catholic provinces where these communities are most +numerous and, as it proved, most vicious; as the small communities +in Protestant provinces are as critically watched as in America and +Britain. All the police-officials charged with the preliminary +inquiries and the arrests were Catholics and the courts +predominantly Catholic. Every witness against the monks was a +Catholic, and nearly every one of the accused pleaded guilty, +blaming the morbid conditions of the life and the drunkenness that +was permitted. The trials were held, in the normal form, in the +high courts of the capitals of these Catholic provinces (mostly +Cologne, Bonn, Coblentz, and Munich) and were reported daily in the +chief papers of the provinces, which have three Catholic reader's +to one non-Catholic; and these papers fully sustained the verdicts +and admitted the guilt.

+ +

Are these just Nazi allegations? Not at all. During 1936 and +1937 I followed the trials in these papers -- effectively, Catholic +papers -- chiefly the Koinische Zeitung and the Westfalische Kurier +checked by Berlin and Munich papers, and got the details from them. +They even sometimes rapped their own prelates on the knuckle's for +trying to gloss over or deny the ugly facts. I read fairly lengthy +reports of scores of individual trials of monks, priests (sometimes +of high rank), and even a nun (for seducing boy-pupils). Nine out +of ten of the monks were convicted of sodomy, as were most of the +priests, though some were charged with indecent relations with +young girls (down to 12 or 13) and were proved by their +parishioners to have done this over a period of many years.

+ +

The charge was generally sodomy, and this, as I said, fully +explains why there were, comparatively, so few priests. Fornication +is not an offence in law, and so the priests do not as a rule come +under the notice of the police. There were a few arrests of zealous +priests for attacking the government (over the Concordat) in +sermons and many prosecution for smuggling currency out of Germany. +The police found that the Church used demure looking nuns and +venerable friars, their holy costumes stuffed with notes, to make +a profit in the sternly forbidden exchange-transactions or to +smuggle money to Rome. But in the overwhelming majority of cases +the charge was sodomy, and the next most frequent charge the +corruption of young girls. The World Almanac for 1939 says (p. +236):

+ +

"Up to October, 1938, more than 8000 Catholic monks and lay +brothers had been arrested by Nazi officials, approximately 50 +percent of the 16000 members of German monasteries, on various +charges, including immorality, sedition, breaches of exchange laws, +abuse of the pulpit, collecting fund's without government +permission, or failure to fly the Swastika flag on national +monuments. Forty-five monks, 176 lay-brothers, and 21 monastery +employees were sentenced on immorality charges: 188 priests were +acquitted or released without trial."

+ +

It is pleasant to find that an American publication had the +courage to print so much -- no British publication had, and I +failed to get a publisher for a book -- but the details are +misleading. "Arrested by Nazi officials" does not mean the Gestapo,

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but, generally, Catholic policemen and officers. The list of +charges is misleading because sodomy far outnumbered the others; +and the last sentence is particularly unfortunate. Over the period +of nearly two years in which I followed the trials 90 percent were +for vice, and very few of the accused escaped, and then only in +virtue of an earlier amnesty. Many of these were priest-monks, +though of the 400 Franciscan monks of the Westphalian province, who +were the first to be arraigned, 61 (mostly the directing priests +and superiors) got secret warning and fled the country (many to +Rome), which left a disproportion of priests to monks in the 276 +who were arrested. The province was found to be wholly corrupt and +the Pope abolished it after a few trials. The non-monastic priests +who were arrested were scattered over Germany and only casually +mentioned in the press, but of the cases I collected nine-tenths +again were for vice (boys and little girls), hardly one in ten was +acquitted. Later there were more numerous arrests for "sedition" or +criticism of the "persecution of the Church".

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Chapter V

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THE POPE CONTINUES TO COURT HITLER

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Hitler is a rotten speaker: raucous in voice, graceless in +gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not +"personal magnetism" that makes him a power with the young -- the +older are mostly driven to his gatherings -- but a belief in his +genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate +and most persistent boosting. The most effective speech he ever +made was on January 1, 1939, when he replied to the Vatican and +world-complaint that he persecuted the Church. There was, of +course, a fallacy in his argument. Unquestionably he wanted to +change the Catholic Church in Germany in a sense which the Vatican +could not possibly accept and of this he said nothing, but his +direct reply to the charge of persecution of religion was +effective.

+ +

The German government has always subsidized the Churches but +Hitler had more than trebled the subsidy. Between 1933, when he +took office, and 1938 it rose from 150000000 Marks to +500000000 a year. What was your subsidy to the Churches, he +asked of France, Britain, an America? He had never closed a church, +and he left the Roman Church the richest land-owner in south and +west Germany. It drew 1500000000 Marks a year from its property +alone. (German papers give its wealth as $20000000000). All that +he asked was that priests should behave themselves as respectably +as other citizens. "Paederasty and the corruption of children," he +said, "are punished by law like other crimes in this state." The +roars of applause in this case expressed the sentiment of +practically the whole of Germany.

+ +

And the Black International knew it. In foreign countries they +dare not stake their case on the question whether the vice-trials +were or were not genuine. An impartial press-inquiry would soon +settle that. They preferred to use their censorship of the press to

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prevent any mention of them or to confuse the public with a vague +charge of persecution and talk about smuggling currency and +criticizing the Nazis. I cannot speak for the American press but as +far as I could ascertain no British paper even mentioned the +Sensational trials that were spread over 1936 to 1938 and then +extended to Austria. Was there ever such self-denial on the part of +newspaper men? You know why.

+ +

At the Vatican and in Germany this was clearly recognized. The +trials had begun at the end of May (1936). After ten trials the +Pope suppressed the Westphalian province of the Franciscan Order, +its largest and richest province, for irregularity: a step without +precedent in modern times and so grave that only a desperate hope +of disarming Hitler can have prompted it. But the trials went on +until the influx of foreigners for the Olympic Games made it +advisable to suspend them. Some of these foreigners might be able +to read German and learn how monks of pure Aryan blood talked +indecency to children under ten on the steps of their houses, raped +helpless youths in their hospitals . . . In the period of +suspension, with 260 friars still in prison awaiting trial, the +bishops, who probably knew how far the search for culprits would +reach -- for evidence had been given in court that youths had +reported the matter to ecclesiastical authorities and been silenced +-- approached Hitler. The British press reported in August that +they had conferred with Hitler on the "currency-charges" against +priests and monks. There were then few currency-charges but +hundreds of vice-charges, so we know what they wanted; especially +as there was nothing to protest against in the fines for smuggling +currency.

+ +

Next month the bishops, now clearly under Pacelli's orders, +made a fresh attempt. On September 12, 1936, the Nazionale Zeitung +published a copy of a letter from the bishops to the faithful which +was to be read in all the Catholic Churches of Germany next day. It +trusted that Hitler would bury the past and admit Catholics to +cooperate with him in the fight against the ever-increasing threat +of world-Bolshevism which shows its sinister hand in Spain, Russia +and Mexico. As they added that "guns are not enough to fight the +Bolshevik danger -- a sound lead is necessary to secure victory," +they very clearly wanted Hitler to crush Bolshevism in Russia by +war and so consecrated his program of aggression. And as these +words of theirs are an echo of words that the Pope had used a few +weeks earlier it is obvious that Pacelli was the author. He had at +last, in the summer of 1936, matured his program and found his +slogan: the extinction of Bolshevism in Russia, Spain, and Mexico. +Sometimes to give respectability to his Japanese alliance, he added +-- China. As I have earlier said, the A.F.L. defeated his plan to +get America to attack Mexico, but it remains true that he wanted +the war. The rest of his slogan stands. He was pledged to support +the plans of aggressive war of Germany, Italy, and Japan, the +foulest nations on earth.

+ +

Hitler ignored the bishops, but Pacelli still pressed. On +November 4 the Times reported that Mussolini was pressing Hitler to +come to terms with the Vatican, as this would not only give him +more weight in the "clerical state" which Franco was to set up in +Spain but would help him in his designs on Austria: a hint at the

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part the Church would play when the time came to annex that +country. Mussolini was at this time a practicing Catholic once +more. Also he had begun, with the enthusiastic support of the Black +International his brutal campaign in Abyssinia and his hypocritical +action in Spain.

+ +

A week later (Times, November 13, 1936) Hitler had a request +for an interview from Cardinal Faulhaber. He received him +grudgingly and more or less secretly, and when the Cardinal put +before him the request of the bishops and asked in return for the +control of Catholic education by the Church, the Minister of +Education, whom, Hitler had invited to be present, advised him to +refuse. The Churches were, he insisted, negligible allies, as they +had lost their power over men's minds in many part of the world." +The offer of the Church was refused, and the destruction of +Catholic schools, as new vice-trials of the religious teachers gave +a pretext, and associations continued.

+ +

Nevertheless the Vatican remained on such terms with Germany +that when, in March, 1937, there was a mild rebuke of breaches of +the Concordat in a new encyclical and Mundelein continued his +violent campaign in America, the German government sent a complaint +to Rome. Catholics boasted that the Vatican refused to listen, but +there was no breach. Indeed, a month later Count Preysing, the +aristocratic Catholic bishop of Berlin, addressed another appeal to +Hitler (Times, July 3, 1937). It is in this that we get the +admission of monastic corruption. It said that the bishop's "do not +deny that in certain orders of lay brothers many members had been +drawn into a sphere of serious moral perversities." Perhaps one +could not expect a more strongly worded admission from such a +source, but the shifting of responsibility from the priests to the +lay brothers is very misleading. These lay brothers of the +Franciscan Order, of whom nearly 300 in one province were arrested +for sodomy, were under the direct authority of the clerical heads +of the Order, were periodically examined by representatives of +those authorities and were in each monastery ruled by a number of +priest-monks. Evidence was given by the brothers in the trials that +the epidemic of vice had been reported to the authorities in these +periodical examinations which are (of the most intimate character) +and no notice had been taken.

+ +

There was no modification of the Nazi policy. In December the +Pope feebly complained to his cardinals, when they came to him with +their Christmas greetings, of the persecution in Germany. The +excuse was, he said, that the Church interfered in polities. Even +the cardinals must have smiled when the aged and not very clear-headed Pope went on to say that "no fair-minded man" could Say that +the Church ever interfered in politics. A few month's earlier he +had summoned the powers to crush by war the kind of government +which the people of Spain and Mexico had freely chosen and +supported at every election: the form of government which, whatever +its beginning, had won the support of the entire Russian people, as +all the world now realizes. At that very moment the Vatican was +working with its murderous allies to change the political form of +Spain, had mercilessly intervened in polities in Austria for years, +had given, its blessing to the enslavement of the Abyssinian +people, and had helped to establish Fascism in South America.

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One might have expected that in these circumstances the Papacy +would assert what was left of its moral dignity and abandon the +dishonoring opportunism that had characterized its relations with +the brutal Nazis since 1932. On the pretty theory of the Papacy +which is put before the world its duty was to denounce the crimes +of Nazi Germany and the menace to the world of its naked ambition +and let German Catholics take such punishment from the criminals as +Catholics are supposed to endure with heroism rather than bow the +knee to iniquity.

+ +

It may be objected that at the most we can accuse Pacelli, who +was entirely responsible for the policy of the senile Pontiff, of +an error of judgment in a grave dilemma. That would be a +misrepresentation of the position. He clung to his German, Italian, +and Japanese allies, not singly to avert persecution from Catholics +in their dominions -- and we must remember that even in this the +real concern of the Black International is the loss of members +under the strain -- but because his policy coincided with theirs. +When the time comes for China to recover its territory, as it +surely must come if the poison is to be got out of the veins of the +world, Roman Catholic influence in the Far East will be very justly +restricted. The Vatican has irretrievably pledged itself to the +Japanese bully. in Italy it is not less firmly pledged to the +support of Mussolini. What Cardinal Hinsley said, that if Mussolini +falls the "cause of God" - of the Black International -- falls, +remains true. Socialism would get control of Italy, and the time +has gone by for triumphant democrats to handle with kid gloves the +reactionary elements that have shed blood whenever they temporarily +recovered power; besides that Fascist Italy is indispensable to the +Pope's fantastic plan of a great bloc of Fascist-Catholic powers to +offset the influence of the democracies, or their rich Catholic +minorities, in the Church.

+ +

And beyond all this is the Church's indispensable need of a +Fascist atmosphere in any state in which it is to flourish. As I +have shown, the apparent progress of the Church in such democracies +as America and Britain is a fallacy. Not only does it lose instead +of advancing if the birth rate is taken into account, but migration +from backward Catholic countries is the adequate explanation of the +apparent progress. In France, where there has been no such +immigration on a large scale, the membership of the Church fell in +30 years from 30000000 to about 5000000 when (in 1871) the +country became a democracy; and it was the same in Italy and Spain +as long as they were democracies. There is not a single exception +to the law that free discussion is fatal to the Roman system. Its +effect is merely modified in America and Britain by the conspiracy +of the Black International to intimidate editors, publishers, +booksellers, librarians, etc., and the drastic law that. Catholics +shall not read critics of the Church.

+ +

Hence in Germany a policy that is purely ecclesiastical and +takes no account of moral and social considerations has to cling at +all cost and in spite of all rebuffs to the hope of disarming the +hostility of the Nazis and helping to maintain them in power. Both +the rebuffs and the policy of appeasement continued. On October 15, +1938, the Volkischer Beobachter, a recognized Nazi organ, said: "We +are armed to continue the battle against Catholicism to the point

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of total annihilation." Vice-prosecutions multiplied, and the Nazis +called for, and would presently obtain, the suppression of all +Catholic schools in Bavaria. And remember that while Catholic +influence in America could, by getting the essential facts +concealed from the American public, represent this as a piece of +wanton persecution of religion, every German knew that it was done +on the ground judicially established in hundreds of cases, that the +most respecter Catholic teachers, the brothers who were vowed to +chastity and asceticism, were corrupt and corruptors. The +philanthropic institutions-schools, orphanages, infirmaries, etc., +of which the Church had been so proud were taken over by the +authorities and entrusted to laymen.

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I am in this booklet confining myself to Germany so that the +reader may get a clear view of the strange situation in that +country insofar as it concerns the Church. It must, however be +understood that the humiliation of the proud Church in 1938 was far +greater than we realize if we restrict our attention to Germany. In +Spain the Vatican and the Nazis were actually cooperating in that +holy war for the extinction of Bolshevism, which was now Pacelli's +ruling passion. In Austria and Czecho-Slovakia the Black +International rendered even more useful service than cooperation. +It prepared the way for those bloodies's triumphs of the Nazis +which history will record to the deep shame of the western +democracies; the triumphs of lying by which Hitler preserved his +armies for the attack on France, Britain, and Russia and gradually +pressed all the rest of Europe into the position of bleeding slaves +in his war-galley. How the Vatican helped him to do this, and how +Pacelli became Pope in 1939 and contemplated the ghastly +consequences of his policy yet persisted in it while the whole +civilized and free world was filled with moral indignation will be +told in a later book.

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THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 4

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THE VATICAN BURIES INTERNATIONAL LAW

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HOW MUSSOLINI AND THE YELLOW BROTHER +GOT THEIR SHARE

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by Joseph McCabe

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HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATION +GIRARD -- : -- KANSAS

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CONTENTS

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CHAPTERS

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I The Church's Record In Spain ........ 5

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II Enter First and Second Murders +Under the Papal Banner ......... 11 +III Spain and the Catholic League ....... 16

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IV Papal Cowardice in Abyssinia -- And Why ... 22

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V The Jap Gets a Gold Medal for His +'Chinese Incident' ............. 28

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I

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THE CHURCH'S VILE RECORD IN SPAIN

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Some years ago I strolled on a summer day through the drowsy +streets of Toledo, an ancient city in the center of Spain. A +thousand years ago it was one of the richest and most populous +cities in Europe. More than a quarter of a million vivid, +prosperous, bright-eyed folk had filled its narrow streets and +bought luxuries from every part of the world in its teeming stores. +Such was the fame of its craftsmen that the "Toledo Blade" was +sought from end to end in Europe and is still famous in literature. +How high Spain would have risen if men had continued to build on +that superb foundation of that old Moorish civilization! But in +1923 I found only 30000 folk, mostly poor and illiterate, living +within the ancient walls; and I smiled sadly, when, as I passed +along the almost deserted streets, a boy offered to show me where +his ancestors had hanged "those wicked devils the Moors." It is +worse today.

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It was the history of Spain and its Church in a phrase, Spain +inherited all the stupendous wealth and science of the Arab +civilization, one city of which could have bought up, ten times +over, all the cities of Christian Europe, and to this it had added +all the wealth it had acquired by the discovery of America. It was +literally choking with wealth by the middle of the sixteenth +century. And little more than a hundred years later it was the +poorest, most despised country in the world. About 5000000 folk, +most of them ragged and unkempt, eked out a poor living on soil +that had given rich sustenance to 30000000 Arabs and their +contented subjects. For this awful downfall, one of the saddest in +history, and for all the later disasters that fell upon one of the +most attractive peoples in Europe, the Black International is +supremely responsible.

+ +

By the beginning of the twentieth century Spain had raised its +proud head once more amongst the nations. It had a fine literature +and a rising prosperity. The cities that had shrunk within the +shell of ancient walls were bursting through these in the +exuberance of the life. The people smiled again, like the roses of +Seville in spring. They had for 80 years fought the strangle-hold +of the Church and had loosened if not broken it. A distinguished +literary traveller, Thirlmere, went intimately amongst the people +and wrote this verdict: "The Church knows that she is doomed in +Spain" (Letters from Catalonia, 1905, p. 437). Mr. Thirlmere ought +to have been more cautious. He ought to have added: "Unless she can +return to her old policy of violence and torture." She has +recovered it. Today Spain is back in the ragged Middle Ages, its +people begging food of other nations -- in a land which, with the +crude plows and other implements of a thousand years ago, had +richly nourished 30000000 folk and borne princely cities -- their +minds darkened, their hearts broken. And it is the work of the +Black International: of the bishops, priests, monks, and nuns, who +have returned to their old sleekness while the people have returned +to their poverty

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In an earlier work I referred to certain evidence of +government by violence, indeed brutal violence, in Spain today. It +may not have appeared in the American press, owing to the Catholic +censorship, and it is material to compare it with the suave +professions of Catholic apologists and the beautiful words they +quote from Papal encyclicals. It is a simple account of the +experiences of a French girl, apparently a Catholic, of nineteen +who escaped from the purgatory of Vichy France into what she calls +the "hell" of Franco Span. It was published (as it makes no +reference to the Church) in the British News-Chronicle, a paper +that is very sensitive to Catholic influence, on September 24 +(1941).

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Mlle. X was arrested soon after she crossed the frontier and +was put in jail at Badajoz. She was lodged in a large room with +about 250 women, "an appalling mixture": prostitutes, thieves, so-called Communists, etc. "Most of the prisoners were in rags, +filthy, and covered with vermin." There were no mattresses or +blankets for the night. After two days she was brought before the +Governor of Badajoz and, without trial or inquiry, sentenced to an +indefinite term of imprisonment. She claimed that she was of +British nationality, and a few days later, she was taken before the

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prison director: a "brute", she says, who bullied her for two +hours, told her she was "a dirty little liar" and sent her "back to +hell." Every evening all the prisoners were assembled in the +courtyard and compelled to sing the Falangist anthem and at the +close cry lustily: "Long live Spain. Up with Free Spain. Franco, +Franco, Franco." The jailers lashed with whips any woman who did +not join heartily in the chorus. The girl endured several weeks of +this and she was then taken before a British Consul to prove her +claim of nationality. She was removed to a jail at Seville, which +was "worse than Badajoz" (which she describes as hell), removed +back to Badajoz, and removed to Madrid, where she bad a solitary +dark and freezingly cold cell; and all the time officers "tried to +be as cruel as they could to me", jeering at her as a Communist spy +and assuring her she would never leave Spain. These Spanish +gentlemen had her before them standing for two to three hours every +morning. A girl in the next cell one day cried, "Live, live, +Liberty, Long live England". She was taken out and beaten, and +presently there were shots in the courtyard. every day such shots +were heard. One less of those who refused to bow to the Church.

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I gather that this girl was not British, but the British +authorities humanely lied, and admitted her claim of nationality, +and rescued her. But think of the thousands of women and girls, and +the tens of thousands of youths and men, suffering this living hell +in the jails of Badajoz and Seville and Madrid and a hundred +others, after fighting heroically for three years in the cause of +freedom. And the Catholic press assures you, the Vatican Assures +all the world, and far too much of the world-press repeats the +assurance or refuses to disturb it, that Spain has now resumed its +beautiful, happy life in the arms of Mother Church; and won't you +please contribute for the alleviation of the misery which the +wicked Reds had brought upon the country. So it was in the +beginning -- or nearly 500 years ago, when the Church recovered +power -- is now, and never again shall be. Do you really wonder if +in the heat of the hundredth struggle against the Church in 1936-1938 some of the men who knew the long record of brutality and knew +how the priests were using the callous and ambitious Franco to +recover their mastery of the jails, shot a few of them and trampled +on their 'sacred' vestments and other paraphernalia of their trade?

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It is nearly forty years since I began writing on Spain and +its Church, and the truth which I told was not a collection of +obscure and disputed facts resting upon the testimony of Radicals +and Reds. My first scalding indictment of the Church and the +cleric-controlled state (The Martyrdom of Ferrer, 1909) was fully +endorsed and whole pages of it translated in the following year by +one of the most distinguished scholars of Madrid University, +Professor Simarro, in his voluminous study of the trial (El Proceso +Ferrer). What I claimed for the Arab civilization (The Splendor of +Moorish Spain 1935) is based upon the works of half a dozen Spanish +professors who are masters of Arabic and is no more than S.P. Scott +claims in America in his 'Moorish Empire in Spain.' And the +appalling story I gave of the struggle with the Church since 1814 +is fully and truly told in such standard and conservative works as +the Cambridge Modern History (Vol. XI) and Major M. Hume's 'Modem +Spain' (in the Story of Nations series). Yet every time the long +blood-soaked struggle is renewed in Spain the public is puzzled and +is ready to admit every Catholic lie about the innocent Church and +its "satanic" enemies. I must repeat a few points. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +3 +. +THE VATICAN BURIES INTERNATIONAL LAW

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On the broad map of our chaotic world Spain seems to be of +limited importance. In the fevered and crowded chronicle of events +during the last five years its recent Civil War and the conquest of +it by that unholy alliance of Catholic armies and Nazi-Fascist +butchers seems to be just the third step -- after the disarming of +Austria and the rape of Abyssinia -- in the preparation of the +stage for the Nazi aggression. But in a study of the share of the +Black International in the world-tragedy it is supremely important; +and it is to Spain, with which it hopes to link Spanish America +once more, that the Vatican chiefly looks for the destruction of +our modern liberty and enlightenment by a bloc of Catholic powers.

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As far as the last century is concerned it is not necessary +here to do more than repeat in a more definite form what I said in +the first book of this series: that in Spain, as in Portugal and +Italy. "Reds" have always been the clergy and their allies. The +revolution which put Franco in power in 1938 is the tenth major +revolution that has occurred in Spain since the days of Napoleon. +In six of these the people wrested power, in five cases out of six +without war, from the clerical-royalists. Every member of the +Bourdon dynasty of Spanish monarchs except Alfonso XII, who died +prematurely, has been ignominiously driven from Spain for his or +her crimes and vices at one time or other. In four counter-revolutions the clerical-royalists recovered power, either by force +or by perjury or a mixture of the two. These four counter-revolutions, in which the Church was as busy as the state, were +followed by official reprisals of so brutal a character that +between 50000 and 100000 unarmed Spaniards were executed or +killed in jail and many hundreds of thousands suffered agonies. The +six popular revolutions were, nevertheless, never followed by +official reprisals, and the spontaneous local outbreaks in which +the exploited workers burned churches and killed a few priests and +monks were checked by the authorities.

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All that may be read in Hume's standard history of the +Cambridge Modern History, I have told the relevant facts in my +'Revolt in Spain' (1931) and given a condensed account in the +'Appeal to Reason' Library (No. 1). There is just one point of this +past history which I would recall, as Catholic writers are now apt +to say that all this butchery was perpetrated by the state, and +even that the clergy tried to check it. Major Hume, the highest +recent authority on Spain, describing the counter-revolution of +1822, says (Modern Spain, p. 256):

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Modern civilization has seen no such instance of brutal, +blind ferocity as that which followed the arrival of Ferdinand +at Madrid. There was neither justice nor mercy in the +government of the besotted churchmen who surrounded the King. +The gallows was the sole instrument and argument by which they +ruled . . . The frenzy of intolerance and cruelty spread from +the preaching friars and ignorant nobles to the brutal mob. . +. . It is a lamentable truth that much of the atrocities of +this persecution was owing to the influence of the friars and +the Church. A hideous ecclesiastical society, founded by the +Bishop of Osuna and called "The Exterminating Angel", which +spread its ramifications. all over Spain organized vengeance +upon Liberals; every pulpit, every monastery, every royalist +club, was a center of persecution.

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That Hume was no friend of radicalism is shown in his remark +that they surpassed "even the most bloodthirsty wretches of the +French Reign of Terror", and he has to confess that the man who +"surpassed all previous efforts, even in this blood-thirsty reign" +was the very pious and priest-ridden Count de Espana.

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It is enough that these horrors were perpetrated by an +intimate alliance of the clergy and the servants of a King, +Ferdinand VII who in his depravity is compared by historians to +Nero; and about the same time even worse butchery was being +perpetrated in South Italy by the same alliance of the clergy with +his namesake and rival in vice, Ferdinand of Naples. Both Kings had +recovered power by a most solemn oath on the Bible during Mass to +observe the Constitution -- Ferdinand of Naples had asked God to +strike him dead if he was not sincere -- and both were absolved +from their oaths the bishops and the Jesuits and encouraged to +wallow in blood. Eighty years later Alfonso XIII stood at the +perjured altar amidst the crowd of bishops and took this solemn +oath: "I swear before God and his holy gospels to maintain the +Constitution". And the priests were silent when the old fortress of +Monjuich again resounded with the cries of tortured men and the +reports of rifles: when Alfonso, to check the threatened revelation +of his theft of millions of dollars -- see Alfonso XIII Unmasked, +by the greatest Spanish writer of the time, Blasco Ibanez -- tore +up the Constitution and set up the dictatorship of the brutal and +dissipated General de Rivers. Spaniards know these things. After +the revolution of 1931 a splendid system of education was created, +and freedom of discussion carried the truth into villages and +workshops. Did some soldier, worker here and there, knowing these +things and seeing the priests conspiring with the perjured Franco +and the butchers of Germany, lose his temper and run his bayonet +through one or two of them? I should not be surprised. But remember +that at present we have only Catholic statement's about Red +outrages in the Civil War.

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We know what Catholic literature is, but we have also here a +close parallel to guide us. The world-press was inundated with +similar Catholic stories of Red outrages after the Socialist-Communist revolt of 1934. Fortunately, Spain had not yet passed +completely under the control of the Black International, and, +though some investigators like, Lord Listowel and Ellen Wilkinson, +were obstructed at every turn and soon politely conducted to the +frontier, others got through; and there were weighty and +unassailable Spanish investigations to which I will return later. +Here let me just quote an incident from Leah Manning's What I Saw +in Spain (1934).

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The mother-superioress of a convent was pressed to testify +that her nuns had been raped by the Red's. As it was false, she +refused. I gather, in fact, that the only outrage committed was to +the delicate ears of the nuns, as the insurgent miners who had +taken over the convent as a hospital were not very refined in their +talk to each other. Probably many of the nuns were disappointed. A +Catholic will reflect that here at least I confess to the honesty +of a nun. As not always admitted that there are some good men +amongst the priests and plenty of good nuns the world over! The +more important question that any impartial reader will ask himself

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is whether this particular superioress, out of hundreds, is likely +to have been the only one to be pressed by the priests and Catholic +journalists to make a charge of outrages and reminded that the good +of the Church is paramount.

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These stories remind us of that historian of the Russian +Revolution. L. Lawton, much quoted by Catholics, who tells how in +the Civil War of 1919-1921 the sadistic Bolsheviks slaughtered 1275 +archbishops and bishops, when even the Catholic Encyclopedia +confesses that there were only about 80 in the entire country. But +we will return later to these things. Let me lead up briefly to the +immediate causes of the Civil War in Spain.

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In view of its disreputable record the Bourbon dynasty was +irretrievably lost in Spain when, in 1931, Alfonso was compelled to +abdicate and fled for the frontier. For two years after that date +the opposition to the Republican government came overwhelmingly +from the Church. Municipal election's in Spain gave a little more +freedom of expression than general elections, which have been very +corrupt ever since the Conservative-Liberal alternation of crops +began to flourish in the parliamentary field. It was a striking +victory of the republicans and anti-clericals at the municipal +elections of 1931 that caused Alfonso, after a fruitless attempt to +get the army to fight for him, to tuck his tail between his legs +and run. The urban or educated Spaniard's had voted against, him by +three to one, and it was only in the cities that voting was free +and the counting of votes honest. Even in a pro-Catholic history +like Professor E.A. Peers's 'Spanish Tragedy' (1936) we find it +admitted that there, was "gerrymandering in the country districts +on a large scale." It used to be of the pleasantries of Spanish +political life -- it is this kind of thing that gives the country +so many anarchists -- to work out the results of elections some +days before the election.

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Two points about these events of ten years ago must for the +stressed for the purpose of this inquiry. The first is that during +four weeks after the popular triumph there were not even isolated +outrages. I was not then in Spain but I verified this in the +'Times,' day by day and that paper was on the alert for Red +outrages. The people knew the whole ghastly 'story of the alliance +of Church and corrupt monarchy which I have outlined and they had +just escaped from a seven years' brutal dictatorship which had been +in the closest association with the Church. Yet it was not until +the twenty-eighth day after the election that the burning of +churches and convents began.

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The second point explains why groups of young workers here and +there, dodging the police (who made every effort to check them), +then began to burn convents and churches; a very shocking thing, of +course, but compare it to the official Catholic reprisals of +earlier years which I described. In the Spanish illustrated papers +I saw photographs of the young incendiaries politely conducting +nuns and aged priests away from the burning buildings. Well, the +fact was that Cardinal Segura, head of the Spanish Church, +supported by his three leading archbishops, had issued a most +vituperate attack on the new government and summoned the country to +resist. He started the myth which, ridiculous as it was, the

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Catholic press has repeated ever since, that in some mysterious way +a small minority of what he called "enemies of the Kingdom of Jesus +Christ" had won a majority at the election (when, under Catholic +about 12000000 votes were cast). This is still written in spite +of the fact that the election had been one of the cleanest that +Span had ever had; that in the cities, where there was little or no +corruption, the voting was three to one against the Church (Madrid +90000 to 30000; Barcelona, 90000 to 28000, and so on) and that +the Church won only in the smaller town's and villages where +"gerrymandering on a large scale" is admitted by admirers of the +Church.

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Segura was driven from Spain by the national flame of +indignation, and he went to talk matters over with Pacelli-Pius at +Rome. The Spanish clergy remained free to agitate for the impending +general election, which was to ratify the verdict of the municipal +election; the establishment of a republic and the disestablishment +of the Church. The result of the general election showed that there +had been no snap-vote and no intrigue of a minority. The anti-clericals -- Liberals, Radicals, and Socialists -- won 315 seats, +the clerical-royalists 121.

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The new government entered peacefully upon the work of framing +a Constitution. The Church was to be disestablished and the annual +subsidy to it abandoned; the Jesuits were to be expelled and monks +driven out of trade; divorce was to be instituted and secular +marriage recognized; 27000 new schools were to be built. The worst +sting was the confiscation of the wealth of the Jesuits and some of +the orders. A Catholic prelate who (like so many priests) detested +the Jesuits and the monks, Msgr. Jose Veleda de Gunjado, had shown +that the monks and nuns had in their hands two-thirds of the money +and one-third of the real estate of Spain, yet the state had been +paying the Church annually more than it spent on education. The +elections proved that, as Azana said, Spain "had ceased to be a +Catholic country", and this state of things was intolerable. Month +by month the clauses of the new Constitution were carried by five +to one in the Cortes. The country was quiet, except for the shrieks +of the clergy and their dupes. The progress in education attracted +pedagogists from many lands, the prosperity of the country began to +rise, a fair progress was made with schemes of social betterment. +This in all sober history, is the regime of savagery, of +persecution of the majority by a small vicious minority, about +which you read in Catholic literature.

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II

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ENTER FIRST AND SECOND MURDERERS -- +UNDER THE PAPAL BANNER

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I have now fully vindicated what I claimed in the first book; +that the Black International, instead of having disowned the +violent and bloody policy of earlier years, still pursued it in the +one country, apart from Poland, where it was able to do so. I was +in the Canaries, returning from Australia, just after the Church +and King had set up the brutal General de Rivera as dictator in +1923, and men showed me where the pavement had been reddened with +the blood of anti-clericals. I was in Spain next year and saw the

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country cowering under the Dictator and the clergy smiling and +richer than ever. This continued until 1931; and we saw that the +anti-clericals in spite of the red record of the Church clung to +their tradition of humanity in their triumph.

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This makes it all the more necessary to inquire closely how +the country fell back into the clutches of the Black International. +You know the theory of the Catholic press; in fact, at the time the +theory of almost the whole American press. The Catholic nation, it +said, was roused to a consciousness of its enslavement by a small +Red minority, and Hitler and Mussolini merely helped it to express +itself. This is made more comical sometimes by calling the wicked +minority "Communists". The Spanish Communists were so small a body +that they had only one representative in the 300 deputies of the +Left coalition in the Cortes! I may add that they had leaders of +high culture and character and often rendered humane service during +the war.

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If you want a common-sense view of the tragedy in a few words +consider first the composition of the anti-clerical coalition. Most +of the deputies returned to the Cortes were Liberals (145) and +Radicals or Radical-Socialists (56). It is one of the painful but +inevitable facts of the struggle of democracy since 1848 that +whenever such a coalition as this wins a victory it splits up as +soon as constructive work begins. Liberalism, which had to that +time a very fine record in Spain, was still very powerful in the +cities, but it now had to face, as allies, a larger body of +Socialists, Communists, Syndicalists, and Anarchists. These had +been brought up in a tradition of hatred of the middle-class, and +in any case a split on the proposal to pass even moderately +collectivist legislation was inevitable. And the more advanced +workers, full of the mischievous principle that the proletariat +needs no help from any other class, were by no means averse to +irritating the Liberals. Government became very unstable and was +often changed. The Liberals, we shall see, for the most part +deserted the coalition against the Church, and their leader, +Lerroux, a grand fighter (as friends of his told me) in the +nineteenth century, but now a weakling, is strongly suspected of +accepting Catholic bribes.

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Further, the radical rump was composed of four mutually +antagonistic parties. The Anarchists, whose main principle was that +central government s always corrupt -- it always had been in Spain +-- and the Syndicalists, who wanted the chief functions of state +transferred to the unions (syndicates), would not vote at +parliamentary elections until it was too late. In 1934 a Socialist +government (or largely Socialist) had to crush a revolt got up by +these elements and the Communists. We shall see what happened, but, +while the existence of these masses of Anarchists and syndicalists +who did not vote makes the anti-clerical majority in 1931 even +larger than the election-returns make it, they were an element of +great danger until they agreed to form a Frente Popular (Popular +Front). It was then too late.

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A third point is of almost equal importance. With that noble +un-wisdom into which enthusiasts have so often driven advanced +governments the Socialists prematurely granted female suffrage. Not +only were there in Spain 500000 more women than men but Spanish

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Liberals had, for selfish reasons, made the same blunder as the +French and resisted the modern movement for the emancipation of +women. They left them to the priests; and the priests raised their +neurotic mixture of thwarted sex and religion to fever heat in 1934 +and 1935. There must have been smiles in Pacelli's gilded chambers +when the "Bolsheviks" enfranchised the women. Woman's place is the +home, except when her vote is of value the Church.

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Meantime the Catholics got a leader, Gil Robles, of just the +type that was fitted to take advantage of such a situation. Imagine +Hearst and a Jesuit rolled into one. The Church was then organizing +Catholic Action everywhere, or getting its lay members to do work +(intrigue, journalism, bribery, intimidation. etc.) which the +public might not allow the priests to do. Robles, Jesuit-trained, +robust and unscrupulous, was a newspaper-owner, and he introduced +a new strident note into Catholic papers. With funds supplied by +the Catholic millionaire, Juan March, and the Church, he began to +organize "Catholic Youth"; with a leaven of the sort of scum that +Mussolini had attracted in Italy and Hitler in Germany. People +began to hear of Falangists, which is much the same as Fascists, or +Soldiers. The prospect, of a fight gives pep to any creed.

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In 1933 the Constitution was passed, and the government +appealed to the country; and a wave of enthusiasm swept over the +Catholic world when it was announced that the Right had won 207 +seats, the Left only 99 (including one Communist), and the wobbling +Center (Liberals) 167. It was not explained that the Right now +included 150 Agrarians sent by peasants amongst whom the late +government had promised to divide the confiscated religious +property and had been too slow about it, or that women now had the +vote. Robles knew that there had been no change of heart, and he +worked harder and more unscrupulously than ever. He drew Carlists +and royalists into his camp and encouraged the kind of rowdyism +that Mussolini had found attractive in Italy. He won Lerroux -- one +hopes that it was not by money -- and the Liberals split. Against +the agreement of Liberals and Socialists three Catholics were +planted in the cabinet, and the more radical workers began to +collect arms to meet a Liberal-Fascist coup. Lerroux became Premier +and declared the country in a state of war, and the workers of the +north raised the flag of revolt.

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It was the usual pathetic failure. Addressing a large meeting +organized by the Communists in London at the beginning of the Civil +War, I had to listen to one of the leading Communist speakers +predicting that the victory of democracy was certain, because she +had just heard that the government had served out rifles to the +workers. Rifles -- and to untrained men -- in an age of tanks, +planes, and big guns! When will such people cease to think about +the barricades of 1848 or even about the Russian revolution of 1918 +with its unique conditions? The poor men made a heroic fight, but +Foreign Legionaries and Moors were brought over and the peasant-regiments of the army on which the clergy could rely were used. The +chief result was to accelerate the withdrawal of Liberals and give +more color to the clerical cry of bloody Bolshevism.

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Still the Catholics were far from having won Spain. Robles +called for the execution of leaders of the revolt, and the +government refused. Very promptly, as we shall see, Spaniards of +great authority and integrity had established that the stories of +Red outrages were fabrications and that real and disgusting +outrages had been committed by the Moorish troops, the Catholic +Civil Guards, and even by religious communities. But Robles got the +post of Minister of War, and Franco, Queips de Llano, and other +tools of the priests, were appointed to commanding positions in the +army.

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In view of the seriousness of the situation, all radical +parties, united in a Popular Front, and at the election of +February, 1935, they -- though it is evident that at least more +than a million Anarchists and syndicalists still refused to vote -- +proved that the educated Spanish people remained, in spite of all +the scares, anti-clerical. Robles's Right coalition won 165 seats, +the Liberals -- those that remained republican and anti-clerical -- +52, and the Left, 256. Azana, the able Radical-Socialist leader, +became Premier.

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This last free expression of the will of the Spanish people is +important because not only Catholic writers, but the press and +foreign statesmen, generally represented it as a victory for the +Right. This was done by a sophistical, indeed dishonest, quotation +of the votes cast instead of the seats won. British statesmen often +gave this as an excuse for their scandalous protection of the +intervention of the Germans and Italians. The vote's cast for +deputies of the Right were 4750000; for those of the Left, +4536000. But apart from the fact that women now voted -- and aged +nuns were carried to the polling station in litters -- and that the +Right coalition included Agrarians and Liberals who hated the +Church but dreaded Communism, we have not only to add the Liberal +vote (340000) to the Left votes as far as the Church is concerned +but to take into account its immense number of Anarchists and +Syndicalists who still did not vote. It is enough to say that, +although no election was ever more fiercely contested, of a total +electorate of 12548000, less than 10000000 voted.

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Broadly speaking, in any case, it was a scare-election, like +that which put Hitler in power in Germany. There was no longer a +clear-cut issue on the question of supporting the Church. The +tremendous fall in the Liberal vote sufficiently shows this. It was +a popular slogan of Freethinkers of the last century and the early +years of this that the destruction of superstition is "the greatest +of all causes." But when the economic issue was raised it was +discovered -- in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, and Spanish +America -- that the defense of the chance to make a fortune (which +not one in a thousand had any effective chance of making) was a +still greater cause. Let not the opponents of "the bloody +bourgeois" crow. In most countries they made a similar blunder in +abandoning the traditional Socialist fight against the Church. It +was, they said, converted; and it smiles today over spacious +cemeteries of their dead. Reform has to be won by concentrated +movements, but they must be united in an ideal that all reaction +must die.

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These facts and reflections give the answer to the Catholic +cry, which was lamentably accepted in the world at large, during +the Civil War, that the Spanish people had repented of the hasty +enthusiasm of 1931 and 1932, or had discovered that it had been +duped, that the Franco-Mussolini-Hitler combine was a force of +liberation. The Spanish people did not vote on the same issues in +1931 and 1935, and they were in large part not the same votes. +There were the women, who had been left to the priests because this +was supposed to help to keep them chaste while their husbands had +mistresses's or frequented brothels, and there was a new generation +of voters of the age to which Robles and the priests particularly +appealed.

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But the chief fact to bear in mind is that the election-figures themselves testify that the country was still in the +majority anti-Papal. The 4750000 votes cast for the Church +candidates, swollen by seared Liberals, disgruntled agrarians, +credulous dupes of outrage-stories, etc., were little more than +one-third of the electorate, or of the adult Spanish people. And, +like Hitler's push in 1932, it was a supreme effort. Other means +had to be sought, and the forces of the Right began at once to +organize them.

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The Catholic (and at that time general) theory is that, seeing +the tide flow against them, the Reds began to murder their +opponents and plunge the country in an anarchy from which it had to +be saved. We have just the same plea in the case of Italy and the +glorification of Mussolini as its savior, and Professor Salvemini +has patiently and thoroughly proved that it is a tissue of lies. +What exactly happened in Spain we do not know. The confusion of the +Civil War, which soon opened, prevented any dispassionate Study of +the events which had immediately preceded it, and we can no more be +asked to accept statements about those events which were made under +the Franco regime than we can be asked to pay serious attention to +Fascist legends about Mussolini's early struggle and his thousands +of Fascist martyrs.

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But so much is reliably known that even Professor Peers, the +pro-Catholic author of 'The Spanish Tragedy,' speaks of "an +epidemic of murder by gunmen, for at least some of which there was +an uncomfortably and rapidly growing suspicion that Fascism was +mainly responsible (p. 195). The phrase is inimitably professorial. +In the two chief incidents which were made the pretext for the +revolt the evidence is clear enough. A group of leading Socialists +coming out of a building in Madrid were shot down by gunmen. Can +there be a moment's serious doubt to which party the gunmen +belonged or by which they were hired? This led to the retaliatory +murder of a Catholic Falangist leader, and we shall equally not +hesitate to judge to which party the murderers belonged. Frango at +once declared that the country must be delivered and organized his +mercenaries, the Moors and Foreign Legionaries.

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Robles had got Franco appointed to the command in Morocco +where he had under his hand the force, which, as experience in the +revolt of 1934 had proved, could be relied upon to fight, and fight +brutally for its paymaster whatever the merits of the cause. In the +south of Spain, which is much more Catholic (largely for business

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reasons) than the Madrid and Barcelona regions, the command was +given to the brutal and fanatical Catholic Queipo de Llano, the +Spanish gentleman, who, in a broadcast from Seville during the war, +said that they would pound up the Bolsheviks to make mortar for the +rebuilding of the churches. As many more Catholic officers as +possible had been put in the higher commands in the army and navy. +Few of them had more military ability than Franco and de Llano, but +they were Catholic's, at least in profession.

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This had been done while Robles, the friend of the Jesuits, +was Minister of War (May to December, 1935), a year before Franco, +on July 19, 1936, led his noble band of crusaders for the Holy +Faith, the half-savage and fanatically Moslem Moors and the scum of +the Foreign Legion, across the straits to the South of Spain, where +his fellow-conspirators waited, No serious writer hesitates to +conclude that it was done in preparation for a revolt against the +government and Constitution to which these Spanish gentlemen had, +and like Alfonso the Great, taken an oath of loyalty. The +government leaders, in fact said, when the rebellion broke out, +that they were fully aware of the plot and did not fear it. They +believed that the far greater part of the Spanish army was loyal, +and this proved to be the case in Madrid and many other places. +Their conduct seems feeble and incompetent unless we suppose that +they regarded a revolt, which they would certainly defeat, as an +opportunity to destroy the growing menace of the Falangists.

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The early course of the war fairly justifies that expectation. +and one cannot say that they ought to have foreseen that Italy and +Germany would play the part of the First and Second Murderers. +Careful attention to Franco's pilgrimages to Berlin and Rome in +1936 might have warned them but we must admit that no one would +have expected France and Britain to look on placidly, and even give +most vital assistance, while German and Italian troops butchered +the heroic Spanish people and even, as in the bombing of Guernica, +coldly gave their airmen practice for the coming war on France and +Britain.

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In the case of France Vatican influence counted very +materially. We shall see in a later book how close at this time was +the cooperation between the Vatican and what it called "the +government of Jews and Freemasons." For the shame and hypocrisy of +Britain's action, there is no excuse. The so-called Committee for +the Protection of Non-Intervention in Spain ought frankly to have +been called the Committee for the Protection of Intervention. The +very moderate supply of arms by distant Russia -- and even this +began only after the Italian intervention -- was made an excuse for +condoning the massive and indispensable assistance of Italy and +Germany. Nearer the truth was the plea that Mussolini "Could not +afford to see a Communist state established so near to Italy". +These French and British statesmen know now, to their cost, how +little they could afford to see a Fascist state created in Span. +But the plain truth which illumines the whole of that dark and +ghastly and stupid period of preparation, is that they did not want +to see a Socialist state set up anywhere, and, with all their +hypocritical professions, they murder the Spanish people, although +their Foreign Offices must have known that Communism was the +weakest element in the Frente Popular and there was no question of +following the Russian political model in Spain.

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SPAIN AND THE CATHOLIC LEAGUE

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Whether or no Pacelli-Pius had from the start a further +intention than the restoration of the Church in Spain he clearly +saw it in time as part of a larger plan. For Mussolini, the +conquest of Spain was, part of his design of securing mastery of +the Mediterranean and cutting one of the main arteries of the +British Empire. For Hitler it was the removal of a possible menace +to his conquest of France and the possession of a bridge to Africa +when the time came to enslave the Italians as well as the French. +Blinded by their anti-Socialist zeal, no English statesman foresaw +this and realized of what enormous value to them in the coming +struggle against Fascism a democratic Spain would be. Pacelli +shared their "sacred fury" against Socialism, but the course of +events now gave him the plan of a bloc or League of Catholic Powers +by which he hopes to counteract Germany even if it is victorious, +and in any case to, in his own words, counterbalance the influence +of the American and British branches of his Church.

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There is no need to wait for the tranquil post-war days to +get a just estimate of the action of the Black International in +Spain. Even if there were not a scrap of documentary evidence no +one with even an elementary of the Vatican and of modern Spanish +history could daub that the plot was concerted and carried out in +the closest cooperation with the Church, which would gain most of +all by the success of the revolt.

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But there is plenty of evidence: not evidence of a secret +plot, but of the most open and enthusiastic support of the rebels +by the Spanish Church and the Vatican. There was nothing secret +about it. Whether Franco in his visit to Rome before the revolt +apprised Pacelli of his plans and asked the Papal blessing -- +remember that this is just what the Irish rebels had done in 1916 +-- does not matter. He was in the closest touch with the hierarchy +in Spain and as he raised the flag of revolt (and perjury) all the +Spanish bishops but three, who were in a delicate Position. +declared for him. Every priest and every convent welcomed the +rebels as they came along and helped them. It would be very +extraordinary if they had not done so, seeing that Franco came as +a crusader to smite the infidels, who, they said, had persecuted +them for five years. Catholics everywhere provided the mass of +traitors within the gates which has added a new term to military +literature: the Fifth Column.

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But the Papacy or its Secretary of State very soon made a +declaration which identified it with the holy war from the +beginning. Bishops, priests, and nun, who had understood that +Franco and his had pious colleagues had corrupted the entire army +and had, in the expectation of speedy victory, declared themselves +prematurely, had to fly before the just anger of the people and the +government troops. It will be remembered that with all his Catholic +troops and Moslem fanatics, his jail-birds of the Foreign Legion +and his Irish Brigade, his Germans, and his Italians, Franco took +two years to conquer half of Spain: a very singular situation if it +were true that the anti-clerics were a minority. A large number of +bishops, priests, and nuns made their way to Rome, and on September +14, 1936, the aged them. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +13 +. +THE VATICAN BURIES INTERNATIONAL LAW

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The speech which was published, has none of the halting +senility of the Pope. It was a carefully-prepared address. lt would +in any case commit the Vatican to the side of the rebels as well as +the local hierarchy, but it is easy to recognize the accents of +Pacelli, to whose department the preparing of the address properly +belonged. It was this document written for broadcasting through the +Catholic to world, to which Pacelli was now appealing to work for +the extinction of Bolshevism in Spain, Russia, and Mexico. It was +published in England by the Catholic Truth Society with the title +'The Spanish Terror' and might be described as the bugle-call of +that war upon Bolshevism, which made the Church the intimate ally +of all the forces of privilege and of the vilest criminals in five +centuries of European history.

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Frankly, though the press generally reproduced some of its +sonorous phrases with deep respect, it was ludicrous. "All that was +most fundamentally human and most profoundly divine" was being +trodden under foot. This is bad enough when we reflect on the +splendid human service that the Socialist-Liberal coalition had +rendered and the clerical Fascists have destroyed, but Some of the +priests and nuns must have had difficulty in refraining from +Smiling when the Pope included amongst the victims "the fruitful +activity of lives wholly dedicated to religion, to science, and to +charity." The morals of the Spanish clergy are notorious, but their +devotion to science must be a profound secret. All these holy +things were "assaulted, violated, destroyed" -- it reads like the +first sentence of a famous speech of Cicero's -- "in the most +ruthless and barbarous ways, in an unbridled and unparalleled +confusion of forces so savage and cruel", etc. There had been a +"satanic preparation" -- a perfectly childish representation of the +facts -- for "the flame of hatred and savage persecution" such as +the Catholic Church, and it alone, is so apt to experience. There +was, in fine, an attempt to "subvert established order of every +kind from Russia to China, from Mexico to South America."

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The reader will not expect me to analyze this preposterous +stuff -- the Pope talks as if it were the anti-clericals Who had +revolted -- but he will reflect that it served Pacelli's purpose. +From the time of its distribution over the Catholic world and the +reproduction of its gorgeous phrases in the secular press it +prepared men to swallow every tale of Red outrages that the +Falangists cared to concoct; it made Catholics more blindly bitter +than ever against Russia; it put in a good word for the Pope's +Japanese friends; and it represented Hitler and Mussolini as +respectable crusaders who at great sacrifice, were striking a blow +for civilization. The Papal banner was the first foreign flag to +wave over Franco's diplomatic headquarters at Salamanca, and even +such ghastly massacres as that at Guernica did not receive a word +of disapproval. Catholic Portugal was encouraged to act as a +feeding ground for Franco's armies. American and British Catholics +poured their dollars or pounds into a common collecting box with +the bankers and stock brokers. Ireland and Poland -- pathetically +-- resounded with the slogan, "For God and Spain," and Duffy +pompously led his Irish Brigade to join the young English Tories +who were enlisted in a London hotel to serve under Franco. So mean +a disposition was create by the Pope's words that British Catholics +threatened to secede from the Trade Unions if the collection of

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funds for loyalist Spain was not stopped, and Catholic mothers in +some places compelled the Cooperative Movement to abandon its +humane plan of sending milk to the half-starved Spanish children. +The activity of British Catholics materially helped to sustain the +government in that ignoble surrender to Hitler and Mussolini by +allowing unlimited intervention, for which it has paid so dearly; +and they felt no misgivings when the Vatican, asked to join in the +French and British protest against the beginning of the bombing of +civilians, replied that it must avoid even the suspicion of +interfering in polities!

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At the time when the drowsy Pope spoke about the satanic +preparation and the unparalleled outpour of barbarism, phrases +which were simply an expression of Pacelli's bitter disappointment +at the failure of the rebellion -- no one seriously believes that +it would have won without the Italians and Germans -- there had +probably been a lot of rough treatment on both sides. The Moors +were furious at winning so little of the promised loot; the Spanish +people were furious because the Church again resorted to bloodshed, +and against a government returned to power by the majority of the +people after the priests had called up every Catholic voter in the +Republic. Some day we may know just what was done, on both sides, +in violation of what are called the usages of civilized warfare. We +cannot expect to learn this from Spain as it is today, but if any +man imagines that the priests and nuns just went on serenely saying +their prayers until the "sadistic" Reds burst in upon them he must +take his information from novels and Catholic newspapers.

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We are, however, not without helpful material. Two years +earlier there had been, as I said, a minor war of the same +combatants, and the Catholic press and much of the secular press +had given terrible stories of outrages by Socialists and +Communists, There always have been such stories since the French +Revolution, and Catholics, being forbidden to read the truth, still +cherish some of the picturesque lies -- like that of the prostitute +on an altar of Notre Dame -- told by the refugee priests of a +century and a half ago.

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After the suppression of the revolt of 1934, Lord Listowel and +Ellen Wilkinson went to Spain to investigate the stories. of +outrages. I had a talk with them after their return. They had the +written assurance of the President of the Republic Zamora (a +Catholic) and the Liberal premier Lerroux, that the stories of +outrage's committed by the anti-clericals were false, and when they +went to the supposed locality of the outrages to verify this, the +Catholic authorities prevented them, and, on the absurd pretense +that their inquiry so infuriated the people that their lives were +in danger, rushed them to the frontier. But in Spain itself the +boot was rather on the other foot. It was the champions of the +Church who had committed outrages; the Moors, the Catholic soldiers +or Civil Guards, and in some cases religious brothers. These +stories of Catholic brutality were severely investigated on the +spot by Professor Fernando de los Rios, an ex-Minister of +Education, Senior F.G. Ordas, a Liberal ex-Minister of Commerce, +and the lawyer Alvarez del Vayo, and they were found to be horribly +true. They made independent examinations and, unlike the retailers +of Red atrocities, they gave full names and places in their lengthy

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reports. Mrs. Leah Manning has a digest of these three reports in +the appendix of her book, 'What I Saw In Spain' (1934), and she +tells how some of the stories of Red outrages were fabricated.

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The best one can say, therefore, for Pacelli's scalding +rhetoric is that he had made no serious inquiry, but he inflamed +the entire Catholic world and so gilded the action of Hitler and +Mussolini in the eyes of the world in general that he is in a large +measure responsible for the failure of democracies to see what the +real and ulterior aim of those butchers was. On the other hand, +Pacelli, like every Catholic writer in the world, and a good many +others, perpetrated an utter absurdity and declined to notice it. +It is the contention that Spain is overwhelmingly Catholic, yet a +small minority of "satanic" folk carried every free election for +five years and held half the country for two year's against the +other half, and the fleets, air-fleets, tanks, and guns, of the two +most powerful nations in Europe! It is stupid to talk about Russia. +It did what it could, but for sheer geographical reasons it could +not do much.

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Before the end of the war a reluctant press felt itself +compelled to speak admiringly of the heroism of the Spanish people. +Theirs, on the anti-clerical side, was a war of the common folk, +the workers and their wives and sons and daughters. They had no +mercenary foreign troops, for the French and British volunteers, +hampered in every way in their enlistment by their governments, +were comparatively very few, and there were still less Russians, as +was proved at the close. It was the people of Spain who held up the +Spanish, German, and Italian armies, backed by Portuguese Fascist +help -- that was why Franco had at once secured the Portuguese +frontier -- and British and American funds for two years. Yet the +same papers that told the story continued to repeat that Spain was +Solidly Catholic, though every loyalist soldier, every boy and girl +who helped them, was under the direst ban of the Church. And +Catholics continued, and continue, to drone about that remarkable +minority of Satanists who are supposed to have carried every +Spanish election for five years and then somehow contrived to get +the people to fight passionately for them for two years. The +miracles of Lourdes are pale in comparison.

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Yet, in face of the most elementary common-sense, there is +hardly any lie that has been put out by the Vatican to cover its +policy of cooperation with crime and consecration of bloodshed that +has had a wider acceptance. I do not know whether George Seldes, +author of 'The Vatican,' is or is not a Catholic, but on this point +he beat the Jesuits, He says that there are only 30000 non-Catholics in Spain, and then he sees nothing to be explained in the +magnificent defense of the people of Spain under a shower of +anathemas from the Church! Then there is that quaint political +sport -- in the biological sense -- McGovern, the Catholic +Socialist Member of the British Parliament, the man who was chiefly +responsible for the abandonment of the anti-church policy of the +British advanced Labor; and his Church now gloats over the +destruction of Communism. He is supposed to have studied Spain on +the spot, and he is an honest man whatever you think of his +ability. He says that all but about one million of the Spaniards +are Catholics; which still leaves the tail wagging the dog for +seven years in a most mysterious way.

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Curiously enough the Catholic writer who comes nearest to the +truth is a Jesuit, the Irish priest, Father Gannon. In the 'Irish +Times' (January 23, 1937), he said that there are "ten or fifteen +million Catholics" in Spain. Apparently he thought it wise to admit +how far the corruption of the innocent people by the sadistic +minority (as the Catholic, sir P. Gibbs deliberately calls them) +had gone. The phrase "ten or fifteen" is rather loose even for a +Jesuit, especially when you are thinking of millions. Let us split +the difference and say that the priest claims only about 12000000 +Catholics in Spain out of a total population of 29000000. We get +near commons-sense at last, and we will not quibble with so +generous an admission. The only interpretation of Spanish life from +1931 to 1938 that is not completely ridiculous is that the majority +of the Spaniards had quitted the Church. That, means a loss of at +least 15000000 and fully explains the policy of the Black +International in that country.

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The Church shared the spoils, in fact got most of them. It was +restored to the despotic and parasitic position it had had before +1931, and the tinfoil Dictator, the most ridiculous specimen of the +brood in Europe, awarded it an annual subsidy of 65000000 +pesetas. The country was and is, half-starved, reduced to +international beggary, but the Church has always been willing to +overlook that misfortune of its supporters. From all sides the +priests called for the rebuilding of their churches, seminaries, +monasteries, etc., and this made a further drain upon the slender +public purse. The remains of the dissipated General de Rivera, +whose character, Ibanez, had so ruthlessly revealed to the whole +civilized world, were transferred with gorgeous religious and +secular ceremony to the Escurial, the palace of the dead Kings of +Spain. If the flimsy structure of the new dictatorship lasts long +enough I expect to hear of him being canonized. Many young ladies +in Madrid and Paris will be interested.

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Naturally all the fine work of the Liberal-Socialist coalition +was destroyed. It is one of the gems of the Papal speech which I +quoted above that the satanic Reds destroyed science, whereas, they +had done splendid work in restoring science in Spain, and a child +would know that the rebels and their priests would ruin this. The +system of education which had drawn hundreds of students of +pedagogy from all parts was abolished. Manuals of history of a +childishly mendacious character were substituted for the excellent +text books and priests and nuns had the run of the class rooms. +Whatever dropped and withered there must be money for "religion." +So greedy was the Church that by the end of 1940 there was bitter +murmuring against the priests among the Falangists, and Franco was +compelled to defy the Vatican over the appointment of bishops. It +only required this "quarrel over investitures" to complete the +restoration of the Middle Ages. But the Vatican won, of course. +Without German, Italian, and clerical protection, the Spanish +people, low as they have fallen, would sweep away the perjured +adventurer and his popin-jay brothier-in-law in a month. The army +is divided and in large part ripe for rebellion.

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And the 15000000 who had quitted the Church? Turn back to +the French girl's narrative which I have quoted. Tens of thousands +of the rank and file of them are taken out of vile jails to sing +hymns and Fascist chants with a whip raised over their backs, while

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the chaplain enjoys his bottle in the background. Hundreds of their +leaders who survived the war are buried like dogs. Still the firing +squads are busy all over Spain. The American Catholic must not read +these things. He is told that there are only 30000 folk, who had +quitted the Church and they are "under restraint." He will find it +out when Fascism is destroyed and something more painful than the +"terrific propaganda" which Cardinal Hinsley foresees will fall +upon his Church in Italy. France, Portugal, Spain, and Spanish +America. The Pope knows it and stakes everything on the victory of +Fascism.

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The Church linked Portugal with Spain in the Civil War. Here +again the record of the Black International is vile. To the middle +of the last century, Portugal had the same fate as Spain. A king of +disreputable character surrounded by fawning bishops, slew or +tortured tens of thousands of rebels against Church and feudalism. +But reform, or moderation set in earlier in that compact little +country than in Spain. When another disreputable monarch began to +play tricks in the early years of this century the middle-class +Liberals drove him out, set up a Republic and stripped the Church +of all its privileges. Then came the tragic dilemma -- feudalism or +Socialism, finance or freedom -- and before the specter of the down +the Reds, men took down their anti-clerical banners. Portugal +became a military dictatorship with the Church in full power once +more.

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Under President General Cremona and Premier Dr. Salazar, +Portugal is what is humorously called a corporative state. The late +Pope, who knew as much about economics and sociology as a child in +a primary school does, gave the Catholic world one of those +Encyclicals which it admires so much, saying that Italy's +corporative state is the ideal for reconciling capital and labor +and honoring the Church. Naturally, you would not expect a +churchman to notice that this corporative state was a ghastly +failure, even economically, in his own country, Italy; that crime +was rising by leaps and bounds, and the schools were rotting. In +Portugal, where more than half the people are still pious, +illiterate, and densely ignorant, it was comparatively easy; and +the Jesuits, who had been expelled, were brought back to help. So +the corporative state was established. What did it matter to the +Papacy that, concentrating power over capital and labor in one pair +of hands, it was the ideal form of state for an aggressive +imperialistic dictator? Mussolini must have smiled.

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We may take it that Pacelli was the chief author of the +Encyclical 'Quadragesimo Anno' (1931) in which the Pope summoned +all Catholic countries to adopt the form of the corporative state. +They were then a ragged regiment; Italy, Poland, Eire, and (more or +less) Hungary. To these Pacelli in 1934 added Austria and in 1935 +most of the Republics of South and Central America. When he saw +Germany and Italy guaranteeing the success of his plot in Spain, +and Portugal had bowed to the Papal orders in 1934, he began to +dream larger dreams. He worked, we shall see, in Yugo-Slavia, to +prepare the way for Mussolini's legions and win at least a Croatian +Church for the Vatican. He courted France and encouraged the +Rexists in Belgium. His dream took the shape of a bloc or League of +Catholic corporative states, very docile to the Black

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International, spanning the planet, following Mussolini's +"victorious eagles" eastward, ready in time to check either a +German Nazi empire in north Europe or a democratic Anglo-American +combination.

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IV

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PAPAL COWARDICE IN ABYSSINIA -- AND WHY

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The Catholic writer Teeling (The Pope in Polities) is +generally understood to have made a protest in the name of Catholic +democrats against the anti-democratic policy of the Vatican. He is +not very emphatic on any point except the Papal attitude to the +conquest of Abyssinia, and he is far from satisfactory on the +point. He says that Catholics "sighed in vain" for a Papal +condemnation of Mussolini's crime, but "the poor old man" was +content with a refusal to bless the war, as Mussolini pressed him +to do, or to restrain the Italian Church from blessing it.

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It is something to have a Catholic writer admitting that all +the world condemned Mussolini except the Pope" (p. 130). The +Catholic press generally tried to twist vague Papal words into a +condemnation. But it is misleading to talk about the "poor old +man." Pacelli was the director of the Papal policy, and there was +nothing vague or evasive about it. For ages the Vatican has cast a +covetous eye on the Ethiopian Church. The existence of a branch of +Christianity which had as much right to call itself Catholic as +that of Rome and was equally Apostolic in its foundation, has +always been a challenge and a reproach to the Vatican, but it was +little use dreaming of getting the submission of the Greek Church. +At the Russian Revolution, we shall see, there was some hope of +inducing the atheistic new rules to sacrifice to the Vatican the +rich and populous branch of the Greek Church in that country, and +for Years the Papacy courted the Hammer and Sickle as eagerly as it +later courted the Swastika. The hope died, but the Vatican kept its +eye on such independent branches of the Church as that of Ethiopia.

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This was the bait which Mussolini dangled before the Pope in +1934. By the "gentleman's agreement" he had made with the Pope in +1929, he had, he supposed, secured Papal support in advance for his +imperial adventures, but the whole world was so shocked in 1934 by +Mussolini's obvious preparations to attack Abyssinia, so disgusted +that his "invincible legions" chose the weakest possible opponent, +that the Vatican had to consider its position in America and +Britain. The solution of the difficulty was Pacellesque, if I may +coin the word. Let the Pope pose as a moral coward; a poor old man +who was bewildered by the sudden development -- so bishops said in +America -- and its menace, and let the entire Italian Church +boisterously support Mussolini and secure the unanimous support of +the nation. The Vatican tried at a later stage to explain the +situation by saying that the Italian hierarchy and clergy acted in +this as Italians, not as representatives of the Church, and there +were Catholics in America who repeated this miserable subterfuge. +As if it were not one of the very strongest claims for the moral +influence of the Catholic Church that on any moral issue it +sublimely ignores national limitations and judges them in the light

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of eternal principle alone! You might as well imagine the police of +Washington consorting with criminals under the window's of the +White House as the Italian hierarchy acting on so delicate an issue +without Papal instructions.

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As to the Pope himself, which really means Pacelli, we will +not waste time discussing whether he condemned the war, especially +when we have Catholic writers saying that he did not, until someone +quotes a clear and verifiable word of condemnation. The editor of +the British Catholic paper (Catholic Times, July 17, 1936), +challenged by the Protestant Bishop of Durham, replied: "I grant +you that throughout these months of crisis the Holy Father has said +no word in favor of the League of Nations nor in favor of that +united stand against Italy, which was so much desired in this +country." Cardinal Hinsley, it is true, says in his Preface to +Rankin's eulogy of Pacelli, 'The Pope Speaks' (1940), that in his +presence the Pope, before the invasion of Abyssinia, spoke of "all +my efforts to prevent the barbarous tragedy." What a pity Hinsley +did not quote the words six years earlier and spare Catholics in +America and Britain so much pain and humiliation! And what a pity +Mussolini did not hear that the Pope was talking of his grand +imperialist design as "barbarous."

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Cardinal Hinsley does not think it necessary to explain why a +Pope who privately thought the invasion of Abyssinia barbarous had +not one word of public condemnation of it. He could be very +eloquent on events far away in Spain, of which he could have no +exact knowledge and on events still farther away and more difficult +to check in Mexico, Russia, and China. They hurt the Church. But on +an outrage which was organized under his nose, a tragedy which was +so notorious that all the world except himself condemned it, he had +nothing to say as a world-oracle. It would hurt the Church if he +said it.

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Once or twice he tried the tactics of that other famous +oracle, the ancient oracle of Delphi. On July 28, 1934, speaking +(domestically) on a saintly missionary who had worked in Abyssinia, +he glanced at the war-talk and said that he "hoped for peace, +truth, justice, and charity." On August 28th he had to address a +body of Italian Catholic nurses, many of whom were destined for the +war-zone, and he could hardly ignore it. He said, with a calculated +vagueness that Delphi never surpassed, that while folk abroad +described it as "a war of sheer conquest and nothing else", which +would certainly be an "unjust war", the Italian authorities said +that it was a war of defense against Abyssinian aggression and to +find room for some of Italy's surplus population (for which the +priests were even more responsible than Mussolini). He ended in a +mumble that God would find a way to a just peace. Italian Catholics +rejoiced that the Pope had endorsed Mussolini's motivation of the +war and we shall see that archbishop's declared it to be a war of +defense. American and British Catholics boasted that he had +denounced the war of conquest.

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It occurred to some that if there is a particle of truth in +the Catholic claim for the Papacy it was the Pope's duty to go +beyond abstract principles which everybody recognized and say in +plain Italian whether Mussolini's enterprise, which had not the

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least ambiguity in the eyes of the rest of the world, was or was +not criminal. Pacelli therefore had an explanatory note put in the +Osservatore, (August 29) saying that surplus population was "not by +itself a ground of war", which left matters just as they were. +American Catholics felt that all the gorgeous claims that their +apologists had made for the Papacy were stultified, and Price Bell +of the 'Chicago Daily News' was instructed to get the truth from +the Pope's own lips. He wrote a moving four-page article on +"interview" in 'Liberty' (October 19, 1935), but had to confess +that he had not got a word on Abyssinia from the Pope. One gathers +that he had just paid the usual fee from $10 upward, according to +the size of the crowd -- to be admitted to a reception.

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Pacelli knew that, after a little grumbling behind closed +doors American and British Catholics would, in their own interest, +submit to anything that the Pope said or did, so he let him pose to +the outside world as a moral coward and effectively satisfied +Mussolini by a glorious unity of the Italian Church in support of +the war. Professor Salvemini has collected the utterances of 7 +cardinal archbishops, 23 archbishops, 44 bishops, and 6 archbishops +with titles abroad. It is almost enough to quote from the Papal +organ, the 'Osservatore' (August 22, 1935), the fact that from the +Eucharistic Congress at Teramo a telegram was sent to Mussolini in +the name of 19 archbishops and 57 bishops saying: "Catholic Italy +thanks Jesus Christ for the renewed greatness of the Fatherland +made stronger by Mussolini's policy." Will anyone suggest that the +dispatch of this telegram and the Publication of it in the Papal +newspaper were contrary to the wishes of the Pope and his vigorous +Secretary of State, the real and very despotic ruler of the Church?

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The prelates continued all through the war to keep Catholics +-- and practically all Italians were now compulsory Catholic -- +loyal to Mussolini. They gave a most unctuous consecration to a +shameful war of aggression, barbarously conducted, and openly +represented it as a gain to the Church. In a diocesan letter of +October 15, 1935, the Bishop of Nocera explained that Ethiopia was +uncivilized be cause it was not subject to the Pope and the war +would be a great blessing for it:

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It is a People which, having became detached from Rome, +can cannot get full benefit of the Christian ideas: which has +not been able, therefore, to produce those beneficial +conditions to which the West of Europe owes its greatness. +Roman Catholic Italy has the duty of bringing to populations +deprived of them its principles of equity, charity, and +fraternity. We pray God that he should use Italy as His divine +instrument for the evangelization of the whole world.

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One can say these things in a country where the Black +International controls education. A bishop ought at least to know +that until the 15th century the Abyssinian Church had had no +connection whatever with Rome; that submission to Rome was then +imposed from Portuguese as a condition of their help in saving the +country from the Moslem; and that it led to a grave demoralization +of Abyssinia and was fiercely rejected as soon as possible. And +note carefully the hope of the Black International that God will go +on to choose Italy to "evangelize" -- that is to say, bring into

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submission to the Vatican -- the whole world. We know how it was +evangelizing Abyssinia; with poison gas, bombing natives, and +massacre (as at Addis Ababa). The interesting point is the allusion +to Pacelli's growing Plan of a league of Catholic powers.

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A fortnight before this the Archbishop of Taranto had said +Mass in a submarine and given an address to the officers and men. +They were, he said, fighting a war of defense -- was there ever a +more brazen apology? -- not conquest, and it would not only relieve +Italy of over-population and supply it with raw material, but it +would lead to "the expansion of the Catholic faith". It was +therefore "a holy war, a crusade". The archbishop was worse than +the bishop and the cardinal-archbishop, Sehuster, of Milan, bead of +the Italian Church was worse than the archbishop. Speaking on +October 28 he said, as quoted by Salvemin:

+ +

The Italian flag is at this moment bringing in triumph +the Cross of Christ in Ethiopia to free the road for the +emancipation of the slaves, opening it at the same time to our +missionary enterprise.

+ +

Apart from their lies about Red outrage one can at least +understand the action of the Spanish prelates in supporting Franco, +but these Italian prelates, the nearest to Rome and the most +rigorously controlled by the Vatican, consecrated the crime of +their dictator and their Papal Secretary of State with all entirely +nauseous mixture of greed for the country and greed for the Church. +I saw two of the picture postcards that then circulated in Italy. +One bore a map of Abyssinia showing treasures of corn, gold, oil, +etc., in different regions. The other was a tank taking a statue of +the Virgin to the Abyssinians.

+ +

So it was to the end. When, in May, 1936, the Italians entered +Abbis Ababa and Mussolini announced victory, the church bells rang +everywhere and the churches were illuminated and decorated. There +was one exception, St. Peter's. Its bells rang -- because peace had +come, of course -- but it was not illuminated. The fox retained his +cunning, and probably Mussolini grudgingly allowed that he had to +save his face as well as he could in Britain and America. It had to +suffice that the Pope blessed "the triumphant happiness of a great +and good people for a peace that will further and will initiate the +true European and world-wide peace" (News Times and Ethiopia News, +October 31, 1936), and that the bishops fell over each other in +hastening to congratulate the Duce and his "defence of Christian +civilization". Not a word was said when Graziani perpetrated one of +the foulest massacres of this foul period as when the butcher's +butcher-son published a book glorifying war as such and explaining +what fun it was to drop bombs on natives.

+ +

Italy did little for Abyssinia. Production fell, and a mere +title of the surplus population of Italy which was supposed to be +panting for room beyond the seas would go to Africa. The Italian +authorities made no haste to educate the natives, and such +industries as were set up were reserved for Italians. Abyssinians +were not allowed to become artisans. They were to be the hewers of +wood and the drawers of water. Make all allowance you like for +Italy's lack of capital, of which Mussolini had drained the

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country, but the truth cannot be obscured, Mussolini wanted only +two things: the "glory" of founding an Italian empire and a +backward country for Italian's to exploit. And in 1937, the +'Osservatore' announced, the Pope blessed this enterprise by +awarding the Golden Rose, the supreme honor that the Papacy has for +mere women, to the Queen of Italy as Empress of Abyssinia.

+ +

He had ground to do this. Whatever else Italy failed to do for +the Abyssinians it spent a vast sum in giving them the treasure of +the Papal faith. At government expense priests, monks, and nuns +were shipped out and chalets and houses built for them. There is an +account of it all in the 'International Review of Missions,' +(January, 1937, p. 103). The Vatican sent out a set of Ethiopian +type and a press, and Italian Catholic papers told how the natives +eagerly pressed for the good words. Protestant missionaries found +that they might as well pack up. Moslem and Christian had hitherto +shown a mutual toleration. Now they were set against each other +Whatever the state gained or failed to gain by the conquest of +Abyssinia the Church was determined to profit. All this, the +Catholic protests, follows inevitably from Catholic principles. So +much the worse for those principles; though we seem to have heard +a hundred times that the Church emphatically disowns the maxim that +the end justifies the means.

+ +

It is impossible to write these chapters on the action of the +Black International in Spain and Italy without irony and +repugnance, and many will find that it raises a problem about the +attitude of the American Catholic layman. As far as Spain is +concerned there is little to explain. His daily paper spoke of the +Reds probably in the same language as his Catholic weekly. +Bolshevism was growing like a poisonous plant in Spain, and +practically all the world wanted it eradicated. There was, it is +true, that intriguing paradox which I have discussed; how the Red +tail -- and such a small one -- had succeeded in wagging the +Catholic dog for seven whole years. But when there is a question of +smiting Bolshevism, you do not notice these trifles.

+ +

In the case of Abyssinia the situation was very different. The +whole world, outside Eire, Poland, and a few other potato patches, +condemned Mussolini, and the facts were not in dispute. Such +writers as Seldes and Teeling make it clear that there was some +dissatisfaction in the body of the Catholic laity, but the tone of +the Catholic press and the utterances of the hierarchy show that it +did not reach very far. Yet you find it impossible to believe that +the Catholic men and women whom you meet in business or at the club +or a friend's house, are so docile to their priests that they will +read without a shudder the shocking language of the Italian +prelates I have quoted, or be easily persuaded that turning +Oriental Catholics into Roman Catholics throws a mantle of justice, +if not nobility, over Mussolini's enterprise.

+ +

I cannot here go deeply into this matter, but I may make one +point. The relation of a Catholic to his priest is not the same as +that of a Protestant to his minister. Periodically he hears a +sermon on the priesthood, and the gist of it is that, if he accepts +the creed at all, he must regard the priest as something totally +different from any other minister of religion. The preacher insists

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that he shall not look to the priest as a man -- his intelligence +and even his character do not matter -- but to his office and +powers. He can turn bread and wine into God (in the Mass) and can +forgive sins. He has, whatever his personality, been endowed with +tremendous supernatural powers. You may find this difficult to +follow, but a Catholic is as strictly bound to believe these things +as to believe in God. That medieval superstition, on which the +Church still literally insists, is the root of the power of the +priests. That is why, for instance, they can do what no other +ministers can do, such as to forbid a Catholic to read any +literature that criticizes the Church or its teaching, and in this +way they protect the superstition which is the root of their power. +Catholicism is not a collection of beliefs. It is an organic whole, +and you cannot be a Catholic and question a single "article of +faith." If in addition to this you remember the tremendous hypnotic +force wielded by the Church, corresponding very closely to the +German boasting of Aryan blood or the Italian boasting of +Mussolini's infallibility you will begin to understand. But it is +not a case of "to understand all is to forgive all." Your +conclusion is more apt to be: Away with the whole damn lot -- to +give a rough translation of Voltaire's polite phrase.

+ +

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THE JAP GETS A GOLD MEDAL FOR HIS +'CHINESE INCIDENT'

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It is one of the consequences of this doctrinal mentality of +the Catholic that he can be persuaded to accept propositions which +to you and me look childish. I am, of course, speaking of the +general body of Catholics and am quite aware that you will meet a +man here and there who seems fairly liberal; though you will find +that either he is not liberal at all on these dogmas which the +Church, for reasons (as they are the basis of the power of the +clergy), declares indispensable, or he is a Catholic only +nominally. One such proposition is that the Catholic faith is so +unique, so profoundly important for this life and the next, that +when there is a prospect of getting further millions of men to +accept it, he, in spite of his having the same sentiments as we +have, agrees to wars, executions, imprisonments without trial, +compulsory hymn-Singing and jailers' +whips. After all, the Church has "the right of the sword" over +these people. That is an indispensable article of the creed.

+ +

A second proposition which is relevant here is -- this will +seem incredible to any who are not familiar with Catholic +literature -- that the Catholic accepts the belief, on which the +priests insist, that his Church is hated and persecuted by wicked +men with a rancor that other Churches do not experience. It is a +sheer legend, but very useful to the clergy. For the last fifty +years at least the Catholic Church has been treated by non-Catholics with an indulgence, even an admiration, which has enabled +it to secure by intrigue, a power far out of proportion to the +number of its members in democratic countries. In Catholic doctrine +-- again indispensable doctrine -- a large part of the explanation +of this legendary hatred is the devil. Naturally he hates, and +moves bad men to hate, that which is holiest . . . I feel that I +ought to apologize for talking like this to educated men and women,

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but believe me, that is the ordinary Catholic mentality. And it is +in virtue of this proposition that Bolshevism is in the Catholic +mind associated with the devil, and he is ready to cry for its +extinction in Russia. Spain, and Mexico. You will not be so +churlish as to remind him that he is really calling for aggressive +war.

+ +

Hence the Vatican's beautiful friendship with Japan and +positive hatred of Russia. We will consider in a later book the lie +which is used to give an odor of sanctity to this hatred, the claim +that Russia persecutes religion, but by 1934, when the British +government had officially reported to the contrary, as we shall +see, any ground for a charge of persecution had disappeared. Yet +when, in that year, Russia applied for admission to the League of +Nations, the Vatican whipped up its representatives at Geneva to +oppose the application. I will deal at length with the matter +later, but it is necessary here to point the contrast. Pacelli +stirred every nerve to get a great civilization, which already had +the finest record in Europe of humane service and social +betterment, publicly insulted and represented as a nation far +inferior to Mussolini's Italy or Piludski's miserable Poland (which +was at the time very seriously persecution religion). On the other +hand, he drew nearer to Japan. Russia had long discarded the idea, +which some had had, of spreading Socialism by aggressive war. It +was, if only in its own interest, very earnest for the peace of the +world. But it was damned and vituperated by Rome. Japan was just as +clearly aiming at, indeed already engaged in, a disgraceful +aggressive war. The Vatican took it to its bosom.

+ +

The point arises here because just in that year there was some +prospect of war between Russia and Japan, and Catholics everywhere +loudly proclaimed that, should it occur, they would side with +Japan. "In the event of a war between Japan and Russia," said an +editorial in one of the leading British Catholic papers, (Catholic +Times, November 23, 1934) "Catholics would sympathize with Japan, +at least in so far as religion is concerned, so let us beware of an +Anglo-American 'bloc' against Japan involving us on the side of +Russia." These apologists for a bad case find it difficult to write +plain English. The editor obviously means that British and American +Catholics would hope on religious grounds -- that is to say, for +the profit of the Church in China and Japan -- to see Japan beat +Russia. We do not think less of sympathy with crime because its +motive is said to be religious. It is only one mare of a hundred +proofs that the interest of the Church, which always the means the +interest or profit of the Black International, is different from +and often opposed to the interest of the race.

+ +

In the second book I described the beginning of the alliance +of the Vatican with Japan. The country had just taken the first +step in a monstrous plan of aggression and exploitation which must +have been known in every Foreign Office in the world, and its +conquest of Manchuria was sternly condemned everywhere. The French +were, as we shall see, then playing a dangerous game, for which +they now pay so dearly, with the Vatican, and -- I quoted this on +French clerical authority -- the advised the Japs to apply to the

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Pope for recognition. As the idea was put to the Japanese by French +missionaries, you may wonder whether the initiative did not come +from the Vatican; but you will have to be content to wonder, as the +beginning of the negotiations is left in obscurity.

+ +

It was not difficult to persuade the Japs to apply to Rome. +Most of the educated and ruling men of Japan are atheists of the +type who regard religion as a very useful institution -- for women +and workers, In 1871, when the Europeanization of the country +began, they sent a large and unique deputation to Europe to study +Christianity and report whether it was a more 'suitable -- that is +to say, more effective in securing the docility of the masses -- +religion to give to their people than Buddhism. Lafeadio Hearn +tells how their report on the influence of Christianity in its own +field was so poor that they abandoned the idea, but much water had +gone down to the sea since 1871. One change was that the Pope was +again a secular as well as a spiritual monarch, since Mussolini had +created the state of the Vatican City, and the mixture of small +sovereignty and vast international religious power gave him a +unique position.

+ +

We saw what happened. Even Pacelli dare not, while the whole +world was inflamed against Japan, pledge the Pope as a temporal +ruler to alliance with Japan, but he appointed a Vicar Apostolic +"to negotiate with the government of Manchukuo about religious +affairs." Other powers might sacrifice their trade-interests to +their principles by declaring that they would have no truck with a +bloody usurpation, but the interests of Catholic missions are too +sacred to be sacrificed for mundane considerations. Whether there +was an understanding that the Vatican promised to work to prevent +the League of Nations from applying sanctions to Japan, as it later +worked for the exclusion of Russia, we do not know. The Vatican +does not issue a Blue Book -- not even a Little Blue Book -- when +it has completed a deal. Few would trust the book if it did.

+ +

What we do know, however, is enough. The representatives of +the Vatican in Manchukuo and Japan worked so amiably with the army +and the government that by 1934 the French Catholic writer I quoted +was able to boast that "no Japanese prince or mission now passes +through Rome without paying its homage to the Sovereign Pontiff." +Incidentally, French trade in the East benefitted very happily. +American Catholics raised their familiar cry of libel of Holy See, +wicked suspicion, etc., when the growing intimacy was mentioned in +the press, and it transpired that the news had came from the +clerical officials (whose pockets are always wide open) of the +Vatican City pres's bureau that negotiations were in progress for +an exchange of ambassadors between Tokyo and the Papacy. There was +more indignation and surprise that people should malign Holy Church +so much; and on May 5, 1935, the Papal organ, the 'Osservatore,' +joyously announced that the Pope was sending a representative to +Tokyo and the Mikado sending an ambassador to the Papal Court.

+ +

You make short work of all the Catholic sophistry, about this +ominous development if you consider the run of events at the time. +The world at the conquest of Manchuria had evaporated. Trade-interests had again beaten principles. Sanctions against Japan had +not been imposed, and the trading nations were on friendly terms

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with the Jap and willing to take his word, as they would take +Mussolini's word after Abyssinia and Hitler's word after Austria, +that absolutely no further advance would be attempted; while all +three adventurers were quite openly dangling before the eyes of +their respective peoples a program of conquests that promised +wealth to every class in the nation.

+ +

The case of the alliance of the Pope and his Yellow Brother" +was the worst of all. At the beginning of the century Count Hayashi +(Secret Memoirs, 1915), had written that "Japan must keep quite and +lull suspicion and wait her day; then not only put the meddling +powers out but meddle herself." After 1930, with the growth of an +aggressive Fascism in Europe and a general profession of admiration +of its efficiency, the Japanese concluded that they need not keep +quiet in their own country; they could not, indeed, if they were to +educate their people in the ground plan of dominating Asia. One of +the most spluttering firebrands was Yosuke Matsuoka. He had been +educated in America and was a Christian, so he was very useful for +lulling suspicions abroad, especially in America, but he was very +patriotic in Japan. Upton Close in his book, 'The Challenge,' +translates an article which Matsuoka published in 1933. It +coruscated with gems like this: "The mission of the Yamata race is +to prevent the human race from becoming devilish ... The one +nation not subject to the universal law of decline is that which is +ruled by a divinity and a permeated by the spirit of the Gods ... +the fated time has come to effulge its benefits to the world". Not +very Christian, but plain enough. At the following New Year, +Japanese stores displayed gorgeous paint-and-pasteboard panoramas +of Japan's coming victory, the sinking of the American fleet, etc.

+ +

This was the symphony of events which accompanied the +negotiations in Pacelli's opulent chambers in the Vatican. Let us +charitably suppose that in 1935, Matsuoka earnestly assured Pacelli +that Japan would not steal another acre of Chinese soil, that +Pacelli was simple-minded enough to believe him, and that the +highly favored Catholic missionaries in Japan did not report to the +Vatican that the entire country, including the Buddhist and Shinto +priests, was joyously chanting the national anthem of domination of +the East. A Catholic can probably believe that, although the +steeling of Jehol from China had already followed the stealing of +Manchuria. But in 1935 the sacred representative of the Papacy in +Tokyo would find it one of his first duties to report that, under +cynically mendacious pretexts, the Japanese were moving south over +China proper. By June, 1935, they had appropriated a further vast +area of China. In November, 1936, they tried to set up a puppet +government for five whole provinces besides Manchuria.

+ +

In short, from that day to this, it has been one long story of +conquest officially described in the most brazen language. It was +not a war, but an "incident" -- thus escaping the economic +inconveniences of a war -- it was for the "cooperative prosperity" +of China, Japan, Europe, and America, it was just a police measure, +and so on. And all the time it was exultingly represented in Japan +itself as the mere beginning of a career of conquest that would +enrich every class in the country. It was, further, a war conducted +with the full bestiality of the methods of the Pope's allies. +Brutality to civilians in actual fighting was supplemented by +brutality after conquest. The Chinese subjects were debased with

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dope and exploited mercilessly. Soldiers and officers used Chinese +women as Goths and Vandals had never used Roman Women. A Chinese +lady told me of an incident reported to her by her family in China: +an old woman in the occupied zone traveling from village to village +was raped six times in a few hours by soldiers of the nation which +is "ruled by a divinity and permeated by the spirit of the gods." +. . .

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By 1941 the whole diabolical plan was clear. Japan's service +was to be to draw off a very large part of the Russian forces to +the East while the "crusade" destroyed Russia in Europe. We now +know -- if anybody required any evidence -- that the Russian +campaign was decided and plotted very early in 1941 after the +failure to reduce England by aerial bombardment or invasion, which +was originally intended to precede the attack on Russia. Matsuoka; +the Versatile was sent to Europe. He visited Hitler and Mussolini; +and the 'Osservatore' (March 31, 1941) told with pride how he +visited Pope Pacelli. Did he carefully conceal from Pacelli that +the war for the extinction of Bolshevism, the bloodiest war in +history, the most ardent desire of the Pope, was to be launched? +That Japan, besides its designs in Southern Asia and its bestiality +in China, was to help by destroying Russia and threatening to +intercept American supplies? Believe that if you can. the Vatican +organ tells us that at the close of their cordial interview, the +Pope presented Matsuoka with a gold medal; and Matsuoka declared in +the Italian press that his talk with the Pope was "the prettiest +moment in my life."

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HITLER DUPES THE VATICAN

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HOW THE PAPACY WAS SOLD IN AUSTRIA +AND SOLD CIVILIZATION IN CZECHO-SLOVAKIA

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by Joseph McCabe

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HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS +GIRARD -- : -- KANSAS

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CHAPTER +I The Church Sells Austria to the Hunmen ......... 1

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II The Approach to Munich ............. 7

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III The Murder of Czecho-Slovakia ............ 13

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IV Why France Betrayed the Czechs ........... 19

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V On the Eve of the World-Tragedy .......... 23

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Chapter I

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THE CHURCH SELLS AUSTRIA TO THE GUNMEN

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H.G. Wells, who confessed to me a year ago that he had become +convinced that I was right about the danger of Rome -- he had more +than once amiably ridiculed my preoccupation with it -- said one of +his superbly audacious things about it recently (September 27); and +he said this to the most distinguished body the British Association +for the Advancement of Science ever got together. This generation, +he thought, might have to endure a series of wars waged "in the +name of those dead religions that cumber the world today." And he +went on to make a parenthetic remark which must have made learned +eyes open wide behind their horn-rimmed spectacles:

+ +

"A dead religion is like a dead cat -- the stiffer and more +rotten it is, the better it is as a missile weapon."

+ +

It is obvious what religion he had in mind: the religion of +Petain, Weygand, and Laval, of Leopold of Belgium, of De Valera, +Vargas, and Salazar, of the Quislings of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, +and Croatia, the religion of that Black International which has for

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ten years helped the arch-criminals of history to dupe and enfeeble +the democracies and to smirch our civilization with their foulness +and brutality. In the day of reckoning it must stand in the dock +with the other murderers.

+ +

In these little books I prepare the indictment and furnish the +evidence. In the early stage's of this corruption of civilization +the four masters of crime -- Italy, Germany, Japan, and the Black +International, which we may justly personify in the present Pope, +Pacelli-Pius -- were isolated, like crooks working in different +quarters of a large city. Japan was brooding over an old plan to +exploit Asia which had been drawn up when Mussolini was a ragged +little country lad sweeping the floor of his father's saloon, and +Hitler was begging nickels of his drunken and disreputable father +in the sticks. The delicate Japanese nostrils would have quivered +at sight of them. Even in 1922, when the industrialists and +royalists of Italy raised Mussolini, for their own purposes and to +his astonishment, to the position of a prince, Japan turned down +the overtures of the Vatican. Seven years later the sharp-eyed +Japanese statesmen saw the Papacy make Mussolini's tottering throne +safe and win world-recognition of it for him by a formal alliance, +and they now turned to the Vatican and asked it to -- for a +consideration -- render the same service to themselves, which it +did. Then Hitler, impressed by the value of this holy alliance, +sought the same spiritual assistance of the Black International and +got it.

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So the plot, using the international organization of the Roman +Church to lull suspicion in other countries, was unified and took +on cosmic proportions. Germany, Italy, and Japan were to rule and +exploit the earth. The Pope -- he thought -- would be the universal +chaplain, with the plan in reserve, of a League of Catholic power's +strong enough to cheek any trickery of Hitler. That will be cold +history -- or an epitaph -- in a few years. I differ from Wells +about those "wars of religion" in the future. If this generation +which he and I will soon quit does not emasculate the Black +International when this war is over it will deserve all it gets, +but I have faith in it.

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In earlier books I described the insidious preparatory moves +in this collegial plot. Under the noses of the democracies, which +actually applauded year by year except, for a time, in the case of +Manchuria and Abyssinia, 200000000 folk were brought under what +is politely called the authoritarian regime and added to the +200000000 of Germany, Italy, and Japan . . . Wait a bit, you +protest. Where do you get these figures? Nobody in 1936 drew our +attention to this remarkable development. I need say only: add up +the populations of the stolen provinces of China, of Fascist South +America, of Austria, Abyssinia, etc., and then find out why your +oracles did not warn you in 1936 or 1937.

+ +

I have shown that the Black International played a very active +and important part in this preparation for the launching of the +plot in 1939. Can anybody even profess to doubt the value of the +assistance it gave in destroying democracy in Austria, Spain, and +Spanish America and supporting the annexation of China and +Abyssinia? To this you must add its help in keeping Hungary, Eire,

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and Poland Fascist, in recommending Fascism (politely called the +corporative state) in a solemn Papal Encyclical (Quadragesimo Anno +1931) to the entire Catholic world, in working on Catholic +sentiment in France, Belgium, Britain, Holland, and America, and in +sustaining the hatred of Russia. We return later to these points.

+ +

By 1938 the Axis on which Europe was to run was firmly +constructed and ready to operate. Italy was to have Europe south of +the Danube, and an African empire. Germany to have all north of +that river. Mussolini, the Napoleon of the South, little dreaming +that by 1941 he would be an old soldier on crutches begging coppers +from Hitler, was blind to the emphatic statement in Mein Kampf that +there is no room in Europe for two great powers. The rest of the +world was still dreaming its dream of the benevolent and beneficent +destruction of Socialism everywhere by these apostles of order and +discipline. So Hitler made a bolder move: one that might provoke, +and ought to have provoked, war.

+ +

He needed Austria and Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary was in the plot +and very loyal to the Vatican; and in any case Pacelli was to visit +it in 1938. With the control of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and +Hungary the conquest of the Balkans was assured, the broad road to +Turkey and the East was open, and the blockade by the British +fleet, on which small-minded British-statesmen relied, was deprived +of its sting. The first step was to get Austria and the Danube, and +in this the Black International was very useful.

+ +

In the summer of 1938 I discussed this annexation of Austria +with an important German Nazi. He pleaded first that there was no +annexation. It was an "adherence" (Anschluss) of the German people +of Austria to their natural national unit. The facility with which +America accepted this plea is dangerous. Germans will raise it +strongly at the settlement -- quite recently a German Socialist +refugee insisted on it in conversation with me -- and it is ominous +that British statesmen never name the Austrians amongst the peoples +they are going to liberate. However, the chief interest here is an +incidental remark that my Nazi friend made. "If," he said, "you had +gone to war over Austria, you would have found that we Germans had +not enough petrol at the time to last more than ten days." He was +an important industrialist, intimate with some of the leaders, and +it was very clear to me that he was convinced of this.

+ +

How much the Vatican had to do with the criminal failure of +France and Britain to begin arming at once -- allowing that they +were not in a position to fight in the spring of 1938 -- and +drawing nearer to Russia we cannot say, but do not for a moment +imagine that here I raise a wild and groundless suspicion. In 1937, +as we shall see later, Pacelli had visited Paris -- the first Papal +Legate to do so since the fall of Napoleon -- and on New Years' +Day, 1938, Paris had the piquant spectacle of a representative of +the Pope decorating and kissing its freethinking Premier and other +Ministers. There was much besides this, but we will deal with the +whole question of the corruption of France in a later book.

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We are here not simply dealing with the overt action of the +Vatican, which as in the case of Abyssinia and the Italian Church, +often finds it convenient to act through the local hierarchy and

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itself remain silent. We are studying the share of the Black +International in the world-debasement and tragedy. As far as +Pacelli-Plus is concerned it is enough that he persisted in his +attempts to conciliate Hitler and never said a word of the mildest +censure of Germany's action in Austria. He knew that Mussolini had +agreed to it as part of the general plan. But that the Church in +Austria enthusiastically supported Hitler is not disputed, and no +section of the Church was more docile to the Vatican. We shall see +in a moment the trickery by which it was represented in America +that the Austrian Church acted independently of the Vatican.

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The way had been prepared, we saw, by the Church poisoning +what the Annual Register calls "the Socialist watch-dog." Hitler +would certainly not have had a walk-over in Austria if the Social +Democrats, who firmly held Vienna and Linz and had hundreds of +thousands of followers in the country, had still been strong in +1988. The Catholic Chancellor, Schusdhnigg, was himself vigorously +opposed to annexation, and it is interesting to speculate what +would have been the effect of an appeal to Czecho-Slovakia, with +its magnificent Skoda arsenal close at hand, Russia, and the +Socialists and Radicals of France were there. The Church, by +destroying them, destroyed this early chance of defeating the +world-plot. It had killed the Socialist leaders, had put tens of +thousands of the more spirited Socialists in jail, and had drilled +the country into docility to itself.

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For Austria was, as we saw, a theocracy, a priest-ruled state +as not even Poland or Eire was. Dollfuss, who assassinated the +Socialists in 1934 after consultation with Pacelli, was promptly +assassinated by the Nazis. His successor, Schuschnigg, hated the +Nazis and was opposed to annexation, but the last word was with +Cardinal Innitzer, bead of the Austrian Church; and he had the +support in the Catholic government of Seyss-Inquart, who was a +Catholic and a Nazi and was prepared at any time to stab his leader +in the back. The main fact is, however, that since the suppression +of the Socialists in Vienna in 1934, the whole country was +prostrate at the feet of the cardinal. Socialists were whipped into +silence and the whole scheme of education, in school and press, +imposed absolute docility to the Church.

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That there was an understanding between Cardinal Innitzer and +Hitler, who made his usual glib promises to respect and protect the +Church, nobody denies. When Hitler marched into Vienna on March 13, +1938, all the church-bells in Austria rang, and a Swastika flag +waved over the ancient Cathedral. Two days later Innitzer had a +cordial interview with Hitler, and the cardinal and four of his +leading bishops issued a manifesto summoning all Austrians to vote +for Hitler in the coming plebiscite. The cardinal wrote "Heil +Hitler" after his signature. It is a sufficient refutation of the +plea that the Austrian's wanted to join Germany that Hitler angrily +refused to ask them this by a plebiscite as Schuschnigg proposed. +Hitler turned the idea into a farce by making it a plebiscite of +the whole German nation. In this farce Innitzer and his bishops +concurred and ordered all Austrians -- they were now all Catholics +in Church law -- to support Hitler, calling him the man "whose +struggle against Bolshevism and for the power, honor, and unity of +Germany corresponds to the voice of Divine Providence."

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Was a supreme Church authority with a large clerical staff +really ignorant of Hitler's true plan and motive? They spoke a +common language, remember, and were near neighbors, and there was +not the least secrecy about Hitler's plan to exploit Europe, If +Innitzer understood the Nazi aim -- and it is incredible that he +did not -- his association of it with "the voice of Divine +Providence" was blasphemous from the religious viewpoint and +loathsome from any angle.

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But did Innitzer take this line upon instruction from or +without consulting the Papal Secretary of State? It is not material +for my purpose to settle this, as we are studying the share of the +Black International as a whole. It happens, however, that the +question was referred to the Vatican by Catholics of other +countries, probably America, who were outraged by this gross +interference in politics, and in favor of a corrupt and very +dangerous schemer. And I quote the facts about the Jesuitical +action of the Vatican from a Catholic writer, C. Rankin, in his +flattering biography of Pacelli-Plus (The Pope Speaks, 1940).

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On April 1st, apparently in reply to Catholic complaints of +Inititzer's conduct -- for so public a rebuke of a cardinal would +otherwise be unprecedented -- a Jesuit speaker on the Vatican Radio +censored the Austrian cardinal and regretted that he had not +recognized "the wolf in sheep's clothing." It is clear that this +brought German protests, for the Vatican organ then declared that +the radio talk was not official. Even the pious and rather obtuse +Ransom adds that "it was characteristic of the extreme delicacy of +the situation" that this denial was not published but was +"telephoned direct to foreign correspondents by persons instructed +by the Vatican to do so." He seems to be unaware of the irony of +his words. The Osservatore said that Innitzer's action was not +authorized: Radio said that it was opposed to Vatican policy and +anonymous officials in the Vatican press bureau then said that the +criticisms of Innitzer were not authorized. The cream of the joke +is that all three -- radio, printing press, and press bureau -- are +in the Pope's back yard, so to say, and would not dare to say a +word on a matter of importance without consulting the Secretariat +of State. About this time some American film company put into +circulation a very impressive film, with most edifying and largely +untruthful commentary on work in the Vatican City. It did not point +out the convenience of the above arrangement.

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Innitzer was invited to Rome to explain his action, and the +Vatican was careful not to declare that he had been censured. +Instead of this, the Osservatore on April 6 gave a long and +sympathetic account of the cardinal's reasons for his action. +Keesing's Contemporary Archives gives the gist of Innitzer's +arguments, as published in the Swiss press at the time, but there +is no need to consider them here. The Black International had +rendered a new and most important service to the crooks, and the +Vatican had neatly dodged the censure of Catholics in democratic +countries.

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Pacelli knew that, as we have seen several times, local +Catholic hierarchies will, in their own interest, finally submit to +anything that the Papacy does. For a year or two Mundelein had

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roused American Catholic's to a white-hot indignation against the +Nazis for persecuting the Church and besmirching the fragrant lives +of the communities of lay brothers. You would expect apoplexy when +the news came that the Church had sold Austria to the Nazis, and +given them control of the Danube, and smoothed the path of their +bloody ambition, yet there was only a momentary flutter. Catholics +bowed to the "unauthorized" assurance that Innitzer had not +consulted the Vatican, and, as the world at large soon forgot +Austria and resumed its admiration of Nazi efficiency, the matter +was dismissed.

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One needs no documentary evidence that this conspiracy between +the Austrian Church and the Nazis was directed from Rome. National +branches of the Church of Rome are bound to consult the Papacy +before taking action on any issue of grave importance. That is what +the Secretariat of State is for. And when the issue is one that +affects other countries and the international policy of the Vatican +the obligation to consult headquarters is so strong that an evasion +of it is unthinkable. The question of joining Austria to Germany +was clearly of this character. Such union would not only strengthen +Hitler's position to a very important extent, so that it was a most +valuable opportunity for one of those bargains for which the +Vatican is always alert, but to put an additional 7000.000 +Catholics under Nazi rule after what had happened to the Church in +Germany this was so serious a matter that the suggestion that +Innitzer acted on his own initiative may be dismissed as frankly +childish.

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But, while the concurrence and lead of the Vatican is certain, +the ground of its policy is not clear. The key to it seems to be +the extraordinary persistence of Pacelli in trusting the promises +of Hitler. He had in 1932 made, in return for valuable service, a +promise of a very favorable agreement with the Vatican. He had +immediately dishonored the agreement, yet Pacelli and the German +bishops had continued to appeal to him. In 1936 he had opened the +series of vice-trials of priests and monks which had dealt the +Church a heavier and more ignominious blow than ever, yet the +Vatican had, with occasional mild complaints about persecution and +paganism -- never about crime and brutality until Catholic Poland +was threatened with extermination -- remained friendly. We shall +see that at the opening of the great war he had made new promises +to the Church, and we shall find the German bishops in 1941 +complaining, while they still supported him, that he had not +fulfilled his promises! This persistence in looking to the man who +had plainly said years before in his book that he made his own +moral law -- "What is Necessary is Right" is the title of a chapter +of Mein Kampf -- is the key to this strange development. I say +strange because, even if we admit that the annexation of Austria +was inevitable, we should expect the Austrian Church to have met it +with quiet dignity instead of waving Swastika flag's and chanting +"Hell Hitler" like the treacherous scum of every country that +Hitler invaded.

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Whatever Hitler promised Cardinal Innitzer in their very +cordial interview he cheated with his usual fluency. At the moment +of writing this it is confidently reported -- and as confidently +denied, of course -- that Myron Taylor has taken to Washington

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certain terms of peace, or certain new promises, which the Pope is +transmitting on behalf of the arch-liar of modern history. One +would have thought that by 1941, when the Pope had seen Hitler lie +and cheat so brazenly for eight years, he would have been ashamed +to produce any proposals from such a source. For within three +months of his pleasant and confiding talk with Hitler the cardinal +was a prisoner in his palace, and hundreds of his priests and monks +were in the hands of the police, generally on the usual disgraceful +charge. Swiss papers said that "50000 Austrians have left the +church this quarter, and a further 50000 are expected to quit in +the next quarter." The Church in Austria was, as a result of its +trust in Hitler, disestablished and reduced to the same pitiful +condition as the Church in Germany. It had helped Hitler to secure +one of his bloodless victories. It now bled.

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Chapter II

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THE APPROACH TO MUNICH

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Yet the Vatican had already begun to smooth the path of +Hitler's sordid ambition in another area of Europe: to undermine +the loyalty of a large part of Czecho-Slovakia. In a lecture which +I delivered in London in 1936 I predicted that when the conquest of +Spain was completed the Nazis would turn to Czecho-Slovakia. Many +of my audience in those day's of inglorious inactivity and +childlike trust smiled, but although the country was not marked out +for attack in Mein Kampf its fate, could easily be foreseen. +Hitler's original ambition to make one empire of all German-speaking peoples, with the Ukraine for an additional granary, had +grown mightily when he saw the cowardice and folly of the +democracies, and Czecho-Slovakia stood like a second Gibraltar, a +natural and formidable land-fortress across the route to Russia, +the Balkans, and the East. It commanded the Danube, and it had +within its own frontiers a very virile people with considerable +resources.

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But while Hitler made bravery the supreme Nordic quality and +boasted in every speech of the irresistible might of the Reich, he +preferred to proceed wherever possible by deceit. Not Thor, but +Tocri, the cunning, is the head of the modern German pantheon. The +world to be dominated and exploited must be taken over piecemeal +and by ruse, guile, and corruption. Hitler had men, and especially +women, steadily corrupting France for him, and he imagined that the +tactless Ribbentrop, who had a stupid idea of the influence of the +aristocracy in England, was winning or duping that country for him. +In Austria he used the Church, as he had used it for what it was +Worth in Spain, and he used it in Czecho-Slovakia.

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The cutting-up of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire at +Versailles had been crude and cruel, but it is a lie originating in +Germany and quite generally accepted in Britain and America, that +the Sudeten provinces of Czecho-Slovakia had then been detached +from Austria and tacked on to Bohemia. Any map that was published +before 1919 will show that these provinces are part of ancient

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Bohemia, which before the Catholic troops so mercilessly trampled +on it in the Thirty Years War was the most promising of the smaller +civilizations of Europe. Its sturdy people were instinctively anti-Papal and had raised the banner of Hus before Luther was born. In +its exhausted condition it had been taken over by Austria and had +been made compulsorily Catholic in the customary way.

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It was still under Austria when the industrial development of +the nineteenth century began and its splendid natural resources now +gave promise of wealth. The mineral resources were in the +mountainous fringe, nearest to Austria, which became familiar to us +as the Sudeten province -- taking their name from the mountains -- +and Austria, the dominant power, followed the policy which England +had once followed in Ireland. Austrian and German capital and +enterprise, using Czech labor, were to reap the profit. The Czechs +were to remain the hewers of wood and drawers of water for the +Viennese capitalist. It was in this way that the border provinces +had been filled with a German-speaking Catholic population.

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Until Nazism began its insidious propaganda in the countries +which it meant to annex these Catholics of Austrian (and partly +German) descent had lived quite amiably with the Czechs. The +country as a whole was Catholic. I have pointed out how the +reckless propaganda of recent years has in this respect run to a +most absurd extreme. For several years our annuals and other +reference-books have -- see the World Almanac, for instance -- said +that the population of Czecho-Slovakia is 10500000 and then that +it contains 16831636 Roman Catholics (besides 1129758 +Protestants, 1173479 members of other religions, and 854636 of +no religion)! Catholic statistics exhibit many miracles but this is +the choicest. If the last figure is changed into something more +than 2000000 -- for 854636 is the number of those who boldly +wrote on the census-paper that they had no religion -- it will be +seen that Catholics really numbered about 8000000 in a total +population of about 14000000, and half these Catholics were +illiterate peasants and woodcutters.

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Here you will begin to understand the action of the Black +International in working for the destruction of Czecho-Slovakia. +The creation of that republic -- or the establishment of it, for it +had already declared itself an independent republic -- by +Versailles was followed by internal developments which, year after +year, caused consternation at the Vatican. Bordering on Russia the +country was bound to feel in a high degree the wave of Communist +and anti-religious propaganda which disturbed the Church +everywhere, but there was an even worse danger, from the Roman +point of view, in Czecho-Slovakia.

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The reaction against Austria, which in spite of its fame for +the amiability of its character had a grim record of tyranny, on +the part of both Church and state, in Bohemia, there was a +remarkable revolt against the Vatican. Almost at once (1920) a very +large body of the priests and their people cut their connection +with Rome and founded a national (Catholic) Czechoslovak Church. +The very orthodox Irish Independent (August 13, 1938) said that +"nearly a million people and 200 priests left the Church" in 1919 +and 1920, that at the date of writing there was a painful shortage

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of priests in Bohemia and Moravia, and that a large part of the +acting priests were of peasant extraction and of a low cultural and +intellectual quality. The leading British Catholic weekly the +Tablet (organ of the richer and better-educated Catholics) went +further. In its issue of October 31, 1936 it had an article on +religion in Czecho-Slovakia by a Catholic who had recently +travelled in it. He had asked a priest about the report of +secessions, and the priest had said:

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"It is true, up to 1930 nearly 1900000 left the Church and, +while about 150000 joined the Protestant and Orthodox communities, +the rest are without religion."

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The Roman priests so hated their brethren who remained +Catholic but threw off the yoke of the Vatican that this man lies +in the latter part of his statement. At the census of 1930 the +National Church of anti-Papal Catholics still had 793385 members, +though even more declared that they had no religion. In fact, there +is no other country in the world in which nearly a million folk +made this formal declaration in the census-paper.

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This situation is the key to Papal policy in Czecho-Slovakia +and, as Catholic writers try to defend the Vatican by asking what +interest the Church had in helping Hitler in that country, it has +to be thoroughly understood. There were nearly a million Catholics +who refused to recognize the Pope; and the Vatican considers these +"ichismaties" as dangerous and damned as atheists. There were more +than 3000000 Socialists and Communists, since they had polled +1700000 votes at the last election, and there was the most +powerful Rationalist body in the world. Catholic writers boast that +in 1934 a great Catholic Congress was held at Prague and attended +by 50000 Catholics. They do not mention that in 1935 the +Freethinkers held a Congress there and it was attended by 40000 +members. President Masaryk, the idol of the country and the most +respected statesman in Europe, and several of the political and +most of the cultural leaders, including the internationally famous +novelist Karl Capek, were Freethinkers. In no other country in the +world had the Church of Rome lost in ten years so high a proportion +of its members; and the loss continued yearly. Bohemia, the care of +the Republic, the center of culture and prosperity, was lost to +Rome. A Thirlmere travelling in the country after 1930 would have +said, "The Church knows that she is doomed."

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As the government was deservedly popular and secured for the +people a high and increasing prosperity there was no opportunity +here of repeating the Spanish tragedy. The only feasible plan from +the Vatican angle was to save the Sudeten Catholics at one end of +the Republic and the very backward Slovak Catholics at the other +from what Rome called the corrupting influence of Prague. This +coincided with Hitler's policy, though we may admit that the +Vatican did not foresee -- very few people foresaw -- that when +Hitler got these detached on the plea of the self-determination of +peoples and found the French and British so cowardly he would grab +the lot and have a magnificent starting-point for his further +advance. But we shall see that the Church was more active than ever +in the second and greater grab.

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This general coincidence of the interests of the Vatican with +those of the Nazis is supported by undisputed evidence of +cooperation. The Catholic writer in the Irish Independent whom I +have quoted admitted that the priests interfered in polities, +though in the Sudeten provinces the work was left to the laity. The +priests were less ready than those of Austria to be drawn into the +Nazi spider's web, especially when the Austrian Church began to +suffer like the German, but Nazism spread amongst the laity in +virtue of skilful German propaganda, and a local leader was found +in the Catholic Henlein: the kind of puppet that the Germans liked +to find -- a man of poor intelligence and greatly flattered by +being recognized in Berlin and promised's high position in the +Sudeten provinces when they were "liberated," Henlein and his +colleagues assured their fellow-Catholics that the Church had +nothing to fear from Nazi rule. He had that promise from Hitler. In +Germany, they said (quite falsely), Cardinal Faulhaber had provoked +the Nazi government by his attacks on it. They would not do that in +Sudetenland and would not be molested.

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To the general public in America, to whom the word Slovak +meant little more than the name of a tribe in Abyssinia, the whole +question turned on the Sudeten provinces. To Hitler these were only +the pretext of intervention, and a pretext in regard to which, by +promoting a little friction and getting Goebbels to represent this +as resentment of a bloody tyranny of the Czechs, he could make out +something of a case. But shearing off this narrow fringe of German-speaking towns, which lay outside the Czech "Maginot Line," would +not give him Czecho-Slovakia, so the anti-Czech agitation at the +other end of the Republic, in Slovakia, was far more important. +This was overwhelmingly the work of the Black International.

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The core of the Republic was, as I said, Bolemia or Bohemia +and Moravia, which worked together and reached a high degree of +culture and prosperity. The Czechs who inhabited them were as able +and vigorous as the urban populations of Germany, and, fearing that +the Nazi wolf would sooner or later quarrel with them, they had a +fine army and at Skoda one of the greatest armament-making works in +Europe. But beyond Moravia, to the east, the country ran on to the +Carpathian Mountains, and from its geographical conditions this +large province remained very backward. This was the land of the +Slovaks, and beyond it the country terminated in a still more +backward mountainous area with a Ruthenian or Ukrainian population. +The Czechs might have done well to hand the latter to the +Ukrainians and let Soviet Russia civilize it as it had done with so +many border provinces.

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Czechs, Slovaks, and Ruthenians had declared themselves an +independent republic in 1918, when Austria collapsed, and +Versailles had confirmed their position. It was a lively team to +drive, including 6000000 Czechs, 3000000 Slovaks, 3000000 +Germans, and more than a million Magyars and Ruthenians, but as +long as President Masaryk held the rein's and pre-nazi Germany was +friendly the republic made remarkable progress. Its social and +cultural achievements must be read elsewhere. In a land of powerful +minorities there are always men who thrust themselves into the +limelight by shrieking that the ancient culture of a particular +minority is in danger of perishing and they must demand autonomy.

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They are blind to the changed conditions of a world in which small +national units only excite the cupidity of more powerful neighbors. +The clash, however, only found expression in the melodramatic +fights of politicians until the, Nazis took up the grievances of +the Sudeten Germans and the disintegration of the Church alarmed +the Vatican.

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The priests in Slovakia had long been associated with the +patriotic movement in that province. The parallel with the +situation in Ireland before it was granted Home Rule is close +enough to enable anybody to understand. In Slovakia, however, the +patriotic party was actually led by a priest, Father Hlinka, and +was directly associated with Pacelli's policy. It is quite useless +to talk about patriotic priests and the carefulness of the Vatican +to avoid politic's, when the most sensational event of the year +1933 in Czecho-Slovakia was that the Papal Nuncio was expelled for +just such interference. He had supported the Slovak claims in a +letter which was published on August 13, 1933. We shall see later +how the French in their own interest -- disguised, of course, as a +noble effort to secure peace -- replied to the summons of the +Vatican to help it against the government of Czecho-Slovakia, but +the months of agitation over the expulsion of the Nuncio for +political reasons and the great Catholic demonstration that +followed in 1934 plainly identified the Vatican with the priest-controlled Slovak movement. In any case we are studying the action +of the Black International and need not trouble always to detect +the Roman strings that work the clerical puppets.

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This clerical Slovak movement led in the end to the utter ruin +of Czecho-Slovakia. This was after Munich, and we need not go fully +into the events which led up to that ignoble surrender. The year +1938 opened with a fair degree of tranquillity in the Republic. +There had been scandals and a serious split in the Sudeten body, +and the coalition government was willing to make reasonable +concessions to the Slovaks. They were represented by two parties in +Prague, the Slovak Catholic party and the Slovak Centralists. The +capital of the province, Bratislava, was a solid city sharing the +culture of Prague, and large numbers of its citizens were opposed +to the political priests and their hordes of ignorant peasants, and +wild-eyed mountaineers. An amiable settlement seemed possible, but +this Suited neither the ghouls of Berlin nor those of the Vatican. +Hitler in February began the series of violent attacks on the +Czecho-Slovak government, then headed by Benes, which were to +prepare the German people for the opening of his aggressive +campaign.

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He was still within the framework of Mein Kampf, concerned +only, he said, about the condition of German's outside as well as +inside the Reich. There were 10000000 of them he said, living +under oppression in Austria and the Sudeten provinces. We saw how +he went on to annex Austria, and Benes easily proved that there was +no persecution of Germans in Czecho-Slovakia. But Hitler's +extraordinary success, thanks to the Church and the cowardice of +the democracies in taking Austria without striking a blow most +gravely confirmed him in his plan to take Czecho-Slovakia and +broaden his base for a European war.

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The Slovak Clerical withdrew their support of Benes and began +to press for autonomy, and the Sudeten Catholics again raised their +clamor. It was at this stage (March 14) that France and Russia gave +an assurance of assistance to the Czechs in case they were +attacked. Great Britain gave no pledge. The French later said that +they relied on the cooperation of Britain in virtue of their treaty +of mutual defence but this did not contemplate the eventuality of +France provoking an German attack by going to the aid of a third +power. The sound criticism of Britain at this stage is that its +statesmen could not shake themselves free of their blind anti-Socialist zeal and see that the Axis had opened a career of +aggression. A combination in 1938 of the British and French fleets +and the armies of France, Russia, and Czecho-Slovakia might have +spared the world the horrors of the great war. At all events the +leading French paper, Le Temps, announced that the government had +given the Czechs an assurance of help, and the Russian press told +of a similar assurance from their side; an assurance that, unlike +the French, they have always acknowledged and were ready to honor.

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Germany at the same date, the middle of May, made one of its +solemn and nauseously hypocritical announcements to the world to +the effect that it had no designs on Czecho-Slovakia and only +wanted justice for the 3000000 Germans who lived in it. A month +later Henlein went to see Hitler in Germany, and at Carlsbad, on +German soil, he formulated the demands of the Sudetens. They had, +of course, grown remarkably larger since his interview with Hitler, +but this is not the place to repeat in detail the course of events +up to Munich. The darkest tragedy was that occupation of the whole +country which was never contemplated at Munich, and this is the +tragedy for which the Black International was plainly responsible.

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Throughout the summer of 1938 the demands of the Sudeten +Catholics grew. The Czech government made concession after +concession, but Hitler did not want concessions. He wanted refusal +and an excuse to invade. When his troops began in the late summer +to concentrate in the direction of Czecho-Slovakia Britain sent +Lord Runciman to find the bases of a compromise. Runciman was one +of those who held that any development was better than an advance +of Socialism and all that he did was to persuade the Czechs to talk +nicely to the Nazi wolf and not think of provoking him. Mussolini +helped out his gangster-friend by publishing in his own paper in +Italy an open letter to Runciman which that apostle of peace +probably took seriously. He assured Runciman that he knew from +conversation with Hitler that he had no intention whatever of doing +more than liberate the Sudeten fringe with 3000000 Germans. It +was all part of the sordid plan, but there was still in England, or +in the ruling class, a belief that Mussolini was not as +unscrupulous as Hitler.

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So Chamberlain went to Berchtesgaden and to Munich and dragged +England into that policy of appeasement which will cost the world +an incalculable number of billions of dollars and millions of +lives, waste of precious wealth, and a load of suffering under +which the planet reels. Had I been capable of weeping I would have +wept at one picture of that ignoble time: Chamberlain stepping out +of his plane at Croydon on his return from Munich. His face naively +lit with a smile like that of a school-girl who has won an

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unexpected prize, he flourished a scrap of paper before the crowd +and explained that he had Hitler's signature to a promise to keep +the agreement and not further menace the peace of Europe! The +interests of the Conservative Party had required that the fate of +an Empire Should be entrusted to such a man, and he had had +plenipotentiary power at Munich. He had at least the grace to die +when he saw the sequel. The pious Halifax still represents the +British Empire.

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Another picture comes to hand. A journalist who was present at +Munich, William L. Shirer, has just published his impressions +(Berlin Diary). He describes Hitler walking past him on that +fateful day:

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"It was a very curious walk indeed. In the first place it was +very ladylike. Dainty little steps. In the second place every few +steps he cocked his right shoulder nervously, his left leg snapping +up a he did so. I watched him closely as he came back past us. The +same nervous tic. He had ugly black patches under his eyes. He was +in a blue funk. If Britain and France had called his bluff there +might have been no world-war. At least it would have been fought +under very different conditions. And amongst the shower of +congratulations to Chamberlain on his miserable surrender was a +telegram from Cardinal Hinsley in the name of "the Catholic +archbishops and bishops of England."

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Chapter III

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THE MURDER OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA

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The Munich agreement was that Germany was to have those towns +and districts on the fringe of Czecho-Slovakia in which there was +a German majority. The self-determination of peoples is an +admirable principle, but in application it needs to be watched +carefully. If either priests or statesmen or, as in the case of +Italy and Germany, both demand a full birth rate of their people so +that the over-crowded population will ooze over the frontiers into +neighboring countries and multiply there until they become the +majority, as Mexicans might in parts of the southern States and +Japanese in parts of the eastern, they have no right whatever to +either autonomy or special privileges. A member of Wilson's staff +at Versailles told me how that statesman, baited and exhausted by +the French, clinging to his ideal of self-determination and dazed +by, names of Hungarian, Bulgarian, Polish, etc., towns about which +he knew nothing, was dragged into the blunders of that fateful +treaty. Over-population, deliberately encouraged, was one of the +chief pretexts -- it was in this case not true -- used by the arch-criminals to reconcile their own people to the idea of aggressive +war and to secure the sympathy of muddle-headed humanitarians of +the George Lansbury type abroad. Lebensraum ("space to live in") +for the noble German people was the cry -- until the time came when +the mask could be abandoned and it was changed to Grossraum, which +practically means Empire.

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Since this encouragement of the birth rate was the second +chief point -- the first was the suppression of freedom or +glorification of authority -- on which the policy of the Vatican +coincided with that of the Axis we shall have to consider it later. +At this stage it thrusts itself upon our notice because it explains +why about one-fifth of the total population of Czech-Slovakia was +found in the relatively small area of the Sudeten provinces and +another fifth in the very backward conditions of Slovakia. The +Czechs of the large and progressive central region were fully in +line with modern civilization and controlled their birth rate. It +was this prosperous central region that Hitler coveted, for he had +now, ind seeing the inertia of the western democracies, gone far +beyond his original idea of uniting all peoples of Germanic blood +in a powerful empire and securing the Ukraine as their granary. He +and Mussolini, who had lied to Runciman with all the glibness of +his type, proved this immediately by cynically ignoring the Munich +agreement and Chamberlain and robbing Czecho-Slovakia of its vital +defensive resources so that he could take it over when the time was +ripe.

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The essential evil of the surrender at Munich was that in +practice it left to Hitler and Mussolini to settle what parts of +Czecho-Slovakia were to be handed over on the sacred principle of +self-determination. In theory this, and all questions arising from +the settlement, were to be decided by representatives of the four +powers. Russia was, of course, ignored as a low-caste nation which +could not expect to sit at table with pure-blooded Nordics" and the +descendants of the Caesars; and Britain and France further +stultified themselves by agreeing to this. They very quickly found +that they had betrayed Czecho-Slovakia and, as it proved before +long, the cause of civilization. Hitler's military draftsmen +included in the territory to be ceded the powerful fortifications +and big guns and, as they saw Chamberlain still playing with his +"Scrap of paper", robbed the country of its equipment, air-force, +military resources, and chief industrial enterprises. Catholic +Poland and Hungary seized their opportunity and, like dogs +attacking a mortally wounded deer, tore pieces out of the flanks of +the distressed country, with the cordial approval of their priests. +One of the most sturdy democracies in Europe, with a large and +splendidly equipped army, a great arsenal, and an eagerness to +cooperate with Russia, was disarmed.

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But Hitler hesitated for months to take over the helpless +country. One of the foulest features of this modern imperialism as +compared with its historical predecessors is that, while it mouthed +about the tonic of war and its invincible legions, it +hypocritically denied until the last moment that it had any +imperialist ambitions and covered every move it made with a ragged +mantle of respectable pretensions and mendacious pretexts of law +and order. In this (in Austria, Abyssinia, and Spain) it had had +the close cooperation of the Black International; the 'moral' force +which professed to have the task of exposing all such immoral +conduct in every part of the world. Hitler now found a still more +useful ally in the Black International.

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Pacelli was crowned Pope on March 12, 1939. This was, as I +said, the day on which the Jews were, with terrible loss and +suffering (which he never condemned), expelled from Italy. It was +also the day on which Hitler sent a German plane to Slovakia to +bring to Berlin the Slovak priest who was to sell Czecho-Slovakia +to him for thirty pieces of silver.

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One reads in the biography of the new Pope by Ransom that +during the week after his coronation Pacelli was so beset with +problems that he gave only three hours to sleep every night. What +the problems were we do not know, but the problem that was then +agitating the whole civilized world, the problem on the solution of +which the peace of the world depended in the opinion of all +thoughtful men, was not one of them. Ransom devotes 100 pages of +his little book to the work of the overburdened Pope that year, but +he never mentions Czecho-Slovakia, though it was upon the conduct +of a priest, a prelate (or monsignore) of the Church, a man in a +position of particular interest to the Vatican, that the world-crisis mainly depended. It, indeed, depended so vitally that three +days after the Pope's coronation statesmen concluded that a +European war was inevitable. Stalin began that intensive armament +of his people for which the world is now profoundly grateful. +Britain -- it has since transpired -- began its organization to +meet a German attack, drafted the scheme of several costly war-ministers, ordered hundreds of thousands of card-board coffins for +the victims of air-raids and vast hospital spice, and even began in +a quite gentlemanly way to create a war-industry.

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Slovakia, with its almost illiterate priest-ridden population +was, as I said, the weakness of the Czecho-Slovak combination, and +now that Bohemia had lost a third of its industries and two-thirds +of its coal-mines, this poorer province had risen in importance. +Since Benes had had to fly for his life before the fury of Hitler +a blight - in large part a clerical blight -- had fallen upon the +unfortunate land. Hacha had been appointed President and he +surrounded himself with priests and Catholic politicians. Democracy +was already dead. On February 10, 1941, the New York Times quoted +this passage from the leading Czech Catholic paper.

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"There is no Catholic in Europe who would shed a tear to see +the collapse of democratic political disorder and who would not +sincerely welcome the fall of economic Liberalism, which has been +denounced by the Pope's Leading ideologist because it misuses the +working people in favor of a few capitalistic exploiters."

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The Pope's leading ideologist in America had been engaged for +twenty years in assuring the public that the democratic +institutions and economic forms at which the writer jeers are not +merely in accord with the teaching of the Church but had actually +been inspired by the great moral theologians centuries ago. We will +consider some time the encyclical of Pius XI, one of the first +fruits of Pacelli's guidance, on which this Catholic Fascism was +based. It is enough here that, though the above passage was written +two years after the disaster of 1939, the change from the fine old +Cultural order inspired by Masaryk began in 1939.

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Hacha and his colleagues at least realized that it was vital +to keep the three national elements of the State -- Bohemia-Moravia +Slovakia, and Ruthenia -- together, and the priest, Father Hlinka +who was the oracle and leader of the Catholic Slovaks, agreed. They +wanted, in order to protect their faith from the decay which it +suffered amongst the Czechs, some sort of autonomy or Home Rule +while remaining within the national unity. But Hlinka, the mediocre +kind of political priest which such a country would produce, though +an honest man, died in August (1938), urging his followers and his +successor with his last breath to cling to the union. This +successor, Msgr. Tiszo, who became well-known in the world-press in +1939 and 1940, was the second Quisling -- the Catholic Seyss-Inquart of Austria being the first -- in the long line of Papalist +traitors who have served the Axis during the last three years; and +he was a priest, in fact a monsignore -- a rank between a priest +and a bishop in the Roman Church -- not a Catholic layman whose +action might be repudiated, when this was desirable,"by the Black +International.

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Tiszo was the son of a Slovak peasant who had been taken up by +the Magyar bishop of the district and educated for the priest-hood +in Hungarian colleges. At that time, tinder the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Slovakia was under the control of the Magyars. +Whatever may be the truth about his morals -- Catholic parents made +serious charges against him in connection with a girls' college in +which he taught for a time -- he identified himself very zealously +with the interests of the Hungarians until their yoke was rejected +by the Slovaks in 1918. He then became a patriotic Slovak and in +time attached himself to Hlinka. The Czechs accused the clerical +epicure -- at least he was far from ascetic -- of chronic political +duplicity, and he certainly duped Hlinka. He succeeded to the +Slovak leadership and became Premier of the autonomous province, +and he proceeded to stir up a dangerous demand for separation and +independence. Hitler wanted disorder in Czecho-Slovakia, the usual +hypocritical pretext for taking it over. Tiszo provided it.

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Hitler knew that he was at last regarded with suspicion and +that Russia, if not the western democracies, was very industriously +arming, but he still had faith in their dread of war and their +willingness to accept any sort of plausible excuse for his actions. +His agents got into touch with Tiszo and the plot was concocted. +Since the establishment of a virtually Catholic government at +Prague Slovak grievances had relented. Tiszo raised the cry of +independence and assured his followers that Hitler would prevent +Prague from interfering with them. The news reached Prague, and +Hacha deposed Tiszo from the Premiership and dissolved his cabinet. +Tiszo, as Premier, had taken an oath to observe the Constitution, +but such oaths were always open to interpretation by a skilful +theologian. It was rumored that March 15 (1939) was fixed as the +date of the declaration of Independence.

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Prague sternly resisted, and in the intense agitation of the +country there was certainly some disorder. Tiszo appealed to Hitler +and, as I said, a plane was sent to bring him to Germany. There is +an impartial summary of the events in Keesing's Contemporary +Archives (March 18) in which these details may be read. Seyss-Inquart, the Catholic model of the Quislings, is said to have been

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sent in the plane to fetch Tiszo to Berlin, where he saw Hitler and +Ribbentrop, while the controlled German press groaned with stories +of outrages by the Czechs, as it would presently groan with charges +against the Poles. Tiszo telephoned from Berlin to his friends that +Hitler promised to support them in a declaration of independence, +and the sordid story entered upon its last chapter. The wolf began +his complaints that the Czech lamb was muddying the water for him.

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Hitler, with that air of a Persian monarch which he had now +developed, summoned Hacha to Berlin; and, with their usual felicity +of coincidence, the Catholic Hungarian government, which was +equally docile to Hitler and to the Pope, demanded that the Czechs +should give up Ruthenia. Hacha was received with military horrors +at Berlin at one in the morning, and four hours later (March 15) +Hitler ordered his troops to take over Bohemia and Moravia if Hacha +did not sign away the independence of his country. He would, he +said, if Hacha refused, order 700 bombing planes to raze the noble +city of Prague to the ground. The story of greed and treachery was +over. With pathetic gloom the New York Times announced "the +twilight of liberty in Central Europe." The world-press except the +Italian, which exulted, expressed the gravest anxiety about the +future and had no illusion about the Protectorates which Hitler +made of the three sections of the old Republic.

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What did the Vatican think of it? The murder of Czecho-Slovakia was a worse crime than the conquest of Spain or the +annexation of Austria. It was not a question of taking sides in a +civil war or of extending the German flag to a German-speaking +people. It was worse than greed, the seizure of the wealth and +resources of Czecho-Slovakia. Careful observers saw it as the first +step in the enslavement of alien peoples in the service of Germany, +the first move in a European war. But the Pope said nothing . . . +Yes, to be sure, he continued to tell the world that peace is a +very beautiful, desirable thing and war is hideous. How any +Catholic of normal mentality can imagine that these utterances of +the Pope taught the world something which it did not know or did +not vividly appreciate one cannot understand; still less how this +message of peace every Easter and Christmas was consistent with the +summons to the world during the rest of the year to make a bloody +end of Socialism in Russia and Mexico. Was it necessary for the +Pope to use the word "bloody"? No one even suggests any other +meaning of his words.

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To Roman Catholics I am a pariah, a man beyond redemption, a +writer whose corrupt gospel must not be mentioned in the press, yet +I have seen and denounced the drift of the world for the last six +or seven years. The only moralist who has any place in modern life +is the man who does not merely tell it that there is a law of +justice and that peace is precious, but points out which actions +are unjust or effectively threaten the peace of nations. That is +just what Pacelli-Pius has never done. Here was an appalling crime, +the shadow of worse things to come, perpetrated in the very first +year of his pontificate and he was dumb. A body of Catholics +muttering "the Pope of Peace" is on exactly the same psychological +level as a crowd of Nazis in the Sports-palast chanting "Heil +Hitler" or of Fascists chanting "Mussolini Solo": the psychological +level of the performing dog.

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Ought we to go further and say that the Pope did not condemn +what happened in Czecho-Slovakia because he cooperated in it by +instructions to the Black International of the Sudeten, provinces, +Prague, and Slovakia? It is one of those points which I leave open, +and the reader must please himself. But in the name of common-sense +let no Catholic suggest that the Pope was so busy, or happenings in +Czecho-Slovakia were so remote and obscure, that little attention +was paid to them at the Vatican.

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There was during the few years before the war a persistent +rumor in London that the government defied the warnings of its own +Foreign Office. However that may be, there was no such friction +after Munich. After the outbreak of war the Times had indication's +every week of plans that had begun to take shape immediately after +Hitler and Mussolini had cynically violated their Munich agreement. +There were plans of new and vast aviation-works; rich mansions and +hotels, colleges in the country were put under contract to take +government departments when war broke out; a body of leading +journalists had a secret consultation with the government. But +these things are now well known. Any statesman who did not see +spurts of blue flame and jets of sulphurous smoke issuing from the +pit after the gross violation of the Munich agreement . . . But +there was no such statesman. Did those things escape the notice of +that wonderful intelligence-service of the Vatican City and the +eagle eye of the new Pope?

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To say so would, in view of the terrible specter that rose on +the horizon, be ludicrous even if Czech-Slovakia were at the other +side of the world. But the question's that arose in Czecho-Slovakia +were just of the kind that calls for ecclesiastical intervention. +The Vatican has, besides its Secretariat of State, a number of +"congregations", with large staffs, which correspond to the +departments (trade, education, etc.) of ordinary countries. To +these congregation's questions from all parts of the Catholic world +are not only permitted. They are encouraged, for the business helps +to maintain the Pope's vast revenue and the swarm of Italian +clerical parasites who fatten in Rome. Some of them must have had +a busy correspondence with Czecho-Slovakia since 1918, when the +reaction against Austrian tyranny and the scrularization of the new +state started the disintegration of the Church. As I have said, it +lost at least a fourth of its members in ten years. But the +paramount questions were political, especially the question whether +the solid Catholicism of the Sudetens and the Slovaks should be +saved from the influence of the anti-Papal government at Prague by +securing autonomy or, in the last stage, separation. I will tell +presently how the Pope's Nuncio (ambassador) at Prague was expelled +-- an extra-ordinary occurrence in a Catholic country -- for +publicly supporting the political demands of the Slovaks. Was +Pacelli, a thorough student of German affairs, likely to take +little notice of these affairs which in any case supremely +concerned the Secretariat of State?

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Beyond question the Vatican was following the course of events +with the closest attention, and it would be ridiculous to suppose +such priests as Hlinka and Tiszo were not in complete accord with +their higher ecclesiastical authorities and through these with the +Vatican. The action of the Nuncio sufficiently proves this. Some

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day, when the great-hearted Czechs are restored by the civilization +which betrayed them the full truth will be known. Meantime I +venture upon this suggestion of Vatican policy. It was uncertain on +the question of the Sudeten Catholics and as in the early days of +Sinn Fein in Ireland, left the business to laymen. It was far from +clear whether it would be a gain or a loss to transfer a couple of +million Catholics, who were entirely free to have their Catholic +institutions and schools under the Czechs, to Nazi control. It +would please Hitler, but what was the worth of his promises? In +regard to Slovakia the policy was clear. The dense mass of ignorant +or illiterate or semi-literate Catholicism must be protected from +Czech culture and progress by autonomy or, when this coincided with +Hitler's policy, separation. But whatever one may think of this +speculation the main fact does not share its uncertainty. The Black +International vitally helped Hitler in taking the final preparatory +step for his crime against civilization.

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Chapter IV

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WHY FRANCE BETRAYED THE CZECHS

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In one of his most important and most carefully prepared +speeches, a vast American as well as British and French public +listening on the radio or reading the printed word next day (August +25, 1941), Churchill deliberately described in these words the +relation of the French to the Czechs in 1938:

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"A French government deserted their faithful ally and broke a +plighted word in that ally's hour of need.

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Note carefully that this was not an attack on the miserable +group of Catholic weaklings which was called the Vichy government. +If it were, we might allow for strong feeling and over-emphasis. +But it was a cold and responsible Statement of what had happened in +the tragic days of Munich. At that time Britain and America were +cordial friends of France, and the betrayal was softened with vague +phrases or even, since the whole world was still steeped in calumny +against the great Soviet civilization, excused on the ground that +Russia could not be trusted. In war, as in wine, the truth comes +out. France basely deserted its ally. Why?

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Military considerations lie outside my many fields of interest +but it can safely be said that they afford no justification of the +action of France. Indeed now that we see the supreme French +commanders in their true light as priest-ridden mediocrities who +put the interest of their Church above the interests of their +nation and the dictates of honor we wonder if they did not strain +these military considerations in 1938 in order to avoid an +effective alliance with Russia which the Vatican, which sought an +alliance with Germany against Russia, would bitterly resent. There +is a fallacy in the plea that events have proved that and war at +that time against Germany would have been disastrous. Neither +France (always too selfish to tax itself sufficiently for adequate +defense) nor Russia had the forces they would later develop, but

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Germany also was far short of the power it would deploy in 1941 +after being in a position for a year or two to enslave half of +Europe. The Maginot Line was complete. and the Czechs had, to the +great profit of the French Steel Trust -- a similar line, an army +limited in numbers, but of superb quality, and a stanch ally in +Russia. If Germany had turned the Maginot Line by invading Belgium +the British Fleet would be added to the coalition. The prospect was +more hopeful than in 1939 and 1940 or at any time until Russia was +drawn in.

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But can we suppose that France at any time before 1940 was +sensitive to the wishes and counsels of the Vatican? It was one of +the most irreligious countries in the world, or at least it ran +Britain close for that title. I have repeatedly quoted Catholic +admissions that only about six or seven million of its 42000000 +people were in any real sense Catholics. All its statesmen were, +and had been for more than half a century, Freethinkers (except one +Protestant) and apart from artists and literary men, whose +convictions are not conviction's in an intellectual sense, nearly +all its cultural leaders were skeptics,

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We shall study France more closely in a later book when we +have to try to understand the monumental treachery of the Catholic +military leaders, but a few points must be discussed here in order +to complete the record of the action of the Black International in +preparing the world, whether it realized what it was doing or not, +for the historic crime of the war. In an earlier chapter I +mentioned, incidentally, how in 1937 Pacelli went -- we will not +say was sent for he made his own policy -- to Paris as the Pope's +legate. This was the first time the Papacy had sent a Legate to +France since 1814. All reference-books had continued to describe it +as a Catholic country, as they do today, and few thought of +explaining this very singular attitude of the Vatican to it. But we +will return to that latter. Pacelli, who hated democracy in general +and France in particular, was so very amiable and successful that +on the following New Year's Day the gifts received by the Premier +and the Minister of Finance, both Freethinkers, included Papal +decorations.

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Naturally this was not the beginning of pleasant relations, +but I must give a very summary account of events at this stage. The +Thirty Years' War (say 1884 to 1914) of France and the Vatican +ended in the truce of 1914-1918, when the close union of all +parties in France was demanded, and this led on to such amiable +relations after the war that the very powerful French Freethought +Party was never reconstructed.

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The new element was Alsace-Loran, two solidly Catholic +provinces which they had taken over from Germany. At first the +French tried to weaken the Church in them by applying their laws +(secularization of schools, marriage, etc.) to them but the Vatican +inspired a resentment that alarmed the government. The true state +of Alsace-Loran for years after 1918 was not described in the +American and British press. It seethed with rebellions feeling, +carefully fostered by its (in Alsace at least) German-speaking and +German-hearted priests. France, expecting a German war of revenge +sooner or later, was scared and had to call in the aid of the

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Vatican; and from the richly organized Catholic communities of +Alsace-Loran, the clerical zeal spread to north-eastern France. +There was, French Catholics admitted, no flood of conversions, but +the mere fact of the annexation had raised the Church in France +from a body of 5000000 to a body of about 7000000, and it was +of the highest political importance to be on good terms with the +Vatican.

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So the frivolous folk of Paris saw strange things which had, +they thought, been relegated to ancient history; exchange of +representatives at Paris and Rome, the canonization of Joan of Arc, +a Papal Legate embracing their very skeptical leaders, and so on. +In 1904 I had attended a huge International Congress of +Freethinkers at Paris and had on Sunday walked in a procession of +200000 while the whole city seemed to cheer us. Twenty years later +I attended another Freethought Congress in Paris. No more than 200 +attended the largest meetings, and the city did not take the +slightest interest. An aged ex-Minister who had been in the van of +the anti-clerical struggle form 1890 to 1910 told me that for +political reasons Freethought was dead and the Church very much +alive. I was not altogether surprised. Two years earlier I had been +in Athens, in fact in the British Legation there, when the Greek +foreign minister had come with the news of the terrible defeat of +the Greeks by the Turks. The French had been guilty of an act of +treachery of which the older France would have been incapable. It +had Supplied the Turks, the minister said, with guns, tanks, and +officers against the Greeks.

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Here I need consider only how the new policy affected the +relations of France with Czecho-Slovakia. The government had with +the support of the deputies from Alsace-Loran and in face of the +violent protests of the Radicals sent an ambassador to Rome and +received a Nuncio at Paris. When the Radicals were put in power in +1924 they tried to abolish this arrangement, but the clergy +defeated them again through the Catholic deputies of Alsace-Loran. +From that time the Pope's representative in Paris had considerable +influence and there were frequent deals with the Vatican. The +royalist movement, which was gaining ground and was mainly +Catholic, was repeatedly checked by the Church at the request of +the government. For the first time since Napoleon French Catholic +writers (royalists) made drastic attacks on Rome, accusing it of +traffic with the "blasphemous laicism" of the French government. +The government had to pay for the Church's services.

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One of the return services of the government concerned Czecho-Slovakia. In 1933 the Papal Nuncio at Prague was, as I said, +expelled by the Czechs for political interference in publicly +supporting the Slovak movement. The Vatican retorted by organizing +a gorgeous festival at Prague in honor of the eleventh centenary of +some medieval saint who was supposed to have introduced +Christianity into the country, and the French were used to persuade +their allies, the Czechs, to take part and adjust the quarrel over +the Nuncio. The French Cardinal Verdier was one of the most +conspicuous figures in the ceremonies.

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In 1936 the French signed their pact with Soviet Russia. What +Pacelli, who began this year to call repeatedly for war on +Bolshevism, thought about it one can imagine, but we may defer that +question. The Pact drew France, Russia, and Czecho-Slovakia into an +alliance which seemed to be of such importance for the security of +France and the peace of Europe that the feelings of the Church had +to be disregarded. But in creating all the bitterness that it could +against Russia by a false representation that it persecuted +religion the Church added considerably to the confusion which +distracted French attention from the urgent need to increase its +armament. French Communists reacted as one would expect, and the +royalists and Fascists derived new strength from the disorder.

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If we recall that the Church also had representatives of the +most fanatical loyalty in the highest military councils we begin to +understand that element of the perfidy of 1938 which concerns us +here. France was morbid and demoralized during several years before +the way, but we did not then imagine that its great soldiers were +convinced that lack of religion was the root of all its troubles +and that the authority of the Church must be reestablished at any +cost to the nation, even the sacrifice of that honor of which it +was so proud. The final word in 1938 when the Czechs called upon +the French to redeem their pledge, was with the Catholic heads of +the army and navy: Petain, Weygand, and Darlan. Is it a mere +coincidence that they refused to fight for Czecho-Slovakia, which +the Vatican was not interested in protecting, yet, without any +further large addition to their forces in the intervening year, +decided to fight for Poland, in which the Vatican was passionately +interested? Had Pacelli already the idea that a France so +humiliated and weakened that two priest-ridden old men could make +it fall upon its knees once more might be linked with Italy, Spain, +and Portugal in a bloc or League of Catholic powers? We do not +know.

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So the Czechs were sacrificed to the butchers under whom they +suffer so appallingly today. The French complain that Britain did +not support them.

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Britain was under no pledge to do so in a contingency of that +nature and had no army to speak of. But it would certainly have +been forced in by public opinion, and its fleet would have been a +powerful support. A British author who had exceptional sources of +information told me that the ships were stripped ready for war, as +they had also been during the German and Italian insolence in +Spain, and groans and curses followed the news of appeasement from +London. We were, relatively to Germany's resources, hardly better +prepared in 1939 than in 1938, and the cause in 1938 would have +been far more inspiring, while the aid of Russia was certain.

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Msgr. Tiszo returned from his treachery in Germany and took +over the petty Protectorate of Slovakia. He now showed his complete +dependence on Rome and Berchtesgaden. In the summer of 1929 he +drenched Bratislava, where many still cherished in secret the +culture of the Czechs, with Pacelli's anti-Bolshevism and vilified +the great memory of Masarvk. When Hitler hypocritically entered +upon a peace-compact with Russia Tiszo again changed his tune. He +sent his cousin as representative of Slovakia in Moscow and sent a

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telegram of congratulation to Stalin on his sixtieth birthday. Was +he fully aware (as Stalin was) that the whole pretence of German +friendship was one of those tricks by which the invincible legions; +tried to weaken their opponents in advance?

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He at all events strangled democracy and freedom on the lines +of the "great encyclical" of Pius XI. The Catholic Tablet (July 27, +1940) said that the Vatican Radio, announcing that the blear-eyed +Petain was going to "reconstruct France on a Christian basis" by +suppressing liberty and sacrificing prosperity, added with joy that +Tiszo had already done this in Czecho-Slovakia. Another section of +the earth won for Pacelli's grand plan of a league of theocratic-Fascist states sworn to extinguish Socialism. But in all these +matters man proposes and Hitler disposes. Already it is announced +that Tiszo is under the frown of the Fuhrer, and it looks as if he +will join the disillusioned band of Quislings (Henlein, Seyss-Inquart, etc.) who were to be lifted to power by the German giant.

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Chapter V

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ON THE EVE OF THE WORLD-TRAGEDY

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In the summer of 1938, between the tragedy of Munich and that +of Prague. Pacelli went to preside at the Eucharistic Congress at +Buda-Pesth. He was housed royally in the royal castle, and the +fleet-less Admiral Horthy had long and very cordial conversations +with him. Hungary is counted a Catholic country because 64.9 of its +population is described as Catholic. It is Fascist, but as the star +of Mussolini paled before that of Hitler, Horthy had linked the +fortune of the state he despotically controlled with that of +Germany. German armies could march through Hungary or use its +stretch of the Danube whenever they needed. It had been unjustly +treated at Versailles, and it looked to Hitler as it had earlier +looked to Mussolini, to recover for it a large and rich slice of +Yugo-Slavia. It was another of Hitler's bloodless victories and, as +he had the sense not to interfere with Hungary's Church or +institution's, the Papacy was content. It was one more Catholic +Fascist state for the grand alliance, and Czecho-Slovakia was +already doomed in the eyes of thoughtful observers.

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The year 1939 then opened with very grave anxiety in all +democratic lands. What would be the feeling of the Black +International outside those countries?

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You have only to turn back a few years and compare its feeling +at the time when, at the beginning of 1930, Pacelli virtually took +over the rule of the Church. Then the Church of Rome was +disintegrating more rapidly than ever before. The steady loss by +leakage until 1914 had been succeeded, as I showed, by a +catastrophic loss of between 50000000 and 100000000 in about +ten years. Russia, the principal source of the new corroding force, +had made good and was preparing to offer to the world something +which Rome had always declared impossible: a great civilization +built without the least religious inspiration, for no one questions

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that the constructive class in Russia was entirely atheistic. +Without anything that could justly be called persecution of +religion this class had communicated its atheism to something like +100000000 people within its own frontiers, won tens of millions +in China and even French Indo-China and Siam, and crossed the +Pacific and devastated the Church from Mexico to Patagonia. The +same influence had pervaded Europe and had in Germany and the +southern half of the continent detached tens of millions of +Catholic's from the Church. I have given the figures and the +evidence.

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Such had been the situation and the outlook of the Church in +1929. In the ten years of Pacelli's tenure of office as Secretary +of State there had been a dramatic change. The triumphant spread of +Russian irreligion had been completely arrested, and that country +was isolated by a great wall of international hatred and slander. +Italy and Spain were again prostrate at the feet of the priests. We +will not say that it did not matter two pins to the Vatican whether +the men who went to church and sent their children to Catholic +schools once more were blessing or cursing the Church in their +hearts as long as they obeyed, but we may certainly say that it was +regarded by the Black International as a magnificent triumph that +the tens of millions of apostates dare not open their lips and that +their children were all handed over to the priest. Italy and Spain +were once more Catholic countries. Portugal and Hungary were in +line, and, while Germany, resisting both threats and blandishments, +was still a very unsatisfactory ally, it had at least destroyed the +Socialist-Communist force that had made havoc in the Church. The +proud anti-Papalism of Czecho-Slovakia was in the dust, and France +was on cordial terms with the Vatican. The rot (liberation?) had +been stopped in South America, which presented an almost unbroken +compulsory-Catholic front, and in the Far East the alliance with +Japan opened up a golden prospect of a Catholic monopoly of +missions in the one-fourth of the earth over which the flag of the +Rising Sun was expected to wave.

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That -- again I am just summarizing facts of which I have +given full evidence -- was the situation in the Spring of 1939 when +Pacelli reaped his reward and became Pope; and American Catholic +literature assures you that he piously hated limelight and desired +only to be an obscure parish priest moving amongst the obscure +poor! Our newspapers have today "experts on religion" as "Church +editors" just as they have political, financial, or international +experts. These men never enlarge on this most spectacular religious +development since the Reformation. In a single generation the +Church of Rome lost and regained at least one-third of its members. +These "experts on religion" would probably be startled and +incredulous if you told them that, though I have proved it line by +line. They are too busy talking nonsense about the Church in Russia +or describing parochial triumphs and quarrels.

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But why does not the Catholic journalist or orator dilate on +this dramatic development? In the first place because he does not +wish to call attention to or acknowledge the Stupendous losses of +the Church from 1919 to 1929, which he has always denied. He +prefers the miracle of the tail wagging the dog; the theory that +small minorities of wicked men somehow get power in spite of rich

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and formidable bodies of priests, all the conservative elements, +and the overwhelming majority of the nation! That explains Mexico +and South America, Vienna and Spain. Exact -- that is to say +truthful -- analysis is as rare in this field as decency is amongst +Nazis or Fascists.

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In the second place, and chiefly, he very certainly does not +want to draw attention to the fact that whatever losses the Church +sustained from 1919 to 1929 occurred in an atmosphere of free +discussion while the gains were won entirely by coercion and +violence. That sounds like one of those generalizations which +suppress exceptions and reserves for the sake of strength. It is +not. It is an accurate generalization of facts which we have now +seen and it requires no qualification whatever. The only apparent +exception is Russia, but the Church of Rome was always small in +that country so that its losses are a slender element in the total; +and it was more Polish than Russian and entirely pledged, as we +shall see, to the war against the Soviets, so that it suffered on +political grounds. In Mexico the losses preceded the application of +the laws (passed long before) which punished political activity on +the part of the clergy and do not make an exception to my general +statement. But the great losses, the losses in ten's of millions, +in Germany, Italy, Austria, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia, and South +America were the result of free discussion and the enlightenment of +the people.

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From 1929, when Mussolini made his infamous compact with the +Vatican, onward the area of free discussion has been steadily +reduced, and in each country in which freedom and democracy have +been replaced by the tyranny of Fascism the Church has recovered +ground. The only exception to this is Germany, and it is not an +exception in principle because, though the Church was not here in +alliance with violence this was only because its offer of alliance +was spurned. Let us understand clearly what happened. We are not +asked to believe that the 30000000 apostates of Spain and Italy, +for instance, have become once more Catholics in their conviction +and affections, any more than the 10000000 apostates under the +Vichy government have. They probably in their own minds curse the +Church more bitterly than ever. But all organizations and +literature which criticized the Church and told people the truth +about its history and its real aims were suppressed, and all +children were compelled to receive religious lessons and breathe a +Catholic atmosphere. The spread of the revolt was thus drastically +checked and the people were treated as Catholics and subjects of +Canon Law. The Church considered that it had recovered its ground.

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This recovery by coercion had to be affected in every case by +an alliance with the secular powers. The Church had never known any +other means of regaining lost masses except by alliance, for mutual +profit, with tyranny and violence, and it now found that, by an +extraordinary piece of good fortune for itself, the secular powers +which had formerly bludgeoned its rebels for it and seemed to have +lost forever the power to do so, recovered the use of the whip and +the firing squad. The Church's recovery in the last ten years does +not imply any genius in the person of its guide, Pacelli-Pius. The +reaction against Communism began long before he became Secretary of +State. He had only to link the Church with the powers of darkness

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which gathered strength in his time, and this was no new discovery +of ecclesiastical statesmanship. That is why in the preceding books +I have given a good deal of historical information. Without it you +cannot fully understand the contemporary situation.

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So the Black International pledged the Church to a policy of +violence and tyranny, since this was the only possible way in which +it could recover the ground it had lost. If there is one real +miracle about the Church of Rome it is the loyalty of the normal +educated Catholic layman to his clergy. Very large numbers of the +faithful are of the type that tells you that it "never reads the +paper's" but I am thinking of the men who read their daily and +discuss its contents just as you do. They read one year of Italy +passing under the combined rule of Fascism and the Church and the +violent suppression of all Socialist, Communist, Rationalist, and +any other literature that caters to non-Catholics. A few years +later it is South America, then Spain, then Austria, then Czecho-Slovakia. During all these years they are reading books or articles +by Catholic writers who assure America that their Church is the +ideal champion of freedom and democracy, and they know that in +these countries where Church and Fascist authorities have combined +millions -- they could easily find that it is tens of millions -- +of men and women have been robbed of the kind of freedom they +treasure most and bullied into conformity with what they regard as +false. They know this much at least, however much the press and +their priests conspire to conceal the imprisonment of tens of +thousands and the groans of tortured men in the jails. Does your +Catholic friend really agree with his priest that this complete +suppression of free discussion is necessary to guard the faith, and +that million's of sullen, reluctant, bitter-hearted folk driven +into submission by violence are a gain to it or to the World?

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There is another feature of this on which I have as yet made +no comment. The last ten years have witnessed not only the +appearance of a vast amount of tyranny, torture, and bloodshed, but +also a general degradation of character in which all sense of +honor, truthfulness, and manliness seems to have been lost. +Agreements between nations have become as cynical as they were in +the days of Caesar Borgia and Pope Leo X. more than fifty such +international agreements, treaties, pacts, etc., have been solemnly +signed and sealed in the last twenty years, and tossed aside like +broken toy's a few years later. Statesmen must now sign such pacts +in the spirit in which Roman augurs once winked at each other over +the altars. To deceive another state is a diplomatic ideal. No +means to gain the end of a state -- from castor-oil to opium, from +prostitution to castration -- is too foul to be used. Fluency in +lying is almost the first qualification for office; and the men who +talk most about honor are completely destitute of any sense of it.

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I would ask the reader to reflect here very carefully. +Certainly not the whole of civilization is thus degraded. Your +nation and mine -- America and Great Britain -- have many faults, +but we should justly resent the application of this description to +them. Today we may add Russia; and there are Sweden, Denmark, +Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, and many countries. In fact, is it not +the literal truth that it is only the allies of the Black +

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International that have thus degraded and debauched the standard of +personal and collective life? Let the Catholic who finds a triumph +of his Church in the last ten years reflect on that. It is part of +the price that the Church has had to pay.

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And the greater price was still to come. Pacelli had, through +the local hierarchies at least, blessed war, in Spain, Abyssinia, +and Czecho-Slovakia. He was still in 1939 alternating between +beautiful praise of peace and demands of war upon Russia and +Mexico. We need not linger to wonder how far he realized what he +had done with his alliances, but all the world now knows it. He had +helped to set the stage for the vilest and bloodiest war in +history. He had helped and courted the three powers which were +pledged to launch this war, and for the most sordid greed that ever +moved an army. What did Pius XII and his Black International do +when the hellish bugles sounded and the black flag was unfurled?

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THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 6

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THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE

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HOW THE NEW POPE TALKED PEACE +AND WORKED FOR WAR

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CHAPTER

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I The Church Crowns the Papal Policy ........... 1

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II The Pope's Peace Efforts ......... 9

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III Poland Pays for its Piety .............. 17

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IV The German Church and the War .......... 25

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THE CHURCH CROWNS THE PAPAL POLICY

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At the close of the book on the monstrous perfidy of the Black +International in Czecho-Slovakia I asked: What did Pius XII, the +new Pope, and his local hierarchies do when the hellish bugles +sounded and the black flag was unfurled?

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In our day-to-day reading of the crowded events of our time, +under the changing strain of feelings which one day are warmed with +stories of heroism and next day are chilled with despair, we +naturally lose sight of whatever continuity there is in the +bewildering procession. We could not readily answer such questions +as this, although it refers to only two years ago. But I have +prepared the reader for the answer. The Black International has +pursued a consistent policy during the last ten years, to say +nothing of earlier times. It has fawned upon the three Powers which +had already by 1930 openly exhibited such shameless programs of +greed and barbaric violence that the war was inevitable. I have

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proved that. So the answer to our question also is inevitable. The +Black International clung still to the arch-enemies of the human +race through all their crimes and atrocities as long as they had a +confident prosPect of victory.

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Will it change its policy when that prospect changes to one of +defeat and dire punishment? I write with the hum of war-planes +overhead, the slender fingers of the searchlights probing for the +enemy that would make a shuddering pulp of us. Round me are the +horrid gaps in the rows of little peaceful homes from which I have +seen the men -- the garbage-men of a "New Order" -- bring out the +shrouded, crumpled forms of the dead. In the press daily are the +rumble of a struggle in Russia that surpasses everything in the +calendar of human folly and perversity and the tremulous +foreshadowing of an agony that the winter may bring upon +200000000 broken-hearted folk. The end is not in sight, and I +have no gift of prophecy. But should, as I confidently expect, the +heroism of the Russian people hurl back the advancing wave of +savagery and give us an unwavering hope of victory the Papacy will +change its policy.

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Remember the last war. The Papacy supported Germany, which had +promised it the usual reward -- more power and wealth to the Church +-- even against Italy, but as soon as America entered the arena and +the defeat of Germany seemed probable, it recollected that the Pope +is the Great Neutral. The signs of change already flicker in the +press, but notice how feeble, how anonymous, how easily repudiated +they are as long as the terrific might of Germany still rears its +brutal head! Whatever be the next or the final phase, let the world +never forget how the Papacy helped its deadly and unscrupulous +enemies during the long years of corrupt preparation and supported +them during two years of shuddering criminality. The one virtue +which its best apologists claim for it that it preached the virtues +of peace, did but help to dope the innocent nations while the +crooks armed themselves. At least from 1936 onward war was +inevitable because Japan, Germany, and Italy could attain the +objects to which they were openly pledged by no other means, and +they saw the rest of the world so beguiled with their pipe-dream of +peace that it seemed to them safe to open the insidious campaign.

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And in case the reader has become to some extent confused by +the mass of details and testimonies which it has been necessary to +give in support of this indictment let us sum up and formulate very +clearly the charges against the Black International. The intimate +connection of the Vatican by solemn agreements and the exchange of +ambassadors with Japan, Italy, and Germany and with such satellites +of theirs as Franco Spain, Vichy, Portugal, Hungary, etc., is a +fact of ordinary record. A desperate apologist might say that this +has no more significance than the diplomatic relations of other +neutral powers with those countries. The Catholic apologist is so +accustomed to writing for his own people, who are forbidden under +pain of hell to read criticisms of what he says, and treated with +such generosity in the general press that there is no limit to his +audacity. Listen to this. On the very day on which I write this I +receive a letter from a correspondent who tells me that a Catholic +to whom he spoke of the infamous agreement of Mussolini and the +Pope in 1929 denies that there ever was such a compact and that it

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is just one of McCabe's lies! Can you beat that? The Concordat and +Treaty were editorially discussed in every paper in the world, +especially the Catholic papers, which hailed the agreement as a +superb triumph of Papal diplomacy, and it seems impossible that a +Catholic should not know that the Vatican City and all its +privileges (independence, radio, etc.) only began with and were +founded by that treaty.

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There is one fundamental difference between the position of +secular powers that exchange ambassadors and courtesies with the +Vatican and that of the Vatican itself: to say nothing of the fact +that these powers make no pretence of moral responsibility and +spiritual guidance of the world. They have not in Germany or Italy +a black army of 50000 to 100000 servants under their control -- +bishops, priests, monks, nuns, religious brothers, organizers, +teachers, journalists, etc. -- which professes that it has to build +the character of the nation. The Vatican has. It is one of the +loudest boasts of the Church of Rome over its rivals that it is +international, its various national branches being entirely subject +to the Vatican, and that this gives it a unique power to judge +events from the universal moral, not the narrow national viewpoint.

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What, then, are the vices of this triumvirate of poisoning +nations which the Vatican ought, on its own profession, to have +denounced to the world instead of protecting them by friendly +alliance? It will be enough here to select three.

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The first is that the war for which they are responsible is +the most bestial in modern history because it is a war of naked +greed. Shires tells us in his Berlin Diary that he once said this, +in less blunt language, to the Nazi Economic Minister Funk, and the +man admitted that the aim of it was to secure "the maximum economic +opportunity" for Germany. Notoriously its aim is to concentrate +industrial production in Germany or to permit it in subject +countries, which are to provide food and raw material -- a much +less profitable service -- only under German control. Japan won +over the mass of its workers to the plans of its militarists and +capitalists by just the same bait. Even the leaders of the Social +Mass (Socialist) Party support the Chinese Incident. They say that +the British workers have a good status because the country seized +vast colonies overseas and exploits them. I should like to hear +them tell an Australian, Canadian, or South African that his +country is a "colony" and is exploited by Great Britain. In Italy +the original idea was the same. The chief argument of the +government during the Abyssinian War was that the country contained +at vast amount of undeveloped wealth which would raise the income +of every class in Italy. Today, it is true, they complain that the +word Axis is heard no longer, and that their German overlords +brutally tell them that the destiny of Italy is to be a playground +and kitchen-garden for Germans. But a share in the vast spoils of +the war was the lure that brought them into it.

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It is a much-disputed point whether all modern wars can be +brought under an economic formula. In the case of the present war +there is no dispute. Mussolini and Hitler may have medieval dreams +of conquest and empire, and the Japanese fanatics may talk about

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the divine mission of the Yamata race to uplift the world, but the +real motive is that the division of the earth into two spheres of +influence means incalculable wealth for Germany and Japan and huge +fortunes for their politicians, bankers, and industrialists.

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That is the war the Pope helped to bring on. It promised more +wealth and power to the Church. It meant the paralysis of +industrial development and its consequences -- education, urban +life, free discussion and the growth of Socialism and skepticism -- +in the countries in which the Papacy had lost most heavily. Notice +what is happening in France. Petain makes no secret of his design +to destroy the old industrial life in the interest of the Church. +Even if you think a bunch of Italian clerics hardly capable of a +world-plot so subtle as this you have their cry, repeated for years +throughout the Church, for the destruction of Bolshevism and +Liberalism, the most prolific sources of rebellion against the +Papacy. Whichever way you take it the Black International has, for +its own profit, lent its aid in preparing the conditions of success +of the most sordid war of greed in modern history and has in each +country, through the local Church, boisterously supported every +step that Was taken in the direction of world-domination.

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The second general vice is that the ambition of these Powers +has led to a quite repulsive degradation of the standards of public +conduct. Here there is no possibility of pleading ignorance on the +part of the simple-minded Vatican. The Nazis have lied to and duped +the Papacy itself repeatedly since their first bargain with it in +1933, and four-fifths of its complaints about Germany and Italy are +grumbles that the Concordats which were solemnly signed have not +been observed. Even Japan is now beginning to give it serious +concern by its scheme to make Christianity purely national and +independent of foreign influence.

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Broadly we have seen years of such lying, treachery, and +corruption as we thought that we had buried forever. Nearly a +hundred pacts, treaties, or international agreements of one kind or +other have been signed in the last 20 years and cynically disowned +as soon as it was expedient. An Australian paper, The Vigilant, +sends me a copy of an issue in which it quotes Hitler's solemn +assurance of non-aggression to every country he has attacked or +annexed. "Germany neither intends nor wishes", he says in 1935, "to +interfere in the international affairs of Austria, to annex +Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss." His books show that he +wished and intended it long before that time. "The Sudetenland is +the last territorial claim I have to make in Europe," he said on +September 26, 1938. Within a few month's he took the whole of +Czecho-Slovakia and began to prepare for Poland. "Germany has +concluded a non-aggression pact with Poland and she will adhere to +it unconditionally", he had told Poland and Europe. So with +Holland, Belgium, and Yugo-Slavia. And all Germany Heil Hitlered +when on June 22, 1941, he said, with his usual ferocious solemnity: +"When the German Reich gives a guarantee, that means that it also +abides by it."

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It is not only that the leading statesmen of the aggressor +nations have lied so brazenly and cynically for years that the +problem of the future historian will not be their psychology but

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that of the democratic statesmen. No trick has been too dirty to +use. The corruptor, or advance-agent, was considered as respectable +as the missionary. Japanese young "ladies" prostituted themselves +in the good cause in China and Mongolia, and in France dames of the +highest elegance used their charms for Germany and the Church. +Japanese and German gold corrupted even Russians. Buddhist monks +were used in Southern Asia, and women and promises of advancement +everywhere to provide the miserable brood of traitors, almost a +novelty of our age, whom we call Quislings. In short, the near-success of the trinity in crime was won by as vast and +comprehensive a debasement of our standards of honor as had not +been known in Europe since those flowers of the Age of Faith -- the +Age of Chivalry and the Renaissance.

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Now not even a Bernard Shaw or an Aldous Huxley will say that +this foulness, this reversion to pre-civilized ways of living, is +found on all sides. Paradox is amusing but a paradox of that sort +would be revolting. Certainly we all have our faults. I write for +men and women who discount the utterances of statesmen and bishops +and do not see the present struggle as a Miltonian conflict of +angels and devils. We are poor enough, heaven knows, and much of +the motivation of our conduct even in this war is far from angelic. +But that this corruption of the standards of conduct is +overwhelmingly on one side will be generally recognized. It is on +the side of the Pope's allies; and it has done incalculable harm to +the democracies, for whom he has not a good word.

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And the third vice, closely connected with this, is the +bestiality with which the friends of the Vatican have conducted the +campaign to attain their bestial greeds. A war inspired by such a +purpose could not very well be otherwise. It is on the gangster +level. Fear of retaliation has restrained that use of poison-gas +which we expected but the horrors thicken as I write. We thought +that we had reached a stage when soldier's recognized the rights of +man and confined their killing within certain lines. Now some blond +beast in Paris or Prague, to get praise or higher profit from his +Fuhrer, shoots fifty entirely innocent men for the act of an +unknown. Bulgar officers bloodily exterminate whole villages. +Russian villagers are shut in their houses and burned alive. The +food of children is stolen in Denmark and Holland. Japanese +officers indulge themselves or their men in rape and force opium +upon the Chinese. Gestapo men, trained in Hitler Colleges to give +the rein to sadistic impulses . . . But you have read enough about +these things.

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What does the Pope say about this conduct of his allies? +Nothing. It would be "interference in polities" to notice what the +Italians did in Abyssinia or are doing in Greece and Yugo-Slavia, +what the Germans -- But I beg the Pope's pardon. He has twice used +very eloquent and moving language about outrages. You may not think +two protests in five years of bestiality a very high record for a +Pope. In fact, if we look into them the protests are not so +impressive. On January, 22, 1940 he referred to Poland in a +broadcast address and lamented that he heard of "infamy of all +kinds" and "horrible and inexcusable excesses." What did his German +allies say to that? Nothing. You see, he was referring to the +Russians. He said that he had heard that these outrages were "not +confined to districts under Russian occupation." We must, it is

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true, make some allowance for the Pope's ignorance. He evidently +imagined that the Russians had taken over some ten million Pole's +and were beating the life out of them, whereas, as the rest of us +know, the Russians had taken back only White Russians and +Ukrainians and were only too eager to make them feel at home in the +Soviet Union. In any case, although the press was still acridly +anti-Russian no responsible paper even suggested that they were +committing outrages.

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A little earlier a censure of the seizure of part of Finland +by Russia had shown that the eagle eye of the Vatican ranged even +over the frozen north in search of outrages to rebuke -- if they +were not committed by its allies. There were many of us who did not +at that time know what Russia had offered for the territory and how +vitally necessary it was in view of the coming war, but we knew +that Russians did not behave like the Pope's friends. The Papal +organ, however, the Osservatore Romano, surpassed itself -- +especially as it had never condemned outrages before. It had such +lyrical passages as:

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"After twenty years of Bolshevik tyranny it now appears that +Communism which had already suppressed political liberty, stilled +individuality, reduced work to the status of slavery, and erected +violence into, a system, has added a new pearl to its diadem . . ." +After hounding men it now hounds nations.

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The Papacy complaining that some other institution stifles +individuality is rich, and one cannot help reflecting today that +for slaves the Russian workers fight with remarkable spirit. But +these are incidental trifles such as we pick up in all Papal +pronouncements. The broad comment on this Vatican rebuke of +aggression is this: by that time Germany had drenched the Jews with +horrors, carried out its infamous Blood Purge, and savagely +destroyed Czecho-Slovakia. Italy had perpetrated the grossest +outrages in Abyssinia and Albania, and Japan had overrun five +province's of China and treated tens of millions of the Chinese +with barbarity. The Vatican, which had representatives of the three +Powers in the Papal Court, had seen none of this wanton and +monstrous aggressiveness and its accompanying savagery. Just as +today it knows nothing about the savagery that is being perpetrated +on Serbs, Greeks, and other conquered peoples. But the moment +Russia enters upon a normal military operation -- not after a +treacherous pact of friendship, but after an earnest effort to +bargain for what it vitally needed -- the Pope ceases to be the +Great Neutral and discovers that he is the supreme judge of the +moral life of the world.

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The Russians committed no outrages in either Finland or the +provinces they recovered from Poland, although Poland had, as I +will show presently, shamefully persecuted those provinces for +twenty years. Today the Germans are in Russia and are surpassing +their own record of brutality. Mr. Winston Churchill does not love +Russia, so when he says that he has, officially, full and solid +information about the German atrocities we have to believe him. On +August 24 he said, speaking of Germany, in a carefully-prepared +broadcast:

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"As her armies advance whole districts are being exterminated. +Scores of thousands -- literally scores of thousands -- of +executions in cold blood are being perpetrated by the German +police-troops. Since the Mogul invasion of Europe in the sixteenth +century there has never been methodical, merciless butchery on such +a scale or approaching such a scale."

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On September 29 he spoke again about "the absolutely +frightful, indescribable atrocities which the German police-troops +are inflicting on the Russian population in the rear of the advance +of their armored soldiers."

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But the Pope has less to say than ever. One might gather from +the Catholic papers that he is so busy praying for peace that he +cannot maintain his customary moral survey of the world. Bunk. Not +even the banks and exchanges are watching the ebb and flow of the +red tide in Russia and calculating the chances of the issue more +carefully than the Vatican. He will not utter a word of censure +until we know that Germany is beaten. The common decent German +soldier is sickened by the infamies committed by the Nazi-trained +troops and police under Nazi leaders. A letter to his wife that was +found on the body of one ran:

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"I hate the day when I was born in Germany. I am shocked by +what goes, on in our army in Russia. Vice, loot, violence, murder, +murder, and murder. We destroy old men, women, and children and +kill simply for the sake of killing . . . If I survive the Russian +bullets and shells I will, in my present mood, perish from a German +bullet."

+ +

Evidence accumulates daily that the Italian people and +soldiers, and most of the officers, are sick of the bestial +alliance into which Mussolini, with the cowardly connivance of the +King and the blessing of the Vatican, has drawn them. But the Pope +says nothing. The German and Italian clergy, 100000 of them +besides paid officials, still cry whoopee.

+ +

Will the Catholics of America and Britain try, when the day of +human judgment comes, to throw all the blame on Secretary of State +Pacelli who is now Pope Pius XII? It would not be surprising. A +year or two ago the plea was that the poor, harassed, aged Pope +felt that he must in the general interest of the Church let Spanish +bishops rejoice over the brutalities in Spain, Italian bishops lead +their people in cheering for the "victories" in Abyssinia and +Albania, and German bishops rub shoulders with the Nazis. Now they +discover that, as we or they knew all along, behind the Pope, +issuing orders in his name, was the vigorous Pacelli, Will they, +when the war is over or the tide of battle definitely turns, say +that the Church was compromised by a man of unfortunate character?

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We may have to defend poor Pacelli against the archbishops and +cardinals who lifted him to the skies a couple of years ago. He is +no more inhuman than my of themselves. He is a man of normal but +controlled sentimentality. In more fortunate circumstances he might +have been a successful Roman lawyer or banker, kind and generous to +his wife or some blonde baby. He is just a stricter churchman, more +narrowly concentrated on the interests of the Church, than any of +the others, and that is precisely why they made him Pope.

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And as far as one can penetrate the august secrets of these +proceedings it was not so much the Italian as the foreign, +including the British and American cardinals, who turned a wavering +scale in his favor. Pius XI, of unhappy memory -- no Pope in modern +times had been so severely criticized by Catholic writers of +several countries -- died on February 10, 1940, and the cardinal +voters flew to Rome. The world learned how scrupulous is the +procedure of the Church, the cardinals are locked in a room where +they sleep and eat (and drink) until two-thirds of them agree upon +a Pope.

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What -- incidentally -- the world did not learn was the rather +amusing meaning of this Conclave (or "'shut in with a key"). The +history of Papal elections for the last sixteen centuries, or since +the Papacy became rich, beats the history of presidential elections +to a frazzle for bribery, intrigue, and good honest fighting. If +you read French and can get it read Petrucelli della Gattina's +Histoire diploinatique des Conclaves (4 vols, 1864-6), though you +will find a good deal of the material in miss V. Pirie's Triple +Crown (1935). However, in 1271 the cardinals who were assembled for +an election in the Italian provincial town of Viterbo so disgusted +the towns folk by wrangling for three years that the civic +authorities locked them in a room and saw that none of them left it +or intrigued with outsiders until they elected a Pope. From that +date Conclaves began, though it must be confessed that the new +institution by no means put an end to bribery, intrigue, and +fighting.

+ +

On March 2, Pacelli was elected. Unlike profane elections that +of a Pope begins with a very solemn invocation of the Holy Ghost -- +it did even in the days when the bribery ran to a million dollars +and the murders to 200 -- and then there are grave deliberations, +and the cardinals visit each other in their cells (the cubicles +into which part of the room is divided). After each vote the papers +are burned and the smoke is conducted out by a pipe so that the +Romans shall see. We thus know that there were three "scrutinies", +or examinations of votes, so that it took a considerable time for +Pacelli to get the necessary two-thirds of the votes. In other +words, although he was certainly the ablest candidate, the best +expert on international affairs, and the best linguist, more than +half the cardinals were at first opposed to him. It is useless to +speculate on the reasons, but we receive with skepticism the report +that German and Italian cardinals tried to prevent his election at +the bidding of Hitler and Mussolini. Had Pacelli as Secretary of +State not done enough for them? The best authority, the Pope's +biographer Rankin, says that the non-Italian cardinals carried the +day for him.

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The final vote is said to have been unanimous, as was very apt +to happen when it was seen that other candidates had no chance. In +other words -- this is why I enter into detail -- the Church put a +crown not merely on the head of Eugenio Pacelli, but on the policy +he had pursued for ten years. We will remember that if a day comes +when American and British prelates try to disavow that policy. It +is probably true that he fooled them by his suave assurances when +he visited England and America that he was a friend of democracy +and peace. But it would be juster to say that they fooled

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themselves. The Catholic Teeling, a layman, was fully aware and +gave it as a fact of common Catholic knowledge, that the Vatican +had for years been making every effort to counteract western +[democratic] influence, which is not considered very good for the +Church (The Pope in Politics, p. 3). The American cardinals and +prelates who reported after his visit to the United States in 1936 +that he was "a great friend of democracy" knew that his visit to +South America in 1934 had been followed by the truculent +suppression of democracy, in which the Church cordially helped, in +nearly the whole of that half of the continent. Cardinal Hinsley, +who stressed above all others that they had elected a Pope of Peace +-- even making absurd play of the fact that pace is the Italian for +peace -- knew just as well that for three years he had urged an +attack on Bolshevism that would involve Italy, Germany, Japan, and +the United States in war, and that he had given his support to +Hitler, Mussolini, and Japan. Whoever was fooled, we will not be. +The princes of the Church set the seal of his most solemn approval +on Pacelli's policy by electing him King.

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Chapter II

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THE POPE'S PEACE EFFORTS

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Many will remember the note of synthetic admiration and +rejoicing that was struck in the entire press of the world when +Pacelli was elected on March 12. His biographer observes that while +for some obscure reasons the Italian papers grumbled those of +America and Great Britain glowed with satisfaction. The Archbishop +of Canterbury talked like an elderly virgin in the House of Lords +at Westminster, and his promise that if the new Pope would lead the +world into paths of peace and justice he would follow and support +him was hailed as a new and most promising religious phenomenon. +Ransom sums up the general enthusiasm by pointing out that upon a +world in flames there came at last a Pope with the inflexible +motto: Peace, Truth, and Charity.

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We skeptics are accused of stirring up sectarian strife in a +world that needs cooperative action, of indulging in destructive +criticism when what the race wants is constructive idealism. Who, +in the light of recent events, was right? Four years before the +election of Pius XII I wrote, in the Appeal to Reason Library, +every word that I say in these booklets about the tendencies in +life and about all events and developments to 1935. My work was +neither destructive nor constructive. It was realistic: a statement +of facts. And it differed from the statements of fact of these +spiritual people and the newspapers which broadcast everything they +said and ignored everything we said in that it was a full and +truthful statement of facts. If all those facts which I gave -- the +programs of Hitler and Mussolini, the origin and trend of Nazism +and Fascism, the situation in Spain and Austria and Poland, and so +on -- had been put squarely before the public in 1938 or 1939 there +would have been much less school-girlish rejoicing because a new +Pope spoke prettily about Peace, Truth, and Charity and much more +demand for a realistic analysis of what was wrong and for +appropriate action. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +9 +. +THE WAR AND PAPAL INTRIGUE

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The world was not in flames at the beginning of 1939. It had +accepted Mussolini's assurance that with the annexation of +Abyssinia for his surplus population he was now content; Hitler's +assurance that with his annexation of the German fringe of Czecho-Slovakia he had reached the limit of his ambition; Japan's +assurance that it did not now covet a single additional square mile +of Chinese or other Asiatic territory.

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But every man who saw the broad truth about the world-situation, that the race had entered upon a titanic conflict +between privilege -- wealth, Churches, all vested authority -- and +a new spirit that was reviled as Bolshevism, and that the utterly +corrupt and dangerous forces of Nazism, Fascism, and Japanese +Imperialism had been enlisted on the side of privilege, knew that, +while the world was not yet in flames, a sinister fire shouldered +underground, and it was no time for pretty talk about Peace and +Charity. Sluggish as British statesmen were, we now know that they +were preparing for the conflict that broke out later in the year, +though they protested that the risks of disturbing the peace of the +world by overt action (raising vast monition-plant's) restricted +them to such matters as secretly hiring premises for ministries in +the country, drafting schemes, and organizing medical and +undertaking services for vast numbers of wounded and dead +civilians.

+ +

I must confine myself to these matters in so far as they +involve the Church of Rome. The idea that the new Pope entered a +world of danger and confusion for which others were responsible +brought to it a new and beautiful gospel is, we now understand, +tripe. He had had as Secretary of State at least for the preceding +five years the same power which he would now wield as Pope, and he +had deliberately used it to help the work of the forces of evil +because, he believed, it was to the interest of the Church. It was +nothing new for him to talk about peace. As the inspirer of Pius XI +he had put the praise of peace on his lips or in his fountain-pen +twice a year for years. In the intervals he had called through the +Pope's mouth for the extinction of Bolshevism and upon that cry +only one possible interpretation can be put -- war. We saw that +Papal policy after 1919 was bound to seek this end above all +others. Socialism and Communism were running the Church. And the +only possible explanation of the Vatican entering into and in spite +of every rebuff clinging to the alliance with the corrupt forces of +Nazism, Fascism, and Japan is that they promised to accomplish +that. It was the reason, also, why Pacelli, in the name of Pius XI, +wrote an encyclical enjoining every Catholic state to become a +Fascist Corporative State, and practically all the South American +Republics as well as Portugal and Hungary, and later Spain, France, +and Belgium complied. Coercion alone brought apostates to heel.

+ +

I made short reference in one booklet to -- as far as I can +discover -- the first public declaration by the Papacy -- except +that the Pope began to lash out with his hatred of Russia in 1926 +-- of the sentiment that had long been forced upon it: that +Socialism and Communism must be destroyed and that, since argument +about the beauty of the Catholic faith ran off Socialists and +Communists (who knew its history too well) like water off a duck's +back, they must be destroyed by violence. As the point is

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fundamental let us return to it for a moment. The occasion was a +reception at the Vatican of Spanish refugees on September 14, 1936. +The Pope's speech to them, which is published in English by the +Catholic Truth Society -- I do not know if by this time they +realized their blunder and suppressed it -- with the title The +Spanish Terror is no rambling talk of an aged and agitated priest. +It is a polished rhetorical address, prepared in the Secretariat of +State. It represents the rebellion of Catholic Fascist generals in +Spain as a "satanic" attack on the established order by the very +men who had established it, and it says that this is the work of +"those forces which have already given proof and estimate of their +quality in the attempt to subvert established order of every kind +from Russia to China, from Mexico to South America". As Chiang Kai-Chek had already, under the treacherous guidance of his earlier +associates in Japan, destroyed Communism in China (and prepared the +way for Japan), the Pope's allies were destroying it in Spain, and +the Fascist governments of South America had destroyed it there at +Pacelli's request, the meaning is clear. The Pope invited Germany +(with the aid of rugged divisions from Catholic countries) and +Japan to attack Russia and the United States to attack and annex +Mexico. From that date the cry for the extinction of Bolshevism in +Russia and Mexico echoed every month through the Catholic world.

+ +

It is plain that this sentiment of the Pope is not merely +inconsistent with his gospel of peace, but it shaped a policy which +was the very worst possible for the world and for the real prospect +of peace at that time. I do not suggest that the Pope was either +muddle-headed or hypocritical. He had made his position clear a +score of times: peace -- when Communism was extinct by the conquest +of Russia and Mexico and his Nazi and Fascist allies had received, +as a gift, what the Pope thought they wanted. It was the Pope's +admirers who were muddle-headed or -- when they told the world that +Pacelli was going to work for peace without qualification -- +hypocritical.

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Recent events have now shown that the peace of the world and +the removal of the corruption that threatened civilization depended +above all upon the democracies and (in some form or other) the +United States allying themselves closely with Russia. I may be +pardoned for explaining that this is not on my own part a case of +being wise after the event. In the A. B. C. Library of Living +Knowledge (No. 3, Economic Gains of the Soviet Union, 1937) I fully +vindicated that great civilization against calumnies that were +current in nearly the whole press and showed how peace was the +first condition it required for the completion of its splendid +work. I pointed out that whatever dreams Russians may have had at +an earlier date of inspiring revolution in other countries had been +long abandoned, and they were content to let the peoples of the +world judge for themselves between the civilizations of the west +and that of the Soviet Union. I warned the reader that it was just +because the Russians were so successful in creating a civilization +without private capital and without religion that the combined +influence of capitalism and the Churches used almost the entire +press to libel them. "This generation," I said (p. 29), "is the +most heavily duped and doped in all recent history, and its blunder

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may prove the most costly in history to the workers of the world.". +I insisted that a great war of aggression was, on the open +professions of Hitler and Mussolini and because of this criminal +aloofness from Russia, certain to come and said:

+ +

"If this war of aggression, which, if it were successful, +would be a signal to Mussolini to take up -- at the deadly expense +of France and England -- his dream of an eastern empire, is +averted, the world will have to thank the Soviet Union (p. 29)."

+ +

I have knowledge of even Rationalists who had long read my +books but refused to read another line of mine because of that +little book on Russia. They preferred the superficial gush and +treacherous optimism of accepted writers and journalists who fooled +them about the new Papal era of Peace and Charity.

+ +

Since this is the one defence of the action of the Black +International, that the Pope used his world-prestige to issue one +fervent appeal after another for peace, we must make a decisive +reply to it. We are concerned with the action of the Church and +will not be diverted by this trick of distinguishing between local +hierarchies, as if they had a remarkable degree of independence of +the Vatican, and the Pope. We shall see, indeed everybody knows, +that the German Church loudly supported Hitler, as usual, when he +launched the world-war and all its horrors, the Italian Church +fully supported Mussolini in his miserable entrance into the war as +soon as he felt that victory was certain, and the Spanish, Irish, +Hungarian, and Portuguese Churches -- and when the time came the +Belgian and French Churches -- supported their governments in +assisting and fawning on the aggressors.

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But for the moment we must clearly understand the action of +the Pope himself. Chanting the virtues of peace is as idle as +preaching justice in the abstract and is often far more dangerous. +The only occasion on which I ever addressed a meeting of a Peace +Society was in 1938. I at first declined the invitation and +consented only on the understanding that I would tell them truths +which they would not like. The bulk of the members refused to +attend -- the local Churches had been busy -- and to the few who +did I presented a realistic analysis of the state of the world, +which the chief officials described as masterly and worthy of their +deepest consideration, and a solemn warning of what was coming. I +was not further invited to address one of the hundreds of Peace +Societies in Great Britain, and a few months later they were all +enthusiastic over the new Pope's beautiful sentiments! These people +flatter themselves that they have superior sentiments to the rest +of us when they really differ from us in flabbiness of intellect +or, in the better cases, in lack of realism.

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The plain truth is that the Pope talked peace and worked for +war. He had a very large share in the libel and hatred of Russia +which prevented the one combination of sound forces that could +ensure peace. France had entered into an alliance of mutual defense +with Russia, but the Pope openly condemned it, and the Catholic +military chiefs robbed it of reality and effectiveness. On the +other hand the Pope clung to the alliances with the corrupt forces +which he had cemented. It required very little intelligence and

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study of world-affairs at that time to perceive that the only +possible danger to the peace of the world lay in Germany, Italy, +and Japan. A closer student, as the Pope was supposed to be, could +go further. He would know that those three Powers, his friends, +were determined to start an aggressive war. What, in such +circumstances, was the value of his appeals to the world at large +to see the beauty of peace?

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Well, says the apologist, wearily, at least he soon perceived +his error and entered upon a series of practical proposals for +ensuring peace. Did he? He was crowned Pope on March 12. I said in +an earlier essay that it detracts somewhat from the beauty of his +words about Charity that on the very day of his coronation the Jews +were, with terrible injustice and suffering, turned out of Italy, +and he said nothing. Again I beg his pardon. He protected some of +the Jews. In October (1941) the Italian paper La Vita Italiana +sourly complained that not only were there still Jews in Italy but +some of them were millionaires and occupied very high positions in +the state-service. One of these, a Signor Sacerdoti, had just been +appointed Director General of all the shipyards of Italy. The paper +went on to say:

+ +

"The appointment again confirms the general conviction that +Italian Jews are strongly favored and protected by the Catholic +Church and that wealthy Jews in Italy are still very influential."

+ +

I always acknowledge without a qualm these little injustices +to the clergy into which incomplete knowledge betrays me at rare +intervals. At the same time I must point out, in case you do not +know, Italian, that "Sacerdoti" means "Priests", so that this one +protected Jew of whom I have heard was obviously a Roman Catholic +as well as a millionaire, and therefore a fit person, to come under +the Pope's mantle of Charity: which did not cover the 69999 Jews +who were robbed and cast out.

+ +

March 12 was not merely a real Yom Kippur for the Jews of +Italy. It was the day on which, as I have elsewhere stated, the +sleek and treacherous priest, Msgr. Tiszo, went from Slovakia to +see Hitler and arrange with him for the final betrayal, or sale, of +Czecho-Slovakia. That foul deed was certainly done with the +agreement of the Vatican. It made a final end of the Liberalism, +which the Pope hated, of the Czechs, and it made solidly Catholic +Slovakia an independent state, another member of the Pope's new +dream of a Catholic bloc and abjectly submissive to the Vatican. As +I said, you can believe if you like that Tiszo accomplished this +without consulting Rome. But the step meant far more. It finally +remained the great obstacle to Hitler's march to Russia and the +Balkans. How did the Pope of Peace regard that? It is well known +that even Chamberlain was now convinced that war was absolutely +inevitable. The whole world saw it. Are we to suppose that the new +Pope in the weeks, intense brooding and praying, with three hours' +sleep a night, that followed his coronation (his biographer, says) +did not see what every statesman and editor in the world saw?

+ +

Well, says the apologist, still more wearily, Pacelli girded +his thin loins and settled down to six months' fighting to avert +the great calamity. Let me say at once that Pacelli was not such a +fool as one might be tempted to think when one reflects how he had

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prepared the irresistible conditions of a great war. He is a man of +considerable ability and I suggest the alternative view that he +knew well that war was inevitable, was convinced that Germany, +Italy, and Japan -- we shall see later that he was aware of the +joint plan -- would win, and was equally convinced that this would +prove to be to the advantage of the Church. The known facts permit +us to make only one concession to the claim that after all he was +human as well as ecclesiastical: he would work sincerely for peace +in the sense of appeasement or granting Hitler, Mussolini, and +Japan what they quite obviously wanted, and he probably did not +realize how much they wanted that they did not make obvious.

+ +

In this light we may review his peace-efforts in the fateful +summer of 1939. The first was unfortunate. He was crowned on March +12 and he emerged from his week of Yogi meditation on the "9th. +Easter Sunday was to fall on April 9, and he had to have a +particularly fervent appeal to the world for peace ready for that +date. But on Good Friday Mussolini took the second step in his war +by invading Albania! The Pope's biographer tells us that he was +annoyed, in so far as consecrated persons can be, both by the +desecration of the holy day and the need to rewrite some passages +of his appeal for peace. To what extent he was really duped we do +not know. Catholics say that he wrote a letter to the King of Italy +to prevent the invasion. It would be as futile as writing to the +king of toyland, but there is no evidence that such a letter was +ever written. Everybody in Italy knew -- was bound to know -- that +a large Italian force was concentrating at the Adriatic ports for +the invasion of Albania; and every thoughtful Italian must have +known that Albania was for Mussolini just the same stage in a +journey to the East as Czecho-Slovakia had been for Hitler. But +whether or no it is true that Mussolini double-crossed his partner +in crime by taking the step, in order to make sure that he got the +southern half of the Balkans for Italy, need not be discussed here, +and the desecration of Good Friday does not interest us. We will +examine the eastern expansion as a whole and the Vatican's relation +to it in a separate essay.

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The upshot was that, while nice-minded people all over the +world read the Pope's appeal with the usual moist eyes and muddled +brains, for serious folk it was at the best a damp squib, at the +worst a mockery. And the Pope soon knew it. Many believe that, +while Hitler has certainly not the vast planning and organizing +intelligence with which Nazis credit him, he probably does throw +off the general plans or imaginative scheme's which the massive +military and economic brain behind him then works out in detail. +However that may be, we see a steady and very able method in the +great plot: a step, very carefully prepared (the Saar, the +Rhineland, Austria, etc.) every six months or so, then six months +of covert preparation for and open lying about the next step. After +Czecho-Slovakia the lying became useless. Only Dutchmen and +Belgians were duped by it. Poland was to be the next stage; and the +next stage meant war on a European scale.

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There is evidence, which we will see later, that, as we should +assume, the Vatican knew this as well as the French and British +Foreign Offices. A fortnight after Easter the Pope, his biographer +tells us, received so secret a message from his Nuncio in Berlin

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that he opened the letter with his own hands and kept the contents +secret. Only his Secretary of State, Maglione, knew what reply he +made to it. Is it fanciful to suppose that it apprised him of the +next step that Hitler meditated? It was followed, the biographer +says, by "feverish activity" at the Vatican, the Pope consulting +his Nuncios from Berlin and Warsaw and seeing numbers of bishops +from France, Germany, and Poland. As the quarrel about Dantzig, the +unmistakable herald of Hitler's next step, soon broke out, the +Vatican could not even pretend to be taken by surprise.

+ +

What, then, were all these efforts to secure peace of which +the Catholic apologist speaks? We ignore the Easter lyric. It +reminds us of one gangster sending a wreath to the funeral of +another. In May he suggested -- so unobtrusively that it could be +denied when the plan failed -- a Five Power Conference over the +German-Polish dispute. The five Powers were to be Poland, Germany, +Great Britain, France, and Italy. You may think him either +unpractical or insincere but the fact is that he wanted Russia, +which was deeply interested, excluded, on his usual assumption that +it was not a respectable Power, and Italy, which was not interested +and would intervene only to support Hitler, included. France, which +was now, to the Pope's annoyance, allied with Russia, and Great +Britain refused. The Conference would certainly not have checked +Hitler.

+ +

It is said -- and, of course, denied -- that the Pope then +suggested a Conference on the economic grounds of the world-unrest. +Mussolini had been complaining for some time that Great Britain and +France were trying to starve the Axis economically, and that Tunis, +Jibute, and a share in the control of the Suez were vital economic +requirements of Italy and would entirely satisfy it; while his +troops were trying to cross Albania to Greece and his Fascist +toughs were encouraged to bawl in the streets and theaters that +Italy must have Savoy, Corsica, Malta, etc. Hitler was pleading +that once the question of Dantzig and the Corridor was settled he +would lay aside his armor forever. Any man who wishes may assume +that the Pope really believed them. His economic peace plan was an +attempt to get Great Britain and a France that was already weakened +by treason to give them what they wanted. In any case his +suggestion was rejected as amateurish.

+ +

These various proposals are interesting only in connection +with the belief of many that the Vatican has as fine an +intelligence-service as any Chancellory in Europe. If that were so, +the Pope would know that these pretended economic grievances of +Germany, Italy, and Japan were dishonest pretexts for crime. They +were based upon two lies: over-population and a disadvantage in +getting supplies from parts of the world which were included in the +empires of Great Britain and France.

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The grievance about over-population is nauseous when we recall +how Hitler for six years and Mussolini for fifteen years had been +whipping up the birth rate by every means in their power; and in +this their action coincided with that of the Catholic clergy. +Neither in Italy nor Germany was there the least reticence about +the reasons for demanding early marriages and giving special prizes +to parents of large families. They wanted soldiers. "We were born

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to die for Germany" was painted up in boys schools in that country, +and leading statesmen urged mothers to look anxiously for the first +mystic flicker of the "starlight of battle" in a baby boy's eyes. +The Italians were less absurd but equally frank. The men who will +be called to account in future history are the states-men and +writers of other countries who saw year by year this frenzied and +artificial attempt to increase the population, accompanied by +hypocritical pleas that the countries were already so +overpopulated, that they must have more territory. The Catholic +clergy were the worst offenders. They pretended to discover that +birth control was immoral. Their real purpose in their ban on it +was to secure an increase of the Catholic population while the non-Catholic practiced birth control.

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In point of fact, Germany was very far from overpopulated, and +Italy was by no mean's one of the most densely populated countries. +England has about 800 people to the square mile, while Italy has +only 350 and Germany 322. Belgium, Holland, and other countries +annexed by Germany on the plea of wanting more "living room" for +its distressed population are twice as densely populated as it is. +The whole economic plea of Germany, which the Pope wanted gravely +discussed, stank with mendacity. Sir Norman Angell, one of the most +anxious of men to remove grounds of war, proved years ago in a +special study "that England had very little economic advantage from +its empire." You can trust the Canadians and Australians to see +that any advantage is mutual. Hitler says repeatedly and +emphatically in Mein Kampf that Germany does not want colonies: in +which he includes dominions of the British type. It wants land in +Europe, he insists, and we now see it clearly. He wants to reduce +Europe to economic servitude to the Nazis.

+ +

The Pope's biographer complains that after a time both Great +Britain and Germany refused to take the Pope further into their +confidence. We do not wonder. But, whether you prefer to believe +that he was not willing to be pushed out of the spotlight or that +he really thought he could help the interest of peace, he tried +again. He issued a very pretentious document in which he stated the +conditions of peace, and half the world began again to discuss the +marvelous sagacity and moral serenity of his famous "Five Points".

+ +

It was, in point of fact, his worst effort. The material part +of his first and most important point was: "A fundamental postulate +of an honorable and just peace is that of the right to life and +freedom of all nations, big and small, powerful and weak." It is +exasperating that most papers, in their eagerness to please +Catholic readers and advertisers, promised this as a very clear-headed piece of moral guidance in a world of confusion. Such a +right has been a platitude in political theory for more than half +a century. One is tempted to say ever since the ropes were +compelled by the Italian armies to let the inhabitants of Central +Italy decide by plebiscite how they preferred to live. But for +Pacelli-Pius to formulate this principle solemnly to the world in +the year 1939 was a breath-taking piece of audacity.

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As I showed in an earlier booklet, four-fifths of the +Catholics of the world live under a Fascist regime, and they are +assured by their priests that this is in accordance with the Pope's

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teaching! What is worse, most of them have had this despotic regime +imposed upon them under Pacelli and at his direct instigation. I +have shown how freedom disappeared almost whenever he visited a +country or it came under Catholic authorities: in 20 Republics of +Central and South America, Portugal, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and +in the end France and Belgium. The Black International was solely +responsible for robbing the people of Vienna of their right to +choose their mode of life and cordially cooperated in depriving the +Spaniards of that right. The Papacy had been an intimate ally of +the Fascists for ten years in refusing the Italians the means of +expressing their wishes and of the Nazis for six years. It had +consented by silence to the theft of that right from the people of +Abyssinia, Bohemia, Moravia, and Albania. It demanded almost every +month that the people of Russia and Mexico should be violently +deprived of that right. And the Pope crowns this formidable list of +encroachments on the liberty of peoples which he inspired or +blessed by assuring the world that to respect the right of self-determination is the first condition of the peace it ardently +desires! I need not go on to ask what serious prospect he thought +there was of Germany, Italy, and Japan, the only three powers to +whom it was necessary to preach, agreeing to it.

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The least that the world could do, since the press is not open +for candid reflections on the Pope's actions, was to ignore him and +his Five Points. The other points were platitudes. The second +condition of peace was disarmament: a very practical thing to say +in 1939. Then we get counsels to learn from the past, to consider +the demands of racial minorities, and to cultivate mutual goodwill +and a sense of justice. It was like proposing to sell a man +asbestos paint when his house was burning furiously. If the Pope, +had framed these points in the office of the Secretariat of State +in 1929 and had broadcast them sternly whenever a violation of them +seemed imminent he might not have averted the coming tragedy but he +would have saved the honor of the Papacy. He could not. Authority +is the first principle and coercion the indispensable instrument of +the Church. Some Protestant bishops applauded the Pope's Five +Points. Others asked what freedom, good-will, and justice non-Catholics had in Poland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, and a +score of other Catholic states.

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Chapter III

+ +

POLAND PAYS FOR ITS PIETY

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What passed between the Vatican and the Nazis before the +invasion of Poland and the opening of the European War only the +Pope and a very small number of his collaborators know. On April +24, as I said, the question of Slovakia being now settled and +Hitler in possession of the bridge to the Ukraine and the Balkans, +the Pope got a letter from his Berlin representative in a secrecy +that surprises and puzzles his biographer, it took two days of +solitary reflection for him to decide upon the answer, and only he

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and Cardinal Maglione know to this day what the answer was. Then +there were visits to the Vatican of the Rumanian and French +ambassadors and various German and Polish bishops, and there was a +brisk secret correspondence with the Nuncios at Berlin, Warsaw, and +Paris.

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Clearly the new Pope was confronted with a terrible dilemma +and he was anxious to keep secret even from the Church what +decision he took. Rome is one of the busiest sounding boardes of +rumors in Europe and the Vatican press bureau is as Pegler has +shown, one of the leakiest or most venal, but at this stage the +secret was guarded with unprecedented rigor. If you will next +notice the significant fact that the Pope refrained from an +explicit condemnation of the invasion of Poland as carefully as in +the case of Abyssinia and Albania -- he certainly never used a word +to compare with his language about the Russians when they simply +took back Rusalan provinces which Germany would have annexed -- you +will hardly hesitate in your guess what the secret was. The Pope +was informed of the plan to invade Poland and was induced to assent +on certain conditions: probably that the occupation of Poland would +be temporary and was indispensable for the attack on Russia, that +religion would be respected in Poland, and that the Church would +get concessions in Germany and great opportunities in Russia. The +idea seems to have been that the Pope would persuade the very +docile Poles to submit on these conditions and would continue to +inflame them against Russia, the only Power that could save them.

+ +

In refraining from condemning the invasion of Poland -- I do +not count later protests when the Catholic, body was threatened +with annihilation -- the Pope could not plead, as he did in the +case of Norway, that the Catholic body was small and he must think +of his German Church and not offend the Nazis. Whether or no that +is a respectable ground of action in a Pope, the fact is that there +were twice as many sincere Catholics in Poland as in the Reich. A +cynic would add that, though it had more adherents and of a more +passionate loyalty, the Polish Church was not a quarter as rich as +the German Church. We will, of course, not admit that the Vatican +was moved by so profane a consideration, but the numbers are +indisputable. We have seen that by 1939 there were not 12000000 +Catholics left in Germany: probably not more than 10000000. No +one disputes that of the 33000000 people of Poland more than +20000000 were sincere Catholics and several further million were +compulsory members of the Church: a type of Catholic of which the +Vatican seems to be equally proud.

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This strange situation requires an historical explanation, but +for even a short summary of the history of Catholicism in Poland I +must refer to my Appeal to Reason Library (No. 5., "Roman +Catholicism in Poland and Russia") and confine myself here to a few +points which are essential to understand what follows. There is, as +I have often pointed out, a close parallel between Poland and +Ireland, especially if you think of Catholic Ireland before British +Liberalism relieved many of its grievances. Both countries suffered +from their geographical position, on the outskirts of civilization, +and in both cases this gave the priests a rich opportunity to +exploit the poor and very backward population. And just as the +earlier tyranny of Protestant England had hardened the faith in

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Ireland and brought priests and people closer together, so had the +long tyranny of Orthodox Catholic Russia in Poland. While, however, +Britain had very materially modified its treatment of the Irish +more than half a century ago, Russian tyranny had continued until +1917.

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We thus recognize a very serious traditional ground for that +hostility to Russia which prevented Poland from entering into +alliance with the one Power that could protect it, but it is due +mainly to the Black International that hostility became worse after +1918 and completely destroyed the chances of checking Nazism on +that side.

+ +

At Versailles, to which the Poles sent Paderewski to lull the +ears of statesmen with his music, a Republic of 30000000 +inhabitants was set up. Not much more than half of these were +Poles, so that there were few parts of Europe in which the +Conference of Versailles sowed the seeds of a future war so +recklessly as in Poland. In particular the Poles claimed Russian +territory (White Russia and the Galician Ukraine) containing seven +or eight million people of alien race and generally alien religion, +and, to the disgust of the British representatives, the French +bulldozed Wilson, who reeled under the shower of weird geographical +names (and lies) into consenting. The Poles also claimed Silesia +from Germany, but it was so obviously far more German than Polish +that the League of Nations was directed to take a plebiscite.

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The time came when the French were disgusted with their Polish +pet -- they had supported it as a bulwark against Bolshevism -- and +they gave away the fact that the plebiscite was corrupt. See the +Catholic Rene Martel's La France et la Pologne (1931). The Poles +had formed a special organization for corrupting and intimidating +voters and officials, and one of the three directors of it was +Msgr, Adamski, Catholic Bishop of Posen. The Black International +had begun its record in Poland, and there is no other part of the +world in which it has proceeded with such gross inhumanity, as we +shall see presently. The vote was still 700000 for Germany and +400000 for Poland, and the Commissioners decided to divide the +province. This division was, carried out with the same corruption, +the richest districts going to Poland even when the great majority +of the inhabitants were found to be Germans. They had to sell out +to Poles, at a heavy loss, and transfer to Germany. Still the Poles +were not content. The League of Nations permitted them to take +advantage of Russia's distress and seize Vilna and part of +Lithuania. Ever since that period of grab and corruption there has +been a monument on German soil facing Poland with the inscription: +"Germans, never forget of what blind hatred has robbed you."

+ +

How in spite of all this greed and the large loans extended by +France and Britain, Poland sank to the position of the poorest +country in Europe -- read Spivak's Europe Under the Terror if you +want to know what exploitation really is -- cannot be discussed +here. The point of interest to us is that the country no sooner rid +itself of the tyranny of Czarist Russia than it set up a still more +galling tyranny over its own minorities, and in this the Black +International worked in intimate cooperation with the Dictator +Pilsudski. Marshal Pilsudski, over whose death in 1935 we shed

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tears as we read the record of his virtues in all our papers, was, +not to put too fine a point on it, a brute and a crook. He had led +the Poles who fought for Germany against us in the 1914-1918 war, +and they had not thought it discreet to send him to Versailles. He +had joined the White War against Russia, which he hated with all +the bitterness of (like Mussolini) a renegade Socialist, and only +the French had saved him from losing Poland to them. He disgusted +every group of politicians, and the Socialists saved him from ruin +and he then sent their leaders to a fortress and tortured them +exactly (even to the guards putting excrement in their food) as +Nazis later tortured Jews in Germany.

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As far as I can discover Pilsudski never became a sincere +Catholic -- again like his friend Mussolini -- but he acted with +and on behalf of the Church, which is more powerful than in Ireland +or Peru. Let me explain at once that the appalling persecution that +lasted twenty years in Poland was a joint affair of Church and +state and aimed equally at destroying the nationality and the +religion of the immense non-Polish minorities. In the Galician +Ukraine alone there were 1000000 Catholic Poles, 1250000 Jews, +4000000 Greek Uniates (acknowledging the Pope but with a Greek +liturgy), and 4000000 Orthodox or Greek Catholics. In the west +were about 1000000 German Protestants; and there were, of course, +representatives of all minorities and not a few skeptics in the +cities. For twenty years every device of persecution and brutality +was used to destroy the religious liberty and the national tongues +and customs of these minorities, although the Poles had given +Versailles a solemn engagement to respect them. I am concerned only +with the coercion in religious matters, and the reason for +recalling it here is obvious. During all the years when the Vatican +and the Black International in every country, but especially in the +United States and Canada, was inspiring, on the ground of its +"persecution of religion", that hatred of Russia which has been of +incalculable service to the Nazis, this same Black International +not only knew that there was no persecution of religion in Russia +-- it was Polish conspiracy that brought punishment on the +Catholics there but was conducting a quite fiendish persecution of +religion in Poland and preventing the press in other countries, +with only four exception's amongst all the dailies of Canada, the +United States, and Great Britain, from publishing the facts. The +honorable exceptions were the Toronto Evening Telegram, the Chicago +Daily News, the New York Herald-Tribune, and the Manchester +Guardian (England); and the persecutions had been in progress for +eleven years when they discovered it.

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The Ukrainians of Galicia had sent a deputation to Versailles +to protest against incorporation in Poland and claim independence. +The French had got the petition dismissed, and the Poles had +promised to respect their minority-rights. Six months later they +addressed to the French a memoir (Les atrocites polonaises en +Galicie Ukrainienne) which showed a very brutal persecution, +political and religious raging over the whole vast area. In one +overcrowded and filthy jail 200 of the 2000 prisoners were Orthodox +priests. More than 1000 priests had been arrested and Polish Roman +priests stalked like ghouls in the rear of the police and soldiers +taking over the schools and chapels of the dispossessed Greek +priests. The soldiers were instructed to subject the Greek priests

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to every kind of humiliation and mockery so as to break the +attachment of the people. But the peasants and farmers reacted with +the fiery protests that might have been expected, and "whole +villages were depopulated by massacre." The women were raped and +beaten, the men shot by the thousand. In other words, the Catholic +Poles were perpetrating in Poland twenty years ago just those +atrocities which are now exercised upon themselves by the Germans, +and, except for this authoritative account in French, which was not +translated into any other language, the world was not permitted to +know anything about it.

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It is an important secondary aim of these booklets to warn the +reader of the extraordinary extent and pernicious nature of the +Catholic censorship of the press and of publicity generally. Just +about that time, twenty years ago, I spent six months in New York +and when I suggested to a well-known publisher, who asked me for a +book, that I should write on the Catholic Church, he refused and +assured me that I would not find a publisher for such work in New +York. Few publishers have any sympathy with the Church -- the only +one I found with such personal admiration of it was, curiously, my +Rationalist friend G.H. Putnam -- but the press would not bring to +the notice of the public, in the usual way, books that were +(offensive to Catholics", and they submitted that it was useless to +publish them. Libraries were often intimidated from buying them and +booksellers from exposing them for sale. Haldeman-Julius is the +only publisher in America during the last ten years who has enabled +me to tell truths of the kind I tell here, yet it will be evident +that the world would have been far better equipped to meet the +darkening future if the whole truth had been put before it year +after year.

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I have devoted a paragraph to events of twenty year's ago +because they were but the first page in a chapter of persecution +which covers the whole intervening period and is very material from +several angles to my present theme. The matter not only affords a +very striking illustration of the suppression of truth which it is +important to know. It shows that the worst blunders of Versailles, +which we blamed so fluently, were enormously aggravated by the +conduct of the Catholic Poles. It explains that bitter hostility of +the Poles to the Russians which caused them to lend a hand in every +conspiracy against the Soviet government since 1919 and brought +upon the Catholic priests in Russia, most of whom were Poles, the +legitimate legal proceedings which the Vatican and the American +bishops represented as persecution of religion. It shows that +outrages as vile as any committed by the Japs in China and now by +Nazis in many lands were being perpetrated by the most profoundly +Catholic state in the world for twenty years while nice-minded folk +everywhere were wondering whether the new barbarism was not due to +a decay of religion. And it puts in a strange light that standing +excuse of the Vatican for its conduct, that the extension of its +rule over further millions of men or the maintenance of that rule +over million's who seem to be rejecting it is so important for the +moral and social good of men that we must be lenient in regard to +the crookedness of its policy.

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If ever this appalling record of persecution in Poland by the +Catholic Poles is forced upon general public notice we shall +probably hear the usual distinction between the action of a local +hierarchy and the action of the Vatican, I need not repeat that we +are here considering the conduct of the Black International as a +whole not simply of the Popes, and we are not embarrassed by being +unable to trace in every case the instructions of the Vatican to +national Churches. But this distinction is not even plausible in +the case of Poland. The present Pope Pius XII, has, we saw, an +intimate knowledge of German affairs, and no plea of ignorance or +misinformation can be made in connection with any of his relations +to that country. But the late, Pope Plus XI, had the same personal +interest in Poland, his pontificate (1922-1939) exactly coincides +with the Catholic Reign of Terror in that country.

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Any writer must dwell with reluctance on the misconduct of a +people which bore, and with great heroism, the first brutal onset +of the European War and suffers so bitterly for it today. It is, +however, necessary to tell the whole truth if we are to appreciate +the insincerity of the pretensions of the Black International, the +truth about its conduct, and the mendacity with which a good deal +of that conduct is concealed. It is fortunately easier in America +than elsewhere to learn the truth. When the Chicago Daily News and +the Herald-Tribune disturbed the clerical folk who were raving +about persecution in Russia -- Jewish rabbis joining in processions +with bishops in New York while financiers applauded from the +windows -- by showing that the real persecution was in Poland, +officials in Washington answered inquirers with the suave +assurances of the Polish Catholic representatives that it was "all +lies." But there is a large body of Ukrainians in the United +States, and in 1931 they collected and published a large volume of +testimony (letters, reports, journalistic accounts, etc.) of the +outrages.

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No impartial person who reads this (Atrocities in the Ukraine, +1931, edited by Emil Revyuk) can for a moment doubt the truth of +the statements. The authority is absolute. The details are +revolting. The defense urged by some is that, the Ukrainians had +rebelled against their Polish masters. Yes, after years of brutal +treatment in violation of the promise's made by Poland when it +received the province. But a nation of 30000000, spending a very +high proportion of its revenue on an army which could stand up to +Germany for three weeks hardly needed torture and brutality to +suppress any revolt in a province. Flogging, with whips loaded with +wire or iron, was a daily occurrence. Pregnant women and girls were +beaten. Heated irons were applied to the feet. Water, sometimes +mixed with oil, was forced down their nostrils. Men -- not merely +peasants but professional men and scholars -- were deprived of +sleep until they became half-insane. There were 200000 in jail in +1930 and torture was used lavishly on them to make them betray +others. The brutality was even worse in 1934 and 1935, though it +seems to have relented a little after the death of Pilsudski in the +latter year.

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The first encyclical that the Pope issued in 1939 deplored +that the root of all evil in the world was the decay of religion. +One wonders how many sage editorials took up and confirmed that +text; and not one in a hundred of these papers had informed its

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readers that bestiality of the kind that will make sociologists of +the future hesitate to call our social order a civilization had +been going on for twenty years in the most religious country in +Europe. Poland was to 1939 far more Catholic than Eire or Peru. A +French Catholic visited it in 1932 and wrote an article on it in +the Catholic Revue des Deux Mondes (February 1, 1933). He describes +exhibitions of piety in public to which you will find no parallel +in any other country. American Catholics were, at the time, telling +non-Catholic neighbors that if they could only see religious life +in a solidly Catholic country they would perceive the beauty of the +Church. Well, Poland was the most solidly Catholic country in the +world, and its priests and bishops were equally behind this +persecution, which extended also to German Protestants and Polish +Freethinkers, with the politicians of the Pilsudski school, They +were just as eager to destroy the Uniate, Orthodox, and Protestant +Churches as the politicians were to make everybody thoroughly +Polish. That is abundantly shown in Revyuk's book.

+ +

It is hardly necessary to point out how these facts make a +mockery of the Vatican's assurance to the world that when the +Russian troops entered this Galician Ukraine in 1939 they committed +outrages as the German troops did in Posen. Roman Catholic Poles +and the few other Roman Catholics in the province fought against +the Russians, but what was likely to be the mutual attitude of the +Ukrainians and the Russian's after 20 years of this agony? The +Ukrainians hated the Poles mortally. The Russians were an army of +liberation. The jails were opened. The farms were restored to their +owners. But the Papal lie was reproduced respectfully in the world-press. I remember very few papers which even troubled to explain +that the two provinces taken over by Russia, palpably to anticipate +a German annexation of them, were Russian provinces wantonly torn +from their natural unity by Versailles, but I do not remember a +single paper that explained what grounds the Ukrainians had for +relief and how bitterly they hated the Poles.

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Another reason why I enlarge on this painful chapter of Polish +history just before the war is because it has a vital bearing on +one of the grossest blunders of the democracies and greatest +advantages of the Nazis, the estrangement from Russia. Since I +cannot put before the reader any correspondence of the Vatican with +the Polish hierarchy he must decide on a general knowledge of +Church methods how far the Vatican knew and approved of the brutal +persecution I fancy he will not have much difficulty -- but that +the Papacy inflamed the Catholic Poles against Russia is patent. +The Poles had, we saw, very strong traditional grounds to hate +Tsarist Russia, and Pilsudski had carried his hatred over to Soviet +Russia and had gravely implicated the Roman Catholics in Russia in +the White War and subsequent conspiracies. Grave difficulties were +bound to arise when there was a common frontier between the most +religious and the most irreligious country in Europe. It will, +however, not be questioned that these difficulties were immensely +aggravated by the appeals to the Catholic world of the Papacy to +work for the extinction of Bolshevism after 1926. It was in large +part owing to this that the democracies lost the last opportunity +of either preventing the war or making it short and restricted.

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Poland had signed a non-aggression pact with Germany in 1934, +and there cannot be the least doubt that, imbued as it was with the +Pope's idea of a crusade against Russia, in which Germany must play +at least the leading part, Poland regarded this as a preparatory +condition for the eventual attack on Russia. When Hitler and +Mussolini had hamstrung Czecho-Slovakia, Catholic Poland and +Catholic Hungary had, like wolves waiting until a buffalo is +wounded, bitten large pieces of territory out of its flanks. On +January 25, 1939, Hitler had sent Ribbentrop, the vilest agent of +his more treacherous moves, to Warsaw to represent Germany at the +celebration of the fifth anniversary of the non-aggression pact. It +was, he said in his speech, "one of the firmest bases of European +peace." What children these Europeans were the historian will one +day reflect! Germany was then, he knew, plotting the destruction of +Poland and a world war.

+ +

Ribbentrop returned to Germany to join in the plot against +Czecho-Slovakia in which, as I have elsewhere explained, it +received most valuable help from the Black International. The +Germans entered Prague on March 15 (1939), while the new Pope was +preparing his moving address on peace and charity; and the world +began to prepare for what seemed to be the inevitable war. Most of +my neighbors in London had gas-masks by that date and looked +forward with amazing apathy -- or was it lack of imagination? -- to +the horrors that were predicted. The French signed a mutual +defensive alliance with Poland. In fact, in the course of the next +few months France and Great Britain had such alliances also with +Rumania, Greece, and Turkey.

+ +

We can imagine some imperfectly informed reader of the next +generation exclaiming impatiently: But why string together these +small, scattered, and not wholly reliable nations and omit the one +great power, Soviet Russia, which was Germany's natural enemy and +was worth all the others put together? We did not ask the question +at the time because we knew the answer. These Catholic countries +and even Great Britain regarded an approach to Russia much as a +Baptist mothers meeting would regard a suggestion, in case of need, +to call in the aid of a gunman to protect their virtue. For that +the Pope had a very large part of the responsibility.

+ +

Naturally there were approaches, of a sort. The French signed +a pact with Russia, almost useless because it did not include a +military alliance, in April. The Vatican promptly condemned it. The +British asked Russia to promise military aid to Poland and Rumania, +but only in such form and measure as those powers decided, and they +would not promise British aid to Russia if it was attacked. Russia, +sore about the insulting exclusion from Munich, rightly distrusting +a Britain which, it knew, regarded it as an outlaw, refused. Poland +refused to have adequate Russian armies in it, and the little +Baltic states, prizes set up by Versailles for the first grabber, +also refused. Great Britain half-heatedly pushed on. It sent a +diplomatic mission, of a character it would not send to any other +country, to Moscow, then a military mission of the same inferior +quality. Russia did not need to read how one of the Blimps of a +London club had said: "We may, of course, have to get Russia to +help, but, please God it will not come to that." It, in August 23, +sent the old women of the clubs into hysterics by announcing that

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it had signed a non-aggression pact with Germany. A few weeks later +it sent the Nazis into what we might call a subdued hysteria by +snatching the Galician Ukraine -- for reasons which I have surely +fully explained -- from under their guns.

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We quite understand Russia. We also now understand Poland, +which entered upon its three-years war-agony on September 1st, and +its three-years peace-agony a few weeks later. Only one feature in +that year of tragic blunders concerns us here. Poland, which +thought it had been following the luminous lead of the Church for +so many years, had been led by the nose. The brave, exploited, +perversely educated people had been cursed with blundering leaders +who were in closer alliance with the Church than leaders were in +any other Catholic country. They had brought upon the land the +contempt of Europe and had made it refuse the aid of the big +brother who, with real aid from the British and French fleets, +Rumania, Yugoslavia, and Greece might have averted its tragic fate. +The poles paid for their piety. Little did the French dream that +they also, the least religious people in Europe after the Russians, +Would soon be led by the Black International, and without the +redeeming trait of honor and bravery which we accord to the Poles, +into same black pit. Never was there before such lack of +foresight in an age of mortal danger. We know why the statesmen and +churchmen of democratic countries were reluctant to face realities. +Hitler and Mussolini and their satellite promised to kill +Socialism. Would the catastrophe have been as grave if the peoples +of the world had had all the facts candidly before them?

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Chapter IV

+ +

THE GERMAN CHURCH AND THE WAR

+ +

On September 1st, 1939, began, with the invasion of Poland, +the greatest war, it maybe the most terrible and tragic three-year +period, in the whole of history. The aggression-mongers, the Pope's +biographer affirms, thrust him aside and excluded him from their +counsels. "When the swords flash let the lawyers be silent" said an +old Roman proverb. The new Roman applied it to churchmen: Mussolini +assured the Pope that he would see that Rome was respected as a +sacred city, and, although Italian planes have taken part in the +foul bombing of London, Rome has never been bombed. Churchill +persistently refuses to tell why. Perhaps the Catholic authorities +of the United States and the British Empire could tell us. The +Pope, to make doubly sure that he would remain out of heaven some +years longer, had a luxurious shelter prepared under an ancient +tower with walls fifteen feet thick. Germany would not require his +services again until the attack on Belgium and France.

+ +

A pathetic spectacle for the moral ruler of the world! If he +had been the austere world-figure that Catholic literature +represents him -- nay, if he had been a man -- what would he have +done? He would certainly not have been content, as he was to ask +the nations of the world, as if they were equally guilty, to make

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peace: certainly not have proposed economic conferences, as he did, +to make the aggressive powers still stronger by conceding territory +for which they need not expend any of their forces. Indeed, the +whole world knew at that time that only one nation threatened its +peace, Germany. The Italian and Japanese jackals would not move +until the lion had scattered a few corpses about the landscape. So +the Pope's function, unless America apologetic literature is +admitted to be insincere, was clear. He ought to have branded as +criminal in the highest degree the ambition to annex and exploit +other countries, one by one, of which Germany had given ample +proof. He ought to have condemned in the most explicit and severest +terms the glorification of war by the German and Italian leaders, +the lies they put forward about encirclement and over-population, +the racial arrogance with which they were poisoning their people, +the murderous outrages with which they had begun to say to all the +little nations of Europe: See what you will get if you resist us.

+ +

It is hardly worthwhile discussing the immediate pretexts of +the opening of hostilities. For my part -- I have never hesitated +to say that Dantzig was a German city and ought never to have been +taken from it, and that to take from it a slice of East Prussia +measuring 260 miles by 80 to give the Poles -- Polish capitalists +and French bond-holders, that is to say -- a "Corridor" to the sea +was little less monstrous. But no one in Europe expected Germany to +be satisfied with these. The situation was as clear as the Eiffel +Tower at Paris. Germany meant to take Poland, and England and +France were sworn to regard such a step as proof of a large +aggressive design and declare war. Those of us who knew the facts +reflected, sadly, that the democracies could hardly choose a weaker +case to champion than that of the synthetic Poland they had set up +at Versailles, the Fascist state which had bludgeoned its +minorities for twenty years. It was all the worse that, as was soon +proved, they could give no help to Poland and were not even able to +help themselves.

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The very difficult and still obscure question of France +require's a separate book but I can speak for England. About mid-day on that fateful Sunday the news was broadcast that Chamberlain +had declared war on Germany. By an extraordinary blunder the sirens +wailed within half an hour and, to make matters worse in my own +street, a stupid warden gave the signal to prepare for gas. I will +not describe the panic -- which does not detract from the fine +courage of most Londoners when the blow fell later -- but it +reminded us of one thing: we had no armament whatever for the war +we had declared. It has since transpired that England then had only +18 good fighter planes. Germany had thousands. Nine months +preparation had done little more than give most of us gas-masks -- +I had none -- accommodations for a million or so in the hospitals +and coffins for hundreds of thousands. Yet for once Englishmen +might be proud of the folly of their government. It cried a halt to +brutality and criminal greed.

+ +

And the Pope had nothing to say. Someone ought to collect a +bouquet, or encyclopedia, of all the impressive assurances of +American Catholic apologists that their Pope is the ideal +inflexible, international and irrepressible arbiter of right and +wrong, justice and injustice. Of all the excuses that they bleat

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today the funniest -- and even bishop's mumble it -- is that he is +the Father of All Peoples and must not take sides! We had been told +that it was just that position of cosmopolitan and international +judge which made him a unique and incorruptible tribunal. Was there +some doubt from the moral point of view on which side the guilt +lay? Can one even imagine Britain and France, with their miserable +armament, having any other aim than to cheek a brutal +aggressiveness? In plain English, and in the light of the Pope's +own words, this plea means that he would not denounce a wrong if +his interests and those of his Black International were to suffer +for it in any country. And that is the gist of our accusation. The +Black International pursues its own interests though it be through +the ruin of civilization and of all human idealism.

+ +

As I have repeatedly pointed out, it is rather this Black +International than the Pope that interests us. We must not allow +ourselves to be distracted when the end comes by Catholic or any +other criticisms of Eugenio Pacelli. Any Pope would have acted as +he did. No Pope ever acted otherwise. The great French scholar, A. +Loisy, scourged the Pope during the last war for exactly the same +conduct. And the apologist has not simply to explain way his +"neutrality," though that is a vice in a moralist in face of a +grave crime. He had helped bring on the war. He had made it easy +for Hitler the annexation of Austria. He had cooperated with him +still more closely in the destruction of Czecho-Slovakia. He had +turned a blind eye to his vile conduct in Germany and helped to +protect his intervention in Spain. He had been in large part +responsible for the weakness and incoherence of the world-opposition to him by his preaching of hatred of Russia -- and -- +not to speak of matters which will be discussed in later booklets +-- he had encouraged his monstrous plans by allying himself with +the two other powers which had similar plans.

+ +

But when we say that the Pope was silent we mean only that no +clear messages were printed in the Osservatore or broadcast from +the Vatican Radio or sent out to the world in encyclicals. His one +encyclical at this time, when the flames of war were lit from +Poland to England, was, as we saw, a plea that the world, not one +or two nations, was evil because it was losing religion, and +Catholic Action must come to the rescue. Catholic Action! It had +been busy in the Polish Ukraine for twenty years, in Spain for +Several years, in Hungary and Portugal, in Austria and South +America. No one took any notice.

+ +

Was the Pope acting through the German hierarchy? We do not +care two pins whether this can or cannot be proved. One thing we do +know as we have already seen. The summer had seen "feverish +activity" at the Vatican, and an outstanding part of this was +correspondence with the Nuncios at Berlin, Warsaw, and Paris and +the reception of German and Polish bishops. As the whole world was +now discussing the chances of preparing for an invasion of Poland +and a general war we shall hardly be accused of undue +suspiciousness's if we suggest that this was the chief topic of the +very busy correspondence and interviews. What was decided we do not +know. The most sensible theory in view of the facts is that Hitler +informed the Vatican that he was taking over Poland, peacefully, as

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the first step in a campaign against Russia, promised to turn over +a new leaf in Germany, and wanted the Pope to keep France out of +it; and that the Poles, not being as trustful as the Pope rejected +his advice to submit.

+ +

However that may be, he must have had an understanding with +the German hierarchy, and we know how it behaved. lt was as +Hitlerite as the Hitler youth. Edith Moore quotes a number of the +pronouncements of the German bishops in her No Friend of Democracy +(1941). The very sound and impartial Manchester Guardian (May 24, +1940) thus stated the position:

+ +

"Among the higher ranks of the Catholic clergy a decisive +majority desire to see the victory of the Reich or at least a peace +that will leave Germany's political and military strength +unimpaired. At the same time they still look to an eventual +Catholic-Conservative restoration. The National Socialist State +has, it seems, been able to reach an understanding with the +Catholic leaders. Assurances have been given as to the status of +the Church in the Bohemian-Moravian Protectorate and in Germany +itself. The special position of the Catholic Church in Poland is +also to receive due recognition. In spite of the persecution of +laymen and priests by the Nazis, in spite of all the attacks upon +the Christian religion now hopes have been raised among the German +Catholics as a result of these negotiations."

+ +

As I suggested, the hierarchy -- and the references to Bohemia +and Poland seem to bring in the Vatican -- was soothed with +promises of greater advantages to the Church and in view of these +saw nothing of the enormity of the annexation of Norway, Denmark, +and Holland which had then taken place. On August 22 the bishops +held their annual meeting at Fulda, a national shrine from which +they were accustomed to give guidance to their Church. Usually only +a score of bishops attended, but this year the whole 45 were +present, and, according to the German press, the advice they gave +to the faithful was a very emphatic "Heil Hitler." By this time, I +may recall, the German army had swept over Holland, Belgium, and +France and, exasperated by the opposition of those countries, had +stooped to outrages and infamies which shocked the world. Yet the +German papers revealed that the bishops decided that "after the +completion of the final German victory special ceremonies of +gratitude to the German troops and of loyalty to Hitler will be +announced." It was said that the bishops submitted their proposals +to the Vatican and that the Pope who was at the time bargaining +once more with Hitler (Catholic Herald, August 9, 1940, and +Catholic Tablet, September 21, 1940), forbade them to publish their +resolutions: clearly to avoid scandal in Britain and America.

+ +

The Tablet found a significance in the fact the final address +at the Fulda Conference was given by the bishop of Osnabruck, who +was appointed by Goering the representative of the Catholic Church +in the Prussian State Council, and the New York Times reported that +"the leaders of the Catholics in Germany . . . exhort their +believer's in and outside the Reich to do their utmost in the +righteous cause of the German nation under the leadership of +Chancellor Hitler." The hierarchy, in other words, did not merely +urge Catholics to support Hitler, but went out of their way to

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affirm that the miserable bandit had "a righteous cause." A British +Catholic paper, the Herald (October 18, 1940) quoted a passage from +a Pastoral Letter which the chief Catholic chaplain, Bishop +Garkowsky, addressed to all Catholics in the Army, Navy, and Air +Force. He said:

+ +

"The German people have a clear conscience and are aware which +people will have to bear the responsibility before God and history +for the gigantic struggle that is now going on. The German people +know who primarily started this war. Just as certainly as God is +the Father of all Peoples, He is also the judge of right and wrong, +of honor and deceit."

+ +

Those who find it possible to imagine that these German +bishops honestly blamed Britain and France for the war because, +after a reiterated solemn warning, they had declared that they +would oppose further aggression may do so. I would not argue the +matter. Most of us can see nothing but nauseous hypocrisy in German +prelates who invoke God as a witness to the righteousness of the +Nazi cause and program.

+ +

We have already seen that the new Pope had, a year before, +issued an Encyclical, Summi Potitificatus, on the state of the +world it was very wicked because the nations had lost the Christian +sense of brotherhood -- so conspicuous, of course, in the +nineteenth century and earlier -- and had adopted theories of +racial superiority. Even Catholics in England and France were very +uneasy in commenting on this. Could the Pope possibly mean that the +democracies were at least so close to the dictatorships in these +respects that he was not called upon to draw any distinction? And +why did he not say that he meant Germany, Italy, and Japan? One +French Catholic writer evaded the difficulty by saying that "in +time of war the Church of Rome has to observe an impartial +reserve." The same writer said, incidently, that in no other war in +history was good so clearly on one side and evil on the other. The +Pope was just a moral coward, and a consequence of his cowardice is +seen in these quotations from the German bishops. Their stern +inexorable moral guide left them free to tell people that the +vilest campaign in modern history, both in its aim and in its +procedure, had the full approval of the Black International and +their God.

+ +

But the cordiality between the butchers and the black-cassocks +was never long maintained in its purity. Hitler, who seems to have +regarded the complaisance of the hierarchy and the Vatican with +complete cynicism, threatened a new blow at the Church in the +Spring of 1941. He returned to the ideas of Mein Kampf and said +that both Protestant and Catholic Churches must be blended in one +Christian body which must be strictly "national" or independent of +Roman authority and adapted in its moral teaching to Nazi ideas. +The Pope's spokesman on the Vatican Radio now discovered some moral +courage -- not in excess, it is true -- and summoned German +Catholics to "wake up and see clearly the pagan tendencies which +were spreading everywhere." The sordid behavior of the Gestapo and +the soldiers in half of Europe -- in the concentration camp's of +Germany itself, in Austria and Bohemia, and now in Norway, Holland, +Belgium, and Occupied France must not be censured except where

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Russia can be made to bear the greater part of the censure. The +bloody ruling of this intoxicated blonde beast over Europe must be +viewed with "impartial reserve." But to tamper with the Church and +the interest of the Vatican . . . And still the hierarchy supported +the war. The Archbishop of Freiburg, who had denounced the plot to +the Vatican, added:

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"Far be it from me in this terrible struggle to say anything +that would turn aside the energies of the people or prejudice their +devotion to their country. Everyone who thinks as a German desires +to secure for his country a lasting peace with honor."

+ +

With honor! There's the rub. It was left to Hitler, Goering, +Goebbel's, Ribbentrop, and Himmler to interpret the phrase. They +smiled and pushed ahead, and we shall later find them again +courting the Vatican.

+ +

When Eugenio Pacelli became Pope in 1939 he had to choose a +coat of arms and a motto. He chose a dove with an olive-branch in +its beak and the words "Peace in Justice"! He had by his ten years +of inflaming passion against and libelling Russia, to his unctious +benediction of corruption in Spain and Austria, by his intrigues in +Czecho-Slovakia, and especially by standing out before the world as +the friend of Germany, Italy, and Japan, helped to make the world +war inevitable. He dare not, even when the raw greed of Hitler and +Mussolini was flaunted before his eyes, say one word in +condemnation of it; and the local regiments of the Black +International which he controlled sanctified every outrage and +egged on the German people in the most criminal aggression and most +savage behavior that the world had seen for many centuries. And his +supreme word of guidance was that the world was very wicked because +it would not listen to religious oracles.

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THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 7

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THE PIOUS TRAITORS OF BELGIUM AND FRANCE

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HOW THE PREACHING OF PEACE FIZZLED OUT, +AND WHY

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by Joseph McCabe

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HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS +GIRARD -- : -- KANSAS

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CHAPTER

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I The War in the West .............. 1

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II Norway "Not a Catholic Country" ........ 8

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III The Treachery of Leopold ......... 14

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IV France Recovers its Faith and Losses its Honor ..... 19

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V The Amazing Folly of the Catholic Bloc ........ 25

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Chapter I

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THE WAR IN THE WEST

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Those of us who know the ways of Popes watch our papers +cynically for the first signs of a change of heart in Immutable +Rome. In the first year of a war the Pope is on the side of the big +battalions, or, in the language of modern war, the Panzer +divisions. How could a nation like Great Britain expect a Pope to +declare its cause just if it had only a score of good fighting +planes and hundreds of thousands of hospital beds and coffins ready +when it launched its thunderbolt? In the second year the Pope +becomes the Great Neutral, very eloquent in telling the virtues of +peace to a world which hardly needs that assurance. In the third +year he becomes the Arbiter of Right and Wrong. He find's that +there are limits to the world's leniency and the Catholic layman's +docility.

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The time has come for the third phase. The German system is +ominously stretched, and expert ears listen for the first crack. +Italy, disillusioned and beggared, would hang out its tattered +flags if it heard of the death of Mussolini and Hitler. Japan sees +the great American fleet looming on the horizon. All the little +parasite dictators and Quislings tremble in their dishonored homes. +Through the world surges the first flush of confidence in three +years . . . So we begin to hear strange things from those spokesmen +of the Vatican -- the Radio, the Osservatore, and the publicity +bureau -- which can be quoted later as evidence of the Pope's +sentiments or lightly dismissed as "unauthorized," as the +circumstances require.

+ +

The latest to hand reminds us how in a world which permits +Catholics to intrigue in every newspaper office and every political +lobby the Pope can command respectful attention for any +eccentricity, audacity, or mendacity he cares to perpetrate. Myron +C. Taylor, whose secret proceedings under cover of his unofficial +office the American public might find it interesting to +investigate, recently spent a week in Lisbon on his way from the +Pope to the President. Under the devout dictator Salazar Lisbon, +not many years ago a great Liberal center, has become an important +international outpost of the Vatican. Representatives of Spain, +Vichy France, Germany, and the Church breathe its air with lordly +freedom. It was, therefore, not very surprising that shortly after +Mr. Taylor's departure the London Times had this paragraph, which +a British writer welcomed with the reminder that "good hearty +laughs are hard to come by in these days," from its Lisbon +correspondent:

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"High ecclesiastical sources throw one clear ray of light on +the Pope's attitude to the war. His Holiness in private episcopal +audiences has drawn an important distinction between the Nazi and +Communist systems. His public discourses have implied the obvious +truth that the philosophy behind each is fundamentally anti-Christian, but in private he has repeatedly said that, whereas +Nazism is almost entirely evil in its inspiration, Communism has in +it certain elements of natural good which, even if utterly +perverted, still exist. Bolshevism is in some sense a corruption of +the virtues of brotherly love and self-sacrifice, whereas Nazism is +a direct and untrammelled manifestation of hatred and greed."

+ +

I venture to think that if the reader has not seen that +passage before but has read some books of this series it leaves him +breathless. By comparison the passage in which the Archbishop of +York tried a week later to emulate his Brother in Christ seems +almost rational. He said:

+ +

"So far as I understand the economic system of Russia, as it +was when the invasion began, I see little or nothing in it with +which a Christian needs to quarrel" (London Evening News, November +13).

+ +

If we had not the Pope's words (alleged) to compare with this +we should call it a luscious example of the kind of thing that +bishops alone are permitted to say. The essential aim and operation +of the Russian economic system is to share the wealth which the +people of Russia produce, without one iota of exploitation of

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colonies or subject nations, amongst the producers, and with +immeasurably stricter justice than could be found in Britain or +anywhere else; and Dr. Temple, who has paid attention to the ethic +of social and economic arrangements for thirty years, ought to know +it.

+ +

But his boldness in suggesting that it is not quite on the +Christian level pales beside that of the Pope. For years Pacelli-Pius has showered upon the entire Russian system every epithet that +a man in his position is supposed to know. In a comprehensive word +it is "satanic." The Catholic world was taught to close its eyes +and shudder at the word Bolshevism and to regard the Nazis as the +Teutonic Knight whom God had chosen to destroy it. Now we are asked +to believe that while in public the Pope merely pointed out the +"obvious truth" that both systems are anti-Christian in private he +always acknowledged that Bolshevism was perverted virtue -- that is +to say, virtue without a Catholic basis -- and Nazism unreservedly +corrupt.

+ +

I need not point out to my readers that this is false. The +language which the Vatican has used about Bolshevism for years, +much of which I have quoted, condemned it vitriolically, on moral +and social grounds, as destructive of the social order and of +civilization, productive of vice, and stifling to personality. It +was almost the only justification of his eight years' courtship of +Germany and his silence while the entire German Catholic Church +applauded those "victories" of the Nazis, which the Pope is now +said to have regarded always as successes of greed and hatred, that +one day they would destroy Bolshevism and so save civilization. +That there is no other country in the world in which the Pope's +alleged ideals -- Peace, Charity, and Justice -- have been more +cherished and carried out in practice than in Russia I will show in +a booklet on the Vatican's relations to that country. But there is +a growing acknowledgment today that it is the classic land of +"brotherly love and Self-sacrifice." What shall we say of this +moral oracle of 200000000 people who, when he is supposed to be +correcting an earlier estimate of Russia, still puts it on a lower +level than Italy, Spain, Portugal, or Brazil?

+ +

If we were to accept this Lisbon report of the Pope's words as +genuine most of us would reflect, with a shrug of the shoulders, +that what these high ecclesiastical authorities say seems to be of +no interest to us common folk with our simple notions of +truthfulness and plain speech. On the other hand, since we must at +least regard it as a move on the part of the Black International we +should say that it will make Goebbels look to his laurels. From +1917 to 1924, while the rest of the world cursed Russia, the +Vatican courted it. From 1926 to 1941 when Russia emerged from the +raw conditions of the civil war and the famine and won increasing +respect, the Vatican cursed it and called for its destruction. Now +that Catholic armies unite with the armies, of "hatred and greed" +to destroy it the Roman Church puts out tentative suggestions of a +return to the early courtship. It is one of a hundred indications +given in these books that the Black International has only one aim +-- the recovery or enlargement of its wealth and power -- and one +code of action, the ecclesiastical code. All this talk about social +interests and the cause of civilization is eyewash.

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Can we suppose that, as will probably be said presently, +recent events have opened the eye's of the Pope? What events? Has +something happened recently that is worse than the ruin of Spain, +Austria, Abyssinia, Czecho-Slovakia, Albania, Poland, Norway, +Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and France? Remember that in not one +single instance of these exhibitions of greed and sadistic cruelty +has the Pope said that that was their character. Half of this +foulness had been perpetrated before the end of 1939 yet the Pope +just then elected to pay Mussolini's royal vassal and spy, the King +of Italy, more gorgeous compliments than any Pope had paid in Rome +since Italy began to have Kings. In the Christmas season the king +and queen -- probably wearing the Golden Rose he had given her as +Empress of Abyssinia -- had visited him, with rich presents, in the +Vatican. A few days later, not in compliance with Papal custom but +defying all precedent in his anxiety to do honor to the degraded +pair, he travelled across Rome to the Quirinal and exchanged the +most cordial Christmas greetings and compliments in the opulent +throne-room of the palace.

+ +

At that time, in pursuance of a policy jointly agreed upon +between Germany and Italy, the Poles and Polish Jews were writhing, +half-starved, bloodily scourged, amidst the ruins of their homes. +The Pope knew it. He proved repeatedly daring 1940 that in spite of +all German efforts to cut his communications with the country, he +continued to receive, doubtless through Swedish Catholics, news +from Poland! We remember his warm protest when, in 1940, German +soldiers and Gestapo men began, under official orders, to castrate +them by the thousand's. You surely remember how the Vatican +protested that the operation was not in accord with Catholic +theology!

+ +

And just about that time the First Murderer came in for his +share of the compliments. The Vatican Radio announced joyously that +one of the vilest of the Nazi group, Ribbentrop, a man for whom the +aristocratic Pope must have felt a personal as well as moral +repugnance, was coming to visit the Pope, and, as I show elsewhere, +there was a month of hard bargaining, although Hitler met Mussolini +a few days after Ribbentrop's visit and they decided upon and began +the enslavement of the entirely innocent democracies of Norway, +Denmark, Holland, and Belgium. We will consider later whether the +plot was communicated to the Pope like those of the Irish and the +Spanish rebellions, but it went through with all its savagery +whether he agreed or no, and the Huns were already making a vast +shambles of the roads of France when the Pope "extended his +paternal love to the German and Allied armies." It is said even +that he did not use the word Allied but Vatican officials felt that +it was expedient to add it.

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We shall come later to discuss the very difficult question of +the relation of the Black International to the betrayal of Belgium +and France. Let us first get quite clear the fact that, whatever +Pius XII knew in advance about the German program -- there is high +authority for saying that Ribbentrop told him of it -- the +execution of which he never condemned, there is no question +whatever of his being ignorant at that time of the motives, and the +men. When he enjoyed a royal reception at Budapest in 1938 he +recalled according to a profoundly admiring Catholic writer in the +British Quarterly Review (January, 1940, p. 109), some words of +Pope Pius XI: +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +4 +. +THE PIOUS TRAITORS OF BELGIUM AND FRANCE

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"I thank God day by day that he has made me live in this time +. . . good and evil are locked in a gigantic struggle, and nobody +has the right to be merely an onlooker at this momentous hour."

+ +

Strange language for the Great Neutral! But what was the +struggle at that time, and what was Pacelli's contribution?

+ +

The struggle which the Pope envisaged in 1938 was not the +traditional struggle of religion and irreligion, virtue and vice. +That had, from the clerical angle, continued for decades and not +suddenly became "gigantic"! The symptoms of a new and formidable +struggle were the brutal destruction of the liberty of Spain by +rebels, mercenaries, Nazis, and Fascists: the destruction of the +liberty of Austria: the destruction of the lives and property of +tens of million's of Chinese: and the destruction of liberty in +most of the Republics of South America. These were all parts of one +struggle; the attempt of privilege and power to crush new liberties +that had been won and extinguish new claims of justice. We know +well on which side the Pope was. For him it was a struggle of +Bolshevism and Authority, and no group of bankers or corrupt +politicians had been more willing than he to enlist the services of +these new forces which called themselves Nazism and Fascism. But +was their evil character, their motivation in hatred and greed, +hidden from him?

+ +

He was crowned Pope, as I said, on March 12, 1939. Fifty +princes of royal blood, Catholics boast, stood round his throne on +the balcony outside St. Peter's when the tiara was put upon his +head with the usual formula, very fittingly spoken in a dead +language:

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"Receive this tiara of three crown and know that you are the +Father of Princes and Kings, the Governor of the Earth, the Vicar +of Our Savior Jesus Christ."

+ +

American papers, in the accounts sent by their Catholic +correspondents, smilingly explained away this Father-of-Kings and +Governor-of-the-Earth business. A quaint old Roman fashion of +speaking. It certainly was not to Pius XII and the field-marshals +of the Black International who surrounded him as he sat, tall, +straight, emaciated, his large black eyes shining in his long +olivetinted face. They had awarded him the crown precisely because +he believed this -- because he was a churchman who would, as the +Jeromes and Bernards of old had commanded, walk over the body of +his mother to do his clerical duty. And no other cardinal knew the +world he was to govern as well as he did. Catholic writers boast +that he read the chief papers daily of Italy, Spain, Portugal, +Germany, France, England, and South America: which probably means +that he read all the passages blue-pencilled by secretaries. He had +lived twelve years in Germany and had travelled in twenty +countries.

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It is nonsense to pretend that he did not know the real +character of his allies, the Nazis, Fascists, semi-Fascists, and +the greedy Japs; and whether it be true or false that in October, +1941, he authorized the statement that he had always recognized +this foul character, we want to know -- not as a matter of

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curiosity but because it is a vital point in our indictment of the +Black International -- why not a single word of this kind, not a +single warning to the world about the nature of the forces that +were preparing to enslave it, was uttered before October, 1941, if +it was even then uttered. It was not possible for an honest man to +doubt that character after 1939: to profess a doubt any time after +the summer of 1940 required the peculiar heroism of a Lindbergh or +a De Valera. The facts are known but let me, for a reason which +will appear in a moment, quote this passage from the authentic +account by a British soldier of what he saw in Belgium in 1940. He +was taken prisoner and like tens of thousands of other prisoners +had to walk afoot to a camp hundreds of miles away because the +trains eastward were wanted for wounded, for officers returning to +carouse, and for their immense quantities of loot. The guards had +whips and laid them upon the captives "whenever they felt like it, +just to show us and the Belgians who was boss." Any captive who +accepted an apple or a bit of bread -- they were starving -- from +a Belgian was shot or bayonetted. He goes on:

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"Sometimes they'd make us run through the villages holding our +hands above our heads, cracking the whip all round the column. They +gave us no food. They were shooting all the time, for sport and to +show off, at anything that happened to be about -- cats, dogs, +hens, men, and women -- anything that came handy, and they were +hitting right in the head every time. After they'd shot a man +they'd pat their Tommy-gun affectionately and wink at us. They +treated the old women and children worse than they did us . . . +These soldiers were all young ones. The older soldiers, who'd seen +the last war, were different -- less like crafty wild animals -- +much more human altogether, and they don't seem to get the gangster +idea of warfare."

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So they had acted in Poland, the Italians in Abyssinia, and +soldiers and airmen of both armies in Spain; and this repulsive +blend of civilized savagery and looting was fouling eight countries +in Europe at the time when the Pope "extended his paternal love" to +the German soldiers and Cardinal Schuster visited barracks in Italy +and "distributed blessed medals to bring luck to the Italian +armies."

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The point I wish to make clear here is that the Pope, like +every bishop and priest in Germany, had known for years that the +men were being trained for precisely this kind of "warfare," and it +would be preposterous to ask us to believe that his eyes were first +opened in the year 1941. Notice in the above passage the +distinction between the young and the old soldiers. It was +customary in the last war to call the Germans "the Huns." While +pointing out that it was the Kaiser who stupidly gave occasion for +this by telling his men, when he sent an expedition to China, to +"behave like Hun's". I never used the word; though, as the +Kolnische Zeitung itself mildly observed, they had done "many +regrettable things" in Belgium. The German military order of +Schrecklichkeit (intimidation) naturally led to such things. But +there had been a far more serious corruption of the German mind, +especially of German youth, from 1933 to 1939, in preparation for +the present war, and any man who suggests that Pacelli was not +thoroughly acquainted with a system of debasement which was

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described with disgust by educationists and sociologists in every +country must mean that his vaunted knowledge of German and Germany +or his deep interest in the world's welfare and the causes of war +are mythical. Dorothy Thompson and others described it (in Assault +on Civilization) as early as 1934, see Prof. Schuman: Hitler and +the Nazi Dictatorship (1936) and other American works. It is +needless to say that it incurred no censures for the Black +International throughout Germany, which continued to woo Hitler, +the arch-corruptor.

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Its basic principle was Hitler's declaration (the title of the +last chapter of Mein Kampf), "What is Necessary is Right", which +Rosenberg expressed as, "Right is what Aryans consider Right." +Since these new moral legislators had by 1933 the fully developed +idea of an Aryan conquest and exploitation of Europe and for this +a vast and completely ruthless army was "necessary", they +immediately converted the entire educational system -- in the +broader as well as the narrower sense -- into a scheme for making +callous fighters. The training began in the cradle. Every German +female capable of child-bearing was to bear -- in time government +officials said publicly that it did not matter if she was not +married -- and was to make her children war-minded as soon as +possible. One fool, the kind of fool whose writings the Nazi Party +subsidized, told the mother to watch eagerly for the first gleam of +the starlight of battle in the little Aryan eyes. Hitler himself +ordered mothers to talk war and choose war-toys "until the brain of +the smallest child glows with the prayer: God Bless our weapons." +The boy not yet in his teens swaggered about with "Blood and Honor" +on his knife and learned to shout as early as possible because, as +one educationist said, shooting makes a youth "calm and cold-blooded". In school he chanted with his little pals: "We were born +to die for Germany."

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It was far worse in the secondary (high) school the course +which began at an earlier age than in any other country. For six or +seven years boys and girls were drenched with the vilest Nazi +sentiments Science was little more than a perversion of the +teaching of genetics to instil racial pride and selfishness. The +whole curriculum, such as it was -- Hitler turned educationist and +said the aim was to "make bodies sound to the core" -- was +prostituted. So rapid was the debasement of education that in a +list of 28 countries in the Year Book of Education in 1938 Germany +was fourth from the bottom. Hundreds of thousands of youth's +trained in these, schools are in the army today -- or dead -- for +they are accepted, if strong, from the age of 17, and 700000 will +pass to the army, submarines, and Luftwaffe in January, 1942. But +this intensive training in Nazi aims is not enough. Hundreds of +thousands of both sexes were selected for special free maintenance +and training in the Castles of the New Social Order (age 15 to 25), +Adolph Hitler Schools, Napoli (National Political) Schools. Here +the future Gestapo and male and female agent's, for home or abroad +received perfect physical training and what must frankly be called +a training in callousness and brutality. In the universities the +old type of professor was extinguished or, in too many cases, +turned into a hypocrite. Nazi youths of the most brazen type ruled +the classrooms and the lecturers.

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Education in the broader sense -- the whole environment for +communicating ideas or sentiments -- was equally captured and +debased. Everything -- books (authors, publishers, and book +sellers), the press, radio, the theater, concerts, all lectures, +pageants, etc., down to village dances -- came under a Kultur +Kammer with Goebbels as President and a colossal staff and +representatives in every village. Prizes were offered for the best +-- most hysterically Nazi -- books, and the callowest youths became +great writers. One man composed a Lord's Prayer to Hitler. An +aristocrat, Ritter von Taub, edited a Book of Popular Songs +including monstrous hymns to Hitler. It is enough to recall a line +of the famous "Horst Wessel Song: "How high Horst Wessel towers +above Jesus of Nazareth". The youth, a vile character, had lived on +the earnings of a whore -- but he had been heroically callous and +brutal.

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This drenching of the mind of Germany for six years before the +war, the most massive and effective illustration possible of the +truth of the modern science of social psychology -- that there is +no "mind" or "character' other than the sum of what such influences +as I have described put into a child or man -- has been well known +for years to every educationist and moralist in the world, and +certainly to every priest in Germany. And education was the same +during all these years, if less ably controlled, in Italy and +Japan, the other countries allied with the Vatican, I still wait to +hear of a Catholic apologist who wall claim that Pacelli-Pius was +not acquainted with it.

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Chapter II

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NORWAY "NOT A CATHOLIC COUNTRY"

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These were the men, these dynamic automata of a thoroughly +depraved force, whom the Pope saw set out, with the blessing of the +German hierarchy, in the spring of 1940 for the speedy conquest and +looting of western Europe and (they thought) the reduction of +England by a ruthless massacre of its citizens, as a necessary part +of the preparation for that campaign against Russia which the Pope +so passionately desired. How far this was the condition of the +German people generally does not properly concern me here but the +reader may care to hear what impression in this regard a very +extensive and varied literature has left on my mind. Let me point +out first that the account of German miseducation which I have +given relieves us from accepting the worst estimates of the +character of the German people. That they are a tainted stock and +must be treated accordingly is pseudo-scientific rubbish. Such +sentiments as the above were during many years before 1932 confined +to a miserable minority. In spite of all its misfortunes Hitler did +not sweep the country with his gospel of hatred and greed. He +needed the aid of monstrous lies, of very heavy subsidies from the +capitalists and of the cooperation of the, Church. I gave the +figures elsewhere.

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The correct attitude to face the problem of Germany is, +therefore, to ask whether all or what proportion of its people were +mentally and morally poisoned by this system which in its monopoly +has no parallel since the destruction of the medieval Church and in +its force, owing to modern science, has not the feeblest analogy in +any other period of history. The answer to that question is at +present impossible. In the spring of 1933, we saw, less than half +the adults of Germany voted for Hitler. The regime of brutal +intimidation and elimination, and of national bribery (the world is +our oyster), of corruption of the young, and of the influence and +bold successes won by the indolence or cowardice of the democracies +began at once, and further millions must have been attracted. At +the outbreak of the war a leading Socialist refugee said that +three-fifths of the nation supported Hitler without reserve one-fifth applauded his successes but disliked him and much of his +work, and one-fifth, the core of the old Socialist and Communist +bodies, were secretly and bitterly anti-Nazi. The extraordinary +Nazi successes since then have probably won over large numbers. In +the summer of 1941 we would hardly estimate that one-fifth of the +people were anti-Nazi, and Ambassador Dodd, though not quite +consistent in his Diary, generally agrees. But a distinction on +paper between Nazi and anti-Nazi does not correspond to +psychological reality. Already millions who were carried away by +the rapid successes in West and East must be wavering or returning +to sanity in view of the news from Russia. What is most painful is +the spectacle of certainly the overwhelming majority of the Germans +applauding such foul victories, but, besides that millions of them +have the moral lead of the Black International on whom they have +been taught to rely in such matter's, we have the consolation of +feeling that what miseducation could do in six years sound +education can undo. The idea that aggressiveness and covetousness +are "in the blood" is a superficial conclusion of literary men who +know no science and distort fragments of history.

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However, we have here to confine ourselves to the relation of +the Black International to the wave of barbarism that now rolled +over Western Europe and at one time seemed to have a chance of +completely engulfing it. Here we distinguish between the German +hierarchy and the Vatican: not because, as Catholics pretend, the +Vatican has or may have no responsibility for the former, but +because the case against the black army in Germany itself is easily +settled whereas it is too early to expect clear evidence on the +latter. Indeed, since the invasion of Poland automatically made the +Catholics of the British Empire enemies of Germany and in a very +large measure involved the sympathies of the 15000000 Catholics +of America the Vatican had now to proceed with the utmost caution. +Of the attitude of the German Black International I have given +abundant evidence elsewhere, but nobody disputes it. It was united +and enthusiastic in supporting the war. From September, 1939, to +the present hour no paper has quoted any German bishop saying or in +the broadcast language hinting that these campaigns beyond the +frontiers of the Reich were brutal conquests dictated by that +hatred and greed which the Pope is now absurdly said to have +discerned from the start. I quoted the heads of the Church cheering +on the troops only a little more soberly than the Nazi press. I +showed that when the final victory seemed to be in sight the +prelates, assembled in full strength (as they rarely were), +resolved to render solemn thanks to Hitler and his armies when the +work was complete. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +9 +. +THE PIOUS TRAITORS OF BELGIUM AND FRANCE

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You may ask, as some Catholics ask about the Pope himself. +What else could they do? If one replies that they might have done +what some writer's of Germany (Thomas Mann, etc.) and many writers +and other professional men of other countries did-express their +disgust at the foulness and cruelty, sacrifice all they had, and +fly from the debased country -- the retort will be that churchmen +have sacred duties to their people which forbid such conduct, +ardently as they desire to emulate it. One might justly ask whether +the duty to remain with their people required that they should open +their mouths in praise of the savagery and not at least have +maintained a dignified silence. And if it is said that this would +have brought some persecution upon their people we can point to an +enormous Catholic literature in which it is said to be proof of +the, holiness of the Church that priests and people everywhere +suffered every type of penalty rather than bow to iniquity or +injustice . . . But enough of this sophistry. The Nazi government +never persecuted priests for virtue, but for vice; and, while some +did go to prison for complaining of the government's invasion of +the rights of the Church not one ever braved punishment by saying +that the war was a campaign of greed. Nor does any sane man believe +that if the bishops had given an honorable lead and won a +consistent following the government would have shifted one-sixth of +the nation, including one-sixth of the army, into concentration +camps and aroused the anger of Catholics in Spain, Hungary, Italy, +and South America. The common-sense reply is: The bishops knew that +their people would not follow them. The Black International has no +inflexible moral principles. It follows the crowd when it applauds +a vile war as surely as when it rejoices over a royal birthday. The +myth of its moral leadership, its value to civilization, is torn to +shreds by the experience of the last ten years.

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It is well to remember, when Catholics airily reply that this +is not a criticism of the Church but of local bodies of clergy, +that the supposed beneficent influence of the Church on the world +must be exercised mainly, if not entirely, by these local clergy. +What, apart from his direction and control of their conduct, does +the Pope do? He makes "allocqtions" and broadcasts addresses and +issues letters, and the world takes no notice of them beyond paying +them verbal compliments. How much influence in the world have all +Pius XII's sermons on peace had? If any, it was bad: it fostered +trust in Hitler and Mussolini. As to the Encyclicals, the more +pretentious gestures of the Popes, even those on which American +apologists have written whole libraries, like the Immortals Dei and +the Rerum Novarum of Leo XIII -- we shall see presently why +American Catholics have said so little about the Quadragesimo Anno +of Pius XI, which the Vatican considers at least equally important +-- had no influence whatever. The press was most generous in praise +when they were issued, but there was not a journalistic expert on +sound political or economic matters in the world who did not know +that what was sound in them was borrowed by the Pope from the world +and was already a platitude in social literature.

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The test of the moral usefulness of Popes is to see what they +say or do when one of the local or national hierarchies under their +control is corrupted by applauding iniquity or when a crime of +world-proportions is committed which should be envisaged from an +international angle. To discuss the first point would be waste of

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time. The Pope lets his bishops in Italy, Germany, and Japan wave +the blood-stained national flag as vigorously as schoolboys. And it +is hardly necessary to say anything more on the second point until +we come to the year 1940. The rape of Abyssinia, China, and Czecho-Slovakia and the barbaric treatment of the Jews were the +outstanding crimes of that year. The Pope blessed the criminals. +The new Pope was at once confronted with the crime of the invasion +of Albania. He did the same. Those useful unauthorized agencies of +the Vatican have put about the rumor that he urged the King of +Italy to prevent it. Did the Pope not know, what all the world +knows, that the King of Italy had as little power to prevent it as +Lord Halifax has to emancipate India? In any case there is no +evidence of such action.

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Then came the invasion of the West. I have shown two things in +connection with this. The first is that it is impossible to doubt +that the plan was previously communicated to the Pope. Ribbentrop +has an hour's conversation with him on the eve of the Brenner +Conference at which the plot is finally settled and the date for +Mussolini to stab France in the back is fixed. Can one imagine any +other reason for thus sending the Nazi Foreign Secretary -- for the +first time, remember -- to the Vatican? The second point I have now +made clear is that the Pope certainly knew the character of the men +who directed the campaign and the soldiers who carried it out.

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I will suggest later what Germany wanted of the Pope -- +Ribbentrop was certainly not sent to secure the loyalty of the +German hierarchy, which could be relied upon whatever crime was +committed -- and what the Pope, though terribly anxious and +nervous, hoped to get out of the invasion of the West. Here let us +see what he did. The worst crime from the international ethical +angle was the invasion of Norway, Denmark, Holland, and Belgium. +France had, with Great Britain, declared war on Germany, and must +expect attack. while these smaller powers had been lulled into a +feeling of security by the most solemnly reiterated lies, and the +invasion of them had to be excused by further monstrous lies. This +treachery and the corruption by which the Germans weakened in +advance the resistance to their superb Aryan warriors the Pope +never censured.

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Since there was no hierarchy in Norway or Denmark the +annexation of those countries does not concern us here. The reader +will find it interesting, in fact, to compare the proportion of +Catholics in the four countries first invaded with the Pope's +attitude. Norway had only 2827 Catholics in a population of nearly +3000000. Hitler demanded on April 9 that the country be handed +over to him, and, when this was refused, let loose the concealed +troops and traitors that he already had in the country to paralyze +opposition to the divisions he had on the way. The country +distinguished itself by its heroic resistance to impossible odds +when the blunder of its reliance on Nazi honor was realized and +sustaining the struggle for two months and proudly resisting the +invaders ever since. Compare the conduct of this least Catholic +country in Europe to that of Belgium and France. The invasion of it +was the most flagrant and significant aggression of which the Nazis +had yet been guilty, for the excuses put forward were not even +plausible. Ever since the beginning of the war, in fact, Norway had

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protected German shipping in its coastal waters. But when the Pope +was asked to denounce the outrage, one of his unauthorized +mouthpieces explained that Norway had only 2000 Catholics and he +must think of the Catholics of Germany and not offend Hitler. I +give the quotation presently. The only respect in which one could +truly call the Pope the Great Neutral was in regard to the moral +law.

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Denmark had only 22137 Catholics in a population of +3700000. One might almost call it the second least Catholic +country in Europe. It was a very happy, enlightened, and +progressive little state, a significant contrast to Poland, Eire, +or even Belgium (which, however, was only half Catholic). Of the +deputies in its Folksting (Congress) 64 were Socialists, 31 +Liberals, 26 Conservatives, 14 Radicals, 3 Communists, and 11 the +usual odds and ends Roman Catholic doctrine had no appeal whatever +in that very free and stimulating atmosphere, so -- naturally -- +the Pope did not shed a tear over the repulsive treachery of the +Nazis. As late as May, 1939, the Germans had signed a ten-years +pact with the Danes, swearing that under no circumstances whatever +would they use force against Denmark or injure it. As will be +remembered, they gave the Danes no chance whatever to defend +themselves, just taking the land over in a rush as it had a common +frontier with Germany. Doubtless the Pope would, if anybody had +taken the trouble to appeal to him, have explained that it was "not +a Catholic country." We used to think that Popes were interested in +ethics in all parts of the world.

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Holland, which during the Middle Ages had been under Catholic +Spain, was in a different position. It had nearly 3000000 +Catholics to 5000000 Protestants and Freethinkers. Its rich +colonial empire added to its importance, and although it was less +progressive than Denmark and Scandinavia, it had 23 Socialist +deputies amongst the hundred in its Congress. Catholics had 30. You +will, therefore, not be surprised to learn that, when the Germans +broke their pact with Holland and spread over the country with +great brutality and treachery the Pope awoke. Defying Hitler and +his watch dogs in Rome he sent a telegram of sympathy to the queen +of Holland. But I doubt if Hitler minded. He knew that the Pope +must be allowed to make these innocent little gestures sometimes to +blunt the edge of Catholic criticism in America and Britain and +give the Catholic press something to be enthusiastic about. The +wording of the telegram was, in fact, very cautious. Its one +approach to censure was that Holland had been invaded "against its +wish and right." It rather reminds us of the timid sort of neighbor +who venture's to say to a man who has savagely beaten a wife or +child: "You shouldn't do that, you know." Dutch Catholics seem to +have been quite satisfied, even proud of the splendid audacity of +their Pope.

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Since it is as yet impossible to get evidence of the behavior +of Dutch Catholics to the invaders, such as we get in the case of +the traitors of Belgium and France, I leave the question open. They +may, of course, have behaved quite differently from their +coreligionists in France and Belgium. All that we know is that in +face of this monstrous violation of the rights of small nations, +about which the Pope is so concerned in his Five Points of Peace,

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and of the honor of international agreements the Pope merely +uttered a very mild word of protest when it involved a country with +a large and rich body of Catholics. Whether the Black International +had had anything to do with the pathetic blunders of the Dutch and +Belgians in refusing until it was too late to concert measures of +defense with the British and French we cannot say, and I decline to +speculate.

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The fact that Poland had included a good deal of genuine +German territory had given a shadow of an excuse for invading that +country, yet the Pope, taking advantage of the fact Russia invaded +it at the same time, had vaguely censured the behavior of the +Germans (or both armies) in that country. The invasion of Norway, +Denmark, and Holland had not an atom of excuse. It was the first +defiant unveiling of the Nazi greed for the conquest and +exploitation of Europe. American Catholics were greatly disturbed +and pressed for a Papal condemnation. On April 12 the Vatican +correspondent of the Herald-Tribune referred to this pressure and +said that the Pope "declined to act" on the ground that "the Holy +See cannot participate in a political movement which would only +lead to further hatred amongst the belligerents."

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That piece of moral cowardice and sophistry did not satisfy +people who had been reading all their lives that the Pope was the +moral governor of the earth and an inflexible judge. On April 17 +the Vatican correspondent of the New York Times reported that the +Vatican would be little concerned if the war spread to the Balkans +because "no Roman Catholic country would be involved." He added +that it was rumored in high Vatican quarters that through Myron B. +Taylor the President had pressed the Pope to condemn the invasion +of Norway and Denmark, and he was instructed by one of those +conveniently anonymous mouthpieces of the Vatican to add:

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"While the Holy See strongly condemns Germany's action and has +sponsored the attacks against the Reich in the Osservatore Romano, +it is pointed out that there are only 2619 Roman Catholics in +Norway out of a population of nearly 3000000. Therefore, although +the moral aspect is severely judged, from the practical viewpoint +it is stated that the Holy See must keep in mind the 30000000 +German Roman Catholics in its activities."

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This muddled declaration -- "strongly condemning" Germany in +one breath and explaining in the next why the Vatican must not +condemn it -- and the letter of sympathy to the queen of Holland +are all that the apologist for the Pope can quote. The above +passage could, of course, if Germany had protested, have been +explained away at once as unauthorized, and the telegram (after +weeks of pressure) cannot be called a condemnation. If one phrase +in it is so represented we must say that that kind of kid-gloved +ruling of a world in which greed and brutality had become an +appalling force is of no use whatever to the race. What sticks in +the mind is the repeated statement that the Pope is deeply +concerned only when a crime is committed against a Catholic country +-- it injures the Church -- and that his moral censures must be +trimmed in accordance with the interests of the Church. But even +this position, whether or no you regard it as morally respectable +and humanly serviceable, collapses when we come to study +developments in Belgium and France. There we find the Black +International really at work. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +13 +. +THE PIOUS TRAITORS OF BELGIUM AND FRANCE

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Chapter III

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THE TREACHERY OF LEOPOLD

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We come now to those parts of Germany's western offensive on +which the mist still lies, and charges of cowardice and treachery +and fiery denials shuttle back and forth amongst the Belgians and +French themselves as vigorously as military men dispute the moves +in the campaign. Here, on the face of it, we find it difficult to +trace the action of the Black International, and recent writers +give us little assistance. There is so general an agreement that +there was base treachery to the cause of civilization that, +journalists, essayists, and authors are more careful than ever not +to "offend Catholics." Most of them, however, make one honest +blunder which distorts the perspective. They take the conventional +view that both Belgium and France are "Catholic countries". The +effect of this is to give the reader the impression that the +division of the country into supporter's of the traitors and +opponents of their policy was just a split in a Catholic body and +therefore the question of Church influence need not even be raised. +This is entirely wrong, and when we correct it we see at once that +the arch-traitors and their leading supporters, if not the main +body of their supporters (which is obscure), are docile Catholics +and their most bitter opponents. non-Catholics.

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Belgium require's a few words of historical explanation. Its +Catholicism, like that of Holland, is largely due to its inclusion +in the Spanish Empire in the later Middle Ages, and its energy was +absorbed in a fight for freedom, in which patriotic priests joined +(as in Ireland) with people, at the time when other northern +countries were discussing religion and breaking away from Rome. +Austria and France in turn ruled it to the French Revolution, when +it declared itself an independent Republic. But at the fall of +Napoleon the Council of Vienna put it under Protestant Holland, and +the fierce struggle against that country to 1839, when it won its +independence, hardened its creed. To this date the Belgians had had +a splendid record of spirited self-assertion, but with the +expulsion of the Dutch the Black International fastened upon the +country, with the usual consequences.

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Further, Belgium contains two different peoples, and they are +almost as antagonistic as the English and Irish. Though one's +impression in travelling amongst them is that the Walloons in the +south (including Brussels and the great manufacturing towns) are a +volatile Latin people and the Flemings, in the northern half are +closer to the Dutch, all are really of Teutonic stock, but the +southerners, whose daily speech is French, are naturally more +French in culture while the mainly agricultural Flemings are heavy, +backward, and priest-ridden. I lived amongst them for a year and am +not here repeating the impressions of literary travellers, but +these few preliminary lines will suffice for my present purpose.

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By the opening of the present century Belgium, of which it +was, and still is, said in our works of reference that "the great +majority of the population are Catholics", was permeated with

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skepticism of the French type. French literature had a free run in +the French-speaking half of the country, and from the middle class, +which was for the far greater part anti-Papal, this revolt was +spreading rapidly to the urban workers. I found it extensive even +in some rural districts. In my special research (The Decay of the +Church of Rome) in 1909 I found that the Church had about 4500000 +members and had lost about 2500000. The Black international +dreaded the new urban industrial conditions, as the Catholic +leaders now do in France and the Vatican does everywhere. They mean +the growth of free and informed discussion. And when, after the +war, Socialism and Communism spread amongst the workers as +Liberalism had spread in the professional classes, the Church began +a struggle for life.

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The absurdity of the conventional statement that Belgians are +"for the most part" Catholics is positively proved by the electoral +statistics, which here, as in the case of pre-Fascist Italy, pre-nazi Germany, and pre-Franco Spain afford decisive evidence as to +religion; and the fact that this was true in the democratic era and +ceased with it will give you another indication whether it is true +that Pius XII is "a great admirer of democracy", as American +Catholic writers say. At the last election (1939) the country +returned 73 Catholic deputes, to whom we may add 17 Flemish +Nationalists and 4 Rexists. Against these there were 61 Socialist +deputies, 33 Liberay (very anti-clerical), 9 Radicals, and 9 +Communists. In other words explicitly anti-clerical candidates were +returned by much more than half of the adult community. Even the +Senate had only 61 Catholics out of 150.

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At the previous election (1936) the number of Catholic +deputies had been reduced from 79 to 63, and a candid Catholic +French writer in the (Catholic) Revue des Deux Mondes (June 15, +1936) gives an interesting explanation of this. There had been a +grave financial scandal in which the Church had been "very guilty." +In order to "increase its strength and enrich some of its members" +it had "embarked upon sordid speculations." It is an old and +familiar clerical story. It was chiefly the Rexist Party that had +reaped the advantage at the polls of the exposure of this Scandal. +The Rexists are the followers of a young Belgian Catholic Leon +Degrelle, who marked out a path for his political ambition by +raising the banner of what we may call Christian Socialism, or that +milk-and-water blend of Socialist rhetoric about capitalists (while +defending capital) and Catholic abuse of Socialists which the late +Pope recommended in an encyclical that we will analyze in the last +chapter. By 1939, as the above figures show, Degrelle had lost a +good deal of the ground he had won, but he and his movement must be +taken into serious account. His ideal was Mussolini's Corporative +State, as modified in the Pope's Encyclical, so he was patronized +both by Mussolini and the Vatican. He used an Italian broadcasting +station to weaken the Belgian government by his abuse and to appeal +for "a joint effort of Italy and Belgium to bar the way of +Bolshevism." The usefulness of the movement to Germany is obvious, +and today Degrelle is very active under the Germans and in +cooperation with them.

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The above figures reflect a distracted and disunited country +which the unified might of Germany would easily devour unless it +kept up its old alliance with France and Britain, which had saved +it in 1918. This Leopold the Traitor prevented. On his own +initiative he had in 1936 renounced all Belgium's military +alliance's and pledged the fate of his country on the veracity and +honor of Adolph Hitler! Belgium still had a large army, but, though +the men are brave enough, its poor quality had been seen in the +last war. It is the fairly equal division of parties and the +influence of the Church that permitted a neurotic monarch of poor +intelligence to assume such power. The country had alternated for +years between Liberal and Catholic rule, and with the rise to power +of the Socialists it had Seen some unhealthy coalitions. Many +Liberals, as usual, supported even the Church they hated against +the threat of Socialism, but the Socialists themselves entered an +almost unique feature of political life -- into a coalition with +the Catholics against the capitalists. I remember discussing the +matter in 1924 during a merry dinner on the Boulevard Michel in +Paris with the Socialist leader Denis and a group of French +Freethinkers. Denis laughingly said that they would make a deal +with the devil if they could get anything out of it, I reminded him +of the proverb: He who sups with the devil needs a long spoon. +Today Socialism is extinct in Belgium and the Church and the +Rexists rule in the ruins under their German master.

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This is the true perspective in which one has to see the +question of the Belgian treachery. It would be well also for +Americans to investigate closely, if they can, the movement of +their Catholic ambassador at Brussels, Cudahy. It was stated in the +British press he visited Berlin and the Vatican, then had a few +days with Kennedy in London, before returning to America to make a +defense of Leopold. There is little doubt that Roosevelt and +Churchill intend to make it one of the terms of the final +settlement that Leopold shall be returned to his throne. No one has +charged them with an intention to see that the rights of the +Socialists and Communists also are restored.

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What are the known facts about the great betrayal? After +refusing until the last moment to allow his military chiefs to +concert a plan of defense with the French and British experts, +Leopold, when the invasion began, appealed to them for help. We +know now that neither French nor British armies were properly +equipped to meet the mechanized German divisions, though the +preparation of these had taken years, but, while there is a great +deal of controversy about the campaign, it is the conviction of +some leading experts that even when the Germans had thrust through +to the sea the position of the Belgian, French, and British armies +in Belgium was not hopeless. There is fair agreement that lack of +ability and energy in the higher command of each was as detrimental +as the lack of heavy equipment. The most significant pact is that +it was the conviction of the Belgian cabinet that the situation was +not hopeless.

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We next have the admitted fact that on May 27, Leopold, +without consulting his ministers, entered into negotiations with +the Germans for a surrender. They at once closed on him, and at 4 +a.m. on the 28th, while the troops slept and the Allies had no

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suspicion what Leopold was doing, he signed the betrayal of his +army. It is further a well-known fact that the Belgian ministers, +who were in France, issued a statement on the 30th to the effect +that the King's act was illegal and unconstitutional -- in fact the +Belgian Constitution did not recognize any royal document as valid +unless it had also the signature of a minister -- and they deposed +him.

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The evil consequences of this act cannot be exaggerated. To +the King's plea that further sacrifices, by his people were useless +a Frenchman might retort in a famous line of the great tragedian +Racine who, when one character, excusing a fault, asks, "What else +could they do?", replies "They could die." It is, however, not +necessary here to discuss that. Leopold's treachery to his Allies +and to Civilization was greater than his betrayal of Belgium. It +left a large British army suddenly isolated and fatally weakened, +and the men had to abandon all the equipment which it had taken 18 +months to prepare and run in disorder for Dunkirk, where the lives +of most of them were saved by a memorable piece of heroism. Leopold +nearly had to answer for 100000 or more British lives, for it was +mainly the destruction of the British army that he had -- one is +inclined to say sold -- to the Germans; and he knew it. The further +consequences were even worse but will be considered later. The +treachery confirmed the defeatists in high French military quarters +and led to an even more disgraceful apostasy from the ideals of +civilization.

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Leopold and his Catholic Supporters in Belgium today, protest +that he did send word of his intention to his Allies. He had sworn +not to make a separate peace and is uneasy on this point. It is +undisputed that no such message reached either the French or the +British. Reynaud, broadcasting on the same day and branding +Leopold's act as one "without precedent in history", made this +clear. But it is not disputed. The question we ask ourselves is not +whether Leonold sent a message which the Germans intercepted but +whether he was stupid enough to fancy that they would not be on the +watch for any communication. The man is, like most European kings, +of such poor intelligence that one would not be surprised to learn +that he handed a message to the Germans who kindly promised to +deliver it. But the whole story is so improbable that we may prefer +to think that Leopold's clerical advisers recommended him to lie +for the good of the Church. This would be nearer the millionth than +the first time in history.

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But how shall we estimate whether he is likely -- there is, of +course, no evidence -- to have acted under clerical influence? A +Catholic king has two separate groups of counsellors: his ministers +and bishops. We know that he did not consult the former, who were +hundreds of miles away. The latter were in Belgium, and this was +just the kind of issue on which they were apt to be consulted. His +dilemma was whether conscience overruled his oath to observe the +Constitution. It is the business of priests to solve such problems +in a Catholic Court. One of the first to defend the king was the +bead of the Belgian Church, Cardinal von Roey. In a pastoral that +he ordered to be read in every church he endorsed Leopold's act +(London Times, June 18, 1940). The telegram which the Pope sent him

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was before the betrayal and merely sympathized with him on the +invasion of his county, "against its right and wish" and trusted it +would one day recover its Independence: the least the Pope could do +in face of an outraged world.

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That the Osservatore, which could be repudiated as +unauthorized, went further and charged the Germans with having +opened "a pitiless war of extermination conducted in defiance of +the laws of war" does not impress us. The Vatican was at that date, +as I will explain more fully later, trying to drive a bargain with +the Nazis and almost became bold, or at least less cowardly. It +published British and French war-news in the Osservatore (to the +great financial profit of that paper, as no other Italian paper was +allowed to do so), and the Fascist press howled that the Pope was +"the ally of the Jews, the Freemasons, the democracies, and the +English Protestants." But it very quickly lost this honorable +position (New York Times, May 18 and 21). Mussolini cracked his +whip, and the Vatican obeyed. A week later the Rome correspondent +of the most respected British daily, the Manchester Guardian (May +24), reported: "The National Socialist State has, it seems, been +able to read an understanding with the Catholic leaders." There had +been another plum-promises in regard to the Church in Poland, +Bohemia, etc. -- for the good boy. At that date, as all the world +knows, the juggernauts of Germany were plowing red furrows in the +masses of Belgian and French fugitives. The flower of Hitler's +training colleges in chivalry were treating old women and war-prisoners with the brutality which I have described. The traitors +and quislings were getting out their swastika flags. And the Pope, +as I have already quoted, sent his "personal affection" to the +German soldiers.

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The larger question, what benefit the Pope might expect to +derive from a German victory in the west, must be postponed until +the final chapter, after we have considered what happened in +France. Belgium today is Catholic, beggared, and dishonored. It +lives by making tanks and bombs for use Against England and Russia +and food for Germans who keep their fat while Europe starves. +Degrelle has reached his miserable ambition. Having looked to +Mussolini instead of Hitler he at first thought it prudent to fly. +The Germans came to an understanding with him, and he manages to +accommodate the social-political teaching of the Pope's encyclical +to the merciless exploitation of the country by the Germans. His +paper Le Pays Riel urges Belgians to "forget past quarrels" and +piously endure their new slavery. His party is the only one +permitted in French-speaking Belgium. Over the rest of it the Black +International and the Gestapo wield a benevolent control and there +is less sabotage than in any other conquered country.

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Chapter IV

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FRANCE RECOVERS ITS FAITH AND LOSES ITS HONOR

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There is no more pathetic chapter of recent history than the +fall of proud France from its earlier position as one of the +leading powers of modern civilization. It had led the advancing +nations of the world from the days of Voltaire to 1918. The +movement of intellectual emancipation which began in Voltaire, +Rousseau, and Montesquieu and broadened into the period of the +Encyclopaedists culminated in the Great Revolution that lit the +world. French idealism had already enkindled the revolutionary +flame in America. Now its light awakened a fever for reform in +England, Italy, and Spain and transformed Latin America. In the +long and terrible reaction which followed the fall of Napoleon +France still led. Its revolutions of 1830, 1848, and 1870 are +milestones in man's laborious climb, back to the height of 1790. It +again led the world in the complete secularization of the state, +and, while priests mournfully predicted that this would lead to +degeneration, the nation fought with all its old vigor and heroism +when the test came in 1914, After 1919 every friend of France saw +a change. Scandals multiplied, the old vitality was squandered in +domestic quarrels, and when the test again came France, to the +stupefaction of the world, promptly raised the yellow flag and +bought peace with dishonor.

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Is it a mere coincidence that this period of degeneration, +1919 to 1939, is the only period in modern French history in which +you will find a Catholic claim of a great religious revival? In +1909 I proved that there were not more than 6000000 genuine +Catholics in a total population of 39000000. The only serious +criticism. came from the distinguished French Protestant Scholar, +Sabatier, a high and very impartial authority on religion, who +wrote me that there were in France at that date no more than +4000000 genuine, or as the French say practicing, Catholics. The +war of 1914-1919 brought Alsace-Lorraine, with more than 1000000 +Catholics back to France. This very natural development had the +unforeseen consequence of compelling the French government, which +had contemptuously ignored the Vatican and been heavily scolded by +it for 20 years, in increasing the power of the priests to a +remarkable extent. The Alsace-Lorrainers wanted independence, not +absorption in France, and the chronic unrest of the provinces, +fostered by the clergy, gave the Vatican one of its usual +opportunities: we will keep Alsace-Lorraine docile for you if you +will make concessions to the Church. As political security and +economic prosperity are far more sacred things than either religion +or irreligion the bargain was struck. Alsace and Lorraine had +brought great wealth to French capitalists and, on the other hand, +they were the weak spot in the heel of France if, or when, the +German war of revenge opened.

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From 1880 to that time no French politician had taken the +Church into account. Catholic statesmen are as unknown in that +period as Catholic scientists, philosopher's, economists, or +historians of leading rank. Still in the period between the two +wars every French statesman was a Freethinker, except the +Protestant Waldeck-Rousseau, but even the most skeptical of them +now showed an ostentatious respect of the Church.

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I was at Athens in 1922 when the news came that the Turks in +Asia Minor had inflicted on the Greeks the worst defeat they have +suffered in modern history. I was in the British Legation when the +Greek Foreign Minister secretly brought the news -- it was +concealed from the public for four days -- and the secretary, a +friend of mine, told me that the minister assured them that it was +with French help that the Turks had made a sudden and overwhelming +attack. When I repeated that in England the journalistic "experts" +leered, and a few years later a Harvard professor whom I met +assured me that, though he had himself suspected it, it was not +believed in America. But as usual the truth came out and may be +read partly even in the Catholic Teeling. The Vatican did not want +the Greeks to get Constantinople, as they easily could have done -- +I had been a few days earlier with a large Greek army within a +day's march of Constantinople which then had no Turkish troops -- +because that would enormously increase the power of the Greek +Church in the East.

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This is one of a hundred instances of "the government of Jews +and Freemasons," as Rome had called the French government for forty +years, cooperating most respectfully with the Vatican. In 1925 I +attended the Freethought Congress at Paris. The government frowned +on it and it was a total failure. But the canonization of Joan of +Arc brought out the freethinking politicians and officials in +crowds to attend the gorgeous ceremonies. After the blunders of the +fire-eating Catholic-cooperating statesmen of 1919-1924 the +Radical's under Herriot got power and tried to recall the +ambassador from the Vatican. The Church got the deputies from +Alsace-Lorraine to rebel, and the wealthy Catholics, and even the +peasants with fat stockings, held back their money from public +funds and defeated a government which really represented the +majority of the nation. So the truckling to the Vatican continued. +The Czechs, as I have earlier explained, defied the Vatican and +expelled its Nuncio. Rome turned to France, the alliance with which +was vital to Czecho-Slovakia, and the Czechs had to yield. In +return the Pope, to the scandal of good Catholics, heavily censured +the Catholic-royalist body in France, on the ground that it +detected heresy in the leaders, and seemed to relieve the French +government of one of its embarrassments.

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I have in these booklets so severely to condense all matters +referring to the period before 1936 that I must run the risk of +giving the reader an inadequate impression. He should understand +that the world-tragedy of today is far more surely the culmination +of the miserable history of Europe from 1919 to 1936 than it is a +consequences of the Conference of Versailles to which so many +attribute it, and in no case is this clearer than in that of +France. Free French writers have called the appalling conduct of +the Vichy group "the Revenge of the Dreyfusards." The affaire +Dreyfus is generally forgotten -- the attempt of Catholic military +men and politicians in the last century to make a scapegoat of an +innocent Jew, foiled by Zola and the anti-Catholic politicians -- +but it is profoundly true that what is happening in unoccupied +France today is the revenge of Catholic generals and politicians, +in the name of the Church and with the aid of the German bandits, +on the men and the entire modern regime of life which have kept +them in obscurity and impotence for more than half a century.

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The preparation for that revenge covers the entire period from +1919, beginning with the prestige which the Catholic generals Foch +Petain, and Weygand had won in the last war and the annexation of +Alsace-Lorraine. Lorraine brought to French capitalists and +bankers, one of the greatest iron-ore beds in the world and to +French bishops a very substantial reinforcement. So these brother's +in arms based the whole policy of France on the cry of the security +of the country, the "sacred union" of all Frenchmen (or cessation +of attacks on the Church), and close alliance with the Vatican. +Since the French press was in those years no more disposed or free +than the American and British to tell the truth about Rome, the +French people never realized that from 1933 onward the Papacy was +in close alliance with their deadly enemy across the Rhine, the man +who had sworn in print to trample France in the mud and to reduce +Britain to the status of a little island out on the Atlantic. The +same planting of Catholics in high military quarters and in the +diplomatic and civil service is taking place in the British Empire +-- see the Catholic Who's Who as in France. It might be useful if +some American writer were to make a corresponding inquiry on this +side.

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But, as I said, although the most important material for +judging the question of the Black International and the great +French betrayal is found in the prewar developments, they must here +be dismissed briefly. Let us say that the country was terribly +enfeebled and its attention diverted by the passionate quarrels of +half a dozen rival parties, or of men ambitious to lead parties of +their own. The scandals in public life which occasionally occurred +reveal no worse corruption than in America but they are more +fiercely discussed. It was the dissipation of forces that chiefly +counted. Even the sound progressive body of the people was split, +in virtue of the old jibes about Socialism and liberty and the +personal ambition's of politicians, into Radicals, Radical-Socialists, and Socialists. Read the appalling description of +France in 1938 -- "like one in deadly sickness it neither moves nor +speaks on the threshold of an agony", etc. -- in J.C. Maxence's +Histoire de dexans 1927-1937 (1938).

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Two parties chiefly profited by the confusion, the Communists +and the Catholic Royalists. The Communists made their usual mistake +of encouraging pacifism because "the capitalist system was not +worth fighting for" and of saying that the Church no longer needed +watching. One wonders what they say in their ruin and misery today.

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Catholic-Royalism, which is the French form of Fascism, grew +and became bolder every year. Teeling is quite wrong when he claims +that the developments in France show that the Church had regained +considerable ground, but his acceptance of a world-total of +330000000 (instead of about 250000000) Catholics shows that he +has made no study of this matter. I have elsewhere shown that the +estimates of French Catholic writers varied from five to ten +millions, and that the best of them and the Catholic Denis Gwynne +(resident in France) regard the latter figure as very excessive. If +we split the difference and say 7500000 (in a total population of +42000000) we see that, taking into account the inclusion of the +Catholics of Alsace-Lorraine, there has been no growth of the

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Church since 1919. It is in power alone, in virtue of its intrigues +and its high military members, that the position of the Church +improved; and it is just in this respect that we look for its +influence in the betrayal of the country.

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A small library has already been written on the military +collapse of France. When we allow for the folly of the French, who +would never submit to sufficient taxation to provide an army +equipped like that of Germany, in trusting to the Maginot Line and +leaving their northern frontier practically open and their very +inferior equipment we still have, as most experts admit, a very +serious situation to explain, The successive blunders -- Reynaud +called some of them "unbelievable faults" in the Chamber -- cannot +be discussed here. Shirer sums up all criticisms in the phrase: +"France did not fight." He means, of course, not with its old fire, +perseverance, and ability. When he explains that this was due to +Communist pacifism in the ranks and defeatism amongst the higher +officers we do not quite follow him. The Communists were a +relatively small minority, and any Communist soldier who wavered +would get short shrift.

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On the fact that there was something wrong in the higher +command and that, specifically, Wegand and Petain showed deplorable +weakness and defeatism the majority of impartial experts are +agreed. As these soldiers, on whose verdict that a continuation of +the war was hopeless the French government had to rely, and the +bunch of admirals, generals, and politicians who at once emerged to +support them are Catholics, as the immediate result of their +assuming power by betraying the country was an intensification of +the power of the Church, and as Blum, Reynaud, Daladier, and nearly +all the non-Catholic statesmen were opposed to surrender, we very +decidedly have a case for suspecting Church influence. Only the +Vatican and Catholic countries like Brazil, Portugal, Spain, and +Eire fully endorsed the surrender and support the Vichy group of +traitors today. It is, in fact, only because the British and +American Press dare not, for fear of their Catholic censors, even +raise the question of Church influence or inquire into the +significance of the rise to power of a Catholic group for the first +time in 65 years that many are surprised at the suggestion.

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Let us examine what happened. At the critical phase, when +Weygand, whose feeble appeals to the troops sufficiently show that +he was something of a defeatist from the start, completely failed +in his strategy and the Germans were rushing toward Paris, Reynaud +for some obscure reason took two well-known Catholic defeatists, +Baudoxiin and Prouvost, into the cabinet. What we shall see +presently will suggest that this was due to the intrigues of Laval +and other Catholics. A few days later (June 10) Italy delivered +what Roosevelt called "the stab in the back," and French morale +fell still lower. On the 12th Weygand reported that resistance was +hopeless. Reynaud appealed frantically to America for help and +Churchill, agreeing with him that the reply was unsatisfactory, +consented to relieve France of its agreement not to seek a separate +peace. Reynaud and the majority of the cabinet wanted to continue +the war, but "the will to fight had departed from Marshal Petain +and General Weygand, and their example was contagious." On the 16th +Reynaud resigned, and the President asked Petain, "who responded

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with alacrity," to form a government nearly the Vichy group of +today. At once the senile Marshal (aged 84) asked an armistice +fatuously explaining to the Germans that the settlement would be +"as between soldiers" who respected each other. Daladier, Delbos, +Mandel, and other of the old ministers took ship from Bordeaux to +Africa, intending to carry on the war from there, as the elementary +dictates of French honor, when not diluted with piety, required. +They were arrested and returned to France as prisoners. Petain +signed what he incredibly called "hard but honorable" terms, and he +and his gang moved to Vichy and began to spit epithets at the one +power, Great Britain, that seemed to be left to face alone the +appalling might of Germany reinforced by all the resources, except +the fleet, of France and six other conquered lands.

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That is the summary, condensed, of events which we find in the +most important and most impartial annual survey of contemporary +history, the Annual Register. But I have reserved for special +notice one part of the narrative. The thoughtful reader will, of +course want to know how Petain, a man (as subsequent development's +show) no more fitted for statesmanship than for teaching zoology, +came to be chosen for the supreme position and his bunch of +Catholic friends were waiting for his call. If I suggested that +this crucial development was due to the intrigues of Catholics I +should be accused of prejudiced imagination, but that is just what +the Annual Register states.

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Laval a docile Catholic in good order at the Vatican and a +thorough defeatist, was, it says, "the most responsible for French +politics at this juncture," When the government transferred to +Bordeaux he went there and, the Annual says, intrigued with all his +energy to get "peace at any price". Reynaud, not a man of +sufficient personality to meet so terrible a crisis and assailed by +rumors of an entanglement of an unpleasant character, was worn +down. Petain, on the other hind, was flattered to his teeth and +persuaded "by Laval (who hoped to rule France through him) that he +was called by God to save France. President Lebrun and Herriot were +dissuaded from shifting the government to North Africa and +conducting the war from there, and Mandel, Daladier, and others had +to fly secretly to carry out the plan. Laval was taken into +Petain's group and became, when the members of the Senate and +Chamber (Congress's) voted themselves out of existence by 569 votes +to 80 and made Petain dictator, Vice-Premier.

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In giving a summary above of indications of an increasing +Church influence in France I postponed one item. On June 9, 1935, +the Papal organ, the Osservatore Romano (quoted in Keesing) +recalled with joy that for the first time in 70 years a French +cabinet-minster was visiting the Pope and kissing his ring. He wore +the insignia of the Order of Pius IX, which had been bestowed upon +him by Pill's XI. He presented several sumptuously bound works of +Catholic piety to the Pope, who gave his daughter a gold and coral +rosary such as a Catholic maid would treasure for life. The Times +(June 10) and other papers referred to the facts as another +admirable symptom (like Mussolini's bargain with the Vatican) of +the wise reconciliation of the secular and spiritual powers.

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The devout pilgrim was Pierre Laval, who thus entered upon a +friendship with the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pacelli. Laval is +now so universally loathed that our papers will not even mention +that he is a Catholic, much less recall his Papal decorations and +his close Vatican connection. Pacelli, a year or two later, +returned the visit. He was the first Papal Legate to be received in +Paris since 1814, and he was very royally received. And at the +following New Year's Day there was a fresh Papal decoration for +Laval, and one even for the freethinking Prime Minister.

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If any readers still hesitate about the share of the Black +International in the betrayal of France let us consider what +happened. The French hierarchy at once at the surrender ordered +their people to support Petain. The Pope, who mediated in the +settlement with Italy, sent Petain a personal message and a letter +pointing out to the French bishops that the new situation made +possible "a reawakening of the entire nation." The Osservatore +surpassed itself, hailing "the dawn of a new radiant day not only +for France but for Europe and the world" (Catholic Herald, July +12). As all the world which was not Catholic-Fascist or under the +lash of the Gestapo considered the new day one of dishonor for +France and of evil augury for the world Cardinal Hinsley, head of +the Church in Britain, was compelled to ask what the Great Neutral +meant by this. The article, it was explained, was not authorized. +Even under Hinsley's nose, in his Catholic Herald, the jubilation +at the Catholic victory broke out. A writer said that "all that is +vital in the soul of France, purified and glorified in heroic +suffering, can look out once more upon Europe with a clear +Christian purpose". Next week Hinsley had to explain to an outraged +England that that was not authorized. but the paper continued (see +editorial October 11, etc.) to rejoice, more discreetly, that the +action of France had promoted the plan of a Catholic bloc and had +inaugurated "a big and vital movement." Could anything but the +interest of the Church inspire such glorification of cowardice and +treachery in a British paper?

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Then the senile wreck, too dense or too pious to sense his +dishonor, began to set up the New Order in France. For the grand +(if exaggerated) cry of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" that had +once roused the world and was now blotted but as a blasphemy Petain +mumbled his new trilogy,"Work, Family, Country." Religion first. +The beetles, male or female, waddled back to the schools and +institutions from which they had been banished, with great profit, +for 50 years; the text-books were rewritten under Petain's personal +supervision -- surely a unique spectacle! -- and all non-Catholic +teachers (in a country with 45 million non-Catholics to 7 million +Catholics) were expelled or turned into hypocrites. This +development went so far that the Germans had to make Petain modify +it to prevent riots. Women were shut back in the Middle Ages, and +favor, even ordinary justice, shown only to parents with at least +three children. And the good workers were to be meekly organized on +the lines of the Papal encyclical which I will analyze in the next +chapter and the employers educated in that beautiful Catholic +spirit of paternal kindliness to their helpless employees which +had, of course, been seen everywhere until this modern atheism and +the urban industrial conditions which begot it arose in the +nineteenth century. French bankers and capitalists, who are now

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falling over each other and fighting truculently to get fat jobs +under the Germans -- are, in fact, now making fortunes by making +armaments for use against Britain and Russia -- smiled at the old +fool and his priests but encouraged him. No more Socialism or +Communism in France.

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I do not care to enlarge further on the spectacle of a great +nation that has been betrayed into misery and shame by a few +priest-ridden leaders, but the consequences to the few nations that +remained civilized were appalling. Soon afterwards I watched from +my bedroom-window, five miles away, the most precious square mile +of the city of London, with its historic treasures as well as its +vast stores, dissolve in flames, and for weeks later I met the poor +maimed folk who had left their dead in the cinders of their homes. +It goes on. As I write Vichy is deliberating whether to put its +fleet (contrary to the most solemn pledges) and its vast African +empire at the disposal of Germany for the final destruction of +civilization in Europe. And Papa Pacelli continues to bless Vichy. +The one man in the miserable group whose sense of honor is not +smothered by his piety, is dismissed as if this were a disgrace . +. . France will yet -- next year, I venture to think -- rise again, +shake in the wind the defiant tricolor that spells out its old +trilogy, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," and prove to the dead +traitors and their priests that it has lost neither its honor nor +its vigor.

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Chapter V

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What gain did the Black International think it would derive +from the German conquest of Belgium and France? I have already +established two points. First, as is made plain in every chapter of +these booklets, no human consideration -- no thought of secular +ruin and the "earthly" suffering of millions -- is allowed to stand +in the way of the clerical ambition. We have seen it from Spain to +Abyssinia, from Brazil to Vienna. The pretext is that men's +"immortal" interests outweigh all these "temporal" disasters: the +fact is that the protection or recovery of the power and wealth of +the Black International comes first. Secondly, there is no room for +doubt that the Vatican was warned in advance of the conquest of +Belgium and France and the intervention of Italy. Ribbentrop was +received at Rome, with much enthusiasm, the day before he was to +join Hitler and Mussolini at the Brenner for the final endorsement +of the plan of the conquest of the West. It is absurd to ask us to +believe that Hitler was deeply concerned at such a moment to secure +a friendly understanding of which he had not the least need, with +the Pope about Church affairs in Poland and Bohemia. It is still +more absurd to suggest that he wanted an assurance of the loyalty +of the German Catholics, which was never in doubt whatever crime +(not against the Church) Hitler committed. The Annual Register says +that "according to Vatican sources" Ribbentrop had told the Pope in +April that the German troops would be in Paris in June and in +London in August.

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The immediate gain of the Church is obvious. Socialism and +Communism were just as dangerous to it in Belgium and France as in +Spain, Austria, Germany, and South America, and a German conquest +of the West automatically involved the complete destruction of +them. It seems to me just as certain that the Vatican was promised, +or foresaw, the seizure of power in France by Petain, Weygand, +Laval, and Darlan and the setting-up of a clerical state. Think of +the situation, as I have described it. Since 1875 French Catholics +had not only never had power in France but had not had a single +statesman until the black Laval wormed and bribed his way in. Now, +in an hour of profound humiliation and misery, priests govern the +men who govern France. The price of power never matters to the +Papacy.

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But a further very important gain was that the transformation +of France into a Catholic state provided a new, and most important +unit for the Pope's plan of a bloc or League -- let us call it a +League -- of Catholic powers. As far as I can trace, this idea of +the Pope was born in the spring or early summer of 1940, which +suggests further evidence that he knew of the coming degradation of +Belgium and France. Slovakia was at that time added, as a Catholic +state, to Italy, Spain, and Portugal. The Pope could have had no +illusion about the value, on a world-scale, of Slovakia, Spain, and +Portugal or the condition of Italy; and the usefulness of the +Spanish-American Republics in a League with European anti-democratic countries was of still more doubtful value. The United +States, that exasperating democracy that sent so much money to Rome +but compelled its Catholics to profess such adulterated ideas of +the faith, might have something to say. France, a first-class +power, was a different proposition.

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These Catholic states were to be constructed on the lines of +the Papal encyclical of the year 1931 Quadragesimo Anno. The title +-- the title of an encyclical consists of the first two words of +the Latin text -- means "In the fortieth year" and is an indication +that if follows up the "great" encyclical (Rerum Novarum) published +by Leo XIII in 1891. You may know how the world-press applauded +that encyclical and how American apologists still quote it with +pride. It went to the revolutionary length of saying -- in the last +decade of the nineteenth century! -- that a worker must have "a +living wage"; though the Pope, when asked by a Belgium prelate who +was pressed by Socialists, declined to say what is a living wage. +Pacelli, who was firmly in the Secretariat of State by 1931, seems +to have thought that it was a good basis to build upon. I do not +suggest that he wrote it, though to do so required no knowledge of +economics. It is a very long and rambling document, mainly composed +of the familiar solemn clerical platitudes about the wickedness and +folly of the world and the deeper wisdom which the Church is ready +to impart upon all questions if men will only listen.

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You may reflect that you never heard of this important +pronouncement and would like to read it. Unless you read Latin of +the modern Italian type I fear you will not be able to do so. +Though it is intended for the whole world it is written in a dead +language, so the Vatican meant each national branch of the Church +to make a translation of it. I have heard of only two -- German and +French. In Britain at least, no translation was published, and

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there is only a booklet on it (Pope Pius XI and Social +Reconstruction, 1936) which is a paraphrase intended to conceal its +crudities. I can learn of no American translation. Strange, you may +say, if this is the supreme effort of Pacelli and Pius XI on a very +vital question and the document on which these new Catholic states +expressly base themselves.

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It is not really strange. It is a manual of Catholic Fascism, +blending features of Mussolini's Corporative State, the medieval +guilds, and weird Vatican conceptions of modern life. Although +Vichy France, Portugal, Slovakia, etc., appeal to it as their +inspiration it says little about the political form of the state +but clearly assumes that it will be a dictatorship. The main point +is its solution of the larger problem, which is very simple. The +desire of the workers to have unions is, the Pope is gracious +enough to say, legitimate. But must not be democratic and +independent. They must be "directed." The employers also must have +associations -- you see the relation to Mussolini's idea -- and in +case of a difference of opinion representatives of the two bodies +must meet in Christian amity and come to an agreement. It reminds +us of the British industrial experiment of Witney Councils, which +had already been discovered to be useless before Plus XI, or +Pacelli, recommended the idea as original and profound. The Pope +does not say whether the workers or the employers are to have the +marginal superiority or how, in case they are equal, a decision is +to be reached. Such a deadlock, he supposes, cannot arise when both +sides are Catholics. They then see everything in the light of pure +justice.

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But there are incidental passages which made it all the more +inadvisable to translate this gem of Papal wisdom for the workers +of America. What for instance, would they say to this:

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"The workers, sincerely repressing all that feeling of hatred +and envy which agitators in the social Struggle so cunningly +exploit, will not only submit to but highly esteem the position in +human society to which Divine Providence has assigned them (p. 104, +Freiburg edition).

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It is exactly the kind of language which the bishops of the +Church of England addressed to the workers a century and a quarter +ago when they were agitating for the right to form unions. The +worker who sees the marble bathing pools, the rich banquets, the +spacious and luxurious homes of the rich on the screen must, when +he returns to his dingy and uncomfortable home, repress that wicked +feeling of envy and thank Divine Providence for giving him the $15 +or $20 a week job. To do otherwise leads to Socialism, and the Pope +settle's the vexed question whether the Vatican no longer condemns +Socialism. "No man", he says (p. 90) "can be a good Catholic and a +good socialist," The priests did not care to let even British +workers see that. As to Communism, it is "impious and wicked", not +simply, as the Pope is now represented as saying, natural virtue to +be condemned only because it has not a Catholic basis (in reality, +a Catholic or priestly boss). There is to be no restriction on a +man's power to make a fortune, but the rich must be generous to the

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poor. At the same time the Liberal and very American doctrine of +"free competition" is wrong. This is supposed to be a wise Catholic +middle position between the two extremes in contemporary life: a +wonderful example of that famous "wisdom of the Vatican".

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It obviously did not suit the American hierarchy to let the +American public know that their Church condemned unrestricted +individualism and free competition, but the blear-eyed Petain, like +the sleek priest-ruler of Slovakia, the truculent dictator who +protects privilege in Brazil, and the scheming Dr. Salazar of +Portugal found it a useful doctrine. It is, as I said, Mussolini's +Corporative State modified. You may choose to think that these +innocent folk at the Vatican did not realize that Mussolini's +scheme was mainly devised for the purpose of war -- to bring both +the industrialists and the workers under the despotic control of +the State. In any case the Pope puts the Church above the state. He +blandly claims that it is "the supreme authority even in these +economic matters." That also would hardly suit America, but old +Petain would not blink if it claimed to be the supreme authority +even in sanitary matters and sport. He had a vague idea that he +could, on the lines of the Papal encyclical paralyze the great +industries which by their urbanization and stimulation of the +people had certainly promoted the growth of freethought. France was +to be mainly agricultural once more, because peasants are less +quick-witted and anti-clerical, and in such industries as were +permitted the ascendancy of Catholics would be secured, not merely +by the control of Church and State but by giving low wages to all +men who were not married or had not at least three children. By +long tradition, parents of three or more children in France were +almost always Catholics.

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One would not say that the Germans smiled: they must have +roared with laughter. The old fool would serve the immediate +purpose, and their patronage of him and his insipid ideas could be +put on their credit side at the Vatican, which was expected to give +further help in the African Empire and the East. As I write the +Germans seem to be about to dismiss Petain to some country cottage +or home for the aged. The truth about him is breaking through the +Catholic censorship. A series of articles in the Herald-Tribune in +the summer of 1941 by the distinguished French dramatist Henri +Bernstein punctured the Petain clerical legend. He proves that the +"great soldier" was a defeatist in the war of 1914-1918 and wanted +to abandon the English allies to the German's. His coreligionist +Foch had to silence him. It appears even that he never was a great +soldier and "the hero of Verdun." It was the priests who +manufactured his reputation. As I said, for seventy years they had +failed to get a distinguished representative either in +statesmanship, science, philosophy, or history, so in the miserable +prewar period., when they concentrated on pushing into power +political creatures like Laval, literary journalists and soldiers: +men who know nothing outside their special fields and are easy prey +to the clerical sharp.

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Just about the time of the surrender of Paris even the German +papers began to discus's with respect the idea of a Catholic +League. Whether they or the Pope started it I cannot ascertain but +it became an important item in their new program of friendly

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understanding with the Vatican. Catholic papers in England and +Eire, in Portugal, Spain, Spanish America, and Hungary -- and, I +suppose. in the United States -- began to reflect the glory and joy +of the new vision that lit the Papal mind. The great League would +cross the seas and bring in the republics of South America. +"Spaniards", Franco's newspapers said, "are the only ones entitled +to look after Spanish America." Britain and America were saving +Spain from famine and collapse, and its press was telling President +Roosevelt that "his tutorship is unsolicited". Instead of a Nazi +threat to the United States from Latin America there was to be a +Catholic Fascist threat; and the main body of American Catholic's +still praised Petain, Salazar, Franco, and De Valera. Germany +hinted that this was not all. The Pope's eyes began to brighten at +the prospect of Germany conquering the Balkans and destroying for +him the ancient Greek, Russian, Serbian, and other "Orthodox" +Churches which had defied the Papacy for more than a thousand +years. This mighty League, pivoting on Italy, need not fear Hitler +even if he had won his victory and then faced the Vatican without +a mask.

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The Germans, I repeat, must have laughed. Now that Italy was +sucked clean of vitality, or soon would be, the vast German force +would, if necessary, cut through these Catholic powers as easily as +the smaller armies of 1940 had cut through western Europe. When the +time came Germany would take them all over into its servile empire, +their people the helots who would grow food and hew out minerals +for the German workers and industrialists. Any doubt of that after +the terrific strain that the German onslaught has put upon Russia +in spite of its mighty resources and superb heroism would be +ludicrous.

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What would Germany then say to Roman Catholicism. It would +disdainfully sweep aside all its trumpery Catholic-Fascist +institutions. It would enter upon a real "persecution of religion" +such as the modern world has not yet seen. If the Pope murmured +about promises and agreements, the cynical Nazis would remind him +how he was silent year after year when they made solemn agreements +and tore them up. It would remind him how through years of +corruption and dishonor, of bestial cruelty and ruthless +aggression, he had been silent or friendly, solely because he +thought it would ultimately profit his Church. Shall we have to +write in another year or two that atheistic Bolshevism saved the +Papacy as well as European civilization?

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THE POPE AND THE ITALIAN JACKAL

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HOW MUSSOLINI'S INVINCIBLE LEGIONS WERE BLESSED

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CHAPTER

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I No Tears Over Albania .............. 1

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II The Stab in the Back ............... 7

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III Greece, Not Being Romanist, Fights ...... 13

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IV Catholics Hamstring Yugo-Slavia ......... 20

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V The Pipe-Dream of Mussolini and the Pope ...... 26

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Chapter I

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NO TEARS OVER ALBANIA

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Ten years ago that appalling greed which is the principal +dynamo of the barbaric energy that is wrecking the world expressed +itself in four plausible ambitions: those of Nazi Germany, Fascist +Italy, Imperialistic Japan, and the (spiritually) Imperialistic +Vatican. I say plausible because these ambitions were at that time +still restricted within such limits that they could be decked in +such pretexts (legitimate aspirations, racial unity, +overpopulation, etc.) as would provide a moral evasion for the +democracies whose real motive for inaction was the prospect of the +destruction of Socialism. Japan, which already had and openly +confessed an ambition to conquer and enslave all eastern Asia and +the islands of the Pacific hardly fits into this formula, but in +this series of booklets Japan occupies little space. We have only +to point to the fact, which may be verified in any work of +reference, that just when Japan began brazenly to exhibit its greed +and its callousness, the Vatican entered into diplomatic relations +with it which set the seal of a sacred cooperation upon its +adventures, and that on the eve (March, 1941) of the final, most

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bloody, and most comprehensive extension of the conspiracy against +civilization the Pope gave a most cordial interview and a gold +medal to Japan's most crafty agent, Matsuoka.

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Hitler ten years ago still kept his ambition within the frame-work of Mein Kampf. The noble German race could not tolerate that +large bodies of its people should be in subjection to inferior +nations (Poland, France, Denmark, Czecho-Slovakia, Switzerland, +etc.) and must gather them into the Reich; and it was necessary for +the full and free development of this Greater Germany that it +should take the Ukraine from what the whole world then agreed with +him to regard as the disreputable and incompetent Bolsheviks. We +have seen how urgently the Vatican was moved by its own policy to +link itself with the adventures of Nazism. The German Catholic +Church was already the richest in the world, or tied for that +position with the American Catholic Church. It faced destruction if +it opposed the Nazis; it could expect an enormous increase of +wealth and power in the Greater Germany if it did not. Moreover, +the Nazis were bound to annihilate its deadly enemy, Socialism, in +Germany and, if they succeeded, in France and Russia. So the +present Pope, who knew Germany intimately and saw, as any schoolboy +could, that its program meant war at least with France and Russia, +and therefore also with Great Britain, helped the Nazis to attain +power and clung to them through years of shame until their prospect +of victory was dimmed by the heroic resistance of Russia and the +help of America.

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All that, and how the Black International in Germany cheered +and blessed every ghastly extension of Hitler's greed when he +realized the incredible complacency of the western democracies, we +have seen. In this book I propose to consider in detail the +relation of the Vatican and the Italian Church to the Fascists: in +particular to the miserable adventurer who dreamed that he would +pass into history as the second Caesar and already finds his place +in it under the particularly odious name of the Jackal -- the +stinking, Blinking, cowardly beast that lets other beasts kill and +fattens on the corpses of their victims. This is the Pope's closest +ally and friend, the leader of the dreamed-of League of Catholic +Fascist powers.

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In another booklet I have summarized the early career of this +gross type of adventures, the beginning of the Vatican's sordid and +venal alliance with him, and the way in which his first outrage, +the rape of Abyssinia, coincided perfectly with the ambition of the +Papacy to recover its control of the Ethiopian Church and was +effusively blessed by the whole Italian hierarchy while the Pope +remained tactically silent. From that time until 1939, the Jackal +got no pickings and saw himself sinking into vassalage to the more +powerful beast and his country despised throughout the world +without the compensation of plunder. Every meeting at the Brenner +or dash of his rabbit-brained son-in-law to Berlin was followed by +a harvest of glory and loot for Hitler -- alone. The warning in +Mein Kampf that Germany could never tolerate a second great power +in Europe was lost on him; and, while he joined gaily and coarsely +in every promise of clerical friendship which Hitler made to small +nations, to keep them quiet until he was ready to rob them, +Mussolini seems not to have reflected that Hitler's promises to +himself might be equally cynical.

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During these years the Pope remained, we will not say on +cordial terms but at least in alliance with the treacherous +warmonger, and the Italian hierarchy and priesthood acclaimed every +step he took and every crude boast he made as enthusiastically as +the German bishops supported Hitler. Between the Mediterranean and +the frontier of Holland several hundred Catholic bishops and +quarter of a million priests, nuns, monks, and clerical agents did +what the Catholic apologist calls the beneficent work of his Church +in guiding the world, and almost without exception they were +servile in their flattery of the two dictators who were rapidly +dragging down Europe to the level of the savage. This chorus now +includes the bishops and priests of France, Belgium, and Holland as +well as those of Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, +Hungary, and Germany.

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In the face of this situation the American Catholic plea that +we must relieve the Pope of responsibility for the action of local +hierarchies is seen to be ludicrous. One local hierarchy might at +some time be betrayed by its dread of offending its nation into a +morally indefensible position, and we should then expect the Papacy +to rebuke it as it rebuked the American bishops and archbishops in +1899. But here we have ten of the most important local hierarchies +of the Church united, under the eyes of the Vatican, for years in +praise and support of the worst evil that has befallen civilization +in modern times. Add the prelates and priests of the Latin-American +Republics and those who supported Japan in that country and China +and you have nine-tenths of the bishops and priests of the Catholic +world blessing corruption; and even in the remaining tenth many +speak very hesitatingly, if at all, for the cause of humanity and +civilization.

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Let us distinctly understand that these priests and bishops, +encouraged by the Pope's refusal to censure or to break relations +with their brutal rulers, supported them in every step they took. +I have shown elsewhere that the whole Italian Church rejoiced +boisterously over the conquest of Abyssinia and that the Pope, who +is now said by Cardinal Hinsley to have called it a "barbarous +outrage", gave the supreme gift to womanhood of his Church, the +Golden Rose, to the Queen of Italy in her character of Empress of +Abyssinia. That easy piece of conquest had proved of great value to +the Church, but of practically none to Italy. The chief motive of +it had been the personal ambition of Mussolini to avenge a +humiliating defeat that the Italians had earlier suffered in +Abyssinia and to create something that he could call a Roman +Empire. One would not be surprised if he thought the Italian people +would in time put the purple mantle on his own shoulders.

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Since that time he had waited impatiently for his share in the +Axis-loot, and at the beginning of 1939 he decided to add Albania +to the glorious new Roman Empire. In the midst of his preparations +the old Pope died and Pacelli became Pius XII. Partly in order to +obscure his alliance with the dictators Catholic writers have said +that Mussolini opposed the election of Pacelli. He wanted a +"religious" Pope -- a man who would attend exclusively to Church +matters and leave rulers and statesmen to act as they pleased -- +not a "political" Pope like Pacelli. If anybody can point to any +act or word of Pacelli during the preceding ten year's as Secretary

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of State which challenged Mussolini we might entertain the story. +There was no such act or word, except an occasional lament of +breaches of the Concordat; and these things never troubled +Mussolini or Hitler because they never weakened or disturbed the +loyalty of their local Churches. Papal policy went on without a +change. The man who had been the power behind the throne was now on +the throne.

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As to the statement that the new Pope was greatly distressed +at the invasion of Albania, it is just one of those anonymous +extenuations of a Pope's blunders or crimes. Pius XII was crowned +on March 12 (1939), and the Italian troops crossed to Albania on +April 7. That date was Good Friday, and a pious churchman might be +annoyed at the choice; and a further possible annoyance was that +the Pope was busy preparing his beautiful Easter message on peace +which in the circumstances jarred on the ears of many. But it would +be sheer folly to suggest that the Pope did not know that Mussolini +was going to annex Albania. Month's of preparation are required for +an overseas expedition of half a million men with modern equipment. +At the very time when the Pope was crowned the tanks must have been +rumbling along the roads of Italy, and the men and material and +ships must have been gathering at Brindisi long before the date of +sailing. But to understand fully the relation of the Vatican to +that piece of imperialist filibustering we must know something +about the character of Albania.

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It was little more than a word even to thoughtful people +before 1939 and was totally unknown to the millions. I confess that +I was myself surprised when, a few years earlier, one of the +pilgrims to my house, a cultivated and substantial young man who +was taking a post-graduate course at London University, told me +that he was an Albanian. An amazing illustration of the general +ignorance and lack of interest is seen in the Catholic +Encyclopedia, which was, of course, written many years before the +invasion. It gives estimates of the number of Albanians varying +from one to nearly two millions -- in a Supplement 20 years later +the figure is given as 850000, which is not far wrong -- and says +that "the best of the population is Catholic." I may be wrong but +I doubt if the reader would understand from this that little more +than one-tenth of the population were Catholics, and that these +nearly all lived in a half-civilized condition in the mountains of +the north. The Catholic writer praises their virtue and then admits +that until recent time's they had a tradition of kidnapping +handsome Turkish girls and carrying them off to the mountains; but +I must add that they gave them the sacraments of (compulsory) +baptism and marriage before sleeping with them. The violent +passions that were displayed in their feuds were notorious +throughout south-eastern Europe. It was through these densely +illiterate and priest-ridden highlanders, the Mirdites and Shoshi, +that Mussolini began to engineer the "invitation" to him to take +over the country.

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As the "conquest" was almost entirely won by bribery of the +Albanians and lying to their neighbors we should find the Vatican's +share in the responsibility comparatively mild and will not linger +over it. Briefly, Albania is an outlying fragment of the Turkish +Empire which in the fifteenth century took over the lands of the

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old Greek Roman Empire. It lay on the very edge of the Greek world, +separated by a wall of religious hatred from the Roman world, and, +being in addition very mountainous, remained, like all countries +(Ireland, etc.) in that geographical position, very backward. The +Turks never quite subdued the primitive mountaineers of the north, +and they kept their Catholic faith all through the Moslem days. In +1939 there were about 700000 Moslem in the country, 200000 +Orthodox (non-Roman) Catholics, and 100000 Roman Catholics. The +Pope, as in the case of Abyssinia, looked to Italian rule to bring +under his control the 200000 dissident Catholics and as many of +the Moslem as possible. One really finds it easier to believe that +the Pope on that Good Priday prayed very fervently for the success +of the Italian arms. And he had, as so often happens, a little +friend at court. The pretty Queen Geraldine was a Catholic, and +poor Zog little dreamed when he built a luxurious chapel for her a +few years earlier and gave her a suite of chaplains that soon he +would be flying over the hills with the crown jewels.

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Here again the interests of the imperialist adventurer and the +spiritualistic imperialist neatly coincided. Mussolini, already +conscious that the leading burglar had altered his plan of dividing +the spoils -- Hitler to have Europe north of the Danube and +Mussolini all to the south of it -- wanted at least to make sure of +Greece and Yugo-glavia as a bastian of his Medeteiranean and +African Empire. Some say that he surprised and annoyed Mussolini by +his "conquest" -- it cost him the lives of 12 men of his invincible +legions -- of Albania. Not likely. He knew of Mussolini's +preparations, for Italy swarmed with his spies, and he says that +when the time came to attack Greece and Yugo-Slavia the possession +of Albania, a few hours' sail from Italy, would be a great +advantage to both. To say that the Pope was not in their counsels +seems, as I said, ridiculous. Within a week of his coronation the +Pope had a visit from Clano and on the following day one from the +Prince of Piedmont. A survey of some such summary of the world-news +as that in Keesing's 'Contemporary Archives' will show that the +relations of the Vatican with the Italian government were +particularly good that year. In December Mussolini appointed a +formal 'ambassador at the Papal Court, and the year ended with the +sumptuous visit of the king and queen to the Vatican (December 21) +and the rare event of the Pope taking his Christmas greeting in +person to the palace, (28) as I have elsewhere described. Albania +did not ruffle a hair of the Pope's head.

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We must, as I said, take into consideration that the conquest +was practically bloodless, the way having been so thoroughly +prepared with gold. In 1915 the Allied powers, looking for bits of +territory with which to bribe possible supporters like Serbia and +Greece, had decided to cut up Albania. Italy had saved it and in +time made it a nominally independent kingdom. Mussolini's +"patronage" became so onerous and ominous, however, that King Zog +became restless and it was decided to evict him and open one of the +gates to Greece. Everybody will remember how Mussolini's shrewish +daughter and her popinjay of a husband, who fairly clearly fancied +themselves as future empress and emperor, had white horses in +reserve for their triumphal entry into Athens. Not less eagerly did +the Pope look forward to that event as the beginning of his +conquest of the Greek Church and other National Catholic Churches

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which scorned Rome's claim of supremacy. But it will be well to +postpone to the last chapter a consideration of the grandiose plan +of an oriental counterpoise to the influence which the wealth of +the great democracies was giving them in the Church.

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We should, however, notice in conclusion that while the +conquest of Albania was almost bloodless, it was won by such +corruption and perfidy that the Pope's virtual blessing of it again +puts him in the gang. It was by a lavish expenditure of money that +Mussolini, the man who wrote that war alone enobles a man, +prevented serious resistance and induced the "notables" of Albania +to desert Zog and offer the crown to the king of Italy. This was +sordid enough, but the deception of Greece and Yugo-Slavia, which +were alarmed to get the Italian army at their frontiers, was +revolting; if we can find any sympathy for any statesmen in Europe +who believed a word that the dictators said after five years of +lying and repudiation of agreements.

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Roosevelt had asked the pair of arch-criminals to sign an +agreement to refrain from any aggressive movement for ten year's, +and Mussolini had, with an air of pain and sorrow, refused to sign +such a document on the ground that it was an insult to suggest that +he might have any such intention. There was a more direct and +brazen deception of Yugo-Slavia and Greece. Every statesman knew +that Mussolini's imperialist program demanded, not Albania, which +was of little value except as a route to Greece, but the Yugo-Slavian coast of the Adriatic, to the north of it, which had +splendid harbors (in which the eastern coast of Italy is very +deficient) and was part of the old Roman Empire. Italy gave a +solemn assurance to Belgrade that the annexing of Albania need not +give it the least concern. The Greeks knew that Italy coveted the +island of Corfu, off the southern coast of Albania, and they and +the British asked for assurances. They got them in profusion; -- +and it seems a mystery unless you keep in mind always that Italy +and Germany were destroying Socialism for the capitalists of the +world -- believed them. On December 10 the Grand Council of +Fascism, Mussolini's chief mouthpiece, gravely announced to the +world that it was "the desire of Italy to 'see order and peace +maintained and consolidated in the Balkan and Danubian areas", and +this would be better promoted by Hungary, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia, and +Greece refraining from entering into Balkan defensive alliance +which Britain and France urged them to form. They consented, and +Hungary and Rumania -- both in close touch with the Vatican -- +began at once to drift into the German sphere of influence.

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Under shelter of this camouflage-screen of lies the two +dictators, sure of peace on their eastern and southern frontiers, +pushed on their preparations for the great spring offensive in the +west. The Pope professed to believe the protests of Mussolini and +his Grand Council. He ended the year, as I said, although it had +witnessed the ruthless destruction of Catholic Poland, in a quite +exceptional round of chaste Christmas festivities and issued his +biennial essay on the beauty of peace. As Hitler had not yet +approached the major clauses of his program -- war upon Russia for +the Ukraine and upon France for the recovery of Alsace-Lorraine. -- +I leave to others the analysis of the Pope's mind. My own +suggestions would be malicious. But one fact stands clear of all

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guesses and conjectures. He had never passed one word of censure on +the gross deceptions and cynical breaches of the assurances given +to the world by his allies in 1939. By that time the reassuring +documents signed or issued by Japan, Germany, and Italy and +brazenly repudiated by later action -- often a few months later -- +would have papered a commodious dining-room. Never has the Pope +condemned that perfidy of his allies which was making international +faith a lost quality of the wicked nineteenth century or one +reserved to the "impious" Bolsheviks.

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Chapter II

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THE STAB IN THE BACK

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It will be part of the puzzle of our age to the future +historian to discover why anybody was ever taken by surprise by any +of the terrible outrages that, occurred every few months. The +program, of the great international bandits had been before the +world for years, and Hitler's program included, and emphasized in +many chapters of his book, a war of revenge on France, the recovery +of Alsace-Lorraine, and the truculent statement that France was so +degenerate, so debased with Negro blood, that it must be blotted +out forever from the company of European powers. To plead in +extenuation that Hitler never permitted a full foreign translation +of his book is childish. Every foreign office in the world and +large numbers of journalists knew its contents. For such follies as +Chamberlain accepting the word of Hitler that he had abandoned +those plans, or the French accepting a similar statement in an +interview which Hitler gave a French Fascist journalist, or almost +unanimous silence of the world-press there is, as I have repeatedly +said, only one explanation: so eager were they all for the +destruction of Socialism, which Hitler and Mussolini promised, that +they mistook the knife of an assassin for the scalpel of a surgeon. +If that is difficult to believe think out, if you can, some other +explanation; and study the action of the bankers and industrialists +of France today who are actually cooperating in a New Order that +merely postpones their annihilation.

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Whether the Pope was surprised by the war in the west I have +discussed in other booklets. I could at that time quote no +authority to support me in my suggestion that the Pope was fully +informed of the plot before even the invasion of Norway. I told, +from the Papal newspaper itself, how Ribbentrop was sent to see the +Pope a few days before Hitler met Mussolini at the Brenner to +arrange the date of his intervention and how the Osservatore +reflected the joyous expectation of the Vatican that a very +important agreement was to be signed. The only plausible theory of +this is that Hitler wanted the cooperation, which he got, of the +Catholics of Belgium and France, and that the Pope demanded so high +a price for his services that a month of hard bargaining followed. +But the Italian Church and the Vatican emphatically endorsed the +action of the Belgian and French Catholic traitors -- Leopold, +Petain, Laval, Weygand, and Darlan -- and the Church gained +mightily in France. Within the last week or two the 1940 volume of +the Annual Register has appeared and that weighty and quite +impartial authority says, drawing upon "Vatican sources", that

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Ribbentrop told the Pope that "German soldiers would be in Paris by +June and in London by August". This was on March 11, 1940. Shirer +confirms that some hard bargaining between the Vatican and Germany +went on at this time. He says that Msgr Orsenigo, the Nuncio at +Berlin "had been quietly paying visits to the Wilhelmsstrasse for +weeks" (Berlin Diary, p. 234).

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The Catholic has the consolation of knowing that the Pope +sacredly guarded the confidence that was made to him. At least I +assume the Catholic will regard that as a virtue. Britain and +France had declared war on Germany and must have expected attack. +The Pope alone knew, outside a narrow Nazi and Fascist circle, that +it was to be delivered at that time and in that fashion, so that it +would probably be fatal to France. But he virtuously kept the +secret to himself. Some folk, looking back on all the horrors that +followed and confronting all the horrors that may yet come as the +treachery of Vichy deepens, may even say that there are more +precious things than virtue; or that the Pope's firmness on this +one point while he virtually encouraged his three allies in years +of deceit, corruption, and savagery reminds them of an earlier +moralist who rebuked a man for straining at a gnat and swallowing +a camel.

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We will not suppose that Pius XII knew all the methods which +Germany had used in preparing France for its baptism of blood and +transformation into a real Catholic country. There were even anti-Nazi folk who blamed me when I suggested that it used the sexual +attraction of women as well as the zeal of priest's and priest-ridden folk. But it is still doing this. I have before me an +article in which a man who has just come from Portugal describes +how that country is being prepared for bloodless conquest. Amongst +other things he says:

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"A social layer has also been imported, including many-lingual +Aryan titled women whose morals are at the service of the Fuehrer. +The line is to attract the snub element among the Portuguese" +(London Evening Standard, November 4 -- the most conservative +evening paper in Britain).

+ +

One wonders if this new type of "vice-squad" includes some of +the dainty aristocratic ladies who did such good work for Hitler in +Paris before 1939. Even those of us who are not puritans find this +method of preparing the way for "glorious victories" revolting. No +trick is too dirty for the Pope's allies, On the same day comes the +news that Hitler's men are castrating bodies of the finest youths +of Czecho-Slovakia and that they have 10000 British uniforms ready +for treacherous use in the East. The priests follow up the Gestapo +to castrate what they call men's souls.

+ +

A second method in which the Vatican cooperated with Italy and +Germany in securing the success of the war in the West was by +continuing to denounce Soviet Russia. Whether or no Hitler really +feared that Russia would move in the Balkans while he was busy in +the west, it is a fact that he and Mussolini and the Vatican used +this suggestion to divert the attention of the Balkan powers from +their real danger and bind Hungary and Rumania closer to Germany. +All through the winter of 1939-1940, when preparations were being

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made for operations in the west, the conduct of the Fascists was as +crooked and deceptive as that of Germany and Japan. Mussolini +bellowed about the peace of Europe and the threat to it from +Russia. His people were solemnly assured, as they had been after +the annexation of Abyssinia, that unless Russia struck all that +they had to do was to make economic profit out of Germany's war +with France and Britain. It was said that Italy even offered to +sell planes to France but Hitler forbade it. On the other hand when +Britain held up German ships carrying coal to Italy the Italian +press was let loose in full fury upon it. Perfidious Albion was +said even to be at the back of the Russian menace and the Russian +seizure of part of Poland and Finland.

+ +

It is fortunate that we have not here to attempt to +disentangle the apparent confusion of the first quarter of 1940, +with Germany an ally of Russia on the one hand and with Mussolini, +its bitterest enemy, on the other. We know now, of course, that the +Russo-German agreement was a sham on both sides. The real tragedy +of it is that a just, and honest, not to say friendly, approach to +Russia on the part of Great Britain and France would have prevented +this postponement of Russia's intervention in the war and might +have averted terrible evils and sufferings from Europe. Russia, it +is true, did not consider itself ready for war in 1939, but neither +had Germany one-half the equipment which it would have in 1941, +with the forges of Europe pouring out steel and the fields growing +food for it from Poland to Belgium, from Scandinavia to Spain. A +crucial factor in the whole horrible development is that hatred of +Russia which the Papacy had done even more than the capitalists to +inflame in every part of the world.

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In March, as we saw, the Pope was informed of the plan to +invade the West which had been maturing all through the winter. We +must assume that in the course of the heated argument in which +Ribbentrop assured the Pope that the German troops would be in +Paris by June he explained that the great barrier of the Maginot +Line, on which Britain and France relied to an amazing extent, +would be turned by an invasion of Holland and Belgium. Whether the +Pope was informed also of the coming intervention of Italy we do +not know. The story was put out, by one of the very useful +anonymous purveyors of information in the service of the Vatican +that when Mussolini at length approached a declaration of war on +France the Pope wrote him a letter begging him to refrain (New York +Times, June 5). Professor La Piana observes that "if this letter is +not another fiction like the mythical letter supposed to have been +written in 1914 by Pius X to the Emperor of Austria, the Duce must +have thrown it into the waste-paper basket, for on June 11 the +heroic gesture of striking the nation already defeated by Germany +was made", and the Vatican adopted "an attitude of complete +reserve". There has never been an official claim that such a letter +was written, and just one month earlier the Duce had shown how +little he respected the Pope's wishes by peremptorily and +successfully ordering him to discontinue publishing British war-news in his paper.

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But Professor La Piana (of Harvard), writing in the Nation in +March, 1941, goes on to show how, whatever reserve the Pope +maintained -- for a week or two, let me add -- the Italian Church +supported the action of Mussolini with its usual enthusiasm. The

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American paper's which reproduced Roosevelt's description of +Mussolini's action -- "the hand that held the dagger plunged it +into the back of its neighbor" -- did not speak of the joy of the +Italian Church. As if to excuse the Vatican in advance the Rome +correspondent of the New York Times (June 12) quoted from Vatican +sources -- "semiofficial" this time it seems -- that "the attitude +and responsibility of the Vatican are entirely separate from those +of the Italian clergy and the Italian Catholics". If there was one +national hierarchy in the world that was strictly controlled by the +Vatican it was surely that of Italy; and, in fact, the Italian +clergy were as strictly pledged as the Vatican never to take part +in polities, These agreements of the Church to avoid politics seem +always to have the unwritten clause "on the wrong side". The +Italian Church went beyond the bulk of the people of Italy, who +notoriously did not want war, in cheering Mussolini, but, since the +papers of France, Britain, and America could be relied upon not to +reproduce the words of the bishops, that was safe and profitable +interference in politics. But the Pope's words would probably be +reproduced in every country so he must keep "an attitude of +complete reserve".

+ +

On Catholic theory, and in any case, bishops and priests no +more approve injustice than Pope's do, but I need only quote one or +two instances from Professor La Piana's article. On June 16 the +Archbishop of Gorizia exhorted his people in a pastoral letter -- +one of several issued at that time -- to "lift reverent thoughts to +the ever victorious King and Emperor and to the undefeated Duce: +may God bless and protect him." Cardinal Schuster, head of the +Italian Church, visited soldier's in the barracks at Milan and +"distributed blessed medals to bring luck to the Italian armies". +The Civilia Catholica, which is almost as much an organ of the +Vatican as the Osservatore, urged the soldiers to "shed their blood +for the cause blessed by their religion." On June 27th, when France +was prostrate in the dust, thirty Italian bishops gave away one of +the reasons for their joy, and one that must have been very active +in the Vatican. They urged the Duce to "crown the unfailing victory +of our army" by taking the Holy Land from French and British hands +and putting it, on the religious side, under the Pope. This, they +said, would fitly express "the harmony between the civilized people +of Imperial and Christian Rome". The shrines of the Holy Land are, +I need not recall, almost as profitable as Monte Carlo, which was +to have been, he thought, one of Mussolini's rewards, but we will +consider the oriental policy of the Vatican in the last chapter.

+ +

Note the reference in the letter of the Italian bishops to +"the civilized people of Imperial and Christian Rome". The rest of +the world used very different language about their enthusiasm for +Mussolini's action. We should, it is true, not regard the whole +Italian people as approving it, but the above quotations show that +the Catholics of Italy -- and of Spain, Portugal, Slovakia, Brazil, +etc. -- joyously supported it. In America and Britain the more +Papal Catholics followed the Pope's example of "complete reserve" +for every decent non-Catholic about them considered that this act +alone justifies us in calling Mussolini the Jackal. Some writers +say that he incurred the anger and contempt of Hitler by holding +off from intervention until France was mortally wounded. I prefer +to think that they were in agreement, but at Mussolini's

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suggestion. As a member of the diplomatic corps in Rome said: +"Mussolini does not want to fight a sick man: he wants to gouge the +eyes out of a corpse." Some such language was used wherever tongues +and pens were free, and non-Catholic.

+ +

To the last moment Mussolini had maintained his policy of +craft and deceit. He continued to fool Britain with trade-talks. +When, in May, Roosevelt asked for a declaration of his intention, +he declared that he had no intention of entering the war. It is +true that as Germany bowled over country after country his press +began to complain of the "ring of steel" that the British command +of the Mediterranean drew round Italy and hymns of hate even for +children, began to be heard. But Ciano, the Jackal's pup, still +thought he was fooling the British representatives with trade-talks, though as Chamberlain had now given place to Churchill +probably no one was duped. At the beginning of June the World Fair, +which had until that date been announced to be held in Rome, was +"postponed", and the sailing of Italian liners was canceled. And on +June 10 Romans were summoned not by blare of trumpets but by cards, +to come to the Palazzo Venezia to listen to the final lie. He +declared that "Italy has done everything possible to arrest this +terrible war" -- which he had jubilantly arranged with Hitler at +the Brenner a few weeks earlier -- but must now face "the risks (!) +and sacrifices" which the wickedness of France and Britain forced +upon it. He added, as if he luxuriated in lying: "I do solemnly +declare that I do not intend to involve other nations in the +struggle" and expressly called upon Yugo-Slavia, Greece, and Turkey +to "take notice of these words of mine". Witnesses say that the +great body of the people who were in the square heard him and +departed in silence, and a gloom settled upon Italy. But the +church-bells rang, and the bishops hung their consecrated garlands +on the bull-neck of the brutal adventurer.

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The Pope's "complete reserve" lasted until Petain sat firmly +-- I mean was held firmly by Darlan and Weygand -- in the saddle, +and Catholic papers all over the world, even in England (as I +quoted), rejoiced at the glorious state into which the "heroic soul +of France" had passed, if a little tarnished in the wings. +Socialism, Communism, Freemasonry, and Freethought, which for 60 +years, to the deep concern of the Vatican, had kept four-fifths of +the French people out of the Church, were swept away by the German +flood. By a sudden change which any observer in Europe would have +pronounced forever impossible a year earlier the government was +solidly Catholic, and decrees which transformed the country on the +lines of the Papal encyclical poured out from Vichy. It looked as +if England was now surely doomed -- even in friendly America the +betting was against its chance of survival -- and the brutal +soldiers who had effected this marvelous recovery of the Church in +Spain, Czecho-Slovakia, Belgium, and France had made good their +boast that they would settle the map of Europe and Germany's +domination of it for a century.

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With the recovery of France and Belgium the Vatican had, by a +swish of the German sabre, turned 40000000 "bad Catholics" into +"good Catholics -- into men and women who must hide the truth in +their hearts and lie (attending church, etc.) with their actions. +Think of Italy, Spain, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and South America.

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What a miracle of Church-growth Pacelli had witnessed since he had +taken office in the Secretariat of State in 1929! Or ought we to +say, what a stupendous recovery of Church-power he had effected by +his alliance with Mussolini and Hitler? Can anybody doubt, in view +of this outcome of the invasion of the West, that he had in fact +known in advance of the plan and approved, if not assisted, it?

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Consider also the subsequent course of events in France. The +Germans used the armistice-conditions, to which Petain had +consented with an express, if childish, reliance on the "honor" of +the German commanders, with all the treachery and brutality which +were now a normal part of their behavior. "Armistice-commissions", +consisting of soldiers in mufti, gestapo men, engineers, looters, +etc., were sent to every part of the French empire to prepare the +way for the occupation which they had sworn they did not +contemplate. They plundered France, down to its door-knobs and +bath-taps, from Metz to Marseilles. With mocking courtesy they paid +useless paper for the silks and scents and wines of which they +stripped the stores of France to send to their wives and friends in +Germany. They appropriated half the food-supply, cattle, and +poultry and, while they gorged on them, told the half-starved women +and children to apply to America or draw upon French Africa, and +then took 60 percent, in addition of what was imported. They +brought vast numbers of their own women and children to feed on +France and to laugh at the humanity of British bombers who would +spare French civilian towns. They compelled the workers, under +threat of starvation, from Belgium to Bordeaux, to make munitions +for use against the only nation which was trying to deliver them.

+ +

But perhaps such matters cannot concern a Pope whose mind is +occupied with higher things; though we do seem to have heard of him +sending, when it suited the interest of the Church, Red Cross +supplies to the East. What else did the Germans do? They applied in +ten-fold force that brutal and immoral doctrine of Prussian +militarism, that ten innocent civilians must be murdered if one who +is guilty cannot be detected. The world was deeply stirred by these +batches of murder in fifties, but the Pope and the French bishops +were silent; and the priest-ridden Petitin was content to appeal to +the French people to "stop these criminal outrages against the +troops of occupation!" It is true that we get the usual +unauthorized report that the Pope protested through his Berlin +Nuncio, but we have grown a little cynical about these reports.

+ +

The Pope and the French bishops were still silent when Germany +pressed Petain to tear off the one rag of "honor" he had kept at +his surrender: his vow that he would never under any circumstances +hand over the French fleet or French ports in Africa for use +against Britain. Petain's Catholic colleagues are in favor of it, +and the prelates, the guardians of the honor of Catholic France, +are not interested. That is politic's. As I write the news comes +that a number of the common priests of France are stung to attack +their bishops for their cooperation with this corrupt and cowardly +gang at Vichy: a gang which, with German collaboration, uses every +device to spread hatred of England and may soon crown their infamy +by causing the ugliest and most revolting of all the evil +outgrowths of their policy: war between France and England. Already +Moslem writers in Turkey are commenting with cynical disgust on the

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prospect, which seems to them to open, of the fleet of Christian +Britain and America at war with the fleet of Christian France in +the Mediterranean; the prospect of a Church-ruled France spending +its blood on behalf of the power which has always been its +bitterest foe and under its present rulers is sworn to annihilate +France! In view of Hitler's repeated words about France and what he +is actually doing in Poland and Czecho-Slovakia one would very +seriously expect the castration of Frenchmen on a ghastly scale +when the war is over. And the Pope keeps to his policy of "complete +reserve" and permits (or directs) his Black International in France +to support cordially, because they are useful to the Church, the +miserable or stupid Vichy gang who thus betray the high honor of +France and the first principles of civilization.

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Chapter III

+ +

GREECE, NOT BEING ROMANIST, FIGHTS

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Mussolini was troubled by the disgust with which the better +elements in Italy itself regarded his vile conduct in regard to +France. His servile press attempted to excuse it by a campaign of +lies about France and Britain, while thoughtful folk still had +fresh in their minds the treacherous negotiations which he had +Ciano conduct with Britain until the last moment. The Black +International of Italy applauded his act with their customary +fervor, but we have the assurance of one neutral visitor after +another that the urban and better-educated Italians loathe him and +his entanglement with Germany, which alone now saves him from +destruction. From the year in which, for a heavy bribe, he +sacrificed his convictions and the dearly-purchased liberties of +Italy to begin the destruction of Socialism for the Church, throne, +and capitalism he has brought misery upon the beautiful land.

+ +

That is not rhetoric. It is a cold summary of the statistics, +published by the Italian government itself year by year and found +in any good reference-book to which we look for a more reliable +estimate of a country's social and economic health than we are +likely to get from political partisans. They show that Italy is a +land of poverty staggering under a stupendous load of internal +debt.

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Two things only, apart from debt and crime, can boast of +growth in Italy under Mussolini: the Church and the Army. The +Church has incalculably more power and much more wealth than it has +had at any time since 1870. Through its cooperation with Fascism it +has acquired a supremacy which any educated Italian before 1929 +would pronounce, whether he was Catholic or not, absolutely +inconceivable in modern Italy. It's medieval Canon Law, which was +regarded as dead, is embodied in the civil law and it controls +education. It has seen the deadly enemies against whom it was +fighting a losing battle -- Liberalism, Socialism, Communism, +Freemasonry, and Freethought -- fall under the blood-dripping +fascist axe. Small wonder that it loyally carries out the contract +of service which it signed in 1929 -- to use all its influence to +keep the Italian people obedient to their Fascist masters.

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You may have noticed little indications of secrecy, of hidden +motivation, in those references to British or American intrigues to +get Italy out of the war that one sees occasionally in the papers. +This furtiveness does not mean only that international capital +wants to be sure that Socialism will not, as Cardinal Hinsley +predicted, succeed to the power of Mussolini. It means that +American and British Catholics fear still more the consequences to +the Church of such a revolution. In no other country in the world +can Socialists chant with deeper historical sincerity: "Our Flag is +red with martyrs' blood." Some day they may be so wicked as to +retaliate. You see, they are without "the restraints of religion".

+ +

Mussolini thought that he could disarm the anger of his +freethinking Fascist follower's at this restoration of the medieval +powers of the Church by making Italy a formidable military nation +and restoring the Roman Empire. The second line of his original +appeal to the country, after the proposal to destroy Socialism, was +that Italy had been scurvily treated at Versailles because the +other powers regarded it as too weak to give any trouble. In point +of fact it had been treated more generously than its services in +the last war merited, but Mussolini soon found that if you roar a +lie loud enough it has the accents of truth. He has spoken and +written in praise of war -- any war -- more crudely than Hitler and +has demanded floods of babies to make great armies. Not that he has +any military ability. He never led anything but a mob with cudgels +against a weaker mob. It is a fiction that he was wounded in the +last war, and, while Hitler can certainly boast that he led the +start of the Nazi march on Berlin -- even if he has to liquidate +any man who recalls that he ran like a hare at the first shot -- +Mussolini remained 200 miles away from the Fascist march on Rome, +until he heard that there was no shooting. However, the army, +acting with the throne and capital, had put him in power, and he +set out to drain Italy of its scanty wealth to equip his invincible +legions.

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It is one of the most pathetic chapters of his story. In the +old democratic days when we used to argue whether a strong man +would not rule the state, better than the many-headed some of us +were willing to entertain the idea that, at least, he would be more +effective in the military field. Italian soldiers are as brave as +any but somehow they have written a sorry page of military history. +They will hardly boast of the conquest of Abyssinia, which reminds +us of a squad of gunmen firing into kids on the streetwalk, +especially as the upshot was to present the half-starved people +with a desolation, and now they have lost even that. In Spain on a +famous occasion they fled like rabbits before the Spanish workers. +In Albania they were even worse humiliated, and on "Our Sea," the +Mediterranean, their ships scurry to port at sight of an enemy. It +has become a joke that the Italians excel in all speed-records. +They wait until France is in agony to declare war on it; and they +then learn, when they ask for their share of the loot, that even +the Germans have a contempt for the military machine that Mussolini +has created.

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So Mussolini, seeing his demand of Corsica, Savoy, Malta, +Tunisia and the Suez as far as ever from being satisfied, seeing +his new empire of sand and rock slipping away, decided to start on +Greece. He proceeded loyally on the lines of the New Order, the New

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Chivalry. We saw that when he attacked Albania he gave a most +solemn assurance to the Greeks that he did not covet and would not +try to get a single square mile of their territory. In September +(1939) he renewed this assurance in a diplomatic correspondence +with Athens. But after his cowardly attack on France and his +failure to get a single advantage from it he had to find some way +of restoring his prestige. Some writers suggest that he was jealous +of Hitler and wanted to show that he could win glorious victories +without Hitler's advice or help. Doubtless he had some such idea, +but he met Hitler at the Brenner on October 4 and quite certainly +discussed with him the war he was to begin only three weeks later.

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In this age of "invincible might," when you want to smooth the +way for the legions as much as possible, you do not "declare war". +Some think that that is a practice of the Age of Chivalry, the +spirit of which has been suffocated by our modern skepticism and +materialism. Rubbish. The Middle Ages were a time of equal +treachery and brutality. It was in that dreadful 19th century that +nations used to give each other warning that they were going to +war, and it is precisely to the standards of the Age of Chivalry, +slightly adulterated with Nordic valor -- this may give three +hours' notice, during the night, that it is opening fire -- that +our Clerical-Fascist age has returned. It is true that since the +Italian people themselves had to be prepared, Mussolini got his +press to belch journalistic fire at the Greeks and writhe over the +"atrocities" the Greeks were committing; and as the Greeks had not +at that time any idea of the ease with which they could sweep the +Italians before them they nervously disproved the lies and tried to +disarm the wrath of Italy.

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There was considerable strain but certainly no one thought of +war when the Italian minister at Athens sent out invitations for a +very festive reception of Greek ministers and foreign +representatives at the Italian Legation on the night of October 27. +If I here go into detail a little more than usual you will +understand what sort of thing it really was that the Italian +archbishops and bishops boisterously approved, as usual, and the +Pope did not recognize as deserving of censure. The dance was in +full swing when, at 2:30 a.m., the Italian minister politely +explained to his Greek guests that he must leave them for an hour. +All the Greek ministers were present except General Mataxas, the +Premier, and, as the Italian minister was absenting himself to +deliver a virtual declaration of immediate war on them one will +probably have to search long in recent history to find a parallel +to this infamy of the Pope's ally.

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At 3 a.m. he presented himself at the house of General Metaxas +and handed him an ultimatum, of the kind Hitler had several times +delivered. It reaffirmed all the lies about atrocities and said +that unless the Greeks accepted this charge and handed over certain +strong strategic positions of theirs "to the Albanians" by 6 a.m. +(three hours later) they were at war with Italy! When Metaxas asked +what these strategic points were the Italian minister said that he +did not know. Thus do invincible legions, unlike effete +democracies, begin their wars. The invasion of Greece, which was +fully prepared, began at once; and the whole free world rejoiced +when, three weeks later, they heard that the Italians had been +swept out of Greece and were making for the sea.

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It sounds, perhaps, rather cheap to say: The Greeks, not being +Romanists, fight, I am, of course, thinking mainly of the contrast +with Belgium and France, not foolishly suggesting that Catholic +soldiers are less brave than others. But there is another aspect of +the matter, and it concerns us here. The treachery of Belgium and +France was, we saw, mainly due to a few highly-placed Roman +Catholics who are, to say the least, in very good odor at the +Vatican. In Greece there were no Roman Catholics in positions of +influence, and the support of the Vatican was entirely on the side +of the invaders. There was no Petain or Weygand to recommend the +abject surrender of the Greek army, no Level to corrupt the +politicians and induce them to listen to the traitors, no Darlan to +present the bitterest enemy of the country with its fleet, no +cardinal-archbishop to murmur to the people: God wills it. So the +Greeks fought, and with a heroism which surprised even those of us +who thought we knew them.

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It will be convenient to reserve the Vatican's policy in the +East for adequate treatment in the last chapter of this book, but +a few words must be said here about its application to Greece. The +main Christian body in eastern Europe -- broadly, east of a line +drawn from the Adriatic to the Polish-Russian frontier -- and +nearer Asia calls itself "Orthodox Catholicism" and, whereas it +used to be ruled by the Patriarch of Constantinople, it has broken +into a number of national Churches (Serb, Bulgar, Rumanian, +Russian, and Greek). The name itself suggests that, as we shall see +later, the Churches differ from the Roman only in trifling points +of doctrine and, in fact, consider themselves more orthodox than +the Roman. When I say "trifling" I speak of course, as an Ishmael. +The chief point of difference, which stirs passions to white heat +and has led to the shedding of much blood, is whether Jesus (who +foresaw the 1700 years of bitter conflict) did or did not mean the +Roman bishops, when such a thing came into existence, to rule the +whole Church. The Greeks repudiated the claim as soon as it was +raised in the second century and have repudiated it, on every note +of scorn, anger, and disdain, ever since. And during the whole +period there was a corresponding eagerness at Rome to bring them +into subjection. By centuries of experience the Vatican knows that +argument is useless, since its claim rests on a tissue of lies, and +it has at all times looked to national disasters to compel the +orientals to compromise with their faith.

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We moderns are inclined to regard these things as lingering +follies of the Middle Ages, like astrology or occultism, and +impatiently ignore them, but they are vitally relevant to the +question of the Black International and the War. As I will show +later, Rome has looked to the East more covetously than ever during +the last half century when the growth of the democratic element in +the Church owing to its position in the United States, the British +Empire, France, and pre-nazi Germany disturbed the essentially +oriental mind of the Vatican. I travelled extensively in Greece +about Seventeen years ago and noticed that the French, who were +then cooperating closely with the Vatican, were surprisingly busy +with indirect proselytism. Even in very backward Crete French nuns +had opened schools. The kind of education they gave was, of course, +ludicrous. There is in Candida a museum of quite exceptional +interest but when I ask one of these French-educated young women

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where it was, she said: "What is a museum?" It is a pure Greek +word, and she had lived within half a mile of this famous museum +all her life! The whole purpose of the education was to inspire +respect for France and the Roman Church.

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How the French, under the direction of the Vatican, lost all +the ground they had gained, turned the respect of the Greeks into +hatred, and made way for the Germans, by helping the Turks to +defeat the Greeks I have explained elsewhere. Constantinople was at +that time under an International Commission. The Turkish troops +were fenced off a score of miles away, and Constantinople, without +any sort of real force or authority in it, lay open to the large +Greek army which I saw preparing to march upon it from Adrianople. +But the Vatican was very strongly opposed to the Greeks taking over +the ancient metropolis of oriental Christendom, as this would have +given the heads of the Greek Church a commanding position, in the +Orthodox world. At this time, we must remember, the Orthodox Church +was in ruins both in Russia and Turkey, and the heads of the Greek +Church were as eager to reorganize and control them as the Vatican +was.

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Such was the situation in Greece before the war. The Vatican-French treachery had made the Greeks more bitter than ever against +Rome, and in 1940 there were only about 35000 Roman Catholics in +the entire population of 6300000. The Vatican now looked to Italy +to promote its ambition to secure religious control of the East, +and its interests so closely coincide with the greed of the +Fascists that we are not surprised that in this case we do not get +even one of those unauthorized claims that the Pope sent a letter +of protest to the King of Italy about the repulsive treachery of +the attack on Greece. He very studiously said nothing.

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I am not in these booklets trying to drag in the Vatican at +every step. There is no need for straining the evidence or starting +suspicions. When we tell all the facts, as so very few papers or +writers do, we find that there is not a section of the world-battlefield in which the interests of the Papacy do not coincide +with the aim of the brutal aggressions of the Axis. That is a +simple issue and easily proved. The recklessness of procedure is on +the part of Catholics who ask us to believe that, while there is in +fact this coincidence, the Pope is far too austere and mindful of +the interests of civilization to take advantage of it. We have seen +the opposite in every chapter.

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But the hope of Mussolini and the Pope that Greece and the +route to Egypt and the East could be secured without the +intervention of the Nazis, who would as usual take nine-tenths of +the spoils, broke against the splendid spirit of the Greeks. On +November 18 Mussolini again summoned the Roman people to the +Palazzo Venezia and roared to them that his legions were marching +to victory. They were, as all the rest of the world knew, marching +-- and very smartly -- in the opposite direction and were beginning +to lose even Albania. One wonders what would have happened, and how +much the world-tragedy might have been shortened, if the Yugo-Slavs +had joined the Greeks at that time and the British had moved more

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swiftly and generously to their aid. A splendid barrier of +mountains stretched from the Adriatic to the Aegean, and what the +Greeks, Serbs, and British did with comparatively weak forces in +1941 shows what might have been done while the Greeks were still +fresh in 1940.

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Am I going to drag in the Vatican here also? There is no need. +It is impossible to ignore its work when you consider all the +facts. It was the Vatican, acting, through the Catholic Croats and +in the closest association with Mussolini, that prevented, or +played a very important part in preventing, the unity of Yugo-Slavia, which, after the expulsion of the pro-German Regent, was +effected too late to save the country. That we shall see in the +next chapter, but a few words must be said about the base conduct +of Hungary and Rumania -- and with certain reserves we must add +Bulgaria -- which enabled Hitler to move gigantic forces to the +very frontier of Greece and Yugo-Slavia while still protesting that +he sought only to maintain peace in south-eastern Europe.

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Hungary, which has saddened it's admirers, of whom I count +myself one, by licking the jack-boots of Germany and lying down to +be trodden on by its troops in their treacherous march eastward, is +in effect a Catholic country, and its Catholic hierarchy has been +for some years in the closest touch with the Vatican. It therefore +lays no strain upon our judgment to find evidence of Roman +influence on its rulers.

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The Magyars, a very estimable people and superior to the +Rumanians, Serbs, and Bulgarians by their long absorption of +Austrian culture, are, as everybody knows, of Asiatic origin, but +their subjection to Austria during centuries enabled the Roman +Church to capture most of them. Catholics are, it is true, only 65 +percent of the population, but Protestants are only 35 percent, so +that the Catholic hierarchy has almost a monopoly of ecclesiastical +power, and this is significant in a land that is still +overwhelmingly religious. In the year 1937 the Church held its +great international festival at Budapest, and Cardinal Pacelli went +in person to preside, The fact that it is an unusual honor for the +Papal Secretary of State to make much a journey shows what interest +Pacelli had in the Church's policy in that country, and not even a +more solidly Catholic country ever received the Pope's +representative more ceremoniously. The dictator, the fleetless +admiral, Horthy, is a Protestant, but he lodged Pacelli in the +royal palace, and the foreign correspondents commented on the +cordial friendship that ensued.

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It was the time when the simple-minded Mussolini's belief that +Hitler was leaving to him the control of Austria, Hungary, the +Balkan countries, and the Near East was being rudely disturbed. +Hungary, which had followed his model of dictatorship, had for +years looked to him. Now that Hitler had annexed Austria it had +reconsidered its interests and drawn nearer to Germany; and with +Germany Pacelli was, we saw, pressing hard at that time for an +ever-closer alliance. Horthy dragged his country into an +enthusiastic cooperation with Germany in the destruction of Czecho-Slovakia; and the Vatican, we also saw, was equally interested in +that shameless outrage.

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For historical reasons into which I cannot enter here the +Magyars hated the Czechs as much as they hated the Russians, and +they would need little persuasion from Pacelli to throw open their +roads, rails, and river to the men who were going to crush +Bolshevism in Russia, which was the ostensible aim at that time of +Germany's thrust eastward. They hated also the Serbs, and in this +case no one who has travelled from Budapest to Belgrade over the +immense fertile country they lost to Serbia can fail to sympathize +with them; though the chief guilt must be allotted to the +Versailles Conference. When, therefore, Mussolini so pitifully +failed in his campaign to win Greece for Italy and the Vatican and +Hitler proposed to shift his victorious armies from France -- no +foreigners had hailed the miserable Vichy group more loudly than +the Catholic Magyars -- they strewed his route with flowers. The +first stage in the Papal crusade for the extinction of Bolshevism +in Russia was opening. We will, of course, not forget that Horthy +and his sleek supporters were just as anxious for political reasons +to see the central shrine of Socialism destroyed and that they have +made great profit by their alliance with Germany. Yet the +coincidence of the interest of the Church of Rome and its paramount +position in Hungary must be equally recognized. A few years after +the close of the last war, travelling through Hungary, I found the +Magyars looking to the British more than to any other country in +Europe. German gold and ecclesiastical intrigue have changed all +that.

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Bulgaria and Rumania have, like Greece, very small and +powerless Roman Catholic minorities: 45000 in 6500000 in +Bulgaria and about one million out of 15000000 in Rumania. More +than 80 percent of the inhabitants of each country belong to +national branches of the Orthodox Church which broke away from the +Greek Patriarchate at Constantinople in the nineteenth century. +Their interest from our present viewpoint is that they are sections +of that vast world of anti-Papal Catholicism which the Papacy hopes +to control through the victories of Hitler and Mussolini. I could +quote evidence from the Osservatore that there was much activity of +Rumanian and Hungarian bishops at the Vatican, but we will not be +tempted to exaggerate their influence.

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It may not be without interest to the reader to point out that +the Black (Orthodox) International in Rumania and Bulgaria is quite +as bad as its Roman counterpart. In both, countries the priests +have been silent while, in the last ten years, the freedom which +the people had won by their revolt against Turkish rule has been +strangled by Fascism, and in both the great body of the clergy are +as gross as they were in Russia before the Revolution. I liked the +Bulgars better than the Serbs when I moved amongst them, but the +face's of the peasants in a crowd in which I was packed one holiday +are still vivid to me in their sheer animality. We hear of no +clerical protests against the appalling outrages these Bulgar +peasants have committed in the villages they have taken from the +defeated Serbs and Greeks. For decades they have given, unrebuked, +free rein to the most violent inter-racial passions and religious +hatreds.

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The leading authority on religion in this part of the world, +Stephen Graham, himself a devout member of the Church of England, +which has tried for years to outstrip Rome in getting reunion with +them, assures us (Stephen Graham's News-Letter, July, 1941) that +the Rumanian priests are as gross as those of Russia were in +Tsarist days, yet that they and their people were disgusted with +the political -- I would almost say Romanist -- subservience of the +higher ecclesiastical authorities. The picturesque Carol adopted +Fascism on Italian lines in 1939 and Nazism of the German type or +an iron tyranny, in 1940. He demanded and got the support of the +bishops. Graham says:

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"Both clergy and laity were angered and disillusioned by the +subservient attitude of the higher ecclesiastical administration to +the misdeeds of the government, which, indeed, reached such a point +that the Church approved from the pulpit terrible murders and +horrors which had been unknown hitherto in the political history of +Rumania" (p. 3).

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The Rumanian Church had so strongly supported the murderous +Iron Guard that the blackguards actually pressed it to canonize the +notorious Codreanu! This passage is taken from a religious news +sheet, the chief aim of which is to win an admiring interest in the +Orthodox Churches.

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The Balkan problem -- the Balkan Cauldron experts have called +it for years -- is very complicated, and Versailles made it far +worse by its transfers of territory from one to another. All the +Balkan and Danubian countries feared Germany, but the fate of +Poland, and later Norway, Denmark, Holland, and Belgium warned them +what to expect. They preferred the unheroic virtue of the Swiss and +Swedes who boast that they have kept out of the war. "Why should we +disturb you", a German recently said to one o these Swiss boasters, +"when you provide us with 4000000 slaves who feed themselves?" +Ingloriously their capitalists put on fat from war and food +supplies to Germany and close their eyes to what would happen if +Germany won. One thing only could have saved the Balkans: a loyal +and determined League. But the languid efforts of France and +Britain to secure it were mocked by the customary vigor, ability, +and unscrupulousness of the German effort to prevent it. Until 1940 +this job had in the main been left to the Italians, and I have +shown how the Black International worked with them. This was most +notable of all in Yugo-Slavia upon which, and Greece, the armored +divisions of Germany now converged along the friendly route +provided by Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria.

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Chapter IV

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CATHOLICS HAMSTRING YUGOSLAVIA

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The uncouth name Yugo-Slavia -- the land of the "Southern +Slavs" -- had to be coined by Versailles for the state, the bundle +of very varied and conflicting Slav provinces, which it created as +a reward for Serbia for its loyalty in the last war. It is true +that the overwhelming majority of the 14000000 people are Slavs, +but when you remember that the bitterly antagonistic Poles and

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Russians are both Slavs you smile at the idea that this slender +racial bond must make for brotherhood. Blood may be thicker than +water but it has no priests to chant its virtues. It is far feebler +than the influence of a creed in an illiterate and priest-ridden +population.

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And Yugo-Slavia might be called a natural battle-ground of +creeds. The Serbs -- they dislike the common practice of calling +them Servians as the word is derived from the Latin for "slaves" -- +the main body of the population and the highest (or least backward) +in culture, belong to a Serb Orthodox Church, a national branch of +the oriental Christianity which spread over Europe from +Constantinople to Russia and the Balkans. They form about half (48 +percent) of the population but are the ruling class and have +certainly been autocratic in their treatment of the provinces which +were annexed to their kingdom by Versailles on the specious ground +that they were once part of the ancient kingdom of Serbia and their +people are of the same race as the Serbs. The real reason was, as +I said, that during the last war the Allied statesmen had made +lavish promises of territory to keep Serbia and Greece from +submitting to Germany. The Germans and Italians now, naturally, +posed as the redeemers of oppressed national fragments from "the +injustices of Versailles", and the Italians have inflamed the +rebellious feelings of the minorities (whose territory they wanted +for Italy) almost from the date of Mussolini assuming power.

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But what concerns us here is that to the racial subdivision +there was added the far fiercer flame of religious hatred, the feud +of the Orthodox and the Roman Churches. On this the Italians +relied, and they had the very zealous assistance of the local and +the Italian hierarchy and the Pope. I have described the historic +line of separation of the Latin and Greek Churches as running, +broadly, from the Adriatic to the Russo-Polish frontier, which is +the general line, in the south, of division of the Latin and Greek +halves of the old Roman Empire. But the Latins always claimed the +land (Dalmatia) to the east of this which is now a province of +Yugo-Slavia and is as resolutely sought, on account of its good +harbors by the Italians. East of this again are the non-Serb +provinces of Monte-negro, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Slovenia. These +became part of the Turkish Empire in Europe, and the population of +Bosnia is still mainly Moslem. But at the break-up of the Turkish +Empire in Europe they passed to Austria-Hungary, and, though they +hated it, its priests "converted" large numbers to the Roman faith. +It is in this northern fringe of Yugo-Slavia, from the sea to +Slovenia, that the 5000000 Roman Catholics, as against the +7000000 Orthodox Catholics of Serbia, live. You have a useful +analogy in the case of Irish Catholics being controlled by English +Protestants, but in Yugo-Slavia the Romanists were much nearer in +number to the Orthodox, and their next-door neighbor, Italy, was a +great power that had every interest in inflaming the religious +quarrel with the Serbs. Of late years the next neighbor, Hungary, +has also intrigued to recover control of the provinces, and its +Catholic clergy have been just as interested as the politicians.

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The situation is, as will now be understood, very complicated, +and the kingdom of Yugo-Slavia has been so unstable since 1919 that +many experts predicted that the next European war would originate +there. It will be remembered that it was the assassination of an

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Austrian Archduke in that region which gave the Kaiser the pretext +for starting the war of 1914. What the experts and the papers +always hesitate to point out, however, from fear of Catholic +reprisals, is that the Roman Church was just as much interested is +Mussolini in detaching these Catholic regions from the rule of the +Orthodox clergy and bringing them under Catholic Italy and Hungary.

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This intrigue naturally became more active as the Vatican +enlarged its ambition and began to dream of taking over the various +sections of the Orthodox Church itself. As we shall see, the only +difference in point of doctrine, the manner of the "procession" of +the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son, is one of which these +illiterate masses cannot have even the glimmer of an understanding. +I doubt if you would get even one in 10000 educated American +Catholic's to give you an intelligible idea of the dogma. The hard +core of resistance is to the Pope's claim of authority, and this is +not a matter of argument. Count Sforza tells us in one of his works +that when he spoke to the Serb Patriarch about the Roman attempt's +to effect a union that prelate replied: "There is only one obstacle +-- the vanity of the Bishop of Rome". In such cases Rome has always +found political power much more effective than persuasion.

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Mussolini was put in power by the army and the capitalists of +Italy in 1924, and it was part of the program by which he had won +a large and empty-headed following of ex-soldiers that he would win +that part of Yugo-Slavia of which, he said, the Versailles +Conference, had cheated Italy. Very widespread unemployment had +followed the demobilization of the army, and the unscrupulous Duce +easily traced this to the evil conduct of Versailles. Italian +intrigues on the other side of the Adriatic was doubled after the +infamous bargain of the Vatican with the Fascists in 1929. By 1932 +there were bloody riots against the pro-Italians in Yugo-Slavia, +and the religious element in the intrigue was so obvious that in +1933 the Jesuits and certain congregations of nuns were suppressed. +For the last ten years, in fact, the bitter quarrel of Croats and +Serbs which did more than anything to weaken the defence of the +country has been so patently religious as well as political that +the leading authority, Stephen Graham, an Anglo-Catholic, says +(Stephen Graham's News-Letter, March, 1940) of the struggle of the +Croats: "This is a Catholic movement and has to some extent +affinity to Rome and Budapest." He later explains this "affinity" +to mean that the movement was subsidized by Roman and Hungarian +gold, and he declares that half the bitterness is due to the feud +of the Roman Catholics and Orthodox Catholics: in other words, to +the greed of the rival branches of the Black International for +wealth and power.

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Into the maze of Yugo-Slav politics which arose from this +situation I must not enter. Suffice it to say that the Serb +government, which was more than half-Fascist, relying on electoral +corruption and a muzzled press, was violently assailed by a +combination of Serb radicals and agrarians with the Catholic +Croats. This gave the Vatican an opportunity for one of those +underhand interferences in politics which, though heatedly denied +by Catholics at the time, transpire by the dozen in later history. +Just as the Church had offered to sell -- to procure in return for +advantages to itself -- the docility of Irish Catholics to England

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and of Polish Catholics to Germany, as we read in the official life +of Leo XIII, or as it offered to keep the Alsace-Lorrainers docile +to France, so it would use its Black International in Croatia to +damp the fires of the agitation if the Serb government would grant +its requirements. Pacelli was now Secretary of State and the +characteristic author of this proposal.

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All through history the Papacy has made these secret +agreements with monarchs, while its local priest's posed as ardent +supporters of the people's patriotism. It makes a mockery of the, +parrot-cry that the Pope never interferes in politics. Political +activity is turned into a pure moral duty by recalling to the +people, when it is in the interest of the Church, such texts as +"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's" or "Be ye subject +to the higher powers." It is the duty of the Church to enforce the +words of Jesus and Paul.

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The Concordat was secretly signed by Pacelli and the heads of +the Serb government in 1935. It gave the Roman Church a number of +new bishoprics and raised some bishops to the rank of arch-bishops. +It authorized priests to give Roman Catholic instruction to their +children in the public schools and undertook to enforce legally the +promise of an Orthodox partner to a mixed marriage that all +children of the marriage should be Roman Catholics even if the +Orthodox parent repented of having given the promise. It even +embodied in the civil law the provision of the Canon Law that a +Catholic priest could not be condemned in the ordinary civil court +for certain grave offenses. It was a monstrous price to pay for a +promise that the Croat and Slovene and Dalmatian priests would be +ordered to drop their political encouragement of the rebels and use +their influence to cheek the agitation. When, in fact, the terms +leaked out there was such widespread indignation that the Serb +government dared not present the Concordat to Congress for +ratification. The Croats themselves realized that it was an attempt +to sell their patriotism and resented it. When at length, in 1937, +the government, seeing the gathering gloom in Europe and the need +for political unity, presented to Congress a Bill based upon the +agreement with the Vatican, there was a procession of bishops and +priests through the streets of Belgrade, and the Holy Synod +excommunicated the Premier and all who voted for the Bill.

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The Concordat was never ratified but these facts will be +enough to convince any man of the justice of the title of this +chapter. Even when autonomy was granted to the Croats in 1939 the +religious feud continued. The situation of the country gave the +greatest concern in spite of the soothing assurance's of the pro-German Regent. Austria had gone and the fatal wound been inflicted +on Czecho-Slovakia in 1938. The black shadow of German militarism +crept nearer, and the statesmen of the western democracies hugged +their policy of appeasement like little girls hugging a pretty +doll. Mussolini struck in Albania, and Hitler completed the +destruction of Czecho-Slovakia and began to talk about Dantzig. +Schacht, Germany's economic wizard, came to Yugo-Slavia and bound +it to Germany by arranging a monopoly of half its trade. Yet, in +spite of the reiterated statements of Italy and Germany that Yugo-Slovia was not in the least danger the wiser of its statesmen saw +through the trickery and tried in vain to unite with Hungary,

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Rumania, Bulgaria, and Greece for self-protection. There were +nominal adhesions, but signed and sealed international compacts +were by this time a dollar a dozen in Europe. German penetration +increased. The invasion of "tourists" went on, and the Fascist +Regent Paul advised the formation of a complete Corporative State.

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I must confine myself here to the share of the Black +International in prolonging the period of discussion and weakness +until it was too late to save Yugo-Slavia. The leader of the +Catholic Slovenes was, like the leader of the Catholic Slovaks in +Czecho-Slovakla, a political priest, Father Koroshits, and he was +so open a Fascist that he got himself appointed Minister of +Education in the Serb government. The Croats continued throughout +1940 to agitate for independence and began to look to the Germans +as deliverers from the tyranny of the Serbs. When, in April, the +Germans occupied the Croat provinces and they declared themselves +independent of Serbia, the declaration was followed by a band +playing "Deutschland Uber Alle's" (Annual Register).

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The war was as repulsive in its beginning as all other +enterprises of the leaders of that New Order with which the Church +co-operates everywhere. Too late the Serbs realized the treachery +of the Regent and dismissed him (March 29, 1941). Germany and Italy +(which had been effusive in its professions of friendship +throughout 1940) fabricated the usual atrocity stories and posed as +the saviors of the poor down-trodden minorities. Historians will +one day raise a question of the sanity of this age of ours. Who, +they will ask, could be deceived by this trickery after four or +five un-scrupulous uses of it? Why make any excuse at all if you +mean to violate international law by deceiving your opponent until +the last hour? What can be the mentality of men who think that +neutrals must not say a word about the vile and unprecedented +outrages they commit because they blandly describe it as "total +war"? And what shall we say of bodies of Christian clergy and their +bishops who will not even whisper that their "total war" is just a +reintroduction of savagery into warfare and who excuse their own +cowardice or self-interest on the plea that they are prevented by +their sacred office from interfering in politics?

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The blow was launched on April 12. There are military expert's +today who wonder whether Hitler did not make a fatal blunder in +engaging in the very costly campaigns in Yugo-Slavia and Greece +instead of advancing upon Russia in the spring: which is equivalent +to saying that he had not even the shadow of a military excuse for +his ghastly treatment of the two small countries. Certainly they +would not have deserted their neutrality if he had pushed on to +Russia through Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria. If the plan was to +level a route to Turkey and the East it has obviously miscarried. +However, we are here concerned with the share of the Black +International.

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There have been men and women of honor in all ages who have +refused to accept any profit or advantage from a dishonorable act. +The Papacy and the Black International never did. They at once +consolidated their gain in respect of the first of their aims: the +detachment of the Catholics of Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slovenia. +Croatia was relinquished to the Italians who created a kingdom for

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one of their princes and let the Roman Church get busy everywhere. +So brutally was the work done that the highest authority was +conferred on a man, Anton Pavelitsch, who was notoriously a leader +of a gang that specialized in the kind of murder that is politely +called assassination. A French court had found him guilty of +implication in the murder of King Alexander and had sentenced him +to death. He had escaped and lived under the protection of Italy +until the day of his usefulness to Italy and the Church arrived.

+ +

Under this Catholic ruffian the Romanist priests at once +entered upon the same kind of brutal coercion of members of the +Orthodox Church as the Polish priests had conducted in the Galician +Ukraine. In November a British paper that is usually careful not to +offend Catholics, the News Chronicle, reported as follows:

+ +

"Four bishops and 100 priests of the Orthodox Church at +Noshia, Croatia, have been murdered, it is stated. The Patriarch +Gavrilo has been ill-treated and imprisoned in a monastery at +Belgrade, and the Archbishop of Zagreb has been whipped and +banished to Belgrade. The Serbian priests have been replaced by +Bulgarians. The Hungarians also are stated to have hanged a number +of priest."

+ +

This news gets through because not a word in it suggests to +the general reader that the Church of Rome is responsible for these +murders. In the light of the explanations I have given my readers +will have no difficulty. They will readily understand that the +Bulgarian priests who were substituted for the murdered Orthodox +priests were certainly not priests of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church +which is as hateful to the Vatican as the Serb Orthodox Church. +They were Bulgar Roman priests who had to be brought in because the +Croats are bitterly opposed to Italians. Notice also the reference +to the Catholic Hungarians. Only a few months before Hungary had +signed a pact of lasting peace and eternal friendship with Yugo-Slavia. Now its priest-ridden peasant soldiers behave like savages +to the Slavs who belong to the wrong Church.

+ +

I, as, I said, do not drag in the Church. You cannot lift a +corner of this veil of tragedy that lies upon Europe without +finding its ministers there, and always on the side of the Axis and +its Catholic satellites. The Church, Catholic papers and orators +tell you, is, and must be, neutral. Isn't it a singular thing that +wherever we turn we find it supporting the forces of barbarity and +drawing profit from their victories? A strange neutrality! The +plain truth is that it is neutral, and very scrupulously neutral, +only as regards the support of the forces that in the name of +civilization are trying to cheek the hordes of savagery. But we +shall see this more plainly if we devote a chapter to the +coincidence of the aims of the Church and those of its White +Knight, the Italian Jackal.

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Chapter V

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THE PIPE-DREAM OF MUSSOLINI AND THE POPE

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My experience in lecturing to skeptical audiences in Britain, +especially when questions are invited after the lecture, is that no +part of my message to them is so apt to be challenged as my +indictment of the Roman Church. I very commonly find myself +contradicted by Freethinkers, sometimes lecturers or writers on +Freethought, who try to persuade the audience that from the +circumstances of my earlier life my knowledge is less broad than +theirs or that I have a "complex" in regards to the Papacy. They +are apt to protest, with an air of superior knowledge or +liberality, that "one Church is just as bad as another." How any +man can say anything so stupid when, as even school-children know, +the Church of Rome adds a score of absurd doctrines (confession, +indulgences, transubstantiation, etc.) to those doctrines which are +common to all the main branches of the Christian Church and most of +these doctrines are notoriously medieval fabrications for the sole +purpose of enhancing the power of the priests it is difficult to +understand. But the man who protests that he means that all +Churches are equally bad in practice or in their mischievous +influence on life betrays how scanty and superficial is his +knowledge of history and his analysis of contemporary life,

+ +

The general public, relying for most of its information upon +a press which is compelled by Catholic influence to suppress large +numbers of facts of vital importance, can be excused for ignorance +of the particular mischievousness of the Black International. That +religion is of great importance in maintaining the standard of our +civilization is a cliche of modern editorials and is unfortunately +stated too often in recent sociological manuals; and to this is +very often added a special tribute to "the venerable Church of +Rome", its "august head", and its international organization of (on +the latest claim I find in a Catholic Directory) 360000000 +Catholics. Hence such charges as I here bring against the Black +International seem to a member of the general public strange and +strained. He had understood that it was just a question whether the +Pope could or could not be expected to censure Hitler or Mussolini, +and, in fact, that the Pope had frequently censured the former. I +have shown that in ten years of increasing menace to civilization +the Church has never censured either of the master-bandits except +when they refused to carry out their promises to itself, but it is +far more important to realize yet almost totally hidden from the +general public that the ambition of the Papal Church coincides in +a remarkable manner with the ambition of the arch-murderers and +fully explain its cooperation with them.

+ +

This has appeared at each step we have taken in the present +booklet, and it will be well in conclusion to make it our direct +theme for a few pages. The ambition of the Black International +coincides in two directions with that of the gangsters who +terrorize half the world today. The first point is that the Papacy +deeply desires that, extinction of Socialism which Fascists and +Nazis have accomplished in a score of countries and promise, if +their armies are victorious, to accomplish everywhere. I have shown +this, and will further enlarge on it in a booklet on Russia. But I

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would remind the reader how this consistent and essential policy of +the Vatican is only a continuation of the policy of violence it has +sustained since it acquired power in the fourth century. From the +reawakening of Europe in the twelfth century to the French +Revolution it has had millions of victims; and of the half-million +unarmed men and women who have been put to death for demanding +democracy in the state and freedom of discussion in religion +between the French and the Russian Revolutions all but a few +thousand were done to death by Catholic authorities cooperating +with and instigated by their priests. That fact alone makes a +mockery of the foolish cry that "one Church is as bad as another". +And if the leader will recall the facts I gave in the first and +second books of this series -- that Catholic countries almost alone +support the enemies of the human race today, that they are +themselves on the Pope's recommendation or approval practically all +Fascist, and so on -- he will have a much clearer understanding of +the world-situation. But I have space only to deal with the common +aim of Mussolini (and now of Hitler) and the Pope, and this again +is to a great extent rooted in Rome's real hatred and dread of +democracy.

+ +

In their survey of the conflicts of national aims during the +last hundred years historians very commonly use a German phrase +(Drang nach Osten), to express a fundamental cause of clashes. It +means "the drive to the East" and, since what we call the Far East +is shut out from the horizon of European powers by the vast +wilderness of eastern and central Asia, it means an urge to expand +south-eastward in Europe: the lure of the sun, the blue sea, and +the warm fertile lands that the Greeks felt 3000 years ago, that +led even Napoleon into a rash adventure, and that has been an +important factor in European polities ever since. Germany at the +close of the last century impelled Russia to adventures in the Far +East (and its first clash with Japan) so as to divert its ambition +from Greece, Turkey, and the Near East, which Germany itself +coveted.

+ +

Mussolini's dream of restoring the Roman Empire necessarily +included this expansion. He began, we saw, by dangling before the +eyes of the more thoughtless Italians a promise that he would get, +by war a few provinces (Dalmatia, Corsica, Malta, etc.) that ought +to belong to Italy. When he saw how supinely the western world +tolerated the growth of his army and his ambition he dreamed of +becoming an Augustus or a Diocletian. The Roman Empire once spread +over the Balkans, Egypt, and Asia Minor as far as Persia. The new +eagles of the new invincible legions would advance along the same +routes.

+ +

What concerns us is that the Papacy even more cordially +supported him in his larger and more mischievous ambition than in +the earlier. The Vatican was little interested in the transfer of +Dalmatia, Savoy, and Corsica, which were already Catholic, but the +dream of an Italian Empire such as Mussolini now imagined was a +very different matter. Just such a dream had fascinated the Vatican +itself for nearly a century. It was called the reunion of the +Churches, but the Vatican knew from painful experience of the +futility of its missionaries that it would accomplish nothing +without compulsion. It had in recent years an emphatic assurance of

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this. The Poles, as I explained elsewhere, took over several +million Orthodox Catholics in the provinces which Versailles took +from Russia for them, but argument about the supreme position of +the Pope was found to be entirely useless and the most savage +persecution had to be employed to persuade some of them that the +Pope is the real Father of All Christians.

+ +

Greek and other oriental Catholics had, as I said, for the +most part repudiated the Pope's claim ever since it was fabricated +in the second century, but Rome had never despaired of securing +their submission. By the Middle Ages these easterners were so +hardened in their anti-Roman faith that argument was useless, and +the Popes had to look out for political opportunities. Thus +Innocent III, the greatest of the Popes, promised to overlook the +appalling behavior of his Crusaders in the thirteenth century -- +instead of going to "the Holy Land" they took Christian +Constantinople and robbed and desecrated its churches -- if they +would secure the submission of the Greek Church to him. When the, +Turks in the fifteenth century swept over the Greek Empire and the +Greeks appealed to the Pope to rouse Christendom to a new Crusade +he tried to make it a condition that the Greek Church should first +submit to him. The Turks mastered the whole of the Greek empire and +for several centuries suspended communication between East and +West, but when, in the second half of the nineteenth century, the +Turks had degenerated -- that is to say, their Sultans and ruling +class degenerated, for the Turkish people were as robust and decent +as ever -- while the peoples of Europe got modern armaments and +detached province after province from the Turkish Empire, the +ambition of the Papacy revived.

+ +

It was then that Greece, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Serbia won +their independence of the Turks and the higher clergy in each +decided, in harmony with the patriotic movement, to declare their +independence of the Patriarch at Constantinople (the Greek Pope) +and set up the national Greek (and Russian), Rumanian, Bulgar, and +Serb Orthodox Churches. Since no such thing as a Church, much less +a supreme head of the Church, is contemplated in the New Testament +-- the text about Peter and the Church is, of course, a late and +ridiculous interpolation -- they had the right to do so, but we +should understand that it is just these rival ambitions of the +higher clergy in each country that prevent union. The Roman Church +likes to call it "reunion" but the Churches were united on the +basis of Papal supremacy which Rome declares essential. The +statement on the subject in the Catholic Encyclopedia, that in the +early ages all churches in East and West acknowledged the supremacy +of the Roman bishops is the high-water mark of "Catholic Truth", +for it is exactly the reverse of the truth. In doctrine there is +only one major point that divides the Latin and oriental Catholics, +and no one but a trained theologian can understand the verbiage in +which the difference is expressed. According to the Latins the Holy +Ghost "proceed's" from (but is co-eternal with) the Father and the +Son, but according to the Greeks from the Father only. Ask the most +cultivated or most zealous of your Catholic friends what that means +and, if you do not give him time to consult his Encyclopedia -- ten +to one his priest cannot explain it -- yon will be entertained.

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This break-up of the Turkish empire and of the spiritual +kingdom of the Greek Pope stirred the Vatican to a new hope. Leo +XIII began 70 years ago to make preparations for the conquest of +the eastern Churches, of which only small fragments here and there, +called Uniates, were subject to Rome. Benedict XV resumed the work +in 1917, when the Turks were hard pressed by the Allies, and the +late Pope Pius XI took a most ardent interest in the work. Special +colleges and sections of the Congregation of Propaganda at Rome +prepare priests for the great work of taking over. But the Vatican +is aware that there is not the least prospect of winning the +easterners by argument and it, as in all previous ages and as in +the "reunion" of its tens of millions of apostates in Italy, Spain, +France, and Spanish America, bases its entire hope of a spiritual +conquest upon a political or military conquest of the Balkan +countries and the Near East by some power with which it has an +understanding. There are in these countries, apart from Russia, to +which I will devote a special book, about 50000000 Catholics and +only about 7000000 of them acknowledge the Pope. It is, surely, +now as plain why the Pope never condemned the brutal invasion of +Greece and Yugo-Slavia as why he never condemned the treatment of +France.

+ +

The British Catholic writer W. Teeting (The Pope in Politics) +gives another reason, and it is sound, though American Catholics do +all in their power to suppress it. He says of the late Pope (whose +policy the present Pope inspired and continues):

+ +

"The Pope is himself temperamentally more interested in the +question of Reunion with the Eastern Churches and with conversions +in the mission field. He had hoped during his Papacy to arrange +such a Reunion with the Orthodox Churches so that the growth of +democratic Catholicism in the New World would be counterbalanced" +(P. 3).

+ +

It is not a question of the temperament of any Pope -- for +that matter Pius XII is far more aristocratic than Pius XI was -- +but of the permanent policy of the Black International, and it is +misleading to place so much stress on the New World. Teeling points +out that the New World or America has come in the course of modern +developments to have 400 Catholic bishops against 650 in Europe and +says that the Vatican fears that this democratic New World may come +to have the majority. That is misleading because the great majority +of the 400 American bishops are in the Latin Republics -- there are +only 140 in the United States -- and they dread democracy and +loathe Socialism (its inevitable offspring in Vatican eyes) as much +as the Pope does. At the very time when Teeling wrote his book they +were cooperating with the secular authorities in a truculent +suppression of democracy in nearly every Republic of South and +Central America, and we know how they loathe it in Mexico.

+ +

Look at it this way. There are still about 280 bishops in Ital +and more than 150 in France, Spain, and Portugal, and they, like +the Spanish-American bishops, have cooperated in the complete +destruction of democracy in their countries. The Catholic bishops +of Germany and Belgium have done the same. But the Vatican has no +hope of seeing an anti-democratic attitude in the 320 archbishops +and bishops of the United States and (except Quebec) the British

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Empire, for it would ruin the prospects of the Church in those +countries if they let it be known that it is anti-democratic. They +must even toll the grotesque lie -- since the Church obviously +supports Fascism in every country where it has power -- that the +Pope loves democracy and Catholic principles are in perfect harmony +with it; What the Church loves is the gold of democracy -- of +America and Britain -- but he and the miserable brood of Italian +bishops who fatten on it fear that, as they must continue to create +new bishops and cardinal's in these profitable, but poisonous +(democratic) sections of the Church the Italian monopoly of power +and wealth is in danger and the essentially authoritarian teaching +of the Church is menaced. For a time they saw the danger increase +as the Church in France, Germany, and Italy had to meet the needs +of the new age by starting Christian Socialist or Catholic +Democratic movements, as I have elsewhere described. That danger is +happily (from the Papal viewpoint) removed by the truculent +establishment of Fascism, but the future is uncertain. Hence the +need of a counter-balance by bringing in the Greek and other +eastern Churches with their innumerable bishops and archbishops.

+ +

In this the Vatican betrays once more how false is that +reputation for psychology and "insight" which its propagandists +have won for it. It is building upon a theory of the psychology of +the Slav and of the oriental which has long been discredited. It +was common in the last century to say, and it is still far too +often said by literary men, that the Slav and the oriental mind is +docile, passive, and naturally submissive to authority. Not only +does the modern science of psychology reject these old superficial +theories of racial psychology but recent developments in Russia, +China, and India ought to have taught every man how nonsensical +they are. It is just as absurd to credit the Vatican with broad +outlook and penetrating insight. These Italian parasites are a +bunch of Chinese mandarins who are an anachronism in the modern +world.

+ +

It, at all events, explains the coincidence of the policy of +the Vatican with that of the Italian jackal. The Pope refuses to +condemn he rape of Abyssinia -- a monstrous moral outrage -- though +British and American Catholics clamor for a condemnation, and, at +the very time when Cardinal Hinsley assures them that he heard the +Pope call it a "barbarous outrage", the Pope bestows the Golden +Rose on the Queen of Italy as Empress of Abyssinia. He get's his +"unauthorized" agents to say how he was disturbed by Mussolini +forcing the gates to the East (Albania) and does not say a word +about Yugo-Slavia and Greece, but his whole Italian hierarchy +boosts the campaign, and his priests and nuns follow in the wake of +the barbarized soldiers. He is following the whole Drive to the +East with the liveliest hope and expectation. He is not a Man of +Blood like Mussolini or Hitler. In the time-honored fashion of the +Roman Church he gets "the secular arm" to shed the blood for him.

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THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 9

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ATHEIST RUSSIA SHAKES THE WORLD

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HOW THE WISKED BOLSHEVIKS SAVE OUR CHRISTIAN WORLD

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by Joseph McCabe

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CHAPTER +I The Vatican Courts Russia for years ........... 1

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II The Supposed Persecutuin of Religion .......... 8

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III The Papal Hymn of Hate ........... 14

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IV Hitler's Magnifient Blunder ............ 19

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Chapter I

+ +

THE VATICAN COURTS RUSSIA FOR YEARS

+ +

On the very morning on which I begin to write this little book +the news comes that Japan has attacked America. It completes my +case against the Vatican. Its third big friend and ally joins the +struggle to destroy all freedom, all enlightenment, all that we +most deeply prize in what we call our civilization. The Papacy has +still other friends, it is true. It has Vichy France and Franco +Spain, those islands of Fascism amidst populations in chains which +loathe them. It has Salazar Portugal, Leopold of Belgium, the +miserable new Slovakia and Montenegro, and the rats of Eire, +Hungary, and Rumania. One hopes it is proud of them. Until today it +flattered itself that amongst its loyal friends it numbered nearly +all the Republics of South and Central America but this latest +outrage on all human decency by one of the big Papal Allies seems +to have shaken most of them. The powerful friends of the Vatican +are Germany, Italy, and Japan -- the most brutalized powers of +modern history, the enemies of the human race.

+ +

It is not nine months since the Pope gave Matsuoka so gracious +an interview at the Vatican that the wily Jap called it "the most +beautiful moment of my life" and he put amongst his treasures the +gold medal which the Pope gave him. Matsuoka had done more than any +other representative of Japan to fool Americans and delay their

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armament. He is a more unctuous liar than Ribbentrop. Last March, +when he was so affectionately received by the Pope, he had just +come from interviews with Hitler and Mussolini, in which beyond +question the date, if not the manner, of Japan's intervention must +have been discussed. There is here no room for one of those +"unauthorized" assurances that the Pope was saddened or depressed +or murmured about barbarous outrages. From the audience he went, +radiant, to his usual public audience -- ten to fifty dollars a +head -- and said, according to the Osservatore (his own organ) as +well as the Italian and German journalists who were present, that +he had had "a fine conversation" with Matsuoka. And the +unscrupulous Japs went home to join in the concerting of the plot +to dupe America to the last moment and fall upon it with all the +brutal cunning and treachery which have characterized the greedy +enterprises of the Pope's two other big friends.

+ +

Why call the Pope Japan's ally and friend, your Catholic +neighbor may ask, I had better recall for you what I said briefly +on the subject in the second book of this series. When in the most +fateful hour of this catastrophic development, the rape of +Manchuria, the first trial of strength of barbarism against +civilization, Japan looked round a hostile world for a friend it +found only the Vatican. The new Secretary of State, the present +Pope, directed French priests in the East to cooperate with the +bandits. I should not think that any decent American Catholic will +ask you to believe that the Papacy was merely concerned about the +spiritual welfare of the few thousand (or hundred) miserable rice-converts to the Church in Manchuria. Anyhow, it was the beginning +of a most edifying friendship. Although there were only 100000 +Catholics in Japan there was soon talk of an exchange of +ambassadors between Tokyo and the Vatican City, and just when Japan +exposed its own lies about Manchuria by seizing and corrupting +other provinces of China the Vatican proudly announced, and the +Catholic press everywhere joyously repeated, that that proof of +amity between two "civilizations" had been achieved. Since then, as +I quoted in the words of a French Catholic, no Japanese of any +standing visited Europe without calling to pay his respects to "the +Holy Father."

+ +

By what name will this beastly war be known in the history-books of the future? We hope that our great-grandchildren will read +of it with amazement in their High Schools as "The Last Great War." +If the men and women of the rising generation who have shuddered at +its horrors do not make a life-vow of critical vigilance, if they +again trust priests and politicians to prevent the world from +drifting into so shameful a surrender to banditry, they are +unworthy of the years of sunlight which the chances of life have +offered them.

+ +

Some think that the title will be "The Most Amazing War in +History." From 1919 onward hundreds of writers thrilled us with +gruesome pictures of the super-brutalities of the next war, and for +the last ten years at least there cannot have been a doubt in any +man's mind which nations were expected to rain down fire and poison +upon peaceful cities and which peoples were to suffer. Yet the +aggressive nations openly flaunted their programs of conquest and +their plainly named victims went from jazz to swing and let even

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the weapons of 1918 rot in the fields. When the time came little +England declared war with an equipment of 18 good planes, quarter +of a million cardboard-coffins, and 40000000 gas-masks. France +entrusted its fate to naval and military commanders who allow +priests to tell them that an appalling national calamity purifies +the soul of a people and that no price is too high to pay for the +destruction of Communism and Atheism. Then there was the long spell +of "cockeyed war" in which profiteers waxed fat. Then, most amazing +of all, the great power that every other nation in the world had +maligned and every Church cursed entered the arena in which we were +supposed to be fighting for Christian civilization and lit it at +last with valor and heroism.

+ +

Some day historians and military experts will estimate more +coldly than we can and more boldly than we dare today what chance +the British Empire, even with what we might call the morganatic +alliance of America, had of escaping destruction after the +appalling betrayal of civilization by France. There will be at +least many who will conclude that if Hitler had at that time +persevered in his designs against Russia before turning to attack +Yugo-Slavia, Greece, and Russia, the issue would have been. . . . +Let me, since I am an Englishman, leave it at that.

+ +

But the most amazing feature of all is the story of the +relations of the Vatican with the Soviet civilization. In all that +maelstrom of emotion that agitated the press and peoples of the +world when mighty Russia entered the war nothing was more +intriguing than the wavering and discordant note of the Catholic +press. Even when it was clear, as it must have been to every +informed person, that the world's peril was mightily relieved, if +not dissipated, by the accession of this new strength to the forces +of good, large numbers of Catholics in every country denounced the +idea of employing it, and a certain reserve or hesitation was found +throughout the entire Church. You know why. Every Church had +attacked Russia for its Atheism and its supposed persecution of +religion, but the others had been temperate in comparison with the +Church of Rome. Ten years ago it had borrowed and adopted the motto +which Voltaire had coined against itself, "Wipe out the Infamous +Thing." We had been reading in Catholic writers for decades that +the truculence of that slogan was proof of the essential vulgarity +of the irreligious soul, and suddenly, five or six years ago, the +gentle voice of Mother Church began its "Wipe out Bolshevism in +Russia, Spain, and Mexico." Even a Catholic writer does not pretend +that Voltaire urged men to extinguish the Roman Church in blood. +But that is the only possible meaning of the Pope's slogan. He +appealed to "governments." The German hierarchy appealed to Hitler +to let them add their prayers to the thunder of his guns. The +American hierarchy appealed to Wall Street, which is believed to +have some influence at Washington.

+ +

All that is known, but what is your Catholic friend likely to +say if you tell him that in what his own (as well as general) +literature calls the very worst years of Bolshevik power, the years +when priests like Father Walsh, who spent two years in Russia, tell +him that bishops and priests were murdered by the hundreds and with +sadistic savagery, the Vatican was straining every nerve to court +the favor of Lenin and his colleagues? That in the first year of

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Bolshevik power, the summer of 1918, Russian Catholics held, for +the first time in the history of Russia, the most solemn and august +of their public processions, with the consecrated host, in the +streets of Leningrad, and no one was allowed to molest them?

+ +

That is really the most amazing feature of the story of the +Vatican and Russia. As long as the Bolsheviks were Bolsheviks -- +that is to say, as long as Lenin attempted to run the country on +Communist lines -- and a savage White War and famine did profoundly +disturb the normal Socialist psychology -- the Papacy was the only +power in the world that repeatedly attempted to enter into cordial +relations with them. But when the New Economic Policy suspended +Communism in Russia, when the passions of the civil war had died +down and the stately structure of a new and higher civilization +began to rise from its foundations, the Pope began to denounce +Bolshevism as the spawn of the devil and call for a crusade to wipe +it out in blood!

+ +

Yet the evidence for that can be taken entirely from Catholic +sources, and any man who has read my account -- fully supported by +the Catholic Teeling -- of the Papal ambition to take over the +eastern Churches, will be prepared to accept it. To many, however, +it will seem not merely one of those "libels" of which Catholics +are taught to complain so pathetically, but a quite impossible +suggestion. So let us take this attempt of the Vatican to court the +Soviet government during the four or five years when all the rest +of the world hated it as our first point.

+ +

From the Catholic Teeling (The Pope in Politics), who is no +rebel against his Church, I quoted the statement that the Vatican +was most eager to capture the Greek and other eastern Churches in +order to counterbalance the growth of democratic elements (chiefly +American and British) in the Latin Church. He goes on to describe +how the destruction of the power of the Greek or Orthodox Church in +Russia by the Bolsheviks -- in fact, the knowledge that they would +very soon achieve this -- gave the Papacy a wonderful new outlook +for its anti-democratic ambition. By flattering the Bolshevik +leaders and thanking them for delivering Russian Pacifists from the +tyranny of the Orthodox Church it hoped to take the place of the +discredited heads of the old national Church.

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The somewhat sympathetic American writer George Seldes (The +Vatican) says the same, with a slight difference. He says that the +Vatican regarded the rise of the Bolsheviks to power with mixed +feelings: a loathing of their economic philosophy and rejoicing -- +for which he quotes the Osservatore in the splendid opportunity of +the Church, Seldes states on the title-page of his book that the +historical part of it is taken from a work by two French Catholics, +G. London and C. Pichon (Le Vatican et le monde moderns, 1933). He +does not explain how 20 small pages of historical matter in the +French book have become more than 100 large pages in his own book. +Anyhow, he here retouches their text. They simply say that the +Papacy rejoiced in the Russian Revolution in so far as it opened +out a golden prospect to itself. The talk about the infamy of the +Bolshevik philosophy began later. At the time doubtless Rome had +just the same idea of Bolshevism but it was prepared to sup with +the devil.

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Another Catholic writer who candidly describes this early +phase is Miss M.A. Almedingen (The Catholic Church in Russia Today, +1923). Her little book is valuable not only because the author is +one of those ardent (in the pious sense) virgins who are the +treasure of the clergy but because she lived in Russia during these +years of courtship. She tells us that the Bolsheviks at once +released the head of the Roman Church whom the Tsarists had put in +prison -- a Pole who had been guilty of political intrigue, be it +noted -- and lifted all the restrictions which the Tsarists had +laid upon Papist activities. It is this same devout Catholic and +very truthful lady who tells us that in the summer of 1918 +Catholics were allowed to hold, for the first time in Russian +history, their sacred Corpus Christi procession, a priest openly +carrying what they call the Blessed Sacrament, in the streets of +Petrograd and at least one other city. The Bolsheviks actually +favored the Roman against the Greek Catholics, and there was, this +ideal witness assures us, no interference whatever with their +religion until the summer of 1919, nearly two years after Lenin got +power, and no "persecution" until three years after that. In 1920, +she says, Rome was still so intent upon friendship with the Soviet +authorities that bodies of friars waited on the frontiers for the +signal to march in and win the Russian people for the Vatican.

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I have earlier explained the situation. The Russian Orthodox +Church was the largest of the sections into which political +developments in the 19th Century had split the old Greek Church. It +differed from the Roman in ritual and on one very abstruse point of +doctrine (the procession of the Holy Ghost) but most emphatically +in rejecting the Pope's pretensions. That it was, and had always +been, very corrupt is agreed. "The Orthodox Church was filthy with +corruption and debauchery," says Seldes (p. 287). The 10000 monks +were "very lax," says the Catholic Encyclopedia. But most people +have read the very characteristic story of St. Rasputin. Any body +who carers to look up a copy of The Romance of the Romanoffs which +I wrote and published in New York in 1917 will find many piquant +pages on church-life. Peter the Great had so open a contempt for it +that in the drunken debauches he held with his court he and the men +often dressed as monks and his loosest women dressed as nuns. +Catherine the Great had hardly less contempt for it. We recognize +in every age a decent and religious minority in it but it remained +until 1917 so generally corrupt that most educated Russians +despised it.

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The Bolsheviks had another reason to attack it besides the +spectacle of so corrupt a body owning "fabulous wealth," as the +most neutral historians say, and exploiting the ignorant. From the +time of the French Revolution it had drawn closer to the autocracy, +knowing that they would stand or fall together. Every atrocity of +the statesmen and their hirelings who protected the throne of the +Tsars was blessed by the Holy Synod, and this continued in the 19th +Century. In the last great revolutionary period, 1904-5, the jails +of Russia, which were supposed to have a capacity of 107000, were +crammed with 174000 prisoners, besides 100000 in the Siberian +colonies. These prisoners were to a very large extent young men and +women of the university-student class. Thousands -- after boldly +stitching tabs with their names on their clothes. -- went out on +the streets to be shot. Hundreds committed suicide or were carried

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off by epidemics in the fetid jail's every month. Brutal jailers +raped the refined young women in their cells. The press abroad put +these horrors in small paragraphs, if they were mentioned at all. +The banner-headlines were reserved for the fictitious "Bolshevik +atrocities" of a later date. But you will not be surprised that a +great debt was inscribed in the memory of the Socialists.

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Yet Lenin and his colleagues were content, as long as the +clergy kept out of polities, to disestablish the Church, destroy +its monopoly, and confiscate the bulk of its superfluous wealth. +Beyond that, Miss Armedinger insists, there was no persecution for +four or five years, and the complete freedom, and equality of +cults, which the Orthodox hierarchy had refused, were warmly +welcomed by the Romanists. The Vatican, however, which had from +long experience a cynical distrust of argumentative proselytism and +a decided preference for the knout, wanted more than freedom. The +Orthodox Church had been richer than any section of the Roman +Church, which in Russia was exceptionally poor. A very impartial +note on the religious situation in Kiesing's Contemporary Archives +(October 18, 1941, p. 4848) says that the monks and higher clergy +of the Orthodox Church had a wealth in land alone of +$8500000000, and the property, jewels, etc. of their churches +and monasteries represented a vast further sum. The Vatican's dream +of taking over this was soon dissipated, as the Bolsheviks more +sensibly transferred it to the people of Russia. But it was said, +since the census of 1913, that the Orthodox Church had 98000000 +communicants, and doubtless, since the only difference in doctrine +was one that not one Russian in 100000 could comprehend, a little +pressure from the Soviet authorities Would help these millions +(mostly illiterate) to see that the Pope was a far holier person +than the Orthodox patriarch.

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The Bolsheviks had other designs but for a year or two they +were not unwilling to see Roman Catholicism, of which they knew +very little, replace the Catholicism which they had so much ground +to hate. Meantime, however, the White War, in which passions flamed +to redness and even conservative writers admit that the Imperialist +Russians themselves committed appalling atrocities had broken out. +How this led to what is called persecution we shall see in the next +chapter, but it is worth noting that we have here a parallel with +the French Revolution of a very different kind from that which is +usually, and falsely, pressed upon us. Aulard and other leading +French historians have shown that Danton and Robespierre, instead +of trying to destroy religion, made every effort to maintain the +Church but the people overruled them. In much the same way Miss +Almedinger, then living in Russia, describes Lenin and his +colleagues following a policy of religious freedom and the people +impatient of it. The Red guards, she says, frowned on the public +Catholic processions of 1918 but did not interfere. In the +following year they began to disturb services in the churches and +were checked by the authorities, but these did not seriously +interfere with religion until 1922, when large numbers of churches +were closed and priests arrested.

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We shall see why. For the moment let us follow the wooing of +the Kremlin by the Vatican. In 1922 the Romanists in Russia, who +were now reduced to one or two millions, mostly Poles and +Lithuanians, by the formation of the independent republic of

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Poland, suffered like the Orthodox for having intrigued with the +invading Poles and White Russians, and the golden prospect that had +opened up in 1917 to the eyes of the Papacy was replaced by a fear +that its Church was doomed to total destruction in Russia. The +Genoa Conference in 1922, at which the European powers were to meet +and come to a friendly agreement with representatives of Russia, +the higher interests of trade and the recovery of debts having +overruled the world's repugnance to Atheist Russia, gave the +Vatican a new hope. The Archbishop of Genoa was instructed to get +in touch with and cultivate Comrade Chicherin.

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London and Pichon, whose account is followed by Seldes and +Teeling, tell the story. After several futile attempts to meet +Chicherin the archbishop got himself placed next to the Russian at +a banquet which the king of Italy gave to the delegates and he was +as amiable as an Italian prelate knows how to be. He came away with +Chicherin's autograph on his menu, exchanging it for his own. Bear +in mind that according to later Catholic literature these +Bolsheviks had already slaughtered a thousand bishops and heaven +knows how many thousand priests. Doubtless the archbishop sent a +roseate account of his success to Rome, but Chicherin was not so +simple as the prelate imagined. Russia, disgusted at the +hypocritical patronage and greed of the powers, made a separate +trade-agreement with Germany, and the conference ended in +confusion.

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The Vatican still wooed the hated Russians. some men compare +it to a blond gold-digger pursuing a wealthy gangster but we will +confine ourselves strictly to the facts, as told by Catholic +writers. The agents of the Vatican transferred their solicitation +to the Russian representative in Rome. The civil war had been +followed by a famine in which millions died, and the Pope pressed +for permission to help in the work of relief in which many nations +cooperated. Even Catholic writers do not go so far as to ask us to +admire the generosity of the Vatican in helping the nation which +had, it was alleged all over the world, been guilty of an atrocious +massacre of priests. The aim was so clearly propaganda that the +Russians exacted an agreement that the members of the Vatican +relief mission should avoid politics and propaganda before they +were allowed to enter the country.

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Everyone knows the value of these Catholic promises to refrain +from propaganda; when, for instance, you send your children to a +nun's school or an invalid to a Catholic hospital or convalescent +home. A priest or nun is bound in conscience to get round that +promise. So the American Jesuit Father Walsh, the head of the +Vatican mission, set out with a million nice parcels "for the +children of Russia from the Pope of Rome." So Seldes says, but he +does not add, as London and Pichon do, that they took also colored +photographs of the Pope to stick in their relief-centers; and you +can imagine for yourself what answers the Jesuits gave when +Russians made inquiries about this picturesque and benevolent +gentleman. The Russians found that they were proselytizing and in +1924 conducted them to the frontier. Walsh went back to America and +published one of the vilest of the attacks on Russia which were now +beginning to gladden the heart of Wall Street. He swept together +the wildest and most incredible stories of Bolshevik savagery; and

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you will find it interesting to remember that these things are +supposed to have been perpetrated before or during the two years +when the Jesuit was working in Russia in friendly relationship with +the Soviet authorities.

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Still the Vatican hoped. It chose a French Jesuit, Father +D'Herbigny, whom it turned into a bishop to make him more +acceptable to the simple Soviet authorities, He and a few others +got into Russia and were expelled for intrigue, and the long +courtship, which was now clearly hopeless, ended in a Hymn of Hate. +D'Herbigny joined the libellers and maybe regarded as the author of +the Papal bugle-call for "the extinction of Bolshevism." It is +convenient for Catholics to forget that the Vatican pressed its +friendship on Russia during these years when the appalling +condition of the country did give rise to a great deal of violence +and all the rest of the world was hostile. But the facts I have +given are quoted entirely from Catholic sources, and we must not +allow them to be concealed. What the Papacy believed about the +character of the power with which it sought an alliance did not +matter to it. All that it regarded was, as it thought, a new chance +of attaining wealth and power. As soon as that chance was +definitely lost and Communism and Atheism spread from Russia and +threatened the Church's wealth and power in other countries it +turned against Russia and tried to excite a war against It. The +fact that Russia was now building up a peaceful and humane +civilization did not matter to it. Indeed, the clearer Russia's +peaceful and humane intentions became and the greater its success +the more savage the language of the Vatican became. Did I overstate +the truth when I said that the first aim of the Black International +is the protection and increase, by hook or crook, of its own wealth +and power?

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Chapter II

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THE SUPPOSED PERSECUTION OF RELIGION

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When Mr. Roosevelt recently sent Harriman to Moscow to inquire +what help Russia required he told his envoy to raise the question +of freedom of religion. That fact was stated in many papers and is +duly recorded in the Keesing daily summary of the press. Nothing +but heavy pressure from the Churches could have induced so broad-minded a statesman as Mr. Roosevelt thus to interfere in the +internal affairs of another nation and, by implication, lay down +conditions on which he would grant help to a power that was bearing +the whole brunt of the attack on civilization; and back of this. +pressure of the Churches is, notoriously, the charge that Russia +persecutes religion or puts penalties of some sort on those who +practice it.

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Most of us know the insincerity of that charge. Russia was +feared and hated, until it entered the war because its rapid +progress from about 1928 to 1940 discredited two very sacred +principles of the British and American press, literature, and

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politicians. One, the ancient and threadbare charge against +Socialism, the really fundamental reason why Russia was treated as +an outlaw nation and the truth about it concealed, was the +assertion that you cannot make progress without private enterprise +or, in the ordinary meaning of the word, capitalism. It would not +do to let the people of the world know that Socialist Russia was +advancing so rapidly that this most emphatic principle of +individualism was completely discredited.

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The second principle was that you cannot even maintain an +existing civilization without religion; and, since in this respect +we are thinking of the ruling or, guiding class of a nation, the +principle refers particularly to these. Yet, whatever be the +strength of religion in Russia today, which we will discuss later, +no one questions or could question that the members of the +administration from the Commissars at Moscow to the administrative +officials of a small town are all Atheists. These Atheists have +achieved in twenty years one of the greatest feats in history in +the construction of a civilization. They took over, not a working +and fairly solid economy as they Fascists and the Nazis did, but a +country that had been reduced to a state of social and cultural +chaos, Tsarist Russia had been low in culture and character and, +for so large a country with such resources, far from rich. But the +three years of the European War, the ensuing two years of the White +and the Polish War, and the two years subsequently of famine and +disease, had made a wilderness of the vast land. Anyone who does +not realize that ought to look into a good annual, like the Annual +Register, for 1923 and 1924. It was still a few years before the +Communist statesmen could begin serious construction, and I repeat +that what they did between 1928 and 1940 is beyond all historical +precedents. All the world knows it today.

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Hence when American writers so far removed from Communism as +John Dewey, Durant, etc. began to assert this fact the anti-Socialist slogan was discredited and criticism, to be plausible, +had to be confined to the supposed interference with religion. Here +again priests and bankers joined hands, and the most unscrupulous +priests of all were the Roman Catholic. Although, particularly in +Britain, the charge of persecuting religion was, as we shall see, +officially disproved years ago, we must admit that the Church of +Rome was not the only offender. The entry of Russia into the war +roused the same ecclesiastical fussiness in England as in, America, +to which Mr. Roosevelt's unhappy instruction to Harriman bears +witness. The President of the Baptist World Alliance publicly +denied Maisky's claim that religion is, and has been for years, +free in Russia. To that we will return but we, at once, recognize +one distinction between Protestant and Catholic anti-Communism. The +Protestant Churches wanted such diplomatic pressure as their +government could bring to bear upon Moscow, but as I have quoted +repeatedly in the Pope's own words, the Vatican wanted Communism +extinguished by war.

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Some of my readers may occasionally regard my language about +that Church, which is treated with profound respect in most papers, +as over-emphatic, but candidly, could any man with moderate +historical knowledge characterize in milder terms the effrontery of +the Vatican's diatribes against Russia? Hell hath no fury like a

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Pope's scorn, of course, but most people do not expect the strident +and unreasoning language of a rejected suitor from the heads of any +Church, and for the Popes to complain of persecution is simply +grotesque. Ever since Europe returned to some degree of mental +sanity in the 20th Century the Popes have relied on savage +persecution to maintain their power and of the half-million +democrats who forfeited their lives for freedom in the 19th Century +all but a few hundred were victims of Catholic authorities, lay and +clerical acting together.

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But there is no need to go into history. In our own day, we +have seen repeatedly in this series of books, Rome follows the old +policy of persecution wherever it can. We saw that the Catholic +Church and authorities of Poland maintained a brutal persecution of +the Orthodox Catholics in the Galician Ukraine, indeed of +Protestants in Poland itself, from 1919 to 1939. We saw that when +Pacelli had traversed South America the most terrible persecution, +including torture, broke out everywhere. It followed the seizure of +power from the Socialists by the Catholics of Vienna. . . . In +short, the policy has been enforced wherever the Vatican had the +power to enforce right down to the time, only a few months ago, +when the priests of Croatia and Bulgaria fell upon the priests of +the Serb Church.

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The supreme irony is that, as I have shown until most of my +readers must be tired. of it, in its Canon Law today the Church +lays down that it "can and must put heretics to death." Catholics +in Britain and America are so keen to prevent this from becoming +generally known that it astonishes most people. Only two days ago +I had a letter from a businessman asking where he could buy a copy +of this Canon Law as, if that is impossible -- as it is, for the +Vatican Press alone publishes it, and only for priests -- whether +I could get for him a photostat of the page -- there are five or +six pages -- making the claim! I have not found any priest bold +enough to deny it in writing for the non-Catholic public. The +modern world rightly laughs at the idea of Roman priests burning +heretics, or forcing the police to burn them, in the market-place, +but there is here a serious question of principle. The great +majority of people in every advanced modern civilization claim +freedom to go to church or stay away, to accept a religious creed +or reject them all. Why do we tolerate all this fuss about "freedom +of religion" from Catholic writers and priests who say they will, +wherever they get the power, suppress all freedom of irreligion? +Clerical-Fascist power has in our own time fallen truculently upon +tens of millions of seceders from the Church in Italy, Spain, +Portugal, France, and Latin America, and none are more vehement +than these countries in demanding the blood of the Bolsheviks +because they put certain mild restriction's on the propaganda, not +the personal practice, of religion!

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There is another forgotten aspect which will interest every +man who wants honesty even in religious propaganda. I said that one +of the first things the Bolsheviks did was to release the head of +the Catholic Church in Russia from the jail to which "Holy Russia" +of Tsarist days had sent him. This was only a last trace of a +bitter persecution of Roman Catholics that the Orthodox Russians +had maintained for a century. Catholics now generally suppress the

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facts -- though you may read some account of them in the Catholic +Encyclopedia, since it was written before 1920 -- in order to be +able to represent the "persecution of religion" as a wicked +practice introduced into Russia by those terrible Bolsheviks.

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In point of fact, such restrictions as the Bolshevik +authorities have really laid upon religion, apart from the legal +punishment of priests for treason, are trifles in comparison with +what the Greek Catholics did to the Latin Catholics in the last +century. You will find it amusing to read in the article on Russia +in the Catholic Encyclopedia how 70 or 80 years ago Pope Pius IX +was using about his brothers in Christ of the Orthodox Church +exactly the same abusive language as the Vatican now uses about the +Bolsheviks! But what was then done out of religious hatred -- we +must admit that the chief ground was that the Russian Catholics +were then, as now, mostly Poles and political intriguers -- was far +worse than Catholic's have suffered in Soviet Russia. Hundreds of +priests were hanged and whole communities of nuns were raped and +brutally treated. They were stripped and flogged and in some cases +burned alive. Young Catholic nuns were put in Orthodox convents, +and it was hell. One Orthodox mother-superior took an axe to one of +these stubborn Romanist nuns. At one place a number of nuns were +put in sacks, and dragged over the surface of lakes in winter, the +people cheering from the banks. Monks had to let down their pants +and sit on the ice. I really wonder why Father Walsh did not get +hold of some of these true stories of 80 years ago and turn them +into Bolshevik outrages of 1923 and 1924!

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These, things make a mockery of all this modern twaddle about +cruel Atheists and sadistic Bolsheviks. And when we examine the +stories which are offered us even by writers who pose as experts we +find them often grotesque. There is, for instance, a much-consulted +history of the early Bolshevik years by Lancelot Lawton (The +Russian Revolution, 1927). Most people know only that he was a +correspondent in Russia of the Liberal Daily Chronicle and not that +-- so a Russian official assured me -- he married a White Russian. +Most of the folk who talk about the horrors of the early years +would quote Lawton. Well, here is a specimen of his "history." He +says, "The number of ecclesiastical persons executed from 1917 to +1920 was 8050, including 1275 bishops." How magnanimous of the +Vatican to press its friendship upon Russia after such a ghastly +slaughter! But if you put together the details given in the +Catholic Encyclopedia and its supplement and the last edition of +the Encyclopedia Britannica you will be relieved to find that in +1917 there were not more than 80 archbishops and bishops, of both +Churches, in Russia, and most of them escaped -- the Encyclopedia +Britannica describes 15 of them setting up a synod in Belgrade -- +or went to prison for intrigue with the invaders. It is a nice +example of the "historical" basis for the talk about Bolshevik +atrocities and persecution of religion.

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As far as the Roman Catholics are concerned we may follow Miss +Almedinger because she not only lived in Russia at the time but she +is so really religious that she won't lie even in the good cause. +She tells us that one Catholic bishop and a number of anonymous +Catholics were put to death and admits that they were guilty in +Russian law. Bolshevik law was so wicked that it imposed sentence

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of death on traitors or men who intrigued with and helped the +invaders. One of the most impartial histories of the time, J.H. +Jackson's Post-War World (1935, p. 189) says that "no case has been +discovered of a priest or anyone else being punished for the +practice of religion." Those words, we shall see presently, are +part of the official report of the British ambassador and were read +in the British House of Commons by the Foreign Secretary (a vary +religious man). The charge has been so discredited that it does not +appear in the supplement of the Catholic Encyclopedia which was +published after the alleged period of sanguinary persecution, but +other Catholic writers sustain throughout the world the tattered +legend of Bolshevik atrocities. It is the chief foundation for +their gospel of hatred of Russia and their demand (until recently) +that other powers should make war upon it.

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The period in question is still as obscure as some parts of +ancient history, for the confusion was such that few authentic +records were kept while the intense passion on both sides gave rise +to vast quantities of reckless rumors. There is again a real +analogy with the French Revolution -- with the true story of the +revolution for, as I said, Lenin and Stalin no more interfered with +religion for the first few years, beyond disestablishing the +corrupt Orthodox Church and nationalizing its superfluous wealth, +than the leaders of the French Revolution had done. And in both +cases it was hostile invasion and the intrigues of the clergy with +the invaders which soured the people and forced the hand of the +authorities. After the November Revolution Lenin repudiated the +huge foreign debt incurred by the Tsarists, and foreign armies were +sent to help the Whites or refugee imperialists. About 300000 +Whites, Poles, Rumanians, Czechs, Japanese, British, American and +French entered the distressed and impoverished country for the +purpose of destroying the new regime, and there never was a more +savage war. As in the French Revolution, again, the refugees told +wild stories (as is now definitely proved by French histories) of +the number of victims. The Russians say 50000. Some unprejudiced +historians suggest between 100000 and 200000. But even so +responsible an organ as the London Times gave the figure as +7700000 with just such impossible exaggerations in detail as that +I quoted from Lawton.

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The Poles continued this war when the other Allies quit, and +at a time when the country suffered as no other land has done in +modern times, and it would be absurd to doubt that the Catholic +clergy and the peasants they controlled did all they could to help +them. At one time it looked as if the Poles were likely to win and +restore the autocracy of the Church. In any case the vast majority +of the Roman Catholics left in Russia after the detachment of +provinces to form Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania, were Poles. How +many there were no one knows. They were too poor for the Church to +organize them. The Catholic Encyclopedia claims 5000000 and then +talks of dioceses in which there was only one priest to 5000 or +even 10000 Catholics! There were probably not a million subjects +of the Pope then in Russia, and the number today is negligible. It +was the heritage of the Orthodox Church for which the Vatican was +fighting.

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The Orthodox clergy and the few Romanist priests continued to +intrigue with Poland and the White refugees abroad, and there were +further executions. Any fair-minded man ought to recognize the real +character of these after the official verdict given in the British +House of Commons. In 1929 some of the religious members of +Parliament, under Church pressure, shamelessly ignoring the rule +that one country does not interfere in the internal affair's of +another, insisted that the government should inquire into the +persecution of religion in Russia. This, it will be remembered, was +the year in which the Papacy signed its Concordat with Mussolini, +and desperate efforts were made to get Mussolini to forbid the +practice of any religion but the Roman in Italy. Severe +restrictions were, in fact, put on Protestantism, and the grossest +intolerance to seceders from the Church was embodied in the law, +with the approval of those Catholics in all countries who continued +to talk about Russian persecution of religion. The oracle of +American Catholicism, Msgr. Ryan, blandly explained it on the +principle that truth has rights but error none!

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However, the British government asked its ambassador in +Moscow, Sir Esmond Ovey, for a report, and it contained this +sentence which was read to the House of Commons by the Foreign +Secretary, the pious Henderson -- the government was then under +that arch-trimmer Ramsay Macdonald, who was at one time a personal +friend of mine and a complete Agnostic -- on April 23 and reported +in the press next day:

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"There is no religious persecution in Russia, in the strict +sense of the word persecution, and no case has been discovered of +a priest or anyone else being punished for practicing religion."

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It is characteristic of the way in which the public is +educated by its press in our time, under pressure of Roman +Catholicism, that a persecution of the Ukrainians by the Poles on +the ground of religion (as well as nationality) was then at its +height and only three papers in Britain and America dared refer to +it. At the most Russia restricted religious folk to their own +premises while in Poland priests opposed to Rome were flogged, +grossly insulted, robbed and jailed. But did you hear any outcry +about the persecution of religion in Poland or any demand that +American or British authorities ought to make an inquiry?

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To this official assurance that no priest or anyone had been +"punished for practicing religion" could be added the words of a +large number of religious leaders, in Russia itself. In a booklet +published in America (The Soviet War on Religion, 1930) Mr. +Sherwood gives, with exact reference to the date of publication in +the Russian press, a number of these admissions. One is signed by +three archbishops of the Orthodox Church (p. 27), one by 31 Jewish +rabbis, (p. 28), one by a group of Roman Catholic priests, and so +on. They insist that there is no persecution, say that the stories +of atrocities are "inventions and slanders unworthy of serious +peoples attention" and that there is no question even of "pressure" +on them, and that there had been general political intrigue on the +part of the clergy, especially of the Roman Church. The Catholic +priests, admitting this, actually say:

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"The dark era of oppression has disappeared without a trace, +together with the Tsardom which maintained it, and the star of +liberty has begun to shine with its bright radiance on the life of +the Catholic Church" (p. 29).

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This was in 1927 and refutes the strongest claims of +atrocities, which are located before that date. Yet the Vatican not +merely encouraged the circulation of those stories in the Catholic +Church but actually became more vitriolic in its indictment of +Russia after that date; just at the time when its pets (Spain, +Portugal, the South American Republics, Italy and Austria) were +beginning to enforce a policy of persecution of religion.

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Putting aside therefore all stories of execution or outrage on +the ground of religion, which are thus disproved by the best +authorities, what is the law or practice in regard to religion +which, though it ought to be well known at Washington, moves Mr. +Roosevelt to raise the question of freedom of religion in such form +as to suggest that there is none, or only a restricted liberty, in +Russia? The prominence given in the press to the President's +instruction to Mr. Harriman led Keesing's Contemporary Archives to +insert at that date (October 18, 1941, p. 4848) one of its +impartial explanatory notes. It speaks of the "corruption" and +"fabulous wealth" of the Tsarist Orthodox Church and says that the +action taken against its clergy after the Revolution was taken on +the ground of "their secular activities rather than religious +partisanship." Whatever the ground no one who knows anything about +the old Church will feel surprise that in June 1918 the Church was +disestablished, the ecclesiastical property (nearly $4000000000 +worth of land) nationalized, religious education excluded from the +schools, and missionary activities suppressed. Within these limits +every Russian was free to follow his conscience. This was the +extent of persecution of religion in the years of the first violent +reaction against the foul older era.

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It is complained that the Soviet authorities then gave all the +unofficial assistance they could to the Atheist League which was +rapidly weaning the people from religion. It is rather funny to +read this complaint in countries in which the political authorities +do everything in their power to help the Churches; and the Soviet +authorities were more deeply and sincerely convinced that religion +is prejudicial to progress than democratic statesmen are that it is +beneficial, to say nothing of the treasonable activities of the +Russian clergy. It is complained also that, as time went on a large +number of seminaries, monasteries, and churches were closed. In +hundreds of instances the churches were converted to more useful +purposes at the request of the people who used to frequent them, +and political intrigue sufficiently excuses the closing of +seminaries and monasteries. The writer of the note in Keesing +quaintly says that "in spite of all this" the Orthodox Church +counted 98000000 communicants and the Roman Church 11000000 +members, but "the last census," to which he appeals was taken in +1913!

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We will try presently to ascertain how many folk in Russia +still belong to the Churches and will continue here to examine this +supposedly neutral account. As Russia entered into relations with +other countries the zeal against religion was modified. In 1935 the

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attempt to suppress the celebration of Christmas was dropped, the +more violent literature of the Atheist League was withdrawn from +the bookstores, and the famous anti-Christian museums, with their +caricatures of religion, became respectable museum's of religion! +In 1939 there was, this writer says, a great religious revival, +though "not within the framework of the Churches." How Christian +writers love vague phrases like that. In plain English the Churches +continued to lose, but there were now large numbers of priests who +fought to modernize theology, even to combine Communism with a "new +Christianity," and there was a good deal of fresh discussion of +religion. At the outbreak of the war with Germany the government -- +the Christian Science Monitor announced -- suppressed the Atheist +paper (Bezboznik).

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In other words, the increasing danger from Germany induced the +authorities to take various steps which might mitigate the hatred +of Russia which the Churches inspired in America and Britain, but +the law was not altered, and Mr. Roosevelt seems to have been +persuaded that it contained an element of persecution of religion. +Senator Smith bluntly put it: "Harriman's job seems to be to try to +get Stalin to join the Church so we can call him brother." We all +understood what it really meant. The representatives of Churches at +Washington thought it a good opportunity to get Russian law made +more favorable to religion. What is wrong with the law?

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As Maisky, speaking to the American Chamber of Commerce in +London on September 23, and Lozovsky in Moscow said, its +fundamental principle is that all religions are free and equal; +which we were always asked to regard as one of the finest +achievements of the American Constitution. Let me repeat, as so few +seem to realize it, that you will not find that just law and +elementary human right conceded in any Roman Catholic country in +the world today. Even in Eire and Quebec there is no religious +equality, and the more docile to the Vatican Catholic states are, +the more of its Canon Law they admit into their legislation, the +more intolerant they are. Persecution of religion -- any religion +that rejects the Pope's authority -- is, we have seen, a first +principle of Catholic law and theology. And, though we moderns +insist that the non-religious man has the same right to liberty as +the members of any Church, the intolerance is in this respect worse +than ever. The Vatican's first excuse for its demand of the +extinction of Bolshevism is that the Russians are Atheists.

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Maisky later added to his statement of Russian law. The +government, which owns all property, puts a building at the +disposal of any group of worshipers and charges no rent or taxes. +Certainly a queer kind of persecution of religion! The police +arrest and the courts punish any who "violate the rights of +believers." Ministers of all religions have just the Same Political +and legal rights as other citizens.

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To this the President of the Baptist World Alliance made a +heated reply, and we may take it that his letter enumerates every +respect in which he and his colleagues see the shadow of +persecution. Worshipers, he says, must confine their worship to a +church. Sunday Schools and religious lesions to children are +forbidden. The Churches must have no social gatherings, no

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lectures, and no libraries. Mr. Rushbrooke might be advised to +compare these restrictions on priests with the restrictions on +Protestant Churches and Atheists in Catholic lands; and if he +replies that Protestants do not do these things the answer is +simple. They certainly did in England until, in the 19th Century, +the Church of England, which inspired the law. dropped to a +minority. We might even raise a question about Baptist tolerance in +certain states of America, but it is enough to reflect that +Baptists or Methodists were never yet the majority in any country +so we must not be too sure what they would or would not do if they +had the power.

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To sum up the contents of this chapter and give the reader a +clear idea on an issue that often confronts him in his reading, +there is no truth in the stories that Catholics, Orthodox or Roman, +were ever physically persecuted in Russia, that is to say, ever +sent to, jail, much less executed, for belonging to a Church or +practicing religion. An unknown number of bishops and priests, +which in certain cases we have definitely proved to be exaggerated +fifteen-fold, were put to death in the dark early years, but the +ground was political, and our religious authorities admit that the +clergy did quite generally conspire with attempts to subvert the +government. We do not blame them when they saw a chance of the +restoration of the Church to wealth and power, but it is silly to +call this persecution. The law of treason is much the same in every +country, and Russia was in such circumstances at the time that a +drastic application of the law was essential.

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As to later years and the present time we frankly admit that +the Churches are not free to do what they like in Russia. The +restrictions are mild in comparison with the restrictions on +religion imposed in Catholic countries, and we very justly resent +the practice of calling them persecution and implying that they are +something peculiar to Soviet Russia. That is implied in the great +majority of reference's to religion in Russia, and not a word of +appreciation is given the Bolsheviks for their introduction of the +principle of individual freedom of conscience. The restrictions are +that the priests must not impose religious doctrines on children, +who can't argue with their teachers, or do propaganda other than by +holding religious services which any person may attend.

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Apart from those whose admiration of Russia is so great that +we might regard their judgment as biased, Atheists would differ +about the propriety of these restrictions. We must, however, at +least not judge the Russian authorities in the light of our +experience in America. The Russian Church, which alone we need +consider since the Roman brand of Catholicism is nearly dead, has +been an enemy of the people for a thousand years. It allowed the +Tsars and the nobles to keep nearly half a million peasants until +100 years ago in the state of slavery (serfdom) which Europe +generally abolished 700 years ago. It supported a corrupt and +murderous autocracy until 1917. It continued for the next 10 years +to help every attempt to destroy a regime in which, whatever else +you may think of it, the wealth produced by the people is shared +amongst the people. To me personally it seems that if the Soviet +authorities still think it dangerous, they have the right to impose +these mild restrictions. Please yourself. They do not care the toss

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of a coin what you and I think about it. But as a vast amount of +evil has been done by the Churches, and most particularly the +Vatican, spreading a hatred of Russia, I have had to show that +there is no justification for this in any persecution of religion.

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Chapter III

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THE PAPAL HYMN OF HATE

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I invite the readers' particular attention to the +chronological parallel between the successive phases of the +Vatican's attitude to Russia and the developments in that country. +I have briefly referred to it but it deserves careful +consideration. Until about 1925, when Jesuit Bishop D'Herbigny was +still trying to get a foothold in Russia, the Vatican made friendly +approaches to the Soviet government. Apart from the futile gesture +of the Genoa Conference no other power in the world was so amiable +with Russia, and the country itself was in a very miserable +condition. Long after that year our papers and novelists, were +still serving up pictures of Russians in rags clinging to +ramshackle overcrowded cars, sadistic officials of the 0.G.P.U. who +had innocent maids waiting in the ante-rooms until they had +finished their champagne-orgies, priests boiled in oil or burned in +lime, and go on.

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During the next ten years the world-hostility to Russia +moderated. There was always money for a fiery indictment of the +Soviet system, but level-headed men began to see that Russia had +got on to a line on which it might travel far. During this +indecisive period the Vatican had not much to say about Russia as +far as I can ascertain. Locally members of the Black International +like the American Jesuit Walsh might inflame sentiment against +Russia. Business and financial men were not really very sensitive +about outrages of religion. They were more deeply pained by the +refusal of the Soviet authorities to pay interest on the Tsarist +loans and on British and American investments. But if there were a +few million folk who believed Walsh's stories and helped to swell +the feeling against Russia, it was all to the good. Still the +Papacy, as I said, was fairly quiet about Russia. In fact, as lite +as 1930 the Pope politely summoned the Catholic world, not to +agitate for war but to pray fervently for Russia, the consequences +of which I cannot discover.

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About 1934 what we might broadly call the third phase of +Russia's internal development and relation to other power's began. +Russia had after so many years of bovine prejudice become rather +indifferent to the opinion of the outside world but it received a +large number of visitors from America and Britain every year, and +men and women of very different schools and respected character +wrote in high appreciation of its recovery. So neutral an authority +as the Statesmen's Year Book showed that Russia more than doubled +its annual production of wealth from 1932 to 1935 -- a feat far +beyond the achievement of any other country -- and there were no +rich men to absorb any of it. Duranty has written sympathetic +accounts for years to the New York Times, and his volume of +articles (Russia Reported, 1934) made a deep impression. In the +same year Sherwood Eddy's Russia Today, written from a different

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rather conservative angle, confirmed the impression. A lady of the +Tsarist family who had settled in America, Countess Skaryatina, +still very conservative and religious, had the courage to go to +Russia and the honesty to say that the Bolsheviks had made great +progress (First to Go Back, 1935). An equally conservative British +general, W.H. Waters, also a lover of the old regime, paid a visit +and made the same report. Sir Bernard Pares, high British authority +on the East and for years a heavy critic of Bolsheviks, now gave a +very appreciative account and joined the "Friends of Russia." He +spoke of a "hostile foreign diplomat" in Moscow who grudgingly +admitted to him that "the Bolsheviks have won all along the line." +We shall see other equally notable impartial witnesses later.

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Naturally, the literature about Russia was very mixed. Some +writers expressly catered to the chronic demand for blood-curdling +stories of the O.G.P.U. and the poor folk who wept when their icons +were torn away from them. Others, with milder prejudice, denounced +Russia because it had no political elections of the democratic +purity of those of America or because the workers, who a few years +ago had been the worst paid and most ignorant in Europe, had not +yet risen to the high standard of American workers -- not +mentioning that there was no unemployment in Russia and the workers +had vast free social services and cheap rents in the cities. +Typical was the work of sir W. Citrine, who went with all the +prejudice which the British Labor Party still stupidly fostered and +poked into tenements to see if the baths all had stoppers, and +after traveling hundreds of miles found a woman who seemed no +better than she ought to be and something like a slum (such as he +could have found within a mile of his house in London).

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However, my point here is that as appreciation of Russia grew +in the rest of the world the attitude of the Vatican to it became +more somber and bitter, Catholic apologists are nothing if not bold +but I have not yet heard of one who has asked us to admire the Pope +because he was friendly to Russia when the rest of the world was +venomous and became critical only when, and in proportion as, it no +longer needed friends. We might get near the truth if we remember +that the power behind the Pope, the Secretary of State, was changed +in 1930. Pacelli, the present Pope, an aristocrat to his toenails, +then became the dictator at the Vatican, for the Pope was very old +and feeble. We might remember, too, that Pacelli entered, at the +end of 1932, into a policy of friendliness to Germans, and Germany +was pledged by its, bible, Hitler's book, to make war sooner or +later on Russia.

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When precisely the Vatican began to snarl at Russia it is +difficult to determine. The Encyclical Quadrazesimo anno of May 15, +1931 makes the earliest reference that I find, and the hand of +Pacelli in that vapid manifesto is clear. It is a recommendation of +the Corporative State to all Catholic countries; in fact, to the +whole world, as the Pope ingenuously remarks that the truth on even +the social and economic order can come only from Rome. How +journalists ever stoop to praise these Papal utterances on Social +questions puzzles me. They are like the ideas of a Baptist preacher +in Tennessee blinded with those of Thomas Aquinas and almost lost +in a jelly of Latin verbiage. There is, as I have already +explained, no English translation of this Encyclical, because it

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approves -- indeed imposes -- such restrictions on capitalism and +private enterprise as are provided in Mussolini's Corporative +State, which industrialists in America who are assured by Catholic +writers that their "freedom of the individual is thoroughly +Catholic, detest almost as much as Socialism.

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The Pope tells the world, with quite an air of profundity and +originality, that Socialism has split into moderate Socialism and +Communism. As we saw, and it may be convenient to repeat, he +answers the question, on which, he says, Rome has often been +consulted, whether a Catholic can be a Socialist by saying that +"Socialism, as long as it remains real Socialism . . . cannot be +reconciled with the teaching of the Catholic Church." He insists +that "religious Socialism or Christian Socialism is a contradiction +in terms," and he winds up by saying that "no genuine Socialist can +be a good Catholic." That is another reason why the Encyclical is +not translated into English. It might prevent Catholic writers for +the workers from continuing to say, as they do, that the Church has +never condemned Socialism; while Catholic writer's for the wealthy, +like Ryan, tell them that the Church regards any attack on private +ownership as a sin.

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However, the Pope is still more drastic when he passes on to +Communism. It is too "impious" to consider. When it gets power it +shrinks from nothing "however atrocious and inhuman." As Russia was +the only country in which it had power this was pointed enough, but +the Pope goes on to speak of "the massacres (strange) and ruin it +has brought upon Eastern Europe and Asia." There may be earlier +pronouncements on Russian atrocities for all I know but this is ten +years old. A Jesuit writer quotes from the British Communist Daily +Worker an account of a meeting in the offices of that paper on +December 30, 1932 which passed a valiant resolution to attack +religion "considering that the clergy of all creeds and +denominations are, with religion as their pretext, following the +lead of the Pope in his call for a crusade against the U.S.S.R." +They resolved:

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". . . to organize an unflinching resistance to every variety of +religious attack . . . to vindicate the policy of the U.S.S.R. in +regard to religion and the Churches against all and every attack . +. . to urge the complete separation of Church and State and the +complete exclusion of religion from the school," and so on.

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Communists must feel like biting the carpet when they reflect +how they abandoned that attitude. A few years later, when I was +writing my Militant Atheist -- perhaps the most congenial work I +ever did -- a member of the staff of the Daily Worker asked me to +call at the office, making a definite appointment, to see him as he +edited a column of the Dally Worker with that title and would like +to cooperate. I called -- and saw none but the editors who +explained that they had changed their policy and no longer thought +it of any importance to attack the Churches.

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It was a mistake even of Moscow to drop the criticism of +religion while adhering slavishly to everything else that Marx had +said. American and British Communists, on whom they relied for +information, told them that the bitter hostility to them would

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cease if they quit criticizing religion. One or two influential +cleric's like the Dean of Canterbury had taken to patronizing +Russia, and publishers (skeptics) who felt that Rationalism checked +trade added their persuasion. In May 1938 the Communist +International published in England for America and Britain, had an +article which would, if there were any truth in superstition, have +made Marx turn in his grave. I am quoting the Jesuit Ryder at the +Cambridge Summer School of Russian Studies in 1938. The article, +headed "The Revolutionary Proletariat and the Catholic Masses," +recommends the policy of conciliating Catholics and Protestants. +The Soviet Union, it claimed, was "realizing the ideals of +Christianity," and Communists must "not ignore the more than +400000000 Catholics of the world"; which is 50000000 more than +the more optimistic Catholics claim and double the true figure. The +writer poured scorn on "the Left phrasemongers" who attack the +policy of "the outstretched hand" and, by a tour de force, said +that "we come forward in the defense of religion against the +Fascist persecution of believers" yet had not the least idea of +deviating from the teaching of Marx! We recognize the accents of +the American and British Communists, who were at that time offering +cooperation to the Catholic Church. Now there is "a smile on the +face of the tiger." The blood of Communists reddens the earth in +Catholic Austria, Slovakia, Croatia, Spain, Portugal, Vichy France, +Italy, Brazil, Peru, etc. etc.

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In so far as Moscow was involved in this change of policy, +chiefly owing to false information from Britain and America, we +have an extraordinary situation. The change was carried out just at +the time when the Vatican was inflaming Catholic sentiment against +Russia all over the world and beginning to call for war upon +Russia; and the change brought about no modification whatever of +the world-cry of "persecution of religion in Russia." What moved +the papacy to enter upon this more bitter and more dangerous +campaign? I say more dangerous because it would be difficult to +exaggerate the profit to the Axis of this Papal preaching of hatred +of Russia in every Catholic land and amongst the Catholics of all +countries.

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The reasons given by the Vatican, as in the above Encyclical, +are puerile. In speaking of the "massacres" -- it is interesting +that in his Latin text Pacelli uses just the word which the Pope +put on his gold medal of triumph at the time of the St. Bartholomew +Massacre -- which the Bolsheviks committed he endorses the wild +legends and lies which I have disproved from Catholic writers. As +to their having brought "ruin" upon the land, the Pope, granting +him sincerity, seems to have been as crudely ignorant of Russian +affairs as a nun in a Quebec convent. By 1931 the Bolsheviks had +saved Russia from the real ruin which the White War (zealously +supported by the two Churches) had brought upon Russia and were +rapidly restoring prosperity and creating one of the finest +educational and social services in the world.

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His attacks in 1936 and his broadcasts to Spain in 1939 -- in +fact, all his characterizations of Bolshevism in his appeals for +war from 1935 onward -- are just as childish. I quoted elsewhere +the address of Pius XI to Spanish refugees in 1936, in, which he +plainly invited the destruction of Bolshevism "from Russia to +China, from Mexico to South America." The reference to South

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America is cool, as Pacelli, who clearly wrote the address, had +just got Communism violently destroyed in nearly every republic. +But the whole diatribe is fatuous. Everywhere, the Pope says, there +is "a satanic preparation" for the work of "subverting established +orders of every kind" and "attacking every institution, human and +divine." At that very time, philosophers like Professor Dewey, +Liberal individualists like Sir Ernest Simon (brother of Sir John +Simon), and a few clerics like the Dean of Canterbury were +describing to the public how Russia was creating a new social order +which in its care for children, women, and the mass of the people, +had no equal in history.

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We may make allowance for the real ignorance of Pacelli and +the Vatican. They never even try to get accurate information about +movements or bodies which are offensive to them on religious +grounds. They see everything through a red haze of professional +piety. But there is deliberate policy behind it all. By 1935 Japan +had got the innocent western powers to support Chiang Kai-shek in +his costly campaign to crush Communism in China and smooth the way +for Japan itself. Hitler and Mussolini were wondering how they +could get the same powers to overlook their proposed intervention +in Spain. Hitler was repeating in public speeches that the noble +German race must have the Ukraine. Wall Street wanted a good +pretext for stirring the country to attack Mexico. Labor and +Socialist movements everywhere were to be encouraged in their +tragic policy of attacking and disowning Communists so as to +prevent the formation of a Popular Front until it was too late. +This sacred fury against Bolshevism was one of the Vatican's +greatest contributions to the preparation of the world for the +onslaught of barbarism.

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But, you may ask, is it possible that the Pope, the Black +International which forced his slogan upon the Catholic masses +(which do not read encyclical's) in every country, and the Catholic +press which made "the extinction of Bolshevism" as familiar to +Catholics as "Heil Hitler" is to Germans and ... "Mussolini solo" +to Italians, realized what they were doing?

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You can analyze that for yourself. There is, of course, no +documentary evidence beyond the very plain evidence that the Papacy +blessed the rebellion and the intervention of Italy and Germany in +Spain and just as plainly wanted war on Russia. It must seem +equally certain to anyone who knows the ecclesiastical mind that +the Vatican and the Black International in America wanted war for +the annexation of Mexico. The Knights of Columbus, who may be +considered unconsecrated members of the Black International, made +open offers of alliance with Wall Street and called for +intervention in Mexico. Whether the Pope and the unscrupulous +Italian branch of the Black International knew in advance of the +war upon the western democracies we have considered in other +booklets. As I there said, so objective a review as the Annual +Record gives it as commonly received information, that Ribbentrop +told the Pope in April that the Germans would be in Paris in June +and in London in August. As to the main body of Catholics who +chanted the anti-Bolshevik slogan, they were probably as hazy about +what they meant as the average German is about the pure Aryan +sharing the world with a race of Mongolian-Malayan mongrels.

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One of the most ironic features of it all, if there is any +room for irony in considering the colossal tragedy, is that Russia, +the irreligion of which is blamed by the Vatican for all the +world's troubles, is more religious than Great Britain or than +France was before Vichy.

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The question how many of the people of Russia are still +religious has been raised innumerable times, and it has invariably +been answered with all the slovenliness and inconsistency that are +characteristic of such discussions. Generally the writers spoke of +"atheistic Russia" as if it were a phenomenally irreligious +country, but when they recollected that religion was supposed to be +indestructible or when the plain evidence (which we have seen) that +there is no persecution of religion and any few dozen men and women +can get a building from the government for worship was produced the +writers gave us pictures of crowds packing the churches on +festivals. As long as there was some dead cat to fling at Russia -- +like the common misrepresentation of the trials, and executions of +leading Russians for treason -- we were reminded that the governing +body is solidly atheistic, and when some reputable author testified +that the social service is the most generous and most humane in the +world we were told Russia is still far more religious than is +commonly supposed.

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On one point there is no controversy. The officials, from +those in the smallest town to Stalin, are all Atheists. The +Communist party governs Russia -- hence the stupidity of calling +Stalin a dictator like Hitler and Mussolini -- and all its members +are Atheists. These officials determine the form and institutions +of the state. The mass of the people produce the wealth, of course, +and in that sense create the state, but these atheist officials +direct the distribution of it and are responsible for all social +legislation. They have given a form to the state which now elicits +the admiration of writers of every class. They have lifted the +average Russian character high above the level at which it was in +the religious Tsarist days, -- when atheism was confined to a +relatively small minority, with no influence on the state, in the +cities. This unquestionable truth is one of the chief reasons why +the clergy hate or fear it, and why the worst discredited libels of +it are still in circulation. Russia -- the creative part of Russia +-- has not merely disproved the common claim that a state decays +when atheism spreads. It has shown that the reality is the exact +opposite.

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The question what proportion of the mass of the people are +still Christians is, therefore, of no importance, but you will find +it amusing to assure your neighbor whose idea of Russia is taken +from the press that it is much more religious than Great Britain. +The Church of England a few year's ago appointed a committee to +inquire carefully how many people in England go to church or are in +any definite sense Christians. They reported, and the leaders of +other Churches agreed: 10 percent in London and 20 percent in the +rest of England. This -- a total of 8000000 or 9000000 in +42000000 -- fairly agrees with the statistic's of membership +annually published by the Churches, and these are always +optimistic. There is evidence that the Churches put the figure of +churchgoers too high but let us accept them here. Between three-

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fourths and four-fifths of the people of Great Britain are not +Christians. It was the same in France, and Vichy has made only a +superficial compulsory change. In America the Churches claim 55 +percent of the people, but we know what these claims are worth. +Allowing for the Bible Belt and the greater wealth and business +organizations of the Churches in America we should expect a higher +proportion of churchgoers: say, two-thirds of the total population.

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It follows that Russia is, on the best available estimates, as +religious as the United States and much more religious than Great +Britain or France! The best gauge is Yaroslavsky, the able and +accomplished leader of the Atheist League. He has several times +estimated that about one-third of the people in the Soviet Union +are still Christians. The Jesuit Ryder, speaking at the Cambridge +Summer School of Russian States, said, that this mean's 30000000 +and is a ridiculous under-estimate. It is his jesuitical arithmetic +that is ridiculous. One-third of the population means nearly +60000000. But notice what follows. If you call Yaroslavsky's +estimate too small you must mean that more than a third are still +Christians, or a far higher proportion than in Great Britain and +France, and probably America. On any estimate Russia is more +religious than Great Britain. Now that it is smashing Germany the +clergy begin to say: We always thought so.

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Maisky, addressing the American Chamber of Commerce in London +on September 23, 1941, gave some figures which seem at first sight +to show that Yaroslavsky greatly over-estimated instead of under-estimating the number of believer's. He quoted an official +statement that on June 1, 1941, there were 8338 churches, mosques, +and synagogues in the Union, and 30000 registered religious +societies (or, as we should say, parishes) of 20 or more person's. +But there must be here a serious misprint as to the number of +churches. Considering that there are about 10000000 Jews and +Romanists and 14000000 Moslem in the Soviet Union besides members +of the Orthodox Church the error is apparent. Great Britain has +more than 40000 churches and chapels to less than 10000000 +churchgoers. America has 200000 religious organizations (organized +units or parishes) to less than 50000000 church-goers. If the +figure of 8000 churches, mostly in villages, in Russia were +correct we should have to allow more than 7000 worshipers to a +church to make even 60000000. As I have no access to the Soviet +official announcement (on August 15, 1941) I have to leave the +matter open, but we may reflect that if the figure of 30000 +parishes is correct it suggests less than 60000000 worshipers.

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We do better to follow the estimate of Yaroslavsky, who has no +interest in exaggerating the number of churchgoers, and we may +reflect that the change from the solid orthodoxy of the +overwhelming mass of the people less than thirty years ago means +that Atheism spread more rapidly between 1920 and 1940 than any +religion in history ever spread in 100 years; indeed forty or fifty +times as rapidly as Christianity spread in the first 250 years of +its career. We might also invite the attention of some of our +modern skeptics to the fact that it was mainly effected by pointing +out the absurdity of the current belief and the monstrous history +of the Orthodox Black International. Their is no religious revival +in recent years but there is evidence that suggests that the

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extraordinarily rapid progress of Atheism has been slowed. This is +in part due to the fact that education has won nearly all but the +hard core of stubborn old folk -- though it is remarkable how +thousands of villages including nearly all their old folk quit the +Church and demanded that the chapel be converted into a library or +debating club -- and in part to the clergy of what calls itself the +New Church and turns the older Christian teaching inside out. It +is, however, clear that the discouragement by the government of the +methods of the Atheist League, which made a very extensive use of +ridicule and direct satirical attack, has retarded the spread of +Atheism.

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One would like to draw the attention of those very superior +Rationalists of our day who say that ridicule of religion "defeats +its own end" to this phenomenal success of such methods during 10 +or 15 years. The Russian Atheists did not, of course, fail to +follow up their first direct assault on religious belief with solid +scientific and historical information. The cultural change in +Russia is not less remarkable than the economic. The gross general +ignorance and illiteracy of Tsarist Russia was many shades worse by +1923, after four years of war and famine. Yet by 1936 the country +had 164081 schools besides 1797 factory schools, 2572 technical +schools, 716 workers colleges, 595 higher schools and universities, +and 794 institutions for scientific research. More than 10000 +newspapers and 2100 magazines (700000000 copies) circulated. In +1935 the output of books was 42700, and the 53380 free libraries, +largely in villages, contained more than 100000000 books. Upon +this vast and finely selected literature the Atheist propagandist +drew, and he was welcomed in the 71770 clubs (57700 in the +villages) where the favorite entertainment was a serious debate. As +the government adheres to its law that religious doctrines shall +not be taught to children, who must be left to consider religion +when they have at least a moderate capacity to see through fallacy +and resent mere dogmatism, the young generation has for the far +greater part definitely abandoned religion. A very short account of +the cultural as well as economic development will be found in my +booklet Economic Gains of the Soviet Union (1937) in the A B C +Library of Living Knowledge.

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This is what the Pope calls destroying the very foundation's +of the social order: this is one line of the real program of +national life which our press until Russia became our ally +habitually coupled with the gross greed-programs of Germany, Italy, +and Japan as "the four totalitarian powers." Russia never received +and never sought to gain a single rouble by the labor of the people +outside its own Soviet Union, but there were few papers in the +world which, until we so urgently needed its help, did not class it +with the three powers which openly boasted they were going to +dominate and exploit most of the earth. Russia gave better +conditions to women (see Prof. Susan W. Kingsbury and Prof Mildred +Fairchild's Factory, Family, and Women in the Soviet Union, 1935) +than any other nation, while Germany and Italy, and the Pope's new +subjects states told woman to sacrifice all their hard-won rights +and confine themselves to cooking and bearing future soldiers. +Russia gave more sympathetic conditions to children (see Playtime +in Russia by Ethel Manning and others, 1935) than any other +country, allowing no distinction of class, giving all a two-month

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vacation with entertainments or tours provided every summer, and +providing special theaters (three in Moscow) and parks (26 in +Moscow) for them; while Germany and Italy brutalized their lives +and minds with militarism. Russia encouraged the mass of the +workers to enjoy art as no other country did, while in Germany and +Italy art was starved and all culture debased.

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This was the civilization which the Pope taught the Catholics +of the world to curse and demand war against, and the more it shed +the imperfections due to its recent rise from chaos, the more it +won recognition for its splendid social ideals, the more bitterly +he attacked it, and the more stridently the Black International +broadcast his sentiments in every land. Is the complete collapse of +his Church in Russia enough to explain this? Is his failure to get +the billions of dollars and millions of members of the Orthodox +Church, the explanation? No, he hates Russia because it was showing +the world that you could not merely build a civilization without +priests but you could build a far finer, juster, more peaceful and +more humane civilization. He hate's Russia because from it there +spread, as far as China and Indo-China in the east and as far as +Peru and Chile in the west, that formidable Wave of Atheism which +I described in the second booklet of this series: because it was in +Roman Catholic countries particularly that it was effective since +Papal doctrine and history were as vulnerable as those of Orthodox +Russia.

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Some may say that a churchman, if his creed is sincere and +deeply felt, is bound to regard a spread of Atheism as a great evil +and may be understood even when he thinks war to prevent the spread +a lesser evil. There is no need for a profane person like myself to +discuss that question or to try to determine whether the Pope +really believes (as half the clergy do not) and deeply feels the +peculiar teaching of his Church about man and his destiny. We ask +a simple question: Why didn't he say so? Why need he give as the +pretext for his demand of war upon Russia every lie about Bolshevik +atrocities and persecution of religion that was current in +capitalist literature? Why did he assure the millions of ignorant +Catholics whom he wanted to inflame that the Bolsheviks were out to +destroy the moral and social order, to advocate cruelty and +violence, when it was easy for any man, to say nothing of a +billion-dollar international organization, to find out that Russia, +with its magnificent and complete resources, had no more reason for +war than the United States and was building a far finer social +order than that of the United States? And remember that we are not +here dealing with the Pope alone. We are considering the action of +a world-wide Black International that is saturated with skepticism +and hypocrisy and keener on dollars than harps.

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That is answer enough for most people but (we may go further. +We moderns -- by which I mean the majority of the men and women who +live in the cities of the world and have shed the limitations of +village-life -- will not have our affairs ruled or dictated by men, +however sincere they may be, who act on the myth that there is +another world that is far more important to men than this in which +we find ourselves. Whatever be the truth about religion this life +and the control of this life are secularized, We turn aside from +nothing fair and pleasant that it offers us because some of our

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less-instructed neighbors think they see flames of hell reflected +from below the horizon or discern ghostly battlements of some weird +sort of heaven high above. And the clergy so far know this that +they plead that Atheism injures us in this life. We are always open +to argument but we resent lies. The clerical case for hatred of +Russia on human grounds is based upon a mass of demonstrable lies. +Its real basis is, as ever, the primary aim of the Black +International: wealth and power.

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Chapter IV

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HITLER'S MAGNIFICENT BLUNDER

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In September 1934 it was proposed to admit Soviet Russia to +the League of Nations. Nazi Germany, with Mein Kampf (the brigand's +guide) for its standard, had been retained in it. Japan had not +been expelled for its sordid violation of the League's principles. +Italy was an honored member although it made no secret of its +glorification of war and aggression. But the proposal to admit +Russia horrified and brought a shower of insults from the +representatives of various nations; and these outraged folk were +subjects of the Pope, and the Vatican warmly approved their +conduct.

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The attack on Russia was led by the Swiss Motta, a +representative of the nation that has always been loudest in praise +of peace -- which is very profitable at Geneva -- and is now making +much wealth by manufacturing the more delicate mechanisms of German +planes, tanks, and submarines and selling food to Germany while its +neighbors starve. At that time, perhaps, not even a member of the +middle-class that rules or misrules the Swiss would have made this +disgraceful attack on a progressive and peace-loving civilization +that could have taught Switzerland a higher idealism but Motta, +from the small Italian part of the country, was a zealous Catholic; +and that he acted for the Church is shown by the Vatican comment on +his vituperative speech in the Osservatore Romano (quoted with +approval in the British Catholic Universe, October 5, 1934):

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"Mr. Motta faced the problem of the admission of Russia with +a clarity of vision, a nobility of sentiment, and a rectitude of +Christian and civil conscience that finds a profound echo in the +hearts of all, for whom justice and right are still the unshakable +bases of civil society."

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Nobility of sentiment! The man was striking the first note of +that Hymn of Hate which the Vatican would soon urge upon Catholics +everywhere; the stupid chant that was to prevent, or help to +prevent, a cordial world-alliance against the bandits when the +crisis came, the chant that was pleasant music in the ears of +Hitler, Mussolini, and Matsuoka. The Vatican organ rejoiced that +ten states at Geneva opposed the admission of Russia or pointedly +abstained from voting for it, and we see Catholic influence in the +whole group. Holland voted against, and the press recorded that +this was due to Catholic influence in the cabinet. De Valera's +representative and Schuschnigg of Austria attacked Russia as +virulently as Motta but did not vote.

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Two months before this Nazi Germany had shocked the world with +the mass-murder of prominent men, including Catholics, which is +called the Blood Purge. Did any Catholic orator or power, or the +Vatican, call it to account at the tribunal of civilization? Oh, +no; just then the Vatican was trying hard to persuade Hitler to +observe the Concordat and Catholic German bishops were flattering +him to his teeth. Two months after the Geneva meeting Japan, +probably encouraged by this outburst, threatened Russia, and there +was talk of war. What did Catholics say to that? Here is a +specimen, from the Catholic Times, November 3, 1934:

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"The Japanese are not anti-God. They have brought freedom from +persecution to our missionaries in Manchuria and adjacent parts of +China. They have consented to their settlers in Brazil being +instructed in the Catholic faith, and, while they dream of +influencing the world by the spread of Buddhism, they give freedom +of worship to their own Catholic nationals. In the event of a war +between Japan and Russia Catholics would sympathize with Japan, at +least in so far as religion is concerned, so let us beware of an +Anglo-American bloc against Japan involving us on the side of +Russia."

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There you have the pure Papal note, the accents of the Vatican +oracle Japan is "not anti-God" -- as a matter of fact, its ruling +class is almost as solidly Atheistic as the Russian -- while Russia +is, and Japan has made small concession's in the interest of the +Roman Church. So defend Japan and libel Russia in the Catholic +press of all lands. In that very year, 1934, Upton Close (J.W. +Hall) plainly exposed to America in his Challenge, with full +documentary evidence, that Japan was conquest-mad and had removed +the last shred of disguise from its greedy plan to monopolize +Eastern Asia and drive out all Christians, particularly Americans. +And because it hypocritically made promises to the Pope, Catholics +must be used as its agents in Britain and America to obscure the +mind of those countries in regard to its aims and divert them into +hatred of Russia.

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A few months later the same Catholic press went further in its +deadly work (Catholic Times, April, 1935):

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"Disarmament is dead . . . We can, nevertheless, have thirty +years' peace in Western Europe if France, Germany, Italy, and Great +Britain concentrate on Western Europe and its needs. We cannot have +agreement about Russia, since Germany has lifted the veil which +hides her ambitions. She wants the Ukraine. Few Catholics in this +country will approve a war against Russia, bad as her record is, +but fewer still will be happy if our alliances draw us into a war +in defense of the Godless. Russia must safeguard her own interests. +We are not concerned to uphold her. The wretched Franco-German +quarrel can be composed if France is willing to leave Russia to her +devices. If France insists on allying herself with the Soviet, she +should be told that Great Britain will have no part with her ... We +must choose between two evils, and Russia's possible loss of the +Ukraine is a much less evil than war-fires all over Europe, whilst +many would say that the undoing of Godless Sovietism is no evil at +all."

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As the British National Newspaper Library, the finest in +Europe, has been bombed and burned out of existence by the Germans, +I cannot verify the three quotations I have just given. I take them +from miss E. Moore's No Friend of Democracy (1941) and I know the +author as a very careful and conscientious student of these +matters.

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This passage is a typical specimen of the slavery of the +Catholic press to the Vatican and its Policy of judging all +international events from the single viewpoint of the interest of +the Church while professing to consult the interest of the race. +The statement that few Catholic will approve of war against Russia +might seem to be written in defiance of the Pope's demand for a +crusade against that country, but the paper itself repeatedly +echoed the cry for "the extinction of Bolshevism," and the last +words of the above passage are plain enough. Not "many" but all +Catholics, as the writer knew, would rejoice at "the undoing of +Godless Sovietism." Notice, incidentally how carefully these +Catholic writers avoid the word Socialism. They know that large +numbers of Irish workers in Britain -- these workers of Irish birth +or descent are the main body of "English" Romanism -- belong to the +Labor Party, and this in rare moments of courage calls itself +Socialist.

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But the chief point is that this interpreter of Papal wishes +to the people of England emphatically advocates a national policy +which would be very acceptable to Hitler and was, in so far as it +was followed by Chamberlain and Halifax, most disastrous to Europe. +Russia was the one great European power that sincerely proposed +general disarmament. When its appeal was unheeded it was the one +power that began to devote a colossal part of its national +resources, which were very badly needed for social reconstruction +and education, to preparation for war. Thus in 1936, when British +statesmen were beginning to doubt the Baldwin policy of do-nothing, +Great Britain spent less than a fourth of its budget-revenue on +armaments and the United States one-tenth. But Soviet Russia set +aside one-fifth (20 billion out of 100 billion rubles) of its total +annual income -- for in that country the government-revenue +represents practically the whole of the wealth produced -- to +defense-measures, and it increased the sum every year until nearly +a third of the entire wealth produced in the country was devoted to +preparing for the barbarous and clearly-foreseen onslaught of +Nazism.

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What an ally Russia would have been from 1936 onward, and what +a different course of events in Europe might have followed! It must +be left to the historians of the future to say if a sincere and +dynamic alliance of Russia, Britain, France Czecho-Slovakia, and +Poland would not have intimidated Germany and Italy from that +piecemeal aggressive program upon which they entered. To me it +seems certain. But the Vatican and the Black International and the +Catholic press in every country did all in their power to prevent +it. Had the United States realized that Japan was one of the bandit +powers -- had the press freely and fully informed the people of the +open boast of Japanese politicians, military and naval men, and +editors, and told how highly colored models of the destruction of +the American fleet were exhibited to the public in Japanese cities

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five or six years ago -- and joined the alliance, not in the +interest of Europe but its own interest, it probably never would +have known the vile treachery it has now experienced, for the +people themselves would have demanded adequate armament. But the +Vatican, the whole Roman Church, was opposed. There must be no +alliance with Bolshevism.

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Could there be a more terrible demonstration of the evil of +the sacerdotal viewpoint, the folly of listening to the Black +International on human affairs? At that time, 1936, the leading +powers were stirring from their criminal lethargy and beginning to +expand their armament-budgets. The League of Nations published a +statement that the world spent about $5000000006 in that year on +armament, I have shown (What War and Militarism Cost) that it spent +something like $15000000000, and one-third of this sum was, +according to the best experts, spent by Germany. What Japan and +Italy spent we do not know. No one trusts their figures. And the +two richest powers in the world, the two at which the great +conspiracy was chiefly aimed, America and Britain, spent (together) +one half the sum that Germany did. Russia alone spent something +like the sum that Germany did, though unlike Germany and Italy, it +did not starve or suppress its social services to find the money +but maintained and developed them.

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What guidance did the Papacy and its local agents give the +world? It bleated biennially about peace and between Christmas and +Easter cried for war on Communism in China, Spain, Mexico, and +Russia, above all Russia. It maintained its diplomatic alliance +with Germany, Italy, and Japan but spat poison whenever Russia was +mentioned. Its hierarchy flattered the ruler's of the three +aggressive, fully treacherous, and debauched bandit-states and told +the British and French people that they would have "thirty years +peace" if they would continue to outlaw Russia and trust Germany, +Italy, and Japan! What hilarious scenes there must have been behind +closed doors in Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo!

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Russia patiently, perhaps cynically, bore the hostility which +the Catholic Church and other interests fostered against it. It is +needless for me to observe that the Vatican was not the only +libellous enemy of Russia, but its share in the conspiracy is, on +account of its claim of lofty and disinterested idealism, in an +entirely different category from the share of bankers, +industrialists, and politicians. I am, however, not concerned with +finding adjectives to hurl at the Church of Rome. I am content to +establish facts. And if it is not a fact that Rome contributed +mightily until 1941 to that contempt and ostracism of Russia which +rendered vast service to the Axis and did incalculable harm to the +race we may as well doubt that the earth is a globe.

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So persistent and emphatic was this teaching of the Vatican, +especially during the fateful six or seven years before 1941, that +the Catholic world was paralyzed when at length Hitler made his +splendid blunder and attacked Russia. Less than a year earlier the +Papal Hymn of Hate had been more strident than ever. There were +many of us who, imperfectly informed by the press, felt our +admiration of Russia chilled when it seized part of Finland and the +little Baltic states. But we did not use the vituperative language

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of the Pope's organ, the Osservatore Romano, the paper that had not +said a word about outrages like those in China, Abyssinia, Albania, +Czecho-Slovakia, Norway, Denmark, Yugo-Slavia, Greece, and, even +Belgium and France, for which even a liar could not plead, as we +now see Russia could truthfully plead, an essential piece of +defense against an openly-declared aggressor. The Vatican, in its +paper, not only completely ignored Russia's reasons but wallowed in +irony and invective as if this were the first aggression in modern +Europe.

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There is an amusing Paragraph in Stephen Graham's News Letter +(1940) reproducing the language of the Osservatore when the Russian +troops took back the Ukrainian and White Russian provinces. The +Papal organ shuddered to recall the atrocities committed by the +Russian troops in 1918. The soldiers were then Orthodox Catholics +almost to a man, and the Osservatore trembles to think what will +happen now that they are Atheists. And in the next paragraph +Stephen Graham, a strict member of the Church of England, gives +this report of an Englishman who Saw the Russian troops enter +Asthenia:

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"The fears proved to be groundless. The discipline is +extremely severe, and cases are known when soldiers were shot by +the political commissars for the slightest breach of discipline."

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The religious mind is weird and wonderful. Stephen Graham +actually goes on to reflect that this contrast of 1918 and 1940 +suggests that "the atheist soldiers of 1918" were now extinct and +the Russians were generally Christians! Not for a moment do I +suggest that atheist soldiers never commit outrages, but what are +we to think of a Papal newspaper that sheds tears over the +fictitious outrage's of atheist soldiers -- I earlier quoted the +Vatican radio (January 22, 1940) bemoaning the "infamy of all +kinds" perpetrated by the Russian troops in Poland and has not a +word to say when we get positive Proof that the German soldiers +perpetrated real infamies and savagery in Russia?

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Here again it is not a question of the Pope or the Vatican +alone. The Black International everywhere repeated the cry of +Russian atrocities (made in Germany). In an address by Cardinal +Hinsely published recently in a work titled The Bond of Peace we +read of his "deep indignation" at "the enslavement of more than +eleven million inhabitants of the Polish state by Soviet Russia." +He talks of a "treacherous attack from behind" and the "Bolshevist +horror," and says that these "Poles," as he calls them, are +"reliably reported to be suffering from those persecutions which +had made our generation the era of unparalleled martyrdom." Perhaps +we should not expect a cardinal, even if he does pose as an oracle +on world-affairs, to know that Ukrainians and White Russians are +not Poles, but is he really ignorant that the "unparalleled +martyrdom" that these millions, of members of the Orthodox Church +suffered was inflicted by the Catholic Poles, had been going on for +20 years, and was at once stopped by the Russians?

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Now, as I have earlier quoted, there are signs of a most +brazen repudiation of the Hymn of Hate which the Papacy has had the +Catholic world chant from Montreal to Syria for the last six or +seven years. Catholics boast that they are in a better position

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than Protestants in that they have one clear authoritative, +unwavering voice to guide them. It sounds like a dictatorship of +the Hitler sort. The truth is, however, that Rome speaks to them in +five or six different voices, and one can blandly repudiate the +other when it goes wrong. The only thing which they cannot +repudiate is the infallible or ex cathedra utterances of the Pope +-- but he never makes any. The Pope has several voices -- in +conversations, addresses, sermons, allocations, encyclicals, etc. +Then he has, in the second line a daily paper and a radio. In the +third line he has prelates and Catholic ambassadors, agents, etc., +who can repeat conversations with him. On this third line we now +have Myron C. Taylor whispering that the Pope always recognized in +private a vast distinction between the naughtiness of the Nazis and +that of the Bolsheviks. Nazi wickedness is foul and unspeakable -- +though he never cared to say so. Bolshevik wickedness is just +virtue without a Catholic foundation -- though he has a hundred +times called it foul and unspeakable.

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The latest audacity attributed to Mr. Taylor, solemnly cabled +to a London daily by its American correspondent, is this gem:

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"The general belief here is that important Washington-Vatican-London-Moscow negotiations are in progress and that they are +directed towards the consolidation of the Christian front against +Nazism throughout the world."

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If we allow the Church of Rome to put over a maneuver of that +kind after its ten years of monstrous libel and vituperation of +Russia we have learned nothing by the terrible experience through +which we are passing. The Papacy could not hope to have any success +with it if it did not believe that we still have, unchanged, the +mentality with which we indolently contemplated the greediest and +most unscrupulous bandits of all time equipping themselves to loot +the world. There is no change in Russia. It is as atheistic as +ever. The change is in its critics. They have been compelled to +acknowledge that out of the horrible miseducated Tsarist Russia, +further demoralized by six years of war and two of terrible famine +and disease, the "Godless Bolsheviks," as the Catholic press still +called them only six month's ago, have created the greatest +civilization of our time; that the magnificent spirit of the +atheistic Russian people is in as stark a contrast as is +conceivable to the cowardice, evasiveness, tortuousness, and self-seeking of the Black International that poisoned the world against +them.

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FASCIST ROMANISM DEFIES CIVILIZATION

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HOW THE POPE KEEPS TO THE PLOT +WHILE THE WORLD CURSES IT

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by Joseph McCabe

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CHAPTER +I Guilty or Not Guilty .............. 1

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II Will Catholics Disown the Pope .......... 9

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III Restoring the Corpse of the Middle Ages ...... 14

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IV The Church in Democratic Countries ........... 21

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V The Catholic Defence ............. 26

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Chapter I

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GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY?

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We are living in the second most catastrophic period that the +race has suffered in the last 3000 years. It was then, three +millennia ago, slowly emerging from the ruin which the pioneers of +"the noble Aryan race" had wrought at their first contact with +civilization, and with the successive rise of the Phoenicians, the +Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans it was marching to the peak of +the ancient world. There were, too, very notable resurrections of +civilization in India and China. By the end of the 5th Century they +were all ruined and the race from rim to rim of the known world was +almost back in barbarism. We cannot compare our age with that awful +beginning of the Dark Age, but since then not one of the tragedies +that have cast their shadow upon a large area of the earth +approaches in magnitude of evil and volume of suffering the world-wide degradation of our time. The Black Death, it is true, caused +more deaths and more suffering, but that was one of the calamities +which old legal language ingenuously attributed; to "the Act of +God."

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Many will look round them in the cities in which they live and +wonder if my statement can possibly be true. Do we see reflected on +the faces and in the lives of the great majority such gloom as this +implies I live in a city which has felt the rain of death as no +great city ever did before -- have lived and worked in it through +all the hellish days and nights, never ever taking shelter -- yet +when I look round or read my daily paper I must smile at my own +statement, true as it is. The other day an auctioneer advertised +$200000 worth of wine and spirits at one sale. I heard a penniless +refugee of a year ago boasting of the costly shows she saw weekly +and the $500 fur-coat she was buying. Lines of folk a hundred yards +long wait to be admitted to see a good picture. Night-clubs and +bottle-clubs flourish, I am told, as never before, and only today, +when I took my daily five-mile walk, women appealed to me to +contribute to the fund to help "the poor Russians" . . .

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Yet I repeat, and with the history of the world before my +mind's eye, this is the most dreadful age into which the race has +passed since the ruin of the Greek-Roman civilization. How many +people are at war -- and a war of giants -- today? About +850000000 on any count; and if you include India, as part of the +British Empire, and the Spanish American Republics which have at +least declared war, and the countries that are held back from war +only by the lash and gibbet of the conqueror, and the countless +which give all the help they can to the aggressive nations but call +themselves neutral, something like 1400000000 or three-fourths +of the race. You might almost say that the only people who are not +involved in the savagery are the savages.

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The sun never looked down upon such a spectacle before.

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In the terrible period of reaction and misery, after the fall +of Rome, which I admit to be greater than ours -- greater because +far more than half of the people in the civilized area perished and +the misery went on and deepened during two centuries -- not much +more than 50000000 people were affected. Today, however many may +escape sacrifices and burdens, more than ten times that number +suffer bitterly, tens of millions of them poignantly. But there is +a more important difference, and in a sense it makes our tragedy +the blackest in the historical record.

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What happened fifteen centuries ago was that a terrible +drought had fallen upon western Asia, and in search of new pastures +mighty hoards of those diabolical horsemen the Huns invaded Europe +and forced the half civilized or wholly uncivilized Goths, Vandals, +Franks, etc. southward upon the Roman Empire. Our modern Huns and +their allies were trained in all the ideals, all the culture, of +the highest civilization. They deliberately stooped to savagery, +and they did this out of sheer greed. There have been glorified +bandits before -- the men we teach our children to admire as great +conquerors -- but this is the first time in history that a large +group of men of great ability have sat down to plot, with the +callous deliberation of master-crooks, the conquest and +exploitation of the greater part of the earth. If anybody doubts +whether that is a correct characterization of the directive group +in Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo I am not inclined to argue about it.

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The thesis of the ten booklets of which this is the last is +that these super-crooks, whose near-success will one day amaze +historians, had the cooperation and most valuable assistance of the +clergy of the Church of Rome, the Black International. That, I am +fully conscious, is an appalling charge. To readers who know the +Church of Rome only from its own literature and who may not have +read the preceding nine books, it will naturally seem a wholly +ridiculous and impossible charge. Even to those who are familiar +with my historical works and have read the mass of evidence in +these booklets will hesitate and wonder if it is not exaggerated. +For let me be distinctly understood. I do not merely mean that a +bunch of bishops here and there, fearing to run counter to the +patriotism of the people or to incur the anger of the rulers, +supported iniquity. I say that the whole Black International, from +the Pope to priests, is guilty. Naturally American Catholic bishops +censure the vile conduct of Japan and English Catholic bishops that +of Germany. What matters from the moral angle is that each country +that has committed outrages has had the full support of the +Catholic hierarchy and clergy of that country, and that the Pope or +the Vatican has been throughout in, friendly alliance with the +arch-criminals.

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So let us summarize the evidence. The first point to bear in +mind, as I explained, is the cardinal importance of the spread of +Communism and Socialism from 1918 onward, especially from 1923 to +1933. It is no use pretending that statesmen, Foreign Offices, +editors, authors, and industrial or commercial leaders were totally +unaware of the plot that Germany, Italy and Japan were preparing. +It was, except as regards its final and most monstrous form, openly +stated in widely-read literature in those countries. But these +leaders of public opinion or action were themselves so alarmed at +the spread of Communism and Socialism in nearly all countries that, +since Hitler and Mussolini promised to check the spread of the +danger, they very culpably persuaded themselves to ignore the +broader designs of those quaint St. Georges.

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In this very important respect the cooperation of the Vatican +with the aims of the Axis, by filling the public mind with lies +about Communists and recommending Fascism as a state-form, is +notorious; and the reason is just as notorious. Communism, starting +from Russia in its Militant-Atheist phase, swept far more folk out +of the Church of Rome than the Reformation had done. I have +estimated the loss of the Roman Church, mainly to Communism and +Socialism, at something more than 70000000 in 15 years and have +based that estimate on published statistics. So, after a few years +of diplomatic coquetry with the Soviet authorities, the Vatican +began to libel and assail Communism. In the Papal Encyclical of +1931 Quadragesimo Anno, it was described as a vile, degrading, and +criminal influence, and Catholics were forbidden even to adhere to +Socialism. The note became steadily more strident until it rose +above that of the bitterest anti-Communist political writer. The +foulest and trashiest libels of Russian and Spanish Communists were +endorsed, and from 1934 onward the Vatican, its voice echoing +throughout the whole Church, called for the extinction, clearly by +war, of Communism in China, Spain, Mexico, and Russia.

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I am not a Communist and will say only that that system of +ideas has as much right to present its case to the public and seek +converts as any other creed or system. But the Vatican knew what it +was doing. Under cover of a zeal against Communism and Socialism +Hitler and Mussolini and all their lesser satellites in other +countries were diverting the eyes of the world from their larger +criminal aims and the Pope enlisted his whole Church in that +strategy. The most effective means of checking those aims of +Germany, Italy, and Japan would have been a practical alliance of +the United States, Britain, and France, and the Pope and his local +black legions did everything in their power to turn the people +against the idea.

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Then, whether we consider step by step the march of infamy to +its present culminating point or examine the three bandit-powers +and their relations with the Vatican, we find the closest +cooperation of the Black International. The first step was the +annexation of Manchuria. For a moment it seemed to warn the +civilized world that its comfortable and respectable standards of +life were challenged by a new force, and there was a wide demand +for prompt and decisive action. But the guilt of Sir John Simon in +frustrating punishment in the sacred name of trade is not greater +than that of the Vatican, which ordered its representatives in +Manchuria and Japan to enter into friendly relations with the +bandits. These relations deepened until, just when Japan again +shocked, and ought to have warned, the world by seizing more of +China and fully exhibiting the treachery and foulness of its +methods, Rome exchanged ambassadors with Tokyo and stamped upon +Catholic literature everywhere a respect for Japan and a hatred of +Russia. Matsuoka, fresh from the concerting of the appalling final +plot in Berlin, was received with flowers and gold medals at the +Vatican.

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We examined the successive steps in the preparation of the +world for the destruction of freedom, decency, and justice. The one +section of the Church that mattered, the Italian hierarchy and +clergy, rapturously applauded the rape of Abyssinia, on religious +as well as patriotic grounds, and the Pope, seeing how neatly +Catholics had persuaded the world to condone his refusal to condemn +that outrage, gave the greatest gift in his power, the Church's +supreme reward of virtue, the Golden Rose, to the Italian "Empress +of Abyssinia." The spread of barbarism -- I will show presently how +that is not too strong an expression -- over Spain was the next +step in the conquest of civilization by installments. Here not only +the close cooperation of the Spanish Church but the blessings of +the enterprise by the Vatican and the support of Catholics all over +the world are commonplaces of contemporary history. It was the same +in the extension to Austria. The Catholic Dollfuss, after a visit +to Rome, treacherously destroyed "the Socialist watch-dog." The +head of the Austrian Church, Cardinal Innitzer, welcomed Hitler and +ordered his people to bow down when he marched through the gates +they had opened to him. Catholic Students prepared the way for the +first invasion of Czecho-Slovakia, which has had the courage to +expel a Papal Nuncio, and Catholic Slovak priests actually begged +Hitler to tear up his solemn promises to England and France and

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destroy the splendid little Republic. Catholics invited Mussolini +to invade Albania. Catholics betrayed Belgium and France to his +devouring hordes. Catholics rent the unity and sapped the strength +of Yugo-Slavia for him. . . .

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Thus not only did the Pope never condemn a single one of the +outrages by which the super-crooks strengthened their position -- +every word of Papal censure of Germany and Italy refers to +infringements of the rights of the Church or other religious +grievances -- but the local hierarchy applauded every act of +aggression, and even the hierarchy of the invaded country rallied +to the aggressor. There was only one exception. We saw substantial +reason to believe that the Pope knew in advance of the plot against +Poland, as he knew of the intention to invade Belgium and France. +Whether he was asked to persuade the Poles to make no resistance, +since this was an important move toward that extinction of +Bolshevism in Russia which he desired above all, we have as yet no +evidence. But even when the Polish clergy, the most profoundly +Romanist in the world, sent him word of the infamies perpetrated +upon their people by the Germans, he took the sting out of his +censure by coupling the Germans and the Russians (who had on the +contrary, every reason to be humane and generous) in the guilt for +these barbarous outrage's.

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If, on the other hand, we prefer to study the direct relations +of the Church with the aggressor-powers we shall find ourselves +impelled to use even stronger language. I have throughout spoken of +them as the Pope's allies, and the spectacle which the world +presents today gives point to the phrase. We boast daily that +almost the entire free civilized world is with us in our war upon +Japan, Germany, and Italy. No one will call Sweden, Switzerland, +and Turkey free; and of the Latin American Republics only the more +priest-ridden now refuse to speak out. But the Pope is not with us. +He is bound by treaty (Concordat) to the three powers which the +free world calls the enemies of the human race. You may object that +France, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Slovakia, Eire, and Rumania are +not with us. No; they are with the Pope. Significant, isn't it?

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I have shown in detail in what sense the Pope is an ally of +Italy and Germany. The triumph of crime in Italy, the consolidation +of the power of Mussolini, was not complete until he signed a +treaty with the Vatican and granted the Church a vast sum of money +(about $90000000) and nearly all the privileges it wanted. Until +the present Pope became Secretary of State there was still very +acrid quarrelling. There have been quarrels since -- always about +the Church's rights -- but Rome has seen the amazing sight of +Mussolini kneeling for the Pope's blessing and the Pope crossing +Rome (after Italy's treachery in regard to Yugo-Slavia) to exchange +greetings with the king and queen. What is more, whether you can in +any country in the world relieve the Pope of blame for what his +bishops in that country do -- a point we will examine presently -- +you certainly cannot in the case of Italy. Yet the Italian +hierarchy has without exception blessed everything that Italy has +done in the colossal attempt to enslave the world to a brutal +standard of life, from the lying pretexts for the invasion of +Abyssinia to that repulsive scene, which I described, of Italy +entertaining the Greek minister's while its troops burst across the +frontier.

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Worst of all is the case of Germany. Whether or no Hitler +would in time have attained power without the assistance of the +Church he did in fact attain it with the help of the Pope. In +giving the ample evidence of this I mention with reserve the charge +of Fritz Thyssen, the industrialist who financed the Nazis, and a +Roman Catholic, that -- in the words of the title for an article he +wrote in the Arbeiterzeitung -- "Pius XII, when Nuncio, carried +Hitler to power." My attention has since been called to the fact +that Cavalcade (September 28, 1940) gave the gist of the article +and there is no reason to doubt it. It seems that the Nazis deluded +Pacelli into thinking that they were going, not only to exterminate +the Socialists and Communists who were ruining the Church -- and +what did the Church ever care about the foulness of the means by +which its enemies were exterminated? -- but to set up a "Christian +Corporative State" on the Italian model, the Roman Church ruling +the west and the Protestant Church the east. I gave the evidence of +Von Papen, another Catholic, and other unimpeachable witnesses that +in fact the Vatican ordered German Catholics to drop their +opposition to the Nazis, deserting their Jewish and Socialist +allies, and that this encouraged the Nazis, who were profoundly +discouraged by their failure in November 1932, to try again and +succeed.

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From that time, nine years ago, the Nazis have compiled a +record of brutality, treachery, dishonor, and greed that is without +equal in civilized history and have completely debauched their own +country. After the first of these outbreaks of savagery, the +slaughter and pillage of Jews, Socialists, pacifists, etc., the +Vatican signed a very friendly Concordat with the Nazi government, +and it has clung to this agreement, and repeatedly begged Hitler to +make it more real and intimate, all through the nine years of +barbarity. It had not a word to say about the Blood Purge, though +in this leading Catholics were butchered, and it warmly applauded +German action, including such infamies as Almeria and Guernica, in +Spain.

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But I need not survey the record of monstrosity. The different +attitude of the Vatican to Russia, as it peacefully and humanely +built up a great civilization, and Germany, as it waded through +blood and loot and treachery to the attainment of its supreme +greed, damns it for all time. The Russians were vile, savage, +infamous, etc. The Germans heard only the mild censure, and then +only when they hurt the Church, that they encouraged paganism (from +the religious angle), idolized the state (instead of the Church), +and did not carry out their agreement with Rome.

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The Catholic apologist whines that the Vatican had to consult +the "spiritual interests" of the followers in Germany. I can hardly +imagine a more pitiful confession that, contrary to what its +American apologists say, it cares nothing about human interests. +But we will consider that point adequately anon.

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Hitler cared little about the rare and very mild complaints of +the Papacy. His spokesmen completely ignored them as a rule. He +could, in any case, always keep Papal pronouncements out of the +German press. Even the few Catholic papers that survived were under +strict Nazi control. The only matter that would draw the attention

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of the German authorities would be if the German hierarchy and +clergy interfered with loyalty to Hitler or condemned any of his +acts except his cavalier treatment of the Church, which amused or +delighted four-fifths of the nation.

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I gave abundant evidence that the German bishops did not +merely refrain from criticism on any other than ecclesiastical +matters but they flattered Hitler to his teeth and applauded every +outrage he committed. They fully accepted that bastard monstrosity +born of the megalomania of the neuropathic leader and the greed of +the German people, the plan to conquer and exploit at least the +greater part of the earth. Swallowing every insult and snub, +cringing before the exposure of the shame of their virtuous +monasteries, they begged Hitler to permit them to cooperate in the +foulest and most stupid of his outrages, the attack on Russia, and +in the petition for this purpose which they addressed to Hitler +they repented the exact language used by the Pope. From the +language of prelate after prelate, which I have quoted, one would +think that their minds are as brutalized as those of the younger +Nazi soldiers. That, of course, is not true. The explanation is +that every consideration of human honor and decency must be +sacrificed to the essential aim of the Black International: the +power and wealth of the Church.

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My readers will, I feel sure, think me justified in claiming +that I have read as much literature -- Catholic and non-Catholic, +even German until the war cut off the supply -- on this subject as +any other writer in America or Britain. Well, I have not yet seen +a line in which any German cardinal, archbishop, or bishop had +rebuked Germany's crimes against man and against civilization. The +epithets criminal, beastly, barbarous, and infamous were reserved +for Russia. What a record for a body of consecrated men during nine +years of bestiality!

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I, in an earlier book carried the story of the German +hierarchy and the Nazis as far as the fall of 1940 and must here +show that no change occurred in the following year. In August 1940, +we saw, an unusually large gathering of the German bishop's met at +Fulda (the Washington of the Church) and drew up resolutions which +the Vatican ordered them to keep secret. The German press reported +that it got copies of them, and they were fulsome congratulations +to Hitler on his great triumph in the west, to be published when it +was completed by the fall of Britain. The British Catholic press +(Tablet, September 21) said that "very important and positive +decisions had been reached which will result in a much closer +reapproachment between the Church and the Reich," and it pointed +out that the chief speaker, who closed the conference, Msgr. +Garkowsky was the bishop appointed by Goering to represent +Catholics on the State Council.

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But Britain refused to be bludgeoned into surrender, and the +Pope forbade publication of these "very important decisions." In +December the Catholic press. (Herald, January 31, 1941) announced +that their bishops were to meet at Berlin "for exceptional +purposes," and this announcement was coupled with a warning that +unscrupulous rulers had a way of misusing ecclesiastical +utterances. On March 30 the Vatican radio reported, with approval,

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that the Archbishop of Freiburg had warned German Catholics in a +pastoral letter that there were anti-religious tendencies on every +hand: that the Nazis had set up a National Church in Slovakia and +proposed to do the same in Germany, and that their "pagan +tendencies" had found expression in Alsace, Austria, and Sudeten +Germany.

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On July 8 the London Times referred to a letter which the +bishops of Germany had ordered to be read in all churches. As it +condemned Nazi paganism British Catholics claimed that here was the +whole German hierarchy united in censuring Hitler. We are quite +aware that the Church more than once scolded the Nazis for +infringing its own rights as on other purely religious grounds, but +the Times pointed out that this letter by no means relieved the +guilt of the Church. It referred to the attack on Russia and said +that it was "a struggle of world ideologies, a battle against +inequality, and a fight against the disintegration of Christianity, +so that a victory over Bolshevism would be equivalent to the +triumph of the teaching of Jesus over that of the infidels." The +full Papal note and support of Hitler restored, you see, now that +he was again pushing victoriously forward. But because there was +some criticism of the Nazis in the letter many bishops refused to +sign it, and many priests refused to read it from their pulpits.

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As to the Pope himself, he left it to those useful +unauthorized organ's to explain his ambiguous attitude. The Vatican +correspondent of the International News Service said that he +protested vehemently against the treatment of the Church in Germany +and added this rich observation, which was certainly compiled in +the Vatican:

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"Only the deepest desire to avoid even involuntarily creating +the impression that the Church favors the enemies of Germany or +permitting a mistaken notion that the Holy See wishes to take +advantage of a delicate war-time situation has restricted the +Pontiff from a more open and vigorous expression of his profound +unhappiness over the situation in Germany."

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When Russia "persecuted religion" there was no need whatever +for restraint; when Germany, after eight years of bestiality, +persecutes the Church one has to remember that a Pope is neutral +and not free to use strong language.

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The last cutting I have is from the London News-Chronicle +(October 5, 1941). It says that Ribbentrop has seen the Papal +Nuncio at Berlin and offered "a structural change in the attitude +of the Third Reich to the Catholic Church" if the Pope will rouse +all Catholics against "the Anti-Christ Russia," and that the Nuncio +loftily refused even to send the offer to Rome. Perhaps: Russia was +proving to be made of sterner stuff than the Pope's dear children +in Belgium and France. But do not too hastily draw upon your fund +of old saws and quote "When the devil was sick" or "Rats desert a +sinking ship." Hitler has still a few Papal cards like Spain and +Portugal and the French fleet up his sleeve. Meantime note two +things. First the Pope and his hierarchy have supported the Nazis +through nine years of success and infamy; second, there is a +remarkable correlation between the variations in the ardor of +support and the ebb and flow of Hitler's fortunes.

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Chapter II

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WILL CATHOLICS DISOWN THE POPE?

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I am not one of those who conceive the situation to be that we +are fighting Hitler and Mussolini or even the Nazi and the Fascist +parties. It remains to be seen how far this is true in the case of +Japan but in Europe we are fighting a prodigious aggregation or +organization of brain-power. It works behind the Nazi front. It +includes the very able military leaders that Germany can always +produce but is much more than this. War-time jibes at the +intelligence of the German nation are always silly. It at all +time's commands the services of a very large body of men of equal +ability and vigor, using every advantage that science can give +them. They -- scientists, engineers, economists, businessmen, etc. +-- are now massed behind an enterprise that promise's incalculable +profit if it succeeds. To defeat it will require a closer +cooperation and more intense application of British and American +ability than we have yet seen.

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But defeated it will be and probably -- if you will not smile +at the act of faith of one who knows nothing of military matters -- +within a year, now that we have the mighty aid of Russia. How will +the Church of Rome face the world then? Will it use its muzzling +influence on the press in every country to prevent the public +perceiving that there is anything to discuss? How many folk know +one tenth of the facts which I have given in these booklets?

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That will be the policy which the Church will attempt to +follow but probably it will lay too great a strain in the easy-going spirit of our generation. Your neighbor may not know the +facts I have given but he has his moments of reflection and in one +of these it will occur to him that he has never read a word of +condemnation of all the brutality and treachery of the last five +years from the man whom Catholics press upon us as the ideal moral, +if not intellectual, ruler of the world. He may have read lately +how some Catholics predict, for 1942, a concerting of plans "for +the defense of our Christian civilization" between Washington, +London, Moscow and Rome! If that does not make people open their +eyes and use their minds we had better drop the illusion that we +are capable of self-government.

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In an earlier booklet I quoted the head of the British +Catholic Church warning his followers to be ready for a formidable +attack on Catholicism when the war is over. How will he and his +like meet it, That "aged and ailing Pope" slogan, which has so +often been used, will be of no avail. In this crisis of the world's +affairs the Church of Rome has had one of its youngest, ablest, and +most vigorous Popes; and his virtual control of the policy of the +Church began at the beginning of 1930 and has covered the whole +long period of unrebuked bestiality. Nor would it be of the least +avail to plead that he was misinformed. Being an Italian and in the +highest position (for these matters) in the Church for eleven +years, to say nothing of his years of training, he knows Italy and +Fascism as well as any Italian or foreign statesman in the world. +But, we saw, he also knows Germany and Nazism at least better than +any other non-German prelate in the Church. Further he reads and

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speaks more languages and has traveled and lived in more countries +than any other Pope of recent modern times. No, stupid as some of +his public utterances (about Russia, Spain, Mexico, Communism, +etc.) seem to be, he has not based his policy upon wrong +information.

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Seldes quoted some years ago evidence that in Romanist higher +clerical circles in America there was already some discussion of +the idea of deposing or over-ruling him. At that tune the Catholic +press still remembered what it had said about him during his long +stay in America in 1936; his love of democracy and the American +spirit, his good mixing -- I do not remember whether he drank beer +out of a bottle in a workers' lunchroom like the heroic Halifax -- +his ideal of freedom, and so on. Probably the prelates knew better. +He loathes democracy. He is an aristocrat by birth, temperament, +and conviction. But he can at any time discover, as Leo XIII did +after quarter of a century of attacks on democracy, that the Church +has nothing to do with whether a state chooses to be democratic or +not. It is true that in the first encyclical he compiled for the +late Pope he insisted that the Corporative State, the very essence +of which is servility to the state and Church authorities, is the +ideal, but he never mentioned democracy.

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The discussion as to whether the discredited Church will make +a scapegoat of the Pope is waste of time. Even in America, where +the apologists put over more mendacious accounts of Church history +and teaching than in any other country, the deposition or rebuke of +a Pope would shake Catholicism and invite a dangerously critical +interest. The most that is conceivable along that line is that +apologists will affect an attitude of naive astonishment and say +that even non-Catholics ought to know that a Pope's blunders do not +compromise the Catholic Church or discredit a single line of its +teaching. There have actually been priests who claimed it as a +proof of the divinity of the Church that it survived so many +blunders and sins of its Popes! But that takes us into a deeper +matter which I postpone.

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The chief line foreshadowed in actual Catholic literature is +that the Pope has been, and ought to be, ideally neutral, since as +head of the universal Church he must be above national differences +and therefore above international quarrels, whereas the hierarchy +of a particular country has no such obligation. Let me repeat that +these are not booklets about the Pope but about the Black +International. At the same time apologists will find it rather +difficult in America to make any capital out of this Great Neutral +sophistry. They have for half a century been assuring folk that it +was just the opposite; that since the Pope is above all national +differences he is the ideal moralist to censure, not only +international crimes but national crimes of such magnitude and so +bound up with patriotism that you could hardly trust the censors +within that country to condemn them or expect an impartial judgment +from the nationals of another country. Further, and far more +gravely, the summary of facts which I gave in the last chapter does +not simply present the Pope as failing in his duty from an +excessive regard for neutrality. It shows that he gave very +valuable assistance to the arch-criminals, and often precisely in +the perpetration of their crimes; to Japan in China, to Germany in +Austria, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia, France, Yugo-Slavia, and Russia!

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The Catholic controversalists' idea of the Church is that +anything that commands general respect in it is the Church and +anything that is vicious or sordid is not the Church. For our +present purpose, however, the Church may be divided into three +sections. First are the Pope and the body of the Italian prelates +who run the Church as literally as a bunch of men in Boston run the +Christian Science movement. The Pope is theoretically an autocrat. +In practice he must act with the Italian cardinals and archbishops, +the board of directors, so to say. As such boards do, they find it +expedient to admit a few outsiders but take care they are always in +a minority and settle most affairs between themselves apart from +the formal board-meetings. Nothing irritates Roman Catholics in +Britain so much as a Protestant practice of calling their Church +"the Italian Mission." But no other description of it is more apt. +The Italian clique run the Church in Britain and America just as +the heads of an international trading enterprise in New York +control foreign branches.

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The second section consists of the various national +hierarchies (bishops and archbishops), each of which is permitted +to have a few decorative heads with the title of cardinal but no +influence on broad Church policy and certainly no power to +challenge a Pope, and the ordinary clergy who do the work under +them. The third section consists of the laity, whose main function +is the financial support of the clergy, hierarchy, and the Italian +oligarchy. They are held together in submission to the clergy by an +extraordinarily fraudulent literature, which is protected by the +doctrine that they incur the penalty of hell if they read +criticisms of it, a very lavish use of social and recreational +inducements, and the sacerdotal theory or the dogma that the clergy +have received a 'Special "Sacrament" called Holy Orders.

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This theory has greatly promoted the comfort that reconciles +the priests to their theoretical celibacy -- "They are called +Fathers, and they often are," said Erasmus -- by drawing a sharp +line, if not a curtain, between clergy and laity. In recent years +however, it has been found expedient to delegate to the laity many +functions which the priest used to discharge outside his Church. +Catholic Action, this new development, means Catholic lay action. +It started originally as a proof that the Church is not so anti-democratic, as its critics allege, but the clergy soon found that +the laity could undertake tasks for the Church which they +themselves cannot undertake without suspicion, and that same sort +of militant work greatly promoted their loyalty. In Spain these +guerrillas of the holy war, as one might call them, played a very +important part in preparing the way for the rebellion. In France +they made the strength of the Fascist movement which weakened the +country and intrigued its way to power in the hour of humiliation +and confusion. In America and Britain they intrigue with statesmen +and in popular political organizations, provide speakers for parks +and street-corners, invade journalism and work for the Church on +their papers, and get themselves elected or appointed to offices in +which they can promote the interests of the Church. They would be +genuinely outraged if you said that they are dupes of the clergy.

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This vast organization enables apologists to meet as far as +words go many of the charges against the Church or to maintain with +an air of bland assurance, that, for instance, it never interferes +in polities. If you appeal to its twenty years opposition to +republicanism in France, that was Pope Leo XIII not the Church, +they say. It was the Vatican, not the Church, that intrigued with +British statesmen to settle their troubles in Ireland (Seldes, The +Vatican, p. 272). On the other hand, when an Austrian cardinal +writes "Hell Hitler" or an Italian bishop exults in the brigandage +of his country, the Church is not involved. It is just a local +clerical patriot blowing off a little hot air.

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In the present demoralization of the world apologists take +advantage of this multiplicity of organs to exonerate the Church +from guilt. Since the body of the clergy in any country are +notoriously under the strict supervision of their bishop's the +common trick is to distinguish the acting of national hierarchy +from that of, Rome; though, as we saw, there has been some tendency +in view of the blatant alliance with the Axis of the present Pope +to say that the hierarchy represent the Church and he does not. +That is easily-answered. Do the apologists mean that the majority +of bishops and archbishops of their Church would have had the Pope +act otherwise? Apply that test and the sophistry disappears. There +is only one point on which they expressed any criticism or reserve +about the Pope's conduct; his refusal to pass judgment on the rape +of Abyssinia. But they soon fell into line and supported his +subsequent actions. The whole of the Catholic press, clergy, and +hierarchies applauded the treaties with Mussolini and Hitler. We +decline to be impressed if the Catholic prelates of Britain, for +instance, fell into silence about the German treaties when they +declared war on that country. They continued to support the +alliance with the Italian Fascists until they were at war with +Italy. And the American cardinals and prelates maintained their +support generally until the Pope's proud Japanese ally dealt +America so foul a blow. The hierarchies have a very poor case +against the Pope, and the two elements together supremely represent +the Church.

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A more familiar trick, which has even been used in the Pope's +paper the Osservatore Romano, is to plead that aberrations on the +part of the hierarchy of a particular country do not compromise the +Church. Next we have, in the first place, the right to presume that +a course of conduct pursued by the Catholic priests of any country +during several years has the full approval of the Papacy. If the +conduct is likely to arouse disgust or criticism in other countries +we do not look for the publication of Papal letters or other +messages supporting it, unless, as in the case of the Spanish +rebellion, only a minority of radical folk condemn the policy. But +we need no evidence. The Vatican has its international bureau +(congregations) in Rome and its Nuncios (ambassadors) in every +capital to keep it fully informed. No one would, in fact, for a +moment suggest that the Papacy is not fully aware of the language +in which German and Italian bishops have thoroughly approved the +successive steps taken by the Nazis and Fascists in their +diabolical attempts to get world-powers.

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It is not we who say that the Pope is bound to correct any +such moral aberrations. It is the Catholic apologist who says it. +It is his boast that there is a unique moral authority in his +Church which makes it far more valuable to civilization than other +Churches, and he means that it has rigorously controlled agencies +in every land and surveys the world with a moral sense that cannot +be adulterated by national interests. The Church of England, he +says, is bound to have a British outlook; the Protestant Episcopal +Church of the United States an American outlook; the Lutheran +Church a German outlook. But the head or central station of the +Roman Church sees no national boundaries and is serenely +independent of national prejudices in its judgments. And since it +is the local clergy in each country who interpret Catholic +doctrine, on both faith and morals, to the people, one of the chief +functions of the Vatican is to see that they apply it in all its +purity. The miserable subterfuge that the Pope is merely +overlooking a little patriotic weakness in the German or the +Italian hierarchy when it blesses crime on a monstrous scale and +criminals immeasurably more guilty than the murderers or rapers of +individuals is an abandonment of all claim to moral authority in +the Church of Rome.

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We may go further and say that corruption in the national +hierarchies is even more discreditable to the Church of Rome than +corruption at the Vatican. I need not linger in explaining that. It +is from their priests, who are rigorously controlled by the +bishops, that Catholics have to expect sound moral judgment on +collective as well as individual problems. Not one Catholic in +hundreds even reads the Encyclicals which the Popes issue about +once a decade, and most of those who do require the guidance of a +priest or a Catholic writer on the meaning of these lengthy and +jejune documents in which a few grains of medieval "wisdom" or +amateurish statements on modern problems are diluted in gallons of +Latin verbiage. It is very little different with the addresses, +etc., of the Pope which appear more frequently in the Catholic +weekly. In actual life it is from the religious instruction of +early years, continued in the priests' sermons, that the Catholic +forms his judgment.

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And this "Catholic point of view," which the apologists rate +so highly that the Church demand's special consideration of it from +the legislators at Washington, has no more unity, no more real +catholicity (universality), than that of any other creed. On the +greatest social-moral issues, the really vital issues, of our time +-- the amount of freedom and tolerance to grant, the suppression of +greed and violence, the desirability of peace -- you get practical +unanimity in the Protestant Episcopal Church or the Church of +England, the Baptist or the Methodist Church, whether its members +live in America, Europe, Asia, or Africa. But in the Church of Rome +you have a monstrous moral discord. The German, Italian, or +Japanese Catholic is taught by his priests to support +enthusiastically just what the American or British Catholic +denounce's as diabolical. The ideal given by his priests to the +Spaniard or the Brazilian, even the French or the Austrian, today +would, if those countries were Protestant, draw the bitterest +invective or the most self-satisfied irony from the Catholic +apologist. Which, he would ask, is your Protestant morality, and

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what judgment does it pass on five years of revolting outrage from +the bombing of Guernica or the rape of Abyssinia to the treachery +of Japan? But all these monstrously conflicting voices on the +gravest issues are Catholic not Protestant or atheistic. In other +words that world-wide expansion in which the apologist takes such +pride is one of the greatest moral weaknesses of his Church, and +the claim that it has a supreme, cosmopolitan oracle who keep the +teaching pure and harmonious is a brazen misstatement.

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Indeed, it is not only a matter of the Church, in its most +representative organ's saying one thing in Vichy and another in +London, one thing in Washington and another in Rome, Berlin, or +Tokyo. In the same land, within the limits of the same patriotic +influences, the voice wavers and changes like that of the Vicar of +Bray; and this applies forcibly to the Vatican itself. But this +will be seen more clearly after the next two chapters have been +read. Here let me finish with this question of which element of the +Church really represents it and whether that element can be +repudiated by the others.

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It is the same Church of Rome in every element, and the fact +that it speaks a radically different moral language in its separate +elements only proves again that the main aim of the Black +International is pursued without scruple. To the lower clergy as +the Black International we must not only add the monks, nuns, and +teaching brothers but every paid worker; every Catholic teacher, +journalist, organizer, secretary, and lay propagandist. The whole +of Catholic Action, from the Knights of Columbus, to the Falangists +of Franco's black army, should be counted in it. Petain and +Weygand, Leopold and Laval, are part of it. Below all their discord +they follow a consistent purpose, the aggrandizement of the Church, +which means the protection or increase of the power and wealth of +the Black International. From above one maxim seeps down to the +lowest and most hoodwinked stratum of workers. It is called "the +good of the Church," and this is unctuously explained to be the +good of the world in the highest sense. What we outsiders, who +outnumber Catholics by six to one in America and nearly thirty to +one in Britain, reply to this excuse for "Catholic Action" we shall +see in the final chapter.

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Chapter III

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RESTORING THE CORPSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES

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How did the Vatican hope to profit by its alliance with the +Axis powers? Even those who might hesitate to agree that the Black +International always seeks its own aggrandizement in its policy +will not question that it did so in supporting Italy Germany, and +Japan. They offered the Vatican certain advantages. If any American +Catholic were to plead that the Vatican supported them simply +because it approved of their "ideology" he would have to admit that +from the start the Vatican condemned democracy and was opposed to +liberty as it is understood in democratic lands. The first alliance +was with Italy, and no dictator was louder or more scornful in his +denunciation of democracy, freedom, and liberalism than Mussolini. +Fascism, he said, "marched to victory over the rotting corpse of

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freedom." And the second most outstanding principle of his ideology +was his glorification of war and his claim that peace corrupts a +nation. He had very many admirers in other lands, it is true, but +they expressly condemned these principles of his and professed his +real merit in their eyes was, of course, his persecution of +Socialism and Communism -- only to admire his efficiency; and with +this supposed virtue of Fascism the Vatican had nothing whatever to +do. This applies fully to Germany also, for Hitler's essential +appeal to the nation was to substitute Nazism for democracy and to +expand Germany by wars of conquest. Japan was equally anti-democratic and even more bent upon wars of aggression.

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I need not repeat the evidence that the Vatican was fully +aware of this. Nazism developed under the very nose of the present +Pope when he was Nuncio for eleven years in Munich and Berlin. As +he has lived in Italy, in the highest official capacity of the +Vatican since the end of 1929 he is equally aware of every facet of +Fascism. Whatever defects you may attribute to the Vatican's +intelligence-service you cannot doubt its full acquaintance with +the aims of the Axis powers. What, then, attracted it to and kept +it bound up to this day with these bloody-minded anachronistic +forces?

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In the first place, of course, their promise to destroy +Socialism and Communism which were, as I amply proved, ravaging the +Church even more rapidly than modern middle-class culture was. And +in this the Vatican shrewdly calculated that it would have the +sympathy and support of those elements of the democracies, wealth +and the ruling class, which alone matter to it. They are much too +refined and humane to sanction the principle of bloody persecution +or violent suppression, but this did not oblige them to shed tears +when the Fascist powers applied the principle to Socialism and +promised to extend it to that pestilential swamp, Soviet Russia. +That is the chief reason why British and American Catholics found +nothing wrong in the Vatican's alliance with super-crooks until the +scoundrels double-crossed them and turned upon themselves.

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The Vatican had always courted the applause of these classes +and of the ruling class everywhere by condemning Socialism. Even in +America, where medieval Italian principles are dressed in +dungarees, so to say, the Church's condemnation of Socialism was +sustained. You may remember Msgr. Ryan fulsomely assuring America +that Socialism was so clearly immoral that if Rome ordered American +Catholics to submit to a Socialist government they would +conscientiously refuse. A very golden sentiment! But if the Church +never interferes in politics what is the basis of this heroic +attitude? It is, the apologists say -- and the Pope lays down in +condemning Socialism in the Encyclical Quadragesimo Anno -- that +private ownership is a moral right and the refusal of it is +therefore against the moral law. I could write a pleasant page on +the topic. What is the range of this moral principle? Every in +Russia folk own a good many things personally, while even in +America very large numbers of men and women who are far from +immoral consider that the private ownership of, for instance, +monition industries is very seriously wrong. But we will not linger +by the way. The Church of Rome fabricated the moral principle of +private ownership so as to prove to governments and wealthy folk +that its influence over 200000000 people could be very useful to +them. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +15 +. +FASCIST ROMANISM DEFIES CIVILIZATION

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In our age of confusion it is difficult to trace contemporary +developments but as far as I can discover this was at first the +chief feature that led the Vatican into alliance with Italy, +Germany, and the Spanish Falangists. Its connection with Japan is +different, since it had in that country no large body of Catholics +which was being disrupted by Communism. But there is one secret +about its bargain with Japan. If it would use its influence to keep +America and Britain amiable and oblivious of the need of warlike +preparation until Japan was ready to strike it would be rewarded +with most-favored-nation (or sect) treatment for its missions in +Japan and all territory conquered by it. It took the promise as a +hint at a monopoly of the Christian missions, and it richly +deserves the anxiety which the most recent laws on foreign +religions cause it. Japan meant, of course, to suppress +Christianity completely in Eastern Asia and the Pacific Islands +once its conquest was accomplished.

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In the case of Germany at first the Vatican contemplated only +the suppression of Socialism and Communism, to which it was loosing +millions of its subjects, and an assurance that its own +institutions would be respected. The Nazis, probably with a good +laugh over a bottle of wine behind the muncio's back, solemnly +promised to respect Catholic schools, seminaries, charitable +institutions, newspapers, and associations; all of which they have +ruined. All that one need say about that is that for once the +Vatican surprises us. Pacelli, who saw the early development of the +Nazi party at Munich and the later development in Berlin, certainly +knew the character of its leaders. What surprises us is the low +degree of intelligence which it betrayed in trusting their +promises.

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In the case of Italy the promise made to the Church was far +larger and has been much better kept; which is no proof of virtue +but reflects the fact that the Vatican now rules the majority of +the nation -- not one-sixth of it, as in Germany -- and could make +serious trouble. The Vatican knew that the Fascists would find it +very difficult ever to take back the political independence granted +to it and the greater part of the $90000000 that went with this. +But I explained that the Concordat gave the Church even greater +advantages, since Mussolini needed the Pope's help far more than +Hitler did. It gave the clergy a great increase of income, a +religious control of the schools, and the incorporation in the +civil law of very important clauses of the Canon Law. The Church +received a very high price and has been scrupulously honest in +doing what it contracted to do; the Papacy was not to say a word +against any of the brutalities perpetrated by Italy and was to +allow the bishops and clergy to tell the people that they were +glorious victories both for the state and the Church.

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The Papal ambition or plan to profit by the conquests of the +greedy and callous adventurers grew with the growth of their +programs. Hitler's program in 1932 did not read beyond the Ukraine +in the east and Alsace-Lorraine in the west. Mussolini's program +was still confined to the recovery by war of Savoy, Corsica, +Dalmatia, Malta, and Tunisia. As we saw, the amazing supineness and +obtuseness of the western democracies encouraged the growth of +these programs until Germany and Italy were to share the Old World

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with Japan and make a shot at the New World. They still found the +Pope's soporific influence in France, Britain, and America very +useful and they encouraged him to cultivate imperialistic dreams of +his own. In the wake of these noble conquests of the world he was +going to bring under the Vatican larger stretches of the earth than +any other Pope has dreamed of since the 16th Century.

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This great Catholic League of Nations was to have three +sections. One was the Iberian section, bringing into at least a +cultured and spiritual unity Spain, Portugal, and all the Latin-American countries. The idea is known in Spain and much discussed +as "Hispanidad." Literally it means "Spanishness" or the Spanish +spirit. Spanish Catholicism is such a beautiful and lofty thing -- +don't laugh just yet -- that it must smooth out Portuguese +idiosyncrasies, when Hitler has annexed Portugal to Spain, and must +embrace all America from Ciudad Juarez to Tierra del Fuego. In +October (1941) the Spaniards established a Council of the Spanish-Speaking World, and the Falangist papers quite seriously gave +President Roosevelt a warning to keep his hands off South and +Central America. The London press reported them in November saying +that "Roosevelt's tutorship is unsolicited" and that "Spaniards are +the only ones entitled to look after Spanish America." Franco has +found it necessary to give in public a comical assurance that he +has no secular designs on territory in South America; that Spain's +"hegemony" will be purely cultural and religious.

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I do not know how far Catholics prevent these insolent +pleasantries from appearing in the American press, but the Vatican +and the Spanish hierarchy and government are portentously serious +about the idea, and Franco is stupid enough, in spite of his modest +words to think that when German Fifth Columnists have destroyed the +existing governments in Latin America Hitler will allow Spain to +annex them. The idea is directly inspired by the language which the +Papacy addressed to the Spaniards during and after the Rebellion. +On April 16, 1939, Pope Pius XII broadcast a message -- reproduced +by his biographer Rankin in The Pope Speaks, (1941, p. 145) -- in +the course of which he Said:

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"The nation chosen by God as the principal instrument for the +evangelization of the New World and as the impregnable bulwark of +the Catholic faith has given the loftiest proof to the champions of +the materialistic atheism of our age that above everything stand +the eternal values of religion and the spirit."

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Perhaps it is necessary to explain that he means the glorious +victory of Franco over what he would call the rebels. I am not in +these books underrating the ability of Pacelli but such language +betrays a mental squint that makes him totally Unfit to guide large +bodies of men. He completely ignores the fact that it was Germany +and Italy who for their own purposes took up a handful of Spanish +rebels and Moorish mercenaries and conquered Spain for Franco, and +he quite solemnly represents the bravery of Franco's Spanish troops +as a lesson for the Russians who, without a single foreign soldier, +have beaten the greatest military power of all time fighting on a +single front!

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The whole idea is, in fact, so fatuous and based upon such a, +mass of lies and legends that it would not be worth discussing +except as an illustration of Catholic culture and mentality. Franco +himself told his followers after the victory that they were going +to restore the glories of the Catholic Spain of the Conquistadors, +of Ferdinand and Isabella and all the other grand Castiliai +monarchs. That is, in fact, the main idea of Hispanidad; and it +rests upon as gross a fabric of historical untruth as you will find +anywhere.

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We acknowledge the valor in fighting of the medieval Spanish +Knights -- except, significantly, that great Catholic hero +Ferdinand, who never fought for a thing if he could get it by lying +and treachery -- but with that virtue they shared all the vices of +the knights of the so-called age of chivalry. They were densely +ignorant, licentious, brutal, and dishonorable. They conquered the +Moors taking one province at a time during three centuries, only +with the very considerable assistance of knights and soldiers -- +hundreds of thousands of them -- from other lands, and loot was the +guiding star of them all. As to the Castellan dynasty which the +final conquest put on the throne of Spain half its members were +selfish, sensual, and stupid, and the other half blind with +fanaticism; and it would be difficult to say which type did the +more harm to Spain. It is at all events a notorious historical fact +that they ruined Spain in little over a century. It had inherited +the brilliant civilization of the Arabs, to which it added the gold +of America, but in two centuries its population fell from +30000000 to about 7000000 and it was despised as the poorest +and most ignorant country in Europe. Of the Bourbon dynasty of +Catholic monarchs in the 19th Century it is enough to say that they +were the most selfish and licentious in Europe, and every member of +the dynasty was expelled from Spain by the people except Alfonso +XII, who died prematurely of consumption brought on by his +excesses.

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This beautiful Hispanidad slew more unarmed democrats to +protect its own corruption and the Church, in the 19th Century than +any other country in Europe except Naples, and with a ferocity that +Naples did not surpass. This "nation chosen by God" presents today +the most sordid spectacle in the world, apart from countries +overrun by the Axis troops (the Pope's allies), of injustice and +brutal intolerance. In a previous booklet I gave the report of a +French Catholic girl on the brutality with which men and women +"suspected of Communism" -- which means anybody but a loyal Spanish +Catholic -- are treated in the jails, British and American +Protestants also are vilely treated. The American Protestant +Defense League has issued a bulletin on the subject. It says that +30 Protestant ministers have been expelled and will probably be +executed if they return; that two-thirds of the workers of the +Spanish Gospel Mission have been either executed, exiled, or +imprisoned; that four-fifths of the Protestant churches and schools +have been closed; and that no Spaniard who does not attend mass can +get employment.

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That is real Hispanidad, as it is understood by Franco and the +Vatican; the noble Spanish Spirit which the Catholic papers, and +too many others, treat so respectfully. It is just a system for +protecting wealth and the Church by every brutal and unscrupulous

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means. The latest neutral observers who have contrived to visit +Spain and survive consistently report that the poverty and misery +of the mass of the people are horrible, but the hotels and +restaurants for the rich in Madrid are as gay and well-supplied as +ever. These "noble" Catholic landowners, these highly polished +"gentlemen of Spain," have always regarded the workers as beasts of +burden. They have less contempt for a beggar than for a worker. And +this is the high Catholic culture that they are, they think, going +to spread over America from El Paso to Patagonia!

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I am not taking this dream of Franco and the Vatican seriously +but showing the utter stupidity and falseness of things which they +take seriously. The plan does, as little credit to the intelligence +as it does to the moral sentiments of the Vatican. It confirms +every charge which I have made in these booklets, and the idea of +invading America with such a culture, which Franco Certainly hopes +to follow up with political control under a restored Spanish +monarchy, may help the American public to demand an end of the +representation of the United States or its President at the +Vatican.

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This idea of a Spanish Union from the Philippines to Barcelona +has grown out of an earlier idea of a bloc or League of Catholic +powers. When France and Belgium were "liberated" from their non-Catholic governments by the Germans the Vatican saw at once the +possibility of uniting them to Spain, Portugal, and Italy as a +Catholic bloc. The Pope, we saw, sent a feeble letter of Sympathy +to Leopold -- the man who had betrayed it -- on the invasion of +Belgium "against its wish," and the Osservatore said something +about a German "ruthless war of extermination." This "unauthorized" +utterance annoyed the Italians at the time, but the Pope was silent +about the far worse invasion of France and his relations with +Germany were not severed. There was, in fact, ample evidence, as we +saw, that the passing of France and the French Empire under the +priest-ridden Petain was very welcome to the Vatican and, as is an +axiom in Catholic theology, "if you approve an end you approve the +means to it"; which is only to be distinguished by a microscope +from "The end justifies the means." To France, once more Catholic, +Italy, Spain, and Portugal would be added and Poland, in so far as +Germany permitted a restoration, Hungary, Slovakia, and the +detached Catholic provinces of Yugo-Slavia; a bloc of countries +with a total population of about 150000000, all living under the +drastically intolerant Catholic law.

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Doubtless the Vatican clings to the illusion, though it pales +before the reality of events. Petain soon found that the French +people compelled him to withdraw some of the measures which the +clergy had got him to pass. Possibly the Pope, who must have known +that Hitler is pledged in his book to bring France down in the +dust, had an uneasy feeling that when Hitler no longer needed to +make a show of moderation in his dealings with France there would +not be much of it left. Alsace-Lorraine, the most Catholic part, +would certainly go. Savoy, with Nice and Monte Carlo if not a +larger stretch of the French coast, would go to Italy; and it is +credibly reported that the Nazis have a plan to annex the +industrial north of the country to a German-controlled Belgium.

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Poland, always terribly poor, would be but the ghost of a beggar +before Hitler relinquishes it, if he ever did. lt was even possible +that Italy and its new province's would pass under the control of +Germany.

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Hence this enfeebled and uncertain plan of a European bloc, +which might check Hitler even if he were victorious, had to be +strengthened by Hispanidad and an extension of Vatican control over +the east. I dealt with the latter at some length in an earlier +book. Doubtless the Germans, who handed out promises as glibly as +the fraudulent money (printed in Holland) which they use in France, +promised the Pope that when they had conquered all the countries in +which the Greek or other Oriental Catholic Church predominated they +would replace this with the Roman. That would mean a very large +extension of the Vatican's influence eastward to match the Spanish +extension westward.

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It is unnecessary to say that all this depended essentially +upon the use of force. No Catholic is more skeptical about the +efficacy of prayer or argument in these mass conversions than a +Roman prelate. But the good Germans would keep their promises; and +they would indeed find the Pope and his agents far more useful in +keeping oriental peoples submissive than the national hierarchies +and clergy whom they were to displace. Not counting Russia and its +180000000 people this displacement of the Greek Church would give +Rome 50000000 new member's.

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Moreover, the Vatican was promised a very rich prize in the +religious control of Palestine. A very impartial British daily, the +Manchester Guardian, published the details of the compact with the +Vatican. Italy was to have the secular rule of Palestine and the +Vatican a religion monopoly, the entire Jewish population being +transferred to a reconquered Abyssinia. It has been suggested that +Syria would then be, as far as secular rule is concerned, ceded to +Turkey on condition that it maintain its neutrality in the war. If +it seems incredible that the Pope should enter into a compact with +Turkey -- it is really far less strange than its alliance with +Japan -- I may recall that there have recently been singularly +amiable exchanges between Moslem (or atheist-ruled) Turkey and +Papal Rome. The Herald-Tribune (June 15) published the news, from +its Istanbul correspondent, that the Pope had just sent as a gift +to the Turkish Prime Minister a copy of a map of the vast Ottoman +Empire of the 16th Century made by a famous Italian geographer of +that time. What did the Pope expect in return? His gold medals and +golden roses are given always for services rendered or favors to +come.

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Let me, finally, recall that I am not stating what advantages +the Papacy would derive from a victory of the Axis but what +advantages were promised to it or that it thought it would derive. +The first and greatest profit, the destruction of Socialism and +Communism, was certain. The democracies were not of the least use +to Rome in removing that deadly menace. They were too soft to use +violence or were misguided enough to trust argument and persuasion. +The Axis powers in their own interest would make a drastic end of +Communism and Socialism, and they were quite willing to go on to +suppress Freemasonry and every critical movement that Rome hated.

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On the second point, the extension of its power in addition to the +recovery by force of its apostates, the Vatican gambled. The Axis +powers might keep their promises. Rome might be able to restore the +corpse of the Middle Ages in the 20th Century.

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Chapter IV

+ +

THE CHURCH IN DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES

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I am not going to waste time in discussing the sheer folly of +trusting the word of men who for years have made lying a normal +part of their procedure, and I leave it to the reader to apply his +own epithets to a gamble of this sort; a gamble, in effect, that +stakes the lives of millions, the liberty of tens of millions, and +the elementary well-being of hundreds of millions against a +possible profit to the Black International. I have not much space +left to consider two points of some importance; how the Vatican +contrived to keep Catholics in the democratic countries loyal and +Submissive while it thus allied itself with their deadly enemies, +and what Catholic apologists have to say in defense of its action.

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In so far as the first question refers to France, which we +must count one of the leading democracies until its collapse, we +have seen the answer. Rome rendered very important services to the +French government, such as checking the chronic rebelliousness in +Alsace-Lorraine and condemning some of the leader's of the +Royalist-Fascist movement. We may easily grant that no Frenchman +could be expected to foresee, the disgraceful part that Catholics, +like Petain and Laval would play in a time of crisis. French +statesmen in making concessions to the Church and discouraging the +very powerful and very vocal anti-clerical movement that had +flourished before 1914 thought that they were securing the unity of +their country in case it was ever threatened by Germany. There was, +of course, far too much trust in the Maginot line and the Belgians, +but we cannot blame the French for not being aware of their +appalling danger from Catholic Fifth Columnists. It is clear that +even patriotic Catholics did not foresee this. Amongst the refugees +from the Vichy rule, for instance, is Jacques Maritain, the leading +and very orthodox Catholic writer of modern France. We must +remember, too, that a number of Catholic Royalist-Fascist writers +attacked the Papacy very warmly, and this helped to throw dust in +the eyes of democrats. Paul Courcoural's work, La fin de la +querelle (1929) is a bitter attack on the Vatican, and he quotes +several other Catholic critics. One of the points made by these +critics was that the Vatican, and he quotes several other Catholic +critics. One of the points made by these Catholic critics was that +the Vatican displayed grave in incompetence in allowing itself to +be duped by governments.

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In Great Britain the Catholic defense would be that if the +press generally and the leading statesmen not only failed to point +out any danger in Fascism and Nazism but habitually paid +compliments, until Munich, to those movements and their leaders one +cannot blame Catholics for failing to see anything wrong in the +Vatican's alliance with them. Up to a point we must admit the +defense, at least as far as the general body of British Catholics

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are concerned. But we are not here concerned with the general body +of Catholics in any country. We are studying the action of the +Black International which rendered such service to the Axis powers +and helped to bring such appalling evil upon the race. As to the +hierarchy and the clergy in Britain and America -- for this +consideration applies to both countries -- I have quoted passage +after passage which Shows that they fully shared the principle, or +lack of principle, on the strength of which the Roman obligarchy +and the bishops of Italy and Germany supported iniquity. Whatever +the laity knew or did not know -- and we may at least say that +educated men and women amongst them are unintelligible to us if +they imagine that a Church which forbids them to read critics is +likely to tell them the truths which the critic's do -- the higher +clergy at least knew perfectly well that the Vatican entered upon +most cordial relations with Japan after the rape of China, that it +signed a Concordat with the Nazis while their hands were red with +innocent blood, that it saw the Italian hierarchy under its eyes +applauding one Fascist outrage after another, and so on.

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On an earlier page I quoted the saying of Cardinal Hinsley +that Mussolini certainly had grave faults but he must be supported +lest graver evils happen. He plainly meant that the Vatican must +continue in alliance with the Fascist party -- must, through the +Italian bishops and priests continue to keep the people loyal to +Mussolini and approve all his actions (except infringements of the +Concordat) -- because if Mussolini fell Socialism might seize power +in Italy. That is just the sentiment that has inspired the policy +of the Black International through ten years of increasing +demoralization. "The good of the Church," the protection of its +power and wealth, is above all other considerations.

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It was the same in regard to Germany. The horrible outrages on +Jews, Communists, Socialists, etc., were still being discussed with +loathing throughout the world in the summer of 1933 when Pacelli +signed his Concordat with the Nazis. That agreement stifled +Catholic criticism of the moral character of Nazism and was +welcomed with obsequious language, as a new triumph of the Vatican, +a new German pilgrimage to Canossa, in the Catholic press of +Britain and America. Next year was the Blood Purge, the murder +without the pretence of a trial of distinguished Catholics who were +lumped together with pimps and pansies, and the Catholic press was +remarkably restrained. In short, until Germany forced war upon +Britain itself, or clearly showed after Munich that it would +probably do so, the British Catholic hierarchy and the press they +controlled had little criticism of Germany except in regard to its +"persecution of the Church." To close Catholic schools and +institutions when a monstrous epidemic of vice had been detected in +the priests and brother's who controlled them invited the gravest +censure; to dissolve Catholic associations or fraternities and +sororities after solemnly promising to respect them was an outrage. +But that the German bishops, under orders from the Vatican, should +forbid Catholics to help to keep out of power a party, with +malodorous leaders, which was pledged to destroy the democratic +constitution, to let loose a flood of criminals and sadists upon +the Jews and Communists, to educate the nation deliberately for +war, seems to have been a matter almost of indifference to the +Catholic press of Britain and America.

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A well-known British Catholic propagandist, Christopher +Hollis, wrote in the Catholic Herald (November 15, 1940):

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"In America it is very easy, for instance, to publish accounts +of the persecution of the Church in Germany in the non-Catholic +press, but it is almost impossible to get Catholic publishers of +papers to print anything of the kind."

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You will smile at the hit at the American Catholic press. By +that time Britain was not merely at war with Germany but had +suffered murderous raids which had stirred whatever was left of +free conscience in the world. So the British Catholic papers were +quite willing to tell how the Nazis persecuted the innocent Church. +In point of fact numbers of American papers also had complained of +such persecution. Cardinal Mundelein never failed to get a hearing +for his maledictions of the Nazis. What excites our disgust is not +that many Catholic papers refused to censure Germany even when it +persecuted religion but that none of them, until their countries +were at war with that country, attacked it for the immeasurably +worse things of which it was guilty or warned the race, of which +they professed to be the surest guide, what Germany, Italy, and +Japan were preparing for it. Press, clergy, hierarchy, and Vatican +all worked together, and on a common principle: the good of the +Church.

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The situation in America was in some respects worse than in +England, even when we have made allowance for the very large number +of Germans, Italians, and Irish in the Catholic body. The bishops +and the educated Catholic's knew their Vatican quite well. It had +airily and publicly censured them in 1899 for claiming that +Catholic principles could be reconciled with modern thought. The +quarrel which followed within the sacred enclosure gave the +parochially-minded Italians a new idea of the importance of America +and, as the Catholic Teeling says "from that day to this no Pope +has spoken out." He adds an explanation which, if it came from my +pen, would be called wantonly provocative and malicious. This +strict Catholic, in good order at Rome, says:

+ +

"The reason would seem to have been that America has provided +an ever-increasing supply of funds and an ever-increasing supply of +missionaries" (The Pope in Politics, p. 150).

+ +

So for the last thirty years American apologists have been +permitted to present Catholic teaching to the public in a form that +would have made the old Italian cardinals gasp with horror. Not +only is the Church of Rome tolerant of other religions (when it is +in a minority) but it is the very author and originator of the idea +of religious toleration, which was born in Catholic Maryland; which +is, as I showed in the Appeal to Reason Library, a lie in every +syllable. Not only was its teaching consistent with American ideas +of liberty and democracy but the great Catholic theologians of the +Middle Ages really inspired what we call these modern ideas. I am +not sure if I have not read works by American priests in which it +is "proved" that Adam's, Jefferson, and Washington -- they do draw +the line at Paine because they think he was an Atheist -- derived +their sentiments from Aquinas and the Jesuit Suarez! I have made +merry with all this elsewhere.

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This sort of thing continued during the years when the Vatican +maintained intimate relations with the Fascists and Nazis and +imposed a Fascist form on every Catholic state it could influence. +No one seems to have seen the joke when Seldes, in his learned work +on the Vatican, boasted: "There is no guillotine, no elected +Chamber, in the state of Vatican City." No one questioned Pacelli, +when he visited the United States in 1936, about the sequel to his +visit to South America in 1934, when democracy was murdered in +nearly every republic and the leaders of the men who advocated it +were tortured in jail. No one asked why the beautiful democratic +principles of the Church were trampled under foot in Quebec, which +is far more Catholic than Italy or Spain.

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The summit of the irony is reached when, Germany and Italy +having entered upon a truculent and utterly unscrupulous war for +the destruction of liberty and democracy everywhere, the Catholics +of America were the least disposed of all the citizens to help to +cheek them. It became a stereotyped phrase of the press that the +Catholics were "the core of the isolationists." What you probably +called a splendid struggle for the preservation of democracy, +freedom, and every element of decency in our civilization most of +the Catholic bishops, priests, and papers swept aside as a stupid +squabble of these Europeans about their respective idealogies. The +powerful Jesuit organ America attacked President Roosevelt and +demanded that no munitions for Britain should be made in America. +The British Catholic Herald repeatedly published such messages as +this from Washington:

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"The main obstacle to pro-British sentiment, and one which has +been giving the greatest concern to the authorities at Washington, +has been the attitude of American Catholics" (November 15, 1940), +and January 3, March 14, etc., 1941).

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In the following summer (Reynolds News, June 29, 1941), the +very impartial H.N. Brallsford, who was then in America, reported +it as strong as ever. In the British press Cardinal Dougherty, +Cardinal O'Connell -- were they unable to shed their Irish +bitterness even in a grave crisis of civilization? -- and other +leading prelates were said to be urging that Britain should be left +to its fate.

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My American readers will know more about all this than I do, +but, while we were aware that many Catholics, even some bishops, in +America were so disgusted at this callous belittlement of a mighty +struggle for civilization, the spectacle of the great majority +urging a denial of help to Britain while the most acute observers +in Washington doubted if it could survive alone and the cause of +civilization over half the world would go down with it, was too +much even for the British brand of the Black International. It +relaxed its censorship of the press and for once let a fact which +was gravely discreditable to the Church go through.

+ +

That this attitude was inspired by the Vatican became quite +clear when Russia was drawn into the war. The Catholic opposition +to helping Britain was intensified. William Broun, Washington +correspondent of Reynolds News, the only quite honest and +independent Sunday paper in Britain (though, like all the others, +subject to Catholic influence), cabled (October 12) this news and +added: +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +24 +. +FASCIST ROMANISM DEFIES CIVILIZATION

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"In fact, those who wanted the triumph of reaction and Fascism +in the Civil War in Spain now want to see Fascism triumph in +Russia. That is to be expected."

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In other words, we have, as I said, one consistent and +inexorable policy underlying all the superficial variations of +clerical action in various countries; the good of the Church. Many +very gravely doubt whether Britain, standing alone and making +blunder after blunder under its Conservative leaders, could +possibly have held its ground if Russia had fallen and Japan +intervened. All the sophistry with which the Irish prelates of +America and Australia and the Catholic naval and military leaders +of France decked their sheer hatred and jealousy of England cannot +conceal what would have been the consequences to Europe, Asia, the +northern half of Africa, and possibly of South America, of such an +event.

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Yet the one development that promised to save Britain and +civilization, the challenge of Russia, not only gave new strength +to Catholic isolationism in America but actually caused British +Catholics to waver and fumble for new formulae to reconcile their +Papalism and their patriotism. They had laid down in advance that +there must be no alliance with the hated Bolsheviks. On May 31, +1940, when the question of an approach to Stalin was being +discussed, the Catholic Herald had said, flamboyantly:

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"Far better to go down with our honor intact than clutch at a +filthy straw."

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To such depths of stupidity and indifference to human welfare +had the Vatican's ten year crusade against Russia dragged the +Catholic world. One of the very few Catholic members of the House +of Commons spoke in public of Nazism and Bolshevism as two evils +and added: "We are not fighting the one which is the worst." In the +first months of the Russian war Catholics were a sorry spectacle. +In England, where they had to have some regard for public feeling, +they soon found the stupid formula that they would support the +government in sending all possible help to Russia but it must be +understood that they were not allying themselves with Communism or +Atheism! In Canada Catholic's organized a strike in one of the +vitally important monition-enterprises. In Eire the chief Catholic +weekly, the Standard, said:

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"Those who do not want a German victory must now reflect on +the social and religious implications of a Russo-British victory."

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In New Zealand the Catholic organ (Zealandia, July 3, 1941) +fierily attacked Churchill's promise to help Russia -- help Russia +to relieve England's grave peril remember! -- and said that it +betrayed "a mentality which it is hoped does not indicate the +opinion of the majority within the Empire" and that "to aid Soviet +Russia even against our common foe is to invite the curse of God +upon ourselves." Could fanaticism further go? Or could you have a +more flagrant illustration of its deadliness to man's welfare?

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A week ago I might have been tempted to close this chapter +with an hilarious paragraph on how the Pope, after winding up his +Catholic followers during ten years to a hatred of Russia which has +made them opposed or very feebly Sustain the policy of their +democratic governments in a time of crisis, seems to be deserting +them. I quoted the words attributed to the American envoy, who had +an hour's private talk with Pius XII before he left Rome; the +statement that the Pope recognized in private that while Germany +was thoroughly corrupt, Russia was merely good with the wrong sort +of goodness. We had had quite a string of messages (unauthorized) +from places where Mr. Myron C. Taylor, on his leisurely way home +had chats with Spanish and Portuguese authorities and with Catholic +officials from Eire and Vichy. One day we learned that the Pope was +about to bless democracy; the next day that he had refused Mr. +Roosevelt's request that he should do so. Meantime Japan has flung +all its forces and its unscrupulous cunning on the side of the +Axis, and the Pope is again the Great Neutral.

+ +

Indeed his very latest pronouncement is, in spite of all its +diplomatic twists, pro-Axis. I am writing this on Christmas Eve, +and I am interrupted by the arrival of the evening paper. It runs +the heading, to please Catholics, "The Pope attacks oppression." +And the very first line of his Christmas message speaks of "the New +Order" as an established or certain-to-be-established fact, while +the last line rejoices in "the admirable spectacle of valor in the +defense of the Latin soil." Will any priest suggest that Britons, +Americans, Dutch, or Russians are defending Latin soil somewhere? +Or that it is they who claim to establish a New Order? The rest of +the message is the usual panegyric of liberty (as practiced in +Spain or Italy) and justice. Mussolini would certainly say his +withers are unwrung. Hitler will probably use his copy for shaving-paper. Such is the position of the austere, serene, inflexible, +single-toned oracle of the Church of Rome in the gravest crisis +that has fallen upon the world for fourteen centuries.

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Chapter V

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THE CATHOLIC DEFENSE

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I am, alas, unable to threaten my readers with eternal torment +if they read the other side, so I always anticipate it, especially +as it usually provides a lot of good clean fun. This is one of the +times when it does. Naturally the defense is not yet fully +formulated. There might be no need for one. General Leonard Wood +once told me, as we drank beer together in the Harvard Club, that +during the Civil War an adjutant rushed up to General Grant, who +was sitting on a fence chewing a straw, and almost breathlessly +told Grant that some necessary transport had not arrived. "Well," +said Grant, calmly, "if we win we won't need it, and if we lose -- +well, I guess we won't need it."

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The first and feeblest defense is that the Pope is not and +never was, an ally of the Axis powers. Bunk. Japan was one of the +first of the three to approach Rome, after the rape of Manchuria, +and there is not the least ambiguity about its position. There was +no need whatever to make a request at Rome for a controller of

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Catholic missions in Manchuria. That is a matter of routine. +France, already rotten with Catholic intrigue, advised the Japs (I +showed) to get into friendly and increasingly intimate relations +with the Vatican so that it could use its Black International to +damp in every country the anger and suspicion the Japs had +incurred. The influence of Catholic agents and the Catholic press +is the main cause why Japan could steal province after province of +China and heap up forces for its pernicious designs without rousing +the world.

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Mussolini had already approached the Vatican and signed the +famous Treaty and Concordat (1929). Again there is not the least +ambiguity. Mussolini's position was very insecure, and his +royalist, military, and capitalist backers insisted that he should +come to terms with the Pope, who could secure for him the absolute +obedience of half the country in addition to his Fascist quarter. +The Pope, who drove a hard bargain, got mighty advantages for the +Church, but Mussolini got from him an absolute security of his +position as a dictator and the enthusiastic support of the Italian +hierarchy and the virtual acquiescence of the Pope himself in all +his crimes. He could afford to let the Pope save his face with +American and British Catholics by keeping silence. All that he +wanted was the unity and enthusiasm of the nation. The bishops saw +that he got them.

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Germany approached the Vatican through Von Papen (and probably +Thyssen) in 1932. It came with a blatant program of aggression in +its hands, and it dipped these hands deep in blood before it signed +the Concordat. By that Concordat the Vatican got promise that the +Nazis, who were out to destroy all freedom but their own, would +grant remarkable liberties to the Catholic body. What did the +Vatican promise in return? Nothing? Don't make us laugh in so +serious a time. It promised that the Church would "keep out of +politics"; which meant, as in Italy, that the Pope would never pass +any moral judgment on Hitler's program, methods, and crimes, and +that the Black International in Germany would fully support them. +We have seen the promise fulfilled. Peevish complaints about non-observance of the Concordat do not count especially when they are +accompanied by assurances that there is not the least intention of +weakening Hitler's authority in the minds of Catholics.

+ +

This alliance of the Papacy with the arch-criminals during ten +years, and still more the intimate alliance with them of the +Vatican-controlled hierarchy of each country, rendered them a most +valuable service in diverting attention from their corrupt +characters and criminal aims. How could they be even suspicious +characters when the Pope and the Holy Church gave them this +guarantee of respectability? This service was doubled by the Pope +reserving all his moral invectives for Russia and concentrating +suspicion upon it. And this provides the answer to the second +defense of the Black International; that it is concerned with +interests of men which are so vital that any "temporal" -- call +them human -- evils that may ensue from its policy of promoting +those interests above all cannot be taken into account.

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These controversies are apt to become fights with words, like +men belaboring each other with inflated bladders containing dry +peas. Let us be realistic. Three out of four of us regard these +"spiritual interests" and "eternal salvations" as no more real than +astrological predictions. In fact, if you set aside -- not because +we look down on them but because they do not matter in this +connection -- the tens of million's of churchgoers, colored folk +and others, who know no more than they do, the great majority of us +do not care one little damn about their heavens and hells, and if +any body of officials like the Black International is prepared to +endanger our peace and security, our prosperity and liberty, to say +nothing of tens of millions of lives and billions of dollars of +wealth that the world sadly needs, in the name of these ancient +illusions the sooner they are excluded from public life the better. +Cotton Mather was a philanthropist in comparison with them. They +may hug and polish their little souls as much as they like in their +darkened chapels. No one proposes to interfere with them. But it is +time that the men and women of a modern community understood the +situation clearly, and that the millions of vague individuals who +live on the fringe of the Church or feel its social influence, who +call themselves Catholics but smile at the heaven-and-hell +business, stood out boldly for life and freedom. They now see the +price they pay for supporting the Black International.

+ +

All quite sincere Catholics, which means little more than half +of the nominal body, from the Pope to your Catholic neighbor would +make this other-world appeal their main defense. Less than 100 +years ago their fathers made it a ground for the persecution, where +they had the power, of even Protestants. There was no salivation +outside the Church of Rome. It is amazing to read the daring +language in which their apologists today concede that there may be. +Not, of course, if one is a Communist and Atheist. That is why any +kind of violent suppression of Communism is in the real Interest of +the race! It is true that the teaching of the Church here happily +harmonizes with the sentiments of the privileged class, but that . +. .

+ +

Let me shift to another line of thought which is less apt to +induce biliousness. It is not in virtue of these moth-eaten dogmas +that the Pope and the Catholic clergy got the ear's of statesmen +and such prestige in the press that they are able to exert so +disastrous an influence. The cry is that "religion" is one of the +chief foundations of the life of an orderly community. With that +crudeness of thought that characterizes nearly all politicians on +all subjects but polities they profess to believe that the Churches +are the source of whatever respect we have for justice, social +decency, and neighborly behavior. And amongst these Churches the +Roman has with its authoritative head and its international +organization, a unique position. It can render mighty social and +civic service, and we must, we are told, not be surprised if in its +zeal to render those services it at times blunders, or is tricked +by crooked statesmen, or overlooks dangers that do not properly +belong to its sphere.

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I trust you admire bow I can talk like a Jesuit or a literary +nun. I learned the craft fifty years ago. Seriously, this third +line of defense, though the most likely to be presented when the +need for apology becomes urgent, is the worst bunk of all. For this

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simple reason, I have just filled ten little books with proof that +the Church of Rome instead of inspiring a love of justice and peace +during the last ten years has, for its own corporate purposes, +dulled the world's sense of justice and seriously helped to divert +its attention from the threat to its peace. This is not rhetoric. +The attitude of Catholics, as reflected in their press and the +utterances of their bishops, the whole world over has been that +since their Holy Church and Holy Father could not possibly ally +themselves with iniquity, the Axis powers could not be as corrupt +as some represented, and those aggressive programs to which a few +of us have tried to draw attention for the last five or six years +must be just adolescent dreams which they have outgrown.

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What in the name of common-sense is the use of proving to us +that the Church of Rome and its Papacy could render most valuable +service to the state and to what it calls our life here and now +when in the gravest crisis of our lives, if not the gravest in +history, it does not say one single word of approval of the forces +that are trying to save civilization but consistently gives most +important assistance to the forces that would, if they prevailed, +destroy civilization in the sense in which all decent and sensible +men have come to understand it?

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Let us be as realistic as you like and leave rhetoric to +priests, politicians, and editorial writers. In what way could the +Church of Rome serve the race in a social-moral respect? Only by +sternly and explicitly denouncing, not crime in the abstract but +the men who commit it and warning the race that they are dangerous. +And what is the actual record which we have surveyed? During ten +years of open preparation for the most ghastly of crimes, ten +year's of steadily increasing perpetration of crime, the Pope has +done nothing whatever but bless the abstract virtues of peace and +justice, knowing perfectly well that the arch-criminals professed +to aim at giving the world perpetual peace -- when they have all +the guns -- and appeal every day to the "justice" of their cause +and the "legitimate aspirations" of their people. Of the seven +leading nations on whom the peace of the world and the maintenance +of such justice as our social and political order embodies mainly +depended -- America, Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Italy, and +Japan -- the last three alone betrayed, indeed openly paraded, an +intention to disturb the peace of the world, to destroy such +political justice as we have won, and to trample upon such +restraining decencies as we have been able to incorporate in +international law. I have shown that the Pope never said one single +word of condemnation of those three powers; that he, on the +contrary, entered into and maintained the most friendly relations +with them, thus helping to divert the suspicions of the world from +them; that even when the struggle began all his references to peace +and justice (including this latest Christmas message) were so +framed that they confused the criminals and the police together in +whatever censure they implied; and that the only explicit and +violent attacks he made were upon the one power, Russia, that had +the greatest interest in peace and could do most to save +civilization.

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Further, in what way could a Pope's message have the effect +which is so fulsomely attributed to it? Only when his local agents +in any country, the hierarchy and clergy, consistently and +explicitly applied it to the leaders or ruling class of that +country. Well, they were, we saw, certainly consistent -- in +blessing the crimes and the criminals. If that sounds rhetorical +quote me one single instance of a German bishop censuring the foul-minded Nazis or an Italian prelate censuring the Fascists on any +ground other than their refusal to pay the Church the full price +they had contracted to pay the Church for its support. Naturally +one swallow would not make a summer. It happens that after this +elaborate survey of the whole period I do not know a single +instance. But I have given a hundred proofs, including collective +letters of the whole episcopate, that the German and Italian +hierarchies, individually, and officially, applauded every +"conquest" of their bloody-minded rulers and never warned their +people that their leaders were bringing an historic shame upon +them, Add the conduct of the hierarchy and clergy in Spain, in +Hungary, in Vichy France, in Slovakia, in South America and you +have the real picture of what the Black International has done for +the world.

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But, says the apologist finally, and tearfully, the Church +would have been persecuted and rendered helpless if it had not +acted thus. If I were a Catholic I should be inclined to say: Would +to God that it had been persecuted and rendered helpless! The world +might not be in so desperate a plight. And what about this vast +library of Catholic literature in which we read how it is so +inflexible in its moral principles that in all ages its priests go +to the stake rather than compromise; that it thrives on and is +purified by persecution, and so on?

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Enough of this trashy verbiage of apologists. We men and women +of the modern age want only to know the facts and we need no priest +and no Pope to tell us what to think about them. You will probably +think three things. Firstly, that this scandalous cowering under +the Catholic threat which prevents the press and our literary +oracles from telling the truth about what is happening calls for +serious consideration. Secondly, the respect which our politicians +and statesmen pay to the Church of Rome and its "venerable Pontiff" +is scandalously opposed to the interests of the nation and the +race. Thirdly, that the apologists of the Catholic Church in +America are particularly and scandalously untruthful. It is an +economic corporation seeking to protect its wealth and power at any +cost to the race. The 200000000 Catholics are just its feeding-ground. It has now sold civilization for thirty pieces of silver, +and what will happen to it when we have prevented the devil from +reaping the fruit of the bargain must surprise no man.

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THE TOTALITARIAN CHURCH OF ROME

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ITS FUEHRER, ITS GAULEITER, ITS GESTAPO, +AND ITS MONEY-BOX

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by Joseph McCabe

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I The Holy Father ............. 3

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II The Right Reverend Fathers ............. 11

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INTRODUCTION

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During the past few years several estimable American writers +have claimed that the Roman Church is in sympathy with Fascism and +has itself a semi-Fascist complexion. In support of this charge +they have adduced such evidence that even Catholics have been +disturbed and divided. Apologists of the Jesuit type, who had +represented the Church as the faithful guardian, if not the mother, +of freedom and democracy, have excelled themselves in the +contortions of their craft. They had almost succeeded in persuading +America that the Statue of Liberty is a symbolic representation of +the Church. Less unscrupulous Catholic writers, or those who have +a higher appreciation of the intelligence of the American public, +have recognized that there is some truth in the charge and have +blamed the Pope, the Italian corporation that runs the Church, or +the local hierarchies of bishops.

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Most men vaguely feel that there is more than "some truth" in +the charge. It expresses a monstrous truth: the prostitution of +what they had been persuaded to accept as the most massive moral +power in the world. For no literary or journalistic sophistry, no +sonorous speech on the either, can blur the significance of the

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fact that in the mightiest struggle against evil that the planet +has seen for 15 centuries the Pope has been silent. Indeed, he was +worse than silent. In the old days a charge of treason was brought +against any man who "comforted or abetted" the king's enemies. In +that sense the Pope is a traitor to humanity. Neutrality in the +world at large, and especially in their own countries, was all the +help that the bandit-powers expected of the chief oracle of the +Church. It was enough if he allowed his local hierarchies of +archbishops and bishops and the priests they rigorously controlled +-- the Black International -- to assure their people that the orgy +of brutality, the satisfaction of a naked lust of power and wealth, +into which they had led their nations deserved their cordial +support and cooperation.

+ +

And this effective support of a bestiality that will one day +astonish historians is not the whole guilt of the Church. In one +weak country after another that was marked out for enslavement to +the vile purposes of Hitler, priests prepared the way for the +invaders, and priests followed in their wake over the stricken +lands -- Spain, China, Abyssinia, Austria, Albania, Belgium. +France, Czecho-Slovakia, and Yugo-Slavia -- to raise the gold and +white banner of the Papacy, beside that of the pirates. Even in the +United States and the British Empire they tried, until each of the +Pope's three Allies in turn cynically dropped the mask and struck +at democracy, to lull suspicion and to paralyse by promoting hatred +of Russia and friendliness with or neutrality toward the enemies of +civilization.

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These facts may be discerned by any man on the face of +contemporary life, and in a series of ten booklets I have given the +details and the full evidence. Readers of my historical works (The +True Story of the Roman Church, The History of Morals, etc.) hardly +needed proof, They know that for many centuries the Roman Church +has maintained its power, and could not otherwise have survived in +an age of growing enlightenment, by allying itself with bloody and +corrupt secular powers. From about 1150, When Europe was fairly +awake after the heavy slumbers of the Dark Ages and perceived the +corruption of its Church, to 1550, when Protestants won the first +installment of freedom, several million rebels against Rome were +massacred or savagely executed. Even in the first half of the 19th +Century, when the nobler motto of the French Revolution had been +washed out with blood, the Church compassed the death of further +hundreds of thousands. Then the new humanitarian world of our time +-- the skeptical frivolous world whose sins the Church tearfully +deplores -- compelled it to suspend its policy. But that policy +remained and remains, on its statute book when it saw tens of +millions of adherents turning away from it in the new atmosphere of +freedom it waited impatiently for the opportunity to apply it once +more. The onset of the Axis beasts was its opportunity.

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But few know these things today. In the new and more liberal +world the Church at first professed repentance and conversion. But +as it grew in wealth and masses of voters it grew bolder, and at +length it acquired a control of public education that is second +only to that of the Nazis in thoroughness and mendacity. We shall +see the details of the plot. By the wealth it was able to use in +propaganda, by the intimidation of some and the Seduction of other

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organs of instruction, even of some academic writers, it succeeded +in obliterating all traces of its grisly past and on imposing upon +America the idea that Roman Catholicism is a moral force that is +beautifully adapted to work with the spirit and institutions of +America. That also will some day astonish historians.

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Accustomed for years to have this idea of the Church impressed +upon him daily or weekly by his papers, breathed persuasively from +his radio, endorsed even by statesmen, the average American +hesitates when you say that it is rather an economic corporation +than a moral force and is the natural ally of Nazis and Fascists +because it has the same aims -- to increase its own power and +wealth -- and the same ruthlessness in pursuing its aim. So here I +propose to give a true and detailed description of the Roman Church +and contrast this with the utterly false representation of it in +American Catholic literature. As in the earlier series I intend to +rely on facts not rhetoric: and those facts will be given as far as +possible on Catholic authority, always on the best authorities. +Part of the hesitation of the average American is due to the fact +that Catholic writers have warned him that the Church is +misrepresented and libelled: that it has, in fact, "enemies," who +are driven to an insane hatred of it by its virtue and wisdom. It +is an old trick. You have heard that sort of thing from Goebbels +and Haw-Haw, have you not? You heard it from the Nazis until 1939, +from the Italians until 1941, from the Japs until 1942. But you +shall we the facts and judge for yourself.

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Chapter I

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THE HOLY FATHER

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I think it was Cardinal Hayes -- the priest who in 1921 +ordered the New York Police (who obeyed) to stop an important +meeting on Birth Control in the Town Hall -- that claimed, and a +vast body of American Catholics applauded the claim, that it is the +sight of St. Patrick's Cathedral, not of the Statue of Liberty, +that, as a symbol of freedom, moistens the eyes of the refugee from +down-trodden Europe. Have Catholics no sense of humor? St. +Patrick's Cathedral, or the Roman Church in America which it +represents, suggests a body of about 35000 priests who not only +rule the maids of 20000000 Americans, threatening them with the +horrors of an eternal concentration-camp if they rebel or read +anything that might excite a critical feeling, but they interfere +in the intimate details of the personal lives of these 20000000 +Americans more truculently than the Gestapo meddle with such +matters in Germany. It suggests a body of 120 bishops and +archbishops who rule the priests as despotically as these rule the +people. And it points overseas to a Pope who controls the bishops +and archbishops as tyrannically as they rule their priests, and who +has on occasion treated, publicly, the whole body of American +prelates as arrogantly as some tactless lieutenant of police treats +his patrolmen.

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Let us begin with the Pope. He is called the Holy Father or +His Holiness or the Sovereign Pontiff because he is so holy and +removed from ordinary mortals that if you have only 10 or 20

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dollars to spare when you get to Rome you must look at him from a +distance. If you can make it $50 or $100 you may kiss his slipper. +Make it $1000 or so and you may kiss his ring. If you have a +million you may kiss almost anything.

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You do not, understand the Catholic protests. It is not his +person but in his character that the Pope is sacrosanct. He bears +a dignity that has been borne during nearly 1900 years by a long +line of austere Bishops of Rome, and he has been chosen for this +and endowed with a very special measure of "grace" by the Holy +Ghost. Even a politician may fittingly speak with reverence of such +a character or kiss his ring, while the heads of these upstart +Protestant Churches must groan with envy. Well, I know nothing +about Holy Ghosts but I know as much as any man living about these +Holy Fathers of the past. I have, in fact, written about them so +often that here I must be very summary. But if I dismiss them with +the bald remark that no other long-lived religion in history ever +had so disreputable a series of supreme leaders some of my readers, +more familiar with the conventional estimate of them, will find it +incredible, so let me repeat a few lines.

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How many Popes there have been we cannot say precisely, since +even Catholic writers differ about the number. The first three or +four on Catholic lists are more or less mythical, and there were +later ages when rivals for the wealthy bishopric got into such a +muddle of consecrations that it is difficult to say which was Pope +and which Anti-Pope. Let us say about 260. You will find that in +Catholic lists of these no less than 30 were Martyrs and 86 were +Saints. No wonder your Catholic neighbor is proud of his Popes! Yet +this statement, though repeated in the most important Catholic +works of reference, is so flagrantly untruthful as to the Martyrs +that the weightiest Catholic experts on such matters (Delehaye, +Ehrhard, Duchesne, etc.) admit that two Popes, at the most laid +down their lives for the faith. A dozen or so cheerfully laid down +the lives of their rivals or opponents.

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Two-third's of the 86 Saints are men about whose character we +have no evidence that would be regarded as reliable even by the +biographer of a statesman. The eulogies of these in the Catholic +Encyclopedia are based upon a Roman official calendar of the Popes +the first part of which is mainly fiction and upon tombstone +epitaphs like that which describes John XII, the most corrupt young +ruffian who ever wore the tiara, as "an ornament of the whole +world."

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Of the first 30 Popes, who all wear the official halo, the +character of only five is known to us. Two of these were Anti-Popes +who died in an odor not of sanctity but of sulphur, a third +(Victor) was rebuked by the whole Church for his arrogance and was +on peculiarly good terms with the Emperor's hottest concubine; the +fourth (Callistus) was an unscrupulous ex-slave adventurer (and we +know him best of all): the fifth (Damassus) fell foul even of the +civic police of Rome on a serious charge of moral turpitude. To sum +up this matter of early history, of which I give a full account +elsewhere, we do not know the character of at least 100 (which +includes nearly all the Martyrs and most of the Saints) of the 260 +Popes; we know that more than half the remainder were addicted to

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simony or protected clerical corruption; and we know that of the +remaining 160, with good evidence as to character, about 30 were +murderers, fornicators, sodomists, or variety-artists in crime. So +much for the fragrant tradition of holiness.

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Some of your professors of history say that I am just +muckraking when I recall these things, because the Roman Curia +reformed long ago. When? Certainly not at the Reformation, for the +line of Unholy Fathers, which had then already lasted a century, +was, with a few short intervals, prolonged for another century +after Luther; and the "greatest" Pope of the 18th Century, Benedict +XIV, was notorious in Europe for his love of spicy stories and used +expressions which the police would not permit me to translate.

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But did not the even more terrible losses of money and members +at the French Revolution sober the Papal Court? For a time, or as +long as the wintry winds blew. When the sun of corrupt despotism +shone again upon Europe the Popes and cardinals showed little +improvement. In my large History of the Popes (1939) I have +described the three Popes who adorned the Holy See in that Indian +Summer of the Middle Age's. Leo XII, a converted rake and elderly +invalid, was despised by all Rome and Italy. Pius VIII was a +paralyzed old man who literally dribbled at the mouth as they +wheeled him about the Vatican in his baby-carriage. Gregory XVI, a +notorious wine-bibber and lover of erotic gossip, "absorbed himself +in ignoble interests while the country groaned under misrule" (says +one of the chief Italian historians). The leading power of Europe +had, publicly, to warn these moral oracles of the race to put a +little common decency into their kingdom. Then there was the +"saintly" Pius IX, a miserable weakling who, after running away in +disguise from the revolutionary storm of 1848, let Cardinal +Antonelli (who was born a pauper and left $20000000 for his +bastard daughter and the priests to fight over) rule Italy on the +vicious old lines while he defied modern thought, discovered the +Immaculate Conception of Mary, and bullied the bishops into the +irony of declaring him infallible! The century finished with "the +great diplomatist" Leo XIII; and he was so successful in his +diplomacy that during his pontificate the Church lost some tens of +millions of members.

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Well, you may say, that must have taught the cardinal-electors +a lesson, and since 1900 they must have been very careful to choose +the really holiest and best candidates. They learned no lesson +whatever. Each of the recent Papal elections has been, as it always +was, preceded by intrigue and the clash of rival ambitions. Three +times since 1900 the voters have put at the head of their Church (a +world-wide business with an income of hundreds of millions of +dollars a year at its central office alone) a man who would have +failed to run a $3000 store. I have just read fifteen Catholic +books -- British, French, Italian, and German -- on them and ought +to know them.

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The fourth, the present Pope, we will discuss shortly. Let us +first consider the Papal election (Conclave) in itself. This will +correct half the flatulent stuff you may have read in American +papers. The Catholic theory you probably know. Sixty or seventy +cardinals elect the Pope. They are locked and carpentered in a

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special part of the Vatican palace, where each now has a suite of +rooms -- in the old days when they were all locked in a chapel day +and night for weeks the odor was not one of sanctity -- until one +of the rival candidates gets two-thirds of the vote's. There is +much praying to the Holy Ghost for guidance, but they still have to +be locked in and watched lest they consult profane persons outside. +It is to be inferred that the direction of the Holy Ghost is not in +good Latin because they rarely agree in less than three days. +Possibly it is not even then the supernatural guidance so much as +the rule that their diet shall be cut down from the fourth day that +hastens the decision.

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In practice the Conclave is much more human than the theory. +Ever since the Church of Rome became rich in the 4th Century there +has been a spirited struggle for the control of the treasury. As +early as 366 more than 160 of the supporters of the rival +candidates had to be buried, and as late as 1492 the "butcher's +bill" was more than 200. The struggle is now more refined; though +when the Pope says his first Mass he still has nobles at hand to +take the first sip of the wine and see that it has not been +poisoned.

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A feverish intrigue warms Rome before la Pope's death. Broadly +there are two schools of cardinals: the "zealots" -- think of the +hairy hill-men of Kentucky who roar out the hymn "Old-Fashioned +Religion" -- and the "political's" or practical men. There are +generally four or five cardinals who fancy their chances and carry +the bets of the Romans, and they canvass the voters of the rival +schools and let it be known that they are grateful to supporters. +Each party selects one champion, and they enter the Conclave with +the Holy Ghost on their lips and the name of a candidate in their +pockets. Those from France, Germany, Italy, or Spain may have also +instructions from their governments to keep out So-and-so at all +costs (the veto).

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They pray and talk for an hour or two and then take a vote +(written). The two favorites are found to have, perhaps, a third of +the votes each, and the nibbling at each other's parties and the +neutrals begins. There is still generally a deadlock, and they turn +to the string of "also ran." A few colorless outsiders are tried +until one gets the two-thirds vote. He is generally advanced in age +or an invalid so that the struggle may be resumed in a few years. +The lucky man who at last gets the required majority murmurs "I am +not worthy" and -- because a Pope Was once taken seriously when he +said this -- makes for the pontifical robes, which are waiting (in +three sizes). Then they take him out on the balcony to show to the +public. The historical record of these Conclaves by Petrucelli +della Gattina -- a good deal of it is translated in miss V. Pirie's +Triple Crown (1935) -- beats the history of Tammany for clean fun.

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An Italian Catholic priest, G. Berthelet (Storia en +Rivilazioni sul Conclave, 1904) says of the election of the "great" +Leo XIII:

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"If Pius IX had foreseen the election of Leo XIII he +would have excommunicated him, but if Leo XIII had foreseen +that at his death the cardinals would vote for Giuseppe Sarto, +he would have excommunicated the lot of them."

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Sarto, Archbishop of Venice, was a good old man of peasant +origin. His sister kept the village pub. He loved to talk broad +Venetian with a countryman and shock the more starchy cardinals. +But what else could the poor voters do? For years Cardinal +Rampolla, the ablest of them, a lean black-visaged lynx-eyed +schemer like the present Pope, had worked for the position. The +candidate of the zealots was Gatti, a somber ascetic man; and one +of the leading Roman cardinals, Vannutelli, who was well known to +have a mistress and children living not very far from the Vatican +-- one of the chief American consuls in Italy pointed out the house +to me in Rome in 1904 -- thought that he had a sporting chance and +carried many bets. But with so many of these prudish Americans and +British about in Rome nowadays only five dare vote for the gay +cardinal and he dropped out. Then, as that very sober and weighty +French newspaper Le Temps said in its account of the Conclave: "The +Holy, Ghost was clearly making for the French candidate (Rampolla) +but the Triplice (Triple Alliance) headed him off." The Austrian +cardinal, speaking for his government and that of Germany, said +that they would not tolerate the election of Rampolla, That +cardinal told them what he thought of so profane a maneuver but +"the German faction" stuck to their guns and Rampolla dropped out. +Then the genial Vannutelli proposed old Sarto who was turned 70 and +very easy-going. The Spanish cardinal had been instructed by his +government to oppose Sarto. but the warm language inspired by the +Austrian Veto intimidated him and the brother of the village pub-owner (who was at once summoned to Rome and made comparatively +rich) put on the holy robe's.

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Catholic writers in America have denied that Austria was +allowed to exercise a veto but practically all the French and +Italian Catholic writers (Berthelet, Crispolati, etc.) affirm it. +I take the account of the Conclave from a biography of the Pope +(Pie X intime) by a high Papal official, the Count de Colleville, +who got it not only from "a great lady of the Austrian Court" +(obviously the Empress) but also from Cardinal Gibbons! The French +Cardinal Matthieu agrees in his account of the Conclave in the +(Catholic) Revue de Deux Mondes. It is beyond question. Vannutelli +and the Kaiser had a great deal more than the Holy Ghost to do with +the first Papal election of the 20th Century.

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As Pope Pius X (1903-14) he finely helped on that dissolution +of the Church which Leo XIII had begun. How in his fight against +Modernism he drove its few real scholars out of the. Church and set +up a new Inquisition: how he tried to drive out artists, literary +men, and ladies by forbidding modern music at the Sunday services; +and how he fell foul of France and Italy by insisting on his right +to examine the morals of their prelates we shall see later. He died +soon after the outbreak of war in 1914. They no longer knock the +Pope on the head with a little hammer to see if he is really dead +or feel the testicles of a new Pope to be sure that he is not a +woman in disguise, but the mood in which the cardinal-electors met +at Rome was as grim as ever.

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In 1914 the Vatican was "modernized." It had one telephone, of +primitive type, one creaky lift, four firemen (and odd-job men), no +automobile or vacuum cleaner. But it did know that there was a war +on, and the big question was whether they should have a Pope who

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would help to bring Italy into the war or one who would keep it +neutral. Italy was a member of the Triple Alliance with Germany and +Austria, but they had not much to offer it, though they made +attractive offers privately to the Vatican, and they knew that it +was secretly negotiating with France and Britain for a higher +price. The Germans therefore hinted to the Holy Ghost that they +wanted a neutrality Pope, and they got one, a rank outsider. A +Strict Catholic writer, Crispolati, who was in the crowd in the +Piazza when Benedict XV, the new Pope, came out on the balcony, +says that there was "universal stupefaction." Baron Sonnino wrote +to a friend: "The Vatican is working with the German Centre and was +always an enemy of the Italian nation." You ought to try on an +Italian friend the little joke that "the Church never interferes in +polities."

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Like his predecessor, Benedict XV was a holy man -- that is to +say, he was elderly and never drank or swore -- but as the moral +ruler of the earth in a grave crisis he was about as useful as the +Grand Lama of Tibet. Europe was aflame with the first great war of +the century and, though this is not the place to assign the war-guilt, no one imagines that the welter of blood and tears was just +due to an innocent misunderstanding. But Benedict XV flatly refused +to inquire who was guilty, "I am," he said in his Consistorial +Allocution on January 22, 1915, "commissioned by God to be his +chief interpreter." One would think that God would have had +something to say about a war that cost 10000000 lives and +$50000000000 and led to a good deal of Atheism, but his "chief +interpreter" merely "denounced all injustice by whatever side it +may be committed" and said that he would not "involve the +pontifical authority in the controversies of the belligerents." He +was sure that it would be "clear to every unbiased thinker that in +this frightful conflict the Holy See, without failing to watch it +with close attention, is bound to a complete impartiality." The +Kaiser, being an unbiased man, heartily agreed with him. All that +he could hope for from Italy was neutrality. And the present Pope, +who was then Nuncio in Germany, was on good terms with the Kaiser.

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The great French scholar A. Loisy lashed him mercilessly (in +The War and Religion, 1915) for failing to distinguish between +impartiality and neutrality. The Italian's -- notably one Benito +Mussolini went further, They produced very good evidence that the +Pope maintained to treasonable correspondence with Germany through +the Austrian Church and very seriously tampered with the loyalty of +the Italian troops. But we have seen enough in our time of this +kind of conduct on the part of God's chief interpreter in a world-crisis. As I said in the earlier books, the idea that there is +anything new in the recent policy of the Vatican or that you can +blame the present Pope for it is far astray.

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How Benedict completed the medieval work of his predecessor +and fastened upon the Catholic world a Code of Canon Law which +gives the lie to American apologists we shall see later. The Barque +of Peter emerged from the war "with overwheathered rib's and +tattered sails" and before it had time to recover it ran into the +hurricane, of Atheistic Communism. A frothy sea of blasphemy (from +both Fascists and Communists) confronted the Pope in Italy, and +devastating waves spread over Germany, France, Spain, and Spanish

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America and Benedict succumbed (1922) and the cardinals met for a +grimmer fight -- I mean a more ardent supplication of the Holy +Ghost -- than ever. Ought they to maintain Benedict's policy of +spending millions of lire in an attempt to conciliate Russia? Ought +they to come to terms at last with the Italian throne, which was +tottering, and government and cooperate with them in strangling +Socialism? And so on.

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The treasury was almost empty. Catholic writers say that the +new Pope found only $55000 in it, but they are rather ingenious +about these financial matters. Seldes reports their report of the +$55000 but seems to forget that a few pages earlier he had said +that the new Pope set out at once upon a career of princely +generosity. "The day after his succession" he says (p. 250) "he +handed over 500000 lire to the German cardinals, for their +compatriot victims of the sinking mark," and "some time after" he +gave the French clergy 1000000 lire; and in the same year (1922) +spent 2500000 lire on his Russian mission or enterprise. Some +wizard of finance! Catholic writers say that Benedict himself had +found an empty treasury, and even the expenses of the Conclave had +had to be met by a fat American cheque! We thank them for these +detail's but would further like to know how these things happened +when, as we shall see in the last chapter of this book, from 1900 +onward the income of the Vatican had been at least $500000000 a +year!

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The same Italian writers tell us that Cardinal O'Connell had +hastened to this Conclave with instructions to probe the financial +mystery. The Knights of Columbus, we suppose, wanted to know where +their money went. But O'Connell reached Rome to learn that the +Conclave was over, and we gather that to express himself he helped +out his very elementary Italian with some ripe Irish-American.

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The voting had been fierce -- there were 14 scrutinies or +polls -- and out of the fight had emerged Achille Ratti, son of a +small silk-dealer of peasant origin. If his predecessor's +appearance on the balcony had been greeted with "universal +stupefaction" one wonders what sensation Pius XI created. He was an +obscure bookworm, a Papal librarian, and had for the last few years +been buried in Poland. Which did not prevent the American press +from hailing the result as a splendid choice and the new Pope as a +man of marvelous attainments -- he had even climbed the Alps -- and +character. He was quite moral, of course, and therefore in Catholic +language very holy, and of simple tastes. He set up a Spartan suite +of rooms in the Palace and brought his sister to clean out the +rascally valets, cooks, etc. He ordered that account-books (which +have never been seen) should be kept and is supposed to have +reformed the finances. The atmosphere of the Vatican City and Rome +was blue With naughty words.

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The chief point that concerns us here is that Pius XI is the +Pope who made the famous, or infamous, compact with Mussolini, +constructed an alliance of great cordiality with Japan, and helped +Hitler to power by ordering the German Church to drop its hostility +to the bunch of Nazi adventurers. He is the Pope who made Eugenio +Pacelli his Secretary of State and Signed every agreement that +Pacelli negotiated between 1930 and 1939. It was he who blessed the

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outrages of the Germans and Italians in Spain and sent a Papal +banner to float beside the blood-stained rag of Franco; he who sat +with sealed lips in the Vatican while the whole Italian Church +cheered the savage attack on Abyssinia and called it a crusade for +God and civilization: he who patted Cardinal Innitzer on the back +for betraying Austria to Hitler and who approved the Catholic +intrigues which ruined Czecho-Slovakia: he who roused the Catholic +world -- indeed the whole world as far as he could reach it -- to +hatred of Russia and a demand for the extinction of Socialism. A +very Holy Father. When he died the Catholic press glowed with pride +in his fragrant memory and his services to the race, and the +American papers generally dug out their stereotyped articles about +"the venerable head of the Great Church" and his beneficent moral +influence.

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The cardinal-electors at once, and with less intrigue and +dispute than usual appointed as his successor the man who, as +Secretary of State, had emphatically carried out if not inspired, +his policy of alliance, for the benefit of the Church, with the +three great powers whom the world now execrates and loathes. The +Catholic press hailed him ecstatically. The American section of it +assured the world, on the authority of their cardinals (who had +worked generously for his election) and archbishops, that he was +quite American in his enthusiasm for peace, freedom and democracy. +But I have told the whole story in the preceding series of booklets +and will not return to it. Form your own judgment. You have all the +material. Ask yourself this question: Did or did not the American, +British, and French cardinals who were his chief champions in the +conflict, and the archbishops and bishops whom they are supposed to +consult, understand the policy that Pius XI and Pacelli has openly +pursued for ten years? Choose your alternative -- and your language +about it.

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This little sketch of the Conclaves of the last few decades +will give you a better idea of the Papacy as it is today than you +will learn from a hundred editorials and magazine articles. There +is no need to dig up the odoriferous bodies of the Popes of the +Dark Age or the Middle Age. I really do not care two pins about +the question how many children Innocent VIII, Alexander VI, +Julius II or Paul III had or just how many Popes were sodomists +or murderers. I recall these things only when I find so many +other writers, even professors, pretending that the Papacy +promoted civilization in Europe or Catholic writers telling +monstrous untruths about the Middle Ages. After all, these Papal +sinners, however incongruous it may be to find them in a Holy See +in which the Holy Ghost takes so special an interest, did not do +much harm to the race. Most of the real evil was done by the +Saints (Leo I, Gregory I, Gregory VII, Innocent III, etc.). But a +vast amount of harm has been done by these stodgy bourgeois Popes +of modern times and the political "cardinals who guided their +hands."

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That they are "chosen by the Holy Ghost" you now see to be +the emptiest of bunk. They are not even chosen because they are +the wisest and best men available. The present Pope, it is true, +was one of the ablest of the cardinal-voters, but he was not +chosen on account of his linguistic ability and his experience

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from much traveling. He was elected because the Italian cardinals +believed that Germany, Italy, and Japan would win in the +impending conflict and would carry out their promises to the +Church and destroy Socialism. A Papal election is like any other, +except that in a political election the man with the largest +number of votes wins and in the Papal election the voting must be +repeated until one cardinal gets two-thirds of the votes. It is +gloriously prolific of intrigue but above all hovers the golden +rule: More power and wealth for the Church.

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Well, this is the Pope when you strip him of all +propagandist "properties," as the theatrical folk say. That he is +infallible is, of course, even on Catholic principles a poor +joke. Since it was declared in 1870, after a prolonged and bitter +struggle with a large part of the bishops, that he is infallible +if he speaks in certain conditions every Pope has been very +careful in his utterances to avoid those conditions. Is he an +autocrat? Very decidedly on Catholic theory. He need not consult +anybody, though in practice he consults his Secretary of State +and other cardinals when he is preparing an important message. He +can depose any prelate or cardinal, but in practice if an Italian +is troublesome to the Pope and his friends he is buried in a +diplomatic appointment far away. The Italian cardinals are the +Pope's cabinet and he frequently discusses matters with them and +with visiting cardinals and archbishop's but they have no power +to modify what he propose's to do. He is an autocrat, a dictator, +a Fuhrer or Duce, in just the same sense as Hitler or Mussolini. +But just as these find it expedient to discuss affairs with the +leaders of their respective parties, so the Pope must consult the +sentiments of the higher clergy of Italy. The cardinals find it +safe to elect a mediocrity sometime's because they know that he +will not run the Church. They and the leading Italian prelates +do. That is the next important point to appreciate.

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Chapter II

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THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHERS

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American and British Catholics show a tendency in recent +years to want to get rid of the title "Roman" of which they were +once so proud. In order to be able to call for the suppression in +America of Communism and socialism -- Atheism would be the next +victim -- without (they say) incurring the charge of violating +the grand American principle of freedom some sophists started the +slogan that these things are "un-American." It is slowly dawning +upon the minds of many that a religion which calls itself Roman +Catholicism does not sound pure American, so the word quietly +passes round to cut out the "Roman." Examine your new +Encyclopedia Americana -- of which, if you will pardon me saying +so, American culture ought to be ashamed -- in the writing of +which Catholics have played as lamentable a part as in the +writing of the last edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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It is ridiculous to drop the word, and it becomes quite +funny when you occasionally find an apologist going on to say +that if the Vatican ever draws anything at variance with the +American spirit and Constitution they will cut the cable and

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become simply the American Catholic Church. Seeing that Catholic +means "universal" the thing is stupid. It is just a loud way of +saying that, of course, Rome would never do anything of the kind. +Their Church is essentially Roman: not in the sense that Peter +founded it at Rome, which is false, or merely in the sense that +Rome is the connecting link of the various bodies of its members +in most countries of the world, but because Rome rules it as +surely as the Boston clique, rules Christian Science everywhere.

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If the American hierarchy were conceivably to defy the Pope +they would have to repudiate a large part of their theology and +the vast literature of sermons and articles on their superiority +to other sects in that they possess a Holy Father, an +international and infallible leader who is inspired above all +other mortals to rule the world. All the talk about the grandeurs +of the Vatican would have to be disowned, and it would have to be +admitted that the billions of dollars sent to it were wasted on a +bunch of hypocritical Italians. Even if it were pretended that +the American Church remained part of the Catholic Church -- it +could not, as I said, be Catholic (universal) yet purely American +-- it would find itself repudiated with horror by every other +branch of the Church, for schism is in Catholic theology as +sinful as heresy. It would lose millions of adherents and its +treasury would be terribly reduced.

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You may therefore regard as sheer nonsense and quite +insincere any talk of American apologists about defying the Pope. +Every American bishop and most priests know that all such +attempts -- there was a notable attempt (Old Catholicism) in +Germany after Pius IX bullied the bishops into declaring him +infallible -- has dismally failed and could not possibly succeed +in our time. But few realize to what an extent the Italians +control the Church and have a huge financial interest in +maintaining this control.

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Here let me, once for all, say a word about what some folk +call "the good side" of Catholicism. I have met many of these +'liberal' writers and read most of them, and I find that they +have one thing in common: they do not know the Church of Rome. +Often they take up this attitude for social or political reasons, +and they protect themselves in it by refusing to read critical +works or full statements of facts like mine. They give their +readers an impression of the Catholic period in European history, +the Middle Ages, which is a confused and superficial jumble of +lovely cathedrals and teeming universities, chivalrous knights +and holy monks and is false to the extent of four-fifths. They +will not read accounts of the real character of the time. Their +idea of the Church today is an equally superficial maundering +about venerable heads, sagacity of the age-old Vatican, deeply +religious priests, and virtuous laity: which again is a mixture +of one part of truth and four of lying. They are in large part +responsible for that false idea of Rome which has enabled it to +help the enemies of civilization during ten of the most fateful +years in history. So let me say that, while I know much better +than they how many decent Popes there were and what proportion of +the bishops, priests, and monks are really and consistently +religious -- not more than one in ten -- I am, as a conscientious +writer with a social outlook, concerned only with the general

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features of the Church and think it a service to my fellows to +tell them the truths which are usually from not very respectable +motive's which masquerade as liberalism, so generally and so +scandalously suppressed.

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One of these truths is that in one of its most important +aspects the Church of Rome is an economic corporation, the Black +International, for collecting and drafting hundreds of millions +of dollars every year to Rome. I have described how, and on what +grounds, the Popes are elected. Originally, and all through the +Dark Ages, the Pope was elected, publicly and orally, by the +priests and people of Rome. This led, as I said, to vicious +fights when the See became rich, and the "cardinal" (or +principal) clergy of Rome used this pretext to secure a monopoly +of the election. The Popes had now crushed Roman democracy and +deceived the people everywhere into submission to their semi-magical powers. It was a very profitable monopoly. The people +were still allowed to loot the palace and treasury of the dead +Pope but the cardinals from that date expected the man they +elected to show his gratitude and in Renaissance days the shower +of favors amounted to millions -- and a candidate found it easier +to bribe or persuade a handful of cardinal's than a mob. In time +the Catholic monarchs forced the Papacy to grant the red hat to +one or more distinguished prelates in their own countries and the +"sacred college of cardinals" became. international. But the +Italians retained, and still retain, a monopoly of the power to +elect a Pope.

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There are supposed to be 70 cardinals. At present there are +55, and 29 of these are Italians. They always have an absolute +majority; and this is easily secured because they elect, the Pope +and he, in consultation with them, creates new cardinals as the +old die off. Foreign cardinals fume and demand a larger +representation in the "sacred college." The United States has +about 15000000 Catholics and only two cardinals. Italy has +probably about 20000000 genuine Catholics and 29 cardinals. The +Italians have the further advantage of being united and close +neighbors while the foreign cardinals are scattered and often, +like their nations, bitterly hostile to each other. There are, +for instance, two American, two British (including the Canadian), +three Vichy French, three Fascist Spanish, and three Nazis. Thus +the Papal autocracy is a lucrative monopoly of the Italians.

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It is part of the Catholic idea that is foisted upon the +public by the press, radio, cinema, subsidized books, etc., that +these "Princes of the Church," as they are called, stand next to +the Pope in austerity of character and superiority of intellect. +After what I have said about recent Popes you will realize that +they need not be on a very high level to deserve that +description. But, as we saw, this virtue-and-wisdom idea is a bit +of sheer propaganda. Vannutelli was the second most important +cardinal in Rome -- after the Secretary of State -- and his +children must have been proud of him. A Hungarian cardinal at one +of the recent Conclaves refused to enter the concentration-camp +because the food served was not good enough. Most of them are +quite human; and as to intelligence, remember that Sarto (Pius X)

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and Della Chiesa (Benedict XV) became Popes. They are selected +for all sorts of reasons, but in Italy mostly because they are +sound on the Italian policy of monopolizing power and being +always on the side of the big battalions.

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Most of them are comfortable men who are not so much +interested in power as in their bank-accounts, About half a +century ago a book on the Roman system (Les Congregations +romaines, 1890) was published by a Vatican official, a strict +Catholic, F. Grimaldi, in which -- and it is so accurate that it +was put on the Index -- the author said that any candidate for +the cardinal's hat had to have $5000 for expenses, gifts, etc., +and the cost would now be very much greater. But the prize is +well worth it. In the last chapter of this book we will consider +the very peculiar financial system, or lack of system, of the +Vatican, but no one really knows what any high ecclesiastic gets. +Pius XI declared in one of his speeches that the sum he got, +after two or three years haggling, from Mussolini as the price of +his silence was fixed by him as low as he could possibly make it +because the Italians (who would have to produce it) were his +children. It was more than $90000000, and each cardinal got his +income doubled at once. Seldes says that it is now about $5000 a +year.

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In Italy a tax-free income of $5000 a year is equivalent to +a $20000 a year income in America, but it is far higher. The +Italian cardinals are the Pope's cabinet, and they get the plums +in the way of special appointments, commissions, expenses, etc. +We shall see that most of the work of the crowd of officials on +the Vatican City is done through 13 departments of state (or +Congregations) besides various tribunals and other fixtures. I +will describe them in discussing finance. These Congregations, +which grant dispensation's, absolutions, solutions, etc., in the +name of the Pope, are the main channels of the Vatican's vast +income, and it would be interesting to know how much of the +stream of gold sticks to the fingers of the cardinals who preside +over them. You need not take it literally when you read that some +service rendered at the Vatican was "gratuitous." Its officials +could give lessons to the photographer who enlarges your +photograph "for nothing" and then charge& "$5 or $10 for the +frame. In the account of these Congregations in the Catholic +Encyclopedia you read that a cardinal presides over each. In the +much more reliable and semi-official annual Orbis Catholicus we +are told that the number of cardinals at the head of each is "not +generally less than ten or more than 35"; and do not imagine them +rushing to the job from the breakfast-table of a morning. +Millions of lire reach these Congregations, which are housed in a +massive palace, every month from all parts of the Catholic world, +though Italy itself is far from being the best customer.

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But there are other sources of income. Here is one of which +you will not read mention anywhere. In 1935 Sir Thomas More, +Henry VIII's favorite wit until they quarreled and "the author of +more puns than all the rest of the saints put together, was +"canonized." The touching final ceremony was filmed, and you may +have seen the serried ranks of the crimson-caped Italian +cardinals who had gathered in the sanctuary to do honor to

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Britain. A London priest in close touch with the authorities told +a friend of mine that each of these cardinals had demanded a fee +of $100 (English money) for that single appearance. The whole +business cost English Catholics, to the disgust of their +leader's, about $85000 in all.

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Such opportunities, or far more profitable ones, are common +enough, and we may be sure that cardinals who, through the Pope, +control an income of hundreds of millions of lire do not treat +themselves shabbily. But no one outside the inner circle knows +the facts. Writers on "the secrets of the Vatican" confess that +the secret of revenue and expenditure is impenetrable. Something +like 5000 officials, monks, prelates, priests, impoverished +nobles, and grafters dip into the stream of gold but each knows +little more than his own business. The clerical officials of the +Vatican publicity-bureau are as venal as any in the world but +they do not know this secret.

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That, then, is the central mechanism of the Italian Church +for controlling and exploiting the Catholic world. It is a pretty +system. The cardinals, reaching a deadlock in the fight of rival +schools, elect a glorified peasant, a bookworm, or a simple-minded old prelate on whom they can rely for loyalty to the +Italian policy. As the older cardinals die out they discuss with +the Pope in their cabinet-meetings whom they will choose to fill +the vacant places. Foreigners are little represented at these +discussions and they would be in a hopeless minority if they +happened to be in Rome so the Italians settle which of their +archbishop's can safely be admitted to the inner circle. Italy +owns the Church. So it was in the days of Dante six centuries +ago: so it is in our age of wireless and wonder-planes.

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And the Italians are determined that so it shall remain. +These American cardinals who come along with blustering +instructions from the Knights of Columbus about finance are a +pain in the neck to the Italians. They have to be humored, though +they sometimes complain of meeting discourtesy at the Vatican, +because they supply so very large a part of the Papal income, but +their idea of applying in so sacred a world the profane maxim +that taxation without adequate representation is tyranny is very +unsound Catholicism. It is true that their Italian is too +elementary to enable them to argue with the suave and foxy Roman +cardinals, but they can now draw upon their colleges and churches +in Rome.

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The Italians, as I showed in the earlier books, have for 20 +or 30 years met this democratic menace by extending the Church in +lands in which, they think, the people have not been bitten by +the bug of democracy. The British Catholic Teeling's very +temperate book, The Pope in Politics, takes its text from that +truth. The Church must be extended eastward as rapidly as +possible -- hence, as I explained, the stupid wooing of Russia +and Turkey, the chronic hostility to and readiness to injure +Greece, and the general support of the Eastern policy of the Axis +-- and the so-called Latin nations, thoroughly purged of modern +and democratic ideas by Petain, Franco, Salazar, and the South +American dictators, are to form a grand Catholic Fascist League.

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In all this the Vatican is not merely acting on a long out-dated psychology. If one point is more humorous than another in +the conventional idea of the Vatican it is the claim that it has +"a profound and penetrating knowledge of human nature." The only +psychology it knows is a medieval corruption of that of Aristotle +which is about as valuable as a second-rate novelist's psychology +of woman. Scientific psychologists put it in the ash-can nearly a +century ago. These Vatican officials who cherish the theory that +orientals are "naturally submissive," that Russians and Slavs. +are "peaceful and docile" until they are confused by Bolshevik +agitators, and that the Latin-American folk have much the same +"nature," proceed on a racial psychology that belongs to the last +century. There is no "human nature," much less a permanent type +of national character, in modern psychology. There is only human +behavior, and you do not need any science to tell you how +rapidly, even in national masses, it can change. Russia, Germany, +and Italy in their different ways have illustrated the truth so +plainly in the last 20 years that one would have thought that +even an Italian priest could see it. One suspects, in fact, that +the Papal bureaucrats have their eye more on the knout in the +hands of the leaders of these "submissive" peoples than on their +"nature." The Italian priests are not really on the mental level +of Petain for simplicity.

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But there is a second reason, not suspected by most writers +on the subject. Why the Vatican looks to these new extensions of +its power to counterbalance the detested democratic element which +the Americans. are bringing into the Church. Catholic provinces +in which there is not yet a fully constituted hierarchy are ruled +directly from Rome. They are foreign missions and are under the +Congregation of propaganda and its cardinals. It is an +arrangement that is more profitable to the Vatican -- it cuts out +the middle-men so to say -- and gives it a better chance to make +the Italian influence felt. The Vatican is, therefore, in no +hurry to establish new hierarchies. Even Briton remained under +the Propaganda Congregation until well into the 19th century. No +doubt, the new bodies of subjects of the Pope who are, it is +thought, to be won from the Orthodox Churches in the East are to +be kept as long as possible under Italian representatives of the +Roman caucus.

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When the Catholic body in any country becomes large and rich +it presses for the establishment of a hierarchy of bishops under +one or more archbishops (or "chief" bishops). The early Church +had, in my opinion, bishops ("oversees" or superintendents) +before it had priests, at least in Rome, the sacerdotal idea +being developed late in the 2nd Century. However that may be, +bishops and archbishops, the Right Reverend Fathers and +Lordships, soon became indispensable elements of the clerical +structure that Rome was fabricating. The Church has today about +1000 bishops, more than a quarter of whom are in the golden +land, Italy, and in one way or other share the financial +sunshine. A moral history of them would be even more unsavory +than that of the Popes and cardinals. The rich bishoprics and +archbishoprics of the medieval Church, which were often little +princedoms until the end of the feudal system, were obvious +prizes for the younger sons and bastards of princes and nobles,

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and a remarkable procession of them crossed the stage of European +history. Down to the year of the Revolution the great French +prelates took not the least trouble to conceal their vices, and +there was considerable freedom in Italy, Austria, Spain, +Portugal, and South America. One must not refuse a measure of +sympathy to these rich clerics who found their world rudely torn +apart, their wines spilled and their mistresses scattered, by the +new species of men know as "the Reds."

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With the growth of the deplorable "materialism of the 19th +Century" and the increase of Protestant or skeptical travelers in +Catholic countries the episcopal and archiepiscopal epicure's +were painfully compelled to part with the more graceful of the +luxuries of their palaces, though the tactless zeal of the late +Pope discovered scandals in Italy as recently as ten years ago. +Today in every country where Fascism has not extinguished liberty +the archbishop's must devote themselves soberly to the +supervising of a group of dioceses. They are the Gauleiter, the +regional representatives of the Fuhrer, in the Nazi-Papal system, +and their loyalty to the central caucus at Rome is easily secured +today. Time after time in history a national hierarchy, rooted in +the soil and intimately connected with the king and his +interests, have defied Rome and threatened to cut the cable. +Cardinal Richelieu seriously considered making the French Church +independent of Rome, and in Germany and Austria the hierarchy +have often defied, sometimes excommunicated, the Pope. In Italy +bishops and archbishops have cut up his troops . . .

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That, as I have explained, cannot happen in modern times. +One of the differences between the course of sacred and that of +profane history since the French Revolution, a difference that +few historians care to notice, is that while secular monarchs +have ceased to be absolute or autocratic the Popes became more +and more absolute until, in the full 19th Century, the bishops +granted that claim of infallibility which Popes had failed to win +from the Church in earlier ages! But the Church is also more +sensitive about scandal. The gay medieval spirit, when a man +jovially told his neighbor that he "drank like a Pope" yet +contributed generously to Rome, has departed from Catholicism. A +page of medieval history which lingers in my memory tells how +when a certain pope was threatened (for the thousandth time) a +robust archbishop hastened to see him and assure him that his +(the archbishop's) five sons would fight for him. Gone are the +snows of yesteryear. But the Vatican has various ways of securing +the loyalty of the Gauleiter.

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In the first place they are all appointed by Rome. Some of +the sternest struggles with rulers that the Vatican has waged +have been over this appointment of prelates. Rivers of blood +flowed over it in medieval Italy, and only recently Franco and +the Pope quarreled for a year about it. The Church never yields +any country or ruler more than the right to submit the names of a +few eligible men to the Vatican, which usually chooses one but +may refuse all. The qualifications for the office are very +varied. I remember that in my clerical days a British episcopal +See fell vacant and I heard my senior cynically repeat that the +essential qualification was to have a private income of $20000 a

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year. The main qualification, are skill in collecting money and +loyalty to the Italian system. The Vatican makes careful inquiry +on these points and listens very seriously to suspicions of +discontent. Fifty years ago I found it still a vivid tradition in +higher Church circles in London that Cardinal Manning repeatedly +and very truculently, on the occasion of his visits to Rome, +denounced Cardinal Newman for disloyalty.

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Every archbishop and bishop must pay a periodical visit to +Rome and give the Secretary of State a close account of his work. +He would find it difficult to conceal any rebellious sentiment +from Italians whose scent of intrigue has been sharpened by +decades of practice; and they have a most courteous way of making +him feel that he is rather an inferior member of the Church. In +addition to this, Apostolic Delegates, Apostolic Visitors, etc. +-- lucrative little jobs for the Italians -- are sent +occasionally to every province of the Church to make more +searching inquiries. The Vatican has several classes of spies, +from the Nuncios or formal ambassadors who settle in the capitals +of various countries and cardinals who are sent abroad to preside +at Congresses and other special functions to minor but much more +inquisitive officials. Rebellious tendencies are toned down +without any scandal, which is the bugbear of the higher clergy, +the worst offense in the ecclesiastical code. Local prelates are +advised when and how to interfere with priests who stand out from +the common rut and attract public attention by political work. +Some ask in America why Rome was not informed long ago about the +campaign of Father Coughlin, as the bishops say that the Vatican +alone could silence him. You may be sure that the Vatican knows +almost as much about Coughlin as you do.

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Here, again, is an instructive bit of experience. When I, +already a priest and a monk, went to Louvain University to study +philosophy and oriental languages I became fairly intimate with +my professor, Mercier, then the leading authority on philosophy +in the; Church and later known all over the world as Cardinal +Mercier. I was compelled to live in the monastery, but Mercier +invited me to live at his house, and I at least spent many hours +there with him. Having been commended to him by a very liberal +priest in London, I had his entire confidence and heard him use +very disdainful language about such vital doctrines as eternal +punishment. He was an advanced Modernist. Years later he became a +cardinal and whew the ignorant Pope Pius X made his truculent +attack on Modernism (or scholarship) in the Catholic Church I +read in Catholic literature that Mercier warmly supported him. +"Let there be no innovations," he said, on the most approved +Italian lines. And after his death I had to read (in Prati's +Popes and Cardinals of Modem Times, 1926) that he was "one of the +noblest characters the world has ever seen." Mercier had +described me in a long review of one of my books as a fallen +angel, an outcast.

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Finally, here is an illustration from public life. American +prelates and priests began in the last century to claim that +their Church was distinctively American, and so it was useless to +quote against it what Catholics were saying or doing in other +parts of the world. The Vatican sent an Apostolic Delegate to

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study the matter and, as it had not yet realized the full +financial potentialities of the New World, it took normal action. +In a published letter to Cardinal Gibbons in 1899 the Pope +sternly, in fact disdainfully, condemned what he called +"Americanism"; by which he meant precisely that modification of +the Roman teaching which apologists now put before the public as +Catholic social and political ethic's. Later Popes were more +sensitive of American generosity, and the apologists are now +permitted to say that these principles are not only sound +American but sound Roman, because Jefferson a dogmatic +Materialist and his blasphemers friend John Adams learned them +from Catholic theologians!

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Chapter III

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THE COMMON OR GARDEN FATHERS

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Do I, in speaking of the Fuhrer and the Gauleiters of the +Roman Church, suggest that it has some resemblance in structure +to that most despised and most hated corporation, the Nazi Party? +Certainly, a very close resemblance. It is an autocracy tempered +with an informal council of consultants. Its center in Rome +corresponds closely to the Nazi center in Berlin. Its regional +rulers are representatives of the Fuhrer and subject to his +control. Its aim is the same and the acquisition of power and +money -- and it clothes the aim in a profession of concern for +civilization just as the Nazi leaders clothe theirs. It is just +as convinced as they that the education of its subjects must be +monopolistic and not suffer the voice of a critic to be heard. It +realizes the hypnotic value of an incessantly repeated phrase +like "God Bless our Pope" (Heil Hitler) and "the Holy Father" and +an untroubled outpour of eulogies of "our Holy Faith." And it has +its Gestapo and other agents scattered over every country which +it has conquered or hopes to conquer: quarter of a million +priests, a vast army of monks and nuns, and an immense body of +"technical experts" (journalists, teachers, writers, paid agents, +organizers, etc.).

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The cream of this vast international service consists of the +body of priests and dignitaries (canons, monsignori, etc.) below +the level of bishops: the Gestapo men. How they work, and how +here again there is a close resemblance to Nazi methods -- except +that the priests use threats of hell instead of Dachau -- we +shall consider thoroughly in the next book, but we must have a +short chapter on them here to complete our study of the structure +of the Church.

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How many there are in the world I do not find stated in any +official or semi-official publication. One Catholic writer says +100000, but there are more than that number in France, Germany, +and the United States, which contain only one-fifth of the +world's total of Catholics. They are very unevenly distributed. +France, which has less than 10000000 Catholics, and probably +not more than 6000000, has 51000 priests: Brazil, which claims +46000000 Catholics, has only 4000. Eire has 5000 and Holland +2000 to the same number of people. If you have a scientific eye

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you will notice a relation between the number of priests and the +amount of money extractable or the comfort of the priests' life. +Brazil is, taking it by and large, a land of paupers, whole vast +areas of Indian-populated country being almost abandoned. France, +though the number of its Catholics has been reduced to about one-fifth of the population since 1870, is a land of sleek priests. A +witty French work describes a father who has paid for a clerical +education for his son and has just seen him ordained saying to +him: "Now settle down, my boy, and get fat." Eire has much the +same conditions. America feeds its 35000 priests generously. Let +us say that there seems to be, roundly, about quarter of a +million priests serving the interests of the Italian caucus all +over the world,

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Each of these priests is, like the Gestapo men, a pocket +edition of the head Dictator. Once a week he become's an oracle, +on any subject on which he chooses to orate, and even the best +educated man in the church must not frown at the insipidity of +his sermon or the absurdity of his statements. Periodically he +preaches on the priesthood, and he sternly insists that +Catholic's must look to the character (in the ecclesiastical +sense) not the person of a priest. He is miles removed from them +because he can by a few words convert a bit of paste into the +living body of Jesus and can forgive sins or drive out devils. He +does not mind much if some of the richer members, with higher +education, decline to take this literally provided they never +breathe their heresy except to each other. He learns about them +from their wives. He can enter any Catholic home he likes any +afternoon and demand an answer to any question he likes. If there +are no children or only one or two he must know if the smallness +of the family is a work of nature or of art. If the children do +not attend his school he peremptorily orders an immediate change. +If a daughter goes out with a non-Catholic young man he breaks +the friendship or exacts a secret promise that she will leave her +husband no peace unless all the children become Catholics. If he +sees a book written by a critic of the Church he puts it on the +fire. He must know if the husband goes to church and confession +regularly or ever attends anti-Catholic meetings; and he may +suggest an intimate treatment for bringing him to heel. . . .

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But we shall see all this in the next book. Where the +priests differ from the Gestapo is in their infinite variety. In +theory and in the opinion of many there is still an analogy. All +the Gestapo men are sadists: all the priests are deeply +religious, very wise or sagacious, and uniformly of a beautiful +nature, like the priests of whom you read in Catholic novels or +see in the films which the Church persuades Hollywood +occasionally that it is worth while producing. In the flesh +priests differ just like any other body of men. There are even +total abstainers amongst them, though drink is the chief +alleviation of their condition at which the Church connives. +Catholics who live in parishes which are served by priests who +belong to certain religious orders will tell you how it is +impossible to persuade one of them to take a drink. They do not +know that in order to edify the people, such priests are very +sternly forbidden by their rulers to drink outside their +monastery and in their own parish; but they may have their

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revenge when they get home. Other priests use their judgment. +Visiting an Irish or otherwise jovial family that likes the +"Father O'Flynn" type of priest they will drink or joke freely, +yet carry a long face to the next house.

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In short, the most drastic element of their training is to +accommodate their external behavior to their environment. The +non-Catholic who assures you that he has met priests in the homes +of Catholic friends and that it is the sheerest nonsense to +compare these frank, genial, so very human personalities to the +sour and vicious Gestapo men is foolish. The priest is in such +circumstances just as compelled to display a professional +geniality and broadmindedness as the Gestapo man is bound by his +office to be mean and overbearing. That priest, we shall see, +believes in the right of "mental reservation" -- saying one thing +with your lips and another in your mind -- is intolerant of other +creeds to his marrow, and has a more despotic authority over his +own people than the President of the United States.

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Catholics themselves do not know the character of their +priests. I have in my travels met many ex-priests and compared +notes with them. There was a general agreement that the majority +of priests are skeptical in some degree, often completely +skeptical, but their people never suspect it. I lived from the +age of five to fifteen under the shadow of a monastery. My +childish impression of the priests, whom, as the star pupil of +their school, I knew well, are, of course, worthless, but I knew +what my elders thought of them. They were all believed to be well +above the average in character. They induced me to join the +fraternity, and ten years later I lived with them and really knew +them. Not one was above the average in character, and several +were far below it. One who had in my earlier years been regarded +by all the Catholics of the district as particularly holy and +ascetic, turned out to be an incurable dipsomaniac, an appalling +liar, and woman-chaser and had, though this step is taken with +extreme reluctance on account of the possibility of its becoming +known, to be expelled from the brotherhood. Another I found to be +quite well known to his colleagues as a seducer of girls. A +third, a robust man of considerable talent, became half-insane +through brooding over sex and the eccentric acts to which this +led in his relation's with women. A fourth, my immediate superior +for years though I had not the least suspicion of his character +and state of mind, bolted with all the money in the monastery and +was traced to a low cabaret in Brussels. Nearly all drank +generously and were of a poor type of character.

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The newest approach to a generalization on "the morals of +the priests" that I have been able to reach is that a small +minority -- hardly one in ten -- has the type of character and +the sincerity of religious feeling which are demanded by their +vows and position and are attributed to them by the laity. The +remainder vary as much as any other group of men, at least half +of them, probably much more, being unfaithful to their vows, and +just fitting as much comfort as they can into the dreary life to +which they committed themselves when they were boys or youths. It +matters little how many priests misconduct themselves with their +servantq or lady-parishioners or make periodical trips in semi-

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disguise to the nearest city. The main point is that the +overwhelming majority are not in the least "spiritual," to use +the favorite word of those who take transcendental views on these +matters. "Holy" Orders are just part of the hypnotic phraseology, +constantly repeated -- like the excellence of soap or soup that +stamps itself on the mind by lavish advertising -- which the +Church has found so useful. Holy Father, Holy Mother the Church, +Holy Land, Holy Faith, and so on. Since, other Churches do not +use this phraseology the Catholic gets a naive idea that his own +Church is admitted to be unique and therefore not bound by the +ordinary laws of honesty and mutual tolerance. It is unique only +in its scheme of self-laudation.

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The mediocrity of character of the vast majority of the +priests is easily understood. They are mostly men who, if they +did not wear costumes that are supposed to indicate a moral +superiority to the rest of us and if they did not arrogate the +right to a moral censorship of the lives, tastes, and +entertainments of the whole community, not merely of Catholics, +would pass as ordinary decent citizens. The system has in some +respects distorted their character, and their official status +makes them hypocritical. An Irishman, whom I know well and upon +whose word I can entirely rely, told me that he and two others +entered into conversation with a priest in a train in western +Ireland. The conversation gradually warmed and in the end, as +they approached a town, the priest invited them to join him in +visiting a lady with two daughters in the town and promised very +intimate entertainment. If that priest had been talking to an +English traveler his language would have been very edifying. As a +rule they need not practice much hypocrisy in Eire, Italy, Spain, +etc. -- I have even in Melbourne seen a young Irish priest in a +hotel leave the bar and, with a wink at the barmaid, who followed +him, go upstairs -- and even in some American cities, such as +Chicago and Boston, they have now such power as to ignore the +fear of scandal. In Spain until a few years ago priests +advertised in the papers for "companions," and in South America +they quite openly frequented brothel's.

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The situation is, as I said, intelligible. It is part of the +Catholic myth that priests are men who in their youth felt a +supernatural "vocation" to serve the altar; though in recent +years I have seen clerical advertisements in Australian papers +advising youths that the "vocation" will probably come after they +have entered upon ecclesiastical studies. The wintry atmosphere +of the modern world (from the Church angle) in such countries as +America and Britain stunts the annual crop of vocations, and what +usually happens is that parish priests or teachers mark out boys +as suitable, and the great advantages and privilege's of the +priesthood -- it is the same for monks and nuns -- are impressed +upon them. Having had the charge of such boys for years, in +addition to my knowledge of my fellow-students, I am familiar +with their psychology. Becoming priests means rising to a level +of comfort and especially of social prestige which they would +otherwise never attain. Possibly in later adolescence the +unnaturalness of the celibate life will be felt by them but even +if they are already irrevocably pledged, it is too late. A +Catholic youth requires rare moral courage to go back to his

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home-district as one who drew back from "the call." In any case +the social prestige of the priestly order, the flattering +attentions of a peculiarly large circle of girls and women, the +chances of becoming a notable preacher or rising to a higher +dignity, still beckon. Where the age-old experience of the Roman +Church does tell is in devising effective systems of this kind.

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Moral mediocrity is in most cases doubled with intellectual +mediocrity. The boys attracted today are as a rule from the +farming, the immigrant, or some similar class. Such bodies of +priests as the Jesuits, who have higher colleges, are supposed to +select their brightest pupils and carefully inspire them with a +"vocation." The utter mediocrity of Jesuit literature in modern +times, especially when we reflect that they have more leisure +than most priests, shows how false this is. The general level of +intelligence of a class of ecclesiastical students is poor. And +the system of education is calculated to restrain the development +of the more intelligent. The year or two of preparatory study, +mostly of Latin and Greek, leaves them with no idea of a real +classical education. Not one priest in hundreds could read +Tacitus or Martial in Latin, and still less keep up their very +elementary knowledge of Greek. After that the years of study are +stupefying. Two years, perhaps, are devoted to studying a system +of philosophy which is beneath the contempt of philosophers (and +quickly forgotten) and three or four to systems of moral and +dogmatic theology and spiritual study on Fundamentalist lines. In +the rare seminaries in which science or general history is taught +it is ruthlessly emasculated. My professor of philosophy +illustrated a point by alleging the mystery of the distance of +the moon from the earth, and I contracted my first suspicion of +rebelliousness by speaking out and telling him the distance.

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The great majority forget even these acquirements as rapidly +as the youth or girl forgets the lessons of the primary and the +high school. They are abysmally ignorant from the viewpoint of +modern culture. Their reading, when they read at all, is +generally confined to articles in Catholic weeklies and monthlies +and the cheaper Catholic literature. They protest that no book-learning is required for the discharge of their functions. +Theoretically the Catholic youth who has felt doubt from +conversation with non-Catholics or from indiscreet and forbidden +reading is supposed to lay the matter before the priest in +confessing his sins. In practice he looks for an apologetic work +or consults the Catholic Encyclopedia. He might as well consult a +professional politician, even on points of ecclesiastical +history, as a priest. Few priests have even an elementary +knowledge of science, philosophy, economics, literature, or art. +The innumerable writers of the Church have, they say, relieved +them of responsibility in this respect, and the daily round of +their functions requires only a minimum of professional +knowledge. This life is really mechanical: the daily celebration +of Mass (which it would take you an hour to read and they run +through in 25 minutes), recital of their office (which is +gabbled, with lips only, at more than 200 words a minute and +without any attention to the meaning), the pleasant visits to the +brighter homes of parishioners in the afternoon, and the services +or society-meetings after dinner. The priest of the Catholic

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novel, or of the novelist who aims to conciliate Catholics -- the +wise, placid, far-seeing priest who drops such pearls of wisdom +-- is a myth. Few priests could read an article in a scientific, +philosophical, or economic journal. Mercier once lent me, when I +was studying at Louvain, Paul Janet's work Les causm finales. The +friars, who regarded with deep suspicion mt intimacy with the +future cardinal, reported me for reading works on necromancy or +spiritualism or something of that kind. Mereier spoke about them +to me exactly as I am speaking here.

+ +

These are the men who, like the Gestapo in Germany, and most +of Europe, make the final application of the Italian system to +the millions of the Pope's subjects. They differ, naturally, in +different countries. A priest in rural Brazil, Portugal, or +Poland, who tells his people that practically all Britons and +Americans, being Protestant, are damned or a priest in Eire who +tells a young man, with a loud crack of the clerical whip, that +he will not marry him or let any other priest marry him for less +than $40, would not prosper in Boston, or San Francisco. But we +shall see enough of this, and of the prudent adaptation of +Catholic teaching in countries in which the Church is in a +minority, in later books. It is enough here that this is the +machinery by means of which a broad Papal policy, such as the +libelling of Russia and Communism, is stamped upon the minds of +millions. With the priests, as I said, cooperate vast crowds of +monks, nuns, religious brothers, journalists, teachers, etc., but +these general remarks will suffice for my present purpose.

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Chapter IV

+ +

THE MONEY-BOX

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It is more important to understand, as far as one can, the +financial system of the Church of Rome. I have said that the +analogy to the Nazi party is completed by an identity of aim: the +protection or augmentation of the power and Wealth of the Black +International. Naturally the primary and general aim is wealth. A +certain number of the abler members of the clerical army have +that peculiar itching of the mind, so morbidly developed in +Hitler and Mussolini and the Japanese leaders, which is called +the Lust for power, but I leave that to psycho-analysts and +concentrate on the acquisition of wealth.

+ +

I have already met the charge that in presenting the Roman +Church in this light, as an economic corporation that is +primarily concerned to keep up and enlarge the numbers of its +contributing members, I am ignoring nine-tenths of the life of +the Church and fastening upon a purely formal and superficial +resemblance to secular corporations. The man who, usually with an +air of superiority, charges me with this, really confirms the +analogy I have traced between the Roman Church and the Nazi +party, for what he says for the Roman clergy is much the same as +what we heard from the Nazi leaders a few years ago when the +secret of their wealth was made public. Their primary aim, they +said, indignantly, was not to acquire wealth either for +themselves or the German people but to impress upon the world a

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new ideology which would inspire a greater civilization and, by +conquest, ensure that the exceptionally gifted German race should +have the power to protest it. Your amiable professor or literary +man retorts that they were lying by the clock. But all he knows +about the primary aim of the priests, prelates, and popes of the +Roman Church comes, similarly, from themselves, and he knows +nothing about their character except what they tell him. He +refuses to read the Works in which I give hundreds of +illustrations of their untruthfulness, insincerity, or duplicity +in propaganda. He refuses to believe the assurance of men like +myself who have lived intimately among them for years that their +body is saturated with skepticism and very poor in what he calls +spirituality.

+ +

Another type of critic asks me why I fasten on the Roman +clergy when all clerical corporations are in the same position. +But the reason ought to be clear. I have proved that the three +bandit-nations had very grave encouragement and assistance from +the Black International in preparing and launching upon the world +their avalanche of brutal fury and greed. That sets Roman far +apart from other Churches. You may heavily blame the Lutheran +Church in Germany for supporting the Nazis or the Buddhist +priests in Japan for helping the treacherous and callous leaders +of their country, but the guilt of this is immeasurably less than +the evil done by the world-wide and hypocritical action of the +Black International.

+ +

There is a further difference. Numbers of Protestant +ministers have told me not merely that they themselves reject +Christian dogmas but that such rejection is very widespread in +their body. They claim that for all that they are "doing good" +and will remain in their Churches. But skepticism about the +ideology which they preach is bound to be far more widespread in +the Roman clergy, and the unnatural life to which the Church +binds them gives it a more cynical tinge. What, in a word, is the +essence of the Catholic claim to such superiority over other +Churches that you must excuse their arrogance and intolerance? +They have had to abandon the idea, which they still held a +generation ago, that "outside the ark" (their Church) there was +no possibility of salvation, but they insist that their Church, +with its "real presence" of Christ in the consecrated wafer, its +priests who can absolve from sin and its punishment, its "Holy +Orders" and infallible Pope, makes it far easier and surer to +attain salvation. From the viewpoint of the modern educated man +or woman, Theist or Atheist, that is a crass and childish +superstition. It belongs essentially to the Middle Ages and +easily breaks down even in the mind of priests who read nothing +more stimulating to the intelligence than Catholic weeklies and +detective novels.

+ +

Professional men are, from the economist's angle, men who +sell services to the community just as others sell commodities. +Priests sell their services in this sense. They are an economic +corporation like lawyers or doctors. But there is the mighty +difference that, while all the world acknowledges the value of +other professional services, at least four-fifths of the educated +world regards with disdain those services which the Catholic

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Church claims to be peculiar to itself. The readiness of so many +to say that we must look to their moral and social service is due +either to lack of will or of leisure to make an exact study of +such services, in which case the scientific ideal should compel +them to be silent, or to even less respectable motives. I have +shown repeatedly in detailed an of every aspect of social conduct +-- and later books of this series will consider some -- that the +Church renders no such service to civilization; and the preceding +ten books have shown that its disservice immensely outweighs any +such service that it could plausibly claim. It sells to +200000000 folk services that are in the conviction of the +modern world as fraudulent as those of any charlatan, and the +price it gets for its services will astonish the reader. We ought +here to take into account the funded wealth as well as the annual +income of the Black International or -- since the laity have no +share whatever in the wealth -- of the clergy, higher and lower, +in every country as well as in Rome. A large work would be +required to cover that field, and we must here restrict ourselves +to the income of the Vatican or the Pope and his Italian +satellites and servants. The reader should, however, not forget +that this Roman annual income is only a tithe of what the +200000000 Catholics pay for the services of their clergy. The +Church in the United States is computed to have a wealth of +$4000000000 and an income, of at least $800000000, a large +part of which is annually invested and adds to the mountain of +wealth. The Church in Germany, or (mainly) in those provinces of +Germany which did not leave the Church at the Reformation, was +equally wealthy until the Nazis began to take over schools and +institutions. The Church in Spain is estimated to have had until +recent years more than two-thirds of all the money and one-third +of all the real estate in the country. This is an estimate by a +Catholic Spanish bishop. Another Catholic writer illustrated its +wealth by saying that $7500000 worth of candles and incense +were burned in Spanish churches every year, and that the jewels +on one statue of the Virgin at Toledo were worth $100000. +American writers computed that before the Philippines were taken +over the Church squeezed 113000000 pesetas a year out of the +poor people.

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Here, however, I have space only to give some idea of the +income of the Papacy, which more closely concerns us. Every +writer who touches on the subject observes that the total and the +details are kept a strict secret by the Vatican officials. Pius +XI is admired because he introduced expert accountants into the +Vatican. As I said, the attitude to finance was to that time so +slovenly and the graft so general that although in recent decades +the income has been hundreds of millions of dollars a year the +treasury was empty at the death of Pius X and almost empty at the +death of Benedict XV. Admiration is hardly the sentiment with +which in such circumstances we regard the action of Pius XI, but +whatever improvement there has been the secrecy is still strictly +maintained. It is, in fact, very doubtful if the Vatican draws +up, even for the information of the Pope and the Secretary of +State alone, a balance-sheet which shows the total annual income.

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In an earlier booklet I said that G. Seldes (The Vatican), +who has an interesting chapter on Vatican finance, puts the total +at a billion dollars. His book is so favorable to Catholicism and +won such recommendation from American Catholics that I concluded, +until I read his more recent and more critical work, The Catholic +Crisis, that he was probably a member of the Church and therefore +not likely to exaggerate its income. Almost the only thing which +the Black International and its admirers do not exaggerate is the +revenue of the Church. But hiving had occasion to consult my +notes again I found that I misquoted Seldes. He did not say a +billion dollars but a billion lire (and a lire at par is little +over one-fifth of a dollar).

+ +

I ought therefore for once to apologize for an inaccuracy +but there are circumstances which dispense me. Seldes stated on +the age of his work that the "historical section" of it is based +a work by two French Catholics, London and Pichon, Le Vatican et +le monde moderne. But his book is a translation not merely of the +historical part but of the whole of the French work, though with +very large and useful additions. The paragraph from which I +quoted is a literal translation from the French -- but with an +alteration of four letters which makes a mountainous difference. +London and Pichon do not say that the total annual income of the +Vatican must be "a billion lire" but "billions of lire." When you +are thinking in billions it really makes a material difference +whether you say "one" or "several." The common-sense +interpretation of the expression used by the French Catholic +experts is that annual income of the Vatican (several billion +lire) must be between half a billion and a billion dollars.

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On one other point in this connection I should warn the +reader that Seldes's book, valuable as it is, is misleading. He +enlarges on the severe loss to the Papal treasury (which he +exaggerates) when Italy took from it the Papal State's or the +Pope's kingdom in Central Italy. It is not very clear how they +yielded something between five and ten million dollars a year to +the Pope when they were miserably poor, administered (by priests) +with gross inefficiency and graft, and loaded with debt. However +the point is that the loans were loans to the Papal Court, raised +from extortionate bankers not for expenditure on the provinces +but on the Court; and the Italian government, though by 50 to 1 +the inhabitants voted for removal from the Pope's rule, and +conquerors are scarcely in the habit of giving compensation even +for provinces taken against the will of the inhabitants, at once +offered the Pope the compensation of 3250000 lire a year. +Seldes does not clearly explain this but quotes (p. 247) the +rather dishonest and certainly stupid complaint of Cardinal +Vaughan: "The robber's refused to take over the burdens with the +stolen provinces." The provinces eagerly joined the new kingdom +of Italy: the debts were on the security of the provinces but not +for, use in them: and the robbers offered such compensation or +price for the provinces that the accumulated interest in 1929, +which was handed over to the Papacy, amounted to more than +$90000000!

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This vast sum, which was really the price of the Pope's +silence when Mussolini thought fit to begin his brutal +aggressions, ought to be today one of the chief sources of the +Vatican's income. Nearly half of it was given in bonds of the +Italian, State, and though the Italians themselves lose a +colossal sum by their loans to the practically bankrupt state, +one suspects that Mussolini finds it prudent to pay the Pope's +share of the interest. It certainly gives the Papacy a very acute +interest in the maintenance of Fascism, for if Socialists +obtained power they would assuredly repudiate the dishonorable +bargain. The remainder of the bribe was paid in cash. Part of it +is still in bullion in the Vatican treasury, and a very large +part was invested by the Papacy in French and Hungarian railways: +which gave the Papacy a stake in the stability of those countries +or a lively concern to see them paralyze Socialism and Communism. +I have been informed from America that the Papacy gets its agents +to invest the greater part in the richer interest-bearing +enterprises of the States -- the depression was not yet in sight +-- and that it was buried under the snow-storm of the fall of +that year (1929). I offer no guarantee whatever of the soundness +of this statement.

+ +

Since we know nothing about those new account-books of the +Vatican we can see only that this sum ought to yield at least +$5000000 a year and of itself makes the Pope a multi-millionaire. But the Vatican, which is not subject to common +human laws, can have its cake and eat it too. As soon as the +first of the Papal provinces were taken from it by the Italian +armies and the emphatic. provinces vote of the inhabitants the +Pope sent out an agonizing call to the whole Catholic world. +Catholics must save him from beggary -- you may remember that it +was at this time that Cardinal Antonelli, born in a peasant's +hut, amassed a fortune of $20000000 -- by contributing to an +annual collection called Peter's Pence. In the Middle Ages this +had meant a fixe Papal tax of a penny (then a quite respectable +coin) on every Catholic hearth in the world, but it was now a +voluntary collection to which rich and poor contributed according +to their means. Within a few years it was yielding $4000000 a +year. The latest figures I find are that it was yielding about +$5000000 before the depression of 1929 began, and Catholics +boast that, whoever starved in the new era, the present to the +Papacy was maintained.

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The main source of income is, however, the price of the +administrative work of the Vatican, just as the payment for the +services of the cardinals, priests, and officials employed in it +is the chief item of expenditure. The work is, as I said, divided +between 13 Congregations, which correspond to Departments of +State in a secular government, and few people have an idea of its +volume. In any large and international business it is a fixed +principle that the supreme or control office shall not be +bothered with queries and solutions of difficulties that are +within the competence of branch officials. In the Roman Church it +is rather the reverse. All over the world bishops and priests +have to encourage appeals to Rome, even on such matters as +whether Mrs. Smith in some small town in America may send her +children in exceptional circumstances to a National School and

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whether her daughter may marry a second or third cousin or a +Protestant. Marriage, in fact, which the Church professes to have +raised to the rank of a sacrament in the interest of +civilization, is one of the most lucrative interests of the Black +International. It is hedged about with restrictions from which a +dispensation must be obtained from Rome. The Catholic must not +marry one who is related to him or her, either by blood or +marriage within the fourth degree. A dispensation is needed to +marry a non-Catholic, and disputes arise about the validity of +the marriage as its consummation which may lead to causes +celebres, costing thousands of dollars, at the Roman Tribunals. +The amazing procedure in this connection will have to be +considered at length in a later book, but the non-Catholic who +imagines that matrimony is a simple matter in the Roman Church -- +that the priest links you to a man or woman you remain linked for +life -- is very far astray. And this is only one source of the +petitions and cases that are submitted daily to the "Sacred +Congregationi" of Cardinals it Rome.

+ +

A conservative detailed account of their work will be found +in the Catholic Encyclopedia, and it is hardly necessary to warn +the reader that when a service is described as gratuitous you +understand the word as certain eminent amateurs of sport or +aristocratic dames who give their names to charities understand +it. There are always "expenses." When Count Marconi got a +declaration of the nullity of his marriage (which was blessed by +the Holy Ghost with several children) to Miss O'Brien (19 years +earlier) so that he could marry a Catholic countess and merely +paid "the expenses" one wonders whether they happened to be less +than $50000. I have spoken of the canonization of Sir Thomas +More when the British Catholics were presented with a bill for +expenses (including a massive gold chalice as souvenir for the +Pope) amounting to $85000. Such plums are rare, but the great +volume of ordinary work and consultation by priests all over the +world carries with it a very large total sum of money.

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There is no need here to list the Congregations and analyze +their work. First of them is the Holy Office, once the dreaded +Inquisition and now a very tame bureau of sleek priests for +granting, for a consideration, certain classes of matrimonial +dispensations. The second, the Congregation of the Consistory, +primarily has to organize the Papal election (Consistory) but +this would give the cardinals -- and official's too meager a +share of the Papal income, and they now arrange the formation of +new dioceses and the difficulties of bishop's in their dioceses, +receive reports of the titled spies whom the Vatican sends about +the world, grant (sell) ecclesiastical distinctions, etc. The +Congregation of the Sacraments has a very busy time hearing +doubts and disputes about the administration of the seven +sacraments, especially (except in regard to mixed marriages) +matrimony, all over the world. A bishop cannot allow priests to +say Mass outside the prescribed hours or places or make other +alterations of the ritual without its permission. The +Congregation of the Council takes over the innumerable questions +that are grouped under "discipline," both of the secular clergy +and the laity; granting, dispensations from or modifications of +the law of fasting and abstinence, hearing cases of

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irregularities, and so on; while the next Congregation on the +list discharges this enormous task in regard to monks and nuns. +-- The Congregation of Propaganda takes care of all missionary +fields and administers all Catholic provinces where there is not +yet a hierarchy (which it is in no hurry to establish) and the +Congregation of the Index helps out its shrinking income by now +attending to questions of liturgy and canonization. These are +only half the departments, and behind them are three Tribunals +(or lucrative courts of appeal for the wealthy) and various +"Offices," but what I have said will suffice to give some idea of +the immense volume of work. All experts agree that these furnish +the largest element of the Papal income.

+ +

Probably the next largest element consists of gifts to the +Pope or St. Peters. A Catholic -- if I ever have such a reader -- +would wince when I rather flippantly described on an earlier page +the usual tariff for the privilege of "seeing the Pope," but, +except that non-Catholics of distinction are at times admitted to +interviews without fee for political reasons, this is the +recognized practice. Seldes gives a dollar each as the +contribution of the poorer American pilgrims who stand in a +bunch, open-mouthed, at some distance from the Pope. All are +"expected" to pay, and as pilgrims from France, Spain, Italy, +etc., in the summer often run to 1000 or 2000 the total sum is +large -- what rich American and British Catholics who "talk" to +the Pope pay one must imagine. In one year, Seldes says, the +Knights of Columbus gave the Pope $250000, and in 1925 the Pope +received, at the prescribed financial distances, 1250000 +Catholic pilgrims.

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Another source of income that is not generally known is from +certain Papal Domains and royalty rights. The Vatican takes a +large (unknown) percentage of the immense profits of the +fraudulent shrine of the Virgin at Lourdes, and of the still more +grossly fraudulent shrine at Loreto in Italy, where Catholics +still pay vast sums to see the actual house, transported to Italy +by angels, in which Mary lived at Nazareth 1900 years ago. Until +a few years ago it had a similar royalty right on the enormous +sale of indulgences in Spain and Spanish America, and no small +part of its sacred fury against the Reds is due to the fact that +the Socialists and Rationalists drove this traffic off the +market. Whether Franco has restored it I cannot ascertain. It +used to yield millions of pesetas yearly.

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The sale of titles is another rich source of revenue. It +would, I suppose, be libel to suggest that the hundreds or so +wealthy Catholics who bear Papal titles (countess, marquis, +Marchioness, knight, etc.) in democratic America paid cash for +them, but on the general question the French and Italian Catholic +writers are candid. Jean de Bonnfon has published a piquant work +(La menagerie du Vatican, 1906) in which he gives biographical +details of the 300 French men and women -- the large-minded +Vatican grants a (rich) woman a title in her own right -- in +France who hold these titles. From a Roman source he quotes that +the (pre-war) tariff was 100000 lire for the rank of duke, +25000 for a count, 12000 for a baron, and so on.

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These are only a few of the more regular and familiar +sources of revenue. Seldes gives a further illustration for which +I must acknowledge my indebtedness to him. Mussolini's bargain +with the Pope in 1929 included the right of the Vatican to have +its own postage stamps, and the Director of the Papal Posts made +a profit on them of $5000000 in a few months; and he had +thoughtfully put a date on them so that a new issue was required. +Seldes observed that collectors and dealers bought them up +everywhere. He, does not seem to know that the faithful were +encouraged to buy them all over the world as souvenirs of the +restoration of the Papacy to royal power.

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But there are other vast and steady sources of income of +which Seldes knows nothing. Under their shirts or chemises (or +whatever it is that women wear next to the skin) most Catholics +wear, and all are urged to wear, holy medals, scapulars, Agnus +Deis, or other charms (against the devil, accident, disease, +etc.) which have been "blessed by the Pope." All that the Pope +has done, of course, was to wag his fingers at a room-full of +them, but the simple-minded Catholic is content. This traffic is +enormous. Less in volume but on a much higher scale, is the trade +in relics. Every new altar that is consecrated must (on Vatican +orders) contain a relic of a saint, and the Vatican has to supply +it. Naturally it charges only for the metal case and the voucher +of authenticity, but you would be surprised at the price of metal +and parchment in Rome. They are just as spurious as they were in +the Middle Ages. "In fact, the Vatican. manufactures relics +today. In my clerical days I found a Jesuit selling to pious +ladies in London in a house-to-house visitation bits of the +cassock of a canonized priest (whose biographer boasted that one +ragged cassock had sufficed him all his life). When I pointed out +the fraud he laughingly explained that a bale of cloth had +touched the genuine relics. Then the Vatican has its share in the +price of Masses. Quarter of a million are said daily and some +Catholic pays for each. In America the minimum tariff is a +dollar, and the rich give large sums. Rich churches with too many +commissions farm them out to countries with a cheaper tariff. And +from all presbyters that have a little spare fat, all nunneries +and monasteries, the surplus goes, through the bishops, to Rome..

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THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 12

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THE TYRANNY OF THE CLERICAL GESTAPO

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CATHOLICS THE MOST PRIEST-RIDDEN OF ALL PEOPLE

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by Joseph McCabe

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HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS +GIRARD -- : -- KANSAS

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CHAPTER

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I Poisoning the Mind of the Young ......... 1

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II The Priest Rules the Family ............. 8

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III The Priestly Censors of Morals .......... 16

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IV The Shame of the Confessional ........... 22

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V Catholic Action a Clerical Maneuver ........... 27

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Chapter I

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POISONING THE MIND OF THE YOUNG

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In the preceding booklet I showed that the structure of the +Church of Rome is such that an alliance with Fascist powers is its +inevitable attitude. It is an institution that survives from the +Feudal Age and, since it is not now permitted to exercise the +physical tyranny over men which it still claim's, it must, whenever +wealth and privilege are threatened, associate with any forces +which disown the democratic restraints of our age and by violence +and bloodshed suppress the critics of privilege and seek an +extension of their wealth and power. Historically it always did +this; and nearly all who are not Catholics, and very many +Catholic's, now see that this is in our time the meaning of the +diplomatic activity of the Vatican during the last ten years, the +shameless applauding of bestiality by the high priests of Germany +and Italy, the treason of the priests of Austria, Fiance, Spain, +Portugal, Belgium, and Czechoslovakia, and the support of +isolationism in the British Empire until 1939 and in the United +States until 1941, and in South America today.

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But how do the half-million agents of the Black International +contrive to win the support for such a policy of tens of millions +of men and women half of whom professed to be free Citizens of +democratic lands until the Papal-Fascist paralysis began to creep +over them and a very large part still live in such countries and +swear loyalty to their ideals? I have shown and will further show +in the fifth booklet of this series, that Catholic priests and +writers change their political philosophy with startling rapidity +when their country turns Fascist. In country after country in which +but a few years ago they talked about the principles of freedom and +democracy with all the gush that is so familiar on clerical lips in +America -- in Germany and Italy, in Franco Spain and Salazar +Portugal, in Vichy France and Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia and Austria +-- they now find those principles as demoded as drawers or corsets, +even "poisonous" and inconsistent with the authoritarian state +which the Pope urges upon all good Catholics. They have not yet +reached the stage in America and Britain. Will they do so? And if +not how can the Black International use the vast sums it extracts +from the people to help on a regime of tyranny and exploitation?

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First let us get a clear idea of the body of subscribing +members of the Church. How many Catholic's there are in the world +it is less easy to say than to ascertain the number of bacteria in +a cubic inch of soil. Comparing the figures given even by Catholics +is an ironic pastime. They are meticulously "accurate" down to the +last unit, yet they differ from each other by tens of millions; +which surely afford's some excuse even for a hardened skeptic like +myself. I consult the new Encyclopedia Americana, which has an odor +of sanctity as well as of scholarship, and learn, in an article by +a member of the editorial board (and apparently a Catholic) that +the number of Catholics in the world is 294583000. That sounds +admirably precise and moderate compared with the 350000000 or +even 398277000 (British Catholic Directory) which other Catholic +writers claim, but study how the figure is made up. In Europe, says +the writer, there are 183760000; and he then analyzes this into +35000000 in France (where optimistic Catholics do not claim more +than 10000000), 20000000 in Spain (where, when there were free +elections, the people so long overruled the Church that it had to +take to the long knife), 26000000 in Austria (where the total +population is only 7000000), 13000000 in Hungary (where the +population is about 9000000 and the Catholics are about half), +and so on.

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It is a greater miracle than the Immaculate Conception. But +Catholics absorb miracles as babies absorb milk. A distinguished +Catholic journalist D. Gwynn (Pius XI, 1932) quotes with approval +the agstirqnec of Macaulay that "there were certainly not fewer +than 150000000" in 1840. The population of most countries has +trebled since then, where not greatly affected by the birth control +of these wicked skeptics, yet Gwynn thinks that the growth of these +150000000 into 350000000 (his figure) in a century, and with +fertility joyous and unrestrained, "must astonish all inquirers." +And this writer, who is an expert on France, knows that the total +figure of Catholics he gives includes 30000000 Frenchmen and +proves in his special work on the subject (The Catholic Reaction in +France, 1924) that there cannot even be 10000000.

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Similarly in regard to the number of Catholics in America, +which concerns us most. The Encyclopedia Americana gives 50000000 +for North America, of whom 20000000 are in the United States. As +there are only about 4000000 Catholics in Canada and the whole +population of Mexico (which the Vatican does not regard as very +orthodox) is only 16000000, the arithmetic again transcends my +profane intelligence. But when I turn to the Census of Religion, +taken (that is to say, supplied by the clergy) in 1936 and +published as the official record in 1940, I learn that Roman +Catholics in the United States number only 19914957; and you +really must trust a figure that is so definite even to the last +unit. The official compiler reflects on the remarkable growth since +1926 (18605003 -- not a baby or a village idiot left out, you +notice). But an unconsecrated calculation seems to yield that in +that decade the general population of America, in spite of a +tremendous traffic in contraceptive's rose by more than 8 percent +while the Catholics, who abhor those diabolical devices, increased +by less than 7 percent.

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I should love to linger in this pious and stimulating field of +the statistics published by the Black International but we have +sterner business to approach, and I have written much elsewhere on +the subject. I have concluded, after many weary days spent in +analyzing the results of months of research, that the number of +genuine Catholics in the world is between 150000000 and +200000000, and it seems generous to use for practical purpose the +round figure of 190000000. It will be understood that I do not +include here the new compulsory Catholics of Italy, France, +Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, etc. If an American Catholic is +proud of them, and insists on including them let him do so; but is +it too much to ask that he state also, at least to himself, that +they have "returned to the Church" only while every priest is ready +to denounce rebel's to the firing squad or the torturer?

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But our figure invites further consideration. It includes +about 50000000 illiterate American Indians. Add the illiterates +of the Philippines (7000000), and the French, Belgian, and +Portuguese colonies, a large percentage of the peasants of Spain, +Portugal, Poland, Slovakia, etc., and you see that more than a +third of the grand Catholic total are folk whom we need not +consider here. It is no mystery how the priests keep them servile. +It is hardly more mysterious how they keep their despotic hold on +further tens of millions: the peasants of Spain, Portugal, Poland +and Italy who are called literate because they mastered their A B +C's and the dense masses of descendants of these who fester in the +poorer quarters of our cities and industrial towns. The domination +of these also by priests requires no profound explanation; and +quite a large number at the other end of the social scale are very +easy victims of clerical bossing of a subtler sort. Of the +remaining half of this grand total of 180000000 more than one-third are children.

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We will discuss in the next book the whole question of +ignorance or culture, and varieties of culture, in the Roman +Church, but it is well to get clearly in mind here that when the +Catholic writer boasts of his 300000000 or 350000000, "Subjects +of the Pope," or when a statesman thinks that this gross figure

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compels him to speak with profound respect of the Pope and his +Church, the suggestion is nonsensical. We shall further see that +the stuff imposed upon pupils in Catholic secondary schools and +colleges as "science" and "history" is a gorgeous tissue of untruth +that differs from the reality almost as much as a Theosophist's +view of ancient Egypt differs from that of an Egyptologist, so that +even in their case we are not greatly puzzled. However, let us +take the matter broadly. Leaving out of account the babes and +sucklings and the poor folk who either never open a book or could +not read one, how does the Church of Rome ensure the submissiveness +to a body of generally ignorant priests of some millions of men and +women in modern civilization?

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The first part of the answer is the Catholic school. Cardinal +Hayes, who had an astounding success in talking rank nonsense with +the utmost gravity, once said, referring to American preeminence in +education: "It is the Catholic contribution which has enabled the +United States to take the world's leadership in this field." Horace +Mann was, I suppose, a Roman Catholic, not a skeptic as the +Dictionary of American Biography represents him. . . . But, no one +will expect me to argue on that point. The Catholic hierarchy in +America never professed to have any other aim in collecting vast +sums -- they spent $23000000 on new schools in 1927 -- for the +erection of schools of their own than "the good of the Church," the +safeguarding of the faith (the docility to the clerical Gestapo) of +their people. They care nothing whatever about the general cultural +level of a country. They just whip up the laity to a fanatical zeal +for having schools of their own. Catholic ladies have told me, +defiantly, in England, where a question about the treatment -- that +is to say, the amount of subsidy they will vote out of public funds +-- of Catholic schools is prepared by the clergy and sternly +pressed upon candidates for election, that they would not for a +moment hesitate to vote for a candidate who promised to favor their +schools no matter what his views were on national or local policy. +Once the question of the Catholic school was raised by the priests +at an election they ignored every other issue.

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The zeal of the priests to whip up this fanaticism suggests at +once in what the Catholic differs from the national school. In most +parts of America today where there are large bodies of Catholics +the national school dare not permit a teacher or a class-book to +say a word that Catholics resent. Educational experts have shown +that in Boston and Chicago the Catholic clergy, acting through +their lay dupes, control education in this respect in the national +as well as their own schools. Even from third or fourth-rate towns +mothers have written me that the teachers of their children in the +national schools were so subject to Catholic influence that they +used real Catholic language. Possibly this partly explains why in +the United States Catholic schools, of all grades, have a less +proportion of pupils to the general membership of the Church than +in other countries. There are not many more than 2000000 pupils +in Catholic elementary schools, and if you multiply this by five, +the usual ratio of such pupils to total membership in Catholic +quarters, it would give America only 10000000 Catholics. One of +the drives of the hierarchy in recent years has been to spread +Catholics or Catholicism over the more thinly-populated regions so +as to get everywhere sufficient to claim a school or to eviscerate +the teaching in the local national school.

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It is, of course, chiefly in regard to history, science, and +general knowledge classes (with reference to current events and +institutions) that the priests are so keen to, "protect" the child, +but even more important than this, the Church says, is "the +Catholic atmosphere." Every school is a church. Statues of Mary and +the more popular saints, painted in all the colors of the rainbow, +and Catholic colored pictures crowd the walls and window-ledges. +Prayers and hymns open and close the day, and specific lessons on +the faith are given or the children march to the church to hear +them. Holidays may be given in honor of distinguished +ecclesiastical visitors or important Church events. Mass must be +heard on the Church's "holy days" and children of seven and over +are conducted to the church periodically to confess their "sins." +From the age of five to sixteen or seventeen -- it is just the same +in the secondary school and the "academy" for girls -- the hypnotic +influence continues. Catholic books of the most mendacious +character are given as prizes. Semi-magical talisman's (blessed +medals, little pictures, scapulars, Agnus Deis or tiny wax lambs +enclosed in cloths, etc.) must be bought and worn next the skin +night and day. A Catholic adult goes to church once a week: a +Catholic child spends half the day in it every day. And the theme +of the myriad influences that seep into the child's mind all the +time is "Our Holy Faith:" our unique, incomparably superior, +exclusive, god-given creed.

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Why should one call this poisoning the mind? Isn't it a +scheme, devised and perfected by thousand's of educators of the +young before Pestalozzi and Froebel were born, for forming the +character of the child or training it in habits of decency, self-restraint, truthfulness, and regard for others? When you read a +non-Catholic writer who says that sort of thing inquire if he has +ever taken the least trouble to ascertain whether the Catholic +children who have spent nine or ten years in this atmosphere are in +fact any better than any body of children who have been reared in +a purely, or almost purely, secular school-atmosphere. I wager that +you will find that these "liberal" writers have never even glanced +at the question. They could discover with very little trouble that +in any of the blacker areas of our cities -- the areas in which +chronic poverty and ignorance have created a tradition of unsocial +conduct -- the Catholics are not a bit less drunken, violent, and +prone to vice and crime than their neighbors. They could learn +authoritatively that Catholic's have a higher percentage in the +jails and brothels than they have in the general population. They +can learn the facts about social behavior in Ireland or any +predominantly Catholic country. They know that in our class or +social environment Catholics are not superior to others in sound +qualities. of character.

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The Catholic primary school which I attended 60 to 70 years +ago was in a poor industrial suburb of a large city. I often go +back to it to observe the very great progress it has made in +cleanliness, sobriety, restraint, public decency, and all important +social qualities. It was very foul in my boyhood, and I knew all +its vices and crimes. Catholic workers as a body behaved like +others all round me, and what a boy did not see he did not fail to +learn from others. Vividly do I remember how, when the master left +us in the higher forms for a half-hour, the older boys from the

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poorest and least restrained quarters told us, joyously, every bit +of foulness they had picked up, while Mary and the Saints looked +down at us from the walls, and how behavior out of school was such +as one would expect.

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The real function of the school was to make loyal Catholics of +us, to din into our ears until it was ineffaceable impressed that +our religion was not a religion like that of the Protestant +schoolboys, but the truth from God that could tolerate no +comparison. A favorite sport was for the whole body of us to +"Scuttle" (stone) the pupils of some Protestant school and chant +some doggerel like "Prodidog, Prodidog, go to hell, while all the +Catholics ring the bell"; and the priests and teachers never +preached to us on that. They would today, of course; Catholics must +show that they are good neighbors; but beneath all the smiles and +recognitions that "there is good in all religions" you see the same +arrogance and intolerance. Catholics are unique. All the world +belongs to us, and will come back to us when the work of the devil, +which began at the Reformation, is finally undone. The parallel +with Nazism is again perfect; and the aim is the same -- the power +and wealth of the Leaderg and the Gestapo. The whole purpose of +this ceaseless droning about the uniqueness of our Holy Church and +Holy Faith and Holy Mother and Holy everything down to the water +for chasing devils is to make and keep Catholics submissive. So +they can be raised, almost without explanation, to a blind fury +against Russia or Mexico, can be turned into howling mobs to +prevent their neighbors from seeing films which the priests do not +like, can be fooled for years about the real meaning of the policy +in which they are induced to cooperate.

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If this blind devotion, with its inevitable submissiveness to +authority, be not thought poisonous enough, remember that it is in +large part secured by a monstrous and mischievous untruth. Belief +in hell and devils belongs to a stage of human development that is +not consistent with modern ideals. Probably the majority of priests +do not believe in them today. But they are as essential to the +Catholic school and journalism as a heroine is to a novel. They are +essential, not for moral purposes -- this flimsy scaffolding of +character is one of the chief reasons why the Catholic training +breaks down in post-school years -- but as an instrument of moral +terrorism and to protect the myth of the holiness and uniqueness of +the Church. The Church, the child gradually learns, has so many +"enemies" (critics) just because it is so holy and precious. The +devil, who is picturesquely represented to every child as a sort of +super-Nazi with a devouring thirst to bring more and more million's +of souls into his overcrowded and insanitary domain, is at the back +of all this opposition to the Church. The good Catholic must not +even listen to what his agents say, most particularly when they +assume the disguise of honest and decent men. For "sins of the +flesh" the Catholic can get pardon at any time and escape hell by +confessing but to leave the Church, to read or hear anything that +might cause one to leave the Church, is the most terrible sin of +all because one obviously cuts oneself off from the tribunals of +forgiveness and the "channels of grace" (sacraments). So from the +age of seven the children are made to sing, lustily, hymn's with +lines such as "hell is raging for my soul" and "earth and hell +unite, and swear in lasting bonds to bind us."

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It would take a whole book to analyze adequately the +comprehensive poison of this "Catholic atmosphere." A psychologist +would find it a fascinating study in social psychology but of +course, no psychologist in America dare publish a book on it. I +will give in the next book some weird evidence, which has just +reached me, of the ripe results of it in Catholic countries, but I +must here be content with a bare outline of this first part of the +mechanism of the clerical Gestapo for making and keeping the people +blindly submissive and zealous for "the good of the Church."

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It is hardly necessary to add that the lessons are carefully +arranged to suit the atmosphere. The Bible is rarely seen -- in my +youth few Catholics ever saw a Bible -- but there are lessons, on +Fundamentalist lines on "biblical history" as a gradual preparation +of the world for the coming of Christ and his instructions (mainly +secret) to found the wonderful Church. Science is fearfully +mutilated. Colleges can have admirable chemical and physical +laboratories because inorganic science is quite harmless, and +botany is fairly safe. The mutilation begins with geology and +paleontology. They are today manuals of evolution, so you can +imagine what the Catholic version of them looks like. General +biology and physiology must be adulterated so as sustain the myth +of a "vital principle," and Catholic psychology is as far removed +from science as the Civil War is from modern politics. Prehistoric +archeology, the science of prehistoric man, is, when any notice at +all is taken of it, a sheer caricature.

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But history is the great field of the poisoner. A very +familiar jibe speaks of liars, damned liars, and statistics. It is +a clumsy absurdity as regards statistics but a neat classification +if you change the word to "Catholic historians." I need not here +examine the manuals used in Catholic schools. In my various works +I have nailed many thousand Catholics to the counter and shown that +even the Catholic Encyclopedia, the flower of American Romanist +scholarship, is full of them. You can therefore gather what kind of +stuff they impose upon their own children in their own schools and +colleges.

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I repeat that it is not merely mendacious but poisonous. When +a Jesuit can say in what all American Catholics consider to be the +cream of their scholarship (the Encyclopedia) that all branches of +the Church recognized the supremacy of the Pope in the first four +centuries, which is the exact opposite of the truth, you know what +to expect. The version of history, from the alleged and mythical +years of Peter in Rome to the exploits of the present Pope, that is +imposed upon Catholics, beginning in the elementary school, is the +richest tissue of brazen lies that I know. And, which one need not +tear one's hair because children are taught as history those lives +of saints and martyrs which Catholic authorities denounce as +forgeries, the story as a whole is profoundly mischievous and +antisocial. Its one aim is like the purpose of all the rest, to +keep Catholics so submissive to their caste of consecrated guides +that they will swallow every statement or instruction without +serious inquiry into its justice or injustice.

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Chapter II

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THE PRIEST RULES THE FAMILY

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It would be a mistake to imagine the troops of Catholic boys +and girls who issue from the primary or the secondary school every +year as just as solidly enthusiastic for their Holy Faith as a +troop of boys or girls issuing from an Adolf Hitler School in +Germany. I take it that the conditions are much the same in urban +America as in urban Britain, and in the latter there is plenty of +Catholic evidence that boys desert the Church in very large numbers +during the three or four years after leaving school. At Catholic +conferences of teachers and priests it has been stated that in +British cities 30 to 60 percent (in different localities) of the +boys abandon the Church. This can surprise only those folk who +lazily admit, as most do, the Catholic boast of "marvelous +numerical progress", in Britain and America. In neither country are +they making any numerical progress. I have shown over and over +again, and have in the last chapter pointed out that the latest +Census figures confirm this, that the Catholic body, in spite of +its higher birth rate, does not increase as much as the general +body of the population. It is a pity there is no American who can +force this truth into the official mind at Washington.

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The transfer of the Catholic children from the artificial +atmosphere of the school to the secular life is something like +transplanting hot house seedlings to the open air in a late spring. +There would, in fact, be a still larger number of casualties if it +were not for the fact that the boy has already spent two hours on +the street or outside the school for every hour he has spent in its +theatrically insincere atmosphere. He has already learned that +there is considerable doubt about these picturesque devils who are +raging for his little soul and about the holiness of his priests +and popes. The girl who passes from the nuns' academy to a city +store or workshop finds that the section of her anatomy which the +good sisters told her, with bated, breath and downcast eyes, is the +Temple of the Holy Ghost now learns that that is not the general +view. Of course they have been prepared for this by warnings that +"the world" is like "the flesh" and the devil, a deadly enemy of +the good Catholic. Somehow the world, when the child enters it, +does, not quite resemble the villain of an old-time melodrama. The +hold of the Gestapo begins to slip.

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The priest prepares for this by his grip on the family. +I say that Catholics are the most priest-ridden of all people but +it will not be forgotten that the power of the priest differs +enormously in different places: in Quebec and in Ohio, in rural +Mexico or Brazil and in New York City, with every shade of +difference between those two extremes. No one who knows the "really +Catholic country" (even Eire) will question that the people are far +more priest-ridden, more bullied and intimidated by the clergy, +than people are in rural Protestant areas, to say nothing of people +under Buddhist, Hindu, Shinto, Taoist, Moslem, or Jewish +authorities. The Jews and Moslem have no priests, in the ordinary +sense, and the priests of the Asiatic nations do little more than

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perform ceremonies. Yet, although the priest in America has not yet +the despotic power his colleague has in Quebec or Portugal -- he +expects to have it someday -- I am inclined to say that even in +America Catholics are amongst the most priest-ridden of people.

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The clergy dominate the family as they do the school. It is +the priest's duty to visit every home in his parish once in +(usually) three months. Naturally he shirks unattractive homes and +spends more time in those where the company is jovial and the +bottle travels freely. He generally has a little directory or note-book with particulars about each. I do not suggest that Catholic +married women are more pliant than others but it will occur to most +people that the visit of the priest in the afternoon, when the +husband is at his job and the children are in school, comes pretty +close to G.B. Shaw's explanation of the popularity of marriage: it +combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. +There is, of course, a good deal of misconduct, for the priest of +amorous disposition can learn on which day the "help" is away, but, +whatever else happens, the priest takes this opportunity to inquire +about the loyalty of the husband and the children who have left +school. An unsatisfactory report will bring him in the evening to +see them.

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In order to appreciate the priest's peculiar control over the +family one must understand the power which the Church claims and +exercises over marriage. From the 4th Century it fought for 700 +years to get this power, and the laity successfully resisted until +the bloody-minded "saintly" Popes Gregory VII and Innocent III +perfected the Roman scheme of priestcraft, and the "great" +Schoolmen proved to demonstration that this scheme, a transparent +clerical fabrication of comparatively recent date, was established +by Christ. How the priests won this power just when gaiety and +skepticism were increasing in Europe must be read elsewhere. +Briefly the Church brought matrimony under its iron authority by +making it a sacrament, an indissoluble contract, a ceremony +essentially requiring the presence of a priest. It discovered +"impediments," some of which were subject to removal by +dispensation (to the great profit of the Vatican) and some, +theoretically, not. This not only led to a prodigious traffic in +dispensations, which still continues in large part as I explained +in the last book, but it gave the archbishops and Popes a very +important authority over the lives of nobles, princes, and monarchs +in the matter of their marriage's.

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Three cases which have been fully discussed by American +critics like Boyd-Barrett, Marshall, and Selde's and may here be +recalled briefly, will illustrate this tyranny. The late Count +(then Mr.) Marconi married the Hon. Beatrice O'Brien in a +Protestant church in London -- "she was a Protestant and he an +apostate" -- in 1905. They had three children but separated in 1918 +and were divorced in 1924. The Church very generously concedes that +it does not claim authority over non-Catholic marriages, but it +also claims that one who has been baptized a Catholic, as Marconi +had been, remains subject to it. In any case Marconi wanted to +marry the Catholic Countess Bizzi-Scala, and he applied to Cardinal +Bourne in London for a declaration that his marriage was null and +void from the start: in other words, that he had never been married

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to Beatrice O'Brieri -- though the Church, with great charity and +ingenuity, declares that the children of these sham marriages are +legitimate. The canonists at Rome fastened upon the fact, or the +allegation -- you know what evidence is worth in divorce suits -- +that Marconi and his bride had agreed before marriage that if it +proved unhappy they would seek a divorce. Therefore there was no +real marriage, said the learned priests of London, pocketing their +fees. But Beatrice did not altogether like the idea that her +children were only saved from being bastards by the sophistry of +priests and she appealed to the Rota tribunal at Rome. Marconi was +now rich and he "paid the expenses" of the trial. He got his decree +of nullity, married his countess, and was in high favor at the +Vatican until he died in 1937.

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In the second famous case Consuelo Vanderbilt, who had married +the Duke of Marlborough in 1895, left him in 1905 (after bearing +two sons) and got a divorce, applied to these learned and ingenious +Catholic authorities in London to ease her conscience by declaring +the marriage null from the start. You see, she now wanted to marry +the Catholic Count Balsan. The London authorities had to share so +promising a case with the Roman Rota, and the decree of nullity was +granted. She had, she swore, married against her will and because +her mother said that she would die of heart-disease unless Consuelo +married the Duke. No internal consent, said Rome, so no marriage. +Consult the authors I have named if you want to read the testimony +of these aristocratic folk in detail and learn how the Vatican +authorities proved to the hilt, when a storm arose, that they were +absolutely compelled to declare the marriage null and money had +nothing to do with it. What interests me is the Church of Rome here +claims a power that is not only greater than but antagonistic to +that of the State. What, you probably ask, would be the social +situation if every girl who thought her husband a beast could go to +a court and get it to declare that she was not married to him +because "I didn't want to marry him -- mother made me," or "he, +said he would let me get a divorce if I wasn't happy"? But, don't +be too nervous. First, She would get no alimony. Secondly, Rome +does not deal with a hundred cases a year and says that half of +them are "free." We already know something about Rome's "free" +services. The certificate may be free, but the frame may cost a +mighty lot of dollars.

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A third case confirms us in these cynical reflection's. Miss +Anna Gould -- how the names in these cases do smell of money -- +married the Marquis de Castellane in 1895, went through the usual +routine until they quarreled, divorced him in 1906 and married the +Duke de Sagan. He was a Catholic, but with true French chivalry he +deserted the Church for his loved (and wealthy) Anna. The elegant +Castellane, being a Catholic, felt himself out in the cold and +applied to Rome for a nullity-decree so that he could marry again. +Anna had, he said, spoken about divorce before their marriage. The +cardinals of the Rota rejected his application, accepted it on +appeal, then rejected it again. Castellane appealed to the Pope, +who referred the matter to a committee of cardinals, and they +declared the marriage invalid. To be quite sure on so sacred a +point the Pope enlarged the committee, and it declared the marriage +valid. Don't imagine that a count, a marquis, or a millionaire +always gets this previous decree. But you might care to ask me

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whether all the marquis's money had gone or whether American +dollars were weighed against his thin French francs. I regret that +the finances of these spiritual transactions are kept in a decent +secrecy.

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A fourth case differently illustrates this beneficent power of +the Church to tie and untie indissoluble marriages. A few years ago +a Catholic American actress fell in love with a married producer. +He got a divorce from his Jewess wife but the austere Church will +no more allow a marriage to a divorced person than it will grant a +divorce. The man however became a Catholic and married his Catholic +actress. Now, there's a pretty conundrum: so pretty that when I +published the facts in London two years ago one of the chief +writers on one of the chief Catholic papers howled that here I +displayed either my gross ignorance of Catholic matters or . . . +The rest was silence. They delicately refrain from calling me a +liar -- in print.

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But it is simple, and this Catholic journalist would have +learned a little about her own religion if she had read the article +"Pauline Privilege" in her Catholic Encyclopedia. Paul -- remember, +in mitigation, that he did not know that marriage is a sacrament +and indissoluble -- advised lady-members of the little group called +Churches that when one was married to a pagan who was contemptuous +of his faith she was free, after gently expostulating with him in +vain, to leave him and marry a Christian. Those learned theologians +of the Middle Ages who made a stalwart defense of the whole scheme +of priestcraft and are now pressed upon us by Catholic apologists +as modern-minded thinkers, worked out that this was quite +consistent with marriage being a sacrament and indissoluble, and it +is part of the law of the Church today. In the case I have given +above we have a simple application of it. The gentleman becomes a +Catholic, doubtless after profound meditation on the beauty of the +faith and not because priests had told him about the Pauline +Privilege. To meet American civil law he has already divorced his +wife, but in the eyes of the Church he is still married. All that +he had to do however is to ask his late wife, whose answer you can +imagine if you know the riper Yiddish, if she cares to become a +Catholic or to live with him without ever making any reflections on +his religious adventures. Even from this, however, Rome claims +(clause 1211 of the new Canon Law) that it can grant a +dispensation, and, the lady being already divorced, it was probably +not done. The emancipated partner is then free without any further +fuss to marry a good member of the Church.

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Other aspects of Catholic law and practice illustrate this +power of the clerical Gestapo, even to the extent of flouting the +civil law, in a matter which is generally regarded as the supreme +personal concern in the life of a man or woman. Although this +control of marriage is so obviously priest-manufactured that the +laity, as I said, defeated for many centuries every attempt to +obtain its legislation about marriage fills one of the longer +sections of the new Code of Canon Law, and from the elaborate +nature of the clauses you will understand that very large and +profitable body of the appeals to the Roman Congregations which I +described. Probably the most lucrative dogmas (to the Italian

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caucus) in the Whole Roman scheme are the sacramental nature of +marriage and the doctrine of purgatory (through indulgences), and +both are transparent medieval fabrications in so far as they are +dogmas.

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Notoriously the Church goes beyond any civil law in assigning +the degrees of relationship within which it is forbidden to marry. +In the Middle Ages they stretched so far that in a small town or +village everybody was related to everybody, and it was a golden age +of dispensations; or it would have been if folk had taken their +religion seriously in the Middle Ages. The new Canon Law says that +Catholics must not marry (without a Roman license) if they are +related by blood within three degrees, by marriage, within two +degrees, or by spiritual relationship (god parents in baptism). So +it is no longer possible for canonists to say, as they did in the +Middle Age's, that a marriage from which a rich person wants to +escape, never was a marriage because (as in the case of "Saint" +Louis and the very un-saintly Queen Eleanor) the man is related to +the woman through some incident they have succeeded in discovering +in the lives of their great-great-grandparents, or through an act +of fornication, which in that age might be taken for granted +between their fifth cousins or other remote relatives. But the +field is still rich in possibilities; note carefully that marriages +which are valid in civil law are not valid in Church law and vice +versa.

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Mixed marriages are another interesting field. I have recently +been consulted on two cases in England. M has married N (a +Catholic) on a strict agreement of honor between themselves that no +religion shall be imposed upon children of the marriage, who shall +choose their philosophy of life when they grow up. There is one +child, now in her early teen's, and the wife repudiates the +promise, at the priest's order, and she and her relatives choke the +girl with proselytism. In the second case a man wants to marry a +Catholic girl, and she has assured him that there is no law of the +Church that all children of a mixed marriage shall be baptized and +reared in the Catholic Church.

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I am not concerned with whether these girls lied on their own +account or were directed by the priest to lie -- I beg his pardon, +to make a "mental reservation." Both are equally possible. But the +law of the Church is clear. Not only is a dispensation required for +a mixed marriage but it will be granted only on four conditions +(clause 1061). There must be a serious reason: the non-Catholic +must promise never to say anything to disturb the Catholic's faith +and must agree to the Catholic baptism and education of all +children: the priest must be morally certain that the promise will +be kept: and he must have the promise in writing. The next clause +(1062) says that the Catholic party (who gets a promise that his or +her faith shall never be interfered with) must solemnly promise to +take every opportunity to interfere with the creed of ("convert") +the non-Catholic. Clause 1070 enacts that such a marriage is +invalid unless the Catholic has got a dispensation, so that the +promises cannot be evaded by concealing the marriage from the +Church.

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Another provision which flouts civil law and has led to a vast +amount of social trouble is that a Catholic (a baptized person, +whether he or she has left the Church or not) does not enter into +a valid marriage unless it is performed by a priest (1904). This +was enacted by the Council of Trent so as to prevent Catholics +secretly slipping from the power of the priest. When Catholics +multiplied in Protestant countries, some of which bitterly resented +such interference, Rome often suspended it, but in 1908 it was +declared to be in force in all countries. You see one consequence +of it. The millions in America who were baptized in the Church and +later left it and married like other citizens are to their Catholic +friends, not married, and their children are bastards.

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There is a similar defiance of civil law in the enactment that +a couple who had committed adultery before marriage, or ex-nuns and +priests who had once taken a vow of celibacy are not validly +married. On the other hand, this very peculiar code of law about +marriage, which is supposed to have raised civilization in this +respect to a higher level, again drastically flouts civil law by +Saying (1104) that a priest can for "a very serious reason" +celebrate a marriage without witnesses and conceal it from the +civic authorities by entering it in a "secret register," and that +such a marriage is perfectly valid. Further, Church Law says that +youth's can validly marry at the age of 16 and girls at the age of +14 (which in Britain is two years below the legal age of consent). +And in fine this Code of the Church that never makes a moral +mistake lays great stress on that need of "internal consent" which, +as I showed in the above cases, opens a wide field for perjury and +contempt of the civil law. Some of the American judges who tell +their fellow-citizens how the Roman Church "does good" and +strengthens American civilization would not exactly be embarrassed +if married folk applied to them for divorce on the simple ground +that they were prepared to swear that they "did not really consent" +when they said "I do." They would order them out of court.

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I am not in this book concerned with the defiance of civil law +and authority which is implied, if not flouted, in these clauses, +and the defiance of our modern ethic of sex-relations we will +consider in a later book. For the moment it is enough that here we +have an invasion of the most personal concerns of men and women +which really beats the Gestapo. Concerned as the Nazis are about +copulation and children, they are content with one drastic law-forbidding copulation with Jews -- and leave the rest to the +influence of their "ideals." What will occur to any reader, even if +he is entirely ignorant of the history of these matters or does not +know that the laws were framed in an age of intense priestcraft, is +that they so obviously mean power and wealth to the clergy. To say +that they have an important moral or social significance is +preposterous. Some of the laws are plainly created for the profit +of selling dispensations from them, and all are designed to extend +and emphasize the power of the Black International over the laity. +The Fuhrer has framed them: the Gauleiter and the Gestapo see to +the observance of them.

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I have said little about divorce, though the Church's refusal +to recognize the validity of it is clearly a monstrous invasion of +the civic rights of a man or woman. It is as useless to talk about +Christian duty as about the sanctity of marriage and social

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interests. Until the 11th Century the Church recognized more +grounds of divorce than the majority of states do today. The Greek +and most of the Protestant Churches, who know just as much about +Christian duty but less about priestcraft, recognize divorce. And +the Roman Church at once, when it suppressed divorce as part of its +comprehensive assertion of power over the laity, permitted an +extraordinary development of those nullity-decrees which I +illustrated in the foregoing cases. Catholics who had money were as +free to change partners as folk are in most of the states of the +American Union today. That is no reckless statement. The highest +authority on France in the beautiful 13th Century, Prof. Luchaire, +often claimed to be a Catholic and certainly not anti-Catholic, +says that women of the noble class "had a minimum of three or four +(successive) husbands." I have fully dealt with that elsewhere and +must not be tempted to enlarge upon it here.

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The law against birth-control is an even more audacious, more +purely clerical, and more recent invasion of the rights of the +individual and the family. The motive for that sacred fury of +priests and bishops against the use of contraceptives which causes +them to hound women like Margaret Sanger, get Catholic mobs to +break up meetings, and make insolent attacks on medical or civic +authorities who favor the establishment of clinics has in reality +nothing to do with either morals or religion. It is an occasion for +asserting and thereby increasing their power in the community, and +it is one way of impressing more deeply on their own people the +prohibition of birth-control. It keeps up the fiction that it is +"filthy."

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There are few points on which the claim of the Black +International is as plainly based on their own material interest as +it is here. There is nothing in traditional Catholic theology that +makes birth control sinful. The question did not arise until the +19th Century when the birth rate began to gain on the death rate +and when the extensive use of crude contraceptive's began in +France. It then became apparent to the clergy that if non-Catholics +checked their natural increase by the use of preventives and +Catholics could be intimidated from using these by a threat of +eternal punishment the Church might hope in this way to cover to +some extent its large numerical losses. A Catholic mother told me +that her priest had frankly said this at one of their "mother's +meetings." It is, at all events, not only the true but the obvious +inspiration of the clerical opposition to birth control; and it is +one of the grossest pieces of Gestapo tyranny over the family and +the individual. It is one of the points on which the Pope most +naturally allied himself with Germany, Italy and Japan. They wanted +as many potential soldiers as possible: the Church wanted as many +contributing members as possible. Neither cared the toss of a coin +about the other reasons.

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It is here frankly ridiculous to ask us to pay serious +attention to the solemn statements of grounds for the opposition +which Catholics are now invited to insert even in our +Encyclopedias. To quote the "divine command" to "increase and +multiply" from a piece of ancient Jewish fiction is an insult to +our intelligence; especially on the part of priests and nuns who +pretend to be superior to the rest of us precisely by ignoring the

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command and regarding the mechanism of multiplication as even more +repulsive than defecation. But the usual argument that God's will +and purpose in the organs of generation is defied, is not much +better. This also is stultified by the doctrine of the Church that +priests, monks, and nun's, who are presumably equipped with those +organs, are much dearer to God just because they forswear the use +of them. But the argument is in itself absurd. It was used against +the use of anesthetics in difficult childbirth. It is answered by +the Catholic's own defense of celibacy: that provided a sufficient +number of people marry and couple to maintain the population the +"divine purpose" is met.

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In any case, now that medicine and surgery are increasingly +reducing the death rate an unrestrained birth rate is a growing +evil. When Hitler and Mussolini and the Japanese government forbade +Malthusian propaganda and whipped up the birth rate explicitly as +a preparation for war, were they cooperating with the divine +purpose? Is a great war, which checks the growth of the population, +part of that purpose? Are bacteria and fatal diseases? +Overpopulation is, notoriously, an outstanding cause of poverty, +suffering, unemployment, even war. But overpopulation would be +grave in our own time if it were not for the general use of +contraceptives and in the future it would reach heights which these +opponents of birth control on social grounds never dare consider. +Without birth control or immigration (which is ceasing) the +population of the United States would be 500000000 in the year +2000, 4000000000 in 2110. . . . Need I continue.

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The Catholic clerical attitude is a piece of blatant +hypocrisy. Its real purpose is to strengthen the power of the +clergy and multiply those who support them. Its ostensible grounds +are so flimsy that Catholic men and women are in this respect +defying their priests to such an extent that the matter is now +openly discussed in Catholic literature. For their more comfortable +and better educated people they have had to say that it is +permissible to restrict births by refusing to have intercourse +except in the wife's sterile period, but they cheat even these +because the Ogino-Kraus theory of sterility which they follow is -- +and the clerical leaders must know it -- rejected by the great +majority of medical authorities. Most of us would like to +characterize their interference in such matters in even stronger +language, because at the best it is based upon a view of sexual +intercourse at which the modern world smiles, but we must be +content to point out that we have here a tyranny over a man's life +which goes far beyond the claims and practices of the Gestapo.

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A final illustration of the tyranny over the family is the +childish ceremony of "churching" or Purification. When a child is +born it is rushed to church at the earliest date the doctor permits +for "baptism." This is Supposed by those who take a "broad view" of +the Roman Church to be just a registration of the newcomer in the +ranks of the faithful. It is, of course, nothing of the kind. It is +part of the scheme of clerical control and is based upon a priest-made superstition that seems to any properly educated person +revolting. The idea of it is that all men are born with the +sentence of eternal punishment, or at least of eternal exclusion

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from heaven, hanging over them (original sin) because a legendary +Adam broke into a legendary orchard ages ago. That pink morsel of +flesh is, on Catholic teaching, to suffer, privately, forever for +Adam's sin if it died before it is put through the weird rites +known as baptism!

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Most people think that the tyranny and absurdity -- one would +almost say obscenity -- end there but they do not. Because ages ago +in the dawn of Hebrew civilization, when savage superstitions still +lingered in the tribes, the priests laid it down (Leviticus, XII:2) +that a woman was "unclean" after bearing a child -- for seven days +if it was a boy and fourteen if it was a girl -- and must go to the +priest to be purified, priests get the Catholic women of Boston, +New York, and Chicago to act upon the same childish superstition +today. It is voluntary, but the priests urge it upon every "good" +Catholic mother. Polite non-Catholics say that it is just a pretty +symbolical ceremony. As usual, they decline to look up the facts. +The ritual enjoins that the woman must remain, as a sort of sinner, +"at the door of the church" until the priest's magic has "purified" +her, and then leads her into the church. He has made an honest +woman of her. Photographs of the ceremony in the 20th Century ought +to be preserved amongst those records of contemporary life which +are stored in some places for the future sociologist.

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Chapter III

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THE PRIESTLY CENSORS OF MORALS

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These points do not tell the whole story of that tyranny over +the family which the priest exercises, largely through his +afternoon visitations. He wants to know if parents and children +have joined the various societies and fraternities, suited to every +age and both sexes, which are organized for the purpose of carrying +his school-control over later years, We return to these in the last +chapter. He inquires if any fail to attend the church every Sunday, +what they read, what shows and dances they attend, whether the +children who have left school have fallen into "bad company," and +so on. Whether he is really concerned about their morals or no +depends upon the character of the priest, which is generally +doubtful, but every priest is very keen on keeping them in the +Church. Where the Catholic body is strong and includes a number of +Catholic employers the priest has a very persuasive argument for +loyalty. I have known a priest in a British town of medium size to +walk into a shop in which a Catholic had a score of employees and +order him to dismiss non-Catholics and hire Catholics recommended +by himself, or order a woman who kept a small store, to cancel her +purchase's from non-Catholic sources and deal with Catholics. But +here we are mainly concerned with that form of tyranny which the +priest calls concern about the morals of Catholics.

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Here the "unprejudiced" non-Catholic -- it is remarkable how +often a writer whose circulation can be injured or promoted by the +clergy or a politician with an eye on the Catholic vote -- becomes +ironical. Do we, he asks, first deny that the Church "does good" +and then quarrel with it for attempting to do good by a paternal +vigilance over the morals of the community? Or do we deny that

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moral culture has anything to do with the welfare and progress of +a civilization? I must defer to a later book the reply to the +second question, in which we must discriminate, but we may remind +these "liberal" folk of one or two matters that concern the answer +to the first, which he regards as so easy.

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One point is that the concern of the Black International about +conduct is far less than its concern about loyalty and is largely +hypocritical. Ever since the early part of the Middle Ages the +Church has insisted on its dual guardianship of faith and morals, +yet I have abundantly shown in my historical works that, while it +adopted murderous methods of guarding the faith of the people it +was so really unconcerned about their morals that the period when +the power of priests and Popes was supreme (the 11th to the 16th +Century) was the most immoral in the history of normal +civilization. I do not here take the word morals to refer chiefly +to sexual morals. I say that there was more fiendish cruelty, more +ghastly injustice to the poorer nine-tenth's of the community, more +contempt of the idea of honor and good faith, than in any other 400 +years of history apart from the Dark Ages. But the verdict is +particularly sound if you make the Christian sex-code one of the +chief points of your ethical scheme of conduct; and this state of +things -- see my large History of Morals -- lasted well into the +19th Century and lingered longer in Catholic than in non-Catholic +countries.

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To express surprise or incredulity at this statement is to +confess that one has never made a serious study of it. At its best +the Catholic code is false to the realities of life and largely +based upon superstitions about sex that the candid mind at once +rejects. Further, it is framed in a doctrinal system on the level +of the crude boogie-will-get-you-if-you-are-naughty of the nursery. +The moment the Catholic goes out into life, either on leaving the +school or (in the case of the Irish), by emigration to a better +educated country, the framework begins to yield to the acid in the +new atmosphere. Thirdly the Church has frustrated its moral +efforts, as far as we can respect these, by making it easy for the +people to escape what it calls "the consequences of sin" (the +confessional, indulgences, etc.). And fourthly the clergy +themselves have throughout the Catholic countries shown, and in +Catholic countries continue to show, a monumental example of +vicious conduct: lying, intolerance, cruelty, greed, and disloyalty +to their vows. I have fully developed these points elsewhere and +need only summarily recall them. The fourth point applies less in +our age, since the clergy are compelled by public opinion to mind +their own conduct, but they still apply.

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But is not the zeal of the priests for good morals in our time +something new and of valuable service to the community? Is it not +on this ground that they unite with other Churches -- with "good +people everywhere," in a current phrase -- and so promote the +interests of the state that Washington is bound to treat them with +respect? Are they not now so really resentful of vicious conduct +that they go out beyond the Catholic family and parish and have a +deep influence on the morals of the whole community?

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In discussing these matters we are up against a large problem +-- the question which moral code or which clauses of it are +socially important -- that must be deferred to the sixth book of +this series, where we will boldly challenge the whole ideal of the +Church. But we can make a provisional reply. It is that the priest +certainly wants to control the morals of the entire community. He +does not merely forbid his own people to go to see a film in which +his Church finds immorality but he brings heavy pressure to bear on +film companies and fires his Knights of Columbus and Dames of the +Holy Grail to intimidate exhibitors so that even non-Catholics +shall not see them. His Church brings the same pressure to bear on +authors, publishers, and booksellers to prevent them from supplying +the general non-Catholic public. He threatens civic authorities +with the Catholic vote unless they send the police to stamp down on +these "filthy" and "swinish" discussions (which he has never beard) +on birth control. Of all that there is so little question that I do +not think it necessary to give here proofs of Catholic +interference. Seldes and other writers give plenty of evidence, but +in point of fact Catholics boast of what thy do in this field, and +I do not suppose there is an American who has not heard of Breen +and the Catholic spiritual guides of the pious colony of artists at +Hollywood or of the campaign against birth control.

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What is more important is to understand why they assert this +moral censorship. A distinguished British social writer, the late +John A. Hobson, being pressed to defend the puritanical code which +(from force of environment) he upheld though he was a skeptic and +generally addressed himself to skeptics, replied that he placed it +on an aesthetic basis. Logically that is unassailable. A man has as +much right to prefer a certain type of character as a certain type +of female figure; though, naturally, this gives him no right to +quarrel with a neighbor's different taste. But this theory at once +removes the question of chastity from the field of sociology. The +stability of civilization does not depend upon tastes but upon hard +facts, and it is now generally agreed by men who do not allow +priests to dictate their opinions that whether, for instance, an +actress in a film or on a stage has too narrow a diaper or how many +young folks decline to wait until they are married are not issues +of any serious social significance. The priest, of course, raises +a vague suggestion that civilization crumbles if we permit are to +raise the temperature a degree or two and mumbles about ancient +Greece and Rome (which were really more virtuous even in this +respect than his Beautiful 13th Century), but most of us have got +beyond those fairy-tales of Catholic history.

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Why then is the Black International in America so frothy with +sacred fury about morals? Mainly because it gives them an important +place in public life and furnishes a nice-sounding excuse to the +politicians and other's who find it profitable to give them +prestige and influence or dangerous to refuse them. The priests +help to guard the foundations of the state, the American home and +family. And so on. Many of these politicians, civic authorities, +editors, etc., who smile beside the priests on public platforms may +even believe what they say because none of them know the facts, +about morals in past ages or the genuine sociological position of +morals. You might as well expect them to make deep economic study +to ascertain the truth when bankers and industrialists assure them

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that unrestricted competition is the second chief foundation of the +state or to inquire, when they are told that something is un-American, whether America is really better off without it. Anyhow, +statesmen, bankers, editors, judges, and employer's just take the +word of the Church that it is doing a most important work and pass +on the good news to the public. The priest goes back to his people +and says: you see whit a splendid position we have won for the once +despised Church in America. And his brewers take out their wallets +and brewers' widows open their checkbooks.

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But you do not need to study either history or sociology, and +these people know it. Sex-morals have so little to do with social +welfare that the American civilization, which is the second +greatest (after Russia) in the world is also the most advanced +sexually. It tries to shut out an idealist like Bertrand Russell +for moral turpitude and then has to have a Catholic League of +Decency and other whole armies of amateurs helping the police to +prevent artists and showmen from giving the American people what +they decidedly want. One of these censors would be the first to +paint a terrible picture of the license that would ensue in novels, +magazines. theaters, films, and cabarets if you just left the +purveying to the familiar law of supply and demand. I find American +novels at a decent literary level better than British and much +better than French or German, and at least two-thirds, if not four-fifths, of them reflect an attitude to sex in the middle-class +readers that is far from puritanical, in spite of such censorship +as there is. The sale of sexological literature confirms this.

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On the other hand the American civilization has some grave +defects which are not found in the Russian. Notoriously there is an +abnormal amount of corruption in business, politics (local and +federal), and juridical and penal circles. There is too high a +proportion of serious crime, too much suffering of the poor and +helpless, too much wanton extravagance of the rich. But do you hear +(he Catholic Church thundering against these evils? Or do you hear +bankers and statesmen applauding it for some crusade against them? +Never. The G-Men made more impression in a year on the real moral +evils which injure civilization than the Church made in a +generation. Tammany, which has been one of the cess-pools of +America for a century has always been, and is, tied up with the +Church. Do not talk to me about Coughlin. Half his followers are +not Catholics, and it is just because he gets some millions of +Americans to respect a priest, and therefore in a vague way the +Church to which he belongs, that the authorities permit for the +present the blatant and -- as has repeatedly been shown -- +insincere ravings of the mountebank. Just where he does represent +the Church and violates Justice and decency (in his anti-Semitism +and libeling of Communists) he is neither moral nor a promoter of +the real interests of America.

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For the last few years the sacred fury of the priests has +expended itself in a crusade against Russians and Communism. I +might add the pitiless campaign of lying about democratic Spain as, +although the Catholic laity were divided, the clergy were almost +wholly on the side of the rebel who has murdered thousands in cold +blood and is torturing tens of thousands. But examine the ferocious +attacks on Communism in which the clergy generally carried the

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laity with them. To call this a moral crusade is a mockery. The +attempts to justify it by repeating discredited libels from the +London Times were exposed repeatedly yet this had not the least +influence in restraining the Catholic onslaught. Apart from these +bogus outrages the attack was not moral but immoral. A man has as +much right on decent principles and under American law to try to +persuade others that all the means of production ought to be a +national possession and all commodities and services equally shared +as he has to argue for the New Deal or universal conscription -- to +say nothing of a right to poison the minds of children and delude +adults with false statements.

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Whenever You apply a genuine moral test to the work of the +clergy they fail, yet the country grants them an amazing power in +the only respect claimed to be moral but certainly not moral in the +social sense and challenged by some of the best writers in America +and probably at least half the educated class. It is the familiar +Roman story. Claim that you are rendering a service to civilization +by preventing people from seeing a film like The Birth of a Baby or +by getting censors at Hollywood who will cut out a bit of saucy +dialogue (at which the entire audience would break into laughter) +or order the alteration of a bath-room scene, and then when a +writer seriously challenges the utility of the work and the moral +standard of the censors get his book suppressed.

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Indeed in the matter of films the so-called moral censorship +is in large part a pretext for preventing a disturbance of Catholic +propaganda and has been so used in notorious cases. Anyone who has +seen or read G.B. Shaw's Saint Joan knows that, in his usual +defiant way (certainly not for profit) he was attacking +freethinkers and playing to the Catholic gallery. His Inquisition +scene, for instance, was a concession to Catholics at the dire cost +of historical truth. Yet the Catholic censors cracked their whips +and threatened an all-American boycott because it did not represent +as they wanted the official sanctity of Joan. It was much the same +with The Informer, which showed the real combination of cruelty and +piety in the priest-ridden Irish, and with Blockade which exposed +the lies which the priests were telling about the Spanish people.

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It is, however, the principle, the fact that the religious +leaders of about 15000000 Americans are allowed to control the +entertainment of the entire population, that matters. It is all the +more exasperating to any man who remembers that in the Catholic +lands of Southern Europe the most licentious spectacles were +permitted by priests (who then did represent the entire community). +In the pious Middle Ages pageants and parodies of the Mass were +permitted in the churches and cathedrals which would make a +Catholic Boston lady faint, and orgies followed on the streets +which, if they were now perpetrated in private, would rouse Irish +policemen to break in with axes and mercilessly beat the audience. +If you can read French, and if there is a copy of it in America, +try to see M. du Tilliot's Memoires pour servir a I'histoire de la +Fete des Foax (1741). The Catholic author, who devoted years to his +inquiry, gives a richly documented account of monstrous scenes that +the clergy permitted (and often took part in) in the cathedrals and +churches of France (and Spain, Germany, etc.) wild orgies on the +streets on "holy" days all through the Ages of Faith. On some of

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the illustrations he gives, from banners that had headed +processions on these days, we see men performing in the public +street acts which one of the most distinguished French writers, V. +Marguerite, was expelled from the Academy, at the insistence of the +clergy, twenty years ago for attributing in a novel (La garconne) +as secret practices to a few morbid men and women of the richer +class! Until quite recent times -- for all I know it may still be +true -- spectacles were exhibited semi-publicly -- you had merely +to charge for admission to the room and exclude children -- which +would not have been tolerated in ancient Rome. I often saw myself +when I lived in the South of France, 40 years ago, the poster at +the door announcing such shows as La mademoiselle et l' ane. That +means "The young lady and the donkey," and that is all I dare tell +you about it. In those days the French priests were pale with +indignation because a few morbid folk in Paris were said +(questionably) to attend Black Masses, in great secrecy, but +hundreds of thousands nightly paid to see these really public +shows.

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Here is one more -- I could give scores -- illustration of +this hypocritical delicacy about sex. Until 1878 castrated soprano +singers were used instead of females in many churches (and operas) +of Italy and even in the Papal choir at Rome. This was as notorious +a fact as the venality of Papal officials and was noticed in nearly +every book of travel of visitors. I have met old men who have +lunched and discussed with these eunuchs in Rome. The Encyclopedia +Britannica (article "Eunuchs") continued until the latest edition +to say that these emasculated men "driven long ago from the stage +by public opinion remained the musical glory and the moral shame of +the Papal choir till the accession of Pope Leo XIII." The recent +edition was revised by Catholics, and not only is the reference to +the churches suppressed, but it is audaciously stated that Leo XIII +simply found the custom in vogue in the opera. Clerical writers, +having thus suppressed the most accessible and weighty evidence, +have already begun -- I have had proof in the last few weeks -- to +say that this story is another libel of the Holy Church! But apart +from the unexpurgated earlier editions of the Britannica it is +stated as an ordinary musical fact in Grove's standard Dictionary +of Music ("Soprani") and all the older dictionaries and books on +church-life in Rome. Every Pope, every nun, in Rome knew that the +castrati ("the castrated," as they were commonly called) or soprani +in the Papal and other church choirs were men who had been, for +church purposes, treated as men used to treat each other in the +wildest of the Wild West. Now the Black International wants to +dictate to America on the ground that its Church has an age-old +tradition of extreme delicacy in regard to sex! The claim is even +more preposterous than the shoddy version of history which +attributes the fall of Rome, etc., to sexual freedom. The real aim +is the same as in the furious campaign against Spaniards and +Bolsheviks, the alliance with the Fascist scum of the modern world +the sycophancy to the rich -- care for the power and wealth of the +Black International.

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Chapter IV

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THE SHAME OF THE CONFESSIONAL

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In discussing this catholic censorship of art and +entertainment I have inevitably moved beyond the priest's tyranny +over his own people and considered the outrageous interference of +the Catholic hierarchy with the freedom and tastes of the general +population. If any doubt still lingers in the mind of the reader +about the truth of my statement that the real aim of this is simply +to increase the power and prestige of the Church let him reflect +that the clerical Gestapo has in this respect a power to control +its own subjects which is far greater than the power of other +ministers of religion. A priest may tell you that in claiming a +national censorship his Church merely wants to remove "temptation" +from the eyes of its followers. That again is a hollow claim. Its +real plea is that it is rendering a Service to American +civilization and must therefore be respected as a valuable national +institution. In the domestic sphere the Church boasts that it +enables folk to "resist temptation" far more effectively than any +other Church does. The chief reference here is to its doctrine of +mortal sin and the confessional, and it is an important part of the +tyranny of the spiritual Gestapo.

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Catholic teaching, stamped upon the mind from childhood onward +by myriads of sermons, books, hymns, services, etc., is that some +sins are venial (pardonable or lighter) and some mortal (or +punished with eternal torment unless they are confessed to a priest +and absolution received). Reading books or seeing pictures or shows +that in any degree stir the sexual feelings is declared very +emphatically by the Church to be one of these mortal sins. One +should understand clearly how unique the position of the Catholic +is. He believes that after reading even a passage of a book that +criticizes the faith or the clergy or seeing a film that gives him +a sexual feeling, he is under sentence of eternal damnation and if +he dies suddenly -- a street accident, bombing, heart-failure, etc. +before he has confessed this to a priest he will infallibly and +with no hope whatever of escaping it suffer terrible torture for +all eternity.

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It is well also to understand the position of the Catholic +friend who smiles and tells you that he does not take this +literally. If he does not he rejects the teaching of the Church on +a point which it makes as vital to the creed as the divinity of +Christ or the atonement: more Vital, indeed, since the power of the +priests is based to a far greater extent on the doctrine of hell. +In rejecting or ignoring this dogma a Catholic necessarily rejects +the basic dogma of the teaching authority of the Church and opens +the door wide to general skepticism. He cannot honestly repeat the +simplest form of the Catholic creed and, if he is a writer, he dare +not even remotely hint at his position. is he a Catholic? Please +yourself, but you will have little difficulty in realizing that +this peculiar attitude toward one of the most fundamental dogmas of +the Church is very uncommon in the Catholic body. From the Church +angle the man who says this is in worse plight than the crook or +the fornicator. If he does not act on the belief which he +professes, to reject and confess his sins at least once a year he,

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in Catholic theology, may still be a member of the "body" of the +Church but not of its "soul." In plain English he is only a nominal +Catholic and keeps his position for social or other reasons. Any +Catholic who tells you that he is free to question or reject thins +fundamental doctrine lies. He certainly knows better.

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It is through the further doctrines of confession and +indulgences that the Church makes this dogma one of the most +profitable in its theology and the chief source of its despotic +power. People who indolently, or from an amiable ignorance of the +subject, say that the Catholic Church is much the same as any other +are very far astray. The Protestant bows to the commands of the +Lord and what he believes to be doctrines in the New Testament. +Even the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church of +America lay it down in the 39 Articles that the Christian need not +listen to any command or doctrine that is not found in the +Scriptures. But the Roman Church imposes as a binding dogma -- +binding under the usual penalty of hell -- that "Commandments of +the Church" are on the same footing as the Ten Commandments. They +put on the same level as an act of grave injustice the failure of +a Catholic to attend Mass on Sunday morning, to abstain from meat +on Friday, or to neglect confession at Easter. The penalty is the +same for murder, adultery, or defrauding the widow or orphan -- +hell.

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A pleasant thought, isn't it, that some 10000000 adult +American's believe this. Hell and the devil have dominated their +minds from the time when they were in the infant-school. Naturally +there are millions of Protestants who are in the same condition, +but (in no Protestant Church do the authorities say that it is hell +to transgress their commands), in none is a man prevented by +priestly inquisition and periodical confession from taking a more +liberal view. The Church of Rome can deal out sentence of hell and +annul the sentence of hell when it pleases.

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That is the chief root of the strange tyranny I have so far +described. A Catholic apologist would resent the word tyranny. His +people, he would say voluntarily submit to the priest who dictates +what they shall read or not-read, what shows they shall see or not +see, whom and in what conditions they shall marry, and so on. Does +he mean that they like it? Oh. no: but they hold a creed that +reconciles them to the system. And the fundamental article of that +creed is that the Church take's the place of Christ and can condemn +a child of eight years to hell or acquit a man who is as encrusted +with sins as an old ship is with barnacles. It may all sound very +flatulent to you, but you will never understand Catholic life and +action unless you know it.

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This doctrine of hell and its annex, purgatory, is turned into +a source of power and wealth chiefly by the further doctrines of +penance and indulgences. A mortal sin -- for instance, when you +kiss a girl too ardently even for a few seconds -- incurs sentence +of hell instantaneously by an automatic spiritual machinery. All +sorts of things are mortal sins and, though, you may find it +incredible, Catholics believe that the majority of themselves walk +the streets, cheerfully, under the dire sentence. The curse holds +until the act -- in case they have forgotten this fateful act, as

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they commonly do, they run over a charming and exhaustive list of +sins (in their prayer-books) before confessing -- is confessed to +a priest and he gives absolution. Theologians, who are really not +quite as obtuse as the gentle lady saint who in a vision saw +Catholics falling every minute "like snowflakes" into hell have +thought out the mitigation that when one is going to die without +the possibility of seeing a priest an act of sorrow will do the +trick. I doubt if many Catholic's know that piece. The only sure +way to escape the sentence is to confess. The obligation is to do +this. once a year, but fraternity rules and custom generally +prescribe once a month.

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Many would like to ask one psychological question about the +mind of a Catholic. Gladys for instance, goes to confession on +February 28 and is not due again until March 31. But she has a date +on March 7 (or 17th especially) and . . . Does she go about in fear +and trembling in the meantime? Not in the least. You must work it +out for yourself but be sure of one thing: Catholics really believe +all this stuff. Nervousness about it is unusual. A priest in a poor +quarter of London told me this experience. I believe it has become +"a story" since I wrote it 45 years ago, but it's true. He was +assisting an Irish laborer, of lurid life, in his last hour and +found the man terribly afraid. When he explained how merciful God +is the man murmured: "It's not 'im, it's the other b____.

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Once the "soul" has gone to hell it is all over. Almost the +one thing which the Pope "cannot do is to get a soul out of hell. +It sounds remarkable but the Catholic way of salvation is almost +fool-proof, and Catholics rarely think about going to hell. +Confession to a priest means that you glance back, in quarter of an +hour or so of preparation, over the month (or year) with the aid of +your list of sins and then tell him which you committed and how +often in each case. One priest I knew used to tell of a bright boy +who, with admirable succinctness, reeled off his load speedily as: +"Thirty b-s, 25 p-s, and 40 d-s. It is not necessary to tell venial +sins, and better-behaved children are often puzzled. A sharp little +girl, of inquiring mind, once accused herself to me -- the reader +probably knows that I was a father-confessor for years -- of +adultery. But of tales of the confessional there would be no end. +See my Twelve Years in a Monastery.

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Another essential difference of Catholicism is that the priest +does not assure the penitent "that God forgives him" or her. He +says, and means "I absolve thee." It was part of the power-policy +of the Church to shape the institution (or sacrament) of penance on +those lines. Confession. to a priest is, of course, an old +religious practice. It was as familiar in ancient Babylonia as it +is in a Catholic country, though the priest did not release from a +sentence of hell, in which no Babylonian believed. Their idea was +that for sin the great God Marduk let the devils have a go at a +man, and it was relief from the tooth-aches, head-aches, belly-aches, etc., consequent upon sin that he sought. Confession to a +priest was as common in ancient as in modern Mexico.

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But all that must be read elsewhere. The Catholic theory is +that after the priest's magic formula and wave of the hand the +devil retires, baffled, and all that the Catholic has to look +forward to its purgatory. Catholics may assure you that it is one

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of the beauties of their creed that it avoids the stark and inhuman +alternative of hell or heaven for eternity. It says that lighter +sins or those who have escaped hell by confessing must suffer or be +"purified" for a time in purgatory. It is not now essential to +believe that the torture is by fire, though the learned (and very +modern) Thomas Aquinas proved to the hilt that souls could feel +torture by fire, and since it is a spiritual state, there is no +question of time. But the Church finds it hopeless to impress the +dogma without this material terminology. A popular hymn exhorts +Catholics to "Pray for the Holy Souls that burn, This hour amidst +the cleansing flames," and the indulgences which they "win" or buy +speak of shortening the purgatorial punishment by 30 days or 100 +days, or abolishing it altogether.

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In short, this purgatory and indulgence business, however +beautiful and humane you may think it, has been the most profitable +religious doctrine that was invented. We need not go back to the +Middle Ages, when indulgences were sold as literally as cigars are, +or think of the sale of them by the millions a year in Spanish +Catholic lands -- no doubt Franco has restored it -- until recent +years. In discussing the Church's finances I said that a Catholic +pays for every Mass that each of the 250000 priests says every +day, and the aim is usually an indulgence. I described the enormous +traffic in medals, small pictures, relies, scapulars (little +pictures on cloth strung over the shoulders and worn next the +skin), etc. The normal aim of all this is to secure indulgences. +But the subject is too large to be treated here.

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What concerns us more is that the doctrine of hell, of a +barbarously conceived penalty for a sin from which the priest must +absolve a man, is obviously the main source of the power of the +clerical Gestapo. Let us admit that the Roman Church did not invent +the dogma of hell, as it did that of purgatory, and that priests do +not now receive money for absolution, though they assuredly did +this in the Middle Ages. But as a source of power over the laity it +is a doctrine of unrivalled value. The Church could not have any +hope of putting its own commandments in regard to church-attendance, fasting, marriage, divorce, birth-control, reading +critical literature, etc., on the same footing as the Decalogue if +it had not first lodged the belief in eternal punishment and in its +own right to declare when and how this punishment was incurred In +the mind of the laity.

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Confession is obviously and essentially based upon the dogma. +Unless one appreciates this the spectacle of 10000000 Americans +whispering periodically to a priest how many times they Swore or +lied, how many times they just thought that a girl was desirable -- +hell drops in with the first thought -- or handled themselves, +seems grotesque. The "liberal" view, that Catholics esteem the +practice because it eases their consciences and gets them spiritual +guidance, is preposterous nonsense. Most Catholics detest the need +of it and, as a rule, hurry through it mechanically. But only the +small minority who are Catholics in name only, for social or +business reasons, shirk it. One of the first questions the visiting +priest asks the mother at Easter time is whether all members of the +family have "been to their Easter duties." The minimum obligation +is confession and communion once a year "and that at Easter or +there abouts." The priest keeps a tally.

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And the most intriguing feature of the whole business is that +this "sacrament of penance" with its dire obligation to confess to +a priest at least once a year is one of the most obviously priest-made dogmas in the whole weird structure of Catholic teaching and +discipline. The Christian Church, one of many ascetic developments +of the Greek-Roman world, did assuredly start with a lively concern +about sins. The end of the world and general judgment -- idea which +had been borrowed from the Persians -- were believed to be near at +hand. The practice arose, therefore, of compelling members who had +strayed to confess their sins, generally in the sense of expressing +sorrow for sins which were known to the others, before admitting +them to the mystic supper. Doubtless the "overseer" (bishop) or +presiding "elder" (priest) recited some sort of formula of +absolution. In the 2nd Century, as the idea of priesthood +developed, it was claimed that the clergy could forgive sins, and +a clause in support of this was worked into the New Testament +(Matthew XVI, 19). The next step in the fabrication of the priest's +power was to declare that forgiveness could be obtained only +through the priest's absolution and the laity must be compelled to +ask for it periodically. This was so clearly an ecclesiastical move +that even the people of the Dark Age resisted it, as they resisted +the priestly control of marriage, and there was no law of +compulsory confession until the year 1215, when the truculent and +despotic Innocent III had completed the fabric of ecclesiastical +power.

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It is too large a subject for discussion here, and we are +concerned only to point out how this rounds off the power of the +priest over the laity and gives him an authority and right of +inquisition that the Nazi Gestapo might envy. But one further point +must be noticed briefly.

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Protestant writers insist that the confessional is actually a +corrupting institution while non-Catholic apologists for +Catholicism claim -- they never examine facts -- that it must be an +effective moral agency. In a careful analysis of my experience as +a confessor and of discussions with others I have shown (in my +Twelve Years in a Monastery) that the Protestant contention is, if +certain excesses are struck out, correct to a very wide extent. It +is true that there is no misconduct in the confessional, in which +priest and penitent are separated by a wooden partition, and of +wire grille, but assignations can be made, and the priest often +hears confessions in places where there is no separation. I have +known a priest who systematically got young women to pretend +illness, go to bed, and send for him to come and hear their +confessions. It is rare. More common is the demoralizing effect on +girls and certain types of women of the intimate sexual talk that +is not merely permitted but required by the priest. He cannot pass +a vague self-accusation of a girl that she has been "immodest" (as +the nuns teach her to say) or indecent. He must ask. Does she mean +a solitary act and how far did it go? Was it with another girl or +with a man, and just how far did that go? Was the man married or a +priest? Was it with a dog (not uncommon with certain types) and how +far did that go? If she that she saw a film or read a book he has +to know if the bad thoughts culminated in the usual way, and so on. +Since most priests are normally "fleshy" and the woman is +stimulated by the sort of sacred license the occasion permits her,

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any man can guess what the emotional development is likely to be. +The cinema from which the priest is so eager to banish temptation +for the sake of his Catholic girls, rarely reaches the temperature +that the confessional so often does.

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Chapter V

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CATHOLIC ACTION A CLERICAL MANEUVER

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Writers who find it more convenient to make reflections on the +Church of Rome without making a close study of its history and life +-- it is much easier to pay it compliments in this way -- +generously describe it as a vast body of 300000000 or +350000000, men and women who are devotedly attached to a +"venerable creed" and are therefore bound to have a priesthood and +hierarchy for organizational purposes and to preserve the necessary +discipline. We have seen, or I have shown in a score of works, that +this view is as false as the theory of a Seventh Day Adventist that +the strata of the earth's crust are heaps of rubbish left by the +great Deluge, There are not 50000000 lay men and women in the +Catholic world who are old enough and sufficiently educated to be +described as deliberately subscribing to a creed. The vast majority +of the 180000000 Catholics are children, illiterates, or semi-literates; and most of the remainder are duped by a mendacious +literature and fooled by a dogma which prevents them from reading +exposures of its untruth.

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From a sociological viewpoint the Church of Rome is an +economic corporation of some quarter of a million priests, high and +low. It differs from the ordinary economic corporation in the fact +that the 100000000 more or less adult lay members are not +shareholders but, as in the propagandist societies, just +subscribing members. And it differs from these propagandist or +idealist bodies and societies very profoundly in the fact that it +holds, and has for centuries proceeded on, the principle that these +subscribing members must be held together by violence as well as +deceit: that they cannot leave it when they profess to believe its +creed no longer but remain subject to it and may be coerced by any +kind of suffering (privation, jail, torture, even death) when the +Church finds it feasible to inflict. Ten years ago you might have +boggled at this conception of the Church of Rome. Very many +Socialists and Communists did, saying that it was a harmless old +wreck and serious people gave all their attention to politico-economic matter's. Now, in their tens of millions, in penury or a +miserable mental slavery, in jail or in mourning for their dead, +they lie like withered swathes of corn across the planet from +Brazil to Italy.

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preserve this structure the Church of Rome had not only to +lodge certain childish basic dogmas in the minds of the subscribing +members and guard them from the contamination of truth but to draw +a magic line between clergy and laity. It invented the sacrament of +Holy Orders. It erected a sanctuary rail in the chapel. The priests +were officially "holy men," special proteges of the Holy Ghost, +separated from ordinary folk by sacred vows, rights, privileges, +and powers. They talked to you from a pulpit as if you were

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children and ordered you to do this and that as if you were slaves. +If you laid a hand on one -- if you came home unexpectedly and +caught him, let us say, at your special bottle -- it was the +terrible crime of sacrilege. They could not be taken to a common +court of law or asked to pay taxes. To ask them to show annual +balance-sheets would be an outrage. Your business was to pay and be +meek.

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The laity were always apt to be restive under this system. In +the earlier part of the Middle Ages the Romans themselves fought +the Popes off and on for two centuries for the right to govern +themselves. Everywhere, as I said, they resisted priestly attempts +to control marriage or impose such laws as compulsory confession. +Princes and nobles defied the clergy hundreds of times, but by the +terrors of excommunication and interdict the clergy worked on the +illiterate masses and won. By the 19th Century these terrors were +as vapid as those of the haunted house or the comet, and the +historic disintegration of the old Church began. The success of +science in mastering disease and death led to a rapid increase of +population, but even this could not be made to conceal the fact +that the Church was losing about a million members a decade. Slowly +and reluctantly the clergy had to turn to new methods, and one of +these, particularly during the last 20 years, is what is called +Catholic Action. Some call it Catholicism with a punch, others a +cooperation of laity and clergy. It is a combination of the two.

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The laity began to take action long before the late Pope +organized this new movement or tendency. The fight of the German +Catholics against Bismarck was mainly conducted by the laity. The +militant Christian Socialism of that county and Austria was +Catholic Action. France had several powerful lay movements in the +19th Century, and a Papal Delegate was sent to America to curb the +laity long before Pope Leo XIII, in 1899, gave a public and severe +snub to the American bishops for their innovations. However, it is +usually said, the Catholic laity won the right of personality, and +in Catholic Action they march side by side with the priests, no +longer mere contributors but militant and largely self-governing +bodies.

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Not quite. Catholic Action does not mean either that the +priests were forced to make concessions or that their tyranny is +less. To a larger extent it was not a new movement but a +coordination of developments due to the requirements of modern +life. The multiplication of schools and in so many countries the +exclusion of nuns and religious brothers from them caused the +appearance of a vast army of Catholic teachers, and, since the +Catholic school is, as I said, really a chapel, these men and women +formed a kind of "Third Estate," a body more or less intermediate +between the clergy and the laity. The development of Catholic +journalism created another large body of active workers in the +cause of the Church. Already the Church made considerable use of +Catholic journalists in the employment of the ordinary press, of +teachers in non-Catholic schools or education departments, of local +politicians, of civil servants in all branches of the national +administration, and so on. Lay Catholicism already was militant. +Even ordinary folk, especially women, could be wound up to make it +a very spirited fight in the few weeks before an election when

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there was question of granting larger subsidies to Catholic +schools. Some day the question of the taxation of Church property +will be raised and you will see high-pressure Catholic Action +during election-campaigns. Most of the women would sell America to +Japan if concentration on "the danger to the Church" were to imply +this.

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The present movement is an extension and organization of all +this. All sorts of existing elements were brought together. In +America the Catholic young men's National Union goes back to 1875, +and the monstrous Catholic Welfare Conference, the National Council +of Catholic Men, the National Council of Catholic Women, the +Knights of Columbus (800000 strong), etc., go back 20 or more +years. Now we have organizations of Catholic Nurses, Teachers, +Actors, Writers, Sociologists, youth, and all sorts of oddments: +Holy Name Societies, Dames of the Grail, the Sword of the Spirit. +the Knights of America, etc. etc., All with horn-rimmed secretaries +and organizers, some with elaborate staffs in Washington or Radio +Hours; and back of all a vast network of newspapers and the +billion-dollar treasury of the Church. It is estimated that more +than 5000000 zealous adults, apart from the clergy, are organized +for Catholic Action in America and greatly fancy themselves as +soldiers of the Church.

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I had almost described them as the Shock Troops of the great +campaign to Make America Catholic, but overt action is not their +usual line. Quiet, stealthy, conspiratorial action best suits the +situation. A city must find itself in the grip of the Church before +it perceives the white fingers closing round it. The Knights of +Columbus are quite ready to crack skulls at a Birth Control +Conference or a public meeting to tell the truth about Spain or +Russia, but they are just as ready to conspire with Wall Street to +bring on a war to annex Mexico or for a peaceful penetration of +Canada. During a tour of that Dominion I learned that they had +secretly initiated the Premier of Quebec to their ranks. +Journalists (on non-Catholic papers), civil servants, librarians, +councilors on library or education committees, etc., quietly +consult the interests of the Church. A London daily was pained to +discover that an important member of its staff altered cables in +favor of the Church before publication. Another has a sub-editor +who controls the correspondence columns in the same interest. The +zealous 5000000 fill America with such intrigue. It is publicly +stated by American writers that Farley used the influence of his +genial personality to prevent Roosevelt from lifting the rather +disgraceful Spanish Embargo; but I should doubt if the more elegant +dames of the movement go as far as the aristocratic French lady +who, notoriously, seduced Radical statesmen in the preparation of +the shame of France and triumph of its Church.

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So the tail comes to wag the dog. Catholics in America are +about one-tenth of the whole community -- somewhere in this series +of books I will provide the material for a reasonable judgment on +that point -- yet they have such power that the average American +imagines they must be about one-fourth. They are just, as a body, +the shrunken remainder of the vast body of descendants of the

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Irish, Italian, Polish, German, Czech, French, and other immigrants +of the last 100 years. And they set up in business at Washington +and insist that the President in his decisions shall ask them for +the Catholic view of the matter!

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In other countries except Britain, where Catholic Action is +much the same as in America but more subterranean and less +effective, Catholic Action is generally Fascist. In Germany Hitler +has killed it very dead. In France, Belgium, Holland, Austria, and +Czecho-Slovakia it worked zealously for the triumph of the Nazi-Papal plot. In Spain and Portugal, and now in Belgium and France, +it is entirely Fascist or Vichy, which is the same thing. A +correspondent just gets a letter through to me from a Portuguese +town and says that Catholic Action and Fascism are identical, hold +their meetings in the churches, and get anybody who criticizes them +sent to jail or penal colonies. Seldes describes the ghastly +medieval tortures that are used on such critic's today in the jails +of Portugal, under fanatical Catholic Salazar, who gets nothing but +compliments in the American-British democratic press.

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That, in the light of the "great" encyclical (Quadragesimo +Anno.) of the late (assisted by the present) Pope, is the appointed +final phase of Catholic Action. The Catholic young men boast that +the priests, instead of exercising a tyranny over them, now welcome +them as co-workers, are fooled. The bishops ultimately control the +policy of every branch. The Gestapo preside at every meeting of the +plotters. When Catholic Action in France some years before the war +became a powerful royalist-Fascist movement on lines in harmony +with Vatican policy, the Pope scattered it by condemning its +leader's. This was part of a deal of the Vatican with the French +government. When Catholic Action in Italy took the form of a +Catholic democratic movement and became strong enough to stand up +to the Fascists (often physically), the Pope obliged Mussolini by +driving its priest-leader, Sturzo, into oblivion and paralyzing the +movement. German Catholics complain that the Pope betrayed Catholic +Action in their country to Hitler. Make no mistake about it. The +priest rules Catholic Action. The American zealots ought to have +realized it when they were taught to respect Japan as the Pope's +ally, when they were lashed to fury against democratic Spain and +Soviet Russia, when they found themselves rubbing shoulders at +their fervid demonstrations with Germans and Italians who have been +branded as conspirator's and Irish and French who are not much +better.

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But in a later book on the Church and democracy we will +consider this antithesis of democratic pretensions and real aims in +American Catholicism. Catholics are the most priest-ridden of all +peoples of the civilized world: American Catholics are the most +priest-ridden in America. They take orders from their clerical +Gestapo as no other religious bodies do. The priests dictate their +schooling, reading, entertainment, courtship, marriage, diet on +certain days, and every aspect of their lives that can be brought +under the broad heading of morals. It is not submission to +dictation, they say, but compliance with a creed of the truth of +which we are convinced. Who gave you the creed? The Gestapo. Have +you thoroughly and critically examined it? No, the Gestapo forbid. +Why not test the word of your Gestapo by reading a few critics in

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THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 13

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ROME PUTS A BLIGHT ON CULTURE

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THE ROMAN CHURCH, THE POOREST IN CULTURE +AND RICHEST IN CRIME

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by Joseph McCabe

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CHAPTER

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I Who Are the Catholic 300000000 ........ 1

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II The Minimum of Scholarship and Maximum of Crime ..... 9

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III Rome Loves the Poor Illiterate ......... 18

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IV The Myth of Its Patronage of Learning ........ 24

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Chapter I

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WHO ARE THE CATHOLIC 300000000?

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It occurred to me while I was revising the manuscript of the +preceding book that most readers would like to have, before I +proceed further, a full and clear statement of the grounds on which +I challenge, in fact disdainfully reject, the total numbers of +Catholics in the world that are usually given. These numbers vary +in Catholic writers and standard works of reference from +250000000 to nearly 400000000. The figure given in the new +Encyclopedia Americana by a Catholic expert is 294583000. The +figure in the Catholic Directory, which may be described as an +official publication of the British Catholic authorities, is +398277000. Authoritative works of reference, which take amazing +pains to ascertain exactly how many tons of steel are produced +annually in, or tons of rice imported into, the United States give +world-totals which similarly differ from each other by tens of +millions when they turn to "the venerable Church of Rome."

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Does it matter? Yes, it matters very seriously for three +reasons. First, these big figures are an essential part of the +bluff which priests put up when they claim, as they do in America, +special consideration and privileges for their Church. Secondly, +they are an important part of the deception which these priests +practice on their own followers, since they give, and are intended +to give, Catholics a vague impression that their creed has not +merely been that of the civilized world for fifteen centuries but +is endorsed by the largest body of men and women in the leading +countries of the modern world. Thirdly, the publication of these +figures by Catholic writers and authorities affords a rich +illustration of that recklessness and untruthfulness of statement +which it is the aim of these booklets to expose.

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The Church of Rome knows within very much closer limits how +many members it has. Every priest makes an annual report to his +bishops -- I have assisted in this job -- and these reports provide +national totals which are forwarded to Rome. Two things, amongst +others, are reported: how many Catholics in the loose sense -- +baptized persons -- there are in the parish and, particularly, how +many of them are real Catholics as testified by attendance at +church on Sundays and the number of confessions at Easter. But +neither local prelates nor the Vatican ever publish these results. +The nearest approach to an official international annual is Orbis +Catholicus, and it gives no world-total; though if you add up the +statements for each country the total runs to about 350000000.

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The sum-total is therefore usually compiled by an entirely +dishonest method, but even professors of sociology who include the +Churches as socially valuable agencies never condemn this. +Countries which, from geographical or historical conditions, never +accepted the Reformation are still called Catholic countries, and +the whole population is usually included in the Catholic total or +only from 1 to 5 percent is allowed for Protestants, Jews, and -- +though they generally form the largest body -- skeptics. These +countries (France and its colonies, Italy, Spain and its former +colonies, Portugal and its colonies, Spanish America, and generally +Austria), with a total population of more than 200000000 make the +bulk of the Catholic figure. For other countries the figures are +equally fantastic. The Catholic writer in the Encyclopedia +Americana gives 11000000 to Russia, where no Catholic claims more +than 3000000 and there are now certainly not 300000: 39000000 +to Austria and Hungary, which have had for quarter of a century a +total (mixed) population of only 15000000: 24000000 to Germany, +where the Church is in ruins: 35000000 to France, which is at +least five times too much.

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In examining these figures we must clearly understand the +conditions. What is a Catholic or a member of the Roman Church? The +Canon Law is simple and peremptory: everybody who once received +Catholic baptism. American Catholic writers are uneasy about this +arrogant theory of their Church that you cannot secede from it, and +they are shifty and evasive in defining what they mean when they +claim that there are more than 26000000 Catholics in the United +States. In a fantastic -- Catholics call it a scientific -- work, +Has the Immigrant Kept the Faith? (1925), Fr. G. Shaugnessy says +that by Catholic he means one who has received Catholic baptism,

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marries in the Church and has his children baptized, and at death +receives the last sacraments. He at once admits that the third +condition is "rather theoretical" -- he is perfectly aware that it +is not taken into account -- and he ought to know, and probably +does know, that Irish, Italian, and other Catholics commonly marry +in the Church and allow the mothers or relatives to have the +children baptized though they have definitely abandoned it. From +quotations given in Moore's 'Will America Become Catholic?' (1931) +it appears that in Catholic periodicals Fr. Shaugnessy, a professor +at a Catholic college, is accustomed to give the usual definition +of a Catholic: one who was baptized in infancy. This is the strict +law of the Church, and it is the guiding principle of the priests +who compile the parochial statistics from which the national and +world-totals are compiled.

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Now we have no objection to Catholics making fools of +themselves by repeating "Once a Catholic always a Catholic," which +entails that in their opinion I, whom they call "the bitterest +enemy" of the Church, am a Catholic. Hoodwinked as they are, they +do not see that the real purpose of the Church in laying down this +seemingly extravagant proposition is so that when a country which +had disowned the Church and has been reduced by violence, as so +often happened in the 19th Century and has happened in a score of +countries today, it can break the rebels by jail, torture, or +execution. They are its subjects. We do not blame Catholics for not +knowing that, but at least, we can expect them to say, when they +boast that there are 20000000 Catholics in America and +300000000 in the world, that they include tens of millions who +though baptized in infancy, rejected the creed when they grew to +manhood or womanhood. We shall see presently cases in which +Catholic American bishops and canonists have incited priests +deliberately to include these seceders in their statistics.

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The general public, in short, is grossly deceived, and is +meant to be deceived. In common honesty and common sense "members +of a Church" means men, women, and children who accept its creed, +are in touch with its local organization, and more or less +regularly attend its services. What I have said in earlier books -- +what I have proved by official statistics -- about the spread, for +instance, of atheistic Communism and Socialism in the last 20 years +shows that at least 50000000 adults who are included in the +figure of 300000000 loathed and despised the Church and creed as +long as they were free to express their sentiments. But apart from +these there are, especially in America, millions of others who have +thought their way out of the creed and quietly severed their +connection with the Church.

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The only real test is attendance at church. There are two +vital differences to bear in mind in comparing Protestant and +Catholic statistics. Many Churches do not baptize children and by +"members" they mean the adolescent and adult, but the Church of +Rome counts babies a week old. The second difference is that a man +may be a genuine member of a Protestant Church yet attend the +services very irregularly. A Catholic cannot. He is, unless there +is "grave reason" (illness, etc., not a social engagement or +tiredness.), bound to attend every Sunday morning as stringently as +he is prohibited adultery and much more stringently than he is

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forbidden to lie, get drunk, be cruel, or rob this neighbor. It is +only a rare and abnormal type of mind that, holding this belief, +can miss Mass Sunday after Sunday -- hell every time. though the +sentences run concurrently since they are eternal -- for frivolous +reasons; and to question the law is to question the authority of +the Church or the whole distinctive structure of Catholic teaching. +Thus the distinction between "practicing" and "non-practicing" (or +floating") Catholics is a mere trick of apologists to excuse +dishonest statistics.

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Now take the various national constituents of the grand total +of 300000000 or 350000000; and, as all these figures refer to +the period before Papal-Fascism destroyed freedom in a score of +countries, we need not worry about the obscure situation in France, +Spain, etc., today. France is, in all these totals, credited with +39000000 or 40000000 Catholics in a total population of +41000000. It is amazing how American Catholics swallow this. +Until the political alliance of the Vatican and the French +government began in 1919, on the Church's promise to curb rebellion +in Alsace-Lorraine, Rome had thundered against that "government of +Jews and Freemasons" for 50 years. It had ruined the Church in +France and defied the Pope's. And it had the vast majority of the +people with it, since, in free elections, the Catholics could +hardly get a deputy, much legs a statesman, in Congress. French +culture was solidly anti-Roman. Its hundreds of scientific men were +nearly all Atheists -- even Pasteur, Fabre, and Bernard were not +Catholics -- and of its leading writers nine-tenth's were anti-Roman.

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But I need not labor the point. Reviewing the position +carefully in 1937, after 18 years of the Catholic influence of +Alsace-Lorraine and the government's encouragement of the Church, +-- I found French Catholic writers agreed with me. Andre Goddard +(Le surnaturel contemporain, 1922) described his country as +overwhelmingly irreligious and said that in no other age had +Frenchmen been "so little interested in the truth." Georges Goyau +(L'effort catholique dans la Franee d'aujourdhui, 1922) gave an +account of all the supposed triumphs of his Church in France since +1919 (so much admired in the American Catholic press) and finally +left it open "whether there are in France today ten million +practicing Catholics, as some say, or only five million, as others. +say." Denis Gwynn, a strictly orthodox Irish writer and, as an +important foreign correspondent in Paris a high authority, agreed +with Goyau and distrusted the higher figure of 10000000. This +agrees with my finding after a severe analysis of the evidence in +my 'Decay of the Church of Rome' (1909). I said that there were +5000000 to 6000000 Catholics in France. The eminent French +authority on religion P. Sabatier insists that I was too generous: +that the figure was 4000000. The incorporation of Alsace-Lorraine +in 1919 raised my figure to 7000000, and this is supported by the +Catholics Goyau and Gwynn. Now that Alsace and Lorraine have gone +the figure drops again to between 5000000 and 6000000. Take the +more generous figure. We strike off, with the leading Catholic +experts in agreement, 33000000 from the number of French +Catholics in the world-total.

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Of Germany I have written so mush recently that I will be +brief. There never were in Germany the 24000000 Catholics claimed +in Orhis Catholicus and the Americana. The election-figures and +explanations which I gave in the First Series of these booklets +proved that beyond question Catholics were one-seventh, not one-third, of the adult community or, including children a little more +generously, about 10000000 to 12000000. Catholic papers which +I quoted admit that they are far less today, but we will avoid the +present compared period. The 24000000 German Catholics included +in a world-total of 300000000 or more were not in reality more +than 12000000. We strike off a further 12000000, or, if the +biggest Catholic figure is pressed upon us, we strike off +20000000 on the ground of indisputable facts and statistics.

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The Italians (42000000) are "practically all Catholics," +Says the Orbis, though the Americana claims only 32000000. +Strange how these mighty Catholic majorities are so helpless +politically until some Nazi or Fascist thug is called in Italy had +for 50 years (from 1870 onward) a government and a monarchy which +were under the ban of excommunication. I traveled all over Italy in +1904 as a delegate to a Congress of Freethinkers, and my yellow +ticket evoked friendly smiles and reductions of price everywhere: +except, I regret to say at the Vatican. Nine-tenths of the leading +novelists, poets, and dramatists as well as the scientists were as +in France, Freethinkers. . . . But enough. The electoral figures I +gave in No. 1 of the Appeal to Reason prove that at the time when +innocent foreigners were talking about 40000000 Catholic Italians +they were not more than a third of the population. Strike off at +least 20000000 (Liberals, Socialists, and Communists) from the +grand total.

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The case of Spain ought to be still easier. but when a non-Catholic writer like Seldes assures America that all are Catholics +in Spain except 100000 we wonder. At the time when Seldes said +this (The Catholic Crisis, 1939) an anti-ecclesiastical government, +established at one free election after another in spite of the +hysterical curses of the hierarchy, had ruled Spain and defied the +Pope and Church for five years, and it took the sweepings of +Europe, assisted by a British Society for Non-Intervention (or for +Protecting Intervention) and an American Embargo, to put Humpty +Dumpty back on the wall, where he wobbles until the day of freedom +returns. The Irish Jesuit -- and if you know anything more orthodox +come up and see me some time -- Fr. Gannon said in the Irish Times, +January 23, 1937, that there are in Spain "ten or fifteen million +Catholics." Split the difference and say 12000000, mostly +belonging to the illiterate 40 percent of the nation, and strike +another 15000000 off the Catholic total for Europe.

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In that total the Americana counts 26060000 for Austria and +13000000 for Hungary. The Catholic writer is, of course, aware +that this is a reference -- and not accurate even as such -- to the +population of Austria-Hungary before 1919. Nearly 20 years before +he wrote this article Austria had been reduced to a population of +7000000 and Hungary to one of 9000000. In Austria, moreover, +the Socialists had been in the majority and held power in Vienna +and several other cities for years, so that the Catholics, mostly +peasants, were not 93 percent (Orbis) of the population but,

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certainly not more than two-thirds. In Hungary, which recoiled into +Fascism after the unfortunate Communist episode, they are not +13000000 but are officially returned as 65 percent of the actual +population or 6000000. Deduct a further 12000000.

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In Russia, which the Orbis significantly overlooks, the +Americana audaciously claims 11000000 Roman Catholics! How the +... you ask. It is like so many frauds, simple. The Catholic writer +refer's -- and again inaccurately -- to the Russia of more than 20 +years earlier, when it ruled Poland. Well, you may say, any man of +common sense will allow for that, but you do not see the point. The +Americana says that Catholics number 294000000 today and through +this geographical shuffle is able to count many twice. We shall see +a very pretty specimen of this pious work presently.

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Belgium (population 8000000) is credited with 7000000 +Catholics (Americana) or "most of the people" (Orbis). I lived (as +a monk) for a year there, and the Belgian friars forbade me to +appear in my robes on the streets of Brussels as the ensuing +blasphemy would be painful. This was 45 years ago, and the +Catholics have waged an even battle with the contemptuously anti-Catholic Liberals and Socialists ever since until the devout Hitler +murdered the Church's critics for it. Portugal (7000000) is said +to be "mostly" Catholic. As it is still 50 percent illiterate I +would not mind much, but the fact is that it kicked out its +Catholic king 32 years ago and kept its angry Church to heel until +the butcher Salazar joined the Butchers Union of Europe. Czecho-Slovakia (15000000 until 1939) is described in the Orbis as 80 +percent Catholic. Turn over No 5 of the last series and see how the +leading Catholic weekly in Britain acknowledged a loss of 2000000 +in five years after 1919. The Church was in ruins until Hitler's +salvage Corps set it up again in Slovakia, one of the most +illiterate regions of Europe.

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But we need not run over all these smaller countries. The +Americana says that there are 183000000 Catholics in Europe. How +consoling to Americans! But on the safest of grounds -- full +particulars and authorities in earlier numbers -- we have had to +strike off something like 100000000 of these and in the next +chapter we shall see the quality of what is left. Let us first get +the number.

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We turn to America, and here the writers in the Americana +ought to be careful and conscientious because, while the +Encyclopedia is weak culturally, it is great on American +statistics. He says that there are 50000000 Catholics in North +America and 44000000 in the South. Not being an American I have +to be modest, but as the population of South America is about +90000000 and half its inhabitants are illiterate, I should be +inclined to grant it at least 50000000 Catholic's. On the other +hand, even if we grant the 20000000 Catholics demanded in the +States and the 4500000 claimed in Canada, and the 14000000 +claimed in Mexico, I hardly see how they amount, even in Catholic +arithmetic, to 50000000. Pray do not be impatient with my little +jokes. I am showing you how the Catholic total is made up.

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To claim 90 percent (Orbis) of the Mexicans is, in view of the +notorious political development of recent years, so fatuous that I +won't linger over it. Yes, I am quite aware that any sensible +Catholic will admit that, but does he realize that the grand +Catholic total which he flourishes is based upon such tricks? South +America, on the other hand, is too big a field to cover here. I +will be content to claim that in earlier booklets I have shown that +the middle-class is substantially skeptical though outwardly more +reverent to the Black International since it entered into a +definite and highly respectable alliance with Fascism; and that the +very rapid spread of Communism after 1920 took some tens of +millions of the urban and industrial workers out of the Church. +Nine-tenths of the population of 90000000 are usually claimed in +the Catholic total, and at least 20000000 must be subtracted.

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It is of greater interest here to examine the situation in the +United States. Let us first get a clear general idea what +Catholicism in America means. It consists of immigrants from Europe +(and partly from Quebec and Mexico) and their descendants. And in +this connection I have to notice the funny and learned book of +Father Professor Shaugnessy,'Has the Immigrant Kept the Faith?' +(1925). The zealous priest had noticed that a dozen Catholic +authorities asserted that there has been a monstrous secession -- +their estimates vary from 15000000 to 25000000 -- from the +Church of these immigrants and their descendants, and he sets out +to rebuke all this nonsense by a "scientific" analysis of the +official statistics. He does not condescend to notice that I +published a severe analysis of these figures in 1909 and proved +that there was a leakage of over 15000000. Even in his lengthy +and learned-looking bibliography my book is not mentioned. That is +how Catholics are treated even by their "professors." But I will +not imitate his rudeness by ignoring his book.

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He proves triumphantly that the immigrants have kept the faith +and that there has been no serious leakage, but one illustration of +his method will suffice here. In a final summary table he gives the +number of immigrants between 1820 and 1920 as 14592613 from +"Catholic countries" and 19062190 from "non-Catholic countries." +You at once notice something peculiar. In the former category he +includes only 165000 Poles, and he must have known that in 1920 +there were, according to the official census, 284000 persons in +New York and Chicago alone who had been actually born in Poland! +Surely, you will say, everybody knows that there have been millions +of Catholic Polish immigrants. Observe the cleverness of Catholic +science. Before 1920 there was no Poland. The country was mainly +under Russia, and Russia is a "non-Catholic" country, so the +immigrants are all put under Russia. Germany again, which sent +nearly a fourth of the immigrants, is a "non-Catholic" country. But +during that period it was one-third Catholic, and its immigrants +came predominantly from Catholic provinces. In fine, if you add the +millions of Catholic German and Polish immigrants to the total from +Catholic countries (taking off a small percentage for non-Catholics) you get well over 20000000 Catholic immigrants; and +since the majority of these came in between 50 and 100 years ago +they ought now to number between 40000000 and 50000000! "Where +are the snows of yesteryear?"

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Apart from these little oddities of apologetic literature +American Catholic statistics are weird and wonderful. In the last +edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which was revised by +Catholic's in order to secure accuracy about their Church, it is +said that the "official figure" for the year 1928 was 19689049 -- +the Catholic Press Directory said 21453928 -- the "generally +accepted" figure, 22733254, and the "true" figure 25000000. +Observe the accuracy down to a unit of most of these figures, +though they differ from each other by millions. However, the +"official" figure in the latest census of religions, after ten +year's of glorious fertility of Irish, Polish, Italian, and German +Catholic families, a fair amount of further immigration, and half +a million converts, is 19914937, and the Orbis Catholicus, +Encyclopedia Americana, and Catholic Directory are content with +20000000. Catholic statistics in America are farcical and their +"remarkable growth," as Catholic officials in the Census Bureau are +allowed to call it, is a myth. Even their own figures do not show +the Church growing, in spite of its higher birth rate, at the same +pace as the general population.

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How many really are there? They do not know themselves. The +official (Census) figure is made up of claims by the priests and +the bishops. The egregious Fr. Shaugnessy goes so far as to say +that the parish priests often deliberately understate (which means +lie about) the number of their parishioners so that the bishop will +not be tempted to split the parish (and -- the apologist does not +say this -- halve the income of the priest). What a disreputable +suggestion! I mean, the priests do notoriously lie, or, inflate the +numbers, but it is for the glory of the Church and is covered by +the canonical principle that a seceder is still a Catholic.

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I made a very thorough study of the matter, following upon the +analysis of official statistics in my Decay of the Church of Rome +(1909), in No. 1 of the Appeal to Reason Library (ch. 5, 1925). +There I give Catholic evidence, largely taken from J.F. Moore's +useful book 'Will America Become Catholic?', (1931), that priests +do in fact, and are sometimes so advised by the bishops, deceive +the public by counting lapsed as actual Catholics. A check on their +figures in Milwaukee showed that they claimed 10000 Italians and +only 1000 of them attended church. In another city 28 percent of +the supposed Catholics never went to church: in a third city 42 +percent: in a fourth 38 percent. There is abundant evidence that at +least one-third must be deducted from official figures. The number +of children in Catholic primary schools confirms this. The Black +International may object that they have not schools for all their +children, but this weakness is offset by the fact that in the +cities very large numbers quit the Church during the post-school +years. The main fact to bear in mind is, however, the emphatic +Catholic law and teaching that baptized persons whether they +profess to have rejected the creed or not, are members of the +Church and must be entered in its statistics.

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Let us still be generous and take off only one-quarter: a very +modest deduction when we remember that the claims of these priests +for other countries are as we saw, exaggerated by from 100 to 600 +percent. There are not more than 15000000 genuine Catholics in +America. There are possibly not more than 13000000 or one-tenth

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of the population. The world-total of Catholics is not 390000000 +or 290000000. It is not 200000000 and is probably round about +180000000. These are the contributing members of an economic +corporation the governing caucus of which at Rome, apart from the +national branches, gets something like a billion dollars a year, +and largely in American money, for its international plotting and +for the comfort of the Italian hierarchy.

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Chapter II

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THE MINIMUM OF SCHOLARSHIP AND +THE MAXIMUM OF CRIME

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My London papers report today (March 13) that "Washington has +protested to the Vatican 'because it is encouraging' a Jap Bid to +Stir up Trouble." What precisely the State Department objects to is +not clear but the public is informed that it is to "the +establishment of relations between Japan and the Holy See, as asked +for by Tokyo." Those relations were, as I have repeatedly +explained, established year's ago. Five years ago I told how the +Vatican entered into friendly relations with Japan after the +Manchurian outrage (1931), when it was vital to the future of +civilization that the bandits should be condemned and punished by +the whole world, and how the friendship ripened into a cordial +diplomatic alliance (1935) with exchange of ambassadors and the +most graceful courtesies, exactly in proportion as the Japs sank +deeper into crime and corruption. In booklets (No. 2 and No. 4) of +the first series on the Black International I traced the whole +story and told from the Pope's own newspaper, how one of the vilest +of Japanese agents Matsuoka, fresh from the final meeting of the +bloody conspirators in Berlin (1941), was received with special +honor and warmth at the Vatican and granted a gold medal by the +Pope.

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And the press would now like us to believe that after ten +years of this unconcealed courtship Washington has just discovered, +presumably through its Secret Service, that the Japs have +approached the Vatican! What is really wrong about the matter? Very +certainly Washington knew every step in the development of the +relations of the Vatican and the Japs, and there must have been few +editorial offices of any importance in the United States in which +they were not known. Why were they concealed from the public or +mentioned only in obscure paragraphs as items of little +significance?

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We are not fanatical and do not ascribe every evil of our time +to the Black International. The interest's of trade had a good deal +to do with the suppression of discussion as far as Japan is +concerned. But there was little to discuss in Japan seeking an ally +in Europe. The monstrous thing was the closer and closer approach +of the Vatican to Japan as it strode foully and bloodily from one +province of China to another. Can there be the slightest doubt that +one of the advantages the Japs sought in the alliance was that the +Catholic influence should counteract in all countries, and +particularly in America, the growing concern of serious people at +their aggressions! That, at all events, is what happened.

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It is one illustration of the evil that is done by the Black +International in America in putting its own interests before +national interests or those of the race. The aspect of this that +concerns us here is that press and politicians say that the Church +of Rome is so important an institution in America that they are +bound to consult its wishes and are naturally reluctant to see +anything wrong in its proceedings. Most of us will not accept the +apology. Many American papers told in 1935 how the Vatican and +Tokyo were arranging an alliance; and many others told in the same +year how Japan seethed with patriotic societies, some of them two +to three million strong, which demanded the expulsion of all +Americans and Europeans from Asia, and how tableaux depicting just +such a destruction of part of the American fleet as occurred +recently in Pearl Harbor were publicly exhibited to jubilant crowds +in the chief streets of the cities. But there were no editorials or +feature articles pointing out the connection such as there were +denouncing Russia. The world-press bears a terrible share of the +responsibility for the world-tragedy; and one reason is that it is +to a lamentable extent under the influence of the Catholic Church.

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One of the chief aims of the present series of booklets is to +show that in submitting to this influence the press took the Church +at its own valuation yet could, if it had taken half the trouble it +takes over an obscure murder, have discovered that the valuation is +monstrously false. We have now seen this as far as the size of the +Church is concerned. There are not 25000000, not 20000000, but +something less than 15000000 Catholics in America. The Pope has +not 390000000 but less than 200000000 subjects. Seeing, +however, that the chief excuse given for subservience to the Roman +Church is that it contributes materially to American civilization, +it is still more important to examine the quality of the Pope's +subjects.

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We have already seen the hypocrisy of the Roman claim of moral +influence. The priests are very eloquent about sex-matters, in +regard to which Catholics do not appear to be different from other +folk, while the theories of ancient history with which they try to +prove a connection between sexual freedom and the decay of +civilization ought not to impress even a politician. Of the evils +which do deeply affect the social welfare -- crime, corruption, and +greed -- they take no effective notice. They are, in fact, amongst +the stoutest defenders of the greed which forbids the full +development of our resources and the betterment of the condition of +the mass of the people.

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But the cultural pretensions of the Roman Church are even +worse. It puts, and has always put, a blight on the higher culture +which assuredly is a valuable element of civilization, and at every +level it restricts the mental development of the people in its own +interest. There is a well-known analysis of the religious +"preferences" of the 40000 Americans, presumably of distinction, +in Who's Who in America. We recognize the limitations of the work. +Whether or no it is true that any clergyman or any nun who has +written a book or two can get into that Valhalla of the living by +pledging himself to buy a copy of the book every year, as is the +case with some books of reference, it is obvious that the business

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of the work is to supply information about any man or woman who at +the time is in the public eye or ear, whether they be singled out +for skill in literature, sport, the cinema, church-organization, +banking, or striptease.

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With this qualification we see a pregnant significance in the +analysis of the names which Professors Huntington and Whitney +published in their Builders of America a few years ago. They found +that Catholics are represented in Who's Who by only 7.4 per 100000 +of their body (7 men and 0.4 women), and these are very largely -- +but the professors do not point out this -- ecclesiastics. You will +gather what this means when I add that even the Mormons, with 11 +men and 5 women to the 100000, outshine them; while the Methodists +have 18 men and 0.6 women. The Episcopalians have 156 men and 18 +women: the Unitarians (who are largely freethinkers in America) +have 1185 men and 103 women per 100000. In other words, the +farther a Church is removed from the Roman -- belonging to the +Episcopalian is, of course, a matter of respectability -- the +higher its cultural distinction.

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What do the Catholics say to that? They say that it merely +shows the snobbishness of non-Catholics and the manly modesty of +Catholics! I should like these Catholic writers who have this fine +American contempt for snobbery to study the British Catholic. Who's +Who. It is, at least, published in London, but Al Smith and other +"great Americans" figure in it. In discussing this cultural poverty +of the Roman Church in America, to which he quotes several Catholic +witnesses, J.F. Moore (Will America Become Catholic?) speaks of +Romanism in Britain as more distinguished. There are, he says, no +Catholic writers in America to compare with Chesterton, Noyes, +Shane Leslie, Benson, (Father) Martindale, (Father) Knox, and +Sheila Kaye-Smith. If you have read these you will reflect that the +American Catholic body must be very poor indeed, in illumination if +it is outshone by that galaxy: especially as Chesterton's +brilliance -- if you care to use the word -- was increasingly +dimmed and his influence increasingly more mischievous after he +joined the Church of Rome and became a sort of pensioner of it. The +"brilliance" of Father Martindale and father R. Knox must be a +little joke of Mr. Moore's, as he is usually judicious. However, +against these British giants of the pen American Catholics can, he +says, put only Joyce Kilmer -- what a pity he died nearly a quarter +of a century ago -- though he elsewhere adds Carlton Hayes, Michael +Williams, G.W. Schuster, Kathleen Norris, and Agnes Repplier. You +will have heard of some of them. He adds that American Catholicism +is still poorer in science. A score of American physicists have an +international reputation, and none of them are Catholics, while on +the biological side the Church is still poorer.

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We will return presently to the question of distinction in +science. It is much easier for an artist to be a Catholic. He has +none of these intellectual prejudices about truth and reality and +is as ready to embrace any creed that is prettily dressed as +anything that is pretty undressed. So we do not wonder at the +number of artists. To the literary artists (British Catholics) +given above add Belloc, sir P. Gibbs, Compton Mackenzie, W. +Meynell, Christopher Dawson, and a few other good second-raters. +Then there are devout artists like Sir Seymour and Lady Hicks, +Charles Laughton, sir F. Brangwyn, Sir John Lavery, and Sir G.G. +Scott. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +11 +. +ROME PUTS A BLIGHT ON CULTURE

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But the chief reason why I recommend you to see this Catholic +Who's Who is because you will find it the most amusing Book of +Snobs on the market. I should explain that, although it is +published in England it has no patriotic limitations. Chiefly, I +imagine, because the compilers felt that there are a few scurvy +folk who would count how many real intellectuals there are amongst +the thousand names and all that they could find in Great Britain +were three or four teachers of chemistry or mathematics at minor +universities, they searched the whole Empire on which the sun never +sets and the whole English-speaking world, ransacked Eire and Malta +(which are as full of titles as fleas), and dipped into France, +Belgium, Italy, and a few other countries. So they got together a +body of Catholic scientists, with your American Dr. J.J. Walsh as +the supreme representative, who would almost fill a Junker plane. +I forgot how many laborious days it took me to collect from the +book just as many Catholic teachers of science in the area covered +(total population about 250000000) as I can count on the fingers +of two hand's.

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But that is incidental. The chief purpose of the book is to +give the cream -- and it is very rich cream -- of Catholicism in +Britain, Eire, Malta, etc.: the aristocratic and semi-aristocratic +families down to junior lieutenants of the army and navy provided +they belong to families which never sank to the level of earning +their own living. These and the clergy nearly fill the book. +Titles, diamonds, and gold glitter on every page. The book seems to +cry at you: Look whom you may hope to meet if you join the Catholic +Church. Next in importance are the diplomats -- the gentlemen who +kept the blinds down at Paris, Brusseig, Vienna, Rome, Madrid, and +Lisbon while the bandits armed and the traitors said their prayers +-- the naval and military commanders, and the high civil servants +and legal officials, who are all of great service to the Church. +After that you will surely not be disgruntled because the men of +intellectual distinction, if you grant that description to ordinary +university professors, are less than a dozen out of the, thousands +of professors in the area covered.

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Some Catholics meet this by saying that it is a vulgar +business counting heads (unless they bear coronets), or that they +prefer to think about the really great men of science of earlier +times; especially, it seems, of the time when in the eyes of the +Church the only good scientist was a dead scientist. We will return +to that in a later book. These pleas are, in any case, frivolous. +The compilers of the book ranged from California to New Zealand in +search of scientists or other men of intellectual as opposed to +artistic or social distinction and they did not find enough to make +a football-team. There is another, a very impartial and objective, +way of proving this.

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I suppose the Nazis have included in their monumental thefts +the seizure of the fund which Alfred Nobel left in Sweden to +provide five rich prizes every year for the world's most +distinguished workers in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, +and the cause of peace. However, the prizes have been awarded for +nearly 40 years and apart from a little patriotic bias in favor of +Scandinavian and the little nations, the awards, based upon the +reports of competent committees in every country, are the safest

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possible indication of distinction. The Nobel Prize is the greatest +and most coveted in the world, and the award is the most impartial, +yet I doubt if five out of the whole 200 winners are or were +Catholics. It is significant that the Catholic Encyclopedia never +mentions the prize. Naturally the scientific recipients, the great +majority, have never written on religion, but after a careful +analysis I can find only Alexis Carrel who is recognizably a +Catholic.

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It is different with the 37 recipients of the literary prize. +Here we should understand that the judges stipulate for "an +idealist tendency" in the works and are themselves religious, so +large numbers of the greater writers of modern tames (Wells, +Conrad, Zola, D'Annunzio, Sudermann, Capek, Galdo's, Ibanez, Gorki, +Tolstoy, Santayana, etc.) have been excluded because they were +freethinkers, while a few sentimental writers belonging to small +countries and hardly known outside these countries have been +included. Yet only 4 or 5 out of the 37 could be claimed as +Catholics of a sort, and the one writer amongst them who definitely +claims to be a convert to the faith, Mrs. Sigfrid Undset, has had +her novels chastised in the American Catholic press for their +"vileness."

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The awarding of the Peace Prize is not so significant because +it is sometimes given to politicians or societies and does not in +any case imply any distinction in the subject except a zeal for +peace. Nevertheless, although the award of it was loose and in some +cases frankly ridiculous, I cannot trace more than one dubious +Catholic in the whole 38 recipients. In short, this supreme and +impartial tribunal, basing its judgment upon annual reports from +important committees in every country, for detecting the highest +distinction in science and letters has in 40 years been able to +give its award to only about half a dozen nominal (and mostly +dubious) Catholics, or to only 3 who definitely claimed to be +orthodox Catholics. In Who's Who Catholics are represented by 7.04 +per 100000 of their number: in this select gallery of men of real +cultural distinction they are represented by 1 in 100000000.

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American Catholics despise and jibe at freethinkers as a rare +and negligible species. Well, of the 37 winners of the literary +prize, the only section in which you can look for public +expressions of opinion about religion, no less than 27 were avowed +freethinkers (and more than half of them Atheists). In the peace +section 13 out of the 29 selected individuals were avowed +freethinkers, and most of the others are not declared. One only was +in some sense a Catholic. In the scientific section few have given +a clue to their creed, as is the way of scientific men today, but +the great majority of those who have expressed themselves on +religion were freethinkers -- even Mme. Curie and her daughter +openly declared their secession from the Church -- and only one is +clearly a Catholic.

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To put it differently, Catholics claim that they are a fifth +of the race, and if we grant them five Nobel Prize winners (though +Some are doubtful) they are one-fortieth of the world's leading men +and women of intellectual distinction. But this is still too +flattering to Catholics, They profess to number more than

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300000000 of the white race, from which the culturally +distinguished are almost entirely selected. In this sense they +profess to be one-third of the race yet are only one-fortieth of +its more distinguished stratum. And this agrees with what we found +from other sources and is fully confirmed by apologetic lists of +"great Catholic scientists." The names, when they are not +fraudulent, almost all belong to the past. Let them attempt to draw +up a list for this century. Professors of, and original workers in, +science are now ten times as numerous as ever but the Catholic +proportion of them shrinks into invisibility.

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Hilaire Belloc said to me (with his characteristic thump of +the table) some years ago: "I don't care what you say, McCabe, the +intellect of Europe has been warped ever since the 16th Century." +It is one of his favorite themes that his Church alone develops the +intellect on sound lines or teaches folk to think clearly. In one +form or other it is a common plea of Catholic apologists. Well, +there is the answer in facts. The Church of Rome puts a blight on +culture and intellect. There is no other possible explanation of +the facts. Of adolescent and adult Catholics (about 100000000 in +the world) about one-half are illiterate, as I will show in the +next chapter, and half the remaining have only that paltry degree +of literacy which makes their creed or opinions of no particular +interest. The cultural value of the remainder you can judge by the +number of distinguished men who emerge from the body. When you are +considering a body of ten's of millions of men and women of a score +of races and different environments, the number of them that rise +to the top is a sure indication of the cultural quality of the +body.

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All of which points infallibly to the conclusion that the +Church itself is responsible. One of those fine-natured writers who +are always trying to say a good word for Catholicism, which they +never study, asks all sweetly reasonable folk to see that mental +concern about religion must help to develop the mind and promote +thinking. We might admit this on one condition: that the man or +woman does really think about religion by reading both sides and +conscientiously weighing their arguments. That is just what the +Roman Church uses its heaviest weapons to prevent. The Catholic +book is a holy book: the critical book is a "bad" book and is on +the same level as the kind of book you cannot buy openly. If we are +agreed that democracy is the ideal political form, we agree also +that to teach all people to think critically and inquire without +restriction is the only way to get it to work satisfactorily. The +law of the Roman Church is just the opposite. You must not inquire +outside your own creed and you must not think critically even +within its range.

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The second source of blight is that Catholic doctrine is so +really absurd that it repels the properly developed intellect. You +read of 40000 converts a year -- about one to every priest in the +United State's -- but you rarely hear much about their mental +quality. They are mostly either people with money and not much +brain, or artistic people who do not take creeds literally, or men +and women who pass over for social reasons (marriage, etc.). And +while you hear a lot about the 40000 a year who go in you hear

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nothing about the 100000 a year who drop out, though even the +figures given in the official decennial census show such a lapse. +All sorts of motives draw people in, but it is always the falseness +or absurdity of the creed that drives them out.

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Catholics with considerable general knowledge and mental +vitality will generally be found to take the creed with great +license. Pope Pius X, the peasant-Pope, in his blundering campaign +against Modernism was at least honest in trying to drive all these +people -- the real "bad Catholics" -- out of the Church, and there +was a notable exodus of cultivated people. Unlike the American +apologist the Pope did not care two pins about cultural quality. He +wanted folk who recited the creed every Sunday to mean what they +said. But every history of that campaign will tell you that while +a few conscientious men like Tyrell walked out the great majority +protected themselves by silence or, if they were in official +positions, foreswore the truth. "The great advantage of the +Catholic Church is the freedom it allows you," said a leading +Catholic writer and scholar to me. When I retorted, "Yes, if you'll +keep your mouth closed," he was silent. Most of the literary men +and artists who adorn the Catholic list never defend Catholic +doctrines (hell, original sin, etc.) in detail. You never know what +they really believe. As one of them said to me, they admire the +Church "as a whole." But the man whose main interest in life is +intellectual, the man who dislikes feudal systems for the mind, +despises this attitude. Hence that appalling poverty of the Church +in the higher culture which infallibly betrays that it puts a +blight on thinking. And this is the Church that demands privileges +in America because it contributes so materially to the higher life +of American civilization: the Church that keeps a staff in +Washington (as well as boon companions in the White House) to give +the government the profound advantage of "the Catholic view."

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Below the college-trained -- let us say Catholic-college-trained, as this is a very different matter -- stratum is the thick +stratum of the illiterate and semi-illiterate. I doubt if many +realize the importance of this in the Catholic Church, and I leave +it for adequate treatment in the next chapter. Here let us make +clear one of the most startling facts about the Church. It is very +poor in cultural distinction but exceptionally well represented in +the criminal class.

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I have recently examined a dozen up-to-date American manual's +of sociology and penology. Crime, naturally, is discussed at great +length in them. Not only have the adventures of the G Men caught +the imagination of the nation but experts have worked out the cost +of the total volume of crime and shown folk that it is an +intolerable species of parasitism on the industrious community. One +result has been that in the last ten years much has been done to +create a real criminological literature in America. The division of +functions between Federal and State governments and corruption in +high places left America with the poorest criminal statistics in +the civilized world, but sociologists are steadily improving the +situation. We get not only gross totals but analyses which show the +incidence of crime as regards sex, age, environment, etc. But I +have not found one single sociologist who discusses, and +illustrates by statistics, the relation of crime to the religion or

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irreligion of the criminal's. It is left to journalists, essayists, +and apologists to stamp it upon the public mind that religion is +the great corrective. But whether it is so in fact they are +incapable of studying, and the scientific experts will not help +them. Because the Churches, and very particularly the Roman Church, +do not want the facts known. The whole of American literature is +not available to me but the more important works are, and when not +only these but such works as the Encyclopedia of Education, the +Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, and the Encyclopedia of +Religion and Ethics, which ought to give the facts on this +important social-moral issue, are completely silent, I look for the +clerical censor. To adapt a phrase of Huxley's, there is a +barricade to sociological research with the notice: "No Road, by +Order of the Pope."

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A few sets of figures have got out. In 1932 an Irish chaplain +at Sing Sing made an inquiry into the religion of the prisoners and +in the warmth of his indignation he sent the figures to be +published in The Commonweal (Dec. 14). He had found that 855 out of +1581 prisoners described themselves as Catholics and were accepted +as such by him. This could be checked by a similar inquiry in the +jails of Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, and Philadelphia. but, of +course, no such inquiry was made. In D.C. Culver's exhaustive two-volume Bibliography of Crime and Criminal Justice (1934 and 1939), +with about a thousand pages of literature, works on "Crime and +Religion" fill a few lines and list one paltry Catholic book and a +few apologetic articles. It is so much easier to talk rhetorically +about how Catholic training must help to keep down crime and +dismiss these prisoners as "not real Catholics"; though as baptized +persons they help to swell Catholic statistics.

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But experience in other countries shows that the Sing Sing +statistics are normal and reliable. In Great Britain the religion +of prisoners is no longer published. The clergy do not approve of +the practice. But I find in a government publication of 10 years +ago when the religious analysis was still published, that in the +jails of Great Britain on March 28, 1906, there were 5378 Roman +Catholic prisoners in a total of about 25000, and it is stated +that this means that the Roman Catholics were represented in the +criminal population by 247 per 100000 of their body. Even the +Church of England, to which large numbers of convicts profess to +belong (since officials insist on some creed) whether they do or +not, had only 118 per 100000. The Methodists had 10, the Baptists +9, per 100000.

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In 1913 I discussed the subject in his office with my friend +Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice of New Zealand, and he got his +staff to work out for me the figures for that Dominion. It +transpired that while Catholics were only 14.07 percent of the +total population they were 41.74 percent of the prison population. +In the same year a leading government official at Melbourne gave me +the figures for Victoria, and they told just the same story. But +Australia continues to publish this religious analysis, and anybody +may see the figures. The Victorian government reported in 1936 that +Catholics were 18 percent of the population of the province but +29.61 percent of the criminal population. The government of New

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South Wales reported (Statistical Register, p. 216) that 505 +prisoners out of 1330 in its jails were Catholics, though +Catholics are less than one-fifth of the total population of the +province.

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And if any man still hesitates to see that these figures mean +that the Irish, with Roman Catholic training, are more apt to +become criminals than the English, Welsh, and Scottish -- the +English figures given above include a strong Irish element in +London, Liverpool, Newcastle, etc. -- let him study the statistics +of crime in Catholic countries. It is impossible to get complete +figures, as Catholic countries, being less efficient in such +matters than Protestant countries, rarely gave reliable statistics +until, recently (if at all), but the data in Mulhall's Dictionary +of Statistics for the last century and Webb's continuation of the +same work for the first decade of this century fully confirm the +truth as far as they go. Whatever allowance you make for different +standards of classification and degrees of police efficiency, the +more criminal status of Catholic countries and the far greater +success in reducing crime of non-Catholic countries leap to the +eye, as the French say.

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One requires great caution in handling criminal statistics, +particularly in the relation of crime to religion. Countries like +Spain and Portugal, for instance, and especially the Latin-American +Republic's had far more crime than the figures published by the +inefficient police. I will return to the subject in the last book, +but certain undisputed facts may be given here.

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Great Britain, in which the Catholics (mostly Irish) are less +than one-twentieth of the population and have no influence whatever +on the formation of the national character (except to swell the +criminal statistics) has the finest-record in the modern world in +reducing every class of crime and delinquency. The few figures +given in the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (which has not +dared to touch the question of crime and religion) are confused, +but Mulhall gives authoritative tables. From these we learn that +since 1840 grave crime has been reduced to one-third of what it +used to be though the population has nearly trebled. Other social +offenses have been reduced in the same proportion. France has the +next best record in Europe, especially since 1880, when education +was taken out of the hands of the clergy, the Church was shut out +of public life, and Catholics fell to one-sixth or one-seventh of +the population.. Germany, where until the last few years Catholics +claimed to be a third, and were at all events more than a fourth, +of the population, has a less flattering record; but it is better +in Protestant Prussia than in the Catholic provinces. Italy had one +of the worst crime records in Europe until the Papacy was deprived +of secular rule in 1870, and it fell back -- as any, person can see +by the official Italian figures in the Statesman's Year Book -- +into a terrible increase of crime when Mussolini handed back the +schools to the clergy.

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But we have to consider crime and vice in Catholic countries +in the last book of this series -- we shall find that the reproach +extends to drunkenness, bastardy, etc. -- and I will there give the +available figures. I have established the second point of the

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present book. The government of the United States is confronted +with a claim that it must pay special heed to a Pope who has +300000000 subjects and a national Catholic Church which is not +only the largest religious body but the finest educational and +moral agency in America. Well, the Pope has not 300000000 +subjects unless you care to count the millions who rot in the jails +or cower under the spiritual police in Italy, Spain, Portugal, +France, and South America. The Roman Church in America compiles its +total of 20000000 by the same dishonest method and is neither an +educational nor a moral force. Its priesthood so confines the +intelligence that few men and women of real intellectual power +associate with it, and its religious-moral education is of such a +nature that it actually supplies more to the criminal class than +any other Church does. It is the poorest in the kind of higher +culture which is a real factor in the advance of a civilization and +the richest in criminal or potentially criminal elements.

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Chapter III

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ROME LOVES THE POOR ILLITERATE

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Just as I write my mail brings me a letter in which an +estimable lady, one who is eager to have the truth about the Roman +Church known, gently chides me for the "brutality" of the way in +which I put that truth before the public. She sends me authentic +information about life today in a Catholic country, a country whose +ruler is always treated with great respect in the British and +American press, which, when I hand it on -- probably in the next +book -- will make your hair stand on end. But I am urged to put it +more courteously. "Brutality" is, of course, a friendly +exaggeration, and I gather that the idea is that it would be more +effective to "let the facts speak for themselves."

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I occasionally get such letter's. A few weeks ago a university +professor argued with me in the same vein. I "defeat my own end" +and so forth. And to all of it I reply that 45 years of experience +in such work, not bad temper, dictate the tone of my writings on +the Roman Church. Forty years ago I wrote a little work on the +Church of Rome which so astonished Hilaire Belloc, to whom a friend +lent it, that he thought, that in view of its extreme moderation, +it must be a forgery. It was a more dismal failure than any other +book I have ever written, whereas books in which my pen was allowed +to take its natural caustic course have had numbers of Catholic +readers and hundreds of thousands of others. Most people don't want +appeasement. When facts are brutal and doctrines are stupid say so. +Although this information which just reaches me is startlingly +picturesque and largely relevant to issues of the day no newspaper +in London would admit it, and no publisher would accept a book on +it. That goes also for America. They must not "offend Catholics." +And you will not alter that by simply telling facts. You need to +kindle indignation and resentment in your readers and persuade them +to pass on the facts to others. Courteous talk about Catholic +matters is so often merely a sign of prudence and calculation in +the writers that the kind of man or woman I want to read me resents +or suspects it.

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If I so; often blame the press I shall not be misunderstood. +No one expects a paper to defy a Catholic threat to injure its +circulation or cut off its Catholic advertiser's. I have worked on +several papers, as an outside member of the staff, and we +understand each other. I attack the system which imposes this +humiliating subservience on them, and more than one journalist or +publisher has wished me more power to my elbow.

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And one of the most important moves in the attack on the +system is to expose the fraud of the Black International in +representing that the Church is far larger and more useful than it +is. Fraud? There you have at once the illustration of what I have +been saying about "strong" and "tactful" language. The Catholic +representation is fraudulent, and you do not tell half the truth +unless you say so. Every Catholic writer knows as well as I do that +his figure of 300000000 includes the 100000000 who, as I +showed, have left the Church, and he knows that the general public +does not suspect this, He knows as well as I do the cultural +poverty of the Church and its richness in crime, and he tries to +confuse the public mind about these facts by rhetoric and +sophistry. He knows, while he represents the Church as the mother +of education, the patroness of learning, the inspiration of clear +and honest thinking, that, as I will now show, it prefers people +who do not think at all, and the majority of its actual 180000000 +subjects are either children or illiterate.

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Practically all statistics that would give us sound material +for settling such a question as the social value of religion are +either fantastic or gravely defective. Our sociologists continue to +include religion amongst the factors of civilization, and our +politicians, journalists, and essayists are quite sure of it. But +in an age in which most other statistics are precise to a doctrinal +point the statistics which bear upon this question are grossly +neglected. We saw this in regard to the number of Catholic's and +the relation of Catholicism to crime. It is the same in regard to +Catholicism and illiteracy; and, I Might add, in regard to +Catholicism and drink, illegitimacy, and other relevant matters.

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Statistics of illiteracy are in any case poor. Most countries +do not require a declaration in the census. They may report the +number of recruits when they are called up for military service or +the partners to a marriage who cannot sign their names, but the +backward countries are more apt today, when a high percentage of +illiteracy is a reproach, to give a false or arbitrary figure. Some +countries again include infants among the illiterate, some only +citizens over the age of 5, 10, or 15. With an allowance for their +difficulties I reproduce the table from the Columbia University +Encyclopedia of Education (article "Illiteracy") which is the most +reliable authority and the most recent, fairly full list I can +find. It has the advantage also that in nearly every case the +percentage of the population means over the age of ten. The list is +in alphabetical order, but the point we are considering will be +clearer if I rearrange the items in the order of educational +efficiency.

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One other caution is necessary. There are no annual reports on +this point. The leading civilizations boast of their very low +percentage of illiterates, but backward nations are coy, and you +get little help from the usual year-books such as the Statesman's +Year Book and World Almanac. This list therefore relates to the +situation in the first decade of the present century. That has its +advantages, and I will point out presently the immense alterations +which have to be made today in some cases (Russia, Mexico, Spain, +etc.). But first let me give this impartially compiled list:

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Illiterates Illiterates +percent of percent of +Country population Country population +Germany (over 20) 0.03 Serbia (over 20) 36 +Denmark 0.2 Hungary 40 +Sweden (over 20) 0.3 Italy 48 +Switzerland (over 20) 0.5 Argentina 54 +Holland (over 20) 1.4 Greece 57 +Finland 1-5 Spain 58 +Scotland (over 20) 1.6 Poland 59 +England and Wales 1.7 Rumania 61 +United States (negroes Bulgaria 65 +and immigrants) 7.7 Russia 70 +France 14 Portugal 73 +Ireland 17 +Belgium 18 Bolivia 82 +Austria 26 Brazil (total population)85

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It need not be said that the countries -- nearly all non-Catholic -- in which the percentage is only of the adult population +have slightly better records than they appear to have, and that the +quickening of educational work since 1900 by the pressure of world-opinion and the rise to power of Liberal governments has greatly +lowered the worse figures. From the scattered data in the +Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences for 1920 - 1925, moreover, I +find that still all countries with less than 1 percent illiteracy +(Denmark, Sweden, England, Holland, Scotland, and Switzerland) are +non-Catholic, all countries with 5 to 25 percent are non-Catholic +with a very high proportion of Catholics and were formerly under +Catholic rule, and all countries with 30 percent or over illiterate +are solidly Catholic. It further appears that Poland had still 32.8 +percent, Chile 40.8 percent, Mexico 62.2 percent, and Brazil 71.2 +(and probably higher) percent in 1920-1925.

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In discussing social questions, such as the genuine social +value of an institution, an ounce of fact is worth a ton of +rhetoric. In the foregoing table, the items of which are not +selected by men, but by the highest educational authority in the +United Sates, you have the facts, and they make a mockery of the +claim that the Roman Church is the mother or inspiration of +education. They show that it is, on the contrary, the enemy of +education. It professes a zeal for it only when a large non-Catholic majority watches it critically. In the Columbia table all +countries with less than 2 percent had small Catholic minorities of +no public influence in 1900. Germany is an exception but, +notoriously, it was Protestant Prussia that forced the educational +development. On the other hand all countries with over 30 percent

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illiterates had in 1900 Catholic (Roman or Greek) governments and +majorities; and the higher the figure of illiterates the higher the +Catholic majority. The intermediate countries had smaller Catholic +majorities or (as in France) had recently secularized education.

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If I were able to give the full figures for all countries of +Europe and America they would be in harmony with the above. Norway +has little illiteracy: the Latin-American Republics generally have +a high percentage. So the plain teaching of facts is that where the +clergy have, or until recently had, great influence on the +government through a Catholic majority, education is bad.

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And the deeper we go into the situation the worse we find it. +Thirty years ago I had occasion to study the situation in Spain, +where an occasional rise to power of the Liberals had at least done +more for education than was done in more priest-ridden Portugal. I +found that the real proportion of illiterates was said by eminent +educationists to be 68 percent (78 in Portugal), not 58 as reported +by Columbia, but what was called "literacy" was often so ridiculous +an accomplishment that the figure of percentage meant little. +Teachers received -- when they were paid -- $100 per year, but the +state would not pay it, and the parents generally refused. A law +was passed that there should be no, bull-fights where people would +not pay for a teacher, so in some places they gaily drove the +master to the ring and baited him instead of a bull. The schools +were barns, and the teachers had to do other work to get a living +of $3 a week. All the summer the children were wanted for +agricultural work. In short, until the Socialist-Liberal government +of 1932-36, which the Church ruined, began real education, half the +supposed literate one-third of the nation might be dismissed as +illiterate. That is true of Portugal and, apart from Mexico and +Argentina, of Spanish and Portuguese America today. In Spain itself +Franco and the hierarchy have demolished the splendid school-system +which the wicked Reds (with the cordial cooperation of most of the +university professors) had set up.

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But all the figures I have given relate to the present +century, and by 1900 the Church had been compelled by the advance +of civilization to dissemble its hostility to the education of the +workers. What it did or did not do for education when it had +supreme power in the Middle Ages we will briefly consider in the +next chapter. All that concerns us in this book is the quality of +the 180000000 actual subjects of the Pope. It is, however, +necessary to be quite clear that the reduction of illiteracy in +Catholic countries points to no zeal on the part of the Church but +to the pressure of critics. Study the language used by the Vichy +group of pious traitors today. Petain is honest, if senile, and +must embarrass the Darlans and Lavals, if not the Vatican. He sees +a monstrous evil in the industrial development, the growth of a +large educated urban population that very soon sees through the +imposture of the priests. The world must return to the placid, +bovine, agricultural life, so that it can be more easily ruled by +the priests and squires.

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We must make short work of this point, and fortunately it is +easy to do so. Glance at Europe in 1800, or at the date of the +French Revolution, I have shown elsewhere that except in three +countries 95 percent at least of the workers were illiterate and

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incredibly ignorant. The three countries of which I make an +exception were Protestant Prussia, Holland, and Switzerland, Great +Britain was the next to become civilized in this respect, but its +clergy had been little better than the Roman priests, and in 1800 +certainly more than 90 percent of the worker's were illiterate. In +France, too, the anti-clerical, the Revolutionaries and Napoleon, +had made a beginning of education, though this was lost in the +Catholic reaction after Waterloo.

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Catholic countries did not for many decades, and only then +under anti-clerical pressure, show any, sympathy with this zeal for +educating the workers. The leaders in the reform -- Frederick the +Great, Tallyrand, Pestalozzi, Froebel, Roberi Owen, Bentham, etc. +-- were all skeptics. Once the Holy Alliance and the true Reds or +Anti-Bolsheviks of those days, had extinguished idealism for the +Papacy in Southern Europe all this itching to educate the workers +was destroyed and the priests settled down everywhere to a renewed +lease, as they thought, of their medieval power and exploitation of +the people. It will be enough to consider the case of Italy, one-third of which was ruled by the Popes and administered almost +exclusively by priests, while the southern section in addition was +in the closest touch with and subservient to the Vatican.

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The southern part of Italy, the kingdom of Naples, is as +conspicuous a monument of the real Roman spirit as the Statue of +Liberty is of American ideals. Before the French Revolution +Voltairean statesmen and a liberal-minded monarch had made it one +of the most progressive areas in Europe. The troops of the +Revolution overran all Italy and strengthened the anti-clerical +humanitarianism of Naples. But when they were forced to withdraw, +the royalty and clergy, acting in the closest collaboration, had a +fearful revenge. Neapolitan historians of the time, the chief of +whom was a Catholic and royalist, insist that in the course of the +next 40 years the reactionaries slew 250000 men, women, and +children of the reform party, and tens of thousands were in each +decade packed in the horrible jails. All educational and social +work was, of course, extinguished. The party which had advocated +such work and had had even in so small a kingdom at least half a +million followers also was extinguished, and the region became one +of the most backward in Europe. And our elegant essayists instead +of looking up this bloody story of the extinction of sound stocks, +which our manuals of history will not tell today from fear of +offending Catholics, talk in their charming way about the +Neapolitan and Sicilian character with its "dolce far niente," its +amiable laziness and impenetrability to modern ideas as if it were +as normal a feature of the sunny land as the olives and roses. It +is, on the contrary, the work of priests.

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The kingdom of the Popes in Central Italy was just as bad. It +was, according to all authorities, one of the foulest areas in +Europe from the moral-social angle. It will be enough to quote the +official figures for 1901, when the national government had been +conducting for 30 years such educational work as the poor resources +permitted. Still 44 percent of Italians over the age of 20 were +illiterate, but it is the distribution of the illiteracy that is +most significant. In the north (Piedmont), where the Austrians had +not entirely neglected education when they ruled it and the

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Sardinian government which succeeded them had done more, the +illiterate's were 28.3 percent; and the statesmen who had thus +reduced illiteracy were under the Pope's ban of excommunication. In +the central and formerly Papal provinces (including Rome) the +illiterates were 51.5 percent, and in the southern provinces they +were 69.7 percent. In Piedmont, the old center of the damned +Italians and very anti-clerical, the illiterates were 17.69 +percent: in Calabria, which was solidly Catholic, they were 78.70 +percent.

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Well, there's the real Rome for you. That is what the Catholic +Church does for education, when it runs a state or has, as in +Naples, absolute power over the kingdom. You will find these +figures in any of the older works of reference -- the Columbia +Encyclopedia, we saw, gives 48 percent for the whole country -- and +the facts about the condition of the Pope's own kingdom are in +every older historian, even in the standard Cambridge Modern +History (Vol XI). Your historians and sociologists of today won't +tell them. It would hurt the feelings of our Catholic fellow-citizens -- to say nothing of hurting the circulation of the book. +So the Catholic apologists break into raptures about the Church's +zeal for education, about the way in which this misguided modern +world thwarts its noble efforts to teach folk to think clearly, +about the fearlessness with which it confronts all facts and all +truth. . . . It appears that some people expect me to talk politely +about these matters.

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South America is notoriously worse than Italy, Spain, and +Portugal, and the more solidly Catholic the Republic the more +ignorant it is. Perhaps we shall be reminded of their poverty. +Brazil, with a capital which is a paradise of millionaires and its +vast hinterland which is described by expert's as one huge, squalid +hospital, has the most illiteracy. Is it poor? Then find out, why +a country with such stupendous resources can be poor, and You will +come back to the refusal to educate; and Brazil is today the worst +area on the American Continent for the Catholic persecution of +idealists. Add the Philippines and the French, Belgian, and +Portuguese colonies. Notice how the little states which Hitler is +permitting the Vatican to set up in the wilderness his troops make +-- Slovakia, Croatia, etc. -- are patches of deep Catholicism and +dense illiteracy. Read how the moment a state falls back under +priestly domination, after a spell of anti-clerical control its +educational system is destroyed or eviscerated. Ten years or less +ago American and international paedagogists were talking with great +admiration of the fine educational work at Madrid, Prague, and +Vienna. They are now silent. The cultural blight spreads from Spain +and Austria to France, Belgium, the Catholic provinces of Holland, +Czecho-Slovakia, and wherever the Butchers smirkingly lead back +their friends the priests to power. Rome loves the illiterate. They +are so easily persuaded to burn heretics and kiss bogus relics.

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Above all examine carefully this sacred fury of the Vatican +against Reds, Communists, or Bolsheviks. As I have earlier pointed +out, the Vatican dare not say that its anger is kindled by the +political and economic theory of the Marxists; nor can we suppose +it to be particularly interested in their choice of a color. The +bitter hostility to them which was roused by the Popes throughout

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the Catholic world was based upon a tissue of lies about outrages +and one admitted fact -- that wherever Communism spread the Roman +Church lost millions of followers. And the reason why people fell +away from the Church in such crowds was that for the first time +their eyes had been opened -- by formal education in the school +(child and adult) followed up by special enlightenment on religion.

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Is this a coincidence? When, as I told in an earlier booklet, +the Pope opened his campaign, he said that Bolshevism must be +destroyed in Russia, China, Spain, and Mexico; and at that time the +educational world everywhere was discussing with lively interest +the remarkable progress in education that was taking place in +Russia, Spain, Mexico, and the Communist provinces of China! The +Pope would have added Austria but he had already got his agents in +Vienna and their Fascist allies to destroy that great social +enterprise. He could count upon his "chivalrous" Japanese friends +to undo the work in China, and he blessed the savage vandalism of +his allies in Spain, where for three years educational progress had +commanded the respect of all experts. There remained two countries +in which education was making rapid progress, Mexico and Russia, +and the Vatican and the whole Roman Church continued to shriek for +the blood of these.

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It is not a point on which I can linger here, but I say, and +have proved in earlier works (especially in the Appeal to Reason +Library), that the most rapid and devoted work in the world in +educating the workers was found ten years ago in Austria, Spain, +Mexico, and China, and that there is no dispute on that point in +paedagogical literature. We have seen what the Vatican did in Spain +and Austria and tried to get done in Mexico. I say again that the +most wonderful educational work in all history was being done in +Russia, as leading educationists in America admitted, and the Roman +Church was one of the guiltiest agencies in the world in slandering +Russia and calling upon Germany and Japan to annihilate the +government and all its work. On the other hand, the vilest +prostitution of education in modern history was at the same time +proceeding in Japan, Germany, and Italy. And the Pope pressed his +affection upon the Nazis, cooperated in education in Italy, and +gave gold medals and paternal blessings to the Japanese. But I +remember my manners and will just conclude politely that I really +do not think that the Church of Rome is a friend of education.

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Chapter IV

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THE MYTH OF ITS PATRONAGE OF LEARNING

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We are now in a position to reply to the question which I put +on an earlier page of this book: Who are these Roman Catholics? +They claim a privileged position in America on the ground that they +are the largest religious body in the country and their Church is +the largest and most important in the world. On the first point we +reflect that the fact that Catholics form one-eighth -- it is +probably nearer one-tenth -- of the population of the United States +seems an amazing reason for seeking, as they do, to interfere with +the lives and literature of the non-Catholic seven-eighths and for +thinking that they ought to be consulted by the head of the state.

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That they do so interfere we have seen in every chapter. They +dictated policy on the Civil War in Spain and attempted to dictate +it in regard to: Mexico and the European War. They fly at medical +and civic authorities who would relieve non-Catholic mothers of +excessive child-bearing, take the lead in fomenting racial +bitterness against the Jews, dominate the school-system (even non-Catholic) in some cities, arrogate a most insolent control of +public instruction by newspapers, books, and libraries, impose +their narrow-minded views on all theaters and cinemas, and so on. +It is really extraordinary how the American who boasts of his +freedom and independence submits to this sort of feudal insolence.

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Back of it all, apparently, is respect for the larger claim, +that the Church of Rome really is unique in its colossal +membership, its world-wide organization, and its massive service. +In this book I am exposing the fallacy of this idea. On the face of +it there is a monstrous deception of the public because priests +know, and are aware that the public does not know, that the total +of 300000000 Catholics contains at least 100000000 who have +left the Church. The simplest analysis of the figures at once shows +that, as we saw. It is reasonable to put the genuine total at +something like 180000000.

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Of these 180000000 a little over one-fourth are children +under the age of 10. The official American census gives that as the +proportion. As Catholics generally leave the Church after that age +and many seceded parents let their women-folk or relatives have the +infants baptized -- a good booze hallows every cause, to paraphrase +Nietzsche -- the proportion of children under ten is probably +higher in the Roman Church, with its high fertility-rate in +backward countries. However, we will, as usual, be moderate and say +that about 50000000 of the 180000000 are children under 10 +whose allegiance to the Pope is not very clearly a thing to boast +about.

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This applies also to many millions over the age of 10 and +under 20, but what we learned in the last chapter opens up a +different perspective. The fact is, apparently, that of the +130000000 subjects of the Pope over the age of 10 at least +90000000 are totally illiterate. Turn back to the table I gave. +Taking one Latin-American Republic with another the gross +illiteracy of the whole 80000000 people is over 60 percent. The +Encyclopedia Americana gives Columbia 68, Nicaragua 60, and so on. +For the whole, 60 percent is moderate, and it will hardly be +disputed that these illiterates are not the millions of workers +who, joined by many men of a middle-class which has a long +tradition of anti-clericalism, made the Vatican shudder 10 years +ago. You can very safely say that 50000000 adult Catholics from +Mexico to Patagonia are as illiterate as babies of a weird and +wonderful ignorance. The state of Portugal and the Portuguese +possession's is as bad, and particularly all the illiterates of +Spain and Italy are good Catholics. Add the millions of the +Philippine Islands, the West Indies, Croatia, Slovakia, Poland, +Eire, and the foreign missions. The grand total of illiterate +subjects of the Pope must approach 100000000. Add these to the +50000000 under the age of ten.

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Pray do not think me as snobbish as the Catholics who write +glittering Who's Who. I have had many a friendly talk with these +folk in Mexico and Cuba, in Spain and Italy. But when your Catholic +friend throws his 300000000 at your head you would like to know +just how significant the number is. Perhaps between 30000000 and +40000000 of them could sign their names or read a newspaper. I am +sorry if I am wasting your time but I fancy that that is news to +you. Yet it follows inexorably from the facts I have given in this +book. The Pope has certainly not 50000000 subjects who could +write their own names. And, not to put too fine a point on it, what +is the value or significance of the beliefs of most of the +"literate" 30000000 or (if you prefer) 40000000? The majority +in Catholic countries -- and even in Germany -- are peasants; and +you probably know more than I do about the majority of the Irish, +Polish, Italian, etc., Catholic workers of America.

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In short, in how many cases is the faith of even a literate +Catholic intellectually impressive? I described the work of the +school; and very few of those who pass through it have the courage +to defy the prohibition under pain of hell or read in later years +a book that tells them the truth about their creed and Popes. Their +colleges and academies are just as narrow, and the youths and young +women in their Normal Schools naturally learn history only as they +have to teach it. The kind of lecture on science, history, or +philosophy that is delivered in the Catholic University you can +judge at any time by the publications of the professors and by the +articles in the Catholic Encyclopedia. The upshot of it all is +plainly seen in the miserable representation of Catholics in higher +culture which I described. There is a blight on the whole system.

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I sometimes imagine myself getting an American statesman in a +quite corner and putting these things to him. I fancy he would nod +and listen and then say: "You damned fool, they have 10000000 +votes and those are worth more than a hundred scientists and +philosophers." If I tried an editor he would point out that they +have rich advertisers and a shocking power to shift a body of +readers from any paper they denounced to one that plays up to them. +If I turn to a publisher he reminds me, regretfully, that Catholics +forbid the press to bring my, name or my works to the notice of the +public. And this pernicious system will explain to you the vague +reputation which the Church has -- for learning and the patronage +of learning. Its apologists can say what they like with little fear +of contradiction.

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Their case, when they go into detail, is the usual mixture of +mendacity and sophistry. First, it was the Church of Rome that, +when it emerged from the catacombs, "gave the world schools." And +since there is not a manual of the history of education, not an +encyclopedic article, published in the last 50 or more years that +does not describe how the pagan Roman Empire had a system of +universal and free schools for the people, "mendacity" is the only +word to use here. The few paltry schools which the Church opened in +one or two cities, were, of course, like the Catholic schools +today, to prevent their own children from going to the pagan +schools. And there is no more dispute about the fact that the Roman +school system was entirely destroyed when the Roman Church obtained +power over Europe, and that during the next five centuries you +could count on your fingers the schools existing at any time.

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Next is the hoary old untruth that after all the monks of the +Dark Age "preserved the classics for us." lt took Italian scholars +nearly two centuries to dig up such Latin classics as we have, and +some of these and all the Greek classics were not preserved at all +in Europe. The leaders of this enterprise -- Petrarch, Boccaccio, +etc. -- despised the Popes, and the work was nearly complete when +the first Pope to take an interest in it, the not very religious +Engenius IV, mounted the Papal throne.

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Well, says the apologist, these classics were in very large +part, if not for the most part, erotic poetry and comedy -- the +works of Aristotle were got from the Arabs and those of Plato from +the Greeks -- and the revival led to a terrible lot of immorality. +Was that why the good monks preserved them? Never mind that, says, +your apologist, but think of the zeal for schools and learning +which beyond any question swept Europe (except Rome, let me +interject) from the 11th Century onward.

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As my Peter Abelard (1901) is one of the chief studies of the +movement in its first stage and was for years on the reading list +of the historical section of American universities -- I suppose +Catholics got it struck off -- I know rather more than the +apologist about this medieval scholastic movement. But I have +written all about it elsewhere. I will just make three points. +First, it was admittedly inspired by the Arabs of Spain and Sicily, +not by the Church. Secondly, it was at first and for about a +century a splendid if turbulent and frothy free and independent +movement, and most of its more brilliant leaders were condemned by +the Church. Thirdly, when heresy spread to whole provinces in the +wake of the school-movement, the Church destroyed its freedom of +speculation and its incipient teaching of Arab science and turned +the new universities, except a few that remained more or less +independent and trained lawyers and medical men, into schools of +theology for clerics and monks: who reads today the works of the +greatest masters of these schools? Very few priests even.

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There, says the apologist, you betray your senility and out-of-datedness. There is a remarkable revival of interest in the +school-men, as it has been discovered that the inspirational ideas +of the American Revolution and Constitution came from them. Yes -- +discovered by Catholic apologists. I confess that it always puzzled +me why they could not fake a better mare's nest to discover for +this purpose than the works by Cardinal Bellarmine until I learned +that the chief reason was that one of Bellarmine's books was found +in Jefferson's library. My godfathers! When I die, in a few years, +they will find in my little library many works of Catholic or +Protestant piety, some on Hindu metaphysics or Theosophy, the +Little Flower of St. Fraieis, the Bible in three or four languages, +Rabelais, Mark Twain's description of conversation at the Court of +Queen Elizabeth. . . . I will take up the point seriously in the +fifth book. The few ideas that do not seem quite mildewed in Thomas +Aquinas were borrowed from Aristotle and the Arabs. He was educated +within a few miles of Arab-Norman Sicily and all his life he read, +translations of Aristotle and Ibn Roshd (Averroes):

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For the rest, if you want to make a substantial test of this +claim of Catholic scholarship without having to wade through a vast +library of trash dip into any impartial histories of literature, +philosophy, and science. To begin with you may care to know that +practically all Catholic works written from the 2nd Century to the +13th Century are contained in the immense Migne Collection. I +should say that the only work in that collection of 1000 years of +Catholic learning that anybody reads today, in translation, is +Augustine's City of God, and very few read that. Few literary men +would shed a tear if the rest were burned.

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Anyhow, take a good short history of literature; and literary +men, as I said, accept or profess Catholic doctrines more easily +than others. It will tell you of a vast and valuable literature, +only partially preserved, of the Greeks and the Romans. It may then +mention Augustine, but from the 4th Century to the 14th Century it +will give ten pages to Arab and Persian literature for any ten +lines it may give to Catholic works. Then names like Dante, +Petrarch, and Boccaccio -- all very independent of the Popes and +the School-men -- perhaps Jehan le Meung, Margaret of Navarre, and +Villon -- a very naughty trio -- Chaucer (a skeptic), and a few +others will represent what are called the palmy days of Roman +Catholicism. Cervantes (clearly not under Church inspiration), the +monk Rabelais (not "for maids and youths"), Montaigne (a skeptic), +Galileo (hounded by the Pope), and a lot of French writers who were +mostly skeptics like Moliere and Boileau shine in the period of +transition, and the gloom settlers again over Catholic lands until +you come to the Joyce Kilmers and G.K. Chestertons of modern times. +For the last 100 years the great maority of the leading Italian, +French, and Spanish writers have been skeptics, not Catholics.

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Philosophy you need not read up. Until some recent American +began to flatter the Church a history of philosophy consisted to +the extent of 49 percent of an account of Greek, Hindu, and Arab +speculations and 49 percent of an account of the systems of modern +thinkers. Catholic "thinking" occupied about 1 percent of the space +between the two. What would you expect where Catholic philosophy, +of which I was once professor, described itself from the start and +still describes itself as "the handmaid of theology" -- or the +slave of dogma.

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For science take, if you like, the most learned American +history, that of Dr. G. Sarton. It is so little prejudiced against +Catholics that it notices science in the Christian Fathers, which +no one ever discovered before, yet it cannot make out a case for +the Catholic period (400 to 1550). Its best selections are monks +like Roger Bacon and Albert who simply tried to popularize Arab +science until the Church snuffed them out. The work is, like a +history of literature, really divided into three parts: Greek, +Arab-Persian, and Modern Science. As to the pioneers of the modern +development -- Vesalius and Pare, Galileo and Torricelli, Volta and +Galvani, etc. -- no one really knows what most of them thought +about Popery. They lived in an age when men of science adapted the +counsel of St. Paul and said: It is better to go to church than to +be burned.

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I have before me one of the longest lists I can find of "great +Catholic scientists." Most of them lived before the middle of the +18th Century, when science, rudimentary as it was, did not clearly +conflict with religion and when a student of science who lived in +a Catholic country was haunted by a smell of sulphur. What +Copernicus (converted by these writers into a "devout priest" when +he was neither a priest nor devout, and in any case he merely +discovered that the Greeks had discovered the centrality of the +sun), thought about religion we know no more than what Galileo +thought. But let Catholics have their names before 1750. You might +as well boast that all the writers of Spain today are orthodox +Catholics. After that date the apologists have to use their usual +trickery. Spain and Italy, and Portugal produced no "great +scientists" until in recent times the Liberals broke the power of +the Inquisition. France had a splendid series from Buffon and +D'Alembert (both skeptics), onward, and 9 out of 10 were skeptics. +But I have gone through the list Pisewherp. It is enough that when +the arc-lamp was invented "Catholic scientists" became as rare as +haunted houses. Today the Catholic who boasts that his Church +commands the allegiance of half the white race claims only J.J. +Walsh, of whom the science-reading public would never have heard if +it were not for his position in the Church, in America, one or two +minor chemists and mathematicians in Britain, none in Russia, +France, Germany. . . . They have to claim, against the testimony of +the most authoritative biographers, men like Pasteur, Fabre, +Mendel, and Marenni.

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But did not the Vatican welcome science by founding a great +astronomical observatory? Yes, in the day's when it was still +understood that "the heavens proclaim the glory of God." At all +events the observatory, of which you do not hear much today, +proclaims the glory of the Vatican. Was not Leo XIII enthusiastic +for historical science, in spite of his ignorance in it, and did he +not throw open the Secret Archives of the Vatican to the world's +scholars? Yes. After -- as the Catholic historian Dr. Pastor tells +us -- removing the more compromising documents. Doesn't the Church +in America spend hundreds of millions on education? Yes, in its own +interest and to give instruction that defies every sound principle +of paedagogy.

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But let the apologists speak. One of their chief propaganda +bodies in America is the Calvert Association. and Dr. N. Murray +Butler of Columbia and other American scholars generously sponsor +it. Its chief publication is The Calvert Handbook of Catholic +Facts. This has a section titled "Great Catholics." You will hardly +believe me when I say that besides a few army officers it lists +only Lafayette (notoriously a Deist, though it calls him "a pervert +Catholic"), Marshal Foch, and Charlie Schwab and eight other rich +business-bandits!

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But it refers the readers to a previous section titled +"Civilization and Catholicism." Ignoring the writers stroll through +the Middle Ages in search of great men (Ferdinand of Spain, etc.) +I find it lists as great Americans who were Catholics only Thomas, +Lloyd, J.J. Montgomery, and Holland. What, you never heard of them? +For the last 200 years of world-science it gives Volta, Galvani, +Ampere (who vacillated all his life between skepticism and

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Catholicism), and Morgagni (doubtful). It is painful to add that it +claims also Jenner (of smallpox fame) and Roentgen: on what amazing +grounds even the bold Catholic Encyclopedia does not seem to have +discovered. And of course it claims Fabre and Pasteur, both +apostates, and the devout Abbot Mendel, who is described as a +skeptic in the only authoritative biography.

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This list covers. 250 years -- the most recent man on it died +nearly 100 years ago -- and ranges over the whole imperial Church +on which the sun never sets. Of the claimed 300000000 Catholics +of today it names none. Do people expect me to write about this +sort of thing without irony and contempt? Or do you agree with me +that the only uniqueness about the Church of Rome is that it is the +most amazingly successful imposture in history?

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THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 14

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THE CHURCH THE ENEMY OF THE WORKERS

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ROME IS THE NATURAL ALLY OF ALL EXPLOITERS

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by Joseph McCabe

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HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS +GIRARD -- : -- KANSAS

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CHAPTER +I A Picture of Life in a Catholic Country ....... 1

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II Those Beautiful Papal Encyclicals ....... 7

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III The Action Record of the Black International ....... 14

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IV The Comedy of Christian Socialism ...... 20

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V The Churches and Radical Injustice ........... 26

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Chapter I

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A PICTURE OF LIFE IN A CATHOLIC COUNTRY

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A few weeks ago there came to me, by a subterranean route, a +poignant letter from a man who has lived, in intimacy with the +people, for many years in a Catholic country of Europe. The press +always refers to this country as a happy little land of democratic +sympathies and entirely Roman Catholic. Its virtual ruler is +described as a particularly enlightened, upright, and humane +statesman. You have probably seen films of groups of its workers +singing, laughing, and dancing merrily in a sunny world; though if +you had not been misled by press-references you would have detected +signs of extreme poverty and would have seen that the gaiety is +that of illiterate, densely ignorant men and women at, culturally, +the lowest level of civilized life. In spite of disease, +exploitation, and poverty they are "happy," in a sub-human way -- +until they begin to question the justice of the joint tyranny of +Church and Dictator. But the bold bad man is quickly removed to a +jail in which the vilest medieval torture is used today -- one +American writer who is not anti-Catholic has described these +tortures -- or to the purgatory of a penal colony.

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The first letter I received told me that the land is entirely +Fascist, which I knew; that all the priests belong to the Fascist +party, which is also called Catholic Action and holds its meetings +in the Churches, and that every boy or youth works in it. The local +newspapers praise the Germans every day as well as the Italians. In +the course of a recent editorial one said: "If God so wills it we +must substitute the cross of the Swastika for the cross of Christ." +The British and American papers which were then assuring us that +"the brave little people" would resist the German pressure which +was being exerted on them did not quote this. A priest, praising +Hitler in a sermon said that he was "appointed by God to punish the +world for its irreligion." But my informant added a concrete little +picture which stimulated my appetite for further news.

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On the outskirts of the city a man -- not a poor working man +but an educated and comfortable man -- had a farm. His most +valuable pig fell ill, and my friend suggested sending for a vet. +Oh, no, what could a vet do against the Evil Eye? Next morning a +solemn procession made its way from the church to the sty. The +priest wore over his cassock and surplice a richly embroidered +shawl that is used in dealing with the devil. Altar-boys, one +swinging a censer, walked on either side of him, and the people, +mumbling on their beads, walked behind. They fell on their knees +round the sty while the priest waved the fumes of incense at the +pig and recited his incantations. The pungent smoke got up the +pig's nose, and it staggered to its feet; and the people cried "A +miracle." The priest received his 100 eggs and 2 hens, but the pig +died next day. Seeing that it was going to die, the owner had sold +it to the local butcher to be turned into food for the people. He +then quietly substituted another pig for it, and this wallowed in +the same poisonous filth as its predecessor; but there was now a +bottle of holy water hanging from the roof of the sty to protect +it.

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I naturally wanted more of this for my readers, and I got it. +Before I quote it let me explain. My informant would be ruined and +punished if he were traced, so I make certain details not as +convenient as they might be for the Catholic detective. He is not +a working man but a well-educated middle-class man of high +character. The place from which he writes is not a rural district +but an old city of 30000 people, well known to thousands of +Americans and Britons, but they are either Catholics or they prefer +to keep their mouths closed. The country will doubtless be +identified by some of my reader's, but I will say only that it is +not at all considered the most backward in Europe, though the great +majority of the workers are illiterate. It is solidly Catholic. The +writer is absolutely reliable both in regard to first-hand +knowledge and on conscientiousness, and I omit from the long +account only a few passages that are relevant to my purpose:

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"A few year's ago this country made a Pact with the Vatican, +and one notices more and more the growing power of the Church. At +government ceremonies, which are often held out of doors here, the +bishop (who by the way has eight illegitimate children) leads the +procession in full regalia and gives the Fascist salute. A new law +has been passed by which all schools must be of one sex, with the +subtle idea of putting the secular schools out of action. This law +applies even to infants' schools.

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"I know the wife of a chemist whose husband is being +threatened by the priests with boycott as she refuses to attend +mass. A man can have as many mistresses as he likes but it is a +crime for a couple to set up home together unless they are married. +It is forbidden to let them a house. Civil marriage is done away +with, and one can only marry in the church. There is much +emigration to South America, and if a person takes a letter from a +priest Saying that he is a good Catholic he can get a good job. Of +courage, an offering for masses will always secure a good letter +though one never goes to mass. ... A Spanish friend of mine +described the national system in a nutshell. He said it was as if +the head of a family had a large box of gold heavily guarded and +refused to part with a penny of it though all the family were dying +of hunger. A writer described this country as a huge prison kept +down by force. There is a state of misery here that you never could +imagine. I happened to know well a skilled workman who has two +weeks off work and two weeks on, and he earns 85 cents a day when +working. But when he has paid his dues to the Syndicate [the form +of Trade Union imposed on Catholics by the Papal Encyclical and +counts his two weeks idle his pay works out at 35 cents a day, and +on this seven people must live. ... The cruel joke is that there is +a law that no man must get less than 50 cents a day but the +government themselves pay 20 cents. The usual wage of a workman is +25 cents. So, being unable to live on that as he invariably has a +big family he must send his children on the streets to beg. The +streets are thronged with starving whining beggars, with little +children with their stomachs swollen, and dropping blood in the +streets in the last stages of starvation.

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"Property rights are very severe, and a man may 'Shoot on +sight any who enters his property. Lately on the property of the +richest Englishman here two men were found speared to death. One +was a poor old man of 72 who was collecting a few sticks for his +fire, and one a young fellow who had the audacity to use the +property as a short cut. No one took any notice. I just happened to +hear of the incident as I lived near. All relations between the +people are vicious, and there is none of that kindly feeling or +sympathy that one gets among the poor in England. The rich have +their houses barred and bolted and scarcely ever help. Their +surplus money goes to building private chapels or at least +enriching them; as there is one in every rich or middle-class +house, or else the money goes directly to the Church. ... For every +one who finds comfort there are 99 who only find terror and worry. +My life as a R.C. was a horror. I lived in terror of sin, terror of +confession, terror of sex, and the supreme terror was of death and +hell. How often I lay shivering in bed thinking that this night I +would surely die and be weighed in the scales of God, so +graphically described to me by the Catholic teachers. Other nights +I lay listening, listening for the devil's cart, driven by headless +horsemen and horses and conveying the children who did not say +their prayers, and I pictured with what glee the devil would throw +them into hell. As a farmer's cart passed rattling over the cobble +stone's in my imagination I could hear the devil's chains rattling +and thought it would stop at our door and collect me. When day came +I was braver and followed all the funerals to the cemetery to make +the sign of the Cross over the Catholic graves and spit on the +Protestant ones. I waited, trembling, for the serpent to jump out +of my mouth after making what I thought was a bad communion.

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"All hospitals are in the hands of religious [monks and nuns] +with no qualifications whatever and more often than not illiterate. +I had occasion to go to the Red Cross the other day. The doctor was +absent, and not one of the three nuns in charge could write a note +for him. A trained nurse offered her services free to the hospital +but they refused as she was not a nun. A young girl whom I know, +living with a man, was forced to have an operation without an +anaesthetic in punishment for her sin. She has been a nervous wreck +ever since. I saw a sweet little girl of four die the other day. +The priest had advised them not to have a doctor as God had need of +another little angel in heaven. A man was dying with T.B. and a +foreign nurse begged to be allowed to give him a drug but the +priest forbade it, as it would be against the will of God. Man must +suffer.

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"To me child labor is the most terrible crime here. They have +little children from the age of seven onward as servants, and they +sometimes pay them nothing. The parents are glad to get rid of them +for their keep. They usually sleep on the floor in the coal-bin and +are often beaten. Someone once recommended to me a woman to do +washing, and a well-dressed woman, armed with a stick, came along +with a little boy of about ten. She was going to superintend while +he did the washing. One never sees a child playing on the streets, +nor are there any parks or playgrounds for them. The schools are +free, but the parents must provide books, etc. and children without +books are not allowed to enter: an order which excludes. all the +poor. The teachers are unqualified. The soldiers get about half a +cent a day and two meals of meat, but one can get exemption by +paying, so the army is composed of the poor and under-nourished.

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"I expect you read in the papers how our government was +unanimously elected. It was such a farce. A notice appeared in the +papers saying: "Go and vote. Your vote won't count, but go and vote +and show the world you are all with the government." They forgot to +add: "If you don't vote you will lose your job." The government is +putting up a lot of show buildings while there is a terrible dearth +of houses for the people. Rents are high in comparison with wages. +The houses at $8 a month are one or two-roomed and usually without +windows. I have seen a Seven-roomed house without windows. The +houses are close together and no sun enters. It is usual after a +rainy day -- and it often rains here -- to see all the bedding out +on the street drying."

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The rest of the letter is too personal and might give more +away than the writer supposes. I will note only that revolt against +this brutal system flickers up here and there but the spread of the +fire is truculently prevented. There is actually a small +Freethought Society in the town, but it meets in such secrecy that +my informant has never been able to get in touch with it. The eyes, +and ears of the priests are everywhere, and if the economic weapon +does not intimidate the incipient rebel there is always the jail or +the penal settlement. Ironically, some fled there from the triumph +of clerical Fascism elsewhere, and now they writhe in the shadow of +an equal tyranny.

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But the above extracts, referring to many sides of life in a +strictly Catholic city, will suffice for my purpose. I do not +suppose that in America the apologist explains the defects of his +church, as he does in Britain, as due entirely to its Protestant +environment. You should see Catholic life in a Catholic country, he +is fond of saying. It must be difficult to use that piece of pious +deception in the United States. Folk down south are too near to +Mexico and up north too near to Quebec; while engineers and others +who have lived in Columbia, Bolivia, or Brazil tell funny stories. +Most people, however, know these foreign lands only from films +which conceal more than they show, and this little sketch of life +in a really Catholic city -- it is 90 percent Catholic and 70 +percent illiterate -- heavily rebukes the apologist.

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I should like to follow it up with a sketch of life in Russia +before the Beasts of Berlin broke unto it. Sociologists generally +agree that one of the best tests of a civilization is the way it +treats its children; one ought to say, how it treats the children +of workers. Whatever faults some find in Russia or the Soviet Union +it is agreed by all experts on this side of its life that it gives +a better time to the children than any other country in the world. +Before the Revolution or the last war the children had as miserable +a time as in this Catholic country. One of the toughest problems +the Soviet authorities had to solve was the reduction of juvenile +crime, and travelers in Tsarist Russia used to tell of child +prostitutes of 13 soliciting openly near the baths. Now Russia, and +especially Moscow, treat children as honored guests. They neither +beg nor work and they are poles removed from the cruelly-treated +starvelings, dripping blood on the streets, of this Catholic city. +Instead of being excluded from schools because they have no shoes +-- which in Russia happens only in summer in the country -- the +poorest have the same teaching and the same holidays and +entertainments as the children of the best paid.

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But I am concerned here with the workers not with the +children, though the fact that vast numbers of them cannot feed the +large families which the priests compel them to have is a +significant detail. A Catholic writer will tell you only, and +proudly, that there is a minimum wage fixed by law. Here, from one +who has moved intimately among them for years -- I can vouch for +that -- is the truth. They are "the stinkers" as the Tsarist +aristocrats used to call the workers, the "clods" as rich folk +called them in medieval England. They may be killed for gathering +a little fallen wood on or taking a short cut through your estate. +It is a picture of comprehensive injustice and exploitation.

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But how far is this representative of the condition of the +workers in Catholic countries generally? Let us try to ascertain +this on strict sociological lines. In which countries of the world +have the great majority of the workers, by general agreement, the +highest standard of living? I confine the comparison to the great +majority, the regular worker's, because the poorest are at much the +same level of life in all countries. If there is any difference +their condition is exceptionally bad in such Catholic countries as +Poland (before the war), Spain, Portugal, and Brazil. In any case +we reach a sound verdict only if we compare the great mass of the +people in different countries.

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It will surely be admitted that the highest standard of living +for the largest majority of the workers is enjoyed in the United +States, Soviet Russia, Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, +Switzerland, prewar Germany, and prewar France. I would put them in +that order but there is no need to go into that question. The point +is that these are all countries in which the Church of Rome has no +influence on the status of the workers. The one-eighth Catholic +minority in America and France and the one-twenty-fifth minority in +Britain may help to sour certain aspects of public life by Sunday +Laws, Blue Laws, Marriage Laws, etc., but we should smile if they, +claimed to have any responsibility for the economic basis of the +standard of life of the workers. If this were the place to go more +fully into the question we might make a stronger case. While for +instance, the workers of the United States will be put by most +students -- some, who know the vast range of free services in +Russia might prefer the Soviet workers -- at the head of the list +it is very doubtful if we should find as high a proportion of +Catholic workers -- Poles, Irish, Italians, Mexicans, etc. -- in +the higher as in the lower class of workers.

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But we must take it here on broad lines. The countries in +which the workers are best-off are those in which Catholicism is +not among the factors which determine the standard of living. At +the next level we should, still looking only to economic and social +well-being, put Holland -- many might put this at the higher level +-- Belgium, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Rumania, and +Bulgaria. The proportion of Catholic influence rises and the +standard of living falls. And at the lowest of three levels few +would hesitate to put Spain, Portugal, Poland, and the Latin-American Republics generally. I have omitted Czecho-Slovakia only +because of its composite nature, but everybody knows that the +status of the workers was highest in Bohemia, lower in more +Catholic Moravia, and lowest in entirely Catholic Slovakia. Asia we +naturally leave out of comparison.

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We might go further and cheek our conclusion by asking in +which countries and under what condition the status of the workers +has risen most rapidly in recent times and in which it has advanced +little or not at all. Russia takes first place, and the character +of the uplifting factors is well known. The least Catholic part of +Czecho-Slovakia and Denmark probably come next. If we distinguish +periods of betterment and periods of reaction we have to assign a +notable advance to the Spaniards and the Austrians under Socialism +and a notable reaction to the Italian workers during the last +twelve years and to those of Austria, Spain, Portugal, and Latin +America generally since they passed under the Papal-Fascist flag. +If the present Fascist-Catholic rulers (under Germany) of Belgium +and France were to survive and carry out their declared plans the +status of the workers there also would deteriorate.

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In fact, we come in the end to a very interesting and +significant contrast. The democracies -- the United States, +Britain, Czecho-Slovakia, Holland, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, +and Sweden (all non-Catholic) -- will, when Nazism is destroyed, +resume their character and progress. The Vatican, on the other hand +seeks, whatever the issue of the war is, to retain control of +Belgium, France, Slovakia, Croatia, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and the

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Spanish-American Republics and combine them in a Catholic League, +and it has prescribed their economic form in the solemn language of +a Papal Encyclical. What will that mean for the workers? Well, the +country of which I have given a description in this chapter +declares that it has, in its loyalty to Rome. adopted precisely +this economic structure urged by the Popes. This fact is so +flagrantly opposed to what Catholic apologists in America say about +the Popes and the workers that we must examine the matter +carefully.

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Chapter II

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THOSE BEAUTIFUL PAPAL ENCYCLICALS

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A learned professor of religious views scribbled a marginal +note on a page of one of my books in which I had summed up vile +social condition of Europe in the last century, after 1500 year of +Papal power. With the usual air of superiority he wrote: "But the +Churches only took up social work at the end of the 19th Century." +Which was precisely my complaint. For nearly 15 centuries the Roman +clergy had contemplated without any serious interference with it, +a social order in which, apart from it other vices, the great mass +of the people, the workers, were treated with grave injustice and, +during most of the time with contempt and cruelty.

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If an apologist were to plead that the clergy had so much to +do in looking after the immortal souls of men that you could not +expect them to study social conditions you would smile, if you know +the moral history of Europe, but you might grant the plea a certain +amount of logic. But the Catholic apologist does not, and dare not, +put forward that very frail excuse. He says, on the contrary, that +the Church is, and always was, the friend, the very best friend, of +the workers. I hardly need to quote Catholic literature on that. It +is the supreme champion of justice and has always stood with its +flaming sword between the helpless workers and the greedy. In a +moment we shall find the Pope saying that very emphatically.

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As far as the past is concerned we will briefly run over the +record in the next chapter, but two reflection's at once occur to +us. Must not this championship of the cause of the workers have +been extraordinarily ineffective seeing that the workers themselves +had to ware a prodigious fight in the last century against +injustices which had lasted for centuries? And is it not a Singular +thing that the pronouncements of Popes on the subject which +Catholic apologists quote all belong to the last 50 years? With +great audacity they quote, when they call the Church the friend of +freedom and democracy, writers of nearly seven centuries ago like +Thomas Aquinas (who defended slavery), but they do not seem to get +further back than Pope Leo XIII when they seek proof of the +Church's interest in the workers. Everybody who knows anything +about socio-economic history knows that the great fight, the heroic +and bloody fight, the fight in which you hazarded your life or +liberty, for justice to the workers was, broadly, from about 1780 +to 1880, yet the first favorable Papal declaration they quote is of +the year 1891.

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Why dig up so much history, Catholics peevishly ask me? The +value of the Church today lies in its teaching today, and Catholic +writers fill books with the bold and sound declarations of the +Popes from 1891 onward. The fight was still on, and the "great +Pope" ranged himself on the side of the workers with such +utterances that he was called the Pope of the Workers, even the +Socialist Pope, the author of the Magria Charta of Labor. I +remember the fuss well, having just then been appointed professor +in a Catholic seminary. Radical papers were lyrical; reactionary +papers were annoyed. But before you rush to a library for a +Catholic book to tell you all about this "Charter of Labor's +Rights" read the biographical notice of Leo XIII in the +Encyclopedia Britannica; and it is so sound that the Catholic +revisers -- to be polite -- of the latest edition of that work have +not ventured to alter it. The writer, Dr. Bryant, tell's how Leo +startled the world with his radicalism in 1891 but adds that he +fell back into sheer reaction before he died. He says:

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In 1902 the Sacred Congregation of Extraordinary +Ecclesiastical Affairs issued instructions concerning +Christian democracy in Italy, directing that the popular +Christian movement which embraced in its program a number of +social reforms such as factory laws for children, old-age +pensions, a minimum wage in agricultural industries, an eight +hour day, the revival of trade gilds, and the encouragement of +Sunday rest, should divert its attention from all such things +as savored of novelty and devote its energies to the +restoration of the Temporal Power.

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Did you ever find your attention called to that miserable +change of the Pope's social creed in any one of the very numerous +books and pamphlets written in America on the grand and inspiring +call for justice of Leo XIII? You certainly did not. Catholic Truth +does not do such things. In science a man who made much of a +passage from an earlier great scientist and did not mention that it +was retracted in his later years would be discredited. In the field +of sacred literature he is just clever.

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However, what was this bold and "magnificent" declaration of +Pope Leo XIII? It is contained in the encyclical (or to-all-the-world) letter Rerum novarum -- these encyclicals are named from the +first two words of the latin text -- of the year 1891. You will +find it useful to consider the historical background. Some ten +years earlier the Pope had struck a bargain with Bismarck. The +Catholic Church in Germany would enlist all its power in Bismarck's +fight against Socialism and for militarism if he would quit his +campaign against the Church itself. It did not make an atom of +difference to Social Democracy. At the German election of 1887 the +Socialists polled 763128 votes: at the election of 1890 their vote +rose to 1427298. In 1890 the Socialist vote in Austria was +750000, and it was about half a million in France. In other words, +the policy of sheer opposition to Socialism had dismally failed. +Catholic workers were leaving the Church in millions because it +opposed justice to the workers.

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So Leo, or his advisers -- he knew nothing about economic +matters, or indeed any other matters except Church stuff and the +Latin classics -- had the brilliant idea of taking the wind out of +the Socialist sails by a solemn statement of the attitude of the +Church to Labor questions which would displease the employers and +presumably win the admiration of the workers. The Encyclical was +translated into most languages, and even the secular press hailed +it as a revolutionary pronouncement. It still shines in American +apologetic literature. The Catholic will tell you that the Church +has formulated the Charter of the Rights of Labor in two great +encyclicals, the Rerum Novarum of Leo XIII and the Quadragesimo +anno of the later (and the present) Pope. When you inquire, +however, you will find that the latter has not been translated into +English -- for reasons which you will understand presently -- but +the message of Leo XIII is (if you conceal his retraction of it) +written in letters of bronze on a block of granite.

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Surely, you think, it must be really good. You shall judge for +yourself. I have just read it carefully through once more and made +a synopsis of it, and, as a cheap translation is still available, +you can check my precis of it.

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It opens with the reflection that something must be done to +improve the condition of the workers. The gilds, which under the +lead of the Church so long protected them, were, the Pope says, +"destroyed in the last century." As every student of such matters +knows that they died a natural death, or were (if there is question +of destruction) destroyed by the workers themselves in the 15th +Century, this is not a promising beginning. It gets worse. Owing to +the spread of irreligion the callous world of the 19th Century put +nothing in the place of these beneficent Catholic gilds, and the +workers were left to be exploited by "a small number of very rich +men," while "crafty agitators" led the workers by the nose in the +wrong direction. Socialism cannot be accepted as a remedy because +it is itself unjust and futile. It denies the right of private +property -- the Pope seems to think that under Socialism you cannot +have your own books, carpets, or etchings -- and in this it is +immoral. It preaches a class-war, which is wicked, wasteful, +whereas if employers and workers were all religious (Catholics) +they would live in a beautiful atmosphere of brotherhood, and the +rich would give generous alms to the poor. That is the Pope's idea +of the Middle Ages.

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About half the encyclical is taken up with moral platitudes +and factual inaccuracies of this sort. The idea that the workers of +Europe were protected by gilds until the French Revolution and that +from then until 1890 nothing was done for them would bring the +wrath of a teacher upon a sophomore. Unions of any kind were +truculently forbidden in all countries, Catholic and Protestant, +from the 16th Century until the 19th, but at least there was in +England, and not in Catholic lands, the crude and costly machinery +of Poor Relief. In England, moreover, the workers won the right of +union before 1830, and under Place and Owen (Atheists both) there +was a great development of Trade Unions. There was also a long +series of Factory Acts for the reduction of hours and the

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protection of the workers, and by 1891 the leading States were +considering or inaugurating schemes of old-age pensions, widows' +pensions, sick and unemployment insurance, etc. The Kaiser +formulated this program for Germany and at once started work on it +in 1890.

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However, let us come to the "constructive" part of the great +Charter. If the workers realize that it is "no disgrace" to work if +you do not happen to "possess the gifts of fortune," and if the +employers "do not tax the workers beyond his strength" and "give +every one that which is just" this "thorny problem of capital and +labor is well on the way to settlement. It takes a Pope to discover +things like that. For a moment the capitalists get a jolt when the +Pope says that "it is only by the labor of the working man that +States grow rich" but, needless to say, he does not pass on to +Marx's theory of surplus value, of which he had probably never +heard. It is just a clumsy way of saying that capital cannot +dispense with labor. Then, after an excursus on the divine origin +of authority and the duty of the State to check employers who +impose conditions which injure the morals, religion, or health -- +as I said, Britain already had a whole code of laws checking such +employers -- of the workers, the Pope gets to concrete proposals.

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The "revolution" is supposed to be here. The Pope mentions the +strike as a weapon of the workers and does not condemn it. He is +content to say that if the State were guided by religion it would +see that the grounds of strikes did not exist. Then we get the +"rights" of the workers. They must have a day's rest on Sunday (and +go to church), they must not be compelled to work such hours that +it "stupefies their minds and wears out their bodies," and the +wages must be "sufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved +working man." All this had been a platitude of Radical (and much +Liberal) as well as Socialist literature for several decades, and +the astonishment of the world that a Pope should indorse the claim +of one day's rest in seven (which had been normal in Protestant +countries for three centuries) and that men should not be +overworked is really a proof of its insincerity in its new +admiration of the Church of Rome. If there was any "revolution" it +was in the fact that the Roman Church had comprehensively and +officially opposed the rights of the workers for more than 100 +years, or since they had been clearly formulated on the eve of the +French Revolution, and now that it saw the workers deserting it in +millions it admitted the most elementary of those rights.

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The American Catholic apologists on the social side Completely +ignore these aspects of the Pope's deliverance. They surely know +that what he calls "crafty agitators" had been demanding these +rights for the workers for 100 years yet they represent the Pope as +putting some profound new social wisdom before the world. They lay +no stress on the really revolutionary -- if it were clearly and +sincerely meant -- statement that "it is only by the labor of the +working man that States grow rich." Catholic social writers would +not dare to say that themselves in America today. It is the +essential basis of Bolshevism, the essential meaning of the hammer +and sickle. But I agree with them here that the Pope meant no more +than that the miner produces coal and the agricultural worker corn.

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Any other meaning is quite inconsistent with the Pope's -- indeed +all Popes -- settled social ethic that the division of the race +into masters (private employers) and wage-earners is in accordance +with the divine will.

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As to the Sunday rest -- which, by the way, Britain, America, +Germany, etc., not only granted but sternly insisted on for +religious reasons -- the profit of the Church itself is here too +clear for us to consider it disinterested. Of the Pope's protest +against overwork also we take no notice. At the time when he wrote +this there had been a mighty and successful struggle for the +reduction of hours and the curtailment of the work of women and +children in Great Britain for 70 years and for a generation in +America, France, and Germany. It was Catholic countries like Italy, +Spain, and Portugal that needed the moralist, and neither then nor +at any, later date until Socialism became a power did they carry +out any serious reform. In fact, the worst condition of labor, +especially child labor, continued to be found in Catholic South +Italy, Spain (except 1932-6), Portugal, and Poland right down to +the outbreak of the war.

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The gem of the encyclical is said by the apologists to be the +demand for "a living wage." It is the minimum demand that any +reformer ever drew up because, obviously, the far greater question +is: What is a living wage? The Pope, in any case, did not use that +very familiar phrase, and how any Catholic employer in the world +could object to what he did say is incomprehensible. In two +passages the Pope goes beyond the hoary old Church-platitude that +in rewarding labor employers must be "just" -- leaving it to them +to say what is just. The first short passage is said in one +"official" translation to be that the wage must provide "the means +of living a tolerable and happy life." The word "happy" is here +arbitrarily inserted. The Latin text has no such word. The other +official translation is that the wage must suffice "to support the +wage-earner in reasonable and frugal comfort," The word +"reasonable" again is a trick. The correct translation is: "The +wage must be enough to feed a frugal and well-behaved worker." What +a revolutionary sentiment in the year 1891!

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In the next paragraph the Pope remembers that workers have +families to support. He say's: "If the worker receives a wage on +which he can support himself, his wife, and his children +becomingly, he will be able to save and to have a small capital." +He is to buy land (as that will keep him out of Socialism). I have +emphasized the significant word in this passage, as the Catholic +translators again play tricks with it. And if the reader finds my +translation of it ambiguous I reply that it is deliberately +ambiguous in the original. The Latin here is poor and unusual -- +just for the sake of vagueness. As a matter of fact the official +clerical biographer of Leo XIII, Msgr. T'Serelaes, says that the +Pope's references to a living wage led everywhere to stormy +disputes as to what precisely he meant, and a Belgian archbishop +wrote to Rome for a clarification of them. He got none. So we may +dismiss the gems of social wisdom of Leo XIII and the dishonest +comments of American apologists who tamper with the text and +conceal the fact that through one of the Congregations of +Cardinals, of which the Pope is the head, Leo XIII in 1902 recanted +his "Charter," and ordered Catholic workers to quit talking about +the rights of Labor! +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +11 +. +THE CHURCH THE ENEMY OF THE WORKERS

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According to these apologists Leo's "Immortal" utterance +remained the Roman standard on such matters until 1931, when Pius +XI, in the encyclical Quadragestme anno re-affirmed and developed +its teaching; and these two declarations are the wisest and +soundest of all counsels on the great issue of Capital and Labor. +But, as I have already said, while these apologists talk very +fulsomely about the encyclical of 1931 they, as far as I can +discover never translate it. There is certainly no translation +issued by the British Catholic authorities and I cannot trace any +in America, though the essential meaning of an "encyclical" letter +is that it is addressed to the whole Catholic world, and the +hierarchy in each country is to publish a translation of it. Dr. +Ryan, the Catholic oracle on social questions, translated all the +earlier encyclicals of Pius XI but did not touch this one.

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I explained in an earlier booklet why this "great" encyclical +is so scurvily treated by Catholics and was almost ignored by the +press. It tells Catholics that the corporative state -- Fascism, in +plain English -- is the true model in economic matters and must be +enforced when the authorities are Catholics! I will again give a +faithful summary of it, but first let us get the true historical +framework.

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There was not, as the apologist's claim, a continuity of Papal +policy. There was exactly the opposite. Not only did Rome, as I +have said, formally reverse its policy, but that policy had so +palpably failed that the three Popes who followed Leo XIII never +endorsed it. I have shown elsewhere that the Church of Rome +continued to lose to the Socialists. In Germany the Socialist vote, +which had risen to 1427298 in 1890 had increased to 2107076 by +1898; and it was chiefly in Germany that the Pope had expected good +results from his encyclical. In France the number of Socialists +doubled between 1893 and 1900. In Austria the vote rose from +750000 in 1890 to 1041948 in 1907. And Socialism began to spread +in Italy itself. The vote rose from 27000 in 1892 to 175000 in +1900. The Church, losing heavily, continued to denounce Socialism +and to permit local churches to experiment in Christian Socialism, +as we shall see later. Then came the war, the Russian Revolution, +and the rapid spread of Atheistic Communism as well as Socialism,

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The desperate officials at the Vatican learned, however, as +time went on that the modern world was not necessarily committed to +radical and democratic principles. A very large proportion of the +middle class as well as the wealthy were alarmed at the threat to +"private enterprise," or the chance of making a fortune, and, while +these men had in the 19th Century provided the backbone of the +anti-clerical party everywhere, they now sought clerical as well as +conservative allies against Bolshevism. To win a good support in +the working class they joined in the cry that Bolshevism set out to +destroy religion, and therefore threatened civilization, and their +press echoed the libels against and grossly misrepresented Russia. +So there was formed the grand anti-Bolshevik alliance of ministers +and morons, bankers and bandits, journalists, and Jesuits all over +the world. The Vatican dropped its coquetting with Russia and, as +we saw in the first series, entered into a brazen alliance with the +gangs of criminals who were the nucleus groups of the next +movement.

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So you know what to expect of an encyclical on the workers +composed by the present aristocratic Pope, who was then Secretary +of State, in 1931. "Quadragesimo anno" means "in the fortieth year" +(since Leo's encyclical), and is really an amazing, suggestion of +continuity of policy. The Pope recalls the work of Leo. There was +vast and increasing misery amongst the workers -- in the leading +countries they had, as a matter of fact, had their real wage +doubled or trebled in half a century -- and "the eyes of all were +turned to the Chair of Peter." Leo issued his marvelous encyclical, +which "owed nothing to either Liberalism or Socialism" -- its best +points were, we saw, platitudes of benevolent Liberalism -- but was +inspired by the genius of the Pope and Catholic teaching. The world +was "stupefied at the novelty of his teaching," which "overthrew +all the idols of Liberalism," and the message produced the most +salutary fruits everywhere. These Liberals had done a little for +the workers, It is true, but it was the Pope's encyclical that the +workers had to thank for all the social legislation that was passed +after 1891 and for the full establishment of Trade Unions, which +the Liberals had opposed.

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After devoting a quarter of the long letter to this childish +theme the Pope says that he is going to develop Leo's principles. +He does not even hint at the retraction. At great length he proves +that the right of private ownership is based on moral principles, +so Socialism is immoral. "No good Catholic can be a good +Socialist." As to Communism it is beneath discussion. Capital and +Labor are equally indispensable, and the product must be "justly" +divided; but he does not go a step beyond Leo in defining what a +"just wage" is. The workers must have unions, but there must be no +class-war, and in view of the need for harmonious cooperation a new +type of union or "syndicate" which has lately appeared deserves +attention. There must be unions of both workers and employers and +conferences of delegates from each side. The worker is quite free +to belong or not belong to the syndicate, but he has to pay the +fees in any case. The Pope, who has the Italian model before him, +omits to say that if a worker does not join the union he will get +no labor-ticket. Strikes are forbidden, and if the two sides cannot +agree the government must intervene. But if they will all join the +Catholic Church and reform their morals the machine will march on +oiled wheels.

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In other words, Mussolini's Corporative State is the ideal, +and from Slovakia to Peru the new Catholic countries are adopting +it and expressly quoting this encyclical as the reason. Did or did +not the Pope know that Mussolini devised this economic structure +simply in order to have both industrialists and workers in his +power when the time came for war-industries and forced loans? +Obtuse as the Vatican is in such matters the clergy must have knows +this, and must have known also that, while the industrialists +really suffered in the matter of forced loans to the government the +workers were enslaved and impoverished. So now you know why, though +Catholic apologists in America insist that the papal encyclicals +are the grand Charters of Labor they are so very reticent about +this latest official utterance on the workers' rights.

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Chapter III

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THE ACTUAL RECORD OF THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL

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Leo XIII, we saw, opened his solemn pronouncement to the world +with a summary of social history which was as near to the truth as +Cape Cod is to Tierra del Fuego. I do not for a moment suggest that +he knew this but felt it quite safe to give his fantastic version +of European history to Catholics who are not allowed to read the +truth. Do not misunderstand me. Apologists and missionaries of the +Black International -- lots of them -- do lie. Many of them in +America who repeat the Pope's words are compelled by their task to +read, and give in their writings sufficient proof that they have +read, ordinary expert works on the history of the struggle of the +workers in modern times. But you would not expect a Pope to have +leisure for that sort of thing. In fact if he knew the historical +truth he might not be able to write those sonorous and vapid +generalizations which Catholics mistake for deep or inspired +thought. In the next book we shall see some of these highly-poisoned gems of historical fiction from an earlier encyclical of +Leo XIII. He writes history (and economics) like a devout nun. The +workers, we found him saying, were happy and prosperous under the +gilds, which the Church had inspired, until the French Revolution. +Then "irreligion" made the world of employers callous and brutal. +Nothing was substituted for the protection of the gilds, and. ... +Well there you are. That is why the workers of the last century +were so exploited. You have only to bring back the employers to the +true Church (as in that country which I described in the first +chapter) and the world of Labor will take on the brightness and +warmth of a garden in spring.

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Except for the howler about the gilds this is really what +Catholic apologists commonly say on the subject. The Church "broke +the fetters of the slave" and brought light and justice to the +workers of the pagan world. In due time -- five or six centuries +later -- it created the gilds which spread a rich religious mantle +of protection over the workers of Europe. Protestantism destroyed +the protection -- the little difficulty about what happened in the +Catholic half of Europe may (and had better be) disregarded -- and +so the arrival of the Industrial Era found them the helpless prey +of the exploiters. The world must return to the principles of the +Middle Ages when the workers were so happy.

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The real record of the Church in relation to the workers can +be summed up even more shortly than that, for it is much nearer to +the truth to say that the Church was comprehensively indifferent to +the condition of the workers from the time it won power until Leo +wrote his "great" Charter of their Rights. That condition varied +with the economic development of Europe but until at least the +French Revolution it was one of galling subjection and +exploitation, and the Church never condemned this. It is a long +story for a short chapter, but I may point out the fallacy or the +untruth of the chief statements on which the claim of the apologist +is based. And if I have here to be very brief and rather dogmatic +it may be advisable to explain to some of my readers that I have +dealt with these points and given the proper authorities in several +of my Little Blue Books and in my True Story of the Roman Catholic +Church.

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Catholic writers used to boast how the Church was communistic +and anti-rich from its infancy, but they have done their best +recently to make the word Communism stink in folk's nostrils so +they drop this argument. It would be as bad as boasting how +Catholic commercial travelers, or their medieval equivalent, used +to lock their wives in "girdles of chastity" when they set out on +their rounds. In any case it is false. The theory is based upon a +statement about one particular church in Acts, which even many +theologians consider a pious romance. Paul's letters are the +earliest documents, and they reflect a division of classes, with +rich slave-owners and even imperial officials. In fact Catholic +literature includes wealthy relatives of the Emperor Vespasian in +the Roman Church.

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More important is the claim about slavery; and let me say at +once that it is one of the most blatantly untruthful claims the +apologists make. No Pope, no Father of the Church, no body of +churchmen ever condemned slavery until the 18th Century. St. +Augustine, the dominant oracle of western or Roman Christendom, +expressly defended it as of divine appointment (City of God, Book +XIX, eh. XV), and Thomas Aquinas and all the other Schoolmen +followed Augustine. There is not an expert work on the subject that +does not explain that the old type of slavery was destroyed by the +economic collapse of the Roman Empire, and that before that time +Roman moralists and Emperors had done a great deal for the slave.

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After the year 500 the workers of Europe are called in our +modern literature "serfs," but the reader is rarely warned that +still for centuries all literature was Latin, and there are not +different words in Latin for "slave" and "serf." The workers were +-- and the Popes from 600 onward owned vast numbers of them -- just +servi as they had been under paganism, and Vinogradov, one of the +best historical sociologists of recent times, says that they were +in law and fact, "slaves." They were bought and sold like cattle, +and no law protected them from cruelty. So the only real change +when the Roman Church came to dominate Europe in the 5th Century +was that, whereas in the Roman Empire, two workers out of three had +been free (See Darrow's Slavery in the Roman Empire), literate, and +almost pampered, in the new Europe not one worker in ten was free +or literate or had a life of elementary comfort and decency.

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This "era of the serfs" lasted until the 12th or 13th Century, +when the majority were emancipated. Again there is no modern expert +who does not trace this emancipation to what we may broadly call +economic causes. The nobles sold freedom to immense bodies of serfs +so that they could go on the looting expeditions of the Crusaders +or enjoy the more luxurious life which Arabs had taught Europe. +Kings emancipated bodies of serfs to help fight their rebellious +nobles: nobles emancipated them to fight the kings or other nobles. +Abbeys and bishops were, says the Catholic historian Muratori, the +last to emancipate them, saying that they must not "alienate Church +property." At the same time Europe was rapidly recovering +economically and far larger bodies of craftsman were required in +the towns (which, for the same reasons, now got charters of +liberty).

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The famous gilds had begun long before this, and the Church, +instead of having inspired them, tried for more than a century to +suppress them. They seem to have been formed by the workers on the +model of the unions (colleges) of the old Greek and Roman workers, +traces of which survived. I have elsewhere quoted decrees from the +Capitularies of Charlemagne and later Church Councils showing how +drastically the Church condemned them. It could not suppress so it +appropriated them, and for several centuries they certainly helped +the workers. That is to say, the skilled workers. Writers on the +gilds (Gross, Walford, etc.) do not remind the reader that while in +the towns even the prostitutes had gilds and walked in the sacred +processions (of course, the writers I have named do not tell this), +the agricultural workers, who were at least four-fifths of the +workers of Europe, had none or any other kind of protection. +Further, every single real expert on any country in Europe during +this period, the so-called Age of Chivalry, the best part of the +Middle Ages (1100 to 1400), agrees that the lords and landowners +regarded the workers as dirt under their feet, robbing and +torturing them barbarously. It was an age of wild license, of +fiendish cruelty, and you can imagine -- or read Eccardus for +Germany, Brissot for France, and Thorold Rogers or Traile for +England, the chief authorities on the workers -- how the unarmed +mass of the people fared.

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All the leading historical experts on the period use the same +language as professor A. Luchaire, the highest authority on France +in the 13th Century. He says (Social France at the Time of Philippe +Auguste) that "feudalism seemed to take a ferocious delight in +seeing flames consume burgher's house's and the villains [workers] +who lived in them" (p. 5); that the knight or noble "was almost +everywhere a brutal and pillaging soldier" (p. 249); and that "the +noble had an untameable antipathy to and a profound contempt of the +villain: that is, for the serf, peasant, laborer, citizen, or +burgher" (p. 271). Such was France, the most advanced country in +Europe, in what Catholics call the most beautiful part of the +Middle Ages; and every leading authority on Italy, England, or +Germany at the time gives exactly the same picture. Pope Leo XIII +had as naive an idea of the time as has the schoolma'am who talks +to her class about the beautiful Age of Chivalry and the Knights +Errant. And in our age of historical scholarship this sort of thing +is solemnly made the basis of a social argument by the spiritual +leaders of 200000000 folk and is most respectfully treated by +editorial writers and essayists.

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It would be pertinent to show that while the workers who were +subject to the Pope were thus as unprotected from the brutality of +their "betters" as the slaves of old -- indeed less than the slaves +of Rome from the time of the Emperor Hadrian -- and lived for the +most part (on the land) in sordid and brutalizing conditions, the +workers of Arab Spain, who cannot have been far short in number of +the workers of the whole of Christian Europe, were relatively happy +and prosperous and generally educated. But I cannot enlarge on that +in this little sketch. Let me just say, on the strength of the +research and the general consensus of authorities in ancient Rome, +medieval Europe, and Arab Spain which I give in a dozen works, that +the period which the Pope and his apologists choose as the Golden +Age of the workers was for them the blackest age, apart from Spain,

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between their good condition in the Roman Empire and the +improvements they have won in modern times. None but Catholic +apologists and a few American teachers of history who play up to +them now write such trash about the Middle Ages. The period had +great art, but four-fifth's of the workers, scattered outside the +cities, never even saw this.

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It is true that the condition of the growing body of +industrial workers became harder in some respects after the +Reformation. The apologists make a ridiculous attempt to connect +this with (at least in England) the suppression of the monasteries, +the chief effect of which for the workers was that crowds of men +and women who had idly hung about the fat monasteries for food +instead of working for it had now the choice of working or +starving. In point of fact Protestant England set up a system of +Poor Relief which, crude as it was -- like most government measures +300 years ago -- did discriminate to some extent between "sturdy +beggars" and the real needy.

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But the answer to any Catholic attempt to make capital out of +the fact that, as trade and industry expanded, the lawyers, in the +interest of the rich, made the law harsher against the workers, +especially in regard to unions, is easily found when we compare +Catholic and Protestant countries. The three countries of Europe +which sank most notably from the best level of the Middle Ages +after the Reformation were beyond any question Catholic Italy, +Spain, and Portugal. There the lot of the worker fell to the level +at which we found it in the first chapter and remained at that +level until our time. The exceptions only strengthen my point. When +anti-Papal statesmen took over Italy from the Pope and his puppets +at Naples the status of the workers began to rise -- until +Mussolini shared his power with the Pope. In Spain and Portugal +also there were periods of anti-clerical Liberalism or (1932-6) +Socialism during which the condition of the workers was improved +and schools for their children were opened. Under the present +Papal-Fascist regime they have fallen back toward a condition of +ill-paid illiterate serfdom. These are platitude's of socio-political history.

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I have not spokes of France because it did not, like Italy, +Spain, and Portugal, build round itself a Chinese Wall to protect +its Catholic population from the taint of non-Catholic influences. +It was open to receive ideas from England, Holland, and Germany, +and it saw a considerable growth of skepticism. Even its clergy +were remarkably independent of Rome. Yet it remained predominantly +Catholic, and it retained medieval vices (torture's, etc.) in +proportion to its Catholicism. Here I have to notice only the +condition of the workers. There is no dispute about it. Apologists +find a second Catholic Golden Age in the days of Louis XIV: a +vicious, selfish, scandalous monarch who regarded the people only +as a source of wealth for his corrupt court, if you read French try +to see the documents in Martin's authoritative history relating to +the appalling condition of the agricultural workers when Louis was +building his palaces. Brissot, the chief French authority on the +history of the workers, shows that the wage even of the skilled +workers fell under Louis XIV to about 38 cents a day (of 12 to 14 +hours) and the price of food rose.

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But their condition on the eve of the Revolution is well +known, and it is equally well known -- in fact eagerly claimed by +apologists who know as little about the French Revolution as they +do about the Russian -- that anti-clericals educated the people up +to and inspired that inauguration of the first attempt in +Christendom to redeem and uplift the workers. People will not +understand our own time unless they see that we still live in the +new age, an age of struggle against privilege for freedom, +democracy, enlightenment, and justice to the workers, which opened +at the French Revolution; in a sense you might say the American +Revolution, since it was in some respects more than political +though in just these respects its roots were in French anti-Papal +literature.

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I hope some day to write a worthy history of this period. +Already for 150 years men and women, touched by the vision of a +wiser and juster social order, have fought for freedom, justice, +and enlightenment. A million of them have lost their lives in the +struggle, yet but for the rousing of Russia the race in most +countries would have lost all that it had won in those 150 years of +sweat and blood. Even now that victory is certain in the sense that +the nests of pirates in Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo will be destroyed +the race makes no totalitarian war against them because so few +people understand the struggle in all its range. The coalition of +the Roman Church with the bandits is concealed from the majority -- +I just received a letter from a distinguished clergyman, no lover +of Rome, who writes that I will startle England if I can prove that +connection! -- whereas, if you know the whole period, it is the +logical and almost inevitable policy of the Papacy. And with so +much hidden and the perspective distorted some of the leaders in +the present fight, men who mouth about freedom and democracy, hope +to save the Roman Church from chastisement or loss of power because +it will help to put kings back on their thrones, restore privilege, +and cheek the aspirations of the workers.

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I have tried in all my works for the past ten years to get +people to see the events of contemporary life in this historical +perspective, but I must here confine myself to the question of the +workers. The French Revolution proved a false dawn of the new age, +and when it and the compromise of the Napoleonic regime were +destroyed the fight had to begin again, under a dense cloud of +reaction. Let us say that the period from about 1830 to 1930 was +one of increasing victory for the worker's. The real wage in the +larger lndustrialized states was trebled. Universal free education +was won, and this meant at all events the erection of a ladder by +which the abler workers might ascend to a higher level. Immense +social services -- hygienic, medical, recreational, educative, and +financial -- were provided. The right to unions was almost +completely established. It all fell far short of the ideal, but let +us be just. That age which the Pope blandly blames for all that is +wrong, which he represents as undoing the justice won for the +workers in earlier Catholic ages was one of the most progressive +that the world had yet seen; for the workers of imperial Rome had +not had to fight for such privileges as they had.

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Well, what share has the Church of Rome had in the victorious +struggle? Should we be far away from the historical truth if we +said, None? Apologists search the darker lanes of recent history +for some obscure priest or layman -- generally in bad odor in his +Church at the time -- who dared to say a word for the improvement +of the condition of the workers, for the emancipation of the +Slaves, for justice to women, and so on. That neither the Vatican +nor any national branch of the Church joined in the great word +until the last decade of the 19th Century, when wholesale apostasy +of the workers alarmed the Black International, they have to grant. +But this thimble-rigging game of claiming the credit for "the +Church" when one man is honest and asking us to blame "not the +Church but the individual" when a hundred are dishonest begins to +be resented even by the Catholic laity.

+ +

I made a broad examination of the mighty campaign for reform +-- which means to rid the world finally of medievalism -- during +the last 150 years in my recent 'How Freethinkers made Notable +Contributions to Civilization' (1938). I showed that in periods +when Catholics regarded Freethinkers as an insignificant and +negligible minority they provided the great majority of the leaders +in every branch of the reform-movement. A Catholic survey of that +magnificent fight for man, the grandest of all epics, naming all +Catholics in Europe or America who made any such notable +contribution would be a farce, yet all the time the Church was +boasting that it ruled a third of the white race. Even the men who +are claimed, like the Chartist leader in England Bronterre O'Brien, +were apostates in most cases.

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Or take, as we have done before, the contrast of Catholic and +Protestant lands. In the first chapter I distributed countries, as +they were before the war threw everything into confusion, into +three groups. I do not imagine that any student of social matters +will question the general distribution, and quarrels about the +exact position of this or that country do not affect the +conclusion. The workers enjoy the best conditions where Catholicism +has no influence on public life and the worst conditions where it +has its greatest influence. They are worst paid and least protected +by law, and have the feeblest social services in the lands where +the ruling class profess docility to the Pope. In Russia, where +Catholicism simply does not exist, the workers have the finest +position they ever had in history, and they were rapidly advancing, +when the Pope's war against them broke out, to a level higher than +is or ever was, found in any other civilization. Whether you agree +to that or no the broad truth remains; the position of the workers +rose in proportion as Papal influence fell. I wonder if there is +any normally-minded Catholic worker in America who will question my +distribution of the leading countries of the world according to the +status of the workers and the Catholic element in the country, or +will claim that his Church has anything to do with the high +position, from material and historical reasons, of the workers of +America. Yet these Catholic workers cannot open one of their books +on social questions without reading that the two encyclicals I +analyzed show the Popes as the beat friends of Labor.

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In other words, we have in this controversy, as in so many +others that concern the Church, all the facts on one side and all +the rhetoric on the other. The Papal encyclicals are not merely +rhetoric but platitudinous rhetoric. That of Leo XIII in those +passages of it which won most attention just took up and, with a +certain amount of vagueness, repeated demands which had for decades +been considered elementary in serious discussions of such matters. +Was there, in fact, on the capitalist side any responsible writer +who said that "overwork was just as long as you did not specify the +hours for any industry" -- at that time the burning question, which +the Pope carefully avoided, was the eight-hour day -- or who +questioned that the worker had a right to a decent wage as long as +you refused to say what in any industry a decent wage was? And the +second Encyclical officially took back the slight concessions -- +already quietly withdrawn -- of the first because it put the +workers under a Corporative State, in which any demands of theirs +are finally settled by the employer's or the government. Both +encyclicals, moreover, lay heavy stress on something which is +anathema to every social student. They say that the rich justify +the larger share they take of the wealth produced if they give +generously in charity to the poor.

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If the apologist falls back, as he usually does, upon the fact +that the Church has always sternly insisted on justice his case is +worse than ever. Such preaching is, and always was, barren. There +is a Catholic church in New York which the Tammany leaders have +attended for the last 100 years, and the services and sermons have +spoken of justice as often as they did in other chapels. Under the +Pope's nose, in Italy, Catholic employers made the vilest use, in +the sulphur mines, of child labor that you would find anywhere in +Europe. Almost as sordid a use of child labor was made in the +tailoring business in Poland, and in agriculture and various +industries in Spain, Portugal, and South America. So it has been +for ages, though the employers listened Sunday after Sunday to the +Catholic gospel of justice. The ethic has been the same in all +ages; the practice has varied considerably, and the facts I have +given even in this short sketch show that the actual treatment of +the workers was always nearest to the ideal of justice where public +life was influenced by those whom the Church denounced.

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Chapter IV

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THE COMEDY OF CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM

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I have found it necessary at this point to make a few +excursions into older history because it was impossible to ignore +the Pope's amazing statement that the workers enjoyed happier +conditions when the world was Catholic and that their modern +grievances are due to the collapse of Papal authority over a large +part of the earth. How Catholics tolerate such howlers and then +respectfully read articles in their press about the profound wisdom +and sagacity of the Popes is the one problem of Church life I have +never mastered. But let me remind the reader that this discussion +of the status of the workers is part of a broader study of the +Roman Church which we are making. The starting-point of it was: +What is the real nature of the Church of Rome, of the Black +International in particular, that it should enter into alliance

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with the vilest forces of modern times? One of the difficulties of +the general public in entertaining this is that for 40 years +Catholic apologetic works in America have loudly boasted that their +Church has always been, and especially in Papal declarations during +the last half-century, the champion of Labor against greed. We have +seen that it was, on the contrary, always in alliance with wealth +and greed and is in its present alliances merely pursuing its +normal policy.

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I imagine that after the war, when Socialism and Communism +spread once more, what is left of the Catholic Church will to a +great extent turn to what is called Christian Socialism, and we may +glance at it. The movement was, of course, never Socialistic, and +in so far as it was adopted in Catholic countries, it never used +the word Socialism. It was called Christian or Catholic Democracy +or Social Party, and its express purpose was to divert the workers +from Socialism, which Leo XIII condemned as emphatically in 1891 as +Pius XI did in 1931. The movement began in England in 1849 when +people still distinguished between the state Socialism of Marx, +which then had few adherents in Britain, and other varieties such +as Robert Owen's voluntary Socialism.

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This British movement, founded by two clergymen of the Church +of England, Charles Kingsley and F.D. Maurice, assisted by the +barrister (of the same Church) Ludlow, which borrowed the title +Socialism as it was loosely used by the Owenites, never had a large +body of adherents and did not last long. Ludlow admitted that its +chief aim was "to Christianize Socialism," or to show the workers +that they need not leave the Church because they demanded a +betterment of their condition. But it was a group of men and women +who very sincerely felt that something must be done for the workers +when the Chartist movement so sensationally collapsed in 1848 and +it did render material services in education and in helping Trade +Unions and Cooperative Societies. It was continued in the Guild of +St. Matthew, which was closely associated with the "High" or +Ritualist branch of the Church, and there was a less advanced +Christian Social Union.

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I once took the chair for a lecture by the Rev. Stewart +Headlam head of the Guild of St. Matthew, and the audience numbered +30 or 40. When we sipped a whisky and soda together afterwards he +said that he had given this eloquent lecture on "The Brotherhood of +Men under the Fatherhood of God" a score of times and got almost no +response. Why? I discreetly reminded him that the Church had taught +the Fatherhood of God just as dogmatically in the long ages of +tyranny and exploitation and suggested that perhaps the employers +reflected that since the Father condemned his children to an +eternal hell the little hell they gave their workers sometimes did +not matter much.

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I need not trace the echoes of this movement in the religious +world of America -- the Christian Labor Union of 1872, the Knights +of Labor, the Christian Social Union, etc. -- as Catholics were not +involved in them. It was in Germany, after 1870, that the movement +which we generally call Christian Socialism spread amongst the +Catholic worker's. It was, of course, not merely not Socialism but +the very opposite of it, since the sole aim was to prevent Catholic

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workers from joining the Social Democrats. The whole movement, in +Britain, America, and Germany, rather reminds us of the clergymen +who try to keep their young men and girls from wicked dance-halls +by arranging chaste dances or ping-pong games, with non-alcoholic +refreshments, in the parish hall.

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It was more serious and more resolutely Catholic when it +spread to Austria. Its appropriation of the name Socialism was in +this case peculiarly ironical. Not only had it no sincere program +of improvement of the condition of the workers but it at first +consisted of violently anti-Socialist middle-class men, and it soon +absorbed the Conservative body of Catholics. The urban workers, +especially at Vienna, were too well read in social history to be +duped by the romantic version of the Church's attitude to Labor +that the priests offered them and, as is well known, they passed +bodily to Socialism and in free elections won complete power over +Vienna and a few other towns year after year. It was particularly +exasperating for the Church because the Austrian workers were so +well behaved that it was in this case impossible to fabricate +stories of "Red atrocities." I spent a week amongst them at the +time when the depression and the mutilation of the country by +Versailles had brought upon Vienna such economic stringency that, +police-officials assured me, the patience of the workers was +strained to breaking point. I saw 10000 armed police drawn across +a short section of the Ring between the rich inner city and an +industrial suburb. But not a clash occurred, though I verified that +half the workers suffered grave privation.

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It was therefore the policy of the church to hold the ignorant +and priest-ridden agricultural workers, which would ensure its +control of the national government and so give it, in case of need, +power over the Socialist municipal governments. The title +"Socialist" became farcical when the Catholic nobles and land-owners were enlisted in the party and their influence over the +rural population secured, so we need not pay any attention to the +few ameliorative measures, such as agricultural cooperatives, which +they passed. But the story, as it developed, is so characteristic +of Vatican strategy that it is vitally relevant to the point we +are. considering.

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In the stress of the terrible experiences of 1918 and 1919 the +so-called Christian Socialists cooperated amiably with the Social +Democrats in reconstituting the beggared Austrian state on a +democratic basis, and then for a time they became, with this +immense rural backing, the chief party in the country. It was led +by a clerical professor, Seipel, whose position was much the same +as that of Dr. Ryan in the American Church. But with the capture of +the national government by the party it suited the Vatican to +forget that churchmen must not interfere in polities -- as a matter +of fact the Church never sacrifices a single opportunity to put a +priest at the head of a political party -- and Selpel became +Chancellor of the Austrian Republic and brought his party back to +the old bitter hostility to the Social Democrats.

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The situation that immediately ensued was falsely represented, +as all Socialist constructive work was in the world-press and by +the Church, but historians of the period have made it clear. While +the Popes were blandly explaining that they opposed Socialism

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because it mould not work and they therefore acted in the interest +of the race Austria presented the spectacle of a bankrupt and +totally inefficient national Catholic government, under a priest, +kept alive by loans from the League of Nations -- or subsidies from +the power which equally dreaded the success of the Socialists -- +while Vienna, under its Socialist administration and refused any +share in the international loans to the country, did such splendid +work for the people (especially in education and re-housing) that +an editorial in a Liberal London paper, the News-Chronicle +(February 12. 1935) pronounced it "as close to the ideal Platonic +Republic as the world has ever seen." I may recall that the present +Pope, who represented the Vatican in Germany for 12 years, was +familiar with all this, yet in the encyclical Quadragesimo anno, +which he issued in the name of the late Pope, he dwelt on the +futility and danger to civilization of Socialism in the usual +Catholic manner.

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Rome has only one effective answer in such cases, violence, +and in an earlier booklet of the past series I told what happened. +The Christian Socialist government, led by the priest-ridden and +piously unscrupulous Dollfuss, allied itself with the Fascists and +destroyed Social Democracy. It was the time when Hitler was +supposed to leave Austria in Mussolini's sphere of influence, and +the Papal encyclical of 1931 ordered Catholics, in effect, to adopt +the corporative state. As Hitler made public his real plans and his +growing power the Austrian Catholics split, many joining the Nazi +Greater Germany movement; and, when the triumph of the Nazis was +put beyond question the head of the Austrian Church, Cardinal +Innitzer, threw off the mask and delivered the country to the Beast +of Berchtesgaden. The long, and heroic struggle of the Austrian +workers was over. They passed under the vile tyranny of the Pope's +ideal corporative state and the Gestapo.

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Not less instructive is the development in Italy. Socialism +began to grow rapidly in that country in the last decade of the +19th Century. The situation here was peculiar because the Popes +had, since the Italian government had taken over the Papal States, +forbidden Catholics to take any part in national politicks. Leo +XIII had permitted them to enter municipal Polities and in 1905 the +sagacious Vatican was forced to acknowledge its blunder and remove +the ban altogether. Leo had, we saw, sourly ordered Italian +Catholics in 1902 to drop all concern about the living wage and +industrial betterment and concentrate on the recovery of the +Temporal Power. The removal of the political ban reopened the +question of social activity, and a People's Party, a variant of +Christian Socialism, was established. Led by the priest Murri, it +was violently anti-Socialist -- see his work Battaglie d'Oggi -- +but it appealed to the people against a middle class which Murri +not unfairly represented as solidly opposed to the Church and had +to make increasing concessions to the demands for justice to the +workers. But Murri, though secretary to a cardinal, went on to +write in scathing terms about the higher Roman clergy themselves +and was excommunicated.

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The rapid advance of Socialism and Communism after the war +compelled the Vatican to reconsider its attitude and permit a new +extension of the Popular Party, or the Catholic Union of the People +of Italy. Women now had the franchise in Italy, and with their aid

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the union might provide a political counterpoise to Socialism, It +could do this only by making concessions to the reform-program, and +under a new priest-leader, Luigi Sturzo, it became less and less +ecclesiastical and more exigent in its demands for the workers. +Then came the rise of Fascism and the spirited fight of the +Fascists against the Socialists and Communists. Large numbers of +the Catholic party joined the Fascists -- one of them was in +Mussolini's first cabinet -- since they understood that the +Church's primary object was the destruction of Socialism, and +helped to put the Duce on the throne. The Vatican followed its +usual policy of having representatives in both camps as long as the +issue was doubtful.

+ +

Seldes describes the situation in his work 'The Vatican,' +which is so lenient to Rome that I at first mistook its author for +a Catholic. In 1922 and 1923 the Catholic peasants of the Union +cracked Fascist skulls even more than the Socialists and Communists +did in the daily fights. The struggle continued as fiercely as ever +although Mussolini seized power in 1922. We are again reminded of +the real usurpation of power by Mussolini and Hitler who never won +more than a minority of the people in free elections. Fascism in +Italy was far outnumbered by the Catholic, Liberal, Socialist, and +Communist opposition. And we are equally reminded of the evil +wrought by the Vatican, Mussolini sent envoys to it with a promise +to make concessions to the Church if the Pope would condemn the +Popular Party. Alternatively he threatened Church property if the +Pope did not. So in June 1923 the Pope acted. Sturzo resigned his +leadership of the Party on the ground that priests must not +interfere in politics and retired to a monastery. The Party lost +ground, and at the final reconciliation of Mussolini with the +Church and his rich reward of it for its services it was entirely +sacrificed. The workers of Italy, who had fought for their rights +for 140 years and sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives passed, +with the Pope's solemn blessing, into the ignoble slavery of the +Corporative State.

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It will now be apparent why, in spite of the tragic features +of the story, I speak of the Comedy of Christian Socialism. or +prevent its growth by luring workers to stay at a half-way house in +that direction, and in most forms it was bitterly opposed to +Socialism. This is so far acknowledged that in most forms it +avoided the title Socialist and preferred Social Union or Christian +Democracy; but if any reader is inclined to suggest on that account +that I have no right to include these Catholic and Protestant +movements under the title Christian Socialism let him consult, for +instance, so authoritative a work as The Encyclopedia of the Social +Sciences.

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In speaking of comedy, however, I am thinking of the policy of +the Vatican in its occasional use of the movement. Pope Leo XIII +discovers in the twentieth year of his pontificate that Liberalism +has ruined the excellent status of the workers which his Church had +secured. That is comic enough, as I explained it is still more +ridiculous in the eye of any serious student of such matters +because he knows that as long as the mass of the workers were +uneducated it was mainly left to middle-class Liberals to win the +first installments of justice for them. Even Socialist writers

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often call the middle half of the 19th Century the Age of the +Benevolent Bourgeois. Irony apart, not only were great Socialist +pioneers like Marx, Engels, and Lasalle, middle-class men but there +is a very honorable list of Liberals in the fight -- the fight +against the Conservatives and the Churches -- to liberate the +workers from their medieval bondage. In England for instance, it +was middle-class Liberals like Owen, Place, Bentham, Brougham, etc. +-- who won education, shorter hours, and less ghastly working +conditions for them.

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It was the rise of Socialism and the threat to private +enterprise which caused the Liberals to raise the cry (as +shibboleth) that we must have "evolution not revolution" and +propose reform by installments. In other words, they invented the +program of moderate industrial reforms -- a living wage, shorter +hours, factory and workshop inspection, weekly rest and occasional +holidays, etc. -- which the Christian Socialists took over. What is +more amusing is that it was just this program which the Pope took +over from the Liberals, whom he heavily censured for their +wickedness to the workers, in 1891. The three points of his Charter +were commonplaces of Liberal literature by that time, and the +better Liberals had got beyond them and were demanding or favoring +schemes of insurance, pensions, and so on.

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But the ignorance of the literature of the subject displayed +in these Papal Encyclicals is well known to students of these +matters. What is of more interest here is that American Catholic +apologists are still substantially in the stage of Leo XIII and +still quote his encyclical as a grand revolutionary utterance. The +whole "social welfare" movement of the American Papal Church has +the same aim as Leo had, to distract men from Socialism or to keep +up the working-class membership of the Church, and, though some of +its writers go farther than others, if there is anything like an +agreed body of teaching endorsed by the bishops it certainly does +not go beyond advanced Liberalism. It is now quite common for +writers who are Liberals even in the political sense to say that +the age of Lassez-faire is over and the state must interfere in the +interest of the workers, but Popes and American Catholic writers on +social questions talk as if they had not noticed the developments +of the last quarter of a century.

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The broad plea of the apologists, when they are confronting +the workers and not preaching to their richer congregations, is +that the Church in its wisdom has established the truth midway, +between Liberalism and Socialism. I need not speak here of +Coughlin, who does not represent the Church and will be disowned +whenever it becomes expedient. The general position is that +Liberalism does not go far enough while Socialism goes too far. It +enhances the comic aspect of the situation if you examine the +grounds on which they oppose Socialism. With a dry medieval +pedantry that must equally amuse the professor of ethics and the +professor of economics they prove by elaborate arguments that the +right of private ownership is asserted by "natural moral law," of +which God is the author, so Socialists who deny it are sinful or +immoral. It is like chewing sawdust and has as much relation to the +actual problems of life as have arguments for a flat earth. You +would hardly expect verbal camouflage of this sort to hide even +from a sophomore the fact that Rome really hates Socialism because

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freethinking generally accompanies it and because the use of the +Church's international machinery to check the growth of Socialism +keeps it in alliance with the rich, the privileged and the +powerful. The Catholic position never was between Liberalism and +Socialism, but Rome found it expedient to let bodies of Catholics +take up a position between Liberalism and complete reaction.

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The irony is now complete. The Church swings back to reaction +under the impression that it is going to recover world-power and +leaves the American apologists looking very foolish as they still +chant the praises of the Papal Charters of Labor. It was possible +to conceal from the public the way in which Leo XIII emphatically +withdrew his Charter of the Rights of the Workers. This was done in +a letter to the bishops and priests of Italy, and the foreign +press, which had been enthusiastic about Leo's "revolutionary" +utterance in 1891, would offend Catholics if it noticed the +retraction of 1902. The same attempt was made to keep the American +(and British) public unaware of the really revolutionary encyclical +of 1931, in which Catholic workers are told that they must join +syndicates or corporations which are overshadowed by corporations +of the employers and drastically subject to the state, which will +not permit strikes. I have read French and German translations of +this encyclical but found none in English, though the very idea of +an encyclical is that it is addressed to all nations and must be +translated into all their languages.

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The wheel has turned full circle. For fourteen centuries the +Church was on the side of the masters and had nothing to say about +the pitiful condition of the workers. Owing to the victory of +reaction over the French Revolution this lasted until the middle of +the 19th Century. Some of the Churches then began to propose half-measures to conciliate the workers, but the Church of Rome was the +last to patronize even these half measures. At the end of the last +century, however, the Vatican began to wonder whether the +emancipation of the workers was not, like democracy, likely to be +permanent and it began to trim in such countries as it thought this +profitable. The monstrous progress of reaction and decay of +idealism in the last ten years have given it courage and it boldly +enjoins the Catholic world to run up the pirate-flag of the Fascist +state. One Catholic country after another obeys, but in America the +slick apologists conceal the Papal orders and continue to drone +that the Roman Church is, and always was, the angel with a flaming +sword that keeps the greedy and the exploiter out of their medieval +paradise.

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Chapter V

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THE CHURCHES AND RACIAL INJUSTICE

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Some day the students of the sociology-class will puzzle over +this controversy of our time as to who helped or who did not help +workers. They will read that before the end of the 19th Century +manhood suffrage or complete democracy was established nearly +everywhere, and that the workers were something like four-fifths of +the adult voting males. Why need anybody help them? You know the +answer. Broadly, they helped themselves. The great advance of +social and labor legislation, of municipal services, etc., from

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1890 onward was due to their pressure. What Leo XIII said had no +more influence on the development than Emerson's essays and less +than Maeterlinck's essays. It was not until the Popes returned to +reaction that they had a real influence on contemporary life.

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The conception of the Pope as a beneficent and highly +effective moral power protecting "be weak from injustice is on a +level with the medieval myth of the knight-errant. I have read +large numbers of medieval chronicles and never came across the +figure of a knight-errant, a knight who even occasionally set out +from the castle to rescue the distressed and smite the cartiff. +Naturally it would be a left-handed compliment to their religion if +we had to say that one in a hundred of them did this, but all real +authorities on the Middle Ages seem to have found, like myself, +that the figure is a sheer myth largely founded on the silly +Spanish fiction, which Cervantes caricatures in Don Quixote. As +Prof. Medley says in Traills' Social England, if a knight met a +maid unprotected on the road he raped her; and I differ from the +learned professor only in this that according to all the leading +authorities on woman in the Middle Ages she is not likely to have +waited to be raped. In fact, if I were malicious I would press +further the parallel of the knight errant and the Pope. According +to all the historians of the time the knight spent his days roaming +the land, not to give help, but to acquire wealth in such ways. ... +But I will not be tempted to any unkind things of the Church to +which I once belonged and, stodgy as the work may be, let us return +to the statement of facts.

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And just to complete the record we may glance at other victims +of medieval oppression and exploitation who, being minorities, +really needed a champion after the workers had become strong. This +should not apply to women seeing that they are half the adult-race, +but it does; and they had the greater claim on the assistance of +the Roman Church from the fact that they have been through all the +modern age of increasing skepticism more loyal and more generous to +the priests than the men. It would seem too big a subject to engage +upon at the tall-end of a booklet but we, may simplify it. A +chapter in my How Freethinkers made Notable Contributions to +Civilization sketches the fight against injustice to woman, which +mean's far more than the refusal of political rights, and shows +that in America the leaders -- F. D'Arusmont, L. Mott, the Grimkes, +A. Kelly, L. Coleman, M.J. Gage, L.M. Child. E. Rose, H. Gardener, +C.C. Stanton, and S.B. Anthony were for the most part Deists (in +the early stage) or Atheists, and that in any case there was not a +Catholic amongst them. Priests jeered at their crusade. It was the +same in England and Europe generally. I enlisted in the fight, +lecturing and writing for the women, about 1900, and in the whole +20 years never heard of a priest or even a prominent Catholic woman +who helped. Once, near the end I was invited to address in London +the Irish (presumably Catholic) Women's Suffrage Society. I got no +audience and was told that anyway it would not have meant more than +half a dozen Catholic girls. I trust I am not misinformed but I was +told that the one nominally Catholic woman in the movement, Mrs. +Despard, had left the Church.

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Let us try the Jews. I read lately that there is a sort of +circus-group going about America consisting of a Catholic priest, +a Protestant minister, and a Jewish rabbi telling from a common +platform how Christian's and Jews love each other. Adversity has +made stranger bedfellows than this holy trinity. It is just a sign +of a wintry age, for Churches. Jews, like the workers, have had to +fight themselves for emancipation from the Christian tyranny and +exploitation which lasted from the Dark Age to our own time, and +which the Pope's allies are restoring. There is a persistent +statement in Catholic literature that the knights-errant of the +Vatican always protected the Jews. From whom? Certainly not from +the Moslem, who were most friendly with them, and not, until this +perversity of human nature which we call Nazism began from the +modern skeptical states in which some Jews have grown rich and +powerful. I looked up the learned Catholic Encyclopedia and In +support of this statement of the apologists it quoted five Popes. +Look up what the Jews have to say about those five "champions" of +their race in Graetz's standard 'History of the Jews.' He shows +that four of the five made great financial profit out of the Jews +and the fifth was harsh and cruel to them but protested against the +infamous popular massacres of them.

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I have a long essay on Anti-Semitism in Christian times in No. +2 of 'The Appeal to Reason Library.' To sum it in a few lines, the +Jews were from the 5th to the 11th Century despised and badly +treated in Christian countries as the murderers of Christ, while in +Arab Spain, Sicily, and Persia they had complete freedom, except +when fanatics got power, and made equal contribution with the Arabs +to the culture and prosperity of the great civilization. From 1100 +to 1500 they suffered such savage treatment in Christian countries +that the number of victims of massacres is estimated to exceed a +million. The great oracle of the Middle Ages, the Thomas Aquinas +who is now said to have been so modern in sentiment -- we will +consider that in the next book -- instructed, a Christian princess +that they were the "slaves" of Christians and it was not unjust to +seize their wealth. The Reformation brought some improvement, but +it was the growing skepticism of countries like England, Holland, +and France that inspired a more humane attitude. In short the +Church of Rome had idly contemplated a monstrous cruel racial +injustice for 1400 years and has never given a clear moral lead to +its followers, as is amply proved by the birth of modern Anti-Semitism in Catholic Austria and the recurrence of pogroms in other +Catholic countries. It has been said in reference, to the collapse +of civilization in the Dark Age: "The Popes finished what the Huns +had begun." We may say of the sufferings of the Jews in the last +ten years: The Huns finished what the Popes began.

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Finally, there is the question of the colored folk in America. +We have here a problem the solution of which requires a delicate +balance of social sagacity and moral sentiment. When, during the +fifty years that the Roman Church in America has claimed to be a +moral power that could contribute materially, in fact uniquely, to +the national guidance have its leaders made a clear and categorical +pronouncement on the Negro question, on which whole libraries were +written? Dubois and, other spokesmen of the colored Americans have +declared that Catholics are amongst the most stubborn of their +opponents. We may surely at least say that Catholics as a body,

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clerical and lay, have shown and show no superior moral and +humanitarian feeling to others. They have insisted on the removal +of the colored folk from contact with them, often even in church, +just like others.

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The problem of the colored population in the United States is +notoriously the sequel to one of the most monstrous racial crimes +of modern times. In that crime England came to take as active a +part as Catholic countries, but it is just to take into account the +fact that it was drawn in by the vast profit which Spain and +Portugal, the originators of the traffic in African flesh and +blood, derived from it. This brought the question of black slavery +well within the sphere of Rome's moral jurisdiction and kept it +there even after Britain and America had emancipated the slaves. +Where will you find the luminous wisdom, the austere and +uncompromising idealism, of the Papacy on that subject? It emerges +clearly from all the controversy on the subject that the crime had +two ecclesiastical roots apart from the greed of Spanish and +Portuguese traders. The clergy decided that since the conversion of +the Amer-indian's was checked by the imposition of forced labor it +was expedient (for the good of the Church) to employ Africans, and +that the cruelty and misery which this involved for the Africans +was compensated by the fact that it brought them into the Church +outside of which -- as the Church then taught -- there was no +salvation.

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A point which is never made in the endless controversy on this +subject -- at least I have never found it mentioned except by the +Rev. Dr. Agate in the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics -- is +that slavery was the more easily imposed upon the Africans because +the Church had never condemned it. Most writers on the subject +imagine a long interval between what they call ancient slavery and, +the beginning of the African slave-trade; some, in fact many, +suppose that, through the efforts of the Church of Rome, slavery +had died with the pagan Romans. There was, on the contrary, as Dr. +Agate shows, a continuous traffic in slaves. It was one of the +chief industries, in the west of England (in Irish slaves) in the +10th Century, and it flourished in north Italy until the middle of +the 15th Century, when the Turks destroyed the commerce of the +Venetians and the Genoese. The heirs of these, the Spanish and +Portuguese, merely transferred the traffic to the Atlantic. No +Papal or theological pronouncement forbade them. Thomas Aquinas +had, like Augustine, put the seal of Catholic scholarship upon it.

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As to the abolition of the traffic we never find the Roman +Church mentioned amongst the claimants of merit. It was not even a +moral problem in Catholic lands until the French revolutionaries, +whom the Pope anathematized, condemned it in their colonies. The +moral guide of the universe failed to see what a Protestant +apologist has called "the blackest crime of modern times." It was +only in the light of a skeptical age that the Popes realized that +the brotherhood of man implied that all men, white, black, and +yellow, Are brothers and had a right to freedom and a decent life.

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We might extend this inquiry over other fields. When did Rome +condemn that cruel and stultifying employment of children which +continued through Catholic ages and survives in full horror in +Catholic countries? Why is there not a word of rebuke of it in the

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wonderful Charters of the Rights of Labor? The people of half of +Europe are virtually enslaved to Germany today, the whips of the +Gestapo replacing the whips of the ancient galley-slave overseers. +What has Rome said about it? Japan astonishes the world by the +savagery of its treatment of the helpless, and the Vatican enters +into closer diplomatic relations with it. But we will be content to +have made one point clear. The Vatican has never helped the workers +because its natural alliance is with the exploiters of the workers. +Its apologists plead that it must look always to "the good of the +Church." Yes, just as the managers of a corporation assign as the +first principle of all employers to work for the good of the firm +-- for its advancement in wealth and power. So it has always been; +and if the line of Papal policy has shown some strange deviations +and meanderings in the last 50 years the cause is quite clearly +seen in the development of contemporary life. For the moment it is +back on the straight line. The corporative state makes and works a +serf under the feudal tyranny of masters and pastors.

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THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 15

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THE CHURCH DEFIES MODERN LIFE

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ONE SOUND CATHOLIC BOAST - WE NEVER CHANGE

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by Joseph McCabe

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HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS +GIRARD -- : -- KANSAS

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CHAPTER +I The Hell-Ethic and Modern Psychology ........... 1

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II Orimitive Superstitions About Sex ........ 7

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III Saints and Other Holy Men ......... 13

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IV Why Priests Do Not Marry .......... 19

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V Melodrama About the World, the Flesh, and the Devil.. 24

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Chapter I

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THE HELL-ETHIC AND MODERN PSYCHOLOGY

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It is not long since we were all laughing at a crazy film +titled "Hellzapoppin." Probably the most sedate amongst us really +enjoyed the overture -- or ought we to call it the Sacred Prelude? +-- giving us an up-to-date picture of the hectic life in the +underworld. My mind, when I saw it, recalled a little old 14th-century church in a rural part of England where one can still see +on the wall, in a remarkable state of preservation, an immense +fresco of life on the earth and beneath it which pious hands had +painted on it nearly 600 years ago; and believe me, Hollywood might +have taken the lower part of the fresco as the model for the +prelude to "Hellzapoppin." But if you had smiled at the picture in +the 14th Century, as we do today, you would have been dispatched to +your destination prematurely.

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No other equal stretch of human history has seen such +revolutionary changes as the last 600 years. From the cross-bow to +the machine-gun and the aerial torpedo: from the galleon to the +latest battleship with 16-inch guns: from daubs on the wall, lit by

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tallow-candles, to superb talking picture's in technicolor: from +villages to cities of 8000000 folk with 50-story buildings: from +crabbed manuscripts to princely free libraries and news flashed +from continent to continent in the time it takes you to cross a +street. ... But the richest and most powerful Church in America +still gathers folk, in dazzling New York or nerve-racking Chicago +or aristocratic Washington, to hear the preacher tell about the +legions of devils that hunger for their souls and the vast lakes of +fire underground into which they may slip at any moment.

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Come, Mr. McCabe, some of you will say, it is nearly half a +century since you left the Church of Rome and in that swift-moving +half-century it has doubtless changed considerably. If you think +so, ask a child from a Catholic school, any school, whether or no +they still teach it that it walks through life with an invisible +"guardian angel" on its right side and an invisible devil with a +quite peculiar rage to lead it astray on the other: whether they do +not teach it, as a living dogma of its religion, that the boy of +eight who has called another by one of the lurid names they so +easily pick up, or the pretty golden-haired girl of eight who has +permitted one of those little liberties that children do, will not, +if killed in a street-accident on the way home, go to a hell of +eternal fire and torturing devils. Open a Catholic hymn-book and +see how these Catholic folk with whom you drink beer and crack +jokes still sing on Sundays -- and very lustily -- how "hell is +raging for my soul" and dab themselves with holy water to keep the +devils away. Read any book you like about Catholic doctrine today, +and you will find that the dogma of eternal torment, to which all +over the age of seven are liable, is as binding as it was in days +of the Council of Trent or is in any chapel in Kentucky or Georgia, +and that the belief in devils -- swarms of them -- is as fresh and +childlike as it was in ancient Babylon in the days of Hammurabi +4000 years ago.

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Naturally a preacher in one of those city-churches to which +the artists and literary men, who lend their names to the Church, +go, knows which dogmas to emphasize and which to keep in the +shadow, but let him or one of his artistic followers put in print +that Rome has abandoned the doctrines of hell and out he will go on +his neck. During my final years in the Church, in the last decade +of the last century, we took great pride in the fact that one +fairly well known British scientist, Prof. St. George Mivart, was +"one of us." When I quit the Church he sought me and, for his own +intellectual credit, be said, told me how he despised the most +fundamental dogmas and promised me that he would speak out. He +opened with an article in which he rejected the dogma of hell. And +he was at once excommunicated and was driven to death by the fury +of the Black International that erupted; though my professor of +theology, father D. Fleming, one of the most learned priests in +London, and my professor of philosophy, Msgr. (later Cardinal) +Mercier, had told me and him that they agreed with him.

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If any one of those few professors of science who today call +themselves Catholics dared similarly to repudiate the belief in an +eternal hell in a published writing he would have the same +experience. I have just been reading an American Catholic work, 'A +Call to Catholic Action,' in which a score of priest's who are at

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the head of the modern movement in the Church give two volumes of +up-to-date advice to the laity, especially to those who are urging +their faith upon the notice of America. What is their bugle-call? +Or what is the fight to which they call the laity? They tell us +that it is primarily "a fight against Satan, the world, and the +flesh." That takes you back inexorably to the drowsy atmosphere of +that little 14th-century church in the heart of rural Britain. Nay, +if you know social history, it takes you back to the dark-skinned +curly-locked folk in long woolen tunics who confessed their sin's +to the priests and sought to dodge the innumerable devils in the +courtyard round the pyramid-temple of Marduk in ancient Babylon.

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I wish a few folk at Hollywood would read some of the essays +or sermons in this 'Call to Catholic Action.' They are cursing -- +and half America curses with them -- the servility which they have +to show to a Catholic censor: a gentleman who acts in the interest +of his Church but assures them that it is only because "the public +does not really want this kind of thing, you know." Yet here are +the leaders of Catholic Action warning their followers that the +American movies are the chief agency of the devil. Here is a +celibate (we hope) monk with the sound American name of Father +Schmiedeler who describes what a hell city life is in America. It +appears that the good monk thinks that life in small towns and +villages is more virtuous. ... Anyhow here is his description of +the city:

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As matters stand at present even the most, shielded, the +best of homes, can hardly expect to escape the contaminating +ting even into the innermost recesses of the family sanctuary, +influence of the moral contagion that surrounds them. By means +of the press and radio, the movie-hall and the dance-hall, the +lecture-room, and platform, our communities are being infested +with a poison of immorality that is gradually penetrating all.

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Of all these devices of Satan the movies, he says, are "the +worst offenders," and there has been "a growing stench for the past +several decades" from them. The monk seems to have been more +fortunate in his choice of pictures than I have been, for it is a +very long time since I saw films that correspond to his description +of, presumably, what he saw.

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This particular campaign of the Black International inspires +many reflections, and I will enlarge on two of them in this +chapter. The first is that many will ask me whether the clergy and +spinsters of other Churches are not in this respect as bad as the +clergy-spinsters of the Church of Rome. On the face of it, yes, and +we must not forget this. But there are material differences. The +Baptists claim to number 8000000, the Catholics 20000000. The +Baptists are thickest in Texas, Georgia, North and South Carolina, +Alabama, and Virginia: the Catholics in New York, Pennsylvania, +Massachusetts, Illinois, and New Jersey, half the total body being +in these five states. Baptists may bully authorities in Dayton but +not in Boston, Chicago, New York, Detroit, Washington, Baltimore, +and San Francisco.

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And this broad difference in psychology between Fundamentalist +and Catholic hellism, as we may call it, entails a very +considerable difference between the rival clerical bodies. +Skepticism amongst preachers of hell in Georgia and Alabama is +uncommon, but it is so widespread in the Papist Black International +that one may seriously doubt if one preacher in three really +believes in hell and the devil or honestly shudders at the thought +of the world and the flesh. Certainly the overwhelming majority of +the Fundamentalist preachers of hell believe that the New Testament +is the Word of God, and the Gospels and Paul very clearly teach the +dogma of eternal punishment. The Roman clergy on the other hand, no +matter what proportion of them you regard as sincere, have mainly +a professional interest in the belief. It is not only the chief +source of their power over the ignorant but one of the principal +sources of their vast profit.

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It puzzles folk when I say that relatively few Catholics fear +hell, but if you reflect on the general geniality, if not gaiety, +of a Catholic district or country (Eire, etc.) you realize that +this must be true. The Catholic system is based upon an escapist +psychology. Like the priests of ancient Egypt, who taught the +people that the journey to the garden of Osiris after death was +beset by monstrous perils and hordes of demons but they could sell +you charms for post-mortem use which defeated the devils, Catholic +priests neutralize the effect which their grim doctrine ought to +have upon the emotions by assuring the people that they have the +power to save even the most hardened sinner from the penalty. Most +Egyptologists believe that the common folk of Egypt -- nine-tenths +of the nation -- were not promised immortality, which had hitherto +been reserved for kings and nobles, until about B.C. 1400. No one +professes to find any change in the light morals of the Egyptian +workers and middle class when this idea that they had a risky +chance of an eternal bliss was extended to them, and the late Prof. +Breasted used to say this was because the post-mortem risk was +practically abolished by the priests, through their sale of charms +land spells, in the same breath in which they gave the people the +glorious promise of immortality, of which they do not seem to have +taken any serious notice.

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It is much the same in Catholic theology. For a hundred years +or more the first Christian communities were very solemn little +groups of folk who really thought a lot about sin and hell. Then +the Roman Popes, particularly the blackguardly Papal adventurer +"St." Callistus I (207-22), discovered that they could absolve from +any sin of any size or hue if you confessed it to a priest, and +Roman Christian life -- I am quoting one of them -- became more +picturesque and highly colored. Catholic censors would certainly +not permit Hollywood to screen it. The faithful did not directly +pay for absolution, but there was rich indirect payment in the fact +that, as we positively know, the membership of the Church rapidly +increased threefold or more, and there were large numbers of light-living but wealthy Roman ladies amongst the converts.

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Yet, since death does not always wait for you to summon a +priest to absolve you, hell remained rather a tough proposition in +the mind of many, and was a stumbling block to the cultured; and, +above all, it was not as profitable as one could wish. The priests

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therefore took up a theory of a few rationalizing theologians: the +theory of purgatory. These theologians, who were heretics while +they lived, felt that there must be two furnaces in the cosmic +basement: one for the more terrible sinners, such as the man who +thrashed a priest he found with his wife or the man who died +without asking the priest's ministrations, and one for lighter +offenders and those who had substantially liquidated the debt by +confession. One was eternal and in the other you burned only for a +time. How could you be sure of a ticket for Furnace No. 2 instead +of No. 1? Practically every Catholic believes that he is booked at +least for this. Here the clergy opened a vein of gold in the hard +rock of dogma. Absolution got you clear of "the fire that is never +extinguished," and they invented a dozen ways of evading or very +considerably reducing your stay in "the flames of Purgatory." And +nearly all of them -- indulgences, alms, relies, pilgrimages, etc. +-- cost money.

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That is the big difference between the Catholic hell-scheme +and the Protestant. I have nothing to do here with the question +whether one is more reasonable, or less nauseous, than the other. +I am concerned only with the psychological question of influence on +behavior and with the enormous power which the Catholic scheme +gives to the clergy. The latter point is obvious. One of the many +features -- besides chronic war, pestilence, poor and monotonous +food for nine-tenths of the people, ruthless exploitation by the +nobles, etc. -- which made life in the Age of Faith so "jolly," as +the late G.K. Chesterton used to say, was that now and again, when +a king refused to heed the crack of the ecclesiastical whip, the +Pope would put an interdict on the kingdom. Living under Nazi or +Jap invaders today is pleasant in comparison. The whole scheme of +salvation was suspended. The Pope locked up the keys of purgatory +as well as heaven in his safe, leaving the gates of hell wide open.

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However, we are here more interested in the psychological +aspect. Those finer-natured non-Catholic writers who give so much +pleasure to the clergy explain Catholic life, in the Middle Ages or +today, on Catholic theory. It must have been happy and virtuous. It +is so much easier, as well as more conducive to good will, to +explain life in that way. Unfortunately I, being cursed with a +Materialist, and Atheist creed, have to make laborious research +into facts and tell the truth; which is that life in the Middle +Ages was generally foul, is generally foul in Catholic countries +today, and in the Catholic section of American life is painfully +rich in criminals.

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The working of the hell-ethic explains this. Modern psychology +is precisely a study of conduct or behavior and in one branch it +examines the motive as shaping forces of conduct. They are all +lodged in the organism from without. You must, it is true, make +some allowance for hereditary bodily equipment. Some females have +richer glands of a certain kind in their ovaries and pituitaries. +just as they may have better stomachs or stronger hearts than +others, and these are destined by nature to be our scarlet sinners. +The Vestal Virgin type, on the other hand. ... But I will leave +that to a later chapter. The point is that Catholic conduct is +shaped by environmental influences just like any other, and this +persistent influence of the hell-and-devil motif from infancy

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onward, in school and church and Catholic literature, is morbid. +The hell-ethic never did produce nice types of character. "Saints" +are not people who were so very, very good because they feared +hell. And nowadays it is worse education than ever. The boy or girl +has been taught for year's to take it mighty seriously, and then he +or she goes to see "Hellzapoppin" and hears nine-tenths of the +audience roar with laughter. I am not very familiar with jail-circles, though have corresponded with criminals in San Quentin, +but I believe that the large Catholic population in Sing Sing or +Joliet is not conspicuously depressed by thought of hell and the +devil.

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Let no one be tempted to conclude from all this that the +Catholic Church today does not really require the same belief in +hell and the devil as a colored preacher in Georgia does. Make no +mistake about it. The Church insists on it as an Article of Faith +-- a doctrine automatically endorsed by every man who calls himself +a Catholic -- as it did in the days of Torquemada. Look up the +article on it in the most authoritative exposition of Catholic +teaching, the 'Catholic Encyclopedia.' The article "Hell" is +written by a Dutch Jesuit -- did no American priest care to have +the honor? -- and is meticulously accurate.

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Hell as a place of eternal torment is, he says, a fundamental +Catholic doctrine. It is "a definite place, but where it is we do +not know." The learned professor agrees with "theologians +generally" that it is "really within the earth." This preposterous +rubbish was written and printed in the most costly enterprise of +the American Church in the year 1910 when physicists had come to +fairly definite conclusions about the colossal concentration of +metal in the center of the earth. However, I hasten to add, in case +you are thinking of becoming a Catholic, that the Church does not +dogmatically say where hell is, merely that it is a place, not a +state or a figure of speech. So far, says the Jesuit in this +princely publication of the American Church, the doctrine of hell, +leaving out for the moment the question of its eternity and apart, +of course, from these disreputable Atheists, "has never yet [19101 +met any opposition worthy of mention." Yes, I assure you I cleaned +my glasses specially to read it again. Dean Farrer, the greatest +preacher of the Church of England, denied it in the pulpit of St. +Paul's Cathedral in 1878, and the rejection has spread so far in +his Church and the sister Church in America that at the Lambert +Conference of 1930 the combined British and American bishops +virtually cut it out of the catechism. We will say nothing about +the Unitarians, Congregationalists, and a large part of the +Methodists. Not worth mentioning -- by a Catholic writing for +Catholics.

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This dogma, that men are punished in some place after death, +can, says our authoritative guide, "be demonstrated by the light of +pure reason." You will have to read the lengthy proofs yourself. I +am a man of delicate stomach. That the punishment is eternal is an +obligatory dogma, but this also can be defended by pure reason, or +by Catholic logic, which is the only perfect logic in the modern +world. But that the instrument of torture is material fire is not +an Article of Faith. It is merely the teaching of "the greater +number of theologians." It is also the conviction of the writer of

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the article, and since he was selected by the editor of the work as +more authoritative than any American priest could be, it is the +version of Catholic doctrine recommended to America by this most +costly enterprise of the hierarchy. The great and so modern Thomas +Aquinas showed long ago, the Jesuit reminds us, that the Catholic +need not feel any difficulty at all about how a material fire can +burn pure (disembodied) spirits. With God all things are possible. +... No, I am not being flippant, That is the, argument. But the +Church, you may be relieved to know, has never dogmatically +declared that the form of torture is fire. Those choice bits of the +missionary preacher on hell are just illustrations of what "the +greater numbers of theologians" teach.

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I still remember one such gem; and it is not a reminiscence of +boyhood. but part of an address to the monks of my monastery -- I +was then about 26 and a professor -- delivered with great solemnity +by the learned Fr. David Fleming who, he later let me know, did not +believe in hell. The burning, he said, was so intense that if there +were a ladder of infinite length reaching up from the pit and every +rung was a razor but there was a cup-full of water at the top the +damned would jostle each other in their eagerness to mount it. The +Catholic is not compelled to believe in the fire but "he is +compelled to believe that these disembodied souls or "pure spirits" +are punished for all eternity by some variety of "sensory torture" +(paena memus). So if you prefer to think of a combination of +intense thirst, toothache. sciatica, racks, thumbscrews, etc., +instead of fire, go to it. The Chinese have nothing on theme Roman +interpreters of what they call "God's holy purposes." Historians +give as the choicest piece of cruelty in one of the most cruel +periods of civilized history -- in Papal Italy during the "best" +part of the later Middle Ages -- that two nobles invented a system +of torture which crowded the maximum possible of pain in forty days +(in honor of Lent) without killing the patient. Only forty days! +The theologian spine it out to eternity.

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Chapter II

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PRIMITIVE SUPERSTITION ABOUT SEX

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I am devoting a later book in this series to a candid +examination of what the Catholic, under priestly hypnotism, calls +"our Holy Faith" and believes to be so unique and beautiful a body +of doctrine that his Church is fully entitled to boast of being +"intolerant" and to claim the right to burn apostates. I had, +however, to glance at this exquisite specimen of the Holy Faith as +a basis for the present booklet. Let me complete it by glancing at +another doctrine, and we will better understand the Church's +attitude to the world.

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The escape from this unpleasant region in the center of the +globe is technically called "salvation" and the failure to escape +it "damnation"; and from the respect with which the latter word is +always breathed by your neighbors you will gather how the horrid +possibility weighs upon the mind of the race. Now it is a very +trite expression of Catholic literature that the Church is "the Ark +of Salvation" -- an allusion, of course, to the ancient Sumerian +folk-story of the Ut-Napishtim and the Deluge -- and the question

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is often discussed whether Catholics hold that "outside the Church +there is no salvation." I am not going to be dragged aside on every +page to discuss the beauty or, as you prefer, the puerility of +these doctrines. We are concerned here with the power they give to +the Black International and their influence in the general Catholic +attitude.

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In the Calvert Handbook which, you will remember, is sponsored +by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and other high academic authorities, +this is the theme of the first article, and it is one of the most +dishonest of the bunch. The Church, it insists, certainly does not +say that outside of it there is no salvation. In proof of this the +writer quotes the muddle-headed Plus IX (no reference given, but +clearly over 70 years ago) saying solemnly:

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We must all hold as certain that ignorance of the true +religion when it is invincible, excuses from all fault in the +sight of the Lord.

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Marvelous. In plain English, if any person never heard of the +Catholic Church or its teaching the Lord will not damn him for not +being a Catholic. The writer's ingenious twist of this into a +statement that it covers Protestants who know the Church well and +loathe it need not be examined. Turn to the more authoritative +Catholic Encyclopedia, and you will find that the spokesman +selected to tell America what the Church really holds, not an +anonymous journalist but the Rev. Prof. Pohle (article +"Toleration"), not only admits that it is sound Catholic doctrine +that "outside the Church there is no salvation" but proves the +justice of it with all the rigor of ideal Catholic logic. Here I +had better give the full passage:

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If by conceding a convenient right of option or a falsely +understood freedom of faith she [the Church] were to leave +everyone at liberty to accept or reject her dogmas, her +constitution, and her sacraments, as the existing differences +of religions compel the modern State to do, she would not only +fail in her divine mission but would end her life in voluntary +suicide. As the true God can tolerate no strange gods, the +true Church of Christ can tolerate no strange Churches beside +herself. ... A strictly logical consequence of this +incontestably fundamental idea is the ecclesiastical dogma, +that outside the Church there is no salvation ... this +proposition is necessarily and indissolubly connected with the +above-mentioned principle of the exclusive legitimacy of truth +and with the whole ethical commandment of love for the truth +(XIV, 766).

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Then are all the rest of the world apart from the 180000000 +Catholics damned? Bless you, the Church does not say anything so +horrid; he adds, you see, the Church does not damn anybody. That is +God's business. How is that for logic?

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It is this kind of logic that gives the Black International +all its arrogance and intolerance and the faithful their weird +belief that their faith is uniquely holy and beautiful. It is this +that explains their melodramatic defiance of the modern world. I

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am, you will remember, in this second series of booklets explaining +that the Church of Rome is, contrary to what its apologists +commonly say in America, of such a nature that it inevitably +grasped at the invitation to ally itself with Germany, Italy, and +Japan. Some very ingenious pages, in the style of your literary +oracles, could be written on the psychological affinity of the +Black International and the Axis. Men who, in the name of the +Almighty, preach weekly that he and they calmly contemplate about +a million mortals a week passing into the eternal fires (or other +torments) would not worry as much as the rest of us if their high +aims had to be attained by a little temporary suffering like that +of the British in Singapore or the Poles in Warsaw. However I am +not a literary man and prefer to tell the truth, which is that +heaven knows how few of the priests really believe in hell.

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And in this it defies the modern world as flatly as it defies +modern thought and sentiment with its crude medieval dogmas. It +does not talk much about the devil except in the Catholic school +and church. Outsiders are apt to be so rude as to laugh. But the +world and the flesh! My word, we are a wicked lot. Some of the +sermons in that 'Call to Catholic Action' from which I quoted make +me feel quite uncomfortable. I roam in thought over this metropolis +of 8000000 folk which I know pretty intimately, since I have +lived and wandered in all sorts of odd corners of it for 60 years, +and I feel that I must be more myopic than I thought. I have not +seen a drunken man or a fight (such as you see daily in Catholic +Eire) for years and have very rarely seen any approach to the +indecency that was a joke on the streets in the Ages of Faith.

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To be brief and practical, behind all this sulfurated hydrogen +emitted by the clergy is their professional preoccupation with sex. +We shall see presently why I say "professional" and how incongruous +it is in a body of religious ministers which is, taking one country +with another, the most "immoral" in the world. Let us first +consider it in itself: which is not as easy as at first sight you +might imagine.

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The priests exhort their followers to marry early and beget as +many children as they possibly can. No holds barred. In America +they have to say this holds good even if you (if not a Catholic) +got your license from a civic official instead of a priest. In +Scotland it applies if two young folk have married without priest +or registrar. They dare not say in America that it does not apply +if men or women were divorced and married again. What if it was a +Reno divorce? A Yucatan divorce? The dividing line wavers and grows +thin. Yet if you are the wrong side of that line you get poured +upon you the dregs of the moralist's dictionary. He thinks public +corruption regrettable and the exploitation of the helpless poor +just too bad; but a sex-act on the wrong side of the line is foul, +obscene, swinish, loathsome, revolting, etc., etc. The novelist who +speaks lightly of it has a mind like a sewer, a cesspool, or a sty. +Those pictures in which you see the dainty, fascinating, glamorous +ladies of Hollywood, who seem to bring a current of fresh air into +your jaded mind once or twice a week, really (Father Schmiedeler +assures you) exhale a "growing stench."

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And it is not a question of a snare subtly set here and there +by the invisible devils. Modern American literature and art are one +comprehensive conspiracy to bring upon a poor Catholic girl the +fate that is worse than death. In this 'Call to Catholic Action' +one writer who is styled "His Excellency the Most Rev. Joseph +Schrembs" -- he must be very important but I do not know why -- +says apropos of films, that the Church found itself "confronted +with a gigantic industry that was disseminating the doctrines of +pagan morality." He hints that he and others marshalled the pure +maids of his Church in a Legion of Decency and they used their box-office power to change all that, but on another page of the same +book Fr. Schmiedeler says that the "stench" increases year by year. +Another priest similarly describes practically the whole of +American fiction.

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By the way, I had overlooked this precious piece of Catholic +literature when (in No. 13) I described the cultural poverty of the +Church in America. The Jesuit Daly here admits and explains it. He +says that "the cultured world is not a fertile ground for Catholic +seed," and the reason is "its immorality." That is not ingenious. +It's tripe. Whatever you think of the morals of cultured folk the +reason why Catholicism, with its hell and devils, stinks in their +nostrils is because they are cultured. However, the next writer in +this important Catholic book relieves the gloom. There has been a +great Catholic literary revival in the last ten years. As its +greatest writers he names C. Dawson, C. Hollis, Fr. Darcy, Fr. R. +Knox, K. Adam, J. Maritain, and Sigrid Undset! Apparently he still +could not find one, even on his liberal scale, in America. He had +to sweep all Europe to get these seven second -- or third-raters +together.

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What occurs to one at once on reading these interminable +Catholic dirges is that the Church does really seem to be up +against the world. If American art and literature are so +demoralizing although this wealthy and powerful clerical +organization has been fighting them for more than ten years, what +would they be if there had not been this check on them? Do they or +do they not reflect American life and sentiment? But let us be +serious. Artists give America what it wants -- what the +overwhelming majority of people want. Suspend your League of +Decency and Holy Family and all the other censorships for five +years and see how the public like a freer art and literature.

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In other words, it is a tyranny of a small minority, for even +the great majority of Catholics would still, if they were not +bullied, flock to the cinema if it were just left to ordinary +police-regulation and the recognized civil law. And it is self-interested tyranny. As I write, Laval is announced to have taken +over power in France from the senile Petain, the man who pledged +his honor that he would never surrender, and he gathers a group of +traitors to France about him. The Press froths with indignation and +vituperation of Laval in particular. But no paper ever mentions +that Laval is a fanatical supporter of the Church and the whole +malodorous group of traitors are Catholics. None of our foreign +correspondents notices that the Black International, which is so +portentously serious about the stretch of leg an actress may show +on the screen, has from the start discreetly protected and is even +very silent about this poisonous swamp of corruption and real

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foulness in France. It would not pay the Church to attack a +foulness that brings suffering upon tens of millions and seems to +all free men diabolical; but it does pay to attack leg-shows and +strip-teasers.

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However, I am always for the kindly and charitable view when +it is possible, so let us suppose that the whole Black +International in America is profoundly sincere when it says that it +finds the sight of that charming little actress -- -- in her undies +on the screen a far more terrible thing than the treachery of +Vichy, the shooting of "hostages," or the systematic raping of +women everywhere by Japanese soldiers and officers. Surely it would +follow only that the clergy must have a moral standard that defies +modern civilization. You may even cut out the comparison and regard +in itself this professed horror of bare legs and jokes about sex. +It is, as the Catholic language about the world and the flesh +implies, a defiance of our age, an insult alike to our intelligence +and our social idealism. It is, when it is sincere, just as much an +outcome of ignorance as is a child's fear of a dragon-fly or an old +colored woman's fear of "haunts."

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There are two main roots of the anti-sex attitude, and both +thrive only on ignorance. The Catholic is, like the Protestant, +bound to appeal to the bible, but the modern mind wants to know how +it got into the bible. It is a fundamental idea of the Pauline +Epistles rather than the Gospels. Indeed, it is, comparatively to +other moral ideas, so infrequently stressed in the Gospels that in +recent year's certain Christian ministers have publicly claimed +that Jesus taught no obligation of chastity. That is, in the mouth +of one who sees a biographical value in the Gospels, an +exaggeration. In fact if we regard Jesus as an Essenian monk who +became convinced that the end of the world was near and went about +warning folk, it is inevitable that he should include chastity +among the major virtues, because the Essenians had, and they had +had the sentiment for more than a century before the beginning of +the present era, so great an aversion to sex that they never +married.

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In any case this dark view of sex was widely spread in the +ancient world before it appeared in the early Christian documents. +Many of my readers will know that I have in earlier works (History +of Morals, etc.) made extensive research into the development of +the feeling and shown that, as is not disputed, it was embodied in +religion's in ancient Egypt (Serapeans, Isisites, etc.), Syria and +Judaea (Essenians, Therapeuts), Babylonia (Esmun, Ishtar), Persia +(Zarathustra), Asia Minor (Diana of Ephesus), and Greece +(Pythagoras, Plato, etc.) centuries before the beginning of the +Christian Era. This vast region had earlier been the great area of +the cult of the Mother-Earth goddess which was intensely phallic +and conducive to what the puritan calls orgies of vice. Upon this +phallic cult broke a religion which represented God as the creator +of light, spirit, and purity (or cleanliness) and therefore +ascribed darkness, matter (the flesh), and the sexual life to a +great evil and tempter of men. As far as we know at present this +antithesis of creative God and creative devil of spirit and flesh,

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first appeared amongst the Persian and cognate tribes on the hills +overlooking Mesopotamia, and the influence of this Zorastrian +religion on the whole area (Egypt, Judaea, Greece, etc.) when the +Persians conquered it is not disputed.

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We need not, therefore, go further back and ask what +superstitions of life below the level of civilization -- for +instance, the idea, not uncommon at this level, that there is +something "unclean" as taboo about a woman on account of her +menstruation, etc. -- were gathered up in the Persian theory. It is +enough that the entire world of theologians, philosophers and +moralists as well as ordinary folks now rejects this notion that an +evil spirit created the flesh. And we certainly need not examine +the way in which the early Fathers, maintaining against the Persian +heretics that God had created all things, interpreted an old +Babylonian story which the Jews had inserted in Geneses to mean +that God had made even the flesh pure (in some mysterious sense) +and put a curse on sex only when "man ate the forbidden fruit!"

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So the chief reason why Jesus and Paul, like so many +philosophers (Pythagorean's, Stoics of the religious wing, +Platonists, etc.) and theologies (Essenian, Serapean, Mithranist, +Manichaen, etc.) of the time came to frown upon sex, as a necessary +evil from which the superior person would shrink, is quite +worthless. The second reason, which is rather a pretext invented by +modern theologians and moralists, to cover the weakness of the +original source is just as worthless. It is the socio-historical +argument that sexual license .has led, through enervation, to the, +fall of great civilization's in the past and therefore a religion +which cheeks and combats "vice" is a most valuable auxiliary of the +State. I have elsewhere shown that this is entirely false. No +responsible modern historian tracing the fall of Egypt, Babylon, +Athens, or Rome gives any color to that rhetorical claim. Rome, for +instance, was much more "virtuous" in the 4th Century, just before +its fall, than in the last century of the old era, when it was +entering upon its greatest phase.

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The rottenness of these roots of the old anti-sex attitude is +now so widely recognized that the non-Christian moralists of the +19th Century, who dreaded the argument of the apologist that they +could not sustain the virtue of chastity, fell back upon "the moral +sense" or a man's intuition of natural law. Many moralists are +still in this stage, and "the common moral sense of mankind" is a +pleasant mouthful for the political orator and the editorial +writer. Modern psychology is a science with many conflicting +schools but in none of them is a "moral sense" included in our +mental equipment, and all but a few lingering mystics reject the +very idea of intuition. All men's ideas and attitudes are built-in, +and most professors of the science of ethics today explain moral +ideas on these lines. The only moral law is a law or ideal of +conduct based upon the requirements of social welfare and progress, +and therefore most of the things which the Catholic preacher +denounces as supremely immoral do not come under the moral law at +all.

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I have had here to confine myself to two or three paragraphs +on a vast subject on which I have written volumes, but it will +give a sufficient idea of the ground on which we stand when we say +that this Catholic rhetoric about the world and the flesh is an +appeal to the ignorant, an insolent libel, a chorus of dervishes +which might be amusing if political interests did not give them so +much power. Greater freedom in thinking and speaking about sex +means a new strength, not a new weakness. We have done with the +amiable hypocrisies of our predecessors, whose shows blushed one +night over the fate that is worse than death and the tragedy of Our +Nell and the next night revelled in exhibition's that the modern +police would not permit.

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The very fact that the new attitude is so general -- that in +the words of these preachers (which I quoted), the contamination is +universal -- shows that most men and women, who in earlier +generations transgressed a law which they recognized, now +consciously perceive that there is no such law. The general public +know nothing, of course, of the wide research and close reasoning +on which the new ethic is based; just as the majority of church-folk know nothing of the logic and reasoning by which priests make +ethical and theological mountains out of the Gospel molehills. But +in the freer atmosphere they use their common sense on the hell-and-devil view of human nature, and large numbers of them now read +a literature which confirms their common-sense conclusions. +Theologians assailing statesmen with appeals to suppress this +literature are in exactly the same position as the medieval monks +who forced rulers to burn heretics. If it were not for the +political power which the masses of their more ignorant followers +afford them, we should merely have to expose their ignorance and +the real dynamo of their activity.

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Chapter III

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SAINTS AND OTHER HOLY MEN

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I have in various works expressed the opinion that a time will +come when the Black International will abandon their campaign +against the world of the flesh and discover that their medieval +Church gave the world a splendid lead in what D'Annunzio called a +"magnificent sensuality" and glorification of the flesh. It would +be but one more revolution in the sacristy. Less than 100 years ago +-- let us say in 1850 -- the Black International in every Catholic +country thundered against democracy. Even in America they had not +yet learned that Paine, Franklin, Jefferson, and Adams had been +suckled at the spiritual breasts of Thomas Aquinas. They were, as +in England, completely indifferent to social questions. But +wherever they had power, from Peru to Italy, and the political +issue was stormily debated, they were intimately leagued with the +brutal forces which had for the second (and, as they thought, last) +time drowned the democrats in their own blood. By the end of the +century they were all democrats, and in America they made the +remarkable discovery, of which priests in other countries do not +yet seem to have heard, that the Church itself had mothered the +democratic ideal. Today, in all Catholic countries, they are again +solidly anti-democratic. Tomorrow ...

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If, as we are all convinced, Russia win's this titanic +struggle and is not defrauded by Britain and America of the +legitimate fruit of victory, the chief voice in the settlement of +Europe, the Church of Rome may find itself compelled to make some +remarkable adjustments in its struggle to retain its wealth and +power. At the moment it hopes, as I have explained in earlier +number's, to maintain its position, the improved position as +compared with what it was from 1920 to 1930, even if the Axis-Vatican combination is defeated. The whole weight of the Church +will be thrown into the demand that President Roosevelt shall have +a decisive voice in the post-war settlement, and the "Catholic +point of view," which Washington is now so prone to consult, will +be that, as religious influence offers the best security against a +recurrence of lawlessness the Church shall be strengthened in its +new position in Catholic countries (including France and Belgium) +and shall have new rights, in the name of religious freedom, in +Germany and Russia. You may think that a piece of incredible +insolence after the share that the Vatican has had in protecting +the designs of the Axis, but look out for it.

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If, on the other hand, the realistic Russian spirit is +consulted in the settlement, and France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, +Hungary, etc., are allowed to deal with their traitors and +Churches, the Black International will confront the gravest crisis +in its history. It has, in its struggle for survival, changed many +times in the last 30 years, but only superficially or by purely +local adaptations to different conditions. While from 1900 to 1914 +the American bishops and priests were, as part of their forward +movement, boisterously assuring the public that the Church was +broad-minded and tolerant and a good neighbor to other Churches, +Rome itself three times (as I told) officially published, in Latin, +its medieval Canon Law with all its superbly intolerant and +truculent claims. When, from 1920 to 1940, these American priests +and bishops were putting forward their extraordinary proofs of the +Church's affinity with the modern ideals of freedom and democracy +the Vatican was working on the anti-democratic line which +culminated in its alliance with the Axis powers. The Church had not +changed a single principle. It still boasted that, while all other +Churches shed old dogmas and gave new liberties, it was still +Immutable Rome.

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That it must sooner or later change or perish will be doubted +only by a man who despairs of the issue of the present conflict and +imagines that the world may be returning to a new Dark Age, but it +will seem to many quixotic to suggest that it might drop its +furious campaign against the world, the flesh, and the devil. We +must remember that the first dogmas to be jettisoned by a Church in +time of danger are those which most affront the moral sentiment, +and it is humorous to reflect that while the doctrine of hell did +not disturb the minds of even educated persons during the long ages +of faith it is highly repugnant in this age which the preachers +describe as almost devoid of moral sense. Less than 100 years ago +that doctrine was just as vital in the teaching of the Church of +England and its American offshoot as it now is in the Church of +Rome. Today it is at the most optional and was very clearly +recommended for rejection at the Lambeth Conference; and there was +no exodus from the Church. And if it be said that it is a long step

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from rejecting belief in hell and the devil to rejecting the sexual +taboo, consider what happened at the Conference of the American +Protestant Episcopal Church in 1922, the speeches at which are +published in a volume with the title 'The Influence of the Church +on Modem Problems.'

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The problem set for the first sitting was: "What are our young +people seeking in their apparent revolt from the moral standards of +an earlier day?" The word "apparent" may seem very ecclesiastical, +though the first two speakers supported it. The third and last was +a clergyman of some distinction who certainly knew Christian youth, +and he must have made their hair stand on end. Morals means +customs, he said cheerfully, and the moral code is to a large +extent conventional or customary. The young see this and want "a +rationale of morals"; and, he added, they are "having considerable +difficulty in finding one." There is a legitimate "new ethic," and +in the light of it "ours is for the most part an irreligious but +moral generation." The Church in educating them had made too much +fuss about their bodies, and we must "revaluate our moral +standards." For this, he said, we find encouragement in the +Gospels. Jesus was "quite out of sympathy with the current legalism +in regard to impurity." (Is it necessary to remind you that the +usual clerical plea is that Jesus went beyond all contemporaries in +the severity of his sex-teaching?) Did he not eat with sinners and +make a pal of Mary Magdalene? His "sole recorded utterance about +impurity" was that a man who looked with desire at a pretty girl +committed adultery, and by this he meant to "reduce to absurdity +the violent treatment of tactual impurity." (Nice phrase, that). In +short, the speaker said, "I find no evidence in Jesus's teaching of +any special value put by him on chastity as a thing in itself" or +any "merely negative virtues, All we need do is to induce the young +not to "fill their lives with carnal indulgences" by teaching them +alternatives. "Our decency is deadly dull" and they want "jollier +ways." So let us join the young in burying Mrs. Grundy "with +rejoicing" and not "keep trundling about her increasingly +unpleasant corpse,"

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Thus (pp. 22-28) spoke the much respected President of St. +Stephen's College, Dr. B.I. Bell. No earthquake followed, as far as +I can discover Bell was not decapitated or sent to a concentration-camp. The bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church turned instead +upon my old friend W. Montgomery Brown and expelled him from their +midst for saying that the only redemption the world needed was from +poverty and war.

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Which reminds me of a fact that will amuse most of my readers. +All those learned books which Brown flung at the heads of his +episcopal judges from 1930 to 1936, including the two books for +children and the famous address to the Parliament of Religions in +1933, were written by me. I was, secretly, Bill's "literary +secretary." As long as he was a good Atheist and Materialist I did +not mind how many ecclesiastical titles he bought. It was, he often +told me, all to be revealed in his will and a trust established to +enable me to carry on the good work in my own name. But Bill was +too idealistic to control money, and he died owing me a lot and +leaving me without documents to secure it. In spite of his +sentimental desire to keep an ecclesiastical status, which he never

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attempted to explain to me though he relied on me in his fight for +ten years, Bill was a man of splendid character, fearless and +incorruptible, passionately eager for justice to the workers, +defective only in that his complete sense of honor made him too +trustful of others. I have in my long tramps through life met a +hundred such men and women and known hundreds of others from their +books and letters, and they all belonged essentially to that +"world" which Rome shudderingly defies and calumniates.

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In other words, it is not only in its largely hypocritical +stress on sexual purity but in its general standard of character +that the Church defies modern thought and life. This is inevitable. +The requirements of the Black International are ruinous to the kind +of character, the straight, realistic, uncompromising character, +that the modern world esteems and requires. I suppose that Michael +Williams would be urged upon us by American Catholics as a fine +type of lay personality not perverted by the needs of the clerical +profession, yet I find his chief book, 'Catholicism and the Modern +Mind' (1928) a dreary tissue of sophistry and looseness in +statements of fact.

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He tell's As a fact the story of Benedict XV and Mussolini. +The Catholic legend is that during the last war, when the Papacy +handled a fund for relieving the relatives of soldiers, the Pope +one day noticed that the name of Signora Mussolini and her family +was struck off the list. He was told that the lady's son -- now the +great Duce -- was an enemy of the Church, but he insisted that the +name be put back, and Mussolini, hearing of the occurrence, was +deeply moved and got "a new view of the Catholic Church." I do not +know whether Catholic editors generally imagine that Popes have +leisure to scrutinize lists of obscure villagers far away from +Rome, and I very much doubt if Mussolini would admit that his +family depended on charity, but if Williams does not know that +Mussolini continued for two years after the war -- until he got a +rich bribe -- to attack the Vatican bitterly and opprobriously he +is strangely ill-informed for a man in his position. He includes in +the book a most generous eulogy of Bryan just after his death. +Williams was reporting the trial in Dayton, and it is difficult to +believe that he was not aware that, as Clarence Darrow told me, +Bryan brought about his death by gluttony and had for years been +notorious for gluttonous practices such as provoking a vomit to +make room for more. It is not much better to find Williams solemnly +endorsing the claim that Aquinas, Bellarmine, and Suarez inspired +the modem ideals of freedom and democracy, and that the Catholics +of Maryland taught America religious tolerance. It is a platitude +of American history that the Catholics were in a minority in +Maryland and used their power to get toleration for themselves. +Williams endorses falsehoods and fallacies as glibly as any Jesuit.

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On the other hand take Laval. In the last few days I have read +a score of British and American characterizations of this repulsive +adventurer. All agree that apart from the worst of The German and +Italian leaders, he is the most sordid type of man thrown up to the +surface in this churning up of the mud of European life, but not a +single one of the writers mentions that he is a Catholic and in +good odor at the Vatican. No one recalls as I did in No. 7 (First +Series, p. 26), that on June 9, 1935, Laval, wearing the decoration

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of the Papal Order of Pius IX, visited the pole in the Vatican, +bearing rich presents, and presented his daughter, to whom, as a +good Catholic, the Pope gave a gold and coral rosary. To the +Vatican he was the most esteemed Catholic in France, and he became +a cordial friend of the present Pope. The Papal newspaper, the +Osservatore, gave a glowing account -- you may read an abridged +translation of it in Keesing -- of the Pious interview, and a +member of British and American papers, not foreseeing the ghastly +future and ignoring the evil reputation that Laval already had in +France, reported it with respect.

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I cannot ascertain the opinions of every man in this bunch of +Vichy traitors to civilization who have fouled the honor of France +but in the days when the Allies still had a pathetic trust that +they would resist Hitler the papers ingenuously told how Petain, +Weygand, and other leaders are devout Catholics. It is a Catholic +group, combining docility to the Vatican with private greed for +wealth and power of the most sordid type. But the press would +rather leave the whole miserable business inexplicable than offend +Catholics by telling the truth about it. Once more the influence of +the Black International has the public fooled even on vital +questions of the hour. And, as we have seen, it is not a question +of France only. Catholics -- Leopold of Belgium and the ministers +who cling to him, Franco and his cut-throats in Spain, Salazar in +Portugal, Tizzo in Slovakia, Henlein in Sudetenland, Seyss-Inquart +in Austria and Holland, De Valera in Eire, etc. -- head the list of +the men who have betrayed humanity in its gravest crisis, just as +the Atheists of Russia head the list of those who sacrifice and die +for it. How have your leading Catholics, cleric and lay, in America +stood in this real struggle of good and evil? How do they still +stand in Quebec? I can assure you that in Great Britain not a +single Catholic, cleric or lay, stood out in the ranks of the +fighters for civilization.

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It is a mockery to find the Church of Rome boasting of its +richness in "saints" when, at a time of supreme need of character +and virility, it pushes into positions of power only muddle-headed +weaklings like Leopold and Petain or an unscrupulous blackguard +like Laval. From Cape Cod to San Diego the Black International is +bemusing its children, of all ages, with a legend of the peculiar +"holiness" of their Church. No other religion in the world, they +say, can show such a list of men and women of fine character. I +illustrated the grossly fraudulent nature of this list by a few +words on the "Holy Fathers" in the first booklet of this series, +and have shown elsewhere (Little Blue Book, 1107) that saints and +martyrs were fabricated by the thousands for the first half of the +story of the Roman Church. But what standard of character for the +modern world is there in the overwhelming majority of those who +were really historical? They were just men and women who took +seriously the theory that for every pleasure you sacrificed during +a few decades of life you won a hundred times as much during a +whole eternity. That is not character. It is trade. Yet so poor is +the real moral influence of the Church that it hardly persuades any +of its followers in modern times to attain that degree of +commercial logic. The one or two men and women who today are. +selected (out of hundreds of millions) every year or so for +canonization are really chosen for diplomatic reasons -- to please +particular countries -- and to bring a modest shower of gold, to +Rome. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +17 +. +THE CHURCH DEFIES MODERN LIFE

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Where, moreover, Catholics do make strained efforts to rise, +toward the level of these "saints" they generally succeed in +contracting the vices -- hard intolerance and pious +unscrupulousness -- of the fanatical saints rather than the virtues +of the more human. They are apt to be sour, cruel, unjust, +slanderous, and convinced that the end, if it is the good of the +Church, justifies the means. They lose the sense of citizenship +whenever the clergy urge them to use their voting power in the +interest of the Church. Everybody will know Catholics who have not +these vices. No one pretends that all of them are puritans and +bigots of the sourer type. But would you say that the geniality and +Straightforwardness of the Catholics you admire is a result of +their faith and the sourness and intolerance of others is not a +result of Catholic teaching? Would you say that this dally +literature of theirs which describes the whole non-catholic world +as a contamination, this literature which describes critics of the +Church as dishonest and malignant, has no ill effect on their +general character?

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The medieval character of their ethics gives them a rigidity +of mind that very largely unfits them for that censorship of other +people's lives which they always claim. Take their matter of +chastity, celibate or married, which they almost make identical +with "morals." I referred on an earlier page to the importance of +the sex hormones, the secretions of sex and some other ductless +glands, which differ in different individuals just as the +secretions of the liver or the pancreas do and cause the varieties +which we call "strong passions" or "coldness" and every stage +between the two extremes. But no Catholic moralist ever takes this +elementary truth of physiology into account. Then have a wooden +theory that everybody has a "free will," and the nymphomaniac is +just a "vile woman" who will not control her passions while the +spinster or nun who shrinks from men because she has none or a very +feeble amount of the sexual hormones in her veins is a very +superior or virtuous woman. It is, the Catholic thinks, cynical, +materialistic, degrading to say such things. Scientific works which +prove and explain them ought to be suppressed.

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If it were not for the suffocating influence which the Black +International has won over the press, literature, radio, schools, +etc., what they call the "world" would laugh in their faces. They +belong, like our astrologers and palmists, to the Middle Ages; at +least their theories do, for there was far more sexual freedom in +practice in the Middle Ages than there is today. How long the world +will tolerate these dervishes dictating the dresses of girls on the +stage or screen -- and probably sneaking in with scarves over their +collars to see the pictures they could not suppress -- is a matter +of astonishment to us older men. We want neighbors who are genial, +truthful, straightforward. We want public men who are virile, +strictly honest, broad-minded. We do not care two pins about their +amorous adventures. We live in a world in which for various reasons +a very large body of women will never marry; we are passing into a +world of mourning in which millions of girls and women of every +country will not be able to marry. To forbid them normal life +because some 2500 years ago somebody started the idea that the +devil made the flesh and Paul made a religion of it is as cruel as +it is unintelligent. And to say that we folk who have patiently

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traced this ancient ethic to its roots and severely checked its +action in history are to be counted a danger to civilization, while +these priests who nearly, succeeded in selling civilization for +thirty pieces of silver are to be considered its custodians, is +simply ludicrous. In a sense all this fury about the world reminds +us of Don Quixote tilting at windmills, but the Black International +is not a crack-brained knight with a simple-minded Servant. It is +an International army of, in one costume or other, a million men +and women, and the horror that grips the world is in part its +movement.

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Chapter IV

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WHY PRIESTS DO NOT MARRY

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The vow of chastity of priests, monks, and nuns is one of the +most absurd complications into which this attempt to govern modern +life by an ancient superstition leads the Roman Church. Both in the +age when, in the early Church, the Fathers decided that celibacy +was the ideal life for the clergy and in the age (the 11th Century) +when a brood of fanatics finally imposed it upon the clergy the +reason alleged for it was simple. There was something, not exactly +revolting (if you were married) but certainly very indelicate and +contaminating, in all sexual intercourse. A really holy person must +abstain from it. It was not true that, as the heretics said, the +devil had made the body, yet there certainly was something unclean +about its reproductive department, and in a rigmarole of doctrinal +reasoning the Fathers connected it once more with the devil by +saying that God had created the body clean but Adam had brought +about a mysterious change by yielding to the tempter.

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It is quite impossible for priests to give this explanation to +their men and women followers today. In moral theology casuists try +to work out just what, of a sexual nature, is forbidden even to +married folk. It is an amusing chapter but I dare not give +illustrations. These chapters of Catholic moral theology on sex +would, if he could read them, make an Irish policeman's hair stand +on end. Practically, sodomy apart, married Catholics have a free +run. Herodotus says that the ancient Babylonians, whom modern +Catholics regard as so very wicked, compelled a married pair after +intercourse to get up and, in modern language, say their prayers. +Your Irish, Polish, and Italian married folk on the contrary. ... +No. I must give it up. But believe me that they are not told any +longer that there is anything in any way repellent about the sex-organs or intercourse once you have the priestly license. At the +most there is sometimes an attempt to represent that the voluntary +virgin is in some sense superior on account of her sacrifice; but +girls are, I understand, rather skeptical about claims of voluntary +spinsterhood.

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The reasons which the Church gives today for keeping its +clergy in this unnatural condition are not taken very seriously. It +wants them to be free from the entanglements and burdens of married +life so that they may devote themselves strictly to their arduous +duties; which is not very convincing when we reflect that men who +work 40 to 50 hours a week very much prefer to have the +entanglement of marriage whereas the average priest scarcely hits +ten or fifteen hours a week of not very exacting work. A more

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serious reason is military discipline. Clerical authorities have a +more effective control of what we may call the private soldiers of +the Black International army if they have no families: but that is +not the kind of reason that they can give to the laity or the world +at large. Catholic women, in fact, do not want any reason, and, as +there are twice as, many women as men in the only congregations +that expect any reasons for anything from the Church -- those with +more money and more education -- it is not expedient to say +anything about celibacy. You never hear a sermon on it. The women +would not have the fluttering regard for their priests which they +have if there were a wife looking on or in the background, and they +could hardly avoid an uneasy feeling at times that their +picturesque confessions might not in spite of the "seal of +confession," slip out at night when the married priest sipped his +final highball at night by the fire with his wife. Experience gives +women a rather cynical view of things one hears "in confidence."

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None of these reasons, in any case, explains the celibacy of +monks, nuns, and religious brothers, and for this there is no +serious reason except the historic plea that virginity is superior +to non-virginity because there is something animal and low about +sex-indulgence even with a license. You might roundly say that the +Church will not abandon the celibacy of its priests, monks, and +nuns, though in all ages many sincere bishops have urged it to do +so, because this is an important part of the uniqueness amongst +religious bodies of which it is so proud. No other Church, except +the corrupted Buddhism of Eastern Asia, can get hordes of men and +women to make the great sacrifice. That is true, but there is +uniqueness in vice as well as virtue, in stupidity as well as +wisdom, and the Church can only boast of the voluntary virginity of +its vast clerical and monastic army if abstention from sex-indulgence gives a man or woman a superior moral condition.

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So we come back always to the original root of all this morbid +glorification of virginity and dark view of sex. The early Church +was, as everybody knows, cradled in a mighty struggle of those who +called themselves orthodox Christians and those whom they called +Gnostic heretics. This cradle, as I call it, was the line of cities +round the eastern end of the Mediterranean -- Judaea had really +little to do with the origin of Christianity as a new religion -- +and the whole region was steeped in the new ascetic mysticism which +Persian influence had engendered, Egyptians, Jews, Syrians, and +Greeks as well as Persians all having different versions of it. +Common to almost all of them was the belief that the devil had +created matter, and that the quintessence of its diabolism, so to +say, was found in the organs of generation. There are modern +writers who hold that what came to be called Christianity was at +first just a local variation of this widespread Gnosticism. It +seems to me more probable that the Gnosties fastened upon the story +of Jesus which was then spreading and represented him as a splendid +confirmation of their creed (already a century or two old); a +Demigod or semi-God sent by the Father of Light and Spirit to lead +men in the fight against the world, the flesh, and the devil.

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However that may be, not even Catholics dispute that it was a +general tenet of the Gnostic leaders that the flesh, especially in +its sex-part -- one often wonders whether the nearness of the Sex +organ to the excretory organs had not a lot to do with the odium it

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incurred amongst these mystics -- was so thoroughly evil that even +a marriage-license did not remove the unpleasantness, The Catholic +leaders or Fathers retorted that God created man, body and soul, +and, though the body was fouled by the sin of Adam and Eve, God +provided for the continuation of the race by instituting marriage +for the less holy crowd who could not live up to the strain of +virginity. As this is not in the least disputed I need not quote. +Contemporary Greeks of inquiring mind must have had a pleasant time +watching these rival Christians cracking each other's skulls as +they did, over the question. All the more influential of the early +Fathers -- Irenaeus, Polycarp, Athenagoras, Clement, etc. -- took +this view that marriage (Athenagoras called it "a specious +adultery") was just a concession to weaklings and that sex stank in +the nostrils of holy people. The most learned Christian of the age, +Origen, nicknamed Chaleenteros ("Brass-Guts"), castrated himself to +get rid of the beastly obsession.

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The Roman Church, as I have earlier explained, humanized its +attitude when it found that the Romans continued to despise the +obscure little conventicle across the river. Irenaeus, who tells us +all about the Gnostics, says that they held that. "marriage and +generation are from Satan" and "marriage is corruption and +fornication." This did not suit the ladies of Rome -- the men of +higher class never had anything to do with the Church until they +were compelled by law -- and the Popes made marriage easier for +them than Roman law did and in addition promised them absolution +from all their adulteries and abortions (the contemporary Bishop +Hippolytus tells us). But the great leaders of the Church even in +the west, the men, whose writings were to rule the belief of the +Middle Ages, persisted in the disdain of sex. Tertullian poured +fierce scorn on the Popes for apostitizina from the true Christian +doctrine. Jerome talked to his school of virgin-pupils as if sex +were very much more unpleasant than defalcation -- he uses a much +broader word than that -- and Augustine in his later years went to +weird extremes. In his treatise 'On Conjugal Love' (never +translated, of course) he says that the sex-pleasure is evil and +must not be desired or enjoyed as such even by married folk. They +just dispassionately have, to keep the race going. Even Solomon and +the Hebrew patriarchs did not seek pleasure, he says, but had so +many wives from a pure sense of duty. And since the maintenance of +the race is now assured, superior men and women, will cut out sex +altogether. He even goes so far as to admit that on this view of +marriage a man who finds his wife barren may take a concubine in +addition (e. XV): an opinion never mentioned by Christian writers +on Augustine. He was so obsessed with this view of marriage and sex +-- if it were not in Augustine a modern Catholic writer would call +it soulless, mechanical, and materialistic -- that he wrote book +after book (On Holy Virginity, On the Blessedness of Widowhood, On +Marriage and Concupiscence, etc.) to enforce it.

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It is agreed that Augustine's works were the Bible of the +Middle Ages, but the phrase is very misleading. Not one of the +laity in a hundred thousand ever read them or took the least notice +of his theory; and probably not one priest or monk in ten thousand +shared his contempt of sex. As far as we have any positive +indications of general behavior there never was another lengthy +period with such sexual freedom -- in the first part (to about

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1050) such sheer animalism -- as the eleven or twelve centuries +that followed the triumph of the Roman Church. The only practical +issue of the teaching of the Fathers was that bishops who sincerely +shared it tried to get marriage forbidden to the priests; and in so +far as they were successful they brought upon the world a flood of +vice of a new type -- sex-indulgence not merely without license but +in spite of solemn vows to avoid It. In earlier works (History of +the Roman Church, History of Morals, etc.) I have shown that Lea's +History of Sacerdotal Celibacy gives much material, but there is +more in French works like Chavard's 'Le celibat, le pretree et la +femme' (1894).

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On the other hand the story of the development of the law or +custom of sacerdotal celibacy is, as usual, falsely told by +Catholic writers; one of whom seems to have got the job of writing +the article on it in the new and painfully pro-Catholic +Encyclopedia Americana. The best generally available article is +that in the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics. Attempts to impose +the law were local, rare, and soon obliterated. The 'Decretum +Gratiani,' the basic document of Canon Law, names ten Popes of the +first few centuries who were sons of bishops and says that there +were "a great number of others" (Chavard). The St. Patrick of whom +Irish priests talk so much, was the son of a Roman deacon who was +the son of a priest. The great Council of Nicaea turned down the +proposal to pass a law of celibacy, and it is merely misleading to +quote a provincial council that passed a law once in a century for +its own region. By the year 1000, Prof. Crogs moderately says, +priests were still commonly married and where they were forbidden +there was "more or less flagrant concubinage" and other evils. +Bishops, of course, made money out of the situation by making a +priest pay for permission to have a woman in his house. Cornelius +Agrippa tells us that a bishop of the 11th Century levied a +concubine-tax on 11000 priests. When it was pointed out to him +that they did not all want concubines he said: "Let them pay +whether they want one or not -- then they can please themselves."

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There is nothing in the history of religion remotely like the +general license of Catholic priests, monks, and nuns from the 4th +Century to the 16th. In Catholic circles all this is called "a few +irregularities, and the faithful are uplifted with a charming +account of the way in which their unique Church inspired millions +to forswear the most intense pleasure in life (on the promise of +1000 percent interest in the next life) while no other branch of +the Christian Church could inspire any. It certainly was unique -- +in a consecrated vice which makes the practice of the sacred +prostitute's of ancient religions look white in comparison. But for +all that I must refer to my larger books.

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With these 800 years of clerical and monastic vice before +their eyes -- for although history was then rudimentary, every +saint whom they read, from Jerome, Augustine, and Benedict onward, +testified to it -- the monks who captured the Papacy in the 12th +Century met out to impose a universal law of chastity. Some day, +when professors are permitted to write in freedom, one of them may +write a very interesting work on the influence of men and women +with feeble or no sexual hormones on the development of moral +idealism. Some years ago a well-known British Catholic apologist

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hinted, writing for Catholics, that I had descended to some vague +but awful depth which he had not expected even of me. What had I +done? Merely suggested that Hildebrand, Damiani, and Anselmo of +Lucca, the monks of the Papal Court who led the fight against the +marriage of priests, were probably impotent: a condition which, if +they enjoyed it, would have filled them with pride. Anyhow it did +not lower their fighting qualities. The language which Cardinal +Damiani uses in his extant sermons provide an outfit for a New York +stevedore. They led imperial troops and, the scum of the Italian +cities (to whom they promised the loot of married priests' houses) +and after years of struggle imposed celibacy on all priests and +monks (some of whom were still married).

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There followed four centuries of worse vice than ever, as a +very high proportion of the clergy had hitherto been married. The +state of Christendom was such that several Church Councils +seriously considered the question of revoking the law -- see +Coulter's excellent article in the Encyclopedia Britannica -- but +Rome never abandons a policy that it considers to its advantage +because it causes vice or suffering. At the Council of Trent, when +half of Europe was now full of heretics scornfully describing the +corruption of the Church, another attempt was made to revoke the +law. Bishops representing the Emperor described in the darkest +colors the state of the Church and demanded the marriage of priests +and the suppression of monastic bodies. Rome, still corrupt, +opposed the reform, and Trent turned what had hitherto been only a +matter of discipline into a dogma. It pronounced "anathema" on any +who should ever again oppose celibacy. In recent times, in spite of +this, bodies of priests in various countries have raised the +question again. A French priest, Jules Claraz, gives an account of +these in his Manage des pretress and his book was at once put on +the Index. Catholics were to be protected in their illusion that +their priests joyously and loyally sustain the vow.

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Naturally large numbers of Catholics, especially men, have +their doubts. A friend of mine visiting relatives in the Rhine +Province while the trials of monks for sodomy were revealing to +Germany the amazing corruption of the Church asked several who +lived near the infected monasteries what they thought of the +revelation. "We always had some suspicion of it" they said. But +again the Black International took every precaution to keep the +truth about their "holy men" out of the press. Haldeman-Julius was +the one publisher in Britain or America who let me tell that truth, +Five years after the first series of trials, in which 250 monks +(religious brothers) were brought up in the courts of Catholic +cities and put through ordinary legal procedure that the Catholics +of the provinces fully respected, a widely-read novel on German +life said that the Nazis brought against the monks foul charges "In +support of which they had never adduced any evidence." By that time +thousands of witnesses had been examined in the open courts of +Catholic Bonn, Cologne, Coblentz, and Munich -- not in Nazi courts +-- and several thousand priests and monks who had taken the vow of +virginity were in jail for sodomy or corruption of the. young +Catholics pleaded that the proportion of priests was small. +Naturally, simple fornication is not an offense in German law and +no priest was arrested for it.

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I have in an earlier number given ground to believe that the +majority of priests today violate their vow. In Catholic countries +this notoriously is the situation. See the picture of Catholic life +by a man who lives in a solidly Catholic country which I quoted in +No. 14 of this series. Here I speak of America, and on the basis of +conversations with ex-priests in America. What else would any +sensible man expect? Recruits for the priesthood are usually +secured at the age of 13 to 15. They have, as a rule, the habits of +youths at that age, but a renunciation of marriage is still to them +a vague and not intimidating prospect. Its irksome features are +outweighed by what they have been taught to regard as the high +prestige of the priest's position. They are for the most part sons +of working-class or lower middle-class parents, preferably of +Italian, Polish, Irish, or German blood, and to them ordination +means elevation to a social rank of which, unless they became +priests, they have no hope.

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I am not here generalizing from a personal experience, though +my parents belonged to the lower middle-class. But I was not +sexually developed until I was 26, and the successive vows of +chastity I ruled off as candidate for the monastery and the +priesthood, meant nothing to me. Such freaks as I are rare, but, +though the overwhelming majority of candidates are sexually mature +at the first vows, they are too young to realize what the life-sacrifice means and are dazed by the prospect of the easy, +comfortable, and privileged lift of the priest. A Catholic would +explain to you that Rome is always willing to consider a request +for an annulment of the vow in its first form. Yes, Rome, not the +local bishop. It is made more intimidating by this need to appeal +to the Vatican; and, especially, it requires a moral courage that +very few youths and girls possess to cone back to a Catholic home +and friends, after taking the vow of a cleric or a nun, and meet +the almost contemptuous glances from all sides and the bitter +disappointment of one's family.

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Certainly this celibacy of the clergy is unique to the Roman +Church. No other would tolerate an institution that is so cruel to +the loyal, so productive of hypocrisy in the disloyal. It is part +of the hard, calculating, unscrupulous attitude of a body of men +who believe that the end justifies the mean's. It makes the Roman +Church a fit ally for the Axis powers.

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Chapter V

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MELODRAMA ABOUT THE WORLD, THE FLESH,

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AND THE DEVIL

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It seems at first sight an amazing thing to suggest that a +Church which boasts that it has more hundreds of millions of +members in this age of science, than any other religion in the +world should embody in its teachings, indeed force upon our +attention, ideas which were elucabrated by shaggy dervishes +speculating on life on the Persian hills 2500 or more years ago. +It becomes bewildering when we find this Church in one breath +defying the world in which (or on which) it lives as something +alien and contaminating and in the next breath boasting that its

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principles are in perfect harmony with those of the most advanced +democracy of the age. I have explained a good deal of the paradox. +The American apologist says that what his Church agree's with, what +it has in fact itself inspired, is the fundamental American +principle of freedom and democracy, and what it defies and attacks +is its godlessness (as a state) and its paganism in art and morals. +But when you press these very logical professors for definitions +you find them quoting Papal declarations that "freedom" must be +understood in the "Catholic sense," which means a galling tyranny, +and democracy means, in a Catholic mouth and in the Papal +Encyclical of 1931, the kind of rule we see in Italy, Spain, +Portugal, and Vichy France. As to those apologists who add that in +religious toleration we have another point of agreement or of +American learning from Catholicism, I have quoted their most +authoritative writers brazenly admitting that the Church is and +must be "intolerant" and could have quoted as many more as you +wish. But as I gave the text of the Church Law, officially +published in Rome, on the complete refusal of the rights to other +Churches, the dogmatic rejection of the right of "freedom of +conscience" (or to follow your reasoned convictions in regard to +religion), and the "right and duty" of the Church to put seceders +from its ranks to death, there is no need to say more.

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Every attempt of these apologists to clear their Church of a +charge of hard and selfish arrogance in these respects brings us +back to the original paradox: the Church is defying the modern +world on the grounds of ancient Asiatic superstitions. It is a +sheer lie that its principles are in harmony with the principles +and ideals of America; it is a hypocritical pretense that the +Church contributes so effectively to the social welfare that on +this ground alone it deserves the very privileged and insolent +position it has usurped in the country. When the apologists are +writing for Catholics they betray themselves. The whole of the +arrogance, insolence, intrigue, unscrupulousness, deception, and +ambition for wealth and power of the Church, of which in these +books we have seen so much, are ingenuously explained on the ground +that the supreme consideration in men's affairs is eternal +salvation, that the Roman Church is the only appointed Ark of +Salvation,. and that in all its usurpations and claims it is +performing this work by fighting the devil, the world, and the +flesh. And this means that it builds upon a theory which in its +root takes us back to a semi-civilized small nation (the Persians +before Cyrus) whose ideas the Greeks and Romans despised. It defies +all our science, all our common sense, all our hard-won liberties +in the name of this wild vagary of the imagination in an age of +profound ignorance. Let me give two further illustrations from +current Catholic literature.

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The first is from a piece of British literature but it is so +important from the Catholic viewpoint that it is worth considering. +As one part of their attempt to force their way into the cultural +swim, British Catholics began some years ago to hold a Summer +School under the shadow of the venerable University of Cambridge. +In the holiday sessions of 1931 the subject was human nature, and +the papers read are published with the title Man (1932). The big +guns were trundled along from all the chief Catholic colleges in

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England, so you are not reading vapid and irresponsible jibes at +modern thought like W.D. Nutting's 'How Firm A Foundation?' (1939). +Yet the whole book is a flat defiance of modern scholarship in the +name of ancient superstitions as served up in Geneses.

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Dr. T.E. Flynn deals with the evolution of man. He shows that +all Catholics are compelled to believe that the whole human race +descends from Adam and that Eve was made out of Adam. You may be +relieved to know that the Church does not insist on the rib, and +that, while it does insist that God made Adam out of earth or dust +or something, it is not obligatory to believe that, as it is put, +God shaped Adam out of a lump of clay and breathed life into it; +but the evolution, even of the body, is out of the question for a +Catholic (p. 160). Others of the learned Catholic professors agreed +and carried on the story through the Garden of Eden, the Fall, +Original Sin, and Redemption. The dogmas based upon this ancient +Asiatic series of folk-stories are, the writers say, binding upon +every Catholic today just as they were formulated by the Council of +Trent.

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The second book, 'The Two Kingdoms' (1931), is a series of +essays by six well-known British priests with -- note this -- a +very cordial letter of introduction by the late Cardinal Bourne, +assuring you that it is quite sound Catholicism. The "two kingdoms" +are, of course, the Kingdom (or City) of God and the Kingdom of +Man, as expounded in Augustine's 'City of God,' the centenary of +whose death has inspired the volume. And the burden of it is that +the Catholic holds fast to that dreary gospel of Augustine's senile +years. What the authors do not seem to know is that they are +holding fast, not merely to ideas put forward by an old man in the +days when Roman culture was in complete decay but the ideas, +slightly Christianized, of the Persian Avesta.

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Our world, it seems, is gathering round two poles, +"Catholicism and Antichrist." If that does not raise a laugh see +your doctor. The world of the blackguards of Vichy, Italy, Spain, +Hungary, and Slovakia to "Catholicism," the pole of light and +virtue; at the pole of darkness and vice, Antichrist, you have +their opponents. Naturally, the priest-writers do not see this. The +world, they say, has been comprehensively debauched by the +Freemasons. In proof of this they offer us forged documents like +Father Coughlin's 'Protocols,' and you learn how these agents of +the devil write to each other. "It is a corruption en masse that we +have undertaken ... the corruption which ought, one day, to enable +us to put the Church in her tomb" (p. 118). This horrible plot of +Blum, Azana, Reynaud, etc. is carried out by "the debauching of +popular intelligence by manipulated news, lying catch words, and +sordid pleasures" (chiefly the cinema). All this is a preparation +for the reign of Antichrist and the end of the world. The writers +-- remember, not a bunch of Georgia Baptists "or Nevada Adventists +but Catholic priests of authority -- have carefully studied +'Revelation,' the Jewish-Gnostic boiling hash of Persian ideals and +hatred of Romans. They see the "signs of the second coming of +Christ multiplying." Hitler? Japan? No, no; this was in 1931. "In +the mind of the Church Antichrist, the final Antichrist, will be a +man, and we may well conclude that he will be the representative of +a great world-movement of universal peace and material prosperity"

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(194). Queer dress for an Antichrist. For a moment I had a wild +idea that they meant either me or Huldeman-Julius, but the next +page disillusioned me. The end is to be preceded -- see the Good +Book -- by the spread of a universal false religion, and here is +the cream of it:

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Is it an improbable conjecture that humanistic +philosophy, biology, psychology, and sociology, with the aid +of false history and the deceptive marvels of Spiritism, may +supply this, and then Antichrist as the necessary concrete +object of worship? (195).

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Nuts, you say: turn to something serious. But I have already +explained that these priests are important enough and their ideas +are sound enough from the Catholic angle to get a warm letter of +introduction from Cardinal Bourne, head of the Roman Church in +England and considered one of its leading scholars.

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The Greeks had a word for this thing. But make no mistake +about it. This is, apart from the hints that the end of the world +is near, just the ordinary Catholic attitude. The Antichrist idea +would probably today be put in reserve. It is sound Catholic +doctrine that some time or other, instead of this nonsense that +astronomers talk about a failure of the sun in 200000000 years or +so, the world will be all corrupted and the poor Church hard +pressed, and then Christ will come from the clouds and knock +Antichrist into a cocked hat. But from the Catholic angle the world +has mightily improved in the last ten years, and the evil reign has +been put off for, perhaps -- if we trust Adolf's intuition -- a +thousand years. Catholic power and its blessings -- joy, peace and +prosperity -- spread from land to land (Italy, Spain -- but you +know the list), and when Hitler has wiped the floor of Europe with +the Russians and Japan has cleared Americans and British out of +Asia the Pope will get the reward of his alliance.

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Seriously, this melodramatic stuff is Catholicism. The system +of ideas and practices as a whole we will examine in the next book, +but one of the most important factors in the Church's remarkable +hold on some 100000000 folk (omitting children and savages) is +the world, the flesh, and the devil -- though the three-in-one +means a legion of devils that multiplies by spontaneous as the race +multiplies -- are out for their immortal souls, and the Church +alone can effectively foil them. Hence the morbid emphasis on sex. +Ahriman -- in good Christian, Satan -- may not have created the +flesh but he has sort of monopolized or annexed it. He invented the +motion-picture and the photo-electric cell, he inspired touch-dances and strip-teases and those glossy pictures you see in the +advertisement columns, until the chaste and austere Knights of +Columbus and knaves of Tammany rushed to the rescue of American +civilization. He was getting advertisements of his literature into +respectable American papers until the Holy Family and the Children +of Mary and the League of Kindergarten Pupils were used to send the +editors letters reminding them that this is a free country and +there are more ways than one of knocking an editor on the head.

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It is a topsy-turvy world. Catholics number, as I showed, +about 180000000, if you include children and illiterates on the +fringe of civilization. In countries that we consider fully +civilized and organized they are about one-twentieth of the +population. They turn upon the 1920's with an insolence, an air of +superiority, like that of a duchess amongst her maids; and this air +of superiority is based upon a belief in devils and in +uncleanliness of sex that belongs essentially to an age of profound +ignorance. Catholic Action, remember, is not based upon the smooth +approaches of Catholic politicians when they seek office or +influence, or on the tactical affability of Jesuits in dealing with +non-Catholic, or on the spontaneous neighborliness of Catholic men +and women of the less fanatical type. It is based upon the teaching +and attitude of the Church as I have quoted them from the most +authoritative sources. It is in virtue of these doctrines that +Catholics are reconciled to see their Black International drag them +into alliance with all that is vilest and most dangerous in modern +life.

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Yet in America and Britain the nine-tenths or nineteen-twentieths of the nation that are described in Catholic literature +as a debauched generation, a contamination and danger to the +virtuous Catholic family, load the Church with eulogies and +privileges. Upton Sinclair had the amusing impertinence to say, +when Haldeman-Julius invited him to reply to me, that he refused to +have anything to do with us because we did not rely upon "facts" as +he did! What has he done in regard to the massive volume of ugly +facts which I have given in these books? He illustrates his meaning +by quoting the instance of telepathy -- on which, by the way, I +spent months of research and wrote many pages before, apparently, +he ever heard of it -- and seems to invite us to bury ourselves in +a mound of tricky claims about this triviality while the Black +International gathers such wealth and power that it helps to flood +the world with misery and hopes to paralyze freedom in America. It +has already won such a position that the literature in which it +argues in favor of these weird ideas of the Dancing Dervishes of +old times is treated with deep respect by the press and libraries, +while literature in which we warn the world of the facts is +deliberately isolated from the public and treated as disreputable. +If statesmen, writers. editors, and professors really think that +they can maintain the solidity of their civilization by sacrificing +all their professed respect for reality and justice in one +important field and asserting it in others, by flattering what they +know to be untruth and closing their eyes to social poison, we do +not wonder that the fortunes of the race are so dangerously +menaced. It was by taking advantage of just such an attitude in +Britain, and France that the Axis powers gathered their formidable +strength.

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THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 16

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THE HOLY FAITH OF ROMANISTS

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HOW CATHOLICS ARE HYPNOTIZED +ABOUT THEIR WEIRD CREED

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by Joseph McCabe

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HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS +GIRARD -- : -- KANSAS

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CHAPTER

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I What Is the Roman Creed? ........... 1 +@@@ +II The Pope and Popery ................ 6

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III The System of Sacred Magic .............. 11

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IV How the Doctrines Were Fabricated ....... 19

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V How the General Public Is Duped ......... 24

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Chapter I.

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WHAT IS THE ROMAN CREED?

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One of my readers informs me that the editor of an important +and comparatively independent American daily to whom he spoke about +the theme of these booklets, the conspiracy of the Black +International with the Axis powers, said that I would create a +sensation if I could furnish adequate evidence of it. He seemed to +think that my work must be on the level of the fools who talk about +a conspiracy against civilization of the Elders of Zion or at the +best a strained inference of plots which from the nature of the +case would be kept strictly secret. The editor did not say that he +would read the ten booklets of the first series in which I gave a +volume of factual evidence and unimpeachable testimony which it +would take a court of law a month to examine; evidence and +testimony from the published words of Popes, prelates, and Catholic +newspapers, leading dailies like the Times and the New York Times, +the European press as objectively reviewed in Keesing's

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Contemporary Archives, Catholic and pro-Catholic books, and +official statistics. All that was new in my work was that I +laboriously collected these testimonies from the records of the +last ten years -- in our swiftly-moving times even editors forget +what they published a year ago -- and arranged them in such order +as to give the reader a faithful retrospect and an analysis of the +present situation of the world.

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Another correspondent asks me if I have worked up the material +in, or intend to write, one of those three or four-dollar books, +handsomely bound which really inspire confidence in the reader. My +friend is a member of one of those impressive societies of very +serious men and women who are out to tell their contemporaries the +full and profound truth about international happenings from month +to month. It appears that they won't read ten-cent paper-covered +booklets. Their library would not accept a copy of a work which +was, so that any worker could buy it, split up into ten such +booklets. And I reply as in the preceding paragraph. These people +may or may not want to know the truth about the share of the Black +International in the corruption of our age but they would not +publish it in any form or under any circumstance,, and most of them +have a more or less conscious feeling that they would rather not +see anyone give the world truth which they have not the courage to +give.

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Some of these folks privately wish me good-speed in my work. +Some excuse themselves on the score that I am vituperative or a +mere superficial collector of facts; and when one reflects on the +way in which for the last ten years the "polite" writers and the +"profound" writers have led the world blind-fold to the brink of +the pit I welcome this description. But many feel it very difficult +to believe that the Roman Church, which they thought they knew +well, is capable of this conspiracy against civilization: that is +to say, a conspiracy for their own end's, no matter how they define +these, of the leaders of the Church with powers which, if they +succeeded, would certainly wreck civilization as we know it.

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This is not now in dispute but I recommend the reading of a +booklet recently published (though possibly not in America) by +Prof. J. Needham, of Cambridge University, The Nazi Attack on +international Science, in which he shows the appalling corruption +of even men of science in Germany, "Blood and soil," says Prof. +Krieck, Rector of Frankfort University, "are the symbols of the +National-political point of view and the heroic style of life," and +"What is the purpose of university education? . . . the heroic +science of the soldier." But it will be enough to show the depth to +which Prof. P. Lenard, one of the six greatest physical scientists +of our time, has sunk. He has adopted the vile and stupid racialist +creed of the Nazis and repeatedly said that the great Jewish +scientists of Germany (Einstein, etc.) have merely hampered "the +will for truth of the Aryan scholar, which is as boundless as it is +painstaking" and "lowered the level of German science." And what +these men of science, intoxicated by the Nazi poison, say in +Germany is applied to all higher culture and all that is +distinctively modern and promising in our civilization by the +priest-ridden dictators of the dozen countries which now grovel at +the feet of the Pope.

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There are two possible theories as to why the leaders of the +Roman Church thus allied themselves with powers that corrupt +culture, suppress a freedom which it took the world a century of +heroic struggle to win, and brought an incalculable misery upon the +race. the first theory, which you may feel to be the natural +interpretation of all the facts that I have given and the whole +history of the Church, is that the Black International sought to +protect the wealth and power it was rapidly losing through the +advance of Socialism. The second theory is that of the Church +itself as stated by the most conscientious of its apologists. You +have the germ of it in these words of Cardinal Newman, the most +respected and most orthodox of Catholic writers in the English +language:

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"The Church holds that it were better for sun and moon to drop +from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions +who are upon it to die of starvation in extremist agony, so far as +temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say should +be lost but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one +wilful untruth, though it harmed no one, or steal one poor farthing +without excuse (Anglican Difficulties, p. 190).

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And if it is Catholic doctrine that it is better that all this +ruin, being only material or secular, should take place than that +you should tell the wife you were detained at the office when you +were giving a little dinner to a stenographer, what ruin is not the +Church prepared to sanction, or to cooperate in producing, rather +than that tens of millions of folk should commit, or should persist +in the mortal sin of apostasy with all its sequels? Every apology +for the Pope's action in Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, Abyssinia, +Brazil, etc., springs from that root. It is Catholic doctrine from +Augustine's City of God onward.

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Which theory do you prefer? If the first, the Black +International is purely and simply one of the gang, to be arraigned +like the others at the close of the war. If the second, it is an +enemy of the human race and of civilization as we moderns +understand the words. But at least do not talk to me about +respecting sincerity. The head-hunters of Borneo, the thugs of +India, the Aztec priests of Mexico, and the Inquisitors of Spain +were sincere.

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American apologists never quote this perfectly sound doctrinal +statement of Newman. They talk vaguely about it being the business +of the Pope or the Church to look after man's "Spiritual" or +"eternal" interests; and they rub the dust into your eyes by +telling you in the next breath that American civilization is based +upon "spiritual realities." Make no mistake about it. They mean, +when they tell the truth, just what Newman said, for that is the +Catholic faith. Why, then, you ask, do we not hear Protestant +apologists say things of this sort since they also believe in +eternal torment or eternal bliss? You will, as a matter of fact, +sometimes find a fanatical Baptist preacher using equally bleak and +revolting language, though in most Churches the old dogmas have +been softened by modern humanism. But the chief reason is that the +Black International is a professional body which is mainly +concerned to use the logical implications of the creed it imposes +to cover its anti-human activities.

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As I said in an earlier book, it is not uncommon to find an +American Catholic writer, even a bishop, loudly asserting, with a +sort of strut and swagger, that if Rome ever ordered them to do or +to believe anything contrary to American principles they would cut +the cable. This, I explained, is a bit of forensic rhetoric or +trickery. It is just to give the non-Catholic public the feeling +that these apologists are so perfectly aware that there is nothing +in Catholicism opposed to our principles that they can even express +themselves in this melodramatic fashion. But it will be a good +introduction to our subject, the real nature of the Catholic as[ +distinct from the general Christian creed, to consider what would +happen if these folk were some day called upon to make good their +boast.

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Obviously the Church in America would no longer be either +Roman or Catholic. The loss of the first name may not seem to +matter much because there is already some tendency to drop it. As +I have often pointed out, the new Encyclopedia Americana is +drenched with Catholic influence, yet if you look up "Roman +Catholic Church" you are referred to "Catholic Church, Roman." It +is only a few years since the Black International in Britain made +a brazen attempt to get the history-books in the public schools +revised in their interest, and one change they wanted was to have +the word "Roman" deleted in references to the Catholic Church, and +to get the Pope described as "the head of the Christian religion." +It was rather amusing for those of us who knew that a few years +earlier Catholics (especially in Rome) had boiled over with wrath +because the (Catholic) Premier of Malta had wanted that change made +in the Constitution of the island. However, you easily see what +isolation from Rome would mean to the American Church. The +oleographs of the Pope and St. Peter's in millions of American +(Polish, Italian, etc.) homes must be burned, and try to picture +the turmoil of mind of the folk, old or young, who had listened for +years or decades to services on the august authority of "the Vicar +of Christ," the glories of the Papacy, the unique wisdom of the +Encyclicals, etc., etc. Just bunglers after all. Leave them to +McCabe and Haldeman-Julius.

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The word "Catholic" would, of course, go with the word Roman. +It means, and most essentially implies, "universal." But every +other branch of the Catholic Church would scorn this American +abortion. At Detroit, Canadian Catholics would cross the river to +break up meetings of these foul schismatics of the . . . I wonder +what they would call it. The Church of the Stars and Stripes? The +Neo-American-Medieval Church? I give it up.

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But we know how bold our apologists are, so let us entertain +the idea that some day the hierarchy may bring out bell, book, and +candle against the Pope, and all the Papal marquises and knights +will throw their decorations into the gutter, and so on. What would +be the creed of the new Church, as distinguished from that of the +Protestant Episcopal Church? Study the latest and most careful +statement of the Catholic faith that is offered to the American +public, that written by a Jesuit professor in your Encyclopedia +Americana. Cut away the Papal part and see what is left. +Practically nothing. There is a lot about sacraments (baptism, +confession, communion, ordained priests, etc.) but it seems that

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the validity of these things depends essentially upon magical +powers inherited from the apostles, to whom Christ gave them, +through Peter and the Popes! These revolting bishops would throw +away the dog and keep only the tail.

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In other words, all this talk about defying the Pope is just +trickery, probably put out with the amiable agreement of the +Vatican. The opportunity to state the creed in the Americana was so +important from the Church angle that you may certainly take the +article as authoritative, and it agrees with all other short and +responsible 'statements, as in the Catholic Encyclopedia. It begins +with the Gospels, which are said to show that Christ was God, and. +that he founded a Church with twelve "apostles" as its cabinet-ministers and Peter as Premier or President. That is familiar. The +unique Catholic Truth comes in at the next step. It is that if not +a single Gospel had been written we should still know all about it. +Tradition is the great thing, greater than the Gospel's; and, of +course, the Church is the custodian and exponent of Tradition. This +is that wonderful Catholic logic, which is so lacking in modern +science. You prove from the Gospels that God (Christ) founded the +Church and made its leaders infallible, so you have to listen to +it. As to the little weakness that it is a most thorny question +even among Christian scholars how far the Gospel-narrative is +historical, when it was written, what interpolations were made, +etc., the Catholic need not be troubled. The Church, with its +Tradition, which is older than the Gospels, settles all these +things. You prove that John Doe is an authority on economics by the +authority of John Smith, and then you prove the reliability of John +Smith on the authority of John Doe.

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But there is method in the madness. We pass over articles of +the Catholic faith which are common to that Church and the +Fundamentalists. As I showed in the last book, and this, latest +exposition of the creed emphatically repeats, every man who calls +himself a Catholic pledges himself to a belief in the Trinity, the +creation of Adam and Eve and descent of the whole race from them, +the Garden of Eden, the Fall, the inherited or Original Sin, the +Incarnation, the virginity of Mary, the Redemption ("by death on +the cross"), the resurrection, the ascension. Any educated or +liberal Catholic who tells you that the Church does not now require +him to believe all these things literally, or as they were defined +by the Council of Trent, lies. It is the priest who received him +into the Church who whispered that to him -- if he will keep his +mouth closed about it. If any Catholic questions this, let him show +you one line in print of a sermon, book, or Catholic, paper +claiming that liberty.

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After this the creed again becomes distinctively Catholic, and +you see the reason for the above mental gymnastic. Christ's death +created an infinite store of "grace" (supernatural help) for men, +and this is mostly conveyed to them by the seven Sacraments of the +Roman Church. We will consider their peculiarities later. The main +point is that the Church has to prove that these "sacraments," with +all the weird beliefs and elaborate ritual and hierarchy they +entail, were "instituted by Christ." When you contrast the +anti-clerical and anti-ritual message consistently attributed to +Jesus in the Gospels with the powerful hierarchy and rich ritual of

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the Roman Church you fancy that this will strain the resources of +even the Catholic apologist. Not in the least. It is quite easy. +That is where Tradition comes in. The Gospels are just unofficial +collections of tit-bits. The full message and instructions of Jesus +about the future life of the Church were given privately to the +apostles, and Peter faithfully transmitted them to his successors +in the Roman See. What these Protestant and Rationalist historians +say about the early Church inventing priesthood and dogmas and the +medieval Church inventing myriads of new dogmas and practices which +happened to be rather profitable to it is all nonsense. The Church +invented nothing. It was all there in the instructions whispered to +the Galilean fishermen on the sunny slopes of the hills of Judaea. +When the time for each step was ripe the Church brought out the +plan from the Tradition entrusted to it.

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You begin to see the wonderful simplicity of the Roman Church +-- or of its lay adherents. If you find it difficult to believe +that a Church could get away with this Tradition theory in the +20th, Century read for yourself this article in the Americana. When +at last America was to have its own encyclopedia and not rely on +these Britishers, and the Catholic Church was invited to advertise +itself lavishly in its pages, you may be sure that this chief +article on Catholicism was most carefully considered. It makes a +very strong point of the Tradition theory. Naturally it has to be +helped out by a monstrous amount of tampering with the historical +evidence, but it will be enough to show this in regard to the first +and principal part of the Roman creed: the part which the bishops +propose to discard when that famous day comes on which they will +hurl defiance at the Vatican and the greedy Italians.

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Chapter II

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THE POPE AND POPERY

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In a sense its teaching in regard to the Pope is the only +distinctive part of Roman Catholicism. The Greek and certain other +oriental Churches which reject the authority of the Pope -- the +Roman Pope -- agree in almost every other respect with Roman dogma +and ritual, and until 1918 these non-Roman Catholic Churches had +almost as many members as the Roman. Each of them -- Greek, +Russian, Bulgarian, Rumanian, Roman, Syrian, Abyssinian, etc. -- +called itself the Catholic (or universal) Church, and they hated +each other like cold poison and snorted at the idea that they were +all sound branches of a really Universal Church, Historically the +Greeks, when Greece was still an Empire, massacred thousands of +followers of the Pope, and the Russians carried on the gentle +tradition on the Poles in the 19th Century. From 1919 to 1939 the +Romanist Poles returned the compliment to the non-Romanist +Russians, and today Italian and Croat Romanists use the familiar +argument on non-Romanist Serbs, or Greeks. Remember that it is +better that, millions should die of starvation, or have their dying +accelerated by a knife or a club, than that one man should commit +a venial sin, much less the mortal and horrible sin of questioning +that Eugenio Pacelli is the Vicar of Christ.

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Each of these oriental Churches was founded by an apostle, or +by a Church which had been founded by an apostle, and -- if for a +moment you will screw your profane mind up to seeing things on this +sacred plane -- it is impossible to think that Christ gave one set +of instructions about the future to Peter and a different set to +his cabinet-ministers. It is therefore essential for the Catholic +apologists to say that in the fast few centuries of the Christian +Era, when the blood of the martyrs kept the Churches fragrant with +virtue -- this is their language, of course, not mine -- and all +were loyal to the message entrusted to the apostles, the supremacy +of the successors of Peter in the bishopric of Rome was +acknowledged; and so all the apologists, not to put too fine a +point on the matter, here lie like blazes. From Ducheane, the +finest and most liberal historical scholar they have had in this +century, to the Jesuit writers in the Catholic Encyclopedia, they +lie.

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Do not ask me to be more polite and to say only, in the words +of a British statesman, that they are guilty of frigid and +calculated inexactitude. Only half a dozen times in the first four +centuries did the Roman Pope claim a jurisdiction outside of Italy. +The evidence is therefore compact and can be studied in two or +three hours by any person who reads Latin; for all the Greek +documents are available in Latin (in the Migne collection). And +this evidence, plainly and emphatically shows that on every such +occasion the other Churches vigorously, and in most cases with +indignation aid contempt, repudiated the claim of the Bishop of +Rome. Yet in the article on the subject in the Catholic +Encyclopedia, one of the chief articles in this work which +announces to the American public that it is the last word in +Catholic scholarship and candor, the Jesuit Joyce says:

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"History bears complete testimony that from the very earliest +times the Roman See has ever claimed the supreme leadership, and +that that leadership has been freely acknowledged by the universal +Church."

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Duchesne himself says in the article on the Papacy in the +Encyclopedia Britannica that its supremacy was "never questioned." +Each of these statements to the public on a point of the highest +importance is therefore the exact reverse of the truth. You can +guess how the minor apologists talk.

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The Catholic professor who writes on the Papacy in the +Encyclopedia Americana is more diplomatic. Perhaps he has seen that +in half a dozen books in the last few years I have reproduced the +evidence -- see especially my True Story of the Roman Catholic +Church (I, 39-43, II 47-57) -- so that even those who do not read +Latin can judge for themselves. But he cannot or dare not tell the +truth. He says: "It is not now maintained that the full +significance of the Petrine primacy was manifest from the first in +the life of Christianity." But that is exactly what the Catholic +Encyclopedia does maintain, as I have quoted. And when this +Catholic professor says that the "full significance" was not +"manifest," instead of saying that it was flatly denied whenever it +was asserted, he is guilty of a constructive untruth. And when he +goes on to say that "Critics of all shades agree that Peter was in

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Rome in 64" he is as bold as the others. Very few Protestant +theologians and no Rationalist historians admit that Peter was ever +in Rome, and I have shown that the "Letter of the Romans to the +Corinthians" of the year 96 plainly proves the opposite.

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I must not here be drawn into details of history, with which +I have fully dealt, quoting the original Latin and Greek +authorities, elsewhere. For the moment I am concerned only to point +out that the most distinctive doctrine of the Roman Church, that +concerning the Popes, the principal basis of the power of the Black +International, is so demonstrably contrary to the evidence that the +apologists, have to lie to their own people and to the general +public about that evidence. Indeed, the literature they impose upon +their own people -- we are bound to say "Impose" when they forbid +them to read critics -- about this important early phase of their +Church and its Popes is comprehensively untruthful. In the lists of +Popes nearly the whole of the first thirty are marked "Saints and +Martyrs" whereas the facts are so notorious that the leading +Catholic experts admit that not more than two at the most were +martyrs, that the hundreds of stories of martyrs impressed upon +children in Catholic schools are forgeries.

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In the first book of this series I gave a short analysis of +our actual knowledge of the character of the Popes. The character +of the majority of the first eight centuries is really unknown to +us, but many were rogues. It is significant that there are only two +periods in the first three centuries when contemporary documents +throw a light upon the character of the Popes and they (Victor, +Callistus, and Damasus) are seen to be very far from saintly. But +I need not repeat the facts even in summary. When catholics are +told by their priests that their Church has been ruled by a long +line of Holy Fathers, Vicars of Christ, except that for mysterious +reasons God permitted "a few bad Popes" in the series, they are +duped. The phrase "a few bad Popes," 'which occurs in all Catholic +writers, is a constructive untruth. The Papacy was corrupt for +whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a +short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1660. No +"primacy" in any other organized religion has so disgraceful a +record. If I have any readers of this who are not familiar with my +earlier work I may assure them that I have covered the entire +ground in those works and quoted the contemporary documents for +each age, Some day I will get out a biographical catalogue of the +Popes. The general public is today more grossly deceived than ever +about the facts of Catholic history.

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These facts are materially relevant to my present subject. The man +who hesitates to admit that the supreme motive of the Black +International is the protection and increase of its power and +wealth, who is inclined to take the "spiritual" view of its +activity therefore fails to understand that activity until it is +too late, only to consult the historical facts. I have said that +the longest period of degradation of the "Holy See," a period to +which you will find no parallel in the history of the religions +which Rome treats with such contempt, was from about 1290 to 1660. +The Papal Court was almost uniformly and extraordinarily corrupt +during that stretch, and the great majority of the Popes were men +themselves of unworthy character or men who permitted or patronized +corruption. That applies to nine-tenths of this period of nearly +four centuries. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +8 +. +THE HOLY FAITH OF ROMANISTS

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Yet this is just the period when the fires of the Inquisition +burned most fiercely. The spectacle of the deeply religious and +puritanical monk Savonarola butchered as a heretic at Florence +under a Pope, Alexander VI, of the most cynically immoral life is +not a bad symbol for the period. More cynical still in some +respects, as he turned to sodomy after he became Pope, was Leo X, +and this man. wanted Luther burned at the stake as John Hus had +been burned under that "monster of vice" (as the Council which +tried him called him), John XXIII. Yet in those days the cry of the +Black International was the same as now. They were, they said, +moved only by thought of the horrible danger to the faithful of +eternal damnation, and no bodily suffering of individual or of +nation need be taken into account in their zeal to protect souls.

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It is one of the paradoxes of modern times that the larger our +historical knowledge has grown or the more self-conscious the world +at large has become, the more the power of the Pope has grown. No +Catholic writer would now dare, or be disposed, tell the facts +about the Popes of the Middle Ages as candidly as did Cardinal +Baronius, the Father of Catholic History, the pride of the Roman +Church in the 16th Century. A Cardinal Richelieu honestly telling +the Vatican, not making an insincere brag about it to impress his +own countrymen, that if the Pope does not mind his own business he +will sever France from Rome is today unthinkable. Instead of a +"Gallican Movement," which for centuries checked the Popes and +their encroachments in France, we have a French hierarchy cringing +to Rome though it is the ally of the brutes who drench France with +shame and misery. All the Catholic anti-Papal attitudes (Febronian, +etc.) of national Churches are deader, if I may use the expression, +than astrology. Such a figure as Lord Acton, the last fine scholar +of the Church, is no longer possible in it. There is far more +deliberate untruth in Catholic literature, particularly in regard +to the Popes, than there ever was before. And the literary men and +sociologists who write so much and so brilliantly about the +paradoxes and weaknesses of our age never notice this paradox.

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The historian of the future will write delicious pages on it. +The fundamental reason for this growth in modern times of what is +properly called Popery -- not the growth of Romanism in the world, +for there is no such growth, but of the cult of the Pope in the +Catholic Church -- is just that spread of democracy which Rome +hates so much. The Pope is the figure-head of the Italian +hierarchy, which shares the vast wealth and prestige that the new +Popery brings to Rome. Italy itself is too poor to give a +comfortable living to the preposterous number of its bishops and +priests, but Rome as the international center of the Church always +redeemed the poverty of Italy, as far as the clergy are concerned, +and this new glorification of the Pope everywhere, this blind +adulation of his encyclicals and speeches, this pressure on the +world-press to exalt him, have made it more profitable than ever; +and the Black International in every country shares the prestige +and prosperity and the new protection against the formidable forces +which threatened the very existence of the Church.

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The root of this remarkable development is, as I said, the +growth of democracy. A million Catholics means a quarter or half a +million votes, according to the nature of the franchise, and a +political party has a profound respect for a man who can control

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even quarter of a million votes, not to speak of five or six +millions. I am for the moment considering the world as it was +before the convulsions of the last three years, though we have seen +how the Vatican extracted profit from those. The Black +International in each country needed no orders from Rome. They and +the junta of Italians who run the Vatican had a common interest. It +was to the profit of all that statesmen should begin to consult and +editors to flatter "His Holiness." Catholic papers, knowing well +what it all meant -- Catholic support for politicians or papers -- +put into their mouths an elegant pretext: they were supposed to +have rise superior to the narrow and poisonous prejudice against +the Popes of the last century and inaugurated an era of real +liberalism, tolerance, and civic cooperation.

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All this reacted on the Catholic body itself and led to a +meeker submission to or exaggeration of the powers of the Pope than +ever before. Universal free education and the creation of a +Catholic press greatly aided the clergy. Every encyclical that +issued from Rome was hailed in Catholic papers and, under Catholic +pressure, in other papers as a document of marvelous wisdom. As I +have had occasion to point out in various books, Catholic +literature still dilates in superlative language on encyclicals of +Leo XIII that were either actually reactionary or at the best +contained a few outward platitudes of humanitarian Liberalism which +were nicely trimmed so that no Catholic capitalist could take +serious, exception to them. Simple-minded Catholics expected the +Pope to be asked to preside at the Versailles Conference and are +today expecting President Roosevelt to secure that he will be +invited to preside at the Peace Conference when the present war is +over. Their Church in America published the fact that with a +prodigious expenditure of money and outpour of literature and +oratory it "converts" only about 25000 of the 120000000 +Americans every year; and it is demonstrable that it loses ten +times that number every year. Yet you will find numbers of Catholic +papers and books declaring that the conversion of the whole of +America to this child-like allegiance to the Pope is just round the +corner -- as prosperity was in Hoover's day.

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This second quarter of the 20th Century will be characterized +by social writers of the future as the age of negroid music, +tabloid newspapers, and cosmetics. In such an age any sufficiently +enterprising body can do almost anything. And the Black +International, with an army distributed over the earth of certainly +more than a million agents (priests, monks, nuns, teachers, +journalists, etc.) is an enterprising body. Even in England, where +Catholics are about one-twenty-fifth of the population, it had the +insolence a few years ago to approach the educational authorities +of the London County Council and demand a revision -- in reality, +of course, a falsification -- of the historical manuals used in the +schools of its vast area; and these manuals are already as tame as +a toothless old dog. It transpired that when, with the help of +benevolent Labor majorities, they had captured the schools of +London, they hoped to capture those of the whole country. Why not, +they asked? They had, they said, already done this in some of the +leading cities of America. And the Pope whom they expected to +glorify, knowing that they would shine in the reflection of his +glory, was one of the men responsible for the horrible evil which +came within measurable distance of wrecking the, British Empire, +reducing Britain to the status of a fourth-rate power. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +10 +. +THE HOLY FAITH OF ROMANISTS

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Chapter III

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THE SYSTEM OF SACRED MAGIC

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This Popery of the Roman Church is enough in itself to prevent +it from ever cooperating heartily in American life. As far as I can +discover no one has pointed out that these theologians (Suarez, +etc.) who four centuries ago spoke about the rights of the people +and the Popes who, after ignoring their political ethics for four +hundred years and defending the divine right of kings, now find it +expedient to recall it in their encyclicals never say what +Americans think and say. No one has ever been able to quote, or +ever will be able to quote, any endorsement by the Popes of the +people's right to govern themselves. All that they have ever said +is that the people have a right to nominate the man, king or +president, to whom God will give the authority to govern them. Such +words as "rule" and "govern" are in fact, obsolete to the modern +mind. Within strict limits the majority which votes a "government" +into "power" has the right to cheek the activity of individuals +whose acts are prejudicial to the general good. But it is, as in +the case of crime, a matter of organized administration not +governing.

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Thus, while the essential feature of democracy, as we +understand it, is freedom, the operative word in this revived +Catholic political ethic is "authority." It dropped from the lips +of Popes more and more frequently when there seemed to be a +prospect of Nazism conquering the world. Petain dribbles it in +Vichy every week. Franco, Salazar, Vargas, and the whole brood of +puppet dictators under clerical guidance agree that the cause of +the world's malady is the decay of authority and the remedy is the +restoration of authority. A few days before I wrote this the +German-inspired Swiss and Swedish press said that Hitler was going +to make a sensational announcement "and that this would be a +declaration that the Catholic League (Spain, France, Portugal, +etc.) had agreed to adhere formally to the Axis. The sensational +announcement proved to be a pitiful exhibition of carpet-chewing, +but the contemptible Catholic dictators continue to mumble about +authority. We know what they mean by authority: abject submission +to rulers in the choice of whom the people have no share, or the +exact opposite of the American Constitution.

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This is the fundamental principle of the Papal Constitution, +and it is all the more repugnant to the modern mind when we +contrast the story of its actual historical development with the +Catholic theory of it. The idea that Jesus took Peter and his +friends aside and instructed them how they and their successors +during centuries were to build up and equip the Church is a very +feeble sort of fairy-tale. That such an idea should be offered to +the American public in what purports to be its most up-to-date and +most important work of reference shows only to what an extent the +Church has already put a blight upon American culture. I suppose +this new encyclopedia is in the historical school of all American +universities, and I wonder if any professor dare warn his pupils +that, not only is the idea in itself too absurd to be put before an +adult person, not only is Jesus described in the oldest portion of

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the earliest Gospel as convinced that the world would come to an +end within fifty years, but that the historical influence and +conditions which explain the evolution of the Papal power are as +fully known as the causes of the feudal system or the Renaissance.

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We will glance at these in the next chapter. Let us first +consider the next distinctive element of the Catholic scheme. To +the man in the street it probably seems that there is a gulf +between the Catholic and the Protestant Church, but my readers know +differently. Practically all branches of the Christian Church east +of a line from Northern Yugo-Slavia to the Russian frontier of +Poland agree entirely with the Romanists except that they scorn the +Pope, allow married men to become priests, and differ on one +insignificant detail of the doctrine of the Trinity. Then there is +the "Catholic" wing of the Church of England and the Protestant +Episcopal Church of America. In any case, you can simplify the +apparently bewildering Romanist system by dividing it into two +parts. There is the doctrine of the authority of priests and +hierarchies with all its disciplinary consequences, and there is +the doctrine of "grace" which is the basis of the whole scheme of +ritual and dependence on the priests.

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I am afraid my readers are a very profane lot, and I almost +despair of explaining to them what this "grace" means. I might make +short work of the job and say that it is just supernatural magic +and the priest is the magician, but, your Catholic friends would +not admit that. It is fundamental to the whole Catholic system, yet +all these pro-Catholic writers and journalists fight shy of it as +nervously as they do of the chastity of a nun. The nearest thing to +it in the world of reality is mana. The Melanesians, who are almost +at the lowest section of savage life, believe that a mysterious +power pervades nature and is especially stored in certain persons +and objects. Every native is on the lookout for more mana, which +means more strength, bravery, defiance of evil spirits. He looks +for unusual objects -- shells, stones, etc. -- in nature or eats +dead men who had been strong and bold. It is fairly equivalent to +the medieval idea of magical power, and it is analogous in a sense +to that supernatural influence or "grace" which Catholics are so +keen to get.

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Do not ask me to go into the psychology of it. Catholic +doctrines, and especially this basic doctrine, can no more be +fitted to modern psychology than the grass-skirt of some fat old +Maori woman could be fitted on a slim blond stenographer. Catholic +theology still talks about man's "free will" as the basis of moral +judgment. Most of my readers will know that no modern psychologist +even notices the antiquated belief in free will, and four manuals +out of five say that there is no such thing as will. But even if +there were, the cooperation of this "grace" with it would be as +mysterious as the Trinity. However, there it is. Since the Fall of +man the human will has been so enfeebled in the face of temptation +that it needs this magical strengthening or grace. Is a girl going +to a dance? Has a youth to sit in an office with wicked non-Catholic youths? Does a man's business afford illicit +opportunities? And so on. You remember how we saw that the Catholic +is assured that the rest of us are so fearfully wicked that every

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hour he is in more danger -- because the penalty of yielding is +eternal -- than if he were in a Florida swamp or a smallpox area of +a Mexican town. Grace is what he needs: the great evil-tonic with +magical qualities.

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The next step is that the Roman Church has an unlimited Supply +on tap, and other Churches have none or a very poor and uncertain +supply. You may find this exposition rather tedious but on +reflection you will admit that you now begin to see why the +Catholic talks about his unique church, outside which salvation is +at least so risky that no Insurance Corporation in Chicago would +take it on. This grace has to be conveyed by "channels" for some +reason or other (doubtless on those secret instructions given to +Peter in his fisherman's cottage), and the main channels are the +Seven Sacraments: Baptism, Penance (Confession and Absolution) +Confirmation, the eucharist, Holy Orders, Marriage, and Extreme +Unction. And by what you may or may not choose to regard as a +remarkable coincidence each of these channels is controlled and +opened by a priest. You may, of course, get grace by praying for +it, as the devil does not always give you fair warning to get +official assistance. You may see a man drop a five-spot on the +pavement before you, the sun shining through a girl's translucent +skirt, an unexpectedly bold picture at the cinema, one of McCabe's +books lying about . . . Then pray for grace. But the surest and +broadest of all channels are the confessional and that priceless +advantage of Catholics, the "real presence" of Christ, in the +consecrated wafer and the various rites (communion, the mass, etc.) +based upon it.

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These two threads will take you through almost the entire +labyrinth of the Catholic scheme of services and practices for +defeating those deadly, restless, voracious, and intensely spiteful +enemies of yours: the world, the flesh, and the devil. I am not +going through the labyrinth with you. I have a touch of lumbago +just now, and my sense of humor is under eclipse. But I must say a +few words on each "sacrament", for there are writers who may try to +persuade you that they are just pretty symbolic arches under which +the happy Catholic passes as he hurries from the cradle to the +grave. baptism in infancy, confession at the age of seven (when you +first become liable for hell), communion at nine or so, +confirmation at thirteen or fourteen when the springtide of the +hormones rises, marriage or holy orders when the contest becomes +tougher, extreme unction in the last lap.

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There is nothing symbolic about baptism. It is stern Catholic +dogma -- and if any man professes to be a Catholic, and does not +admit it he is not honest for he dare not openly say so -- that +every human being inherits the eternal punishment imposed for the +sin of Adam and Eve, and baptism is the one cleansing fluid for +this liability. In the early Church baptism was generally +administered late in life, and the idea of all children, if not +half the Christian body, to say nothing of the pagan millions, +being sent to hell for all eternity was so revolting to the few +educated pagans who took any interest, in the new religion that a +compromise was effected. Eternal torture, as I explained in the +last book, has two aspects: the loss of the vision of God and +"sensory pain." So theologians worked out -- I mean found amongst

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the blue-prints entrusted to Peter in Galilee -- that besides hell +and heaven there is Limbo or Purgatory, a spirit-world with a +salubrious temperature and what-ever sports and entertainment +spirits indulge in, but no vision of God . . .

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I had better keep off these more delicate aspects of the +Catholic faith, as this pen of mine runs to ribaldry. It is enough +that not one of us, from the new-born babe to the centenarian, will +go to heaven unless he has been baptized. In America apologists +dupe the general public by saying that it is no longer Catholic +doctrine that "outside the Church there is no salvation." I have +shown that this is false if by salvation is meant admission to +heaven, but theologians are good enough to allow that baptism in +Protestant Churches may be valid. There are, however, so many +conditions for validity that it is always doubtful, and a convert +to the Roman Church is always "conditionally" baptized.

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Doubtless all this sounds very silly, if not a little +nauseating, to most of my readers, but it is an essential part of +the theory to which the Black International appeals to justify its +intrigues, its encroachments on the liberties of non-Catholics, and +its endorsement of such policies as the alliance with the Axis +powers. By the "spiritual interests" which, the apologist says, the +Church must consider above all other matters, he means something +totally different from what a religious statesman or a puritanical +essayist means when he uses that expression. He is referring to +this monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the claim of the +Roman Church to possess the only really safe means of dodging it.

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At seven the normal child is introduced to the sacrament of +Penance. The basis of this practice again is revolting. It is that +a child usually reaches "the age of reason" at that age and may +incur eternal damnation. They are all treated as junior Dead-End +Kids. The child is confronted with a list of the more serious sins +-- I regret that I do not remember from 67 years ago whether it +contained fornication, adultery, etc., as it does in the Prayer +Book which older children consult -- which it may have committed up +to the age of seven. Less serious sins (lies, quarrels, petty +thefts, etc.) a Catholic is not bound to confess as the penalty is +not hell. I have not patience to discuss it, but when you read one +of those books in which it is said that the Catholic Church has, +from its long experience, a marvelous understanding of and sympathy +with human nature, think of these boys and girls of seven to ten +being taught to brood over their sins and hell and the devil.

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So begins the life-long comedy of the confessional. From the +age of seven to death the Catholic must go to confession at least +once a year, and the societies and confraternities which most of +them are bullied into joining make the obligation monthly. It is +rather surprising that the Church does not make it weekly. It must +harrow a priest's feelings to think of his men and women, youths +and maids, boys and girls over the age of seven, frivoling about +the parish or the city for three weeks or so under the sentence of +so savage a punishment that the practices of the Nazis in Poland +and Russia or of the Japs in China are pleasantries in comparison. +Is it necessary again to remind you that this is indispensable +Catholic belief on which no gloss whatever in permitted?

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The moral aspect I have considered in an earlier book. To talk +about the rare cases in which a woman of severe character goes to +the priest for "spiritual advice" is like saying that war is a fine +moral tonic because a few are braced or purified by their +sufferings. Let us keep to plain English. The crowd you will see on +any Saturday night in a Catholic Church awaiting their turn to +confess is enough to make you despair of modern intelligence in the +mass. There are social moralists who shed tears over the crowds at +baseball games or in cinemas. They would do better to be concerned +about the intellectual level betrayed in these scenes in Catholic +churches. Remember that I was once a father-confessor. They just +reel off mechanically a list of lies, quarrels, thefts, drinking, +etc. and in almost every case a few points about sex; for the +Church tells them that not merely every act of touch or exhibition +but every thought or word about sex comes under the damnation +clause. And for every woman or girl who sincerely wants guidance +there are fifty who just love the intimate talk about sex that is +permitted with the priest in the confessional; and, to crown the +infamy, there is not a more transparently priest-made doctrine in +the whole of religion than this sacrament of penance. That it +promotes morals and reduces crime is bunk. The one object of it is +to consolidate the power of the priest over the laity.

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I pass over the sacrament of confirmation, which is as idle a +ceremony as taking the oath when you are elected to Congress, and +the next sacrament, the Eucharist, the chief glory and pride of the +Church, is intellectually quite the most repellent of the lot. +"Eating the God" -- that is to say, eating food in which the God is +believed to be present so that some mysterious power or influence +(grace) passes to the eaten -- is so natural a stage in the +development of ritual religion that the Spanish missionaries who +came out to convert the Aztecs found that they had that ceremony in +a form that was weirdly like their own. It was common in Greece -- +in the cult of Ceres (the spirit of the corn) and Bacchus (the +spirit of the vine) -- and was found in the Persian and Mithralc, +and Manichaean religions. Thus a sacred supper of bread and wine +was very well known in all those cities of the Mediterranean coast +in which Christianity arose. In the great rivals of Christianity +during the first three centuries of its life, Mithraism and +Manicheanism, the similarity to the Christian practice was so close +that one Father of the Church was inspired with the theory that the +devil had tried to spoil the Church's game by anticipating it, and +Augustine tried to discredit the Manichaean sacrament by assuring +his followers that the Manichaean priests made their wafer from a +fluid and in a manner even the vaguest description of which would, +if I gave it here, secure a year's rest in a Penitentiary for +Haldeman-Julius; and Augustine was an ex-Manichaean!

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Whether thing common practice of "communion" had anything to +do with the appearance of the "last supper" story of the Gospels we +cannot consider here, nor can we linger to trace how the +"eucharist" grew out of this. But the fully developed dogma is so +starkly incredible that, although there is no obscurity whatever +about the statement of it I have often described it, I wonder if +any non-Catholic reader fully realizes what the Catholic believes +and would be expelled from the Church if he did not quite literally +believe. The "bread" used in the sacrament is, as most people know,

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a thin round wafer or cracker made from flour and water: the wine, +as a rule, a light Rhenish wine mixed with water. And the dogma is +that when, in the mass, the priest breathes over these the Latin +for "This is my body" (Hoc est corpus meum, which the wicked +Reformers shortened to Hocus-pocus) and "This is my blood," they +are in the most literal sense converted into the living personality +(body, mind, and divinity) of Jesus Christ. Theologians take +advantage of a fanciful distinction, which Aristotle made -- it is, +of course, quite meaningless in modern science -- between the +"substance" of a thing and its "accidents." In the case of a wafer +or a glass of wine these "accidents" are the color, shape, weight, +taste, etc. The Catholic dogma is that in every Catholic chapel +every morning there is the prodigious miracle, at the priest's +words, of the living personality of Christ taking the place of the +substance (by transubstantiation) of the bread and wine while the +"accidents" (or qualities, if you like) of the bread and wine +remain!

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Of course, you say, educated Catholics do not believe this . +. . (supply your own expletive). If any educated Catholic does not +literally believe it he dare not say so except in private +conversation with some other person who thinks it honest to profess +to be a Catholic and to deny a dogma on which the Church insists as +sternly as it insists on the existence of God. Every proposal to +give it a figurative or symbolical interpretation has been +condemned as heresy, a mortal sin to hold even in your own mind, a +sure ticket to Gehenna. But you have not yet heard the half of it.

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As the "accidents" of the wafer and the wine can be divided +into crumbs or drops, the theologian has to say that the living +body of Christ is in each crumb or drop: the entire physical body, +with heart beating, lungs working, blood flowing -- from hair to +toe-nails. Ask any Catholic if you still believe that I am pulling +your leg. Count Hoensbroech, the German ex-Jesuit, tells us from +his personal experience of a woman who after receiving the +sacrament (consecrated wafer) in communion reflected that she had +Christ's organs in her mouth, and she spat it into her handkerchief +and brought it to him. I advise you to get that point clearly. It +is heresy and a moral sin in Catholic theology to say even in your +own mind, as Protestants say in regard to their Lord's Supper, that +there is just a special presence or influence of God in the +consecrated elements. The doctrine of the Real Presence of which +Catholic (domestic) literature talks so much, means that Christ's +physical living body -- you remember that it "ascended" alive into +heaven -- is present in every crumb of the consecrated wafer -- if +one is badly made and a crumb falls off Christ is in it -- and +every drop of the consecrated wine.

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By this time some of my readers will be saying: Oh, quit it +and pass on to something that we can at least read. But if you want +to understand the Catholic's pride in his unique faith and +especially his belief that cruelty, intrigue, and mendacity are +justified in the work of bringing the world to so beautiful and +salutary a faith, you had better hear the whole of it.

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There are, I take it -- I won't stop to work it out -- quarter +of a million altars at which this miracle occurs every morning, +with Christ in each crumb. But besides the larger wafer which the +priest swallows -- often with much effort, for I can assure you +that those "accidents" of the bread remain pretty tough in a dry +throat -- he occasionally "consecrates" hundreds of smaller wafers +in a separate vessel for the laity to receive in what is called +communion. These are stored in that highly decorated safe which you +will find in the center of every Catholic altar. That is why a lamp +burns before it and the Catholic bends his knee on entering or +raises his hat on passing a church. If a bedridden invalid wants to +communicate in his home, the priest takes a wafer in a silver box +in his vest pocket. In Catholic countries, where there are no +ribald scoffers a procession warns Catholic wayfarers, who fall on +their knees, and even in America the priest wears a half-hidden +"stole" on such occasions so that the first parishioner he meets +will not stop him to tell the latest funny story or offer him a +cigarette. Did it ever occur to you that many a time when you met +a black-clad priest round Fourth Avenue he had Jesus Christ in his +vest pocket?

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If you like large sums in arithmetic you may care to estimate +in round numbers in how many crumbs of how many wafers (allow, say, +a hundred wafers to each church) in how many churches throughout +the world Jesus Christ is physically present without leaving +heaven: I haven't time. You may wonder also what happens when a +burglar opens the safe (tabernacle) for the silver cups and +scatters the consecrated wafers ( ... hosts") on the street, or a +bomb buries it until the "accidents" putrefy -- all theologians +admit that they will -- and so on. All that is carefully worked out +in theology and was doubtless included in the blue-prints entrusted +to Peter. It is disputed whether Christ remains when these wicked +Satanists, who are as real to Catholics as vampires are to a Bulgar +peasant, steal a "host" for very naughty purposes. It is generally +held that he does, and there are lots of edifying stories in +circulation in the Church about how the blood spurted from the host +when the wicked Freemason or Satanist stuck a dagger in it. A +church in America can hardly prosecute a man for stealing Christ, +but theft is not necessary. Every apostate priest, even Joseph +McCabe, retains the power to work this transubstantiation. I must +say that no Satanists have ever offered me a dime for my services.

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I could fill a book with interesting features of this dogma +and of the practices which it inspires, but must confine myself to +one more. This belief is the care of the Catholic Sunday just as it +is the central and most tremendous and precious dogma of the whole +system. In the "mass" on the Sunday morning the priest consecrates +the "host" and under pain of hell every Catholic who is not +seriously ill (tiredness or a cold or toothache won't do) must be +present at least at one of the "low masses (without singing). The +priest does his best for the people, gabbing his addresses and +prayers, in Latin, to the Almighty at 200 to 300 words a minute, so +as to get through in 25 minutes, or there will be much grumbling. +The "high" mass is the same ceremony with singing, commonly a choir +of non-Catholic professionals who happily, do not understand in the +least what is going on, and the best music (Beethoven, Mozart, +Cherabini, etc.) has been written by skeptics and apostates, as I

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will tell in a later book. The evening service is optional to +Catholics, but again the chief part of it is based upon this dogma. +A consecrated wafer in a silver-gilt and glass receptacle, is +exhibited amidst a blaze of candles and flowers for the adoration +'Of the people. This doctrine of the eucharist, in other words, is +the chief source of the priest prestige -- he alone can create and +handle "the Blessed Sacrament" -- and the possession of so unique +and priceless a thing puts the Catholic faith incomparably higher +than any other religion.

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After this I need not waste time on the other sacraments and +all the devices piously supplied by the Church for a small +consideration, for defeating this desperate conspiracy of the world +(you and me), the flesh, the devil against the souls of Catholics. +Matrimony is a peculiar sacrament -- No, not on the ground that you +think I mean but because, on theological principles, the parties +administer it to themselves by marrying. But you may be sure the +priest is not out of it. As I have shown in an earlier booklet it +is part of Rome's sheer defiance of civil law in any modern +civilization that it declares the marriage invalid if the priest is +not present and valid if he is although the ceremony is (contrary +to civil law) kept secret. The real reason why in this case the +priest is not said to be the minister of the sacrament is, because +any Catholic can find out that until the 12th Century a Catholic +did not need to be married by a priest.

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"Holy Orders" is the channel by which a very special "grace" +-- the power of transubstantiate bread, to absolute sins, and to +sustain a vow of chastity so heroically as priests do -- is +conveyed. Extreme Unction, or the Last Anointing, is a development +of a pre-Christian medical practice of rubbing with oil, men who +were very ill. It became a symbolical ceremony of touching with oil +the parts of the body with which a man or woman had sinned. It was, +however, apparently provided in the original blue-prints that when +our wicked age supervened the anointing of "the loins" might be +omitted. In the delicate and virtuous Middle Ages they just lifted +up the dying person's smock and -- Well, it is not clear in the +ritual books what exactly the priest anointed. Holy Water is not a +sacrament but is very valuable. It is water from which a priest +has, with a pinch of salt -- I was never clear whether or not this +was meant for the devil's tail -- and various incantations driven +out the devil, and he so dreads it ever after that the Catholic +makes lavish use of it in church; where, Catholic practice suggests +-- women Still wear their hats to keep the devil from entering by +their ears -- evil spirits are strangely numerous. Then there are +the numerous objects (medals, etc.) blessed by the priest, the +bishop, or the Pope to be worn next the skin. These are the +cheapest of all means of fighting the world, the flesh, and the +devil and getting,one's "time" in purgatory reduced. But these +simple reflections on the main features of the Catholic system must +suffice.

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Chapter IV

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HOW THE DOCTRINES WERE FABRICATED

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That very persuasive and very popular and magnificently +audacious 'American apologist Dr. Fulton Sheen published a work +entitled Old Errors and New Labels (1931). It is as boring and as +far from reality as Hilaire Belloc on the same theme (Arrivals and +New Arrivals). The burden of the first chapter is a complaint -- a +complaint, mind you -- that nobody ever attacks his Church today. +It has "never before in the whole history of Christianity been so +intellectually impoverished for want of good sound intellectual +opposition" (p. 7). Phew! I will not attempt to reply that I have +myself written about 100 books and booklets (besides the present +series) on the Roman Church and never seen a word of reply, +because, of course, I am not at all on the same intellectual level +as Fulton Sheen. He would at once tell you that. So would I. What +he means is, he says, that the apologist wants "a foeman worthy of +his steel" -- like Hitler looking round Europe for little men until +he stupidly attacked Russia. The Church, he says, "asks her +children to think hard and think clean," and a really powerful +opposition helps this. But the intellectuals of America are afraid +to venture upon criticism. And so on.

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That is the sort of stuff that Catholics read. It does not +occur to them that they are forbidden to read critics anyway, or +that to explain the "intellectual impoverishment" of their +literature in his fashion is much like a junior baseball team +saying that it is kept down because the Giants won't meet it. The +reverend sophist also sublimely ignores the fact that his Church in +America has a tremendous organization for preventing the +publication or circulation of any criticism of itself and trying to +bring economic ruin upon any professor or professional writer who +dare attempt it.

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But we might overlook all that. What will at once occur to the +reader, after the preceding chapter, is the question: How in heck +does a Catholic expect modern scientists, philosophers, or +historian's to sit down and write serious criticisms of that +bewildering tissue of puerilities and dupery? Even the modern +astrologer or palmist puts up a better show. If Dr. Sheen literally +Believes that stuff, as he certainly professes to do, he might as +well expect Mencken to criticize the kiddies's section of the +Sunday Supplement, or a Carnegie Foundation to issue a learned +treatise on the longevity of the patriarchs. To talk about the +intellectual impoverishment of his Church is superfluous, but for +a man who accepts all this medieval trash to turn round on our age +with its monumental intellectual and practical achievements and +tell us that we are "Spineless" and "afraid of truth" is too funny +to be a good joke.

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I have written this lengthy chapter on what the Fulton Sheens +and Ryins and J.J. Walshes believe not because it is stuff that is +worthy of the reader's consideration but because he ought to know +exactly what Popes and apologists mean when they say that those +"higher interests" of men which they have to consult justify them +in ignoring those "lower interests" (peace., prosperity, freedom,

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etc.) which we moderns think paramount. Now you know just what they +mean. But the cream of this very bad joke is that these doctrines +and practices which they are going to fasten upon more millions of +men at the cost of appalling war and suffering were quite +transparently and, in the world of scholarship, notoriously +fabricated by the Black International itself.

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I have shown this in chapter II as regards the first +distinctive leading Catholic doctrine, the power and peculiar +inspiration of the Pope. In the first reliable Roman document, +which was written by the Roman Christians themselves in the year +96, their bishops is not mentioned. He is just one of the bunch. A +hundred years later his successor claims authority over communities +in Asia Minor, and the bishops "bitterly reproached Victor" (the +Pope) for his insolence, the first ecclesiastical historian, Bishop +Eusebius, tells us (v. 24) and the African Fathers joined in and +heavily castigated him. In short, as I said, though the claim of +authority began to be treasured in Rome itself after A.D. 150 -- +the blue-print given to Peter on this point seems to have been lost +for a century and a half, and all copies in the case were lost -- +Popes ventured to assert it only five or six times in four +centuries and were mercilessly snubbed every time. Their +opportunity came in the 5th Century when the Goths and Vandals +wrecked the Empire and left no bishop of any strength to oppose +Rome, and Europe sank to an abysmal ignorance. The Greek Churches, +though on Catholic theory they had the same instructions or +tradition as Rome, continued to tell the Pope what he could do with +his claims, and even in the Darkest Europe of the Dark Age it took +the Popes eight further centuries -- culminating in the monstrous +claims of Innocent in (1198-1216) -- to build up that power which, +the world is solemnly informed in the 20th Century -- it would have +laughed even in the 10th -- Christ prescribed to the apostles. And +this power was, Catholic historians admit, in large part based upon +a mass of forgeries, the False Decretals, that are still basic +documents of the Canon Law.

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Reflect again on the fact, which I proved, that the Catholics +of our time are more subservient to the Pope than Catholics ever +were before. The Popes had to wait until 1870 to get themselves +declared infallible, as they had always claimed to be, and they had +a deuce of a time in getting the bishops to declare it. A +Republican or Democratic Convention for nominating a candidate for +the presidency has nothing on the Vatican Council of 1870. Catholic +schools had exposed in the 15th Century the lies on which the +claims of jurisdiction and the temporal power of the Popes were +based. Catholic France loudly defied the Pope even in the time of +Louis XIV. Now American and British bishops laud his serene wisdom +and divine majesty even while he is, they know, conspiring with the +bitter enemies of their countries and of civilization. Do you want +further proof of the common interest of the Black International and +of the fact that that interest is economic?

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Not less demonstrable is the fabrication of those dogmas and +practices which, the apologists blandly say, Christ sketched to the +apostles. (Incidentally, what an encyclopedia these illiterate +fishermen must have compiled?) The "eucharist," of course, is +ancient enough. As I explained, a sacred supper of bread and wine

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in which a god was somehow incorporated was one of the chief +features of the leading religions of the Greek-Roman world, as the +Fathers admit. The pagans taunted them with having borrowed it. But +what exactly it meant to Christians in the first and second +centuries we do not know, and how it became "the mass" (borrowing +the very word from the Mithraists, according to many) in the 3rd +Century, and how the doctrine of transubstantiation was slowly +elaborated we cannot consider here. It was that towering genius +Thomas Aquinas who fully worked out the theory of the "accidents" +(color, shape, weight, smell, liability to putrefy or intoxicate, +etc.) of the bread and wine remaining when the "Substance" +disappeared.

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The sacraments of penance (confession) and matrimony, which +are the richest sources of the power of the priests over the laity, +are, on the other hand, quite obvious and late bits of priestcraft. +A practice of voluntarily confessing sins was, as I have previously +said, inherited from the pre-Christian world, but it was not until +after the year 200 that the Roman Church, under a Pope of +disreputable character (Callistus), discovered that the power to +bind and loose, which Christ was supposed to have given to the +apostles (Matt. XVI:19), meant that the bishop could absolve from +grave sing that were confessed to him, and other Churches +pronounced this a scandalous misinterpretation of the Scriptures in +the interest of the Roman clergy. Again the apostolic blue-prints +seem to have been lost. In the Darn Age, naturally the clergy made +headway with their ambition to enslave the laity -- even Havelock +Ellis and Bloch do not seem to have read the lists of sins that +survive from that appalling age -- but it still took centuries to +get obligatory confession extended to the clergy, monks, and nuns. +The laity remained refractory until the most powerful and most +arrogant of the Popes, Innocent III, imposed the obligation of +annual confession upon the entire Church (1215). It was, of course, +those marvelously modern school-men, Aquinas and his +contemporaries, who worked out the theory of it, and instead of it +proving the moral discipline which some historians, eager to oblige +the Church, now profess to find it, the law was followed by quite +the most immoral and vicious period in the history of Europe (1200-1550). After this long and picturesque history the Council of Trent +declared it a "sacrament."

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Holy Orders (or ordination) is a magical ceremony of which the +clergy very gradually increased the solemnity and complexity in +order to mark off their sacred caste from the laity and enhance +their own prestige. From the Pauline Epistles and the earliest +Christian documents we gather that each "Church," which means +"assembly," was a very democratic community of a few dozen or +score, vague "followers of Christ." The only distinction recognized +amongst them in the last decade of the 1st Century according to the +Letter of the Romans to the Corinthians is that they have +presidents (bishops) and helpers (deacons),. As these things +usually go, they probably had annual elections at which Brother and +Sister So-and-so contrived to got on the committee and Brother or +Father So-and-so, probably the old fellow with the longest beard +and the longest purse, became chairman or overseer. A century +later, when a squabble for the leadership of the Roman community +led to one, and much the better, of the rivals writing a book which

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we still have, we find that the original weekly or monthly supper +is now a sacred event and round it is gathered a group of clergy +who are definitely cut off as a higher caste. In the squabble an +astute ex-slave got the bishopric, and this unscrupulous adventurer +made a considerable advance in marking off the clergy from the +laity and opened a modest chapel -- a room over a deserted pub +according to one contemporary version -- in which doubtless the +strict dividing line of the sanctuary was drawn. All this was +already done in the Mithraic temples, one of which was a stone's +throw from the Christian conventicle in Rome, so we do not need to +think of hidden Protocols.

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We cannot follow here the slow growth of this arrangement and +of the elaborate consecrating ceremonies, to impress the laity, +which became the Sacrament of Holy Orders. I will add only one +detail. Although the Popes of the 5th Century, finding Europe in +ruins and sinking into profound ignorance, were now able to assert +(with the help of the imperial police -- this is a literal truth) +the sovereignty they had long claimed, they were very small cheese +compared with the Popes of a later date. When one died the people +helped themselves to his table-silver, wines, and anything else +worth looting and then joined the clergy in a new election. On many +such occasions the records tell, the church in which the election-meetings were held swam with blood. At the election of "St." +Damasus, the darling of the women -- voters, the "butcher's bill" +was nearly 200. However, the people continued to have the chief +vote, since the election was carried by acclamation, in the +election of a Pope until the 11th Century. The priests then had the +assistance of a German army in putting the Roman laity in their +place and making a holier business of the election of a Pope: in +theory, that is to say, like all things Catholic, for the history +of Papal elections during the next five centuries was amazing and +it continued to this day to be an orgy of intrigue and rival +ambitions.

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But the historical details do not matter. It is more +interesting that, as in the case of confession and matrimony, the +elevation of ordination to the rank of a sacrament or "channel of +grace" had in actual fact, as revealed in all contemporary +chronicles, not the least moral result. I am often accused even by +skeptics who fancy themselves far superior to me in emotional +delicacy and intellectual poise of being unable to see or unwilling +to acknowledge "the good side" of these things. To which I reply +that I would rather be truthful than dainty and I am convinced that +it is immeasurably better for the world to ascertain and tell the +facts than to refuse to read the facts so as to be able to say +smooth and conciliatory things. In 1937 I published in Britain a +book titled The Papacy in Polities Today, plainly showing the +Vatican intrigues to that date and warning folk about the future. +In the organ of a group of these superior non-Christian folk the +book was dismissed as "lamentable" and not worth reading. I doubt +if even today they have read a line of the evidence I have +published of the conspiracy of the Black International. There are +thousands of them in America.

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As far as my present subject is concerned these highly +respectable folk say that even if "grace" as a supernatural entity +does not exist the Catholic scheme of special channels of it and +impressive ceremonies for the young men who are taking the clerical +vow of celibacy and the married couples who are swearing loyalty to +each other for life is admirable and may psychologically have +excellent results. There their knowledge of the matter ends. People +who argue in this way are on exactly the same level of +mischievousness as those who five or six years ago argued that +Fascism and Nazism, with all their faults, were doing good. The +world wants or needs the truth -- facts. And the truth is, and +every year of extension of my fifty years study of history makes it +plainer, that the fabrication of these sacraments by the clergy of +the Roman Church was followed by a more vicious general life in +Europe than we find over an equal period of several centuries in +any earlier civilization. Penance, holy orders, and matrimony were +not dogmatically declared sacraments until the 16th Century. But in +practice they were enforced as such and the basis of them was +constructed by the School-men, in the 13th Century. That century +and the following two are the most vicious period in civilized +history. Sacraments are medieval fabrications of the Black +International to dupe and further enslave the laity.

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There is the same evidence of deliberate priestly fabrication +in every part of the distinctively Catholic structure of doctrine +and practice. One of the next most prominent features is the cult +of Mary and the saints and martyrs. As late as the end of the 4th +Century we find the greatest of the Fathers, Augustine, protesting +against this cult, which was then beginning in the Roman Church; +though he did not know that, as Catholic authorities admit today, +the new cult of martyrs was based upon a mass of audacious +foreigners by the Roman priests. They had their revenge on +Augustine. They forged sermons on Mary in his name, and some of +these are incorporated in the Catholic ritual today.

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The cult of Mary is one of the most glaring innovations of the +latter part of the 4th Century, when the pagans were being forced +by law into the Church. They wanted a goddess so the mother of +Jesus, -- who is given less prominence than Mary Magdalene in the +Gospels and was not honored even in the Roman community for more +than 300 years after her death -- when the supposed tradition ought +to have been freshest -- was decked in all the dazzling robes and +epithets of the old pagan goddesses (Ceres, Ishtar, Anaita, etc.). +When, after an almost unparalled period of artistic dissolution, +art was cultivated once more in Europe, this cult of "the Madonna" +proved a splendid asset to the Church of Rome, and the great age of +Mariolqtry opened. As if in unconscious mockery of the theory of +Trpdition it got worse in modern times. Apologists profess that +while doctrine certainly "developed" there is in this no +inconsistency with their theory of Tradition or "a deposit of +faith" (kept, doubtless, in the Sacred Archives of the Vatican). +Any man who is not under the hypnotic influence of the Catholic +atmosphere smiles. The pure Christianity of the first three +centuries and the Reformed Christianity which returned to the +Gospels in the 16th Century rejected the cult. It began as a +concession to paganism, it developed more richly in the Middle +Ages( as a concession to the weird mixture of paganism and

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Christianity in the art of the Middle Ages, and it was encouraged +to develop still more in modern times because it appeals to the +imagination of the emotions as few other dogmas do. The language +itself in the hymns to Mary today surpasses that of hymns and +prayers to the old pagan goddesses, and grown-up men in New York +and Boston lustily sing such things as "when wicked men blaspheme +thee, I'll lay me down and die," while frivolous city stenographers +and store assistants sing: "Holy Mary, let me come soon to be with +thee in thy home." It is part of the doctrine that when Mary died +her body was physically transported by angels into heaven, (now +called the stratosphere -- but I suppose that is blasphemy, so I +must look out for pious gunmen). The "rosary," a string, of 50 +small and 5 large beads, to count 50 prayers to Mary and 5 to God, +became in the modern world one of the chief symbols of "the pure +religion of Jesus." Bogus shrines like Lourdes in France and St. +Annes in Canada attracted millions -- to the great profit of the +Black International.

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I have no space to trace even in the same very brief manner +all the other peculiarities of "the Holy Faith." The upshot is the +same. Doctrine and practice "developed" in exactly the same way a +great store like Marshall Fields developed. New attractions were +required to sustain or to increase profits. Age by age the +structure of the faith, with its gargoyles and its buttresses, its +dark corners and its theatrical mummery, was built up, and on every +stone of the structure is stamped the word "Priestcraft." at the +American public should in the fourth decade of the 20th century and +in its chief work of reference be confronted with a solemn +statement that all this was done in conformity with unwritten +instructions given to Peter 1900 years ago is an insult to +Intelligence: that the Fulton Sheens should be in a position to +claim blandly over the ether that the structure is so chaste, so +graceful, so logical that no "foeman worthy of their steel" will +venture to criticize it, while all the world knows what funds and +organizations they have for stifling criticism, is a menace and +disgrace.

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Chapter V

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HOW THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS DUPED

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This situation would make the social student and the reformer +wonder, if they ever candidly confronted, it, whether a very large +part of the public is not kept in a mental atmosphere which must +have a dangerous effect on its attitude to more practical problems; +and the ease with which the entire population has been led during +years into a poisonous swamp, the mischievous action to the last +moment of American Catholics, and the stubborn adherence even now +of Canadian Catholics to that policy show that in fact this doping +of the Catholic mind by the priests is a real national and +international evil. But how do they succeed in drugging some +15000000 people in a country that spends more on education and +cultural establishments than any other country in the world? And +how is it that the general public is so far deceived that few +recognize the intellectual insipidity of the creed and the scheming +of priesthood?

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The first question requires a thorough reply, and this will be +provided in the next book, but let me recall several elements of +the reply that I have already given. The Catholic body may be +predominantly urban, but it has not the psychological features of +urban life. Instead of being stimulated by community life it is +taught to regard the community as evil and free discussion as a +sin. It is composed to an extraordinary extent of immigrants from +the rural regions of less-educated countries (Poland, Slovakia, +Erie Italy, etc.) and their families, and the priests take care +that in the matter of religion they shall still have a link with +the motherland. The bulk of the remainder are folk who, since they +are taught to regard as particularly sinful the reading of any +literature that might unsettle their faith and assured that the +writers are conscious or unconscious agents of the devil, might +almost as well live still in Kerry or Apulia for all the influence +of modem culture on them.

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As to the "educated" Catholics we saw what such education is. +Everybody knows that many of them do defy the Church and read +modern books, without troubling to get the priest's permission and +are healthily skeptical about much that the Church teaches. If you +bear in mind that the Church does not merely forbid such reading +but dogmatically teaches that it is a mortal sin like fornication, +you see that these men and women, while professing to be members of +the Church, must repudiate its authority, when it suits them, to +say what is or is not a sin and thus reject a fundamental part of +the creed. They formally remain in the Church for reasons which it +drastically condemns. The mortal sin of heresy not merely to say +but to believe in one's own mind that a dogma of the faith is not +literally true. The amiable writers who speculate on the Church of +Rome from without and think that it is just as easy for Catholics +to take their peculiar doctrines figuratively as it is for members +of the Episcopal Church do not know what they are talking about. +And where these "liberal" Catholics are "converts" you will be +interested to know that before they were received into the Church +they made a solemn declaration of literal acceptance, not of the +religion as a whole, but of each one, individually, of a long and +complete list of the dogmas which was presented to them to recite.

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I will tell the sad story of Catholic Modernism in the next +book and will add only one further point here. It would be a +reflection on the intelligence of one-sixth of the American people +if we were to suppose that, even taking into account their vast +funds and powerful organization, the priests actually hold the +loyalty of 20000000 to 25000000 people, according to their +various estimates, to this weird synthetic creed. We saw that, on +the contrary, the leakage is enormous, and that even when they give +the figure of 18000000 they include, and on the law of their +Church must include, people who have quit it. Another striking +proof of this reaches me as I write this book.

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It is announced in some of the papers -- most of them, as +usual, suppress the news as "offensive to Catholics" -- that the +religious census compiled by the military authorities from the +interrogation of recruits show that 31 percent of the men were +baptized Roman Catholics. This means that about 40000000 of the +present inhabitants of the United States had Catholic baptism and

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are in the canonical sense Catholics. There is no ground whatever, +to suggest that the recruits were in any large proportion taken +from the Catholic more than the Protestant body, and it is clear +that more than half these men, though still fairly young, left the +Church so long ago that it is unknown to the priests of the +districts in which they live that they are really "subjects of the +Pope." They mainly represent that drift from the faith of boys who +have left the Catholic primary school, a drift which some Catholic +authorities estimate at between 60 and 80 percent of the whole. It +is a nice reflection on that "statistical" work, which I examined +in the second book, in which Fr. Shaugnessy learnedly proves that +there is no drift whatever! It seems to be about twice as bad as +even I estimated, and it is fairly certain that there are at all +events not more than 15000000 actual Catholics, half of whom are +children and most of the remainder peculiarly ignorant, in the +United States.

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This at once gives us one of the ways in which the general +public are duped According to the statistics of religion which are +given in all reference books the Roman Church has twice as many +members as any other Church in America or more than one-third of +the Christians of the country. The meaning of this -- the heavy +Catholic immigration from backward countries -- is, of course, +never pointed out in the papers, and the naturally large increase +of such a body at each decennial census is not explained. In fact +the government officials who publish the figures generally make +remarks about the "extraordinary increase" -- no one knows better +than they that the increase is not as great as that of the general +population -- and, while they are quite scientific in their +analyses of and notes on the figures in all other respects they +never warn the readers that, unlike other Churches, the Roman +Church does not admit that seceders have seceded from it.

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The net result is that the general public are grossly deceived +about the largeness and growth of the Romanist body, and this makes +them very receptive to Catholic propaganda of the broader kind: the +sort of propaganda that does not make you eager to enter the Church +and endorse its creed but disposes you to look upon the Roman +Church as a really unique body and superior to other Churches. +Skeptics of the last century, and far too many even in our time, +had a theory that the Roman Church has a far better chance of +survival than its rivals. If in this they were regarding the wealth +and power of its organization and the unscrupulousness of its +methods we could see nothing more than an exaggerated estimate in +the theory but they meant and mean, much more than this. They meant +that the doctrinal structure of the Roman Church was less likely +than that of other Churches to be affected by the corrosive forces +of the new age. Their idea of the difference is summed up in the +phrase "Rome or Reason." The world of the future was to be divided +between those who admitted the exercise of reason on religious +matters and would all become Rationalists and those who repudiated +the application of reason and based their faith upon authority.

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I have elsewhere shown that there is no such fundamental +distinction between the Catholic and Protestant Churches. We have, +in fact, seen repeatedly in these pages that Catholic writers claim +that they alone in the modern world are logical and that what they

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want to face is "Intellectual" opposition. But it suits their +purpose to make use of the conclusion to which this Rome-or-Reason +theory leads, and they freely quote predictions of future triumphs +of their Church. They still drag out periodically and polish up the +famous prediction of Macaulay -- never mentioning, of course, that +he had a profound contempt for the doctrines and brutal methods of +Rome -- that the rule of the Vatican would still spread over the +earth when tourists from the other side of the world came to see +the melancholy ruins of London (which to Macaulay, as a good +Englishman, meant thousands of years in the future). They quote +Wells (whom they hate) telling, amongst his anticipations, how +monks with shaven polls will be conspicuous figures in the +scientific cities of the future, or Bodley, who at one time had a +high reputation in America, predicting that by the end of the +present century there would be 70000000 Catholics in the United +States. and a corresponding increase of the Catholic population all +over the world. If these critical writers -- two Protestants and +one Rationalist -- so candidly admit the triumphant progress of the +Roman Church it must, the general public think, really have +something of the unique nature and unconquerable spirit which it +claims.

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A good journalist would, of course, riddle theme predictions +with his shot in ten minutes. Macaulay was more rhetorical than +scientific in his essays, and he rather lazily suggested that a +Church which had survived all the onslaughts of seventeen centuries +-- he quite admitted that it was by the use of violent and +unscrupulous; methods -- would probably continue to survive. Wells +had the wrong idea that Catholic faith was based upon an emotional +trust in authority: which his particular opponent, Hilaire Belloc, +would have described as the sloppy Protestant idea of faith. Baldly +estimated that there would be 70000000 Catholics in America at +the end of this century because he calculated that the total +population would be 400000000: which would leave the proportion +of Catholic to general population just the same as Baldly +understood it to be at the time when he wrote. This critical +journalist would further point out that a Church which claims only +to make 20000 to 25000 converts a year and admits a serious +leakage does not show any promise of fulfilling these predictions, +and that in point of fact even the figures supplied by the Catholic +hierarchy to the authorities at each decennial census show, when +the birth-rate is taken into account (to say nothing of fresh +immigration and a claim of 250000 converts a decade), not an +increase in the number of Catholics but a very notable decrease. He +would, in fine, easily learn that the Catholic, figures grossly +deceive the general public because while a Protestant minister may +hopefully include in his list folk in his parish who have ceased to +attend his church, the Catholic priest includes such seceders on +principle and denies their right to secede from the Church.

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But there is no such journalist in America (or Britain). No +paper would print such material. Any editor who ventured to do so +would lose his job. Not only would his circulation and his revenue +from advertisements be threatened but to an unknown extent the +Church buys up shares in American papers. Lecturing -- not on +religion or the Roman Church -- in Seattle a few years ago I +learned that one of the dailies made various excuses for not

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inserting the advertisement of my lectures. My agent, a local +business man, was persistent, and he found, to his astonishment, +that through the bishop the Roman Church held a high proportion of +the shares in the paper. Haldeman-Julius has told in his paper how +after his advertisements had been accepted and inserted in some +papers a hidden hand intervened, and no more advertisements were +accepted and even a public apology made for the insertion. We speak +ironically when we call it a "hidden" hand. You can smell the holy +oil on it, even when it acts through a Knight of Columbus as a +member of the Holy Family Society.

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Editors and journalists, often ashamed of the pressure to +which economic necessity compels them to yield, evolve their own +defense-mechanism. As good Americans they are not going to +encourage the disruption of community-life by this "sectarian +strife." Moreover, the Roman Church is really exceptionally +entitled to respect. Look at its long and glorious history -- as +told now by certain professors who are, like themselves, +intimidated by it. took at Its world-wide spread, its primacy +amongst the Christian sects (if not all religions), the great names +(of dead men) it has an its roll of honor, the world-prestige of +its venerable and once more royal head, its vast wealth, its unique +organization, its privileged position in Washington, and so on. So +every Catholic event is written up by Catholic members of the staff +on their knees. A Eucharistic Congress? Not a word must be said to +the public about the childish Catholic doctrine that is at the root +of it. A canonization? Not a word about how the Vatican claims that +the "saint" literally wrought miracles and the Italian clergy at +all events lined their pockets at the expense of the country to +which the saint belongs. Diplomatic courtesies with Japan? Not a +word about how these have gone on since 1930 and the Vatican, by +its international influence, mightily helped Japan to hoodwink +America and the world.

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So it goes on. As I write, some of the papers announce that +the French general who hag "escaped" from Germany and gone to the +holy shrine of Vichy, the foulest nest of treachery in Europe, took +a message that the Catholic industrialists of Germany are prepared, +in collusion with the army-leaders to destroy Hitlerism and make +peace with Britain and America. The condition implied is that +Catholicism shall be restored in Germany and continue to hold the +position it has won by treachery in Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, +Slovakia, etc. It is, of course, nonsense, but the remark leaves on +the mind a vague feeling that the Roman Church has vast +potentialities of service. It is unique. That, or the reputation +for it, is its strength. And all this subservience of the press +which it now commands hides the real uniqueness which ought to put +it on the same level in the public mind as the Holy Rollers or the +Seventh Day Adventists. Its creed is uniquely contemptible amongst +the major branches of the Christian religion and more redolent of +deliberate priestcraft than any other. "Can such a faith survive?" +is the title given by an Angelican bishop to a series of sermons he +gave on the theology of his Church. Yes, he said, by jettisoning +half its dogmas, literally understood. But the Church of Rome +survives, ravaged it is true but still massive, without the +sacrifice of a line of its creed. How? To that question we must +next address ourselves.

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THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 17

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HOW THE FAITH IS PROTECTED

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THE UNIQUE APPARATUS OF THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL +TO SECURE LOYALTY

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by Joseph McCabe

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HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS +GIRARD -- : -- KANSAS

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CHAPTER

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I Death and Damnation for the Unbeliever ........ 1

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II Blinkers for the Believers .............. 8

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III Drawing the Dragon's Teeth ............. 16

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IV Sugar Plums for the Loyal .............. 23

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Chapter I

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DEATH AND DAMNATION FOR THE UNBELIEVER

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In 1928 Bertrand Russell said in the course of an address to +the British Rationalist Press Association that "in fifty years the +Roman Catholic Church will dominate America." For once I fail to +follow the reasoning of the distinguished mathematician. If we take +the estimate of the number of their members which the clergy supply +to the public authorities we find that in 1900 they claimed to be +15.7 of the entire population, in 1910 they had sunk to 14.1, in +1920 they claimed to be 16.9, in 1930 16.2, and in 1940, according +to the figures supplied to the Federal Council of the Churches, +15.9. Instead of a stately and convincing growth toward the +necessary 60 or 70 percent, much less an abnormally rapid growth, +we have here a curve of progress that gets back to its starting-point in nearly half a century. It is not necessary to add that +until 1930 the growth of population was entirely different from +that in the other countries, for from 1900 until that date there +were about 17000000 immigrants, and more than half of these were

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Catholics: a fact strangely overlooked by all writers who are moved +to make profound observations when they see the decennial increases +of the Catholic population.

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On the other hand even many Americans will not know that not +only has the flood of immigration subsided to a modest stream but +there is evidence, which is accepted by Catholic authorities, that +the Catholic birth rate is being deliberately checked by parents. +About 80 percent of Catholics live in cities or towns, and in even +the most Catholic of these there has been a notable drop of the +birth rate. From 1920 to 1938 it sank in the towns and cities of +Massachusetts, where Catholics are strongest, from 23.7 to 13.8. In +New York City it fell from 23.4 to 14.4. Commenting on these +figures the Catholic Commonweal said:

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The urban Irish have long since stopped even reproducing +themselves, and the urban Italians and Slavs are rapidly following +their example.

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From the temperate language of the Catholic writer you would +not suspect that his Church puts the use of contraceptives on much +the same level as murder but, of course, he is distracting +attention from an obvious inference. It is one more proof, like +that I gave in the last book, of a serious defection from the +Church. However, what we have to note here is that the Catholic +body as estimated by the authorities is losing its treasured +advantage of a full birth rate as well as the advantage of +immigration. If we further recall that they claim only about 20000 +to 25000 converts a year we feel that even Catholic arithmetic +will be severely strained to show the faintest glimmer of hope of +ever becoming the majority.

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But we have already seen the worthlessness of these Catholic +statistics. A common-sense appreciation of the evidence puts the +number of real Catholics in America at about 9000000 in 1900 and +about 15000000 today. The general population has increased by +nearly 80 percent: the Catholic population, in spite of all its +peculiarities, by less than 70 percent. The only "miracle" of +Catholic growth is that it is really a growth downward.

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But after all, you will say, the fact that the Church gets +15000000 Americans to subscribe to such a creed as I described in +the last book requires some explanation. Indeed, they seem not +simply to subscribe to it but, according to the apologists and the +Catholic press, to be more enthusiastic about their "holy faith" +than the members of any other civilized religion; except, +significantly enough, the semi-civilized Moslem fanatics who break +each other's polls in the Near East or the corresponding fanatics +in India. They take, we are told, such pride in it as a little girl +does in her first doll: they quite solemnly say that they have a +right to demand tolerance for themselves and refuse it to others: +and they swallow the excuses of the Black International for its +support of the vilest characters as smoothly as we swallow oysters. +Yet beyond any question the creed is as I stated it. The Catholic +who questions a single one of the dogmas, literally interpreted, +not only incurs hell but plainly questions the very foundations of +Church authority; and the Canon Law lays it down that the Catholic +incurs this sentence if he confines his "liberalism" within his own +mind. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +2 +. +HOW THE FAITH IS PROTECTED

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Yet again the miracle quickly loses its glamour when you +examine it closely. Of 15000000 people in the United States one-third are under the age of 16, and you will not ask me to study +their beliefs. Indeed, with due acknowledgement of that respect for +youth which we old folk are learning I doubt if the beliefs of +youths and girls under 20 matter very much, and that means nearly +a half of them. To be quite blunt about it, in fact, I see nothing +to boast about in the belief of the majority of the remainder. Can +you speak of beliefs or merely practices? The religious life of a +good half of them consists in dodging the devil by going to Church +once a week for half an hour and faintly hearing a priest in the +far distance mumble prayers in Latin. The ease with which such folk +were swept away from the Church in millions in Europe and South +America as long as there was freedom of discussion shows what +shallow and feeble roots their faith has.

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Let us try to get a realistic view of the Catholic Church in +America instead of repeating all this frothy nonsense, which seems +to impress politicians, about 20000000 devout and enthusiastic +Catholics who put their faith above everything. Of the forty to +fifty million Catholic immigrants and their descendants the Church, +with its vast organization of priests, schools, newspapers, radio, +etc., and its colossal wealth has managed to retain within its fold +some 5000000 children, 5000000 folk who are under 20 or are on +so poor a cultural level that we are not interested in their +beliefs, and 5000000 men and women of sufficient education (often +only primary) and intelligence to suggest that they hold their +beliefs deliberately.

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We are not here concerned with the Angle of the politician who +counts votes, or the newspaper-proprietor, who counts dollars, or +the professor or writer, who counts readers. We are just trying to +understand how the Black International can maintain its baleful +activity in the 20th Century, and it is most instructive to study +its basis in America. This that I have described is its basis. All +talk about 20000000 Catholics who are the spiritual cream of the +country is bunk; and all talk about a triumphant progress that +promises to "make America Catholic" is double-distilled bunk. And, +as I have shown, the Roman Church is in modern times in the same +not very impressive condition in every country except where the +Black International has won back, by a combination of national +treachery and vile association with corrupt powers, its old power +of coercion.

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There is, therefore, not even a fascinating problem of +psychology in the survival of this medieval faith, as some imagine. +Sociologists and social psychologists, in fact, become politicians +when they notice "the venerable Church." It is a massive fact in +the social fabric, but they do not care to look too closely into +it. They suspect it may be as dirty and unhealthy, if you go too +close, as one of those thatched cottages in an old English village +which look so "cute" to the American who passes in an automobile. +We are not here examining the survival of the Roman faith in the +20th Century, or inquiring how grown-up and often educated men and +women can be induced to call it a "holy faith" and a beautiful +system, from any psychological interest. We are verifying our +suspicion that the faith is protected by just the same trickery,

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deceit, and coercion as the Axis powers used in working their way +into a formidable position, and therefore the alliance, which seems +impossible or improbable to those who prefer to admire the Roman +Church from a distance, is entirely natural and was inevitable once +the reaction against democracy began.

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There was in every age a core of believers, of a particular +temperament, who did not need any action of the Black International +to bind them to the Church and who in very large part were of high +character; though their chastity was apt to be tinged with +intolerance and inhumanity and their charity associated with a sour +fanaticism. It is waste of time for writers to remind us of these +"many good men and women." It is the institution and its methods, +the general situation, that matters. And I have amply shown that +ever since the first "great Pope," Leo I (440-61), began to use +forgery in the interest of the Church and to burn heretics, +deception and violence were the weapons on which it relied rather +than upon argument. It is enough here to recall four critical +stages in the history of the Church. When in the 11th and 12th +centuries it was alarmed by the reawakening of the minds of Europe +it retorted with the Inquisition. When Protestantism broke its +power in the 16th Century it tried to drown it in blood in the +Thirty Years War. When the European powers conquered the French +revolutionary spirit and Napoleonic liberalism in the 19th Century +the Church allied itself intimately with the most corrupt of them +in a murderous attack on freedom and democracy. And when in our own +time America, Britain, and France in a narrow and discreditable +view of their own interests permitted new and popular anti-democratic forces to gather strength, the Church at once entered +into alliance with them.

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This policy of violence is, I showed, actually the law of the +Roman Church. While American apologists were falsely stating that +the wicked historians of the last century -- the Catholic Lord +Acton used the strongest language of them all -- lied about the +Church, and that in any case it now abhors coercion and is all +sweetness and light, the Vatican press was issuing one edition +after another of Canon Law in which it is quite indignantly +affirmed, against "liberal" Catholics, that the Church has never +abdicated its "right of the sword": which, they explained, includes +lesser matters like torture or any physical sufferings or material +inflections (prison, fines, exile, confiscation, etc.). I gave the +words of the exact references to Marianus de Luca and Cardinal +Lepicier. The former was professor of Canon Law in the Papal +University, the latter in a Papal college at Rome, and both had the +Pope's stamp of approval on their books. Indeed, I see by the title +page of De Lucas book, which is quite savage in its long arguments +for the Church's right to kill or maim heretics, that it was +published in Rome, Ratisbon, and "Neo-Eboracum." As the latter is +the Latin for New York it seems that this truculent statement of +Church Law was simultaneously published, privately, in America for +the clergy, and we may be sure that it has an honored place in +those seminary or college-libraries in which apologists now pen +their assurances to the American public that the Church is the +mother of toleration and the soul of charity.

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Professor C.J. Cadoux has an interesting chapter on this +aspect of Romanism (Roman Catholicism and Freedom, 1936, ch I). He +sums up its long history in the words of Prof. Lecky: "The Church +of Rome has shed more innocent blood than any other institution +that has ever existed among mankind" (The Rise and Influence of +Rationalism in Europe, II, 32). Lecky is so often quoted by +Catholics for his (unjust) compliments to the early Roman Church +that this is a hard saying. However, it is the modern development +that is particularly interesting. In 1832, when just such a +clerical-fascist tyranny ruled Europe as does today, Gregory XVI +said in an Encyclical: "Out of this most foul fountain of +indifferentism flows that absurd and erroneous opinion or rather +raving that liberty of conscience ought to be asserted and secured +for everybody." Catholics were at that time a negligible minority +in England and were enthusiastic for religious toleration, but in +the forties the Irish famine drove crowds of them to Britain, and +the Church became so optimistic that it forgot the mask sometimes. +In 1855 a writer in the Catholic Rambler (p. 178) attacked "the +impious and absurd theory of religious liberty" and, answering the +question what the Catholic would do if he ever got the majority in +England, he said: "If it would benefit the cause of Catholicism he +would tolerate you, but if expedient he would imprison you, banish +you, fine you, and possibly he might even hang you."

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Notice the date, 1885. The revolutionary wave of 1848 had +spent itself and under the blood-splotched banners of the +reactionary monarchs the Church was again speaking candidly. In +that year the Pope issued his famous Syllabus, and amongst the +"wicked opinions" which he required Catholics all over the world to +regard as "reprobated, proscribed, and condemned" were several such +as the following (literally translated from the Latin Syllabus):

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15. Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion +which he finds true in the light of human reason.

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17. At least there is hope of the eternal salvation of men who +do not belong to the true Church of Christ.

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80. The Roman Pontiff can and ought to be reconciled with +progress, liberalism, and modern civilization.

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And as late as 1864 in the Encyclical Quanta Cura he denounced +this modern fad of "liberty of conscience" as a "liberty of +perdition."

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But alas for the Papal Canute. The waves were already fretting +round his feet, and in a few more years he lost the Temporal Power +and saw the world coldly indifferent to, or jubilant over, the +defeat of the Church. Democracy, free general education, and a +demand for increasing liberty spread over Europe and Latin America. +The age of that "accommodation with modern civilization" which Pius +IX had contemptuously rejected set in. There was now no country in +the world in which the Church could exercise the power which it +claimed. Even in Spain rebels against the Church, who swarmed in +the cities and the universities, could not be touched unless they +were so advanced in their political views that they could be +branded "Anarchists," just as they are now branded Communists or

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Bolsheviks. Many hundreds were treated thus, and the American and +British press lightly dismissed the murders and tortures as an +unpleasant necessity forced upon these Spanish gentlemen by +Anarchist bomb-throwers. It happened that I was in close touch with +one of these "Anarchists," Francisco Ferrer, an idealist who +loathed violence and polities and who was judicially murdered +solely to oblige the Church. I raised a stink in the whole English-speaking world and got the fact generally recognized, but I could +not convince the public that Ferrer was only one of hundreds of +victims of the Spanish Church, and that foul tortures were used on +them in the jails from 1990 to 1910. The Black International in all +countries lied and used its power over the press to conceal the +fact that, where it thought it could safely do so, the Church still +exercised its right to maim or kill rebels against itself. It no +longer dressed them in a white sheet. It stuck a red flag in their +hands.

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In all the rest of the world except Spain it professed to be +"reconciled with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization," in +the words it had solemnly denounced a few decades earlier. Then +there opened the appalling new chapter in the history of +civilization. The high priests of reaction at Rome began to hear +voices which they thought had been stilled forever. France, needing +the political influence of the Church, treated it with a new +respect and granted it unexpected privileges and the Church in +France abandoned the hypocritical language of compromise. The +Jesuit Cardinal Billot, its head, wrote and published a Latin +Tractatus de Ecclesia Christi (1922) and the Jesuit Professor +Sortain a Traite de Philosophie (1924) in which the clergy were +candidly told that Rome still had the right to use physical +measures including the death-sentence, against heretics. In Italy +Mussolini began to deride liberty and liberalism in the language of +Pius IX and, after years of hard bargaining, the clergy clasped the +red hand he held out to them. A new Latin edition of the Canon Law +was issued, and the Pope in 1929 boldly and emphatically asserted +its claims for all the world to hear (in the letter to Gasparri +which I quoted at length in an earlier booklet). The Japs were the +next to enter into alliance with the resuscitated medieval Church, +and then Hitler....

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We have seen the story. But the Black International in America +continued to dupe the public and forbid the press to publish the +worst of the news -- like the Gasparri letter, the approach to the. +Japs, and the deal with Hitler -- that came from Europe. At the +very time when the Vatican was negotiating with Mussolini to sell +its assistance in crushing religious liberty in Italy the Culvert +Associates, the weightiest propagandist body of the Roman Church in +America, issued its Culvert Handbook of Catholic Facts, using the +names of the President (Coolidge) and several heads of professors +of American universities as "Sponsors." In this, while the Vatican +was driving a hard bargain for the suppression of the liberties of +non-Catholics in Italy, they audaciously reproduced, as +frontispiece, the letter in which Washington rejoices that "in this +land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of +bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship +God according to the dictates of his own heart." Even Leo XIII, we +saw, had ridiculed that sentiment. And in the text of the book +these Culvert Associates, sheltering under the patronage of leaders

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of American culture and business, assured the public that the +charge that the Church had used violence was based upon lies and +misrepresentation and that it is in principle in favor of the +American rule of religious liberty for all.

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People had already forgotten in America, and the press was +careful not to recall, something that had created a mild sensation +in 1910. President Roosevelt told the ambassador at Rome that he +was going to visit the king of Italy and would like a visit to the +Pope also arranged. The Vatican replied that it would welcome the +visit "if nothing like the recent Fairbanks incident arose to +prevent it." Vice-President Fairbanks had committed the +"unspeakable outrage on the common father of Christendom" (as the +Jesuit paper America called it) of calling at the Methodist Mission +in Rome after visiting the Pope! So Roosevelt was not to visit the +king of Italy if he wanted to see the Pope. Roosevelt promptly and +vigorously withdrew his proposal to call at the Vatican. A few +years later he entertained me at a lunch of honor at the Harvard +Club. If it were wildly conceivable that the President Roosevelt of +today were to confer some such honor on me, I wonder what the +Catholic, or even the ordinary, press would say.

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It illustrates what one would almost call the strangle-hold +that the Church has secured in America since 1918, and one use to +which it puts this is a complete deception of the public in regard +to the Church Law on tolerance and coercion. The irony is that its +position is based entirely upon the unique beauty and efficacy of +the creed I described in the last book. This is so precious to men +that the Church must guard them against losing it by burning +aggressive heretics at the stake and claiming the right to inflict +any sort of material penalty on men who are even "suspected of +heresy." Msgr. Ryan, the American Church's arch-apologist, thinks +it prudent never to discuss the monstrous claims of the Latin Canon +Law but in one amazing passage he gives away the principle. In 'The +State and the Church' he says:

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"The fact that the individual may in good faith think that his +false religion is true gives no more right to propagandize it than +the sincerity of the alien anarchist entitles him to advocate his +abominable political theories in the United States . . . Error has +not the same rights as truth. Since the profession and practice of +the erring are contrary to human welfare how can error have +rights?"

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And the man who writes this mush of priestly arrogance, +cunning appeal to prejudice, and bad logic is treated in Washington +as part of the cream of the national life. Does he mean that it +must be left to the Catholic to say what is absolutely true and +what is absolutely false? No. He obviously means that the medieval +hash of hell and devils, of Jesus Christ in the vest pocket and +little children suffering torture for all eternity, of blatant +forgeries and transparently fabricated doctrines, which I described +in the last book is so self-evidently true that all other religions +or philosophics of life must be suppressed; and his Canon Law +argues from the same principle that the Church has the right and +the duty to kill, maim, torture, or ruin any who attempt to spread +them. In the same book Ryan assures you that his Church is not one

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in perfect harmony with but actually inspired American sentiment on +these matters! And a British cardinal, Gasquet, tells you that the +critics of the dear Church are "merchants of filth and garbage" who +pour out such a "Mississippi of lies" that he is bound to wonder if +they are "in good faith!"

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Naturally the Church will never again burn heretics. Even if +it ever got a large majority of sincere believers in Italy, Spain, +Portugal, and Brazil it would not dare to apply its law for fear of +the reaction in America and Britain. Only if all the leading +countries became solidly Catholic would it venture to do so -- and +it then certainly would apply the law -- and one might as well +think of a new Ice Age. The world has sunk low in recent years, but +the supposition that America, Britain, France, and Germany, would +ever by a large majority accept the childish creed and crooked +principles of Dr. Ryan's Church is too eccentric to consider. I +enlarge on the creed and its maxims only to remind the reader that +all baptized persons (Catholic or, if properly baptized, +Protestant) are its subjects, and that it holds the power of life +and death and all penalties over its subjects, so you understand +how its leaders come to ally themselves with arch-criminals when +these promise to restore its moth-eaten powers: how they can stoop, +as they do in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Brazil to put the false +brand of Communists or murderous Reds on their critics so that +sycophantic statesmen will kill or torture them and the world-press +will say nothing.

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Chapter II

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BLINKERS FOR THE BELIEVER

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The loathsome little toad Goebbels has never forgotten his +Catholic education. The entire scheme by means of which he has +apparently, poisoned the minds of the overwhelming majority of the +German people is based upon Catholic principles and practice. The +scheme has, notoriously, two main features. The first is to print +deep upon the mind by hourly appeals to eye and ear the essential +Nazi formulae: that the German race is far superior to any other, +that its head is a particularly august and gifted man who must have +absolute obedience and any sacrifice he demands, and that there is +no salvation for any other nation except in the unity of German +culture and under German control. These assertions are repeated +every moment at every class in school and college, boomed out in +the streets, the workshops, and the restaurants, radioed every hour +into every home, repeated in every column of every paper, on every +page of every book and magazine, sung at every concert and village-dance, incorporated in every drama and film, and implied in the +"Heil Hitler" which you must repeat when you call in the dog or buy +a pint of shrimps.

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The second feature is that nothing must enter the eye or ear +of any German to interfere with this good work. There is no private +radio, and you are shot if you listen to foreign transmissions. +Every paper, magazine, book, song, play, lecture, church, library, +pageant, or sports meeting, etc., in Germany falls under the +control of a very extensive and elaborate Reichskulturkammer with

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a network of ramifications into every village. The social +psychology is perfect. The older folk may have memories of facts or +lessons learned in earlier years that may, in rare hours of +privacy, feebly conflict with this monopolistic message. The +younger folk have, on the street lines of modern science, no other +contents of "mind" -- ideas and sentiments, in the old language -- +than these which Nazi education has implanted.

+ +

The Black International must be green with envy. You might say +that at all events it has the advantage over Goebbels that it can +threaten folk who listen to any alien message with eternal torment, +but in practice it was always more effective to threaten torture +here and now than in the future. They recite the new Lord's Prayer:

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"Lieber Herr Gott, mach' mich dumm, +Damit Ich nicht in Dachau Komm."

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much more fervently than they did the old. Young women who but a +few years ago were "Children of Mary" and lustily sang "Immaculate, +Immaculate" now carry favor by singing unpleasant suggestions about +Miriam Cohen, which they insist was Mary's full name. For the great +majority the Catholic or the Protestant faith was skin-deep. The +Nazi faith is pumped into the marrow of their bones.

+ +

The Church of Rome recognizes that the procedure is ideal but +it is in most countries prevented by "the world" (with the devil +behind it), the wickedness of which it never ceases to deplore from +carrying it out in all its purity as Goebbels does. In Italy, in +spite of the disgraceful sacrifices it has made, to get power, it +is very far from having a monopoly of the culture-stream. In Vichy, +France, it has, up to the present, been still more disappointed, +and it remains to be seen how Laval will earn his Papal +decorations. In Poland it almost had a Black Paradise but its Nazi +friends have chased it out. Only in Spain and Portugal, in Brazil +and some of the smaller Latin-American republics, and in stupid +little states like Slovakia which the Nazis tolerate for the time +being, has it got something like a monopoly of the mechanism for +making what we call "minds."

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Quebec may be indignant at being excluded from this small +group of enslaved states but it is not quite on the present level +of Spain and Portugal. In spite of the scandalous reticence of the +press generally most folk who are likely to read this know the +orgies of murder and torture in which Franco, under the eyes of +complacent American and British ministers, has indulged since he +won Spain for the Santa Fe. It has been going on for years in +Portugal. Read the section on Portugal (pp. 278-86) in Seldes's +Catholic Crisis. After quoting what Jesuits admiringly tell America +about it -- that it is "an applied resume of Catholic political +philosophy" and a land of profound peace, prosperity, and happiness +-- he gives this passage from Duff, the official of the British +Foreign Office who wrote as "Carlos Prieto":

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"Political prisoners are tortured in a manner which prevailed +during the Inquisition. . . . As reported by those who suffered +[Time and Tide, September 12, 1936], they include thumb-screws,

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burning of the soles of the feet, squeezing the head in book-presses, hanging by wrists and ankles, nude imprisonment in +temperatures below zero, and walking in a circle until the prisoner +drops.

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Salazar being a scientific man has added an electric chair, +not to kill but to torture, which is more beastly. This was written +six years ago, when Portugal was generally described as a happy +little state under its holy Catholic trinity of General Carmona, +Premier Salazar, and Cardinal Cerejeira.

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In blissful lands like this, in which the majority of the +workers are totally illiterate and would regard a radio receiver as +a new trick of the devil, where the clergy and a small minority of +interested supporters enjoy the bulk of what wealth there is, the +Black International can fairly emulate the success of Goebbels. In +countries like America they apply the two principles as effectively +as the wicked world allows them. They rely chiefly upon the +Catholic school, the Catholic press, and the threat of hell for +reading "bad books" or listening to critics.

+ +

I described the operation of the Catholic schools in an +earlier book of this series. The apologist wants the public to +believe that -- here he puts on his most affable expression -- it +is just an institution like any other school for making efficient +citizens so is entitled to a full share of public funds, but the +Church provides the schools and asks only that it be, allowed to +give a few lessons to the children in their own faith. I gave the +words in which the Pope in his open letter to Cardinal Gasparri in +1929 expressly condemned that version of Catholic education. He +claimed not only that the education of children belongs primarily +to the Church not the state but he went on to say that the Church +would not agree to being "confined to the subsidized teaching of +religious truth:" that is to say, to including lessons on religion +by paid priests or teachers in the ordinary curriculum. The Church +must have the whole school. Its predominant purpose is to make +life-long Catholics, The Pope (Pius XI) made his meaning clear +enough in his encyclical on Catholic education:

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"A school does not become conformable to the rights of the +Church and of the Christian family and worthy to be attended by +Catholic children simply because religious instruction is given. . +. . That a school may be such all its teaching, all its +arrangements, teachers, program, and books, at all levels, must be +inspired by the Christian spirit, under the direction and maternal +vigilance of the Church, so that religion may be truly both the +foundation and the crown of all instruction, in all grades, not +only primary but also intermediate and higher."

+ +

The school, in other words, must be a perfect Goebbelesque +institution. It must strike one note -- Holy Faith, Holy Father, +Holy Mother -- and see that it is not disturbed by any other note. +I do not know about America but in Britain the Catholic clergy get +about 50 percent of the cost of this sort of thing met out of +public funds and fire their people with a cry that they are treated +with gross injustice and prejudice because it is not more.

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I told in an earlier book how, not satisfied with this, they +tried to get the teaching, especially the historical lessons, in +the public schools modelled on Catholic lines. J.W. Poynter, who +was at the time in the inner circle or plotting center of British +Catholicism, describes the conspiracy in Roman Catholics and School +History Books (1930). It amazed and disgusted him even while he was +a Catholic. They operated with such stealth that, although he was +a member of their Vigilance Committee, they tried to keep him in +ignorance, but he contrived to see a copy of the privately printed +two-volume work (1400 pages) of the "errors" they wanted corrected +in the books in use in government schools. Luther was to be +described as "an unworthy German friar" and Bloody Mary -- the most +truculent fanatic who ever sat on the English throne -- as a gentle +lady who was all for religious freedom. They relied on Catholic +Trade Unionists and Catholic officials in the Education Department +to secure this monstrous gain for them. Is that what they have done +in Boston and other American cities?

+ +

The books they use in their own schools and shower upon the +children as prizes are poisonous and crammed with lies about saints +and martyrs, Popes, the medieval Church, the Reformation, and so +on. I have before me a book written for children and child-like +adults by the Australian Archbishop Sheehan and much used in +Ireland and Australia (A Simple Course of Religion, 1938). It is +deliciously Illustrated. There is a half-tone illustration of Adam +and Eve with less clothing on than Tarzan and Maureen. There is +another -- but in this case the child is conscientiously warned +that it is "not a real picture" -- of the Holy Trinity and (an old +man, a Nordic type of young man, and a pigeon): one showing the boy +Jesus ("he who made the starry skies") holding a board while Papa +planes it: one of Jesus giving "Holy Communion" to the apostles +1900 years ago in the form of wafers from a modem silver chalice: +one showing a soul, which is a duplicate of the body, being taken +up to heaven by angels. Most children will take these to be +photographs of the actual persons and events.

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The learned archbishop might plead that it is lawful to tell +children fairy-tales and open their eyes later, but almost as +childish is another book I have, by Bishop H.G. Graham (What Faith +Really Means, 1914), that is intended for grown-ups. Some of you +may still boggle at my description of the Catholic doctrine of the +Eucharist: that the real living body of Jesus is physically present +in every consecrated wafer and drop of wine. Graham to clinch the +matter, tells his readers that Jesus "often appeared to holy +priests at Mass under the sweet figure of a little child" (p. 92). +I told, I think, how another of these pious fairy-tales is that +blood often spurts from the wafer when wicked Freemasons and +Satanists stab it. We are not told that Jesus ever does anything +when he is handled (in the Mass) by priests who smile at the dogma +or sleep with their domestic servants. However, these doctrines are +so luminously true that it is "impossible to shake a Catholic's +faith," the bishop says. Then how about these millions of +acknowledged seceders in America and Britain? There is no such +thing as a quite honest seceder, Graham -- in full accord with +Canon Law -- says. Referring to the man who professes that he has +left the Church he says: "We know for certain that he has gone +wrong, and that he has culpably lost the gift of faith": when a

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priest secedes Catholics who become aware of it -- the fact is +denied unless the scoundrel takes to writing books and it can be +denied no longer -- are always taught that the reason was either +pride, lust of women, or to get more drink; as if the apostate +priest, who generally takes years to earn a moderate living, got +one-tenth the opportunities for fornication or had one-tenth the +chances to get drunk that he had in the Church.

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This zone of poison-gas to protect the "precious gift of +faith" which is planted in the child's mind begins to be formed in +the school. But in a non-Catholic country the defenses are very +imperfect. From the exotic atmosphere of the school the child +rushes, especially in the late afternoon, into a very different +atmosphere. Distinguished paedagogists and psychologists have +inquired very learnedly into the frequency of religious conversion +in the adolescent. That sort of inquiry is legitimate. It does not +offend Catholics. But no academic authority ever studies the +immensely greater frequency of religious de-version (if I may use +the word) amongst the adolescent, especially Catholic boys and +youths. It is a common subject of discussion at conferences of +Catholic teachers, and I have earlier quoted the admissions of +various priests that from 50 to 80 percent of the boys who attend +Catholic schools give up the faith when they leave. Goebbels can +keep the blinkers on Nazi boys during all their waking hours. The +world outside the school is as saturated with the Nazi creed as the +school itself. But the Catholic boy tears off his blinkers when the +five or Six hours in school are over and sees the world of reality.

+ +

I broadly described the system by means of which the priests +try to protect in post-school years the "Catholic mind" they have +built up. The weekly sermon, the Catholic press and literature, and +now the Catholic Radio Hour are the chief agencies, and the main +purpose of them is to keep the faithful in their blinkers. The +pretence that the sole object is to maintain a high moral character +in the Catholic body is disproved by the actual character of that +body, as I have shown in earlier books and will further show in the +final book of this series; and the pretence that it is to attract +outsiders to the faith is disproved by the miserable trickle of +25000 converts (often for social or other non-religious grounds) +a year. The greatest concern of the national branches of the Black +International in all non-Catholic or mixed countries is to protect +the belief of Catholics themselves by a smoke-screen.

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I am not sure if I ought not to say, as I hinted above, a +poison-gas zone to keep the believers from straying into alien +pastures. It is another of the discreditable distinctions of the +Church of Rome that its priests and writers consistently use fowler +language about their critics and opponents than do the writers or +clergy of any other Church. The law of libel alone restrains them. +During the forty-five years in which I have criticized the Church +-- and they will probably say that I am its most formidable critic +-- I have never known them to put in print -- they, of course, put +all sorts of picturesque rumors into whispered circulation -- one +single word reflecting on my character in such form that I could +have the matter settled in court, yet it is the almost universal +practice to say that opponents of the Church are dishonest and +mendacious. I quoted the most learned cleric of the British

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Catholic Church, Cardinal Gasquet affirming that we pour out a +"Mississippi of lies." But you probably know this feature of +Catholic literature and propaganda. These booklets contain hundreds +of examples.

+ +

The psychology of it is simple. The main element of the +education of the Catholics themselves is that the body of doctrine +is so beautiful, so clearly true and reasonable, that no one can be +in good faith who abandons it and no one can resist its appeal who +really knows it. It is on this basis alone that Catholics can be +reconciled to the intolerance which claims complete liberty, or +even a privileged position, in a non-Catholic country and flatly +denies liberty to other religions in a Catholic land, as to the +gross inconsistency of the clergy in urging them to get non-Catholics to read or listen to Catholic stuff while sternly +forbidding them to read what the non-Catholic says. But even the +Catholic, if he happens to stumble upon, for instance, the official +report that 31 percent of the conscripts for the armed forces +confess to Catholic baptism while only about 20000000 members of +the Church are claimed (or about 15 percent instead of 31), must +feel that it is rather thin to impute "bad faith" to these millions +of seceders, and that the claim that the faith is irresistible to +those who know it, when the immense annual expenditure on books, +papers, lectures, and radio brings in only a few thousand converts +a year is still thinner.

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So the Church imposes on believers the supplementary theory +that their faith is so holy and so necessary for good conduct in +this world and salvation in the next that it is arch-enemies the +world and the devil, engage in a gorgeous campaign of lies and +misrepresentation against it. This may sound melodramatic, but +after what we saw about the real nature of Catholic dogmas and the +extraordinary pride of Catholics in them you will expect +melodramatic or childish features. It is a unique religious system, +and it is on that basis alone that we can understand the action of +the Black International in openly conspiring with the enemies of +America and Britain and of modern civilization yet retaining the +enthusiastic allegiance of 17000000 Americans and Britishers.

+ +

Naturally this line of argument is handed out on every +possible note, from hesitating insinuation to blunt and blatant +affirmation. Most people would be surprised at the extent to which +even educated Catholics accept it. Soon after I left the Church I +met on the streets of London a Catholic teacher, master of a school +in a middle-class suburb, who knew me. He turned pale, either with +anger or fear, and asked me, very seriously, if I was not afraid +that the earth would open and let me down to where I belonged. +Another, an older and better-read Catholic schoolmaster, who had +been all admirer of mine and to whom I proposed to explain my +secession, replied (in a letter reproduced in my Twelve Years in a +Monastery) that he would not listen to a word but left me to "the +worm of conscience" and only trusted I would not sink to "the +lowest depths." A well-known priest of high character wrote me that +he supposed he would soon hear that I had "run off with another +man's wife." A Catholic novelist can hardly introduce an ex-priest +into his story without leaving him under a dark cloud and souring +the reader against him.

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All this is part of the blinker-system of the Church. One, of +course, finds some degree of hostility to or dislike of seceders in +every Church but in none does it approach the virulent hatred of +seceders and critics inspired by the Black International. Poynter, +who had been for years on the inner councils of Catholic Action, +told me, though I hardly needed the information, that the +instruction given to writers and speakers was that they must not +directly attack name critics of the Church -- people might want to +read their books -- but keep up the fiction that all such critics +and apostates are a lot of scurvy knaves, sold to the devil and +cooperating in his frenzy to destroy the beautiful Church which +alone frustrates his strange passion to pervert the whole race. Dip +into almost any Catholic weekly if you want a little clean fun. +Correspondents have often told me of the effect of all this on +Catholics. They turn pale if my name is maliciously dragged into a +conversation with them, They burn my books when they get an +opportunity. Once, soon after I left the Church, a society billed +me in large posters, to lecture in the city of Manchester, and most +of the bills were torn off the walls during the night. I may +confess since she came to more liberal views before she died, that +it was my sister, a Catholic schoolmistress, who spent a night +roaming over the city, dodging the police and tearing down the +posters.

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This calculated hatred and slander of critics has the double +effect of preventing Catholics from reading them and at the same +time convincing them that their faith really is the most beautiful +and salutary thing in the world seeing that the devil and wicked +men have such a peculiar rage against it. Add that, as Bishop +Graham says and theology and Canon Law expressly teach, it is a +mortal sin (like rape or murder) to have even a doubt about a dogma +of the Church, and it is equally a mortal sin to expose yourself to +the danger of having a doubt by reading critics, and you have the +particular strength of the Catholic prohibition of the reading of +"bad books." Works or articles which criticize the, faith or the +priests in even the most dignified language are purposely bracketed +by the Church with what it calls obscene books. They are in fact, +proved by that famous Catholic logic to be worse than obscene +books. How? Quite easily. The sin of fornication or masturbation to +which the obscene book may lead can be confessed and dismissed from +the mind. But the doubt, the devil's own child, has a way of +lingering or recurring after confession. . . .

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One of the real mistakes of outsiders about the Church. -- +they are almost always mistakes in favor of the Church or failures +to realize the full absurdity or monstrosity of its doctrines -- is +to suppose that the priest, like any other religious minister, just +paternally warns his "flock" that it is dangerous to read books +against his faith. Not a bit of it. The Church of Rome is again +unique, as it always is when it is protecting the interests of the +Black International. No other religion has gone so far as to put +"Commandments of the Church" on the same level as the Decalogue and +say that transgression of them is punishment with eternal torment. +And it is a very stern law of the Church that forbids the reading +of "bad books."

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The domestic or private part of the Canon Law in its latest +version -- now an official code not a professor's lectures -- may +be read in English, if you can safely separate the text from the +bemusing commentary in Woywood's Practical Commentary on the Code +of Canon Law: One of the longest clauses in it (1399) deals with +the reading of books against faith or morals. The Catholic must not +read any non-Catholic translation of the Bible -- the English +Bible, for instance, or books which defend "fortune-telling, +divination, or magic," or books that defend the law of divorce, +etc. You wonder how he gets through the Sunday paper. However, the +main point is that he must not read "books by any non-Catholic +treating professedly of religion unless it is certain that they +contain nothing contrary to the Catholic faith" or any books +"tending in any way to undermine the very foundations of religion." +Certain Catholics may get permission from the bishop (who in +practice delegates the authority to confessors) to read a book of +this kind if they have a serious reason, not merely curiosity, but +even the bishop's permission "exempts nobody from the provisions of +the natural law which forbids the reading of books that are for the +particular reader a proximate occasion of sin" or, in other words, +may inspire a doubt. So the permission given with the right hand is +taken away with the left. And lest you should think that this is +just an academic prohibition -- a sort of paternal "don't let me +catch you with your pants down" -- clause 2318 grimly says that +Catholics who possess or read, without permission, books by +apostates criticizing the Church are ipso facto excommunicated. +That is hell with the lid off. By the very act of reading a single +paragraph they incur the awful penalty and cannot approach the +Church to confess it or hold communication with any other +Catholics. The Church will give a gorgeous funeral to a notorious +boss-gangster and murderer but will insist that the monster who has +read one of these booklets and not been reconciled shall be buried +like a dog. Any priest can absolve the murderer but the wretch who +has read one of McCabe's foul books without the bishop's permission +has to be re-admitted to the Church by the bishop or the Pope.

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You begin to understand the defense-mechanism of the Black +International but you have not yet got the half of it. It obviously +follows that the Catholic must not attend a lecture in which the +Church may be criticized. Once, lecturing in a district which had +a large Catholic population I saw two burly Irish priests brazenly +walk through the room and look at every face to see if any of their +parishioners had dared to attend! On the next Sunday, doubtless, +they would urge Catholics to drag their non-Catholic, friends to a +Catholic lecture. But it is not generally known that the Catholic +is forbidden under the same penalty to enter into private +discussion of religion with any man who has the ability or the +knowledge to disturb him. Clause 1325 runs:

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"Catholics shall not enter into any disputes or conferences +with non-Catholics -- especially public ones -- without the +permission of the Holy See or, in urgent case, of the local +Ordinary (bishop)."

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The public debate is here forbidden only a little more +stringently than the discussion of religion with a non-Catholic +neighbor. You may at times have noticed how shy of discussing his +faith your neighbor is, but this particular clause is not widely

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known to Catholics, and the priest is careful not to mention it. +The unbeliever might scoff, and even the believer might become +suspicious when he is told that his faith is solidly based that it +is "absolutely impossible to shake it" yet he must not argue about +it with a non-Catholic friend.

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Catholics never read Canon Law. It is the priest's business to +convoy these commands of the Church to the faithful. During his +visits to his parishioners he has a keen scent for heretical books, +and I have known him to put books of mine (loaned by request) on +the fire in the house to emphasize the law and his authority. +Chiefly he acts through sermons. He talks more about bad books than +he does about chastity, and to a point we will admire his honesty, +for he would, far rather see them reading spicy novels than +criticisms of the Church. Every Catholic, therefore, is quite +familiar with the law. But do not imagine that you will disturb him +by pointing out that he challenges you to read both sides but must +absolutely refuse himself to read your side. Error, remember, has +not the same rights as truth. In any case, he will tell you his +writers and lecturers always faithfully tell him what the opponents +of the Church say. The poor fish! If there is one field of their +work in which they are more recklessly untruthful than another it +is in quoting or giving an account of the arguments of their +opponents or suppressing all knowledge of them. Quotations are +false and no exact reference given so that you cannot check them. +Priests writing on science are shorn of their clerical titles and +passed off as authorities. Writers on science of the last century +are quoted as living authorities. . . . But my works abound in +examples of the unscrupulous trickery exercised in this field.

+ +

As to the Index of Prohibited Books, although it is still in +force and receives an addition every few years, you may dismiss it +from consideration. No priest has a copy of it, and Catholics have +no idea of the utter stupidity which the Vatican has betrayed in +compiling it. Originally and until the 18th Century it served as a +guide to Inquisitors in examining the library of a suspect. For the +last century and a half criticisms of the Church have poured out in +such floods even in Latin countries, that it is impossible to +compile a catalogue; and there would not be much good literature +left outside it. The Church relies on the general prohibition of +the Canon Law and the libeling of critics. Non-Catholic writers who +praise the "discipline" and "organization" of the Church are as +culpable as those who a few years ago praised the discipline and +organization of the Fascist or the Nazi party. One wonders if they +recognize it even now when they see the Black International in +alliance with the powers of evil.

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Chapter III

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DRAWING THE DRAGON'S TEETH

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From figures which I have earlier given we are compelled to +conclude that if the Roman Church in America has only about +15000000 genuine members there must be at east a further +10000000 who were baptized in the Church and have abandoned it. +How did they come to surmount the spiked rails the Church puts

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round them and venture beyond the poison-zone which lays between +them and its critics. From observation and inquiry I should say +that the great majority of these seceders never read anything +against the Church. Living psychology is a matter of great lucidity +and infinite variations, but you can fairly divide this mass of +seceders into two classes: a minority of thinking and reading folk +and a majority of folk who think little and read less.

+ +

The apologetic plea that these millions of the majority-folk +are therefore men and women who just "resented the restraints which +the good Church put upon their passions" and are pretending to have +lost faith in it is so childish that you may find it difficult to +believe that it is urged. Very large numbers of Catholics have +friends, neighbors, or relatives who have left the Church and know +how false this theory of their secession is: besides that the idea +that church-goers do not drink or misbehave as much as seceders +will tickle many Catholics. "In my parish," said a Glasgow priest +to me when I was in the Church, "young folk do not marry until they +have proof that they will have children"; and your 10000000 +American seceders must be heroic if they drink more than the Irish +or are more amorous than the Latin Americans. "Since a Polish force +was encamped in this district," a British correspondent wrote me a +few weeks ago, "all the girls are pregnant." I will give figures +and authorities in a later book.

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The simplest and most plausible explanation of secession from +the Roman Church is the utter absurdity, arbitrariness, or +inhumanity of its characteristic doctrines as I have described +them. You need no malevolent critic or devil-inspired book to help +you to see this. As a matter of fact the heaviest secessions, I +have shown, are of boys of fourteen to sixteen or seventeen, and +the moralist who suggests that they want to "give rein to their +passions" is as absurd as the man who supposes that to any extent +they read books criticizing the Church. They came as spontaneously, +or with a little assistance from comrades in the workshop, to see +that what they have been taught is "crazy" as the artist who knows +only the rich church near his home thinks its services beautiful. +This is, in fact, often the development in the case of well-educated as well as uneducated seceders. Reading critics of the +Church or theology had nothing whatever to do with my own +secession, and I have met many other men of intellectual life who +rejected Romanism because, without outside impulse, they sat down +to a critical Study of their beliefs.

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"It Pays to Advertise" businessmen say, in the language of a +certain comedy. Not always. The Church of Rome in America spends +hundreds of millions of dollars annually in advertising its goods +to the general public, and its crop of 20000 converts a year is +hardly worth $10000 a year to it. It is advertising obviously +unsound goods, and folk stream out of it because they see this. +Doubt usually precedes inquiry. When a man begins to suspect that +the iron hand of the Church is a device in its own interest, when +he looks fantastic or repulsive doctrines squarely in the face, he +crosses the spiked fence and the poison-zone and his eyes are +opened to the great deception that has been practiced on him. The +first step is largely a matter of temperament.

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That is, I think, in most cases the psychology of the seceder, +and the clerical defense-mechanism I have described is useless +against it. But even the first faint doubt is very apt to be +inspired by some news in the press or some remark in conversation, +by the sight of the growing general indifference to religion, by +reflection on the obvious fact that so few men of any intellectual +distinction ever join the Church, and so on. The doubt that arises +justifies a man in looking outside the Church for help in checking +its doctrines, and he soon learns how unscrupulous Catholic writers +are in pretending to state the arguments of their critics,

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For instance, I noticed in an earlier book a volume in which +the very popular and allegedly learned apologist Fulton Sheen +complains that Catholicism is actually "intellectually +impoverished" by the lack of "a good sound intellectual opposition" +today. In the same work he has a chapter on the evolution of man, +and he tells his Catholic readers that only "two fossils" have been +found that have a bearing on it. The Catholic reader is free to go +to the Natural History Museum to see the "two fossils" or to take +out a book on prehistoric man, and he finds that at the time when +Sheen made this idiotic statement (betraying an incredible +ignorance of the subject) the prehistoric remains already +discovered would, if decently interred, fill a nice little +cemetery. The Catholic, however orthodox, no longer wonders that no +scientific man cares to notice his apologists, and he goes from +science to history and finds that the deception is even greater. He +realizes that the idea that "the world" -- which means everything +and everybody outside Catholicism -- is so vicious and depraved +that it has to be coupled with the flesh and the devil, is a +clerical trick, and that the malice and untruth are in the Church +itself.

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To combat this danger the Church in non-Catholic countries +like America relies on the third part of its defense-mechanism, the +first being, as I said, the Catholic school, the second the stern +prohibition of any access to criticism of the Church. Isolation of +the active-minded Catholic is no longer possible, though the +majority of the 7000.000 or so adult members of the Church in +America may be trusted to isolate themselves. Of 200 people living +in the street in which I write I should say that one-fifth never +read anything and one-fifth never look at anything above the level +of the picture-paper or a weak sentimental novel. American +Catholics with their very large proportion of immigrants and the +poorer workers come under an even less flattering analysis. But +there are millions of ordinary citizens amongst them who read the +daily paper through, use the free or subscription library and mix +freely with neighbors of all religions or none. It is from this +body that the secessions occur, and it has been found futile to +hope to counteract all the news and impressions they pick up by +sophistry and untruth in the Catholic weekly. The Black +International must neutralize the poison in the sources of their +information and their impressions. This work began with the +plausible plea, on the lives of good-neighborly feeling, that +nothing must be said or done that is "offensive to Catholics," and +this was so easily accomplished that the Black International went

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on to ensure to a remarkable extent that the sources of a man's +ideas and impressions -- newspapers, radios, books, libraries, +political speeches, etc. -- should be used to flatter the Church +and lie about its defects and its achievements.

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These two series of booklets contain so many hundred +illustrations of this that I might be content to leave the matter +there, but unfortunately few people realize to what an appalling +extent this one-tenth of the nation, with its prodigious wealth and +its powerful organization, have been permitted to poison the wells +of public instruction. Until Japan made its crafty attack on +America it was common to hear rather disdainful expressions about +the way in which France and Britain had been led by the nose to the +brink of the pit which the Nazis and Fascists had dug. In Australia +and Canada as well as America the old formula that the British are +an old and effete nation, destined to lose the high position they +had won in history, was revived and generally repeated. The +apostasy of France did not open the eyes of critics to the truth, +for even now the press will not tell how the Church had worked for +that betrayal. The situation is now much the same in America and +Britain, yet in neither country is there even a broad recognition +-- in spite of the stubborn isolationism of Catholics to the last +moment and the present disgraceful conduct of the Church in Quebec +-- of the monstrous part that the Black International has played or +the fact that both countries were kept slumbering by a press that +gravely betrayed them under the equal influence of Catholicism and +capitalism.

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At the moment, for instance, there is some fuss because in the +very middle of its foul onslaught Japan is announced to have +exchanged ambassadors with the Vatican. I take it -- there is not +time for American news on this point to reach me -- that your +apologists smooth out the anger as they do here. One British paper +(Glasgow Herald), a fairly independent and honest daily, ventured +to express its editorial indignation, and this was at once +counteracted by a long letter from a Catholic (a Benedictine abbot, +I believe) of the most untruthful and misleading character. The +gist of it was that the Vatican had for years sought in vain +permission from the Japanese to supervise the spiritual interests +of its subjects in Japan, and no one would expect it to withdraw +from so purely religious a request, especially as the Church "never +interfered in polities," when the Japs offered it in the present +year. This is the usual constructive lie relying on the poor memory +of the public and the reluctance of editors to recall facts which +Catholics would resent.

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My readers know that in 1937 (The A B C Library of Living +Knowledge, No. 6) I fully warned them of the criminal aims of Japan +and the close cooperation of the Vatican with it since 1931. I +said, and I gave the evidence in an earlier book of this series, +that the plan to exchange ambassadors was agreed upon in 1935, as +the Pope's own paper, the Osservatore, joyously announced. In the +British press this development of cordial relations with the +Vatican, in order to get Catholic influence on the press all over +the world, was smothered in the usual way, but Americans ought to +have known what to expect. In October (14) 1937 the Associated +Press had a cable from its Rome correspondent generally reproduced

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in the papers. The information was from "a reliable Vatican source" +and was to the effect that "the Holy See has instructed its +hierarchy and missions in the Far East to cooperate with Japanese +action in China," and the memorandum it had sent was calculated to +"give the Japanese military authorities the clear impression that +on the part of the Catholic Church there is no obstacle to complete +collaboration." The message was, Seldes says, denied by the Vatican +and by the Pope's representative at Washington. The A.P. replied +that its agent had got the message confirmed at the Vatican Press +Bureau before he issued it. The well-known journalist, Pegler, +stated in a syndicated article (which is before me now) that from +his own knowledge of the Vatican Press Bureau, which he described +as corrupt, he had no doubt of the truth of the report and that +"the editors of the Catholic Press in this country are not ignorant +of the situation." Yet the Catholic press denied it with the usual +show of anger and injured innocence, and the whole weight of the +Church's influence was used to dupe the public. And meantime, as I +showed, the Vatican continued -- to cultivate the most cordial +relations with Japan and gave Matsuoka, its special agent for +hoodwinking America, a gold medal when he visited the Pope in 1941. +The plea that Japan has for the first time acceded to the Pope's +long pressure for diplomatic relations and that the purpose is +purely ecclesiastical is brazen but Catholics get away with it. +They control the press.

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This was not the first or weightiest proof of the way in which +the Black International in America had began to poison the wells. +In 1936 Franco had raised the flag of revolt in Spain. The +spontaneous reaction of America wag to support the Spanish +government, in spite of the flood of libels of it already released +in the Catholic press, as the revolt was notoriously a Fascist +attempt to destroy a democracy. Seldes estimated that 98 percent of +America was against Franco. 50 percent of American Catholics were +against him (as shown by a Gallup Survey), but 98 percent of the +Catholic prelates were strong against the Spanish government. So +the duped laity of Catholic Action Were driven into the field by +their clerical slave-drivers. By 1938 hardly a paper in America did +justice to the Loyalists or dare speak of "Rebels." Every Catholic-Fascist lie was endorsed, and the most contemptible methods were +adopted to suppress the truth and secure the triumph of injustice. +When a small group of Spanish priests came over to tell America the +truth they were pitilessly persecuted. Proprietors of halls were +threatened if they wanted to open them to the priests, and managers +of hotels were threatened if they gave them rooms. Firms were even +bullied and boycotted for sending medical supplies to the Spanish +government. Roosevelt was induced by Catholics to load the scales +against the hard-pressed democrats by an Embargo, and when the open +and cynical intervention of Italy and Germany showed that it was +unjust, he was dissuaded by Catholics from lifting it. A Washington +official is said to have declared that the one man in America who +could get the cruel Embargo lifted was Cardinal Mundelein. In the +end it was difficult to ascertain the truth. Publishers who +accepted books which told it, newspapers which reviewed them, and +libraries which circulated them were threatened or penalized. It +was a massive exhibition of the virtually Fascist power which the +Black International had won in America.

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Seldes gave a list of 18 general charges against the Church of +grave misconduct in turning (as it always does) the tolerance which +it had won in America into a bitter intolerance of others and a use +of violent and unscrupulous methods to prevent the public from +learning the truth. As far as machinery is concerned these charges +are that it exercises in its own interest a most vicious pressure +on the press -- it has made an end of the boasted freedom of the +press in America -- publishers, libraries, public meetings, and the +letting of public buildings by state authorities. Seldes should +have added a scandalous interference with the school-books used in +public schools (Boston, etc.). It achieves its aim generally by +intimidation, sometimes by organizing mobs of fanatical or low-class Catholics to use violence. Generally it is enough to threaten +a secession of Catholic readers or advertisers. Certain papers +which have done so much to lower the standard of American +journalism are ready and eager at any time to reap profit by +catering to the Catholic authorities and attracting Catholics from +papers which make some effort to make a stand for freedom and +independence; just as there has been a lamentable growth in America +of writers, especially of history, who manipulate or color the +facts to get Catholic recommendation and circulation. Newspapers +and books used to be the most dangerous part of that "world" which +the Black International dreaded, so they have with almost complete +success drawn the teeth of the dragon.

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Heywood Broun said years ago that "there is not a single New +York editor who does not live in terror of this group." I spent six +months in New York in 1917 and wanted to get out a book on the +Roman Church. I had not then met Haldeman-Julius and did not know +how he kept the banner of freedom flying in a corner of Kansas. But +a well-known New York publisher told me that I would not find a +publisher for such a work in New York. My friend G.H. Putnam had +published one for me, but he complained that he had hoped I would +be less critical and he did not publish another. He had submitted +the manuscript of his own History of the Index to several priests +before he published it. The general excuse of journalists, editors, +writers, publishers, librarians, and bookstore-owners is that they +do not want to stir sectarian strife. There can be few of them who +do not recognize in their own minds today that if there bad not +been this mighty conspiracy during the last ten years to suppress +all news that the Church wanted suppressed the world would not have +drifted into its present appalling condition.

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The political weapon for breaking the teeth of their opponents +is similar to the economic; indeed both are at the bottom economic. +It is astonishing to find an intelligent Catholic repeating the +clerical bleat that "the Church never interferes in polities." Some +writers discuss the matter at length but the answer is simple. +Whenever the interests of the Church are involved in any political +issue it not only interferes but on its own principles is bound to +do so, and no one accuses it of interfering in a political struggle +in which its own interests, directly or indirectly, are not +involved. But when you reflect that its "interests" mean not simply +the moral or religious welfare of its subjects but very decidedly +the acquisition of power and wealth -- as a means of doing further +good, of course -- you see how easily it is entangled in political +troubles.

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Why in New York did it take so open a part on the reactionary +side in the struggle for the Child Labor Amendment, in Washington +on the question of the enlargement of the Supreme Court, in various +places in local labor disputes? Why did it flirt so openly with +Wall Street and the annexationists during the church-trouble in +Mexico? These are American matters which I leave to writers like +Seldes, but why the sacred fury year after year against Russia and +Communism? The persecution of religion was a false and hollow +excuse. The outstanding reasons were to protect the enormous wealth +which the Church has in many countries and to win the interest and +favors of capitalists like Ford.

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I have dealt in an earlier book with the remaining aspect of +the Roman Church's justification of its censorship, intolerance, +bullying, bribery, and corruption of the organs of public +instruction: its plea that in getting a large control of the movies +and the circulation of books and plays it serves a most important +national purpose by scotching immoral tendencies. It is far more +anxious to suppress a pro-Spanish (democratic) film like "Blockade" +or a pro-Russian film than to cut out an occasional sex-joke or to +turn the clerical microscope upon the celluloid strip of a bathroom +or bedroom scene. American law has in this respect fixed the limits +of freedom as narrowly as any other and more narrowly than the law +of most Catholic countries, and the American public are generally +content with the police-interpretation of the law. They want no +dog-collared amateurs to assist them. The Black International seeks +this power partly because it raises its prestige in the country and +partly to complete its control of the means of enlightening the +public. To an outsider it seems amazing how Americans, who in spite +of police and parsons show in their novels, plays and films that +they take as sensible a view of sex as any in the world, tolerate +this hypocritical meddling of a minority which merely seeks to +advertise and augment its own power. It reminds me of a certain +British author who was well-known for his writings on and zeal +against the White Slave Traffic. A friend who lived in the same +block of apartments -- very expensive apartments -- as he in +London, assured me that it was not uncommon to see the man going, +half or more than half drunk, to his rooms at night with a "white +slave" on each arm.

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For some readers, in fine, who may have happened to meet a few +priests and who are reluctant to accept what they feel to be a very +serious indictment of the clerical body, let me add a few words. +This attitude is usually very illogical. I have met men who adopted +it on the strength of a social meeting with a single priest or +bishop. Not only has this no relation to the question of the +methods of the clerical body, not only are priests in such +circumstances only too anxious to impress a non-Catholic as very +tolerant and broad-minded, but scientific research has exploded the +fallacy that you can read a man's "character" in that fashion. I am +from a very long and wide experience as good a judge of character +as any, yet I was cheated out of $10000, my life-savings, by a +lady I had known well for 20 years and considered of exceptionally +high character.

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My indictment of the clergy, however, is not so much an +ethical charge as a claim that their professional zeal forces them +into practices which are gravely prejudicial to the interests ()f

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the community. I will not be misunderstood. Priests are, as a body, +far from Being men of high character. They are not chosen for +character and do not take up the career as a rule from the motives +which the laity imagine. The skepticism which the majority of them +develop in one degree or other and the clandestine sex-relations +they enjoy in spite of vows engender a hypocrisy which poisons +character. But the question of character is not so much involved in +the charges I make here. Chiefly I accuse them of a comprehensive +conspiracy to get the truth suppressed in the organs of public +instruction, and when this is the suppression of truth which would +injure the Church they regard it as a virtue. Even on the positive +side, when they pour out, to use their own words against them, "a +Mississippi of lies," you have to remember their ethical theory of +mental reservation." The strict meaning of this is that you may, if +the person you are addressing has "no right to the truth" -- and no +one has a right to the kind of truth that hurts the Church -- use +words that he takes to mean something which you say in your own +mind that you do not mean. It is commonly interpreted as a license +to lie in the interest of the Church or the clergy. My own +professor of theology, a priest of great distinction in the +clerical body at London, lied so easily and unblushingly in the +interest of the Church that he clearly came to regard the line +between truth and untruth as of little importance. Another British +apologist, a man of generally stricter character, explains in a +little volume of advice to lay apostles that there are two uses of +facts. One is the logical way to use them -- simply to state them +correctly and let your hearer appraise them -- and the other is the +rhetorical use; by which he plainly means that when the facts +correctly stated tell against the Church or contradict its writers +you must make your statement of them innocuous or favorable to the +Church.

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Chapter IV

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SUGAR PLUMS FOR THE LOYAL

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But we waste time in any attempt to analyze the mind or the +conscience of churchmen. The ugly and important fact is that they +have secured such power over the organs of public instruction, even +in countries where they are a small minority, that it is +increasingly difficult to convey to the general public facts that +they ought to know. I have no abstract or Platonist veneration for +Truth, with a capital letter -- you will probably find this quoted +as a confession that I have no respect for truth -- nor, on the +other hand, am I a Pragmatist in the philosophical sense. In all my +work I aim to convey truth in the form of facts critically -- that +is to say, intellectually-ascertained and verified, but especially +facts of social significance or practical importance. That is the +general attitude of thoughtful Americans, and they now find that, +whereas fifty years of steady education and mental emancipation had +opened up a promise of a triumphant spread of it, the Black +International, in a vile cooperation with other corrupt interests, +threatens to destroy all the liberty that had been won. This side +of its work is of vital important in relation to the theme of the +present series of books: the question how it could keep the +allegiance of 15000000 Americans and the superficial respect of

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the majority of the nation while during years it conspired with +greedy plotters against America and civilization. And when these +folk at the same time shout them-selves red in the face with +warnings against the diabolical machinations of Communists, +Bolsheviks (now, Mr. Churchill says, "our noble Russian friends"), +Atheists, Freemasons, and even Jews, the situation is nauseating.

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How it is to be remedied I do not know. The press can help no +longer, radio is in the hands of the enemy, politicians find the +arrangement can be used to their own profit, and the immense body +of university professor's sit silent or, in a few cases, join the +sycophants. It may be that our victory in the war will be followed +by a strong anti-clerical reaction. Do not build on it. The Church +will strain every nerve to keep the grim truth about its connection +with the war concealed, and it is now a first principle of +politicians of every shade that "we must not antagonize the +Catholic Church." What sort of state-structure they hope to build +on that rotten foundation, and how leaders of advanced parties can +follow this ignoble policy when wherever Fascism has triumphed +(outside Germany) the priests are getting their comrades shot by +the thousands, I do not know. I do my bit in the one field that is +left open to me.

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But we have not yet completed our description of the way in +which the Black International protects the belief in the amazing +bunch of ancient superstitions and medieval priestcraft which I +described in the last book. Let us understand at once that the need +of protection is not so great as one would be inclined to expect +after reading an account of the childish doctrines and tyrannical +rules. Here we may confine ourselves to such countries as America +and Britain, for the long account which I quoted of life in a +Catholic city dispenses me from any need to explain why people +cling to the faith, in such conditions. The illiterate mass are in +the condition of the Irishman who said, "Faith, if the Church said +it was Jonah who swallowed the whale it wouldn't trouble me" -- a +story my professor of theology often repeated, hilariously, in +class -- and the small comfortable minority are protected in their +privileged position by the priests.

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One has first to appreciate the social and psychological value +of the parish. All Churches have the advantage of providing this +satisfaction of one of the fundamental instincts, but the Catholic +clergy contrive to give a special force. The man who, finding other +social contacts to replace it or preferring isolation to listening +weekly to the mummery of the service and bleat of the sermon, +ceases to attend church is more sourly ostracized in a Catholic +than in any other sort of parish. He is a "bad Catholic," which is +as odious a label as the priest can fasten on him. His wife is kept +very sensitive of the gravity and disgrace of his condition, and +many links of old friendship may have to be broken. Few who have +taken an active part in what is called "the life of the parish" +would like to face the soured atmosphere of their neighborhood if +they left the Church. Thus for most of them the clerical warning to +avoid books and lectures that may start a doubt is hardly +necessary. The comfort, if not profit, of a hundred ties with +Catholic neighbors, the weekly meeting at the church-door, the

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social meetings and entertainments in the parish-hall or the +school, the feeling of membership of a large family and the +interest in its life and fortunes, are worth far more than the cold +and penalized Satisfaction of knowing the truth.

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For these folk who make up the greater part of the Catholic +body, religion is, as I said, not so much a matter of conviction as +of settled practices. They want no rupture or dislocation of the +routine. They are, in clerical language, the "practicing" +Catholics, and the way in which they are contrasted with the "non-practicing" -- the conscientious and thoughtful folk who have +dropped out -- as virtue is contrasted with vice, is amusing.

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Every reader who belongs or has at any time belonged to a +religious congregation or parish knows how much this has to do with +membership of a church. To those who have not experienced it we +need only recall the furious zeal of the clergy to prevent the +provision of alternatives on Sundays. In Britain no theater may be +opened on Sundays, and concerts are provided only on special +conditions. Until a year ago no cinema was open. When, under +pressure of public opinion, a law was passed leaving it to local +option whether the cinemas should be opened on Sunday, the harsh +condition was attached that the proprietors must hand over the best +part of the profit to charity, and in most districts the clergy +organized their congregations in a spirited, and generally +successful, fight to prevent the opening. They did not trust a +large part of their own people to go to church if they had an +alternative, although sermons have been ruthlessly cut, brighter +music provided, and a Catholic is not compelled to attend more than +a 25-minute service on the Sunday morning.

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For large numbers there are additional advantages. The +Catholic store-keeper, medical man, journalist, teacher, employee +of a Catholic employer, etc., dare not miss attendance. Women and +girls, it is notorious, find it the opportunity of the week to show +off some new apparel or see what others wear. Many consider that +their matrimonial prospects are far brighter if they remain +attached to one of these socio-religious bodies. An author has left +it on record that he found the meeting in church a unique +opportunity to admire the rounder feminine curves. . . . It is, in +short, a very large error to suppose that a Catholic group or +parish is a body of men and women bound together simply by a common +belief in such doctrines as I described. Mainly it is a body of men +and women whom the accidents of life and education put on a common +path and the unpleasantness of quitting it seems to them not worth +the cold reward of an intellectual satisfaction. It is the obvious +absurdity of doctrines that compels many to face that +unpleasantness. When the religious statistics are closely examined +it will be seen that the Church which alone talks about conquering +America has in the last forty years lost more than its rivals.

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A special device of the Catholic clergy to restrict this large +leakage as far as possible is the organization of the laity in +special societies, guilds, fraternities, sororities, etc., so as to +keep them closer under clerical vigilance and control. I have +earlier explained how it is by means of these societies that the +priest turns the obligation to confess once a year into an

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obligation to confess, every month. Best known and most powerful of +all in America is the Knights of Columbus, more than half a million +strong, which renders most important services to the clergy and +finds very substantial sums of money for them and the Pope. The +society was founded in 1882 mainly as a "fraternal benefit society" +or Catholic insurance company, and it still does a big and +profitable business in insurance. With the usual grotesque false +idea of the character of the European knights of the Middle Ages +Catholic men were enrolled in what professed to be a chivalrous and +romantic body of modern knights errant for the service of the +Church and of each other. They became a vast association of +Catholic men something in character between the Freemasons and the +German Shock Troops with a few features borrowed from the Gestapo.

+ +

The article on them in the new Encyclopedia Americana is part +of the advertising scheme of the Roman Church which is a feature of +the work. It airily dismisses the much-discussed question of the +Secret oath of the Knights by saying: "Has no oath, only obligation +of secrecy," which, when you are referring to a Catholic +organization, is much like saying that a man "has no dog, only a +canine quadruped." The form of oath that is often attributed to +them seems to be a forgery based upon a crude idea of Catholic aims +but one would like to know in what form the obligation of secrecy +is imposed. A friend of mine, a distinguished Canadian, learned a +few years ago through an amusing hotel adventure, that the Quebec +Premier Tascherean had been initiated as a Knight but it must be +kept a deadly secret. Imagine the leonine roar of the Catholic +press if a president were discovered to have been secretly +initiated to Freemasonry! And what would be the position of +Tascherean if the question of the annexation or Anschluss of +Canada, for which the Knights are ready to work as they work for +the annexation of Mexico, ever became a live issue?

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However, the public action of the Knights is well known. What +is of interest here is that the organization is probably the most +valuable means that the Black International has in America for +holding grown-up and educated men to a profession of those medieval +speculation's which I described in the last book. It enlists +profit, patriotism, and piety in a harmonious regiment. To one-third it says: Be a Knight and expand your bank-roll. To another +third: Be a Knight and break a lance for American (financial) +institutions on these Reds, Mexican bandits, Anarchists, Atheists, +Birth-controllers, etc. And to the genuine religious third it says: +Be a Knight in the service of Mary and the Lord. Why leave the +Church when it offers such golden, as well as gastroilomic, +opportunities? Since 1928 they have trained the young, as +"Columbian Squires" for the high function of Knights. One trusts +they have not to render all the services of the medieval squires +and pages.

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Seldes (The Vatican) tells us that during the few years before +1929, the period of the stormy courtship of Mussolini and the Pope, +there were amusing variations of the public policy of the Fascists. +At times when Mussolini was pressing and there was hope of an +agreement the Fascist police stopped young women on the streets and +painted marks on their stockings to which the skirts must be +lowered. When the Pope pressed and the hope of a bargain grew faint

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-- well, one gathers that the legs were not daubed in public and +the low-water mark was much higher. The Church similarly adopts +itself, and for the more puritanical laymen of the American Church, +the men who cannot afford or do not like the social amenities and +robust services of the Knights, it has organized the gentler +society of the Holy Family. In this the wife may collaborate. An +important duty of theirs is to denounce wicked books, plays, and +pictures which have escaped the censor and are calculated to +corrode the foundations of American civilization. The sororities of +Catholic virgins are expected to cooperate in this, and the members +face the duty of seeing whether a film is really proper as firmly +as they face the intimate talk on sex in the confessional. Once I +saw a remarkably long queue of women outside the chief picture-house in Chicago and learned that they were waiting to see a +picture which had so unpleasant a reputation that the police were +hourly expected to suppress it. Chicago was just then preparing for +a Eucharistic Congress and in mitigation of the subservience of the +civic authorities: to the Church the papers explained that one-third of the citizens are devout Catholics. I concluded that the +bright-eyed women in the queue were mostly Catholics who wanted to +see if the film ought to be denounced to the police to save the +women and children of America.

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It is impossible here to name all the titles, decorations, and +festivities of the groups into which the faithful are Sorted; and, +indeed, you will soon begin to wonder why so many millions leave +the Church, if not why anybody leaves it. See, if you can, some +account of the vast net of activities covering the life of America +and centered in the offices of the National Catholic Welfare at +Washington. Everybody, from Catholic artists or scientists (number +not stated) to Catholic shoe-shiners, is organized and directed by +the clergy to discharge some function or other for Our Holy Mother +the Church. It is the American version of what in other countries +is called Catholic Action: the activity that invited Mussolini and +Hitler to overthrow the legitimate government in Spain, delivered +Vienna into the hands of the cardinal who grewed flowers in the +path of Hitler when he seized it, got the freethinking politicians +and bankers of Buenos Aires to give literally, a royal reception to +Cardinal Pacelli when he arrived to plot against democracy in South +America, filled the jails of Rio with the groans of tortured men, +put Petain in power in France and for the first time in many +centuries brought dishonor upon the country, betrayed Czecho-Slovakia, paralyzes Canada today, etc., etc. In an earlier book I +quoted the Pope asking: "How could any fair-minded man say that the +Church ever interferes in polities?" In the same year a Catholic +writer in the Catholic fortnightly, the Revue des Deux Mendes, +opened his article with the sentence: "Rarely in history has the +Catholic factor had such influence as it has today on the political +movement throughout the world"; and he traced it in detail, and +with much joy, in Germany, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Spain, Italy, +Yugoslavia, Hungary, Rumania, and Japan.

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In America and Britain the chief aim of Catholic Action, which +specifically means action by the laity under clerical control, is +to carry out that poisoning of the wells of public information +which I have described, especially by intimidating the editors of +newspapers, the publishers of books, and librarians. To the outside

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world this is presented as a very natural and innocent precaution +that nothing offensive to Catholics is published. One would imagine +at times, from the way Catholics talk, that the papers and books +were until a few year's ago filled with lies and libels against the +innocent Church, stories of escaped monks and nuns and debauches in +convents, unjust suspicions of plots on the part of the good +Jesuits and the intensely spiritual Vatican, and so on. This is, of +course, sheer non-sense. It is a mere face-saving excuse for the +unfortunate editors and publishers who have to submit to the most +brazen maneuvers of modern priestcraft. For the aim is not to +exclude lie's, which a paper easily detects and rejects, but to +secure the suppression of the truth about life in the Catholic +Church and the activities of the Vatican, which the public has a +right to know and publicists a duty to tell, and to compel papers +to publish untruthful statements to the advantage of the Church and +libraries to accept and circulate books that contain them. Since +the whole of these booklets illustrate that clerical maneuver I +need not here enlarge further on it.

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I have space to notice one more sugar plum, the sweetest of +all for the laity: the sale or awarding of Papal horrors, titles, +and decorations. Knights and counts are a dollar a dozen in Europe. +It is in the democratic atmosphere of America that these things +sparkle most. But I have dealt with them earlier. As a rule they +are, like titles in Britain, directly or indirectly bought. They +are a reward for "aims to the Church" or zeal in its service. I +notice in the British Catholic Who's Who an American named C.L. +Hearn who was for 10 years Supreme Knight of the Knights of +Columbus. I do not know whether he has sunk into the grave under +the burden of his honors -- I find no mention of him in Who's Who +in America or the Encyclopedia Americana -- but it seems that he +was a Knight of St. Gregory, a Commander with the Star and Grand +Cross, a Count of the Papal Court, and a Privy Chamberlain of the +Sword and Cape. I do not know whether he had a nice salary to +sustain their dignities in a democratic world but I gather that on +behalf of the valorous Knights he took some fat checks to Rome. But +see an earlier book for these supreme rewards to the faithful +laity.

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Do not, in fine, lose sight of the fact that the boast that +the Church has 20000000 or 25000000 followers in America is +just part of the big bluff of the Black International. No one dare +make an actual inquiry, such as was done 30 years ago in London, +how many people do in fact attend Catholic churches regularly, +which is the only test of membership of the Church. I have shown +that 15000000 is a generous figure to assign yet that of the +living population of America something like double that number have +been baptized in the Church. That the vast organization of priests, +monks, nuns, journalists, teachers, paid and amateur agents, now +the most wealthy religious body in the world, should, with such a +scheme of threats and attractions as I have here described, succeed +in keeping about one-half of the mass, predominantly at the lowest +cultural level of those who by birth and upbringing ought to be +Catholics is scarcely a miracle. But the point of chief interest +here is that the mechanism for securing loyalty or checking +disloyalty is essentially Fascist and illustrates once more that +close affinity of the Black International with the corrupt powers +that darken the earth.

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THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 18

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THE ARTISTIC STERILITY OF THE CHURCH

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HOW THE CHURCH STUPEFIES FOLK +BY CRUDE EMOTIONALISM

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by Joseph McCabe

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HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS +GIRARD -- : -- KANSAS

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CHAPTER

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I The Alleged Beautiful Services .......... 1

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II There never was a Catholic art .......... 7

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III Few Poets and Vapid Hymns .............. 13

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IV Masses Composed by Skeptics ............ 19

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V Why a dead Language is Used in the Liturgy ... 23

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Chapter I

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THE ALLEGED BEAUTIFUL SERVICES

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In approaching this subject it will be useful to state again +the angle from which I write the present series of booklets. It is +to show that the scandalous action of the Vatican and most of its +national hierarchies which I traced in the first series of booklets +was just what you would expect if you know the Church of Rome. It +is not a religious body like any other, and the venerable antiquity +of which it is so proud merely recalls, to the informed mind, the +violence and unscrupulousness of the methods by means of which it +has survived. Its path through the ages is marked, not by the +flowering of new cultures or new civilizations, but by the graves +of rival religions and of masses of rebels. It consists essentially +of a Black International which in every age wages an economic +struggle for survival and has, in view of the absurdity of the +creed on which it lives, to use violence and deception to hold

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together the body which supports it. However many million devout +laymen and however many thousand sincere priests there may be in +the world this is its broad structure, and only when you see that +can you understand its proved action in modern life.

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Some American apologists have pleaded in excuse for their very +un-american efforts to suppress criticism that the critics would +like to drive a wedge between the Catholic laity and their priests. +The man who could succeed in doing this would render an outstanding +service to the country. We say that the international army to which +their priests belong is Fascist. The name "Fascist" was, it +appear's, taken from a bastard Italian word (fascio) which means a +bunch or a group, but it goes back ultimately to the emblem of +authority, the axe and the rods, in the ancient Roman army. That +emblem is so characteristic of the Roman Church that, we saw, even +while. it protested in a dozen tongues -- English, French, German, +etc. -- that it is now tolerant and humane it still claimed in +Latin its possession of the axe and the rods. In an age when the +Fascist banner seemed destined to float over three continents it +threw off the mask of meekness and openly joined the aggressors.

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This involved a larger use than ever of its second weapon, +suppression of truth and mendacity, in the lands that were not yet +conquered, and I have endeavored to expose this and enable the +reader to understand the Church. In the world at large it is, +instead of being the impressive institution it represents in +America, a tragic-comic spectacle. If you grant it the 250000000 +subjects it claims today, one-third of these are men and women who +curse it in their hearts and go to church only under the shadow of +its bloody emblem of the axe and the rods, and more than a third of +the remainder are either children or illiterates. The only point of +serious interest is how it keeps in its fold in America and Britain +so many out of the teeming millions who have come from less +educated lands, and I have, I think, explained this. There remain, +however, two elements of explanation that are so frequently claimed +that we must examine them. The first is the fairly common opinion +that the Church of Rome appeals to the heart and, the emotions, far +more than any other Church does, and this, it is thought, distracts +the mind from the intellectual absurdity or moral repulsiveness of +its doctrines. The second is the familiar cry -- the parrot-cry, +one might justly call it -- that it "does good," and on a scale +that ought to impress even the skeptic.

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Postponing the question whether the Church has rendered a +service to art itself we may consider first the sensuous appeal +which it makes, and against Protestant writers confesses that it +makes, to the general body of the faithful. That this is one +element of it, success in inducing millions to continue in the +profession of beliefs which are as incongruous in our modern world +as an iron-clad knight would be, we fully admit. Statistics, it is +true, do not show that the sensuous services give the Catholic +Church any advantage over the leading Protestant Churches except in +a preponderance of female church-goers over males, but in fact a +high proportion of Catholics would tell you that the character of +the services attract them. It is, part of my work to warn folk +against generalizing from one or a few cases, but it may be of +interest to give one. I have a neighbor, an elderly woman, a bombee

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of shattered nerves, who was brought up a strict Roman Catholic. +Intelligence and education poor. She is ready at all times to join +her son (a full apostate) in cursing the Pope and the priests, and +she incurs eternal damnation cheerfully most Sunday mornings by +refusing to go to mass. But she often does go, and she explains +that it is because she "likes the services." I should add that she +has a dull and lonely life.

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What is important here is not the type but the psychological +factor. We must not exaggerate it. About a third of the Catholic +body discharge only the minimum of obligation and attend a "low" +mass (without music) on Sundays. They take no part whatever in it +and do not understand a word of the priest's Latin gabbling; and +instead of having any sensuous or artistic enjoyment they just +kneel uncomfortably and impatiently until it is over. The church +itself which they attend is "artistic" only to a low taste, like +the "best room" in the apartment of workers or small-middle-class +folk with more money than education. A few of these may also attend +the evening service. It is nearly all in Latin and they take no +part in it, but the sanctuary is gay with surplices and silk, the +altar ablaze, the service and choral, and the sermon usually short. +If the alternative is anything like that of the old lady I have +quoted, to be left alone in a drab room, one usually prefers to be +"a Catholic." Remember that it is cheap -- two cents or a nickel. +These folk are not interested in doctrines. The "real presence" of +Jesus on the altar, which seems almost grotesque when you coldly +dissect the dogma as a theologian does, is vague in their minds. +The church is "the house of God," and they do not make the +theologian's subtle distinction between God and Jesus or between +the human and divine persons in the "hyostatic union" of the +theological Jesus.

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This one-third of the Catholic body is, numerically, the chief +source of leakage. To them the religion is, as I said, a practice +or a sentiment, not a belief. Where there is no particular +emotional response to the rhetoric of the pulpit and the weekly +paper about the Holy Faith and Holy Father and the devouring thirst +of the world and the devil to destroy them they are easily drawn +off. The men and youths and many of the young women secede as soon +as they get a live faith and ideal like Socialism. Others just +drift away if the general atmosphere is non-Catholic. In a Catholic +country these folk are held by the gaiety of the show. The wine-shop and the church are the two bright spots in their heavy lives.

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The nice-minded skeptics who resent this coupling of the wine-shop and the church, who (with no knowledge of Catholic life) say +that "religion" is the real uplift in these people's hearts and it +is wicked to try to remove it, may be recommended to read some such +book as Prof. J.L. Mecham's Church and State in Latin America +(1934). He has the very correct professorial attitude -- you try so +hard to stand up that you fall backward occasionally -- especially +as his university (North Carolina) publishes the book. It is mostly +concerned with history but incidentally it tell's Some painful +truths about the Church in those Catholic countries, to which the +Catholic likes to refer you if he thinks that you know no more than +he does about them. The clergy are admitted to be, as a body, +sensual, lazy, and grossly ignorant. The bishops are fanatically

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conservative and more attentive to their political interferences +than to the moral and spiritual welfare of the mass of the people. +The Indians, the vast majority of the population of Latin America, +are at the lowest level of ignorance and superstition, ready at any +time to serve the political purposes of the hierarchy, though often +barely Christian in religion and permitted by the priests the +wildest license. The Church festivals are orgies. In fact, +Professor Mecham approve ugly quotes from another authority, +"Bacchus is the one absolute and essential God. Sex-morals are as +usual, inadequately and therefore untruthfully discussed in the +book, but I have elsewhere shown that the general attitude is such +that priests and monks indulge in the most open and ingenuous +fashion. A more candid, and worse picture will be found in Braga +and Grubb's work, based on intimate knowledge, The Republic of +Brazil; and for a concrete richly-informed picture of the state of +the people and the brutal exploitation of them by unscrupulous +priests see Alan Hillgarth's novel The Black Mountain. And remember +that these books were written and published before the victory of +clerical Fascism in Latin America. In most republics the situation +is worse today.

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To these 60000000 or so Catholic worker's and peasants of +Latin America add those of Cuba and the Philippines, the rural +parts and small-town populations of Italy, Spain, Portugal, and the +Portuguese. French, and Belgian colonies. I gave an authentic +picture of life in such regions in Book IV of this series. The +entire body of Catholics coming into this category are considerably +more than half the whole number of the Pope's subjects; and you may +not be disposed to put the majority of the Catholics of Eire, +Poland, Hungary, Mexico, Quebec, Slovakia, etc., on a much higher +level. Then remember that half the remaining Catholics, of the +world are children, and that half the adult Catholics of the United +States come from some such environment and to a great extent +reproduce their old atmosphere in American cities. The conception +of them -- as so many tens of millions of simple folk elevated for +an hour above their daily level by beautiful services in which they +absorb themselves every Sunday and Holy Day is as ingenuous as the +Sunday School idea of George Washington.

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As I said, the Catholicism of this larger half of the subjects +of the Black International no more requires study than does that of +children. It is an ingrained attitude or set of practices, +protected from interference from the rebel who appears here and +there by the power that the priest's have: a power which in all +Catholic countries Fascism has made absolute. To an extent their +minds are drugged on Sundays and Saints' Days, but it is hardly +necessary in their case. It is at the higher levels that the +intellectually depressing effect of the Catholic services becomes +important, and the more artistic they are the more effective the +opiate.

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Two illustrations of the truth of this at once occur. I have +not the Catholic Who's Who for America but the situation is much +the same as in Britain, and I have already pointed out that, +confining ourselves as far as possible to the same cultural level +converts to the Church from the world of art are three or four +times as numerous as from the scientific world. It would be quite

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natural to suggest that artists feel the charm of the beautiful +services more than scientists, but it is a poor compliment to pay +to any artist of distinction to suggest that he will enter a Church +and on his knees make a solemn declaration of literal belief in all +its doctrines, repeated one by one, just because its churches and +services are artistic. He is free at any time to attend the +services and, if he feels inclined, see a pretty symbolism in them, +but if he calls himself a Catholic he in the same breath denies +that he takes a symbolic view of the services and doctrines. That +is a comprehensive and deadly heresy in theology; though, of +course, we are aware that a priest will, to secure or retain the +name of a distinguished artist for the Church, not press him about +his beliefs any more than he will be too inquisitive about a +wealthy man's amorous adventures.

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The truth is, however, that it is not the higher artistic +sensitiveness but the comparatively lower intellectual vitality or +equipment of the artist that explains why he is willing to make a +profession of the creed I described in an earlier book. Probably in +most cases these artist-converts flatter themselves that they have +one sound reason which may be classed as intellectual. They are +convinced the Roman Church has been, and is, a great inspirer of +high art, and this at least predisposes them to endorse a creed +that, in marked contrast to science, has had, they say, so +beneficent an influence. Catholic literary artists have written +this, and I have heard them say that art and the love of beauty are +in danger of perishing in our drab, cold, materialistic age and +they must rally to the Church as the best guarantee of survival. +G.K. Chesterton, who when his earlier good nature was dissolved in +the acid of the Holy Faith wrote of its critics as "mad dogs," was +strong on this point. It is, as I will show presently, a sheer +fallacy. But the artist who enters the Church in such a frame of +mind loses any inclination to criticize. He has taken an opiate.

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The second illustration is the preponderance of women over men +in the richer and more artistic Catholic churches. Here I rely +neither on impressions nor on the common belief that women are more +religious than men. In the less artistic Protestant churches there +is no material disproportion of the sexes, and it is not notable in +the poorer Catholic districts. A Strict census of church-goers, +spread over six months, in the city of London (England) in 1903 +proved this. In the whole city (6250000 people) 372264 men and +607257 women attended church. But the disparity of the sexes was +far and away the greatest in the artistic churches of the rich West +End of London. In two Anglican churches there were 160 and 249 men +and 886 and 1034 women. In three Romanist churches there were 267, +276, and 237 men and 1105, 807, and 701 women. In Methodist and +Baptist churches in a poor quarter there were 3336 men to 4127 +women. It is clear what conclusion we must draw from such figures. +Educated men are far less disposed to let their intellectual life +be stupefied by emotional satisfaction. Religion, again, is a +practice or an emotion rather than a belief.

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The Church professes that it appeals to the emotions only as +a preliminary appeal to the intellect. That is clearly false. It +appeal's to the senses because if they find an attractiveness in +the services less demand need be made upon the intelligence of the

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worshiper. To contrast the Protestant version of Christianity with +the Roman as cold and unemotional is absurd. The Protestant service +makes a very powerful appeal to the emotions of a believer. The +prayers are heavily emotional and are not muttered in a tongue that +any of the laity understand. The congregation silently takes part +in them, and the emotions stirred are then released in the +community-singing of the hymns, of which there is very little In +the usual Catholic service. It would not be inaccurate to say that +the Protestant service appeals to the emotions through the ideas or +doctrines which are embodied in the prayers, hymns, and sermons, +while the Catholic service aims at a direct gratification of the +senses by florid music, flowers, candles, colored silks and white +robes, ornate altars, incense, stained glass, and a general +artistic scheme according to the cultural quality of the +congregation of each particular church.

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In this sense it stupefies the intelligence or dulls its +alertness and critical tendency by ensuing this gratification of +the senses or, in wealthier churches, of the esthetics sense. A +friend of theirs once gave me the broad explanation of the +Catholicism of Belloc and Chesterton that they regard a Catholic +church as a center of light, warmth, and color in an materialistic +world. One might carry the analysis further. One does not today +suffer economically and socially by joining the Catholic Church as +one does by quitting it, as Chesterton found. Soon after his +conversion my mail brought me, doubtless because some careless +person had simply taken a list of names and addresses from Who's +Who, an appeal by a group of important Catholics for a subscription +to a large fund to provide Chesterton with a basic income for the +rest of his life. But we have in an earlier book considered the +Church as a mutual aid society.

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The field here is so large, the variety of types so great -- +from Seymour Hicks or Charles Laughton to the Irish dock-laborers +or the Italian street-vendors of New York, from St. Patrick's +Cathedral to the dauby, garnishes of a poor Polish chapel -- that +it is difficult to cover the facts usefully with a formula. The +title I have given this chapter is the one usually selected by +critics of the Church. It is valid if by "stupefying" we mean that +the emphasis of faith is deliberately transferred from the +intellectual confrontation of doctrines to the enjoyment of +sensuous experiences as a discharge of religious duty. A writer who +was intimate, and on the whole sympathetic, to Italian life, Axel +Menthe, has said that most of the uneducated or poorly educated +Catholics rarely thought about Jesus or anything but the cult of +Mary and the saints. For the majority everywhere the doctrinal +ideas retire behind a vividly colored screen of emblems, symbols, +statues, pictures, and material rites and ceremonies. It is one of +the reasons why those doctrinal ideas, which seem so crude and +outrageous when you consider them apart from the churches services, +linger in a world to which they are as alien as the ten-gallon hat +or the crinoline.

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Chapter II

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THERE NEVER WAS A CATHOLIC ART

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That, a Catholic reader would say, is such nonsense that it is +impudent to ask people to read it. Better informed folk will say, +with a smile, that it is an uncontrolled expression of my anti-Papal complex or at the best a paradox. Not a bit of it. It is a +plain statement of fact, and my habitual readers will know that I +have very closely studied the history of art, especially during the +Middle Ages, and discussed it in earlier works. Let me first make +a distinction which is elementary yet is quite commonly overlooked, +and not infrequently by writers on art.

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When you pass along the streets of a city you notice that, +generally speaking, banks and insurance corporations have more +artistic buildings than the others. Is there some artistic +inspiration in the money-business, something that you would call +financial art? You know the answer. They just employ art more than +other concerns because it pays them to do this. Never mind for the +moment what their conception of art is. It may be block glass and +chromium steel or a gothic sky-scraper. The point is that the +diverse artistic effort in a collection of buildings expresses the +resources of the business and the particular utility it finds in +the employment of art. Well, the richest employer of artists is and +always's was the Catholic Church, and no other business in the +world derives so much profit from the employment of art as it does. +It no more inspires the art than a funeral-furnisher does. If there +is anything in its doctrines that may in any sense be said to +inspire art it is just in those bastard dogmas in which the +original Christian ideas are mixed with Greek or Roman mythology or +medieval barbarism.

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The history of Catholic art, even as it is known to every +educated man, confirms this, and the more closely you study it the +clearer the truth becomes. There was no art in the service during +the first three centuries. Naturally, says the apologist. The +faithful were fugitives from the police, holding services that were +necessarily simple in the catacombs. . . . Rubbish. There were only +a few years out of the 250 (from Nero to Constantine) when they had +to dip underground, They hated and feared art. It was what the +devil employed to make paganism attractive to keep the Greeks and +Romans out of the Church. What happened in the 4th Century, when +the Roman Church got freedom and wealth, was not that it began to +inspire an art but that it began to rob the pagans of their art, +The official Book of the Popes, composed in Rome from the early +Middle Ages onward, has preserved an extraordinary list of the +artistic furniture (silver, altars, statues, etc.) that the Emperor +Constantine lifted from the pagan temples of Rome and donated to +the new Christian churches. And when, decade after decade, the +Romans still clung to the old religion, the Christian leaders, who +were now fully-pledged Fascists since they had taken over the axe +and the rods, emptied the gods and goddesses, the holy water and +incense, the vestments and ritual, from the temples into the +Christian conventicles on the other side of the street and nailed +up the doors of the temples.

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The eastern Churches were still so rooted in the anti-artistic +tradition that they generally preferred to burn the temples and all +their artistic paraphernalia. Pagan temples were not meeting-houses +in which folk sat or stood in rows with long faces chanting +doggerel or listening to some professional teacher of virtue. They +were art-museums. Those gay old stories of Zeus and Aphrodite, of +Apollo and Athene, had in four or five centuries "inspired" a +wonderful art. In a century or two sculpture, painting, and +architecture had made more progress than the more ancient world had +made in 3000 years. And it was mostly stored in the temples for +the people to admire and enjoy. From about 390 to 420 most of these +went up in smoke. Priests and monks, with the new Fascist powers +that the bishops had wheedled from the emperors, led mob's to the +attack, and all over the Greek world there was such a holocaust of +art as Goths and Vandals never perpetrated.

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At least, the apologist might say, the Roman Church did better +than the Greek. It preserved and Christianized the art. To what +extent we need not inquire. The point here is that it did not +inspire a new art but, in the words of one of the leading art-historians, Luebke, "put on the corporeal garment of ancient and +decaying art." If you prefer me to quote a Catholic historian of +art, Dr. F. Von Reber says in his History of Medieval Art (p. 73) +that "the general debasement of art and the conceptions of +Christianity worked together to destroy that perfection of outward +appearance which is the vital principle of all art." In any case, +the zeal for art, in the corrupt Roman Church of the 4th Century +and Europe passed into the artistic hell of the Dark Age.

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I have often illustrated the way in which the Black +International has succeeded in recent years in poisoning the wells +of public information by references to the latest edition of the +Encyclopedia Britannica. The boast of British Catholics that they +"revised" it is only too true. Amongst other changes notice that +"Dark Ages," on which there had previously been no article, now bag +a short notice from one of the professors of history of a second-rate British university. I suppose they had to pass over Oxford and +Cambridge to find a man who could please Catholics. This man +solemnly says, with all the superciliousness of his school that the +phrase Dark Ages -- being a continuous period we ought to call the +Dark Age -- used to be applied by writers who judged life by the +classical standard of art and letters, to the period from the 5th +to the 15th Century. He seems to be unaware that it was the Father +of Catholic History, Cardinal Baronius, who first used the phrase; +that, it does not simply designate the scarcity of art and letters +but of all civilization; and that no responsible historian carries +it as far as the 15th Century. It is, he says, now "obsolete"; +whereas it is fully vindicated in the greatest historical work in +the English language, the Cambridge Medieval History. The only +sense in which it could now be used, he says, is that the period, +has loft us only a very scanty and poor historical literature to +inform us about it; and he does not reflect that this is precisely +one of the symptoms of its degradation. But it is wrong to apply so +opprobrious's a word to "one of the great constructive periods in +human activity." This man is President of the British Royal +Historical Society!

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I must refer the interested reader to other works in which he +can read about the total collapse of the fine Greek-Roman +civilization and the five or six centuries of moral, social, legal, +political, and economic, as well as cultural, debasement that +followed. It is enough that art was dead, except amongst the anti-Papal Ostrogoths and Lombards of North Italy, until, in the 11th +Century, Greek art was introduced into Germany by a royal marriage, +and it was not until a century later that Europe generally began to +cultivate art. Professor Stenton is right that this was "one of the +great constructive periods in human activity." He merely forgot to +add that this was wherever the Roman Church did not exercise power. +Under the Moslem, from Spain to Eastern Persia, the earth shone +with a brilliant art from the 8th Century onward.

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But the great art of the Middle Ages! That is what the +apologist and the artistic converts to the Church have in mind: the +Gothic cathedrals of Europe, the superb paintings and statues, the +work in gold, silver, and bronze, the tapestries and stained +windows, the lace's and embroideries. Certainly a period of superb +artistic creativeness, and because a half or more of the works of +art then created are religious the apologists and the religious-minded artists clap their hands and cry: See what our religion +inspired, see what the world has lost in discarding it!

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I will not be tempted to reply that according to very many +art-authorities of our time we, especially atheistic France, have +created a greater art, because I must confess to an incurable +enthusiasm for medieval cathedrals, paintings, and sculpture. But +this art, is just as inspired in its "profane" as in its "Sacred" +achievements: as great in its civic halls as in its cathedrals, in +its painted Venuses and sinful princes as in its Madonnas and +saints. And when you call the sacred part of it Catholic art, +because it represents ideas or personalities of Catholic theologY, +remember the elementary distinction between an art inspired by +Catholicism and one merely employed by the Church. Nearly every +modern historian of art or expert on the Renaissance has pointed +out those facts. I have quoted a dozen of them in earlier works on +the subject, of which a summary is given in Little Blue Book No. +1136, Medieval Art and the Church. Even Lord Leighton, the +distinguished British painter and head of the Pre-Raphaelite +School, says that during the early development of Italian painting +the Church was a blight on the art and that it attained greatness +only when the humanism of the Renaissance began to replace religion +as its inspiration. (Addresses Delivered to the Students of the +Royal Academy, 1896).

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The Catholic artists and men and women of artistic +sensitiveness but very little knowledge of the broad history of art +or the lives and opinions of the great medieval artists feel that +in this field the Church will find its most powerful argument. It +is very little use asking them to study the leading modern +authorities on the subject. They just kneel in rapture in a +medieval cathedral or before a sacred painting, and because we no +longer build such cathedral's or paint such pictures they say: Here +is the glorious flower of the Catholic spirit. They would say just +the same about a fresco by Pinturicchio (a skeptical, dissipated +artist employed by one of the most flagrantly immoral of the Popes

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to paint his, the Pope's, mistress as the Virgin Mary) in the +Vatican, or a painting by Paolo Veronese (who was dragged before +the Inquisition for the irreverence of his art) or Filippo Lippi (a +loose friar who seduced a nun and lived for years with her while he +painted beautiful religious pictures). They would glow with fervor +and pride before one of the great religious paintings of Rubens and +then (I hope) blush with a sense of sin before the same artist's +"Venus and Adonis," which is equally "inspired." They encourage the +police to prevent the reproduction and sale today of the classical +studies in which most of these great artists revelled, and then +they have copies exhibited everywhere of the religious pictures +which the rich churches and convents of Italy commissioned them to +paint. The same bishop or cardinal would employ the same artist to +paint a Leda and the Swan for his dining-room or library and a Holy +Family for his chapel. The artist did equally fine work in both +fields -- no expert has ever claimed that there is less +"inspiration" in the profane than in the sacred work of Renaissance +artists -- but the religious market was much the larger and richer.

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The all-pervading fallacy of all this slush about Catholicism +and Renaissance art is the supposition, which too many American +historians now encourage, that the later Middle Age (say about 1150 +to 1550) was a period of general piety and loyalty to the Church's +commands. If that were so, the modern "psychological" historian +would have a nice problem in explaining how that was just the +period of the worst and most protracted degradation of the Papal +Court, and why the one period of great art in Rome itself coincides +with the most openly immoral and skeptical stretch of medieval +Church history. Not only, all the leading authorities on the +Renaissance (Burckhardt, Symonds, Hudson, and the Cambridge +History) but the special Catholic authority on the period, Dr. +Ludwig Pastor, make this quite clear. In respect of cruelty, +dishonor, injustice to the weaker, and especially sexual freedom +and sodomy, it was a more vicious age than any period of ancient +civilization that was ever half as long.

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A second fundamental fallacy, which well illustrates the +difference between the artistic and the scientific mind and the +greater readiness of the former to accept the claims of the Church, +is the lack of testing and verification, in plain English, the +failure of the artist to check his impression by testing it from +various angles. If it occurs to a scientific man that a certain +agency is the cause of a particular phenomenon he holds his tongue +until he has convinced himself by a series, of check-studies that +it explains the whole phenomenon and no other agency does. +Scientific method is in this just the clarification of common-sense. Applied to our present subject it would inquire whether an +artist is more inspired in sacred thin in profane subjects and +whether and to what extent great religious works of art were +produced by men of little or no religious feeling. We saw how +ludicrously the protagonist of Catholic art fails to do this. But +the common-sense inquiry would go much further. Was the European +Renaissance the only great, or the greatest, period of artistic +creation? And was there a religious inspiration in the other great +periods, Greek, Chinese, Persian, and Arab? The plain conclusion +emerges that if a man is a great artist it does not make any

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difference to his inspiration whether he has to paint a branch of +cherry blossoms or a Buddha, a courtesan or a Virgin Mary, a +peasant or a Christ. The Parthenon is the greatest religious +building that was ever raised, and Pheideas its creator, was a +skeptic.

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Of the medieval cathedral in particular I have written much +elsewhere and must be content with two points. It is obvious that +if we have here a case of religious inspiration it must have been +in the architects. But they are unknown. I cannot find that any +writer on art has tried to compile even a short list or a +biographical study of them, and the only such architect of whom I +have found definite information, the architect of Speyer cathedral, +was a roistering irreligious German bishop who was just as good at +building a military fort or a castle. The second point is that +modern experts on the Gothic style never notice religious +inspiration, in their studies. The development of the style, on +utilitarian as well as aesthetic lines, was spread over two +generations and mainly occurred in the most frivolous and +licentious region of France. The chief significance of it is that +wealth was at this period rapidly expanding in Europe, and the +clergy and monks got the most of it and wanted fine churches. It +was a sound investment.

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Another obvious cheek on this superficial Catholic theory is +to inquire why great art so notably decayed after the 16th Century. +In that pretentious collection of essays by American apologists, +Catholic Action (2 vols., 1935), there is a section on "Catholic +Action and Culture." The artistic convert who looks to it for what +he believes to be the grandest argument for the Church, its +inspiration of art, will be bitterly disappointed. The writer +dismisses it in a few colorless lines, and the sterilization of +Catholic art after the 16th Century is airily explained by saying +that "we have not yet recovered" from the blight which the +Reformation brought upon art. If the writer does not know that +French painting (Poussin, Lorraine, Watteau, Greuze, Fragmard, +etc.) and British painting only became great after the Reformation +and was almost entirely humanist or naturalist, while Spanish and +Italian art died though the countries were hermetically sealed +against Protestant influence, he ought not to 'Mention the word +art.

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Looking for some serious recent Catholic reply to my question +why, if the Catholic creed inspires art, it so conspicuously failed +to do so in Italy, Spain, and Portugal when the Renaissance was +over, although the Catholicism of those countries became stronger +than ever, I find only two French works. The first, L art religieux +apres le Concile de Trent (1932) by Emile Male, is a large work on +religious art after the Council of Trent." It does not admit on my +contention. For Spain and the Netherlands (steeped in Spanish +culture) it reminds us of Velasquez, Murillo and Rubens. Yes: but +they belong essentially to the Renaissance, which was late in +Spain, and after them, Spanish art was vapid until the skeptical +days of Goya (a quite blasphemous painter). As great painters of +Spain and Italy the author gives Montanes, Pedro de Mena, Minana, +Crespi, Dolci, Giordano, Caroselli. ... I hope you have heard of +them.

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The second book, La decandence de I'art sacre (1931), by A. +Cingria (a Catholic) grants my whole contention. It is enough to +translate the title, "The decadence of 'Sacred art." The kind of +question that the author sets out to answer is: "Why do the +majority of Christians now like ugliness"? He doesn't know. Let us +put him right to some extent. They do not like ugliness except in +the sense that a church in a poor uneducated district naturally +reflects the poor taste of the worshipers. But Catholics would be +only too pleased to have great art once more if they could get it. +The Roman Church in America is many times as rich as the Italian +Church was during the Renaissance and would pay ten or a hundred +times as much as a medieval church or monastery did. They cannot +get it. They have to import pictures from Spain, Italy, and +Germany; and we should smile at the idea that the non-Catholic +atmosphere of America prevents a Catholic artist from being +inspired by Catholic ideas. The Church in Germany until a few years +ago was as rich as the American. The Church in Spain and Spanish +America is rich. But in the debauched monasteries of Germany and +South America, where the Renaissance atmosphere of drink and sexual +license is richly reproduced, no great art is produced.

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Quebec is a medieval area with ideal Catholic conditions. Its +Church is so rich that it is as zealous against Communism as Wall +Street is. Cardinal Villeneuve, defending illegal acts against +critics of the Church by the Catholic mayor of Montreal, said that +above the laws of Canada is "the Law of Nature"; in the same sense +as the Church overrides all modern civil law and claims to put folk +to death on religious grounds. The taint of Protestantism never +reached Quebec. Its people are poor and fanatical: its priests are +rich, ignorant, and intolerant. But did you ever see any work of +art that was produced in Quebec?

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This artistic argument for the Church is futile because even +if we could admit that it inspired great art in the later Middle +Ages yet must add that it has no such inspiration today there does +not seem to be much gain to the Pope. The claim is clearly +rhetorical. Every man with what we may call average information +knows that the production of great art is not continuous but is +richest in certain definite periods that last a few centuries and +then decay. There have been three in the history of China, three in +that of Persia, two in the long history of ancient Egypt, one in +Greece, one in the Moslem world, and so on. Europe got the +conditions for its second golden age of art in the Middle Ages. It +came to a close like all other such ages, though it began and ended +later in France, England, and Spain than in Italy. It took so very +largely a religious form because the Church was the richest +employer and in so sensual and voluptuous an age it had a more +extensive use than ever for art. This is what most of the chief +historians of European art say. And remember always something which +it is not their business to say but is of vital relevance to the +Catholic claim of religious inspiration: that there is not in the +whole history of religion, as far as we have positive knowledge or +even ground for suspicion, so profound and general a religious +corruption -- of Popes, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests, +monk, and nuns -- as there was during the age (1300-1600) of +supreme Catholic art. That nut wants some cracking.

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Chapter III

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FEW POETS AND VAPID HYMNS

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Two of the arts, literature and music, deserve special +consideration. Both arts had their richest efflorescence after the +Reformation; both ought to be of special value in the service of +religion; and, while the plastic arts are scarcely suitable for +illustrating most of the Catholic doctrines, literature and music +are much better suited for the expression of ideas. In regard to +literature, moreover, we have a much broader test of the Catholic +claim. Even most folk with a fair general culture have to look to +the verdict of experts for an appreciation of painting or +sculpture. How many ever saw a picture, or a copy of a picture, by +one of the Spanish or Italian artists whom Male presses upon us as +"great painters" who worthily sustained the tradition of Catholic-inspired art? How many, when they see a collection of reproductions +of the religious work of, say, Raphael, Pinturicchio, L. da Vinci, +Lippi, Botticelli, Veronese, and Murillo, have the least idea which +of these men really had deep religious feeling and which had not? +On the other hand, most people have a wider knowledge of books and +authors, and every Catholic knows, and ought to have some idea of +the artistic value of, the kind of literature which above all ought +to show Catholic inspiration, the hymns that are sung in church.

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In regard to literature as a whole I have repeatedly pointed +out that Christendom did not produce a book that in the general +opinion of cultivated men and women could be called "great" between +Augustine's City of God (written about 412) and Dante's Trilogy +(about 1300). No one, in fact, now reads Augustine's work as +literature, and Dante's work, to which Goethe and other critic's of +the highest rank denied the title of greatness, has rather an +esoteric circle of readers. Let us, however, pass them as great +Catholic literature. It is far more notable, when you are +discussing the question of religious inspiration, that the Catholic +world failed to produce a single work of high rank during the +intervening 900 years. Of what other civilization since the Greeks +created a great literature can you say that?

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We saw the apologist for the Dark Age, Prof. Stenton, +admitting that the stretch of seven centuries after the Fall of +Rome was "dark" in the sense that it has left us very little +literature to throw light upon it. Who ever heard of a civilized +period of seven centuries without a literature? It wrote books, of +course. The whole output is preserved in the Migne Library, but if +you cut out the theological works which not even a priest now reads +-- Gregory, Anselm, Bernard, etc. -- you have a thin collection of +weird treatises and chronicles, mostly written in a barbaric (often +grotesquely ungrammatical) Latin, that makes you smile at the +apologists for the Dark Age.

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From about 1100 a very different literature began: troubadour +songs, ballads, epics, light stories, and so on. Yes, but it was so +pervasively licentious and crude in its moral sentiments that the +Church, when it began to use its axe and rods, regarded the whole +movement as a revolt against Christianity and gradually +exterminated it. A religious profession who resents my

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characterization of the period -- which, by the way, is the same as +that of every recognized European authority on it -- told me to +read a recent French work, de Rougemont's Passion and Society, for +the corrected historical appreciation of the period. The book is +one of those freak originalities that the authorities ignore. It +takes troubadour literature in its final and feeblest stage, when +a few French and Italian poets were trying to save their art from +the Church by taking religious themes, and it falsely represents +these as typical troubadour literature. It describes as mystic in +the religious sense the greater poems of the whole literature, The +Romance of the Rose, whereas all experts recognize that "the rose" +is sex.

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If the apologist wearily grants that Europe in the Dark Age +was so low, economically and culturally, that we cannot expect even +religion to inspire a literature and insist that no power or agency +could have raised Europe afresh more quickly than the Church did, +the answer is that just during this period the Arabs and Persians, +starting to rebuild civilization long after the Church did, created +an amazingly abundant and brilliant literature -- poetic, +historical, scientific, and theological -- which Spanish Catholics +and Moslem fanatics later destroyed. And if the apologist says that +at all events after 1300 Christian Europe produced a great +literature he runs into the difficulty I explained in the last +chapter: How on earth does the Christian religion inspire a great +literature only in the period when, according to all historical +authorities, religious feeling and moral idealism were at their +lowest ebb?

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How many of the most distinguished writers between Dante and +Rabelais could even plausibly be claimed to show the inspiration of +the Catholic creed! Certainly not Chaucer, the greatest poet of +that period. The highest British authority on him, Prof. Lounsbury, +shows that he did not believe in immortality and, quoting the +poet's words, asks: "Can modern agnosticism point to a denial more +emphatic than that made in the 14th Century of the belief that +there exists for us any assurance of the life that is lived beyond, +the grave?" (Studies in Chaucer, II, 515). Not the two greatest +Italian writers, for Petrarch's best work was inspired by illicit +love and he scourged Papalism as no modern does, while Boceaccio's +great work is as far removed from religion as is that of Zola. Can +anyone find the spirit of the Church in Froissart's blood-soaked +Chronicle or in the defiant ethic of Villon's poetry'! In the anti-ecclesiastical work of Valla, the purely scientific (a real anti-clerical) work of Bacon, the comedies (often very loose) of Ariosto +or Benvenuto Cellini? The Catholic can have Tasso -- who reads him +anyway? -- and the Samma of Thomas Aquinas, but he will hardly +claim Erasmus or Rabelais as inspired by religion.

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It is time the writers who fancy that Gothic cathedrals and +religious paintings prove that there is a rich inspiration in the +Catholic creed tried to explain to us why it so dismally failed to +inspire great or artistic writers, especially poets. They never +attempted it. they speak of this period (1100-1500) as the Ages of +Faith they are mainly thinking of France and Italy. Isn't it +peculiar that of the artistic writers of the two countries, who +were numerous enough, three or four were "obscene" for every one

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who wrote stuff a modern nun would read? Quite a number of them +wrote vindications of what the Church called vice, even unnatural +vice, and comedies which would make a patrolman blush were written +and played in the Papal Court itself, while the great works of +religious art were being produced in other parts of the Vatican or +the city. Your Catholic friend who says to you, with an air of +common-sense; that in spite of all this talk Catholic art, and a +very great art, is there for any man to see, is thinking chiefly of +Rome, of St. Peters and the Vatican. Well, ask him to reflect on +this singular fact: Practically all this Roman art was created +under three Popes (Alexander VI, Julius II, and Leo X) of +notoriously vicious character and at a time when the Papal Court +and the clergy of Rome were steeped in what he calls immorality. +And, except for the fact that two out of the three Popes were +sodomists, which the Catholic apologist will swear black is white +to disprove, he need not read McCabe to learn this but will find it +in the most learned and authoritative Catholic history of the +period, that of Dr. Ludwig Pastor, which has been translated into +English.

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It is hardly surprising that the writers of the time did not +look for inspiration to the Catholic creed. The best of them, like +Picodella Mirandola, looked to a blend of Plantonism and primitive +(decidedly not Papal) Christianity. But most of them concentrated +on sex or, as they called it, love. They wrote the most brazen +erotic literature that had yet appeared, and some of the hottest of +them were patronized and rewarded by the Popes. Your professors of +European history do not tell you these things. They may mention +Macchiavelli, who was really more poisonous than the erotic +writers, but they prefer to enlarge on the pretty religious +sentimentality of an ignorant friar (the Little Flowers of Francis +of Assisi) and the work of Dante. They do not care even to point +out that Dante succeeds only when he is illustrating a concrete and +repulsive doctrine like hell, and that his poetic inspiration +evaporates when he tries to glorify the purely spiritual realm of +paradise. The Catholic creed inspires one in the same sense as the +Greek mythology did or the bastard Buddhist religion of Asia does. +Tell the artist that Buddha, Christ, Moses, or Mary was above the +common human level and he will set his imagination to create a +superman or a superwoman: Zeus or Jehovah, Athene or Mary.

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I said that if these Catholic apologists and artistic folk who +blat about medieval art were quite honest they would try to explain +why it was most "Inspired" when Italy, or Rome in particular, was +most immoral (not merely in respect of sex). They would, have a +still more awkward moment if they tried to explain why it +shrivelled up as soon as the morals of Rome and the Papal Court had +to be comparatively reformed because half of Europe was now +Protestant and cynically watching the Popes. It was the same with +literature as with the other arts. Italy, Spain, and Portugal +became more Catholic than ever. Except that the brazen parade of +sexual freedom had to be suppressed in Rome there was little or no +change of the moral level but skepticism, which had abounded during +the Renaissance, was extinguished and Protestantism truculently +excluded. And art above the level of mediocrity died. It is almost +a commonplace of the best recent histories of art that a human +factor -- a great new wealth with its accompanying sense of

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freedom, adventure, emancipation, and enjoyment -- had quickened +the blood of Europe during the later Middle Ages and evoked its art +as the spring-warmth quickens the circulation of the plants and +causes the flowers of summer. The soil of strictly Catholic +countries froze again, and there was no great literary art until a +new human factor, the vision of a better world, fired the blood +again in the second half of the 18th Century.

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But the absurdity of the Catholic argument, if you can call it +an argument, is shown by the record between the Reformation and the +Revolution, as it is shown wherever you test it by facts. A new +Dark Age settled on Italy, Spain, and Portugal, and Germany was +reduced almost to barbarism by the religious wars. In England, on +the other hand, art burst into full blossom as soon as the Catholic +creed was fully extinguished. No one who knows the history of +England would expect it earlier, but the point is that once England +got the conditions of an artistic age, which Italy had enjoyed much +earlier, it did not make the slightest difference that there was +now no Catholic faith to inspire it or Church to employ it. +Literary art, in particular, burst into bloom with the robust +Protestantism, richly leavened with skepticism, under the skeptical +Elizabeth. From Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spencer, and Bacoi, to +Swinburne, Carlyle, Ruskin, and Dickens, England -- anti-Papal +England -- created a great literature.

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France has been a mixed country ever since the rise of Calvin. +Until the later years of Louis XIV -- say to 1685 -- it had a very +large and influential Protestant element as well as much +skepticism, and after the death of Louis and his Jesuits, male and +female, skepticism spread very widely. But though the Church +controlled the majority it did not inspire the art. Literary +historians assign as the greater writers from the Reformation to +the Revolution Montaigne, Rabelais, Descartes, Pascal, La Fontaine, +Corieille, Racine, Boileau, Moliere, Montesquieu, Voltaire, +Rousseau, and Diderot. Eight out of the 13 were skeptics: two +(Descartes and Pascal) were regarded with more than suspicion by +Rome: two only, Racine and Corneille were good Catholics, but they +found their inspiration chiefly in Greek tragedy.

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Then came the new spring, the stirring of the blood of the +race which we broadly call the passion for freedom and democracy, +that is still raging. As the Church of Rome was, and is, bitterly +opposed to it we do not look for many Catholics amongst the greater +writers of the last century and a half. The question is not whether +you can name one or two Catholic writers of the first rank -- a +Chateau briand, a Newman (though his title is much disputed by +critics), a Mistral (a sort of Catholic) -- but why, when the Pope +claimed still to rule half the white world, there are only these +three amongst a hundred writers as distinguished as they in France, +Britain, America, Germany, Italy, Russia, and Scandinavia. And how +do even these compare in inspiration with Byron, Shelley, +Swinburne, Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche, Ibsen, Dostoievsky, +Pushkin, Hugo, Carlyle, Shaw, D'Annunzio, Galdos, and a score of +others? Catholic literature as a whole is the flattest, stalest, +feeblest of all literature that takes itself seriously. They have +to ask us to accept Chesterton, Ronald Knox, Noyes, and Joyce +Kilmer as "great writers." And do not forget that the Church has +far more money to pay for art today than it ever had before. It +would give a million dollars for a great artist. +Bank of Wisdom +Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 +16 +. +THE ARTISTIC STERILITY OF THE CHURCH

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Ours will probably be described in historical manuals of the +future as an age of mediocrity. Statesmen, artists, and scientific +and literary men reach no peaks. Possibly the highest ability +enters the business world, where the reward is greatest, but we +have to remember that both in art and letters the man of +outstanding ability is sure of recognition and will certainly not +starve in an attic.

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If any reader is still inclined to wonder if I have not +yielded in part to prejudice in assigning the relative positions of +Catholic and non-Catholic writers let me recall that I have in an +earlier booklet followed a high and most impartial authority in +estimating the writers of the last forty years: the Nobel Prize +Committee. If anything the Committee, though it is supposed to be +guided by national committees of great weight and impartiality, is +prejudiced in favor of religious writers and, while it has had to +award the great prize 27 times out of the 37 to skeptics, it has +excluded skeptics whom the critics would put high above some who +were selected. Yet in this selection of the world's greatest +writers during the last 40 years we have only four who seem to be +in some literal way Catholics, though they were certainly not +inspired in their work by the Papal creed. The Pope claims the +allegiance of half the population of Europe and America but counts +-- in some cases dubiously -- only one-ninth of their greater +writers; and the award would have been more in accord with the +general view of literary critics if these four Catholic writers had +been replaced by my four selected from Wells, Conrad, Meredith, +Zola, b'Annunzio, Sudermann, Galoz, Ibanez, Santayana, Gorki, and +A. Tolstoy: all skeptics and not in favor in pious Sweden.

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The most deadly reply to the Catholic argument here, the +immediate reply to those who talk about the warmth, colorfulness, +and emotional richness of the Catholic atmosphere, is the relative +fewness of Catholic poets, especially of poets who show any sort of +indebtedness to Catholic belief for their inspiration. In the large +volume of distinguished poetical literature of Great Britain they +can claim only that of Dryden, who was a skeptic until his later +years and would in any case hardly be called inspired. In the +German-speaking area of Europe, which has always been one-third +Catholic, the record is not better. But it is enough to point out +that in what the Church claims as Catholic countries the majority +of the more distinguished poets during the last century and a half +have been anti-Papal and very few since Dante and Tasso can be +claimed to show Catholic inspiration in their work. Yet in literary +art we have one of the most effective tests of the Catholic claim. +A church may commission a man to paint a picture or carve a statue +but you cannot -- except where a Poet Laureate turns out verse to +order -- pay a poet to sit down and write a poem. You can neither +open the fount of inspiration with a golden key nor, in the case of +a true poet, close it by opposition it is arrant nonsense to say +that poets have "not yet recovered from the blight which the +Reformation brought upon art." A hostile world inflames the true +poet. Shelley was greatest in his Prometheus, Swinburn in his Songs +before Sunrise, Goethe in the first part of Faust.

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Most conspicuously is the failure of the Papal creed to +inspire poetic art shown in the cabe of hymns. The great majority +of the hymns in a Catholic hymn-book are very poor stuff and many +of them are so vapid that one is forced to conclude that even +priest-selectors would never have included them if they had plenty +of good material to select from. In preparing a small popular work +on Rome (The Popes and Their Church) some years ago I looked +through an American Catholic hymn-book and selected a few gems. I +doubt if even the Salvation Army would (apart from the Mariolatry +of it) tolerate such doggerel as:

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The earth is but a vale of tears +O Maria! +When this exile is complete +O Maria!

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or: +O the blood of Christ! +it Soothes the Father's ire: +Opes the gates of heaven, Quells eternal fire. +Oft as it is sprinkled On our guilty beans, +Satan in confession Terror-struck departs.

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It is a conglomeration of rotten sentiments, wooden verse, and even +bad grammar. The mechanical grind of the verse-maker runs through +the book, and his insincerity is matched by the insincerity of the +singers. A very popular hymn for services for young women (children +of Mary, etc.) has the refrain:

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Holy Mary, let me come: Holy Mary, let me come +Soon to be happy with thee in thy home.

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Not a girl of the hundreds of thousands who sing that means what +she says, or, in fact, does not feel exactly the opposite +sentiment. Grown-up men and women lustily sing:

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O Paradise, O Paradise, +'Tis weary waiting here; +I long to be where Jesus is, +To feel, to see him near.

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or:

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Arm for deadly fight, earth and bell unite, +And swear in lasting bonds to bind me; +Raise the cross on high, Jesus is our cry, +With Jesus still the foe shall find me.

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Large numbers of the hymns chant this glorious fight against the +world -- most of the men make for the nearest beer-house when the +service is over and the girls hurry to keep their dates -- the +flesh, and the devil. It helps to keep up the prestige and +importance of the clergy. They not only lead the troops but are the +only channels of the supernatural force (grace) without which the +fight is hopeless for the ordinary man.

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This theme runs through the whole collection. Catholics are, +you may have found, as cheerful and sinful as other folk, yet you +would imagine from merely reading their hymns ("hell is raging for +my soul," etc.) that they were a portentously serious and +puritanical body of men and women. Next time your Catholic neighbor +presses you to read his literature, while refusing to read yours, +ask him to lend you his prayer-book and hymn-book. But I wager that +he won't.

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Chapter IV

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MASSES COMPOSED BY SKEPTICS

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The hymn is not so important in a Catholic as in a Protestant +church. It had no place in the ritual as it was finally evolved in +the Middle Ages; in accordance, of course, with the blue-prints +entrusted to Peter by Jesus in ancient Galilee, The faithful were +to assist AT, not assist IN or take part in the ceremonies, as I +will consider in the next chapter. We are told in Pliny's letter to +the Emperor Trajan that the early Christians met to "sing hymns to +Christ as God." -- probably chanting psalms in the Jewish tradition +-- but the "mass" was at that time not developed. When it was, the +faithful were in much the same position as skeptics in a theater, +watching a performance in strange costumes at the far end of the +building.

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Into all that, however, we cannot enter here but must confine +ourselves to the actual use of the art of music in Catholic +services today; and the chief question that interests us about it +is whether in the case of this art at least the Catholic creed has +not simply employed but inspired the artist.

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Music would lend itself to such inspiration more easily than +any other art. No painter or sculptor has ever given us a Jesus or +Mary that we could plausibly imagine in a Judaic environment, and +Michael Angelo's "Last Judgment" and Ruben's "Descent of the Cross" +are human scenes into which the spectator must read the Catholic +idea. Literary art is more complete to express idea's or dogmas, +but the expression can be immensely enhanced if it is associated +with noble music. If Catholicism inspires art, therefore, we should +look for a body of it in music corresponding in magnificence to the +great architecture, sculpture, and painting of the Middle Ages; +especially as, notoriously the chief attraction of the non-Catholics whom it is hoped to convert to the wealthier churches is +"the fine music." Instead of having to listen, as one does in most +non-Catholic churches, to communal singing which, while it is more +enjoyed by the congregation itself, is rather artless than artistic +to the outsider, though it may be relieved at one point by a +professional soloist whom you may have heard in a cabaret the night +before, you can hear, well rendered if the church is not poor, +often with orchestral accompaniment, some of the finer compositions +of masters of music.

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Here you get the most decisive -- and the most deadly -- test +of the claim that the Roman religion inspires art. Not relying on +my memory of church-experience 50 years ago I take from a recent +authoritative publication the names of ten of the greatest

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composers of masses, litanies, and shorter pieces that are used in +Catholic churches today: Beethoven, Berlioz, Cherubini, Dvorak, +Gounod, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, and Weber. All these are +included in the Catholic Encyclopedia and it is claimed, especially +or by implication that they were Catholics.

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Yet no less than six of the ten were apostates -- Beethoven, +Berlioz, Cherubini, Haydn, Mozart, and Verdi -- in some cases +notoriously apostates, and some of the others were not clearly +orthodox. Gounod alone can be quoted as a man of real Catholic +piety -- in spots. You will read in biographies of him how at one +time he got so religious that he began to study for the Church: how +one day, when he asked Sarah Bernhardt if 'She ever prayed and she +said, "Me pray! Never, I'm an atheist," he fell upon his knees +before her and, to her disgust prayed for her for quarter of an +hour: and so on. Yes, and in the same biographies you will read +about his various little mistresses and his superficial changes of +mood. In all his work, says one authority, he "hovered between +mysticism and theatricality." Another authority says "between +mysticism and voluptuousness's," In his sacred work, says the +Catholic Encyclopedia sadly, he "did not penetrate the spirit of +the liturgy": which is a flat denial of Catholic inspiration. It +was such music, fine as it is, as Counod's Messe solennelle and Ave +Maria that moved the distinguished scientist Claude Bernard (also +claimed as a Catholic, of course, though a well-known apostate) to +say that Catholic services are just "opera for servant girls."

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The most flagrant cases of Catholic misrepresentation are +those of Beethoven, Cherubini, and Mozart. Beethoven's Mass in D is +coupled by authorities with his famous Ninth Symphony as "the most +gigantic of all musical designs." It is not, like Brahms's' Mass, +a Protestant composition but was intended, when he began to compose +it, to be performed at the installation of the Catholic Archbishop +of Olmutz and is today one of the richest treasures of the Catholic +repertory. But almost any biography will tell you that at that time +Beethoven had already abandoned his Catholic faith and adopted +Goethe's Pantheism, in comparison with which he thought the +Christian creed tawdry. His friend and chief biographer, A. +Schindler, and Nohl in his preface to Beethoven's Brevier (1870) +state this, and sir G. Maeferren, who describes the Mass as +"perhaps the grandest piece of musical expression which art +possesses," says (Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography) that +he was "a free thinker." He was persuaded, as some other +distinguished freethinkers were to accept the sacraments before +death, but all admit that he looked upon them as, at the best, +symbols. Nohl says that when the ceremony was over Beethoven +murmured, in the old Latin theatrical phrase, "Applaud, friends, +the comedy is over," but the better-informed Schindler says that in +these words Beethoven referred to the approaching close of his +life. It is at all events agreed that he had very seriously, on +philosophic grounds, discarded Catholicism 30 years before he wrote +the Mass and, unlike other artists, he never wavered in his +Rationalism.

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Cherubini, though his name is not as familiar to our +generation as those of Beethoven and Wagner, composed five masses, +two Requiems (or mass for the dead), and a very large number of +pieces for Catholic use. A critic pronounces these "the most

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important works of their age," and Gounod who agrees, quotes +Beethoven saying chiefly with an eye to his religious work, that +Cherubini was "the greatest master of his age." But it is +undisputed that he abandoned the Catholic religion before he +composed any of this sacred music. He lived in Paris in the +revolutionary days and devoted his great talent to the +revolutionary cause. It was after the Restoration, when he was +superintendent of the royal chapel, that he wrote masses, etc., but +he never returned to the faith. His British Catholic biographer +Bellasis admits that he did not receive the sacraments before death +and quotes the reluctant testimony of his Catholic daughter that he +was "not mystical but broad-minded in religion." Another biographer +observes that his sacred music was "not created by faith in and +love of what he composed."

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Mozart, who composed 15 masses and a very large amount of +other Catholic pieces, had so decidedly rejected the Catholic creed +in early manhood that when he was dying he refused his wife's +entreaty that he would see a priest, and his apostasy was so +notorious that when the wife herself asked a priest to come the man +refused, and the great musician wag buried without ceremony in the +common grave of the poor. So his chief biographers Wilder and +Ulibichev, and the facts are undisputed. The latter quotes Mozart +saying in reference to his early Catholic belief: "That is all over +and will never come back" (I. 243). He had become a Freemason +before he was thirty, at a time when the Church regarded +Freemasonry as a device of the devil, and to the end of his life he +remained at the most a Deist. As is well known, he composed one of +the most beautiful and most frequently used masses of the dead, and +the circumstances throw an ironic light on this question of art and +Catholicism. A rich musical amateur, Count Walsegg, secretly paid +Mozart, who was desperately poor, to compose the mass and let +Walsegg put his name on it. Shortly afterwards the great artist +died and was "buried like a dog."

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Let me further illustrate this point from the biography of +another great musician. I do not suppose that the German Requiem of +Brahms is used in Catholic services, as the music is set to texts +from the German translation of the bible, which Catholics are +forbidden to read, but it is just as "inspired" as Mozart's mass. +Yet Brahms was an Agnostic, as he repeatedly tells in his letters +(Letters of J. Brahms, Eng. trans. 1909). The instructive point is +that it is obviously the thought of death that inspired the music, +not the Catholic doctrine about death. In almost his last year of +life Brahms wrote and composed his "Four Serious Songs (Ver Emate +Gesange). The writer on him in the Encyclopedia Britannica calls +these his "supreme achievement in dignified utterance of noble +thought." It warns you to read some of these musical critics with +discretion. The words of the songs plainly reject the idea of +immortality, and Brahms admitted in a letter to Herzogenberg that +that was his intention.

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Haydn composed even more masses and other church music than +Gounod or Cherubini, and he is still a high favorite in the +Catholic repertory. In the Catholic Encyclopedia he is, of course, +a loyal, if very amorous, son of the Church, though Mendelssohn's +opinion that his sacred music was "scandalously gay" is quoted, and

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we get the usual caution that it is better as art than as an +expression of Catholic ideas. In point of fact he was, like Mozart, +a Freemason, and a Mason was to Rome in those days what a Bolshevik +is today.

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Verdi, has given the Church a mass for the dead, a Te Deum, an +Ave Maria, a Stabat Mater and other sacred compositions, and he is +feebly claimed in the Catholic Encyclopedia. It is a particularly +brazen claim as, while such claims are usually in the case of great +artists or scientists based upon the fact that the last sacraments +were daubed on them while they were unconscious or administered to +gratify Catholic relatives, Verdi stipulated in his will that he +was to be buried without "any part of the formulae" (F.T. +Garibaldi, Giuseppe Verde., 1903, p. 235). He was a man of more +solid character than is usual in the operatic world -- he gave +2000000 lire to build a home for aged and ailing musicians. -- +and wrote his mass for the dead only to honor his dead friend +Manzoni. He was a moderate anti-Papal in the political struggle and +was often assailed by the clergy.

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A full inquiry, which naturally cannot be made for the purpose +of writing one chapter of a booklet, into the lives and sentiments +of all the leading composers of Catholic music would clearly be of +considerable interest. I happened to have made some inquiry at an +earlier date as far as these masters are concerned, and the results +are quite enough for my purpose. The Church employed them and did +not clearly inspire a single one of them. Like the painters of the +Renaissance, whose art was equally great in depicting courtesans +and saints, pious scenes and bacchanalian scenes, they were +"neither Christians nor pagans but artists" as Symonds says. If you +commission an artist, or if he himself proposes, to express the +super-human, his own belief in the matter is not concerned.

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Anyone who has heard one of these florid masses in a Catholic +church feels that it is mainly, as in the opera-house, a commercial +use of art. I was attached, as a priest and professor, to a middle-class suburban chapel in London for some years. As I have +explained, the only obligation of the people was to bear a mass +every Sunday morning, and the great majority discharged this, in +spite of the general disposition to be longer abed on Sundays, by +assisting at a short early mass. There was no music, and the +"sublime" service was gabbled through by the priest in 25 minutes. +At 11 there was a sung or "high" mass, and this -- it might have +been called the Dress Parade -- all the more comfortable +parishioners attended. Several times a year an orchestra was +employed and one of the classical masses was sung. It doubtless +gave many a heightened idea of the solemnity of the feast, but from +the clerical angle it had only one aim: money. Very special +collections, sometimes taken by the monks themselves, were made, +and the extra hiring of singers and musicians was far more than +covered.

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The singers of these masses and other choral services are, +even on ordinary Sundays quite commonly non-Catholics. They are +just professional singers, and the question of combining a moderate +wage with efficient work is regarded as more important than the +question of their religion or irreligion. I never heard of one

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being "converted." Near the church to which I was attached was a +popular beer-house of a superior type, and the pietists of our +congregation sent in scandalized protests that after the Sunday +services they had to see the whole body of singers repair noisily +to the Saloon Bar. They never understood a word that they sang; +for, as I said, the English hymn has a very small place on a +Catholic Sunday evening service and none in the morning service. +The whole performance is, in fact, sheerly theatrical. Even the +priests at the altar -- there are usually three -- have a bench in +the sanctuary and at intervals in their very sacred manipulations +they retire to sit on this while the choir sings, with senseless +repetitions (to give the composer elbow-room) and long-drawn +phrases, certain parts of the mass. It is fine music; and it makes +a mockery of the sense of the ritual from a religious viewpoint. +Catholic's sometimes feel this.

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My father used to tell of an experience of this kind. He once +took a country cousin, a Catholic, to one of our swell morning +services. When the choir finished the piece they were singing (in +the ritual it was a simple recital of the creed) for the second or +third time and went back to the middle once more, the man, who was +moving restlessly in his sent, whispered to my father: "Damn it, +Bill, why don't they say Amen and 'a done with it."

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Chapter V

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WHY A DEAD LANGUAGE IS USED IN THE LITURGY

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The reader must not lose sight of the guiding idea of this +booklet. It is an examination of the claim that the Catholic creed +inspires great art: that it was the main inspiration of the superb +art of the Middle Ages, and that the general mediocrity, or the +lower general level, of art since the 16th Century is due to the +destruction of the influence of the Church over half the world. +This is one of the smooth generalizations which an age that has +become, for not very creditable reasons, complaisant to the Church +accepts too easily from the apologist. As history it is on a level +with the mendacious claim that the Roman Church gave the world +schools broke the fetter's of the slave, and inspired mercy and +philanthropy.

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Specially rich periods of artistic, production have always +been limited in point of time. They may last 50 years or several +centuries but they end in mediocrity. Such periods are also +commonly periods of growing skepticism -- compare the great art-period of China, Athens, Persia, and Arab Spain and Sicily -- and +the greater artists share this with the general educated class. But +the temples and priesthoods are the richest employers, and the +artist is concerned only that his art shall do justice to his +subject. He may in a sense find an idea (of a Mother of God, for +instance) inspiring though he does, not regard it as a truth or as +an idea corresponding to reality. I have given ample evidence of +this.

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As to the common Catholic sophism that the reduction of the +Pope's sphere of influence accounts for the cessation of medieval +art we saw that the answer is easy. Two arts, literature and music,

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have been far greater since the Reformation than they were in the +Middle Ages, and they ought to be particularly useful for +expressing religious ideas. But Catholics have had a miserably +small part in proportion to their numbers, in the finer creations +of those arts. The medieval Church employed but did not inspire +artists -- a rare Fra Angelica does not alter the general truth -- +and it is plausible to think that the immense reduction of its +wealth after the Reform affected this. But their reduction does not +explain the death of art in Catholic, Spain or the predominance of +secular art in France. Anyhow, the Church is now richer and more +powerful than ever, and the non-Catholic world has been duped or +bribed into such an attitude that it would welcome Catholic +artistic production of a high order. You cannot even speak of the +chill of a hostile environment, even if you think that such a thing +does prevent a great artist from expressing himself. Yet the +Church, while it boasts that it has more members than ever and +certainly has far more wealth than ever, cannot inspire great art +in its own body. Four-fifths of its best modern art, its music, was +composed by the type of men it professes's to abhor above all +others -- apostates'. "The Church and its great art" is part of the +dupery it practices on the modern mind. But if I had been content +to say so boldly, or to refer the reader to other writings of mine, +I should have been unconvincing, so in this booklet I have had to +give considerable detail. I trust it has interested the reader.

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There remains the question why the Roman Church employs a dead +language, Latin, in its services. It is, of course, not unusual for +priests to continue to read the sacred books of a religion in the +language, which may otherwise be dead, in which they were written. +The Jews still have the Old Testament read in Hebrew: the Moslem +even in Turkey and elsewhere read the Koran in Arabic. But in the +Church of Rome practically the entire service on Sundays and the +morning service on all days is in Latin. The Greek Church and its +various national daughters have the services in ancient Greek, but +their motive is the same as that of the Roman hierarchy. It is not +as is sometimes suggested, in order to affirm and sustain the +international or Catholic character of the Church. lt has a double +object. Locally it helps to maintain the very emphatic line that is +drawn between the clergy and the laity and strengthen the position +of the former as a separate and very much higher caste; and, +especially, it is one of the most effective means of reminding +Catholics everywhere of their connection with and object dependence +upon the Vatican and the Papacy.

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A Catholic church has the upper (away from the door) end, or +usually about a fourth or fifth of the area, isolated by a +decorative low iron rail beyond which the laity must never go. Most +of this is empty space to add to the impressiveness of the altar at +the extreme end at which, raised by a number of steps above the +body of the church, the priests, in vestments of colored silk -- +the color changing according to the saint, or mystery honored on +that day -- over long white linen robes, the priests perform their +ceremonies. Remember the Catholic belief that on that altar Jesus +Christ is physically and bodily present under the "accidents" of a +wafer or very thin cracker, and you will realize the feeling, +almost of awe, with which the devout Catholic follows the +evolutions in the distant sanctuary. The setting is exactly the

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same as in a theater, and, though the body of the church is not +darkened, at the evening service the light about the altar is +increased by an immense number of candles in shining brass +candelabra, flowers are used lavishly, and the sanctuary is +gradually filled with a slight haze from the fumes of incense. It +is a continuation of the old pagan tradition. So the priests of +Isis or Mithra once impressed their followers. Indeed it goes back +to the sacrifices in the Jewish temple, the pageants on the great +festivals of ancient Egypt, even the mysteries performed at the +summit of lofty pyramid temples in ancient Babylon and Assyria +while the crowd stood in silence in the court-yard. To some extent +the modern theater, which was not in its beginnings a revival of +the Greek theater, is developed from this clerical show. Simple +theatrical features were added to the ceremony in the sanctuary to +please the totally illiterate congregation and out of these +developed the early "miracle play." Large numbers of non-Catholics +attend Catholic services, generally standing near the door, just to +see the quaint free spectacle at the far end of the church.

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The use of Latin has an obvious advantage in spectacles of +this sort, but it has others which are not obvious. The morning +service, the mass, is so rigorously confined to Latin that in my +sacerdotal days we had to chant even the final prayer for the king +in Latin! On Catholic doctrine there is no disadvantage whatever in +this use of Latin. The mass is not a "Service" in the ordinary +sense. What happens in the mass is that the priest offers a real +sacrifice to God. Don't ask me to explain here how Jesus Christ +(God) is offered to a God who is not Jesus Christ, as in what sense +it is a real sacrifice. I did enough cold dissection of the amazing +doctrines of the Roman Church in the 16th book and do not care to +return to that tedious occupation. It is enough to say that the +Church theory is that the priest in every mass "repeats, the +sacrifice of Calvary" an all that the people have to do is to be +present on their knees with bowed heads and silent lips..

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When this "solemn sacrifice" is in modern times accompanied by +the operatic music of Gounod or Haydn, when the priests interrupt +the solemnity in various places and sit while tenors and bass and +perhaps violins and cellos, distort the language of the prayers +into musical arabesques, the result is really so fantastic and. +irreligious that Pius X, the blunt old peasant Pope of 40 years +ago, issued a ukase that this sort of thing must stop. He wanted to +bring the Church back to the use of plain chant, the simple musical +notation used before operatic music was invented, at least as it +was improved by Palestrina. For once a Pope found that he was not +really an autocrat. Even in the Church the power of the purse is +greater than the terrific powers granted in theory to the Pope. The +financial loss in every country would have been immense. There +would be no more "opera for servant girls"; no more "beautiful +services" for artistic converts and neurasthenic ladies.

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This concealment of the mutilation or massacre of the liturgy +in musical services by keeping the words in Latin is balanced by +the advantage in low (or unsung) masses. I explained in an earlier +chapter that, although this is a long series of prayers and +addresses to the Almighty of a solemnity in accordance with the +Catholic theory of the mass, the people are impatient and are apt

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to complain of any priest who does not "get through" in less than +half an hour, usually 25 minutes. The young priest has to practice +for weeks before he says his first mass. He has to learn to say the +prayers, some of which change with the calendar, at -- I have just +tested by experience -- about 200 words a minute. It is, perhaps, +fortunate for himself that the words are in Latin, for, although he +is supposed to understand the very elementary Church Latin, he is +less sensible of the meaning, except in the slower and more solemn +passages, than he would be if they were in English.

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The advantage in helping to link the entire Church with Rome, +the home of the Latin tongue, is just as obvious. I have +occasionally made light comments on the American apologists and +priests -- if not bishops and cardinals -- who are so blatant in +stressing the harmony of their faith with American ideals that they +swear they would cut the connection with Rome or (which is the same +thing) defy the Pope if he gave orders inconsistent with the +American spirit or Constitution. Would they, on that highly +fantastic hypothesis, abandon the use of Latin in the services? On +what ground could they retain it? And if they turned the liturgy +into plain American how would the archaic sentiments sound, and how +would the mutilation of the words by priests at the altar or by +non-Catholic singers in the choir impress the faithful?

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They could retain it only on one ground, and it is the chief +reason why the Church retains it today in every country. It is part +of the paraphernalia that makes a separate and very superior caste +of the priests. Like the black cassock or black suit, the reversed +collar, the shaven poll which he is supposed to have, the +incongruous title of "Father" for a man who professes to think +paternity a weakness of the flesh, the ancient Roman (or possibly +Persian and Egyptian) garb he wears at the altar, the dividing +sanctuary line, the "blessing" which a good Catholic (on his or her +knee's) is supposed to ask when he enters a house, and so on, it +marks him off as a member of a sacred caste. In a Catholic country +his indulgence in drink does not matter -- little notice is taken +of this even in Eire -- and his amorous adventures are judged very +humanly. As he repeatedly reminds them in sermons, his character as +a man has nothing to do with the mystic and august character which +"Holy Orders" have conferred on him. He can absolve sins or in +certain cases refuse to absolve them and leave a man under sentence +of hell. He can work the stupendous miracle of transubstantiation. +When countries are still solidly Catholic, and equally illiterate +and densely ignorant, he encourages the belief that his magical +powers go far beyond invisible results like absolving sins or +turning a bit of paste into the living body of Jesus. His curse may +be a very real thing. His prayers -- at from a quarter to one or +two dollars a time -- are more effective than the services of a +doctor or a veterinary surgeon and must be secured for a vast range +of purpose's, from blessing a new house or a new churn or fishing +boat to success in an impending examination, the detection of a +thief, curing a woman of sterility, or painlessly removing a gall-stone.

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We need not, however, go back once more into "the really +Catholic world"; though you will not forget that these are +conditions in which two-thirds of the Pope's subjects live. Our +broad conclusion must be that instead of the Church of Rome

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rendering a notable service to the race and to civilization in +inspiring art it has in every age used such art as was available +for the usual purposes of the Black International: the protection +or augmentation of their power and wealth. It has not rendered, a +service to the exploited mass of the people by bringing color and +warmth into their drab lives by its services but has used art, if +you can give that title to the decorations and services of the +average Catholic church, to distract their attention from the +absurdity of its doctrines and the extortions of the priests. In +nine-tenths of its sphere of influence it uses debased forms of art +to help to prevent people from reflecting, during their one hour a +week in church, that what they are taught to call their faith is an +idle and, in proportions to their resources, costly compliance with +the traditional customs in which they were reared; and in the +Churches of the more comfortable one-tenth it uses art, like any +other employer and from almost any source, to help in sustaining +that uncritical attitude which enables the apologist to foist +amazing untruths and sophistry even upon the educated layman. +Religion may or may not be "the opium of the people." Catholic art +certainly is.

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It is a familiar Protestant charge that religion in the Roman +Church is mechanical, materialistic, a matter of physical acts and +sensuous titillations. It is an entirely just charge as far as the +great majority of the faithful are concerned. The Black +International has in its own interest enacted that it is compulsory +under the direct penalties that a man shall be in the church, +looking on at a ceremony, which he only half understands, for half +an hour once a week. The rest is voluntary and has to be made +attractive. I have in Eastern Europe seen men standing outside the +wide-open doors of a cathedral, some of them smoking cigarette's, +listening to the distant mass. They are within the Catholic law. +Religion is to them not a set of beliefs but a small number of +compulsory movements. For the majority of the others it is a series +of ceremonies which they usually -- there are, of course, special +festivals at rare intervals which rouse real fervor -- follow in a +frame of mind which it would be difficult to analyze and the clergy +have no desire to analyze. People are "doing their duty." And if +anybody thinks this a superficial statement of the situation let +him wait until in the next book we squarely face the claim that the +Church at least renders a great social service or "does good."

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THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL No. 19

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THE FRUITS OF ROMANISM

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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DOES FAR MORE HARM THAN GOOD

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by Joseph McCabe

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HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS +GIRARD -- : -- KANSAS

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CHAPTER

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I Progress in Catholic and Non-Catholic Countries ..... 1

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II The Black International always in the Rear .... 8

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III The Wicked World Educates the Church ......... 14

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IV The Contrast of Russia and Priest-Ruled Countries .. 19

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V The Monstrous Attempt to Restore the Middle Ages ... 25

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Chapter I

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PROGRESS IN CATHOLIC AND NON-CATHOLIC COUNTRIES

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Throughout these ten booklets, in which I have shown that the +Church of Rome is the natural ally of the German, Japanese, and +Italians, I have asked the reader to see it as primarily a vast +economic corporation, the Black International, fighting for +survival, in an age in which educated people despise its doctrines +and all informed people loathe its methods. Whether any, or how +many, of this monstrous regiment of cardinals and bishops, priests +and monks, sincerely believe the medieval sophistication of ancient +Greek and oriental superstitions which they profess is here +entirely irrelevant. We are studying the Church as an institution +because we are trying to understand its action throughout the +world.

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It admits that it seeks wealth and power but insists that this +is only in order that it may more effectively promote what it calls +the spiritual and eternal interests of men. With that pretext also

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we are not concerned. The apologist will hardly expect us to admit +that it entered into an alliance with (in this order) Italy, Japan, +and Germany because it believed they would help it to look after +the soul's of men. Such a plea would raise a broad grin from +Cologne to Tokyo. Those nations sought wealth and power; so did the +Bleak International. They meant to secure and protect this wealth +and power by a regime of bloody tyranny; and the Black +International, which has for 800 years relied upon that method, +needed it more urgently than ever. The bandits wanted the +international influence of the Vatican to help to dupe the world +about their designs; and they promised it a very large share of the +spoils of victory by annihilating its critic's and recovering its +lost provinces for it.

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After what we have seen that is as obvious as the Empire State +Building. Men of the Munich mentality as regards the Church of Rome +petulantly exclaim that it is a monstrous charge. Yes: and the war +and the Pope's share in it, the debasement of France by priest-ridden traitors, and the horrors of the Spanish and Portuguese hell +are a monstrous reality. If these narrow-minded folk who think +themselves so superior to prejudice were to look facts in the face +they Would see that we accuse the Church of doing only what it has +done over and over again since the Albiginsian Massacre and the +founding of the Inquisition 700 years ago. They would find that the +Roman Black International is not the only spiritual army that has +prostituted itself for gold in our time.

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In 1937 there was a Parliament of Religions at Calcutta. The +report of the proceedings in two fat volumes makes a materialist +like myself blush. Representatives of all the world's religions and +sects joined enthusiastically in the good work, and the speeches +glitter like Woolworth jewelry with nice phrases about the +spiritual and the Ideal, the sins of men and the wickedness of the +world, the lofty morality by which these folk are going to save the +race. As you will remember, the Japs had by this time completely +enslaved and debauched Manchuria and the north of China and they +were openly gathering for their next orgy of brutality. And not a +single one of these Asiatic word-spinners of the hundred beautiful +religions said one single word about it. One foreigner, a British +professor, ventured to say ten very mild words about it.

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If you want to know why, though of course nobody did at the +time, it was not simply because people who live on these shining +heights find it difficult to see the common earth. It was mainly +because the Black International or Japanese Buddhism was doing in +Asia just what the Roman priests were doing in Europe and America. +We must not offend our Buddhist fellow-citizens.

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Some of my readers will remember that in 1937, while these +spiritual folk were having their jamboree in Calcutta and the +world-press was following their beneficent work with admiration. I +published, through Haldeman-Julius, a booklet with the title +Imperialistic Japan and its Aims. I described how by that time the. +criminal plot of the Japs was so far from being secret that scores +of patriotic societies, some with millions of member's, publicly +boasted of it and gloated over realistic pictures and panoramas +exhibited in the stores of the cities, of the destruction of the

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American fleet. I gave the evidence that the Buddhist priests and +monks, 150000 strong, had been bought by the government and the +capitalists and were conducting an intensive campaign all over +South Asia to create a Fifth Column for the "Japanese Liberator's." +They had been bought in cash, just as the Vatican had been bought +by Mussolini, and, like the Vatican, they looked for even greater +profit when the job was done.

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They earned their pay. Not only did they work up the Japanese +people to a fanatical enthusiasm for the plan of making themselves +rich by exploiting a third of the world but they created nests of +traitors from French Indo-China to the Persian Gulf. There were +10.000 Buddhist quislings in Rangoon alone and there were others in +key-positions all over Burma. Ceylon teems with them. For ten years +the work has proceeded under a very thin disguise of Buddhist +concern for the spiritual interests of men. Yet in a Parliament of +Religions held at Chicago in 1939 America had been emphatically +warned that these Buddhist priests had already grown fat on +imperialist gold.

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While disreputable atheists and materialists like Haldeman-Julius and McCabe, who told the world the truth, were very properly +ignored by all respectable folk these spiritual gasbags, who +blinded it to the realities of life, where loaded with laurels and +dollars. It is nice, and so profitable, to be profound and +spiritual!

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However. Immense as is the work which I bring to a close with +this booklet I have no space to enlarge, upon even so important a +side-issue as the corruption of Buddhism (which was quite willing +in every age to entertain a business proposition) by the fine +imperialist's of Japan. It is enough that "our two great religions" +have made a mockery of every compliment, that every long-haired +idealist in America had lavished upon them. They have prostituted +themselves to the Butchers Union, while atheistic Russia, upon +which most of these idealists have poured abuse for the last twenty +years, has won a splendid tribute from a disillusioned world. But +I have still an important point to make in regard to the Church of +Rome to complete the explanation of its behavior.

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In his recent work, 'You Can't Be Too Careful,' H. G. Wells +says: "The most evil thing in the world today is the Roman Catholic +Church." It is also one of the most respected things in the world +today, especially in America. But there is no mystery about the +respect, the power, even the adulation which it enjoys. It commands +about 10000000 votes, nicely bunched together for the most part +in certain states and at the disposal of the priests. It has +$4000000000 invested, an income of about $1000000000 and an +army of about quarter of a million paid agents of one kind or +other. It has a very large press and radio-service. It has about +5000000 auxiliary troops, open fanatics and secret intriguers, +sworn to promote "the welfare of the Church." It has immense +opportunities of rewarding loyalty, from a Papal Knighthood to a +job as janitor. It has a control of editors, politicians, writers, +libraries, cinemas, radio programs, owners of halls and theaters, +professors, booksellers, even the police, the public school's,

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parole-boards, the mails, etc. It has . . . But maybe that will do. +What we had better ask is what excuse is made for themselves by the +politicians, professors, and others who chant the praises of "the +venerable Church."

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You know it. They reply that the Church does good -- oh, an +enormous amount of good: so much, in fact, that it is one of the +foundations of the state. In a recent book (Mission to Moscow), +which the pious Mr. Gollancz spreads in England, Ambassador Davies, +discussing the vices and virtues of Russia, says that with all its +faults it must not be classed with Germany and Italy, as a +totalitarian state. Phew! Are there still folk who talk like that? +However, what Mr. Davies mean's is that the Russian state is, and +the Nazi state is not, "based upon the altruistic principles of the +Christian religion." If that is true of Russia -- if you will +pardon the supposition -- how far more true it must be of the +American civilization with its 100000 parsons and its more +brilliant exhibition of those principles. And of the Churches which +render this inestimable service the Church of Rome is immeasurably +the greatest: the Church that regards all the others with +contemptuous tolerance and pronounces them rebellious and +ineffective offshoots of the age-old Church on which the sun never +sets.

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In western stories, of which I am fond, I often read in +descriptions of cow-town of the "false front" of the bank. the +saloon, and the store. The phrase fits the Roman Church In America, +for it is, to Americans, the false front of the international Papal +Church. That is why so many Americans hesitate in face of the most +conclusive evidence to admit the charge we bring against the Black +International. Why, they say, this is the Church that first raised +the banner of religious freedom on American soil: the Church that +gave even Europe the idea of democracies: the Church that +periodically provides the whole world, in Papal encyclicals, with +a guidance on problems of the hour which the press reproduces in +letters of gold: the Church that gathers 350000000 happy and +virtuous folk, without distinction of class, color, or odor, under +its White mantle: the Church that promotes culture and exerts an +inflexible moral rule over the nations.

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That is the false front. In these 20 booklets I have taken you +behind it and shown you the real Church of Rome. Its apologists lie +outrageously about it. They lie about its political and ethical +principles, its history and its law, its numbers and its quality, +its plots and its open action. They dare not allow the press today +to let the world know the truth about the social condition and the +action of the Church in a score of countries from Bolivia to Japan. +I have proved all this.

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In my long literary career I have written books in strange +conditions -- in the smoking rooms and Marconi cabins of liners, in +crowded apartments-houses or on the sunny beach, in the bed-rooms +of hotels of all grades -- but I never before wrote, as I have +written these 300000 words, on a battlefield. The National +Library, in which I delve for material, is charred and battered and +almost deserted and the books for which I call come to me sometimes +disfigured by fire or water or fail, and evermore fail, to come...

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But you can guess all that. I say that in spite of all this these +twenty booklets are from beginning to end just statements of fact, +on incontestable evidence, and they prove that the Catholic Church +is, if not "the most evil thing in the world," certainly the most +treacherous and mendacious.

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It may seem that I have reserved to the last the question +which will seem to many the most important: the question what the +Church is worth to the world on a balance of services and +disservices. But I have been replying to that question all through. +Many folk say that they do not care what the Church did in the 4th +Century, or the 13th or the 16th; and there is so much blood and +dirt on the pages of medieval history that Catholics often +encourage that feeling, or they would at least like you to believe +that the services they claim -- usually by a gross perversion of +history -- to have rendered were due to a noble spirit which is +ever fresh in the Church, while those immense splotches of blood, +those vast areas of servile squalor, and those equally vast areas +of priestly and monastic corruption were just temporary and local +foulings of the garments of the Church in the mud of a wicked +world. If you fancy that that childish stuff is really not written +today dip into any Catholic book that deals with these matters.

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We might leave the past of the Church in its smelly historical +tomb if Catholic apologists would let us, but they will not. They +lie heroically about its history, and it is vital to an +understanding of the Black International that we should know that +its writer's lie habitually. In this connection their lies take the +shape of claiming that the Church rendered massive services to +civilization, and it is largely on the ground of these fictitious +services that they demand consideration today.

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Moreover, the Church boasts, and on the whole justly, that it +never changes. It is a strange boast in a world that decidedly +grows in wisdom and sheds innumerable errors as it advances, but it +does at all events justify us in judging what the Church does today +by what it did in the Middle Ages, when it was perfectly free to +carry out its principles. When modern Popes are stung into +indiscretion they use just the same language as medieval Popes did, +as we found Plus XI doing in his open letter to Cardinal Gasparri +in 1929. The Canon Law, which is kept in a dead language so that +priests alone can read it, makes the same monstrous claim of a +power over life and death as the medieval Popes made. The +bestiality which the Pope encourages in Spain and Portugal today is +the same as Popes encouraged a century ago in the whole of Southern +Europe and in all Europe during the Middle Ages.

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No, it is folly to ask us to let dead Popes bury their dead. +This work, however, is concerned with the Church today, and there +is so much to be said about it that I have to avoid history or +confine my short excursions into it within the strict needs of my +present task. So to the question whether the Church has done good +in the past and the race is indebted to it I just say bluntly that +practically every claim it makes is fictitious, as I have +exhaustively shown in earlier works, and on balance we must say +that it has retarded the advance of European civilization by many +centuries.

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I must say a little more than this in regard to what I call +the modern period. I believe that when scholarship and literature +are again free, when the disgraceful power over them of the Black +International is broken, historians will date the beginning of the +modern age from the outbreak of the French Revolution, The broad +ideal of a just life was then clearly formulated. The revolutionary +armies carried it, with their symbolic tricolor, as far as the +southernmost tips of Italy, Spain, and Portugal and Napoleon's, +armies bore the ensign of at least a liberal civilization to the +bounds of Europe. Naples and Madrid were for a time more advanced +than London. Latin America throbbed with a new passion.

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From that age to ours the outstanding event of history has +been the long-drawn battle for those ideals, and Rome has +throughout been on the side of our enemies. Ever since the bloody +shambles it countenanced, if it did not inspire, in Naples in 1794 +the Black International has allied itself with every power, however +corrupt and brutal it was, that took the field against those who +were fighting for the elementary rights of man, for freedom and +democracy. What has happened in the last ten years is simply that +the Vatican, which had been compelled for half a century to profess +in democratic countries that it was reconciled with the new age -- +in America alone the Black International has the effrontery to +claim that the Church is the actual source of modern ideals -- +became convinced that it had found more powerful allies than ever +in the fight against liberalism, and the war which began in 1798 +and in one country or other (especially Spain) has been almost +continuously maintained, has entered upon a new and terrible phase.

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That is the key-idea that you must keep clearly in mind if you +want to understand the relation of the Roman Church to the world-war. It is an idea of crucial importance in estimating the world-situation but no journalistic oracle in the United States dare say +it, while what we may call the literary and ethical oracles who, +discuss the more profound aspects of the situation will put forward +any fantastic theory, from the growth of materialism to the +diversion of the Gulf Stream, rather than risk offending Catholics +and injuring their own prestige and circulation, by telling the +plain truth. That this is the plain truth I have shown, as regard's +the last ten years, in these 20 books and for the earlier phase in +larger works, The True Story of the Roman Catholic Church and The +A peal to Reason Library.

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A third work would be of very considerable use to the modern +reader, especially in America, where, apart from the one or two +brushes with Britain, the historical development has encouraged a +real cultural isolation from Europe as fir as our present theme is +concerned. An American writer who visited me some years ago +confirmed me in my suspicion that there is no good and adequate +work available on the mighty struggle in Europe in the 19th Century +against the clerical-royalist-capitalist attempts to kill what +survived of the best ideals of the French Revolution. For that +matter there is today no work published in England, for it would +have to tell the ghastly truth about the Church, and in both +countries the Black International uses its new power, not merely to +exclude the truth from literature and education but to see that +false versions of the story of man from 1789 onward are imposed

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everywhere. In the absence of such a work I can but reiterate that +from 1794 (in France and Italy) until its present alliance with +Fascism (in Spain and Poland, for instance) the Church has allied +itself with brutal oppressors and enemies of freedom, as I have +abundantly proved in earlier works, and sum up the evidence given +in this series of booklets in regard to the last ten years.

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It is useful to take a broad view before we look at the +situation more closely. The alleged service of the Roman Church in +promoting civilization can be very soundly tested from this broad +viewpoint. Just glance at the leading countries of the world and +note in each case what we -- the great majority of men and women in +the best-educated countries -- would assign as the grade of its +civilization and what proportion of the people the Roman Church +claims to control; and to allow for the present appalling confusion +or violent distortion of conditions we will survey the world as it +was in 1939 and regard only countries where the Roman Church is +substantially represented.

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Granting that total wealth or size is not of itself a +criterion of civilization there would be general agreement to name +these ten countries as having attained the highest rank: the United +States, Great Britain, Russia, France, Switzerland, Holland, +Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Argentina. In none of these countries +does the Roman Church command the allegiance, of more than one-sixth of the population except Holland. where its members and +political representatives are one-third of the whole -- still not +enough to have Influence on the general character -- and Argentina, +where, however, the constructive class is (or was until 1935) +mainly skeptical (and probably still is). Argentina is, in any +case, the one, power whose place in this list would be disputed.

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There would be general agreement to put these countries at the +lower end of the scale; Poland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Eire, +Brazil, and most of the smaller South American Republics. In these +the Church claims the great majority of the people and certainly as +regards the constructive forces they are Catholic countries. They +are all Fascist, as none of the above ten are, but, for the moment +I am looking at what by general agreement would be called their +grade of civilization. The place of Hungary might be disputed, but +it is only little more than half Catholic and its dictator is not +a Catholic. Czecho-Slovakia as a whole was in the highest class, +but events have shown that the progressive qualities were in non-Catholic Bohemia, and that Catholic Slovakia is at the level of +Poland. I have omitted Mexico, which on the ground of recent +accomplishment (reduction of crime and illiteracy, social +legislation, etc.) I should be disposed to put in the first class, +because its place would be warmly disputed. But one thing is not +open to dispute: whatever progress has been made in the last 20 +years was due to an anti-Catholic body of statesmen and supporters. +Germany must be left out of account unless we go back to pre-Nazi +days, but even then Catholic's were a one-fourth minority and they +are In large part responsible for the triumph of Nazism and ruin of +the country. In Belgium the forces are about equal, and the grade +of civilization corresponds.

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You will see the full significance of this if you recall that, +as I said, all these countries entered upon the great race, as we +may call it, of the last 150 year's with much the same equipment of +ideals. The Revolutionary and the Napoleonic armies, beating a path +for French literature, made those ideals familiar from Portugal to +Sweden, and Latin America was awakened from one end to the other by +the echoes of the struggle. Even Ireland had quite a notable body +of Deists and humanitarians (Robert Emmet, Wolfe Tone, and many +others) amongst its educated men in the last years of the 18th +Century. It has none today or not one who dare open his lips, and +the country remains, with all its political and religious pride, +poor, squalid, ignorant, and of inferior general character. in +other words, every country in which the influence of the Papacy was +paramount failed to advance in the path that was indicated by those +new ideals of civilization which we all regard as sound. But the +countries in which Rome had no such influence or where, as in +France, it lost its power, joined the predominantly Protestant +countries in advancing to the higher rank. That is the first reply, +and it is perfectly sound from the sociologleal angle, to the claim +that the Roman Church promotes civilization.

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THE BLACK INTERNATIONAL ALWAYS IN THE REAR

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In this general survey I have repeatedly referred to the +ideals of freedom and democracy. For most of us these are partial +expressions of the modern spirit, the demand for justice, which, in +alliance with the advance of science, has lifted the ten countries +I named to the highest rank. The attempt of Catholic writers in +various countries to represent them as mere political claims, or +even as a liberalism, that the world has tried and found wanting, +are mere excuses to cover the Vatican's alliance with Fascism or +the Fascist Encyclical of the Pope Quadragesimo Anno. It must be +understood, however, that I have not assigned these 20 nations +their place in the scale of civilization on that test. If one +proposed to do this it would be simple and accurate to say that all +Catholic countries are now Fascist and all democratic countries are +non-Catholic. But it is more convincing if we apply a broader test +of civilization.

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The Catholic apologist would define the service of his Church +by saying (first and chiefly) that it defends the family, that it +trains all people whom it can influence in general moral character, +that it preaches and insists upon justice, individual and social, +and that it is zealous for education and philanthropy. And since, +he would say, the family is, according to very many if not most +sociologists, the foundation of the state, the particular zeal and +rigorous measures of his Church, which distinguish it in an age of +growing laxity, must especially recommend it to the statesman and +the social student.

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Piffle, as usual. The Roman Church has three distinctive +features in its teaching about the family. First, it insist that +its priests, monks, and nuns shall not marry and shall not have any +recognizable families; and since the implication of this is that +sexual commerce has some sort of taint even where it is licensed

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one does not see how we can speak here of the Church guarding this +particular foundation of the state. Secondly, it alone amongst the +Churches -- in fact, it shares this distinction only with a few +groups of the lowest savages on earth -- forbids divorce; and since +this harsh restriction of human rights has either, as in Catholic +countries, to be alleviated by the general use of mistresses or +brothels, or it amounts to a positive deterrent from marriage, we +again fail to perceive any service, and no statesman of any of the +leading civilizations has any respect for the Church's teaching on +this point. The law of divorce which now exists in every +civilization except those of lower grade that are subject to the +Pope is based upon the collective recognition of social experience +and upon a mature adjustment of the rights of the individual and +the needs of the state. The Catholic opposition to it professes to +be based upon some words of an ancient Jewish prophet of which we +have two contradictory versions in the records and which other +Christian Churches, of equal scholarship and greater sincerity, +find compatible with divorce. It is in any case really based, as I +showed, on the fierce determination of the Popes of the early +Middle Age's to get complete control of life. On such frivolous and +anti-social grounds does this particularly strident claim of the +Church to render human service rest; and our contempt deepens when +we find the Church playing fast and loose with its "indissoluble +marriage" when its own interest or profit is involved, as I showed +in my analysis of the clauses of the Canon Law and the practice of +the Papal Courts.

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Thirdly, the Black International boasts that it renders a +unique service to the state because it is the only Church or +institution that condemns, and very fiercely condemns birth +control. The Black International is as usual, out of date. For the +last ten years it has shared that distinction with the criminal +leaders of the Italian, Japanese, and German people. They wanted +soldiers and the excuse of over-population to cover their +imperialist greed. The Black International wanted more contributors +to its treasury and, as priests have admitted, to beat rival +Churches by outbreeding them. The clerical opposition to birth +control is, in fact, such an obvious piece of priestcraft and has +so little foundation even in their own weird and wonderful theology +that they confess (as I quoted), the Catholic laity in America are +to an alarming extent ignoring their sulphuric orders and +restricting their families: which makes their "social" argument +look rather anaemic.

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The apologists have recently been encouraged by the appearance +of a new school of opponents of birth control whose leaders and +statements are not religious. These professors and their learned +lady friends recognize that the old opposition was based upon a +demand for as many soldiers as possible and that the industrial and +professional markets are, in normal times and in capitalist +countries, already overcrowded. They say that the really sound +scientific plea is that the birth rate is so far falling out of +balance with the death rate that there will soon be a debilitating +preponderance of old folk over young. They do not take into account +the fact that science and common sense are steadily raising what we +may call the vitality-period of men and women. I could write +caustic pages on my own recent experience in being rejected (as one

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in senile decay) from all departments of the British national +effort by men whose laziness, short hours, and easygoing methods +are notorious, But I have space only for one point. France has +practiced birth control for more than half a century almost as much +as America or Britain does today. But it was not old men who let +France down. It was a few Catholic old men, who were pushed into +office by these priests who are so concerned about the vitality of +civilization, Catholic adventurers like Laval and Bonnet, and +younger statesmen who were seduced by Catholic mistresses.

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In short, all this rhetoric about Catholic marriage and the +social welfare is hypocritical claptrap, and every statesman and +social student knows it. Every state finds in time its equilibrium +on grounds of experience in sex-matters. Sex-laws and restrictions +that are based upon ancient philosophic's or religions, ultimately +upon more ancient taboos and superstitions, merely distract +attention and hamper the social activity. Apologists for them have +to repeat outdated and thoroughly exposed statements about the ruin +of older civilizations by vice. Five year's ago most folk would +have said that the two most vigorous nations were the German and +the American, and both enjoyed an advanced degree of sexual +freedom. Today we should say that Russia and America are the most +vigorous nations. But according to the priests the American people +are only restrained from a monstrous parade of sex, in their books, +pictures, and theaters, by the severe paternal cheek of the clergy, +while Russia has always had a liberal divorce law and for quarter +of a century has denied that marriage is a sacrament and birth +control a sin.

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For reasons -- reasons of self-interest -- which I discussed +in an earlier book Catholic apologists have always put this sex and +marriage-business in the forefront of their statement of claims. It +more or less excises the absurd official virginity of their +priests, monks and nuns: It evokes a golden echo in the hearts of +rich widows and spinsters: and it really does mark a distinction +between the Church and "the world." In theory, that is to say. And +not only is the theory itself an antiquated ethic rehabilitated for +priestly purposes, so that those who profess to lead civilization +are far in the rear of modern thought, but in practice Catholics +are no more "moral" than other folk. I leave it to my readers' +knowledge of American life what the situation is in America, saying +only that I have a very extensive familiarity with the best +American fiction of a realist character and that I have made +extensive inquiries during the two years (at intervals) I have +spent in America. But for "Catholic countries" you may take as +typical the pleasant exaggeration which Byron wrote when he saw a +statue of the Virgin Mary in a Portuguese city: "Well do I ween the +only virgin there." He had probably made inquiries.

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Apologists obstinately insist that Irish girls are remarkably +chaste," though I have for 30 years given proof and bitter +complaints of English Catholics (including leading priests) that +the Irish girls are sent to Britain to drop their burdens and keep +down the record of illegitimate births in Eire. A New York attorney +writes me, or wrote me 30 years ago when I took up the question, +that the same complaint was made in the New England States. Sanger +says in his History of Prostitution (1919 edition) that on personal

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interrogation of 2000 New York prostitutes he found that 977 (706 +of whom had been born in Ireland) had had Catholic parents, and had +been brought up as Catholics. The Catholic Times (May 31, 1924) +quoted Canon Hughes, one of the highest Catholic authorities, +saying that 60 percent of the prostitutes of Liverpool -- one of +the most Catholic and most vicious cities in England -- were Irish +and only 30 percent English. Ten years later another Catholic +expert, Mrs. Ellison, stated in a book that the situation is the +same in the cities of London, Glasgow, and Newcastle (big centers +of Irish immigration). A leaflet on the subject issued by the +Protestant Truth Society (British) gives a mass of Catholic +testimony and replies to the charge that illegitimacy is 3.4 +percent in Protestant Ulster and (for the above reasons) only 0.7 +in Catholic Connaught that it was at the time 9.30 in Belgium, +14.89 in Austria, 15.67 in Bavaria, and 50.00 in Guatemala. Since +emigration was checked the Irish have not boasted so much. I quoted +an editorial in the Irish Times (June 12, 1937) describing a +disgraceful official record of sex-crimes in County Clare which is +in Connaught!

+ +

This chastity-talk is not only outdated from the ethical and +sociological angle but it supported by a remarkable variety of +untruths. And if it is suggested that the real service of the +Church lies in promoting morals or character in the broader sense +the reply to just as devastating. This plea is just a relic of the +old and purely rhetorical assertion that a religious basis is +required for sound conduct. The sufficient reply is that, I have +repeatedly shown, the general level of character in the leading +civilizations has risen in the same proportion as Church influence +has decayed. For the moment we are not concerned about cause and +effect. The fact is enough. As my friend Mr. E.S.P. Haynes, a +distinguished London attorney, has written -- and he is approvingly +quoted by Julian Huxley in his Religion Without Revelation (P. 52): +"If morality did really depend on other worldly sanctions, the +religious changes of the last fifty years would by now have +dissolved society at large." What has happened is much the same as +with the old superstition that it is unlucky to pass under a +ladder. People now see that a good reason for not doing it is that +the man who does not keep clear of a ladder raised against a +building is apt to get drips of paint or bricks dropped on him. In +the same way they discover that sound moral law is a sanitation-regulation of the social life.

+ +

The irony of paying attention to the Romanist version of the +old apologetic, which is the noisiest of them all, is that the +Papal Church promotes sound character even less than the other +Christian Churches. Middle-class folk, to which class most writers +belong, argue on these matters in the most slovenly fashion. Their +acquaintance with Catholics is confined to their class, and in this +they meet many Catholic men and women of admirable character. So, +they lazily conclude, Catholicism molds character. Middle-class men +who are not puritans have insisted to me -- two of them were +attorneys -- that they find Catholic girls easier to persuade or +less in need of persuasion than other girls. But let us remember, +the nature of the Church as I analyzed it. Of the 100000000 or so +adult subjects of the Pope at least 80000000 have not the least

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resemblance to the middle-class American or British Catholic. Half +of them are imperfectly civilized Latin Americans (with Cuba and +the Philippines) and most of the remainder are illiterate or poor +and ignorant Spaniards, Italians, Portuguese, Slovaks, etc.

+ +

The general level of character in a nation is an elusive +factor but it is fairly determined, if we make allowances for +police-conditions, by the volume of crime. Criminal behavior in the +extreme form of unsocial conduct, and the number of criminals is a +good indication of the amount of unsocial conduct generally. If, +therefore, we find, as we do, that Catholic countries are more +criminal than non-Catholic, and that as a mixed country a quite +disproportionate number of the criminals are Catholics, we must +conclude that the Church is no more effective in inspiring sound +social behavior than in securing the chastity about which it talks +so much.

+ +

I have given a few statistics in book No. 13. As Catholics are +apt to contest this I may add a few more. In No. 23 of his +Questions and Answer (p. 87) Haldeman-Julius gives, from a book by +a Catholic prison chaplain (Fr. Leo Kalmer, Crime and Religion) a +most damning series of figures. The priest ascertained from his +colleagues the percentage of Catholics in 36 American +penitentiaries and the result extends to the whole of America the +truth disclosed in the figure's I gave for Sing Sing (48.50 percent +in Joliet, 46.92 in San Quentin, 57.31 in Auburn, 63.64 in +Wethersfield, etc.). Analysis by the Rev. L.B. Lehmann brings out +the fact that in 28 states, in which Catholics are 17 percent of +the population, they are 33 percent of the criminals. The whole +article in Haldeman-Julius' book should be read.

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The only other mixed states for which exact comparative +figures are available are the Commonwealth of Australia and the +Dominion of New Zealand. In the case of Australia the figures are +particularly interesting because the Roman Church has as much power +there as in America and is just as blatant in its claims. It is 36 +years since I first reproduced the full figures relating to crime +and Catholicism in that country, and I have brought them up to date +every few years. They are as damning as those of America, yet +Catholics continue to claim in the most brazen manner that they +guard the foundations of the state by promoting character.

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The Queensland State Schools Defense Fund issued a leaflet +quoting the figures from the official publications. This showed +that in Victoria in 1936 the Catholic prisoners numbered 2164, +whereas since the Catholics are only 18 percent of the population, +their ought to have been only 754 Catholic prisoners if their moral +quality was equal to that of non-Catholics. In New South Wales they +had 454 prisoners instead of the 145 to which their percentage of +the population entitled them. In Queensland the disproportion was +the same. In the Commonwealth Catholics, mostly Irish, had three +times the number of criminals they ought to have had if they were +as good as and no better than their neighbors. As Catholics in +Queensland had just published a new demand for the preferential +treatment of their schools, the Protestants retorted humorously +that they ought themselves to receive preferential treatment in the +matter of taxation because they maintain extra police and jails to +look after Catholic criminals.

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In 1937 Archbishop Mannix, the bitter muddle-headed Irishman +who in his very Christian hatred of England used all the influence +of the Church to induce Australian's to confine themselves to their +pleasures and dollar-making while Britain fought and suffered for +ideals -- until the hideous face of the Japs appeared on the +horizon and Australia cried frantically to America and Britain for +help -- made one of his usual attacks on the public schools of +Australia. They were demoralizing even Catholic boys. He said this +in Melbourne (Victoria). Shortly afterward's the Report of the +Victorian Children's Courts for 1937 was published. Of 973 child +delinquents it appeared that 582, or 37.4 percent were Roman +Catholics; and Catholics are only 18 percent of the population of +Melbourne.

+ +

That is typical of the value, of these loudly-shouted claims +of Catholic apologists. They know that none of the papers will test +the claims by statistical or historical facts, and that letters to +the press which do this will be suppressed as "offensive to +Catholics." The Protestant Watchman of New South Wales in 1941. +published, an analysis of the space given in the four daily papers +of Sydney to Catholic and Protestant affair's respectively. In a +period of three months the Roman Catholics got 491 inches, the +Church of England 280 (if we count out a large photo with the queen +in it), and the Methodists and Presbyterians 186. Is Sydney a +Catholic city? Far from it. The Roman Church controls only 17 +percent of the population: the Church of England 40 percent: the +Methodist and Presbyterians 14 percent. But the arms of the Black +Octopus are everywhere, strangling freedom and truth, from the +office of the cabinet minister or the trade union to the editorial +office and the public libraries.

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Most countries do not now publish the figures of the religious +professions of criminals, and full figures of crime in Catholic and +non-Catholic countries are not so easily obtained as one would +suppose. Few sociologists or criminologists omit to mention the +Church, and prominently, amongst the agencies which make for social +sanity and stability, but, though it will be understood that my +acquaintance with such literature is not complete, I do not know +one of them who dares to follow this up by examining the statistics +of crime and the profession's of criminals or the religious status +of the various countries.

+ +

The article "Homicide" in the Encyclopedia of the Social +Sciences has a little merit in this connection. It quotes Ferri's +table showing the reduction of it in recent times in five of the +leading European countries by giving the percentage per 100000 of +the population:

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Germany 1.0 in 1865-85 and 0.6 in 1906-10 +France 2.4 in 1827-31 and 1.4 in 1911-15 +England 8.1 in 1856-60 and 0.7 in 1906-10 +Spain 9.4 in 1881-85 and 5.2 in 1911-15 +Italy 12.2 in 1871-75 and 4.1 in 1911-15

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Italy, remember, was despotically ruled by the Papacy until +1870 and had an appalling record of crime to reduce. I may add that +crime doubled in a few years after the Fascists usurped power in it

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and was not reduced when the Vatican made its corrupt bargain to +share the control. Spain and Italy were both predominantly Catholic +in the last century when they had such a high record of the gravest +crime, and the modern sociologist scorns the excuse of "the hot +blood of the south." I question the figure for Germany, as there +was no "Germany" only a number of separate states -- until 1871. +Bodis (in Mulhall's Dictionary of Statistics) gives this percentage +of trials for murder in 1876-84: United Kingdom 12, Germany 14, +France (still mainly Catholic) 23, Spain 105, Hungary 107, Italy +134. Add these to the figures I gave in No. 13, and you get such a +reply to the claim that Romanism promotes a high standard of +character that you wonder that any apologist has the effrontery to +make it.

+ +

But all Catholics make it, and very emphatically, because it +is the only excuse they can provide for the politicians, +professors, and writers whom, in one way or other, they get to +praise the Church and denounce critics. If this claim is so +decisively disproved by the only exact test we can apply -- the +volume of crime in Catholic lands and the proportion of criminals +in mixed lands -- so decisively that no sociologist in America +thinks it prudent to discuss the matter, where must we look for +even a plausible bit of color for it? The language of Papal +encyclicals and the gorgeous comments of apologists on them suggest +that there might be more sincerity in the claim that the Church is +more effective in inspiring social justice. We will defer the +examination of this to the next chapter, but the reader will be +prepared to smile. Social justice in Italy, Vichy France, Spain, +Portugal, and Brazil as compared with America, Britain, Russia, +Denmark, Sweden, or Switzerland! It sounds like a bad joke.

+ +

But what other test can we apply? Is the great 'service of the +Church that it provided, or moved the authorities to provide, free +education for the children of the workers? See the table of +steatitic of illiteracy which I gave in No. 13 (p. 21). They are +more damning than the statistics of crime or illegitimacy. Our +search for these massive social services of the Church begins to +remind us of that naughty definition of metaphysics -- looking in +a dark room for a black cat that isn't there. Let us, in order to +be quite just to our Catholic fellow-citizens, approach the subject +in a different way.

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Chapter III

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THE WICKED WORLD EDUCATES THE CHURCH

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This ghastly war and the Fascist-Catholic conspiracy that led +to it interrupted an unsteady and unequal but very real and +Substantial advance of civilization in Europe and America. If my +readers are not tired of my giving proof of that, I am. I have +routed the Lippmanns and Spenglers who Strangely persuaded so many +to doubt it. I have riddled the sophistry of the novelty-monger and +pseudo-idealists who ranted that in our race to get ahead we had +created a monster of the Frankenstein order or had let the +cultivation of our intelligence outrun our cultivation of +character. The revelation of the share of "our two historic

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religions" in drenching the planet with mud and blood ought to make +these prophets of the spiritual feel small, but I notice in the +American press that they are as cocky as ever, and our Joads in +Britain orate at Empire Pageants. These people have nearly a +monopoly of the after-the-war planning which absorbs all our finer +spirits just now. They would return to just that distracting +activity of theirs under cover of which Japs and Germans shifted +the attention of the world from the real evils that menaced it.

+ +

The world was making a very creditable progress on most lines +of a real advance of civilization, though it was checked by the +interests of wealth and religion, until the privileged folk and +their politicians were duped into thinking that the Black and Tang +(or yellows) were merely accumulating power in order to annihilate +the Reds. This progress became appreciable about 1870, when the +United States settled down after the Civil War and Europe +triumphed, in most countries, over the vicious clerical-royalist +reaction that had followed the fall of Napoleon. Briefly, the +period characterized not merely by an advance of from 1870 to 1914 +was characterized, not merely by an advance of applied science +which more than doubled the wealth-reducing capacity of a nation +but by the employment of a very large part of the new wealth to +create systems of universal free education, an immense +multiplication of free libraries, the establishment in most +countries of fully democratic political regimes and the +enfranchisement of women, factory-legislation, schemes of old-age +pensions and health and unemployment insurance, sanitation, re-housing, and other measures which doubled the average expectation +of life, a considerable growth of temperance (or temperateness), +and great reduction of crime, the doubling (generally) of real +wages, the enormous improvement of hospitals and services for the +distressed, and the spread of an anti-war sentiment.

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Some say that that is a materialistic conception of progress. +Most men and women in 1914 would have said that they did not care +a damn what you called it but that -- if they read a candid account +of life before 1870 -- the world, in spite of its lingering +defects, was a very much better place to live in. But let me again, +in passing, point out the humbug of this "spirit" and "matter" +business.

+ +

I have just been reading, dreary as the occupation was, one of +those numerous recent works on the beauty of modern high-brow +Buddhism and how it will save the world. Out of the mush of +Verbiage I picked the general statement that the Supreme aim of +Buddhism is "the extinction of suffering." Funny. That is exactly +the supreme aim of atheists and materialists. I pointed out years +ago that progress is not to be judged by some misty goal in the +clouds but by the success of a nation in reducing suffering. And +while a certain number of people in every generation can be +persuaded to lessen the risk of suffering for themselves by +despising the wicked world and its wine, women, and song, and +retiring to a semi-nudist colony to contemplate their navels -- +which seems to be Buddhism -- it seems to us atheists and +materialists far better to remove or reduce as much as possible the +sources of suffering (disease, poverty, war, ignorance, etc.) for +millions of people.

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Talking of our navel-contemplators, I fancy you will find a +little irrelevance well worth inserting here. I do not know whether +you ever came across a priceless book published nine years ago by +Professor T. O'Conroy. It ought to have been reprinted in 1938 and +scattered by the million over America, at the time, when the Japs +were spending millions a year in lying propaganda. O'Conroy lived +in Japan, teaching in one of the leading universities, for 15 +years. He married an aristocratic Japanese lady and was more +intimately admitted to Japanese life than any other white man. And +in 1933 he wrote this scalding indictment of the nation, showing +that for corruption, cruelty, and unscrupulousness the Japs could +not be beaten. Buddhism, he shows, fully shared this corruption, +though it was at that time -- the government had not yet invited it +to prostitute itself to the national greed -- a fat, indolent, and +useless body. But what I want to quote is an illustration of its +corruption which he gives (pp. 87-8) and which, sensational as it +is, like the similar revelation in German monasteries, I have not +seen reproduced or referred to since in American literature or +journalism.

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A few mile's from Tokyo was a large and rich monastery of what +was understood to be the very strictest sect of Buddhist monks. +They were so holy that they closed their doors against the wicked +world and wanted to be alone. But in their extensive grounds there +was a home for feeble-minded women, tended by the good monks, and +a rumor spread in Tokyo that numbers of these unfortunates were +just unwanted wives whose husbands paid the monks to take them +over. A Tokyo paper organized a raid in 1928, and though the police +at once suppressed it, published an amazing story. The Buddhist +monastery was a colony of sadists, just as the German Franciscan +friars were found to be colonies of sodomists. When the raiders +burst in they found the monk-keepers gambling and squabbling with +blood-splotched paper money, while the women, half mad or half +dead, lay about, mutilated, exhausted, fouled with the monks' +excrements. Women were chained even in the temple, and rape, sexual +mutilation, and ignominy were but a few of the foul performances +that took place." And this is the second greatest "spiritual" +religion of our time: the religion over which our idealists and +scorners of materialism go into ecstasies!

+ +

Like the monasteries in the Catholic provinces of Germany and +the more Catholic republics of South and Central America and the +Philippines, these Buddhist monasteries -- O'Conroy says that +decent Buddhist priests told him that 60 to 80 percent of their +body were corrupt -- illustrate what is always likely to happen in +medieval conditions; that is to say, wherever the monastery is +surrounded by a drowsy or drugged population of believers free from +the taint of heresy. It was the normal condition of Catholic +monasteries throughout the Middle Ages, and it lingered, as in +Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Spanish America, and the +Philippines, wherever this parasitic Catholic atmosphere lingered. +This is the first broad proof that the Church was taught sense and +virtue by what it calls the wicked world or the materialistic age.

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An examination of the progress and the causes of social reform +in each country would clinch this proof, but obviously a +satisfactory treatment of that subject would require a large +volume; and, as it is one of those inquiries that the Church does

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not like, no historian or sociologist has taken it up and there is +no work to recommend to the reader. I have, as some readers will +know, not only given a large amount of material for the study in +previous works but have written one in which enough of the evidence +is condensed to satisfy any candid inquirer (How Freethinkers Made +Notable Contributions to Civilization, Haldeman-Julius Co. 1938). +In this work I examined the record of progress, particularly during +the last 100 years, in respect of the struggle for freedom, +education, social and political rights, the emancipation of woman, +philanthropy, and general improvement, and I showed that, while in +those days religious folk, though by no means so lenient to +Catholics as they now are, at least thought them an immeasurably +larger and more respectable body than freethinkers, yet fully one +half the pioneers in all reforms were freethinker's and none were +Catholics.

+ +

You wonder what Catholic apologists, loudly claiming that the +Church leads in progress and civilization, say to that. The answer +is: Nothing, as far as I can discover. I have several times quoted +a very popular apologetic work, published under the patronage of +heads and professors of several American universities, entitled The +Calvert Handbook of Catholic Facts. It ought to say "of Catholic +Rhetoric" or "Catholic Lies." It makes the usual generalized claims +but, as the Church must have exerted this mighty influence on +progress and civilization through definite individuals, the leaders +of chief workers in reform-movements, I look for the names of these +-- and find none. There is a lot about Catholic relatives of +Presidents, rich Catholic men of business, Catholic diplomatists, +Catholic judges, and so on, but for every Catholic named as a +worker in reform-movements I will undertake to name a hundred +skeptics.

+ +

There is in the book an article on Catholics who contributed +to American civilization in particular or civilization in general. +It names Sobieski, whose monument is Poland, Ferdinand and +Isabella, whose monument is Spain, and the discoveries of America, +who would have gone to the stake if they had not professed +Romanism. That covers the later Middle Ages. Then we have a Father +White, who is said to have set up the first printing press (from +England) in America, another who was great at shorthand in its +infancy, another who invented a balloon; and another who (getting +the idea from England) built the first railroad in America. Two or +three are credited with naval and military distinction, and there +is the usual bunch of great Catholic scientists (Pasteur, Fabre, +etc.) most of whom were skeptics. There are the men who wrote +"Maryland" and "The Conquered Banner," the architect of the White +House, the man who sold the estate for it, and the man who planned +the city of Washington (a "majestic plan"). There you have the +sweepings of three centuries, from Europe as well as America. They +do not represent a small body of Quakers or still smaller body (at +that time) of freethinkers but the biggest religion in the world.

+ +

Did anybody ever say that no Catholic ever won any sort of +distinction, even in shorthand, ballooning, or writing songs? We +are familiar with Catholics writing any sort of tripe for their own +hypnotized people, but this sort of thing is written for non-Catholic Americans and has the patronage of Nicholas Murray Butler

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and the President of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. The +great work for civilization was achieved from 1870 onward. How many +of these illustrious Catholics fall in that period? Only the +balloonist as far as I can see. We may admit that gas and hot air +are entitled to clerical respect, but what the Catholic apologist, +claims is the inspiration of our progress in education, the +reduction of social service. How many of crime, and poverty, and +suffering these brilliant men figure in those fields? Not one.

+ +

Let us try another way. As the Jesuits are supposed to have +inspired Jefferson and Adams, who loathed Jesuits and their creed +as much as Haldeman-Julius does, perhaps it will be claimed that it +was the subtly compelling influence of Papal encyclicals that +permeated the world and somehow fired large bodies of men and women +(mostly skeptics) to devote their lives to ridding the world of its +medieval evils and miseries. This would be very singular when we +reflect that of those who are supposed to be the closest readers of +the encyclopedias, the priests, not one -- unless you want me to +count Father Coughlin -- figures in the long list of reform-leaders, and not one Catholic layman is found in any list of, say, +the hundred leading social workers of the 19th Century. The +influence of religion on leader's of reform is one of those studies +which our sociologists carefully avoid, though most of them give +religion a high-place in the list of inspirational agencies, but I +have made the research elsewhere, and the grotesque scratchings in +the byways of history of the Calvert Handbook confirm me. The Papal +encyclicals moved the world to great deeds and through atheists and +Quakers! Really, apologists ought not to advertise so blatantly +what they think of Catholic intelligence.

+ +

But what are these grand encyclicals (or "to the whole world") +letters of the Popes on social matters. Even a Catholic would beg +me not to go too far back, so let us begin about the beginning of +the modern progressive period. Pius IX (of "Blessed Memory," the +Catholic writer always adds, though Italians who knew him have +written some funny things about him) opened the series in 1864 with +the encyclical Quanta cura and the Syllabus. Your apologists now +never mention it. He, having still at that time the reactionary +French emperor to protect him against the wicked Italians, scorched +the whole reform-movement with the choicest Papal invectives. He +put "liberalism," which we now call pink tea, on a level with +Satanism, which is several notches lower than rape.

+ +

Then came the great encyclical-writer Leo XIII. He was as fond +of writing encyclicals as Churchill is of writing speeches. Two of +them are still gorgeously praised -- and falsely interpreted -- In +American Catholic literature. But just keep your eye on the dates +and the historical background. Leo won the tiara in 1878, when the +reform-movement was full on in Europe. America he knew only as a +raw outpost of civilization -- I suspect he knew it mostly from +Dickens's Letters and Martin Chuzzlewit -- and he had many a brush +with its bishops, but he did follow social and political movements +in Europe. Yet it was not until thirteen years after his accession +that he issued the first encyclical which the most ingenious +apologist can call socially inspiring. He had not been silent. In +1878 he had issued an encyclical cursing Socialism root and branch. +Next year he had imposed the medieval "philosophy of Aquinas on the

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Catholic world. In the following year he had thundered at the +world, which was reforming its marriage-laws, that divorce was a +mortal sin (except in the ingenious form in which rich Catholics +can get it from Rome). In 1881 he pointed out, apropos of the +assassination of the Tsar, that these appalling outrages were due +to the decay of religion (not, of course, to the bestiality of the +Tsarist regime), and in 1884 he put Freemasonry Under the ban. In +1885 he issued the Immortale Dei, which Ryan still applauds as a +fine democratic appeal; and I have shown that it is nothing of the +kind. In 1888 he savagely attacked the claim of religious freedom +and liberty of discussion. It was not until 1891, when he saw +Socialism gaining ground rapidly at the expense of the Church, that +he issued the one encyclical, Rerum novarum, which Catholics claim +to give a lead in social reform; and the only "revolutionary" +sentence in it was the statement that the workers must have a +living wage. (which he refused to define), which had been a +platitude of liberal literature for half a century. And in his last +beautiful messages to the world he retracted this and died +sputtering the most reactionary sentiments.

+ +

I pass on the next two Popes. Ryan does not quote them. They +were stuffy and ill-informed reactionaries all their lives. And in +1931 the late Pope, or the present Pope writing in his name issue +the Fascist encyclical Quadragesimo anno which the British and +American hierarchies dare not translate into English! It opened the +blatantly Fascist, conspiratorial, warmongering career of his +"holiness" Pius XII.

+ +

Need I point the moral? The Papacy was throughout the whole +period the enemy of progress of the rights of the people. It was +just compelled for a time to temporize because it looked even to +these owlish Italians priests as if democracy had won its war and +the world was adopting the liberalism in social matters which the +Popes scorned. Yet even when concessions had to be made to check +the leakage of millions of workers from the Church they took only +the feeble form of saying that if the French people really insisted +on having a republic they might, provided it kept the Catholic +Church established by law and that capitalists must grant their +workers a "just wage," which it was left to them to determine.

+ +

What do I mean then, you will ask, by saying that the wicked +world educated the Church? The Popes apparently, never were +educated in sound views of social ethics. What I mean is that in +America, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy a social-democratic +movement (without the capital letters) spread in the Catholic world +after 1900. Quite bold books appeared, and there were "social +experts" and all sorts of novelties. What was the inspiration? +Evidently it did not come from the Papacy. Had local hierarchies +and their Ryans and Williams a finer appreciation of the +implications of the faith than the Holy-Ghost-inspired Pope's and +all the great theological geniuses of the Middle Ages?

+ +

Enough of this nonsense. The plain truth is that after leaving +it to non-Catholics for a century, when the work was heart-breaking +and the penalty often death or jail, to break the paths of social +and humanitarian reform, the local Black International in some +countries concluded that in the interest of the Church they must

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join in the work. It was a death-bed repentance. But the patient +recovered. That is to say, the Black International, which for a +time had despaired of life on the old lines of privilege and +autocracy, saw a new hope in the rise of Fascism and became +convinced that it was going to conquer the world. So the death-bed +confession of sin was torn up in Rome and in all countries that +passed under the pirate-flag, and it is only in one or two +countries like America and Britain, where democracy may survive and +may even regain the world, where in any case Catholics are a +minority and must behave like the Japanese in California or Oregon, +that one still hears how freedom and democracy are grand old +Catholic ideas conveyed to a wicked and despairing world by the +august, and fearless, and un-compromising encyclicals of the Popes.

+ +

Chapter IV

+ +

THE CONTRAST OF RUSSIA AND PRIEST-RULED COUNTRIES

+ +

While the services rendered by the Church to civilization are +as hard to find as the black cat in a dark room, the services it +rendered to the repulsive forces which have attempted to wreck +civilization are as plain as the peaks of the Rockies. The +alliances contracted by the Vatican with Italy, Japan, and Germany +are events of recent history like the New Deal or the Atlantic +Charter. The dates and terms of the agreements are public property. +But one service requires special consideration: the organization of +the entire resources of the Church to engender hatred of Communism +in general and of Russia in particular.

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This service began, explicitly as far as the documents I have +seen tell us, in 1936, though the Vatican had begun its furious +attack upon Communism and even, in effect, its appeal for a crusade +against it, much earlier. From 1919 to 1924 the Pope was, we saw, +straining, every nerve to get on friendly terms with Soviet Russia +so as to bring under his control the Orthodox Church when its +leaders were scattered. The Russians repeatedly detected the +Catholic clergy in treachery and in 1924 closed the country against +missionaries from Rome. So in December of that year Pius XI, who +had hitherto in great charity kept in check his hatred of +Communism, attacked it in his Consistorial Allocution (December 18) +and called the attention of all "heads of "governments" to the +danger of it. He, in fact, coupled Socialism with Communism as +equally dangerous. In 1931 he, we saw, ordered all Catholic states +(in encyclical Quadragesimo anno) to adopt the Fascist state and +sternly forbade Catholics to take up either Socialism or Communism. +He said that Communism had brought "massacres and ruin upon Eastern +Europe." This attack on Russia seems to have been taken up or +fostered by his representatives everywhere, as on December 30, +1932, the British Daily Worker said that "the clergy of all creeds +and denominations are, with religion as their pretext following the +lead of the Pope in his call for a crusade against the U.S.S.R."

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The direct and more pointed attack began, however, in 1936, +shortly after the outbreak of Franco's rebellion in Spain. We must +remember that Italy and Germany were not at that time open allies +of Franco, and America and Britain had not declared their attitude

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to what everybody still called a rebellion. But there was no +reserve at Rome. In a blistering and most untruthful attack on +Communism, which he represented as the aggressor in Spain, the Pope +spoke of it as a force that was attempting to subvert established +order of every kind from Russia to China, from Mexico to South +America." From this year onward he appealed repeatedly for "the +extinction" of Bolshevism in Spain, Mexico, and Russia, and, as we +saw, "he holy cry for blood was taken up in the Catholic section of +every country.

+ +

When the Czecho-Slovakian crisis, which might be called the +first stage of the world-war, arose in 1938 the service that the +Vatican and its Black International in every country had already +rendered the imperialist thugs by this propaganda was apparent. +Joint action at once by Britain, France, and Russia would have +strangled Hitlerism in its cradle and put a cheek to the ambitions +of Japan. But Britain was under obligation only to support France, +and France was persuaded by its Catholic politicians and military +leaders, the present Vichy crowd, that Russia could not be trusted +to keep its word: in reality, that active partnership with so +disreputable a power and helping it to cheek the strength of +Germany must not be undertaken by France. As late as 1940 British +generals of the stuffy Tory type were saying: "We may have to ally +our selves with Russia, but God forgive us." That contemptuous +attitude the Black International fed in every country for ten +years, to the very great profit of the bandits.

+ +

We admit the double root of this hatred of Russia, or the +capitalist and the Catholic roots, but we have to recognize this +difference: that the capitalists, who make no pretence of moral +principle, are honest opponents of a dangerous rival system, +whereas the priests, who profess to be the moral saviors of a +wicked world lie about their motives and by their action run the +risk of bringing upon civilization precisely that ruin which they +untruthfully accused the Communists of contemplating. The Pope's +outburst in 1936 which I quoted in an earlier book and which was +clearly written by the present Pope as Secretary of State, was a +tissue of untruthful charges. Instead of trying to "subvert +established order of every kind" by "an un-parallel confusion of +forces so savage and cruel as to have been thought utterly +incompatible" -- whatever the last phrase may mean -- Russia had by +1936, as the whole world knew, wrought a miracle of the creation of +order out of chaos. In 1923, as a result of the European War, the +Civil War, and the great famine, Russia had been reduced to a +condition of disorder and misery which had not been seen in Europe +since the end of the Thirty Years War (1648). The restoration began +in earnest a few years later, and by 1936 the most respected writer +of Britain and America reported, with a few reserves, that the +Soviet government had, especially in regard to the reduction of +crime and the establishment of social order, won a remarkable +victory.

+ +

Apologists in America had generally, to be less wild than the +Pope in their indictment of Russia, but they were reckless enough. +The old lies about the massacre of priests and the persecution of +religion flourished in Catholic literature from year to year; in +fact, there is good ground to believe that the official

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representatives of America demanded assurances on the latter point +when they began to negotiate with Russia about military aid. The +conspiracies in which some of the leading Bolsheviks were involved +were eagerly snapped up as proof that the country was ruled by a +murderous bureaucracy, whereas we now have the weighty assurance of +Duranty (with a reserve in one case) and Ambassador Davies that the +men were certainly guilty. Davies himself repeats a perennial libel +in saying that the Russians are lamentably inefficient as compared +with the Americans and the British. He has had the cruel experience +of seeing his book appear, with this reproach, just at the time +when the world had proof before it daily of the relative efficiency +of the British and the Russian military machine.

+ +

There are two plain reasons for the sacred fury of the Church +against Russia, and the first is entirely discreditable. It is +because the attack upon Russia brought the Black International into +line with wealth and privilege in accordance with its old and +unwavering tradition. For an attack upon the Communist political +system the Church has no ground whatever since it declares that it +never interferes in politics. And when it plans its attack on +economic ground's it recognizes that it can make no distinction +between Communism and Socialism, since the degree of socialization +is not a matter of moral principle. But its claim that any moral +principle at all is involved is ludicrous. Ryan is very eloquent on +the moral right of private ownership: he is, in fact so sure of it +that he says a Socialist government would be a violation of moral +law, and Catholic Americans would be justified in rebelling against +it. Piffle. A people has a right to choose its economic form just +as well as its political regime. The apologists who talk like this +are simply saying to the world's capitalists: The Church of Rome is +your friend so help to protect it from further decay.

+ +

The second and stronger reason is the tremendous loss which +the spread of Communism had inflicted upon the Roman Church. I gave +the facts in the first book. The press and most writers conceal +them and leave the fierce hostility of Rome to Russia not very +intelligible and cover up the vast amount of harm that the Vatican +did by spreading it's hatred over the world, yet Rome itself is +much more ready to admit this motive than to talk about its support +of the capitalist system. It, of course, does not speak of losses. +With its usual complete indifference to truthfulness it invites the +world to unite against Russia because it "attacks religion." All +criticism of the Catholic Church or telling the people the truth +about its history and its aims is "an attack" but criticism by the +Church of other Churches or philosophies is, however acrid and +untruthful it may be, just a kindly warning to the world of the +dangers that surround it.

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We may readily admit that for many years the Soviet government +gave every assistance to the voluntary organization that opened the +eyes of the people, but this official cooperation had ceased at the +time when the Vatican was shrieking about attacks on religion, and +in the other countries (Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and Spanish +America, etc.) in which the advance of Socialism and Communism +detached tens of million# from the Roman Church there was certainly +no official encouragement of the movement. The mechanism of +propaganda was a substitution of facts for lies, of knowledge for

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ignorance. The policy of the Church when the Fascist reaction began +in each country sufficiently proves this. It closed the schools, +suppressed freedom of discussion, and strangled literature; and it +filled the jails with the men and women who had been most prominent +in exposing the clergy, and it had, and continues to have, +thousands of them labelled Communists and shot.

+ +

We talk about the blindness of men in the red haze of war, but +the third year of this most terrible of all war's has been, to the +intense mortification of the Black International, a year of +illumination. Self-interest has, of course, helped the British and +Americans to surmount the prejudices that have been pumped into +them by press, pulpit, literature, and the cinema for 20 years, but +it will hardly be questioned that the magnificent conduct of the +Russian people has been the main fact that opened the eyes of folk +to their great qualities and the soundness of their system. Right +until the hordes of Nazi tanks, set free by the absence of any +opposition on the western front, were within a few hours run of +Leningrad and Moscow, Britons and Americans were whispering that of +course the Russian people would not fight with real devotion and +the requisite energy for a government that usurped power, treated +them despotically and mercilessly, and robbed them of their +previous religion. Novels, the class-books of so many millions, +still circulated in which the Commissars and leading officials were +represented as sadistic monsters who lived on champagne, caviar, +and Christian virgins.

+ +

History has rarely seen such a revulsion of sentiment, such a +triumph over two decades of priestly and aristocratic slander, as +has happened in the last six months. Conservative leaders now speak +in public about "our noble Russian ally," and deputies from Russia, +who only six months ago were admitted at the back doors, so to +speak, are received with royal hands. And it is only in the last +few months that the press or most of it -- many papers still crab +at Russia and frown on the popular enthusiasm -- has supported the +change of heart. In England most of the cinemas still treat Russia +as a power which it would be indecent to obtrude upon the notice of +a Christian people. Bands at Anglo-Russian functions are forbidden +to play the Communist national anthem, and rich if small +organizations continue to publish the old libels. But, the facts +have for the vast majority of people swept away the long-standing +prejudices as the first warm rains of spring wash away the snows.

+ +

The next step will be for the public to reflect how it has +been systematically duped over a long series of years. The share of +the Black International in this has been so conducted that most +people are unaware of it, but the truth slowly emerges and Rome +shudders. The Pope, we saw, already puts out rumors that in his +intimate circle he, from the first, drew a sharp distinction +between what he blamed in Russia, which was virtuous on the wrong +grounds, and what he blamed in Germany and Italy. But no one has +read a line in which he gave a straight moral condemnation of the +Fascists and the Nazis -- he never blamed more than their +interference with the Church and the attempt to annihilate Catholic +Poland -- whereas the Catholic authorities themselves translated +and circularized the vicious, vitriolic speech on the Communists of +Spain, Mexico, and Russia, which he delivered on September 14, +1936, (The Spanish Terror).

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Into whatever contortion the Black International is driven in +the next few years the world is confronted today by a situation +which sets in a glorious light all that the Pope cursed and casts +a shade of ignominy and cowardice upon all that he blessed. Russia +shines, and even China wins honor and admiration: the two chief +countries in which the Pope had seen the activity of the devil: +Spain, the Land which his shining Catholic crusaders were going to +deliver from bondage and misery, is a country of spectral forms and +general mourning, a land in which innocent men face the firing-squad daily, while the priests wax fatter, and the Catholic +"nobles" and politicians do actually carouse in Madrid as the +Bolshevik leaders were represented by the Pope's agents as doing in +Moscow.

+ +

Portugal, we saw on the authority of a writer whom American +Catholics had imprudently recommended as veracious, is a country in +which priest-ridden jailers use the vilest tortures that were used +in the ages of faith: in which decades of Liberal work for the +education and elevation of the people have been trodden under foot, +and the dictators are richly rewarded by Rome because they declare +that they are ruling Portugal on the lines of the Pope's beautiful +(but untranslated) encyclical.

+ +

Italy, dragged at the heels of Hitler's bumping chariot, is in +so pitiful a condition that it wins the sympathy of its democratic +enemies. From his own Vatican windows the Pope looks out upon a +people that in a very high proportion curses the man whom the +Vatican, by a sordid bargain, confirmed in his usurped power. +London, the bombed and ravaged city, is gay with confidence, well +fed, richly entertained at nights, reflecting the summer sun on the +faces of its citizens. Rome is beggared and dejected, despised and +bullied by the men who invited it to share the conquest of the +world.

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Vichy France is sullen and simmering. The myth that it was +somehow ruled against its will by a posse of Jews, Atheists, and +Freemasons and would, under such men of piety as Laval and Petain, +flock cheerfully to the churches, is exploded. From Normandy to +Savoy people sigh for deliverance from the regime of Catholicism +and dishonor, rusticity and penury, which has been forced upon +them. The French people have provided most of the $10000000000 +worth of loot that the blond beasts, whom the Black International +persuaded the French to admit, have dragged in French cars on +French petrol into Germany. Never since its earliest history has +proud France fallen so low as it is today, and it shudders to think +that it may not have reached the end of its humiliating surrender. +No people in the world today respects France -- except priest-ridden Quebec.

+ +

Belgium lies under an almost impenetrable cloud, earning its +dry bread only by working for the master whom it has for quarter of +a century hated more than any other on earth. Austria has perished. +It is again the despised southern fringe of the German Reich. The +Croats, who were persuaded by their priests to betray their +country, fight the men to whom they betrayed it because they were +the Pope's allies. The Slovaks who were similarly persuaded to +complete the ruin of the country in which they had, enjoyed freedom

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and social welfare now melt away on the battlefield of Russia. +Latin America, the huge conglomeration of states which at the wave +of Pacelli's white hand declared itself Catholic, once more, is +rent and bewildered. The Pope's allies, the people find, had +plotted to ruin them and now hang about their shares with murderous +intent. And Germany and Japan, on whose success the Pope had +gambled the whole security of his Church, seem to have reached the +peak of their victories and have begun the decline that leads to +the pit in which the fully developed strength of America, Russia, +and Britain is bound to bury them.

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Chapter V

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THE MONSTROUS ATTEMPT TO RESTORE THE MIDDLE AGES

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The treacherous irruption by night of Japan into the war has +transformed it into the phenomenon which has been forecast, with +heavy foreboding, for 20 years -- a world-war. Almost the entire +civilized world is now involved in it. A few powers -- Sweden, +Switzerland, Turkey, and Argentina -- are genuinely neutral, but, +however clearly we may understand the difficulties of their +position, no one regards it as an honorable distinction. The rest +of the civilized world is divided into countries which live under +the most hated emblems the world has seen for many centuries -- the +Swastika and the Rising Sun (for Italy writhes under the former of +these) -- and countries which are sworn to bring them down to the +dust.

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Apart from Latin America, which is, as I said, distracted +between its Papal assurances and the discovery of the perfidy and +brutality of the Pope's allies, all Catholic countries fall in the +first category. Their national flags where they still have any, +are, if not deeply stained with dishonor, generally regarded with +contempt or a pity that is tinged with disdain. There can be few +more miserable statesmen in the world than Eugene Pacelli, or His +Holiness Pius XII. Ten years ago he pledged his Church to a belief +in the ultimate victory of Germany, Italy, and Japan. In the ruin +of all liberal, as well as Socialist and Communist, ideals which +they would effect no strong voice would be raised in protest, +against his alliance with a bestial greed that sought to attain its +end's by brutality almost without precedent in history. His +gauleiter and his gestapo would, as always, loyally support the +Vatican policy. The end justifies the means. As to the mass of the +faithful, when did any large body of them ever rebel when Pope and +Black International were united in their policy? And in the +glorious extension of the power and wealth of the Church, the +annihilation of its deadliest enemies, which the Pope anticipated +from the victory of Swastika and the Rising Sun few Catholics would +be in a critical mood.

+ +

In the second stage of the war, when the Germans, finding +nearly all Europe in their power and confident of Subduing the +remainder, began to disclose their real sentiments about Italy -- +which the Vatican ought to have learned from Mein Kampf 20 years +ago -- and proposed to share the world with Japan only, the Pope +had a new dream. It suited the interests of the Vatican just as +well as it was to the interest of Germany that Southern Europe

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should have its industries destroyed. Big industries mean clotted +urban populations, free discussion, freethought, birth control, and +so on. The Vatican had seen that painful development in France, +Belgium, Italy, and Czecho-Slovakia. The Black International was +ready to join in the plot to de-industrialize those countries and +let Germany glow rich by a monopoly of industry, in Europe. Petain, +with the priests at his elbow, openly mumbles it, in his senile +honesty, and has within the last month closed down a thousand +industries in France. Leopold of Belgium and his Catholic +satellites, Franco, and Salazar cheerfully send their skilled +workers to Germany or to the Russian shambles. Hitler would allow +a Catholic League of Southern Europe, and through Spain and +Portugal the 100000000 folk of Latin America would be drawn into +it. Hitler promised the Subjection to the Vatican of all branches +of the Greek and Oriental Churches. Japan promised a monopoly of +Christian missions (if thoroughly Japanized) in the Far East. . .

+ +

That these were the plans on which the Vatican worked I showed +on Catholic admissions and by the plain testimony of facts in the +first ten booklets. Already the vast field of Catholic triumph is +a scorched earth. The Pope is ill, silent, desperately watching the +last critical phases of a conflict that, unless it be won speedily +by the Axis, will inexorably be lost. From those windows of the +Vatican Palace which look out upon the world he sees only one flag +waving above the ruins unsullied: the Hammer and Sickle. Britain +has won respect by the courage and endurance of her people but, +after a series of retreats that are rare in British history, has +still to, and doubtless will, redeem the honor of its flag. There +is a stain on the Stars and Stripes that has yet to be removed. +Russia. has made no large blunders but has met the initial impact +of an irresistible force and the loss of vast fertile provinces and +great industries and has begun its recovery with a devotion, +energy, and self-sacrifice that have torn the Pope's libels to +tatter's. Bring on your stage today representative figures of all +the Pope's peoples -- the pale and ragged Italian, the gaunt +Spaniard, the illiterate and poverty-stricken Portuguese, the +shame-faced Belgian or Vichy Frenchman, the hesitating Latin +American -- and at the end of the file bring on a Bolshevik, and +listen to the judgment of the audience. What the Pope cursed the +world blesses: what he blessed the world curses. The Pope has lost.

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But, aside from the fact that in America the Black +International is powerful enough to hide this truth from the mass +of people, remember that the Pope has lost dozens of times before, +yet he has today more subjects than ever, immeasurably greater +wealth, and a new power in non-Catholic countries.

+ +

A week ago a powerful British air-fleet bombed Cologne. I had +wondered how long it would be before this was done. Here was one of +the most vital and most vulnerable bottle-necks in Europe. Through +it passed practically all the war-supplies from Holland, Belgium, +and Northern France. Thoroughly smash the railway through the city, +where it approaches the Rhine, and the great bridges, and you deal +Germany a terrific blow. But -- I once spent five or six weeks in +Cologne -- the cathedral is close to the railway and the bridges. +It was unhurt, and who will believe that the vital part of the +railway and the bridge which carries it over the river, which are

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only a few hundred yards from the cathedral, were properly treated +if no bomb strayed across the square? I hear that, at the prayer of +British Catholics, our airman were told to run no risk of touching +the cathedral.

+ +

Why was Rome never bombed? There were times when this was +within our power, and it might have had a very considerable +influence on our fortunes in the Mediterranean area. H.G. Wells +asked me the other day if I knew why it was not done. I do not +know. These things are not put on paper, and if they were the paper +would never see the light. But there is a grapevine, and the +message went along it that through Roosevelt American Catholics +threatened things, and there were Black International threats in +parts of the British Empire, if we bombed Rome. Mussolini probably +patted his Papal friend on the back.

+ +

However these things may be, remember that Rome has many times +in history seemed to be doomed because of its Papal alliances with +brutality, but it recovered. About 850 years ago the Romans +themselves drove one of the strongest of the Popes into exile for +such an alliance. In 1527 Catholic armies wrecked Rome as Goths and +Vandals had never done. Early in the 19th Century, a contemporary +tells us, Napoleon's generals, entering Italy and carrying off the +Pope, decided that this was to be the end of the Papacy; and not +many years later Macaulay made his foolish prediction that there +would still be a Papacy when visitors from New Zealand came to see +the ruins of London.

+ +

I dislike prediction's, and indeed I have accomplished the +work which I set out to do in this series of books. I proved to the +hilt the indictment I brought against the Black International, and +I have now shown that the Church of Rome is of such a nature, so +dangerous in its structure and so feeble in its intellectual +appeal, that it is bound to look for such allies in every age. A +third line of evidence is found in Papal history, especially during +the last century and a half. Violence has always -- I do not know +if this was in the protocols given by Jesus to Peter -- been the +policy on which the Black International relied. The Popes merely +kept the weapon tucked under their cassocks during the few decades +between the death of feudal tyranny and the birth of totalitarian +tyranny. The leopard does not change its spots, but it may have +them white-washed.

+ +

Nevertheless I may conclude with a glance at the future. This +German-Japanese horror shall and will perish. As I write there is +still time for a serious setback to Britain, Russia, or America, or +all three. I have never been tempted to underrate the ability of +the men who, behind the miserable tinfoil Siegfried and his greedy, +friends, direct the German effort or the cunning and lean energy of +the Japanese. If this serious advance of the Axis does not occur in +the next few weeks we may breathe freely. Within, two further +months the retreat will begin. The end, this year (if Britain opens +a second front) or next, is certain.

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What will Rome do? Remember first that comparatively few +people know the story of its guilt. A few American papers have at +intervals reported Vatican events which suggested it. The vast +majority of the leading papers, both in America and Britain, never

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gave any news which gave their readers an inkling of the truth. +Fortunately, much had been reported -- the compact with Mussolini, +the Concordat with Hitler, the enthusiastic support of Franco, the +diplomatic arrangement with Japan, and so on -- before the +bestiality of Fascism had revealed itself, and such facts as that +the only voluntary "crusaders" against Russia are from Catholic +countries and the unconverted isolationists of America play up +strongly to the Catholic minority, give us a basis in the Public +mind for a proper education.

+ +

It is therefore probable that there will not be the general +outcry against Rome that a man who has read the full evidence +would. expect. No other writer of influence has the courage and +honesty to warn the public, as Wells does, that instead of having +been reconciled with the modern spirit the Church of Rome is as +dangerous an enemy of civilization as ever. One thing only would +cause the Church the deepest alarm: if the victory of democracy +were to put Communism and Socialism back in the places they +occupied years ago. Will this happen?

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It depends very largely upon America. When the war is over the +isolationists will be amongst the loudest to demand that America +shall have a leading voice in the settlement of Europe and China. +Every sensible man will welcome the aid of America in such a +restoration of Europe that, instead of sowing the dragon's teeth as +we did at Versailles at the close of the last war, we have every +guarantee that is humanly possible of a lasting peace. But the +terms of settlement that have been so far announced are ominously +vague, and we know only too well what "stability" means on the lips +of these folk.

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You will find, when the time comes, that the Vatican will make +a brazen attempt to secure a voice as one of the great stabilizing +forces. You will find Catholics everywhere combining with the +reactionaries who want to plan the new Europe. They will want +Leopold restored, men like Bonnet put in power in France Franco +firmly established in Spain and Salazar in Portugal, the royal +family propped on the throne of Italy, and so on. By hook or crook +they will try to get Russia, which will have won the war in Europe, +excluded from the settlement. They will insist that religion be +"strengthened," knowing that Romanism,, Buddhism, and Islam have +worked on the side of our enemies, and that Communism be taken at +the Pope's valuation. If the present generation tolerates these +things and does not insist on the guilt of every party being +stamped upon the mind of the world they will deserve their future. +The struggle for the rights of man which has reddened Europe with +blood for a century and a half will enter upon a new phase.

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ENCOUNTERS WITH MEN IN BLACK

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(Minneapolis Star Tribune) -- They sat quietly, leaning toward the lectern +in a dark-paneled room near Lake Calhoun as a professor from New York told +of his encounter with one of the mysterious Men in Black. In the audience +were people like biophysicist Otto Schmitt, a retired professor of +electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota, retired aircraft +developer and physicist Cecil Behringer, physician Steven Zuckerman and +polymer scientist Arthur Coury, Medtronic's director of venture +technology.

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Peter Rojcewicz told them there have been hundreds - perhaps thousands - +of such encounters over the centuries. "The Men in Black are part of the +extraordinary encounter continuum - fairies, monsters, ETS, energy forms, +flying saucers, flaming crosses," said Rojcewicz, a 37-year-old professor +of humanities and folklore at New York's Juilliard School. The modern era +of Men in Black - visitations by mysterious, black-clad men who seem evil +and threatening - goes back to at least the early 1950s when a man named +Albert K. Bender allegedly saw a UFO in Bridgeport, Conn., and was later +frightened by a visitation from three Men in Black.

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Rojcewicz told the audience that his own MIB (Men in Black) experience +occurred in 1980. "I have never gone public with this before," he said. +Most of the modern era MIB encounters have followed sightings of UFOs or +strange lights. Rojcewicz's encounter involved no sightings. He was just +sitting in the University of Pennsylvania library, reading a UFO book +suggested by another professor who thought that Rojcewicz, as a +folklorist, would be interested in such phenomena. "Then in the corner of +my vision I noticed a black pants leg and a black shoe, scuffed," +Rojcewicz said. The folding chairs in the auditorium of the Bakken Library +of Electricity in Medicine, 3537 Zenith Av. S., stopped creaking as +Rojcewicz's audience listened intently. Standing in front of him, +Rojcewicz said, was a very gaunt, very pale man. He was about 6-1, +weighed about 140 pounds and wore a black suit, black shoes, black string +tie and a bright white shirt. "His suit was loose and it looked as though +he had slept in it for three days," Rojcewicz said.

+ +

Rojcewicz didn't know what to make of the figure. At the time he wasn't +aware of the Men in Black phenomena which, he subsequently learned, dates +back to at least Biblical times. "He sat down, like he had dropped from +the ceiling - all in one movement" - and folded his hands on top of a +stack of books in front of him, Rojcewicz said. The Man in Black asked +Rojcewicz what he was doing. Rojcewicz said he was reading about flying +saucers. "Have you seen a flying saucer?" the Man in Black asked. +Rojcewicz said he hadn't. "Do you believe in the reality of flying +saucers?" Rojcewicz said he didn't know much about them and wasn't sure he +was very interested in the phenomena. The man screamed: "Flying saucers +are the most important fact of the century and you are not interested?" "I +tried to calm him," Rojcewicz said. The man got up, once again all in a +single awkward movement, put his hand on Rojcewicz's shoulder and said: +"Go well on your purpose" and left.

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Rojcewicz looked out at his audience. "In 10 seconds I was overwhelmed by +fear. . . . I had a sense that this man was out of the ordinary and that +idea frightened me. . . . I got up and walked around the stacks toward +where the reference librarians usually are. The librarians weren't there. +There were no guards there - there was nobody else in the library. . . . I +was terrified."

+ +

He went back to the table where he had been reading "to get myself +together. It took me about an hour. Then I got up and everything was back +to normal, the people were all there." He didn't talk about his experience +in public because he was concerned about how people might react to his +story, he said.

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Was he dreaming? He doesn't think so. He said he suspects he was in an +"altered state." Rojcewicz said he thinks his experience - and that of +others who have been exposed to the Men in Black - are somewhere "in the +crack" between real life and fantasy.

+ +

He has been studying anomalous phenomena such as the Men in Black ever +since his 1980 experience. He has interviewed many people who have +reported UFOs, flying saucers and Men in Black experiences. He said the +Men in Black most frequently appear in threes, but sometimes in twos, ones +and fours. Some of the MIBs carry brief cases and represent themselves as +being Air Force UFO investigators, he said. The MIBs warn UFO spotters to +tell no one of their experiences with aliens from outer space.

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When the MIBs leave, people are fearful, dizzy and, sometimes, nauseous, +he said. Frequently their lives are changed by the experience. Some become +more successful in their jobs and marriages and report a joie de vivre. +Others lose their jobs and marriages. One of his friends quit a good +academic position and went into hiding, he said. Some become addicted to +drugs, and many feel they have been victimized, he said.

+ +

He said the reaction varies with a person's culture, religion or openness +to imaginative ideas. To illustrate the various reactions he cited a case +of a psychiatrist and her husband, a professor of education, who saw a UFO +in Maine and subsequently had a MIB encounter. "She has been all right +since then, but he has not." The professor was left lethargic and troubled +by the encounter.

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Rojcewicz, who teaches at the C. J. Jung Foundation for Analytical +Psychology as well as at Juilliard, said he suspects the psychiatrist was +able to handle the experience better because she is more open to spiritual +matters while her husband by training and experience is rooted in the +acceptance of only what seems reasonable.

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In another case, Rojcewicz interviewed a woman named Deborah from +Burlington, Va., who said she had been visited by a slender, 6-foot, 9-inch Man in Black who was wearing a bowler hat. She said her knees went +weak when the man was close to her. She said of her experience: "There +was something wrong - evil about this." When Rojcewicz telephoned Deborah +to recheck his notes, there was a beeping on the line and they couldn't +hear each other. He redialed and the line was all right.

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Rojcewicz said there are references to Men in Black going back to Abraham +in Biblical times, and there have been many similar stories in folklore +over the years. Often the Men in Black have been considered to be the +devil or his representatives. Some of the Roman Catholic church's saints +had Men in Black experiences. The church itself recognizes the +possibility by endorsing exorcism, Rojcewicz said.

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What is a good defense against the Men in Black? "Laughter," Rojcewicz +said. "If they ask you why you're laughing, tell them, 'Rojcewicz told me +to do it.' " He added: "When you confront evil, don't feed them your fear. +Say you are not worried - ha-ha."

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When his talk was over, several of those attending were asked if they took +the Men in Black stories seriously. "Maybe there is something there," said +Dennis Skillings, director of the Archaeus Project, which sponsored the +meeting. But he said he doubts that there is any way of confirming that +MIB encounters "really, truly happened."

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Zuckerman, a specialist in internal medicine, said he thought Rojcewicz +was serious. "I have a friend who knows a fellow who is investigating +reports that men from space are coming to Earth and taking biopsies of +people's calf muscles," Zuckerman said. "He says the biopsy sites heal +right away." Why would people from outer space take biopsies of people's +calf muscles? "An interesting question," Zuckerman said with a smile.

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The Archaeus Project, which is subsidized by Medtronic founder Earl +Bakken, regularly brings in researchers in the field of the paranormal and +so-called alternative science for special lectures.

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THEY'RE FUCKING WITH YOUR MIND.

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Car salesman Jeff Johnson is enjoying a lazy night at +home, drinking a few beers and half-watching music videos on +television. The sounds are loud, the colors, intense. The +four millionth viewing of Madonna's video numbs him into +semi-consciousness. Not even the booming bass beat of the +latest rap hit can lift him out of it. More music videos go +buy. Pretty soon, out of left field, Jeff catches himself +thinking that the President's a sharp guy, definitely shafted +by the press. "Yep, he is definitely okay. Fuck the media." +Jeff Johnson has just been brainwashed, and it has +happened so undetectably that there is absolutely nothing he +could have done to prevent it. +Sure, that's fiction--but the facts are real. Using the +powerful sensory inputs available to TV, radio, films and the +rest of the mass media, mind manipulators in New York's +advertising agencies, Hollywood's movie and TV industries and +Washington's political power structure are at this very +moment shaping what you think about the key issues of the +day, from abortion to elections. +"Today," say journalists Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, +authors of Snapping, "American business and advertising have +at their disposal the latest and most comprehensive body of +knowledge concerning the manner in which human behavior can +be manipulated." +"You cannot pick up a newspaper, magazine or pamphlet, +hear radio or view televison anywhere in North America +without being assaulted." adds researcher Dr. Wilson Bryan +Key. +"I shudder to think about the propaganda and commercial +manipulation that we are exposed to on a daily basis," says +hypnotherapist Dick Sutphen. +There are numerous documented cases of covert mind +manipulation techniques used to control behavior: +In 1956 a New Jersey market researcher imbedded movies +with hidden visual commands to buy Coca Cola. Movie watchers +were absolutely unaware that these consciously imperceptible +orders were attacking them, but the proof was at the cash +register: Coke sales jumped 58% at that theater. +At a Kansas City medical center, hidden audio messages +are constantly piped through the sound system. And there +have been dramatic results--smoking in the staff lounge is +down 50%; angry patient outbursts in the crowded patient +waiting room are down 60%. +Retailers around the country are experimenting with "no +shoplifting" audio tapes that endlessly repeat--on a +subconscious level, beneath the Muzak--directives not to +steal. One New Orleans supermarket reported that "Inventory +shrinkage" (Theft) fell two-thirds, from $50000 yearly to +just $13000. +As long ago as 1972, In-Flight Motion Pictures, Inc. +started selling advertisers the right to imbed totally hidden +advertising in movies screened on airplanes. +Major advertisers are continually subjecting you to +disguised commands to buy THEIR beer, THEIR shampoo. You are +hit with an avalanche of hidden audio and video messages +every time you turn on your TV. +Waiting around the corner are truly mind-boggling +technologies of light and sound. Among them is a bizarre +subconscious attack on the kidneys, liver and bladder +developed by Mid-West Research for use by law enforcement +personnel. The technology is designed to incapacitate +hostage-holding terrorists. Using pink noise masking-the +sound of air conditioning-this system was tested on +unsuspecting cadets in a police academy. According to on +researcher, "the result of the test was that nearly the +entire class of cadets had become dehydrated." +Don't believe it? join the club. In one survey of +influential business and civic leaders, 90% said they were +sure there were laws against covert mind manipulation. +What's more, 60% added that that stuff was a lot of hooey +anyway. +As for hidden mind manipulation being hooey, that is +exactly what big advertisers, major media, politicians, +religious leaders and the U.S. government want you to +believe. The more you believe that, the longer and more +successfully the can secretly influence your purchasing and +political decisions. "We hear very little about the subject +these days," leading brain researcher Dr. Barbara Brown +admits. But that is not because there is nothing to talk +about. On the contrary: There is too much. "One always +suspects government intervention when techniques to abuse +mankind are suddenly banished from discussion. In any event, +for some 20 years now there has been a steadfast denial of +this extraordinary phenomenon by the experts." +You may think you know what you know--but thinking so +may be dangerous to your mental health. As Dick Sutphen +says, "In the entire history of man, no one has ever been +brainwashed and realized or believed that he had been +brainwashed." That's the terrifying part of brainwashing: +Once it has happened to you, you will never know it. +"It is very difficult to pass laws against this," says +Dr. Patrick Flanagan, a Tucson, Arizona, inventor of +sophisticated mind manipulation machinery. "There are so many +ways around it." What's more, much mind-control technology +is abstract, putting it absolutely out of reach of any +legislation or regulation. Used this way, the technologies +aim to numb the unsuspecting--perhaps including you--into +accepting the otherwise unacceptable. fundamentalist +preachers, for instance, commonly saturate their revival +halls with a barely perceptible six-to-seven cycles per +second sound, which can be hidden under the noise of air +conditioning or even the hum from loudspeakers. That +vibration--harmless as it seems--is incredibly effective in +putting much of any audience into an immediate open-eye +trance state. Because their eyes are open, the audience +believes they are fully functioning, wide awake individuals. +THEY AREN'T. THEY ARE EASY PREY FOR ANY MESSAGE THE PREACHER +CHOOSES TO PUT FORTH. +Effective as that technique is, there are scarier tools +available to mind manipulators. Particularly chilling +research is reported by Dr. Barbara Brown, who says that +things as simple as the sounds of heartbeats can radically +alter our reactions to pictures and ideas. In one experiment +cited by Brown, scientists tricked subjects into believing +they were hearing their own heartbeats while viewing +photographs. They weren't. The heartbeats were prerecorded, +yet as subjects heard faster heartbeats they automatically +gave high ratings to the observed photos. Lower heart rates +yielded poorer ratings. Theoretical as that research is, the +impact is very powerful. Increase the rate of fake heartbeat +sounds, and audience excitement will bolt upwards. Lower it, +and audience enthusiasm drops. It is as elementary as that. +The dimension this adds to political messages, advertising, +and so on, is alarming. "This begins to have frightening +implications," admits Brown. "It seems quite possible that +certain types of propaganda or techniques of persuasion will +take advantage of this." +Commonly employed not only in revivalist/fundamentalist +gatherings but in many public meetings and throughout the +media, the six-to-seven cycle vibrations as well as the fake +heartbeat can be used to hide specific information or +commands. In fact, subliminal information--"subliminations" +as it's called by professionals--is a primary weapon in the +electronic battle for your brain and your free will. Every +minute of every day, your mind is swamped with smells, +tastes, sights and sounds. You consciously process the data +you are aware of, but you are unaware of much more. These +data sneak through a maze of trap doors into your +subconscious. Very high-and low-pitched sounds register on +your subconscious but make no conscious impression. Fast +moving and dimly lit images and pictures do the same. And +here is the freaky part: While there may be no conscious +recollection of these data, the information is permanently +stored in your mind. Researchers, including Canadian +neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield, have established that the +subconscious and unconscious memory are vast storehouses, +holding countless facts unavailable to the conscious mind. +the unnerving discovery is that this unconsciously +perceived information definitely influences behavior. "Many +researchers have recorded brain waves or heartbeats or skin +electrical activity, then presented words with emotional +meaning, such as SEX, CANCER, MOTHER, and SNAKE mixed in with +words that rarely arouse the emotions, such as BUILDING, +CARPET, NECKTIE and the like. When the emotion-producing +words are presented subliminally, there are strong changes in +the reactions in the physiologic system, but no changes when +the other neutral words are given," says Barbara Brown. +More proof of the impact of subliminals comes from one +Texas university psychologist who began to salt his lectures +with disguised slides showing graphic sex and violence at +light levels outside the audience's conscious ability to see. +His lectures, which had nothing to do with the slides being +projected, were apparently more interesting to the students +than in the past, as reflected by test scores. Test results +indicated a significant increase in memory! +Chief among the weapons for secretly influencing +behavior-including yours-are subliminal commands. As Dick +Sutphen explains, "Subliminals are hidden suggestions that +only the subconscious perceives. They can be audio, hidden +behind music, or visual, flashed on a screen so fast that you +don't consciously see them or cleverly incorporated into a +picture or design." +Just how much information do you take in at subconscious +levels? According to Dr. Key, "Theorists speculate that as +little as 1/1000th of a total, single perception registers at +the conscious level." And your mind is influenced by these +unconsciously perceived messages just as much as it would be +by consciously presented information. In fact, the mind is +more susceptible because it cannot consciously defend against +information it might reject. +Used consciously as a result of free choice, this +discovery offers real benefits. A booming industry currently +sells subliminal tapes for everything from weight control to +achieving financial independence. At the conscious level, +these tapes sound like ocean waves or innocuous music. At +the subconscious level, however, are messages such as "I am +losing weight" and "I am quitting smoking." There is +dramatic proof that such tapes work. Many users report major +life improvement from doing no more than passively listening +to their tapes while sleeping or going about routine chores +and job duties. No concentration and no effort were +involved. Yet listeners say they have accomplished +everything from losing 20 pounds in a month without dieting +to stopping smoking painlessly. +Even in this commercial marketplace, however, a gray +line is often approached and sometimes crossed. Consider the +case of a woman who wanted a slimmer husband. Unbeknownst to +her overweight spouse, she played a weight loss tape +constantly for a month. He lost 26 pounds. In another +instance, one company markets a seduction subliminal in major +men's magazines. Play the tape, the advertising suggests, +and women will find you irresistible. +There is no questioning the wrongness of advertisement +that bury secret commands to win higher sales. Dr. Key has +filled three books with documented examples of covert +manipulation by advertisers. In one case, Key tested a +sample of PLAYBOY readers on their recall of a Christmas +magazine ad centered around a wreath. Just two pages in a +260-page magazine, the ad was recalled by a stunning 95%. +How can this be? Says Key: "The reader need only ask what +kind of flowers were used for the wreath. The first +conscious perceptual defense is to see the wreath flowers as +nuts-possibly walnuts. A more careful examination reveals +they cannot be nuts. This wreath has been cleverly +constructed of objects which resemble vaginas and the heads +of erect penises." No wonder readers remembered the ad! +Some men's magazines, according to Key, also routinely +imbed faintly sketched words such as SEX, CUNT and FUCK on +centerfolds and cover models. Such words emphatically grab +attention--although viewers have no idea why they are so +attracted to particular photographs. +Called imbedding, this technique--using an airbrush to +hide emotionally charged words or images in seemingly +harmless ads and photographs--is extraordinarily widespread. +"Imbedded words and picture illusions are part of most +advertising throughout North America today," says Key. +"These subliminal stimuli, though invisible to conscious +perception, are perceived instantly at the unconscious level +by virtually everyone who perceives them even for an instant. +" +Key and his research associates have documented hundreds +of cases of such imbeds in major advertisements, including +ads run by Crest toothpaste, Vaseline, Johnnie Walker Scotch, +Kent cigarettes, Calvert whiskey, Bacardi rum, Sprite, and +Seagram's Gin. In every instance, the goal is to use imbeds +to arouse viewer attention and increase memory. +Imbeds are merely the tip of a gargantuan iceberg of +mind control techniques. Tachistoscopic projection, for +instance, involves the high-speed flashing of words or +images. Commonly used in movies and TV commercials, this +high-speed technique is like the one used in the New Jersey +theater to boost Coke sales. +Visual subliminals can also be transmitted with simpler +techniques, including the use of dimly lit images, such as +the slides of sex and violence. +But perhaps the most powerful subliminals are delivered +in sound. THERE IS NO WAY TO KNOW EXACTLY WHEAT YOU ARE +HEARING WHEN YOU WATCH TV OR LISTEN TO RADIO. Tales of rock +groups using hidden messages are too numerous to recount--and +yes, many groups commonly use subliminals, according to music +industry insiders. The fact is, it is incredibly easy to hid +messages in music or spoken words. Using modern synthesizer +equipment, words can now be psychoacoustically modified to +sound like musical instruments--but the impacts of these +words are every bit as strong as they would be if audibly +spoken. Words can easily be made to sound like white noise +(Ocean waves, for instance) or pink noise (the steady hum of +an engine). +sounds without content and simple colors can be mood and +mind manipulators when skillfully used by professionals. +Much harpsichord and organ music--often heard in churches-- +rapidly propel most of any audience into an altered state of +highly receptive and accepting consciousness. And colors, as +proven by clothing designers, are directly associated with +feelings and emotions. +the potential for abuse of these techniques goes very +far indeed. Says Dick Sutphen: "The techniques are still +being used today by Christian revivalists, cults, human-potential trainings, some business rallies, and the United +States Armed Services...to name a few." +Don't think politicians are not using such covert +methods. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent annually +on political campaigns, and the high-level consultants hired +by politicans are well versed in all methods of manipulation. +Dr. Key even cites one example of sex imbeds being used by +Congressional candidates in Virginia. Another researcher +discovered sex imbeds in an official portrait of President +Jimmy Carter. +Besides imbeds, politicians are using a full range of +techniques to influence voters. Sutphen, a leading hypnotist +, reports he has been approached by several political +candidates to teach them how to do the characteristic "voice +roll"-- a methodical, slow way of speaking used by hypnotists +to induce trances in subjects. Properly used, even so simple +a technique as the voice roll will dramatically escalate an +audience's receptivity to whatever the speaker says--from +"Ban pornography" to "Vote for me!" Sutphen has always +declined these jobs, but you can bet less scrupulous +hypnotists do not. +As powerful--and potentially dangerous--as subliminals, +voice rolls, false heartbeats and so on are, there are more +menacing tools available to mind controllers, and, as with +subliminals, you need not assent or be aware you are being +manipulated. According to Dr. Andrija Puharich, at this very +moment the Soviet Union is intensively exploring extra-low +frequency electromagnetic waves (ELFs) that have the +potential to exert enormous influence on human behavior. In +one demonstration, Puharich sealed several volunteers wired +to electroencephalographs (EEGs) in a metal room. Within a +few seconds, one-third of the people in the room were +dramatically affected by the ELFs. Notes Dick Sutphen: +"Their behavior followed the anticipated changes at very +precise frequencies. Waves below 6 cycles per second caused +the subjects to become very emotionally upset and disrupted +bodily functions. At 8.2 cycles they felt very high...at 11 +to 11.3 cycles induced waves of depressed agitation leading +to riotous behavior." +Puharich maintains that ELFs can travel not only through +metal but also many miles through the earth. Are the +Russians beaming ELFs at the United States today? Nobody +knows. At least nobody is saying. But this much is certain: +ELFs exist and sooner or later somebody will begin using them +to exert still further control on human behavior. +Closer to home, researcher Patrick Flanagan has already +demonstrated the power of his "neurophone." Tersely +described by Dr. Flanagan as "an electronic way of accessing +the brain," the neurophone is a soundless device that taps +into the immense sensitivity of skin, which is packed with +sensors for heat, light, vibration and so forth. With the +neurophone, an audience sees nothing and hears nothing--but +its effects are felt nonetheless. Relates Dick Sutphen: "In +one of his recent tests, Pat conducted two identical seminars +for a military audience. When the first group proved to be +very cool and unwilling to respond, Patrick spent the next +day making a special tape to play at the second seminar. The +tape instructed the audience to be extremely warm and +responsive and for their hands to become tingly. The tape +was played through the neurophone, which was connected to a +wire he placed along the ceiling of the room. There were no +speakers, so no sound could be heard, yet the message was +successfully transmitted from that wire directly into the +brains of the audience. They were warm and receptive, their +hands tingled and they responded according to programming." +Granted, there is a futuristic, science-fiction quality +to ELFs and the neurophone, but there is nothing more +familiar than the television--and there just may be no more +effective tool of mental manipulation. As noted by Conway +and Siegelman: "As important as the content of the +information that television puts out and its widespread +social repercussions is the manner in which it may affect +personality--not simply an individual's actions and behavior, +but the way he or she perceives the world." +Again, this propels us into a murky area of research, +but what science knows about brain physiology is that it +consists of two hemispheres. The left half is logical and +factual; the right half is creative and intuitive. +Unmanipulated, all of us bounce back and forth between right-and left-brain states of consciousness. Some of us are +more lopsided in orientation than others. Very little else +is known at this point except this: THE RIGHT-BRAIN IS FAR +LESS CRITICAL IN ITS ASSESSMENT OF NEW INFORMATION. +And that opens up a giant opportunity for manipulators. +If the left-brain can be numbed, the right-brain just may +accept whatever is presented. +Guess what? That television in your living room...and +the one in your bedroom...and even the tiny one in your car +all have the ability to rapidly thrust you into a right-brain +stat. That's because TV, while appearing to be a static +medium, is actually composted of millions of flickering +lights that can easily put a large percentage of the audience +into a low-grade hypnotic state. Once in that state, they +are far more receptive to suggestions and, possibly, +commands. Says Dick Sutphen: "Recent tests by researcher Dr. +Herbert Krugman showed that while viewers were watching TV, +right-brain activity outnumbered left-brain activity by a +ratio of two to one." +A second series of experiments, by psychophysiologist +Thomas Mulholland of the Veterans Hospital in Bedford, +Massachusetts, uncovered still more eerie findings. +Mulholland wired TV-watching children to an EEG. Whenever +brain-wave activity indicated the kids had entered a low-grade hypnotic trance, the TV automatically shut off. Since +the shows were ones the kids wanted to watch, they were +motivated to remain fully conscious. They could not. +Virtually all the TVs flicked off within 30 seconds, which +underlines how powerfully television propels viewers into +semiconsciousness. +Still more experiments have been conducted by +psychologist Jacob Jacoby, who tested 2700 viewers on the +contents of television shows, such as BARNABY JONES, and +commercials they had just finished watching. Jacoby asked +very simple questions--yet, on average, these viewers missed +one-fourth to one-third of the answers. "Of course they +did," explains Dick Sutphen, "they were going in and out of a +trance!" And in trancelike states, we are far more likely to +accept and believe information and commands which, if we +were fully alert, we would immediately dismiss. "The medium +for takeover is here." Sutphen concludes. +Indeed it is. According to USA TODAY research, by age +18 the typical teenager has digested more than 15000 mind-numbing hours of television--or, to put it another way, the +teenager has spent the virtual equivalent of two entire years +sitting in front of the tube. +Don't think advertisers are unaware of the potential of +TV to manipulate. "More and more," according to Sutphen, +"radio and television commercials are using techniques that +tend to alter consciousness to maximize effectiveness...Any +time patterned voices, songs, music or visual patterns are +used, this potential exists. "Plop..plop..fizz..fizz' is an +excellent example." +Sutphen elaborates: "When you start to combine +subliminal messages behind the music, subliminal visuals +projected on the screen, hypnotically produced visual +effects, sustained musical beats at a trance-inducing +pace...you have extremely effective brainwashing. Every hour +you spend watching the TV set, you become more conditioned." +Adds Dr. Key: "Madison Avenue account executives +actually brag about planting subliminals which, they claim, +no-one will be able to find. One executive at a major +international agency told of burying the words BUY! BUY! +continuously behind ten seconds of applause at the end of a +60-second TV commercial." Did the viewers follow +instructions? Absolutely! "Tests showed the instructions +worked superbly," says Key. +Don't think the entrenched political and religious +groups are unaware of this potential. Right-wing money +sources have long funded the Christian Broadcasting Network, +even vaulting one of its celebrities into Presidential +candidate status. +Jerry Falwell and his minions also attempted to seize +control of the mammoth CBS television network. There is +little need to wonder why. Put a TV network under the +control of political or religious extremists, and in short +order, the airwaves could be even more saturated with hidden +messages and other mind-altering techniques than they +currently are. Add in, say, ELF technology in the hands of +these extremists and the nightmare increases. +Consider the potential. A show like MIAMI VICE, or any +MTV fare, already presents a richly saturated texture of +sights and sounds. The spadework for mind control has been +accomplished. A few high network officials could easily +retain for themselves "final review" of all programming, and +in the course of that review all manner of orders could be +inserted into a TV program. A mind numbing ELF overlay could +be inserted as well. Much of this mind-control arsenal has +already been proven to exist and to work in TV commercials. +Programming is just a logical extension--and a massive upping +of the mind-control stakes. +What can you do to guard against these present day (and +possible future) hidden manipulators? While experts agree on +the scope and severity of the problem, there is little +consensus about how to win a degree of self-protection. Dick +Sutphen speaks for most experts when he says: "I don't know +how the misuse of these techniques can be stopped." This +battle is critical--our free will is at stake. Unfortunately +, with the exception of turning off our TV sets, there are no +easy remedies. That is the one sure step we can take to win +back control over our subconscious minds. Beyond that, the +experts urge only that we be very, very careful about what we +listen to or watch.

+ +

Taken from HUSTLER magazine, Nov. 1989 by Robert McGarvey. + +GOOD LUCK. PLEASE SPREAD THIS INFORMATION AS WIDELY AS +POSSIBLE.

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THE TEMPEST METHOD OF COMPUTER DATA INTERCEPTION!

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-----------------by Al Muick for P-80 Systems, OCT 86----------

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+Let me begin by a brief history of myself. I spent the better part of six years in Uncle Sam's Country Club (better known as the US Army) working in the Intelligence and Security Command (better known as the ASA--Army Security Agency). During that time, my primary duties were Cryptology, Cryptologic Intercept, Counterintelligence, and Field First Sergeant (whatta drag!).

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What I'm about to tell you comes under the heading of Cryptologic Intercept. Incidently, for those of you in the know, I was stationed at Field Station Augsburg in West Germany (if you're not in the know, read the book, THE PUZZLE PALACE).

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The interception of radiated data from computers and computer terminals is known in the world of the ASA as "TEMPEST." TEMPEST intercept may be accomplished in several ways. One, is via a mobile van with the commo equipment on board, two is via strategicly stationed intercept sites (Field Station Augsburg) and the third, rarely used, is relay from one site to another.

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To run a TEMPEST operation, you will need a good communications receiver, both high frequency and very high frequency with adjustable bandwidths and a VFO. If you plan to just intercept and leave the exploitation of the collected intelligence for later, you will need a HIGH-QUALITY tape deck; not one of those cheap-assed portables, but a high quality deck. If you plan to do the exploitation now or later, you will still need to convert the IF of your communications receiver to a recordable frequency. To do this, simply patch the output of your 1 MHz or below IF to the input plug on your tape deck. If your IF is something above 1 MHz you're S.O.L unless you have an IF downconverter around or have the ability to construct one. You will, in effect, be recording an RF frequency on your tape deck, vice an audio frequency.

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Your tape deck MUST run at either 7 1/2 or 15 i.p.s in order for it to record this signal. You will later play that signal back into your IF for exploitation.

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As soon as you have your intercept station (it is best to use a van) set up with receiver, antenna, and recorder, you are ready to engage your intercept target. Most computers are RF shielded these days, so your receiver had better be damn sensitive and have a very selective bandwidth. If you are planning to intercept such a computer, you will need to be outside its building location (if possible). Since we know, most microprocessors operate at frequencies between 2-12 MHz, we will look for the radiated data here in that frequency range. It is here that a spectrum analyzer, connected to your IF output will aid in discerning the signals and binary emissions of your target computer. If you know how to use a spectrum analyzer, it will prove invaluable, but since they are so complicated, I will not attempt to explain their proper use here.

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You will simply scan the bands between 2-12 MHz until you find the radiated signal (if you must, go for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. harmonics if local interference on the primary frequency is too high) and then tune to the spot where it comes in best. Next adjust your bandwidth until you can just hear the signal as pure as day, with very little to no outside interference.

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Once you have your target tuned in, you may want to drive around the block or further away, to avoid detection. Remember, not to go too far or you will lose the signal. Mainframe computers (when unprotected) sometimes radiate a signal for 3 to four miles! A typical PC computer will radiate a signal for at least 1/2 mile if unprotected!

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You should, by now, have picked your intercept site, have parked the van, and have made sure that you still have your signal coming in at good strength. The next step is easy! Simply connect the output of your low frequency IF to the input of your deck and let 'er rip! I find that 10" reels suit this purpose just fine, and you should be able to get at least one or two UIDs or PWs in the amount of time you will have at 7 1/2 or 15 i.p.s. After the tape is done (you may want to record both sides) pack up your gear and head for home!

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Once home, you will need another piece of equipment, possibly two. In various surplus magazines, you will see a machine called a "visi-corder" advertised. This is a machine that burns a copy of binary code onto light-sensitive paper. They cost some money, but are basically invaluable. You are now ready for signal exploitation.

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You now need to play your recorded tape into the IF input of your communications receiver. The output of your IF will be connected to the IF input on the visi-corder. This will give your the truest binary representation on the paper. If you so desire, you may connect the audio out of your communications receiver to the audio input of the visi-corder. The audio is rectified into DC and then you get a crisp, clear presentation on the paper. But remember this....DC LIES!!! While the representation may be clear, the binary spacing will be off slightly, increasing in error as you continue, until you finally wind up with continuous error.

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Assuming you have made the proper connections, get some beer for your relaxation (or them funny l'il pills, or whatever makes you relax....here comes the hair-pulling part). Begin playback of the deck into your receiver and initiate the visi-corder's print mode. I recommend a medium-fast speed, because if you use slow speed to conserve paper (you cheap fucker!), the bauds will be so close together as to render the paper useless and wou wind up wasting the paper anyway!

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At this point, print out about 2 minutes worth of paper. Once the paper is printed, expose it to light so it develops and have several 3x5" cards handy. As soon as it develops, scan the paper and the binary stream on it for a section that has three or four of the smallest (closest together) bits. This is ASCII. Once you have found the section, place one 3x5" card at the base of the section and mark off tick marks where each bit stops and ends (on the smallest bits only!!). You are now ready to do what we in the ASA call "bustin' bauds."

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As you know, one ASCII byte consists of 8 bits. simply start at a reasonable point at the beginning of your interception and begin to mark off tick marks along the binary stream. Even if you come across 1s and 0s that are very wide, mark as many thin ticks from your 3x5" card on them. This is necessary to break the ASCII code.

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The complete 8 bit ASCII code is at the end of this tutorial for your convenience.

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Once you have marked off the paper, count off the first eight bits, e.g. 10011101 and refer to the ASCII chart to find a character that fits it. If you can't find one immediately, don't despair! Try using the complement of the 8-bit code in front of you (i.e. the reverse of what you've decoded. Instead of 10011101, try 01100010.). If you still have not found anything, slide your card over one bit and try to get another byte of ASCII. This time you may come up with 00111010 (complement 11000101). Check it with the table. Remeber, you may have to do this eight times (that is, shift a bit over eight times) before you make any sense out of it. It is long and tedious, but it will pay off in the end.

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Note: this is illegal and is punishable under federal law. I assume no responsibility for your actions, and neither does the operator of P-80. This is presented for your information only. If you have any questions, please leave me mail!......happy hacking!....Al Muick.

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+ASA LIVES FOREVER!!

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+The 8 bit ASCII code:

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+(for 7 bit ASCII, simply delete the last bit...it's not always there...something to keep in mind....al)

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+BINARY MEANING

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+00000000 Null +10000000 Start of message +01000000 End of address +11000000 End of message +00100000 End of transmission +10100000 WRU (Who are you?) +01100000 RU (Are you...?) +11100000 Bell (audible signal) +00010000 Format effector +10010000 Horizontal tabulation or skip (for card puncher) +01010000 Line feed +11010000 Vertical tabulation +00110000 Form feed +10110000 Carriage return +01110000 Shift out +11110000 Shift in +00001000 Device control reserved for data link escape +10001000 Device control +01001000 Device Control +11001000 Device Control +00101000 Device control (stop) +10101000 Error +01101000 Synchronous idle +11101000 Logical end of media +10001000 Information separator +10011000 Information separator +01011000 Information separator +11011000 Information separator +11001000 Information separator +11011000 Information separator +11101000 Information separator +11111000 Information separator +00000100 Word separator (space, normally non-printing) +10000100 ! +01000100 " +11000100 # +00100100 $ +10100100 % +01100100 & +01110100 ' +00010100 ( +10010100 ) +01010100 * +11010100 + +00110100 , +10110100 - +01110100 . +11110100 / +00001100 0 +10001100 1 +01001100 2 +11001100 3 +00101100 4 +10101100 5 +01101100 6 +11101100 7 +00011100 8 +10011100 9 +01011100 : +11011100 ; +00111100 < +10111100 = +01111100 > +11111100 ? +00000010 @ +10000010 A +01000010 B +11000010 C +00100010 D +10100010 E +01100010 F +11100010 G +00010010 H +10010010 I +01010010 J +11010010 K +00110010 L +10110010 M +01110010 N +11110010 O +00001010 P +10001010 Q +01001010 R +11001010 S +00101010 T +10101010 U +01101010 V +11101010 W +00011010 X +10011010 Y +01011010 Z +11011010 Left bracket +00111010 Reverse slash bar +10111010 Right bracket +01111010 Up arrow +11111010 Left arrow +00000110 Unassigned +10000110 Unassigned +01000110 Unassigned +11000110 Unassigned +00100110 Unassigned +10100110 Unassigned +01100110 Unassigned +11100110 Unassigned +00010110 Unassigned +10010110 Unassigned +01010110 Unassigned +11010110 Unassigned +00110110 Unassigned +10110110 Unassigned +01110110 Unassigned +11110110 Unassigned +00001110 Unassigned +10001110 Unassigned +01001110 Unassigned +11001110 Unassigned +00101110 Unassigned +10101110 Unassigned +01101110 Unassigned +11101110 Unassigned +00011110 Unassigned +10011110 Unassigned +01011110 Unassigned +11011110 Unassigned +00111110 Acknowledge +10111110 Unassigned control +01111110 Escape +11111110 Delete/Idle +

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Tom Bearden

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John Bedini has a prototype free energy motor. + +Imagine having a small D.C. electrical motor sitting on your laboratory bench +powered by a common 12 volt battery. Imagine starting with a fully charged +battery and connecting it to the motor with no other power input. Obviously, +the motor is going to run off the battery, but by conventional thinking it will +stop when the battery runs down. + +It isn't running by the conventional wisdom of electrical physics. It isn't +running by the conventional rules of electric motors and generators, but it is +running. + +And it isn't something complex. It's pretty simple, once one gets the hang of +the basic idea. + +Impossible, you say. Not at all. That's precisely what John Bedini has done, +and the motor is running now in his workshop. + +It's running off the principles of electromagnetics that Nikola Tesla +discovered shortly before 1900 in his Colorado Springs experiments. It's +running off the fact that pure empty vacuum - pure "emptiness", so to speak, is +filled with rivers and oceans of seething energy, just as Nikola Tesla pointed +out. + +It's running off the fact that vacuum space-time itself is nothing but pure +masless charge. That is, vacuum has a very high electrostatic scalar potential +- it is greatly stressed. To usefully tap the enormous locked-in energy of that +stress, all one has to do is crack it sharply and tap the vacuum oscillations +that result. The best way to do that is to hit something resonant that is +imbedded in the vacuum, then tap the resonant stress of the ringing of the +vacuum itself. + +In other words, we can ring something at its resonant frequency and, if that +something is imbedded in the vacuum, we can tap off the resonance in vacuum +stress, without tapping energy directly from the embedded system we rang into +oscillation. So what we really need is something that is deeply imbedded in the +vacuum, that is, something that can translate the "vacuum" movement into "mass" +movement. + +Well, all charged particles and ions are already imbedded in the vacuum by +their charged fluxes, so stressed oscillations - that is, vacuum oscillations - +can be converted into normal energy of mass movement by charged particles or +ions, if the system of charged particles or ions is made to resonate in phase +with our tapping "potential". For our purpose, let's use a system of ions. + +First we will need a big accumulator to hold a lot of the charged ions in the +system that we wish to shock into oscillation. We need something that has a big +capacitance and also contains a lot of ions. + +An ordinary battery filled with electrolyte fits the bill nicely. While it's +not commonly known, ordinary lead-acid storage batterys have a resonant ionic +frequency, usually in the range of from 1 - 6 Mhz. All we have to do is shock +-oscillate the ions in the electrolyte at their resonant frequency and time our +"trigger" potential and "siphon" circuit correctly. Then if we keep adding +potential to trigger the system we can get all that "potential" to translate +into "free electrical energy". + +Look at it this way. Conventionally "electrostatic scalar potential" is composed +of work or energy per columb of charged particle mass. So if we add potential +alone, without the mass flow, to a system of oscillating charged particles, we +add "physical energy" in the entire charged particle system. In +other words, the "potential" we add is converted directly into "ordinary energy +" by the imbedded ions in the system. And if we are clever we don't have to +furnish any pushing energy to move pure potential around. (For proof that this +is possible, see Bearden's Toward a New Electromagnetics; Part IV; Vectors and +Mechanisms Clarified, Tesla Book Co., 1983, Slide 19, Page 43, and the accom-panying write-up, pages 10, and 11. Also see Y. Aharonov and V. Bohm, "Signifi-cance of Electromagnetic Potentials in the Quantum Theory", Physical Review, +Second Series, Vol. 115, No. 3, Aug. 1, 1959, pages 485-491. On page 490 you +you will find that it's possible to have a field-free reigon of space, and +still have the potential determine the physical properties of the system.) + +Now this "free energy resonant coupling" can be done in a simple, cheap +system. You don't need big cyclotrons and huge laboratories to do it; you can +do it with ordinary D.C. motors, batteries, controllers and trigger circuits. + +And that's exactly what John Bedini has done. It's real. It works. It's +running now on John's laboratory bench in prototype form. + +But that's not all. John is also a humanitarian. He's as concerned as I am +for that little old widow lady at the end of the lane, stretching her meager +Social Security check as far as she can, shivering in the cold winter and not +daring to turn up her furnace because she can't afford the frightful utility +bills. + +That's simply got to change and John Bedini may well be the fellow who changes +it. By openly releasing his work in this paper, he is providing enough +information for all the tinkerers and independent inventors around the world to +have at it. If he can get a thousand of them to duplicate his device, it simply +can't be supressed as so many others have been. + +So here it is. John has deliberately written his paper for the tinkerer and +experimenter, not for the scientist. You must be careful, for the device is a +little tricky to adjust in and synchronize all the resonances. You'll have to +fiddle with it, but it will work. Keep at it. + +Also, we warn you not to play with this unless you know what you are doing. +The resonating battery electrolyte produces hydrogen, and if you hit it to hard +with a "voltage spike" you can get an electrical spark inside the battery. If +that happens, THE BATTERY WILL EXPLODE, so don't mess with it unless you are +qualified and use the utmost caution. + +But it DOES work. So all you experimenters and pioneers, now's your chance. +Have at it. Build it. Tinker with it. Fiddle it into resonant operation. Then +lets build this thing in quantity, sell it widely, and get those home utilities +down to where we can all afford them - including the shivering little old lady +at the end of the lane. + +And when we do, lets give John Bedini, and men like him the credit and appre-ciation they so richly deserve. + +Tom Bearden + +April 131984 + + + +John Bedini + +[Note: John Bedini developed Two kinds of controller devices. One, being very +simple, is the one I will present here. The other is quite a bit more complex, +and would be impossible for me to reproduce here... Anyway if you want to see +the all electronic controller, get the book "Bedini's Free Energy Generator" by +John C. Bedini, Published by the Tesla Book Co. 1580 Magnolia Ave., Millbrae, +CA 94030.] + +For some time man has been looking for different ways to generate electricity +. He has used water power, steam power, nuclear power, and solar power. Recent +papers written by Tom Bearden make a free energy generator possible. Tom +Bearden, rather than patent his devices, chose to share them with people who +had open ears. I myself have had many conversations with Tom Bearden. He +found Tom to be one of the most reasonable men he had ever dealt with in this +energy field. Most others would tell you stories of great machines they had, +but would never present the truth with circuit diagrams or a look at the +machine in question. Tom, on the other hand, clearly presents his ideas and +clearly presents his ideas and discloses the concepts by means of which +they work. + +The facts I am about to present to you about free energy were never put into +textbooks, only portions were. The textbooks have grounded people in +conventional theory and made things very complicated. What I am about to +explain is very simple; anyone can understand this theory and anyone who +understands what he is doing can build this device. + +I have been grounded in conventional theory for some eleven years. I have +always tried to study the simplicity of electrical circuits, but my mind +wouldn't allow this because of my orthodox training. In any event, I had to +change the way i was looking at things. I started to wonder, why do we need to +have things so complicated? The truth of the matter is, we have been taught to +consume or waste energy at every turn in our lives, so we jump into our cars, +turn on lights, etc. In other words, we have been conditioned to waste energy +and fuels lavishly, not realizing that someday someone will sky-rocket our +energy bills to a point where we will not be able to pay for these fuels. +Everything will come to a stand-still. But laugh as you will, at that time Rube +Goldberg machines will power your future. It probably will not be uncommon to +see machines from the size of garbage cans to the size of two story apartment +houses powering everything in sight. These machines will be using a force in +nature never conceived by the conventionally trained mind of today. + +The theory I am about to explain to you will bring you one step closer to +gaining free energy. + +To begin my story I must state I had a vision - looking for this energy. Many +times I hammered my head into the ground, but I refused to give up in my search +. Any person with a dream should never let it be wasted by fools, who will +always say "you can't do that". All that statement really means is that they do +not know how to do it. + +There are many different ways to explain this theory. I will discuss the +first one now. + +The device is very simple and uses a motor, a generator, a controller switch, +and a battery. Basically, we drive a direct current motor with pulsed current +from a battery, then utilize a special means to cause the battery to recharge +itself. + +First, the battery, controller, and generator are interconnected as shown +in figure 3. (See also Figure 1) + +Figure 1: The Kromery Converter + +Figure 2: Controller Construction + +Figure 3: Schematic of the device + + +Let's begin by stating certain facts. The ions move backwards under charging +conditions and in reverse under discharging conditions. So here we start +our new concept. Suppose we have constructed a machine that has tricked this battery +into a different space and time relationship. Simply put, suppose the battery +never did any work and it should have its full charge left in it. Suppose this +becomes possible because we have stressed the terminals in such a way that the +ions in the battery electrolyte actually move themselves backwards. The +machine, or unit, that makes this possible has many different names. Some +people call these units generators, energizers, alternators, etc. +Conventionally such devices have one thing in common; they stress the battery +backwards by pushing electricity into the battery and forcibly pushing the +ions in the electrolyte backwards. In our theory, we are not going to push anything - the ions are going to move themselves, recharging the battery. + +If we go a little deeper into this theory, you are probably asking yourself, +"what is this madman talking about?" Simply put, we are going to put a stress on +the battery terminals for a moment in time and the battery will do the rest. +Now comes the heavy part of this theory. What they didn't teach you in textbooks +is that, in order for the battery to charge, two oscillatory actions must occur, +one at the positive terminal and one at the negative terminal. Under different +stress levels this then forces the ions backwards. The same would occur for an +electron. Our machine will slingshot ions in the battery electrolyte backwards +beyond the normal recoil action. + +I must give a very stern warning at this time that if the voltage developed +is too high the battery will explode. Use the utmost care. Test setups in my lab +have proven that this can be dangerous. Do not build the device and experiment +with it unless you know what you are doing, and use the utmost caution. + +When struck by a sharp voltage spike, the electrolyte in the battery will +resonate at a certain frequency and this can also force the ions backwards. +Simply put, the battery, the motor, and the energizer will become resonant at +some point, "ring" like a bell when we "strike" it, and in its ringing the most +energy will be developed. + +[Note: sorry I can't produce waveforms here so get the book! I will present +the explanation here, however] + +The battery is really charging itself. The ions in the electrolyte are being +stressed in a curved space and time relationship, the battery is actually +forced into believing that no work ever occured. The oscillatory action that has +taken place by the energizer has just pulsed our "slingshot" and immediately +let go. Once this has happened, the electrolyte in the battery goes wild +and the ions race backwards, giving off hydrogen and oxygen gas. I must make a +stern warning here! The time of the stimulaing pulse is very important. If the +time is to long the battery will burn itself out. If the pulse time is too +short or if the circuit fails to operate correctly, the battery will never +recover its charge. Taking this into consideration, the only failures that +could occur would be the controller failure due to a points faiulre (on the +electronic controller), or the multivibrator latched in the "on" position +(again, only on the electronic controller). Anyone studying this can see +that we have used very little energy to get to this point, and gained a lot of +resonant energy in return. + +We must remember that, if the battery is applied to the energizer longer than +normal, we must burn up the excess energy to keep the battery cool. The problem +now becomes one of embarrassing excess of energy, not a shortage. + +The energizer is also a simple machine, but if yu want to, you can make it +very complex. The simple way is to study the alternator principles. The waves +we want to generate are like those that came from old D.C. generators with the +exception of armature drag, bearing drag, and no excited fields. Also, we +would want to cut the magnetic fields at 90 degress to the armature. The +simpler the better. + +I am going to throw a few ideas your way. I have run some tests in my lab and +discovered that certain types of energizers, generators, and alternators do what +we need. Also, we want to be able to tune the output of our energizer. The old +D.C. generator puts out something very close towhat we need, except for The +drag. + +In an A.C. generator output we are going to see just what we manufacture. It +would appear that this leaves this generator out. Not really, because we can +make this generator's output change by rectifying it. + +In looking at the A.C. generator with rectified output, we see that it could +become very useful to us as an energizer, simply because it is the easiest +to construct and its principles are simple. I have done experiments with an +A.C. generator using ALL N. alligned magnets, and rectified. Most people can +see that that type o alternator might +have some problems. However, remember that I am looking for a certain type of +wave form that I want to tune to a certain frequency at a certain speed. +The winding of this alternatr is a problem and it is a bit tricky, but I chose to stay with this unit. You may +choose a different method if you retain the principle. The type of energizer that +was used for the prototype was a standard office type 2-speed A.C. fan housing. +The coils were replaced with 6 coils of approx. 200 turns of #20 wire - all in +phase. Six permanent magnets are bonded to an aluminum disc. This arrangement +is basically a magneto, but will produce more amperage than ordinarily expected +of a magneto. + + +Controller Construction: +Figure 2 shows the controller. It should be made of two coencentric circles, +one with approx. 140 degrees of copper, the other, spaced far enough from the +first for a brush to be inserted between them, a full 360 degrees of copper. Provisions should be made to +rotate the brushes in relationship to each +other in order to secure the required timing. + + +Eike Mueller + +John Bedini found that the material generally available concerning Kromery's +Converter had been altered. Rebuilding the Kromery Converter from the patent +papers ended up in a non-functioning device. Bedini found the necessary +modifications which made this machine perform. + +Our first goal was to determine the converters efficiency. We found this +to be quite difficult as the efficiency changes with the load applied. + +Figure K-1 shows the first setup we used. We drove the Kromery Converter +from a 12v motorcycle battery. We connected at the output of the converter +a condenser and a rectifier bridge in parallel. The rectified current +was then put back into the motorcycle battery. To detect any current flow, +we connect into the positive line a 12 V light bulb. + +The result of this test was the light bulb was lit up. However after 15 minutes +the batrery voltage had dropped from 11.05 V to 9.10 V. The speed of the +converter was stabale at 1020 rpm. + +In the next test we introduced a seperate battery (battery #2) for charging +from the converter. + +We recharged the battery #2 from 12.30 V to 12.40 V within 4 minutes, and we +measured a current flow into the battery #2 of 0.8 amperes. + +/----------\ /----\ +/--O Kromery +O-------O+12v| +|/-OConverter-O-------O-#1 | FIGURE K - 2 +|| \----------/ \----/ +|| +|| /-------------\ /----\ KROMERY CONVERTER +|\-------. \--O-12*| +| / \ /--O+#2 | +| /FW \ | \----/ TEST SETUP #2 +\-Bridg+--(/)-/ +\ / Ampere *Note difference +\ / Meter in polarity from +\--------. battery #1. + + +Figure K-2 shows the second test setup. Because the kromery converter +ran too slow on one 12 V battery, we decided to drive the converter using +24 V via two 12 V batteries, connected in series. + +Next we wanted to find a correlation between the normal charging of battery +#2 using a commercial battery charger, and charging this same battery with the +Kromery converter. We drained the battery #2 to 8 V, connected it to the +Kromery Converter, and after reaching 11.51 V, we measured the time it took to +charge the battery from this voltage level of 11.51 V to 12.45 V. We +reached this voltage (12.45 V) after 11 minutes. The indicated current into the +battery was 0.94 A. + +We then repeated these steps using the commercial battery charger. Because we +ran out of time after nearly 2 hours, we disconnected the battery from the +charger. The battery voltage had reached 12.41 V. The measurement is depicted +in Figure K-3. + + +THE BATTERY CHARGER NEEDED 119 MINUTES + +TO RAISE THE BATTERY VOLTAGE FROM 11.51 V TO 12.41 V +FIGURE K - 3 + +THE KROMERY CONVERTER NEEDED 11 MINUTES + +TO RAISE THE BATTERY VOLTAGE FROM 11.51 V TO 12.45 V + + +NOTE: The charger could not fill up the batteries + +to 12.45 volts within two hours. + + +We wanted to find a correction factor for the Kromery Converter by comparing +the same effect, i.e. the charging of the same battery from one specific +voltage to another specific voltage. The calculation of this factor is avilable +in the book "Experiments with a Kromery and a Brandt-Tesla converter built by +John Bedini" By Eike Mueller, with Comments by Tom Bearden. Table K-1 shows the +combined test results. Because we detected an increase in the speed of the +Kromery Converter as well as a decrease in the input energy when we increased +the output load, we decided to measure the input energy and speed when the +output was shorted. Again, the input energy dropped and the speed increased. + +Measurement No Load Loaded With Shorted Corrected +Battery Fact. 5.535 +============================================================ + +Input Voltage 25.30 25.00 24.90 + +Input Current 3.90 3.00 2.20 + +------------------------------------------------------------ + +Watts In 98.67 75.00 54.78 + +Watts Out N/A 10.26 N/A 56.78 + +------------------------------------------------------------ + +Speed In Rev/Sec 40.00 65.00 73.00 + +Output Voltage DC 48.00 10.80 N/A + +Output Current N/A 0.95 1.05 + +------------------------------------------------------------ + +Watts In/Out N/A 7.31 N/A 1.32 + +============================================================ + + +Table K - 1 + + +Using the earlier determined correction factor of 5.535 we calculated the +energy they put into the battery to 56.78 watts (from 10.26 * 5.535). Looking +at Table K-1 we see that it takes only 54.78 watts to run the Kromery Converter +when the output is shorted. This result led us to continue with theese tests +and load the converter output even more. The results of these tests can be seen +in Table K-2. + +Here again, we detected that we would get a higher efficiency of the total +device, the more we load down the output side. This effect is totally +contradictory to the conventional laws of physics. + + +Measurement No Load Loaded With Loaded w/ Loaded w/ +Lamp & Batt 13.5 Ohms 0.63 Ohms +============================================================ + +Input Voltage 25.40 25.30 20.00 21.90 + +Input Current 3.90 3.90 3.39 2.30 + +------------------------------------------------------------ + +Watts In 99.06 98.67 67.80 50.37 + +Watts Out N/A 21.00 185.19 634.92 + +Watts Out (Corrected) 116.24 + +------------------------------------------------------------ + +Resistance (Ohms) N/A N/A 13.50 0.63 + +Output Voltage DC 48.00 28.00 50.00 20.00 + +Output Current N/A 0.75 N/A N/A + +------------------------------------------------------------ + +Watts In/Out N/A 0.85 0.37 0.08 + +============================================================ + + +Table K - 2 + + +We used the Kromery correction factor for the First case, when we had connected +the battery to the converter output. We did not use this factor in both other +cases when we used resistors in the output circuit. + +The above test results show that the efficiency of the Kromery Converter is +well above 100%.

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There are at least twenty-two major discrepancies presently existing in +conventional electromagnetics theory. This paper presends a summary of those +flaws, and is a further commentary on my discussion of scalar longitudinal +waves in a previous paper, "Solutions to Tesla's Secrets and the Soviet Tesla +Weapons," Tesla Book Company, 1981 and 1982. + +I particularly wish to express my deep appreciation to two of my friends and +colleagues who at this time, I believe, wish to remain anonymous. One of the +two is an experimental genius who can produce items that do not work by ortho-dox theory. The second is a master of materials science and electromagnetics +theory. I thank them both for their exceptional contributions and stimuli +regarding potential shortcoming in present electromagnetics theory, and their +forbearance with the many discussions we have held on this and related +subjects. + +It goes without saying that any etrors in this paper are strictly my own, and +not the fault of either of my distinguished colleagues. + + + +(1) In present electromagnetics theory, charge and charged mass are falsely +made identical. Actually, on a charged particle, the "charge" is the flux of +virtual particles on the "bare particle" of observable mass. The charged part-icle is thus a "system" of true massless charge coupled to a bare chargeless +mass. The observable "mass" is static, three-dimensional and totally spatial. +"Charge" is dynamic, four-dimensional or more, virtual and spatiotemporal. +Further, the charge and observable mass can be de-coupled, contrary to present +theory. Decoupled charge -- that is, the absence of mass -- is simply what we +presently refer to as "Vacuum." Vacuum, spacetime, and massless charge are all +identical. Rigorously, we should utilize any of these three as an "ether," as +suggested for vacuum by Einstein himself (see Max Born, Einstiein's Theory of +Relativity, Revised Edition, Dover Publications, New York, 1965, p. 224). And +all three of them are identically anenergy -- not energy, but more fundamental +components of energy. + +(2) Electrostatic potential is regarded as a purely 3-dimensional spatial +stress. Instead, it is the intensity of a many-dimensional (at least four-dimensional) virtual flux and a stress on all four dimensions of spacetime. +This is easily seen, once one recognizes that spacetime is identically masless +charged. (It is not "filled" with charge; rather, it is charge!) Just as, in +a gas under pressure, the accumulation of additional gas further stresses the +gas, the accumulation of charge (spacetime) stresses charge (spacetime). +Further, if freed from its attachment to mass, charge can flow exclusively +in time, exclusively in space, or in any combination of the two. Tesla waves -- +which are scalar waves in pure massless charge flux itself -- thus can exhibit +extraordinary characteristics that ordinary vector waves do not possess. And +Tesla waves have extra dimensional degrees of freedom in which to move, as +compared to vector waves. Indeed, one way to visualize a tesla scalar wave is +to regard it as a pure oscillation of time itself. + +(3) Voltage and potential are often confused in the electrostatic case, or at +least thought of as "composed of the same thing." For that reason, voltage is +regarded as "potential drop." This also is not true. Rigorously, the potential +is the intensity of the virtual particle flux at a single point -- whether or +not there is any mass at the point -- and both the pressure and the point +itself are spatiotemporal (4-dimensional) and not spatial (3-dimensional) as +presently assumed. Voltage represents the spatial intersection of the +difference in potential between two seperated spatial points, and always +implies at least a miniscule flow of mass current (that is what makes it +spatial!). "Voltage" is spatial and depends upon the presence of observable +mass flow, while scalar electrostatic potential is spatiotemporal and depends +upon the absence of observable mass flow. The two are not even of the same +dimensionality. + +(4) The charge of vacuum spacetime is assumed to be zero, when in fact it is +a very high value. Vacuum has no mass, but it has great massless charge and +virtual particle charge flux. For proof that a charged vacuum is the seat of +something in motion, see G. M. Graham and D. G. Lahoz, "Observation of static +electromagnetic angular momentum in vacuo," Nature, Vol. 285, 15 May 1980, pp. +154-155. In fact, vacuum IS charge, identically, and it is also spacetime, and +at least four-dimensional. + +(5) Contrary to its present usage, zero is dimensional and relative in its +context. A three-dimensional spatial hole, for example, exists in time. If we +model time as a dimension, then the spatial hole has one dimension in 4-space. +So a spatial absence is a spatiotemporal presence. In the vacuum 4-space, a +spatial nothing is still a something. The "virtual" concept and mathematical +concept of a derivative are simply two present ways of unconsciously addressing +this fundamental problem of the dimensional relativity of zero. + +(6) The concepts of "space" and "time" imply that spacetime (vacuum) has been +seperated into two parts. We can only think of a space as "continuing to exist +in time." To separate vacuum spacetime into two pieces, an operation is +continually required. The operator that accomplishes this splitting operation +is the photon interaction, the interaction of vector electromagnetic energy or +waves with mass. I have already strongly pointed out this effect and presented +a "raindrop model" or first-order physical change itself in my book, The +Excalibur Briefing, Strawberry Hill Press, San Francisco, 1980, pp. 128-130. + +(7) "Vector magnetic potential" is assumed to be always an aspect of (and +connected to) the magnetic field. In fact it is a separate, fundamental field +of nature and it can be entirely disconnected from the magnetic field. See +Richard P. Feynman et al, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Addison-Wesley +Publishing Co., New York, 1964, Vol. II, pp. 15-8 to 15-14. Curiously, this +fact has been proven for years, yet it has been almost completely ignored in +the West. The "(triangle)x" operator, when applied to the A-field, makes +B-field. If the (triangle)x operator is not applied, the "freed" A-field +possesses much-expanded characteristics from those presently allowed in the +"bound" theory. Specifically, it becomes a scalar or "shadow vector" field; +it is not a normal vector field. + +(8) The speed of light in vacuum is assumed to be a fundamental constant of +nature. Instead it is a function of the intensity of the massless charge flux +(that is, of the magnitude of the electrostatic potential) of the vacuum in +which it moves. (Indeed, since vacuum and masless charge are one and the same, +one may say that the speed of light is a function of the intensity of the +spatiotemporal vacuum!). The higher the flux intensity (charge) of the vacuum, +the faster the speed of light in it. This is an observed fact and already shown +by hardcore measurements. For example, distinct differences actually exist in +the speed of light in vacuo, when measured on the surface of the earth as +compared to measurements in space away from planetary masses. In a vacuum on +the surface of the earth, light moves significantly faster. For a discussion +and the statistics, see B. N. Belyaev, "On Random Fluctuations of the Velocity +of Light in Vacuum," Soviet Physics Journal, No. 11, Nov. 1980, pp. 37-42 +(original in Russian, translation by Plenum Publishing Corporation.) The +Russians have used this knowledge for over two decades in their strategic +psychotronics (energetics) program; yet hardly a single U.S. scientist is aware +of the measured variation of c in vacuo. In fact, most Western scientists +simply cannot believe it when it is pointed out to them! + +(9) Energy is considered fundamental and equivalent to work. In fact, energy +arises from vector processes, and it can be disassembled into more fundamental +(anenergy) scalar components, since the vectors can. These scalar components +individually can be moved to a distant location without expending work, since +one is not moving force vectors. There the scalar components can be joined and +reassembled into vectors to provide "free energy" appearing at a distance, +with no loss in between the initial and distant points. For proof that a vector +field can be replaced by (and considered to be composed of) two scalar fields, +see E. T. Whittaker, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 1, +1903, p. 367. By extension, any vector wave can be replaced by two coupled +scalar waves. + +(10) The classical Poynting vector predicts no longitudinal wave of energy +from a time-varying, electrically charged source. In fact, an exact solution of +the problem does allow this longitudinal wave. See T. D. Keech and J. F. Corum, +"A New Derivation for the Field of a Time-Varying Charge in Einsteins Theory," +International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1981, pp. 63-68 +for the proof. + +(11) The present concepts of vector and scalar are severely limited, and do +not permit the explicit consideration of the internal, finer-grained structures +of a vector or a scalar. That is, a fundamental problem exists with the +basic assumptions in the vector mathematics itself. The "space" of a vector +field, for example, does not have inter-nested sublevels (subspaces) containing +finer "shadow vectors" or "virtual vectors." Yet particle physics has already +discovered that electrical reality is built that way. Thus one should actually +use a "hypernumber" theory after the manner of Charles Muses. A scalar is +filled with (and composed of) nested levels of other "spaces" containing +vectors, where these sum to "zero" in the ordinary observable frame without an +observable vector resultant. In Muses' mathematics, for example, zero has real +roots. Real physical devices can be -- and have been -- constructed in +accordance with Muses' theory. For an introduction to Muses' profound +hypernumberss approach, see Charles Muses' forward to Jerome Rothstein, +Communication, Ogranization and Science, The Falcon's Wing Press, Indian Hills, +Colorado, 1958. See also Charles Muses', "Applied Hypernumbers: Computational +Convepts," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 3, 1976. See also Charles +Muses' "Hypernumbers II", Aoplied Mathematics and Computation, Janurary 1978. + +(12) With the expanded Tesla electromagnetics, a new conservation of energy +law is required. Let us recapitulate for a moment. The oldest law called for +the conservation of mass. The present law calls for the conservation of "mass +and energy", but not each separately. If mass is regarded as simply another +aspect of energy, then the present law calls for the conservation of energy. +However, this assumes that energy is a basic, fundamental concept. Since the +energy concept is tied to work and the movement of vector forces, it implicitly +assumes "vector movement2 to be a "most fundamental" and irreducible concept. +But as we pointed out, Whittaker showed that vectors can always be further +broken down into more fundamental coupled scalar components. Further, Tesla +discovered that these "coupled components" of "energy" can be individually +separated, transmitted, processed, rejoined, etc. This directly implies that +energy per se need not be conserved. The new law therefore calls for the +conservation of anenergy, the components of energy. These components may be +coupled into energy, and the energy may be further compacted into mass. It is +the sum total of the (anenergy) components -- coupled and uncoupled -- that is +conserved, not the matter or the energy per se. Further, this conservation of +anenergy is not spatial; rather it is spatiotemporal in a spacetime of at least +four or more dimensions. + +(13) Relativity is presently regarded as a theory or statement about +fundamental physical reality. In fact, it is only a statement about FIRST ORDER +reality -- the reality that emerges from the vector interaction of +electromagnetic energy with matter. When we break down the vectors into scalars +(shadow vectors or hypervectors), we immediatly enter a vastly different, far +more fundamental reality. In this reality superluminal velocity, multiple +universes, travel back and forth in time, higher dimensions, variation of all +"fundamental constants" of nature, materialization and dematerialization, and +violation of the "conservation of energy" are all involved. Even our present +Aristotlean logic -- fitted to the photon interaction by vector light as the +fundamental observation mechanism -- is incapable of describing or modeling +this more fundamental reality. Using scalar waves and scalar interactions as +much subtler, far less limited observation/detection mechanisms, we must have a +new "superrelativity" to describe the expanded electromagnetic reality +uncovered by Nikola Tesla. + +(14) "Charge" is assumed to be quantized, in addition to always occuring with +-- and locked to -- mass. Indeed, charge is not necessarily quantized, just as +it is not necessarily locked to mass. Ehrenhaft discovered and reported +fractional charges for years, in the 30's and 40's, and was ignored. See P.A.M. +Dirac, "Development of the Physicist's Conception of Nature", Sumposium on the +Development of the Physicist's Conception of Nature, ed. Jagdish Merha, D. +Reidel, Boston, 1973, pp. 12-14 for a presentation of some of Ehrenhaft's +results. Within the last few years Stanford University researchers have also +positively demonstrated the existence of "fractional charge." For a layman's +description of their work, see "A Spector Haunting Physics," Science News, Vol. +119, January 31, 1981, pp. 68-69. Indeed, Dirac in his referenced article +points out that Millikan himself -- in his original oildrop experiments -- +reported one measurement of fractional charge, but discounted it as probably +due to error. + +(15) Presently, things are always regarded as traveling through normal space. +Thus we use or model only the most elementary type of motion -- that performed +by vector electromagnetic energy. We do not allow for things to "travel inside +the vector flow itself." Yet, actually, there is a second, more subtle flow +inside the first, and a third, even more subtle flow inside the second, and +so on. We may operate inside, onto, into, and out of energy itself -- and any +anenergy component of energy. There are hypervectors and hyperscalars unlimited +, within the ordinary vectors and scalars we already know. Further, these +"interlan flows" can be engineered and utilized, allowing physical reality +itself to be directly engineered, almost without limits. + +(16) We always assume everything exists in time. Actually, nothing presently +measured exists in time, because the physicical detection/measurement process +of our present instruments destroys time, ripping it off and tossing it away -- +and thereby "collapsing the wave function." Present scientific methodology thus +is seriously flawed. It does not yield fundamental (spacetime) truth, but only +a partial (spatial) truth. This in turn leads to great scientific oversights. +For example. mass does not exist in time, but mass x time (masstime) does. A +fundamental constant does not exist in time, but "constant x time" does. Energy +does not exist in time, but energy x time (action) does. Even space itself does +not exist in time -- spacetime does. We are almost always one dimension short +in every observable we model. Yet we persist in thinking spatially, and we have +developed instruments that detect and measure spatially only. Such instruments +can never measure and detect the phenomenology of the nested substrata of time. +By using scalar technology, however, less limited instruments can indeed be +constructed -- and they have been. With such new instruments, the phenomenology +of the new electromagnetics can be explored and an engineering technology +developed. + +(17) We do not recognize the connection between nested levels of virtual +state (particle physics) and orthogonally rotated frames (hyperspaces). +Actually, the two are identical, as I showed in the appendix to my book, The +Excalibur Briefing, Strawberry Hills Press, San Francisco, 1980, pp. 233-235. A +virtual particle in the laborotory frame is an observable particle in a +hyperspatial frame rotated more than one orthogonal turn away. This of course +implies that the hyperspatial velocity of all virtual particles is greater than +the speed of light. The particle physicist is already deeply involved in +hyperspaces and hyperspatial charge fluxes without realizing it. In other words +, he is using tachyons (particles that move faster than light) without +realizing it. + +(18) Presently quantum mechanics rigorously states that time is not an +observable, and therefore it cannot be measured or detected. According to this +assumption, one must always infer time from spatial measurements, because all +detections and measurements are spatial. With this assumption, our scientists +prejudice themselves against looking for finer, subquantal measurement +methodologies and instrumentation. Actually this present limitation is the +result of the type of electromagnetics we presently know, where all instruments +(the "measurers") have been interacted with by vector electromagnetic energy +(light). Every mass that has temperature (and all masses do!) is continually +absorbing and emitting photons, and in the process they are continually +connecting to time and disconnecting from time. If time is continually being +carried away from the detector itself by its emitted photons, then the detector +cannot hold and "detect" that which it has just lost. With Tesla +electromagnetics, however, the fundamental limitation of our present instru-ments need not apply. With finer instruments, we can show there are an infinite +number of levels to "time", and it is only the "quantum level time" which is +continually being lost by vector light (photon) interaction. By using +subquantal scalar waves, instruments can move to deeper levels of time -- in +which case the upper levels of time ARE measureable and detectable, in +contradistinction to present assumptions. + +(19) In the present physics, time is modeled as, and considered to be, a +continuous dimension such as length. This is only a gross approximation. Indeed +, time is not like a continuous "dimension," but more like a series of +"stiches," each of which is individually made and then ripped out before the +next stitch appears. "Vector light" photons interact one at a time, and it is +this interaction with mass that creates quantum change itself. The absorbtion +of a photon -- which is energy x time -- by a spatial mass converts it to +masstime: the time was added by the photon. The emission of a photon tears away +the time, leaving behind again a spatial mass. It is not accidental, then, that +time flows at the speed of light, for it is light which contains and carries +time. It is also not accidental that the photon IS the individual quantum. +Since all our instruments presently are continually absorbing and emitting +photons, they are all "quantized," and they accordingly "quantize" their +detections. This is true because all detection is totally internal to the +detector, and the instruments only detect only their own internal changes. +Since these detections are on a totally granular quantized background, the +detections themselves are quantized. The Minkowski model is fundamentally +erroneous in its modeling of time, and for that reason relativity and quantum +mechanics continue to resist all attempts to successfully combine them, quantum +field theory notwithstanding. + +(20) Presently, gravitational field and electrical field are considered +mutually exclusive. Actually this is also untrue. In 1974, for example, +Santilli proved that electrical field and gravitational fiend indeed are not +mutually exclusive. In that case one is left with two possibilities: +(a) they are totally the same thing, or (b) they are partially the same thing. +For the proof, see R. M. Santilli, "Partons and Gravitation: Some Puzzling +Questions," Annals of Physics, Vol. 83, No. 1, March 1974. With the new Tesla +electromagnetics, pure scalar waves in time itself can be produced electrically +, and electrostatics (when the charge has been seperated from the mass) becomes +a "magic" tool capable of directly affecting anything that exists in time -- +including the gravitational field. Antigravity and the intertial drive are +immediate and direct consequences of the new electromagnetics. + +(21) Presently, mind is considered metaphysical, not a part of physics, and +not affected by physical means. Literally, the prevailing belief of Western +scientists is that man is a mechanical robot -- even though relativity depends +entirely upon the idea of the idea of the "observer." Western science today +thus has essentially become dogmatic, and in this respect borders on a religion. +Since this "religion," so to speak, is now fairly well entrenched in its power +in the state, Western science is turning itself into an oligarchy. But mind +occupies time, and when we measure and affect time, we can directly measure and +affect mind itself. In the new electromagnetics, then, Man regains his dignity +and his humanity by restoring the reality of mind and thought to science. In my +book, The Excalibur Briefing, I have already pointed out the reality of mind and +a simplified way in which it can be modeled to the first order. With scalar wave +instruments, the reality of mind and thought can be measured in the laboratory, +and parapsychology becomes a working, engineering, scientific discipline. + +(22) Multiple valued basic dimensional functions are either not permitted +or severely discouraged in the present theory. For one thing, integrals of +multiple valued derivative functions have the annoying habit of "blowing up" and +yielding erroneous answers, or none at all. And we certainly do not allow +multiple types of time! This leads to the absurdity of the present interpretation +of relativity, which permits only a single observer (and a single observation) +at a time. So if one believes as "absurd" a thing as the fact that more than +one person can observe an apple at the same time, the present physics fails. +However, the acceptance of such a simple proposition as multiple simultaneous +observation leads to a physics so bizarre and incredible that most Western +physicists have been unable to tolerate it, much less examine its consequences. +In the physics that emerges from multiple simultaneous observation, +all possibilities are real and physical. There are an infinite number of +worlds, orthogonal to one another, and each world is continually splitting into +additional such "worlds" at a stupendous rate. Nonetheless, this physics +was worked out by Everett for his doctoral thesis in 1956, and the thesis was +published in 1957. (See Hugh Everett, III, The Many-Worlds Interpretation of +Quantum Mechanics: A Fundamental Exposition, with papers by J. A. Wheeler, +B. S. DeWitt, L. N. Cooper and D. Van Vechten, and N. Graham; eds. Bryce S. +Dewitt and Neill Graham, Princeton Series in Physics, Princeton University +Press, 1973.) Even though it is bizarre, Everett's physics is entirely +consistent with the present experimental +basis of physics. The present electromagnetic theory is constructed for only +a single "rodl" or universe -- or "level." The expanded theory, on the other +hand, contains multiply nested levels of virtual state charge -- and these +levels are identically the same as orthogonal universes, or "hyperframes." +Multiple kinds -- and values -- of time also exist. The new concept differs from +Everett's, however, in that the orthogonal universes intercommunicate in the +virtual state. That is, an observable in one universe is always a virtual +quantity in each of the other universes. Thus one can have multi-level +"continuities" and "discontinuities" simultaneously, without logical conflict. +It is precisely these levels of charge -- these levels of scalar vacuum -- +that lace together the discontinuous quanta generated by the interaction of +vector light with mass. + +However, to understand the new electromagnetic reality, one requires a new, +expanded logic which contains the old Aristotlean logic as a subset. I have +already pointed out the new logic in my paper, "A Conditional Criterion for +Identity, Leading to a Fourth Law of Logic," 1979, available from the National +Technical Information Center, AD-A071032. + +Even as logic is extended, quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and +relativity are drastically changed by the Tesla electromagnetics, as I point-ed out in my paper, "Solutions to Tesla's Secrets and the Soviet Tesla +Weapons," Tesla Book Company, 1580 Magnolia, Millbrae, CA, 94030, 1980. + +The present electromagnetics is just a special case of a much more +fundamental electromagnetics discovered by Nikola Tesla, just as Newtonian +physics is a special case of the relativistic physics. But in the new +electromagnetics case, the differences between the old and the new are far more +drastic and profound. + +Additional References +---------- ---------- + +1. Boren, Dr. Lawence Milton, "Discovery of the Fundamental Magnetic Charge +(Arising from the new Conservation of Magnetic Energy)," 1981/1982 (private +communication). Dr. Boren has a cogent argument that the positron is the +fundamental unit of magnetic charge. His theory thus assigns fundamentally +different natures to positive charge and +negative charge. In support of Dr. Boren, one should point out that the +"positive" end of circuits can simply be "less negative" than the "negative" +end. In other words, the circuit works simply from higher accumulation of +negative charges (the "negative" end) to a lesser accumulation of negative +charges (the "positive" end). Nowhere needthere be positive charges (protons, +positrons, etc.) to make the circuit work. Dr. Borens theory, though dramatic +at first encounter, nonetheless bears close and meticulous examination -- +particularly since he has been able to gather experimental data which support +his theory and disagree with present theory. + +2. Eagle, Albert, "An Alternative Explanation of Relativity Phenomena," +philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, No. 191, December 1939, pp. 694 +-701. + +3. Ehrenaft, Felix and Wasser, Emanuel, "Determination of the Size and Weight +of Single Submicroscopic Spheres of the Order of Magnitude r = 4 x 10(-5) cm. +to 5 x 10(-6) cm., as well as the Production of Real Images of +Submicroscopic Particles by means of Ultraviolet Light," Phil. Mag. and +Jour. of Sci., Vol. II (Seventh Series), No. 7, July 1926, pp. 30-51. + +4. Ehrenhaft, Felix and Wasser, Emanuel, "New Evidence of the Existance of Charges +smaller than the Electron - (a) The Micromagnet; (b) The Law of Resistance; +(c) The computation of errors of the Method," Phil. Mag. and Jour. of Sci., +Vol. V (Seventh Series), No. 28, February 1928, pp. 225-241. + +5. See also Ehrenhaft's last paper dealing with the electronic charge, in +Philosophy of Science, Vol. 8, 1941, p. 403. + +6. McGregor, Donald Rait, The Inertia of the Vacuum: A New Foundation for +Theoretical Physics, Exposition Press, Smithtown, NY, First Edition, 1981, pp. +15-20. + +7. Ignat'ev, Yu. G. and Balakin, A. B., "Nonliner Gravitational Waves in Plasma," +Soviet Physics Journal, Vol. 24, No. 7, July 1981, (U.S. Translation, Consultants +Bureau, NY, JAnurary 1982), pp. 593-597. + +8. Yater, Joseph C., "Relation of the second law of thermodynamics to the power +conversion of energy fluctuations," Phys. Review A, Vol. 20, no. 4, October +1979, pp. 1614-1618. + +9. DeSantis, Romano M. et al, "On the Analysis of Feedback Systems With a +Multipower Open Loop Chain," October 1973, available through the Defense +Technical Information Center (AD 773188). + +10. Graneau, Peter, "Electromagnetic Jet-Propulsion in the Direction of current +flow," Nature, Vol. 295, 28 Janurary 1982, pp. 311-312 + +11. "Gravity and acceleration aren't always equivalent," New Scientist, 17 +September 1981, p. 723. + +12. Gonyaev, V. V., "Experimental Determination of the Free-Fall Acceleration +of a Relativistic Charged Particle. II. A Cylindrical Solenoid in a Time-Independent Field of Inertial Forces," Izvestiya VUZ, Fizika, No. 7, 1979, pp. +28-32. English Translation: Soviet Physics Journal, No. 7, 1979, pp. +829-833. If one understands the new, expanded electromagnetics, this Soviet +paper indicates a means of generating antigravity and pure inertial fields. + +13. R. Schaffranke, "The Development of Post-Relativistic Concepts in Physics and +Advanced Technology Abroad," Energy Unlimited, No. 12, Winter 1981, pp. 15-20. + +14. F. K. Preikschat, A Critical look at the theory of Relativity, Library +of Congress Catalogue No. 77-670044. Extensive compilation of measurements of +the speed of light. Clearly shows the speed of light is not constant but changes, +sometimes even daily. + + +B: The Secret of Electrical Free Energy + +Present electromagnetic theory is only a special case of the much more funda-mental electromagnetic theory discovered by Nikola Tesla at the turn of +the century. + +Pure vacuum is pure charge flux, without mass. The vacuum has a very high +electrical potential -- something on the order of 200 million volts, with +respect to a hypothetical zero charge. + +Thus in an ordinary electrical circuit, each point of the "ground" -- which has +the same potential as the vacuum -- actually has a non-zero absolute potential. +This circuit ground has a value of zero only with respect to something else +which has the same absolute electrical potential. + +Voltage, which is always associated with a flow of electrical "mass" current +(even if only a miniscule flow), is, by definition, a difference dropped in +potential when a charge mass moves between two spatially seperated points. What +we have termed "electrical current" only flows where there is a suitable +conducting medium between things which have a difference in absolute potential. +Furthermore, between any two points in any material, there is considered to be +a finite resistance -- if we apply a voltage ahd have a mass current flowing +between the two points! Rigorously, to have one of the three is to have them all. +To lose one is to lose all three. Immediately we see a major error in present +theory: One can have a "difference in scalar potential" between two points without +having a "voltage drop" between them. Specifically, if no mass current flows +between them, no resistance exists between them, and no voltage drop exists +between them. + +In the same fashion, one can have a "scalar wave" through the vacuum without +a voltage wave. In that case, the wave has no E-field and no H-field. The only +reason one has an E field around a statically charged object is because the +charged electrons accumulated on the object are actually in violent motion. It +is this motion of the charged masses that produces E-field -- as well as H-field +whenever that entire E-field ensemble moves through laborotory space. + +Now let us reason together the "approximate" manner utilized in present +electromagnetic theory. For example, let us examine a bird sitting on a high +tension line. + +The bird sits on the high tension line without a flow of mass electricity, +because there is no significant difference in potential drop between the bird +and the line. Specifically, between the birds two feet -- each in contact with +a different portion of the line -- there exists no potential difference. This +is true even though, with respect to the vacuum, each foot is at a potential +that would be "100000 volts higher," were a mass current flowing. And it is true +even though the absolute potential of each foot may be some 200.1 million +"volts," were a mass current flowing. + +Now an interesting thing happens to the bird when he flies through the air to +light upon the high tension wire. As he flies towards the wire, he is flying through +the massless electrostatic potential field of the wire, for that field extends +an infinite distance away from the wire. The electrostatic potential field -- +pure 0-field -- is actually the spatiotemporal intensity of the massless charge +at a point. In other words, as the bird flies to the wire, he flies into an +increasing "massless charge" potential, building up to 100000 "volts" higher +than the earth. However, very little (if any) "mass flow" potential difference +is experienced upon his body in approaching the wire, and so essientially no +"charged mass currents" are induced in his body. Thus the little flier safely +navigates into the teeth of a very high electrostatic potential, lights upon the +wire, and is not "fried" in the process. When he lights on the wire, +his body has reached the electrostatic potential that each foot's contact +point has. Again, there is no mass current flow. But his body is immersed +in an increased flux of massless charge -- which is what the electrostatic +potential represents. And each "virtual particle" flow in that charge +represents a "massless (scalar)" electrical current. + +The point is, one can have any amount of massless charge flow -- "scalar" +current -- without any mechanical work being done in the system. All electrical +work in a circuit is done against the physical mass of the charged masses that +flow. Rigorously, force is defined as the time rate of charge of momentum. +Even in the relativistic case where F = ma + v(dm/dt), change of momentum +requires mass movement. No mechanical work, and hence no energy, is expended by +massless charge flow. + +That is why the vacuum massless charge -- which is composed of a very high flux +of massless "particles" -- normally does no work on our systems, and expends +none of its very high "potential energy." It is exactly the same as the bird +which flew into an increasing scalar field as it approached the high tension +wire -- no work was done upon the bird by the increasing scalar flux currents +encountered by its body. + +By existing "in the vacuum," so to speak, we (the whole earth) are as birds +sitting on a high tension line! Until we create a significant differece in +potential, via our present electromagnetic circuits, no current can flow +-- anywhere. Even if we produce potential differences, we must have a conductor +and charged masses to flow, if we with to produce mechanical work. Presently our +electromagnetic theory allows us to create a difference in potential within +different parts of a circuit, but only by moving and shifting charged mass. We +therefore have to do work on this electrical mass in moving it around, +and we only get back the work we have put into the circuit. In other words, +presently all wee do is "pump" electrical mass. + +Now notice what would happen to the bird on the line if we substantially +"pulsed" the potential on the line. Suppose we "pulsed" it such that the +bird's physical system -- considered as a circuit containing a capicitance, a +resistance, an inductance, and many free electrons -- became resonant to +the pulsing frequency. In that case the "bird system" would resonate, and a +great deal of electrical mass would surge back and forth in the body of the +bird. In the birds body, voltage would exist, charged mass current would flow, +work would be done, and the bird would be electrocuted. + +Also, note that, without mass movement, electromagnetic vector fields are not +produced (and a portion of the difficulty lies with the actual vector mechanics +itself). Scalar (nonvector) waves continually penetrate the "space" where +there is no mass movement. This means there can exist a "delta-0" without a +voltage or an E-field. The present theory does not allow this, because it +always uses "q" (charge) to be charged mass. Briefly, without belaboring the +point, let us just say that is the mechanical spin of the individual +charged particle -- such as the electron -- which "entangles" or "knits +together" or "couples" independent scalar waves into vector waves. A vector +wave is simply two coupled scalar waves. The entire force field concept -- +such as the E-field and the B-field -- is operationally Defined in terms of the +force exhibited on a test particle, or test mass. Rigorusly, an E-field does +not exist as a force field in a vacuum, but as two coupled scalar 0-fields +"tumbling about each other." When these two coupled, tumbling fields meet a +spinning electron, e.g., the force emerges on the electron mass. In short, +movement of a rotating mass changes delta-0 to "voltage", creating the +V/I/R triad. + +By "accululating charged mass particles" -- such as electrons -- one certainly +can increase the value of 0, which represents the charge intensity or "scalar +electrostatic potential." However, that is not the only way to increase it. +Resonance and rotation of charged mass can also be appropriately employed to +vary the vacuum charge potential 0, under proper circumstances. + +By the correct application of rotary principles and Tesla electromagnetic +theory, it is possible to oscillate -- and change the vacuum potential itself, +in one part of an electrical system. Thus by correct procedures a part of a +system can be electrically altered so that the absolute value of its "ground" +(vacuum) potential differs significantly from the normal vacuum-ground +potential of the remainder of the circuit. In other words, we shift the +vacuum-ground potential of the part of the circuit by oscillating the massless +vacuum charge itself, and in doing so we gain a substantial, oscillatory +electrical difference between that part of the circuit and the normal ground +potential of the rest of the system. Then we connect the two parts of the +system by means of a conductor containing a load in the middle. + +In every conductor, a large number of "free electrons" are available. If we +oscillate the actual vacuum charge itself, unlimited additional free +electrons also become availabe from the Dirac Sea, since partial "unstripping" +of the negative energy wells (each containing an electron) occurs. This +"unstripping" of the potential of the well is due to vacuum potential oscil-lation, which oscillates time as well as space. To a negative energy well ( +positive time), the oscillation of its "time stream" increases the well's +negative potential during one half-cycle and decreases its potential for the +other half-cycle. Thus during half the oscillatory cycle, negative energy +electrons may be lifted from the Dirac Sea if the oscillation is sufficiently intense. + +Therefore we obtain an attendant voltage and flow of mass current through the +load. This voltage and current, by the way, are essentially limitless, and are +free for the asking, assuming the proper "vacuum oscillation" is initiated +and maintained so that electrons are continually being lifted from the Dirac +sea by the time oscillations, and fed into the circuit. + +Standard electromagnetic theory assumes that the vacuum potential is zero. It +does not recognize the existence of massless charge, separated from charged +mass. Therefore, orthodox scientists have never looked for a way to engineer +the vacuum, because they have not realized it is composed of pure massless +charge. Electrical physics has almost hopelessly confused charge and charged +mass, thereby eliminating scalar longitudinal electrostatic waves. Expressed +in the bird/high tension line analogy, the present electromagnetic theory +restricts us to walking along the high tension line, laboriously carrying small +batteries and power units, unaware of the limitless, surging power beneath our +very feet. + +Electromagnetically, we have been rather like one of the five blind men who +touched an elephant. We have only touched one small portion of the +electromagnetism "elephant," yet we thought we had grasped the entire beast.

+ +

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MOBILIZE! +=========

+ +

Two years ago the FCC tried and (with your help and letters of protest) +failed to institute regulations that would impose additional costs on +modem users for data communications.

+ +

Now, they are at it again. A new regulation that the FCC is quietly +working on will directly affect you as the user of a computer and modem. +The FCC proposes that users of modems should pay extra charges for use +of the public telephone network which carry their data. In addition, +computer network services such as CompuServ, Tymnet, & Telenet would also +be charged as much as $6.00 per hour per user for use of the public +telephone network. These charges would very likely be passed on to +the subscribers. The money is to be collected and given to the +telephone company in an effort to raise funds lost to deregulation.

+ +

Jim Eason of KGO newstalk radio (San Francisco, Ca) commented on the +proposal during his afternoon radio program during which, he said +he learned of the new regulation in an article in the New York Times. +Jim took the time to gather the addresses which are given below.

+ +

Here's what you should do (NOW!):

+ +

1-Pass this information on. Download MOBILIZE.ZIP which contains the +text you are reading now. Find other BBS's that are not carrying +this information. Upload the ASCII text into a public message on the +BBS, and also upload the file itself so others can easily get a copy +to pass along.

+ +

2-Print out three copies of the letter which follows (or write your +own) and send a signed copy to each of the following:

+ +

Chairman of the FCC +1919 M Street N.W. +Washington, D.C. 20554

+ +

Chairman, Senate Communication Subcommittee +SH-227 Hart Building +Washington, D.C. 20510

+ +

Chairman, House Telecommunication Subcommittee +B-331 Rayburn Building +Washington, D.C. 20515

+ +

Here's the suggested text of the letter to send:

+ +

Dear Sir,

+ +

Please allow me to express my displeasure with the FCC proposal +which would authorize a surcharge for the use of modems on the +telephone network. This regulation is nothing less than an attempt to +restrict the free exchange of information among the growing number of +computer users. Calls placed using modems require no special telephone +company equipment, and users of modems pay the phone company for use +of the network in the form of a monthly bill. In short, a modem call +is the same as a voice call and therefore should not be subject to any +additional regulation.

+ +

Sincerely, +[your name, address and signature]

+ +

It is important that you act now. The bureaucrats already have it in +their heads that modem users should subsidize the phone company and are +now listening to public comment. Please stand up and make it clear that +we will not stand for any government restriction on the free exchange of +information. + +Thanks for your help. + +Note: Most of the text for this Bulletin was copied from a message posted +on the Fidonet Telecomm Echo network. +

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Did Jim Morrison Really Die?

+ +

The Case: During the summer of 1971, Jim Morrison and his girlfriend Pamela +Courson went to Paris for a vacation. On July 5th Morrison was discovered in +the bathtub by his girlfriend dead of a heart attack at age 27.

+ +

Suspicious facts: +Only Courson saw his body, no one else. After the death was declared, +Morrison's road manager was the only person notified. He flew to Paris and +was met by Courson at Jim's flat. All he ever saw was a sealed coffin and +a death certificate, no body.

+ +

No one knew who had signed the death certificate. Later in Morrison's +1980 biography it was revealed that there had been no autopsy, no police report, +and no doctor present. Also, no autopsy was performed after death.

+ +

When Morrison's girlfriend filed the death certificate at the American +embasy, she said that there were no living relatives, which meant that the +funeral could take place with no one being notified. In reality, Morrison's +family lived in Arlington, Virginia.

+ +

Morrison's death was not revealed untill a week after he had died, +and the press wasn't notified untill two days after the funeral. Morrison's +road manager said that he ahd died of natural causes.

+ +

Courson or someone else had started a rumor that Morrison had bought +heroin earlier that evening at a Paris hangout. Herroin and alchohol is what +supposedly killed him. Yet for all the drugs Morrison did he never mentioned +heroin, and he was afraid of needles.

+ +

The absence of an autopsy and police report is very suspicious, and +the lie about his parents and the quick "burial" forestalled any further +inquires. A doctor could have been bribed to fake a death certificate.

+ +

Possible Conclusions: +*Morrison is really dead: His friends just played down his death to +protect his privacy. This was done in an attempt to keep his funeral from +turning into a circus like those of Janis Joplin or Jimmy Hendrix.

+ +

*Morrison is hiding out: At the time of his death Morrison's life was +fucked up. Some of the charges against him were two counts of profanity and +indecent exposure in Miami with jail time if his appeal failed. A ten year +jail term for being drunk and disorderly on an airliner, and over TWENTY +paternity suits filed against him. +Morrison was also sick of being a rock star and had been telling people +that for years. He also said that he just wanted to start over fresh so he +could just write. His girlfriend had been encouraging him to develop himself +as a poet for years.

+ +

Typed in a fit of boredom by:

+ +

-fastjack + +

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"How The Soviets Are Bugging America" +-------------------------------------

+ +

By Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

+ +

From Popular Mechanics, April 1987

+ +

Soviet agents may be listening to your personal telephone +conversations. If you're involved in the government, in the +defense industry or in sensitive scientific activity, there +is a good chance they are.

+ +

In fact, a recent unclassified Senate Intelligence +Committee report on counterintelligence indicates more than +half of all telephone calls in the United States made over +any distance are vulnerable to interception. Every American +has a right to know this.

+ +

You should also know that the Reagan administration has +recognized this threat for a long time now, but so far, the +bureaucratic response has been piecemeal, and at times +reluctant.

+ +

Consider this as background: In 1975, when I was named +permanent U.S. representative to the United Nations, Vice +President Nelson Rockefeller summoned me to his office in the +Old Executive Office Building. There was something urgent he +had to tell me. The first thing I must know about the United +Nations, he said, is that the Soviets would be listening to +every call I made from our mission and from the ambassador's +suite in the Waldorf Towers. I thought this a very deep +secret, and treated it as such. Only later did I learn that +Rockefeller had publicly reported this intelligence breach to +the president in June 1975. The Rockefeller "Report to the +President on CIA Activities Within the United States" notes:

+ +

"We believe these countries (communist bloc) can monitor +and record thousands of private telephone conversations. +Americans have the right to be uneasy if not seriously +disturbed at the real possibility that their personal and +business activities, which they discuss freely over the +telephone, could be recorded and analyzed by agents of +foreign powers."

+ +

The Soviets conduct this eavesdropping from their +"diplomatic" facilities in New York City; Glen Cove, Long +Island; San Francisco; and Washington. By some estimates, +they have been doing so since 1958. President Reagan knows +this well. He sat on the Rockefeller Commission and signed +its final report concluding that such covert activities +existed.

+ +

If we had any doubts about this eavesdropping effort, +Arkady Schevchenko dispelled them when he came over in 1975 +and subsequently defected in 1978. As you will recall, +Schevchenko was, at the time, the second-ranking Soviet at +the United Nations and an up-and-comer in the Soviet +hierarchy. He describes the listening operation in New York +City in his book "Breaking With Moscow": "The rooftops at +Glen Cove, the apartment building in Riverdale, and the +Mission are bristled with antennas for listening to American +conversations."

+ +

But we have to worry about more than just parabolic dish +antennas tucked behind the curtains in the Soviet "apartment" +building in Riverdale, New York.

+ +

There are also those Russian trawlers that travel up and +down our coast. They are fishing, but fishing for what? +Communications. And now the Soviets have taken their +eavesdropping a step further and have built two new classes +of AGI, or Auxiliary Gathering Intelligence, vessels. From +the hull up, these new vessels are floating antennas, I +suppose.

+ +

Most dangerous of all, perhaps, is the Soviet listening +complex in Lourdes, Cuba, just outside of Havana. This +facility is the largest such Soviet listening facility +outside its national territory. According to the president, +it "has grown by more than 60 percent in size and capability +during the past decade."

+ +

Lourdes allows instant communications with Moscow, and is +manned by 2100 Soviet technicians. 2100!

+ +

By comparison, our Department of State numbers some 4400 +Foreign Service Officers - total.

+ +

Again, to cite the recent Senate Intelligence Committee +report: "The massive Soviet surveillance efforts from Cuba +and elsewhere demonstrate ... that the Soviet intelligence +payoff from the interception of unsecured communications is +immense." Intelligence specialists are not prone to +exaggeration, they do not last long that way. You can be +assured that "massive" and "immense" are not subtle words as +used in this context.

+ +

There are, however, two things you should know.

+ +

First, our most secret government messages are now +protected from interception or are scrambled, and all +classified message and data communications are secure. In +addition, protected communications zones are being +established in Washington, San Francisco and New York by +rerouting most government circuits and by encrypting +microwave links which continue to be vulnerable to intercept. +But there are still communications links which carry +unclassified, but sensitive, information that we need to +protect.

+ +

Second, it is a truism in the intelligence field that +while bits of information may be unclassified, in aggregate +they can present a classified whole. The Senate Intelligence +Committee informs us, "Due to inherent human weakness, +government and contractor officials, at all levels, +inevitable fail to follow strict security rules ... Security +briefings and penalties were simply not adequate to prevent +discussion of classified information on open lines." If the +Soviets CAN piece it together, you must assume they WILL +given the resources they invest toward this effort.

+ +

But the intelligence community needs no reminder that we +are up against a determined and crafty opponent. In 1983, for +example, a delegation of Soviet scientists were invited to +tour a Grumman plant on Long Island. No cameras. No notes. +All secure, right? Wrong. The delegation had attached +adhesive tape to the soles of their shoes to gather metal +fragments from the plant floor for further study at home. The +Soviets are pretty good at metallurgy - probably the best in +the world - and we don't need to help them any further.

+ +

But concern is not always translated into budgetary +action, at least not in the realm of communications security. +Let us take a look at the technical problem confronting us.

+ +

As you know, there are two basic ways voice can be +transmitted over telephone media: digital and analog. Analog +refers to voice waves which are modulated (amplified) up to a +very high frequency (HF). That is, they are increased in +speed from hundreds of cycles per second to thousands of +cycles per second. This facilitates their passage over +distance.

+ +

Nevertheless, because analog radio waves diminish rapidly +over distance, it's necessary to periodically amplify, or +boost, the signal either at a microwave relay tower repeater +or satellite transponder. (Actually, the signals are +diminished in frequency to voice quality and then brought +back up to high frequency.)

+ +

Digital transmissions are voice or data vibration signals +which are converted into a series of on-and-off pulses, zeros +and ones, as in a computer. Like analog telephone calls, +digital calls go through a process of modulation and +demodulation.

+ +

For the purposes of this discussion, we need only +remember two things about analog and digital telephony.

+ +

First, analog telephony is fast being replaced by digital +telephony because it better translates computer language. +But, more importantly, after a high initial overhaul cost, +it's possible to send thousands of digital calls (bundles) +over a single conduit. Therefore, as we expand our digital +capacity, we must ensure that both our analog and digital +communications are protected from Soviet eavesdropping.

+ +

Second, sending bundles over a single conduit is the base +block at which we introduce the encryption I am talking +about.

+ +

When you place a long-distance telephone call from point +A to point B, there are three communications paths, or +circuits, over which your call might travel: microwave, +satellite or cable.

+ +

Cable is the most secure. However, it is the least +practical and economical method for bulk transmission over +long distances. As a result, 90 percent of our long-distance +telephone traffic is sent by microwave or satellite, and that +which is in the air can be readily intercepted.

+ +

As your signal travels along the cable from your home to +the local switching station and then on to a long-haul +switching station, it is combined (stacked and bundled might +better describe the process) with as many as 1200 other +signals trying to get to the same region of the country.

+ +

This system of stacking and bundling signals is called +multiplexing and it's how the telecommunications industry +gets around the problem of 7 million New Yorkers all trying +to call their senator at the same time on the same copper +wire or radio frequency.

+ +

If you use a common carrier, that is, if you have not +rented a dedicated channel from a telecommunications company, +a computer at the long-haul switching station will select the +first available route to establish a circuit over which your +call signals may travel.

+ +

Therefore, calls that the caller believes to be on less +vulnerable circuits may be automatically switched to more +vulnerable ones. All this takes place in 1 to 3 seconds.

+ +

So let's follow your call as it goes by either microwave +or satellite.

+ +

If your call goes via microwave, it will be relayed +across the country as a radio wave in about 25-mile intervals +from tower to tower (watch for the towers the next time you +drive on an interstate route) until it eventually reaches a +distant switching station where it is unlinked from the other +signals, passed over cable to your friend's telephone, and +converted back into voice.

+ +

The problem with this system: Along these microwave paths +there is what we call "spill". This measures about 12.5 +meters in width and the full 25 miles between towers. This is +where the microwave signal is most at risk. Using a well-aimed parabolic dish antenna (located, let's say, on the top +of Mount Alto, one of the highest hills in the District of +Columbia, and the site of the new Soviet embassy) you can +intercept this signal and pull it in. And that is just what +the Soviets are doing.

+ +

My solution: Throw the bastards out if they are listening +to our microwave signals. Nothing technical about it. On +three occasions I have introduced legislation requiring the +president to do just that, unless in doing so, he might +compromise an intelligence source. On June 7, 1985, this +measure was adopted by the Senate as Title VII to the Foreign +Relations Authorization Bill, but it was dropped in +conference with the House of Representatives at the urging of +the administration.

+ +

Nevertheless, I think the administration accepted the +simple logic behind the proposal when at the end of October, +55 Soviet diplomats were ordered to leave the country, +including, The New York Times tells us, "operatives for +intercepting communications." Now, let's not let the Soviets +just replace one agent with another.

+ +

The process is much the same for a satellite telephone +call. Today, approximately eight telecommunications carriers +offer satellite service using something like 25 satellites. +Let's suppose your signal has traveled to a long-haul +switching station and all microwave paths are filled. The +carrier's computer searches for an alternative path to send +the signal and picks out a satellite connection. At the +ground station, your call is sent by a transponder up to a +satellite and then down again to a distant ground station.

+ +

Using an array of satellite dishes at Lourdes, the +Soviets can seize these signals from the sky just as a +backyard satellite dish can pull in television (and +telephone) signals. High speed computers then sort through +the calls and identify topics and numbers of particular +interest. And if the information provided is real time +intelligence, the Soviets have the ability to transmit it +instantaneously to Moscow. And yes, the Soviets have the +range at Lourdes to grasp our satellite transmissions as they +travel from New York to Los Angeles or Washington to Omaha.

+ +

Here, too, there is a solution: Develop and procure +cryptographic hardware for use at the common-carrier long-haul switching stations. This hardware will encrypt the +multiplexed telephone signals (that is, approximately 1200 +calls at a time) before they are transmitted as radio waves +from ground station to ground station, a technique analogous +to the cable networks scrambling their signals. This can be +done for under $1 billion. If we start by encrypting just +those unclassified signals we categorize as sensitive, those +having greatest impact on the national defense or foreign +relations of the U.S. government, it would cost us about half +as much. It would cost us so much more not to do so.

+ +

Communications security has no constituency. There is no +tangible product and the public can never really be sure that +we have done anything. But National Security Decision +Directive 145 says it is a national policy and the national +responsibility to offer assistance to the private sector in +protecting communications. It's time to make communications +security (ComSec in the lingo) a true national security +priority supported with resources as well as rhetoric. This +was certainly the conclusion of the comprehensive +Intelligence Committee report.

+ +

I agree, and have suggested a way to get on with it. If +someone has a better idea - if you have another idea - I +would be happy to know it. The important thing is that we +stop this massive leak of sensitive information and protect +your privacy.

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From BIG SECRETS, by William Poundstone + +HOW TO CRASH THE FREEMASONS

+ +

Masonry swears its members to secrecy with grisly, +anatomically explicit oaths. A Master Freemason must "promise and +swear, that I will not write, print, stamp, stain, hew, cut, +carve, indent, paint, or engrave" the mysteries of his order +"under no less penalty than to have my throat cut across, my +tongue torn out by the roots, and my body buried in the rough +sands of the sea," according to one version of the oath. Tenth-degree Masons "consent to have my body opened perpendicularly, and +to be exposed for eight hours in the open air, that the venomous +flies may eat my entrails" if they talk. Even the Shriners, a +"fun" order, may incur "the fearful penalty of having my eyeballs +pierced to the center with a three-edged blade." +Be that as it may, the secrets of the Masons are preserved in +certain arcane tracts, pamphlets, and books. These are sold only +by Masonic supply houses -- the firms that sell fezzes, banners, +plaques, jewels, and other regalia to lodges. The supply houses +take the secrecy seriously. Most will not sell booklets containing +club secrets to anyone who cannot show a Masonic ID. BIG SECRETS +came across a Chicago firm, however, that works by mail order. The +Geo. Lauterer Corporation publishes an illustrated catalog of +lodge gear. It offers over a hundred Masonic and other fraternal +manuscripts. We obtained a sampling of titles. +American Masonry differs in certain particulars from British +or Continental Masonry. Rituals may vary from lodge to lodge. +Masonic tracts do not always agree. Except where noted, the +information below is taken from two of Lauterer's titles, +RICHARDSON'S MONITOR OF FREEMASONRY by a pseudonymous Benjamin +Henry Day, and INITIATION STUNTS by Lieutenant Beale Cormack.

+ +

+The Secret Handshake + +It's a regular handshake, except that you press your forefinger +hard into the other's palm. The thumb presses against the base +joints of the second and third fingers. It looks pretty much like +any other handshake; only the person shaking hands can feel the +difference.

+ +

The Secret Password + +"Tubal-Cain" is the secret password of a Master Mason. But some +lodges have their own passwords.

+ +

The Secret Word + +Not to be confused with the password. The Word (always +capitalized) is so secret that initiates are taught it one letter +at a time. First they learn A, then O, then M, and finally I. The +Word is IAOM. +You never get a straight story as to what it means. As best +as anyone can figure, it is the ineffable name of God, or some +approximation thereof. The Word (or Name) is a tongue-twister. It +takes some practice to get it right. The following pronunciation +guide is from MASONRY AND ITS SYMBOLS IN THE LIGHT OF THINKING AND +DESTINY by Harold Waldwin Percival:

+ +

The Name is pronounced as follows: It is started by +opening the lips with an "ee" sound graduating into +a broad "a" as the mouth opens wider with lips +forming an oval shape and then graduating the sound +to "o" as the lips form a circle, and again +modulating to an "m" sound as the lips close to a +point. This point resolves itself to a point within +the head. +Expressed phonetically the Name is "EE-Ah-Oh-Mmm" and is pronounced with one continuous out-breathing with a slight nasal tone in the manner +described above. It can be correct and properly +expressed with its full power only by one who has +brought his physical body to a state of +perfection... + + +The Shriners' Recognition Test + +According to a Lauterer manuscript, this is how two Shriners +recognize each other: + +Q: Then I presume you are a Noble? +A: I am so accepted by all men of noble birth. +Q: Have you traveled any? +A: I have. +Q: From where to what place have you traveled? +A: Traveled east over the hot burning sands of the desert. +Q: Where were you stopped at? +A: At the devil's pass. +Q: What were you requested to do? +A: I was requested to contribute a few drops of urine. +Q: Why were you requested to do this? +A: As a token of my renouncing the wiles and evils of the world +and granted permission to worship at the Shrine. +Q: At what Shrine did you worship? +A: At the Shrine of Islam. +Q: Did you ride? +A: Yes, I rode a camel until I paused to dismount. +Q: Then what did you do with your camel? +A: I tied him. +Q: Where did you tie him? +A: I tied him to a date tree, where all True Shriners should do +so. +BOTH: Yes, I pulled the Cord, rode the hump, I have traversed +the hot arid sands of the desert to find Peace and rest in +the quiet shades of the Oasis.

+ +

Initiation

+ +

There are two sides to Freemason initiations -- one a +standardized, sedate ritual; the other a highly variable set of +hazing stunts. +Prospective Masons must apply of their own free will. +Masons may not recruit friends at least not in theory. Proposed +members are investigated by a committee of lodge members. This +is often just a formality but may include, for instance, a +credit report. The committee reports on the candidate at a +lodge meeting. Members then vote. +The ballot box is the Lauterer catalog uses white balls and +black cubes. (Losers are blackcubed, not blackballed.) If there +is a single negative vote, the ballot is declared foul. The +lodgemaster (who sees how each member voted) may try to +convince dissenting members to reconsider. A negative verdict +on the second ballot is final. +Successful candidates are invited to the lodge for +initiation. There are three basic degrees: Entered Apprentice, +Fellow Craft, and Master Mason. Each has its own ritual. +Entered Apprentice candidates begin by taking off their +clothes to prove their gender (women may not become Masons). In +practice, this means taking off the pants and any jacket. +Underwear and shirt are kept on, but the shirt is unbuttoned +and pulled down to bare the left arm, shoulder, and breast. +The candidate is hoodwinked (blindfolded). A cabletow +(rope) is placed around the neck. (The Lauterer catalog's +hoodwink is simply a standard, black satin half-face mask -- +without eyeholes -- secured with an elastic string. The +cabletow is a heavy blue rayon cord with tassels at both ends.) +Ideally, the cabletow is supposed to have four strands to +symbolize the four senses (they don't count touch). The +candidate is escorted to a room where three candles are +burning. One of the lodge members takes a mason's compass or +other sharp instrument and pricks the candidate's bared skin. +The candidate is instructed to recite a formula to the effect +that what he desires most is light. The other lodge members +remove his hoodwink and cabletow. Before the candidate are +three candles. He is told that the candles represent the sun, +the moon, and the master of the lodge. +The candidate gets a lecture on the symbolism of Masonry. +Visual aids are used (Lauterer sells a set of three lecture +charts and a set of 188 35-millimeter slides). He is given a +"lambskin," a white apron. Lauterer's lambskins are indeed +genuine lambskin, lined with cotton. They measure 13 inches by +15 inches or 14 inches by 16 inches. A triangular flap folds +down like the flap of an envelope. The lambskin is worn in +front, and a tie (tape or cord with tassels) fastens behind the +back. +A member of the lodge pretends to be a collector for a +needy cause and asks the candidate to donate. Lacking his +wallet, the candidate must refuse. The moral: Help the less +fortunate. Then the candidate is allowed to put his clothes +back on. He is taken before the master of the lodge. The master +tells him that he is now a Mason. The candidate is given the +working tools of the Apprentice, a twenty-four-inch gauge and a +gavel. +The second and third degrees follow a similar pattern. Both +repeat the business with the hoodwink and the cabletow. For the +Fellow Craft initiation, the right shoulder is bared, and the +cabletow is tied around the right biceps. In the Master Mason +initiation, the cabletow is wound around the body three times. +Each degree has its own lecture on symbolism. +Then there are the optional degrees. Their initiation +rituals take the form of short plays starring the candidate and +other lodge members. The playlets deal with incidents from the +mythic history of the Masons, such as the building of King +Solomon's Temple and the murder of Temple architect Hiram +Abiff. These initiations cost the candidate about $150 a pop, +so any thirty-second-degree Mason has dropped over $4000. Once +a Mason has completed the twenty-nine optional degrees of the +Scottish rite or the six optional degrees of the York rite, he +is eligible to become a Shriner -- which means still another +initiation. +Depending on the whim of the other lodge members, +initiations may include a set of burlesque tests to prove a +candidate's mettle. These blend sophomoric practical jokes, +soft S&M, an an electric carpet (the latter "just the item for +initiations," touts the Lauterer catalog, at $4.75 a square +foot; jump spark battery extra). Lauterer's INITIATION STUNTS +booklet describes over thirty tests judged suitable for +fraternal orders, of which the following is a sample. In all +cases, candidates are blindfolded. Here's how the Masons keep +out the wimps:

+ +

"Chewing the Rag" +A lodge member criticizes two candidates for speaking: "They +both talk too much and I fear they will someday betray the +secrets of our brotherhood." As a lesson, the candidates must +"chew the rag." The member says that he has a six-foot length +of string with a raisin tied in the middle. Each candidate gets +an end of the string. The member instructs the candidates to +chew the string from their respective ends: The one who gets +the raisin will be excused from "The Test of the Drowning Man." +They chew. The "raisin" is really a piece of candy coated with +Epsom salts. There is no "Test of the Drowning Man."

+ +

"Oriental Dance" +Lodge members strip a candidate and put a skirt on him. As +Oriental music is played, he is forced to dance on the electric +carpet. This is one of several uses of the carpet, all of which +are deemed more effective if the candidate does not know about +the carpet. The electric-shock sensation is not immediately +identifiable as such, or so the semiwarped reasoning goes. +Members may warn the blindfolded candidate to "step high" to +avoid burning desert sands, barbed wire, or snakebites.

+ +

"A Trip to the Moon" +A member raps his gavel and orders all to be seated. A second +member replies that there is no seat for himself and one of the +candidates. They are told to sit on the floor. They sit on a +spread blanket. As soon as the candidate is seated, the second +member steps off the blanket. The candidate is told to sing a +song. The lodge members protest his singing and demand that he +be punished. All quietly grab the ends of the blanket and toss +the candidate in the air.

+ +

"The Barber Shop" +A member feels a candidate's chin and calls for a barber. The +"barber" lathers the candidate, getting foam in his mouth. He +shaves him with what feels like a very, very rough blade. It's +a shingle. + +"Boxing Match" +Two candidates are selected for a boxing match. Belts are +strapped around their waists. A six-foot rope connects the +belts so that candidates do not wander blindly off. The boxers +are given gloves. Unknown to the candidates, a member also puts +on gloves and gives them occasional jabs from unexpected +directions.

+ +

"Tug-of-War" +Two candidates or groups of candidates play tug-of-war. An +unseen member sets the rope afire in the middle. It burns in +two, and all fall down -- on the electric carpet, if desired.

+ +

"The Thirst" +"This neophyte has asked for a drink of water," a member says. +Another member replies that there is no water. "Then we must +make water," says the first. Several members urinate in a bowl, +making sure that the candidate hears. "It is ready," says a +member. "Drink, and quench thy thirst." The candidate is handed +a bowlful of warm water and forced to drink it.

+ +

"Punkin Pie" +This is just a forced pie-eating race, with the candidates' +hands bound behind their backs. Other gustatory stunts involve +making the blindfolded candidates eat various non-and quasi-edible materials: INITIATION STUNTS suggests ginger ale +containing frankfurters and toilet-paper squares.

+ +

"The Shampoo" +A candidate is told that he must possess three essentials to be +a member: keen vision, a sensitive touch, and an acute sense of +smell. An egg is placed in his hand. "What is in your hand?" he +is asked. The candidate replies, "An egg." "Correct. Now to +test your sense of smell -- is it a good egg or a bad egg?" The +candidate answers. "We'll see if you are correct," the member +says. He crushes an empty eggshell on the candidate's head and +pours some water on it. He rubs the "egg" in @the candidate's +hair. Another member holds a bottle of ammonia or other evil-smelling substance under the candidate's nose. + +"The Trained Dog" +A candidate is told that he must meet Fido, the trained dog. An +authentic dog is brought in. "Fido snarls at neophytes and +sometimes bites them in the calf of the leg," a member warns. +Another pinches the candidate's leg. The dog is placed in the +candidate's lap. The initiation ceremony proceeds with another +candidate so that the first believes that attention has shifted +from him. A member sneaks up on the candidate with the dog and +trickles some warm water in his lap. He may also hold a smell +bottle under the candidate's nose. "Naughty Fido!" all scold. +A variation is the "Bung Hole Test," a standard feature of +Shriner initiations. No dog is required. Two blindfolded +candidates are directed to opposite ends of a barrel or large +metal cylinder lying on its side. They are told to crawl into +the barrel or cylinder. The candidates bump heads in the +middle. Outside, a lodge member yelps like a dog. Someone +sprinkles warm water on the candidates' faces through a hole. A +member yells, "Get that dog out of there! It just pissed in his +face.!"

+ +

"The Sacred Stone" +The candidate is told that a "sacred stone" is near his feet. +He must make a sign of deference by bending over and placing +his forehead as close to the ground as possible. When the +candidate bends over, a member paddles him with a paddle +containing an exploding cartridge. "The Little Rose" test is +the same thing, only the candidate is told to pick a flower.

+ +

"The North Pole" +Candidates are forced to climb a greased pole while members +paddle them. Afterward, a member hands a candidate a piece of +ice: "Here is your share of the North Pole. Hold on to it as +long as you can, and pass it on."

+ +

"Molten Lead Test" +A member warns the candidate that the next test may be +dangerous if not performed carefully. Proof of a candidate's +courage and faith in the order is required, the member +explains. "Is the lead good and hot?" he asks another member. +"Yes, red hot," he replies. "If you are not a coward, you must +plunge your hands into a caldron of red-hot molten lead," the +member tells the candidate. A large pot is set before the +candidate. It contains any reasonably humane substitution for +molten lead. If the candidate refuses to put his hands in the +pot, the others force him. + +

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The War On Privacy Hits You In The Pocket Book!

+ +

COPYRIGHT (C) 1991 BY FULL DISCLOSURE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

+ +

Why does the FBI and other select government agencies pay over $4000 for a +pocket tape recorder? One of the most important elements in an electronic +surveillance operation is the tape recorder. Whether hidden in one's pocket +or recording information from a wiretap or bug, the tape recorder can be the +key to success or failure.

+ +

The FBI had a need for a specialized recorder, so they contracted with the +U.S. subsidiary of a Swiss company, Nagra Magnetics, Inc. to design a +recorder that met their needs. The result being the Nagra JBR subminiature +recorder and PS-1 playback system.

+ +

When asked whether the unit was named after Jim B. Reames, an FBI employee +who helped design the recorder, a Nagra spokeswomen refused to say, but +pointed out that the initials were in fact the same.

+ +

The design and manufacture of the recorder has been so secret and important +to the FBI (and two other unnamed government agencies who are supposedly the +sole users of the recorder) that any public availability of information on +the recorder would "make the machine extinct,'' according to an employee of +Narga who refused to provide any details on the recorder in a telephone +interview.

+ +

It is also interesting to note that in the literature obtained by Full +Disclosure from the NATIA show, several of the companies made mention of +Narga tape recorders, but not the JBR model.

+ +

A freelance reporter who contacted Nagra in August, 1990, was informed that +someone from the Justice Department had just visited to express the +government's desire to keep the public ignorant about the JBR recorder.

+ +

Full Disclosure contacted Nagra on September 24, 1990 and was informed that +they received a letter from the Government "last week'' informing them that +they couldn't give out any information on the JBR recorder. Nagra refused to +disclose what agency sent the letter.

+ +

The company spokeswomen, also stated that they are not allowed to advertise +the unit anywhere, and if they did they would "lose all government +contracts.'' She further stated that they wanted to advertise it in +NLaw and Order and could not.

+ +

Marketing is done by word of mouth and narcotics trade shows, she said. This +seemed a little contrary to the first spokesman who said that there were only +three customers for the JBR recorder.

+ +

Full Disclosure's investigative reporting team, was able to obtain complete +specifications on both the recorder and playback unit.

+ +

Because of the secrecy around the recorder and its specifications, the unit +is sole-sourced from Nagra. Inevitability when a product is available from a +single source, there is no price competition.

+ +

The following public disclosure of the JBR specifications should serve two +purposes:

+ +

1) to open a competitive market for this type of recorder, and

+ +

2) to give the American public more information on the tools the government +uses to spy upon. Thereby increasing the public's ability to participate in +political process as it relates to oversight and domestic use of spy +technology.

+ +

@SUBHEAD = JBR RECORDER

+ +

"The recorder is stereophonic, with two totally independent channels. A +third central track records a reference signal of 5461 Hz. This signal is +used later on in the playback system as a reference, in order to correct for +speed variations.

+ +

"The recording speed is 15/16 ips. This speed is stabilized by an optical +encoder system. In order to save energy and to reduce radiation as much as +possible, no erasing head is provided. For basically the same reasons, and to +ensure that the tapes remain genuine, there is also no playback facility +provided on the recorder.

+ +

"Special Kudelski cassettes are used to provide two hours non stop recording +autonomy. A set of three "N'' size batteries are used allowing ten hours of +operation.

+ +

"Even though the detectablility is minimal, the bias frequency is of 32KHz +and has thus the same radiation as a quartz watch. The recorder weight is +less than 200 grams, includes its cassette and batteries, and is really +pocket size with cover: 110.2 x 62.6 x 20.8 mm (4.34: x 2.46" x 0.82"). +Miniature microphone and remote controls are available with different length +cables.

+ +

So-called tape recorder detectors normally detect the presence of the "bias +oscillator'' in tape recorders. By using a non-standard and one that is also +commonly used by other common devices makes detection by such a means more +difficult.

+ +

@SUBHEAD = JBR Specifications:

+ +

SIZE (L x W x H): 110.2 x 62.6 x 20.8mm, with cover: 4.34" x 2.46" x 0.82"

+ +

with cover & plugs: 110.2 x 64.3 x 20.8mm / 4.34" x 2.53" x 0.82"

+ +

Weight: Recorder with cover: 143 g, Cassette with 2 hr tape: 22 g, Batteries, +3 pcs: 29 g, Microphones including 4' cable, 2 pcs: 30 g, Remote control, 3' +cable:18 g. Total weight: 242 g.

+ +

Environment: Operating position: Any, Temperature: 0 C to 40 C (32 F to +104F). Humidity: 20% to 95% non-condensing.

+ +

Power Supply: Supply voltage: 2.7 to 5V DC, nominal 4.5 V. "Batt OK'' +indicator threshold: 3.4V. Battery standard type: ASA ''N'', ANSI "L20'', +IEC "LR1''. Current consumption - start of tape: 40mA typical, - end of +tape: 50ma typical.

+ +

TAPE: Tape transport: without capstan, constant speed. Tape type: chromium +dioxide in special JBR cassette. Tape width: 3.81 mm (0.150"). Tape Thickness +(total): 9u (0.35mil) 120 min. 12u (0.48mil) 90 min. Max recording time: 2 +hours. Audio tracks: 1.20mm x 2. Control tract (center): 0.40 mm. Track +spacing: 0.50 mm. Nominal tape speed: 2.38 cm/s (15/16ips). Tape speed +accuracy: better than +/- 2%. Wow and flutter: typ. 2.5% peak-to-peak, NAB (= +DIN 45507) weighted. Start time: less than 4 seconds

+ +

Inputs: 2 microphone inputs. Maximum input level: 60 mV RMS. Audio indicator +threshold: 30 mV RMS input -3 dB on tape. Input impedance: 80 K. Microphone +sensitivity: 10 mV/PA (1 Pa=10 ubar). Maximum SPL: 110 dB (0 dB SPL = 20 +uPa). Signal to noise ratio, unexpanded: better than 51 dB ASA A weighted. +Frequency response: 170 Hz to 4.5 kHz +/- 3dB. Total harmonic distortion: +less than 3%. Compression ratio: 2:1 in dB. Compressor operating range: 80 dB

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REFLECTIONS ON NATIONAL SERVICE

+ +

By JACOB G. HORNBERGER

+ +

National service looms as one of the most dangerous threats to +the American people in our 200-year history. Previously +advocated only by liberals, national service is now also +embraced by many on the conservative side of the political +spectrum, as evidenced by the recent book, Gratitude, by +America's foremost conservative, William F. Buckley, Jr.

+ +

The versions of national service are many and varied. Most of +them are directed to the youth of America. They range from +universal conscription to more "benign" forms of coercion +advocated by Mr. Buckley. But all of them have at their core +one essential principle: that the state, rather than being a +servant of the people, is their master; and as their master, +has the power to force the citizenry, either directly or +indirectly, to serve others.

+ +

National service violates every principle of individual +liberty and limited government on which this nation was +founded. As John Locke and Thomas Jefferson emphasized, life, +liberty, property, and conscience are not privileges bestowed +on us by governmental officials; they are natural, God-given +rights with which no public official can legitimately +interfere. We are not brought into the world to serve the +state; the state is brought into existence by the people to +serve us through the protection of our natural, God-given +rights.

+ +

We should also never forget that the American people of our +time have chosen an economic system which is alien to that +which our American ancestors chose. Although there are those +who honestly believe that the welfare state, planned economy +way of life is simply an evolution of the original principles +on which America was founded, they operate under a severe +delusion. Although there were numerous exceptions (slavery and +tariffs being the most notable), there is no doubt that our +American ancestors clearly and unequivocally rejected the +morality and philosophy of the welfare state, planned economy +way of life.

+ +

The advocates of national service, liberals and conservatives +alike, would force Americans to serve a system which our +ancestors knew would be evil, immoral, and tyrannical. The +welfare state, like all other socialist systems, plunders the +wealth and savings of those who have in order to redistribute +the loot, through the political process, to others. It +violates one of the most sacred commandments of our God: Thou +shalt not steal. And the planned economy, through its +thousands of rules and regulations interfering with peaceful +human choices, denigrates one of God's most sacred gifts to +human beings--the great gift of free will.

+ +

Recognizing that the ardent wish of the advocates of national +service is to require Americans to join them in the support of +this political evil and immorality, let us examine some of the +opportunities for "service" in our present-day economic +system. Perhaps a youth can "volunteer" his services to the +Internal Revenue Service and thereby help to destroy more +American lives through terror and confiscation. Or perhaps a +better opportunity would be to help run the concentration +centers on the American side of the United States-Mexican +border--where good and honorable people from the Republic of +Mexico are incarcerated for committing the heinous, American +"crime" of trying to sustain and improve their lives through +labor. Or how about simply being an enforcer of minimum-wage +laws, thereby helping to condemn black teenagers in Harlem to +lives of misery and impoverishment. Or perhaps a "volunteer" +can be one of the thousands who are responsible for injecting +the narcotic of welfare into the veins of so many thousands of +our fellow citizens.

+ +

One of the standard complaints about our present-day political +system, of course, is that not enough "good" people hold +public office. The suggestion is that if "better" people were +in public office, socialism in America could finally be made +to work well. But lost in all of this is that only a certain +type of person is attracted to participation in a government +which has overwhelming power over the lives and fortunes of +others--the person who has an uncontrollable urge to wield +such power--the person who has yet to learn the final lesson +in the evolution of man: that true power lies not in +controlling the lives of others; true power lies in the +conquest of one's own self.

+ +

What about these individuals, then, who have no desire to +govern the lives of others or who have overcome such a desire? +They avoid like the plague any participation in such a +government. Is this a bad thing? On the contrary! When a +government is engaged in evil, immorality, and tyranny, the +only rightful place for the person of conscience is outside of +that government.

+ +

But the proponents of national service would require or +"encourage" all Americans, like it or not, to participate in +the evil and immorality of the welfare state, planned economy +way of life.

+ +

Perhaps the most tragic aspect of national service is that it +is advocated by many Christians. Christians know that God +loved man so much that He entrusted us with a tremendously +wide ambit of freedom--so much so that we are even able to +deny Him and our neighbor if we so choose. In other words, +while God tells us that the two great commandments are to love +Him and to love our neighbor, never does He force us to comply +with these commandments. He leaves the choices with us but +with the understanding that we must ultimately bear the +consequences of those choices.

+ +

But the advocates of national service believe that God made a +mistake when He entrusted man with so much freedom. And so +they wish to correct the "error" by using the coercive power +of Caesar to ensure that man serves his fellow man whether he +wants to or not. They block out of their minds that God +neither needs nor wants this type of "help" and that, in fact, +by interfering with God's peaceful methods--love, charity, +forgiveness, acceptance, the cross--they actually place their +own souls in jeopardy.

+ +

Two hundred years ago, our American ancestors instituted the +most unusual political-economic system in the history of man. +With exceptions, government's primary purpose was to protect +the right of each individual to live his life and to dispose +of his wealth as he saw fit. While this strange way of life +guaranteed that people could accumulate unlimited amounts of +wealth, it did not guarantee what people would do with that +wealth. Freedom was more important to these people than the +outcome of freedom. And, ironically, the result was not only +the most prosperous nation in history but also the most +charitable nation in history!

+ +

Advocates of national service say that we should be grateful +to our Founding Fathers for establishing a free society. But +they want us to "repay the debt" to these deceased advocates +of liberty by participating in the destruction of the freedom +which they achieved. Apparently, it is not sufficient that my +generation, as well as the next, have been saddled by previous +generations with a very real, financial, political debt that +ultimately must be paid. And apparently, it is not sufficient +that we are currently required to work for the first half of +each year just to maintain the huge, welfare-state bureaucracy +which previous generations foisted on later generations. No, +apparently this is not sufficient. We are told that we must +also deliver now up our children to the state so that they can +prepare for their lives of permanent, partial enslavement +through temporary, total enslavement.

+ +

As our Founding Fathers taught us, service to one's country +sometimes entails opposition to one's government. We often +forget that those who signed the Declaration of Independence +were not American citizens. They were as British as any +British citizen today. And they were viewed as unpatriotic by +many of their fellow citizens, even those in the colonies, +because they refused to serve and support their government. In +fact, it has been estimated that one-third of the colonists +sided with their government--the British government--during +the Revolution and that another third stayed neutral during +the conflict.

+ +

How many present-day Americans would have signed the +Declaration of Independence? Would you have signed it? +Remember--by signing that document, you would have placed at +risk your life, savings, home, and family. And you would have +been branded a traitor by your own public officials, and by +many of your friends and neighbors, for refusing to support +your government. And if you had lost the struggle, you would +have died a nameless "extremist" rather than as one of the +greatest patriots of all time.

+ +

The unhappy truth is that most present-day Americans would not +have served their country by standing against their government +in 1776. Having served the mandatory 12-year sentence in +government-approved schools learning government-approved +doctrine, and having been required to pledge allegiance +thousands upon thousands of times, most Americans today +honestly believe that support of their country is synonymous +with support of their government. And the best proof of this +is their willingness to approve, support, and serve a tax and +regulatory tyranny that makes what King George III was doing +to his citizens look like child's play.

+ +

Although ours is a peaceful war of ideas, it is the most +important war ever in the history of man. And no one can avoid +being a part of it. It finds Americans today divided into +three camps: those who wish to expand the welfare state, those +who wish to conserve it, and those who wish to end it. It is +true that those of us who are fighting to end the evil and +immorality are a very small minority who are facing the vast +majority of our fellow citizens who wish either to expand or +conserve it. But we must remain determined and optimistic. +For our American ancestors showed us that minorities who are +in the right can prevail over majorities who are in the wrong. +Time will tell whether those of us who served our nation by +resisting the tyranny of our government will prevail over +those who would have us support the tyranny through national +service and other such schemes.

+ +

Mr. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of +Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209.

+ +

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The following are excerpts from original Nazi documents, relating +directly to the extermination of Jews and others which was carried +out by the Nazis during WW2. The purpose of this collection is both +to present such documents in an easily accessible form, and to +point out more complete references.

+ +

Naturally, in preparing a collection like this, one has to decide +which documents to use; the amount of material is enormous. I have +tried to choose a small set of representative ones, which touch +as many aspects as possible. Many of these documents are very long, +so I have restricted myself to short excerpts.

+ +

My remarks are inside square [...] brackets.

+ +

-Daniel Keren (dk@lems.brown.edu).

+ +

The organization of this collection is as follows:

+ +

1) STATMENTS BY LEADING NAZIS +2) GAS CHAMBERS AND GASSING VANS (See also "AUSCHWITZ") +3) DOCUMENTS ABOUT MASS MURDER (see also the "Jager Report", +in the "MISC" topic). +4) THE EXTERMINATION OF THE INSANE +5) MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS I: MASS STERILIZATION +6) MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS II: FREEZING, LOW PRESSURE AND OTHERS +7) THE ECONOMIC PLUNDER +8) AUSCHWITZ +9) KRISTALLNACHT +10) VERDICT OF SS-COURT +11) MISC - includes the following: +a. Prosecution of a Jewish woman for selling her mother milk +to feed German babies. +b. Some of the court proceedings from a case in which the death +sentence was imposed on a Jew for allegedly having sex with +a German woman. +c. Various excerpts from anti-semitic publications (mostly, +"Der Stuermer"). +d. Letter about transporting to Germany "racially valuable +children" whose parents were slain by the Nazis. +e. Order to hang any Pole who has sex with a German woman. +f. Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler describing Russians and Slavs as +"human animals" to be used for work. +g. German plans for plundering Poland. +h. Order by Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler to kill and destroy +everything in Nazi occupied Ukraine before evacuating it. +i. A long and very detailed report about mass executions in +the Nazi occupied Baltics (the "Jager report").

+ +

STATMENTS BY LEADING NAZIS +**************************

+ +

Speech by Hitler, January 31, 1939 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol XIII, p. 131] +--------------------------------------------------------------- +Today I will once more be a prophet: If the international Jewish financiers +in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into +a world war, then the result will not be the bolshevization of the earth, +and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in +Europe!

+ +

Adolph Hitler speaking to a crowd at the Sports Palace in Berlin, +30 January 1942. Quoted in "The Holocaust", by Martin Gilbert, +Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NY, 1985, p. 285. Text as monitored by the +Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Service, Federal Communications Commission. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +And we say that the war will not end as the Jews imagine it +will, namely with the uprooting of the Aryans, but the result of +this war will be the complete annihilation of the Jews.

+ +

Excerpts from the meeting between Hitler and the Mufti, +Haj Amin Husseini, on 28 November 1941. The notes were taken by +Dr. Paul Otto Schmidt and are quoted in Fleming's "Hitler and the +Final Solution", p. 101-104. Also geheime Reichssache 57 a/41, Records +Dept. Foreign and Commonwealth Office Pa/2. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +The Fuehrer then made the following declaration, requesting +the Mufti to lock it deep in his heart:

+ +

1) He (the Fuehrer) would carry on the fight until the last +traces of the Jewish-Communist European hegemony had been +obliterated.

+ +

2) In the course of this fight, the German army would - at a +time that could not yet be specified, but in any case in +the clearly foreseeable future - gain the southern exit of +Caucasus.

+ +

3) As soon as this breakthrough was made, the Fuehrer would +offer the Arab world his personal assurance that the hour +of liberation had struck. Thereafter, Germany's only +remaining objective in the region would be limited to the +annihilation of the Jews living under British protection +in Arab lands.

+ +

Adolf Hitler, quoted in "Hitler", by Joachim Fest, Vintage +Books Edition, 1974, p. 679-680: +--------------------------------------------------------------- +Nature is cruel; therefore we are also entitled to be cruel. When I +send the flower of German youth into the steel hail of the next war +without feeling the slightest regret over the precious German blood +that is being spilled, should I not also have the right to eliminate +millions of an inferior race that multiplies like vermin?

+ +

Speechs by Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler before senior SS officers in Poznan, +October 4 and 6, 1943 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. XIII, p. 323, and +Himmler, Reichsfuehrer-SS - P. Padfield, Henry Holt and Co, NY, 1990, +p. 469] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +I mean the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish +race. It's one of those things it is easy to talk about, "the Jewish +race is being exterminated", says one party member, "that's quite +clear, it's in our program, elimination of the Jews, and we're doing +it, exterminating them". And then they come, 80 million worthy +Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. Of course the others are +vermin, but this one is an A-1 Jew. Not one of those who talk this way +has watched it, not one of them has gone through it. Most of you know +what it means when 100 corpses are lying side by side, or 500, or +1000. To have stuck it out and at the same time - apart from +exceptions caused by human weakness - to have remained decent fellows, +that is what has made us hard. This is a page of glory in our history +which has never been written and is never to be written.

+ +

I ask of you that what I say in this circle you really only hear and +never speak of. We come to the question: how is it with the women and +the children? I have resolved even here on a completely clear +solution. That is to say I do not consider myself justified in +eradicating the men - so to speak killing or ordering them killed - +and allowing the avengers in the shape of the children to grow up for +our sons and grandsons. The difficult decision has to be taken, to +cause this Volk [people] to disappear from the earth.

+ +

[This speech was recorded; the magnetic tapes are in the national +archives in Washington, DC]

+ +

+Speech by Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler at Kharkow, April 1943 +[Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946, Vol. IV, p. 572-574] +---------------------------------------------------------- +We have - I would say, as very consistent National Socialists, +taken the question of blood as our starting point. We were the +first really to solve the problem of blood by action, and in +this connection, by problem of blood, we of course do not +mean antisemitism. Antisemitism is exactly the same as delousing. +Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology. It is a +matter of cleanliness.

+ +

The Goebbels [Reich propaganda Minister] Diaries, February 14 1942 +[The Goebbels Diaries 1942-1943 - L.P. Lochner, Doubleday & Co., 1948, +p. 86] +---------------------------------------------------------------- +World Jewry will suffer a great catastrophe at the same time as +Bolshevism. The Fuehrer once more expressed his determination to +clean up the Jews in Europe pitilessly. There must be no squeamish +sentimentalism about it. The Jews have deserved the catastrophe that +has now overtaken them. Their destruction will now go hand in hand +with the destruction of our enemies. We must hasten this process +with cold ruthlessness.

+ +

The Goebbels [Reich propaganda Minister] diaries, March 27, 1942: +[The Goebbels Diaries 1942-1943 - L.P. Lochner, Doubleday & Co., 1948, +p. 147-148] +----------------------------------------------------------- +Beginning with Lublin, the Jews in the General Government +[Nazi occupied Poland] are now being evacuated eastward. The procedure +is a pretty barbaric one and not to be described here more definitely. +Not much will remain of the Jews. On the whole it can be said that about +60 per cent of them will have to be liquidated whereas only 40 per cent +can be used for forced labor.

+ +

Speech by Frank [Governor of occupied Poland], to German soldiers +in Poland, urging them to write home +[Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946, Vol. II, p. 633-634] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +In all these weeks, they [i.e., your families] will be thinking +of you, saying to themselves: my God, there he sits in +Poland where there are so many lice and Jews, perhaps he is +hungry and cold, perhaps he is afraid to write. +It would not be a bad idea to send our dear ones back home a +picture, and tell them: well now, there are not so many +lice and Jews any more, and conditions here in the General +Government have changed and improved somewhat already. Of +course, I could not eliminate all lice and Jews in only one +year's time. But in the course of time, and above all, if you +help me, this end will be attained. After all, it is not +necessary for us to accomplish everything within a year and +right away, for what would otherwise be left for those who +follow us to do?

+ +

Speech by Frank [Governor of occupied Poland], December 16 1941 +[Documents on the Holocaust - Edited by Y. Arad, Y. Gutman, A. Margaliot, +NY, Ktav Pub. House in Association with Yad-Vashem, 1981, p. 247, Nazi +Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946 Vol. II p. 634] +--------------------------------------------------------------- +One way or another -- I will tell you quite openly -- we must finish +off the Jews. The Fuehrer put it into words once: should united Jewry +again succeed in setting off a world war, then the blood sacrifice +shall not be made only by the peoples driven into war, but then the +Jew of Europe will have met his end....

+ +

But what should be done with the Jews? Can you believe that they will +be accommodated in settlements in the Ostland? In Berlin we were told: +why are you making all this trouble? We don't want them either, not in +Ostland nor in the Reichskommissariat; liquidate them yourselves! +Gentlemen, I must ask you to steel yourselves against all +considerations of compassion. We must destroy the Jews wherever we +find them, and wherever it is at all possible, in order to maintain +the whole structure of the Reich...

+ +

The Jews represent for us also extraordinary malignant gluttons. We +have now approximately 2500000 of them in the General Government +[Nazi occupied Poland], perhaps with the Jewish mixtures and +everything that goes with it, 3500000 Jews. We cannot shoot or +poison those 3500000 Jews, but we shall nevertheless be able to take +measures which will lead somehow to their annihilation, and this in +connection with the gigantic measures to be determined in discussions +with the Reich.

+ +

Letter from Hoppner, higher SS and Police leader in the Warthegau, to +SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Eichmann, July 16 1941 +[Documents of Destruction - R. Hilberg, Quadrangle Books, Chicago, 1971, p. 87] +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Enclosed is a memorandum on the results of various discussions held +locally in the office of the Reich Governor...

+ +

Subject: Solution of the Jewish question +. +.

+ +

4) This winter there is a danger that not all of the Jews can be fed +anymore. One might weigh honestly, if the most humane solution +might not be to finish off those of the Jews who are not employable +by means of some quick-working device. At any rate, that would be +more pleasant than to let them starve to death. +5) For the rest, the proposal was made that in this camp all the Jewish +women, from whom one could still expect children, should be +sterilized so that the Jewish problem may actually be solved +completely with this generation.

+ +

Extracts from the minutes of the Wannsee conference, January 20 +1942, regarding the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. XIII, p. 210-216] +--------------------------------------------------------------- +. +. +II. At the beginning of the meeting the Chief of the Security +Police and the SD, SS Lieutenant General Heydrich, reported his +appointment by the Reich Marshal [Goering] to service as +Commissioner for the preparation of the Final Solution of the +European Jewish Problem....

+ +

In the course of this final solution of the European Jewish +Problem, approximately 11 million Jews are involved. They are +distributed among individual countries as follows:

+ +

A. Original Reich Territory [Altreich] 131800 +Austria 43700 +Eastern territories 420000 +Government General [Nazi occupied Poland] 2284000 +. +. +. +The Netherlands 160800 +. +. +Rumania, including Bessarabia 342000 +. +. +Hungary 742800 +USSR 5000000 +. +. +White Russia, excluding Bialystok 446484

+ +

[Many countries deleted for brevity]

+ +

TOTAL over 11000000 +. +.

+ +

Under proper direction the Jews should now in the course of the +Final Solution be brought to the East in a suitable way for use +as labor. In big labor gangs, with separation of the sexes, the +Jews capable of work are brought to these areas and employed in +road building, in which task undoubtedly a great part will fall +out through natural diminution.

+ +

The remnant that finally is able to survive all this - since this +is undoubtedly the part with the strongest resistance - must +be treated accordingly since these people, representing a natural +selection, are to be regarded as the germ cell of a new Jewish +development. (See the experience of history).

+ +

In the program of the practical execution of the Final Solution, +Europe is combed through from the West to the East... +. +. +In the course of the final solution plans, the Nuernberg laws +are in a certain degree to form the basis, and accordingly the +complete settlement of the problem is to include also the +solution of the mixed marriage and the Mischling [people partly +of Jewish descent]...

+ +

The first degree Mischling excepted from the evacuation is to +be sterilized in order to prevent any offspring and to settle +the Mischling problem once and for all...

+ +

Excerpted from a memorandum dated 27 April, 1942 by Dr. Erhard +Wetzel (a lawyer), who was serving as desk officer in the Reich +Ministry for the Eastern Territories +["Nazism: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts, 1919-1945", +Volume II, J.Noakes and G.Pridham, editors. Schocken Books, New York, +(c)1988 by the Dept. of History and Archeology, University of Exeter. +ISBN 0-8053-0973-5 (vol. 1), 0-8052-0972-7 (vol. 2). Document #690 on +p.979] +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +Re: the Solution of the Polish Question

+ +

...It should be obvious that one cannot solve the Polish problem by +liquidating the Poles in the same way as the Jews. Such a solution +to the Polish problem would burden the German people with guilt for +years to come and lose us the sympathies of people everywhere, +particularly since our neighbors would be bound to reckon that +they would be treated in the same way when the time came.

+ +

A letter to Rosenberg enclosing reports from Generalkommisar for +white Russia, Kube, about the extermination of Jews in the east, +June 18 1943 +[Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946, Vol I, p. 1001] +------------------------------------------------------------------ +...The fact that Jews receive special treatment requires no further +discussion. However, it appears hardly believable that this is done +in the way described in the report of the General Commissioner of +1 June 1943. What is Katyn against that? Imagine only that these +occurrences would become known to the other side and exploited by them! +Most likely such propaganda would have no effect only because +people who hear who hear and read about it simply would not be ready +to believe it.

+ +

["Special treatment" and "resettlement" mean extermination, as is +obvious from many such documents; consider, for instance, the +following]

+ +

Memorandum of Gestapo Headquarters, 15 June 1944 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. IV, p. 1166] +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +In amending my directive of June 20 1944, I request that those people +subject to special treatment be sent to a crematorium to be cremated +if possible.

+ +

GAS CHAMBERS AND GASSING VANS (See also "AUSCHWITZ") +****************************************************

+ +

Letter from Dr. Erhard Wetzel to Reichskommissar Lohse, October 25, 1941 +[Hitler and the Final Solution - G. Fleming, University of California +Press, 1984, p. 70] +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +With regard to my letter of 18 October 1941, please be informed that +Oberdiensleiter [Chief Executive Officer] Brack from the Fuehrer's +Chancellory has stated his readiness to assist in the construction of +the necessary accommodations and gassing apparatuses, so they must +first be constructed. Brack's view is that, since construction of the +apparatuses within the Reich would present far greater difficulties +than on-site production, the most expedient course of action is to +send his people directly to Riga, in particular his chemist Dr. +Kallmeyer, who will take the necessary steps from there. +Oberdiensleiter Brack further points out that the procedure in +question is not without its hazards, and that therefore special safety +precautions are needed. Under these circumstances, I ask you to +contact Oberdiensleiter Brack in the Fuehrer's Chancellory through +your higher SS and Police leader. Please request from him the +dispatching of the chemist Dr. Kallmeyer and any further assistants +that are needed. I might further point out that Sturmbannfuehrer +Eichmann, the adviser on Jewish affairs in the Reich main security +office, is in complete accord with this procedure. According to the +information received here from Sturmbannfuehrer Eichmann, camps for +Jews will be set up in Riga and Minsk, where Jews from the Altreich +[Germany proper] might also be sent. Jews are currently being +evacuated from the Altreich to Lodz and other camps, from which those +fit for work will be transferred to work forces in the east. Given the +present situation, Jews who are not fit for work can be eliminated +without qualms through use of the Brack device. Incidents such as +those that took place during the shootings of Jews in Vilna, according +to a report I have on my desk, can hardly be sanctioned, keeping in +mind that the executions were undertaken openly, and the new +procedures assure that such incidents will no longer be possible. Jews +fit for work, on the other hand, will be transported to work forces in +the east. That the men and women in this latter group must be kept +apart from each other goes without saying. Please keep me informed as +to any further measures you take.

+ +

Letter from Dr August Becker to SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Rauff, 16 May 1942 +[Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946, Vol III, p. 418] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +I ordered the vans of group D to be camouflaged as house trailers by +putting one set of window shutters on each side of the small van and +two on each side of the large vans, such as one often sees on farm +houses in the country. The vans became so well known, that not only +the authorities but also the civilian population called the van "death +van", as soon as one of these vehicles appeared. It is my opinion the +van cannot be kept secret for any length of time, not even +camouflaged...

+ +

Besides that, I ordered that during application of gas all the men +were to be kept as far away from the vans as possible, so they should +not suffer damage to their health by the gas which eventually would +escape. I should like to take this opportunity to bring the following +to your attention: several commands have had the unloading after the +application of gas done by their own men. I brought to the attention +of those S.K [Special Kommando] concerned the immense psychological +injuries and damages involved to their health that this work can have +for those men, even if not immediately, at least later on. The men +complained to me about head-aches which appeared after each unloading. +Nevertheless they don't want to change the orders, because they are +afraid prisoners called for that work could use an opportune moment to +flee. To protect the men from these damages, I request orders to be +issued accordingly.

+ +

The application of the gas is not undertaken correctly. In order to +come to an end as fast as possible, the driver presses the accelerator +to the fullest extent. By doing that the persons to be executed suffer +death from suffocation and not death by dozing off as was planned. My +directions have now proved that by correct adjustment of the levers +death comes faster and the prisoners fall asleep peacefully. Distorted +faces and excretions, such as could be seen before, are no longer +noticed.

+ +

Letter from Willy Just to SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Walter Rauff, 5 June 1942 +["Nazism: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts, 1919-1945", +Volume II, J.Noakes and G.Pridham, editors. Schocken Books, New York, +(c)1988 by the Dept. of History and Archeology, University of Exeter. +ISBN 0-8053-0973-5 (vol. 1), 0-8052-0972-7 (vol. 2). Document #913]

+ +

["Nazism: A History in Documents and Eye Witness Accounts, 191-1945" vol. 2, +document 913] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +RE: Technical alterations to the special vehicles already in operation +and those in production.

+ +

Since December 1941, for example, 97000 have been processed using +three vans without any faults developing in the vehicles. The +well-known explosion in Kulmhof (Chelmno) must be treated as a special +case. It was caused by faulty practice. Special instructions have been +given to the relevant offices in order to avoid such accidents. The +instructions were such as to ensure a considerable increase in the +degree of security.

+ +

Further operational experience hitherto indicates that the following +technical alterations are appropriate....

+ +

2) The vans are normally loaded with 9-10 people per square meter. +With the large Saurer special vans this is not possible because +although they do not become overloaded their maneuverability is much +impaired. A reduction in the load area appears desirable. It can be +achieved by reducing the size of the van by c. 1 meter. The difficulty +referred to cannot be overcome by reducing the size of the load. For a +reduction in the numbers will necessitate a longer period of operation +because the free spaces will have to be filled with CO. By contrast, a +smaller load area which is completely full requires a much sorter +period of operation since there are no free spaces.....

+ +

3) The connecting hoses between the exhaust and the van frequently +rust through because they are corroded inside by the liquids which +fall on them. To prevent this the connecting piece must be moved so +that the gas is fed from the top downwards. This will prevent liquids +flowing in.....

+ +

6) The lighting must be better protected against damage than +hitherto....It has been suggested that lighting should be dispensed +with since they are allegedly never used. However, experience shows +that when the rear door is closed and therefore when it becomes dark, +the cargo presses hard towards the door....It makes it difficult to +latch the door. Furthermore, it has been observed that the noise +always begins when the doors are shut presumably because of fear +brought on by the darkness.

+ +

Letter from SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer Truehe to Reich security office, room 2D3A +[Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946, Vol. I, p. 1001] +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +A transport of Jews, which has to be treated in a special way, arrives +weekly at the office of the commandant of the Security Police and the +Security Service of white Ruthenia. The three S-vans which are there +are not sufficient for that purpose. I request assignment of another +S-van (five tons). At the same time I request the shipment of twenty +gas hoses for the three S-vans on hand since the ones on hand are leaky +already.

+ +

DOCUMENTS ABOUT MASS MURDER (See also "THE JAGER REPORT", in "MISC") +************************************************************************

+ +

Regulations for the chief of the Security Police and of the +Security service, 17 July 1941 +[Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946, Vol. III, p. 422-425] +------------------------------------------------------------- +...By use of such informers and by use of all other existing +possibilities, the discovery of all elements to be eliminated +among the prisoners, must succeed step by step at once. The +commandos must learn for themselves, in every case, by short +questioning of the informers and eventual questioning of other +prisoners.

+ +

The information of one informer is nor sufficient to designate +a camp inmate to be a suspect, without further proof; it must +be confirmed in some way if possible.

+ +

Above all, the following must be discovered:

+ +

All important functionaries of state and party, especially +professional revolutionaries.

+ +

Functionaries of the Komintren.

+ +

All policy forming party functionaries of the KPDSU and its fellow +organizations in the central committees, in the regional and +district committees.

+ +

All Peoples-Commissars and their deputies.

+ +

All former Political Commissars in the Red Army.

+ +

Leading personalities of the state authorities of central and +middle regions.

+ +

The leading personalities in the business world.

+ +

Members of the Soviet-Russian intelligence.

+ +

All Jews.

+ +

All persons, who are found to be agitators of fanatical communists.

+ +

Letter from Generalkommisar for white Russia, Kube, to Reichkommisar +for the Ostland, Lohse, 31 July 1942 +['The Good Old Days' - E. Klee, W. Dressen, V. Riess, The Free Press, +NY, 1988, p. 180-181] +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +During the course of extensive discussions with SS-Brigadefuehrer Zenner +and the very competent Leiter of the SD, SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Dr. +Strauch, it was established that we have liquidated about 55000 Jews +in the past ten weeks...

+ +

Naturally the SD and I would prefer to eliminate the Jews in the +Generalbezirk of white Russia once and for all as soon as the Jews +are no longer needed by the Wehrmacht for economic reasons. For the time +being, the Wehrmacht's requirements, as the principle employer of +Jewish labor, are being taken into account.

+ +

Report No. 51 of Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler to Hitler about mass +executions in the east, 1942 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. XIII, p. 269-272] +---------------------------------------------------------------- +August September October November

+ +

Prisoners executed +after interrogation 2100 1400 1596 2731 +. +. +Accomplices of guerrilla and +guerrilla suspects executed 1198 3020 6333 3706 +. +. +Jews executed 31246 165282 95735 70948 +. +. +Villages and localities +Burned down or destroyed 35 12 20 92

+ +

Letter from SS Major-General Stahlecker to SS General Heydrich, +January 31, 1942 +[The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe, +1939-1945 - G. Reitlinger, South Brunswick, T. Yosellof, 1968, p. 233] +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +The complete removal of Jewry from the eastern territories has been +substantially attained, with the exception of white Russia, as a result +of the execution up to the present time of 229052 Jews.

+ +

Daily situation report of the Einsatzgruppen (special task forces) +in Russia, No. 124, October 25th, 1941 +[The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe, +1939-1945 - G. Reitlinger, South Brunswick, T. Yosellof, 1968, p. 133] +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +A second action consisted in applying special treatment to 812 +men and women, all persons without interest from the racial and +intellectual point of view.

+ +

Order by Reichskommissar Lohse to halt the killing of Jewish skilled +workers, December 2 1941 +[Documents on the Holocaust - Edited by Y. Arad, Y. Gutman, A. Margaliot, +NY, Ktav Pub. House in Association with Yad-Vashem, 1981, p. 396] +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +Reichskommissar for Ostland Riga, December 2 1941 +IIa diary No. 220/41g

+ +

The Chief Quartermaster (Chiefintendant) of the Wehrmacht Command in +Ostland has lodged a complaint that armament plants and repair +workshops have been deprived of Jewish skilled workers through +their liquidation, and that they cannot be replaced there at the +present time.

+ +

I request most emphatically that the liquidation of Jews employed +as skilled workers in armament plants and repair workshops of the +Wehrmacht who cannot be replaced by local personnel be prevented.

+ +

Ereignismeldung UdSSR, No. 101, October 2 1941 +['The Good Old Days' - E. Klee, W. Dressen, V. Riess, The Free Press, +NY, 1988, p. 67] +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Einsatzgruppen C +Standort Kiev

+ +

In collaboration with the group staff and two Kommandos of Police +Regiment South, on 29 and 30 September 1941, Sonderkommando 4a +executed 33771 Jews in Kiev.

+ +

Ereignismlrdung UdSSR, No. 128, November 3 1941 +['The Good Old Days' - E. Klee, W. Dressen, V. Riess, The Free Press, +NY, 1988, p. 68] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +In Kiev, difficulties that arose during the execution of a major action +of this type - particularly with regard to registration - were overcome +by the use of posters announcing that all Jews were to report for +resettlement. Although it was initially thought that the action would +only involve 5000 to 6000 Jews, more than 30000 Jews reported, who +as a result of extremely efficient organization still believed they +were going to be resettled right up until the time they were executed.

+ +

Despite that fact that up to now a total of some 75000 Jews have been +liquidated in this way, it has nevertheless become apparent that this +method will not provide a solution to the Jewish problem.

+ +

Report from chief of Security Police and SD, June 17 1942 +[Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946, Supplement A, p. 661] +------------------------------------------------------------ +The Jews in the Crimea. +. +. +Already in 1939, out of 65000 Jews in the Crimea, 44000 (that +is almost 70 percent) live in the cities of Simferopol, Sevastopol, +Kertch, Jewpatoria, Yalta, and Feodosia alone... +. +. +Of the Krimtschaks (approx. 6000) who were generally counted to +be Jews, about half lived for the greater part in Simferopol +(2500) and in Karasubarsar. Their annihilation together with +that of the real Jews and the Gypsies in the Crimea took part +place essentially until the beginning of December 1941.

+ +

Weekly report from Frank's [Governor of occupied Poland] propaganda +department, October 26, 1942 +[The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe, +1939-1945 - G. Reitlinger, South Brunswick, T. Yosellof, 1968, p. 283] +--------------------------------------------------------------- +The resettlement of Jews (which partly assumes forms not worthy of +a cultured people) directly provokes comparison of the methods of +the Gestapo with those of the GPU. The railway wagons are said to +be in such a bad state that it is impossible to prevent Jews breaking +out. The result is that at wayside stations there occur wild shootings +and regular man-hunts. It is also reported that corpses of shot Jews +lie on the streets for days. Although the Reich Germans, as well as +the foreign population, are convinced of the necessity of liquidating +all Jews, it would still be more appropriate to carry this out in +a manner that causes less sensation and offense.

+ +

Order of Boehme, Commanding General Serbia, October 10 1941, +Regarding Executions of Hostages +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. XI, p. 977] +------------------------------------------------------------- +2. In all garrison towns in Serbia all Communists, male residents +suspected as such, all Jews, a certain number of nationalistic and +democratically inclined residents are to be arrested as hostages, +by means of sudden action...

+ +

3. If losses of German soldiers or ethnic Germans occur, the +territorially competent commanders up to the regimental commanders +are to decree the shooting of arrestees according to the +following quotas:

+ +

a. For each killed or murdered German soldier or ethnic German (man, +woman or child) 100 prisoners or hostages.

+ +

b. For each wounded German soldier or ethnic German, 50 prisoners +or hostages.

+ +

The shootings are to be carried out by the troops.

+ +

Order of Commanding General in Serbia, October 4 1941, ordering mass +execution of concentration camp inmates for the killing of 21 German +Soldiers +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. XI, p. 976] +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +Twenty-one soldiers were tortured to death by Communist bandits +in a bestial manner on 2 October in a surprise attack units of +the signal regiment between Belgrade and Obrenovac. As reprisal +and retaliation, 100 Serbian prisoners are to be shot at once +for each murdered German soldier. The Chief of the Military +administration is requested to pick out 2100 inmates in the +concentration camp Sabac in Belgrade (primarily Jews and +Communists) and to fix the time and place as well as burial place.

+ +

THE EXTERMINATION OF THE INSANE +*******************************

+ +

Letter from chief of institution for feeble-minded in Stetten to +Reich Minister of justice Dr. Frank, September 6 1940 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. I, p. 854] +----------------------------------------------------------------- +Dear Reich Minister,

+ +

The measure being taken at present with mental patients of all +kinds have caused a complete lack of confidence in justice among +large groups of people. Without the consent of relatives and +guardians, such patients are being transferred to different +institutions. After a short time they are notified that the +person concerned has died of some disease...

+ +

If the state really wants to carry out the extermination of these +or at least of some mental patients, shouldn't a law be +promulgated, which can be justified before the people - a law +that would give everyone the assurance od careful examination +as to whether he is due to die or entitled to live and which +would also give the relatives a chance to be heard, in a +similar way, as provided by the law for the prevention of +Hereditarily affected Progeny?

+ +

Letter from Dr. Wurm, of the Wuerttemberg Evangelical Provincial Church, +to Reich Minister of interior Dr. Frick, September 5 1940 +[Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946, Supp. A, p. 1223] +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +Dear Reich Minister,

+ +

On July 19th I sent you a letter about the systematic extermination +of lunatics, feeble-minded and epileptic persons. Since then this +practice has reached tremendous proportions: recently the inmates of +old-age homes have also been included. The basis for this practice +seems to be that in an efficient nation there should be no room +for weak and frail people. It is evident from the many reports which +we are receiving that the people's feelings are being badly hurt +by the measures ordered and that the feeling of legal insecurity +is spreading which is regrettable from the point of view of national +and state interest.

+ +

Letter from Dr. Hilfrich, Bishop of Limburg, to the Reich Minister of +Justice, August 13 1941 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. I, p. 845-846] +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Regarding the report submitted on July 16 by the Chairman of the Fulda +Bishops' conference, Cardinal Dr. Bertram, I consider it my duty to +present the following as a concrete illustration of destruction of +so-called "useless life".

+ +

About 8 Kilometers from Limburg in the little town of Hadamar, on a +hill overlooking the town, there is an institution which had formerly +served various purposes and of late had been used as a nursing home. +This institution was renovated and furnished as a place in which, by +consensus of opinion, the above mentioned Euthanasia has been +systematically practiced for months-approximately since February +1941. This fact is, of course, known beyond the administrative +district of Wiesbaden...

+ +

Several times a week buses arrive in Hadamard with a considerable +number of such victims. School children of the vicinity know this +vehicle and say "here comes the murder-box again". After the arrival +of the vehicle, the citizens of Hadamar watch the smoke rise out of +the chimney...

+ +

The effect of the principles at work here that children call each +other names and say "you're crazy; you'll be sent to the baking oven +in Hadamar"...

+ +

All God-fearing man consider this destruction of helpless beings a +crass injustice...

+ +

Officials of the State Police, it is said, are trying to suppress +discussions of the Hadamar occurrences by means of severe threats...

+ +

I beg you most humbly, Herr Reich Minister, in the sense of the report +of the Episcopate of 16 July of this year, to prevent further +transgressions of the Fifth Commandment of God.

+ +

Letter from Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler to SS-Oberfuehrer Brack, +19 December 1940 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. I, p. 856] +----------------------------------------------------------------- +Dear Brack,

+ +

I hear there is great excitement on the Alb because of the Grafeneck +Institution. +The population recognizes the gray automobiles of the SS and think they +know what is going on at the constantly smoking crematory. What happens +there is a secret and yet is no longer one. Thus the worst feeling has +arisen there, and in my opinion there remains only one thing, to +discontinue the use of the institution in this place and in any event +disseminate information in a clever and sensible manner by showing motion +pictures on the subject of inherited and mental diseases in just that +locality. +May I ask for a report as to how the difficult problem is solved?

+ +

Extract from the Diary of General Halder, September-November 1941 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. X, p. 1195-1196] +----------------------------------------------------------------- +26 September 1941: +. +. +h. Mental institutions in Army Group North. Russians regards the +feebleminded as sacred beings. Killing them is necessary, +nontheless.

+ +

MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS I: MASS STERILIZATION +*****************************************

+ +

Letter from SS-Oberfuehrer Brack to Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler, June 23, 1942 +[Documents on the Holocaust - Edited by Y. Arad, Y. Gutman, A. Margaliot, +NY, Ktav Pub. House in Association with Yad-Vashem, 1981, p. 272] +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +Honorable Mr. Reichsfuehrer!

+ +

On instruction from Reichsleiter Bouhler I placed a part of my men at +the disposal of Brigadefuehrer Globocnik some considerable time ago +for his special task. Following a further request from him, I have +now made available more personnel. On this occasion Brigadefuehrer +Globocnik pressed the view that the whole action against the Jews +should be carried out as quickly as it is in any way possible, so +that we will not some day be stuck in the middle should any kind +of difficulty make it necessary to stop the action. you yourself, +Mr. Reichsfuehrer, expressed the view to me at an earlier time that +one must work as fast as possible, if only for reasons of concealment. +Both views are more than justified according to my own experience, +and basically they produce the same results. Nevertheless I beg to +be permitted to present the following consideration of my own in +this connection:

+ +

According to my impression there are at least 2-3 million men and +women well fit for work among the approx. 10 million European +Jews. In consideration of the exceptional difficulties posed for +us by the question of labor, I am of the opinion that these 2-3 +million should in any case be taken out and kept alive. Of course +this can only be done if they are in the same time rendered +incapable of reproduction. I reported to you about a year ago that +persons under my instruction have completed the necessary experiments +for this purpose. I wish to bring up these facts again. The type +of sterilization which is normally carried out on persons with +genetic disease is out of the question in this case, as it takes +too much time and is expensive. Castration by means of X-rays, +however, is not only relatively cheap, but can be carried out on +many thousands in a very short time. I believe that it has become +unimportant at the present time whether those affected will then +in the course of a few weeks or months realize by the effects that +they are castrated.

+ +

In the event, Mr. Reichsfuehrer, that you decide to choose these +means in the interest of maintaining labor-material, Reichsleiter +Bouhler will be ready to provide the doctors and other personnel +needed to carry out this work. He also instructed me to inform you +that I should then order the required equipment as quickly as +possible.

+ +

Letter from Dr. Pokorny to Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler, October 1941 +[Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946, Supp. A, p. 1279] +----------------------------------------------------------------- +Prompted by the thought that the enemy must not only be conquered but +exterminated, I feel obliged to submit the following to you as the +Reich Plenipotentiary for the Consolidation of German Folkdom:

+ +

Dr. Madous is publishing the results of his research into sterilization +by medicaments (I enclose both works). In reading this article, I was +struck by the enormous importance of this medicament in the present +struggle of our people. Should it be possible to produce as soon as +possible, as a result of this research, a medicament which, after a +comparatively brief period, would cause an unnoticed sterilization +in individuals, we would have in our disposal a new and very effective +weapon. The thought alone that the 3 million Bolsheviks now in German +captivity could be sterilized, so that they would be available for +work but precluded from propagation, opens up the most far-reaching +perspectives.

+ +

Letter from SS-Oberfuehrer Gund to Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler, +August 24, 1942 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. I, p. 717] +------------------------------------------------------------------ +At the orders of Gauleiter Dr. Jury, his staff have hitherto busied +themselves especially with the problems of population, racial policy, +and antisocial elements. Since the prevenation of reproduction by +the congenitally unfit and racially inferior belongs to the duties +of our National Socialist racial and demographic policy, the present +director of the District Office for Racial Policy, Gauhauptstellenleiter +Dr. Fehringer, has examined the question of sterilization and found +that the methods so far available, castration and sterilization, are +not sufficient in themselves to meet expectations. Consequently, the +obvious question occurred to him whether impotence and sterility in +could not be produced in men and women by the administration of medicine +or injections...

+ +

The director of my race policy office points out that the necessary +research and human experiments could be undertaken by by an +appropriately selected medical staff, basing their work on the +Madaus animal experiments in cooperation with the pharmacological +institute of the Faculty of Medicine of Vienna, on the persons of +of the inmates of the Gypsy camp of Lackenbach in Lower Danube.

+ +

Letter from Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler to SS-Oberfuehrer Brack, 11 August +1942 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. I, p. 722] +----------------------------------------------------------- +Dear Brack,

+ +

It is only today that I have the opportunity of acknowledging the +receipt of your letter of June 23. I am positively interested in +seeing the sterilization by X-rays tried out at least once in one camp +in a series of experiments.

+ +

Letter from Blankenburg to Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler, 29 April 1944 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. I, 723] +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +By order of Reichsleiter Bouhler I submit to you as an enclosure a work +of Dr. Horst Schumann on the influence of X-rays on human genital glands.

+ +

Previously you have asked Oberfuehrer Brack to perform this work, and +you supported it by providing the adequate material in the concentration +camp Auschwitz. I point especially to the second part of this work, +which shows that by those means castration of males is almost impossible +or requires an effort which does not pay. As I have convinced myself, +operative castration requires not more than 6 to 7 minutes, and therefore +can be performed more reliably and quicker than castration by X-rays.

+ +

Soon I will be able to submit a continuation of this work to you.

+ +

Letter from SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Brandt to Prof. Clauberg, 10 July 1942 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. I, p. 729] +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +Today the Reich Leader SS charged me with transmitting to you his wish +that you go to Ravensbrueck after you have had another talk with +SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl and the camp physician of the women's +concentration camp Ravensbrueck, in order to perform the sterilization +of Jewesses according to your method...

+ +

Thorough experiments should be conducted to investigate the effect of +the sterilization largely in a way that you find out after a certain +time, which you would have to fix, perhaps by X-rays, what kind of +changes have taken place. In some cases a practical experiment might +be arranged by locking up a Jewess and a Jew together for a certain +period and then seeing what results are achieved.

+ +

Memorandum of SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Brandt on discussion between +Himmler, Gebhart, Gluecks, and Clauberg concerning sterilization +experiments conducted on Jewesses +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. I, p. 728] +------------------------------------------------------------------ +Fuehrer Headquarters, July 1942

+ +

On 7 July 1942 a discussion took place between the Reich Leader SS, +SS-Brigadefuehrer Professor Dr. Gebhart, SS-Brigadefuehrer Gluecks, +and SS-Brigadefuehrer Clauberg, Koenigshette. The topic of the +discussion was the sterilization of Jewesses. The Reich Leader +SS has promised Brigadefuehrer Professor Clauberg that Auschwitz +concentration camp will be at his disposal for his experiments on +human beings and animals. By means of some fundamental experiments, +a method should be found which would lead to sterilization of persons +without their knowledge. The Reich Leader SS wanted to get another +report as soon as the result of these experiments was known, so +that the sterilization of Jewesses could then be carried out in +actuality.

+ +

It should also be examined, preferably in cooperation with Professor +Dr. Hohlfelder, an X-ray specialist in Germany, what way sterilization +of men could be achieved by X-ray treatment.

+ +

The Reich Leader SS called the special attention of all gentlemen +present to the fact that the matter involved was most secret and +should be discussed only with the officers in charge and that +the persons present at the experiments had to pledge secrecy.

+ +

Letter from Professor Clauberg to Himmler, June 7 1943, on his +research concerning sterilization of women +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol 1, p. 730] +---------------------------------------------------------------- +Dear Reich Leader,

+ +

Today I am fulfilling my obligation to report to you from time to +time about the state of my research work...

+ +

The method I contrived to achieve the sterilization of the female +organism without operation is as good as perfected. It can be +performed by a single injection made through the entrance of +the uterus in the course of the customary gynecological +examination known to every physician. If I say that the +method is "as good as perfected" this means:

+ +

1. Still to be worked out are only minor improvements of the method.

+ +

2. Already today it could be put to practical use in the course +of our regular eugenic sterilization and could thus replace +the operation.

+ +

As to the question which you, Reich Leader, asked me almost a +one year ago, i.e., how much time would probably be required +to sterilize 1000 women by using this method. Today I can +answer you with regard to the future as follows:

+ +

If my researches continue to have the same results as up to +now - and there is no reason to doubt that - then the moment is +not far off when I can say:

+ +

"One adequately trained physician in one adequately equipped +place, with perhaps 10 assistants (the number of assistants in +conformity with the speed desired) will most likely be able to +deal with several hundred, if not even 1000 per day".

+ +

MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS II: FREEZING, LOW PRESSURE AND OTHERS +*********************************************************

+ +

Letter from SS-Standartenfuehrer Sievers to SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer +Dr. Brandt, November 2 1942 +[Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military +Tribunal, Vol. XX, p. 520] +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Dear Comarade Brandt,

+ +

As you know, the Reichsfuehrer-SS has directed that +SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer Prof. Dr. Hirt be supplied with everything +needed for his research work. For certain anthropological +researches - I already reported to the Reichsfuehrer-SS on +them - 150 skeletons of prisoners, or rather Jews, are +required, which are to be supplied by the KL Auschwitz.

+ +

Letter from Graum to Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler, June 1 1943 +[Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946, Supp. A, p. 1273] +------------------------------------------------------------------ +Dear Reichsfuehrer,

+ +

The fuehrer's Commissioner-General, SS Brigadefuehrer Professor Dr. Brandt, +called me with the request that I should assist him by placing prisoners +at his disposal for research work into the cause of contagious +jaundice (Hepatitis epidemica) which he was furthering considerably.

+ +

The work has been carried out up to now by a medical captain, Dr. Dohmen, +within the framework of the research place of the army medical inspectorate, +with the participation of the Robert Koch institute. It has up to now led +to the result, in agreement with the result of other German research +workers, that contagious jaundice is not carried by bacteria but by a +virus. In order to increase our knowledge, which is based up to now +only on vaccination experiments from men to animals, the reverse way +is now necessary, namely the vaccination of the cultivated virus germ +into humans. One must reckon on cases of death.

+ +

Letter to SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl, 19 May 1944 +[Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946, Supp. A, p. 1270-1271] +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Dear Obergruppenfuehrer,

+ +

Following our application of 30.9.43, you gave me your authorization on the +25.10.43 for the carrying out of experiments with a view to producing a +new kind of spotted fever serum and transferred 100 suitable prisoners +to Natzweiler for this purpose. It has been possible to carry out the +experiments very satisfactorily so far with the help of the chief of +Department D III, SS Standartenfuehrer Dr. Dolling commissioned by you.

+ +

Letter from SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Brandt to SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Sievers, +21 March 1942 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. I, p. 144] +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Reference is made to the subatmospheric pressure experiments which are +being carried out on concentration camp inmates in the Dachau camp by +the air force. The Reich Leader-SS has approved the experiments under +the conditions that SS-Untersturmfuehrer Dr. Rascher who is an +Obersturmfuehrer in the air-force, will take part in them.

+ +

Letter from SS-Untersturmfuehrer Rascher to Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler, +5 April 1942 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. I, p. 144-147] +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Highly esteemed Reich Leader:

+ +

Enclosed is an interim report on the low-pressure experiments so far +conducted in the concentration camp of Dachau...

+ +

Only continuous experiments at altitudes higher than 10.5 Km resulted +in death. These experiments showed that breathing stopped after about +30 minutes, while in two cases the electrocardiographically charted +action of the heart continued for another 20 minutes.

+ +

The third experiment of this type took such an extraordinary course +that I called an SS physician of the camp as a witness, since I had +worked on these experiments all by myself. It was a continuous +experiment without oxygen at a height of 12 Km. conducted on a 37-year +old Jew in good general condition. Breathing continued up to 30 +minutes. After 4 minutes the experimental subject began to perspire +and to wiggle his head, after 5 minutes cramps occurred, between 6 +and 10 minutes breathing increased in speed and the experimental +subject became unconscious; from 11 to 30 minutes breathing slowed +down to three breaths per minute, finally stopping altogether.

+ +

Severest cyanosis developed in between and foam appeared at the mouth...

+ +

Autopsy report +~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ +

One hour later after breathing had stopped, the spinal marrow was +completely severed and the brain was removed. Thereupon the action +of the auricle stopped for 40 seconds. In then renewed its action, +coming to a complete standstill 8 minutes later. A heavy subarchnoid +oedema was found in the brain. In the veins and arteries of the brain +a considerable quantity of air was discovered.

+ +

Letter from SS-Untersturmfuehrer Rascher to Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler, +11 May 1942 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. I, p. 152-155] +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Highly esteemed Reich Leader,

+ +

Enclosed I am forwarding a short summary on the principle experiments +conducted up to date...

+ +

For the following experiments Jewish professional criminals who had +committed race pollution were used. The question of the formation of +embolism was investigated in 10 cases. Some of the experimental subjects +died during a continued high-altitude experiment; for instance, after +one-half hour at the height of 12 Km. After the skull had been opened +under water an ample amount of air embolism was found in the brain +vessels and, in part, free air in the brain ventricles.

+ +

To find out whether the severe psychic and physical effects, as +mentioned under No. 3, are due to the formation of embolism, the +following was done: After relative recuperation from such a +parachute descending test had taken place, however, before regaining +consciousness, some experimental subjects were kept under water +until they died. When the skull and the cavities of the breast and +of the abdomen had been opened under water, an enormous amount of +air embolism was found in the vessels of the brain, the coronary +vessels, and vessels of the liver and the intestines, etc.

+ +

It was also proved by experiments that air embolism occurs in +practically all vessels even while pure oxygen is being inhaled. +One experimental subject was made to breathe pure oxygen for +2.5 hours before the experiment started. After 6 minutes at a +height of 20 Km, he died and at dissection also showed ample +air embolism, as was the case in all other experiments.

+ +

Report by SS-Untersturmfuehrer Rascher about intense cooling experiments +in Dachau concentration camps, 10 September 1942 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. I, p. 220] +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +The experimental subjects were placed in the water, dressed in complete +flying uniform, winter or summer combination, and with an aviator's +helmet. A life jacket made out of rubber kapok was to prevent +submerging. The experiments were carried out at water temperatures +varying from from 2.5 to 12 Centigrade. In one experimental series, +the occiput (brain stem) protruded above the water, while in another +series of experiments the occiput (brain stem) and back of the head +were submerged in water.

+ +

Electrical measurements gave low temperature readings of 26.4 in the +stomach and 26.5 in the rectum. Fatalities occurred only when the +brain stem and the back of the head were also chilled. Autopsies of +of such fatal cases always revealed large amounts of free blood, up +to one-half litter, in the cranial cavity.

+ +

Report by Prof. Dr. Holzloehner, Dr. Rascher, and Dr. Finke, regarding +cooling experiments, 10 October 1942 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. I, p. 226-243] +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +If the experimental subject was placed in the water under narcosis, +one observed a certain arousing effect. The subject began to groan +and made some defensive movements. In a few cases a state of excitation +developed. This was especially severe in the cooling of head and +neck. But never was a complete cessation of the narcosis observed. +The defensive movements ceased after about 5 minutes. There +followed a progressive rigor, which developed especially strongly +in the arm musculature; the arms were strongly flexed and pressed to +the body. The rigor increased with the continuation of the cooling, +now and then interrupted by tonic-clonic twitchings. With still more +marked sinking of the body temperature it suddenly ceased. These +cases ended fatally, without any successful results from resuscitation +efforts.

+ +

Letter from SS-Untersturmfuehrer Dr. Rascher to SS-Sturmbannfuehrer +Rudolph Brandt, October 3 1942 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. I, p. 221-222] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +The Reich leader SS wants to be informed of the state of the +experiments. I can announce that the experiments have been +concluded, with the exception of those on warming with body +heat. The final report will be ready in about 5 days. Prof. +Holzloehner, for reasons I cannot fathom, does not himself +want to make the report to the Reich Leader Himmler and has +asked me to attend to it. This report must be made before +20 October, because the great Luftwaffe [German air-force] +conference on freezing takes place on Nuernberg on 25 October. +The report on the results of our research must be made there, +to assure that they be used in time for the troops. May I ask +you to arrange for a decision from the Reich Leader regarding +the final report to him, and the submission to him of the +relevant material?

+ +

Today I received your letter of 22 September 1942, in which the +Reich Leader orders that the experiments on warming through +body heat must absolutely be conducted. Because of incomplete +address it was delayed. Today I asked Obersturmbannfuehrer +Sievers to send a telegram to the camp commander immediately, +to the effect that four Gypsy women be procured at once +from another camp. Moreover, I asked SS Obersturmbannfuehrer +Sievers to take steps to have the low pressure chamber ready +for use.

+ +

THE ECONOMIC PLUNDER +*********************

+ +

Letter from SS-Brigadefuehrer Frank to chief of administration of +Auschwitz, concerning the utilization and distribution of "evacuated" +Jews, 26 September 1942 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. XIII, p. 256-258] +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +e) Women's clothing and women underwear including footwear, children's +clothing and children's underwear including footwear have to be handed +over to the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle against payment...

+ +

f) Featherbeads, quilts, woolen blankets, cloth for suits, shawls, +umbrellas, walking sticks, thermos flasks, earflaps, baby carriages, +combs, handbags, leather belts, shopping baskets, tobacco pipes, +sun glasses, mirrors, table knives, forks and spoons, knapsacks, and +suitcases made from leather or artificial material are to be delivered +to the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle. The question of payment will be +decided later...

+ +

h) Spectacles and eyeglasses of every kind are to be handed in to +the medical office for utilization. (Spectacles with golden frames +have to be handed in without glasses together with the rare metals).

+ +

Letter from prison warden Guenther to the general commissar of white +Ruthenia, Minsk, 31 May 1943 +[Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946, Vol. VIII, p. 208] +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +Since that time all German and Russian Jews who were turned to us, +had their golden bridgework, crowns and fillings pulled or broken +out. This happens 1 to 2 hours before the respective action.

+ +

Since April 13 1943, 516 German and Russian Jews have been finished +off. On the basis of a definitive investigation, gold was taken +only in two actions, on 14 April 1943 from 172, and on 27 April +1943 from 164 Jews. About 50% of the Jews had gold teeth, bridgework +or fillings. Hauptscharfuehrer Ruebe of the security police was always +personally present and he took the gold along too.

+ +

Letter from SS-Gruppenfuehrer Katzmann to SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Kruger, +regarding the "solution of the Jewish problem in Galicia", and giving +a breakdown of property taken from the Jews, June 30, 1943 +[Documents on the Holocaust - Edited by Y. Arad, Y. Gutman, A. Margaliot, +NY, Ktav Pub. House in Association with Yad-Vashem, 1981, p. 335-341] +------------------------------------------------------------------- +Valuables were secured and handed over to the special staff +"Reinhard". Apart from furniture and large quantities of textile, +etc., the following were confiscated and delivered to special staff +"Reinhard":

+ +

As of June 30, 1943: +. +. +20.952 Kg - wedding rings - gold +22.740 Kg - pearls +11.730 Kg - gold teeth +. +.

+ +

Report by SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl to Himmler's office, February +6 1943, listing items plundered from Jewish victims and delivered +to various Nazi organizations +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. V, p. 699-703] +----------------------------------------------------------------- +Report on the realization of textile-salvage from the Jewish +resettlement up to the present date...

+ +

1. Reich ministry of economics

+ +

Men's old clothing without underwear 97000 sets +Women's old clothing without underwear 76000 sets +women's silk underwear 89000 sets +Total 34 cars +Rags - 400 cars, 2700000 Kg +Bed feathers - 130 cars, 270000 Kg +Women's hair - 1 car, 3000 Kg +Scrap material - 5 cars, 19000 Kg

+ +

2. Office for Germanization

+ +

Men's clothing:

+ +

Pants - 62000 +Shirts - 132000 +. +. +Shoes - 31000 pairs

+ +

Women's clothing:

+ +

Coats - 155000 +Dresses - 119000 +. +. +Panties - 60000 +Brassiers - 25000 +Underwear - 22000 +Kerchiefs - 85000 +Shoes - 111000 +. +. +211 cars +[Many more organizations and items cited]

+ +

Grand Total 825 cars

+ +

Report by SS-Grupenfuehrer Globocnik listing items plundered +from the Jewish victims of "Operation Reinhard" and delivered to +various Nazi organizations. Attached is a detailed list, prepared +by SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Wippern on February 27, 1943. +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. V, p. 704-709] +----------------------------------------------------------------- +Valuation of Jewish belongings delivered up to 3 February 1943

+ +

1. cash - RM 15931722.01 +Delivery SS Econ. Krakow - RM 31500000.00 +SS WVHA Berlin - RM 5581411.50 +---------------- +RM 53013133.51

+ +

[At that time, 2.5 RM were equal to 1 US Dollar].

+ +

2. Foreign currency, notes + +[Long list] total RM 1452904.65 +. +. +. + +5. Other Valuables +. +. +2894 gold gentlemen's pocket watches +. +. +7313 gold ladies' wrist watches +. +. +13455 gentlemen's pocket watches +. +. +22324 spectacles +. +. +7000 fountain pens +. +. +51370 watches to be repaired +. +. +230 clinical thermometers

+ +

[many items deleted]

+ +

Total RM 26089800.00

+ +

6. Textiles

+ +

462 boxcars rags +253 boxcars feathers for bedding +317 boxcars clothes and linen

+ +

Total RM 13294400.00

+ +

Summary

+ +

1. Delivered cash and cash on hand RM 53013133.51 +2. Foreign currency, notes RM 1452904.65 +3. Foreign currency, minted gold RM 843802.75 +4. Precious metals RM 5353943.00 +5. Other items RM 26089800.00 +6. Textiles RM 13294400.00

+ +

Total RM 100047983.91

+ +

[In April 8, 1945, an immense amount of SS loot was discovered hidden in +a salt mine in Merkers, Germany. Among other items, it contained +369.6. lbs of rings and 385 lbs of gold and silver teeth feeling. This +is reported in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military +Tribunals - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. XIII, +p. 376].

+ +

AUSCHWITZ +*********

+ +

Report entitled "Resettlement of Jews" written by SS-Sturmbannfuehrer +Gricksch for SS-Col. von Herff and Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler, after +inspection of Auschwitz camp on 14-16 May 1943. +[Hitler and the Final Solution - G. Fleming, University of California +Press, 1984, p. 142-143] +------------------------------------------------------------------ +The Auschwitz camp plays a special role in the resolution of the Jewish +question. The most advance methods permit the execution of the +Fuehrer-order in the shortest possible time and without arousing much +attention. The so-called "resettlement action" runs the following +course: The Jews arrive in special trains (freight cars) toward +evening and are driven on special tracks to areas of the camp +specifically set aside for this purpose. There the Jews are unloaded +and examined for their fitness to work by a team of doctors, in the +presence of the camp commandant and several SS officers. At this point +anyone who can somehow be incorporated into the work program is put in +a special camp. The curably ill are sent straight to a medical camp +and are restored to health through a special diet. The basic principle +behind everything is: conserve all manpower for work. The previous +type of "resettlement action" has been thoroughly rejected, since it +is too costly to destroy precious work energy on a continual basis.

+ +

The unfit go to cellars in a large house which are entered from +outside. They go down five or six steps into a fairly long, +well-constructed and well-ventilated cellar area, which is lined with +benches to the left and right. It is brightly lit, and the benches are +numbered. The prisoners are told that they are to be cleansed and +disinfected for their new assignments. They must therefore completely +undress to be bathed. To avoid panic and to prevent disturbances of +any kind, they are instructed to arrange their clothing neatly under +their respective numbers, so that they will be able to find their +things again after their bath. Everything proceeds in a perfectly +orderly fashion. Then they pass through a small corridor and enter a +large cellar room which resembles a shower bath. In this room are +three large pillars, into which certain materials can be lowered from +outside the cellar room. When three-to four-hundred people have been +herded into this room, the doors are shut, and containers filled with +the substances are dropped down into the pillars. As soon as the +containers touch the base of the pillars, they release particular +substances that put the people to sleep in one minute. A few minutes +later, the door opens on the other side, where the elevator is +located. The hair of the corpses is cut off, and their teeth are +extracted (gold-filled teeth) by specialists (Jews). It has been +discovered that Jews were hiding pieces of Jewelry, gold, platinum +etc., in hollow teeth. Then the corpses are loaded into elevators and +brought up to the first floor, where ten large crematoria are located. +(Because fresh corpses burn particularly well, only 50-100 lbs. of +coke are needed for the whole process.) The job itself is performed +by Jewish prisoners, who never step outside this camp again.

+ +

The results of this "resettlement action" to date: 500000 Jews. +Current capacity of the "resettlement action" ovens: 10000 in 24 +hours.

+ +

Notes From Diary of SS-Doctor Kremer, while in Auschwitz +['The Good Old Days' - E. Klee, W. Dressen, V. Riess, The Free Press, +NY, 1988, p. 256-268] +---------------------------------------------------------------- +2 September 1942

+ +

3.00 a.m. attended my first Sonderaktion. Dante's Inferno seems to +me almost a comedy compared to this. They don't call Auschwitz the +extermination camp for nothing!

+ +

[Sonderaktion = special action, meaning extermination; in this case, +gassing. See, for instance, two following document].

+ +

5 September 1942

+ +

In the morning attended a Sonderaktion from the women's concentration +camp (Muslims); the most dreadful of horrors. Hschf. Thilo -- army +doctor -- was right when he said to me this is the 'anus mundi'. In +the evening towards 8.00 attended another Sonderaktion from +Holland.

+ +

['Muslims' does not mean "practicing Islam"; this is the way the SS +referred to emaciated people].

+ +

10 October 1942

+ +

Extracted and fixed fresh live material from liver, spleen and +pancreas...

+ +

11 October 1942

+ +

Today, Sunday, there was roast hare for lunch -- a real fat leg -- with +dumplings and red cabbage for 1.25 RM.

+ +

12 October 1942

+ +

Second inoculation against typhus, later on in the evening severe +generalized reaction (fever). Despite this in the night attended a +further Sonderaktion from Holland (1600 persons). Ghastly scenes in +front of the last bunker! That was the 10th Sonderaktion.

+ +

13 November 1942

+ +

Extracted fresh live material (liver, spleen and pancreas) from a +previously photographed, severely atrophied Jewish prisoner aged +eighteen. Fixed as always, liver and spleen in Carnoy and pancreas in +Zenker (Prisoner No. 68030).

+ +

Letter from SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Rodl to the inspector of +concentration camps, SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Liebehenschel, 14 +November 1941 +[Hitler and the Final Solution - G. Fleming, University of California +Press, 1984, p. 99] +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +The Commandant's office has submitted to date two lists recommending +the conferment of the Kreigverdienstkreuz [war service cross]. In +both of these appear SS personnel who participated in executions. We +herewith request confirmation as to whether these names should be +listed once again in the roll currently under preparation. Further +requested is information as to whether in the recommendation lists +under "reasons and comments of immediate superior" there should be +specified "execution, i.e., special action" or whether a general, +routine reason should be given.

+ +

Letter from Bischoff, head of construction management at Auschwitz, to +the SS economic and administrative head office in Berlin, regarding +construction at Auschwitz, 13 October 1942 +[Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers - J.C Pressac, +the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, NY, 1989, p. 198] +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +As regards the construction of the new crematorium building, it was +necessary to start immediately in July 1942 because of the situation +caused by the special actions.

+ +

Letter from SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Bischoff, of the Auschwitz construction +department, to SS General Kammler, January 29, 1943 +[The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe, +1939-1945 - G. Reitlinger, South Brunswick, T. Yosellof, 1968, p. 158-159] +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +Crematorium No. 2. The completed furnaces have been started up in +the presence of Engineer Prufer from Messers. Topf (of Erfurt). The +planks cannot yet be moved from the ceiling of the mortuary cellar +on account of frost, but this is not important, as the gassing +cellar can be used for that purpose. The ventilation plant has +been held up by restrictions on rail transport, but the installation +should be ready by February 20th.

+ +

Letter from SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Bischoff, March 6 1943 +[Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers - J.C Pressac, +the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, NY, 1989, p. 434] +----------------------------------------------------------------- +... order of 6/3/1943 concerning the delivery of a gas tight door +100 x 192 cm for cellar I of Krematorium III, to be produced to +the identical pattern and dimensions as the cellar door of +Krematorium II which is situated opposite, with peephole of +double 8 mm glass, with rubber sealing strip and frame.

+ +

Letter from SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Jahrling to SS-General Kammler +estimating the number of corpses that can be disposed off in 24 hours +in the Auschwitz crematoriums, June 25 1943 +[Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers - J.C Pressac, +the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, NY, 1989, p. 247] +------------------------------------------------------------------- +1.) Crematorium I +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +3 x 2 muffles 340 persons

+ +

2.) Crematorium II +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +5 x 3 muffles 1440 persons

+ +

3.) Crematorium III +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +5 x 3 muffles 1440 persons

+ +

4.) Crematorium IV +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +8 muffles 768 persons

+ +

5.) Crematorium V +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +8 muffles 768 persons

+ +
+ +

A letter asking for a truck to bring Zyklon-B to Auschwitz; uses the +standard camouflage term "resettlement of Jews" to refer to +extermination. Another such document asks for "material for special +treatment" - another term used to disguise extermination. +[Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers - J.C Pressac, +the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, NY, 1989, p. 557] +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Radio message 13 +SS Garrison Radio Station Auschwitz +Origin WVHA [SS economic administration head office]

+ +

Received 2nd October 1942 in the Kommandantur of Auschwitz +Concentration camp

+ +

The movement authorization for one 5 Ton truck with trailer to +Dessau and back in order to pick up material for the resettlement +of the Jews, is hereby accorded. +The authorization is to be given to the driver.

+ +

Liebehenschel +SS Lieutenant Colonel +Permanent representative of the head +of the service with the rank of Waffen SS +Lieutenant General

+ +

For file

+ +

Head of the radio station

+ +

Letter from SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Jahrling to Topf & Sons, March 6 1943 +[Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers - J.C Pressac, +the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, NY, 1989, p. 221] +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +[This document is interesting for two reasons: first, it demonstrates +that the underground cellars in the crematoriums could not have possibly +been morgues, as morgues are never heated; heating, however, does +facilitate the evaporation of Zyklon-B. Also, the document - like +many others - makes reference to an "undressing room", and there is +no reason for a morgue to have one near by. Pressac contains numerous +other documents attesting to the design and use of the Auschwitz gas +chambers. Even the fake shower heads are mentioned].

+ +

Subject: KL Auschwitz Krematorien II and III

+ +

In accordance with your suggestion, the service agrees that cellar 1 +should be preheated with the air coming from the rooms of the 3 +forced draught installations. The supply and installation of the +ductwork and blowers necessary to this end are to be effected as soon +as possible. As you point out in your above-mentioned letter, +execution should commence this week. We would ask you to send in +triplicate detailed quote for supply and installation.

+ +

At the same time, we would ask you to send an additional quotation +for the modification of the air-extraction installation in the +undressing room.

+ +

KRISTALLNACHT +*************

+ +

Message from SS-Grupenfuehrer Heydrich to all State Police Main +Offices and Field Offices, November 10 1938 (before "Kristallnacht", +the "night of broken glass", the first large scale pogrom +against the Jews) +[Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946, Vol. III, p. 545-547] +---------------------------------------------------------------- +Regards: Measures against Jews tonight. +. +. +. + +a) Only such measures may be taken which do not jeopardize +German life or property (for instance, burning of synagogues +only if there is no danger of fires for the neighbourhoods).

+ +

b) Business establishments and homes of Jews may be destroyed but +not looted. The police have been instructed to supervise the +execution of these directives and to arrest looters.

+ +

c) In Business streets special care is to be taken that non-Jewish +establishments will be safeguarded at all cost against damage. +. +. +.

+ +

As soon as the events of this night permit the use of the designated +officers, as many Jews, particularly wealthy ones, as the local +jails will hold, are to be arrested in all districts. Initially +only healthy male Jews, not too old, are to be arrested. After +the arrests have been carried out the appropriate concentration +camp is to be contacted immediately with a view to a quick +transfer of the Jews to the camps...

+ +

VERDICT OF SS-COURT +*******************

+ +

Excerpts from Verdict of the SS Court in Munich, against +SS-Untersturmfuehrer Max Taubner, 24 of May 1943 +['The Good Old Days' - E. Klee, W. Dressen, V. Riess, The Free Press, +NY, 1988, p, 196-207] +-----------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

1. The accused shall not be punished because of the actions against +the Jews as such. The Jews have to be exterminated and none of the +Jews that were killed is any great loss. Although the accused should +have recognized that the extermination of the Jews was the duty of +Kommandos which were set up especially for this purpose, he should +be excused for considering himself to have the authority to take +part in the extermination of Jewry himself. Real hatred of the Jews +was the driving motivation for the accused. In the process he let +himself be drawn into committing cruel actions in Alexandriya which +are unworthy of a German man and an SS-officer. These excesses cannot +be justified, either, as the accused would like to, as retaliation +for the pain that the Jews have caused the German people. It is not +the German way to apply Bolshevic methods during the necessary +extermination of the worst enemy of our people. In so doing the +conduct of the accused gives rise to considerable concern. The +accused allowed his men to act with such vicious brutality that +they conducted themselves under his command like a savage horde...

+ +

2. By taking photographs of the incidents or having photographs +taken, by having these developed in photographic shops and showing +them to his wife and friends, the accused is guilty of disobedience. +Such pictures could pose the gravest risks to the security of the +Reich if they fell into the wrong hands...

+ +

Dismissal of the case against the remaining parties, 1 June 1943

+ +

The following has been established on the basis of the main trial +of SS-Untersturmfuehrer Max Taubner... +The following men were party to the punishable acts committed or +ordered by SS-Untersturmfuehrer Max Taubner:

+ +

1. SS-Unterscharfuehrer Walter Muller particularly stood out during +the shootings of Jews with the brutality with which he tore small +Jewish children from their mothers. He held these children in +front of him with his left hand and then, with his right hand, +shot them with a pistol.

+ +

. +. [three more SS-personnel accused] +.

+ +

Allowances have been made for the fact that the accused were, without +exception, acting on the orders of and under the responsibility +of Untersturmfuehrer Max Taubner. In this respect, their own +culpability may be described as slight...

+ +

The cases against these accused have therefore been dismissed.

+ +

MISC +****

+ +

Memorandum from the Ministry of Justice to Hitler, regarding prosecution +of a Jewess for selling her mother milk to a German pediatrician +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. III, p. 701-702] +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +After the birth of her child, a full-blooded Jewess sold her mother +milk to a pediatrician and concealed that she was a Jewess. With +this milk babies of German blood were fed in a nursing home for +children. The accused will be charged with deception. The buyers of +the milk have suffered damage, for mother's milk from a Jewess +cannot be regarded as food for German children. The impudent behavior +of the accused is an insult as well. Relevant charges, however, have +not been applied for, so that the parents, who are unaware of the +true facts, need not subsequently be worried.

+ +

I shall discuss with the Reich health leader the racial hygienic +aspect of the case.

+ +

R. Rothenberger.

+ +

Death to the "Race Defiler": +Excerpts from Opinion and Sentence of the Nuernberg Special Court in +the Katzenberger Case +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. III, 653-663] +-------------------------------------------------------------------- +Findings:

+ +

1. The defendant Katzenberger is fully Jewish and a German national; he +is a member of the Jewish religious community...

+ +

2. Irene Seiler is a German citizen of German blood...

+ +

[Testimonies about the relationship between Katzenberger and Seiler deleted]

+ +

The court is therefore convinced that Katzenberger, after the Nuernberg laws +had come into effect, had repeated sexual intercourse with Seiler, up to +March 1940...

+ +

The conduct to which the defendants admitted and which in the case of +Katzenberger and consisted in drawing Seiler close to him, kissing +her, patting and caressing her thighs over her clothes, makes it clear +that in a crude manner Katzenberger did to Seiler what is popularly +called "Abschmieren" [petting]. It is obvious that such actions +are motivated only by sexual impulses. Even if the Jew had only done +these so-called "Ersatzhandlungen" [sexual acts in lieu of actual +intercourse] to Seiler, it would have been sufficient to charge him +with racial pollution in the full sense of the law...

+ +

He is therefore guilty of a continuous crime of racial pollution +according to sections 2 and 5, paragraph 11 of the Law for +Protection of German Blood and German Honor of 15 September 1935...

+ +

As the only feasible answer to the frivolous conduct of the defendant, +the court therefore deems it necessary to pronounce the death sentence +as the heaviest punishment provided by section 4 of the decree +against public enemies...

+ +

Various excerpts from anti-semitic publications +[All taken from Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, +U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1946, Vol. VIII] +-------------------------------------------------------------- +p. 4: +[Speech by Julius Streicher, September 5 1937, reported in the +Fraenkische Tageszeitung]

+ +

The Jew no longer shows himself among us openly as he used to. But it would +be wrong to say that victory is ours. Full and final victory will have +been achieved only when the whole world has been rid of the Jews.

+ +

p. 7: +[Leading article by Streicher from "Der Stuermer" No. 39, September 1936]

+ +

The continued work of the "Stuermer" will help to ensure that every German +down to the last man will, with heart and hand, join the ranks of those +whose aim is to crush the head of the serpent Pan-Juda beneath their +heels. He who helps to bring this about helps to eliminate the devil. +And this devil is the Jew.

+ +

p. 11: +[Streicher's speech in Nuernberg, April 3 1925, taken from "Kampf dem +Weltfeind", p. 42]

+ +

Let us make a new beginning today so that we can annihilate the Jew.

+ +

p. 12: +[Deutche Volksgesundheit aus Blut und Boden, New Year's issue 1935]

+ +

One single cohabitation of a Jew with an Aryan woman is sufficient to +poison her blood forever. Together with the alien albumen she has +absorbed the alien soul. Never again will she be able to bear purely +Aryan children, even when married to an Aryan. They will all be +bastards, with a dual soul and the body of a mixed breed.

+ +

p. 19: +[Article signed by Streicher in "Der Stuermer", No, 12, March 19 +1942, pages 1 and 2]

+ +

There were two ways which might have led to a liberation of Europe +from the Jews: Expulsion or extermination! Both methods have been +tried in the course of the centuries, but they were never carried +to a conclusion...

+ +

The teaching of Christianity has stood in the way of a radical +solution of the Jewish problem in Europe...

+ +

Fate has decreed that it was finally left to the 20th century to see +the total solution of the Jewish problem. Just how this solution +will be achieved has been made known to the European nations and +to entire non-Jewish humanity in a proclamation read out by the +Fuehrer of the German people on the 24th February 1942:

+ +

Today the ideas of our Nationalsocialists and those of the Fascist +revolution have conquered large and mighty nations and my +prophecy will find its fulfillment, that in this war not the +Aryan race will be destroyed, but the Jew will be exterminated. +What ever else this struggle may lead to, or however long it +may endure, this will be the final result.

+ +

p. 29:

+ +

Report of Streicher's address to 2000 children at Nuernberg, +Christmas 1936, from Fraenkische Tegeszeitung, 22nd +December 1936

+ +

Two thousand children rejoiced with Julius Streicher...

+ +

The Gauleiter [Streicher] told the little ones about the terrible times +after the war, when the Devil dominated mankind. "Do you know who the +Devil is", he asked his breathlessly listening audience. "The Jew, the +Jew", resounded from a thousand children's voices.

+ +

Letter from the Minister of State for the Protectorate of Bohemia +and Moravia to Rudolph Brandt, June 13 1944, Concerning Children +of Executed Czechs +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1953, Vol. IV, p. 1030-1032] +----------------------------------------------------------------- +Dear comarade Brandt,

+ +

Concerning the matter "children of executed Czechs" I wish to +reply to your letter as directed to SS-Lieutenant General Frank, +date 6 February of this year, diary index No. 26/2/44 g Bra/H, +that the conversation between SS-Lieutenant General Frank and +SS Colonel Sollmann took place on 2 July of last year in Prague. +Colonel Sollmann stated during this conversation that racially +valuable children up to six years would be considered eligible +by the "Lebensborn"...

+ +

It was intended, to have children up to six years and suitable +for Germanization brought into German families through the +"Lebensborn"...

+ +

It is intended to have the racially acceptable elements of the +collectively housed children transferred through the "Lebensborn" +to German families or to a children's home whereas the +children over 16 years are to be sent to a concentration camp.

+ +

Extract from Himmler's address to party comrades, September 7 1940 +[Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals - +Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., Vol. IV, p. 1140] +------------------------------------------------------------------ +If any Pole has any sexual dealing with a German woman, and by this +I mean sexual intercourse, then the man will be hanged right in +front of his camp. Then the others will not do it. Besides, +provisions will be made that a sufficient number of Polish women +and girls will come along as well so that a necessity of this +kind is out of the question.

+ +

The women will be brought before the courts without mercy, and +where the facts are not sufficiently proved - such borderline +cases always happen - they will be sent to a concentration camp. +This we must do, unless these one million Poles and those +hundreds of thousands of workers of alien blood are to inflict +untold damage on the German blood. Philosophizing is of no avail +in this case. It would be better if we did not have them at all - +we all know that - but we need them.

+ +

From the speech of Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler, speaking to SS +Major-Generals, Poznan, October 4 1943 +[Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946, Vol. IV, p. 559] +------------------------------------------------------------------- +One basic principal must be the absolute rule for the SS man: we +must be honest, decent, loyal, and comradely to members of our own +blood and to nobody else. What happens to a Russian, to a Czech, +does not interest me in the slightest. What the nations can offer +in good blood of our type, we will take, if necessary by kidnapping +their children and raising them with us. Whether nations live in +prosperity or starve to death interests me only in so far as we +need them as slaves for our culture; otherwise, it is of no interest +to me. Whether 10000 Russian females fall down from exhaustion +while digging an anti-tank ditch interest me only in so far as +the anti-tank ditch for Germany is finished. We shall never be rough +and heartless when it is not necessary, that is clear. We Germans, +who are the only people in the world who have a decent attitude +towards animals, will also assume a decent attitude towards these +human animals. But it is a crime against our own blood to worry +about them and give them ideals, thus causing our sons and +grandsons to have a more difficult time with them. When someone +comes to me and says, "I cannot dig the anti-tank ditch with women +and children, it is inhuman, for it will kill them", then I +would have to say, "you are a murderer of your own blood because +if the anti-tank ditch is not dug, German soldiers will die, and +they are the sons of German mothers. They are our own blood".

+ +

Frank, Governor of Nazi occupied Poland, in an interview, October 3 +1939 +[Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946, Vol. II, p. 632] +------------------------------------------------------------------ +Poland can only be administered by utilizing the country through +means of ruthless exploitation, deportation of all supplies, raw +materials, machines, factory installations etc., which are +important for the German war economy, availability of all workers +for work within Germany, reduction of the entire Polish economy +to absolute minimum necessary for bare existence of the population, +closing of all educational institutions, especially technical +schools and colleges in order to prevent the growth of a new +Polish intelligentsia. Poland shall be treated as a colony. the +Poles shall be the slaves of the Greater German World Empire.

+ +

Letter from Reichsfuehrer-SS Himmler to the Higher SS and Police +Chief in the Ukraine, Kiev, September 7 1943 +[Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression - Washington, U.S Govt. Print. +Off., 1946, Supp. A, p. 1270] +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +Dear Pruetzmann,

+ +

Infantry general staff has special orders with regard to the Donetz +area. Get in touch with him immediately. I order you to cooperate as +much as you can. The aim to be achieved is that when areas in the +Ukraine are evacuated, not a human being, not a single head of cattle, +not a hundredweight of cereals and not a railway line remain behind; +that not a house remain standing, not a mine is available which is +not destroyed for years to come, that there is not a well which is +not poisoned. The enemy must really find completely burned and destroyed +land. Discuss these things with Stampf straight away and do your +absolute best.

+ +

Detailed report by SS-Standartenfuehrer Jager about mass killings +in Nazi occupied USSR, July-November 1941 +['The Good Old Days' - E. Klee, W. Dressen, V. Riess, The Free Press, +NY, 1988, p. 46-58]. +------------------------------------------------------------------ +[The "Jager report" was written by a commander of one of the +"Einsatzgruppen" (special task forces) which were in charge of +liquidating Jews, communist leaders, partisans and others in the +Soviet Union.

+ +

To understand the magnitude of the massacres, note the total number +of victims - 137346. This is for one Einsatzgruppen, in a five month +period, in one area. This report reflects very clearly on the plan +to kill all the Jews, except those which were needed for working +purposes; those were, as the report notes, "only" to be sterilized; +Jager goes on to state that "if despite sterilization a Jewess becomes +pregnant she will be liquidated".

+ +

There are many documents about the Einsatzgruppen massacres in the +Soviet Union, but the "Jager report" is one of the most chillingly +detailed of them].

+ +

The Commander of +the security police and +the SD +Einsatzkommando 3 Kauen [Kaunas], 1 December 1941

+ +

-------------------------- +|Secret Reich Business! | 5 copies +-------------------------- 4th copy

+ +

Complete list of executions carried out in the EK 3 area +up to 1 December 1941

+ +

Security police duties in Lithuania taken over by Einsatzkommando 3 on +2 July 1941. +(The Wilna [Vilnius] area was taken over by EK 3 on 9 Aug. 1941, the +Schaulen area on 2 Oct. 1941. Up until these dates EK 9 operated in +Wilna and EK 2 in Schaulen.) +On my instructions and orders the following executions were conducted by +Lithuanian partisans:

+ +

4.7.41 Kauen-Fort VII 416 Jews, 47 Jewesses 463 +6.7.41 Kauen-Fort VII Jews 2514

+ +

Following the formation of a raiding squad under the command of +SS-Obersturmfuherer Hamman and 8-10 reliable men from the +Einsatzkommando. the following actions were conducted in cooperation +with Lithuanian partisans:

+ +

7.7.41 Mariampole Jews 32 +8.7.41 Mariampole 14 Jews, 5 Comm. officials 19 +8.7.41 Girkalinei Comm. officials 6 +9.7.41 Wendziogala 32 Jews, 2 Jewesses, 1 Lithuanian +(f.), 2 Lithuanian Comm., 1 +Russian Comm. 38 +9.7.41 Kauen-Fort VII 21 Jews, 3 Jewesses 24 +14.7.41 Mariampole 21 Jews, 1 Russ., 9 Lith. Comm. 31 +17.7.41 Babtei 8 Comm. officials (incl. 6 Jews) 8 +18.7.41 Mariampole 39 Jews, 14 Jewesses 53 +19.7.41 Kauen-Fort VII 17 Jews, 2 Jewesses, 4 Lith. +Comm., 2 Comm. Lithuanians (f.), +1 German Comm. 26 +21.7.41 Panevezys 59 Jews, 11 Jewesses, 1 +Lithuanian (f.), 1 Pole, 22 Lith. +Comm., 9 Russ. Comm. 103 +22.7.41 Panevezys 1 Jew 1 +23.7.41 Kedainiai 83 Jews, 12 Jewesses, 14 Russ. +Comm., 15 Lith. Comm., 1 Russ. +O-Politruk 125 +25.7.41 Mariampole 90 Jews, 13 Jewesses 103 +28.7.41 Panevezys 234 Jews, 15 Jewesses, 19 Russ. +Comm., 20 Lith. Comm. 288

+ +

Total carried forward 3384

+ +

Sheet 2 +Total carried over 3384

+ +

29.7.41 Rasainiai 254 Jews, 3 Lith. Comm. 257 +30.7.41 Agriogala 27 Jews, 11 Lith. Comm. 38 +31.7.41 Utena 235 Jews, 16 Jewesses, 4 Lith. +Comm., 1 robber/murderer 256 +31.7.41 Wendziogala 13 Jews, 2 murderers 15 +1.8.41 Ukmerge 254 Jews, 42 Jewesses, 1 Pol. +Comm., 2 Lith. NKVD agents, 1 +mayor of Jonava who gave order +to set fire to Jonava 300 +2.8.41 Kauen-Fort IV 170 Jews, 1 US Jewess, 33 Jewesses, +4 Lith. Comm. 209 +4.8.41 Panevezys 362 Jews, 41 Jewesses, 5 Russ. Comm., +14 Lith. Comm. 422 +5.8.41 Rasainiai 213 Jews, 66 Jewesses 279 +7.8.41 Utena 483 Jews, 87 Jewesses, 1 Lithuanian +(robber of corpses of German soldiers)571 +8.8.41 Ukmerge 620 Jews, 82 Jewesses 702 +9.8.41 Kauen-Fort IV 484 Jews, 50 Jewesses 534 +11.8.41 Panevezys 450 Jews, 48 Jewesses, 1 Lith. 1 Russ.500 +13.8.41 Alytus 617 Jews, 100 Jewesses, 1 criminal 719 +14.8.41 Jonava 497 Jews, 55 Jewesses 552 +15-16.8.41 Rokiskis 3200 Jews, Jewesses, and J. Children, +5 Lith. Comm., 1 Pole, 1 partisan 3207 +9-16.8.41 Rasainiai 294 Jewesses, 4 Jewish children 298 +27.6-14.8.41 Rokiskis 493 Jews, 432 Russians, 56 Lithuanians +(all active communists) 981 +18.8.41 Kauen-Fort IV 689 Jews, 402 Jewesses, 1 Pole (f.), +711 Jewish intellectuals from Ghetto +in reprisal for sabotage action 1812 +19.8.41 Ukmerge 298 Jews, 255 Jewesses, 1 Politruk, +88 Jewish children, 1 Russ. Comm. 645 +22.8.41 Dunanburg 3 Russ. Comm., 5 Latvian, incl. 1 +murderer, 1 Russ. Guardsman, 3 Poles, +3 gypsies (m.), 1 gypsy (f.), 1 gypsy +child, 1 Jew, 1 Jewess, 1 Armenian +(m.), 2 Politruks (prison inspection +in Dunanburg 21

+ +

Total carried forward 16152

+ +

Sheet 3 +Total carried forward 16152

+ +

22.8.41 Aglona Mentally sick: 269 men, 227 women, +48 children 544 +23.8.41 Panevezys 1312 Jews, 4602 Jewesses, 1609 +Jewish children 7523 +18-22.8.41 Kreis Rasainiai 466 Jews, 440 Jewesses, 1020 +Jewish children 1926 +25.8.41 Obeliai 112 Jews, 627 Jewesses, 421 +Jewish children 1160 +25-26.8.41 Seduva 230 Jews, 275 Jewesses, 159 +Jewish children 664 +26.8.41 Zarasai 767 Jews, 1113 Jewesses, 1 Lith. +Comm., 687 Jewish children, 1 Russ. +Comm. (f.) 2569 +28.8.41 Pasvalys 402 Jews, 738 Jewesses, 209 +Jewish children 1349 +26.8.41 Kaisiadorys All Jews, Jewesses, and Jewish +children 1911 +27.8.41 Prienai All Jews, Jewesses, and Jewish +Children 1078 +27.8.41 Dagda and 212 Jews, 4 Russ. POW's 216 +Kraslawa +27.8.41 Joniskia 47 Jews, 165 Jewesses, 143 +Jewish children 355 +28.8.41 Wilkia 76 Jews, 192 Jewesses, 134 +Jewish children 402 +28.8.41 Kedainiai 710 Jews, 767 Jewesses, 599 +Jewish children 2076 +29.8.41 Rumsiskis and 20 Jews, 567 Jewesses, 197 +Ziezmariai Jewish children 784 +29.8.41 Utena and 582 Jews, 1731 Jewesses, 1469 +Moletai Jewish children 3782 +13-31.8.41 Alytus and +environs 233 Jews 233

+ +

1.9.41 Mariampole 1763 Jews, 1812 Jewesses, 1404 +Jewish children, 109 mentally sick, +1 German subject (f.), married to a +Jew, 1 Russian (f.) 5090

+ +

Total carried over 47814

+ +

Sheet 4 +Total carried over 47814

+ +

28.8-2.9.41 Darsuniskis 10 Jews, 69 Jewesses, 20 +Jewish children 99 +Carliava 73 Jews, 113 Jewesses, 61 +Jewish children 247 +Jonava 112 Jews, 1200 Jewesses, 244 +Jewish children 1556 +Petrasiunai 30 Jews, 72 Jewesses, 23 +Jewish children 125 +Jesuas 26 Jews, 72 Jewesses, 46 +Jewish children 144 +Agriogala 207 Jews, 260 Jewesses, 195 +Jewish children 662 +Jasvainai 86 Jews, 110 Jewesses, 86 +Jewish children 282 +Babtei 20 Jews, 41 Jewesses, 22 +Jewish children 83 +Wendziogala 42 Jews, 113 Jewesses, 97 +Jewish children 252 +Krakes 448 Jews, 476 Jewesses, 97 +Jewish children 1125 +4.9.41 Pravenischkis 247 Jews, 6 Jewesses 253 +Cekiske 22 Jews, 64 Jewesses, 60 +Jewish children 146 +Seredsius 6 Jews, 61 Jewesses, 126 +Jewish children 193 +Velinona 2 Jews, 71 Jewesses, 86 +Jewish children 159 +Zapiskis 47 Jews, 118 Jewesses, 13 +Jewish children 178 +5.9.41 Ukmerge 1123 Jews, 1849 Jewesses, 1737 +Jewish children 4709 +25.8-6.9.41 Mopping up in: 16 Jews, 412 Jewesses, 415 +Rasainiai Jewish children 843 +Georgenburg all Jews, all Jewesses, all +Jewish children 412 +9.9.41 Alytus 287 Jews, 640 Jewesses, 352 +Jewish children 1279 +9.9.41 Butrimonys 67 Jews, 370 Jewesses, 303 +Jewish children 740 +10.9.41 Merkine 223 Jews, 640 Jewesses, 276 +Jewish children 854 +10.9.41 Varena 541 Jews, 141 Jewesses, 149 +Jewish children 831 +11.9.41 Leipalingis 60 Jews, 70 Jewesses, 25 +Jewish children 155 +11.9.41 Seirijai 229 Jews, 384 Jewesses, 340 +Jewish children 953 +12.9.41 Simnas 68 Jews, 197 Jewesses, 149 +Jewish children 414 +11-12.9.41 Uzusalis Reprisal against inhabitants who +fed Russ. partisans; some in +possession of weapons 43 +26.9.41 Kauen-F.IV 412 Jews, 615 Jewesses, 581 +Jewish children (sick and +suspected epidemic cases) 1608

+ +

Total carries over 66159

+ +

Sheet 5 +Total carried over 66159

+ +

2.10.41 Zagare 633 Jews, 1107 Jewesses, 496 +Jewish children (as these Jews were +being led away a mutiny rose, which +was however immediately put down; +150 Jews were shot immediately; 7 +partisans wounded) 2236 +4.10.41 Kauen-F.IX 315 Jews, 712 Jewesses, 818 +Jewish children (reprisal after +German police officer shot in ghetto) 1845 +29.10.41 Kauen-F.IX 2007 Jews, 2920 Jewesses, 4273 +Jewish children (mopping up ghetto +of superfluous Jews) 9200 +3.11.41 Lazdijai 485 Jews, 511 Jewesses, 539 +Jewish children 1535 +15.11.41 Wilkowiski 36 Jews, 48 Jewesses, 31 +Jewish children 115 +25.11.41 Kauen-F.IX 1159 Jews, 1600 Jewesses, 175 +Jewish children (resettlers from +Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt am main) 2934 +29.11.41 Kauen-F.IX 693 Jews, 1155 Jewesses, 152 +Jewish children (resettlers from +from Vienna and Breslau) 2000 +29.11.41 Kauen-F.IX 17 Jews, 1 Jewess, for contravention +of ghetto law, 1 Reichs German who +converted to the Jewish faith and +attended rabbinical school, then 15 +terrorists from the Kalinin group 34

+ +

EK 3 detachment in Dunanburg +in the period 13.7-21.8.41: 9012 Jews, Jewesses and Jewish +children, 573 active Comm. 9585

+ +

EK 3 detachment in Wilna: +12.8-1.9.41 City of Wilna 425 Jews, 19 Jewesses, 8 Comm. (m.), +9 Comm. (f.) 461 +2.9.41 City of Wilna 864 Jews, 2019 Jewesses, 817 +Jewish children (sonderaktion because +German soldiers shot at by Jews) 3700

+ +

Total carried forward 99084

+ +

sheet 6

+ +

Total carried forward 99804

+ +

12.9.41 City of Wilna 993 Jews, 1670 Jewesses, 771 +Jewish children 3334 +17.9.41 City of Wilna 337 Jews, 687 Jewesses, 247 +Jewish children and 4 Lith. Comm. 1271 +20.9.41 Nemencing 128 Jews, 176 Jewesses, 99 +Jewish children 403 +22.9.41 Novo-Wilejka 468 Jews, 495 Jewesses, 196 +Jewish children 1159 +24.9.41 Riess 512 Jews, 744 Jewesses, 511 +Jewish children 1767 +25.9.41 Jahiunai 215 Jews, 229 Jewesses, 131 +Jewish children 575 +27.9.41 Eysisky 989 Jews, 1636 Jewesses, 821 +Jewish children 3446 +30.9.41 Trakai 366 Jews, 483 Jewesses, 597 +Jewish children 1446 +4.10.41 City of Wilna 432 Jews, 1115 Jewesses, 436 +Jewish children 1983 +6.10.41 Semiliski 213 Jews, 359 Jewesses, 390 +Jewish children 962 +9.10.41 Svenciany 1169 Jews, 1840 Jewesses, 717 +Jewish children 3726 +16.10.41 City of Wilna 382 Jews, 507 Jewesses, 257 +Jewish children 1146 +21.10.41 City of Wilna 718 Jews, 1063 Jewesses, 586 +Jewish children 2367 +25.10.41 City of Wilna 1776 Jewesses, 812 Jewish children 2578 +27.10.41 City of Wilna 946 Jews, 184 Jewesses, 73 +Jewish children 1203 +30.10.41 City of Wilna 382 Jews, 789 Jewesses, 362 +Jewish children 1553 +6.11.41 City of Wilna 340 Jews, 749 Jewesses, 252 +Jewish children 1341 +19.11.41 City of Wilna 76 Jews, 77 Jewesses, 18 +Jewish children 171 +19.11.41 City of Wilna 6 POW's, 8 Poles 14 +20.11.41 City of Wilna 3 POW's 3 +25.11.41 City of Wilna 9 Jews, 46 Jewesses, 8 Jewish +children, 1 Pole for possession of arms +and other military equipment 64

+ +

EK 3 detachment in Minsk from +28.9-17.10.41:

+ +

Pleschnitza 620 Jews, 1285 Jewesses, +Bischolin 1126 Jewish children and 19 +Scak Comm. +Bober +Uzda 3050 +-------- +133346 +Prior to EK 3 taking over security police duties, Jews liquidated +by pogroms and executions (including partisans) 4000 +----------- +Total 137346

+ +

Today I can confirm that our objective, to solve the Jewish problem for +Lithuania, has been achieved by EK 3. In Lithuania there are no more +Jews, apart from Jewish workers and their families.

+ +
. +. +.
+ +

The distance between from the assembly point to the graves was on average +4 to 5 Km.

+ +
. +. +.
+ +

I consider the Jewish action more or less terminated as far as +Einsatzkommando 3 is concerned. Those working Jews and Jewesses still +available are needed urgently and I can envisage that after the winter +this workforce will be required even more urgently. I am of the view +that the sterilization program of the male worker Jews should be +started immediately so that reproduction is prevented. If despite +sterilization a Jewess becomes pregnant she will be liquidated.

+ +
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+ +

(signed) Jager +SS-Standartenfuehrer

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The IRS is here to protect our rights +Or the IRS finally hears about the Miranda Case. + +COPYRIGHT (C) 1991 BY FULL DISCLOSURE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. + +Phoenix businessman David Carroll was acquitted in federal court of two +felony counts of assault on a federal officer. Judge Charles L. Hardy, United +States District Court Judge, found Carroll not guilty after hearing the +testimony from the Government's only witness, Leo Anderson, an IRS revenue +officer. The case was tried before a jury, but Judge Hardy ruled there was +insufficient evidence for the case to proceed further and granted the Motion +for Judgment of Acquittal made in court by Carroll's attorney, Mac MacPherson +of Phoenix. + +Carroll was charged in a two-count indictment in which the Grand Jury alleged +that, on July 10, 1989, Carroll "forcibly assaulted and resisted, opposed, +impeded, intimidated and interfered with'' Anderson, who surprised Carroll at +his home in effort to collect back taxes IRS claimed Carroll owed. In Count +Two, the Grand Jury charged that Carroll "by force and threats of force +endeavored to intimidate and impede'' Anderson during the performance of +Anderson's duties. + +According to Anderson, rather than write a letter or call Carroll to schedule +an appointment, he intentionally surprised Carroll at his home early one +Monday morning. "Surprise him at the door - that's the way we do it,'' +Anderson testified on cross examination by MacPherson. Anderson explained +that IRS' new emphasis is that the collection officer be productive on the +first contact. "One call does it all,'' is our new motto, Anderson stated +proudly. + +According to Anderson, as he sat in his pickup truck in front of the Carroll +residence, taking notes about Carroll's assets, the garage door opened and a +man appeared. Anderson approached Carroll, identified himself and said he +wanted immediate payment of $12000. With this, Carroll began to close the +garage door, bumped into Anderson and continued to push Anderson back several +feet. Anderson did not leave. He kept asking questions and an argument +ensued. The two men walked to the sidewalk, Carroll leading the way. Anderson +testified that at that point Carroll walked toward him 'slowly and +deliberately' and that Anderson was impeded from getting information from +Carroll, such as where he banked, where he worked and what assets he had. + +By this time, the men were yelling at one another and Anderson claimed that +he was "provoked, challenged, impeded'' and that he felt Carroll was trying +to "provoke him into hitting him.'' Anderson stated, "And if I was not +working, I would have hit him.'' + +Anderson testified that, rather than fight, he decided to leave the scene. He +walked to his truck, got in and started it. But before he could close the +door, Carroll followed him and stood between the door and the truck. (Editors +note: Most people close the door first, then start their vehicle) Carroll +was still talking, but Anderson didn't listen. Anderson said, "Back off,'' +and Carroll immediately moved out of the way. Anderson closed the door and +drove off. + +Mr. Carroll had a different story to tell, which was related to judge and +jury through MacPherson's opening statement: Anderson clearly violated the +new Taxpayer Bill of Rights, a law enacted by Congress in November of 1988 as +a result of abuse from IRS agents such as Anderson. + +Under the new federal law, agents are required to give to taxpayers an +explanation of their rights and make sure the citizen understands their +rights by way of Publication 1. "As a taxpayer, you have the right to be +treated fairly, professionally, promptly and courteously by Internal Revenue +Service employees. Our goal at the IRS is to protect your rights so that you +will have the highest confidence in the integrity, efficiency and fairness of +our tax system. To ensure that you always receive such treatment, you should +know about the many rights you have at each step of the tax process.'' +Anderson did not give to Carroll Publication 1, nor mention Carroll's rights, +which include the right to tape record proceedings, the right to have copies +of IRS documents and the right to enter into an installment payment agreement +with IRS when the taxpayer cannot afford to pay the tax in full. + +Nothing was explained by Anderson. Instead, he kept demanding that he would +accept full payment of $12000 and nothing less. Through his tactics of +surprise, fear and intimidation, Anderson attempted to coerce money from +Carroll and get into the Carroll home without a court order. "What will you +settle for?'' Carroll kept asking. "Full payment,'' was Anderson's repeated +response. + +But Carroll, a man who has his own retail business and was not about to be +pushed around, was not phased. He shut the garage door to protect his privacy +rights and, as he did so, Anderson stepped forward and the two men - +Anderson, 260 pounds, and Carroll, 220 pounds - merely bumped stomachs. + +Repeatedly, Carroll asked to see the documents which showed he owed the tax, +and repeatedly Anderson refused. When Carroll threatened to eliminate any tax +debts by filing bankruptcy, Anderson began his yelling tirade witnessed by +Carroll's son, Callen, age 19, and two neighbors. + +But it was not the Taxpayer Bill of Rights that caused Judge Hardy to find +David Carroll not guilty; it was Anderson's own admissions on cross +examination by MacPherson. + +"You're a pretty big fellow, Mr. Anderson, and when the stomach bumping +occurred, you weren't in the least bit afraid of Mr. Carroll, were you?'' To +this, Anderson replied, "No, I wasn't at all afraid.'' Anderson went on to +admit that when he and Carroll left the garage for the sidewalk, it was +Carroll, not Anderson, who led the way, despite Anderson's previous testimony +that he "retreated'' to his truck. Given these facts, Judge Hardy ruled that +there was no assault, nor did Carroll attempt in any way to impede Anderson. +The jury was thanked and dismissed. + +On the two-count indictment, David Carroll faced a maximum penalty of eight +years in jail and a fine of $100000. + +MacPherson, a certified tax specialist and certified criminal law specialist, +has tried over 50 criminal tax cases in federal court in twenty-three +different states and is author of Tax Fraud & Evasion: The War Stories. War +Stories chronicles many of his winning cases, and MacPherson states that the +Carroll case will be an added chapter to War Stories, Part II, which +MacPherson is now writing for release this summer. 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THE NINE UNKNOWN MEN

+ +

From _The Morning Of The Magicians_ +By Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier +Published by Avon Books. 1968. pp 67 - 71.

+ +

This [legend] goes back to the time of the Emperor Asoka, who +reigned in India from 273 B.C. He was the grandson of +Chandragupta who was the first to unify India. Ambitious like his +ancestor whose achievements he was anxious to complete, he +conquered the region of Kalinga which lay between what is now +Calcutta and Madras. The Kalingans resisted and lost 100000 men +in the battle.

+ +

At the sight of this massacre Asoka was overcome. Forever after +he experienced a horror of war. He renounced the idea of trying +to integrate the rebellious people, declaring that the only true +conquest was to win men's hearts by observance of the laws of duty +and piety, because the Sacred Majesty desired that all living +creatures should enjoy security, peace and happiness and be free +to live as they pleased.

+ +

A convert to Buddhism, Asoka, by his own virtuous example, spread +this religion throughout India and his entire empire which +included Malaya, Ceylon and Indonesia. Later Buddhism penetrated +to Nepal, Tibet, China and Mongolia. Asoka nevertheless respected +all religious sects. He preached vegetarianism, abolished alcohol +and the slaughter of animals. H.G. Wells, in his abridged version +of his _Outline Of World History_ wrote: "Among the tens of +thousands of names of monarchs accumulated in the files of +history, the name of Asoka shines almost alone, like a star."

+ +

It is said that the Emperor Asoka, aware of the horrors of war, +wished to forbid men ever to put their intelligence to evil uses. +During his reign natural science, past and present, was vowed to +secrecy. Henceforward, and for the next 2000 years, all +researches, ranging from the structure of matter to the techniques +employed in collective psychology, were to be hidden behind the +mystical mask of a people commonly believed to be exclusively +concerned with ectasy and supernatural phenomena. Asoka founded +the most powerful secret society on earth: that of the Nine +Unknown Men.

+ +

It is still thought that the great men responsible fro the destiny +of modern India, and scientists like Bose and Ram believe in the +existence of the Nine, and even receive advice and messages from +them.

+ +

One can imagine the extraordinary importance of secret knowledge +in the hands of nine men benefiting directly from experiments, +studies and documents accumulated over a period of more than +2000 years. What can have been the aim of these men? Not to +allow methods of destruction to fall into the hands of unqualified +persons and to pursue knowledge which would benefit mankind. +Their numbers would be renewed by co-option, so as to preserve the +secrecy of techniques handed down from ancient times.

+ +

Examples of the Nine Unknown Men making contact with the outer +world are rare. There was, however, the extraordinary case of one +of the most mysterious figures in Western history: the Pope +Sylvester II, known also by the name of Gerbert d'Aurillac. Born +in the Auvergne in 920 (d. 1003) Gerbert was a Benedictine monk, +professor at the University of Rheims, Archbishop of Ravenna and +Pope by the grace of Ortho III. He is supposed to have spent some +time in Spain, after which a mysterious voyage brought him to +India where he is reputed to have aquired various kinds of skills +which stupified his entourage. For example, he possessed in his +palace a bronze head which answered YES or NO to questions put to +it on politics or the general position of Christianity. According +to Sylvester II this was a perfectly simple operation +corresponding to a two-figure calculation, and was performed by an +automaton similar to our modern binary machines. This "magic" +head was destroyed when Sylvester died, and all the information it +imparted carefully concealed. No doubt an authorized research +worker would come across some interesting things in the Vatican +Library.

+ +

In the cybernetics journal, _Computers and Automation_ of October +1954, the following comment appeared: "We must suppose that he +(Sylvester) was possessed of extraordinary knowledge and the most +remarkable mechanical skill and inventiveness. This speaking head +must have been fashioned 'under a certain conjunction of stars +occring at the exact moment when all the planets were starting on +their courses.' Neither the past, nor the present nor the future +entered into it, since this invention apparently far exceeded in +its scope its rival, the perverse 'mirror on the wall' of the +Queen, the precursor of our modern electronic brain. Naturally it +was widely asserted that Gerbert was only able to produce such a +machine head because he was in league with the Devil and had sworn +eternal allegiance to him."

+ +

Had other Europeans any contact with the society of the Nine +Unknown Men? It was not until the nineteenth century that this +mystery was referred to again in the works of the French writer +Jacolliot.

+ +

Jacolliot was French Consul at Calcutta under the Second Empire. +He wrote some quite important prophetic works, comparable, if not +superior to those of Jules Verne. He also left several books +dealing with the great secrets of the human race. A great many +occult writers, prophets and miracle-workers have borrowed from +his writings which, completely neglected in France, are well known +in Russia.

+ +

Jacolliot states catagorically that the Soceity of Nine did +actually exist. And, to make it all the more intriguing, he +refers in the this connection to certain techniques, unimaginable +in 1860, such as, for example, the liberation of energy, +sterilization by radiation and psychological warfare.

+ +

Yersin, one of Pasteur and de Roux's closest collaborators, was +entrusted, it seems, with certain biological secrets when he +visited Madras in 1890, and following the instructions he received +was able to prepare a serum against cholera and the plague.

+ +

The story of the Nine Unknown Men was popularized for the first +time in 1927 in a book by Talbot Mundy who for twenty-five years +was a member of the British police force in India. His book is +half-fiction, half scientific inquiry. The Nine apparently +employed a synthetic language, and each of them was in possession +of a book that was constantly being rewritten and containing a +detailed account of some science.

+ +

The first of these books is said to have been devoted to the +technique of propaganda and psychological warfare. "The most +dangerous of all sciences," wrote Mundy, "is that of moulding mass +opinion, because it would enable anyone to govern the whole +world."

+ +

It must be remembered that Korjybski's _General Semantics_ did not +appear until 1937 and that it was not until the West had the +experience of the last World War that the techniques of psychology +of language, i.e., propaganda, could be formulated. The first +American college of semantics only came into being in 1950. In +France almost the only book that at all well known is Serge +Tchocotine's _Le Viol des Foules_ which has had a considerable +influence in intellectual polical circles, although it deals only +superficially with the subject.

+ +

The second book was on physiology. It explained, among other +things, how it is possible to kill a man by touching him, death +being caused by a reversal of the nerve-impulse. It is said that +Judo is a result of "leakages" from this book.

+ +

The third volume was a study on microbiology, and dealt especially +with protective colloids.

+ +

The fourth was concerned with the transmutation of metals. There +is a legend that in times of drought temples and religious relief +organizations received large quanities of fine gold from a secret +source.

+ +

The fifth volume contains a study of all means of communication, +terrestial and extra-terrestial.

+ +

The sixth expounds the secrets of gravitation.

+ +

The seventh contains the most exhaustive cosmogony known to +humanity.

+ +

The eighth deals with light.

+ +

The ninth volume, on sociology, gives the rules for the evolution +of societies, and means of foretelling their decline.

+ +

Connected with the Nine Unknown Men is the mystery of the waters +of the Ganges. Multitudes of pilgrims, suffering from the most +appalling diseases, bathe in them without harming the healthy +ones. The sacred waters purify everything. Their strange +properties have been attributed to the fact that they contain +bacteriophages. But why should these not be formed in the +Bramaputra, the Amazon or the Seine? Jacolliot in his book +advances the theory of sterilization by radiation, a hundred years +before such a thing was thought to be possible. These radiations, +he says, probably come from a secret temple hollowed out in the +bed of the Ganges.

+ +

Avoiding all forms of religious, social or political agitations, +deliberately and perfectly concealed from the public eye, the Nine +were the incarnation of the ideal man of science, serenely aloof, +but conscious of his moral obligations. Having the power to mold +the destiny of the human race, but refraining from its exercise, +this secret society is the finest tribute imaginable to freedom of +the most exalted kind. Looking down from the watch-tower of their +hidden glory, these Nine Unknown Men watched civilizations being +born, destroyed and re-born again, tolerant rather than +indifferent, and ready to come to the rescue -- but always +observing that rule of silence that is the mark of human +greatness.

+ +

Myth or reality? A magnificent myth, in any case, and one that +has issued from the depths of time -- a harbinger, maybe, of the +future?

+ +

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+ +

May 21, 1987 # Contact: Barbara Foote'

+ +

(EDITOR'S NOTE: A NATIONAL PANEL OF MEDIA EXPERTS ANNUALLY SELECTS +THE TOP TEN UNDER-REPORTED NEWS STORIES OF THE YEAR)

+ +

PERSONAL HARASSMENT AND ADMINISTRATION CENSORSHIP +TOP UNDER-REPORTED NEWS STORIES OF 1986

+ +

ROHNERT PARK -- The official harassment of U.S. citizens +opposed to the Reagan administration's Central America policies topped +the list of 25 overlooked news stories of 1986 according to a national +panel of media experts.

+ +

The second most undercovered story of the year, cited by +Project Censored, warned of the growth of information control in the +United States including censorship, disinformation, and a new, broader +classification category.

+ +

Now in its 11th year, Project Censored, a national media +research effort conducted annually at Sonoma State University, +California, locates stories about significant issues which are not +widely publicized by the national news media.

+ +

Following are the top ten under-reported news stories of 1986 +as announced by project director Carl Jensen, professor of +communication studies at Sonoma State University:

+ +

1.Criticizing Central America Policies Can Be Dangerous. +Political opponents of the Reagan administration's Central America +policies were the targets of mysterious break-ins, Internal Revenue +Service audits, and FBI surveillance and interrogation. Congressman +Don Edwards (D-CA), a former FBI

+ +

agent, warned that the administration may be "using the various +independent agencies of the United States government for their +political purposes."

+ +

2.Official Information Control . The American Library +Association documented Reagan administration efforts to eliminate, +restrict, and privatize government documents; in 1986 the government +officially launched a new "disinformation" program which permits it to +release deliberately false, incomplete, and misleading information; it +also developed a new category of "sensitive information" which +restricts public access to a broad range of previously unclassified +data.

+ +

3.Personal Privacy Lost.In 1986 the FBI was given +extra-ordinary powers to look into private financial and telephonic +files of American citizens "suspected of being in the employ of a +foreign power." The Intelligence Authorization Bill also permits the +FBI to share such information with any other government agency, such +as the IRS, which has a relevant interest in it.

+ +

4.CIA Paid for Pro Contra Media Coverage. Edgar +Chamorro, former head of contra communications in Central America, +testified that "approximately 15 Honduran journalists and broadcasters +were on the CIA payroll" and that contra influence extended to every +major Honduran newspaper and television station. Carlos Morales, a +Costa Rican professor of journalism, reported that at least eight +Costa Rican journalists, including three "top editors," received +monthly payments from the CIA.

+ +

5.President Reagan and the World Anti-Communist League. +According to investigators, the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), an +international right-wing group, is so extreme that the John Birch +Society has shunned it and advises its members to do likewise. Yet +President Reagan sent its U.S. leader, retired U.S. Major General John +Singlaub, a letter congratulating the WACL on its "leadership role" +and "best wishes for every future success."

+ +

6.Nerve Gas Production in Residential Areas. Although +the military has been under orders from Congress since 1984 to dispose +of nerve gases by 1994, nerve gases are currently being manufactured +and tested in 46 U.S. communities, in 26 states across the country, +usually without the knowledge of the local residents.

+ +

7.Contragate: The Untold Story. Affidavits submitted in +a $17 million lawsuit filed last year by the Christic Institute reveal +that for a quarter of a century, a secret team of official and retired +U.S. military and CIA officials has trafficked in drugs, assassinated +political enemies, stolen from the U.S. government, armed terrorists, +and subverted the will of Congress and the public with hundreds of +millions of drug dollars at their disposal. Defendants in the suit +include retired Major Generals Richard Secord and John Singlaub, and +businessman Albert Hakim.

+ +

8.Federal Radiation Tests on Americans. Human radiation +tests, reminiscent of the heinous experiments conducted by the Nazis +and Japanese during World War II, were conducted from the mid-1940's +until the 1970's by official U.S. federal agencies and prestigious +academic and medical institutions; they were revealed last October.

+ +

9.Veterans' Administration Destroys Evidence. In August, +1986, the Veterans' Administration was caught shredding thousands of +case records of contested radiation injury claims filed by military +personnel who had been exposed to nuclear radiation since the 1940's.

+ +

10.The Lethal Shuttle: Plutonium Payload Scheduled. The +space shuttle scheduled to follow the tragic Challenger launch last +year would have carried 46.7 pounds of toxic plutonium-238. A leading +scientist warned that the plutonium, if dispersed in fine pieces by an +exlosion, would release more plutonium radioactivity than the combined +fallout from all nuclear weapons tests of the U.S., the Soviet Union, +and the United Kingdom. Despite the global risks involved, NASA plans +to go ahead with plutonium-fueled space probes when shuttle missions +start again.

+ +

The other 15 under-reported stories of 1986 were: The Unknown +War in West Papua, The Forgotten War in El Salvador, Senator Jesse +Helms' Military Coup in Argentina, US Air Force Toxic Waste Scandal In +Oklahoma City, Leonard Peltier: America's Unknown Political Prisoner, +Marion Prison: The Longest Continual Lockdown in U.S. Prison History, +The Mighty Oak Nuclear Test Accident Cover-up, The Unheralded +Breakthrough in Animal Cloning, Feldene: The Deadly Anti-inflammatory +Drug, The State of California and Bank of America Conspiracy to Hide a +Discrimination Suit Settlement, The Ku Klux Klan Connection in the +Murders of Black Children In Atlanta, The Plowshares Movement: +Americans Jailed for Obeying International Law, CIA Corrupts Academic +Community Again, An Immigration Law to Prevent Foreign Performers from +Playing in the U.S., George Bush Applies Political Pressure for +Friend's Hydroelectric Project.

+ +

PROJECT CENSORED JUDGES +The panel of jurors who selected the top ten stories were: +Dr. Donna Allen, editor and publisher of MEDIA REPORT TO WOMEN; Ben +Bagdikian, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, University of +California, Berkeley; Noam Chomsky, professor, Linguistics and +Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and writer on +contemporary affairs; Dr. Everette E. Dennis, Executive Director, +Gannett Center for Media Studies, Columbia University; Dr. George +Gerbner, Dean, Annenberg School of Communications, University of +Pennsylvania; Charlayne Hunter-Gault, national correspondent, +MacNEIL/LEHRER NEWSHOUR; Nicholas Johnson, public lecturer, nationally +syndicated columnist and professor of law; Charles L. Klotzer, editor +and publisher, THE ST. LOUIS JOURNALISM REVIEW; Brad Knickerbocker, +national news editor, THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR; Jessica Mitford, +writer and lecturer; Dr. Jack L. Nelson, Dean, School of Education, +San Jose State University, California; Dr. Herbert I. Schiller, +Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego.

+ +

Sonoma State University student researchers participating in +the nationwide research effort were Peggy Sue Alberhasky, Sarah +Alcorn, Larry Crowell, Daren Decker, Dave Hoffman, Mike Jasper, Karen +Kitchens, Tom Montan, Laura Moore, Nancy Neilson, Bebe O'Brien, and +Bruce Schwank. Kathy Wolff, a project researcher in 1986, was +assistant project director.

+ +

Dr. Jensen, who originated the media research project in 1976, +said "The most serious warning in this year's results is the +administration's systematic assault on our free flow of information. +The American Library Association has published a 33-page document +which lists page after page of specific efforts by the Reagan +administration to restrict government information. Recently, the +Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press issued a summary of +actions by the Reagan administration to restrict public and media +access to government information which includes 135 such actions. The +Reagan administration's efforts at information control are serious and +deserve as least as much media attention as that given the peccadillos +of Gary Hart and Jim Bakker."

+ +

Anyone interested in nominating a 1987 story for next year's project +can send a copy of the story to Carl Jensen, Project Censored, Sonoma +State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928.

+ +

--SSU --

+ +

(EDITOR'S NOTE: SIDEBAR STORY FOLLOWS)

+ +

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA +CITED FOR EXPOSING "CENSORED" STORIES

+ +

Following are the investigative journalists and media cited by +Project Censored for exploring the top ten issues overlooked or under-reported by the national news media in 1986:

+ +

1.Criticizing Central America Policies -- KRON-TV Target +4, San Francisco, 2/18-20/87, Sylvia Chase, Jonathan Dann; Center for +Investigative Reporting, Angus Mackenzie.

+ +

2.Official Information Control -- American Library +Association, Washington Office, "Less Access to Less Information By +and About the U.S. Government: 2," 12/86, by Anne A. Heanue.

+ +

3.Personal Privacy Lost -- THE NATIONAL REPORTER, +Fall/Winter 1986, "News Not In The News: Reach Out and Crush Someone," +by Don Goldberg.

+ +

4.CIA Paid For Pro Contra Media Coverage -- COLUMBIA +JOURNALISM REVIEW, March/April 1987, "Contra coverage -- paid for by +the CIA," by Martha Honey.

+ +

5.The World Anti-Communist League -- INSIDE THE LEAGUE, +Dodd, Mead, 1986, by Scott and Jon Lee Anderson, reprinted in ST. +LOUIS JOURNALISM REVIEW; BRIARPATCH, November, 1986, "In League with +The Devil: The World Anti-Communist League," by George Martin Manz; +UTNE READER, August 1986, "Moonies, Loonies, and Ronnie," by Eric +Selbin.

+ +

6.Nerve Gas Production in Residential Areas -- RECON, +Winter 1987, "Nerve Gas in Residential Areas," by Chris Robinson.

+ +

7.Contragate: The Untold Story -- THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY +GUARDIAN, 12/3/86+, "Contragate: The Costa Rica Connection," by +Michael Emery.

+ +

8.Radiation Tests -- THE NEW YORK TIMES, 10/24/86, +"Volunteers Around U.S. Submitted to Radiation," p A20.

+ +

9.Veterans' Administration Destroys Evidence -- VVA +VETERAN, November 1986, "Scandal Hints Plague VA," and January 1987, +"The Scandal Deepens," by Mark Perry.

+ +

10.The Lethal Shuttle -- Plutonium Payload -- THE NATION, +2/22/86, "The Lethal Shuttle," and 3/15/86, "Plutonium Cover-up?;" +COMMON CAUSE, July/August 1986, "Red Tape and Radioactivity," all by +Karl Grossman.

+ +

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WHY AMERICANS WON'T CHOOSE FREEDOM

+ +

By JACOB G. HORNBERGER

+ +

All across the land there is an unusual stirring among the +American populace. The American people are sensing that +something is severely wrong in our nation. They see the ever-increasing taxation, regulation, bureaucracies, and police +intrusions. And they are gradually discovering that, despite +their right to vote, they have no effective control over any +of this.

+ +

Yet, despite this unease on the eve of America's third century +of existence, the American people refuse to choose the only +possible solution to America's woes: freedom--freedom through +the constitutional elimination of the welfare state/planned +economy way of life.

+ +

Why this refusal to choose freedom? One answer lies in the +fact that many Americans do not even realize that they are +unfree. Having served the required twelve-year sentence in +public schools, most Americans believe that income taxation, +subsidies, welfare, protectionism, minimum-wage laws, and all +of the other aspects of the welfare state/planned economy way +of life constitute freedom.

+ +

But what about those who have discovered the truth? Are there +not many of these who still will not choose freedom? +Unfortunately, the answer is yes. Although recognizing the +basic immorality of the welfare state/planned economy way of +life, many freedom devotees have chosen to devote their +efforts to reforming it rather than eliminating it. Why? Why +do they insist on defending a way of life which they concede +is immoral as well as a deprivation of the freedom which they +value so highly? Let us examine some of the reasons why these +individuals who know better won't choose freedom.

+ +

One reason is the tremendous fear which most Americans have of +their own government. The agency of government which Americans +fear most, of course, is the Internal Revenue Service, the +tax-collecting arm of the United States government. A mere +letter of inquiry from the IRS is enough to cause Americans to +go into a cold sweat. Not that this fear is unjustified. Every +American knows that the agents of the IRS have virtually +unlimited power to extract, from the pockets of the citizenry, +what they consider to be the "rightful" amount owed to the +political authorities. As Professor Ebeling, FFF's vice-president of academic affairs, once put it on a radio talk +show in which we were jointly participating, "If you want to +know the ways and means of the IRS, simply study the +operations of the KGB."

+ +

But the IRS is not the only agency which inspires great fear +in the American citizenry. I have a friend who is the +executive vice-president of a major American bank. He told me +that most bank presidents, although considered by others (and +themselves) to be "high-powered" individuals, will quiver and +quake like an autumn leaf when confronted by a banking +regulator. In fact, the mere mention of an impending visit by +banking regulators will send most bankers into the same +fearful frenzy experienced by an elementary school student who +is being sent to the principal's office.

+ +

Why? What is it that causes a grown-up to have such a +paralyzing fear of another grown-up? What causes American +adults to cower like little children in the face of a +bureaucrat?

+ +

The answer lies in the strong and powerful government, in both +domestic and foreign affairs, which Americans of this century +have brought into existence. For a strong government will +almost always result in a weak citizenry. And a weak and +terrified citizenry can rarely be relied upon to resist +tyranny by their own government. Instead, they will spend +their time "flexing their muscles" vicariously through the +"toughness" shown by their government, usually in foreign +affairs.

+ +

A second reason: Too many freedom devotees have lost hope that +freedom can actually be achieved. And so, having convinced +themselves that slavery in America is inevitable, they devote +their efforts to "working within the system" rather than to +replacing the system with freedom.

+ +

A good example of this involves those church officials who +have dedicated themselves to getting prayer into public +schools. Few people will deny the tremendous accomplishment of +the Founding Fathers when they separated church and state +through the First Amendment. They realized that religious +zealots with political power are among the most dangerous +forces to which a society can ever be exposed. And so, the +Founding Fathers fought for and achieved a way of life in +which the majority could not impose, through the coercive +power of government, religious doctrines on the rest of the +populace.

+ +

But, as every American knows, it is an entirely different +situation with secular education. Here, as in the olden days +with religion, children are required to be sent to +governmentally approved institutions to learn governmentally +approved doctrines with religious doctrine, by virtue of the +First Amendment, being the only exception.

+ +

What is the reaction of many church leaders to religion being +excepted from the teachings in public schools? Having accepted +the legitimacy or inevitability of state involvement in the +field of education, they wish to empower the state authorities +to teach religious doctrine, in addition to secular doctrine, +to the nation's youth. In other words, instead of trying to +place education on the same level as religion . . . instead of +fighting for freedom of education as our Founding Fathers +fought for freedom of religion . . . instead of calling for a +separation of school and state as our American ancestors did +with church and state . . . instead of rendering to God both +religion and education . . . present-day ministers of God, +having "thrown in the towel" with respect to educational +liberty, now wish to render to Caesar not only education but, +through prayer in government schools, religion as well.

+ +

A third reason why many freedom devotees won't choose freedom: +they continue to operate under the delusion that the welfare +state/planned economy can be made to work. In fact, an +examination of much of the literature that emanates from +various American freedom think-tanks is absorbed with +correcting the "waste, fraud, and abuse" of the system rather +than replacing the system itself with freedom. Their solution +is always the same: "The system needs reform."

+ +

An example is found in the November 2, 1990, issue of The +Backgrounder, a newsletter of The Heritage Foundation, a +renowned, conservative think-tank based in Washington, D.C. +Referring to the budget crisis last fall, Scott A. Hodge, a +member of The Heritage staff, writes, "Members of Congress did +not have the courage to cut one dollar of waste, pork, fraud, +or unnecessary spending from the fiscal 1991 budget." Mr. +Hodge follows up with, "There is no need for Congress to +dismantle the 'social safety net'. . ."

+ +

Mr. Hodge's argument, then, is that the welfare state-- +socialism--not only should be kept intact but also that it is +capable of being made to operate efficiently. The utopian +dream is that if we just elect "better" people to public +office . . . if politicians will just do the "right" thing +. . . if people will just give up the "waste" which they have +been receiving, it is possible to reform and refine the system +so that all of us can live happily ever after in socialist +heaven.

+ +

This illusion--this pipe-dream--that holds so many freedom +devotees in its grip is one of the major obstacles to the +achievement of freedom. But unfortunately, not only in +America. In the Soviet Union, the attitude is exactly the +same. If the politicians and bureaucrats will only do the +"right" thing, the Soviet officials argue, the socialist +system can be kept intact and made to work "correctly."

+ +

Another reason that freedom devotees are inhibited from +choosing freedom: They believe that by doing so, they will not +have intellectual "respectability" among their fellow +Americans. Although privately acknowledging the fundamental +evil and immorality of the welfare state/planned economy way +of life, they believe that calling for its elimination is too +"extreme." Therefore, they maintain their "respectability" (or +so they think) by advocating the continuation of the evil and +immorality and, even more shameful, by wrapping their +arguments in freedom rhetoric.

+ +

It is not difficult, then, to see the stark contrast between +the American Founding Fathers and our present-day freedom +devotees. Our ancestors refused to permit the terrible, +psychological destructiveness of fear to control their +actions. Faced with one of the most powerful monarchs in +history, and his equally powerful regulatory and tax-collecting minions, they nevertheless chose to pledge their +lives, fortunes, and sacred honor in the defense of freedom-- +even though it meant fighting their own government and their +fellow British citizens. Devoted to principle, rather than +expediency, they had no desire to reform the mercantilist +economic system of their own government; recognizing the evil +and immorality of such a system, they strived to eliminate it. +And knowing that the pursuit of right was more important than +popular acceptance, they stood their ground for the whole +world to see!

+ +

It is that spirit of liberty which moved our American +ancestors that is so desperately needed in our time. And when +it finally grips the hearts and minds of the American people, +which I am certain it will, freedom at last will be chosen.

+ +

Mr. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of +Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209.

+ +

------------------------------------------------------------ +From the March 1991 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1991, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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NO TREASON: THE CONSTITUTION OF NO AUTHORITY

+ +

By Lysander Spooner

+ +

Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) was a Massachussetts lawyer noted for +his vigorous and brilliant opposition to the encroachment of the +State upon the liberty of the individual. His writings on the +unconstitutionality of slavery influenced pre-Civil War thought. His +challenge to the postal monopoly (he set up a thriving private post) +resulted in an Act of Congress sharply reducing postage rates. +Unfortunately, he was so successful that Congress finally outlawed +his enterprise.

+ +

The following is the first of a several-part posting of Spooner's +work, "No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority," which +_Playboy_ magazine said "may be the most subversive document ever +penned in this nation." Due to the lack of italic characters in +ASCII, italicized words are indicated by uppercase.

+ +
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+ +

NO TREASON: THE CONSTITUTION OF NO AUTHORITY

+ +

By Lysander Spooner

+ +

I.

+ +

The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no +authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and +man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract +between persons now existing. It purports, at most, to be only a +contract between persons living eighty years ago. [This essay was +written in 1869.] And it can be supposed to have been a contract +then only between persons who had already come to years of +discretion, so as to be competent to make reasonable and obligatory +contracts. Furthermore, we know, historically, that only a small +portion even of the people then existing were consulted on the +subject, or asked, or permitted to express either their consent or +dissent in any formal manner. Those persons, if any, who did give +their consent formally, are all dead now. Most of them have been +dead forty, fifty, sixty, or seventy years. AND THE CONSTITUTION, +SO FAR AS IT WAS THEIR CONTRACT, DIED WITH THEM. They had no +natural power or right to make it obligatory upon their children. It +is not only plainly impossible, in the nature of things, that they +COULD bind their posterity, but they did not even attempt to bind +them. That is to say, the instrument does not purport to be an +agreement between any body but "the people" THEN existing; nor does +it, either expressly or impliedly, assert any right, power, or +disposition, on their part, to bind anybody but themselves. Let us +see. Its language is:

+ +

We, the people of the United States (that is, the people +THEN EXISTING in the United States), in order to form a +more perfect union, insure domestic tranquility, provide +for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and +secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves AND OUR +POSTERITY, do ordain and establish this Constitution for +the United States of America.

+ +

It is plain, in the first place, that this language, AS AN +AGREEMENT, purports to be only what it at most really was, viz., a +contract between the people then existing; and, of necessity, +binding, as a contract, only upon those then existing. In the +second place, the language neither expresses nor implies that they +had any right or power, to bind their "posterity" to live under it. +It does not say that their "posterity" will, shall, or must live +under it. It only says, in effect, that their hopes and motives in +adopting it were that it might prove useful to their posterity, as +well as to themselves, by promoting their union, safety, +tranquility, liberty, etc.

+ +

Suppose an agreement were entered into, in this form:

+ +

We, the people of Boston, agree to maintain a fort on +Governor's Island, to protect ourselves and our +posterity against invasion.

+ +

This agreement, as an agreement, would clearly bind nobody but the +people then existing. Secondly, it would assert no right, power, or +disposition, on their part, to compel their "posterity" to maintain +such a fort. It would only indicate that the supposed welfare of +their posterity was one of the motives that induced the original +parties to enter into the agreement.

+ +

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his +posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has +any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so +foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, +to live in it. So far as they are concerned, he only means to be +understood as saying that his hopes and motives, in building it, are +that they, or at least some of them, may find it for their happiness +to live in it.

+ +

So when a man says he is planting a tree for himself and his +posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has +any thought of compelling them, nor is it to be inferred that he is +such a simpleton as to imagine that he has any right or power to +compel them, to eat the fruit. So far as they are concerned, he only +means to say that his hopes and motives, in planting the tree, are +that its fruit may be agreeable to them.

+ +

So it was with those who originally adopted the Constitution. +Whatever may have been their personal intentions, the legal meaning +of their language, so far as their "posterity" was concerned, simply +was, that their hopes and motives, in entering into the agreement, +were that it might prove useful and acceptable to their posterity; +that it might promote their union, safety, tranquility, and welfare; +and that it might tend "to secure to them the blessings of liberty." +The language does not assert nor at all imply, any right, power, or +disposition, on the part of the original parties to the agreement, +to compel their "posterity" to live under it. If they had intended +to bind their posterity to live under it, they should have said that +their objective was, not "to secure to them the blessings of +liberty," but to make slaves of them; for if their "posterity" are +bound to live under it, they are nothing less than the slaves of +their foolish, tyrannical, and dead grandfathers.

+ +

It cannot be said that the Constitution formed "the people of the +United States," for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak +of "the people" as a corporation, but as individuals. A corporation +does not describe itself as "we," nor as "people," nor as +"ourselves." Nor does a corporation, in legal language, have any +"posterity." It supposes itself to have, and speaks of itself as +having, perpetual existence, as a single individuality.

+ +

Moreover, no body of men, existing at any one time, have the power +to create a perpetual corporation. A corporation can become +practically perpetual only by the voluntary accession of new +members, as the old ones die off. But for this voluntary accession +of new members, the corporation necessarily dies with the death of +those who originally composed it.

+ +

Legally speaking, therefore, there is, in the Constitution, nothing +that professes or attempts to bind the "posterity" of those who +established it.

+ +

If, then, those who established the Constitution, had no power to +bind, and did not attempt to bind, their posterity, the question +arises, whether their posterity have bound themselves. If they have +done so, they can have done so in only one or both of these two +ways, viz., by voting, and paying taxes.

+ +

II.

+ +

Let us consider these two matters, voting and tax paying, +separately. And first of voting.

+ +

All the voting that has ever taken place under the Constitution, has +been of such a kind that it not only did not pledge the whole people +to support the Constitution, but it did not even pledge any one of +them to do so, as the following considerations show.

+ +

1. In the very nature of things, the act of voting could bind nobody +but the actual voters. But owing to the property qualifications +required, it is probable that, during the first twenty or thirty +years under the Constitution, not more than one-tenth, fifteenth, or +perhaps twentieth of the whole population (black and white, men, +women, and minors) were permitted to vote. Consequently, so far as +voting was concerned, not more than one-tenth, fifteenth, or +twentieth of those then existing, could have incurred any obligation +to support the Constitution.

+ +

At the present time [1869], it is probable that not more than +one-sixth of the whole population are permitted to vote. +Consequently, so far as voting is concerned, the other five-sixths +can have given no pledge that they will support the Constitution.

+ +

2. Of the one-sixth that are permitted to vote, probably not more +than two-thirds (about one-ninth of the whole population) have +usually voted. Many never vote at all. Many vote only once in two, +three, five, or ten years, in periods of great excitement.

+ +

No one, by voting, can be said to pledge himself for any longer +period than that for which he votes. If, for example, I vote for an +officer who is to hold his office for only a year, I cannot be said +to have thereby pledged myself to support the government beyond that +term. Therefore, on the ground of actual voting, it probably cannot +be said that more than one-ninth or one-eighth, of the whole +population are usually under any pledge to support the Constitution. +[In recent years, since 1940, the number of voters in elections has +usually fluctuated between one-third and two-fifths of the +populace.]

+ +

3. It cannot be said that, by voting, a man pledges himself to +support the Constitution, unless the act of voting be a perfectly +voluntary one on his part. Yet the act of voting cannot properly be +called a voluntary one on the part of any very large number of those +who do vote. It is rather a measure of necessity imposed upon them +by others, than one of their own choice. On this point I repeat +what was said in a former number, viz.:

+ +

"In truth, in the case of individuals, their actual +voting is not to be taken as proof of consent, EVEN FOR +THE TIME BEING. On the contrary, it is to be considered +that, without his consent having even been asked a man +finds himself environed by a government that he cannot +resist; a government that forces him to pay money, +render service, and forego the exercise of many of his +natural rights, under peril of weighty punishments. He +sees, too, that other men practice this tyranny over him +by the use of the ballot. He sees further, that, if he +will but use the ballot himself, he has some chance of +relieving himself from this tyranny of others, by +subjecting them to his own. In short, he finds himself, +without his consent, so situated that, if he use the +ballot, he may become a master; if he does not use it, +he must become a slave. And he has no other alternative +than these two. In self-defence, he attempts the +former. His case is analogous to that of a man who has +been forced into battle, where he must either kill +others, or be killed himself. Because, to save his own +life in battle, a man takes the lives of his opponents, +it is not to be inferred that the battle is one of his +own choosing. Neither in contests with the ballot -- +which is a mere substitute for a bullet -- because, as +his only chance of self-preservation, a man uses a +ballot, is it to be inferred that the contest is one +into which he voluntarily entered; that he voluntarily +set up all his own natural rights, as a stake against +those of others, to be lost or won by the mere power of +numbers. On the contrary, it is to be considered that, +in an exigency into which he had been forced by others, +and in which no other means of self-defence offered, he, +as a matter of necessity, used the only one that was +left to him.

+ +

"Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most +oppressive government in the world, if allowed the +ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of +thereby meliorating their condition. But it would not, +therefore, be a legitimate inference that the government +itself, that crushes them, was one which they had +voluntarily set up, or even consented to.

+ +

"Therefore, a man's voting under the Constitution of the +United States, is not to be taken as evidence that he +ever freely assented to the Constitution, EVEN FOR THE +TIME BEING. Consequently we have no proof that any very +large portion, even of the actual voters of the United +States, ever really and voluntarily consented to the +Constitution, EVEN FOR THE TIME BEING. Nor can we ever +have such proof, until every man is left perfectly free +to consent, or not, without thereby subjecting himself +or his property to be disturbed or injured by others."

+ +

As we can have no legal knowledge as to who votes from choice, and +who from the necessity thus forced upon him, we can have no legal +knowledge, as to any particular individual, that he voted from +choice; or, consequently, that by voting, he consented, or pledged +himself, to support the government. Legally speaking, therefore, the +act of voting utterly fails to pledge ANY ONE to support the +government. It utterly fails to prove that the government rests +upon the voluntary support of anybody. On general principles of law +and reason, it cannot be said that the government has any voluntary +supporters at all, until it can be distinctly shown who its +voluntary supporters are.

+ +

4. As taxation is made compulsory on all, whether they vote or not, +a large proportion of those who vote, no doubt do so to prevent +their own money being used against themselves; when, in fact, they +would have gladly abstained from voting, if they could thereby have +saved themselves from taxation alone, to say nothing of being saved +from all the other usurpations and tyrannies of the government. To +take a man's property without his consent, and then to infer his +consent because he attempts, by voting, to prevent that property +from being used to his injury, is a very insufficient proof of his +consent to support the Constitution. It is, in fact, no proof at +all. And as we can have no legal knowledge as to who the particular +individuals are, if there are any, who are willing to be taxed for +the sake of voting, we can have no legal knowledge that any +particular individual consents to be taxed for the sake of voting; +or, consequently, consents to support the Constitution.

+ +

5. At nearly all elections, votes are given for various candidates +for the same office. Those who vote for the unsuccessful candidates +cannot properly be said to have voted to sustain the Constitution. +They may, with more reason, be supposed to have voted, not to +support the Constitution, but specially to prevent the tyranny which +they anticipate the successful candidate intends to practice upon +them under color of the Constitution; and therefore may reasonably +be supposed to have voted against the Constitution itself. This +supposition is the more reasonable, inasmuch as such voting is the +only mode allowed to them of expressing their dissent to the +Constitution.

+ +

6. Many votes are usually given for candidates who have no prospect +of success. Those who give such votes may reasonably be supposed to +have voted as they did, with a special intention, not to support, +but to obstruct the exection of, the Constitution; and, therefore, +against the Constitution itself.

+ +

7. As all the different votes are given secretly (by secret ballot), +there is no legal means of knowing, from the votes themselves, who +votes for, and who votes against, the Constitution. Therefore, +voting affords no legal evidence that any particular individual +supports the Constitution. And where there can be no legal evidence +that any particular individual supports the Constitution, it cannot +legally be said that anybody supports it. It is clearly impossible +to have any legal proof of the intentions of largealar one of them.

+ +

8. There being no legal proof of any man's intentions, in voting, we +can only conjecture them. As a conjecture, it is probable, that a +very large proportion of those who vote, do so on this principle, +viz., that if, by voting, thest cases, wholly contingent upon the question whether, by means +of the Constitution, they can make themselves masters, or are to be +made slaves.

+ +

Such contingent consent as that is, in law and reason, no consent at +all.

+ +

9. As everybody who supporMAKE HIMSELF PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTS OF HIS AGENTS, SO +LONG AS THEY ACT WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE POWER HE DELEGATES TO +THEM.

+ +

10. As all voting is secret (by secret ballot), and as all secret +governments are necessarily only secret bands of robbers, tyrants, +and murderers, the general fact that our government is practically +carried on by means of such voting, on murder, the rest of the people. The simple fact of the +existence of such a vand does nothing towards proving that "the +people of the United States," or any one of them, voluntarily +supports the Constitution.

+ +

For all the reasons that have now been given, voting furnishes no +legal evidence as to who the particular individuals are (if there +are any), who voluntarily support the Constitution. It therefore +furnishes no legal evidence that anybody supports it voluntarily.

+ +

So far, therefore, as voting is concerned, the Constitution, legally +speaking, has no supporters at all.

+ +

And, as a matter of fact, there is not the slightest probability +that the Constitution has a single bona fide supporter in the +country. That is to say, there is not the slightest probability +that there is a single man in the country, who both understands what +the Constitution really is, AND SINCERELY SUPPORTS IT FOR WHAT IT +REALLY IS.

+ +

The ostensible supporters of the Constitution, like the ostensible +supporters of most other governments, are made up of three classes, +viz.: 1. Knaves, a numerous and active class, who see in the +governmey can use for their own +aggrandizement or wealth. 2. Dupes -- a large class, no doubt -- +each of whom, because he is allowed one voice out of millions in +deciding what he may do with his own person and his own property, +and because he is permitted to have the same voice in robbing, +enslaving, and murdering others, that others have in robbing, +enslaving, and murdering himself, is stupid enough to imagine that +he is a "free man," a "sovereign"; that this is "a free government"; +"a government of equal rights," "the best government on earth," [1] +and such like abA class who have some appreciation of +the evils of government, but either do not see how to get rid of +them, or do not choose to so far sacrifice their private interests +as to give themselves seriously and earnestly to the work of making +a change.

+ +

----------- +[1] Suppose it be "the best government on earth," does that prove +its own goodness, or only the badness of all other +governments?

+ +

III.

+ +

The payment of taxes, being compulsory, of course furnishes no +evidence that any one voluntarily supports the Constitution.

+ +

1. It is true that the THEORY of our Constitution is, that all taxes +are paid voluntarily; that our government is a mutual insurance +company, voluntarily entered into by the people with each other; +that that each man makes a free and purely voluntary contract with +all others who are parties to the Constitution, to pay so much money +for so much protection, the same as he does with any other insurance +company; and that he is just as free not to be protected, and not to +pay tax, as he is to pay a tax, and be protected.

+ +

But this theory of our government is wholly different from the +practical fact. The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, +says to a man: "Your money, or your life." And many, if not most, +taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

+ +

The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, +spring upon him from the roadside, and, holding a pistol to his +head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the +less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and +shameful.

+ +

The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, +and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any +rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your +own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber. He +has not acquired impudence enough to profess to be merely a +"protector," and that he takes men's money against their will, +merely to enable him to "protect" those infatuated travellers, who +feel perfectly able to protect themselves, or do not appreciate his +peculiar system of protection. He is too sensible a man to make +such professions as these. Furthermore, having taken your money, he +leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following +you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful +"sovereign," on account of the "protection" he affords you. He does +not keep "protecting" you, by commanding you to bow down and serve +him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by +robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest +or pleasure to do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and +an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if +you dispute his authority, or resist his demands. He is too much of +a gentleman to be guilty of such impostures, and insults, and +villanies as these. In short, he does not, in addition to robbing +you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave.

+ +

The proceedings of those robbers and murderers, who call themselves +"the government," are directly the opposite of these of the single +highwayman.

+ +

In the first place, they do not, like him, make themselves +individually known; or, consequently, take upon themselves +personally the responsibility of their acts. On the contrary, they +secretly (by secret ballot) designate some one of their number to +commit the robbery in their behalf, while they keep themselves +practically concealed. They say to the person thus designated:

+ +

Go to A_____ B_____, and say to him that "the government" has need +of money to meet the expenses of protecting him and his property. +If he presumes to say that he, are permitted to vote; and thus +to make themselves parts of, or (if they choose) opponents of, the +government, for the time being. But who of them do thus vote, and +especially how each one votes (whether so as to aid or oppose the +government), he does not know; the voting being all done secretly +(by secret ballot). Who, therefore, practically compose "the +government," for the time being, he has no means of knowing. Of +course he can make no contract with them, give them no consent, and +make them no pledge. Of necessity, therefore, his paying taxes to +them implies, on his part, no contract, consent, or pledge to +support them -- that is, to support "the government," or the +Constitution.

+ +

3. Not knowing who the particular individuals are, who call +themselves "the government," the taxpayer does not know whom he pays +his taxes to. All he knows is that a man comes to him, representing +himself to be the agent of "the government" -- that is, the agent of +a secret band of robbers and murderers, who have taken to themselves +the title of "the government," and have determined to kill everybody +who refuses to give them whatever money they demand. To save his +life, he gives up his money to this agent. But as this agent does +not make his principals individually known to the taxpayer, the +latter, after he has given up his money, knows no more who are "the +government" -- that is, who were the robbers -- than he did before. +To say, therefore, that by giving up his money to their agent, he +entered into a voluntary contract with them, that he pledges himself +to obey them, to support them, and to give them whatever money they +should demand of him in the future, is simply ridiculous.

+ +

4. All political power, so called, rests practically upon this +matter of money. Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to +start with, can establish themselves as a "government"; because, +with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more +money; and also compel general obedience to their will. It is with +government, as Caesar said it was in war, that money and soldiers +mutually supported each other; that with money he could hire +soldiers, and with soldiers extort money. So these villains, who +call themselves governments, well understand that their power rests +primarily upon money. With money they can hire soldiers, and with +soldiers extort money. And, when their authority is denied, the +first use they always make of money, is to hire soldiers to kill or +subdue all who refuse them more money.

+ +

For this reason, whoever desires liberty, should understand these +vital facts, viz.: 1. That every man who puts money into the hands +of a "government" (so called), puts into its hands a sword which +will be used against him, to extort more money from him, and also to +keep him in subjection to its arbitrary will. 2. That those who +will take his money, without his consent, in the first place, will +use it for his further robbery and enslavement, if he presumes to +resist their demands in the future. 3. That it is a perfect +absurdity to suppose that any body of men would ever take a man's +money without his consent, for any such object as they profess to +take it for, viz., that of protecting him; for why should they wish +to protect him, if he does not wish them to do so? To suppose that +they would do so, is just as absurd as it would be to suppose that +they would take his moeny without his consent, for the purpose of +buying food or clothing for him, when he did not want it. 4. If a +man wants "protection," he is competent to make his own bargains for +it; and nobody has any occasion to rob him, in order to "protect" +him against his will. 5. That the only security men can have for +their political liberty, consists in their keeping their money in +their own pockets, until they have assurances, perfectly +satisfactory to themselves, that it will be used as they wish it to +be used, for their benefit, and not for their injury. 6. That no +government, so called, can reasonably be trusted for a moment, or +reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer +than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

+ +

These facts are all so vital and so self-evident, that it cannot +reasonably be supposed that any one will voluntarily pay money to a +"government," for the purpose of securing its protection, unless he +first make an explicit and purely voluntary contract with it for +that purpose.

+ +

It is perfectly evident, therefore, that neither such voting, nor +such payment of taxes, as actually takes place, proves anybody's +consent, or obligation, to support the Constitution. Consequently +we have no evidence at all that the Constitution is binding upon +anybody, or that anybody is under any contract or obligation +whatever to support it. And nobody is under any obligation to +support it.

+ +

IV.

+ +

THE CONSTITUTION NOT ONLY BINDS NOBODY NOW, BUT IT NEVER DID BIND +ANYBODY. It never bound anybody, because it was never agreed to by +anybody in such a manner as to make it, on general principles of law +and reason, binding upon him.

+ +

It is a general principle of law and reason, that a WRITTEN +instrument binds no one until he has signed it. This principle is +so inflexible a one, that even though a man is unable to write his +name, he must still "make his mark," before he is bound by a written +contract. This custom was established ages ago, when few men could +write their names; when a clerk -- that is, a man who could write -- +was so rare and valuable a person, that even if he were guilty of +high crimes, he was entitled to pardon, on the ground that the +public could not afford to lose his services. Even at that time, a +written contract must be signed; and men who could not write, either +"made their mark," or signed their contracts by stamping their seals +upon wax affixed to the parchment on which their contracts were +written. Hence the custom of affixing seals, that has continued to +this time.

+ +

The laws holds, and reason declares, that if a written instrument is +not signed, the presumption must be that the party to be bound by +it, did not choose to sign it, or to bind himself by it. And law +and reason both give him until the last moment, in which to decide +whether he will sign it, or not. Neither law nor reason requires or +expects a man to agree to an instrument, UNTIL IT IS WRITTEN; for +until it is written, he cannot know its precise legal meaning. And +when it is written, and he has had the opportunity to satisfy +himself of its precise legal meaning, he is then expected to decide, +and not before, whether he will agree to it or not. And if he do +not THEN sign it, his reason is supposed to be, that he does not +choose to enter into such a contract. The fact that the instrument +was written for him to sign, or with the hope that he would sign it, +goes for nothing.

+ +

Where would be the end of fraud and litigation, if one party could +bring into court a written instrument, without any signature, and +claim to have it enforced, upon the ground that it was written for +another man to sign? that this other man had promised to sign it? +that he ought to have signed it? that he had had the opportunity to +sign it, if he would? but that he had refused or neglected to do so? +Yet that is the most that could ever be said of the Constitution. +[1] The very judges, who profess to derive all their authority from +the Constitution -- from an instrument that nobody ever signed -- +would spurn any other instrument, not signed, that should be brought +before them for adjudication.

+ +

----------- +[1] The very men who drafted it, never signed it in any way to +bind themselves by it, AS A CONTRACT. And not one of them +probably ever would have signed it in any way to bind himself +by it, AS A CONTRACT.

+ +

Moreover, a written instrument must, in law and reason, not only be +signed, but must also be delivered to the party (or to some one for +him), in whose favor it is made, before it can bind the party making +it. The signing is of no effect, unless the instrument be also +delivered. And a party is at perfect liberty to refuse to deliver a +written instrument, after he has signed it. The Constitution was +not only never signed by anybody, but it was never delivered by +anybody, or to anybody's agent or attorney. It can therefore be of +no more validity as a contract, then can any other instrument that +was never signed or delivered.

+ +

V.

+ +

As further evidence of the general sense of mankind, as to the +practical necessity there is that all men's IMPORTANT contracts, +especially those of a permanent nature, should be both written and +signed, the following facts are pertinent.

+ +

For nearly two hundred years -- that is, since 1677 -- there has +been on the statute book of England, and the same, in substance, if +not precisely in letter, has been re-enacted, and is now in force, +in nearly or quite all the States of this Union, a statute, the +general object of which is to declare that no action shall be +brought to enforce contracts of the more important class, UNLESS +THEY ARE PUT IN WRITING, AND SIGNED BY THE PARTIES TO BE HELD +CHARGEABLE UPON THEM. [At this point there is a footnote listing 34 +states whose statute books Spooner had examined, all of which had +variations of this English statute; the footnote also quotes part of +the Massachussetts statute.]

+ +

The principle of the statute, be it observed, is, not merely that +written contracts shall be signed, but also that all contracts, +except for those specially exempted -- generally those that are for +small amounts, and are to remain in force for but a short time -- +SHALL BE BOTH WRITTEN AND SIGNED.

+ +

The reason of the statute, on this point, is, that it is now so easy +a thing for men to put their contracts in writing, and sign them, +and their failure to do so opens the door to so much doubt, fraud, +and litigation, that men who neglect to have their contracts -- of +any considerable importance -- written and signed, ought not to have +the benefit of courts of justice to enforce them. And this reason +is a wise one; and that experience has confirmed its wisdom and +necessity, is demonstrated by the fact that it has been acted upon +in England for nearly two hundred years, and has been so nearly +universally adopted in this country, and that nobody thinks of +repealing it.

+ +

We all know, too, how careful most men are to have their contracts +written and signed, even when this statute does not require it. For +example, most men, if they have money due them, of no larger amount +than five or ten dollars, are careful to take a note for it. If +they buy even a small bill of goods, paying for it at the time of +delivery, they take a receipted bill for it. If they pay a small +balance of a book account, or any other small debt previously +contracted, they take a written receipt for it.

+ +

Furthermore, the law everywhere (probably) in our country, as well +as in England, requires that a large class of contracts, such as +wills, deeds, etc., shall not only be written and signed, but also +sealed, witnessed, and acknowledged. And in the case of married +women conveying their rights in real estate, the law, in many +States, requires that the women shall be examined separate and apart +from their husbands, and declare that they sign their contracts free +of any fear or compulsion of their husbands.

+ +

Such are some of the precautions which the laws require, and which +individuals -- from motives of common prudence, even in cases not +required by law -- take, to put their contracts in writing, and have +them signed, and, to guard against all uncertainties and +controversies in regard to their meaning and validity. And yet we +have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract -- +the Constitution -- made eighty years ago, by men who are now all +dead, and who never had any power to bind US, but which (it is +claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations of men, consisting +of many millions, and which (it is claimed) will be binding upon all +the millions that are to come; but which nobody ever signed, se the folly and wickedness of +mankind.

+ +

VI.

+ +

It is no exaggeration, but a literal truth, to say that, by the +Constitution -- NOT AS I INTERPRET IT, BUT AS IT IS INTERPRETED BY +THOSE WH never be "questioned" as to any disposal +they make of them.

+ +

Thus the Constitution (Art. I, Sec. 6) provides that, "for any +speech or debate (or vote), in either house, they (the senators and +representatives) shall not be questioned in any other place."

+ +

The whole law-making power is given to these senators and +representatives (when acting by a two-thirds vote); [1] and this +provision protects them from all responsibility for the laws they +make.

+ +

----------- +[1] And this two-thirds vote may be but two-thirds of a quorum -- +that is two-thirds of a majority -- instead of two-thirds of +the whole.

+ +

The Constitution also enables them to secure the execution of all +their laws, by giving them power to withhold the salaries of, and to +impeach and remove, all judicial and executive officers, who refuse +to execute them.

+ +

Thus the whole power of the government is in their hands, and they +are made utterly irresponsible for the use they make of it. What is +this but absolute, irresponsible power?

+ +

It is no answer to this view of the case to say that these men are +under oath to use their power only within certain limits; for what +care they, or what should they care, for oaths or limits, when it is +expressly provided, by the Constitution itself, that they shall +never be "questioned," or held to any resonsibility whatever, for +violating their oaths, or transgressing those limits?

+ +

Neither is it any answer to this view of the case to say that the +men holding this absolute, irresponsible power, must be men chosen +by the people (or portions of them) to hold it. A man is none the +less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a +term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because +permitted periodically to choose new masters. What makes them +slaves is the fact that they now are, and are always hereafter to +be, in the hands of men whose power over them is, and always is to +be, absolute and irresponsible. [2]

+ +

----------- +[2] Of what appreciable value is it to any man, as an individual, +that he is allowed a voice in choosing these public masters? +His voice is only one of several millions.

+ +

The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of +property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, +irresponsible dominion. The two are identical; the one necessarily +implies the other. Neither can exist without the other. If, +therefore, Congress have that absolute and irresponsible law-making +power, which the Constitution -- according to their interpretation +of it -- gives them, it can only be because they own us as property. +If they own us as property, they are our masters, and their will is +our law. If they do not own us as property, they are not our +masters, and their will, as such, is of no authority over us.

+ +

But these men who claim and exercise this absolute and irresponsible +dominion over us, dare not be consistent, and claim either to be our +masters, or to own us as property. They say they are only our +servants, agents, attorneys, and representatives. But this +declaration involves an absurdity, a contradiction. No man can be +my servant, agent, attorney, or representative, and be, at the same +time, uncontrollable by me, and irresponsible to me for his acts. +It is of no importance that I appointed him, and put all power in +his hands. If I made him uncontrollable by me, and irresponsible to +me, he is no longer my servant, agent, attorney, or representative. +If I gave him absolute, irresponsible power over my property, I gave +him the property. If I gave him absolute, irresponsible power over +myself, I made him my master, and gave myself to him as a slave. And +it is of no importance whether I called him master or servant, agent +or owner. The only question is, what power did I put in his hands? +Was it an absolute and irresponsible one? or a limited and +responsible one?

+ +

For still another reason they are neither our servants, agents, +attorneys, nor representatives. And that reason is, that we do not +make ourselves responsible for their acts. If a man is my servant, +agent, or attorney, I necessarily make myself responsible for all +his acts done within the limits of the power I have intrusted to +him. If I have intrusted him, as my agent, with either absolute +power, or any power at all, over the persons or properties of other +men than myself, I thereby necessarily make myself responsible to +those other persons for any injuries he may do them, so long as he +acts within the limits of the power I have granted him. But no +individual who may be injured in his person or property, by acts of +Congress, can come to the individual electors, and hold them +responsible for these acts of their so-called agents or +representatives. This fact proves that these pretended agents of +the people, of everybody, are really the agents of nobody.

+ +

If, then, nobody is individually responsible for the acts of +Congress, the members of Congress are nobody's agents. And if they +are nobody's agents, they are themselves individually responsible +for their own acts, and for the acts of all whom they employ. And +the authority they are exercising is simply their own individual +authority; and, by the law of nature -- the highest of all laws -- +anybody injured by their acts, anybody who is deprived by them of +his property or his liberty, has the same right to hold them +individually responsible, that he has to hold any other trespasser +individually responsible. He has the same right to resist them, and +their agents, that he has to resist any other trespassers.

+ +

VII.

+ +

It is plain, then, that on general principles of law and reason -- +such principles as we all act upon in courts of justice and in +common life -- the Constitution is no contract; that it binds +nobody, and never did bind anybody; and that all those who pretend +to act by its authority, are really acting without any legitimate +authority at all; that, on general principles of law and reason, +they are mere usurpers, and that everybody not only has the right, +but is morally bound, to treat them as such.

+ +

If the people of this country wish to maintain such a government as +the Constitution describes, there is no reason in the world why they +should not sign the instrument itself, and thus make known their +wishes in an open, authentic manner; in such manner as the common +sense and experience of mankind have shown to be reasonable and +necessary in such cases; AND IN SUCH MANNER AS TO MAKE THEMSELVES +(AS THEY OUGHT TO DO) INDIVIDUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTS OF THE +GOVERNMENT. But the people have never been asked to sign it. And +the only reason why they have never been asked to sign it, has been +that it has been known that they never would sign it; that they were +neither such fools nor knaves as they must needs have been to be +willing to sign it; that (at least as it has been practically +interpreted) it is not what any sensible and honest man wants for +himself; nor such as he has any right to impose upon others. It is, +to all moral intents and purposes, as destitute of obligations as +the compacts which robbers and thieves and pirates enter into with +each other, but never sign.

+ +

If any considerable number of the people believe the Constitution to +be good, why do they not sign it themselves, and make laws for, and +administer them upon, each other; leaving all other persons (who do +not interfere with them) in peace? Until they have tried the +experiment for themselves, how can they have the face to impose the +Constitution upon, or even to recommend it to, others? Plainly the +reason for absurd and inconsistent conduct is that they want the +Constitution, not solely for any honest or legitimate use it can be +of to themselves or others, but for the dishonest and illegitimate +power it gives them over the persons and properties of others. But +for this latter reason, all their eulogiums on the Constitution, all +their exhortations, and all their expenditures of money and blood to +sustain it, would be wanting.

+ +

VIII.

+ +

The Constitution itself, then, being of no authority, on what +authority does our government practically rest? On what ground can +those who pretend to administer it, claim the right to seize men's +property, to restrain them of their natural liberty of action, +industry, and trade, and to kill all who deny their authority to +dispose of men's properties, liberties, and lives at their pleasure +or discretion?

+ +

The most they can say, in answer to this question, is, that some +half, two-thirds, or three-fourths, of the male adults of the +country have a TACIT UNDERSTANDING that they will maintain a +government under the Constitution; that they will select, by ballot, +the persons to administer it; and that those persons who may receive +a majority, or a plurality, of their ballots, shall act as their +representatives, and administer the Constitution in their name, and +by their authority.

+ +

But this tacit understanding (admitting it to exist) cannot at all +justify the conclusion drawn from it. A tacit understanding between +A, B, and C, that they will, by ballot, depute D as their agent, to +deprive me of my property, liberty, or life, cannot at all authorize +D to do so. He is none the less a robber, tyrant, and murderer, +because he claims to act as their agent, than he would be if he +avowedly acted on his own responsibility alone.

+ +

Neither am I bound to recognize him as their agent, nor can he +legitimately claim to be their agent, when he brings no WRITTEN +authority from them accrediting him as such. I am under no +obligation to take his word as to who his principals may be, or +whether he has any. Bringing no credentials, I have a right to say +he has no such authority even as he claims to have: and that he is +therefore intending to rob, enslave, or murder me on his own +account.

+ +

This tacit understanding, therefore, among the voters of the +country, amounts to nothing as an authority to their agents. +Neither do the ballots by which they select their agents, avail any +more than does their tacit understanding; for their ballots are +given in secret, and therefore in such a way as to avoid any +personal responsibility for the acts of their agents.

+ +

No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, +to the injury of a third person, unless they do it in so open and +authentic a manner as to make themselves personally responsible for +his acts. None of the voters in this country appoint their +political agents in any open, authentic manner, or in any manner to +make themselves responsible for their acts. Therefore these +pretended agents cannot legitimately claim to be really agents. +Somebody must be responsible for the acts of these pretended agents; +and if they cannot show any open and authentic credentials from +their principals, they cannot, in law or reason, be said to have any +principals. The maxim applies here, that what does not appear, does +not exist. If they can show no principals, they have none.

+ +

But even these pretended agents do not themselves know who their +pretended principals are. These latter act in secret; for acting by +secret ballot is acting in secret as much as if they were to meet in +secret conclave in the darkness of the night. And they are +personally as much unknown to the agents they select, as they are to +others. No pretended agent therefore can ever know by whose ballots +he is selected, or consequently who his real principles are. Not +knowing who his principles are, he has no right to say that he has +any. He can, at most, say only that he is the agent of a secret +band of robbers and murderers, who are bound by that faith which +prevails among confederates in crime, to stand by him, if his acts, +done in their name, shall be resisted.

+ +

Men honestly engaged in attempting to establish justice in the +world, have no occasion thus to act in secret; or to appoint agents +to do acts for which they (the principals) are not willing to be +responsible.

+ +

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government +is a secret band of robbers and murderers. Open despotism is better +than this. The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and +says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master: I take the +responsibility of my acts: The only arbiter I acknowledge is the +sword: If anyone denies my right, let him try conclusions with me.

+ +

But a secret government is little less than a government of +assassins. Under it, a man knows not who his tyrants are, until +they have struck, and perhaps not then. He may GUESS, beforehand, +as to some of his immediate neighbors. But he really knows nothing. +The man to whom he would most naturally fly for protection, may +prove an enemy, when the time of trial comes.

+ +

This is the kind of government we have; and it is the only one we +are likely to have, until men are ready to say: We will consent to +no Constitution, except such an one as we are neither ashamed nor +afraid to sign; and we will authorize no government to do anything +in our name which we are not willing to be personally responsible +for.

+ +

IX.

+ +

What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like +other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but +enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their +individual doings known, even to each other. They can contrive to +bring about a sufficient understanding to enable them to act in +concert against other persons; but beyond this they have no +confidence, and no friendship, among themselves. In fact, they are +engaged quite as much in schemes for plundering each other, as in +plundering those who are not of them. And it is perfectly well +understood among them that the strongest party among them will, in +certain contingencies, murder each other by the hundreds of +thousands (as they lately did do) to accomplish their purposes +against each other. Hence they dare not be known, and have their +individual doings known, even to each other. And this is avowedly +the only reason for the ballot: for a secret government; a +government by secret bands of robbers and murderers. And we are +insane enough to call this liberty! To be a member of this secret +band of robbers and murderers is esteemed a privilege and an honor! +Without this privilege, a man is considered a slave; but with it a +free man! With it he is considered a free man, because he has the +same power to secretly (by secret ballot) procure the robbery, +enslavement, and murder of another man, and that other man has to +procure his robbery, enslavement, and murder. And this they call +equal rights!

+ +

If any number of men, many or few, claim the right to govern the +people of this country, let them make and sign an open compact with +each other to do so. Let them thus make themselves individually +known to those whom they propose to govern. And let them thus +openly take the legitimate responsibility of their acts. How many +of those who now support the Constitution, will ever do this? How +many will ever dare openly proclaim their right to govern? or take +the legitimate responsibility of their acts? Not one!

+ +

X.

+ +

It is obvious that, on general principles of law and reason, there +exists no such thing as a government created by, or resting upon, +any consent, compact, or agreement of "the people of the United +States" with each other; that the only visible, tangible, +responsible government that exists, is that of a few individuals +only, who act in concert, and call themselves by the several names +of senators, representatives, presidents, judges, marshals, +treasurers, collectors, generals, colonels, captains, etc., etc.

+ +

On general principles of law and reason, it is of no importance +whatever that these few individuals profess to be the agents and +representatives of "the people of the United States"; since they can +show no credentials from the people themselves; they were never +appointed as agents or representatives in any open, authentic +manner; they do not themselves know, and have no means of knowing, +and cannot prove, who their principals (as they call them) are +individually; and consequently cannot, in law or reason, be said to +have any principals at all.

+ +

It is obvious, too, that if these alleged principals ever did +appoint these pretended agents, or representatives, they appointed +them secretly (by secret ballot), and in a way to avoid all personal +responsibility for their acts; that, at most, these alleged +principals put these pretended agents forward for the most criminal +purposes, viz.: to plunder the people of their property, and +restrain them of their liberty; and that the only authority that +these alleged principals have for so doing, is simply a TACIT +UNDERSTANDING among themselves that they will imprison, shoot, or +hang every man who resists the exactions and restraints which their +agents or representatives may impose upon them.

+ +

Thus it is obvious that the only visible, tangible government we +have is made up of these professed agents or representatives of a +secret band of robbers and murderers, who, to cover up, or gloss +over, their robberies and murders, have taken to themselves the +title of "the people of the United States"; and who, on the pretense +of being "the people of the United States," assert their right to +subject to their dominion, and to control and dispose of at their +pleasure, all property and persons found in the United States.

+ +

XI.

+ +

On general principles of law and reason, the oaths which these +pretended agents of the people take "to support the Constitution," +are of no validity or obligation. And why? For this, if for no +other reason, viz., THAT THEY ARE GIVEN TO NOBODY. There is no +privity (as the lawyers say) -- that is, no mutual recognition, +consent, and agreement -- between those who take these oaths, and +any other persons.

+ +

If I go upon Boston Common, and in the presence of a hundred +thousand people, men, women and children, with whom I have no +contract upon the subject, take an oath that I will enforce upon +them the laws of Moses, of Lycurgus, of Solon, of Justinian, or of +Alfred, that oath is, on general principles of law and reason, of no +obligation. It is of no obligation, not merely because it is +intrinsically a criminal one, BUT ALSO BECAUSE IT IS GIVEN TO +NOBODY, and consequently pledges my faith to nobody. It is merely +given to the winds.

+ +

It would not alter the case at all to say that, among these hundred +thousand persons, in whose presence the oath was taken, there were +two, three, or five thousand male adults, who had SECRETLY -- by +secret ballot, and in a way to avoid making themselves INDIVIDUALLY +known to me, or to the remainder of the hundred thousand -- +designated me as their agent to rule, control, plunder, and, if need +be, murder, these hundred thousand people. The fact that they had +designated me secretly, and in a manner to prevent my knowing them +individually, prevents all privity between them and me; and +consequently makes it impossible that there can be any contract, or +pledge of faith, on my part towards them; for it is impossible that +I can pledge my faith, in any legal sense, to a man whom I neither +know, nor have any means of knowing, individually.

+ +

So far as I am concerned, then, these two, three, or five thousand +persons are a secret band of robbers and murderers, who have +secretly, and in a way to save themselves from all responsibility +for my acts, designated me as their agent; and have, through some +other agent, or pretended agent, made their wishes known to me. But +being, nevertheless, individually unknown to me, and having no open, +authentic contract with me, my oath is, on general principles of law +and reason, of no validity as a pledge of faith to them. And being +no ther persons in the country, and, so far as they +can, even in neighboring countries; and to kill every man who shall +attempt to defend his person and property against their schemes of +plunder and dominion. Who these men are, INDIVIDUALLY, I have no +certain means of knowing, for they sign no papers, and give no open, +authentic evidence of their individual membership. They are of making known, their individual membeship, +otherwise than by giving their votes secretly for certain agents to +do their will. \ But although these men are individually unknown, +both to each other and to other persons, it is generally understood +in the country that none but male persons, of the age of twenty-one +years and upwards, can be members. It is also generally understood +that ALL male persons, born in the country, having certain +complexions, and (in some localities) certain amounts of property, +and (in certain cases) even persons of foreign birth, aret it appears that usually not more than onehalf, +two-thirds, or in some cases, three-fourths, of all who are thus +permitted to become members of the band, ever exercise, or +consequently prove, their actual membership, in the only mode in +which they ordinarily can exercise or prove it, viz., by giving +their votes secretly for the officers or agents of the band. The +number of these secret votes, so far as we have any account of them, +varies greatly from year to year, thus tending to prove that the +band, instead of being a permanent organization, is a merely PRO +TEMPORE affair with those who choose to act with it for the time +being. \ The gross number of these secret votes, or what purports to +be their gross number, in different localities, is occasionally +published. Whether these reports are accurate or not, we have no +means of knowing. It is generally supposed that great frauds are +often committed in depositing them. They are understood to be +received and counted by certain men, who are themselves appointed +for that purpose by the same secret process by which all other +officers and agents of the band are selected. to the +reports of these receivers of votes (for whose accuracy or honesty, +however, I cannot vouch), and according to my best knowledge of the +whole number of male persons "in my district," who (it is supposed) +were permitted to vote, it would appear that one-half, two-thirds or +three-fourths actually did vote. Who the men were, individually, who +cast these votes, I have no knowledge, for the whole thing was done +secretly. But of the secret votes thus given for what they call a +"member of Congress," the receivers reported that I had a majority, +or at least a larger number than any other one person. And it is +only by virtue of such a designation that I am now here to act in +concert with other persons similarly selected in other parts of the +country.

+ +

It is understood among those who sent me here, that all persons so +selected, will, on coming together at the City of Washington, take +an oath in each other's presence "to support the Constitution of the +United States." By this is meant a certain paper that was drawn up +eighty years ago. It was never signed by anybody, and apparently +has no obligation, and never had any obligation, as a contract. In +fact, few persons ever read it, and doubtless much the largest +number of those who voted for me and the others, never even saw it, +or now pretend to know what it means. Nevertheless, it is often +spoken of in the country as "the Constitution of the United States"; +and for some reason or other, the men who sent me here, seem to +expect that I, and all with whom I act, will swear to carry this +Constitution into effect. I am therefore ready to take this oath, +and to co-operate with all others, similarly selected, who are ready +to take the same oath.

+ +

This is the most that any member of Congress can say in proof that +he has any constituency; that he represents anybody; that his oath +"to support the Constitution," IS GIVEN TO ANYBODY, or pledges his +faith to ANYBODY. He has no open, written, or other authentic +evidence, such as is required in all other cases, that he was ever +appointed the agent or representative of anybody. He has no written +power of attorney from any single individual. He has no such legal +knowledge as is required in all other cases, by which he can +identify a single one of those who pretend to have appointed him to +represent them.

+ +

Of course his oath, professedly given to them, "to support the +Constitution," is, on general principles of law and reason, an oath +given to nobody. It pledges his faith to nobody. If he fails to +fulfil his oath, not a single person can come forward, and say to +him, you have betrayed me, or broken faith with me.

+ +

No one can come forward and say to him: I appointed you my attorney +to act for me. I required you to swear that, as my attorney, you +would support the Constitution. You promised me that you would do +so; and now you have forfeited the oath you gave to me. No single +individual can say this.

+ +

No open, avowed, or responsible association, or body of men, can +come forward and say to him: We appointed you our attorney, to act +forus. We required you to swear that, as our attorney, you would +support the Constitution. You promised us that you would do so; and +now you have forfeited the oath you gave to us.

+ +

No open, avowed, or responsible association, or body of men, can say +this to him; because there is no such association or body of men in +existence. If any one should assert that there is such an +association, let him prove, if he can, who compose it. Let him +produce, if he can, any open, written, or other authentic contract, +signed or agreed to by these men; forming themselves into an +association; making themselves known as such to the world; +appointing him as their agent; and making themselves individually, +or as an association, responsible for his acts, done by their +authority. Until all this can be shown, no one can say that, in any +legitimate sense, there is any such association; or that he is their +agent; or that he ever gave his oath to them; or ever pledged his +faith to them.

+ +

On general principles of law and reason, it would be a sufficient +answer for him to say, to all individuals, and to all pretended +associations of individuals, who should accuse him of a breach of +faith to them:

+ +

I never knew you. Where is your evidence ior robbing other +persons; or that I would take all the personal risk of the +robberies, and pay over the proceeds to you, you were particularly +simple. As I took all the risk of my robberies, I propose to take +all the profits. Begone! You are fools, as well as villains. If I +gave my oath to anybody, I gave it to other persons than you. But I +really gave it to nobody. I o expected me to pay it +over to you, you relied only upon that honor that is said to prevail +among thieves. You now understand that that is a very poor +reliance. I trust you may become wise enough to never rely upon it +again. If I have any duty in the matter, it is to give back the +money to those from whom I took it; not to pay it over to villains +such as you.

+ +

XIII. +They are necessarily given to nobody; because there +is no open, authentic association, to which they can join +themselves; or to whom, as individuals, they can pledge their faith. +No such association, or organization, as "the people of the United +States," having ever been formed by any open, written, authentic, or +voluntary contract, there is, on general principles of law andly given only to the winds. They cant be said to be +given to any man, or body of men, as individuals, because no man, or +body of men, can come forward WITH ANY PROOF that the oaths were +given to them, as individuals, or to any association of which they +are members. To say that there is a tacit understanding among a +portion of the male adults of the country, that they will States to their dominion; but that they wil keep themselves +personally concealed by doing all their acts secretly, is wholly +insufficient, on general principles of law and reason, to prove the +existence of any such association, or organization, as "the people +of the United States"; or consequently to prove that the oaths of +foreigners were given to any such association.

+ +

Xbey the +laws of Congress, support the Union, and the like, are of no +validity. Such oaths are invalid, not only because they were +extorted by military power, and threats of confiscation, and because +they are in contravention of men's natural right to do as they +please about supporting the government, BUT ALSO BECAUSE THEY WERE +GIVEN TO NOBODY. They were nominally given to "the United States." +But being nominally given to "the United States," they were +necessarily given to nobody, because, on general principles of law +and reason, there were no "United States," to whom the oaths could +be given. That is to say, there was no open, authentic, avowed, +legitimate association, corporation, or body of men, known as "the +United States," or as "the people of the United States," to whom the +oaths could have been given. If anybody says there was such a +corporation, let him state who were the individuals that composed +it, and how and when they became a corporation. Were Mr. A, Mr. B, +and Mr. C members of it? If so, where are their signatures? Where +the evidence of their membership? Where the record? Where the +open, authentic proof? There is none. Therefore, in law and +reason, there was no such corporation.

+ +

On general principles of law and reason, every corporation, +association, or organized body of men, having a legitimate corporate +existence, and legitimate corporate rights, must consist of certain +known individuals, who can prove, by legitimate and reasonable +evidence, their membership. But nothing of this kind can be proved +in regard to the corporation, or body of men, who call themselves +"the United States." Not a man of them, in all the Northern States, +can prove by any legitimate evidence, such as is required to prove +membership in other legal corporations, that he himself, or any +other man whom he can name, is a member of any corporation or +association called "the United States," or "the people of the United +States," or, consequently, that there is any such corporation. And +since no such corporation can be proved to exist, it cannot of +course be proved that the oaths of Southern men were given to any +such corporation. The most that can be claimed is that the oaths +were given to a secret band of robbers and murderers, who called +themselves "the United States," and extorted those oaths. But that +is certainly not enough to prove that the oaths are of any +obligation.

+ +

XV.

+ +

On general principles of law and reason, the oaths of soldiers, that +they will serve a given number of years, that they will obey the the +orders of their superior officers, that they will bear true +allegiance to the government, and so forth, are of no obligation. +Independently of the criminality of an oath, that, for a given +number of years, he will kill all whom he may be commanded to kill, +without exercising his own judgment or conscience as to the justice +or necessity of such killing, there is this further reason why a +soldier's oath is of no obligation, viz., that, like all the other +oaths that have now been mentioned, IT IS GIVEN TO NOBODY. There +being, in no legitimate sense, any such corporation, or nation, as +"the United States," nor, consequently, in any legitimate sense, any +such government as "the government of the United States," a +soldier's oath given to, or contract made with, such a nation or +government, is necessarily an oath given to, or contract made with, +nobody. Consequently such an oath or contract can be of no +obligation.

+ +

XVI.

+ +

On general principles of law and reason, the treaties, so called, +which purport to be entered into with other nations, by persons +calling themselves ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and +senators of the United States, in the name, and in behalf, of "the +people of the United States," are of no validity. These so-called +ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators, who claim to be +the agents of "the people of the United States" for making these +treaties, can show no open, written, or other authentic evidence +that either the whole "people of the United States," or any other +open, avowed, responsible body of men, calling themselves by that +name, ever authorized these pretended ambassadors and others to make +treaties in the name of, or binding upon any one of, "the people of +the United States," or any other open, avowed, responsible body of +men, calling themselves by that name, ever authorized these +pretended ambassadors, secretaries, and others, in their name and +behalf, to recognize certain other persons, calling themselves +emperors, kings, queens, and the like, as the rightful rulers, +sovereigns, masters, or representatives of the different peoples +whom they assume to govern, to represent, and to bind.

+ +

The "nations," as they are called, with whom our pretended +ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make +treaties, are as much myths as our own. On general principles of +law and reason, there are no such "nations." That is to say, +neither the whole people of England, for example, nor any open, +avowed, responsible body of men, calling themselves by that name, +ever, by any open, written, or other authentic contract with each +other, formed themselves into any bona fide, legitimate association +or organization, or authorized any king, queen, or other +representative to make treaties in their name, or to bind them, +either individually, or as an association, by such treaties.

+ +

Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona +fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our +part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, +have instrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by +the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades.

+ +

XVII.

+ +

On general principles of law and reason, debts contracted in the +name of "the United States," or of "the people of the United +States," are of no validity. It is utterly absurd to pretend that +debts to the amount of twenty-five hundred millions of dollars are +binding upon thirty-five or forty millions of people [the +approximate national debt and population in 1870], when there is not +a particle of legitimate evidence -- such as would be required to +prove a private debt -- that can be produced against any one of +them, that either he, or his properly authorized attorney, ever +contracted to pay one cent.

+ +

Certainly, neither the whole people of the United States, nor any +number of them, ever separately or individually contracted to pay a +cent of these debts.

+ +

Certainly, also, neither the whole people of the United States, nor +any number of them, every, by any open, written, or other authentic +and voluntary contract, united themselves as a firm, corporation, or +association, by the name of "the United States," or "the people of +the United States," and authorized their agents to contract debts in +their name.

+ +

Certainly, too, there is in existence no such firm, corporation, or +association as "the United States," or "the people of the United +States," formed by any open, written, or other authentic and +voluntary contract, and having corporate property with which to pay +these debts.

+ +

How, then, is it possible, on any general principle of law or +reason, that debts that are binding upon nobody individually, can be +binding upon forty millions of people collectively, when, on general +and legitimate principles of law and reason, these forty millions of +people neither have, nor ever had, any corporate property? never +made any corporate or individual contract? and neither have, nor +ever had, any corporate existence?

+ +

Who, then, created these debts, in the name of "the United States"? +Why, at most, only a few persons, calling themselves "members of +Congress," etc., who pretended to represent "the people of the +United States," but who really represented only a secret band of +robbers and murderers, who wanted money to carry on the robberies +and murders in which they were then engaged; and who intended to +extort from the future people of the United States, by robbery and +threats of murder (and real murder, if that should prove necessary), +the means to pay these debts.

+ +

This band of robbers and murderers, who were the real principals in +contracting these debts, is a secret one, because its members have +never entered into any open, written, avowed, or authentic contract, +by which they may be individually known to the world, or even to +each other. Their real or pretended representatives, who contracted +these debts in their name, were selected (if selected at all) for +that purpose secretly (by secret ballot), and in a way to furnish +evidence against none of the principals INDIVIDUALLY; and these +principals were really known INDIVIDUALLY neither to their pretended +representatives who contracted these debts in their behalf, nor to +those who lent the money. The money, therefore, was all borrowed +and lent in the dark; that is, by men who did not see each other's +faces, or know each other's names; who could not then, and cannot +now, identify each other as principals in the transactions; and who +consequently can prove no contract with each other.

+ +

Furthermore, the money was all lent and borrowed for criminal +purposes; that is, for purposes of robbery and murder; and for this +reason the contracts were all intrinsically void; and would have +been so, even though the real parties, borrowers and lenders, had +come face to face, and made their contracts openly, in their own +proper names.

+ +

Furthermore, this secret band of robbers and murderers, who were the +real borrowers of this money, having no legitimate corporate +existence, have no corporate property with which to pay these debts. +They do indeed pretend to own large tracts of wild lands, lying +between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and between the Gulf of +Mexico and the North Pole. But, on general principles of law and +reason, they might as well pretend to own the Atlantic and Pacific +Oceans themselves; or the atmosphere and the sunlight; and to hold +them, and dispose of them, for the payment of these debts.

+ +

Having no corporate property with which to pay what purports to be +their corporate debts, this secret band of robbers and murderers are +really bankrupt. They have nothing to pay with. In fact, they do +not propose to pay their debts otherwise than from the proceeds of +their future robberies and murders. These are confessedly their +sole reliance; and were known to be such by the lenders of the +money, at the time the money was lent. And it was, therefore, +virtually a part of the contract, that the money should be repaid +only from the proceeds of these future robberies and murders. For +this reason, if for no other, the contracts were void from the +beginning.

+ +

In fact, these apparently two classes, borrowers and lenders, were +really one and the same class. They borrowed and lent money from +and to themselves. They themselves were not only part and parcel, +but the very life and soul, of this secret band of robbers and +murderers, who borrowed and spent the money. Individually they +furnished money for a common enterprise; taking, in return, what +purported to be corporate promises for individual loans. The only +excuse they had for taking these so-called corporate promises of, +for individual loans by, the same parties, was that they might have +some apparent excuse for the future robberies of the band (that is, +to pay the debts of the corporation), and that they might also know +what shares they were to be respectively entitled to out of the +proceeds of their future robberies.

+ +

Finally, if these debts had been created for the most innocent and +honest purposes, and in the most open and honest manner, by the real +parties to the contracts, these parties could thereby have bound +nobody but themselves, and no property but their own. They could +have bound nobody that should have come after them, and no property +subsequently created by, or belonging to, other persons.

+ +

XVIII.

+ +

The Constitution having never been signed by anybody; and there +being no other open, written, or authentic contract between any +parties whatever, by virtue of which the United States government, +so called, is maintained; and it being well known that none but male +persons, of twenty-one years of age and upwards, are allowed any +voice in the government; and it being also well known that a large +number of these adult persons seldom or never vote at all; and that +all those who do vote, do so secretly (by secret ballot), and in a +way to prevent their individual votes being known, either to the +world, or even to each other; and consequently in a way to make no +one openly responsible for the acts of their agents, or +representatives, -- all these things being known, the questions +arise: WHO compose the real governing power in the country? Who +are the men, THE RESPONSIBLE MEN, who rob us of our property? +Restrain us of our liberty? Subject us to their arbitrary dominion? +And devastate our hooms, and shoot us down by the hundreds of +thousands, if we resist? How shall we find these men? How shall we +know them from others? How shall we defend ourselves and our +property against them? Who, of our neighbors, are members of this +secret band of robbers and murderers? How can we know which are +THEIR houses, that we may burn or demolish them? Which THEIR +property, that we may destroy it? Which their persons, that we may +kill them, and rid the world and ourselves of such tyrants and +monsters?

+ +

These are questions that must be answered, before men can be free; +before they can protect themselves against this secret band of +robbers and murderers, who now plunder, enslave, and destroy them.

+ +

The answer to these questions is, that only those who have the will +and power to shoot down their fellow men, are the real rulers in +this, as in all other (so-called) civilized countries; for by no +others will civilized men be robbed, or enslaved.

+ +

Among savages, mere physical strength, on the part of one man, may +enable him to rob, enslave, or kill another man. Among barbarians, +mere physical strength, on the part of a body of men, disciplined, +and acting in concert, though with very little money or other +wealth, may, under some circumstances, enable them to rob, enslave, +or kill another body of men, as numerous, or perhaps even more +numerous, than themselves. And among both savages and barbarians, +mere want may sometimes compel one man to sell himself as a slave to +another. But with (so-called) civilized peoples, among whom +knowledge, wealth, and the means of acting in concert, have becom +diffusede; and who have invented such weapons and other means of +defense as to render mere physical strength of less importance; and +by whom soldiers in any requisite number, and other +instrumentalities of war in any requisite amount, can always be had +for money, the question of war, and consequently the question of +power, is little else than a mere question of money. As a necessary +consequence, those who stand ready to furnish this money, are the +real rulers. It is so in Europe, and it is so in this country.

+ +

In Europe, the nominal rulers, the emperors and kings and +parliaments, are anything but the real rulers of their respective +countries. They are little or nothing else than mere tools, +employed by the wealthy to rob, enslave, and (if need be) murder +those who have less wealth, or none at all.

+ +

The Rosthchilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are +the representatives and agents -- men who never think of lending a +shilling to their next-door neighbors, for purposes of honest +industry, unless upon the most ample security, and at the highest +rate of interest -- stand ready, at all times, to lend money in +unlimited amounts to those robbers and murderers, who call +themselves governments, to be expended in shooting down those who do +not submit quietly to being robbed and enslaved.

+ +

They lend their money in this manner, knowing that it is to be +expended in murdering their fellow men, for simply seeking their +liberty and their rights; knowing also that neither the interest nor +the principal will ever be paid, except as it will be extorted under +terror of the repetition of such murders as those for which the +money lent is to be expended.

+ +

These money-lenders, the Rosthchilds, for example, say to +themselves: If we lend a hundred millions sterling to the queen and +parliament of England, it will enable them to murder twenty, fifty, +or a hundred thousand people in England, Ireland, or India; and the +terror inspired by such wholesale slaughter, will enable them to +keep the whole people of those countries in subjection for twenty, +or perhaps fifty, years to come; to control all their trade and +industry; and to extort from them large amounts of money, under the +name of taxes; and from the wealth thus extorted from them, they +(the queen and parliament) can afford to pay us a higher rate of +interest for our money than we can get in any other way. Or, if we +lend this sum to the emperor of Austria, it will enable him to +murder so many of his people as to strike terror into the rest, and +thus enable him to keep them in subjection, and extort money from +them, for twenty or fifty years to come. And they say the same in +regard to the emperor of Russia, the king of Prussia, the emperor of +France, or any other ruler, so called, who, in their judgment, will +be able, by murdering a reasonable portion of his people, to keep +the rest in subjection, and extort money from them, for a long time +to come, to pay the interest and the principal of the money lent +him.

+ +

And why are these men so ready to lend money for murdering their +fellow men? Soley for this reason, viz., that such loans are +considered better investments than loans for purposes of honest +industry. They pay higher rates of interest; and it is less trouble +to look after them. This is the whole matter.

+ +

The question of making these loans is, with these lenders, a mere +question of pecuniary profit. They lend money to be expended in +robbing, enslaving, and murdering their fellow men, solely because, +on the whole, such loans pay better than any others. They are no +respecters of persons, no superstitious fools, that reverence +monarchs. They care no more for a king, or an emperor, than they do +for a beggar, except as he is a better customer, and can pay them +better interest for their money. If they doubt his ability to make +his murders successful for maintaining his power, and thus extorting +money from his people in future, they dismiss him unceremoniously as +they would dismiss any other hopeless bankrupt, who should want to +borrow money to save himself from open insolvency.

+ +

When these great lenders of blood-money, like the Rothschilds, have +loaned vast sums in this way, for purposes of murder, to an emperor +or a king, they sell out the bonds taken by them, in small amounts, +to anybody, and everybody, who are disposed to buy them at +satisfactory prices, to hold as investments. They (the Rothschilds) +thus soon get back their money, with great profits; and are now +ready to lend money in the same way again to any other robber and +murderer, called an emperor or king, who, they think, is likely to +be successful in his robberies and murders, and able to pay a good +price for the money necessary to carry them on.

+ +

This business of lending blood-money is one of the most thoroughly +sordid, cold-blooded, and criminal that was ever carried on, to any +considerable extent, amongst human beings. It is like lending money +to slave traders, or to common robbers and pirates, to be repaid out +of their plunder. And the men who loan money to governments, so +called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and +murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the world +has ever seen. And they as much deserve to be hunted and killed (if +they cannot otherwise be got rid of) as any slave traders, robbers, +or pirates that ever lived.

+ +

When these emperors and kings, so-called, have obtained their loans, +they proceed to hire and train immense numbers of professional +murderers, called soldiers, and employ them in shooting down all who +resist their demands for money. In fact, most of them keep large +bodies of these murderers constantly in their service, as their only +means of enforcing their extortions. There are now [1870], I think, +four or five millions of these professional murderers constantly +employed by the so-called sovereigns of Europe. The enslaved people +are, of course, forced to support and pay all these murderers, as +well as to submit to all the other extortions which these murderers +are employed to enforce.

+ +

It is only in this way that most of the so-called governments of +Europe are maintained. These so-called governments are in reality +only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, +and constantly on the alert. And the so-called sovereigns, in these +different governments, are simply the heads, or chiefs, of different +bands of robbers and murderers. And these heads or chiefs are +dependent upon the lenders of blood-money for the means to carry on +their robberies and murders. They could not sustain themselves a +moment but for the loans made to them by these blood-money +loan-mongers. And their first care is to maintain their credit with +them; for they know their end is come, the instant their credit with +them fails. Consequently the first proceeds of their extortions are +scrupulously applied to the payment of the interest on their loans.

+ +

In addition to paying the interest on their bonds, they perhaps +grant to the holders of them great monopolies in banking, like the +Banks of England, of France, and of Vienna; with the agreement that +these banks shall furnish money whenever, in sudden emergencies, it +may be necessary to shoot down more of their people. Perhaps also, +by means of tariffs on competing imports, they give great monopolies +to certain branches of industry, in which these lenders of +blood-money are engaged. They also, by unequal taxation, exempt +wholly or partially the property of these loan-mongers, and throw +corresponding burdens upon those who are too poor and weak to +resist.

+ +

Thus it is evident that all these men, who call themselves by the +high-sounding names of Emperors, Kings, Sovereigns, Monarchs, Most +Christian Majesties, Most Catholic Majesties, High Mightinesses, +Most Serene and Potent Princes, and the like, and who claim to rule +"by the grace of God," by "Divine Right" -- that is, by special +authority from Heaven -- are intrinsically not only the merest +miscreants and wretches, engaged solely in plundering, enslaving, +and murdering their fellow men, but that they are also the merest +hangers on, the servile, obsequious, fawning dependents and tools of +these blood-money loan-mongers, on whom they rely for the means to +carry on their crimes. These loan-mongers, like the Rothschilds, +laugh in their sleeves, and say to themselves: These despicable +creatures, who call themselves emperors, and kings, and majesties, +and most serene and potent princes; who profess to wear crowns, and +sit on thrones; who deck themselves with ribbons, and feathers, and +jewels; and surround themselves with hired flatterers and +lickspittles; and whom we suffer to strut around, and palm +themselves off, upon fools and slaves, as sovereigns and lawgivers +specially appointed by Almighty God; and to hold themselves out as +the sole fountains of honors, and dignities, and wealth, and power +-- all these miscreants and imposters know that we make them, and +use them; that in us they live, move, and have their being; that we +require them (as the price of their positions) to take upon +themselves all the labor, all the danger, and all the odium of all +the crimes they commit for our profit; and that we will unmake them, +strip them of their gewgaws, and send them out into the world as +beggars, or give them over to the vengeance of the people they have +enslaved, the moment they refuse to commit any crime we require of +them, or to pay over to us such share of the proceeds of their +robberies as we see fit to demand.

+ +

XIX.

+ +

Now, what is true in Europe, is substantially true in this country. +The difference is the immaterial one, that, in this country, there +is no visible, permanent head, or chief, of these robbers and +murderers who call themselves "the government." That is to say, +there is no ONE MAN, who calls himself the state, or even emperor, +king, or sovereign; no one who claims that he and his children rule +"by the Grace of God," by "Divine Right," or by special appointment +from Heaven. There are only certain men, who call themselves +presidents, senators, and representatives, and claim to be the +authorized agents, FOR THE TIME BEING, OR FOR CERTAIN SHORT PERIODS, +OF ALL "the people of the United States"; but who can show no +credentials, or powers of attorney, or any other open, authentic +evidence that they are so; and who notoriously are not so; but are +really only the agents of a secret band of robbers and murderers, +whom they themselves do not know, and have no means of knowing, +individually; but who, they trust, will openly or secretly, when the +crisis comes, sustain them in all their usurpations and crimes.

+ +

What is important to be noticed is, that these so-called presidents, +senators, and representatives, these pretended agents of all "the +people of the United States," the moment their exactions meet with +any formidable resistance from any portion of "the people" +themselves, are obliged, like their co-robbers and murderers in +Europe, to fly at once to the lenders of blood money, for the means +to sustain their power. And they borrow their money on the same +principle, and for the same purpose, viz., to be expended in +shooting down all those "people of the United States" -- their own +constituents and principals, as they profess to call them -- who +resist the robberies and enslavements which these borrowers of the +money are practising upon them. And they expect to repay the loans, +if at all, only from the proceeds of the future robberies, which +they anticipate it will be easy for them and their successors to +perpetrate through a long series of years, upon their pretended +principals, if they can but shoot down now some hundreds of +thousands of them, and thus strike terror into the rest.

+ +

Perhaps the facts were never made more evident, in any country on +the globe, than in our own, that these soulless blood-money +loan-mongers are the real rulers; that they rule from the most +sordid and mercenary motives; that the ostensible government, the +presidents, senators, and representatives, so called, are merely +their tools; and that no ideas of, or regard for, justice or liberty +had anything to do in inducing them to lend their money for the war +[i.e, the Civil War]. In proof of all this, look at the following +facts.

+ +

Nearly a hundred years ago we professed to have got rid of all that +religious superstition, inculcated by a servile and corrupt +priesthood in Europe, that rulers, so called, derived their +authority directly from Heaven; and that it was consequently a +religious duty on the part of the people to obey them. We professed +long ago to have learned that governments could rightfully exist +only by the free will, and on the voluntary support, of those who +might choose to sustain them. We all professed to have known long +ago, that the only legitimate objects of government were the +maintenance of liberty and justice equally for all. All this we had +professed for nearly a hundred years. And we professed to look with +pity and contempt upon those ignorant, superstitious, and enslaved +peoples of Europe, who were so easily kept in subjection by the +frauds and force of priests and kings.

+ +

Notwithstanding all this, that we had learned, and known, and +professed, for nearly a century, these lenders of blood money had, +for a long series of years previous to the war, been the willing +accomplices of the slave-holders in perverting the government from +the purposes of liberty and justice, to the greatest of crimes. +They had been such accomplices FOR A PURELY PECUNIARY CONSIDERATION, +to wit, a control of the markets in the South; in other words, the +privilege of holding the slave-holders themselves in industrial and +commercial subjection to the manufacturers and merchants of the +North (who afterwards furnished the money for the war). And these +Northern merchants and manufacturers, these lenders of blood-money, +were willing to continue to be the accomplices of the slave-holders +in the future, for the same pecuniary considerations. But the +slave-holders, either doubting the fidelity of their Northern +allies, or feeling themselves strong enough to keep their slaves in +subjection without Northern assistance, would no longer pay the +price which these Northern men demanded. And it was to enforce this +price in the future -- that is, to monopolize the Southern markets, +to maintain their industrial and commercial control over the South +-- that these Northern manufacturers and merchants lent some of the +profits of their former monopolies for the war, in order to secure +to themselves the same, or greater, monopolies in the future. These +-- and not any love of liberty or justice -- were the motives on +which the money for the war was lent by the North. In short, the +North said to the slave-holders: If you will not pay us our price +(give us control of your markets) for our assistance against your +slaves, we will secure the same price (keep control of your markets) +by helping your slaves against you, and using them as our tools for +maintaining dominion over you; for the control of your markets we +will have, whether the tools we use for that purpose be black or +white, and be the cost, in blood and money, what it may.

+ +

On this principle, and from this motive, and not from any love of +liberty, or justice, the money was lent in enormous amounts, and at +enormous rates of interest. And it was only by means of these loans +that the objects of the war were accomplished.

+ +

And now these lenders of blood-money demand their pay; and the +government, so called, becomes their tool, their servile, slavish, +villanous tool, to extort it from the labor of the enslaved people +both of the North and South. It is to be extorted by every form of +direct, and indirect, and unequal taxation. Not only the nominal +debt and interest -- enormous as the latter was -- are to be paid in +full; but these holders of the debt are to be paid still further -- +and perhaps doubly, triply, or quadruply paid -- by such tariffs on +imports as will enable our home manufacturers to realize enormous +prices for their commodities; also by such monopolies in banking as +will enable them to keep control of, and thus enslave and plunder, +the industry and trade of the great body of the Northern people +themselves. In short, the industrial and commercial slavery of the +great body of the people, North and South, black and white, is the +price which these lenders of blood money demand, and insist upon, +and are determined to secure, in return for the money lent for the +war.

+ +

This programme having been fully arranged and systematized, they put +their sword into the hands of the chief murderer of the war, +[undoubtedly a reference to General Grant, who had just become +president] and charge him to carry their scheme into effect. And +now he, speaking as their organ, says, "LET US HAVE PEACE."

+ +

The meaning of this is: Submit quietly to all the robbery and +slavery we have arranged for you, and you can have "peace." But in +case you resist, the same lenders of blood-money, who furnished the +means to subdue the South, will furnish the means again to subdue +you.

+ +

These are the terms on which alone this government, or, with few +exceptions, any other, ever gives "peace" to its people.

+ +

The whole affair, on the part of those who furnished the money, has +been, and now is, a deliberate scheme of robbery and murder; not +merely to monopolize the markets of the South, but also to +monopolize the currency, and thus control the industry and trade, +and thus plunder and enslave the laborers, of both North and South. +And Congress and the president are today the merest tools for these +purposes. They are obliged to be, for they know that their own +power, as rulers, so-called, is at an end, the moment their credit +with the blood-money loan-mongers fails. They are like a bankrupt +in the hands of an extortioner. They dare not say nay to any demand +made upon them. And to hide at once, if possible, both their +servility and crimes, they attempt to divert public attention, by +crying out that they have "Abolished Slavery!" That they have "Saved +the Country!" That they have "Preserved our Glorious Union!" and +that, in now paying the "National Debt," as they call it (as if the +people themselves, ALL OF THEM WHO ARE TO BE TAXED FOR ITS PAYMENT, +had really and voluntarily joined in contracting it), they are +simply "Maintaining the National Honor!"

+ +

By "maintaining the national honor," they mean simply that they +themselves, open robbers and murderers, assume to be the nation, and +will keep faith with those who lend them the money necessary to +enable them to crush the great body of the people under their feet; +and will faithfully appropriate, from the proceeds of their future +robberies and murders, enough to pay all their loans, principal and +interest.

+ +

The pretense that the "abolition of slavery" was either a motive or +justification for the war, is a fraud of the same character with +that of "maintaining the national honor." Who, but such usurpers, +robbers, and murderers as they, ever established slavery? Or what +government, except one resting upon the sword, like the one we now +have, was ever capable of maintaining slavery? And why did these +men abolish slavery? Not from any love of liberty in general -- not +as an act of justice to the black man himself, but only "as a war +measure," and because they wanted his assistance, and that of his +friends, in carrying on the war they had undertaken for maintaining +and intensifying that political, commercial, and industrial slavery, +to which they have subjected the great body of the people, both +black and white. And yet these imposters now cry out that they have +abolished the chattel slavery of the black man -- although that was +not the motive of the war -- as if they thought they could thereby +conceal, atone for, or justify that other slavery which they were +fighting to perpetuate, and to render more rigorous and inexorable +than it ever was before. There was no difference of principle -- +but only of degree -- between the slavery they boast they have +abolished, and the slavery they were fighting to preserve; for all +restraints upon men's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple +maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ +from each other only in degree.

+ +

If their object had really been to abolish slavery, or maintain +liberty or justice generally, they had only to say: All, whether +white or black, who want the protection of this government, shall +have it; and all who do not want it, will be left in peace, so long +as they leave us in peace. Had they said this, slavery would +necessarily have been abolished at once; the war would have been +saved; and a thousand times nobler union than we have ever had would +have been the result. It would have been a voluntary union of free +men; such a union as will one day exist among all men, the world +over, if the several nations, so called, shall ever get rid of the +usurpers, robbers, and murderers, called governments, that now +plunder, enslave, and destroy them.

+ +

Still another of the frauds of these men is, that they are now +establishing, and that the war was designed to establish, "a +government of consent." The only idea they have ever manifested as +to what is a government of consent, is this -- that it is one to +which everybody must consent, or be shot. This idea was the +dominant one on which the war was carried on; and it is the dominant +one, now that we have got what is called "peace."

+ +

Their pretenses that they have "Saved the Country," and "Preserved +our Glorious Union," are frauds like all the rest of their +pretenses. By them they mean simply that they have subjugated, and +maintained their power over, an unwilling people. This they call +"Saving the Country"; as if an enslaved and subjugated people -- or +as if any people kept in subjection by the sword (as it is intended +that all of us shall be hereafter) -- could be said to have any +country. This, too, they call "Preserving our Glorious Union"; as +if there could be said to be any Union, glorious or inglorious, that +was not voluntary. Or as if there could be said to be any union +between masters and slaves; between those who conquer, and those who +are subjugated.

+ +

All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the +country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing "a +government of consent," and of "maintaining the national honor," are +all gross, shameless, transparent cheats -- so transparent that they +ought to deceive no one -- when uttered as justifications for the +war, or for the government that has suceeded the war, or for now +compelling the people to pay the cost of the war, or for compelling +anybody to support a government that he does not want.

+ +

The lesson taught by all these facts is this: As long as mankind +continue to pay "national debts," so-called -- that is, so long as +they are such dupes and cowards as to pay for being cheated, +plundered, enslaved, and murdered -- so long there will be enough to +lend the money for those purposes; and with that money a plenty of +tools, called soldiers, can be hired to keep them in subjection. +But when they refuse any longer to pay for being thus cheated, +plundered, enslaved, and murdered, they will cease to have cheats, +and usurpers, and robbers, and murderers and blood-money +loan-mongers for masters.

+ +

APPENDIX.

+ +

Inasmuch as the Constitution was never signed, nor agreed to, by +anybody, as a contract, and therefore never bound anybody, and is +now binding upon nobody; and is, moreover, such an one as no people +can ever hereafter be expected to consent to, except as they may be +forced to do so at the point of the bayonet, it is perhaps of no +importance what its true legal meaning, as a contract, is. +Nevertheless, the writer thinks it proper to say that, in his +opinion, the Constitution is no such instrument as it has generally +been assumed to be; but that by false interpretations, and naked +usurpations, the government has been made in practice a very widely, +and almost wholly, different thing from what the Constitution itself +purports to authorize. He has heretofore written much, and could +write much more, to prove that such is the truth. But whether the +Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain +-- that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, +or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to +exist.

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Please note that a listing of telephone numbers is +provided at the end of this handbook should you have any questions or +concerns. + +Introduction + +In joining NSA you have been given an opportunity to participate in +the activities of one of the most important intelligence +organizations of the United States Government. At the same time, you +have also assumed a trust which carries with it a most important +individual responsibility--the safeguarding of sensitive information +vital to the security of our nation. + +While it is impossible to estimate in actual dollars and cents the +value of the work being conducted by this Agency, the information to +which you will have access at NSA is without question critically +important to the defense of the United States. Since this +information may be useful only if it is kept secret, it requires a +very special measure of protection. The specific nature of this +protection is set forth in various Agency security regulations and +directives. The total NSA Security Program, however, extends beyond +these regulations. It is based upon the concept that security begins +as a state of mind. The program is designed to develop an +appreciation of the need to protect information vital to the national +defense, and to foster the development of a level of awareness which +will make security more than routine compliance with regulations. + +At times, security practices and procedures cause personal +inconvenience. They take time and effort and on occasion may make it +necessary for you to voluntarily forego some of your usual personal +perogatives. But your compensation for the inconvenience is the +knowledge that the work you are accomplishing at NSA, within a +framework of sound security practices, contributes significantly to +the defense and continued security of the United States of America. + +I extend to you my very best wishes as you enter upon your chosen +career or assignment with NSA. + +Philip T. Pease +Director of Security + + +INITIAL SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES + +Anonymity + +Perhaps one of the first security practices with which new NSA +personnel should become acquainted is the practice of anonymity. In +an open society such as ours, this practice is necessary because +information which is generally available to the public is available +also to hostile intelligence. Therefore, the Agency mission is best +accomplished apart from public attention. Basically, anonymity means +that NSA personnel are encouraged not to draw attention to themselves +nor to their association with this Agency. NSA personnel are also +cautioned neither to confirm nor deny any specific questions about +NSA activities directed to them by individuals not affiliated with +the Agency. + +The ramifications of the practice of anonymity are rather far +reaching, and its success depends on the cooperation of all Agency +personnel. Described below you will find some examples of situations +that you may encounter concerning your employment and how you should +cope with them. Beyond the situations cited, your judgement and +discretion will become the deciding factors in how you respond to +questions about your employment. + +Answering Questions About Your Employment + +Certainly, you may tell your family and friends that you are employed +at or assigned to the National Security Agency. There is no valid reason +to deny them this information. However, you may not disclose to them +any information concerning specific aspects of the Agency's mission, +activities, and organization. You should also ask them not to +publicize your association with NSA. + +Should strangers or casual acquaintances question you about your +place of employment, an appropriate reply would be that you work for +the Department of Defense. If questioned further as to where you are +employed within the Department of Defense, you may reply, "NSA." +When you inform someone that you work for NSA (or the Department of +Defense) you may expect that the next question will be, "What do you +do?" It is a good idea to anticipate this question and to formulate +an appropriate answer. Do not act mysteriously about your +employment, as that would only succeed in drawing more attention to +yourself. + +If you are employed as a secretary, engineer, computer scientist, or +in a clerical, administrative, technical, or other capacity +identifiable by a general title which in no way indicates how your +talents are being applied to the mission of the Agency, it is +suggested that you state this general title. If you are employed as +a linguist, you may say that you are a linguist, if necessary. +However, you should not indicate the specific language(s) with which +you are involved. + +The use of service specialty titles which tend to suggest or reveal +the nature of the Agency's mission or specific aspects of their +work. These professional titles, such as cryptanalyst, signals +collection officer, and intelligence research analyst, if given +verbatim to an outsider, would likely generate further questions +which may touch upon the classified aspects of your work. Therefore, +in conversation with outsiders, it is suggested that such job titles +be generalized. For example, you might indicate that you are a +"research analyst." You may not, however, discuss the specific +nature of your analytic work. + +Answering Questions About Your Agency Training + +During your career or assignment at NSA, there is a good chance that +you will receive some type of job-related training. In many +instances the nature of the training is not classified. However, in +some situations the specialized training you receive will relate +directly to sensitive Agency functions. In such cases, the nature of +this training may not be discussed with persons outside of this +Agency. + +If your training at the Agency includes language training, your +explanation for the source of your linguistic knowledge should be +that you obtained it while working for the Department of Defense. + +You Should not draw undue attention to your language abilities, and +you may not discuss how you apply your language skill at the Agency. + +If you are considering part-time employment which requires the use of +language or technical skills similar to those required for the +performance of your NSA assigned duties, you must report (in advance) +the anticipated part-time work through your Staff Security Officer +(SSO) to the Office of Security's Clearance Division (M55). + +Verifying Your Employment + +On occasion, personnel must provide information concerning their +employment to credit institutions in connection with various types of +applications for credit. In such situations you may state, if you are +a civilian employee, that you are employed by NSA and indicate your +pay grade or salary. Once again, generalize your job title. If any +further information is desired by persons or firms with whom you may +be dealing, instruct them to request such information by +correspondence addressed to: Director of Civilian Personnel, +National Security Agency, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland 20755-6000. +Military personnel should use their support group designator and +address when indicating their current assignment. + +If you contemplate leaving NSA for employment elsewhere, you may be +required to submit a resume/job application, or to participate in +extensive employment interviews. In such circumstances, you should +have your resume reviewed by the +Classification Advisory Officer (CAO) assigned to your organization. +Your CAO will ensure that any classified operational details of your +duties have been excluded and will provide you with an unclassified +job description. Should you leave the Agency before preparing such a +resume, you may develop one and send it by registered mail to the +NSA/CSS Information Policy Division (Q43) for review. Remember, your +obligation to protect sensitive Agency information extends beyond +your employment at NSA. + +The Agency And Public News Media + +From time to time you may find that the agency is the topic of +reports or articles appearing in public news media--newspapers, +magazines, books, radio and TV. The NSA/CSS Information Policy +Division (Q43) represents the Agency in matters involving the press +and other media. This office serves at the Agency's official media +center and is the Director's liaison office for public relations, +both in the community and with other government agencies. The +Information Policy Division must approve the release of all +information for and about NSA, its mission, activities, and +personnel. In order to protect the aspects of Agency operations, NSA +personnel must refrain from either confirming or denying any +information concerning the Agency or its activities which may appear +in the public media. If you are asked about the activities of NSA, +the best response is "no comment." You should the notify Q43 of the +attempted inquiry. For the most part, public references to NSA are +based upon educated guesses. The Agency does not normally make a +practice of issuing public statements about its activities. + +GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES + +Espionage And Terrorism + +During your security indoctrination and throughout your NSA career +you will become increasingly aware of the espionage and terrorist +threat to the United States. Your vigilance is the best single +defense in protecting NSA information, operations, facilities and +people. Any information that comes to your attention that suggests +to you the existence of, or potential for, espionage or terrorism +against the U.S. or its allies must be promptly reported by you to +the Office of Security. + +There should be no doubt in your mind about the reality of the +threats. You are now affiliated with the most sensitive agency in +government and are expected to exercise vigilance and common sense to +protect NSA against these threats. + +Classification + +Originators of correspondence, communications, equipment, or +documents within the Agency are responsible for ensuring that the +proper classification, downgrading information and, when appropriate, +proper caveat notations are assigned to such material. (This +includes any handwritten notes which contain classified information). +The three levels of classification are Confidential, Secret and Top +Secret. The NSA Classification Manual should be used as guidance in +determining proper classification. If after review of this document +you need assistance, contact the Classification Advisory Officer +(CAO) assigned to your organization, or the Information Policy +Division (Q43). + +Need-To-Know + +Classified information is disseminated only on a strict +"need-to-know" basis. The "need-to-know" policy means that classified +information will be disseminated only to those individuals who, in +addition to possessing a proper clearance, have a requirement to know +this information in order to perform their official duties +(need-to-know). No person is entitled to classified information +solely by virtue of office, position, rank, or security clearance. + +All NSA personnel have the responsibility to assert the +"need-to-know" policy as part of their responsibility to protect +sensitive information. Determination of "need-to-know" is a +supervisory responsibility. This means that if there is any doubt in +your mind as to an individual's "need-to-know," you should always +check with your supervisor before releasing any classified material +under your control. + +For Official Use Only + +Separate from classified information is information or material +marked "FOR +OFFICIAL USE ONLY" (such as this handbook). This designation is used +to identify that official information or material which, although +unclassified, is exempt from the requirement for public disclosure of +information concerning government activities and which, for a +significant reason, should not be given general circulation. Each +holder of "FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY" (FOUO) information or material is +authorized to disclose such information or material to persons in +other departments or agencies of the Executive and Judicial branches +when it is determined that the information or material is required to +carry our a government function. The recipient must be advised that +the information or material is not to be disclosed to the general +public. Material which bears the "FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY" caveat does +not come under the regulations governing the protection of classified +information. The unauthorized disclosure of information marked "FOR +OFFICIAL USE ONLY" does not constitute an unauthorized disclosure of +classified defense information. However, Department of Defense and +NSA regulations prohibit the unauthorized disclosure of information +designated "FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY." Appropriate administrative +action will be taken to determine responsibility and to apply +corrective and/or disciplinary measures in cases of unauthorized +disclosure of information which bears the "FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY" +caveat. Reasonable care must be exercised in limiting the +dissemination of "FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY" information. While you may +take this handbook home for further study, remember that is does +contain "FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY" information which should be +protected. + +Prepublication Review + +All NSA personnel (employees, military assignees, and contractors) +must submit for review any planned articles, books, speeches, +resumes, or public statements that may contain classified, +classifiable, NSA-derived, or unclassified protected information, +e.g., information relating to the organization, mission, functions, +or activities of NSA. Your obligation to protect this sensitive +information is a lifetime one. Even when you resign, retire, or +otherwise end your affiliation with NSA, you must submit this type of +material for prepublication review. For additional details, contact +the Information Policy Division (Q43) for an explanation of +prepublication review procedures. + +Personnel Security Responsibilities + +Perhaps you an recall your initial impression upon entering an NSA +facility. Like most people, you probably noticed the elaborate +physical security safeguards--fences, concrete barriers, Security +Protective Officers, identification badges, etc. While these +measures provide a substantial degree of protection for the +information housed within our buildings, they represent only a +portion of the overall Agency security program. In fact, vast +amounts of information leave our facilities daily in the minds of NSA +personnel, and this is where our greatest vulnerability lies. +Experience has indicated that because of the vital information we +work with at NSA, Agency personnel may become potential targets for +hostile intelligence efforts. Special safeguards are therefore +necessary to protect our personnel. + +Accordingly, the Agency has an extensive personnel security program +which establishes internal policies and guidelines governing employee +conduct and activities. These policies cover a variety of topics, +all of which are designed to protect both you and the sensitive +information you will gain through your work at NSA. + +Association With Foreign Nationals + +As a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community and by virtue of your +access to sensitive information, you are a potential target for +hostile intelligence activities carried out by or on behalf of +citizens of foreign countries. A policy concerning association with +foreign nationals has been established by the Agency to minimize the +likelihood that its personnel might become subject to undue influence +or duress or targets of hostile activities through foreign +relationships. + +As an NSA affiliate, you are prohibited from initiating or +maintaining associations (regardless of the nature and degree) with +citizens or officials of communist-controlled, or other countries +which pose a significant threat to the security of the United States +and its interests. A comprehensive list of these designated +countries is available from your Staff Security Officer or the +Security Awareness Division. Any contact with citizens of these +countries, no matter how brief or seemingly innocuous, must be +reported as soon as possible to your Staff Security Officer (SSO). +(Individuals designated as Staff Security Officers are assigned to +every organization; a listing of Staff Security Officers can be found +at the back of this handbook). + +Additionally, close and continuing associations with any non-U.S. +citizens which are characterized by ties of kinship, obligation, or +affection are prohibited. A waiver to this policy may be granted only +under the most exceptional circumstances when there is a truly +compelling need for an individual's services or skills and the +security risk is negligible. + +In particular, a waiver must be granted in advance of a marriage to +or cohabitation with a foreign national in order to retain one's +access to NSA information. Accordingly, any intent to cohabitate +with or marry a non-U.S. citizen must be reported immediately to your +Staff Security Officer. If a waiver is granted, future reassignments +both at headquarters and overseas may be affected. + +The marriage or intended marriage of an immediate family member +(parents, siblings, children) to a foreign national must also be +reported through your SSO to the Clearance Division (M55). + +Casual social associations with foreign nationals (other than those +of the designated countries mentioned above) which arise from normal +living and working arrangements in the community usually do not have +to be reported. During the course of these casual social +associations, you are encouraged to extend the usual social +amenities. Do not act mysteriously or draw attention to yourself +(and possibly to NSA) by displaying an unusually wary attitude. + +Naturally, your affiliation with the Agency and the nature of your +work should not be discussed. Again, you should be careful not to +allow these associations to become close and continuing to the extent +that they are characterized by ties of kinship, obligation, or +affection. + +If at any time you feel that a "casual" association is in any way +suspicious, you should report this to your Staff Security Officer +immediately. Whenever any doubt exists as to whether or not a +situation should be reported or made a matter of record, you should +decided in favor of reporting it. In this way, the situation can be +evaluated on its own merits, and you can be advised as to your future +course of action. + +Correspondence With Foreign Nationals + +NSA personnel are discouraged from initiating correspondence with +individuals who are citizens of foreign countries. Correspondence +with citizens of communist-controlled or other designated countries +is prohibited. Casual social correspondence, including the "penpal" +variety, with other foreign acquaintances is acceptable and need not +be reported. If, however, this correspondence should escalate in its +frequency or nature, you should report that through your Staff +Security Officer to the Clearance Division (M55). + +Embassy Visits + +Since a significant percentage of all espionage activity is known to +be conducted through foreign embassies, consulates, etc., Agency +policy discourages visits to embassies, consulates or other official +establishments of a foreign government. Each case, however, must be +judged on the circumstances involved. Therefore, if you plan to +visit a foreign embassy for any reason (even to obtain a visa), you +must consult with, and obtain the prior approval of, your immediate +supervisor and the Security Awareness Division (M56). + +Amateur Radio Activities + +Amateur radio (ham radio) activities are known to be exploited by +hostile intelligence services to identify individuals with access to +classified +information; therefore, all licensed operators are expected to be +familiar with NSA/CSS Regulation 100-1, "Operation of Amateur Radio +Stations" (23 October 1986). The specific limitations on contacts +with operators from communist and designated countries are of +particular importance. If you are an amateur radio operator you +should advise the Security Awareness Division (M56) of your amateur +radio activities so that detailed guidance may be furnished to you. + +Unofficial Foreign Travel + +In order to further protect sensitive information from possible +compromise resulting from terrorism, coercion, interrogation or +capture of Agency personnel by hostile nations and/or terrorist +groups, the Agency has established certain policies and procedures +concerning unofficial foreign travel. + +All Agency personnel (civilian employees, military assignees, and +contractors) who are planning unofficial foreign travel must have +that travel approved by submitting a proposed itinerary to the +Security Awareness Division (M56) at least 30 working days prior to +their planned departure from the United States. Your itinerary should +be submitted on Form K2579 (Unofficial Foreign Travel Request). This +form provides space for noting the countries to be visited, mode of +travel, and dates of departure and return. Your immediate supervisor +must sign this form to indicate whether or not your proposed travel +poses a risk to the sensitive information, activities, or projects of +which you may have knowledge due to your current assignment. + +After your supervisor's assessment is made, this form should be +forwarded to the Security Awareness Director (M56). Your itinerary +will then be reviewed in light of the existing situation in the +country or countries to be visited, and a decision for approval or +disapproval will be based on this assessment. The purpose of this +policy is to limit the risk of travel to areas of the world where a +threat may exist to you and to your knowledge of classified Agency +activities. + +In this context, travel to communist-controlled and other hazardous +activity areas is prohibited. A listing of these hazardous activity +areas is prohibited. A listing of these hazardous activity areas can +be found in Annex A of NSA/CSS Regulation No. 30-31, "Security +Requirements for Foreign Travel" (12 June 1987). From time to time, +travel may also be prohibited to certain areas where the threat from +hostile intelligence services, terrorism, criminal activity or +insurgency poses an unacceptable risk to Agency employees and to the +sensitive information they possess. Advance travel deposits made +without prior agency approval of the proposed travel may result in +financial losses by the employee should the travel be disapproved, so +it is important to obtain approval prior to committing yourself +financially. Questions regarding which areas of the world currently +pose a threat should be directed to the Security Awareness Division +(M56). + +Unofficial foreign travel to Canada, the Bahamas, Bermuda, and Mexico +does not require prior approval, however, this travel must still be +reported using Form K2579. Travel to these areas may be reported +after the fact. + +While you do not have to report your foreign travel once you have +ended your affiliation with the Agency, you should be aware that the +risk incurred in travelling to certain areas, from a personal safety +and/or counterintelligence standpoint, remains high. The requirement +to protect the classified information to which you have had access is +a lifetime obligation. + +Membership In Organizations + +Within the United States there are numerous organizations with +memberships ranging from a few to tens of thousands. While you may +certainly participate in the activities of any reputable +organization, membership in any international club or professional +organization/activity with foreign members should be reported through +your Staff Security Officer to the Clearance Division (M55). In most +cases there are no security concerns or threats to our employees or +affiliates. However, the Office of Security needs the opportunity to +research +the organization and to assess any possible risk to you and the +information to which you have access. + +In addition to exercising prudence in your choice of organizational +affiliations, you should endeavor to avoid participation in public +activities of a conspicuously controversial nature because such +activities could focus undesirable attention upon you and the Agency. +NSA employees may, however, participate in bona fide public affairs +such as local politics, so long as such activities do not violate the +provisions of the statutes and regulations which govern the political +activities of all federal employees. Additional information may be +obtained from your Personnel Representative. + +Changes In Marital Status/Cohabitation/Names + +All personnel, either employed by or assigned to NSA, must advise the +Office of Security of any changes in their marital status (either +marriage or divorce), cohabitation arrangements, or legal name +changes. Such changes should be reported by completing NSA Form +G1982 (Report of Marriage/Marital Status Change/Name Change), and +following the instructions printed on the form. + +Use And Abuse Of Drugs + +It is the policy of the National Security Agency to prevent and +eliminate the improper use of drugs by Agency employees and other +personnel associated with the Agency. The term "drugs" includes all +controlled drugs or substances identified and listed in the +Controlled Substances Act of 1970, as amended, which includes but is +not limited to: narcotics, depressants, stimulants, cocaine, +hallucinogens ad cannabis (marijuana, hashish, and hashish oil). The +use of illegal drugs or the abuse of prescription drugs by persons +employed by, assigned or detailed to the Agency may adversely affect +the national security; may have a serious damaging effect on the +safety and the safety of others; and may lead to criminal +prosecution. Such use of drugs either within or outside Agency +controlled facilities is prohibited. + +Physical Security Policies + +The physical security program at NSA provides protection for +classified material and operations and ensures that only persons +authorized access to the Agency's spaces and classified material are +permitted such access. This program is concerned not only with the +Agency's physical plant and facilities, but also with the internal +and external procedures for safeguarding the Agency's classified +material and activities. Therefore, physical security safeguards +include Security Protective Officers, fences, concrete barriers, +access control points, identification badges, safes, and the +compartmentalization of physical spaces. While any one of these +safeguards represents only a delay factor against attempts to gain +unauthorized access to NSA spaces and material, the total combination +of all these safeguards represents a formidable barrier against +physical penetration of NSA. Working together with personnel +security policies, they provide "security in depth." + +The physical security program depends on interlocking procedures. +The responsibility for carrying out many of these procedures rests +with the individual. This means you, and every person employed by, +assign, or detailed to the Agency, must assume the responsibility for +protecting classified material. Included in your responsibilities +are: challenging visitors in operational areas; determining +"need-to-know;" limiting classified conversations to approved areas; +following established locking and checking procedures; properly using +the secure and non-secure telephone systems; correctly wrapping and +packaging classified data for transmittal; and placing classified +waste in burn bags. + +The NSA Badge + +Even before you enter an NSA facility, you have a constant reminder +of security--the NSA badge. Every person who enters an NSA +installation is required to wear an authorized badge. To enter most +NSA facilities your badge must be inserted into an Access Control +Terminal at a building entrance and you must enter your Personal +Identification Number (PIN) on the terminal keyboard. In the absence +of an Access Control Terminal, or when passing an internal +security checkpoint, the badge should be held up for viewing by a +Security Protective Officer. The badge must be displayed at all +times while the individual remains within any NSA installation. + +NSA Badges must be clipped to a beaded neck chain. If necessary for +the safety of those working in the area of electrical equipment or +machinery, rubber tubing may be used to insulate the badge chain. +For those Agency personnel working in proximity to other machinery or +equipment, the clip may be used to attach the badge to the wearer's +clothing, but it must also remain attached to the chain. + +After you leave an NSA installation, remove your badge from public +view, thus avoiding publicizing your NSA affiliation. Your badge +should be kept in a safe place which is convenient enough to ensure +that you will be reminded to bring it with you to work. A good rule +of thumb is to afford your badge the same protection you give your +wallet or your credit cards. DO NOT write your Personal +Identification Number on your badge. + +If you plan to be away from the Agency for a period of more than 30 +days, your badge should be left at the main Visitor Control Center +which services your facility. + +Should you lose your badge, you must report the facts and +circumstances immediately to the Security Operations Center (SOC) +(963-3371s/688-6911b) so that your badge PIN can be deactivated in +the Access Control Terminals. In the event that you forget your +badge when reporting for duty, you may obtain a "non-retention" +Temporary Badge at the main Visitor Control Center which serves your +facility after a co-worker personally identifies your and your +clearance has been verified. + +Your badge is to be used as identification only within NSA facilities +or other government installations where the NSA badge is recognized. +Your badge should never be used outside of the NSA or other +government facilities for the purpose of personal identification. +You should obtain a Department of Defense identification card from +the Civilian Welfare Fund (CWF) if you need to identify yourself as a +government employee when applying for "government discounts" offered +at various commercial establishments. + +Your badge color indicates your particular affiliation with NSA and +your level of clearance. Listed below are explanations of the badge +colors you are most likely to see: + +Green (*) Fully cleared NSA employees and certain +military assignees. + +Orange (*) (or Gold) Fully cleared representative of +other government agencies. + +Black (*) Fully cleared contractors or consultants. + +Blue Employees who are cleared to the SECRET level +while awaiting completion of their processing for full (TS/SI) +clearance. These Limited Interim Clearance (LIC) employees are +restricted to certain activities while inside a secure area. + +Red Clearance level is not specified, so assume +the holder is uncleared. + +* - Fully cleared status means that the person has been cleared to +the Top Secret (TS) level and indoctrinated for Special Intelligence +(SI). + +All badges with solid color backgrounds (permanent badges) are kept +by individuals until their NSA employment or assignment ends. +Striped badges ("non-retention" badges) are generally issued to +visitors and are returned to the Security Protective Officer upon +departure from an NSA facility. + +Area Control + +Within NSA installations there are generally two types of areas, +Administrative and Secure. An Administrative Area is one in which +storage of classified information is not authorized, and in which +discussions of a classified nature are forbidden. This type of area +would include the corridors, restrooms, cafeterias, visitor control +areas, credit union, barber shop, and drugstore. Since uncleared, +non-NSA personnel are often present in these areas, all Agency +personnel must ensure that no classified information is +discussed in an Administrative Area. + +Classified information being transported within Agency facilities +must be placed within envelopes, folders, briefcases, etc. to ensure +that its contents or classification markings are not disclosed to +unauthorized persons, or that materials are not inadvertently dropped +enroute. + +The normal operational work spaces within an NSA facility are +designated Secure Areas. These areas are approved for classified +discussions and for the storage of classified material. Escorts must +be provided if it is necessary for uncleared personnel (repairmen, +etc.) to enter Secure Areas, an all personnel within the areas must +be made aware of the presence of uncleared individuals. All unknown, +unescorted visitors to Secure Areas should be immediately challenged +by the personnel within the area, regardless of the visitors' +clearance level (as indicated by their badge color). + +The corridor doors of these areas must be locked with a deadbolt and +all classified information in the area must be properly secured after +normal working hours or whenever the area is unoccupied. When +storing classified material, the most sensitive material must be +stored in the most secure containers. Deadbolt keys for doors to +these areas must be returned to the key desk at the end of the +workday. + +For further information regarding Secure Areas, consult the Physical +Security Division (M51) or your staff Security Officer. + +Items Treated As Classified + +For purposes of transportation, storage and destruction, there are +certain types of items which must be treated as classified even +though they may not contain classified information. Such items +include carbon paper, vu-graphs, punched machine processing cards, +punched paper tape, magnetic tape, computer floppy disks, film, and +used typewriter ribbons. This special treatment is necessary since a +visual examination does not readily reveal whether the items contain +classified information. + +Prohibited Items + +Because of the potential security or safety hazards, certain items +are prohibited under normal circumstances from being brought into or +removed from any NSA installation. These items have been groped into +two general classes. Class I prohibited items are those which +constitute a threat to the safety and security of NSA/CSS personnel +and facilities. Items in this category include: + +a. Firearms and ammunition b. Explosives, incendiary +substances, radioactive materials, highly volatile materials, or +other hazardous materials c. Contraband or other illegal substances +d. Personally owned photographic or electronic equipment including +microcomputers, reproduction or recording devices, televisions or +radios. + +Prescribed electronic medical equipment is normally not prohibited, +but requires coordination with the Physical Security Division (M51) +prior to being brought into any NSA building. + +Class II prohibited items are those owned by the government or +contractors which constitute a threat to physical, technical, or +TEMPEST security. Approval by designated organizational officials is +required before these items can be brought into or removed from NSA +facilities. Examples are: + +a. Transmitting and receiving equipment b. Recording +equipment and media c. Telephone equipment and attachments d. +Computing devices and terminals e. Photographic equipment and film + +A more detailed listing of examples of Prohibited Items may be +obtained from your Staff Security Officer or the Physical Security +Division (M51). + +Additionally, you may realize that other seemingly innocuous items +are also restricted and should not be brought into any NSA facility. +Some of these items pose a technical threat; others must be treated +as restricted since a visual inspection does not readily reveal +whether they are classified. These items include: + +a. Negatives from processed film; slides; vu-graphs b. +Magnetic media such as floppy disks, cassette tapes, and VCR +videotapes c. Remote control devices for telephone +answering machines d. Pagers + +Exit Inspection + +As you depart NSA facilities, you will note another physical security +safeguard--the inspection of the materials you are carrying. This +inspection of your materials, conducted by Security Protective +Officers, is designed to preclude the inadvertent removal of +classified material. It is limited to any articles that you are +carrying out of the facility and may include letters, briefcases, +newspapers, notebooks, magazines, gym bags, and other such items. +Although this practice may involve some inconvenience, it is +conducted in your best interest, as well as being a sound security +practice. The inconvenience can be considerably reduced if you keep +to a minimum the number of personal articles that you remove from the +Agency. + +Removal Of Material From NSA Spaces + +The Agency maintains strict controls regarding the removal of +material from its installations, particularly in the case of +classified material. + +Only under a very limited and official circumstances classified +material be removed from Agency spaces. When deemed necessary, +specific authorization is required to permit an individual to hand +carry classified material out of an NSA building to another Secure +Area. Depending on the material and circumstances involved, there +are several ways to accomplish this. + +A Courier Badge authorizes the wearer, for official purposes, to +transport classified material, magnetic media, or Class II prohibited +items between NSA facilities. These badges, which are strictly +controlled, are made available by the Physical Security Division +(M51) only to those offices which have specific requirements +justifying their use. + +An Annual Security Pass may be issued to individuals whose official +duties require that they transport printed classified materials, +information storage media, or Class II prohibited items to secure +locations within the local area. Materials carried by an individual +who displays this pass are subject to spot inspection by Security +Protective Officers or other personnel from the Office of Security. +It is not permissible to use an Annual Security Pass for personal +convenience to circumvent inspection of your personal property by +perimeter Security Protective Officers. + +If you do not have access to a Courier Badge and you have not been +issued an Annual Security Pass, you may obtain a One-Time Security +Pass to remove classified materials/magnetic media or admit or remove +prohibited items from an NSA installation. These passes may be +obtained from designated personnel in your work element who have been +given authority to issue them. The issuing official must also +contact the Security Operations Center (SOC) to obtain approval for +the admission or removal of a Class I prohibited item. + +When there is an official need to remove government property which is +not magnetic media, or a prohibited or classified item, a One-Time +Property Pass is used. This type of pass (which is not a Security +Pass) may be obtained from your element custodial property officer. +A Property Pass is also to be used when an individual is removing +personal property which might be reasonably be mistaken for +unclassified Government property. This pass is surrendered to the +Security Protective Officer at the post where the material is being +removed. Use of this pass does not preclude inspection of the item at +the perimeter control point by the Security Protective Officer or +Security professionals to ensure that the pass is being used +correctly. + +External Protection Of Classified Information + +On those occasions when an individual must personally transport +classified material between locations outside of NSA facilities, the +individual who is acting as the courier must ensure that the material +receives adequate protection. Protective measures must include double +wrapping and packaging of classified information, keeping the +material under constant control, ensuring the presence of a second +appropriately cleared person when necessary, and +delivering the material to authorized persons only. If you are +designated as a courier outside the local area, contact the Security +Awareness Division (M56) for your courier briefing. + +Even more basic than these procedures is the individual security +responsibility to confine classified conversations to secure areas. +Your home, car pool, and public places are not authorized areas to +conduct classified discussions--even if everyone involved in he +discussion possesses a proper clearance and "need-to-know." The +possibility that a conversation could be overheard by unauthorized +persons dictates the need to guard against classified discussions in +non-secure areas. + +Classified information acquired during the course of your career or +assignment to NSA may not be mentioned directly, indirectly, or by +suggestion in personal diaries, records, or memoirs. + +Reporting Loss Or Disclosure Of Classified Information + +The extraordinary sensitivity of the NSA mission requires the prompt +reporting of any known, suspected, or possible unauthorized +disclosure of classified information, or the discovery that +classified information may be lost, or is not being afforded proper +protection. Any information coming to your attention concerning the +loss or unauthorized disclosure of classified information should be +reported immediately to your supervisor, your Staff Security Officer, +or the Security Operations Center (SOC). + +Use Of Secure And Non-Secure Telephones + +Two separate telephone systems have been installed in NSA facilities +for use in the conduct of official Agency business: the secure +telephone system (gray telephone) and the outside, non-secure +telephone system (black telephone). All NSA personnel must ensure +that use of either telephone system does not jeopardize the security +of classified information. + +The secure telephone system is authorized for discussion of +classified information. Personnel receiving calls on the secure +telephone may assume that the caller is authorized to use the system. +However, you must ensure that the caller has a "need-to-know" the +information you will be discussing. + +The outside telephone system is only authorized for unclassified +official Agency business calls. The discussion of classified +information is not permitted on this system. Do not attempt to use +"double-talk" in order to discuss classified information over the +non-secure telephone system. + +In order to guard against the inadvertent transmission of classified +information over a non-secure telephone, and individual using the +black telephone in an area where classified activities are being +conducted must caution other personnel in the area that the +non-secure telephone is in use. Likewise, you should avoid using the +non-secure telephone in the vicinity of a secure telephone which is +also in use. + +HELPFUL INFORMATION + +Security Resources + +In the fulfillment of your security responsibilities, you should be +aware that there are many resources available to assist you. If you +have any questions or concerns regarding security at NSA or your +individual security responsibilities, your supervisor should be +consulted. Additionally, Staff Security Officers are appointed to +the designated Agency elements to assist these organizations in +carrying out their security responsibilities. There is a Staff +Security Officer assigned to each organization; their phone numbers +are listed at the back of this handbook. Staff Security Officers +also provide guidance to and monitor the activities of Security +Coordinators and Advisors (individuals who, in addition to their +operational duties within their respective elements, assist element +supervisors or managers in discharging security responsibilities). + +Within the Office of Security, the Physical Security Division (M51) +will offer you assistance in matters such as access control, security +passes, clearance verification, combination locks, keys, +identification badges, technical security, and the Security +Protective Force. The Security Awareness Division (M56) provides +security guidance and briefings regarding unofficial foreign +travel, couriers, special access, TDY/PCS, and amateur radio +activities. The Industrial and Field Security Division (M52) is +available to provide security guidance concerning NSA contractor and +field site matters. + +The Security Operations Center (SOC) is operated by two Security Duty +Officers (SDOs), 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The SDO, +representing the Office of Security, provides a complete range of +security services to include direct communications with fire and +rescue personnel for all Agency area facilities. The SDO is available +to handle any physical or personnel problems that may arise, and if +necessary, can direct your to the appropriate security office that +can assist you. After normal business hours, weekends, and holidays, +the SOC is the focal point for all security matters for all Agency +personnel and facilities (to include Agency field sites and +contractors). The SOC is located in Room 2A0120, OPS 2A building and +the phone numbers are 688-6911(b), 963-3371(s). + +However, keep in mind that you may contact any individual or any +division within the Office of Security directly. Do not hesitate to +report any information which may affect the security of the Agency's +mission, information, facilities or personnel. + +Security-Related Services + +In addition to Office of Security resources, there are a number of +professional, security-related services available for assistance in +answering your questions or providing the services which you require. + +The Installations and Logistics Organization (L) maintains the system +for the collection and destruction of classified waste, and is also +responsible for the movement and scheduling of material via NSA +couriers and the Defense Courier Service (DCS). Additionally, L +monitors the proper addressing, marking, and packaging of classified +material being transmitted outside of NSA; maintains records +pertaining to receipt and transmission of controlled mail; and issues +property passes for the removal of unclassified property. + +The NSA Office of Medical Services (M7) has a staff of physicians, +clinical psychologists and an alcoholism counselor. All are well +trained to help individuals help themselves in dealing with their +problems. Counseling services, with referrals to private mental +health professionals when appropriate, are all available to NSA +personnel. Appointments can be obtained by contacting M7 directly. +When an individual refers himself/herself, the information discussed +in the counseling sessions is regarded as privileged medical +information and is retained exclusively in M7 unless it pertains to +the national security. + +Counselling interviews are conducted by the Office of Civilian +Personnel (M3) with any civilian employee regarding both on and +off-the-job problems. M3 is also available to assist all personnel +with the personal problems seriously affecting themselves or members +of their families. In cases of serious physical or emotional +illness, injury, hospitalization, or other personal emergencies, M3 +informs concerned Agency elements and maintains liaison with family +members in order to provide possible assistance. Similar counselling +services are available to military assignees through Military +Personnel (M2). + +GUIDE TO SECURITY + +M51 PHYSICAL SECURITY 963-6651s/688-8293b (FMHQ) 968-8101s/859-6411b +(FANX) + +CONFIRM and badges Prohibited Items +(963-6611s/688-7411b) Locks, keys, safes and alarms SOC +(963-3371s/688-6911b) Security/vehicle passes NSA facility +protection and compliance Visitor Control Inspections Red/blue seal +areas New Construction Pass Clearances +(963-4780s/688-6759b) + +M52 INDUSTRIAL AND FIELD SECURITY 982-7918s/859-6255b + +Security at contractor field site facilities Verification of +classified mailing addresses for contractor facilities + +M53 INVESTIGATIONS 982-7914s/859-6464b + +Personnel Interview Program (PIP) Reinvestigations Military +Interview Program (MIP) Special investigations + +M54 COUNTERINTELLIGENCE 982-7832s/859-6424b + +Security counterintelligence analysis Security compromises +M55 CLEARANCES 982-7900s/859-4747b + +Privacy Act Officer (For review of security files) Continued SCI access +Contractor/applicant processing Military access + +M56 SECURITY AWARENESS 963-3273s/688-6535b + +Security indoctrinations/debriefings Embassy visits +Associations with foreign nationals Briefings (foreign travel, +Security Week ham radio, courier, +Security posters, brochures, etc. LIC, PCS, TDY, +special access, etc.) +Foreign travel approval +Military contractor orientation +Special Access Office (963-5466s/688-6353b) + +M57 POLYGRAPH 982-7844s/859-6363b + +Polygraph interviews + +M509 MANAGEMENT AND POLICY STAFF 982-7885s/859-6350b + +STAFF SECURITY OFFICERS (SSOs) + +Element Room Secure/Non-Secure +A 2A0852B 963-4650/688-7044 +B 3W099 963-4559/688-7141 +D/Q/J/N/U 2B8066G 963-4496/688-6614 +E/M D3B17 968-8050/859-6669 +G 9A195 963-5033/688-7902 +K 2B5136 963-1978/688-5052 +L SAB4 977-7230/688-6194 +P 2W091 963-5302/688-7303 +R B6B710 968-4073/859-4736 +S/V/Y/C/X C2A55 972-2144/688-7549 +T 2B5040 963-4543/688-7364 +W 1C181 963-5970/688-7061 + +GUIDE TO SECURITY-RELATED SERVICES + +Agency Anonymity 968-8251/859-4381 +Alcohol Rehabilitation Program 963-5420/688-7312 +Cipher Lock Repair 963-1221/688-7119 +Courier Schedules (local) 977-7197/688-7403 +Defense Courier Service 977-7117/688-7826 +Disposal of Classified Waste +- Paper only 972-2150/688-6593 +- Plastics, Metal, Film, etc 963-4103/688-7062 +Locksmith 963-3585/688-7233 +Mail Dissemination and Packaging 977-7117/688-7826 +Medical Center (Fort Meade) 963-5429/688-7263 +(FANX) 968-8960/859-6667 +(Airport Square) 982-7800/859-6155 +NSA/CSS Information Policy Division 963-5825/688-6527 +Personnel Assistance +- Civilian 982-7835/859-6577 +- Air Force 963-3239/688-7980 +- Army 963-3739/688-6393 +- Navy 963-3439/688-7325 +Property Passes (unclassified material) 977-7263/688-7800 +Psychological Services 963-5429/688-7311 + +FREQUENTLY USED ACRONYMS/DESIGNATORS + +ARFCOS Armed Forces Courier Service (now known as DCS) +AWOL Absent Without Leave +CAO Classification Advisory Officer +COB Close of Business +CWF Civilian Welfare Fund +DCS Defense Courier Service (formerly known as ARFCOS) +DoD Department of Defense +EOD Enter on Duty +FOUO For Official Use Only +M2 Office of Military Personnel +M3 Office of Civilian Personnel +M5 Office of Security +M7 Office of Medical Services +NCS National Cryptologic School +PCS Permanent Change of Station +PIN Personal Identification Number +Q43 Information Policy Division +SDO Security Duty Officer +SOC Security Operations Center +SPO Security Protective Officer +SSO Staff Security Officer +TDY Temporary Duty +UFT Unofficial Foreign Travel + +A FINAL NOTE + +The information you have just read is designed to serve as a guide to assist +you in the conduct of your security responsibilities. However, it by no means +describes the extent of your obligation to protect information vital to the +defense of our nation. Your knowledge of specific security regulations is part +of a continuing process of education and experience. This handbook is designed +to provide the foundation of this knowledge and serve as a guide to the +development of an attitude of security awareness. + +In the final analysis, security is an individual responsibility. As a +participant in the activities of the National Security Agency organization, you +are urged to be always mindful of the importance of the work being accomplished +by NSA and of the unique sensitivity of the Agency's operations. +

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+The Charter is part of a recent FOIA request. - CJS +**************************************************************** +At 12:01 ON the morning of November 4, 1952, a new federal +agency was born. Unlike other such bureaucratic births, however, +this one arrived in silence. No news coverage, no congressional +debate, no press announcement, not even the whisper of a rumor. +Nor could any mention of the new organization be found in the +Government Organization Manual of the Federal Register or the +Congressional Record. Equally invisible were the new agency's +director, its numerous buildings, and its ten thousand employees.

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Eleven days earlier, on October 24, President Harry S Truman +scratched his signature on the bottom of a seven-page +presidential memorandum addressed to secretary of State Dean G. +Acheson and Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett. Classified +top secret and stamped with a code word that was itself +classified, the order directed the establishment of an agency to +be known as the National Security Agency. It was the birth +certificate for America's newest and most secret agency, so +secret in fact that only a handful in the government would be +permitted to know of its existence. +-James Bamford, The Puzzle Palace (1982) at 15.

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A 20707 5/4/54/OSO +NSA TS CONTL. NO 73-00405 +COPY: D321

+ +

Oct 24 1952

+ +

MEMORANDUM FOR: The Secretary of State +The Secretary of defense

+ +

SUBJECT: Communications Intelligence Activities

+ +

The communications intelligence (COMINT) activities of the +United States are a national responsibility. They must be so +organized and managed as to exploit to the maximum the available +resources in all participating departments and agencies and to +satisfy the legitimate intelligence requirements of all such +departments and agencies. +I therefore designate the Secretaries of State and Defense +as a Special Committee of the National Security Council for +COMINT, which Committee shall, with the assistance of the +Director of Central Intelligence, establish policies governing +COMINT activities. and keep me advised of such policies through +the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council. +I further designate the Department of Defense as executive +agent of the Government, for the production of COMINT +information. +I direct this Special Committee to prepare and issue +directives which shall include the provisions set forth below and +such other provisions as the Special Committee may determine to +be necessary.

+ +

1. A directive to the United States Communication +Intelligence Board (USCIB). This directive will replace the +National Security Council Intelligence Directive No. 9, and shall +prescribe USCIB's new composition, responsibilities and +procedures in the COMINT fields. This directive shall include +the following provisions. +a. USCIB shall be reconstituted as a body acting for +and under the Special Committee, and shall operate in +accordance with the provisions of the new directive. Only +those departments or agencies represented in USCIB are +authorized to engage in COMINT activities. +b. The Board shall be composed of the following +members: +(1) The Director of Central Intelligence, who shall be +the Chairman of the Board. +(2) A representative of the Secretary of State. +(3) A representative of the Secretary of Defense +(4) A representative of the Director of the Federal +Bureau of Investigation. +(5) The Director of the National Security Agency. +(6) A representative of the Department of the Army. +(7) A representative of the Department of the Navy. +(8) A representative of the Department of the Air Force. +(9) A representative of the Central Intelligence Agency. +c. The Board shall have a staff headed by an executive +secretary who shall be appointed by the Chairman with the +approval of the majority of the Board. +d. It shall be the duty of the Board to advise and make +recommendations to the Secretary of Defense, in accordance +with the following procedure, with respect to any matter +relating to communications intelligence which falls within +the jurisdiction of the Director of the NSA. +(1) The Board shall reach its decision by majority +vote. Each member of the Board shall have one vote +except the representatives of the Secretary of State +and of the Central Intelligence Agency who shall each +have two votes. The Director of Central Intelligence, +as Chairman, will have no vote. In the event that the +Board votes and reaches a decision, any dissenting +member of the Board may appeal from such decision +within 7 days of the Special Committee. In the event +that the Board votes but fails to reach a decision, any +member of the Board may appeal within 7 days to the +Special Committee. In either event the Special +Committee shall review the matter, and its +determination thereon shall be final. Appeals by the +Director of NSA and/or the representatives of the +Military Departments shall only be filed with the +approval of the Secretary of Defense. +(2) If any matter is voted on by the Board but - +(a) no decision is reached and any member +files an appeal; +(b) a decision is reached in which the +representative of the Secretary of Defense does +not concur and files an appeal; +no action shall be taken with respect to the subject +matter until the appeal is decided, provided that, if +the Secretary of Defense determines, after consultation +with the Secretary of State, that the subject matter +presents a problem of an emergency nature and requires +immediate action, his decision shall govern, pending +the result of the appeal. In such an emergency +situation the appeal may be taken directly to the +President. +(3) Recommendations of the Board adopted in +accordance with the foregoing procedures shall be +binding on the Secretary of Defense. Except on matter +which have been voted on by the Board, the Director of +NSA shall discharge his responsibilities in accordance +with his own judgment, subject to the direction of the +Secretary of Defense. +(4) The Director of NSA shall make such reports +and furnish such information from time to time to the +Board, either orally or in writing, as the Board my +request, and shall bring to the attention of the Board +either in such reports or otherwise any major policies +or programs in advance of their adoption by him. +e. It shall also be the duty of the Board as to +matters not falling within the jurisdiction of NSA; +(1) To coordinate the communications intelligence +activities among all departments and agencies +authorized by the President to participate therein; +(2) To initiate, to formulate policies concerning, +and subject to the provision of NSCID No. 5, to +supervise all arrangements with foreign governments in +the field of communications intelligence; and +(3) to consider and make recommendations +concerning policies relating to communications +intelligence of common interest to the departments and +agencies, including security standards and practices, +and, for this purpose, to investigate and study the +standards and practices of such departments and +agencies in utilizing and protecting COMINT +information. +f. Any recommendation of the Board with respect to the +matters described in paragraph e above shall be binding on +all departments or agencies of the Government if it is +adopted by the unanimous vote of the members of the Board. +Recommendations approved by the majority, but not all, of +the members of the Board shall be transmitted by it to the +Special Committee for such action as the Special Committee +may see fit to take. +g. The Board will meet monthly, or oftener at the call +of the Chairman or any member, and shall determine its own +procedures. +2. A directive to the Secretary of Defense. This +directive shall include the following provisions: +a. Subject to the specific provisions of this +directive, the Secretary of Defense may delegate in whole of +in part authority over the Director of NSA within his +department as he sees fit. +b. The COMINT mission of the National Security Agency +(NSA) shall be to provide an effective, unified organization +and control of the communications intelligence activities of +the United States conducted against foreign governments, to +provide for integrated operational policies and procedures +pertaining thereto. As used in this directive, the terms +"communications intelligence" or "COMINT" shall be construed +to mean all procedures and methods used in the interception +of communications other than foreign press and propaganda +broadcasts and the obtaining of information from such +communications by other than intended recipients, but shall +exclude censorship and the production and dissemination of +finished intelligence. +c. NSA shall be administered by a Director, designated +by the Secretary of Defense after consultation with the +Joint Chiefs of Staff, who shall serve for a minimum term of +4 years and who shall be eligible for reappointment. The +Director shall be a career commissioned officer of the armed +services on active or reactivated status, and shall enjoy at +least 3-star rank during the period of his incumbency. +d. Under the Secretary of Defense, and in accordance +with approved policies of USCIB, the Director of NSA shall +be responsible for accomplishing the mission of NSA. For +this purpose all COMINT collection and production resources +of the United States are placed under his operational and +technical control. When action by the Chiefs of the +operating agencies of the Services or civilian departments +or agencies is required, the Director shall normally issue +instruction pertaining to COMINT operations through them. +However, due to the unique technical character of COMINT +operations, the Director is authorized to issue direct to +any operating elements under his operational control task +assignments and pertinent instructions which are within the +capacity of such elements to accomplish. He shall also have +direct access to, and direct communication with, any +elements of the Service or civilian COMINT agencies on any +other matters of operational and technical control as may be +necessary, and he is authorized to obtain such information +and intelligence material from them as he may require. All +instruction issued by the Director under the authority +provided in this paragraph shall be mandatory, subject only +to appeal to the Secretary of Defense by the Chief of +Service or head of civilian department of agency concerned. +e. Specific responsibilities of the Director of NSA +include the following: +(1) Formulating necessary operational plans and +policies for the conduct of the U.S. COMINT activities. +(2) Conducting COMINT activities, including +research and development, as required to meet the needs +of the departments and agencies which hare authorized +to receive the products of COMINT. +(3) Determining, and submitting to appropriate +authorities, requirements for logistic support for the +conduct of COMINT activities, together with specific +recommendations as to what each of the responsible +departments and agencies of the Government should +supply. +(4) Within NSA's field of authorized operations +prescribing requisite security regulations covering +operating practices, including the transmission, +handling and distribution of COMINT material within and +among the COMINT elements under his operations or +technical control; and exercising the necessary +monitoring and supervisory control, including +inspections if necessary, to ensure compliance with the +regulations. +(5) Subject to the authorities granted the +Director Central Intelligence under NSCID No. 5, +conducting all liaison on COMINT matters with foreign +governmental communications intelligence agencies. +f. To the extent he deems feasible and in consonance +with the aims of maximum over-all efficiency, economy, and +effectiveness, the Director shall centralize or consolidate +the performance of COMINT functions for which he is +responsible. It is recognized that in certain circumstances +elements of the Armed Forces and other agencies being served +will require close COMINT support. Where necessary for this +close support, direct operational control of specified +COMINT facilities and resources will be delegated by the +Director, during such periods and for such tasks as are +determined by him, to military commanders or to the Chiefs +of other agencies supported. +g. The Director shall exercise such administrative +control over COMINT activities as he deems necessary to the +effective performance of his mission. Otherwise, +administrative control of personnel and facilities will +remain with the departments and agencies providing them. +h. The Director shall make provision for participation +by representatives of each of the departments and agencies +eligible to receive COMINT products in those offices of NSA +where priorities of intercept and processing are finally +planned. +i. The Director shall have a civilian deputy whose +primary responsibility shall be to ensure the mobilization +and effective employment of the best available human and +scientific resources in the field of cryptographic research +and development. +j. Nothing in this directive shall contravene the +responsibilities of the individual departments and agencies +for the final evaluation of COMINT information, its +synthesis with information from other sources, and the +dissemination of finished intelligence to users. +3. The special nature of COMINT actives requires that they +be treated in all respects as being outside the framework of +other or general intelligence activities. Order, directives, +policies, or recommendations of any authority of the Executive +Branch relating to the collection, production, security, +handling, dissemination, or utilization of intelligence, and/or +classified material, shall not be applicable to COMINT actives, +unless specifically so stated and issued by competent +departmental of agency authority represented on the Board. Other +National Security Council Intelligence Directive to the Director +of Central Intelligence and related implementing directives +issued by the Director of Central Intelligence shall be construed +as non-applicable to COMINT activities, unless the National +Security Council has made its directive specifically applicable +to COMINT.

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/s/ HARRY S. TRUMAN + + +

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+Subject: the national guards (military consolidating control of info and comm) +Keywords: we don't appreciate how quickly our society is being locked up. + + +the U.S. military is the lens focusing the agendas of the corporate states +of 'murka. the following article is already four and a half YEARS old. +this piece is staggering in its implications. the high-tech gulf war show +provided us with just a hint of what is coming. you can be sure the progs +described below have only become MUCH more endemic, *regardless* of the +current "the cold war's over" mantra we are daily being subjected to. it +certainly doesn't help to have a state press obediently parroting the latest +official mythologies daily being dished up. so honestly, what's it going to +take for people to stand up and put themselves on the line to stop this +brand of spreading totalitarian democracy? their own complete enslavement? +by that time it'll be just too damn late. (and people balk at the idea +that Kennedy was killed by a military coup d'etat...) --ratitor + + +excerpts from "THE NATIONAL GUARDS" +(C) 1987 OMNI MAGAZINE, MAY 1987 + + +These attempts to keep unclassified data out of the hands of +scientists, researchers, the news media, and the public at large are a +part of an alarming trend that has seen the military take an ever-increasing role in controlling the flow of information and +communications through American society, a role traditionally -- and +almost exclusively -- left to civilians. Under the approving gaze of +the Reagan administration, Department of Defense (DoD) officials have +quietly implemented a number of policies, decisions, and orders that +give the military unprecedented control over both the content and +public use of data and communications. . . . +Mead Data Central -- which runs some of the nation's largest +computer databases, such as Lexis and Nexis, and has nearly 200000 +users -- says it has already been approached by a team of agents from +the Air Force and officials from the CIA and the FBI who asked for the +names of subscribers and inquired what Mead officials might do if +information restrictions were imposed. In response to government +pressure, Mead Data Central in effect censured itself. It purged all +unclassified government-supplied technical data from its system and +completely dropped the National Technical Information System from its +database rather than risk a confrontation. +Representative Jack Brooks, a Texas Democrat who chairs the House +Government Operations Committee, is an outspoken critic of the NSA's +role in restricting civilian information. He notes that in 1985 the +NSA -- under the authority granted by NSDD 145 -- investigated a +computer program that was widely used in both local and federal +elections in 1984. The computer system was used to count more than one +third of all votes cast in the United States. While probing the +system's vulnerability to outside manipulation, the NSA obtained a +detailed knowledge of that computer program. "In my view," Brooks +says, "this is an unprecedented and ill-advised expansion of the +military's influence in our society." + + +======================================================== +ORIGIN: ParaNet Information Service BBS +CONTRIBUTED TO PARANET BY: Donald Goldberg +======================================================== + + +THE NATIONAL GUARDS +(C) 1987 OMNI MAGAZINE, MAY 1987 +(Reprinted with permission and license to +ParaNet Information Service and its affiliates.) + +By Donald Goldberg + + +The mountains bend as the fjord and the sea beyond stretch out +before the viewer's eyes. First over the water, then a sharp left +turn, then a bank to the right between the peaks, and the secret naval +base unfolds upon the screen. +The scene is of a Soviet military installation on the Kola +Peninsula in the icy Barents Sea, a place usually off-limits to the +gaze of the Western world. It was captured by a small French satellite +called SPOT Image, orbiting at an altitude of 517 miles above the +hidden Russian outpost. On each of several passes -- made over a two-week period last fall -- the satellite's high-resolution lens took +its pictures at a different angle; the images were then blended into a +three-dimensional, computer-generated video. Buildings, docks, +vessels, and details of the Arctic landscape are all clearly visible. +Half a world away and thousands of feet under the sea, sparkling-clear images are being made of the ocean floor. Using the latest +bathymetric technology and state-of-the-art systems known as Seam Beam +and Hydrochart, researchers are for the first time assembling detailed +underwater maps of the continental shelves and the depths of the +world's oceans. These scenes of the sea are as sophisticated as the +photographs taken from the satellite. +From the three-dimensional images taken far above the earth to the +charts of the bottom of the oceans, these photographic systems have +three things in common: They both rely on the latest technology to +create accurate pictures never dreamed of even 25 years ago; they are +being made widely available by commercial, nongovernmental +enterprises; and the Pentagon is trying desperately to keep them from +the general public. +In 1985 the Navy classified the underwater charts, making them +available only to approved researchers whose needs are evaluated on a +case-by-case basis. Under a 1984 law the military has been given a say +in what cameras can be licensed to be used on American satellites; and +officials have already announced they plan to limit the quality and +resolution of photos made available. The National Security Agency +(NSA) -- the secret arm of the Pentagon in charge of gathering +electronic intelligence as well as protecting sensitive U.S. +communications -- has defeated a move to keep it away from civilian +and commercial computers and databases. +That attitude has outraged those concerned with the military's +increasing efforts to keep information not only from the public but +from industry experts, scientists, and even other government officials +as well. "That's like classifying a road map for fear of invasion," +says Paul Wolff, assistant administrator for the National Oceanic and +Atmospheric Administration, of the attempted restrictions. +These attempts to keep unclassified data out of the hands of +scientists, researchers, the news media, and the public at large are a +part of an alarming trend that has seen the military take an ever-increasing role in controlling the flow of information and +communications through American society, a role traditionally -- and +almost exclusively -- left to civilians. Under the approving gaze of +the Reagan administration, Department of Defense (DoD) officials have +quietly implemented a number of policies, decisions, and orders that +give the military unprecedented control over both the content and +public use of data and communications. For example: + + +* The Pentagon has created a new category of +"sensitive" but unclassified information that allows +it to keep from public access huge quantities of data +that were once widely accessible. + +* Defense Department officials have attempted to +rewrite key laws that spell out when the president can +and cannot appropriate private communications +facilities. + +* The Pentagon has installed a system that enables it +to seize control of the nation's entire communications +network -- the phone system, data transmissions, and +satellite transmissions of all kinds -- in the event +of what it deems a "national emergency." As yet there +is no single, universally agreed-upon definition of +what constitutes such a state. Usually such an +emergency is restricted to times of natural disaster, +war, or when national security is specifically +threatened. Now the military has attempted to redefine +emergency. + +The point man in the Pentagon's onslaught on communications is +Assistant Defense Secretary Donald C. Latham, a former NSA deputy +chief. Latham now heads up an interagency committee in charge of +writing and implementing many of the policies that have put the +military in charge of the flow of civilian information and +communication. He is also the architect of National Security Decision +Directive 145 (NSDD 145), signed by Defense Secretary Caspar +Weinberger in 1984, which sets out the national policy on +telecommunications and computer-systems security. +First NSDD 145 set up a steering group of top-level administration +officials. Their job is to recommend ways to protect information that +is unclassified but has been designated sensitive. Such information +is held not only by government agencies but by private companies as +well. And last October the steering group issued a memorandum that +defined sensitive information and gave federal agencies broad new +powers to keep it from the public. +According to Latham, this new category includes such data as all +medical records on government databases -- from the files of the +National Cancer Institute to information on every veteran who has ever +applied for medical aid from the Veterans Administration -- and all +the information on corporate and personal taxpayers in the Internal +Revenue Service's computers. Even agricultural statistics, he argues, +can be used by a foreign power against the United States. +In his oversize yet Spartan Pentagon office, Latham cuts anything +but an intimidating figure. Articulate and friendly, he could pass for +a network anchorman or a television game show host. When asked how the +government's new definition of sensitive information will be used, he +defends the necessity for it and tries to put to rest concerns about a +new restrictiveness. +"The debate that somehow the DoD and NSA are going to monitor or +get into private databases isn't the case at all," Latham insists. +"The definition is just a guideline, just an advisory. It does not +give the DoD the right to go into private records." +Yet the Defense Department invoked the NSDD 145 guidelines when it +told the information industry it intends to restrict the sale of data +that are now unclassified and publicly available from privately owned +computer systems. The excuse if offered was that these data often +include technical information that might be valuable to a foreign +adversary like the Soviet Union. +Mead Data Central -- which runs some of the nation's largest +computer databases, such as Lexis and Nexis, and has nearly 200000 +users -- says it has already been approached by a team of agents from +the Air Force and officials from the CIA and the FBI who asked for the +names of subscribers and inquired what Mead officials might do if +information restrictions were imposed. In response to government +pressure, Mead Data Central in effect censured itself. It purged all +unclassified government-supplied technical data from its system and +completely dropped the National Technical Information System from its +database rather than risk a confrontation. +Representative Jack Brooks, a Texas Democrat who chairs the House +Government Operations Committee, is an outspoken critic of the NSA's +role in restricting civilian information. He notes that in 1985 the +NSA -- under the authority granted by NSDD 145 -- investigated a +computer program that was widely used in both local and federal +elections in 1984. The computer system was used to count more than one +third of all votes cast in the United States. While probing the +system's vulnerability to outside manipulation, the NSA obtained a +detailed knowledge of that computer program. "In my view," Brooks +says, "this is an unprecedented and ill-advised expansion of the +military's influence in our society." +There are other NSA critics. "The computer systems used by counties +to collect and process votes have nothing to do with national +security, and I'm really concerned about the NSA's involvement," says +Democratic congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas, chairman of the House +science and technology subcommittee concerned with computer security. +Also, under NSDD 145 the Pentagon has issued an order, virtually +unknown to all but a few industry executives, that affects commercial +communications satellites. The policy was made official by Defense +Secretary Weinberger in June of 1985 and requires that all commercial +satellite operators that carry such unclassified government data +traffic as routine Pentagon supply information and payroll data (and +that compete for lucrative government contracts) install costly +protective systems on all satellites launched after 1990. The policy +does not directly affect the data over satellite channels, but it does +make the NSA privy to vital information about the essential signals +needed to operate a satellite. With this information it could take +control of any satellite it chooses. +Latham insists this, too, is a voluntary policy and that only +companies that wish to install protection will have their systems +evaluated by the NSA. He also says industry officials are wholly +behind the move, and argues that the protective systems are necessary. +With just a few thousand dollars' worth of equipment, a disgruntled +employee could interfere with a satellite's control signals and +disable or even wipe out a hundred-million-dollar satellite carrying +government information. +At best, his comments are misleading. First, the policy is not +voluntary. The NSA can cut off lucrative government contracts to +companies that do not comply with the plan. The Pentagon alone spent +more than a billion dollars leasing commercial satellite channels last +year; that's a powerful incentive for business to cooperate. +Second, the industry's support is anything but total. According to +the minutes of one closed-door meeting between NSA officials -- along +with representatives of other federal agencies -- and executives from +AT&T, Comsat, GTE Sprint, and MCI, the executives neither supported +the move nor believed it was necessary. The NSA defended the policy by +arguing that a satellite could be held for ransom if the command and +control links weren't protected. But experts at the meeting were +skeptical. +"Why is the threat limited to accessing the satellite rather than +destroying it with lasers or high-powered signals?" one industry +executive wanted to know. +Most of the officials present objected to the high cost of +protecting the satellites. According to a 1983 study made at the +request of the Pentagon, the protection demanded by the NSA could add +as much as $3 million to the price of a satellite and $1 million more +to annual operating costs. Costs like these, they argue, could cripple +a company competing against less expensive communications networks. +Americans get much of their information through forms of electronic +communications, from the telephone, television and radio, and +information printed in many newspapers. Banks send important financial +data, businesses their spreadsheets, and stockbrokers their investment +portfolios, all over the same channels, from satellite signals to +computer hookups carried on long distance telephone lines. To make +sure that the federal government helped to promote and protect the +efficient use of this advancing technology, Congress passed the +massive Communications Act of of 1934. It outlined the role and laws +of the communications structure in the United States. +The powers of the president are set out in Section 606 of that law; +basically it states that he has the authority to take control of any +communications facilities that he believes "essential to the national +defense." In the language of the trade this is known as a 606 +emergency. +There have been a number of attempts in recent years by Defense +Department officials to redefine what qualifies as a 606 emergency and +make it easier for the military to take over national communications. +In 1981 the Senate considered amendments to the 1934 act that would +allow the president, on Defense Department recommendation, to require +any communications company to provide services, facilities, or +equipment "to promote the national defense and security or the +emergency preparedness of the nation," even in peacetime and without a +declared state of emergency. The general language had been drafted by +Defense Department officials. (The bill failed to pass the House for +unrelated reasons.) +"I think it is quite clear that they have snuck in there some +powers that are dangerous for us as a company and for the public at +large," said MCI vice president Kenneth Cox before the Senate vote. +Since President Reagan took office, the Pentagon has stepped up its +efforts to rewrite the definition of national emergency and give the +military expanded powers in the United States. "The declaration of +'emergency' has always been vague," says one former administration +official who left the government in 1982 after ten years in top policy +posts. "Different presidents have invoked it differently. This +administration would declare a convenient 'emergency.'" In other +words, what is a nuisance to one administration might qualify as a +burgeoning crisis to another. For example, the Reagan administration +might decide that a series of protests on or near military bases +constituted a national emergency. +Should the Pentagon ever be given the green light, its base for +taking over the nation's communications system would be a nondescript +yellow brick building within the maze of high rises, government +buildings, and apartment complexes that make up the Washington suburb +of Arlington, Virginia. Headquartered in a dusty and aging structure +surrounded by a barbed-wire fence is an obscure branch of the military +known as the Defense Communications Agency (DCA). It does not have the +spit and polish of the National Security Agency or the dozens of other +government facilities that make up the nation's capital. But its lack +of shine belies its critical mission: to make sure all of America's +far-flung military units can communicate with one another. It is in +certain ways the nerve center of our nation's defense system. +On the second floor of the DCA's four-story headquarters is a new +addition called the National Coordinating Center (NCC). Operated by +the Pentagon, it is virtually unknown outside of a handful of industry +and government officials. The NCC is staffed around the clock by +representatives of a dozen of the nation's largest commercial +communications companies -- the so-called "common carriers" -- +including AT&T, MCI, GTE, Comsat, and ITT. Also on hand are officials +from the State Department, the CIA, the Federal Aviation +Administration, and a number of other federal agencies. During a 606 +emergency the Pentagon can order the companies that make up the +National Coordinating Center to turn over their satellite, fiberoptic, +and land-line facilities to the government. +On a long corridor in the front of the building is a series of +offices, each outfitted with a private phone, a telex machine, and a +combination safe. It's known as "logo row" because each office is +occupied by an employee from one of the companies that staff the NCC +and because their corporate logos hand on the wall outside. Each +employee is on permanent standby, ready to activate his company's +system should the Pentagon require it. +The National Coordinating Center's mission is as grand as its title +is obscure: to make available to the Defense Department all the +facilities of the civilian communications network in this country -- +the phone lines, the long-distance satellite hookups, the data +transmission lines -- in times of national emergency. If war breaks +out and communications to a key military base are cut, the Pentagon +wants to make sure that an alternate link can be set up as fast as +possible. Company employees assigned to the center are on call 24 +hours a day; they wear beepers outside the office, and when on +vacation they must be replaced by qualified colleagues. +The center formally opened on New Year's Day, 1984, the same day Ma +Bell's monopoly over the telephone network of the entire United States +was finally broken. The timing was no coincidence. Pentagon officials +had argued for years along with AT&T against the divestiture of Ma +Bell, on grounds of national security. Defense Secretary Weinberger +personally urged the attorney general to block the lawsuit that +resulted in the breakup, as had his predecessor, Harold Brown. The +reason was that rather than construct its own communications network, +the Pentagon had come to rely extensively on the phone company. After +the breakup the dependence continued. The Pentagon still used +commercial companies to carry more than 90 percent of its +communications within the continental United States. +The 1984 divestiture put an end to AT&T's monopoly over the +nation's telephone service and increased the Pentagon's obsession with +having its own nerve center. Now the brass had to contend with several +competing companies to acquire phone lines, and communications was +more than a matter of running a line from one telephone to another. +Satellites, microwave towers, fiberoptics, and other technological +breakthroughs never dreamed of by Alexander Graham Bell were in +extensive use, and not just for phone conversations. Digital data +streams for computers flowed on the same networks. +These facts were not lost on the Defense Department or the White +House. According to documents obtained by "Omni," beginning on December +14, 1982, a number of secret meetings were held between high-level +administration officials and executives of the commercial +communications companies whose employees would later staff the +National Coordinating Center. The meetings, which continued over the +next three years, were held at the White House, the State Department, +the Strategic Air Command (SAC) headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base +in Nebraska, and at the North American Aerospace Defense Command +(NORAD) in Colorado Springs. +The industry officials attending constituted the National Security +Telecommunications Advisory Committee -- called NSTAC (pronounced N-stack) -- set up by President Reagan to address those same problems +that worried the Pentagon. It was at these secret meetings, according +to the minutes, that the idea of a communications watch center for +national emergencies -- the NCC -- was born. Along with it came a +whole set of plans that would allow the military to take over +commercial communications "assets" -- everything from ground stations +and satellite dishes to fiberoptic cables -- across the country. +At a 1983 Federal Communications Commission meeting, a ranking +Defense Department official offered the following explanation for the +founding of the National Coordinating Center: "We are looking at +trying to make communications endurable for a protracted conflict." +The phrase protracted conflict is a military euphemism for nuclear +war. +But could the NCC survive even the first volley in such a conflict? +Not likely. It's located within a mile of the Pentagon, itself an +obvious early target of a Soviet nuclear barrage (or a conventional +strike, for that matter). And the Kremlin undoubtedly knows its +location and importance, and presumably has included it on its +priority target list. In sum, according to one Pentagon official, "The +NCC itself is not viewed as a survivable facility." +Furthermore, the NCC's "Implementation Plan," obtained by "Omni," +lists four phases of emergencies and how the center should respond to +each. The first, Phase 0, is Peacetime, for which there would be +little to do outside of a handful of routine tasks and exercises. +Phase 1 is Pre Attack, in which alternate NCC sites are alerted. Phase +2 is Post Attack, in which other NCC locations are instructed to take +over the center's functions. Phase 3 is known as Last Ditch, and in +this phase whatever facility survives becomes the de facto NCC. +So far there is no alternate National Coordinating Center to which +NCC officials could retreat to survive an attack. According to NCC +deputy director William Belford, no physical sites have yet been +chosen for a substitute NCC, and even whether the NCC itself will +survive a nuclear attack is still under study. +Of what use is a communications center that is not expected to +outlast even the first shots of a war and has no backup? +The answer appears to be that because of the Pentagon's concerns +about the AT&T divestiture and the disruptive effects it might have on +national security, the NCC was to serve as the military's peacetime +communications center. +The center is a powerful and unprecedented tool to assume control +over the nation's vast communications and information network. For +years the Pentagon has been studying how to take over the common +carriers' facilities. That research was prepared by NSTAC at the DoD's +request and is contained in a series of internal Pentagon documents +obtained by "Omni." Collectively this series is known as the Satellite +Survivability Report. Completed in 1984, it is the only detailed +analysis to date of the vulnerabilities of the commercial satellite +network. It was begun as a way of examining how to protect the network +of communications facilities from attack and how to keep it intact for +the DoD. +A major part of the report also contains an analysis of how to make +commercial satellites "interoperable" with Defense Department systems. +While the report notes that current technical differences such as +varying frequencies make it difficult for the Pentagon to use +commercial satellites, it recommends ways to resolve those problems. +Much of the report is a veritable blueprint for the government on how +to take over satellites in orbit above the United States. This +information, plus NSDD 145's demand that satellite operators tell the +NSA how their satellites are controlled, guarantees the military ample +knowledge about operating commercial satellites. +The Pentagon now has an unprecedented access to the civilian +communications network: commercial databases, computer networks, +electronic links, telephone lines. All it needs is the legal authority +to use them. Then it could totally dominate the flow of all +information in the United States. As one high-ranking White House +communications official put it: "Whoever controls communications, +controls the country." His remark was made after our State Department +could not communicate directly with our embassy in Manila during the +anti-Marcos revolution last year. To get through, the State +Department had to relay all its messages through the Philippine +government. +Government officials have offered all kinds of scenarios to justify +the National Coordinating Center, the Satellite Survivability Report, +new domains of authority for the Pentagon and the NSA, and the +creation of top-level government steering groups to think of even more +policies for the military. Most can be reduced to the rationale that +inspired NSDD 145: that our enemies (presumably the Soviets) have to +be prevented from getting too much information from unclassified +sources. And the only way to do that is to step in and take control of +those sources. +Remarkably, the communications industry as a whole has not been +concerned about the overall scope of the Pentagon's threat to its +freedom of operation. Most protests have been to individual government +actions. For example, a media coalition that includes the Radio-Television Society of Newspaper Editors, and the Turner Broadcasting +System has been lobbying that before the government can restrict the +use of satellites, it must demonstrate why such restrictions protect +against a "threat to distinct and compelling national security and +foreign policy interests." But the whole policy of restrictiveness has +not been examined. That may change sometime this year, when the Office +of Technology Assessment issues a report on how the Pentagon's policy +will affect communications in the United States. In the meantime the +military keeps trying to encroach on national communications. +While it may seem unlikely that the Pentagon will ever get total +control of our information and communications systems, the truth is +that it can happen all too easily. The official mechanisms are already +in place; and few barriers remain to guarantee that what we hear, see, +and read will come to us courtesy of our being members of a free and +open society and not courtesy of the Pentagon. + + +============================================================================= +============================================================================= + +Black Crawling Systems @ V0iD Information Archives + +( 6 1 7 ) 4 8 2 - 6 3 5 6 + + +

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______________________________________________________________________________ +* * +* * +* Soviet intelligence * +* * +* Inside the Aquarium * +* * +* Written by: * +* * +* Victor Suvorov * +* * +* Typed by:Lord Foul * +* * +* File Number Two in the Night Warrior series * +*=============================================================================

+ +

Hello again, in case you did'nt know file no. one was the file "Destruction via popular +electronics" I originally planed for file two to be on pranks, bombs, general +destruction, but that was getting lame. I had just finished reading the book "Inside +the +Aquarium" which was pretty interesting, this file consists of what I thought to be the +most interesting parts of the book. Here we go. By the way if you read this and like +it leave me some e-mail to Marvin lanes on ripco or to Lord Foul on any of the other popular 312...

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here we go...

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THE SPETSNAZ SOLDIER +=====================================

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The spetsnaz soldier is the elite of the soviet reconasance forces. Sort of the green +beret equivalent.

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Started from the ground up here is the typical equipment of the spetsnaz soldier.

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The most important item of the soldier is his footwear, apart from his parachute of +course. The foorwear are J-B'S (jump boots), a form of footwear that is neither boot +nor shoe but a hybrid combo of both. The boots are made of thick soft ox-hide and weigh a good deal less than they appear to on first sight. there are lots of straps and +clasps on each boot; two straps around the heel one around the sole and two around the +calf. The straps are also very soft. Every boot is the result of thousand of years of experience. Each sole is made up of three layers very similar to the layers used in +bullet proof vest. These layers however are to protect the soldiers feet from being +punctured by stakes and other less visible but more painful things likely to be found +were he is not wanted.

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Only one type of sock is used with the spetsnaz boots, a very thick sock made of pure +wool. The spetsnaz soldier always wears the same type of sock wherever he goes wether +it be high mountains, low plains, steaming desert or frozen tundra.

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As for the rest of the spetsnaz soldiers clothing, his undergarment is made of a thick +linen. Over the thin undergarment he wears a vest made of a thick string, so that there +is always a layer of air about the soldiers body. this is quite important as it +allows the soldier to avoid mosquito and other insect bites by keeping the surface of +the vest a qarter inch of him the probiscus will never touch skin. The space also +provides excellent ventilation in heat or cold.

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Over the string vest he wears trousers and and a tunic of green cotton material. all +seams are treble tiched for added strength. The tunic and trousers are soft but +hard-wearing. At the elbows, knees and shoulders the material itself is trebled for +great +strength an extra padding.

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On his head the soldier wears a helmet (Duh!). In winter this is made of fur with a silk +lining, in summer from cotton. It consists of two parts the helmet proper and the mask. +The helmet must not leave his head in any circumstances, even in the course of +a parachute jump. It must have no clasps, straps or projections on the outside, because +at the time of the jump it is right near the parachute. During operations, or when the +weather is particularly bad the soldier can pull down the mask over eyes nose and mouth for safety or extra camo.

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The sabotuer also wears an outer garment like an anorak. it is thick, warm, light and +waterproof. In this ingeniuos garment one can lay for hours in a thick marsh without +getting wet or sleep in the snow without freezing.

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The whole of the soldiers equipment is carried in his field back pack. Like all clothes +and other equipment it is light gray in color.

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Wherever the soldier goes he takes only 810 grams of water with him, apart from that +he has a little bottle of water cleansing pills which generate clean but foul tasting +water. The soldier carries 2765 grams of HIGH PROTREIN food. In the course of an operation food may be dropped fro aircraft but when it cannot the soldier must hunt and +live off of the land.

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Apart from that he carries in his backpack four boxes of waterproof matches, one hundred +tablets of dry spirit. Also in his backpack are twenty other tablets (medicinal to kill +most common field ailments). There is also one towel, a safety razor, a tube of liquid soap, afish hook and line, and a needle and cotton.

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As for weapons there are two choices the full complement of the lightwight issue. Due +to limited space I will only describe the heavy issue here (light issueis basically just +a pistol and some knives). A kalishnakov automatic AKMS and 300 rounds. Some automatics are equiped with a silencer and flame suppreser. He also carries a p-8 silenced +pistol and 32 rounds for smaller needs. Apart from that he carries on his right calf +a huge knife for cutting parachut elines, and on the left calf four spare blades. +This knife is no ordinary knife it is the type of knife that I, you, me and the local +anarchist would kill for. It has a powerful spring in it so that when you remove the +catch the blade will shoot as far as twenty-five meters, if it hits a tree the chances of being able to pull it out are nil. he must reload. Also in addition to the above +he also has in his pack 6 grenades, plastic explosive, another heavey weapon.

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TIDBITS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Sleep +===== +A neet little trick to fall asleep is to stretch out on your back, relaxe as +best as you possibly can, calm your mind, and close your eyes. Roll your eyes to looking +up. This is the natural sleep position, if you practice this soon you will be able to sleep instantly.

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Falling +======= +This one i a bit more scary than the above but try it anyway. In order to kill +your natural fear of falling rock in a chair and let yourself fall backwards. This +(beleive it or not) is less painful than jumping onto your feet as the back is a large area and will absorb the force you will feel almost nothing.

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Train Jumping +============= +This is the most dangerous I would never try it, but it is to say the least +interesting so I will mention it here. When jumping off a fast moving train one doesnt +just jump and roll like some 10 year olds think. You jump backwards (yes backwards) +and you do not let your hands touch the ground. As soon as you make ground contact +spring forward and runyour ass off or else fall on it and die. Like i said dont try +this.

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The info. in this file was take from INSIDE THE AQUARIUM by Viktor Suvorov and published +by berkley and can be found in all bookstores. It's quite interesting you should brouse +through it sometime at least.

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well thats all...

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A NEW WORLD ORDER: ECONOMIC LIBERALISM OR THE NEW

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MERCANTILISM?

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By RICHARD M. EBELING

+ +

In the days immediately following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait +in August 1990, the Bush Administration declared that a vital +interest of the United States was at stake--American economic +well-being was threatened by Iraqi control of the Kuwaiti oil +fields. However, when a growing number of economists pointed +out that the U.S. economy had the capacity to adjust in a +reasonable amount of time to any rise in the price of oil--or +to a disruption in its supply from the Persian Gulf--the Bush +Administration began shifting its rationale for American +intervention.

+ +

The argument was next made that what was actually at stake was +the freedom of the Kuwaiti people. A number of political +analysts, however, pointed out that while Saddam Hussein's +regime in Iraq was undoubtedly a brutal dictatorship, Kuwait +had not exactly been an example of a free, democratic society. +In fact, the royal family of Kuwait had closed the Parliament +a few years earlier and had also imposed various restrictions +on freedom of speech and the press.

+ +

The Bush Administration again changed the rationale for +American military intervention. It was now claimed that what +was at stake was the inviolability of international borders +and the continued existence of nation-states. A number of +Middle East experts pointed out, however, that these +supposedly "inviolable" borders and nation-states were +themselves the creations of Britain and France when they +carved up the Turkish Empire at the end of world war I. The +existing boundaries and the legitimacy of the Persian Gulf +states are no less "artificial" than making Kuwait "Province +19" of Iraq.

+ +

The Bush Administration finally argued that what was at stake +was the establishment of a "new world order." World peace and +stability could never be secure as long as dictators had the +license to conquer and plunder their neighbors by force of +arms. With the end of the Cold War, it was now necessary to +bring to fruition the noble dreams of Woodrow Wilson and +Franklin D. Roosevelt which called for a consort of nations to +police and guarantee world order for the mutual benefit of +all.

+ +

Few people have asked, however, what the ultimate foundations +for any durable world order are. And to ask this question is, +at the same time, to ask: What are the causes of conflict and +war--the causes of world disorder?

+ +

In the 18th century, the reigning economic philosophy among +nations was mercantilism. The fundamental premise underlying +mercantilism was expressed by Voltaire in 1764: "It is clear +that a country cannot gain unless another loses and it cannot +prevail without making others miserable." The policy +implications of this societal philosophy were trade wars and +territorial conquests. If your own nation was to be wealthy, +it could only be so by making others poorer. Tariff walls were +needed to protect the prosperity of domestic producers from +the "attacks" of foreign competitors. Subsidies were required +for export producers so that they could "seize" the wealth of +others in foreign markets. Resources in foreign lands had to +be militarily "captured" to keep them out of the hands of +commercial rivals in opposing nation-states who would use them +to defeat "our" nation-state.

+ +

Economic activity in every nation was entirely politicized. +Private interests had to be subordinated to the ends of the +state in this global war of all against all.

+ +

But in the 19th century, the liberal ideal replaced +mercantilism. The liberal philosophers and economists +explained that trade among nations, like trade among +individuals, was mutually beneficial. All men would gain +through participation in a global division of labor--a way of +life in which they offered to each other the various products +in the production of which they specialized. Market +competition was not conflict, they argued, but rather peaceful +cooperation: each producer helped to improve the quality of +life for all through the production and sale of superior and +less expensive products than the ones offered by his market +rivals.

+ +

The liberal ideal required minimizing the role of the state in +economic affairs. The German economist Wilhelm Ropke once +concisely explained that the "genuinely liberal principle" +required "the widest possible separation of the two spheres of +government and economy. . . . This means the largest possible +'depolitisation' of the economic sphere with everything that +goes with it. . . . By aid of this principle of separation, it +was possible to reduce to a minimum the economic coexistence +of sovereign states with their different legal orders, their +frontiers, their systems of administration and separate +citizenships. . . . The result was that it was now possible to +remove the greatest part of the economic issues of conflict +and problems to which the coexistence of sovereign States is +liable to give rise."

+ +

Competition and rivalry, the "capturing" of consumer business +and the "conquest" of market share were now private matters of +peaceful exchange and contract. They were no longer affairs of +state--no longer political issues concerning obedience, +command and control.

+ +

The privatization of economic life, with government limited to +the protection of life and property and the adjudication of +contractual disputes, was the foundation of this "new world +order" in the predominantly liberal era between the end of the +Napoleonic wars in 1815 and the beginning of the First World +War in 1914. And what did it produce? A century of the +greatest freedom, prosperity and peace that man has ever +known.

+ +

In the 20th century, however, we have unfortunately returned +to the mercantilist ideal. Trade and commercial rivalry are +once again seen as the battleground of political combat. +Iraq's motive in invading Kuwait merely took the principle to +its logical conclusion: a nation destroys its economic rival +by seizing its resources (Kuwait's oil fields) and attempts to +enrich itself by plundering its accumulated wealth (Kuwait's +gold and physical assets).

+ +

But the United States and its Desert Storm allies in principle +conduct their international economic affairs no differently +than has Saddam Hussein. If some of America's Asian trading +partners "capture" a large share of the American consumer +market, the government responds with a tariff-wall "defense." +If American agriculture cannot earn the profits it considers +"fair," the U.S. government takes the "offensive" by +"attacking" other lands through export price-subsidies. If +other nations will not comply with the wishes of the +Washington social engineers in some international dispute, the +American government influences and persuades them with +government-to-government financial loans, grants and +subsidized credits--all at American taxpayers' expense, of +course.

+ +

Nor has the United States government any qualms about military +adventures to secure its economic goals when circumstances +seem to warrant it. When it becomes politically profitable for +the politicians in Washington to oppose the importation of +narcotics into the United States, then American military +forces invade one of the countries--Panama--that is accused of +dealing in the forbidden trade. Or if the occupation of Kuwait +by Iraq might negatively influence the availability and price +of a valued import such as oil, then a military crusade is +launched to guarantee "our" supply of oil. And in the process, +we purchase some allies--Egypt--by "forgiving" tens of +billions of dollars in government loans; and we also punish +others who won't go along with us--Jordan--by withholding +government aid and loans.

+ +

In a world of politicized trade and commerce, conflicts among +nations are inevitable, because the economic profits and +losses of private individuals and industries are raised to the +level of affairs of state. And, as a consequence, the problems +and interests of private suppliers and demanders are turned +into issues of national concern and supposed survival. This is +the source of much of our global disorder as well as one of +the fundamental barriers to a truly peaceful "new world +order."

+ +

In 1936, the Swiss economist and political scientist William +Rappard delivered a lecture entitled, "The Common Menace of +Economic and Military Armaments." World order, he said, was +threatened not only by military aggression but by economic +warfare as well. The weapons for economic warfare were +"economic armaments"--meaning all of the legislative and +administrative devices governments use to politically +influence imports and exports as well as the allocation of +commodities and their prices within one's own country and in +other parts of the world.

+ +

"The primary source of economic and military armaments," +Rappard said, "we perceive in the doctrine of political +nationalism. Political nationalism is the creed which places +the national State at the top of the scale of human values, +not only above the individual, but above mankind itself."

+ +

Rappard argued that a new world order of peace and prosperity +would only be possible when nations undertook a policy of +economic disarmament. But this would only come about when the +creed of political nationalism and mercantilism was again +superseded by the ideals of economic liberalism. And, alas, we +still seem as far away from that transformation as when +William Rappard delivered his lecture more than half a century +ago.

+ +

Professor Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of +Economics at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, and also +serves as vice-president of academic affairs for The Future of +Freedom Foundation.

+ +

------------------------------------------------------------ +From the July 1991 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1991, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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Subject: OPAL FILE!-HERE IT IS! (CIAOBIL COS WORLD PLOT TO FUKUSALL) +Date: 16 Feb 91 00:56:13 GMT

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*************************************************************** +**************** THE OPAL FILE ****************************** +*************************************************************** +HERE IS THE OPAL FILE: EX FBI AGENT DESCRIBES CIA/MAFIA/OIL COS/ +/JFK KILLING/PRICE GOUGING/BIG BROTHER LINKS: +(WE THE "PEEP"L ARE IN DEEP SHIT): +(CROSS POST TO ALT.ACTIVISM AND LOCAL NEWS ON YOUR MACHINE!!!!!):

+ +

Long, approx 60K and contains some very amazing information, such +as Swiss Account Numbers of high profile people on Mafia Payrolls. +You may be surprised at some of the names mentioned here.

+ +

It also contains references to CIA operations to place subliminal +TV broadcasts throughout Australia and NZ, and other countries.

+ +

Happy reading.

+ +

The Opal File

+ +

The Round Table Financial Takeover of Australia and New Zealand

+ +

- A 20 Year History In Brief

+ +

"Fear them not, therefore; for there is nothing covered that shall +not be revealed; and hidden, that shall shall not be known. "What +I tell you in darkness, that espeak in light; and what ye hear in +the ear, that proclaim upon the housetops." Matthew

+ +

18th May, 1967: Texas oil billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, using a +sophisticated satellite technique to detect global deposits, +discovers a huge oil source south of New Zealand in the Great +South Basin.

+ +

10th June, 1967: Hunt and New Zealand Finance Minister reach an +agreement: Hunt will receive sole drilling rights and Muldoon will +receive a $US100000 non-repayable loan from the Placid Oil Co +(Hunt's).

+ +

8th September, 1967: Placid Oil granted drilling rights to the +Great South Basin.

+ +

10th May, 1968: Hawaiian meeting between Onassis and top +lieutenants, William Colby and Gerald Parsky, to discuss +establishment of a new front company in Australia - Australasian +and Pacific Holdings Limited - to be managed by Michael Hand. +Using Onassis-Rockefeller banks, Chase Manhattan and Shroders, +Travelodge Management Ltd sets up another front to link the +operations to the US.

+ +

Onassis crowned head of the Mafia; Colby (head of CIA covert +operations in S.E. Asia) ran the Onassis heroin operations in the +Golden Triangle (Laos, Burma, Thailand) with 200 Green Beret +Mercenaries - ie the Phoenix Programme.

+ +

Gerald Parsky deputy to ex-CIA/FBI Robert Maheu in the Howard +Hughes organisation, took orders from Onassis and was made +responsible for laundering skim money from the Onassis casino +operations in Las Vegas and the Bahamas.

+ +

Mid-July, 1968: Placid Oil Co and the Seven Sisters (major oil +companies) begin Great South Basin oil exploration - hunt finances +45.5% of exploration costs, Gulf Oil 14.5%, Shell (US) 10%, B.P. +Oil 10%, Standard Oil California 10%, Mobil 6.5% and Arco 6.5%.

+ +

12th October, 1968: Hunt and Seven Sisters announce confirmation +of new oil source comparable to the Alaskan North Slope - gas +reserves estimated at 150 times larger than the Kapuni Field.

+ +

Early 1969: Mafia consolidates its banking operations; David +Rockefeller becomes Chairman of Chase Manhattan; Wriston at +Citibank and Michele Sindona captures the Vatican Bank, +Partnership Pacific launched by Bank of America, Bank of Tokyo and +Bank of New South Wales.

+ +

24th February, 1969: Onassis calls Council meeting in Washington +to discuss strategy to monopolise the Great South Basin discovery. +Council members included Nelson Rockefeller and John McCloy, who +managed the Seven Sisters, and David Rockefeller managed the +Mafia's banking operations.

+ +

McCloy outlines the plan to capture all oil and mineral resources +in Australia and N.Z.

+ +

10th March, 1969: Parsky and Colby use Australasian and Pacific +Holdings to set up a 'front' company in Australia. Using old banks +-Mellon Bank and Pittsburgh National Bank, they buy control of +near-bankrupt Industrial Equity Ltd (I.E.L.) managed by New +Zealander Ron Brierly.

+ +

A'Asian and Pacific Holdings' 'consultant' Bob Seldon helps +Michael Hand set up the new organisation. Seldon took orders from +Mellon and Pittsburgh National Banks, while Hand was directly +responsible to Gerald Parsky and William Colby. Ron Brierly would +take orders from Hand.

+ +

24th July, 1969: New board established for I.E.L. includes Hand, Seldon, Ron +Brierly, plus two Brierly associates - Frank Nugan and Bob Jones. +Both are appointed consultants to A'asian and Pacific Holdings Ltd.

+ +

Jones will help Brierly launder funds into real estate +(Brierly/Jones Investments) while Seldon and Nugan will channel +funds into oil and mineral resources through I.E.L.

+ +

October 1969: Chase Manhattan begins new operation in Australia +with National Bank Australasia and A.C. Goods Associates - Chase-NBA.

+ +

J.C. Fletcher appointed chairman of Seven Sisters' company - +British Petroleum (N.Z.).

+ +

17th February 1970: Gerald Parsky sets up a new heroin-dollar +laundry in Australia - Australian International Finance Corp. +using the Irving Trust Co New York.

+ +

April 1970: Onassis, Rockefeller and the Seven Sisters begin +setting up the shadow World Government using the +Illuminati-controlled banks and the transnational corporations. In +Melbourne they set up the Australian International Finance +Corporation using:

+ +

* Irving Trust Co. N.Y. - linked to Shell Oil, Continental Oil, +Phillips Petroleum.

+ +

* Crocker Citizens National - linked to Atlantic Richfield (Arco), +Standard Oil of California which is Rockefeller-controlled.

+ +

* Bank of Montreal - Petro Canada, Penarctic Oils, Alberta Gas, Gulf Oil.

+ +

* Australia and New Zealand Bank (ANZ).

+ +

Meantime, Japanese members of One World Government move into New +Zealand, helped by finance minister R. Muldoon; Mitsubishi and +Mitsui make a profitable deal buying up rights to ironsands helped by Marcon +a +Corp. (US) and Todd (Shell/BP/Todd). Todd rewarded with sole New +Zealand franchise for Mitsubishi vehicles, Muldoon helps Mitsui +(Oji Paper Co) obtain a lucrative 320 million cubic foot Kiangaroa +Forestry contract with Carter Holt.

+ +

November, 1970: Fletchers extend the Rockefeller Travelodge +operation by buying control of New Zealand's largest travel +company - Atlantic and Pacific Travel.

+ +

Manufacturers' and Retailers' Acceptance Company (in 1970 changed +to Marac): This firm specialises in leasing and factoring (buying +debts at a discount). It also finances imports and exports. The +major shareholders are the Fletcher Group (38.0%), the Commercial +Bank of Australia Ltd (24.7%), NIMU Insurance (7.7%), Phillips +Electrical (3.8%), National Mutual Life Association (2.4%), New +Zealand United Corporation (4.0%). The CBA is a partner in the +supranational Euro-Pacific Corporation, the other partners being +the Midland Bank (UK), the United California Bank (USA), Fuji +(Japan) and Societe Generale de Banque (France).

+ +

Early 1971: Onassis and Rockefeller begin global operation to buy +influence for the One World Government concept. They use Lockheed, +Northrop and Litton Industries 'agent' Adnan Khashoggi, to +organise operations in the Middle East, Iran and Indonesia. I.C.I. +set up $2.5 million slush fund to Australia and N.Z.

+ +

Finance Minister Muldoon changes law to allow Mafia-controlled +banks to begin operations in New Zealand. Links also made by +N.Z.I. in preparation for Paxus control with Hong Kong and +Shanghai; Wells Fargo with Broadbank; Chase Manhattan with General +Finance; Bank of America and Barclays with Fletchers and Renouf in +New Zealand United Corp. All members of the Business Round Table +Organisation.

+ +

Late 1971: Gulf Oil and their man Brierly begin organising chains +of Shell companies and dummy corporations to conceal their +takeover operations of oil, gas and mineral resources and related +industries such as vehicle franchises, vehicle spare parts and +finance services - all part of the Seven Sisters' controlled car +culture.

+ +

To extend links to the US banking operations they buy control of +I.S.A.S. (NSW) and I.S.A.S. (Qld), which hold sole franchise for +construction and mining equipment produced by International +Harvester Credit Co, which is part of Chase Manhattan Bank and +associated with First National Bank Chicago (Chairman Sullivan +also Executive Vice-President of Chase Manhattan), Continental +Illinois (linked with CIA and Mafia Michele Sindona of Vatican +Bank) and Rockefeller's Standard Oil of Indiana (AMOCO).

+ +

I.S.A.S. (Qld) also has strategic holdings in North Flinders +Mines, Flinders Petroleum, Apollo International Minerals.

+ +

February 1972: Onassis and Rockefeller help associate Adnan +Khashoggi buy the Security Pacific National Bank in California and +take control of the United California Bank through CIA-linked +Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Both banks used by Onassis and +Khashoggi to funnel bribes and payoffs via the CIA's Deak Bank to +captive Japanese and other crooked politicians. Security Pacific +also used to 'launder' over $2 million for Nixon's re-election +campaign. Khashoggi also buys 21% of Southern Pacific Properties, +which is the major stockholder in Travelodge (Aust), thereby +establishing direct links to New Zealand, and U.E.B. and Fletchers +through its equity links with Travelodge (N.Z.).

+ +

April 1972: Mafia banking operations expanded through New Hebrides +with establishment of Australian International Ltd to finance +Pacific development by the oil companies (Seven Sisters). Banks +involved include Irving Trust NY, Bank of Montreal, Crocker +International, Australia & N.Z. Bank and the Mitsubishi Bank, +whose president, Nakamaru, is appointed Chairman.

+ +

26th May, 1972: Gerald Parsky installs Michele Sindona as 'owner' +of Franklin National Bank, helped by the Gambino Mafia family and +David Kennedy - Chairman of Continental Illinois Bank and Nixon's +Secretary of the Treasury.

+ +

Pacific Basin Economic Council Conference in Wellington, NZ. +Vice-President Shigeo Nagano also chairman of Nippon Steel and +member of Onassis and other World Government organisations. +Chairman of NZ sub-committee, J. Mowbray is also GenehAo National B

+ +

Meanwhile, Michele Sindona, acting as the go-between for the Mafia +and the CIA, was the conduit between US and European banks. +Michele Sindona's Vatican Bank and associate Calvi's Abrosiano +Bank was used to finance CIA neo-fascist Italian/Latin American +operations through Licio Gelli's P2 Lodge, which helped to +organise the 'death squads' of Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. This +aided the P2 -@+%rs sukh!as Klaus Barbie ('The Butcher of Lyonsf,(" Rega +organiser of the A.A.A. in +Argentina.

+ +

Aoh August, 1972: Gulf Oil associate Bob Seldon helps establish +new banking operation, first NZ international banks include Bank +of New Zealand, D.F.C. (Aust), N.Z.I., Morgan Guaranty Trust, +Morgan Grenfel and S.F. Warburg.

+ +

Fletchers begins expansion overseas with deals signed in +Indonesia, Fiji and New Guinea.

+ +

December 1972: Kirk elected Prime Minister of New Zealand.

+ +

February, 1973: Gerald Parsky, William Colby, Michael Hand, Frank +Nugan and Bob Seldon move to further consolidate the Mafia banking +operations. In NZ they acquire 20% Fletcher subsidiary Marac, +using the Security Pacific National Bank helped by Marac Corporate +secretary Alan Hawkins.

+ +

Frank Nugan and Michael Hand use Fletcher and Renouf and their NZ +United Corporation to link with I.E.L. and Brierly Investments +through cross-shareholding agreement.

+ +

In Australia, the Nugan Hand Bank begins operations with 30% of +the stock held by A'asian and Pacific Holdings (100% Chase +Manhattan Bank), 25% by CIA's Air America (known as 'Air Opium'), +25% by South Pacific Properties and 20% held by Seldon, Nugan and +Hand.

+ +

The Irving Trust Bank's New York Branch establishes US links +between the CIA and Nugan Hand, a worldwide network of 22 banks +set up to:

+ +

a) 'launder' money from Onassis heroin operations in the Golden +Triangle and Iran; +b) as a CIA funnel to pro-US political parties in Europe and Latin +America, including Colby's P2; +c) a spying conduit for information from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam +and Thailand; +d) finance arms smuggled to Libya, Indonesia, South America, +Middle East and Rhodesia using the CIA's Edward Wilson.

+ +

Colby and Kissinger use key CIA and Naval Intelligence officers to +oversee the operation, including Walter McDonald (former Deputy +Director CIA), Dale Holmgren (Flight Service Manager CIA Civil Air +Transport), Robert Jansen (former CIA Station Chief, Bangkok) etc.

+ +

Heroin flown into Australia by CIA's Air America and trans-shipped +to Onassis lieutenant in Florida, Santos Trafficante Jr, assisted +by Australian Federal Bureau of Narcotics officials and +co-ordinated by CIA's Ray Cline.

+ +

14th June, 1973: Inauguration of the Onassis shadow World +Government - the Trilateral Commission. Includes over 200 members from the U +S, +Europe and Japan - bankers, government officials, transnational +corporations' top executives, trade unionists, etc. Of the world's +largest corporations, 24 directly represented and dozens more +through interlocking directorships.

+ +

* Trilateralist strategy: monopolisation of the world's resources, +production facilities, labour technology, markets, transport and +finance. These aims backed up by the US military and industrial +complexes that are already controlled and backed up by the CIA.

+ +

18th August, 1973: Ray Cline and Michael Hand meet in Adelaide to +discuss CIA plan to establish spying operations in NZ.

+ +

September 1973: Seagrams, with strong links to Chase Manhattan +Bank of Montreal and Toronto Dominion Bank, buys 2800 acres of +prime land in Marlborough helped by Peter Maslen.

+ +

17th February, 1974: Mafia sets up New Hebrides Bank - Commercial +Pacific Trust Co (COMPAC). Banks include CBA, Europacific Finance +Corporation, Trustee Executors and Agency Co, Fuji Bank, Toronto +Dominion Bank, European Asian Bank and United California Bank, +COMPAC to be used as a cover for heroin dollar laundering +operations.

+ +

26th February, 1974: Michael Hand meets Bob Jones in Wellington to +implement plans for the CIA's new spying operation - countries +targeted include France, Chile, West Germany and Israel.

+ +

Using the Brierly/Jones Investment funnel, Jones buys building in +Willeston Street which will be rented to France and Chile, another +at Plimmer Steps to house West Germany and Israel.

+ +

CIA will set up eavesdropping communications centre inside the +Willeston Street building and another at 163 The Terrace which +will link with equipment installed in the Plimmer Steps building. +Four CIA technicians will run the whole operation.

+ +

April 1974: Finance Minister Rowling appoints Ron Trotter to the +Overseas Investment Commission, whose chairman, G. Lau, is also a +member of the Todd Foundation (Shell/BP/Todd) investment board.

+ +

Whitlam and Kirk

+ +

Mid-1974: Gough Whitlam and Norman Kirk begin a series of moves +absolutely against the Mafia Trilateralists. Whitlam refuses to +waive restrictions on overseas borrowings to finance Alwest +Aluminium Consortium of Rupert Murdoch, BHP and R.J. Reynolds. +Whitlam had also ended Vietnam War support, blocked uranium mining +and wanted more control over US secret spy bases - e.g. Pine Gap.

+ +

Kirk had introduced a new, tough Anti-Monopoly Bill and had tried +to redistribute income from big companies to the labour force +through price regulation and a wages policy.

+ +

Kirk had also rejected plans to build a second aluminium smelter +near Dunedin and was preparing the Petroleum Amendment Bill to +give more control over New Zealand oil resources.

+ +

Kirk had found out that Hunt Petroleum, drilling in the Great +South Basin, had discovered a huge resource of oil comparable in +size to the North Sea or Alaskan North Slope. Gas reserves alone +now estimated at 30 times bigger than Kapuni and oil reserves of +at least 20 billion barrels - enough for New Zealand to be +self-sufficient for years. Oil companies completely hushed up +these facts. To have announced a vast new oil source would +probably mean a decline in world oil prices, which would not have +allowed OPEC and Onassis plans for the Arabs to eventuate. N.Z. +could be exploited at a later date, particularly since the North +Sea operations were about to come on stream - Kirk was the last to +hold out.

+ +

September, 1974: According to CIA sources, Kirk was killed by the +Trilateralists using Sodium Morphate. Rowling's first act as NZ +Prime Minister was to withdraw Kirk's Anti-Monopoly Bill and the +Petroleum Amendment Bill.

+ +

Later, Rowling was to be rewarded with ambassadorship to +Washington. Incidentally, the Shah of Iran was murdered the same +way as Kirk on his arrival in the US.

+ +

6th October, 1974: Ray cline implements William Colby plan to oust +Australian Prime Minister Whitlam. Nugan Hand Bank finances +payoffs to Malcolm Fraser and other pro-US politicians. A joint +bugging operation commences between CIA and ASIA.

+ +

Rupert Murdoch, playing his part, uses his newspapers and +television network to spread lies and misinformation. Whitlam, as +well as refusing to waive restrictions on overseas borrowing to +finance the aluminium consortium, had plans to ensure that all +corporations were at least 50% Australian-owned. This interfered +with the Seven Sisters' plans to build three oil refineries at +Cape Northumberland in South Australia to exploit the Great South +Basin discovery.

+ +

December, 1974: Australian Governor-General John Kerr joins Ray +Cline's payroll and received his first pay-off of $US200000 +credited to his account number 767748 at the Singapore branch of +the Nugan Hand Bank.

+ +

11th November, 1975: Governor-General Kerr sacks the Whitlam +Government.

+ +

August 1975: Rowling re-introduces unrecognisable Commerce Bill, +designed to aid monopolisation of the NZ economy and repeals the +News Media Ownership Act, allowing more foreign ownership of NZ +media. The new legislation does not define monopoly, competition +or stipulate permissable maximum market share, or even ascertain +what the public interest is - resulting in a sell-out to big business.

+ +

December, 1975: Election battle between Rowling and Muldoon. Oil +companies pour thousands of dollars into Muldoon's campaign via +National Bank (NZ), whose general manager Mowbray is also a member +of Todd Foundations; Investment Board Director Tudhope also Managing +Director Shell Oil and Chairman Shell/BP/Todd. Muldoon wins.

+ +

February, 1976: Muldoon implements pre-election secret agreement +with the NZ Seven Sisters' oil representatives of Shell/BP/Todd +for helping finance the National Party campaign.

+ +

Muldoon removes the $3 per barrel oil levy for the New Zealand +Refining Company, which increases the oil companies' profits by +100% at the taxpayers' expense and with all future oil prospecting licenses, +the Government has the option to take 51% of any discovery without +meeting exploration costs. This is designed to discourage further +exploration, thereby keeping the lid on the Great South Basin +discovery.

+ +

Meanwhile, in Australia, new P.M. Malcolm Fraser reopens uranium +mining and opens the way for takeover of mineral resources with +big tax breaks for oil exploration, coal and mining.

+ +

Muldoon returns a favour to the oil companies by arranging $US200 +million loan for Maui Gas Development for Shell/BP/Todd.

+ +

September, 1976: With captive politicians in place in both +Australia and New Zealand, the Internationalists can now proceed +with their strategy of takeover of the economy and exploitation of +natural resources. "In New Zealand, the elimination of unnecessary +competition is fundamental to a sound economy," Brierly says.

+ +

Parksy and Colby use Brierly/Jones Investments as a vehicle to buy +into A.B. Consolidated Holdings in New Zealand.

+ +

Associate of R. Jones, Pat Goodman, is appointed 'consultant' of +A'asian and Pacific Holdings.

+ +

November, 1976: The Internationalists (Mafia) set up a NZ money +'funnel' using Brierley's City Realties. National Insurance Co +acquires 33% of the stock. Largest stockholders in National +Insurance are the US Firemen's Fund +- Chairman and President Myron Du Bain also Vice Chairman of +American Express (Amex). Chairman of I.E.L. linked International +Harvester, Archie McCardell, also Amex Director. Amex linked with +Chase Manhattan and seven Sisters' Texaco and Mobil. Du Bain also +Director of CIA-linked United California Bank, which is a partner +in Commercial Pacific Trust.

+ +

To complete the money funnel, National Insurance becomes a +stockholder in Chase Manhattan's Chase-NBA. +Brierley's declared assets reach $100 million, with shareholder's +capital of only $2.5 million - all cash acquisitions.

+ +

3rd February, 1977: Parksy and Colby close down the Brierley/Jones +Investment funnel and open up seperate channels for Brierley and +Jones. Jones will be supplied with 'laundered' funds via Sydney +branch of the Nugan Hand Bank, while for Ron Brierley, Gerald +Parsky uses Myron Du Bain, Dierctor of United California Bank and +also chairman and president of the US Firemen's Fund, which are +the largest stockholders in National Insurance (NZ). Funds to be +'laundered' via Chase Manhattan Bank through National Insurance to +City Realty and via United California Bank through +COMPAC (New Hebrides) to National Insurance and City Realties.

+ +

To expand the Bierley/I.E.L. 'front', Parsky establishes +Industrial Equity Pacific (Hong Kong).

+ +

September 1977: Brierley's new holding company begins operations - +A.B. Consolidated. H.W. Revell appointed Deputy Chairman and B. +Hancox General Manager, while newly-appointed directors include S. +Cushing, B. Judge, O. Gunn and P. Goodman, linked with Renouf, +Fletcher and Papps through I.E.L./N.Z.U.C.

+ +

* Strategy: To target and divide key sectors of the economy for +takeover, exploitation and monopolisation. Operations to extend to +use Hong Kong facility, I.E.P. Fletchers to extend the +Khashoggi/Rockefeller Travelodge operation by taking holdings in +Vacation Hotels and Intercontinental Properties (Renouf +Chairman).

+ +

October, 1977: Muldoon and JOhn Todd - Shell/BP/Todd - sign an +agreement. NZ Govt would take 24.5% holding in the Great South +Basin for $1.65 Billion. Hunt would reduce his holding from 45.5% +to 27.5% and Arco would sell its 6.5%.

+ +

* Reason: Hunt did not possess the technology to pump oil from +deep water; Gulf possessed the technology but did not tell Hunt. +Arco was not told anything and were swindled out of its 6.5% concession.

+ +

November, 1977: Muldoon introduces the S.I.S Amendment Bill, +designed to keep the economy free of obstruction and to help +uncover obstructive elements. Telephone taps, mail tampering and +other surveillance methods approved after CIA input on contents of +legislation.

+ +

Late 1977: Muldoon travels to the US to meet top Rockefeller +officials, including Trilateralists' Deputy Secretary of State, +Warren Christopher, and Richard Bolbrooke, who were in charge of +the new "South Pacific Desk" at the State Department established +by Rockefeller to target exploitatin of both New Zealand and +Australia. In Los Angeles, Muldoon meets top Rockefeller +officials, Robert Anderson (Rockwell Chairman, also Director of +Kashoggi's Security Pacific National Bank) and P. Larkin (Rockwell +Director, also Chairman, Executive Committee Security Pacific +National Bank and Director of Marac).

+ +

April, 1978: Muldoon sets up Petrocorp. New Zealand taxpayers +pay for the exploration costs but the oil companies control all +distribution outlets. Muldoon blocks development of Maui B as +restructured supplies mean higher prices and bigger profits for +Shell/BP/Todd. South Island gas market not developed as Great +South Basin fields closer than Kapuni. Plans develop for +re-opening of National Parks for mineral exploitation.

+ +

22nd July, 1978: Director of Australian Federal Bureau of +Narcotics suspends his invetigation into the Nugan Hand Bank after +pressure from the CIA and Australian politicians controlled by +Mafia, particularly Malcolm Fraser.

+ +

Brierly's declared assets reach $200 million, with shareholders' +funds only $17 million.

+ +

May, 1979: Trilateral Commission secretary Zbignieu Brzezinski +appoints Muldoon chairman of Board of Governors of IMF/World Bank +on orders of +David Rockefeller. Muldoon would head three-man administration +committee which included Canadian Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp, +key figure in the Mafia Council and the Trilateral Commission. +Australian Treasurer McMahon also involved.

+ +

8th June, 1979: Michael Hand, Frank Nugan, Brierley and James +Fetcher meet in Hand's Sydney penthouse to discuss the +establishment of the New Zealand Mafia organisation.

+ +

Mid-1979: Gulf Oil using its man Brierley, begins operations +designed to capture key sectors of the economy. A.B Consolidated +restructured into the Goodman Group and Goodman to run operations +but with the majority of the stock held by IEL and Brierley using +Shell companies plus dummy corporations.

+ +

* Strategy: To take over food and produce resources, Brierley and +Fletcher restructured a small private company, H.W. Smith, using +Cyril Smith as Chairman but with key executives Judge, Collins and +McKenzie. Bob Jones helps.

+ +

Private company used, as no Commerce Commission control, accounts +not published, no public disclosure of transactions. Bunting is +established as a shell company and the South Island is targeted +for asset-stripping and takeover, as well as key sectors of the +automobile industry.

+ +

Unlimited funds channelled through City Realties, NZUC and Marac. +UEB extends Travelodge operations by buying control of +Transholdings, which has strategic holdings in Vacation Hotels and +Tourist Corp. Fiji Holdings.

+ +

17th August, 1979: New Zealand Mafia inaugral meeting in Sydney +including Hand, Brierley, Fletcher, Goodman, R.Trotter, Alan +Hawkins and L.Papps.

+ +

Key sectors of the economy would be taken over-food, using +Goodman; forestry and farming, using Fletcher and Trotter; +property, using Brierley and Jones. Brierley, Hand and Papps +would be responsible for banking, insurance and finance, while +Hand and Hawkins would be responsible for setting up new "laundry" +channels into New Zealand.

+ +

The economy would be taken over using cheap loans of less than 5%, +while consumers would pay 28%.

+ +

October, 1979: BP Oil begis $100 million joint venture deal with +Fletcher and Trotter at Tasman.

+ +

Muldoon makes secret deal with oil companies which effectively +robs New Zealand taxpayers by giving Shell/BP/Todd the Maui Gas +deal. Normally the granting of drilling rights on public land is +done using a worldwide system which incorporates an auction tender +system. Muldoon bypassed this. Also, Shell/BP/Todd pays no tax +on Kapuni profits, while putting funds into Maui development.

+ +

19th November, 1979: Secret meeting in Auckland between Muldoon, +Fletcher and Trotter to transfer 43% Tasman Pulp and Paper held by +New Zealand Government to Challenge Corporation (Chairman Trotter) +and Fletchers. Tasman has lucrative 75-year contract for cheap +timber signed in 1955.

+ +

Muldoon paid off with a $1 million 'non-repayable' loan - $500000 +to be paid into account number 8746665 at New Hebrides branch of +the Australian International Bank.

+ +

November, 1979: Muldoon drops restrictions on foreign investment. +AMAX (Stnadard Oil of California subsidiary) captures the Martha +Hill goldmine.

+ +

Muldoon unveils the Government's plans (instructed by Rockefeller) +to form New Zealand into an offshore production base for the +multi-national corporations as benefits include government export +incentives, stable government, cheap labour, and so on.

+ +

27th November, 1979: Gerald Parsky's lieutenant, David Kennedy, +meets Muldoon to deliver $US100000 cash to Muldoon for +implementing the Internationalists' Mafia Think Big plans.

+ +

These plans began with big contracts and guaranteed profits for +the Seven Sisters, Bechtel, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Nippon Steel, +Internationalists' Mafia banks.

+ +

With the experimental petroleum plant, the oil price has to be +$50/barrel to be profitable, yet Mobil's profits are guaranteed.

+ +

New Zealand Steel is to be expanded 500%, even though there was a +global steel glut of 50%.

+ +

Fletchers own 10% of New Zealand Steel and are majority +stockholders in Pacific Steel and control monopoly over wire rod, +reinforcing steel. Aslo, New Zealand taxpayers subsidise +Fletchers' profits.

+ +

Muldoon introduces the National Development Bill with 'fast-track' +legislation, to keep the economy 'free of obstruction' for +long-term monopolisation.

+ +

C.E.R. plan introduced, designed to integrate the economies of +Australia and New Zealand with the Trilateral Commission for the +purpose of exploiting the South Pacific countries and as a +'back-door' entrance into China - the world's largest untapped +consumer market. New Zealand is also the closest country to +Antarctica, which has a vast mineral resource for future +exploitation.

+ +

"Think Big" projects begin, even though Muldoon aware of studies +that show New Zealand could conserve up to 40% of energy +consumption using existing technology, which would mean funds +could be invested elsewhere to lower consumer prices, lower +inflation rates, less demand for imported oil and increased +imployment by creating new industry to manufacture and install +energy-saving technology. None of these options seriously +considered as all would lessen profits for members of the +Rockefeller organisations.

+ +

December 1979: Muldoon unveils 'stage two' of a four-stage plan +to exploit the Great South Basin discovery. Plan prepared by +Trilateralist 'Think Tank' - the Brookings Institute.

+ +

'Stage Two' includes methanol plant and synthetic petrol plant, +which would initially use gas from the Maui field and later would +link with underwater gas pipe from Campbell Island.

+ +

With the New Zealand Steel 500% expansion, 'stage three' of the +project and Think Big contracts to go to Bechtel, Fluor Corp., +Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Nippon Steel, etc. All investments would be +financed by the New Zealand taxpayer.

+ +

17th January, 1980: $500000 deposited in Muldoon's account +number 8746665 at the Australian International Bank, being the +final payment for the Tasman deal.

+ +

Early 1980: Kashoggi Travelodge operations extended with +affiliation agreement between Dominion Breweries and Western +International Hotels (Seattle First National Bank).

+ +

May, 1980: Mafia's Nugan Hand banking operation crashes after +Frank Nugan killed. Death ruled as suicide even though no +fingerprints found on the rifle. Maloney, Houghton, Yates and +Hand shred important documents, but miss some. CIA helps Hand and +Bank President Donald Beasley escape to the U.S. The CIA and +Australian Security Intelligence Organisation cover everything up. +Beazley appointed President of Miami City National Bank, run by +Alberto Dugue for 'laundering' profits from the CIA Colombian +cocaine operation.

+ +

There is a probability that Michael Hand killed Frank Nugan +because of his involvement with Hand's fiancee.

+ +

25th May, 1980: Colby arrived in Australia to discuss replacement +of the Nugan Hand Bank with Hand, Brierley, and Seldon. Immediate +funding available from Sydney branch of the Deak Bank, a separate +CIA operation, and IEL would be used to buy NZI Corp., to prepare +for future laundering operations.

+ +

Maloney, Houghton, Yates, and Hand would shred all documents +leading back to the New Zealand Great South Basin connection, and +the CIA would help Hand and Bank President Donald Beazley escape +to the USA. The CIA and ASIO would also cover everything up.

+ +

Hand and Beazley turn up in Miami - Beazley appointed President +and Hand 'consultant' to the Miami City National Bank, but also +Hand turned up in El Salvador to help organise bankrolling of the +Contras with other ex-members of Nugan-Hand.

+ +

23rd June, 1980: New Zealand Mafia, including Brierley, Fletcher, +Trotter, Jones, Hawkins, Goodman, and Papps meet in Wellington to +discuss merger of Fletcher Challenge and Tasman.

+ +

In order to replace Nugan Hand Bank's 22 world-wide branches, +quick moves are made to buy control of NZI by New Zealand Mafia +using Brierley, thereby capturing an established, world-wide +organisation through the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, which is +also linked to the CIA through its subsidiary, World Finance +Corporation.

+ +

Late 1980: Fletchers, with strong Rockefeller links, obtains +lucrative contracts on US Bases in the Pacific and joint ventures +in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

+ +

Control extended over New Zealand natural resources - Fletcher +Challenge and Tasman Pulp and Paper merged. NZFP takes control of +M.S.D. Spiers and Moore Le Messurier (Aust). Brierley begins +joint venture with NZFP through Williamson and Jeffrey. I.E.L, +through Goodman, buys 20% of Watties and begins cross-shareholding +agreement. Goodman continues buying up control of NZ bakeries and +flour-mills.

+ +

February, 1981: TNL., Brierley, AMOIL and MIM Holdings begin +joint gold mining operation. MIM major shareholder is ASARCO +(US), whose Chairman, Barber, is also Director of Chase Manhattan +Bank.

+ +

New Zealand Insurance and South British merger. +Parliamentarians For World Order - Richard Prebble elected on of +twelve councillors.

+ +

Fletcher and Papps (Chairman UEB) sell their hotel operations to +Singaporian interest clossely associated with the Pritzker family +- owners of the Hyatt Hotel chain. Bueton Kanter, Pritzker family +lawyer and Director of Hyatt Hotels, who helped arrange the deal, +was an old family partner of Paul Helliwell (CIA paymaster for the +Bay of Pigs' fiasco) and had helped the Pritzker family set up tax +shelters using the CIA's Mercantile Bank and Trust and the Castle +Bank, which ahd been set up by Helliwell for 'laundering' profits +from the Onassis heroin operations as well as 'skim money' from +the Hughes casino operations in Las Vegas.

+ +

Others who used these banks include Richard Nixon, Bebe Rozo, +Robert Vesco, Teamsters Union, etc.

+ +

12th March, 1981: Brierley calls secret meeting in Auckland, +which includes Jones, Fletcher, Hawkins, Papps and Burton Kanter, +to discuss transfer of the Fletcher Challenge and UEB hotel +operations to the Singapore front company controlled by the +Pritzker family.

+ +

20th July, 1981: Parsky, Colby, Brierley and Seldon meet in +Sydney with two new members, Kerry Packer and Alan Bond.

+ +

Chase Manhattan and Security Pacific National Bank will acquire +60% of Packer's company, with the stock being held in Australia, +and 35% Bond's company, with the stock being held in Hong Kong.

+ +

August 1981: Gulf Oil, using Brierley, strengthens its hold over +New Zealand natural resources. Cue Energy launched, starring +Lawrey and +Gunn. NZOG launched with strategic holdings by Jones, Renouf and +Brierley with licences in PPD 38206 and 38204 - both next to +Hunt's Great South Basin discovery, NZOG also controls 80 million +tonnes of coal through the Pike River Coal Company.

+ +

Brierley-controlled Wellington Gas, Christchurch Gas, Auckland and +Hawkes Bay Gas and Dual Fuel Systems (A'Asia) which controls the +vehicle gas conversion market.

+ +

Liquigas Limited set up to distribute LPG, controlled by +Shell/BP/Todd and Fletcher Challenge.

+ +

15th February, 1982: Brierley calls New Zealand meeting - Jones, +Fletcher, Trotter, Hawkins, Goodman and Papps. New members +include Bruce Judge, J. Fernyhough, and Frank Renouf.

+ +

With Muldoon about to deregulate the liquor industry, Brierley and +Fernyhough plan to buy up the New Zealand liquor industry, along +with its outlets, Lion Breweries and Rothmans to help. +Brierley will do the same in Australia. J.R. Fletcher becomes +Managing Director of Brierley's Dominion Breweries to oversee +operations. Rothmans and Brierley (through Goodman) have equal +holdings in Saudicapital Corp. Lion Directors Myers and +Fernyhough also stockholders in NZOG.

+ +

Fletcher and Brierley begin their takeover of the freezing works +industry. FCL buys into South Island works while Brierley begins +takeover of Waitaki NZR through Watties with the help of Athol +Hutton.

+ +

With Think Big projects beginning, Fletcher and Trotter plan to +take strategic holdings in NZ Cement, Wilkins Davies, Steel & +Tube etc., and Brierley would use Renouf to take 3% stake of the +Martha Hill gold-mine.

+ +

Also targetted are clothing, footwear, carpet manufacture and more +of the auto industry for takeover and monopolisation.

+ +

June, 1982: Meantime, in Australia, an new money funnel begins. +H.W Smith buys to obscure South Pine Quarries, which is renamed +Ariadne (Aust). South Pine Quarries owns 50% of Coal-Liquid Inc., +with the other half owned by US Defence contractors McDonnell +Douglas. Coal-Liquid renamed Impala Securities.

+ +

The common link between Gulf Oil and McDonnell Douglas is the +CIA's Mercantile Bank and Trust, which both companies use for +world-wide bribery and payoff operations. McDonnell Douglas +officials McKeough and G.T.Hawkins later appointed directors of +Impala Securities.

+ +

US links strengthened through Industrial Equity Pacific, which +acquires part of Higbee Company in Cleveland, which in turn is +closely linked to the National City Bank of Cleveland. This bank +is closely associated with Gulf Oil's bank, Pittsburgh National +and Mellon Bank.

+ +

Bruce Judge installed as Ariadne manager.

+ +

July, 1982: Media takeover begins. Brierley takes 24% NZ News +Ltd and begins buying up private radio. Rupert Murdoch helps.

+ +

27th July, 1982. Brierley, Jones and Goodman meet in Auckland +with two Japanese members of the Trilateral Commission to discuss +integration of the New Zealand economy into the Pacific Rim +economy. Trilateralists include: Takeshi Watanabe (Japanese +Chairman of Trilateral Commission) and Daigo Miyado (Chairman +Sanwa Bank).

+ +

The Japan/New Zealand Business Council would be established to co-ordinate policy with Goodman appointed as Chairman.

+ +

17th August, 1982: Inauguration of restructured US Mafia Council +- rulers include David Rockefeller, responsible for Banking; John +McCloy; Redman Rockefeller and J.D. Rockefeller, who would run the +Seven Sisters.

+ +

Second-tier Council includes:

+ +

* Gerald Parsky - responsible for heroin and cocaine operations +* William Simon - responsible for running the Presidency, +Cabinet, etc +* Katherine Graham - link to arms manufacturers +* Zbigniew Brzezinski - link to National Security Council and +CIA +* George S. Franklin - link to FBI

+ +

Third-tier Council includes:

+ +

* Zbigniew Brzezinski - Secretary +* Gerald Parsky - Heroin Cocaine operations +* William Colby - crack operations, assassinations +* John N. Perkins - banking, laundering +* Leonard Woodcock - labour, unions +* Mitchell Sharp - banking +* William Simon - presidency, Cabinet +* Ernest C. Arbuckly - arms manufacturers +* George W. Bull - Bildrberg and Council of Foreign Relations +* Katherine Graham - arms manufacturers +* Alden W. Clausen - World Bank, IMF +* Willam T. Coleman - CIA +* Archibald K. Davis - media, radio, television, and newspapers +* George S. Franklin - FBI, and Trilateral Commission +co-ordinator +* J.D. Rockefeller - to "spy" on the 15 man council.

+ +

September, 1982: Goodman now helps establish the Japan/New +Zealand Council with the Bank of Tokyo and the Industrial Bank of +Japan. Tokai Pulp Co. buys shareholding in NZFP, which also +begins joint venture with Shell Oil.

+ +

Fletcher Challenge strengthens links with the Rockefeller +organisation by acquiring the Canadian operations of Crown +Zellerbach, whose chairman is also director of Gulf Oil. Crown +Zellerbach Corp. has direct connections to Rockefeller through +directors Mumford, Hendrickson and Granville, to United California +Bank through Roth and to the Bank of America through Chairman C.R. +Dahl.

+ +

Meanwhile, Robert Jones Investments floated to extend operations +of City Realties, Ilmond Properties, Chase Corp., etc.

+ +

The Commerce Building in Auckland sold to Robert Jones Investments +by Robert Jones Holdings for $950000 when recently it was offered +on the market for $200000. A quick $750000 for Jones. Robert +Jones Investments was set up by Brierley, Jones and Hawkins.

+ +

8th December, 1982: Mitchell Sharp heads top-level Mafia meeting +in San Francisco. Others include Parsky, Perkins, Woodcock and +C.R. Dahl - Chairman of Crown Zellermach.

+ +

Also present are - Brierley, Trotter, Fletcher and Seldon. +Meeting to discuss Great South Basin exploitation strategy sith +first priority being monopolisation of the economy; second +priority to establish oil refineries and related industries; third +to integrate New Zealand economy into Trilateral economy and, +fourth, to concentrate power back to the U.S through the Seven +Sisters, Chase Manhattan and Security Pacific National Bank.

+ +

Fletcher Challenge will link New Zealand economy directly to the +U.S by merging with Canadian subsidiary of Crown Zellerbach with +funds provided by Security Pacific National Bank and United +Californian Bank.

+ +

Brierley, Fletcher, Trotter and Seldon will be New Zealand Ruling +Council, headed by Brierley, who would take orders from Gerald +Parsky.

+ +

Mid-1983: Brierley's Ariadne (Aust) takes control of Repco (NZ) +through Repco (Aust), therby taking control of key auto-related +industry, helped by Borg Warner and Honeywell - which are closely +associated with IEL through International Harvester, Continental +Illinois Bank and the First National Bank of Chicago. Toyota and +Nissan also help so that Brierley now largest distributor of auto +and industrial parts, largest manufacturer of pistons, filters and +engine bearings, as well as biggest supplier of forklifts, +tractors and agricultural equipment.

+ +

Meantime, control is extended over the Great South Basin oil +source with +Hunt, after big losses resulting from trying to corner the world's +silver market, being forced to sell out some of his concession to +Gulf Oil, which uses Brierley to set up a new company - Southern +Petroleum - which takes a 14.5% interest. Hunt retains overall +control with 45.5%, Petro-Corp has 40% and chairman F. Orr, also a +Director of Brierley - controlled Watties.

+ +

Brierley, through Goodman, takes control of TNL Group and its +subsidiaries NZ Motor Bodies and L & M Mining, which has 15% +interest in the Chatham Rise, right next to the Hunt concession.

+ +

Southern Petroleum set up by Brierley in New Zealand was +spearheaded by the Seven Sisters' companies with Gerald Parsky and +William Colby initiators. Southern Petroleum to include 21% of +the Great South Basin held by gulf and Mobil Oil. 90% of this +stock held in Australia through IEL (ie Brierley's).

+ +

11-12th May, 1983: New Zealand Mafia meet in Cook Islands. +Includes Brierley, Trotter, Fletcher, Jones, Hawkins, Goodman, +Pappas, Judge, Renouf, and Fernyhough. New members include A. +Gibbs, McConnell, H.Fletcher and O.Gunn. Japanese Trilateralists +Takeshi Wataneve and Daigo Miyado discuss 'integration' of New +Zealand into the Pacific Rim economies.

+ +

A new political party would be established using Jones and +financed by the New Zealand Mafia Council.

+ +

* Reason: Parsky and Colby wanted Muldoon out because he had +'welched' +on a deal to set up two US military deep-water submarine bases +planned for Dusky Sound and Guards Bay in the South Island. +Parsky, Brierley and Ray Cline hold a separate meeting to discuss +the purchase of New Zealand politicians, including Lange, Douglas +and Bolger.

+ +

Cline was 'consultant' to the CIA's Deak Bank, took orders from +Colby, and was responsible for the 10 Australian politicians on +the CIA's payroll, including Bjelke Petersen, I. Sinclair, +Keating, McMullen, M.Fraser, D. Anthony, K. Newman, J Carrick, B. +Cowan and R. Connor.

+ +

Cline outlines CIA plan to begin subliminal television +advertising.

+ +

22nd June, 1983: New Zealand politician J. Bolger meets Ray Cline +in Sydney and agrees to join the organisation for a monthly fee of +$US20000 to be paid into account number GA1282117 at Geneva +branch of Credit Swisse.

+ +

20th July, 1983: New Zealand politician R. Douglas meets Ray +Cline in Wellington and agrees to join the organisation for a +monthly fee of $US10000 to be paid into account number 3791686 at +the Sydney Branch of the Deak Bank.

+ +

July 1983: Parsky launches a new front company, Chase +Corporation, with 25% of the stock being held through Security +Pacific National Bank in Australia and 25% held in Hong Kong by +Chase Manhattan. Brierley and Hawkins set up a 'back-door' +listing to cover up true-ownership.

+ +
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+ +

August, 1983: Muldoon imposes withholding tax on all ofshore +borrowing.

+ +

Chase Manhattan, United California Bank and Brierley begin new +banking operation in New Zealand to take over the International +Harvester Credit Co (NZ), Australasian Investment Company. +Participants include Chase Manhattan's Kuwait Asia Bank, D.F.C., +Saudicorp (Brierley has 12% through Goodman) and United +California, represented by National Insurance which is part of +Equus Holdings.

+ +

Renouf sells 20% NZUC to Barclays and prepared for expanding of +operations with Brierley.

+ +

Meantime, Murdoch and Brierley expand their close ties by each +taking a piece of New Zealand Maritime Holdings and with the +election imminent, divide up New Zealand media for takeover to +increase Mafia control. NZ News buys Hawkes Bay News, Nelson +Tribune, Timaru Herald, etc. Brierley increases holding in +Hauraki Enterprises and other private radio stations. Brierley +and Murdoch have majority stockholding in NZPA with 48.5%, while +in the UK, Murdoch has large stockholding in Reuters.

+ +

The phoney news becomes THE news.

+ +

Head of the Murdoch operation is Burnett, who is also on the board +of Winstones - a Brierley company.

+ +

September, 1983: With global heroin epidemic, Rockefeller expands +operations to recycle profits.

+ +

New Zealand South British sets up the IDAPS computer bureau to +establish international holding companies, dummy corporations, etc +and to pursue aggressive global acquisition programme. IDAPS +linked to satellite bureaux in Australia, Far East, UK and the US, +where the global network is completed through links with the +Rockefeller organisation computer network.

+ +

General Manager of the operation, George Wheller, previously +director of the international operators of Firemen's Fund (US), +Chairman Du Bain, director of the United California Bank, and +Vice-Chairman of Amex.

+ +

As part of the expanded laundry operation, Rockefeller associate +Adnan Kashoggi establishes new Australian bank - Security Pacific +National Bank (Aust). Brierley's part of this operation is to buy +up computer companies such as Andas, CID Distributors (NZ Apple +computer franchise,etc).

+ +

Investment companies begin operations in Australia and New Zealand +to assist recycle Mafia profits.

+ +

October 1983: Brierley takes over NZFP through Watties, helped by +newly-appointed chairman Papps. Papps also chairman of NZ +Railways and presided over transport deregulation, the major +beneficiaries of which include Watties and Freightways - Managing +Director Pettigrew and Director Lang also both on the NZFP board +with Papps.

+ +

Papps also responsible for the railways' electrification programme +with big contracts for Cory Wright & Slamon, whose directors +include I.I McKay, also on the board of NZFP.

+ +

Late 1983: AMAX (Social) gives Gulf Oil a share in the Martha +Hill gold bonanza by selling 15% of its holdings to Briereley +through Goodmans. Oil companies say that only $870 million worth +of minerals in Martha Hill, while true figure is closer to $3 +billion.

+ +

21st January, 1984: Australian Mafia Council meets in Sydney. +Includes - Brierley, Seldon, Fletcher, Jones, Goodman, Hawkins, +Papps, Packer, Bond and Japanese Trilaterist Daigo Miyado. New +members include J. Elliott, L. Adler, and Holme's A'Court. +Seldon outlines strategy of merging Australian economy with the +Trilateralist economy through Europe and the US.

+ +

In Australia, the Mafia Council will monopolise the economy with +company takeovers through the use of loans at less than 5%.

+ +

Holme's A'Court's company would be taken over using Security +Pacific National Bank and Chase Manhattan Bank, with some of the +stock being held in London.

+ +

Equiticorp will be launched using Hawkins, with 50% of the stock +held by Security Pacific National Bank and Chase Manhattan in the +US Equiticorp to registered in Hong Kong to cover up true +ownership, and will use the same laundry as Chase Corporation - +Hawkins will set up a maze of shell companies and dummy +organisations to disguise operations.

+ +

Hawkins previously associated with Kashoggi when Corporate +Secretary of Marac, and linked with Renouf through their +stockholding in CBA Finance, which is a partner in Commercial +Pacific Trust with United California Bank, Hawkins forms umbrella +company with Chase Corpl, Jedi Investments and Teltherm and +begins setting up a maze of cross holding companies. Brierley +retains his connection through his Charter Corporation's holding +in Teltherm.

+ +

January 1984: Brierley and Elliott begin moves to monopolise the +food industry in Australasia by merging Goodman and the Elders +Group, while Brierley sells 10% of Watties to the NZ Dairy Board - +setting the stage for land takeover and establishment of the +Corporate Farm.

+ +

February 1984: New Zealand politician D. Lange meets Ray Cline in +Wellington and agrees to go on the Mafia payroll for monthly fee +of $UA40000 paid into account number 5263161 at Commercial +Pacific Trust, New Hebrides.

+ +

March 1984: Muldoon knighted with GCMG for keeping the economy +free of obstructions for easier takeover and exploitation.

+ +

24th May, 1984: Four-man CIA team co-ordinated by Ray Cline +arrive in New Zealand to begin installation of equipment for +subliminal television advertising at five sites - Waiatarua, Mt +Erin, Kaukau, Sugarloaf and Obelisk.

+ +

Sophisticated equipment can be installed within one kilometer of +TV relay arrials and all linked to one IDAPS computer bureau in +Auckland.

+ +

Same equipment installed in Australia August 1985; Japan September +1986; UK February 1987: New York 1987. Also, Amax geoligists now +estimate Martha Hill gold source could be worth up to $30 billion +on strength of high gold/tonne ore assay.

+ +

17th July, 1984: In New Zealand, subliminal advertising begins on +Channel Two between 6pm and midnight - hours later extended to +begin at noon. Subliminal messages prepared in the US by the CIA +and with New Zealand election imminent, tell voters to support the +Labour Party, the New Zealand Party and to buy Mafia company +products.

+ +

New Zealand Party was formed to ensure that Muldoon would lose, as +Big Business unhappy with controls over economy. Big campaign +contributions from Brierley, the oil companies and the Business +Round Table ensure a Labour victory.

+ +

Later, Lange agrees to repay the favour to Brierley by selling the +Government holding in the Kariori Pulp Mill to Winstones. New +Zealand taxpayer loses $100 million.

+ +

Government then becomes the arm of big business, using economic +policies provided by the Business Round Table, implemented by +Finance Minister Roger Douglas and the package being sold by David +Lange, who also keeps up a noisy CIA directed ANZUS withdrawal +campaign.

+ +

* Reason: 1) ANZUS Treaty did not cover Mafia requirements over +the Great South Basin discovery; 2) To identify any oppositin or +threats within New Zealand who align themselves with supposed +Government policy, Lange increases the SIS budget and strangthens +links with the CIA.

+ +

Brookings Institute are the actual designers of the New Zealand +Government econmomic policies provided by the Business Round Table +(NZ Mafia front) and implented by the Government.

+ +

Douglas devalues the dollar and deregulates interest rates, which +means cheaper labour, cheaper capital assets and high mortgage +rates, thereby implementing Big Business policy of driving farmers +off the land, establshment of the corporate farm and eventually +remove viability of small business sector, etc.

+ +

27th September, 1984: New Zealand Mafia meets at new 'safe +house' registered under Fernyhough's name, in Auckland. Those +present include Brierley, J. Fletcher, Trotter, Jones, Goodman, +Gunn, Papps, Hawkins, Judge, Renouf, Fernyhough, Gibbs and +McConnell. Daigo Miyado announces appointment of Trotter as +International Vice President of the Trilateral Commission Pacific +Basin Economic Council.

+ +

Brierley outlines strategy of privatisation of the New Zealand +Government and the establishment of the New Zealand Centre for +Independent Studies which will be chaired by Gibbs, aided by +Fernyhough and controlled by Cline, which will 'advise' Treasury +on privatisation.

+ +

Parsky, Brierley and Seldon hold a separate meeting with Parsky, +outlining plans for an expanded laundry operation which will +coincide with the launch of 'Crack' - a new addictive product +developed by CIA chemists for the world market.

+ +

Equiticorp (Aust) will be launched with Adler as Manager and a new +merchant bank using Eldrs, Goodman and Jarden.

+ +

IEI will merge with Armco Bank, which has 20 branches in South +East Asia; Ariadne will acquire the Bank of Queensland, and +Brierley Investments will form a cross-shareholding with NZI Corp +to further increase control by their Mafia organisation. Other +plans include the laundering of funds directly to the New Zealand +and Australian Governments and the establishment of key companies +within the economies of New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong.

+ +

The first key company will control the food industry in +Australasia through merger of Elders, Goodmans, Allied Mills, +Fielder Gillespie and Watties. Allied Mills will control 30% +Goodmans, 30% Fielder, 20% Watties and will expand into Europe via +acquisition of Rank, Hovis McDougall (UK). Allied Mills will be +controlled through IEL.

+ +

26th October, 1984: Trotter, Hawkins, Lange and Douglas meet in +Wellington to implement Mafia plans to privatise the Government +and to deregulate the banking system.

+ +

Late 1984: As part of the IDAPS computer-controlled 'laundry' +operation, Trotter and Fletcher help establish the 'Pacific +Investment Fund' with Australian and New Zealand investments to be +managed by Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank subsidiary, Wardley and the +Japanese operation controlled by Tokyo Trust and Banking Company - +owned by Sanwa Bank, Taiyo-Kobe Bank and Nomura Securities. All +are members of the Rockefeller World Government organisation.

+ +

18th July, 1985: Australian Mafia meet in Sydney to discuss +privatisation of the Australian Government. Those present include +- Brierley, Trotter, Fletcher, Seldon, Goodman, Papps, Packer, +Bond, Elliott, Adler, and Japanese Trilateralist Daigo Miyado.

+ +

Cline will set up Australian Centre for Independent Studies to +'advise' the Treasurer on the takeover of the economy.

+ +

Impala Pacific will be set up in Hong Kong through Ariadne with +60% of the company stock held by Chase Manhattan and Security +Pacific National Bank in Australia. In the UK, Tozer, Kemsly & +MIllbourn would be taken over using IEP, while in Australia, the +Holme's A'Court Bell Group would be used to merge with Hong Kong +and Shanghai Bank, through Standard & Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), +and Marae (NZ) Broadlands (Aust) would merge with NZI +Corporation.

+ +

18th August, 1985: Cline and 6-man CIA team begin installation of +subliminal television equipment in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth.

+ +

8th November1985: Parsky, Colby and J.D Rockefeller meet in New +York to discuss their plans to assassinate McCloy and the +Rockefellers and to take control of the Mafia organisation.

+ +

Colby would organise a 8-man 'hit squad' to be headed by Gordon +Liddy who had worked for Colby in the 1960's as a CIA contract +killer, and was responsible for over 10 murders including:

+ +

* 17/8/61 - two members of the Gambino Mafia family in New +York +* 24/11/63 - Officer Tippitt after the Kennedy assassination in +Dallas +* 18/12/63 - witness to the Kennedy assassination in Dallas +* 19/4/65 - Politician in Chicago +* 27/7/65 - Politician in Washington +* 8/9/65 - Politician in Washington +* 27/11/66 - US 'independent' cocaine importer, in Mexico. +* 25/11/67 - 'Independent' heroin importer, in Los Angeles +* 9/2/69 - Politician in Washington

+ +

28th November 1985: Australian Mafia meet in Sydney - includes: +Trotter, Fletcher, Hawkins, Bond, Elliott, Adler and Holme's +A'Court - discussed strategy for merger of Goodman, Allied Mills, +Fielde Gillespie Davis, Watties and Elders with Chase Manhattan +Bank taking 20%, Elders and IEL 10%, with stock being held through +Chase-AMP Bank.

+ +

Elders woul be used as major 'vehicle' in the global liquor +economy with Courage Brewery in the UK to be used as entry into +Europe.

+ +

Strategy finalised to take over BHP, Australia's largest company, +using Holme's A'Court, Brierley, Elliott and Hawkins.

+ +

In London, Chase Manhattan would takeover stockbrokers Simon & +Coates who specialise in A'Asia Mafia owned companies such as +Fletcher Challenge, Brierley, NZI Corp, Elders, Bell Group and +BHP. Chase Manhattan could then issue and buy stock to manipulate +the Australasian economy by increasing price, paying no taxes, +creating inflation, and enslaving the people through debt to mafia +controlled banks.

+ +

Parsky would oversee the 'launder' of further loans to the NZ +Government and would begin to channel 'loans' through the +Australian Treasury using captive politician Keating. Also NZ +Government building would be sold to Jones and Australia +Government buildings would be sold to Adler which would then be +rented back to the respective Governments at inflated prices.

+ +

17th November 1986: Brierley, Seldon, Packer, Bond, Elliott, +Holmes a Court and Adler meet in Sydney. Also present is Rupert +Murdoch to assist in Parsky strategy of media takeover in +Australasia and the Pacific using Packer and Bond (TV and Radio) +Brierley and Holmes A'Court (newspapers).

+ +

Murdoch takes orders from Brzezinski since his News Corp was taken +over in 1982 by Chase Manhattan and Security Pacific National +Bank.

+ +

At a separate meeting with Brierley, Seldon and Cline, Parsky +outlines plan for 'key' Media Australasian Holding company using +the Bell Group which would be taken over by with Chase Manhattan +holding 27.5% in London and the US. Another 10% of the stock +would be held through Security Pacific National Bank (US).

+ +

8th February 1987: US Mafia Council meet in Washington - +including David Rockefeller, John McCloy, Brzezinski, Parsky, +Simon, Katherine Graham, and George Franklin.

+ +

Brzezinski outlines plans to invade Iran using 75000 strong +mercenary army supported by US Air Force and Navy with starting +date of 8th February, 1988. An integral part of the plan Saudi +and Kuwaiti oil tankers would fly the US flag to provoke an +Iranian attack so that US invasion of Iran would be 'justified'.

+ +

* Reason: The Seven Sisters wanted to exploit a secret oil field +near Bandar Abbas discovered in 1976 with estimate 150 billion +barrels and also a huge gold source at Neyshabur discovered in +1977.

+ +

The Iranian invasion would begin after the World economic system +was collapsed by the mafia controlled banks - target date 17th +January 1988. Other countries on the takeover list include: +* Mexico - for oil at Baisas +* Nicaragua - for oil at Connto +* Colombia - for gold at Papayan +* South Korea - for gold at Chunchon +* New Zealand - for oil in the Great South Basin.

+ +

(Obviously this part of the plan failed to happen)

+ +

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+The following discussion of our country's budget crisis was +taken from a Reader's Digest Feb. 91 issue. It was written +by Fred Barnes. It is to be taken very seriously...

+ +

Dirty Secrets Behind the Budget Mess.

+ +

During last year's budget crisis, Rep. Harris Fawell +(R.,Ill.) had a helpful idea. Why not slash unnecessary +spending Congress had planned for itself? On the floor of +the House, Fawell proposed an amendment cutting $375000 for +renovations to the House beauty parlor and $25000 for a +study on a proposed gym for House staffers.

+ +

Fawell was shouted down and labeled a sexist for targeting +the unprofitable, taxpayer-subsidized beauty parlor. House +Democratic leaders arranged a non-recorded vote so no one +could be blamed for killing the amendment.

+ +

In a federal budget of nearly $1.4 trillion, the money saved +by Fawell's modest proposal would have been insignificant. +But the episode reflects an enduring truth: despite pious +talk, Congress continues to spend taxpayer's money at a +furious clip, and the executive branch usually goes along +willingly. What's more, they go to extraordinary lengths to +deny it.

+ +

When the five-year "deficit reduction" agreement was reached +last fall, officials claimed $42 billion in savings. That's +a sham!!! What they didn't mention-and the press didn't +report-is that actual spending will INCREASE by $111 +billion, or $480 for every man, woman & child in the nation. +Worse, the deficit, according to governments own official +figures, will grow larger.

+ +

On the very day the deal to curb the deficit was forged, +Congress voted to increase social-welfare spending this year +by $22.6 billion, The five-year deal includes $136 billion +in additional funds for non-defense discretionary programs. +Mandatory outlays for Social Security and Medicare will rise +more than $200 billion.

+ +

A culture of spending dominates our national capital. An +"iron triangle" of the unelected-executive branch +bureaucrats, Congressional committee staffers, special +interest lobbyists-aggressively protects each program and +pushes unrelentingly for more. Members of Congress believe +spending helps them get re-elected. With few exceptions, +agency heads appointed by the President regard greater +outlays as a measure of their success.

+ +

In four years as Education Secretary, William Bennett +learned this the hard way. At first he loyally defended +President Reagan's proposed cuts. He found himself nearly +alone among Cabinet members. Over the next two years, he was +attacked by educators, reviled by his own bureaucrats and +overruled by Congress. In 1987 Bennett rebelled and insisted +on a boost in spending. "There was no political gain in +ruthless cutting," a Bennett aide says. "You could be a +reformer but not a cutter."

+ +

Official Washington has created a myth to justify higher +spending in the 1990s. As Sen. Robert Byrd (D.,W.Va.) puts +it, domestic discretionary spending is the "little runt pig" +on the federal budget that has been on the cutting table for +years. It hasn't. Domestic spending was trimmed in 1982, +then grew rapidly during the next eight years. Outlays for +many programs rose substantially, including education for +the handicapped (50%), National Institute of Health (47%), +National Science Foundation (36%), medical care for veterans +(25%) and Environmental Protection Agency (22%).

+ +

The biggest problem on Capital Hill, says Rep. Dick Armey +(R.,Texas), is "the committee mystique." Members from +farming areas angle to get on the Agriculture Committee. +Those from port cities join the Merchant Marine and +Fisheries Committee. Those eager to keep military bases in +their district hope to serve on the Armed Services +Committee.

+ +

There's a tacit rule: to get what you want, you go along +with what other committee members want. And it's taboo to +challenge the programs of another committee. "You don't want +them challenging yours," says Rep. Tim Penny (D., Minn.), a +leader for deficit reduction.

+ +

Rep. Vin Weber (R., Minn.) a conservative who believes in +spending reductions, was happy to leave the Budget +Committee, which cuts, and join the Appropriations +Committee, which spends. Weber had discovered Washington's +dirty little secret: cutting is a political minus.

+ +

Chairmen of the appropriations subcommittees retaliate when +they're crossed. After Fawell criticized nonessential +spending in an "emergency" appropriations bill last year, +extra funding for a project in his district was deleted. +When Rep. Clay Shaw (R., Fla.) voted against the wishes of +Rep. William Lehman (D., Fla.), a subcommittee chairman, +Lehman scratched $1 million in funding for a tunnel in +Shaw's district.

+ +

Budget watchdogs such as Penny and Rep. Bob Walker (R., Pa.) +are treated like pariahs. "A large number of colleagues +wouldn't come to dinner at my home," Penny says. An +Appropriations Committee member once remarked of Walker: +"The only cement that will ever be poured in Walker's +district is that around his feet when we throw him in the +river."

+ +

"in a corporation, everything is geared toward minimizing +overhead," says Mark Everson, a Chicago manufacturer who was +a top official in three Washington agencies from 1982 to +1988. "In government, almost nothing is." Like many others, +Everson discovered another of Washington's dirty budget +secrets. Instead of being rewarded, officials who make +economy a top priority can count on being criticized by +Congress, jumped on by lobbyists and undermined by +bureaucrats in their own agencies.

+ +

When Charles Heatherly became head of the Small Business +Administration (SBA) in 1986, the agency was facing $345 +million in bad loans. Heatherly was hauled before a +Congressional committee-but not for the bad loans. His +transgression was trying to streamline the SBA by +jettisoning failed programs. A phalanx on interest groups-the National Small Business Association, Small Business +United and the American Association of Minority Enterprise +Small Business Investment Companies-weighed in against him. +To SBA bureaucrats, Heatherly was the enemy. "Not one of +them came to me at SBA and said, 'We're with you on this. +What can we do to help?'" Heatherly says.

+ +

Because the big spenders presented a united front and +taxpayers made little noise, the SBA was kept alive and +spared further budget cuts. "The iron triangle worked," says +Heatherly.

+ +

Sometimes the triangle can be very clever. For fiscal year +1991, the Senate and House would have agreed to a smaller +appropriation for the SBA. The Senate voted to give the +agency $440 million; the House voted $438 million. But the +Senate-House conference did not come up with a compromise +figure you might expect, $439 million. Instead, it pegged +SBA spending at $469.5 million.

+ +

This upward compromise is but one trick Washington employs +to create the illusion of spending reduction. Here are seven +others:

+ +

ARTIFICIAL BASE LINES

+ +

Imagine a company president who hopes for a $100000 pay +increase. Instead he receives a $75000 hike, and then he +claims a $25000 pay cut. Crazy? in Washington it's routine.

+ +

Rather than use this year's level of spending as the +starting point for next year's budget, an artificial "base +line" is created, the effect of which is automatic spending +increases every year. Then, if proposed outlays are less +than the base line, Washington claims a "cut"-even though +spending actually rises.

+ +

That's what is happening now. The base-line budget for the +current fiscal year originally called for spending to rise +$130.8 billion. But because it will go up "only" $111 +billion, Congress and the White House insist spending was +cut by $19.8 billion. With a projected revenue increase of +$22.2 billion, they claim a total "savings" of $42 billion.

+ +

OFF-BUDGET SPENDING

+ +

Last year, Congress "reduced the deficit" $2 billion by +dropping the Postal Service subsidy from the official +budget. The subsidy was still paid, only it was done off-budget. Off-budget programs include direct loans, loan +guarantees, federal insurance and government enterprises.

+ +

Of course, real money is involved whether or not a program +is formally in the budget. In 1989, loan defaults and write-offs were $14.4 billion and insurances losses $67.2 billion, +all picked up by the taxpayer. The total liability of +taxpayers for off-budget programs is almost $6 TRILLION, or +$67000 for every U.S. household.

+ +

FAKE CEILINGS

+ +

With great fanfare and self-congratulation, legislators +established spending ceilings. Then these limits were +quietly ignored.

+ +

The original Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction law of 1985 +called for gradually declining deficits. The first ceiling, +for 1986, was topped by $49.3 billion. In 1987 the law was +changed, and the deficit was supposed to have dwindled to +$100 billion in 1990. It was $220 billion. Now Washington +projects declining deficits in 1993 and 1994. Good Luck...!

+ +

UNDERESTIMATING

+ +

In 1983, Congress approved $8 billion to build a space +station. By 1987 the price was $12 billion. Now it's $36 +billion. Agriculture Department economists said the 1985 +farm bill would cost $54 billion. A month later, after the +bill was passed, the estimate was upped to $85 billion.

+ +

"There's a generic pattern ," says Congressional staffer +Frank Gregorsky. "Once the legislation is passed, once the +various clients are mobilized, once the bureaucracy is +engaged, once the contractors start marking up-expenditures +overshoot the promised levels." Spenders get their foot in +the door by underestimating the costs of new programs.

+ +

"EMERGENCY" APPROPRIATIONS

+ +

In recent years, emergency appropriation bills have become +vehicles for pork-barrel spending.

+ +

Last year President Bush asked for "dire emergency" +appropriation to pay for flood relief in the South and aid +to Panama. Congress tacked on another $1.4 billion-including +$3 million for a convention center in Washington, D.C. $5.8 +million for a Franklin Roosevelt memorial and $750000 +toward a ferryboat for American Samoa.

+ +

TRANSFERS

+ +

A clever way to increase a discretionary program is to +switch funds into it from an entitlement program, which has +no ceiling and thus requires no new appropriation.

+ +

"A classic abuse of transfer authority," note budget experts +John Cogan and Tim Muris, was the shift of food-stamps into +the Agriculture Department's extension service. The +Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) +supposedly suffered a cut of $300 million in real spending +between 1981 and 1989. Actually, funds were transferred from +the Commodity Credit Corporation, which pays for farm price +supports. ASCS spending actually ROSE by one third.

+ +

EARMARKING

+ +

Last year alone, Sen. Dale Bumpers (D., Ark.) says an +appropriations committee got 2800 requests from other +Senators to designate funds for projects in their home +states. During the 1990 budget "crisis", Rep. Walker pointed +out ten research projects that were sneaked into the Energy +Department's budget and deserved cutting. One allocated $4.8 +million to a technology center at Indiana State University +in the district of Rep. John Myers (R., Ind.). Funds for it +and the other projects Walker cited were overwhelmingly +approved.

+ +

In Washington, D.C., where there are no farms, $1 million +was appropriated for the Agriculture Extension Service. Also +approved was $500000 to restore the boyhood home of +bandleader Lawrence Welk in Strasburg, N.D. This expenditure +was sought by Sen. Quentin Burdick (D., N.D.). It prompted +Rep. Silvio Conte (R., Mass.) to say: "That is right-and a +one, and a two, and a three, and a four, and a $500000. +What will they do for an encore? Earmark funds to renovate +Guy Lombardo's speedboat? Or restore Artie Shaw's wedding +tuxedo?" Despite Conte's ridicule and criticism by President +Bush, the Welk project was not killed.

+ +

Even the defense budget is used for earmarking. Tucked into +the 1991 Pentagon budget was $5 million to build a new +parliament building in the Solomon Islands and $10 million +for a National Drug Intelligence Center that federal +official wanted in Washington. Not surprisingly, the drug +intelligence center will be located in the home state of +Rep. John Murtha (D., Pa.), chairman of the House +Appropriations defense subcommittee.

+ +

Political scientist James Payne, an expert on government +spending, measured the ratio of those witnesses at +Congressional hearings who testified for spending programs +to those who testified against. His finding: pro-spenders +outnumber opponents by 145 to one. Payne also found that +roughly half the pro-spending witnesses are federal +administrators and another ten percent are state and local +officials. It's only human nature that they'd have kind +words for their own programs and ask for more money.

+ +

When will the spending binge cease? Not until taxpayers rise +up. THIS MEANS YOU!!! "Congress is going to go on spending +until the public stops them," laments Walker. "Politicians +respond to special-interest groups," says Penny. "They've +been forgetting there's a general interest group-taxpayers." +It's time for taxpayers to remind them.

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AN ILLUMINATI OUTLINE OF HISTORY

+ +

Alpha and Omega -- Immanentizing of the Eschaton. +20000000 BC -- Recent Epoch of geeology begins; Ice Age ends; +human beings spread to all parts of the world. +30000 -- First Illuminatus, Gruad, rules in Atlantis. +20000 -- Mythical Lloigor inhabit continent of Mu. +10000 -- Approximate beginning of agriculture. Estimated date of +inscriptions on stone disks by the Dropa tribe, a diminuative +people of the Bayan-Kara-Ula Mountains on the border of China and +Tibet; disks describe how the tribe came to earth in flying +machines; ancient Dropa graves contain human remains with huge +heads and small bodies. Earliest estimated date of carving of the +Crystal Skull found at Lubaantun in the Yucatan. Hyborian Age in +Europe. +9000 to 10000 -- Date of Plato's Atlantis. +6000 -- Picture writing develops. +5000 -- First alphabet begins to develop. +4000 -- Approximate date of discovery of metals, beginning of +cities, constellations of stars first recorded. Egyptians begin +placing small pieces of crystal on the forehead of deceased prior +to mummification. +3000 -- Approximate date of building of the Sphinx and Great +Pyramid at Giza and other pyramids elsewhere in Egypt. Indus +Valley civilization develops complex government, writing and well +planned cities. Minoan civilization flourishes in Crete. +Earliest parts of the Bible written. Beginning date of Olmec +calendar from Central America: 3113 BC. Trephination (cutting a +hole in the skull) practiced by people all over the world. +2500 -- Sarmoung Brotherhood of Babylonia flourish according to +Gurdjieff. +2100 -- Egyptians record star configurations on which the 24 hour +day is based. +2000 -- Stonehenge and other stone circles built in England. +1800 -- Huge Silbury Mound constructed near Stonehenge. +1700 -- Babylonian Enuma Anu Enlil, early roots of astrology +based on celestial phenomena. +1500 -- Approximate date of the destruction of Thera, on which +Atlantis legends are probably based. Early references to +Mithraism on cuneform astronomical tests. Quadrants of the moon +recorded in China. +1360 -- Akhenaton's monotheistic sun worship in Egypt. +1344 -- Tutankhamun, Akhenaton's successor who revived +polytheism, buried at Thebes; curse reading "Death comes on swift +wings to he who opens this tomb," written on tomb doorway. +1300 -- Approximate date "I Ching" written in China. +1184 -- End of the Trojan War, Illium falls to the Greeks. +1000 to 2000 -- Legendary Thule civilization in the Gobi region +destroyed by a catastrophe, "possibly of an atomic nature," +survivors migrating to Agarthi and Schamballah. +1000 -- Huge Sacrificial Table built at Mystery Hill near North +Salem, New Hampshire. +950 -- Approximate date of building of Solomon's Temple in +Jerusalem, traditional origin of the Masonic fraternity; alleged +assassination of Temple master-mason Hiram for refusing to reveal +masonic secrets. +900 -- Approximate time settlers from Europe and the Middle East +established colonies in North America. +800 -- Twenty-two "moon stations" in monthly lunar cycle +recognized in Babylonia, India and China. +753 -- Legendary founding of Rome by Romulus. +700 -- Jordanian city of Petra is carved out of sandstone by +unknown culture. +600 -- Approximate beginning of money with first coins in Lydia. +575 -- Nebuchadnezzar completes building Tower of Babel in +Babylon. +500 to 600 -- Time of Buddha, Lao Tse, Confucius, Zarathustra, +Orpheus, Pythagoras, Zachariah and Daniel--an Illuminated century. +500 -- Sun-Tse's "Treatise on the Art of War," first intelligence +manual. +485 -- Execution of Spurius Cassius in Rome. +450 -- Development of the 12 constellations of the zodiac in +Mesopotamia, recognizing the importance of the plane of the +elliptic through which the sun, moon and planets move. +440 -- Assassination of Spurius Maelius. +400 -- Druidism in England. Astrological ideas from Enuma Anu +Enlil transmitted to India. +390 -- Approximate date Plato's "The Republic" written, featuring +such Illuminoid images as the Philosopher Kings, the Divided Line +and the parable of the Cave. +355 -- Plato's "Timaios" and "Kritias," earliest accounts of +Atlantis. +300 -- Invention of Mayan calendar in Yucatan, based on advanced +astronomy. Fabius family of Rome reaches its greatest heights. +275 -- Approximate date Greek poet Aratus makes first sytematic +record of star constellations in "Phaenomena." +273 to 232 -- Rule of Asoka, king of India who allegedly founded +the Nine Unknown. +212 -- Archimedes uses burning-glass to set fire to Roman fleet at +Syracuse, early use of lens as weapon. +133 -- Land reformer Tiberius Gracchus murdered and hundreds of +his followers killed by followers of powerful Roman patricians; +death of Scripio Africanus a few years later. +121 -- Gaius Gracchus and 3000 of his followers massacred by +patricians. +100 -- The Great Teacher of the Essenes. Essentials of modern +astrology worked out. +95 -- Approximate date of assassination of Saturninus and Glaucia. +92 -- Assassination of Rutilius Rufus. +91 -- Assassination of Livius Drufus. +73 -- Revolt of gladiators led by Spartacus. +44 -- Assassination of Julius Caesar. +4 -- Birth of Jesus of Nazareth, accompanied by various Illuminoid +trappings: three early Men-In-Black disguised as the Wise Men; +strange lights in the sky; miracles such as visits from angels, +prohpecy and suspension of time are reported. +0 -- Carnation-Painted Eyebrows Society, Copper Horses, Iron Shins +and other secret societies active in China. +AD 30 -- Assassination of the radical Jesus, allegedly on +Illuminati orders; more Illuminoid trappings; an eclipse; an +earthquake; visitorsfrom the sky roll away the stone from the +sepulcher and liberate the crucified Jesus. +100 -- Hero of Alexandria devises primitive steam-engine. +125 to 150 -- Simon Magus, Menander, Valentinus and others develop +Gnostic religious doctrines of esoteric knowledge (illumination). +135 -- Approximate date Ptolemy records 1022 stars in "Almagest"; +also recorded astrological ideas from Enuma Anu Enlil in his +"Apotelesmatika." +150 -- Roman Mithraism competes with Christianity. Yellow Turban +Society subdues northern China, Triad cult formed in opposition. +200 -- First book of the cabala, "Sepher Yetzirah," compiled. +216 to 276 -- Life of Mani, the Illuminator, who founded +Manicheism, based on ideas from Judaism, Christianity, +Zoroasterism, Gnosticism, etc. +325 -- Council of Nicaea in which Christian begins to rigidify. +400 -- Estimated date of carving of stone statues found on Easter +Island. +500 -- Chinese use of gunpowder. +570 to 632 -- Life of Muhammad, founder of Islam. +670 -- Callinicus invents Greek Fire, primitive incendiary bomb. +673 to 735 -- Life of the Venerable Bede, the greatest scholar of +Saxon England whose "Ecclesiastical History of England" (731) +contained many occult and unexplained occurances. +700 -- Sufi mysticism begins. +730 -- "Al Azif" written in Damascus by Abdul Alhazred. +772 -- Charlemagne allegedly established Holy Secret Tribunal +which becomes the Holy Vehm. +850 -- Ismaili and Fatimid missionaries throughout Islamic Empire +preach revolution against the ruling Sunni order and Abbasid +state. +900 -- Beginning of the Bogomils of Bulgaria, a Manicheian sect, +roots of Cathari. +909 -- First Fatimid caliph in Egypt. +920 to 1003 -- Life of Pope Sylvester II who allegedly visited the +Nine Unknown in India. +950 -- "Al Azif" translated into Greek as "Necronomicon." +1000 -- Approximate founding of Yezidi cult by Sufi Sheikh Adi in +Iraq. Abode of Learning active in Cairo. Spread of Cathari +Manicheism throughout Europe. Leif Ericson explores North +America. +1034 to 1124 -- Life of Hasan-e Sabbah, founder of the Assassins +of Persia. Member of the Ismaili sect, Hasan seized fortress of +Alamut in Daylam in 1090; split with Fatimid dynasty in 1094; +Assassins flourished for next several centuries. +1050 -- Approximate date of founding of the Order of Hospitallers +in Jerusalem. +1058 -- Member of the Abode of Learning sect gains temporary +control of Bagdad. +1092 -- Assassins murder Persian minister Nizam al-Mulk. +1095 -- First Crusade. +1100 -- Approximate date Sufi Gilani founds Arabic school of +Illuminati, Kadiri Order of Sebil-el-ward, in Bagdad. Assassins +infiltrate Thug cult of India. Bogomil leader Basil burned in +Constantinople. Albigensian Cathari sect flourishes near Albi, +France. Avengers and Beati Paoli active in Italy. Joachim of +Floris founds primitive Christian sect, Illuminated Ones. Robin +Hood active in England. +1119 -- Knights Templar founded in Palestine. +1123 -- Abode of Learning suppressed by Turkish Vizier Afdal. +1140 -- Rapid growth of Cathari sect begins. +1149 -- First Cathari bishop established. +1162 to 1227 -- Life of Genghis Khan, conquerer of China and +Russia, invader of Europe and Islamic Empire, destroyer of +Assassin power. Approximate beginnings of the wandering of the +Gypsies of North India. +1167 -- Cathari council near Toulouse. +1170 -- Assassination of Thomas a Becket. +1171 -- Last Fatimid caliph dies. +1176 -- Peter Waldo founds the Poor Men of Lyons. Sultan Saladin +invades Assassin territory, gains truce. +1184 -- Waldenses excommunicated, suppressed. +1200 to 1300 -- House of Wisdom in Cairo, roots of the Afghan +Roshaniya. Origin of the Mafia in Sicily. +1208 -- Albigensian Crusade begins suppression of Cathari heresy. +1212 -- The Children's Crusade. Genghis Khan invades China. +1233 -- Founding of the Inquisition to suppress Cathari and other +heresies. +1235 to 1315 -- Life of Dr. Illuminatus, Ramon Llull (Raymond +Lully) in Spain. +1241 -- Mongols invade Europe through wise use of intelligence +information and strategy, introduce gunpowder from Asia. +1244 -- Massacre of Cathari at Montsegur, France. +1250s -- Approximate beginning of Holy Vehm in Westphalia. +Approximate time of Hulagu Khan's defeat of the Assassins. +1254 to 1324 (?) -- Life of Marco Polo, early European traveler in +China, Persia. +1258 -- Hulagu Khan destroys Bagdad; Mongols destroy Mesopotamia, +the mother of civilization. +1260 -- Mongol invasion of Islamic Empire turned back. +1270s -- Cathari hierarchy fades. +1275 -- Assembly of traveling mason guilds in Frankfort. "Zohar," +second book of the cabala, compiled by Moses de Leon in Spain. +1280 -- Roger Bacon, deviser of early eyeglasses, independently +invents gunpowder. +1291 -- Hospitallers retreat to Cyprus. +1300 -- White Lotus Society founded in China. Inquisition begins +suppression of witches and other pagan groups. +1307 -- Philip IV of France suppresses Knights Templar for +witchcraft and heresies; de Molay imprisoned in the Temple in +Paris. +1308 -- Assassination of Holy Roman Emperor Albert I. +1309 -- Hospitallers acquire the isle of Rhodes. +1313 -- Knights Templar dissolved by papal decree. +1314 -- De Molay and others burned in Paris. +1327 -- Assassination of King Edward II in England. +1329 -- First appearance of the Tarot in Germany. +1360 -- Approximate date of the earliest known Satanic cults; +black masses celebrated in France. +1369 -- Timurlane becomes Great Khan. +1375 -- Another assembly of traveling mason guilds in Frankfort. +1379 to 1482 -- Alleged life of Christian Rosenkreuz, fictitious +founder of Rosicrucianism. +1390 -- Gypsies begin to appear in Europe. +1400s -- Cathari sect dies out. Concave lenses developed. +1404 -- King Robert revises code of Holy Vehm. +1410 -- Secret society formed in Italy which eventually joins with +Rosicrucianism. +1437 -- Assassination of King James I of Scotland. +1456 -- Gutenberg Bible begins modern printing. +1458 -- Abramelin's "Book of Sacred Magic" translated from Hebrew +to french according to followers of the cult of the Guardian +Angel. +1471 -- Assassination of King Henry VI of England. +1472 -- University of Ingolstadt founded. Fernando Poo discovers +Fernando Poo. +1483 -- Assassination of King Edward V of England. +1492 -- Rodrigo Borgia, head of the powerful Borgia family, +becomes Pope Alexander VI. Columbus sails the ocean blue. +1493 to 1541 -- Life of Paracelsus, possible founder of +Roscrucianism; discover of zinc around 1530; model of the Faust +legend. +1500 -- Approximate date of Roshaiya, Illuminated Ones, in +Afganistan. Beginning of Alumbrados in Spain and Charcoal-Burners in Scotland. Cesare Borgia has his brother-in-law +assassinated. +1502 -- Cesare Borgia arrests and executes enemies who have +conspired against him. +1503 to 1566 -- Life of Nostradamus, visionary prophet. +1507 -- Fra Dolcino's version of Joachim's Illuminism suppressed +by the Bishop of Vercueil. +1510 -- Beginning of systematic importation of African slaves into +the West Indies. +1513 -- Machiavelli's "The Prince" published. +1519 -- Spanish conquest of Mexico, enslavement of Amerindians. +1522 -- Hospitallers lose Rhodes to the Turks. +1530 -- Hospitallers given Isle of Malta by Charles V, become +Knights of Malta. +1537 -- Assassination of Alessandro de Medici, Duke of Florence. +1568 -- First Inquisition edict against the Alumbrados. +1574 -- Second edict against Alumbrados. +1575 -- Approximate date of founding of British Intelligence +services. +1575 to 1624 -- Life of Jakob Bohme, visionary mystic, illuminated +one. +1584 -- Assassination of William I of Orange in England. +1587 -- English colony established at Roanoke Island, Virginia; no +trace of the "lost colony" was found when supply ships returned +three years later. +1589 -- Assassination of King Henry III of France. +1590 -- Janssen makes first compound microscope in Europe. +1597 -- Anonymous alchemist seeks to start Rosicrucian-like +society in Europe. +1605 -- Rosicrucian constitution published. +1607 -- Italian secrect society headed by Count Bernard of Germany +merges with Rosicrucianism. First permanent English settlement in +America, Jamestown, Virgina. +1608 -- Apprentice to Dutch spectacle-maker Lippershey discovers +principle of focusing lenses; Lippershey builds first telescope. +1609 -- Galileo independently builds telescope, begins study of +astonomy. Spanish settlement at Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded. +1610 -- Assassination of King Henty IV of France. +1614 -- "Fama Fraternitatis" published, fictional story of +Rosenkreuz by Johann Valentin Andrea. +1619 -- First slave ship in America, Jamestown, Virginia. +1620 -- Plymouth Colony, second English settlement, arrives on +Mayflower. +1622 -- Posters appear in Paris warning that the Rosicrucians are +"amongst you...visibly and invisibly." +1623 -- Final papal edict against Alumbrados; Guerinets appear in +France. First submarine built by Cornelius van Drebbel in +England. +1638 -- Milton meets Galileo. +1640 -- Beginning of subliminal persuasion when Rembrandt imbeds +the word "sex" in a painting. +1642 -- Civil War in England between King Charles and Parliament. +1646 -- Earliest known Masonic Lodge to allow non-professional or +"free" masons, in Warrington, England. +1647 -- Alleged correspondence between Cromwell and Ebeneezer +Pratt plotting the overthrow of King Charles. +1649 -- King Charles convicted and beheaded by Parliament. +1654 -- Illuminated Guerinets come to public notice in France. +1667 -- Milton's "Paradise Lost" published. +1675 -- Leeuwenhoek discovers "animalcules" through the +microscope. +1676 -- Sperm discovered by Leeuwenhoek's student Ham. +1680 -- Madame Le Voisin, innovator of modern Satanism, executed +in Paris. +1682 -- Tamanend, sachem and chief of the Lenni-Lenape tribe, +welcomes William Penn to America, traditionally considered the +beginning of the Tammany Society. +1689 -- William III of Orange becomes king of England, allegedly +through the plotting of the Illuminati. +1694 -- Bank of England founded. +1700 -- Quietism of Fenelon and others. +1701 -- Earliest record of "operative" or professional Masonic +Lodge in Alnwick, England. +1702 -- First daily newspaper in England. +1717 -- Founding of modern Freemasonry with the Grand Lodge of +London by Desaguliers. Voltaire imprisoned in the Bastille. +1721 -- British King George I cracks down on the flourishing Hell +Fire Clubs, popular Satanistic cults. +1723 -- Anderson's "Constitutions of the Freemasons" published. +"Ebrietatis Enconium" and other early anti-Masonic works +published. +1724 -- Publication of the anti-Masonic "Grand Mysteries of the +Freemasons Discovered." +1731 -- Benjamin Franklin initiated into Freemasonry. +1734 -- Franklin elected Grand Master of Pennsylvania. +1736 -- Death of the last leader of the Afghan Illuminated Ones. +1749 -- Rousseau's spontaneous "enlightenment" launches the +Romantic Movement. +1750 -- Hell Fire Clubs continue to flourish in Dublin and London. +Fictional alchemist Joseph Curwen writes letter stating "I laste +Nighte strucke on ye Wordes that bringe up Yooge-Sothothe," +perhaps the real power behind the Illuminati. +1754 -- Six year old Adam Weishaupt is orphaned and goes to live +with the Jesuits. +1757 -- First year of Swedenborg's "New Era." +1759 -- Voltaire's "Candide" published. +1760 -- St. Germain founds chemical dye factory in Holland, fore-runner of I.G. Farben; disappears with 100000 guilders. Franklin +invents bifocals. +1761 -- St. Germain discovered living in Russia. Chinese Emporer +issues edict against secret societies. +1762 -- Illumines of France founded. Sandwich invented. +1763 -- Swedenborg's "Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem" +published. +1764 -- Voltaire's "Philosophical Dictionary" published; he begins +a prodigious attack on dogmas of church and state. +1765 -- British Stamp Act imposed to help pay for the French and +Indian War debt. Sons of Liberty clubs formed to resist the tax. +1767 -- Townshend Revenue Act, another British tax on the +colonies. Kunta Kinte kidnapped into American slavery. +1768 -- Virginia's legislature dissolved for its opposition to the +Townshend Act. Weishaupt graduates from the University of +Ingolstadt, becomes tutor and catechist. Macfarguhar, Ball and +Smelie begin compiling the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." Mesmer +commissions 12 year old Mozart's first opera, "Bastien and +Bastienne." +1770 -- Boston Massacre: British troops fire into a crowd. +Townshend Act repealed. +1771 -- "Encyclopaedia Britannica" published. +1772 -- Weishaupt becomes professor at University of Ingolstadt. +1773 -- British Tea Tax on colonies. Boston Tea Party in protest. +Weishaupt marries. Alleged meeting of Meyer Rothschild and others +to plan a world revolution. Suppression of the Jesuits. +Franklin's "Rule by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small +One" published. +1774 -- Britain's "Intolerable Acts" designed to punish rebellious +colonies. First Continental Congress. Washington begins training +troops. Louis XVI becomes king of France. Casanova becomes +secret agent for the Inquisitors of Venice. Catherine II shuts +down satiric journals in Russia. Jefferson's "Summary View of the +Rights of British Americans" published. +1775 -- Second Continental Congress authorizes naval warships, +sets up secret committee to procure weapons, names Washington +commander-in-chief of the new American Army. George III proclaims +America in open rebellion. Initial battles of the Revolutionary +War: Lexington, Bunker Hill, Toconderoga. Bushnell's first +experimental submarine and torpedo tested. Prince Hall lodges +(for blacks) chartered by Grand Lodge of London, rejected by +American lodges. +1776 -- Illuminati founded by Weishaupt. American Declaration of +Independence, written by Jefferson, adopted by Continental +Congress. Battles of Long Island, White Plains and Trenton. +Nathan Hale executed as spy by British. Franklin becomes +ambassador to France, is affiliated with French Masonic lodges. +Opening of Freemasons' Hall, permanent headquarters of English +Masonry. Cagliostro initiated into Masonry. Saigon captured by +Tay Son brothers. Aaron Burr serves as assistant to Benedict +Arnold. Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and "The Crisis" widely +read. Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" published. +1777 -- Weishaupt joins Munich Lodge of the Order of Good Council. +Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress. +Battles of Bennington, Brandywine, Germantown, Princeton and +Saratoga. Washington has his mystical vision of the future of the +United States while at Valley Forge. War of Bavarian Secession +begins. +1778 -- France recognizes American independence, signs treaty and +provides aid. Franklin assists in initiation of Voltaire into +Masonic Lodge of Paris. Masonic Convention in Lyons organizes +Knights of Benficience. +1779 -- John Paul Jones says "Damn the torpedos!" Benedict Arnold +becomes a traitor and spy for the British. War of Bavarian +Secession ends. +1780 -- John Andre, British agent, captured with secret documents +from Arnold; Arnold escapes to join British; Andre hanged as spy. +Weishaupt's wife dies. Illuminati begins rapid growth. First use +of the title Odd Fellows. Order of the Brotherhood of Asia, +Rosicrucian off-shoot, founded. +1781 -- Battle of Guilford Court House, surrended of Cornwallis at +Yorktown. John Hanson becomes first President of the United +States in Congress Assembled. Weishaupt seeks abortion for his +sister-in-law while awaiting dispensation to marry her. United +Masonic Lodges of Hamburg headed by Fraximus, a secret +Rosicrucian. Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" published. +1782 -- British cabinet agrees to recognize American independence, +preliminary agreement signed in Paris. Hanson commissions the +"Eye in the Pyramid" Great Seal, finishes term; Elias Boudinot +elected second President of Congress Assembled. Illuminati +dominate European Masonry. Casanova retires as secret agent. +1783 -- Treaty signed between America and England. Washington +disbands army, resigns. Hanson dies. Thomas Mifflin third +President of Congress Assembled. Ex-Illuminati Utschneider sends +letter denouncing the Order to monarch of Bavaria. Rite of +Swedenborg founded by Marquis de Throne. Eclectic Rite founded by +Baron Knigge in Frankfort. Webster's "American Spelling Book" +published. +1784 -- Treaty with England ratified by Congress. Richard Henry +Lee fourth President of Congress Assembled. Bavarian Monarch Carl +Theodore outlaws secret societies. Cagliostro moves to Lyons from +Bordeaux to found the Mother Lodge of Egyptian Masonry. Royal +Commission in Paris, including Franklin and Guillotine as members, +investigates Mesmerism and returns a negative report. +1785 -- Weishaupt flees to Gotha; new edict outlaws Illuminati; +High-ranking Illuminatus Lanz killed by lightning and Illuminati +papers found on body by police. French "Diamond Necklace" affair. +Napoleon graduates military school. Franklin returns to America; +Jefferson becomes French ambassador. Rosicrucian Order suppressed +in Austria. Anonymous pamphlet appears in Germany revealing +secrets of ancient Egyptian ceremonies. +1786 -- Wisdom Lodge founded in Virginia. Secret congress in +Frankfort where Louis XVI and Gustavus III of Sweden condemned to +die by Illuminati. Italian Illuminatus Buonarroti's library of +Masonic and subversive books confiscated by state authorities. +Nathaniel Gorham fifth President of Congress Assembled. Napoleon +writes pamphlete defending Rousseau. +1787 -- German authorities publish letter by Weishaupt admitting +he sought abortion for his sister-in-law; Weishaupt replies, +blaming "extenuating circumstances." German Union (extension of +outlawed Bavarian Illuminati) founded by Bahrdt. Washington +elected President of Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia; +new constitution adopted by the convention. Arthur St. Clair +sixth President of Congress Assembled. Jefferson meets secretly +in Paris with Brazilian rebel to discuss American aid to +revolution in Brazil. Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts to +protest unfair taxes. Goethe visits Cagliostro's family in +Palermo. Swedenborgian Church founded in London. Society for the +Abolition of the African Slave-Trade founded in London. +1788 -- American Constitution ratified by the states. Individual +American states begin to outlaw slavery. Cyrus Griffen seventh +President of Congress Assembled. Paine visits London and Paris. +"The Federalist" essays published by Hamilton, Madison and Jay. +1789 -- Washington elected President of the United States; first +Congress under new Constitution. Jefferson returns to U.S. to +become first Secretary of State; Hamilton becomes first Secretary +of the Treasury. French Revolution begins. +1790 -- Rebellion and massacre throughout France. Cagliostro +arrested by Inquisition of Rome. Bavarian edict against Reading +Societies. Blake's "Marriage of Heaven and Hell" published. +1791 -- Napoleon joins the Jocobin Club. First Bank of the United +States chartered. Burr begins converting Tammany Society into a +political machine. The anonymous "Vie de Joseph Balsamo" (Joseph +Basalmo was Cagliostro's name before he joined the Masons), first +recorded link of the Illuminati and the French Revolution, appears +in several European countries. Mozart's "The Magic Flute," +containing Masonic elements, performed. +1792 -- Washington re-elected. War between France and Austria. +Louis XVI imprisoned in the Templars Temple tower. Massacres of +September, in which priests, bishops and others are killed. +Elections for the National Convention, a triumph for Robespierre +and his followers. France declared a Republic. First +Swedenborgian church in America. Catherine II outlaws Masonry in +Russia. "Life of Joseph Balsamo" translated into English in +Dublin. Assassination of Gustav III at the Stockholm opera. +1793 -- Year One of the French Republic; the year of the Terror, +Louis XVI found guilty of conspiracy, condemned to be executed. +French government kills thousands of its citizens. France +declares war on England and the Dutch United Provinces; war breaks +out with Spain and Austria; Russia and Prussia begin partition of +Poland. French food riots. +1794 -- Year Two; France passes laws distributing confiscated +property to the poor, leads victorious battle against Austrians. +Would-be assassin of Robespierre fires on Collot d'Herbois +instead; the next day a young girl arrested as suspected assassin; +she and 40 others sent to guillotine. Other attempts of +Robespierre's life; his enemies accuse him of attempting to have +himself declared divine by Catherine Theot, an old woman who +preached a mystery religion; Robespierre guillotined. Monroe +becomes minister to France. Whiskey rebellion in Pennsylvania to +protest liquor taxes. +1795 -- France makes peace with Prussia and Spain, invades +Holland. Napoleon suppresses revolt in Paris and goes to Italy as +Commander-in-Chief. Yazoo land fraud: bribed Georgia legislators +sell Mississippi. +1796 -- Adams elected President. Paine publishes letter critical +of Washington. +1798 -- Illuminati scare in New England. Knights of Malta lose +their island to Napoleon. +1800 -- Death of Thomas Waley, one of the last Hell Fire Club +leaders. Napoleon comes to power, allegedly through Illuminati +manipulation. +1805 to 1881 -- Life of Auguste Blanqui, French socialist, founder +of numerous secret societies modeled after Buonarroti. +1815 -- Napoleon's Waterloo. Secret societies which eventually +become the Decembrist Movement formed in Russian Masonic lodges. +1817 -- Suppression of the Lodge of Jupiter the Thunderer begins. +Irish immigrants force entry into Tammany Society, changing its +direction. +1818 -- Mar Shelley's "Frankenstein" published. +1819 -- American Independent Order of Odd Fellows founded. +Founding of National Freemasonry, the most important of several +Polish secret societies devoted to ousting the Russians from +Poland. Liberation of Columbia by Bolivar. +1822 -- Russian government suppresses Masonry. Equador liberated +by Bolivar. +1825 -- Decembrist movement suppressed in Russia after brief +uprising. Bolivar liberates Bolivia. Founding of Vienna bank by +Solmon Rothschild and Naples bank by Carl Rothschild. +1828 -- Tammany Society backs Andrew Jackson for President. Anti-Masonic Party founded, first third-party in America. Attempted +assassination of Bolivar. +1829 -- Alleged Illuminati meeting in New York decides to unite +Atheists and Nihilists into Communist movement. +1830 -- Anti-Masonic conventions in Massachusetts and Vermont find +evidence linking Masonry with Illuminism. Book of Mormon +published. Weishaupt and Bolivar die. +1831 -- Anti-Masonic Party runs Wirt for President, assuring that +Mason Andrew Jackson would be re-elected. Poe dismissed from West +Point. +1833 -- Jackson orders U.S. funds withdrawn from Bank of the +United States, effectively killing the institution. +1835 -- The socialist League of the Just founded in Paris, later +becoming the Marxist Communist League. Attempted assassination of +Jackson with two single shot pistols, both of which jammed. +Revolver invented. +1844 -- Morse builds first practical telegraph. Bahai religion +begins when the Bab proclaims his mission in Persia. +1848 -- Fall of monarchy in France. Republic established in Rome. +Abdication of Ferdinand I in Austria. Revolts in Denmark, +Ireland, Lombardy, Schleswig-Holstein and Venice. Germany briefly +united in a parliament at Frankfort; unity destroyed by the King +of Prussia. Marx and Engles publish the "Communist Manifesto" +(allegedly commissioned by the Illuminati) and travel in France +and Germany encouraging discontent with the Establishment. +Woman's Suffrage Movement gets underway in Seneca Falls, New York. +Spiritualism born in Wayne County, New York, when the teenaged Fox +sisters communicate with poltergeists. Fortean tidbits: moon +turns "blood-red" during total eclipse; a great comet fails to +return at the time predicted; visions and "phantom soldiers" seen +in the skies of France and Scotland; Captain M'Quahae of H.M.S. +Daedalus reports seeing a "huge, unknown creature" in the ocean. +Gold discovered in California. +1849 to 1936 -- Life of Sir Basil Zaharoff, "mystery man of +Europe," who made a fortune as an armaments dealer and financier, +selling weapons to both sides in World War I and other conflicts. +1852 -- Benjamin becomes first professed Jew elected to Congress. +1859 -- Oil wells invented. Darwin's "Origin of Species" +published. +1860 -- Lincoln elected. Electric storage battery invented. +1860s -- Attempts to suppress the Mafia in Sicily are +unsuccessful. +1861 -- Confederate states secede; elect Jefferson Davis +president; Benjamin appointed Confederate Attorney General, later +Secretary of War. American Civil War begins. Emancipation of +serfs in Russia. Jacolliot writes about the Nine Unknown in +Calcutta. Gatling gun patented. +1862 -- Benjamin appointed Confederate Secretary of State. +1863 -- Rockfeller builds his first refinery. +1865 -- Assassination of Lincoln; Andrew Johnson becomes +president; "Booth" killed; coded message found among his effects; +the code key later found in possession of Benjamin, alleged +Rothschild agent. Civil War ends. Thirteenth amendment abolishes +slavery. +1866 -- Ku Klux Klan founded as a social club in Pulaski, +Tennessee. Benjamin flees to England. Death of Phineas Quimby, +magnetic healer, founder of Free Thought movement, teacher of Mary +Baker Eddy. +1867 -- Ku Klux Klan reorganized along political and racial lines +near Nashville, Tennessee. +1868 -- Assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, first Canadian +political assassination. +1869 -- St. Germain allegedly completes 85 years in the Himalayas +after his "death." Mendeleev composes first periodic table of the +elements in Russia. U.S. transcontinental railroad completed. +1870 -- Standard Oil Company incorporated. +1875 -- "Whiskey Ring" conspiracy of distillery owners revealed. +Madam Blavatsky founds Theosophy Society. Mary Baker Eddy's +"Science and Health" published. +1875 to 1947 -- Life of Aleister Crowley, the Great Beast, Golden +Dawn leader and occult figure. +1876 -- Disraeli again warns about dangers of secret societies. +Battle of the Little Big Horn. Bell patents telephone. Otto +builds four-cycle gasoline engine. +1877 -- First of seven wills in which Cecil Rhodes leaves his +money to establish a secret society to expand British rule +throughout the world. +1878 to 1945 -- Life of Edgar Cayce, visionary, trance-channeler +who spoke of reincarnation, Egyptian mysteries, and Atlantis. +1881 -- Garfield assassinated. Czar Alexander II assassinated by +secret society. Disraeli publishes "Lothair," a novel about +secret societies and European politics. +1884 -- Fabian Society founded in London by Sidney and Beatrice +Webb and others. +1885 -- First practical horseless carriage built by Daimler. +1887 -- Golden Dawn founded in London by Mathers and others. +Mitchelson-Morley experiement disproving ether theory. +1888 -- Unsolved murders of London prostitutes by "Jack the +Ripper," suspected of being one of those implicated in the +Cleveland Street Affair involving high-society Victorians and +their patronage of a brothel staffed by messenger boys. +1889 -- Second Communist International organized. +1890 -- Biologist Yersin visits India, purportedly to recieve +plague and cholera serum from the Nine Unknown. Wounded Knee +massacre. +1891 -- Rhodes gains control of 90% of world's diamond supply. +The Round Tables, a secret society allegedly funded by Rhodes and +the Rothschilds to gain financial and political power, founded in +the U.S., Canada, Australia, India, South Africa and New Zealand. +Rockefeller grant founds University of Chicago. Nikola Tesla +invents Tesla coil, becomes U.S. citizen. +1892 -- Rockefeller trust transferred to holding company: Standard +Oil of New Jersey. +1893 -- Assassination of Chicago Mayor Harrison. +1894 -- Assassination of President Carnot of France. +1896 -- Maconi's patent No. 7777 for radio. First "flap year" for +UFOs: wave of sightings of unidentified airships in U.S. +1897 -- Assassination of Premier Canovas of Spain. Zionism +founded in Basil, Switzerland by Theodore Herzl. +1898 -- Assassination of Empress Elizabeth of Austria. Pavlov +begins study of conditioned reflex in dogs. +1899 -- Tesla discovers terrestrial stationary waves which can +produce electricity; reports receiving signals from another +planet. Alleged meeting in England at which the Morgans, +Rothschilds and Warburgs become affiliated. +1900 -- Assassination of King Umberto I of Italy and Kentucky +Governor-elect William Goebel. Tesla suggests alien beings might +be living "in the very midst of us." Boxer rebellion in China. +Approximate date Adolf Lanz founded the Order of New Templars, a +fore-runner of the Nazi mentality. +1901 -- Assassination of McKinley and Russian Education Minister +Bogolepov. Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research +(Rockefeller University) founded in New York. First trans-Atlantic radio broadcast: Marconi sends the letter S. +1902 -- Assassination of Russian Minister of Interior Sipyagain. +Paul and Felix Warburg immigrate from Germany to the U.S. +Rockefeller General Education Board founded. +1903 -- Assassination of Bogdanovich, Governor of Ufa. "Protocols +of Elders of Zion," alleged plan for Jewish world takeover, +published in Russian newspaper. +1904 -- Assassination of Russian Premier Vischelev von Plehev. +1905 -- Assassination of Grand Duke Sergius and Idaho Governor +Steunenberg. Abortive revolution in Russia. Expanded version of +"Protocols of Zion" published. +1906 -- Assassination of Russian General Dubrassov. +1907 -- Financial panic and depression allegedly caused by J.P. +Morgan to gain support for the central bank concept. +1908 -- Assassination of King Carl of Prussia and Crown Prince of +Portugal. FBI founded. Founding of the Armanen Initiates, another +proro-Nazi secret society. +1910 -- Attempted assassination of Mayor Gaynor of NYC. Secret +meeting of bankers and politicians at Jekyll Island, Georgia, +results in Federal Reserve Act. +1911 -- Assassination of Prime Minister Staliapin of Russia by +police double agent. Standard Oil of New Jersey broken up as +illegal monopoly. +1912 -- Assassination of Primier Canalegas of Spain. Attempted +assassination of Teddy Roosevelt. Colonel E.M. House, adviser to +Woodrow Wilson, publishes "Philip Dru: Administrator," a political +romance which proposed modern social legislation. Founding of +Germanen Order, another pre-Nazi secret society. +1913 -- Assassination of George I of Greece. Rockefeller +Foundation founded. +1914 -- Attempted assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria +by Masonic agents, followed an hour later by successful +assassination; in Russia, Rasputin stabbed the same day. World War +I begins. +1915 -- Sinking of the Lusitania by German submarine; allegedly +carrying secret munitions for the Allies, the ship supposedly +sacrificed by British and American authorities to drum up war +hysteria in U.S. Alfred Wegener proposed theory of continental +drift, receives ridicule and contempt from his fellow scientists. +Ku Klux Klan revived. +1916 -- Assassination of Rasputin.

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1917 -- United States enters world war I. Russian Revolution +begins; Cheka, secret police of Bolsheviks, founded. +1918 -- Assassination of Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family. +Attempted assassination of Lenin. New Thought lecturer David Van +Bush hires H.P. Lovecraft as a ghost writer. +1919 -- Founding of Thule Society in Germany; Hitler recruited. +League of Nations founded at Paris Peace Conference. Meeting at +the Majestic Hotel, Paris, between Wilsonian intellectuals (House, +Dulles and Dulles, etc.) and "like-minded Englishmen" to discuss +forming an organization "for the study of international affairs." +Royal Institute of International Affairs founded. Freud draws +attention to Austrian neurologist Poetzl's experiments with the +tachistroscope, an early device for studying subliminal +perception. Charles Fort's "The Book of the Damned" published. +Hitler joins the German Workers' Party. +1920s -- Assassination of estimated 400 German public figures +begins. U.S. entry into League of Nations blocked in Senate. +Development of modern advertising techniques emphasizing +manipulation rather than information. +1920 -- GWP becomes the National Socialist German Worker's Party. +1921 -- Council on Foreign Relations incorporated; founded by +Wilsonians House, Dulles and company upon their return from Paris, +with the help of the Round Table Group. Marconi states he believes +mysterious V code on pre-WWI radio came from space; Tesla recalls +seeing lights, vivid images, when he was a boy. Hitler takes over +the NSGWP. +1922 -- Mussolini, alleged British Intelligence agent, comes to +power in Italy, begins attempt to eliminate Mafia in Sicily. Cheka +reorganized as GPU, Russian secret police. CFR journal "Foreign +Affairs" founded. King Tutankhamen's tomb opened in Egypt, thus +invoking "King Tut's Curse"; 14 violent deaths in as many years +linked to the curse. +1923 -- Assassination of Pancho Villa in Mexico. Founding of +Hitler's National-Socialist (Nazi) Party in Germany. International +Police (Interpol) founded in Vienna. In the face of the Teapot +Dome and other scandals, President Harding visits Alaska and +receives a "long ciphered message" which visibly upsets him, +causing him to ask what a president could do when friends betrayed +him; he died soon after among conflicting rumors about the cause +of his death. Fort's "New Lands" published. +1924 -- J. Edgar Hoover takes over FBI. During Mars' closest +approach radios around the world went off the air in order to +allow interception of any possible messages from space; when +translated onto photographic tape, signals received produced +crudely drawn faces. Lovecraft ghostwrites for Houdini. +1925 -- Lionel Curtis organizes the Institutes of Pacific +Relations in at least ten countries for the Round Table Group. +1926 -- Suicide of synchronicity researcher Paul Krammerer, +biologist, freemason. +1927 -- Rise of the CFR due to Rockefeller and other foundation +funding. The Crystal Skull discovered in ruins of Lubaantun in +British Honduras. +1928 -- Nomination of Catholic Al Smith sparks last spurt of +growth for the KKK. Soviet produced film shows conditioned reflex +experiments on humans. +1929 -- CFR moves to Harold Pratt Building on 68th Street. Great +Depression begins. Quisling's "About the Matter That Inhabited +Worlds Outside Ours and the Significance Caused by It to Our +Philosophy of Life" published. +1930 -- Pavlov begins applying knowledge of conditioned reflex to +human psychosis. +1930s -- Mafia becomes integral part of the U.S. organized crime. +Continuing political assassinations accompany Nazi rise to power. +1931 -- Fort's "Lo!" published. +1932 -- Fort dies after publishing his last book, "Wild Talents." +1933 -- Attempted assassination of Franklin Roosevelt; Chicago +mayor Cermak killed instead. FDR orders use of Great Seal of the +U.S. on reverse side of the dollar bill. Reichstag Fire, set by +Nazis, used to suspend civil liberties. +1934 -- Assassination of S.M. Kirov, Soviet leader and Stalin +collaborator. Russian GPU renamed NKVD. Beginning of Hitler's +Black Order. Unexplained "ghostflier" broadcasts in Sweden. +1935 -- Assassination of Senator Huey Long. First lobotomy +performed by Egas Moniz in Lisbon. +1936 -- Beginning of Moscow Purge trials in which numerous +communist leaders were brainwashed into false confessions and then +executed. +1937 -- Spanish Civil War begins. First of 48 "Lost Colony" stones +found in North Carolina; stones supposedly tell the story of lost +Roanoke Island colony. Amelia Earhart Putnam, aviator, disappears. +1938 -- Assassination of Leon Sedov, Trotsky's son; first +assassination attempt against Trotsky. Nazi invasion of Austria; +Interpol exiled -- or taken over by Nazis; German expedition to +Antarctica stakes out 600000 square kilometers, lands near the +South Pole. Electroshock treatment discovered. Orson Welles' +dramatization of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" scares American +radio listeners. +1939 -- Attorney Leon Cooke, friend of Jack Ruby and financial +secretary of the union which employed Ruby, killed by union +president Jack Martin; union subsequently taken over by Mafia. +League of Nations suspended. Germany invades Poland; World War II +begins. CFR offers it services to U.S. State Dept. Interpol +grouped with Gestapo. Amateur radio astronomer Grote Reber +receives dot-dash signal from space. Attempted assassination of +Hitler. +1940 -- Assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico. British secret +police renamed MI-5 and MI-6 for duration of war. Interpol moved +to near Berlin., with Reinhard Heydrich in charge. Nazis allegedly +begin building Hitler's secret hideout in Antarctica. Roosevelt +sends Gen. "Wild Bill" Donovan on info-gathering mission to +Europe; Donovan recommends a central intelligence organization. +U.S. State Dept. creates Division of Special Research headed by +CFR member Pasbolsky. +1941 -- Japan attacks U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor, allegedly +through the maneuvering of Roosevelt and his advisors to provide +an excuse to enter the war. Donovan made head of new Office of +Coordinator of Information. "The Books of Charles Fort" published. +1942 -- Assassination of Interpol chief Heydrich in +Czechloslavakia. Donovan's OCI evolves into the Office of +Strategic Services (OSS). +1943 -- LSD-25 discovered by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann. Nazi +Admiral Doenitz boasts the German submarine fleet has built "in +another part of the world a Shangri-La on land, an impregnable +fortress." Juan Peron and other pro-Nazi leaders take power in +Argentina. Pilots on both sides of the war report seeing "foo-fighters," unexplained flying objects, while flying war missions. +1944 -- Attempted assassination of Hitler. Nazis begin sending +millions of dollars worth of jewels, paintings and cash to +Argentina for safe keeping. Russian NKVD reorganized as MGB. +Donovan prepares plan for Roosevelt to establish a central +intelligence agency which is pigeonholed, later reconsidered by +Truman. American band leader Glenn Miller disappears on unarmed +flight over the English Channel. +1945 -- Alleged assassination (suicide) of James Forrestal at +Bethesda Hospital Neurological Ward, after his attempt to warn +Roosevelt of Illuminati plot. Roosevelt dies, Truman becomes +president. Mussolini killed. Hitler allegedly escapes from Berlin +after arranging for a fake suicide cover story; Hitler's death +announced, Admiral Doenitz takes command; submarines U-530, U-977 +and others begin secret journey from Norway soon after Quisling +allegedly refused Hitler's offer to take him "aboard a submarine +to a safe refuge"; two months after Germany surrenders submarines +U-530 and U-977 give themselves up in Mar del Plata, Argentina, +after allegedly being lost from the submarine convoy taking Hitler +and others to their hideout in Antarctica; Nazi leader Martin +Bormann escapes without a trace from Berlin after supervising +Hitler's "suicide." First atomic bombs dropped. World War II ends. +General Gehlen, Head of Nazi Intelligence, captured by U.S. Army +and flown to Washington; other Nazi and British agents imported to +U.S., along with Werner Von Braun and other developers of the V-2 +rockets. Interpol dissolved -- or reorganized with headquarters in +Paris, the story varies. OSS disbanded, its agents moving to +military intelligence agencies and the State Dept. CFR allegedly +takes over State Dept. United Nations founded. "Official beginning +of Bermuda Triangle mystery," when Flight 19, made up of five +naval bombers, disappears off the coast of Florida; another plane +sent to investigate also disappears -- 6 planes and 27 men +vanished. An Air Force plane's engines fail over Iwo Jima as foo-fighters maneuver around it. +1946 -- Murder of wire service king James Ragen by Syndicate +friends of Jack Ruby; indictment dropped following additional +murders. John Kennedy and Richard Nixon elected to House of +Representatives. Truman's executive order sets up the National +Intelligence Authority and Central Intelligence Group. Gehlen +returns to Germany to continue intelligence work for U.S. Army. +Interpol reorganization meeting held in Brussels. Admiral Byrd +allegedly leads Naval "research" expedition to Antarctica to +attack Hitler's secret hideout; attempt allegedly fails and Hitler +and his "UFO scientists" continue their activities. Waves of +unexplained "ghost rockets" seen in Europe, especially +Scandanavia. +1947 -- Attempted assassination of Minneapolis Mayor Hubert +Humphrey. Partition of India receives "strong impetus from the +Round Table Group." National Security Act establishes Dept. of +Defense, National Security Council and Central Intelligence +Agency. France creates SDECE, similar to CIA. Second UFO flap +year; Kenneth Arnold reports flying saucers near Yakima, +Washington, and other reports soon follow. Maury Island "hoax": an +early Men-In-Black incident three days before the Arnold sighting, +in which a "donut-shaped object" dropped slag on a boat near +Tacoma, Washington; the next day an MIB visited Harold Dahl, who +was piloting the boat, and warned him not to discuss the sighting; +the boat's owner, Fred Crisman, was suspected of being a CIA +employee and was later called to give secret testimony at the +trial of Clay Shaw in New Orleans; pilot Dahl disappeared and +UFOlogist Arnold, who investigated the case, reported unexplained +failure of his own plane's engine soon after two Air Force +investigators were killed taking off from Tacoma's airport. +1948 -- Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Attempted assassination +of labor leader Walter Reuther. Beginning of Operation Ohio, a CIA +program responsible for one hundred European assassinations during +the next ten years. Beginning of CIA interest in UFOs as a +"security" problem. McCord employed by the FBI. Nixon gains +prominence in the Alger Hiss case as member of the House Un-American Activities Committee; goes to Miami where he meets Bebe +Rebozo and goes yachting with other underworld-connected figures. +Martin Bormann reported living in Argentina. New nation of Israel +creates Central Institute for Intelligence and Security. World +Council of Churches founded in Amsterdam. +1949 -- Report critical of CIA filed and forgotten, unread by +Truman; Central Intelligence Act exempts CIA from disclosure laws. +E. Howard Hunt becomes CIA agent; Clay Shaw becomes agent for +CIA's Domestic Contact Service. The Gehlen Organization +transferred to CIA control. U.S. Army begins 20 years of simulated +germ warfare attacks against American cities, conducting at least +239 open air tests. Interpol granted consultive status by UN. +Chaing Kai-shek flees to Formosa; mainland China taken by +communist leaders; Social Affairs Dept. and other Chinese secret +police created. Trial of Cardinal Mindszenty in Hungary following +his brainwashing and confession of conspiracy. +1950 -- Attempted assassination of Truman by Puerto Rican +nationalists. Korean War begins. Congress passes McCarran's +Internal Security Act setting up program for detention of +subversives. Hiss convicted of perjury; Nixon elected to Senate +after smear campaign against California opponent. U.S. Army +engages in "simulated" germ warfare in San Francisco and the +Pentagon. National Council of Churches founded in U.S. CIA +organizes the Pacific Corporation, a large holding company which +was the first of many CIA "private" enterprises. Alleged CIA plot +to introduce UFO contact ideas with "Little Green Men" stories and +radio contact "from space." Malcolm X receives visit from an MIB +while in prison. "Worlds in Collision" by Immanuel Velikovsky +proposes a catastrophic theory of ancient history in which a huge +"comet" of matter is ripped out of Jupiter, approaches Earth close +enough to cause universal fire/flood legends in primitive folklore +and the settles into orbit as a new planet, Venus; Velikovsky +receives ridicule and contempt from his fellow scientists, thought +20 years later Jupiter is generally considered a "cold star" +rather than a planet and Velikovsky's prediction of a hot climate +on Venus is confirmed. Approximate starting date of building of +Mount Weather, secret American government fortress. +1951 -- Assassination of Ali Razmara of Iran, Riad Al-Sulh and +Abdullah of Jordan and Ali Knah Liaquat of Pakistan. Army +simulated germ warfare project in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. +Approximate date CBS begins active cooperation with CIA. McCord +moves from FBI to CIA. North Korean brainwashing of American +prisoners begins. TIME magazine popularizes the term +"brainwashing." +1952 -- Eisenhower elected president, Nixon vice-president; +Kennedy elected to Senate. Army germ warfare project in Key West, +Florida, and Ft. McCellan, Alabama. CIA agent Downey and Fecteau +captured while on spy mission in China. Third UFO flap year. First +UFO "contact" case: George Adamski meets Venusians in California +desert; alleged CIA plot to start UFO scare. UFOlogist George +Williamson, one of Adamski's witnesses, claims he also witnessed +ham radio operator establish contact with another world. +1953 -- Dr. Frank Olsen commits suicide after having been given a +secret dose of LSD by the CIA, under the direction of the +mysterious Dr. Sidney Gottlieb. CIA contemplates developing drugs +to cause amnesia in retired agents. CIA's Robertson Panel views +UFO reports as national security threat. Army germ warfare project +in Panama City, Florida. Return of Korean War prisoners, including +some who underwent brainwashing. 21 POWs defect. Mau Mau (Hidden +Ones) formed in Kenya to overthrow white rule. UFOlogist Albert +Bender closes down his International Flying Saucer Bureau after +being visited by three MIB. +1954 -- Attempted assassinations of several U.S. Congressmen by +Puerto Rican nationalists. First Bilderberger meeting takes place +at the Bilderberg Hotel, Oosterbeek, Holland. Condemnation by the +U.S. Senate of Joseph McCarthy following his charges of subversion +in high places. Hunt involved in CIA overthrow of communist regime +in Guatemala, Carlos Castillo-Armas becomes president. Richard +Bissell joins the CIA. Army germ warfare project in Point Mugu and +Fort Hueneme, California. Russian KGB created to replace earlier +secret police. Broadcaster Frank Edwards fired for discussing UFOs +on the air. Strange voice "from space" speaks from turned-off +radios in midwest U.S. and London, warns against preparations for +war. +1955 -- Assassination of Jose Antonio Remon of Panama and Adnan +Al-Malki of Syria. Bilderberger meeting in Barbizon, France. Lee +Harvey Oswald meets David Ferrie of the New Orleans Civil Air +Patrol. Doug Durham joins the Marines. The Office of Naval +Research allegedly receives a copy of Morris Jessup's "The Case +for the UFOs" with marginal notes in three different hands, +supposedly by "Gypsies" knowledgeable in UFOlogy; ONR reprints +several hundred copies for internal use; an MIB called "Carlos +Allende" is implicated in the affair. +1956 -- Assassination of Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua. +Bilderberger meeting in Frednsborg, Denmark. Clay Shaw's CIA +contact allegedly stopped. Oswald joins Marines. Durham receives +special CIA training. UFOlogist Gray Barker publishes "They Knew +Too Much About Flying Saucers" which reported numerous MIB +incidents. +1957 -- Assassination of Carlos Castillo-Armas of Guatemala. +Exiled Ukranian politician Lev Rebet assassinated by KGB agent in +Munich. Alleged assassination of Joseph McCarthy at Bethesda +Hospital Neurological Ward, after warning of Illuminati plot. +Bilderberger meetings in St. Simon Island, Georgia, and Fiuggui, +Italy. Oswald assigned to base at Atsugi, Japan, where CIA U-2 +planes were launched; shoots self in elbow. General Edwin Walker +commands federal troops sent to enforce racial integration at +Little Rock, Arkansas. CIA helps Iran form SAVAK, secret police +later accused of assassination Iranian dissidents. Experiments in +behavior modification sleep-teaching take place at California +penal institution Woodland Road Camp. Fourth UFO flap year. Anti-atomic bomb propaganda disseminated by saucer clubs -- another CIA +plot? Unexplained short wave radio signals received worldwide. +1958 -- Assassination of Abdul Llah, Faisal II and Nuri Al-Said of +Iraq. Bilderberger meeting in Buxton, England. Russia launches +first space satellites. Unidentified ex-Marine lives in Minsk, +USSR, apparently gathering information for the CIA. Oswald on +maneuvers in the Philippines involving U-2 flights. Francis Gary +Powers released from Air Force and assigned to covert CIA spying. +Kerry Thornley and Gregory Hill found Discordianism and publish +"Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did To +Her When I Found Her"; Thornley joins Marine Corps. John Birch +Society organized by Robert Welch. Nelson Rockefeller elected +governor of New York. Ham radio operators pick up a male voice +claiming to be Nacoma of Jupiter and warning of atomic bomb +disaster in English, German, Norweigian and his own unknown +language. +1959 -- Assassination of Solomon W.R. Bandaranaike of Ceylon. +Exiled Ukranian politician Stephan Bandera assassinated by KGB +agent in Munich. Attempted assassination of Senator Bircher of +Ohio and Governor Almond of Virginia. Apparent suicide of UFO +researcher Morris Jessup who had received communications from +"Carlos Allende," one of the MIB and whose book was mysteriously +annoted by UFOlogical Gypsies. Bilderberger meeting in Yesilkov, +Turkey. Fidel Castro assumes power in Cuba; Cuban Intelligence +(DGI) begun. Ruby visits casino owner in Havana. Kerry Thornley +first meets fellow Marine Oswald in California; Oswald released +from Marines, defects to Russia. Thornley assigned to U-2 base in +Atsugi, Japan. Durham discharged from Marines, stationed at CIA +base in Guatemala. UFO sighting at CIA headquarters after Naval +officer contacts "space people" while in CIA-observed trance. +Condon's "The Manchurian Candidate" published. +1960 -- Assassination of Hazza Majali of Jordan. Bilderberger +meeting in Burgenstock, Switzerland. Eisenhower authorizes +training and arming Cuban exiles, allegedly issues orders for the +assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. Nixon, CIA +agent Bissell and others plan Bay of Pigs invasion, obtain +permission to use Guatemala as launching point. Bernard Baker +serves as conduit for Bay of Pigs funding. CIA buys Southern Air +Transport; contemplates development of "recruitment pills" and +other drugs; studies mysterious amnesia of Korean war prisoners +moved through Manchuria; contemplates giving truth serum to +brainwashed American POWs. CIA spy Powers shot down in U-2 over +Russia; summit conference cancelled. Kennedy-Nixon debates; +Kennedy elected president. Oswald assigned job in Bellorussian +Radio Factory in Minsk, USSR. Thornley discharged from Marines. +Project Ozma, searching for intelligent signals from another part +of the universe, receives unexplained signals from space. +1961 -- Assassination of Lumumba of the Congo, Rafael Trujillo +Molina of the Dominican Republic and Louis Rivagasore of Nurundi. +Attempted assassination of Castro by Hans Tanner. Michael +Rockefeller disappears in New Guinea. Bilderberger meeting in +Quebec, Canada. Thornley arrives to New Orleans; Slim Brooks gives +Thornley "the haircut" on his 23rd birthday; the same day, the +CIA invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, launched from Guatemala, +fails due to poor planning and cancellation of support by Kennedy; +the CIA, the Mob, Cuban-exiles, right-wingers and Nixonites +supposedly vow revenge against Kennedy. Kennedy develops +extracurricular relationship with Judith Campbell, Sam Giancana's +girlfriend; Giancana and John Roselli enlisted by CIA to attempt +Castro assassination. George De Mohrenschildt on hiking trip +through Guatemala. Brooks introduces Thornley to his +"brother-in-law," Gary Kirstein, allegedly an undercover E. Howard +Hunt; Thornley and "Kirstein" begin nearly three-year relationship +of discussing Nazis, mind-control, the status of philosopher-kings, and plans to assassinate Kennedy. Robert Morrow, working +with Ruby, Shaw and Ferrie, allegedly smuggle weapons from Greece +to Central America for the CIA; also picks up information for CIA +from "Harvey" in the Soviet Union. Ferrie, Gordon Novel and two +others arrested in burglary of Louisiana arms bunker. Unidentified +Marine from Minsk divulges information to CIA agent in Copenhagen. +General Walker resigns after criticism of his anti-communist +indoctrination of troops. U.S. Military Advisor Group begins +defoliation project in Vietnam which eventually covers over 12% of +land area. Milgram's Yale experiments demonstrating dangers of +obedience to authority. Unexplained transmissions from space +monitored by ham radio operators worldwide; Bob Renaud, ham +operator, allegedly makes contact with aliens. +1962 -- Suicide of Marilyn Monroe under questionable +circumstances. Bilderberger meeting in Saltsjobaden, Sweden. +Oswald returns to America with his Russian wife, an alleged KGB +agent. Retired General Walker arrested on Attorney Robert +Kennedy's orders when Walker became involved in the racial +disorders in Oxford, Mississippi; Walker stripped naked and flown +to Springfield, Missouri, prison for examination; Walker reported +to be incompetent but was later released and ran against John +Connally for Governor of Texas. Hunt becomes head of CIA's new +Domestic Operations Division. CIA interference in Ecuadorian +politics. CIA allegedly pays a Canadian agriculture technician to +infect Cuban turkeys with Newcastle disease (though the technician +supposedly double-crossed them). Ruby allegedly flies from Mexico +City to visit Havana. CIA begins using secret terror teams in +Vietnam, roots of Operation Phoenix. Dr. Edgar Schein outlines +behavior modification programs for U.S. prisons, based on Korean +brainwashing techniques. Cuban missile crisis. De Mohrenschildt, +friend of the Kennedys, befriends the Oswalds in Dallas. Durham +employed by Des Moines Police Dept. UFOlogist Williamson +disappears in South America. Film version of "The Manchurian +Candidate" released.

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[From the January-February 1990 issue of "Extra!", a publication of FAIR.]

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The Media Goes to War: +HOW TELEVISION SOLD THE PANAMA INVASION

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by Mark Cook and Jeff Cohen

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TWO weeks after the Panama invasion, "CBS News" sponsored a public +opinion poll in Panama that found the residents in rapture over what +happened. Even 80 percent of those whose homes had been blown up or +their relatives killed by US forces said it was worth it. Their +enthusiasm did not stop with the ousting of Gen. Manual Noriega, +however. A less heavily advertised result of the poll was that 82% of +the sampled Panamanian patriots did not want Panamanian control of the +Canal, preferring either partial of exclusive control by the US +("Panamanians Strongly Back US Move," "New York Times," 1/6/90). +A "public opinion poll" in a country under martial law, conducted by +an agency obviously sanctioned by the invading forces, can be expected +to come up with such results. Most reporters, traveling as they did +with the US military, found little to contradict this picture. Less +than 40 hours after the invasion began, Sam Donaldson and Judd Rose +transported us to Panama via "ABC's Prime Time Live" (12/21/90). +"There were people who applauded us as we went by in a military +convoy," said Rose. "The military have been very good to us [in +escorting reporters beyond the Canal Zone]," added Donaldson. +While this kind of "Canal Zone journalism" dominated television, a +few independent print journalists stuck out on their own. Peter +Eisner of "Newsday"'s Latin American Bureau, for example, reported +(12/28/89) that Panamanians were cursing US soldiers under their +breath as troops searched the home of a neighbor--a civilian--for +weapons. One Panamanian pointed out a man speaking to US soldiers as +a "sapo" (a toad--slang for "dirty informer") and suggested that +denouncing people to the US forces was a way of settling old scores. +A doctor living on the street said that "liberals will be laying low +for a while, and they're probably justified" because of what would +happen to those who speak out. All of Eisner's sources feared having +their names printed. +The same day's "Miami Herald" ran articles about Panamanian citizen +reactions, including concern over the hundreds of dead civilians: +"Neighbors saw six US truck loads bringing dozens of bodies" to a mass +grave. As a mother watched the body of her soldier son lowered into a +grave, her "voice rose over the crowd's silence: 'Damn the +Americans.'" +Obviously there was a mix of opinion inside Panama, but it was +virtually unreported on television, the dominant medium shaping US +attitudes about the invasion. Panamanian opposition to the US was +dismissed as nothing more than "DigBat [Dignity Battalion] thugs" +who'd been given jobs by Noriega. And it was hardly acknowledged that +the high-visibility demonstration outside the Vatican Embassy the day +of Noriega's surrender had been actively "encouraged" by the US +occupying forces ("Newsday," 1/5/90). +Few TV reporters seemed to notice that the jubilant Panamanians +parading before their cameras day after day to endorse the invasion +spoke near-perfect English and were overwhelmingly light-skinned and +well-dressed. This in a Spanish-speaking country with a largely +mestizo and black population where poverty is widespread. "ABC"'s +Beth Nissen (12/27/89) was one of the few TV reporters to take a close +look at the civilian deaths caused by US bombs that pulverized El +Chorillo, the poor neighborhood which ambulance drivers now call +"Little Hiroshima." The people of El Chorillo don't speak perfect +English, and they were less than jubilant about the invasion.

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"Our Boys" vs. Unseen Civilians

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In the first days of the invasion, TV journalists had one overriding +obsession: *How many American soldiers have died?* The question, +repeated with drumbeat regularity, tended to drown out the other +issues: Panamanian casualties, international law, foreign reaction. +On the morning of the invasion, "CBS" anchor Kathleen Sullivan's voice +cracked with emotion for the US soldiers: "Nine killed, more than 50 +wounded. How long can this fighting go on?" Unknown and unknowable +to "CBS" viewers, hundreds of Panamanians had already been killed by +then, many buried in their homes.

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__________________________________________________________________ +YOU BE THE JUDGE +| * "[The invasion was legal] according to all the experts I +talked to."--Rita Braver ("CBS Evening News," 12/20/89) +| * "As far as international law is concerned, even sources in +the US government admit they were operating very near the +line."--John McWethy ("ABC World News Tonight," 1/5/90) +| * "The territory of a state is inviolable. It may not be the +object, even temporarily, of military occupation or other +measures of force taken by another state directly or +indirectly on any grounds whatsoever."--Article 20, OAS +Charter +|__________________________________________________________________|

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Judging from the calls and requests for interviews that poured into +the FAIR office, European and Latin American journalists based in the +US were stunned by the implied racism and national chauvinism in the +media display. The "Toronto Globe and Mail," often referred to as the +"New York Times" of Canada, ran a front-page article (12/22/89) +critiquing the United States and its media for "the peculiar jingoism +of US society so evident to foreigners but almost invisible for most +Americans." +TV's continuous focus on the well-being of the invaders, and not the +invadees, meant that the screen was dominated by red, white and blue +draped coffins and ceremonies, honor rolls of the US dead, drum rolls, +remarks by Dan Rather (12/21/89) about "our fallen heroes"...but no +Panamanian funerals. This despite the fact that the invasion claimed +perhaps 50 Panamanian lives for every US citizen killed. +When Pentagon pool correspondent Fred Francis was asked on day one +about civilian casualties on "ABC's Nightline" (12/20/89), he said he +did not know, because he and other journalists were traveling around +with the US army. Curiosity didn't increase in ensuing days. FAIR +called the TV networks daily to demand they address the issue of +civilian deaths, but journalists said they had no way of verifying the +numbers. +No such qualms existed with regards to Rumania, where over the +Christmas weekend "CNN" and other US outlets were freely dishing out +fantastic reports of 80000 people killed in days of violence, a +figure--greater that the immediate Hiroshima death toll--which any +editor should have dismissed out of hand. Tom Brokaw's selective +interest in civilians was evident when he devoted the first half of +"NBC Nightly News" (12/20/89) to Panama without mentioning non-combatant casualties, then turned to Rumania and immediately referred +to reports of thousands of civilian deaths.

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__________________________________________________________________ +Due Process Mugged +| You've seen it everywhere. It made the cover of "Newsweek," +the front page of the "New York Times"' "Week in Review", and +the "CBS", "NBC" and "ABC" news: Manual Noriega's mug shot, +looking just like the criminals at the end of each "Dragnet" +episode after Sgt. Joe Friday had brought them to justice. +But what you didn't often see is an acknowledgement that the +release of such mug shots is highly unusual, and may threaten +Noriega's already slim chances of getting a fair trial. The +Miami U.S. Attorney's office claims to have released it "under +pressure from the press," according to the "New York Times" +(1/14/90). "We will not comment very frequently on this case," +U.S. Attorney Dexter Lehtinen said, calling that "the key to +success." Sure, as long as the media are willing to publish +prosecution leaks without regard to the defendant's +constitutional rights. +| [Below this are two covers:] +"Newsweek" (1/15/90) has "NORIEGA'S NEXT HOME? America's New +Alcatraz" at the top; followed by "EXCLUSIVE The Noriega +Files; His Treacherous Links With the Drug Cartel, Castro, +Bush and the CIA", accompanied by a picture of a Noriega mug +shot--he in a T-shirt holding the sign: +"U.S. MARSHAL, MIAMI, FL, 4.1.5.8.6. .0.0.4. '90" +| "New York Post" (1/5/90) has "CANNED PINEAPPLE" covering half +it's cover, with a subhead "Arrogant Noriega: I'm a political +prisoner"; the bottom half shows two photos: one of Noriega +surrounded by three police officers restraining him, and the +other, the same mug shot as "Newsweek". +|__________________________________________________________________|

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Not until the sixth day of the Panama invasion did the US Army +augment its estimated dead (23 American troops, 297 alleged enemy +soldiers) to include a figure for civilians: 254. The number was +challenged as representing only a fraction of the true death toll by +the few reporters who sought out independent sources: Panamanian +human rights monitors, hospital workers, ambulance drivers, funeral +home directors. These sources also spoke of thousands of civilian +injuries and 10000 left homeless. Many journalists, especially on +television, were too busy cheerleading "the successful military +action" to notice the Panamanians who didn't fare so successfully. +TV correspondents, so uncurious about civilian casualties, could not +be expected to go beyond US military assurances about who was being +arrested and why. As the "Boston Globe" noted (1/1/90), US forces +were arresting anyone on a blacklist compiled by the newly-installed +government. "Newsday"'s Peter Eisner reported (1/7/90): "Hundreds of +intellectuals, university students, teachers and professional people +say they have been harassed and detained by US forces in the guise of +searching for hidden weapons."

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__________________________________________________________________ +CENSORED NEWS: Drug Links of Panama's New Rulers +| The Bush White House justified the invasion by claiming that +overthrowing Noriega was a major victory in the war on drugs. +If journalists had reported the backgrounds of the new +Panamanian leaders installed by the US invasion, and their +connections to drug-laundering banks and drug traffickers, a +primary rationale for the invasion would have been shredded. +But few journalists scrutinized Panama's "new democrats" +from the country's banking and corporate elite. One who did +was Jonathan Marshall, editorial page editor of the "Oakland +Tribune". In a series of editorials, "Panama's Drug, Inc." +(1/5 & 1/22/90), Marshall reported the following: +PRESIDENT GUILLERMO ENDARA is a wealthy corporate attorney +for several companies run by Carlos Eleta, a Panamanian +business tycoon arrested in Georgia last April for conspiring +to import more than half a ton of cocaine each month into the +US. The Brazilian daily, "Jornal do Brasil," reported that +Endara was Eleta's lawyer for 25 years and a direct +stockholder in one of his companies. Endara's political +mentor and idol is former President Arnulfo Arias, who +reportedly amassed $2 million from smuggling contraband, +including hard drugs. +VICE PRESIDENT GUILLERMO "BILLY" FORD is a co-founder and +part owner of the Dadeland Bank, in Miami, a repository for +Medellin drug cartel money. One of Ford's co-owner's, +Panamanian Steven Samos, used the bank in the late 1970s to +launder millions of dollars in drug money for a CIA-trained +Cuban American. Panama's new ambassador to the US, Carlos +Rodriguez, is also a co-founder of the Dadeland Bank. (The +"New York Times" on Jan. 28 mustered up Roberto Eisenmann, the +publisher of Panama's "La Prensa," to deny allegations linking +Ford to money laundering. The "Times" didn't mention that +Eisenmann is another co-founder of the bank.) +ATTORNEY GENERAL ROGELIO CRUZ served as a director of the +First Interamericas Bank. The bank, closed down for drug-related "irregular operations" in 1985, was owned by the +leader of Columbia's Cali cocaine cartel and reportedly +laundered money for Jorge Ochoa of the Medellin cartel. +Panama's new chief justice of the supreme court and new +treasury minister were also members of the bank's board. +Marshall concluded: "President Endara's appointments read +like a who's who of Panama's oligarchy. Many have personal +or business associations with the drug-money laundering +industry." Portraying Noriega's replacement by the Endara +clique as a strike against drug dealing is a cruel joke. +The importance of Panama to the international narcotics +trade has long revolved around its supersecret banks--cool +places to launder "hot money." In December 1986, Noriega's +legislature pushed through a rollback in the country's bank +secrecy law. In May 1987, when Noriega's government froze +accounts in 18 banks as part of an anti-drug operation mounted +by the DEA, it sparked a massive banking crisis in Panama. +The actions were vigorously opposed by Noriega's foes in the +banking elite. These foes now run Panama's government thanks +to the US invasion. The "war on drugs" continues. +|__________________________________________________________________|

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The "Objective" Reporter's Lexicon: We, Us, Our

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In covering the invasion, many TV journalists abandoned even the +pretense of operating in a neutral, independent mode. Television +anchors used pronouns like "we" and "us" in describing the mission +into Panama, as if they themselves were members of the invasion force, +or at least helpful advisors. "NBC"'s Brokaw exclaimed, on day one: +"We haven't got [Noriega] yet." "CNN" anchor Mary Anne Loughlin asked +a former CIA official (12/21/89): "Noriega has stayed one step ahead +of us. Do you think we'll be able to find him?" After eagerly +quizzing a panel of US military experts on "MacNeil/Lehrer" (12/21/89) +about whether "we" had wiped out the Panamanian Defense Forces (PDF), +Judy Woodruff concluded, "So not only have we done away with the PDF, +we've also done away with the police force." So much for the +separation of press and state. +Ted Koppel and other TV journalists had a field day mocking the +Orwellianly-titled "Dignity Battalions," but none were heard +ridiculing the invasion's code-name: "Operation Just Cause." The day +after the invasion, "NBC Nightly News" offered its own case study in +Orwellian Newspeak: While one correspondent referred to the US +military occupiers as engaging in "peacekeeping chores," another +correspondent on the same show referred to Latin American diplomats at +the OAS condemning the US as a "lynch mob." After the Soviet Union +criticized the invasion as "gunboat diplomacy" (as had many other +countries), Dan Rather dismissed it as "old-line, hard-line talk from +Moscow" ("CBS Evening News," 12/20/89). +Journalism gave way to state propaganda when a "CNN" correspondent +dutifully reported on the day of the invasion: "US troops have taken +detainees but we are not calling them 'prisoners of war' because the +US has not declared war." (That kind of obedient reporter probably +still refers to the Vietnam "conflict.") Similarly, on Day 1, many +networks couldn't bring themselves to call the invasion an invasion +until they got the green light from Washington: instead, it was +referred to variously as a military action, intervention, operation, +expedition, affair, insertion.

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__________________________________________________________________ +"NORIEGA OFFERED HIS USUAL DAMP LIMP +HANDSHAKE TO BUSH'S FIRM GRIP." +| For sheer propaganda, high marks go to "Newsweek"'s Noriega +cover story (1/15/90) featuring excerpts from a book about +Noriega by "Wall Street Journal" reporter Frederick Kempe. +The book and its author were much touted by the media during +the invasion. Some highlights: +HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ELLIOTT ABRAMS. "By the summer of +1985, the State Department's new Assistant Secretary of State +for Latin American Affairs, Elliott Abrams, began to believe +that Noriega's help for the Contras was overestimated and his +general harm to democracy and human rights was underestimated. +Abrams had come out of State's human rights office..." +Abrams hardly "came out" of a human rights office. He was +put there to disseminate anti-Nicaragua war propaganda as +human rights information, an operation repeatedly exposed and +denounced by Americas Watch. Abrams "human rights" work +included attacks on the church-based Sanctuary movement, which +offered refuge to Central Americans fleeing death squads. +A careful reading of the "Newsweek" article leaves the +sneaking suspicion that much of the material was provided by +Abrams himself. "[Abrams] argued at several interagency +meetings that backing the Contras could only be one part of +an overall strategy of promoting democracy in the region. He +wanted more pressure on Panama to democratize--without +endangering the good relationship that existed." +FIRM, REFINED BRAHMIN VS. LIMP, MESTIZO BASTARD. "The two +intelligence chiefs contrasted in style and substance: Bush +was lanky and refined, raised by a Brahmin New England family. +He towered over the five-foot five-inch Noriega. Noriega was +mean-streets Mestizo, the bastard son of his father's +domestic. Noriega offered his usual damp, limp handshake to +Bush's firm grip. They were clearly uncomfortable with each +other." Aside from the racism of the piece, the line about +the two being uncomfortable with each other is significant- +-primarily to protect Bush. A second later: "Only in the +twisted mind of Manuel Antonio Noriega could that 1976 +luncheon with George Bush be construed as the beginning of a +beautiful friendship." Though it lasted for more than ten +years. +BUT IT WAS ALL CASEY'S FAULT. George Bush wasn't +responsible for the ongoing ties to Noriega. The guy to +blame, according to Kempe, was--as usual--the CIA director +William Casey. Casey met often with Noriega to discuss aid +to the contras. +AND CASTRO'S, OF COURSE. Kempe makes a herculean effort +with scant evidence to implicate Fidel Castro in all the drug +dealing. But as other journalists have pointed out, Castro's +main need for Noriega and Panama was as a haven for Cuban +front companies to engage in legitimate trade with Western +countries in circumvention of the US economic blockade ("Miami +Herald," 12/28/89). An editorial in Kempe's "Wall Street +Journal" (1/8/90) called on the US to cut a deal with Noriega +if he'd implicate Castro. +A WALK ON THE HOMOPHOBIC SIDE. Perhaps aimed at bolstering +the anti-gay vote in support of the invasion, "Newsweek" ran +a sidebar from Kempe's book under the headline, "A Walk on +the Bisexual Side": "The macho officer [Noriega], proficient +in judo and parachuting, would perfume himself heavily on off +hours and wear yellow jump suits with yellow shoes, travel +the world with a male pal with whom he was widely rumored to +be having a torrid affair, and surround himself with openly +gay ambassadors and advisers...Armchair psychiatrists credit +Noriega's sexual confusion to his gay brother, Luis Carlos +Noriega, the only person Noriega ever trusted completely." +|__________________________________________________________________|

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Where Did Our Love Go?

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Many reporters uncritically promoted White House explanations for its +break-up with Noriega. Clifford Krauss reported ("NY Times," 1/21/90) +that Noriega "began as a CIA asset but fell afoul of Washington over +his involvement in drug and arms trafficking." "ABC"'s Peter Jennings +told viewers on the day of the invasion, "Let's remember that the +United States was very close to Mr. Noriega before the whole question +of drugs came up." Actually, Noriega's drug links were asserted by US +intelligence as early as 1972. In 1976, after US espionage officials +proposed that Noriega be dumped because of drugs and double-dealing, +then-CIA director George Bush made sure the relationship continued +("S.F. Examiner," 1/5/90; "New Yorker," 1/8/90). US intelligence +overlooked the drug issue year after year as long as Noriega was an +eager ally in US espionage and covert operations, especially those +targeted against Nicaragua. +Peter Jennings' claim that the US broke with Noriega after the +"question of drugs came up" turns reality upside down. Noriega's +involvement in drug trafficking was purportedly heaviest in the early +1980s when his relationship with the US was especially close. By +1986, when the Noriega/US relationship began to fray, experts agree +that Noriega had already drastically curtailed his drug links. The +two drug-related indictments against Noriega in Florida cover +activities from 1981 through March 1986 ("Analysts Challenge View of +Noriega as Drug Lord," "Washington Post," 1/7/90).

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__________________________________________________________________ +Objective Journalists of State Propagandists? +| * "one of the more odious creatures with whom the United +States has had a relationship."--Peter Jennings ("ABC," +12/20/89) +| * "At the top of the list of the world's drug thieves and +scums."--Dan Rather ("CBS," 12/20/89) +| * Q: "Do we bring him here and put him on trial...or do we +just neutralize him in some way?"--John Chancellor +A: "I think you bring him here and you make it a +showcase trial in the war on drugs and justice prevails."- +-Tom Brokaw ("NBC," 12/20/89) +| *"We lose numbers like that in large training exercises."- +-John Chancellor, commenting approvingly upon hearing only +nine US soldiers had died ("NBC," 12/20/89) +| * "Noriega's reputation as a brutal drug-dealing bully who +reveled in his public contempt for the United States all +but begged for strong retribution."--Ted Koppel ("ABC +Nightline," 12/20/89) +| * "Noriega asked for this. President Bush listed all the +things Noriega had done to force him to take this action. +Why does Noriega do these things?"--"CNN" anchor Ralph +Wenge, interviewing a former US military commander +(12/21/89) +| * "Noriega seemed almost superhuman in his ability to +slither away before we got him."--Anchor Bill Beutel +("WABC-TV," New York, 1/3/90) +| * "[George Bush has completed] a Presidential initiation +rite [joining] American leaders who since World War II have +felt a need to demonstrate their willingness to shed blood +to protect or advance what they construe as the national +interest...Panama has shown him as a man capable of bold +action."--R.W. Apple ("New York Times," front page news +analysis, 12/21/89) +|__________________________________________________________________|

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When, as vice president, Bush met with Noriega in Panama in December +1983, besides discussing Nicaragua, Bush allegedly raised questions +about drug money laundering. According to author Kevin Buckley, +Noriega told top aide Jose Blandon that he'd picked up the following +message from the Bush meeting: "The United States wanted help for the +contras so badly that if he even promised it, the US government would +turn a blind eye to money-laundering and setbacks to democracy in +Panama." In 1985 and '86, Noriega met several times with Oliver North +to discuss the assistance Noriega was providing to the contras, such +as training contras at Panamanian Defense Force bases ("Noriega could +give some interesting answers," Kevin Buckley, "St. Petersburg Times," +1/3/90). Noriega didn't fall from grace until he stopped being a +"team player" in the US war against Nicaragua. +Democracy had as little to do with the break-up as drugs. If +Noriega believed Bush had given his strongarm rule a green light in +1983, confirmation came the next year when Noriega's troops seized +ballot boxes and blatantly rigged Panama's presidential election. +Noriega's candidate, Nicolas Ardito Barletta, was also "our" +candidate--an economist who had been a student and assistant to former +University of Chicago professor George Shultz. Though loudly +protested by Panamanians, the fraud that put Ardito Barletta in power +was cheered by the US Embassy. Secretary of State Shultz attended his +inauguration. (See "The Press on Panama," "Extra!", Mar/Apr 88; +Richard Reeves, "San Francisco Chronicle," 12/25/89) +As the Noriega case progresses toward trial, the media's treatment +of key witnesses against the General may offer a case study in bias. +Several of the witnesses have already testified on these matters in a +very public forum--hearings before Senator John Kerry's Foreign +Affairs Subcommittee on Narcotics. At that time, February 1988, they +fingered Nicaraguan contras as cocaine cohorts of Noriega operating +under the umbrella of the CIA and Ollie North. The hearings were +ignored or distorted by national media outlets, with Reagan/Bush +officials and CIA dismissing the witnesses as drug trafficking felons. +("Extra!," Mar/Apr 88; Warren Hinckle, "S.F. Examiner," 1/11/90). In +a predictable turnaround, as soon as Noriega was apprehended, TV news +brought forth experts to explain that "when one prosecutes someone +like Noriega for drug dealing, witnesses will of necessity be drug +dealers."

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__________________________________________________________________ +Reporters Rallying Round The Flag +| Journalists justified their role as distributors of +government handouts in different ways. Asked on Day 1 why US +opponents of the invasion were virtually invisible on-the-air, +a "CBS" producer (who declined to give her name) told +"Extra!": "When American troops are involved and taking +losses, this is not the time to be running critical +commentary. The American public will be rallying around the +flag." +Some TV reporters claimed they were forced to rely on +official US versions because they had nothing else. As +"Newsday" reported Jan. 14, "Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning combat journalist, was reduced to reporting on +Noriega's alleged pornography collection. 'They [the +Pentagon] got away with it again,' Arnett said of the initial +press blackout." +Arnett, who covered the invasion for "CNN," was complaining +that Pentagon officials failed to provide photo opportunities +of wounded soldiers, suffering civilians and general bang-bang. Naturally the Pentagon did everything possible to +prevent such shots, keeping with its belief that the Vietnam +War was lost in American living rooms. "Two things that +people should not watch are the making of sausage and the +making of war," "Newsday" (1/4/90) quoted an Air Force doctor +as saying. "All that front-page blood and gore hurts the +military." +Experienced combat journalists like Arnett should know that +the Pentagon's aim is to manipulate the pictures and stories +that get out. "If you just looked at television, the most +violent thing American troops did in Panama was play rock +music," political media consultant Robert Squier told +"Newsday." "They feel if they can control the pictures at the +outset, it doesn't make a damn what is said now or later." +Unhappiness with the Pentagon did not keep reporters from +promoting the US Army-approved image of Noriega as a comic +strip arch-villain. The Southern Command told reporters soon +after the invasion that 110 pounds of cocaine were found in +Noriega's so-called "witch house," and this played big on TV +news and the front-pages. When, a month later the "cocaine" +turned out to be tamales ("Washington Post," 1/23/90, page +A22), the government's deception was a footnote at best. The +initial headlines of Noriega as drug-crazed lunatic had served +their purpose: to convince the American people that he +represented a threat to the Canal. +|__________________________________________________________________|

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Provocations of Pretexts?

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The US media showed little curiosity about the Dec. 16 confrontation +that led to the death of a US Marine officer and the injury of another +when they tried to run a roadblock in front of the PDF headquarters. +The officers were supposedly "lost." In view of what is now known +about the intense pre-invasion preparations then underway ("NY Times," +12/24/89), is it possible the Marines were actually trying to track +Noriega's whereabouts? +The Panamanian version of the event was that the US soldiers, upon +being discovered, opened fire--injuring three civilians, including a +child--and then tried to run the roadblock. This version was largely +ignored by US journalists even after the shooting two days later of a +Panamanian corporal who "signaled a US serviceman to stop," according +to the administration. "The US serviceman felt threatened," the +administration claimed, after admitting that its earlier story that +the Panamanian had pulled his gun was false ("NYT," 12/19/89) +As for the claim that a US officer had been roughly interrogated and +his wife had been sexually threatened, the administration provided no +supporting evidence ("NYT," 12/19/89; "Newsday," 12/18/89). Since +the Marine's death and the interrogation were repeatedly invoked to +justify the invasion, the lack of press scrutiny of these claims is +stunning. +For months, US forces had been trying to provoke confrontations as a +pretext for an attack. In response to an Aug. 11 incident, Panamanian +Foreign Minister Jorge Ritter asked that a UN peacekeeping force be +dispatched to Panama to prevent such encounters. The US press largely +ignored his call ("El Diario/La Prensa," New York's Spanish-language +daily, 8/13/89).

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__________________________________________________________________________ +A Tale of Two Editions +| Fighting in Panama: The Home Front Fighting in Panama: The Home Front +___________________________________ __________________________________ +The President The President +------------- ------------- +| DOING THE INEVITABLE +------------ A SENSE OF INEVITABILITY +Bush Reportedly Felt That Noriega IN BUSH's DECISION TO ACT +'Was Thumbing His Nose at Him' +| If the news of the invasion wasn't favorable enough to the +administration, the "New York Times" sometimes fine-tuned it +between editions. Above are headlines over the same story in two +editions on Dec. 24--the earlier one (left) was apparently changed +because it implied that the invasion was an act of personal +vengeance by Bush. Another headline in the same early edition read, +"U.S. Drafted Invasion Plan Weeks Ago," accurately describing the +article's evidence that the invasion was scheduled before the +"provocations" that justified it ever occurred. The headline +changed to the more innocuous "U.S. Invasion: Many Weeks of +Rehearsals." +|__________________________________________________________________________|

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The "Declaration of War" That Never Was

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"When during the past few days [Noriega] declared war on the United +States and some of his followers then killed a US Marine, roughed up +another American serviceman, also threatening that man's wife, strong +public support for a reprisal was all but guaranteed," Ted Koppel told +his "Nightline" audience Dec. 20. +Noriega never "declared war on the United States." The original +"Reuters" dispatches, published on the inside pages of the "New York +Times" (12/17-18/89), buried the supposed "declaration" in articles +dealing with other matters. In the Dec. 17 article headlined, +"Opposition Leader in Panama Rejects a Peace Offer from Noriega," +"Reuters" quoted the general as saying that he would judiciously use +new powers granted to him by the Panamanian parliament and that "the +North American scheme, through constant psychological and military +harassment, has created a state of war in Panama." This statement of +fact aroused little excitement at the White House, which called the +parliament's move "a hollow step." +The day after the invasion, "Los Angeles Times" Pentagon +correspondent Melissa Healey told a call-in talk show audience on "C-SPAN" that Noriega had "declared war" on the United States. When a +caller asked why that hadn't been front page news, Healey explained +that the declaration of war was one of a series of "incremental +escalations." When another caller pointed out that Panama had only +made a rhetorical statement that US economic and other measures had +created a state of war, the Pentagon correspondent confessed ignorance +of what had actually been said, and suggested that it was certainly +worth investigating. +The incident symbolizes media performance on the invasion--dispense +official information as gospel first, worry about the truth of that +information later. It's just what the White House was counting on +from the media. The Bush team set out to control television and front +page news in the first days knowing that exposes of official deception +(such as Noriega's 110 pounds of "cocaine" that turned out to be +tamales) would not appear until weeks later buried on inside pages of +newspapers. Rulers do not require the total suppression of news. As +Napoleon Bonaparte once said: It's sufficient to delay the news until +it no longer matters. +Besides uncritically dispensing huge quantities of official news and +views, the TV networks had another passion during the first days of +the invasion: polling their public. It was an insular process, with +predictable results. A "Toronto Globe and Mail" news story summarized +it (12/22/89): "Hardly a voice of objection is being heard within the +United States about the Panama invasion, at least from those deemed as +official sources and thus likely to be seen on television or read in +the papers. Not surprisingly, given the media coverage, a television +poll taken yesterday by one network ("CNN") indicated that nine of +ten viewers approved of the invasion."

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__________________________________________________________________ +I'm not Rappaport...I'm Valdez +| "Extra!" usually complains about media outlets relying on +the same sources again and again, but "KTTV-TV" in Los Angeles +may have gone too far in the opposite direction. +Seeking a source to comment on the failed October 1989 coup +against Manuel Noriega, the station called what they thought +was the Panamanian consulate. In fact, it was the home of +Kurt Rappaport, a 22-year old prankster. Rappaport, +pretending to be an anti-Noriega Panamanian diplomat, "Arturo +Valdez," was invited to be interviewed, and showed up at the +studio sporting a false moustache. +A sound bite from the 10-15 minute "Valdez" interview was +broadcast on "KTTV"'s evening news, phony Spanish accent and +all. ("LA Times," 10/7/89) But Rappaport was not treated +any differently than most TV experts: "I get asked tougher +questions when I go to cash a check," he told the "National +Enquirer." +|__________________________________________________________________|

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__________________________________________________________________ +Swallowing Hokum in Central America +| During the height of the civil rights movement, Southern +authorities frequently reacted to the bombing of a black +church or a civil rights leader's home by blaming the act on +the Movement: "The Negroes did it themselves. It's a stunt +to win sympathy." While the innuendo that Martin Luther King, +Jr. would have fire-bombed his own home while his children +slept was prominently and uncritically reported in Southern +dailies, journalists from national media ignored such hokum or +reported it as a way of highlighting how depraved or dishonest +the authorities were. +Ironically, the same absurd scenarios dismissed by +journalists when uttered by segregationists about Southern +blacks are treated as entirely credible when uttered by US +officials about Central Americans. +EXECUTION OF PRIESTS BY SALVADORAN SOLDIERS, Nov. 16, 1989: +Journalists knew instantly that the US-equipped Salvadoran +army, with a history of execution-style slayings, had control +of the Jesuit university grounds and that the martyred priests +had been outspoken advocates of seating the FMLN guerrillas at +the negotiating table. Yet when US officials played dumb, +pretending not to know whether the killers were "far rightists +or leftists," and when Salvadoran authorities asserted that +the FMLN had murdered their advocates, these statements +received credible coverage in some media. The fog was still +thick a month later when "Newsweek" reported (12/25/89) that +the priests had been murdered "by a presumed rightist death +squad." Through such phrases, centrist media obscure the fact +that the "rightist death squads" are an integral part of +Salvador's military structure. (See Amnesty International's +1988 report, "El Salvador 'Death Squads'--A Government +Strategy.") +MURDER OF NUNS BY NICARAGUAN CONTRAS, Jan. 1, 1990: Days +after the US relied largely on the death of a single US +citizen to justify its invasion of Panama, two nuns--one an +American--were killed when their pickup truck was ambushed in +northeastern Nicaragua. The attack occurred in an area in +which the contras--who have killed dozens of civilians in +recent months--were known to freely roam. Initial media +coverage gave play to Nicaragua's charges that the contras +were responsible and to contra claims that the Sandinistas had +impersonated contras killing the nuns. +By Day 2, the murders were not worthy of mention on "CBS" +and "ABC" nightly newscasts. By then Mexican and Latin +American press agencies had found two eye-witnesses who +identified the contras as the killers of the nuns. The story +took two weeks to break in the US and when it did, the +"Washington Post" broke it in a news story that read like a +White House-sanctioned editorial (1/14/90): "There was little +doubt that it was contra rebels who killed them. But there is +also little doubt that the US-backed guerrillas did not mean +to do it." "The Post" proceeded with an unsourced claim +reminiscent of the innuendo once aimed at Martin Luther King: +"In Managua, the capital, some suspected immediately after the +attack that the Sandinistas might have staged it to appear to +be a contra ambush. After all, only the Sandinistas...could +benefit from such an atrocity." +By giving credence to claims which obscure the violence +caused by US-backed forces in Central America, some in the +national media seem to be impersonating the Southern cracker +reporters of 30 years ago. +|__________________________________________________________________| +

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+************************* +POSTSCRIPT: July 4, 1990 +************************* + +As an indication of the on-going intent to obfuscate the true scope and impact +of US military activities in and results of the invasion, the following item +appeared in the July 4 issue of the "San Francisco Bay Guardian": +- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +U.S. SOLDIERS HARASS U.S. FILM CREW IN PANAMA

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by Jim Crogan +-------------

+ +

IN A PANAMANIAN refugee camp last month, soldiers from the U.S. +Southern Command confronted a U.S. film crew that was interviewing +Panamanian refugees. The soldiers attempted to stop the interviews +and confiscate the videotape and equipment. An estimated 500 +residents of the camp surrounded and protected the crew and hid its +taped footage. +The crew, from Ronin Films (aka the Santa Monica-based Empowerment +Project) returned to Los Angeles this week. +Barbara Trent, EP's co-director and the director and co-producer of +the Panama film, told the Bay Guardian her crew's confrontation with +Southern Command military police and members of the U.S. Army Criminal +Investigations Division [CID] took place at the Allbrook Field +Displaced Persons Camp, a civilian war refugee facility administered +jointly by the Panamanian Red Cross and the Panamanian government's +Office of Disaster Assistance. +"The camp was exclusively a Panamanian facility, and we had +permission to be there from Panamanian disaster authorities, the Red +Cross and the council set up by the refugees to govern the camp, so I +didn't understand why SouthCom people were even there," said Trent. +"The refugees saved the day for us," she added. "They got between us +and the military, surrounded us and eventually walked us over to the +office used by the Disaster Assistance people. They even hid our +tapes. +"The people wanted us there," Trent continued, "because they +desperately wanted to tell the world about the losses they suffered +during the invasion, and the camp conditions they've been forced to +live under for the last six months." +During the incident, which she said her crew captured on film, the +CID people refused to explain to her or the Panamanian officials why +or on whose authority they were trying to stop the filming. +Eventually, after a series of negotiations between the Panamanians and +representatives from SouthCom, the EP crew finished its interviews and +left the camp. +Lt. Col. Robert Donley, deputy director of public affairs for +SouthCom, said the MP's actions were "definitely wrong. They are +there only to assist the Panamanians and had no authority to +intervene." +Asked why Army CID officials were participating in trying to stop +the EP crew from filming, Donley said, "That's a good question. I +really don't know and haven't been able to find out why." +Gary Meyer, co-director of EP and co-producer of the film, said the +crew also brought back several interviews that apparently describe the +U.S. use of laser weapons during last December's invasion. One +Panamanian said he saw "a bright red light, which made a distinctive +sound that he repeated for us on camera, and was then followed by an +explosion," Meyer said. Another family said they had an intense white +light come through their apartment window and explode whatever object +it hit." +Trent added that several people said they had seen "a Panamanian +soldier killed by a laser beam." +Trent reported that she had questioned General Maxwell Thurmond, +head of SouthCom, about the reports that laser weapons were used. "He +responded by saying that was crap, and that lasers were only used by +the U.S. Air Force to pinpoint targets," Trent recalled. + +

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+PAPERS PLEASE!!!!

+ +

So here we go again!!! Remember not to long ago when some one talked about +SS#'s and what a pain in the ass the establishment is for using them... +Well kids get ready for this!!!! So, some of you still think you can move +around uninhibited? Let me tell you a tale, A tale of the true nature of the +establishment. For all intensive purposes lets just call myself Joe Jones. +I've lived in MA. all my life.(or for that matter, most of it..)

+ +

Are you ready kiddies... this is a tale of konspiracy by big bro... (if youve seen the +movie "Brazil" youll see how all this shit happened...)

+ +

1989...

+ +

SALEM N.H. DMV

+ +

ME: Hi, Im here to get my drivers license changed from MA. to NH.... +Clerk: (2 state troopers next to him...) Yes sir do you have you're PAPERS.. +ME: Yes I do, here they are. As I watched him type on his anallyretentive crt.

+ +

I saw a most disturbing, puzzling look on his face... a glance to the S.S. +men brought them over to his screen... (check this shit out!!!) I looked +at the little man and he got up from the counter and left. The KGB +(Troopers) walked toward me... (I didnt like the looks of this..)

+ +

TROOPERS: "JOEY JONES WOULD YOU PLEASE PUT YOURE HANDS BEHIND YOURE BACK."

+ +

ME: WHAT!!!

+ +

TROOPERS: "Mr. jones you are being placed under arrest for assault on a +police officer in the state of N.J...." +ME: "But I've never been to N.J.." +TROOPERS: "well theres a warrant for you're arrest..."

+ +

AT THE INERMERMENT CAMP...

+ +

GUARD: "Joey please fill this paperwork out." +ME: "Excuse me my name is JOE not joey, and I've never been to N.J. you've +got the wrong guy... " +GUARD: "Well you are joe Jones, correct? The HAL9000 says theres a warrant +for you're arrest." +ME: "Well I'm telling you that I'm not this guy." +GUARD: "Joe, give me your SS# and we'll see..."

+ +

WHILE WAITING IN MY CELL...

+ +

GUARD: "Joe, sorry we didnt know that joey is 2" shorter and has different +color eyes.. you see Mr.Jones, NJ doesnt use SS#'s only birth dates and +discriptions... were terrible sorry that you had to spend the night here."

+ +

ME: "Thats ok IT could happen to any one...(but it happened to me!!!)"

+ +

DETERMINED NOT TO LET THIS HAPPEN AGIAN... +Well I got the PAPERS in the mail today from NJ and they state +Mr. joe jones SS# 010-00-0110 has never had any outstanding criminal +or civil charges brought against him in the great state of NJ.

+ +

TWO YEARS LATER IN MAINE.

+ +

TROOPER: "Sir the reason I stopped you was because of your speeding.. may I +see you're PAPERS PLEASE."

+ +

As he marched back to his chariot of facism I thought, Shit I am gonna get +busted for joey again worst I didn't have the PAPERS NJ sent me.

+ +

Guess What.. Kuffed & stuffed again, on my bloody vacation. +Two days later with the aid of several friends, fed express & the great +state of NJ. i once again am a free man..

+ +

1993 MASS DMV...

+ +

Handed the clerck my PAPERS.. same shit only this time I have my PAPERS +FROM NJ.... I MISS INTERMENT CAMP BY THE SKIN OF MY TEETH!!!

+ +

1993

+ +

on my way home (forgot my PAPERS!!!!) Stopped by the SS(TROOPERS)... kuffed & +stuffed again in the can two days... So remember Kids, always carry you're +PAPERS when you walk in this free society.. You dont belive this??? +Ask Mr. oblivion.. he knows about me...

+ +

Youre parinoid friend +IGNATOUS.......... +

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From: NLNS +Subject: Project Censored

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By Carl Jensen,Ph.D. +Director of "Project Censored" +Sonoma State University +Rohnert Park, California

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What is Project Censored?

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The basic premise of Project Censored is that the mass media have failed +to provide the public with all the information it needs to succeed and +prosper as a society.

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While the United States may have a free press and the most sophisti-cated communications system in the world, unfortunately a free press and +high technology do not guarantee a well-informed society.

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The problem is not the quantity of information, which sometimes reaches +an overload level, but the quality of information. For example, when +something starts to go wrong in your personal life, there generally are +some warning signals that alert you to the problem. If you are a +rational person, you normally would act upon that information in an +effort to solve the problem.

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So too, it is with a society. When a problem arises, there should be a +warning signal -- information-- that alerts the citizens that something +is wrong which needs attention and resolution. An aware and informed +populace could then influence its leaders to act upon that information +in an effort to solve the problem. This, unfortunately, is not the case +in the United States as we are becoming abundantly aware during these +difficult times.

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I would suggest that a systematic omission of news about significant +issues in our major news media has led to a dangerously distorted +picture of America in the late 20th Century. This false picture of +society, while perhaps reassuring to, or even desired by, an elite group +in our society, represents a festering sore that must be treated if we +are to survive as a nation.

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To understand how this situation has come about in a society with a free +press that mass produces information, we must understand how the flow +of information is controlled.

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In totalitarian societies, we find outright, overt censorship. The +state, through its bureaucracy, determines what can or cannot be said or +printed and maintains its control of the information flow through a +monopoly on the means of production of the information industry. The +massive coverup of the Chernobyl disaster by Communist leaders is a +classic example of this form of censorship. In late 1991, a +parliamentary commission, chaired by Volodymyr Yavorivsky, revealed +that in April 1986 Soviet authorities reacted to the Chernobyl nuclear +power accident with "a total lie, falsehoods, coverup and concealment" +which led to thousands of deaths.

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In societies perceived as free, we find the information output deter-mined by economic pressures to produce corporate profits, by a system-atic distribution of "punishment and reward" to workers in the media, +and by a less obvious, but nonetheless effective, control of the means +of production of the information industry. The latter is +well-documented in Ben Bagdikian's book "The Media Monopoly."

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In both cases, the efforts to manipulate and control the flow of +information are successful -- whether by overt censorship or by covert +censorship. The crucial difference is that the citizens in a +totalitarian society are aware that their information is controlled +and manipulated and they conduct their lives with that knowledge.

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However, the citizens of a free society, such as the United States, want +to believe the mass media provide them with a fair, objective, and +uncensored report of what is happening in the world around them and thus +are lulled into a false sense of being well-informed.

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Project Censored Launched

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In 1976, concerned about increasing social problems and public apa-thy, I launched a national research effort, called Project Censored, to +explore whether there really is a systematic omission of certain issues +in our national news media. My quest was specifically stimulated by +personal bewilderment over how the American people could elect Richard +Nixon by a landslide after Watergate, one of the most sensational +political crimes of the century.

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Project Censored is now an international media research project in its +16th year. By exploring and publicizing stories on important issues +that have been overlooked or underreported by the news media, the +project seeks to stimulate journalists and editors to provide more mass +media coverage of those issues. It also hopes to encourage the general +public to seek out and demand more information on those issues.

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Since its start, the research project has generated queries for more +information about the project as well as about individual stories from +journalists, scholars, and concerned people throughout the world. It +has been described variously as a tip sheet for investigative television +programs like "60 Minutes" and " 20/20,' ' as a distant early warning +system for society's problems, and even as a "moral force" in American +media. In 1988, the national Association for Education in Journalism +and Mass Communication cited the project for "providing a new model for +media criticism for journalism education." Project Censored was the +model for Bay Area Censored, a regional research effort that calls +attention to the most important San Francisco Bay Area stories that the +local media under-report or ignore. Bay Area Censored, now in its third +year, is sponsored by the Media Alliance, a San Francisco-based +organization of journalists.

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The Project director has been cited by the Giraffe Project for "sticking +his neck out for the common good; " been honored with the Media Alli-ance Meritorious Achievement Award in the "Unimpeachable of the annual +Freedom of Information Award from the Society of Professional +Journalists, in Los Angeles; and was named the "Outstanding Journalism +Teacher of 1991" at the four-year college level by the California +Newspaper Publishers Association.

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Despite its growing impact and recognition, the Project has largely been +ignored by the major news media in the United States, which, +incidentally, are not known for their inclination to accept and evaluate +criticism. Supporters of Project Censored regularly nominate the pro-ject itself as a top "censored' ' story of the year. This may be +changing, however. The Project's first major national media recognition +occurred in February, 1991,when it was the subject of an hour-long +documentary on PBS-TV, hosted by Bill Moyers.

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Information about securing a copy of the videotape, titled "Moyers: +Project Censored," is available from Public Affairs Television, 356 West +58th St., New York, NY 10019, (212/560-6961).

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The Censored Research Process

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Researchers in the censorship seminar I teach at Sonoma State University +have reviewed thousands of stories over the past 16 years that many +Americans have not seen or heard about. The stories are nominated +annually by journalists, scholars, librarians, and the general public +from throughout the United States and abroad.

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We then select the top 25 stories according to a number of criteria in-cluding the amount of coverage the story received, the importance of the +issue, the reliability of the source, and the potential impact the story +may have. Next, the top 25 "censored" stories are submitted in synopsis +form to a panel of judges who select the top ten stories of the year.

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A review of the project to date reveals that the major news media do +systematically overlook, ignore, or distort certain subjects. The most +under-reported category of ignored subjects deals with political or gov-ernmental issues ranging from regulatory agencies to foreign +political/ military involvement to the presidency. The second leading +category of stories deals with business and economic issues or what some +call "corporate crime. " The third-ranked subject area concerns dangers +to an individual's health, whether from poisonous pesticides or +pharmaceutical malfeasance or low-level radiation. Other leading +subjects often under covered by the mainstream press include civil and +human rights, the military, and the environment.

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Why Are Some Issues Overlooked?

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One of the questions often asked is why doesn't the press cover the +issues raised by Project Censored. The failure of the news media to +cover critical and sometimes controversial issues consistently and in +depth is not, as some say, a conspiracy on the part of the media elite. +News is too diverse, fast-breaking, and unpredictable to be controlled +by some sinister conservative eastern establishment media cabal.

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However, there are a variety of factors operating that, when combined, +lead to the systematic failure of the news media to fully inform the +public. While it is not an overt form of censorship, such as the kind +we observe in some other societies, it is nonetheless real and often +equally dangerous.

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The media's explanations for censorship are plentiful. Sometimes a +source for a story isn't considered to be reliable; other times the +story doesn't have an easily identifiable "beginning, middle, and end;" +some stories are considered to be "too complex" for the general public; +on occasion stories are ignored because they haven't been "blessed" by +The New York Times or The Washington Post. Reporters and editors at +most of the other 1650 daily newspapers know their news judgment isn't +going to be challenged when they produce the-leader" stories, a practice +which leads to the "pack" or "herd" phenomenon in journalism.

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Another major factor contributing to media self-censorship is that the +story is considered potentially libelous. There is no question that +long and costly jury trials, and sometimes large judgments against the +media, have produced a massive chilling effect on the press and replaced +copy editors with copy attorneys.

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Nonetheless, the bottom line explanation for much of the censorship +found in the mainstream media is the media's own bottom line. Corpo-rate media perceive their primary responsibility is to maximize profits, +not, as some would have it, to inform the public. Many of the stories +cited by Project Censored are not in the best financial interests of +publishers, owners, stockholders, or advertisers. Equally important, +investigative journalism is more expensive than the traditional public +stenographers school of journalism. And, of course, there is always the +"don't rock the boat" mentality which pervades corporate media +boardrooms.

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Jonathan Alter, media columnist for Newsweek, suggests an additional +reason for the lack of coverage given some issues. According to Alter, +some stories are not covered because they do not fit conventional +definitions of news. This, of course, is why I suggest it is time for +journalism to rethink its traditional definitions of news. In a time of +pending economic doom, nuclear terrorism, and environmental disaster, +it is not news when a man bites a dog.

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Real news is not repetitive, sensationalistic coverage of +non-important events such as the William Kennedy Smith Palm Beach trial +which attracted so much media attention in 1991.

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By contrast, real news is objective and reliable information about +important events happening in a society. And I suggest that the +widespread dissemination of such information will help people become +better informed and that a better informed public will elect +politicians who are more responsive to people's needs.

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A Smoking Gun! People Magazine Censors Bohemian Grove Story

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Critics of Project Censored, who deny there is such a thing as media +self-censorship, often ask for "smoking gun" examples. Then, when +provided with such examples, they too often merely ignore them. None-theless, here's another example, excerpted from an article I wrote for +Fine Line, The Newsletter On Journalism Ethics, "Project Censored, +Sins of Omission and The Hardest 'W' of all -- Why," November/ December +1991 .

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Perhaps the most blatant recent example of media self-censorship, and +media denial, is an incident which occurred during the summer of 1991. +The Bohemian Grove encampment, which draws the cream of America's male +power elite -- including press moguls -- to northern California each +year, is one of the media's best known, best kept secrets.

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Dirk Mathison, San Francisco bureau chief for People Magazine at the +time, managed to surreptitiously infiltrate the encampment in search of +a good story. And he got it. He recorded a variety of newsworthy +items, including a previously unpublicized Gulf War Iraqi casualty +count of 200000 as reported to the Bohemian Club members by former +Navy Secretary John Lehman. Unfortunately, Mathison was spotted by a +Time Inc. executive and quietly ordered to leave.

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The article, which Mathison said was scheduled to run for four pages, +was suddenly killed. When I asked Lanny Jones, managing editor of +People Magazine, whether the fact that Time Inc. owns People had +anything to do with killing the story, he said no. Since his magazine +had obtained the story by illegal trespass, he said, running it would +have been unethical.

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Think about it. People Magazine -- pleading ethics to explain why it +spiked a story the American people should hear!

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When I took exception to Jones' response, he asked me what I would have +done without violating the publication's guidelines. I said, at the +very least, I'd have Mathison write a straight news article describing +exactly what happened -- how he gained access to the Bohemian Grove, +what he heard there, and why he was told to leave. Jones said it was a +good idea and he'd think about it. That was August 6, 1991.

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The People Magazine/Bohemian Grove story of self-censorship is a classic +example of the dangers Ben Bagdikian warns about in Media Monopoly. If +People Magazine were not part of the Time Inc. media empire, it is +doubtful that the story would have been spiked.

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Would It Make Any Difference?

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Finally, there is yet another question that is often asked about the +project. Would it really make any difference if the press were to +provide more coverage for the kinds of stories cited by Project +Censored?

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The answer is very simple: yes.

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First, there is the issue of a lack of public interest. Critics of +Project Censored say that the media give the public what it wants, i.e. +"junk food news," because the people are not interested in reading about +the issues raised by Project Censored. We counter that by saying, +Unfortunately, unaware of alternatives, the people will read or watch +what the mass media produce. However, we suggest that it is the media's +responsibility, as watchdogs of society, to explore, compile, and +present information people should know about in a way that will attract +their attention and be relevant to their everyday lives. And, when the +media do this, the people will read and respond to the issues raised.

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An example of what the press can do when it takes its responsibilities +seriously is provided by one of 1991's top 25 stories -- "Voodoo +Economics: The Untold Story" (#3). Authors Donald Barlett and James +Steele, and their newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, invested the +time, energy, and money to produce an extraordinarily informative series +of articles on a very complex and normally uninteresting subject -- the +economy. Within hours of the first installment of the series, the +Inquirer started to receive requests for reprints. Altogether the +newspaper distributed more than 225000 free reprints. One reader +wanted 535 copies -- one to distribute to each member of Congress.

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There is, indeed, a genuine desire on the part of people to know more +about issues that affect them. But then, the next question is, would it +make any difference if the people were better informed?

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Hunger in Africa was consistently nominated as a "censored" subject +during the early 1980s. When I would ask journalists why they did not +cover the tragedy unfolding there, they would say: " It is not news, " +or, "Everyone already knows about starving Africans," or "Nothing can be +done about it anyway.''

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Early in 1984, an ABC-TV News correspondent in Rome came upon +information that led him to believe that millions of lives were being +threatened by drought and famine in Africa. He asked the home office in +New York for permission to take his crew to Africa to get the story. +The answer was no.

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(There's an ironic twist to this story. I subsequently discovered who +it was at ABC that refused to let the network's TV crew go to Africa in +1984. It was Rick Kaplan, who later became executive producer of Ted +Koppel's "Nightline." And, in mid-1986, it was the same Rick Kaplan +who killed a two-part "Nightline" series on Project Censored which was +going to explore whether the news media ever overlook, undercover, or +censor important stories.)

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ABC-TV News was not the only, nor even the first, television network to +reject the tragic story of starving children in Ethiopia. In October, +1983, David Kline, a free-lance journalist and news producer in San +Francisco, shot film on assignment for CBS showing emaciated adults and +some children near death. According to a Columbia Journalism Review +article, one of the children in Kline's footage was so thin that its +heart could be seen beating through the chest wall. Nonetheless, Kline +was told the footage was not strong enough. After being rejected by +CBS, Kline offered to do the story for NBC and PBS and they both turned +him down. Nor were the television networks the only media not +interested in a story about millions of people facing death. Kline also +offered the story to a number of magazines including Life, Playboy, The +New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, and Mother Jones, all of whom rejected +it. Only the Christian Science Monitor ran Kline's piece.

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Later, as we all now know, a BBC television crew, traveling through +Ethiopia, captured the stark reality of children starving to death. +People throughout the world saw the coverage and responded. +Overnight, it sparked a world-wide reaction that reportedly saved the +lives of seven million Ethiopians.

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Indeed, the media can make a difference.

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The press has the power to stimulate people to clean up the environ-ment; to prevent nuclear proliferation; to force crooked politicians +out of office; to reduce poverty; to provide quality health care for +all people; to create a truly equitable society; and, as we have seen, +to literally save the lives of millions of human beings.

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Project Censored Judges Of 1991

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One of the most difficult challenges of Project Censored is to select +the top ten "censored" stories from among the 25 top nominations. This +responsibility falls to our distinguished national panel of judges who +volunteer their efforts. Perhaps one of the greatest tributes to the +project is that some of our judges, identified with asterisks below, +have participated in Project Censored every year since selecting the +first group of "best censored stories" of 1976. We are indebted to the +following judges who selected the top ten "censored" stories of 1991.

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Dr. Donna Allen, founding editor of Media Report to Women;

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Ben Bagdikian,* Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Journalism, UC-Berkeley;

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Richard Barnet, Senior Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies;

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Noam Chomsky,* professor, Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT;

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Dr. George Gerbner, professor, Annenberg School of Communications, +University of Pennsylvania;

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Nicholas Johnson, * professor, College of Law, University of Iowa;

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Rhoda H. Karpatkin, executive director, Consumers Union;

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Charles L. Klotzer, editor and publisher, St. Louis Journalism +Review;

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Judith Krug, director, Office for Intellectual Freedom, American +Library Association;

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Frances Moore Lappe, co-founder and co-director, Institute for the Arts +of Democracy;

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William Lutz, professor, English, Rutgers University, and editor of The +Quarterly Review of Doublespeak;

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Robert C. Maynard, editor and publisher, Oakland Tribune;

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Jack L. Nelson, * professor, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers +University;

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Tom Peters, nationally syndicated columnist on excellence;

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Herbert 1. Schiller, Professor Emeritus of Communication, UC-San Diego;

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Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld,* president, D.C. Productions.

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The following pages provide a brief one page synopsis of each of the top +25 censored stories of 1991 and some additional background information +about the issue supplied by the author when available. If you are +interested in any of these issues, you are encouraged to go to the +original articles, or other sources, for more information. The synopsis +is merely a brief overview of the issue.

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From: New Liberation News Service nlns@igc.apc.org

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/* Written 11:38 am Mar 19, 1993 by newsdesk@igc.apc.org in igc:media.issues */ +/* ---------- "Project Censored" ---------- */ +From: News Desk newsdesk +Subject: Project Censored

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Events conspired against me but here at long last is the 1992 list +from Project Censored. Hopefully, it has not already been uploaded +by someone else...

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Brian Wilson +Sonoma State University

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NEWS FROM: PROJECT CENSORED +Sonoma State University +Rohnert Park, CA 94928

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For Immediate Release: # 106 +Contact: Mark Lowenthal +Project Censored: 707/664-2500

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(EDITOR'S NOTE: A NATIONAL PANEL OF MEDIA EXPERTS ANNUALLY SELECTS +THE TOP TEN UNDER-REPORTED NEWS STORIES OF THE YEAR.)

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NEWS MEDIA SELL-OUT TOPS CENSORED NEWS LIST

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ROHNERT PARK -- The top censored story of 1992 revealed how +the nation's major news media traded their traditional adversarial +watchdog role for profits and deregulation during the Reagan/Bush era +according to a national panel of media experts. +Carl Jensen, professor of communication studies at Sonoma State +University, California, and founder/director of Project Censored, said the +media sell-out story, written by nationally acclaimed media critic Ben +Bagdikian, also explained why a number of other critical issues were +overlooked, under-reported, or censored in 1992. +Project Censored, a national media research effort now in its +17th year, locates stories about significant issues that are not +widely publicized by the national news media. Following are the top +ten under-reported stories of 1992: +1.THE GREAT MEDIA SELL-OUT. In the past decade, the Reagan/Bush +administrations gave print and electronic media owners in America +"permission" to create giant, monopolistic media empires. In return, the +media looked the other way while the administrations committed high crimes +and misdemeanors and then lied about it. +2.CORPORATE CRIME DWARFS STREET CRIME. While the press +continues to alarm the public with stories of street crime and +violence, corporate crime and violence grows at an accelerated pace safely +away from the media's spotlight. +3.CENSORED ELECTION YEAR ISSUES. While the candidates and the +media focused on alleged infidelities and family values, there were far more +important issues that were under-reported during the election year including: +Bush and Iran-contra; Bush's Team 100; Homelessness; Dan Quayle's Council on +Competitiveness; The Death Rate of Iraqi Children After the Gulf War; and +What Happened in Mena, Arkansas, while Bill Clinton was Governor. +4.WORLD'S LEADING MERCHANT OF DEATH. With the end of the cold +war, the hope was that U.S. arms production and sales would be reduced and +replaced with non-military production, but this has not happened. Instead, +the U.S. has now become the world's unchallenged weapons producer and +supplier. +5.IRAQGATE AND THE WATERGATE LAW. While some of the disturbing +facts behind the Iraqgate scandal have started to appear in the press, the +mainstream media all but ignored that story, as well as the quiet demise of +the Watergate Law, for more than a year. +6."WE ARE WINNING THE WAR ON DRUGS" WAS A LIE. When President +George Bush told the American people "We are winning the war on drugs" in +1992, he was lying; in fact, Americans are in greater danger from drugs today +than ever before in our history. +7.TRASHING FEDERAL REGULATIONS FOR PROFIT. While polls show +the general public firmly opposes deregulation when the purity of air, +water, food, drugs, and other necessities are involved, President Bush +proposed a total 210-day moratorium on new federal regulations during 1992 +and big business reciprocated with campaign contributions. +8.GOVERNMENT SECRECY MAKES A MOCKERY OF DEMOCRACY. America's +information control policy is out of control; in 1991, some 6500 U.S. +government employees classified 7107017 documents, an average of more than +19000 documents per day. +9.ADVERTISING PRESSURE CORRUPTS A FREE PRESS. The Center for +the Study of Commercialism invited 200 media outlets to a press conference to +reveal how advertisers suppress the news; not a single radio or television +station or network sent a reporter and only two newspapers bothered to +attend. +10.POST COLD WAR BLACK BUDGET IS PROSPERING. The end of the +cold war did not end the secretive cold war mentality of the Pentagon; today, +close to $100 million is being spent to fuel the national security machinery +of the Pentagon.

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15 OTHER "CENSORED" STORIES +Another 15 under-reported issues round out the list of the top 25 +"censored" stories of 1992: Solar Power Eclipsed by Oil, Gas, and Nuclear +Interests; What Happened to the EPA?; The Specter of Sterility; News Media +Lose the War with the Pentagon; Plutonium is Forever; America's Killing +Ground: Dumping on Native American Lands; Norplant: Birth Control or Social +Control?; The Censored News about Electric Automobiles; Poison in the +Pacific; Black Gold Conquistadors Invade Ecuador; How To Sell Pollution for +Profit; Clear-cutting the World's Rainforests; Censorship Through Bribery; +The No-Pest Shell Game; University of Arizona Desecrates Sacred Native +American Site.

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PROJECT CENSORED JUDGES +The panel of judges who selected the top ten under-reported +news stories were Dr. Donna Allen, founding editor of Media Report to +Women; Richard Barnet, Senior Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies; +Noam Chomsky, professor, Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts +Institute of Technology; Hugh Downs, host, ABC's "20/20;" Susan +Faludi, journalist/author; George Gerbner, professor of communication +and Dean Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania; Nicholas Johnson, +professor, College of Law, University of Iowa; +Rhoda H. Karpatkin, president, Consumers Union; Charles L. +Klotzer, editor and publisher, St. Louis Journalism Review; Judith +Krug, director, Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library +Association; William Lutz, professor, English, Rutgers University, and +editor of The Quarterly Review of Doublespeak; Jack L. Nelson, +professor, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University; Herbert +I. Schiller, Scholar in Residence, The American University; and Sheila +Rabb Weidenfeld, president, D.C. Productions. +The SSU PROJECT CENSORED researchers, who reviewed and +evaluated more than 700 "censored" nominations from throughout the +country, were Diane Albracht, Beverly Alexander, Peter Anderson, Judy +Bailey, Jeannie Blake, Serge Chasson, Amy S. Cohen, Amy Doyle, G. John +Faiola, Eric Fedel, Kimberly Kaido, Blake Kehler, Kenneth Lang, +Therese Lipsey, Jennifer Makowsky, Stephanie Niebel, Nicole Novak, +Valerie Quigley, Kimberly S. Anderson, Damon S. Van Hoesen, and Mark +Lowenthal, assistant director of Project Censored. +"CENSORED: The News That Didn't Make the News and Why," the +1993 Project Censored yearbook (ISBN 1-882680-00-6), published by +Shelburne Press, Chapel Hill, NC, will be available in bookstores +across the country in April or call 919/942-0220 for more information. +The book features the top 25 "censored" stories of 1992, a chronology +of censorship from 605 B.C. to 1993, and a "censored" resource guide +to alternative publications and groups. It includes an introduction by +Hugh Downs, host of ABC's "20/20," and cartoons by Tom Tomorrow, whose +series "This Modern World" is syndicated to over 60 newspapers. +"America's CENSORED Newsletter" (ISSN1061-4230), the first and only +publication to monitor news media censorship and self-censorship on a regular +basis in America, is published by Censored Publications. Based on Project +Censored, the Newsletter reports monthly on the issues the mainstream media +ignore, overlook, or censor. For an annual subscription, send $30 to +CENSORED Newsletter, PO Box 310, Cotati, CA 94931. +To receive a free pamphlet listing the top 25 stories, please send a +self-addressed, stamped envelope to PROJECT CENSORED, Sonoma State +University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928.

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INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA +CITED FOR EXPOSING "CENSORED" STORIES

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Following are the investigative journalists and media cited by Project +Censored for exposing the top ten issues overlooked or under-reported by the +national news media in 1992:

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1.THE GREAT MEDIA SELL-OUT. MOTHER JONES, May/June 1992, +"Journalism of Joy," by Ben Bagdikian. +2.CORPORATE CRIME. MULTINATIONAL MONITOR, December 1991, +"Corporate Crime & Violence in Review," by Russell Mokhiber. +3.CENSORED ELECTION YEAR ISSUES. COMMON CAUSE MAGAZINE, +April/May/June 1992, "George Bush's Ruling Class;" WASHINGTON POST, 1/9/92, +"A Profound Silence on Homelessness," by Mary McGrory; THE PROGRESSIVE, May +1992, "Deregulatory Creep," by Arthur E. Rowse; THIS WORLD, San Francisco +Examiner, 10/11/92, "46900 Unspectacular Deaths," by Mike Royko; +UNCLASSIFIED, February/March 1992, "The Mena, Arkansas, Story." +4.WORLD'S LEADING MERCHANT OF DEATH. WORLD PRESS REVIEW, +September 1992, "The World's Top Arms Merchant," by Frederick Clairmonte; THE +HUMAN QUEST, July/August 1992, "War 'Dividends' -- Military Spending Out of +Balance With Needy," by Tristram Coffin. +5. IRAQGATE & THE WATERGATE LAW. COVERT/ACTION INFORMATION +BULLETIN, Fall 1992, "Bush Administration Uses CIA to Stonewall Iraqgate +Investigation," by Jack Calhoun; WAR AND PEACE DIGEST (NY), +August 1992, "BNL-Iraqgate Scandal;" THE PAPER of Sonoma County (CA), +10/22/92, "Is Bush a Felon?," by Stephen P. Pizzo; THE NEW YORK TIMES, +10/20/92, "The Patsy Prosecutor," by William Safire. +6.WINNING THE WAR ON DRUGS. IN THESE TIMES, 5/20/92, "Drug +Deaths Rise As the War Continues," by Mike Males; EXTRA!, September 1992, +"Don't Forget the Hype: Media, Drugs and Public Opinion," by Micah Fink. +7.TRASHING FEDERAL REGULATIONS FOR PROFIT. THE NATION, +3/23/92, "Bush's Regulatory Chill: Immoral, Illegal, and Deadly," by +Christine Triano and Nancy Watzman; THE PROGRESSIVE, May 1992, "Deregulatory +Creep," by Arthur E. Rowse. +8.GOVERNMENT SECRECY. ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Summer +1992, "The Perils of Government Secrecy," by Steven Aftergood. +9.HOW ADVERTISING PRESSURE CAN CORRUPT A FREE PRESS. THE +CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF COMMERCIALISM, 1992, "Dictating Content: How +Advertising Pressure Can Corrupt a Free Press," by Ronald K. L. Collins. +10.PENTAGON'S POST COLD WAR BLACK BUDGET. MOTHER JONES, +March/April 1992, "The Pentagon's Secret Stash," by Tim Weiner.

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DAN QUAYLE IS JUNK FOOD NEWS OF 1992

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ROHNERT PARK -- Vice President-reject Dan Quayle set a new +record in the annual Junk Food News competition by being cited in two +of the top three over-covered unimportant news stories of 1992 +according to Dr. Carl Jensen, professor of Communication Studies at +Sonoma State University. +The annual list of news stories that receive more media coverage than +they deserve is based on a national survey by Jensen of members of the +Organization of News Ombudsmen. +The top ten Junk Food News stories of 1992 were: +1. Dan Quayle Misspells Potato -- the Vice President's final tutoring +assignment +2. Madonna's Best Selling "Sex" -- from pop queen to porn queen +3. Murphy Brown/Dan Quayle -- Dan's "family values" get low ratings +4. Johnny Carson: The Final Days -- Where's Johnny? +5. Royal Scandal: Fergie & Diana -- the naughty wives of Windsor +6. Woody Allen vs Mia Farrow -- we liked him better when he was funny +7. Geniffer Flowers -- no shrinking violet +8. The Barbara/Hillary Cookie Bake-off -- let the chips fall where +they may +9. The Elvis Stamp Election -- the youngest candidate won this +election too +10. U.S. Olympic Dream Team -- first single sport Olympics in history

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Other nominations cited by the news ombudsmen included Bush Tosses +Cookies in Japan, the Jay Leno/Arsenio Hall Late Night War, Clinton's Vietnam +Record, Jerry Brown's 800 Number, Batman Returns/Superman Dies, Polls-Polls-Polls, and Sinead O'Connor Rips the Pope. +Ombudsmen comments on the Junk Food News stories included: +"Too many wire editors feel pressured to duplicate in the next day's +paper whatever was on last night's 'Entertainment Tonight' or any number of +other pseudo-news programs." -- William Flynn, Patriot Ledger, Quincy, MA. +"The media helped Madonna sell her book ... but even the media +couldn't rescue Batman." -- Gina Lubrano, San Diego Union-Tribune. +"Many of the junk food stories this year centered on the presidential +campaign ... but if the candidates talk about it, and they do, how can you +ignore it?" -- Frank Ritter, The Tennessean, Nashville, TN. +"Truly significant news is often oppressively dull or mentally +taxing; the media welcome stories like these to leaven the loaf." -- +Kerry W. Sipe, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, VA. +Noting the extensive coverage given British Royalty in the +United States media, Takeshi Maezawa, columnist for The Daily Yomiuri +in Tokyo, points out that the press in Japan mutually agreed not to +cover the Japanese Prince's search for a bride. +Jensen, who also is director of Project Censored which cites +the most important news stories overlooked by the press each year, +notes that the coverage given Dan Quayle's spelling and fight with +Murphy Brown filled media time and space that could have been devoted +to more relevant political issues during an election year. +For more information about Junk Food News stories, contact +Project Censored at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California +94928, 707/664-2500.

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"AMERICA IN PERIL" +Government Forces against the Citizens +Mark in Michigan - June 1993 +(For copies of tapes call (801)262-3601)

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Good evening. Once again we're brought together here for an opportunity +to discuss the direction that this nation is moving towards. My name is +Mark, I'm from Michigan. We'll be covering all aspects or everything we +possibly can concerning the New World Order operations inside the United +States. We'll be discussing the MJTF police, ... the United Nations +combat forces inside the United States and the conversion of the United +States into an asset for the United Nations.

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To begin with I originally worked as an intelligence analyst 1975 through +1981. First with Usex a company out of Arizona. And then I moved on +Fifth US Army intelligence center where I worked both as an intelligence +analyst and as a counter intelligence coordinator. Later through the +eighties up until present time I command two, both second third brigades +which are special warfare units that train US military forces in foreign +warfare and tactics.

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We're going to start with the MJTF police, where it came from, what its +original mission was, what its mission is now. Through a series of +political actions that started around approximately March of 1989 the +federal government extorted resources from most of the states, in fact +all 50 states simultaneously within a two period passing laws in every +state authorizing the use of federal funding to convert local and state +forces into national police forces.

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The MJTF police, Multi Jurisdictional Task Force, is in virtually every +state of the union of the United States at this time. Its primary +mission is house-to-house search and seizure, separation and +categorization of men, women, and children in large numbers, the transfer +to detention facilities and the use of those facilities for interrogation +purposes. The MJTF are regular national guard, local law enforcement and +street gangs converted to national police services.

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Remember that this was originally organized under George Herbert Walker +Bush. We all know of course now that President Clinton has proposed a +national police force. This is simply another name, in fact an overt +name, for the MJTF police. Now the model for the MJTF police is that +they are the velvet glove on the iron fist. Anybody who is familiar with +some of the speeches that have taken place, Ex-President Reagan spoke in +England here approximately two months ago and commented that the United +Nations forces would be the velvet glove on the steel fist. This is a +very popular phrase. It has been used extensively by these people that +are within the New World Order operation. I don't know how you feel +about this but any time I've been hit with an iron fist I usually don't +feel too good and a velvet glove doesn't make much difference.

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It should be noted that most of the resources are being drawn from again, +federal fundings for regional governments. The state of Michigan +converted part of their forces over on February 11, 1989 when Senator +Carl Levin, the state ... of the state of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana met +in Lansing. At 6:35 in the evening an agreement was struck in which +elements of the Michigan national guard would be deployed in Indiana, +Ohio in the event of, and in fact it was stated that when firearms are +confiscated in the Midwest that these forces would be deployed both in +Indiana and in Ohio. Indiana, Ohio would then provide 50% of its guard +forces to police the Michigan area under the MJTF police guidelines. +Approximately three months after the arrangement was made through the +Department of Defense in conjunction with other agencies, some of them +unknown at this time, the state of Indiana backed out of the agreement.

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When this took place the federal government through a series of funding +coordinations withdrew resources from the state of Indiana. They had to +restructure part of their guard mechanism and in the process were able to +maintain a good portion of their original integrity concerning their +preparedness strength for guard forces. Three battalions had to be +restructured at that time.

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Now the MJTF police are supported through strategic reserve aircraft that +have been transferred to their resource. They will convert almost all of +the existing local police agencies to national police forces after +they've lifted personnel they do not consider trustworthy. And they will +also incorporate street gangs. Now, if anybody has seen the guidelines +and we have copies of both, the original stated that house to house +search and seizures will be performed by military, law enforcement, and +civilian personnel. Now we all know who the military are, that's anybody +in a green uniform or a blue uniform or the Army, Navy, Air Force, +Marines, Coast Guard. We understand that those would be people in the +national guard, reserve and active, our active military forces. We know +who law enforcement is. These are the constables. The individuals that +you have at your local level all the way up to an including our secret +police in the United States such as the FBI, Central Intelligence Agency, +and other agencies that might be at their disposal, Defense Intelligence +Agency, etc. Who are the civilians that are going to come into your +home? I don't recall there being any guidelines for that in the +Constitution. If anybody has listened to National Public Radio you will +note that on several different occasions, specifically the tenth month of +1992 it was announced, and in fact, it was a one hour special program on +National Public Radio about converting the street gangs to law +enforcement agencies. We had been talking about this for years prior to +its action. We knew that there were preparatory actions taking place.

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Through these activities a truce was signed by several of the large gangs +in the city of Los Angeles. At the time, there were negotiations in +process in Chicago, and this was also taking place in New York. Since +the initial actions a full agreement has been signed in Los Angeles and +both the Crips and the Bloods are now being trained, equipped, and +uniformed by, with federal funding through California. Chicago has +finalized this agreement last week. New York is in the process of doing +so some time in the next few weeks and we can assume that they will do +this very quickly. These forces will be the canon. Their mission is to +be the forefront, the master forces to come through the door. Remember +that the average federal agent makes anywhere from $47000 to $57000 a +year. He is more or less looking at his pension. He is not concerned +with risking his life, especially if he can find someone to throw in +front of him as a sandbag. That's the mission of these brute forces that +are being organized.

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Since last I spoke, probably the best example, I'm sure that everybody +listening here has heard about Waco, Texas. These forces that were on +the ground, give you a best example, were not effective fighting forces. +When you retreat and leave wounded and dead lying on the ground that's +called a rout, it's not a retreat. And this is symptomatic of +professional forces that are there for the money. On the other hand, if +you use the old medieval pillage principle and you have a profit +mechanism set up in which you're allowed to confiscate properties, cars, +jewelry, furniture, the neighbor's wife, whatever, then you're highly +motivated to go through that door. And especially if you have been doing +it illegally for an extensive period of time and all of a sudden they're +giving you the opportunity to be legitimized. Remember, why let the +street gang situation foster or flourish the way it did. We had more +than the capability to restrict the street gangs at the time when they +came about. Most assuredly we had the capacity to restrict them in any +way that we wished to. However, by allowing the street gangs to flourish +you create regimentation. Then, the strong come to the top. These are +your NCOs and leaders. And when you are finished you simply put them in +uniform, then you have an organized military force at your disposal. +They're thugs, but they're expendable thugs. Remember that.

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Now, MJTF police operations are, there are several actions that have +taken place within the last two years. Starting in 1991, they +participated or were part of Operation Achiles which was a sweep from the +southern Ohio valley up through to Michigan of ATF, by both the Bureau of +Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and MJTF forces to harass and eliminate FFL +holders, who were manufacturers and producers of components and arms. +Their primary concern was not to confiscate or charge somebody will +illegal arms but rather to acquire records and resources that were +available and in the hands of the people who held the FFL. In every case +where they went into these businesses the only thing that they took were +the records of who purchased products and where they lived, very +important to understand.

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There are a series of other activities that took place after this. MJTF +was deployed in Los Angeles during the LA riots though there was only a +slight mention of it, that's the authority they were under.

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All of the agencies are overlapping and under the general authority of +the United Nations. Remember we are now an international organization +not the United States ... small corporate entity part of a big company, +larger company. In 1992 through early 1993 reorganization was taking +place to try and give the MJTF a greater credibility. However, it was +understood that their mercenary forces probably will not function as +originally anticipated so the guard has been restructured. Many people +who are familiar with the guard will be able to understand why the guard +is being rifted of experienced personnel.

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Desert dust, or in other words we call it Desert Storm, its primary +mission, it was three-fold but its primary mission was to see whether or +not the American people would eat the New World Order. U.S. soldiers +were sent overseas, their American flags were taken off their uniforms, +flags were taken down by officers in the field because the flag was not +to be flown. Most every other nationality was allowed to fly their flag +and other than for publicity purposes for our public consumption the +general position was that the flag was to be trodden at every +opportunity. However, if any of you were watching the news you'll notice +a lot of Marines were jumping up and showing their patch which they just +pulled out of their pocket and were laying it on their arm and going see +this. This is what I'm fighting for. These people have to be done away +with. You can't have these people in the military and so they decided +that they would have to rift these people out, transfer them to guard. +If they're already in guard units, restructure. Reestablish guidelines +that would enable them to extract these people from the mechanism. They +are trying to go to the next generation of educated idiots. They're +looking for people who are going to be more pliable. As Mr. Rockefeller +said many years ago, clay that can be molded more efficiently. And since +the first or latest crop didn't work we're now going to restructure the +entire mechanism and see what we can get from the next batch. This is +where we are going with this.

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Now, it should be noted that before they can do all of this, before they +can perform any of the actions that are pending they are going to have to +take the weapons that we have inside the United States. I will say again +that the meeting that took place in 1989, the federal government and the +representatives that were there stated uncategorically when we take the +weapons, not if we take the weapons, but when and under that premise +everything else was constructed. Now, very quickly there is one that I +like here. I'm going to have it put up on the board while we are +speaking. A little poster everybody should remember. All of those in +favor of gun control raise your right hand. There is an interesting +piece that just came out that I was most fascinated with with regards to +firearms laws. It's a book concerning the Gun Control Act of 1968 in +which it has been demonstrated that the Gun Control Act of 1968 wasn't +simply an American creation, it was taken from Nazi Germany's gun control +laws of 1938 word for word. Now that's very important when you consider +this because we're not talking a few paragraphs here and there. The +entire document is taken from Nazi Germany's Gun Control Law of 1938. If +they're already at that level in 1968 then where are you going to go with +our gun laws now? If you've listened to the people who are talking about +this they say the Brady Bill for instance, and I'm hoping everybody +understands what that is, that's one of the pending gun, firearms +legislations that is at the Senate and House level right now. It is a +good first step to follow through on this. I don't think anybody likes +that idea.

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If that is a first step then where are we headed. It should be +understood that the MJTF police is not trusted by the federal agencies +and eventually will be done away with. Again, the MJTF are useful ... +that eventually will be swept to the side. Moving on beyond the MJTF +police, we're going to back up into them a little bit, are FINCEN. +FINCEN, or Financial Crime Enforcement Network personnel. FINCEN has as +much to do with finances as the SAS had to do with airplanes. The SAS, +Special Air Service, was a cover name for an entity which existed in +England and was the equivalent to the OSS of World War II, 1941-1945. +FINCEN forces are, their mission is house to house search and seizure, +separation and categorization of men, women and children, transfer to +detention facilities, securing properties acquired but not the +maintaining of detention camps. That will be the mission of the MJTF +police.

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I should mention very quickly, the detention camps themselves, originally +under FEMA 23 detention camps were authorized. These detention camps +were spread out across the United States. In addition to that, there are +20 supplemental camps that were authorized with the 1990-91 military +fiscal budget. Carl Levin's DOD budget amendment 656 authorized the +implementation of these 20 camps to supplement the 23 that were already +authorized. There are now 43 total camps that are pre-deployed inside +the continental United States. In addition to that there are +supplemental camps or auxiliary camps through each state and in each +region. An example of this would be the Nike Hercules missile site +located near Monroe. That is a pre-designated detention facility. The +three sites that are located in Michigan: number 1 is located due north +of Pickney, Michigan, due west of Brighton. The second is earmarked near +Lansing, Michigan, the north, northeast. The third is Ft. Custer +military reservation which has been upgraded from a D facility to a B +facility. This is very important because a D facility is state +authorized and state controlled. A B facility on the other hand, has +been upgraded to federal status and is comparable to any of our military +facilities such Ft. Benning, Georgia. Dwight Patterson Air Force base, +any facility that we are presently using for active military forces. +However, if you get a chance to tour the highways and byways and back +roads of Ft. Custer you'll find that there is a new urban warfare center +there. The new urban warfare center doesn't look like Germany, it looks +like downtown Monroe. It looks like downtown Soline. It has three +bedroom ranch-styled houses, crackerbox farmhouses. Small living areas +inside downtown areas.

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At this particular site MJTF police forces were training from the first +week of January of 1989 on. They are returning every second and third +week of the month from Monday through Thursday. They were paying with +non DOD funds. In other words, they were GSA funds or they were funds +from other agencies, other than regular military budget allocations. +It's important to understand how they pay because that's how you find out +who it is that's playing.

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Now these forces operated secretly for a number of months and we +identified them as they were training and they changed facilities. We +understand after approximately a year and a half cooling time that they +are using Custer and they are using Graylien again extensively. Bringing +forces together from other parts of the state, turning them on site and +then sending them back out to be prepared for whatever is going to happen +in the future. We'll go back to FINCEN now. FINCEN was organized +utilizing foreign military forces as secret police forces here in the +United States. They are drawn from military and secret police forces +overseas. They are predominantly European. We have Belgian, Dutch, +German, ... French. We also have a variety of Asian military personnel. +It is known at this time, for instance, that FINCEN has an element in +Montana that is made up of Gerkas. The 197th mechanized as of one month +ago, I'm sorry excuse me, as of one week ago, has deployed for a training +operation that may last as long as two months in northern Montana through +the Canadian frontier. It is the 197th mechanized infantry combined with +two brigades of British mechanized infantry, the first Canadian armored +division, Gerka mercenary forces, 1 Belgian brigade, 1 EEC and another +undetermined number of forces, all foreign. They originally were +scheduled to work for approximately three weeks in the area but if this +is similar to the last mobilization that took place you will find that +they will be there for up to two and a half, three months.

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During the LA crisis that took place there were a series of actions that +took place both in Montana, we also saw activities in California, and +there were activities in northern Texas, in the Panhandle. FINCEN forces +are ruthless. An example, the Gerkas are a professional mercenary forces +from Nepal. They rotate these forces for a period of time, out of Nepal, +and were originally hired by the British military force for a number of +years. Now that they're under UN authority of course we have to find a +use for them and they have. Remember the Gerkas were being paid by the +British and probably still are to be used against us, kind of like the +Haitians of 1775 isn't it? I think you'll find a lot of other forces of +similar perspective there. There are, and I will use the regional map +here, there are a number of forces spread throughout the ten regions. +For those of you who are not familiar with regionalism, regionalism is a +form of government that we are about to experience if the New World Order +people have their way. Under regionalism Michigan becomes not Michigan +but Area 5. As Area 5 our capitol will be in Chicago under the new +states constitution this particular type of government comes into power +and we're going to find that all of a sudden we're going to be part of +this warm fuzzy New World Order real quick. Unfortunately, we'd never +vote for a Governor again. The Governor will be directly assigned by the +President. Kind of like in Star Wars. If you remember it was rather +entertaining... in one scene one of the military brass comes walking +into the briefing room and goes the Emperor has just done away with the +Senate. And of course one of the admirals goes how will he manage +without the bureaucracy. And then the brass turns and goes, well, our +regional governor shall deal with the problem, terror shall reign. And +most assuredly terror shall reign. The regional governor will not have +the same authority over his military forces, but he most assuredly will +have full authority over his security forces. Unlike the governors of +old who had a pocket army he will simply have police. The centralized +military force will be completely under the authority of the United +Nations.

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How did we get here? Well, that's an interesting story when you think +about it because there are a lot of problems that are involved. It's an +ongoing escalation of resources pitted against the American people and +the republic. We are a constitutional republic by the way, we are not a +democracy. I think everybody better remember that now. This is a +problem you run into even for republican Presidents. How many times did +we hear George Bush say this democracy? This is a man who calls himself +a Republican. I'm not necessarily a Republican or a Democrat. I'm one +of those independent American kind of guys.

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An example of FINCEN and some of the effects that overlap into the United +Nations operations, this was on the cover of Airmen magazine which is a +US Air Force publication, July 1992. It should be very evident that the +forces that are displayed here on the cover are very impressive. +Unfortunately, of the five aircrafts on the cover only one of them is +American. The rest are all Soviet bombers, or Soviet heavy lift +aircraft. It should be noted that these types of assets have been +reported on for the last 10 years by a lot of people in the military, who +people simply didn't want to listen to or believe. These are documents +here that shall we say more than verify that validity of comments that +were made in the past.

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The forces involved that we're going to see in FINCEN will be very well +educated. They are professional military forces. They are for all +practical purposes mercenaries, or course. You're going to find that +they normally serve an eight-year tour unlike the old American mechanism +which was a six year tour, a mixed time of active and reserve component +with IRR, independent rating reserve options. Instead we've now gone to +an eight year mechanism the same as all foreign professional forces +overseas. Very characteristic of the same mechanism that was used +against us in 1775. ... through pressing was normally done with an eight +year tour.

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There are a variety of different mechanisms. This is one that was done +by a friend of us that liked also to include, which I think is very +interesting, it's a whirlpool, actually a black hole, I'm sorry. And +most assuredly we're spinning into a black hole if we allow this to +exist. It should be noted that these people are chugging on despite the +types of pitfalls we've thrown in front of them. We will slow them down, +we probably will not stop them completely, and this will become an armed +confrontation. I can not believe that the American people are going to +continue to participate in something like this not without realizing +eventually that somebody is selling the cookie jar, they aren't just +grabbing the cookies.

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Otherwise, what we're looking at right now, I have two or three other +pieces that I'd like to throw in here. What we're looking at right now +is an action which is quite sophisticated, has taken probably 50 years to +develop and the enemy has almost reached that point where he can touch +the golden ring. Imagine if you will going around the merry-go-round and +almost having your hand on it. It's in slow motion, time dilation. All +of their different schemes, plotting and conniving have come to a nexus, +a point in time in which they have the opportunity to grab everything. +To do this they must act quickly. They have windows of opportunity. +They are very dangerous at this particular point because there is an old +story, the swift stroke oft misses. That's the problem with this, if we +are lucky we can get them to move quickly or move too quickly, they will +show too much and the American people are not complete dummies. And +there are enough of us, there are enough patriots out there that are +interested in seeing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights survive that +they will participate in the defense of the nation.

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There are a lot of military forces that are being sent overseas. Doesn't +anybody wonder while in this time of peace we're sending more and more of +our military strength to Bosnia or Segovia, Somolia, Thailand and has +anybody heard about our forces in Peru? I imagine not. Well I'll give +you a good example. We have twenty to twenty one thousand personnel +right now sitting off Yugoslavia's coast or in Yugoslavia at this time. +We have approximately 20000 mixed personnel functioning in Somolia. And +that's 40000 combat personnel. In addition to that we have +22000-23000 in Cambodia. Now we've got 60000 people overseas and most +of them are combat troops. Let's go one step farther. Back to Desert +Dust, one of those little actions that was missed by everybody is that +during executive orders that were signed, 18000 US military personnel +were sent to Peru for policing operations there under UN authority. Now, +this is documented. We've got people who are down there right now. +There are families and there are mothers that are highly concerned about +the people that are in place. They have lost people there. People have +been killed. This receives no publicity. Yet it's going on. It's a +prime example of watch my right hand, hey, you didn't see what was going +on over here did you. That's what we have to worry about. These people +control the media completely. What I do a lot of times and I recommend +you do the same thing is video tape what's going on television but ignore +most of what they say. Pay attention to the photographs. If they're +really concerned with something they won't feed you much. But in many +cases they'll feel the general population isn't that observant, and there +is more in a picture than there is in all of the gobbledy gook and words +that they've fabricated. You have to ask yourself when you look at +pieces of equipment activities why is this taking place. Where is this +taking place? Is this actually what is going on? If you look at this +expressions of the individuals, the activities, the attitudes you know +that something doesn't taste right. A lot of military people coming back +are tickled pink to leave Somolia fast as they can throw their feet on a +747 or a 737 air bus. There is a reason for that. It is an ... +situation that is typical of the type that the United Nations has put us +into. Of course, by the way, we're paying the bill too. This is not +good. It should be noted that a lot of personnel who are overseas and we +have personal contacts that are experiencing this right now, are having +difficulties bringing family members back or sending family members back +from Europe to the United States. We have three families in particular +that are experiencing this right now. They are attempting to send their +wives and children out of Europe back into the continental United States +and the military will not do it, will not send them. They have not +released the dependants, let alone the husband. This is interesting +considering we are not at war and we have no threat of war on the horizon +that anybody could pick out short of a few policing actions that are +supposed to be very minor. I will inject this though. It used to be +that we called it the Vulcans not Yugoslavia. And there were a handful +of wars there over a period of 50 years, that many of your ancestors +probably left Europe because of. After having three or four of them in a +row and probably losing 1/2 or 1/3 of the family most of the Europeans +decided it was time to, what we call unass the ..., excuse me, that was +the objective. Now we're calling it Yugoslavia. Right next door are the +Moslems. The Moslems are not exactly friendly people to deal with and +given the opportunity and good weapons they are darn good fighters. +Anybody that was in the Korean war knows about the Turks. Those are the +people to the East. If they aligned with the other Moslems we may have a +very interesting experience on our hands. Who will we side with? Well +we'll side with the UN. And they'll side with whoever it is that's +against the United States. It's very simple. One of the things I like +to incorporate, good old Fred Rexer, a man to remember and a man to +admire, be prepared it's later than you thing. If you don't think so +take a look around you. The amount of force facing the American people +right now is approximately the equivalent to several heavy infantry +divisions with a couple of mixed mechanized divisions combined. We're +looking at a little over 300000 personnel that we could verify or that +we could at least identify in different parts of the country. These +forces include FINCEN elements through Montana, northern California, +southern California, central Texas, the northern part of North Carolina, +Ft. Drum, the eastern seaboard including elements that are now stationed +around the capitol of the United States, Washington, D.C. There are five +FINCEN companies deployed there. I will mention this that we put a great +deal of heat on these people since we've begun to identify them. And I +will ask you something. How many people have seen a newsclip every night +when they watch the media, somebody takes one of those ski masks and puts +it over their head and busts into somebody's home? Sixty Minutes did a +little piece on this just the other night, but it's what we've been +talking about for a long time. Who is under the ski mask? If you're +wearing a ski mask how do you know who these people are? In fact, how do +you even know that they're even law enforcement agents? Anybody can wear +a uniform and a ski mask hides the identity especially when nobody says +anything. And even if they do how could most people be sure? A ski mask +does for a person at 3 in the afternoon what the KGB did at 12 midnight +and 3 in the morning with a knock on the door. It is called terror. And +the fact that we would allow that to happen in the United States is a +disgrace to our country and a disgrace to our Constitution. I'll tell +you one thing right now, when I was in the military we were trained to +shoot people with ski masks on if you'll recall. We called them +terrorists, bank robbers, you know, criminals. Only in this case now I +guess they're hired by the government. It is very important to +understand this because we can not be lackadaisical in understanding the +threat. They have progressively through gradualism gotten everybody in +this mindset that this is an acceptable situation. It is not. It cannot +be allowed. I cannot be allowed to continue. If these forces for +instance, are on the up and up why not bring them into the light? If +these people are doing something that is for the good of the nation why +not bring them into the light? Why conceal their activities? Why shroud +them in darkness? Why shroud them in chaos? On the other hand, maybe we +want a little chaos. Remember crisis management? Mr. Kissinger brought +this up first. Crisis management is a good thing. You're hearing it in +the news, constantly, aren't we? Crisis management, crisis in Russia, +crisis overseas, crisis in New York. We had a bombing ... mechanism. +With something like this, of course, thesis, anti-thesis synthesis. You +create the problem, you demonstrate an answer and you execute the +solution. But you've created all three. We're looking at the same thing +right now here. Now UN combat forces, I'm going to interject these +people real quick because all these people interlock and overlap. United +Nations combat forces include those that are cooperating with FINCEN at +this time in Montana, the elements that are in California, there were +21000 of them identified south of Los Angeles and are probably deployed +north, northeast of Los Angeles in Sacramento basin. The elements that +were located in Texas have shifted by all indications are probably spread +out through a series of Garrisons. The Ohio Valley starting in the +Cincinnati area and moving north, northwest, have forces deployed there. +We know that these elements are also located Ft. Achuka, there are some +in Ft. Benning, Georgia. We know that an element was also located at Ft. +Drum. By the way, our processing center for detainees in the western +half of the United States is Oklahoma City. We do not know what the +location is for the eastern seaboard at this time, however, by all +indications Ft. Drum will be the control point for processing individuals +to detention facilities on the eastern half of the United States east of +the Mississippi. If there are any problems what I would recommend for a +lot of people that are concerned about this is that we observe the air +not the ground. However, I will say this, in Cleveland, for instance, we +have friends and patriots who have photographed UN armor being +transported by rail from east to west. Many of the people that have been +in contact so far are both intelligence analysts or worked as +intelligence analysts and counter intelligence sergeants. They are +experienced in observation and they know what they're doing. Because of +this, we can rely upon their first hand information. Most of the time +though you are seeing FINCEN forces utilizing rotary wing aircraft +assets. Excuse me. Back in the early part of 1990, approximately 3000 +rotary aircraft were withdrawn from out strategic reserve. These are not +from the reserve or guard, these came from the mothball fleet. Upon +implement this force these units were transferred to FINCEN painted in +the flat black, not flat green and not camouflaged green. These aircraft +are in flat black. They bear no markings or identification to determine +whether they are American or foreign national. The fact of the matter is +they are now foreign national assets, no longer in the hands of the +United States Air Force. We do supply and support them with your tax +dollars and your tax dollars but we do not control them completely now. +FINCEN forces utilizing these rotary assets have both heavy lift aircraft +and conventional attack aircraft. The heavy aircraft which may have been +experienced in the area where I am speaking right now are the Chinook CH +47. It has a rotor front and rear and can carry up to 64 personnel in +one lift. The first mission for FINCEN helicopter and support aircraft +is to go in and actually control ground operations. They do not have to +follow roads. They are not concerned with road blocks, obstructions, +infrastructure damages, etc. They can drop into an area and assert +military forces, utilize those military forces to the best of their +ability and if they're needed somewhere else lift and move them again. +The second mission for these aircraft though is very important. Because +of the detention camp mechanism that exists they do not feel that it will +be safe to transfer prisoners on the ground. That's why a large +preponderance of the aircraft that they've received are heavy lift +aircraft capable of moving large numbers of people at once. Because of +this the Chinook's mission will be to transfer from pick up points +personnel who have been acquired and are put in temporary holding sites +outside of each municipality. Here in the city where we are standing +right now somewhere in this vicinity, in close proximity there is a +holding area, that is also what we call a POL point, petroleum, oil and +lubricant point. These operations will bring the people by ground +vehicle to this temporary detention site. They will never hit the ground +again until they reach the detention facility itself. They will be +picked up by the rotary wing aircraft, flown directly to the primary +detention site that is closest or to a sorting facility where it will be +determined whether or not they are a high threat or a low threat. +Remember MJTF police their mission is separation and categorization of +men, women and children. They will not take some individuals, it's +easier just to take the whole family if you feel it's a threat. And this +is their mission. Once they transfer to the sorting facility families or +individuals will be separated and then sent to primary holding areas. I +guarantee that prior service, military personnel, patriots and +individuals who possess firearms will not be released. That's why there +are so many facilities. A good example of holding areas or of detention +sites that we know of that are first line pick up points Brighton Airport +near Brighton which is still a federally funded facility even though it's +been rented out. It originally was an Army Air Corp aviation facility. +The pick up site for Anarbor is located due east of Anarbor on Liberty +Rd. between Parker and Zeeb. We know that for instance the one near +Jackson is located at the Jackson airport and is predesignated. Each +metropolitan area has a pick up site that has already been predetermined, +every area. All you need to do is start to look and weedle your way into +the FEMA mechanism, there is that evil word, FEMA, Federal Emergency +Management Agency. Now we talked about this at the last meeting where I +was talking to a large group of people and this was before the articles +started to come out through the federal papers about FEMA's activities +throughout the United States in the eighties. FEMA is not Federal +Emergency Management Agency. FEMA is the secret government, legally. +It's funded, made and supported through monetary expenditures designated +through the Department of Defense and also normal budgeting is taking +place every year with out government. FEMA has approximately 3600 +employees and yet of the 3600 employees only about 59 to 63 actually +deal with emergency management such as storms, disasters, hurricanes or +manmade catastrophes such as nuclear attack. If only 60 of them are +doing this, let me ask you one very basic question. What do the other +3600 do? Well, their mission is to manage the system after they've +taken it over. They utilize black budget or black bag funding. Black +bag funding are covert operation funds authorized that cannot be +challenged by public agencies or entities. They've been doing this for +13 years. Remember that FEMA was created originally by Zabigneau +Brazinski. Zabigneau Brazinski worked for Jimmy Carter. However, after +Ronald Reagan came into power Zabigneau stayed over to complete +operations and deployment of FEMA inside the United States. The issue +guns, drugs, drugs, guns came about approximately four years ago. The +objective behind that was to create an environment, create a situation +that these people could use. Before that it was internal economic +catastrophe, that was the mission of FEMA to create Rex 84, Rex 85. Now +the Rex series of programs started up in 1981. And originally I +participated in a program that set up a series of actions which allowed +for us, for instance, to surrender 50% of Florida. We weren't going to +stop the Russians until they got to Orlando. We used to jokingly call it +the Disney line. And we weren't going to make any attempt to get it back +either. If you look at the globalist map though, and if you look at the +final solution through the UN charter we lose a good portion of the +United States. This part of the country that we're standing on right now +is part of Area 62 or it could be part of Area 63, we're on the line. +The way the nation is divided up the United States of America will cease +to exist. Right now we are very close to them accomplishing what they +want, very close. And I cannot emphasize that enough. With most of +these actions they have always looked at the prospect of disarming the +American people first. It is the most important issue that we should +concern ourselves with at this time. There is a little piece here that +was given to me not too long ago and it's the better example that I +wanted, it's called Bondage to Bondage. I think everybody should think +about this. We all start out as slaves. At some time or another we will +revert back into slavery. At any given time utilizing the clockwork that +is depicted here we could break this cycle. But because of the nature of +man many people refuse to. And so we will revert back into slavery. +With a constitutional republic we have the capability and the power to +free ourselves now, to break the chain, break the cycle. To do so though +we have to decide as citizens what we're going to do. We have to decide +personally within ourselves. We have to despite what most people might +say about this, ask God for guidance. If we do not as a people ask for +guidance we will fail. It is the most important issue to concern +ourselves with what is happening now. God will deal with the problems of +the future. We have to deal with the temporal life that we are existing +in at this time. And because of this our Constitution, our Bill of +Rights which were granted, those powers granted to us by God have to be +maintained by us utilizing God as our strength, as our guidepost, as our +steel, as our iron rod. We have failed as a nation or we will fail as a +nation if we do not take hold of that rod again and follow the course. +There are many people in this country who will not listen to what we are +talking about here. I am not worried about them. Many, these people are +like the population that existed in the United States in 1775. Do not be +concerned for them. They'll tag along or we'll have to ship them +overseas when the time comes. I can think of many glorious socialist +regimes that will be more than happy to take in a few more slaves. I +don't say that we hang them or shoot them, there are a lot of people that +would like to do that, I think the best punishment is to brand their +butt, give them one piece of luggage, and ship their hind end overseas +where they can live out the rest of their lives outside this +constitutional republic and see how we flourish from afar. Because given +the opportunity we will, we can be and we will be the finest nation on +this planet. And with the republic we can go on to become an even +greater power. But without the republic and without our personal rights +we are nothing. Why, I've asked this many times, do you think that +everybody on this planet wants to come here? There are many other places +on this planet they could go. There are many other forms of government. +We as a minority, and we will always be a minority by the way I think, as +a minority we are still the ... example of opportunity, no matter what +anybody says. And everybody would like to grasp a part of this and we +have the capability to do that but we have to hang on to those documents +which were given to us in the first place. If we do not have the Bill of +Rights the rest is mute. If we do not support the Constitution we shall +fail. These people that I am talking about, the MJTF police, FINCEN, the +UN forces that are here have no comprehension of our form of government. +They come from governments alien to us. They come from governments that +are a threat to this form of government, to this nation. That does not +mean that they will always be our enemies. That does not mean that they +are necessarily ruthless aggressors that will always be ruthless +aggressors. There are people that will change within their mechanism. +But until they change we cannot come half way. Half way means losing +half the Constitution. What part are you willing to give up? What part +are we willing to surrender of this nation, what state? Which one of our +constitutional amendments are we will to throw into the kitty so to speak +so that we get a little piece of something else from the other side? And +the first thing I'd have to ask is this. What can the other side offer +us? Absolutely nothing. That's more important than anything else right +now is to understand there can be no compromise concerning this action. +Is it unacceptable that UN forces be here? Most assuredly. Is it +illegal? If you will recall we have a little thing called passe +comatadus. Under passe comatadus it is virtually illegal for military +forces to be used as law enforcement agencies inside the United States. +And yet right now we have military forces in several parts of the country +being used as law enforcement. Probably the best example in 1990 which +we came across, and this has to do with the ski mask again, a guy with a +ski mask jumps into your house you have no idea who he is, he's wearing a +black uniform and it has three letters on it and you don't know what any +of those three letters stand for. When this takes place how do you know +where he came from? He comes in, they lay on the floor, they virtually +rape your house, they rape you privacy, they go into your bedroom, they +go into your children's rooms. They destroy property, take property for +private profit. When they are done they leave. You never have any idea +who they are. And then they go back to Europe or they go back to Asia +and they spend what they've stolen. These people were training ranger +units as law enforcement agency forces in 1990-91 utilizing the ski mask +mechanism. In Ft. Hood, Texas these forces were training with the local +Sheriffs department in confiscation and seizure policies. Important to +remember because, again, passe comatadus was not overridden. Remember +the President must override passe comatadus and it can only be for a very +short and temporary time. Very short, special situation. Not an +undeclared internal war. In addition to this is should be remembered +that this type of situation existed in 1775. This is the exact same +thing our forefathers experienced. A foreign military force was injected +into the United States, not willingly on their part, necessarily and many +of them came over to our side down the road, but this force's mission was +to do exactly what these people are doing now. The first two battles of +the American Revolution is must be remembered were fought for what? +Taxes? No. Were they fought because we were worried about tea? No. +The order was to confiscate all shot powder, canon and individuals who +possessed them. The first two battles of the American Revolution were +fought for the same reason that we are fighting in parts of this nation +right now, the possession of coercive force. When the government +possesses all the coercive force available you have what? A police +state. It doesn't make any difference, take your choice of colors of +uniforms. If the government possesses total coercive force as a monarchy +under pharaohism, under socialism, capitalism, communism, fascism, it is +a police state. We, fortunately, had founding fathers who understood the +capacity of man and his greed. And because of that we were given the +inalienable rights that were laid down. Now they also understood that we +might lose them. There is an interesting statement that Jefferson made. +The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it would not be needed until +they tried to take it. That's pretty prophetic because he understood +exactly why we had the arms. It wasn't for hunting, it wasn't for +fishing, it wasn't for can clinking, though certainly those are ways to +train. The objective was to protect us from tyranny first, and foremost, +moreso than anything else. Tyranny can come in any color, shape or form. +It can come at any time. It knows no boundaries. If given the +opportunity it will overwhelm you and enshroud you with its power. It +should be understood, give you an example of how this works, here is +tyranny in the making. The PL100-690, here is a copy of it. PL100-690 +was the camel's nose which allowed the government to do most of what we +are moving into now. PL100-690, Incorporated no knock search warrant, +house to house search and seizure clause, the money change, which +everybody better be very worried about. Because with the money change +comes control of your lives totally. It also included many other actions +which are amending existing laws. This is very important because you get +an and or a but in this document, put it in another document and all of a +sudden you have changed the entire meaning of a law. Through this law, +the Copper Wire Act was changed. I will give you an example. Most +people think that it is illegal to wiretap without a warrant. It is not. +A wiretap can be formed on anybody's household under the changes in this +law at any given time, but a warrant must be acquired if you're going to +wiretap and use it in court. That's why in many cases people have +experienced problems with their phones, phone systems burning out because +elicit taps can be done on a regular basis. And I will give you an +example. In Washnaw County in the state of Michigan, in Anarbor there +are 5000 new wire taps done every month. 5000 new wire taps done every +month. All of the original wire taps are proceeded through to the next +month. Do some quick math and tell me how long it takes before you have +saturated the entire county. Not long at all does it? This is typical +of the mechanism and the way it works, envelopment. With the electronic +media and with the electronic communication systems the way they're set +up right now our privacy can easily be invaded and it must be understood +that there are many different avenues that they are going to approach us +with. Probably the best single mechanism that I could recommend for +anybody, anybody who is interested in this subject would be to use +Operation Vampire Killer by Jack McLamb. As a single document bringing a +novice into the picture, for 93 pages it's a lot of reading that is worth +its money. You sit down in an evening and absorb the basic information +necessary to perceive what is going on. I have said this before and I'll +say this again and again and again. Everybody I have talked to, I don't +care who they are, I don't care if they're skeptical on this subject or +not, you all get a bad feeling don't you? I don't care who you talk to +right now they all have the same image, something is wrong. It's like a +carcass stinking in the desert. You can smell it long before you get to +it. Now, it's very important to remember that the enemy has many, many +resources and assets at their disposal. The best one we have here is +you. They can't shut us all up. Word of mouth, voice to voice, person +to person, we can do more damage, take and move the thought and expose +these creatures more effectively than any other tool we could possibly +use. For they will silence me, and they will silence other people that +are talking about this but they can't get us all. What the founding +fathers understood is what I think everybody here had better understand +right now, if they have unlimited capabilities to confiscate your +property, if they have unlimited capabilities to take your car, to take +your money, to take your life if need be, what have you got to lose? +What sense is there in worrying about the threat? You might as well +fight. You have no choice. Now, do we fight on the enemy's terms? No. +One thing about George Washington I like is he fought for two years with +little or nothing, and there's an old saying, we don't have much but what +little we have we know how to use. And that's how he fought the +beginning of the revolution. This situation is going to be fought much +in the same way, with limited assets and resources, progressively +steamrolling and building up. Did I say it was going to be a short war? +No. Do I think that it is going to be an inexpensive war? Absolutely +not. But as somebody said before, will it be worth it. Most assuredly. +It has to be. What is the future of your children worth? That's another +thing they plan on taking from us, our children. Listen to the +President. Listen to the policies of the government right now. This is +the age of the child. But the age of the child in whose hands? In your +hands? In your hands? No. In their hands. Oh, and by the way, +remember this, they are the ones with the velvet glove on the iron fist. +And once again, I'll remind you, even if there is a velvet glove on it it +has a tendency to hurt doesn't it? You can create a lot of casualties +this way. ... There is another saying that came about that we have used +before in instruction and it should be remembered. We are not talking +about offense here by the way. Nobody has gone out of their way to find +these people. We aren't going overseas. We don't have to go outside of +our own state now. We're talking about having to defend our homes, +having to defend our counties, having to defend our livelihood. An +attacker must vanquish, he must crush, he must utterly destroy. A +defender need only survive. Wave upon wave maybe, but he need only +survive and endure. For the defender is no place to go. Despite what we +say about the people that are, and I'll bring this up again in Waco, it +should be reminded of something, we may not agree with what they're doing +in there but we do know this they're Americans, they didn't go looking +for somebody else, somebody came looking for them on private property in +their own home and they decided to defend themselves. Why didn't the +government do very well? Because they are thugs. Thugs never do very +well against anybody who is protecting themselves when they are tenacious +and when they are willing to stand up and fight. There is another rule +that I have about the situation we are going to run into. They're going +to run out of secret police long before we run out of soldiers, I +guarantee it. By the way, I am also realistic. I think everybody is +familiar with the National Rifle Association quoting that there are 70 +million firearms owners in this country. I guarantee there are. But you +know what? I guarantee that only 1 out of 7 will show up, guaranteed. +However, let's do some quick math here. Even if they had a million men +at their disposal we have ten million combatants. How many are combat +veterans? That's right. How many are soldiers? How many have fought +before? And I can train an army. There are many men who can do the same +thing. And given the opportunity there are many people that will be +listening to this, I say the same thing to them, organize at the lowest +possible level. Organize as patriots in a militia. We are legally bound +to that. It is our obligation. It is our duty as citizens of this +country to participate in the militia as part of the militia at large. +Men, women, young, old, and do not discriminate. I'll tell you what. +What we hear out of Waco, the interesting thing that fascinated me is +that the person who was on the Barret Light 50, that's a 12 shot, 50 +caliber semi-automatic rifle, it was a 64 year old grandmother and she +did a fine job of cutting a lot of people in two I'm here to tell you. +If a 64 year old grandmother can stand up to a bunch of 23 year old jocks +that can bench press 500 lbs. I've got this funny feeling we'll do just +fine. Mercenaries, I think we can handle them. Now, there are a lot of +areas that they're going to get into here. There are a lot of things +that I would like to talk about but I want to concentrate on this for +just a minute because I briefly touched on it. The militia could be +easily crushed and destroyed if we try to build from above and create +organizations here and then fill them out. That is not the way that +this nation was built originally, that is not the way that this nation +will be in the future or will be protected in the future. The worst +thing that these people are scared of are what we call coin operations. +The citizen getting together with citizens that he knows. Notice I said +people you know, citizens you know, people that you have grown up with, +family members that you live with. That is how you must build up the +militia, from below. A ten man squad is a hell of a lot harder to find +than a 600 man battalion. Okay? Small groups can always be organized +into larger groups but not vice versa. It's much more difficult. The +only, the advantage we have is our limited resources can be put the best +ability in our hands. We don't have to worry about the government +contractor. Our concern is getting people uniformed, armed and equipped. +The militia man was a minute man. And that is how you must gear +yourself. You must, as the old saying goes prepare for war if you wish +for peace. It's that simple. To do so, cheaper is better. If you want +to put more bullets down range you can't share a weapon. I've said this +before, okay it's your turn go ahead and shoot. Have you ever tried +that? Well there is three of us and we're going to share a rifle. Oh, +boy that's my idea of fun. Because of that, get what you can afford but +buy as much as you can. The laws that are coming down the road right now +are rolling at us just like a juggernaut. There is a wall of supply and +demand that is going to hit us. When it comes there won't be anything to +buy. And because of that if you don't do it now you're going to be in +trouble later. We have what we call jokingly, the Butter Knife Brigades +and I will mention this again. Someone goes Butter Knife Brigade, what's +that. Well, it's simple. I'm going to give you a butter knife and +you're going to go out and you're going to get a weapon. Now if you +don't come back, well the worst that I have lost is a butter knife. But +if you do come back well you've got AK and we'll give the butter knife to +somebody else. Now I prefer not doing that, but I'm not going to waste a +steak knife or a butcher knife, I'll probably be carrying that for that +matter. Butter Knife Brigades are something that has been done in the +past when its necessary and it will be necessary to do it again, +unfortunately. Those are for the ones that don't quite believe but you +know who have found the spirit of God down the road. Now, another thing +we should concern ourselves with is mobility. I'm not saying buy big +trucks, mobile homes, etc. What I would recommend are vehicles. One of +the reasons that we should be a tad concerned about what is going on +right now with our vehicles, especially and transportation and +transportability is because a population on foot is easily controlled. +Because of that, this was an article that I used before and I wanted +everybody to see this, this was in a monthly publication that was +available, I think it was February. And, Uncle Sam wants your cars. If +you don't think so you better start looking at the Environmental +Protection Agency, you know our friends. They're only interested in +fish, and your cars. With the EPA's new guidelines it will be possible +for them to ban many of our cars outright and they intend to do it. Now, +I had to ask myself why pre-'84 cars. Gee that's kind of strange. There +are a lot of other cars out there that look pretty nasty that are a lot +newer, especially in the state of Michigan. Consider this, a lot of +pre-'84 cars have a different type of electronic ignition don't they? A +lot of newer cars have a totally alien type of electronic ignition and I +think the best way to describe it is like this. In 1976 when I worked on +a Ford Grenada, the electronic ignition was this large, it did virtually +every function on the car that was necessary. That was with 70s +technology. Today, the electronic ignition on our car is this big, is +this thick, and this tall. And that's with 1980s microchip technology. +Now, what's in that electronic ignition? Two considerations. Number +one, an EMP shut down circuit, that would be the best example. It would +be very easy to incorporate. It would work on a specific frequency, upon +transmitting on that particular frequency you could shut down whole +categories of vehicles. Now, I'll give you an example of this. The Iroc +Mustangs and also I believe, the comparable vehicles made by GM have a +microchip in them already that upon functioning at 140 miles an hour for +seven seconds will shut down the vehicle. On some cars we understand +that this is as low as 105 miles an hour. In fact, a car was just +tested. Now because of that you've got to ask yourself what's in your +electronic ignition in your new car. If this is already in place and can +be found what is there that we don't know about? Question number two, +why not something on the line of a transponder for tracking? So much +easier, and we're not talking lowjack here because as anybody in +communications will understand it need only transmit for a short period +of time or in a very low range, your pick up equipment will do the rest. +You can find what you want. Each one of your VIN numbers can be +signatured to the electronic ignition mechanisms, fairly simple +technology. In fact, the idea goes back to 1965, 66. All this in a box +under the hood that is now this big, that was this big. And again, I +asked myself why the change. We're not talking microchip. I've got +calculators that were made in 1985 that will do virtually anything that +science wants you to do in a package this big and the thickness of my +little finger. Isn't that amazing? Because of this you should consider +other alternate forms of transportation or you should consider override +mechanisms so that you have the capability to move during these periods. +Fuel will be cut off. We know that availability of resources will be cut +off drastically as far as munitions, fuel, food. How about lead? What +about tin? What about manufactured items such as threaded stock? Nuts, +bolts and screws. What about basic items like toilet paper? Burdock is +not all the exciting after a few weeks as anybody can probably imagine. +And of course, we've used it in the past but we try not to use it in the +future. Stock up on a few things. But the weapons systems that we're +dealing with, that we're fighting against, we've gotten a little taste of +also. The enemy's capability to utilize electronic warfare technology +against us was displayed during this little Kentucky bout with the kids +that were lost in the Smokey Mountains International Biosphere. Oh +that's right they didn't call it that did they? They called it a +national forest. Isn't that amazing how our national service made a +point of not calling it a biosphere? In the Kentucky Mountains right now +that particular forest has a sign as you enter the area. It says +international biosphere. In all the news reports I saw they didn't use +the new, proper title, they used that old American thing so that we +wouldn't get people upset. They made a point of calling it a national +forest, which it isn't anymore. But during that, I think it should be +noted by everybody, the kids were found utilizing special technology and +they were picked up by very special people in black uniforms. And before +they would be released it was stated they refused to let the children go +until they were debriefed. I've got to ask myself why would you debrief +a bunch of high school kids who were supposedly lost in the middle of the +mountains. What is it that they saw that they felt the government +wouldn't want other people to see or talk about? So much so that they +said they wouldn't release them until they were debriefed. Interesting. +What about infrared scanning technology? They're admitting to that. +Another example, in Waco, that admitted very briefly early in the morning +on Sunday that they had used the infrared scanning technology on the +compound before they went in. They don't want to elaborate on that but +we know that the enemy has this threat capacity. Or I should say a +government has this threat capacity. There are ways to counter this. In +the future we'll discuss it. Some of the simpler methods we call stand +off are utilizing glass. Glass is a tremendous insulator. And with two +layers of thermal glass you'd be surprised how much protection you can +offer from these devices when they're inside a building and used as +shielding. Another are reflective metallic surfaces such as space +blankets, gee what a simple compensation for a system that costs a lot of +money, that costs millions of dollars to deploy. There are other options +that are available. A few reminders, when you guys dig a hole, save the +topsoil. When you fill the hole in make sure you put the topsoil back +on. It's kind of obvious when you use infrared scan, it's like this, if +you look at it from the sky it's like the piece of paper on my blue coat, +it's just about that obvious. There are little things that you have to +remember about protecting yourself, it's called spoil. How to defend +yourself in the future will be a matter of how ingenious you are. And a +lot of the answers are fairly simple. Their technology is very +expensive. Anyway. What I'd like to get into next activities, and +future proposed actions inside the United State by a variety of +organizations including the MJTF police, FINCEN and UN battle groups that +will be deployed against the American people. First of all, we'll go +back to early 1989 when originally in smoke filled rooms behind closed +doors some committee of political monkeys decided that it was time to go +after the weapons inside the United States. In doing so what they did is +decide to come up with a program called guns, drugs, drugs, guns. If you +have a gun you must be a drug dealer. This was everybody, private +firearms owners, skeet shooters, whoever. Our response as law abiding +American citizens was supposed to be oh, God, take my guns. I'm not a +drug dealer, oh please. Only unfortunately what happened as far as the +government is concerned is the American people started to rearm +themselves very quickly. We surveyed a lot of different shows throughout +the United States, Midwest specifically, in fact, in some cases we +covered 3 different cities in 2 different states within a 10 hour period. +And what we saw weren't people trying to get rid of their weapons, in +fact that wasn't the case at all. You notice people weren't selling +anything and were buying more. It was shoulder to shoulder, elbow to +elbow, rearend to front, and heel to toe, and everybody was bringing +everybody's uncle in to buy weapons, munitions, equipment. And we saw +this from Kentucky and Tennessee to Pennsylvania to New Jersey to +Michigan, Indiana, Illinois. The effect that their guns, drugs, drugs, +guns program had is that the patriots out there started to talk to people +and said see this is what we told you was going to happen. And after +surveying a few shows I'm sure that the intelligence information coming +back through the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms people and also from other +agencies that were monitoring the gun shows that the result was not +exactly what they wanted either. More ammunition and weapons passed +through the FFL dealers and through firearms sellers at gun shows in the +three months of 1990 than in the last 15 years prior to that all sales +combined. In some cases over a million rounds of ammunition were sold +off of ammunition dealers tables. Thousands of conventional firearms, +virtually hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars worth of +equipment such as field gear, boots, uniforms, medical support items, +these were all going out and disappearing. It used to be when Fred +Schmidlap and Jim and myself would go over to the gun show we'd go in and +well let's go buy something. We'd go buy it, we'd take it home, fire it +up a little bit, we thought it was neat but it was that vogue toy for the +month. We got done with it we might take it back in, we'd sell it and +we'd go buy something else. There was a used firearms market. Today, +there is no used firearms market. There is a reason for that. +Everything that is in the hands of the people is being absorbed. This is +happening right now again. It's as if somebody cut an artery and the +weapons are just gushing out. In fact, the people cannot keep up with +demand enough. Now because of this, they are getting a tad concerned +again. The effect of the guns, drugs, drugs, guns campaign should have +been for people to just hand things over or try to dispose of the weapons +because they were fearful of being prosecuted by the government. When in +1990 it was realized that they weren't exactly going to accomplish their +original mission they had to change their time table a little we think. +By the third month it was realized that the militia forces, civilian arms +were bludgeoning it at a massive proportion. The structured forces that +were inside that were deployed, including Operation Achiles which we +mentioned before, they began to reduce their actions because of notoriety +and the fact that they were seeing more aggressive stances on the part of +the civilian population that they were attacking. Unfortunately, like +cock roaches, you can spray and they keep coming back. So by late 1992 +the latest guns, drugs, drugs, guns campaign escalated with a variety of +other actions overlapping. It's a threat to your children. Well, not if +you train your children properly. It's a threat to society. Well, this +society isn't monarchal England, it isn't pharaohic Egypt and we most +certainly aren't the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Because of +that we trust our people with firearms, in fact, we are the government, +therefore we're the ones who decide who should have firearms. I think +everybody forgets that. We the people. We have an obligation and a +responsibility. Now during this time, from late 1992 to the early part +of '93 we've seen a series of other actions take place in which firearms +confiscations, house to house, door to door have taken place. Operation +Clean Sweep in Chicago, Operation Achiles II in Cleveland, and a series +of actions that took place after the Los Angeles riots, not against the +street gangs, but against the citizens who defended their homes and their +businesses. Remember the Koreans who were on top of their roofs? +Strangely enough the government used the video tapes that were made to +track down these homeowners and they are now being prosecuted for using +their weapons to defend themselves. And this is an ongoing program. +You're not seeing this in the general media because it wouldn't exactly +bode well with the rest of us. Because of this it is realized they're +going to have to intensify, and in fact heavily intensify, their +campaign. During the earlier phases, for instance, in Chicago the black +helicopter missions that we were talking about in the early hour were +taking place extensively. We have individuals who were in high rises +were actually above helicopters flying between the high rises in Chicago, +in the windy city. These operations culminated in a final activity which +last approximately one week in which they ... off neighborhoods, went +building to building and house to house, entered forcibly if necessary +and prosecuted the owners of any firearms, ammunition, or gun parts +found. This was operation clean sweep. In Cleveland an activity which +was covered only by national public radio involved elements of the MJTF +police and probable FINCEN forces. The Ohio guard was mobilized from +several different areas in the state, transferred to an area outside the +Cleveland airport where a mount area, that's an urban warfare training +area, was set up with three neighborhoods. The units that were brought +in were trained in house to house search and seizure and securing a +neighborhood. They then went into the first training neighborhood, went +house to house, secured the neighborhood and then attacked a second +neighborhood. Once they had secured the second neighborhood they had to +hold the first two and went to get a third neighborhood. After these +elements were trained and passed through this mechanism they were +transferred to different parts of Cleveland where they were actually +deployed against the population. This happened about the same time that +the Weaver incident took place in Idaho. It was almost simultaneous. In +fact, a series of actions both in Cleveland and one here in Michigan took +place either during or shortly after the Weaver incident. Now in +Cleveland this received media coverage. In some parts of Ohio this +received media coverage. But it received no national media attention +except for one place. National Public Radio, who thought that this was +the next best thing to sliced white bread. That they had violated +people's homes, that they had gone into different parts of the city and +that they had done this. Now interestingly enough we were challenged on +this but in the last two weeks, actually I'm sorry, three weeks, when the +Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms forces came into Detroit to search house to +house in specific neighborhoods it should be noted that National Public +Radio on the 11th of March broadcast another one hour program in which +they specifically mentioned that if we can do it in Cleveland why can't +we do it in Michigan. I had to ask people when they heard this broadcast +what were they talking about. What happened in Cleveland? They knew but +nobody else did. The enemy only refers to their victories very quietly, +after they know that they have secured the action and they have been +successful. Otherwise, no comment made. The Waco situation, which was +typical of a lot of what we're going to be seeing in the future, although +I think you're going to see even more ham handedness, involved a 100 to +130 man assault company of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, probably under +MJTF authority again. It should be understood that as of March of 1989, +the ATF, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms forces were divided up into these +assault companies. Each platoon consists of 40 men armed with M16 A2 +rifle, the AR15 9mm conversion, or the M79 grenade launcher. It is now +known that these forces also include the M60 machine gun which is an +infantry battle weapon now being deployed with policing agencies. You +know like they have in Russia, ... It was interesting to note that this +assault company in Texas was identical to the type of forces that were +used during Operation Achiles in the Ohio Valley coming up into Michigan. +The forces are in all black BDU uniform. They wear the black pascat +armor, the black pascat helmet which looks quite a bit like the German +... They are armed, equipped and maintained through DOD resources. So +many of the weapons that they are provided with are actually provided by +our military. In many cases Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the FBI, DEA +are now receiving training both at Quanaco and many of them have gone +through the US Army Ranger School. That's rather exotic training for +people who are supposed to be police officers in the United States. On +the other hand, if you again need thugs, you've got to send them some +place where they can learn to be fairly efficient thugs. Many of the +people that we have had that went through ranger school in the last 1 +year said that up to 50% of their company were made up of Federal Bureau +of Investigation people and individuals who were involved with Alcohol, +Tobacco and Firearms or Drug Enforcement Agency. Now DEA, by the way, +has what we call Clet units. Clet units are directly under the control +of the Treasury and/or can be accessed by the MJTF police or FINCEN. +Clet are armed identically to the ATF combat elements and are deployed +throughout the United States and can be used overseas. DEA is now using +extensive resources from outside the United States in terms of man power +but they will not identify what the name of the organization is that is +being used. Now remember we know what FINCEN is, but nobody else is +supposed to. So it can be assumed that FINCEN is the element that is +involved. How they're deploying equipment here. Well it's kind of +strange. A lot of people said where are they. Well they're in all parts +of the United States, but we've had at least once face-to-face +confrontation with some of their people right here in Michigan. I fact, +though I can't mention names, on a given date one of our people was +attempting to use a space available flight through US Army tactical lift +command. Upon arriving at the site and giving his military ID card +somebody punched in his name, looked at him very briefly and went, +punched it in again. In a minute and a half there were two MPs behind +him. Now this site which is Sulford International Guardspace, and I will +point this out specifically because people have asked about this, the +individual was then taken and put in a car and driven around to the +southwest quadrant of the post. When he arrived there the MPs took him +out of the vehicle and as he entered the structure the first person at +the table, at the entrance desk, was an all black uniform with no +identifiable insignia or markings at all. He was then taken to an +interrogation room. At first he's going oh my goodness, what did I do. +My ID card must be messed up or something. But upon seeing the black +uniforms he understood exactly who he was dealing with. He was sat down +and the first thing that was asked how many cars do you own. How much +food do you have? How many weapons do you own? What are the names of +your children? What does 762 by 39 mm mean? And he really didn't know. +Well, he did but he didn't. He thinks in inch not in metric. And then +there was a little conference and they left the room. Well they left the +room and they left a file sitting on the table. Anybody who is involved +in the military knows you don't do that, your career rests on security. +But it should be understood that in this file, he dragged it across the +table, opens it up very quickly and there is a bit rat sheet about 2 1/2 +foot by 1 1/2 long. On this sheet was a spider web of names of people to +be arrested. My name was at the top for the state of Michigan so I can +be proud, I'm number one and I don't have to try harder. Number two, was +another individual that was with us. Number 7 is the individual who was +being questioned. All of the other lists had virtually dozens and dozens +of names. It should be understood that first of all, it was meant for +him to see this and it was a direct threat to anybody else who is prying +into the affairs of these little gusteppers. A gentleman made a little +rattling noise at the door and came back in, sat down and basically told +him we have nothing to hold you on, we're going to let you go. Walking +back out two MPs appeared, picked him up, walked him back over to +vehicle, drove him around to his vehicle and he left the post. Now +anybody who understands military documentation will understand that if +you have a classified records jacket you take a classified records sheet +and put it on top, first of all. That is if you have it just laying +around on your desk. The next thing you don't do is take a classified +document and leave it where somebody you really don't want to see it can +see it. This was meant as a direct threat. This was just before we were +involved with other meetings that we participated in that we were +illuminating people to this subject. If I keep this up they're going to +do something to me. Well I tell you what I'm not that stupid. If I'm +already on the list, as many other people are, look at it this way, +you're never going to come off that list. Okay? Your butt is in the +fire and you might as well fight and go for broke because you haven't got +any place left to run. It's that simple. Now when I worked for +intelligence I worked as an intel analyst with a TSBI clearance. I +handled a lot of classified documents. People don't operate like that +unless they're sending you a message. Now the last time I had this +happen, I will bring this up to date as far as you know activities go. +The last time I had this happen was a very interesting experience because +we started to look into the MJTF police, FINCEN, etc. And on a Friday +afternoon at 3 o'clock I had a knock at the door where I work, in my +office. I opened the door and here is campus security. And who should +be with them but the Area Director of the FBI and one of his henchmen. +And of course they wanted to talk to me. Well, let me tell you something +when the police come visit you at 3 in the afternoon you better +understand on Friday that they plan on keeping you for the whole weekend +if they can. So we sat down and we discussed, well he started to ask +questions. And the first thing he said is you have been talking with +your Representative and your Senator. Yes, I have. Well that's +interesting. Well you know if necessary we will find somebody to put you +at the scene of a crime. And they said this flat out. That's +interesting, okay. So I didn't really respond effectively to that other +than well no crime has been committed and all we're talking about here is +truth. Well. Then they started asking a lot of other questions like how +do you feel about assault weapons. I said well, well basically I've been +telling everybody to buy everything they can get their hands on and I'll +own as many as I possibly can. Why? And, of course, it was like what do +we say to that. So they weren't really sure how to respond to this. I +mean I was being very open with them for the most part. When they were +done they didn't take me away only because I didn't think they weren't +sure exactly how to figure what we, we did know that they were coming in +advance, I will say that. I had a little warning. And, it's not the +first time but we have had three different attempts where they have tried +to stop us from doing just this, informing people. Because like bugs +they hate for you to move that stone. I put a little piece up here on +the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions +who at the dawn of victory sat down to rest and resting died. While most +assuredly they are close we are just as close and they know it. They are +scared snotless of the possibility of the American people waking up. Any +possibility, anybody trying to bring forward what we are talking about +puts such a wrench in their plans that they can't afford to see this +exist. They will do everything in their power if need be probably +eliminate people but I think that is down the road. Right now they are +rather concerned, we are rather public. But they will do everything in +their power to squash this movement in its infancy. They know they +cannot afford to see this continue. We must not hesitate, on the plains +of hesitation lie the blackened bones. We must forge an organization now +at the lowest possible level. It's called the American citizen. We must +get together as a people and build. If you do not build now you will not +have the capacity later to protect your family, your livelihood, your +people. It's that simple. Now, activities, example, choppers that we +have been seeing all over the state, many people have seen them, there +were a number of sightings over the weekend. In many of our allies or +friends that we know that are in the northern part of the state have seen +virtually waves of helicopters, not five or six. At least four nights in +a row we've seen anywhere from 34 to 50 helicopters in waves going from +horizon to horizon, not in column. In one particular evening, alone, +with four people standing back to back there were so many aircraft that +the four could not count them all. Where are they coming from? Well +they're bringing a lot of assets in from overseas, most assuredly. But +part of it is being pre-deployed in Canada. There is a thing called +mundialization which I've talked about before with people. It's +mentioned in several different books, one of the most recent about George +Bush, The Establishment's Man. Mundialization, it's the conversion of a +city from being an American or a Canadian city to an international city +under the United Nations under the authority of the United Nations. In +doing so the city pays a tribute to Caesar, oh I'm sorry to the United +Nations and are under the protectorate of the United Nations. In doing +this while they most assuredly denounce their citizenship to the nation +they still get taxes from that nation. And the city and the state make a +point of still sending them those taxes which I think is rather strange. +Well originally we wouldn't have put a connection to this were it not for +the fact that we had had intelligence information that foreign aircraft +were flying out of London Ontario or near London Ontario. Well I opened +the book and I started to look at this and it says Dundus. Dundus was +mundialized. Dundus was one of the first cities mundialized in Canada. +Dundus is a suburb or like adjacent to London Ontario. They were using +the air facility near London in Dundus to transfer resources and +equipment into the United States from outside the United States. This is +very important because they have full authority has a UN affiliate. Now, +because of the amount of attention that was given to the activity in the +London area they transferred their operations to an area called Mitchell +Bay. I like this, we have a state map everywhere we go. Michigan, Mt. +Clements is located here. What we're looking at right now is Mitchell +Bay is located right across Lake St. Claire on the opposite side of the +lake in Canada. A facility was set up with POL points or petroleum, oil +and lubricant support, manning support. And what the foreign forces are +now doing is jumping from Mitchell Bay into the United States and then +flying their missions here and then going back. They come, they fly +through Mt. Clements air space ... national guard base and are not +challenged. All that the traffic controller can do is count the number +of aircraft and then they are allowed to fly anywhere inside Michigan air +space or Ohio air space. They branch out from there. Now a lot of +activity has taken place in the thumb and some of our people who checked +out the area who live in the area ... north actually communicated with +people in different parts of the state or different parts of that area of +the state and they actually said oh yes we've seen a lot of these +helicopters and we've had a lot of crashes here. Has anybody seen +anything in the media about crashes in the thumb? They refuse to even +talk about it. And we have queried the state and they will not respond. +And yet they advise us that there were at least 5 specific air crashes, +five, count them. A helicopter is not a small thing to have land in your +back yard, especially if it is in your pool or something. All of this +overlaps into what will they use the helicopters for again. Well the +choppers for control and command support can also be used as we were +discussing before, tracking and tracing. Tracking and tracing is very +difficult unless you have something to track and trace with. If you're +in your car it could be of course as we discussed the electronic ignition +system with a transponder. Most of you who have been watching the media +though, what about the chip? Now Beau Grites talked about it and even +our veterinarians in Oakland County are now talking about it. In Oakland +County, the humane society has switched over from dog tags to a microchip +that is inserted in your little puppy or in your little kitty or in your +dog when he's licensed and that dog can be traced anywhere. You can find +him no matter where he is. Not only can you find him but it has a +transponder number in it. Now I challenged people on this before. I +know people who think that their animals are more important than people. +So if you can have it done to Fido or if you can have it done to my +Fluffy why can't we do it to your child? It's that simple. Now with +this in mind the microchip which originally they were proposing with some +of the different legislation and literature that we have seen would be +inserted underneath the skin in the hand, it could also be put in the +forehead. We know the biblical reference to this, don't we people? We +also know that with the chip comes total submission. I'll remind +everybody about a little piece of revelation that everybody should read, +13. Receiving the mark is as a divorce from Christ. You'd be better off +going out and executing a few hundred people. You might be forgiven for +that. But receiving the mark is a divorce from Christ, period. There is +no forgiveness, there is no way to get out of it. You might as well eat, +drink and be merry because you are finished. Now, in California they +have already proposed this for the animals and it is already in motion, +that's where Oakland County got the idea, and there have already been +several comments about using this for instance, for welfare mothers now +and for many other people who are under the gun, already under the fist. +All the different fingers, it's like a hand, are closing and coming +together. Oh they've got the nice velvet glove on them by the way. So +it's very desirable, you know it's very fashionable, it's probably quite +chic. But in reality with all these fingers closing fewer and fewer +people will slip between those fingers. And as it finally clinches tight +there will be no escape if you are not prepared in advance. You must be +prepared in all aspects. Now, one thing that was mentioned about this +thing with the chip was CNN had a piece on about Canada where they've +already proposed this for all the exotic animals. It is a must, it is +not an option, it is mandatory. There are a lot of people that pay a lot +of money for animals. There are a lot of people, as I said before, who +think that the animals are more important than kids. And since you did +it to my Fluffy I'm going to do it to your child. In fact, it's proposed +that it be done from cradle to grave. As soon as that child is born +we've got him on the table there, Mommy can't do much about it, and away +we go. And the kid is grabbed right there. Now, I will say this, this +is something that was challenged before by people. If it is forced upon +you, if it is ultimately forced upon you it is not the same and it can be +done away with and be gotten rid of also. But to willingly, knowingly +accept this action is the worst possible thing that you could do as a +Christian. I can't, well perhaps there are one or two others but I'd +have to see the laundry list. I can't think of any worse than going over +to the other side and sticking them. There are no deals to be made. +There are no options here. Now, what value will this have? Well let's +give you an example. In the America of the future, 1994 style, or is +that '84, I keep forgetting. The books are so much the same. In 1994, +'95 what you're going to see is a variation on this little image right +here that we are putting on the screen. This is not something made by an +author such as say, a conspiracy theorist, or somebody who just picked a +map up and threw some new lines in. This document was in the Detroit +free press this last fall. It depicts the proposed borderlines for +America. I'm going to ask you something once you take a close look at +this. You'll notice they gave it some warm fuzzy names, they made it +seem real fluffy and oh we'll just change the borders a little. But this +is very important when you consider control of population groups. I +might remind you of something about this article if you read it, and if +you didn't I'll point it out. That originally this document was done by +a State Department official. This was designed to test the water to make +everybody you know see how they'd feel about this warm fuzzy attitude +about throwing the country away. This is only an intermediate guideline. +Once this is finished the next step is to go to the finalized version +which is in the United Nations charter which cuts the United States into +four pieces. We lose all of our external territories and we become a +totally subservient nation to the United Nations. Very important to +understand. This is the first step. Remember that old term? Divide and +conquer. I want to make note if you put the regional map up here you'll +understand where you saw these lines before. Now when we've tried to +demonstrate to people in the past that this is where they are going +somebody said well I've never seen anything like that. Almost as quickly +as we discussed this with people this article that was in the free press +showed up. It's probably the best single example and it's an example of +many of the damning pieces of evidence that the enemy will put forward in +their attempt to legitimate themselves. It's very important that they do +that. Now the chip of course allows you to control people for movement. +Movement is a very dangerous thing when you're free. Boy you can't +really keep track of what people are doing. You can't tax them, and tax +them out of their socks. You're not going to be able to tax them in +their food and their drink, tax them in their livelihood. We'll +paraphrase one of our founding fathers on that. Remember? Taxation, we +went to war for 10% what are we at now? We're at a lot more than 10%. +But in addition to that, movement, I'm from Area 5 I've got a chip rated +for Area 5 blue code. What am I doing in Area 10? In fact, your +internal papers don't show that you should even be here. I might mention +too that there is a reason that you shouldn't be there. You're property +of the state. The Governors' Conference of 1989 and the Governors' +Conference of 1990 which we do have on video tape, by the way, get a +chance some day we should be incorporating this on one of our talks, they +specifically stated at the Governors' Conference all 50 members who were +there and representatives of the District said that we are nothing more +than chattel. We are the property and asset of the state. Property and +assets shouldn't be allowed to just wander off, you know after all you +might want to sell them to somebody. Oh, that's slavery again, no that's +right we aren't supposed to think that way. It's that New World Order +kind of stuff. By the way, that's the salute too. I hope you've seen +this on CNN. It was on at least twice, the United Nations salute. We +like to joke, Mars. But it's true, they had to come up with a +compromise, that's it. Now with this, with the chip in control of +movement, we've got to get you on your feet. We can't have you driving +your cars. We've got a lot of environmental problems so we can drive you +out of your seats real quick with that. In addition to that to control +freedom of movement we've got to take care of this money problem. I mean +you people just spend it on the craziest kinds of things, firearms and +ammunition, and why stuff that you will just use on us, if we're the +government of course. Because of that we have to bring another finger +in, money. And to control the money we have to change it. In the first +phase if anybody has a sampling of it in their wallet and they probably +do, any of your 1990 series currency, if you will look and you can hold +it up to the light. Face the currency like this. Turn it up on end, +look under the numbers with the light. You will see a bar line inside +the paper. This is a platinum polyester microscreen bar coded element. +As we were talking about traceability with your car and with your person, +this currency was being tested and is being tested now for traceability +on your person, in your home, in your business, everywhere. This is what +we started to call the intermediate currency because this is not the +final currency. The final currency is called the blue chip dollar. The +blue chip dollar is virtually, blue. The one dollar bill will be blue, +all the others are of different colors. By what we understand there is +also a bar coding just above the 20 dollar that is printed out here. +This can be scanned two different ways. If you look around the oval of +the currency you will find that there are micro printings which repeat 20 +US 20 US 20 US. But, apparently, in the latest piece that we have seen +this may also be screened. So there are several different ways that they +can actually screen this. With 1983 technology it was possible for them +to drive by your home and from the road screen your house and identify by +the dollar amount how much cash you have in your house. This is 1983 +technology. The year is 1993. If our computers have expanded +geometrically in capacity I want to ask you another question. What do +you think they have done with the technology concerning this? And where +are they now? See what I mean? By the way, PL100-690 covers this. And +if you get a chance what you need to do is call your Senator or your, +call your Congressman, best bet. Let's do it this way. Call your +Congressman. Request a copy of PL100-690. It is a book 3/4 inch thick 7 +X 10 format. In it you will find all of this. And originally people +said well I read the law and it said they were only going to do 100s and +50s. I said bull dudu. The way the law was written at the discretion of +the Treasurer they have the capacity to do it on all currency and they +will because there were Senate hearings concerning this. C-SPAN covered +this. And during those hearings they stated uncategorically all of the +currency will be traceable. No currency will be hidden by the time +they're done and this is intermediate. This currency will be devalued +down the road. The exchange ratio will probably 6 to 1. At a 6 to 1 +exchange ratio your debts don't change but your money does. So let me +ask you this. Can you pay for food, heating, and the house at the same +time? Like the Great Depression or Germany with its hyperinflation you +get to choose between heating and eating. Which are you going to do if +you have four kids? Now it becomes a challenge doesn't it? On the other +hand, if you buy tangible products with this worthless piece of paper +developed by the federal reserve, not by us, remember this is just a +federal reserve note, this isn't really money. Use this to the greatest +possible level that you can taking advantage of volume purchasing by +getting together with those friends that you organized in the militia, +you put away munitions, food, and equipment with this before it becomes +valueless. During the transition phase you should have coin instead of +paper. Why? During a devaluation, in fact during this devaluation, in +PL100-690 it makes no allowance for the coin change. Coin will still +have a face to face value. In Israel in 1973 when they changed the +currency people who had coin ate the next week. People who had paper +were sucking air. It should be understood that you want to put a +percentage of coin in quarters, dimes, even nickels if necessary. +Whatever you can afford, half dollars and full dollars are the best way +to go. Now, it should be interesting to note that for those of you who +are trying to financially protect yourself, does anybody know about the +confiscation laws? Well we're going to get into them now. The other +finger is starting to close. This one. Now, with the existing +confiscation laws and with the banking laws in PL100-690 any instrument +cash, money order, or cashiers checks or any other negotiable instrument +that can be transferred into a bank or used by a bank is to be kept track +of by the bank against you. And it is at the discretion of the teller +and the bank as to whether or not they consider a criminal activity. +Now, the limit at this time is $10000. It may have changed. We don't +know. It could be lower. Under the original law they have the authority +to go down to every $150 transaction. At their discretion, they inform +an agency of the government and that agency can then impound and +confiscate your money. If they do this or if they decide that you have +done something that we call structuring, in other words, I decide I don't +have $10000 at a time that I spend. Okay? So over a twelve month +period I do $2000 here, $3000, $2000 again, and I'll spend another +$4000 in negotiable funds and put it in and use it in another way. If I +do that that is interpreted as structuring and at their discretion what +we call arbitrary enforcement, anybody in law enforcement understands +what this means, under civil law. Under common law you cannot have +arbitrary enforcement. Under civil law you can. But under civil law and +with arbitrary enforcement they can take this property from you and they +don't have to give it back because you have to prove that you are guilty. +You know what that is? That's British law, Kids. That's where you have +to prove your innocence. That is not the US Constitution. That is not +our Bill of Rights. Guilty until proven innocent are those little +dictator things again, the little gustepping guys ... Okay? What we +have to watch out for is you have to be very, very careful. I would not +use, not that I would ever break the law, but I wouldn't be using very +many of these bills and I wouldn't keep very many of these bills and I +get rid of them as quickly as I can. When they change, during the +transition period you will have about six weeks to turn this money in for +the new currency. In that six week period for the first time in American +history the old currency will be worthless. That's the policy of banana +republics, not a constitutional republic that is sound, using sound +currency. It is interesting to note, again, this is a federal reserve +note not a US dollar, not a gold dollar or silver dollar or silver +currency. How will they use this against us? Well, eventually once they +get the new currency then we get that mark thing incorporated. I don't +know if anybody has been watching our new socialized medicine program, I +mean the restructured medical program, but under this new socialized +medicine, restructured medical program that we're going to have it's +important to note that they are already talking about using your social +security number to determine whether or not you get service, tying all of +them together and bring them all into one number. Very important to +understand. Now, how do they all bond together? What do we do? First +of all, protect yourself, food. You know there is one funny thing about +food in a can. I haven't seen anybody killed with a frozen bag of peas +yet. Have you? And yet under new federal guidelines and federal +statutes and under state law it is a felony to store more than 6 months +food supply in your home. Under new federal guidelines and new federal +laws it is called the hoarding law. It's a PL102 series law we've got, I +don't have the number here with me, I'm sorry. But it is a 102 series +law which makes it a felony to hoard food. It might be noted also though +that there is no definition of hoarding. Are three days worth of food +hoarding? Is a week? Is a month? Ten months? Eight months? Talk to +me. I need to know. I don't have any definition here. That's where +this whole thing of arbitrary enforcement comes in. Remember that. You +can be punished for having food now. Food, some silver perhaps, silver +may not be as important as tangible items, but silver is good to have. +You and I can understand it. Gold is a little harder because such a +small amount of gold is worth so much. But tangible assets such as +silver we can understand, we can hold. Okay? Weapons, and I argue this +again and again and again. You cannot share weapons. Find wood and +steel and we talked about before. Implements that will last and can be +handed down generation to generation. Father to son, son to grandson. I +own weapons that were made in 1891 and are as accurate and are as capable +as they were when they were made. That is over 100 years old. It is a +matter of how they are maintained. Valuable are the manufactured items +that we will not be able to purchase in the future. Bring all of these +things together. Create a defense for your family and for yourselves and +for your friends. Resources of all types concerning tools. Anybody who +is a man who has worked with his hands will know what a good tool is +worth. The value of that tool, again, can be passed down from generation +to generation. And they hate that. It gets all over their bullets and +everything you know. What are they going to do? I mean we are going to, +if we do not accept the mark we are going to have to take care of +ourselves. They hate that thought of independence. They are terrorized +by the thought that we as free people will stand up. We are going to +have to do that. We're going to have to take care of manufacturing for +ourselves. We're going to have to take care of food production for +ourselves. We're going to have to take care of ammunition, weapons +requirements, reloading, something I talked about before. If you are not +into reloading yet get into reloading now. Down the road here ammunition +is going to be few and far between. Hand Gun Control, Inc. said two and +three years ago, I have Sarah Brady on tape right here in Michigan, she +said two things that everybody should remember. Number one, well when we +want to get the weapons we're going to get your ammunition first. And +the next thing she said is first we're going to get these weapons, but of +course our ultimate goal is to get everything. Her own words, and what +are they proposing now? By the way, I don't know if you have read Bill +Clinton's and Al Gore's latest book but if you haven't you should. In 4 +different chapters, and I read this all last night. Trust me, it was +written to the sixth grade level, unfortunately, and it was done in big +block print which I'm amazed considering you know our people are +supposedly better educated than we were 100 years ago. What's +fascinating is their solution to every problem at the end of every +chapter, I'll give you an example. Children, their solution, the last +two paragraphs are to pass the Brady Bill and to ban all assault weapons +because they have no legitimate hunting purpose. Crime in America, what +do you guess the last two paragraphs are? The exact same two that I saw +in the chapter before. Now don't you think this is strange that they +feel I'm so stupid they have to repeat it to me twice. Well that +wouldn't be so bad but it's four different places and it's in four +different chapters in the book and it's virtually printed identically, +one chapter after another. When you are trying to drive something to +people's brains or brainwash them you repeat something over and over and +over again. And you convince them that this is how it should be and you +make them mimic what you have said. You don't want free thinking free +willed people. It's that simple. Your enemy is using tools he has +always used before. Data, information, technical information. One thing +that has happened I've seen this happen time and time again. You must +have the written knowledge where people can access it. You as a mentor, +you have to become an educator, a student, you have to become a mentor +and educator force to teach them what to do and how to do it. To do that +you have got to have the technical data on hand. If you have a group of +ten people you must have ten copies of that knowledge. Reloading, combat +skills, farming, I don't care, whatever subject it is disperse your +knowledge. The printed word is going to be banned. Mark my word on +this. I guarantee it. It has already happened with certain books +concerning how to take care of and maintain firearms. You will see it +again. What can we do now? What are we supposed to do now? The thrust +has to be deep into the vitals of the enemy. In order to do what we need +to do at our end as citizens, one of the things I can recommend are to +throw up stumbling blocks for the enemy. We have proposed and we hope +that it is a motion now and we believe it is that at the state level we +get involved with trying to reintroduce, for instance, our state borders +into the Constitution. Our state borders aren't formulated. They are +not in the Constitution now. Why? Because these people have planned to +restructure the government. To do that they have to change the state. +This is simple. We're going to find out who our enemies are real quick. +... The people who vote this are citizens, are Americans. The people +who don't vote for this obviously have another agenda and we need to know +who those people are. Can we win? Absolutely. Will we win? It will be +a long, drawn out, rotten, nasty affair. I would prefer not to see it +all. But if we have a choice between freedom and slavery I would rather +gladly die standing on my feet with a weapon in my hand than to die in a +ditch on my knees begging that somebody won't put a bullet in the back of +my head. I do not plan on giving that legacy and leaving that to my +children. And none of you should accept that either. Together, we must +travel into the future with all of our people in tact with all of our +freedoms in tact. Without that, without our Constitution, without our +Bill of Rights we're in a pretty sorry position as far as what we are +going to hand down to the next generation. God bless the United States. +Death to the New World Order. The republic shall prevail. Goodbye.

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Jeff Walker #64 @7317 +Wed Jun 26 01:17:31 1991 +P_GEN #468 +Dt: 20-May-91 13:30 +By: Mike Keithly +To: All +Re: Letter +#501 -> +I just recieved this in the mail today, from who i dont know but here it is in +it's entirety.

+ +

THIS INFORMATION COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE AND FREEDOM +THE COMING "OFFICIAL" ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ALIEN PRESENCE ON EARTH +WHY "STAR WARS", THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE,THE SUDDEN FALL OF COMMUNISM? +______________________________________________________________________________

+ +

What is going on? Something very sinister is going on. Polls reveal that +over 90% of the americans people believe in UFO's and 95% of these people +believe the government is keeping this knowledge from the public. But Why? +Are they afraid the people will panic if an "Official" announcement were +made? Hardly. Such an announcement would create interest and excitement and +many questions, particularly by the churches, but do not panic. Why then the +continued cover-up?

+ +

There is overwhelming evidence in the past several years from "Whistle +Blowers" retired military officers who have finally said, "Enough is enough! +It's time the government told the people the truth!" These officers, such as +Navy Intelligence officer, William Cooper, Major John Lear (whose father +founded the Lear Jet Corp.) and Air Force officer William English, to name but +a few, have all discovered the truth, and at the risk of their very lives, are +trying to alert YOU to the secrets behind the UFO's and the Alien Presence on +this earth. These people worked on the secret projects, had access to +'classified' Top Secret documents , had seen with there own eyes 'captured' +aliens, or extreterrestrial entities, UFO's and the incredible technology they +brought with them.

+ +

Sightings of UFO's have been reported throughout history, and biblical and +historic references to "Flaming Chariots" huge flying 'birds' and odd looking +beings predate our history by thousands of years. In the 1940's several alien +spacecraft were recovered by the U.S. and other countries, along with a few +dead aliens and one live one they named EBE (a name suggested by Dr.Vannever +Bush and was short for Extraterrestrail Biolgical Entity). +In 1953 astronomers discoverd large objects in space which were moving toward +earth. At first they believed they were asteroids, but later evidence proved +the objects could only be spaceships. Project Sigma and Project Plato +intercepted alien radio communication and using the computer binary language, +was able to arrange a landing that resulted in face-to-face contact with alien +beings from another planet. Meanwhile, a race of human-looking aliens +contacted the U.S. Government, warning us that the aliens orbiting the equator +were hostile beings from Orion. These human-type aliens demanded we dismantle +and destroy our nuclear weapons, that we were on a path of self-destruction +and we must stop killing each other, stop polluting the earth, stop raping the +earths natural resources and learn to live in harmony with one another. +President Eisenhower rejected these demands.

+ +

. Later in 1954 the race of aliens, known as Greys, from Zeta Reticuli area in +space, who had been orbiting the equator, landed at Holloman Air Force base. +they stated their planet was dying and needed quarters on earth to conduct +genetic experiments theat might allow their race to survive; this in exchange +for certain technology. President Eisenhower met with the aliens and a +formal treaty was signed. The treaty stated the aliens would not interfere in +our affairs and we would not interfere in theirs. We would keep their +presence on earth secret; they would furnish us with advanced technology. They +could abduct humans on a limited basis for the purpose of medical examination +and monitoring, with the stipulation that the humans would not be harmed, +would be returned to their point of abduction, that the humans have no memory +of the event. It was also agreed the alien bases would be constructed +underground, beneath Indian reservations in the 4 corners area of Utah, New +Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. Another was to be constructed in Nevada in the +area known as S-4, about 7 miles south of area 51, known as 'Dreamland'. A +multi-billion dollar secret fund was organized and kept by the Military Office +of the White House, supposedly to build secret underground sites for the +President and the staff in case of military attacks.

+ +

(Ommission in post)...concluded FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and six leaders of +the 'Council on Foreign Relations, known as the 'Wise Men' and later others +from the Trilateral Commision. George Bush, Gordon Dean, and Brzezinski were +among them.

+ +

A major finding of the commision was the aliens were using humans and animals +for a source on glandular secretions, enzymes, hormonal secretions, blood and +in horrible genetic experiments. The aliens explained these actions as +necessary for their survival, that if their genetic structure were not +improved, their race would cease to exist.

+ +

The ruling powers decided that one means of funding the alien project was to +corner the illegal drug market. A young ambitious member of the Council on +Foreign Relations was approached. His name is George Bush who at the time was +preident and CEO of Zapata Oil Co. based in Texas. Zapata Oil was +experimenting with offshore oil drilling and it was arranged that the drugs +could be shipped from South America to the offshore platforms by fishing +boats, then transferred to the U.S. shore by normal transportation, thus +avoiding search by customs agents. The plan worked better than anyone +expected, and today the CIA controls all the world's illegal drug markets. One +should remember, it was George Bush who first started selling drugs to our +children. The drug money was used to finance the deep underground alien bases. + +Conclusions: the Bilderburgers, the Council on Foreign Relations and the +Trilateral Commision are the SECRET GOVERNMENT and rule this nation through +MJ-12 and the study group known as the Jason Society. +

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+Throughout history the aliens have manipulated and/or ruled the human race +through various secret societies, religion and the occult. The CFR and the +Trilateral Commision are in complete control of the alien technology and the +nation's economy. Eisenhower was the last president to know the entire +overview of the alien problem. Succeeding presidents were told only what +MJ-12 wanted them to know, and it was NOT the truth. MJ-12 presented each new +president with a picture of a lost alien culture seeking to renew itself, +build a home on this planet and shower us with gifts of technology. Each +president has bought the story hook, line, and sinker. Meanwhile, innocent +people continue to suffer unspeakable horrors at the handsof alien and human +scientists who are engaged in barbarous research that would make the Nazis +pale in comparison. As if that is not enough, many people end up as food for +the insatiable alien appetite for biological enzymes, hormonal secretions and +blood. At least 1 in every 40 Americans have been implanted with alien +devices that are used to control them if necessity calls.

+ +

By 1989 over 3 million 'Greys' are occupying these deep multi-level +underground complexes. Level 7 at Dulce is called "Nightmare Hall". They have +welched on their agreement on abducting humans; today over 25 million citizens +have been abducted and implanted, a literal army awaiting oreders to march! +(Whitley Strieber has written bestselling on his personal expierience as have +many others). For this reason other nations were informed. Within 5 months +the communist monolith Russia was dismantled to unite with the U.S. and it's +technology to fight the invasion. The Hubble Space Telescope was created to +keep a watchful eye on the invasion fleet; Star Wars technology has been +developed to hopefully stop them in outer space before they can get to the +earth.

+ +

Today, the government is on the horns of a dilemma. Too may sources are +releasing alien information. The public could get angry at continued secrecy. +So MJ-12 plans soon to make an "Official" announcement, under controlled +conditions, probably Area 51. Network TV will be called to meet the staged +'landing' of the aliens, these being the Greys. They will come bearing gifts, +technology that supposedly will heal Cancer and AIDS, retard aging, etc. They +will tell us they are 'saviors of humanity' who have come to defend the earth +against an invasion of man-eating aliens called Reptoids. This story is a LIE, +they already work for the Reptoids! Their plan is to unify the world into a +One-world Government, a 'New World Order' with the argument that only this can +defeat the invasion by Reptoids. This is a trap to enslave the world's +population. Control will be accomplished through the money system, a +universal currency controlled by certain international bankers, who for years +have been lackeys of the aliens, who seized upon their greed and lust for +wealth and power as a means to bring about their evil plan to control the +earth. (This also being the scenario predicted in the Bible's 'Book of +Revelation' wherein only those who accept the Mark of the Beast (the aliens +being the 'Beast' and the 'Mark' being some sort of laser tattoo or Credit +Card they will use, which will allow people to buy and sell goods). +Those who do not accept this 'Mark' must live outside the money system and +survive somehow on their own, through barter etc.

+ +

SO BE AWARE! ONLY YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THIS FAKE INVASIO AND FAKE RAPTURE CAN +PREVENT IT FROM HAPPENING. DEMAND THE TRUTH FROM YOUR GOVERNMENT. TELL THEM +YOU KNOW ABOUT THE ALIENS AND THAT THERE ARE GOOD ALIENS AND BAD ALIENSAND +THAT MJ-12 IS PROMOTING THE BAD ALIENS AND THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT THEY HOPE +TO CONTROL.

+ +

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Comments Concerning the Philadelphia Experiment

+ +

As I told the good DOCTOR long ago, the PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT was +a SUCCESFUL TEST of EINSTEIN'S unified FIELD equations. All matter and energy +are all manifestations of a COSMOLOGICAL influence mediated through the +MULTIPLEX SCALAR field. EINSTEIN wrote about his equations in 1932, BUT +he renounced his work because HE was AFRAID of the CONSEQUENCES that this +knowledge WOULD have on mankind. Do you know that the ATOMIC BOMB is a lie +that has been told to the public to keep us from knowing the TRUTH? The REAL +weapon is a multiplexed spatial howitzer that opens a SPACE-TIME gateway +between the core of the SUN and AS MANY AS 512 (in newer models) TARGET +points, causing COMPLETE DEVESTATION. Nuclear detonation was proved +impossible by N. TESLA in 1915; Nuclear POWER is a LIE, a retrograde form +of ENERGY caused by the accelerated NATURAL DECAY of matter. The real +principle of the MANHATTAN DEVICE (Named because it is buried underneath +the EMPIRE STATE BUILDING) designed by ALBERT einstein which destroyed the +CITY of hiroshima would lead to unlimited 'free' energy -- Which could be +tapped off any hyperspatial TANGENT line, derived from the CONSTANT PROCESS +OF CREATION OF MATTER in the interstellar medium.

+ +

My COLLEGUE Dr. JOHN LEVINSON developed HIS solutions of the UNIFIED +FIELD EQUATIONS in 1939. As such, ROTATING MAGNETIC FIELDS can create a +local STREAMING of the space-time CONTINUM, which was tested in a secret +series of experiments done underneath the BERMUDA TRIANGLE in 1940. The +OTHER end of the TEMPORAL VORTEX that we created has SKIPPED in time from +1903 and will continue to do so until 2011. It TOSSED five AMERICAN BOMBERS, +killing the crew from the effects of TIME SHEAR forward in time from 1945 to +1989, when one was DISCOVERED underneath the OCEAN. Another was FOUND ON +THE MOON by apollo astronauts. The Levinson TIME equations can be transformed +using the method invented by myself and DR. TOWNSEND BROWN to a set of SPACE +equations which allow for instanteous translation of MATTER through SPACE. +(Gene Rodenberry DESIGNED the TRANSPORTER for the syndicated program STAR +TREK in order to PREPARE the public for the concept of INSTANTEOUS +TELEPORTATION that was first successfully tested on AN american DESTROYER +called the ELDRIDGE. More on that later) ALSO, using the result of EMILY +NOETHER, instanteous translation is EQUIVALENT to reactionless propulsion; +which unfortunately creates a PROTATIONAL FIELD that KILLS humans. LIVING +matter cannot be carried on SUCH a VESSEL. AFTER too many DEATHS, we +decided to GIVE UP our CAMPAIGN of UFO MOVIES and UFO FLYOVERS when the +SOVIET UNION realized that we had solved and applied BROWNS space equations. +And when THIS technology was FOUND impossible to adapt for transportation +of LIVING MATTER. HOWEVER, TIME SHEAR effects can be REDUCED in the CASE +of INSTANTEOUS transport. HENCE, this technology is REAL. Buy shares in +the company TELEPAD that will be offered two months FROM NOW. THEY WILL +introduce a PRACTICAL transporter that the POLICE will be able to USE to +ARREST people anywhere in the world. IN TEN YEARS, this will become +availible to YOU from the PHONE COMPANY as a service that by dialing +*647351845###646412* will INSTANTLY transport any HARRASSING caller to +your FRONT DOOR.

+ +

>that the Navy decided to classify after a successful test in 1940. Were

+ +

YES, as I said, the NAVY classified this result as BEING eighteen +security levels ABOVE TOP SECRET. The NAME is SO SECRET that I don't EVEN +KNOW what this security classification are.

+ +

>some so-called Levinson Time Equations successfully applied to your knowledge +>in relation to I.A.S. work on July 22, 1943 or on August 12, 1943?

+ +

On Jully 22, 1943, the ELDRIDGE DEVICE was first ACTIVATED. It +successfully made the destroyer invisible, but it also ALTERED the crystal +structure of the metal, SHIFTING ALL IRON atoms to the ALPHA-S configuration, +making the ship HEAVIER THAN WATER: it sank to the bottom. When the power +system FAILED because of an ELECTRICAL SHORT caused by SALT WATER leakage, +the ship floated back to the surface, and the entire crew was DROWNED and +ELECTROCUTED. We did not see the effects of TIME SHEAR in this experiment, +but SPACIAL DISTORTION left as a residual effect eventually altered the +crystaline form of the IRON atoms to the OMEGA-PSI configuration which is +LIGHTER THAN AIR, and the ship blew away from our TEST DOCK and we had to +BLOW IT UP with the MANHATTAN DEVICE buried underneath the EMPIRE STATE +BUILDING (WHICH WAS in FACT the FIRST such test, predating the so-called +TRINITY test) before it would be seen by GERMAN spies, who would realize +that WE COULD NOW transform any BATTLESHIP into an INVINCIBLE BLIMP.

+ +

MOST PEOPLE think that the AUGUST 12 test of the PHILADELPHIA DEVICE +was conducted on the ELDRIDGE. This is NOT true. The real test ship was +a LARGE RUBBER RAFT. WE had DISCOVERED the CRYSTALLINE structure of metal +was altered by this kind of PARAGRAVITATIONAL field, so we allowed only +ORGANIC substances in the TEST ZONE. As it turns OUT, the presence of +a sailor's BELT BUCKLE started an ELECTROMAGNETIC REACTION that created an +INDUCED PROTATIONAL FIELD with resulting TIME SHEAR, which ONLY CREMATED +half the CREW. THEIR BODIES BURNED FOR 19 DAYS as we STOOD OUTSIDE the +field we created, unable to TURN OFF the now GROWING WARP IN THE STRUCTURE +OF REALITY.

+ +

Others were stuck in SLOW FREEZE and DEEP FREEZE for years. THEY +would just sit there, AND IF NOBODY TOUCHED THEM, THEY WOULD NOT MOVE +and soon would become INVISIBLE. Even at THIS PHASE, if you see a PERSON, +or see others LAYING HANDS UPON another, come and join them because this +man is THE MOST DESPERATE MAN IN THE WORLD. NONE of these SAILORS wants +to undego the horrors of being CAUGHT IN THE PUSH, the sensations just +BEFORE the DEEP FREEZE.

+ +

Four of our sailors entered a BAR after we FREED them from the +PROTATIONAL FIELD (which we accomplished with the help of Dr. Einstein +and Dr. Levinson and using knowledge of neutrino interactions PASSED +BACKWARDS in TIME by researchers observing the 1997 SUPERNOVA of +ALPHA CENTAURI) and then went into SLOW FREEZE. CAUGHT IN THE PUSH, +they tryed to start a fight but they SUDDENLY TURNED INVISIBLE, and +then one of them WALKED RIGHT THROUGH A SOLID WALL IN ThE SIGHT OF +HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE, HE WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN.

+ +

> +>Did anything unusual happen in physics in 1943, secret or otherwise?

+ +

NO -- WE Have BEEN advancing the REAL PHYSICS. (If your son is +TAKING what is called PHYSICS in college, talk him into taking BUSINESS +or POLITICAL SCIENCE instead. He will be MUCH happier and his SEX LIFE +will be FULFILLING. Only the CIA teaches REAL PHYSICS; what is TAUGHT +in COLLEGE is a LIE) with the HELP of ALIEN VISITORS since 1922. 1943 +Was JUST another YEAR in the advancement of OUR unified FIELD theory.

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Downloaded from AMNET (312) 436-3062 Chicago's Civil Liberties BBS +PROOF OF NATIONWIDE POLICE POLITICAL SPYING NETWORK +REVEALED IN CHICAGO LITIGATION

+ +

by Chip Berlet

+ +

The belated production of a set of correspondence files from +the Chicago Police Department Intelligence Unit (CPD/ID) has +confirmed suspicions that an informal nationwide network for +sharing political dossiers among police and private intelligence +agencies existed for several decades prior to 1975.

+ +

The documents were assumed to have been destroyed as part of +an attempt by the Chicago Police Department to sanitize their +intelligence files after a police informant warned superiors +in 1974 that a lawsuit against political spying was planned by a +Chicago coalition group called the Alliance to End Repression and +other activist groups.

+ +

"All of the agencies received from, or sent to, the Chicago +Police Department Intelligence Division information regarding the +lawful political activity of citizens," said plaintiff's attorney +Richard Gutman.

+ +

The existence of the "Transmittal Files" was inadvertantly +discovered in September of 1984 - seven years after a Federal +Judge had ordered their production in pre-trial discovery +proceedings. The files show that 159 agencies in 33 states +throughout the nation received political spying files from, or +sent such files to, the Chicago Police Department Intelligence +Division.

+ +

The agencies include 100 municipal police departments, 26 +state law enforcement agencies, 16 county sheriffs offices, and +17 other public and private agencies.

+ +

"While many concerned civil libertarians have been convinced +of the existence of politically-motivated activity by their local +police, they have frequently been frustrated by the need for +concrete proof." said Frank Donner. Donner, author of The Age of +Surveillance (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1980), the definitive work on +political surveillance in the United States, called for a +"remedial campaign to abolish such abuses."

+ +

Gutman, has been providing the police reports to lawyers +pursuing litigation against local police agencies for illegal +political surveillance. He says he is willing to discuss the +terms of a court protective order covering the material with +legitimate legal representatives of individuals or groups +contemplating such litigation. So far eleven attorneys or +representatives of legal groups have contacted Gutman for copies +of relevant documents. Numerous named individuals have asked for +and received copies of their files as well.

+ +

According to Gutman, the following examples are typical of +the material discussed in the Transmittal Files:

+ +

*The Texas Department of Public Safety ("Texas Rangers") +sought "any pertinent information related to subversive +activities or affiliations" regarding Chicago attorney Terry Yale +Feiertag. The Chicago police responded that attorney Feiertag was +employed by an organization whic provided legal aid to low income +groups and in civil rights cases;

+ +

*The Indianapolis Police Department sought "any data" +regarding Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam. The Chicago +police in response sent information about the group's lawful +anti-war activities;

+ +

*The Detroit Police Department sought information regarding +Lucy Montgomery. in response the Chicago police sent Detroit a +four-page report detailing Mrs. Montgomery's lawful political +activities.

+ +

Although the federal district court on May 4, 1977, ordered +the Chicago Police Department to produce all such transmittal +files, the files were not produced for inspection until September +25, 1984, seven years after the order. The plaintiffs in the +lawsuit filed a motion to have the Chicago Police Department held +in contempt for failing to obey the court order. Federal Judge +Susan Getzendanner denied the motion.

+ +

It is almost certain the files originally were intentionally +withheld to prevent discovery by the plaintiffs. However it is +unclear at what point in the lengthy litigation, which saw +defendants take several different legal postures regarding what +documents were covered by the discovery order, that the fact of +the files existence became lost in the mountains of paperwork.

+ +

The Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago sought to +block Gutman from providing the documents to plaintiffs +litigators in other cities. This is ironic because the current +Mayor, Harold Washington, was for many years an outspoken critic +of the CPD Intelligence Unit and its civil liberties violations. +While still a Congressional Representative and while running for +the Mayoral post, he described himself publicly as a victim of +illegal police spying.

+ +

Now, in a recent court proceeding, attorneys representing +the City of Chicago tried unsuccessfully to block paralegals +working on an ACLU spying case in California from having access +to CPD/ID materials already provided to the ACLU attorneys in +that case.

+ +

The City of Chicago attorneys successfully blocked release +of files relating to Michigan to Michigan state representative +Perry Bullard. Bullard, Chairperson of the Michigan House +Judiciary Committee, had requested access to the files to +evaluate "the necessity for new state legislation regulating +surveillance by Michigan state and local law enforcement +agencies." Judge Getzendanner, who has expressed thinly-veiled +displeasure from the bench that the case remains on the docket, +ruled that a subpoena from the Michigan legislative body would be +required.

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PLAYERS AND PAWNS: THE PERSIAN GULF WAR

+ +

By JACOB G. HORNBERGER

+ +

For the greater part of this century, the United States +government has plundered, looted, and terrorized the American +people through the Internal Revenue Service. It has +surreptitiously stolen people's income and savings through the +Federal Reserve System. It has brutally enforced--through +fines and imprisonment--rules and regulations governing +people's peaceful economic activities. In a very real sense, +ours is a government which has been--and is--waging a terribly +immoral and destructive war against its own people.

+ +

Yet, Americans continue to delude themselves. Harkening back +to their high-school civics classes, they continue to believe +that America is the land of the free--that the welfare-state, +planned-economy way of life was formed in 1787--and that their +government is founded on moral and benevolent principles. Like +the cancer patient who undergoes a denial stage upon being +told of his disease, Americans refuse to face the truth: that +they are not free--that they have abandoned the principles of +limited government, private property, and unhampered markets +on which this nation was founded--and that our government is +now based on evil and morally degenerate principles.

+ +

But many Americans who know the truth have concluded that our +kakistocracy, through its liberation of Kuwait, miraculously +reformed itself into a good and honorable government. Let us +review the record.

+ +

Among the panoply of reasons given by the U.S. government to +justify its intervention in the Middle East was its professed +concern for the Kuwaiti people. But the evidence establishes +that our government has even less concern for the well-being +of foreign citizens than it has for its own citizens.

+ +

For many decades, our government has used money which has been +plundered and looted from the American people to give foreign +aid to brutal tyrants--knowing that such money would be used +to tyrannize the people who lived under such tyrants. Ours is +a government which delivered millions of dollars to the Shah +of Iran--despite its knowledge that the money was being used +to torture and kill the Iranian people . . . which actively +supported Saddam Hussein--despite its knowledge of his +aggressive acts against Iranians and his murderous conduct +against his own people . . . which embraces Mikhail +Gorbachev--despite its knowledge of his aggressive acts +against Lithuanians and the murderous acts of this barbaric +communist against his own people . . . which willingly shakes +one of the bloodiest hands in the Middle East--that of Hafez +Assad of Syria--despite its knowledge of his aggression +against the Lebanese and the brutal killing of thousands of +his own people . . . and which feels right at home with the +savage, communist tyrants of China--despite their long-time +aggression against the Tibetans and their murderous conduct +against their own citizenry.

+ +

And Americans have yet to confront another uncomfortable +reality: that the same evil, immoral, and tyrannical +government which reigns supreme in our domestic affairs has +omnipotent power over our lives and fortunes in foreign +affairs as well. Remember--the President sent hundreds of +thousands of American troops into war without seeking +congressional approval. (Many Americans do not realize that a +military blockade is an act of war.) By the time congressional +approval was sought, the President had already--by placing +American troops in harm's way--effectively cornered the +Congress and the American people into supporting his +unilateral decision. The subsequent debate concerned only the +method by which the war was to be waged--not whether or not +the war would be waged. Moreover, the President made it +abundantly clear that the congressional vote was, in any +event, only window dressing--that he would order an attack on +Iraq regardless of the outcome of the vote.

+ +

Why is all of this important? Because the American people must +be made to realize what they have wrought for their children, +and their children's children, who will probably have to pay +the price: a nation whose ruler has the same omnipotent powers +over the lives and fortunes of the citizenry as those +exercised by the most powerful dictators in history.

+ +

During the Persian Gulf crisis, the U.S. government preached +the importance of the rule of law. But our government itself +violated the rule of law by ignoring the U.S. Constitution, +not only with respect to waging war without a Congressional +declaration of war, but also by exercising a power--policing +the world--that the Constitution does not authorize.

+ +

And our government also failed to explain how the rule of law +is supposed to be followed in international affairs. Was the +U.S. government following the rule of law when it mined +Nicaraguan harbors? If so, why did the World Court enter a +monetary judgment against our government for what it adjudged +to be an illegal act? And if our government does have such a +principled devotion to the rule of law, why then has it +refused to comply with the World Court's judgment?

+ +

The simple truth is that there is no mechanism by which +international disputes among non-consenting, independent, +sovereign nations can be adjudicated. (And the United Nations +is not a judicial body designed to resolve such disputes; the +Persian Gulf crisis showed that its votes are delivered in the +same way as those in the U.S. Congress--to the highest bidder +for cash or other consideration.) Does the lack of such a +mechanism justify aggression against another nation-state-- +whether it be our government's invasion of Panama or Iraq's +invasion of Kuwait? No. But it does show two things: that for +the foreseeable future, nation-states (including the U.S.) +will continue to resolve their disputes through military +force, and, second, that the U.S. government's moralizing +on the importance of following the rule of law in +international affairs only evidences its own hypocrisy.

+ +

The opportunity to serve as the world's policeman is a dream +come true for the military-industrial complex--that is, those +who are dependent on military welfare. With the collapse of +communism in Eastern Europe, the military welfare-recipients +were in a state of panic. How could they now justify the +tremendous tax burden associated with a huge, standing +military force? This concern and panic were best evidenced by +the Pentagon's eagerness to involve itself in the government's +"war on drugs"--after years of refusing to do so.

+ +

But to be able to serve as the world's policeman--especially +in the Middle East--now guarantees total political and +bureaucratic control over the lives and fortunes of the +American people for the indefinite future. Why? Because war +and the threat of war always and inevitably entail omnipotent +power over the citizenry. Moreover, brutal foreign tyrants +against whom such wars can be waged are never in short supply +--and especially not in the Middle East! And what better place +(from the standpoint of the military-industrial complex) to +have the mission of establishing peace and stability than in a +part of the world which has never known peace and stability?

+ +

By becoming the world's policeman whose primary beat is the +Middle East, those who are on the military dole have ensured +themselves perpetual existence--and perpetual control over the +lives and property of the American people.

+ +

And, of course, it is the American people who are the pawns in +all of this. Innocently believing that their government +miraculously has become good and moral overnight, they +ardently support its omnipotent power over their own lives and +fortunes--the same way they have done in their government's +futile and destructive wars on poverty, illiteracy, and drugs. +But Americans ignore two important things: first, their role +as pawns and, second, that pawns can and will be sacrificed +whenever the political and bureaucratic chess players in +Washington deem it necessary for the "international good."

+ +

Is there an answer to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait based on +principles of individual freedom and limited government? Yes. +And it is an answer which is also based on the principle of +individual responsibility.

+ +

The power of our government to intervene in both domestic and +foreign affairs should be strictly constrained through express +constitutional limitations. In domestic affairs, this means +the end of the welfare-state, planned-economy way of life. In +foreign affairs, this means the end of foreign aid, the end of +our government's ability to wage trade wars, and the end of +its role as the world's international policeman. The power of +our government should be constitutionally limited to three +primary functions: protecting the American people from +domestic criminals, defending the United States from foreign +attack, and resolving disputes which arise in this nation.

+ +

And the American people? They should be free to travel and +trade all over the world without the permission and +interference of their own governmental officials . . . and to +donate their own lives and fortunes to oppose tyranny and +oppression anywhere in the world. Does this mean that the +American people would have to take responsibility for their +beliefs and convictions? Of course--but isn't that the type of +society which we desire?

+ +

Freedom for Americans is possible in our lifetime. But it will +only come when they finally realize that people are not free-- +and can never be free--under either a welfare state or a +warfare state. And when the American people finally make their +own freedom their highest political end, they will discover +what only a select few in history have discovered: that true +personal pride and self-esteem come from the achievement of +one's own freedom--not vicariously through the military +conquests of one's government.

+ +

Mr. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of +Freedom Foundation. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +From the July 1991 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1991, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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From: pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce) +Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.save.the.earth,alt.individualism +Subject: A plutonium economy vs. a free democracy + 1992Nov20.020820.1559@cs.ucla.edu +Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 02:08:20 GMT +Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department +Lines: 269

+ +

[From "The Russian Threat, Its Myths and Realities" (c) 1983, +Gateway Books, London, by Jim Garrison and Pyrae Shivpuri, pp 231-236.]

+ +

The growing erosion of civil liberties in Western Europe and the +United States is closely linked with the nuclear energy-nuclear +weapons complex, which mandates a psyche all its own. This complex +creates the necessity for secrecy on the one hand and greater +protection of investment on the other. Not only are there high +financial and environmental risks but also potential ramifications +beyond national boundaries. Because of the 'plutonium culture' +generated by the nuclear complex, the age old dilemma of striking a +balance between state authority and the rights of the individual is +being forced to opt for increasing state control, and diminishing +individual freedom. The plutonium culture allows for no other +choice. +Each operating nuclear reactor produces between 400 to 600 pounds +of plutonium waste each year. Less than one millionth of a gram, if +ingested, can cause cancer and/or genetic mutation. Twenty pounds, +if properly fashioned, can be made into a nuclear bomb. Because of +this, *the different aspects of the plutonium economy must be as +tightly guarded as nuclear weapons themselves*. Nuclear weapons are +kept at military facilities generally away from population centres +and specifically under guard in a military system predicated upon +discipline, hierarchy and authoritarian leadership. Similar +protection for the 'atoms for peace' programme will have a +devastating impact upon the democratic freedoms and civil liberties +of the citizens. +The potential problem with the plutonium economy and its relation +to human freedom has been succinctly expressed by a statement made by +Dr. Bernard Feld, Chairperson of the Atomic and High Energy Physics +Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology:

+ +

Let me tell you about a nightmare I have. The Mayor of +Boston sends for me for an urgent consultation. He has +received a note from a terrorist group telling him that they +have planted a nuclear bomb somewhere in central Boston. The +Mayor has confirmed that 20 pounds of plutonium is missing +from Government stocks. He shows me the crude diagram and a +set of the terrorists outrageous demands. I know--as one of +those who participated in the assembly of the first atomic +bomb--that the device would work. Not efficiently, but +nevertheless with devastating effect. What should I do? +Surrender to blackmail or risk destroying my home town?[9]

+ +

The dangers are real, so real that government planners in every +country with nuclear programmes have undertaken steps to be prepared +for Dr. Feld's scenario. In 1975, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission +(NRC) commissioned a specific study of the problem. One of the +participants, Professor John Barton, Professor of Jurisprudence at +Stanford University Law School, prepared a paper entitled +'Intensified Nuclear Safeguards and Civil Liberties.' The document +began by stating that:

+ +

Increased public concern with nuclear terrorism, coupled with +the possibility of greatly increased use of plutonium in +civilian power reactors, are leading the US Nuclear +Regulatory Commission (NRC) to consider various forms of +intensified safeguards against theft or loss of nuclear +materials and against *sabotage*. The intensified safeguards +could include expansion of personnel clearance programs, a +nationwide guard force, *greater surveillance of dissenting +political groups,* area searches in the event of a loss of +materials, and creation of *new barriers of secrecy* around +parts of the nuclear program.[10]

+ +

It is important to be clear what the above statement implies. The +governments supporting nuclear power are attempting to protect the +plutonium economy from two perceived enemies: first, those who would +use the nuclear materials to terrorise the country through some type +of nuclear sabotage; and second, those who seek to stop nuclear +power, meaning anti-nuclear 'dissenting political groups'. This +requires a nationwide guard force to be created specifically to deal +with any terrorism and the erection of new barriers of secrecy around +the nuclear programmes to keep public knowledge and participation at +a minimum. Both sets of enemies would be subject to greater +surveillance through electronic listening devices such as phone taps. +In Britain, for instance, it is accepted as a matter of course +that anyone working for the Atomic Energy Authority be 'positively +vetted' before being appointed. The Official Secrets Act, moreover, +allows the government and the atomic industry to keep the nuclear +installations cloaked in secrecy and the employees forbidden to +communicate anything about their work. In 1976, Britain also became +the first country to establish by law a nationwide guard force of +constables under the direct control of the atomic authorities in +order to guard nuclear facilities and specifically the plutonium +stores. This guard force has privileges in relation to carrying +weapons not granted to any other British police unit. Indeed, so +sensitive are these privileges that under the Official Secrets Act, +information about them has not been made available to the public. +This force is mandated not only to guard against possible terrorism +but to keep tabs on 'dissenting political groups.' +Jonathan Rosenhead, of the London School of Economics, points out +that this type of political control is very easily overlooked by the +general populace because it is specifically designed and intended to +be used as inconspicuously as possible. In America, political +scientists refer to this technique as the "politics of the iron fist +in the velvet glove." "What the ruling groups prefer", he says,

+ +

is to produce a situation in which no one dares oppose their +plans. Their favourite methods are therefore to exploit +people's dependence on consumer goods and on their jobs and +exercising prevention controls by means of intensive +surveillance. In the event of open conflict breaking out in +spite of that, they would hope at least to contain it by +'limited operations.'[11]

+ +

What needs to be remembered in assessing this state of affairs is +that plutonium, if it is to be used, must be protected by police +state methods. We just cannot have something that can be used for +nuclear bombs and can damage and mutate human life with the +lethalness of millions of cancer doses per pound floating about in a +free society. *A plutonium economy and a free democracy are a +contradiction in terms.* This is a fact that has been recognised by +leading legal experts and politicians alike. Writing in the "Harvard +Law Review," Russell Ayres states flatly that 'plutonium provides the +first rational justification for widespread intelligence gathering +against the civilian population.'[12] The reason for this is that +the threat of nuclear terrorism justifies such encroachments on civil +liberties for 'national security' reasons. It is inevitable, +therefore, says Ayres, that "plutonium use would create pressures for +infiltration into civic, political, environmental and professional +groups to a far greater extent than previously encountered and with a +greater impact on speech and associated rights". Sir Brian Flowers, +in Britain, has come to similar conclusions. At the end of his +environmental impact statement for the plutonium economy in the +United Kingdom, known as the Flowers Report, he made it quite clear +that Britain could not have both plutonium and civil liberties. +Rather, he said, to adopt the plutonium economy would make +'inevitable' the erosion of the freedoms that British people had +fought for over the centuries and have come to assume and accept as +inalienable rights. +What is happening to Western Europe and the US should not be seen +as an abnormal occurrence; rather, it should be viewed as the +*logical progression* of what the adoption of the plutonium economy +in any country implies. There are certain psychological implications +inherent in the use and development of nuclear weapons. There are +direct physical results on both workers and public alike from the +nuclear fuel cycle. So, too, the plutonium economy makes inevitable +the erosion of human rights. +Observers in the Netherlands and West Germany refer to the decline +of the "Rechtsstadt" (meaning a state guided by laws which are both +just and accepted) and the rise of the "Machtstadt," where state +authority is based on power equations. In the US, it is sometimes +referred to as a 'national security state'. We prefer the term +"totalitarian democracy" to characterise the governments of the US +and Western Europe. It denotes a governmental system of +parliamentary democracy within which the official bureaucracy, the +police, and the legal authorities are vested with almost total power +over the individual. +It has been apparent for some time that the drive in the West for +all-out growth, dictated by the need for capital accumulation and +profits, has been creating problems that existing institutions, be +they national or international, are simply not equipped to handle. +These include:

+ +

* the alienation through and ruthlessness of the +multinational corporations;

+ +

* the frustrations of an economy where automation and +machinery are replacing human skills and ingenuity;

+ +

* the gnawing fears and anxieties aroused by the 'diseases +of affluence,' notably cancer, heart disease and stress;

+ +

* and the looming threat of environmental destruction, be +it at the local or planetary level, from chemical +pollution, or the plutonium economy.

+ +

As long as the boom lasted, and Western affluence was sustained +these pressures could be ignored. But that 'boom-balloon' has burst. +The energy crisis is deepening. The economic reality of increased +unemployment and inflation is becoming more and more depressing. The +pressures of burgeoning populations, as also the youth demanding +employment and a piece of the good life, are becoming unbearable. +In order to survive this 'crisis of capitalism', the dominant +forces in industry and government are forcing through a ruthless +restructuring and re-grouping of the economic system. In Western +Europe this is reflected in the wholesale writing-off of vast sectors +of traditional industry such as steel and textiles and the resultant +social decline of whole areas. The trend is to form blocs such as +the EEC but this in turn places increased strain on the member states +and does little more than paper over the fundamental problems with +another layer of bureaucracy. Under this weight, the welfare state +that grew up in the decades after World War II is being dismantled, +to squeeze just a bit more money to spend, as often as not, on more +weapon systems. In the process, yet another safety net is removed +for the individual who is the victim of the capitalist system. If it +is any consolation, Marxism hasn't come up with any answers either. +Those in power know they have no way to solve the problems or meet +the demands of their youth, of the millions of unemployed, of the +anti-nuclear movement, of the populations in economically depressed +areas, of the victims of industrial disasters, or of any other +discontented groups. The only valid answers are ones which involve +fundamental changes in our thinking and in our system itself, and +these are ones which those in power are not in a position to offer. +So they placate their constituencies with promises which they know +they cannot fulfil. +This only adds to the frustration of those who can no longer wait. +The next stage after fruitless protest cannot fail to be a challenge +to that part of the system of which the individual has become the +victim. If this challenge is met with either refusal or with +repression, the frustration of those in protest can lead to violent +action. Protest by violence against the system which cannot meet +their demands when peacefully presented is labelled by those in power +as 'terrorism.' +Foreseeing this scenario, the reaction of the dominant groups is +to proclaim the necessity to prepare in time to deal effectively with +those who are discontented. When there are violations that cannot be +put right, then freedom to criticise and, in the end, democracy +itself become hostage to 'effective governance.' It is an axiom of +history that when the people begin to question the right of their +leaders to govern, the leaders question the right of the people to +question. +The irony of this situation within the conflict of East-West +relations is that although the starting point of their analyses are +different, the conclusions drawn by the Soviet leaders and the +governing groups in the West are the same: both regard effective +governance as being hindered by a genuine democratic government. The +result in the East has been the 'dictatorship of the proletariat'; +in the West, 'totalitarian democracy.' +While it is true that the system of repression in the West is not +as extensive or as brutal as in the East, except in isolated cases, +what is necessary to remember is that the *mentality* of the +oppressor, whether in the Kremlin or in 10 Downing Street or in the +White House, is the same. What is different are the *mechanisms* +which oppress the people below. In both cases what is achieved is +the setting up of a *standard of behaviour* which, because there are +no alternatives allowed, becomes the *pattern of behaviour.* This +creates a dangerous person-into-machine social norm. In the Soviet +Union this has been done with a ruthlessness that needed only the +unity and discipline of the Party; in the West mass control has been +achieved by subtle manipulation that needs either public ignorance or +public apathy to be effective. Social control is justified, +particularly as far as the plutonium economy is concerned, by the +over-riding necessity to avoid the catastrophe which might occur +either through carelessness, disobedience, or 'terrorism.' This +cultivated attitude enables the Western technocrats to represent +themselves to the public as the guardians of the society in the +emergency situation they themselves inspired and engineered. +The tragedy of the Russian people is the suffering of individuals +endowed with a passion for personal freedom so profound as to verge +on the anarchic, and yet who have been forced to live under a +despotism resolutely intent upon the suppression of that freedom. +The tragedy unfolding in the West is of a people who achieved +liberty at great cost, but who now, faced with the despotism inherent +in the plutonium economy, are abnegating it. They are rendering +themselves subservient to those few who wish to build a national +security state supplied with nuclear energy and armed with nuclear +weapons. Our leaders are depriving us of the very liberties they +have been entrusted to defend. Moreover, they are manipulating the +'Russian threat' to justify such actions, all the while claiming that +they are protecting democracy. Never before have so few asked so +many for so much for the sake of so little.

+ +

[9] In Robert Jungk, "The Nuclear State," trans. Eric Mosbacher, +London, 1979, pp. 118, 19.

+ +

[10] "Intensified Nuclear Safeguards and Civil Liberties," Nuclear Reg. +Comm. Cont. No. AT(49-24)-0190, Washington, DC, 31 Oct. 1975, p. 1.

+ +

[11] In Jungk, "Nuclear State, op. cit., p. 132. + +[12] In Ibid., p. 142 +

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+The Police State

+ +

by MC5 & MC11

+ +

The United States ranks number one in the world in highest per +capita imprisonment, according to the Bureau of Justice +Statistics of the U.S. government.

+ +

A private research organization called the Sentencing Project +reported in January that the United States imprisons a higher +proportion of its population than does any other country. +Using statistics provided by the U.S. Department of Justice +(DOJ), the organization reported that more than one million +people are currently incarcerated in the United States. That +means 426 incarcerations per 100000 residents as of June 30, +1989. South Africa ranked second with 333 and the Soviet Union +came in third with 268. In Europe the figures range from 35 to +120 per 100000. Asian countries range from 21 to 140. For +Black males the figure is 3109 per 100000 in the United +States and 729 per 100000 for South Africa.(1)

+ +

But throwing so many people behind bars hasn't done much to +stop crime. Since 1980 the United States has doubled its +prison population, and overall crime only fell 3.5 percent, +according to the DOJ. The nation's murder rate is seven times +higher than most European countries. Over the last decade, six +times as many robberies and three times as many rapes were +committed in the United States as there were in what used to +be West Germany, the Sentencing Project report said.(1)

+ +

Following the release of these statistics, the mainstream +press and a few Democrats vomited up a spate of liberal +editorials and columns, railing against the burden on the law-abiding tax-payers (about $16 billion a year, according to the +DOJ) that such massive repression creates, and the need to +find a different solution.

+ +

"We've got to stop jailing and start rehabilitating," Rep. +John Conyers (D-Michigan) declared.(1)

+ +

Prisons don't work +Confronted with such glaring statistics, some liberals come to +the correct conclusion: putting people in prison does not +deter anyone from committing crimes. The problem with the +liberal response is that it fails to recognize both crime and +the criminal justice system as political problems. Amerika's +ruling class defines "crime" as anything that may threaten its +hold on power. Anyone attempting to rectify the vast income +inequalities inherent in the capitalist system (through means +not sanctioned by the bourgeoisie) is locked up. Anyone not +respecting the god-given "right" to private property is locked +up. And certainly, anyone attempting to undermine the very +foundations of the capitalist state is thrown behind bars as +soon as that person becomes a serious threat.

+ +

MIM is not attempting to analyze all of the roots of crime in +Amerika in this article. But the fundamental root is that +under capitalism some classes of people cannot meet their +basic needs by abiding by the laws of the system. Reforming +the prison system and turning to more "humane" forms of +"rehabilitation" will not stop crime in Amerika. Only a +revolution will.

+ +

Police don't work either +Those who realize that prisons do not deter crime often argue +that instead of more prisons, Amerika should have more police. +But the number of police that a city hires does not affect the +crime rate. If a city hires more police than its neighboring +city, it is just as likely to have a high crime rate as its +neighbor.(2)

+ +

Studies comparing different cities, as well as studies of one +city with different size police forces, both demonstrate that +over time, hiring police is not a solution to crime.

+ +

As one might suspect, if there were no police or if everyone +were a police officer it would make a difference. But outside +of these extremes it does not matter how many police there +are. In the real world of the wide range of U.S. cities, it +does not matter to the crime rate how many police officers +there are.(2)

+ +

Revolution +Amerikans have a very hard time thinking rationally about +crime. Unlike other countries without rugged individualist +frontier pasts and settlers on their own pieces of land, the +Amerikan people have a strong belief in people making it on +their own.

+ +

Despite the reality that Euro-Amerikans committed genocide +against Native-Americans to obtain their farmland in the +United States, the myth arose of the rugged frontierperson +"making it" through hard work. That mythology carries forward +in another way today in the United States: the United States +has the largest middle class in the world. This class of +people makes the United States even more individual-minded +than other capitalist countries in the world.

+ +

Crime is a political problem. It cannot be solved by the +current political system because politicians have to say and +do what is popular with the middle class and upper class. They +are the firm believers in blaming individuals for their lack +of determination to work hard, uphold good morals, and so on. +These middle and upper class people believe they have achieved +their good position through their individual merits. Hence, +criminals must be people without these merits and should be +locked up.

+ +

As the prison population soared over the last decade, the +proportion of citizens who said they believed criminals were +not punished harshly enough increased from more than 70% of +the population to more than 80%.(3) Putting people in prison +makes many middle-class people feel good. But capitalist +attempts to justify their criminal justice system don't solve +the problem.

+ +

Some Trotskyist groups uphold the dogma that the working +classes in the imperialist countries like the United States +are most advanced because they live in the most technically +advanced societies. Yet it is the pervasive individualism of +the U.S. working class that made it possible for George Bush +to win his election merely by referring to a Black rapist in +his political advertisements. Far from being advanced, the +Amerikan working class falls prey to fascist anti-crime +politics far more readily than most other working classes with +the possible exception of the South African white working +class.

+ +

In other societies the problem is not so bad, especially in +societies without a middle-class of white workers who benefit +from the plunder of the Third World. For more on this subject +read J. Sakai's Settlers: The Mythology of the White +Proletariat and H.W. Edwards's Labor Aristocracy: Mass Base +for Social Democracy. These books explain why white workers as +a group enjoy a different relationship to the means of +production than other working classes. It is the absence of a +white proletariat that partly explains the attitudes of the +U.S. public toward crime.

+ +

People who want to go on tolerating murder, rape, teenage +suicide, wife-beating, drug-dealing, alcoholism and property +crimes of the criminally deprived should go on blabbering +about more cops, prisons and death penalties. People who +really want to "get tough" on crime should get tough with +their analysis first. They should join MIM to work against the +causes of crime and all other oppression.

+ +

Notes: +1. New York Times 1/7/91, p. A14. +2. John E. Conklin, Criminology, 3rd ed., (New York: MacMillan +Publishing Company, 1989), p. 438. +3. Washington Post National Weekly Edition 3/4/91, p.29.

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POLITICALLY CORRECT THINKING AND STATE EDUCATION

+ +

By RICHARD M. EBELING

+ +

You may recall seeing the December 24, 1990, issue of Newsweek +on the newsstands. The cover had a granite wall with raised +lettering, spelling out the words, "Thought Police." If you +read the article, you learned about something called +"politically correct thinking."

+ +

A growing number of institutions of higher learning around the +country have been establishing new and stringent linguistic +and behavioral guidelines for their students and faculties. +All words and actions that may in any way be interpreted to +contain racial, sexist or homosexual slurs carry increasingly +severe penalties. For students, it can mean anything from a +financial fine to expulsion from the school. For faculty, it +can mean grounds for dismissal, denial of tenure or lack of +promotion.

+ +

From the Newsweek article, the innocent and uninformed reader +would have gained the impression that this new form of thought +police was merely the temporary, if irritating, excesses of a +few campus administrators, faculty members and students trying +to redress the racist and sexist insensitivities of the past.

+ +

Even the discussion in the article about the often dramatic +changes being introduced into core liberal arts curricula at +these institutions was made to seem as merely the movement +towards a more pluralistic view of man, society and culture. +The dominant focus in liberal arts education on Western +culture and tradition will now be modified. Other cultures, +other world philosophies, other conceptions of man and +community will be presented on an equal footing with the +European and American contributions to the human heritage.

+ +

And what about the "thought policemen"? Newsweek ended the +topic with an article by a young man who had been a thought +policeman at one of these campuses. He assured the readers +that he and others were merely trying to raise the +consciousness of their fellow students so that they would be +more aware of the "oppressiveness" of traditional language. +What if students were not interested in attending the +"reeducation" programs on campus? The author said, "Attendance +wasn't mandatory, but did we know who wouldn't show? You bet."

+ +

Contrary to the general impression that Newsweek conveyed, the +movement for "politically correct thinking" is potentially one +of the most dangerous intellectual currents in American +academia today. Some of the recent books that explain what its +proponents are all about include Destructive Generation by +David Horowitz and Peter Collier, Tenured Radicals by Roger +Kimball, and The Hollow Men by Charles Sykes.

+ +

What is the world-view of these advocates of "politically +correct thinking"? In an excellent article entitled, "The +Storm over the University," which appeared in the December 6, +1990, issue of The New York Review of Books, the well-known +philosopher John Searle gave a succinct summary:

+ +

"The history of 'Western Civilization' is in large +part a history of oppression. Internally, Western +civilization oppressed women, various slave and serf +populations, and ethnic and cultural minorities +generally. In foreign affairs, the history of Western +civilization is one of imperialism and colonialism. The +so-called canon of Western civilization consists in the +official publications of this system of oppression, and +it is no accident that the authors in the 'canon' are +almost exclusively Western white males, because the +civilization itself is ruled by a caste consisting almost +entirely of Western white males."

+ +

As the authors to whom I have referred demonstrate, many of +the proponents of "politically correct thinking" in American +academia are refugees and exiles from the leftist political +causes of the 1960s--for example, they who resisted American +intervention in Vietnam because they supported socialist +revolution in the Third World. They protested against "the +establishment" at home because they hated capitalism and saw +themselves as the vanguard of a coming "people's democracy" +that would replace the existing "fascist Amerika"; and because +they hated the "commercial society" and resented the +"oppression" of market relationships.

+ +

Unable to win their war in the streets or in the political +world, they retreated into the halls of ivy, which they now +increasingly dominate. Everything they dislike is the product +of "white capitalist power." Everything they cherish is found +in the non-market communalism and collectivism of the Third +World.

+ +

They use all the standard Marxian ideological and linguistic +tricks. Language has no inherent objective meaning; words are +tools of "class," "race" and "sexual" exploitation. Truth is +not merely difficult to discover; it, in fact, does not exist. +The claim that there are universal truths about man, society +and nature--truths that are valid for all people in all +places at all times--are philosophical tricks used by the +"ruling class" to get the masses to accept their inferior +stations in life and view their oppression and exploitation as +both inevitable and necessary.

+ +

Even to think or speak in terms of individuals and individual +rights is considered suspect; any person who does so is either +the victim of or the apologist for the male, capitalist +exploiting class. The rulers wish to deceive us into thinking +about ourselves as "mere individuals" so they can hide from +view the race, sex and class relationships that are the actual +foundations of the existing social order.

+ +

The perversity of this view, of course, is that Western +civilization has, in fact, been the most liberating cultural +force in human history. It was ancient Judaism that told +earthly rulers that there is a Higher Law and a Higher +Morality than any man can create; and every man, as a creation +of God, has recourse to that Higher Law and Morality against +the tyranny of worldly rulers. It was Christianity that taught +that every man is unique and precious in the eyes of God; that +no worldly ruler may set himself between the individual and +his relationship to God. Thus, Judaism and Christianity laid +the foundation for our modern principles of individual freedom +of thought and action.

+ +

From the ancient Greeks, Western man gained his appreciation +of and confidence in the power of his reason to understand and +master the forces of nature. And from the Romans have come our +tradition of natural law and the rule of law.

+ +

It is modern capitalism that has created the moral order of +voluntary and peaceful relationships among men. It is the +market economy that has generated the prosperity and +opportunities that are liberating both the body and spirit of +increasingly larger numbers of human beings of all races and +religions around the globe.

+ +

In terms of freedom, prosperity and the promotion of human +dignity, Western civilization wins hands down against every +other civilization in human history. This is precisely why the +proponents of "politically correct thinking" wish to banish +open discourse and cross-cultural ethical and philosophical +comparison. Only by denying that such comparisons are +possible, and only by impugning the motives of those who +oppose them can they win--in other words, a victory through +intellectual sleight of hand.

+ +

What about the opponents of "politically correct thinking"? +Their arguments are usually sound and their defense of Western +culture meritorious. But their strategy, in my opinion, is +wrong. They hope to defeat the "cultural leftists" of academia +through appeals to the constitutional right of "freedom of +speech" or through political counterattacks in the university +structure designed to recapture the halls of ivy.

+ +

While the ideologues of "politically correct thinking" are not +limited to state-run universities, as Charles Sykes' expose of +Dartmouth College revealingly demonstrates, it is there that +the battle needs to be fought and won.

+ +

But the answer is not to capture the state universities for +"the Right." Rather the answer is to defeat the cultural +leftists by denying them the source of their power: the +socialist educational system. State universities dominate +higher education in the United States. And what government +does not control directly, it indirectly controls and +manipulates through the regulations that come with government +grants and scholarships to nominally private schools. (My +employer, Hillsdale College, is practically the only +institution of higher learning in America that takes no +government money in any form and, as a result, is totally +independent of government control.)

+ +

Eliminate government-provided and subsidized education, and +these economically privileged and politically protected +islands of philosophical collectivism will be forced to fight +for their financial support in a marketplace of ideas. It +would be a marketplace in which they would have to persuade +the consumers of education that what they have for sale is +actually worth the price of admission. The cultural leftists +would no longer have their ideas subsidized by the general +taxpaying public. They would no longer have a protected corner +of the intellectual market through their special-interest +influence on the socialized educational process.

+ +

Parents and students who desired an education inspired and +policed by "politically correct thinking" would be asked to +pay for the opportunity. Those who preferred a traditional +liberal arts education emphasizing the Western heritage would +be asked to do the same. The entire controversy would be +diffused because it would be depoliticized through the +privatization of education. And in a real marketplace of +ideas, I personally have little doubt about which of the +intellectual alternatives would tend to capture the largest +free-market share.

+ +

Professor Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of +Economics at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, and also +serves as vice-president of academic affairs for The Future of +Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209.

+ +

------------------------------------------------------------ +From the April 1991 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1991, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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MAIL SURVEILLANCE + +COPYRIGHT (C) 1991 BY FULL DISCLOSURE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. + +In Full Disclosure #21 information was provided on "mail covers'' where +information on the outside of mail is recorded and provided to law +enforcement and/or intelligence agencies. That article prompted questions by +readers about when the post office might actually open mail and examine its +contents. This article will explore an actual case where mail was opened and +overview the postal procedure for mail openings in drug related cases. + +Full Disclosure was able to obtain copies of documents filed in the federal +court in Chicago, Illinois on February 2, 1990 that provide the following +description of the mail opening program: + +"The Chicago Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service has implemented +an Express Mail Profile program at the Air Mail Facility (AMF) at Chicago +O'Hare International Airport This program consists of a physical profile of +Express Mail parcels which have been mailed to or from locations within the +Northern District of Illinois. Targets were cities and/or areas of the United +States which have been identified by law enforcement as being source areas +for the distribution of narcotics, and/or controlled substances.'' + +The package in this particular case had a return address in Evanston, +Illinois, delivery address in Chicago (the same name on both), and a post +mark in San Francisco. However, another case that was reviewed showed the +return address and postmark to correspond. The physical appearance in both +cases were rather generic (according to the descriptions offered in the court +files) + +W. Earnst Hills of the Postal Inspection Service in Chicago said in an +interview that this program was not ongoing but rather goes into effect +whenever they get information from other agencies that indicate a suspicious +package is on the way. For example, if a DEA agent observes a suspected drug +dealer mail a package, the description of that package would be passed on and +packages fitting that description would be selected for further review. + +Hills' description of the program was that the Postal Inspection service +would receive a tip from another agency that a suspicious package was on the +way. They would then be looking for it at the O'Hare Air Mail Facility. + +"One of the things we look for is fictitious return addresses'' said Hills. +He didn't think there was a problem with it taking too much time to do this +type of checking. + +After packages have been selected by their physical description, they are +subjected to drug sniffing dogs or machines. The dog test consists of several +similar packages being put in separate nylon sacks and if the dog bites and +scratches at the nylon sack with the suspect parcel, a search warrant is +sought. + +Hills indicated that the mail is not significantly delayed. Since most mail +arrives very early in the morning they have plenty of time to examine it +prior to the necessary delivery time later in the day. He also said that they +will get a magistrate up in the middle of the night to issue a search warrant. + +Upon receipt of the search warrant, the package is opened and inspected for +contraband. Hills said that normally, the package will then be sealed back up +and delivered by a postal inspector who will arrest the recipient after they +accept the package. + +What if a warrant is issued and the package does not contain contraband? +Hills was unsure, stating that as far as he knew they had a "100% success +rate'' on finding contraband in parcels opened pursuant to a search warrant. +However, he offered to find out what the procedure would be if the package +didn't contain contraband. + +Hills findings were that there has been "no incident like that in Chicago.'' +However, when it has happened in other locations that have put a copy of the +search warrant in the package and had it delivered normally. Hills cautioned, +however that it wasn't necessary standard procedure to do that, only that it +had been done in some cases. + +The above is reprinted from Full Disclosure Newspaper. Subscribe today and +get interesting articles like the above, plus more... pictures, graphics, +advertisement, and more articles. Full Disclosure is your source for +information on the leading edge of surveillance technology. 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Inside The Postal Mail Cover + +COPYRIGHT (C) 1991 BY FULL DISCLOSURE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. + +A mail cover. What is it? How does it work? + +A postal mail cover is where a law enforcement agency makes arrangements with +the Postal Inspectors to obtain a copy of the addressee, sender, return +address, place & date of postmark and class of mail for all mail being +delivered to a given address. + +No mail is opened in a mail cover program. Therefore, the government doesn't +consider the Fourth Amendment Constitutional limitations on search and +seizure to apply. + +A big concern, though is the delay of mail. Instructions to the postal +employees preparing the Form 2009 reports stress that mail cannot be delayed. +The postmaster is also required to certify that the mail recorded on the Form +2009 was not delayed. + +The post office, is concerned about privacy in mail covers. Privacy about +what they are doing. The Form 2009s have to be returned to the postal +inspectors doubled enveloped in opaque envelopes, with the inner envelope +marked "limited official use.'' + +The postal inspectors then forward the forms to the requesting law +enforcement agency. However, it is pointed out that the forms remain the +property of the postal inspectors and that it is preferred that the +information is not used in any court proceedings, ie: the post office wishes +it to remain private that they are invading the public's privacy with mail +covers. + +The above is reprinted from Full Disclosure Newspaper. Subscribe today and +get interesting articles like the above, plus more... pictures, graphics, +advertisement, and more articles. Full Disclosure is your source for +information on the leading edge of surveillance technology. Print the +following form, or supply the information on a plain piece of paper: + +---- + +Please start my subscription to Full Disclosure for: + +[ ] Sample issue, $2.00 + +[ ] 12 issue subscription, $18.00 + +[ ] 24 issue subscription, $29.95 +With 24 issue susbcription include free one of the following: +[ ] Directory of Electronic Surveillance Equipment Suppliers +[ ] Citizen's Guide on How to Use the Freedom of Info/Privacy Acts +[ ] Maximizing PC Performance + +Also available separately: + +[ ] Directory of Electronic Surveillance Equipment Suppliers, $6.00 + +[ ] Citizen's Guide on How to Use the Freedom of Info/Privacy Acts, $5.00 + +[ ] Maximizing PC Performance, $6.00 + +Illinois residences, add 6.5% sales tax on above 3 items. + +Enclosed is payment in the form of: + +[ ] Check/Money order, [ ] Visa, [ ] Mastercard + +Card no:___________________________________ Exp date:_______ + +Signature:__________________________________________________ + +Phone:______________________________________________________ +(required for credit card orders) + +My name/address: + +Name:_______________________________________________________ + +Street:_____________________________________________________ + +City/State/Zip:_____________________________________________ + +Return to: Full Disclosure, Box 903, Libertyville, Illinois 60048 + + + +

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THE PRESERVATION OF THE BUREAUCRACY

+ +

By JACOB G. HORNBERGER

+ +

Two hundred years ago, our American ancestors instituted the +most unusual political system in history. The Constitution +called into existence a government whose powers, for the first +time ever, were extremely limited. Thus, unlike other people +throughout history, Americans lived without such things as +income taxation, welfare, licensure, immigration control, +business regulation, drug laws, conscription, and passports. +Generally, and with exceptions (slavery and tariffs being the +most notable), laws were limited to protecting people from the +violence and fraud of others.

+ +

What caused these Americans to institute this strange and +novel way of life? The answer lies in the way our American +ancestors perceived the relationship between the individual in +society and his government.

+ +

Americans of that time believed that the preservation of the +individual--and the freedom to live his life and dispose of +his wealth as he chose--was the highest political end. Thus, +for them, government's sole purpose was to assist in the +achievement of this end. Government officials were viewed as +servants, and only as servants, to ensure the preservation of +the individual, the freedom to live his life, and the +disposition of his wealth, as he saw fit.

+ +

Although Americans of today operate under the delusion that +they subscribe to the same value structure as their ancestors, +the uncomfortable reality is that they have instead rejected +and abandoned it. Although they will rarely admit it to +themselves or others, Americans today honestly believe that +the supreme end in American society is not the preservation of +the individual and his freedom to choose, but rather the +preservation of the political bureaucracy and its unlimited +power to control the lives and wealth of the citizenry.

+ +

How do the politicians and bureaucrats, in turn, perceive the +citizenry? Paying lip service to their role as "public +servants," especially at election time, public officials, in +reality, scoff at any such notion. In their eyes, the citizens +are means, not ends, who exist solely to ensure the +preservation of the bureaucracy.

+ +

This philosophical perspective--that the citizen is merely a +"cog in the wheel" which can, and will, be sacrificed for the +greater good of the bureaucracy--holds true, of course, with +the civil bureaucracy. Usually under the guise of fighting +some domestic "war," or attacking some "crisis"--poverty, +drugs, illiteracy, racism, or whatever--the civil bureaucracy +exercises ever increasing control over the lives and wealth of +the citizenry.

+ +

But the same holds true with the military bureaucracy. No +matter what the conditions are in the world--even if peace +were to break out everywhere--even if democracies were +suddenly found in every nation on earth--even if American +politicians and bureaucrats appointed every ruler in the +world--in the mind of the military bureaucrat, crises and wars +will always be a "potential threat" to "national security." +And so the military bureaucracy also wields ever increasing +control over the lives and wealth of the citizenry.

+ +

All money which government has, of course, comes from the +citizenry through the coercive process of taxation. +Government officials understand that, in this sense, they are +parasitic--that is, that they survive and flourish through the +earnings that are sucked out of the pockets of the citizens. +They comprehend, for example, that if the citizenry suddenly +decided to stop paying taxes, the bureaucracy's lifeline +would, at the same time, dry up.

+ +

The bureaucracy recognizes that, since it is a parasite, it +must perform a masterful balancing act. On the one hand, it +must ensure that the citizenry continue paying taxes at such a +level that the bureaucracy is preserved, and hopefully +expanded. But it must also ensure that the level of +confiscation and plunder never gets so high that the worst +fear of the bureaucracy--a tax revolt among the citizenry-- +materializes.

+ +

Now, the intriguing question is: if the American people +decided that their ancestors were right, and that 20th-century +Americans are wrong--that is, that the preservation of the +individual and his freedom to choose, should, in fact, be the +end, and the government simply the means to ensure that end-- +would the politicians and bureaucrats comply with the decision +of the citizenry?

+ +

The answer is in doubt. Why? Because those in the bureaucracy +honestly believe that they, not the citizenry, are "the +country"; that is, they actually think that the nation, and +the well-being of the nation, depend on their preservation. +The dismantling of the bureaucracy, in their minds, would mean +the destruction of the country. Therefore, it is entirely +possible that, in the midst of what the politicians and +bureaucrats would consider a "national crisis," they would +refuse to comply with a mandate of the citizenry to dismantle +the bureaucracy and end the taxation necessary for its +preservation.

+ +

One of these days, the American people will discover, much to +their surprise and dismay, that which the Soviet citizens are +discovering: that the bureaucracy will always tolerate the +citizens' "freedom of speech" to complain about bureaucratic +abuses and inefficiencies; but as soon as the bureaucracy is +threatened by the citizenry with extinction, it will fight +them "tooth and nail" for its "right" to be preserved.

+ +

Complaints about governmental inefficiencies and corruption +have become a well-recognized and accepted part of American +life: "We must get rid of waste in government programs"; "We +must get 'better people' into public office." So, attempting +to "correct the system" by gaining political power over their +fellow citizens, Americans expend much time, money, and effort +to get themselves, or their friends, elected or appointed to +public office. And the results? Even when victorious, they +learn that things only get worse: expanded control, greater +plunder, increased waste, and more corruption--only this time +by them and their friends, rather than by others.

+ +

Americans must finally come to the painful realization that +their ancestors were philosophically correct: that the taking +of money from one person, through the political process, in +order to give it to another person is evil, immoral, and +destructive; and that political interference with how a person +chooses to peacefully live his life, and dispose of his +wealth, is equally evil, immoral, and destructive.

+ +

Moreover, Americans must finally conclude, as painful as it +may be, that waste in government programs (actually somebody's +income), no matter how great an effort is expended, is +impossible to eliminate. Evil and immorality, even if +democratically enshrined, cannot be made to work efficiently.

+ +

And they must learn that getting "better people" into public +office is not the solution either. One does not change the +nature of a house of prostitution by voting in a new board of +directors. And that is exactly what the American people of +this century have permitted their government to become--a +house of prostitution in which, for example, the principles +receive "campaign contributions" and "speakers' honoraria" for +"services rendered." Of course, some people, and especially +those who were taught civics in their public schools and who +were required to pledge allegiance every day for twelve long +years, will consider this observation to be highly +unpatriotic. But if it be unpatriotic to oppose a house of +prostitution where once stood a great and glorious edifice, +then make the most of it!

+ +

No, the answer is not to engage in a futile quest to eliminate +waste in government programs. The solution is to +constitutionally prohibit the programs themselves. No, the +answer is not to get "better people" into public office. The +solution is to constitutionally prohibit public officials, +whoever they may be, from plundering the citizenry and doling +out money to others. No, the answer is not to reign in the +bureaucrats. The solution is to dismantle the bureaucracy and +return the bureaucrats, kicking and screaming, to rewarding +and productive lives as private citizens. No, the answer is +not tax reform. The solution is the repeal of the Sixteenth +Amendment.

+ +

In other words, the solution for America, as we enter the +third century of this nation's existence, lies with the +American people's recapturing the principles on which our +nation was founded and limiting the power of government even +more severely than our ancestors did. Not only would this +restore our political system to a sound moral foundation and +our society to one based on volunteerism rather than coercion, +it would also unleash an economic prosperity unparalleled in +history.

+ +

But the heart of the solution is to make the individual in +society once again sovereign over the state. Until the +American people make the preservation of the individual, as +well as his liberty and property, the highest political end, +they will continue living their lives in subserviency to what +has been the highest political end in the 20th century: the +preservation of the bureaucracy . . . and the discord, misery, +impoverishment, and destruction which it has brought in its +wake.

+ +

Mr. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of +Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209.

+ +

------------------------------------------------------------ +From the February 1991 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1991, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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THE SANCTITY OF PRIVATE PROPERTY

+ +

By JACOB G. HORNBERGER

+ +

No myth is more pervasive among the people of the United +States than that which claims that the American economic +system is based on the sanctity of private property. The +American people have been taught since the first grade in +their government schools that America is the bastion of +private property while the Soviet Union and China represent +the system of public ownership or control of property.

+ +

Myths die hard. But it is important that they be exploded, no +matter how painful the result. Let us do so to this myth of +the American system of "private property" which grips the +minds of most Americans.

+ +

The significance of the Declaration of Independence had +nothing to do with the military battles between the colonists +and the British forces. Instead, its importance lay in one of +the most dramatic and revolutionary declarations in the +history of man: that man's rights do not come from government +but instead come from God. With one fell swoop, and for the +first time in history, people unseated public officials as the +source of their rights and replaced them with the Creator!

+ +

The result? With many exceptions (slavery being the worst), +the Americans implemented the freest society in history: no +income tax, welfare, social security, licensing, or virtually +any other law which took money from some, through the +political process, and gave it to others, or which regulated +peaceful human behavior. Why? Not because it would result in a +more prosperous society (which it did). But rather because +their lives, liberty, property, and conscience belonged to +God, and it was no business of Caesar how they exercised them +as long as they did not inflict violence or fraud on others.

+ +

What about 20th century Americans? Maintaining the illusion +that they are continuing the vision and heritage of their +American ancestors, they have instead resorted to the age-old +idea that Caesar should be permitted to have ultimate control +over these fundamental rights.

+ +

Two thousand years ago, the Prime Exemplar told us that we +were to render unto Caesar what was Caesar's and unto God what +is God's. But He did not tell us what belonged to Caesar and +what belonged to God. He left that up to us to figure out. +Let us see how Americans--both past and present--have made +this determination. Let's examine, for example, income and +the ability to earn income.

+ +

The Americans who lived from 1787 to 1913 believed that the +fruits of their earnings belonged to God, not Caesar. From +the very beginning, they did not permit their public officials +to levy a tax on their income. When the politicians tried to +do so, the people sued. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of +the people, and against the government, and declared the +income tax in violation of the Constitution which the people +had adopted in 1787.

+ +

Public officials complied with the ruling but immediately +began persuading the American people to alter their +Constitution to permit such a tax. The arguments which the +politicians used were evil and seductive. First, they argued +that only the rich would be taxed; the poor and middle class +need never be concerned. It was the perfect embodiment of +violations of God's commandments against covetousness, envy, +and stealing. The politicians also promised that the income +tax would never exceed a minute percentage.

+ +

The American people fell for these evil, seductive, and false +promises and amended the Constitution to permit Caesar to do +what their ancestors had fought so hard to prevent Caesar from +doing: gaining control over their earnings. With the adoption +of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913, the American people +rendered unto Caesar that which had previously been rendered +unto God: the fruits of their efforts.

+ +

A second example: licensing of occupations, professions, and +businesses. By and large, the 19th century American rejected +licensure. So, American society throughout the 1800s was +highly unusual because, unlike all of the other societies in +history, a person did not have to seek permission from the +political authorities before he began pursuing a living. +Lawyers, doctors, hairdressers, blacksmiths, and so forth +learned their trade and went into business without asking +anyone's permission. But consumers, as the ultimate economic +sovereign, through their decisions to patronize a business or +not, made the final determination on whether a person would +continue in his line of work.

+ +

The 20th century American, resorting to the Old World way of +thinking against which his ancestors had rebelled, rejected +this dramatically different way of life. He did not want to +have to make his own decisions on whether people were +competent or not. He also did not want unrestricted +competition in his own trade. So, he turned to Caesar and, +through licensure, rendered unto him the power to regulate the +ability to make a living.

+ +

Is the real significance behind these two renderings-- +occupation and income--the economic consequences? No! The true +significance is that the American people, who are so ready to +worship God on Sunday, have chosen to reject Him the rest of +the week. They believe that God and government should be +partners with each other with respect to people's economic +activities, blocking out of their minds that, "Thou shalt have +no other gods before me."

+ +

The essence of what the 20th century American has done, +despite the myths and illusions under which he chooses to +operate, can be summarized as follows:

+ +

"God, we know that You created us. We also know +that our talents and abilities are gifts from You +which we utilize to earn our daily bread--our +property. We also know that our American ancestors +rendered these great gifts to You and would not +permit Caesar to interfere with them.

+ +

"But times have changed, Lord. Those principles were fine +for the simple times of the 1800s but they just don't +apply to the more complex way of life in the 20th +century. So, we're placing Caesar--the organized means of +coercion and compulsion--in partnership with You.

+ +

"Oh mighty Caesar, we render unto you control of our +talents and abilities and the fruits of our efforts. +We know that you did not give us these but nevertheless +we are placing them under your dominion and control. +Take care of us, mighty Caesar. Decide for us what +line of endeavor is most suitable for each of us. +Determine how much of our earnings we shall be permitted +to keep and how much you need to retain. Provide us our +security--our daily bread--in times of need because our +other God sometimes doesn't do a perfect job in this +regard. We trust you, mighty Caesar, with our lives, +our liberties, our properties, and our consciences. You +shall henceforth be partners with our other God, the God +of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We love you. We adore you. +We worship you. We give you thanks. We are here to serve +you."

+ +

Since ancient times, political rulers have hated the existence +of God. Why? Because they know that our's is a jealous God. He +demands absolute and total allegiance. Our God does not accept +partners! Therefore, political rulers, who invariably also +desire to be worshipped, bear terrible resentment against such +competition.

+ +

In ancient Rome, the Caesars developed an interesting method +to circumvent this dilemma. They allowed people to engage in +different religions but only on the condition that permission +was given by the State. Most people sought and were given such +permission. So, although people were worshipping another +deity, Caesar did not mind because by permitting them to do +so, Caesar remained the ultimate sovereign.

+ +

However, one group of God's worshippers saw through this scam: +the Christians. Refusing to take any act which placed Caesar +above God, they chose not to seek Caesar's permission to +worship Him. And the price they paid? Their lives.

+ +

Thank God our American ancestors secured the passage of the +First Amendment which prohibits Caesar from gaining control +over our churches. If only we 20th century Americans had the +same strength of conviction with respect to our lives and +earnings. If only we would truly sanctify private property +rather than just giving it lip service. If only we would +render our lives and property back to God instead of Caesar. +If only we would place God as sovereign over all of our life +rather than just a small part of it.

+ +

Myths die hard but if we fail to kill them, we shall continue +to reap what we sow.

+ +

Mr. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of +Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209.

+ +

------------------------------------------------------------ +From the August 1990 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1990, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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THE SANCTITY OF PRIVATE PROPERTY--PART 2

+ +

By JACOB G. HORNBERGER

+ +

The last thing which Americans of today wish to face is that +they have abandoned the principles of private property on +which the United States were founded. In last August's Freedom +Daily, I pointed to two examples of where the American people +have permitted their public officials to assume absolute and +total control over private property: income taxation and +licensing of occupations. Let us examine two additional +examples to assist us in destroying the myth of the sanctity +of private property in 20th-century America: international +trade and the oil business.

+ +

One of the favorite pastimes of Americans is to look down +their noses at the socialist systems which are now crumbling +all over the world. Americans honestly believe that the +American system of "free enterprise" has prevailed in the +battle of "capitalism" vs. socialism; and they believe that +the world should now simply copy the "private property" system +of the American people.

+ +

But what is it about the socialist countries which Americans +find so objectionable? After all, the socialist nations embody +much of that which Americans would never consider abandoning +in the U.S.: free housing and medical care for the poor, the +prohibition of private citizens from gaining significantly +high amounts of wealth, free schooling for all children, and +inexpensive food for everyone.

+ +

But one of the most significant characteristics of the +socialist systems is government control over a citizen's +ability to sell goods and services to people in other parts of +the world. In other words, the essence of the socialist +societies in regard to international trade is that the +government reigns supreme over the individual and his +property; that is, all property in the nation, even when legal +title is nominally held in the name of private citizens, is +either owned or controlled by the political authorities.

+ +

One of the best examples of this lies ninety miles away from +American shores. In Cuba, a nation guided by the principles of +free public housing, free medical care, free public schooling, +and inexpensive food for the populace, people are not +permitted to sell goods and services to others around the +world without the permission of their government officials. +The government takes the position that all property ultimately +belongs to "the people" and, therefore, subject to political +control.

+ +

Americans rightfully object to the Cuban way of life. But they +have a terrible time recognizing that these same principles +are found in 20th-century America. Like his Cuban counterpart, +no American is free to sell, without the permission of his +public officials, what supposedly belongs to him to people +around the world. If an American, for example, decides to sell +a quantity of wheat or penicillin +to the Cuban people, he is prohibited from doing so by his own +politicians and bureaucrats. In fact, if an American even +travels to Cuba without permission of his public officials, he +is incarcerated and fined. This was exemplified last year when +an American fisherman was actually sent to jail by American +authorities for organizing a fishing trip to Cuba.

+ +

Now, the American government officials justify this +prohibition on the basis of the Cuban ruler, Fidel Castro, +being a bad communist (as compared to the apparently "good" +communists of Red China with whom Americans are permitted to +trade). But the problem lies not with the American +government's determination of who are good communists and who +are bad ones. The problem lies in the American people +permitting their politicians and bureaucrats to assume and +exercise the same power over their lives and property as that +found in such nations as Cuba and China.

+ +

And despite the fact that the American government maintains +ultimate control over the buying and selling decisions of the +American people, Americans continue to believe that when +American government officials have this control, it is a +private property system; and that only when Cuban, Chinese, or +Soviet government officials have it, is it considered a +socialist system.

+ +

What would be a true private property system? One in which the +individual is free to buy and sell goods and services anywhere +in the world without the interference of his public officials. +And it would be a way of life in which people were trading not +because the politicians and bureaucrats permitted them to do +so but rather because they have the absolute right to sell +whatever belongs to them to anyone anywhere in the world.

+ +

A second example of this myth of private property in America: +oil and gas. Despite their commitment to "free enterprise" and +"private property," the American people believe that whenever +a person owns what other Americans need, the politicians and +bureaucrats must take control over it and redistribute it to +the needy.

+ +

The best illustration of this tendency toward the socialist +principle of public ownership or control over the means of +production concerns oil and gas. Whenever the owner of oil or +gas decides to sell his product at a higher price than that +which American consumers decide is "reasonable," the +politicians and bureaucrats, as a result of political pressure +from the American people, threaten not only to prohibit him, +through price controls, from doing so, but also to take away, +through a windfall profits tax, whatever "unjust" profits the +producer has made. In other words, while proclaiming the +superiority of the American "free enterprise" system over +socialist systems in which governments maintain extensive +controls over prices and profits, the American people approve +of these same socialist principles in their own nation. But, +of course, they do so under the rubric of the American +"private property" system rather than under the American +"socialist" system.

+ +

One of the ironies is that during depressed economic +conditions, when some oil companies go broke or bankrupt, the +American people take the attitude of, "That's their problem. +They chose to go into the oil business, and they can't cry +when it fails to pan out." But when conditions change, and +demand for the product suddenly increases, Americans take the +same attitude as their counterparts in China, the Soviet +Union, and Cuba: "It's not fair for others to have more when I +have less. I need the oil and gas. He's gouging me. I am +'forced' to pay these high prices. Take his product and his +income away from him and give it to me."

+ +

And another irony is that when price controls are instituted, +the problems which arise from those controls are never blamed +on the controls themselves. Instead, just like in other +socialist countries, the problems are always blamed on others, +usually "the evil, greedy, profit-seeking, bourgeoisie swine +of a capitalist pig."

+ +

The best example of this was the price controls imposed on the +oil industry by the American government in the 1970s. What was +the result of those controls? The same result found in the +Soviet Union, China, and Cuba when price controls are imposed +there: shortages and long lines. But did the American people +blame them on the political controls themselves? Of course +not. That would have been considered unpatriotic. So, the +shortages and long lines were blamed on American oil-producers. And how do Americans explain the fact that no +shortages and long lines have developed as a result of the +recent Middle East crisis? They are unable to do so because +they have no idea only political control over prices, and not +private owners and producers of oil and gas, create shortages +and long lines.

+ +

The major disaster of price controls and windfall profits, of +course, is the abandonment of the sanctity of private +property. But the secondary disaster is that the economic +situation always becomes worse as a result of the political +intervention. People do not realize that prices are simply the +market's method of providing signals in the same way that a +thermometer uses temperature to provide signals. High prices +are simply the market's way of telling people to produce more +and consume less. But rather than permit the signals to guide +the actions of producers and consumers, the American people +pressure their rulers to break the thermometer. Rather than +cope with the bad news which the messenger has brought, people +instead choose to kill him. And the inevitable result is just +like that found in socialist countries everywhere: shortages, +long lines, and general market chaos.

+ +

What Americans of today recognize so well with respect to +other nations, but unfortunately refuse to see in their own +country, is that people can never be free whenever public +officials maintain ultimate control over the disposition of +their property. Like their counterparts in countries all over +the world, unfortunately Americans have a terribly difficult +time "letting go" of the apparent security of political +control over the means of production. Proclaiming the virtues +of freedom and private property for people in other parts of +the world, Americans are terribly fearful of trying it for +themselves. And it is this paralyzing fear of freedom that +causes Americans to continue their deep emotional and +psychological commitment to the 20th-century myth of American +"free enterprise" and "private property."

+ +

When will private property truly be sanctified not only in the +U.S. but in other nations as well? Only when the time comes +when people stop believing that they have a right to take away +what belongs to someone else. There are fewer more destructive +forces than the belief that it is acceptable to covet and +steal what belongs to another as long as it is done through +the political process. Whether it involves a person's income, +his occupational pursuits, his goods and services, or his +trading decisions, the succumbing to the urge to take from +those who have more will always result in the impoverishment +or destruction of the people of a nation regardless of whether +they are Romans, British, Soviet, Chinese, Cubans, and, yes, +even Americans. As our American ancestors understood so well, +only those nations which have a political system which +protects free economic activity are those nations in which the +citizenry are blessed with peace, prosperity, and harmony.

+ +

Mr. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of +Freedom Foundation, P.O. Box 9752, Denver, CO 80209.

+ +

------------------------------------------------------------ +From the January 1991 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1991, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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The Groom Lake Desert Rat Issue #11 is posted here with the permission of the +author Glenn Campbell.

+ +

Posted by Michael Curta, Colorado MUFON

+ +

THE GROOM LAKE DESERT RAT. An On-Line Newsletter. +Issue #11. July 15, 1994. +-----> "The Naked Truth from Open Sources." <----- +AREA 51/NELLIS RANGE/TTR/NTS/S-4?/WEIRD STUFF/DESERT LORE +Written, published, copyrighted and totally disavowed by +psychospy@aol.com. See bottom for subscription/copyright info.

+ +

In this issue... +A NUCLEAR THREAT AND THE ALIEN CONSPIRACY +NOTABLE QUOTES

+ +

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+ +

----- A NUCLEAR THREAT -----

+ +

The following anonymous press release was passed to us by friends +of ours in Washington who thought we would want to know. It was +sent to them by a confidential source who supposedly obtained it +from the U.S. office of the Russian news agency TASS. Presumably, +TASS received it by mail or fax from persons unknown.

+ +

NEWS RELEASE NEWS RELEASE NEWS RELEASE NEWS RELEASE

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+ +

THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY HAVE ACQUIRED A FIVE (5) MEGATON +NUCLEAR WEAPON FROM SPECIFIED GROUPS WITHIN RUSSIA. THE NUCLEAR +WEAPON WILL BE DETONATED IN THE STATE OF NEVADA IN 1994. THE +PURPOSE OF THE DETONATION IS TO COMPEL THE UNITED STATES +GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE ALL PHYSICAL EVIDENCE ON THE ALIEN/ +EXTRATERRESTRIAL CRAFTS HOUSED UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE +OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE AT THE GROOM DRY LAKE/PAPOOSE LAKE +FACILITIES, EIGHTY (80) MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF LAS VEGAS.

+ +
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+ +

NEWS RELEASE NEWS RELEASE NEWS RELEASE NEWS RELEASE

+ +

ANALYSIS. You know darn well the place that's going to be +targeted. Vegas! Blowing up any other part of Nevada would be +pointless since it's a wasteland anyway. You can't do much damage +to the Nevada Test Site. It's already been nuked! The Sons and +Daughters wouldn't want to blow up Area 51 either because then +they could be destroying the very evidence they seek. No, Las +Vegas is the only place worth blowing up, and all we can say is, +"Bravo!" We saw the exact same thing at the end of the recent +broadcast of Steven King's "The Stand." Lucifer and his disciples +got bombed on Fremont Street, taking the rest of the town with +them. We thought it was the most upbeat part of this end-of-the-world mini-series.

+ +

We would never condone any such terrorist action. Still, if it +has to happen, there could be worse places. The cultural losses +will be nil, and many of those lives so tragically lost are, quite +frankly, the sort of low-life Vegas scum this country can do +without. We'll miss the all-you-can-eat buffets and the four (4) +24-hour Wal-Marts, but, heck, we'll survive. If it means driving +to Cedar City to shop, we'll make that sacrifice. They've got a +Wal-Mart there and a couple of big supermarkets, and those good +Mormon people--the original "Downwinders"--have plenty of +experience in dealing with fallout.

+ +

The loss of Las Vegas could be seen as a tragic but ultimately +beneficial societal cleansing, but we are not sure it will help +much in cracking the UFO mystery. This event is going to create a +lot of noise, both literally and figuratively. It could take a +decade to mop up the mess, and in the meantime no one is going to +be thinking much about the alleged alien/extraterrestrial crafts +at Groom/Papoose lakes. If anything, an event like this would +encourage even closer military control of Southern Nevada.

+ +

----- BUT IS IT TRUE? -----

+ +

On the subject of UFOs at Area 51, Psychospy is proud to sit +squarely on the fence. Whatever the truth may be, we don't yet +find the evidence compelling enough to march on the White House or +blow up a major city in protest. We've heard endless stories of +amazing lights in the sky in this area. Most of these, including +many well publicized reports and the things that we've seen +ourselves, appear to us to be routine misperceptions of military +flares and aircraft lights. Newcomers do not appreciate the huge +volume of military traffic here or the difficulties of judging the +motion of a distant light. Even the few sighting reports that we +can't explain don't seem to lead us anywhere. So you've seen a +unworldly light in the sky. Even if it happened as you say it +did, where does the investigation lead you? All you can usually +conclude, after recording the sighting, is that the case is -- +DAH-dum -- UNEXPLAINED!

+ +

Forty-five years of collecting sighting reports has lead the UFO +movement nowhere. Idealistic investigators have filled out +thousands of neatly ruled forms recording the size of the object, +its brightness and structure, its movement across the sky, a +description of the occupants if they land and step outside... +Most such reports rely on human perception and memory and thus are +automatically suspect. The endless stacks of sighting reports, +although periodically regurgitated for books and TV shows, mostly +collect dust in archives and result in no practical human effect. +The skeptics remain skeptical, while the believers can only agree +that "They are here!" and it's time to get mad as hell about it.

+ +

Get mad at whom? Why, the government of course. It's senseless +to get angry at the aliens, because they apparently don't give a +damn what we think and certainly aren't going to sit around to be +harangued. The government, on the other hand, can't escape the +wrath of its citizens, and it has to respond at least when its +funding is threatened. The focus of attention by UFO activists is +the U.S. Air Force, on the theory that if anybody knows anything +about ships in the sky, it must be them. They've got aircraft on +continuous patrol, spy satellites ringing the globe, advanced +radar blanketing the skies, some totally "boss" radio and video +equipment and satellite dishes that can get ALL the channels.

+ +

If the UFOs are real, then it is a reasonable assumption that the +Air Force knows more about them than we do and that it is +withholding this information from the public. That doesn't +necessarily imply that the Air Force has any answers. Perhaps +they have only attained a more advanced state of befuddlement than +the rest of us and are loathe to admit how confused they are. On +the other hand, the Air Force could be engaged in extensive +contacts and agreements with the aliens. The aliens could already +be entrenched here, messing with our society--or at least our +minds--and telling the governments of the world what to do.

+ +

The only flaw in any government cover-up theory is our knowledge +about how the government functions in all its other activities. +The only human bureaucracies we have ever had experience with seem +mildly incompetent and usually leak their secrets like a sieve. +If many workers know about the Air Force's UFO data, it is hard to +imagine them all keeping quiet. Washington is full of Deep +Throats, frustrated with their employer, who are dying to spill +the beans about whatever scandal they have access to. That a +government agency is involved in any kind of alien research +program is instantly newsworthy to both skeptics and believers. +In the cutthroat underworld of Washington politics and media, it +is hard to imagine any such program surviving for very long +without its existence being leaked and widely criticized.

+ +

On the other hand, maybe the story has been leaked all along but +sounds just too wacky for most people to take seriously. It has +been widely reported that the captive aliens at Area 51 like +strawberry ice cream. Even if a report like this is true, it +doesn't go far in endorsing the alien presence in most people's +eyes. The mainstream media can't do much with a far out story +unless there is some reportable human connection. That the aliens +eat strawberry ice cream isn't news. What might make the papers +is the atrocious price the government is paying for that ice cream +and how it has given all the business to Baskin-Robbins without +competitive bidding.

+ +

The only sort of government UFO research program we find credible +would be a relatively small and heavily compartmentalized one +accomplishing what we expect of government bureaucracies--that is, +very little. There is only one thing that the government does +well, and that is stonewall. Since arriving in Rachel, we have +upgraded our estimates of the government's ability to withstand a +siege and keep its workers quiet. Easily 10000 employees have +worked at Groom Lake over the years, but hardly any will speak +about the place publicly. What most of these people know is +probably mundane, but the fact that the government can keep such +tight control over so many people suggests that the enforcement +mechanism is highly effective. Most workers turn pale if you ask +them the price of a steak at the commissary; they really clam up +when you ask them anything serious.

+ +

We have developed a respect for the government's ability to +withhold static knowledge--that is, to stockpile data and not let +anyone else have it. At the same time, since coming here, we have +significantly downgraded our estimates of what workers can +accomplish in such an oppressive environment. Security +restrictions eat up resources, cripple scientific communication +and sap all initiative and creativity from the human employees. +Given enough funding for guards, locks and redundant safeguards, +the government might be able keep an exotic body of knowledge +secret for decades, but at the cost of not being able to do +anything with it.

+ +

If the government is withholding proof of alien life, here's what +to look for: A vault of poorly processed data, guarded by morons +and managed by bureaucrats who are crippled by their own +regulations. Nothing is accomplished in this air conditioned +sanctum. Meetings are held and problems discussed, but real +actions and decisions are always put off for another day. As long +as the data remains secure and funding to maintain the security +apparatus continues to roll in, there's no pressure to do anything +at all.

+ +

So what is really out there at Area 51, beyond the impressive +security, inside the deep bunkers, behind the big steel doors? +Maybe alien craft, maybe Auroras--or maybe just a bunch of bored +technicians sitting around in white lab coats playing cards.

+ +

----- NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE -----

+ +

"THE MEDIA: OUT OF CONTROL?" was the cover story on the June 26 +issue of the NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY MAGAZINE. There was also, on +page 32, a 5-page article by Donovan Webster entitled "'Area 51'-- +The cold war still rages in the Nevada desert, site of an air base +so secret it doesn't exist." A Times reader +(allegrezza@tnpubs.enet.dec.com), posted this summary to the Skunk +Works mailing list....

+ +

"As previously noted, the NY Times Magazine, 26 June issue, +contained an article on Glenn Campbell and Groom Lake. The writer +spent a day with Glenn, observing Groom and dodging the security +folks, only to end up being ID'ed and released by a local +sheriff's deputy. There was also more detail than I've seen +elsewhere about the pending lawsuit against the Government filed +by 39 former Nellis area workers who claim that they were exposed +to hazardous materials emanating from open burn pits at Groom.

+ +

"As the article focused on Glenn and the politics surrounding +the base secrecy issue, there was little technical detail on any +of the testing supposedly going on at Groom. Aurora and the TR-3A +were mentioned, but only in passing.

+ +

"Perhaps the most interesting part of the article, for me, was +the following quote from an Air Force spokesman (no unit or +organization affiliation given):"

+ +

quote Meanwhile, as Campbell continues playing to an ever-increasing audience, his efforts are not lost on the Air Force, +which he's placed on his "Desert Rat" mailing list for free. "We +read his publication," says Air Force Col. Douglas Kennett, "and +we know what Mr. Campbell's doing near a base that may--or may +not--exist. While Mr. Campbell says the base is there, and while +the Soviets appear to have photographed a base there, the Air +Force is aware of those times when Mr. Campbell or Russian spy +satellites might be looking us over--and we can adjust our +activities for that. That is, if any activities are going on at a +base that may--or may not--exist."

+ +

----- NOTABLE QUOTES -----

+ +

LARRY KING COMING

+ +

From a television column in the WASHINGTON POST, July 12:

+ +

"When we started typing this item we asked ourselves--have we +on a very slow summer day been reduced to this?...

+ +

"On Oct. 1 Larry King will do a live, on-location special, with +phone calls, of course, from Rachel, Nev., 'in the shadow of the +U.S. government's super secret air base known as Area 51' on +TNT...

+ +

"It's called 'The UFO Cover Up: Live from Area 51.' Area 51, +TNT explains, 'also known as Groom Lake, is an enormous military +installation hidden deep in the hostile Nevada Desert--so secret +the Pentagon won't confirm its existence.' Larry's guests will +include Glenn Campbell, who heads Secrecy Oversight Council in +Rachel, and technology expert Mark Farm[er] (a.k.a. Agent X) 'who +specializes in spying on secret government aviation projects'...

+ +

"And when we had finished typing this item we were forced to +ask ourselves--has Larry King been reduced to this?..."

+ +

DOES AURORA EXIST?

+ +

From an article in the NEW YORK TIMES, July 4, about attempts by +Senator Robert Byrd to force the Air Force to revive the SR-71 +Blackbird--"Spy Plane That Came in From Cold Just Will Not Go Away +in the Senate"...

+ +

"When the Pentagon canceled the Blackbird in 1990, citing the +huge cost of operating and maintaining the fleet, it assured +Senator Byrd and a handful of his senior colleagues on the Armed +Services and Intelligence Committees that it was working on a very +fast, very expensive, very secret reconnaissance plane to be a +successor to the Blackbird.

+ +

"But that program collapsed after consuming several hundred +million dollars, according to members of Congress and their aides. +And despite rumors that another successor is in the works, they +said, nothing of the sort is on the horizon at the secret Air +Force base in Nevada where classified prototypes of state-of-the-art aircraft are flown."

+ +

COMMENTS: You can take this any way you want. If true and no +Aurora is flying, then protecting it is no longer an issue of +national security--is it? Shouldn't it be revealed to the +taxpayer exactly how many hundreds of millions of dollars were +spent? (We suspect a very large "several.")

+ +

NIFTY BOOK.

+ +

The following comes from an amusing government-sponsored document +entitled, "Meeting the Press: A Media Survival Guide for the +Defense Manager," by Judson J. Conner. (Sent to us by +trader@cup.portal.com.) It's a slim book packed with practical +tips for military commanders on "Facing a Swarm of Killer +Reporters," handling a "Press Ambush" and otherwise managing those +pesky journalists. We read it in one sitting and eagerly +recommended it to those on both sides of the microphone. +Available for $5 per copy from the U.S. Government Printing +Office, Washington DC 20402. Visa/MC: 202-783-3238. Among the +advice...

+ +

"Common sense and military policy dictate that you should +answer press queries fully and accurately, even when those answers +tend to make you look bad. But human nature advises otherwise, +and it is often difficult to choke back the impulse to evade the +hard questions. This impulse can really do you in, for evasions +always come back to haunt, and they are malevolent ghosts.

+ +

"A 'no comment' can be equally damaging. The reporter will +probably quote you in the story, not only to let the public (and +his editor) know that he offered you a chance to tell your side, +but also to let everyone know you are guilty. The dictionary +tells us that 'no comment' merely means you prefer not to talk +about the subject, but the readers know better. They know very +well you are pleading the Fifth Amendment to cover up your +incompetence."

+ +

NELLIS COMMANDER RESPONDS

+ +

From an article in the LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, July 4, about the +pending promotion of Nellis Air Force Base commander Maj. Gen. +Thomas R. Griffith--"Commander's career soars to new heights":

+ +

"[Griffith] defended the Air Force's recent move to withdraw +4000 acres of public land as a buffer zone around its secret +Groom Lake base in Lincoln County, 35 miles west of Alamo.

+ +

"'If we have to take security measures to do the things we want +to do, we'll do it. We just can't have Boy Scouts roaming around +in the area,' he said.

+ +

"'When decisions are made, they're based on the recommendation +of people like me who are in the service of our country,' he said. +'At some point people have to have confidence in us and (in) the +process.'"

+ +

CAMMO DUDES RESPOND?

+ +

The following graffiti was found on a military "Restricted Area" +sign in a remote area of public land near Freedom Ridge. As seen +in the New York Times Magazine, June 26, Psychospy had drawn a big +"X" across the sign and written "Misplaced Sign" on it because it +was well outside the actual military border. Additional graffiti +has appeared on the sign within the past week, author unknown:

+ +

"Glenn Campbell is a stupid faggot and so are his loyal +followers!"

+ +

----- CLARIFICATION -----

+ +

Some readers got the impression from DR #10 that Psychospy was +ready to throw in the towel on the land grab. Responding to the +continuing MFF, we said:

+ +

"We almost wished they would just take the damn land and be +done with it."

+ +

We assure both our supporters and the loyal opposition that we +were speaking figuratively and our siege has not ended. Just +recently, in fact, we installed at our Research Center a big +satellite dish, the ultimate status symbol here in the outback and +a clear message to our enemies (who are everywhere) that we are +here for the long term. As an added benefit, we now receive the +trash/sleaze/Simpsons/X-Files network, east and west feeds, so we +can watch ourselves on "Encounters" twice on the same night.

+ +

The land grab fight is not over, and regardless of what the +outcome may be, there is still plenty of political mileage on +those 4000 acres. You never what may turn up there: maybe the +Nicole Simpson murder weapon! Whatever cards Fate may deal us, we +assure the public that Psychospy and his faggot minions will +cheerfully take advantage of the hand. The stated reason for the +withdrawal ("To ensure the public safety, blah, blah...") is +plainly insufficient and we believe creates a legal vulnerability. +This, in turn, generates free floating political energy which +might be tapped in elegant ways that may not yet be obvious. +"Opportunistic" describes our philosophy.

+ +

----- INTEL BITTIES -----

+ +

ENCOUNTERS SEGMENT RESCHEDULED. At latest word, the Fox +"Encounters" segment on Groom will run on Friday, July 22, at 8 pm +in most cities (not tonight as reported in DR #10).

+ +

TRESPASSER CASE RESOLVED. Just before the date of their +rescheduled trial, the four of seven accused trespassers reached a +deal with the D.A. Two pleaded "no contest" and each paid a +reduced fine of $100 (compared to $250 each for the three who +pleaded "no contest" in January). In exchange, charges were +dropped against the two remaining defendants. Mounting costs and +emotional fatigue apparently prompted the defendants to bow out. +Although the resolution was a compromise, we are pleased overall. +We suspect that the small-town Alamo Justice Court, presided over +by a non-lawyer, would have found them guilty, and the appeal to a +higher court, although winnable, would have been costly. The +government oversight group Citizen Alert did the same in 1988 when +several members entered the Groom Range to work a mining claim. +They were arrested and found guilty in the same Justice Court. +They appealed to a higher court and won their case--but at a cost +of thousands of dollars in legal fees and four years of "due +process." Stretching out the latest case for over six months at +least created a newsworthy cause and placed some political +pressure on the local and military authorities. In the smaller +battles of a larger war, the "process" is often more valuable than +the end result.

+ +

WILDLIFE REFUGE LAND ACTION. An amendment to Senate Bill 823 now +pending in Congress would transfer control of certain bombing +areas in the Desert Wildlife Range to exclusive Air Force control. +Although news of this action initially prompted suggestions of a +"new Groom land grab," we now see no obvious connection between +this and the Freedom Ridge withdrawal. The areas involved are 20-60 miles southeast of Groom in an area that is already off limits +to the public. The principal public concern seems to be the +endangered desert tortoise--Nevada's version of the hated spotted +owl. At present the land is jointly administered by the Nellis +Bombing Range and the Wildlife Range, and the pending action would +amend that arrangement to give the AF exclusive control over the +limited areas where bombs already fall. Presumably, this would +allow the strengthening of environmental rules outside the bombed +areas (turtle paradise), while permitting the AF to continue its +business within specified zones (turtle 'Nam). From what we know, +we're inclined to support the AF on this one. We would agree with +the brass that realistic exercises are necessary for defense +readiness, and it's hard to be environmentally dainty when you are +bombing things.

+ +

NEW PRODUCTS. The official unofficial GROOM LAKE HAT has just +arrived at our Research Center. This is a black, all-cotton +baseball cap with a three-inch version of the popular Groom Dry +Lake cloth patch attached to the front. It is now available for +$12 each plus the usual shipping.... We have also received a new +shipment of the USGS SATELLITE IMAGE MAP showing the semi-secret +Tonopah Test Range and vicinity, available for $8. This is a full +color satellite photo in poster size, 24" x 40", covering the +Cactus Flat 1:100000 quadrangle and clearly showing the TTR +runways and hangars.... Add $3.50 postage per order (USA priority +mail--ask for intl.). Checks to "Secrecy Oversight Council." Our +catalog is available upon request.

+ +

===== SUBSCRIPTION AND COPYRIGHT INFO =====

+ +

(c) Glenn Campbell, 1994. (psychospy@aol.com)

+ +

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+ +

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+ +

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+ +

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+ +

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The SPOTLIGHT January 7 & 14, 1991 Data Entry by SYSOP

+ +

SEARCH FOR REAL ENEMY CENTERED IN WASHINGTON

+ +

By Jim Townsend

+ +

The main enemy facing the American people is not located in +Iraq, Moscow, Havana or Peking. It,s located in Washington, D.C. +and it's ruled over by elected congressmen and women who in an +unholy alliance with its tens of thousands of bureaucrats, are out +to skunk the civilian population of this nation. + +Government, as it's known, is a big business and, just like the +multinational corporations, this government has been allowed to +spawn. It's dedicated to reducing its citizens to paupers. As the +script is written, if everything goes as planned, the New World +Order will see the merger of the U.S,, Soviet Russia and, perhaps, +even England. If it goes as the script is written, "We, the People" +will have come full circle from near political slaves to freedom +under a constitution to political slaves under the New World Order. + +Once the New World Order has been implemented, just as the +people in Russia came to understand under communism, the state is +the total authority and owns every thing. + +The unseen forces that have been dedicated to this New World +Order have been plotting, planning and working for the day when +freedom as we have come to know it, will be a thing of the past. +Private business and competition will cease to exist. Once again, +central planning will bet the order of the day; people will work +where their political commissar dictates and live in whatever part +of the world they are forced to move. + +YESTERDAY'S WORRIES + +Only yesterday, the people were worried about the collapse of +the savings and loan companies that were projected to cost the +taxpayers up to a half-trillion bucks. Banks were failing, the real +estate moguls were starting to see their empires go under the +hammer, Congress was working night and day to heap more taxes on +the backs of the already bent taxpayers and, to top it off, a +national election was just around the corner. These were just some +of the problems facing our so-called national leaders. What to do? + +Well, if one could find a trusting Mideast dictator who was +hurting from an eight-year war and having trouble selling his oil +at what was needed to pull his country out of a military sinkhole, +it could be just the ticket to take people's minds off domestic +problems that seem insurmountable on the home front. + +Finding a greedy and brutal Mideast dictator was easy enough. +With just the slightest hint from the U.S. State Department that +our government would not oppose a move on territory that had been +politically chopped off the dictator's country in the past, you +have a gift-wrapped diversion from the domestic problems on the +home front. + +Just what was needed,. Now, quickly assemble as many of the armed +forces as possible, rush them overseas to the sand dunes of Saudi +Arabia, confront the double-crossed dictator and demand that he +leave Kuwait or else. + +WORKED LIKE A CHARM + +By accident or design, it worked like a charm and suddenly all +the talk was about Saddam Hussein, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, troop +movements, military demands and what was going to happen next. + +Suddenly, the media, printed or electronic, were no longer +talking about our cosmetic problems. While the Justice Department +continued to indict and arrest savings and loan officials, the +focus was on Kuwait and Hussein. The rip-off the Congress and the +president loaded on all taxpayers' backs was shoved completely into +the background. The domestic pressure that had congressmen and +their political parties so worried just seemed to fade away. +Result? Almost 100 percent of incumbents were re-elected. The +national movement to throw the bums out had not only fizzled, it +had completely flopped. + +Elections are history for another two years, but the problems +"We, the People" are facing in the coming months ar only beginning. +We don't know if Congress is going to allow President George Bush +to usurp the right of Congress to get us into a shooting war. The +public must react with letters, phone calls and telegrams to their +congressmen immediately. People must let Bush know we are not +willing to pay the cost of fighting someone else's war at the +expense of 30000 or more body bags full of our young soldiers. + +A WAR NOT WORTH WINNING + +We must let the Bush administration know that we are not going +to buy any more government-instigated, no-win wars. We were +suckered into a no-win war in Korea and another one in Vietnam. All +undeclared but paid for by some 100000 of the cream of the crop of +our youth. It is my contention that a war not worth winning is not +worth fighting and that the right of determining if this nation is +to engage in a war belongs to the people who must make their views +known to Congress. + +If this war gets off the ground, as it appears it will, and if +Saddam Hussein decides to stand and fight, as most military men +seem to feel he will, we could be locked up in a war for years. +Saddam Hussein has already shown he not only will fight, but is +willing to see untold thousands of his troops killed and wounded if +he can inflict heavy casualties on his enemy. + +When the Bush body bags start coming back by the hundreds and +thousands, the public is going to have a fit. By then, however, +we'll be too involved to get out. Thus, the time to act is now. +Don't let the Washington warlords use Saddam Hussein to promote a +shooting war to bring on the New World Order. Act now.

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RFK1.TXT

+ +

The following extract is submitted to resurrect long +forgotten material concerning the assassination of Robert F, +Kennedy. The evidence for conspiracy that it presents, +regarding the assassination, speaks for itself. I do not +necessarily agree that there was a second conspiracy to +cover it up, as does the cited source. I believe, rather, +that the obscurity of the material is a classic +manifestation of Collective Denial, resulting in the +seemingly irrational appearance of secondary suppression +suggested here. As an example of Collective Denial by +investigators, and the press, content versus coverage leaves +no other logical analysis. The evidence was Too Bad to be +True, and therefore "invisible" in the most literal sense. +The most important aspect of the article may well be its +demonstration of the power of clinical Collective Denial. +That there was something to Deny is clearly stated.

+ +

Robert Sabaroff +712512445

+ +

EXTRACT FROM "COMPUTERS & AUTOMATION +CONCERNING EVIDENCE IN THE RFK ASSASSINATION

+ +

The following partial text is extracted verbatim from +the periodical, "COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION; The magazine of +the design, applications, and implications of information +processing systems.", Vol. 19, No. 10, October, 1970. a +Editorial Offices; Berkeley Enterprises, Inc., 815 +Washington Street, Newtonville, Mass. 02160. Advertising +contact, The Publisher (617) 332-5453. Circulation audited +by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

+ +

From the Table of Contents;

+ +

"52 THE CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE SENATOR ROBERT F. +KENNEDY AND THE SECOND CONSPIRACY TO COVER IT UP +By Richard E. Sprague

+ +

"A summary of what researchers are uncovering in +their investigation of what appears to be not one +but two conspiracies relating to the assassina-tion of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

+ +

"56 INDEX TO "SPECIAL UNIT SENATOR: The Investigation

+ +

of the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy" +An index is supplied for the Random House book +written by Robert A. Houghton, of the Los Angeles +Police Department, about the investigation of the +assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy."

+ +

[The second listing is offered both for the benefit of +researchers and to give context to references to Houghton in +material excerpted from the p. 52 article, above].

+ +

[To assess the character of the publication, and a non-political, socially aware side of the nature of computer +research in the public sector in 1970, there also appears an +article, on P. 14, "COMPUTERS AND THE CONSUMER, by Ralph +Nader").

+ +

*[The following is not and never has been Classified, and +owning or showing it violates no section of the National +Security Act. It is not a criminal or subversive act to +view it or its contents].*

+ +

[P. 52]

+ +

[Boxed editorial preface at top of page]: "_Computers and +Automation_ believes that the possibility of conspiracies of +important American leaders in our times is of the utmost +significance to every American - and especially to computer +people, because computers can be used: to handle large +amounts of information easily; to correlate the information +rapidly; to prove or disprove or possibilities of +conspiracy; etc. Therefore, computer people can make a +unique and important contribution to society in this area. +Already a computerized of analysis of information regarding +the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in underway +in Washington. +"Accordingly, _Computers and Automation_ is publishing +from time to time articles and reports on investigations +into assassinations; the major evidence; and the application +of computers to the evidence. Our purpose is to present +important, useful, and authoritative information in order +to find out the truth. Since this subject is not receiving +adequate and comprehensive coverage anywhere else that we +know of, _Computers and Automation_ has taken the +responsibility to publish. +"No scientist, no honest man, ever refuses to consider +new evidence or to correct errors. If corrections are +needed or new evidence appears, _Computers and Animation_ +will publish both.

+ +

"THE CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE SENATOR +ROBERT F. KENNEDY AND THE SECOND CONSPIRACY +TO COVER IT UP

+ +

"Richard E. Sprague, +Hartsdale, N.Y.

+ +

"In June 1970, a group action suit was filed in Los +Angeles on behalf of all the residents of the State of +California by Theodore Charach, a free-lance journalist, to +force the Los Angeles Police Department to make public +additional information in their possession relating to a +possible conspiracy in the assassination of Senator Robert +F. Kennedy in June 1958... +"...The Charach suit...claims that another man also fired +shots, and that it was likely that he, not Sirhan, was the +killer. Charach, and his lawyer, Godfrey Isaac, held a +press conference on Thursday, June 4, 1970, in Los Angeles +to announce the filing of the suit and its withdrawal. The +withdrawal was made so that the defendants would have an +opportunity to assess all of Charach's findings. +"The only news organization apparently that this story +was the _Los Angeles Free Press_ (7813 Beverly Blvd., Los +Angeles, California, 90036 [in 1970] in their June 12-18, +1970, issue. The news of this suit was not published in +any other of the Los Angeles papers, nor distributed by the +Associated Press, United Press International, or Reuters, +nor published in the _New York Times_, nor published or +broadcast by many other important new media...

+ +

"STATEMENTS IN THE CHARACH SUIT

+ +

"The assassin that is suggested in the suit of Theodore +Charach was a uniformed security guard employed on a +contract basis by the Ambassador Hotel to guard Senator +Kennedy. His name is Thane Eugene Cesar, a part time +employee, at the time, of the Ace Security Guard Service in +Los Angeles, and a known right-wing supporter of George +Wallace and hater of the Kennedys'.

+ +

"Cesar's name is mentioned in a book and in an article, +both by Robert Blair Kaiser. The book is to be published in +the fall of 1970. The article was published in "LADIES HOME +JOURNAL" magazine in May 1970 and is entitled "RFK Must +Die." Cesar is quoted in the article as saying he did draw +his service revolver at the time Kennedy was hit, but +replaced it in his holster because Sirhan was by then under +control.

+ +

"Charach's suit says that District Attorney Evelle +Younger, Chief of Police Edward M. Davis, and Deputy Chief +Robert A. Houghton (also author of the book "Special Unit +Senator" on the assassination published 1970 by Random +House) have all purposely concealed from the people of +California, without the legal right to do so, the following +alleged facts:

+ +

"1. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was NOT killed by a +bullet from the gun of Sirhan B. Sirhan.

+ +

"2. Another gun was fired at RFK at the same time.

+ +

"3. The fatal shot did not come from the direction +of Sirhan's position.

+ +

"4. A witness, Donald Schulman, an employee of KNX-TV, SAW Cesar fire his gun while standing directly +behind Senator Kennedy. Schulman saw Kennedy being hit +from behind by three bullets. Schulman was interviewed +about what he saw within minutes after the assassination; +but he was not called as a witness at Sirhan's trial; nor +was he mentioned in Evelle Younger's report to the people +of California; nor was he mentioned in Houghton's book, +'Special Unit Senator.'...

+ +

"5. Karl Uecker, the maitre d' who was escorting +Senator Kennedy through the pantry where he was shot, saw +Cesar with his drawn gun in his hand, immediately after +Uecker helped subdue Sirhan. Younger, Davis, and +Houghton (asserts Charach) did not present this evidence +to the jury or at the Sirhan trial.

+ +

"6. Cesar's presence in the pantry, his possession +of a gun, his drawing of the gun from his holster, and +his close proximity to Kennedy's back were all +suppressed. Cesar was never called to testify before the +grand jury or at the trial. (Houghton's book even states +that there were NO security guards at the doors or in the +kitchen at the time of the shooting, and that NO persons +of right wing connections were in the pantry; this is +simply not true.)

+ +

"7. The facts determined at the autopsy by Dr. +Thomas T. Noguchi, coroner, were glossed over, changed, +or not allowed to be presented before the grand jury or +at the trial.

+ +

"8. One of these facts was that the fatal wound was +caused by a bullet in the head, the trajectory of which +was back to front, right to left, and upward. Sirhan WAS +NEVER in a position to have fired on that trajectory. +Cesar WAS.

+ +

"9. A second of these facts was that the fatal +wound was inflicted from a distance of one inch to three +inches, while two other wounds fired from the rear were +inflicted from a distance of less than six inches away. +Sirhan was never closer to Kennedy than several feet +away. Cesar was right behind him and to his right.

+ +

"10. Dr. Noguchi started to testify about the +wounds at the Sirhan trial, but was stopped by the judge.

+ +

"OTHER EVIDENCE

+ +
"....
+ +

"The Sounds of Three Shots Recorded on Tape

+ +

"Several TV and radio network microphones were open and +operating during the shooting. They were all in the +Ambassador Ballroom, quite a distance from the pantry. One +of these microphones, attached to an American Broadcasting +Corp. TV camera, produced a live and video tape recording of +the event. Researchers in New York City have examined this +tape and found that only THREE shots can be heard above the +noise of the crowd. +"The microphone was continuously open from the time +Kennedy left the podium until all the shots had been fired +and for some time beyond that. The TV video tape with sound +shows that there were no breaks in either picture or +sound... +"Now, the fact that ONLY THREE shots can be heard +confirms the probability that more than one gun was being +fired, and that shots from a second gun are those recorded +on the tape. Sirhan's gun shots were apparently not loud +enough to be recorded. If they had been, all eight of his +shots should have been audible also."

+ +

(NOTE: Sirhan was firing a .22. Cesar had a service +revolver).

+ +

"SOUND TEST BY THE LOS ANGELES POLICE

+ +

"Confirmation of the evidence that Sirhan's gun could not +have been heard above the crowd noise from the position of +the ABC microphone is presented on pages 118-119 of "Special +Unit Senator," Houghton's book. Unwittingly, thus, +Houghton presents evidence of a second presents evidence of +a second gun, whereas he had intended the evidence to help +prove there was no conspiracy. +"The following is quoted from the book:

+ +

"The next day, June 20, Pena [L.A. Police Lt. +Manny Pena] ordered sound level tests to be +conducted at the Ambassador to determine whether a +gun fired in the pantry could be heard by the stairs +outside the opposite end of the Embassy Room. The +two locations were approximately a hundred yards, +and many walls, drapes and doors apart. +"Officer DeWayne Wolfer conducted the sound +tests at the hotel between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. +when...there was no talking, shouting, or music to +deaden the sounds of the shots... "

+ +

(Houghton's text, as quoted by COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION, +goes on to give technical details of the test, how the +ammunition and firing position was duplicated, etc., +particularly noting measurements taken at the location from +which Sandra Serrano, a Kennedy worker, claimed to have +heard the shots).

+ +

"...registered no greater change than one half +decibel during ANY of the tests. ...The minimum +change in noise level discernible for people with +normal hearing is two decibels... +"She [Sandra Serrano] obviously thought, in the +furor of the moment, that she heard and saw certain +things which were not physically possible or did not +actually occur. It happens every day. ...People ... +hear something which cannot be detected by the most +sensitive electronic device.

+ +

"Now Houghton is right on one count; Miss Serrano did not +hear the shots from Sirhan's gun... What she did hear, +however, was the sound of a second gun firing three shots... +"Also, the crowd noise was present. Nearly everyone in +the ballroom interviewed heard a few shoots. Why wouldn't +they, if the microphones 300 to 400 feet away on the podium +recorded the three shots? +"In this way, Houghton, in an effort to invalidate Miss +Serrano's report, unwittingly produced just the right test +to prove that a gun, not Sirhan's but a second gun, was +firing."

+ +

"SECRECY OVER THE RFK AUTOPSY REPORT

+ +

"The reports on the autopsy of Senator Robert F. Kennedy +have been suppressed in three separate ways: first, by the +judge's ruling before the trial of Sirhan; second, by +attempts to silence the coroner, Dr. Thomas Noguchi, by +intimidation; and third, by passing a special California law +making the autopsy reports secret for 75 years. +"The attempts to intimidate Dr. Noguchi are like a scene +out of the movie "Z". After he told in public the results of +the autopsy, he was accused of being insane and fired. He +took the issue to court and won a victory, when his lawyer, +Godfrey Isaac threatened to subpoena the autopsy and +introduce it in court. Then the Los Angeles Police Dept. +rehired Noguchi.

+ +

"SUMMARY

+ +

"To summarize, the officials of the Los Angeles Police +Department have been and still are suppressing important +evidence about the RFK assassination. This evidence points +toward a conspiracy, with Sirhan being a patsy, toward a +hotel security guard firing the three shots which hit +RFK..."

+ +
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Copyright (c) 1991 by Chip Berlet. All rights reserved.

+ +

RIGHT WOOS LEFT:

+ +

Populist Party, LaRouchian, and Other Neo-fascist Overtures To +Progressives, And Why They Must Be Rejected

+ +

by Chip Berlet

+ +

Political Research Associates

+ +

December 16, 1991

+ +

"Fascism and Reaction inevitably attack. They have won against +disunion. They will fail if we unite."

+ +

(George Seldes )

+ +

You Can't Do That, 1938

+ +

Political Research Associates +678 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 205 +Cambridge, MA 02139 +(617) 661-9313

+ +

------------------- Part 1 begins here ---------------------------------

+ +

Introduction

+ +

"...fascism is not confined to any specific era, culture or countries. +Far from being a phenomenon limited to the European states which +have experienced fascist regimes, movements of this type are to be +found in practically every western country, and indeed are growing +more strident in the leading democratic societies which have never +experienced fascist rule--Britain and America."

+ +

(Paul Wilkinson )

+ +

The New Fascists, 1981

+ +

Fascist political movements are experiencing a resurgence around +the world. In Eastern Europe, racial nationalism, a key component +of fascism, has surfaced in many new political parties. In the +United States, the presidential campaigns of David Duke and Patrick +Buchanan echo two different strains of historical fascism. Duke's +neo-Nazi past resonates, in a consciously sanitized form, in his +current formulations of white supremacist and anti-Jewish political +theories. Buchanan's theories of isolationist nationalism and +xenophobia hearken back to the proto-fascist ideas of the 1930's +"America First" movement and its well-known promoters, Charles +Lindbergh and Father Charles Coughlin. Both Duke and Buchanan blame +our societal problems on handy scapegoats, and both feed on the +politics of resentment, anger and fear. Most progressives vigorously +reject Duke and Buchanan, and are not reluctant to point out fascist +elements in both candidacies.

+ +

But there are other strains of domestic fascism active today, and +the siren calls of those movements may mesmerize progressives whose +anti-government fervor blinds them to historical lessons. Since +the early 1980's, persons from far-right and fascist political +groups in the United States have attempted to convince progressive +activists to join forces to oppose certain government policies. +The fascist right has wooed the progressive left primarily around +opposition to such issues as the use of U.S. troops in foreign +military interventions, the CIA and covert action, and domestic +government repression and civil liberties.

+ +

As the far right made overtures to the left, some of the classic +conspiracy theories of the far right began to seep into progressive, +and even mainstream, analyses of foreign policy and domestic +repression. An audience was created for these conspiratorial +assertions through public speaking, radio interviews, sales of +audiotapes and published articles. This audience elevated to +leadership roles those persons who were willing to make the boldest +and most critical (albeit unsubstantiated) pronouncements about +the U.S. government and U.S. society. As a result, some progressives +now confuse demagoguery with leadership, and undocumented conspiracism +with serious research, and are unable to determine when an analysis +supports or undermines the progressive goals of peace, social +justice and economic fairness. This is primarily a problem within +the white left, but in some Black nationalist constituencies the +same dynamic has also popularized conspiracy theories which in some +cases reflect anti-Jewish themes long circulated by the far right.

+ +

While there is inevitable overlap at the edges of political movements, +the far-right sector being discussed in this study is separate and +distinct from traditional conservatism, the right wing of the +Republican Party, libertarianism, anarchism, and other political +movements sometimes characterized as right wing. The John Birch +Society, discussed here, is a far-right reactionary political +movement, but it attempts to distance itself from racialist and +anti-Jewish theories. Other groups analyzed in this paper, such as +the Populist Party, Liberty Lobby, and the LaRouchians, on the +other hand, represent a continuation of the racialist, anti-democratic +theories of fascism.

+ +

The phenomenon of the right wooing the left became highly visible +during the Gulf War. Followers of Lyndon LaRouche attended antiwar +meetings and rallies in some thirty cities, and other right-wing +organizers from groups such as the John Birch Society and the +Populist Party passed out flyers at antiwar demonstrations across +the country. While these right-wing groups undeniably opposed war +with Iraq, they also promoted ideas that peace and social justice +activists have historically found objectionable. Many people +seeking to forge alliances with the left around anti-government +and anti-interventionist policies also promote Eurocentric, anti-pluralist, patriarchal, or homophobic views. Some are profoundly +anti-democratic; others support the idea that the U.S. is a Christian +republic. A few openly promote white supremacist, anti-Jewish, or +neo-Nazi theories.

+ +

The John Birch Society, for instance, is highly critical of mass +democratic movements for social change, including those that seek +equality for women, gay men and lesbians, Blacks, Hispanics, and +recent immigrants from Asia and Central America. The Birchers +believe most world governments, including the U.S. and the Soviet +Union, are secretly controlled by a handful of conspirators they +dub "The Insiders."

+ +

The Populist Party (and groups to which it has historically been +related such as the Liberty Lobby and its Spotlight newspaper), +created a national constituency for David Duke and other white +supremacist political candidates. Duke was the 1988 Populist Party +presidential candidate. These forces believe a conspiracy of rich +and powerful Jews and their allies control banking, foreign policy, +the CIA and the media in the United States. Like Duke, they also +believe in an America controlled by white Christians of exclusively +European heritage.

+ +

The LaRouchians have supported foreign dictatorships such as the +Marcos regime in the Philippines and the Noriega regime in Panama. +LaRouche has written that history would not judge harshly those +who beat homosexuals to death with baseball bats to stop the spread +of AIDS. For LaRouchians the conspiracy consists of secret elite +groups engaged in an epic battle between moral forces who want +order, and sinister forces who champion chaos. LaRouche claims he +can trace the key players in these secret conspiracies decade-by-decade +back to Plato and Aristotle--and beyond. A remarkable number of +the sinister conspirators turn out to be Jewish.

+ +

This study seeks to sharpen the debate over how to handle the +phenomenon of the right wooing the left, and is not meant to divide +or attack the left, which is being victimized by these approaches. +As anti-fascist author George Seldes pointed out over fifty years +ago, "The enemy is always the Right. Fascism and Reaction inevitably +attack. They have won against disunion. They will fail if we unite."

+ +

There is considerable evidence to show that far-right groups are +serious about wooing the political left and that their conspiracist +theories have been taken seriously in some quarters. Consider the +following, all of which will be discussed in greater detail later:

+ +

*** Several far-right commentators affiliated with the Liberty +Lobby and its Spotlight newspaper sought and obtained lengthy +interviews on radio stations affiliated with the progressive Pacifica +network. KPFK in Los Angeles and KPFA in San Francisco also aired +long programs with radio personality Craig Hulet whose cynical +views echo longstanding Birch Society conspiracy theories. Hulet +urges progressives to join with rightists in attacking the government, +and audiotapes of his radio interviews quickly became some of the +Pacifica Archives' best-selling tapes. According to the program +manager of KPFA, Hulet was one of the most requested radio +personalities during and after the Gulf War.

+ +

*** A catalog from Prevailing Winds Research mixes material from +mainstream, progressive, and far-right sources. One can order +material from the Christic Institute (a public-interest law foundation +based in Washington, D.C.) and dozens of other left and liberal +organizations and writers (including this author). Also available +is material from persons affiliated with the fascist Populist Party +or the Liberty Lobby network, and information on how to order a +tape of a speech by Eustace Mullins, one of the world's most +notorious anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists. Mullins envisions a +world where Jews have been exterminated by Christians.

+ +

*** A West Coast affiliate of the Christic Institute sells <The +Guns and Drugs Reader>, edited by Prevailing Winds. Prominently +featured in the publication is material by Bo Gritz, presidential +candidate of the Populist Party, and David Duke's original +vice-presidential running mate in 1988. Gritz, one of the most +decorated veterans of the Vietnam war (his exploits were used in +scripting the popular Rambo movies) has told his constituents to +reach out to recruit from the left. Gritz himself invited Father +Bill Davis of the Christic Institute to speak at a 1990 Las Vegas +conference organized by Gritz's Center for Action.

+ +

*** At the April, 1991 conference of the respected Latin American +Studies Association in Washington, a panel on Panama included Carlos +Wesley, the LaRouche organization's Central America operative. The +LaRouchians have been involved in the Panamanian anti-intervention +movement for years.

+ +

*** More than 6 percent (49 out of a total 771) of the footnotes +in Barbara Honneger's widely-popularized book October Surprise +cite LaRouche publications such as Executive Intelligence Review +and New Solidarity (now New Federalist). Honneger, a former +White House aide, alleges in her book that officials connected to +the Reagan Presidential campaign plotted with Iranian officials to +delay the release of hostages in the Middle East until after the +election. In one chapter on "Project Diplomacy," LaRouche-linked +citations account for over 22 percent of the total number of +footnotes. While information from the LaRouchians is sometimes +accurate, it is often laced with unsubstantiated assertions and +biased by the peculiar LaRouchian brand of conspiracist bigotry +against Jews and homosexuals.

+ +

*** The current issue of Revisionist Letters, a periodical +promoting the idea that the historical account of the Holocaust is +a hoax, contains an article urging recruitment from "a powerful +potential source of supporters--the radical Left! Leftist +disillusionment with Israel and Zionism is growing rapidly."

+ +

Further confusing matters is the rebirth in Europe of the national +socialist wing of fascism, with adherents calling themselves +Strasserites or Third Positionists. These groups, which now operate +in the U.S., are critical of Hitler's Nazi brand of fascism; they +support the working class and encourage environmentalism. They +also, however, promote racially segregated nation-states. Third +Position groups claim to have evolved an ideology "beyond communism +and capitalism," and actively seek to recruit from the left. One +such group is the American Front in Portland, Oregon, which runs +a phone hotline that in late November, 1991 featured an attack on +critics of left/right coalitions.

+ +

Conspiracism and demagoguery feature simplistic answers to complex +problems. During periods of economic or social crisis, people may +seek to alleviate anxiety by embracing simple solutions, often +including scapegoating. This scapegoating often manifests itself +in virulent attacks on persons of different races and cultures who +are painted as alien conspiratorial forces undermining the coherent +national will.

+ +

In part, the fascist right has been able to forge ties to the left +due to a serious lack of knowledge on the left regarding the complex +history, different forms, and multiple tactics of fascism. Among +those tactics are the use of scapegoating, reductionist and simplistic +solutions, demagoguery, and a a conspiracy theory of history.

+ +

Theories of racialist nationalism and national socialism are not +widely known in the United States. If they were, it is unlikely +that any serious progressive would be seduced by the right's idea +of an alliance to smash the powerful corrupt center, based on a +shared agenda critical of government policies. This concept has an +unsavory historical track record. The European fascist movements +in the 1930's flourished in a period of economic collapse, political +turmoil, and social crisis. The German Nazi party, during its early +national socialist phase, openly enlisted progressive support to +smash the corrupt and elitist Weimar government. But when the +government began to collapse, powerful industrial and banking +interests recruited Hitler to take control the government in order +to prevent economic chaos, which would have displaced them as power +brokers. In return for state control, Hitler quickly liquidated +the leadership of his national socialist allies in a murderous +spree called the "Night of the Long Knives." Once state power had +been consolidated, the Nazis went on to liquidate the left before +lining up Jews, labor leaders, intellectuals, dissidents, homosexuals, +Poles, Gypsies (the Romani), dark-skinned immigrants, the infirm, +and others deemed undesirable.

+ +

While conditions in the United States may only faintly echo the +financial and social turmoil of the Weimar regime, the similarities +cannot be dismissed lightly, nor should the catastrophic power of +state fascism and the repression of an authoritarian government be +confused.

+ +

Some people who consider themselves progressive even argue that a +fascist government could not be any worse than the Reagan and Bush +Administrations, with their devastating effects on the poor and +persons of color. Because current policies are nearly genocidal, +they say they will work with any ally to smash the status quo. This +view dangerously underestimates the murderous quality of fascism. +Similarly, other progressives argue in favor of supporting Duke or +Buchanan for President in order to draw votes away from Bush and +thus elect the Democratic candidate. While Duke and Buchanan +currently have little chance of election, any progressive support +for their candidacies minimizes the dangers involved in supporting +a national political movement which uses fascist themes.[f-1]

+ +

The largest problem, however, remains the unnerving ability of +fascist and right-wing conspiracists to attract a left audience +through attacks on the government and its policies. There are four +separate but related dilemmas posed by the phenomenon of the fascist +right wooing the left:

+ +

*** How to educate progressive forces about the history of fascism, +so the left is not lured into a repetition of past mistakes, and +can more readily identify anti-democratic theories.

+ +

*** How to reject unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, demagoguery +and scapegoating (from the right or the left), while at the same +time promoting a vigorous critique of government repression, covert +action, and social injustice.

+ +

*** How progressive journalists and researchers should handle +contacts with the political far right, and how rightists should be +identified by journalists when they are used as sources.

+ +

*** How progressive political coalitions should handle overtures +by the political right which suggest tactical or strategic alliances +around issues of common concern, and to what extent it is necessary +for groups and individuals to distance themselves publicly from +fascists who imply an alliance when one does not exist.

+ +

In some cases progressive groups have begun to address the problems +created by this courtship by the right. Radio station WBAI aired +several hours of programming within a week of discovering that +their broadcasts had included interviews with persons whose right-wing +affiliations were not disclosed to the listeners. The progressive +periodicals Guardian and In These Times have run articles and +commentaries on the situation. KPFK and KPFA in California, however, +waited months before their listeners even learned there was a debate +over these issues. The Christic Institute has been especially +reluctant to renounce publicly attempts by the fascist right to +imply an alliance with their organization.

+ +

Conspiratorial Roots

+ +

While some information provided by the far right may be factual, +other material is unsubstantiated rumor or lunatic conspiracy +theories. Some material is bigoted. Widely publicized examples of +right-wing conspiracism creeping into popular critiques of government +misconduct can be found to varying degrees in the "October Surprise" +story, the Christic Institute's "Secret Team" theory, and the late +writer Danny Casolaro's "Octopus" theory. While some of these +conspiracy theories are very attractive on the surface, and are +undeniably entertaining, they ultimately serve to distract people +from serious analysis. All of these theories share elements of +traditional right-wing conspiracy themes in which sinister global +elites secretly manipulate world events. The theories echo themes +promoted by the LaRouchians, the John Birch Society and the Liberty +Lobby and its Spotlight newspaper.

+ +

Unsubstantiated conspiracy theories usually start with a basis in +fact and relate to a legitimate issue. The current phenomenon traces +back to the rise of counterinsurgency as an arm of U.S. foreign +policy, and the role it played in the Vietnam War. The public debate +over this issue expanded in 1973 with publication of <The Secret +Team: The CIA and its Allies in Control of the United States and +the World> by retired Air Force Colonel and intelligence specialist +L. Fletcher Prouty. In the book, Prouty criticized the CIA's +penchant for counterinsurgency and clandestine operations, which +he argued prolonged the war in Vietnam and resulted in the unnecessary +deaths of many U.S. soldiers.

+ +

The Liberty Lobby's Spotlight newspaper took Prouty's thesis and +overlaid it with a conspiracy theory regarding Jewish influence in +U.S. foreign policy. Sometime in the 1980's, a number of right-wing +critics of U.S. intelligence operations began to drift towards the +Spotlight analysis. The "Secret Team" apparently became the +"Secret Jewish Team" in their eyes. They began to feed information +from their sources inside the government to publications with an +anti-Jewish agenda.

+ +

While the Liberty Lobby network was recruiting Fletcher Prouty, Bo +Gritz, longtime CIA critic Victor Marchetti, and assassination +conspiracy researchers Mark Lane and Dick Gregory, the LaRouchians +were probing government misconduct and linking U.S. political elites +to their global conspiracy theory.

+ +

The LaRouchians were among the beneficiaries of the information +flow from right-wing anti-CIA circles. LaRouche's periodicals mix +anti-Israel views with anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, but they +also were among the first publications in the U.S. to cover aspects +of the covert Contra aid network, although their coverage included +typical LaRouchian distortions. Many reporters in the mid 1980's +were contacted by LaRouchians who offered assistance and documents +to help research the Iran-Contra story.

+ +

Critics of the Christic Institute say undocumented conspiracy +theories, perhaps first circulated by the LaRouchians and the +Spotlight, were inadvertently drawn into Christic's lawsuit +against key figures in the Iran-Contra Scandal. The Christic +Institute no longer uses the "Secret Team" slogan, which it employed +for the first few years of its Iran-Contra lawsuit, <Avirgan v. +Hull>. The suit, filed in 1986, is also called the La Penca case, +after the Nicaraguan town where a 1984 bombing killed three +journalists and at least one Contra and wounded dozens, including +television camera operator Avirgan and the intended target, Contra +leader Eden Pastora. The named plaintiffs in the Christic La Penca +case were Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey. According to Avirgan, +"There were, indeed, numerous undocumented allegations in the suit, +particularly in Sheehan's Affidavit of Fact. As plaintiffs in the +suit, Martha Honey and I struggled for years to try to bring the +case down to earth."

+ +

Dr. Diana Reynolds, an assistant professor of politics at Bradford +College in Massachusetts, read thousands of pages of depositions +taken during the Christic case and has concluded, "Leaving out the +circumstances of the La Penca bombing and the specific Iran-Contra +material, I think it is fair to say that some right-wing conspiracy +theories were woven into the theory behind the Christic case."

+ +

Author Jane Hunter, editor of Israeli Foreign Affairs, worries +about the rise of conspiracism on the left, including some of the +allegations made in the Christic lawsuit. "If you keep looking for +all the connections, all you are going to see is something so +powerful that there is no way to fight it. We have to look at the +system that produces these covert and illegal operations, not who +knew so and so three years ago."

+ +

Hunter and some two-dozen other progressive researchers (including +the author) have been discussing these issues for several years. +The one point of agreement is that this is a problem long overdue +for debate. As Hunter explains, "In my speaking engagements I have +found in audience questions an alarming increase in conspiracy +theories and anti-Semitism." She also is worried that as conditions +for African-Americans in the U.S. have continued to deteriorate, +there has been an increase in the scapegoating of Jews by +African-Americans. While scapegoating and turning to conspiracy +theories is a common phenomenon in communities experiencing financial +or social stress, it should never be tolerated.

+ +

It is important to differentiate between the fascist right and +persons on the left who in a variety of ways have been lured by +the overtures of the fascist right and its conspiracist theories, +or who have ended up wittingly or unwittingly in coalitions with +spokespersons for the fascist right, or who have contact with the +fascist right as part of serious and legitimate research into +political issues.

+ +

Nonetheless, there is substantial evidence to suggest that the +circulation and tolerance of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories +by groups such as the Christic Institute and Pacifica Radio stations +has created a large audience, especially on the West Coast, that +gullibly accepts undocumented anti-government assertions alongside +scrupulous documented research, with little ability to tell the +two apart. In some cases, people who believe themselves to be +progressive activists see no moral problem with alliances with the +fascist right, so long as the shared enemy is the Bush Administration. +Furthermore, rightists such as Bo Gritz and Craig Hulet continue +to imply that they work closely with Daniel Sheehan and Father Bill +Davis of the Christic Institute, while the response from the Christic +Institute has been tardy and equivocal. The most troublesome and +widespread aspects of this phenomenon have occurred in California +where some radio hosts have promoted Sheehan and Davis of Christic +along with right-wing persons in Liberty Lobby and the conspiratorial +right as jointly working together to expose the government's corrupt +maneuverings. Radio personality Craig Hulet has encouraged this +belief in interviews by warning of attempts to criticize those who +are "kicking George Bush." Hulet, in fact, specifically named +Sheehan, Davis, Marchetti, Prouty, Gritz, and himself as researchers +who needed to be defended against those who criticized coalitions +between the left and the right.

+ +

There is little agreement among progressive researchers and +journalists on how material from far-right sources should be handled. +Some progressive researchers are suspicious that government +intelligence agents and rightist researchers may leak information +to progressive journalists to achieve a right-wing political goal, +perhaps as part of a faction fight over government foreign policy +strategies.

+ +

Journalist Russ Bellant is highly critical of those who tolerate +or apologize for people who work with the LaRouchians, the Populist +Party or the Liberty Lobby network. "I think you discredit yourself +when you work with these bigoted forces," says Bellant, "and mere +association tends to lend credence to these rightist groups because +people assume the group can't be that bad if a respected person on +the left is associated with them."

+ +

This study begins with a brief overview of several paranoid conspiracy +theories prevalent in contemporary right-wing circles.

+ +

It then examines the right wing's anti-government critique and +rightist influences on Christic Institute's theories of Iran-Contragate.

+ +

There is an extensive examination of the LaRouchians' attempts to +penetrate the progressive antiwar movement, as well as a brief look +at the activities of other far-right groups (both pro-war and +anti-interventionist) during the Gulf War. This section includes +a discussion of the surprising involvement of some formerly prominent +civil rights leaders with LaRouchian and other neo-fascist groups.

+ +

This is followed by a discussion of how prejudice, racism and +anti-Jewish theories are enmeshed in a variety of political movements +in the U.S., especially the Populist Party. The next section examines +the emergence of anti-Jewish bigotry within Black nationalist +movements.

+ +

A discussion of left/right coalition building is followed by a +preliminary attempt to establish some criteria for discussion of +these complex political issues, including sections on logical +fallacies and the pitfalls of unsubstantiated conspiracism.

+ +

Finally, there is a brief discussion of the overall dilemma and a +suggestion that further study and open discussion are needed to +sort out the complex and confusing issues raised by but, alas, not +answered by this report.

+ +

Right-Wing Critics of U.S. Intelligence Agencies and Foreign Policy

+ +

Populist Party/Liberty Lobby Recruitment of Anti-CIA Critics

+ +

It was the casualties of the Vietnam war that crystallized a +right-wing critique of U.S. foreign policy for its reliance on +covert action, counterinsurgency and political deals as tactical +alternatives to military confrontation to achieve geo-political +goals. The right-wing analysis raised questions that many citizens +were asking. If we didn't want to fight a war to win in the +traditional sense, then why did all those soldiers have to die? +What was the purpose? Where was the benefit to the U.S.? Who gained +from this process? These questions were not asked only by persons +on the right, but the answers and theories the right developed were +far different than those proposed by the left.

+ +

Fletcher Prouty's 1973 book The Secret Team was among the first +wave of non-left treatises to take a critical view of the U.S. +intelligence establishment's role in designing the failed +counterinsurgency policies in Vietnam.

+ +

Liberty Lobby and the Spotlight took the Prouty thesis and combined +it with its bigoted conspiracy theory about Jewish control of U.S. +foreign policy. Since writing the book, Prouty has drifted far to +the right, as has another CIA critic, Victor Marchetti, and both +now have allied themselves with the Liberty Lobby network. Prouty's +The Secret Team was recently republished by Noontide Press, the +publishing arm of the historical revisionist Institute for Historical +Review (IHR). IHR promotes the theory that the accepted history of +the Holocaust is a hoax perpetrated by Jews.

+ +

In 1974, Marchetti, a former executive assistant to the deputy +director of the CIA, co-authored The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, +a well-received best-seller and the first book the CIA tried to +suppress through court action. By 1989, however, Marchetti had been +recruited into a close alliance with Carto's Liberty Lobby network. +In 1989, Marchetti presented a paper at the Ninth International +Revisionist Conference held by the Institute for Historical Review. +The title of Marchetti's paper, published in IHR's <Journal of +Historical Review>, was "Propaganda and Disinformation: How the +CIA Manufactures History." Marchetti edits the New American View +newsletter, which as one promotional flyer explained, was designed +to "document for patriotic Americans like yourself the excess of +pro-Israelism, which warps the news we see and hear from our media, +cows our Congress into submission, and has already cost us hundreds +of innocent, young Americans in Lebanon and elsewhere."

+ +

Marchetti describes himself as a person whose "intelligence expertise +and well-placed contacts have provided me with a unique insight +into the subversion of our democratic process and foreign policy +by those who would put the interests of Israel above those of +America and Americans." Marchetti is also the publisher of a +Japanese-language book ADL and Zionism, written by LaRouche +followers Paul Goldstein and Jeffrey Steinberg.

+ +

Marchetti was co-publisher of the Zionist Watch newsletter when +it was endorsed in direct mail appeals on Liberty Lobby stationery +by the now deceased Lois Petersen, who for many years was the +influential secretary of the Liberty Lobby board of directors. The +October 5, 1987 Spotlight reported that Mark Lane had been named +associate editor of Zionist Watch, which is housed in the same +small converted Capitol Hill townhouse as Liberty Lobby/Spotlight.

+ +

While concern over Reagan Administration participation in joint +intelligence operations with Mossad is legitimate, the use of +anti-Zionism as a cover for conspiracist anti-Jewish bigotry can +be seen in an article in the August 24, 1981 issue of Spotlight:

+ +

"A brazen attempt by influential "Israel-firsters" in the policy +echelons of the Reagan administration to extend their control to +the day-to-day espionage and covert-action operations of the CIA +was the hidden source of the controversy and scandals that shook +the U.S. intelligence establishment this summer. "

+ +

"The dual loyalists, whose domination over the federal executive's +high planning and strategy-making resources is now just about total, +have long wanted to grab a hand in the on-the-spot "field control" +of the CIA's worldwide clandestine services. They want this control, +not just for themselves, but on behalf of the Mossad, Israel's +terrorist secret police. "

+ +

The LaRouchian Critique

+ +

While the Carto empire was recruiting Prouty, Marchetti and other +critics of the CIA, the LaRouchians were probing government misconduct +and linking U.S. political elites to their worldview in which the +oligarchic families of Great Britain are the font of all world +evil. Over the years LaRouchian literature has maintained that +political leadership in Great Britain is really controlled by Jewish +banking families such as the Rothschilds, a standard anti-Jewish +theory that influenced such bigots as Henry Ford and Adolph Hitler.

+ +

In their book [f-2] first published in 1978, the LaRouchians assert +that the oligarchy in Great Britain is in league with Jewish bankers +to control the smuggling of drugs into the United States. Arch-rightist +and former U.S. intelligence operative, the late Mitchell WerBell +said the book was of "outstanding importance," because it told "the +history of a political strike against the United States in an +undeclared war being waged by Great Britain."

+ +

LaRouche's publications were among the first periodicals to run +articles exposing aspects of the covert Contra aid network, well +before a fateful plane crash first tipped off the mainstream press +to the full extent of the story. Right-wing coverage of government +intelligence abuse is not unique to the LaRouchians. Other far-right +groups such as Liberty Lobby and its Spotlight newspaper have +also circulated similar information.

+ +

Herb Quinde, an intelligence policy analyst for the LaRouchians, +says that in the 1980's the LaRouchians were contacted by a group +of disaffected former and current intelligence specialists who +Quinde referred to as "the Arabists." Both government and private +sector analysts confirm that there are persons critical of current +U.S. foreign policy reliance on Israel whose ideas are discussed +in policy meetings. These persons are sometimes referred to as +"Arabists." They represent a minority viewpoint in government +circles that needs to be factored into political equations. Most +of these persons are geo-political pragmatists who think that oil +is the key to the Middle East and so support for Israel is misguided +since Israel doesn't have oil. Others simply support a more +even-handed policy in the Middle East, especially concerning +Palestinian rights. The so-called "Arabists" are more accurately +seen as a diffuse and broad theoretical tendency rather than an +ethnic group, pro-Arab faction, or specific political organization.

+ +

Some of these persons, however, have fierce anti-Jewish views and +have sought alliances with overt bigots and persons who circulate +paranoid conspiracy theories in which Jews are believed to control +the world. Their theory at its most paranoid believes Great Britain's +intelligence services have influenced U.S. intelligence agencies +since the inception of the Office of Strategic Services, precursor +to the CIA. Great Britain's intelligence empire is seen as +predominantly Jewish, riddled with communists and homosexuals, and +with an open line to Moscow. Mossad is believed to manipulate U.S. +foreign policy and direct much of U.S. intelligence activity. The +CIA is believed to be full of moles, probably inserted by a +Anglophile/Jewish/Communist network. True patriots are urged to +try to expose this "dual loyalist" reality and push the U.S. to +ally with its real friends in the Middle East, the Arab monarchies +and familial oligarchies.

+ +

These theories have little to do with democracy, social justice or +peace in the Middle East, and they use legitimate criticisms of +Israeli policies and U.S. pro-Israel policies as a screen to cover +prejudice against Jews.

+ +

Many reporters were contacted by the LaRouchians offering assistance +and documents to help research the Iran-Contra story. LaRouche's +Executive Intelligence Review even gets a passing nod from author +Ben Bradlee, Jr. in his <Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver +North>. Bradlee acknowledges the help of EIR in decoding the +shorthand used by North in his notebooks.

+ +

Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Marshall and other authors who researched +the Iran-Contra story say that in the mid to late 1980's, LaRouchians +such as Herb Quinde, who had researched the Oliver North network, +were involved in the traditional game of the Capitol press +corps--circulating documents and trading theories.

+ +

The LaRouchians as Anti-Interventionists

+ +

During the late 1980's the LaRouchians covertly sought to expand +their contacts with the left and attempted to link up with progressive +groups over issues such as anti-interventionism, covert action, +government domestic repression, civil liberties and Third World +debt. Many progressive researchers report that during this period +they began to receive telephone calls from LaRouchian operatives +suggesting joint work or offering documents or story ideas.

+ +

Progressive activists also were targeted. For instance, LaRouche +organizers involved themselves in an international anti-interventionist +conference held in Panama, and have worked behind the scenes around +the issue of U.S. involvement in Panamanian affairs ever since. +Although conference organizers say they tried to isolate the +LaRouchians at the conference, there is little doubt that the +LaRouchians managed to leave the impression with some activists +that they were a key component in the alliance against U.S. +intervention in Panama.

+ +

Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has become a vocal +opponent of U.S. intervention and was a major critic of the U.S. +invasion of Panama. Clark has regularly worked in the same +anti-intervention projects as the LaRouchians, where their presence +would have been difficult not to notice. While there is no evidence +(or even a reasonable suspicion) that Clark willingly works with +the LaRouchians or shares any of their bigoted views, it is clear +the LaRouchians delight in implying that just such a relationship +exists between themselves and Clark, especially since Clark agreed +to represent the LaRouchians in filing legal appeals flowing out +of a series of federal criminal convictions of LaRouchian fundraisers +and LaRouche himself.

+ +

The ability of the LaRouchians to inject themselves into mainstream +debate around the issue of Panama is astonishing. For instance, at +the April, 1991 conference of the Latin American Studies Association +in Washington, D.C., a panel on Panama included LaRouchian expert +Carlos Wesley. Wesley was not the first choice. Two panelists from +Panama who were originally scheduled to appear did not receive +funding to attend the conference, so panel co-coordinator Donald +Bray from California State University in Los Angeles then called +a person he respected as an expert on Panama for advice on a last +minute replacement. "I called Carlos Russell, a Panamanian who now +teaches in the U.S., and who was a former Ambassador to the OAS +for a former Panamanian government," explains Bray. "He said 'you +are not going to believe this, but I am going to recommend a +LaRouchite, Carlos Wesley.'" A slightly bemused Bray says he knew +Wesley from long ago and knew he was a reporter for LaRouche's +Executive Intelligence Review. Still, this was a recommendation +from a credible Panamanian source so with some misgivings Bray +scheduled Wesley as a panelist.

+ +

Wesley was identified as a correspondent for <Executive Intelligence +Review> (EIR) but, according to author Holly Sklar, who attended +the session, many in the audience were not aware that EIR was a +LaRouche publication. "Of course if we had identified him as a +LaRouchian, nobody would have paid any attention to what he said," +explained Bray.

+ +

The ties between LaRouche and Panama go back several years to when +LaRouche intelligence collectors began trading tidbits of information +with Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega. Following Noriega's indictment +for conspiracy in drug deals, journalist William Branigin, writing +in the Washington Post of June 18, 1988, noted that among Noriega's +few supporters in the United States was "political extremist Lyndon +H. LaRouche Jr., who has praised the general as a leader in the +war on drugs."

+ +

According to a January, 1990 Associated Press report, LaRouche +sent Noriega a cable after his indictment, telling the dictator "I +extend to you my apologies for what the government of the United +States is doing to the Republic of Panama." LaRouche told Noriega +"I reiterate to you what I have stated publicly. That the Reagan +administration current policies towards Panama are absolutely an +offense to your nation and all of Latin America." This type of +rhetoric shows how the LaRouchians can adopt a critique of U.S. +foreign policy ostensibly similar to that of the left, while weaving +in an apologia converting a drug-running dictator into a +drug-fighting humanitarian. LaRouche also has high praise for other +dictators, including the late Ferdinand Marcos. The LaRouchians +claim Marcos actually won his last election.

+ +

Another example of ideological cross-fertilization involves Cecilio +Simon, a Panamanian who is an administrator at the University of +Panama. Simon spoke along with Ramsey Clark and others at the April +6, 1990 "Voices from Panama" forum held at New York City's Town +Hall auditorium. Simon later spoke at the LaRouchian "Fifth +International Martin Luther King Tribunal of the Schiller Institute," +on June 2, 1990 in Silver Spring, Maryland. These incidents +demonstrate how the LaRouchians continue to insert themselves into +anti-interventionist work and gain credibility on the left.

+ +

Rightist Influences on the Christic Institute Theories

+ +

The problem of conflating documentable facts with analysis and +conclusions and then merging them with unsubstantiated conspiracy +theories popular on the far right has plagued progressive foreign +policy critiques for several years. The Christic Institute's "Secret +Team" theory is perhaps the most widespread example of the phenomenon. +While many of the charges raised by Christic regarding the La Penca +bombing and the private pro-Contra network are documented, some of +their assertions regarding the nature and operations of a long-standing +conspiracy of high-level CIA, military, and foreign policy advisors +inside the executive branch remain undocumented, and in a few +instances, are factually inaccurate.

+ +

There are two related questions in this matter. One is whether or +not the case was handled properly with regard to the actual clients, +Martha Honey and Tony Avirgan. The other is how much unsubstantiated +conspiracism was made part of the case and its surrounding publicity. +This paper will focus on the issue of the undocumented conspiracy +theories.

+ +

It is arguable that while Christic pursued the broad conspiracy of +the "Secret Team", the bedrock portions of the case involving the +actual La Penca incidents took a back seat. A few weeks before the +case was slated for trial, the Christic Institute still had not +diagramed the elements of proof, a legal procedure where the text +of the complaint is broken down into a list of single elements that +have to be proven with either valid documentation, a sworn affidavit, +or a live witness. This had created problems for researchers and +lawyers who had no master list of what needed to be proven when +devising questions for depositions and witnesses.

+ +

When a special meeting was convened shortly before trial, it turned +out that for some of allegations concerning the alleged broad +"Secret Team" conspiracy, the only evidence in possession of the +Christic Institute was newspaper clippings and excerpts from +books--and in a few instances there was no evidence other than +uncorroborated assertions collected by researchers.

+ +

Raised at the meeting was the issue of whether or not the case had +unwittingly incorporated unsubstantiated conspiracy theories from +right-wing groups such as the LaRouchians. The staff was warned +that some defendants would likely prevail at trial due to lack of +court-quality evidence and would then likely pursue financial +penalties (called Rule 11 sanctions).[f-3]

+ +

These matters are important because Christic press statements have +fueled the idea, and many Christic Institute supporters believe, +that the dismissal of the case was just another example of a massive +government conspiracy and cover-up. It is undeniable that the +presiding judge was hostile to Christic and stretched judicial +discretion to the breaking point in dismissing the case. The +dismissal was unfair. However, according to a statement issued by +Christic client Tony Avirgan, the Institute must share at least +"partial responsibility for the dismissal of the La Penca law suit."

+ +

"It's sad that these issues have to be raised by 'outsiders' such +as Berlet. But the truth is that criticism-self criticism, an +essential tool in any social movement, has never been tolerated by +the leaders of the Christic Institute. Those who criticized the +legal work of Sheehan were labelled as enemies and ignored. "

+ +

"There were, indeed, numerous undocumented allegations in the suit, +particularly in Sheehan's Affidavit of Fact. As plaintiffs in the +suit, Martha Honey and I struggled for years to try to bring the +case down to earth, to bringing it away from Sheehan's wild +allegations. Over the years, numerous staff lawyers quit over their +inability to control Sheehan. We stuck with it--and continued to +struggle--because we felt that the issues being raised were important. +But this was a law suit, not a political rally, and the hostile +judges latched on to the lack of proof and the sloppy legal work. +"

+ +

"The case, before it was inflated by Sheehan, was supposed to center +on the La Penca bombing. On this, there is a strong body of evidence +here in Costa Rica. It is enough evidence to get a reluctant Costa +Rican judiciary to indict two CIA operatives, John Hull and Felipe +Vidal, for murder and drug trafficking. Unfortunately, little of +this evidence was successfully transformed into evidence acceptable +to U.S. courts. It was either never submitted or was poorly +prepared. In large part, this was because Sheehan was concentrating +on his broad, 30-year conspiracy. "

+ +

"The exercise Berlet suggested--breaking each allegation down and +compiling evidentiary proof for it--was indeed undertaken by +competent lawyers on the Christic Institute staff. But it was an +exercise begun too late. The case had already been spiked by +Sheehan's Affidavit. "

+ +

"We feel that it is important to openly discuss these things so +that similar mistakes are avoided in the future. "

+ +

Jane Hunter of Israeli Foreign Affairs agrees that some of the +Christic research is problematic. "As a researcher I have over the +years found nothing in the Christic case worth citing," says Hunter. +A number of other researchers and journalists have raised similarly +harsh criticisms of some of the allegations made in the Christic +case. David Corn, for instance, wrote a stinging assessment of the +Secret Team theory for the Nation. Other criticisms were aired +in other Jones>.

+ +

Dr. Diana Reynolds is one of the many critics of portions of the +Christic thesis. Reynolds thinks undocumented conspiracy theories +hurt the case. She believes there is much solid evidence concerning +the actual La Penca bombing and aftermath, and some specific +Iran-Contra material, but she thinks "it is fair to say that some +right-wing conspiracy theories were woven into the theory behind +the Christic case." Reynolds read thousands of pages of depositions +taken by the Christic Institute while she was researching a story +on federal emergency planning, later published in <Covert Action +Information Bulletin>. According to Reynolds:

+ +

"It is clear to me from the depositions of Ed Wilson and Gene +Wheaton that the notion of a broad conspiracy conducted by the +so-called Enterprise, beyond the La Penca bombing and the specific +Iran-Contra scandal, has many holes. I am thoroughly convinced that +those two depositions contain the nub of the unsubstantiated +conspiracy theory, and I have said this for a very long time. When +we get into the Christic allegations regarding the Middle East and +Asia and the Camp David accords and forty years of conspiracy, +their thesis falls apart. "

+ +

Reynolds suggests it is fair to ask whether or not Christic was +manipulated by right-wing persons associated with factions in the +intelligence community. "It is curious that Wilson is a former +intelligence operative, and that Wheaton, at the same time he was +working for Christic, was also alleged by Mr. Owen in his Christic +deposition to be passing information to Neil Livingston at the +National Security Council to protect some of the people who were +implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal," says Reynolds. At least +two former Christic investigators say they warned Sheehan not to +rely on conspiratorial analysis and to be suspicious of material +from right-wing sources. Nevertheless, Sheehan was rebuked by his +own staff and others in Christic leadership for repeatedly lapsing +into an overly conspiratorial analysis in public appearances, and +for making claims that the Christic staff could not document or +otherwise support when responding to follow-up inquiries by reporters.

+ +

While the allegation that right-wing conspiracy theories were woven +into the case is hotly denied by Christic, the contacts by the +LaRouchians during the mid and late 1980's are not disputed. +According to a Christic spokesperson:

+ +

"In conducting investigations historically we have sometimes had +to get information from persons with whom one would not normally +associate. People like drug dealers, mercenaries and intelligence +agents. During our investigation, there were some meetings with +LaRouche staffers conducted by Lanny Sinkin and David MacMichael. +The information was always viewed very skeptically and none of it +found its way into our casework or courtroom materials. All those +contacts were stopped by 1989. We take seriously the view that the +LaRouche organization is an organization with whom progressives +should be very wary. "

+ +

David MacMichael and Lanny Sinkin are no longer affiliated with +the Christic Institute. Sinkin says his contact with the LaRouchians +while at Christic was limited to a few brief conversations. +MacMichael, a former CIA analyst turned agency critic who now writes +and lectures on covert action, has had a more extensive relationship +to the LaRouchians. MacMichael and Sinkin, however, were not the +only Christic investigators who received information from the +LaRouchians. Christic investigator Bill McCoy also received +information from the LaRouchians as did at least one other Christic +researcher, according to former staffers.

+ +

Sheehan was warned by his own staff in 1988 that contacts with the +research circles around LaRouche and Liberty Lobby were a problem +on both factual and moral grounds. Later Danny Sheehan appeared on +the Undercurrents program broadcast on WBAI-FM and other Pacifica +and progressive radio stations. Christic told the radio audience +that it was untrue that LaRouchians had supplied information to +the Christic Institute, and blasted a passing reference to this +matter in Dennis King's book, <Lyndon LaRouche and the New American +Fascism>. Shortly after Sheehan's statements, an offer to promote +King's book as a premium gift during an annual fundraising drive +for the radio station was withdrawn. King believes Sheehan's +unequivocal denial undercut the credibility of his book and was +responsible for WBAI withdrawing the original offer.

+ +

- The Right-Wing Roots of the "Secret Team" Theory -

+ +

Christic no longer uses the "Secret Team" slogan, but for the first +several years of the case, the Christic Institute used the term +"Secret Team" to describe the legal conspiracy they alleged in +court (a copy of the Prouty book sat in Sheehan's personal bookshelf +in his Christic office). There is no dispute that the "Secret Team" +theory came from the political right. The "Affidavit of Daniel P. +Sheehan" filed on December 12, 1986 and revised on January 31, +1987, refers frequently to the "Secret Team," and states explicitly +that the term came from right-wing sources.

+ +

"...I was contacted by Source #47, a right-wing para-military +specialist, former U.S. Army pilot in Vietnam and military reform +specialist in January of 1986. "

+ +

"Source #47, the Specialist, who was unaware of my investigation, +informed me that he had met--at a right-wing function--a former +U.S. military intelligence officer, Source #48...this source began +to discuss with Source #47 the existence of a "Secret Team" of +former high-ranking American CIA officials, former high-ranking +U.S. military officials and Middle Eastern arms merchants--who also +specialized in the performance of covert political assassinations +of communists and "enemies" of this "Secret Team" which carried on +its own independent, American foreign policy--regardless of the +will of Congress, the will of the President, or even the will of +the American Central Intelligence Agency. "

+ +

Critics of the Christic thesis say the "Secret Team" was not a +cabal operating against the will of the president or the CIA, but +was an illegal, secret government-sponsored operation established +by CIA director William Casey and coordinated by White House aide +Oliver North, with assistance from a network of ultra-right groups +who were determined to circumvent the will of Congress. This +"Enterprise" at times worked closely with the Mossad and carried +out clandestine counterinsurgency missions. Some of these +counterinsurgency missions were based on the same model of pacification +used by U.S. Special Forces and clandestine CIA operations in +Vietnam. It is just this emphasis on counterinsurgency and clandestine +operations rather than direct military battles that forms the basis +of criticism in Fletcher Prouty's book Secret Team. Prouty +criticized the CIA for promoting covert action techniques which he +traced to the influence of the British intelligence service MI5 on +the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor to the CIA. Prouty +said such meddling and convoluted efforts at fighting communism +resulted in the needless deaths of American servicemen. There is +no evidence of any obvious anti-Jewish conspiracy theories in the +Prouty book.

+ +

Some of the undocumented conspiracy theories regarding the CIA and +U.S. foreign policy that were widely circulated in progressive +circles before the Iran-Contragate scandal hit the headlines seem +to have appeared first in the LaRouchian's <Executive Intelligence +Review> or New Solidarity (later New Federalist), or in the +pages of Liberty Lobby's Spotlight newspaper.

+ +

The Spotlight for instance carried the first exclusive story on +"Rex 84" by writer James Harrer. "Rex 84" was one of a long series +of readiness exercises for government military, security and police +forces. "Rex 84"--Readiness Exercise, 1984--was a drill which +postulated a scenario of massive civil unrest and the need to round +up and detain large numbers of demonstrators and dissidents. While +creating scenarios and carrying out mock exercises is common, the +potential for Constitutional abuses under the contingency plans +drawn up for "Rex 84" was, and is, very real. The legislative +authorization and Executive agency capacity for such a round-up of +dissidents remains operational.

+ +

The April 23, 1984 Spotlight article ran with a banner headline +"Reagan Orders Concentration Camps." The article, true to form, +took a problematic swipe at the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai +B'rith along with reporting the facts of the story. The Harrer +article was based primarily on two unnamed government sources, and +follow-up confirmations. Mainstream reporters pursued the allegations +through interviews and Freedom of Information Act requests, and +ultimately the Harrer Spotlight article proved to be a substantially +accurate account of the readiness exercise, although Spotlight +did underplay the fact that this was a scenario and drill, not an +actual order to round up dissidents.

+ +

Many people believe that Christic was the first group to reveal +the "Rex 84" story. According to the 1986 Sheehan "Affidavit" +revised in 1987:

+ +

"During the second week of April of 1984, I was informed by Source +#4 that President Ronald Reagan had, on April 6, 1984, issued +National Security Decision Directive #52 authorizing the Federal +Emergency Management Agency director Louis O. Giuffrida and his +Deputy Frank Salcedo to undertake a secret nation-wide, 'readiness +exercise' code-named 'Rex 84....' "

+ +

The impression left is that a Christic source exclusively developed +this information and quietly handed it over to Sheehan. In fact, +the second week of April 1984, the "Rex 84" story was bannered on +the front page of the Spotlight and available in coin-boxes all +over Capitol Hill. Spotlight had previously reported extensively +on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other government +initiatives that threatened civil liberties.

+ +

Sheehan has told reporters that the "Rex 84" story did not come +from Spotlight, but would not respond to questions as to whether +or not Source #4 could document where the information came from. +This is important because in at least one other instance, previously +published research was attributed by Sheehan to Source #4. According +to the 1986 Sheehan "Affidavit" revised in 1987:

+ +

"In early May of 1984, I was supplied by Source #4 with a number +of documents describing, in some detail, a project supervised by +then Special Assistant California State Attorney General Edwin +Meese code-named "Project Cable Splicer"...part of a larger program, +code-named "Project Garden Plot"--which was a nation-wide war games +scenario...to establish a nation-wide state of martial law if +Richard Nixon's "political enemies" required him to declare a State +of National Emergency. "

+ +

While the descriptions of Cable Splicer and Garden Plot are accurate, +the source is deceptively obscured. The original story of Cable +Splicer and Garden Plot broke in the alternative press in 1975 in +an article by Ron Ridenhour with Arthur Lublow published in Arizona's +New Times. Garden Plot was also the cover story for the Winter +1976 issue of CounterSpy magazine. Dozens of pages of the unedited +official documents from Garden Plot and Cable Splicer were reprinted +in the magazine. Copies of the official documents were made available +to trial teams in several cities litigating against illegal government +intelligence abuse.

+ +

Several former Christic staffers, who asked to remain nameless, +suggest that, at the very least, a critical reevaluation of some +allegations made in the Christic case would be beneficial in light +of the possibility that material from far-right, conspiracist or +anti-Jewish sources was uncritically woven into the original "Secret +Team" Christic thesis. They say that the Christic theories need to +be reassessed with the ulterior motives and credibility of those +sources in mind.

+ +

The Christic Institute was supplied with the text of the criticisms +raised in this section of the report, as well as an extensive list +of written questions. With the exception of the quote regarding +the LaRouchians, they chose not to respond.

+ +

Barbara Honneger, The October Surprise & The LaRouchians

+ +

In many way the LaRouche organization, with its slickly repackaged +conspiracy theories, serves as a nexus for a number of tendencies +on the political right, ranging from ultra-conservatives to outright +fascists and white supremacists. LaRouchian material on AIDS, for +instance, is cited by homophobic organizations such as the +fundamentalist Christian group Summit Ministries. It seems clear +that the LaRouche network reaches out to many constituencies, +including some that seem improbable on the surface, including some +on the left.

+ +

Over the past few years the LaRouchians have solicited contacts +with a number of critics of U.S. foreign policy and intelligence +agency practices, sometimes with surprising success. In many cases, +it is the LaRouchian intelligence network that serves as a broker +for information flowing between left-wing and right-wing groups. +LaRouchians appear to have first penetrated the left in recent +years when they began to trade information on covert action and +CIA misconduct. The LaRouchians were early critics of the Oliver +North network. In the early 1980's, LaRouche intelligence operatives +such as Jeffrey Steinberg maintained close ties to a faction in +the National Security Council which opposed Oliver North's activities. +At the same time the LaRouchians quietly began providing information +to mainstream and progressive reporters and researchers.

+ +

The Christic Institute and the Empowerment Project which distributes +the film "CoverUp: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair" are major +promoters of Barbara Honegger's theories regarding an alleged +"October Surprise." The October Surprise was the term used among +Reagan campaign aides to describe the possibility that the Iranian +government might arrange for the release of U.S. hostages prior to +the election which pitted incumbent Jimmy Carter against challenger +Ronald Reagan. Barbara Honneger alleges in her book <October +Surprise> that Reagan campaign aides did negotiate with representatives +of the Iranian government to delay any hostage release until after +the 1980 election. Substantial circumstantial evidence exists to +suggest such a charge might be true, but there is little incontrovertible +proof.

+ +

Honneger's research and analysis are questionable. In the 1989 +edition of her book October Surprise, Honneger cites frequently +to LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review. While some material +in EIR is factual, other material presented as fact is unsubstantiated +rumor or lunatic conspiracy theories. Some anti-fascist researchers +also assume that information in EIR occasionally represents calculated +leaks by current and former government intelligence agents and +right-wing activists to achieve a desired political goal. This +practice is a common tactic in power struggles and faction fights +over policy.

+ +

While Honneger sometimes cites to progressive periodicals such as +In These Times and The Nation,, more than six percent (49 out +of a total 771) of the footnotes in Honneger's book cite LaRouchian +publications such as EIR, New Solidarity, and New Federalist. +In one chapter on "Project Diplomacy," Honneger LaRouchian cites +account for over 22 percent of the total number of footnotes.

+ +

Honneger also makes assertions that strain credulity. She quotes +without comment the claim of Eugene Wheaton that the CIA is actually +secretly controlled by a group of retired members of the OSS.

+ +

In the July/August 1991 issue of The Humanist, both David MacMichael +and Barbara Trent of the Empowerment project defend Honneger and +suggest PBS refused to show "Coverup" because it contained serious +charges against the U.S. government. As Trent put it:

+ +

"It was no big surprise that there was a problem getting 'Coverup' +on PBS. Programs that address U.S. foreign policy in particular +and are not in agreement with the policies of the sitting president +rarely get much of a chance on TV. "

+ +

In fact, PBS has aired on the "Frontline" series programs about +the October Surprise and CIA involvement in drug trafficking. PBS +has also aired two Bill Moyers specials on Iran-Contragate that +concluded that Reagan lied repeatedly and may have committed +impeachable offenses, and that evidence exists to suggest that +Bush's role in the Contra resupply operation was far more direct +than he has admitted. The primary difference between the shows +broadcast by PBS and "Coverup" is the reliance in "Coverup" on +Barbara Honneger and Danny Sheehan and their unsubstantiated and +undocumented charges. It would have been difficult for PBS to +justify running Honneger's assertions given her reliance on material +supplied by neo-Nazis with a history of circulating unreliable +information.

+ +

"Coverup" also promotes the Christic theme that Iran-Contragate +was caused by a long-standing conspiracy of individual agents. In +contrast to this individualistic formulation, the Moyers programs +stress a systemic failure: that the lack of congressional oversight +over foreign policy and covert action has created a Constitutional +crisis where the balance of powers between branches of government +has been skewed toward the executive branch.

+ +

The Gulf War

+ +

The right's attempt to influence and recruit the left became highly +visible during the Gulf War crisis in late 1990 and early 1991. As +the movement against the war in the Middle East began to build, a +handful of far-right and anti-Jewish groups began to seek alliances +with liberal, progressive, and left antiwar coalitions. It is +important to recognize that as a whole the antiwar movement +overwhelmingly rejected these overtures by the political right, +while recognizing that the attempt reflects a larger ongoing problem.

+ +

Sowing Confusion

+ +

The rightist efforts caused problems across the country, especially +attempts by followers of neo-fascist Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. to +forge ties with liberal and left antiwar coalitions. Other fascist +groups organizing against the war included the Populist Party, +Liberty Lobby, and some elements of the white supremacist movement. +Other far-right and ultra-conservative groups opposing the war +included some factions in the Libertarian movement, the John Birch +Society, and groups purveying general rightist conspiracy theories.

+ +

Most persons in the antiwar movement seemed unaware of the backgrounds +and ideology of the several rightist groups that sought alliances +during the Gulf War period, and merely were hoping to build a +broad-based alliance. Still, some activists fear that in the future, +fragile coalitions around peace and social justice issues could be +seriously damaged by the presence of bigoted ultra-right forces, +and argue that on moral grounds alone, coalitions with fascist, +racist, and anti-Jewish groups are not acceptable.

+ +

Some of the rightist and anti-Jewish groups that opposed the Gulf +War also have a racialist white supremacist ideology that not only +considers persons of Jewish and Arab heritage to be inferior, but +believes no person of color has a legitimate claim to citizenship +in the United States. Within weeks of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, +there were reports of physical attacks on and threats against both +Arab and Jewish institutions and persons of Arab and Jewish descent. +Left groups which tolerate or apologize for persons who have allied +themselves with the racialist ultra-right send a message that such +views, which motivate acts of discrimination and assault, are an +acceptable part of political debate in our society.

+ +

Most conservatives and rightists supported the U.S. involvement in +the Gulf War. The actual attempts by the sectors of the political +right who opposed the war were varied by both locale and method.

+ +

The antiwar rightist groups generally did not seek actual coalitions +with the left, but instead passed out handbills at large antiwar +demonstrations as a recruitment mechanism. For example, the +ultra-conservative and conspiracist John Birch Society distributed +antiwar flyers at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, and at a +downtown Boston antiwar rally.

+ +

For many on the left, this was their first experience with a +courtship by the ultra-right. Author Sara Diamond urges left +activists to be suspicious of the motives of the opportunistic +right which approached the left during the Gulf War. Diamond, whose +book Spiritual Warfare chronicled the religious right in America, +warned, "one can only speculate that they wanted to recruit people +into their own organizations and then leave the left discredited." +She added that no matter what the motivation, however, the proposed +alliance was a bad idea.

+ +

One danger posed by the right wing's recruitment attempts is that +the widespread conspiracism in some sectors of the far right has +found fertile ground among naive or uncritical forces on the left. +The problem is exacerbated when rightists put forward their paranoid +and sometimes anti-Jewish theories in progressive circles where +conspiracist or prejudiced sentiments have been tolerated rather +than routinely confronted. Within the U.S. progressive movement, +the issue of an undercurrent of anti-Jewish bigotry among some +pro-Palestinian, Black nationalist, and left groups has been under +discussion for several years.

+ +

What the left faces is the task of carefully drawing distinctions +between views that are solely anti-Zionist or critical of the state +of Israel's policies, and views that reflect bigoted conspiracy +theories about persons of Jewish heritage. If peace and social +justice forces do not publicly reject anti-Jewish bigots, this task +becomes impossible, and the charge of anti-Semitism will taint the +entire progressive movement.

+ +

The utilization of scapegoating conspiracies is by no means limited +to the fascist right, but during the Gulf War some antiwar activists +became attracted to scurrilous conspiratorial theories of elite +control circulated by right-wing researchers. One conspiracy theorist +who gained high visibility during the Gulf War was Craig Hulet. +Another conspiracy theorist, Antony Sutton, avoids explicit +anti-Jewish rhetoric, but pursues a line promoting arcane banking +conspiracies (often involving Jewish banking families traditionally +scapegoated by bigots). Sutton also has supported racial separatism +between Blacks and whites in South Africa. Another theorist, +Eustace Mullins, is a notorious anti-Jewish bigot who focuses on +anti-Jewish conspiracy theories in which the Rothschilds and other +Jews control the world economy. Mullins' work is promoted by U.S. +white supremacist and neo-Nazi circles. Persons supporting the +neo-fascist Populist Party used Hulet's radio appearances on +progressive Pacifica network radio station KPFA in San Francisco +to organize study groups where the theories of Mullins and Sutton +were promoted.

+ +

The LaRouchians and the Gulf War

+ +

The most disruptive rightist penetration of antiwar groups was by +the LaRouchians. The LaRouchians generally operate under front +groups such as Food for Peace, Schiller Institute, and <Executive +Intelligence Review>. Some local antiwar groups have worked with +the LaRouchians, while others have not. While often described merely +as conservative or extremist, the LaRouche organization and its +various front groups are a fascist political movement with echoes +of neo-Nazi ideology. The group's ultimate leader, Lyndon H. +LaRouche, Jr., is currently in jail because his fundraisers sold +unsecured securities to the elderly and because LaRouche paid no +taxes while living in a Virginia mansion. LaRouche was sentenced +in January, 1989 to fifteen years in prison after a federal court +found LaRouche and six codefendants guilty of a mail fraud conspiracy +related to fundraising. LaRouche was also convicted of tax evasion. +On appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court let the convictions stand without +comment.

+ +

LaRouche's lawyers have repeatedly sued activist critics who describe +him as a fascist, racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Jewish bigot, +lunatic cult leader, neo-Nazi racial theorist, crook, and demagogue. +LaRouche has lost every case. One jury in Virginia found that +calling LaRouche a "small-time Hitler" was not defamatory and then +awarded damages to the news organization sued by LaRouche.

+ +

During the Gulf War the LaRouchians appeared at antiwar rallies +and meetings in thirty cities, including New York, Boston, Washington, +D.C., Richmond, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Ann Arbor, +St. Louis, Omaha, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

+ +

At the University of Ottawa in Canada, LaRouche's Schiller Institute +co-sponsored an antiwar event with an organization of Middle Eastern +students. At an October 20, 1990 antiwar demonstration in New York +City, the Schiller Institute had four people carrying a large banner +and a small group of supporters organized in a contingent. The +LaRouchians have passed out petitions at antiwar rallies, and then +called the persons who signed the petitions to solicit money for +the LaRouche organization. Other fundraising pitches are made at +antiwar rallies.

+ +

In a flyer announcing a December 15, 1990 rally, a group called +simply the "LaRouche Organization" was originally listed as a +coalition member. The presence of the LaRouchians, as well as other +anti-Jewish bigots, in the St. Louis antiwar coalition originally +caused consternation, especially among members of New Jewish Agenda, +a group which supports a democratic Israel, Palestinian rights, +and a Palestinian homeland. When coalition leaders were provided +with documentation of LaRouchian attacks on Jews, Blacks and other +minorities, including LaRouchian support for the apartheid government +of South Africa, the LaRouche supporters were booted out of the +coalition.

+ +

In Los Angeles, several LaRouchians were dismayed when the local +antiwar coalition pointed to its principles of unity, which included +a call for a sensible non-nuclear energy policy. The LaRouchians +are vocal supporters of nuclear power. In Richmond, Virginia, local +antiwar organizers simply kept shouting at the LaRouchians to "shut +up" when they began their bizarre spiels and for a time the +LaRouchians stopped coming to meetings. The LaRouchians soon +returned, but attempted to keep a low profile while persistently +circulating their literature.

+ +

During December, LaRouche's followers held vigils on a number of +campuses to build support for a touted "National Teach-In to Stop +the War" held December 15-16 in Chicago. The Chicago conference, +titled "Development is the New Name for Peace," turned out to be +the annual LaRouche-sponsored Food for Peace Conference, repackaged +to attract antiwar activists. The conference drew over 350 attendees. +Several persons active with the St. Louis African-American +Anti-War/Peace Coalition who attended the conference were later +asked to leave the Coalition for being disruptive and spreading +anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, according to several St. Louis +activists who spoke on condition of anonymity.

+ +

Only three dozen students were sprinkled among the crowd which drew +persons from California, Oregon, North and South Dakota, Maryland, +New Jersey, Virginia, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nebraska, and the +Canadian province of Quebec. Many in the audience were farmers. +Close to one-third of the conference attendees were African-Americans.

+ +

While the number of students was small, the emphasis on the situation +in the Middle East was not neglected. LaRouche regulars Mel Klenetsky +and Nancy Spannaus moderated the program which included a videotaped +message and live phone patch from the cultural attache for the +Iraqi embassy, Dr. Mayser Al Mallah. The LaRouche organization has +maintained ties with the Iraqi Ba'ath Party for many years, according +to several former LaRouchian intelligence gatherers who have left +the group.

+ +

Other panelists at the LaRouchian conference included the Rev. +James Bevel, an early civil rights leader now active in several +LaRouchian front groups; a representative from Minister Louis +Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, editor of +the Final Call; and Gene Wheaton, a private investigator who +works with both left-wing and right-wing critics of U.S. clandestine +operations.

+ +

How The LaRouchians Exploited Antiwar Organizers

+ +

A long-time political activist who marched with the Cleveland +contingent in the January 19th antiwar demonstration in Washington, +D.C. was more than a little surprised when he noticed that people +in the contingent next to him were passing out literature from +Lyndon LaRouche's political front groups. "They were beating a drum +and chanting 'George Bush, You Can't Hide, the New World Order is +Genocide,'" he reports. "There were about 100 people, many elderly, +some Black," he says, and one flyer they handed out carried a +headline scolding, "U.S. Citizens Must Recognize Their Past Mistakes +and Support LaRouche." There was a large banner and some people +carried signs that said "Free LaRouche, Jail the ADL." At the march +the LaRouchians passed out their New Federalist newspaper. "A +lot of people who remember New Solidarity don't realize its new +name is New Federalist," said the Cleveland activist.

+ +

According to Gavrielle Gemma, coordinator of the National Coalition +to Stop U.S. Intervention in the Middle East (the group that +sponsored the January 19th antiwar demonstration in Washington, +D.C.), the official policy of the Coalition is to reject any work +with the LaRouchians. Although the LaRouchians and their supporters +involved themselves in Coalition activities during the Gulf War, +these incidents did not reflect the official policy of the Coalition, +according to several Coalition spokespersons, but were attempts +(sometimes successful) by the LaRouchians and their allies to +portray themselves as part of the Coalition.

+ +

Specifically, in interviews with several Coalition spokespersons +the following picture of how the LaRouchians manipulated and +exploited the Coalition emerged:

+ +

*** The Rev. James Bevel had not been invited to the January 4th +Coalition press conference featuring former U.S. Attorney General +Ramsey Clark which was aired on the C-SPAN cable channel. Bevel +arrived with an invited speaker, a Black serviceman resisting +assignment to the Gulf. Although Bevel had worked with the LaRouchians +for many months prior to the press conference, it was not until +weeks after the press conference that Coalition leadership became +aware that Bevel had ties to the LaRouche organization.

+ +

*** People affiliated with the Coalition, who defended the appearance +of Bevel, were reacting to Bevel's past history as a respected +civil rights leader, and were not aware, or found it impossible to +accept, that Bevel had now aligned himself with far-right groups.

+ +

*** A contingent of LaRouchians who marched in the Coalition's +January 19th demonstration in Washington, D.C. did so against the +expressed wishes of Coalition leadership.

+ +

*** A security marshal who told demonstrators on January 19th not +to continue a chant critical of the LaRouchians was unaware of who +the LaRouchians were, and was merely trying to enforce the policy +of ensuring peaceful relations among contingents.

+ +

*** Although Ramsey Clark has chosen not to say anything critical +of the LaRouchians due to his representation of them in legal +matters, the Coalition does not hesitate to criticize roundly the +LaRouchians as fascists and anti-Semites.

+ +

*** The apparent reluctance among some persons affiliated with the +Coalition to discuss charges of LaRouchian involvement with reporters +did not reflect the views of the leadership of the Coalition, and +in some cases appears to reflect a disbelief among these persons +that the LaRouchians had managed successfully to portray themselves +as part of the Coalition.

+ +

*** December, 1990 and January, 1991 were chaotic and confusing +months and the official position of the Coalition regarding a +refusal to work with the LaRouchians was perhaps not made clear to +all persons actively organizing Coalition events around the country.

+ +

*** While the LaRouchians appear to abuse their legal relationship +to attorney Clark by using his name in their publicity and implying +his political support, it is the firm belief of the Coalition that +Clark's refusal to comment on this circumstance reflects a personal +ethical position, and in no way implies any connection between +Clark and the political work of the LaRouchians.

+ +

Leaders of the National Coalition to Stop U.S. Intervention in +the Middle East are aware that the LaRouchians continue to attempt +to penetrate their organization, and urge persons who find LaRouchians +portraying themselves as official members of the Coalition to +challenge that claim. Anyone who continues to claim the Coalition +tolerates the presence of the LaRouchians should be referred to +the national office of the Coalition for a short and clear rejection +of that contention.

+ +

"We do not work with fascists or anti-Semites," said Coalition +coordinator Gavrielle Gemma, "and that includes the LaRouchites." +Gemma says this is not only the Coalition attitude, but her own as +well, noting that she once personally threw some LaRouchians off +a picket line during the Greyhound strike.

+ +

Apparently the position of the Coalition leadership against working +with the LaRouchians, now clearly unequivocal, was slow to reach +all organizers during the chaotic months of December, 1990 and +January, 1991. This lack of clarity among rank-and-file organizers, +some of whom were inexperienced, coupled with the LaRouchians' +manipulative opportunism, the Coalition's uncertainty over Bevel's +tie to the LaRouchians, and Ramsey Clark's silence on the LaRouchians' +use of his name, created enough confusion so that some organizers +for the Coalition at first defended Bevel's appearance at the +January 4th press conference, and defended the participation of +various LaRouchian front groups in Coalition events. It also turns +out that a report issued by the LaRouchian Schiller Institute, and +cited at the January 4th press conference was in fact introduced +by a LaRouchian attending the press conference as a reporter.

+ +

Chicago antiwar organizer Alynne Romo reports the local Emergency +Coalition for Peace in the Middle East has "asked the LaRouchians +not to participate when they have appeared at our demonstrations." +According to Romo, "The LaRouche people called us several times. +They told us Margaret Thatcher was behind the situation in Iraq +and that she put George Bush up to it." Romo adds that "they also +said they were working with Ramsey Clark as a way to get us to +cooperate."

+ +

Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark is the lead legal counsel +for an appeal filed by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. and six followers +convicted of loan fraud. On October 6, 1989, Clark appeared and +gave oral arguments in the case before a three judge panel of the +Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia to argue for +the reversal of the convictions.

+ +

The right of Mr. Clark to represent the LaRouche organization is +not disputed, but when the LaRouchians use his name in a political +rather than legal context, problems arise. Based on several dozen +interviews with antiwar activists in twenty cities, it appears that +sometimes LaRouchians fundraisers and organizers mention they work +with Ramsey Clark, while other times they do not. The use by the +LaRouchians of Clark's name has been very effective at college +student government meetings where many students have never heard +of LaRouche, and tend to be sympathetic to his claims of government +harassment. After gaining an audience, the LaRouchians encourage +the student leaders to join their "coalition" and to authorize +college funding.

+ +

Sam Schwartz, a faculty member at Bronx Community College in New +York, received a phone call from a LaRouche attorney threatening +to sue Schwartz penniless unless he stopped telling students that +LaRouche was an anti-Semite and fascist. Several African-Americans +active in St. Louis who objected to the presence of the LaRouchians +in a local antiwar coalition were also threatened with lawsuits +for their critical characterization of the LaRouche movement. Clark +has not been involved in these threats of lawsuits.

+ +

Since Clark took on the LaRouche appeal, the LaRouchians have +blazoned Clark's name across a substantial amount of propaganda +used both in fundraising and in coaxing persons into consideration +of the political message of the organization. Sometimes the LaRouchian +references to Clark simply cause confusion. One antiwar activist +who was handed a LaRouchian pamphlet mentioning Clark was at first +convinced the LaRouchians were cleverly trying to smear Clark by +using his name.

+ +

The LaRouchians frequently attempt to build coalitions in a sly +manner. For instance activist Lanny Sinkin, a former attorney for +the Christic Institute, appeared at a March, 1991 post-war panel +sponsored by a Washington, D.C. group called The Time is Now. Also +on the panel were two key LaRouche operatives and a leader of The +Time is Now. According to a staff member of the Washington Peace +Center, members of The Time is Now worked closely with the LaRouchians +and thoroughly disrupted the political work of the Washington Area +Coalition to Stop U.S. Intervention in the Middle East during +January and February, 1991. When members of The Time is Now passed +out LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review at a February meeting, +they were asked to leave the coalition. When criticized by the +Peace Center staffer, Sinkin defended his appearance at the conference +as legitimate outreach, according to the staffer.

+ +

Sinkin says he was unaware when invited that LaRouchians would also +be on the panel, and he vigorously denies that he has ever had any +ongoing relationship with the LaRouchians or that his actions were +improper. Sinkin says that his appearance reflected his commitment +to speaking to broad audiences. Organizers at the Washington Peace +Center counter that Sinkin's presence at the meeting lent credibility +to two groups that were disrupting their work.

+ +

The issue here is not one of implying any type of ongoing relationship +between Sinkin and the LaRouchians. No such relationship exists. +But for the Washington Peace Center, Sinkin's appearance on the +same platform with the LaRouchians served as an implicit endorsement, +suggesting by example that joint work with the LaRouchians was +acceptable at the same time that the Peace Center was telling +members of the local antiwar coalition that joint work with the +LaRouchians was unacceptable.A number of experienced antiwar +activists warn that working with the LaRouchians and other far-right +and bigoted forces will only discredit serious work towards peace +in the Middle East. Jon Hillson is a seasoned political organizer +and peace activist based in Ohio who already knew the history of +the LaRouchians. Hillson reported LaRouche organizers at events +sponsored by the Cleveland Committee Against War in the Persian +Gulf. At one meeting, "Two people went through the crowd handing +out LaRouche's New Federalist," says Hillson. "I was shocked, +but then I realized most students had never heard of LaRouche," +says Hillson. "I would urge people to disavow any collaboration +with them because of their past ties to government agencies...and +their homophobic, racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic agenda." Hillson +notes that it will take patience to explain to new activists why +a broad-based coalition should exclude anyone, but that the task +of educating people that coalitions with fascists should be rejected +is not one to be ignored.

+ +

How the LaRouchians Exploit Ramsey Clark

+ +

An Associated Press (AP) account of Clark's Fourth Circuit oral +arguments noted that "former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, chief +attorney for LaRouche's appeal, argued that U.S. District Judge +Albert V. Bryan Jr. of Alexandria allowed only thirty-four days +from arraignment to trial and failed to adequately question jurors +on how much they knew about the defendant."

+ +

The Fourth Circuit ruled against LaRouche, saying LaRouche's original +attorneys had waited eighteen days before asking for a continuance. +An AP story about the decision reported that the appeals panel +"also said LaRouche's attorneys made no attempt to press potential +jurors to determine 'individually anyone who had ever heard of +LaRouche,' although certain jurors who said they were familiar with +the case or who had worked in law enforcement or had accounting or +tax backgrounds were questioned individually."

+ +

On further appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court let the convictions stand +without a hearing or comment.

+ +

In fact, more than a few civil libertarians agree there was evidence +of misconduct in the government's investigation of LaRouche, and +the closing of LaRouche's newspaper New Solidarity in a federal +bankruptcy proceeding raised serious constitutional issues. Still, +there is no clear evidence that the alleged government misconduct +had a direct bearing on the criminal prosecution of LaRouche and +his aides.

+ +

When Clark has spoken at LaRouchian-sponsored press conferences +concerning the case, there has been extensive coverage in the +LaRouchian press. One such story featuring Clark appeared in +LaRouche's New Federalist on October 13, 1989. Clark was quoted +as saying that even though he had once been a political opponent +of LaRouche, he had now come to his defense because of constitutional +abuses such as a fast jury selection process, massive prejudicial +pretrial publicity, and a jury pool which contained numerous +government employees, including law enforcement agents from agencies +that had allegedly targeted LaRouche.

+ +

Ramsey Clark has steadfastly refused to disassociate his legal work +for the LaRouchians from the political work of the LaRouchians, +despite the fact that the LaRouchians imply Clark's support in +numerous newspaper and magazine articles. Most critics of Clark's +silence regarding the LaRouchians say they understand he has a duty +as an attorney to represent the LaRouchians fully and vigorously, +but feel he has not been sensitive to the ways in which the +LaRouchians are using his name in the political arena. These critics +point out that the ethical imperatives for an attorney are different +than the moral obligations of a leader of an antiwar movement. They +say Clark has a political responsibility to distance himself from +the LaRouche organization, which is separate from his role as their +attorney.

+ +

Sometimes it appears that Clark's support of the LaRouche cause +has moved beyond mere legal representation. According to the July +6, 1990 New Federalist, on June 19, 1990, Clark spoke at a private +meeting coordinated with the Conference on Security and Cooperation +in Europe (CSCE), a multi-governmental association and human rights +forum that solicits input from non-governmental groups. The <New +Federalist> reported that "Clark's trip was sponsored by the Schiller +Institute's Commission to Investigate Human Rights Violations, a +non-governmental organization which is urging the CSCE to take up +the case of Lyndon LaRouche, the U.S. economist and statesman who +is now America's most prominent political prisoner." The Schiller +Institute is a LaRouchian front group which once published a book +claiming British Jews helped put Hitler into power.

+ +

In his CSCE speech, Clark is reported to have said he had reviewed +a random selection of sixty-five published articles on LaRouche +appearing in the several years prior to LaRouche's prosecution. +Clark reportedly said "here you see that he's called every bad +thing you can imagine--Nazi, anti-Semitic, violence-prone, thief--over +and over again. Vilification...it was absolutely astounding."

+ +

The New Federalist article reported that Clark said that LaRouche +was prosecuted on "economic crimes that didn't exist, because this +was a political movement, it was not a for-profit activity and +wasn't intended to be a for-profit activity, it was a political +movement. You make three sentences for five years each to impose +a fifteen-year sentence on a man who's sixty-six years old. To +destroy a political movement. Obviously....Unless you can wrench +[the political process] free from [the] plutocracy that absolutely +controls with an iron hand that essentially one-party system, you +won't have that change. And that's what the Lyndon LaRouche case +is about: you."

+ +

At a February 28, 1991 international conference in Algeria to oppose +U.S. intervention in the Gulf, Clark shared the podium with long-time +LaRouche associate Jacques Cheminade, president of the Schiller +Institute in France.

+ +

- Clark Responds -

+ +

Clark confirmed in an interview that he had spoken about the LaRouche +case in Europe at the CSCE conference, but said he had not seen +the transcript of his speech that appeared in LaRouche's <New +Federalist>, and said his speech was not written in advance so he +had no copy. If the report of Clark's comments in New Federalist +are accurate--and to a large degree they reflect wording in the +appeals brief he signed--then there are serious questions as to +what he thinks of the LaRouchians. Clark seems to discount as +propaganda the charges that the LaRouchians are fascists, anti-Semites, +or neo-Nazis. Other critics question Mr. Clark's decision to appear +at the CSCE-related meeting at all, pointing out that such appearances +go beyond legal representation.

+ +

Clark said he had not seen any materials suggesting the LaRouche +people were using his name to organize students and others into +their antiwar work but he would like to see that material or any +other related information. But Clark seemed relatively unconcerned +that the LaRouchians might be using or abusing his name in their +political work. "That's a risk you always have," as a defense +counsel, said Clark.

+ +

Clark said that the somewhat glowing description of the LaRouche +political movement in the appeals brief he signed reflected the +right of any defendant to portray itself in a positive light.

+ +

According to Clark, the prosecution of LaRouche in Virginia was a +travesty of procedure and a clear violation of the Constitutional +right to a fair trial. Clark said the issue was not whether or not +the LaRouche people were guilty of crimes, but whether or not they +had received a fair trial. On the question of representation of +controversial clients on legal appeals, Clark said:

+ +

"It's a question of rights, not a question of facts. I remain +focused on the legal rights and not the nature of the person +involved. I oppose the death penalty on principle, I assume many +of the people who I represent on death penalty appeals are in fact +guilty, but that is not the point. If you have to apologize first +you have a done a disservice to the case. I resist government abuses +of people's rights. The government demonizes people...once you have +conceded the demon you have lost the principle involved in the +defense. By prefacing a defense by first saying 'of course, he is +a terrible person' it disables people from considering the matter +fairly. "

+ +

Clark said the government had demonized people like Saddam Hussein +and Lyndon LaRouche and that he felt it was not appropriate to give +in to the pejorative labeling of such persons when discussing their +activities. This is the same rationale used by Clark in 1986 when +he was criticized for not distancing himself from his client Karl +Linnas, a Nazi collaborator who was eventually deported because he +had lied about his past to gain entrance to the U.S. after World +War II. Clark represented Linnas in an appeal which objected to +the procedures followed in the deportation. Critics of Clark, +including Daniel Levitas of the Center for Democratic Renewal, said +Clark was insensitive to the fact that anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi +groups were using Clark's appeal to buttress their claims that +Linnas was innocent or that the Holocaust was a hoax.[f-5]

+ +

Rev. James Bevel

+ +

The Rev. James Bevel is an African-American minister from Chicago +with a long history of civil rights work but a recent reputation +as an opportunist who has swung far to the right. Rev. Bevel now +works closely with groups controlled by two neo-fascists, the Rev. +Sun Myung Moon and Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. The Moon network supported +the war effort, while the LaRouchians did not. Bevel focused his +energy in opposing the Gulf War, primarily through an alliance with +the LaRouchians. Bevel's ties to the LaRouchians go back several +years. Bevel not only appeared as a panelist at the LaRouchian +antiwar conference in Chicago, but he also has endorsed LaRouche's +congressional candidacy, and speaks regularly at LaRouchian forums. +Bevel has served on committees created by several LaRouchian front +groups, and writes a column for the LaRouchian newspaper <New +Federalist>. Bevel has been an effective organizer for the LaRouchians, +and took a high profile in their antiwar organizing.

+ +

Dr. Manning Marable, in a 1986 column, listed Bevel among a small +group of "prominent civil rights spokesmen [who] have gone so far +as to form alliances with ultra-right groups, which might give +lipservice to blacks' traditional interests." The LaRouchians have +sought coalitions with local African-American community activists +for many years, often working through religious leaders. A recent +example was the LaRouchian support for then Washington, D.C. Mayor +Marion Barry. During Barry's trial on drug charges, the LaRouchians +and the Nation of Islam helped organize protests on behalf of Barry. +The LaRouchian representative during these protests was Bevel.

+ +

When Bevel endorsed Lyndon LaRouche's congressional candidacy (in +Virginia's 10th Congressional District), he signed a statement +which included the claim, "Lyndon LaRouche is known and respected +in every nation of the Third World as the primary opponent of the +genocide policies of the IMF and as the architect and principal +spokesman for a new and more just world economic order that guarantees +the inalienable rights of all people." The statement speaks glowingly +of LaRouche's early theorizing about the AIDS virus and his +recommendations for fighting the spread of the virus. In fact, as +mentioned before, LaRouche has written that history would not judge +harshly those persons who took to the streets and beat homosexuals +to death with baseball bats to stop the spread of AIDS.

+ +

Bevel represented the LaRouchian Schiller Institute in Omaha, +Nebraska. The Omaha World-Herald reported on January 6, 1991:

+ +

""Bevel was one of 10 people who came to Nebraska in October as +members of a group calling itself the Citizens Fact-Finding Commission +to Investigate Human rights Violations of Children in Nebraska. +That group was organized by the Schiller Institute of Washington, +D.C., and Wiesbaden, Germany. The institute was founded in 1984 by +Helga Zepp-LaRouche. She is the wife of Lyndon LaRouche, who is +serving a 15-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion....The Schiller +group's printed statement disputed the findings of two grand juries +in the Franklin case. A check by the World-Herald of some of the +'facts' in the statement turned up several apparent errors. "

+ +

While Rev. Bevel's historic role as a valued civil rights leader +is unquestioned, he has in recent years lost his constituency and +his political moorings. Dr. Manning Marable noted noted in 1986 +that Bevel, had become "a Republican party leader in Chicago's +Black community, and soon earned the reputation as an extremist of +the right."

+ +

Some time after the LaRouche conviction in January 1989, Bevel +began to appear as a featured speaker at LaRouchian conferences, +and began to write a column in the LaRouchian New Federalist. As +Marable noted in 1986:

+ +

"The right-wing sect of Lyndon LaRouche has also initiated a campaign +to recruit black supporters. As in the case of the Unification +Church, the LaRouchians work primarily through several fronts, the +Schiller Institute and the National Democratic Policy Committee. +Again, the LaRouchians have been linked to a number of racist and +extremist groups, including the Liberty Lobby, the Klan and neo-Nazis. +Currently, the LaRouchians are vigorously opposing sanctions against +South African apartheid. "

+ +

While in Chicago, Bevel regularly broke ranks with the African-American-led +coalition behind the late Mayor Harold Washington. At the same +time, Bevel was working with Moon's front group CAUSA. In an +interview with Bevel at an Illinois CAUSA meeting, I asked him why +he would ally himself with a religious/political movement such as +that run by Rev. Moon. Bevel replied that it was a tactical coalition +based on agreement that the main danger in the world was communism. +Bevel argued that communism was a godless philosophy, and that as +a Christian, it was his obligation to fight godlessness.

+ +

Bevel's CAUSA ties garnered him some unflattering publicity. +According to the December 12, 1987 Chicago Sun-Times, Bevel was +one of four persons belonging to "groups created by the Rev. Sun +Myung Moon's Unification Church" who erected a creche and nativity +scene at Chicago's Daley Center Plaza. The Chicago Sun-Times +reported that "William J. Grutzmacher, who obtained the permit and +paid $2000 for the creche, gave a speech in October to a business +group in Merrillville, Ind., apparently so anti-Semitic that a +local newspaper ran an editorial denouncing him." The head of the +Rotary Club that had co-sponsored Grutzmacher's speech told the +reporter, "He made charges...that the Communist Party is headed by +Jews, and that the Jews were responsible for every negative thing +that has happened since World War II."

+ +

Bevel has also worked with other Moon fronts. In the October, 1990 +issue of American Freedom Journal, Bevel is listed as serving on +the National Policy Board of the American Freedom Coalition, chaired +by the ultra-conservative Hon. Richard Ichord. The American Freedom +Coalition (AFC) is a joint project of Rev. Moon and the Rev. Robert +G. Grant of the ultra-right Christian fundamentalist group Christian +Voice. AFC fundraised for Oliver North, and Bevel sits on the AFC +National Policy Board with Maj. Gen. John K. Singlaub, implicated +in the Iran-Contragate scandal; Lt. Gen. Daniel Graham of High +Frontier, the pro-Star Wars lobby; and rightist historian Dr. Cleon +Skousen. The late Dr. Ralph David Abernathy was a long-time member +of the AFC Board of Directors along with pro-interventionist +Ambassador Phillip Sanchez. On the AFC National Advisory Board sit +rightist fundraising guru Richard Viguerie, and Slava Stetsko, +president of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN). ABN is +notorious because it is the descendant and spiritual heir of the +Committee of Subjugated Nations, formed in 1943 by Hitler's allies. +According to author Russ Bellant, "The ABN brought together fascist +forces from Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Ukraine, the Baltic +States, Slovenia and other nations." Slava Stetsko is the widow of +Yaroslav Stetsko, leader of the Nazi puppet government in the +Ukraine during World War II. She once wrote a glowing introduction +to a book that defined anti-Semitism as a "smear word used by +Communists against those who effectively oppose and expose them."

+ +

These are the fascist forces with which Bevel has allied himself, +and is a striking example of the opportunistic flexibility of +fascism as a political ideology, able not only to embrace +Nazi-collaborators but also to entice Black civil rights activists. +Bevel's ties to the fascist Moon circles are through a shared +loathing of communism as a godless ideology, an issue which resonates +with many Black church-based constituencies. Another congruent +theme that fascism can employ to seek alliances with African-Americans +and Hispanic-Americans is the opportunistic manipulation of the +issues of nationalism and self determination.

+ +

Other Black leaders such as Roy Innis and the late Ralph David +Abernathy have forged alliances with the fascist right. Innis has +worked in alliance with the LaRouchians. Abernathy worked with +Moon's Unification movement until his death.

+ +

Other Right-Wing Groups and the Gulf War

+ +

Conservative groups overwhelmingly supported sending U.S. troops +to the Gulf. Right-wing forces aligned with Rev. Sun Myung Moon +and those supportive of the Israeli political right forged a pro-war +coalition that placed ads in newspapers and purchased television +commercials.

+ +

Other rightists, primarily those who have politics that are more +accurately termed reactionary than conservative, staked out an +isolationist or "America First" position, and opposed sending U.S. +troops to fight the Gulf War.

+ +

The LaRouchian antiwar theories parallel many of the themes promoted +by the Liberty Lobby, the Birch Society, and author Fletcher Prouty. +According to one flyer issued by the LaRouchians, "If war is to +come, it will be the result of deliberate 'geopolitical' plotting +by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Lord Carrington, and +other London friends of Henry Kissinger."

+ +

Some white supremacists outlined a frank racist agenda in their +Gulf War publications. The Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux +Klan, in the January/February, 1991 issue of The Klansman, ran +a banner headline "War in the Middle East? Another Blood Sacrifice +on the Altar of International Jewry. Integrated Effeminate U.S. +Military Will Not Win!" On Target, published by Northpoint Tactical +Teams in North Carolina, released a forty-page special edition, +"Desert Shield and the New World Order," which ascribes the conflict +to a Jewish-Communist conspiracy involving Henry Kissinger, David +Rockefeller, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev.

+ +

At the 35th Anniversary Liberty Lobby convention held in September, +1990 there was considerable antiwar sentiment expressed by speakers +who tied the U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia to pressure from Israel +and its intelligence agency, Mossad. No matter what actual political +involvement, if any, forces that support Israel may have had in +shaping the events that led to the Gulf War, the history of Liberty +Lobby is to circulate lurid anti-Jewish propaganda, not principled +factual criticisms.

+ +

At the conference Fletcher Prouty released the new Institute for +Historical Review's Noontide Press edition of his book on CIA +intrigue, The Secret Team. Prouty moderated a panel where +much-decorated Vietnam veteran Bo Gritz wove a conspiracy theory +which explained the U.S. confrontation with Iraq as a product of +the same "Secret Team" outlined by Prouty. Both Prouty and Gritz +serve on the advisory board of Liberty Lobby's Populist Action +Committee. Spotlight's coverage of Gritz featured a headline +proclaiming "Gritz Warns...Get Ready to Fight or Lose Freedom: +Links Drugs, CIA, Mossad; Slams U.S. Foreign Policy; Alerts Patriots +to Martial Law Threat."

+ +

Other conference speakers and moderators at the September 1990 +Liberty Lobby convention included attorney Mark Lane, who has +drifted into alliances with Liberty Lobby that far transcend his +role as the group's lawyer, and comedian and activist Dick Gregory, +whose anti-government rhetoric finds fertile soil on the far right. +Dick Gregory also spoke in 1991 at the January 19th antiwar rally +in Washington, D.C. Organizers of the antiwar event say they were +unaware of Gregory's previous appearance at the Liberty Lobby +meeting.

+ +

Mark Lane and Dick Gregory co-authored a 1977 book on the assassination +of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and both have circulated complex +conspiracy theories about other world events which could account +in part for their drift towards the conspiratorial Liberty Lobby +network.

+ +

The attempts by some of the rightist groups who opposed the war to +penetrate the progressive antiwar movement came during a period of +significant realignment among U.S. right-wing and conservative +political groups. In some rightist groups, long hidden racialist +theories are being dusted off and recirculated, which has caused +further splits. One of the most significant historical divisions +on the American political right is between those groups that espouse +racialist (race-based) theories--generally anti-Jewish and white +supremacist--and those that do not.

+ +

People associated with Liberty Lobby and the historically-related +Populist Party circulated antiwar and pro-isolationist literature, +including Liberty Lobby's weekly newspaper Spotlight, at several +antiwar rallies, including demonstrations in Boston, Washington, +D.C., Los Angeles, and West Palm Beach, Florida. Spotlight cheers +the activities of U.S. neo-Nazis and skinheads but masks its +anti-Jewish stance behind coded phrases such as "dual-loyalist." +According to the Center for Democratic Renewal:

+ +

"The Florida Populist Party attended [the Florida] anti-war +rally...handing out a leaflet that read in part: 'The most conspicuous +foes of war have been on the left, and we in the Populist Party +support their efforts.' Don Black, a former Klan leader, had a +taped message on the Party's phone line: 'Make no mistake, this is +Israel's war, and American sons and daughters are fighting it for +them.' "

+ +

In its January 7-14, 1991 edition, Spotlight carried an article +titled "Volunteers Flock to Iraq To Help Fight U.S., Israel." This +phenomenon was favorably compared to "the building of the Waffen +SS legions in Europe during World War II, when almost 1 million +men from all over Europe and as far away as India voluntarily +enlisted to fight communism under the leadership of the German high +command. That development was also suppressed and never mentioned +by the Anglo-American press. Allied commanders, however, knew the +Waffen SS as an extremely effective fighting force."

+ +

An advertisement in the same issue of Spotlight touted a book +"Israel: Our Duty...Our Dilemma" under the headline "How Will You +Respond To The Next Mid-East War?" While Spotlight itself usually +avoids the loaded language of this ad, the pages of Spotlight +are frequently used by racist, anti-Jewish, and pro-Nazi groups to +call attention to their products, publications, events, and views. +The ad copy is also significant because it encapsulates many of +the themes used by anti-Jewish bigots in criticizing Israel and +Jews:

+ +

"If you are like most Americans you will react as the pro-Zionist +media has BIprogrammed< you to react. "

+ +

"But if you have read "Israel: Our Duty...Our Dilemma" you will +see the BIwhole< picture--how Israel's ruling elite are using +terrorism, Holocaust sympathy, twisted Bible verses--toward one +objective: Power. "

+ +

"Power in America. Power in the Middle East. Power in the world. +"

+ +

"Distilling 14 years' research in semi-secret Jewish sources, +evangelical writer Theodore Winston Pike demonstrates that through +Kabbalistic occultism, international banking, communism, liberalism, +and media control, Israel is doing exactly what the Bible prophesies: +establishing a power base in the Middle East upon which her false +messiah, AntiChrist, will someday rule. "

+ +

- The Buchanan Controversy The issue of anti-Jewish rhetoric over +the Gulf crisis first surfaced in September, 1990 as part of a long +simmering feud within the political right in the United States. +Ultra-conservative columnist Pat Buchanan fired the first salvo to +reach the mainstream media when he declared on the McLaughlin Group +roundtable television program that the two groups most favoring +war in the Middle East were "the Israeli Defense Ministry and its +amen chorus in the United States." New York Times columnist A.M. +Rosenthal charged that Buchanan's comments reflected anti-Semitism, +to which Buchanan retorted that Rosenthal had made a "contract hit" +on him in collusion with the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith +(ADL).

+ +

To unravel the background of the dispute takes a political scorecard. +Buchanan is allied with reactionary and hard-line rightist forces +in the U.S. who sometimes are called paleo-conservatives or +"Paleocons" due to their ties to the "Old Right" in the United +States. Racism and anti-Jewish bigotry were common themes in some +(although not all) Old Right groups. ADL is a Jewish human rights +group often allied with the "Neocons," the neo-conservative movement +in the Unites States. ADL leaders are also frequently ardent and +uncritical supporters of Israeli government policies, as are many +Neocons. ADL has produced some excellent material on bigotry and +prejudice, but its leaders have labeled as anti-Semitic statements +which are solely political criticisms of Israel or Zionism. Since +there are some high-profile Jews in the intellectual leadership of +the neo-conservative movement, some persons have concluded that +neo-conservatism is a Jewish ideology. This is as prejudiced an +assertion as the claim that communism is a Jewish ideology because +of the role played in it by some Jewish intellectuals.

+ +

Buchanan's statement in and of itself was not necessarily anti-Jewish, +but in the context of Buchanan's long record of insensitivity when +writing about Jews, the contention that Buchanan is an anti-Semite +is not without foundation. Buchanan has not only defended those +who say the Holocaust was a hoax, but implied their views have some +merit. Buchanan endorsed the work of the Rockford Institute after +other conservatives criticized it for its tolerance of apparently +anti-Jewish sentiments. In his January 25, 1990 newsletter, Buchanan +penned what was in essence an ode to fascism which celebrated the +efficiency of autocracy, and concluded with the line, "If the people +are corrupt, the more democracy, the worse the government." The +column also echoed historically racialist themes.

+ +

Actually, the Neocons for ten years quietly have tolerated more +than a little anti-democratic authoritarianism, anti-Jewish bigotry, +and racism from their tactical allies on the Paleocon right. Their +alliance was based on shared support for militant anti-communism, +celebration of unfettered free enterprise, calls for high levels +of U.S. spending on the U.S. military, and support for a militarily +strong Israel dominated by hard-line ultra-conservative political +parties that would stand as a bulwark against communism in the +Middle East.

+ +

Author Sara Diamond (who covered the Buchanan/Rosenthal feud in <Z +Magazine>) notes "the Buchanan forces explicitly rejected coalition +with the left on the issue of opposing intervention in the Gulf."

+ +

The Courtship Continues

+ +

"Reactionary concepts plus revolutionary emotion result in Fascist +mentality. "

+ +

(Wilhelm Reich)

+ +

Craig Hulet's Reductionist Gulf War Critiques

+ +

One critic of government policies who draws from both left and +right sources and perspectives is Seattle-based analyst Craig B. +Hulet. During the past year, progressive radio stations including +KPFA in San Francisco and KPFK in Los Angeles aired compelling +condemnations of the Gulf War produced by Hulet, also known as K.C. +DePass. A number of study groups were formed in California following +Hulet's radio and personal appearances. Hulet claimed in an +interview that his theories have no relation to conspiracist theories +such as those circulated by the John Birch Society, and he is quick +to distance himself from the racialist and anti-Jewish theories of +far-right groups such as Liberty Lobby. Still, Hulet's analysis, +which exaggerates the role of the Al Sabah family in world affairs, +has many of the hallmarks of other oversimplified conspiracist +theories which reduce complex issues to simple equations; and it +seems to scapegoat one family of Arabs, albeit one with powerful +financial holdings, in a way that would be equally unacceptable if +their name was Rothschild rather than Al Sabah. No matter what his +actual affiliations, Hulet essentially employs a variation on the +elite financial insider conspiracy of the John Birch Society.

+ +

Hulet has a smooth style and self-confident tone, but in essence, +Hulet's analysis reflects a cynical right-wing libertarian perspective +laced with conspiratorial theories. The basic theme of his Gulf +War analysis boils down to an assertion that Kuwait's ruling Al +Sabah family dictated U.S. policy in the Gulf War in concert with +ruling financial elites in the United States. According to Hulet, +the Al Sabah family could do this because they controlled vast +financial holdings in the U.S. and they threatened to withdraw +those holdings and collapse the U.S. economy unless the U.S. pushed +Iraq out of Kuwait. Hulet also maintains that the investments of +George Bush and his father Prescott make George Bush vulnerable to +manipulation by the Al Sabah family.

+ +

A Hulet promotional brochure reveals a pattern of similar reductionist +statements and unsubstantiated conspiratorial claims. According to +the brochure:

+ +

"Hulet outlines the actual political objectives of the Bush +administration regarding the Middle East...why we gave Hussein the +green light to invade Kuwait and why Bush will disallow any +legitimate cease fire overture by Hussein....volatile...material +concerning George Bush's connections as well as those of his father, +Prescott Bush...Middle East and the New World Order discussed in +detail... "

+ +

The brochure claims that the Hulet report <Overview of Government +Corruption and Manipulation> provides "an excellent understanding +identifying the elite and how and why they control society". In a +similar vein, the brochure claims the Hulet report <The Gnomes of +Zurich> provides, "...an overview identifying the elites who manage +this country and how and why they control it's aim...."

+ +

The text of The Gnomes of Zurich shows a more detailed yet +consistent reliance on conspiratorial assertions:

+ +

"Keeping the left wing grass roots at the throat of the right wing +grass roots, serves the purpose, the means, and ultimately..., the +END, of these quite powerful elitists. As each side at the basic +root level; the grass roots level if you will, are both being used, +duped, and manipulated by the Elite...They are quite simply, these +sincere yet almost silly at times local people, unwittingly part +of an ingenious plan to create a <synthesis...ingenious because of +its simplicity...For you see the Elite in the Kremlin>, and the +Elite in Washington quite agree on the end at which they both +aim (the synthesis). A Global Regime. "

+ +

These are just a few examples of Hulet's conspiracist style. Most +of Hulet's work concerns conspiracies of the "elites." Actually, +much of Hulet's thesis is an echo of the book "Call it Conspiracy" +by Larry Abraham, which is itself a rewrite and expansion of the +book "None Dare Call it Conspiracy" by Gary Allen and Larry Abraham. +Allen's writings were widely popularized by the John Birch Society. +Hulet's intellectual tradition can clearly be shown to be congruent +with that of the John Birch Society.

+ +

In at least one case, Hulet moves beyond conspiracism into elevating +a satire to documentary status. Hulet labels as fact material from +the book Report from Iron Mountain. Hulet refers to the work as +if it were a secret government document. Actually, <Report from +Iron Mountain> is an allegorical critique of the pro-militarist +lobby and a well-known example of political satire. [f-6] While an +excellent philosophical discussion of the errors of the Cold War, +it should be noted that it was produced by Leonard C. Lewin, +described on the book jacket as a "critic and satirist" who was +editor of A Treasury of American Political Humor. Apparently +Hulet didn't get the joke.

+ +

Hulet also plows the ground of left/right coalition. Hulet says +that he works closely with former Christic Institute attorney Lanny +Sinkin to buttress his credibility on the left.

+ +

On one radio interview, Hulet responded to a question regarding +third parties in the U.S. by saying:

+ +

"The problem with those third parties is that they are such a tiny, +tiny minority of the intelligentsia. Many of them like the Libertarian +Party is splintered between factions. They are fighting amongst +themselves. They still see it as a left-wing right-wing dialectic +that they must oppose. And all I'm trying to make very clear to +the American people, including the ones that read all the right +books, is that the enemy is our government. The enemy is not part +of our society. It has always historically been them versus us. +The government versus the people. And the American people have to +stop fighting amongst themselves. "

+ +

Hulet recommends the research on Trilateralism of Antony C. Sutton, +a far-right theorist who publishes the <Phoenix Letter: A Report +on the Abuse of Power>, and Future Technology Intelligence Report. +The latter carried Sutton's sentiment that "without political +intervention cancer would have been cured decades ago." Citing +Sutton in any context is problematic given Sutton's exotic views. +Sutton, for instance, asserts that various government and political +operatives, controlled by international bankers, have suppressed +the technology to control the weather, produce free energy, and +achieve "Acoustical Levitation." Sutton also reports on "possible +advanced alien technology" including anti-gravity devices recovered +from UFOs by the U.S. government. When Hulet was asked why he would +put forward Sutton as someone to prove his thesis, he replied that +it was a choice between Sutton and Holly Sklar, and he considered +Sklar a Marxist. This says much about the political milieu from +which Hulet is emerging.

+ +

Sklar, who has written progressive critiques of the Trilateralists, +warns antiwar activists that "there is a big difference between +understanding the influence of the Trilateral Commission on world +affairs and the paranoid right-wing fantasy that the Trilateralists +and their allies are an omnipotent cabal controlling the world. +It's important for people to base their political decisions on +facts, not lazy catch-all conspiracy theories."

+ +

Journalist David Barsamian interviewed Hulet for a Boulder, Colorado +radio station and his Alternative Radio tape series which is aired +on numerous local radio stations nationwide. The Open Magazine +pamphlet series reproduced a transcript of Barsamian's interview +with Hulet, and sold them alongside interviews with researchers +who have a more substantial and serious track record, including +Noam Chomsky, Helen Caldicott, and John Stockwell. After selling +one thousand copies of the pamphlet--far less than the others, +Open Magazine did not reprint the pamphlet and it went out of +print, according to co-owner Stuart Sahulka. According to Sahulka, +the Hulet pamphlet was published because there was "such an +overpressing need for information about the war," and that except +for exaggerating the amount of Kuwaiti investment in the U.S., it +seemed accurate.

+ +

Barsamian is troubled by some of Hulet's assertions regarding the +genesis of the Gulf War, and Hulet's apparent claim that the Kuwaiti +royal families control of $300 billion in U.S. investments was +the key issue in prompting the war. (Most newspapers and financial +reporting services place the Kuwaiti/U.S. investment figure in the +range of 30-50 billion dollars, with a low of 15 and a high of 80 +in current documented mainstream and alternative press accounts.) +Barsamian and other progressive researchers and journalists have +been unable to document some of Hulet's claims, which may represent +legitimate suppositions, but were presented by Hulet in numerous +radio interviews as facts. Hulet argues that the integrity of his +research should not be judged on the basis of radio interviews +where discussions are often hectic and condensed. On the other +hand, Hulet gained his influence as a Gulf War critic and his +largest audience through radio talk shows.

+ +

Barsamian warns progressives of falling for the type of "left +guruism" where sensational anti-government theories are accepted +without any independent critical analysis. He notes that during +the Gulf crisis Craig Hulet was elevated to expert status by +progressives who accepted his pronouncements as fact without +seriously examining his credentials, which he sometimes inflates.

+ +

For instance, one Hulet brochure describes him as a "Published +columnist and political cartoonist. Articles frequently appear in +national publications: <Financial Security Digest, International +Combat Arms, Seattle Times, LA Weekly, SF Examiner, Oakland Tribune> +and more." In fact, while the phrasing strongly suggests Hulet has +written for the latter four publications, Hulet admits those cites +actually refer to instances when he was quoted or his research used +in preparing the article. Most journalists and academics would +consider that a misrepresentation. In the long run, whether or not +Hulet's analysis stands up to intellectual criticism will be +determined by his ability to defend his thesis--a defense that can +only take place if his views are vigorously debated, not uncritically +accepted as gospel. That is the same critical standard to which +all researchers should be held.

+ +

An especially useful book in understanding how Hulet's conspiracy +theories of oligarchic manipulation, anti-government demagoguery, +and appeal to individualism fits into the fascist tradition is "The +Fascist Ego" by William R. Tucker.[f-7] The book is a study of +the French intellectual fascist, Robert Brasillach, whose egocentric +flirtation with fascism ended with his execution as a collaborator +at the end of WWII.

+ +

Author Tucker, as the jacket blurb explains:

+ +

"...sees in Brasillach's involvement in fascism a form of anarchic +individualism or 'right-wing anarchism.' He suggests that, far from +being a form of social or moral conservatism, Brasillach's fascism +was inspired by an anti-modernism that placed the creative individuals +sensibilities and his ego at the center of things. Brasillach's +fear that the individualist prerogatives of the creative elite +would be submerged in the industrialized and rationalized society +that loomed on the horizon was important as a basis for his thoughts +and actions. "

+ +

To understand Brasillach and his soul-mates is to understand Craig +Hulet, and his followers.

+ +

How the Populist Party Uses Hulet

+ +

While Craig Hulet, featured on the California Pacifica radio +stations, is careful to distance himself from views that are racist +or anti-Jewish, not everyone who champions Hulet as an commentator +on the Gulf War or Bush's New World Order makes those distinctions. +Some persons, wittingly or not, use Hulet's theories to introduce +others to the more bigoted theorists. Hulet helped spark a political +movement in California following the Gulf War that, according to +persons attending the meetings, fed scores, perhaps hundreds, of +political activists into a far-right, racist, and anti-Jewish +political organizing drive supporting the Presidential candidacy +of Col. James Bo Gritz of the Populist Party.

+ +

The story of one person living in the Bay Area, called here Dana +Pierce, illustrates the study group phenomenon sparked by Hulet's +presentations. The story shows an organizing dynamic in action, +and is not meant to imply that Hulet is a party to the dynamic, +merely that others opportunistically use Hulet as bait.

+ +

Dana Pierce had become critical of domestic U.S. financial policies, +and attended a meeting of others who shared that view. Pierce was +invited by the leader of the group, an older man with "a pro-democracy +demeanor," to a meeting in the San Rafael area to meet someone who +might assist with a particular financial problem.

+ +

At that second meeting, the facilitator announced the group was +trying to understand George Bush and the New World Order. They were +studying history and political science, and were reading material +by Noam Chomsky. It was explained that the group had formed after +several core persons, who opposed sending U.S. troops to the Gulf, +had heard Craig Hulet's speeches in the Bay Area, primarily on +radio station KPFA, both in live interviews and on tape. Some people +had seen Hulet on videotape. They had responded to Hulet's call +for people to educate themselves by forming the group.

+ +

The group consisted of at least thirty people and had met about +four times when Pierce attended the meeting. For the main program +of the meeting, the group watched a videotape of Eustace Mullins +talking about the sinister aspects of the Federal Reserve system. +As the tape progressed, Pierce became increasingly uneasy.

+ +

"Mullins was jumping back and forth, claiming bankers supported +both the Bolshevik revolution and the Nazis, he praised the right-wing +Hunt brothers, and then began to mention the Rothschild family. He +said the CIA was part of the plot, and William F. Buckley is CIA +which was why some conservative groups dismissed his theories. All +the while I watched people smiling and nodding their heads and I +began to wonder if I was the only one to catch the reference to +the Rothschilds and wondered if I was being over-sensitive because +I was Jewish. "

+ +

After the tape, according to Pierce, "the host stood up and praised +Mullins and said he was a close associate of Ezra Pound. The host +also said that the banking system is communistic because both are +monopolistic."

+ +

Pierce went to the local library and looked up a biography of Ezra +Pound and discovered that Mullins had been associated with Pound, +and that Pound was a virulent anti-Semite. Pierce then read Hannah +Arendt's treatise on the origins of anti-Semitism, and pieces of +the puzzle began to fall into place.

+ +

Pierce had not heard Hulet before and so went to hear a July 1991 +speech at the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco. Admission +was ten dollars and the audience numbered at least 100.

+ +

"He was a glib speaker, and he presents concerns all of us +have--concerns many people on the left certainly have about the +Bush administration and how there is no effective congressional +oversight. I can listen to him and agree he is focused on some real +problems in this country. What he does is bring into the open a +lot of concerns and he discusses issues succinctly and in ways that +people can follow. If I had just gone to hear him I probably would +have been quite taken with him, but in the context of the first +meeting, I listened with skepticism, and am worried. People want +so much to believe in him they don't want to hear any criticism. +I saw how people can hear Hulet and then be led to Mullins. If +you look at the origins of anti-Semitism described by Arendt, you +can see how a self-confident person who provides simple explanations +can offer comfort to people who sense that something is wrong with +our society and that they are being lied to, which is true. But +it was scary to see how easily people were then led into accepting +the scapegoating of Jews and the other conspiracy theories discussed +by Eustace Mullins on the videotape. At first I thought there was +something wrong with me, but now I think there is a serious problem +that people on the left need to talk about. "

+ +

Hulet was listed in a 1986 Spotlight advertisement as a speaker +at a day-long seminar with ultra-rightist Australian Eric D. Butler +and pro-apartheid writer Ivor Benson, a notorious anti-Semite. Both +men are leading theorists affiliated with Liberty Lobby. Also on +the 1986 panel was rightist newsletter editor Lawrence Patterson, +recently named to the Liberty Lobby PAC, and David Irving, an author +who claims the Holocaust was a Jewish hoax. Repeated attempts to +interview Hulet regarding this meeting and the California study +groups, including a visit to his base in a town north of Seattle, +were brushed off by his wife, Kathleen DePass Hulet, who handles +his publicity from a frame shop in downtown Everett, Washington. +Hulet has told one newspaper that he did not attend the event. The +matter is unimportant in an overall assessment of Hulet's +ideological--as opposed to organizational--allegiances.

+ +

Left/Right Critiques and Coalitions

+ +

It would be grossly unfair to suggest that all information from +the political right is inaccurate conspiracism. Right-wing groups +are quite capable of producing factual investigative material and +persuasive journalistic stories. For instance, every year "Project +Censored" runs a contest to pick the ten top stories not adequately +covered by the mainstream press. On a 1991 PBS television program +reviewing the 1990 Project Censored stories, commentator Bill Moyers +held up a copy of the Spotlight as an example of two such +stories--one on aspects of U.S. foreign policy in the early days +of the Gulf crisis, another highlighting repressive features of an +anti-crime bill. Not all stories surfaced by the far right are +accurate, however, and many feature convoluted and undocumented +conspiracy theories featuring a paranoid analysis.

+ +

At the same time the right has been wooing the left, right-wing +groups have been promoting a number of left resources such as books +and videos that criticize certain aspects of government policy or +ruling elites. For instance, Noam Chomsky's critiques of U.S. +foreign policy, Holly Sklar's studies of the Trilateral Commission, +and Brian Glick's manual on domestic repression are praised and +distributed by right-wing book peddlers.

+ +

These cross-ideological pollinations do not imply any ideological +connection between the left researchers and the right--any group +can distribute a book--but demonstrates that the political right +sees points of alliance with the left, especially around issues +relating to government abuses of power.

+ +

Government repression and intelligence abuse are not the only areas +of research on the left where convoluted theories are circulated. +Unsubstantiated conspiracist theories, claiming secret circles of +corporate influence in the United States, also flow between left +and right pro-environmentalists. One Massachusetts environmental +activist researches alternative energy sources, circulates materials +on elite control of energy policy, and refers interested +environmentalists to the work of Eustace Mullins who writes about +the so-called Jewish international banking conspiracy. In his +worldview, Mullins' research unraveling powerful industrial and +banking conspiracies can help explain government antagonism toward +environmental reform[f-8]

+ +

On one forum for activists on a national electronic computer based +network, excerpts from LaRouchian and Liberty Lobby publications +have been uncritically posted by persons who primarily circulate +information from left and progressive sources. This builds the +credibility of the LaRouchians and Liberty Lobby circles and implies +that they are natural allies.

+ +

An example of one left/right information alliance involves Dan +Brandt, creator of the Namebase software program, an immensely +useful computer tool which searches a huge index of CIA-related +publications and documents. Brandt has created a non-profit group +with a board of advisors composed of both left and right critics +of U.S. intelligence agencies, including LaRouche-defender Fletcher +Prouty who joined the advisory board of Liberty Lobby's Populist +Action Committee. On the other hand, Brandt is highly critical of +the LaRouchians.

+ +

True Gritz

+ +

In 1991, ultra-right political groups began organizing a nationwide +campaign to build support for Populist Party candidate Bo Gritz. +Gritz was named in 1991 to the advisory board of the Populist Action +Committee created by the quasi-Nazi Liberty Lobby, publisher of +the weekly newspaper Spotlight. The Populist Party organizing +drive is of interest to progressives because Gritz told a July, +1991 meeting in Palo Alto, California that they should reach out +and attempt to recruit persons from the left.

+ +

Also named to the Liberty Lobby Populist Action Committee was +retired Air Force Colonel and intelligence specialist Fletcher +Prouty, author of the 1973 book The Secret Team, now published +by IHR. Prouty has been appearing at conferences and on radio +programs sponsored by the Liberty Lobby.

+ +

Others named to the Liberty Lobby Populist Action Committee were +Abe Austin, described as an Illinois businessman and expert on +money; Mike Blair, Spotlight writer whose articles on government +repression were highlighted by Project Censored; Ken Bohnsack, an +Illinois resident called the founder of the Sovereignty movement; +Howard Carson, a Spotlight distributor; William Gill, president +of the protectionist American Coalition for Competitive Trade; Boyd +Godlove Jr., chairman of the Populist Party of Maryland; Martin +Larson, a contributor to The Journal of Historical Review which +maintains the Holocaust was a Jewish hoax; Roger Lourie, president +of Devin-Adair Publishing; Pauline Mackey, national treasurer for +the 1988 David Duke Populist Party Presidential campaign; Tom +McIntyre, national chairman of the Populist Party from 1987-1990; +John Nugent, who ran for Congress from Tennessee as a Republican +in 1990; Lawrence Patterson, publisher of the far-right +ultra-conspiratorial Criminal Politics newsletter; Jerry Pope, +chair of the Kentucky Populist Party; John Rakus, president of the +National Justice Foundation; Hon. John R. Rarick, former Democratic +House member now in Louisiana; Sherman Skolnick, a Chicagoan who +has peddled bizarre conspiracy theories for over a decade; Major +James H. Townsend, editor of the National Educator from California; +Jim Tucker, Spotlight contributor who specializes on covering +the Bilderberger banking group; Tom Valentine, Midwest bureau chief +for Spotlight; Raymond Walk, an Illinois critic of free trade; +and Robert H. Weems, founding national chairman of the Populist +Party.

+ +

The Populist Party has long been a meeting ground for segregationists, +anti-Jewish conspiracy mongers, white supremacists and former +members of the Ku Klux Klan. The formation of the Liberty Lobby +Populist Action Committee comes at a time when some right wing +groups are attempting to build bridges to the left around shared +critiques of government misconduct, a process that was accelerated +during the Gulf War.

+ +

In the June, 1991 issue of The Populist Observer, Gritz wrote, +"I call upon you as Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Independent, +right, left, conservative, liberal, et.al., to UNITE AS POPULISTS +[emphasis in original] until we have our nation firmly back on her +feet." Gritz made a similar plea at a July meeting in Palo Alto, +California.

+ +

Gritz's call for the left/right coalition apparently first surfaced +publicly at his Freedom Call '90 conference held in July, 1990 in +Las Vegas. Speakers at that conference included Gritz and anti-Semite +Eustace Mullins, as well as Father Bill Davis of the Christic +Institute, ex-CIA official (now critic) John Stockwell, and author +Barbara Honneger. This fact of attendance is not meant to imply +that all these persons share the same views. It is meant to +demonstrate that Gritz is attempting to draw a broad range of +government critics into a coalition. Stockwell, Honneger, and Davis +have all said their appearance at the conference should not be +interpreted as an endorsement of Gritz's research or political +views. Gritz's Center for Action still sells a set of tapes from +the conference, including speeches by Gritz and Mullins, along with +Father Davis, Barbara Honneger, and John Stockwell. This set of +tapes is advertised in the Prevailing Winds catalog.

+ +

John Stockwell has expressed concern over the the way Prevailing +Winds has lumped his research together with research he finds +problematic. In the past, Stockwell has been highly critical of +Honneger as a reliable source of information, and has had criticisms +of some aspects of Christic research as well. Stockwell says he +"met Gritz there on stage" at the 1990 conference and "came away +greatly unimpressed," and he was quick to distance himself from +the Populist Party.

+ +

After the controversy broke in the left press, a spokesperson at +Prevailing Winds (who asked to be identified simply as Patrick) +said they were now considering at least including a warning in +their catalog about Bo Gritz's ties to the Populist Party and other +rightist and anti-Jewish groups and individuals. Patrick said their +catalog came out before Gritz accepted the Populist Party presidential +nomination, but defended the inclusion of the Gritz material, saying +that "middle America needs this kind of information" because "Bush +is basically a dope-peddling Nazi."

+ +

Patrick said the appropriateness of carrying Gritz's material, +given his ties to the anti-Jewish far right, has been discussed by +the Prevailing Winds staff, and also discussed with Bo Gritz and +with Father Davis of Christic.

+ +

According to the Prevailing Winds representative:

+ +

"Its an argument we've gone back and forth on, it's a tough question, +whether or not to make it available and to preserve it for research. +We are interested in getting the information to the people. The +good thing about it is no one else is trying to build these bridges +between groups. We need to reach a rainbow of people." "

+ +

Christic's Father Bill Davis walked out of the 1990 Gritz conference +when Mullins gave his speech. Yet over a year after the event, +Christic still had made no public statement distancing itself from +Gritz or Mullins. In the meantime, Gritz was touring the country +promoting Christic's Iran-Contra research and implying a friendly +working relationship between himself and key Christic figures, +especially Danny Sheehan. Sheehan is featured in a privately-distributed +videotape program focusing on Gritz's research which takes a critical +look at the Reagan and Bush Administrations' intelligence and drug +policies. That videotape, circulated by Gritz and his allies, also +uncritically shows a headline from the LaRouchian newspaper <New +Federalist> to illustrate a point.

+ +

Christic's national director, Sara Nelson, told In These Times +that Christic apologizes for the appearance of Davis at the conference +with Mullins, and no one is suggesting that Christic harbors any +racist, anti-Jewish or fascist views. But Christic has not issued +a clear and widely disseminated public statement alerting people +who may have seen the Prevailing Winds catalog or the Gritz material +and who now seem confused over who supports whom. This is not meant +to be interpreted as a blanket criticism of the Christic Institute. +Many Christic projects have been valuable. They circulated a +tremendous amount of useful information about the issue of covert +action and the Iran-Contra scandal. Especially notable in other +areas are the work of Lewis Pitts at Christic South and the project +by Andy Lang to illustrate problems with forging democracy in +eastern Europe. Yet Christic's Sheehan, Davis, and Nelson have not +taken seriously the problem of right-wing groups and individuals +linking themselves to the Christic case and recruiting Christic +supporters in a way that implies a shared agenda. While this is +not just a problem with Christic, the role that Christic could, +and should, be playing in providing leadership on this question +would be extremely useful.

+ +

In Front Man for Fascism: Bo Gritz and the Racist Populist Party, +a report issued by the California anti-fascist group People Against +Racist Terror, the extent to which Gritz has promoted himself on +the left is thoroughly detailed. The report urges Christic to be +more vocal:

+ +

"Christic should join the campaign to expose Bo's campaign for the +fascist vehicle it is. Christic should take the lead in condemning +the Gritz campaign, rather than demanding retractions from those +who have raised criticisms and concerns. It should share frankly +and self-critically with its followers the process of deception +and rationalization by which it was hoodwinked, so that others can +escape the same fate.

+ +

It is the failure of alternative and left critics of government +policy to take responsibility for clarifying the confusion being +intentionally sown by the far right that is the key issue. If the +problem is turned on its head, it is easier to understand why the +issue of public statements by groups such as Christic is so important. +In the course of preparing this study scores of persons were +interviewed in a dozen cities. Here is a summary of some of the +questions raised by persons who reject the criticism.

+ +

On the LaRouchians:

+ +

"Were they not victims of government repression and FBI harassment +just like CISPES? Wasn't that what James Ridgeway said in the +Village Voice? Didn't their views get reported by David MacMichael +in the newsletter of the former intelligence officers turned critics? +Isn't Ramsey Clark their attorney? Isn't it true that they were +reporting on the Iran-Contra affair before the mainstream media +and Congress publicized the matter? Don't several former Christic +investigators recommend their work? "

+ +

"Are they not our natural allies? "

+ +

On the Liberty Lobby/Populist network:

+ +

"Didn't Spotlight get mentioned by Bill Moyers on the PBS program +on the Most Censored Stories awards as an excellent source of +information? Doesn't Bill Davis appear with Bo Gritz at conferences? +Doesn't Danny Sheehan appear on the Bo Gritz videotape? Can't we +buy Gritz' writings by sending a check to the Christic Institute's +West Coast office? Wasn't that Danny Sheehan on the cover of the +Prevailing Winds catalog with Christic material along with material +from Gritz and Prouty? "

+ +

"Are they not our natural allies? "

+ +

On Craig Hulet:

+ +

"Isn't he on KPFA and KPFK? Can't we order Hulet tapes from the +Pacifica Archive? Doesn't he say he works with Lanny Sinkin who +was an attorney at Christic? Doesn't he say he isn't a right-winger? +Didn't the San Francisco Mime Troupe thank Hulet for his research? +"

+ +

"Is he not our natural ally? "

+ +

This raises a question for every progressive political leader, +journalist and attorney whose name has been used by the fascist +right to build their movement. If hundreds (perhaps thousands) of +people have come to believe there is a coalition or alliance that +involves the left and fascist right, is there not an an obligation +to speak out publicly and deny what the right is suggesting publicly?

+ +

In fact, some of the above questions clearly represent misunderstandings +and erroneous assumptions. But when the right is making the assertion, +silence implies consent, or as the button says: "Silence is the +voice of complicity."

+ +

The Fascist Response

+ +

Telephone call to 503-796-2124

+ +

November 20, 1991 10:00 PM

+ +

[Man's voice:]

+ +

"Greetings, you have reached the American Front Ministry of +Information hot line. COINTELPRO, the counter-intelligence agency +of the Jew S. of A., or ZOG [Zionist Occupational Government], is +a group of well financed government agents who have not only +infiltrated but absolutely control a great portion of the so-called +left wing in America. Their purpose is to make sure that these +self-styled progressive organizations don't actually take any action +against the true enemy of the people, the U.S. government. "

+ +

"They have been doing a very good job at keeping radical elements +of the supposed left and right fighting each other, thereby nullifying +a great deal of revolutionary activity, and keeping the fat-cat +warmonger capitalists who run this government safe from the bloody +tide of reprisal they so richly deserve. "

+ +

"No matter where you stand on the political spectrum this abhorrent +undertaking affects you. ZOG is bound and determined to make sure +the trend of increasing anti-government unity of radical factions +in Europe doesn't take effect here. "

+ +

"For local evidence of this lefty alliance with Big Brother, you +need go no further than Jonathan Mozzochi of the Coalition for +Human Dignity. He's an avid follower of renowned COINTELPRO guru +Chip Berlet. Mozzochi has even been known to plagiarize the writings +of Mr. Berlet, and as is very evident by the CHD's activity, Mozzochi +has completely dedicated himself to the government program of +keeping the radicals fighting each other instead of Big Brother. +Just because he serves you cappuccino at La Patisserie and pretends +to be a so-called progressive, the fact remains that he is nothing +but the CIA in alternative geek clothing. This further illustrates +the fact that the anti-racist movement as a whole is nothing but +a tool of the capitalist regime, designed to destroy the +self-determination of all races and keep ZOG as the ruler of all. +"

+ +

"For more information, contact American Front at P.O. Box 68333, +Portland, Oregon, 97268. White Victory. "

+ +

[Woman's voice:]

+ +

"You may start your message now. "

+ +

Anti-Jewish Scapegoating & Black Nationalism

+ +

Unraveling the overlapping tendencies of reactionary politics, +conspiracism, scapegoating, opportunism, demagoguery, nationalism, +racism, anti-Jewish theories, and fascism is a difficult but +necessary task. This section will discuss several situations and +trends where these issues are involved, focusing on the rise of +right-wing anti-Jewish theories in some nationalist sectors of the +African-American community.

+ +

Any serious discussion of these issues needs first to be grounded +on at least a working knowledge of the theories of racialism and +nationalism, as well as familiarity with the characteristics of +mass fascist political movements prior to their ascendancy to state +power. Especially useful is a study of the nationalist movements +of Europe at the beginning of this century. The nationalism of +pre-World War II Europe included movements based on racialist +theories. This racial nationalism took several forms, including +the heroic mythical racial nationalism of Italy and Spain which +glorified the organic leadership of autocratic father-figures, the +ego-centric anti-modernist intellectual fascism of France, the +religious/racial clerical fascist movements of Croatia and Rumania, +and the scapegoating demagogic movement of German Nazism with its +anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.

+ +

Nazism was a fascist movement, but not all mid-century European +fascist movements employed a master race theory. Nevertheless, +fascism as a political form is premised on racial or cultural +nationalism.

+ +

As scholar Barry Mehler, a leading researcher on the history of +racial eugenics, points out:

+ +

"Classical eugenic theories of the nineteen-twenties and thirties +emphasized that nations were biological entities and that political +ideologies emerge from racial characteristics which in turn have +developed out of evolutionary changes in racial groups. The classic +expression of these theories can be found in Madison Grant's <The +Passing of the Great Race>. This was, of course, the foundation of +both Nazi racism and American white supremacism. It is not +surprising, therefore, that white supremacist organizations continue +to reprint and sell these expressions of American racism. "

+ +

In fact, the white supremacist movement is the largest and most +significant purveyor of theories of racial nationalism in the U.S., +and its threat to democracy and pluralism far outweighs that posed +by the misguided participants in the tragic and counterproductive +current dispute between Blacks and Jews. Further, the single greatest +impediment to racial justice in the U.S. is not the policies and +practices of any one political group or individual, but the +institutional racism in the government and business sectors that +is still so widespread yet so invisible in our society, and which +has deeply undermined the ability of African-Americans, Hispanics, +North-American Indians, and other racial groups in this country to +share in the bounty and freedoms described in school textbooks as +a birthright in our country. It is within that framework that the +following discussion must be set.

+ +

Black Nationalism and Anti-Jewish Conspiracy Theories

+ +

Some members of Black nationalist groups in the U.S. circulate +conspiracist theories about Black oppression where discredited +ultra-right theories of exaggerated Jewish power and manipulation +have found new life and a new audience. While in the past some +pro-Palestinian and even anti-Israel sentiments made by African-Americans +have been mislabeled as anti-Semitism by groups promoting pro-Israel +policies, there is still plenty of evidence that anti-Jewish +conspiracy theories are discussed openly in some segments of the +Black community

+ +

For example, in Chicago, during the late 1980's, Black activist +Steve Cokely taught classes at a Nation of Islam center where he +alleged that Jewish doctors were injecting Black children with the +AIDS virus. When Cokely was exposed, NOI leader Louis Farrakhan, +rather than rejecting Cokely's assertions as bigoted lunacy, issued +a statement saying that if Cokely could document his charges, the +Nation of Islam would provide a public forum for the discussion.

+ +

At a February 28, 1991 anti-abortion lecture by Barbara Bell, +founder of Massachusetts Blacks for Life, Bell asserted that "it +is the Jewish doctors that are the ones that are the ones trying +to wipe out the black society." The statement came in the context +of an assertion that Planned Parenthood wanted to wipe out all +minority populations.

+ +

The Detroit magazine Alkebulanian is dedicated to providing the +reader with "the power of African pride and dignity" and seeks to +"speak the truth and expose the falsehoods that have weakened a +precious people through the course of history." But according to +anti-eugenics scholar Barry Mehler, the magazine carries articles +that assert "the Jewish Talmud was written by 'racist dogs,' that +Jews have manipulated the world into grieving over the Holocaust +as a way to make 'black people forget that the it was same handful +who participated in the African Holocaust.' "

+ +

At a July, 1990 meeting in Cairo, Illinois, several Black nationalist +groups under the leadership of the All African Peoples Revolutionary +Party (AAPRP) proposed the formation of an "Afrikan Anti-Zionist +Front." Kwame Ture (formerly Stokely Carmichael) of AAPRP was +elected chairperson of the front. At the time, several spokespersons +made careful distinctions concerning their criticisms of Israel +and Zionism. For instance, a statement issued by the Front at a +planning meeting held in Tripoli, Libya included the disclaimer +that, "The founders of the Front state that the struggle against +zionism is not a struggle against Jews or Judaism but rather a +struggle against zionism as a racist and imperialist ideology and +movement."

+ +

Although extreme, and implying objection to the state of Israel +itself, the statement by the Front is not fairly characterized as +anti-Jewish. However, the careful distinctions in the Front's +statement are missing in a current educational brochure by the All +African Peoples Revolutionary Party.

+ +

The brochure starts out criticizing Zionism and Israeli politics +but soon descends into rampant anti-Jewish conspiracism. "ZIONISM +is a well organized and financed, international conspiracy which +controls the economic and political life of the United States and +Europe," says the brochure. Although accurately noting, "All Jews +are not Zionists," the brochure goes on to claim, "The international +Zionist movement exerts an almost total strangle-hold over the +economic, political, social and cultural life of the African +community." It also claims that Zionism, "controls...all of the +banks, businesses and financial institutions in our community," as +well as the mass media and the entertainment industry. According +to the brochure, the international Zionist movement controls:

+ +

"The political, social, cultural, educational and legal institutions, +agencies and organizations in the African community. Almost all of +the civil rights and political groups in our community are controlled +by zionists and Jews. They use their money, their power, the FBI, +CIA, IRS, the courts and prisons; and many other ways to control +and destroy our movements, leaders and people. "

+ +

Many of these sentiments regarding Jews are virtually identical to +charges in white supremacist publications which claim that Jews +play a similar role in oppressing white christians. One mail order +videotape lecture by a leading Christian Identity pastor is a +lengthy exposition of his theory that slavery was the result of +the usury employed by Jewish bankers in Britain when financing +colonial enterprises.

+ +

Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam

+ +

Although the Rev. Louis Farrakhan denies he is a bigot, and some +of his critics have themselves used racist appeals, Farrakhan has +in fact made a number of statements concerning Jews over the past +few years that reflect disdain and prejudice.

+ +

Yet the most troubling aspect of Farrakhan is not his demagogic +bigotry. Writing in the January 28, 1991 issue of The Nation, +professor Adolph Reed, Jr. cautions that "demonizing" Farrakhan, +or focusing merely on his prejudice, misses the main point, which +is the troubling nature of Farrakhan's reactionary political views +and anti-democratic "racial organicism." As Reed explains, Farrakhan's +use of racial organicism is found in the belief that Black leaders +"emerge organically from the population and that the objectives +and interests of those organic leaders are identical with those of +the general racial constituency." Reed notes that this theory has +been used by white majoritarian leadership to justify and manage +racial subordination by "allowing white elites to pick and choose +among pretenders to race leadership."

+ +

Equally dangerous, however, are the themes of authoritarianism and +racial nationalism which underlie racial organicism. Reed warns +that "because of his organization and ideology, however, Farrakhan +more than his predecessors throws into relief the dangerous, +fascistic presumptions inscribed at the foundation of that model."

+ +

In July, 1990 Farrakhan granted an extensive exclusive interview +to Spotlight where his views of separate development for the +Black and white communities was stressed. The interview was presented +in an overwhelmingly sympathetic and supportive fashion, with an +introduction by the editors where Farrakhan's movement was described +as "based on the cultivation of spiritual, education, and family +values, as well as racial separation."

+ +

The idea of racial or national organicism, that leaders emerged +from homogeneous national groupings and metaphysically expressed +the collective will of the people, was a basic tenet of fascism, +especially the form of fascism called national socialism. In the +1988 report of the small American Nazi Party in Chicago, the term +national socialism was defined as "the organized will of the race, +in its quest for racial survival, and physical, mental, and spiritual +self betterment." One modern offshoot of national socialism, called +the "Third Position," has adherents in both Europe and the United +States, and is known for its attempts to build bridges to the left, +especially around the issues of protecting the environment and +support for the working class.

+ +

Racialist nationalism, anti-Jewish bigotry, and fascist principles +have provided a basis in the past for white supremacists and +anti-Jewish bigots such as Tom Metzger to voice support for Farrakhan. +The October 12, 1985 New York Times reported on a Michigan meeting +of white supremacists where Metzger told his audience of neo-Nazis +and Klan members, "America is like a rotting carcass. The Jews are +living off the carcass like the parasites they are. Farrakhan +understands this." That meeting was attended by Political Research +Associates author and freelance journalist Russ Bellant who reported +the Metzger quote and incidently disclosed the attendance of another +white supremacist, Roy Frankhouser, a former Ku Klux Klan leader +from Pennsylvania who was for many years a top security consultant +to Lyndon LaRouche.

+ +

The beginning of the 1990's saw increasing joint political work +between various LaRouchian front groups and Rev. Farrakhan's Black +nationalist Nation of Islam (NOI). For instance, the NOI's newspaper +Final Call ran an article by Carlos Wesley on Panama in its issue +of May 31, 1990, which was credited as a reprint from the LaRouchian +magazine Executive Intelligence Review. The LaRouchian <New +Federalist> has run several articles praising the political work +of Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, editor of NOI's Final Call.

+ +

Another group allied with Farrakhan that promotes the idea of racial +or national organicism is the political organization run by Dr. +Fred Newman, a former protege of LaRouche. Persons who extol Newman's +idiosyncratic form of "social therapy" control a variety of political +organizations under Newman's influence, including the New Alliance +Party (NAP), Rainbow Lobby, New York's Castillo Cultural Center, +and various Centers for Short-Term Therapy. NAP promotes the +political theories of Farrakhan, the Rev. Al Sharpton, and Dr. +Lenora Fulani, presidential candidate of the New Alliance Party. +The Rainbow Lobby has forged a working coalition with the Libertarian +Party and the racialist Populist Party to challenge state laws +limiting ballot access. At the same time NAP's Lenora Fulani stood +side-by-side with Al Sharpton and other Black nationalists in the +summer of 1991 as they inflamed an already tense and tragic situation +in the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, which has seen a +long-simmering dispute between Blacks and a sect of Orthodox Jews.

+ +

Sorting out the Dilemma

+ +

We are all aware that there are shifting factions in political +groups, government bureaucracies, and intelligence agencies. Even +though there is an historic overlap of government repression and +reactionary politics, at the same time, factions of the right have +from time to time made a tactical decision to expose government +wrongdoing to smash an opposing faction on the right or derail a +bothersome government project.

+ +

Around the world the right has adopted a strategy of tension to +smash the center, and one part of that strategy is to seek temporary +tactical alliances with left groups in attacking government policies. +The left/right alliance seeks to displace the center, but historically +the right always triumphs and then smashes the left. This is +certainly one lesson of Italian fascism and German national socialism. +Do we really think a corrupt wealthy anti-labor repressive centrist +power is worse than fascist power? As the health of the American +economy declines, it will generate a move towards alternative +political viewpoints and either new political parties or realignment +of current parties. A left/right alliance under such circumstances +would be precarious and dangerous.

+ +

Serious anti-repression researchers frequently find themselves in +contact with elements of the ruling center, opposition centrist +parties, and far right in the normal course of their research. +The mere contact between left and right is not the issue, but when +left researchers become de facto conduits for the right's +information, and do so uncritically and without revealing their +sources at least by general description, serious ethical and +pragmatic problems arise.

+ +

The Problem of Fascists as Research Sources

+ +

Herb Quinde is one of the main LaRouchian intelligence contacts +for reporters in the Washington, D.C. area. Quinde boasts that the +LaRouchians maintain ties with a network of current and former +intelligence agents and military specialists who oppose current +U.S. foreign policy and its reliance on covert action over direct +military engagement.

+ +

Quinde confirms that he and his fellow LaRouchian investigators +are in constant touch with journalists and researchers across the +political spectrum. In several interviews in 1990 and 1991 Quinde +refused to go on the record with the names of any of his regular +contacts among left political groups and critics of government +repression, although he bragged that such contacts are a regular +part of his work.

+ +

While Christic now says they no longer have any contact with the +LaRouchians, some former Christic staff seem willing to keep some +doors open. Investigators formerly connected to Christic have +maintained information ties to the LaRouchians, and advised +progressive researchers to rely on the LaRouchians as experts in +the area of government intelligence abuse. These referrals have +over a period of several years helped forge an information exchange +network that has drawn some left researchers, journalists and radio +talk show hosts further into unsubstantiated conspiracy theories +and into ongoing relationships with fascist and anti-Jewish groups +and individuals.

+ +

David MacMichael still maintains close ties to Herb Quinde, meets +with him personally, and advises researchers probing government +intelligence abuse to contact Quinde for help. MacMichael defends +his association with Quinde as legitimate, albeit sometimes +embarrassing.

+ +

Russ Bellant is the author of <Old Nazis, The New Right and the +Republican Party> and has extensively studied Nazi-linked emigre +intelligence and political networks. In the course of his research, +he has found several authors in this field who have developed a +working relationship with LaRouchians. Bellant says he raised the +ethical problems of working with the LaRouchians with these authors, +generally to no avail. To be sure, there is no consensus among +reporters, mainstream or progressive, on what is an ethical way to +deal with information from groups such as the LaRouchians.

+ +

According to Peter Dale Scott, "My own ground rules are that until +something happens where I feel someone is manipulating me or they +have personally done something horrible that I feel is objectionable, +I feel it is a matter of intellectual freedom to keep the lines of +communication open. As long as they deal with me as a human being +I will treat them as such." Scott, however, balked at signing a +petition about LaRouche being a victim of human rights abuse because +he felt there was "enough evidence to show the LaRouche people were +probably guilty of some criminal conduct."

+ +

Author Jonathan Marshall, now with the San Francisco Chronicle, +says the LaRouchians "have given me information, but given their +history, I never take it at face value." Marshall says "sometimes +they are a source of good leads, their work on Panama has been of +particular use." Marshall does not accept the LaRouchian premise +that Noriega was a humanitarian, but neither does he accept the +idea that opposition to Noriega was pure. "Here you have a case of +evil versus evil, and the enemies of someone are often a good place +to go for information." According to Marshall, he will sometimes +pursue LaRouchian leads, "and then do my own independent research." +If something turns up, he considers it his own effort, and does +not credit the LaRouchians, in part, he admits, because it would +lessen his credibility as a journalist.

+ +

"If you look across the board at cultish groups that do 'research' +you find sometimes that they have found amazing documents that do +in fact check out," says Marshall. But he hastens to add that +"documents are one thing, but accepting their analysis is simply +not responsible."

+ +

In the late 1980's author Carl Ogelsby considered working with +LaRouchian Herb Quinde to unravel the story of the recruitment of +the Gehlen Nazi spy apparatus into U.S. intelligence. Ogelsby +comments:

+ +

"If Quinde had been able to provide even a single scrap of useful +information I would have turned a cartwheel in excitement, but he +never did. Everything he sent me was bullshit. He was trying to +convince me to depend on the LaRouche information network. He was +always boasting about the documents he could send me, but he never +gave me a useful thing about Gehlen or anything else about the +Nazification of U.S. intelligence. "

+ +

During the Gulf War, Quinde asked Ogelsby to speak at a LaRouchian +antiwar conference, but Ogelsby declined, "because whatever Herb's +essential charm and persuasion, I would never publicly associate +myself with them, primarily because my friends warn me it would +damage my credibility. In fact, I've never initiated a contact with +them." Putting up with an occasional phone call from Quinde is one +thing, said Ogelsby, but appearing at a conference is another. +Still, Ogelsby isn't convinced that they are really a neo-Nazi +outfit. "My advice is not to make such a big deal about this guy. +I think that he is basically comic relief." Ogelsby, however, is +suspicious of the actual purpose of the LaRouchians:

+ +

"I think it's an intelligence operation, and the only question is +what's animating it. I don't think it is, strictly speaking, an +organization representing one individual--LaRouche. I believe it +has access to sources of information that reflect official circuits, +most likely European, but I don't think he's officially CIA or FBI. +I think U.S. intelligence is a little baffled by them too, although +in the first few years of the Reagan Administration they clearly +allowed them privileged access. "

+ +

Journalists James Ridgeway and David MacMichael have defended their +contacts with the LaRouchian network as part of the standard +journalistic practice of cultivating a wide range of sources of +information. They and other journalists argue that taking information +from someone in no way implies any agreement whatsoever with the +information provider. In fact, reporters at a number of mainstream +daily newspapers admit off-the-record that they frequently receive +material from the LaRouchians, and in some cases develop stories +from the documents supplied by the LaRouchians. Ridgeway, however, +acknowledges that the LaRouchians are a "neo-Nazi or fascist +movement." and warns that journalists need to exercise extreme +caution when contacting them for information.

+ +

This is a real issue since a score of progressive researchers and +journalists report that in the past two years, operatives from the +LaRouchians and the far-right have stepped up their attempts to +forge working relationships with them over the basis of shared +criticism of the government.

+ +

A West Coast journalist, Ed Connolly, recalls an incident in the +fall of 1990:

+ +

"I was tracking a story on Air Force Intelligence and I called +everyone I could think of. Two weeks later Gene Wheaton called me, +which was odd because I hadn't called him. Wheaton tells me, "You +know the people who have very good intelligence on these things +are the LaRouche people, you should call the people that put out +Executive Intelligence Review, call Herb Quinde." So I did, but +they wanted more information than they were willing to give out +and I was immediately skeptical. I never talked to them again. "

+ +

Eugene Wheaton, an early adviser to the Christic Institute, accepted +an invitation to speak at the December, 1990 LaRouche antiwar +conference in Chicago.

+ +

Journalist Jim Naurekas of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) +bemoans the fact that LaRouchian Herb Quinde has followed him +through three jobs trying to pester him with tidbits of information. +One academic who wrote a 1990 article on government civil liberties +infringements in a left journal says she was quickly contacted by +several persons who recommended she share her material with +Spotlight and other far-right anti-Jewish publications.

+ +

Russ Bellant, who is critical of persons who accept material from +the LaRouchians, also warns that some of the LaRouchian documents +may be forged. "They did create a passable bogus copy of a section +of the New York Times blasting their enemies," he points out. +Bellant thinks the LaRouchians "don't give you anything that you +can rely on," and that by talking with them about research issues, +"you allow them to track what you are up to which lets them go back +to their Nazi friends and report on you to them."

+ +

Bellant and others say they are not troubled by intellectual +curiosity and open-mindedness that bridge ideological lines, but +they do have concerns when left and right groups and individuals +forge covert relationships. There is a big difference between +reading books by or interviewing members of far-right and racialist +groups, and working in what amounts to an ad-hoc investigative +coalition with members of these groups. There is a serious difference +of opinion among progressive researchers as to the propriety of +working with the LaRouchians or other ultra-right groups, especially +those that preach bigotry. Some say they cannot, in good conscience, +even accept unsolicited information from such groups, while others +argue they need to interview members of these groups for their +research.

+ +

Journalist Jane Hunter says she has consistently rejected overtures +from the anti-Jewish far right. Hunter is highly critical of anyone +who would covertly or overtly work with racists, anti-Jewish bigots, +or neo-Nazis. She notes that even on a pragmatic level, "Any +information that these people have is bound to show up someplace, +free for the taking, for what it's worth. Our energies need to be +spent in reaching out to people who are victims of the system--the +people with whom we share a common interest in changing it."

+ +

Not all the rightist groups seeking an alliance or information +exchange with the left are bigoted or fascist. Some are principled +conservatives or libertarians seeking an open debate. However, some +of the groups seeking to link up with the left have openly neo-fascist +or neo-Nazi agendas, including some that call themselves conservative +or libertarian. The ethical parameters on these questions for +journalists and researchers need further debate.

+ +

It is important to recognize that the moral issues for persons +building coalitions in the movement for peace and social justice +are different than those for lawyers, academics, and reporters. +For organizers the principles of unity seldom (if ever) are such +that working with fascist, racist and anti-Jewish groups is +appropriate.

+ +

Most people agree that uncritical reliance on either right-wing or +left-wing material can lead to the recirculation of misinformation +or disinformation. When working with the political right, there is +the additional possibility that the left could unintentionally end +up letting the right set its agenda. Some progressive researchers +also argue that it is unethical for progressive groups to take +information covertly from the political right and repackage and +recirculate it without disclosing the source. That issue, however, +remains unsettled, and needs to be debated openly.

+ +

A good illustration of the problem came up in an October 15, 1991 +Village Voice article on the mysterious death of writer Danny +Casolaro by authors James Ridgeway and Doug Vaughan. Casolaro at +the time of his death was researching the legal case filed by the +Inslaw corporation alleging theft and illegal sale of its software +program, Promis. Promis is a program used to track complex litigation, +but it can also be used to track dissidents and criminal conspiracies. +Persons involved in several federal agencies are alleged to have +participated in the illegal use and distribution of Promis. Casolaro +had nicknamed the government and private conspiracies he perceived +to be surrounding the Inslaw case "The Octopus," and had circulated +a book proposal.

+ +

Ridgeway and Vaughan do report that Casolaro, in the course of his +research, would "head into Washington for a congressional hearing +or a meeting with, for example, Danny Sheehan of the Christic +Institute--whose 'Secret Team' could just as easily have been called +the Octopus." They also mention that Casolaro was working with the +LaRouchians in gathering information.

+ +

Not mentioned in the article is that the LaRouchians funneled +information to the Christic Institute, Barbara Honneger, and the +Spotlight/Liberty Lobby crowd; or that another named source, +investigator Bill McCoy, also worked with Christic and supplied +information from the LaRouchians; or that co-author Vaughan works +at the Christic Institute.

+ +

Ridgeway and Vaughan do mention LaRouche's criminal conviction and +the LaRouchian obsession with conspiracy theories and report, "The +LaRouchies had ties to the Reagan White House and have long run a +surprisingly elaborate intelligence-gathering operation of their +own." They do not, however, characterize the LaRouchians as fascists +or anti-Semites.

+ +

In the course of the article a LaRouchian intelligence operative +is cited along with other sources. Should LaRouchian sources be +treated differently than any other journalistic source? Again, +there is no agreement even among alternative journalists. "I have +great respect for Jim Ridgeway, but to put any credence in anything +a LaRouchite has to say is a leap into faith that I can't make," +says Voice columnist Nat Hentoff. Another Voice writer, Robert +I. Friedman says, "The LaRouchians are an anti-Semitic conspiracy +organization. It's a mistake for a journalist to use LaRouchians +as a source without describing the kind of organization it is." +Ridgeway responds that he has characterized the LaRouchians as +conspiracists, fascists, and neo-Nazis in other settings, and he +thinks most people who read his column already know who the +LaRouchians are.

+ +

LaRouche as Victim of Government Repression

+ +

Lyndon LaRouche has picked up support for his campaign to get +released from prison from a number of right-wing extremists, +including retired Air Force Colonel and intelligence specialist +Fletcher Prouty, a leading light among ultra-right researchers, +who also works with the quasi-Nazi Liberty Lobby. Prouty has issued +a statement declaring that "instrumentalities of the government +have hounded" LaRouche and "created wrongs where none existed +before." The LaRouchians, however, have picked up support for their +theory of a government conspiracy against LaRouche from a broader +spectrum than the political right.

+ +

Both James Ridgeway and David MacMichael have reported the allegations +of the LaRouchians that they are not guilty of financial crimes, +but the victims of a massive government conspiracy aimed at crushing +them politically.

+ +

Ridgeway, in the preface to his book on the U.S. white supremacist +movement, Blood in the Face, omits LaRouche from a discussion of +the "racist far right." Instead, Ridgeway refers to LaRouche in +the context of discussing how the collapsed rural economy in the +1980's distorted the politics of the farm belt and "the whacko +candidates of Lyndon LaRouche's party were serious contenders." +This passing reference to LaRouche (there is one other bland +paragraph in the book) places LaRouche in a discussion mentioning +serious politicians such as Jesse Jackson, George McGovern, and +James Hightower. This seems to characterize LaRouche as merely a +strange and comical player in the electoral arena. Ridgeway says +that this was not meant to imply LaRouche was not a force in farm +belt fascism, but that his publisher felt that adding the LaRouchians +into the book would have confused the issues.

+ +

Critics of Ridgeway's view of the LaRouchians, including this +author, argue that LaRouche is in fact a neo-Nazi ideologue who +should be discussed along with the Ku Klux Klan and the other white +racist groups with whom the LaRouchians have associated for years. +No one is suggesting that Ridgeway, who has a prodigious track +record of sound investigative reporting, shares any of the LaRouchian +viewpoints. But it is legitimate to ask whether or not Ridgeway's +analysis and treatment of the LaRouchians has perhaps unconsciously +been influenced by their value to him as a journalistic source of +information on government misconduct and other issues. Ridegway, +like other reporters who cover government repression, received +packets of information from the LaRouchians for many years and +sometimes relied on the material to develop a story. [f-9] This in +itself is hardly unique and not necessarily questionable--other +reporters do likewise.

+ +

In one case, however, Ridgeway appears to have relied on LaRouche +material without independently verifying the accuracy of the +material.

+ +

On May 17, 1988 James Ridgeway penned a lengthy article in the +Village Voice titled "Dueling Spymasters: How the Government +Bungled the Case Against Lyndon LaRouche."

+ +

Even a careful reading of the Ridgeway article leaves the impression +that when a federal judge declared a mistrial in the Boston fraud +case against LaRouche and several colleagues, it was caused by +government misconduct. This is what the LaRouchians contend--but +not what the judge said. Lyndon LaRouche and his associates were +on trial in Boston for an alleged credit card scam. The mistrial +declared by U.S. Federal District Court Judge Robert E. Keeton came +after complaints of hardship were voiced by more than one third of +the jurors who had been told the trial would end in early summer, +and then learned it could stretch through the end of the year. The +judge declared the mistrial because he feared a continuation of +the trial would be a waste of time and money due to the real +possibility that the number of jurors would fall below the legal +limit before the trial ended.

+ +

While there was substantial evidence that the Justice Department +may have improperly withheld documents relating to LaRouche in +pre-trial discovery, a lengthy hearing resulted in a ruling that +the documents had no bearing on the criminal charges. According to +Ridgeway, "the proceedings had revealed...FBI agents planting +obstruction of justice evidence on LaRouche." This is what the +LaRouche attorneys sought to prove--and given the history of the +FBI, Justice Department and other government bureaucracies, such +an allegation was not far-fetched--but no hard evidence to prove +that claim had been introduced in court at the time of the mistrial. +In fact, the prosecution was still presenting its case. Further, +the delay of the trial which caused the juror hardship was caused +not only by lengthy side hearings into the document and informant +questions, but by numerous challenges and extended cross examinations +by the phalanx of defense attorneys representing LaRouche, his +associates and their organizations.

+ +

Legal actions by both federal and local agencies against LaRouche +for questionable fundraising and financial practices commenced +years before the flap over Iran-Contragate and the well-publicized +airport assault involving LaRouche partisans and Henry Kissinger, +who was traveling with his wife. Furthermore, there is a virtual +army of persons who claim to have been swindled and victimized by +LaRouche-related organizations. Ridgeway offers no evidence the +Boston criminal case was a result of the government being out to +get LaRouche any more than it is out to get any person accused of +being a common crook.

+ +

The "seeds of the government's investigation" were not planted by +a petulant Henry Kissinger, as Ridgeway asserts, but by hundreds +of persons who claimed to have found unauthorized credit card +charges on their monthly statements at a time in 1984 when LaRouche +was buying half-hour presidential campaign spots on network +television. The grand jury which indicted LaRouche heard evidence +from angry credit card holders, not Henry Kissinger.

+ +

Yet Ridgeway is correct is asserting that there was government +misconduct against the LaRouchians which surfaced as part of the +case. That the government shut down the LaRouchian publications as +part of its probe into loan fraud and tax evasion was a civil +liberties outrage, and the action was later rightfully declared +unconstitutional. This abuse of government power, however, had no +bearing on the evidence which convicted LaRouche and his followers +of the charges in the Virginia indictments.

+ +

There is no debate that LaRouche was a little fish in the cloudy +waters trolled by U.S. intelligence agencies. But when LaRouche +hired informants and self-styled intelligence operatives such as +Ryan Quade Emerson, Mitchell WerBell, and Roy Frankhouser, he was +aware he was opening a Pandora's box filled with smoke and mirrors, +double-dealing, and betrayal. WerBell, for instance, was a former +OSS officer and international arms merchant. Frankhouser was a +well-known government informant and Ku Klux Klan organizer. While +LaRouche may have been belatedly frozen out of an active role in +Reagan Administration intelligence functions, to conclude that his +former allies turned up as government witnesses through a conspiracy +to isolate LaRouche the "Spymaster" was a fanciful but unsubstantiated +charge. A more likely explanation is that they turned up as witnesses +against LaRouche in an attempt to keep themselves out of jail.

+ +

Ridgeway also describes LaRouche without mentioning LaRouche's +notorious anti-Jewish sentiments. LaRouche, for instance, has +claimed there is no such thing as Jewish culture, and that "only" +a million and a half Jews perished at the hands of the Nazis, and +then primarily due to illness and overwork.

+ +

A letter criticizing Ridgeway for publishing LaRouchian assertions +as fact was published in the May 31, 1988 issue of the Voice over +the signatures of this author and journalists Russ Bellant, Joel +Bellman, Bryan Chitwood, Dennis King, Ed Kayatt, and Kalev Pehme.

+ +

David MacMichael is the editor of Unclassified, the newsletter +of the Association of National Security Alumni (ANSA). In the +Feb.-March, 1991 edition of Unclassified, MacMichael casually +cites unnamed LaRouche sources in an article about a dismissed case +involving Iran-Contragate figures Oliver North and Joseph Fernandez, +"LaRouche sources point out that Prosecutor William Burch was not +particularly diligent in arguing his case. They note that Burch +has been active in the LaRouche prosecutions."

+ +

In the October-November 1990 issue of Unclassified, MacMichael +presents the same story of intrigue previously reported by Ridgeway. +MacMichael also mentions the LaRouchian competition with the +"North-Secord enterprise for donations from wealthy individuals," +implying it was connected to the LaRouche criminal prosecutions.

+ +

It is true that the Oliver North network targeted the LaRouchians +for investigation, when LaRouche fundraising, especially to rich +older conservatives, was found to be hampering private fundraising +efforts for the Contras. There is, however, no conclusive evidence +that the North/Secord political investigation of LaRouche influenced +the Boston or Virginia criminal investigations or indictments.

+ +

Numerous criminal and civil actions against illegal LaRouche +financial activities were launched as early as the late 1970's. +One such probe was initiated by the Illinois State Attorney General +on the basis of an article by this author charging irregularities +in LaRouchian financial activities. The article was based on several +boxes of original office and bank records. [f-10] In 1979 and 1980, +Dennis King published documented charges of widespread LaRouchian +financial misconduct in a series of articles in New York's <Our +Town>, a neighborhood newspaper. Several articles were based on +secret internal LaRouche memos and financial records obtained by +King from sources close to the LaRouche operation.

+ +

On December 16, 1981, Dennis King, Russ Bellant, and this author +held a press conference in Washington, D.C. charging the LaRouchians +with "a wide variety of potentially illegal activities," including: +carrying out intelligence tasks for several foreign governments, +including Iraq and South Africa; conducting a pattern of "illegal, +deceitful and fraudulent activities by non-profit corporations, +foundations and fundraising front groups controlled by Lyndon +LaRouche."

+ +

The Boston grand jury was already investigating illegal LaRouchian +fundraising practices well before conservatives and neo-conservatives +forced the Reagan Administration to stop access by LaRouchians to +the staff at the National Security Council and CIA. It is not likely +that LaRouche was the victim of a conspiracy to indict him falsely +for crimes. What is more likely is that after LaRouche was forced +out as a marginal player in Reagan intelligence circles, his immense +criminal fundraising schemes could no longer be ignored, and some +of the numerous probes into his many frauds finally were allowed +to proceed to court.Certainly both MacMichael and Ridgeway have a +right to report what they wish, and draw any conclusions they feel +are warranted by the facts. But to report the LaRouche side of the +story of the government's criminal indictments without historical +context is to give an imprimatur to the unsubstantiated--and widely +disputed--LaRouchian allegations claiming that LaRouche's conviction +was the result of a government conspiracy to deny him his political +rights. This in turn is used by the LaRouchians to gain sympathy +and worm their way into left political circles, especially among +students, where the LaRouchians' long history of fascist attacks +on left groups is unknown.

+ +

Some Criteria for Discussion

+ +

Circulating information from (and in essence for) the right without +an accompanying principled criticism and analysis of intent +accomplishes several things. It:

+ +

*** Builds the left group's reputation as an independent and +resourceful information gatherer;

+ +

*** Gives information credibility as being from the left rather +than the right by laundering original sources;

+ +

*** Advances often unstated implicit rightist agendas;

+ +

*** Protects the rightist group from punitive attack by the right +or the government since information is perceived as coming from +left;

+ +

*** Results in a conscious or unconscious reluctance by the left +group to criticize the right group for fear of having information +flow cut off.

+ +

It is important both journalistically and politically to know the +source of information in order to consider the ulterior motives +and possible implications of the information being circulated.

+ +

We certainly shouldn't let the right set our research agenda through +leaks but contact with the right seems inevitable and often proper +and useful. Since persons on the left have contacts with the right +for varied and complex reasons, one blanket criticism is neither +sufficient, nor helpful. We do need to think through policies. +What then are the principled conditions for contact with the right? +Keep in mind that we all need to work in coalitions while maintaining +independent political analysis and ability to criticize freely.

+ +

Some suggested points of principle might include:

+ +

*** Do not trade potentially harmful information on left groups +with the right. Only trade information on government abuses and on +other right groups;

+ +

*** Double check and double source all stories;

+ +

*** Name the group or sector supplying the information and provide +an honest thumbnail political sketch;

+ +

*** Consider why information is being passed by the group and make +that part of the analysis or story;

+ +

*** Condemn flaws in all groups concerned;

+ +

*** Do not refer people to rightist networks without warning them +of the nature of the source, and allowing them to make a principled +moral decision whether or not to seek the information through that +group.

+ +

Flaws of Logic, Fallacies of Debate

+ +

With so much political confusion, it becomes vital to keep in mind +that there are some useful ways to evaluate the validity of political +arguments regardless of their political viewpoint.

+ +

Useful standards by which to judge the rational merits of any +statement or theory are easily found in textbooks on debate, +rhetoric, argument, and logic. These books discuss which techniques +of argumentation are not valid because they fail to follow the +rules of logic. Among the more common fallacious techniques or +inadequate proofs:

+ +

*** Raising the volume, increasing the stridency, or stressing the +emotionalism of an argument does not improve its validity. This is +called argument by exhortation.

+ +

*** Sequence does not imply causation. If Joan is elected to the +board of directors of a bank on May 1, and Raul gets a loan on July +26, further evidence is needed to prove a direct or causal connection.

+ +

*** Anecdotes alone are not conclusive evidence. Anecdotes are +used to illustrate a thesis, not to prove it.

+ +

*** Association does not imply agreement, hence the term guilt by +association has a pejorative meaning. Association proves association; +it suggests further questions are appropriate, and demonstrates +the parameters of networks, coalitions, and personal moral +distinctions, nothing more.

+ +

*** Participation in an activity, or presence at an event, does +not imply control.

+ +

*** Congruence in one or more elements does not establish congruence +in all elements. Gloria Steinem and Jeane Kirkpatrick are both +intelligent, assertive women accomplished in political rhetoric. +To assume they therefore also agree politically would be ludicrous. +If milk is white and powdered chalk is white, would you drink a +glass of powdered chalk?

+ +

*** Similarity in activity does not imply joint activity and joint +activity does not imply congruent motivation.

+ +

When a person serves in an official advisory role or acts in a +position of responsibility within a group, however, the burden of +proof shifts to favor a presumption that such a person is not a +mere member or associate, but probably embraces a considerable +portion of the sentiments expressed by the group. Still, even +members of boards of directors will distance themselves from a +particular stance adopted by a group they oversee, and therefore +it is not legitimate to assume automatically that they personally +hold a view expressed by the group or other board members. It is +legitimate to assert that they need to distance themselves publicly +from a particular organizational position if they wish to disassociate +themselves from it.

+ +

Techniques of the Propagandist

+ +

In 1923 Edward L. Bernays wrote the book <Crystalizing Public +Opinion> and later, in 1928, the text Propaganda, considered +seminal works in the field. "There is propaganda and what I call +impropaganda," says the 98-year-old Bernays impishly. Propaganda +originally meant promoting any idea or item, but took on its current +pejorative sense following the extensive use of sinister propaganda +for malicious goals during World War I and World War II. While all +persuasion uses the techniques of traditional propaganda, what +Bernays calls "impropaganda" is "using propaganda techniques not +in accordance with good sense, good faith, or good morals...methods +not consistent with the American pattern of behavior based on +Judeo-Christian ethics." Bernays, who is called the "father of +public relations," is worried about the increased use of "impropaganda" +in political campaigns and has spoken out against it. "Politicians +who use techniques like these lose the faith of the people," says +Bernays.

+ +

In 1936 Boston merchant Edward Filene helped establish the short-lived Institute for Propaganda Analysis which sought to educate +Americans to recognize propaganda techniques. Alfred McClung Lee, +Institute director from 1940-42, and his wife Elizabeth Briant Lee, +co-authors of <The Fine Art of Propaganda, Social Problems in +America>, recently wrote an article in the periodical <Propaganda +Review> in which they suggested educating the public about propaganda +techniques was an urgent priority. The Lees also discussed the +Institute's symbols for the seven hallmark tricks of the manipulative +propagandist:

+ +

Name Calling: hanging a bad label on an idea, symbolized by a hand +turning thumbs down;

+ +

Card Stacking: selective use of facts or outright falsehoods, +symbolized by an ace of spades, a card signifying treachery;

+ +

Band Wagon: a claim that everyone like us thinks this way, +symbolized by a marching bandleader's hat and baton;

+ +

Testimonial: the association of a respected or hated person with +an idea, symbolized by a seal and ribbon stamp of approval;

+ +

Plain Folks: a technique whereby the idea and its proponents are +linked to "people just like you and me," symbolized by an old shoe;

+ +

Transfer: an assertion of a connection between something valued or +hated and the idea or commodity being discussed, symbolized by a +smiling Greek theatre mask; and

+ +

Glittering Generality: an association of something with a "virtue +word" to gain approval without examining the evidence; symbolized +by a sparkling gem.

+ +

The Institute's last newsletter reflected that "in modern society +an element of propaganda is present in a large portion of human +affairs...people need to be able to recognize this element even +when it is serving 'good' ends."

+ +

Some Examples

+ +

Here are two examples of how the fallacies of debate and errors of +logic are employed regarding General John Singlaub, a man whose +roles in Iran-Contragate and world fascist movements are already +well documented, and need no discussion here.

+ +

General John Singlaub was involved in promoting the yellow ribbon +campaign during the Gulf War. He was one of dozens of influential +people who formed the Coalition for America at Risk. That Coalition +was one of at least ten other major national groups promoting the +yellow ribbon campaign, including veterans groups with tens of +thousands of members nationwide. Families of service personnel have +been tying yellow ribbons on trees in anticipation of the safe +return of their active duty relatives ever since this military +tradition which dates to the Civil War was revived during the +Vietnam War, in part due to a popular song. To suggest, as some +do, that Singlaub created the yellow ribbon campaign as a continuation +of his nefarious role in Contra fundraising is to stretch credulity +beyond the breaking point.

+ +

Another case involving Singlaub shows how a series of individual +facts from underlying footnotes can be strung together so that the +conclusions are not accurate because they fail the tests of deductive +logic. <The Iran Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations +in the Reagan Era>, combines into one book chapters written by +Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott and Jane Hunter. On page 67 in +a chapter written by Peter Dale Scott it is asserted that the +LaRouche organization "previously posed as left-wing but in fact +harassed anti-nuclear and other left-wing demonstrations with the +help of the right-wing domestic intelligence group known since 1979 +as Western Goals." It is documented that the LaRouchians spied on +and harassed the left, and it is documented that Western Goals +spied on and harassed the left, but it does not automatically follow +that they worked together to spy on and harass the left.

+ +

The evidence linking the two groups is this: General Singlaub, at +the time on the board of Western Goals, once lectured to a group +that included some LaRouchians at a training center run by Mitch +WerBell. Singlaub met LaRouchians from time to time when he visited +WerBell, who served as an intelligence adviser to LaRouche. The +LaRouchians in 1977 gave the New Hampshire State Police background +material on anti-nuclear activists including several pages from a +private Rees newsletter. At the time, Rees was not connected to +Western Goals. In fact, Western Goals had not as yet been founded.

+ +

That both the LaRouchians and Rees have spied on the left is both +documented and a matter of some bragging by both parties. That the +LaRouchians spied on and harassed the left with help from Western +Goals is unsubstantiated, and faces conflicting evidence. In fact, +Rees and the LaRouchians have despised each other for years, and +denounce each other regularly in print, gleefully sending nasty +information about each other to reporters, including this author.

+ +

It is common for Singlaub and other figures criticized by the left +to point to the inaccurate and unsubstantiated charges leveled +against them by their critics as a means to deflect the charges +that are well documented. The use of fallacious arguments and the +circulation of unsubstantiated conclusionary charges in an area of +research such as government repression or intelligence abuse +undermines the credibility of the whole area of research. It makes +the job all the harder for cautious progressive researchers, whose +work becomes suspect in the eyes of mainstream reporters and broad +audiences.

+ +

Harry Martin and Propaganda Techniques

+ +

Harry V. Martin is the editor of the Napa Sentinel. His articles +on government corruption have gained popularity on the left. An +analysis of the content and style of the Martin articles raises +questions about his credibility as a reporter. Martin uses classic +leaps of logic and propaganda techniques in his reporting. This +section will look at several articles which Martin has written +concerning the pending Inslaw court case.

+ +

Inslaw, a small computer company, developed a very sensitive computer +program, Promis, which Inslaw alleges was appropriated without +authorization by the U.S. Justice Department and other government +agencies. Promis software was an early contender in case management +software, but by no means unique. Several vendors at the time Promis +was being offered also offered similar case tracking software. It +can be argued that at the time Promis was indeed ahead of its +competitors in many key features, but today Lotus Agenda with its +case tracking overlay is just as powerful. [f-11]

+ +

Martin's Inslaw stories use the classical propaganda technique of +stringing together chronological events and implying that one causes +the other. One story, for example, which looks at the role governmental +retribution may have played in the failure to re-appoint to the +bench one judge, George Bason, whose rulings has supported Inslaw's +position. Martin's article assumes allegations it needs to establish. +He says:

+ +

"As a result of the Inslaw cases, many heads in the Justice Department +were lopped off. When Judge George Bason, a bankruptcy court judge, +refused to liquidate Inslaw, ruling instead that the Department of +Justice used deceit, trickery and fraud, he was only one of four +who were not re-appointed to their jobs. A total of 132 were +re-appointed. But to show the collusion of the Justice Department, +when it removed Judge Bason from the bench after his ruling against +them and for Inslaw, they had S. Martin Teel appointed to the bench +to replace Bason. Who was Teel? He was a Department of Justice +attorney who unsuccessfully argued the Inslaw case before Judge +Bason. "

+ +

Certainly the failure of Judge Bason to be re-appointed after ruling +in favor of Inslaw is curious. A good reporter would seek evidence +to show that there was a connection between the Inslaw case and +the failure to re-appoint Judge Bason. That one event followed the +other is not this proof. The same situation applies to Teel. The +sequence is curious but the cause and effect relationship remains +unproven.

+ +

Martin also makes extensive use of arguments by exhortation, which +are arguments based more on emotion that on reason. For example, +he claims:

+ +

"An official of the Israeli government claims [a person] sold the +Promis program to Iraqi military intelligence at a meeting in +Santiago, Chile. The software could have been used in the recent +Persian Gulf War to track U.S. and allied troop movements. Ari +Ben-Menashe, a 12 year veteran of Israeli intelligence, made the +statement in a sworn affidavit to the court. "

+ +

When Martin claims the software could have been used against the +U.S. during the Gulf War, he is using jingoistic appeals to emotion +rather than reason to garner support for his position. He is +deliberately painting a picture of the possible deaths of U.S. +soldiers as a direct result of the purported theft of the Promis +software program by U.S. government agencies. That software also +could have been used to track hamburger shipments by McDonalds, or +alternatively, troop movements could have been tracked by Lotus +AGENDA rather than Promis. It is hype, and misleading, to single +out the one possibility that suits his political ends.

+ +

There are other misleading statement in the paragraph quoted above. +For example, Ari Ben-Menashe was hardly "an official of the Israeli +government." He was at best an Israeli intelligence staffer who +became a player in the international arms trade, and even that has +been contested. Martin's inflation of Ben-Menashe's status serves +to condemn the entire Israeli government in a way that a discussion +based on Ben-Menashe's actual status would not have done. Another +example is Martin's emphasis on the fact that Ari Ben-Menashe "made +the statement in a sworn affidavit to the court." As anyone who +has worked on legal cases can attest, sworn statements carry no +guarantee that they are truthful or factual. Absent documentation +or corroborating testimony, they stand as allegations, not facts.

+ +

In the same article, Martin goes on to claim that Promis is now +being used by the CIA, the National Security Agency, the Defense +Intelligence Agency, and the U.S. Department of Justice. In fact, +these are unproven allegations that are being presented as though +they were facts. They may indeed be proven at some point, but have +not yet been proven. The technique of first presenting allegations, +then later referring to them as facts, is a classic propaganda +technique. A closer examination of Martin's presentation reveals +that the claimed use of the software by these U.S. government +agencies is actually an allegation from Ben-Menashe's affidavit, +in which Ben-Menashe claims he was told by a third party that this +was true. Legally, this is hearsay, which is typically inadmissible +in court as evidence. Nevertheless, Martin converts this hearsay +allegation into a statement of fact. But Martin is not through with +his daisy chain of proof.

+ +

Still utilizing unproven assertions, Martin goes on to expand the +cast of villains from a few corrupt officials of the Justice +Department to the entire U.S. government. He writes:

+ +

"[The] Judiciary Committee is conducting its own investigation in +what has been described as the U.S. Department of Justice's "trickery, +deceit and theft" of the software. The U.S. Government has been +connected with the illegal sale of the sensitive software to South +Korea, Libya, Iraq, Israel and Canada, as well as being pirated by +a number of U.S. agencies, including the CIA, National Security +Agency and other military units. The software is also in use by +the FBI. Only the U.S. Justice Department was licensed to use the +software... "

+ +

>From a proposition of criminal or unethical conduct by individuals +within the Justice Department, a proposition itself unproven, Martin +moves on to argue the existence of an international conspiracy, +led by the U.S. government to steal and distribute Promis software. +While such a claim could later be proven, Martin here merely presents +the allegation as though it were true, a technique known as a +"conclusionary" or "Kierkegaardian" leap.

+ +

One final example of Martin's tendency to confuse unproven allegations +with established matters of fact can be found in Martin's treatment +of Riconoscuito, a computer software technician who has submitted +a sworn affidavit in the Inslaw case. Riconoscuito has claimed that +he was threatened by a former staff member of the Justice Department +with criminal prosecution on an unrelated charge and with an +unfavorable result in a pending child custody dispute if he testified +on the Inslaw case. Riconoscuito has also claimed that he made a +tape recording of the telephoned threat, two copies of which were +confiscated when he was arrested. Although he has not produced it, +he claims a third copy exists, which is being held in a safe +location. When Martin discusses Riconoscuito, he begins with what +appears to be a statement of uncontested fact, "In February, +Riconoscuito was called by a former Justice Department official +and warned against cooperating with an investigation into the case +by the House Judiciary Committee." In fact, while some of what +Riconoscuito has alleged can be verified, much cannot. Despite the +plethora of details Martin presents, the entire content of Martin's +story on Riconoscuito is composed of Riconoscuito's own unverified +assertions or other unproven allegations made in the early stages +of a lawsuit.

+ +

Riconoscuito has also been championed as a source by the LaRouchians +who say they introduced Riconoscuito to Danny Casolaro, according +to the Village Voice article by Ridgeway and Vaughan. Anyone +reading that article carefully will get the idea that authors +Ridgeway and Vaughan think that some of the Riconoscuito/Casolaro +allegations are unsubstantiated and reflect undocumented conspiracy +theories.

+ +

These few examples buttress the assertion that Martin is not a +reliable source of information. A careful reading of all the Martin +Inslaw articles reveals many other instances of fallacious argument +and propaganda technique. Questions regarding Harry Martin's +judgement and political orientation are also raised by the fact +that he has allowed his articles to appear regularly in the +Spotlight[f-12]

+ +

Conclusions

+ +

"When we destroy international Fascism we must at the same time +destroy national Fascism, we must replace the reactionary forces +at home with truly democratic forces which will represent all of +us. "

+ +

(George Seldes )

+ +

(Facts and Fascism, 1943 )

+ +

We suffer in the U.S. from an unfortunate reluctance to recognize +and name the resurgence of fascist ideology around the world. In +part this is because we are not taught in our schools what fascism +was or is. We hold ourselves up as a model of democracy while half +the eligible citizens rarely feel motivated to vote, and we are +bombarded with advertising that tells us that freedom is the ability +to purchase four different varieties of Coca-Cola at 7-11.

+ +

Some have argued that the main potential threat of fascism comes +from a bipartisan government increasingly willing to employ repressive +and authoritarian solutions to societal problems during a time of +economic decline. Political analyst William Pfaff is one of the +few mainstream analysts who warns that an unconscious strain of +American fascism is influencing national affairs. Writing in the +Chicago Tribune with a Paris dateline of March, 1987, Pfaff +concluded that the actions of the Reagan Administration during the +Iran-Contra scandal revealed "a pattern of conduct and a state of +mind among important people in this administration which must be +described as an American style of fascism. I would prefer to avoid +that term, but it is the only one in the modern political vocabulary +that adequately describes" the situation.

+ +

Given the upsurge of nationalism, jingoistic patriotism, militarism, +scapegoating, and race-baiting practiced by both the Reagan and +Bush Administrations, a discussion of the proto-fascist elements +in U.S. domestic and foreign policy is not unwarranted. At the same +time, it is hyperbole to describe the current political climate in +the U.S. as fascist. Yet it clearly is an error to assume that +anyone who opposes repressive aspects of U.S. policy is an +anti-fascist, or upholds democratic principles.

+ +

A Painful Task

+ +

The dilemma for left activists is to sort out the various strains +of fascist ideology circulating in the world and in the United +States. To ignore the threat posed by critics of our government +who represent overt fascism is a dangerous folly.

+ +

While revealing our government's policies as corrupt, we must not +concede the debate over foreign policy and domestic social justice +to the demagogues on either the left or the right. If these people +monopolize the debate, then political discourse in the U.S. will +soon echo the themes of the fascist era in Europe where hysteria +and holocaust, blood and bounty, blind patriotism and deaf obedience +became synonymous with the national spirit.

+ +

Author George Seldes reached his 100th birthday in 1990 as the +early editions of this report were first being researched and +written. More than half a century earlier, in 1938, Seldes wrote +You Can't Do That, a book with a prophetic warning about how +fascism comes to power as the result of a pincer movement between +authoritarian state repression supported by corporate elites and +mass movements sparked by ultra-rightist demagogues. Seldes wrote:

+ +

"We must guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism, +especially that patriotism which is the last refuge of scoundrels +and which is so prevalent, so professional and so well paid nowadays. +Eternal vigilance must become more than the slogan for small +associations desperately fighting almost overwhelming cases of +infringements on individual liberties. "

+ +

"We must realize that those who use red-baiting to attack every +liberal and democratic movement today, are the armed cutthroats of +reactionary Fascism tomorrow. "

+ +

"Two facts emerge from any study of European turmoil and the new +class alignment in our own land. The enemy is always the Right. +Fascism and Reaction inevitably attack. They have won against +disunion. They will fail if we unite. "

+ +

While the concept of broad-based peace and social justice coalitions +remains desirable, activists and their coalitions should be very +careful to examine the backgrounds and ideologies of those groups +with which we seek to build coalitions.

+ +
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FIJA PROCLAIMS SEPTEMBER 5 "JURY RIGHTS DAY"!

+ +

Hey, activist, can you spare an hour?

+ +

Noon hour, September 5, 1991, should be sixty minutes of fun +and high-impact education all across the United States, as FIJA +activists take to the steps of courthouses in their own local +communities, handing out a special "Jury Rights Day" version of +our TRUE or FALSE? brochure to whoever will accept one.

+ +

If, for one hour of one day (more if you have time), you can +break from routine and "go active", you will be part of an +utterly decentralized, but fully coordinated team of jury-rights +proponents skipping lunch to tell the entire nation about FIJA! +The plan is this:

+ +

At each courthouse, everyone from judge to janitor will be +offered a brochure, in honor of the day, 321 years ago, when +Edward Bushell and his fellow jurors refused to convict William +Penn, arrested in London for preaching an illegal religion +(Quakerism) to those who voluntarily--but also illegally-- +gathered to listen.

+ +

Nine weeks later, after Bushell and three others had been +imprisoned for this audacity in a brutal facility, the English +Court of Common Pleas voted to release them, and without forcing +them to change their verdict.

+ +

This was a milestone in English-American legal tradition, +because it not only established the power of the jury to find +whatever verdict it wishes, without punishment, but also the +rights of free speech and peaceable assembly.

+ +

We at FIJA figure that 1991 is the perfect year to begin +celebrating that event as "Jury Rights Day", since it is the +200th anniversary of the American Bill of Rights, which not only +protects our freedoms of speech and assembly, but also their +guardian: our right to trial by a jury of fellow citizens. We of +course intend to make the most of the fact that the nation will +simultaneously be honoring the very document we seek to protect +with fully informed juries.

+ +

Leading off the day, at noon EDT, we'll hold a national news +conference and rally at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC, +where spokespersons from a wide range of organizations will speak +on the importance of the jury system for individual justice and +for maintaining citizen control of our government.

+ +

We're hoping this summer to persuade a U.S. Representative +or Senator to introduce legislation naming September 5 as +"National Jury Rights Day" then to kick off the "JRD" rally with +a speech on that subject. [We'll report on this when we list all +confirmed speakers in the Summer FIJActivist.]

+ +

The national media will be given packets of information +about FIJA, and a list of all other locations around the United +States where literature is being distributed--including yours, +provided we have confirmation from you in time to include your +name and the courthouse where you'll be.

+ +

The longer and more geographically representative the list, +of course, the more impressed the media will be...and the better +will be our chance to access and educate millions of Americans in +their rights as jurors, drawing their attention to the full +meaning of the 6th and 7th Amendments.

+ +

How to get your materials? Easy: send us your order, ASAP!

+ +

If you want to take full advantage of the media potential +for the celebration, order the "JRD" Action Kit that we're making +available for $25. The kit will contain a FIJA t-shirt, 11 x 17" +poster, button, bumper sticker, a "fill-in-the blanks" news +release, 250 brochures and an action plan.

+ +

We're also working out details of cost and production of a +3'x 5' banner, useful both for Jury Rights Day and for other FIJA +events. Please let us know if you're interested, and we'll get +the best price we can. + +The enclosed order blank is the most convenient way to tell +us "YES--I CAN SPARE AN HOUR!", and to order your materials. +Kits, banners and posters are still in the preparation stage, and +will be produced in quantities equal to the orders we receive by +July 15. After that, we cannot guarantee to fill your orders for +these items, though we'll try. As a last-minute option, we can +send master copies of brochures, which you can reproduce locally. + +Contributions in excess of item prices listed are of course +welcome, to help defray expenses of travel, communication, +renting and setting up equipment for (and cleaning up after) the +rally and national news conference. Contributions are especially +appropriate if you cannot participate, but want to help ensure +the success and maximize the impact of the first annual +celebration of Jury Rights Day.

+ +

Thank you for your hour(s), your dollar(s), or both!

+ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/regexConspTest/rockfell.xml b/regexConspTest/rockfell.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..79cad7c --- /dev/null +++ b/regexConspTest/rockfell.xml @@ -0,0 +1,1795 @@ + +

EXPOSE: Rockefeller Syndicate - Secret Govt pt 1 (53K)

+ +

This text is being posted with the intent to EDUCATE those of you who +know not the silent and pervasive influence of your hidden masters. Some +have looked for shadows of the old illuminati; they look amiss, not seeing +that which is all around them. If you know not the "who" and the "why", +efforts will be mis-directed. This is NOT a "conspiracy"..nay, it is a +very cold and calculated NETWORK of individuals whose intent is nothing +short of implementation of a "New World Order"; an oligarchic rein in which +*you* serve as little more that slaves in their "technocracy". This network +has every intention to implement a cashless society, for it is they who +control every aspect of finance and banking over the entire globe. They +have had about 100 years to perfect their plans and put them into practice. + +Please understand that the Bilderbergers, the Council on Foreign Relations, +the Tri-lateral Commission,the Institute for Policy Studies, the Roundtables, +the "Club of Rome",etc are ALL bound by common denominators of long-standing +families ties, and interests and come together as a _single_ policy making +body that is known today as "The Committee of 300" . This has also been +known as "The Olympians", the "Policy Committee". + +Don't be mis-led by labels such as "Rockefeller" or "Rothschild"; for these +are simply the families who have the mechanisms of control already set in +place,but of themselves are not the entire network; that being the +"Committee of 300". It is THEY who control the UN, who tell the heads of +nations "when to jump and how high", they who are behind the world's illicit +drug trade via the CIA and the old British East India links. They who +manage the IMF,set policy at GATT conferences. It is they who ARE the +"Shadow Government". It is they who manage the CIA,NSA,DIA..the same +group that took out JFK and have MURDERED around 173 people in their efforts +to suppress the truth about all the links..they who were behind the +assassination of RFK,MLK..they who are behind the suppression of truth +regarding the MIA's; It is the same group behind E. Howard Hunt, +John Singlaub, Ollie North..the very same group who brought down Richard +Nixon in Watergate..the same group behind the persecution of the Christic +Institute..the same people who were behind Nugan-Hand..the same group +that groomed Jimmy Carter for the Presidency..the same group who ARE +the "Military-Industrial complex", the same group behind the total +militarization of NASA..the same group who ARE "MJ-12", were behind the +"Jason Group"..the same behind Project Blue Book, The Condon Committee, +the same who started up the NSA..who are responsible for the MURDER of +Danny Casalaro..the same group responsible for the world-wide DISINFO +campaign regarding the TRUTH of UFO sightings and contacts. The very +SAME group who OWN THE MEDIA..ie..The Washington Post, NBC (General +Electric),ABC,CBS,The New York Times,etc. The same group behind the +the Warren Commission,ad nauseum.. + +I DO believe I could make a DIRECT connection here with just what +CIABASE says on WACKENHUT that also ties in the Shadow Government +with UFO related installations; this is but *ONE* connection..there +are many,many more that can be and will be ferreted out for exposure.

+ +

===== Begin Included article =============================================

+ +

Message #6041 - INFO.PARANET +Date : 16-Jan-92 19:46 +From : Don Ecker +To : John Galt +Subject : Wackenhut +John Galt said:

+ +

> Wackenhut Corp., one of the nation's largest security firms, said Friday +> it has bought the U.S. security operations of ISS International Service +> System Inc. The purchase price was not disclosed. ISS International +> has more than 700 employees in its U.S. security operations, primarily +> in Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, Cleveland and +> Chattanooga, Tenn.

+ +

In several investigations that I am currently involved in for UFO Magazine as +well as my radio show "UFOs Tonite", I have come across the Wackenhut +connection. As many of you may know, Wackenhut is responsible for outside +security around Area 51 and site S-4. Last year there was a helicopter crash +in Las Vegas that killed a number of Wackenhut employees, plus they are +involved in the Inslaw scandel. At any rate much more than I can go into here. +However************

+ +

I checked CIABASE and came up with the following. Incidently, all sources are +available for the following information if requested.

+ +

Read and contemplate.

+ +
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+ +

CIABASE FILES +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

CONFLICT, LI

+ +

PERU, 88-91 PRIVATE SECURITY CORPORATION FORMING IMPORTANT ROLE +IN LIC-DRUG OPERATIONS. FROM 1981-91, PERUVIAN SECURITY CORPORATIONS +INCREASED FROM 80 TO 350, PLUS 150 UNOFFICIAL ORGANIZATIONS. AMONG +THOSE IS WACKENHUT CORP, WHOSE EMPLOYEES CONSIST OF MANY EX-CIA, +DEA, FBI MEMBERS. Z 11/90 87

+ +

DOMESTIC OP

+ +

CHILE, CUBA. WACKENHUT CORP OF CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA. PROVIDES +SECURITY SYSTEMS THRUOUT WORLD. INMAN WAS DIRECTOR OF CORP PLUS +OTHER INFLUENTIAL PERSONS IN 80 WACKENHUT WORKED CLOSELY WITH +S. CALIFORNIA'S CABAZON INDIANS AND THEIR TRIBAL ADMINISTRATOR +JOHN PHILIP NICHOLS. NICHOLS PER NEWS ARTICLE, BOASTED RE ATTEMPTED +ASSASSINATION CASTRO AND SUCCESSFUL ASSASSINATION OF SALVADOR ALLENDE. +WACKENHUT/CABAZON CONNECTION OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO D. CASOLARO +WHO DIED IN W.VIRGINIA IN 91 HE ALSO INVESTIGATING OCTOBER SURPRISE +AND INSLAW. MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO - A WEAPONS-SYSTEM DESIGNER AND +SOFTWARE SPECIALIST - WAS DIR OF A RESEARCH PROJECT OF WACKENHUT/CABAZON +JOINT VENTURE. IN EARLY 80s AFFIDAVIT SAID HE MODIFIED A STOLEN +PROMIS SOFTWARE FOR FOREIGN SALES. OTHER INFO ON WACKENHUT. ITT +9/24/81 4-5

+ +

FOR EIGHT YEARS INSLAW BATTLING JUSTICE DEPT FOR POSSESSION OF +PROMIS, A SOFT-WARE PROGRAM DEVELOPED BY COMPANY OWNER BILL HAMILTON. +IN 91 INSLAW WENT PUBLIC AND ALLEGED REAGAN JUSTICE DEPT, AFTER IT +HAD STOLEN PROMIS, TURNED IT OVER TO EARL BRIAN. INSLAW ALLEGES +SOFTWARE GIVEN BRIAN AS PAYBACK FOR BRIAN'S HELP IN ARRANGING ARMS-FOR-HOSTAGE DEAL WITH IRAN IN 1980 (OCTOBER SURPRISE). PER HAMILTON, BRIAN, WHO +RUNS UPI, ALLEGEDLY MARKETED PROMIS TO INTEL AGENCIES OF ISRAEL, JORDAN, IRAQ, +CANADA, SOUTH KOREA, LIBYA, ENGLAND, GERMANY, FRANCE, AUSTRALIA, THAILAND, +JAPAN, CHILE, GUATEMALA, AND BRAZIL. PER INSLAW, ONCE SOFTWARE USED BY FOREIGN +INTEL SERVICES, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA) ABLE INFILTRATE COMPUTERIZED +INTEL FILES THOSE COUNTRIES. MODIFICATIONS TO PROMIS ALLEGEDLY DONE BY +WACKENHUT CORP. OF CORAL GABLES, FL. HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING +SCANDAL SINCE 89. ATTORNEY GENERAL THORNBURG, UNDER SUPOENA, RELEASED +INSLAW-RELATED FILES - BUT 15 TO 20 FILES MISSING. ITT 9/10/91 4-5

+ +

STORY OF DANNY CASOLARO - WHO HAD BEEN SORTING THRU THE S&L DEBACLE, +BCCI, IRAN-CONTRA, CONTRA-CONNECTED WACKENHUT CORP., WACKENHUT-CONNECTED +INSLAW CASE AND INSLAW-CONNECTED "OCTOBER SURPRISE." ITT 9/10/91 +4-5

+ +

LIAISON

+ +

INSLAW PRES BILL HAMILTON SAYS HE HAS INFO THAT PROMIS ILLEGALLY +SOLD TO SOUTH KOREA, LIBYA, JORDAN, GREAT BRITAIN (ENGLAND), GERMANY, +FRANCE, AUSTRALIA, THAILAND, JAPAN, CHILE, GUATEMALA, BRAZIL, AND +CANADA. CANADIAN COMPANY, COMMUNICATIONS CANADA - THE CANADIAN +WORKPLACE AUTOMATION RESEARCH CENTER (CWARC) WROTE INSLAW A LETTER. +ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE ARE OPERATING PROMIS IN 900 LOCATIONS. +MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO SWORE IN AN AFFIDAVIT THAT WHEN HE DIRECTOR +OF WACKENHUT CORP OF CORAL GABLES, FL ONE OF HIS JOBS TO ADAPT +PROMIS SOFTWARE. PETER VIDENIEKS AND EARL W. BRIAN WERE FREQUENT +VISITORS TO WACKENHUT. RICONOSCIUTO SAID HE TO MODIFY PROMIS FOR +IMPLEMENTATION IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND INTEL AGENCIES WORLDWIDE. +AFTER TESTIFYING BEFORE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INVESTIGATORS, +RICONOSCIUTO ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH SELLING MORE THAN 4 GRAMS +OF POTENT SPEED. ITT 6/11/91 11-13

+ +

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+ +

If you notice the name INMAN in the above, that is Adm. Bobby Inman recently +mentioned in Tim Good's book "Alien Liason" and the subject of the January +1992 rebuttal of Bob Oechsler in the MUFON Journel.

+ +

Best:

+ +

Don Ecker +Director Research +UFO Magazine

+ +

--- FD 1.99c +* Origin: ParaNet Alpha-Delta The Data Base (9:1012/3.0)

+ +

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+ +

Also here's something from last year on the ultra secret Bilderberg +meeting..what motivations and policies do you think that THEY +follow?

+ +

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+ +

From: campe@thor.uucp (Gary Campe ext ) +Newsgroups: alt.activism,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines +Subject: BILDERBERG ANNUAL MEETING SCHEDULED + 13155@fpssun +Date: 22 Apr 91 17:56:38 GMT +References: The Spotlight +Sender: daemon@fpssun +Organization: FPS Computing, Beaverton, Oregon +Lines: 23

+ +

Ad as it appears in The Spotlight dated April 22, 1991:

+ +

JUNE 7-9 - Bilderberg group meets secretly at Baden-Baden, Germany.

+ +

Members will fly into Frankfurt, Germany or Stasbourg, France to be taken +in government helicopters to a heavily guarded hotel near Baden-Baden, site +of secret meeting of world's elite. Agenda items include exploiting Middle +East oil and progress toward world government. For information, call +David Rocefeller at (914) 631-1634 or his personal valet, Dr. Henry +Kissinger at (212) 759-7919.

+ +
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+ +

Have any of you been invited?

+ +

-- +RE-ELECT "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it +NO-ONE! is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and +========== a fearful master" -- George Washington. +Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are mine alone and not that of my employer.

+ +
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From: campe@thor.uucp (Gary Campe ext ) +Newsgroups: misc.headlines,talk.politics.misc,alt.conspiracy +Subject: Bilderberg Annual Meeting - What was said + 14096@fpssun +Date: 28 Jun 91 17:48:41 GMT +Sender: daemon@fps.com +Followup-To: misc.headlines +Distribution: usa +Organization: FPS Computing, Beaverton, Oregon +Lines: 42

+ +

This information was reported in the June 24, 1991 issue of "THE SPOTLIGHT".

+ +

This is not the entire article, only the highlights. If you would like to +read this article in its entirety please refer to the above publication.

+ +
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+ +

The word out of the Bilderberg annual meeting is that there will be another +war within the next five years.

+ +

It was repeatedly stated at the Bilderberg meeting that there will be +"other Saddams" in the years ahead who must be dealt with swiftly and +efficiently.

+ +

The Bilderberg group plans a global army at the disposal of the United +Nations. It is their hope that the U.N. will become the world government +by the year 2000.

+ +

"A U.N. army must be able to act immediately, anywhere in the world, without +delays involved in each country making its own decision whether to +participate, based on parochial considerations," said Henry Kissinger.

+ +

If Americans can be persuaded to surrender warmaking decisions to the U.N., +"parochial nationalism" in Briton, France and elsewhere will disappear, +Bilderberg speakers said.

+ +

"The Persian Gulf venture has advanced the cause by years" one speaker said.

+ +
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+ +

So there you have it, the "One Worlders" are still alive and well.

+ +

Garry

+ +

-- +RE-ELECT "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it +NO-ONE! is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and +========== a fearful master" -- George Washington. +Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are mine alone and not that of my employer.

+ +

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+ +

The following is on the historical perspective of just the Rockefeller +and Rothschild connections and in no way attempts to cover every +aspect, but will suffice to give you a basis on which to understand +how pervasive the Web of influence is and that it is a good deal MORE +than "merely a conspiracy". Just WHO makes up the ILLEGAL SHADOW +GOVERMNENT,YOUR HIDDEN MASTERS?

+ +

I ask no one to accept any of this at face value, and would heartily +encourage you to perform your own investigation. To that end,I've +provided an extensive list of reading materials at the end of this +text. + +And lastly, I would include a very lucid assessment of our situation +by John DiNardo, which in my opinion, is absolutely correct. There have +been MANY people who are posting such as John, Dave Radcliffe, Rich +Winkel and others who have been showing you just *WHO* the CANCER IS.

+ +

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +If the usurpers of our freedom, the plunderers of our life's earnings, +the despoilers of our planet Earth, the deluders of our TV-zombified +society, the desecrators of our Constitution can crush the Christic +Institute -- than what refuge is left for the few remaining +Christic-like organizations to shelter THEM from this Frankenstein +Monster government? What refuge is left for you and me, and for our +children who will necessarily find themselves forced to riot and +spill their blood in the streets during the twenty-first century? +It always degenerates to that, you know.

+ +

We Americans are a lazy, short-sighted bunch. We realize that if we +don't earn a living, we will be impoverished. We realize that if we +don't brush our teeth, our teeth will rot out of our mouths. We +realize that if we don't service our cars, they will fail to operate. +Yet, we don't realize -- or we're too lazy to admit -- that if we +don't supervise and participate in our system of government to ensure +that our Constitution is protected from the greedy, power-mad +neurotics whose ambitions drive them to seize the reins of power +and wealth vested in our Federal Government, then our libertarian +foundations will crumble beneath us, leaving us to fall into the +pit of subjugation that the corporate rulers have prepared for us.

+ +

As we witness our free-fall into the pit, we finally understand +that the law is slipping out of our hands; that we and our children +will have to resort to meeting in dark rooms and plotting to recover +our Constitutional freedoms which the usurpers have seized through +television, that great national Svengali -- that opiate of the masses +which they have so cleverly employed to sedate, delude and distract us +while quietly cuffing our ankles and wrists. How could we be so stupid +as to surrender our minds to Big Brother, never suspecting that +whenever someone offers you free entertainment, day after day and +year after year, it's got to be costing you.

+ +

Why shouldn't we be as vulnerable to totalitarianism as are +the peoples of most other societies around the world. More so, +considering the fact that totalitarianism originates from within the +military elite. And whose nation has the most savagely powerful +military force on the planet? What's worse is that it's not just the +military that's militating against our Constitutional freedoms. +It's the military-industrial complex. President Eisenhower left office +a third of a century ago by warning us that the military-industrial +complex is the greatest threat to our freedom. That was as much of +a warning as he dared give, lest he meet the doom of his valiant +successor who tried to actually BE the President of the United States.

+ +

How knowledgeable was the General of the Army of the Second World War, +Dwight Eisenhower, in his fear of the military-industrial complex? +As knowledgeable as President Kennedy is dead!

+ +

So you see, there really isn't much time left. If we prove to be too +lazy now to unite behind Constitutional upholders such as the +Christic Institute -- then our children in the twenty-first century +will NOT be too frightened to stand up against the bullets of the +Wackenhut Security Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida. Because +when the oppression becomes intolerable, you, I and anyone would +stand up to bullets, rather than go on living in unbearable agony. +Ask the Palestinian people who stand up to bullets every day -- +or the Rumanian people, or the Guatemalan people, or the Filipino +people, or the Chinese people, or the Iranian people, or the +Tibetan people, or the Timorese people.

+ +

If we prove to be too lazy now, OUR generation may even see the day +when citizens will speak softly and listen intently for the footsteps +of the Gestapo who may finally come to kick down our front door and +arrest us for plotting to regain the Constitutional freedoms +that were once our heritage.

+ +

John DiNardo

+ +
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+ +

Excerpted from the book, "Rape of The Constitution; Death of Freedom" by +Gyeorgos C. Hatonn .

+ +

*** The Rockefeller Syndicate ***

+ +
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Many American conservatives believe as a matter of faith that the +Rockefellers and the Council on Foreign Relations exercise absolute +control over the government and the people of the U.S. This thesis can +be accepted as a working formula if one remains conscious of the larger +issues. Two writers for whom the present writer (E.M) has great respect, +Dr. Emanuel Josephson and Morris Bealle, insisted on focusing on the +Rockefellers and excluding all other aspects of the World Order. This +severely limited the effect of their otherwise groundbreaking work on the +Medical Monopoly. This writer advanced a contrary view in "The World +Order," fixing upon the Rothschild monetary power, which reached a point +of world control by 1885, and its London policy group, the Royal +Institute of International Affairs, as the policy makers for what has +essentially been, since 1900, a re-established colonial government, +functions primarily through the Council on Foreign Relations, but only as +the subsidiary of RIIA and through the Rockefeller Foundation, which +controls government functions, the educational establishments, the media, +the religions and the state legislatures.

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It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which +they have the absolute right to vote for one of two opposing candidates, +both of whom have been handpicked and financed by the Rockefeller +syndicate. This touching evidence of "democracy" serves to convince most +Americans that you are indeed a free people. You even have a cracked +Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to prove it. American youths have been free +since 1900 to be marched off to die in Hegelian wars in which both +combatants received their instructions from the World Order. You are free +to invest in a stock market in which the daily quantity,price and value +of the monetary unit is manipulated and controlled by a Federal Reserve +System which is answerable only to the Bank of England. It has maintained +its vaunted "independence" from your government control, but this is the +only independence it has ever had.

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The realization that you do indeed live under the dictates of the +"Rockefeller Syndicate" can well be the starting point of the long road +back of a genuine struggle for American independence. In exposing "the +Rockefellers" as agents of a foreign power, which is not merely a foreign +power, but a genuine world government, you must realize that this is not +merely a group dedicated to making money, but a group which is committed +to maintaining the power of a colonial form of government over the +American people. Thus the ancient calumny of John D. Rockefeller as a +man obsessed by greed (a category in which he has plenty of company) +obscures the fact that from the day the Rothschilds began to finance his +march towards a total oil monopoly in the United States from their +coffers at the National City Bank of Cleveland, Rockefeller was never an +independent power, nor does any department of the Rockefeller Syndicate +operate as an independent power. You know that the Cosa Nostra, or +Mafia, with which the Syndicate is closely allied, has somewhat +autonomous power in the regions which have been assigned to that +particular "family" by the national directors, but this always implies +that that family remains under total control and answerable for +everything which occurs in its territory.

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Similarly, the Rockefeller Syndicate operates under clearly defined +spheres of influence. The "charitable" organizations, the business +companies and the policy groups, always meld into a working operation, +nor can any department of the Syndicate strike out on its own or +formulate an independent policy, no matter what may be its +justification.

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The Rockefeller Syndicate operates under the control of the world +financial structure, which means that on any given day, all of its assets +could be rendered close to worthless by adroit financial manipulation. +This is the final control, which ensures that no one can quit the +organization. Not only would he be stripped of all assets, but he would +be under contract for immediate assassination. The Department of Justice +is well aware that the only "terrorists" operating in the United States +are the agents of the World Order, but they prudently avoid any mention +of this fact.

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The world financial structure, far from being an unknown or hidden +organization, is actually well known and well defined. It consists of +the major Swiss Banks; the survivors of the old Venetian-Genoese banking +axis; the Big Five of the world grain trade; the British combine, +centered in the Bank of England and its chartered merchant banks, +functioning through the Rothschilds and the Oppenheimers and having +absolute control over their Canadian colony through the Royal Bank of +Canada and the Bank of Montreal, their Canadian lieutenants being the +Bronfmans, Belzbergs, Reichmanns and other financial operators; and the +colonial banking structure in the U.S., controlled by the Bank of England +through the Federal Reserve System; the Boston Brahmin families who made +their fortunes in the opium trade, including the Delanos and others and +the Rockefeller Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank, American Express, the present +form of the old Rothschild representatives in the U.S., which includes +Kuhn,Loeb Company and Lehman Brothers.

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It is notable that the Rockefeller Syndicate is far down on the list of +the worlds financial structure. Why then is it of such importance? +Although it is not the crucial factor in financial decision in the +Western Hemisphere, it is the actual working control mechanism of the +American colony. The Rockefeller family themselves,like the +Morgans,Schiffs and Warburgs, have faded into insignificance, but the +mechanism created in their name roars along at full power,still +maintaining all of the functions for which it was organized. Since he +set up the Trilateral Commission, David Rockefeller has functioned as a +sort of international courier for the World Order, principally concerned +with delivering working instructions to the Communist bloc,either +directly, in New York or by traveling to the area. Laurence Rockefeller +is active in the operation of the Medical Monopoly, but his principal +interests are in operating various vacation spas in tropical areas. They +are the two survivors of the "Fortunate Five," the five sons of John D. +Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. died in an +institution in Tucson,Arizona and was hastily cremated. John D. +Rockefeller III died in a mysterious accident on a New York Parkway near +his home. Nelson Rockefeller, named after his grandfather, died in the +arms of a TV journalist. It was later revealed that he had also been in +the arms of another TV journalist at the same time; the death was hushed +up for many hours. It was generally believed that he ran afoul of his +Columbian drug connection, the disagreement hardly being trivial; it +involved several billion dollars in drug profits which had not been +properly apportioned. Winthrop Rockefeller died an alcoholic in the arms +of his black boy friend. He had been interviewed on television by Harry +Reasoner to explain his hasty move from New York to Arkansas. Winthrop +learned that his black boy friend, an Army sergeant who apparently taught +him the mysteries of drill,refused to live in New York. To celebrate this +alliance, Winthrop Rockefeller gave magnificiently to Negro +causes,including the Urban League building on East 48th Street in New +York. A plaque on the second floor notes that it was his gift; it might +well have stated "From Hadrian to his Antinous."

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We do not wish to imply that the Rockefellers no longer have influence, +but that the major policy dictates of the Rockefeller Syndicate are +handed down by other caps, of whom they continue to be a visible force. +Through the person of David Rockefeller, the family is sometimes called +"the first family of the Soviet Union." Only he and Dr. Armand Hammer, +the moving force behind USTEC, have permanent permission to land their +private planes at the Moscow Airport. Others would suffer the fate of KAL +007. David Rockefeller's most significant trip to the Soviet Union may +have been the fateful day when he landed in Moscow, having been told to +inform Khrushchev that he was "through". The Russians are very health +conscious, and a scientist had sent information to Khrushchev that the +use of chemical fertilizers in the Soviet Union presented a threat to the +people. Khrushchev then announced a major change in the Soviet farm +policy, centering around a reduction in the use of chemicals. This was +upsetting to the head of the world's Chemical Fertilizer trust, David +Rockefeller, and he responded with a terse one word command, "Out".

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Both the Rockefeller family fortune and the considerable portion set +aside in the foundations of the Rockefeller Syndicate are effectively +insulated against any type of government control. FORTUNE magazine noted +August ,1986, that John D. Rockefeller,Jr. had created trusts in 1934 +which now amounted to some $2.3 billion; another 200 million had been set +aside for the Abby Rockefeller branch. The five sons had trusts which in +1986 amounted to $2.1 billion. These trusts had originally amounted to +only $50 million each,showing the increase in their assets as well as +inflation during the ensuing half century. FORTUNE estimated the 1986 +total Rockefeller wealth as $3.5 billion of which $900 million was in +securities and real estate. They owned 45% of the Time Life +Building; Nelson Rockefeller's International Basic Economy Corporation had +been sold to a British company in 1980. For years, the Rockefeller family +had deliberately kept the rents low in its major holding, Rockefeller +Center, a $1.6 billion investment yielding an annual return of 1% . This +was a convenient manuever for tax purposes, and a good one at that.

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Much of the Rockefeller wealth might be attributed to old John D.'s +rapacity and ruthlessness; its origins are indubitably based in his +initial financing from the National City Bank of Cleveland, which was +identified in Congressional reports as one of the three Rothschild banks +in the United States and by his later acceptance of the guidance of Jacob +Schiff of Kuhn,Loeb Company, who had been born in the Rothschild house in +Franfort and was now the principal Rothschild representive (but unknown +as such to the public) in the United States.

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With the seed money from the National City Bank in Cleveland, old John D. +Rockefeller soon laid claim to the title of the "most ruthless American". +It is more than likely that it was this quality which persuaded the +Rothschilds to back him. Rockefeller realized early in the game that the +oil refinery business, which could offer great profits in a short time, +also was at the mercy of uncontrolled competition. His solution was a +simple one--crush all competition. The famous Rockefeller dedication to +total monopoly was simply a business decision. Rockefeller embarked on a +campaign of coercing all competing oil refineries out of business. He +attacked on a number of fronts, which is also a lesson to all would be +entrepreneurs. First, he would send a minion, not known to be working for +Rockefeller, with an offer to buy the competing refinery for a low +price,but offering cash. If the offer was refused, the competitor would +then come under attack from a competing refinery which greatly undercut +his price. He might also suffer a sudden strike at his refinery,which +would force him to shut down. Control of labor through unions has always +been a basic Rockefeller technique. Like the Soviet Union, they seldom +have labor trouble. If these techniques failed, Rockefeller would then +be saddened by a reluctant decision to use violence; beating the rival +workers as they went to and from their jobs, or burning or blowing up the +competing refinery.

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These techniques convinced the Rothschilds that they had found their +man.They sent their personal representative,Jacob Schiff, to Cleveland to +help Rockefeller plan further expansion. At this time,the Rothschilds +controlled 95% of all railroad mileage in the United States,through the +J.P. Morgan Company and Kuhn Loeb Company,according to official +Department of Commerce figures for the year 1895. J.P. Morgan mentions in +his "Who's Who" listing that he controlled 50000 miles of U.S. +railways. Schiff worked out an elaborate rebate deal for +Rockefeller,through a dummy corporation,South Improvement Company. These +rebates ensured that no other oil company could survive in competition +with the Rockefeller firm. The scheme was later exposed,but by that time +Rockefeller had achieved a virtual monopoly of the oil business in the +U.S. The daughter of one of his victims, Ida Tarbell,whose father was +ruined by Rockefeller's criminal operations, wrote the first major expose +of the Standard Oil Trust. She was promptly denounced as a "muckracker" +by the poseur, Theodore Roosevelt, who claimed to be a "trustbuster." In +fact, he ensured the dominance of the Standard Oil Trust and other giant +trusts.

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During the next half century, John D. Rockefeller was routinely +caricatured by socialist propagandists as the epitome of the ruthless +capitalist. At the same time, he was the principal financier of the +world Communist movement, through a firm called American International +Company. Despite the fact that the House of Rothschild had already +achieved world control,the sound and the fury was directed exclusively +against its two principal representatives,John D. Rockefeller and J.P. +Morgan. One of the few revelations of the actual state of affairs +appeared in TRUTH magazine,Dec 161912, which pointed out that "Mr. +Schiff is head of the great private banking house of Kuhn, Loeb Company +(I knew some of you bright readers would finally pick up that these names +are all attached to the greatest pharmaceutical firms in the world--even +into your very vitamin supplement business!), which represents the +Rothschild interests on your side of the Atlantic. He is described as a +financial strategist and has been for years the financial minister of the +great impersonal power known as Standard Oil." Note that the name of +Rockefeller was not mentioned in the quote.

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Because of these concealed factors,it was a relatively simple matter for +the American public to accept the "fact" that the Rockefellers were the +preeminent power in your country. This myth was actually clothed in the +apparel of power,the Rockefeller Oil Trust becoming the +"military-industrial complex" which assumed political control of the +nation; the Rockefeller Medical Monopoly attained control of the health +care of the nation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, a web of affiliated +tax emempt creations, effectively controlled the religious and +educational life of the nation. The myth succeeded in its goal of +camouflaging the hidden rulers, the Rothschilds.

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After Eustis Mullins and a few others, had been exposing this charade for +some twenty-five years a new myth began to be noised about in American +conservative circles, effectively propagated by active double agents. +This myth found a host of eager believers,because it heralded a growing +crack in the monolithic power which had been oppressing all the peoples +of the world. This "new" revelation was that a struggle to the death for +world power had developed between the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds. +According to this startling development, one faction or the other, +depending on which agent you were listening to, had gained control of the +Soviet Union and would use its power as the basis for achieving the +overthrow of the other faction. The sudden death of several members of +the Rockefeller family was cited as "proof" that such a struggle was +taking place, although no Rothschild is known to have succumbed during +this "war." This ignored the general understanding that Nelson +Rockefeller had been "eliminated" as the result of losing deposit slips +for several billion dollars of drugs from the Columbian cartel, or that +the other Rockefeller deaths showed no trace of a "Rothschild +connection."

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Having maintained extensive files on this situation for several decades, +the writer (E.M.),could not believe anyone could be so misinformed as to +think that "the Rockefellers" were now trying to seize power from the +Rothschilds, at a time when the influence of members of the Rockefeller +family was already in great decline, their family finances being handled +by John J. McCloy, and other faithful retainers;none of the retainers +would have been willing to engage in a genuine power struggle, as they +were faceless managers who lived only for their weekly paycheck. They +had no ambitions of their own. Nevertheless, many hopeful Americans +grasped at the will-o-the-wisp notion the Rockefellers were now "good +Americans" who were willing to risk all to overthrow the Rothschilds. +Amazingly enough, this pernicious story persisted for almost a decade +before being relegated to the curiosities of history.

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Like J.P. Morgan, who had begun his commercial career by selling the U.S. +Army some defective guns, the famous Hall carbine affair, John D. +Rockefeller also was a war profiteer during the Civil War;he sold +unstamped Harkness liquor to Federal troops at a high profit, gaining the +initial capital to embark on his drive for monopoly. His interest in the +oil business was a natural one; his father,William Rockefeller had been +"in oil" for years. William Rockefeller had become an oil entrepreneur +after salt wells at Tarentum, near Pittsburgh, were discovered in 1842 to +be flowing with oil. The owners of the wells,Samuel L. Kier, began to +bottle the oil and sell it for medicinal purposes. One of his earliest +wholesalers was William Rockefeller. The "medicine" was originally +labelled "Kier's Magic Oil". Rockefeller printed his own labels, using +"Rock Oil" or "Seneca Oil", Seneca being the name of a well known Indian +Tribe. Rockefeller achieved his greatest notoriety and his greatest +profits by advertising himself as "William Rockefeller, the Celebrated +Cancer Specialist". It is understandable that his grandsons would become +the controlling power behind the scenes of the world's most famous cancer +treatment center and would direct government funds and charitable +contributions to those areas which only benefit the Medical Monopoly. +William Rockefeller spared no claim in his flamboyant career. He +guaranteed "All Cases of Cancer Cured Unless They Are Too Far Gone". Such +were the healing powers that he attributed to his magic cancer cure that +he was able to retail it for $25 a bottle, a sum then equivalent to two +month's wages. The "cure" consisted of a few well known diuretics, which +had been diluted by water. This carnival medicine show barker could +hardly have envisioned that his descendants would control the greatest +and the most profitable Medical Monopoly in recorded history.

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As an itinerant "carnie", a traveling carnival peddler, William +Rockefeller had chosen a career which interfered with developing a stable +family life. His son, John, rarely saw him, a circumstance which has +inspired some psychological analysts to conjecture that the absence of a +father figure or parental love may have contributed to John D. +Rockefeller's subsequent development as a money mad tyrant who plotted to +maim, poison and kill millions of his fellow Americans during almost a +century of his monopolistic operations and whose influence, reaching up +from the grave, remains the most dire and malignant presence in American +life. This may have been a contributing factor--however, it is also +possible that he was totally evil. It is hardly arguable that he is +probably one of the most Satanic figures in American history. Evil being +defined as anything that moves the spiritual aspect of beingness away +from God as influenced through another.

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It has long been a truism that you can find a horse thief or two in any +prominent American family. In the Rockefeller family, it was more than +true in the case of William who seemed to have faithfully followed the +precepts of the Will of Canaan throughout his career, "love robbery, love +lechery". He fled from a number of indictments for horse stealing and +you know how serious that is, finally disappearing altogether as William +and Rockefeller and magically re-emerging as a Dr. William Levingston of +Philadelphia, a name which he retained for the rest of his life. An +investigative reporter at Joseph Pulitzer's New York World received a tip +that was followed up. The World then disclosed that William Avery +Rockefeller had died May 11, 1906 in Freeport, Illinois, where he was +interred in an unmarked grave as Dr. William Levingston.

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William Rockefeller's vocation as a medicine man greatly facilitated his +preferred profession of horse thief. As one who planned to be in the +next county by morning, it was a simple matter to tie a handsome stallion +to the back of his wagon and head for the open road. It also played a +large part in his vocation as a woman-chaser; he was described as being +"woman-mad".

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On June 281849, he was indicted for raping a hired girl in Cayuga,New +York; he later was found to be residing in Oswego, New York and was +forced once again to decamp for parts unknown. He had no difficulty in +financing his woman-chasing interests from the sale of his miraculous +cancer cure and from another product, his "Wonder Working Liniment", +which he offered at only two dollars a bottle. It consisted of crude +petroleum from which the lighter oils had been boiled away, leaving a +heavy solution of paraffin,lube oil and tar, which comprised the +"liniment". William Rockefeller's original miracle oil survived until +quite recently as a concoction called Nujol, consisting principally of +petroleum and peddled as a laxative. It was well known that Nujol was +merely an advertising sobriquet meaning "new oil", as opposed apparently, +to "old oil". Sold as an antidote to constipation, it robbed the body of +fat-soluble vitamins, it being a well-established medical fact that +mineral oil coated the intestine and prevented the absorption of many +needed vitamins and other nutritional needs. Its makers added carotine +as a sop to the health-conscious, but it was hardly worth the bother. +Nujol was manufactured by a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, +called Stanco, whose only other product, manufactured on the same +premises, was the famous insecticide, Flit.

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Nujol was hawked from the Senate Office Building in Washington for years +during a more liberal interpretation of "conflict of interest". In this +case, it was hardly a conflict of interest, because the august +peddler,Senator Royal S. Copeland, never had any interests other than +serving the Rockefellers. He was a physician whom Rockefeller had +appointed as head of the New York State Department of Health and later +financed his campaign for the Senate. Copeland's frank display of +commercialism amazed even the most blase' Washington reporters.

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He devoted his Senate career to a daily program advertising Nujol. A +microphone was set up in his Senate office each morning, the first order +of business being the Nujol program, for which he was paid $75000 a +year, an enormous salary in the 1930's and more than the salary of the +President of the United States. Senator Copeland's exploits earned him a +number of nicknames on Capital Hill. He was often called the Senator from +the American Medical Association, because of his enthusiastic backing for +any program launched by the AMA and Morris Fishbein. More realistically, +he was usually referred to as "the Senator from Standard Oil". He could +be counted on to promote any legislation devised for the greater profit +of the Rockefeller monopoly. During congressional debate on the Food and +Drug Act in 1938, he came under criticism from Congresswoman Leonor +Sullivan, who charged that Senator Copeland, a physician who handled the +bill on the Senate floor, frankly acknowledged during the debate that +soap was exempted from the law because the soap manufacturers, who were +the nation's largest advertisers, would otherwise join with other big +industries to fight the bill. Congresswoman Sullivan complained that, +"Soap was officially declared in the law not to be a cosmetic. The hair +dye manufacturers were given a license to market known dangerous +products, just so long as they placed a special warning on the label - +but what woman in a beauty parlor ever sees the label on the bulk +container in which hair dye is shipped?"

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Just as the elder Rockefeller had spent his life in the pursuit of his +personal obsession, women, so his son John was equally obsessed, being +money-mad instead of woman-mad, totally committed to the pursuit of +ever-increasing wealth and power. However, the principal accomplishments +of the Rockefeller drive for power, the rebate scheme for monopoly, the +chartering of the foundations to gain power over American citizens,the +creation of the central bank, the Federal Reserve System, the backing of +the World Communist Revolution and the creation of the Medical Monoply, +all came from the Rothschilds or from their European employees.

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We cannot find in the records of John D. Rockefeller that he originated +any of these programs. The concept of the tax exempt charitable +foundation originated with the Rothschild minion, George Peabody, in +1865. The Peabody Educational Foundation later became the Rockefeller +Foundation and many of you should recall that item. Not that you might +have been around then but it continues to inadvertently be referred to as +such.

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It is unlikely that even the diabolical mind of John D. Rockefeller could +have conceived of this devious twist. A social historian has described +the major development of the late nineteenth century, when charitable +foundations and world Communism became important movements, as one of the +more interesting facets of history, perhaps equivalent to the discovery +of the wheel or fire. This new discovery was the concept developed by +the rats, who after all have rather highly developed intelligences, that +they could trap people by baiting traps with little bits of cheese. The +history of mankind since then has been the rats catching humans in their +traps. Socialism -- indeed, any government program -- is simply the rat +baiting the trap with a smidgeon of cheese and catching himself a human.

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Congressman Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking and Currency +Committee, noted from the floor of Congress that the establishment of the +Rockefeller Foundation effectively insulated Standard Oil from +competition. The controlling stock had been removed from market +manipulation or possible buyouts by competitors. It also relieved +Standard Oil from most taxation, which then placed a tremendous added +burden on individual American taxpayers. Although a Rockefeller relative +by marriage, Senator Nelson Aldrich, Republican majority leader in the +Senate, had pushed the General Education Board charter through Congress, +the Rockefeller Foundation charter proved to be more difficult. +Widespread criticism of Rockefeller's monopolistic practices was heard, +and his effort to insulate his profits from taxation or takeover was seen +for what it was. The charter was finally pushed through in 1913 (the +significant Masonic numeral 13 -- 1913 was also the year of the +progressive income tax and of the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act). +Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, another Senator from Standard Oil +(there were quite a few), ramrodded the Congressional approval of the +charter. The charter was then signed by John D. Rockefeller, John D. +Rockefeller, Jr., Henry Pratt Judson, president of the Rockefeller +established University of Chicago,Simon Flexner, director of the +Rockefeller Institute, Starr Jameson, described in "Who's Who" as +"personal counsel to John D. Rockefeller in his benevolences", and +Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University.

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The Rockefeller Oil Monopoly is now 127 years old, yet in 1911, the +Supreme Court, bowing to public outrage, had ruled that it had to be +broken up. The resulting companies proved to be no problem for the +Rockefeller interests. The family retained a two per cent holding in +each of the "new" companies, while the Rockefeller foundations took a +three per cent holding in each company. This gave them a five per cent +stock interest in each company; a one per cent holding in a corporation +is usually sufficient to maintain working control.

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The involvement of the Rockefellers in promoting the World Communist +Revolution also developed from their business interests. There was never +any commitment to the Marxist ideology; like anything else, it was there +to be used. At the turn of the century, Standard Oil was competing +fiercely with Royal Dutch Shell for control of the lucrative European +market. Congressional testimony revealed that Rockefeller had sent large +sums of money to Lenin and Trotsky to instigate the Communist Revolution +in 1905. His banker, Jacob Schiff had previously financed the Japanese in +their war against Russia and had sent a personal emissary, George Kennan +to Russia to spend some twenty years in promoting revolutionary activity +against the Czar.

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When the 1905 revolution failed, Lenin was placed "in storage" in +Switzerland until 1907. Trotsky was brought to the U.S., where he lived +rent free on the Standard Oil property at Bayonne,New Jersey, its tank +field. When the Czar abdicated, Trotsky was placed on a ship with three +hundred Communist revolutionaries from the Lower East Side of New York. +Rockefeller obtained a special passport for Trotsky from Woodrow Wilson +and sent Lincoln Steffens with him to make sure he was returned safely to +Russia. For traveling expenses, Rockefeller placed a purse containing +$10000 in Trotsky's pocket.

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On April 131917, when the ship stopped in Halifax, Canadian Secret +Service officers immediately arrested Trotsky and interred him in Nova +Scotia. The case became an international cause celebre, as leading +government officials from several nations frantically demanded Trotsky's +release. The Secret Service had been tipped off that Trotsky was on his +way to take Russia out of the war, freeing more German armies to attack +Canadian troups on the Western Front.

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Prime Minister Lloyd George hurriedly cabled orders from London to the +Canadian Secret Service to free Trotsky at once - they ignored him. +Trotsky was finally freed by the intervention of one of Rockefeller's +most faithful stooges, Canadian Minister Mackenzie King, who had long +been a "labor specialist" for the Rockefellers. King personally obtained +Trotsky's release and sent him on his way as the emissary of the +Rockefellers, commissioned to win the Bolshevik Revolution. Thus, Dr. +Armand Hammer, who loudly proclaimed his influence in Russia as the +friend of Lenin, has an insignificant claim compared to the role of the +Rockefellers in backing world Communism.

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Although Communism, like other "isms", had origined with Marx's +association with the House of Rothschild, it enlisted the reverent +support of John D. Rockefeller because he saw Communism for what it is, +the ultimate monopoly, not only controlling the government, the monetary +system and all property, but also a monopoly which, like the corporations +it emulates, is self-perpetuating and eternal. It was the logical +progression from his Standard Oil monopoly.

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An important step on the road to world monopoly was the most far-reaching +corporation invented by the Rothschilds. This was the international drug +and chemical cartel, I. G. Farben. Called "a state within a state" , it +was created in 1925 as Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbeinindustrie Aktien +Gesellschaft, usually known simply as I. G. Farben, which simply meant +"The Cartel". It had originated in 1904, when the six major chemical +companies in Germany began negotiations to form the ultimate cartel, +merging Badische Anilin,Bayer,Agfa,Hoechst,Weiler-ter-Meer, and +Greisheim-Electron. The guiding spirit,as well as the financing, came +from the Rothschilds, who were represented by their German banker, Max +Warburg of M. M. Warburg Company, Hamburg. He later headed the German +Secret Service during World War I and was personal financial advisor to +the Kaiser.

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When the Kaiser was overthrown, after losing the war, Max Warburg was not +exiled with him to Holland; instead he became the financial advisor to +the new government.

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Monarchs may come and go, but the real power remains with the bankers. +While representing Germany at the Paris Peace Conference, Max Warburg +spent pleasant hours renewing family ties with his brother, Paul Warburg, +who, after drafting the Federal Reserve Act at Jekyll Island, had headed +the U.S. banking system during the war. He was in Paris as Woodrow +Wilson's financial advisor.

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I. G. Farben soon had a net worth of six billion marks, controlling some +five hundred firms. Its first president was Professor Carl Bosch. During +the period of the Weimar Republic, I.G. Farben officials,seeing the +handwriting, began a close association with one called Adolf Hitler, +supplying much needed funds and political influence.

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The success of the I.G. Farben cartel had aroused the interest of other +industrialists. Henry Ford was favorably impressed and set up a German +branch of Ford Motor Company. Forty percent of the stock was purchased by +I.G. Farben. I.G. Farben then established an American subsidiary called +American I.G., in cooperation with Standard Oil of New Jersey. Its +directors included Walter Teagle, President of Standard Oil, Paul Warburg +of Kuhn,Loeb Company and Edsel Ford, representing the Ford interests. +John Foster Dulles, for the law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, became the +attorney for I.G., frequently traveling between New York and Berlin on +cartel business. His law partner, Arthur Dean, is now director of the +$40 million Teagle Foundation which was set up before Teagle's death. +Like other fortunes, it had become part of the network.

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-- +-* Don Allen *- // Only | Tavistock + Esalen = "New Age" +Internet: dona@bilver.uucp \X/ Amiga | Rothschild + Rockefeller = FED +UUCP: .uunet!peora!bilver!vicstoy!dona | UN + Maitreya = "Twilight Zone" +"A democracy cannot be both ignorant and free" - Thomas Jefferson

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EXPOSE: Rockefeller Syndicate - Secret Govt pt 1 (53K)

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This text is being posted with the intent to EDUCATE those of you who +know not the silent and pervasive influence of your hidden masters. Some +have looked for shadows of the old illuminati; they look amiss, not seeing +that which is all around them. If you know not the "who" and the "why", +efforts will be mis-directed. This is NOT a "conspiracy"..nay, it is a +very cold and calculated NETWORK of individuals whose intent is nothing +short of implementation of a "New World Order"; an oligarchic rein in which +*you* serve as little more that slaves in their "technocracy". This network +has every intention to implement a cashless society, for it is they who +control every aspect of finance and banking over the entire globe. They +have had about 100 years to perfect their plans and put them into practice. + +Please understand that the Bilderbergers, the Council on Foreign Relations, +the Tri-lateral Commission,the Institute for Policy Studies, the Roundtables, +the "Club of Rome",etc are ALL bound by common denominators of long-standing +families ties, and interests and come together as a _single_ policy making +body that is known today as "The Committee of 300" . This has also been +known as "The Olympians", the "Policy Committee". + +Don't be mis-led by labels such as "Rockefeller" or "Rothschild"; for these +are simply the families who have the mechanisms of control already set in +place,but of themselves are not the entire network; that being the +"Committee of 300". It is THEY who control the UN, who tell the heads of +nations "when to jump and how high", they who are behind the world's illicit +drug trade via the CIA and the old British East India links. They who +manage the IMF,set policy at GATT conferences. It is they who ARE the +"Shadow Government". It is they who manage the CIA,NSA,DIA..the same +group that took out JFK and have MURDERED around 173 people in their efforts +to suppress the truth about all the links..they who were behind the +assassination of RFK,MLK..they who are behind the suppression of truth +regarding the MIA's; It is the same group behind E. Howard Hunt, +John Singlaub, Ollie North..the very same group who brought down Richard +Nixon in Watergate..the same group behind the persecution of the Christic +Institute..the same people who were behind Nugan-Hand..the same group +that groomed Jimmy Carter for the Presidency..the same group who ARE +the "Military-Industrial complex", the same group behind the total +militarization of NASA..the same group who ARE "MJ-12", were behind the +"Jason Group"..the same behind Project Blue Book, The Condon Committee, +the same who started up the NSA..who are responsible for the MURDER of +Danny Casalaro..the same group responsible for the world-wide DISINFO +campaign regarding the TRUTH of UFO sightings and contacts. The very +SAME group who OWN THE MEDIA..ie..The Washington Post, NBC (General +Electric),ABC,CBS,The New York Times,etc. The same group behind the +the Warren Commission,ad nauseum.. + +I DO believe I could make a DIRECT connection here with just what +CIABASE says on WACKENHUT that also ties in the Shadow Government +with UFO related installations; this is but *ONE* connection..there +are many,many more that can be and will be ferreted out for exposure.

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Message #6041 - INFO.PARANET +Date : 16-Jan-92 19:46 +From : Don Ecker +To : John Galt +Subject : Wackenhut +John Galt said:

+ +

> Wackenhut Corp., one of the nation's largest security firms, said Friday +> it has bought the U.S. security operations of ISS International Service +> System Inc. The purchase price was not disclosed. ISS International +> has more than 700 employees in its U.S. security operations, primarily +> in Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, Cleveland and +> Chattanooga, Tenn.

+ +

In several investigations that I am currently involved in for UFO Magazine as +well as my radio show "UFOs Tonite", I have come across the Wackenhut +connection. As many of you may know, Wackenhut is responsible for outside +security around Area 51 and site S-4. Last year there was a helicopter crash +in Las Vegas that killed a number of Wackenhut employees, plus they are +involved in the Inslaw scandel. At any rate much more than I can go into here. +However************

+ +

I checked CIABASE and came up with the following. Incidently, all sources are +available for the following information if requested.

+ +

Read and contemplate.

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CONFLICT, LI

+ +

PERU, 88-91 PRIVATE SECURITY CORPORATION FORMING IMPORTANT ROLE +IN LIC-DRUG OPERATIONS. FROM 1981-91, PERUVIAN SECURITY CORPORATIONS +INCREASED FROM 80 TO 350, PLUS 150 UNOFFICIAL ORGANIZATIONS. AMONG +THOSE IS WACKENHUT CORP, WHOSE EMPLOYEES CONSIST OF MANY EX-CIA, +DEA, FBI MEMBERS. Z 11/90 87

+ +

DOMESTIC OP

+ +

CHILE, CUBA. WACKENHUT CORP OF CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA. PROVIDES +SECURITY SYSTEMS THRUOUT WORLD. INMAN WAS DIRECTOR OF CORP PLUS +OTHER INFLUENTIAL PERSONS IN 80 WACKENHUT WORKED CLOSELY WITH +S. CALIFORNIA'S CABAZON INDIANS AND THEIR TRIBAL ADMINISTRATOR +JOHN PHILIP NICHOLS. NICHOLS PER NEWS ARTICLE, BOASTED RE ATTEMPTED +ASSASSINATION CASTRO AND SUCCESSFUL ASSASSINATION OF SALVADOR ALLENDE. +WACKENHUT/CABAZON CONNECTION OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO D. CASOLARO +WHO DIED IN W.VIRGINIA IN 91 HE ALSO INVESTIGATING OCTOBER SURPRISE +AND INSLAW. MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO - A WEAPONS-SYSTEM DESIGNER AND +SOFTWARE SPECIALIST - WAS DIR OF A RESEARCH PROJECT OF WACKENHUT/CABAZON +JOINT VENTURE. IN EARLY 80s AFFIDAVIT SAID HE MODIFIED A STOLEN +PROMIS SOFTWARE FOR FOREIGN SALES. OTHER INFO ON WACKENHUT. ITT +9/24/81 4-5

+ +

FOR EIGHT YEARS INSLAW BATTLING JUSTICE DEPT FOR POSSESSION OF +PROMIS, A SOFT-WARE PROGRAM DEVELOPED BY COMPANY OWNER BILL HAMILTON. +IN 91 INSLAW WENT PUBLIC AND ALLEGED REAGAN JUSTICE DEPT, AFTER IT +HAD STOLEN PROMIS, TURNED IT OVER TO EARL BRIAN. INSLAW ALLEGES +SOFTWARE GIVEN BRIAN AS PAYBACK FOR BRIAN'S HELP IN ARRANGING ARMS-FOR-HOSTAGE DEAL WITH IRAN IN 1980 (OCTOBER SURPRISE). PER HAMILTON, BRIAN, WHO +RUNS UPI, ALLEGEDLY MARKETED PROMIS TO INTEL AGENCIES OF ISRAEL, JORDAN, IRAQ, +CANADA, SOUTH KOREA, LIBYA, ENGLAND, GERMANY, FRANCE, AUSTRALIA, THAILAND, +JAPAN, CHILE, GUATEMALA, AND BRAZIL. PER INSLAW, ONCE SOFTWARE USED BY FOREIGN +INTEL SERVICES, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA) ABLE INFILTRATE COMPUTERIZED +INTEL FILES THOSE COUNTRIES. MODIFICATIONS TO PROMIS ALLEGEDLY DONE BY +WACKENHUT CORP. OF CORAL GABLES, FL. HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING +SCANDAL SINCE 89. ATTORNEY GENERAL THORNBURG, UNDER SUPOENA, RELEASED +INSLAW-RELATED FILES - BUT 15 TO 20 FILES MISSING. ITT 9/10/91 4-5

+ +

STORY OF DANNY CASOLARO - WHO HAD BEEN SORTING THRU THE S&L DEBACLE, +BCCI, IRAN-CONTRA, CONTRA-CONNECTED WACKENHUT CORP., WACKENHUT-CONNECTED +INSLAW CASE AND INSLAW-CONNECTED "OCTOBER SURPRISE." ITT 9/10/91 +4-5

+ +

LIAISON

+ +

INSLAW PRES BILL HAMILTON SAYS HE HAS INFO THAT PROMIS ILLEGALLY +SOLD TO SOUTH KOREA, LIBYA, JORDAN, GREAT BRITAIN (ENGLAND), GERMANY, +FRANCE, AUSTRALIA, THAILAND, JAPAN, CHILE, GUATEMALA, BRAZIL, AND +CANADA. CANADIAN COMPANY, COMMUNICATIONS CANADA - THE CANADIAN +WORKPLACE AUTOMATION RESEARCH CENTER (CWARC) WROTE INSLAW A LETTER. +ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE ARE OPERATING PROMIS IN 900 LOCATIONS. +MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO SWORE IN AN AFFIDAVIT THAT WHEN HE DIRECTOR +OF WACKENHUT CORP OF CORAL GABLES, FL ONE OF HIS JOBS TO ADAPT +PROMIS SOFTWARE. PETER VIDENIEKS AND EARL W. BRIAN WERE FREQUENT +VISITORS TO WACKENHUT. RICONOSCIUTO SAID HE TO MODIFY PROMIS FOR +IMPLEMENTATION IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND INTEL AGENCIES WORLDWIDE. +AFTER TESTIFYING BEFORE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE INVESTIGATORS, +RICONOSCIUTO ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH SELLING MORE THAN 4 GRAMS +OF POTENT SPEED. ITT 6/11/91 11-13

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+ +

If you notice the name INMAN in the above, that is Adm. Bobby Inman recently +mentioned in Tim Good's book "Alien Liason" and the subject of the January +1992 rebuttal of Bob Oechsler in the MUFON Journel.

+ +

Best:

+ +

Don Ecker +Director Research +UFO Magazine

+ +

--- FD 1.99c +* Origin: ParaNet Alpha-Delta The Data Base (9:1012/3.0)

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+ +

Also here's something from last year on the ultra secret Bilderberg +meeting..what motivations and policies do you think that THEY +follow?

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From: campe@thor.uucp (Gary Campe ext ) +Newsgroups: alt.activism,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines +Subject: BILDERBERG ANNUAL MEETING SCHEDULED + 13155@fpssun +Date: 22 Apr 91 17:56:38 GMT +References: The Spotlight +Sender: daemon@fpssun +Organization: FPS Computing, Beaverton, Oregon +Lines: 23

+ +

Ad as it appears in The Spotlight dated April 22, 1991:

+ +

JUNE 7-9 - Bilderberg group meets secretly at Baden-Baden, Germany.

+ +

Members will fly into Frankfurt, Germany or Stasbourg, France to be taken +in government helicopters to a heavily guarded hotel near Baden-Baden, site +of secret meeting of world's elite. Agenda items include exploiting Middle +East oil and progress toward world government. For information, call +David Rocefeller at (914) 631-1634 or his personal valet, Dr. Henry +Kissinger at (212) 759-7919.

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Have any of you been invited?

+ +

-- +RE-ELECT "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it +NO-ONE! is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and +========== a fearful master" -- George Washington. +Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are mine alone and not that of my employer.

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From: campe@thor.uucp (Gary Campe ext ) +Newsgroups: misc.headlines,talk.politics.misc,alt.conspiracy +Subject: Bilderberg Annual Meeting - What was said + 14096@fpssun +Date: 28 Jun 91 17:48:41 GMT +Sender: daemon@fps.com +Followup-To: misc.headlines +Distribution: usa +Organization: FPS Computing, Beaverton, Oregon +Lines: 42

+ +

This information was reported in the June 24, 1991 issue of "THE SPOTLIGHT".

+ +

This is not the entire article, only the highlights. If you would like to +read this article in its entirety please refer to the above publication.

+ +
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+ +

The word out of the Bilderberg annual meeting is that there will be another +war within the next five years.

+ +

It was repeatedly stated at the Bilderberg meeting that there will be +"other Saddams" in the years ahead who must be dealt with swiftly and +efficiently.

+ +

The Bilderberg group plans a global army at the disposal of the United +Nations. It is their hope that the U.N. will become the world government +by the year 2000.

+ +

"A U.N. army must be able to act immediately, anywhere in the world, without +delays involved in each country making its own decision whether to +participate, based on parochial considerations," said Henry Kissinger.

+ +

If Americans can be persuaded to surrender warmaking decisions to the U.N., +"parochial nationalism" in Briton, France and elsewhere will disappear, +Bilderberg speakers said.

+ +

"The Persian Gulf venture has advanced the cause by years" one speaker said.

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So there you have it, the "One Worlders" are still alive and well.

+ +

Garry

+ +

-- +RE-ELECT "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it +NO-ONE! is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and +========== a fearful master" -- George Washington. +Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are mine alone and not that of my employer.

+ +

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+ +

The following is on the historical perspective of just the Rockefeller +and Rothschild connections and in no way attempts to cover every +aspect, but will suffice to give you a basis on which to understand +how pervasive the Web of influence is and that it is a good deal MORE +than "merely a conspiracy". Just WHO makes up the ILLEGAL SHADOW +GOVERMNENT,YOUR HIDDEN MASTERS?

+ +

I ask no one to accept any of this at face value, and would heartily +encourage you to perform your own investigation. To that end,I've +provided an extensive list of reading materials at the end of this +text. + +And lastly, I would include a very lucid assessment of our situation +by John DiNardo, which in my opinion, is absolutely correct. There have +been MANY people who are posting such as John, Dave Radcliffe, Rich +Winkel and others who have been showing you just *WHO* the CANCER IS.

+ +

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +If the usurpers of our freedom, the plunderers of our life's earnings, +the despoilers of our planet Earth, the deluders of our TV-zombified +society, the desecrators of our Constitution can crush the Christic +Institute -- than what refuge is left for the few remaining +Christic-like organizations to shelter THEM from this Frankenstein +Monster government? What refuge is left for you and me, and for our +children who will necessarily find themselves forced to riot and +spill their blood in the streets during the twenty-first century? +It always degenerates to that, you know.

+ +

We Americans are a lazy, short-sighted bunch. We realize that if we +don't earn a living, we will be impoverished. We realize that if we +don't brush our teeth, our teeth will rot out of our mouths. We +realize that if we don't service our cars, they will fail to operate. +Yet, we don't realize -- or we're too lazy to admit -- that if we +don't supervise and participate in our system of government to ensure +that our Constitution is protected from the greedy, power-mad +neurotics whose ambitions drive them to seize the reins of power +and wealth vested in our Federal Government, then our libertarian +foundations will crumble beneath us, leaving us to fall into the +pit of subjugation that the corporate rulers have prepared for us.

+ +

As we witness our free-fall into the pit, we finally understand +that the law is slipping out of our hands; that we and our children +will have to resort to meeting in dark rooms and plotting to recover +our Constitutional freedoms which the usurpers have seized through +television, that great national Svengali -- that opiate of the masses +which they have so cleverly employed to sedate, delude and distract us +while quietly cuffing our ankles and wrists. How could we be so stupid +as to surrender our minds to Big Brother, never suspecting that +whenever someone offers you free entertainment, day after day and +year after year, it's got to be costing you.

+ +

Why shouldn't we be as vulnerable to totalitarianism as are +the peoples of most other societies around the world. More so, +considering the fact that totalitarianism originates from within the +military elite. And whose nation has the most savagely powerful +military force on the planet? What's worse is that it's not just the +military that's militating against our Constitutional freedoms. +It's the military-industrial complex. President Eisenhower left office +a third of a century ago by warning us that the military-industrial +complex is the greatest threat to our freedom. That was as much of +a warning as he dared give, lest he meet the doom of his valiant +successor who tried to actually BE the President of the United States.

+ +

How knowledgeable was the General of the Army of the Second World War, +Dwight Eisenhower, in his fear of the military-industrial complex? +As knowledgeable as President Kennedy is dead!

+ +

So you see, there really isn't much time left. If we prove to be too +lazy now to unite behind Constitutional upholders such as the +Christic Institute -- then our children in the twenty-first century +will NOT be too frightened to stand up against the bullets of the +Wackenhut Security Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida. Because +when the oppression becomes intolerable, you, I and anyone would +stand up to bullets, rather than go on living in unbearable agony. +Ask the Palestinian people who stand up to bullets every day -- +or the Rumanian people, or the Guatemalan people, or the Filipino +people, or the Chinese people, or the Iranian people, or the +Tibetan people, or the Timorese people.

+ +

If we prove to be too lazy now, OUR generation may even see the day +when citizens will speak softly and listen intently for the footsteps +of the Gestapo who may finally come to kick down our front door and +arrest us for plotting to regain the Constitutional freedoms +that were once our heritage.

+ +

John DiNardo

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Excerpted from the book, "Rape of The Constitution; Death of Freedom" by +Gyeorgos C. Hatonn .

+ +

*** The Rockefeller Syndicate ***

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Many American conservatives believe as a matter of faith that the +Rockefellers and the Council on Foreign Relations exercise absolute +control over the government and the people of the U.S. This thesis can +be accepted as a working formula if one remains conscious of the larger +issues. Two writers for whom the present writer (E.M) has great respect, +Dr. Emanuel Josephson and Morris Bealle, insisted on focusing on the +Rockefellers and excluding all other aspects of the World Order. This +severely limited the effect of their otherwise groundbreaking work on the +Medical Monopoly. This writer advanced a contrary view in "The World +Order," fixing upon the Rothschild monetary power, which reached a point +of world control by 1885, and its London policy group, the Royal +Institute of International Affairs, as the policy makers for what has +essentially been, since 1900, a re-established colonial government, +functions primarily through the Council on Foreign Relations, but only as +the subsidiary of RIIA and through the Rockefeller Foundation, which +controls government functions, the educational establishments, the media, +the religions and the state legislatures.

+ +

It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which +they have the absolute right to vote for one of two opposing candidates, +both of whom have been handpicked and financed by the Rockefeller +syndicate. This touching evidence of "democracy" serves to convince most +Americans that you are indeed a free people. You even have a cracked +Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to prove it. American youths have been free +since 1900 to be marched off to die in Hegelian wars in which both +combatants received their instructions from the World Order. You are free +to invest in a stock market in which the daily quantity,price and value +of the monetary unit is manipulated and controlled by a Federal Reserve +System which is answerable only to the Bank of England. It has maintained +its vaunted "independence" from your government control, but this is the +only independence it has ever had.

+ +

The realization that you do indeed live under the dictates of the +"Rockefeller Syndicate" can well be the starting point of the long road +back of a genuine struggle for American independence. In exposing "the +Rockefellers" as agents of a foreign power, which is not merely a foreign +power, but a genuine world government, you must realize that this is not +merely a group dedicated to making money, but a group which is committed +to maintaining the power of a colonial form of government over the +American people. Thus the ancient calumny of John D. Rockefeller as a +man obsessed by greed (a category in which he has plenty of company) +obscures the fact that from the day the Rothschilds began to finance his +march towards a total oil monopoly in the United States from their +coffers at the National City Bank of Cleveland, Rockefeller was never an +independent power, nor does any department of the Rockefeller Syndicate +operate as an independent power. You know that the Cosa Nostra, or +Mafia, with which the Syndicate is closely allied, has somewhat +autonomous power in the regions which have been assigned to that +particular "family" by the national directors, but this always implies +that that family remains under total control and answerable for +everything which occurs in its territory.

+ +

Similarly, the Rockefeller Syndicate operates under clearly defined +spheres of influence. The "charitable" organizations, the business +companies and the policy groups, always meld into a working operation, +nor can any department of the Syndicate strike out on its own or +formulate an independent policy, no matter what may be its +justification.

+ +

The Rockefeller Syndicate operates under the control of the world +financial structure, which means that on any given day, all of its assets +could be rendered close to worthless by adroit financial manipulation. +This is the final control, which ensures that no one can quit the +organization. Not only would he be stripped of all assets, but he would +be under contract for immediate assassination. The Department of Justice +is well aware that the only "terrorists" operating in the United States +are the agents of the World Order, but they prudently avoid any mention +of this fact.

+ +

The world financial structure, far from being an unknown or hidden +organization, is actually well known and well defined. It consists of +the major Swiss Banks; the survivors of the old Venetian-Genoese banking +axis; the Big Five of the world grain trade; the British combine, +centered in the Bank of England and its chartered merchant banks, +functioning through the Rothschilds and the Oppenheimers and having +absolute control over their Canadian colony through the Royal Bank of +Canada and the Bank of Montreal, their Canadian lieutenants being the +Bronfmans, Belzbergs, Reichmanns and other financial operators; and the +colonial banking structure in the U.S., controlled by the Bank of England +through the Federal Reserve System; the Boston Brahmin families who made +their fortunes in the opium trade, including the Delanos and others and +the Rockefeller Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank, American Express, the present +form of the old Rothschild representatives in the U.S., which includes +Kuhn,Loeb Company and Lehman Brothers.

+ +

It is notable that the Rockefeller Syndicate is far down on the list of +the worlds financial structure. Why then is it of such importance? +Although it is not the crucial factor in financial decision in the +Western Hemisphere, it is the actual working control mechanism of the +American colony. The Rockefeller family themselves,like the +Morgans,Schiffs and Warburgs, have faded into insignificance, but the +mechanism created in their name roars along at full power,still +maintaining all of the functions for which it was organized. Since he +set up the Trilateral Commission, David Rockefeller has functioned as a +sort of international courier for the World Order, principally concerned +with delivering working instructions to the Communist bloc,either +directly, in New York or by traveling to the area. Laurence Rockefeller +is active in the operation of the Medical Monopoly, but his principal +interests are in operating various vacation spas in tropical areas. They +are the two survivors of the "Fortunate Five," the five sons of John D. +Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. died in an +institution in Tucson,Arizona and was hastily cremated. John D. +Rockefeller III died in a mysterious accident on a New York Parkway near +his home. Nelson Rockefeller, named after his grandfather, died in the +arms of a TV journalist. It was later revealed that he had also been in +the arms of another TV journalist at the same time; the death was hushed +up for many hours. It was generally believed that he ran afoul of his +Columbian drug connection, the disagreement hardly being trivial; it +involved several billion dollars in drug profits which had not been +properly apportioned. Winthrop Rockefeller died an alcoholic in the arms +of his black boy friend. He had been interviewed on television by Harry +Reasoner to explain his hasty move from New York to Arkansas. Winthrop +learned that his black boy friend, an Army sergeant who apparently taught +him the mysteries of drill,refused to live in New York. To celebrate this +alliance, Winthrop Rockefeller gave magnificiently to Negro +causes,including the Urban League building on East 48th Street in New +York. A plaque on the second floor notes that it was his gift; it might +well have stated "From Hadrian to his Antinous."

+ +

We do not wish to imply that the Rockefellers no longer have influence, +but that the major policy dictates of the Rockefeller Syndicate are +handed down by other caps, of whom they continue to be a visible force. +Through the person of David Rockefeller, the family is sometimes called +"the first family of the Soviet Union." Only he and Dr. Armand Hammer, +the moving force behind USTEC, have permanent permission to land their +private planes at the Moscow Airport. Others would suffer the fate of KAL +007. David Rockefeller's most significant trip to the Soviet Union may +have been the fateful day when he landed in Moscow, having been told to +inform Khrushchev that he was "through". The Russians are very health +conscious, and a scientist had sent information to Khrushchev that the +use of chemical fertilizers in the Soviet Union presented a threat to the +people. Khrushchev then announced a major change in the Soviet farm +policy, centering around a reduction in the use of chemicals. This was +upsetting to the head of the world's Chemical Fertilizer trust, David +Rockefeller, and he responded with a terse one word command, "Out".

+ +

Both the Rockefeller family fortune and the considerable portion set +aside in the foundations of the Rockefeller Syndicate are effectively +insulated against any type of government control. FORTUNE magazine noted +August ,1986, that John D. Rockefeller,Jr. had created trusts in 1934 +which now amounted to some $2.3 billion; another 200 million had been set +aside for the Abby Rockefeller branch. The five sons had trusts which in +1986 amounted to $2.1 billion. These trusts had originally amounted to +only $50 million each,showing the increase in their assets as well as +inflation during the ensuing half century. FORTUNE estimated the 1986 +total Rockefeller wealth as $3.5 billion of which $900 million was in +securities and real estate. They owned 45% of the Time Life +Building; Nelson Rockefeller's International Basic Economy Corporation had +been sold to a British company in 1980. For years, the Rockefeller family +had deliberately kept the rents low in its major holding, Rockefeller +Center, a $1.6 billion investment yielding an annual return of 1% . This +was a convenient manuever for tax purposes, and a good one at that.

+ +

Much of the Rockefeller wealth might be attributed to old John D.'s +rapacity and ruthlessness; its origins are indubitably based in his +initial financing from the National City Bank of Cleveland, which was +identified in Congressional reports as one of the three Rothschild banks +in the United States and by his later acceptance of the guidance of Jacob +Schiff of Kuhn,Loeb Company, who had been born in the Rothschild house in +Franfort and was now the principal Rothschild representive (but unknown +as such to the public) in the United States.

+ +

With the seed money from the National City Bank in Cleveland, old John D. +Rockefeller soon laid claim to the title of the "most ruthless American". +It is more than likely that it was this quality which persuaded the +Rothschilds to back him. Rockefeller realized early in the game that the +oil refinery business, which could offer great profits in a short time, +also was at the mercy of uncontrolled competition. His solution was a +simple one--crush all competition. The famous Rockefeller dedication to +total monopoly was simply a business decision. Rockefeller embarked on a +campaign of coercing all competing oil refineries out of business. He +attacked on a number of fronts, which is also a lesson to all would be +entrepreneurs. First, he would send a minion, not known to be working for +Rockefeller, with an offer to buy the competing refinery for a low +price,but offering cash. If the offer was refused, the competitor would +then come under attack from a competing refinery which greatly undercut +his price. He might also suffer a sudden strike at his refinery,which +would force him to shut down. Control of labor through unions has always +been a basic Rockefeller technique. Like the Soviet Union, they seldom +have labor trouble. If these techniques failed, Rockefeller would then +be saddened by a reluctant decision to use violence; beating the rival +workers as they went to and from their jobs, or burning or blowing up the +competing refinery.

+ +

These techniques convinced the Rothschilds that they had found their +man.They sent their personal representative,Jacob Schiff, to Cleveland to +help Rockefeller plan further expansion. At this time,the Rothschilds +controlled 95% of all railroad mileage in the United States,through the +J.P. Morgan Company and Kuhn Loeb Company,according to official +Department of Commerce figures for the year 1895. J.P. Morgan mentions in +his "Who's Who" listing that he controlled 50000 miles of U.S. +railways. Schiff worked out an elaborate rebate deal for +Rockefeller,through a dummy corporation,South Improvement Company. These +rebates ensured that no other oil company could survive in competition +with the Rockefeller firm. The scheme was later exposed,but by that time +Rockefeller had achieved a virtual monopoly of the oil business in the +U.S. The daughter of one of his victims, Ida Tarbell,whose father was +ruined by Rockefeller's criminal operations, wrote the first major expose +of the Standard Oil Trust. She was promptly denounced as a "muckracker" +by the poseur, Theodore Roosevelt, who claimed to be a "trustbuster." In +fact, he ensured the dominance of the Standard Oil Trust and other giant +trusts.

+ +

During the next half century, John D. Rockefeller was routinely +caricatured by socialist propagandists as the epitome of the ruthless +capitalist. At the same time, he was the principal financier of the +world Communist movement, through a firm called American International +Company. Despite the fact that the House of Rothschild had already +achieved world control,the sound and the fury was directed exclusively +against its two principal representatives,John D. Rockefeller and J.P. +Morgan. One of the few revelations of the actual state of affairs +appeared in TRUTH magazine,Dec 161912, which pointed out that "Mr. +Schiff is head of the great private banking house of Kuhn, Loeb Company +(I knew some of you bright readers would finally pick up that these names +are all attached to the greatest pharmaceutical firms in the world--even +into your very vitamin supplement business!), which represents the +Rothschild interests on your side of the Atlantic. He is described as a +financial strategist and has been for years the financial minister of the +great impersonal power known as Standard Oil." Note that the name of +Rockefeller was not mentioned in the quote.

+ +

Because of these concealed factors,it was a relatively simple matter for +the American public to accept the "fact" that the Rockefellers were the +preeminent power in your country. This myth was actually clothed in the +apparel of power,the Rockefeller Oil Trust becoming the +"military-industrial complex" which assumed political control of the +nation; the Rockefeller Medical Monopoly attained control of the health +care of the nation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, a web of affiliated +tax emempt creations, effectively controlled the religious and +educational life of the nation. The myth succeeded in its goal of +camouflaging the hidden rulers, the Rothschilds.

+ +

After Eustis Mullins and a few others, had been exposing this charade for +some twenty-five years a new myth began to be noised about in American +conservative circles, effectively propagated by active double agents. +This myth found a host of eager believers,because it heralded a growing +crack in the monolithic power which had been oppressing all the peoples +of the world. This "new" revelation was that a struggle to the death for +world power had developed between the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds. +According to this startling development, one faction or the other, +depending on which agent you were listening to, had gained control of the +Soviet Union and would use its power as the basis for achieving the +overthrow of the other faction. The sudden death of several members of +the Rockefeller family was cited as "proof" that such a struggle was +taking place, although no Rothschild is known to have succumbed during +this "war." This ignored the general understanding that Nelson +Rockefeller had been "eliminated" as the result of losing deposit slips +for several billion dollars of drugs from the Columbian cartel, or that +the other Rockefeller deaths showed no trace of a "Rothschild +connection."

+ +

Having maintained extensive files on this situation for several decades, +the writer (E.M.),could not believe anyone could be so misinformed as to +think that "the Rockefellers" were now trying to seize power from the +Rothschilds, at a time when the influence of members of the Rockefeller +family was already in great decline, their family finances being handled +by John J. McCloy, and other faithful retainers;none of the retainers +would have been willing to engage in a genuine power struggle, as they +were faceless managers who lived only for their weekly paycheck. They +had no ambitions of their own. Nevertheless, many hopeful Americans +grasped at the will-o-the-wisp notion the Rockefellers were now "good +Americans" who were willing to risk all to overthrow the Rothschilds. +Amazingly enough, this pernicious story persisted for almost a decade +before being relegated to the curiosities of history.

+ +

Like J.P. Morgan, who had begun his commercial career by selling the U.S. +Army some defective guns, the famous Hall carbine affair, John D. +Rockefeller also was a war profiteer during the Civil War;he sold +unstamped Harkness liquor to Federal troops at a high profit, gaining the +initial capital to embark on his drive for monopoly. His interest in the +oil business was a natural one; his father,William Rockefeller had been +"in oil" for years. William Rockefeller had become an oil entrepreneur +after salt wells at Tarentum, near Pittsburgh, were discovered in 1842 to +be flowing with oil. The owners of the wells,Samuel L. Kier, began to +bottle the oil and sell it for medicinal purposes. One of his earliest +wholesalers was William Rockefeller. The "medicine" was originally +labelled "Kier's Magic Oil". Rockefeller printed his own labels, using +"Rock Oil" or "Seneca Oil", Seneca being the name of a well known Indian +Tribe. Rockefeller achieved his greatest notoriety and his greatest +profits by advertising himself as "William Rockefeller, the Celebrated +Cancer Specialist". It is understandable that his grandsons would become +the controlling power behind the scenes of the world's most famous cancer +treatment center and would direct government funds and charitable +contributions to those areas which only benefit the Medical Monopoly. +William Rockefeller spared no claim in his flamboyant career. He +guaranteed "All Cases of Cancer Cured Unless They Are Too Far Gone". Such +were the healing powers that he attributed to his magic cancer cure that +he was able to retail it for $25 a bottle, a sum then equivalent to two +month's wages. The "cure" consisted of a few well known diuretics, which +had been diluted by water. This carnival medicine show barker could +hardly have envisioned that his descendants would control the greatest +and the most profitable Medical Monopoly in recorded history.

+ +

As an itinerant "carnie", a traveling carnival peddler, William +Rockefeller had chosen a career which interfered with developing a stable +family life. His son, John, rarely saw him, a circumstance which has +inspired some psychological analysts to conjecture that the absence of a +father figure or parental love may have contributed to John D. +Rockefeller's subsequent development as a money mad tyrant who plotted to +maim, poison and kill millions of his fellow Americans during almost a +century of his monopolistic operations and whose influence, reaching up +from the grave, remains the most dire and malignant presence in American +life. This may have been a contributing factor--however, it is also +possible that he was totally evil. It is hardly arguable that he is +probably one of the most Satanic figures in American history. Evil being +defined as anything that moves the spiritual aspect of beingness away +from God as influenced through another.

+ +

It has long been a truism that you can find a horse thief or two in any +prominent American family. In the Rockefeller family, it was more than +true in the case of William who seemed to have faithfully followed the +precepts of the Will of Canaan throughout his career, "love robbery, love +lechery". He fled from a number of indictments for horse stealing and +you know how serious that is, finally disappearing altogether as William +and Rockefeller and magically re-emerging as a Dr. William Levingston of +Philadelphia, a name which he retained for the rest of his life. An +investigative reporter at Joseph Pulitzer's New York World received a tip +that was followed up. The World then disclosed that William Avery +Rockefeller had died May 11, 1906 in Freeport, Illinois, where he was +interred in an unmarked grave as Dr. William Levingston.

+ +

William Rockefeller's vocation as a medicine man greatly facilitated his +preferred profession of horse thief. As one who planned to be in the +next county by morning, it was a simple matter to tie a handsome stallion +to the back of his wagon and head for the open road. It also played a +large part in his vocation as a woman-chaser; he was described as being +"woman-mad".

+ +

On June 281849, he was indicted for raping a hired girl in Cayuga,New +York; he later was found to be residing in Oswego, New York and was +forced once again to decamp for parts unknown. He had no difficulty in +financing his woman-chasing interests from the sale of his miraculous +cancer cure and from another product, his "Wonder Working Liniment", +which he offered at only two dollars a bottle. It consisted of crude +petroleum from which the lighter oils had been boiled away, leaving a +heavy solution of paraffin,lube oil and tar, which comprised the +"liniment". William Rockefeller's original miracle oil survived until +quite recently as a concoction called Nujol, consisting principally of +petroleum and peddled as a laxative. It was well known that Nujol was +merely an advertising sobriquet meaning "new oil", as opposed apparently, +to "old oil". Sold as an antidote to constipation, it robbed the body of +fat-soluble vitamins, it being a well-established medical fact that +mineral oil coated the intestine and prevented the absorption of many +needed vitamins and other nutritional needs. Its makers added carotine +as a sop to the health-conscious, but it was hardly worth the bother. +Nujol was manufactured by a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, +called Stanco, whose only other product, manufactured on the same +premises, was the famous insecticide, Flit.

+ +

Nujol was hawked from the Senate Office Building in Washington for years +during a more liberal interpretation of "conflict of interest". In this +case, it was hardly a conflict of interest, because the august +peddler,Senator Royal S. Copeland, never had any interests other than +serving the Rockefellers. He was a physician whom Rockefeller had +appointed as head of the New York State Department of Health and later +financed his campaign for the Senate. Copeland's frank display of +commercialism amazed even the most blase' Washington reporters.

+ +

He devoted his Senate career to a daily program advertising Nujol. A +microphone was set up in his Senate office each morning, the first order +of business being the Nujol program, for which he was paid $75000 a +year, an enormous salary in the 1930's and more than the salary of the +President of the United States. Senator Copeland's exploits earned him a +number of nicknames on Capital Hill. He was often called the Senator from +the American Medical Association, because of his enthusiastic backing for +any program launched by the AMA and Morris Fishbein. More realistically, +he was usually referred to as "the Senator from Standard Oil". He could +be counted on to promote any legislation devised for the greater profit +of the Rockefeller monopoly. During congressional debate on the Food and +Drug Act in 1938, he came under criticism from Congresswoman Leonor +Sullivan, who charged that Senator Copeland, a physician who handled the +bill on the Senate floor, frankly acknowledged during the debate that +soap was exempted from the law because the soap manufacturers, who were +the nation's largest advertisers, would otherwise join with other big +industries to fight the bill. Congresswoman Sullivan complained that, +"Soap was officially declared in the law not to be a cosmetic. The hair +dye manufacturers were given a license to market known dangerous +products, just so long as they placed a special warning on the label - +but what woman in a beauty parlor ever sees the label on the bulk +container in which hair dye is shipped?"

+ +

Just as the elder Rockefeller had spent his life in the pursuit of his +personal obsession, women, so his son John was equally obsessed, being +money-mad instead of woman-mad, totally committed to the pursuit of +ever-increasing wealth and power. However, the principal accomplishments +of the Rockefeller drive for power, the rebate scheme for monopoly, the +chartering of the foundations to gain power over American citizens,the +creation of the central bank, the Federal Reserve System, the backing of +the World Communist Revolution and the creation of the Medical Monoply, +all came from the Rothschilds or from their European employees.

+ +

We cannot find in the records of John D. Rockefeller that he originated +any of these programs. The concept of the tax exempt charitable +foundation originated with the Rothschild minion, George Peabody, in +1865. The Peabody Educational Foundation later became the Rockefeller +Foundation and many of you should recall that item. Not that you might +have been around then but it continues to inadvertently be referred to as +such.

+ +

It is unlikely that even the diabolical mind of John D. Rockefeller could +have conceived of this devious twist. A social historian has described +the major development of the late nineteenth century, when charitable +foundations and world Communism became important movements, as one of the +more interesting facets of history, perhaps equivalent to the discovery +of the wheel or fire. This new discovery was the concept developed by +the rats, who after all have rather highly developed intelligences, that +they could trap people by baiting traps with little bits of cheese. The +history of mankind since then has been the rats catching humans in their +traps. Socialism -- indeed, any government program -- is simply the rat +baiting the trap with a smidgeon of cheese and catching himself a human.

+ +

Congressman Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking and Currency +Committee, noted from the floor of Congress that the establishment of the +Rockefeller Foundation effectively insulated Standard Oil from +competition. The controlling stock had been removed from market +manipulation or possible buyouts by competitors. It also relieved +Standard Oil from most taxation, which then placed a tremendous added +burden on individual American taxpayers. Although a Rockefeller relative +by marriage, Senator Nelson Aldrich, Republican majority leader in the +Senate, had pushed the General Education Board charter through Congress, +the Rockefeller Foundation charter proved to be more difficult. +Widespread criticism of Rockefeller's monopolistic practices was heard, +and his effort to insulate his profits from taxation or takeover was seen +for what it was. The charter was finally pushed through in 1913 (the +significant Masonic numeral 13 -- 1913 was also the year of the +progressive income tax and of the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act). +Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, another Senator from Standard Oil +(there were quite a few), ramrodded the Congressional approval of the +charter. The charter was then signed by John D. Rockefeller, John D. +Rockefeller, Jr., Henry Pratt Judson, president of the Rockefeller +established University of Chicago,Simon Flexner, director of the +Rockefeller Institute, Starr Jameson, described in "Who's Who" as +"personal counsel to John D. Rockefeller in his benevolences", and +Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University.

+ +

The Rockefeller Oil Monopoly is now 127 years old, yet in 1911, the +Supreme Court, bowing to public outrage, had ruled that it had to be +broken up. The resulting companies proved to be no problem for the +Rockefeller interests. The family retained a two per cent holding in +each of the "new" companies, while the Rockefeller foundations took a +three per cent holding in each company. This gave them a five per cent +stock interest in each company; a one per cent holding in a corporation +is usually sufficient to maintain working control.

+ +

The involvement of the Rockefellers in promoting the World Communist +Revolution also developed from their business interests. There was never +any commitment to the Marxist ideology; like anything else, it was there +to be used. At the turn of the century, Standard Oil was competing +fiercely with Royal Dutch Shell for control of the lucrative European +market. Congressional testimony revealed that Rockefeller had sent large +sums of money to Lenin and Trotsky to instigate the Communist Revolution +in 1905. His banker, Jacob Schiff had previously financed the Japanese in +their war against Russia and had sent a personal emissary, George Kennan +to Russia to spend some twenty years in promoting revolutionary activity +against the Czar.

+ +

When the 1905 revolution failed, Lenin was placed "in storage" in +Switzerland until 1907. Trotsky was brought to the U.S., where he lived +rent free on the Standard Oil property at Bayonne,New Jersey, its tank +field. When the Czar abdicated, Trotsky was placed on a ship with three +hundred Communist revolutionaries from the Lower East Side of New York. +Rockefeller obtained a special passport for Trotsky from Woodrow Wilson +and sent Lincoln Steffens with him to make sure he was returned safely to +Russia. For traveling expenses, Rockefeller placed a purse containing +$10000 in Trotsky's pocket.

+ +

On April 131917, when the ship stopped in Halifax, Canadian Secret +Service officers immediately arrested Trotsky and interred him in Nova +Scotia. The case became an international cause celebre, as leading +government officials from several nations frantically demanded Trotsky's +release. The Secret Service had been tipped off that Trotsky was on his +way to take Russia out of the war, freeing more German armies to attack +Canadian troups on the Western Front.

+ +

Prime Minister Lloyd George hurriedly cabled orders from London to the +Canadian Secret Service to free Trotsky at once - they ignored him. +Trotsky was finally freed by the intervention of one of Rockefeller's +most faithful stooges, Canadian Minister Mackenzie King, who had long +been a "labor specialist" for the Rockefellers. King personally obtained +Trotsky's release and sent him on his way as the emissary of the +Rockefellers, commissioned to win the Bolshevik Revolution. Thus, Dr. +Armand Hammer, who loudly proclaimed his influence in Russia as the +friend of Lenin, has an insignificant claim compared to the role of the +Rockefellers in backing world Communism.

+ +

Although Communism, like other "isms", had origined with Marx's +association with the House of Rothschild, it enlisted the reverent +support of John D. Rockefeller because he saw Communism for what it is, +the ultimate monopoly, not only controlling the government, the monetary +system and all property, but also a monopoly which, like the corporations +it emulates, is self-perpetuating and eternal. It was the logical +progression from his Standard Oil monopoly.

+ +

An important step on the road to world monopoly was the most far-reaching +corporation invented by the Rothschilds. This was the international drug +and chemical cartel, I. G. Farben. Called "a state within a state" , it +was created in 1925 as Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbeinindustrie Aktien +Gesellschaft, usually known simply as I. G. Farben, which simply meant +"The Cartel". It had originated in 1904, when the six major chemical +companies in Germany began negotiations to form the ultimate cartel, +merging Badische Anilin,Bayer,Agfa,Hoechst,Weiler-ter-Meer, and +Greisheim-Electron. The guiding spirit,as well as the financing, came +from the Rothschilds, who were represented by their German banker, Max +Warburg of M. M. Warburg Company, Hamburg. He later headed the German +Secret Service during World War I and was personal financial advisor to +the Kaiser.

+ +

When the Kaiser was overthrown, after losing the war, Max Warburg was not +exiled with him to Holland; instead he became the financial advisor to +the new government.

+ +

Monarchs may come and go, but the real power remains with the bankers. +While representing Germany at the Paris Peace Conference, Max Warburg +spent pleasant hours renewing family ties with his brother, Paul Warburg, +who, after drafting the Federal Reserve Act at Jekyll Island, had headed +the U.S. banking system during the war. He was in Paris as Woodrow +Wilson's financial advisor.

+ +

I. G. Farben soon had a net worth of six billion marks, controlling some +five hundred firms. Its first president was Professor Carl Bosch. During +the period of the Weimar Republic, I.G. Farben officials,seeing the +handwriting, began a close association with one called Adolf Hitler, +supplying much needed funds and political influence.

+ +

The success of the I.G. Farben cartel had aroused the interest of other +industrialists. Henry Ford was favorably impressed and set up a German +branch of Ford Motor Company. Forty percent of the stock was purchased by +I.G. Farben. I.G. Farben then established an American subsidiary called +American I.G., in cooperation with Standard Oil of New Jersey. Its +directors included Walter Teagle, President of Standard Oil, Paul Warburg +of Kuhn,Loeb Company and Edsel Ford, representing the Ford interests. +John Foster Dulles, for the law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, became the +attorney for I.G., frequently traveling between New York and Berlin on +cartel business. His law partner, Arthur Dean, is now director of the +$40 million Teagle Foundation which was set up before Teagle's death. +Like other fortunes, it had become part of the network.

+ +

=============Continued in Rockefeller Syndicate Part 2===================

+ +

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+Skolnick COMMENTARY #001 +========================

+ +

Hi. Sherman Skolnik, Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, +9800 Oglesby.

+ +

At one time the Pope owned three major banks in America: New +York, Chicago and San Francisco.

+ +

In New York, St. Peter's banker, Michael Saddona (sp?) ran the +Franklin National Bank as a huge gambling device and money +laundry. Result? The bank collapsed in 1974 and was taken over by +a group of European banks with the Vatican losing *part* of their +grip.

+ +

Saddona was sent to an American prison for fraudulent banking. +Later he was extradited to Italy on more charges. He began +talking too much. The Pope silenced him in an Italian jail -- +*murdered* with a poisoned cup of coffee. (By the way, the same +method they used to murder Chicago mayor Harold Washington, a +poisoned cup of coffee, and replaced him with the Vatican's man +of trust, Richie Daley.)

+ +

Saddona and his confederate successors also ran, for the Pope, +the Continental Bank of Chicago. All the Catholic churches of the +Western Hemisphere run their money through that bank. After all, +the archbishop of Chicago is also the treasurer, for the Church, +for all of North America, Central America and South America.

+ +

In the early 1980s, Continental Bank, through their holding +company owed some $20 billion to the Japanese, including their +mafia, the yakusa (sp?) who had put in slight capital. +Continental could not repay, so the Japanese in May, 1984, +started a run on the bank and its holding company, Continental +Illinois. Result? A consortium of banks, headed by J.P. Morgan +and Company, took over -- with the Pope losing *part*, but not +all, of his control.

+ +

The Morgan banks are the front for British royalty and the Queen, +who for over 100 years always had a director sitting to supervise +Continental. Through Continental Bank, however, the Vatican +continued to oversee Panama's General Noriega, and his joint, +secret business deals with George Bush. So, when the U.S. invaded +Panama, Noriega naturally sought refuge in the Vatican Embassy +and branch of the Vatican Bank. The U.S. military used +psychological warfare, including super hard-rock music to drive +him out.

+ +

The Justice Department's record grabbers have descended on +Continental Bank, seeking to destroy incriminating records that +would put President Bush in the same jail cell with his CIA +business partner, General Noriega. By the way, Panama, under +General Noriega was the only country in the Western Hemisphere +run by a dark-skinned person. Noriega was popular with the bulk +of those *in* Panama, who are people of color. It was only the +small, white aristocracy *there* that wanted him removed. They +used the branches of worldwide banks there to skim off loot from +dope and gun running. Noriega was really just a small-time, semi-independent tyrant.

+ +

Helping supervise Continental Bank has been the Vatican's man of +trust, Chicago federal appeals judge Walter Cummings (sp?), for +many years also chief judge and major stockholder of the bank. +Judge Cummings steers cases in his court to fellow banker/judges +-- which is most of them.

+ +

For many years the major owners of Bank of America and their +holding company were the Jesuits and the Vatican, and their long-time cronies, the Rothschilds (sp?). Like Continental Bank up +until 1984, they owed tens of billions of dollars to the Japanese +and the yakusa, who own most of the other sizeable banks in +California. In the late 1980s, Bank of America was faced with a +run, so they have quietly given over most of the control to the +Japanese.

+ +

Although the Pope has lost much of the control of the three banks +in America, the pontiff continues as the major owner in nuclear +power utility firms, including Commonwealth Edison and Florida +Power.

+ +

See us on Chicago cable channel 21, 9 pm Monday evening, Aug. +23rd.

+ +

Play it again. Corruption in the federal prosecutors +office. (312) 731-1505

+ +

New message Sunday, we change it several times a week. Donations +appreciated.

+ +

Citizens Committee to Clean Up the Courts +9800 South Oglesby +Chicago, Illinois 60617

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The number I called was (312) 731-1100. I have an alternate +listing for them at (312) 731-1505.

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #002 +========================

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi. Sherman Skolnick (sp?), Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the +Courts, 9800 Oglesby (sp?).

+ +

Some years ago the federal government set up a special +[inaudible] group. For two-and-a-half years they met in secret at +Iron Mountain, New York. Their findings were called "Report from +Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace." +Their document, by some of the leading thinkers, was suppressed. +Later, it was printed in a limited edition, with the *names* +removed. Some were shocked by what they read.

+ +

Throughout history, permanent peace was dangerous to established +governments. War, and the threat of war, are the principal +organizing force for most societies. They divert attention from +*other* economic and political problems. War keeps the factories +going, wasting government manpower and material that would +otherwise be of surplus. Peace brings unemployment, the collapse +of prices of goods and property, and knocks down the government. +In simple terms, war prevents [economic] depression. (By the way, +sooner or later, whatever nation loses a war is overthrown. So it +has been all the centuries. The American ruling circles lost the +Vietnam War. The aftermath is bound to scatter the rulers to the +winds.)

+ +

As the report says, in Europe, over the years, the typical +standing army consisted of troops unfit for employment in +commerce, industry or agriculture, led by officers unfit to +practice any legitimate profession or to conduct a business +enterprise. A large standing army is a form of social welfare +program; a form of control of the population. War, and the threat +of war, keep all levels of society busy. The newspapers are kept +rich reporting it. Pundits are employed to mouth off. Wars speed +up so-called scientific development. War goods do not have to +show a profit or be the lowest price. In permanent peace there +are vast cutbacks in research and development. And yes, wars kill +off surplus population; young men with no good job waiting for +them.

+ +

The [Iron Mountain] report points out that the war system makes +stable government of society possible. The end of war means the +end of national sovereignty.

+ +

Without an identified enemy, why would the CIA have +a large secret budget to assassinate political leaders and +overthrow other governments the White House does not like?

+ +

To promote their secret agenda, the CIA has taken over a part of +the savings and loan system to funnel men and money for "dirty +tricks" here and overseas.

+ +

The CIA likewise manipulates the federal bankruptcy courts to +grab up companies for use as covert action fronts. In Chicago, +this is done with the help of foreign intelligence agencies, such +as Mossad. Chicago bankruptcy trustee William A. Brand (sp?) jr. +is a top honcho of the CIA and other spy shops.

+ +

In the name of national security, the mass media have been +*ordered* to "soft pedal" or "stay shut" about spy agencies doing +such things. The CIA involvement in bankruptcy court should have +made headlines as the number one item on the evening TV news. Yet +not one word is said by the liars and whores of the press.

+ +

Play it again: Fermilab and weather modification. (312) 731-1505.

+ +

New message Monday; we change it several times a week. Donations +appreciated. Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 S. +Oglesby (sp?), Chicago, 60617.

+ +

For the latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political +assassinations and the news media. On 24 hours. + +

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #003 +========================

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi. Sherman Skolnik, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, +9800 Oglesby.

+ +

The mass media cannot tell the truth on key issues. Why? Well, in +part because of the financial hangups. Also because they are the +propaganda horn of the ruling families, who cannot level with the +American worker. So, you are not told the story behind the story.

+ +

Examples:

+ +

1) On the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement +[NAFTA] hangs the U.S. banking system. Large, money-center banks +have loaned Mexico billions of dollars. Will they be able to pay +back? (Such as Bank America, once owned principally by the +Vatican and the Rothschilds, and large owners now being the +Yakasa [sp?], the Japanese mafia.) Also loaning big to Mexico +have been Chase Manhattan and Citicorp, both owned by the +Rockefellers, *and* Chicago's Continental Bank, owned by a +combination of the Vatican, the British royals and, since 1984, +by the Yakasa. (Note: Financially interlocked with Continental +Bank are multi, multi-millionaire judges on Chicago's Federal +Court of Appeals, including judge Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, a man of trust +for the Pope, and judge Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx head of a trust for the +commodity gambling cartel.)

+ +

To preserve profits, big business needs cheap labor.

+ +

2) What is behind the strange death of White House aide Vincent +Foster? German authorities are investigating a ring of assassins +who reportedly murdered Foster. The autopsy has to be doctored up +to conceal 2 bullet holes in the back of Foster's head. The press +says he was, uh.... a suicide. *Oh, yeah?*

+ +

As to the motives, Foster and his former law partner, first lady +Hillary, were being scrutinized by the Federal Reserve -- no +angels themselves. As part of the highly corrupt Rose [sp?] law +firm of Little Rock, they are accused of money laundering work in +the Mideast and Asia. Foster had an appointment with the +President. He never went to it. Sources contend Foster knew about +an earth-shaking situation involving the Mideast and previous +presidents, like Bush. Supposedly, Clinton did not know, *but* +once informed by Foster, "Sludge Willy" would have had to take +action or be impeached. You can see why Foster was "suicided."

+ +

Those on the cutting edge of White House information realize +Clinton has more "skeletons" than George Bush *and* Clinton's +scandals overlap those of Bush.

+ +

3) The story behind the dope business is squelched. The ultra-rich profit from the dope traffic through money-center banks. The +book *The Underground Empire* by Mills [C. Wright Mills (?)] +documents how the dope enforcement authorities and the espionage +agencies are the key players in promoting the dope business.

+ +

4) The U.S. military is using Soviet helicopters, such as at Air +Force bases. Uh, they claim it is just for "military exercises." +*Oh, yeah?*

+ +

In case of a financial emergency in America, will Russian +mercenary troops be used to round up American political activists +and drag them off to remote prisons? Huh?!? (Some call them +concentration camps.)

+ +

And what can *you* do? Well, call up your favorite news fakers +and *demand* that they tell us the real stuff.

+ +

(312) 731-1100 is our main message. Donations appreciated. +Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, +Chicago, 60617.

+ +

The latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political +assassinations and the news media. + +

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #004 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnik, Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, +9800 Oglesby.

+ +

In Chicago, getting hotter and hotter is a scandal involving the +federal prosecutors office here.

+ +

A federal grand jury is considering charges against assistant +federal prosecutor William R. Hogan(?), jr. and others. According +to testimony already brought out in related matters in court, +Hogan procured perjured testimony in his prosecution of the El +Rukn dope and murder gang. As a result, several federal judges +have already put back on the street some of these convicted +terrorists!

+ +

These [unclear], dopers and killers want to be restored to their +position in the gang. Result? Various murders. Also, federal +grand jury witnesses are being blown away. Such as? On Christmas +Eve, '93, a businessman was assassinated on the corner of 87th +and Stony Island, on the south side. The area is not the usual +turf of the El Rukns, but the El Rukns have let it be known that +anyone who witnessed the hit will be likewise dead.

+ +

At the time, the press took no interest in the murder of this +potential key witness. The federal authorities are not protecting +the federal grand jury witnesses. Why? Well, one reason is the +new U.S. attorney here wants the matter restricted to perjury.

+ +

Yet Hogan and others in the office also reportedly took bribes +not to prosecute criminals in other cases. As known to the +Justice Department, there is a ring of some 6 lawyers and non-lawyers who have bribed and blackmailed federal prosecutors here. +Such as in the criminal case against officers and others of +American Heritage savings and loan. Corruptly let go was +Christian Henning(?) jr., nephew of Paul Marchinkas(?) -- head of +the Vatican Bank and [alleged] mafia money-washer.

+ +

Among those in the ring are reportedly known fixers such as +Edward J. Lasniak(?) and Victor Katchitory(?). Failure to protect +federal grand jury witnesses is not new. As we pointed out in a +similar case in the federal district court here, 41 federal grand +jury witnesses were murdered in 1991 and 1992 during the special +federal grand jury hearing charges of theft of high technology by +top officials in the Reagan and Bush administrations. Known as +the Inslaw affair, it was covered up by former federal district +judge Nicholas Bowa(?), a defendant in the civil suit charged +with obstructing justice. High level treason was committed in +selling the technology to sworn enemies of the United States.

+ +

In the Inslaw case, many of the grand jury witnesses were +murdered -- get this -- by an FBI agent working for Bowa and +identified, by us, in court.

+ +

In the Hogan affair, some suspect Chicago police are being +blackmailed by corrupt federal officials here to drag their feet +in investigating the murder of the federal grand jury witnesses. +The Hogan mess has the potential of wrecking the entire federal +bureaucracy here, implicating corrupt federal judges here, IRS +and customs officials and federal prosecutors -- all reportedly +involved in an apparatus known as the "Dope Underground" +involving runaway corruption not limited to narcotics. [CfD -- It +may well be that history is repeating itself here: Just as +federal prohibition laws during the 1920s led to widespread +institutional corruption, so too the so-called "war on drugs" +seemingly has given us similar side-effects.]

+ +

Among those that should be facing indictments should be Hogan's +supervisors, including Thomas [unclear], Joan Stafford(?), and +former chief federal prosecutor himself Fred Boreman(?) -- as +well as top IRS officials here who are secret partners in various +criminal enterprises.

+ +

Some indictments are expected on or about January 20th.

+ +

In Chicago, see us on cable TV, channel 21, 9 pm every Monday +evening in January.

+ +

Play it again: Bagmen and Fixers. [312] 731-1505. New message +Monday; we change it several times a week. Donations appreciated. +Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, +Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the latest on courts, banks, +espionage agencies, political assassinations... + +

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #005 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnik, Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, +9800 Oglesby.

+ +

So far, the press has stonewalled a major bribery story. This is +about the Bank of Criminals and Conspirators International. BCCI +supposedly went under in 1991. A high official of the bank turned +over to the Bank of England an important document showing how +BCCI bought its way into the U.S. government by seeking to have +the rogue bank spread out over this nation. Funny thing: the hot +paper was kept as an open record for 30 days. An international +news group retrieved it and verified that receiving bribes were +108 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and 28 U.S. +Senators. The press lords, however, killed the story. So, the +details were given to us and we pledged never to reveal the names +of the helpful journalists. Our story about it appeared +exclusively in a conservative publication. No sizeable news group +would go *near* the explosive details.

+ +

Six Chicago commodities brokers were the vehicles of bribery. +Such as London Affiliates(?), reportedly including CapCom(?) and +GNP(?) Commodities. CapCom reportedly was being reviewed by top +officials of Telecommunications, Inc. [TCI] of Denver and +Chicago, the major cable monster.

+ +

BCCI and TCI also own about 16% of Turner Broadcasting and a +sizeable hunk of the parent of ABC News, and worked a corrupt +group of deals with the bigwigs at CBS.

+ +

So, the press fakers were afraid to death of the story. Also used +as money launderies to bribe both houses of Congress were the +Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. At +one time, the Chicago exchanges were the major givers of gifts to +Congress. So, representatives and senators would fly into Chicago +-- supposedly to give a speech -- and get their "honorarium" and, +at the same time, secret trading accounts were opened up for +them.

+ +

As to them [secret trading accounts(?)], the commodity records +show the loss in Chicago *but* a huge profit in the name of a +strong man, or nominee, at the London end. The profits were +withdrawn, so the lawmakers either got the bribes or were being +blackmailed with record footprints showing they were paid off. +Either way, BCCI had Congress "on the hook".

+ +

Early in '94, a top former BCCI official agreed to be extradited +to the United States to stand trial for massive fraud. So now, +the press admits he has direct knowledge of the bribery of U.S. +government officials.

+ +

By the way, the press are liars when they say BCCI is defunct. +Reportedly continuing their secret dealings is Chemical(?) +[Clinical(?)] Bank Group made up of shadowy types from Atlanta +and Chicago. They have bought out known criminal money launderies +here, such as First National Bank of Cicero, originally operated +by Paul Marchinkas(sp?), long-time head of the mafia/CIA-linked +Vatican Bank.

+ +

Some contend all this diabolical data has been compiled by the +Dutch and the British, who have a long-standing scheme to +overthrow the U.S. government, explode the U.S. Constitution, +*and* exploit the U.S. workforce without [unclear], without +health benefits, and without decent wages.

+ +

You heard it right here: the related, exclusive details, such as +the Androchetti(sp?) Affair; the $50 million Resolution Trust +Corporation contingency fund which disappeared from Chicago and +ended up to try to cover up Clinton's financial scandals in +Arkansas; Bill and Hillary Clinton and BCCI; and the Mena, +Arkansas, airport affair; dope and gun running; and...

+ +

In Chicago, see us on cable TV, channel 21, 9 pm [CST] every +Monday evening in January [1994]. Play it again: the Daley family +and crooked City Hall, (312) 731-1505. New message Thursday; we +change it several times a week. Donations appreciated. Citizens' +Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, +[Illinois] 60617. The latest on courts, banks, espionage +agencies, political assassinations, and the news media. On 24 +hours a day... + +

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #006 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnik, Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, +9800 Oglesby.

+ +

Cynics have their own way of explaining things. Such as? Clinton +returns from Europe amid a growing scandal called "Whitewater." +He mutters to himself, "I have to have a distraction." A few +hours later, a devastating earthquake shakes California. +Conspiracy theorists shout, "Ah-HAH! I told you so! Scientists +now have a way of triggering off earthquakes!"

+ +

This may just be a fanciful way of expressing it. Maybe Mother +Nature just handed the President a change of subject at a +convenient time, on a national holiday, Dr. King's birthday.

+ +

Sooner or later, Clinton may find his credibility has +disappeared. Can a lawyer-liar continue nevertheless to be the +front man, supposedly running the country, huh?! Is he going to +go along with the Whitewater mess because his bosses, the ultra-rich, [unclear] since he was blackmailable? Others think the +American Murder Association [A.M.A.] and the health insurance +cartel want Hillary and Bill to go.

+ +

Under the 25th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Gore would +become President and there is a reported deal to make Jay +Rockefeller Vice President -- all by appointment, without an +election.

+ +

Another possibility is to declare, *or create*, a national +emergency and invoke little-known provisions to suspend the +Constitution! If so, General Shelley Kasivilli(sp?) would step up +to the White House microphone and say, "I'm in charge here." He +has been selected to be the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. +Sarcastic folks expect to see him on TV standing -- now get this +-- next to a banner of the Nazi era, depicting his family's pro-Hitler background.

+ +

A change in the White House most likely would cause a stock +market crash and be the basis for the so-called "national +emergency."

+ +

Little known is the fact key federal judges around the country +wear two hats: as judge and as selected officers for the Federal +Emergency Management Agency [FEMA]. As FEMA operatives, they +would automatically refuse *habeus corpus* and other +constitutional rights to political activists on the National +Security Index. Computer-generated arrest warrants for such +outspoken folks are already waiting. Concentration camps have +been built in remote areas, including off-shore Alaska.

+ +

The inside, sinister joke is the mass media already act as one +trumpet for the Rockefellers and their ilk. The media fakers +don't need a FEMA directive to censor and falsify the news. Why +they do it every day right now!

+ +

The press whores have never allowed a candid, public discussion +of the series of Executive Orders, the blueprints for +dictatorship. In a so-called "national emergency," the so-called +"head of the country" would issue martial law decrees; taking +over the farms, the factories, communications, the courts, and +the economy of the country.

+ +

FEMA has computerized, crisis-action programs to control all +this. Some contend it is unconstitutional, *but* with the courts +closed... uh, after all, who would publicly proclaim the illegal +nature of these decrees?

+ +

In Chicago, among the FEMA operatives are [allegedly] 7th circuit +federal appeals chief judge Richard Posner(sp?). He's also a +spokesman for Rockefeller's oil-soaked University of Chicago. He +is a dictator even on a quiet day!

+ +

Another "FEMA Hitler" is [allegedly] Chicago federal district +judge Paul E. Plunkett(sp?).

+ +

To save the Constitution, some say, "Keep our crooked President, +right or wrong."

+ +

In Chicago, see us on cable TV, channel 21, 9 pm every Monday +evening in January.

+ +

Play it again: The FBI and the CIA Dirty Games. [312] 731-1505. +New message Monday; we change it several times a week. Donations +appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 +South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the latest on +courts, banks, espionage agencies, political assassinations...

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #007 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnik, Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, +9800 Oglesby.

+ +

A Chicago federal judge is linked to the White House scandals.

+ +

THE BACKGROUND

+ +

Federal district judge George W. Lindbergh (435-5355) has a +strange business career. He has been a top official of the +Chicago-based John Reed Associates (polygraph and security work). +His major clients have been the Central Intelligence Agency and +the National Security Agency. Lindbergh does frequent "lie box" +work for these espionage agencies. He is an insider.

+ +

His firm also did work for the Paradise Island gambling cartel, +run by former top Justice Department officials in the Bahamas. +(They headed up, previously, the organized crime section of the +Justice Department.) According to the book *Spooks*, by Jim +Hogan, the bridge there (that is, the toll bridge) is owned by +Richard Nixon.

+ +

Clinton has used Bobby Ray Inman as a sort of "kamikaze pilot" in +appointing him Secretary of Defense. Clinton pushed the retired +admiral into a political suicide mission. Against his will, Inman +would've had to be ratified by a senate committee prepared to ask +him about a lot of things -- some relating to George Bush and +Inman's role as deputy director of the CIA. Inman quit just after +the treasonous October Surprise deal by Bush and Reagan. Inman +was also once head of the "Puzzle Palace" (the name for the +National Security Agency).

+ +

The murder of journalist Danny Casolero also involved the killing +of two NSA employees aiding Danny write about "The Octopus" (his +name for the giant conspiracies, which were treasonous, involving +October Surprise, Iran-Contra, and the notorious Inslaw affair +(hushed up when one NSA employee was reportedly found murdered in +the same hotel room where they found Danny)).

+ +

Inman withdrew his name as Secretary of Defense when he realized +he was pushed by Clinton to blow apart Bush and other traitors to +their country. Inman had been director of Faranti(sp?) +International Signal Controls of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which +reportedly was used, by Bush, to supply highly-secret military +items, of an exotic nature, to Iraq. Used, was Bank Lavoro(sp?), +Atlanta and BCCI, the rogue bank. Also used were savings and +loans tied to CIA.

+ +

All this and *more* are involved, in one way or another, in the +Andrew Cetti(sp?) [Androchetti(?)] affair -- some 8 state and +federal cases.

+ +

FUNNY THING

+ +

Regardless of which judge starts out with this 10-year-old +litigation [i.e. Andrew Cetti affair], the cases end up, by some +mysterious process, to be transferred to judge Lindbergh! -- the +CIA/NSA expert who invokes illegal proceedings to try to hush up +all the mafia/CIA bank links (including Vatican Bank, run by Paul +Marchinkas(sp?), also the force behind the First National Bank of +Cicero).

+ +

(...and that bank in Cicero was taken over by the successor to +BCCI. *And* Marchinkas' nephew and that bank are among the +defendants in the Andrew Cetti affair...)

+ +

Also a party to the cases is Household Bank, successor to the CIA +front headquartered in Australia, the Nugan-Hand(sp?) Bank.

+ +

You can see why judge Lindbergh is trying to hush all of this up. +Judge Lindbergh's specialty is to tell somebody to inform him +what is involved -- and then he calls the witness a liar even +though no one disputes the testimony! What, has he got a "lie +box" right under his bench, huh?!

+ +

In Chicago, see us on cable TV, channel 21, 9 pm [CST] every +Monday evening in January [1994]. Play it again: FBI/CIA Dirty +Business, (312) 731-1505. New message Sunday; we change it +several times a week. Donations appreciated. Citizens' Committee +to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] +60617. The latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political +assassinations, and the news media. On 24 hours a day... + +

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #008 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnik, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, +9800 Oglesby.

+ +

A major news agency has keys to the future of the Clinton White +House.

+ +

THE DETAILS

+ +

Hillary Rodham Clinton has been a law partner of Vincent Foster, +jr., who became a White House aide. Earlier, Foster and Hillary, +as lawyers, arranged for Bank Lavoro, Atlanta, and their twin, +Bank of Criminals and Conspirators International [BCCI], to get +$4 billion to Saddam Hussein for weapons, including nuclear -- +all disguised as U.S. agriculture loans, laundered through the +[unclear] banking group and the Stevens(sp?) family, financially +interlocked with the Clintons.

+ +

Hillary, and Foster, were attorneys fronting for these Little +Rock bankers -- largest bond brokers outside of Wall Street. The +role of Foster was more than just personal lawyer for Bill and +his wife. Foster was also Hillary's lover -- sort of balancing +off Bill's episodes with the mistress. After all, all is fair in +love and war.

+ +

The Resolution Trust Corporation [RTC] needed a new chief. +Strange, but President Clinton, a purported Democrat, in July '93 +appointed a George Bush Republican, Stanley Tate, to be RTC boss.

+ +

Clinton was blackmailed into it.

+ +

Yet Tate threatened a top-to-bottom corruption cleanup of this +S&L salvage agency [i.e. RTC]. A week later, Foster was murdered +by three hit men from a German base.

+ +

A senate committee stonewalled Tate's ratification, and he +withdrew his name late in November '93.

+ +

And thereafter escalated the Madison Guaranty S&L mess and the +Whitewater Development scandal. In Foster's office were +incriminating records which were grabbed up to whitewash Hillary. +It is an unanswered question whether Bill himself knew how Foster +and Hillary siphoned off some $47 million from the S&L.

+ +

To save Hillary from possible prison, Bill had key records +suppressed and announced that Foster was a suicide. *Oh, yeah*?!

+ +

A fake, crumpled-up, so-called "suicide note" was later, +supposedly, found in Foster's suitcase.

+ +

Bill and Hillary, by covering up the murder, have become +accomplices to it -- a serious crime. (And some may think that +what was cruel of her was to cover up the murder of her lover +just to save herself.)

+ +

The major news group is deciding whether to go with these +details, all documented to their satisfaction.

+ +

(AND: A close relative of Vice-President Albert Gore has said +that he [Gore] will become President soon.)

+ +

But they had problems: +1) The news group's stock has already been slipping. At the same +time, release of this timely story would cause a crack in the +stock market and a fall in the news group's shares. So, they +hesitate -- at least at this time, anyway; +2) But -- if they don't go with this story [that] they already +have, they would lose credibility with other, competing news +groups [who] may run with it; and +3) The ultra-rich got what they want in pushing Clinton, a +relative unknown and a perceived misfit, into high office. So why +wreck him now? Well, because it opens a window of emergency and +opportunity, and the ultra-rich can complete their rotten agenda +of repression and hardship inflicted on the ordinary people.

+ +

(312)731-1100 is our main message. Donations appreciated. +Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, +Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the latest on courts, banks, +espionage agencies, political assassinations, and the news media. + +

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #009 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnik, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, +9800 Oglesby.

+ +

More about the strange death of White House aide, Vincent Foster, +jr.:

+ +

Hillary Rodham Clinton and her law partner, Foster, worked on +clandestine deals for the Bank of Conspirators and Criminals +International [BCCI]. Interlocked with the American CIA, the +French CIA and other international spy shops like Israel's +Mossad, the bank washed funds for dope, guns, the bribery of +public officials, and political assassinations.

+ +

With Foster also as Hillary's lover, Bill Clinton was isolated +from what was going on. Foster found out that an American murder +squad had been transferred from CIA to the Justice Department. +Specializing in domestic "wipe outs," the squad was more bloody +than those of Guatemala and Brazil. Unknown to many, the U.S. +dealt with political opponents and activists just like they do in +a Banana Republic!

+ +

Reputed murder squad chieftain has been Colonel Wayne Adrian +Rich. His position as executive coordinator in the Justice +Department gives him more actual power than the U.S. Attorney +General.

+ +

(Yes, we know, it's unconstitutional to have a military officer +as the actual head of the Justice Department.)

+ +

Part of "the squad" reportedly included Chicago FBI agent Mike +"Chucky" Peters, identified in federal court records here as +indicated in the murder of some 41 federal grand jury witnesses +in the notorious Inslaw affair -- covered up by former federal +district judge Nicholas J. Bowa(sp?) as special Justice +Department counsel. (Bowa has been a defendant in an unpublicized +federal suit here on the issue.)

+ +

Among those bumped off by "the squad" have been journalist Danny +Casolero, working on a book on what he called "the Octopus" -- +interfacing October Surprise, Iran-contra, Inslaw, BCCI, Bank +Lavoro, bankruptcy court bribery, and other bloody deals.

+ +

Another victim was Chicago bankruptcy auctioneer Wallace +Lieberman(sp?). According to accusations in the court record, he +was "rubbed out" by FBI agent Peters.

+ +

"The squad" also bombed the airplane, killing Gary Caradori, +private eye investigating high-level pedophile and porno rings +implicating top government officials in Omaha, Chicago, and +Washington, D.C. [see part 2 of today's "CfD"].

+ +

White House aide Foster never lived to keep an appointment he +made with President Clinton -- to warn him that Clinton himself +was a possible assassination target *and* that Clinton should do +something about the murder squad or eventually face impeachment.

+ +

Knowledgeable investigators contend that Clinton's problem is he +does not know *that he does not know* about all this.

+ +

"The squad" murdered Foster and, on purpose, bungled up the scene +so as to try to "finger" Hillary and Bill for covering up the +murder of Hillary's lover and law partner.

+ +

The press fakers, assets of CIA, keep calling it "suicide." Now, +to try to incriminate the President, a major news magazine is +pressuring a Virginia state prosecutor to focus on Bill and +Hillary as accomplices to murder by covering it up. Leading the +attack has been Chicago congressman Henry Hyde, head of CIA's +"black budget" *and* having more actual power than the director +of Central Intelligence.

+ +

Related matters: the murders of CIA officials outside their +headquarters *and* Admiral Bobby Ray Inman acting goofy, on +purpose, to withdraw his name as Secretary of Defense.

+ +

Clinton may escape by a war scare. [CfD -- Skolnik was saying +he had information suggesting an imminent war scare on a +recent broadcast of Radio Free America. The broadcast occurred +shortly before the bombing in Sarajevo.]

+ +

And so, it's an old story: an innocent husband wrecked by an +unfaithful, conniving wife. *And*, unless he goes public, it's +"bye-bye, Bill." It would be also "bye-bye, Hillary," huh?

+ +

See us on cable TV in Chicago, channel 21. 9 pm [cst] Monday +evenings, February 14, 21, and 28.

+ +

Play it again: The Rotten *Chicago Tribune*, (312)731-1505. New +message Monday; we change it several times a week. Donations +appreciated. Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 +South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the latest on +courts, banks, espionage agencies, political assassinations, and +the news media. + +

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #010 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, +9800 Oglesby.

+ +

More about the Clinton White House scandals.

+ +

Some contend White House aide Vincent Foster, jr. committed +suicide *in* the White House and the body was removed and planted +in a park in Virginia. If so, whoever moved the body used the +opportunity to make it look like he was murdered. So the +President and his wife would be guilty of being accomplices to +murder by their coverup. [??] Others contend the body shows +Foster was apparently murdered and the body delivered to the park +and positioned so as to cast suspicion on the White House.

+ +

Either way, Clinton has stonewalled the matter and arranged to +hold back the release of the autopsy.

+ +

Foster and Hillary were not only lovers but also law partners, +and worked on clandestine deals for the Bank of Criminals and +Conspirators International [BCCI] -- involving money-washing for +domestic and overseas political murders, gun-running, and dope-trafficking. Military CIA officers, posing as Justice Department +officials, have twisted matters around so as to finger Bill +Clinton.

+ +

But Clinton, after all, is no angel.

+ +

The mass media have soft-pedalled reports that Hillary's law firm +has shredded records relating to the President and first lady's +daily financial business. Some in the press are also slanting +reports so as to blame Hillary alone, as if "Sludge Willy" is +himself innocent. *Oh, yeah?!*

+ +

Left out of the press are key details:

+ +

ITEM: Some $47 million is missing from the Clinton's Arkansas +rotten dealings -- plundering an S&L, funneling money through +real estate firms, and other money [unclear].

+ +

ITEM: Clinton's nominee for head of the firm the S&L bailout +racket called "Resolution Trust Corporation" [RTC] wanted to +clean up S&L corruption. *But*, he withdrew his name. S&Ls in +Illinois, Texas, and Colorado have been plundered by CIA +operatives and left bankrupt.

+ +

ITEM: The RTC in Chicago transferred some $50 million from a +little-known contingency fund here to Arkansas... the attempt +to cover up the Arkansas embezzlement done by the Clintons and +their criminal gang.

+ +

The fund was administered for RTC by Household Bank as part of +their merger with an S&L in the Chicago area. The head of the +parent firm, Household International, an expert on financials, +was murdered in April '93. Household is a successor to Nugan-Hand(sp?) Bank, the worldwide CIA front headquartered in +Australia.

+ +

ITEM: Federal judges in Chicago have "stood on their head" to try +to cover up the disappearance of the RTC fund here and the +transfer to Arkansas. ([Allegedly] including Chicago federal +district judge George Lindbergh, who heads a "lie box" company +with major clients CIA, National Security Agency, and off-shore +gambling casinos. Also, [allegedly] Chicago federal bankruptcy +judge John D. Schwartz.) It is referred to as "The Androcetti +Affair"(sp?).

+ +

ITEM: Hillary Rodham Clinton is facing indictment by a federal +grand jury in Little Rock for bank embezzlement and income tax +fraud.

+ +

ITEM: Leading the attack on the Clinton White House is Chicago +Congressman Henry Hyde, reportedly in charge of CIA's bloody +"black budget" [CfD -- This would be money budgeted for CIA +"projects" by the Congress that for secrecy reasons does not +appear in public documents]. Hyde has more actual power than the +director of Central Intelligence to arrange political +assassinations, to launder secret funds, and to railroad enemies +into prison. Hyde has been director of a suburban S&L here, now +defunct, fronting for CIA. The federal court case of RTC against +Henry Hyde was ordered suppressed because of "national security."

+ +

In Chicago, see us on cable TV, channel 21. 9 pm [cst] Monday +evenings, February 14, 21, and 28.

+ +

Play it again: The Rotten *Chicago Tribune*, (312)731-1505. New +message Saturday; we change it several times a week. Donations +appreciated. Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 +South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the latest on +courts, banks, espionage agencies, political assassinations, and +the news media. + +

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #011 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, +9800 South Oglesby.

+ +

The signs are there, but not enough people are watching.

+ +

The stock market has been pumped up by a lot of people emptying +their bank accounts and other financial accounts and buying +mutual funds. The theory being: the managers of mutual funds +[pay(?)] more than others. Oh, yeah?

+ +

And the mutual funds, in turn, buy stocks. So a lot of +inexperienced, unsophisticated people have a lot of their life +savings into stocks. Also, the very low interest rates have +pumped up the price of bonds. On huge volume, the stock market +has been churning -- inching up, and backing down -- as the +ultra-rich use their newspapers, magazines, radio and t.v. to +lure more and more suckers into the markets.

+ +

Traditionally, sizeable corporate interests buy off financial +reporters to float stories heating up the know-nothings into +buying. Some such reporters, and their editors, are double-dippers: their regular salary plus "under the table" to promote +phoney stories. It's one of the great unpublicized scandals, +along with the media acting to "shake down" companies to get +advertising contracts [by] threatening to run negative items.

+ +

At the top of the market, the very-rich unload and it's called +"distribution." Insiders know the horrendous news is waiting to +be sprung. Such as terrible news about IBM, that their securities +are being racked by the ratings agencies like Standard & Poors. +Or even worse, that IBM may be pushed into bankruptcy by panicy +banks. Items like that, if widely circulated, could be the pin to +Wall Street's balloon. With the markets so puffed up, some think +a specific "pin" is not necessary.

+ +

The press is avoiding discussion. We're facing a crash in bonds +or in stocks, or *both* together.

+ +

A few realize the great danger of overstaying a bull market.

+ +

Question: Is Clinton up to it? Can he deal with the financial +tailspin without using emergency powers -- such as shutting down +the stock exchanges or halting the bond markets -- *huh*?!

+ +

Using domestic emergency powers is becoming more and more +useless. High technology makes it easy to side-step Wall Street +and trade on foreign exchanges with the blip of a computer mouse.

+ +

Also, so-called "derivatives" are the "tail wagging the dog" -- +options and futures contracts and numbers games of every kind.

+ +

The ultra-rich promote paper money; they feel they can control +the [peasants(?)] that way. On the other hand: independent money +in gold, silver and platinum. When gold is able to stay over $410 +an ounce, well, the paper money game will come to an end. The +Federal Reserve and other private, central banks keep trying to +keep gold under the magic number of 410. But demands for gold +will wreck The Fed's dirty trick.

+ +

America and the western world are facing 3 historical cycles: the +500 year economic cycle, 1492-1992 (we're overdue on that one); +and the 60 year cycle 1933 (the date of the bank collapse) and +1993; and then there's 1943 -- the Pope made a secret 50 year +deal not to interfere with the western world and their +financials. Of course it's up in 1993.

+ +

Strong central governments are becoming obsolete: Moscow, +Washington, London, Paris and others.

+ +

What can you do? Huh-huh. Call up your news-fakers and tell them +to stop *kidding* us, huh?!

+ +

In Chicago, see us on cable TV, channel 21. 9 pm [cst] Monday +evenings, February 21, 28, and March 7.

+ +

Play it again: *Eliminating Presidents*, (312)731-1505. New +message Thursday; we change it several times a week. Donations +appreciated. Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 +South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the latest on +courts, banks, espionage agencies, political assassinations, and +the news media. On 24 hours... + +

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #012 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, +9800 South Oglesby.

+ +

The very rich and powerful are not given to moist-eyed emotion. +They can hold a Christmas party, for example, for their devoted +workers and smile on them. And then, a few days later, dismiss a +bunch of them and tell their brutal security guards to throw the +workers off the premises in one hour.

+ +

Fearing a labor dispute, the *Chicago Tribune* put attack dogs to +terrorize the printing workers in the Trib's "Freedom Center." +(With the smashing of the union, by the way, it's called "Slavery +Center.")

+ +

Likewise so, when the ultra-rich deal with their mannequins, +labelled "President of the United States." President Lincoln was +assassinated a few days after the end of the Civil War. His post-war policy was to go easy on the South. So, agriculture would +have resumed amid plummeting prices. The very rich, including the +Rothschilds, had huge commodities speculations to the contrary. +To some, bringing the South back [into the Union] was treason. +So, they had Lincoln's brains blown out and blamed a "lone nut."

+ +

The ultra-rich and their top military and CIA hawks accused +President Kennedy of treason in denying U.S. air cover at the +aborted invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs; also, for JFK +planning detente with the Soviets. Yet JFK was popular with the +common people. Nevertheless, his brains were blown out in an open +car with military-style triangulation firing. A "lone nut" was +blamed, and himself murdered.

+ +

As you can see, the very rich are not sentimental.

+ +

The ultra rich (and again, with their trusted CIA and military +retainers) accused President Nixon of treason in his dealings +with North Vietnam. Also, he wanted to be an imperial president, +blackmailing CIA with his knowledge of the CIA murdering JFK.

+ +

Blowing his brains out in an open car would be messy, so, ahead +of the 1972 re-election of "Tricky Dick," CIA double-agents got +themselves caught at the Watergate Hotel -- owned by the Pope.

+ +

All to finger Nixon. (Some details are in the book *Silent Coup* +by Colodny(sp?)).

+ +

Nixon was so popular he won re-election in 49 of the 50 states. +Yet, shortly thereafter began the Watergate bombardment. The +press so ran after him he couldn't hold press conferences!

+ +

And, just at the height of *his* popularity, the press is +mounting *their* "Whitewater-gate" blitz, against Clinton. Some +of his schemes on health care endanger large insurance companies +-- like Prudential, owned by the British royal family.

+ +

Funny thing: What the press trumpets of the rich are accusing +Clinton are true enough.

+ +

Yes, he and his wife committed financial crimes in ripping off +$47 million through Arkansas S&L and others.

+ +

Yes, Bill and Hillary, to try to save themselves from prison, +covered up the murder of White House aide Vincent Foster.

+ +

And yes, the ultra rich contend privately that Clinton committed +treason in aborting a *genuine* CIA plot to murder Iraqi +strongman Saddam Hussein, a sworn enemy of the United States, on +July 17, 1993. And two days later, Clinton chopping off the head +of FBI director Sessions because he was investigating Clinton's +"treason." And on July 20, Foster was murdered just as he was +planning to plead with Bill to leave the plot go forward for +"national security" reasons, or be impeached.

+ +

The ultra rich consider most Americans stupid and [that they] +have to be told fairy tales; to be amused with stories of an +angry wife cutting off her husbands "ding-a-ling."

+ +

So, will Clinton be put to the wall at the height of his +popularity? Remember: The ultra rich are not sentimental.

+ +

(312) 731-1100 is our main message. Donations will be +appreciated...

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #013 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, +9800 South Oglesby.

+ +

The phone company reserves the right to sabotage your phones if +you are a political activist.

+ +

The background: In the 1960s and 1970s, like other phone +companies nationwide, Illinois Bell Telephone Company assisted +the espionage agencies in monitoring and sabotaging the phones of +civil rights advocates, anti-war activists, trade unionists and +such. Some local police units had or have units called "red +squads" on the presumption that political activists are +subversive. "Red squad" agents had free access to phone company +facilities to monitor phones, to obtain records of phone calls, +and to screw up phone lines so calls couldn't go through -- such +as right before or during civil rights protest events.

+ +

In 1969 there was a boycott in Chicago by blacks, directed +against banks who refused them mortgages and took discriminatory +and highly inflated contract payments instead. The protest was by +the Southside Contract Buyers League, some 25000 black +homeowners. At a key point in the boycott, all the phones were +blanked out in the areas where the Southside Contract Buyers +League members lived. Blacks who weren't even members, but lived +*near* members, also had *their* phones cut off.

+ +

Thereafter, a class action lawsuit was being planned against +Illinois Bell Telephone for sabotage and racial discrimination in +services. The president and the vice-president of the black +homeowners group met with phone company officials in the home of +our [Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts] chairman. The +phone company offered a "gift" of a half-million dollars in +"hush" money. The meeting blew up, however, when our chairman +said he was going public with the phone company's attempted +bribery.

+ +

Chicago alderman Ed Vyrdolak headed a committee supposedly +investigating phone company complicity in wire-tapping. City +Council hearings were scrapped, however, after Illinois Bell +Telephone Company reportedly gave "Fast Eddy's" [i.e. Vyrdolak] +law firm a bribe of almost $1 million.

+ +

By 1982, the FBI and the Chicago police entered into a federal +court consent decree that they would cease doing dirty tricks +against political activists and others in this federal district. +Thereafter, the IRS [Internal Revenue Service] intelligence, +acting similar to CIA, took over wire-tapping and spying in this +district, the result of a loophole in the consent decree. The IRS +gestapo does a number of acts having nothing to do with tax +collecting:

+ +

1) They monitor and sabotage the phones of political activists.

+ +

2) As admitted offhand during a federal court hearing, the IRS +keeps dossiers on federal judges here for blackmail and +extortion. A federal judge who does not rule in favor of the IRS +can expect himself and his family to be wrecked.

+ +

3) The IRS unlawfully spies on first class mail, with the +connivance of postal authorities.

+ +

4) Top IRS officials in the Chicago area are secret partners in +vending machine companies owned by the mafia in the south +suburbs.

+ +

5) According to an unpublicized court suit, the IRS demanded the +wife divorce a husband for publicly criticizing the IRS.

+ +

Does the phone company sabotage these [Citizen's Committee's +phone] lines? You're darn right. In November of '93, Illinois +Bell -- now called Ameritech -- resumed a 20-year-long sabotage +campaign against these recorded commentaries. (By the way, the +phone company security department is a *rotten joke*.)

+ +

In Chicago, see us on cable t.v. channel 21, 9 pm most Monday +evenings.

+ +

Play it again: Murdered Reporters. (312) 731-1505.

+ +

New message Thursday; we change it several times a week.

+ +

Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the +Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the +latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political +assassinations, and the news media. + +

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #014 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, +9800 South Oglesby.

+ +

Headquartered in Chicago is a law firm up to their eyeballs in +the Clinton White House scandals: That's Hopkins & Sutter, with +offices also in Washington, D.C. and Dallas.

+ +

Their major clients have included the federal deposit insurance +and *their* stepsister, Resolution Trust Corp. [RTC]

+ +

The RTC is accused by some of being the principle whitewashing +machine for CIA and members of congress implicated in the S&L +ripoff.

+ +

Strange, but Hopkins & Sutter or RTC chose the faraway Rose Law +Firm in Little Rock to cover up a multi-million dollar mess of a +defunct S&L in a west suburb of Chicago. The dirty trick was done +with Rose Law Firm partners Hillary Rodham Clinton and her +partner, and lover, Vincent Foster, jr.

+ +

Details included jailbird and bond broker Dan Lassiter(sp?) whose +business partner became a secretary to White House aide Foster. +That secretary reportedly stole Foster's files after he was +murdered, and the documents are being used for blackmail in +Chicago.

+ +

Uh, guess who has them? Why, Hopkins & Sutter.

+ +

Hopkins & Sutter partner Jay Steinberg reportedly has played a +key role in secretly transferring a $50 million RTC contingency +fund from Chicago to Little Rock. Some details are in a series of +blockbuster federal cases here called "The Andrew Cetti Affair" +(sp?).

+ +

All to try to patch up the $47 million bank embezzlement crisis +pending before a federal grand jury. The accused target? Why, +Hillary and "Sludge Willy."

+ +

A close Rodham family crony is John Gearham(?), a lawyer in the +northwest suburb of Park Ridge... where Hillary is from. In the +presence of a witness, Gearham confessed to our [Citizen's +Committee to Clean Up the Courts] chairman that Gearham fears +being *himself* framed and sent to federal prison for the $50 +million secret transfer and the destruction of RTC records.

+ +

In simple terms, the murder of Foster and the disappearance of +the RTC funds were to keep Hillary from going to prison.

+ +

At one time, Hopkins & Sutter were the major recipients of RTC +legal fees. A recent statistic shows they were cut way back.

+ +

Is the White House trying to distance themselves from Hopkins & +Sutter?

+ +

Funny thing: RTC's office is actually *inside* Hopkin's & +Sutter's "posh digs" in Chicago!

+ +

Hopkin's partner, Jay Steinberg, as bankruptcy trustee also +reportedly swept away what happened to about a billion dollars in +a group of companies run by a young con man, William Stecker(?), +[unclear] corporation and others.

+ +

The [unclear] swindles and the "Andrew Cetti Affair" both +implicate super FBI agent Mike "Chucky" Peters -- according to +undisputed federal court records here, implicated in the murder +of some 41 federal grand jury witnesses.

+ +

Hopkins & Sutter was hired by the federal deposit insurance to +investigate, supposedly, the offices, directors and lawyers of +Silverado Savings & Loan of Denver -- a group that included +George Bush's son, Neil. Hopkin's clout stems from keeping Neil +Bush from going to prison and also hushing up all mention that +the CIA plundered Silverado in the course of using that S&L for +financing covert operations in the United States and overseas.

+ +

In Chicago, see us on cable t.v. channel 21, 9 pm most Monday +evenings.

+ +

Play it again: The Murder of Reporters. (312) 731-1505.

+ +

New message Wednesday; we change it several times a week.

+ +

Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the +Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the +latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political +assassinations, and the news media. On 24 hours... + +

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #015 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts +[CCCC], 9800 South Oglesby.

+ +

>From the time of Clinton's election as President on -- strange +events with CIA.

+ +

About the time of Clinton's November '92 election a British +Intelligence operative assisting CIA was murdered, together with +all his family members, in southern California. That was Ian +Stewart-Sparrow(sp?) -- having inside knowledge about the +"October Surprise" treason, the Mena, Arkansas airport dope and +gun smuggling implicating Clinton as Governor, and much more.

+ +

Right after Clinton was inaugurated, two CIA officials were +murdered and three seriously wounded right on the road leading +into CIA headquarters -- apparently part of a fight between CIA +faction one: George Bush and his gang, and faction two: Naval +Intelligence assassins.

+ +

And where does Clinton fit in, huh?

+ +

Right before the election some 15 [persons] were arrested -- +charged with shipping exotic military items without export +licenses to known terrorists. Among the defendants, Diane +Lewis(sp?), a crony of first lady Hillary of Park Ridge, a +northwest Chicago suburb. The trial was right after inauguration +day. Ms. Lewis was released after her defense attorney told the +judge, in chambers, she was with CIA *and* a pal of Hillary.

+ +

Then, the strange events in Waco, Texas, right near a CIA +brainwashing facility. Some believe some of the Branch Davidian +leaders knew too much. A CIA and military "delta team" murdered +many while tanks with flame shooters burned down the compound. In +the assault on the building two federal agents, previously +Clinton's campaign bodyguards, were murdered -- now get this -- +*by their fellow agents*.

+ +

On July 17th, '93, President Clinton and/or someone in the White +House acting with them (such as Vincent Foster, jr.) stopped a +genuine CIA plot to assassinate Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein. +Two days later, FBI director Sessions was "sacked," on flimsy +excuses, to block his investigation of President Clinton's +treasonous activities -- such as having military officers +assigned to CIA acting as Justice Department prosecutors pursuing +political activist civilians!

+ +

The next day, White House aide Foster was found murdered in a +lower level of the White House. The Secret Service removed the +body and planted it in a national park in Virginia. The +circumstances, however, were designed by someone to put Clinton +in a "catch-22" position. If Clinton revealed the details, some +of it, somehow, might point to Foster's law partner and lover -- +Hillary. Did she want *him* dead to save herself from prison, +huh?

+ +

Some $47 million is missing from a federally insured S&L in +Arkansas. Hillary and Foster were implicated in what seems to be +a bank embezzlement. Federal authorities are also investigating +CIA money-laundering deals reportedly also implicating Hillary +and Foster.

+ +

The Secret Service is holding clandestine meetings across the +nation about Foster, "picking the brains" of assassination +experts. The Secret Service contends three foreign intelligence +agents, disguised as known White House visitors, got into the +White House and "wiped out" Foster. {1}. The Secret Service also +claims a Foster "double" left the White House that afternoon -- +all to confuse matters.

+ +

Clinton is stonewalling release of pertinent records. Some claim +the series of mysteries somehow involve the role of Bill and +Hillary as CIA assets since an early age.

+ +

And then there's the Rick Ames spy mess at CIA which Clinton set +on for a year. {2}.

+ +

(312) 731-1100 is our main message. Donations appreciated. +Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, +Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. The latest on courts, banks, espionage +agencies, political assassinations, and the news media. On 24 +hours a day, that's the Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the +Courts, 9800 South Oglesby.

+ +

-------------------------- Notes ---------------------------- +{1} According to a *Wall Street Journal* article dated March 10, +1994 ("Who is Patsy Thomasson?"), there has been lax security at +the White House, apparently due to poor overall management. +{2} Again from the *Wall Street Journal* of March 10, 1994 ("The +KGB and America's War on Drugs"), regarding the Ames spy case, +"some key questions have gone unasked." Ames reportedly was +involved with the KGB in narco-trafficking. The amount of cash +allegedly paid to Ames was "far more than in most treason-for-money cases." + +

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #016 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts +[CCCC], 9800 South Oglesby.

+ +

Are President Clinton and Vice-President Gore *both* facing +removal from office because of scandals?

+ +

Background +++++++++++ +Prior to re-election in '72 of President Nixon and Vice-President +Spiro Agnew, the ultra-rich through their monopoly press played +down the Watergate matter. The real rulers of America knew full-well they [Nixon/Agnew] were scoundrels and could be easily +scandalized to remove them. The secret agenda went into play in +'73; president and vice-president both to be replaced by another +team -- *all* without an election.

+ +

Our chairman [CCCC] was first in the United States to go public +with details of Agnew's bribery going back to the time when he +was Governor of Maryland. Since we [CCCC] were *ahead* of the +secret timetable, the press whores called us liars, and worse, +right up until October '73 when Agnew, facing criminal +indictment, resigned.

+ +

Similarly, Clinton and Gore were known by the ultra-rich to be +corrupt scoundrels *before* their '92 election.

+ +

Involving hundreds of millions of dollars is milk bovine hormone +by Monsanto Chemicals. It speeds up milk production. However, it +causes the cows to be over-used and develop infections which have +to be treated with antibiotics. Pasteurization tends to conceal +all this. However milk drinkers, particularly children, are +greatly at risk.

+ +

The head of the Food and Drug Administration [FDA] has been David +Kessler(sp?), carried over from the Bush administration. His +chief deputy is Mike Taylor, a cousin of Al Gore's wife, Tipper. +Taylor was previously chief outside counsel for Monsanto.

+ +

About February '94, top FDA honcho Taylor caused to be issued an +advisory opinion that labelling is *not* required that a product +is bovine hormone free.

+ +

Gore and Tipper and Kessler and Tipper's relative, Taylor, make +up what some call "The Gang of Four." They reportedly are +indicated in the biggest bucks corruption scandal in the history +of the nation! Millions and millions of dollars.

+ +

Also, FDA has scientific units; key personnel there have a +zillion dollar racket. Through relatives and friends they "sell +short" pharmaceutical stocks just before the FDA rejects putting +the o.k. on some drug with big money potential.

+ +

Used for this various bribery and dirty business is the highly +corrupt Chicago Board Options Exchange. Two federal agencies that +supervise the markets have covered up these massive crimes +against the American people: That's the CFTC and SCC. [C. Futures +Trading Commission(?) and Securities C. Commission(?)]

+ +

Also, the FDA enforces an unwritten law called "Failure to +Bribe." Example: A generic drug company making low-priced items +was "plowed under" by the FDA -- that was Barr Chemical, also a +whistleblower.

+ +

Like in 1973, the New York Times and other major papers are +sitting on the Vice-President's scandal. Why? Because of a high-level secret agenda and timetable to install Jay Rockefeller and +one other as the new White House team.

+ +

All without an election.

+ +

Because of his bloody family name, Rockefeller could not be +elected on his own.

+ +

Watergate drew attention *away* from the oil fraud [a.k.a. 1973 +"Oil Embargo"]. On the other hand, the Clinton and Gore scandals +would divert attention from the oncoming stock crash and +depression.

+ +

This message will run longer than usual on the air; so tell your +friends to listen also.

+ +

In Chicago, see us on cable t.v. channel 21, 9 pm most Monday +evenings.

+ +

Play it again: Clinton and the CIA Mysteries. (312) 731-1505.

+ +

New message Wednesday; we change it several times a week.

+ +

Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the +Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the +latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political +assassinations, and the news media. On 24 hours a day. + +

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #017 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts +[CCCC], 9800 South Oglesby.

+ +

The Clinton scandal: So you think the center of it is in Little +Rock, huh? *Wrong*. The center is in Chicago.

+ +

For several years, the primary lawyers for Resolution Trust +Corporation [RTC] have been the Chicago-based Hopkins and Sutter. +In fact, the S&L bailout agency's principal offices have been +*inside* Hopkins and Sutter!

+ +

Prior efforts to show RTC is corrupt have been torpedoed. Hopkins +[and Sutter] were the ones arranging on behalf of Federal Deposit +Insurance and their step-sister RTC for the Rose law firm to be +used to handle clean-up claims of defunct S&Ls in the Chicago +area.

+ +

Rose partners Vincent Foster, jr., and Hillary Rodham Clinton +were the "law fakers" helping friends escape paying millions. +Foster was also the master "bagman" for tens of millions of +dollars of illegal speculations in Chicken futures and "selling +short" pharmaceutical stocks on inside information. This was done +for a circle of law-license gangsters, like Hillary and her +friends, dealing with the selected, criminally-inclined types on +the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board Options +Exchange. (By the way, Did they "rub elbows" with relatives of +state and federal judges "washing" bribe money in the same +markets!?)

+ +

Foster's vast dirty business in drug stocks overlapped the doings +of Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, and her cousin, Michael R. +Taylor, who went on to become a top honcho of the Food and Drug +Administration. Gore, of course, became Vice-President.

+ +

Two federal agencies, the CFTC [Chicago Futures Trading +Commission] and the SEC [Securities Exchange Commission] are +supposed to investigate such events. *Oh, yeah?!* They and the +press fakers all look the other way so that two *known* +scoundrels could be elected to high office. The President and the +Vice-President are blackmailed by *their patrons*, the ultra-rich.

+ +

Some $47 million is missing resulting from the Arkansas S&L mess +and other fakery by the Clintons. To try to patch it up, some $50 +million from an RTC contingency fund, *in Chicago*, was secretly +transferred to Little Rock.

+ +

One of the lawyers arranging this is from Park Ridge, the Chicago +suburb where the Rodhams are from. He is John E. Gearham(?), 708-xxx-xxxx. He is close to Hillary's family. In January '94, +Gearham, in the presence of a former client, confessed to our +chairman [CCCC] that Gearham was greatly concerned that his +circle was prepared to "frame" him for the clandestine money +transfer and send him to prison! The "fix" is so strong, he +confessed further, that nothing could save him!

+ +

The RTC fund is the subject of some *eight* state and federal +cases in the Chicago area, known as "The Joseph Androcetti(sp?) +Affair."

+ +

Filed in federal court (and a copy served on Gearham and the +RTC's attorneys) are the particulars of Gearham's confession. +When it came up in court, they did not dispute it.

+ +

We remind you why Chicago is the best place for the "big fix" -- +like used by the Clintons. Remember: The currency and commodity +markets are here; preferred for "washing" bribery money by +government officials worldwide. The news media here are the +biggest liars in the land, with a *long* background of +criminality -- like the [Chicago] Tribune Company with their +links all the way back to Al Capone. *And* it's been documented +for more than 30 years the state and federal judges here are +moreso "for sale" than any other place in the land!

+ +

In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most +Monday evenings.

+ +

Play it again: The Corruption of Al Gore. (312) 731-1505.

+ +

New message Friday; we change it several times a week.

+ +

Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the +Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the +latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political +assassinations, and the news media. On 24 hours a day.

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #018 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts +[CCCC], 9800 South Oglesby.

+ +

Chicago's City Hall is an interesting study in power. It is even +considered important by those not *in* the "Windy City" [i.e. +Chicago].

+ +

Starting in 1955, the city's strong man for 21 years was Richard +J. Daley. He got into office because the one slated by the +Democrats for mayor, Clarence Wagner, was assassinated.

+ +

You probably know there is no real G.O.P. [i.e. Republican party] +in this town. So usually, if the Democrats select you to run... +well, you're in.

+ +

In 1976, Daley died -- 24 hours after he was administered an +adulterated swine flu shot. Daley, and Otto Kerner, jr., ran a +private "nuthouse" near Aurora [Illinois]. Kerner, as local +county judge, was in charge of the "lunatic docket." Political +victims sometimes ended up getting plundered this way. Kerner +went on to become Illinois Governor and later, federal appeals +judge. (Our work [i.e. CCCC], by the way, sent Kerner to jail for +bribery -- highest ranking such federal judicial jailbird in +history.)

+ +

Daley's son Richie sat in the state legislature specializing, +naturally, in mental health laws -- to favor his family asylum. +Richie later became Cook County State's Attorney. [Chicago is in +Cook County.] In that role, he covered up massive probate fraud.

+ +

Example: Former city fire commissioner Quinn was laying in the +hospital, "bombed out." [i.e. very drunk] The Daleys pushed into +service a pliable nurse who helped shove a paper under Quinn's +nose. (The Daleys had a supply of such medical malefactors from +their private padded-cell factory [i.e. the asylum in Aurora].) +Thus signed over to the Daley family was some $300000, with +Richie's brother Michael named as probate executor. Some cousins, +however, got gypped [i.e. they were "cheated"] and told a court +reformer all the sordid details.

+ +

When maverick mayor Harold Washington was murdered in '87 with a +poisoned cup of coffee, uh -- who covered it up? Why, naturally, +State's Attorney Richie Daley. Thus "snuffed out" was Chicago's +first black mayor.

+ +

And so, father like son, Richie became mayor by murder. He +carried over police superintendent LeRoy Martin. And, with Martin +and Daley, Chicago became an open city for dope. Police cars even +gave safe escort to whole truckloads of dope on the way to a +police-protected warehouse. Dope money laundries included car +washes, taverns, and certain auto repair shops.

+ +

About 1992, a special federal grand jury began "sniffing around." +Unable to feel safe *here*, the grand jury met in *Milwaukee* +instead! In on the dirty business, local federal officials +stopped the works. Why? Well, that was going too far. They were +about to indict the former police superintendent *and* his co-conspirator, Richie Daley. Instead, the crooked federals framed +two "collectors" for City Hall: Richard R. Reynolds, sr., a +veteran cop, and his sidekick, Leonard Kerr(?).

+ +

Chicago federal trial judge Wayne Anderson is in a position to +know the truth. That could put Richie [Daley] in prison. *But* -- +if the judge even thinks, however, of doing the right thing... +well, this town might have another unsolved political +assassination -- like *him*!

+ +

Meanwhile, Richie's wife is money hungry. "Why can't you make +really *big* loot?! -- like brother Bill, running the dope and +money laundering Amalgamated Bank, huh?" Richie's wife insists +[that] he not run for re-election in 1995.

+ +

So. Do you think this all is just true of Chicago? Wrong. Other +big cities are about the same.

+ +

In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most +Monday evenings.

+ +

Play it again: The Crooked Chief Federal Appeals Judge Here. +(312) 731-1505.

+ +

New message Friday; we change it several times a week.

+ +

Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the +Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the +latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political +assassinations, and the news media. On 24 hours a day. + +

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #019 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts +[CCCC], 9800 South Oglesby.

+ +

On the business and financial level, there really is no +difference between democrats and republicans. They all scratch +each other's back. As a center of power, Chicago is a good +example.

+ +

Although not a city employee, Jeremiah Joyce reportedly has an +unmarked office in City Hall. He's more powerful than Chicago +mayor Richie Daley. Joyce and Daley reportedly own Glenrock +Company (Northlake, Illinois, Brookfield, Wisconsin, and +Indianapolis, Indiana). They distribute construction supplies of +chemicals and GE [General Electric] sealants.

+ +

Whether democrat or republican, state contractors in Wisconsin, +Indiana, and Illinois *know* they have to buy their supplies from +Glenrock, such as -- tens of millions of dollars of curing +compounds for pouring cement and wire mesh for state highways; +materials for parking lots, airport runways, bridges and +buildings; such as sealants for windows, joints, masonry and +other construction; waterproofing and weatherproofing for a long +list of construction applications.

+ +

Since the state contractors buy their own supplies from Glenrock +Company to fulfill a state contract, well, Glenrock's name does +generally not show in public records. Well of course, Richie +Daley and his reputed business partner, Jeremiah Joyce, like this +secretive nature of doing things.

+ +

The popular press avoided mentioning the business interests of +Richie's father, Richard J. Daley, when he was mayor for 21 +years. *And* they avoid saying a single word about Richie's +financial interests.

+ +

A natural question is, Do state highway contractors and such give +"kickbacks," huh? Well, some think so. Well why else does their +firm, Glenrock Company, seem to be favored by contractors? Since +they distribute items such as GE sealants, you can see why NBC -- +owned by General Electric [GE] -- is silent about all this. GE +also heavily finances so-called "public t.v." such as channel 11 +[PBS] in Chicago.

+ +

And, some raise dark questions about where the money came from +for Joyce and Daley to be in such a tremendous business. Joyce's +son was tied to dope king John Kempis(?). Two of "junior's" [i.e. +Joyce's son] friends were murdered. Kempis might have escaped +prosecution -- except he put out a murder contract on Joyce's +son. Thereafter, the highly political and corrupt federal +prosecutor in Chicago sprung into action, publicizing Kempis' +dope trafficking and putting him in jail.

+ +

Knowledgeable law enforcement people contend that Richie Daley & +Co. are the apex of the dope business, *and* are "untouchable" +because they have plugged into big business, whether republican +or democrat.

+ +

About March, 1992, took place a strange event. A powerful, +sophisticated bomb was discovered under the floor, of the 5th +floor, in Chicago's City Hall. That's where the mayor's office +is. It was described as a "triple-trigger type [bomb]," perfected +years ago by the Germans and hard to de-fuse. News editors here +knew about this event, but suppressed it. Risking much bloodshed, +Daley did not inform his City Hall employees to "clear out" +[evacuate the building] during the dangerous period when the bomb +was being de-activated.

+ +

Now some think that all of this was a warning by some financial +group trying to "muscle in" on Daley and super honcho, Jeremiah +Joyce.

+ +

Tell the news-fakers to stop kidding us that there's a difference +between the democrats and the republicans.

+ +

In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most +Monday evenings.

+ +

Play it again: More about the corruption of Richie Daley and his +family; (312) 731-1505.

+ +

New message Saturday; we change it several times a week.

+ +

Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the +Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the +latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political +assassinations, and the news media. On 24 hours a day.

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #020 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts +[CCCC], 9800 South Oglesby.

+ +

A key [unclear] in various worldwide schemes is the Chicago-based +law firm, Hopkins & Sutter.

+ +

The highly corrupt S&L whitewash agency is the Resolution Trust +Corporation (RTC). Guess where one of their main offices is? Why, +inside the Chicago offices of Hopkins & Sutter.

+ +

A Hopkins [& Sutter] partner is Jay Steinberg. He was bankruptcy +trustee in the strange case of William Stecker(sp?) and +Grayville(?) Corporation. *Hundreds* of millions of dollars +disappeared. Steinberg doesn't seem to know *where*.

+ +

Also complicit with Steinberg is a member of the Justice +Department's murder squad, Mike "Chucky" Peters, a Chicago FBI +agent with worldwide authority. In an undisputed, unpublicized +federal case, Peters was accused of complicity in the murder of +some *40* federal grand jury witnesses in the notorious Inslaw +grand jury quiz.

+ +

The Federal Deposit Insurance has a evil stepsister -- namely, +RTC. Hopkins & Sutter, *and* RTC, arranged to have the rotten +Rose Law Firm of Little Rock used to cover up massive plundering +of assets of failing or already defunct savings & loans in the +Chicago area -- such as in the western suburbs here. Backed up by +a host of details, it seems CIA clandestine operatives +*plundered* these S&Ls -- including Olympic S&L and Clyde +Savings.

+ +

The Rose Law Firm partner, Hillary Rodham Clinton, played a role +in *raping and plundering* one or more Chicago-area S&Ls!

+ +

Hopkins & Sutter, and RTC-Chicago, arranged in recent years to +transfer some $50 million from an RTC contingency fund to Little +Rock -- to help cover up the $47 million of federally insured +funds missing in Arkansas.

+ +

A federal grand jury in Little Rock is considering criminal +charges against the First Lady: massive bank embezzlement and +income tax fraud.

+ +

The [RTC] funds were transferred from Chicago reportedly with the +help of Jay Steinberg *and* with attorney John Gearham(sp?), who +is of the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge -- same place Hillary is +from. Gearham is "tight" with Hillary's lawyer brother.

+ +

With the reported connivance of Hopkins & Sutter, the RTC records +are gone! Helping in the huge rip-off is Household International +and their units, Household Bank -- an outgrowth of CIA's Nugan-Hand Bank, once headquartered in Australia.

+ +

Interwoven in all this is the strange murder of White House aide +Vincent Foster, jr. Now, one of his secretaries has been a +business partner of Dan Lassater -- tied to the savings & loans +through crooked bond dealings. After Foster's death, she +reportedly swiped some of his records; and they're being used by +Hopkins & Sutter and other lawyers, clandestine operatives, +murder squad members, and crooked federal judges here to +blackmail the Clinton White House.

+ +

To "muddy the waters," they are spreading rumors... [laughs] +possibly true [laughs]... that Hillary had her former lover and +law partner, Foster -- now get this -- *murdered* by the Secret +Service in the White House! Those who removed the body, however, +planted it in a park in Virginia to cast suspicion on the White +House.

+ +

And what can you do? Well, call up your local news-fakers and +tell them to stop kidding us about what the Clinton scandal is +all about, huh?

+ +

In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most +Monday evenings.

+ +

Still playing: Mayor Daley and the former police superintendant +and the dope business; (312) 731-1505.

+ +

New message Friday; we change it several times a week.

+ +

Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the +Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the +latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political +assassinations, and the news media. On 24 hours a day.

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #021 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts +[CCCC], 9800 South Oglesby.

+ +

Can a leopard change its spots?

+ +

Over the years the *Chicago Tribune* has been a crooked, anti-labor, discriminatory operation. Starting in the 19th century, +they got lucrative rights to newsprint and pulp production in +Canada through a charter from the highly-secretive Jesuits and +the King of England. To this day the *Tribune* is tied to the +Royal Family and says nothing about them being in worldwide +financing of dope traffic through Hong Kong and the Cayman +islands.

+ +

In the 1930s, the *Tribune* was facing a labor dispute. So, they +brought in Al Capone as a "labor consultant." He terrorized the +workers.

+ +

Since about 1910, the *Tribune* used a family of criminals +originally from Chicago -- the Annenbergs(?) and their +descendants -- even now, to control the circulation department.

+ +

In years ago when there were almost a dozen Chicago papers, the +Annenbergs used shoot-outs to "snuff out" competitors. The +Annenbergs were major stockholders in the long-time criminal +enterprise called the American National Bank here. They have +other news fakers in their pocket, such as Walter Jacobson.

+ +

The *Tribune* was known for running items with snide remarks -- +anti-black, anti-Jew.

+ +

Once a private company, the *Tribune* company had a dispute +between the major owners like the Marshall Fields and the +Rockefellers *and* minority owners.

+ +

Chicago federal district judge Crowley was blackmailed into +favoring the big shots. Although one of the youngest on the +federal bench, he soon thereafter resigned.

+ +

The Rockefellers and such wanted to be bought out so, in 1981, +the *Tribune* company stock went public. Some thought that they +toned down, thereafter, their highly prejudiced stories. Oh yeah?

+ +

To fatten their stockholders, the *Tribune* vowed to dump their +organized workers and smash the union. Since ensued a labor +dispute. One night the *Tribune* sent in their vicious guards +with attack dogs to rip the workers off the machines. To continue +production, the Tribune brought in "scabs" -- mostly white, +rural, southern workers (at half the wages) -- for the highly +automated new plant called "The Freedom Center." The *Tribune* +used their advance, inside information to blackmail a Chancery +Division judge to grant an injunction restricting picketing near +what savvy folks call, "The Slavery Center."

+ +

Rightfully, it can't be called the *Chicago* Tribune since as +little as 15% of their total circulation is inside the city +limits. With its media octopus worldwide, it should be called +"The Multinational Lie Machine."

+ +

To try to boost city circulation, the *Tribune* runs items +talking down their nose at blacks -- as if all blacks are dopers +engaged in drive-by shootings.

+ +

About 1984, joke faker Mike Royko left the *Sun Times* and went +to the *Chicago Tribune*. The *Sun Times* sued the *Tribune*, +*but* the *Tribune* had advance, inside data on a Chancery +Division judge taking bribes. And so, the case was steered to +him. The *Tribune* blackmailed the judge into ruling in favor of +"The Slavery Center" at the Tribune Tower.

+ +

And the *Tribune* company newslords have peddled false stories +that were really political assassinations. Such as of Chicago's +first black mayor, Harold Washington, died of a heart attack +because he was overweight. *Oh yeah?* The story should have been +that Harold Washington was murdered with a poisoned cup of +coffee. Some of the doctors told the media fakers that the mayor +was poisoned -- *but*, the press invoked "national security," +contending it would cause riots. Well, what about the old +statement, "Let the truth be told, 'though the heavens crumble," +huh?

+ +

In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most +Monday evenings.

+ +

Play it again: A [unclear] discusses historical conspiracies. +(312) 731-1505.

+ +

New message Monday; we change it several times a week.

+ +

Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the +Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the +latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political +assassinations, and the news media. On 24 hours a day. + +

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #022 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts +[CCCC], 9800 Oglesby.

+ +

All the years, the FBI and the CIA played dirty games with each +other.

+ +

Example: The FBI had leased their cars from a west suburban auto +dealer. The two so-called "owners" are much on TV... sort of, uh, +celebrities, holding up cash. Their motto? "We always save you +more money." Funny thing: The dealership was started up, +reportedly, with funds from gangster "Momo" Giancana and his gang.

+ +

Often pursued by FBI agents, "Momo" told them to "leave him +alone"; that he "worked with CIA." Some contend "Momo" helped +recruit for CIA's aborted invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. +"Momo" was assassinated by CIA in 1975, just as he was about to +be questioned by a Congressional committee.

+ +

The auto dealer, together with their banks, reportedly acts as a +money laundry for criminal enterprises jointly with foreign and +domestic espionage units.

+ +

The FBI put together details resulting in the federal criminal +prosecution of [Frank?] Carlisi and others for loan sharking and +extortion. A key federal government witness has been Lenny +Patrick. Cuban TV put on a documentary showing Lenny and two +other Chicago mobsters were implicated in the assassination of +President Kennedy.

+ +

The Carlisi trial has been by Chicago federal district judge Paul +E. Plunkett(sp?)... implicated *himself* in covering up, in his +court, laundering of funds through the Illinois Judges Pension +Fund. A gift (or bribe) of $2 million was put offshore *for* +Judge Plunkett when he dismissed charges against 20 name-brand +stockbrokers accused of embezzling $200 million from the Judges +Pension Fund.

+ +

In the Carlisi case, defense attorneys have included former +Chicago federal district judge George Layton(sp?). According to +documents from the National Archives, Layton was the secret +attorney for Lee Harvey Oswald, the Dallas CIA "patsy."

+ +

Also in the Carlisi case, FBI monitored the defendants through +the FBI wiretap center in Presidential Towers. The two top +honchos in that residential complex have been Congressman Dan +Rostenkowski and super money wizard Dan Shannon. The two operate +their dirty game through their ownership of the spy and gangster +Garfield Ridge Trust & Savings Bank. Rostenkowski also helps CIA +and foreign espionage agencies launder loot through the Chicago +Board of Trade. Two of "Rosty's" daughters were supposedly +employees of the Board of Trade -- although apparently not +performing much work.

+ +

The CIA is accused of bringing into the United States 1000 kilos +of cocaine. The CBS TV program [CfD -- Here, I think he means *60 +Minutes*], however, censored how the money flowed back *out* of +the United States through the persons and businesses we have +outlined here.

+ +

Another peculiar FBI and CIA situation involves Chicago assistant +federal prosecutor William R. Hogan, jr. He has been accused, in +federal court, of arranging perjury in the criminal prosecutions +of the El Rukn dope gang. Formerly called Blackstone Rangers, the +El Rukns, as a terrorist group, have been financed by the Charles +Kettering Foundation and the Charles Merrill Trust -- *both* +money types for CIA.

+ +

Are the dope shipments also *arranged* through CIA? The FBI +started investigating Hogan but were temporarily *blocked* on +"national security" grounds by CIA! Now, with the aid of CIA, +these terrorists are being put out of jails and back on the +street.

+ +

Call up your favorite news fakers or talk show fakers and tell +them to stop kidding us in censoring this.

+ +

In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most +Monday evenings.

+ +

Play it again: Eliminating Presidents. (312) 731-1505.

+ +

New message Saturday; we change it several times a week.

+ +

Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the +Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the +latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political +assassinations, and the news media. On 24 hours a day. + +

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Skolnick COMMENTARY #023 +========================

+ +

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve +either all or portions of the following.]

+ +

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put +out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up +the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

+ +

Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts +[CCCC], 9800 Oglesby.

+ +

A big cover-up with congressman Dan Rostenkowski of Chicago, +arranged by the corrupt IRS, the Justice Department, and the +White House.

+ +

Clinton, while Governor, supervised a CIA operation in a forest +in western Arkansas called the Mena airport. It was used for dope +and gun smuggling on a mass scale. Implicated also were George +Bush as vice-President and Reagan as President, and Ollie North.

+ +

Governor Clinton told the state law enforcement to "look the +other way." Used were several public and private funds, including +the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, Jackson Stephens and +his bond brokerage and banking empire. Also reportedly used: A +company called Park-O-Meter.

+ +

The hundreds of millions of dollars per month from cocaine and +such was reportedly funneled through Garfield Ridge Trust and +Savings Bank of Chicago. The bank has been owned and operated by +congressman Rostenkowski and his cronies, who have commented on +the bank's reported criminality for some 20 years now.

+ +

>From the bank, the money was washed through the commodity, +currency, and options markets here: The Chicago Board of Trade, +the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and the Chicago Board Options +Exchange. (Traders on these markets have told us that they expect +a scandal. And the Chicago IRS "torpedoed" their own +investigation of this.)

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Over the years, "Rosty" (as the congressman has been called) has +received bribes of tens of thousands of dollars from these +markets. Some bribes they attempted to disguise as so-called +"lecture fees." Did "Rosty" ever give some of these speeches for +them, huh?

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As head of the tax writing committee of Congress, "Rosty" put +through laws so quietly they were considered private laws; making +the speculators here exempt from paying taxes on little-known +market devices such as "hedges" and "straddles." And, of course, +the crooked IRS in Chicago received part of the bribes to cover +this all up.

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"Rosty's" two daughters reportedly worked at the Board of Trade +(Oh yeah?) but were seldom seen there. They reportedly +facilitated the cocaine money laundering.

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"Rosty" was also one of the main culprits regarding the bribery +of Congress by the Bank of Credit and Commerce International +[BCCI]. This criminal bank supposedly went under in 1991, *but* +it continues, however, as Chemical Bank Group -- successor to +First National Bank of Cicero, run by Paul Marcinkas, the +gangster who headed the Vatican Bank.

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Using "cook books" for BCCI, the commodity, currency, and options +markets here bought 25% of Congress -- *including* congressman +Rostenkowski and Company.

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The crooked mastermind of "Rosty's" election campaign in 1994 has +been Jeremiah Joyce, a little-known business partner of Chicago +mayor Richie Daley. Joyce, and Daley, are the secret owners of +Glenrock Company, construction supplies. By the way, if you want +to be a state highway contractor, you'd better get your cement-pouring compounds from them! And, you'd better pay "kickbacks." +Glenrock Company reportedly does not keep proper records for the +IRS!

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"Rosty" is willing to "take the fall" on relatively minor charges +[in order] to continue the mass media cover-up of Mena airport, +cocaine and guns, his crooked bank, the big dealers in the +Chicago markets, and the corrupt tax collectors in the White +House and the Justice Department.

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(By the way, if he doesn't "stay shut," I suppose they'd shoot +him.)

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They'd need a very large jail cell for Rostenkowski, and his pal +Richie Daley, Bill and Hillary Clinton, the head of the IRS in +Chicago, the U.S. attorney general, and the pilots on the markets +here!

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Just another story, suppressed by the liars and whores of the +press.

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In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most +Monday evenings; not every Monday.

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Play it again: Richie Daley and the Dope Business in Chicago.

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New message Sunday; we change it several times a week.

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Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the +Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the +latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political +assassinations, and the news media. On 24 hours a day.

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+From TIME Magazine, May 6, 1991: + +THE THRIVING CULT OF GREED AND POWER + +Ruined lives. Lost fortunes. Federal crimes. +Scientology poses as a religion but is really a ruthless +global scam - and aiming for the mainstream. + +By Richard Behar + +By all appearances, Noah Lottick of Kingston, Pa. had been a +normal, happy 24-year-old who was looking for his place in the world. +On the day last June when his parents drove to New York to claim his +body, they were nearly catatonic with grief. The young +Russian-studies scholar had jumped from a 10th-floor window of the +Milford Plaza Hotel and bounced off the hood of a stretch limosine. +When the police arrived, his fingers were still clutching $171 in +cash, virtually the only money he hadn't yet turned over to the Church +of Scientology, the self-help "philosophy" group he had discovered +just seven months earlier. +His death inspired his father Edward, a physician, to start his +own investigation of the church. "We thought Scientology was +something like Dale Carnegie," Lottick says. "I now believe it's a +school for psychopaths. Their so-called therapies are manipulations. +They take the best and brightest people and destroy them." The +Lotticks want to sue the church for contributing to their son's death, +but the prospect has them frightened. For nearly 40 years, the big +business of Scientology has shielded itself exquisitely behind the +First Amendment as well as a battery of high-priced criminal lawyers +and shady private detectives. +The Church of Scientology, started by science-fiction writer L. +Ron Hubbard to "clear" people of unhappiness, portrays itself as a +religion. In reality the church is a hugely profitable global racket +that survives by intimidating members and critics in a Mafia-like +manner. At times during the past decade, prosecutions against +Scientology seemed to be curbing its menace. Eleven top +Scientologists, including Hubbard's wife, were sent to prison in the +early 1980's for infiltrating, burglarizing, and wiretapping more than +100 private and government agencies in attempts to block their +investigations. In recent years hundreds of longtime Scientology +adherents - many charging that they were mentally or physically abused +- have quit the church and criticized it at their own risk. Some have +sued the church and won; others have settled for amounts in excess of +$500000. In various cases judges have labeled the church +"schizophrenic and paranoid" and "corrupt, sinister and dangerous." +Yet the outrage and litigation have failed to squelch +Scientology. The group, which boasts 700 centers in 65 countries, +threatens to become more insidious and persuasive than ever. +Scientology is trying to go mainstream, a strategy that has sparked a +renewed law-enforcement campaign against the church. Many of the +group's followers have been accused of committing financial scams, +while the church is busy attracting the unwary through a wide array of +front groups in such businesses as publishing, consulting, health care +and even remedial education. +In Hollywood, Scientology has assembled a star-studded roster of +followers by aggressively recruiting and regally pampering them at the +church's "Celebrity Centers," a chain of clubhouses that offers +expensive counseling and career guidance. Adherents include screen +idols Tom Cruise and John Travolta, actresses Kirstie Alley, Mimi +Rogers and Anne Archer, Palm Springs mayor and performer Sonny Bono, +jazzman Chick Corea and even Nancy Cartwright, the voice of cartoon +star Bart Simpson. Rank-and-file members, however, are dealt a less +glamorous Scientology. +According to the Cult Awareness Network, whose 23 chapters +monitor more than 200 "mind control" cults, no group prompts more +telephone please for help than does Scientology. Says Cynthia Kisser, +.the network's Chicago-based executive director: "Scientology is quite +likely most ruthless, the most classically terroristic, the most +litigous and the most lucrative cult the country has ever seen. No +cult extracts more money from its members." Agrees Vicki Aznaran, who +was one of Scientology's six key leaders until she bolted from the +church in 1987: "This is a criminal organization, day in and day out. +It makes Jim and Tammy [Bakker] look like kindergarten." +To explore Scientology's reach, TIME conducted more than 150 +interviews and reviewed hundreds of court records and internal +Scientology documents. Church officials refused to be interviewed. +The investigation paints a picture of a depraved yet thriving +enterprise. Most cults fail to outlast their founder, but Scientology +has prospered since Hubbard's death in 1986. In a court filing, one +of the cult's many entities - the Church of Spiritual Technology - +listed $503 million in income just for 1987. High-level defectors say +the parent organization has squirreled away an estimated $400 million +in bank accounts in Leichtenstein, Switzerland and Cyprus. +Scientology probably has about 50000 members, far fewer than the 8 +million the group claims. But in one sense, that inflated figure +rings true: Millions of people have been affected in one way or +another by Hubbard's bizarre creation. +Scientology is now run by David Miscavige, 31, a high school +dropout and second-generation church member. Defectors describe him +as cunning, ruthless and so paranoid about perceived enemies that he +kept plastic wrap over his glass of water. His obsession is to attain +credibility for Scientology in the 1990s. Among other tactics, the +group: +* Retains public relations powerhouse Hill and Knowlton to help +shed the church's fringe-group image. +* Joined such household names as Sony and Pepsi as a main sponsor +of Ted Turner's Goodwill Games. +* Buys massive quantities of its own books from retail stores to +propel the titles onto best-seller lists. +* Runs full-page ads in such publications as NEWSWEEK and +BUSINESS WEEK that call Scientology a "philosophy," along with a +plethora a TV ads touting the group's books. +* Recruits wealthy and respectable professionals through a web of +consulting groups that typically hide their ties to Scientology. +The founder of this enterprise was part storyteller, part +flimflam man. Born in Nebraska in 1911, Hubbard was a moderately +successful writer of pulp science fiction. Years later, church +brochures described him falsely as an "extensively decorated" World +War II hero who was crippled and blinded in action, twice pronounced +dead and miraculously cured through Scientology. Hubbard's +"doctorate" from "Sequoia University" was a fake mail-order degree. +In a 1984 case in which the church sued a Hubbard biographical +researcher, a California judge concluded that its founder was a +"pathological liar." +Hubbard wrote one of Scientology's sacred texts, "Dianetics: The +Modern Science of Mental Health," in 1950. In it he introduced a +crude psychotherapeutic technique he called "auditing." He also +created a simplified lie detector (called an "E-meter") that was +designed to measure electrical charges in the skin while subjects +discussed intimate details of their past. Hubbard argued that +unhappiness sprang from mental aberrations (or "engrams") caused by +early traumas. Counseling sessions with the E-meter, he claimed, +could knock out the engrams, cure blindness and even improve a +person's intelligence and appearance. +Hubbard kept adding steps, each more costly, for his followers to +climb. In the 1960s the guru decreed that humans are made of clusters +of spirits (or "thetans") who were banished to earth some 75 million +years ago by a cruel galactic ruler named Xenu. Naturally, those +thetans had to be audited. +An Internal Revenue Service ruling in 1967 stripped Scientology's +mother church of its tax-exempt status. A federal court ruled in 1971 +that Hubbard's medical claims were bogus and that E-meter auditing +.could no longer be called a scientific treatment. Hubbard responded +by going fully religious, seeking First Amendment protection for +Scientology's strange rites. His counselors started sporting clerical +collars. Chapels were built, franchises became "missions" fees became +"fixed donations," and Hubbard's comic-book cosmology became "sacred +scriptures." +During the early 1970's, the IRS conducted its own auditing +session and proved that Hubbard was skimming millions of dollars from +the church, laundering the money through dummy corporations in Panama +and stashing it in Swiss bank accounts. Moreover, church members +stole IRS documents, filed false tax returns and harassed the agency's +employees. By late 1985, with high-level defectors accusing Hubbard +of having stolen as much as $200 million from the church, the IRS was +seeking an indictment of Hubbard for tax fraud. Scientology members +"worked day and night" shredding documents the IRS sought, according +to defector Aznaran, who took part in the scheme. Hubbard, who had +been in hiding for five years, died before the criminal case could be +prosecuted. +Today the church invents costly new services with all the zeal of +its founder. Scientology doctrine warns that even adherents who are +"cleared" of engrams face grave spiritual dangers unless they are +pushed to higher and more expensive sessions that cost as much as +$1000 an hour, or $12500 for a 12 1/2-hour "intensive." +Psychiatrists say these sessions can produce a drugged-like, +mind-controlled euphoria that keeps customers coming back for more. +To pay their fees, newcomers can earn commissions by recruiting new +members, become auditors themselves (Miscavige did so at age 12), or +join the church staff and receive free counseling in exchange for what +their written contracts describe as a "billion years" of labor. "Make +sure that lots of bodies move through the shop," implored Hubbard in +one of his bulletins to officials. "Make money. Make more money. +Make others produce so as to make money...however you get them in or +why, just do it." +Harriet Baker learned the hard way about Scientology's business +of selling religion. When Baker, 73, lost her husband to cancer, a +Scientologist turned up at her Los Angeles home peddling a $1300 +auditing package to cure her grief. Some $15000 later, the +Scientologists discovered that her home was debt free. They arranged +a $45000 mortgage, which they pressured her to tape for more auditing +until Baker's children helped their mother snap out of her daze. Last +June, Baker demanded a $27000 refund for unused services, prompting +two cult members to show up at her door unannounced with an E-meter to +interrogate her. Baker never got the money and, financially strapped, +was forced to sell her house in September. +Before Noah Lattick killed himself, he had paid more than $5000 +for church counseling. His behavior had also become strange. He once +remarked to his parents that his Scientology mentors could actually +read minds. When his father suffered a major heart attack, Noah +insisted that it was purely psychosomatic. Five days before he +jumped, Noah burst into his parents' home and demanded to know why +they were spreading "false rumors" about him - a delusion that finally +prompted his father to call a psychiatrist. +It was too late. "From Noah's friends at Dianetics" read the +card that accompanied a bouquet of flowers at Lottick's funeral. Yet +no Scientology staff member bothered to show up. A week earlier, +local church officials had given Lottick's parents a red-carpet tour +of their center. A cult leader told Noah's parents that their son had +been at the church just hours before he disappeared - but the church +denied this story as soon as the body was identified. True to form, +the cult even haggled with the Lotticks over $3000 their son had paid +for services he never used, insisting that Noah had intended it as a +"donation." +The church has invented hundreds of goods and services for which +members are urged to give "donations." Are you having trouble "moving +swiftly up the Bridge" - that is advancing up the stepladder of +enlightenment? Then you can have your case reviewed for a mere $1250 +."donation." Want to know "why a thetan hangs on to the physical +universe?" Try 52 of Hubbard's tape-recorded speeches from 1952, +titled "Ron's Philadelphia Doctorate Course Lectures," for $2525. +Next: Nine other series of the same sort. For the collector, +gold-and-leather-bound editions of 22 of Hubbard's books (and +bookends) on subjects ranging from Scientology ethics to radiation can +be had for just $1900. +To gain influence and lure richer, more sophisticated followers, +Scientology has lately resorted to a wide array of front groups and +financial scams. Among them: + +CONSULTING. Sterling Management Systems, formed in 1983, has been +ranked in recent years by INC. magazine as one of America's +fastest-growing private companies (estimated 1988 revenues: $20 +million). Sterling regularly mails a free newsletter to more than +300000 health-care professionals, mostly dentists, promising to +increase their incomes dramatically. The firm offers seminars and +courses that typically cost $10000. But Sterling's true aim is to +hook customers for Scientology. "The church has a rotten product, so +they package it as something else," says Peter Georgiades, a +Pittsburgh attorney who represents Sterling victims. "It's a kind of +bait and switch." Sterling's founder, dentist Gregory Hughes, is now +under investigation by California's Board of Dental Examiners for +incompetence. Nine lawsuits are pending against him for malpractice +(seven others have been settled), mostly for orthodontic work on +children. +Many dentists who have unwittingly been drawn into the cult are +filing or threatening lawsuits as well. Dentist Robert Geary of +Medina, Ohio, who entered a Sterling seminar in 1988, endured "the +most extreme high-pressure sales tactics I have ever faced." Sterling +officials told Geary, 45, that their firm was not linked to +Scientology, he says. But Geary claims they eventually convinced him +that he and his wife had personal problems that required auditing. +Over five months, the Gearys say, they spent $130000 for services, +plus $50000 for "gold-embossed, investment-grade" books signed by +Hubbard. Geary contends that Scientologists not only called his bank +to increase his credit-card limit but also forged his signature on a +$20000 loan application. "It was insane," he recalls. "I couldn't +even get an accounting from them of what I was paying for." At one +point, the Gearys claim, Scientologists held Dorothy hostage for two +weeks in a mountain cabin, after which she was hospitalized for a +nervous breakdown. +Last October, Sterling broke some bad news to another dentist, +Glover Rowe of Gadsden, Ala., and his wife Dee. Tests showed that +unless they signed up for auditing, Glover's practice would fail, and +Dee would someday abuse their child. The next month the Rowes flew to +Glendale, Calif., where they shuttled daily from a local hotel to a +Dianetics center. "We thought they were brilliant people because they +seemed to know so much about us," recalls Dee. "Then we realize our +hotel room must have been bugged." After bolting from the center, +$23000 poorer, the Rowes say, they were chased repeatedly by +Scientologists on foot and in cars. Dentists aren't the only ones at +risk. Scientology also makes pitches to chiropractors, podiatrists +and veterinarians. + +PUBLIC INFLUENCE. One front, the Way to Happiness Foundation, has +distributed to children in thousands of the nation's public schools +more than 3.5 million copies of a booklet Hubbard wrote on morality. +The church calls the scheme "the largest dissemination project in +Scientology history." Applied Scholastics is the name of still +another front, which is attempting to install a Hubbard tutorial +program in public schools, primarily those populated by minorities. +The group also plans a 1000-acre campus, where it will train +educators to teach various Hubbard methods. The disingenuously named +Citizens Commission on Human Rights is a Scientology group at war with +psychiatry, its primary competitor. The commission typically issues +.reports aimed at discrediting particular psychiatrics and the field in +general. The CCHR is also behind an all-out war against Eli Lilly, +the maker of Prozac, the nation's top-selling antidepression drug. +Despite scant evidence, the group's members - who are calling +themselves "psychbusters" - claim that Prozac drives people to murder +or suicide. Through mass mailings, appearances on talk shows and +heavy lobbying, CCHR has hurt drug sales and helped spark dozens of +lawsuits against Lilly. +Another Scientology-linked group, the Concerned Businessmen's +Association of America, holds antidrug contests and awards $5000 +grants to schools as a way to recruit students and curry favor with +education officials. West Virginia Senator John D. Rockefeller IV +unwittingly commended the CBAA in 1987 on the Senate floor. Last +August author Alex Haley was the keynote speaker at its annual awards +banquet in Los Angeles. Says Haley: "I didn't know much about that +group going in. I'm a Methodist." Ignorance about Scientology can be +embarassing: two months ago, Illinois Governor Jim Edgar, noting that +Scientology's founder "has solved the aberrations of the human mind," +proclaimed March 13 "L. Ron Hubbard Day." He rescinded the +proclamation in late March, once he learned who Hubbard really was. + +HEALTH CARE. HealthMed, a chain of clinics run by Scientologists, +promotes a grueling and excessive system of saunas, exercise and +vitamins designed by Hubbard to purify the body. Experts denounce the +regime as quackery and potentially harmful, yet HealthMed solicits +unions and public agencies for contracts. The chain is plugged +heavily in a new book, "Diet for a Poisoned Planet," by journalist +David Steinman, who concludes that scores of common foods (among them: +peanuts, bluefish, peaches and cottage cheese) are dangerous. +Former Surgeon general C. Everett Koop labeled the book "Trash," +and the Food and Drug Administration issued a paper in October that +claims Steinman distorts his facts. "HealthMed is a gateway to +Scientology, and Steinman's book i a sorting mechanism," says +physician William Jarvis, who is head of the National Council Against +Health Fraud. Steinman, who describes Hubbard favorably as a +"researcher," denies any ties to the church and contends, "HealthMed +has no affiliation that I know of with Scientology." + +DRUG TREATMENT. Hubbard's purification treatments are the mainstay of +Narconon, a Scientology-run chain of 33 alcohol and drug +rehabilitation centers - some in prisons under the name "Criminon" - +in 12 countries. Narconon, a classic vehicle for drawing addicts into +the cult, now plans to open what it calls the world's largest +treatment center, a 1400-bed facility on an Indian reservation near +Newkirk, Okla. (Pop. 2400). At a 1989 ceremony in Newkirk, the +Association for Better Living and Education presented Narconon with a +check for $200000 and a study praising its work. The association +turned out to be part of Scientology itself. Today the town is +battling to keep out the cult, which has fought back through such +tactics as sending private detectives to snoop on the mayor and the +local newspaper publisher. + +FINANCIAL SCAMS. Three Florida Scientologists, including Robert +Bernstein, a big contributor to the church's international "war +chest," pleaded guilty in March to using their rare-coin dealership as +a money laundry. Other notorious activities by Scientologists include +making the shady Vancouver stock exchange even shadier (see +accompanying article) and plotting to plant operatives in the World +Bank, International Monetary Fund and Export-Import Bank of the U.S. +The alleged purpose of this scheme: to gain inside information on +which countries are going to be denied credit so that +Scientology-linked traders can make illicit profits by taking "short" +positions in those countries' currencies. +In the stock market the practice of "shorting" involved borrowing +shares of publicly traded companies in the hope that the price will go +down before the stocks must be brought on the market and returned to +.the lender. The Feshbach brothers of Palo Alto, Calif. - Kurt, Joseph +and Matthew - have become the leading short sellers in the U.S., with +more than $500 million under management. The Feshbachs command a +staff of about 60 employees and claim to have earned better returns +than the Dow Jones industrial average for most of the 1980's. And, +they say, they owe it all to the teachings of Scientology, whose "war +chest" has received more than $1 million from the family. +The Feshbachs also embrace the church's tactics; the brothers are +the terrors of the stock exchanges. In congressional hearings in +1989, the heads of several companies claimed that Feshbach operatives +have spread false information to to government agencies and posed in +various guises - such as a Securities and Exchange Commission official +- in an effort to discredit the companies and drive the stocks down. +Michael Russell, who ran a chain of business journals, testified that +a Feshbach employee called his bankers and interfered with his loans. +Sometimes the Feshbachs send private detectives to dig up dirt on +firms, which is then shared with business reporters, brokers and fund +managers. +The Feshbachs, who wear jackets bearing the slogan "stock +busters," insist they run a clean shop. but as part of a possible +probe into insider stock trading, federal officials are reportedly +investigating whether the Feshbachs received confidential information +from FDA employees. The brothers seem aligned with Scientology's war +on psychiatry and medicine: many of their targets are health and +biotechnology firms. "Legitimate short selling performs a public +service by deflating hyped stocks," says Robert Flaherty, the editor +of EQUITIES magazine and a harsh critic of the brothers. "But the +Feshbachs have damaged scores of good start-ups." +Occasionally a Scientologist's business antics land him in jail. +Last August a former devotee named Steven Fishman began serving a +five-year prison term in Florida. His crime: stealing blank +stock-confirmation slips from his employer, a major brokerage house, +to use as proof that he owned stock entitling him to join dozens of +successful class-action lawsuits. Fishman made roughly $1 million +this way from 1983 to 1986 and spent as much as 30% of the loot on +Scientology books and tapes. +Scientology denies any tie to the Fishman scam, a claim strongly +disputed by both Fishman and his longtime psychiatrist, Uwe Geertz, a +prominent Florida hypnotist. Both men claim that when arrested, +Fishman was ordered by the church to kill Geertz and then do an "EOC," +or end of cycle, which is church jargon for suicide. + +BOOK PUBLISHING. Scientology mischiefmaking has even moved to the +book industry. Since 1985 at least a dozen Hubbard books, printed by +a church company, have made best-seller lists. They range from a +5000-page sci-fi decalogy ("Black Genesis," "The Enemy Within," "An +Alien Affair") to the 40-year-old "Dianetics." In 1988 the trade +publication PUBLISHERS WEEKLY awarded the dead author a plaque +commemorating the appearance of "Dianetics" on its best-seller list +for 100 consecutive weeks. +Critics pan most of Hubbard's books as unreadable, while +defectors claim that church insiders are sometimes the real authors. +Even so, Scientology has sent out armies of its followers to buy the +group's books at such major chains as B. Dalton's and Waldenbooks to +sustain the illusion of a best-selling author. A former Dalton's +manager says some books arrived in his store with the chain's price +stickers already on them, suggesting that copies are being recycled. +Scientology claims that sales of Hubbard's books now top 90 million +worldwide. The sceme, set up to gain converts and credibility, is +coupled with a radio and TV advertising campaign virtually +unparalleled in the book industry. +Scientology devotes vast resources to squelching its critics. +Since 1986 Hubbard and his church have been the subject of four +unfriendly books, all published by small yet courageous publishers. +In each case, the writers have been badgered and heavily sued. One of +Hubbard's policies was that all perceived enemies are "fair game" and +.subject to being "tricked, lied to or destroyed." those who criticize +the church - journalists, doctors, lawyers and even judges - often +find themselves engulfed in litigation, stalked by private eyes, +framed for fictional crimes, beaten up or threatened with death. +Psychologist Margaret Singer, 69, an outspoken Scientology critic and +professor at the University of California, Berkeley, now travels +regularly under an assumed name to avoid harassment. +After the Los Angeles TIMES published a negative series on the +church last summer, Scientologists spent an estimated $1 million to +plaster the reporters' names on hundreds of billboards and bus +placards across the city. Above their names were quotations taken out +of context to portray the church in a positive light. +The church's most fearsome advocates are its lawyers. Hubbard +warned his followers in writing to "beware of attorneys tell you not +to sue...the purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather +than to win." Result: Scientology has brought hundreds of suits +against its perceived enemies and today pays an estimated $20 million +annually to more than 100 lawyers. +One legal goal of Scientology is to bankrupt the opposition or +bury it under paper. The church has 71 active lawsuits against the +IRS alone. One of them, "Miscavige vs. IRS," has required the U.S. to +produce an index of 52000 pages of documents. Boston attorney +Michael Flynn, who helped Scientology victims from 1979 to 1987, +p\personally endured 14 frivolous lawsuits, all of them dismissed. +Another laywer, Joseph Yanny, believes the church "has so subverted +justice and the judicial system that it should be barred from seeking +equity in any court." He should know: Yanny represented the cult +until 1987, when, he says, he was asked to help church officials steal +medical records to blackmail an opposing attorney (who was allegedly +beaten up instead). Since Yanny quit representing the church, he has +been the target of death threats, burglaries, lawsuits and other +harassment. + +Scientology's critics contend that the U.S. needs to crack down +on the church in a major, organized way. "I want to know, Where is +our government?" demands Toby Plevin, a Los Angeles attorney who +handles victims. "It shouldn't be left to private litigators, because +God knows most of us are afraid to get involved." But law-enforcement +agents are also wary. "Every investigator is very cautious, walking +on eggshells when it comes to the church," says a Florida police +detective who has tracked the cult since 1988. "It will take a +federal effort with lots of money and manpower." +So far the agency giving Scientology the most grief is the IRS, +whose officials have implied that Hubbard's successors may be looting +the church's coffers. Since 1988, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld +the revocation of the cult's tax-exempt status, a massive IRS probe of +church centers across the country has been under way. An IRS agent, +Marcus Owens, has estimated that thousands of IRS employees have been +involved. Another agent, in an internal memorandum, spoke hopefully +of the "ultimate disintegration" of the church. A small but helpful +beacon shone last June when a federal appeals court ruled that two +cassette tapes featuring conversations between church officials and +their lawyers are evidence of a plan to commit "future frauds" against +the IRS. +Foreign governments have been moving even more vigorously against +the organization. In Canada the church and nine of its members will +be tried in June on charges of stealing government documents (many of +them retrieved in an enormous police raid of the church's Toronto +headquarters). Scientology proposed to give $1 million to the needy +if the case was dropped, but Canada spurned the offer. Since 1986 +authorities in France, Spain and Italy have raided more than 50 +Scientology centers. Pending charges against more than 100 of its +overseas church members include fraud, extortion, capital flight, +coercion, illegally practicing medicine and taking advantage of +medically incapacitated people. In Germany last month, leading +politicians accused the cult of trying to infiltrate a major party as +.well as launching an immense recruitment drive in the east. +Sometimes even the church's biggest zealots can use a little +protection. Screen star Travolta, 37, has long served as an +unofficial Scientology spokesman, even though he told a magazine in +1983 that he was opposed to the church's management. High-level +defectors claim that Travolta has long feared that if he defected, +details of his sexual life would be made public. "He felt pretty +intimidated about this getting out and he told me so," recalls William +Franks, the church's former chairman of the board. "There were no +outright threats made, but it was implicit. If you leave, they +immediately start digging up everything." Franks was driven out in +1981 after attempting to reform the church. + +The church's former head of security, Richard Aznaran, recalls +Scientology leader Miscavige repeatedly joking to staffers about +Travolta's allegedly promiscuous homosexual behavior. At this point +any threat to expose Travolta seems superfluous: last May a male porn +star collected $100000 from a tabloid for an account of his alleged +two-year liaison with the celebrity. Travolta refuses to comment, and +in December his lawyer dismissed questions about the subject as +"bizarre." Two weeks later, Travolta announced that he was getting +married to actress Kelly Preston, a fellow Scientologist. +Shortly after Hubbard's death the church retained Trout & Reis, a +respected, Connecticut-based firm of marketing consultants, to help +boost its public image. "We were brutally honest," says Jack Trout. +"We advised them to clean up their act, stop with the controversy and +even to stop being a church. They didn't want to hear that." +Instead, Scientology hired one of the country's largest p.r. outfits, +Hill and Knowlton, whose executives refuse to discuss the lucrative +relationship. "Hill and Knowlton must feel that these guys are not +totally off the wall," says Trout. "Unless it's just for the money." +One of Scientology's main strategies it to keep advancing the +tired argument that the church is being "persecuted" by +anti-religionists. It is supported in that position by the American +Civil Liberties Union and the National Council of Churches. But in +the end, money is what Scientology is all about. As long as the +organization's opponents and victims are successfully squelched, +Scientology's managers and lawyers will keep pocketing millions of +dollars by helping it achieve its ends. + + +MINING MONEY IN VANCOUVER + +One source of funds for the Los Angeles-based church is the +notorious, self-regulated stock exchange in Vancouver, British +Columbia, often called the scam capital of the world. The exchange's +2300 penny-stock listings account for $4 billion in annual trading. +Local journalists and insiders claim the vast majority range from +total washouts to outright frauds. +Two Scientologists who operate there are Kenneth Gerbino and +Michael Baybak, 20-year church veterans from Beverly Hills who are +major donators to the cult. Gerbino, 45, is a money manager, +marketer, and publisher of a national financial newsletter. He has +boasted in Scientology journals that he owes all his stock-picking +success to L. Ron Hubbard. That's not saying much: Gerbino's +newsletter picks since 1985 have cumulatively returned 24%, while the +Dow Jones industrial average has more than doubled. Nevertheless +Gerbino's short-term gains can be stupendous. A survey last October +found Gerbino to be the only manager who made money in the third +quarter of 1990, thanks to gold and other resource stocks. For the +first quarter of 1991, Gerbino was dead last. Baybak, 49, who runs a +public relations company staffed with Scientologists, apparently has +no ethics problem with engineering a hostile takeover of a firm he is +hired to promote. +Neither man agreed to be interviewed for this story, yet both +threatened legal action through attorneys. "What these guys do is +.take over companies, hype the stock, sell their shares, and then +there's nothing left," says John Campbell, a former securities lawyer +who was director of mining company Athena Gold until Baybak and +Gerbino took it over. +The pattern has become familiar. The pair promoted a mining +venture called Skylark Resources, whose stock traded at nearly $4 a +share in 1987. The outfit soon crashed, and the stock is around 2 +cents. NETI Technologies, a software company, was trumpeted in the +press as "the next Xerox" and in 1984 rose to a market value of $120 +million with Baybak's help. The company, which later collapsed, was +delisted two months ago by the Vancouver exchange. +Baybak appeared in 1989 at the helm of Wall Street Ventures, a +start-up that announced it owned 35 tons of rare Middle Eastern +postage stamps - worth $100 million - and was buying the world's +largest collection of southern Arabian stamps (worth $350 million). +Steven C. Rockefeller Jr. of the oil family and former hockey star +Dennis Potvin joined the company in top posts, but both say they quit +when they realized the stamps were virtually worthless. "The stamps +were created by sand-dune nations to exploit collectors," says Michael +Laurence, editor of LINN'S STAMP NEWS, America's largest stamp +journal. After the stock topped $6, it began a steady descent, with +Baybak unloading his shares along the way. Today it trades at 18 +cents. +Athena Gold, the current object of Baybak and Gerbino's +attentions, was founded by entrepreneur William Jordan. He turned to +an established Vancouver broker in 1987 to help finance the company, a +4500-acre mining property near Reno. The broker promised to raise +more than $3 million and soon brought Baybak and Gerbino into the +deal. Jordan never got most of the money, but the cult members ended +up with a good deal of cheap stock and options. Next time they +elected directors who were friendly to them and set in motion a series +of complex maneuvers to block Jordan from voting stock he controlled +and to run him out of the company. "I've been an honest policeman all +my life and I've seen the worst kinds of crimes, and this ranks high," +says former Athena shareholder Thomas Clark, a 20-year veteran of +Reno's police force who has teamed up with Jordan to try to get the +gold mine back. "They stole this man's property." +With Baybak as chairman, the two Scientologists and their staffs +are promoting Athena, not always accurately. A letter to shareholders +with the 1990 annual report claims Placer Dome, one of America's +largest gold-mining firms, has committed at least $25.5 million to +develop the mine. That's news to Placer Dome. "There is no +pre-commitment," says Placer executive Cole McFarland. "We're not +going to spend that money unless survey results justify the +expenditure." +Baybak's firm represented Western Resource Technologies, a +Houston oil-and-gas company, but got the boot in October. Laughs +Steven McGuire, president of Western Resource: "His is a p.r. firm in +need of a p.r. firm." But McGuire cannot laugh too freely. Baybak +and other Scientologists, including the estate of L. Ron Hubbard, +still control huge blocks of his company's stock. + +THE SCIENTOLOGISTS AND ME + +Strange things seem to happen to people who write about +Scientology, Journalist Paulette Cooper wrote a critical book about +the cult in 1971. This led to a Scientology plot (called Operation +Freak-Out) whose goal, according to church documents, was "to get P.C. +incarcerated in a mental institution or jail." It almost worked: By +impersonating Cooper, Scientologists got her indicted in 1973 for +threatening to bomb the church. Cooper, who also endured 19 lawsuits +by the church, was finally exonerated in 1977 after FBI raids on the +church offices in Los Angeles and Washington uncovered documents from +the bomb scheme. No Scientologists were ever tried in the matter. +For the TIME story, at least 10 attorneys and six private +detectives were unleashed by Scientology and its followers in an +.effort to threaten, harass, and discredit me. Last Oct. 12, not long +after I began this assignment, I planned to lunch with Eugene Ingram, +the church's leading private eye and a former cop. Ingram, who was +tossed off the Los Angeles police force in 1981 for alleged ties to +prostitutes and drug dealers, has told me that he might be able to +arrange a meeting with church boss David Miscavige. Just hours before +the lunch, the church's "national trial counsel," Earle Cooley, called +to inform me that I would be eating alone. +Alone, perhaps, but not forgotten. By day's end, I later +learned, a copy of my personal credit report - with detailed +information about my bank accounts, home mortgage, credit-card +payments, home address and Social Security number - had been illegally +retrieved from a national credit bureau called Trans Union. The sham +company that received it, "Educational Funding Services" of Los +Angeles, gave as its address a mail drop a few blocks from +Scientology's headquarters. +The owner of the mail drop is a private eye named Fred Wolfson, +who admits that an Ingram associate retained him to retrieve credit +reports on several individuals. Wolfson says he was told that +Scientology's attorneys "had judgments against these people and were +trying to collect on them." He says now, "They are vicious people. +They are vipers." Ingram, though a lawyer, denies any involvement in +the scam. +During the past five months, private investigators have been +contacting acquaintances of mine, ranging from neighbors to a former +colleague, to inquire about subjects such as my health (like my credit +rating, it's excellent) and whether I've ever had trouble with the IRS +(unlike Scientology, I haven't). One neighbor was greeted at dawn +outside my Manhattan apartment building by two men who wanted to know +whether I lived there. I finally called Cooley to demand that +Scientology stop the nonsense. He promised to look into it. +After that, however, an attorney subpoenaed me, while another +falsely suggested that I might own shares in a company I was reporting +about that had been taken over by Scientologists (he also threatened +to call the Securities and Exchange Commission). A close friend in +Los Angeles received a disturbing telephone call from a Scientology +staff member seeking data about me - an indication that the cult may +have illegally obtained my personal phone records. Two detectives +contacted me, posing as a friend and a relative of a so-called cult +victim, to elicit negative statements from me about Scientology. Some +of my conversations with them were taped, transcribed and presented by +the church in affidavits to TIME's lawyers as "proof" of my bias +against Scientology. +Among the comments I made to one of the detectives, who +represented himself as "Harry Baxter," a friend of the victim's +family, was that "the church trains people to lie." Baxter and his +colleagues are hardly in a position to dispute that observation. His +real name is Barry Silvers, and he is a former investigator for the +Justice Department's Organized Crime Strike Force. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +.

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INTRODUCTION: URGENT!

+ +

On July 5, 1987 the front page of the Miami Herald +Newspaper carried a now famous article describing secret +White House plans to:

+ +

A.) DECLARE AN UNDEFINED "NATIONAL EMERGENCY,"

+ +

B.) RE-OPEN CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR PREVENTIVE +DETENTION OF LEGAL DISSIDENTS CERTAIN ETHNIC +GROUPS, AND

+ +

C.) SUSPEND OUR UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION

+ +
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+ +

Those of us viewing the Iran-Contragate hearings, +then being broadcast live on TV, had our curiousity peaked +when one committee member began inquiring about an article +alleging secret White House plans to suspend the +Constitution.

+ +

We were even more puzzled when committee chair +Daniel Inouye interrupted him demanding all discussion on +that question take place in closed session, out of public +hearing.

+ +

Not content to wonder, I researched the original +article, transcribed it, and now present it to you for your +urgent consideration. You have a right to read this. In +fact, you'd better know about it because it's about secret +White House plans to remove your rights by SUSPENDING OUR +UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. It's about a government which +we, the people, did NOT elect but which has gained power +nonetheless.

+ +

What follows is not the whole story but a crucial +and overlooked part of it. Read "between the lines" and +very carefully. This is not some paranoid's nightmare or +some fanatic's fantasy. This is reality in the Reagan White +House.

+ +
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+ +

Please copy this article and circulate it among +your friends and co-workers. If George Bush gets into the +White House, we'll have "elected," or had selected for us, +precisely the same carnivorous crew comprising The Secret +Government referred to in this article.

+ +
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+ +

First, I offer three appropriate quotes which +provide a certain perspective in which to view what follows. +Then, I present the "sidebar" articles which +summarized and accompanied the main article. +Finally, I give you the complete text of the +original article, unedited and uncensored. While local +papers ignored this historic article or presented only +extracts from it, none of them gave you this, the entire +text.

+ +
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+ +

The following did not appear with the original +article but they provide a certain appropriate perspective +on it:

+ +

"Perception of reality is sometimes +more important than reality itself." +-Henry Kissenger

+ +

"He who controls the past, controls the future. +He who controls the present, controls the past." +-O'Brian, the dictator +in George Orwell's novel "1984"

+ +

"If you don't like the news, +go out and make some of your own!" +-Scoop Nisker

+ +
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from THE MIAMI HERALD....SUNDAY JULY 5, 1987....page one:

+ +

SOME SECRET ACTIVITIES

+ +

Sources say the parallel government behind the +Reagan administration engaged in secret actions +including:

+ +

A CONTINGENCY plan to suspend Constitution and impose +martial law in United States in case of nuclear +war or national rebellion.

+ +

1985 VISIT to Libya by William Wilson, then U.S. ambassador +to Vatican and close Reagan friend, to meet with +Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

+ +

HAVING ROUTES of sophisticated surveillance satellites +altered to follow Soviet ships around world.

+ +

LAUNCHING of spy aircraft on secret missions over Cuba and +Nicaragua.

+ +

PROPOSAL in 1981 to provide covert support of anti-Sandinista groups that fled Nicaragua after +Sandinista revolution in 1979.

+ +

DISSEMINATION of information that cast Nicaragua as threat +to neighbors and United States.

+ +
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+ +

Before Reagan was elected, campaign aides who +became the president's top advisers carried out +these secret activities:

+ +

CREATION in 1980 of October Surprise Group to monitor +President Carter's negotiations with Iran for +release of 52 American hostages. Group met with +man who claimed to represent Iran and who offered +to release hostages to Reagan. Offer declined, +officials say.

+ +

ACQUISITION of stolen confidential briefing materials from +Carter's campaign before Oct. 28, 1980, Carter-Reagan debate.

+ +
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+ +

[photo captions:]

+ +

PRINCIPALS:

+ +

William Clark: Allowed bigger North role at NSC. +William Casey: Kept guard on President Carter

+ +
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+ +

What follows is the complete text of the original article as +printed in the Miami Herald for July 5, 1987:

+ +

REAGAN AIDES AND THE 'SECRET' GOVERNMENT

+ +

by ALFONSO CHARDY, HERALD WASHINGTON BUREAU

+ +

WASHINGTON -- Some of President Reagan's top +advisers have operated a virtual parallel government outside +the traditional Cabinet departments and agencies almost from +the day Reagan took office, congressional investigators and +administration officials have concluded.

+ +

Investigators believe that the advisers' +activities extended well beyond the secret arms sales to +Iran and aid to the contras now under investigation.

+ +

Lt. Col. Oliver North, for example, helped draw up +a controversial plan to suspend the Constitution in the +event of a national crisis, such as nuclear war, violent and +widespread internal dissent or national opposition to a U.S. +military invasion abroad.

+ +

When the attorney general at the time, William +French Smith, learned of the proposal, he protested in +writing to North's boss, then-national security adviser +Robert McFarlane.

+ +

The advisers conducted their activities through +secret contacts throughout the government with persons who +acted at their direction but did not officially report to +them.

+ +

The activities of those contacts were coordinated +by the National Security Council, the officials and +investigators said.

+ +

There appears to have been no formal directive for +the advisers' activities, which knowledgeable sources +described as a parallel government.

+ +

In a secret assessment of the activities, the lead +counsel for the Senate Iran-contra committee called it a +"secret government-within-a-government."

+ +

The arrangement permitted Reagan administration +officials to claim that they were not involved in +controversial or illegal activities, the officials said.

+ +

"It was the ultimate plausible deniability," said +a well-briefed official who has served the Reagan +administration since 1982 and who often collaborated on +covert assistance to the Nicaraguan contras.

+ +

The roles of top-level officials and of Reagan +himself are still not clear. But that is expected to be a +primary topic when North appears before the Iran-contra +committees beginning Tuesday. Special prosecutor Lawrence +Walsh also is believed to be trying to prove in his +investigation of the Iran-contra affair that government +officials engaged in a criminal conspiracy.

+ +

ADVISERS FORMED SHADOW GOVERNMENT, PROBERS SAY

+ +

Much of the time, Cabinet secretaries and their +aides were unaware of the advisers' activities. When they +periodically detected operations, they complained or tried +to derail them, interviews show.

+ +

But no one ever questioned the activities in a +broad way, possibly out of a belief that the advisers were +operating with presidential +sanction, officials said.

+ +

Reagan did know of or approve at least some of the +actions of the secret group, according to previous accounts +by aides, friends and high-ranking foreign officials.

+ +

One such case is the 1985 visit to Libya by +William Wilson, then-U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and a +close Reagan friend, to meet with Libyan leader Col. Moammar +Gadhafi, officials said last week. Secretary of State +George Shultz rebuked Wilson, but the officials said Reagan +knew of the trip in advance.

+ +

The heart of the secret structure from 1983 to +1986 was North's office in the Old Executive Office Building +adjacent to the White House, investigators believe.

+ +

North's influence within the secret structure was +so great, the sources said, that he was able to have the +orbits of sophisticated surveillance satellites altered to +follow Soviet ships around the world, call for the launching +of high-flying spy aircraft on secret missions over Cuba and +Nicaragua and become involved in sensitive domestic +activities.

+ +

Many initiatives

+ +

Others in the structure included some of Reagan's +closest friends and advisers, including former national +security adviser William Clark, the late CIA Director +William Casey and Attorney General Edwin Meese, officials +and investigators said.

+ +

Congressional investigators said the Iran deal was +just one of the group's initiatives. They say exposure of +the unusual arrangement may be the legacy of their inquiry.

+ +

"After we establish that a policy decision was +made at the highest levels to transfer responsibility for +contra support to the NSC..., we favor examining how that +decision was implemented," wrote Arthur Liman, chief counsel +of the Senate committee, in a secret memorandum to panel +leaders Sens. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, and Warren Rudman, R-N.H., before hearings began May 5.

+ +

"This is the part of the story that reveals the +whole secret government-within-a-government, operated from +the [Executive Office Building] by a Lt. Col., with its own +army, air force, diplomatic agents, intelligence operatives +and appropriations capacity," Limon wrote in the memo, parts +of which were shared with The Herald.

+ +

A spokesman for Liman declined comment but did not +dispute the memo's existence.

+ +

A White House official rejected the notion that +any of Reagan's advisers were operating secretly.

+ +

"The president has constantly expressed his +foreign policy positions to the public and has consulted +with the Congress," the official said.

+ +

Began in 1980

+ +

Congressional investigators and current and former +officials interviewed -- members of the CIA, State +Department and Pentagon -- said they still do not have a +full record of the impact of the the advisers' activities.

+ +

But based on investigations and personal +experience, they believe the secret governing arrangement +traces its roots to the last weeks of Reagan's 1980 +campaign.

+ +

Officials say the genesis may have been an October +1980 decision by Casey, Reagan's campaign manager and a +former officer in the World War II precursor of the CIA, to +create an October Surprise Group to monitor Jimmy Carter's +feverish negotiations with Iran for the release of 52 +American hostages.

+ +

The group, led by campaign foreign policy adviser +Richard Allen, was founded out of concern Carter might pull +off an "October surprise" such as a last-minute deal for the +release of the hostages before the Nov. 4 election. One of +the group's first acts was a meeting with a man claiming to +represent Iran who offered to release the hostages to +Reagan.

+ +

Allen -- Reagan's first national security adviser-- +and another campaign aide, Laurence Silberman, told The +Herald in April of the meeting. they said McFarlane, then a +Senate Armed Services Committee aide, arranged and attended +it. McFarlane later became Reagan's national security +adviser and played a key role in the Iran-contra affair. +Allen and Silberman said they rejected the offer to release +the hostages to Reagan.

+ +

Briefing book theft

+ +

Congressional aides now link another well-known +campaign incident -- the theft of confidential briefing +materials from Carter's campaign before the Oct. 28, 1980, +Carter-Reagan debate -- to the same group of advisers.

+ +

They believe that Casey obtained the briefing +materials and passed them to James Baker, another top +Reagan campaign aide, who was White House chief of staff in +Reagan's first term.

+ +

Once Reagan was sworn in, the group moved quickly +to set itself up, officials said. Within months, the +advisers were clashing with officials in the traditional +agencies.

+ +

Six weeks after Reagan was sworn in, apparently +over State Department objections, then-CIA director Casey +submitted a proposal to Reagan calling for covert support of +anti-Sandinista groups that had fled Nicaragua after the +1979 revolution.

+ +

[THE IRAN-CONTRA CONNECTION: +NORTH HAD BIG ROLE IN INNER CIRCLE, INVESTIGATORS SAY]

+ +

It is still unclear whether Casey cleared the plan +with Reagan. But In November 1981 the CIA secretly flew an +Argentine military leader, Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri, to +Washington to devise a secret agreement under which +Argentine military officers trained Nicaraguan rebels, +according to an administration official familiar with the +agreement.

+ +

About the same time, North completed his transfer +to the NSC from the Marine Corps. Those who worked with +North in 1981 remember his first assignments as routine, +although not unimportant.

+ +

North, they recalled, was briefly assigned to +carry the "football," the briefcase containing the secret +contingency plans for fighting a nuclear war, which is taken +everywhere the president goes. North later widened his +assignment to cover national crisis contingency planning. +In that capacity he became involved with the controversial +national crisis plan drafted by the Federal Emergency +Management Agency.

+ +

NATIONAL CRISIS PLAN

+ +

From 1982 to 1984, North assisted FEMA, the U.S. +government's chief national crisis-management unit, in +revising contingency plans for dealing with nuclear war, +insurrection or massive military mobilization.

+ +

North's involvement with FEMA set off the first +major clash between the official government and the advisers +and led to the formal letter of protest in 1984 from then-Attorney General Smith.

+ +

Smith was in Europe last week and could not be +reached for comment.

+ +

But a government official familiar with North's +collaboration with FEMA said then-Director Louis O. +Guiffrida, a close friend of Meese's, mentioned North in +meetings during that time as FEMA's NSC contact.

+ +

Guiffrida could not be reached for comment, but +FEMA spokesman Bill McAda confirmed the relationship.

+ +

"Officials of FEMA met with Col. North during 1982 +to 1984," McAda said. "These meetings were appropriate to +Col. North's duties with the National Security Council and +FEMA's responsibilities in certain areas of national +security."

+ +

FEMA's clash with Smith occurred over a secret +contingency plan that called for suspension of the +Constitution, turning control of the United States over to +FEMA, appointment of military commanders to run state and +local governments and declaration of martial law during a +national crisis.

+ +

The plan did not define national crisis, but it +was understood to be nuclear war, violent and widespread +internal dissent or national opposition against a military +invasion abroad.

+ +

PLAN WAS PROTESTED

+ +

The official said the contingency plan was written +as part of an executive order or legislative package that +Reagan would sign and hold within the NSC until a severe +crisis arose.

+ +

The martial law portions of the plan were outlined +in a June 30, 1982, memo by Guiffrida's deputy for national +preparedness programs, John Brinkerhoff. A copy of the memo +was obtained by The Herald.

+ +

The scenario outlined in the Brinkerhoff memo +resembled somewhat a paper Guiffrida had written in 1970 at +the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., in which he advocated +martial law in case of a national uprising by black +militants. The paper also advocated the roundup and +transfer to "assembly centers or relocation camps" of at +least 21 million "American Negroes."

+ +

When he saw the FEMA plans, Attorney General Smith +became alarmed. He dispatched a letter to McFarlane Aug. 2, +1984 lodging his objections and urging a delay in signing +the directive.

+ +

"I believe that the role assigned to the Federal +Emergency Management Agency in the revised Executive Order +exceeds its proper function as a coordinating agency for +emergency preparedness," Smith said in the letter to +McFarlane, which The Herald obtained. "This department and +others have repeatedly raised serious policy and legal +objections to the creation of an 'emergency czar' role for +FEMA."

+ +

It is unclear whether the executive order was +signed or whether it contained the martial law plans. +Congressional sources familiar with national disaster +procedures said they believe Reagan did sign an executive +order in 1984 that revised national military mobilization +measures to deal with civilians in case of nuclear war or +other crisis.

+ +

ORCHESTRATED NEWS LEAKS

+ +

Around the time that issue was producing fireworks +with the administration, McFarlane and Casey reassigned +North from national crisis planning to international covert +management of the contras. The transfer came after North +took a personal interest, realizing that neither the State +Department nor any other government agency wanted to handle +the issue after it became clear early in 1984 that Congress +was moving to bar official aid to the rebels.

+ +

The new assignment, plus North's natural +organizational ability, creativity and the sheer energy he +dedicated to the issue, gradually led to an expansion of his +power and stature within the covert structure, officials and +investigators believe.

+ +

Meese also was said to have played a role in the +secret government, investigators now believe, but his role +is less clear.

+ +

Meese sometimes referred private American citizens +to the NSC so they could be screened and contacted for +soliciting support for the Nicaraguan contras.

+ +

One of those supporters, Philip Mabry of Fort +Worth, told The Herald earlier this year that in 1983 he was +told by fellow conservatives in Texas to contact Meese, then +White House counselor, if he wanted to help the contras. +After he contacted Meese's office, Mabry received a letter +from Meese obtained by The Herald advising him that his name +had been given to the "appropriate people."

+ +

Shortly thereafter, Mabry said, a woman who +identified herself as Meese's secretary gave him the name +and phone number of another NSC secretary who, in turn, gave +him North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, as contacts.

+ +

Meese's Justice Department spokesman, Patrick +Korten, denies that Meese was part of North's secret contra +supply network and notes that Meese does not recall having +referred anyone to North on contra-related matters.

+ +

In addition to North's role as contra commander +and fund-raiser, North became secret overseer of the State +Department's Office of Public Diplomacy, through which the +Reagan administration disseminated information that cast +Nicaragua as a threat to its neighbors and the United +States.

+ +

An intelligence source familiar with North's +relationship with that office said North was directly +involved in many of the best publicized news leaks, +including the Nov. 4, 1984, Election Day announcement that +Soviet-made MiG jet fighters were on their way to Nicaragua.

+ +

McFarlane is now believed to have been the senior +administration official who told reporters that the Soviet +cargo ship Bakuriani, en route to Nicaragua from a Soviet +Black Sea port, was probably carrying MiGs.

+ +

The intelligence official said North apparently +recommended that the information be leaked to the press on +Election Day so it would reach millions of people watching +election results. CBS and NBC broadcast the report that +night.

+ +

CLARK HAD KEY ROLE

+ +

The leak led to a new clash between the regular +bureaucracy and the president's advisers. The official +State Department spokesman, John Hughes, tried hard to play +down the report, pointing out that it was unproven that the +Bakuriani was carrying MiGs. At the same time, employees of +the Office of Public Diplomacy, acting under North's +direction, insisted that the crates were inside the ship and +that MiGs were still a possibility.

+ +

To take a closer look, the source said, North +requested a high-flying SR-71 Blackbird spy aircraft be sent +from Beale Air Force Base near Sacramento, Calif., to fly +over the Nicaraguan port of Corinto while the Bakuriani +unloaded its cargo. The pictures showed that the Bakuriani +unloaded helicopters, not MiGs.

+ +

North was not the only adviser who operated +outside traditional government channels, investigators have +concluded.

+ +

Others were known as the RIGLET, a semi-official +unit made up of North; Alan Fiers, a CIA Central American +affairs officer; and Elliott Abrams, the current assistant +secretary of state for inter-American affairs, according to +Abrams' subordinate Richard Melton. Melton revealed the +existence of the RIGLET in a deposition given to the Iran-contra committees. The name is a diminutive for RIG, which +stands for Restricted Interagency Group.

+ +

Among the RIGLET's actions was ordering the U.S. +ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, to assist the contras +in setting up a front in southern Nicaragua. Tambs, who +resigned suddenly last year after his links to North were +revealed, testified about the instructions to Iran-contra +investigators.

+ +

But perhaps the key to the parallel government was +the role played by Reagan's second national security +adviser, William Clark. It was during Clark's tenure that +North began to gain influence in the NSC.

+ +

Clark also recruited several midlevel officers +from the Pentagon and the CIA to work on a special Central +American task force in 1983 to push aid for El Salvador, a +task force member said.

+ +

"Judge Clark was the granddaddy of the system," he +said. "I was working at the Pentagon on another issue when +my boss said that because of special circumstances, I was to +be reassigned to the task force."

+ +

A former administration official familiar with +Clark's activities said Clark also had approved contacts +between Vatican Ambassador Wilson and Libya before Wilson's +November 1985 journey, which came after McFarlane replaced +Clark at the NSC.

+ +

The former official said Wilson also had carried +out secret missions for the Reagan administration in a Latin +American country where Wilson reportedly maintained contacts +with high-level officials. The source asked that the +country not be identified because the system is still in +place and had reduced tensions by circumventing the regular +bureaucracies of both countries.

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Calls to Wilson's and Clark's offices in +California were not returned.

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JOHN STOCKWELL

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THE SECRET WARS OF THE CIA

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10 October 1987

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A two-part speech.

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Copyright (C) 1987 The Other Americas Radio +John Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the +agency and go public. He ran a CIA intelligence-gathering post in +Vietnam, was the task-force commander of the CIA's secret war in +Angola in 1975 and 1976, and was awarded the Medal of Merit before he +resigned. Stockwell's book In Search of Enemies, published by W.W. +Norton 1978, is an international best-seller. This is a transcript of +a lecture he gave in June, 1986.

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+ +

PART I

+ +

THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL AND THE +CIA'S COVERT ACTIONS IN ANGOLA, CENTRAL AMERICA AND VIETNAM

+ +

"I did 13 years in the CIA altogether. I sat on a subcommittee of +the NSC, so I was like a chief of staff, with the GS-18s (like 3-star +generals) Henry Kissinger, Bill Colby (the CIA director), the GS-18s +and the CIA, making the important decisions and my job was to put it +all together and make it happen and run it, an interesting place from +which to watch a covert action being done....

+ +

I testified for days before the Congress, giving them chapter and +verse, date and detail, proving specific lies. They were asking if we +had to do with S. Africa, that was fighting in the country. In fact +we were coordinating this operation so closely that our airplanes, +full of arms from the states, would meet their airplanes in Kinshasa +and they would take our arms into Angola to distribute to our forces +for us....

+ +

What I found with all of this study is that the subject, the +problem, if you will, for the world, for the U.S. is much, much, much +graver, astronomically graver, than just Angola and Vietnam. I found +that the Senate Church committee has reported, in their study of +covert actions, that the CIA ran several thousand covert actions since +1961, and that the heyday of covert action was before 1961; that we +have run several hundred covert actions a year, and the CIA has been +in business for a total of 37 years.

+ +

What we're going to talk about tonight is the United States national +security syndrome. We're going to talk about how and why the U.S. +manipulates the press. We're going to talk about how and why the U.S. +is pouring money into El Salvador, and preparing to invade Nicaragua; +how all of this concerns us so directly. I'm going to try to explain +to you the other side of terrorism; that is, the other side of what +Secretary of State Shultz talks about. In doing this, we'll talk +about the Korean war, the Vietnam war, and the Central American war.

+ +

Everything I'm going to talk to you about is represented, one way or +another, already in the public records. You can dig it all out for +yourselves, without coming to hear me if you so chose. Books, based +on information gotten out of the CIA under the freedom of information +act, testimony before the Congress, hearings before the Senate Church +committee, research by scholars, witness of people throughout the +world who have been to these target areas that we'll be talking about. +I want to emphasize that my own background is profoundly conservative. +We come from South Texas, East Texas....

+ +

I was conditioned by my training, my marine corps training, and my +background, to believe in everything they were saying about the cold +war, and I took the job with great enthusiasm (in the CIA) to join the +best and the brightest of the CIA, of our foreign service, to go out +into the world, to join the struggle, to project American values and +save the world for our brand of democracy. And I believed this. I +went out and worked hard....

+ +

What I really got out of these 6 years in Africa was a sense ... +that nothing we were doing in fact defended U.S. national security +interests very much. We didn't have many national security interests +in Bujumbura, Burundi, in the heart of Africa. I concluded that I +just couldn't see the point.

+ +

We were doing things it seemed because we were there, because it was +our function, we were bribing people, corrupting people, and not +protecting the U.S. in any visible way. I had a chance to go drinking +with this Larry Devlin, a famous CIA case officer who had overthrown +Patrice Lumumba, and had him killed in 1960, back in the Congo. He +was moving into the Africa division Chief. I talked to him in Addis +Ababa at length one night, and he was giving me an explanation - I was +telling him frankly, 'sir, you know, this stuff doesn't make any +sense, we're not saving anybody from anything, and we are corrupting +people, and everybody knows we're doing it, and that makes the U.S. +look bad'.

+ +

And he said I was getting too big for my britches. He said, 'you're +trying to think like the people in the NSC back in Washington who have +the big picture, who know what's going on in the world, who have all +the secret information, and the experience to digest it. If they +decide we should have someone in Bujumbura, Burundi, and that person +should be you, then you should do your job, and wait until you have +more experience, and you work your way up to that point, then you will +understand national security, and you can make the big decisions. +Now, get to work, and stop, you know, this philosophizing.'

+ +

And I said, 'Aye-aye sir, sorry sir, a bit out of line sir'. It's a +very powerful argument, our presidents use it on us. President Reagan +has used it on the American people, saying, 'if you knew what I know +about the situation in Central America, you would understand why it's +necessary for us to intervene.'

+ +

I went back to Washington, however, and I found that others shared +my concern. A formal study was done in the State Department and +published internally, highly classified, called the Macomber [sp?] +report, concluding that the CIA had no business being in Africa for +anything it was known to be doing, that our presence there was not +justified, there were no national security interests that the CIA +could address any better than the ambassador himself. We didn't need +to have bribery and corruption as a tool for doing business in Africa +at that time.

+ +

I went from ... a tour in Washington to Vietnam. And there, my +career, and my life, began to get a little bit more serious. They +assigned me a country. It was during the cease-fire, '73 to '75. +There was no cease-fire. Young men were being slaughtered. I saw a +slaughter. 300 young men that the South Vietnamese army ambushed. +Their bodies brought in and laid out in a lot next to my compound. I +was up-country in Tayninh. They were laid out next door, until the +families could come and claim them and take them away for burial.

+ +

I thought about this. I had to work with the sadistic police chief. +When I reported that he liked to carve people with knives in the CIA +safe-house - when I reported this to my bosses, they said, '(1). The +post was too important to close down. (2). They weren't going to get +the man transferred or fired because that would make problems, +political problems, and he was very good at working with us in the +operations he worked on. (3). Therefore if I didn't have the stomach +for the job, that they could transfer me.'

+ +

But they hastened to point out, if I did demonstrate a lack of +'moral fiber' to handle working with the sadistic police chief, that I +wouldn't get another good job in the CIA, it would be a mark against +my career.

+ +

So I kept the job, I closed the safe-house down, I told my staff +that I didn't approve of that kind of activity, and I proceeded to +work with him for the next 2 years, pretending that I had reformed +him, and he didn't do this sort of thing anymore. The parallel is +obvious with El Salvador today, where the CIA, the state department, +works with the death squads.

+ +

They don't meet the death squads on the streets where they're +actually chopping up people or laying them down on the street and +running trucks over their heads. The CIA people in San Salvador meet +the police chiefs, and the people who run the death squads, and they +do liaise with them, they meet them beside the swimming pool of the +villas. And it's a sophisticated, civilized kind of relationship. +And they talk about their children, who are going to school at UCLA or +Harvard and other schools, and they don't talk about the horrors of +what's being done. They pretend like it isn't true.

+ +

What I ran into in addition to that was a corruption in the CIA and +the intelligence business that made me question very seriously what it +was all about, including what I was doing ... risking my life ... what +I found was that the CIA, us, the case officers, were not permitted to +report about the corruption in the South Vietnamese army....

+ +

Now, the corruption was so bad, that the S. Vietnamese army was a +skeleton army. Colonels would let the troops go home if they would +come in once a month and sign the pay vouchers so the colonel could +pocket the money. Then he could sell half of the uniforms and boots +and M-16's to the communist forces - that was their major supply, just +as it is in El Salvador today. He could use half of the trucks to +haul produce, half of the helicopters to haul heroin.

+ +

And the Army couldn't fight. And we lived with it, and we saw it, +and there was no doubt - everybody talked about it openly. We could +provide all kinds of proof, and they wouldn't let us report it. Now +this was a serious problem because the south was attacked in the +winter of 1975, and it collapsed like a big vase hit by a +sledgehammer. And the U.S. was humiliated, and that was the dramatic +end of our long involvement in Vietnam....

+ +

I had been designated as the task-force commander that would run +this secret war [in Angola in 1975 and 1976].... and what I figured +out was that in this job, I would sit on a sub-committee of the +National Security Council, this office that Larry Devlin has told me +about where they had access to all the information about Angola, about +the whole world, and I would finally understand national security. +And I couldn't resist the opportunity to know. I knew the CIA was not +a worthwhile organization, I had learned that the hard way. But the +question was where did the U.S. government fit into this thing, and I +had a chance to see for myself in the next big secret war....

+ +

I wanted to know if wise men were making difficult decisions based +on truly important, threatening information, threatening to our +national security interests. If that had been the case, I still +planned to get out of the CIA, but I would know that the system, the +invisible government, our national security complex, was in fact +justified and worth while. And so I took the job.... Suffice it to +say I wouldn't be standing in front of you tonight if I had found +these wise men making these tough decisions. What I found, quite +frankly, was fat old men sleeping through sub-committee meetings of +the NSC in which we were making decisions that were killing people in +Africa. I mean literally. Senior ambassador Ed Mulcahy... would go +to sleep in nearly every one of these meetings....

+ +

You can change the names in my book [about Angola] [13] and you've +got Nicaragua.... the basic structure, all the way through including +the mining of harbors, we addressed all of these issues. The point is +that the U.S. led the way at every step of the escalation of the +fighting. We said it was the Soviets and the Cubans that were doing +it. It was the U.S. that was escalating the fighting. There would +have been no war if we hadn't gone in first. We put arms in, they put +arms in. We put advisors in, they answered with advisors. We put in +Zairian para-commando battalions, they put in Cuban army troops. We +brought in the S. African army, they brought in the Cuban army. And +they pushed us away. They blew us away because we were lying, we were +covering ourselves with lies, and they were telling the truth. And it +was not a war that we could fight. We didn't have interests there +that should have been defended that way.

+ +

There was never a study run that evaluated the MPLA, FNLA and UNITA, +the three movements in the country, to decide which one was the better +one. The assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Nathaniel +Davis, no bleeding-heart liberal (he was known by some people in the +business as the butcher of Santiago), he said we should stay out of +the conflict and work with whoever eventually won, and that was +obviously the MPLA. Our consul in Luanda, Tom Killoran, vigorously +argued that the MPLA was the best qualified to run the country and the +friendliest to the U.S.

+ +

We brushed these people aside, forced Matt Davis to resign, and +proceeded with our war. The MPLA said they wanted to be our friends, +they didn't want to be pushed into the arms of the Soviet Union; they +begged us not to fight them, they wanted to work with us. We said +they wanted a cheap victory, they wanted a walk-over, they wanted to +be un-opposed, that we wouldn't give them a cheap victory, we would +make them earn it, so to speak. And we did. 10000 Africans died and +they won the victory that they were winning anyway.

+ +

Now, the most significant thing that I got out of all of this, in +addition to the fact that our rationales were basically false, was +that we lied. To just about everybody involved. One third of my +staff in this task force that I put together in Washington, commanding +this global operation, pulling strings all over the world to focus +pressure onto Angola, and military activities into Angola, one third +of my staff was propagandists, who were working, in every way they +could think of, to get stories into the U.S. press, the world press, +to create this picture of Cubans raping Angolans, Cubans and Soviets +introducing arms into the conflict, Cubans and Russians trying to take +over the world.

+ +

Our ambassador to the United Nations, Patrick Moynihan, he read +continuous statements of our position to the Security Council, the +general assembly, and the press conferences, saying the Russians and +Cubans were responsible for the conflict, and that we were staying +out, and that we deplored the militarization of the conflict.

+ +

And every statement he made was false. And every statement he made +was originated in the sub-committee of the NSC that I sat on as we +managed this thing. The state department press person read these +position papers daily to the press. We would write papers for him. +Four paragraphs. We would call him on the phone and say, 'call us 10 +minutes before you go on, the situation could change overnight, we'll +tell you which paragraph to read. And all four paragraphs would be +false. Nothing to do with the truth. Designed to play on events, to +create this impression of Soviet and Cuban aggression in Angola. When +they were in fact responding to our initiatives.

+ +

And the CIA director was required by law to brief the Congress. +This CIA director Bill Colby - the same one that dumped our people in +Vietnam - he gave 36 briefings of the Congress, the oversight +committees, about what we were doing in Angola. And he lied. At 36 +formal briefings. And such lies are perjury, and it's a felony to lie +to the Congress.

+ +

He lied about our relationship with South Africa. We were working +closely with the South African army, giving them our arms, +coordinating battles with them, giving them fuel for their tanks and +armored cars. He said we were staying well away from them. They were +concerned about these white mercenaries that were appearing in Angola, +a very sensitive issue, hiring whites to go into a black African +country, to help you impose your will on that black African country by +killing the blacks, a very sensitive issue. The Congress was +concerned we might be involved in that, and he assured them we had +nothing to do with it.

+ +

We had in fact formed four little mercenary armies and delivered +them into Angola to do this dirty business for the CIA. And he lied +to them about that. They asked if we were putting arms into the +conflict, and he said no, and we were. They asked if we had advisors +inside the country, and he said 'no, we had people going in to look at +the situation and coming back out'. We had 24 people sleeping inside +the country, training in the use of weapons, installing communications +systems, planning battles, and he said, we didn't have anybody inside +the country.

+ +

In summary about Angola, without U.S. intervention, 10000 people +would be alive that were killed in the thing. The outcome might have +been peaceful, or at least much less bloody. The MPLA was winning +when we went in, and they went ahead and won, which was, according to +our consul, the best thing for the country.

+ +

At the end of this thing the Cubans were entrenched in Angola, seen +in the eyes of much of the world as being the heroes that saved these +people from the CIA and S. African forces. We had allied the U.S. +literally and in the eyes of the world with the S. African army, and +that's illegal, and it's impolitic. We had hired white mercenaries +and eventually been identified with them. And that's illegal, and +it's impolitic. And our lies had been visible lies. We were caught +out on those lies. And the world saw the U.S. as liars.

+ +

After it was over, you have to ask yourself, was it justified? What +did the MPLA do after they had won? Were they lying when they said +they wanted to be our friends? 3 weeks after we were shut down... the +MPLA had Gulf oil back in Angola, pumping the Angolan oil from the +oilfields, with U.S. gulf technicians protected by Cuban soldiers, +protecting them from CIA mercenaries who were still mucking around in +Northern Angola.

+ +

You can't trust a communist, can you? They proceeded to buy five +737 jets from Boeing Aircraft in Seattle. And they brought in 52 U.S. +technicians to install the radar systems to land and take-off those +planes. They didn't buy [the Soviet Union's] Aeroflot.... David +Rockefeller himself tours S. Africa and comes back and holds press +conferences, in which he says that we have no problem doing business +with the so-called radical states of Southern Africa.

+ +

I left the CIA, I decided that the American people needed to know +what we'd done in Angola, what we'd done in Vietnam. I wrote my book. +I was fortunate - I got it out. It was a best-seller. A lot of +people read it. I was able to take my story to the American people. +Got on 60 minutes, and lots and lots of other shows.

+ +

I testified to the Congress and then I began my education in +earnest, after having been taught to fight communists all my life. I +went to see what communists were all about. I went to Cuba to see if +they do in fact eat babies for breakfast. And I found they don't. I +went to Budapest, a country that even national geographic admits is +working nicely. I went to Jamaica to talk to Michael Manley about his +theories of social democracy.

+ +

I went to Grenada and established a dialogue with Maurice Bishop and +Bernard Cord and Phyllis Cord, to see - these were all educated +people, and experienced people - and they had a theory, they had +something they wanted to do, they had rationales and explanations - +and I went repeatedly to hear them. And then of course I saw the +U.S., the CIA mounting a covert action against them, I saw us +orchestrating our plan to invade the country. 19 days before he was +killed, I was in Grenada talking to Maurice Bishop about these things, +these indicators, the statements in the press by Ronald Reagan, and he +and I were both acknowledging that it was almost certain that the U.S. +would invade Grenada in the near future.

+ +

I read as many books as I could find on the subject - book after +book after book. I've got several hundred books on the shelf over my +desk on the subject of U.S. national security interests. And by the +way, I urge you to read. In television you get capsules of news that +someone else puts together what they want you to hear about the news. +In newspapers you get what the editors select to put in the newspaper. +If you want to know about the world and understand, to educate +yourself, you have to get out and dig, dig up books and articles for +yourself. Read, and find out for yourselves. As you'll see, the +issues are very, very important.

+ +

I also was able to meet the players, the people who write, the +people who have done studies, people who are leading different +situations. I went to Nicaragua a total of 7 times. This was a major +covert action. It lasted longer and evolved to be bigger than what we +did in Angola. It gave me a chance, after running something from +Washington, to go to a country that was under attack, to talk to the +leadership, to talk to the people, to look and see what happens when +you give white phosporous or grenades or bombs or bullets to people, +and they go inside a country, to go and talk to the people, who have +been shot, or hit, or blown up....

+ +

We're talking about 10 to 20 thousand covert actions [the CIA has +performed since 1961]. What I found was that lots and lots of people +have been killed in these things.... Some of them are very, very +bloody.

+ +

The Indonesian covert action of 1965, reported by Ralph McGehee, who +was in that area division, and had documents on his desk, in his +custody about that operation. He said that one of the documents +concluded that this was a model operation that should be copied +elsewhere in the world. Not only did it eliminate the effective +communist party (Indonesian communist party), it also eliminated the +entire segment of the population that tended to support the communist +party - the ethnic Chinese, Indonesian Chinese. And the CIA's report +put the number of dead at 800000 killed. And that was one covert +action. We're talking about 1 to 3 million people killed in these +things.

+ +

Two of these things have led us directly into bloody wars. There +was a covert action against China, destabilizing China, for many, many +years, with a propaganda campaign to work up a mood, a feeling in this +country, of the evils of communist China, and attacking them, as we're +doing in Nicaragua today, with an army that was being launched against +them to parachute in and boat in and destabilize the country. And +this led us directly into the Korean war.

+ +

U.S. intelligence officers worked over Vietnam for a total of 25 +years, with greater and greater involvement, massive propaganda, +deceiving the American people about what was happening. Panicking +people in Vietnam to create migrations to the south so they could +photograph it and show how people were fleeing communism. And on and +on, until they got us into the Vietnam war, and 2000000 people were +killed.

+ +

There is a mood, a sentiment in Washington, by our leadership today, +for the past 4 years, that a good communist is a dead communist. If +you're killing 1 to 3 million communists, that's great. President +Reagan has gone public and said he would reduce the Soviet Union to a +pile of ashes. The problem, though, is that these people killed by +our national security activities are not communists. They're not +Russians, they're not KGB. In the field we used to play chess with +the KGB officers, and have drinks with them. It was like professional +football players - we would knock heads on Sunday, maybe in an +operation, and then Tuesday you're at a banquet together drinking +toasts and talking.

+ +

The people that are dying in these things are people of the third +world. That's the common denominator that you come up with. People of +the third world. People that have the misfortune of being born in the +Metumba mountains of the Congo, in the jungles of Southeast Asia, and +now in the hills of northern Nicaragua. Far more Catholics than +communists, far more Buddhists than communists. Most of them couldn't +give you an intelligent definition of communism, or of capitalism.

+ +

Central America has been a traditional target of U.S. dominion. If +you want to get an easy-read of the history of our involvement in +Central America, read Walter LaFeber's book, Inevitable Revolutions. +[8] We have dominated the area since 1820. We've had a policy of +dominion, of excluding other countries, other industrial powers from +Europe, from competing with us in the area.

+ +

Just to give you an example of how complete this is, and how +military this has been, between 1900 and W.W. II, we had 5000 marines +in Nicaragua for a total of 28 years. We invaded the Dominican +Republic 4 times. Haiti, we occupied it for 12 years. We put our +troops into Cuba 4 times, Panama 6 times, Guatemala once, plus a CIA +covert action to overthrow the democratic government there once. +Honduras, 7 times. And by the way, we put 12000 troops into the +Soviet Union during that same period of time.

+ +

In the 1930's there was public and international pressure about our +marines in Nicaragua....

+ +

The next three leaders of Guatemala [after the CIA installed the +puppet, Colonel Armaz in a coup] died violent deaths, and amnesty +international tells us that the governments we've supported in power +there since then, have killed 80000 people. You can read about that +one in the book Bitter Fruit, by Schlesinger and Kinzer. [5] Kinzer's +a New York Times Journalist... or Jonathan Kwitny, the Wall Street +Journal reporter, his book Endless Enemies [7] - all discuss this....

+ +

However, the money, the millions and millions of dollars we put into +this program [helping Central America] inevitably went to the rich, +and not to the people of the countries involved. And while we were +doing this, while we were trying, at least saying we were trying, to +correct the problems of Central and Latin America, the CIA was doing +its thing, too. The CIA was in fact forming the police units that are +today the death squads in El Salvador. With the leaders on the CIA's +payroll, trained by the CIA and the United States.

+ +

We had the 'public safety program' going throughout Central and +Latin America for 26 years, in which we taught them to break up +subversion by interrogating people. Interrogation, including torture, +the way the CIA taught it. Dan Metrione, the famous exponent of these +things, did 7 years in Brazil and 3 in Uruguay, teaching +interrogation, teaching torture. He was supposed to be the master of +the business, how to apply the right amount of pain, at just the right +times, in order to get the response you want from the individual.

+ +

They developed a wire. They gave them crank generators, with 'U.S. +AID' written on the side, so the people even knew where these things +came from. They developed a wire that was strong enough to carry the +current and fine enough to fit between the teeth, so you could put one +wire between the teeth and the other one in or around the genitals and +you could crank and submit the individual to the greatest amount of +pain, supposedly, that the human body can register.

+ +

Now how do you teach torture? Dan Metrione: 'I can teach you about +torture, but sooner or later you'll have to get involved. You'll have +to lay on your hands and try it yourselves.'

+ +

.... All they [the guinea pigs, beggars from off the streets] could +do was lie there and scream. And when they would collapse, they would +bring in doctors and shoot them up with vitamin B and rest them up for +the next class. And when they would die, they would mutilate the +bodies and throw them out on the streets, to terrify the population so +they would be afraid of the police and the government.

+ +

And this is what the CIA was teaching them to do. And one of the +women who was in this program for 2 years - tortured in Brazil for 2 +years - she testified internationally when she eventually got out. +She said, 'The most horrible thing about it was in fact, that the +people doing the torture were not raving psychopaths.' She couldn't +break mental contact with them the way you could if they were +psychopath. They were very ordinary people....

+ +

There's a lesson in all of this. And the lesson is that it isn't +only Gestapo maniacs, or KGB maniacs, that do inhuman things to other +people, it's people that do inhuman things to other people. And we +are responsible for doing these things, on a massive basis, to people +of the world today. And we do it in a way that gives us this +plausible denial to our own consciences; we create a CIA, a secret +police, we give them a vast budget, and we let them go and run these +programs in our name, and we pretend like we don't know it's going on, +although the information is there for us to know; and we pretend like +it's ok because we're fighting some vague communist threat. And we're +just as responsible for these 1 to 3 million people we've slaughtered +and for all the people we've tortured and made miserable, as the +Gestapo was the people that they've slaughtered and killed. Genocide +is genocide!

+ +

Now we're pouring money into El Salvador. A billion dollars or so. +And it's a documented fact that the... 14 families there that own 60% +of the country are taking out between 2 to 5 billion dollars - it's +called de-capitalization - and putting it in banks in Miami and +Switzerland. Mort Halper, in testifying to a committee of the +Congress, he suggested we could simplify the whole thing politically +just by investing our money directly in the Miami banks in their names +and just stay out of El Salvador altogether. And the people would be +better off.

+ +

Nicaragua. What's happening in Nicaragua today is covert action. +It's a classic de-stabilization program. In November 16, 1981, +President Reagan allocated 19 million dollars to form an army, a force +of contras, they're called, ex-Somoza national guards, the monsters +who were doing the torture and terror in Nicaragua that made the +Nicaraguan people rise up and throw out the dictator, and throw out +the guard. We went back to create an army of these people. We are +killing, and killing, and terrorizing people. Not only in Nicaragua +but the Congress has leaked to the press - reported in the New York +Times, that there are 50 covert actions going around the world today, +CIA covert actions going on around the world today.

+ +

You have to be asking yourself, why are we destabilizing 50 corners +of the troubled world? Why are we about to go to war in Nicaragua, +the Central American war? It is the function, I suggest, of the CIA, +with its 50 de-stabilization programs going around the world today, to +keep the world unstable, and to propagandize the American people to +hate, so we will let the establishment spend any amount of money on +arms....

+ +

The Victor Marquetti ruling of the Supreme Court gave the government +the right to prepublication censorship of books. They challenged 360 +items in his 360 page book. He fought it in court, and eventually +they deleted some 60 odd items in his book.

+ +

The Frank Snep ruling of the Supreme Court gave the government the +right to sue a government employee for damages. If s/he writes an +unauthorized account of the government - which means the people who +are involved in corruption in the government, who see it, who witness +it, like Frank Snep did, like I did - if they try to go public they +can now be punished in civil court. The government took $90000 away +from Frank Snep, his profits from his book, and they've seized the +profits from my own book....

+ +

[Reagan passed] the Intelligence Identities Protection act, which +makes it a felony to write articles revealing the identities of secret +agents or to write about their activities in a way that would reveal +their identities. Now, what does this mean? In a debate in Congress +- this is very controversial - the supporters of this bill made it +clear.... If agents Smith and Jones came on this campus, in an +MK-ultra-type experiment, and blew your fiance's head away with LSD, +it would now be a felony to publish an article in your local paper +saying, 'watch out for these 2 turkeys, they're federal agents and +they blew my loved one's head away with LSD'. It would not be a +felony what they had done because that's national security and none of +them were ever punished for those activities.

+ +

Efforts to muzzle government employees. President Reagan has been +banging away at this one ever since. Proposing that every government +employee, for the rest of his or her life, would have to submit +anything they wrote to 6 committees of the government for censorship, +for the rest of their lives. To keep the scandals from leaking out... +to keep the American people from knowing what the government is really +doing.

+ +

Then it starts getting heavy. The 'Pre-emptive Strikes' bill. +President Reagan, working through the Secretary of State Shultz... +almost 2 years ago, submitted the bill that would provide them with +the authority to strike at terrorists before terrorists can do their +terrorism. But this bill... provides that they would be able to do +this in this country as well as overseas. It provides that the +secretary of state would put together a list of people that he +considers to be terrorist, or terrorist supporters, or terrorist +sympathizers. And if your name, or your organization, is put on this +list, they could kick down your door and haul you away, or kill you, +without any due process of the law and search warrants and trial by +jury, and all of that, with impunity.

+ +

Now, there was a tremendous outcry on the part of jurists. The New +York Times columns and other newspapers saying, 'this is no different +from Hitler's "night in fog" program', where the government had the +authority to haul people off at night. And they did so by the +thousands. And President Reagan and Secretary Shultz have +persisted.... Shultz has said, 'Yes, we will have to take action on +the basis of information that would never stand up in a court. And +yes, innocent people will have to be killed in the process. But, we +must have this law because of the threat of international terrorism'.

+ +

Think a minute. What is 'the threat of international terrorism'? +These things catch a lot of attention. But how many Americans died in +terrorist actions last year? According to Secretary Shultz, 79. Now, +obviously that's terrible but we killed 55000 people on our highways +with drunken driving; we kill 2500 people in far nastier, bloodier, +mutilating, gang-raping ways in Nicaragua last year alone ourselves. +Obviously 79 peoples' death is not enough reason to take away the +protection of American citizens, of due process of the law.

+ +

But they're pressing for this. The special actions teams that will +do the pre-emptive striking have already been created, and trained in +the defense department.

+ +

They're building detention centers. There were 8 kept as mothballs +under the McLaren act after World War II, to detain aliens and +dissidents in the next war, as was done in the next war, as was done +with the Japanese people during World War II. They're building 10 +more, and army camps, and the... executive memos about these things +say it's for aliens and dissidents in the next national emergency....

+ +

FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, headed by Loius +Guiffrida, a friend of Ed Meese's.... He's going about the country +lobbying and demanding that he be given authority, in the times of +national emergency, to declare martial law, and establish a curfew, +and gun down people who violate the curfew... in the United States.

+ +

And then there's Ed Meese, as I said. The highest law enforcement +officer in the land, President Reagan's closest friend, going around +telling us that the constitution never did guarantee freedom of speech +and press, and due process of the law, and assembly.

+ +

What they are planning for this society, and this is why they're +determined to take us into a war if we'll permit it... is the Reagan +revolution.... So he's getting himself some laws so when he puts in +the troops in Nicaragua, he can take charge of the American people, +and put people in jail, and kick in their doors, and kill them if they +don't like what he's doing....

+ +

The question is, 'Are we going to permit our leaders to take away +our freedoms because they have a charming smile and they were nice +movie stars one day, or are we going to stand up and fight, and insist +on our freedoms?' It's up to us - you and I can watch this history +play in the next year and 2 and 3 years.

+ +

PART II

+ +

CIA COVERT OPERATIONS IN CENTRAL AMERICA, CIA MANIPULATION +OF THE PRESS, CIA EXPERIMENTATION ON THE U.S. PUBLIC

+ +

I just got my latest book back from the CIA censors. If I had not +submitted it to them, I would have gone to jail, without trial - blow +off juries and all that sort of thing - for having violated our +censorship laws....

+ +

In that job [Angola] I sat on a sub-committee of the NSC, so I was +like a chief of staff, with the GS-18s (like 3-star generals) Henry +Kissinger, Bill Colby (the CIA director), the GS-18s and the CIA, +making important decisions and my job was to put it all together and +make it happen and run it, an interesting place from which to watch a +covert action being done....

+ +

When the world's gotten blocked up before, like a monopoly game +where everything's owned and nobody can make any progress, the way +they erased the board and started over has been to have big world +wars, and erase countries and bomb cities and bomb banks and then +start from scratch again. This is not an option to us now because of +all these 52000 nuclear weapons....

+ +

The United States CIA is running 50 covert actions, destabilizing +further almost one third of the countries in the world today....

+ +

By the way, everything I'm sharing with you tonight is in the public +record. The 50 covert actions - these are secret, but that has been +leaked to us by members of the oversight committee of the Congress. I +urge you not to take my word for anything. I'm going to stand here +and tell you and give you examples of how our leaders lie. Obviously +I could be lying. The only way you can figure it out for yourself is +to educate yourselves. The French have a saying, 'them that don't do +politics will be done'. If you don't fill your mind eagerly with the +truth, dig it out from the records, go and see for yourself, then your +mind remains blank and your adrenaline pumps, and you can be mobilized +and excited to do things that are not in your interest to do....

+ +

Nicaragua is not the biggest covert action, it is the most famous +one. Afghanistan is, we spent several hundred million dollars in +Afghanistan. We've spent somewhat less than that, but close, in +Nicaragua....

+ +

[When the U.S. doesn't like a government], they send the CIA in, +with its resources and activists, hiring people, hiring agents, to +tear apart the social and economic fabric of the country, as a +technique for putting pressure on the government, hoping that they can +make the government come to the U.S.'s terms, or the government will +collapse altogether and they can engineer a coup d'etat, and have the +thing wind up with their own choice of people in power.

+ +

Now ripping apart the economic and social fabric of course is fairly +textbook-ish. What we're talking about is going in and deliberately +creating conditions where the farmer can't get his produce to market, +where children can't go to school, where women are terrified inside +their homes as well as outside their homes, where government +administration and programs grind to a complete halt, where the +hospitals are treating wounded people instead of sick people, where +international capital is scared away and the country goes bankrupt. +If you ask the state department today what is their official +explanation of the purpose of the Contras, they say it's to attack +economic targets, meaning, break up the economy of the country. Of +course, they're attacking a lot more.

+ +

To destabilize Nicaragua beginning in 1981, we began funding this +force of Somoza's ex-national guardsmen, calling them the contras (the +counter-revolutionaries). We created this force, it did not exist +until we allocated money. We've armed them, put uniforms on their +backs, boots on their feet, given them camps in Honduras to live in, +medical supplies, doctors, training, leadership, direction, as we've +sent them in to de-stabilize Nicaragua. Under our direction they have +systematically been blowing up graineries, saw mills, bridges, +government offices, schools, health centers. They ambush trucks so +the produce can't get to market. They raid farms and villages. The +farmer has to carry a gun while he tries to plow, if he can plow at +all.

+ +

If you want one example of hard proof of the CIA's involvement in +this, and their approach to it, dig up 'The Sabotage Manual', that +they were circulating throughout Nicaragua, a comic-book type of a +paper, with visual explanations of what you can do to bring a society +to a halt, how you can gum up typewriters, what you can pour in a gas +tank to burn up engines, what you can stuff in a sewage to stop up the +sewage so it won't work, things you can do to make a society simply +cease to function.

+ +

Systematically, the contras have been assassinating religious +workers, teachers, health workers, elected officials, government +administrators. You remember the assassination manual? that surfaced +in 1984. It caused such a stir that President Reagan had to address +it himself in the presidential debates with Walter Mondale. They use +terror. This is a technique that they're using to traumatize the +society so that it can't function.

+ +

I don't mean to abuse you with verbal violence, but you have to +understand what your government and its agents are doing. They go +into villages, they haul out families. With the children forced to +watch they castrate the father, they peel the skin off his face, they +put a grenade in his mouth and pull the pin. With the children forced +to watch they gang-rape the mother, and slash her breasts off. And +sometimes for variety, they make the parents watch while they do these +things to the children.

+ +

This is nobody's propaganda. There have been over 100000 American +witnesses for peace who have gone down there and they have filmed and +photographed and witnessed these atrocities immediately after they've +happened, and documented 13000 people killed this way, mostly women +and children. These are the activities done by these contras. The +contras are the people president Reagan calls 'freedom fighters'. He +says they're the moral equivalent of our founding fathers. And the +whole world gasps at this confession of his family traditions.

+ +

Read Contra Terror by Reed Brodie [1], former assistant Attorney +General of New York State. Read The Contras by Dieter Eich. [4] Read +With the Contras by Christopher Dickey. [2] This is a main-line +journalist, down there on a grant with the Council on Foreign +Relations, a slightly to the right of the middle of the road +organization. He writes a book that sets a pox on both your houses, +and then he accounts about going in on patrol with the contras, and +describes their activities. Read Witness for Peace: What We have Seen +and Heard. Read the Lawyer's Commission on Human Rights. Read The +Violations of War on Both Sides by the Americas Watch. [15] And there +are many, many more documentations of details, of names, of the +incidents that have happened.

+ +

Part of a de-stabilization is propaganda, to dis-credit the targeted +government. This one actually began under Jimmy Carter. He +authorized the CIA to go in and try to make the Sandinistas look to be +evil. So in 1979 [when] they came in to power, immediately we were +trying to cast them as totalitarian, evil, threatening Marxists. +While they abolished the death sentence, while they released 8000 +national guardsmen that they had in their custody that they could have +kept in prison, they said 'no. Unless we have evidence of individual +crimes, we're not going to hold someone in prison just because they +were associated with the former administration.' While they set out +to launch a literacy campaign to teach the people to read and write, +which is something that the dictator Somoza, and us supporting him, +had never bothered to get around to doing. While they set out to +build 2500 clinics to give the country something resembling a public +health policy, and access to medicines, we began to label them as +totalitarian dictators, and to attack them in the press, and to work +with this newspaper 'La Prensa', which - it's finally come out and +been admitted, in Washington - the U.S. government is funding: a +propaganda arm.

+ +

[Reagan and the State dept. have] been claiming they're building a +war machine that threatens the stability of Central America. Now the +truth is, this small, poor country has been attacked by the world's +richest country under conditions of war, for the last 5 years. Us and +our army - the death they have sustained, the action they have +suffered - it makes it a larger war proportionally than the Vietnam +war was to the U.S. In addition to the contra activities, we've had +U.S. Navy ships supervising the mining of harbors, we've sent planes +in and bombed the capital, we've had U.S. military planes flying +wing-tip to wing-tip over the country, photographing it, aerial +reconnaissance. They don't have any missiles or jets they can send up +to chase us off. We are at war with them. The have not retaliated +yet with any kind of war action against us, but we do not give them +credit with having the right to defend themselves. So we claim that +the force they built up, which is obviously purely defensive, is an +aggressive force that threatens the stability of all of Central +America.

+ +

We claim the justification for this is the arms that are flowing +from Nicaragua to El Salvador, and yet in 5 years of this activity, +President Reagan hasn't been able to show the world one shred of +evidence of any arms flowing from Nicaragua into El Salvador.

+ +

We launched a campaign to discredit their elections. International +observer teams said these were the fairest elections they have +witnessed in Central America in many years. We said they were +fraudulent, they were rigged, because it was a totalitarian system. +Instead we said, the elections that were held in El Salvador were +models of democracy to be copied elsewhere in the world. And then the +truth came out about that one. And we learned that the CIA had spent +2.2 million dollars to make sure that their choice of candidates - +Duarte - would win. They did everything, we're told, by one of their +spokesmen, indirectly, but stuff the ballot boxes....

+ +

I'll make a footnote that when I speak out, he [Senator Jesse +Helmes] calls me a traitor, but when something happens he doesn't +like, he doesn't hesitate to go public and reveal the secrets and +embarrass the U.S.

+ +

We claim the Sandinistas are smuggling drugs as a technique to +finance their revolution. This doesn't make sense. We're at war with +them, we're dying to catch them getting arms from the Soviet Union, +flying things back and forth to Cuba. We have airplanes and picket +ships watching everything that flies out of that country, and into it. +How are they going to have a steady flow of drug-smuggling planes into +the U.S.? Not likely! However, there are Nicaraguans, on these bases +in Honduras, that have planes flying into CIA training camps in +Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, several times a week.

+ +

Now, obviously i'm not going to stand in front of you and say that +the CIA might be involved in drug trafficking, am I? READ THE BOOK. +Read The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. For 20 years the CIA +was helping the Kuomantang to finance itself and then to get rich, +smuggling heroin. When we took over from the French in 1954 their +intelligence service had been financing itself by smuggling the heroin +out of Laos. We replaced them - we put Air America, the CIA +subsidiary - it would fly in with crates marked humanitarian aid, +which were arms, and it would fly back out with heroin. And the first +target, market, of this heroin was the U.S. GI's in Vietnam. If +anybody in Nicaragua is smuggling drugs, it's the contras. Now i've +been saying that since the state department started waving this red +herring around a couple of years ago, and the other day you notice +President Reagan said that the Nicaraguans, the Sandinistas, were +smuggling drugs, and the DEA said, 'it ain't true, the contras are +smuggling drugs'.

+ +

We claim the Sandinistas are responsible for the terrorism that's +happening anywhere in the world. 'The country club of terrorism' we +call it. There's an incident in Rome, and Ed Meese goes on television +and says, 'that country club in Nicaragua is training terrorists'. We +blame the Sandinistas for the misery that exists in Nicaragua today, +and there is misery, because the world's richest nation has set out to +create conditions of misery, and obviously we're bound to have some +effect. The misery is not the fault of the Sandinistas, it's the +result of our destabilization program. And despite that, and despite +some grumbling in the country, the Sandinistas in their elections got +a much higher percentage of the vote than President Reagan did, who's +supposed to be so popular in this country. And all observers are +saying that people are still hanging together, with the Sandinistas.

+ +

Now it gets tricky. We're saying that the justification for more +aid, possibly for an invasion of the country - and mind you, president +Reagan has begun to talk about this, and the Secretary of Defense +Weinberger began to say that it's inevitable - we claim that the +justification is that the Soviet Union now has invested 500 million +dollars in arms in military to make it its big client state, the +Soviet bastion in this hemisphere. And that's true. They do have a +lot of arms in there now. But the question is, how did they get +invited in? You have to ask yourself, what's the purpose of this +destabilization program? For this I direct you back to the Newsweek +article in Sept. 1981, where they announce the fact that the CIA was +beginning to put together this force of Somoza's ex-guard. Newsweek +described it as 'the only truly evil, totally unacceptable factor in +the Nicaraguan equation'. They noted that neither the white house nor +the CIA pretended it ever could have a chance of winning. So then +they asked, rhetorically, 'what's the point?' and they concluded that +the point is that by attacking the country, you can force the +Sandinistas into a more radical position, from which you have more +ammunition to attack them.

+ +

And that's what we've accomplished now. They've had to get Soviet +aid to defend themselves from the attack from the world's richest +country, and now we can stand up to the American people and say, 'see? +they have all the Soviet aid'. Make no doubt of it, it's the game +plan of the Reagan Administration to have a war in Nicaragua, they +have been working on this since 1981, they have been stopped by the +will of the American people so far, but they're working harder than +ever to engineer their war there.

+ +

Now, CIA destabilizations are nothing new, they didn't begin with +Nicaragua. We've done it before, once or twice. Like the Church +committee, investigating CIA covert action in 1975, found that we had +run several hundred a year, and we'd been in the business of running +covert actions, the CIA has, for 4 decades. You're talking about 10 +to 20 thousand covert actions.

+ +

CIA apologists leap up and say, 'well, most of these things are not +so bloody'. And that's true. You're giving a politician some money +so he'll throw his party in this direction or that one, or make false +speeches on your behalf, or something like that. It may be +non-violent, but it's still illegal intervention in other countries' +affairs, raising the question of whether or not we are going to have a +world in which law, rules of behaviour, are respected, or is it going +to be a world of bullies, where the strongest can violate and +brutalize the weakest, and ignore the laws?

+ +

But many of these things are very bloody indeed, and we know a lot +about a lot of them. Investigations by the Congress, testimony by CIA +directors, testimony by CIA case officers, books written by CIA case +officers, documents gotten out of the government under the freedom of +information act, books that are written by by pulitzer-prize-winning +journalists who've documented their cases. And you can go and read +from these things, classic CIA operations that we know about, some of +them very bloody indeed. Guatemala 1954, Brazil, Guyana, Chile, the +Congo, Iran, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Equador, Uruguay - the CIA +organized the overthrow of constitutional democracies. Read the book +Covert Action: 35 years of Deception by the journalist Godswood. [6] +Remember the Henry Kissinger quote before the Congress when he was +being grilled to explain what they had done to overthrow the +democratic government in Chile, in which the President, Salvador +Allende had been killed. And he said, 'The issues are much too +important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves'.

+ +

We had covert actions against China, very much like what we're doing +against Nicaragua today, that led us directly into the Korean war, +where we fought China in Korea. We had a long covert action in +Vietnam, very much like the one that we're running in Nicaragua today, +that tracked us directly into the Vietnam war. Read the book, The +Hidden History of the Korean War by I. F. Stone. [14] Read Deadly +Deceits by Ralph McGehee [9] for the Vietnam story. In Thailand, the +Congo, Laos, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Honduras, the CIA put together large +standing armies. In Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, the Congo, +Iran, Nicaragua, and Sri Lanka, the CIA armed and encouraged ethnic +minorities to rise up and fight. The first thing we began doing in +Nicaragua, 1981 was to fund an element of the Mesquite indians, to +give them money and training and arms, so they could rise up and fight +against the government in Managua. In El Salvador, Vietnam, Korea, +Iran, Uganda and the Congo, the CIA helped form and train the death +squads.

+ +

In El Salvador specifically, under the 'Alliance for Progress' in +the early 1960's, the CIA helped put together the treasury police. +These are the people that haul people out at night today, and run +trucks over their heads. These are the people that the Catholic +church tells us, have killed something over 50000 civilians in the +last 5 years. And we have testimony before our Congress that as late +as 1982, leaders of the treasury police were still on the CIA payroll.

+ +

Then you have the 'Public Safety Program.' I have to take just a +minute on this one because it's a very important principle involved +that we must understand, if we're to understand ourselves and the +world that we live in. In this one, the CIA was working with police +forces throughout Latin America for about 26 years, teaching them how +to wrap up subversive networks by capturing someone and interrogating +them, torturing them, and then getting names and arresting the others +and going from there. Now, this was such a brutal and such a bloody +operation, that Amnesty International began to complain and publish +reports. Then there were United Nations hearings. Then eventually +our Congress was forced to yield to international pressure and +investigate it, and they found the horror that was being done, and by +law they forced it to stop. You can read these reports -- the Amnesty +International findings, and our own Congressional hearings.

+ +

These things kill people. 800000 in Indonesia alone according to +CIA's estimate, 12000 in Nicaragua, 10000 in the Angolan operation +that I was sitting on in Washington, managing the task force. They +add up. We'll never know how many people have been killed in them. +Obviously a lot. Obviously at least a million. 800000 in Indonesia +alone. Undoubtedly the minimum figure has to be 3 million. Then you +add in a million people killed in Korea, 2 million people killed in +the Vietnam war, and you're obviously getting into gross millions of +people...

+ +

We do not parachute teams into the Soviet Union to haul families out +at night and castrate the father with the children watching, because +they have the Bomb, and a big army, and they would parachute teams +right back into our country and do the same thing to us - they're not +scared of us. For slightly different reasons, but also obvious +reasons, we don't do these things in England, or France, or Germany, +or Sweden, or Italy, or Japan. What comes out at you immediately is +that these 1 to 3 million direct victims, the dead, and in these other +wars, they're people of the third world, they're citizens of countries +that are too small to defend them from United States brutality and +aggression. They're people of the Metumba mountains of the Congo, and +the jungles of Southeast Asia, and now the hills of northern Nicaragua +- 12000 peasants. We have not killed KGB or Russian army advisors in +Nicaragua. We are not killing Cuban advisors. We're not killing very +many Sandinistas. The 12000 that we have killed in Nicaragua are +peasants, who have the misfortune of living in a CIA's chosen +battlefield. Mostly women and children. Communists? Far, far, far +more Catholics than anything else.

+ +

Now case officers that do these things in places in Nicaragua, they +do not come back to the U.S. and click their heels and suddenly become +responsible citizens. They see themselves - they have been +functioning above the laws, of God, and the laws of man - they've come +back to this country, and they've continued their operations as far as +they can get by with them. And we have abundant documentation of that +as well. The MH-Chaos program, exposed in the late 60's and shut +down, re-activated by President Reagan to a degree - we don't have the +details yet - in which they were spending a billion dollars to +manipulate U.S. student, and labor organizations. The MK-ultra +program. For 20 years, working through over 200 medical schools and +mental hospitals, including Harvard medical school, Georgetown, some +of the biggest places we've got, to experiment on American citizens +with disease, and drugs.

+ +

They dragged a barge through San Francisco bay, leaking a virus, to +measure this technique for crippling a city. They launched a whooping +cough epidemic in a Long Island suburb, to see what it would do to the +community if all the kids had whooping cough. Tough shit about the 2 +or 3 with weak constitutions that might die in the process. They put +light bulbs in the subways in Manhattan, that would create vertigo - +make people have double vision, so you couldn't see straight - and hid +cameras in the walls - to see what would happen at rush hour when the +trains are zipping past - if everybody has vertigo and they can't see +straight and they're bumping into each other.

+ +

Colonel White - oh yes, and I can't not mention the disease +experimentations - the use of deadly diseases. We launched - when we +were destabilizing Cuba for 7 years - we launched the swine fever +epidemic, in the hog population, trying to kill out all of the pigs - +a virus. We experimented in Haiti on the people with viruses.

+ +

I'm not saying, I do not have the slightest shred of evidence, that +there is any truth or indication to the rumor that the CIA and its +experimentations were responsible for AIDS. But we do have it +documented that the CIA has been experimenting on people, with +viruses. And now we have some deadly, killer viruses running around +in society. And it has to make you wonder, and it has to make you +worry.

+ +

Colonel White wrote from retirement - he was the man who was in +charge of this macabre program - he wrote, 'I toiled whole-heartedly +in the vineyards because it was fun, fun fun. Where else could a +red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage +with the blessings of the all highest?' Now that program, the +MK-ultra program, was eventually exposed by the press in 1972, +investigated by the Congress, and shut down by the Congress. You can +dig up the Congressional record and read it for yourself.

+ +

There's one book called 'In Search of the Manchurian Candidate'. +It's written by John Marks, based on 14000 documents gotten out of +the government under the Freedom of Information Act. Read for +yourselves. The thing was shut down but not one CIA case officer who +was involved was in any way punished. Not one case officer involved +in these experimentations on the American public, lost a single +paycheck for what they had done.

+ +

The Church committee found that the CIA had co-opted several hundred +journalists, including some of the biggest names in the business, to +pump its propaganda stories into our media, to teach us to hate Fidel +Castro, and Ho Chi Minh, and the Chinese, and whomever. The latest +flap or scandal we had about that was a year and a half ago. Lesley +Gelp, the heavyweight with the New York Times, was exposed for having +been working covertly with the CIA in 1978 to recruit journalists in +Europe, who would introduce stories, print stories that would create +sympathy for the neutron bomb.

+ +

The Church committee found that they had published over 1000 books, +paying someone to write a book, the CIA puts its propaganda lines in +it, the professor or the scholar gets credit for the book and gets the +royalties. The latest flap we had about that was last year. A +professor at Harvard was exposed for accepting 105000 dollars from +the CIA to write a book about the Middle East. Several thousand +professors and graduate students co-opted by the CIA to run its +operations on campuses and build files on students.

+ +

And then we have evidence - now, which has been hard to collect in +the past but we knew it was happening - of CIA agents participating, +trying to manipulate, our elections. FDN, Contra commanders, +traveling this country on CIA plane tickets, going on television and +pin-pointing a Congressional and saying, 'That man is soft on +Communism. That man is a Sandinista lover.' A CIA agent going on +television, trying to manipulate our elections.

+ +

All of this, to keep America safe for freedom and democracy.

+ +

In Nicaragua the objective is to stop the Cuban and Soviet +take-over, we say. Another big operation in which we said the same +thing was Angola, 1975, my little war. We were saying exactly the +same thing - Cubans and Soviets.

+ +

Now I will not going into great detail about this one tonight +because I wrote a book about it, I detailed it. And you can get a +copy of that book and read it for yourselves. I have to urge you, +however - please do not rush out and buy a copy of that book because +the CIA sued me. All of my profits go to the CIA, so if you buy a +copy of the book you'll be donating 65 cents to the CIA. So check it +out from your library!

+ +

If you have to buy a copy, well buy one copy and share it with all +your friends. If your bookstore is doing real well and you want to +just sort of put a copy down in your belt...

+ +

I don't know what the solution is when a society gets into +censorship, government censorship, but that's what we're in now. Do +the rules change? I just got my book back, my latest book back from +the CIA censors. If I had not submitted it to them, I would have gone +to jail, without trial - blow off juries and all that sort of thing - +for having violated our censorship laws....

+ +

So now we have the CIA running the operation in Nicaragua, lying to +us, running 50 covert actions, and gearing us up for our next war, the +Central American war. Let there be no doubt about it, President +Reagan has a fixation on Nicaragua. He came into office saying that +we shouldn't be afraid of war, saying we have to face and erase the +scars of the Vietnam war. He said in 1983, 'We will do whatever is +necessary to reverse the situation in Nicaragua', meaning get rid of +the Sandinistas. Admiral LaRoque, at the Center for Defense +Information in Washington, says this is the most elaborately prepared +invasion that the U.S. has ever done. At least that he's witnessed in +his 40 years of association with our military.

+ +

We have rehearsed the invasion of Nicaragua in operations Big Pine +I, Big Pine II, Ocean Venture, Grenada, Big Pine III. We have troops +right now in Honduras preparing. We've built 12 bases, including 8 +airstrips. Obviously we don't need 8 airstrips in Honduras for any +purpose, except to support the invasion of Nicaragua. We've built +radar stations around, to survey and watch. Some of these ventures +have been huge ones. Hundreds of airplanes, 30000 troops, rehearsing +the invasion of Nicaragua.

+ +

And of course, Americans are being given this negative view of these +evil Communist dictators in Managua, just two days drive from +Harlington, Texas. (They drive faster than I do by the way). I saw +an ad on TV just two days ago in which they said that it was just two +hours from Managua to Texas. All of this getting us ready for the +invasion of Nicaragua, for our next war.

+ +

Most of the people - 75% of the people - are polled as being against +this action. However, President Eisenhower said, 'The people of the +world genuinely want peace. Someday the leadership of the world are +going to have to give in and give it to them'. But to date, the +leaders never have, they've always been able to outwit the people, us, +and get us into the wars when they've chosen to do so.

+ +

People ask, how is this possible? I get this all the time.... +Americans are decent people. They are nice people. And they're +insulated in the worlds that they live in, and they don't understand +and we don't read our history. History is the history of war. Of +leaders of countries finding reasons and rationales to send the young +men off to fight.

+ +

In our country we talk about peace. But look at our own record. We +have over 200 incidents in which we put our troops into other +countries to force them to our will. Now we're being prepared to hate +the Sandinistas. The leaders are doing exactly what they have done +time and again throughout history. In the past we were taught to hate +and fight the Seminole Indians, after the leaders decided to annex +Florida. To hate and fight the Cherokee Indians after they found gold +in Georgia. To hate and fight Mexico twice. We annexed Texas, New +Mexico, Arizona, part of Colorado, and California.

+ +

In each of these wars the leaders have worked to organize, to +orchestrate public opinion. And then when they got people worked up, +they had a trigger that would flash, that would make people angry +enough that we could go in and do....

+ +

We have a feeling that the Vietnam war was the first one in which +the people resisted. But once again, we haven't read our history. +Kate Richards-O'Hare. In 1915, she said about WW I, 'The Women of the +U.S. are nothing but brutesalles, producing sons to be put in the +army, to be made into fertilizer'. She was jailed for 5 years for +anti-war talk.

+ +

The lessons of the Vietnam war for the American people is that it +was a tragic mistake.... 58000 of our own young people were killed, 2 +million Vietnamese were killed. We withdrew, and our position wound +up actually stronger in the Pacific basin.

+ +

You look around this society today to see if there's any evidence of +our preparations for war, and it hits you in the face....

+ +

'Join the Army. Be all that you can be'. Now if there was truth in +advertising, obviously those commercials would show a few seconds of +young men with their legs blown off at the knees, young men with their +intestines wrapped around their necks because that's what war is +really all about.

+ +

If there was honesty on the part of the army and the government, +they would tell about the Vietnam veterans. More of whom died violent +deaths from suicide after they came back from Vietnam then died in the +fighting itself.

+ +

Then you have President Reagan.... He talks about the glory of war, +but you have to ask yourself, where was he when wars were being fought +that he was young enough to fight in them? World War II, and the +Korean war. Where he was was in Hollywood, making films, where the +blood was catsup, and you could wash it off and go out to dinner +afterwards....

+ +

Where was Gordon Liddy when he was young enough to go and fight in a +war? He was hiding out in the U.S. running sloppy, illegal, +un-professional breaking and entering operations. Now you'll forgive +my egotism, at that time I was running professional breaking and +entering operations....

+ +

What about Rambo himself? Sylvester Stallone. Where was Sylvester +Stallone during the Vietnam war? He got a draft deferment for a +physical disability, and taught physical education in a girls' school +in Switzerland during the war.

+ +

Getting back to President Reagan. He really did say that 'you can +always call cruise missiles back'.... Now, you can call back a B-52, +and you can call back a submarine, but a cruise missile is +different.... When it lands, it goes boom!. And I would prefer that +the man with the finger on the button could understand the difference. +This is the man that calls the MX a peace-maker. This is the man +who's gone on television and told us that nuclear war could be +winnable. This is the man who's gone on television and proposed that +we might want to drop demonstration [atom] bombs in Europe to show +people that we're serious people. This is the man who likens the +Contras to the moral equivalents of our own founding fathers. This is +the man who says South Africa is making progress on racial equality. +This is the man who says that the Sandinistas are hunting down and +hounding and persecuting Jews in Nicaragua. And the Jewish leaders go +on TV the next day in this country and say there are 5 Jewish families +in Nicaragua, and they're not having any problems at all. This is the +man who says that they're financing their revolution by smuggling +drugs into the U.S. And the DEA says, 'It ain't true, it's president +Reagan's Contras that are doing it'....

+ +

[When Reagan was governor of California, Reagan] said 'If there has +to be a bloodbath then let's get it over with'. Now you have to think +about this a minute. A leader of the U.S. seriously proposing a +bloodbath of our own youth. There was an outcry of the press, so 3 +days later he said it again to make sure no one had misunderstood him.

+ +

Read. You have to read to inform yourselves. Read The Book of +Quotes [12]. Read On Reagan: The Man and the Presidency [3] by Ronnie +Dugger. It gets heavy. Dugger concludes in his last chapter that +President Reagan has a fixation on Armageddon. The Village Voice 18 +months ago published an article citing the 11 times that President +Reagan publicly has talked about the fact that we are all living out +Armageddon today....

+ +

[Reagan] has Jerry Falwell into the White House. This is the man +that preaches that we should get on our knees and beg for God to send +the rapture down. Hell's fires on earth so the chosen can go up on +high and all the other people can burn in hell's fires on earth. +President Reagan sees himself as playing the role of the greatest +leader of all times forever. Leading us into Armageddon. As he goes +out at the end of his long life, we'll all go out with him....

+ +

Why does the CIA run 10000 brutal covert actions? Why are we +destabilizing a third of the countries in the world today when there's +so much instability and misery already? Why are our leaders now +taking us into another war? Why are we systematically taught to hate +and fight other people?

+ +

What you have to understand is the politics of paranoia. The +easiest... buttons to punch are the buttons of macho, aggression, +paranoia, hate, anger, and fear. The Communists are in Managua and +that's just 2 hours from San Diego, CA. This gets people excited, +they don't think. It's the pep-rally, the football pep-rally factor. +When you get people worked up to hate, they'll let you spend huge +amounts of money on arms.

+ +

Read The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills. [11] Read The Permanent War +Complex by Seymour Melman. [10] CIA covert actions have the function +of keeping the world hostile and unstable....

+ +

We can't take care of the poor, we can't take care of the old, but +we can spend millions, hundreds of millions of dollars to destabilize +Nicaragua....

+ +

Why arms instead of schools? .... They can make gigantic profits off +the nuclear arms race because of the hysteria, and the paranoia, and +the secrecy. And that's why they're committed to building more and +more and more weapons, is because they're committed to making a +profit. And that's what the propaganda, and that's what the hysteria +is all about. Now people say, 'What can I do?'....

+ +

The youth did rise up and stop the Vietnam war....

+ +

We have to join hands with the people in England, and France, and +Germany, and Israel, and the Soviet Union, and China, and India - the +countries that have the bomb, and the others that are trying to get +it. And give our leaders no choice. They have to find some other way +to do business other than to motivate us through hate and paranoia and +anger and killing, or we'll find other leaders to run the country.

+ +

Now, Helen Caldicott, at the end of her lectures, I've heard her +say, very effectively, 'Tell people to get out and get to work on the +problem.... You'll feel better'....

+ +

'What can I do?'.... If you can travel, go to Nicaragua and see for +yourself. Go to the Nevada test site and see for yourself. Go to +Pantex on Hiroshima day this summer, and see the vigil there. The +place where we make 10 nose-cones a day, 70 a week, year in and year +out. He [Admiral LaRock] said, 'I'd tell them, if they feel +comfortable lying down in front of trucks with bombs on them, to lie +down in front of trucks with bombs on them.' But he said, 'I'd tell +them that they can't wait. They've got to start tomorrow, today, and +do it, what they can, every day of their lives'.

+ +

[1] Reed Brody. +Contra Terror. +??, .

+ +

[2] Christopher Dickey. +With the Contras. +??, .

+ +

[3] Dugger, Ronnie. +On Reagan: The Man and the Presidency. +McGraw-Hill, 1983.

+ +

[4] Eich, Dieter. +The Contras: Interviews with Anti-Sandinistas. +Synthesis, 1985.

+ +

[5] Kinzer, Stephan and Stephen Schlesinger. +Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in +Guatemala. +Doubleday, 1983.

+ +

[6] Godswood, Roy (editor). +Covert Actions: 35 Years of Deception. +Transaction, 1980.

+ +

[7] Kwitny, Jonathon. +Endless Enemies: America's Worldwide War Against It's Own Best +Interests. +Congdon and Weed, 1984.

+ +

[8] LaFeber, Walter. +Inevitable Revolutions; The United States in Central America. +Norton, 1984.

+ +

[9] McGehee, Ralph. +Deadly Deceits: My Twenty-Five Years in the CIA. +Sheridan Square, 1983.

+ +

[10] Melman, Seymour. +The Permanent War Complex. +Simon and Shuster, 1974.

+ +

[11] Mills, C. Wright. +The Power Elite. +Oxford, 1956.

+ +

[12] ?? +The Book of Quotes. +McGraw-Hill, 1979.

+ +

[13] Stockwell, John. +In Search of Enemies. +Norton, 1978.

+ +

[14] Stone, I.F. +Hidden History of the Korean War. +Monthly Review, 1969.

+ +

[15] The Americas Watch. +The Violations of War on Both Sides. +??, . +

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JOHN STOCKWELL

+ +

THE SECRET WARS OF THE CIA

+ +

10 October 1987

+ +

A two-part speech.

+ +

Copyright (C) 1987 The Other Americas Radio +John Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the +agency and go public. He ran a CIA intelligence-gathering post in +Vietnam, was the task-force commander of the CIA's secret war in +Angola in 1975 and 1976, and was awarded the Medal of Merit before he +resigned. Stockwell's book In Search of Enemies, published by W.W. +Norton 1978, is an international best-seller. This is a transcript of +a lecture he gave in June, 1986.

+ +

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+ +

PART I

+ +

THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL AND THE +CIA'S COVERT ACTIONS IN ANGOLA, CENTRAL AMERICA AND VIETNAM

+ +

"I did 13 years in the CIA altogether. I sat on a subcommittee of +the NSC, so I was like a chief of staff, with the GS-18s (like 3-star +generals) Henry Kissinger, Bill Colby (the CIA director), the GS-18s +and the CIA, making the important decisions and my job was to put it +all together and make it happen and run it, an interesting place from +which to watch a covert action being done....

+ +

I testified for days before the Congress, giving them chapter and +verse, date and detail, proving specific lies. They were asking if we +had to do with S. Africa, that was fighting in the country. In fact +we were coordinating this operation so closely that our airplanes, +full of arms from the states, would meet their airplanes in Kinshasa +and they would take our arms into Angola to distribute to our forces +for us....

+ +

What I found with all of this study is that the subject, the +problem, if you will, for the world, for the U.S. is much, much, much +graver, astronomically graver, than just Angola and Vietnam. I found +that the Senate Church committee has reported, in their study of +covert actions, that the CIA ran several thousand covert actions since +1961, and that the heyday of covert action was before 1961; that we +have run several hundred covert actions a year, and the CIA has been +in business for a total of 37 years.

+ +

What we're going to talk about tonight is the United States national +security syndrome. We're going to talk about how and why the U.S. +manipulates the press. We're going to talk about how and why the U.S. +is pouring money into El Salvador, and preparing to invade Nicaragua; +how all of this concerns us so directly. I'm going to try to explain +to you the other side of terrorism; that is, the other side of what +Secretary of State Shultz talks about. In doing this, we'll talk +about the Korean war, the Vietnam war, and the Central American war.

+ +

Everything I'm going to talk to you about is represented, one way or +another, already in the public records. You can dig it all out for +yourselves, without coming to hear me if you so chose. Books, based +on information gotten out of the CIA under the freedom of information +act, testimony before the Congress, hearings before the Senate Church +committee, research by scholars, witness of people throughout the +world who have been to these target areas that we'll be talking about. +I want to emphasize that my own background is profoundly conservative. +We come from South Texas, East Texas....

+ +

I was conditioned by my training, my marine corps training, and my +background, to believe in everything they were saying about the cold +war, and I took the job with great enthusiasm (in the CIA) to join the +best and the brightest of the CIA, of our foreign service, to go out +into the world, to join the struggle, to project American values and +save the world for our brand of democracy. And I believed this. I +went out and worked hard....

+ +

What I really got out of these 6 years in Africa was a sense ... +that nothing we were doing in fact defended U.S. national security +interests very much. We didn't have many national security interests +in Bujumbura, Burundi, in the heart of Africa. I concluded that I +just couldn't see the point.

+ +

We were doing things it seemed because we were there, because it was +our function, we were bribing people, corrupting people, and not +protecting the U.S. in any visible way. I had a chance to go drinking +with this Larry Devlin, a famous CIA case officer who had overthrown +Patrice Lumumba, and had him killed in 1960, back in the Congo. He +was moving into the Africa division Chief. I talked to him in Addis +Ababa at length one night, and he was giving me an explanation - I was +telling him frankly, 'sir, you know, this stuff doesn't make any +sense, we're not saving anybody from anything, and we are corrupting +people, and everybody knows we're doing it, and that makes the U.S. +look bad'.

+ +

And he said I was getting too big for my britches. He said, 'you're +trying to think like the people in the NSC back in Washington who have +the big picture, who know what's going on in the world, who have all +the secret information, and the experience to digest it. If they +decide we should have someone in Bujumbura, Burundi, and that person +should be you, then you should do your job, and wait until you have +more experience, and you work your way up to that point, then you will +understand national security, and you can make the big decisions. +Now, get to work, and stop, you know, this philosophizing.'

+ +

And I said, 'Aye-aye sir, sorry sir, a bit out of line sir'. It's a +very powerful argument, our presidents use it on us. President Reagan +has used it on the American people, saying, 'if you knew what I know +about the situation in Central America, you would understand why it's +necessary for us to intervene.'

+ +

I went back to Washington, however, and I found that others shared +my concern. A formal study was done in the State Department and +published internally, highly classified, called the Macomber [sp?] +report, concluding that the CIA had no business being in Africa for +anything it was known to be doing, that our presence there was not +justified, there were no national security interests that the CIA +could address any better than the ambassador himself. We didn't need +to have bribery and corruption as a tool for doing business in Africa +at that time.

+ +

I went from ... a tour in Washington to Vietnam. And there, my +career, and my life, began to get a little bit more serious. They +assigned me a country. It was during the cease-fire, '73 to '75. +There was no cease-fire. Young men were being slaughtered. I saw a +slaughter. 300 young men that the South Vietnamese army ambushed. +Their bodies brought in and laid out in a lot next to my compound. I +was up-country in Tayninh. They were laid out next door, until the +families could come and claim them and take them away for burial.

+ +

I thought about this. I had to work with the sadistic police chief. +When I reported that he liked to carve people with knives in the CIA +safe-house - when I reported this to my bosses, they said, '(1). The +post was too important to close down. (2). They weren't going to get +the man transferred or fired because that would make problems, +political problems, and he was very good at working with us in the +operations he worked on. (3). Therefore if I didn't have the stomach +for the job, that they could transfer me.'

+ +

But they hastened to point out, if I did demonstrate a lack of +'moral fiber' to handle working with the sadistic police chief, that I +wouldn't get another good job in the CIA, it would be a mark against +my career.

+ +

So I kept the job, I closed the safe-house down, I told my staff +that I didn't approve of that kind of activity, and I proceeded to +work with him for the next 2 years, pretending that I had reformed +him, and he didn't do this sort of thing anymore. The parallel is +obvious with El Salvador today, where the CIA, the state department, +works with the death squads.

+ +

They don't meet the death squads on the streets where they're +actually chopping up people or laying them down on the street and +running trucks over their heads. The CIA people in San Salvador meet +the police chiefs, and the people who run the death squads, and they +do liaise with them, they meet them beside the swimming pool of the +villas. And it's a sophisticated, civilized kind of relationship. +And they talk about their children, who are going to school at UCLA or +Harvard and other schools, and they don't talk about the horrors of +what's being done. They pretend like it isn't true.

+ +

What I ran into in addition to that was a corruption in the CIA and +the intelligence business that made me question very seriously what it +was all about, including what I was doing ... risking my life ... what +I found was that the CIA, us, the case officers, were not permitted to +report about the corruption in the South Vietnamese army....

+ +

Now, the corruption was so bad, that the S. Vietnamese army was a +skeleton army. Colonels would let the troops go home if they would +come in once a month and sign the pay vouchers so the colonel could +pocket the money. Then he could sell half of the uniforms and boots +and M-16's to the communist forces - that was their major supply, just +as it is in El Salvador today. He could use half of the trucks to +haul produce, half of the helicopters to haul heroin.

+ +

And the Army couldn't fight. And we lived with it, and we saw it, +and there was no doubt - everybody talked about it openly. We could +provide all kinds of proof, and they wouldn't let us report it. Now +this was a serious problem because the south was attacked in the +winter of 1975, and it collapsed like a big vase hit by a +sledgehammer. And the U.S. was humiliated, and that was the dramatic +end of our long involvement in Vietnam....

+ +

I had been designated as the task-force commander that would run +this secret war [in Angola in 1975 and 1976].... and what I figured +out was that in this job, I would sit on a sub-committee of the +National Security Council, this office that Larry Devlin has told me +about where they had access to all the information about Angola, about +the whole world, and I would finally understand national security. +And I couldn't resist the opportunity to know. I knew the CIA was not +a worthwhile organization, I had learned that the hard way. But the +question was where did the U.S. government fit into this thing, and I +had a chance to see for myself in the next big secret war....

+ +

I wanted to know if wise men were making difficult decisions based +on truly important, threatening information, threatening to our +national security interests. If that had been the case, I still +planned to get out of the CIA, but I would know that the system, the +invisible government, our national security complex, was in fact +justified and worth while. And so I took the job.... Suffice it to +say I wouldn't be standing in front of you tonight if I had found +these wise men making these tough decisions. What I found, quite +frankly, was fat old men sleeping through sub-committee meetings of +the NSC in which we were making decisions that were killing people in +Africa. I mean literally. Senior ambassador Ed Mulcahy... would go +to sleep in nearly every one of these meetings....

+ +

You can change the names in my book [about Angola] [13] and you've +got Nicaragua.... the basic structure, all the way through including +the mining of harbors, we addressed all of these issues. The point is +that the U.S. led the way at every step of the escalation of the +fighting. We said it was the Soviets and the Cubans that were doing +it. It was the U.S. that was escalating the fighting. There would +have been no war if we hadn't gone in first. We put arms in, they put +arms in. We put advisors in, they answered with advisors. We put in +Zairian para-commando battalions, they put in Cuban army troops. We +brought in the S. African army, they brought in the Cuban army. And +they pushed us away. They blew us away because we were lying, we were +covering ourselves with lies, and they were telling the truth. And it +was not a war that we could fight. We didn't have interests there +that should have been defended that way.

+ +

There was never a study run that evaluated the MPLA, FNLA and UNITA, +the three movements in the country, to decide which one was the better +one. The assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Nathaniel +Davis, no bleeding-heart liberal (he was known by some people in the +business as the butcher of Santiago), he said we should stay out of +the conflict and work with whoever eventually won, and that was +obviously the MPLA. Our consul in Luanda, Tom Killoran, vigorously +argued that the MPLA was the best qualified to run the country and the +friendliest to the U.S.

+ +

We brushed these people aside, forced Matt Davis to resign, and +proceeded with our war. The MPLA said they wanted to be our friends, +they didn't want to be pushed into the arms of the Soviet Union; they +begged us not to fight them, they wanted to work with us. We said +they wanted a cheap victory, they wanted a walk-over, they wanted to +be un-opposed, that we wouldn't give them a cheap victory, we would +make them earn it, so to speak. And we did. 10000 Africans died and +they won the victory that they were winning anyway.

+ +

Now, the most significant thing that I got out of all of this, in +addition to the fact that our rationales were basically false, was +that we lied. To just about everybody involved. One third of my +staff in this task force that I put together in Washington, commanding +this global operation, pulling strings all over the world to focus +pressure onto Angola, and military activities into Angola, one third +of my staff was propagandists, who were working, in every way they +could think of, to get stories into the U.S. press, the world press, +to create this picture of Cubans raping Angolans, Cubans and Soviets +introducing arms into the conflict, Cubans and Russians trying to take +over the world.

+ +

Our ambassador to the United Nations, Patrick Moynihan, he read +continuous statements of our position to the Security Council, the +general assembly, and the press conferences, saying the Russians and +Cubans were responsible for the conflict, and that we were staying +out, and that we deplored the militarization of the conflict.

+ +

And every statement he made was false. And every statement he made +was originated in the sub-committee of the NSC that I sat on as we +managed this thing. The state department press person read these +position papers daily to the press. We would write papers for him. +Four paragraphs. We would call him on the phone and say, 'call us 10 +minutes before you go on, the situation could change overnight, we'll +tell you which paragraph to read. And all four paragraphs would be +false. Nothing to do with the truth. Designed to play on events, to +create this impression of Soviet and Cuban aggression in Angola. When +they were in fact responding to our initiatives.

+ +

And the CIA director was required by law to brief the Congress. +This CIA director Bill Colby - the same one that dumped our people in +Vietnam - he gave 36 briefings of the Congress, the oversight +committees, about what we were doing in Angola. And he lied. At 36 +formal briefings. And such lies are perjury, and it's a felony to lie +to the Congress.

+ +

He lied about our relationship with South Africa. We were working +closely with the South African army, giving them our arms, +coordinating battles with them, giving them fuel for their tanks and +armored cars. He said we were staying well away from them. They were +concerned about these white mercenaries that were appearing in Angola, +a very sensitive issue, hiring whites to go into a black African +country, to help you impose your will on that black African country by +killing the blacks, a very sensitive issue. The Congress was +concerned we might be involved in that, and he assured them we had +nothing to do with it.

+ +

We had in fact formed four little mercenary armies and delivered +them into Angola to do this dirty business for the CIA. And he lied +to them about that. They asked if we were putting arms into the +conflict, and he said no, and we were. They asked if we had advisors +inside the country, and he said 'no, we had people going in to look at +the situation and coming back out'. We had 24 people sleeping inside +the country, training in the use of weapons, installing communications +systems, planning battles, and he said, we didn't have anybody inside +the country.

+ +

In summary about Angola, without U.S. intervention, 10000 people +would be alive that were killed in the thing. The outcome might have +been peaceful, or at least much less bloody. The MPLA was winning +when we went in, and they went ahead and won, which was, according to +our consul, the best thing for the country.

+ +

At the end of this thing the Cubans were entrenched in Angola, seen +in the eyes of much of the world as being the heroes that saved these +people from the CIA and S. African forces. We had allied the U.S. +literally and in the eyes of the world with the S. African army, and +that's illegal, and it's impolitic. We had hired white mercenaries +and eventually been identified with them. And that's illegal, and +it's impolitic. And our lies had been visible lies. We were caught +out on those lies. And the world saw the U.S. as liars.

+ +

After it was over, you have to ask yourself, was it justified? What +did the MPLA do after they had won? Were they lying when they said +they wanted to be our friends? 3 weeks after we were shut down... the +MPLA had Gulf oil back in Angola, pumping the Angolan oil from the +oilfields, with U.S. gulf technicians protected by Cuban soldiers, +protecting them from CIA mercenaries who were still mucking around in +Northern Angola.

+ +

You can't trust a communist, can you? They proceeded to buy five +737 jets from Boeing Aircraft in Seattle. And they brought in 52 U.S. +technicians to install the radar systems to land and take-off those +planes. They didn't buy [the Soviet Union's] Aeroflot.... David +Rockefeller himself tours S. Africa and comes back and holds press +conferences, in which he says that we have no problem doing business +with the so-called radical states of Southern Africa.

+ +

I left the CIA, I decided that the American people needed to know +what we'd done in Angola, what we'd done in Vietnam. I wrote my book. +I was fortunate - I got it out. It was a best-seller. A lot of +people read it. I was able to take my story to the American people. +Got on 60 minutes, and lots and lots of other shows.

+ +

I testified to the Congress and then I began my education in +earnest, after having been taught to fight communists all my life. I +went to see what communists were all about. I went to Cuba to see if +they do in fact eat babies for breakfast. And I found they don't. I +went to Budapest, a country that even national geographic admits is +working nicely. I went to Jamaica to talk to Michael Manley about his +theories of social democracy.

+ +

I went to Grenada and established a dialogue with Maurice Bishop and +Bernard Cord and Phyllis Cord, to see - these were all educated +people, and experienced people - and they had a theory, they had +something they wanted to do, they had rationales and explanations - +and I went repeatedly to hear them. And then of course I saw the +U.S., the CIA mounting a covert action against them, I saw us +orchestrating our plan to invade the country. 19 days before he was +killed, I was in Grenada talking to Maurice Bishop about these things, +these indicators, the statements in the press by Ronald Reagan, and he +and I were both acknowledging that it was almost certain that the U.S. +would invade Grenada in the near future.

+ +

I read as many books as I could find on the subject - book after +book after book. I've got several hundred books on the shelf over my +desk on the subject of U.S. national security interests. And by the +way, I urge you to read. In television you get capsules of news that +someone else puts together what they want you to hear about the news. +In newspapers you get what the editors select to put in the newspaper. +If you want to know about the world and understand, to educate +yourself, you have to get out and dig, dig up books and articles for +yourself. Read, and find out for yourselves. As you'll see, the +issues are very, very important.

+ +

I also was able to meet the players, the people who write, the +people who have done studies, people who are leading different +situations. I went to Nicaragua a total of 7 times. This was a major +covert action. It lasted longer and evolved to be bigger than what we +did in Angola. It gave me a chance, after running something from +Washington, to go to a country that was under attack, to talk to the +leadership, to talk to the people, to look and see what happens when +you give white phosporous or grenades or bombs or bullets to people, +and they go inside a country, to go and talk to the people, who have +been shot, or hit, or blown up....

+ +

We're talking about 10 to 20 thousand covert actions [the CIA has +performed since 1961]. What I found was that lots and lots of people +have been killed in these things.... Some of them are very, very +bloody.

+ +

The Indonesian covert action of 1965, reported by Ralph McGehee, who +was in that area division, and had documents on his desk, in his +custody about that operation. He said that one of the documents +concluded that this was a model operation that should be copied +elsewhere in the world. Not only did it eliminate the effective +communist party (Indonesian communist party), it also eliminated the +entire segment of the population that tended to support the communist +party - the ethnic Chinese, Indonesian Chinese. And the CIA's report +put the number of dead at 800000 killed. And that was one covert +action. We're talking about 1 to 3 million people killed in these +things.

+ +

Two of these things have led us directly into bloody wars. There +was a covert action against China, destabilizing China, for many, many +years, with a propaganda campaign to work up a mood, a feeling in this +country, of the evils of communist China, and attacking them, as we're +doing in Nicaragua today, with an army that was being launched against +them to parachute in and boat in and destabilize the country. And +this led us directly into the Korean war.

+ +

U.S. intelligence officers worked over Vietnam for a total of 25 +years, with greater and greater involvement, massive propaganda, +deceiving the American people about what was happening. Panicking +people in Vietnam to create migrations to the south so they could +photograph it and show how people were fleeing communism. And on and +on, until they got us into the Vietnam war, and 2000000 people were +killed.

+ +

There is a mood, a sentiment in Washington, by our leadership today, +for the past 4 years, that a good communist is a dead communist. If +you're killing 1 to 3 million communists, that's great. President +Reagan has gone public and said he would reduce the Soviet Union to a +pile of ashes. The problem, though, is that these people killed by +our national security activities are not communists. They're not +Russians, they're not KGB. In the field we used to play chess with +the KGB officers, and have drinks with them. It was like professional +football players - we would knock heads on Sunday, maybe in an +operation, and then Tuesday you're at a banquet together drinking +toasts and talking.

+ +

The people that are dying in these things are people of the third +world. That's the common denominator that you come up with. People of +the third world. People that have the misfortune of being born in the +Metumba mountains of the Congo, in the jungles of Southeast Asia, and +now in the hills of northern Nicaragua. Far more Catholics than +communists, far more Buddhists than communists. Most of them couldn't +give you an intelligent definition of communism, or of capitalism.

+ +

Central America has been a traditional target of U.S. dominion. If +you want to get an easy-read of the history of our involvement in +Central America, read Walter LaFeber's book, Inevitable Revolutions. +[8] We have dominated the area since 1820. We've had a policy of +dominion, of excluding other countries, other industrial powers from +Europe, from competing with us in the area.

+ +

Just to give you an example of how complete this is, and how +military this has been, between 1900 and W.W. II, we had 5000 marines +in Nicaragua for a total of 28 years. We invaded the Dominican +Republic 4 times. Haiti, we occupied it for 12 years. We put our +troops into Cuba 4 times, Panama 6 times, Guatemala once, plus a CIA +covert action to overthrow the democratic government there once. +Honduras, 7 times. And by the way, we put 12000 troops into the +Soviet Union during that same period of time.

+ +

In the 1930's there was public and international pressure about our +marines in Nicaragua....

+ +

The next three leaders of Guatemala [after the CIA installed the +puppet, Colonel Armaz in a coup] died violent deaths, and amnesty +international tells us that the governments we've supported in power +there since then, have killed 80000 people. You can read about that +one in the book Bitter Fruit, by Schlesinger and Kinzer. [5] Kinzer's +a New York Times Journalist... or Jonathan Kwitny, the Wall Street +Journal reporter, his book Endless Enemies [7] - all discuss this....

+ +

However, the money, the millions and millions of dollars we put into +this program [helping Central America] inevitably went to the rich, +and not to the people of the countries involved. And while we were +doing this, while we were trying, at least saying we were trying, to +correct the problems of Central and Latin America, the CIA was doing +its thing, too. The CIA was in fact forming the police units that are +today the death squads in El Salvador. With the leaders on the CIA's +payroll, trained by the CIA and the United States.

+ +

We had the 'public safety program' going throughout Central and +Latin America for 26 years, in which we taught them to break up +subversion by interrogating people. Interrogation, including torture, +the way the CIA taught it. Dan Metrione, the famous exponent of these +things, did 7 years in Brazil and 3 in Uruguay, teaching +interrogation, teaching torture. He was supposed to be the master of +the business, how to apply the right amount of pain, at just the right +times, in order to get the response you want from the individual.

+ +

They developed a wire. They gave them crank generators, with 'U.S. +AID' written on the side, so the people even knew where these things +came from. They developed a wire that was strong enough to carry the +current and fine enough to fit between the teeth, so you could put one +wire between the teeth and the other one in or around the genitals and +you could crank and submit the individual to the greatest amount of +pain, supposedly, that the human body can register.

+ +

Now how do you teach torture? Dan Metrione: 'I can teach you about +torture, but sooner or later you'll have to get involved. You'll have +to lay on your hands and try it yourselves.'

+ +

.... All they [the guinea pigs, beggars from off the streets] could +do was lie there and scream. And when they would collapse, they would +bring in doctors and shoot them up with vitamin B and rest them up for +the next class. And when they would die, they would mutilate the +bodies and throw them out on the streets, to terrify the population so +they would be afraid of the police and the government.

+ +

And this is what the CIA was teaching them to do. And one of the +women who was in this program for 2 years - tortured in Brazil for 2 +years - she testified internationally when she eventually got out. +She said, 'The most horrible thing about it was in fact, that the +people doing the torture were not raving psychopaths.' She couldn't +break mental contact with them the way you could if they were +psychopath. They were very ordinary people....

+ +

There's a lesson in all of this. And the lesson is that it isn't +only Gestapo maniacs, or KGB maniacs, that do inhuman things to other +people, it's people that do inhuman things to other people. And we +are responsible for doing these things, on a massive basis, to people +of the world today. And we do it in a way that gives us this +plausible denial to our own consciences; we create a CIA, a secret +police, we give them a vast budget, and we let them go and run these +programs in our name, and we pretend like we don't know it's going on, +although the information is there for us to know; and we pretend like +it's ok because we're fighting some vague communist threat. And we're +just as responsible for these 1 to 3 million people we've slaughtered +and for all the people we've tortured and made miserable, as the +Gestapo was the people that they've slaughtered and killed. Genocide +is genocide!

+ +

Now we're pouring money into El Salvador. A billion dollars or so. +And it's a documented fact that the... 14 families there that own 60% +of the country are taking out between 2 to 5 billion dollars - it's +called de-capitalization - and putting it in banks in Miami and +Switzerland. Mort Halper, in testifying to a committee of the +Congress, he suggested we could simplify the whole thing politically +just by investing our money directly in the Miami banks in their names +and just stay out of El Salvador altogether. And the people would be +better off.

+ +

Nicaragua. What's happening in Nicaragua today is covert action. +It's a classic de-stabilization program. In November 16, 1981, +President Reagan allocated 19 million dollars to form an army, a force +of contras, they're called, ex-Somoza national guards, the monsters +who were doing the torture and terror in Nicaragua that made the +Nicaraguan people rise up and throw out the dictator, and throw out +the guard. We went back to create an army of these people. We are +killing, and killing, and terrorizing people. Not only in Nicaragua +but the Congress has leaked to the press - reported in the New York +Times, that there are 50 covert actions going around the world today, +CIA covert actions going on around the world today.

+ +

You have to be asking yourself, why are we destabilizing 50 corners +of the troubled world? Why are we about to go to war in Nicaragua, +the Central American war? It is the function, I suggest, of the CIA, +with its 50 de-stabilization programs going around the world today, to +keep the world unstable, and to propagandize the American people to +hate, so we will let the establishment spend any amount of money on +arms....

+ +

The Victor Marquetti ruling of the Supreme Court gave the government +the right to prepublication censorship of books. They challenged 360 +items in his 360 page book. He fought it in court, and eventually +they deleted some 60 odd items in his book.

+ +

The Frank Snep ruling of the Supreme Court gave the government the +right to sue a government employee for damages. If s/he writes an +unauthorized account of the government - which means the people who +are involved in corruption in the government, who see it, who witness +it, like Frank Snep did, like I did - if they try to go public they +can now be punished in civil court. The government took $90000 away +from Frank Snep, his profits from his book, and they've seized the +profits from my own book....

+ +

[Reagan passed] the Intelligence Identities Protection act, which +makes it a felony to write articles revealing the identities of secret +agents or to write about their activities in a way that would reveal +their identities. Now, what does this mean? In a debate in Congress +- this is very controversial - the supporters of this bill made it +clear.... If agents Smith and Jones came on this campus, in an +MK-ultra-type experiment, and blew your fiance's head away with LSD, +it would now be a felony to publish an article in your local paper +saying, 'watch out for these 2 turkeys, they're federal agents and +they blew my loved one's head away with LSD'. It would not be a +felony what they had done because that's national security and none of +them were ever punished for those activities.

+ +

Efforts to muzzle government employees. President Reagan has been +banging away at this one ever since. Proposing that every government +employee, for the rest of his or her life, would have to submit +anything they wrote to 6 committees of the government for censorship, +for the rest of their lives. To keep the scandals from leaking out... +to keep the American people from knowing what the government is really +doing.

+ +

Then it starts getting heavy. The 'Pre-emptive Strikes' bill. +President Reagan, working through the Secretary of State Shultz... +almost 2 years ago, submitted the bill that would provide them with +the authority to strike at terrorists before terrorists can do their +terrorism. But this bill... provides that they would be able to do +this in this country as well as overseas. It provides that the +secretary of state would put together a list of people that he +considers to be terrorist, or terrorist supporters, or terrorist +sympathizers. And if your name, or your organization, is put on this +list, they could kick down your door and haul you away, or kill you, +without any due process of the law and search warrants and trial by +jury, and all of that, with impunity.

+ +

Now, there was a tremendous outcry on the part of jurists. The New +York Times columns and other newspapers saying, 'this is no different +from Hitler's "night in fog" program', where the government had the +authority to haul people off at night. And they did so by the +thousands. And President Reagan and Secretary Shultz have +persisted.... Shultz has said, 'Yes, we will have to take action on +the basis of information that would never stand up in a court. And +yes, innocent people will have to be killed in the process. But, we +must have this law because of the threat of international terrorism'.

+ +

Think a minute. What is 'the threat of international terrorism'? +These things catch a lot of attention. But how many Americans died in +terrorist actions last year? According to Secretary Shultz, 79. Now, +obviously that's terrible but we killed 55000 people on our highways +with drunken driving; we kill 2500 people in far nastier, bloodier, +mutilating, gang-raping ways in Nicaragua last year alone ourselves. +Obviously 79 peoples' death is not enough reason to take away the +protection of American citizens, of due process of the law.

+ +

But they're pressing for this. The special actions teams that will +do the pre-emptive striking have already been created, and trained in +the defense department.

+ +

They're building detention centers. There were 8 kept as mothballs +under the McLaren act after World War II, to detain aliens and +dissidents in the next war, as was done in the next war, as was done +with the Japanese people during World War II. They're building 10 +more, and army camps, and the... executive memos about these things +say it's for aliens and dissidents in the next national emergency....

+ +

FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, headed by Loius +Guiffrida, a friend of Ed Meese's.... He's going about the country +lobbying and demanding that he be given authority, in the times of +national emergency, to declare martial law, and establish a curfew, +and gun down people who violate the curfew... in the United States.

+ +

And then there's Ed Meese, as I said. The highest law enforcement +officer in the land, President Reagan's closest friend, going around +telling us that the constitution never did guarantee freedom of speech +and press, and due process of the law, and assembly.

+ +

What they are planning for this society, and this is why they're +determined to take us into a war if we'll permit it... is the Reagan +revolution.... So he's getting himself some laws so when he puts in +the troops in Nicaragua, he can take charge of the American people, +and put people in jail, and kick in their doors, and kill them if they +don't like what he's doing....

+ +

The question is, 'Are we going to permit our leaders to take away +our freedoms because they have a charming smile and they were nice +movie stars one day, or are we going to stand up and fight, and insist +on our freedoms?' It's up to us - you and I can watch this history +play in the next year and 2 and 3 years.

+ +

PART II

+ +

CIA COVERT OPERATIONS IN CENTRAL AMERICA, CIA MANIPULATION +OF THE PRESS, CIA EXPERIMENTATION ON THE U.S. PUBLIC

+ +

I just got my latest book back from the CIA censors. If I had not +submitted it to them, I would have gone to jail, without trial - blow +off juries and all that sort of thing - for having violated our +censorship laws....

+ +

In that job [Angola] I sat on a sub-committee of the NSC, so I was +like a chief of staff, with the GS-18s (like 3-star generals) Henry +Kissinger, Bill Colby (the CIA director), the GS-18s and the CIA, +making important decisions and my job was to put it all together and +make it happen and run it, an interesting place from which to watch a +covert action being done....

+ +

When the world's gotten blocked up before, like a monopoly game +where everything's owned and nobody can make any progress, the way +they erased the board and started over has been to have big world +wars, and erase countries and bomb cities and bomb banks and then +start from scratch again. This is not an option to us now because of +all these 52000 nuclear weapons....

+ +

The United States CIA is running 50 covert actions, destabilizing +further almost one third of the countries in the world today....

+ +

By the way, everything I'm sharing with you tonight is in the public +record. The 50 covert actions - these are secret, but that has been +leaked to us by members of the oversight committee of the Congress. I +urge you not to take my word for anything. I'm going to stand here +and tell you and give you examples of how our leaders lie. Obviously +I could be lying. The only way you can figure it out for yourself is +to educate yourselves. The French have a saying, 'them that don't do +politics will be done'. If you don't fill your mind eagerly with the +truth, dig it out from the records, go and see for yourself, then your +mind remains blank and your adrenaline pumps, and you can be mobilized +and excited to do things that are not in your interest to do....

+ +

Nicaragua is not the biggest covert action, it is the most famous +one. Afghanistan is, we spent several hundred million dollars in +Afghanistan. We've spent somewhat less than that, but close, in +Nicaragua....

+ +

[When the U.S. doesn't like a government], they send the CIA in, +with its resources and activists, hiring people, hiring agents, to +tear apart the social and economic fabric of the country, as a +technique for putting pressure on the government, hoping that they can +make the government come to the U.S.'s terms, or the government will +collapse altogether and they can engineer a coup d'etat, and have the +thing wind up with their own choice of people in power.

+ +

Now ripping apart the economic and social fabric of course is fairly +textbook-ish. What we're talking about is going in and deliberately +creating conditions where the farmer can't get his produce to market, +where children can't go to school, where women are terrified inside +their homes as well as outside their homes, where government +administration and programs grind to a complete halt, where the +hospitals are treating wounded people instead of sick people, where +international capital is scared away and the country goes bankrupt. +If you ask the state department today what is their official +explanation of the purpose of the Contras, they say it's to attack +economic targets, meaning, break up the economy of the country. Of +course, they're attacking a lot more.

+ +

To destabilize Nicaragua beginning in 1981, we began funding this +force of Somoza's ex-national guardsmen, calling them the contras (the +counter-revolutionaries). We created this force, it did not exist +until we allocated money. We've armed them, put uniforms on their +backs, boots on their feet, given them camps in Honduras to live in, +medical supplies, doctors, training, leadership, direction, as we've +sent them in to de-stabilize Nicaragua. Under our direction they have +systematically been blowing up graineries, saw mills, bridges, +government offices, schools, health centers. They ambush trucks so +the produce can't get to market. They raid farms and villages. The +farmer has to carry a gun while he tries to plow, if he can plow at +all.

+ +

If you want one example of hard proof of the CIA's involvement in +this, and their approach to it, dig up 'The Sabotage Manual', that +they were circulating throughout Nicaragua, a comic-book type of a +paper, with visual explanations of what you can do to bring a society +to a halt, how you can gum up typewriters, what you can pour in a gas +tank to burn up engines, what you can stuff in a sewage to stop up the +sewage so it won't work, things you can do to make a society simply +cease to function.

+ +

Systematically, the contras have been assassinating religious +workers, teachers, health workers, elected officials, government +administrators. You remember the assassination manual? that surfaced +in 1984. It caused such a stir that President Reagan had to address +it himself in the presidential debates with Walter Mondale. They use +terror. This is a technique that they're using to traumatize the +society so that it can't function.

+ +

I don't mean to abuse you with verbal violence, but you have to +understand what your government and its agents are doing. They go +into villages, they haul out families. With the children forced to +watch they castrate the father, they peel the skin off his face, they +put a grenade in his mouth and pull the pin. With the children forced +to watch they gang-rape the mother, and slash her breasts off. And +sometimes for variety, they make the parents watch while they do these +things to the children.

+ +

This is nobody's propaganda. There have been over 100000 American +witnesses for peace who have gone down there and they have filmed and +photographed and witnessed these atrocities immediately after they've +happened, and documented 13000 people killed this way, mostly women +and children. These are the activities done by these contras. The +contras are the people president Reagan calls 'freedom fighters'. He +says they're the moral equivalent of our founding fathers. And the +whole world gasps at this confession of his family traditions.

+ +

Read Contra Terror by Reed Brodie [1], former assistant Attorney +General of New York State. Read The Contras by Dieter Eich. [4] Read +With the Contras by Christopher Dickey. [2] This is a main-line +journalist, down there on a grant with the Council on Foreign +Relations, a slightly to the right of the middle of the road +organization. He writes a book that sets a pox on both your houses, +and then he accounts about going in on patrol with the contras, and +describes their activities. Read Witness for Peace: What We have Seen +and Heard. Read the Lawyer's Commission on Human Rights. Read The +Violations of War on Both Sides by the Americas Watch. [15] And there +are many, many more documentations of details, of names, of the +incidents that have happened.

+ +

Part of a de-stabilization is propaganda, to dis-credit the targeted +government. This one actually began under Jimmy Carter. He +authorized the CIA to go in and try to make the Sandinistas look to be +evil. So in 1979 [when] they came in to power, immediately we were +trying to cast them as totalitarian, evil, threatening Marxists. +While they abolished the death sentence, while they released 8000 +national guardsmen that they had in their custody that they could have +kept in prison, they said 'no. Unless we have evidence of individual +crimes, we're not going to hold someone in prison just because they +were associated with the former administration.' While they set out +to launch a literacy campaign to teach the people to read and write, +which is something that the dictator Somoza, and us supporting him, +had never bothered to get around to doing. While they set out to +build 2500 clinics to give the country something resembling a public +health policy, and access to medicines, we began to label them as +totalitarian dictators, and to attack them in the press, and to work +with this newspaper 'La Prensa', which - it's finally come out and +been admitted, in Washington - the U.S. government is funding: a +propaganda arm.

+ +

[Reagan and the State dept. have] been claiming they're building a +war machine that threatens the stability of Central America. Now the +truth is, this small, poor country has been attacked by the world's +richest country under conditions of war, for the last 5 years. Us and +our army - the death they have sustained, the action they have +suffered - it makes it a larger war proportionally than the Vietnam +war was to the U.S. In addition to the contra activities, we've had +U.S. Navy ships supervising the mining of harbors, we've sent planes +in and bombed the capital, we've had U.S. military planes flying +wing-tip to wing-tip over the country, photographing it, aerial +reconnaissance. They don't have any missiles or jets they can send up +to chase us off. We are at war with them. The have not retaliated +yet with any kind of war action against us, but we do not give them +credit with having the right to defend themselves. So we claim that +the force they built up, which is obviously purely defensive, is an +aggressive force that threatens the stability of all of Central +America.

+ +

We claim the justification for this is the arms that are flowing +from Nicaragua to El Salvador, and yet in 5 years of this activity, +President Reagan hasn't been able to show the world one shred of +evidence of any arms flowing from Nicaragua into El Salvador.

+ +

We launched a campaign to discredit their elections. International +observer teams said these were the fairest elections they have +witnessed in Central America in many years. We said they were +fraudulent, they were rigged, because it was a totalitarian system. +Instead we said, the elections that were held in El Salvador were +models of democracy to be copied elsewhere in the world. And then the +truth came out about that one. And we learned that the CIA had spent +2.2 million dollars to make sure that their choice of candidates - +Duarte - would win. They did everything, we're told, by one of their +spokesmen, indirectly, but stuff the ballot boxes....

+ +

I'll make a footnote that when I speak out, he [Senator Jesse +Helmes] calls me a traitor, but when something happens he doesn't +like, he doesn't hesitate to go public and reveal the secrets and +embarrass the U.S.

+ +

We claim the Sandinistas are smuggling drugs as a technique to +finance their revolution. This doesn't make sense. We're at war with +them, we're dying to catch them getting arms from the Soviet Union, +flying things back and forth to Cuba. We have airplanes and picket +ships watching everything that flies out of that country, and into it. +How are they going to have a steady flow of drug-smuggling planes into +the U.S.? Not likely! However, there are Nicaraguans, on these bases +in Honduras, that have planes flying into CIA training camps in +Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, several times a week.

+ +

Now, obviously i'm not going to stand in front of you and say that +the CIA might be involved in drug trafficking, am I? READ THE BOOK. +Read The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. For 20 years the CIA +was helping the Kuomantang to finance itself and then to get rich, +smuggling heroin. When we took over from the French in 1954 their +intelligence service had been financing itself by smuggling the heroin +out of Laos. We replaced them - we put Air America, the CIA +subsidiary - it would fly in with crates marked humanitarian aid, +which were arms, and it would fly back out with heroin. And the first +target, market, of this heroin was the U.S. GI's in Vietnam. If +anybody in Nicaragua is smuggling drugs, it's the contras. Now i've +been saying that since the state department started waving this red +herring around a couple of years ago, and the other day you notice +President Reagan said that the Nicaraguans, the Sandinistas, were +smuggling drugs, and the DEA said, 'it ain't true, the contras are +smuggling drugs'.

+ +

We claim the Sandinistas are responsible for the terrorism that's +happening anywhere in the world. 'The country club of terrorism' we +call it. There's an incident in Rome, and Ed Meese goes on television +and says, 'that country club in Nicaragua is training terrorists'. We +blame the Sandinistas for the misery that exists in Nicaragua today, +and there is misery, because the world's richest nation has set out to +create conditions of misery, and obviously we're bound to have some +effect. The misery is not the fault of the Sandinistas, it's the +result of our destabilization program. And despite that, and despite +some grumbling in the country, the Sandinistas in their elections got +a much higher percentage of the vote than President Reagan did, who's +supposed to be so popular in this country. And all observers are +saying that people are still hanging together, with the Sandinistas.

+ +

Now it gets tricky. We're saying that the justification for more +aid, possibly for an invasion of the country - and mind you, president +Reagan has begun to talk about this, and the Secretary of Defense +Weinberger began to say that it's inevitable - we claim that the +justification is that the Soviet Union now has invested 500 million +dollars in arms in military to make it its big client state, the +Soviet bastion in this hemisphere. And that's true. They do have a +lot of arms in there now. But the question is, how did they get +invited in? You have to ask yourself, what's the purpose of this +destabilization program? For this I direct you back to the Newsweek +article in Sept. 1981, where they announce the fact that the CIA was +beginning to put together this force of Somoza's ex-guard. Newsweek +described it as 'the only truly evil, totally unacceptable factor in +the Nicaraguan equation'. They noted that neither the white house nor +the CIA pretended it ever could have a chance of winning. So then +they asked, rhetorically, 'what's the point?' and they concluded that +the point is that by attacking the country, you can force the +Sandinistas into a more radical position, from which you have more +ammunition to attack them.

+ +

And that's what we've accomplished now. They've had to get Soviet +aid to defend themselves from the attack from the world's richest +country, and now we can stand up to the American people and say, 'see? +they have all the Soviet aid'. Make no doubt of it, it's the game +plan of the Reagan Administration to have a war in Nicaragua, they +have been working on this since 1981, they have been stopped by the +will of the American people so far, but they're working harder than +ever to engineer their war there.

+ +

Now, CIA destabilizations are nothing new, they didn't begin with +Nicaragua. We've done it before, once or twice. Like the Church +committee, investigating CIA covert action in 1975, found that we had +run several hundred a year, and we'd been in the business of running +covert actions, the CIA has, for 4 decades. You're talking about 10 +to 20 thousand covert actions.

+ +

CIA apologists leap up and say, 'well, most of these things are not +so bloody'. And that's true. You're giving a politician some money +so he'll throw his party in this direction or that one, or make false +speeches on your behalf, or something like that. It may be +non-violent, but it's still illegal intervention in other countries' +affairs, raising the question of whether or not we are going to have a +world in which law, rules of behaviour, are respected, or is it going +to be a world of bullies, where the strongest can violate and +brutalize the weakest, and ignore the laws?

+ +

But many of these things are very bloody indeed, and we know a lot +about a lot of them. Investigations by the Congress, testimony by CIA +directors, testimony by CIA case officers, books written by CIA case +officers, documents gotten out of the government under the freedom of +information act, books that are written by by pulitzer-prize-winning +journalists who've documented their cases. And you can go and read +from these things, classic CIA operations that we know about, some of +them very bloody indeed. Guatemala 1954, Brazil, Guyana, Chile, the +Congo, Iran, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Equador, Uruguay - the CIA +organized the overthrow of constitutional democracies. Read the book +Covert Action: 35 years of Deception by the journalist Godswood. [6] +Remember the Henry Kissinger quote before the Congress when he was +being grilled to explain what they had done to overthrow the +democratic government in Chile, in which the President, Salvador +Allende had been killed. And he said, 'The issues are much too +important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves'.

+ +

We had covert actions against China, very much like what we're doing +against Nicaragua today, that led us directly into the Korean war, +where we fought China in Korea. We had a long covert action in +Vietnam, very much like the one that we're running in Nicaragua today, +that tracked us directly into the Vietnam war. Read the book, The +Hidden History of the Korean War by I. F. Stone. [14] Read Deadly +Deceits by Ralph McGehee [9] for the Vietnam story. In Thailand, the +Congo, Laos, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Honduras, the CIA put together large +standing armies. In Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, the Congo, +Iran, Nicaragua, and Sri Lanka, the CIA armed and encouraged ethnic +minorities to rise up and fight. The first thing we began doing in +Nicaragua, 1981 was to fund an element of the Mesquite indians, to +give them money and training and arms, so they could rise up and fight +against the government in Managua. In El Salvador, Vietnam, Korea, +Iran, Uganda and the Congo, the CIA helped form and train the death +squads.

+ +

In El Salvador specifically, under the 'Alliance for Progress' in +the early 1960's, the CIA helped put together the treasury police. +These are the people that haul people out at night today, and run +trucks over their heads. These are the people that the Catholic +church tells us, have killed something over 50000 civilians in the +last 5 years. And we have testimony before our Congress that as late +as 1982, leaders of the treasury police were still on the CIA payroll.

+ +

Then you have the 'Public Safety Program.' I have to take just a +minute on this one because it's a very important principle involved +that we must understand, if we're to understand ourselves and the +world that we live in. In this one, the CIA was working with police +forces throughout Latin America for about 26 years, teaching them how +to wrap up subversive networks by capturing someone and interrogating +them, torturing them, and then getting names and arresting the others +and going from there. Now, this was such a brutal and such a bloody +operation, that Amnesty International began to complain and publish +reports. Then there were United Nations hearings. Then eventually +our Congress was forced to yield to international pressure and +investigate it, and they found the horror that was being done, and by +law they forced it to stop. You can read these reports -- the Amnesty +International findings, and our own Congressional hearings.

+ +

These things kill people. 800000 in Indonesia alone according to +CIA's estimate, 12000 in Nicaragua, 10000 in the Angolan operation +that I was sitting on in Washington, managing the task force. They +add up. We'll never know how many people have been killed in them. +Obviously a lot. Obviously at least a million. 800000 in Indonesia +alone. Undoubtedly the minimum figure has to be 3 million. Then you +add in a million people killed in Korea, 2 million people killed in +the Vietnam war, and you're obviously getting into gross millions of +people...

+ +

We do not parachute teams into the Soviet Union to haul families out +at night and castrate the father with the children watching, because +they have the Bomb, and a big army, and they would parachute teams +right back into our country and do the same thing to us - they're not +scared of us. For slightly different reasons, but also obvious +reasons, we don't do these things in England, or France, or Germany, +or Sweden, or Italy, or Japan. What comes out at you immediately is +that these 1 to 3 million direct victims, the dead, and in these other +wars, they're people of the third world, they're citizens of countries +that are too small to defend them from United States brutality and +aggression. They're people of the Metumba mountains of the Congo, and +the jungles of Southeast Asia, and now the hills of northern Nicaragua +- 12000 peasants. We have not killed KGB or Russian army advisors in +Nicaragua. We are not killing Cuban advisors. We're not killing very +many Sandinistas. The 12000 that we have killed in Nicaragua are +peasants, who have the misfortune of living in a CIA's chosen +battlefield. Mostly women and children. Communists? Far, far, far +more Catholics than anything else.

+ +

Now case officers that do these things in places in Nicaragua, they +do not come back to the U.S. and click their heels and suddenly become +responsible citizens. They see themselves - they have been +functioning above the laws, of God, and the laws of man - they've come +back to this country, and they've continued their operations as far as +they can get by with them. And we have abundant documentation of that +as well. The MH-Chaos program, exposed in the late 60's and shut +down, re-activated by President Reagan to a degree - we don't have the +details yet - in which they were spending a billion dollars to +manipulate U.S. student, and labor organizations. The MK-ultra +program. For 20 years, working through over 200 medical schools and +mental hospitals, including Harvard medical school, Georgetown, some +of the biggest places we've got, to experiment on American citizens +with disease, and drugs.

+ +

They dragged a barge through San Francisco bay, leaking a virus, to +measure this technique for crippling a city. They launched a whooping +cough epidemic in a Long Island suburb, to see what it would do to the +community if all the kids had whooping cough. Tough shit about the 2 +or 3 with weak constitutions that might die in the process. They put +light bulbs in the subways in Manhattan, that would create vertigo - +make people have double vision, so you couldn't see straight - and hid +cameras in the walls - to see what would happen at rush hour when the +trains are zipping past - if everybody has vertigo and they can't see +straight and they're bumping into each other.

+ +

Colonel White - oh yes, and I can't not mention the disease +experimentations - the use of deadly diseases. We launched - when we +were destabilizing Cuba for 7 years - we launched the swine fever +epidemic, in the hog population, trying to kill out all of the pigs - +a virus. We experimented in Haiti on the people with viruses.

+ +

I'm not saying, I do not have the slightest shred of evidence, that +there is any truth or indication to the rumor that the CIA and its +experimentations were responsible for AIDS. But we do have it +documented that the CIA has been experimenting on people, with +viruses. And now we have some deadly, killer viruses running around +in society. And it has to make you wonder, and it has to make you +worry.

+ +

Colonel White wrote from retirement - he was the man who was in +charge of this macabre program - he wrote, 'I toiled whole-heartedly +in the vineyards because it was fun, fun fun. Where else could a +red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage +with the blessings of the all highest?' Now that program, the +MK-ultra program, was eventually exposed by the press in 1972, +investigated by the Congress, and shut down by the Congress. You can +dig up the Congressional record and read it for yourself.

+ +

There's one book called 'In Search of the Manchurian Candidate'. +It's written by John Marks, based on 14000 documents gotten out of +the government under the Freedom of Information Act. Read for +yourselves. The thing was shut down but not one CIA case officer who +was involved was in any way punished. Not one case officer involved +in these experimentations on the American public, lost a single +paycheck for what they had done.

+ +

The Church committee found that the CIA had co-opted several hundred +journalists, including some of the biggest names in the business, to +pump its propaganda stories into our media, to teach us to hate Fidel +Castro, and Ho Chi Minh, and the Chinese, and whomever. The latest +flap or scandal we had about that was a year and a half ago. Lesley +Gelp, the heavyweight with the New York Times, was exposed for having +been working covertly with the CIA in 1978 to recruit journalists in +Europe, who would introduce stories, print stories that would create +sympathy for the neutron bomb.

+ +

The Church committee found that they had published over 1000 books, +paying someone to write a book, the CIA puts its propaganda lines in +it, the professor or the scholar gets credit for the book and gets the +royalties. The latest flap we had about that was last year. A +professor at Harvard was exposed for accepting 105000 dollars from +the CIA to write a book about the Middle East. Several thousand +professors and graduate students co-opted by the CIA to run its +operations on campuses and build files on students.

+ +

And then we have evidence - now, which has been hard to collect in +the past but we knew it was happening - of CIA agents participating, +trying to manipulate, our elections. FDN, Contra commanders, +traveling this country on CIA plane tickets, going on television and +pin-pointing a Congressional and saying, 'That man is soft on +Communism. That man is a Sandinista lover.' A CIA agent going on +television, trying to manipulate our elections.

+ +

All of this, to keep America safe for freedom and democracy.

+ +

In Nicaragua the objective is to stop the Cuban and Soviet +take-over, we say. Another big operation in which we said the same +thing was Angola, 1975, my little war. We were saying exactly the +same thing - Cubans and Soviets.

+ +

Now I will not going into great detail about this one tonight +because I wrote a book about it, I detailed it. And you can get a +copy of that book and read it for yourselves. I have to urge you, +however - please do not rush out and buy a copy of that book because +the CIA sued me. All of my profits go to the CIA, so if you buy a +copy of the book you'll be donating 65 cents to the CIA. So check it +out from your library!

+ +

If you have to buy a copy, well buy one copy and share it with all +your friends. If your bookstore is doing real well and you want to +just sort of put a copy down in your belt...

+ +

I don't know what the solution is when a society gets into +censorship, government censorship, but that's what we're in now. Do +the rules change? I just got my book back, my latest book back from +the CIA censors. If I had not submitted it to them, I would have gone +to jail, without trial - blow off juries and all that sort of thing - +for having violated our censorship laws....

+ +

So now we have the CIA running the operation in Nicaragua, lying to +us, running 50 covert actions, and gearing us up for our next war, the +Central American war. Let there be no doubt about it, President +Reagan has a fixation on Nicaragua. He came into office saying that +we shouldn't be afraid of war, saying we have to face and erase the +scars of the Vietnam war. He said in 1983, 'We will do whatever is +necessary to reverse the situation in Nicaragua', meaning get rid of +the Sandinistas. Admiral LaRoque, at the Center for Defense +Information in Washington, says this is the most elaborately prepared +invasion that the U.S. has ever done. At least that he's witnessed in +his 40 years of association with our military.

+ +

We have rehearsed the invasion of Nicaragua in operations Big Pine +I, Big Pine II, Ocean Venture, Grenada, Big Pine III. We have troops +right now in Honduras preparing. We've built 12 bases, including 8 +airstrips. Obviously we don't need 8 airstrips in Honduras for any +purpose, except to support the invasion of Nicaragua. We've built +radar stations around, to survey and watch. Some of these ventures +have been huge ones. Hundreds of airplanes, 30000 troops, rehearsing +the invasion of Nicaragua.

+ +

And of course, Americans are being given this negative view of these +evil Communist dictators in Managua, just two days drive from +Harlington, Texas. (They drive faster than I do by the way). I saw +an ad on TV just two days ago in which they said that it was just two +hours from Managua to Texas. All of this getting us ready for the +invasion of Nicaragua, for our next war.

+ +

Most of the people - 75% of the people - are polled as being against +this action. However, President Eisenhower said, 'The people of the +world genuinely want peace. Someday the leadership of the world are +going to have to give in and give it to them'. But to date, the +leaders never have, they've always been able to outwit the people, us, +and get us into the wars when they've chosen to do so.

+ +

People ask, how is this possible? I get this all the time.... +Americans are decent people. They are nice people. And they're +insulated in the worlds that they live in, and they don't understand +and we don't read our history. History is the history of war. Of +leaders of countries finding reasons and rationales to send the young +men off to fight.

+ +

In our country we talk about peace. But look at our own record. We +have over 200 incidents in which we put our troops into other +countries to force them to our will. Now we're being prepared to hate +the Sandinistas. The leaders are doing exactly what they have done +time and again throughout history. In the past we were taught to hate +and fight the Seminole Indians, after the leaders decided to annex +Florida. To hate and fight the Cherokee Indians after they found gold +in Georgia. To hate and fight Mexico twice. We annexed Texas, New +Mexico, Arizona, part of Colorado, and California.

+ +

In each of these wars the leaders have worked to organize, to +orchestrate public opinion. And then when they got people worked up, +they had a trigger that would flash, that would make people angry +enough that we could go in and do....

+ +

We have a feeling that the Vietnam war was the first one in which +the people resisted. But once again, we haven't read our history. +Kate Richards-O'Hare. In 1915, she said about WW I, 'The Women of the +U.S. are nothing but brutesalles, producing sons to be put in the +army, to be made into fertilizer'. She was jailed for 5 years for +anti-war talk.

+ +

The lessons of the Vietnam war for the American people is that it +was a tragic mistake.... 58000 of our own young people were killed, 2 +million Vietnamese were killed. We withdrew, and our position wound +up actually stronger in the Pacific basin.

+ +

You look around this society today to see if there's any evidence of +our preparations for war, and it hits you in the face....

+ +

'Join the Army. Be all that you can be'. Now if there was truth in +advertising, obviously those commercials would show a few seconds of +young men with their legs blown off at the knees, young men with their +intestines wrapped around their necks because that's what war is +really all about.

+ +

If there was honesty on the part of the army and the government, +they would tell about the Vietnam veterans. More of whom died violent +deaths from suicide after they came back from Vietnam then died in the +fighting itself.

+ +

Then you have President Reagan.... He talks about the glory of war, +but you have to ask yourself, where was he when wars were being fought +that he was young enough to fight in them? World War II, and the +Korean war. Where he was was in Hollywood, making films, where the +blood was catsup, and you could wash it off and go out to dinner +afterwards....

+ +

Where was Gordon Liddy when he was young enough to go and fight in a +war? He was hiding out in the U.S. running sloppy, illegal, +un-professional breaking and entering operations. Now you'll forgive +my egotism, at that time I was running professional breaking and +entering operations....

+ +

What about Rambo himself? Sylvester Stallone. Where was Sylvester +Stallone during the Vietnam war? He got a draft deferment for a +physical disability, and taught physical education in a girls' school +in Switzerland during the war.

+ +

Getting back to President Reagan. He really did say that 'you can +always call cruise missiles back'.... Now, you can call back a B-52, +and you can call back a submarine, but a cruise missile is +different.... When it lands, it goes boom!. And I would prefer that +the man with the finger on the button could understand the difference. +This is the man that calls the MX a peace-maker. This is the man +who's gone on television and told us that nuclear war could be +winnable. This is the man who's gone on television and proposed that +we might want to drop demonstration [atom] bombs in Europe to show +people that we're serious people. This is the man who likens the +Contras to the moral equivalents of our own founding fathers. This is +the man who says South Africa is making progress on racial equality. +This is the man who says that the Sandinistas are hunting down and +hounding and persecuting Jews in Nicaragua. And the Jewish leaders go +on TV the next day in this country and say there are 5 Jewish families +in Nicaragua, and they're not having any problems at all. This is the +man who says that they're financing their revolution by smuggling +drugs into the U.S. And the DEA says, 'It ain't true, it's president +Reagan's Contras that are doing it'....

+ +

[When Reagan was governor of California, Reagan] said 'If there has +to be a bloodbath then let's get it over with'. Now you have to think +about this a minute. A leader of the U.S. seriously proposing a +bloodbath of our own youth. There was an outcry of the press, so 3 +days later he said it again to make sure no one had misunderstood him.

+ +

Read. You have to read to inform yourselves. Read The Book of +Quotes [12]. Read On Reagan: The Man and the Presidency [3] by Ronnie +Dugger. It gets heavy. Dugger concludes in his last chapter that +President Reagan has a fixation on Armageddon. The Village Voice 18 +months ago published an article citing the 11 times that President +Reagan publicly has talked about the fact that we are all living out +Armageddon today....

+ +

[Reagan] has Jerry Falwell into the White House. This is the man +that preaches that we should get on our knees and beg for God to send +the rapture down. Hell's fires on earth so the chosen can go up on +high and all the other people can burn in hell's fires on earth. +President Reagan sees himself as playing the role of the greatest +leader of all times forever. Leading us into Armageddon. As he goes +out at the end of his long life, we'll all go out with him....

+ +

Why does the CIA run 10000 brutal covert actions? Why are we +destabilizing a third of the countries in the world today when there's +so much instability and misery already? Why are our leaders now +taking us into another war? Why are we systematically taught to hate +and fight other people?

+ +

What you have to understand is the politics of paranoia. The +easiest... buttons to punch are the buttons of macho, aggression, +paranoia, hate, anger, and fear. The Communists are in Managua and +that's just 2 hours from San Diego, CA. This gets people excited, +they don't think. It's the pep-rally, the football pep-rally factor. +When you get people worked up to hate, they'll let you spend huge +amounts of money on arms.

+ +

Read The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills. [11] Read The Permanent War +Complex by Seymour Melman. [10] CIA covert actions have the function +of keeping the world hostile and unstable....

+ +

We can't take care of the poor, we can't take care of the old, but +we can spend millions, hundreds of millions of dollars to destabilize +Nicaragua....

+ +

Why arms instead of schools? .... They can make gigantic profits off +the nuclear arms race because of the hysteria, and the paranoia, and +the secrecy. And that's why they're committed to building more and +more and more weapons, is because they're committed to making a +profit. And that's what the propaganda, and that's what the hysteria +is all about. Now people say, 'What can I do?'....

+ +

The youth did rise up and stop the Vietnam war....

+ +

We have to join hands with the people in England, and France, and +Germany, and Israel, and the Soviet Union, and China, and India - the +countries that have the bomb, and the others that are trying to get +it. And give our leaders no choice. They have to find some other way +to do business other than to motivate us through hate and paranoia and +anger and killing, or we'll find other leaders to run the country.

+ +

Now, Helen Caldicott, at the end of her lectures, I've heard her +say, very effectively, 'Tell people to get out and get to work on the +problem.... You'll feel better'....

+ +

'What can I do?'.... If you can travel, go to Nicaragua and see for +yourself. Go to the Nevada test site and see for yourself. Go to +Pantex on Hiroshima day this summer, and see the vigil there. The +place where we make 10 nose-cones a day, 70 a week, year in and year +out. He [Admiral LaRock] said, 'I'd tell them, if they feel +comfortable lying down in front of trucks with bombs on them, to lie +down in front of trucks with bombs on them.' But he said, 'I'd tell +them that they can't wait. They've got to start tomorrow, today, and +do it, what they can, every day of their lives'.

+ +

[1] Reed Brody. +Contra Terror. +??, .

+ +

[2] Christopher Dickey. +With the Contras. +??, .

+ +

[3] Dugger, Ronnie. +On Reagan: The Man and the Presidency. +McGraw-Hill, 1983.

+ +

[4] Eich, Dieter. +The Contras: Interviews with Anti-Sandinistas. +Synthesis, 1985.

+ +

[5] Kinzer, Stephan and Stephen Schlesinger. +Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in +Guatemala. +Doubleday, 1983.

+ +

[6] Godswood, Roy (editor). +Covert Actions: 35 Years of Deception. +Transaction, 1980.

+ +

[7] Kwitny, Jonathon. +Endless Enemies: America's Worldwide War Against It's Own Best +Interests. +Congdon and Weed, 1984.

+ +

[8] LaFeber, Walter. +Inevitable Revolutions; The United States in Central America. +Norton, 1984.

+ +

[9] McGehee, Ralph. +Deadly Deceits: My Twenty-Five Years in the CIA. +Sheridan Square, 1983.

+ +

[10] Melman, Seymour. +The Permanent War Complex. +Simon and Shuster, 1974.

+ +

[11] Mills, C. Wright. +The Power Elite. +Oxford, 1956.

+ +

[12] ?? +The Book of Quotes. +McGraw-Hill, 1979.

+ +

[13] Stockwell, John. +In Search of Enemies. +Norton, 1978.

+ +

[14] Stone, I.F. +Hidden History of the Korean War. +Monthly Review, 1969.

+ +

[15] The Americas Watch. +The Violations of War on Both Sides. +??, . +

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+--SOVIET SCALAR ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPONS-- + +This briefing presents the basic concepts of Soviet Scalar +electromagnetic weapons, some of the major types available, and evidence of +their widespread testing. + +- Scalar Electromagnetics is Electrogravitation - + +Scalar electromagnetics is an extension of present electromagnetics (EM) +to include gravitation. That is, a unified electrogravitation, and, what is +more important, it is a unified engineering theory. Its basis was discovered +by Nikola Tesla.

+ +

In the scalar EM extension, EM field energy can be turned into +gravitational field energy and vice versa. This exchange can be patterned and +localized, in specific areas and objects. Such a controlled change of +electromagnetics to gravitation is not possible in the normal EM or physics +presently taught in Western textbooks. However, the bits and pieces of the +theory have been scattered through the physics literature for some time, but +no orthodox western scientist seems to have realized that these anomalous +portions could be integrated into a startling new physics. Unorthodox +experimenters, inventors, and scientists have made discoveries in this arena +for several decades, but again have not realized the exact implications or +the precise manner in which their results could be combined with present +electrical physics. + +- Fer-De-Lance - + +Such sluggishness is certainly not present in the Soviet Union. For +over three decades, the Soviet Union has been developing electrogravitation +and app,ying it to develop strange new s%cret weapons of incredible power +and capability. They have sustained the largest weapons development program +ever launched by any nation, and they have kept it effectively hidden from +prying western eyes. I have called this program "Fer-De-Lance", after the +deadly South American pit viper of the same name.

+ +

The dreaded fer-de-lance is a snake of great agility and lethal effect. +It often ambushes its hapless prey, and strikes unexpectedly and without +warning. Its first sudden strike is usually lethal to its victim, which +promptly expires in writhing agony. Since the Soviet development of scalar EM +weapons has been designed for the same purpose, the name seems appropriate.

+ +

The equivalent effort of about seven Manhattan projects has been poured +into fer-de-lance by the Soviets, and the program has been successful almost +beyond imagination. The eerie weapons are now developed, deployed, and +tested. The ambush has been completed; Fer-de-Lance is coiled and ready to +strike. +

+ +

--ENERGETICS AND DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS (DEW'S)-- + +The ordinary Soviet name for this type of weapons science is +energetics. In the west that term is believed to be associated with +conventional directed energy weapons (DEWs) such as particle beam weapons, +lasers, radio-frequency (RF) directed energy devices, etc. The Soviets do not +limit the term in this way.

+ +

Western scientists are familiar only with directed energy weapons +where fragments, masses, photons, or particles travel through space and +contact the target to deliver their effects. Hence in their thinking they +limit the Soviet term "energetics" to the type of weapons they themselves +understand -- exotic but normal weapons using energy or mass traveling +through space to impact a target.

+ +

However, it is possible to focus the potential for the effects of a +weapon through spacetime itself, in a manner so that mass and energy do not +"travel through space" from the transmitter to the target at all. Instead, +ripples and patterns in the fabric of spacetime itself are manipulated to +meet and interfere in and at the local spacetime of some distant target. +There interference of these ripple patterns creates the desired energetic +effect (hence the term energetics) directly in and through the target itself, +emerging from the very spacetime (vacuum) in which the target is imbedded at +its distant location. As used by the Soviets, energetics refers to these +eerie new superweapons, as well as to the more mundane DEWs known to the +west.

+ +

As a consequence of the Soviet breakthrough and decades of feverish +development, monstrous strategic weapons undreamed of in the West are +already in Soviet hands. A noose is slowly and steadily being tightened about +our throats, and it is already the 11th hour. + +--THE SOVIETS USE A DECEPTION PLAN-- + +Concomitant with this supersecret development program, the Soviets +developed and implemented an elaborate deception plan to conceal these +startling weapons and their nature from Western eyes until it is too late. +Soviet deception has been so successful that even when Western scientists are +confronted with the actual tests of these weapons directly over their heads, +they do not recognize the weaponry nor the nature of the effects produced. + +As early as January 1960, Nikita Khrushchev announced the Soviet +development of a new, fantastic weapon.

+ +

On April 10 1963 one of the first new superweapons operationally +deployed was used to destroy the U.S.S. Thresher atomic submarine +underwater, off the east coast of the U.S. The next day, April 11, 1963 the +same deployed superweapon was utilized in a different mode to produce a giant +underwater explosion in the ocean over the Puerto Rican Trench, 100 miles +north of Puerto Rico.

+ +

Over the years, various aircraft were interfered with or downed as +tests of these Soviet weapons. A particular case involved the mysterious +loss of F-111s in the Vietnam conflict. At least one downed F-111 crew was +recovered in the subsequent prisoner of war exchange. On that aircraft all +electrical systems were in difficulty simultaneously. This was probably due +to special Soviet teams converting some North Vietnamese SA-2 missile system +radars to the scalar EM mode, and employing "scalar beam" interference to +produce spurious EM noise throughout the electrical and electronic systems of +the aircraft.

+ +

In late April/early May of 1985, the entire armada of Soviet strategic +scalar EM superweapons was activated as a special celebration of the 40th +anniversary of the end of W.W.II. Activation of this armada (which probably +contained over 100 giant weapons), together with 27 giant power systems and a +large number of command and control transmissions, was monitored on an +advanced, proprietary detection system by Frank Golden. After the gigantic +strategic exercise, which lasted several days, most of the weapons and power +sources were once again stood down to "standby."

+ +

The NASA shuttle launches provided an convenient opportunity for Soviet +testing of these superweapons in a launch phase ABM mode, where a launched +missile can be detected and destroyed shortly after liftoff. At first, +electromagnetic pulse (EMP) bursts on the early shuttle trajectory were +deliberately delayed in time, to prevent actual destruction of the target and +avoid alerting the U.S. that something unusual was happening.

+ +

The shuttle launch of November 26, 1985 saw a particularly significant +test of this kind. In this case, a very loud "sonic boom" or explosion +occurred over the launch site 12 minutes after shuttle liftoff, when the +shuttle was already away and downrange. At least two previous shuttle +launches had also been used as pseudotargets, with delayed booms occurring +over the launch site well behind the vehicles.

+ +

After lack of U.S. reaction to these tests showed that the U.S. still +had no knowledge of the new technology and did not even recognize its +employment, the Soviets apparently decided to proceed with tests where the +target would actually be destroyed.

+ +

On December 12, 1985 the same Soviet weapon tested against the NASA +shuttle launches deliberately interfered with the controls of an Arrow DC-8 +taking off from Gander Air Force Base, Newfoundland. At an altitude of 100 +feet, the aircraft--carrying over 250 U.S. soldiers and civilian crew +members lost power and sank into the ground tail-low, killing everyone on +board. Three Canadian witnesses to the crash were interviewed over the +Canadian Broadcast Corporation's television news on April 81986 at 10 p.m. +No flame or smoke issued from the plane before its descent and crash. However +the aircraft was seen to be mysteriously glowing with a yellow glow. That is +a signature of the use of a scalar howitzer in the "continuous EM emergence" +mode, similar to the manner in which the F-111s were downed in Vietnam. In +short, the DC-8s electrical systems were interfered with ny electromagnetic +noise created throughout the spacetime occupied by the aircraft. The powerful +charge created in and around the aircraft also apparently caused the loss of +two engines, one after the other. With its controls ineffective, and its +power drastically reduced, the aircraft sank to earth, still in its "tail +down" configuration from takeoff, and crashed and burned. The "yellow glow" +was a corona due to the acquisition of a high electrical charge by the skin +of the aircraft.

+ +

Other factors contributing to the crash may have been reduced lift due +to poor engine maintenance, increased weight of the aircraft due to icing, +and heavy loading. Still, no one has recognized the significance of the +"yellow glow" or what it implies, or the possible connection between the loss +of the aircraft and previous Soviet testing of a Launch Phase ABM system +against U.S. shuttle launches... +

+ +

As of September 1987, the last two Air Force Titan 34-D missiles fired +from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California have blown up shortly after +launch. The first one blew up on Aug. 28, 1985 just after lift-off. That loss +had been attributed to failure of a high powered fuel pump, causing a massive +oxidizer leak and a smaller fuel leak. The second Titan loss occurred on +April 18, 1986 when the missile blew up 5 seconds after lift off. Its loss is +still under investigation and no determination of cause has been made. +Apparently the shuttle and the Titan presently provide the only viable launch +vehicles for launching U.S. "spy" satellites. The loss of these sensitive +satellites--if indeed they constituted the payloads--cannot help but be +damaging to our strategic capability. According to the Los Angeles Times +(in 1986) the single remaining KH-11 satellite was launched in December 1984 +and, with an expected life of two to three years, could stop functioning +later this year.

+ +

Whether or not significant Woodpecker grid activity existed in the +vicinity of the Titan launch of August 1985 is unknown at this time. However, +significant activity in the grid definitely occurred before the April 18 +Titan disaster and on the same day.

+ +

On Easter Sunday, Mar. 301986 engineer Ron Cole observed significant +correlated with Soviet Woodpecker measurements. On April 18, T.E Bearden, +perhaps the head of SEM research today, observed traces of a cloud radial +over Huntsville, Alabama and took photographs of it. Preliminary reports from +Thousand Oaks Ca. indicate extensive grid activity again on April 18, the day +the second Titan exploded.

+ +

At least the second of these two missile destructions shortly after +launch is suspicious, since the grid positively was active during that time. +Also, a clear trail of Launch Phase ABM system indicators exists back to the +massive scalar exercise of April/May 1985. The first Titan explosion in Aug. +1985 thus falls within the Soviets "now lets test them against the U.S. +launch vehicles" period. The second Titan loss follows highly suspicious +losses of the Arrow DC-8 on Dec. 12, 1985 and the Challenger on Jan. 28, +1986. The same Soviet weapon that destroyed those #gets may have also +destroyed one or both of the critical Titans.

+ +

The Soviets also have been able to significantly engineer the weather +over North America for more than a decade without being found out. They have +tested a fantastic range of anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense weapons for +over two decades, and no one is the wiser in the West.

+ +

As previously stated, prior to the end of November, 1985, at least three +"wet-run" tests of a Soviet "launch phase ABM system" against actual U.S. +shuttle launches were made directly over Cape Canaveral itself, and still no +one recognized what was happening or what sort of weapon was being tested. On +December 12, destruction of the Arrow DC-8 in Newfoundland produce no +indications that the Americans and Canadians knew anything about the nature +of the weapon possibly used.

+ +

Accordingly, after a sufficient wait to test our reactions (if any), the +Soviets prepared to actually destroy a shuttle after its launch...

+ +
+ +

--DESTRUCTION OF THE CHALLENGER, JANUARY, 1986-- + +As the whole world knows, on January 28, 1986 the Challenger was +launched from Cape Canaveral Florida after exposure to undesirable weather +conditions, and disastrously exploded shortly after launch. The evidence +seems to indicate that , as the rising vehicle was stressed, one end of its +right booster broke loose, twisting away and into the main fuel tank, causing +rupture, spillage of the fuel, and catastrophic explosion. Several other +anomalies still exist however, and it is clear that a problem existed with at +least one of the booster seals. All seven astronauts aboard the flight were +killed in the fiery destruction of the vehicle.

+ +

Of course no one had recognized that the Soviets had already tested a +launch-phase anti-ballistic missile (LPABM) system against three of our +previous shuttle launches. These "wet-runs" used a deliberate "time-offset" +to delay the explosive emergence of electromagnetic energy in a launched +shuttle's location along its trajectory. The delayed test shots resulted in +very large "booms" above the launch site after the shuttle was safely out of +the area, but did not destroy the shuttles themselves. For example, the +delayed shot-boom occurred 12 minutes after the evening launch of Nov. 26, +1985. Even a marker beacon (large light in the sky) was utilized on that +launch shortly after lift-off. The marker beacon was photographed. In +addition another photograph taken in a time sequence shows another sudden +streak of light coming down and ending in a burst of light. This was probably +a spacially-offset test of the "pulse mode" for destroying the shuttle. The +"light burst" would have been detected in the Soviet Union and scored against +its intended offset position. However, another mechanism was used to cause +the destruction of the shuttle itself.

+ +

On Jan. 1, 1986 the presence of a metal softening signal added on to the +Soviet LPABM systems scalar EM transmissions was detected by a surprised +Frank Golden. The metal softening ability of the detected signal was +experimentally verified by him at that time. Golden also locally nullified +the action of the scalar EM signal in a test, rather conclusively +establishing (1) that it existed and (2) what it was. The signal was +apparently being prepared for use against an upcoming U.S. shuttle launch.

+ +

Just prior to the launch of the shuttle in late January, 1986, the +Soviets accomplished significant weather engineering over the U.S. The jet +stream was severely bent southward in the middle of the U.S., bending right-ward again to move across the Florida panhandle. Icy cold air from Canada was +drawn far down, into Florida and onto the Challenger sitting on it launch +pad. This exposure to cold outside its tested range was probably an +additional factor contributing to the Challengers failure. Positive +signatures of the Soviet weather engineering and jet stream manipulation +were observed and photographed by several persons, particularly in Alabama +and California... +

+ +

On January 28, 1986, the Soviet scalar EM weapon system effects were +sharply localized in the launch zone. Localization involved higher +frequencies being present; these are quite painful to small brains--whose +hemispheres act as a scalar interferometer and detector--such as in birds. +As commented upon by national news commentators, strangely the birds were not +flying that morning. Indeed, they were staying down on the ground or avoiding +the area, since the sky over the area was painful to them.

+ +

As Challenger rose, the metal softening signal would have been +experienced in and around the boosters shortly after ignition, since the +booster flame acts as a special "ion-plasma" tuner/detector for the scalar +signal. The effect of such a local signal is to "charge mass in the immediate +vicinity" with the particular scalar resonance signal.

+ +

The ill fated Challenger was doomed. After ignition, the booster flame +acted as as a ionic plasma detector/amplifier for the metal softening signal +on the Soviet Woodpecker grid. The metal in and around the booster flame was +slowly and steadily weakening due to a charge up with the metal softening +pattern. This contributed to booster leakage from the already cold damaged +seal. The leaking booster poured out smoke and later flame, contributing to +the impending disaster.

+ +

Substantial winds and air turbulence over the site increased the stress +on the Challenger as it rose through this region. This also contributed to +the disaster and may have been deliberately created there by Soviet Weather +engineering.

+ +

As the Challenger stressed, eventually one or more weakened mounts gave +way, partially freeing the end of the right booster. Another anomalous flame +or light was observed on the vehicle, and may have represented a very small +additional "pulse mode energy form" produced from the weapon that was already +attacking the Challenger. The booster oscillated, rotating into the tank and +rupturing it. Contact of the escaping liquid fuel and the flame resulted in a +fiery explosion, destroying the vehicle and killing those on board... + +By creating excess cold exposure to the shuttle, inducing metal +softening in and around the ignited booster, and possibly adding a deliberate +"intensely hot spot", THE SOVIETS CAUSED THE CHALLENGER TO WEAKEN AND DESTROY +ITSELF SHORTLY AFTER LAUNCH, IN SO SUBTLE A FASHION THAT NASA SCIENTISTS +WOULD NOT SUSPECT WHAT HAD ACTUALLY CAUSED THE MISHAP. THE SOVIETS HAD ALSO +PREVIOUSLY WITHDRAWN ALL THEIR TRAWLERS AND SHIPS WHICH NORMALLY SHADOW A +SHUTTLE LAUNCH, TO PREVENT ANY SUGGESTION OF SOVIET PRESENCE NEAR OR +INVOLVEMENT IN THE CATASTROPHIC ACCIDENT.

+ +

A few days later, sporadically intense "high frequency localization +signals" were still present on the grid, at least one hinge-point at +Birmingham, Alabama confirmed this. From 1-4 February 1986, many birds +inadvertently flew into the zone when an intense breakout occurred, and birds +fell dead from the sky in substantial numbers.... + +Next: +-Technological Surprise and a New Hiroshima- + +(Continued)

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+Sadly, the bureaucratic smugness of orthodox Western scientists has +materially assisted the Soviet deception process. Most Western managerial +scientists -particularly in weapons development activities - have continued +to view the Soviets as ignorant peasants, still trying to clean the mud off +their boots. This view is of course, Totally untrue and unwarranted.

+ +

It takes only a few examples to refute this attitude. In nonlinear +mathematics, engineering and science, the Soviets have led their Western +counterparts since the beginning. The electromagnetic pulse (EMP) effect of a +nuclear explosion appeared in the ordinary Soviet scientific literature +before Western scientists were even aware that te effect existed. The Soviets +continue to lead the world in explosive welding, titanium welding and +forming, etc. While the Soviet scientists exhibit little inclination to build +good washing machines, they certainly do produce state of the art +technology-- and beyond-- in any area in which they focus their main efforts. +(We do lead the Soviets in some areas such as computers hardware, computer +software, miniaturization, etc.)

+ +

Once before, a modern nation, the United States, developed a mighty +weapon in secrecy and used it to force a powerful foe, Japan, to its knees... +The mindbending atomic blows to Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, showed once and for +all that in the modern age technological surprise can prove instantly +disastrous. Yet in our scientific arrogance, we have assumed that it could +never happen to us, and that the "secret weapon" scenario will never be +repeated. On the contrary, it HAS happened again, someone else has done it, +and it has happened to us.

+ +

It has also become fashionable in the West to believe that all the +laws of physics are already discovered. We assume we know all of them. While +we have been pridefully crowing this tune, the Soviets have been steadily new +laws in secret, as well as new ways to circumvent the old laws. +Our defense is strategic, we rely on our offense. Our huge nuclear arsenal.. +If this offense were nullified or destroyed by Soviet secret weapons, we +would be powerless to prevent our own destruction and Soviet domination of +our world.

+ +

We have been viewing ourselves as indestructible, confident in the +strength of our defense. Yet literally our defense has been stripped from us. +Indeed Soviet energetics weapons are now capable of destroying our defense, +our homeland, our armed forces in the field, and our population, quickly and +efficiently. We have a new gap of monumental proportions: not a missile gap, +not a submarine or bomber gap, and not even a particle beam or laser gap. +We have a "Scalar Electromagnetics or Electrogravitation" gap..... + + +He that has ears, let him hear.

+ +

Here is the secret of antigravity.

+ +

The "electrical charge" of a charged particle-- such as one of the +charged particles of an atom or one of the protons of its nucleus-- +represents a difference in flux intensity (potential) between the local +particle and its ambient vacuum. Its the continual bleed-off of +gravitational charge as electrical charge. If that bleed off is reversed or +stopped, a drastic effect on the gravitational charge ensues. The 5-potential +and the 5-charge have become 4-G-potential and 4-d-charge respectively. Thus +"charging" an object with its scalar EM pattern charges it gravitationally. +Now the only "bleed off channel" is through the 4-G force field. Further, +in a nucleus the nucleons continually back and forth between proton and +neutron, so the electrical charge is "spread" throughout the nucleus and +shared by all the nucleons.

+ +

Further, each element (actually each isotope) has its own unique +"ensemble pattern" of Fourier expansion scalar frequencies, amplitudes, ect. +This pattern can, of course, be reproduced artificially and transmitted by +modified EM transmitters). There is, however, a sort of "master key" scalar +EM (EG) pattern for nucleons (protons and neutrons which are changing back +and forth into each other by exchange of virtual charge currents).

+ +

If one reverses the charge by inverting this pattern, and then +"charges up a mass with the inverted charge," to the external observer the +charging mass just gets lighter and lighter, and its inertia gets less and +less. Eventually it seems (to him) to acquire negative mass and negative +inertia, and just accelerate away from the earth. the object falls upward +instead of falling downwards.

+ +

There are also some weird time effects; that object can be moving +slower through time than the laboratory observer, or even be moving backwards +through time in respect to the laboratory observer. (Don't believe everything +they taught you in relativity; none of those guys ever had engineered a +single general relativistic situation. &othing they teach in GR is based on +direct experiment. Most of what they teach has already experimentally proven +to be in error.

+ +

This is the concept for a scalar EG detector for a scalar EG waves. +This is the Bendini scalar wave detector, adapted from an original concept by +Dea and Faretto.

+ +

The idea is quite simple: install a very powerful bar magnet inside a +grounded Faraday cage. Then install an open-ended coil longitudally above the +magnet so that a line through the longitudal axis of the magnet passes +through the longitudal axis of the coil above it. The open end of the coil +does not touch the magnet.

+ +

Connect the other end of the coil to a variable tuning capacitor, so +that the coil and the capacitor form a tunable, series-L-C-oscillatory +circuit. The output of the capacitor is connected to a transistorized +preamplifier inside the cage. A tuning shaft for the capacitor is very +carefully placed through a small hole in the shield to allow tuning from +outside.

+ +

The output of the preamp passes through a small hole in the shield, +through a shielded cable, to an adjacent oscilloscope. The cable shield is +also grounded t a reference ground potential. + +The theory is as follows: Suppose a normal EM wave appears inside +the cage, above the magnet or closely adjacent thereto. In that case a +coupled oscillation appears in the field of the magnet, and this oscillation +is coupled to the coil immediately above it. If the oscillation is within the +bandwidth of the tuned series LC circuit, detection occurs. This is amplified +by the preamp and passed to the oscilloscope, where it is displayed on the +scope.

+ +

Note that the detector detects normal EM wave. Now our problem is: +How do we get an EG wave to be detected? And how do we assure that we do not +detect ordinary EM waves from the outside? Actually this is simple. Ordinary +waves (except for quite low frequency) will be grounded out by the Faraday +shield, and will not penetrate the cage. Thus these normal EM waves cannot +enter the cage and appear above the magnet. They will not be detected. Scalar +EG waves, on the other hand, will enter the cage since they do not couple to +conduction electrons in the metal of the cage. Above the pole of the magnet, +spacetime is locally bent. After all, a pole is a magnetostatic scalar +potential, which is a part of the conglomerate called "G-potential." The pole +represents an increase (or decrease, depending on whether it is a north or a +south pole) in the magnetostatic component of the local G-potential. This is a +curvature of spacetime. An EG wave entering this region adds a varying +component component of magnetostatic G-potential, which bleeds off in the coil +as an ordinary EM wave. + +Another way to view the detector is to model the EG wave as a +longitudal wave, and an ordinary EM wave as a transverse wave. When the EG +wave enters the curved spacetime region above the magnet, to the coil (the +"observer" in this case!) the longitudal aspect of the EG wave appears to be +rotating back and forth, so that an oscillating transverse component is +present. This transverse component appears to the coil as an ordinary EM +field, and so the LC circuit detects it if it is in the proper frequency +band.

+ +

Yet another way to view the situation is to realize that an EG wave +entering the magnet results in an oscillating component added to the +magnetostatic scalar potential (pole strength) of t8e magnet. Accordingly, +the magnet is a receiver for scalar waves, which are detected to "bleed-off" +as an oscillation of the magnetic field strength of the magnet. Coupling of +this oscillating magnetic field to the coil creates an oscillating current +flow into the capacitor. This oscillates the voltage input to the preamp, +which amplifies and feeds the signal to the oscilloscope for display. + + +It is important to remember that a magnetostatic potential and an +electrostatic potential can be oscillated by a scalar EG wave. By placing a +magnetic material inside a Faraday cage, the oscillation of the magnetostatic +scalar potential (pole strength of the magnet) can be used as the EG +detecting mechanism. By placing a chargeable material inside a Faraday cage, +the oscillation of the electrostatic scalar potential can be detected. +(Possible examples of the latter type detectors are given by Hodowanec,"Radio +Electronics," April 1986.)

+ +

Note also that one may detect waves at one reference level and not +at another. Changing the bias on the zero-reference ground of the Bendini +detector affects the detection. To look inside a normal EM carrier (such as +the Soviet Woodpecker carrier) and see what scalar signals are riding upon +it, the carrier may be used to bias the reference ground of the Bendini +detector. To produce a spectrum analyzer, simply use additional series +resonant LC tuning circuits in parallel (put multiple taps on the coil, and +wire each tap to a separate tuning capacitor of different capacitance). +Again, varying the zero reference level is important, as is varying the +strength of the magnet. Frank Golden has also invented an excellent series of +scalar wave detectors based on quite different proprietary principles.

+ +

The bottom line is: we can indeed rigorously detect and measure +scalar EG waves. When one considers the large sums of money presently being +spent to bury large aluminum cylinders etc. in an attempt to detect +gravitational waves, one wonders why some funds could not be released to a +few unorthodox researchers by the National Academy of Sciences to fund the +proven creation and detection of electrogravitational waves...

+ +

(Continued) +

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Here is explained a new kind of resonance: scalar EM resonance, or +electrogravitational resonance.

+ +

First, imagine we have a standard resonant cavity. In this cavity we +have a resonant EM wave moving back and forth. In accordance with convention, +the E-field vector and the B-field vector are at right angles in this moving +wave front. As the wave moves back and forth, the vectors vary back and +forth; however, at any one point between the walls, the two vectors always +have the same value. Thus our resonant EM wave forms a standing wave in the +cavity.

+ +

Now imagine that a second wave front, precisely like the first and of +the same frequency, is superposed over the first one and travels with it. +This second wave -- the "antiwave" -- has its force vectors 180 degrees out +of phase with the force vectors of the reference wave. Hence the E-fields +and B-fields of the two superposed waves always sum to vector zeros, anywhere +in the cavity. To an external observer, the cavity contains no ordinary +electromagnetic force fields, hence no ordinary EM energy.

+ +

However the energy density of a single EM sine wave in vacuum is given +by:

+ +

density 2 +[ E + B ]/8pi + +This energy density is always positive. Hence the energy density of the +two waves at any point X between the walls is equal to:

+ +

+2 2 +[ E + B ]/4pi + +where + +E=E(x) ; B=B(x) + +Thus the energy density of vacuum varies with X. But, rigorously, since +the resultant E and B fields are zero, this describes a standing +gravitational wave. Hence we have a standing EG wave existing in the cavity. +This is an example of scalar resonance. Rigorously the cavity has mass and +inertia, to an outside observer, as a result of the two warps in spacetime it +contains.

+ +

Note that in one half cycle the energy density of vacuum is greater +than ambient, and in the other half cycle it is less. In the region of one +half cycle, time flows at a faster rate than to the ambient observer, and in +the other half cycle time flows at a slower rate than to the ambient +observer. One half cycle appears to contain negative electrical charge, and +the other appears to contain positive charge.

+ +

One half cycle appears to contain a north pole (positive magnetostatic +scalar potential), and the other half cycle appears to contain a south pole +(negative magnetostatic scalar potential).

+ +

Perhaps n/w one can begin to understand why a continuously accelerated +orbital electron in the atom does not radiate EM energy, completely in +violation of Maxwell's equations. The electron is naught but a complex aspect

+ +

Scalar resonance is not in the conventional textbook.

+ +

Scalar resonance is a particular zero summed multi-resonance, +electromagnetically, so that it does not act in an electromagnetic manner.

+ +

A scalar resonance is a standing electromagnetic wave. It can be made +electrically, but is not electrical in behavior.

+ +

In any scalar resonance, spacetime is curved, and it is the magnitude +(and direction) of this spacetime curvature that is oscillating in "standing +wave" fashion.

+ +

In respect to stress of the vacuum medium, one half of a standing sine +wave of scalar resonance is tensile; the other half is compressive. However, +this is with respect to the local ambient stress of the vacuum.

+ +

"Mass" of a particle is just a characteristic exhibited by a trapped +scalar resonance. Usually this trapping is done by the "spin" of the +individual particle.

+ +

The concept of "mass" may be compared with the concept of +"capacitance." That is, a mass is an accumulator for scalar waves; that is, +for scalar resonances. It is continually being "charged" and "discharged" +by absorption and emission of scalar waves from and to the ambient vacuum +scalar wave flux.

+ +

Indeed the magnitude of a mass may be defined in terms of the absolute +value of this "switching" (absorption = switch in; emission = switch out) +rate. For details on this see (Bearden, T.E. "Quinton/Perception Physics: A +Theory of Existence, Perception, and Physical Phenomena," March, 1973, AD +763210, available through NTIS.)

+ +

In the normal linear spacetime, the "charging" and "discharging" are +equal in all directions; so the mass exhibited in any direction is the same.

+ +

With respect to an "external observer's" equilibrium flux, a moving +object encounters an increased amount of flux rate along its line of motion, +just as a moving object in a rainstorm encounters more raindrops per second +in the direction of its path, than does a stationary object. Encountering +increased scalar wave flux (with respect to the external observer) forces the +moving object to absorb and emit scalar waves at a higher rate along its +direction of motion than when its not moving. Thus to the external observer, +the mass of the object has increased, insofar as any disturbing force along +its line of motion is concerned.

+ +

At right angles to its line of motion however, the flux rate is +precisely the same as when the object is at rest. Therefore the "mass" of the +moving object with respect to any disturbing force at right angles to its +line of motion has not changed, as seen by the external observer.

+ +

Thus is explained both parts of one of the all time great mysteries of +special relativity: (1) how the mass of an object increases with respect to +its motion, and (2) why the mass only increases with respect to its line of +motion, and not at any right angles to it.

+ +

The inertia of a particle is due to its mass, i.e., to the total +magnitude of its trapped scalar resonance.

+ +

The gravitational attraction between two masses is due to their +spacetime curvature. Further, mass is like a capacitance. It can trap +additional scalar waves as trapped resonance; hence increase its magnitude or +"inertial charge". Or, it can discharge more scalar waves than it absorbs; +hence decrease its magnitude or "internal charge"...

+ +

Those scalar waves emitted from resonance are emitted as a pattern +ensemble of the resonance. Hence they may be regarded as constituting a +current of scalar resonance leaving the mass accumulator object. Scalar waves +absorbed into trapped resonance may be regarded as constituting a current of +scalar resonance into the mass accumulator object. Thus it is proper to speak +of scalar resonance as being able to "flow".

+ +

Further, it is possible to increase the mass of an object directly, by +transmitting scalar EM waves to it so that it absorbs them. (By absorbing +scalar waves one means that more enter the object than leave it, so that the +object acts as an internal accumulator charging up with internal charge. This +is done by insuring the reference potential of the scalar wave transmitter is +higher than the reference potential of the irradiated object.)

+ +

It is also possible to decrease the mass of an object directly, by +transmitting scalar EM waves to it so that it emits more than it absorbs. (By +emitting scalar waves one means that more leave the object than enter it, so +the object acts as if it were an internal accumulator that is discharging its +internal charge. this is done by insuring that the reference potential of the +scalar transmitter is lower than the reference potential of the irradiated +object.)

+ +

As can be seen, the scalar wave "transmitter" is actually somewhat +comparable to a heat pump; it can either act as an "energy transmitter" or as +an "energy extractor", depending on the difference in potential between +"transmitter" and "receiver."

+ +

Scalar resonance can have a specific pattern: both in frequency and in +spatial curvature aspects, as well as "rate of flow of time" aspects. Indeed, +scalar-wise every object has its individual "scalar pattern" which is a +unique fingerprint. Since that print is spatiotemporal, it is a product of +that objects entire past history. Thus --scalar wise-- no two objects are +identical.

+ +

This brings up another rather amazing potential: If a reasonably +precise scalar pattern of an object can be "irradiated" and resonated with +scalar waves, energy may be created in or extracted from the distant object, +just as stimulating one tuning fork can excite another at a distance by +sympathetic resonance. I leave it to you to ascertain the relavence of this +statement to clairvoyance, radionics, remote viewing, etc.

+ +

For the skeptic, however, we must point out that --rigorously--quantum +mechanics requires that, continually, in any localized region of spacetime, +the "pattern" of any object in the universe appears momentarily in the +virtual state, purely from statistical considerations alone. So long as the +situation remains statistical, any place in the universe can continue to have +the "ghosts" of everything present there, in an ethereally thin pattern, and +the observable world will not be affected by it. However if one can +discriminate and scalarly "charge" or "discharge" individual patterns in this +"ghost-realm", action at a distance is directly possible, as is +materialization and dematerialization. If one accepts that even thought +itself produces such virtual "ghost-patterns" in the virtual particle flux of +vacuum, then it is at least theoretically possible to materialize thoughts +and thought images. +

+ +

We have entered a new kind of reality where the old rules and the old +limitations do not necessarily apply.

+ +

As pointed out, we can greatly simplify matters by considering +'currents of scalar resonance'. These currents flow from higher potential to +lower potential, regardless of whether we are considering "transmission" or +"reception".

+ +

Indeed, to transmit at lower potential is to receive, and to receive +at higher potential is to transmit. Thus the "transmitter-receiver" is a +special system where simply biasing two nodes differently determines which +way the scalar resonance will flow. We may increase or decrease an object's +inertia and mass, simply by properly biasing the transmitter-receiver's two +nodes.

+ +

In one accidental experiment of some hours duration, Golden charged +up an area so that, locally, all clocks became erratic. This included +electrical clocks, battery driven watches, wind up kitchen clocks, and a +pendulum operated grandfather clock. The rate of flow of time itself was +apparently altered in the local area by the accumulated charge, which took +four days to drain off and discharge. At the end of four days of discharge, +all clocks and watches returned to normal. + +(Continued) +

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If we interfere two transmitters in a region of great energy--such as +the molten core of the earth itself--and bias the transmitters negatively, we +can extract enormous energy directly from that distant source!

+ +

Indeed, a slight variation of this effect is precisely how the Soviet +Union obtains the enormous energy with which to power its incredibly +powerful strategic "continent-buster" scalar EM weapons. Scalar frequency +pairs -- 12 kilohertz apart -- are transmitted into the earth itself on some +portion of the earth's "giant scalar resonance" frequency curve. Biasing the +two transmitters differently with respect to each other produces a high +potential difference (voltage) between them. At the same time, biasing them +both negative with respect to the earth's molten core produces a scalar +resonance current from the core to the two transmitters. In the "outer loop" +between the two scalar transmitters, there appears a gigantic v/ltage and +gigantic electrical current which can be captured by appropriate means. This +electrical power is tapped off and transmitted to incredibly powerful scalar +EM weapon systems. There, special accumulators ad switchers are utilized to +provide awesome amounts of power to each weapon.

+ +

Just before May 11985 the Soviet Union performed a "full-up" +operational test of their entire strategic scalar EM weap/ns complex. This +test was detected and monitored periodically by Frank Golden. Some 27 of +these giant Soviet "power taps" were locked into the molten core of the +earth, producing forced (entrained) scalar resonance of the entire planet on +54 controlled frequencies under our very feet. The remainder of the scalar +frequency spectrum was ablaze with literally hundreds of Soviet scalar +transmitters: probably the entire strategic scalar command and control system +to underwater submarines, higher command centers, distant commands, etc. was +activated in the giant exercise.

+ +

For several days the system was exercised on a mind-boggling scale, +apparently as part of the Soviet Unions highly accentuated 40th anniversary +celebration of the end of World War II.

+ +

Ironically, not a single U.S. intelligence agency, laboratory, or +scientist detected this monstrous exercise for the new Soviet leader, +Gorbacev. Not one of them had a detector for scalar EM radiation, and not one +of them will --officially-- say that the exercise ever happened.

+ +

-- CREATING ENERGY AT A DISTANCE -- +

+

+A most useful device is obtained if one uses a scalar inferometer where +the two transmitters transmit beams which intersect at a distance.

+ +

In the interference zone, an energy bottle is created.

+ +

By biasing the transmitter reference potentials well above that of the +distant energy bottle, EM energy emerges in that zone. In that case the +interferometer is operating in the Exothermic mode.

+ +

By biasing the transmitter reference potentials well below that of the +distant energy bottle, EM energy is extracted from the distant zone and +emerges from the transmitter. In that case the inferometer is operating in +the Endothermic mode.

+ +

If the transmitters transmit continuously, the effect in the distant +zone is continuous.

+ +

If each transmitter transmits a pulse, and the two pulses meet in the +distant intersection zone, then an explosive emergence or extraction of +energy occurs at the distant interference zone, depending on whether the +inferometer is operating in the exothermic or endothermic mode.

+ +

-- EXOTHERMIC MODE (SCALAR INTERFEROMETER) -- +

+

+For a scalar interferometer, "del phi" (the gradient of the potential) +applies between the transmitter sit and the distant intersection site, not to +the intervening space in between. Thus one speaks of "energy flow" as being +between the transmitter and intersection --without-any "in between". In the +intervening space, all energy exists as locked-in artificial potential, not +EM force field energy (gradient bleed off potential).

+ +

In the Exothermic mode, the ground potential of the transmitter is +biased well above the ground potential of ambient vacuum. Energy enters the +transmitter and "disappears", to "reappear" in the distant interference zone.

+ +

If continuous wave transmission is used, the energy continuously +appears in the distant zone.

+ +

If pulse transmission is used and timed so that the two scalar pulses +meet in the distant zone, energy explosively appears there.

+ +

If multiple frequencies are transmitted in the manner of a Fourier +expansion of a particular geometric form, then a 3-dimensional energy form +appears at the distant intersection. In this manner a spherical or +hemispherical shell (a globe or "dome" of EM energy) can be created at a +distance. If pulse transmission is used, this will be an impulsive or +explosive emergence of that energy form. If continuous transmission is used, +this will be a continuous glowing form.

+ +

By feeding incredibly powerful transmitters with large amounts of +energy extracted from the earth's molten core by "energy taps," very large +spherical globes and hemispherical domes of EM energy can be created at a +distance. The energy in the interference "shell" of such a sphere or +hemisphere is sufficiently dense to lift Dirac matter from the Dirac sea of +the vacuum. Thus the shell contains a glowing plasma.

+ +

Many such scalar howitzer signatures have been seen over the oceans, +particularly over the north Pacific by jet airliners flying into and out of +Japan. (Remember some months ago the big story about the JAL flight in which +all passengers and crew saw a giant spherical "UFO".) Also such globes and +domes of light have been seen deep within the Soviet Union, by observers in +Afghanistan and by pilots of aircraft landing in Iran.

+ +

In the impulsive exothermic mode, a large visible flash will occur if +EM energy in the visible spectrum is produced. "Flashes" in the infrared may +similarly occur, if the emerging energy is in that spectral band. In +September 1979 our Vela satellites detected such a large "nuclear flash" over +the South Atlantic, off the southern coast of Africa. A second "nuclear +flash" detected by the Vela satellites in 1980 was in the infrared only. Some +years ago, a series of anomalous "flashes" and "booms" occurred off the east +coast of the United States. The were due to the orientation and alignment -- +and registration -- of one or more "scalar howitzers" -- scalar EM +interferometers in the exothermic mode.

+ +

Large "booms" occurred over the shuttle launch site at Cape Canaveral, +associated with three shuttle launches prior to the end of November 1985. +These were tests of such exothermic scalar EM howitzers, being tested as part +of the Soviet Launch Phase ABM system. In that mode, the scalar pulses from +the two transmitters are injected into special zero-reference scalar EM +"channels" established in the EM carriers of the Woodpecker over-the-horizon +radars. The scalar pulses travel through these channels, traveling in the +ordinary EM beam of the transmitter and following it in its curvature around +the earth in the earth-ionospheric waveguide. The scalar pulses are timed, +phased, and oriented so as to meet the rising shuttle. In these tests the +transmissions were offset in time so the shuttle would not actually be +destroyed, but the system could be tested against actual shuttle launches in +the U.S. + +The specific uses of these various exothermic modes will be covered in +later parts of this series.

+ +

In the endothermic mode, the bias on the transmitters is such that +energy is extracted from the distant intersection zone, to re-emerge from the +transmitters. There the energy must be caught and disposed of if it is not to +burn out the transmitters. When very large amounts of energy are extracted +from distant points, the Soviets often use a "dump" method of temporarily +capturing, and storing in an accumulator, the heat energy emerging at the +transmitters. A second howitzer in the exothermic mode is then fed by a +"scalar energy tap" established into the accumulator. This howitzer is +focused on the distant dump site -- often Bennett Island, where exhausts are +continually observed by U.S. weather satellites.

+ +

In the impulsive endothermic mode, energy is impulsively extracted from +the distant intersection zone. In the atmosphere this results in a very sharp +cooling or "cold explosion". It also results in the type of boom and rumble +often associated with thunder after a lightning bolt.

+ +

On April 9, 1984 the Soviet Union tested such a "cold explosion" off +the coast of Japan, near the Kuril Islands. In the suddenly induced low +pressure "cold zone" above the ocean, ocean water was sharply sucked up from +the ocean, forming a dense cloud. Then air rushing into the low pressure zone +forced the cloud upward, forming a mushroom much like that of an atomic +explosion except for the absence of a flash and the absence of a shockwave +moving out and away from the center of the explosion.

+ +

As the cloud rises, it expands by mixing -- very similar to a giant +thunderhead buildup, except much faster. In this case the cloud rose to about +60000 feet in about 2 minutes, spreading out until it reached a diameter of +about 200 miles. The incident was seen by the pilots and crews of several +Boeing 747 jet airliners in the general vicinity. Sometime after that, a U.S. +weather satellite photo of the area occurred. The cloud in that photo has an +anomalous density distribution, differing from that of all other clouds in +the area... + +(Continued) +

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--TESLA'S "BIG EYE" FOR REMOTE VIEWING-- +

+

+Nikola Tesla planned a very special use for his endothermic scalar +interferometer. He planned to produce what he called his "big eye to see at a +distance."

+ +

The system used to accomplish this is only weakly endothermic, so that +only a small amount of energy is extracted from the distant target. Also, the +beams are "scanned" by an open receiver, timewise, from side to side and top +to bottom. By scanning yet another single beam through the intersection zone +and phasing its pulses, an even better representation can be obtained. Thus +the receiver produces a representation of the energy extracted from various +locations within the distant endothermic zone. By displaying the received +signals on an appropriately scanned screen, a representation of the distant +scene can be created. This is a special kind of "microwave interferometry," +and -- with modern techniques -- the imagery obtained can be surprisingly +good.

+ +

With development, it might even become as good as the image presently +obtained by side looking acquisition radars.

+ +

Interestingly enough, since scalar beams will easily penetrate the earth +or the ocean, one can also look beneath the earth or ocean with this type of +scanning scalar interferometer. + +The importance of this capability to strategic and tactical +reconnaissance is obvious. Camouflage, cover, and concealment have no effect +on such a system. One can easily look into buildings and into underground +facilities. With a small system such as this, the U.S. Marines at Khe Sahn +would have had little difficulty locating the tunnels continually dug under +the perimeter by the Viet Cong. And targets under jungle canopies are +directly visible... + +It requires little imagination to see that this system is easily +adapted for use underwater. A type of "underwater radar." With such devices, +the problem posed by the underwater nuclear submarine is solved. For example, +an entire area can be continually searched, much like acquisition radar +systems do now. A submarine can be detected and tracked, and none of its +ordinary detectors will detect anything out of the ordinary. By using a +separate pair of beams in the exothermic mode, powerful scalar pulses can be +fired at the distant sub, intersecting at the submarine in a violent EMP +throughout the sub and its armament. Thus the sub and all of its missiles +are destroyed instantly.

+ +

Or, continuous exothermic transmission can be used by the targeting +weapon at lesser power, gradually interfering with the sub's electrical +systems and causing it to loose control. The sub then sinks to crush depths +and implodes.

+ +

Precisely that scenario seems to be what happened on April 10, 1963 to +the U.S.S. Thresher nuclear submarine. It left a signature: the subs nearby +surface companion, the U.S.S. Skylark, was in the "splatter zone" of the +underwater scalar interference. That is, spurious EM noise was being +generated in all the Skylark's electrical systems, some of which were +actually disabled. So intense was the "electronic jamming" that it required +over an hour and a half for the Skylark to transmit an emergency message +back to its headquarters that the Thresher was n serious trouble and contact +with it had been lost. Some of the Skylark's communication systems actually +failed, but later resumed operation inexplicably, once the jamming was gone. +That type of "jamming" of multiple bands and multiple electronic equipment, +of course, together with the anomalous failure of electronic equipment and +its later mysterious recovery, were direct signatures of the exothermic +scalar interferometer against thee undersea target in the vicinity of the +skylark.

+ +

The very next day, April 111963, the same Soviet scalar EM howitzer +system was tested in the "destroy submarine" pulse mode. A huge underwater EM +blast occurred off the coast of Puerto Rico, about 100 miles north of the +island. The underwater explosion caused a huge boiling of the surface of the +ocean, followed by the rising up of a giant mushroom of water about a third +of a mile high, the mushroom of water then fell back into the ocean, +completing the signature.

+ +

Fortunately the entire incident was seen by the startled crew of a +passing U.S. jetliner which was just passing its checkpoint in that area. +(See Robert J.Durant, "An underwater explosion -- or what?", Pursuit, 5(2), +April 1972, p. 30-31.)

+ +

These two incidents were full up operational tests of Khrushchev's +newly-deployed superweapons. He probably staged this dramatic one-two punch +in a desperate effort to recover face with the Communist Party after his +disastrous face down by Kennedy in thee Cuban Missile Crisis a few short +months previously. Apparently the attempt was successful, since he remained +in power another year before being deposed.

+ +

--MUSHROOM CLOUD FROM SEA OFF JAPAN NEAR RUSSIAN TEST AREA-- + +The following is concerning the "cold explosion" of April 91984. The +site of the explosion was only about 200 miles from downtown Tokyo. It was +seen by the crews of several jet airliners, including Japan Air Lines Flight +36.

+ +

A short time before the Soviets had hastily announced missile tests +would be conducted into a zone some distance away from the ol explosion site. +This may have been a deception to cover this incident, should any nation +indicate they knew what was going on.

+ +

It was also a direct "stimulus" to the Japanese and the rest of the +world: That is stimulate the system and see if the scientists recognize what +happened. If they do, then they know about scalar EM weapons. If they don't, +then their countries know nothing of scalar EM weapons, and those countries +are defenseless against them.

+ +

At any rate, at about 5:14 a.m. Pacific Standard time on April 91984, +a giant mushroom cloud erupted above the ocean south of the Kuril Islands. +The mushroom rose rapidly, expanding to an altitude of 60000 feet and a +diameter of 200 miles within 2 minutes.

+ +

One pilot of a Boeing 747 who observed the cloud was a former B-52 +bomber pilot. He described the cloud as being very similar to that of a +gigantic nuclear explosion, except there was no flash of visible light. +Taking evasive action, he turned off course away from the blast, and braced +for a blast shock that never came...

+ +

--MUSHROOM CLOUD RISING FROM THE SEA (COLD EXPLOSION)-- + +Indeed, this highly anomalous cloud was due to a cold explosion -- a +test of a Soviet scalar EM howitzer in the pulsed endothermic mode. + +Thus a beautiful "stimulus" and test was conducted: quite a few +airliners were "pinged", providing a high-level stimulus to competent +observers. The news was sure to be reported by them to several nations. The +press was sure to pick up the story. This was a high order stimulus to see +whether the U.S., Japan, or other potential adversaries of the Soviet Union +recognized the testing of a cold explosion weapon.

+ +

By our reaction, we assured them (with high confidence) that we still +knew nothing of scalar EM interferometry or cold explosions.

+ +

Five Boeing 747's flew through or near the cloud on their way to +Anchorage Alaska. The aircraft were checked at Anchorage for rad)oactive +contamination, but nothing was found. This showed that the huge explosion +had been non-nuclear.

+ +

The ocean in the area is also about 21000 feet deep. That is really +too deep for a submarine volcano to have erupted and caused the cloud. +(Besides, a volcano would have continued to snort at least a bit, and so that +appears to be out of the question as a cause of the incident.)

+ +

In short, a man made phenomenon is indicated.

+ +

Indeed, we know it was a cold explosion. In fact, the basic effect has +been produced over a dish of water in the laboratory, using a small scalar +interferometer in the endothermic mode.

+ +

Further, the story does not end there.

+ +

A geophysicist at the University of Hawaii, Dr.Daniel A. Walker, +together with his colleages monitor an array of Hydrophones on the ocean +bottom, recording signals such as seismic events, volcano eruptions, etc.

+ +

Dr.Walker and his colleages performed a comprehensive analysis of the +data recorded by the hydrophones in and around the time of the incident in +question. The data shows the absence of any natural seismic or volcanic event +that could have caused the April 9th phenomenon off the coast of Japan. + +He and his colleages concluded that it was either an as yet unknown +natural phenomenon, or a man made phenomenon.

+ +

Their report is published in "Science". (D.Walker,"Kaitoku Seamount and +the Mystery Cloud of 9 April 1984," Science, 227(4687),Feb.81985,p. +607-611.) + +(Continued) +

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+--THE TESLA SHIELD-- +

+

+Of particular interest is the hemispherical shell of energy which years +ago was dubbed the "Tesla Shield."

+ +

Two scalar hemispherical surfaces are created, using multiple frequency +transmitters and truncated Fourier series expansions. Interference of the two +scalar hemispheres creates a great, glowing hemispherical shell of ordinary +electromagnetic energy. In the shell, the energy density is sufficient to +lift Dirac matter from the Dirac sea of vacuum. The shell is thus filled with +a glowing plasma.

+ +

Such a shell may be several hundreds of miles in diameter at the base. +The enormous energy required to form such a defense shell is obtained by a +"scalar power tap" into the molten core of the earth itself as previously +explained. In late April/early May of 1985, 27 such "power taps" were placed +in the earth by the Soviets. If each tap is capable of powering 4 to 6 large +scalar EM weapons, then the Soviet strategic scalar EM arsenal contains over +100 monstrous superweapons capable of generating exothermic explosions, +endothermic explosions, engineering the weather, locating and destroying +underwater submarines, detecting and destroying ballistic missiles shortly +after launch, detecting and destroying long range strategic bombers as soon +as they are airborne, etc.

+ +

At any rate, the giant Tesla shield is useful against any penetrating +vehicle. If the shell is not so large, its energy density may be very high. +In that case, the intense plasma heating will fuse and even vaporize metallic +bodies. In addition, any vehicle encountering the shell is subjected to an +extremely intense EMP arising everywhere inside its circuitry. EMP shielding +is of no use against the creation of energy throughout the spacetime of the +circuits; such shielding only helps against energy flow through space in the +conventional sense.

+ +

Thus the electronics of any vehicle encountering the shield are +instantly dudded, whether or not they are shielded against ordinary +electromagnetic interference (EMI). This includes the electronics operating a +nuclear warhead, carried by a re-entry vehicle. Electrically everything +penetrating the shell is totally dudded. Further, explosive materials are +exploded when such an EMP is encountered, and combustible materials are +fiercely consumed or set afire. Ablative shielding suffers an interesting +catastrophe: since energy does not try to "flow into" the shielding but +"arises" everywhere in it simultaneously, "ablation" occurs everywhere +throughout the ablative material, simply exploding it instantly. In addition, +for smaller Tesla shells (say of 50 miles in diameter) the energy density is +sufficient to melt or vaporize metals such as missile structures.

+ +

With such a Tesla shield, there is no need to discriminate true +warhead bearing re-entry vehicles from decoys, chaff, etc. The whole "mess" +entering the shield is simply "cleaned up" and "sterilized" or destroyed. The +shield can take care of ICBMs/IRBMs and their nuclear warheads, strategic +bombers and their nuclear bombs, cruise missiles and their nuclear warheads, +re-entry vehicles and their warheads, decoys, chaff, etc.

+ +

--SARYSHAGAN DIRECTION-SEPTEMBER 1979-- + +The London Sunday Times of 17 August 1980 contained information and a +photo-sketch of incidents fo sighting of the testing of very large Tesla +globes deep within the Soviet Union. The sightings were made in Afghanistan +by British war cameraman Nick Downie. The phenomena seen were in the +direction of the Saryshagan Missile Test Range, which -- according to the +U.S. Defense Departments "Soviet Military Power," 1986 -- contains one or +more large directed energy weapons (DEW's). + +Even though Downie was seeing the globe of light from a great +distance, it flared silently over the Hindu Kush and expanded to subtend an +arc of about 20 degrees, dimming as it expanded. (An arc of 20 degrees +subtended by an object many hundreds of miles distant indicates an object of +well over a hundred miles in diameter. This gives some idea of the enormous +energy being controlled and manipulated by these Soviet weapons.)

+ +

Downie saw the sight on more than one occasion in September 1979.

+ +

In the same month --December 1979-- a stationary luminous globe +containing a vertical stripe of black in the center was seen in the sky off +the coast of St.Petersburg, Florida. This particular type of sighting in that +area has been previously correlated with times of known activity at +Saryshagan.

+ +

Further, in the same month, U.S. nuclear warning Vela satellites +detected a "nuclear flash" over the South Atlantic, off the coast of Africa. +Controversy has raged in U.S. Intelligence and scientific circles to this day +as to whether a nuclear explosion or some other kind of mechanism produced +the flash.

+ +

Indeed, the flash may have been produced by a scalar EM howitzer from +Saryshagan as one more "ping" of the U.S. Intelligence system, to ascertain +whether or not it knew anything about scalar EM howitzers. Again the negative +response told them with high confidence that (1) We still didn't know about +scalar EM stuff, and (2) We were still totally defenseless against the Soviet +scalar EM weaponry.

+ +

At any rate, from Downie's sightings, it is highly probable that the +DEW weaponry at Saryshagan Missile Test Range was active in September 1979, +and was producing large Tesla globes. If the DEWs at Saryshagan can produce +the giant luminous Tesla globe, they are almost certainly scalar EM +interferometers and can produce the giant Tesla shields as well. Downie +reported other earlier sightings of similar phenomena seen by Afghans deep +within the Soviet Union in the same direction toward Saryshagan...

+ +

Briefly, let us cover the uses of such a giant globe or spherical +shell of glowing EM energy and plasma.

+ +

By placing such a giant globe hundreds of miles out away from the +defended heartland, an entire arc of the sky can be defended against long +range ballistic missile attack in midcourse. During their midcourse +trajectory, the attacking missiles would have to penetrate the globular shell +twice, exposing them to giant internal EMPs twice. A very high probability +thus exists that all missiles entering the space occupied by the globe are +dudded upon entry and/or exit. This includes the electronics inside the +nuclear warheads themselves. Also this is particularly effective against MIRV +and MARV missile carriers since the multiple re-entry vehicles are normally +still on the main vehicle during most of midcourse. The use of this midcourse +ABM globe defense greatly reduces the number of vehicles arriving at the +latter part of midcourse and the terminal phase of their trajectory.

+ +

By using a smaller, more intense globe, and placing it on incoming +clusters of objects or single objects, both EMP and local heating are used +against the objects. This is suitable in the latter part of midcourse and in +the terminal phase of ICBMs, IRBMs, SLBMs, and cruise missiles. It is also +useful against incoming strategic bombers and their air to surface missiles +both ballistic and cruise.

+ +

Two modes of the globes -- especially the small ones -- can be used. +First the continuous mode can be used to "fry" or vaporize incoming objects +in a relatively small volume (say ten to fifteen miles in diameter). Second, +the "pulse" mode can be used to "service" all incoming objects, whether or +not they have passed through the "large globe" midcourse defense. This +provides an additional guarantee of killing the objects; discrimination is +not require, just get all of them. The exposure of all incoming objects to +multiple attacks raises the probability of kill to essentially 100%, or as +close to that as one wishes. Of course the incoming vehicle may still +encounter a terminal defense consisting of the Tesla shield and associated +roving "quickshot" small intense globes.

+ +

In short, with these systems an essentially 100% ABM and anti bomber +defense is possible. Further, the Soviets have possessed such an effective +defense for two decades, JUST AS THEY HAVE OPENLY STATED SINCE 1960 WHEN +KHRUSHCHEV ANNOUNCED HIS "SUPERWEAPONS"!! + +

+ +

--CONTINUOUS TESLA EMP GLOBE-- + +Here is another verified incident of a gigantic test of a Soviet +scalar EM howitzer deep within the Soviet Union.

+ +

This is a C.I.A. report, released under the Freedom of Information +Act. One can be quite sure that the incident occurred as stated.

+ +

The phenomenon was seen from two aircraft approaching Mehrabad Airport +in Teheran, Iran on June 17, 1966 and reported by their pilots.

+ +

On the far horizon deep within the Soviet Union, an intense spherical +ball of light appeared, "sitting on the horizon" so to speak. The globe of +light increased to enormous size, dimming as it did so, literally filling an +arc of the distant sky as it expanded. The sighting was shielded from most +ground observers view at the airport itself due to an intervening mountain +range which masked most of the phenomena from the ground.

+ +

The silent, expanding globe was observed for four or five minutes +before it faded away.

+ +

Again this is positive evidence of the testing of a giant scalar +interferometer, in the "midcourse ABM globe" type of action.

+ +

However, note the date -- mid 1966! The Soviets have therefore been +testing such scalar weapons of enormous size and power for at least two +decades. This implies that development must have started at least a decade +earlier, or in the mid '50s.

+ +

Still earlier, in January 1960 Nikita Khrushchev had announced the +development of a "fantastic" Soviet weapon, one which could even destroy all +life on earth if unrestrainedly used. In 1962 the ebullient Khrushchev was +forced to back down and lose face before John Kennedy, in the Cuban Missile +Crisis. Khrushchev's missiles and bombers were in woeful shape, as Kennedy +well knew (by courtesy of the Russian spy, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky). Kennedy +did not know that Khrushchev's new superweapons were nearing deployment, but +were not quite ready yet.

+ +

To save face and prevent his immediate ouster, Khrushchev apparently +conducted a startling two-strike demonstration of his new weapons as soon as +they became operationally ready. On April 10, 1963 he detected and destroyed +the U.S.S. Thresher nuclear submarine, using a scalar EM howitzer in the +underwater "continuous" mode. The next day he demonstrated the "pulsed" +underwater destruction mode for underwater subs by producing a giant +underwater +explosion underneath the water 100 miles north of Puerto Rico. Ironically, +just as the Atlantic was coming alive with U.S. naval vessels searching for +the lost Thresher, a second test of the weapons that had finished off the sub +occurred to the south of them, unnoticed and disregarded, even though seen +and reported to he F.B.I. and the U.S. Coast Guard by a passing U.S. +jetliner's pilot and crew, who observed the underwater explosion.

+ +

We thus can peg the development of these weapons by the Soviets as +starting well before 1960. The first operational deployment of the gigantic +strategic weaponry occurred in early 1963. + +Note that the 1966 testing observed here is completely consistent +with this estimated development schedule.

+ +

Thus large Soviet strategic scalar EM weapons have been operational +on site for 24 YEARS !!! This implies that at least three additional +generations of the scalar EM weapons have been developed and deployed by +now... +

+ +

--MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS OVER NORTH PACIFIC-- + +Incidents of Soviet testing of the Tesla shield and the Tesla globe +weapons are routinely observed by airline pilots flying over the North +Pacific into and out of Japan.

+ +

This is one typical example. Two jetliners, Japan Air Lines flights +403 and 421, sighted and reported a large glowing globe of light sitting just +beyond the horizon and extending well above it. The aircraft were in the +vicinity of 42 degrees N latitude and 153 degrees longitude at the time. The +sighting was thus about 700 miles east of Kushiro.

+ +

The diameter of the ball was estimated as at least 18-27 kilometers +by the pilots. Depending upon the actual distance to the sphere it may have +been of much larger size.

+ +

This incident is reported in the Asahi Evening News, Tokyo, June 22, +1982. + +Many similar sightings have been reported by jet airliner pilots +flying over these waters. + +--WHITE SPHERE SEEN IN NORTH ATLANTIC 1976-- + +Here is another sighting closer to home.

+ +

This incident was observed from a passing ship on June 221976 in the +North Atlantic, at about 2113-2140 hours. It is reported in the Marine +Observer, Vol.471977, p.66.

+ +

First an orange glow was sighted behind some distant clouds. A couple +of minutes later, a glowing white sphere of light was observed to the left of +the orange glow, just above the clouds. The white sphere then slowly expanded +to a much larger sphere, dimming as it expanded. At its maximum size, the top +of the white sphere reached about 24 degrees 30 minutes elevation angle to +the observer. Development to maximum size required about 10 minutes.

+ +

By 2140 hours the sphere had faded and disappeared. The sphere was +sufficiently thin that the stars could be seen through it at all times.

+ +

Again, this incident strong<y fits the large Tesla globe mode of a +Soviet scalar EM interferometer.

+ +

The significance and role of the orange glow are not known at this +time. +

+ +

--CONTINUOUS TESLA FIREBALL-- + +Here is another incident that represents a stimulus to the British +government, to see if the British are aware of scalar electromagnetics.

+ +

Again this is a CIA report released under the Freedom of Information +Act, so the details are reliable.

+ +

On Sep. 10, 1976 British European Airways flight 831, flying between +Moscow and London and over Lithuania at the time, observed an intense ball +of light above the clouds below the aircraft. The light was so intense it +lit up the sky in the entire vicinity.

+ +

The concerned pilot reported the glowing object to Soviet ground +authorities with whom he was in contact. He received harsh instructions to +ignore the light, and essentially to continue on his way out of there.

+ +

Here we see an incident involving a small, intense Tesla globe, of the +kind with which the defense could "service" objects that had already +penetrated a large midcourse globe, or aircraft approaching the defended +area.

+ +

Obviously the Soviet authorities were tracking the aircraft, and knew +it was in the vicinity. It seems logical, then, that they deliberately +placed the brightly glowing ball beneath the aircraft so that the pilot and +crew could not fail to observe it.

+ +

The strange message to the pilot was simply designed to increase the +intensity of the stimulus. The stimulus was to be something like, "The +Soviets are doing something in research and development that allows them to +create intense balls of glowing light at a distance, and place these objects +in and around the air in and around aircraft, possibly to intercept them." +The purpose, of course, was to observe the British governments reaction +after the incident was reported by the pilot upon his arrival in London.

+ +

Again the reaction of the British -- and the U.S. as well -- was as +predicted. Again we showed that we knew nothing of scalar electromagnetic +weapons, and did not recognize one when we encountered its effects. + +(Continued) +

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+--TERMINAL ABM SYSTEM-- +

+

+Very neat things can be done if one "nests" several Tesla shields -- +say three or four -- concentrically, one inside the other. In that case even +the nuclear radiation (such as gamma rays) from a defense-suppressive high +altitude nuclear burst can be handled. +

+

+For example, suppose three such concentric shields are placed over a +large vital area. Further, suppose a high altitude nuclear burst is placed +above the outer shield. Gamma radiation almost instantly strikes the plasma +in the outer shell, where it is absorbed, scattered, and re-radiated at a +lower temperature. (That after all is what plasmas do.) Inside the first +shell, the scattered radiation is now in the x-ray and ultra violet region. +Let us track the most lethal component, the x-rays.

+ +

The scattered x-rays then strike the second plasma shell, and are +absorbed scattered and re-radiated at a lower temperature. Inside the second +shell the scattered radiation is now in the visible and infrared region, with +a little ultraviolet. +

+

+This optical radiation in turn strikes the third plasma shell, and is +absorbed scattered and re-radiated at still lower temperature. Inside the +third shell, most of the energy is now in the form of radio frequency (RF) +energy, with a little IR and visible band spectral energy content. +

+

+At this point, ordinary electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding of +electronic equipment on the ground inside the third shield can take care of +any RF interference resulting from the emergent RF noise.

+ +

As can be seen, three shells are sufficient to convert the gamma and +x-ray radiation (and ultraviolet and infrared) mostly to harmless RF energy +before all three shells are penetrated. Thus the tactic of deliberate defense +suppression by a preliminary high altitude nuclear burst can be countered by +multiple Tesla shields.

+ +

In addition, of course, any ordinary vehicles penetrating all three +shields are exposed to successive violent EMP's and are almost certainly +electrically dudded. The vehicles are also subjected to multiple periods of +intense heating, so combustibles, fuels, explosives, and ablatives are +destroyed. In addition, metal structures may be melted or vaporized.

+ +

Think of it this way: anything which hits one of these Tesla shields +goes phhht! Just like a bug hitting an electrified bugkiller screen.

+ +

For years passing ships have observed and reported such multiple-shield +"light phenomena" over remote regions of the ocean. U.S. intelligence has +routinely not paid any heed to "lights at night" over remote ocean areas, and +so Soviet tests in this manner have remained relatively unnoticed by +officialdom...

+ +

--WOODPECKER BEAMS INTERSECT OVER NORTH AMERICA-- + +In July 1976 the U.S. received very special Bicentennial greetings from +the Soviet Union.

+ +

At that time, communications systems of the world in the 3-30 megaHertz +band suddenly met substantial interference from extremely powerful, chirped +Soviet transmitters which were suddenly activated. These transmitters +continue their transmission to this day.

+ +

Estimates of the power of these transmitters vary, but figures range as +high as several hundred megawatts, with a nominal figure being 100 megawatts.

+ +

These powerful transmitters were properly nicknamed "Woodpeckers" +because of the characteristic sound of the chirped signal when received. That +is, the received signal makes a "pecking" sound much like a woodpecker's beak +hitting a block of wood.

+ +

Several nations protested, but the powerful signals have continued, +right down to this day. The only Soviet response was to add a "spread +spectrum" capability, so that the transmitter would not dwell too long on one +specific frequency, but shifted periodically to other frequencies.

+ +

These transmitters have apparently never been precisely located by U.S. +intelligence, but their beams carry much of the characteristics of an over-the-horizon (OTH) radar. They have been dubbed OTH radars by U.S. +intelligence, and can without question perform that mission, in addition to +some very interesting missions that U.S. intelligence does not assess.

+ +

"Soviet Military Power", Department of Defense, 1985, p.45 shows the +direct intersection over the United States of the Woodpecker radar beams used +in an OTH role. In addition, shown is an additional "scanner" beam which can +be scanned across the intersection "grid" over the U.S., formed by waveform +interference of two main Woodpecker beams.

+ +

First, they can be used in a conventional OTH radar mode, since their +beams follow the earth-ionosphere waveguide and curve around the earth. In +this mode they can detect missiles at launch and thereafter, and strategic +bombers at launch and thereafter.

+ +

These scalar interference grid weapons can be used to biologically +attack entire populations in a targeted area. This aspect is not covered in +this briefing. Suffice it to say that phase locked ELF modulation signals of +10 Hz and less are often detected on multiple woodpecker frequencies +simultaneously. In a target area, this modulation -- is sufficiently stronger +than the Schumann resonance of the earth's magnetic field -- will entrain a +percentage of the brains into "forced entrainment". In that case, these human +brains are "synchronized" to the Woodpecker signals so that multiple coherent +frequencies are phase-locked into them. That is, multiple coherent EM +channels directly into these entrained brains now exist. At that point, +Fourier expansions may now be used to attack specific portions of the brain +geometrically.

+ +

In addition, scalar EM disease patterns can be modulated upon the +carriers, again with fourier expansions. Specific biological effects can be +induced in the entrained populations at will, limited only by the state of +the art of the Soviet technology used to attack them. Possible effects +include instantaneous death, heart seizure, severe emotional disruption, loss +of control of internal functions, diseases, disabling of the immune system, +and even implantation of thoughts, emotions, and ideas which are interpreted +by the subjects as their own.

+ +

While further discussion of this area is beyond the scope of my +knowledge, the biological aspects of the Woodpecker transmitters are +horrible. It suffices to say that, in thousands of experiments, Kaznacheyev +demonstrated that almost any kind of cellular death and disease pattern +could be electromagnetically transmitted. Kaznacheyev reported the effect in +te near ultraviolet. Experimenters at the University of Marburg in West +Germany duplicated the experiments in the infrared.

+ +

The bottom line is that photons themselves can carry death and disease +patterns between cells. Scalar EM technology allows synthesis of the actual +potential pattern (which after all represents total control of charge and +charge distribution, hence biochemistry in the cell) of a particular +disease or death mechanism. Symptoms (and cellular death from them!) of +nuclear radiation, chemical poisoning, bacterial infection, and other +mechanisms were induced by the Kaznacheyev experiments.

+ +

Dr. Popp of West Germany has published an analysis of the virtual +photon master control system of the cells. Since scalar EM represents the +deliberate ordering of virtual particle flux into deterministic patterns, +the master control system can readily be entered with scalar techniques to +induce disease and disorder at will... + +

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OUR SENATE?

+

+"This has been a tough election and I'm happy it's +over. And we finally upset that conservative who has been +holding up all the progressive legislation for so many +years." +"Yes, finally." declared the financial backer and +mentor of the new Senator from Wisconsin. "Now we'll be +able to get more of our legislation through the Senate. +This has been an uphill battle all the way. Old Charlie +Smith sure gave us an intense fight. If we hadn't had the +financial backing from so many of my friends, we never would +have unseated him." +They called the Vice-president to administer the oath +to the newly elected Senator. The ceremony was set for the +3rd day of January in his freshly decorated office. Present +for the swearing in was his family and several friends who +had arrived in Washington, D.C. only the day before. They +were thrilled at being in the Capitol building. They'd +heard so much about all the pomp and circumstance in our +Congress. The Senator's wife and children were smiling from +ear to ear as was his mother. She was swelling with pride +over her son being elected to the United States Senate. +The Vice-president joined the happy group. "Jack, I've +come to administer the oath of your office. Hell, I know +you believe in the Constitution, don't you?" +"Yes Sir, of course." +The Vice-president shook his hand and immediately +walked over to offer his congratulations to Jack's family. +While the local television reporters were present, no +one questioned that the oath was not administered. The +happy scene was simply one of mass confusion. Reporters +rushed forward to shake the hand of the new Senator. The +cameras swung around to the Vice-president. He smiled and +said, "Welcome to The United States Senate! This is the +World's Most Exclusive Club." +This performance is a continuing charade playing on the +ignorance of the American public. The "World's Most +Exclusive Club" has not been legally in session since the +election following 1913. How 'bout that? +There have been over seventy years of illegal legisla-tion and unconstitutional treaty verification. 70+ years of +unconstitutional confirmation of federal judges, ambassadors +and officers of the President's cabinet. How can this be? +Surely no one in our government would allow such a practice +to continue if it were true. +Unfortunately, it is true. Usually, when you don't +watch the store . . . you get robbed. And that is what has +happened to our government. WE haven't been watching the +store. The behind the scene power brokers have destroyed +the form of our government. There are special checks and +balances as protections which our Founding Fathers estab-lished at the Convention. +Two branches of the Congress were established to +protect the sovereignty of the states. This was a major +stumbling block in the writing of our Constitution. The +first branch, the House of Representatives, were to be +elected directly by the people. The representation in the +House would vary according to population. This is still +true today. +The Senate, our second branch, was set up to represent +state interests in the new government. Each state has equal +representation and voice in national affairs. Senators were +elected by each respective state legislature. Consequently +each state became an integral part in the formation of the +new national government. They designed this to be the link +between the state and national systems of government. One +advantage to this system was our Senators were less vul-nerable to graft and control by persons with other than +honorable motives. Whenever state legislatures suspected +Senators were not watching out for the state's interest in +national affairs they were often replaced. +This was the check and balance against the first branch +which was elected by popular vote. (Documents Illustrative +of the Formation of the Union of the American States, House +Document No. 398, 69th Congress, 1st Session,) (1965). +This principle lasted until 1912. The power managers +behind our government convinced the American people they had +more wisdom than our Founding Fathers. They had an +amendment to our Constitution introduced into Congress +proposing to give the election of Senators directly to the +people. This amendment had the net effect of destroying the +sovereignty of state governments. +The Secretary of State made the announcement on May 31, +1913. He declared the amendment ratified by the legisla-tures of thirty-six of the forth-eight (sic) states. +(ibid., footnote page 1071.) +Sounds innocent enough, doesn't it? Sounds all legal +and constitutional. This is what dudes in government want +you to believe . . . but it's a lie, a fairy tale! Let's +examine this sequence of errors. +In fancy and boldly written letters, the introductory +statement to our Constitution declares that WE THE PEOPLE +established the Constitution for the United States of +America. +The key is WE THE PEOPLE. We granted permission to the +new government for certain specified and limited powers. By +so doing, we granted the new government operating powers and +gave them jurisdiction over us. The document is full of +'thou shalt nots'. Powers which were not granted cannot be +assumed. Nor can any powers which were granted be enlarged +or exceeded. +The individual states were really jealous of their +sovereignty. They all feared the powers given to the new +national government were not sufficiently restricted. This +fear of the smaller states of domination by the larger +nearly wrecked the Constitutional Convention. They demanded +a Bill of Rights be added to the new constitution after ratification. +The entire Bill of Rights will get a thorough examina-tion in a later paper. For now, let's concern ourselves +with one which proves NO authority can be assumed by the +national government -- the Tenth amendment clearly spells +out that the powers not delegated belong to the states or +the people. +This amendment is the basis to determine whether the +national government has permission to function in a given +area. If the power was not delegated by us and spelled out +in the document, they don't have it. This amendment is the +one the federal government chooses to ignore and probably +wishes did not exist. +Another basic assumption we have to acknowledge is only +we can agree to any changes in the document. Therefore we +are responsible for the operation of our government. They +are responsible to us. +To be President of the United States, a person MUST be +a natural born citizen of the United States. (Art II, Sec 1) +This is a fixed, explicit command. There are NO exceptions +allowed. No emergency allowances or amendment saying anyone +but a natural born citizen can be president. This is the +only requirement in the entire document that a candidate be +natural born. It's obvious the Founders put it there for a +specific purpose. +Philander C. Knox, play acting as Secretary of State, +introduced the 17th amendment into Congress in 1912. The +man who was acting as president was William Howard Taft. +Taft was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 15, 1857. +SURPRISE . . . Ohio was NOT admitted to the Union until +August 7, 1953! At the time Taft was elected to be president Ohio was simply a territory. It was not a state which +means he was not a natural born citizen. Our Constitution +was violated. He was not eligible to be president by any +stretch of your imagination! +So our illustrious Congress hits the panic button in a +frantic effort to correct a major mistake. In their +infinite 'wisdom', they passed a Joint Resolution admitting +Ohio as a full and equal member of the union. (Public Law +204, 83rd Congress, 1st Session). +Section 2 of that resolution states: "This joint +resolution shall take effect as of March 1, 1803. Approved +August 7, 1953." Quick arithmetic shows that to be +backdated by 150 years. That's ex-post facto law. +They CAN'T do it! It's a conspicuous violation of our +Constitution which states: "No . . . ex post facto law +shall be passed." (Art I, Sec 9) This was added protection +for our citizens. An act which was legal one day could not +be declared illegal a day, a week, or even years later. NO +law can be predated by one day. We didn't agree to any +change through the amendment process. That guaranteed +protection of no ex post facto law is still the basic law of +the land. +Another problem surfaces under this Public Law. They used a resolution to make a law when the intent of the +Founders was for only bills to become law. Resolutions are +to express an opinion or to censure some person or action +but were never to become law. +Taft was not president and his illegal lackeys such as +Philander C Knox were not officials of the government. They +introduced this amendment illegally into Congress. It is +therefore an unconstitutional act and of no legal consequ-ence. +The election of Senators is as it was in the beginning, +by the Legislatures of the various states, NOT by popular +vote. They have not been in session legally since 1913. +Wait . . . there's more! Let's look at the last two +lines of Article V of our Constitution.

+ +

". . . and that no State, without its consent, +shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the +Senate."

+ +

The 'Secretary of State' announced in 1913 it had been +ratified by the legislatures of thirty-six of the forty-eight states. +Article V says 100% of the states have to agree to any +change in their equal voice in the Senate. Not three-quarters as he announced. 100 PERCENT of the states must +agree. +Delaware and Utah objected to the amendment and nine +other states did not act on it. Another section of the +Constitution was violated in defiance of the authority we +granted. Thirty-six states have forced a change on the +other states in their equal voting power in the Senate. +Some might say they still have equal suffrage since +there are two Senators from each state. (Sounds like a weak +bureaucratic argument.) However, they no longer represent +primarily the interest of the state. Now they supposedly +represent the interests of the people. All the states did +not agree to allow for a change of equal voting power. +These acts constitute usurpation of powers we granted. +For a definition of usurpation, in Black's Law Dictionary, +we find: "The unlawful seizure or assumption of sovereign +power. The assumption of government or supreme power by +force or illegally, in derogation of the constitution and of +the rights of the lawful ruler." +Isn't this exactly what we have just found has been +happening to the authority we granted? +George Washington, in his Farewell Address made the +following remark: "Usurpation is the customary weapon by +which free governments are destroyed." Another admonition +we have ignored. (Messages and Papers of the Presidents, J. +D. Richardson, 1898) +To quote Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist Papers, +No. 78: "There is no position which depends on clearer +principles than that every act of a delegated authority, +contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void." What they did is no good . . . they +broke the law. (All references to 'paper no.' are from this +book.) +Hamilton goes on further in the same paper to state: +"To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater +than his principle; that the servant is above his master; +that the representative of the people are superior to the +people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may +do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what +they forbid." +Madison, in Paper No. 62 makes clear the reasoning for +the election of Senators by the states: "In this spirit it +may be remarked that the equal vote allowed to each State is +at once a constitutional recognition of the portion of +sovereignty remaining in the individual States and an +instrument for preserving that residuary sovereignty." +"No law or resolution can now be passed without the +concurrence, first, of a majority of the people, and then of +a majority of the States." +Presently, we no longer have that guarantee of one +branch of the Congress watching the actions of the other +branch. The established check and balance was destroyed. +These people now go willy-nilly passing legislation in +direct contradiction to the intent of our Founding Fathers. +As one obvious example, in 1982 a money bill originated +in the Senate. Can't be done legally. This is in direct +violation of a crystal clear restriction in our Constitution +which dictates: "All Bills for raising Revenue shall +originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate +may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills." +There was much heavy argument during the Constitutional +Convention on this very issue of money bills. +Is it becoming apparent that they now feel the servants +are above the masters? After all, who in blazes are you? +How do we correct this mess? I will be first to admit +it will be difficult. There is no question they will be +reluctant to give up their powers and positions. They're on +the big gravy train and it's tough to derail. Phone calls +and letters to the offices of your Senators would be a +start. Letters to the Editors of local newspapers will +alert other people. Let's start putting up some roadblocks +to derail that train. +Using Petitions For Redress of Grievances to Senators +and Representatives will be a good tactic. It will be +interesting to see what they have to say about it. +State Legislatures will have to become involved in this +fight. After all, it was their power in the national +government and their sovereignty which was diluted and +destroyed. I'm also certain they know nothing about this +issue at present so each citizen MUST question their state +representative. +The states were duped into accepting the 17th Amend-ment. The states who did not act on the ratification would +be the logical ones to initiate the action. They should +force the federales to have the amendment set aside. They +easily repealed the 18th amendment (Prohibition) by Conven-tions in the States. We have to start the action and get +our government back within the confines of the authority +which we granted! +The filing of a civil suit as a federal question action +in federal court would be another option. The action would +have to be directly against the Senate for being illegally +in session. +The American people have the intelligence, ingenuity +and backbone to get a job done once they are aware of a +serious problem. We are not a nation of wimps . . . not yet +anyway. A comment is necessary concerning our new Senator +not taking the required oath in our opening illustration. I +personally have witnessed such an incident on local televis-ion news which concerned a newly elected Congressman. +This business of Congress passing a law which is 150 +years ex post facto has other serious ramifications. I will +cover these in later papers. More surprises on the way and +it involves our friends at the IRS! +For now, let's get our Senate back to it's proper +representation of each State's interest. We are being made +fools of by our national government. +Care to check on how many treaties ratified since 1914 +are not constitutionally binding? How about the United +Nations or the giveaway of the Panama Canal?

+

YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED....

+

PLEASE REGISTER....READ 'SALES PITCH' CHAPTER.

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(From the Weekly World News, June 7, 1994)

+ +

Shocking confessions rock nation's capital!

+ +

12 U.S. SENATORS ARE SPACE ALIENS!

+ +

by Nick Mann - Special report

+ +

WASHINGTON - A space alien who stunned the world by revealing that +five U.S. Senators were extraterrestrials in 1992 dropped another +bombshell when he met with President Bill Clinton in the White House just +days ago -- and named seven more senators who hail from distant planets!

+ +

And far from denying the extraterrestrial's allegations, Senators Phil +Gramm, Dennis DeConcini, John D. Rockefeller IV, Bennett Johnston, +Howell Heflin, Christopher Dodd, and William S. Cohen conceded that +"the time is right to make our true identities known."

+ +

"Senators John Glenn, Orrin Hatch, Nancy Kassebaum, Sam Nunn, and +Alan Simpson came out of the alien closet two years ago and now we find +that seven more senators are not from Earth," said author and UFO expert +Nathaniel Dean, who identified the first group of space alien senators in a +news conference that made international headlines in November 1992.

+ +

"The implications," he continued, "are almost beyond comprehension. For +one thing, we now know that the destiny of the most powerful nation on +Earth is being shaped and guided by entities who aren't even human.

+ +

"I'm not saying that this is bad, because it might very well be good.

+ +

"If the universe is inhabited by other creatures and civilizations, we need to +know about them.

+ +

"We also need linkage.

+ +

"And if nothing else, these space alien legislators can serve as our links to a +world that is even more advanced than our own."

+ +

Dean's report stunned political analysts and threatened to touch off a public +panic that, as one CIA source put it, "could quickly get out of control."

+ +

White House spokesmen declined to comment, but sources privately +confirmed that the President's meeting with the alien took place when the +Secret Service escorted the creature into the White House at 4:36 a.m. on +April 24.

+ +

They also suggested that the President will address the issue in an +upcoming news conference, although they could not provide a time or date.

+ +

While analysts scrambled to gauge public reaction, the senators sought +ways to minimize any negative fallout and put the right spin on the +creature's revelations.

+ +

Contacted at his office in Washington, Sen. Gramm, R. - Texas, took the +high road with full and immediate disclosure, saying: "It's all true. We are +space aliens. And I'm amazed that it's taken you so long to find out.

+ +

"When we read that the other aliens had been exposed in 1992, we knew it +was only a matter of time before you got the rest of us."

+ +

Less expansive but equally honest was Sen. DeConcini, D. - Ariz. In a +prepared statement, he said: "As chairman of the Senate Intelligence +Committee, I am quite distressed. My highly classified cover has been +blown."

+ +

Sen. Rockefeller, D. - W. Va., cleverly turned questions about the space +alien heritage into a plug for national health-care reform, saying: "I love it +here on Earth, but our health-care system is better at home."

+ +

Sen. Heflin, D. - Ala., was obviously taken off-guard by reporters' +questions. He called the space alien's revelations "surprising" and went on +to say: "Yes, my parents were Heaven sent."

+ +

Sen. Johnston, D. - La., said: "At least the cat is out of the bag, although +this isn't exactly the way I intended to tell my family and friends."

+ +

Sen. Dodd, D. - Conn., expressed relief "that all this is public." In the most +terse response of all, Sen. Cohen, R. - Maine, said, "I admit it."

+ +

Dean's sources said the space alien identified the extraterrestrial senators in +a 25-minute meeting with President Clinton.

+ +

Dean does not know what else, if anything, was discussed at the meeting.

+ +

"The first question that came to my mind was whether the senators are +U.S. citizens and eligible to serve in the U.S. Senate," said Dean.

+ +

"From what I understand, they were born in the U.S. and are U.S. citizens. +It just so happens that their parents were from another world. The senators +look like ordinary humans," he continued, "but the space alien who met +with President Clinton had an answer for that, too.

+ +

"He reportedly said the senators looked human 'because they choose to +look human. It is a simple matter for us to change our forms.' "

+ +

Oddly enough, the extraterrestrial alien refused to pinpoint the planet or +star system he and the alien senators came from, Dean said.

+ +

The twelve senators identified as space aliens are: +Christopher Dodd, D. - Connecticut +Bennett Johnston, D. - Louisiana +William S. Cohen, R. - Maine +Dennis DeConcini, D. - Arizona +Orrin Hatch, R. - Utah +Nancy Kassebaum, R. - Kansas +Alan Simpson, R. - Wyoming +Phil Gramm, R. - Texas +Howell Heflin, D. - Alabama +John D. Rockefeller IV, D. - West Virginia +Sam Nunn, D. - Georgia +John Glenn, D. - Ohio

+ +

(Transcriber's Note: Christopher Dodd's father was also a senator from +Connecticut. John D. Rockefeller IV is, as the name indicates, a member of +the Rockefeller family, which has been powerful in both politics and +business for several generations. John Glenn was one of the first U.S. +astronauts, and participated in Projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.) + +

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INSIDE THE SHADOW CIA

+ +

by

+ +

John Connolly

+ +

SPY Magazine - Sept 1992 - Volume 6

+ +
============================================================================
+ +

What? A big private company - one with a board of former CIA, FBI and +Pentagon officials; one in charge of protecting Nuclear-Weapons facilities, +nuclear reactors, the Alaskan oil pipeline and more than a dozen American +embassies abroad; one with long-standing ties to a radical ring-wing +organization; one with 30000 men and women under arms - secretly helped +IRAQ in its effort to obtain sophisticated weapons? And fueled unrest +in Venezuela? This is all the plot of a new best-selling thriller, +right? Or the ravings of some overheated conspiracy buff,right? Right?

+ +

WRONG.

+ +
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+ +

In the WINTER OF 1990, David Ramirez, a 24 year-old member of the Special +Investigations Division of the Wackenhut Corporation, was sent by his +superiors on an unusual mission. Ramirez a former Marine Corps sergeant +based in Miami, was told to fly immediately to San Antonio along with three +other members of SID-a unit, known as founder and chairman George +Wackenhut's "private FBI," that provided executive protection and conducted +undercover investigations and sting operations. Once they arrived, they +rented two gray Ford Tauruses and drove four hours to a desolate town on the +Mexican border called Eagle Pass. There, just after dark, they met two truck +drivers who had been flown in from Houston. Inside a nearby warehouse was an +18 -wheel tractor-trailer, which the two truck drivers and the four +Wackenhut agents in their rented cars were supposed to transport to Chicago. +"My instructions were very clear," Ramirez recalls. "Do not look into the +trailer, secure it, and make sure it safely gets to Chicago." It went +without saying that no one else was supposed to look in the trailer, either, +which is why the Wackenhut men were armed with fully loaded Remington 870 +pump-action shotguns.

+ +

The convoy drove for 30 hours straight, stopping only for gas and food. Even +then, one of the Wackenhut agents had to stay with the truck, standing by +one of the cars, its trunk open, shotgun within easy reach. "Whenever we +stopped, I bought a shot glass with the name of the town on it," Ramirez +recalls. "I have glasses from Oklahoma City, Kansas City, St. Louis."

+ +

A little before 5:00 on the morning of the third day, they delivered the +trailer to a practically empty warehouse outside Chicago. A burly man who +had been waiting for them on the loading dock told them to take off the +locks and go home, and that was that. They were on a plane back to Miami +that afternoon. Later Ramirez's superiors told him-as they told other SID +agents about similar midnight runs-that the trucks contained $40 million +worth of food stamps. After considering the secrecy, the way the team was +assembled and the orders not to stop or open the truck, Ramirez decided he +didn't believe that explanation.

+ +

Neither do we. One reason is simple: A Department of Agriculture official +simply denies that food stamps are shipped that way. "Someone is blowing +smoke," he says. Another reason is that after a six-month investigation, in +the course of which we spoke to more than 300 people, we believe we know +what the truck did contain-equipment necessary for the manufacture of +chemical weapons-and where it was headed: to Saddam Hussein's Iraq. And the +Wackenhut Corporation-a publicly traded company with strong ties to the CIA +and federal contracts worth $200 million a year-was making sure Saddam would +be geting his equipment intact. The question is why. In 1954, George +Wackenhut, then a 34-year old former FBI agent, joined up with three other +former FBI agents to open a company in Miami called Special Agent +Investigators Inc. The partnership was neither successful nor +harmonious-George once knocked partner Ed Dubois unconscious to end a +disagreement over the direction the company would take-and in 1958, George +bought out his partners.

+ +

However capable Wackenhut's detectives may have been at their work, George +Wackenhut had two personal attributes that were instrumental in the +company's growth. First, he got along exceptionally well with important +politicians. He was a close ally of Florida governor Claude Kirk, who hired +him to combat organized crime in the state; and was also friends with +Senator George Smathers, an intimate of John F. Kennedy's. It was Smathers +who provided Wackenhut with his big break when the senator's law firm helped +the company find a loophole in the Pinkerton law, the 1893 federal statute +that had made it a crime for an employee of a private detective agency to do +work for the government. Smathers's firm set up a wholly owned subsidiary of +Wackenhut that provided only guards, not detectives. Shortly thereafter, +Wackenhut received multimillion-dollar contracts from the government to +guard Cape Canaveral and the Nevada nuclear-bomb test site, the first of +many extremely lucrative federal contracts that have sustained the company +to this day.

+ +

The second thing that helped make George Wackenhut successful was that he +was, and is, a hard-line right-winger. He was able to profit from his +beliefs by building up dossiers on Americans suspected of being Communists +or merely left-leaning-"subversives and sympathizers," as he put it-and +selling the information to interested parties. According to Frank Donner, +the author of "Age of Surveillance", the Wackenhut Corporation maintained +and updated its files even after the McCarthyite hysteria had ebbed, adding +the names of antiwar protesters and civil-rights demonstrators to its list +of "derogatory types." By 1965, Wackenhut was boasting to potential +investors that the company maintained files on 2.5 million suspected +dissidents-one in 46 American adults then living. in 1966, after acquiring +the private files of Karl Barslaag; a former staff member of the House +Committee on Un-American Activities, Wackenhut could confidently maintain +that with more than 4 million names, it had the largest privately held file +on suspected dissidents in America. In 1975, after Congress investigated +companies that had private files, Wackenhut gave its files to the +now-defunct anti-Communist Church League of America of Wheaton, Illinois. +That organization had worked closely with the red squads of big-city police +departments, particularly in New York and L.A., spying on suspected +sympathizers; George Wackenhut was personal friends with the League's +leaders, and was a major contributor to the group. To be sure, after giving +the League its files, Wackenhut reserved the right to use them for its +clients and friends.

+ +

Wackenhut had gone public in 1965 ; George Wackenhut retained 54 percent of +the company. Between his salary and dividends, his annual compensation +approaches $2 million a year, sufficient for him to live in a $20 million +castle in Coral Gables, Florida, complete with a moat and 18 full-time +servants. Today the company is the third-largest investigative security firm +in the country, with offices throughout the United States and in 39 foreign +countries.

+ +

It is not possible to overstate the special relationship Wackenhut enjoys +with the federal government. It is close. When it comes to security +matters, Wackenhut in many respects *is* the government. In 1991, a third of +the company's $600-million in revenues came from the federal government, +and another large chunk from companies that themselves work for the +government, such as Westinghouse.

+ +

Wackenhut is the largest single company supplying security to U.S. embassies +overseas; several of the 13 embassies it guards have been in important +hotbeds of espionage, such as Chile, Greece and El Salvador. It also guards +nearly all the most strategic government facilities in the U.S., including +the Alaskan oil pipeline, the Hanford nuclear-waste facility, the Savannah +River plutonium plant and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

+ +

Wackenhut maintains an especially close relationship with the federal +government in other ways as well. While early boards of directors included +such prominent personalities of the political right as Captain Eddie +Rickenbacker; General Mark Clark and Ralph E. Davis, a John Birch Society +leader, current and recent members of the board have included much of the +country's recent national-security directorate: former FBI director Clarence +Kelley; former Defense secretary and former CIA deputy director Frank +Carlucci: former Defense Intelligence Agent director General Joseph Carroll; +former U.S. Secret Service director James J. Rowley; former Marine +commandant P. X. Kelley; and acting chairman of President Bush's foreign-intelligence advisory board and former CIA deputy director Admiral Bobby Ray +Inman. Before his appointment as Reagan's CIA director, the late William +Casey was Wackenhut's outside legal counsel. The company has 30000 armed +employees on its payroll.

+ +

We wanted to know more about this special relationship; but the government +was not forthcoming. Repeated requests to the Department of Energy for an +explanation of how one company got the security contracts for neariy all of +America's most strategic installations have gone unanswered.

+ +

Similarly, efforts to get the State Department to explain whether embassy +contracts were awarded arbitrarily or through competitive bidding were +fruitless; essentially, the State Department said, "Some of both. " +Wackenhut's competitors-who, understandably, asked not to be quoted by +name-have their own version. "All those contracts;" said one security-firm +executive, "are just another way to pay Wackenhut for their clandestine +help. And what is the nature of that help? "It is known throughout the +industry," said retired FBI special agent William Hinshaw, "that if you want +a dirty job done, call Wackenhut." We met George Wackenhut in his swanky, +muy macho offices in Coral Gables. The rooms are paneled in a dark, rich +rosewood, accented with gray-blue stone. The main office is dominated by +Wackenhut's 12-foot-long desk and a pair of chairs shaped like elephants- +"Republican chairs," he calls them-complete with real tusks, which, the old +man says with some amusement, tend to stick his visitors. The highlight of +the usual collection of pictures and awards is the Republican presidential +exhibit: an autographed photo of Wackenhut shaking hands with George Bush +(whom Wackenhut, according to a former associate, used to call "that pinko") +as well as framed photos of Presidents Reagan, Nixon and Bush, each +accompanied by a handwritten note. The chairman looks every inch the +comfortable Florida septuagenarian. The day we spoke, his clothing ranged +across the color spectrum from baby blue to light baby blue, and he wore a +iot of jewelry-a huge gold watch on a thick gold band, two massive goid +rings. But Wackenhut was, at 72, quick and tough in his responses. Near the +end of our two-and-a-half hour interview, when asked if his company was an +arm of the CIA, he snapped, "No!"

+ +

Of course, this may just be a matter of semantics. We have spoken to +numerous experts, including current and former CIA agents and analysts, +current and former agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration and current +and former Wackenhut executives and employees, all of whom have said that in +the mid-197O's, atter the Senate Intelligence Committee's revelations of the +CIA's covert and sometimes illegal overseas operations, the agency and +Wackenhut grew very, very close. Those revelations had forced the CIA to do +a housecleaning, and it became CIA policy that certain kinds of activities +would no longer officially be performed. But that didn't always mean that +the need or the desire to undertake such operations disappeared. And that's +where Wackenhut came in.

+ +

Our sources confirm that Wackenhut has had a long-standing relationship +with the CIA, and that it has deepened over the last decade or so. Bruce +Berckmans, who was assigned to the CIA station in Mexico City, left the +agency in January 1975 (putatively) to become a Wackenhut +international-operations vice president. Berckmans, who left Wackenhut in +1981, told SPY that he has seen a formal proposal George Wackenhut submitted +to the CIA to allow the agency to use Wackenhut offices throughout the world +as fronts for CIA activities. Kichard Babayan, who says he was a CIA +contract employee and is currently in jail awaiting trial on fraud and +racketeering charges, has been cooperating with federal and congressional +investigators looking into illegal shipments of nuclear-and-chemical-weapons-making supplies to Iraq. "Wackenhut has been +used by the CIA and other intelligence agencies for years," he told SPY. +"When they [the CIA] need cover, Wackenhut is there to provide it for them." +Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau was said to have rebuffed Wackenhut's +effort in the 1980's to purchase a weapons propellant manufacturer in Quebec +with the remark "We just got rid of the CIA-we don't want them back." +Phillip Agee, the left-wing former CIA agent who wrote an expose' of the +agency in 1975, told us, "I don't have the slightest doubt that the CIA and +Wackenhut overlap."

+ +

There is also testimony from people who are not convicts, renegades or +Canadians. William Corbett, a terrorism expert who spent 18 years as a CIA +analyst and is now an ABC News consultant based in Europe, confirmed the +relationship between Wackenhut and the agency. "For years Wackenhut has been +involved with the CIA and other intelligence organizations, including the +DEA," he told SPY. "Wackenhut would allow the CIA to occupy positions within +the company [in order to carry out] clandestine operations." He also said +that Wackenhut would supply intelligence agencies with information, and that +it was compensated for this- "in a quid pro quo arrangement," Corbett +says-with government contracts worth billions of dollars over the years.

+ +

We have uncovered considerable evidence that Wackenhut carried the CIA's +water in fighting Communist encroachment in Central America in the 1980s +(that is to say, during the Reagan administration when the CIA director was +former Wackenhut lawyer William Casey, the late superpatriot who had a +proclivity for extralegal and illegal anti-Communist covert operations such +as Iran-contra). In 1981, Berckmans, the CIA agent turned Wackenhut vice +president, joined with other senior Wackenhut executives to form the +company's Special Projects Division. It was this division that linked up +with ex-CIA man John Phillip Nichols, who had taken over the Cabazon Indian +reservation in California, as we described in a previous article +["Badlands," April 1992], in pursuit of a scheme to manufacture explosives, +poison gas and biological weapons-and then, by virtue of the tribe's status +as a sovereign nation, to export the weapons to the contras. This maneuver +was designed to evade congressional prohibitions against the U.S. +government's helping the contras. Indeed, in an interview with SPY, Eden +Pastora, the contras' famous Commander Zero, who had been spotted at a test +of some night-vision goggles at a firing range near the Cabazon reservation +in the company of Nichols and a Wackenhut executive, offhandedly identified +that executive, A. Robert Frye, as "the man from the CIA. " (In a subsequent +conversation he denied knowing Frye at all; of course, in that same talk he +quite unbelievably denied having ever been a contra.)

+ +

In addition to attempted weapons supply, Wackenhut seems to have been +involved in Central America in other ways. Ernesto Bermudez who was +Wackenhut's director of international operations from 1987 to '89, admitted +to SPY that during 1985 and '86 he ran Wackenhut's operations in El +Salvador, where he was in charge of 1500 men. When asked what 1 ,500 men +were doing for Wackenhut in El Salvador, Bermudez replied coyly, "Things." +Pressed, he elaborated: "Things you wouldn't want your mother to know about." +It's worth noting that Wackenhut's annual revenues from government +contracts--the alleged reward for cooperation in the government's +clandestine activities-increased by 150 million, a 45 percent jump, while +Ronald Reagan was in office. "You've done an awful lot of research, George +Wackenhut said to me as I was leaving. "How would you like to run all our +New York operations ? "

+ +

If that was the extent of Wackenhut's possible involvement in a government +agency's attempt to circumvent the law, then we might dismiss it as an +interesting footnote to the overheated, cowboy anti-Communist 1980s. +However, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida has been +conducting an investigation into the illegal export of dual-use +technology-that is, seemingly innocuous technology that can also be used to +make nuclear weapons to Iraq and Libya. And SPY has learned that +Wackenhut's name has come up in the federal investigation, but not at +present as a target.

+ +

Between 1987 and '89, three companies in the United States received +investments from an Iraqi architect named Ihsan Barbouti. The colorful +Barbouti owned an engineering company in Frankfort that had a $552 million +contract to build airfields in Iraq. He also admitted having designed +Mu'ammar Qaddafi's infamous German-built chemical-weapons plant in Rabta, +Libya. According to an attorney for one of the companies in which Barbouti +invested, the architect owned $100 million worth of real estate and +oil-drilling equipment in Texas and Oklahoma. He may also be dead, there +being reports that he died of heart failure in Hospital in London on July 1, +1990, his 63rd birthday. Barbouti, however, had faked his death once before, +in 1969, after the Ba'ath takeover in Iraq which brought Saddam Hussein to +power as the second-in-command. That time, Barbouti escaped Iraq; +resurfacing several years later in Lebanon and Libya. There are no reports +that he is living in Jordan -or, according to other reports, in a CIA safe +house in Florida. Those reports can be considered no better than rumor; what +follows, though, is fact.

+ +

As reported on ABC's "Nightline" last year, the three companies in which +Barbouti invested were TK-7 of Oklahoma City, which makes a fuel additive; +Pipeline Recovery Systems of Dallas, which makes an anti-corrosive chemical +that preserves pipes; and Product Ingredient Technoiogy of Boca Raton, which +makes food flavorings. None of these companies was looking to do business +with Iraq; Barbouti sought them out. Why was he interested? Because TK-7 had +formulas that could extend the range of jet aircraft and liquid-fueled +missiles such as the SCUD; because Pipeline Recovery knows how to coat pipes +to make them usable in nuclear reactors and chemical-weapons plants; and +because one of the by-products in making cherry flavoring is ferric +ferrocyanide, a chemical that's used to manufacture hydrogen cyanide, which +can penetrate gas masks and protective clothing. Hydrogen cyanide was used +by Saddam Hussein against the Kurds in the Iran-Iraq war.

+ +

Barbouti was more than a passive investor, and soon he began pressuring the +companies to ship not only their products but also their manufacturing +technology to corporations he owned in Europe, on which, he told the +businessmen, it would be sent to Libya and Iraq. In doing so, Barbouti was +attempting to violate the law. First, the U.S. forbade sending anything to +Libya, which was embargoed as a terrorist nation. Second, the U.S. specified +that material of this sort must be sent to its final destination, not to an +intermediate locale, where the U.S. would risk losing control of its +distribution. According to former CIA contract employee Richard Babayan, in +late 1989 Barbouti met in London with Ibrahim Sabawai, Saddam Hussein's half +brother and European head of Iraqi intelligence, who grew excited about the +work Pipeline Recovery was doing and called for the company's technology to +be rushed to Iraq, so that it could be in place by early 1990. And the owner +of TK-7 swears that Barbouti told him he was developing an atom device for +Qaddafi that would be used against the U.S. in retaliation for the 1986 U.S. +air strike against Libya. Barbouri also wanted the ferrocyanide from Product +Ingredient.

+ +

Assisting Barbouti with these investments was New Orleans exporter Don +Seaton, business associate of Richard Secord, the right-wing U.S. Army +general turned war profiteer who was so deeply enmeshed in the Iran-contra +affair. It was Secord who connected Barbouti with Wackenhut. Barbouti met +with Secord in Florida on several occasions, and phone records show that +several calls were placed from Barbouti's office to Secord's private number +in McLean, Virginia; Secord has acknowledged knowing Barbouti. He is +currently a partner of Washington businessman James Tully (who is the man +who leaked Bill Clinton's draft-dodge letter to ABC) and Jack Brennan, a +former Marine Corps colonel and longtime aide to Richard Nixon both in the +White House and in exile. Brennan has gone back to the White House, where he +works as a director of administrative operations in President Bush's office. +He refused to return repeated calls from SPY. Interestingly, Brennan and +Tully had previously been involved in a $181 million business deal to supply +uniforms to the Iraqi army. Oddly, they arranged to have the uniforms +manufactured in Nicolae Ceaucescu's Romania. The partners in that deal were +former U.S. attorney general and Watergate felon John Mitchell and Sarkis +Soghanalian, a Turkish-born Lebanese citizen. Soghanalian, who has been +credited with being Saddam Hussein's leading arms procurer and with +introducing the demonic weapons inventor Gerald Bull to the Iraqis, is +currently serving a six-year sentence in federal prison in Miami for the +illegal sale of 103 military helicopters to Iraq. According to former +Wackenhut agent David Ramirez, the company considered Soghanalian "a very +valuable client."

+ +

Unfortunately for Barbouti, none of the companies in which he made +investments was willing to ship its products or technology to his European +divisions. That, however, doesn't necessarily mean that he didn't get some +of what he wanted. In 1990, 2000 gallons of ferrocyanide were found to be +missing from the cherry-flavor factory in Boca Raton. Where it went is a +mystery; Peter Kawaja, who was the head of security for all of Barbouti's +U.S. investments, told SPY, "We were never burglarized, but that stuff didn't +walk out by itself."

+ +

What does all this have to do with Wackenhut? Lots: According to Louis +Champon, the owner of Product Ingredient Technology, it was Wackenhut that +guarded his Boca Raton plant, a fact confirmed by Murray Levine, a Wackenhut +vice president. Champon also says, and Wackenhut also confirms, that the +security for the plant consisted of one unarmed guard. While a Wackenhut +spokesperson maintains that this was the only job they were doing for +Barbouti, he also says that they were never paid, that Barbouti stiffed +them.

+ +

This does not seem true. SPY has obtained four checks from Barbouti to +Wackenhut. All were written within ten days in 1990: one on March 27 for +$168.89; one on March 28 for $24828.07; another on April 5 for $756; the +last on April 6 for $40116.25. We asked Richard Kneip, Wackenhut's senior +vice president for corporate planning, to explain why a single guard was +worth $66000 a year; Kneip was at a loss to do so. He was similarly at a +loss to explain a fifth check, from another Barbouti company to Wackenhut's +travel-service division in 1987, almost two years before Wackenhut has +acknowledged providing security for the Boca Raton plant .

+ +

Two former CIA operatives, separately interviewed, have the explanation. +Charles Hayes, who describes himself as "a CIA asset " says Wackenhut was +helping Barbouti ship chemicals to Iraq, "Supplying Iraq was originally a +good idea," he maintains, "but then it got out of hand. Wackenhut was just +in it for the money." Richard Babayan the former CIA contract employee, +confirmed Hayes's account. He says that Wackenhut's relationship with +Barbouti existed before the Boca Raton plant opened: "Barbouti was placed in +the hands of Secord by the CIA, and Secord called in Wackenhut to handle +security and travel and protection for Barbouti and his export plans." +Wackenhut, Babayan says was working for the CIA in helping Barbouti ship the +chemical-and-nuclear-weapons-making equipment first to Texas, then to +Chicago, and then to Baltimore to be shipped overseas. All of which makes +the story of the midnight convoy ride of David Ramirez, recounted at the +beginning of this article rather less mysterious. SPY has learned that this +shipment is now the subject of a joint USDA-Customs investigation.

+ +

When we asked George Wackenhut what was being shipped from Eagle Pass to +Chicago, the sharp, straightforward chairman at first claimed they were +protecting an unnamed executive. He then directed an aide to get back to me. +Two days later, Richard Kneip did, repeating the tale that had been passed +on to David Ramirez-that the trucks contained food stamps. We told him that +we had spoken to a Department of Agriculture official, who informed us that +food stamps are shipped from Chicago to outlying areas, never the other way +around, and that food stamps, unlike money, are used once and then +destroyed. All Kneip would say then was, "We do not reveal the names of our +clients."

+ +

Wackenhut's connection to the CIA and to other government agencies raises +several troubling questions:

+ +

First, is the CIA using Wackenhut to conduct operations that it has been +forbidden to undertake? Second, is the White House or some other party in +the executive branch working through Wackenhut to conduct operations that it +doesn't want Congress to know about? Third, has Wackenhut's cozy +relationship with the government given it a feeling of security-or worse, an +outright knowledge of sensitive or embarrassing information-that allows the +company to believe that it can conduct itself as though it were above the +law? A congressional investigation into Wackenhut's activities in the +Alyeska affair last November began to shed some light on Wackenhut's way of +doing business; clearly it's time for Congress to investigate just how far +Wackenhut's other tentacles extend.

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Additional reporting by Erzc Reguly, Margie Sloan and Wendell Smith

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THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST

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BY RICHARD HARWOOD

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Introduction

+ +

In the following chapters the author has, he believes, +brought together irrefutable evidence that the allegation that 6 +million Jews died during the Second World War, as a direct +result of official German policy of extermination, is utterly +unfounded. This conclusion, admittedly an unpopular one, +resulted from an inquiry which was begun with no pre-conceived +opinions, beyond a general notion that the statistical +possibility of such huge casualties was perhaps open to doubt, +as well as an awareness that political capital was being made +from the implications of this alleged atrocity. A great deal of +careful research into this question, however, has now convinced +me beyond any doubt that the allegation is not merely an +exaggeration but an invention of post-war propaganda. +Of course, atrocity propaganda is nothing new. It has +accompanied every conflict of the 20th century and doubtless +will continue to do so. During the first World War, the Germans +were actually accused of eating Belgian babies, as well as +delighting to throw them into the air and transfix them on +bayonets. The British also alleged that the German forces were +operating a "Corpse Factory", in which they boiled down the +bodies of their own dead in order to obtain glycerine and other +commodities, a calculated insult to the honor of an Imperial +army. After the war, however, came the retractions; indeed, a +public statement was made by the Foreign Secretary in the House +of Commons apologizing for the insults to German honor, which +were admitted to be war-time propaganda. +No such statements have been made after the Second World War. +In fact, rather than diminish with the passage of years, the +atrocity propaganda concerning the German occupation, and in +particular their treatment of the Jews, has done nothing but +increase its virulence and elaborate its catalog of horrors. +Gruesome paperback books with lurid covers continue to roll from +the presses, adding continuously to a growing mythology of the +concentration camps and especially to the story that no less +than Six Million Jews were exterminated in them. The ensuing +pages will reveal this claim to be the most colossal piece of +fiction and the most successful of deceptions; but here an +attempt may be made to answer an important question: What has +rendered the atrocities stories of the Second World War so +uniquely different from those of the First? Why were the latter +retracted while the former are reiterated louder than ever? Is +it possible that the story of the Six Million Jews is serving a +political purpose, even that it is a form of political +blackmail? +So far as the Jewish people themselves are concerned, the +deception has been an incalculable benefit. Every conceivable +race and nationality had its share of suffering in the Second +World War, but none has so successfully elaborated it and turned +it to such great advantage. The alleged extent of their +persecution quickly aroused sympathy for the Jewish homeland +they had sought for so long; after the War the British +Government did little to prevent Jewish emigration to Palestine +which they had declared illegal, and it was not long afterwards +that the Zionists wrested from the Government the land of +Palestine and created their haven from persecution, the State of +Israel. Indeed, it is a remarkable fact that the Jewish people +emerged from the Second World War as nothing less than a +triumphant minority. Dr. Max Nussbaum, the former chief rabbi of +the Jewish community in Berlin, stated on April 11, 1953: "The +position the Jewish people occupy today in the world -- despite +the enormous losses -- is ten times stronger than what it was +twenty years ago." It should be added, if one is to be honest, +that this strength has been much consolidated financially by the +supposed massacre of the Six Million, undoubtedly the most +profitable atrocity allegation of all time. To date, the +staggering figure of six thousand million pounds has been paid +out in compensation by the Federal Government of West Germany, +mostly to the State of Israel (which did not even exist during +the Second World War), as well as to individual Jewish +claimants.

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DISCOURAGEMENT OF NATIONALISM

+ +

In terms of political blackmail, however, the allegation that +Six Million Jews died during the Second World War has much more +far-reaching implications for the people of Britain and Europe +than simply the advantages it has gained for the Jewish nation. +And here one comes to the crux of the question: Why the Big Lie? +What is its purpose? In the first place, it has been used quite +unscrupulously to discourage any form of nationalism. Should the +people of Britain or any other European country attempt to +assert their patriotism and preserve their national integrity in +an age when the very existence of nation-states is threatened, +they are immediately branded as "neo-Nazis". Because, of course, +Nazism was nationalism, and we know what happened then -- Six +Million Jews were exterminated! So long as the myth is +perpetuated, peoples everywhere will remain in bondage to it; +the need for international tolerance and understanding will be +hammered home by the United Nations until nationhood itself; the +very guarantee of freedom, is abolished. +A classic example of the use of the 'Six Million' as an anti-national weapon appears in Manvell and Frankl's book, The +Incomparable Crime (London, 1967), which deals with 'Genocide in +the Twentieth Century'. Anyone with a pride in being British +will be somewhat supersede by the vicious attack made on the +British Empire in this book. The authors quote Pandit Nehru, who +wrote the following while in a British prison in India: "Since +Hitler emerged from obscurity and became the Fuhrer of Germany, +we have heard a great deal about racialism and the Nazi theory +of the "Herrenvolk"...But we in India have known racialism in +all its forms ever since the commitment of British rule. The +whole idealogy of this rule was that of the "Herrenvolk" and the +master race...India as a nation and Indians as individuals were +subjected to insult, humiliation and contemptuous treatment. +The English were an imperial race, we were told, with the God-given right to govern us and keep us in subjection; if we +protested we were reminded of the 'tiger qualities of an +imperial race'." The authors Manvell and Frankl then go on to +make the point perfectly clear to us: "The white races of Europe +and America." they write, "have become used during the centuries +to regarding themselves as a "Herrenvolk". The twentieth +century, the century of Auschwitz, has also achieved the first +stage in the recognition of multi-racial partnership" (ibid, p. +14).

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THE RACE PROBLEM SUPPRESSED

+ +

One could scarcely miss the object of this diatribe, with its +insidious hint about "multi-racial partnership". Thus the +accusation of the Six Million is not only used to undermine the +principle of nationhood and national pride, but it threatens the +survival of the Race itself. It is wielded over the heads of the +populace, rather as the threat of hellfire and damnation was in +the Middle Ages. Many countries of the Anglo-Saxon world, +notably Britain and America, are today facing the gravest danger +in their history, the danger posed by the alien races in their +midst. Unless something is done in Britain to halt the +immigration and assimilation of Africans and Asians into our +country, we are faced in the near future, quite apart from the +bloodshed of racial conflict, with the biological alteration and +destruction of the British people as they have existed since the +coming of the Saxons. In short, we are threatened with the +irrecoverable loss of our European culture and racial heritage. +But what happens if a man dares to speak of the race problem, of +its biological and political implications? He is branded as that +most heinous of creatures, a "racialist". And what is racialism. +of course, but the very hallmark of a Nazi! They so everyone is +told, anyway) murdered Six Million Jews because of racialism, so +it must be a very evil thing indeed. When Enoch Powell drew +attention to the dangers posed by coloring immigration into +Britain in one of his early speeches, a certain prominent +Socialist raised the specter of Dachau and Auschwitz to silence +his presumption. +Thus any rational discussion of the problems of Race and the +effort to preserve racial integrity is effectively discouraged. +No one could have sought to preserve their race through so many +centuries, and continue to do so today. In this effort they have +frankly been assisted by the story of the Six Million, which, +almost like a religious myth, and stressed the need for greater +Jewish racial solidarity. Unfortunately, it has worked in quite +the opposite way for all other peoples, rendering them impotent +in the struggle for self-preservation. +The aim in the following is quite simply to tell the Truth. +The distinguished American historian Harry Elmer Barnes once +wrote that "An attempt to make a competent, objective and +truthful investigation of the extermination question...is surely +the most precarious venture that an historian or demographer +could undertake today." In attempting this precarious task, it +is hoped to make some contribution, not only to historical +truth, but towards lifting the burden of a Lie from our own +shoulders, so that we may freely confront the dangers that +threaten us all. +Richard E. Harwood

+ +

1) GERMAN POLICY TOWARDS THE JEWS PRIOR TO THE WAR

+ +

Rightly or wrongly, the Germany of Adolf Hitler considered +the Jews to be a disloyal and avaricious element within the +national community, as well as a force of decadence in Germany's +cultural life. This was held to be particularly unhealthy since, +during the Weimar period, the Jews had risen to a position of +remarkable strength and influence in the nation, particularly in +law, finance and the mass media, even though they constituted +only 5 per cent of the population. The fact that Karl Marx was a +Jew and that Jews such as Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht +were disproportionately prominent in the leadership of +revolutionary movements in Germany, also tended to convince the +Nazis of the powerful internationalist and Communist tendencies +of the Jewish people themselves. +It is no part of the discussion here to argue whether the +German attitude to the Jews was right or not, or to judge +whether its legislative measures against them were just or +unjust. Our concern is simply the fact that, believing of the +Jews as the did, the Nazis' solution to the problem was to +deprive them of their influence within the nation by various +legislative acts, and most important of all, to encourage their +emigration from the country altogether. By 1939, the great +majority of German Jews had emigrated, all of them with a +sizable proportion of their assets. Never at any time had the +Nazi leadership even contemplated a policy of genocide towards +them.

+ +

JEWS CALLED EMIGRATION 'EXTERMINATION'

+ +

It is very significant, however, that certain Jews were quick +to interpret these policies of internal discrimination as +equivalent to extermination itself. A 1936 anti-German +propaganda book by Leon Feuchtwanger and others entitles Der +Gelbe Fleck: Die Ausrotung von 500000 duetschen Juden (The +Yellow Spot: The Extermination of 500000 German Jews, Paris, +1936), presents a typical example. Despite its baselessness in +fact, the annihilation of the Jews is discussed from the first +pages -- straightforward emigration being regarded as physical +"extermination" of German Jewry. The Nazi concentration camps +for political prisoners are also seen as potential instruments +of genocide, and special reference is made to the 100 Jews still +detained in Dachau in 1936, of whom 60 had been there since +1933. A further example was the sensational book by the German-Jewish Communist, Hans Beimler, called Four Weeks in the Hands +of Hitler's Hell-Hounds: The Nazi Murder Camp at Dachau, which +was published in New York as early as 1933. Detained for his +Marxist affiliations, he claimed that Dachau was a death camp, +though by his own admission he was released after only a month +there. The present regime in East Germany now issues a Hans +Beimler Award for services to Communism. +The fact that anti-Nazi genocide propaganda was being +disseminated as this early date, therefore, by people biased on +racial or political grounds, should suggest extreme caution to +the independent-minded observer when approaching similar stories +of the war period. +The encouragement of Jewish emigration should not be confused +with the purpose of concentration camps in pre-war Germany. +These were used for the detention of political opponents and +subversives -- principally liberals, Social Democrats and +Communists of all kinds, of whom a proportion were Jews such as +Hans Beimler. Unlike the millions enslaved in the Soviet Union, +the German concentration camp population was always small; +Reitlinger admits that between 1934 and 1938 it seldom exceeded +20000 throughout the whole of Germany, and the number of Jews +was never more than 3000. (The S.S.: Alibi of a Nation, London, +1956, p. 253)

+ +

ZIONIST POLICY STUDIED

+ +

The Nazi view of Jewish emigration was not limited to a +negative policy of simple expulsion, but was founded along the +lines of modern Zionism. Theodore Herzl, in his work The Jewish +State had originally conceived of Madagascar as a national +homeland for the Jews, and this possibility was seriously +studied by the party in pamphlet form. This stated that the +revival of Israel as a Jewish state was much less acceptable +since it would result in perpetual war and disruption in the +Arab world, which has indeed been the case. The Germans were not +original in proposing Jewish emigration to Madagascar; the +Polish Government had already considered the scheme in respect +of their own Jewish population, and in 1937 they sent the +Michael Lepecki expedition to Madagascar, accompanied by Jewish +representatives to investigate the problems involved. +The first Nazi proposals for a Madagascar solution were made +in association with the Schacht Plan of 1938. On the advice of +Goering, Hitler agreed to send the President of the Reichbank, +Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, to London for discussions with Jewish +representatives Lord Bearsted and Mr. Rublee of New York (cf. +Reitlinger, The Final Solution, London, 1953, p. 20). The plan +was that German Jewish assets would be frozen as security for an +international loan to finance Jewish emigration to Palestine, +and Schacht reported on these negotiations to Hitler at +Berchtesgaden on January 2, 1939. The plan,. which failed due to +British refusal to accept the financial terms, was first put +forward on November 12, 1938 at a conference convened by +Goering, who revealed that Hitler was already considering the +emigration of Jews to a settlement in Madagascar (ibid., p. 21). +Later, in December, Ribbentrop was told by M. George Bonnet, the +French Foreign Secretary, that the French Government itself was +planning the evacuation of 10000 Jews to Madagascar. +Prior to the Schacht Palestine proposals of 1938, which were +essentially a protraction of discussions that had begun as early +as 1935, numerous attempts had been made to secure Jewish +emigration in the Evian Conference of July, 1938. However, by +1939 the scheme of Jewish emigration to Madagascar had gained +the most favor in German circles. It is true that in London +Helmuth Wohltat of the German Foreign Office discussed limited +Jewish emigration to Rhodesia and British Guiana as late as +April 1939; but by January 24th, when Goering wrote to Interior +Minister Frick ordering the creation of a Central Emigration +Office for Jews, and commissioned Heydrich of the Reich Security +Head Office to solve the Jewish problem "by means of emigration +and evacuation", the Madagascar Plan was being studied in +earnest. +By 1939, the consistent efforts of the German Government to +secure the departure of Jews from the Reich had resulted in the +emigration of 400000 German Jews from a total population of +about 600000, and an additional 480000 emigrants from Austria +and Czechoslovakia, which constituted almost their entire Jewish +populations. This was accomplished through the Offices of Jewish +Emigration in Berlin, Vienna and Prague established by Adolf +Eichmann, the head of the Jewish Investigative Office of the +Gestapo. So eager were the Germans to secure this emigration +that Eichmann even established a training center in Austria, +where young Jews could learn farming in anticipation of being +smuggled illegally into Palestine (Manvell & Frankl, S.S. and +Gestapo, p. 60). Had Hitler cherished any intention of +exterminating the Jews, it in inconceivable that he would have +allowed more than 800000 to leave Reich territory with the bulk +of their wealth, much less considered plans for mass emigration +to Palestine or Madagascar. What is more, we shall see that the +policy of emigration from Europe was still under consideration +well into the war period, notably the Madagascar Plan, which +Eichmann discussed in 1940 with French Colonial Office experts +after the defeat of France had made the surrender of the colony +a practical proposition.

+ +

2) GERMAN POLICY TOWARDS THE JEWS AFTER THE OUTBREAK OF WAR

+ +

With the coming of the war, the situation regarding the Jews +altered drastically. It is not widely known that world Jewry +declared itself to be a belligerent party in the Second World +War, and therefore there was ample basis under international law +for the Germans to intern the Jewish population as a hostile +force. On September 5, 1939 Chaim Weizmann, the principle +Zionist leader, had declared war against Germany on behalf of +the world's Jews, stating that "Jews stand by Great Britain and +will fight on the side of the democracies...The Jewish Agency is +ready to enter into immediate arrangements for utilizing Jewish +manpower, technical ability, resources ect..." (Jewish Chronicle +September 8, 1939)

+ +

DETENTION OF ENEMY ALIENS

+ +

All Jews had thus been declared agents willing to prosecute a +war against the German Reich, and as a consequence, Himmler and +Heydrich were eventually to begin the policy of internment. It +is worth noting that the United states and Britain had already +interned all Japanese aliens and citizens of Japanese descent in +detention camps before the Germans applied the same security +measures against the Jews of Europe. Moreover, there had been no +such evidence or declaration of disloyalty by these Japanese +Americans as had been given by Weizmann. The British, too, +during the Boer War, interned all the women and children of the +population and thousands died as a result, yet in no sense could +the British be charged with wanting to exterminate the Boers. +The detention of the Jews in the occupied territories of +Europe served two essential purposes from the German viewpoint. +The first was to prevent unrest and subversion; Himmler had +informed Mussolini on October 11th, 1042, that German policy +towards the Jews had altered during wartime entirely for reasons +of military security. He complained that thousands of Jews in +the occupied regions were conducting partisan warfare, sabotage +and espionage, a view confirmed by official Soviet information +given to Raymond Arthur Davis that no less than 35000 European +Jews were waging partisan war under Tito in Yugoslavia. As a +result, Jews were to be transported to restricted areas and +detention camps, both in Germany, and especially after March +1942, in the Government-General of Poland. +As the war proceeded, the policy developed of using Jewish +detainees for labor in the war-effort. The question of labor is +fundamental when considering the alleged plan of genocide +against the Jews, for on the grounds of logic alone the latter +would entail the most senseless waste of manpower, time and +energy while prosecuting a war for survival on two fronts. +Certainly after the attack on Russia, the idea of compulsory +labor had taken precedence over German plans for Jewish +emigration. The protocol of a conversation between Hitler and +the Hungarian regent Horthy on April 17th, 1943, reveals that +the German leader personally requested Horthy to release 100000 +Hungarian Jews for work in the "pursuit-plane program" of the +Luftwaffe at a time when the aerial bombardment of Germany +was increasing (Reitlinger, Die Endlosung, Berlin, 1956, p. +478). This took place at a time when, supposedly, the Germans +were already seeking to exterminate the Jews, but Hitler's +request clearly demonstrates the priority aim of expanding his +labor force. +In harmony with this program, concentration camps became, in +fact, industrial complexes. At every camp where Jews and other +nationalities were detained, there were large industrial plants +and factories supplying material for the German war-effort -- +the Buna rubber factory at Bergen-Belsen, for example, Buna and +I. G. Farben Industry at Auschwitz, and the electrical firm of +Siemens at Ravensbruck. In many cases, special concentration +camp money notes were issued as payment for labor, enabling +prisoners to buy extra rations from camp shops. The Germans were +determined to obtain the maximum economic return from the +concentration camp system, an object wholly at variance with any +plan to exterminate millions of people in them. It was the +function of the S.S. Economy and Administration Office, headed +by Oswald Pohl, to see that the concentration camps became major +industrial producers.

+ +

EMIGRATION STILL FAVORED

+ +

It is a remarkable fact, however, that well into the war +period, the Germans continued to implement the policy of Jewish +emigration. The fall of France in 1940 enabled the German +Government to open serious negotiations with the French for the +transfer of European Jews to Madagascar. A memorandum of August, +1942 from Luther, Secretary-of-State in the German Foreign +Office, reveals that he had conducted these negotiations between +July and December 1940, when they were terminated by the French. +A circular from Luther's department dated August 15th, 1940 +shows that the details of the German play had been worked out by +Eichmann, for it is signed by his assistant, Dannecker. Eichmann +had in fact been commissioned in August to draw up a detailed +Madagascar Plan, and Dannecker was employed in research on +Madagascar at the French Colonial Office (Reitlinger, The Final +Solution, p. 77). The proposals of August 15th were that an +inter-European bank was to finance the emigration of four +million Jews throughout a phased program. Luther's 1942 +memorandum shows that Heydrich had obtained Himmler's approval +of this plan before the end of August and has also submitted it +to Goering. It certainly met with Hitler's approval, for as +early as June 17th his interpreter, Schmidt, recalls Hitler +observing to Mussolini that "One could found a State of Israel +in Madagascar" (Schmidt, Hitler's Interpreter, London, 1951, p. +178). +Although the French terminated the Madagascar negotiations +in December, 1940, Poliakov, the director of the Centre of +Jewish Documentation in Paris, admits that the Germans +nevertheless pursued the scheme, and the Eichmann was still busy +with it throughout 1941. Eventually, however, it was rendered +impractical by the progress of the war, in particular by the +situation after the invasion of Russia, and on February 10th, +1942, the Foreign Office was informed that the plan had been +temporarily shelved. This ruling, sent to the Foreign Office by +Luther's assistant, Rademacher, is of great importance, because +it demonstrates conclusively that the term "Final Solution" +meant only the emigration of Jews, and also that transportation +to the eastern ghettos and concentration camps such as Auschwitz +constituted nothing but an alternative plan of evacuation. The +directive reads: "The was with the Soviet Union has in the +meantime created the possibility of disposing of other +territories for the Final Solution. In consequence the Fuhrer +has decided that the Jews should be evacuated not to Madagascar +but to the East. Madagascar need no longer therefore be +considered in connection with the Final Solution" (Reitlinger, +ibid. p. 79). The details of this evacuation has been discussed +a month earlier at the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, which we +shall examine below. +Reitlinger and Poliakov both make the entirely unfounded +supposition that because the Madagascar Plan had been shelved, +the Germans must necessarily have been thinking of +"extermination". Only a month later, however, on March 7th, +1942, Goebbels wrote a memorandum in favor of the Madagascar +Plan as a "final solution" of the Jewish question (Manvell & +Frankl, Dr. Goebbels, London, 1960, p. 165). In the meantime he +approved of the Jews being "concentrated in the East". Later +Goebbels memoranda also stress deportation to the East (i.e. the +Government-General of Poland) and lay emphasis on the need for +compulsory labour there; once the policy of evacuation to the +East had been inaugurated, the us of Jewish labour became a +fundamental part of the operations. It is perfectly clear from +the foregoing that the term "Final Solution" was applied both +to Madagascar and to the Eastern territories, and that therefore +it meant only the deportation of the Jews. +Even as late as may 1944, the Germans were prepared to allow +the emigration of one million European Jews from Europe. An +account of this proposal is given by Alexander Weissberg, a +purges, in his book Die Geschichte von Joel Brand (Cologne, +1956). Weissberg, who spent the war in Cracow though he expected +the Germans to intern him in a concentration camp, explains that +on the personal authorization of Himmler, Eichmann had sent the +Budapest Jewish leader Joel Brand to Istanbul with an offer to +the Allies to permit the transfer of one million European Jews +in the midst of the war. (If the 'extermination' writers are to +be believed, there were scarcely one million Jews left by May, +1944). The Gestapo admitted that the transportation involved +would greatly inconvenience the German war-effort, but were +prepared to allow it in exchange for 10000 trucks to be used +exclusively on the Russian front. Unfortunately, the plan came +to nothing; the British concluded that Brand must be a dangerous +Nazi agent and immediately imprisoned him in Cairo, while the +Press denounced the offer as a Nazi trick. Winston Churchill, +though orating to the effect that the treatment of the Hungarian +Jews was probably "the biggest and most horrible crime ever +committed in the whole history of the world", nevertheless told +Chaim Weizmann that acceptance of the Brand offer was +impossible, since it would be a betrayal of this Russian Allies. +Although the plan was fruitless, it well illustrates that no one +allegedly carrying out "thorough" extermination would permit the +emigration of a million Jews, and it demonstrates, too, the +prime importance placed by the Germans on the war-effort.

+ +

3) POPULATION AND EMIGRATION

+ +

Statistics relating to Jewish populations are not everywhere +known in precise detail, approximation for various countries +differing widely, and it is also unknown exactly how many Jews +were deported and interned at any one time between the years +1939-1945. In general, however, what reliable statistics there +are, especially those relating to emigration, are sufficient to +show that not a fraction of six million Jews could have been +exterminated. +In the first place, this claim cannot remotely be upheld on +examination of the European Jewish population figures. According +to Chambers Encyclopedia the total number of Jews living in pre-war Europe was 6500000. Quite clearly, this would mean that +almost the entire number was exterminated. But the Baseler +Nachrichten, a neutral Swiss publication employing available +Jewish statistical data, establishes that between 1933 and 1945, +1500000 Jews emigrated to Britain, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, +Australia, China, India, Palestine and the United States. This +is confirmed by the Jewish journalist Bruno Blau, who cites the +same figure in the New York Jewish paper Aufbau, August 13th, +1948. Of these emigrants, approximately 400000 came from +Germany before September 1939. This is acknowledged by the World +Jewish Congress in its publication Unity in Dispersion (P. 3778) +which states that: "The majority of the German Jews succeeded in +leaving Germany before the war broke out." In addition to the +German Jews, 220000 of the total 280000 Austrian Jews had +emigrated by September, 1939, while from March 1939 onwards the +Institute for Jewish Emigration in Prague had secured the +emigration of 260000 Jews from former Czechoslovakia. In all, +only 360000 Jews remained in Germany, Austria, and +Czechoslovakia after September 1939. From Poland, an estimated +500000 had emigrated prior to the outbreak of war. These +figures mean that the number of Jewish emigrants from other +European countries (France, the Netherlands, Italy, the +countries of Eastern Europe etc.) was approximately 120000. +This exodus of Jews before and during hostilities, therefore, +reduces the number of Jews in Europe to approximately 5000000. +In addition to these emigrants, we must include the number of +Jews who fled to the Soviet Union after 1939, and who were later +evacuated beyond reach of the German invaders. It will be shown +below that the majority of these, about 1250000, were migrants +from Poland. But apart from Poland, Reitlinger admits that +300000 other European Jews slipped into Soviet territory +between 1939 and 1941. This brings the total of Jewish emigrants +to the Soviet Union to about 1500000. In Colliers magazine, +June 9th, 1945, Freiling Foster, writing of the Jews in Russia, +explained that "22222000 have migrated to the Soviet Union +since 1939 to escape the Nazis," but our lower estimate is +probably more accurate. +Jewish migration to the Soviet Union, therefore, reduces the +number of Jews within the sphere of German occupation to around +31/2 million, approximately 3450000. From these should be +deducted those Jews living in neutral European countries who +escaped the consequences of the war. According to the 1942 World +Almanac (p. 594) the number of Jews living in Gibraltar, +Britain, Portugal, Spain, Sweden. Switzerland, Ireland and +Turkey was 413128.

+ +

3 MILLION JEWS IN EUROPE

+ +

A figure consequently, of around 3 million Jews in German-occupied Europe is as accurate as the available emigration +statistics will allow. Approximately the same number, however, +can be deduced in another way if we examine statistics for the +Jewish populations remaining in countries occupied by the Reich. +More than half of those Jews who migrated to the Soviet Union +after 1939 came from Poland. It is frequently claimed that the +war with Poland added some 3 million Jews to the German sphere +of influence and that almost the whole of this Polish Jewish +population was "exterminated." This is a major factual error. +The 1931 Jewish population census for Poland put the number of +Jews at 2732600 (Reitlinger, Die Endlosung, p. 36). Reitlinger +states that at least 1170000 of these were in the Russian zone +occupied in the autumn of 1939, about a million of whom were +evacuated to the Urals and south Siberia after the German +invasion of June 1941 (ibid, p. 50). As described above, an +estimated 500000 Jews had emigrated from Poland prior to the +war. Moreover, the journalist Raymond Arthur Davis, who spent +the war in the Soviet Union, observed that approximately 250000 +had already fled from German-occupied Poland to Russia between +1939 and 1941 and were to be encountered in every Soviet +province (Odyssey through Hell, N.Y., 1946). Subtracting these +figures from the population of 2732600, therefore, and +allowing for the normal population increase, no more than +1100000 Polish Jews could have been under German rule at the +end of 1939. (Gutachen des Instituts fur Zeitgeschichte, Munich, +1956, p. 80) +To this number we may add the 360000 Jews remaining in +Germany, Austria and former Czechoslovakia (Bohemia-Moravia and +Slavakia) after the extensive emigration from those countries +prior to the war described above. Of the 320000 French Jews, +the Public Prosecutor representing that part of the indictment +relating to France at the Nuremberg Trials, stated that 120000 +Jews were deported, though Reitlinger estimates only about +50000. Thus the total number of Jews under Nazi rule remains +below two million. Deportations from the Scandinavian countries +were few, and from Bulgaria, none at all. When the Jewish +populations of Holland (140000), Belgium (40000), Italy +(50000), Yugoslavia (55000), Hungary (380000) and Romania +(725000) are included, the figure does not much exceed 3 +million. This excess is due to the fact that the latter figures +are pre-war estimates unaffected by emigration, which from these +countries accounted for about 120000 (see above). This cross-checking, therefore, confirms the estimate of approximately 3 +million Jews under German occupation.

+ +

RUSSIAN JEWS EVACUATED

+ +

The precise figures concerning Russian Jews are unknown, and +have therefore been the subject of extreme exaggeration. The +Jewish statistician Jacob Leszczynski states that in 1939 there +were 2100000 Jews living in future German-occupied Russia, +i.e. western Russia. In addition, some 260000 lived in the +Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Luthuania. According to +Louis Levine, President of the American Jewish Council for +Russian relief, who made a post-war tour of the Soviet Union and +submitted a report on the status of Jews there, the majority +of these numbers were evacuated east after the German armies +launched their invasion. In Chicago, on October 30th, 1946, he +declared that: "At the onset of the war, Jews were amongst the +first evacuated from the western regions threatened by the +Hitlerite invaders, and shipped to safety east of the Urals. +Two million Jews were thus saved." This high number is confirmed +by the Jewish journalist David Bergelson, who wrote in the +Moscow Yiddish paper Ainikeit, December 5th, 1942, that "Thanks +to the evacuation, the majority (80%) of the Jews in the +Ukraine, White Russia, Lithuania and Latvia before the arrival +of the Germans were rescued." Reitlinger agrees with the Jewish +authority Joseph Schechtmann, who admits that huge numbers were +evacuated, though he estimates a slightly higher number of +Baltic and Russian Jews remaining in German territory, it will +be proved later that in the war in Russia no more than one +hundred thousand persons were killed by the German Action Groups +as partisans and Bolshevik commissars, not all of whom were +Jews. By contrast, the partisans themselves claimed to have +murdered five times that number of German troops.

+ +

"SIX MILLION" UNTRUE ACCORDING TO NEUTRAL SWISS

+ +

It is clear, therefore, that the Germans could not have +possibly have gained control over or exterminated anything like +six million Jews. Excluding the Soviet Union, the number of Jews +in Nazi-occupied Europe after emigration was scarcely more than +3 million, by no means all of whom were interned. To approach +the extermination of even half of six million would have meant +the liquidation of every Jew living in Europe. And yet it is +known that large numbers of Jews were alive in Europe after +1945. Philip Freidmann in Their Brother's Keepers (N.Y., 1957, +p. 13), states that "at least a million Jews survived in the +very crucible of the Nazi hell," while the official figure of +the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is 1559600. Thus, even +if one accepts the latter estimate, the number of possible +wartime Jewish deaths could not have exceeded a limit of one and +a half million. Precisely this conclusion was reached by the +reputable journal Baseler Nachrichten of neutral Switzerland. In +an article entitled "Wie hoch ist die Zahl der judischen Opfer?" +("How high is the number of Jewish victims?", June 13th, 1946), +it explained that purely on the basis of the population and +emigration figures described above, a maximum of only one and a +half million Jews could have been numbered as casualties. Later +on, however, it will be demonstrated conclusively that the +number was actually far less, for the Baseler Nachrichten +accepted the Joint Distribution Committee's figure of 1559600 +survivors after the war, but we shall show that the numbers of +claims for compensation by Jewish survivors is more than +double that figure. This information was not available to the +Swiss in 1946.

+ +

IMPOSSIBLE BIRTH RATE

+ +

Indisputable evidence is also provided by the post-war world +Jewish population statistics. The World Almanac of 1938 gives +the number of Jews in the world as 16588259. But after the +war, the New York Times, February 22nd, 1948 placed the number +of Jews in the world at a minimum of 15600000 and a maximum of +18700000. Quite obviously, these figures make it impossible +for the number of Jewish war-time casualties to be measured in +anything but thousands. 15 1/2 million in 1939 minus the alleged +six million leaves nine million; the New York Times figures +would mean, therefore, that the world's Jews produced seven +million births, almost doubling their numbers, in the space of +ten years. This is patently ridiculous! +It would appear, therefore, that the great majority of the +missing "Six million" were in fact emigrants -- emigrants to +European countries, to the Soviet Union and the United States +before, during and after the war. And emigrants also, in vast +numbers to Palestine during and especially at the end of the +war. After 1945, boat-loads of these Jewish survivors entered +Palestine illegally from Europe, causing considerable +embarrassment to the British Government at the time; indeed, so +great were the numbers that the H.M. Stationary Office +publication No. 190 (November 5th, 1946) described them as +"almost amounting to a second Exodus." It was these emigrants to +all parts of the world who had swollen the world Jewish +population to between 15 and 18 millions by 1948, and probably +the greatest part of them were emigrants to the United States +who entered in violation of the quota laws. +On August 16th, 1963 David Ben Gurion, President of Israel, +stated that although the official Jewish population of America +was said to be 5600000, "the total number would not be +estimated too high at 9000000" (Dueutsche Wochenzeitung +November 23rd, 1963). The reason for his high figure is +underlined by Albert Maisal in his article "Our Newest +Americans" (Reader's Digest, January 1957), for he reveals that +"Soon after World War II, by Presidential decree, 90% of all +quota visas for central and eastern Europe were issued to the +uprooted." +Reprinted on this page [in the booklet] is just one extract +from hundreds that regularly appear in the obituary columns of +Aufbau, the Jewish American weekly published in New York (June +16th, 1972). It shows how Jewish emigrants to the United States +subsequently changer their names: their former names when in +Europe appear in bracket. For example, as below, Arthur Kingsley +(formerly Dr. Konigsberger of Frankfort). Could it be that some +or all of these people whose names are "deceased" were included +in the missing six million of Europe? +----------------------- +Am 30 Janur 1972 verschied mein herzensguter Mann, unser +geliebter Vater und Grossvater

+ +

ARTHUR KINGSLEY +(Fruher Dr. Konigsberger. Frankfort/Main) +drei Woohen vor seinem 90. Geburtstag. +In tiefer Trauer: +Alice Kingsley +700 Fort Washington Ave. +New York, N.Y. +Leo and Eve Lenin +geb. Kingsley +Apt 1110 South, +4800 Chicago Beach Drive, +Chicago, Ill 60615 +Anne and Martin Kingsley +232 Sunset Drive +Wilmette Ill. 60691 +Nina and Ronnie

+ +

[ad as it is reproduced in the article] +4) THE SIX MILLION: DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE

+ +

From the foregoing it would seem certain that the figure of +six million murdered Jews amounts to nothing more than a vague +compromise between several quite baseless estimates; there is +not a shred of documentary evidence for it that is trustworthy. +Occasionally, writers narrow it down to give a disarming +appearance of authenticity. Lord Russell of Liverpool, for +example, in his The Scourge of the Swastika (London, 1964) +claimed that "not less than five million" Jews died in German +concentration camps, having satisfied himself that he was +somewhere between those who estimated 6 million and those who +preferred 4 million. But, he admitted, "the real number will +never be known." If so, it is difficult to know how he could +have asserted "not less than 5 million." The Joint Distribution +Committee favors 5012000, but the Jewish "expert" Reitlinger +suggests a novel figure of 4192000 "missing Jews" of whom an +estimated one third died of natural causes. This would reduce +the number deliberately "exterminated" to 2796000. However, +Dr. M. Perlzweig, the New York delegate to a World Jewish press +conference held at Geneva in 1948 stated: "The price of the +downfall of National Socialism and Facism is the fact that seven +million Jews lost their lives thanks to cruel Anti-Semitism." In +the Press and elsewhere, the figure is often casually lifted to +eight million or sometimes even nine million. As we have proved +in the previous chapter, none of these figures are in the +remotest degree plausible, indeed, they are ridiculous.

+ +

FANTASTIC EXAGGERATIONS

+ +

So far as is known, the first accusation against the Germans +of mass murder of Jews in war-time Europe was made by the Polish +Jew Rafael Lemkin in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, +published in New York in 1943. Somewhat coincidentally, Lemkin +was later to draw up the U.N. Genocide Convention, which seeks +to outlaw "racialism". His book claimed that the Nazis had +destroyed millions of Jews, perhaps as many as six millions. +This, by 1943, would have been remarkable indeed, since the +action was allegedly started only in the summer of 1942. At such +a rate, the entire world Jewish population would have been +exterminated by 1945. +After the war, propaganda estimates spiraled to heights even +more fantastic. Kurt Gerstein, an anti-Nazi who claimed to have +infiltrated the S.S., told the French interrogator Raymond +Cartier that he knew that no less than forty million +concentration camp internes had been gassed. In his first +signed memorandum of April 26th, 1945, he reduced the figure to +25 million, but even this was too bizarre for French +Intelligence and in his second memorandum, signed at Rottweil on +May 4th, 1945, he brought the figure closer to the six million +preferred at the Nuremberg Trials. Gerstein's sister was +congenitally insane and died by euthanasia, which may well +suggest a streak of mental instability in Gerstein himself. He +had, in fact, been convicted in 1936 of sending eccentric mail +through the post. After his two "confessions" he hanged himself +at Cherche Midi prison in Paris. +Gerstein alleged that during the war he passed on information +concerning the murder of Jews to the Swedish Government through +a German baron, but for some inexplicable reason his report was +"filed away and forgotten". He also claimed that in August 1942 +he informed the Papal nuncio in Berlin about the whole +"extermination program", but the reverend person merely told him +to "Get out." The Gerstein statements abound with claims to have +witnessed the most gigantic mass executions (twelve thousand in +a single day at Belzec), while the second memorandum describes a +visit by Hitler to a concentration camp in Poland on June 6th, +1942 which is known never to have taken place. +Gerstein's fantastic exaggerations have done little but +discredit the whole notion of mass extermination. Indeed, +Evangelical Bishop Wilhelm Dibelius of Berlin denounced his +memoranda as "Untrustworthy" (H. Rothfels, "Augenzeugenbricht zu +den Massenvergasungen" in Viertelijahtshefte fur Zeitgeschichte, +April 1953). It is an incredible fact, however, that in spite of +this denunciation, the German Government in 1955 issued an +edition of the second Gerstein memorandum for distribution in +German schools (Dokumentation zur Massenvergasung, Bonn, 1955). +In it they stated that Dibelius placed his special confidence in +Gerstein and that the memoranda were "valid beyond any doubt." +This is a striking example of the way in which the baseless +charge of genocide by the Nazis is perpetuated in Germany, and +directed especially to the youth. +The story of the six million Jews exterminated during the war +was given final authority at the Nuremberg Trials by the +statement of Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl. He had been an assistant of +Eichmann's but was in fact a rather strange person in the +service of American Intelligence who had written several books +under the pseudonym of Walter Hagen. Hoettl also worked for +Soviet espionage, collaborating with two Jewish emigrants from +Vienna, Perger and Verber, who acted as U.S. officers during the +preliminary inquiries of the Nuremberg Trials. It is remarkable +that the testimony of this highly dubious person Hoettl is said +to constitute the only "Proof" regarding the murder of six +million Jews. In his affidavit of November 26th, 1945 he states, +not that he knew but that Eichmann had "told him" in August 1944 +in Budapest that a total of 6 million Jews had been +exterminated. Needless to say, Eichmann never corroborated this +claim at his trial. Hoettl was working as an American spy during +the whole of the latter period of the war, and it is therefore +very odd indeed that he never gave the slightest hint to the +Americans of a policy to murder Jews, even though he worked +directly under Heydrich and Eichmann.

+ +

ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE

+ +

It should be emphasized straight away that there is not a +single document in existence which proves that the Germans +intended to, or carried out, the deliberate murder of Jews. In +Poliakov and Wulf's Das Dritte Reich und die Juden: Dokumente +und Aufsatze (Berlin 1955), the most that they can assemble are +statements extracted after the war from people like Hoettl, +Ohlendorf and Wisliceny, the latter under torture in a Soviet +prison. In the absence of any evidence, therefore, Poliakov is +forced to write: "The three or four people chiefly involved in +drawing up the plan for total extermination are dead, and no +documents survive." This seems very convenient. Quite obviously, +both the plan and the "three or four" people are nothing but +nebulous assumptions on the part of the writer, and are +entirely unprovable. +The documents which do survive, of course, make no mention at +all of extermination, so that writers like Poliakov and +Reitlinger again make the convenient assumption that such orders +were generally "verbal". Though lacking any documentary proof, +they assume that a plan to murder Jews must have originated in +1941. coinciding with the attack on Russia. Phase one of the +plan is alleged to have involved the massacre of Soviet Jews, a +claim we shall disprove later. The rest of the program is +supposed to have begun in March 1942, with the deportation and +concentration of European Jews in the eastern camps of the +Polish Government-General, such as the giant industrial complex +at Auschwitz near Cracow. The fantastic and quite groundless +assumption throughout is that transportation to the East, +supervised by Eichmann's department, actually meant immediate +extermination in ovens upon arrival. +According to Manvell and Frankl (Heinrich Himmler, London, +1965), the policy of genocide "seems to have been arrived at" +after "secret discussions" between Hitler and Himmler (p. 118), +though they fail to prove it. Reitlinger and Poliakov guess +along similar "verbal" lines, adding that no one else was +allowed to be present at these discussions, and no records were +ever kept of them. This is the purest invention, for there is +not a shred of evidence that even suggests such outlandish +meetings took place. William Shirer, in his generally wild and +irresponsible book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, is +similarly muted on the subject of documentary proof. He states +weakly that Hitler's supposed order for the murder of Jews +"apparently was never committed to paper - at least no copy of +it has ever been unearthed. It was probably given verbally to +Goering, Himmler and Heydrich, who passed it down..." (p. 1148). +A typical example of the kind of "proof" quoted in support +of the extermination legend is given by Manvell and Frankl. They +cite a memorandum of 31st July, 1941, sent by Goering to +Heydrich, who headed the Reich Security Head Office and was +Himmler's deputy. Significantly, the memorandum begins: +"Supplementing the task that was assigned to you on 24th January +1939, to solve the Jewish problem by means of emigration and +evacuation in the best possible way according to present +conditions..." The supplementary task assigned in the memorandum +is a "total solution (Gesamtlosung) of the Jewish question +within the area of German influence in Europe," which authors +admit means concentration in the East, and it requests +preparations for the "organizational, financial and material +matters" involved. The memorandum then requests a future plan +for the "desired final solution (Endlosung), which clearly +refers to the ideal and ultimate scheme of emigration mentioned +at the beginning of the directive. No mention whatever is made +of murdering people, but Manvell and Frankl assure us that this +is what the memorandum is really about. Again, of course, the +"true nature" of the final as distinct from the total solution +"was made known to Heydrich by Goering verbally" (ibid p. 118). +The convenience of these "verbal" directives issuing back and +forth is obvious.

+ +

THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE

+ +

The final details of the plan to exterminate Jews were +supposedly to have been made at a conference at Gross Wannsee in +Berlin on 20th January 1942, presided over by Heydrich +(Poliakov, Das Dritte Reich und die Juden, p. 1220 ff. +Reitlinger, The Final Solution, p. 95 ff). Officials of all +German Ministries were present, and Muller and Eichmann +represented Gestapo Head Office. Reitlinger and Manvell and +Frankl consider the minutes of this conference to be their trump +card in proving the existence of a genocide plan, but the truth +is no such plan was even mentioned, and what is more, they +freely admit this. Manvell and Frankl explain it away rather +lamely by saying that "The minutes are shrouded in the form of +officialdom that cloaks the real significance of the words and +terminology used" (The Incomparable Crime, London, 1967, p. 46), +which really means that they intend to interpret them in their +own way. What Heydrich actually said was that, as in the +memorandum quoted above, he had been commissioned by Goering to +arrange a solution to the Jewish problem. He reviewed the +history of Jewish emigration, stated that the war had rendered +the Madagascar project impractical, and continued: "The +emigration program has been replaced now by the evacuation of +Jews to the east as a further solution in accordance with the +previous authorization of the Fuhrer." Here, he explained, their +labor was to be utilized. All this is supposed to be deeply +sinister, and pregnant with the hidden meaning that the Jews +were to be exterminated, though Prof. Paul Rassinier, a +Frenchman interned at Buchenwald who has done sterling work in +refuting the myth of the Six Million, explains that it means +precisely what it says, i.e. the concentration of the Jews for +labor in the immense eastern ghetto of the Polish Government-General. "There they were to wait until the end of the war, for +the re-opening of internal discussions which would decide their +future. This decision was finally reached at the inter +ministerial Berlin-Wannsee conference...." (Rassinier, Le +Vertitable Proces Eichmann, p. 20). Manvell and Frankl, however, +remain undaunted by the complete lack of reference to +extermination. At the Wannsee conference, they write, "Direct +references to killing were avoided, Heydrich favoring the term +"Arbeitseinsatz in Osten" (labor assignment in the East)" +(Heinrich Himmler, p. 209). Why we should not accept labor +assignment in the East to mean labor assignment in the East is +not explained. +According to Reitlinger, and others, innumerable directives +actually specifying extermination then passed between Himmler, +Heydrich, Eichmann and Commandant Hoess in the subsequent months +of 1942, but of course, "none have survived".

+ +

TWISTED WORDS AND GROUNDLESS ASSUMPTIONS

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The complete lack of documentary evidence to support the +existence of an extermination plan has led to the habit of re-interpreting the documents that do survive. For example, it is +held that a document concerning deportation is not about +deportation at all, but a cunning way of talking about +extermination. Manvell and Frankl state that "various terms were +used to camouflage genocide. These included "Aussiedlung" +(desettlement) and "Abbeforderung" (removal)" (ibid, p. 265). +Thus, as we have seen already, words are no longer assumed to +mean what they say if they prove too inconvenient. This kind +of thing is taken to the most incredible extremes, such as their +interpretation of Heydrich's directive for labor assignment in +the east. Another example is a reference to Himmler's order for +sending deportees to the East, "that is, having them killed" +(ibid, p. 251). Reitlinger, equally at a loss for evidence, does +exactly the same, declaring that from the "circumlocutionary" +words of the Wannsee conference it is obvious that "the slow +murder of an entire race was intended" (ibid, p. 98). +A review of the documentary situation is important, because +it reveals the edifice of guesswork and baseless assumptions +upon which the extermination legend is built. The Germans had an +extraordinary propensity for recording everything on paper in +the most careful detail, yet among the thousands of captured +documents of the S.D. and Gestapo, the records of the Reich +Security Head Office, the files of Himmler's headquarters and +Hitler's own war directives there is not a single order for the +extermination of Jews or anyone else. It will be seen later that +this has, in fact, been admitted by the World Center of +Contemporary Jewish Documentation at Tel-Aviv. Attempts to find +"veiled allusions" to genocide in speeches like that of +Himmler's to his S.S. Obergruppenfuhrers at Posen in 1943 are +likewise hopeless. Nuremberg statements extracted after the war, +invariably under duress, are examined in the following chapter.

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5) THE NUREMBERG TRIALS

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The story of the Six Million was given judicial authority at +the Nuremberg Trials of German leaders between 1945 and 1949, +proceedings which proved to be the most disgraceful legal farce +in history. For a far more detailed study of the iniquities of +these trials, which as Field Marshall Montgomery said, made it a +crime to lose a war, the reader is referred to the works cited +below, and particularly to the outstanding book Advance to +Barbarism (Nelson, 1953), by the distinguished English jurist +F.J.P. Veale. +From the outset, the Nuremberg Trials proceeded on the basis +of gross statistical errors. In his speech of indictment on +November 20th, 1945, Mr. Sidney Alderman declared that there has +been 9600000 Jews living in German occupied Europe. Our +earlier study has shown this figure to be wildly inaccurate. It +is arrived at (a) by completely ignoring all Jewish immigration +between 1933 and 1945, and (b) by adding all the Jews of Russia, +including the two million or more who were never in German-occupied territory. The same inflated figure, slightly enlarged +to 9800000, was produced again at the Eichmann Trial in Israel +by Prof. Shalom Baron. +The alleged Six Million victims first appeared as the +foundation for the prosecution at Nuremberg, and after some +dalliance with ten million or more by the Press at the time, it +eventually gained international popularity and acceptance. It is +very significant, however, that, although this outlandish figure +was able to win credence in the reckless atmosphere of +recrimination in 1945, it had become no longer tenable by 1961, +at the Eichmann Trial. The Jerusalem court studiously avoided +mentioning the figure of Six Million, and the charge drawn up by +Mr. Gideon Haussner simply said "some" millions.

+ +

LEGAL PRINCIPLES IGNORED

+ +

Should anyone be misled into believing that the extermination +of the Jews was "proved" at Nuremberg by "evidence", he should +consider the nature of the Trials themselves, based as they were +on a total disregard of sound legal principles of any kind. The +accusers acted as prosecutors, judges and executioners: "guilt" +was assumed from the onset. (Among the Judges, of course, were +the Russians, whose numberless crimes included the massacre of +15000 Polish officers, a proportion of whose bodies were +discovered by the Germans at Katyn Forest, near Smolensk. The +Soviet Prosecutor attempted to blame this slaughter on the +German defendants). At Nuremberg, ex post facto legislation was +created, whereby men were tried for "crimes" which were only +declared crimes AFTER they had been allegedly committed. +Hitherto it had been the most basic legal principle that a +person could only be convicted for infringing a law that was in +force at the time of the infringement. "Nulla Poena Sine Lege." +The Rules of Evidence, developed by the British jurisprudence +over the centuries in order to arrive at the truth of a charge +with as much certainty as possible, were entirely disregarded at +Nuremberg. It was decreed that "the Tribunal should not be +bound by technical rules of evidence" but could admit "any +evidence which it deemed to have probative value," that is, +would support a conviction. In practice, this meant the +admittance of hearsay evidence and documents, which in a normal +judicial trial are always rejected as untrustworthy. That such +evidence was allowed is of profound significance, because it was +one of the principal methods by which the extermination legend +was fabricated through fraudulent "written affidavits". Although +only 240 witnesses were called in the course of the Trials, no +less than 300000 of these "written affidavits" were accepted by +the Court as supporting the charges, without this evidence being +heard under oath. Under these circumstances, any Jewish deportee +or camp inmate could make any revengeful allegation that he +pleased. Most incredible of all, perhaps, was the fact that +defense lawyers at Nuremberg were not permitted to cross-examine +prosecution witnesses. A somewhat similar situation prevailed at +the trial of Adolf Eichmann, when it was announced that +Eichmann's defense lawyer could be canceled at any time "if an +intolerable situation should arise," which presumably meant if +his lawyer started to prove his innocence. +The real background of the Nuremberg Trials was exposed by +the American judge, Justice Wenersturm. President of one of +Tribunals. He was so disgusted by the proceedings that he +resigned his appointment and flew home to America, leaving +behind a statement to the Chicago Tribune which enumerated point +by point his objections to the Trials (cf. Mark Lautern, Das +Latzte Wortunber Nurnberg, p. 56). Points 3-8 are as follows:

+ +

3) The members of the department of the Public Prosecutor, +instead of trying to formulate and reach a new guiding +legal principle, were moved only by personal ambition and +revenge. +4) The prosecution did its utmost in every way possible to +prevent the defense preparing its case and to make it +impossible for it to furnish evidence. +5) The Prosecution, led by General Taylor, did everything in +it power to prevent the unanimous decision of the Military +Court being carried out i.e. to ask Washington to furnish +and make available to the court further documentary +evidence in the possession of the American Government. +6) Ninety per cent of the Nuremberg Court consisted of biased +persons who, either on political or racial grounds, +furthered the prosecution's case. +7) The prosecution obviously knew how to fill all the +administrative posts of the Military Court with +"Americans" whose naturalization certificates were very +new indeed, and who, whether in the administrative +service, or by their translations etc., created an +atmosphere hostile to the accused persons. +8) The real aim of the Nuremberg Trials was to show the +Germans the crimes of their Fuhrer, and this aim was at +the same time the pretext on which the trials were +ordered...Had I known seven months earlier what was +happening at Nuremberg, I would have never gone there.

+ +

Concerning Point 6, that ninety per cent of the Nuremberg +Court consisted of people biased on racial or political grounds, +this was a fact confirmed by others present. According to Earl +Carrol, an American lawyer, sixty per cent of the staff of the +Public Prosecutors Office were German Jews who had left Germany +after the Promulgation of Hitler's Race Laws. He observed that +not even ten per cent of the Americans employed at the Nuremberg +courts were actually American by birth. The chief of the Public +Prosecutor's Office, who worked behind General Taylor, was +Robert M. Kempner, a German-Jewish emigrant. Mark Lautern, who +observed the Trials, writes in his book: "They have arrived: the +Solomons, the Schlossbergers and the Rabinovitches, members of +the Public Prosecutors staff..." (ibid, p. 68). It is obvious +from these facts that the fundamental legal principle: that no +man can sit in judgement on his own case, was abandoned +altogether. Moreover, the majority of witnesses were also Jews. +According to Prof. Maurice Bardeche, who also was an observer at +the Trials, the only concern of these witnesses was not to show +their hatred too openly, and to try and give an impression of +objectivity (Nuremberg ou la Terre Promise, Paris, 1948, p. +149).

+ +

"CONFESSIONS" UNDER TORTURE

+ +

Altogether more disturbing, however, were the methods +employed to extract statements and "confessions" at Nuremberg, +particularly those from S.S. officers which were used to support +the extermination charge. The American Senator. Joseph McCarthy, +in a statement given to the American Press on May 20th, 1949, +drew attention to the following cases of torture to secure such +confessions. In the prison of the Swabisch Hall, he stated, +officers of the S.S. Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler were flogged +until they were soaked in blood, after which their sexual organs +were trampled on as they lay prostrate on the ground. As in the +notorious Malmedy Trials of private soldiers, the prisoners were +hoisted in the air and beaten until they signed the confessions +demanded of them. On the basis of such "confessions" extorted +from S.S. Generals Sepp Dietrich and Joachim Paiper, the +Leibstandarte was convicted as a "guilty organization". S.S. +General Oswald Pohl, the economic administrator of the +concentration camp system, had his face smeared with feces and +was subsequently beaten, until he supplied his confession. in +dealing with these cases, Senator McCarthy told the Press: +"I have heard evidence and read documentary proofs to the +effect that the accused persons were beaten up, maltreated and +physically tortured by methods which could only be conceived in +sick brains. They were subjected to mock trials and pretended +executions, they were told their families would be deprived +of their ration cards. All these things were carried out with +the approval of the Public Prosecutor in order to secure the +psychological atmosphere necessary for the extortion of the +required confessions. If the United States lets such acts +committed by a few people go unpunished, then the whole world +can rightly criticize us severely and forever doubt the +correctness of our motives and our moral integrity." +The methods of intimidation were repeated during trials at +Frankfurt-am-Mein and at Dachau, and large numbers of Germans +were convicted for atrocities on the basis of their admissions. +The American Judge Edward L. van Roden, one of the three members +of the Simpson Army Commission which was subsequently appointed +to investigate the methods of justice at the Dachau trials, +revealed the methods of by which these admissions were secured +in the Washington Daily News, January 9th, 1949. His account +also appeared in the British newspaper, the Sunday Pictorial, +January 23rd, 1949. The methods he described were: +"Posturing as priests to hear confessions and give +absolution; torture with burning matches driven under the +prisoners fingernails; knocking out teeth and breaking jaws; +solitary confinement and near starvation rations." Van Roden +explained: "The statements which were admitted as evidence were +obtained from men who had first been kept in solitary +confinement for three, four and five months...The investigators +would put a black hood over the accused's head and then punch +him in the face with brass knuckles, kick him and beat him with +rubber hoses...All but two of the Germans, in the 139 cases we +investigated, had been kicked in the testicles beyond repair. +This was standard operating procedure with our American +investigators." +The "American" investigators responsible (and who later +functioned as the prosecution in the trials) were: Lt.Col. +Burton F. Ellis (chief of the War Crimes Committee) and his +assistants, Capt. Raphael Shumacker, Lt. Robert E. Byrne, Lt. +William R. Perl, Mr. Morris Ellowitz, Mr. Harry Thon, and Mr. +Kirschbaum. The legal adviser of the court was Col. A.H. +Rosenfeld. The reader will immediately appreciate from their +names that the majority of these people were "biased on racial +grounds" in the words of Justice Wenersturm -- that is, were +Jewish, and therefore should never have been involved in any +such investigation. +Despite the fact that "confessions" pertaining to the +extermination of the Jews were extracted under these conditions, +Nuremberg statements are still regarded as conclusive evidence +for the Six Million by writers like Reitlinger and others, and +the illusion is maintained that the Trials were both impartial +and impeccably fair. When General Taylor, the Chief Public +Prosecutor, was asked where he had obtained the figure of the +Six Million, he replied that it was based on the confession of +S.S. General Otto Ohlendorf. He, too, was tortured and his case +is examined below. But as far as such "confessions" in general +are concerned, we can do no better than quote the British Sunday +Pictorial when reviewing the report of Judge van Roden: "Strong +men were reduced to broken wrecks ready to mumble any admission +demanded by their prosecutors."

+ +

THE WISLICENY STATEMENT

+ +

At this point, let us turn to some of the Nuremberg documents +themselves. The document quoted most frequently in support of +the legend of the Six Million, and which figures largely in +Poliakov and Wulf's Das Dritte Reich und die Juden: Documente +und Aufsatze, is the statement of S.S. Captain Dieter Wisliceny, +as assistant in Adolf Eichmann's office and later the Gestapo +chief in Slovakia. It was obtained under conditions even more +extreme than those described above. for Wisliceny fell into the +hands of Czech Communists and was "interrogated" at the Soviet-controlled Bratislava Prison in November 1946. Subjected to +torture, Wisliceny was reduced to a nervous wreck and became +addicted to uncontrollable fits of sobbing for hours on end +prior to his execution. Although the conditions under which his +statement was obtained empty it entirely of plausibility, +Poliakov prefers to ignore this and merely writes: "In prison he +wrote several memoirs that contain information of great +interest" (Harvest of Hate, p. 3). These memoirs include some +genuine statements of fact to prove authenticity, such as that +Himmler was an enthusiastic advocate of Jewish emigration and +that the emigration of Jews from Europe continued throughout the +war, but in general they are typical of the Communist-style +"confession" produced at Soviet show-trials. Frequent reference +is made to exterminating Jews and a flagrant attempt is made to +implicate as many S.S. leaders as possible. Factual errors are +also common, notably the statement that the war with Poland +added more than 3 million Jews to the German-occupied territory, +which we have disproved above.

+ +

THE CASE OF THE EINSATZGRUPPEN

+ +

The Wisliceny statement deals at length with the activities +of the Einsatzgruppen or Action Groups used in the Russian +campaign. These must merit a detailed consideration in a survey +of Nuremberg because the picture presented of them at the trials +represents a kind of "Six Million" in miniature, i.e. has been +proved since to be the most enormous exaggeration and +falsification. The Einsatzgruppen were four special units drawn +from the Gestapo and the S.D. (S.S. Security Police) whose task +was to wipe out partisans and Communist commissars in the wake +of the advancing German armies in Russia. As early as 1939, +there had been 34000 of these political commissars attached to +the Red Army. The activities of the Einsatzgruppen were the +particular concern of the Soviet Prosecutor Rudenko at the +Nuremberg Trials. The 1947 indictment of the four groups alleged +that in the course of their operations they had killed not +less than one million Jews in Russia merely because they were +Jews. +These allegations have since been elaborated; it is now +claimed that the murder of Soviet Jews by the Einsatzgruppen +constituted Phase One in the plan to exterminate the Jews, Phase +Two being the transportation of European Jews to Poland. +Reitlinger admits that the original term "final solution" +referred to emigration and had nothing to do with the +liquidation of Jews, but he then claims than an extermination +policy began at the time of the invasion of Russia in 1941. He +considers Hitler's order of July 1941 for the liquidation of the +Communist commissars, and he concludes that this was accompanied +by a verbal order from Hitler for the Einsatzgruppen to +liquidate all Soviet Jews (Die Endlosung, p. 91). If this +assumption is based on anything at all, it is probably the +worthless Wisliceny statement, which alleges that the +Einsatzgruppen were soon receiving orders to extend their task +of crushing Communists and partisans to a "general massacre" of +Russian Jews. +It is very significant that, once again, it is a "verbal +order" for exterminating Jews that is supposed to have +accompanied Hitler's genuine, written order -- yet another +nebulous and unprovable assumption on the part of Reitlinger. An +earlier order from Hitler, dated March 1941 and signed by Field +Marshall Keitel, makes it quite clear what the real tasks of the +future Einsatzgruppen would be. It states that in the Russian +campaign, the Reichsfuhrer S.S. (Himmler) is to be entrusted +with "tasks for the preparation of the political administration, +tasks which result from the struggle which has to be carried out +between two opposing political systems" (Manvell and Frankl, +ibid, p. 115). This plainly refers to eliminating Communism. +especially the political commissars whose specific task was +Communist indoctrination.

+ +

THE OHLENDORF TRIAL

+ +

The most revealing trial in the "Einsatzgruppen Case" at +Nuremberg was that of S.S. General Otto Ohlendorf, the chief of +the S.D. who commanded Einsatzgruppen D in the Ukraine, attached +to Field Marshall von Manstein's Eleventh Army. During the last +phase of the war he was employed as a foreign trade expert in +the Ministry of Economics. Ohlendorf was one of those subjected +to the torture described earlier, and in his affidavit of +November 5th, 1945, he was "persuaded" to confess that 90000 +Jews had been killed under his command alone. Ohlendorf did not +come to trial until 1948, long after the main Nuremberg Trial, +and by that time he was insisting that his earlier statement had +been extracted from him under torture. In his main speech before +the Tribunal, Ohlendorf took the opportunity to denounce Philip +Auerbach, the Jewish attorney-general of the Barvarian State +Office for Restitution, who at the time was claiming +compensation for "eleven million Jews" who had suffered +in German concentration camps. Ohlendorf dismissed this +ridiculous claim, stating that "not the minutest part" of the +people for whom Auerbach was demanding compensation had ever +seen a concentration camp. Ohlendorf lived long enough to see +Auerbach convicted for embezzlement and fraud (forging documents +purporting to show huge payments of compensation to non-existent +people) before his own execution finally took place in 1951. +Ohlendorf explained to the Tribunal that his units often had +to prevent massacres of Jews by anti-Semitic Ukrainians behind +the German front, and he denied that the Einsatzgruppen as a +whole had inflicted even one quarter of the casualties claimed +by the prosecution. He insisted that the illegal partisan +warfare in Russia, which he had to combat, had taken a far +higher toll of lives from the regular German army -- an +assertion confirmed by the Soviet Government, which boasted of +500000 German troops killed by partisans. In fact, Franz +Stahlecker, commander of Einsatzgruppen A in the Baltic region +and White Russia, was himself killed by partisans in 1942. The +English jurist F.J.P. Veale, in dealing with the Action Groups, +explains that in the fighting on the Russian front no +distinction could be properly drawn between partisans and the +civilian population, because any Russian civilian who maintained +his civilian status instead of acting as a terrorist was liable +to be executed by his countrymen as a traitor. Veale says of the +Action Groups: "There is no question that their orders were to +combat terror by terror", and he finds it strange that +atrocities committed by the partisans in the struggle were +regarded as blameless simply because they turned out to be on +the winning side (ibid, p. 223). Ohlendorf took the same view, +and in a bitter appeal written before his execution, he accused +the Allies of hypocrisy in holding the Germans to account by +conventional laws of warfare while fighting a savage Soviet +enemy who did not respect those laws.

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ACTION GROUP EXECUTIONS DISTORTED

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The Soviet charge that the Action Groups had wantonly +exterminated a million Jews during their operations has been +shown subsequently to be a massive falsification. In fact, +there had never been the slightest statistical basis for the +figure. In this connection, Poliakov and Wulf cite the statement +of Wilhelm Hoettl, the dubious American spy, double agent and +former assistant to Eichmann. Hoettl, it will be remembered, +claimed that Eichmann "told him" that six million Jews had been +exterminated -- and he added that two million Jews had been +killed by the Einsatzgruppen. This absurd figure went beyond +even the wildest estimates of Soviet Prosecutor Rudenko, and it +was not given any credence by the American Tribunal which tried +and condemned Ohlendorf. +The real number of casualties for which the Action groups +were responsible has since been revealed in the scholarly work +Manstein, his campaigns and His Trial (London, 1951), by the +able English lawyer R.T. Paget. Ohlendorf had been under +Manstein's nominal command. Paget's conclusion is that the +Nuremberg Court, in accepting the figures of the Soviet +prosecution, exaggerated the number of casualties by more than +1000 per cent and that they distorted even more the situations +in which these casualties were inflicted. (These horrific +distortions are the subject of six pages of William Shirer's The +Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pp. 1140-46). Here, then is +the legendary 6 million in miniature; not one million deaths, +but one hundred thousand. Of course, only a small proportion of +these could have been Jewish partisans and communist +functionaries. It is worth repeating that these casualties were +inflicted during savage partisan warfare on the Eastern Front, +and that Soviet terrorists claim to have killed five times that +number of German troops. It has nevertheless remained a popular +myth that the extermination of the Jews began with the actions +of the Einsatzgruppen in Russia. +In conclusion, we may briefly survey the Manstein trial +itself, typical in so many ways of Nuremberg proceedings. +Principally because Action Group D was attached to Manstein's +command (though it was responsible solely to Himmler), the +sixty-two year old, invalid Field Marshall, considered by most +authorities to be the most brilliant German general of the war, +was subjected to the shameful indignity of a "war-crimes" trial. +Of the 17 charges, 15 were brought by the Communist Russian +Government and two by the Communist Polish government. Only one +witness was called to give evidence at this trial, and he proved +so unsatisfactory that the prosecution withdrew his evidence. +reliance was placed instead on 800 hearsay documents which were +accepted by the court without any proof of their authenticity or +authorship. The prosecution introduced written affidavits by +Ohlendorf and other S.S. Leaders, but since these men were still +alive, Manstein's defense lawyer Reginald Paget K.C. demanded +their appearance in the witness-box. This was refused by the +American authorities, and Paget declared that this refusal was +due to fear lest the condemned men reveal what methods had been +used to induce them to sign their affidavits. Manstein was +eventually acquitted on eight of the charges, including the two +Polish ones which, as Paget said, "were so flagrantly bogus that +one was left wondering why they had been presented at all."

+ +

THE OSWALD POHL TRIAL

+ +

The case of the Action Groups is a revealing insight into the +methods of the Nuremberg trials and the fabrication of the Myth +of the Six Million. Another is the trial of Oswald Pohl in 1948, +which is of great importance as it bears directly on the +administration of the concentration camp system. Pohl had been +the chief disbursing officer of the German Navy until 1934, when +Himmler requested his transfer to the S.S. For eleven years he +was the principal administrative chief of the entire S.S. in his +position as head of the S.S. Economy and Administration Office, +which after 1941 was concerned with the industrial productivity +of the concentration camp system. A peak point of hypocrisy was +reached at the trial when the prosecution said to Pohl that "had +Germany rested content with the exclusion of Jews from her own +territory, with denying them German citizenship, with excluding +them from public office, or any like domestic regulation, no +other nation could have been heard to complain." The truth is +that Germany was bombarded with insults and economic sanctions +for doing precisely these things, and her internal measures +against the Jews were certainly a major cause of the declaration +of war against Germany by the democracies. +Oswald Pohl was an extremely sensitive and intellectual +individual who was reduced to a broken man in the course of his +trial. As Senator McCarthy pointed out, Pohl had signed some +incriminating documents after being subjected to severe torture, +including a bogus admission that he had seen a gas chamber at +Auschwitz in the summer of 1944. The prosecution strenuously +pressed this charge, but Pohl successfully repudiated it. The +aim of the prosecution was to depict this dejected man as a +veritable fiend in human shape, an impression hopelessly at +variance with the testimony of those who knew him. +Such testimony was given by Heinrich Hoepker, an anti-Nazi +friend of Pohl's wife who came into frequent contact with him +during the period 1942-45. Hoepker noted that Pohl was +essentially a serene and mild-mannered person. During a visit to +Pohl in the spring of 1944, Hoepker was brought into contact +with concentration camp inmates who were working on a local +project outside the camp area. He noted that the prisoners +worked in a leisurely manner and relaxed atmosphere without any +pressure from their guards. Hoepker declared that Pohl did not +hold an emotional attitude to the Jews and did not object to his +wife entertaining her Jewish friend Annemarie Jacques at their +home. By the beginning of 1945, Hoepker was fully convinced that +the administrator of the concentration camps was a humane, +conscientious and dedicated servant of his task, and he was +astonished when he heard later in 1945 of the accusations being +made against Pohl and his colleges. Frau Pohl noted that her +husband retained his serenity in the face of adversity until +March 1945, when he visited the camp at Bergen-Belsen at the +time of the typhus epidemic there. Hitherto the camp had been a +model of cleanliness and order, but the chaotic conditions at +the close of the war had reduced it to a state of extreme +hardship. Pohl, who was unable to alleviate conditions there +because of the desperate pass which the war had reached by that +time, was deeply affected by the experience and, according to +his wife, never regained his former state of composure. +Dr. Alfred Seidl, the highly respected lawyer who acted as +principal defense council at the Nuremberg Trials, went to work +passionately to secure the acquittal of Pohl. Seidl had been +convinced of his innocence with respect to the fraudulent charge +of planned genocide against the Jews. The Allied judgement which +condemned Pohl did not prompt Seidl to change his opinion in the +slightest. He declared that the prosecution had failed to +produce a single piece of valid evidence against him. +One of the most eloquent defenses of Oswald Pohl was made by +S.S. Lieutenant Colonel Kurt Schmidt-Klevenow, a legal officer +in the S.S. Economy and Administration Office, in his affidavit +of August 8th, 1947. This affidavit has been deliberately +omitted from the published documents known as Trials of the War +Criminals before the Nuremberg Tribunals 1946-1949. Schmidt-Klevenow pointed out that Pohl had given his fullest support to +Judge Konrad Morgen of the Reich Criminal Police Office, whose +job was to investigate irregularities at the concentration +camps. Later on we shall refer to a case in which Pohl was in +favor of the death penalty for camp commandant Koch, who was +accused by an S.S. court of misconduct. Schmidt-Klevenow +explained that Pohl was instrumental in arranging for local +police chiefs to share in the jurisdiction of concentration +camps, and took personal initiative in securing strict +discipline on the part of camp personnel. In short, the evidence +given at the Pohl trial shows that the proceedings involved +nothing less than deliberate defamation of a man's character in +order to support the propaganda legend of genocide against the +Jews in the concentration camps he administered.

+ +

FALSIFIED EVIDENCE AND FRAUDULENT AFFIDAVITS

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Spurious testimony at Nuremberg which included extravagant +statements in support of the myth of the Six Million was +invariably given by former German officers because of pressure, +either severe torture as in the cases cited previously, or the +assurance of leniency for themselves if they supplied the +required statements. An example of the latter was the testimony +of S.S. General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski. He was threatened +with execution himself because of his suppression of the revolt +by Polish partisans at Warsaw in August 1944, which he carried +out with his S.S. brigade of White Russians. He was therefore +prepared to be "co-operative". The evidence of Bach-Zelewski +constituted the basis of the testimony against the Reichsfuhrer +of the S.S. Heinrich Himmler at the main Nuremberg trial (Trial +of the Major War Criminals, Vol. IV, pp 29, 36). In March 1941, +on the eve of the invasion of Russia, Himmler invited the Higher +S.S. leaders to his Castle at Wewelsburg for a conference, +including Bach-Zelewski who was an expert on partisan warfare. +In his Nuremberg evidence, he depicted Himmler speaking in +grandiose terms at this conference about the liquidation of +peoples in Eastern Europe, but Goering, in the courtroom, +denounced Bach-Zelewski to his face for the falsity of this +testimony. An especially outrageous allegation concerned a +supposed declaration by Himmler that one of the aims of the +Russian campaign was to "decimate the Slav population by thirty +millions." What Himmler really said is given by his Chief of +Staff, Wolff -- that war in Russia was certain to result in +millions of dead (Manvell and Frankl, ibid, p. 117). Another +brazen falsehood was Bach-Zelewski's accusation that on August +31st, 1942 Himmler personally witnessed the execution of one +hundred Jews by an Einsatz detachment at Minsk, causing him to +nearly faint. It is known, however, that on this date Himmler +was in conference at his field headquarters at Zhitomir in the +Ukraine (cf, K. Vowinckel, Die Wehrmacht in Kampf, vol. 4, p. +275). +Much is made of Bach-Zelewski's evidence in all of the books +on Himmler, especially Willi Frischauers's Himmler: Evil Genius +of the Third Reich (London, 1953, p. 148 ff). However, in April +1959, Bach-Zelewski publicly repudiated his Nuremberg testimony +before a West German court. he admitted that his earlier +statements had not the slightest foundation in fact, and that he +had made them for the sake of expediency and his own survival. +The German court, after careful deliberation accepted his +retraction. Needless to say. what Veale calls the "Iron Curtain +of Discreet Silence" descended immediately over these events. +They have had no influence whatever on the books which propagate +the myth of the Six Million, and Bach-Zelewski's testimony on +Himmler is still taken at its face value. +The truth concerning Himmler is provided ironically by an +anti-Nazi -- Felix Kersten, his physician and masseur. Because +Kersten was opposed to the regime, he tends to support the +legend that the internment of Jews meant their extermination. +But from his close personal knowledge of Himmler he cannot help +but tell the truth concerning him, and in his memoirs 1940-1945 +(London, 1956, p. 119 ff.) he is emphatic in stating that +Heinrich Himmler did not advocate liquidating the Jews but +favored their emigration overseas. Neither does Kersten +implicate Hitler. However, the credibility of his anti-Nazi +narrative is completely shattered when, in search of an +alternative villain, he declares that Dr. Goebbels was the real +advocate of "extermination". This nonsensical allegation is +amply disproved by the fact that Goebbels was still concerned +with the Madagascar project even after it had been temporally +shelved by the German Foreign Office, as we showed earlier. +So much for false evidence at Nuremberg. reference has also +been made to the thousands of fraudulent "written affidavits" +which were accepted by the Nuremberg Court without any attempt +to ascertain the authenticity of their contents or even their +authorship. These hearsay documents, often of the most bizarre +kind, were introduced as "evidence" so long as they bore the +required signature. A typical prosecution affidavit contested by +the defense in the Concentration Camp Trial of 1947 was that of +Alois Hoellriegel, a member of the camp personnel at Mauthausen +in Austria. This affidavit, which the defense proved was +fabricated during Hoellriegel's torture, had already been used +to secure the conviction of S.S. General Ernst Kaltenbrunner in +1946. It claimed that a mass gassing operation had taken place +at Mauthausen and that Hoellriegel had witnessed Kaltenbrunner +(the highest S.S. Leader in the Reich excepting Himmler) +actually taking part in it. +By the time of the Concentration Camp Trial (Pohl's trial) a +year later, it had become impossible to sustain this piece of +nonsense when it was produced in court again. The defense not +only demonstrated that the affidavit was falsified, but showed +that all deaths at Mauthausen were systematically checked by the +local police authorities. They were also entered on a camp +register, and particular embarrassment was caused to the +prosecution when the Mauthausen register, one of the few that +survived, was produced in evidence. The defense also obtained +numerous affidavits from former inmates of Mauthausen (a prison +camp chiefly for criminals) testifying to humane and orderly +conditions there.

+ +

ALLIED ACCUSATIONS DISBELIEVED

+ +

There is no more eloquent to the tragedy and tyranny of +Nuremberg than the pathetic astonishment or outraged disbelief +of the accused persons themselves at the grotesque charges made +against them. Such is reflected in the affidavit of S.S. Major-General Heinz Fanslau, who visited most of the German +concentration camps during the last years of the war. Although a +front line soldier in the Waffen S.S., Fanslau had taken a great +interest in concentration camp conditions, and he was selected +as a prime target by the allies for the charge of conspiracy to +annihilate the Jews. It was argued, on the basis of his many +contacts, that he must have been fully involved. When it was +first rumored that he would be tried and convicted, hundreds of +affidavits were produced on his behalf by camp inmates he had +visited. When he read the full scope of the indictment against +the concentration camp personnel in supplementary Nuremberg +Trial No. 4 on May 6th, 1947, Fanslau declared in disbelief: +"This cannot be possible, because I, too, would have had to know +something about it." +It should be emphasized that throughout the Nuremberg +proceedings, the German leaders on trial never believed for a +moment the allegations of the Allied prosecution. Hermann +Goering, who was exposed to the full brunt of the Nuremberg +atrocity propaganda, failed to be convinced by it. Hans +Fritzsche, on trial as the highest functionary of Goebbel's +Ministry, relates that Goering, even after hearing the Ohlendorf +affidavit on the Einsatzgruppen and the Hoess testimony on +Auschwitz, remained convinced that the extermination of Jews was +entirely propaganda fiction (The Sword in the Scales, London, +1953, p. 1945). At one point during the trial, Goering declared +rather cogently that the first time he had heard of it "was +right here in Nuremberg" (Shirer, ibtd, p. 1147). The Jewish +writers Poliakov, Reitlinger and Manvell and Frankl all attempt +to implicate Goering in this supposed extermination, but Charles +Bewley in his work Hermann Goering (Goettingen, 1956) shows that +not the slightest evidence was found at Nuremberg to +substantiate this charge. +Hans Fritzsche pondered on the whole question during the +trials, and he concluded that there had certainly been no +thorough investigation of these monstrous charges. Fritzsche, +who was acquitted, was an associate of Goebbels and a skilled +propagandist. He recognized that the alleged massacre of the +Jews was the main point of the indictment against all +defendants. Kaltenbrunner, who succeeded Heydrich as chief of +the Reich Security head Office and was the main defendant for +the S.S., due to the death of Himmler, was no more convinced of +the genocide charges than was Goering. He confided to Fritzsche +that the prosecution was scoring apparent successes because of +their technique of coercing witnesses and suppressing evidence, +which was precisely the accusation of Judges Wenerstrum and van +Roden.

+ +

6. AUSCHWITZ AND POLISH JEWRY

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The concentration camp at Auschwitz near Cracow in Poland has +remained at the center of the alleged extermination of millions +of Jews. Later we shall see how, when it was discovered by +honest observers in the British and American zones after the war +that no "gas chambers" existed in the German camps such as +Dachau and Bergen-Belsen, attention was shifted to the eastern +camps, particularly Auschwitz. Ovens definitely existed here, it +was claimed. Unfortunately, the eastern camps were in the +Russian zone of occupation, so that no one could verify whether +these allegations were true or not. The Russians refused to +allow anyone to see Auschwitz until about ten years after the +war, by which time they were able to alter its appearance and +give some plausibility to the claim that millions of people had +been exterminated there. if anyone doubts that the Russians are +capable of such deception, they should remember the monuments +erected at sites where thousands of people were murdered in +Russia by Stalin's secret police -- but where the monuments +proclaim them to be victims of German troops in World War II. +The truth about Auschwitz is that it was the largest and most +important industrial concentration camp, producing all kinds of +material for the war industry. The camp consisted of synthetic +coal and rubber plants built by I. G. Farben Industry, for whom +the prisoners supplied labor. Auschwitz also comprised an +agricultural research station, with laboratories, plant +nurseries and facilities for stock breeding, as well as Krupps +armament works. We have already remarked that this kind of +activity was the prime function of the camps; all major firms +had subsidiaries in them and the S.S. even opened their own +factories. Accounts of visits by Himmler to the camps show his +main purpose was to inspect and assess their industrial +efficiency. When he had visited Auschwitz in March 1941 +accompanied by high executives of I. G. Farben, he showed no +interest in the problems of the camp as a facility for +prisoners, but merely ordered that the camp be enlarged to take +100000 detainees to supply labor for I. G. Farben. This hardly +accords with a policy of exterminating prisoners by the million.

+ +

MORE AND MORE MILLIONS

+ +

It was nevertheless at this single camp that about half of +the six million were supposed to have been exterminated, indeed, +some written claim 4 or even 5 million. Four million was the +sensational figure announced by the Soviet Government after the +Communist had "investigated" the camp, at the same time as they +were attempting to blame the Kaytn massacre on the Germans. +Reitlinger admits that information regarding Auschwitz and other +eastern camps comes from the post-war Communist regimes of +Eastern Europe: "The evidence concerning the Polish death camps +was mainly taken after the war by Polish State commissions or by +the Central Jewish Historical Commission of Poland" (The Final +Solution, p. 631). +However, no living, authentic eye-witness of these "gassings" +has ever been produced and validated. Benedikt Kautsky, who +spent seven years in concentration camps, including three in +Auschwitz, alleged in his book Tuefel and Verdammte (Devil and +Damned, Zurich, 1946) that no less than 3500000 Jews" had been +killed there. This was certainly a remarkable statement, because +by his own admission he had never seen a gas chamber. He +confessed: "I was in the big German concentration camps. +However, I must establish the truth that in no camp at any time +did I come across such an installation as a gas chamber" (p. +272-3). The only execution he actually witnessed was when two +Polish inmates were executed for killing two Jewish inmates. +Kautsky, who was sent from Buchenwald in October 1942 to work at +Auschwitz-Buna, stresses in his book that the use of prisoners +in war industry was a major feature of concentration camp policy +until the end of the war. He failed to reconcile this with an +alleged policy of massacring Jews. +The exterminations at Auschwitz are alleged to have occurred +between March 1942 and October 1944; the figure of half of six +million, therefore, would mean the extermination and disposal of +about 94000 people per month for thirty two months -- +approximately 3350 people every day, day and night, for over +two and a half years. This kind of thing is so ludicrous that it +scarcely needs refuting. And yet Reitlinger claims quite +seriously that Auschwitz could dispose of no less that 6000 +people a day. +Although Reitlinger's 6000 a day would mean a total by +October of over 5 million, all such estimates pale before the +wild fantasies of Olga Lengyel in her book Five Chimneys +(London, 1959). Claiming to be a former inmate of Auschwitz, she +asserts that the camp cremated no less that "720 per hour, or +17280 corpses per twenty-four hour shift." She also alleges +that, in addition, 8000 people were burned every day in the +"death-pits", and that therefore "In round numbers, about 24000 +corpses were handled every day" (p. 80-1). This, of course, +would mean a yearly rate of over eight and one half million. +Thus between March 1942 and October 1944 Auschwitz would have +finally have disposed of over 21 million people, six million +more than the entire world Jewish population. Comment is +superfluous. +Although several millions were supposed to have died at +Auschwitz alone, Reitlinger has to admit that only 363000 +inmates were registered at the camp for the whole of the period +between January 1940 and February 1945 (The S.S. Alibi of a +Nation, p. 268 ff), and by no means all of them were Jews. It is +frequently claimed that many prisoners were never registered, +but no one has offered any proof of this. Even if there were as +many unregistered as there were registered, it would mean only a +total of 750000 prisoners -- hardly enough for the estimation +of 3 or 4 million. Moreover, large numbers of the camp +population were released or transported elsewhere during the +war, and at the end 80000 were evacuated westward in January +1945 before the Russian advance. +One example will suffice of the statistical frauds relating +to casualties at Auschwitz. Shirer claims that in the summer of +1944, no less than 300000 Hungarian Jews were done to death in +a mere fourty-six days (ibid. p. 1156). This would have been +almost the entire Hungarian Jewish population, which numbered +some 380000. But according to the Central Statistical Committee +figure of 220000), so that only 120000 were classed as no +longer resident. Of these, 35000 were emigrants from the new +Communist regime, and a further 25000 were still being held in +Russia after having worked in German labor battalions there. +This leaves only 60000 Hungarian Jews returned to Hungary from +deportation in Germany, though Reitlinger says this figure is +too high (The Final Solution, p. 497). Possibly it is, but +bearing in mind the substantial emigration of Hungarian Jews +during the war (cf. Report of thee ICRC, Vol. 1, p. 649), the +number of Hungarian Jewish casualties must have been very low +indeed.

+ +

AUSCHWITZ: AN EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT + +Some new facts about Auschwitz are at last beginning to make +a tentative appearance. They are contained in a recent work +called Die Auschwitz-Luge: Ein Erlebnisbericht von Theis +Christopherson (The Auschwitz Legends: An Account of his +Experiences by Theis Christopherson, Kritik Verlag/Mohrkirch, +1973). Published by the German lawyer Dr. Manfred Roeder in the +periodical Deutsche Burger-Iniative, it is an eye-witness +account of Auschwitz by Theis Christopherson, who was sent to +the Bunawerk plant laboratories at Auschwitz to research into +the production of synthetic rubber for the Kaiser Wilhelm +Institute. In May 1973, not long after the appearance of this +account, the veteran Jewish "nazi-hunter" Simon Weisenthal wrote +to the Frankfurt Chamber of Lawyers, demanding that the +publisher and author of the Forward, Dr. Roeder, a member of the +Chamber should be brought before its disciplinary commission. +Sure enough, proceedings began in July, but not without harsh +criticism even from the Press, who asked "Is Simon Weisenthal +the new Gauleiter of Germany?" (Deutsche Wochenzeiung, July +27th, 1973). +Christopherson's account is certainly one of the most +important documents for a re-appraisal of Auschwitz. He spent +the whole of 1944 there, during which time he visited all of the +separate camps comprising the large Auschwitz complex, including +Auschwitz-Birkenau where it is alleged that wholesale massacres +of Jews took place. Christopherson, however, is in no doubt that +this is totally untrue. He writes: "I was in Auschwitz from +January 1944 until December 1944. After the war I heard about +the mass murders which were supposedly perpetrated by the S.S. +against the Jewish prisoners, and I was perfectly astonished. +Despite all the evidence of witnesses, all the newspaper reports +and radio broadcasts I still do not believe today in these +horrible deeds. I have said many times and in many places, but +to no purpose. One is never believed." (p. 16) +Space forbids a detailed summary here of the author's +experiences at Auschwitz, which include facts about camp routine +and the daily life of prisoners totally at variance with the +allegations of propaganda (pp. 22-7). More important are his +revelations about the supposed existence of an extermination +camp. "During the whole of my time at Auschwitz, I never +observed the slightest evidence of mass gassings. Moreover, the +odor of burning flesh that is often said to have hung over the +camp is a downright falsehood. In the vicinity of the main camp +(Auschwitz I) was a large farrier's works, from which the smell +of molten iron was naturally not pleasant" (p.33-4). Reitlinger +confirms that there were five blast furnaces and five collieries +at Auschwitz, which together with the Bunawerk factories +comprised Auschwitz III (ibid. p. 452). The author agrees that a +crematorium would certainly existed at Auschwitz, "since 200000 +people lived there, and in every city with 200000 inhabitants +there would be a crematorium. Naturally people died there -- but +not only prisoners. In fact the wife of Oberstrumbannfuhrer A. +(Christopherson's superior) also died there" (p. 33) The author +explains: "There was no secrets at Auschwitz. In September 1944 +a commission of the International Red Cross came to the camp for +in inspection. They were particularly interested in the camp at +Birkenau, though we also had many inspections at Raisko" +(Bunawerk section, p. 35). +Christopherson points out that the constant visits to +Auschwitz by outsiders cannot be reconciled with allegations of +mass extermination. When describing the visit of his wife to the +camp in May, he observes: "The fact that it was possible to +receive visits from our relatives at any time demonstrates the +openness of the camp administration. Had Auschwitz been a great +extermination camp, we would certainly not have been able to +receive such visits" (p. 27). +After the war, Christopherson came to hear of the alleged +existence of a building with gigantic chimneys in the vicinity +of the main camp. "This was supposed to be the crematorium. +However, I must record the fact that when I left the camp at +Auschwitz in December 1944, I had not seen this building there" +(p. 37). Does this mysterious building exist today? Apparently +not: Reitlinger claims it was demolished and "completely burnt +out in full view of the camp" in October, though Christopherson +never saw this public demolition. Although it is said to have +taken place "in full view of the camp", it was allegedly seen by

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only one Jewish witness, a certain Dr. Bendel, and his is the +only testimony to the occurrence (Reitlinger, ibid., p. 457). +This situation is generally typical. When it comes down to hard +evidence, it is strangely elusive; the building was +"demolished", the document was "lost", the order was "verbal". +At Auschwitz today, visitors are shown a small furnace and here +they are told that millions of people were exterminated. The +Soviet State Commission which "investigated" the camp announced +on May 12th, 1945 that "Using rectified coefficients....the +technical expert commission has ascertained that during the time +that the Auschwitz camp existed, the German butchers +exterminated in this camp not less than four million +citizens..." Reitlinger's surprisingly frank comment on this is +perfectly adequate" "The world has grown mistrustful of +'rectified coefficients' and the figure of four millions has +become ridiculous" (ibid. p. 460). +Finally, the account of Mr. Christopherson draws attention to +a very curious circumstance. The only defendant who did not +appear at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial in 1963 was Richard +Baer, the successor of Rudolf Hoess as commandant of Auschwitz. +Though in perfect health, he died suddenly in prison before the +trial had begun, "in a highly mysterious way" according to the +newspaper Deutsche Wochenzietung (July 27th, 1973). Baer's +sudden demise before giving evidence is especially strange, +since the Paris newspaper Rivarol recorded his insistence that +"during the whole time in which he governed Auschwitz, he never +saw any gas chambers nor believed that such things existed," and +from this statement nothing would dissuade him. In short, the +Christopherson account adds to a mounting collection of evidence +demonstrating that the giant industrial complex of Auschwitz +(compromising thirty separate installations and divided by +the main Vienna-Cracow railway line) was nothing but a vast war +production center, which, while admittedly employing the +compulsory labor of detainees, was certainly not a place of +"mass extermination".

+ +

THE WARSAW GHETTO

+ +

In terms of numbers, polish Jewry is supposed to have +suffered most of all from extermination, not only at Auschwitz, +but at an endless list of newly-discovered "death camps" such as +Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Maidanek, Chelmno and at many more +obscure places which seem suddenly to have gained prominence. At +the center of the alleged extermination of the Polish Jews is +the dramatic uprising in April 1943 of the Warsaw Ghetto. This +is often represented as a revolt against being deported to gas +ovens; presumably the alleged subject of Hitler and Himmler's +"secret discussions" had leaked out and gained wide publicity in +Warsaw. The case of the Warsaw Ghetto is an instructive insight +into the creation of the extermination legend itself. Indeed, +its evacuation by the Germans in 1943 is often referred to as +the "extermination of the Polish Jews" although it was nothing +of the kind, and layers of mythology have tended to surround it +after the publication of sensational novels like John Hersey's +The Wall and Leon Uris' Exodus. +When the Germans first occupied Poland, they confined the +Jews, not in detention camps but in ghettos for reasons of +security. The interior administration of the ghettos was in the +hands of Jewish councils elected by themselves, and they were +policed by an independent Jewish police force. Special currency +notes were introduced into the Ghettos to prevent speculation. +Whether this system was right or wrong, it was understandable in +time of war, and although the ghetto is perhaps an unpleasant +social establishment, it is by no means barbaric. And it is +certainly not an organization for the destruction of a race. +But, of course, it is frequently said that this is what the +ghettos were really for. A recent publication on the Warsaw +Ghetto made the brazen assertion that concentration camps "were +a substitute for the practice of cramming the Jews into +overcrowded ghettos and starving them to death." It seems that +whatever security system the Germans used, and to whatever +lengths they went to preserve a semblance of community for the +Jews, they can never escape the charge of "extermination". +It has been established already that the 1931 Jewish +population census for Poland placed the number of Jews at +2732600, and that after emigration and flight to the Soviet +Union, no more than 1100000 were under German control. These +incontrovertible facts, however, do not prevent Manvell and +Frankl asserting that "there had been over three million Jews in +Poland when Germany began the invasion" and that in 1942 "some +two million still awaited death" (ibid, p. 140). In reality, of +the million or so Jews in Poland, almost half, about 400000 +were eventually concentrated in the ghetto of Warsaw, an area of +about two and a half square miles around the old mediaeval +ghetto. The remainder had already been moved to the Polish +Government-General by September 1940. In the summer of 1942, +Himmler ordered the resettlement of all Polish Jews in detention +camps in order to obtain their labor, part of the system of +general concentration for labor assignment in the Government-General. Thus between July and October 1942, over three quarters +of the Warsaw Ghetto's inhabitants were peacefully evacuated and +transported, supervised to camps is alleged to have ended in +"extermination", but there is absolutely no doubt from the +evidence available that it involved only the effective +procurement of labor and the prevention of unrest. In the first +place, Himmler discovered on a suprise visit to Warsaw in +January 1943 that 24000 Jews registered as armaments workers +were in fact working illegally as tailors and furriers (Manvell +and Frankl, ibid, p. 140); the Ghetto was also being used as a +base for subversive forays into the main area of Warsaw. +After six months of peaceful evacuation, when only about +60000 Jews remained in the residential ghetto, the Germans met +with an armed rebellion on 18th January, 1943. Manvell and +Frankl admit that "The Jews involved in planned resistance had +for a long time been engaged in smuggling arms from the outside +world, and combat groups fired on and killed S.S. men and +militia in charge of a column of deportees." The terrorists in +the Ghetto uprising were also assisted by the Polish Home Army +and the PPR--Polish Partia Robotnicza, the Communist Polish +Workers Party. It was under these circumstances of a revolt +aided by partisans and communists that the occupying forces, as +any army would in a similar situation, moved in to suppress the +terrorists, if necessary by destroying the residential area +itself. It should be remembered that the whole process of +evacuation would have continued had not extremists among the +inhabitants planned an armed rebellion which in the end was +bound to fail. When S.S. Lieutenant-General Stroop entered the +Ghetto with armored cars on 19th April, he immediately came +under fire and lost twelve men; German and Polish casualties in +the battle, which lasted four weeks, totaled 101 men killed and +wounded. Stubborn resistance by the Jewish Combat Organization +in the face of impossible odds led to an estimated 12000 Jewish +casualties, the majority by remaining in burning buildings and +dug-outs. A total, however, of 56065 inhabitants were captured +and peacefully resettled in the area of the Government-General. +Many Jews within the Ghetto had resented the terror imposed on +them by the Combat Organization, and had attempted to inform on +their headquarters to the German authorities.

+ +

SUDDEN SURVIVORS

+ +

The circumstances surrounding the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, as +well as the deportations to eastern labor camps such as +Auschwitz, has led to the most colorful tales concerning the +fate of Polish Jews, the largest bloc of Jewry in Europe. The +Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, in figures prepared by them +for the Nuremberg Trials, stated that in 1945 there were only +80000 Jews remaining in Poland. They also alleged that there +were no Polish-Jewish displaced persons left in Germany or +Austria, a claim that was at some variance with the number of +Polish Jews arrested by the British and Americans for black +market activities. However, the new Communist regime in Poland +was unable to prevent a major anti-Jewish pogrom at Kielce on +July 4th, 1946, and more than 150000 Polish Jews suddenly fled +into Western Germany. Their appearance was somewhat +embarrassing, and their emigration to Palestine and the United +States was carried out in record time. Subsequently, the number +of Polish Jewish survivors underwent considerable revision; in +the American-Jewish Yearbook 1948-1949 it was placed at 390000, +quite an advance on the original 80000. We may expect further +revisions in the future.

+ +

7. SOME CONCENTRATION CAMP MEMOIRS

+ +

The most influential agency in the propagation of the +extermination legend has been the paper-back book and magazine +industry, and it is through their sensational publications, +produced for commercial gain, that the average person is made +acquainted with a myth of an entirely political character and +purpose. The hey-day of these hate-Germany books were in the +1950's, when virulent Germanophobia found a ready market, but +the industry continues to flourish and is experiencing another +boom today. The industry's products consist generally of so-called "memoirs" and these fall into two basic categories; those +which are supposedly by former S.S. men, camp commandants and +the like, and those bloodcurdling reminiscences allegedly by +former concentration camp inmates.

+ +

COMMUNIST ORIGINS

+ +

Of the first kind, the most outstanding example is Commandant +of Auschwitz by Rudolf Hoess (London 1960) which was originally +published in the Polish language as Wspomnienia by the +Communist Government. Hoess, a young man who took over at +Auschwitz in 1940, was first arrested by the British and +detained at Flensburg, but he was soon handed over to +the Polish Communist authorities who condemned him to death in +1947 and executed him almost immediately. The so-called Hoess +memoirs are undoubtedly a forgery produced under Communist +auspices, as we shall demonstrate, though the Communists +themselves claim that Hoess was "ordered to write the story of +his life" and a hand-written original supposedly exists, but no +one has ever seen it. Hoess was subjected to torture and brain-washing techniques by the Communists during the period of his +arrest, and his testimony at Nuremberg was delivered in a +mindless monotone as he stared blankly into space. Even +Reitlinger rejects this testimony as hopelessly untrustworthy. +It is indeed remarkable how so much "evidence" regarding the Six +Million stems from Communist sources; this included the major +documents such as the Wisliceny statement and the Hoess +"memoirs", which are undoubted the two most quoted items in +extermination literature, as well as all the information on the +so-called "death camps" such as Auschwitz. This information +comes from the Jewish Historical Commission of Poland; the +central Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes, Warsaw; +and the Russian State War Crimes Commission, Moscow. +Reitlinger acknowledges that the Hoess testimony at Nuremberg +was a catalogue of wild exaggerations, such as that Auschwitz +was disposing of 16000 people a day, which would mean a total +at the end of the war of over 13 million. Instead of exposing +such estimates for the Soviet-inspired frauds they obviously +are, Reitlinger and others prefer to think that such ridiculous +exaggerations were due to "pride" in doing a professional job. +Ironically, this is completely irreconcilable with the +supposedly authentic Hoess memoirs, which make a clever attempt +at plausibility by suggesting the opposite picture of distaste +for the job. Hoess is supposedly to have "confessed" to a total +of three million people exterminated at Auschwitz, though at his +own trial in Warsaw the prosecution reduced the number to +1135000. However, we have already noted that the Soviet +Government announced an official figure of 4 million after their +"investigation" of the camp in 1945. This kind of casual +juggling with millions of people does not appear to worry the +writers of extermination literature. +A review of the Hoess "memoirs" in all their horrid detail +would be tedious. We may confine ourselves to those aspects of +the extermination legend which are designed with the obvious +purpose of forestalling any proof of its falsity. Such, for +example, is the manner in which the alleged extermination of +Jews is described. This was supposed to have been carried out by +a "special detachment" of Jewish prisoners. They took charge of +the newly arrived contingents at the camp, led them into the +enormous "gas chambers" and disposed of the bodies afterwards. +The S.S., therefore, did very little, so that most of the S.S. +personnel at the camp could be left in complete ignorance of the +"extermination program". Of course, no Jew would ever be found +who claimed to have been a member of this gruesome "special +detachment", so that the whole issue is left conveniently +unprovable. it is worth repeating that no living, authentic eye-witness of these events has ever been produced. +Conclusive evidence that the Hoess memoirs are a forgery lies +in an incredible slip by the Communist editors. Hoess is +supposed to say that the Jehovah's Witnesses at Auschwitz +approved of murdering the Jews because the Jews were the enemies +of Christ. It is well known that in Soviet Russia today and in +all her satellite countries of eastern Europe, the Communist +conduct a bitter campaign of suppression against the Jehovah's +Witnesses, whom they regard as the religious sect most dangerous +to Communist beliefs. That this sect is deliberately and grossly +defamed in the Hoess memoirs proves the document's Communist +origins beyond any doubt.

+ +

INCRIMINATING REMINISCENCES

+ +

Certainly the most bogus "memoirs" yet published are those of +Adolf Eichmann. Before his illegal kidnapping by the Israelis in +May, 1960, and the attendant blaze of international publicity, +few people had ever heard of him. He was indeed a relatively +unimportant person, the head of Office A4b in Department IV (the +Gestapo) of the Reich Security Head Ofice. His office supervised +the transportation to detention camps of a particular section of +enemy aliens, the Jews. A positive flood of unadulterated +rubbish about Eichmann showered the world in 1960, of which we +may cite as an example Comer Clarke's Eichmann: The Savage +Truth. ("The orgies often went on until six in the morning, a +few hours before consigning the next batch of victims to death," +says Clarke in his chapter "Streamlined Death and Wild Sex +Orgies," p. 124). +Strangely enough, the alleged "memoirs" of Adolf Eichmann +suddenly appeared at the time of his abduction to Israel. They +were uncritically published by the American Life magazine +(November 28th, December 5th, 1060), and were supposed to have +been given by Eichmann to a journalist in the Argentine shortly +before his capture--an amazing coincidence. Other sources, +however, gave an entirely different account of their origin, +claiming that they were a record based on Eichmann's comments to +an "associate" in 1955, though no one even bothered to identify +this person. By an equally extraordinary coincidence, war crimes +investigators claimed shortly afterwards to have just "found" in +the archives of the U.S. Library of Congress, more than fifteen +years after the war, the "complete file" of Eichmann's +department. So far as the "memoirs" themselves are concerned, +they are made to be as horribly incriminating as possible +without stretching too far into the realms of purest fantasy, +and depict Eichmann speaking with enormous relish about "the +physical annihilation of the Jews". Their fraudulence is also +attested to by various factual errors, such as that Himmler was +already in command of the reserve Army by April of 1944, instead +of after the July plot against Hitler's life, a fact which +Eichmann would certainly have known. The appearance of the +"memoirs" at precisely the right moment raises no doubt that +their object was to present a pre-trial propaganda picture of +the archetypical "unregenerate Nazi" and fiend in human shape. +The circumstances of the Eichmann trial in Israel do not +concern us here; the documents of Soviet origin which were used +as evidence, such as the Wisliceny statement, have been examined +already, and for an account of the third-degree methods used on +Eichmann during his captivity to render him "co-operative" the +reader is referred to the London Jewish Chronicle, September +2nd, 1960. More relevant to the literature of the extermination +legend are the contents of a letter which Eichmann is supposed +to have written voluntarily and handed over to his captors in +Buenos Aries. It need hardly be added that its Israeli +authorship is transparently obvious. Nothing in it stretches +human credulity further than the phrase "I am submitting this +declaration of my own free will"; but the most hollow and +revealing statement of all is his alleged willingness to appear +before a court in Israel, "so that a true picture may be +transmitted to future generations."

+ +

TREBLINKA FABRICATIONS

+ +

The latest reminiscences to appear in print are those of +Franz Stangl, the former commandant of the camp at Treblinka in +Poland who was sentenced to life imprisonment in December 1970. +These were published in an article by the London Daily Telegraph +Magazine, October 8th, 1971, and were supposed to derive from a +series of interviews with Stangl in prison. He died a few days +after the interviews were concluded. These alleged reminiscences +are certainly the goriest and most bizarre yet published, though +one is grateful for a few admissions by the writer of the +article, such as that "the evidence presented in the course of +his trial did not prove Stangl himself to have committed +specific acts of murder" and that the account of Stangl's +beginnings in Poland "was in part fabrication." +A typical example of this fabrication was the description of +Stangl's first visit to Treblinka. As he drew into the railway +station there, he was supposed to have seen "thousands of +bodies" just strewn around next to the tracks, "hundreds, no, +thousands of bodies everywhere, putrefying, decomposing." And, +"in the station was a train full of Jews, some dead, some still +alive...it looked as it had been there for days." The account +reaches the heights of absurdity when Stangl is alleged to have +got out of his car and "stepped knee deep in money; I didn't +know which way to turn, which way to go. I waded in papernotes, +currency, precious stones, jewelry, and clothes. They were +everywhere, strewn all over the square." The scene is completed +by "whores from Warsaw weaving drunk, dancing, singing, playing +music," who were on the other side of the barbed wire fences. To +literally believe this account of sinking "kneedeep" in Jewish +banknotes and precious stones amid thousands of putrefying +corpses and lurching, singing prostitutes would require the most +phenomenal degree of gullibility, and in any circumstances other +than the Six Million legend it would be dismissed as the most +outrageous nonsense. +The statement which certainly robs the Stangl memoirs of any +vestige of authenticity is his alleged reply when asked why he +thought the Jews were being exterminated: "They wanted the Jews' +money," is the answer. "That racial business was just +secondary." The series of interviews are supposed to have ended +on a highly dubious note indeed. When asked whether he thought +there had been "any conceivable sense in this horror," the +former Nazi commandant supposedly replied with enthusiasm: "Yes, +I am sure there was. Perhaps the Jews were meant to have this +enormous jolt to pull together; to create a people; to identify +themselves with each other." One could scarcely imagine a more +perfect answer had it been invented.

+ +

BEST-SELLER A HOAX

+ +

Of the variety of memoirs, those which present a picture of +frail Jewry caught in the vice of Nazism, the most celebrated is +undoubtedly The Diary of Anne Frank and the truth concerning +this book is only one appalling insight into the fabrication of +a propaganda legend. First published in 1952, The Dairy of Anne +Frank became an immediate best-seller; since then it has been +republished in paper-back, going through 40 impressions, and was +made into a successful Hollywood film. In royalties alone, Otto +Frank, the girl's father, has made a fortune from the sale of +the book, which purports to represent the real-life tragedy of +his daughter. With its direct appeal to the emotions, the book +and the film have influenced literally millions of people, +certainly more through the world than any other story of its +kind. And yet only seven years after its initial publication, a +New York Supreme Court case established that the book was a +hoax. +The Diary of Anne Frank has been sold to the public as the +actual diary of a young Jewish girl from Amsterdam, which she +wrote at the age of 12 while her family and four other Jews were +hiding in the back room of a house during the German occupation. +Eventually, they were arrested and detained in a concentration +camp. where Anne Frank supposedly died when she was 14. When +Otto Frank was liberated from the camp at the end of the war, he +returned to the Amsterdam house and "found" his daughter's diary +concealed in the rafters. +The truth bout the Anne Frank Diary was first revealed in +1959 by the Swedish journal Fria Ord. It established that the +Jewish novelist Meyer Levin had written the dialogue of the +"diary" and was demanding payment for his work in a court action +against Otto Frank. A condensation of the Swedish articles +appeared in the American Economic Council Letter, April 15th, +1959, as follows:

+ +

"History has many examples of myths that live a longer +and richer life than truth, and may become more effective +than truth.

+ +

"The Western World has for some years been made aware +of a Jewish girl through the medium of what purports to +be her personally written story, Anne Frank's Diary. +Any informed literary inspection of this book would shown +it to have been impossible as a work of a teenager.

+ +

"A noteworthy decision of the New York Supreme Court +confirms this point of view, in that the well known +American Jewish writer, Meyer Levin, has been awarded +$50000 to be paid by the father of Anne Frank as an +honorarium for Levin's work on the Anne Frank Diary.

+ +

"Mr. Frank, in Switzerland, and promised to pay to his +race kin, Meyer Levin, not less than $50000 because he +had used the dialogue of Author Levin just as it was and +"implanted" it in the dairy as being his daughter's +intellectual work."

+ +

Further inquiries brought a reply on May 7th, 1962 from a +firm of New York Lawyers, which stated:

+ +

"I was attorney for Meyer Levin in his action against Otto +Frank, and others. It is true that a jury awarded Mr. Levin +$50000 in damages, as indicated in your letter. That award was +later set aside by the trial justice, Hon. Samuel C. Coleman, on +the ground that the damages had not been proved in the manner +required by law. The action was subsequently settled while an +appeal from Judge Coleman's decision was pending.

+ +

I am afraid that the case is not officially reported, so far +as the trial itself. or even Judge Coleman's decision, is +concerned. Certain procedural matters were reported in 141 New +York Supplement, Second Series 170, and in 5 Second Series 181. +The correct file number in the New York County Clerk's office is +2241-1956 and the file is probably a large and full one..."

+ +

Here, then, is just one more fraud in a whole series of fraud +perpetrated in support of the "Holocaust" [Holohoax] legend and +the saga of the Six Million. Of course, the court case bearing +directly on the authenticity of the Anne Frank Diary was "not +officially reported." +A brief reference may also be made to another "diary" +published not long after that of Anne Frank and entitled: Notes +from the Warsaw Ghetto: the Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum (New +York, 1958). Ringelblum had been a leader in the campaign of +sabotage against the Germans in Poland, as well as the revolt of +the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, before he was eventually arrested and +executed in 1944. The Ringelblum journal, which speaks of the +usual "rumors" allegedly circulating about the extermination of +the Jews in Poland, appeared exactly under the same Communist +auspices as the so-called Hoess memoirs. McGraw-Hill, the +publishers of the American edition, admit they were denied +access to the uncensored original manuscript in Warsaw, and +instead faithfully followed the expurgated volume published by +the Communist Government in Warsaw in 1952. All the "proofs" of +the Holocaust [Holohoax] issuing from Communist sources of this +kind are worthless as historical documents.

+ +

ACCUMULATING MYTHS

+ +

Since the war, there has been an abundant growth of +sensational concentration camp literature, the majority of it +Jewish, each book piling horror upon horror, blending fragments +of truth with the most grotesque of fantasies and impostures, +relentlessly creating an edifice of mythology in which any +relation to historical fact has long since disappeared. We have +referred to the type already--Olga Lengyel's absurd Five +Chimneys ("24000 corpses handles every day"), Doctor at +Auschwitz by Milkos Nyiszli, apparently a mythical and invented +person, This was Auschwitz: The Story of a Murder Camp by +Phillip Friedman, and so on ad nauseam. +The latest in this vein is For Those I love by Martin Gray +(Bodley Head, 1973), which purports to be an account of his +experiences at Treblinka camp in Poland. Gray specialized in +selling fake antiques to America before turning to concentration +camp memoirs. The circumstances surrounding the publication of +his book, however, have been unique, because for the first time +with works of this kind, serious doubt was cast on the +authenticity of its contents. Even Jews, alarmed at the damage +it might cause, denounced his book as fraudulent and questioned +whether he had ever been at Treblinka at all, while the B.B.C. +radio pressed him as to why he had waited 28 years before +writing of his experiences. +It was interesting to observe that the "Personal Opinion" +column of the London Jewish Chronicle, March 30th, 1973, +although it roundly condemned Gray's book, nevertheless made +grandiose additions to the myth of the Six Million. It stated +that: "Nearly a million people were murdered at Treblinka in the +course of a year. 18000 were fed into the gas chambers every +day." It is a pity that so many people read and accept this kind +of nonsense without exercising their minds. If 18000 were +murdered every day, the figure of one million would be reached +in a mere 56 days, not "in the course of a year." This gigantic +achievement would leave the 10 remaining months of the year a +total blank. 18000 every day would in fact mean a total of +6480000 "in the course of a year." Does this mean that the Six +Million died in twelve months at Treblinka? What about the +alleged three or four million at Auschwitz? This kind of thing +simply shows that, once the preposterous compromise figure of +Six Million has scored a resounding success and become +internationally accepted, any number of impossible permutations +can be made and no one would even think to criticize them. In +its review of Gray's book, the Jewish Chronicle column also +provides a revealing insight into the fraudulent allegations +concerning gas-chambers: "Gray recalls that the floors of the +gas chambers sloped, whereas another survivor who helped build +them , maintains that they were at a level..." +Occasionally, books by former concentration camp inmates +appear which present a totally different picture of the +conditions prevailing in them. Such is Under Two Dictators +(London, 1959) by Margarete Buber. She was a German-Jewish woman +who had experienced several years in the brutal and primitive +conditions of a Russian prison camp before being sent to +Ravensbruck, the German camp for women detainees, in August +1940. She noted that she was the only Jewish person in her +contingent of deportees from Russia who was not straight away +released by the Gestapo. Her book presents a striking contrast +between the camps of Soviet Russia and Germany; compared to the +squalor, disorder and starvation of the Russian camp, she found +Ravensbruck to be clean, civilized and well-administered. +Regular baths and clean linen seemed a luxury after her earlier +experiences, and her first meal of white bread, sausage, sweet +porridge and dried fruit prompted her to inquire of another camp +inmate whether August 3rd, 1940 was some sort of holiday or +special occasion. She observed, too, that the barracks at +Ravensbruck were remarkably spacious compared to the crowded mud +hut of the Soviet camp. In the final months of 1945, she +experienced the progressive decline of camp conditions, the +causes we shall examine later. +Another account which is at total variance with popular +propaganda is Die Gestapo Lasst Bitten (The Gestapo Invites You) +by Charlotte Bormann, a Communist political prisoner who was +also interred at Ravensbruck. Undoubtedly its most important +revelation is the author's statement that rumors of gas chambers +were deliberate and malicious inventions circulated among the +prisoners by the Communists. This latter group did not accept +Margarete Buber because of her imprisonment in Soviet Russia. A +further shocking reflection on the post-war trials is the fact +that Charlotte Bormann was not permitted to testify in the +French occupation zone, the usual fate of those who denied the +extermination legend.

+ +

8. THE NATURE AND CONDITION OF WAR-TIME CONCENTRATION CAMPS

+ +

In his recent book Adolf Hitler (London, 1973), Colin Cross, +who brings more intelligence than is usual to many problems of +this period, observes astutely that "The shuffling of millions +of Jews around Europe and murdering them in a time of desperate +war emergency, was useless from any rational point of view" (p. +307). Quite so, and at this point we may well question the +likelihood of this irrationalism, and whether it was even +possible. It is likely, that at the height of the war, when the +Germans were fighting a desperate battle for survival on two +fronts, they would have conveyed millions of Jews for miles to +supposedly elaborate and costly slaughter houses? To have +conveyed three or four million Jews to Auschwitz alone (even +supposing that such an inflated number existed in Europe, which +it did not), would have placed an insuperable burden upon German +transportation facilities which were strained to the limit in +supporting the far flung Russian front. To have transported the +mythical six million Jews and countless numbers of other +nationalities to internment camps, and to have housed, clothed +and fed them there, would simply have paralyzed their military +operations. There is no reason to suppose that the efficient +Germans would have put their military fortunes at such risk. +On the other hand, the transportation of a reasonable 363000 +prisoners to Auschwitz in the course of the war (the number we +know to have been registered there) at least makes sense in +terms of the compulsory labor they supplied. In fact, of the 3 +million Jews living in Europe, it is certain that no more than +two million were ever interned at one time, and it is probable +that the number was much closer to 1500000. We shall see +later, in the Report of the Red Cross, that whole Jewish +populations such as that of Slovakia avoided detention camps, +while others were placed in community ghettos like +Theresienstadt. Moreover, from western Europe deportations were +far fewer. The estimate of Reitlinger that only 50000 French +Jews from a total population of 320000 were deported and +interned has been noted already. +The question must also be asked as to whether it could have +been physically possible to destroy the millions of Jews that +are alleged. Had the Germans enough time for it? It is likely +that they would have cremated people by the million when they +were so short of manpower and required all prisoners of war for +purposes of war production? Would it have been possible to +destroy and remove all trace of a million people in six months? +Could such enormous gatherings of Jews and executions on such a +vast scale have been kept secret? These are the kind of +questions that the critical, thinking person should ask. And he +will soon discover that not only the statistical and documentary +evidence given here, but simple logistics combine to discredit +the legend of the six million. +Although it was impossible for millions to have been murdered +in them, the nature and conditions of Germany's concentration +camps have been vastly exaggerated to make the claim plausible. +William Shirer, in a typically reckless passage, states that: +"All of the thirty odd principal Nazi concentration camps were +death camps" (ibid, p. 1150). This is totally untrue, and is not +even accepted now by the principal propagators of the +extermination legend. Shirer also quotes Eugen Kogon's The +Theory and Practice of Hell (New York, 1950, p. 227) which puts +the total number of deaths in all of them at the ridiculous +figure of 7125000, though Shirer admits in a footnote that +this "undoubtedly too high."

+ +

"DEATH CAMPS" BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN

+ +

It is true that in 1945, Allied propaganda did claim that all +the concentration camps, particularly those in Germany itself, +were "death camps", but not for long. On this question, the +eminent American historian Harry Elmer Barnes wrote: "These +camps were first presented as those in Germany, such as Dachau, +Belsen, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Dora, but it was soon +demonstrated that there had been no systematic extermination in +those camps. Attention was then moved to Auschwitz, Treblinka, +Belzec, Chelmno, Jonowska, Tarnow, Ravensbruck, Mauthausen, +Brezeznia and Birkenau, which does not exhaust the list that +appears to have been extended as needed" (Rampart Journal, +Summer 1967). What had happened was that certain honest +observers among the American and British occupation forces in +Germany, while admitting that many inmates had died of disease +and starvation in the final months of the war, had found no +evidence after all of "gas chambers." As a result, eastern camps +in the Russian zone of occupation such as Auschwitz and +Treblinka gradually came to the fore as horrific centers of +extermination (though no one was permitted to see them), and +this tendency has lasted to the present day. Here in these camps +it was all supposed to have happened, but with the Iron Curtain +brought down firmly over them, no one has ever been able to +verify such charges. The Communists claimed that four million +people died at Auschwitz in gigantic gas chambers accommodating +2000 people--and no one could argue to the contrary. +What is the truth about the so-called "gas chambers"? Stephen +F. Pinter, who served as a lawyer for the United States War +Department in the occupation force in Germany and Austria for +six years after the war made the following statement in the +widely read Catholic Magazine Our Sunday Visitor, June 14th, +1959: "I was in Dachau for 17 months after the war, as a U.S. +War Department Attorney, and can state that there was no gas +chamber at Dachau. What was shown to visitors and sightseer +there and erroneously describes as a gas chamber was a +crematory. Nor was there a gas chamber in any of the other +concentration camps in Germany. We were told that there was a +gas chamber at Auschwitz, but since that was in the Russian zone +of occupation, we were not permitted to investigate since the +Russians would not allow it. From what I was able to determine +during this six postwar years in Germany and Austria, there were +a number of Jews killed, but the figure of a million was +certainly never reached. I interviewed thousands of Jews, former +inmates of concentration camps in Germany and Austria, and +consider myself as well qualified as any man on this subject." +This tells a very different story from the customary +propaganda. Pinter, of course, is very astute on the question of +the crematory being represented as a gas chamber. This is a +frequent ploy because no such thing as a gas chamber has ever +been shown to exist in these camps, hence the deliberately +misleading term a "gas oven", aimed at confusing a gas chamber +with a crematorium. The latter, usually a single furnace and +similar to the kind of thing employed today, were used quite +simply for the cremation of those persons who had died from +various natural causes within the camp, particularly infectious +diseases. This fact was conclusively proved by the German +archbishop, Cardinal Faulhaber of Munich. He informed the +Americans that during the Allied air raids on Munich in +September 1944, 30000 people were killed. The archbishop +requested the authorities at the time to cremate the bodies of +the victims in the crematorium at Dachau. But he was told that, +unfortunately, this plan could not be carried out; the +crematorium, having only one furnace, was not able to cope with +the bodies of the air raid victims. Clearly, therefore, it could +not have coped with the 238000 Jewish bodies which were +allegedly cremated there. In order to do so, the crematorium +would have to be kept going for 326 years without stopping and +530 tons of ashes would have been recovered.

+ +

CASUALTY FIGURES REDUCED

+ +

The figures of Dachau casualties are typical of the kind of +exaggerations that have since had to be drastically revised. In +1946, a memorial plaque was unveiled at Dachau by Philip +Auerbach, the Jewish State-Secretary in the Barvarian Government +who was convicted for embezzling money which he claimed as +compensation for nonexistent Jews. The plaque read; "This area +is being retained as a shrine to the 238000 individuals who +were cremated here." Since then, the official casualty figures +have had to be steadily revised downwards, and now stand at only +20600, the majority from typhus and starvation only at the end +of the war. This deflation, to ten per cent of the original +figure, will doubtless continue, and one day will be applied to +the legendary figure of six million as a whole. +Another example of drastic revision is the present estimate +of Auschwitz casualties. The absurd allegations of three or four +million deaths there are no longer plausible even to Reitlinger. +He now puts the number of casualties at only 600000; and +although this figure is still exaggerated in the extreme, it is +a significant reduction on four million and further progress is +to be expected. Shirer himself quotes Reitlinger's latest +estimate, but he fails to reconcile this with his earlier +statement that half of that figure, about 300000 Hungarian Jews +were supposedly "done to death in fourty-six days"--a supreme +example of the kind of irresponsible nonsense that is written on +this subject.

+ +

HUMANE CONDITIONS

+ +

That several thousand camp inmates did die in the chaotic +final months of the war brings us to the question of their war-time conditions. These have been deliberately falsified in +innumerable books of an extremely lurid and unpleasant kind. The +Red Cross Report, examined below, demonstrates conclusively +that throughout the war the camps were well administered. The +working inmates received a daily ration even throughout 1943 and +1944 of not less than 2750 calories, which was more than double +the average citizen ration in occupied Germany in the years +after 1945. The internees were under regular medical care, and +those who became seriously ill were transferred to the hospital. +All internees, unlike those in the Soviet camps, could receive +parcels of food, clothing and pharmaceutical supplies from the +Special Relief Division of the Red Cross. The Office of the +Public Prosecutor conducted thorough investigations into each +case of criminal arrest, and those found innocent were released; +those found guilty, as well as those deportees convicted of +major crimes, were sentenced by military courts and executed. In +the Federal Archives of Koblenz there is a directive of January +1943 from Himmler regarding such executions, stressing that "no +brutality is to be allowed" (Manvell and Frankl, ibid, p. 312). +Occasionally there was brutality, but such cases were +immediately scrutinized by S.S. Judge Dr. Konrad Morgen of the +Reich Criminal Police Office, whose job was to investigate +irregularities at the various camps. Morgen himself prosecuted +commander Koch of Buchenwald in 1943 for excesses at his camp, a +trial to which the German public were invited. It is significant +that Oswald Pohl, the administrator of the concentration camp +system who was dealt with so harshly at Nuremberg, was in favor +of the death penalty for Koch. In fact, the S.S. court did +sentence Koch to death, but he was given the option of serving +on the Russian front. Before he could do this, however, Prince +Waldeck, the leader of the S.S. in the district, carried out his +execution. This case is ample proof of the seriousness with +which the S.S. regarded unnecessary brutality. Several S.S. +court actions of this kind were conducted in the camps during +the war to prevent excesses, and more than 800 cases were +investigated before 1945. Morgen testified at Nuremberg that he +discussed confidentially with hundreds of inmates the prevailing +conditions in the camps. he found that few that were +undernourished except in the hospitals, and noted that the pace +and achievement in compulsory labor by inmates was far lower +than among German civilian workers. +The evidence of Pinter and Cardinal Faulhaber has been shown +to disprove the claims of extermination at Dachau, and we have +seen how the casualty figures of that camp have been +continuously revised downwards. The camp at Dachau near Munich, +in fact, may be taken as fairly typical of these places of +internment. Compulsory labor in the factories and plants was the +order of the day, but the Communist leader Ernst Ruff testified +in his Nuremberg affidavit of April 18th, 1947 that the +treatment of prisoners on the work details and in the camp of +Dachau remained humane. The Polish underground leader, Jan +Piechowiak, who was at Dachau from May 22nd, 1940 until April +29th, 1945 also testified on March 21st, 1946 that prisoners +there received good treatment, and that the S.S. personnel at +the camp were "well disciplined". Berta Schirotschin, who worked +in the food service at Dachau throughout the war, testified that +the working inmates, until the beginning of 1945 and despite +increasing privation in Germany, received their customary second +breakfast at 10 a.m. every morning. +In general, hundreds of affidavit from Nuremberg testify to +the humane conditions prevailing in concentration camps; but +emphasis was invariably laid on those which reflected badly on +the German administration and could be used for propaganda +purposes. A study of the documents also reveals that Jewish +witnesses tended to greatly exaggerate the rigors of their +condition, whereas other national interned for political +reasons, such as those cited above, generally presented a more +balanced picture. In many cases, prisoners such as Charlotte +Bormann, whose experiences did not accord with the picture +presented at Nuremberg, were not permitted to testify.

+ +

UNAVOIDABLE CHAOS

+ +

The orderly situation in the German concentration camps +slowly broke down in the last fearful months of 1945. The Red +Cross Report of 1948 explains that the saturation bombing by the +Allies paralyzed the transport and communications system of the +Reich, no food reached the camps and starvation claimed an +increasing number of victims, both in the prison camps and among +the civilian population of Germany. This terrible situation was +compounded in the camps both by the great overcrowding and the +consequent outbreak of typhus epidemics. Overcrowding occurred +as a result of prisoners from the eastern camps such as +Auschwitz being evacuated westward before the Russian advance; +columns of such exhausted people arrived at several German camps +such as Belsen and Buchenwald which had themselves reached a +state of great hardship. Belsen camp near Bremen was in an +especially chaotic condition in these months and Himmler's +physician, Felix Kersten, an anti-Nazi, explains that its +unfortunate reputation as a "death camp" was due solely to the +ferocity of the typhus epidemic which broke out there in March +1945 (Memoirs 1940-1945, London, 1956). Undoubtedly these +fearful conditions cost several thousand lives, and it is these +conditions that re represented in the photographs of emaciated +human beings and heaps of corpses which the propagandists +delight in showing, claiming they are victims of +"extermination". +A surprisingly honest appraisal of the situation at Belsen in +1945 appeared in Purnell's History of the Second World War (Vol. +7, No. 15) by Russell Barton, now superintendent and consultant +psychiatrist at Severalls Hospital, Essex, who spent one month +at the camp as a medical student after the war. His account +vividly illustrates the true causes of the mortality that +occurred in such camps towards the war's end, and how such +extreme conditions came to prevail there. Dr. Barton explains +that Brigadier Glyn Hughes, the British Medical Officer who took +command of Belsen in 1945, "did not think there had been any +atrocities in the camp" despite discipline and hard work. "Most +people," writes Dr. Barton, "attributed the conditions of the +inmates to deliberate intention on the part of the +Germans...Inmates were eager to cite examples of brutality and +neglect, and visiting journalists from different countries +interpreted the situation according to the needs of propaganda +at home." +However. Dr. Barton makes it quite clear that the conditions +of starvation and disease were unavoidable in the circumstances, +and that they occurred only in the months of 1945. "From +discussions with prisoners it seemed that conditions in the camp +were not too bad until late 1944. The huts were set among pine +trees and each was provided with lavatories, wash basins, +showers and stoves for heating." The cause of food shortage is +also explained. "German medical officers told me that it had +been increasingly difficult to transport food to the camp for +some months. Anything that moved on the autobahns was likely to +be bombed...I was surprised to find records, going back daily +for two or three years, of large quantities of food cooked daily +for distribution. At that time I became convinced, contrary to +popular opinion that there had never been a policy of deliberate +starvation. This was confirmed by the large numbers of well-fed +inmates. Why then were so many people suffering from +malnutrition?....The major reasons for the state of Belsen were +disease, gross overcrowding by central authority, lack of law +and order within the huts, and inadequate supplies of food, +water and drugs." The lack of order, which led to riots over +food distribution, was quelled by British machine-gun fire and a +display of force when British tanks and armored cars toured the +camp. +Apart from the unavoidable deaths in these circumstances, +Glyn Hughes estimated that about "1000 were killed through the +kindness of English soldiers giving them their own rations and +chocolates." As a man who was at Belsen, Dr. Barton is obviously +very much alive to the falsehoods of concentration camp +mythology, and he concludes: "In trying to assess the causes of +the conditions found at Belsen one must be alerted to the +tremendous visual display, ripe for the purposes of propaganda, +that masses of starved corpses presented." To discuss such

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conditions "naively in terms of 'goodness' and 'badness' is to +ignore the constituent factors...."

+ +

FAKE PHOTOGRAPHS

+ +

Not only were situations such as those at Belsen +unscrupulously exploited for propaganda purposes, but this +propaganda has also made use of entirely fake atrocity +photographs and films. The extreme conditions at Belsen applied +to very few camps indeed; the great majority escaped the worst +difficulties and all their inmates survived in good health. As a +result, outright forgeries were used to exaggerate conditions of +horror. A startling case of such forgery was revealed in the +British Catholic Herald of October 29th, 1948. It reported that +in Cassel, where every adult German was compelled to see a film +representing the "horrors" of Buchenwald, a doctor from +Goettingen saw himself on the screen looking after the victims. +But he had never been to Buchenwald. After an interval of +bewilderment he realized that what he had seen was part of a +film taken after the terrible air raid on Dresden by the Allies +on 13th February, 1945 where the doctor had been working. The +film in question was shown in Cassel on 19th October, 1948. +After the air raid on Dresden, which killed 135000 people, +mostly refugee women and children, the bodies of the victims +were piled and burned in heaps of 400 and 500 for several weeks. +These were the scenes, purporting to be from Buchenwald, which +the doctor had recognized. +The forgery of war-time atrocity photographs is not new. For +further information the reader is referred to Arthur Ponsonby's +book Falsehood in Wartime (London, 1928), which exposes the +faked photographs of German atrocities in the First World War. +Ponsonby cites such fabrications as "The Corpse Factory" and +"The Belgian Baby without Hands", which are strikingly +reminiscent of the propaganda relating to Nazi "atrocities". +F.J.P. Veale explains in his book that the bogus "jar of human +soap" solemnly introduced by the Soviet prosecution at Nuremberg +was a deliberate jibe at the famous British "Corpse factory" +myth, in which the ghoulish Germans were supposed to have +obtained various commodities from processing corpses (Veale, +ibid, p. 192). This accusation was one for which the British +Government apologized after 1918. It received new life after +1945 in the tale of lamp shades of human skin, which was +certainly as fraudulent as the Soviet "human soap". In fact, +from Manvell and Frankl we have the grudging admission that the +lamp shade evidence at Buchenwald Trial "later appeared to be +dubious" (The Incomparable Crime, p. 84). It was given by a +certain Andreas Pfaffenberger in a "written affidavit" of the +kind discussed earlier, but in 1948 General Lucius Clay admitted +that the affidavits used in the trial appeared after more +through investigation to have been mostly 'hearsay'. +An excellent work on the fake atrocity photographs pertaining +to the Myth of the Six Million is Dr. Udo Walendy's Bild +'Dokumente' fur die Geschichtsschreibung (Vlotho/Weser, 1973), +and from the numerous examples cited we illustrate one on this +page [in the original book this information comes from]. The +origin of the first photograph is unknown, but the second is a +photomontage. Close examination reveals immediately that the +standing figures have been taken from the first photograph, and +a heap of corpses super-imposed in front of them. The fence has +been removed, and an entirely new horror "photograph" created. +This blatant forgery appears on page 341 of r. Schnabel's book +on the S.S., Macht ohne Moral: eine Dokumentation uber die SS +(Frankfurt, 1957), with the caption "Mauthausen". (Walendy cites +eighteen other examples of forgery in Schnabel's book.) The same +photograph appeared in the Proceedings of the International +Military Tribunal, Vol. XXX, p. 421, likewise purporting to +illustrate Mauthausen camp. It is also illustrated without a +caption in Eugene Aroneanu's Konzentrationlager Documant F. 321 +for the International Court at Nuremberg; Heinz Kuhnrich's Der +KZ-Staat (Berlin, 1960, p. 81); Vaclav Berdych's Mauthausen +(Prague, 1959); and Robert Neumann's Hitler--Aufsteig and +Untergang des Dritten Reiches (Munich, 1961).

+ +

9. THE JEWS AND THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS: A FACTUAL APPRAISAL BY +THE RED CROSS

+ +

There is one survey of the Jewish question in Europe during +World War Two and the conditions of Germany's concentration +camps which is almost unique in its honesty and objectivity, the +three-volume Report of the International Committee of the Red +Cross on its Activities during the Second World War, Geneva, +1948. This comprehensive account from an entirely neutral +source incorporated and expanded the findings of two previous +works: Documents sur l'activite' du CICR en faveur des civils +detenus dans les camps de concentration en Allemagne 1939-1945 +(Geneva, 1946), and Inter Arma Caritas: the Work of the ICRC +during the Second World War (Geneva, 1947). the team of authors, +headed by Frederic Siordet, explained in the opening pages of +the Report that their object, in the tradition of the Red Cross, +has been strict political neutrality, and herein lies its great +value. +The ICRC successfully applied the 1929 Geneva military +convention in order to gain access to civilian internees held in +Central and Western Europe by the German authorities. By +contrast, the ICRC was unable to gain any access to the Soviet +Union, which had failed to ratify the Convention. The millions +of civilian and military internees held in the USSR, whose +conditions were known to be by far the worst, were completely +cut off from any international contact or supervision. +The Red Cross Report is of value in that it first clarifies +the legitimate circumstances under which Jews were detained in +concentration camps, i.e. as enemy aliens. In describing the two +categories of civilian internees, the Report distinguishes the +second type as "Civilians deported on administrative grounds (in +German, "Schutzhaftline"), who were arrested for political or +racial motives because their presence was considered a danger to +the State or the occupation forces" (Vol. III, p. 73). These +persons, it continues, "were placed on the same footing as +persons arrested or imprisoned under common law for security +reasons" (p.74). +The Report admits that the Germans were at first reluctant to +permit supervision by the Red Cross of people detained on +grounds relating to security, but by the latter part of 1942, +the ICRC obtained important concessions from Germany. They were +permitted to distribute food parcels to major concentration +camps in Germany from August 1942, and "from February 1943 +onwards this concession was extended to all other camps and +prisons" (Vol. III, p. 78). The ICRC soon established contact +with camp commandants and launched a food relief program which +continued to function until the last months of 1945, letters of +thanks for which came pouring in form Jewish internees.

+ +

RED CROSS RECIPIENTS WERE JEWS

+ +

The Report states that "As many as 9000 parcels were packed +daily. From the autumn of 1943 until May 1945, about 1112000 +parcels with a total weight of 4500 tons were sent off to the +concentration camps" (Vol III, p. 80). In addition to food, +these contained clothing and pharmaceutical supplies. "Parcels +were sent to Dachau, Buchenwald, Sangerhausen, Sachsenhausen, +Oranienburg, Flossenburg, Landsberg-am-Lech, Floha, Ravensbruck, +Hamburg-Neuengamme, Mauthausen, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, +Bergen-Belsen, to camps near Vienna and in Central and Southern +Germany. The principal recipients were Belgians, Dutch, French, +Greeks, Italians, Norwegians, Poles and stateless Jews" (Vol. +III, p. 83). In the course of the war, "The Committee was in a +position to transfer and distribute in the from of relief +supplies over twenty million Swiss francs collected by Jewish +welfare organization throughout the world, in particular by the +American Joint Distribution Committee of New York" (Vol. I, p. +644). This latter organization was permitted by the German +Government to maintain offices in Berlin until the American +entry into the war. The ICRC complained that obstruction of +their vast relief operations for Jewish internees came not from +the Germans but from the tight Allied blockade of Europe. Most +of their purchases of relief food were made in Rumania, Hungary +and Slovakia. +The ICRC had special praise for the liberal conditions which +prevailed at Theresienstadt up to the time of their last visits +there in April 1945. This camp, "where there were about 40000 +Jews deported from various countries was a relatively privileged +ghetto" (Vol III, p. 75). According to the Report, "The +Committee's delegates were able to visit the camp at +Theresienstadt (Terezin) which was used exclusively for Jews and +was governed by special conditions. From information gathered +by the Committee, this camp had been started as an experiment by +certain leaders of the Reich . . . These men wished to give the +Jews the means of setting up a communal life in a town under +their own administration and possessing almost complete autonomy +. . . two delegates were able to visit the camp on April 6th, +1945. They confirmed the favorable impression gained ton the +first visit" (Vol. I, p. 642). +The ICRC also had praise for the regime of Ion Antonescu of +Fascist Rumania where the Committee was able to extend special +relief to 183000 Rumanian Jews until time of the Soviet +occupation. The aid then ceased, and the ICRC complained +bitterly that it never succeeded "in sending anything whatsoever +to Russia" (Vol. II, p. 62). The same situation applied to many +of the German camps after their "liberation" by the Russians. +The ICRC received a voluminous flow of mail from Auschwitz until +the period of the Soviet occupation, when many of the internees +were evacuated westward. But the efforts of send relief to +internees remaining at Auschwitz under Soviet control were +futile. However, food parcels continued to be sent to former +Auschwitz inmates transferred west to such camps as Buchenwald +and Oranienburg.

+ +

NO EVIDENCE OF GENOCIDE

+ +

One of the most important aspects of the Red Cross Report is +that it clarifies the true cause of those deaths that +undoubtedly occurred in the camps toward the end of the war. +Says the Report: "In the chaotic condition of Germany after the +invasion during final months of the war, the camps received no +food supplies at all and starvation claimed an increasing number +of victims. Itself alarmed by this situation, the German +Government at last informed the ICRC on February 1st, 1945. . . +In March 1945, discussions between the President of the ICRC and +General of the S.S. Kaltenbrunner gave even more decisive +results. Relief could henceforth be distributed by the ICRC, and +one delegate was authorized to stay in each camp . . ." (Vol +III, p. 83). Clearly, the German authorities were at pains to +relieve the dire situation as far as they were able. The Red +Cross are quite explicit in stating that food supplies ceased at +this time due to the Allied bombing of German transportation, +and in the interests of interned Jews they had protested on +March 15th, 1944 against "the barbarous aerial warfare of the +Allies" (Inter Arma Caritas, p. 78). By October 2nd, 1944, the +ICRC warned the German Foreign Office of the impending collapse +of the German transportation system, declaring that starvation +conditions for people throughout Germany were becoming +inevitable. +In dealing with this comprehensive, three-volume Report, it +is important to stress that the delegates of the International +Red Cross found no evidence whatever at the camps in Axis-occupied Europe of a deliberate policy to exterminate the Jews. +In all its 1600 pages the Report does not even mention such a +thing as a gas chamber. It admits that Jews, like many other +wartime nationalities, suffered rigors and privations, but its +complete silence on the subject of planned extermination is +ample refutation of the Six Million legend. Like the Vatican +representatives with whom they worked, the Red Cross found +itself unable to indulge in the irresponsible charges of +genocide which had become the order of the day. +So far as the genuine mortality rate is concerned, the Report +points out that most of the Jewish doctors from the camps were +being used to combat typhus on the eastern front, so that they +were unavailable when the typhus epidemics of 1945 broke out in +the camps (Vol. I, p. 204 ff). Incidentally, it is frequently +claimed that mass executions were carried out in gas chambers +cunningly disguised as shower facilities. Again the Report makes +nonsense of this allegation. "Not only the washing places, but +installations for baths, showers and laundry were inspected by +the delegates. They had often to take action to have fixtures +made less primitive, and to get them repaired and enlarged" +(Vol. III, p. 594).

+ +

NOT ALL WERE INTERNED

+ +

Volume III of the Red Cross Report, Chapter 3 (I. Jewish +Civilian Population) deals with the "aid given to the Jewish +section of the free population," and this chapter makes it quite +plain that by no means all of the European Jews were placed in +internment camps, but remained, subject to certain restrictions, +as part of the free civilian population. This conflicts directly +with the "thoroughness" of the supposed "extermination program", +and with the claim of the forged Hoess memoirs that Eichmann was +obsessed with seizing "every single Jew he could lay his hands +on." In Slovakia, for example, where Eichmann's assistant Dieter +Wisliceny was in charge, the Report states that "A large +proportion of the Jewish minority had permission to stay in the +country, and at certain periods Slovakia was looked upon as a +compassionate haven of refugee for Jews, especially for those +coming from Poland. Those who remained in Slovakia seem to have +been in comparative safety until the end of August 1944, when a +rising against the German forces took place. While it is true +the law of May 15th, 1947 had brought about the internment of +several thousand Jews, these people were held in camps where +the conditions of food and lodging were tolerable, and where the +internees were allowed to do paid work on terms almost equal to +those of the free labor market" (Vol. I, p. 646). +Not only did large numbers of the three million or so +European Jews avoid internment altogether, but the emigration of +Jews continued throughout the war, generally by way of Hungary, +Rumania and Turkey. Ironically, post-war Jewish emigration from +German-occupied territories was also facilitated by the Reich, +as in the case of the Polish Jews who had escaped to France +before its occupation. "The Jews from Poland who, while in +France, had obtained entrance permits to the United States were +held to be American citizens by the Germans occupying +authorities, who further agreed to recognize the validity of +about three thousand passports issued of Jews by the consulates +of South American countries (Vol. I, p. 645). As further U.S. +citizens, these Jews were held at the Vittel camp in southern +France for American aliens. +The emigration of European Jews from Hungary in particular +proceeded during the war unhindered by the German authorities. +"Until March 1944," says the Red Cross Report, "Jews who had the +privilege of visas for Palestine were free to leave Hungary" +(Vol. I, p. 648). Even after the replacement of the Horthy +Government in 1944 (following its attempted armistice with the +Soviet Union) with a government more dependent on German +authority, the emigration of Jews continued. The Committee +secured the pledges of both Britain and the United States "to +give support by every means to the emigration of Jews from +Hungary," and from the U.S. Government the ICRC received a +message stating that "The Government of the United States...now +specifically repeats its assurance that arrangements will be +made by it for the care of all Jews who in the present +circumstances are allowed to leave" (Vol. I, p. 649).

+ +

10. THE TRUTH AT LAST: THE WORK OF PAUL RASSINIER

+ +

Without doubt the most important contribution to a truthful +study of the extermination question has been the work of the +French historian, Professor Paul Rassinier. The pre-eminent +value of his work lies firstly in the fact that Rassinier +actually experienced life in the German concentration camps, and +also that, as a Socialist intellectual and anti-Nazi, nobody +could be less inclined to defend Hitler and National Socialism. +Yet, for the sake of justice and historical truth, Rassinier +spent the remainder of his post-war years until his death in +1966 pursuing research which utterly refuted the Myth of the Six +Million and the legend of Nazi diabolism. +From 1933 until 1943, Rassinier was a professor of history in +the College d'enseignment general at Belfort, Academie de +Besancon. During the war he engaged in resistance activity until +he was arrested by the Gestapo on October 30th, 1943, and as a +result was confined in the German concentration camps at +Buchenwald and Dora until 1945. At Buchenwald, towards the end +of the war, he contracted typhus, which so damaged his health +that he could not resume his teaching. After the war, Rassinier +was awarded the Medaille de la Resistance and the Reconnaisance +Francaise, and was elected to the French Chamber of Deputies, +from which he was ousted by the Communists in November, 1946. +Rassinier then embarked on his great work, a systematic +analysis of alleged German war atrocities, in particular the +supposed "extermination" of the Jews. Not surprisingly, his +writings are little know; they have rarely been translated from +the French and none at all have appeared in English. His most +important works were: Le Mensonge d'Ulysse (The Lies of +Odysseus, Paris, 1949), an investigation of concentration camp +conditions based on his own experiences of them; and Ulysse +trahi par les Siens (1960), a sequel which further refuted the +impostures of propagandists concerning German concentration +camps. His monumental task was completed with two final volumes, +Le Veritable Proces Eichmann (1962) and Le Drame des Juifs +europeen (1964), in which Rassinier exposed the dishonest and +reckless distortions concerning the fate of the Jews by a +careful statistical analysis. The last work also examines the +political and financial significance of the extermination legend +and its exploitation by Israel and the Communist powers. +One of the many merits of Rassinier's work is exploding the +myth of unique German "wickedness"; and he reveals with +devastating force how historical truth has been obliterated in +an impenetrable fog of partisan propaganda. His researches +demonstrate conclusively that the fate of the Jews during World +War Two, once freed from distortion and reduced to proper +proportions, loses its much vaunted "enormity" and is seen to be +only one act in a greater and much wider tragedy. In an +extensive lecture tour in West Germany in ghe spring of 1960, +Professor Rassinier emphasised to his German audiences that is +was high time for a rebirth of the truth regarding the +extermination legend, and theat the Germans themselves should +begin it since the allegation remained a wholly unjustifiable +blot on Germany in the eyes of the world.

+ +

THE IMPOSTURE OF 'GAS CHAMBERS'

+ +

Rassinier entitled his first book The Lies of Odysseus in +commemoration of the fact that travellers always return bearing +tall stories, and until his death he investigated all the +stories of extermination literature and attempted to trace their +authors. He made short work of the extravagant claims about gas +chambers at Buchenwald in David Rousset's The Other Kingdom (New +York, 1947); himself an inmate of Buchenwald, Rassinier proved +that no such things ever existed there (Le Mensonge d'Ulysse, p. +209 ff). Rassinier also traced Abbe Jean-Paul Renard, and asked +him how he could possibly have testified in his book Chaines et +Lumieres that gas chambers were in operation at Buchenwald. +Renard replied that others had told him of their existence, and +hence he had been willing to pose as a witness of things that he +had never seen (ibid, p. 209 ff). +Rassinier also investigated Denise Dufournier's Ravensbruck: +The Women's Camp of Death (London, 1948) and again found that +the authoress had no other evidence for gas chambers there thatn +the vague "rumours" which Charlotte Bormann stated were +deliberately spread by communist political prisoners. Similar +investigations were made of such books as Philip Friedman's This +was Auschwitz: The Story of a Murder Camp (N.Y., 1946) and Eugen +Kogon's The Theory and Practice of Hell (N.Y., 1950), and he +found that none of these authors could produce and authentic +eye-witness of a gas chamber at Auschwitz, nor had they +themselves actually seen one. Rassinier mentions Kogon's claim +that a deceased former inmate, Janda Weiss, had said to Kogon +alone that she had witnessed gas chambers at Auschwitz, but of +couse, since this person was apparently dead, Rassinier was +unable to investigate the claim. He was able to interview +Benedikt Kautsky, author of Teufel und Verdammte who had alleged +that millions of Jews were exterminated at Auschwitz. However, +Kautsky only confirmed to Rassinier the confession in his book, +namely that never at any time had he seen a gas chamber, and +that he based his information on what others had "told him". +The palm for extermination literature is awarded by +Rassinier to Miklos Nyizli's Doctor at Auschwitz, in which the +falsification of facts, the evident contradictions and shameless +lies show that the author is speaking of places which it is +obvious he has never seen (Le Drame des Juifs europeen, p. 52). +According to this "doctor of Auschwitz", 25000 victims were +exterminated every day for four and a half years, which is a +grandiose advance on Olga Lengyel's 24000 a day for two and a +half years. It would mean a total of forty-one million victims +at Auschwitz by 1945, two and a half times the total pre-war +Jewish population of the world. When Rassinier attempted to +discover the identity of this strange "witness", he was told +that "he had died some time before the publication of the book." +Rassinier is convinced that he was never anything but a mythical +figure. +Since the war, Rassinier has, in fact, toured Europe in +search of somebody who was an actual eye-witness of gas chamber +exterminations in German concentration camps during World War +Two, but he has never found even one such person. He discovered +that not one of the authors of the many books charging that the +Germans had exterminated millions of Jews had even seen a gas +chamber built for such purposes, much less seen one in +operation, nor could any of these authors produce a living +authentic witness who had done so. Invariably, former prisoners +such as Renard, Kautsky and Kogon based their statements not +upon what they had actually seen, but upon what they "heard", +always from "reliable" sources, who by some chance are almost +always dead and thus not in a position to confirm or deny their +statements. +Certainly the most important fact to emerge from Rassinier's +studies, and of which there is now no doubt at all, is the utter +imposture of "gas chamber". Serious investigations carried out +in the sites themselves have revealed with irrefutable proof +that, contrary to the declarations of the surviving "witnesses" +examined above, no gas chambers whatever existed in the German +camps at Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Ravensbruck, Dachau and +Dora, or Mauthausen in Austria. This fact, which wer noted +earlier was attested to by Stephen Pinter of the U.S. War +Office, has now been recognised and admitted officially by the +Institute of Contemporary History at Munich. However, Rassinier +points out that in spite of this, "witnesses" again declared at +the Eichmann trail that they had seen prisoners at Bergen-Belsen +setting out for the gas chambers. So far as the eastern camps of +Poland are concerned. Rassinier shows that the sole evidence +attesting to the existence of gas chambers at Treblinka, +Chelmno, Belzec, Maidanek and Sobibor are the discredited +memoranda of Kurt Gerstein referred to above. His original +claim, it will be recalled was that an absurd 40 million people +had been exterminated during the war, while in his first signed +memorandum he reduced the number to 25 million. Further +reductions were made in his second memorandum. These documents +were considered of such dubious authenticity that they were not +even admitted by the Nuremberg Court, though they continue to +circulate in three different versions, one in German +(distributed in schools) and two in Frenc, none of which agee +with each other. The German version featured as "evidence" at +the Eichmann Trial in 196l. +Finally, Professor Rassinier draws attention to an important +admission by Dr. Kubovy, director of the World Centre of +Contemporary Jewish Documentation at Tel-Aviv, made in La Terre +Retrouvee, December 15th, 1960. Dr. Kubovy recognised that not a +single order for extermination exists from Hitler, Himmler, +Heydrich or Goering (Le Drame des Juifs europeen, p. 31, 39).

+ +

'SIX MILLION' FALSEHOOD REJECTED

+ +

As for the fearful propaganda figure of the Six Million, +Professor Rassinier rejects it on the basis of an extremely +detailed statistical analysis. He shows that the number has been +falsely established, on the one had through inflation of the +pre-war Jewish population by ignoring all emigration and +evacuation, and on the other by a corresponding deflation of the +number of survivors after 1945. This was the method used by the +World Jewish Congress. Rassinier also rejects any written or +oral testimony to the Six Million given by the kind of +"witnesses" cited above, since they are full of contradictions, +exaggerations and falsehoods. He gives the example of Dachau +casualties, noting that in 1946, Pastor Niemoller reiterated +Auerbach's Fraudulent "238000" deaths there, while in 1962 +Bishop Neuhausseler of Munich stated in a speech at Dachau that +only 30000 people died "of the 200000 perons from thirty-eight +nations who were interned there" (Le Drame des Juifs europeen, +p. 12). Today, the estimate has been reduced by several more +thousands, and so it goes on. Rassinier concludes, too, that +testimony in support of the Six Million given by accused men +such as Hoess, Hoettl, Wisliceny and Hoellriegel, who were faced +with the prospect of being condemned to death or with the hope +of obtaining a reprieve, and who were frequently tortured during +their detention, is completely untrustworthy. +Rassinier finds it very significant that the figure of Six +Million was not mentioned in court during the Eichmann trial. +"The prosecution at the Jerusalem trail was considerably +weakened by its central motif, the six million European Jews +alleged to have been exterminated in gas chambers. It was an +argument that easily won conviction the day after the war ended, +amidst the general state of spiritual and material chaos. Today, +may documents have been published which were not available at +the time of the Nuremberg trials, and which tend to prove that +if the Jewish nationals were wronged and persecuted by the +Hitler regime, there could not possibly have been six million +victims" (ibid, p. 125). +With the help of one hundred pages of cross-checked +statistics, Professor Rassinier concludes in Le Drame des Juifs +europeen that the number of Jewish casualties during the Second +World War could not have exceeded 1200000, and he notes that +this has finally been accepted as valid by the World Centre of +Contemporary Jewish Documentation at Paris. However, he regards +such a figure as a maximum limit, and refers to the lower +estimate of 896892 casualties in a study of the same problem by +the Jewish statisticial Raul Hilberg. Rassinier points out that +the State of Israel nevertheless continues to claim compensation +for six million dead, each one representing an indemnity of +5000 marks.

+ +

EMIGRATION: THE FINAL SOLUTION

+ +

Prof. Rassinier is emphatic in stating that the German +Government never had any plicy other thatn the emigration of +Jews overseas. He shows that after the promulgation of the +Nuremberg Race Laws in September 1935, the Germans negotiated +with the British for the transfer of German Jews to Palestine on +the basis of the Balfour Declaration. When this failed, they +asked other countries to take charge of them, but these refused +(ibid, p. 20). The Palestine project was revived in 1938, but +broke down because Germany could not negotiate their departure +on the basis of 3000000 marks, as demanded by Britain, without +some agreement for compensation. Despite these difficulties, +Germany did manage to secure the emigration of the majority of +their Jews, mostly to the United States. Rassinier also refers +to the French refusal of Germany's Madagascar plan at the end of +1940. "In a report of the 21st August, 1942, the Secretary of +State for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Third Reich, +Luther, decided that it would be possible to negotiate with +France in this direction and described conversations which has +taken place between July and December 1940, and which were +brought to a halt following the interview with Montoire on 13th +December 1940 by Pierre-Etienne Flandin, Laval's successor. +During the whole of 1941 the Germans hoped that they would be +able to re-open these negotiations and bring them to a happy +conclustion" (ibid, p. 108). +After the outbreak of war, the Jews, who, as Rassinier +reminds us, had declared economic and financial was on Germany +as early as 1933, were interned in concentration camps, "which +is the way countries all over the world treat enemy aliens in +time of war . . . It was decided to regroup them and put them to +work in one immense ghetto which, after the successful invasion +of Russia, was situated toward the end of 194l in the so-called +Eastern territories near the former frontier between Russia and +Poland: at Auschwitz, Chelmno, Belze, Maidanek, Treblinka etc... +There they were to wait until end of the war for the reopening +of international discussions which would decide their future" +(Le Veritable Proces Eichmann, p. 20). The order for this +concentration in the eastern ghetto was given by Goering to +Heydrich, as noted earlier, and it was regarded as a prelude to +"the desired final solution," their emigration overseas after +the war had ended.

+ +

ENORMOUS FRAUD

+ +

Of great concern to Professor Rassinier is the way in which +the extermination legend is deliberately exploited for political +and financial advantage, and in this he finds Israel and the +Soviet Union to be in concert. He notes how, after 1950, an +avalanche of fabricated extermination literature appeared under +the stamp of two organisations, so remarkably synchronised in +their activities that one might well believe them to have been +contrived in partnership. One was the "Committee for the +Investigation of War Crimes and Criminals" established under +Communist auspices at Warsaw, and the other, the "World Centre +of Contemporary Jewish Documentation" at Paris and Tel-Aviv. +Their publications seem to appear at favourable moments in the +political climate, and for the Soviet Union their purpose is +simply to maintain the threat of Nazism as a manoeuvre to divert +attention from their own activities. +As for Israel, Rassinier sees the myth of the Six Million as +inspired by a purely material problem. In Le Drame des Juifs +europeen (P. 31, 39). he writes: +"... It is simply a question of justifying by a +proportionate number of corpses the enormous subsidies which +Germany has been paying annually since the end of the war to the +State of Israel by way of reparation for injuries which moreover +she cannot be held to have caused her either morally or legally, +since there was no State of Israel at the time the alleged deeds +took place; thus it is a purely and contemptibly material +problem. +"Perhaps I may be allowed to recall here that the State of +Israel was only founded in May 1948 and that the Jews were +nationals of all states with the exception of Israel, in order +to underline the dimenstions of a fraud which defies description +in any language; on the one hand Germany pays to Israel sums +which are calculated on six million dead, and on the other, +since at least four-fifths of these six million were decidedly +alive at the end of the war, she is paying substantial sums by +way of reparation to the victims of Hitler's Germany to those +who are still alive in countries all over the world other than +Israel and to the rightful claimants of those who have since +deceased, which means that for the former (i.e. the six +million), or in other words, for the vast majority, she is +paying twice."

+ +

CONCLUSION

+ +

Here we may briefly summarise the data on Jewish wartime +casualties. +Contrary to the figure of over 9 million Jews in German-occupied territory put forward at the Nuremberg and Eichmann +trials, it has already been established that after extensive +emigration, approximately 3 million were living in Europe, +excluding the Soviet Union. Even when the Jews of German-occupied Russia are included (the majority of Russian Jews were +evacuated beyond German control), the overall number probably +does not exceed four million. Himmler's statistician, Dr. +Richard Korherr and the World Centre of Contemporary Jewish +Documentation put the number respectively at 5550000 and +5294000 when German-occupied territory was at its widest, but +both these figures include the two million Jews of the Baltic +and western Russia without paying any attention to the large +number of these who were evacuated. However, it is at least an +admission from the latter organisation that there were not even +six million Jews in Europe and western Russia combined. +Nothing better illustrates the declining plausibility of +the Six Million legend than the fact that the prosecution at the +Eichmann trial deliberately avoided mentioning the figure. +Moreover, official Jewish estimates of the casualties are being +quietly revised downwards. Our analysis of the population and +emigration statistics, as well as the studies by the Swiss +Baseler Nachrichten and Professor Rassinier, demonstrate that it +would have been simply impossible for the number of Jewish +casualties to have exceeded a limit of one and a half million. +It is very significant, therefore, that the World Centre of +Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Paris now states that only +1485292 Jews died from all causes during the Second World War, +and although this figure is certainly too high, at least it +bears no resemblance at all to the legendary Six Million. As has +been noted earlier, the Jewish statistician Raul Hilberg +estimates an even lower figure of 896892. Thuis is beginning to +approach a realistic figure, and the process of revision is +certain to continue. +Doubtless, several thousand Jewish persons did die in the +course of the Second World War, but this must be seen in the +context of a war that cost many millions of innocent victims on +all sides. To put the matter in perspective, for example, we may +point out that 700000 Russian civilians died during the siege +of Leningrad, and a total of 2050000 German civilian were +killed in Allied air raids and forced repatriation after the +war. In 1955, another neutral Swiss source, Die Tat of Zurich +(January 19th, 1955), in a survey of all Second World War +casualties based on figures of the INternational Red Cross, put +the "Loss of victims of persecution because of politics, race or +religion who died in prisons and concentration camps between +1939 and 1945" at 300000, not all of whom were Jews, and this +figure seems the most accurate assessment.

+ +

IMAGINARY SLAUGHTER

+ +

The question most pertinent to the extermination legend is, +of course: how many of the 3 million European Jews under German +control survived after 1945? The Jewish Joint Distribution +Committee estimated the number of survivors in Europe to be only +one and a half million, but such a figure is not totally +unacceptable. This is proved by the growing number of Jews +claiming compensation from the WEst German Government for having +allegedly suffered between 1939 and 1945. By 1965, the number of +these claimants registered with the West German Government had +tripled in ten years and reached 3375000 (Aufbau, June 30th, +1965). Nothing could be a more devastating proof of the brazen +fantasy of the Six Million. Most of these claimants are Jews, so +there can be no doubt that the majority of the 3 million Jews +who experienced the Nazi occupation of Europe are, in fact, very +much alive. It is a resounding confirmation of the fact that +Jewish casualties during the Second World War can only be +estimated at a figure in thousands. Surely this is enough grief +for the Jewish people? Who has the right to compound it with +vast imaginary slaughter, marking with eternal shame a great +European nation, as well as wringing faudulent monetary +compensation from them? +---------------------------------------------------------------- +RICHARD HARWOOD is a writer and specialist in political and +diplomatic aspects of the Second World War. At present he is +with the University of London. Mr. Harwood turned to the vexed +subject of war crimes under the influence of Professor Paul +Rassinier, to whose monumental work this little volume is +greatly indebted. The author is now working on a sequel in this +series on the Main Nuremberg Trial, 1945-1946.

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From COVERT ACTION INFORMATION BULLETIN Number 33 +

+

+Bush's Boys Club: Skull and Bones +

+

+To be a member of the ruling elite, George Bush must meet +certain criteria. He must be white, he must be male, and he must +be rich. He must also belong to certain elite clubs and +institutions which help to distinguish him from those he is +called upon to rule. +George Bush is a member of Skull and Bones, an elite +secret society open only to a select 15 males in their senior +year at Yale University. If this club appears somewhat +exclusionary, don't worry; they have made great strides in the +past few years. Recent Bones inductees include a few blacks, +gays, and even some foreign students. However, it has been said +that if women were ever allowed into the secret "tomb" (meeting +place) of Skull and Bones, the tomb would "have to be +bulldozed." +The importance of Skull and Bones is not that it provides +good gossip about young males doing strange things in tombs, but +that it provides a certain bond between members which they carry +for life. Membership to Skull and Bones is the first initiation +into the world of power politics and capitalism. It is somewhat +akin to a "junior" old boys' network. +One of the interesting aspects of this secret society is +the number of Bones members who, after graduation, move on to do +intelligence work. There has even been informed speculation that +there is a "Bones cell" in the CIA. +Whether there is a Bones cell or not in the CIA is open to +interesting debate. We can, however, examine the histories of +several Bonesmen who have gone on to illustrious careers in +intelligence work. +One of the most unusual Bonesmen is the Reverend William +Sloane Coffin, Jr. Known best for his anti-Vietnam war activities +and his political activism at Riverside Church in New York City, +Sloane Coffin was recruited by the CIA shortly after he graduated +from Yale in 1949. Although his tenure at the Agency was short, +he is one example of the CIA's use of the secret society to fill +their ranks. +Another illustrious Skull and Bones member with close ties +to the CIA is arch-conservative and reknowned propagandist +William F. Buckley. According to several experts on the CIA, +Buckley began his cooperation with the Agency while he was in +Mexico City in 1952, where his good friend, E. Howard Hunt, was +CIA station chief at the time. +As an interesting aside, Buckley and Bush (as well as many +other Washington and business elites) are members of the +"prestigious" older-boys California getaway, "The Bohemian +Club." +It is not surprising, given the Buckley family's wealth and +status, that Bill's older brother, James Buckley, is also a +member of Skull and Bones. From 1981-82 Buckley was Under +Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science, and +Technology where it was his job to see the U.S. military aid went +to support the right regimes. +He once stated that CIA covert activities in Chile, which +led to the overthrow of democratically-elected Salvador Allende, +were necessary because, "It was only by virtue of covert help by +the United States that these free institutions were able to +survive in the face of increasingly repressive measures by the +Allende regime." +Buckley was also directly connected to the work of the +Chilean secret police, DINA. In September 1976, DINA agents +assassinated former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and his +colleague, Ronni Moffitt, in Washington DC. "Independent +researchers verified through the FBI and Department of Justice -- +that on September 14, 1976, one week before the Letelier +assassination, Michael Townley and Guillermo Novo [two DINA +agents involved in the assassination] drove to the office of +Senator James Buckley in New York City for a meeting. Buckley had +helped finance trips to Chile for Novo and others close to the +killing." +When CIA agent David Atlee Phillips was accused of being +involved in the assassination he started an organization +entitled "Challenge: An Intelligence Officers' Legal Action +Fund." The board of "Challenge" included former CIA director +William Colby, former CIA Inspector General Lyman Kirkpatrick, +former intelligence officer General Richard Stillwell, and +interestingly, James Buckley. +Hugh Cunningham, Bonesman from the class of 1934, is a +Rhodes Scholar with a lengthy career in the CIA. He was in the +Agency from 1947 to 1973 during which time he served in top +positions with the Clandestine Services, the Board of National +Estimates, and was the Director of Training from 1969-73. He also +served with the CIA's precursor, the Central Intelligence Group, +from 1945-47. +William Bundy is a Bonesman from the class of 1939. Bundy +began his intelligence career in the OSS during World War II. +From 1951-61 he worked at the CIA, including at its Office of +National Estimates. During the Vietnam War, he was the Assistant +Secretary of State for Asian Affairs and a vocal advocate for +escalating the war. +A true Cold War liberal, Bundy expressed his belief in the +necessity of CIA covert actions in his foreword to the book "The +Counter-Insurgency Era": "The preservation of liberal values, for +America and other nations, required the use of the full range of +U.S. power, including, if necessary, its more shady +applications." "Shady applications" is a veiled euphemism for +covert activities which support dictators, overthrow legitimate +governments, and contribute to the destabilization of world +order. +From the class of 1950 comes Bonesman Dino Pionzio. His +claim to fame was the time he spent as CIA deputy chief of +station in Santiago, Chile, in 1970, during the massive CIA +destabilization of the Allende government. He is also a member of +the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. The CIA proved +not to be lucrative enough for Pionzio so he left his +intelligence career behind and became an investment banker. As of +1983, he was a vice president at the investment firm Dillon, +Read. (Just to illustrate how small these circles really are -- +Nicholas Brady, the current Secretary of the Treasury, was the +co-chair of Dillon, Read, and a graduate of Yale University. +Brady, however, was not a Bonesman. He belonged to another Yale +secret society called "Book and Snake.") +From the days of George Bush's father, Prescott Bush, comes +former spook F. Trubee Davidson. Davidson, a Bonesman from the +class of 1918, was the Director of Personnel at the CIA in 1951. +Davidson then begot little Bonesmen, Endicott Peabody Davidson +and Daniel Pomeroy Davidson. Endicott Davidson went to work at +the law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam, and Roberts (Henry +Stimson was the Secretary of War during World War II and also a +Bonesman.) +Another interesting Bonesman is David Lyle Boren, the +Senate Democrat from Oklahoma. While he is not an employee of the +CIA (some say this is open to question), Boren nevertheless is +part of the intelligence community because he is the chair of the +Select Committee on Intelligence. +Finally, but certainly not the end of the list, comes +Richard A. Moore. Moore began his intelligence career in World +War II where he served as a special assistant to the chief of +military intelligence. He was rewarded for this service with the +Legion of Merit for Intelligence Work. +In the 1970s, Moore was special assistant to President +Nixon and in the thick of things during the Watergate scandal. At +his recent congressional confirmation hearing for the post of +Ambassador to Ireland, Moore was asked by one of the committee +members if he was one of 14 unnamed and unindicted +co-conspirators of the Watergate scandal. Moore, however, +emphatically denied the accusation. It is interesting to note +that Moore, a Bonesman from 1936, was recently appointed to a +high-level State Department post by George Bush, Bonesman, 1948. +The list of Bonesmen-made-good goes on and on and includes +McGeorge Bundy (National Security Advisor to Kennedy and +Johnson), William Draper (Defense Department Import-Export Bank, +etc.), Dean Witter, Jr. (investment banker), Potter Stewart +(Supreme Court Justice who swore in George Bush as Vice +President in 1981), John Forbes Kerry (Senator from +Massachusetts), Winston Lord (Kissinger protege and former +Ambassador to China), Robert H. Gow (president of Zapata Oil, +once owned by Bush and which had possible links to the CIA), and +Henry Luce of Time-Life fame. +This old (and new) boys network helps to illustrate the old +adage "it's not what you know, it's who you know." Given the +extent of Bones members in intelligence, it is also "how you come +to know it."

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+INTERVIEW WITH SHERMAN SKOLNICK -- MARCH 2, 1995

+ +

I spoke by phone with Sherman Skolnick of the Citizens' Committee +to Clean-up the Courts [CCCC]. Here is my transcription of that +interview.

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[Phone rings]

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Yeah?

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Uh, Sherman Skolnick?

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Yeah.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Hi. This is Brian Redman. I talked with you a few days ago?

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Yeah, right.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. I got the Barings Bank thing went out on the Internet, O.K. +I'm also wondering if you have, maybe, 5 minutes, I could ask you +some questions?

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +I'd be glad.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. What I've done...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +By the way, the message was highly detailed. I hope it didn't +cause you any trouble to transcribe it.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +No. As a matter of fact, I... I printed out the transcription +and it's in the mail, O.K.? So you should be gettin' it... mmm, +tomorrow or Saturday.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Thank you.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. Uh, I've been runnin' around a lot, you know, so, I...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Thank you for your efforts.

+ +

I have been talking to people all over [the] United States and +elsewhere, gathering information on this. I... You know, I know +a lot of people.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Um-hmm [understands].

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +What kind of questions do you have?

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. All right, well, number one, O.K. Let me just kind of throw +something out at ya: I got this... You see, what I, the way I +had been recording your recorded messages before was I had a +micro-cassette recorder that I would place right up to the ear +of the phone to record the message. And I, my idea was, I went +to Radio Shack and they told me that there was this kind of a +gizmo, O.K.?

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Yeah, right. It costs about $21 and you plug it directly into +the modular phone line and then into your machine, and it records +directly from the line without any hum or problem.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. So that's what I did. In fact, I'm recordin' ya right now, +if that's O.K.?

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Yeah, fine.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. So that's...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +...checking out. Better check out, check a little bit if you're +using it for the first time.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +You know what I did, I tested it on your recorded message, and it +seemed to work O.K., so... And I just figured, well, I'll do +like a 5 or 10 minute interview and if it turns out O.K. then I +could just transcribe the interview and put it out on the +Internet.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Yeah, certainly.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. I just wanted to, you know, make sure you understood that, +you know, all that stuff.

+ +

O.K. A few questions that came up, all right, was with the +Barings Bank, uh -- it's a relatively small bank. You know, like +a billion dollar failure...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Well that's not accurate.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +The total estimated, or expected losses may well exceed over $10 +billion. And to understand that, you have to consult with +experts on derivatives.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Um-hmm [understands].

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +In unwinding a derivative trade that has gone bad, it depends on +the instruments that are involved. Here what was involved is the +price of yen and related matters. While they're unwinding these +transactions, the yen... um, not the yen (excuse me), the Nikei +Index may go down 2000 points. And if that occurs, as some in +the securities industry expect (although they haven't been asked +about it or quoted in the financial press), if that occurs, that +the [Nikei] Index goes down 2000 points, then the loss of the +derivative transactions that have gone sour will be very close to +10 billion dollars. Not one billion, and not 900 million, +but $10 billion.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. 'Cause there...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +It depends on the unwinding of the trades. Because the +derivatives transactions in question here were highly complicated +and are tied in with the Nikei Index.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. Because there was some question. See, I get feedback, all +right? This thing goes out to a lot of readers and I get some +feedback from them. And it occurred to me that, now I had a +chance to, you know, explore some of these issues more in-depth +and kind of... 'Cause they had a lot of questions. I get a lot +of...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +I've already talked off-the-record with highly-skilled people in +this field.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +And they have explained it to me.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Understand something: um, how can I explain this quickly? As a +result of our efforts for over 30-some odd years in investigating +judicial corruption, over the years we've found out that such +corruption involves banks that are owned and operated by judges +and others. As a result, we became, we have become very adept at +financial research. And we have sources all over. And we have +talked to those sources, and they estimate that the loss, when +the Barings Bank transactions get unwound, would be close to $10 +billion.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. Along the line of sources, I know that you can't reveal +these people, but I'm thinking more in terms of, uh you had +mentioned before that you read, for example, the *Wall Street +Journal*. Are there other sources out there, as for reading, +that you would recommend?

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Well I would find it interesting, in the future, what the +*Economist*, which now is trying to get a larger readership in +the United States, that's a...

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +That's a London...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +...that's a London publication [CN -- a magazine], what their +next issue on this question may deal with. They may take a +purely British point of view, or they may take a point of view +sympathetic to the Queen's interest in Barings. Although the +Queen, also, has a stock brokerage -- I believe they're called +COATS(?) -- that handles, traditionally, a lot of the business +of the British monarchy.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. So the *Wall Street Journal*, the *Economist*, there's...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Oh, you mean to get a clear idea of what's going on?

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Yeah. Just some of the stuff you read.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +...none of these publications, in my opinion, are gonna tell the +unvarnished truth about what is involved. And I can give the +reasons for that.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Because they all have their own special interests behind 'em? +Or...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Well... Let me just list a few of the problems. One of the +largest securities firms in the world, Nomura Securities, N-o-m-u-r-a, reportedly is, and has been, in worse financial condition +than Barings. However, the Bank of Japan, and others, may bail +them out. But some brokerages are quietly "red-flagging" them, +which is a trade term for avoiding somebody. For example, when +some brokerages became aware that there was a problem in Mexico, +they "red-flagged" Mexico. That's the way they tell their +troops, "No transactions with them" -- you see the point?

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Yeah.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Likewise, Goldman-Sachs has come within a hair, reportedly, of +going under in respect to the "Mexican problem" -- the +devaluation and the expected defaults by Mexican corporations.

+ +

So the financial press, to help the established interests, wish +to play down the Barings thing as much as they possibly can as a, +just another "minor matter". Which I don't believe it is.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. There's a newsletter called *Strategic Investment*, put out +by Lord Rees-Mogg...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Right! I read it. I get copies. I don't subscribe, but friends +of mine send me copies from time to time.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Same... Yeah. Same with me.

+ +

I uh... In their latest issue, they're talkin' about this thing +about how Clinton's puttin' up what they call a "Berlin Wall" to +keep dollars from fleeing the country. Have you heard anything +about that?

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Well what I know that's related to it is, the dollar is hitting, +more and more, new, post-war lows. And the reason for that is +that expert traders in the dollar are expecting the possibility +that the *Deutschmark* will be the new, reserve currency of the +world, rather than the U.S. dollar. And that is based on +information that Clinton and his wife are "going to the wall" +[i.e. will face some degree of justice] soon.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +In other words, well, there's been leaks from the investigation +by the independent prosecutor which supports the idea that the +First Lady is, in the near future, most likely gonna be indicted. +And that will put a tremendous cloud over the Clinton White +House. And so, in advance of that, the dollar is being dumped -- +let's put it that way.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. I'm just basically, for myself, I'm watchin' the *Wall +Street Journal* myself and just noticin' the dollar/yen thing, +how that's...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Notice the split in the *Wall Street Journal*: those that work +on the editorial page continue with their detailed items, which +are more *news* items than editorials, about Whitewater. The +other day they had a, um...

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +I saw it. Yeah.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +...a front-page story that "pooh-poohed" Whitewater. The +editorials are closer to the truth than the front-page story -- +which is a different faction within the *Wall Street Journal*. +(I know a lot about the back office politics of the *Wall Street +Journal*.)

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. Yeah, like I say, this, I'm gonna have to keep this +relatively brief. I mean, there's a *lot* of things...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Well then cut out those parts that you feel are not relevant.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +No, it's *all* relevant, 'til now. I'm just sayin' that I have +to kind of move along. You know, I'm lookin' for, at this point, +maybe a 10, 15 minute interview. Because I plan on transcribin' +the whole thing.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +All right, what subjects do you particularly want to get into?

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +There's just a few questions that people had, O.K.? And you've +answered, so far, fine; I'm happy with the answers you've given +me so far. And I'd like to get into more detail. You know, my +idea is, maybe call you up once a week, ten, fifteen minutes, and +just kinda, you know, "flesh out" things, and...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +My opinion is that the Barings Bank collapse is not an isolated +event. It is part of an ongoing series of scandals which, of +which the Whitewater scandal and the scandal, the series of +scandals in Italy, and in France -- there's some overriding +connection between them. In other words, different factions are +coming out of joint and are fighting with each other, and this is +what happens. And the financial press is *not* making any sense +out of it; they're dealt with as if they're all isolated +situations -- which they may not be.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. With this (movin' to a different subject), with this thing +of the 41 grand jury witnesses in Chicago, that you're sayin' +that the Justice Department has got an assassination team that +has been killin' people...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Uh, yes. The ones that originally contended that were the highly +skilled lawyers, including the former Attorney General, Elliott +Richardson, that represented the Inslaw company. And in rebuttal +to former judge Nicholas J. Bua's report on the grand jury +investigation of whether Inslaw was defrauded by the Justice +Department, Inslaw's attorneys filed certain detailed +descriptions, offering witnesses, that there is within the +Justice Department [an] unmarked section where there is a group +there that conducts domestic and foreign assassinations, and that +*they* were responsible for killing a key witness, a free-lance +journalist, by the name of Danny Casolaro.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Yeah, O.K. What, what some of my readers were interested in is +possibly a list of the names of the victims. I mean, you don't +have to read, you know, it out over the phone. I was thinking +maybe I would contact you by mail, askin' for a list of the +victims if you have...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +I think we have compiled a great number of names. In a federal +court case that we brought, in the Fall of '92, on this question, +we accused Bua and others who were supervising the Inslaw federal +grand jury of not paying attention to the fact that *their* team +of investigators were in fact terrorizing and murdering +witnesses.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K....

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +And we accuse, in the court record, a FBI agent named Mike +"Chuckie" Peters of the same.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. A lot of this I've pretty much covered already through the, +posted out on the Internet.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +All right.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +And one other thing that people have kind of asked me questions +about is this thing that Tsar Nicholas II and the Tsarina and +their family were not actually killed in 1918.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Well there have been a couple of books on this subject. And I +myself, in '74, with a group of my associates, went to New York +to spend two whole days interviewing Alexei Romanov, who contends +(and I believe he's correct) that he is the surviving son of Tsar +Nicholas II, and that his family were *not* murdered, as history +books state, in a basement in Siberia...

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +All right, so...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +...but that they lived out their lives, protected by their +cousins, the British royal family, and that they were housed, +under another name, in Poland. And it's... well, you'd have to +know a lot about history, you'd have to know a lot about this +question, to understand the validity of what I'm saying.

+ +

Most of the royal families of Europe -- Russia, Germany, and +England -- are cousins. They're related...

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Yeah.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +...through Queen Victoria. And, so the uh... And, in 1970, in +one edition only, the *Chicago Tribune* wrote a story about this, +confirming from inside sources that the Tsar, his wife, and their +children were rescued and were not murdered in Ekaterenberg(?), +Siberia, as some had contended.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +All right, so in the...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +I think that I have extra copies of that, and I will mail you +one.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. What's... One reader...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +And the *Tribune* has never recanted that story or corrected it. +It's a correct story, from United Press International.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. One reader said that there's, there were actually movies of +Tsar Nicholas and his family being shot by the Bolsheviks, from +1918.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Not true.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Not true. O.K. And another reader...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +What happened is that the Rockefellers, that held $400 million in +gold of the *Romanov* -- not the Russian government, but of the +*Romanov* private fortune -- have a great interest to circulate +those false stories. Otherwise they might have to disgorge the +money.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Yeah.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +And they were the ones that financed the movie, in the early +'70s, called "Nicholas and Alexandra". And at the close of the +movie, it shows... uh, you know: the Tsar and his family being +shot to death.

+ +

You mean there's an *actual* movie of it happening? It's not +true.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. And you would...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +It's *not* true.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. You would say the same for supposed DNA evidence, that +that's not true?

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Oh, you mean that recent stuff that came out of the post-Soviet +period there? I don't believe any of it.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +And *you* wouldn't believe any of it either, if you had spent two +entire days questioning and examining, you know, uh questioning +Alexei Romanov. I mean, he's got the Tsarist family face, which +cannot -- I mean, I brought artists along to look at that face! +You can't reproduce that face. You can't fake-up that face.

+ +

Further than that, since he was a hemophiliac, as a child he wore +braces. And we discussed some inside things about that, some of +the things about wearing braces (which, of course, I'm a +paraplegic myself) that he could not have known otherwise.

+ +

I mean, we tested him out on every possible aspect. And he +didn't flunk a single question, no.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +All right, and what about this Anastasia? I myself am not +totally positive on this. It seems to me that... I mean, I know +there was this controversy over this woman...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Well... the, what happened is, at the time that the Rockefellers +sponsored the Nicholas and Alexandra movie, to promote, to +further promote the idea that the Tsar had been murdered, the +reason for it is, the German high court at that time (which is +about 1971) had the case of a woman who used the name "Marian +Anderson", but who claimed that she was the surviving daughter, +Anastasia Romanov...

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Um-hmm [understands].

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +...the daughter of the Tsar. And she did not succeed in court, +but that does not mean that she didn't necessarily have a valid +case.

+ +

And then in the '50s, about 1957, um... what's her name? The +famous actress... did a movie called "Anastasia".

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Yeah, I know the... I've heard of the movie. And I can't recall +the actress either. [CN -- Ingrid Bergman(?)]

+ +

O.K. That's...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +In other words, there's been various efforts to further circulate +and promote these false stories that the Tsar, the Tsarina, and +their children were murdered. It did *not* happen. Those +that... And the story that ran in one edition of the *Tribune* +in 1970 is a *correct* story. They have never taken it back. +They have never corrected it.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. I just want to close with sayin' most of my readers are very +interested in your material. And I'm real happy that you're +givin' me a chance to kind of expand on, you know, these things +that you're saying.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +The Tsarist thing requires a lot of details. I have only +summarized a *very* *small* number of details.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Yeah. Uh, we're makin' progress, O.K., is... What I'm sayin', +is that, before, I would put out these 5-minute commentaries that +sometimes would raise further questions and, that I couldn't...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +And the other thing that's in my 5-minute message, which there's +gotta be a lot more details discussed, that you can't do it in 5 +minutes -- and that is the secret pact between...

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Yeah!

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +...the Pope and the Western powers, which expired in '93. And +there's a lot to be said about that.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. And I'm just sayin', see what I have to do is I've gotta +transcribe this. And this should keep me busy for a few days, +anyway, gettin' this stuff out.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +If this stuff isn't clear, call me and if I'm here I certainly +will try to... I tried to summarize this quickly, but you know, +we're "documentors", you know what I mean?

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Yeah.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +And I tend to immediately supply highly detailed answers that... +well, would take...

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Yeah.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +...It would lengthen the thing out.

+ +

Let's just say, I don't make idle statements. Let's put it that +way.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. And the documents, I told ya that, you know, I had made +copies of some of your commentaries and transcribed 'em. I sent +those out in the mail to ya. Like I said, you should be gettin' +'em Friday or Saturday.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +What is happening? In other words, some of the others on +Internet are getting back to you with interesting questions, huh?

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Yeah! Yeah. And actually, I've *routinely* gotten these +questions, and I've been in a position of not really *knowing*, +you know? Sometimes I have *some* knowledge, myself, that I +can...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Understand what our problem is: I operate without a secretary. +And my associates are scattered all over. So we don't have a +"secretarial staff" to speak of. And I have a listed phone +number and address, and were I to get a lot of mail to my +address, I don't think I could, you know, answer it. In other +words, if questions came to me, how would I answer all these +letters? Do you see what I mean?

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +Yeah, sure.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +So if they come to you, I'll... You ask your questions and I'll +do my best to answer 'em.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. And when I get done with this, transcribin' this interview +and sendin' it out, I'll send ya a copy. Just so you know that +I'm representing you *verbatim* and I'm not...

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Right. And we welcome more questions about the Barings Bank. We +are in touch with the most knowledgeable people on various +continents about it. We've... We know a great deal about it. +So we will have further messages, and I'll be glad to share the +information with you.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. Thanks a lot for your time.

+ +

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: +Thank you.

+ +

CONSPIRACY NATION: +O.K. 'Bye.

+ +

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SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!

+ +

By RICHARD M. EBELING

+ +

During hard times there are few phrases as frequently heard +as, "Something must be done!" And what is usually meant by the +phrase is that governmental action is needed to cure the +economic woes of society.

+ +

In other words, government spending should be increased to +raise the demand for goods and services; interest rates should +be lowered to stimulate investment activity; protection should +be given to domestic producers to insulate them from the +unscrupulous "poaching" of foreign producers; public-works +projects should be used to guarantee a job at a "living wage" +to all of those desiring to work.

+ +

We live in an era that has seen the bankruptcy of socialism, +the failure of the welfare state, the corrupting influences of +governmental regulatory activity, the irresponsibility of +government deficit-spending and the unprincipled political +pandering to every conceivable special-interest group. And yet +still the cry is heard: "Something must be done!"--by the +government.

+ +

Fifty-five years ago, the English economist John Maynard +Keynes published his book The General Theory of Employment, +Interest and Money. He ended the volume by pointing out to his +readers, "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, +both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more +powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is +ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to +be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually +the slaves of some defunct economist."

+ +

At the end of the twentieth century, Americans, and indeed +practically the entire world, are the slaves of defunct +collectivist economists of half a century ago. Faced with the +trauma and tribulations of the Great Depression, intellectuals +of almost every stripe came to the conclusion that individual +freedom and free markets could not be trusted to either +deliver the goods or the jobs that seemed to be so desperately +needed. Their only disagreements were over the form which +government management should take.

+ +

Marxists looked to Moscow and Stalin's five-year plans. A +socialist command economy might be harsh and lacking in some +of the "bourgeois" freedoms, they believed, but at least +everyone had a job; and planning assured that society's +resources would not stand idle.

+ +

Fascists looked to Rome and Berlin. Even though Hitler's +racial policies in the 1930s became an uncomfortable +embarrassment, fascism, as an economic system, still appealed +to many. Here, government did not have to nationalize +industry. It could instead plan the economy in partnership +with business and labor--setting wages and prices and +establishing employment and production targets for growth and +stability.

+ +

Keynes and his "New Economics" seemed to offer a third way. +Government did not have to nationalize or directly plan an +economy. By use of government deficit spending and +manipulation of interest rates through control of the money +supply, government planners could influence the demand for +goods and services and the amount of private investment +activity. By using these policy tools, government could +indirectly manage an economy for "full employment."

+ +

Over the last fifty years, just about every variation on the +collectivist economic theme has been tried. And every one has +turned into disaster.

+ +

Central planning has twisted men's souls and ravaged their +bodies. Both communist and fascist forms of planning have +denied human beings their most basic freedoms and produced +nothing but poverty and terror.

+ +

And while Keynesian economics and neo-mercantilist trade +policies have appeared less visibly destructive of freedom and +prosperity, their effects have been no less detrimental. +Moreover, in the name of "full employment" and "economic +stabilization," the economic power of governments in the +Western world has become immense. Governments in America and +western Europe now absorb anywhere from twenty-five to +seventy-five percent of all of the wealth produced by the +people in these nations. Governmental regulations intrude into +every corner of economic life. Government determines who can +work and under what conditions, how products may be produced +and in what manner they may be marketed, what kind of profits +may be earned, and what level of wages must be paid.

+ +

Nor have Keynesian "demand management" policies brought +economic stability. The post-World War II period has seen +nothing but unending cycles of booms and busts, inflations and +recessions. And with every enlargement in the size of +government has come an increased number of groups in the +society dependent upon the continuation of governmental +spending and protection. The corruption of our legislative +processes is merely one aspect of the political consequences +of Keynesian economics put into practice.

+ +

During the first half of this century, many economists and +political philosophers were drunk with the idea of power. They +suffered from what the Austrian economist Friedrich A. Hayek +has called "the pretense of knowledge." They were convinced +that they had the wisdom and ability to plan, guide and direct +the lives of millions. Their minds had given them the insight +and knowledge to know how to "set things right."

+ +

Market demand was too low? They knew just the right amount of +government spending to rectify the problem. Wealth was +unfairly distributed? They knew just the right amount of +taxation and redistribution of wealth to assure "economic +justice." Industry and jobs were not where they should be in +the economy? They knew just where industry should be located +and where jobs should be created.

+ +

Through the public educational process and other forms of +government propaganda, Americans were brainwashed into +believing them. And even though every economic intervention +has failed and continues to fail, Americans still believe +them. Why? Because they have been conditioned to believe our +government masters and brainwashers when they tell us that +next time "they will get it right," that they have learned +from their mistakes, and that Americans should just continue +to trust them.

+ +

But they are not to be trusted. Not only because power +corrupts, but also because they can never know how to do all +of the things they promise to do. No mind or group of minds +can ever have the ability or capacity to master all of the +knowledge and information that is required to plan, direct or +guide an economy.

+ +

The value of a market economy is that it leaves each +individual free to plan his own affairs and to use his own +knowledge as he sees fit. But if he is to benefit personally +from that knowledge, he knows that he must use it in a way +that serves the ends of society. He can earn a living only by +using his knowledge to fulfill the wants and desires of others +in the peaceful social order of voluntary exchange.

+ +

Competitively established market prices, both for resources +and commodities, transmit across the entire economy +information about the ever-changing supply-and-demand +conditions to which each member of the society must adjust if +he is to go about his business of earning a living. The market +incorporates and encapsulates more knowledge and information +than any economic planner or interventionist can ever hope to +know or master.

+ +

But if the market is to fulfill its informational tasks, it is +vital that we return to first principles. By protecting and +respecting individual life and property, government can help +to secure the conditions for prosperity; but government cannot +create that prosperity. Prosperity comes only from men +applying their minds and the means available to them for +various desired ends. Prosperity, therefore, can only come +from freedom, because only when men are free do they have the +interest and the incentive to set their minds to work.

+ +

What does this mean in terms of economic policy? The exact +opposite of what the economic planners and social engineers +desire. Government's role in society must be reduced to the +much ridiculed "night-watchman state." And government +expenditures must be lowered to only those needed to protect +individual liberty and private-property rights.

+ +

This means: no governmental subsidies; no governmental +protectionist privileges; no governmentally sponsored +monopolies or cartels; no governmental licensing of +occupations or professions; no governmental regulation of +industry or the workplace; no governmental setting or +influencing of wages or prices; no public-works projects; no +governmental "demand management" policies; no governmental +control of money.

+ +

As we approach the end of the twentieth century, we are at a +dead end with collectivist and interventionist economic +policy. Something must be done! But not by the government! The +place to start is to recognize that we are the intellectual +victims of defunct economists and political philosophers of a +bygone era and, more important, to recognize that governmental +policies are the cause, not the cure, of our economic +problems.

+ +

Professor Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of +Economics at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, and also +serves as vice-president of academic affairs at The Future of +Freedom Foundation. + +------------------------------------------------------------ +From the May 1991 issue of FREEDOM DAILY, +Copyright (c) 1991, The Future of Freedom Foundation, +PO Box 9752, Denver, Colorado 80209, 303-777-3588. +Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit +and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation. +

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To USSR-L subscribers, +There have been some postings lately asking what SOVSET is and +who it serves. In general it would not be proper to copy +SOVSET's material and distribute in USSR-L, since SOVSET is +a service subscribers pay for. In the case of the following +article, which was posted by SOVSET today (Nov. 13), I own the +copyright. I am posting it on USSR-L partly to give you an idea +of the material carried by SOVSET.

+ +

Darrell Hammer

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WRITING A NEW RUSSIAN CONSTITUTION

+ +

Darrell P. Hammer +Indiana University

+ +

In June the newly elected Congress of People's Deputies of +the RSFSR resolved to write a new constitution for the republic, +and appointed a constitutional commission of 100 members under +the chairmanship of Boris Eltsin.[1] The commission promptly +created a "working group" of legal experts. These experts +completed their work in less than four months, and have now +submitted a working draft of a new constitution for consideration +by the commission.[2] +Despite the speed with which it was put together, the draft +is long and detailed, probably too detailed to be a good +constitution. Some of the detailed provisions, however, are +dictated by Soviet experience and an obvious desire to keep +history from repeating itself. For example, the draft makes +usurpation of power a state crime, and makes it unlawful to +establish a one-party system. +The draft consists of five sections, which cover these +topics: (1) basic principles, (2) rights and obligations of +citizens, (3) civil society, (4) the federal system, and (5) the +structure of the state. A number of questions, however, were +left to be resolved by the constitutional commission. The +experts were unable to agree on two important points, the nature +of the Presidential office, and the electoral system. +BASIC PRINCIPLES +The working draft solemnly proclaims the Russian Federation +to be a sovereign state, repeating the language of the +Declaration on Sovereignty adopted by the first Congress of +People's Deputies.[3] Since the RSFSR was already "sovereign"[4] +it was not clear what the declaration really meant. It did +contain a "supreme law" clause, proclaiming the supremacy of the +RSFSR Constitution and RSFSR laws on the entire territory of the +republic.[5] The working draft is slightly different, and makes +only the republic constitution the supreme law. +The draft provides for strict separation of powers between +the legislature (the Parliament or State Duma), the executive +(President), and the courts. +THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF CITIZENS +The draft offers a long list individual rights, but it adds +(like the ninth amendment to the U. S. Constitution) that the +enumeration of certain rights should not be construed as limiting +other rights not mentioned in the document. Citizens are +promised equality of rights regardless of social origin, +property, place of residence, language, race, attitude toward +religion, political or other convictions, party membership, or +previous criminal conviction. Men and women are to be treated +equally. The rules for attaining or losing citizenship are to +be defined by law, but no one can be arbitrarily deprived of +citizenship, and no citizen can be forcibly deported. All +citizens have the right to leave the federation, and to return. +Citizens have the right to life, and capital punishment can be +applied by a court only as an "exceptional measure" for the most +serious crimes.[6] +Interference in the private or family life of citizens is +forbidden. The inviolability of the individual is guaranteed, +and no one can be arrested except on the basis of a court order. +The draft contains a long list of individual rights--most of +which already exist on paper, such as the right to privacy of +correspondence (USSR Constitution, art. 56). +However, the restrictions on individual rights in article 39, +50 and 51 of the USSR Constitution have been eliminated. The +draft does provide that the exercise of rights by one person +should not damage the legal interests or rights of another. +Furthermore, individual rights may not be exercised for the +purpose of overthrowing the political order by force, for +propagandizing war, or for stirring up religious, social, or +national hostility.[7] +The writers of the draft were less categorical in defining +economic rights. In contrast to the USSR Constitution (art. 42), +which guarantees free medical care, the draft promises free care +only to those who lack the resources to pay for it. The draft +promises free access only to "basic education" (osnovnoe +obrazovanie), without defining this term. It offers the +individual "social protection against unemployment" but it does +not guarantee everyone a job. +As in the Declaration on Sovereignty, the draft provides that +citizens are under the protection of the Russian Federation, both +on its territory and outside its borders. +The draft provides for procedural rights in language much +like that of the U. S. Constitution. It protects accused persons +against double jeopardy and self-incrimination, and it guarantees +the right to counsel. To protect these rights, the draft would +create a new office, Supreme Defender (Verkhovnyi +pravozashchitnik), who is elected by Parliament. +CIVIL SOCIETY +The chapter on civil society is designed to protect private +property and the market system. The draft goes far beyond the U. +S. Constitution, and proclaims private property as an +"inalienable natural right." The essential clause of this +follows: +Free enterprise is recognized and guaranteed by law. +The right to free enterprise (independent economic +activity for the purpose of making a profit) is recognized +for individuals, for societies organized for this purpose, +for state enterprises, and for enterprises owned by local +government. +Relations between enterprises are regulated by contract. +The state guarantees the right to freely enter into +contracts, and to judicial resolution of conflict connected +with them. Administrative compulsion to enter into deals is +forbidden. +The procedure and forms of entrepreneurial activity, of +the creation of societies of entrepreneurs, and the +obligations of entrepreneurs in relation to agencies of the +state or local government, are defined by law. +Under the heading of "civil society" the draft also discusses +the family, education, culture, the media, religion, and public +organizations and political parties. The family is described as +the natural nucleus (yacheika) of society, and is put +under the special protection of the state. Censorship is +forbidden, and all political parties are promised equal access to +state-owned radio and television. Neither the state nor any +political party is to exercise a monopoly over the media. +The federation is to be based on political and +ideological pluralism (plyuralizm) which is said to rule +out totalitarianism or any form of dictatorship. There is to be +no official state ideology. The draft provides for a multiparty +system, and a one-party system is explicitly outlawed. However, +the draft allows the banning of political parties which propagate +racial, religious, national, or class hatred, which employ force +or threaten the forcible overthrow of the government, which +oppose the law-governed state. Political parties are not to have +organizations within the public service, in the armed forces, or +in the police. (An alternate version would add state enterprises +and educational institutions to this list.) +THE FEDERAL SYSTEM +In July the presidium of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet issued a +call for a "federal treaty" to be negotiated among all the +territorial units which make up the federation.[8] The +constitution writers did not wait for this treaty, but proceeded +to work out the details of the new federal structure. +The federation is composed of national-territorial formations +(republics) and regions (also referred to as federal +territories), which are both referred to as the "subjects" of the +federation. The republics presumably are the present-day +autonomous republics, oblasts, and districts, and the territories +are presumably the oblasts and krais. However, any territory +can, through a referendum, transform itself into a republic, and +any republic can become a territory. The draft lists twenty-four +functions which are reserved to the federation, and of these the +following are of special interest: +1. Preserving the unity of an all-Russian market. +2. Control over natural resources. +3. Managing the money supply, including foreign currency. +4. Foreign policy and inter-state relations. +5. Customs and border control. +6. Activities in the cosmos. +7. Standards for measurement and time. +8. Protection of copyright and patents. +9. Defense and the armed forces, security services and +federal police. +These are all functions which now belong to the all-union +government. If they are in fact assumed by the Russian republic, +the adoption of this constitution would mean the disappearance of +the USSR as we know it. In addition, the draft provides that the +federation has jurisdiction in criminal law, as at present. In +the case of civil, labor, economic and procedural law, the +federation lays the foundation; writing specific law codes in +these spheres is left to the national or regional governments. +This provision follows the present model, where the all-Union +Supreme Soviet enacts "fundamental laws" but the drafting of +codes is left to the union republics.[9] +The USSR is never mentioned in the working draft. However, +the document provides that the Russian Federation can voluntarily +enter into a commonwealth or union with other sovereign states. +The Russian Federation would reserve to itself the right to +secede from any such union. The Russian language is to be the +official language of the federation. Every subject, however, can +choose a different official language for its own territory. +THE ORGANIZATION OF THE STATE +The experts were divided on the role and functions of the +President, and so section 5 of the draft is given in two +versions, A and B. Version A provides for a presidency more or +less on the French model, while version B offers an American-style presidency. In version A the President appoints a premier, +who presides over a government that is responsible to parliament. +In version B, the President is not only chief of state but also +head of the government. +The President. The functions of chief of state are to +be vested in a new official, the President of the Federation. +The President is to be elected by popular vote for a four-year +term, and is limited to two terms in office. The functions of +the President which are common to both versions are the +following: +1. Represents the Federation in internal and international +affairs. +2. Guarantees the proper execution of the Constitution and +the laws. +3. Subject to the approval of Parliament, appoints the +chairman and members of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme +Court, ministers, ambassadors, and other officials. +4. Removes ministers and other officials. +5. Guides the execution of foreign policy and concludes +treaties, subject to the approval of Parliament. +6. Is the commander in chief of the armed forces. +7. Declares a state of emergency, subject to approval of +Parliament. +8. When there is a danger of attack, calls for a partial or +general mobilization, subject to approval of Parliament. +9. In the event of attack, orders the armed forces into +action, subject to approval of Parliament. +10. Signs and promulgates laws of the Federation. +The President has a veto power over legislation. In version B, +he must act on legislation within fifteen days, and a veto can be +overridden by a two-thirds vote of each house of Parliament. +According to version A, the President's veto can be +overridden by a simple majority. Version A also provides that +the President, after consultation with the House of People's +Representatives, appoints the premier. He is also empowered to ask the +house for a vote of confidence in the government. +The President can be removed from office by impeachment, but +the process is complex. Either house of parliament can impeach +the President by a two-thirds vote. The case is then heard by +the Constitutional Court. The final decision is taken by the +other house, and the President can be removed by a two-thirds +vote. The role of the court in this process is not clear. The +draft does not specifically say whether the court can terminate +the impeachment process by acquitting the President, or merely +gives an opinion. +The draft also provides for a Vice President, whose primary +function is to preside at joint sessions of the parliament. The +Vice President can act for the President during temporary periods +of absence. If the presidential office is vacated for any reason +the Vice President assumes the office of President for the +remainder of the term. If the vice presidency becomes vacant a +new Vice President can be elected by the parliament. +Parliament. The State Duma consists of two houses--a +House of People's Representatives, and a Federal Council. The +House of People's Representatives is directly elected by the +people. The Federal Soviet consists of an equal number of +representatives from each subject of the federation. The working +draft offers two plans for election of the Federal Council-- +either direct election by the people, or election by the +legislature of the territorial units that they represent. +In version A, the Parliament is responsible for forming a +government. However, the premier is nominated by the President +and confirmed by the House of People's Representatives. Only +this house can dismiss the government by a no-confidence vote. +Either house can dissolve itself, in which case the President +must call a new election for that house. Version A also provides +that legislation originates in the House of People's +Representatives. +In version B the Parliament is elected for a fixed term, and +elections are to be held on the second Sunday of March every +fourth year. +The Electoral System. The draft provides for two +different electoral systems. Version I provides for single-member constituencies which are to be approximately equal in +size. +Version II provides for proportional representation. The +country is to be divided into a number of multi-member districts, +and in each district deputies are to be elected by a list system. +In countries where it has been tried, the list system has +strengthened individual parties by making it virtually impossible +to get elected without a party endorsement. The draft has tried to +overcome this buy allowing individuals to get their names on the +list without party approval, and by allowing the individual +voters, if they choose, to list their order of preference among +the candidates. This system would theoretically allow +independent candidates to win election, but it would also +confront the voter with a very complicated set of choices. +The Courts. The draft proposes a Constitutional Court +and a Supreme Court, but empowers Parliament to set up other, +inferior courts. Judges of these two top-ranked courts are +appointed by the President with the approval of Parliament. +Other federal judges are appointed by the President alone. +Judges are to be appointed for life, except that Parliament may +set a compulsory retirement age.[10] +The Constitutional Court consists of eleven judges appointed +by the President and confirmed by Parliament. It is empowered to +decide the constitutionality of statutes or other legal +enactments, both of the Federation and of its subjects. As +already noted, the Constitutional Court "participates" in the +impeachment process. It has additional powers, including the +right (at the request of Parliament) to give authoritative +interpretations of the Constitution, and to determine the +competence of the President to exercise his office. +The Supreme Court functions as the final appeals court in +cases of criminal, civil, or administrative law. +Emergency Powers. The draft devotes almost three +pages to the President's emergency powers. If the President +declares a state of emergency, either locally or throughout the +federation, Parliament must be notified within seventy-two hours, +and such a declaration can remain in effect for only thirty days. +Parliament can extend the emergency powers, but only for thirty-day periods. A state of emergency cannot be used to limit the +powers of Parliament or the courts, and during a state of +emergency the Constitution cannot be amended and the election +laws cannot be changed. +Ratification and Amendment. The constitution is to +take effect only after ratification by a national referendum. +Once the new constitution comes into force, the constitution of +1978 is void. Statutes passed by the RSFSR remain in force only +if they do not contradict the new constitution or new statutes +passed on its authority. +The draft provides for an amendment process which is slow and +cumbersome. and it also lays down a rule that the "basic +principles" of the constitution cannot be changed. First, an +amendment must be formally proposed to the Parliament. The +proposer can be a group consisting of one-fifth of the members of +either house, or the President, or by one million citizens, or a +variety of others. Six months following the formal proposal, the +parliament can act, and the proposal needs a two-thirds vote of +both houses. Then the amendment must be submitted to the +subjects of the federation for ratification. The amendment is +formally adopted if two-thirds of the subjects agree to +ratification. +CONCLUSION +This working draft is more than a constitution. It is also a +declaration of independence. The Russian Federation, operating +under this proposed constitution, would be an independent and +sovereign state. Even if the federation chose to exercise its +right to enter into a commonwealth, the resulting union would +only be a loose confederation. +The speed with which the draft was put together suggests that +the RSFSR leadership is anxious to produce a finished +constitution before the all-union constitutional commission +finishes its work. However, the draft is far too long for an +effective constitution. Large sections of the document could be +left for enactment by the new parliament, as organic law. +Before it finishes its work, the Russian commission must +decide what kind of presidency it wants. It ought to give +consideration to a third model--the German model, where the +President is only a ceremonial head of state and real executive +power is vested in the head of government. +NOTES +1. Sovetskaya Rossiya, June 17, 1990. +2. Konstitutsiya (osnovnoi zakon) Rossiiskoi federatsii. +Proekt rabochei gruppy i gruppy ekspertov Konstitutsionnoi +komissii RSFSR - s parallel'nymi mestami i variantami. This +document is dated Oct. 11, 1990. Hereafter the document is +referred to as a working draft. +3. Sovetskaya Rossiya, June 14, 1990. +4. Constitution of the USSR (1977), art. 76; Constitution of +the RSFSR (1978), art. 68. +5. The declaration in fact is not consistent with the +republic constitution, since that constitution (art. 76) provides +that USSR laws are binding on republic territory. +6. Soviet criminal law presently defines the death penalty +as an exceptional measure. Osnovy ugolovnogo zakonodatel'stva +Soyuza SSR i soyuznykh respublik (1959), art. 22. However, +the death penalty can be used to punish a variety of crimes -- +not only murder, serious crimes against the state, and certain +crimes committed in wartime, but also counterfeiting, illegal +dealing in foreign currency, bribe-taking, and aggravated rape. +7. Art. 39 of the USSR Constitution provides that individual +rights cannot be exercised in a way which damages the interests +of society or the state. Articles 50 and 51 provide that the +rights of free expression and association are granted in order to +advance the interests of the system. +8. Sovetskaya Rossiya, July 20, 1990. +9. Family law is considered a separate branch of law in the +USSR: the fundamentals are laid down in all-union legislation, +and each republic has a code of family law. This sphere of law +is not mentioned in the draft. +10. Some members of the working group opposed the idea of a +Constitutional Court, and there is a second version of this +section which omits any mention of that court. In the second +version, the Supreme Court rather than the Constitutional Court +would be involved in the impeachment process.

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+ +

A Dialogue with a former member of the Intelligence Community

+ +

This summer, while on vacation back to my families residence, I encountered a +family friend that I had not seen since 1973. For obvious reasons I will not +identify him, but for this record will call him "Paul". Paul is retired from +over 30 years of distinguished government service, is a widower, and is one of +the most closed mouthed men I have ever known. When I first came back from +Viet Nam in 1972, I saw Paul at a family get together, and even though he was +just back from South East Asia, he never mentioned it. I found out through his +brother. When I went back east, I had taken a number of text files from my +records, for my sister, who is fascinated by the subject of UFO's. It so +happened that one evening, my sister and I and wife and another friend, Bob, +were sitting outside my mothers house, and were discussing several of the +files that I had taken back. Paul stopped out at the house, as he was going +to a function with his sister and my mother. He sat down on the patio with +us, and as usual, did not say much. My sister was reading the file concerned +with the Majestic 12 papers and making some comments, that if this file was +for real, the implications of alien contact could be staggering for the world +if verified. At this point Paul leaned forward and asked if he could see the +papers. My sister passed several of the texts to him, and until he left, he +spent the remainder of his time reading them. Just before he left, he got me +off to the side, and asked how I was involved with UFO's. I told him that I +was an investigator for MUFON, and was involved with a computer network system +with Paranet. This was the first of several conversations I had with Paul, +and I don't ask anyone to believe it, because, frankly, I have problems with +several things he told me. And you may wonder why Paul would tell me +anything, considering his government service, and the agency he worked for. +To begin with, Paul is very ill, the last time I spoke with him, he told me +that he doesn't expect to be around for more than 18 months, maximum. Next, +he told me that he never agreed with all the secrecy that surrounded the +government and the subject of UFO's. And lastly, what he hinted at was +actually occuring seemed to haunt him. As he said, there wasn't a hell of a +lot that even the government was able to do about the situation. I present +the following, and you can make up your own mind about whether to believe or +not.

+ +

This summer past ( 1988 ) was the 20th reunion of my High School. This +was the reason that I traveled back, and besides, my wife is in love with the +east coast. While back, I became ill, and ended up spending almost two weeks +in the hospital. Paul came and visited me, and this is how we ended having +the several conversations that we had.

+ +

Paul at first asked if I realized what dangers were present in the subject of +UFO's. I said "No", but I had heard rumors that this could be the case. He +said you damned betcha it could. "If you stumbled over the right +information you could end up among the missing, and Don, this sure as hell +wouldn't be the first time."

+ +

I asked him how he came to know so much about the subject, and he said with +the job he held, it was his business to know about a lot of things. I then +said come on Paul, I had dealings with spooks while in Viet Nam, so don't try +that line on me. He told me then, that this was to his knowledge, still one of +the most highly classified subjects in the intelligence community . That +brought to mind the "Smith Memo" from the 50's, and I relayed it to Paul. I +mentioned that Smith had stated that the subject of UFO's had been rated +higher than the H bomb, and in perspective, was this still the case? Pauls +reply follows, and for the purposes of this file, I have condensed into one +session our talks.

+ +

In the 40's, when the "flying saucer" scare started, the military and +government were concerned that it was possible that the Soviets had made a +breakthrough in technology with their German scientists, that our German +scientists had not been able to duplicate. It then became evident that this +technology was above and beyond what we were able to achieve, so the +phenomenon had to come from outside. For a while there was a deadlock as to +what to do, but then apparently the military was able to secure one of the +craft. I asked Paul if he meant Roswell, and he only smiled. He said to read +the MJ 12 stuff again, that there were enough facts to get an idea of what he +was talking about. After that, it was apparent that the technology was well +above what we were capable of. There were fears among certain people that +this could be the prelude to invasion, or possibly even worse. Others saw +this as a straight shot to technology that we couldn't even dream of, and to +exploit everything we could out of it. Paul stated that there was a genuine +fear that if the Soviets could get one of these, and exploit it, the United +States would be in deep excrement. There was a "think tank" that was set up, +and the decision for secrecy was understandable in that scenario. Many of +these craft were flying over nuclear installations, and one thought at the +time was that they could be after uranium among other things, if they were, as +believed then, coming from a "dying" planet. I asked if at that time, were +they considered to be benign, and Paul said yes, they were, but then several +things happened to change that idea. He would not elaborate, so I mentioned +the Mantell incident, and he said that is the most well known case, but there +were others, and some very bizarre.

+ +

The think tank that was set up in the 40's were concerned that some of these +cases would become public knowledge, and they still remembered the "War of the +Worlds" scare that Wells threw into the public in 1938. They did not want a +panic that could affect the nations security, commerce, industry, finances +and so forth. The result was to debunk the whole damn thing, and hope it +would either go away, or they could solve it in time before it did become +public knowledge.

+ +

I asked Paul about several cases that I read about in "Clear Intent", one of +them being the Cuban Jet Incident. Paul said that he had heard about that, he +wouldn't say much, but this is not the only case where one of these objects +had shot down aircraft, "and it didn't all happen outside the U. S. either".

+ +

"Look", he said, "if you were out in a very primitive area, and were lost, or +hungry, or what ever, and came across a primitive native tribe, and I mean +compared to you, really primitive, would you trade with them, or take what +you needed, food, women, whatever, IF YOU WERE VERY AMORAL?" "Look, if in +this case, you regard these natives as less than dirt, and the only thing they +have in common is that they have what you NEED." You are familiar with the +animal mutilations aren't you? Many people think that this was a government +sponsored operation, testing chemicals or something. Well, it wasn't, and +farm animals are not the only thing that has been tested. The guys I know +that are still active have said that right now, is one of the biggest "UFO +flaps" that they have ever heard of, and there is a lot of concern as to how +long it can be kept secret.

+ +

I hated to break in on Paul when he was talking this freely, but had to ask +about the reported astronaut sightings. Yes, there were sightings on damn +near all the "shots", and it was always feared that the news services would +pick up on some of the reports. We did a damn good job of damage control +though. "Well Paul, what about reports that these things have been seen on +the moon?" I asked. "Yes" he said, "they have been seen there, and some of +this has come out, so I don't think I am breaking any oaths, but , haven't you +asked yourself why after all the billions of dollars that we had spent to get +to the moon, after the early 70's No one, us or the Russians, have gone near +the place." Yes, I admitted, I had wondered why, and then asked him if he +knew why. Paul just smiled and then pointed to the file that contained the +Lear Text. "You know", he said, "this guy has hit pretty close on several +points, and I wonder if anyone has approached him?" I asked what he meant, +and he looked at me and said "Don, you know what I mean, and after all, if a +lot of the general public became aware of this, they would scream like a +mashed cat, and demand to know what the hell the government is doing about it. +The problem is, there are some that still think that they can control events +and keep a lid on this, and others that know we are way in over our head and +are looking for a way out." Alright then, what are these things, where do +they come from, and what DO they want? I must have looked pretty exasperated +then, and Paul looked at me and gave me kind of what I thought was a sad +smile. "Don" he said, "I don't know where they come from, as to what they +are, they are very different, and as to what they want, you are gonna sleep a +lot better if I just go." And he did leave then.

+ +

I haven't talked to Paul since I got back home, and just several days ago, I +got word that he had a heart attack and is in very poor condition. I have +wondered about a lot of what he said, and have decided that in lieu of keeping +the whole thing to myself, I would put it on my word processor, and then make +a decision whether to release it or not.

+ +

Paul had stated on several occasions that this subject had the potential to be +be very dangerous, and to be careful of pursuing it. "With access to the +right information, if it became known, people have disappeared." I don't +think he was just trying to scare me, the guy had been a professional +intelligence agent for longer than I have been alive, and I am sure he knew a +hell of a lot more about this, than I would even want to. He had mentioned +several things, that even now I hesitate to put down, but the thing that +inclines me to accept what he said, was knowing a bit of what kind of man he +was, he seemed haunted and scared.

+ +

Well, in light of several things that have occured recently, with the "New and +Improved" BlueBook, which I might add I distrust wholeheartedly, the meltdown +within MUFON, the continuing "flap" that doesn't show any signs of slowing +down, much less stopping, and the fragmented community of UFO investigators, I +discussed this with my better half, and have decided to throw it out, and see +where it landed. Take it for what it is worth, and remember, I have just +relayed what I was told, and I did warn you up front that this was almost +beyond belief.

+ +

Anyone with any additional information is requested to contact me in care of +Paranet RHO at 1-208-338-9187.

+ +

Don F. Ecker-State +Section Director +MUFON, for the state of Idaho. +

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FROM: Barbara Bennett +SUBJECT: The Social Security Number

+ +

SSA has continually emphasized the fact that the SSN identifies a particular +record only and the Social Security Card indicates the person whose record +is identified by that number. In no way can the Social Security Card identify +the bearer. From 1946 to 1972 the legend "Not for Identification" was printed +on the face of the card. However, many people ignored the message and the +legend was eventually dropped. The social security number is the most widely +used and carefully controlled number in the country, which makes it an +attractive identifier.

+ +

With the exception of the restrictions imposed on Federal and some State +and local organizations by the Privacy Act of 1974, organizations requiring +a unique identifier for purposes of controlling their records are not +prohibited from using (with the consent of the holder) the SSN. SSA records +are confidential and knowledge of a person's SSN does not give the user access +to information in SSA files which is confidential by law.

+ +

Many commercial enterprises have used the SSN in various promotional efforts. +These uses are not authorized by SSA, but SSA has no authority to prohibit +such activities as most are not illegal. Some of these unauthorized uses are: +SSN contests; skip-tracers; sale or distribution of plastic or metal cards; +pocketbook numbers (the numbers used on sample social security cards in +wallets); misleading advertising, commercial enterprises charging fees for +SSN services; identification of personal property.

+ +

The Social Security Number (SSN) is composed of 3 parts, XXX-XX-XXXX, called +the Area, Group, and Serial. For the most part, (there are exceptions), the +Area is determined by where the individual APPLIED for SSN (before 1972) or +RESIDED at time of application (after 1972). The areas are assigned follows:

+ +

000 unused 387-399 WI 528-529 UT +001-003 NH 400-407 KY 530 NV +004-007 ME 408-415 TN 531-539 WA +008-009 VT 416-424 AL 540-544 OR +010-034 MA 425-428 MS 545-573 CA +035-039 RI 429-432 AR 574 AK +040-049 CT 433-439 LA 575-576 HI +050-134 NY 440-448 OK 577-579 DC +135-158 NJ 449-467 TX 580 VI Virgin Islands +159-211 PA 468-477 MN 581-584 PR Puerto Rico +212-220 MD 478-485 IA 585 NM +221-222 DE 486-500 MO 586 PI Pacific Islands* +223-231 VA 501-502 ND 587-588 MS +232-236 WV 503-504 SD 589-595 FL +237-246 NC 505-508 NE 596-599 PR Puerto Rico +247-251 SC 509-515 KS 600-601 AZ +252-260 GA 516-517 MT 602-626 CA +261-267 FL 518-519 ID *Guam, American Samoa, +268-302 OH 520 WY Northern Mariana Islands, +303-317 IN 521-524 CO Philippine Islands +318-361 IL 525 NM +362-386 MI 526-527 AZ

+ +

627-699 unassigned, for future use

+ +

700-728 Railroad workers through 1963, then discontinued +729-899 unassigned, for future use +900-999 not valid SSNs, but were used for program purposes +when state aid to the aged, blind and disabled was +converted to a federal program administered by SSA.

+ +

As the Areas assigned to a locality are exhausted, new areas from the pool +are assigned. This is why some states have non-contiguous groups of Areas.

+ +

The Group portion of the SSN has no meaning other than to +determine whether or not a number has been assigned. SSA +publishes a list every month of the highest group assigned for +each SSN Area. The order of assignment for the Groups is: odd +numbers under 10, even numbers over 9, even numbers under 9 +except for 00 which is never used, and odd numbers over 10. For +example, if the highest group assigned for area 999 is 72, then +we know that the number 999-04-1234 is an invalid number because +even Groups under 9 have not yet been assigned.

+ +

The Serial portion of the SSN has no meaning. The Serial is not +assigned in strictly numerical order. The Serial 0000 is never assigned.

+ +

Before 1973, Social Security Cards with pre-printed numbers were issued to +each local SSA office. The numbers were assigned by the local office. In 1973, +SSN assignment was automated and outstanding stocks of pre-printed cards were +destroyed. All SSNs are now assigned by computer from headquarters. There are +rare cases in which the computer system can be forced to accept a +manual assignment such as a person refusing a number with 666 in it!

+ +

A pamphlet entitled "The Social Security Number" (Pub. No. +05-10633) provides an explanation of the SSN's structure and +the method of assigning and validating Social Security numbers.

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+--SOVIET SCALAR ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPONS-- +

+

+This briefing presents the basic concepts of Soviet Scalar +electromagnetic weapons, some of the major types available, and evidence of +their widespread testing. +

+

+- Scalar Electromagnetics is Electrogravitation - +

+

+Scalar electromagnetics is an extension of present electromagnetics (EM) +to include gravitation. That is, a unified electrogravitation, and, what is +more important, it is a unified engineering theory. Its basis was discovered +by Nikola Tesla.

+ +

In the scalar EM extension, EM field energy can be turned into +gravitational field energy and vice versa. This exchange can be patterned and +localized, in specific areas and objects. Such a controlled change of +electromagnetics to gravitation is not possible in the normal EM or physics +presently taught in Western textbooks. However, the bits and pieces of the +theory have been scattered through the physics literature for some time, but +no orthodox western scientist seems to have realized that these anomalous +portions could be integrated into a startling new physics. Unorthodox +experimenters, inventors, and scientists have made discoveries in this arena +for several decades, but again have not realized the exact implications or +the precise manner in which their results could be combined with present +electrical physics. +

+

+- Fer-De-Lance - +

+

+Such sluggishness is certainly not present in the Soviet Union. For +over three decades, the Soviet Union has been developing electrogravitation +and app,ying it to develop strange new s%cret weapons of incredible power +and capability. They have sustained the largest weapons development program +ever launched by any nation, and they have kept it effectively hidden from +prying western eyes. I have called this program "Fer-De-Lance", after the +deadly South American pit viper of the same name.

+ +

The dreaded fer-de-lance is a snake of great agility and lethal effect. +It often ambushes its hapless prey, and strikes unexpectedly and without +warning. Its first sudden strike is usually lethal to its victim, which +promptly expires in writhing agony. Since the Soviet development of scalar EM +weapons has been designed for the same purpose, the name seems appropriate.

+ +

The equivalent effort of about seven Manhattan projects has been poured +into fer-de-lance by the Soviets, and the program has been successful almost +beyond imagination. The eerie weapons are now developed, deployed, and +tested. The ambush has been completed; Fer-de-Lance is coiled and ready to +strike. +

+ +

--ENERGETICS AND DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS (DEW'S)-- +

+

+The ordinary Soviet name for this type of weapons science is +energetics. In the west that term is believed to be associated with +conventional directed energy weapons (DEWs) such as particle beam weapons, +lasers, radio-frequency (RF) directed energy devices, etc. The Soviets do not +limit the term in this way.

+ +

Western scientists are familiar only with directed energy weapons +where fragments, masses, photons, or particles travel through space and +contact the target to deliver their effects. Hence in their thinking they +limit the Soviet term "energetics" to the type of weapons they themselves +understand -- exotic but normal weapons using energy or mass traveling +through space to impact a target.

+ +

However, it is possible to focus the potential for the effects of a +weapon through spacetime itself, in a manner so that mass and energy do not +"travel through space" from the transmitter to the target at all. Instead, +ripples and patterns in the fabric of spacetime itself are manipulated to +meet and interfere in and at the local spacetime of some distant target. +There interference of these ripple patterns creates the desired energetic +effect (hence the term energetics) directly in and through the target itself, +emerging from the very spacetime (vacuum) in which the target is imbedded at +its distant location. As used by the Soviets, energetics refers to these +eerie new superweapons, as well as to the more mundane DEWs known to the +west.

+ +

As a consequence of the Soviet breakthrough and decades of feverish +development, monstrous strategic weapons undreamed of in the West are +already in Soviet hands. A noose is slowly and steadily being tightened about +our throats, and it is already the 11th hour. +

+

+--THE SOVIETS USE A DECEPTION PLAN-- +

+

+Concomitant with this supersecret development program, the Soviets +developed and implemented an elaborate deception plan to conceal these +startling weapons and their nature from Western eyes until it is too late. +Soviet deception has been so successful that even when Western scientists are +confronted with the actual tests of these weapons directly over their heads, +they do not recognize the weaponry nor the nature of the effects produced. +

+

+As early as January 1960, Nikita Khrushchev announced the Soviet +development of a new, fantastic weapon.

+ +

On April 10 1963 one of the first new superweapons operationally +deployed was used to destroy the U.S.S. Thresher atomic submarine +underwater, off the east coast of the U.S. The next day, April 11, 1963 the +same deployed superweapon was utilized in a different mode to produce a giant +underwater explosion in the ocean over the Puerto Rican Trench, 100 miles +north of Puerto Rico.

+ +

Over the years, various aircraft were interfered with or downed as +tests of these Soviet weapons. A particular case involved the mysterious +loss of F-111s in the Vietnam conflict. At least one downed F-111 crew was +recovered in the subsequent prisoner of war exchange. On that aircraft all +electrical systems were in difficulty simultaneously. This was probably due +to special Soviet teams converting some North Vietnamese SA-2 missile system +radars to the scalar EM mode, and employing "scalar beam" interference to +produce spurious EM noise throughout the electrical and electronic systems of +the aircraft.

+ +

In late April/early May of 1985, the entire armada of Soviet strategic +scalar EM superweapons was activated as a special celebration of the 40th +anniversary of the end of W.W.II. Activation of this armada (which probably +contained over 100 giant weapons), together with 27 giant power systems and a +large number of command and control transmissions, was monitored on an +advanced, proprietary detection system by Frank Golden. After the gigantic +strategic exercise, which lasted several days, most of the weapons and power +sources were once again stood down to "standby."

+ +

The NASA shuttle launches provided an convenient opportunity for Soviet +testing of these superweapons in a launch phase ABM mode, where a launched +missile can be detected and destroyed shortly after liftoff. At first, +electromagnetic pulse (EMP) bursts on the early shuttle trajectory were +deliberately delayed in time, to prevent actual destruction of the target and +avoid alerting the U.S. that something unusual was happening.

+ +

The shuttle launch of November 26, 1985 saw a particularly significant +test of this kind. In this case, a very loud "sonic boom" or explosion +occurred over the launch site 12 minutes after shuttle liftoff, when the +shuttle was already away and downrange. At least two previous shuttle +launches had also been used as pseudotargets, with delayed booms occurring +over the launch site well behind the vehicles.

+ +

After lack of U.S. reaction to these tests showed that the U.S. still +had no knowledge of the new technology and did not even recognize its +employment, the Soviets apparently decided to proceed with tests where the +target would actually be destroyed.

+ +

On December 12, 1985 the same Soviet weapon tested against the NASA +shuttle launches deliberately interfered with the controls of an Arrow DC-8 +taking off from Gander Air Force Base, Newfoundland. At an altitude of 100 +feet, the aircraft--carrying over 250 U.S. soldiers and civilian crew +members lost power and sank into the ground tail-low, killing everyone on +board. Three Canadian witnesses to the crash were interviewed over the +Canadian Broadcast Corporation's television news on April 81986 at 10 p.m. +No flame or smoke issued from the plane before its descent and crash. However +the aircraft was seen to be mysteriously glowing with a yellow glow. That is +a signature of the use of a scalar howitzer in the "continuous EM emergence" +mode, similar to the manner in which the F-111s were downed in Vietnam. In +short, the DC-8s electrical systems were interfered with ny electromagnetic +noise created throughout the spacetime occupied by the aircraft. The powerful +charge created in and around the aircraft also apparently caused the loss of +two engines, one after the other. With its controls ineffective, and its +power drastically reduced, the aircraft sank to earth, still in its "tail +down" configuration from takeoff, and crashed and burned. The "yellow glow" +was a corona due to the acquisition of a high electrical charge by the skin +of the aircraft.

+ +

Other factors contributing to the crash may have been reduced lift due +to poor engine maintenance, increased weight of the aircraft due to icing, +and heavy loading. Still, no one has recognized the significance of the +"yellow glow" or what it implies, or the possible connection between the loss +of the aircraft and previous Soviet testing of a Launch Phase ABM system +against U.S. shuttle launches... +

+ +

As of September 1987, the last two Air Force Titan 34-D missiles fired +from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California have blown up shortly after +launch. The first one blew up on Aug. 28, 1985 just after lift-off. That loss +had been attributed to failure of a high powered fuel pump, causing a massive +oxidizer leak and a smaller fuel leak. The second Titan loss occurred on +April 18, 1986 when the missile blew up 5 seconds after lift off. Its loss is +still under investigation and no determination of cause has been made. +Apparently the shuttle and the Titan presently provide the only viable launch +vehicles for launching U.S. "spy" satellites. The loss of these sensitive +satellites--if indeed they constituted the payloads--cannot help but be +damaging to our strategic capability. According to the Los Angeles Times +(in 1986) the single remaining KH-11 satellite was launched in December 1984 +and, with an expected life of two to three years, could stop functioning +later this year.

+ +

Whether or not significant Woodpecker grid activity existed in the +vicinity of the Titan launch of August 1985 is unknown at this time. However, +significant activity in the grid definitely occurred before the April 18 +Titan disaster and on the same day.

+ +

On Easter Sunday, Mar. 301986 engineer Ron Cole observed significant +correlated with Soviet Woodpecker measurements. On April 18, T.E Bearden, +perhaps the head of SEM research today, observed traces of a cloud radial +over Huntsville, Alabama and took photographs of it. Preliminary reports from +Thousand Oaks Ca. indicate extensive grid activity again on April 18, the day +the second Titan exploded.

+ +

At least the second of these two missile destructions shortly after +launch is suspicious, since the grid positively was active during that time. +Also, a clear trail of Launch Phase ABM system indicators exists back to the +massive scalar exercise of April/May 1985. The first Titan explosion in Aug. +1985 thus falls within the Soviets "now lets test them against the U.S. +launch vehicles" period. The second Titan loss follows highly suspicious +losses of the Arrow DC-8 on Dec. 12, 1985 and the Challenger on Jan. 28, +1986. The same Soviet weapon that destroyed those #gets may have also +destroyed one or both of the critical Titans.

+ +

The Soviets also have been able to significantly engineer the weather +over North America for more than a decade without being found out. They have +tested a fantastic range of anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense weapons for +over two decades, and no one is the wiser in the West.

+ +

As previously stated, prior to the end of November, 1985, at least three +"wet-run" tests of a Soviet "launch phase ABM system" against actual U.S. +shuttle launches were made directly over Cape Canaveral itself, and still no +one recognized what was happening or what sort of weapon was being tested. On +December 12, destruction of the Arrow DC-8 in Newfoundland produce no +indications that the Americans and Canadians knew anything about the nature +of the weapon possibly used.

+ +

Accordingly, after a sufficient wait to test our reactions (if any), the +Soviets prepared to actually destroy a shuttle after its launch...

+ +

--DESTRUCTION OF THE CHALLENGER, JANUARY, 1986-- +

+

+As the whole world knows, on January 28, 1986 the Challenger was +launched from Cape Canaveral Florida after exposure to undesirable weather +conditions, and disastrously exploded shortly after launch. The evidence +seems to indicate that , as the rising vehicle was stressed, one end of its +right booster broke loose, twisting away and into the main fuel tank, causing +rupture, spillage of the fuel, and catastrophic explosion. Several other +anomalies still exist however, and it is clear that a problem existed with at +least one of the booster seals. All seven astronauts aboard the flight were +killed in the fiery destruction of the vehicle.

+ +

Of course no one had recognized that the Soviets had already tested a +launch-phase anti-ballistic missile (LPABM) system against three of our +previous shuttle launches. These "wet-runs" used a deliberate "time-offset" +to delay the explosive emergence of electromagnetic energy in a launched +shuttle's location along its trajectory. The delayed test shots resulted in +very large "booms" above the launch site after the shuttle was safely out of +the area, but did not destroy the shuttles themselves. For example, the +delayed shot-boom occurred 12 minutes after the evening launch of Nov. 26, +1985. Even a marker beacon (large light in the sky) was utilized on that +launch shortly after lift-off. The marker beacon was photographed. In +addition another photograph taken in a time sequence shows another sudden +streak of light coming down and ending in a burst of light. This was probably +a spacially-offset test of the "pulse mode" for destroying the shuttle. The +"light burst" would have been detected in the Soviet Union and scored against +its intended offset position. However, another mechanism was used to cause +the destruction of the shuttle itself.

+ +

On Jan. 1, 1986 the presence of a metal softening signal added on to the +Soviet LPABM systems scalar EM transmissions was detected by a surprised +Frank Golden. The metal softening ability of the detected signal was +experimentally verified by him at that time. Golden also locally nullified +the action of the scalar EM signal in a test, rather conclusively +establishing (1) that it existed and (2) what it was. The signal was +apparently being prepared for use against an upcoming U.S. shuttle launch.

+ +

Just prior to the launch of the shuttle in late January, 1986, the +Soviets accomplished significant weather engineering over the U.S. The jet +stream was severely bent southward in the middle of the U.S., bending right-ward again to move across the Florida panhandle. Icy cold air from Canada was +drawn far down, into Florida and onto the Challenger sitting on it launch +pad. This exposure to cold outside its tested range was probably an +additional factor contributing to the Challengers failure. Positive +signatures of the Soviet weather engineering and jet stream manipulation +were observed and photographed by several persons, particularly in Alabama +and California... +

+ +

On January 28, 1986, the Soviet scalar EM weapon system effects were +sharply localized in the launch zone. Localization involved higher +frequencies being present; these are quite painful to small brains--whose +hemispheres act as a scalar interferometer and detector--such as in birds. +As commented upon by national news commentators, strangely the birds were not +flying that morning. Indeed, they were staying down on the ground or avoiding +the area, since the sky over the area was painful to them.

+ +

As Challenger rose, the metal softening signal would have been +experienced in and around the boosters shortly after ignition, since the +booster flame acts as a special "ion-plasma" tuner/detector for the scalar +signal. The effect of such a local signal is to "charge mass in the immediate +vicinity" with the particular scalar resonance signal.

+ +

The ill fated Challenger was doomed. After ignition, the booster flame +acted as as a ionic plasma detector/amplifier for the metal softening signal +on the Soviet Woodpecker grid. The metal in and around the booster flame was +slowly and steadily weakening due to a charge up with the metal softening +pattern. This contributed to booster leakage from the already cold damaged +seal. The leaking booster poured out smoke and later flame, contributing to +the impending disaster.

+ +

Substantial winds and air turbulence over the site increased the stress +on the Challenger as it rose through this region. This also contributed to +the disaster and may have been deliberately created there by Soviet Weather +engineering.

+ +

As the Challenger stressed, eventually one or more weakened mounts gave +way, partially freeing the end of the right booster. Another anomalous flame +or light was observed on the vehicle, and may have represented a very small +additional "pulse mode energy form" produced from the weapon that was already +attacking the Challenger. The booster oscillated, rotating into the tank and +rupturing it. Contact of the escaping liquid fuel and the flame resulted in a +fiery explosion, destroying the vehicle and killing those on board... + +By creating excess cold exposure to the shuttle, inducing metal +softening in and around the ignited booster, and possibly adding a deliberate +"intensely hot spot", THE SOVIETS CAUSED THE CHALLENGER TO WEAKEN AND DESTROY +ITSELF SHORTLY AFTER LAUNCH, IN SO SUBTLE A FASHION THAT NASA SCIENTISTS +WOULD NOT SUSPECT WHAT HAD ACTUALLY CAUSED THE MISHAP. THE SOVIETS HAD ALSO +PREVIOUSLY WITHDRAWN ALL THEIR TRAWLERS AND SHIPS WHICH NORMALLY SHADOW A +SHUTTLE LAUNCH, TO PREVENT ANY SUGGESTION OF SOVIET PRESENCE NEAR OR +INVOLVEMENT IN THE CATASTROPHIC ACCIDENT.

+ +

A few days later, sporadically intense "high frequency localization +signals" were still present on the grid, at least one hinge-point at +Birmingham, Alabama confirmed this. From 1-4 February 1986, many birds +inadvertently flew into the zone when an intense breakout occurred, and birds +fell dead from the sky in substantial numbers.... + +Next: +-Technological Surprise and a New Hiroshima- + +(Continued)

+ +

Sadly, the bureaucratic smugness of orthodox Western scientists has +materially assisted the Soviet deception process. Most Western managerial +scientists -particularly in weapons development activities - have continued +to view the Soviets as ignorant peasants, still trying to clean the mud off +their boots. This view is of course, Totally untrue and unwarranted.

+ +

It takes only a few examples to refute this attitude. In nonlinear +mathematics, engineering and science, the Soviets have led their Western +counterparts since the beginning. The electromagnetic pulse (EMP) effect of a +nuclear explosion appeared in the ordinary Soviet scientific literature +before Western scientists were even aware that te effect existed. The Soviets +continue to lead the world in explosive welding, titanium welding and +forming, etc. While the Soviet scientists exhibit little inclination to build +good washing machines, they certainly do produce state of the art +technology-- and beyond-- in any area in which they focus their main efforts. +(We do lead the Soviets in some areas such as computers hardware, computer +software, miniaturization, etc.)

+ +

Once before, a modern nation, the United States, developed a mighty +weapon in secrecy and used it to force a powerful foe, Japan, to its knees... +The mindbending atomic blows to Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, showed once and for +all that in the modern age technological surprise can prove instantly +disastrous. Yet in our scientific arrogance, we have assumed that it could +never happen to us, and that the "secret weapon" scenario will never be +repeated. On the contrary, it HAS happened again, someone else has done it, +and it has happened to us.

+ +

It has also become fashionable in the West to believe that all the +laws of physics are already discovered. We assume we know all of them. While +we have been pridefully crowing this tune, the Soviets have been steadily new +laws in secret, as well as new ways to circumvent the old laws. +Our defense is strategic, we rely on our offense. Our huge nuclear arsenal.. +If this offense were nullified or destroyed by Soviet secret weapons, we +would be powerless to prevent our own destruction and Soviet domination of +our world.

+ +

We have been viewing ourselves as indestructible, confident in the +strength of our defense. Yet literally our defense has been stripped from us. +Indeed Soviet energetics weapons are now capable of destroying our defense, +our homeland, our armed forces in the field, and our population, quickly and +efficiently. We have a new gap of monumental proportions: not a missile gap, +not a submarine or bomber gap, and not even a particle beam or laser gap. +We have a "Scalar Electromagnetics or Electrogravitation" gap..... + + +He that has ears, let him hear.

+ +

Here is the secret of antigravity.

+ +

The "electrical charge" of a charged particle-- such as one of the +charged particles of an atom or one of the protons of its nucleus-- +represents a difference in flux intensity (potential) between the local +particle and its ambient vacuum. Its the continual bleed-off of +gravitational charge as electrical charge. If that bleed off is reversed or +stopped, a drastic effect on the gravitational charge ensues. The 5-potential +and the 5-charge have become 4-G-potential and 4-d-charge respectively. Thus +"charging" an object with its scalar EM pattern charges it gravitationally. +Now the only "bleed off channel" is through the 4-G force field. Further, +in a nucleus the nucleons continually back and forth between proton and +neutron, so the electrical charge is "spread" throughout the nucleus and +shared by all the nucleons.

+ +

Further, each element (actually each isotope) has its own unique +"ensemble pattern" of Fourier expansion scalar frequencies, amplitudes, ect. +This pattern can, of course, be reproduced artificially and transmitted by +modified EM transmitters). There is, however, a sort of "master key" scalar +EM (EG) pattern for nucleons (protons and neutrons which are changing back +and forth into each other by exchange of virtual charge currents).

+ +

If one reverses the charge by inverting this pattern, and then +"charges up a mass with the inverted charge," to the external observer the +charging mass just gets lighter and lighter, and its inertia gets less and +less. Eventually it seems (to him) to acquire negative mass and negative +inertia, and just accelerate away from the earth. the object falls upward +instead of falling downwards.

+ +

There are also some weird time effects; that object can be moving +slower through time than the laboratory observer, or even be moving backwards +through time in respect to the laboratory observer. (Don't believe everything +they taught you in relativity; none of those guys ever had engineered a +single general relativistic situation. &othing they teach in GR is based on +direct experiment. Most of what they teach has already experimentally proven +to be in error.

+ +

This is the concept for a scalar EG detector for a scalar EG waves. +This is the Bendini scalar wave detector, adapted from an original concept by +Dea and Faretto.

+ +

The idea is quite simple: install a very powerful bar magnet inside a +grounded Faraday cage. Then install an open-ended coil longitudally above the +magnet so that a line through the longitudal axis of the magnet passes +through the longitudal axis of the coil above it. The open end of the coil +does not touch the magnet.

+ +

Connect the other end of the coil to a variable tuning capacitor, so +that the coil and the capacitor form a tunable, series-L-C-oscillatory +circuit. The output of the capacitor is connected to a transistorized +preamplifier inside the cage. A tuning shaft for the capacitor is very +carefully placed through a small hole in the shield to allow tuning from +outside.

+ +

The output of the preamp passes through a small hole in the shield, +through a shielded cable, to an adjacent oscilloscope. The cable shield is +also grounded t a reference ground potential. + +The theory is as follows: Suppose a normal EM wave appears inside +the cage, above the magnet or closely adjacent thereto. In that case a +coupled oscillation appears in the field of the magnet, and this oscillation +is coupled to the coil immediately above it. If the oscillation is within the +bandwidth of the tuned series LC circuit, detection occurs. This is amplified +by the preamp and passed to the oscilloscope, where it is displayed on the +scope.

+ +

Note that the detector detects normal EM wave. Now our problem is: +How do we get an EG wave to be detected? And how do we assure that we do not +detect ordinary EM waves from the outside? Actually this is simple. Ordinary +waves (except for quite low frequency) will be grounded out by the Faraday +shield, and will not penetrate the cage. Thus these normal EM waves cannot +enter the cage and appear above the magnet. They will not be detected. Scalar +EG waves, on the other hand, will enter the cage since they do not couple to +conduction electrons in the metal of the cage. Above the pole of the magnet, +spacetime is locally bent. After all, a pole is a magnetostatic scalar +potential, which is a part of the conglomerate called "G-potential." The pole +represents an increase (or decrease, depending on whether it is a north or a +south pole) in the magnetostatic component of the local G-potential. This is a +curvature of spacetime. An EG wave entering this region adds a varying +component component of magnetostatic G-potential, which bleeds off in the coil +as an ordinary EM wave. + +Another way to view the detector is to model the EG wave as a +longitudal wave, and an ordinary EM wave as a transverse wave. When the EG +wave enters the curved spacetime region above the magnet, to the coil (the +"observer" in this case!) the longitudal aspect of the EG wave appears to be +rotating back and forth, so that an oscillating transverse component is +present. This transverse component appears to the coil as an ordinary EM +field, and so the LC circuit detects it if it is in the proper frequency +band.

+ +

Yet another way to view the situation is to realize that an EG wave +entering the magnet results in an oscillating component added to the +magnetostatic scalar potential (pole strength) of t8e magnet. Accordingly, +the magnet is a receiver for scalar waves, which are detected to "bleed-off" +as an oscillation of the magnetic field strength of the magnet. Coupling of +this oscillating magnetic field to the coil creates an oscillating current +flow into the capacitor. This oscillates the voltage input to the preamp, +which amplifies and feeds the signal to the oscilloscope for display. + + +It is important to remember that a magnetostatic potential and an +electrostatic potential can be oscillated by a scalar EG wave. By placing a +magnetic material inside a Faraday cage, the oscillation of the magnetostatic +scalar potential (pole strength of the magnet) can be used as the EG +detecting mechanism. By placing a chargeable material inside a Faraday cage, +the oscillation of the electrostatic scalar potential can be detected. +(Possible examples of the latter type detectors are given by Hodowanec,"Radio +Electronics," April 1986.)

+ +

Note also that one may detect waves at one reference level and not +at another. Changing the bias on the zero-reference ground of the Bendini +detector affects the detection. To look inside a normal EM carrier (such as +the Soviet Woodpecker carrier) and see what scalar signals are riding upon +it, the carrier may be used to bias the reference ground of the Bendini +detector. To produce a spectrum analyzer, simply use additional series +resonant LC tuning circuits in parallel (put multiple taps on the coil, and +wire each tap to a separate tuning capacitor of different capacitance). +Again, varying the zero reference level is important, as is varying the +strength of the magnet. Frank Golden has also invented an excellent series of +scalar wave detectors based on quite different proprietary principles.

+ +

The bottom line is: we can indeed rigorously detect and measure +scalar EG waves. When one considers the large sums of money presently being +spent to bury large aluminum cylinders etc. in an attempt to detect +gravitational waves, one wonders why some funds could not be released to a +few unorthodox researchers by the National Academy of Sciences to fund the +proven creation and detection of electrogravitational waves...

+ +

(Continued)

+ +

Here is explained a new kind of resonance: scalar EM resonance, or +electrogravitational resonance.

+ +

First, imagine we have a standard resonant cavity. In this cavity we +have a resonant EM wave moving back and forth. In accordance with convention, +the E-field vector and the B-field vector are at right angles in this moving +wave front. As the wave moves back and forth, the vectors vary back and +forth; however, at any one point between the walls, the two vectors always +have the same value. Thus our resonant EM wave forms a standing wave in the +cavity.

+ +

Now imagine that a second wave front, precisely like the first and of +the same frequency, is superposed over the first one and travels with it. +This second wave -- the "antiwave" -- has its force vectors 180 degrees out +of phase with the force vectors of the reference wave. Hence the E-fields +and B-fields of the two superposed waves always sum to vector zeros, anywhere +in the cavity. To an external observer, the cavity contains no ordinary +electromagnetic force fields, hence no ordinary EM energy.

+ +

However the energy density of a single EM sine wave in vacuum is given +by:

+ +

density 2 +[ E + B ]/8pi + +This energy density is always positive. Hence the energy density of the +two waves at any point X between the walls is equal to:

+ +

+2 2 +[ E + B ]/4pi + +where + +E=E(x) ; B=B(x) + +Thus the energy density of vacuum varies with X. But, rigorously, since +the resultant E and B fields are zero, this describes a standing +gravitational wave. Hence we have a standing EG wave existing in the cavity. +This is an example of scalar resonance. Rigorously the cavity has mass and +inertia, to an outside observer, as a result of the two warps in spacetime it +contains.

+ +

Note that in one half cycle the energy density of vacuum is greater +than ambient, and in the other half cycle it is less. In the region of one +half cycle, time flows at a faster rate than to the ambient observer, and in +the other half cycle time flows at a slower rate than to the ambient +observer. One half cycle appears to contain negative electrical charge, and +the other appears to contain positive charge.

+ +

One half cycle appears to contain a north pole (positive magnetostatic +scalar potential), and the other half cycle appears to contain a south pole +(negative magnetostatic scalar potential).

+ +

Perhaps n/w one can begin to understand why a continuously accelerated +orbital electron in the atom does not radiate EM energy, completely in +violation of Maxwell's equations. The electron is naught but a complex aspect

+ +

Scalar resonance is not in the conventional textbook.

+ +

Scalar resonance is a particular zero summed multi-resonance, +electromagnetically, so that it does not act in an electromagnetic manner.

+ +

A scalar resonance is a standing electromagnetic wave. It can be made +electrically, but is not electrical in behavior.

+ +

In any scalar resonance, spacetime is curved, and it is the magnitude +(and direction) of this spacetime curvature that is oscillating in "standing +wave" fashion.

+ +

In respect to stress of the vacuum medium, one half of a standing sine +wave of scalar resonance is tensile; the other half is compressive. However, +this is with respect to the local ambient stress of the vacuum.

+ +

"Mass" of a particle is just a characteristic exhibited by a trapped +scalar resonance. Usually this trapping is done by the "spin" of the +individual particle.

+ +

The concept of "mass" may be compared with the concept of +"capacitance." That is, a mass is an accumulator for scalar waves; that is, +for scalar resonances. It is continually being "charged" and "discharged" +by absorption and emission of scalar waves from and to the ambient vacuum +scalar wave flux.

+ +

Indeed the magnitude of a mass may be defined in terms of the absolute +value of this "switching" (absorption = switch in; emission = switch out) +rate. For details on this see (Bearden, T.E. "Quinton/Perception Physics: A +Theory of Existence, Perception, and Physical Phenomena," March, 1973, AD +763210, available through NTIS.)

+ +

In the normal linear spacetime, the "charging" and "discharging" are +equal in all directions; so the mass exhibited in any direction is the same.

+ +

With respect to an "external observer's" equilibrium flux, a moving +object encounters an increased amount of flux rate along its line of motion, +just as a moving object in a rainstorm encounters more raindrops per second +in the direction of its path, than does a stationary object. Encountering +increased scalar wave flux (with respect to the external observer) forces the +moving object to absorb and emit scalar waves at a higher rate along its +direction of motion than when its not moving. Thus to the external observer, +the mass of the object has increased, insofar as any disturbing force along +its line of motion is concerned.

+ +

At right angles to its line of motion however, the flux rate is +precisely the same as when the object is at rest. Therefore the "mass" of the +moving object with respect to any disturbing force at right angles to its +line of motion has not changed, as seen by the external observer.

+ +

Thus is explained both parts of one of the all time great mysteries of +special relativity: (1) how the mass of an object increases with respect to +its motion, and (2) why the mass only increases with respect to its line of +motion, and not at any right angles to it.

+ +

The inertia of a particle is due to its mass, i.e., to the total +magnitude of its trapped scalar resonance.

+ +

The gravitational attraction between two masses is due to their +spacetime curvature. Further, mass is like a capacitance. It can trap +additional scalar waves as trapped resonance; hence increase its magnitude or +"inertial charge". Or, it can discharge more scalar waves than it absorbs; +hence decrease its magnitude or "internal charge"...

+ +

Those scalar waves emitted from resonance are emitted as a pattern +ensemble of the resonance. Hence they may be regarded as constituting a +current of scalar resonance leaving the mass accumulator object. Scalar waves +absorbed into trapped resonance may be regarded as constituting a current of +scalar resonance into the mass accumulator object. Thus it is proper to speak +of scalar resonance as being able to "flow".

+ +

Further, it is possible to increase the mass of an object directly, by +transmitting scalar EM waves to it so that it absorbs them. (By absorbing +scalar waves one means that more enter the object than leave it, so that the +object acts as an internal accumulator charging up with internal charge. This +is done by insuring the reference potential of the scalar wave transmitter is +higher than the reference potential of the irradiated object.)

+ +

It is also possible to decrease the mass of an object directly, by +transmitting scalar EM waves to it so that it emits more than it absorbs. (By +emitting scalar waves one means that more leave the object than enter it, so +the object acts as if it were an internal accumulator that is discharging its +internal charge. this is done by insuring that the reference potential of the +scalar transmitter is lower than the reference potential of the irradiated +object.)

+ +

As can be seen, the scalar wave "transmitter" is actually somewhat +comparable to a heat pump; it can either act as an "energy transmitter" or as +an "energy extractor", depending on the difference in potential between +"transmitter" and "receiver."

+ +

Scalar resonance can have a specific pattern: both in frequency and in +spatial curvature aspects, as well as "rate of flow of time" aspects. Indeed, +scalar-wise every object has its individual "scalar pattern" which is a +unique fingerprint. Since that print is spatiotemporal, it is a product of +that objects entire past history. Thus --scalar wise-- no two objects are +identical.

+ +

This brings up another rather amazing potential: If a reasonably +precise scalar pattern of an object can be "irradiated" and resonated with +scalar waves, energy may be created in or extracted from the distant object, +just as stimulating one tuning fork can excite another at a distance by +sympathetic resonance. I leave it to you to ascertain the relavence of this +statement to clairvoyance, radionics, remote viewing, etc.

+ +

For the skeptic, however, we must point out that --rigorously--quantum +mechanics requires that, continually, in any localized region of spacetime, +the "pattern" of any object in the universe appears momentarily in the +virtual state, purely from statistical considerations alone. So long as the +situation remains statistical, any place in the universe can continue to have +the "ghosts" of everything present there, in an ethereally thin pattern, and +the observable world will not be affected by it. However if one can +discriminate and scalarly "charge" or "discharge" individual patterns in this +"ghost-realm", action at a distance is directly possible, as is +materialization and dematerialization. If one accepts that even thought +itself produces such virtual "ghost-patterns" in the virtual particle flux of +vacuum, then it is at least theoretically possible to materialize thoughts +and thought images. +

+ +

We have entered a new kind of reality where the old rules and the old +limitations do not necessarily apply.

+ +

As pointed out, we can greatly simplify matters by considering +'currents of scalar resonance'. These currents flow from higher potential to +lower potential, regardless of whether we are considering "transmission" or +"reception".

+ +

Indeed, to transmit at lower potential is to receive, and to receive +at higher potential is to transmit. Thus the "transmitter-receiver" is a +special system where simply biasing two nodes differently determines which +way the scalar resonance will flow. We may increase or decrease an object's +inertia and mass, simply by properly biasing the transmitter-receiver's two +nodes.

+ +

In one accidental experiment of some hours duration, Golden charged +up an area so that, locally, all clocks became erratic. This included +electrical clocks, battery driven watches, wind up kitchen clocks, and a +pendulum operated grandfather clock. The rate of flow of time itself was +apparently altered in the local area by the accumulated charge, which took +four days to drain off and discharge. At the end of four days of discharge, +all clocks and watches returned to normal.

+ +

(Continued)

+ +

If we interfere two transmitters in a region of great energy--such as +the molten core of the earth itself--and bias the transmitters negatively, we +can extract enormous energy directly from that distant source!

+ +

Indeed, a slight variation of this effect is precisely how the Soviet +Union obtains the enormous energy with which to power its incredibly +powerful strategic "continent-buster" scalar EM weapons. Scalar frequency +pairs -- 12 kilohertz apart -- are transmitted into the earth itself on some +portion of the earth's "giant scalar resonance" frequency curve. Biasing the +two transmitters differently with respect to each other produces a high +potential difference (voltage) between them. At the same time, biasing them +both negative with respect to the earth's molten core produces a scalar +resonance current from the core to the two transmitters. In the "outer loop" +between the two scalar transmitters, there appears a gigantic v/ltage and +gigantic electrical current which can be captured by appropriate means. This +electrical power is tapped off and transmitted to incredibly powerful scalar +EM weapon systems. There, special accumulators ad switchers are utilized to +provide awesome amounts of power to each weapon.

+ +

Just before May 11985 the Soviet Union performed a "full-up" +operational test of their entire strategic scalar EM weap/ns complex. This +test was detected and monitored periodically by Frank Golden. Some 27 of +these giant Soviet "power taps" were locked into the molten core of the +earth, producing forced (entrained) scalar resonance of the entire planet on +54 controlled frequencies under our very feet. The remainder of the scalar +frequency spectrum was ablaze with literally hundreds of Soviet scalar +transmitters: probably the entire strategic scalar command and control system +to underwater submarines, higher command centers, distant commands, etc. was +activated in the giant exercise.

+ +

For several days the system was exercised on a mind-boggling scale, +apparently as part of the Soviet Unions highly accentuated 40th anniversary +celebration of the end of World War II.

+ +

Ironically, not a single U.S. intelligence agency, laboratory, or +scientist detected this monstrous exercise for the new Soviet leader, +Gorbacev. Not one of them had a detector for scalar EM radiation, and not one +of them will --officially-- say that the exercise ever happened.

+ +

-- CREATING ENERGY AT A DISTANCE -- + +A most useful device is obtained if one uses a scalar inferometer where +the two transmitters transmit beams which intersect at a distance.

+ +

In the interference zone, an energy bottle is created.

+ +

By biasing the transmitter reference potentials well above that of the +distant energy bottle, EM energy emerges in that zone. In that case the +interferometer is operating in the Exothermic mode.

+ +

By biasing the transmitter reference potentials well below that of the +distant energy bottle, EM energy is extracted from the distant zone and +emerges from the transmitter. In that case the inferometer is operating in +the Endothermic mode.

+ +

If the transmitters transmit continuously, the effect in the distant +zone is continuous.

+ +

If each transmitter transmits a pulse, and the two pulses meet in the +distant intersection zone, then an explosive emergence or extraction of +energy occurs at the distant interference zone, depending on whether the +inferometer is operating in the exothermic or endothermic mode.

+ +

-- EXOTHERMIC MODE (SCALAR INTERFEROMETER) -- + +For a scalar interferometer, "del phi" (the gradient of the potential) +applies between the transmitter sit and the distant intersection site, not to +the intervening space in between. Thus one speaks of "energy flow" as being +between the transmitter and intersection --without-any "in between". In the +intervening space, all energy exists as locked-in artificial potential, not +EM force field energy (gradient bleed off potential).

+ +

In the Exothermic mode, the ground potential of the transmitter is +biased well above the ground potential of ambient vacuum. Energy enters the +transmitter and "disappears", to "reappear" in the distant interference zone.

+ +

If continuous wave transmission is used, the energy continuously +appears in the distant zone.

+ +

If pulse transmission is used and timed so that the two scalar pulses +meet in the distant zone, energy explosively appears there.

+ +

If multiple frequencies are transmitted in the manner of a Fourier +expansion of a particular geometric form, then a 3-dimensional energy form +appears at the distant intersection. In this manner a spherical or +hemispherical shell (a globe or "dome" of EM energy) can be created at a +distance. If pulse transmission is used, this will be an impulsive or +explosive emergence of that energy form. If continuous transmission is used, +this will be a continuous glowing form.

+ +

By feeding incredibly powerful transmitters with large amounts of +energy extracted from the earth's molten core by "energy taps," very large +spherical globes and hemispherical domes of EM energy can be created at a +distance. The energy in the interference "shell" of such a sphere or +hemisphere is sufficiently dense to lift Dirac matter from the Dirac sea of +the vacuum. Thus the shell contains a glowing plasma.

+ +

Many such scalar howitzer signatures have been seen over the oceans, +particularly over the north Pacific by jet airliners flying into and out of +Japan. (Remember some months ago the big story about the JAL flight in which +all passengers and crew saw a giant spherical "UFO".) Also such globes and +domes of light have been seen deep within the Soviet Union, by observers in +Afghanistan and by pilots of aircraft landing in Iran.

+ +

In the impulsive exothermic mode, a large visible flash will occur if +EM energy in the visible spectrum is produced. "Flashes" in the infrared may +similarly occur, if the emerging energy is in that spectral band. In +September 1979 our Vela satellites detected such a large "nuclear flash" over +the South Atlantic, off the southern coast of Africa. A second "nuclear +flash" detected by the Vela satellites in 1980 was in the infrared only. Some +years ago, a series of anomalous "flashes" and "booms" occurred off the east +coast of the United States. The were due to the orientation and alignment -- +and registration -- of one or more "scalar howitzers" -- scalar EM +interferometers in the exothermic mode.

+ +

Large "booms" occurred over the shuttle launch site at Cape Canaveral, +associated with three shuttle launches prior to the end of November 1985. +These were tests of such exothermic scalar EM howitzers, being tested as part +of the Soviet Launch Phase ABM system. In that mode, the scalar pulses from +the two transmitters are injected into special zero-reference scalar EM +"channels" established in the EM carriers of the Woodpecker over-the-horizon +radars. The scalar pulses travel through these channels, traveling in the +ordinary EM beam of the transmitter and following it in its curvature around +the earth in the earth-ionospheric waveguide. The scalar pulses are timed, +phased, and oriented so as to meet the rising shuttle. In these tests the +transmissions were offset in time so the shuttle would not actually be +destroyed, but the system could be tested against actual shuttle launches in +the U.S. + +The specific uses of these various exothermic modes will be covered in +later parts of this series.

+ +

In the endothermic mode, the bias on the transmitters is such that +energy is extracted from the distant intersection zone, to re-emerge from the +transmitters. There the energy must be caught and disposed of if it is not to +burn out the transmitters. When very large amounts of energy are extracted +from distant points, the Soviets often use a "dump" method of temporarily +capturing, and storing in an accumulator, the heat energy emerging at the +transmitters. A second howitzer in the exothermic mode is then fed by a +"scalar energy tap" established into the accumulator. This howitzer is +focused on the distant dump site -- often Bennett Island, where exhausts are +continually observed by U.S. weather satellites.

+ +

In the impulsive endothermic mode, energy is impulsively extracted from +the distant intersection zone. In the atmosphere this results in a very sharp +cooling or "cold explosion". It also results in the type of boom and rumble +often associated with thunder after a lightning bolt.

+ +

On April 9, 1984 the Soviet Union tested such a "cold explosion" off +the coast of Japan, near the Kuril Islands. In the suddenly induced low +pressure "cold zone" above the ocean, ocean water was sharply sucked up from +the ocean, forming a dense cloud. Then air rushing into the low pressure zone +forced the cloud upward, forming a mushroom much like that of an atomic +explosion except for the absence of a flash and the absence of a shockwave +moving out and away from the center of the explosion.

+ +

As the cloud rises, it expands by mixing -- very similar to a giant +thunderhead buildup, except much faster. In this case the cloud rose to about +60000 feet in about 2 minutes, spreading out until it reached a diameter of +about 200 miles. The incident was seen by the pilots and crews of several +Boeing 747 jet airliners in the general vicinity. Sometime after that, a U.S. +weather satellite photo of the area occurred. The cloud in that photo has an +anomalous density distribution, differing from that of all other clouds in +the area...

+ +

(Continued)

+ +

--TESLA'S "BIG EYE" FOR REMOTE VIEWING-- + +Nikola Tesla planned a very special use for his endothermic scalar +interferometer. He planned to produce what he called his "big eye to see at a +distance."

+ +

The system used to accomplish this is only weakly endothermic, so that +only a small amount of energy is extracted from the distant target. Also, the +beams are "scanned" by an open receiver, timewise, from side to side and top +to bottom. By scanning yet another single beam through the intersection zone +and phasing its pulses, an even better representation can be obtained. Thus +the receiver produces a representation of the energy extracted from various +locations within the distant endothermic zone. By displaying the received +signals on an appropriately scanned screen, a representation of the distant +scene can be created. This is a special kind of "microwave interferometry," +and -- with modern techniques -- the imagery obtained can be surprisingly +good.

+ +

With development, it might even become as good as the image presently +obtained by side looking acquisition radars.

+ +

Interestingly enough, since scalar beams will easily penetrate the earth +or the ocean, one can also look beneath the earth or ocean with this type of +scanning scalar interferometer. + +The importance of this capability to strategic and tactical +reconnaissance is obvious. Camouflage, cover, and concealment have no effect +on such a system. One can easily look into buildings and into underground +facilities. With a small system such as this, the U.S. Marines at Khe Sahn +would have had little difficulty locating the tunnels continually dug under +the perimeter by the Viet Cong. And targets under jungle canopies are +directly visible... + +It requires little imagination to see that this system is easily +adapted for use underwater. A type of "underwater radar." With such devices, +the problem posed by the underwater nuclear submarine is solved. For example, +an entire area can be continually searched, much like acquisition radar +systems do now. A submarine can be detected and tracked, and none of its +ordinary detectors will detect anything out of the ordinary. By using a +separate pair of beams in the exothermic mode, powerful scalar pulses can be +fired at the distant sub, intersecting at the submarine in a violent EMP +throughout the sub and its armament. Thus the sub and all of its missiles +are destroyed instantly.

+ +

Or, continuous exothermic transmission can be used by the targeting +weapon at lesser power, gradually interfering with the sub's electrical +systems and causing it to loose control. The sub then sinks to crush depths +and implodes.

+ +

Precisely that scenario seems to be what happened on April 10, 1963 to +the U.S.S. Thresher nuclear submarine. It left a signature: the subs nearby +surface companion, the U.S.S. Skylark, was in the "splatter zone" of the +underwater scalar interference. That is, spurious EM noise was being +generated in all the Skylark's electrical systems, some of which were +actually disabled. So intense was the "electronic jamming" that it required +over an hour and a half for the Skylark to transmit an emergency message +back to its headquarters that the Thresher was n serious trouble and contact +with it had been lost. Some of the Skylark's communication systems actually +failed, but later resumed operation inexplicably, once the jamming was gone. +That type of "jamming" of multiple bands and multiple electronic equipment, +of course, together with the anomalous failure of electronic equipment and +its later mysterious recovery, were direct signatures of the exothermic +scalar interferometer against thee undersea target in the vicinity of the +skylark.

+ +

The very next day, April 111963, the same Soviet scalar EM howitzer +system was tested in the "destroy submarine" pulse mode. A huge underwater EM +blast occurred off the coast of Puerto Rico, about 100 miles north of the +island. The underwater explosion caused a huge boiling of the surface of the +ocean, followed by the rising up of a giant mushroom of water about a third +of a mile high, the mushroom of water then fell back into the ocean, +completing the signature.

+ +

Fortunately the entire incident was seen by the startled crew of a +passing U.S. jetliner which was just passing its checkpoint in that area. +(See Robert J.Durant, "An underwater explosion -- or what?", Pursuit, 5(2), +April 1972, p. 30-31.)

+ +

These two incidents were full up operational tests of Khrushchev's +newly-deployed superweapons. He probably staged this dramatic one-two punch +in a desperate effort to recover face with the Communist Party after his +disastrous face down by Kennedy in thee Cuban Missile Crisis a few short +months previously. Apparently the attempt was successful, since he remained +in power another year before being deposed.

+ +

--MUSHROOM CLOUD FROM SEA OFF JAPAN NEAR RUSSIAN TEST AREA-- + +The following is concerning the "cold explosion" of April 91984. The +site of the explosion was only about 200 miles from downtown Tokyo. It was +seen by the crews of several jet airliners, including Japan Air Lines Flight +36.

+ +

A short time before the Soviets had hastily announced missile tests +would be conducted into a zone some distance away from the ol explosion site. +This may have been a deception to cover this incident, should any nation +indicate they knew what was going on.

+ +

It was also a direct "stimulus" to the Japanese and the rest of the +world: That is stimulate the system and see if the scientists recognize what +happened. If they do, then they know about scalar EM weapons. If they don't, +then their countries know nothing of scalar EM weapons, and those countries +are defenseless against them.

+ +

At any rate, at about 5:14 a.m. Pacific Standard time on April 91984, +a giant mushroom cloud erupted above the ocean south of the Kuril Islands. +The mushroom rose rapidly, expanding to an altitude of 60000 feet and a +diameter of 200 miles within 2 minutes.

+ +

One pilot of a Boeing 747 who observed the cloud was a former B-52 +bomber pilot. He described the cloud as being very similar to that of a +gigantic nuclear explosion, except there was no flash of visible light. +Taking evasive action, he turned off course away from the blast, and braced +for a blast shock that never came...

+ +

--MUSHROOM CLOUD RISING FROM THE SEA (COLD EXPLOSION)-- + +Indeed, this highly anomalous cloud was due to a cold explosion -- a +test of a Soviet scalar EM howitzer in the pulsed endothermic mode. + +Thus a beautiful "stimulus" and test was conducted: quite a few +airliners were "pinged", providing a high-level stimulus to competent +observers. The news was sure to be reported by them to several nations. The +press was sure to pick up the story. This was a high order stimulus to see +whether the U.S., Japan, or other potential adversaries of the Soviet Union +recognized the testing of a cold explosion weapon.

+ +

By our reaction, we assured them (with high confidence) that we still +knew nothing of scalar EM interferometry or cold explosions.

+ +

Five Boeing 747's flew through or near the cloud on their way to +Anchorage Alaska. The aircraft were checked at Anchorage for rad)oactive +contamination, but nothing was found. This showed that the huge explosion +had been non-nuclear.

+ +

The ocean in the area is also about 21000 feet deep. That is really +too deep for a submarine volcano to have erupted and caused the cloud. +(Besides, a volcano would have continued to snort at least a bit, and so that +appears to be out of the question as a cause of the incident.)

+ +

In short, a man made phenomenon is indicated.

+ +

Indeed, we know it was a cold explosion. In fact, the basic effect has +been produced over a dish of water in the laboratory, using a small scalar +interferometer in the endothermic mode.

+ +

Further, the story does not end there.

+ +

A geophysicist at the University of Hawaii, Dr.Daniel A. Walker, +together with his colleages monitor an array of Hydrophones on the ocean +bottom, recording signals such as seismic events, volcano eruptions, etc.

+ +

Dr.Walker and his colleages performed a comprehensive analysis of the +data recorded by the hydrophones in and around the time of the incident in +question. The data shows the absence of any natural seismic or volcanic event +that could have caused the April 9th phenomenon off the coast of Japan. + +He and his colleages concluded that it was either an as yet unknown +natural phenomenon, or a man made phenomenon.

+ +

Their report is published in "Science". (D.Walker,"Kaitoku Seamount and +the Mystery Cloud of 9 April 1984," Science, 227(4687),Feb.81985,p. +607-611.)

+ +

(Continued)

+ +

--THE TESLA SHIELD-- + +Of particular interest is the hemispherical shell of energy which years +ago was dubbed the "Tesla Shield."

+ +

Two scalar hemispherical surfaces are created, using multiple frequency +transmitters and truncated Fourier series expansions. Interference of the two +scalar hemispheres creates a great, glowing hemispherical shell of ordinary +electromagnetic energy. In the shell, the energy density is sufficient to +lift Dirac matter from the Dirac sea of vacuum. The shell is thus filled with +a glowing plasma.

+ +

Such a shell may be several hundreds of miles in diameter at the base. +The enormous energy required to form such a defense shell is obtained by a +"scalar power tap" into the molten core of the earth itself as previously +explained. In late April/early May of 1985, 27 such "power taps" were placed +in the earth by the Soviets. If each tap is capable of powering 4 to 6 large +scalar EM weapons, then the Soviet strategic scalar EM arsenal contains over +100 monstrous superweapons capable of generating exothermic explosions, +endothermic explosions, engineering the weather, locating and destroying +underwater submarines, detecting and destroying ballistic missiles shortly +after launch, detecting and destroying long range strategic bombers as soon +as they are airborne, etc.

+ +

At any rate, the giant Tesla shield is useful against any penetrating +vehicle. If the shell is not so large, its energy density may be very high. +In that case, the intense plasma heating will fuse and even vaporize metallic +bodies. In addition, any vehicle encountering the shell is subjected to an +extremely intense EMP arising everywhere inside its circuitry. EMP shielding +is of no use against the creation of energy throughout the spacetime of the +circuits; such shielding only helps against energy flow through space in the +conventional sense.

+ +

Thus the electronics of any vehicle encountering the shield are +instantly dudded, whether or not they are shielded against ordinary +electromagnetic interference (EMI). This includes the electronics operating a +nuclear warhead, carried by a re-entry vehicle. Electrically everything +penetrating the shell is totally dudded. Further, explosive materials are +exploded when such an EMP is encountered, and combustible materials are +fiercely consumed or set afire. Ablative shielding suffers an interesting +catastrophe: since energy does not try to "flow into" the shielding but +"arises" everywhere in it simultaneously, "ablation" occurs everywhere +throughout the ablative material, simply exploding it instantly. In addition, +for smaller Tesla shells (say of 50 miles in diameter) the energy density is +sufficient to melt or vaporize metals such as missile structures.

+ +

With such a Tesla shield, there is no need to discriminate true +warhead bearing re-entry vehicles from decoys, chaff, etc. The whole "mess" +entering the shield is simply "cleaned up" and "sterilized" or destroyed. The +shield can take care of ICBMs/IRBMs and their nuclear warheads, strategic +bombers and their nuclear bombs, cruise missiles and their nuclear warheads, +re-entry vehicles and their warheads, decoys, chaff, etc.

+ +

--SARYSHAGAN DIRECTION-SEPTEMBER 1979-- + +The London Sunday Times of 17 August 1980 contained information and a +photo-sketch of incidents fo sighting of the testing of very large Tesla +globes deep within the Soviet Union. The sightings were made in Afghanistan +by British war cameraman Nick Downie. The phenomena seen were in the +direction of the Saryshagan Missile Test Range, which -- according to the +U.S. Defense Departments "Soviet Military Power," 1986 -- contains one or +more large directed energy weapons (DEW's). + +Even though Downie was seeing the globe of light from a great +distance, it flared silently over the Hindu Kush and expanded to subtend an +arc of about 20 degrees, dimming as it expanded. (An arc of 20 degrees +subtended by an object many hundreds of miles distant indicates an object of +well over a hundred miles in diameter. This gives some idea of the enormous +energy being controlled and manipulated by these Soviet weapons.)

+ +

Downie saw the sight on more than one occasion in September 1979.

+ +

In the same month --December 1979-- a stationary luminous globe +containing a vertical stripe of black in the center was seen in the sky off +the coast of St.Petersburg, Florida. This particular type of sighting in that +area has been previously correlated with times of known activity at +Saryshagan.

+ +

Further, in the same month, U.S. nuclear warning Vela satellites +detected a "nuclear flash" over the South Atlantic, off the coast of Africa. +Controversy has raged in U.S. Intelligence and scientific circles to this day +as to whether a nuclear explosion or some other kind of mechanism produced +the flash.

+ +

Indeed, the flash may have been produced by a scalar EM howitzer from +Saryshagan as one more "ping" of the U.S. Intelligence system, to ascertain +whether or not it knew anything about scalar EM howitzers. Again the negative +response told them with high confidence that (1) We still didn't know about +scalar EM stuff, and (2) We were still totally defenseless against the Soviet +scalar EM weaponry.

+ +

At any rate, from Downie's sightings, it is highly probable that the +DEW weaponry at Saryshagan Missile Test Range was active in September 1979, +and was producing large Tesla globes. If the DEWs at Saryshagan can produce +the giant luminous Tesla globe, they are almost certainly scalar EM +interferometers and can produce the giant Tesla shields as well. Downie +reported other earlier sightings of similar phenomena seen by Afghans deep +within the Soviet Union in the same direction toward Saryshagan...

+ +

Briefly, let us cover the uses of such a giant globe or spherical +shell of glowing EM energy and plasma.

+ +

By placing such a giant globe hundreds of miles out away from the +defended heartland, an entire arc of the sky can be defended against long +range ballistic missile attack in midcourse. During their midcourse +trajectory, the attacking missiles would have to penetrate the globular shell +twice, exposing them to giant internal EMPs twice. A very high probability +thus exists that all missiles entering the space occupied by the globe are +dudded upon entry and/or exit. This includes the electronics inside the +nuclear warheads themselves. Also this is particularly effective against MIRV +and MARV missile carriers since the multiple re-entry vehicles are normally +still on the main vehicle during most of midcourse. The use of this midcourse +ABM globe defense greatly reduces the number of vehicles arriving at the +latter part of midcourse and the terminal phase of their trajectory.

+ +

By using a smaller, more intense globe, and placing it on incoming +clusters of objects or single objects, both EMP and local heating are used +against the objects. This is suitable in the latter part of midcourse and in +the terminal phase of ICBMs, IRBMs, SLBMs, and cruise missiles. It is also +useful against incoming strategic bombers and their air to surface missiles +both ballistic and cruise.

+ +

Two modes of the globes -- especially the small ones -- can be used. +First the continuous mode can be used to "fry" or vaporize incoming objects +in a relatively small volume (say ten to fifteen miles in diameter). Second, +the "pulse" mode can be used to "service" all incoming objects, whether or +not they have passed through the "large globe" midcourse defense. This +provides an additional guarantee of killing the objects; discrimination is +not require, just get all of them. The exposure of all incoming objects to +multiple attacks raises the probability of kill to essentially 100%, or as +close to that as one wishes. Of course the incoming vehicle may still +encounter a terminal defense consisting of the Tesla shield and associated +roving "quickshot" small intense globes.

+ +

In short, with these systems an essentially 100% ABM and anti bomber +defense is possible. Further, the Soviets have possessed such an effective +defense for two decades, JUST AS THEY HAVE OPENLY STATED SINCE 1960 WHEN +KHRUSHCHEV ANNOUNCED HIS "SUPERWEAPONS"!! + +

+ +

--CONTINUOUS TESLA EMP GLOBE-- + +Here is another verified incident of a gigantic test of a Soviet +scalar EM howitzer deep within the Soviet Union.

+ +

This is a C.I.A. report, released under the Freedom of Information +Act. One can be quite sure that the incident occurred as stated.

+ +

The phenomenon was seen from two aircraft approaching Mehrabad Airport +in Teheran, Iran on June 17, 1966 and reported by their pilots.

+ +

On the far horizon deep within the Soviet Union, an intense spherical +ball of light appeared, "sitting on the horizon" so to speak. The globe of +light increased to enormous size, dimming as it did so, literally filling an +arc of the distant sky as it expanded. The sighting was shielded from most +ground observers view at the airport itself due to an intervening mountain +range which masked most of the phenomena from the ground.

+ +

The silent, expanding globe was observed for four or five minutes +before it faded away.

+ +

Again this is positive evidence of the testing of a giant scalar +interferometer, in the "midcourse ABM globe" type of action.

+ +

However, note the date -- mid 1966! The Soviets have therefore been +testing such scalar weapons of enormous size and power for at least two +decades. This implies that development must have started at least a decade +earlier, or in the mid '50s.

+ +

Still earlier, in January 1960 Nikita Khrushchev had announced the +development of a "fantastic" Soviet weapon, one which could even destroy all +life on earth if unrestrainedly used. In 1962 the ebullient Khrushchev was +forced to back down and lose face before John Kennedy, in the Cuban Missile +Crisis. Khrushchev's missiles and bombers were in woeful shape, as Kennedy +well knew (by courtesy of the Russian spy, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky). Kennedy +did not know that Khrushchev's new superweapons were nearing deployment, but +were not quite ready yet.

+ +

To save face and prevent his immediate ouster, Khrushchev apparently +conducted a startling two-strike demonstration of his new weapons as soon as +they became operationally ready. On April 10, 1963 he detected and destroyed +the U.S.S. Thresher nuclear submarine, using a scalar EM howitzer in the +underwater "continuous" mode. The next day he demonstrated the "pulsed" +underwater destruction mode for underwater subs by producing a giant +underwater +explosion underneath the water 100 miles north of Puerto Rico. Ironically, +just as the Atlantic was coming alive with U.S. naval vessels searching for +the lost Thresher, a second test of the weapons that had finished off the sub +occurred to the south of them, unnoticed and disregarded, even though seen +and reported to he F.B.I. and the U.S. Coast Guard by a passing U.S. +jetliner's pilot and crew, who observed the underwater explosion.

+ +

We thus can peg the development of these weapons by the Soviets as +starting well before 1960. The first operational deployment of the gigantic +strategic weaponry occurred in early 1963. + +Note that the 1966 testing observed here is completely consistent +with this estimated development schedule.

+ +

Thus large Soviet strategic scalar EM weapons have been operational +on site for 24 YEARS !!! This implies that at least three additional +generations of the scalar EM weapons have been developed and deployed by +now... +

+ +

--MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS OVER NORTH PACIFIC-- + +Incidents of Soviet testing of the Tesla shield and the Tesla globe +weapons are routinely observed by airline pilots flying over the North +Pacific into and out of Japan.

+ +

This is one typical example. Two jetliners, Japan Air Lines flights +403 and 421, sighted and reported a large glowing globe of light sitting just +beyond the horizon and extending well above it. The aircraft were in the +vicinity of 42 degrees N latitude and 153 degrees longitude at the time. The +sighting was thus about 700 miles east of Kushiro.

+ +

The diameter of the ball was estimated as at least 18-27 kilometers +by the pilots. Depending upon the actual distance to the sphere it may have +been of much larger size.

+ +

This incident is reported in the Asahi Evening News, Tokyo, June 22, +1982. + +Many similar sightings have been reported by jet airliner pilots +flying over these waters. + +--WHITE SPHERE SEEN IN NORTH ATLANTIC 1976-- + +Here is another sighting closer to home.

+ +

This incident was observed from a passing ship on June 221976 in the +North Atlantic, at about 2113-2140 hours. It is reported in the Marine +Observer, Vol.471977, p.66.

+ +

First an orange glow was sighted behind some distant clouds. A couple +of minutes later, a glowing white sphere of light was observed to the left of +the orange glow, just above the clouds. The white sphere then slowly expanded +to a much larger sphere, dimming as it expanded. At its maximum size, the top +of the white sphere reached about 24 degrees 30 minutes elevation angle to +the observer. Development to maximum size required about 10 minutes.

+ +

By 2140 hours the sphere had faded and disappeared. The sphere was +sufficiently thin that the stars could be seen through it at all times.

+ +

Again, this incident strong<y fits the large Tesla globe mode of a +Soviet scalar EM interferometer.

+ +

The significance and role of the orange glow are not known at this +time. +

+ +

--CONTINUOUS TESLA FIREBALL-- + +Here is another incident that represents a stimulus to the British +government, to see if the British are aware of scalar electromagnetics.

+ +

Again this is a CIA report released under the Freedom of Information +Act, so the details are reliable.

+ +

On Sep. 10, 1976 British European Airways flight 831, flying between +Moscow and London and over Lithuania at the time, observed an intense ball +of light above the clouds below the aircraft. The light was so intense it +lit up the sky in the entire vicinity.

+ +

The concerned pilot reported the glowing object to Soviet ground +authorities with whom he was in contact. He received harsh instructions to +ignore the light, and essentially to continue on his way out of there.

+ +

Here we see an incident involving a small, intense Tesla globe, of the +kind with which the defense could "service" objects that had already +penetrated a large midcourse globe, or aircraft approaching the defended +area.

+ +

Obviously the Soviet authorities were tracking the aircraft, and knew +it was in the vicinity. It seems logical, then, that they deliberately +placed the brightly glowing ball beneath the aircraft so that the pilot and +crew could not fail to observe it.

+ +

The strange message to the pilot was simply designed to increase the +intensity of the stimulus. The stimulus was to be something like, "The +Soviets are doing something in research and development that allows them to +create intense balls of glowing light at a distance, and place these objects +in and around the air in and around aircraft, possibly to intercept them." +The purpose, of course, was to observe the British governments reaction +after the incident was reported by the pilot upon his arrival in London.

+ +

Again the reaction of the British -- and the U.S. as well -- was as +predicted. Again we showed that we knew nothing of scalar electromagnetic +weapons, and did not recognize one when we encountered its effects.

+ +

(Continued)

+ +

--TERMINAL ABM SYSTEM-- + +Very neat things can be done if one "nests" several Tesla shields -- +say three or four -- concentrically, one inside the other. In that case even +the nuclear radiation (such as gamma rays) from a defense-suppressive high +altitude nuclear burst can be handled. + +For example, suppose three such concentric shields are placed over a +large vital area. Further, suppose a high altitude nuclear burst is placed +above the outer shield. Gamma radiation almost instantly strikes the plasma +in the outer shell, where it is absorbed, scattered, and re-radiated at a +lower temperature. (That after all is what plasmas do.) Inside the first +shell, the scattered radiation is now in the x-ray and ultra violet region. +Let us track the most lethal component, the x-rays.

+ +

The scattered x-rays then strike the second plasma shell, and are +absorbed scattered and re-radiated at a lower temperature. Inside the second +shell the scattered radiation is now in the visible and infrared region, with +a little ultraviolet. + +This optical radiation in turn strikes the third plasma shell, and is +absorbed scattered and re-radiated at still lower temperature. Inside the +third shell, most of the energy is now in the form of radio frequency (RF) +energy, with a little IR and visible band spectral energy content. + +At this point, ordinary electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding of +electronic equipment on the ground inside the third shield can take care of +any RF interference resulting from the emergent RF noise.

+ +

As can be seen, three shells are sufficient to convert the gamma and +x-ray radiation (and ultraviolet and infrared) mostly to harmless RF energy +before all three shells are penetrated. Thus the tactic of deliberate defense +suppression by a preliminary high altitude nuclear burst can be countered by +multiple Tesla shields.

+ +

In addition, of course, any ordinary vehicles penetrating all three +shields are exposed to successive violent EMP's and are almost certainly +electrically dudded. The vehicles are also subjected to multiple periods of +intense heating, so combustibles, fuels, explosives, and ablatives are +destroyed. In addition, metal structures may be melted or vaporized.

+ +

Think of it this way: anything which hits one of these Tesla shields +goes phhht! Just like a bug hitting an electrified bugkiller screen.

+ +

For years passing ships have observed and reported such multiple-shield +"light phenomena" over remote regions of the ocean. U.S. intelligence has +routinely not paid any heed to "lights at night" over remote ocean areas, and +so Soviet tests in this manner have remained relatively unnoticed by +officialdom...

+ +

--WOODPECKER BEAMS INTERSECT OVER NORTH AMERICA-- + +In July 1976 the U.S. received very special Bicentennial greetings from +the Soviet Union.

+ +

At that time, communications systems of the world in the 3-30 megaHertz +band suddenly met substantial interference from extremely powerful, chirped +Soviet transmitters which were suddenly activated. These transmitters +continue their transmission to this day.

+ +

Estimates of the power of these transmitters vary, but figures range as +high as several hundred megawatts, with a nominal figure being 100 megawatts.

+ +

These powerful transmitters were properly nicknamed "Woodpeckers" +because of the characteristic sound of the chirped signal when received. That +is, the received signal makes a "pecking" sound much like a woodpecker's beak +hitting a block of wood.

+ +

Several nations protested, but the powerful signals have continued, +right down to this day. The only Soviet response was to add a "spread +spectrum" capability, so that the transmitter would not dwell too long on one +specific frequency, but shifted periodically to other frequencies.

+ +

These transmitters have apparently never been precisely located by U.S. +intelligence, but their beams carry much of the characteristics of an over-the-horizon (OTH) radar. They have been dubbed OTH radars by U.S. +intelligence, and can without question perform that mission, in addition to +some very interesting missions that U.S. intelligence does not assess.

+ +

"Soviet Military Power", Department of Defense, 1985, p.45 shows the +direct intersection over the United States of the Woodpecker radar beams used +in an OTH role. In addition, shown is an additional "scanner" beam which can +be scanned across the intersection "grid" over the U.S., formed by waveform +interference of two main Woodpecker beams.

+ +

First, they can be used in a conventional OTH radar mode, since their +beams follow the earth-ionosphere waveguide and curve around the earth. In +this mode they can detect missiles at launch and thereafter, and strategic +bombers at launch and thereafter.

+ +

These scalar interference grid weapons can be used to biologically +attack entire populations in a targeted area. This aspect is not covered in +this briefing. Suffice it to say that phase locked ELF modulation signals of +10 Hz and less are often detected on multiple woodpecker frequencies +simultaneously. In a target area, this modulation -- is sufficiently stronger +than the Schumann resonance of the earth's magnetic field -- will entrain a +percentage of the brains into "forced entrainment". In that case, these human +brains are "synchronized" to the Woodpecker signals so that multiple coherent +frequencies are phase-locked into them. That is, multiple coherent EM +channels directly into these entrained brains now exist. At that point, +Fourier expansions may now be used to attack specific portions of the brain +geometrically.

+ +

In addition, scalar EM disease patterns can be modulated upon the +carriers, again with fourier expansions. Specific biological effects can be +induced in the entrained populations at will, limited only by the state of +the art of the Soviet technology used to attack them. Possible effects +include instantaneous death, heart seizure, severe emotional disruption, loss +of control of internal functions, diseases, disabling of the immune system, +and even implantation of thoughts, emotions, and ideas which are interpreted +by the subjects as their own.

+ +

While further discussion of this area is beyond the scope of my +knowledge, the biological aspects of the Woodpecker transmitters are +horrible. It suffices to say that, in thousands of experiments, Kaznacheyev +demonstrated that almost any kind of cellular death and disease pattern +could be electromagnetically transmitted. Kaznacheyev reported the effect in +te near ultraviolet. Experimenters at the University of Marburg in West +Germany duplicated the experiments in the infrared.

+ +

The bottom line is that photons themselves can carry death and disease +patterns between cells. Scalar EM technology allows synthesis of the actual +potential pattern (which after all represents total control of charge and +charge distribution, hence biochemistry in the cell) of a particular +disease or death mechanism. Symptoms (and cellular death from them!) of +nuclear radiation, chemical poisoning, bacterial infection, and other +mechanisms were induced by the Kaznacheyev experiments.

+ +

Dr. Popp of West Germany has published an analysis of the virtual +photon master control system of the cells. Since scalar EM represents the +deliberate ordering of virtual particle flux into deterministic patterns, +the master control system can readily be entered with scalar techniques to +induce disease and disorder at will... + +

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+ +

What to do when they ask for your Social Security Number

+ +

by Chris Hibbert

+ +

Computer Professionals +for Social Responsibility

+ +

Many people are concerned about the number of organizations asking for +their Social Security Numbers. They worry about invasions of privacy +and the oppressive feeling of being treated as just a number. +Unfortunately, I can't offer any hope about the dehumanizing effects +of identifying you with your numbers. I *can* try to help you keep +your Social Security Number from being used as a tool in the invasion +of your privacy.

+ +

Surprisingly, government agencies are reasonably easy to deal with; +private organizations are much more troublesome. Federal law +restricts the agencies at all levels of government that can demand +your number and a fairly complete disclosure is required even if its +use is voluntary. There are no comparable laws restricting the uses +non-government organizations can make of it, or compelling them to +tell you anything about their plans. With private institutions, your +main recourse is refusing to do business with anyone whose terms you +don't like.

+ +

Short History

+ +

Social Security numbers were introduced by the Social Security Act of +1935. They were originally intended to be used only by the social +security program, and public assurances were given at the time that +use would be strictly limited. In 1943 Roosevelt signed Executive +Order 9397 which required federal agencies to use the number when +creating new record-keeping systems. In 1961 the IRS began to use it +as a taxpayer ID number. The Privacy Act of 1974 required +authorization for government agencies to use SSNs in their data bases +and required disclosures (detailed below) when government agencies +request the number. Agencies which were already using SSN as an +identifier were allowed to continue using it. The Tax Reform Act of +1976 gave authority to state or local tax, welfare, driver's license, +or motor vehicle registration authorities to use the number in order +to establish identities. The Privacy Protection Study Commission of +1977 recommended that the Executive Order be repealed after some +agencies referred to it as their authorization to use SSNs. I don't +know whether it was repealed, but that practice has stopped.

+ +

Several states use the SSN as a driver's license number, while others +record it on applications and store it in their database. Some states +that routinely use it on the license, will make up another number if +you insist. According to the terms of the Privacy Act, any that have +a space for it on the application forms should have a disclosure +notice. Many don't, and until someone takes them to court, they +aren't likely to change.

+ +

The Privacy Act of 1974 (5 USC 552a) requires that any federal, state, +or local government agency that requests your Social Security Number +has to tell you three things:

+ +

1: Whether disclosure of your Social Security Number is required or optional,

+ +

2: What law authorizes them to ask for your Social Security Number, and

+ +

3: How your Social Security Number will be used if you give it to them.

+ +

In addition, the Act says that only Federal law can make use of the +Social Security Number mandatory. So anytime you're dealing with a +government institution and you're asked for your Social Security +Number, just look for the Privacy Act Statement. If there isn't one, +complain and don't give your number. If the statement is present, +read it. If it says giving your Social Security Number is voluntary, +you'll have to decide for yourself whether to fill in the number.

+ +

Private Organizations

+ +

The guidelines for dealing with non-governmental institutions are much +more tenuous. Most of the time private organizations that request +your Social Security Number can get by quite well without your number, +and if you can find the right person to negotiate with, they'll +willingly admit it. The problem is finding that right person. The +person behind the counter is often told no more than "get the +customers to fill out the form completely."

+ +

Most of the time, you can convince them to use some other number. +Usually the simplest way to refuse to give your Social Security Number +is simply to leave the appropriate space blank. One of the times when +this isn't a strong enough statement of your desire to conceal your +number is when dealing with institutions which have direct contact +with your employer. Most employers have no policy against revealing +your Social Security Number; they apparently believe the omission must +have been an unintentional slip.

+ +

Lenders and Borrowers

+ +

Banks and credit card issuers are required by the IRS to report the +SSNs of account holders to whom they pay deductible interest or when +they charge interest and report it to the IRS. If you don't tell them +your number you will probably either be refused an account or be +charged a penalty such as withholding of taxes on your interest.

+ +

Many Banks, Brokerages, and other financial institutions have started +implemenenting automated systems to let you check your balance. All +too often, they are using SSNs as the PIN that lets you get access to +your personal account information. If your bank does this to you, +write them a letter pointing out how many of the people you have +financial business with know your SSN. Ask them to change your PIN, +and if you feel like doing a good, ask them to stop using the SSN as a +default identifier. Some customers will believe that there's some +security in it, and be insufficiently protective of their account +numbers.

+ +

When buying (and possibly refinancing) a house, most banks will now +ask for your Social Security Number on the Deed of Trust. This is +because Fannie Mae (FNMA?) recently started requiring it. The fine +print in their regulation admits that some consumers won't want to +give their number, and allows banks to leave it out when pressed. [It +first recommends getting it on the loan note, but then admits that +it's already on various other forms that are a required part of the +package, so they already know it. The Deed is a public document, so +there are good reasons to refuse to put it there, even though all +parties to the agreement already have access to your number.]

+ +

Insurers, Hospitals, Doctors

+ +

No laws require medical service providers to use your Social Security +Number as an ID number. (except for Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) They +often use it because it's convenient or because your employer uses it +to certify employees to its groups health plan. In the latter case, +you have to get your employer to change their policies. Often, the +people who work in personnel assume that the employer or insurance +company requires use of the SSN when that's not really the case. When +my current employer asked for my SSN for an insurance form, I asked +them to try to find out if they had to use it. After a week they +reported that the insurance company had gone along with my request and +told me what number to use. Blood banks also ask for the number but +are willing to do without if pressed on the issue. After I asked +politely and persistently, the blood bank I go to agreed that they +didn't have any use for the number, and is in the process of teaching +their receptionists not to request the number.

+ +

Why use of Social Security Numbers is a problem

+ +

The Social Security Number doesn't work well as an identifier for +several reasons. The first reason is that it isn't at all secure; if +someone makes up a nine-digit number, it's quite likely that they've +picked a number that is assigned to someone. There are quite a few +reasons why people would make up a number: to hide their identity or +the fact that they're doing something; because they're not allowed to +have a number of their own (illegal immigrants, e.g.), or to protect +their privacy. In addition, it's easy to write the number down wrong, +which can lead to the same problems as intentionally giving a false +number. There are several numbers that have been used by thousands of +people because they were on sample cards shipped in wallets by their +manufacturers. (One is given below.)

+ +

When more than one person uses the same number, it clouds up the +records. If someone intended to hide their activities, it's likely +that it'll look bad on whichever record it shows up on. When it +happens accidentally, it can be unexpected, embarrassing, or worse. +How do you prove that you weren't the one using your number when the +record was made?

+ +

A second problem with the use of SSNs as identifiers is that it makes +it hard to control access to personal information. Even assuming you +want someone to be able to find out some things about you, there's no +reason to believe that you want to make all records concerning +yourself available. When multiple record systems are all keyed by the +same identifier, and all are intended to be easily accessible to some +users, it becomes difficult to allow someone access to some of the +information about a person while restricting them to specific topics.

+ +

What you can do to protect your number

+ +

If despite your having written "refused" in the box for Social +Security Number, it still shows up on the forms someone sends back to +you (or worse, on the ID card they issue), your recourse is to write +letters or make phone calls. Start politely, explaining your position +and expecting them to understand and cooperate. If that doesn't work, +there are several more things to try:

+ +

1: Talk to people higher up in the organization. This often works +simply because the organization has a standard way of dealing +with requests not to use the SSN, and the first person you +deal with just hasn't been around long enough to know what it +is.

+ +

2: Enlist the aid of your employer. You have to decide whether +talking to someone in personnel, and possibly trying to change +corporate policy is going to get back to your supervisor and +affect your job.

+ +

3: Threaten to complain to a consumer affairs bureau. Most +newspapers can get a quick response. Some cities, counties, +and states also have programs that might be able to help.

+ +

4: Tell them you'll take your business elsewhere (and follow through +if they don't cooperate.)

+ +

5: If it's a case where you've gotten service already, but someone +insists that you have to provide your number in order to have +a continuing relationship, you can choose to ignore the +request in hopes that they'll forget or find another solution +before you get tired of the interruption.

+ +

If someone absolutely insists on getting your Social Security Number, +you may want to give a fake number. There is no legal penalty as long +as you're not doing it to get something from a government agency or to +commit fraud. There are a few good choices for "anonymous" numbers. +Making one up at random is a bad idea, as it may coincide with +someone's real number and cause them some amount of grief. It's +better to use a number like 078-05-1120, which was printed on "sample" +cards inserted in thousands of new wallets sold in the 40's and 50's. +It's been used so widely that both the IRS and SSA recognize it +immediately as bogus, while most clerks haven't heard of it. It's +also safe to invent a number that has only zeros in one of the fields. +The Social Security Administration never issues numbers with this +pattern. They also recommend that people showing Social Security +cards in advertisements use numbers in the range 987-65-4320 through +987-65-4329.

+ +

The Social Security Administration recommends that you request a copy +of your file from them every few years to make sure that your records +are correct (your income and "contributions" are being recorded for +you, and no one else's is.) The statute of limitations for getting +corrections without either an "obvious error on the face of the +record" or good proof of earnings is 3 Years, 3 months and 15 days. +The reason for this (the 3 years, not the 3 months and 15 days) seems +to be that details are only kept for earnings in the last 3 years and +older earnings are lumped together. Call the Social Security +Administration at (800) 772-1213 and ask for a "Request for Earnings +and Benefit Estimate Statement".

+ +

Some Legal Cases Currently (1/9/91) Pending

+ +

CPSR has recently joined two legal cases concerning Social Security +Numbers and privacy. One of them challenges the IRS practice of +printing Social Security Numbers on mailing labels when they send out +tax forms and related correspondance. The other challenges Virginia's +requirement of a Social Security Number in order to register to vote.

+ +

Dr. Peter Zilahy Ingerman filed suit against the IRS in Federal +District Court in 1991, and CPSR filed a friend of the court brief in +August.

+ +

The Virginia case was filed by a resident of the state who refused to +supply a Social Security Number when registering to vote. When the +registrar refused to accept his registration, he filed suit. He is +also challenging the state of Virginia on two other bases: the +registration form apparently lacked a Privacy Act notice, and the +voter lists the state publishes include Social Security Numbers.

+ +

If you have suggestions for improving this document please send them +to me at: +Chris Hibbert +hibbert@xanadu.com or Xanadu Operating Company +550 California Ave, Suite 101 +Palo Alto, CA 94306 + +

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< +"Supreme Court Dictatorship in America" +( by Don Bell, _The CDL Report_, Issue 129, June 1990 )

+ +

The conditioning of the people by the brainwashers has been beyond +comparison. The Socialist Nations of Western Europe and the Communist +Nations of Eastern Europe are merging, as planned, into one great Regional +World Government. The comparatively free and wealth United States of America +and the basketcase Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are converging +economically and otherwise through most favored trade, aid, educational, +social and financial alliances. And while the captive peoples of the +Communist countries are given the semblance of freedom and conditional +independence, the people of the United States are losing their freedom +and independence, their standard of living, their republican form of +government and their right to worship as their fathers worshipped. Most +recent example of the latter is less than a month old. But the moguls +that manage the media have kept the news off their satellites and out +of their daily and weekly columns to such an extent that few have heard +of the Judicial Tyranny committed by five un-elected rulers we call +Supreme Court Justices.

+ +

On Wednesday, April 18, 1990, the Supreme Court killed our United States +Constitution. The coup de grace was a simple but fatal action whose reaction +is yet to be felt. The Court decreed that federal judges have the authority +to order state and municipal elected officials to raise taxes, and to issue +injunctions preventing laws and State Constitutions from being used to do +anything about it. A Constitutional expert tells us that by this decree +the Supreme Court has abolished the representative form of government at +the state and local level and along with it nullified the US and State +Constitutions, "California's Proposition 13, supply-side economics, +federalism, the separation of powers and the national tax-limitation and +balanced-budget amendment movement." Quoted remark was by Paul Craig Roberts, +professor of political economy at the Center for Strategic & International +Studies in Washington. He explains: "Elected legislators and the people +to whom they are accountable no longer have control over the power of the +purse, or the quantity and quality of public expenditures. The Court's +ruling ... transfers all meaningful governmental power to the federal +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +judiciary. It will take some time for judicial tyranny to become fully +^^^^^^^^^ +manifest, but the process for establishing judicial rule is now in place. +Unless we revolt, we have lost our freedom." (Emphasis was added).

+ +

In common Americanese, this is what happened. A federal judge believed +that racial desegregation in the Kansas City, Mo. public school system was +not up to the standard set by federal judges. On that pretext he gave +orders for an extravagant school improvement plan that would cost an +estimated $260 million, to include high schools with air-conditioned +classrooms, an alarm system and 15 microcomputers, a 2000-square-foot +planetarium, greenhouses and vivariums, a 25-acre farm with an air-conditioned +meeting room accommodating 104 persons, a model United Nations wired for +language translations, broadcast-capable radio and television studios with +an editing and animation lab, a temperature-controlled art galley, movie +editing and screening rooms, dust free diesel mechanics rooms, 1875-square-foot elementary animals rooms for a zoo project, and swimming pools. Not +only that, but the federal judge ordered that magnet schools be built +throughout the school district at the additional estimated price of $200 +million. This nearly half a billion dollars was not to be spent to +better educate students, just to make them more comfortable while +enjoying extra-curricular activities.

+ +

The school board, the State Legislature and the people who would have to +pay for the improvements, were shocked. They didn't have that kind of money +for such a purpose, and the federal judge had no right or authority to issue +such an order. They pointed out that the power of taxation is a power that +the federal judiciary does not possess. Only elected legislative bodies +have such power. So affirms the US Constitution, State Constitutions, and +common sense derived from "taxation without representation" cries that +helped start a revolutionary war. So, the federal judge demanding and the +state and local elected authorities refusing, the case went to the US +Supreme Court.

+ +

By a vote of 5-to-4 the Supreme Court ruled that federal judges do have +the power of the public purse; Constitutions, state laws, county and +municipal ordinances to the contrary notwithstanding. The five traitors, +mark them well, were Byron R. White, William J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, +Harry A. Blackmun and John Paul Stevens. The other four Justices were +powerfully and vocally opposed to the decree, but they were a minority. +Justice Anthony M. Kennedy was supported by Chief Justice William H. Rhenquist, +Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia, in warning that "Today's casual +embrace of taxation imposed by the unelected, life-tenured federal +judiciary disregards fundamental precepts for the democratic control of +public institutions... [The Court's] assertion of judicial power in one of +the most sensitive of policy areas, that of involving taxation, begins a +process that over time could threaten fundamental alterations of the form +of government our Constitution embodies ... The power of taxation is one +that the federal judiciary does not possess." Quoting Judge Robert Bork +(remember him?) to back up his sentiments, Professor Roberts (op.cit.) +warned: "As a result of the court's ruling, anyone who continues to hold +municipal bonds or real property -- including their homes -- would be +foolish, because federal judges can now wreck the tax base of any state +or municipality and destroy real estate values by running up property taxes. +It is possible that the American people won't accept the usurpation of +power by the judiciary, which in effect turns our legislative bodies into +a cloak for judicial tyranny. However, so far they have accepted everything +else -- routine release of dangerous criminals, destruction of neighborhood +schools, busing of their children, racial quotas in university administrations +and work-places. We have become an effete people since the time our +ancestors condemned King George III 'for imposing taxes on us without +consent' and for taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable +Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Government."

+ +

There is one hope of defeating this judicial tyranny. The April 28th issue +of _Human Events_ which we have just received as we write this Report, +contains the following information:

+ +

"In the wake of the Supreme Court's astonishing 5-to-4 decision +that says federal judges may order local governments to increase +taxes... Sen. Gordon Humphrey (R-NH) thinks he can make headway +with S-34, the _Judicial_Taxation_Prohibition_Act_. The measure +which had 10 co-sponsors before the decision, would flatly +prevent judges from compelling state or local authorities to +impose new taxes or raise old ones... Humphrey's bill is now +the only vehicle available to block further judicial tax tyranny."

+ +

As serious as was this granting to un-elected federal judges the power to +tax, an equally important decision had previously been handed down by the +Court in regard to the Fourth Amendment's protection against search and +seizure. The Amendment states "The right of the people to be secure in +their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches +and seizures, shall not be violated..." But the present treasonous Supreme +Court disagreed. The excuse for making it easier for police to search and +seize people's private property and papers was probably the so-called drug +war. But the intent also made it easier to seize and confiscate guns. +Anti-gun legislation is not popular; so why not just stage a raid, seize +and confiscate whatever weapons citizens might have with which to defend +themselves? Weakening the Fourth also could nullify the Second Amendment. +So, in a case possibly designed for just such purpose, the Court "gave police +broad new (and unconstitutional) authority to conduct sweeping searches in +private homes," said an article appearing in the _Amarillo Daily News_ of +Marcy 2, 1990. The article said: "The Court decreed that police may search +throughout a house when they have a reasonable suspicion there is a hidden +danger to the arresting officers, even if the arresting authorities are +interested in knowing how this violation of the Fourth Amendment works in +actual practice, then consider the Franklin Sanders case. A small army +of various types of officers, all supposedly raiding in behalf of the IRS, +invaded the Sanders home, arrested and jailed Franklin and his wife, +isolated, tried unsuccessfully to intimidate and harass their children +for hours. Being Christian children they were made of stern stuff. They +confiscated all of Franklin's papers and computer ware. The officers also +arrested the Pastor and Elders of the Presbyterian Church where the Sanders +family worships. Undaunted and praising God for his ability to continue in +his calling, he's out on bail ($100000). This one-out-of-scores of +examples of how totalitarian tactics are being employed in the United States +should awaken everyone to the dangers facing Christian American families in +this "era of merging."

+ +

This Supreme Court's decision amending the Fourth's protection against +search and seizure is doubly dangerous because it tends to "legalize" a law +passed by the Oklahoma Legislature and signed by Governor Bellman. An +Oklahoma patriot, Margie M. Martin, of Texhoma, OK, has been fighting this +law, almost single handedly because the media, even the supposedly +conservative media, fail to give her the support she deserves. This is a +law (House Bill 1750) that makes every item owned by every Oklahoma citizen +taxable. It also provides that officers may enter a home and check and +record every item (including guns, of course) in the house. We haven't a +copy of this 96 page bill, but _The Christian World Report_ of May 16, 1989, +gave an excellent report which we copy.

+ +

"The citizens must provide a list of all their possessions +to the government. This list must include everything from +watches to farm tractors. Citizens who fail to give the +list are paid a visit by a government agent. If denied +entry to the citizen's residence, the government agent +later returns with a warrant, enters the home and compiles +the list. Is this country the Soviet Union or the Peoples +Republic of China? No, it is Oklahoma in 1991. In the +last legislative session, House Bill 1750 was passed by +the state legislature and signed into law by the governor... +The measure goes into effect January 1, 1991. The law reads:

+ +

"On or before January 1st of each year, the Oklahoma +Tax Commission shall prescribe for the use of tax +assessors, suitable bank forms for the listing and +assessing of all property, both real and personal. +These forms will then be furnished to the taxpayer +for listing all personal property. From January 1 +through the end of February, the country assessor +must set up a temporary office in each town in the +county for a minimum of one day each to allow the +taxpayer to submit the list. The assessor must +then be present at the county seat from March 1 +through March 15 to receive lists not turned in +at the temporary offices. Personal property, for +the purposes of ad valorem taxation, includes: +All goods, chattels and effects: -- All horses, +cattle, mules, asses, sheep, swine, goats and +other livestock; -- All household furniture, +including gold and silver plate, musical instruments, +watches and jewelry; -- All wagons, vehicles, or +carriages and all farm tractors, implements or +machinery; -- Personal, private, or professional +libraries; -- All other property having an actual, +constructive, or taxable status. Taxpayers failing +to provide the list will be visited by the assessor. +Prior to entering the premises of any taxpayer for +purposes of discovering household personal property +located within a commercial place of business, the +county assessor or deputy shall request permission +to enter the premises and shall state the reason for +the inspection. If access to the premises is denied, +the county assessor or deputy shall be required to +obtain a search warrant in order to conduct an +inspection of the interior of the premises. A +search warrant may be obtained upon a showing of +probable cause ... Property not previously listed, +or undervalued, will result in a penalty of up to +20% of the value of the property. At least once +every four years, the assessor must physically +inspect all real property in the county'."

+ +

"H.B. 1750 is a cleverly contrived piece of legislation that I believe was +put together by other than Oklahoma Legislators," said Margie Martin. We +agree. Who needs the registration of weapons if the authorities, under the +guise of property evaluation, can enter your home, inspect all of your +personal possessions, having a "reasonable suspicion" that you did not +declare certain items, like firearms? This is the case in Oklahoma, and +similar legislation is being introduced in other state legislatures. A +respected subscriber and correspondent, Dr. Harry Walkup of Worton, MD, wrote:

+ +

"We are living in troubled times in which the Keynesian/Fabian, +Socialist, Power-Centralizing Revolutionary Strategy is being +imposed on us, with its financial policies designed to progressively +destroy individual economic, political and cultural independence. +This can only be accompolished if our firearms are confiscated..."

+ +

Under firearms registration the complete confiscation of weapons would be +difficult and costly. But with the death of the Constitution and its Bill +of Rights, plus Judicial Tyranny and Totalitarian Legislation, weapons could +be confiscated from law-abiding citizens, making slaves of us all. When +situations change, plans may also change:

+ +

"And He said unto them (His disciples), When I sent you without +purse, scrip and shoes, lacked ye anything? And they said, Nothing. +Then He said unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him +take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let +him sell his garment, and buy one." ( Luke 22:3536 ).

+ +

----------------------- +from _Don Bell Reports_ +-----------------------

+ +

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The World of Surveillance

+ +

COPYRIGHT (C) 1991 BY FULL DISCLOSURE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

+ +

Surveillance (7906 Hope Valley Ct, Adamstown, MD 20710, $35/yr) reports on +phone taps via teleconferencing. This simple technique involves the +"tappers'' conference calling two parties he wishes to spy on. He then +listens and records the ensuring conversation. It is pointed out that this +technique is not universally applicable, but is limited to situations where +both parties normally answer the phone on the first ring. (And don't realize +that neither one called the other).

+ +

2600 (Box 752, Middle Island, NY 11953, $18/yr) reports that some cordless +phones, including the General Electric System 10, model 2-9675, transmits +phone conversation made through a standard phone when the unit is hooked up. +Most people would assume that when they didn't use the cordless handset, +their calls wouldn't be broadcast for any nosey neighbors or others to +monitor.

+ +

CAR CADDY

+ +

The Concealment or Car Caddy is a device to covertly record the conversations +of passengers in an automobile. It looks just like a litterbasket / snack +tray.

+ +

However, hidden inside is a tape recorder. It can either have one microphone +powered by a hearing aid battery or two powered by the tape recorder.

+ +

The SME-700 unit (stereo unit, with two microphones) sale is restricted only +to federal and state law enforcement agencies. However, the SME-RN36 unit is +available to anyone wishing to pay $385 for it. The SME-RN36 is configured +with a 2 hour recorder.

+ +

When asked what the reason for the restriction on the SME-700 was, Saul +Mineroff stated that "it has certain features designed with federal agencies +and that was the agreement.''

+ +

The snack tray is slid back to activate the recorder and forward to turn it +off.

+ +

This unit is produced by Saul Mineroff Electronics, Inc., 574 Meacham Av, +Elmont, New York 11003, Phone: (516) 775 1370, Fax: (516) 775-1371.

+ +

When Saul Mineroff refused to openly provide information on the features of +the SME-700 recorder, Full Disclosure was able to obtain "Confidential +Information on SME 700 Surveillance System.'' The SME 700 is actually, just +the recorder, which can go in the car caddy, be worn on the body or used in +another applicable situation. Following are excerpts from the document:

+ +

"Saul Mineroff, of Mineroff Electronics has worked for over a decade in +cooperation with the Drug Enforcement Administration and F.B.I. personnel +(along with various U.S. Governmental agencies) to develop a highly +sophisticated foolproof body surveillance recorder with simple operating +functions.

+ +

"The SME 700 Recorder is designed strictly for law enforcement agencies. The +sale of this unit will only be distributed to law enforcement personnel. Its +primary use and design is for the agent in the field.

+ +

"The SME 700 makes recordings in stereo. Because stereo utilizes two +channels, it is easier for the human ear to identify certain sounds in the +recordings (e.g. if multiple voices were recorded, it is easier to depict +each individual voice when recorded in stereo). After recordings are made on +the SME 700 Recorder they are played back on the SME 701 playback unit.

+ +

"There are many features fabricated into the SME 700 Recorder. The first +feature is the ability to record multiple voices and attenuate background +noise levels drastically. By using fast acting A.L.C., special filtering, and +compressing circuits, along with DNR (Dynamic Noise Reduction) in playback +unit, background noises are suppressed allowing the primary voices to be +recorded and played back.

+ +

"The SME 700 Recorder is non-detectable (via tape recorder detectors). The +circuit employs low frequency A-C bias, is completely shielded, and doesn't +generate radiation. Radiation is what tape recorder detectors detect.

+ +

The other features are mechanical in nature to prevent accidental operation.

+ +

MINIATURE BUG

+ +

This subminiature bug, is available in a VHF and UHF version. The 900mhz +version is pictured here (actual size). The manufacturer, ATET, Via G. da +Verrazzano, 42, 10129 Torino, Italy, Phone: 011/ 59-04 93, Telex: 213273, +TOATET I, claims that the unit is the smallest crystal controlled units being +manufactured in the world today.

+ +

Both units work over a input voltage range of 3 to 12 volts providing maximum +flexibility in power sources. The power output ranges from +.7mw to 135mw on the VHF unit and 3mw to 20mw on the UHF depending +on input voltage.

+ +

Several adapters are available for the units: 1) Telephone adapter, converts +the module into a series telephone transmitter which obtains power from the +phone line, 2) External microphone adapter, converts the module into a +body-worn transmitter with the capability of total concealment, and 3) +Vehicle adapter, connects to the internal supply circuitry of a motor vehicle +and produces continuous transmission.

+ +

The VHF unit has a frequency range of 135 - 175 mhz FM. The UHF frequency +range is 700 - 1100mhz FM. The dimensions of both are 9 x 21 x 22 mm.

+ +

The most significant problem with these units is a frequency shift over time. +As you can see from the photograph, the unit was originally manufactured for +900.270mhz and shifted to 900.265mhz and 900.260mhz.

+ +

This particular unit was tested by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

+ +

The U.S. Distributor for these bugs is: Knox Security, 335 Greenwich Rd, +Greenwich, CT 06830, Phone: (203) 622-7300.

+ +

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+ +

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+ +

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Path: ns-mx!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!olivea!sgigate!odin!ratmandu.esd.sgi.com!dave +From: dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe) +Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy +Subject: Book Intro: "The Taking Of America, 1-2-3" +Summary: we were robbed of our capability of electing a president we wanted +Keywords: our electoral system was taken away from us starting in 1963 + 1992Jun4.223739.17980@odin.corp.sgi.com +Date: 4 Jun 92 22:37:39 GMT +Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) +Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. +Lines: 244 +Xref: ns-mx alt.activism:27137 alt.conspiracy.jfk:1493 alt.conspiracy:15372 +Nntp-Posting-Host: ratmandu.esd.sgi.com

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This is an introduction to the book "The Taking of America, 1-2-3," +by Richard E. Sprague, self-published by the author first in 1976, +revised in 1979, and updated in 1985. There will be eleven posts +following this one that will comprise the complete 1985 updated +third edition which I will be sending out with the permission of +the author. From the book's own introduction,

+ +

This book is not about assassinations, at least not +solely about assassinations. It is not just another book +about who murdered President Kennedy or how or why. It is a +book about power, about who really controls the United +States policies, especially foreign policies. It is a book +about the process of control through the manipulation of the +American presidency and the presidential election process. +The objective of the book is to expose the clandestine, +secret, tricky methods and weapons used for this +manipulation, and to reveal the degree to which these have +been hidden from the American public. +Assassinations are only one of many techniques used in +this control process. They have been important only in the +sense that they are the ultimate method used in the control +of the election process. Viewed in this way, an +understanding of what happened to John or Robert Kennedy +becomes more important because it leads to a total +understanding of what has happened to our country, and to +us, since 1960. But the important thing to understand is +the control and the power and all of the clandestine methods +put together.

+ +

Two men named Richard Sprague have been involved in examining the +assassination of John F. Kennedy and its ensuing cover-up through the +years. Richard A. Sprague, the former district attorney from +Philadelphia, and the fearless prosecutor of the Yablonski murderers, +was named on October 4, 1976, by Congressperson Thomas Downing, to be +chief counsel of the just-then forming House Select Committee on +Assassinations. Richard E. Sprague was a pioneer in the field of +computers starting in the 1940s. His involvement studying the +photographic evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy goes +back to 1966:

+ +

From the day it happened I was skeptical about what was +being said on the TV and radio with regard to how the +president was killed. But when the "Warren Report" was +issued I became non-skeptical and accepted it pretty much as +it was. However, when the 26 volumes became available in +late 1964 and I started reading through them, I became +skeptical again because I could not find confirmation of +most of the so-called facts presented by the "Warren Report" +and purported to be backed up by the evidence in the 26 +volumes, or any other evidence. +So I started work again, which caused me to need an index +to the 26 volumes. This in turn lead to my contacting +Sylvia Meagher and asking where I could get her index having +discovered that she had created and published one that the +Warren Commission hadn't seen fit to provide. She told me +where I could get it and suggested we have lunch. This was +in early November, 1966. She asked, "Why don't you do some +real research?" and I said, "like what?" and she responded +"how about the photographic evidence? A couple of people +have started work on it but haven't finished." I asked her +who and she said "Harold Weisberg and Ray Marcus." I +contacted both men and that's more or less how I stuck my +foot in the quicksand. +At the time the 26 volumes became available there were +only 8000 copies printed for the whole country. The time I +managed to get hold of one of these sets of all 26 volumes +was when I had moved to the University Club in New York City +and they had a complete set donated to the University Club +by non other than John J. McCloy. So I was using John J. +McCloy's personal copies for the beginnings of my research. +Now, the most important thing initially that happened in +finding the photos was discovering a number of photographs- +-films and still photos--that showed the sixth floor window +empty with nobody in it. This is what originally convinced +me that we had a different sort of conspiracy going than one +involving Lee Harvey Oswald, because if he wasn't in the +window--and nobody was in the window--then what happened? +Who fired the shots? And where from? +Confirming that the films and photographs I was looking +at were taken at the critical time the shots were fired, or +immediately before or after that, involved a lot of work: +work with plat maps, other photos, and other materials. I +got hold of a map made by the surveyor for Dealey Plaza (I +believe his name was Clarence West) which was drawn to +scale, and Bob Cutler helped me draw onto it all of the +various things that happened including all the vehicles that +were moving through. And I managed to lay a set of films +end-to-end starting with one rounding the turn onto Houston +Street all the way through Dealey Plaza so I could track any +vehicle that was in view eighteenth-of-a-second by +eighteenth-of-a-second (Zapruder film speed) all the way +through Dealey Plaza. This enabled me to determine where +Kennedy was at all times and where anybody else was that +showed up in any of the photos--particularly moving +pictures--at times Kennedy was at spot so-and-so or spot +such-and-such. +By doing this, with some triangulation, I was able to pin +down the exact timing of two particular sets of photos: a +film--the Hughes film--the last frame of which shows the +sixth floor window empty and ends 5.7 seconds ahead of the +first shot--the first shot being fired/tied down at frame +189 of the Zapruder film; and two photos taken after the +shots were fired by Dillard and, believe it or not, an +intelligence man from Navy intelligence named Powell. +Powell's and Dillard's photos were taken almost at the same +time, 3.5 seconds after the fatal and last shot (Z-313). +So that total time span is less than 17 seconds--if you +add up the 5.7 seconds after the end of the Hughes film, +plus the 6-plus seconds while the shots were being fired, +plus the 3.5 seconds before Dillard and Powell's photos were +taken--of blank, non-coverage of that window and there's no +way Oswald could have gotten into the window, aimed, fired +three shots, and gotten out of the window so you that +couldn't see him in 17 seconds. +But anyway there was another film taken by Beverly Oliver +otherwise known as the Babushka lady that was confiscated by +News Orleans FBI agent Regis Kennedy, and a still photograph +taken by Norman Similas, confiscated by the Royal Canadian +Mounted Police from "Liberty" magazine (which was going to +publish the photo), who then turned the photo and its +negative over to the FBI. I interviewed Similas and the +"Liberty" magazine editor both of whom told me they had +carefully examined the photograph and had seen no one in the +photograph appearing in the eastern-most sixth floor window, +which I calculated had been taken about half-way into the +17-second interval. +I made two attempts soon after the Freedom of Information +Act "viewing room" in the FBI office in Washington, D.C. was +created, to request to see the Similas photograph and +Beverly Oliver film, but each time the FBI person assigned +to me was not able to find these photograhs. But the +testimony of the people involved was good enough for me to +conclude that there was nobody in that window ever. +Once I got to that point I started looking for other +evidence that would show where the shots did come from and I +started finding all kinds of evidence of shots from the +grassy knoll, and from the Dal Tex building, and from the +roof or the seventh floor of the western end of the +depository building--both photographs as well as witness +testimony--and that lead me to decide that this was a +powerful conspiracy which had involved at least four gunmen +firing shots. This then lead me to decide that I should +pursue the whole pattern of conspiracy including, +eventually, the Martin Luther King assassination, the Bobby +Kennedy assassination and the George Wallace attempt. And +that led to the book. +Through all of this, I just know I never would have +concluded that it was a powerful and well-planned conspiracy +if I had not determined that Oswald wasn't in that window-- +nobody was in that window. That was the first key. +There's one other thing I'd like to point out. The title +of the book has more than just simple significance and it +shows up in all the chapters that link all these +assassinations and their cover-ups. Namely, our country has +been taken from us. Us being the citizens of the United +States as of 1963, and any time after that, by robbing us of +our capability of electing a president we wanted for at +least three, and more likely four, elections. One way of +taking the country away, is to control the elections and +that's really, at least part of the essence of the book. +It's close to what Henry Gonzalez proposed in his original +bill. He wanted the Congress to look into all four of the +major assassinations--the fourth being the attempted +assassination of George Wallace--and find the links between +and among them, and the cover-ups, and particularly the +links between the intelligence agencies and the cover-ups +that he was sure were involved in all of them. And if we +had had a committee which had done that, well then, we'd +have been a lot further along than we are 13 years later.

+ +

-- phone interview with the author, June 3, 1992

+ +

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy was the most +photographed murder in history. Approximately 75 photographers took +a total of approximately 510 photographs, either before or during or +within an hour after the events in Dealey Plaza, and either there or +nearby or related to those events. The word "photograph" in this +context includes both still photos and movie sequences. The number +of frames in a movie sequence ranges from about 10 to about 500; and +in the count of 510 photographs, given above, the 10 to 500 frames of +a single movie sequence are counted just as *one* photograph. The +total number of frames is over 25000. +The Warren Commission examined 26 photographs, about 5 percent of +the 510. The FBI examined about 50 photographs, or about 10 percent. +The most famous of all the photographs is the Zapruder film, which +had over 480 frames. +Many of the photographs were taken by professional photographers. +About 30 of the photographers were professionals who worked for +newspapers, television networks, and photographic agencies. +The Warren Commission did not interview a single one of the +professional photographers, nor did the Warren Commission see any +complete, uncropped copies of their photographs. +Fifteen of these professionals were actually in the Kennedy +motorcade, no further than 6 car lengths behind the Kennedy car. +Five of these photographers were television network cameramen. The +Warren Commission looked at none of their photographs. +[.....] +Because the professionals used movie cameras of professional +quality, their films are exceedingly revealing and valuable as +primary evidence. The Warren Commission looked at none of these +films. +During the past several years, I have collected copies of over 200 +of these photographs, and I have looked at and taken notes of another +200 of these photographs, without obtaining copies of them. Some of +the remaining 100 have either not been found or have been locked up +or destroyed by the owners, who are fearful of the information they +show. Or they have been locked up by the FBI, who have either placed +them in files inaccessible to the public or possibly have destroyed +them.

+ +

from, "The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: +The Application of Computers to the Photographic +Evidence" Richard E. Sprague, "Computers and +Automation," May, 1970, p. 34.

+ +

for those interested, i have created a raw PostScript version of this +complete book which can simply be lp'd to a PostScript laser printer +for "prettified" hardcopy output. the combined size of the two +PostScript files comprising the book is 1055954 bytes (1007753 and +48201 bytes for the main portion and appendix respectively).

+ +

-- +daveus rattus

+ +

yer friendly neighborhood ratman

+ +

KOYAANISQATSI

+ +

ko.yaa.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. +5. a state of life that calls for another way of living. +Path: ns-mx!uunet!olivea!sgigate!odin!ratmandu.esd.sgi.com!dave +From: dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe) +Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.conspiracy,alt.conspiracy.jfk +Subject: "The Taking of America, 1-2-3" (1/11) +Summary: we were robbed of our capability of electing a president we wanted +Keywords: part 1 of 11: beginning thru chapter 3 + 1992Jun5.142954.8850@odin.corp.sgi.com +Date: 5 Jun 92 14:29:54 GMT +Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) +Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. +Lines: 1113 +Xref: ns-mx alt.activism:27177 alt.conspiracy:15386 alt.conspiracy.jfk:1506 +Nntp-Posting-Host: ratmandu.esd.sgi.com

+ +

THE TAKING OF AMERICA, 1-2-3

+ +

by Richard E. Sprague +Reprinted here with permission of the author. Permission to distribute +this book is freely given so long as no modification of the text is done.

+ +

Richard E. Sprague 1976 +Limited First Edition 1976 +Revised Second Edition 1979 +Updated Third Edition 1985

+ +

About the Author

+ +

Publisher's Word

+ +

Introduction

+ +

1. The Overview and the 1976 Election

+ +

2. The Power Control Group

+ +

3. You Can Fool the People

+ +

4. How It All Began--The U-2 and the Bay of Pigs

+ +

5. The Assassination of John Kennedy

+ +

6. The Assassinations of Robert Kennedy and +Dr. Martin Luther King and +Lyndon B. Johnson's Withdrawal in 1968

+ +

7. The Control of the Kennedys--Threats & Chappaquiddick

+ +

8. 1972--Muskie, Wallace and McGovern

+ +

9. Control of the Media--1967 to 1976

+ +

10. Techniques and Weapons and 100 Dead Conspirators +and Witnesses

+ +

11. Nixon and Ford - The Pardon and the Tapes

+ +

12. The Second Line of Defense and Cover-Ups in 1975-1976

+ +

13. The 1976 Election and Conspiracy Fever

+ +

14. Congress and the People

+ +

15. The Select Committee on Assassinations, The Intelligence +Community and The News Media

+ +

16. 1984 Here We Come--

+ +

17. The Final Cover-Up: How The CIA Controlled +The House Select Committee on Assassinations

+ +

Appendix

+ +
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+ +

About the Author

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Richard E. Sprague is a pioneer in the field of electronic +computers and a leading American authority on Electronic Funds +Transfer Systems (EFTS). Receiving his BSEE degreee from Purdue +University in 1942, his computing career began when he was +employed as an engineer for the computer group at Northrup +Aircraft. He co-founded the Computer Research Corporation of +Hawthorne, California in 1950, and by 1953, serving as Vice +President of Sales, the company had sold more computers than any +competitor. In 1960, he became the Director of Computer Systems +Consulting for Touche, Ross, Bailey, and Smart. He became a +partner in that company in 1963, and started its Advanced Business +Systems Department in 1964 where he stayed until 1968. In 1968 he +established Sprague Research and Consulting for Computer +Information Systems Consultation. He is currently also Consultant +to the President's Commission on EFTS and full time consultant to +Battelle Memorial Institute of Frankfurt, Germany. +In 1966, Mr. Sprague commenced an intensive program of research +into the photographic evidence associated with the assassination of +John Kennedy. He served a year as photographic expert advisor in +the investigations conducted by New Orleans District Attorney Jim +Garrison and had amassed and analyzed a majority of the known +evidence on film by 1968 when he co-founded the Committee to +Investigate Assassinations. He served with CTIA as an active +researcher, board member and Secretary from 1968 to 1974. +Following numerous radio and television appearances and +extensive lecture tours of the United States and Canada (where +slides and films were used to demonstrate the basic evidence of +conspiracy), he began, in 1974, working toward a Congressional +investigation of all four major political assassinations and the +cover-ups and links among these interrelated events. He was an +advisor to Representative Henry B. Gonzales (D-Texas) on House +Resolution 203 which proposed the appointment of a committee to +investigate the circumstances surrounding the deaths of JFK, RFK, +Martin Luther King and the attempt upon the life of Presidential +Candidate George Wallace. He served as a consultant to Richard +A. Sprague and G. Robert Blakey, the first and second General +Counsels of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, and +served through the end of the Committee's existence. +He is author of "Electronic Business Systems" (Ronald Press) +1962, "Information Utilities" (Prentice Hall) 1969, and a +celebrated series of articles which appeared in "Computers & +Automation" Magazine beginning in 1970. He is also co-author with +Dick Russell of "In Search of the Assassins" which is scheduled for +publication by the Dial Press in 1977. +The materials presented in this book are drawn from an analysis +of the photographic evidence, personal knowledge and records of the +Garrison investigation, research files of the Committee to +Investigate Assassinations and Congressional Committees.

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Introduction

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This book is not about assassinations, at least not solely about +assassinations. It is not just another book about who murdered +President Kennedy or how or why. It is a book about power, about +who really controls the United States policies, especially foreign +policies. It is a book about the process of control through the +manipulation of the American presidency and the presidential +election process. The objective of the book is to expose the +clandestine, secret, tricky methods and weapons used for this +manipulation, and to reveal the degree to which these have been +hidden from the American public. +Assassinations are only one of many techniques used in this +control process. They have been important only in the sense that +they are the ultimate method used in the control of the election +process. Viewed in this way, an understanding of what happened to +John or Robert Kennedy becomes more important because it leads to a +total understanding of what has happened to our country, and to us, +since 1960. But the important thing to understand is the control +and the power and all of the clandestine methods put together. +Much of the information in the book has been published before in +the magazines "Computer and Automation" and "People and the Pursuit +of Truth," both edited and published by Edmund C. Berkeley, +Newtonville, Mass. The material on assassination and other events +covered is based on evidence collected by the author individually +or through the Committee to Investigate Assassinations. References +to documentation of this evidence are given throughout the book. +I am indebted to the following people for assistance in the +research work involved and the preparation of the book itself: +Special thanks go to Mary Ferrell who typed the original of the +book. +Jerry Policoff, Mark Lane, Ed Berkeley, Bob Cutler, Jim +Garrison, Bill Turner, Wayne Chastain, Bob Richter, Gary Shaw, +Fletcher Prouty, Rush Harp, Jones Harris, Bob Saltzman, Penn Jones, +Larry Harris, Sylvia Meagher, Ray Marcus, Harold Weisberg, Hal +Dorland, Paris Flammonde, Tink Thompson, Bob Katz, Joachim Joesten, +Peter Downay, Harry Irwin, Dick Billings, Jim Lesar, Fred Newcomb, +Lillian Castellano, Dick Russell, Tris Coffin, Mae Brussell, Bill +Barry, Gary Roberts and most of all to my wife Gloria whose hard +work and infinite patience made it all possible. +The book is dedicated to Representative Henry B. Gonzalez for +his singular courage in standing against the forces of evil.

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Richard E. Sprague

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Hartsdale, New York +July 4, 1976

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Publisher's Word

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We published "The Taking Of America 1 2 3" during the winter of +1976-77. It was typed under the guns in Dallas, Texas, and offset +printed in Woodstock, N.Y. A few weeks later--five hundred copies +in all, 24 of which were fired off to the two House Committees +involved in the investigation of the assassinations. Our elation +with this 'coup-de-truth' evaporated as we saw the committee +destroyed at the starting line. +The following summer, while motoring across our sadly taken +America, I experienced a tremendous synchroneity of events which +lead to my discovering the Power Control Group's secret team of +murderer's and their patsies. This knowledge caused me to come out +in the open even further and place a sign on route 28 enroute to +Woodstock. "Who Killed J.F.K., R.F.K., M.L.K., M.J.K.?" in +reflecting letters on a blood-red field. The Modjeska Sign Studios +estimated 1.2 million sightings per month. And we then watched the +committee suppress and muddle the evidence while chanting the +Katydid like cry, of the tremendous big lie--Oswald did it, Oswald +did it, Oswald did it, did it, did it. +So we are bringing our knowledge up to date with the closing of +the new "Warren Report" which now, due to The Witness They Could +Not Kill (the sound tape that proved conclusively that more than +one gun was involved in the president's assassination), at last +admits conspiracy. Where do we go from here? We reach out now for +a courageous commercial publisher to spread these truths that we +hold self-evident out to our duped, betrayed, and steadily lied-to +Americans.

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Rush Harp +Barbara Black

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THE TAKING OF AMERICA, 1-2-3

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Chapter 1 +The Overview and the the 1976 Election

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The taking of America has been both a simple and a very complex +process. It has not been the result of a coup d'etat, although +some aspects of the process resemble a coup. It has not been a +process similar to the dictatorship takeovers in Germany, Italy and +other fascist regimes. It has not been a process like the +Communist "uprisings" in Russia, Hungary and other Eastern European +countries. +The taking of America has been a process unique in the history +of the world. The one feature that makes it unique is that what +was once the greatest democracy in the world has been taken over by +a power control group without the knowledge of most of the American +people, their congressional representatives, or the rest of the +world. +The group has taken America in this fashion because manipulation +of the American presidency and the presidential electoral procedure +is enough to control America. Two fiendishly clever stratagems +were used to keep the fact that control had been seized from being +obvious to the people. The first of these was control of the +established media in the dissemination of both true (blocking) and +false (flooding) information. The second was the use of +clandestine and secret weapons and techniques developed during +World War Two and perfected during the Korean and Viet Nam wars. +These techniques are so new and unusual as to be unbelievable to +most citizens. Thus, the incredibility of such weapons as +hypnosis, brainwashing and "programming" of patsies as assassins +became a psychological tool in the bag of techniques of the power +control group. The average American has shrugged off the +possibility of the takeover with the belief that, "That's not +possible here." +The use of such weapons, coupled with a tremendous campaign +through the controlled media that both whitewashes any signs of +conspiracies and spreads disinformation throughout the country, has +successfully blocked any serious or official attempts to get at the +truth. Unofficial investigators, private researchers, and even +Congressional representatives have been ridiculed and completely +blocked by both the power control group and their media allies. +To take over a real democracy without letting the people know it +has been taken over is a fantastic achievement. A list of the +accomplishments of the power control group illustrates the point. +Since 1963, they have:

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1. Assassinated John F. Kennedy;

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2. Controlled Lyndon B. Johnson as president;

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3. Forced LBJ out of the presidency;

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4. Assassinated Robert F. Kennedy, assuring Nixon's +election in 1968;

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5. Assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King;

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6. Eliminated Ted Kennedy as a contender in the 1972 +elections by framing him at Chappaquiddick and +threatening his children;

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7. Stopped George Wallace's campaign, assuring Nixon's +election in 1972;

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8. Knocked Edmund Muskie out of the 1972 election campaign +by using dirty tricks;

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9. Covered up all of the above;

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10. Controlled the 15 major news media organizations;

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11. Made Gerald Ford vice president and then president;

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12. Insured continuity of the cover-ups by forcing Ford to +pardon Nixon;

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13. Murdered about 100 witnesses and participants in the +three assassinations and one attempted assassination;

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14. Blocked efforts by private citizens and organizations +to reveal the take-over; discredited, ruined or +infiltrated these individuals or groups; murdered or +were accomplices to the murders of the operating +assassins;

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15. Blocked efforts by members of the Senate and House to +initiate investigations of the assassinations and +attempted to whitewash, ridicule or eliminate these +efforts (their influence and infiltration has been +particularly effective in the Church Committee and in +the House Rules Committee);

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16. Controlled the presidential election procedure since +1964 by eliminating the candidates who might expose the +truth and insuring the election or appointment of +candidates already committed to covering up the truth +about the take-over.

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The question for 1976 was: Could the power control group +continue the take-over during that year's elections? Would they be +successful in blocking efforts to expose the take-over by congress? +Would they be able to fool the American public again, control the +media, and eliminate the contenders for the presidency in 1976 who +might have threatened their secure position? The answer to these +questions was "Yes." +The candidates on the scene during the 1976 primaries fell into +three categories according to the control group's point of view. +Category 1 included candidates that would continue the cover-up of +the take-over. Gerald Ford led this group with Ronald Reagan not +far behind him. Henry Jackson was a probable ally because of his +backing of the CIA, an important organization in the cover-ups and +the takeover. Category 2 included those candidates who would +probably try to expose the take-over and the power control group if +elected. Morris Udall, Fred Harris and George Wallace fell into +this category. The third category included candidates whose +intentions were not clear, or unknown at the time. Jimmy Carter, +Franck Church and Hubert Humphrey remained in this group, and +Sergeant Shriver and Birch Bayh were also in this category before +they dropped out of the race. +Efforts would have been made to eliminate Udall, Harris or +Wallace if any one of them was nominated at the Democratic +convention. Carter must certainly have been put to some kind of +loyalty test before being permitted to continue as the Democratic +nominee. Reagan and Ford were, no doubt, already "safe" candidates +for the control group because of their demonstrated cover-up +performances. +Ford had cooperated fully in at least four ways. He was on the +Warren Commission and played a leading role in the cover-up. He +wrote the cover-up book "Portrait of the Assassin." He pardoned +Nixon and protected the Nixon tapes. And he formed the Rockefeller +Commission, appointing David Belin as head of the staff to continue +the cover-up of the JFK conspiracy. +Reagan had cooperated in at least three ways. He protected +important witnesses from extradition from California between 1967 +and 1969 for testimony before the grand jury in New Orleans and at +the trial of Clay Shaw. He assisted Evelle Younger, then district +attorney in Los Angeles and later California state attorney +general, in covering up the assassination conspiracy in the Robert +Kennedy case. And he has consistently supported the foreign and +domestic clandestine activities of the CIA, FBI and other +intelligence agencies both nationally and in California. +A later chapter will describe just how the Democratic candidate +may be eliminated and when. Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez from San +Antonio, Texas, who introduced House Resolution 204 to reopen the +two Kennedy assassination cases, the Dr. King case and the George +Wallace shooting, took a public position on the possibility that +the 1976 election was controlled. Gonzalez said "If we find the +answers--the truth--to the questions I have raised (about the +assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK and the Wallace attempt), as well +as those many others have raised, will the truth make us free? +Yes, it will, for the truth will make us free to pursue democracy- +-our system of government--through the ballot box, and we will not +be subject to government by bullets. The truth will enable us to +prevent such a series of events from happening again. Some of the +supporters of the investigation have written to me recently of +their hope that the investigation will get underway right away +(March 1976) because they are concerned that there is great danger +in store for the Democratic nominee for the President, whoever he +turns out to be. I hope very much that these fears do not turn out +to have a basis in fact."

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Chapter 2 +The Power Control Group

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Just who and what is the Power Control Group? Some have said +it's the military industrial complex. Some prefer to put the blame +on the Rockefellers and the Council on Foreign Relation. Others +have talked about control shifting from the "Yankees" to the +"Cowboys" and back again. The term "The Cabal," first used in an +obscure paper by an unknown author in 1968,[1] described a high +level conspiracy group that planned, financed and carried out the +assassination of John F. Kennedy. The word Cabal has been used +since then by some authors and researchers and applied to all of +the major domestic assassinations. +The idea of a Cabal raises more questions than it answers. Who +is in the Cabal? Was the same Cabal behind the planning and +financing of all five (Chappaquiddick being the fifth) major +eliminations? Or are there several interlocking Cabals? What +about the Warren and Rockefeller Commissions? Were they part of +the Cabal? Which Cabal controls and infiltrated the media and +organized the disinformation that poured forth in 1975 and 1976? +Was Ford a Cabal member? Was Nixon? How about Johnson and +Kissinger? Has one Cabal commanded the executions of the 100 +witnesses and lower level participants? +The mistake made by researchers in postulating higher level +groups is that they simplify a very complex situation. To draw a +distinct line between those involved in an overt conspiracy to +assassinate a leader and those involved afterward in covering up +the first group's actions is a mistake. The cover-ups are far more +important than the original assassinations. Each assassination or +attempted assassination, or other form of elimination of a leader, +is only part of a greater whole. The 16 accomplishments of the +power control group listed in Chapter 1, plus those now taking +place and those scheduled for the future, should be considered as a +continuum. The control group membership may contain individuals in +various categories, some of whom planned assassinations, some of +whom knew about the assassinations, and some of whom did not know +about assassinations in advance. Some may have been on the firing +line but have had nothing to do with the cover-ups. Some of them +are victims of later eliminations. Somewhere in the power control +group's hierarchy is a sub-group or perhaps several sub-groups that +have been responsible for the attempted assassinations of +presidential candidates, earlier assassins, witnesses, and earlier +middle-to-higher level members in the power control group. These +sub-groups might be thought of as intelligence-style task forces or +mini-Cabals. There is little question that many of the individuals +in these task forces are from organized crime and from the +intelligence community, or both. They have had access to +intelligence techniques and weapons that have frequently been used +in the the elimination process. +A second mistake made by some researchers is to assume that the +Cabal's shape remains static through time. Evidence shows that the +Power Control Group has been a living organism that both shrinks +and grows as a function of time. The shrinkages take place through +eliminations and a few natural deaths. The growth takes place for +several reasons. It is necessary to use new techniques and new +people for the group's activities as time passes in order to +continue effective control of the media and to continue to fool the +people and Congress. It's also necessary to bring new high level +people into the group from time to time. Candidates for president +acceptable to the group must be sworn in and must agree to continue +the cover-ups. New media lackeys or new special committees or +commissions are also needed. Once in a while an individual +blackmails his way in. Some come in on a de facto basis. +(Protectors of the Kennedys and their children fall into this +category.) +The very nature of the cover-up procedure has made it necessary +to expose at least some of the truth to vice presidents and vice +presidential candidates, in addition to presidents Johnson, Nixon, +and Ford. Each vice president elected or appointed since 1963 has +had to know the truth about the cover-ups in the event he became +president (Humphrey under Johnson, Agnew under Nixon, and then Ford +and Rockefeller). Ford was the most important of these since he +had to agree to pardon Nixon and to protect the tapes. +The heads of the FBI and CIA, selected trusted second-level men, +and the deputy director of plans (DDP) in the CIA have all had to +know some of the truth. The members of the 40 group and their +successors who presumably know all intelligence secrets of the +country are, no doubt, brought into this "inner circle" of +knowledgeable people. +The Warren Commissioners were split. Warren, Dulles McCloy and +Ford all knew the truth; Cooper, Boggs and Russell did not. The +Rockefeller Commission was also split. Rockefeller certainly knows +and so does Ford's man on that Commission, David Belin. Kissinger +must have known the truth; so must have the officers in the +Department of Defense. Then there are the Secret Team members, +planted in the various media organizations, who know the truth. A +later chapter will describe who they are and how they lead the +media cover-up and disinformation mill. +This living organism view of the Power Control Group can best be +constructed and proven by starting with the cover-up efforts and +the control of the media, as opposed to examining the conspiracies +to assassinate each leader. It is much easier to show how Gerald +Ford, for example, led the cover-up in the JFK conspiracy than it +is to determine who the members of the Power Control Group were who +planned and financed the assassination. +It is difficult to show evidence of higher level participation +in the assassinations of Robert Kennedy, Dr. King and in the +attempted assassination of George Wallace. It is not difficult to +prove that many high level individuals conspired to cover-up the +conspiracies in each of the three cases. It is not difficult to +prove that they helped frame at least one of the patsies (James +Earl Ray). +Much of the content of this book will show evidence of the +cover-ups and discuss the actions that are still taking place that +protect the Power Control Group. Only summary information is +included on the original conspiracies, except where there is a lack +of published data.

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[1] "Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal", Torbett, 1968 (Copeland +Document)

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Chapter 3 +You Can Fool the People

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One of the questions always asked by the beginning student of +America's political assassinations is, "How is it possible that all +of this could be happening in our country without our knowing about +it?" The "It couldn't happen here" belief has been extended to, +"It couldn't happen here without our knowing about it." This is +usually buttressed by such arguments as, "The Kennedys would have +done something about it, if it were true", or "Such a giant +conspiracy would have been exposed by someone within the +conspiratorial group", or "The news media would have found out +about it and told all of us by now." +The fact that it is possible to fool a majority of the American +people for a long period of time and to cover-up a high level +conspiracy involving many, many individuals, can easily be +demonstrated by using Watergate as an example. In fact, some +published articles[1] show that the entire truth about Watergate +has yet to be revealed. +We do know now about the cover-up of the original crimes in +Watergate and the cover-up of the cover-up. We tend to forget the +attitude of the majority of the American people, the Congress and +the media, toward Richard Nixon and the Nixon administration during +the period between the June 1972 Watergate break-in and the +November 1972 election and beyond into 1973. Long before Woodward +and Bernstein and others began the Watergate expose, a few +researchers were calling the Watergate conspiracies to the +attention of a small portion of the public.[2] It was not until +late 1973 that the research done by these researchers and their +hypotheses about high-level conspiracies were proven correct and +were generally accepted. How did it happen that for more than a +year a majority of the American people were not only fooled by Mr. +Nixon and his friends, but also re-elected him? Some of the same +ingredients present in that situation were like those used in the +taking of America. We can all learn a lot by observing what they +were. +What follows is a reproduction of an article by the author. +(Because the article was written in l972, some of the material in +it is now obsolete. However, it is reproduced here without changes +to illustrate the situation and attitudes of the pre-Watergate +revelation era.) It was originally written during the Watergate +cover-up era (late 1972), after Nixon was re-elected and before +Bernstein and Woodward were noticed by anyone. It should be noted +that even in 1976, Mr. Nixon still had his vehement supporters who +were blind to the ingredients required to fool the people.

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You Can Fool the People

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You can fool all of the people some of the time +You can fool some of the people all of the time +But you can't fool all of the people all of the time. +Abraham Lincoln, 1864

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The decade of 1963 to 1973 in the United State of America +will go down in history for many things. In the long run +it will be known through the world as the period which +demonstrated that it is possible to fool most of the +people all of the time. +Adolph Hitler didn't fool very many people. He cowed +them, frightened them, and killed them. But most Germans +knew what was happening even though they chose to do +nothing about it until it was too late. +The exercise of power to control what happens and to +restrict liberties is much more difficult in a Democracy +or a Republic. The United States is always held up as the +model case in which the guaranteed election of the +president every four years and the two-party system, will +prevent the country from being run by dictators. The +people are represented by the Congress and also elect the +President. +A person or a group planning a coup d'etat in the U.S. +would have a completely different job on their hands than +Germany in the 1930's, South American or African countries +in the twentieth century, or France in the 1890's or +Russia in 1918. +It would be necessary to fool a majority of the +American people into believing that they were well +represented, and that a democracy still existed, while at +the same time the coup group were in reality changing the +country to suit their own tastes. +It is the contention of the writer that this is exactly +what has happened over a period of time following World +War II. The methods used to fool the American people, +certainly since 1963 and to some extent also since the end +of World War I, have varied slightly as administrations +changed. The main thrust however has been a constant +erosion of civil rights, and a swing of government away +from the best interests of the people and toward big +companies, banks, the military and rich individuals and +families. The trend was slowed down only briefly between +1960 and 1963 when Jack Kennedy attempted to alter the +situation. He was assassinated because he did so. +To fool the American people is not easy. It requires +immense capabilities, tricky, secret methods, hidden +resources, great wealth and the equivalent of brainwashing +or mind control on a grand scale. Yet that type of +resource is precisely what has accomplished the deed. It +is probable that, like Germany, the American people will +awaken to what has been happening to them and to who has +been doing it. It is also very likely, now that the Nixon +administration has been restored for four more years, that +by 1976 it will be too late, in spite of Watergate. +George McGovern's speech on ABC Television, the evening +of October 25, 1972, was a warning for those citizens who +were awake, that "it can happen here." It's happening +here, was his basic message. Yet, unlike Germany, the +people were silent, and fooled. They didn't believe him +when he said, "Your liberties are being removed, one by +one." The Supreme Court by 1976 will be so packed with +Nixon appointees that we will never get our liberties +back. McGovern covered most of the areas in which the +people have been fooled. The major area he didn't cover +was that of assassination. This tool represents only the +end of the spectrum of techniques used by those in control +to remain in control. It has been used four times very +effectively, on both Kennedys, on Martin Luther King, and +in the attempt on George Wallace. In the case of Wallace, +crippling was sufficient to change the political outcome +in 1972.

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More important than the use of assassinations has been the +ability to fool the American people into believing there were four +lone madmen involved--and no conspiracies. The techniques involved +in fooling people are more complex and subtle than those involved +in the crime itself. In the Watergate case, the original crime was +the use of every trick and technique necessary to re-elect Nixon. +The people had to be fooled into believing that Nixon and the CIA +had nothing to do with Watergate and the broader plan of which it +was part. +That the fooling part turned out to be so easy is due to a long +series of conditioning steps taken with the American news media and +the people over the preceding years. The Pentagon Papers case +reveals how the people were fooled by several (successive CIA) +administrations over a long period of time. Efforts against +Ellsberg and the press continued in order to prevent further decay +of the fooling process. +How is it possible in the 20th century USA--with TV and high +levels of communication, with freedom of the press, freedom of +speech--to fool most of the people all of the time? Here is how it +is done. Five ingredients are required.

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INGREDIENT 1. A PATRIOTIC ISSUE. A fundamental issue +permeating nearly all conditions of life in the U.S. is needed, +around which the rest of the fooling can be constructed. The +perfect issue since 1947 has been "The Red Menace," or "Communism" +or "The Radical Communist Left Conspiracy." No one is more adept +at using this issue than Richard Nixon. +The people, to be fooled, have to really believe in the issue, +from the heart, from the gut. In a democracy this is the most +essential ingredient. In the U.S. many, many people believe it. +Some believe it because they have never heard or read anything +other than "The Communists are going to take over." Others believe +it because they or their parents or relatives came from Europe and +"know what it's like to live under Naziism or Communism." (They +don't distinguish.) +Some believe because they are religious, and somehow religion is +always linked to anti-communism. Others aren't sure, but they +think "radical" groups might be Communist controlled. The flag +waving, the national anthem, the American Legion, our prisoners of +war, the draft of the past--all of these symbols are linked to the +one big issue of "Communism." +There can be several sub-issues of lesser significance than the +fundamental issue. Some of these might be related to the main +issue. Others may be unrelated. Some are used to appeal to +certain segments of the population. They can be carefully +exploited and added together with the main issue in a way which +enhances it. Some are useful with low-intelligence-level people. +Others appeal to bigots. Some are fearful issues which people +would rather avoid. Others hit the individual right in his +pocketbook or his security. +If played one against the other, very carefully, many of these +sub-issues can be blamed on Communism. Archie Bunker, of the TV +series, "All In The Family", was not exaggerating when he blamed +his white niece's dancing with a black neighbor boy on "a Communist +plot." +Examples of sub-issues used by those controlling Nixon +administration to fool the people include:

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The black-white issue +The busing issue +The young radical issue +The law and order issue +The national security issue +The old-fashioned American work ethic versus +poverty and welfare issue

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INGREDIENT 2. REACHING THE MINDS OF THE PEOPLE. To fool a +majority of the people all of the time it is necessary to reach +into their minds over a relatively long period of time. Make an +analysis of what you, the reader, believe today or disbelieve, +along with the mental condition you are in when you enter a polling +booth, or write a letter to your Congressman. After some thought +list all of the ways in which information might reach you today. +You will list all of the environmental factors, self images, +motivations, ego factors and acquired beliefs that make you do what +you do, and make you think what you think. +You will realize that your heritage, your schooling, your life's +experience, and the present bombardment of information have an +impact on how you vote. If your father and grandfather before you +were strong Republicans or Democrats, you may well vote the same +"pull one lever" way. You might close your mind to any messages of +imminent disaster, and think, "I'm better off not knowing and just +voting straight Republican." (In 1972) +You might have strong faith in the "American way of life" and +pay no attention to the people who go around claiming that John +Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were all murdered by +elements of an invisible government to keep the U.S. on the +military, wealthy, conservative track. +You might ignore solid evidence regarding Lee Harvey Osward's, +James Earl Ray's or Sirhan Sirhan's actions and instead rely on a +long-term, well engineered faith that something like that "couldn't +happen here." +Go back in time to 1935, if you are over 50, or go back to 1945, +if you are over 40, or back to 1955, if you are over 30. Examine +your general overall attitudes, beliefs and prejudices as developed +over that period of time between then and now. You will discover +that your political beliefs about the U.S., the Presidency, foreign +policy, wage and price controls, and your own economic conditions, +etc., have been strongly influenced by the various news media.

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INGREDIENT 3. CONTROLLING THE NEWS MEDIA. In Chapter 9, the +author proves that it has been possible for a very small group of +people in power to control or fool nearly all of the major news +media in the U.S. about the assassination of John F. Kennedy and +subsequent investigations conducted by groups other than the +sources of power (Warren Commission, FBI, Secret Service, CIA, +Justice Department, the President). +According to polls taken between 1963 and 1970, 50% to 80% of +the public at one time or another during this period believed there +was a conspiracy. Nevertheless, the major news media took the +opposite position. A poll conducted today would, no doubt, show +about one-half of the people believing there was no conspiracy. +How did this happen? Is it conceivable that the power sources of +two succeeding administrations (Johnson and Nixon) fooled or +controlled the news media to that extent? +The problem is not so difficult as it seems. Only sixteen media +organizations are involved. These sixteen provide each of us with +nearly all of the news we either read, see or hear. It is only +necessary to control the sixteen men at the very top and that is +exactly what happened. The proof contained in Chapter 9 contains +specific facts about what happened inside of eleven of the sixteen +organizations. +Some of them maintained an editorial position oriented toward +the possibility of conspiracy for several years. The last ones to +convert because of high level command decisions (at the *owner* +level--not the editorial level) did not do so until 1969, 5 1/2 +years after the assassination. Several of the eleven conducted +their own independent investigations and discovered conspiracy +evidence sufficient to take that stand. Among these were CBS, +Life Magazine, and "The New York Times."

+ +

The sixteen media organizations are:

+ +

1. NBC-TV and Radio +2. CBS-TV and Radio +3. ABC-TV and Radio +4. Associated Press +5. United Press International +6. Time-Life +7. McGraw Hill - Business Week +8. Newsweek +9. U.S. News and World Report +10. New York Times and their news service +11. Washington Post and their news service +12. Metromedia News Network TV and Radio +13. Westinghouse Radio News Network +14. Capital City Broadcasting Radio Network +15. North American Newspaper Alliance +16. Gannett News Service

+ +

Controlling the news media to that extent in order to fool the +people is an extreme act. It is a last resort in an extremely +serious situation. Such a situation arose when it became obvious +to those in power that Jim Garrison was going to expose the truth +about the assassination in court. He had to be destroyed, and he +was, by fooling the news media as well as the people. +Control of the press by the power group slipped a little with +the Pentagon Papers, the Mylai episode, the Green Berets, the FBI +use of spying, and the Watergate caper. But effective control over +the fooling of the people nevertheless remains. With Watergate, +people fooling shifted from controlling the news media, which +suddenly awakened a little too late, to the control of the the +legal system.

+ +

INGREDIENT 4. CONTROLLING THE LEGAL SYSTEM. Perhaps the most +important long-range ingredient in fooling the people of America is +the control and influence over the legal system. The U.S. in the +post-war era has reached the stage where, in case of doubt on a +major issue, the people will wait to see how it is resolved by the +courts. The American people in general have always had tremendous +faith in their own legal system. +With the exception of the South taking issue with the Warren +court over black rights, the American people tend to believe that +the Supreme Court will eventually right any wrongs. The faith goes +much further than adjudication of crimes or disputes. People have +come to rely on the legal system to tell them where the truth lies +on a major issue when two sides differ completely on the facts. +They believe that the adversary procedure and the perjury penalty +system will ferret out the truth. +Thus, to fool the people, and make them believe lies, it is +essential to control the legal system. The Nixon and Johnson +administrations and the Invisible Government lying underneath or +off to one side of both administrations became very adept at +controlling the legal system. It can be done, and has been done in +several ways. Nixon, of course, loaded the Supreme Court. That is +important. The complete control of the Justice Department and the +FBI is also obvious. Not so obvious is the need to control Federal +judges throughout the land. Truth might leak out in a trial at a +local level, so U.S. courts in each area must be controlled. +The Federal grand jury scheme worked out by Nixon, Mitchell and +Robert Mardian is a beautiful way to guide, direct and control the +legal system. It more than proved its worth in fooling the people +in cases involving classified documents, the Black Panthers and +other situations where the truth had to be obscured. +Control over the American Bar Association and individual lawyers +and district attorneys is another method used. And finally, it is +often useful to control local and state police, either individually +or in groups. +The exercise of control is important. It may be desirable to +suppress truth in a court situation during a trial or hearings. +The judge can do this very effectively. It may also be desirable +to delay a trial or a hearing in which the truth might be exposed. +Judges and lawyers can do this quite easily. It may be desirable +to entirely shut off a trial or an appeal where truth could be +exposed. Nixon was able to do this to perfection. +Lies and fake cases may be presented as truth in court while +truth is attacked as being falsehood. This technique has been very +successful. +All of this takes both money and power. Judges and lawyers, +must either be paid a lot of money, or frightened about their +career and health. The CIA conduits used for espionage financing +have been used extensively in controlling the legal system. Power +has been used to control lower courts and local police or district +attorneys from the highest source of power in America, the +invisible government. +A few examples will suffice to demonstrate how the legal system +is used to fool the people. +The 1972 election demonstrated that two-thirds of the people +either did not associate Mr. Nixon with the Watergate affair and +the Chapin-Segretti sabotage project, or else they didn't know +about it or didn't care. +Surely, you say, a traditional American patriot would not vote +for a man who did all of the things the Watergate 7 and Chapin-Segretti and company did. But wait! The situation as of January +1973 had not yet reached the courts. Except for Bernard Barker's +conviction for falsely using his notary public seal to stamp a +check from Kenneth Dahlberg in Florida, no court actions had taken +place. +Wasn't that lucky for the Republicans, you say. It wasn't luck. +The Watergate arrests took place in June 1972. By successfully +delaying a whole series of trials and court actions, Mr. Nixon, +through control of the courts, kept the truth away from the people +until after the election on November 7. Perhaps some of the people +who voted for him had doubts, but if court cases had been conducted +before November 7, and conducted fairly by uncontrolled judges, the +truth would have been exposed in all of its glory. +Now that he had a powerful mandate from the people, it was +likely that other forms of control would be used to continue +fooling the people about Watergate. Some of these were covered in +the prior chapters. Executive privilege has been used to a major +extent. +Clay Shaw was actually defended and Garrison, in effect, was put +on trial, through CIA money and CIA lawyers. Garrison's attempts +to bring Shaw to trial for perjury were successfully blocked by +Federal courts and judges. +Sirhan Sirhan's trial for the murder of Robert Kennedy was +controlled by the Nixon administration in order to hide the truth +from the people. The case involved controlling the judge at the +trial, the district attorney, the lawyers for Sirhan, the Los +Angeles police, the FBI, and some of the officials of the state of +California. The control exercised has continued to prevent Sirhan +from receiving a new trial based on new evidence of what happened +in the assassination.

+ +

THE FIVE BIG EVENTS. The five events since World War II about +which the power control group must continue to fool the American +people about are the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy +and Martin Luther King; the attempted assassination of George +Wallace; and the Watergate episode. (In 1973, the truth about +Chappaquiddick and its importance, together with the threats +against Jackie Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy, Ted Kennedy and all of the +Kennedy children, had not been exposed. Chappaquiddick is the +sixth big event.) +All other things this group has done since 1947 fade into +insignificance compared to these five. The reason is that the +American people may accept such things as the Pueblo incident, the +Gulf of Tonkin fake, the Mylai incident, the Pentagon Papers, the +Kent State killings, the frame-ups of the Black Panthers and their +murders, and even the whole Viet Nam war, but they would rise up in +wrath if the truth about any one or all of those five events were +exposed. +Thus, Mr. Hanson for Sirhan, Mr. Fensterwald for James Earl Ray, +Mr. Lawrence O'Brien and the Watergate suit--anyone opposing the +findings of the Warren Commission with national prominence and +success--and anyone who begins to pry too much into George +Wallace's brush with death will be opposed with all the power those +in control can muster. Each will be dealt with if he comes too +close, just as Jim Garrison was dealt with by both the Johnson and +Nixon administrations. Garrison managed to beat out the Nixon-controlled Justice Department in his own trial in September 1973. +The jury in New Orleans found him innocent in spite of the fact +that the prosecuting attorney, the judge, the key witness, Pershing +Gervais, and the news media were all controlled by Nixon and +Mitchell. By late 1973 it was becoming a little more difficult to +fool the people.

+ +

INGREDIENT 5. PAID COLUMNISTS OR LACKEYS. Control of the news +media includes controlling or hiring selected columnists, newsmen, +commentators, and lackeys. Sometimes these people are called +"spokesmen for the administration." Many of them are supposedly +independent. Their importance in the process of fooling the people +has increased as the number of independent news media organizations +has decreased and the number of organizations relying on +syndicated, national columnists or commentators has increased. +The Nixon administration managed to corral a great many more of +these types than did the administrations of Johnson, Kennedy, or +Eisenhower. In the newspaper field, there were four to five times +as many columnists writing "fool the people" type news for Nixon as +against Nixon. Alsop was at one extreme. More subtle were writers +like C.L. Sulzberger in the "New York Times" and Gary Wills in +various conservative papers. On radio, the Westinghouse network +used four commentators who appeared to be liberal at first glance, +but who adhered to the party line when the time came to get at the +truth about the five key events mentioned earlier. These four were +Peter Lisagor, Rod McCleish, Simeon Booker and Irwin Cannon. +William Safire, Evans and Novak, Mary McCarthy, and occasionally +Jack Anderson also fall into the "fool the people" column. The +impact of these columnists on the American people has not really +been measured. Alsop's and Evans and Novak's columns appear in +Republican and right-wing newspapers all across the U.S. The +election poll that indicated over 700 newspapers supported Nixon +while fewer than 50 supported McGovern provides some estimate of +how influential these papers and columnists can be. With the +exception of two or three stories by Jack Anderson about Robert +Kennedy and plots to assassinate Castro, none of the evidence about +the truth pertaining to the assassinations has ever appeared in any +of these columns. Yet the American people read these columns more +faithfully than they read the front page.

+ +

HOW THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FOOLED. Now that the ingredients for +fooling the people have been discussed, let's examine the net +results over the past twenty-five years. Between 1957 and 1972, +there was a culmination in the use of these ingredients, many of +which were developed with the end of World War II. +Through a succession of presidencies and political party +administrations from Truman to Nixon a mixture of wealthy, military +and espionage individuals developed a power base and used the five +ingredients to fool the people. Except for John Kennedy, none of +the presidents tried very hard to resist this power. The book +"Farewell America" (by James Hepburn--a pseudonym--Frontiers +Press), which has been reprinted in sections in "Computers and +Automation" (1973) shows clearly what kind of power JFK tried to +resist and how it resulted in his death. +The American people aren't familiar with this book any more than +they are familiar with a movie made from the book, with the same +title. And as long as the group remains in power, the book and +movie will be banned from the United States, just as "Z" was banned +in Greece. +The people of America were fooled into believing each of the +following untruths:

+ +

Kent State:

+ +

The National Guard fired under intense pressure and attack +by a bunch of hoodlums at Kent State University. The +various grand juries have vindicated the Guard. There was +no White House influence involved in the killings, or in +the aftermath.

+ +

Mylai:

+ +

Calley was justified in shooting the civilians at Mylai +because those were his orders. You can't tell a "gook" +from a Viet Cong and, after all, war is war.

+ +

Communism:

+ +

The greatest threat to American freedom is still a world-wide Communist take-over. The domino theory may or may not +be correct, but we must never give up a fight. "Peace +with honor" was essential in Viet Nam.

+ +

Pentagon Papers:

+ +

Few people have taken the time to read the Pentagon Papers +and have understood their significance. The two-thirds +majority who elected Nixon in 1972 may have been puzzled +by the papers or they may not have cared. No doubt, most +of them believed Ellsberg a traitor and worthy of jail. +It is very unlikely they will ever believe they were duped +by Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon and most +particularly by the CIA and allies in matters pertaining +to the cold war and Communism. The fundamental, gut issue +of the Communist conspiracy overrides any other revelation +in this field.

+ +

Assassinations:

+ +

In spite of polls and uneasy feelings, at least half and +perhaps a majority of the American people still believe +that John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King +were assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan and +James Earl Ray, respectively, and that the assassination +attempt on George Wallace was solely Arthur Bremer's +doing. They believe these men acted alone and that they +were madmen. (This statement pertains to the period of +1972-73.)

+ +

Watergate:

+ +

Prior to the election in November 1972, a majority of the +American people believed that Richard Nixon, John +Mitchell, Maurice Stans and everyone else of importance in +the White House had nothing to do with the Watergate +affair or the activities of Donald Segretti and others +prior to the election. Almost no one believed that the +CIA was involved in setting up Nixon so as to capture and +control the executive to an even greater degree.

+ +

Democracy and Freedom:

+ +

By the end of 1973 a relatively large percentage of the +American people still did not relate any of the foregoing +incidents or situations to their own individual liberties. +They believed patriotically in America; they believed we +still had a democracy; they believed that President +Nixon, with his wise ways and business experience would +pull us out of whatever problems we had. From the time he +nailed Alger Hiss and the day he won the great kitchen +debate with Kruschev, Nixon was believed to be the leader +who would secure our eventual victory over Communism. The +people refuse to consider the possibility that unknown +forces have seized control over the U.S. for the last +fifteen years and that our liberties and democracy are +fading away.

+ +

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+ +

[1] "Nixon and the Mafia" -- Jeff Gerth, "Sundance Magazine," December +1972. Charles Colson Interview, by Dick Russell - "Argosy Magazine," +March 1976

+ +

[2] "Why Was Martha Mitchell Kidnapped?" -- Mae Brussell, "The Realist," +August 1972

+ +

"The June 1972 Raid on Democratic Party Headquarters -- Part 1" -- +R.E. Sprague, "Computers & Automation," August 1972

+ +

"The Raid on Democratic Party Headquarters -- The Watergate +Incident -- Part 2", Ibid.

+ +

-- +daveus rattus

+ +

yer friendly neighborhood ratman

+ +

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Chapter 4 +How It All Began - The U-2 and the Bay of Pigs

+ +

To understand the origins of the Power Control Group, it is +necessary to return to the last years of the Eisenhower +administration and examine what was going on in the Cold War. +Eisenhower had suffered several strokes and a heart attack. He +was partially immobilized, and entrusted a major share of the +coordination of clandestine activities being conducted by the CIA +against the "Red Menace" to Richard Nixon, his vice president. +While Ike was warning against the military-industrial-complex's +domestic influence, and attempting to move toward detente with the +Soviets through a summit meeting, he was being sabotaged by the +plans section of the CIA and by Richard Nixon. +A part of the CIA arranged for a U-2 with Gary Powers as pilot +to go down over Russia, thus giving Khrushchev a chance to expose +American spying and to cancel the summit meeting. This was one of +the earliest moves of the nucleus of what later evolved into the +Power Control Group. In the spring of 1960, with Ike nearly senile +and pressured by Nixon, he approved the plan for the invasion of +Cuba and the assassination of Castro. Nixon was the chief White +House action officer for what later became the Bay of Pigs +invasion. +The Power Control Group was beginning to organize itself with +Nixon as part of it. The cold warriors and strong anti-Communist +"patriots" in the Plans or Operations part of the CIA formed the +original nucleus. +Their plan was to make Nixon president in 1961 and to launch a +successful takeover of Cuba. John Kennedy came along to upset the +plan. Not only did he make the takeover impossible but he soon +discovered the evils lurking in the hearts and minds of the CIA +clandestine operators and laid his own plans to destroy them. The +assassination of John Kennedy essentially became an act of survival +for some of these individuals. +Many citizens of America have forgotten that Richard Nixon was +Vice President of the United States in 1959 and 1960. As an old +anti-communist from the Alger Hiss and Khrushchev debating days, +Nixon was in the forefront of pressure for the Bay of Pigs invasion +of Cuba. What is also forgotten is that Nixon was largely +responsible for the covert training of Cuban exiles by the CIA in +preparation for the Bay of Pigs. (He stated this in his book, "Six +Crises".) +NIXON'S LIES--OCTOBER 1960. Mr. Nixon's capacity for truth is +nowhere more clearly demonstrated than by the deliberate lies he +told during the election campaign on national TV on October 21, +1960. He said in his book that the lies were told for a patriotic +reason--to protect the covert operations planned for the Bay of +Pigs at all costs. The significance of this is that Mr. Nixon +considers patriotism to be, in part, the protection of plans and +actions of individuals that he considered to be working for the +United States' best interests. +The similarities between the actions of Everette Howard Hunt, +Jr., James McCord, Bernard Barker, Frank Sturgis, and others in the +1960 planning for the Bay of Pigs invasion and in the 1972 planning +for the re-election of Richard M. Nixon are very striking. In both +cases, what the plotters themselves considered to be patriotic, +anti-Communist actions were involved. In 1960 the actions were +directed against Fidel Castro, a man they hated as a Communist. In +1972 the actions were directed against Edward Kennedy, Edmund +Muskie and George McGovern. Bernard Barker stated the group's +collective belief when he said after his arrest that, "We believe +that an election of McGovern would be the beginning of a trend that +would lead to socialism and communism, or whatever you want to call +it." +Nixon admitted lying to the American people to protect Hunt, +Barker, Sturgis, and McCord in 1960. The likelihood that he lied +to protect them again in 1972 seems to be quite good. There is +some likelihood that he actually hired the same old crew he trusted +from the Bay of Pigs days for the 1972 Watergate and other +espionage activities. +Here are the facts:

+ +

Nixon's Statements in "Six Crises"

+ +

Richard Nixon stated in "Six Crises": "The covert training of +Cuban exiles by the CIA was due in substantial part, at least, to +my efforts. This had been adopted as a policy as a result of my +direct support."[1] "President Eisenhower had ordered the CIA to +arm and train the exiles in May of 1960. Nixon and his advisors +wanted the CIA invasion to take place before the voters went to the +polls on November 8, 1960."[2] +While the Bay of Pigs operation was under the overall CIA +direction of Allen Dulles, Richard M. Bissell, Jr. was the CIA man +in charge, according to Ross & Wise.[3] Charles Cabell,[4] the +deputy director of the CIA, and a man with the code name Frank +Bender, were also near the top of the operational planning.[5]

+ +

E. Howard Hunt

+ +

Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. was in charge of the actual invasion. +He used the code name, "Eduardo." Bernard L. Barker, using the code +name "Macho," worked for Hunt in the CIA Bay of Pigs planning. +James McCord was an organizer for the invasion and was one of the +highest ranking officials in the CIA. Frank Sturgis, alias Frank +Fiorini, was also involved in the Bay of Pigs operations. Virgilio +Gonzales was a CIA agent active in the Bay of Pigs. So was Eugenio +Martinez. Charles Colson was a former CIA official who knew McCord +and Hunt during the Bay of Pigs period.[6] +Hunt, Barker, McCord, Sturgis, Gonzales, and Martinez were under +indictment for the Watergate affair. Colson was Nixon's special +counsel who handled "touchy" political assignments. According to +"Time" magazine, Colson brought all of the others into the re-election committee espionage project at the request of Nixon.[7] +In other words, it was basically the same group who worked for +Nixon, Bissell and Co. in 1960 and who worked for Nixon, Colson and +Co. in 1972. They were all loyal, patriotic, anti-Communist, and +anti-Castro CIA agents with covert (black) espionage training. +They needed Nixon's protection in 1960 and 1972, and they received +it both times. +Here is how Nixon protected them in 1960.[8]

+ +

Kennedy-Nixon Debates, 1960

+ +

John Kennedy and Richard Nixon engaged in a series of national +TV debates during the 1960 campaign. Kennedy was briefed by Allen +Dulles, head of the CIA at Eisenhower's request, on secret CIA +activities and international problems on July 23, 1960. Nixon was +not aware of the briefing contents and was not sure whether Dulles +told Kennedy about the Bay of Pigs plans. As it turned out Dulles +had not mentioned the plans but had kept his remarks about Cuba +rather general. +On October 6, 1960, Kennedy gave his major speech on Cuba. He +said that events might create an opportunity for the U.S. to bring +influence on behalf of the cause of freedom in Cuba. He called for +encouraging those liberty-loving Cubans who were leading the +resistance against Castro. +Nixon became very disturbed about this because he felt Kennedy +was trying to pre-empt a policy which he claimed as his own. Nixon +ordered Fred Seaton, Secretary of the Interior, to call the White +House and find out whether Dulles had briefed Kennedy on the Cuban +invasion plans. Seaton talked to General Andrew Goodpaster, +Eisenhower's link to the CIA, who told Seaton that Kennedy did know +about the Bay of Pigs plans.

+ +

Attack on Kennedy by Lying

+ +

Nixon became incensed. He said, "There was only one thing I +could do. The covert operation had to be protected at all costs. +I must not even suggest by implication that the U.S. was rendering +aid to rebel forces in and out of Cuba. In fact, I must go to the +other extreme: I must attack the Kennedy proposal to provide such +aid as wrong and irresponsible because it would violate our treaty +commitments."[9] +So Richard M. Nixon actually went on national TV (ABC) on +October 21, 1960, knowing we were going to invade Cuba, and lied. +During the fourth TV debate, Nixon attacked Kennedy's proposal as +dangerously irresponsible and in violation of five treaties between +the U.S. and Latin America, as well as the United Nations' +Charter.[10] +On October 22 at Muhlenberg College, Nixon really turned on the +fabrication steam. He said, "Kennedy called for--and get this--the +U.S. Government to support a revolution in Cuba, and I say that +this is the most shockingly reckless proposal ever made in our +history by a presidential candidate during a campaign--and I'll +tell you why . . ." +The reason we should have taken with a grain of salt whatever +words Nixon uttered about Watergate and Donald Segretti's espionage +is clearly demonstrated in that October 22, 1960 speech. He +fiercely attacked John Kennedy for advocating a plan that he, +Richard Nixon, secretly advocated and claimed as his own creation. +He later had the sheer gall to brag about it in his own book as a +very patriotic act.

+ +

Protection of Hunt and Co.

+ +

How was Nixon protecting Hunt and company in 1972? He was using +the Justice Department and the Republican Congressmen, among +others, to delay and dilute the prosecution of the Watergate seven. +He had slowed down, suppressed, and all but stopped six separate +investigations, suits, and trials of the affair. Included were +Wright Patman's House Banking Committee investigation, the FBI-Justice Department investigation, a White House investigation by +John Dean, a General Accounting Office investigation, a suit by the +Democratic Party, and a trial in criminal court of the seven +invaders. Only two trials or investigations had a chance of +exposing the truth at that time. One of these, a trial of Bernard +Barker in Florida was not much help. The other was an +investigation promised by Senator Edward Kennedy and his Senate +subcommittee. It never occurred. The action for impeachment came +much later. +Thus, the stage was set in 1961 for the group of powerful +individuals who had planned the Bay of Pigs to gain revenge on John +Kennedy who tried to change the overall direction of the U.S. +battle against Communism. After JFK refused to approve overt U.S. +backing of the Bay of Pigs invasion, various individuals in the +clandestine CIA forces vowed their revenge. +In the spring of 1961, evidence had appeared indicating that +Helms, Hunt, Sturgis and Barker tried to have JFK assassinated in +Paris.[11] When the attempt failed, a number of other plots and +sub-plots developed through the next two years. After JFK's +blockade strategy against Castro during the missile crisis in 1962 +was implemented, some of the high-level CIA and armed forces people +wanted even more to get him out of the White House. They had +favored a direct invasion or bombing of Cuba. +And finally, when JFK found out about the CIA's plans for +another invasion of Cuba in the spring and summer of 1963 and +stopped them, they began in earnest to plan his death.

+ +

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+ +

[1] "Six Crises," Richard M. Nixon, Doubleday, 1962.

+ +

[2] "The Invisible Government," Wise & Ross, Random House, 1964.

+ +

[3] Ibid.

+ +

[4] Brother of Earl Cabell, mayor of Dallas when Kennedy was assassinated.

+ +

[5] Ibid.

+ +

[6] "New York Times" articles on Watergate, June 18 to July 2, 1972.

+ +

[7] "Time" magazine, September 8, 1972.

+ +

[8] This episode is related in detail in "The Invisible Government."

+ +

[9] "Six Crises".

+ +

[10] "The Invisible Government."

+ +

[11] "400000 Dollars Pour Abattre Kennedy a Paris," Camille Giles, Julliard +Press, Paris 1973.

+ +
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+ +

Chapter 5 +The Assassination of John Kennedy

+ +

The assassination of President Kennedy can be considered one of +a series of acts by the Power Control Group to regain the control +they had lost when Nixon was defeated in 1960 and Kennedy +threatened their existence. The evidence pointing toward +intelligence involvement and the use of a variety of intelligence +techniques in the assassination is substantial. Until and unless +an investigation is conducted by a group with power and money +equivalent to that of the Power Control Group, with the power to +issue subpoenas and to protect witnesses, it will be very difficult +to draw a completely accurate picture of the conspiracy to +assassinate JFK. +As a substitute, this chapter is a "probable reconstruction"--a +scenario--about who killed John F. Kennedy. Unlike the Warren +Commission Report (another scenario), this report does not contain +any physically impossible events, such as those connected with +Commission Exhibit 399, the so-called "magic bullet." +This scenario is based on (1) evidence gathered between 1968 and +1975 by the Committee to Investigate Assassinations, Washington, +D.C. and (2) evidence gathered between 1962 and 1975 by the author. +The purpose of this scenario is as a starting point for study +and verification by researchers, by Congressional Committees, and +by their members and staffs. This should be considered as a +beginning hypothesis and scenario in contrast to the Warren and +Rockefeller Commission scenarios. +The best evidence available indicates the following events +occurred in the summer and fall of 1963 and culminated in the +assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The basic evidence has +been summarized in various articles published in "Computers and +People" (formerly "Computers and Automation") since May 1970.[1] +This can be considered as a guideline scenario which adheres to and +explains all of the known factual evidence.

+ +

How It Began

+ +

The conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy began in a series of +discussions held in New Orleans in the summer of 1963. The men in +the discussions were extremely angry that Kennedy had stopped plans +and preparations for another invasion of Cuba (scheduled for the +latter part of 1963.) One of the instigators was David Ferrie, a +CIA contract agent who had been training pilots in Guatemala for +the invasion. Meetings held in Ferrie's apartment in New Orleans +were attended by Clay Shaw, William Seymour and several Cubans. +Plans for assassinating President Kennedy developed out of those +early meetings. Others whose support was sought by the group +included Guy Banister, Major L. M. Bloomfield, Loran Hall, +Lawrence Howard, Sergio Arcacha Smith and Carlos Prio Socarras.

+ +

Oswald's Role

+ +

During this period in the summer of 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald was +working for Guy Banister on some anti-Castro projects and used the +Communist cover of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Oswald +attended some of the meetings where JFK's assassination was +discussed. +Oswald either approached the FBI or they approached him in the +later summer of 1963, and he began to tell the FBI about the plans +of the group to assassinate JFK. Oswald had been a secret +informant for the FBI since mid-1962.

+ +

Mexico City

+ +

In September, the group moved the scene of their planning to +Mexico City. There they solicited the assistance of Guy Gabaldin, +a CIA agent. Meetings were held in the apartment of Gabaldin, +attended by Shaw, Ferrie, Seymour, Gabaldin and Oswald on at least +three occasions. Others were brought into the conspiracy at this +point. These included John Howard Bowen (alias Albert Osborne), +Ronald Augustinovich, Mary Hope, Emilio Santana, Harry Dean, +Richard Case Nagell, and "Frenchy" (an adventurer who had been +working with Seymour, Santana, Ferrie, Howard and others on the +Cuban invasion projects in the Florida Keys). Fred Lee Crisman, +Jim Hicks and Jim Braden (alias Eugene Hale Brading) were also +recruited at this point.

+ +

Oswald, the Patsy

+ +

Oswald continued to inform on the group to the FBI in Dallas. +In mid-to late September the assassination group decided to make +Oswald the patsy in the murder. They had discussed the need for a +patsy in the earliest meetings in New Orleans. Billy Seymour, who +resembled Oswald, was selected to use Oswald's name and to plant +evidence in New Orleans, Dallas and Mexico, which could later be +used to frame him. In addition, another man under CIA surveillance +in Mexico City also used Oswald's name in a probable attempt to +make it appear that Oswald was headed for Cuba. His name may have +been Johnny Mitchell Deveraux. His picture appears in the Warren +Commission Volumes as CE 237.

+ +

Financial Support

+ +

The team needed financial support for the assassination. They +received it from Carlos Prio Socarras in Miami, who brought more +than 50 million dollars out of Cuba. They also received money from +Banister, and from three Texas millionaires who hated Kennedy: +Sid Richardson, Clint Murchison, and Jean DeMenil (of the +Schlumberger Co.). The Murchison-Richardson contribution also +included soliciting the assistance of high-level men in the Dallas +police force. They were powerful members of the Dallas Citizens +Council that controlled the city at that time.

+ +

Plans for Three Cities

+ +

The group in Mexico City planned to assassinate JFK in Miami, +Chicago or Dallas, using different gunmen in each case. The Miami +plan failed because the Secret Service found out about it in +advance and kept JFK out of the open. The Chicago plan backfired +when JFK cancelled his plans to attend the Army-Navy game at +Soldiers Field in early November. The group set up two +assassination teams for Dallas. One was in Dealey Plaza; the +second was near the International Trade Mart where JFK's luncheon +speech was to be delivered.

+ +

CIA Support

+ +

The best evidence of CIA (Deputy-Director of Plans) involvement +is the fact that the majority of the known participants were +contract agents or direct agents of the CIA. In Mexico City, the +meetings were held in the apartment of Guy Gabaldin, a CIA (DDP) +agent, working for the Mexico City station chief. Others attending +the meetings who were CIA (DDP) contract or direct agents included +Clay Shaw, David Ferrie, Albert Osborne, Harry Dean, Richard Case +Nagell, Ronald Augustinovich, William Seymour, Emilio Santana and +Fred Lee Crisman. It is likely (but not yet provable by direct +evidence) that the group sought and obtained from the acting or +permanent CIA station chief in Mexico, assistance or approval to go +ahead with assassination plans. Tad Szulc claims that a CIA source +can prove that E. Howard Hunt was acting station chief in Mexico +City at the time of the Gabaldin apartment meetings (August and +September 1963). Hunt has denied under oath before the Rockefeller +Commission that he was in Mexico. +In 1967 Richard Helms told a group of CIA officials, including +Victor Marchetti, that both Clay Shaw and David Ferrie were CIA +(DDP) contract agents and that Shaw had to be given CIA protection +and assistance in his New Orleans trial. This is a strong +indication that Hunt and Helms gave "turn of the head" approval to +the Shaw-Ferrie assassination plan as a minimum form of support.

+ +

Dallas

+ +

The assassination group, having failed in Miami and Chicago, +moved an operational team into Dallas during the second week in +November of 1963. Shaw, Ferrie, Gabaldin and other high-level +plotters travelled in other directions, establishing alibis as +planned. On November 22, Gabaldin was in Mexico City, Shaw was in +San Francisco, and Ferrie was in New Orleans. The team moving into +Dallas included Albert Osborne, William Seymour, Emilio Santana, +Frenchy, Fred Crisman, Jim Hicks, Jim Braden, and a new recruit +from Los Angeles, Jack Lawrence. There was also a back-up rifle +team of Cubans to be used at a location near the International +Trade Mart in the event something went wrong at Dealey Plaza.

+ +

Where the Teams Stayed

+ +

The teams stayed at two locations in Dallas for two weeks. One +was a rooming house run by a woman named Tammie True. During this +period final preparations for the assassination in Dealey Plaza +were made. These included the collecting of and planting of +evidence used to frame Oswald, the recruiting of the Dallas police +participants, and the plans for the escape of the team members by +car and by train. The riflemen selected were William Seymour in +the Depository Building, Jack Lawrence and Frenchy on the grassy +knoll, and Emilio Santana in the Dal Tex building. Jim Hicks was +set up as radio coordinator and a man with each of the riflemen had +a two-way radio. They were Jim Braden, Dal Tex; Fred Crisman, +knoll; unidentified American (tall tramp), knoll; and a man in the +TSBD Building. Osborne was in overall charge of the Dallas teams, +but he did not go to Dealey Plaza. A fifth gunman, known to +researchers as the umbrella man, was stationed on the street with +an umbrella weapon furnished by the CIA. He was accompanied by +another Cuban acting as a radio man.

+ +

Framing Oswald

+ +

The people involved in framing Oswald included Seymour (who used +his identity), someone who posed for two pictures holding a rifle, +a photographer who took the pictures and someone who superimposed +Oswald's head on the two negatives. Also, someone who took +Oswald's rifle from his garage and his pistol from his room, taking +several bullets and shells with the pistol, fired three shells and +one bullet through the rifle, and planted the rifle and rifle +shells on the sixth floor of the TSBD and a rifle bullet at +Parkland Hospital. The pistol shells were given to William Seymour +for planting later on. The photographers also planted photos of +General Walker's house and driveway to implicate Oswald in the +Walker shooting.

+ +

Dallas Policemen Involved

+ +

The policemen involved were J. D. Tippit, who was to drive two +of the assassins, Seymour and his radio man, away in his police +car; Bill Alexander; Jerry Hill; Sergeant McDonald; Lieutenant +Montgomery; Lieutenant Johnson; and Lieutenant Batchelor, who +escorted Jack Ruby into the jail to murder Oswald. +McDonald was assigned to kill Oswald upon his arrest in the +Texas Theatre. Jerry Hill was involved in that event as well as in +the planting of evidence against Oswald in the TSBD Building. +Montgomery and Johnson were involved in planting the paper bag as +evidence against Oswald. Alexander and Batchelor were primarily +responsible for making sure that Jack Ruby assassinated Oswald and +that he didn't talk about it afterward. Alexander was present on +every occasion when Ruby was questioned or interviewed in the jail, +in spite of Ruby's efforts to have him removed.

+ +

Other Persons Involved in Framing Oswald

+ +

Also involved in framing Oswald were Marina Oswald; her lawyer, +James Martin; and someone in the Dallas police force. She was +talked into three points of false testimony: she said she took the +two fake photos of Oswald with a camera she claimed was his. She +fabricated, or was handed, the false story about Oswald's attempt +to shoot General Walker and taking two pictures of Walker's house +with the same camera. (Oswald did neither.) She told a false +story about a falling out she and Oswald supposedly had and +exaggerated his mean treatment of their children. There are good +indications that these moves were made by the CIA operatives in the +group who threatened to send Marina back to Russia. (Marina's +uncle was a high-level officer in the KGB.)

+ +

Dealey Plaza

+ +

On the day of the assassination four men with rifles, +accompanied by their radio men and several other team members, +moved into Dealey Plaza. Seymour and a radio man entered the TSBD +Building through the freight entrance and worked their way to the +roof. Santana and Braden went into the Dal Tex building through +the freight entrance on Houston St. and up a back staircase to the +second floor. Lawrence, Frenchy, Crisman and the tall tramp took +up two positions on the grassy knoll. Lawrence was inside the +westernmost cupola after parking his car in the parking lot behind +the knoll. Frenchy, Crisman and the tall tramp were near the +fence. Jim Hicks was in the Adolphus Hotel a few blocks away, +testing the two-way radio communication with the four radio men, +until he proceeded to the Plaza and mingled with a large crowd +(near the corner of Houston and Elm Streets). The umbrella man +stood near the Stemmons Freeway sign on Elm Street accompanied by +his radio man. +The other team members stationed themselves in the crowd (along +Elm Street). After the shots were fired, they circulated through +the crowd in front of the TSBD on Elm Street, on the grassy knoll, +and behind the TSBD Building, identifying themselves as Secret +Service agents and asking witnesses and officials questions to find +out whether the assassins had been detected. There are clear +photos of one of these men. One other man was at the corner of the +wall on the grassy knoll.

+ +

The Shots

+ +

Upon a visual and oral signal from the man at the wall and upon +a radio command from Hicks, the team fired its first round of +shots. Crisman received the command from Hicks and caused Frenchy +to fire a shot from a position behind the fence on the knoll, about +twenty feet west of the corner of the fence. This shot missed. +The umbrella man fired a shot using his small-bore umbrella gun. +When this shot struck JFK in the throat, the dart paralyzed JFK and +later presented by Commander Humes to the FBI.[2] The shot was +fired at Zapruder frame 189: JFK was behind a large oak tree, +hidden from the sixth floor window of the TSBD Building. On +command from Braden, Emilio Santana fired his first shot two +seconds later from the second floor window of the Dal Tex building +at Z 225 after JFK came out from behind the sign in Zapruder's +film. The shot struck JFK in the back about 5 3/4" down from the +collar line, penetrated to a depth of about two inches and stopped. +The bullet fell out of JFK's back somewhere in or at the Parkland +Hospital, or perhaps travelled down inside the body of the +President, and was never recovered. +William Seymour fired his shot from the west end of the TSBD +Building upon command from his radio man between Z 230 and Z 237, +after Santana's shot. He used a Mauser rifle with no telescopic +sight. While he was aiming at JFK, he fired high and to the right, +hitting John Connally in the back. The bullet travelled through +Connally's chest and then entered his left thigh. The bullet fell +out of his thigh in or near Parkland Hospital and was never +recovered. Governor Connally's wrist was not hit at that time. +Jack Lawrence did not fire a shot in the first round because +from his cupola position he did not have a clear shot. +Hicks gave a second radio command for another round of shots as +JFK passed the Stemmons Freeway sign. +Emilio Santana fired his second shot between Z 265 and Z 275. +The bullet narrowly missed JFK, passed over the top of his head and +over the top of the limousine's windshield. It travelled on to +strike the south curb of Main Street, breaking off a piece of +concrete which flew up and hit James Tague. The bullet either +disintegrated or flew into the area beyond the overpass. It was +not found. +William Seymour may have fired a second shot which may have +struck JFK in the upper right part of his head at Z 312. That +bullet disintegrated. +Upon command from his radio man, Jack Lawrence fired his first +shot from a pedestal on the west side of the south entrance to the +western cupola on the grassy knoll. The shot may have hit +Connally's wrist. +Frenchy fired the fatal shot through the trees from his position +behind the fence. +The Lawrence shot or possibly the second Seymour shot produced a +bullet fragment that passed through Connally's right wrist at Z +313. At that time his wrist was elevated and nearly directly in +front of JFK's head, in such a position that Connally's right palm +was facing JFK as the governor fell into his wife's arms. The +fragment entered the front of his wrist and exited from the back.

+ +

Oswald's Actions

+ +

Lee Harvey Oswald started November 22, 1963 with the knowledge +that there might be an attempt on JFK's life during the day. He +had reported this possibility to the FBI in his informer's role +five days earlier; he undoubtedly thought the FBI and Secret +Service would be protecting the President. His communications with +the assassination team had prepared him to meet with them in the +Texas Theatre if anything happened that day. There is also a +possibility he received a telephone call immediately after the +shots, telling him to go to the theatre. +He had gone to his and Marina's rooms in Irving to pick up +curtain rods for his bare windows in his Oak Cliff room. He +carried the curtain rods in a paper bag on his way to work that +morning with Wesley Frazier. He worked on the sixth floor of the +TSBD as well as on the other floors that morning. He helped a crew +of men lay a new floor on the sixth floor, move a large number of +book cartons and school supplies over to the eastern side of the +floor, including some cartons near the southeastern window that +faced Elm Street. +Oswald went to the first floor of the building at approximately +12:15 p.m. and returned to the second floor lunchroom just before +12:30. He was drinking a coke there at 12:31 when Officer Baker +and Mr. Truly, the building manager, encountered him while rushing +up the stairs from the first floor. At the sight of Baker's gun +drawn and seeing the commotion outside, he no doubt realized what +had happened.[3] He immediately left the building via the freight +platform entrance on the northeast side and travelled to his +rooming house via bus and taxi. He picked up his pistol there and +went directly to the Texas Theater where he met two of the +assassination team and was sitting with them in the theatre when +the police arrived. One of these men may have been William +Seymour. +The Dallas police members of the team planned to shoot Oswald in +the theatre while arresting him. When he was arrested he did not +realize at first that he had been framed. When this began to +become clear to him on Saturday, November 23, he remained confident +that the FBI would get him out of the situation. After all, he +worked for them!

+ +

Jack Ruby

+ +

Jack Ruby, in addition to his Mafia involvements and other +criminal activities, was also running guns to Cuba and carrying +payoff money to other anti-Castro groups on behalf of various CIA-backed projects. His involvement in the assassination of JFK +appears to have been minor, even though he knew about it in +advance. In his night club Ruby met on several occasions with Clay +Shaw, David Ferrie, and William Seymour. +The group decided to assassinate Oswald in jail after the police +failed to kill him in the Texas Theatre. Alexander made +arrangements to have Batchelor escort Ruby into the jail when it +was known Oswald was being moved. They arranged an audible signal +(an auto horn) to let Batchelor and Ruby know when Oswald was +coming down an elevator into the garage. They came down an +elevator opposite the one carrying Oswald. +Clay Shaw gave Ruby his instructions to shoot Oswald through +Breck Wall. Shaw telephoned Wall from San Francisco and Wall +called Ruby. He was told it was an official CIA-sponsored act, in +the best interests of the United States, and that he would be out +of jail in a few days after his capture.

+ +

Planted Evidence

+ +

The planting of the evidence against Oswald first began with +William Seymour, who used Oswald's identity during September and +October, 1963. Next, the faked photographs of Oswald were created. +Two of the team members used a camera of their own to take the two +pictures of General Walker's house and the two shots of one of the +men supposedly in Oswald's back yard. They planted the pictures in +Oswald's garage. Next, they stole Oswald's rifle from the garage +prior to November 22, fired several shots from it, and preserved +three shells, one bullet, and several bullet fragments. +They planted the rifle, the three shells, the bullet (399) and +the bullet fragments in the TSBD, the hospital and the JFK +limousine on November 22. They also took Oswald's pistol at some +time prior to November 22, fired several shots from it and saved +the shells. William Seymour, after shooting policeman Tippit, ran +away in such a manner as to attract attention, throwing the shells +from Oswald's gun into the air as he ran so that witnesses would +see them. (The shells matched Oswald's pistol. None of the +bullets matched.) +All of the work with Oswald's rifle, pistol, and the fake photos +was probably done at the same time. The rifle, pistol and +Communist newspapers had to be available together for the backyard +photos. The faking of the photographs, the firing of rifle and +pistol, the retrieval of the shells from rifle and pistol and of +bullet 399 and the bullet fragments from the rifle all required +enough time that the event occurred well in advance of the +assassination .

+ +

Escape Plans

+ +

As mentioned before, plans were made for the team to escape by +car, train, and airplane. Evidence shows:

+ +

1. A white car was parked straddling a log barrier behind +the western cupola on the grassy knoll. It left that +spot one minute after the shots were fired and drove +eastward on the Elm Street extension in front of the +TSBD.

+ +

2. A white station wagon driving west on Elm Street +stopped at the foot of the grassy knoll at 12:40 p.m., +ten minutes after the shots were fired. It picked up a +man who looked like Oswald and drove under the triple +overpass.

+ +

3. A railroad train carrying three "tramps" began to leave +the freight train area west and north of the TSBD at +around one o'clock, thirty minutes after the shots. +The train was under the tower control of Lee Bowers and +was stopped by him. The tramps were arrested.

+ +

4. A police car stopped in front of Oswald's rooming house +and honked twice around 1:10 p.m.

+ +

5. Policeman Tippit's patrol car was far out of position +in the Oak Cliff area near Ruby and Oswald's rooming +houses. Tippit was shot by two men, one of whom was +Billy Seymour.

+ +

6. A small airplane was sitting at the Redbird Airport, a +location in the same direction as Oak Cliff, a little +further out from Dealey Plaza. Its engines were +running. It was ready for takeoff at 1 p.m.

+ +

7. David Ferrie went to Houston, Texas on the afternoon of +November 22, driving at high speed through bad +thunderstorms to get there. He was positioned at a pay +telephone at an ice skating rink near the Houston +airport, until receiving a phone call there. After +that he returned to New Orleans.

+ +

Escape Routes

+ +

These escape plans were modified after the assassination. It +became unnecessary for any of the Dealey Plaza participants to +escape by airplane. The framing of Oswald and the failure of the +Secret Service or FBI to detect any of the escaping gunmen or their +assistants permitted these changes. One of the men in the Dealey +Plaza--probably pretending to be a Secret Service agent--reported +an "all clear" situation to Shaw in San Francisco. Shaw notified +Ferrie that they didn't need an airplane to escape with while +Ferrie was waiting in Houston. Ferrie changed his plans and drove +back to New Orleans. +The gunmen who did escape followed these routes: Jack Lawrence +got into his car parked behind the cupola and either drove or was +driven back to his cover job location at the automobile agency. He +left almost immediately afterward and travelled to North Carolina. +Frenchy ran back to the freight car area and climbed into one of +the box cars sitting on a siding northwest of the TSBD. He was +arrested at 1 p.m. by Officers Harkness, Bass and Wise, but was +released by Sheriff Elkins later in the afternoon. Santana walked +out the back entrance of the Dal Tex building and may have joined +Seymour in a white station wagon on Elm Street at 12:40 p.m. +Seymour left the roof of the TSBD via a back stairway, exited from +the freight entrance in the rear of the building, and walked on +Houston Street past the Elm Street extension. He walked down the +grassy knoll to Elm Street where he was picked up at 12:40 p.m. by +the white station wagon. +The other Dealey Plaza participants, Crisman, a tall tramp, +Braden and Hicks escaped by various means. Braden was arrested and +released. Hicks drove home. Crisman and the tall tramp followed +Frenchy's route into the box cars.

+ +

Tippit Shooting

+ +

David Belin of the Warren and Rockefeller Commission is fond of +saying, "Lee Harvey Oswald killed policeman Tippit. Since the +case against Oswald for the Tippit slaying is so strong, it +follows that Oswald also shot the President." The case against +Oswald in the Tippit murder is as weak as the case against him in +the JFK assassination. The most important evidence showing that +Seymour and another one of the assassination team shot Tippit is +the fact that six witnesses, ignored by the Warren Commission, saw +two men shoot Tippit. One of them resembled Oswald. They ran +away from the scene in opposite directions. Seymour ran toward the +Texas Theater, throwing the planted shells up in the air so that +witnesses would see and recover them. (This act would convince +most people that Oswald did not shoot Tippit.) The other assassin +ran in the opposite direction. There is some indication that +Seymour entered the theater in a manner to draw attention and then +left before the Oswald arrest. While the shells recovered were +found to match Oswald's pistol, none of the bullets recovered from +Tippit's body matched.

+ +

Comments and Congressional Actions Needed

+ +

The above scenario comes much closer to explaining what happened +to John Kennedy than either the Warren Commission Report or the +Rockefeller Commission report. It matches the known evidence from +the two prime sources, the Warren Commission files in the National +Archives, and the evidence produced by the Garrison investigation +(most of which was turned over the the Committee to Investigate +Assassinations, Washington, D.C.). +However, without subpoena power, and with extremely limited +resources, no group of citizens such as the Committee or Mark +Lane's Citizens Commission can determine the ultimate truth about +the assassination. +Only a properly constituted Congressional committee or group +with resources and subpoena power, and with the power and courage +to combat the Power Control Group involved in the assassination and +its cover-up, whoever they may be, can reach the truth. +This chapter has been prepared as a guideline for such a +committee, rather than as the ultimate solution. +It should be utilized in conjunction with two other documents +already submitted to the four Congressional groups interested in +the case. The groups are:

+ +

(1) The Senate;

+ +

(2) The House Special Committee on Intelligence;

+ +

(3) Thomas Downing, Representative from Virginia, who +introduced House Resolution 498 to reopen the JFK +assassination investigation;

+ +

(4) Henry Gonzalez, Representative from Texas, who +introduced House Resolution 204 to reopen the +assassination inquiries on John and Robert Kennedy, +Martin Luther King, and George Wallace.

+ +

The Two Documents

+ +

1. "Recommendations for the Senate and House Committee's +Investigations of Illegal and Subversive Domestic Activities of +the CIA and FBI," memorandum by Richard E. Sprague (submitted +to them). +2. "The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: the +Involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Plans and +the Cover-Up," by Richard E. Sprague, in "People and the +Pursuit of Truth," May, 1975.

+ +

Dramatis Personae

+ +

Bill Alexander - Assistant to District Attorney Wade, Dallas +County. +Ronald Augustinovich - CIA agent. Participated in Mexico City +meetings. +Officer Marion Baker-Dallas motorcycle police officer entering +Texas School Book Depository after shots. +Guy Banister - Head of clandestine CIA station in New Orleans - +ran Banister Detective Agency. Front for anti-Castro Cuban +groups. Former FBI agent and member of New Orleans police. +Died of "heart attack" June 1964. David Ferrie worked for +him. Oswald used his office and address. +Officer Billy Bass - Dallas police officer; arrested "tramps" in +Dealey Plaza. +Lt. Batchelor - Dallas police lieutenant. +David Belin - Warren Commission lawyer. +Major L. M. Bloomfield - Resident of Montreal, Canada. Member of +board of Centro Mondiale Commerciale, CIA front-organization +in Rome. Visited by Ferrie and Shaw in fall 1963. +John Howard Bowen - CIA agent. Alias Albert Osborne. Long +clandestine record. On bus to Mexico with Oswald. +Participated in Mexico City meetings. +Lee Bowers - Railroad tower control operator, Dealey Plaza. Died +in curious accident. +Jim Braden - Alias Eugene Hale Brading. Mafia hoodlum and CIA +contract agent. Acted as radio man in Dealey Plaza. +CIA - Central Intelligence Agency. +Fred Lee Crisman - OSS and CIA domestic agent from Tacoma, +Washington. Participated with Frenchy and others as radio +man in Dealey Plaza. +Harry Dean - CIA operative in Mexico City. +Jean DeMenil - Louisiana and Texas industrialist. +Johnny Mitchell Deveraux - CIA agent, Mexico City. May have +impersonated Oswald in Mexico. +Sheriff Harold Elkins - Dallas County Deputy Chief. +FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation, then headed by J. Edgar +Hoover. +David Ferrie - Resident of New Orleans French Quarter. Pilot for +Eastern Airlines. Bay of Pigs, CIA contractor for pilot +training and clandestine flights. Associate of Clay Shaw, +Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby; murdered Feb. 1967; death +termed "suicide" by officials. +"Frenchy" - Real name(s) not yet determined. French Canadian +adventurer. CIA contract agent. Training for second +invasion of Cuba in Florida Keys. Knew Howard, Hall, +Seymour, Hemming, and Santana. Fired shots. Also involved +in King assassination. +Guy Gabaldin - Former OSS operative and CIA agent in Mexico City. +Movie made about his World War II exploits, Jeffrey Hunter +played Gabaldin role. Assassination planning done in his +Mexico City apartment. +Loran Hall - Anti-Castro adventurer from southern California. One +of three men who visited Sylvia Odio and said JFK would be +assassinated. Close friend of Lawrence Howard, William +Seymour and other no-name key adventurers. Raising funds for +them in 1963. +Sgt. Harkness - Dallas police sergeant. +Richard Helms - Deputy Director - Plans, CIA, in 1963. +Jerry Patrick Hemming - CIA agent and trainer of mercenaries at +no-name key. +Jim Hicks - Radio specialist from Dallas. Was radio communications +coordinator in Dealey Plaza. Placed in mental hospital run by +the military. +Jerry Hill - Police sergeant, Dallas. +Mary Hope - Friend of Augustinovich. Participated in Mexico City +meetings on the assassination. +Lawrence Howard - Anti-Castro adventurer. No-name key group. +Friend of Loran Hall and William Seymour. Visited Sylvia Odio. +Kept no-name key photo album. Provided Garrison with pictures. +E. Howard Hunt - CIA agent. Acting station chief CIA clandestine +station in Mexico City in 1963. +Lt. Johnson - Dallas police lieutenant. +Jack Lawrence - Resident of West Virginia and southern California. +Minuteman and adventurer. Fired shots. +James Martin - Marina Oswald's business manager. +Sgt. McDonald - Police sergeant, Dallas. +Lt. Montgomery - Dallas police lieutenant; helped frame Oswald . +Clint Murchison - Texas oil millionaire. +Richard Case Nagell - CIA operative in Mexico City; testified +before Congressional Committees. +OSS - Office of Strategic Services. +Lee Harvey Oswald - Dallas and New Orleans resident. CIA and FBI +agent and informer. Patsy in assassination. +Marina Oswald - Wife of Lee Harvey Oswald. Helped to frame her +husband. +Sid Richardson - Texas oil millionaire. +Jack Ruby - Mafia connections. Anti-Castro CIA contracts. Owner +of Dallas night club. Recruited to shoot Oswald. +Emilio Santana - Cuban adventurer. Anti-Castro, in no-name key +group. Was in Dealey Plaza firing shots. +William Seymour - Mexican-American adventurer and hired killer. On +no-name key training for second invasion of Cuba in 1963. +Impersonated Lee Harvey Oswald and resembled Oswald. Fired +shots in Dealey Plaza. Killed Officer Tippit. +Clay Shaw - New Orleans French Quarter resident. Manager +International Trade Mart, CIA contract agent, member board of +directors of CIA organization, Centro Mondiale Commericale. +Murdered in 1974. Living double life as Clay Bertrand, friend +of David Ferrie. +Sergio Arcacha Smith - Anti-Castro Cuban. Devoted to overthrowing +Castro. CIA contract agent. Close to Guy Banister, Ferrie, +and New Orleans CIA operations. Fled to Texas, escaped +Garrison subpoena. Protected by Governor John Connally from +extradition. +Carlos Prio Socarras - Former premier of Cuba. Violent Anti-Castro +millionaire. Backed Cuban invasion plans and CIA efforts. +Lived in Miami area. Murdered in 1977. +James Tague - Spectator in Dealey Plaza, hit by piece of curbing +thrown up by bullet striking near him. +J. D. Tippit - Dallas policeman, shot on November 22, 1963. Co-conspirator in assassination, Mafia and CIA functionary. +Tammie True - Owner of CIA safe house in Dallas. +Roy Truly - Manager of Texas School Book Depository. +TSBD - Texas School Book Depository Building in Dealey Plaza, +Dallas, from which Oswald was supposed to have fired shots at +President John F. Kennedy. +General Walker - Right-wing former Army General. Resident of +Dallas. Supposedly shot at by Oswald. +Breck Wall - Friend of Clay Shaw and Jack Ruby. +Marvin Wise - Dallas police officer, arrested "tramps" in Dealey +Plaza.

+ +

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+ +

[1] For a complete listing of articles on political assassinations in the +United States, published in "Computers and People" (formerly +"Computers and Automation"), see the issues of "People and the Pursuit +of Truth," May 1975, p. 6, and June, 1975, p. 5, published by Berkeley +Enterprises, Inc., 815 Washington St., Newtonville, Mass. 02160.

+ +

[2] "1978 Los Angeles Free Press" - Special Report No 1, page 16, copy of +receipt given to Commander James J. Humes MC, USN "for Missile removed +on this date (Nov. 22, 1963)," signed by Francis X. O'Neill, Jr., +James W. Sibert, FBI Agents.

+ +

Also "Postmortem," by Harold Weisberg, page 266, the missile receipt.

+ +

[3] As mentioned earlier, it is also possible that one of the team called +him from a telephone inside the TSBD.

+ +

* * * * * * * +-- +daveus rattus

+ +

yer friendly neighborhood ratman

+ +

KOYAANISQATSI

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ko.yaa.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. +5. a state of life that calls for another way of living. +Path: ns-mx!uunet!olivea!sgigate!odin!ratmandu.esd.sgi.com!dave +From: dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe) +Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.conspiracy,alt.conspiracy.jfk +Subject: "The Taking of America, 1-2-3" (3/11) +Summary: we were robbed of our capability of electing a president we wanted +Keywords: part 3 of 11: chapter 6 thru chapter 8 + 1992Jun9.161556.23157@odin.corp.sgi.com +Date: 9 Jun 92 16:15:56 GMT +Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) +Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. +Lines: 632 +Xref: ns-mx alt.activism:27381 alt.conspiracy:15473 alt.conspiracy.jfk:1570 +Nntp-Posting-Host: ratmandu.esd.sgi.com

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Chapter 6 +The Assassinations of Robert Kennedy and +Dr. Martin Luther King and +Lyndon B. Johnson's Withdrawal in 1968

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The Power Control Group faced several dangers in 1968. While +President Johnson had cooperated fully with their desires in Viet +Nam and in other parts of the world, he had not met their +requirements in other areas. He had gone too far in appeasing the +blacks and had shown some signs of giving in to the young people in +America in early 1968. Through threats to expose his role in +covering up the truth about the JFK assassination or personal +threats to the safety of his family, the Group forced his +withdrawal from the 1968 election race. Their plan now was to +install Richard Nixon as president at all costs. +Robert Kennedy and Dr. King posed real threats to this plan. +Dr. King was beginning a movement in the direction of a coalition +with Malcom X followers and other black militant groups. He was +speaking out against the Viet Nam war. His influence might help +defeat Nixon at the polls. So the Power Control Group created an +environment in which he could be assassinated by his arch enemies. +The FBI and J. Edgar Hoover had become a vital part of the Power +Control Group by 1968. Hoover had no love for King and was +harrassing him in several ways. The Power Control Group +undoubtedly let Hoover know that it wouldn't be a bad idea to have +King out of the way before the election campaigns really warmed up. +They also passed the word along to some of the groups who were out +to murder King that the crime would probably not be stopped. +Fletcher Prouty has described this approach in some detail.[1] The +net result of these actions was the assassination of Dr. King by a +group of wealthy white bigots who employed two of the intelligence +community's own expert assassins. One of these men, Frenchy, had +fired shots at JFK. The other, Jack Youngblood, was a soldier of +fortune and CIA contract killer. They recruited James Earl Ray and +set him up as a patsy. +The FBI removed King's protection in Memphis and after the +assassination they took the case out of the hands of the local +police to control and suppress the evidence of conspiracy. Hoover +did not know exactly who was going to assassinate King or where. +He did not know in advance who the patsy was supposed to be. The +best evidence in support of this is that from April to June 1968 +the identity of the patsy was a mystery, first unidentified, then +identified as Eric Starvo Galt, then as Raymond Sneyd, and finally +as James Earl Ray. If Hoover had been in on the plan, Ray's +identity would probably have been revealed immediately. In fact, +the scenario might have been similar to the JFK case, with Ray +being killed in a shoot-out. +After Ray was identified and arrested in London, Hoover and the +Justice Department had to manufacture some evidence to get Ray back +to the U.S. They had no qualms about bribing one witness, Charlie +Stevens, to do this. They forced him to say he had seen Ray. Then +a new problem arose. Ray began telling the truth to his lawyer and +a writer, William Bradford Huie. He almost revealed Frenchy's true +identity. The Power Control Group, led by J. Edgar Hoover, solved +this problem by getting rid of Ray's lawyer, Arthur Hanes, and they +hired Percy Foreman to keep Ray quiet. They also were forced to +pay off or frighten off author Huie who had by then become +convinced Ray was telling him the truth. Huie had found several +witnesses who had seen Ray and Frenchy together. +The group got Foreman to talk Ray into pleading guilty and Huie +to retract his conspiracy talk and publish an article and a book +claiming Ray was the lone assassin. Ever since Ray was put away +for 99 years, the FBI and the Power Control Group have been hard at +work covering up the truth, bribing or influencing judges who have +heard Ray's appeals for a trial, publishing disinformation like +Gerold Franck's book, "An American Assassin," suppressing evidence, +and placing key witnesses in psychiatric wards. It is still going +on. They have killed at least one reporter--Louis Lomax--who was +getting too close to the truth. The local D.A., Phil Canale, was +brought into the conspiracy along with Percy Foreman, Judge Battle, +Fred Vinson (who extradited Ray, using Stevens' false affidavit), +and local authorities who committed Grace Walden Stevens to a +mental institution because she knew Charlie had been dead drunk and +saw nothing. +The mechanics of the assassination are as follows: Youngblood +and Frenchy recruited Ray in Montreal for smuggling drugs into the +U.S. from Mexico and Canada. They recruited him in the +assassination plan in such a way as to make him believe they were +smuggling guns to Cuba. +Frenchy (Ray knew him as Raoul) set up Ray as a patsy by +planting evidence with Ray's prints on it near the fake firing +point. He persuaded Ray to rent a room opposite Dr. King's motel, +to buy a rifle with telescopic sight, and a white Mustang, and park +the Mustang outside the rooming house to wait for Frenchy to come +out. Youngblood stationed himself on a grassy knoll beneath the +rooming house where Frenchy was located. When King came out on his +balcony, Youngblood killed him with one shot fired at an upward +angle. Frenchy ran from his perch overlooking King's balcony. He +made plenty of noise to attract attention, and dropped a bag full +of items with Ray's prints on them in front of an amusement parlor +next door to the rooming house. +Frenchy must have had some anxious moments then because Ray had +driven the Mustang to a gas station a few blocks away to have a low +tire pumped up. Three witnesses remember his being there. When +Ray returned, not yet knowing what had happened, Frenchy told him +to drive away toward the edge of town where Frenchy got out of the +back seat. Ray drove on to Atlanta with the intention of meeting +Frenchy there. +Meanwhile, Youngblood mingled with the crowd under King's +balcony and then faded away. A false trail was created by another +member of the team who drove away in a second white Mustang and +then created a fake auto chase on the police band radio. +Youngblood was tracked down by various reporters in early 1976 and +began negotiating to tell his story for a very high price. +Meanwhile, judge after judge and court after court keep turning +down Bernard Fensterwald and James Cesar, Ray's new lawyers, who +appealed for a new trial. +All of the information above has been reported with factual +evidence backing it up in several articles, one book, and at Ray's +legal hearing for a new trial in Memphis in 1975.[2] +After Dr. King was eliminated, the Power Control Group faced a +much greater threat. Robert Kennedy began his quest for the +presidency. There was little doubt in the minds of anyone in the +Group that Kennedy would be nominated as Democratic candidate at +the convention, and would have a very good chance of defeating +Richard Nixon. This would be a near certainty if Eugene McCarthy +decided to drop out and support Senator Kennedy. Robert Kennedy +represented a double threat to the Group in that he would +undoubtedly expose them after becoming president and seize control. +The plan they adopted was again to create an environment in +which it would be easy for an enemy like the Minutemen or the Mafia +or certain local hate groups in California to assassinate RFK and +get away with it by setting up another patsy. Available at the +time was a CIA agent planted inside the Los Angeles police +department. Strong influence was brought to bear on chief of +police, Ed Davis, to remove all official protection for Senator +Kennedy in the Ambassador Hotel. Arrangements were made for the +Ace Guard Service to supply three extreme right wing, militant +guards at the hotel to guard the Senator after his victory speech. +One of these was Thane Eugene Cesar, a known Kennedy hater and +friend of a group of Southern California Minutemen. He was also +almost certainly a CIA contract agent or "blind" assassin. At the +same time another group was recruited to hypnotize Sirhan Sirhan +and to program him for firing some shots in Robert Kennedy's +direction. Two hypnotists and at least three other people were +involved in the framing of Sirhan. +Cesar killed Robert Kennedy from behind while Sirhan was firing +under hypnosis from in front of the Senator. His programmed signal +was given by a girl in a polka dot dress and another young Arabic +man with them in the pantry. +After the crime, the FBI, the CIA agent (Manny Pena), the +District Attorney's office (Evelle Younger and Joseph Busch) and +the Los Angeles Police Department (Ed Davis, Robert Houghton and +others), knowing the truth, all teamed up to suppress all other +evidence except that which was aimed at framing Sirhan. The Power +Control Group has since wielded its influence to keep the RFK case +under wraps. They pushed legislation through the California +legislature to lock up the evidence. They put Thomas Noguchi, the +L.A. County Coroner who wouldn't keep quiet about the autopsy +evidence which proved conspiracy, in an insane asylum. They +arranged for the FBI report on the assassination to be classified +and locked up. They killed at least one person who knew what had +happened. They controlled the media on the subject, especially the +"Los Angeles Times" through its owner, Norman Chandler, and his +friend Evelle Younger, who became California State Attorney +General. +After Al Lowenstein, Jerry Brown, Paul Schrade, Vincent +Bugliosi, Robert Vaughn, Tom Bradley and others began to try to +expose the truth, the Group fought back by setting up their own +expert ballistics panel and buying or frightening them into +distorting the evidence proving there were two guns fired. The +Group is certainly not through yet. More planted disinformation +can be expected and more bribing of judges and expert witnesses. +There may be more killings. Cesar's life and the lives of the two +hypnotists won't be worth much if they ever start talking.[3]

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[1] "The Fourth Force" -- L. Fletcher Prouty -- "Gallery Magazine" -- +December, 1975

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[2] "Frame Up: The Martin Luther King/James Earl Ray Case" -- Harold +Weisberg -- E.P. Dutton -- 1971

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"The Assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr." -- R.E. +Sprague -- "Computers & Automation," December 1970

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"The Assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Parts I to +II" -- Wayne Chastain -- "Computers & Automation," December 1974.

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[3] Most of the above information has been published in a series of +articles and in two books and one movie.

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"The Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy" -- R.E. Sprague -- +"Computers & Automation" -- September 1972 and October 1970

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"RFK Must Die" -- Robert Blair Kaiser -- 1970

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"The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, A Searching Look at the +Conspiracy and Cover-Up 1968-1978" -- William Turner and John +Christian -- 1978

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"The Second Gun" -- Documentary Movie -- Ted Charach -- American +Films -- Beverly Hills

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Chapter 7 +The Control of the Kennedys - Threats & Chappaquiddick

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Through the years the most common question of all has been: "If +there was a conspiracy in the JFK assassination, why didn't Robert +Kennedy find out about it and take some action? And if there was a +conspiracy in the RFK assassination why haven't Ted Kennedy and +Ethel Kennedy done something about it?" No one except the Kennedys +know the answers to these questions for sure. However, there are +plenty of clues and some other Power Control Group actions to +provide the answers to us. +First of all, thanks to Jackie Kennedy Onassis' butler in +Athens, Greece, Christain Cafarakis, we know why Jackie did nothing +after her husband's death. In a book published in 1972, Cafarakis +tells about an investigation Jackie had conducted by a famous New +York City detective agency into the assassination of JFK in 1964 +and 1965.[1] It was financed by Aristotle Onassis and resulted in +a report in the spring of 1965 telling who the four gunmen were and +who was behind them. Jackie planned to give the report to LBJ but +was stopped by a threat from the Power Control Group to kill her +and her children. Ted, Bobby and other family members knew about +the report and the threat. +The second clue is Chappaquiddick. A careful examination of the +real evidence in this event shows that Ted Kennedy was framed in +the killing of Mary Joe Kopechne and then his life and his +children's lives threatened if he ever told the truth about what +happened. The facts in the case and the conclusions that can be +drawn from them are contained in a book by Boston researcher Robert +Cutler.[2] +The third clue is Ted's withdrawal from the presidential race in +November 1975. It is a fact that all of his and Robert's children +were being protected by the Secret Service for five days in +November 1975. A threat had been made against the children's lives +unless he officially announced his withdrawal. He made the +announcement and has stuck to it ever since. The Secret Service +protection ended the day after he made the announcement. +It does not seem likely that Senator Kennedy would withdraw from +the race because of a threat from a lone nut or from some obscure +group. He remembers the 1965 threat and Chappaquiddick very well. +He knows about the Power Control Group and he knows their enormous +capability. He knows what they did to his brothers. He has no +choice but to hope that somehow, sometime, the Group will be +exposed. But he dares not let them believe he would ever have +anything to do with it. Publicly he will always have to support +the Warren Commission and continue to state that he will not run +for president. Privately he is forced to ask his closest friends +and his relatives not to get involved with new investigations, and +to help protect his children. Some of them know the truth. Others +do not, and are puzzled by his behavior. They go along with it +under the assumption that he has good and sufficient reasons not to +open the can of worms represented by the conspiracies in his +brother's deaths. +The Power Control Group faced up to the Ted Kennedy and Kennedy +family problem very early. They used the threat against the +Kennedy children's lives very effectively between 1963 and 1968 to +silence Bobby and the rest of the family and friends who knew the +truth. It was necessary to assassinate Bobby in 1968 because with +the power of the presidency he could have prevented the Group from +harming the children. When Teddy began making moves to run for +president in 1969 for the 1972 election, the Group decided to put +some real action behind their threats. Killing Teddy in 1969 would +have been too much. They selected a new way of eliminating him as +a candidate. They framed him with the death of a young girl, and +threw sexual overtones in for good measure. +Here is what happened according to Cutler's analysis of the +evidence. The Group hired several men and at least one woman to be +at Chappaquiddick during the weekend of the yacht race and the +planned party on the island. They ambushed Ted and Mary Jo after +they left the cottage and knocked Ted out with blows to his head +and body. They took the unconscious or semi-conscious Kennedy to +Martha's Vineyard and deposited him in his hotel room. Another +group took Mary Jo to the bridge in Ted's car, force fed her with a +knock out potion of alcoholic beverage, placed her in the back +seat, and caused the car to accelerate off the side of the bridge +into the water. They broke the windows on one side of the car to +insure the entry of water; then they watched the car until they +were sure Mary Jo would not escape. +Mary Jo actually regained consciousness and pushed her way to +the top of the car (which was actually the bottom of the car--it +had landed on its roof) and died from asphyxiation. The group with +Teddy revived him early in the morning and let him know he had a +problem. Possibly they told him that Mary Jo had been kidnapped. +They told him his children would be killed if he told anyone what +had happened and that he would hear from them. On Chappaquiddick, +the other group made contact with Markham and Gargan, Ted's cousin +and lawyer. They told both men that Mary Jo was at the bottom of +the river and that Ted would have to make up a story about it, not +revealing the existence of the group. One of the men resembled Ted +and his voice sounded something like Ted's. Markham and Gargan +were instructed to go the the Vineyard on the morning ferry, tell +Ted where Mary Jo was, and come back to the island to wait for a +phone call at a pay station near the ferry on the Chappaquiddick +side. +The two men did as they were told and Ted found out what had +happened to Mary Jo that morning. The three men returned to the +pay phone and received their instructions to concoct a story about +the "accident" and to report it to the police. The threat against +Ted's children was repeated at that time. +Ted, Markham and Gargan went right away to police chief Arena's +office on the Vineyard where Ted reported the so-called "accident." +Almost at the same time scuba diver John Farror was pulling Mary Jo +out of the water, since two boys who had gone fishing earlier that +morning had spotted the car and reported it. +Ted called together a small coterie of friends and advisors +including family lawyer Burke Marshall, Robert MacNamara, Ted +Sorenson, and others. They met on Squaw Island near the Kennedy +compound at Hyannisport for three days. At the end of that time +they had manufactured the story which Ted told on TV, and later at +the inquest. Bob Cutler calls the story, "the shroud." Even the +most cursory examination of the story shows it was full of holes +and an impossible explanation of what happened. Ted's claim that +he made the wrong turn down the dirt road toward the bridge by +mistake is an obvious lie. His claim that he swam the channel back +to Martha's Vineyard is not believable. His description of how he +got out of the car under water and then dove down to try to rescue +Mary Jo is impossible. Markham and Gargan's claims that they kept +diving after Mary Jo are also unbelievable. +The evidence for the Cutler scenario is substantial. It begins +with the marks on the bridge and the position of the car in the +water. The marks show that the car was standing still on the +bridge and then accelerated off the edge, moving at a much higher +speed than Kennedy claimed. The distance the car travelled in the +air also confirms this. The damage to the car on two sides and on +top plus the damage to the windshield and the rear view mirror +stanchion[3] prove that some of the damage had to have been +inflicted before the car left the bridge. +The blood on the back and on the sleeves of Mary Jo's blouse +proves that a wound was inflicted before she left the bridge.[4] +The alcohol in her bloodstream proves she was drugged, since all +witnesses testified she never drank and did not drink that night. +The fact that she was in the back seat when her body was recovered +indicates that is where she was when the car hit the water. There +was no way she could have dived downward against the inrushing +water and moved from the front to the back seat underneath the +upside-down seat back. +The wounds on the back of Ted Kennedy's skull, those just above +his ear and the large bump on the top indicate he was knocked out. +His actions at the hotel the next morning show he was not aware of +Mary Jo's death until Markham and Gargan arrived. The trip to the +pay phone on Chappaquiddick can only be explained by his receiving +a call there, not making one. There were plenty of pay phones in +or near Ted's hotel if he needed to make a private call. The tides +in the channel and the direction in which Ted claimed he swam do +not match. In addition it would have been a superhuman feat to +have made it across the channel (as proven by several professionals +who subsequently tried it). +Deputy Sheriff Christopher Look's testimony, coupled with the +testimony of Ray LaRosa and two Lyons girls, proves that there were +two people in Ted's car with Mary Jo at 12:45 PM. The three party +members walking along the road south toward the cottage confirmed +the time that Mr. Look drove by. He stopped to ask if they needed +a ride. Look says that just prior to that he encountered Ted's car +parked facing north at the juncture of the main road and the dirt +road. It was on a short extension of the north-south section of +the road junction to the north of the "T". He says he saw a man +driving, a woman in the seat beside him, and what he thought was +another woman lying on the back seat. He remembered a portion of +the license plate which matched Ted's car, as did the description +of the car. Markham, Gargan and Ted's driver's testimony show that +someone they talked to in the pitch black night sounded like Ted +and was about his height and build. +None of the above evidence was ever explained by Ted or by +anyone else at the inquest or at the hearing on the case demanded +by district attorney Edward Dinis. No autopsy was ever allowed on +Mary Jo's body (her family objected), and Ted made it possible to +fly her body home for burial rather quickly. Kennedy haters have +seized upon Chappaquiddick to enlarge the sexual image now being +promoted of both Ted and Jack Kennedy. Books like "Teddy Bare" +take full advantage of the situation. +Just which operatives in the Power Control Group at the high +levels or the lower levels were on Chappaquiddick Island? No +definite evidence has surfaced as yet, except for an indication +that there was at least one woman and at least three men, one of +whom resembled Ted Kennedy and who sounded like him in the +darkness. However, two pieces of testimony in the Watergate +hearings provide significant clues as to which of the known JFK +case conspirators may have been there. +E. Howard Hunt told of a strange trip to Hyannisport to see a +local citizen there about the Chappaquiddick incident. Hunt's +cover story on this trip was that he was digging up dirt on Ted +Kennedy for use in the 1972 campaign. The story does not make much +sense if one questions why Hunt would have to wear a disguise, +including his famous red wig, and to use a voice-alteration device +to make himself sound like someone else. If, on the other hand, +Hunt's purpose was to return to the scene of his crime just to make +sure that no one who might have seen his group at the bridge or +elsewhere would talk, then the disguise and the voice box make +sense. +The other important testimony came from Tony Ulasewicz who said +he was ordered by the Plumbers to fly immediately to Chappaquiddick +and dig up dirt on Ted. The only problem Tony has is that, +according to his testimony, he arrived early on the morning of the +"accident", before the whole incident had been made public. +Ulasewicz is the right height and weight to resemble Kennedy and +with a CIA voice-alteration device he presumably could be made to +sound like him. There is a distinct possibility that Hunt and Tony +were there when it happened. +The threats by the Power Control Group, the frame-up at +Chappaquiddick, and the murders of Jack and Bobby Kennedy cannot +have failed to take their toll on all of the Kennedys. Rose, Ted, +Jackie, Ethel and the other close family members must be very tired +of it all by now. They can certainly not be blamed for hoping it +will all go away. Investigations like those proposed by Henry +Gonzalez and Thomas Downing only raised the spectre of the powerful +Control Group taking revenge by kidnapping some of the seventeen +children. +It was no wonder that a close Kennedy friend and ally in +California, Representative Burton, said that he would oppose the +Downing and Gonzalez resolutions unless Ted Kennedy put his stamp +of approval on them. While the sympathies of every decent American +go out to them, the future of our country and the freedom of the +people to control their own destiny through the election process +mean more than the lives of all the Kennedys put together. If John +Kennedy were alive today he would probably make the same statement. +John Dean summed it up when he said to Richard Nixon as recorded +on the White House tapes in 1973: "If Teddy knew the bear trap he +was walking into at Chappaquiddick. . . ."[5]

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[1] "The fabulous Jackie" -- Christian Cafarakis -- Productions de Paris +-- 1972

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[2] "You the Jury" -- Robert Cutler -- Self Published -- 1974

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[3] A rope attached to the stick which held the Oldsmobile throttle wide +open caught the drivers rear view mirror and tore it loose so that +it was hanging by the rear bolt. There was no other mark on the +left side of the car.

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[4] A sliver of glass from two broken windows no doubt caused this +bleeding since Mary Jo was already face down and unconscious in the +rear seat. Since there was no autopsy this clean cut went +unnoticed by the embalmers.

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[5] On page 121, "White House Tapes," Paperback Edition, published by New +York Times

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Chapter 8 +1972 - Muskie, Wallace and McGovern

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In 1972 the Power Control Group was faced with another set of +problems. Again the objective was to insure Nixon's election at +all costs and to continue the cover-ups. Nixon might have made it +on his own. We'll never know because the Group guaranteed his +election by eliminating two strong candidates and completely +swamping another with tainted leftist images and a psychiatric case +for the vice presidential nominee. The impression that Nixon had +in early 1972 was that he stood a good chance of losing. He +imagined enemies everywhere and a press he was sure was out to get +him. +The Power Control Group realized this too. They began laying +out a strategy that would encourage the real nuts in the Nixon +administration like E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy and Donald +Segretti to eliminate any serious opposition. The dirty tricks +campaign worked perfectly against the strongest early Democratic +candidate, Edmund Muskie. He withdrew in tears, later to discover +he had been sabotaged by Nixon, Liddy and company. +George Wallace was another matter. At the time he was shot, he +was drawing 18% of the vote according to the polls, and most of +that was in Nixon territory. The conservative states such as +Indiana were going for Wallace. He was eating into Nixon's +southern strength. In April the polls showed McGovern pulling a +41%, Nixon 41% and Wallace 18%. It was going to be too close for +comfort, and it might be thrown into the House - in which case +Nixon would surely lose. There was the option available of +eliminating George McGovern, but then the Democrats might come up +with Hubert Humphrey or someone else even more dangerous than +McGovern. Nixon's best chance was a head-on contest with McGovern. +Wallace had to go. Once the group made that decision, the Liddy +team seemed to be the obvious group to carry it out. But how could +it be done this time and still fool the people? Another patsy this +time? O.K., but how about having him actually kill the Governor? +The answer to that was an even deeper programming job than that +done on Sirhan. This time they selected a man with a lower I.Q. +level who could be hypnotized to really shoot someone, realize it +later, and not know that he had been programmed. He would have to +be a little wacky, unlike Oswald, Ruby or Ray. +Arthur Bremer was selected. The first contacts were made by +people who knew both Bremer and Segretti in Milwaukee. They were +members of a leftist organization planted there as provocateurs by +the intelligence forces within the Power Control Group. One of +them was a man named Dennis Cossini. +Bremer was programmed over a period of months. He was first set +to track Nixon and then Wallace. When his hand held the gun in +Laurel, Maryland, it might just as well have been in the hand of +Donald Segretti, E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy, Richard Helms, or +Richard Nixon. +With Wallace's elimination from the race and McGovern's +increasing popularity in the primaries, the only question remaining +for the Power Control Group was whether McGovern had any real +chance of winning. The polls all showed Wallace's vote going to +Nixon and a resultant landslide victory. That, of course, is +exactly what happened. It was never close enough to worry the +Group very much. McGovern, on the other hand, was worried. By the +time of the California primary he and his staff had learned enough +about the conspiracies in the assassinations of John and Robert +Kennedy and Martin Luther King that they asked for increased Secret +Service protection in Los Angeles. +If the Power Control Group had decided to kill Mr. McGovern the +Secret Service would not have been able to stop it. However, they +did not, because the election was a sure thing. They did try one +more dirty trick. They revealed Thomas Eagleton's psychiatric +problems, which reduced McGovern's odds considerably. +What evidence is there that Bremer's attempt on Wallace was a +directed attempt by a conspiratorial group? +Bremer himself has told his brother that others were involved +and that he was paid by them. Researcher William Turner has turned +up evidence in Milwaukee and surrounding towns in Wisconsin that +Bremer received money from a group associated with Dennis Cossini, +Donald Segretti and J. Timothy Gratz. Several other young +"leftists" were seen with Bremer on several occasions in Milwaukee +and on the ferry crossing at Lake Michigan. +The evidence shows that Bremer had a hidden source of income. +He spent several times more than he earned or saved in the year +before he shot at Wallace. Bremer's appearance on TV, in court and +before witnesses resembled those of a man under hypnosis.[1] +There is some evidence that more than one gun may have been +fired with the second gun being located in the direction opposite +to Bremer. Eleven wounds in the four victims that day exceeds the +number that could have been caused by the five bullets Bremer +fired. There is a problem in identifying all of the bullets found +as having been fired from Bremer's gun. The trajectories of the +wounds seem to be from two opposite directions. All of this--the +hypnotic-like trance, the possibility of two guns being fired from +in front and from behind, and the immediate conclusion that Bremer +acted alone--sounds very much like the arrangement made for the +Robert Kennedy assassination. +Another part of the evidence sounds like the King case. A lone +blue Cadillac was seen speeding away from the scene of the shooting +immediately afterward. It was reported on the police band radio +and the police unsuccessfully chased it. The car had two men in +it. The police and the FBI immediately shut off all accounts of +that incident. +E. Howard Hunt testified before the Ervin Committee that Charles +Colson had asked him to go to Bremer's apartment in Milwaukee as +soon as the news about Bremer was available at the White House. +Hunt never did say why he was supposed to go. Colson then said +that he didn't tell Hunt to go, but that Hunt told him he was +going. Colson's theory is that Hunt was part of a CIA conspiracy +to get rid of Nixon and to do other dirty tricks. +Could Hunt and the Power Control Group have had in mind placing +something in Bremer's apartment rather than taking something out? +The "something" could have been Bremer's diary, which was later +found in his car parked near the Laurel, Maryland parking lot. +Hunt did not go to Milwaukee, because the FBI already had agents at +the apartment. Perhaps Hunt or someone else went instead to +Maryland and planted the diary in Bremer's car. One thing seems +certain after a careful analysis of Bremer's diary in comparison to +his grammar, spelling, etc., in his high school performances in +English. Bremer didn't write the diary. Someone forged it, trying +to make it sound like they thought Bremer would sound given his low +I.Q. +One last item would clinch the conspiracy case if it were true. +A rumor spread among researchers and the media that CBS-TV had +discovered Bremer and G. Gordon Liddy together on two separate +occasions in TV footage of Wallace rallies. In one TV sequence +they were said to be walking together toward a camera in the +background. CBS completely closed the lid on the subject. +The best source is obviously Bremer himself. However, no +private citizen can get anywhere near him. Even if they could he +might not talk if he had been programmed. Unless an expert +deprogrammed him, his secret could be locked away in his brain, +just like Sirhan's secret is locked within his mind.

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[1] "Report of an Investigation" by William Turner for the Committee +on Government Intelligence.

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References:

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"Bremer Wallace and Hunt", The New York Review of Books -- Gore +Vidal -- December 13, 1973.

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"The Wallace Shooting" -- Alan Stang -- "American Opinion" -- +October, 1972.

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"Why Was Wallace Shot?" -- R.F. Salant -- Self Published -- +Monsey, N.Y.

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"Interview With Charles Colson" -- Dick Russell -- "Argosy" -- +March, 1976.

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-- +daveus rattus

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yer friendly neighborhood ratman

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KOYAANISQATSI

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ko.yaa.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. +5. a state of life that calls for another way of living. +From dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com Wed Jun 10 10:08:58 1992 +Received: from pl122c.eecs.lehigh.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (5.64.jnf/920408) +on Wed, 10 Jun 92 10:08:44 -0500 id AA10332 with SMTP +Received: from SGI.COM by PL122c.EECS.Lehigh.EDU (5.61/1.34) +id AA15979; Wed, 10 Jun 92 10:53:16 -0400 +Received: from [192.102.132.11] by sgi.sgi.com via SMTP (911016.SGI/910110.SGI) +for PML3@PL122C.EECS.LEHIGH.EDU id AA02901; Wed, 10 Jun 92 07:55:47 -0700 +Received: by ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (920110.SGI/920502.SGI.AUTO) +for @sgi.sgi.com:PML3@PL122C.EECS.LEHIGH.EDU id AA02416; Wed, 10 Jun 92 07:55:45 -0700 +Date: Wed, 10 Jun 92 07:55:45 -0700 +From: dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe) + 9206101455.AA02416@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com +To: PML3@PL122c.EECS.Lehigh.EDU +Subject: "The Taking of America, 1-2-3" (4/11) +Status: RO

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Subject: "The Taking of America, 1-2-3" (4/11) +Summary: we were robbed of our capability of electing a president we wanted +Keywords: part 4 of 11: first half of chapter 9 +Lines: 995

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chapter 9 stands out as one of the most detailed explorations i've ever +read *anywhere* concerning the media's culpability in the cover-up of +the assassination of the president. the major media's collusion in +covering-up the truth of the assassination is one of the most tragic +*and* revealing indicators about just how far this nation has moved away +from *some* kind of representative democracy to, what, totalitarian +"democracy"? until we the people confront such crimes as the cover-up, +perpetrated and perpetuated by "the official reality consortium," we will +continue to experience an evermore expanding strangulating oligarchy and +ever decreasing accountability. +--ratitor

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Chapter 9 +Control of the Media

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As mentioned in Chapter 1, one of the two clever strategies used +by the Power Control Group in the taking of America has been the +control of the news media. +For those American citizens who steadfastly refuse to believe +that all of the American establishment news media could be +controlled by the CIA and its friends in the White House, the +continuing support of the Warren Commission's lone assassin +conclusion by virtually all of the major news media organizations +in November, 1975, twelve years after the event, must have been +very puzzling indeed. Since 78% of the public believe that there +was a conspiracy in the case, there must be a series of questions +in the minds of the most intelligent of the 78% about the media's +position on the subject.[1] +This Chapter is intended to enlighten readers and to remind them +of the control exercised by the intelligence community and the +White House over the 15 organizations from whom the public gets the +vast majority of its news and opinions. +Let's begin with 1968-1969. By 1973 the American public had +begun to develop a skepticism toward information they received on +television or radio. Various news stories appearing in our +national news media through those years had brought about this +attitude. Some examples are: the Songmy-Mylai incident, the +Pueblo story, the murder of Black Panther Fred Hampton, the +Pentagon Papers, the Clifford Irving hoax, the Bangladesh tragedy +and the India-Pakistan war, Hoover & FBI antics, the Jack Anderson +papers, and IT&T and the Republican National Convention. +The general reaction was bound to be, "Don't believe everything +you read, see or hear, especially the first time around, and more +especially if the story comes from Washington." In the case of the +Pentagon Papers, things we all had taken as gospel for nearly two +decades suddenly seemed to crumble. +To what extent can the national news media be held responsible +for this situation? What has happened to the inquiring reporter +and the crusading editor who are both searching for and printing +the truth? If a government or a president lies or keeps secrets, +can the American news media really find out about it? And if they +do, what moral, ethical, political or other criteria should they +use in uncovering the lies and presenting them to the public? +Vice President Agnew would have said, "The press is already +going too far." Members of the press would have said, "We must +remain independent and maintain the freedom of speech." Just how +independent is the news media? Is it controlled to some extent by +Washington? +The answer to some of these questions can be found by taking an +inside look at the major national news media organizations during +1968 and 1969 and how they treated the most controversial news +subject since World War II. The assassination of John F. Kennedy +and its aftermath is an all-pervading, endless topic. It has yet +to reach the Pentagon Papers, Anderston papers, or Mylai stage of +revelation. Precisely because it is still such a controversial +subject, verboten for discussion among all major news media (unless +the discussant supports the Warren Commission), it serves as an +excellent case study. +A categorical statement can be made that management and +editorial policy, measured by what is printed and broadcast in all +major American news media organizations, supports the findings of +the Warren Commission. This has been true since 1969, but it was +not true between 1964 and 1969. +Of significance in this analysis and what it implies about the +American public's knowledge about the assassination and its +aftermath is a definition of "major American national news media." +It can be demonstrated that an overwhelming mass of news +information reaching the eyes and ears of Americans comes from +about fifteen organizations. They are, in general order of +significance: NBC-TV & Radio CBS-TV & Radio, ABC-TV & Radio, +Associated Press, United Press, "Time-Life-Fortune-Sports +Illustrated," McGraw Hill "Business Week," "Newsweek," "U.S. News +& World Report," "New York Times" News Service, "Washington Post" +News Service, Metromedia News Network, Westinghouse Radio News +Network, Capital City Broadcasting Radio Network, the North +American Newspaper Alliance, and the "Saturday Evening Post" (the +"Post" is, of course, now defunct.) +There are some subtle reasons for this, not generally +appreciated by the average citizen. Television has, of course, +become the primary source of information. For any nationally +circulated news story, local stations rely heavily on film, +videotape and written script material prepared and edited by the +three networks. Once in a while Metromedia may also send out TV +material. In effect, this means that editorial content for a vast +majority of the television information seen by American citizens +everywhere originates not only with three or four organizations but +also with a very small number of producers, editors and +commentators in those networks. +A large majority of any national news items printed by local +newspapers originates in a small number of press-wire services. AP +and UP dominate this area, with selected chains of papers +subscribing to a lesser extent to new services of the "New York +Times," "Washington Post," North American Newspaper Alliance, and a +very small percentage receiving information from papers in Los +Angeles, Chicago and St. Louis. +In a national news story of major significance such as the +assassination of John Kennedy, the smaller local papers rely almost +exclusively on their affiliated news services. Economic reasons +dictate this situation. The small paper can't afford to have +reporters everywhere. The major newspapers might send a man to +Dallas for a few days to cover the assassination, or they might +send a man to New Orleans to cover the Clay Shaw trial. But even +the major papers can't afford to cover every part of a continuing +story anywhere around the world. So they too rely on UP and AP for +much of their material. They also rely on AP, UP and Black Star[2] +for most of their photographic material. +In the case of news magazines, the holding corporations become +important in forming editorial policy in a situation as +controversial as the assassination of JFK. Time Inc. and "Life," +"Newsweek" and the "Washington Post," "U.S. News," and McGraw Hill +managements all became involved. +Fifteen organizations is a surprisingly small number, and one is +led to conjecture about how easy or difficult it might be to +control or dictate editorial policy for all of them or some +appreciable majority of them. An article in "Computers and +Automation"[3] reprinted a statement by John R. Rarick, Louisiana +Congressman and an entry made in the "Congressional Record" bearing +on this subject. In the reprint, the "Government Employees +Exchange" publication is quoted as stating that the CIA New Team +used secret cooperating and liaison groups after the Bay of Pigs in +the large foundations, banks and newspapers to change U.S. domestic +and foreign relations through the infiltration of these +organizations. The coordinating role at "The New York Times" was +in the custody of Harding Bancroft, Executive Vice President. +A useful analysis consists of examining what happened +organizationally and editorially inside each of the fifteen +companies following the assassination of President Kennedy. My +personal knowledge, plus information available from a few sources +connected with the major news media, permits such an analysis to be +made for eleven of the fifteen. They are: NBC, CBS, ABC, Time-Life, "The New York Times," "Newsweek," Associated Press, United +Press, "Saturday Evening Post," Capital City Broadcasting, and +North American Newspaper Alliance. In addition, the performance of +nine local newspapers and TV stations directly involved in the +events in Dallas and New Orleans will be analyzed. These include: +"Dallas Times Herald," "Dallas Morning News," Fort Worth "Star +Telegram," Dallas CBS-Affiliate WBAP, "New Orleans Times Picayune," +"New Orleans Times Herald," and New Orleans NBC-Affiliate WDSU-TV. +Most of these organizations had reporters and photographers in +Dallas at the time of the assassination or within a few hours +thereafter. Most of them had direct coverage available when Jim +Garrison's investigation broke into the news in 1967 and during the +trial of Clay Shaw in New Orleans in 1969. For many of them the +Shaw trial became the running point in the changing of editorial +policy toward the assassination. For a few, the Garrison +investigation and the Shaw trial took on the aspect of waving a +red flag in front of a bull. They became directly involved in a +negative way and thus not only reported the news, but also biased +it. +Immediately following the assassination the media reported +nearly everything that had obviously happened. All was confused +for the first few days. The killing of Oswald by Ruby on live +television produced even greater confusion. +For one year the major media reported everything, from probable +Communist conspiracies to the lone assassin theory. The media +waited for the Warren Report, and when it was issued in October of +1964 many of the major media fell into line and editorially backed +the Commission's findings. Some questioned the findings and +continued to question them until 1968 or 1969. "The New York +Times" and "Life" magazine fell into this category. But by the +time the Shaw trial ended in March 1969, every one of the fifteen +major news media organizations was backing the Warren Commission +and they have continued to maintain this editorial position since. +The situation would perhaps not be so surprising had not the +internal assassination research teams in several of these +organizations discovered the truth about the Kennedy killing +between 1964 and 1968. These teams examined the evidence and +thoroughly analyzed it. No one who has ever taken the trouble to +objectively do just that has reached any conclusion other than +conspiracy. +In each and every case the internal findings were overruled, +suppressed, locked up, edited and otherwise altered to back up the +Warren Commission. Management at the highest editorial and +corporate level took the action in every instance. Before drawing +any further generalization about the performance of the media in +the JFK case, it will be revealing to examine what happened and +specifically who took what actions in the case of the eleven +national organizations and the nine local ones listed earlier.

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Time-Life

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The Time Inc. organization let "Life Magazine" establish its +editorial policy while "Time" published more or less standard +"Time-Life" stories. "Life" became directly involved in the +assassination action and evidence suppression from the very +beginning, on November 22, 1963. +"Life" purchased the famous Zapruder movie from Abraham Zapruder +on the afternoon of the assassination for about $500000. The +first negative action took place when "Life" and Zapruder began +telling the lie that the price was $25000 (which Zapruder donated +to the fund raised for the widow of Dallas policeman, J. D. +Tippit, who had also been murdered that day). Apparently, both +"Life" and Zapruder were ashamed that he profited by the event. He +lived in fear that the true price would be revealed until the day +he died. +As many readers know, the Zapruder film (viewed in slow motion) +proves there was a conspiracy because of the backward motion of the +President's head immediately following the fatal shot. It proves +the shot came from the grassy knoll to the right and in front of +the president while Oswald's purported position was very nearly +directly behind him. The film also helps establish that five, and +not three shots, were fired, and that one of them could not have +been fired from Oswald's supposed sniper's nest because of the +large oak tree blocking his view. +"Life" magazine never permitted the Zapruder film to be seen +publicly and locked it up in November 1968 so that no one inside or +outside "Life" could have access to it, automatically becoming an +"accessory after the fact". "Life" helped protect the real +assassins and committed a worse crime than the Warren Commission. +In answer to those defenders of "Life" who will say, "But 'Life' +turned over a copy of the Zapruder film to the Warren Commission, +and it is available in the National Archives," let's look at the +facts. "Life" did not supply the copy of the film now resting in +the Archives. That copy came from Zapruder's original to the +Secret Service to the Warren Commission to the Archives. It is +available for viewing by the few people fortunate enough to visit +the Archives. It can not be duplicated by anyone, and copies can +not be taken out of the Archives or viewed publicly in any way. +The Archive management responsible for the Kennedy assassination +records state that the "Life" magazine ownership of the Zapruder +film is what prevents copies from being made available outside the +Archives. +The Warren Commission did not see the film in slow motion. Nor +does the average Archives' visitor get to see it in slow motion or +stop-action. Yet the most casual analysis of the film in slow +motion convinces anyone to conclude there was a conspiracy. +Thus "Life" magazine is an important part of the efforts to +suppress evidence of conspiracy. +"Life" was involved in several other ways as an accessory after +the fact. The organization began its efforts to discover the truth +about the assassination in 1964 when it assigned Ed Kern, an +associate editor, to investigate. By the fall of 1966, Kern had +become convinced that the basic evidence pointed to conspiracy. +"Life" management was also apparently convinced; they published +articles in November 1965 and November 1966 questioning the Warren +Commission's conclusions. +In the fall of 1966 "Life" transferred Richard Billings from +their Miami office to headquarters in New York. His assignment was +to take over the investigation of the Kennedy assassination, and to +head a team of several people working full time on it. One of Dick +Billings' objectives was to search for and acquire as much of the +missing photographic evidence as possible. +This author initiated a similar search, independent from "Life" +magazine, in September 1966. As often happens, people with common +objectives decided to work together. Billings and the author +arrived at a tacit understanding that any JFK assassination +photographs, including TV films or private movies, found by either +would be brought to the other's attention. In exchange for access +to "Life"'s photographic collection (including the Zapruder film +and slides), the author agreed to give "Life" the results of any +analyses of the photographic evidence. In cases where the author +could not afford to acquire some new piece of evidence, "Life" +would offer to purchase the materials from the owners and supply +copies to the author. +In this manner the author discovered and helped "Life" magazine +acquire the largest collection of photographic evidence of the JFK +assassination, outside of the author's personal collection and the +collection now located at the headquarters of the Committee to +Investigate Assassinations in Washington, D.C. Among the photos +discovered were:

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The Dorman movie Private +The Wilma Bond photos Private +The Robert Hughes movie Private +The David Weigman TV footage NBC +The Malcolm Couch TV footage ABC +The Jack Beers photos "Dallas Morning News" +The William Allen photos "Dallas Times Herald" +The George Smith photos Ft. Worth "Star Telegram" +The John Martin movie Private +Hugh Betzen's photo Private

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(See "Computers and Automation," May 1970)

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Many of these were important in proving conspiracy and some +showed pictures of the real assassins. +The "Life" team headed by Billings was in the process of +discovering a great deal about the conspiracy during the 1966-1968 +period. While editorially not taking a strong position favoring +conspiracy, "Life" did take a position that favored a new +investigation by the government. This was editorially summed up in +a lead cover story on the fourth anniversary of Kennedy's death in +November 1967 with the title, "A Matter of Reasonable Doubt". In +that issue, John Connally and his wife were shown examining the +Zapruder film's frames and concluding that he had been hit much +later in the film than the Warren Commission claimed. This meant +that two bullets struck the two men and, by the Commission's own +admission, pointed automatically to the conspiracy. +The government naturally did not respond to "Life"'s suggestion +for a new investigation, so nothing ever came of that editorial +policy. Billings, however, continued his team's efforts and in +October 1968 was preparing a comprehensive article for the November +anniversary issue. The author continued to work with him and +continued being given access to the photos right up to October +1968. +It was at that point in time that a drastic change in management +policy occurred at "Life" magazine. Dick Billings was told to stop +all work on the assassination; his entire team was stopped. All +of the research files, including the Zapruder film and slides and +thousands of other film frames and photographs, were locked up. No +one at the magazine was permitted access to these materials and no +one (including the author) was ever allowed to see them again. +Simultaneously, editorial and management policy toward the +assassination changed to complete silence. Billings and crew were +not allowed to discuss the subject at "Life," let alone work on it. +In November 1968 the article Billings had been working on was +turned into a non-entity. A few of the hundreds of photographs +collected by the author and purchased by "Life" were published in +the article, along with an innocuous commentary. Credit for +discovering the photos was given to a number of people at "Life" +magazine in New York and Dallas, not to the individuals who +actually found them. +That article, published nearly nine years ago, was the last word +"Life" has ever uttered about their extensive research probe and +their feelings about a conspiracy. Dick Billings moved to +Washington, D.C. to become editor of the Congressional Quarterly +and is a member on the board of directors of the Committee to +Investigate Assassinations (CTIA). +Who made the policy change decision at "Life" and why? Various +high-level conspiracy enthusiasts claim that the cabal behind the +assassination of the President brought extreme pressure to bear +upon the owners and management of Time Inc. to silence all +opposition to the Warren Commission findings. Others conclude it +had something to do with the CIA's control of "Life"'s editorial +policy from inside. This author takes no position on why. Dick +Billings knows only that the decision was made at high levels and +passed downward and that it was irrevocable. +Repeated attempts by the CTIA and several independent +assassination researchers to break loose the basic evidence in +"Life"'s possession, such as the Zapruder film, the Hughes film, +and the Mark Bell Film, met with total opposition and a stone wall. +Attempts to break loose the Archives' copy of the Zapruder film or +slides met the same stiff opposition. In 1971 "Life" +representatives indicated they might be interested in selling +rights to the Zapruder film for a sum in the neighborhood of a +million dollars.

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CBS

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The American public is aware of the editorial policy adopted by +the Columbia Broadcasting System toward the Kennedy assassination +because of a special four-part series with Walter Cronkite which +was broadcast on network TV in prime time in the summer of 1967.[4] +That series, while taking issue with some of the work of the Warren +Commission *and criticizing the Dallas police*, the FBI and the +Secret Service, nevertheless backed all of the basic Warren +Commission conclusions. +Anyone watching the Cronkite series might have wondered why the +basic evidence presented by CBS in an itemized format for each of +several areas in the case, did not always seem to point to the +conclusion reached at the end of each section. The conclusion +always agreed with the Warren Commission's comparable conclusion. +Some viewers may even have noticed Cronkite's double-take after +reading through the basic evidence and then reading the phrase, +"and the conclusion is!" It seemed as though he didn't believe the +conclusion and hadn't seen it until he came to it in the script. +Actually, that is exactly what happened. CBS management caused +the entire script to be changed from one concluding conspiracy to a +script supporting the Warren Commission in the last week before the +first part of the series went on the air. Cronkite had not seen +the entire script until the program went on. Time had not +permitted changing all of the points of evidence, so in most cases +they were unchanged and only the conclusion was changed. +How did this come about? Who decided to change the script at +the last moment and why? Again there are control theories extant, +but the author's personal relationships to CBS people might help to +shed a little light on the subject. +The discussion with all of the CBS people always centered on +evidence of conspiracy and the CBS-TV film footage taken at the +assassination site. Bob Richter was the most knowledgeable of all +the aforementioned people on the basic evidence and he was firmly +convinced there was a conspiracy. Bernie Birnbaum was convinced +that a new investigation was desirable and his wife was convinced +there had been a conspiracy. Dan Rather believed there was a +conspiracy and so did Wes Wise. +CBS photographers Sandy Sanderson, Tom Craven, and Jim Underwood +had taken movie-TV footages showing evidence of conspiracy. +Craven's footage, for example, showed the assassin's get-away car +driving away from the parking lot area behind the grassy knoll +about one minute after the shots were fired. Sanderson filmed one +of the assassins being arrested in front of the Depository building +about 30 minutes after the shots. Most of this footage was either +lost or locked up in the CBS archives vaults in New Jersey. +Wes Wise so strongly maintained his opinion about conspiracy +that he broadcast appeals for new photographic evidence over the +KRLD local TV shows. This was done against the orders of Eddie +Barker. Wes became Mayor of Dallas, elected in 1971 and defeated +the Dallas-established oligarchy. He actually received a new piece +of photographic evidence based on his TV appeal from a Dallas +citizen named Bothun, who had taken a picture of the grassy knoll a +few moments after the shots. +The script for the Cronkite series was being edited and was +going through its final preparation stages in May and early June. +The author was in constant touch with Wise, Birnbaum and Richter +during this period and was informed about the basic thrust of the +script toward conspiracy and recommendations for a new +investigation. +On May 8 a dinner meeting took place at the author's New York +club with Mr. and Mrs. Birnbaum. There, Mrs. Birnbaum and the +author tried to convince Bernie that he should take a stronger +position on a new investigation. +On May 18, Bob Richter and one of Jim Garrison's investigators +met in the National Archives with the author and reviewed the +evidence of conspiracy. On June 2, 3 and 4 in Dallas, the author +showed Bernie Birnbaum and Wes Wise a film taken by Johnny Martin +that showed three of the assassins and their cohorts on the grassy +knoll running toward the parking lot a few seconds after firing two +shots. Wise and Birnbaum tried to interest Barker and others in +taking a look at the film. +On June 14 Bob Richter invited the author to meet Midgely, +Lister and Wallace at CBS in New York where an interview was being +taped with Jim Garrison for use in the series. At that time +Garrison, Richter and the author spent some time with the producer +and his assistant discussing the evidence of conspiracy. +Finally, on June 20, just five days before the program was to go +on the air, the author met with Richter and Dan Rather in the +Washington, D.C. CBS studios. The script was reviewed by Richter +and Rather in the author's presence. The gist of the conversation +was that Rather and Richter agreed that the conclusions stating +conspiracy had to be made even stronger than they were at that +time. +The day before the program was aired, Bob Richter assured the +author that the theme would point to conspiracy and demand a new +investigation. The author telephoned Richter immediately after the +first broadcast and asked what had happened. Richter was +devastated. He could not understand what had happened. From that +time forward his course paralleled that of Dick Billings. He +resigned from CBS in disgust and formed his own company, Richter-McBride, in New York. It was his original intent to make a film +about the JFK assassination based on his own research and the films +he could obtain. However, the massive suppression of the +assassination, especially the suppression of the Zapruder film by +Time-Life films, cancelled Richter's plans for a film. +Correspondence with Cronkite and others determined that the +decision to change the script, distort and hide CBS's own findings +and back up the Warren Commission to the hilt came from Midgely and +Lister. How much higher did the decision go? Richard Salant was +head of the CBS News Division then and, of course, William C. Paley +was (and still is) chairman of the board. +By an odd coincidence, in a sequel to the above CBS story, the +author had an opportunity to learn a little more about Mr. Paley's +knowledge. Jeff Paley, William Paley's son, returned to the United +States from Paris in the winter of 1967-1968, where he had been +writing news stories and a news column for "L'Express" and for the +North American Newspaper Alliance, a group serving small papers in +the United States. Jeff had become convinced there was a +conspiracy in the JFK case and came to interview Garrison and +others and to do a story for French papers. (European papers and +magazines always believed and still do believe in the JFK +assassination conspiracy.) He met at length with Richter and the +author and became quite disturbed at what CBS had done. He +approached his father with the idea that CBS had been wrong in the +Cronkite series and that something should be done to rectify the +situation. +Bill Paley told his son that he knew nothing about the details +of the programs or the work lying behind the conclusions. He said +Midgely had been responsible for the entire production. He told +Jeff that if he could show proof that the CBS conclusions were +wrong and there had been a conspiracy, that he would fire Midgely +and all the rest of the team and do the whole thing all over again +under new management. +Needless to say, this did not happen and the mystery about where +the decision to suppress the truth came from within CBS is as deep +as it ever was. +Since June 1967, CBS has remained editorially silent on the +subject of the JFK assassination. The photographic evidence of +conspiracy in their possession remains locked up and suppressed. +The Craven sequence--film footage by the CBS photographer (who had +been in the parade's camera car # 1) of a car driving out of the +Elm Street extension (left-to right in front of the Texas School +Book Depository) within 20 seconds of the assassination--was seen +by the author and Jones Harris in New York, but was cut out of the +film where it appeared prior to the time the author and Richter +began searching for it. There is little question that CBS is an +accessory after the fact. +CBS edited out one other important piece of TV film. In +November 1969, Walter Cronkite conducted a three-part interview +with Lyndon B. Johnson at his ranch in Texas. The series was +broadcast in the spring of 1970 and on the first program an +announcement was made that portions of the taped interview had been +deleted at Lyndon Johnson's request, "for reasons of national +security." +What actually happened and what Johnson had said six months +earlier was made public due to a leak at CBS. The story appeared +in newspapers all over the U.S. several days before the broadcast. +Johnson told Cronkite that there had been a conspiracy in the +assassination of President Kennedy, that Oswald was not a lone +madman assassin, and that he, Johnson, had known it all along. +Johnson reviewed the tapes a week or so before the program was to +go on the air and then called up the CBS management, asking that +his remarks be deleted. +Someone at CBS who was very disturbed by this called a member of +the Committee to Investigate Assassinations and told him what had +been deleted. This led to the story being printed in the +newspapers.

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"The New York Times"

+ +

The record of the "Times" through the 1969-1971 period follows +the same pattern as CBS and "Life" magazine editorial policies. +The early editorials following the Warren Report supported the +Commission. The "Times" cooperated by publishing much of the +report in advance. In 1965, however, editorials began to appear +that questioned the Commission's findings and suggested a new +investigation. In 1964 the "Times" formed a research team headed +by Harrison Salisbury to investigate the assassination. The team +of six included Peter Khiss and Gene Roberts. Their conclusions +were never made public by the "Times" but indications point to +their finding evidence of conspiracy. +Khiss, in particular, through the 1966-1968 period in several +meetings and discussions with the author, expressed doubts about +the Warren Report and questioned the lone madman assassin theme. +When the Garrison investigation made the news, the "Times" began a +regular campaign to undermine Garrison's case, to support the +Warren Commission, and finally (during the Clay Shaw trial) to +completely distort the news and the testimony presented. Martin +Waldron was the reporter sending in the stories from the Shaw +trial, but someone in New York edited them to completely change +their content. The author saw the story written by Waldron on the +first day of the trial and the final version appearing in the +"Times." The two were completely different, with Waldon's original +following the actual trial proceedings very closely. +The author, writing under the pen name of Samuel B. Thurston, +postulated the possibility that "The New York Times," on selected +subjects, including the JFK assassination, was controlled by the +CIA through their representative among top management, Mr. Harding +Bancroft.[5] +In the summer of 1968, the author discovered a remarkable +similarity between the sketch of the assassin of Dr. Martin Luther +King and one of the three tramps arrested in Dealey Plaza following +the assassination of President Kennedy. Peter Khiss wrote a story +about this and it was published by the "Times" in June, 1968. +Apparently that was the final straw for the "Times" management as +far as Khiss was concerned. He was not allowed to do any more +research on assassinations or to discuss the subject at the +"Times." As he told the author in 1969, he doesn't attend any +press conferences about assassinations because he doesn't like it +when people in "Times" management say, "Here comes crazy old Pete +Khiss again with his conspiracy talk." +The apex of "The New York Times" actions and editorial positions +on the JFK assassination came in November and December 1971. They +published three items supporting the Warren Commission eight years +after the assassination, at a time when it seemed on the surface to +be a dead issue. +The first was a story about Dallas eight years later by an +author from Texas who wrote his entire story as though it were an +established fact that Oswald was the lone madman assassin firing +three shots from the sixth floor window of the Depository building +and later killing police officer Tippit. +The second was an Op-Ed page guest editorial by none other than +David Belin, a Warren Commission lawyer. He defended the +Commission and attacked the researchers. The third was a story by +Fred Graham about the findings of Dr. Lattimer, who was allowed to +see the autopsy photographs and x-rays of John Kennedy. Graham +actually wrote most of his story, which solidly backed up the +Warren Commission due to Lattimer's claims that the autopsy +materials proved no conspiracy, before Lattimer ever entered the +Archives. +In other words, it appears that Graham knew what Lattimer was +going to find and say in advance. Either that or someone in +Washington, D.C. gave someone at the "Times" orders in advance to +prepare the story for the first page, upper left-hand corner, of +the paper. It really didn't make any difference whether Dr. +Lattimer ever saw the x-rays and photographs. +The concerted campaign on the part of the "Times" management +could have been timed to prevent a discovery of new evidence of +conspiracy in the autopsy materials. The reason for this +possibility developing in the November 1971 period is that the +five-year restriction placed on the autopsy evidence by Burke +Marshall, a Kennedy family lawyer, expired in November of 1971. +Four well-known and highly reputable forensic pathologists, Dr. +Cyril Wecht of Pittsburgh, Dr. John Nichols of the University of +Kansas, Dr. Milton Helpern of New York City and Dr. John Chapman of +Detroit had already asked permission to examine the x-rays and +photos upon the expiration of the five-year period. All four were +known to question the Warren Commission's findings. What better +way to freeze them out of the Archives than to select a doctor who +could be trusted to back up the Commission (Lattimer had published +several articles doing just that), commission him to go into the +Archives, and then persuade "The New York Times" to publish a front +page story in its Sunday issue demonstrating that no one else need +look at the materials because they supported the Warren +Commission's findings. +All attempts by researchers to convince "Times" management that +the other side of the story should be told have been completely +ignored. Lattimer's findings, if correct, actually prove +conspiracy. The "Times" has been informed of this but they have +shut off all discussion of the subject. The complete story of the +complicity of the "New York Times" in the crimes to which they have +become an accessory would take up an entire volume.[6]

+ +

NBC

+ +

The National Broadcasting Company became an active participant +in the government's efforts to protect Clay Shaw and to ruin Jim +Garrison. +Two of NBC's high-level management people, Richard Townley of +NBC's affiliate in New Orleans, WDSU, and Walter Sheridan, +executive producer, became personally and directly involved in the +Shaw trial. They were indicted by a grand jury in New Orleans for +bribing witnesses, suppressing evidence and interfering with trial +proceedings. NBC top-level management backed Sheridan and Townley. +NBC produced a highly biased, provably dishonest program +personally attacking Garrison and defending Shaw prior to the +trial. Frank McGee, who acted as moderator, later had to publicly +apologize for lies told on the program by two "witnesses" whom NBC +paid to give statements against Garrison. The FCC ruled that NBC +had to give Garrison equal time because the program was not a news +program but a vendetta by NBC against Garrison. NBC did give +Garrison 30 minutes (compared to their one-hour attack) to respond +at a later date. Sheridan was the producer of the one-hour show. +With Sheridan and Townley so deeply involved, and with such an +extremely strong editorial position favoring the Justice +Department, the Warren Commission, and the lone assassin stance, +suspicions were raised about NBC's and RCA's independence.[7] At +one point in 1967 the president of NBC, according to Walter +Sheridan, helped in the bribery efforts by calling Mr. Gherlock, +head of Equitable Life Insurance Company's New York office, and +asked for assurance that Perry Russo, who worked for Equitable, +would cooperate with NBC. +NBC is also the owner of several important pieces of +photographic evidence. A TV film taken by NBC photographer David +Weigman was suppressed by NBC and not made available to +researchers. It shows the grassy knoll in the background just a +fraction of a minute after the shots. Some of the assassination +participants can be seen on the knoll. +Fortunately for researchers, NBC sold the Weigman film to the +other networks and to the news film agencies before realizing its +importance. The author was able to purchase a copy from Hearst +Metrotone News. +NBC's affiliate, WBAP in Fort Worth, has several important film +sequences. James Darnell took several sequences on the grassy +knoll and in the parking lot which should contain important +evidence. Dan Owens took TV movies in and around the Depository +building which should show how the snipers' nest was faked on the +sixth floor, and one of the assassins in front of the building.

+ +

ABC

+ +

Of the three major television networks, ABC has remained more +objective and appears to be less under the thumb of the government +than the other two. For example, when NBC was busy defending the +Warren Commission and Clay Shaw and attacking Jim Garrison, ABC was +giving Garrison a free chance to express his views without +interruption on their Sunday program, "Issues and Answers." They +have never taken an editorial position one way or another on +conspiracy. However, in the Robert Kennedy assassination case, the +investigation was suppressed at ABC. The man heading the brief +investigation was stopped and sent to Vietnam. The man at ABC who +called the shots in stopping the investigation and in suppressing +evidence in ABC's possession was a lawyer named Lewis Powell. +The evidence owned by ABC is a video tape of the crowd in the +Ambassador Hotel ballroom before, during and after the shots were +fired in the kitchen. The ballroom microphones, including ABC's, +picked up the sound of only three shots above the crowd noise. +Since Sirhan fired eight shots, or certainly more than three, and +since Los Angeles police tests proved that Sirhan's gun could not +be heard in the position of the microphones in the ballroom, the +ABC film and soundtrack is important evidence of three other shots. +The sequence was originally included in the TV film of Robert +Kennedy's 1968 campaign and assassination entitled, "The Last +Journey." Following a meeting at ABC when the management learned +what the film showed, the next TV broadcast of "The Last Journey" +(scheduled for the following week) was cancelled without any +logical explanation. The next time the film appeared on ABC (late +1971), the three-shot ballroom sequence had been cut.

+ +

United Press International

+ +

Of all the fifteen major news organizations included herein, UPI +has come closest to really pursuing the truth about the JFK +assassination. Yet they, too, have suppressed evidence, have not +had the courage of their convictions in analyzing conspiratorial +evidence, and by default have become accessories after the fact. +Two different departments at UPI became involved in the +photographic evidence of the JFK assassination. The regular photo +news service department, which receives wire photos and negatives +from many sources all over the world, accumulated a large +collection of basic evidence both from UPI photographers and by +purchasing wire service photos from newspapers, Black Star, AP and +other sources. This department has made all of its photographs +available to anyone at reasonable prices ($1.50 to $3.00 per +print). +UPI photographer Frank Cancellare was in the motorcade and +snapped several important photographs. In addition, five other +photographs at UPI, taken by three unknown photographers, are +significant. All of these were purchased by the author from UPI. +The other department has not been as cooperative. Within the +news department at UPI, Burt Reinhardt and Rees Schonfeld have +varied in their attitude and performance. UPI news purchased the +commercial rights to two very important films shortly after the +assassination. These were color movies taken by Orville Nix and +Marie Muchmore (private citizens). Both show the fatal shot +striking the President, and both show evidence of conspiracy. In +the Nix film, certain frames (when enlarged) show one of the +assassins on the grassy knoll with a rifle. Both movies show a +puff of smoke generated by another one of the men involved in the +assassination. +UPI, under the direction of Burt Reinhardt, did several things +with the Nix and Muchmore films. They produced a book, "Four +Days," including several color frames from the movies. They made a +composite movie in 35mm from the original 8mm movies. The +composite used the technique of repeating a frame several times to +give the appearance of slow motion or stop action during key +sections of the films. Reinhardt, Schonfeld and Mr. Fox, a UPI +writer, made the composite movie available to researchers at their +projection studio in New York in 1964 and 1965. +Fox and Schonfeld wrote an article for "Esquire" in 1965 which +portrayed the Nix film as proving the conspiracy theories about +assassins on the grassy knoll to be false. This was deemed +necessary by UPI management because a New York researcher and a +photographic expert, after seeing the Nix film at UPI, claimed it +showed an assassin with a rifle standing on the hood of a car +parked behind the knoll. +The research team had used a few frames from the film in color +transparencies and enlarged them in black and white to show the +gunman. +In 1964, UPI gave the Warren Commission copies of both the Nix +and Muchmore films for analysis. The films were later turned over +to the National Archives under a special agreement between UPI and +the Archives. This agreement reminds one of the agreements between +the Archives and the Kennedy family on the autopsy materials, and +the obscure one between "Life" magazine, the Commission, the Secret +Service and the Archives on the Zapruder film. +The UPI agreement prevents anyone from obtaining copies of the +Nix and Muchmore films or slides of individual frames for any +purpose. The agreement is just as illegal as the other two, yet it +has been just as effective in suppressing the basic evidence of +conspiracy. +In 1967, UPI, apparently still not sure they would not be +attacked by researchers on what the Nix film revealed, employed +Itek Corporation to analyze the film. (At least it would appear on +the surface that UPI did the hiring.) Itek Corporation, a major +defense contractor, did an excellent job of obscuring the truth. +In an apparently highly scientific analysis using computer-based +image enhancement, they "proved" that not only was there no gunman +on the grassy knoll, but there was no person on the knoll at all +during the shooting. +The final Itek report was made public and highly publicized by +UPI. It looked as though the UPI earlier claim of no gunman had +been scientifically substantiated. As a by-product, Itek got some +great publicity for their commercially available photo-computer +image enhancement system. +What the public did not know was that UPI gave Itek only 35mm +enlarged black and white copies of selected frames from the Nix +film. The great amount of detail is lost in going from 8mm color +to 35mm black and white. And UPI gave Itek carefully chosen frames +from the Nix film that did not show the gunman on the knoll. +UPI and Itek defined "the grassy knoll" in a very limited and +carefully chosen way so as to exclude five people (in addition to +the fatal-shot gunman) on the knoll who appear in the Nix film as +well as in every other photograph and movie taken of the knoll at +the time the shots were fired.[8] In addition, man No. 2, who had +ducked down behind the stone wall during the Nix film, could not be +detected by Itek because they only had the Nix film. +Three men standing on the steps of the knoll, and two men behind +the picket fence, were completely ignored or overlooked. +The author began to contact Schonfeld and Reinhardt in early +1967, viewed the two films both at UPI and in the Archives, and +requested copies of the original 8mm color films or color copies of +individual frames. The response to the requests were negative for +more than four years. During this time, however, the author, a New +York researcher, and a photographic specialist, enlarged in color +the correct frames from the Nix film. The enlargements clearly +show the gunman, not on top of a car but in front of a car, with +his rifle poised. He is standing on a pedestal protruding from the +eight-sided cupola behind the stone wall on the knoll. The car is +parked behind the cupola and can be seen in several other +photographs and movies. +Unfortunately, UPI's agreement with the researcher prevents +making public the color enlargements. UPI has consistently +suppressed this evidence. In 1971, they offered to make the film +available for a very large sum of money, but they have never agreed +that it shows anyone on the knoll and they will not make copies +available for research. +The UPI editorial position (in articles, the book "Four Days," +letters and news releases) has supported the Warren Commission +through the years. The major difference between UPI and "Life" or +CBS is that no drastic reversal of management policy took place at +UPI.

+ +

AP

+ +

Associated Press became an accessory after the fact by taking an +action unprecedented for a news wire service. It published a +three-part report by three AP writers in 1967, completely +supporting the Warren Commission. The report was transmitted by +wire to all AP subscribers over a three-day period and it occupied +a total of nine to ten full pages of the average newspaper. It was +not news, but editorial policy and took a position supporting the +Warren Commission and the official government propaganda about the +assassination of John Kennedy. +Most small newspapers rely on UP and AP for their news stories. +The three-part AP report ran in hundreds of papers across the +United States without opposition commentary. For many this was the +gospel at the time. What more could the conspirators and their +government protectors have asked? +AP photographers were on the scene in Dallas during the +assassination. James Altgens, one of AP's men assigned to Dallas, +took seven important photographs in Dealey Plaza. Henry Burrows, +an AP photographer from Washington, D.C., was in the motorcade and +snapped two pictures. Four other AP photographers took ten +important photographs. AP's photo department and Wide World Photos +in New York purchased many other photographs taken in Dealey Plaza. +Meyer Goldberg, manager of Wide World Photos, set a policy early +in the 1966-1967 period which placed AP in the position of +partially suppressing basic photographic evidence. The policy +contained several parts. First, Goldberg made it extremely +difficult for anyone to obtain access to the photographic evidence, +particularly the negatives. Second, he set a high enough price on +copies of photographs ($17.50 for one 8x10 black and white print) +to freeze out all but commercially-financed interests. Third, when +an original negative was discovered, the print order, when cleared +by Wide World, was always cropped. (Full negative prints showing +important details in the Altgens photographs were nearly impossible +to purchase.) Whenever any suggestion was made to Wide World that +their photographs contained basic evidence of conspiracy, Goldberg +and AP management turned blue with anger and literally refused to +discuss the subject or permit research in their files. +Various researchers, including Josiah Thompson, Raymond Marcus +and the author met this type of stiff opposition, but after many +visits discovered ways around it. The staff at Wide World in +charge of the photographic files was more cooperative, and at least +one staff member was completely convinced there was a conspiracy in +the JFK assassination. +Nevertheless, the broadly announced editorial policy and stance +of Associated Press between 1964 and 1972 fully supported the +Warren Commission and the lone assassin fable.

+ +

"Newsweek"

+ +

"Newsweek"'s editorial policy and coverage of the assassination +and its aftermath was largely the doing of one man, Hugh +Aynesworth. Aynesworth was the Dallas-Houston correspondent for +"Newsweek" following the assassination. He was in Dealey Plaza +when Kennedy was killed, and he turned in several stories during +the days and weeks following November 22, 1963. His point of view +was always closely allied with that of the Dallas police, the +district attorney and the FBI. He wholeheartedly supported the +Warren Report. +However, in May of 1967, after Garrison's investigation hit the +news, Aynesworth wrote a violent attack on Garrison's +investigation, and it was published in "Newsweek." Aynesworth +accused Lynn Loisel, a Garrison staff member, of bribing Al +Beaubolf to testify about a meeting to plot the assassination. +Beaubolf later denied this accusation in a sworn affidavit and +proved Aynesworth and "Newsweek" to be fabricators of information.

+ +

"Saturday Evening Post"

+ +

The position of the "Saturday Evening Post" solidified after the +Garrison probe became public. It was based in large part on the +reporting of one man, James Phelan. Phelan wrote a blistering +article for the "Post" published on May 6, 1967. He attacked +Garrison and Russo, and claimed that Russo's original statement to +Assistant D.A. Andrew Sciambra differed from his later testimony. +In view of the earlier editorial position of the "Post" when Lyron +Land and his wife questioned the Warren Commission findings, the +Phelan article came as somewhat of a surprise. In fact, the "Post" +had taken a strong conspiracy stand when in 1967 it published a +long article excerpted from Josiah Thompson's book, "Six Seconds in +Dallas," and featured it on the magazine's cover. +The Garrison investigation, however, turned the "Post" around. +Phelan became directly involved in the case, and in a sense was +more of an accessory than Walter Sheridan or Richard Townley. He +travelled to Louisiana from Texas, spent many hours with Perry +Russo and other witnesses, and generally obfuscated the Shaw trial +picture. +Phelan joined the efforts to persuade Russo to desert Garrison +and to help destroy Garrison and his case. According to a sworn +Russo statement, Phelan visited his house four times within a few +weeks. Phelan told Russo he was working hand-in-hand with Townley +and Sheridan, that they were in constant contact, and that they +were going to destroy Garrison and the probe. Phelan warned Russo +that he should abandon his position and that Russo would be the +only one hurt as a result of the trial. Phelan claimed Garrison +would leave Russo alone, standing in the cold. +Phelan offered to hire a $200000-a-year lawyer from New York +for Russo if he would cooperate against Garrison. He asked Russo +how he would feel about sending an innocent man (Clay Shaw) to the +penitentiary. Phelan left New Orleans and Baton Rouge and returned +to New York, only to telephone Russo several times and offer to pay +Russo's plane fare to New York to meet with him and discuss going +over to Clay Shaw's side. +Phelan was subpoenaed by Shaw's lawyers during a hearing in 1967 +because his article attacked Garrison. Sciambra welcomed the +opportunity to cross-examine Phelan on the stand. He described the +article as being incomplete, distorted and tantamount to lying. +Sciambra said, "I guarantee that he (Phelan) will be exposed for +having twisted the facts in order to build up a scoop for himself +and the 'Saturday Evening Post.'" +Sciambra went on to say that Phelan had neglected the most +important fact of all in his article. It was that Phelan had been +told by Russo in Baton Rouge that Russo and Sciambra had discussed +the plot dialogue (to assassinate JFK) at their initial meeting.

+ +

Capital City Broadcasting

+ +

This organization owns several radio stations in the capitol +cities of various states and in Washington, D.C. Their interests +in the JFK assassination increased in 1967 and 1968 when the +Garrison-Shaw case made headlines. A producer at Capital City, +Erik Lindquist, decided to do a series of programs designed to +ferret out the truth. The author furnished various evidence for +scripts to be used in the programs. After several months of work +the project was cancelled, presumably by top management, and the +broadcasts never took place.

+ +

North American Newspaper Alliance

+ +

This newspaper chain, with papers affiliated in small +communities through the northern and eastern U.S., supported the +Warren Commission findings as did all the other major newspaper +services and chains. +The Alliance also became involved in the Martin Luther King case +and it circulated the syndicated column by the black writer and +reporter, Louis Lomax, who had taken an interest in finding out +what really happened in the King assassination. +Lomax located a man named Stein who had taken a trip with James +Earl Ray from Los Angeles to New Orleans. The two retraced the +automobile trip of Ray and Stein, beginning in Los Angeles and +heading through Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. They were trying to +find the telephone booth from which Ray had called a friend named +Raoul in New Orleans somewhere along the route. Raoul, according +to Ray, was the man who actually fired the shot that killed King. +Stein remembered that Ray told him he was going to meet Raoul in +New Orleans and that Ray phoned Raoul at someone's office. Stein +couldn't remember exactly where the phone booth was because he and +Ray had been driving non-stop day and night. +Lomax wrote a series of articles depicting Raoul as the killer +and Ray as the patsy. He sent them to the Alliance, a column each +day, from the places along the retraced trip he and Stein took. +Finally, Lomax's column announced they had found the phone booth at +a gas station in Texas and that he was going to obtain the phone +number Ray had called in New Orleans. He presumably was planning +to visit the local telephone company office the next morning and +obtain the number. +That was the last Lomax column ever to appear in the North +American Alliance papers. He seemed to disappear completely. The +readers were left hanging, not knowing whether he obtained the +phone number or whether he discovered who it belonged to. The +Committee to Investigate Assassinations located Lomax several +months later and asked him what had happened. +He said he had been told by the FBI to stop his investigation +and not to publish or write any more stories about it. He said he +found the phone number and where it was located in New Orleans. He +gave the number to the Committee to Investigate Assassinations. He +said he was afraid he would be killed and decided to stop work on +the case. +Whether North American Newspaper Alliance management knew about +any of this remains unknown. What is known, however, is that Louis +Lomax died in a very mysterious manner in 1970. He was traveling +at a very high speed and was found dead in a car crash, according +to the State police report. Lomax's wife says he was a very +careful driver and never drove at high speeds.

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+ +

Dallas Newspapers

+ +

The two newspapers in Dallas, "The Times Herald" and "The +Morning News," became accessories after the fact. They suppressed +evidence of conspiracy and evidence concerning the Dallas police +role in framing Lee Harvey Oswald. It was not immediately +established that the management policy of both papers supported the +official positions taken by the Dallas police and district +attorney, the FBI and the Warren Commission. During the first few +days immediately following the assassination, both newspapers +printed anything that came along. The editions on November 22 +through 25 make very interesting reading for the researcher because +the stories were printed before anyone had any idea what to +suppress. (For example, there are stories about other people being +arrested, about other rifles being found near Dealey Plaza, and +about Oswald's rifle being a Mauser and a British 303 model.) +Editorial and management policy took over within a couple of +weeks and the lone assassin story received all the attention from +then on. The two papers have not since made any independent +inquiries, have not been interested in any conspiratorial +discussions, and have remained completely faithful to the official +governmental position. +There were some inquiring reporters around (like Ronnie Dugger, +for example, or Lonnie Hudkins), but they were eventually silenced +by management or the FBI and Dallas police. Photographers at the +two papers left town or were frightened out of talking about the +case or their photographs. Some of these photographs showed +evidence of conspiracy, including pictures of three conspirators +under arrest in Dealey Plaza. Other photographs proved that +members of the Dallas police planted evidence in the Depository +building to frame Oswald. +Between the assassination and 1967, the management and owners of +the "Herald" and "News" were not completely aware of the +significance of some of the evidence in their files. Nor were they +attempting to control their reporters and news staff. For example, +Hudkins found that Oswald had been a paid informer for the FBI. He +even found what his pay number had been (S172). He took the +information to Waggoner Carr, Texas Attorney General, in January of +1964. Carr brought it to the attention of the Warren Commission. +Hoover denied it, and the matter died in secret executive sessions +of the Warren Commission. +Several photographs taken by "Dallas Morning News" photographer +Jack Beers proved that the police created the so-called "sniper's +nest" from which Oswald allegedly fired the shots. The pictures +show the positions of cartons in the sixth floor window before the +police moved them. Beers's photographs also indicate that the +police made the large paper bag found inside the Depository +building. +Beers was permitted to use his photographs commercially in a +book that he published jointly with R. B. Denson, called "Destiny +in Dallas." If it were not for that event, researchers would +probably never have seen Beers's photographs. Once the "Morning +News" editor, Mr. Krueger, discovered that the photographs +demonstrated both conspiracy and the complicity of some of the +Dallas police force, he locked them up. The pictures remain +suppressed to this date. +The "Times Herald"'s record is not much better. Through 1967 +John Masiotta, the man in charge of the assassination photographs +taken by William Allen, made copies available on a very limited +basis. The basis in the author's case was that a total of twelve +pictures out of seventy-three taken by Allen could be purchased. +The author was allowed to examine 35mm contact prints (about 3/4 X +1/2 inches) of the rest, and the selection decision was extremely +difficult. Three of Allen's photographs showed the "tramps" under +arrest who were part of the conspiracy. +In 1968 the "Times Herald" management realized the implications +of some of Allen's pictures in pointing out the real assassins, and +locked their files. To date they have not permitted anyone to see +the photos again or to purchase copies. +One photograph taken by "Dallas Times Herald" photographer Bob +Jackson was so obviously in opposition to the official police +position that it was suppressed by late 1966. Jackson was riding +in one of the news photographer's cars in the motorcade with +"Dallas Morning News" photographer, Tom Dillard. As Jackson's car +approached the Depository building and travelled north on Houston +Street, between Main Street and Elm Street, Jackson snapped a +picture (see map in May 1970 "Computers & Automation" article). At +the time, the Kennedy car was already on Elm Street and was +probably close to the position where the first shot was fired. +Jackson's car was eight cars behind Kennedy's (about twenty car +lengths). +Jackson can be seen taking this picture in the Robert Hughes +film and in some of the TV footage taken by other photographers. +He also testified that he took the picture. When the author asked +Masiotta about the Jackson photo in early 1967, he became very +flustered and claimed to know nothing about it. Jackson himself +was finally located and, when asked about it, became very angry and +denied taking a picture. That photograph has never been seen by +anyone outside of the "Times Herald" staff. It's not difficult to +speculate about what it probably showed, since the Hughes film, the +Weaver photo, the Dillard photo and the Tom Alyea TV sequence all +show the same thing. Jackson's photo, without doubt, showed +"Oswald's window" in the Depository building empty when Oswald +should have been in it--an embarrassing counterpoint to Jackson's +testimony that he saw someone in that window with a rifle. If +Jackson's photo (or anyone else's for that matter) showed Oswald in +the sixth floor window, the whole world would have heard about it +on November 22, 1963.

+ +

Fort Worth "Star Telegram"

+ +

The Fort Worth "Star Telegram" shines like a light in the Texas +darkness. It made photographic evidence from five of their +photographers, Joe McAulay, Harry Cabluck, Jerrold Cabluck, George +Smith and William Davis available to everyone. Even though the +"Telegram"'s editorial stance was eventually pro-Warren Commission, +the photographers, editors and the woman who ran the photo files +were all cooperative. +George Smith's photos showed the three members of the +assassination team under arrest. Jerrold Cabluck's aerial photos +were instrumental in establishing Dealey Plaza landmarks and +topography. Joe McAulay's photos of a man arrested in Ft. Worth in +connection with the shooting might yet become valuable.

+ +

TV Station WFAA

+ +

The second shining light in Texas was TV station WFAA, an ABC +affiliate. WFAA was very cooperative (albeit expensive) in +providing copies of all their photographic evidence. TV sequences +by Tom Alyea, Malcolm Couch, A. J. L'Hoste and Ron Reiland were +made easily viewable and the copies made available. Much of this +evidence demonstrating conspiracy was also sold to TV networks and +newsreel companies.

+ +

WBAP -- Ft. Worth

+ +

The NBC affiliate in Ft. Worth, WBAP, was less cooperative. +Even though public statements were made that viewing of Dan Owens +and Jim Darnell's footage was possible, many roadblocks were thrown +into the path of researchers. As mentioned in the section on NBC, +Darnell's footage of the knoll and parking lot is very important. +It has remained unavailable at WBAP.

+ +

KTTV -- Dallas

+ +

Independent TV station KTTV in Dallas also suppressed, or lost, +valuable evidence of conspiracy. Don Cook's TV footage contained +twelve important sequences. One is a sequence of a man being +arrested in front of the Depository building at about 1:00 p.m. +From other evidence it is possible to determine that the man may be +William Sharp, participant in the assassination. Cook can be seen +in a picture taken by Phil Willis pointing his 16mm TV film camera +directly at the man from about ten feet away. +Willis' photo does not show the man's face. For this reason, +Cook's close-up footage is very important. In 1967 the author +interviewed Cook in Dallas and found that his film had been turned +over to the editor at KTTV. A phone call to the station resulted +in a statement being made to the author that Cook's footage had +been lost "on the cutting room floor" and was not available for +viewing. No further efforts have even been made to open up KTTV's +evidence in the assassination.

+ +

New Orleans Newspapers

+ +

The only two publications in the United States that printed the +truth about the Clay Shaw trial were the New Orleans "Times +Picayune" and the New Orleans "Times Herald." +Between 1963 and 1967 both New Orleans newspapers used AP and UP +stories on most of their coverage of the Kennedy assassination. +Suddenly, the papers found themselves deeply involved in the middle +of the sensational Garrison investigation, and in 1969 they +reported on the Shaw trial. +The papers took no editorial position on Jim Garrison, the +trial, the investigation, the assassination, or the guilt or +innocence of Shaw until after the final verdict was delivered by +the jury. Then both papers savagely attacked Garrison on the +editorial page. Off the record, the reporters and others at both +papers supported Garrison. This was reflected in a book published +by the two "Herald" reporters, Rosemary James and Jack Wardlaw, +called "Plot or Politics." +The management and editors of the newspapers evidently paid more +attention to forces from Washington and New York than they did to +New Orleans citizens or the testimony at the trial. +But the verbatim proceedings at the Shaw trial, as well as all +of the detailed events for the two years that the Federal +Government successfully delayed the trial, were faithfully printed +in both the "Herald" and the "Picayune." While you and I, dear +reader, were treated to a highly biased account for three years +concerning events in New Orleans by "Time" magazine, "Newsweek," +"U.S. News," "The New York Times," NBC, CBS, ABC, UP, AP, etc., the +average New Orleans citizen was well aware that the Justice +Department, under both Ramsey Clark and John Mitchell, was +responsible for continually delaying the trail. (You and I were +fed the impression that Garrison delayed the trial.) +Mr. New Orleans citizen, let's call him Joe, knew that Shaw's +lawyers were paid by the CIA. You and I were told that Shaw paid +his lawyers a lot of money and suffered financially because of it. +Joe knew that the FBI was looking for Shaw under his alias, Clay +Bertrand, before lawyer Dean Andrews ever mentioned the name +associated with Lee Harvey Oswald just before he was killed by Jack +Ruby. You and I were told that Andrews fabricated the name Clay +Bertrand out of whole cloth, and no mention was made to us of the +FBI's search. +Joe knew that twelve people saw Clay Shaw together with Oswald +and David Ferrie on many occasions, exchanging money on two +occasions. You and I were led to believe by "Time" and "The New +York Times" that only three people saw them together and that the +three were not credible witnesses. +Joe knows how Garrison was hounded and framed by the Justice +Department in a fake pinball rap. More importantly, he knows the +government did not want Regis Kennedy, FBI agent, and Pierre Finck, +Army doctor at the JFK autopsy, to testify at the trial. +Finck's testimony, however, was printed in the "Times Picayune" +but not in "Time" magazine. He said that an Army general gave +orders during the autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital. The +unidentified general told Finck and the other doctors not to probe +the President's neck wound. We did not read about this or hear +about it. +The "Times Picayune" record of the Shaw trial was especially +accurate. The "Herald"'s record was reasonably accurate, but +because the paper was printed by 3:00 p.m., the paper missed some +of the longer sessions.[9]

+ +

WDSU-TV -- New Orleans

+ +

As mentioned in the section on NBC, WDSU became directly +involved in the JFK assassination aftermath because of Rick Townley +and Walter Sheridan. Both were under indictment by Garrison for +bribing witnesses and tampering with evidence. Townley, on the +staff of WDSU, was close to the action with Garrison, Shaw, +Andrews, Ferrie, Perry Russo, Layton Martens, Gordon Novel, Sergio +Arcacha Smith, David Lewis, David Llewelyn, Guy Banister, and many +other participants in the drama. +According to accounts in the New Orleans papers and repeated in +Paris Flammonde's book "The Kennedy Conspiracy," Townley tried to +get Perry Russo, Garrison's prime witness at the Shaw trial, to +change his testimony at the upcoming trial to make it seem that +Garrison had hypnotized him and then asked leading questions to get +Russo to testify against Shaw. +Townley went to Russo's house twice, threatened to discredit him +and perhaps have him fired from his job, and offered him a chance +to work closely with NBC in their efforts to "destroy Garrison and +his case". Townley told Russo he could get Shaw's lawyer, F. +Irving Dymond, to go easy on him if he would alter his testimony. +He assured Russo that his employer, Equitable Life, had promised +the president of NBC that no retaliation would be taken against +Russo if he cooperated with WDSU and NBC. +Walter Sheridan told Russo that NBC and WDSU could set him up in +California (where Russo always wanted to live) if he helped break +the Garrison probe's back. NBC would pay his expenses there, +protect his job, obtain a lawyer for Russo and guarantee that +Garrison would never extradite him to Louisiana. Sheridan told +Russo that NBC had flown Gordon Novel out of Louisiana to McLean, +Virginia (home of the CIA) and had given Novel (an important +witness for Garrison's case) a lie detector test. Sheridan said +NBC would make sure Novel would never be extradited to Louisiana to +testify. (Novel never was extradited.) +Townley also tried to influence Marlene Mancuso, former wife of +Gordon Novel, and an important Shaw trial witness. He told her +that she should cooperate with WDSU and NBC because Garrison was +going to be destroyed and that NBC was not merely willing to +discredit the probe: he said Garrison would go to jail. +On July 10, 1967, Richard Townley was arrested and charged with +attempted bribery and two counts of intimidating two witnesses. He +was also accused of serving as an intermediary to influence cross-examining trial attorneys that the character and reputation of +Perry Russo not be damaged. +Sheridan was arrested on July 7 on the counts of intimidating +witnesses and attempted bribery. Both posted bond. Townley's +statements, however, did come true. The Federal Government, aided +and abetted by WDSU and NBC, did crucify Garrison. +The author's belief is that this kind of behavior in the face of +all the evidence gathered by the staffs of their own organizations, +on the part of 15 to 24 major news media management groups is +highly suspect. It might be that each major news organization shut +up about the Kennedy assassination because each was afraid of +losing face or influence, FCC licenses, business or advertisers, or +Government favors of one kind or another. +This theory is perhaps best exemplified by a story told by +Dorothy Kilgallen, before she died, to a close friend. Kilgallen +was writing several articles about the JFK assassination for the +newspapers who published her column. She strongly believed there +had been a conspiracy that included Jack Ruby. She interviewed +Ruby alone in his jail cell in Dallas (the only person outside of +the police who had this opportunity). She told her friend shortly +afterward that she was planning to "blow the case wide open" in her +column. She said the owner of the New York newspaper where her +column appeared refused to let her print stories in opposition to +the Warren Commission. When the friend asked her why, Dorothy +said, "He's afraid he won't be invited to White House parties any +more". +Of the three possible motives for suppression in the news media, +the influence from the top and from high government places seems +the most probable. When will we, as Americans, learn the truth +about influence in the case of the Kennedy assassination?

+ +

Conclusions

+ +

The pattern of internal knowledge of conspiracy followed by the +complete suppression of such information is too strong to ignore. +Two conclusions suggest themselves as one reviews the evidence +regarding suppression and secrecy. +The first is that our national news media are controlled on the +subject of the assassination by some very high level group in +Washington. The orders to cease, desist, and suppress came from +the top in each case. To influence the very top level of all +fifteen major news media organizations would have taken a great +deal more than money, power, or threats. In fact, the only kind of +appeal which seems likely to have had a chance of shutting everyone +up is a "highly patriotic, national security," kind of appeal. It +was probably just such an argument that worked with the Warren +Commission. Judging by the fact that Lyndon B. Johnson told Walter +Cronkite there was a conspiracy and then successfully persuaded CBS +to edit this out of his remarks "on grounds of national security," +this kind of an appeal obviously does work. +The second possibility, rather remote from a probability +standpoint, should nevertheless be considered. It is that all 15 +to 24 news organizations reached a point of exasperation and +disbelief in 1968-1969. It's possible the top managers of these 24 +organizations reached this exasperation point independent of one +another. Within a two to three-year period, culminating in the +Shaw trial and discrediting of Jim Garrison, every one of these +managers might finally have said, "Stop, cease, desist, lock the +files, you're fired, shut up, I don't want to hear another word +about it."

+ +

1976

+ +

How, one may ask, could all of this have happened in the world's +greatest democracy? What has become of the principles of the +Founding Fathers, Horace Greeley, Will Rogers and others, in which +the "free" press is supposedly our best protection from the misuse +of governmental power. Didn't things change with Watergate? What +about the "New York Times" and the "Pentagon Papers," the +"Washington Post," Bernstein and Woodward, Watergate, NBC's white +paper on Vietnam, Sy Hersh and the CIA stories in the "New York +Times"? +The actions taking place in November-December, 1975 and on into +1976, proved the media were still influenced and controlled by the +same forces that controlled the media in 1968 and 1969. Some of +the names of the players were different: Ford for Nixon, Colby for +Helms, Kelley for J. Edgar Hoover. But the forces were the same. +The chairmen of the boards and presidents of NBC, CBS, ABC, Time, +Inc., "Newsweek"-"Washington Post," "Los Angeles Times," "Chicago +Tribune," UPI, AP, and the rest, were still very much controlled +and influenced by the White House and the Secret Team. Some of the +influence was by infiltration, as Fletcher Prouty so aptly +demonstrated.[10] +The Secret Team members were to be found everywhere at or near +the top. Other influence came from the Ford administration through +direct or indirect pressure. The FCC, the IRS, the Department of +Commerce, the military and other government agencies had some +control over the media or the personal lives of the top managers. +(It must be remembered that Gerald Ford was and is one of the +cover-up conspirators in the JFK case.)

+ +

What is the Evidence?

+ +

What is the evidence for this? One measures the influence by +results. In an era when all who have really examined the basic +evidence know there were conspiracies in the JFK and RFK +assassinations, we still find the 15 organizations concluding there +were lone, demented gunmen in the two cases. +For example, CBS broadcast a two-part special on November 25 and +26, 1975, once again reinforcing their stand that Oswald acted +alone. Except for the substitution of Dan Rather as chief narrator +in place of Walter Cronkite, the cast was the same as in the 1967 +four-part series. Leslie Midgely was the producer, Bernie +Birnbaum, the associate producer, and Jane Bartels, Birnbaum's +girl-Friday. Eric Sevareid and Eddie Barker were missing. So was +Bob Richter, another 1967 associate producer who had discovered the +truth about the conspiracy and the way CBS handled it. (He now +manages his own film-making company, Richter-McBride, in New York.) +Richter's opinion about the 1967 CBS four-part special, as +expressed in an interview with Jerry Policoff published in "New +Times" magazine in October 1975,[11] barred him from becoming a +consultant to Midgely on the November 25 and 26 programs.

+ +

Hard Evidence Never Mentioned

+ +

Time, Inc., in their November 17, 1975 issue supported the lone +assassin myth as they have since 1964.[12] Since "Life" was no +longer in existence, Time management used "Time" and "People" +magazines to further the causes of the White House and the CIA in +the cover-up of the cover-ups. The November 3, 1975 issue[13] of +"People" magazine hand-picked a group of "researchers" and +portrayed them as obvious maniacs who believed in and furthered the +conspiracy theories being bandied about. One of the favorite +tricks of the media throughout the years has been to couple the +words "conspiracy" and "theory" together; never once did the major +media mention any of the hard evidence pointing to conspiracy in +any of the four major cases. The "Time" policy and article, +according to Jerry Policoff, was commanded from the very top, above +Hedley Donovan's level.[14] +The fine hand of David Belin can be traced in the "Time" +article. All of the 1964 arguments against conspiracy were aired +once again, as though they were brand new.

+ +

The Forces of Good vs. the Forces of Evil:

+ +

A Life and Death Struggle

+ +

David Belin: Belin shows up in several places. He constructed +a new CIA-White House base on behalf of his superiors by personally +writing most of Chapter 19 of the Rockefeller Report on the CIA and +the FBI. That material was used by Belin and others to try and +shore up the Warren Commission defenses. +The reader may ask, "Why did Belin appear on 'Face the Nation' +on November 23, 1975 and get himself on the front page of the 'New +York Times' on the same day by proposing the reopening of the JFK +case?"[15] The answer lies in Belin's own explanation. He wants +America to see that a new investigation will confirm the findings +of the Warren Commission, thereby strengthening the country's faith +in its government. Just how did Belin manage to get on "Face the +Nation" and on the first page of the "New York Times?" To answer +that you must analyze the life and death struggle that is going on +between the forces of evil who want to continue the cover-ups, and +the forces of good who want to expose the truth. Senators Richard +Schweiker and Gary Hart and the Church Committee's subcommittee +looking into the JFK assassination were not the push-overs that +Mark Lane, Harold Weisberg and others once were. There were also +Henry B. Gonzalez and Thomas Downing and their new resolutions in +the House, not to mention Don Edwards' subcommittee and Bella +Abzug's subcommittee. +The evil forces needed to muster the strongest counterattack +possible at this stage. For them it was a matter of life and +death. So they rounded up David Belin, Joseph Ball, Wesley +Liebeler, John J. McCloy, Dr. John Lattimer, the old Ramsey Clark +panel of doctors who secretly went into the Archives in 1968, and +some of the coterie of writers who were in their camp in the +1960's.

+ +

"I've Seen No New Evidence"

+ +

Any doubts about Belin's recruitment by Ford and the White House +disappeared with Gerald Ford's press conference on Wednesday, +November 26, 1975. A reporter asked Ford whether he would support +reopening the JFK investigation.[16] He said, "I, of course, +served on the Warren Commission. And I know a good deal about the +hearings and the committee report, obviously. There are some new +developments--not evidence--but new developments that, according to +one of our best staff members (David Belin), who's kept up to date +on it more than I, that he thinks just to lay those charges (of +conspiracy) aside that a new investigation ought to be undertaken. +He, at the same time, said that no new evidence has come up. If +those particular developments could be fully investigated without +reopening the whole matter that took us 10 months to conclude, I +think some responsible group or organization ought to do so. But +not to reopen all of the other aspects because I think they were +thoroughly covered by the Warren Commission." +Thus Ford, in one of his own inimitable paragraphs, tried to +give the impression that he was following the lead of David Belin- +-rather than the other way around--in the continued cover-up +efforts. Earl Warren was always saying, "I've seen no new +evidence." Ford, Belin and the rest were forced to echo this +refrain, as though all of the things that have been learned since +1964 about the real assassins of John Kennedy and their planners +and backers, were false rumors or stories and theories created out +of whole cloth by the researchers and later by Congress.[17]

+ +

Pure Coincidence?

+ +

One CIA-White House lackey is James Phelan, formerly a freelance +writer for the old "Saturday Evening Post." Phelan was brought out +of mothballs to do a pro-Warren Commission piece in the "New York +Times" Sunday magazine section.[18] By pure coincidence, it +happened to appear on the same day that Belin's arranged interview +was found on page one. The "Times" is one of the worst, if not the +worst, news media organization on the evil side of the battle. +An article in the July 1971 issue of "Computers and +Automation"[19] shows that the CIA control of the "Times" had for +years been directed through Harding Bancroft, the Secret Team +member there. He controlled all stories and editorial positions on +domestic assassinations. He undoubtedly arranged for both stories +to appear on the same day.[20]

+ +

CBS. Cover-Up Broadcasting System

+ +

The Belin appearance on the CBS show, "Face the Nation", was no +doubt timed to coincide with the first two parts of the new CBS +whitewash series. (The new name for CBS is "Cover-Up Broadcasting +System".) The men at the top made the decisions in 1967 and 1975 +to support the Warren Commission, and Leslie Midgeley carried them +out. In 1967 the entire program format was changed by top +management from pro-conspiracy to pro-Warren Commission in the last +ten days before the first show went on the air.[21] By 1975 there +wasn't any doubt about the conclusions. Midgeley and Co. started +out with the lone assassin thesis and, as the Warren Commission +did, merely sought witnesses, experts and explanations that would +back it up, while they totally ignored everything else. +The CIA's man at CBS who controlled this policy is not known. +Personal experiences and contacts within the organization by the +author have led to the conclusion that it is someone below the +level of William C. Paley and above the level of Midgeley. That +leaves Richard Salant and one or two other possibilities. Salant +is known to have had intelligence connections through the decades +since World War II.

+ +

Too Perfect Timing

+ +

CBS and the "New York Times" are sometimes simultaneously +orchestrated by the evil forces. One example was the CBS show +preview by the "Times" on November 24 (the show was scheduled to +appear on November 25 and 26).[22] The article, written by John J. +O'Connor, was a reverse-psychology strategy by the top managements +of both organizations and was used to reinforce their pro-Warren +Commission policies. To quote O'Connor, "In bringing some facts to +bear on the feverish speculation, CBS News is less sensational but +more telling." This was in reference to David Susskind and Geraldo +Rivera on Channel 5 in New York, and ABC, who the "Times" believed +provided no facts in disputing the lone assassin conclusion. +How did O'Connor and the "New York Times" take a look at the CBS +shows *two days in advance* while other publications and reviewers +had to wait and watch it with the rest of us? There goes the +orchestration again.

+ +

"Newsweek" Editorial Position: +Schweiker, Hart and Gonzalez Misled by Kooks

+ +

The "Washington Post"-"Newsweek" situation is a little more +mystifying. It is difficult to believe that Katherine Graham, +owner of both publications, is a Secret Team member. The +"Newsweek" story on the JFK assassination, published in the issue +of April 28, 1975[23] was not as blatantly pro-Warren Commission as +the "Time" article. Yet it left the impression with the readers of +"Newsweek" that editorial position regarded the researchers as +kooks who misled or talked Senator Schweiker and Representatives +Gonzalez and Downing into the wrong attitudes. "Oswald did fire +the shots" is the "Newsweek" message. Individuals at "Newsweek" +like Evert Clark did not really believe this. So where did the +pressure come from? Mrs. Graham herself, or Benjamin Bradlee at +the "Post," or someone else near the top of "Newsweek?" With +reporters like Bernstein and Woodward, and Haynes Johnson who later +moved into management, it is strange that the "Post" supported the +Warren Commission. Yet that has been the "Post"'s editorial stance +since 1964. It remains adamant in its continuing contention that +lone madmen assassinated our three leaders and attempted to +assassinate Wallace.

+ +

Eliminate Areas of Doubt

+ +

Researcher Jim Blickenstaff, disturbed by a "Newsweek" article +in April of 1975, wrote to the editors. Madeline Edmundson replied +for them. "It was certainly not our aim to discredit those who +doubt the conclusions of the Warren Commission or to express +opposition to a reopening of the investigation of John F. Kennedy's +assassination." +Yet, "Newsweek" did exactly that and, in effect, took the same +editorial position it had taken in May, 1967, when CIA lackey Hugh +Aynesworth was doing their dirty work. (Aynesworth later did the +CIA's dirty work and supported the Warren Commission for the +"Dallas Times Herald.") The new position in favor of reopening the +investigation was the one taken by Belin. It was expressed best by +Harrison Salisbury, the man at the "New York Times" who knew +better. Salisbury was quoted in "Newsweek" saying, "A new +investigation is needed to answer questions of major importance. +We will go over all the areas of doubt and hope to eliminate them."

+ +

UPI: Accessory After the Fact in the JFK Conspiracy Cover-Up

+ +

AP and UPI have not repeated their 1967-1968 performances +recently in which they sent out the longest stories ever broadcast +over their news service wires. They were so long that they were +divided into installments. The stories backed up the Warren +Commission and attacked the researchers, especially Jim Garrison. +UPI, of course, became an accessory after the fact in the JFK +conspiracy cover-up by suppressing the original 8mm color films by +Marie Muchmore and Orville Nix. It went even further by employing +Itek Corporation to prove there was no one on the grassy knoll. +In July of 1975 a UPI alumnus, Maurice Schonfeld, published an +article in "Columbia Journalism Review"[24] that subtly contended +one of the riflemen on the knoll as seen in the original Nix film +was either an illusion or a man without a rifle.

+ +

"Expert" Opinions

+ +

Itek: Itek is still at work helping out their friendly +employers, the U.S. government and the CIA. Itek analyzed the +Zapruder film and the Hughes film on the CBS program aired in +November of 1975, giving its "expert" opinion that all shots fired +in Dealey Plaza came from the sixth floor window of the TSBD +Building. +Maurice Schonfeld, perhaps unwittingly, did a favor for +researchers in his "Columbia Journalism Review" article that +revealed that two officials of Itek, Howard Sprague and Franklin T. +Lindsay, were CIA Secret Team members. So when Ford, Belin and +Salant or whoever at CBS needed help, all they had to do was call +upon good old Itek and Howard Sprague. (Frank Lindsay has since +departed.)

+ +

AP: Faithful to the White House and CIA

+ +

Associated Press has been editorially silent since 1969. They +have faithfully broadcast all of the White House-CIA cover or +planted stories without comment.

+ +

Keeping the Lid On

+ +

"Los Angeles Times:" "The Los Angeles Times," controlled by +Norman Chandler who was strongly influenced by the Ford +administration, the CIA and Evelle Younger (the Attorney General of +California), produced a complete cover-up effort in the Robert +Kennedy assassination conspiracy. Younger, of course, was D.A. in +Los Angeles County when RFK was killed. He and Ed Davis, L.A. +Police Chief, teamed up with Joseph Busch, assistant D.A., to cover +up the conspiracy evidence. The "Times" for a short, unguarded +period allowed reporter Dave Smith to publish the truth about the +assassination. This stopped in 1974, after Al Lowenstein stirred +Vincent Bugliosi, Baxter Ward, Thomas Bradley, and finally Governor +Pat Brown, Jr. to take a new interest in the case. +Younger influenced Chandler to shut off the flow of information +through the "Los Angeles Times." Chandler, who contributed to the +Nixon campaign, undoubtedly was strong-armed by both Nixon and Ford +(or the CIA) to support the position of the Los Angeles police and +the D.A.'s office. Ronald Reagan and his immediate deputy at the +time also helped sway Chandler and others in California to keep the +lid on.

+ +

Zapruder Film Broadcast on Two Occasions

+ +

The American Broadcasting Corporation was the first of the +television networks to seemingly break away from CIA-White House +control. In the spring of 1975, after Robert Groden, Dick Gregory, +Ralph Schoenman and Jerry Policoff decided to release and publicize +a clear, enlarged, stop-action color copy of the Zapruder film, the +ABC show hosted by Geraldo Rivera, "Good Night, America," showed +the film on two occasions. Rivera might have made this move +against the wishes of top ABC management. Rumor had it during the +summer months that he was in hot water with high level people. All +doubts about ABC's position disappeared when they broadcast an +assassination special during the week of November 17, 1975 that +supported the lone assassin theory.

+ +

"Conspiracy Fever"

+ +

"Commentary:" One surprising newcomer to the cover-up +conspiracy group is "Commentary." The liberal, open-minded, non-government magazine "Commentary" broke their pattern in the October +1975 issue[25] when it published an article by Dr. Jacob Cohen from +Brandeis University which attacked the researchers as paranoid +conspiratorialists. Cohen has been writing these defenses for the +Warren Commission for over ten years. This article was republished +in several other places in November, 1975, as part of the +orchestrated campaign by the CIA-White House.

+ +

A Straight News Story

+ +

"U.S. News and World Report:" "U.S. News" may be one of the few +media publications to change positions. On September 15, 1975 they +ran a story entitled, "Behind the Move to Reopen the JFK Case". It +was a straight news story about Senator Schweiker's efforts and +list of uncovered evidence raising new questions. The article +closed with: "Numerous Americans who long have doubted the Warren +Commission conclusions will be watching what the Senate does with +his (Schweiker's) idea." That is as close as any of the fifteen +organizations came to saying they believe the Warren Commission was +wrong.

+ +

A Breath of Fresh Air

+ +

"Saturday Evening Post:" Like a breath of fresh air from the +heartland of America in Indianapolis, Indiana, the revived +"Saturday Evening Post" (Bobbs Merrill subsidiary) took an +editorial stance. The "Post" not only published several strong +articles on the assassinations but also called for reopening all of +the cases, supported the Gonzalez-Downing resolutions, and offered +a sizable reward for information leading to conviction of the +murderers of John F. Kennedy.[26] Thus the "Post" joined the ranks +of the "National Enquirer," "National Tattler," "National Insider," +"Argosy," "Penthouse," "Gallery," "Genesis" and other publications +of this type, plus nearly all the "underground newspapers" in +calling for new investigations.

+ +

CIA Operatives Are Serving as Journalists +For News Organizations Abroad

+ +

"Variety:" On November 12, 1975, "Variety" published an article +on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees' suspicions about +relationships between the CIA and broadcasting organizations.[27] +"Variety" said the committees were probing the CIA's influence on +the media organizations, particularly management connections, and +commented, "A central issue in the investigations is reports of +financial dealings with the CIA and media firms with extensive +overseas staffs." +William Colby admitted that CIA operatives were currently +serving as journalists for news organizations abroad, and that +"detailmen" were assigned abroad to news organizations, often +without the knowledge of management. Ronald Dellums, California +representative asked Colby in an open session of a House hearing if +the CIA had ever asked a network to kill a news story. Colby would +not answer specifics in open session, so the panel went immediately +behind closed doors to grill him for several hours.

+ +

Conclusions

+ +

It is to be hoped that all committees in the House and Senate +will investigate the Secret Team members in the 15 media +organizations and their influence and control over editorial +policies on domestic assassination conspiracies. It is also to be +hoped that the committees will investigate the role of then-president Gerald Ford and his working relationship to various CIA +people in the original cover-up of the John F. Kennedy +assassination conspiracy. Certainly, David Belin's relationship to +the CIA and to Ford in the media cover-up campaign needs be +investigated. +Fletcher Prouty claimed in his November, 1975 article in +"Gallery Magazine," "The Fourth Force,"[28] that Belin is a CIA +operative. Prouty says, "The Rockefeller Commission did not look +into this (the Fourth Force-CIA) because it had been penetrated on +behalf of the CIA by David Belin, its chief counsel and former +counsel of the Warren Commission. In fact, Belin still reports to +the CIA." If this is indeed true, it explains every move Belin has +made since 1964 and it also explains the mysterious way he appeared +and reappeared on the front pages and editorial pages of various +major newspapers, on choice television shows, and on the +Rockefeller Commission. +If the Congress leaves the media-government-CIA link untouched- +-more serious than any of the other problems raised by the +assassination conspiracies and their cover-ups--the United States +might, in fact, be headed for the real 1984.

+ +

Postscript

+ +

On April 27, 1976 "The New York Times" published a story on the +Senate Intelligence Committee revelation that the CIA would be +keeping twenty-five journalist agents within the news media.[29] +The Committee disclosed that George Bush planned to keep these +people in the media positions that they had occupied for a long +time. +The significant point about the story was a statement by a +Committee staff member that many of the individuals were in +executive positions at American news organizations. Bush had +directed that the CIA stop hiring correspondents "accredited" by +American publications and other news organizations. The "Times" +recognized that the pivotal word in Bush's directive was +"accredited." "Executives who do not work as correspondents are +apparently not covered by Mr. Bush's directive, nor are freelance +writers who are not affiliated with a specific employer." The +article also said that in most cases the media organization was not +aware of the individual's CIA connection. +This was yet the best confirmation that the CIA had its Secret +Team members planted at the top of the media. Only one executive +is required at the top of a media organization to control it when +needed. Since the CIA had twenty-five executives planted, that +figure is more than enough to control the fifteen media +organizations mentioned in this chapter. +Who are they? The answer can be supplied by watching where the +decisions come from to halt or change the news about domestic +political assassinations. +The indications from the analysis in this chapter are that the +following media executives are among the twenty-five retained by +the CIA: Harding Bancroft, Jr. ("New York Times"); Richard Salant +(CBS); George Love (Time, Inc./"Life"); Walter Sheridan (NBC); +Lewis Powell, lawyer (ABC); and Benjamin Bradlee ("Washington +Post").

+ +

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+ +

[1] "Accessories After the Fact" is the title of a book by Sylvia +Meagher, published by Bobbs Merrill in 1967, accusing the Warren +Commission and the various government agencies of covering up the +crime of the century. This book accuses the national news media +of the same crimes.

+ +

[2] Black Star is a New York based organization made up of free-lance photographers, called stringers, in every major city. They +do contract work for news media with Black Star acting as +contracting agent.

+ +

[3] Samuel Thurston, "The Central Intelligence Agency and 'The New +York Times,'" "Computers and Automation," July, 1971.

+ +

[4] CBS-TV Special on the Assassination of John Kennedy -- June 25, +26, 27 and 28, 1972.

+ +

[5] "Computers and Automation," July, 1971

+ +

[6] For a more detailed analysis of the "Times"' culpability and +selective bias in reporting the facts of the assassination, see +Jerry Policoff's October 1972 article in "The Realist:" "How All +the News About Political Assassinations In the United States Has +Not Been Fit to Print in 'The New York Times.'"

+ +

[7] A detailed review of NBC's performance and Walter Sheridan's and +Richard Townley's involvement is given in "The Kennedy Conspiracy" +by Paris Flammonde.

+ +

[8] Those interested in more detail are referred to the map in the +May 1970 issue of "Computers and Automation" on the JFK +assassination. The UPI definition of "the grassy knoll" was the +area bounded by the picket fence, the stone wall, the top of the +steps on the south, and the cupola.

+ +

[9] For a comparison of New Orleans newspapers and all other media +coverage of the Shaw trial, see the author's unpublished book +"The Trial of Clay Shaw -- The Truth and the Fiction."

+ +

[10] Prouty, L. Fletcher, "The Secret Team," Prentice Hall, 1973.

+ +

[11] Policoff, Jerry, "The Media and the Murder of John Kennedy", "New +Times," October, 1975.

+ +

[12] "Who Killed JFK? Just One Assassin," "Time" magazine, November +24, 1975.

+ +

[13] "Up Front -- Did One Man With One Gun Kill John F, Kennedy? +Eight Skeptics Who Say No," "People," November 3, 1975.

+ +

[14] Author's discussion with Jerry Policoff, November 29, 1975.

+ +

[15] "Warren Panel Aide Calls for 2nd Inquiry Into Kennedy Killing", +"New York Times," November 23, 1975, p. 1.

+ +

[16] Transcript of Gerald Ford Press Conference "New York Times," +November 27, 1975.

+ +

[17] For a summary of the evidence and scenario about what it shows +the reader is referred to two articles in "People and the +Pursuit of Truth:" "The Assassination of President John F. +Kennedy the Involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency in the +Plans and the Cover-Up," May 1975, and "Who Killed JFK?," +October, 1975. Both by the author.

+ +

[18] Phelan, James R., "The Assassination," "New York Times Magazine +Section," November 23, 1975.

+ +

[19] Thurston, Samuel F. (psuedonym for Richard E. Sprague), "The +Central Intelligence Agency and 'The New York Times'" "Computers +and Automation," July, 1971.

+ +

[20] Bancroft retired in early 1976. A successor has undoubtedly been +groomed by the CIA. However, Bancroft still has a strong +influence at the "Times" on the subject of assassinations.

+ +

[21] Based on a discussion among the author, Dan Rather, and Robert +Richter at CBS in Washington, D.C., approximately ten days before +the first Cronkite-CBS section of the 1967 four-part series on +the JFK assassination.

+ +

[22] O'Conner, John J., "TV: CBS News is Presenting Two Hour-Long +Programs on the Assassination of President Kennedy", "New York +Times," November 24, 1975.

+ +

[23] "Dallas: New Questions and Answers," "Newsweek," April 28, 1975.

+ +

[24] Schonfeld, Maurice W., "The Shadow of a Gunman," "Columbia +Journalism Review," July-August, 1975.

+ +

[25] Cohen, John, "Conspiracy Fever," "Commentary," October, 1975.

+ +

[26] "Saturday Evening Post," September, October, November and +December, 1975 issues.

+ +

[27] "D.C. Digs Deep Into TV News Ties With CIA," "Variety," November +12, 1975.

+ +

[28] Prouty, L. Fletcher, "The Fourth Force," "Gallery," November, +1975.

+ +

[29] "CIA Will Keep More Than 25 Journalist-Agents," "New York Times," +April 27, 1976, p. 26.

+ +
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+ +

-- +daveus rattus

+ +

yer friendly neighborhood ratman

+ +

KOYAANISQATSI

+ +

ko.yaa.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. +5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.

+ +

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Subject: "The Taking of America, 1-2-3" (6/11) +Summary: we were robbed of our capability of electing a president we wanted +Keywords: part 6 of 11: chapter 10 thru chapter 12 +Lines: 1057

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Chapter 10 +Techniques and Weapons and 100 Dead Conspirators and Witnesses

+ +

As Chapter 1 made clear, one of the two fiendish stratagems used +by the Power Control Group to cover-up the truth and to fool the +people was the use of various intelligence techniques and weapons. +The use of such techniques in assassination and murder completely +conceals the real killer's presence or the real cause of death. +From the moment the crime occurs the public is led to believe that +there is either one lone madman assassin or that the death was +accidental, due to natural causes, or committed by natural enemies +of the victim. Some of the techniques are so unique that they are +nearly impossible for the average American to believe. +The intelligence forces of the United States as well as those of +other countries have out-Bonded James Bond. The development of +sophisticated murder methods and the control of humans for warfare +and spying in other countries came home to the United States, +effectively used by the Power Control Group. Penn Jones, Jr. +published a list of "mysterious deaths" in his series of four +volumes, "Forgive My Grief."[1] Sylvia Meagher published facts +about the first eighteen witnesses at Dealey Plaza murdered through +the use of these techniques in the book, "Accessories After the +Fact."[2] Very few people other than researchers pay any +attention. Two movies with somewhat wider circulation, "Executive +Action" and "The Parallax View," covered the techniques fairly +well, but they were considered to be fiction by most viewers. So +the PCG goes on murdering where and when it is necessary, and it +covers up the murders where necessary. +In 1974 and 1976, two murders became necessary. Rolando +Masferrer, mentioned as a JFK conspirator, became dangerous to the +PCG, and he was eliminated in early 1976 with a non-sophisticated +weapon. A bomb was planted in his car in Miami. The cover-up in +this case merely involved planting an informer who claimed +Masferrer was killed by a rival anti-Castro Cuban faction in +Florida.[3] +Clay Shaw became quite nervous in 1974 after Victor Marchetti's +statements to the press earlier that year made it known that Shaw +was a CIA contract employee and that the CIA gave him assistance +and protection before his trial in New Orleans and after Jim +Garrison arrested him. Shaw was murdered in New Orleans by the PCG +and the murder covered-up by simply controlling his embalming and +burial and blocking any local investigation.[4] The reason for his +murder was to keep him from talking and from returning to the +public eye. +The techniques and weapons fall into several classes. First, +there are sophisticated weapons developed by the CIA. An example +of this is the umbrella poison dart gun used in Dealey Plaza to +shoot JFK in the throat. Such a weapon was postulated by Robert +Cutler and the author in mid-1975 as the one that fired the first +shot from near the Stemmons Freeway sign.[5] This seemed +incredulous to most observers and so wild an idea that the author +and Cutler did not discuss it with many researchers. Then Mr. +Charles Senseney, a CIA weapon developer at Fort Detrick, Maryland, +testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee in September +1975 and described an umbrella poison dart gun he had made.[6] He +said it was always used in crowds with the umbrella open, firing +through the webing so it would not attract attention. Since it was +silent, no one in the crowd could hear it and the assassin merely +would fold up the umbrella and saunter away with the crowd. (That +is almost exactly what happened in Dealey Plaza. The first shot +had always seemed to have had a paralytic effect on Kennedy. His +fists were clenched and his head, shoulders and arms seemed to +stiffen. There was a small entrance wound in his neck but no +evidence of a bullet path through his neck and no bullet was ever +recovered that matched that small size.) +Senseney testified that his Special Operations Division at Fort +Detrick had received assignments from the CIA to develop exotic +weaponry. One of the weapons was a hand-held dart gun that could +shoot a poison dart into a guard dog to put it out of action for +several hours. The dart and the poison left no trace so that +examination would not reveal that the dogs had been put out of +action. The CIA ordered about 50 of these weapons and used them +operationally. Senseney said that the darts could have been used +to kill human beings and he could not rule out the possibility that +this had been done by the CIA. He said he had developed a dart-launching device that looked like an umbrella. +A special type of poison developed induces a heart attack and +leaves no trace of any external influence unless an autopsy is +conducted to check for this particular poison. The CIA revealed +this poison in various accounts in the early 1970s. +Among the witnesses, important people and conspirators who might +have been eliminated this way are: Clay Shaw, J. Edgar Hoover, +Earlene Roberts (Oswald's land-lady) and Adlai Stevenson. +A second category, already discussed in the Robert Kennedy and +George Wallace shootings, is the use of a "programmed" assassin. +The Manchurian Candidate always seemed to be a science fiction +story. It is now well known that the CIA has used hypnosis and +"programming" to achieve a number of objectives, including murder. +Certainly there is little doubt that Sirhan Sirhan was under +hypnosis when he wrote in his diary and when he fired the shots in +the general direction of Robert Kennedy.[7] There is also +evidence that Arthur Bremer was "programmed" to shoot at George +Wallace. It is conceivable that one of the assassins in Dealey +Plaza could have been "programmed". A man surfaced after 1975 +who--under deprogramming--remembered a firing situation resembling +Dealey Plaza. However, it is much less likely that the PCG had to +use hypnosis in the JFK murder. +It is completely untrue that Oswald was programmed, as the book +"Were We Controlled?" by Lincoln Lawrence (an alias for radio +commentator Art Ford) postulates. The evidence shows Oswald +didn't fire a shot, that he was on the second floor of the TSBD +Building at the time of the shots, and that he was very calm until +Patrolman Baker pointed a gun at him. Strangely enough, Ford's +thesis is true. We were controlled by the PCG, although he had the +details wrong. +A third popular technique is, of course, the patsy. The PCG has +developed this to the level of a real science. The assassination +is allowed to be obvious, but the assassin is presented as a single +madman or criminal who acts alone. Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, +James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan and Arthur Bremer have all been +patsies. They are not all exactly alike, nor is the way in which +they were used the same in each case. For example, Oswald and Ray +did not fire any shots, while Sirhan, Ruby and Bremer did. Sirhan +and Bremer were "programmed", whereas Ruby was talked into killing +Oswald by his friends in the PCG. Four of the five men were +framed; a lot of evidence was manufactured and planted to +implicate them, including fake diaries, fake photographs, planted +guns, bullets and shells, and men using their identities. The one +who did not fit this category was Ruby. It was not needed in his +case because he killed Oswald before live television and believed +until the day he died of cancer that his friends were going to get +him out of jail in exchange for his "patriotic" act. +The use of "seconds", men who looked like the patsy and who used +his name (true of Oswald, Ray and Sirhan) is a common intelligence +technique. The planting of fake photos in the case of Oswald +required some relatively special photographic facilities, but the +job was not done well enough to avoid detection. +A fourth technique is the "accidental" death. Many witnesses +and conspirators have been murdered in this way. Lee Bowers, the +railroad yard control tower man who saw the real assassins behind +the picket fence in Dealey Plaza, was killed when his car rammed +into a concrete abutment in Dallas (it was traveling at high +speed). The doctor who examined Bowers prior to his removal from +the car, stated that he probably received an injection of some +kind prior to the crash. Louis Lomax, the black author who was +getting close to the truth in the Martin Luther King case, was +killed in Arizona when his car was forced off the road after he +was made to drive at high speed. Hale Boggs disappeared in an +airplane crash that left no trace of the plane. And of course the +classic "accident" occurred at Chappaquiddick. +A fifth technique is an induced death that produces another +finding of the cause either by disguising the true cause or by +controlling the coroner or those in charge of burial. Examples +are: David Ferrie's murder by means of a karate chop to the back +of his head, disguised as an embolism of the brain, Clay Shaw's +murder by means unknown because there was no autopsy and complete +control of his removal and burial; Jack Ruby's supposed death by +cancer in jail (real cause unknown because he was never out of the +PCG's hands until he was under ground). +Then there is a favorite sixth technique: mock suicide. +Examples of PCG murders that somehow became suicides are: Hank +Killam, a husband of one of Ruby's dancers, who committed suicide +by throwing himself through a plate glass window off the street in +Miami; Betty Mooney, one of Ruby's girls who hung herself in her +jail cell by using her leopard-skin tights; Roger Craig, who shot +himself; Jesus Crispin, who knew Sirhan, supposedly killed himself +in his jail cell; Grant Stockdale, who threw himself off the top +of a tall building in Miami. +There are some on the list who were admittedly murdered, but +supposedly not by the PCG. These include Robert Perrin, Nancy +Perrin's husband; Buddy Walters, deputy sheriff under Sheriff +Decker, shot by a man he was trying to arrest; Eladio Del Valle, a +cohort of Ferrie, killed in Miami by an axe on the same day Ferrie +was murdered; Rolando Masferrer, blown up in his car; Eddy +Benevides, shot by an unknown assailant (he recovered). The +cover-ups in each of these cases were put into effect by +controlling the investigation or simply by not having one. +The complete list of deaths, including the eight major ones +(JFK, RFK, MLK, Mary Jo Kopechne, Lee Harvey Oswald, David Ferrie, +Ruby and Clay Shaw) numbers over a hundred. Here is a partial +list:

+ +

1. John Kennedy +2. Robert Kennedy +3. Martin Luther King +4. Mary Jo Kopechne +5. Lee Harvey Oswald +6. David Ferrie +7. Jack Ruby +8. Clay Shaw +9. Buddy Walthers +10. Roger Craig +11. Eladio Del Valle +12. Rolando Masferrer +13. Hank Killam +14. Rose Cherami +15. Hale Boggs +16. J. Edgar Hoover +17. Louis Lomax +18. Lee Bowers, Jr. +19. Jesus Crispin +20. Jim Koethe +21. Bill Hunter +22. Tom Howard +23. Earlene Roberts +24. Betty McDonald +25. Eddy Benevides +26. Robert Perrin +27. Gary Underhill +28. Bill Chesher +29. Dorothy Kilgallen +30. David Goldstein +31. Levens (first name unknown) +32. Teresa Norton +33. Warren Reynolds +34. Harold Russell +35. Marilyn Moore Walle +36. William Whaley +37. James Worrell, Jr. +38. Captain Frank Martin +39. Mrs. Earl T. Smith +40. Karyn Kupcinet +41. Albert Guy Bogard +42. Hiram Ingram +43. Nicholas Chetta +44. Mary Bledsoe +45. Jude Preston Battle +46. John M. Crawford +47. Richard Carr +48. Kathy Fullmer +49. Clyde Johnson +50. Reverend A. D. W. King +51. Carole Tyler +52. Dr. Mary Sherman +53. Grant Stockdale +54. J. A. Milteer +55. Hugh Ward +56. Perry Russo +57. Maurice Gatlin, Sr. +58. W. Guy Banister +59. Charles P. Cabell +60. Dorothy Hunt +61. Michelle Clark +62. John Roselli +63. Sam Giancana +64. Fred Lee Crisman +65. Carlos Prio Socarras +66. Charles Nicoletti +67. Jimmy Hoffa +68. George De Mohrenschildt +69. General Donald Donaldson +70. Lou Staples +71. William C. Sullivan +72. James Chaney

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The large majority of these murders eliminated witnesses to, +participants in, or investigators of one of the assassinations. +People involved with the participants in one of the assassinations +or cover-ups were also listed above. The participants were: Jack +Ruby, David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, Rolando Masferrer, J. Edgar Hoover +(in the cover-up), and Robert Perrin. There were four +investigators: Jim Koethe, Louis Lomax, Dorothy Kilgallen and Hale +Boggs. The rest were witnesses or associates. +Two articles[8] written in 1976 analyzed some of these deaths +and concluded that they were not accidents unconnected with the +assassinations of our leaders. Another analysis by the authors +demonstrated that fifty of the first seventy murders met three +criteria for proving death by foul means. All involved people +directly or indirectly linked to the major assassinations. All met +death under violent or very strange circumstances. No autopsies +were performed in any of these murders. +The Charles Senseney dart weapon might have been used in some of +the murders. The injection given Lee Bowers produced such a +paralytic and terrorized expression on Bowers' face that the doctor +examining his body exclaimed he had never seen such before. Grant +Stockdale was found to have died of a heart attack on his way to +the street from the top of a building (a dart might have killed +him).

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[1] "Forgive My Grief" Volumes I, II, III, IV, Penn Jones, Jr., Self +Published, Midlothian, Texas.

+ +

[2] "Accessories After the Fact," Sylvia Meagher, Scarecrow Press, +N.Y., 1976

+ +

[3] "Miami Herald," March, 1976.

+ +

[4] "The Mysterious Death of Clay Shaw," Richard Russell, "True +Magazine."

+ +

[5] "The Umbrella Man," R.B. Cutler, & R.E. Sprague, "Gallery +Magazine," June, 1978.

+ +

[6] "New York Times," September 19, 1975.

+ +

[7] "RFK Must Die!," Robert Kaiser, E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., N.Y.C., +1970.

+ +

[8] (a) Self published article by Gary Schoener -- Minneapolis, +Minn. Researcher.

+ +

(b) Assassination Information Bureau (AIB), Cambridge, Mass, +Research project and article.

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+ +

Chapter 11 +Nixon and Ford -- The Pardon and the Tapes

+ +

As the Power Control Group grew larger and the number of murders +increased through the years, it became more and more difficult to +keep the veil of secrecy surrounding the takeover intact. As +Nixon's instability increased, the danger of revealing the secret +superstructure to the American people increased. +Watergate and Nixon's resignation from office nearly ruined +everything for the Power Control Group. A splinter faction in the +CIA began showing strength and all of the dirt might have been +leaked to the press and to the people. Nixon himself had pulled +the most dangerous boner in the history of the PCG. He installed a +secret tape recording system that recorded a number of +conversations about the PCG's murders, assassinations and dirty +tricks. Even worse, Nixon did not destroy the tapes before the +Congress found out about them and went after them. As soon as it +became obvious that Nixon would be forced to resign, the PCG had to +use a desperation strategy. +Gerald R. Ford pardoned Richard M. Nixon on September 8, 1974: +such was the PCG's strategy. Many skeptical U.S. citizens nodded +their heads knowingly and assumed Nixon had made his "deal" with +Ford when he nominated him for the vice presidency. Evans and +Novak[1] assumed that Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked Ford into the +pardon on grounds that Nixon's health was poor. The Ford's fears +for Nixon's health didn't seem to convince very many news media +people who saw a rosy-cheeked, apparently robust ex-president in +San Clemente.[2] +The pardon seemed to most Americans and news editors a gross +error in judgment and a miscarriage of justice. But once again the +United States was fooled. This time, the PCG, Nixon and Ford +managed to pull the wool over the eyes of the public and to +narrowly escape revealing what can be called "the entire rotten +crust at the top of American power." Any reasonable hypothesis +about what actually happened, based on the evidence at hand, had +not been even remotely suggested by either Congress or the media by +1976. +Any explanation of the situation leading to the pardon begins +with the relationship between Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon. It +goes back to 1960, the year Mr. Nixon planned the overthrow of +Castro's Cuba. As earlier chapters have made clear, the U2 +incident and the Bay of Pigs was the beginning. +In 1960, Nixon and the White House action officer worked on the +plans for what was later called the Bay of Pigs invasion.[3] Prior +to that time the PCG and Nixon had accumulated plenty of reasons to +want Castro overthrown. The anti-Communist attitude was the +superficial reason. Beneath it were Nixon's connections with the +Mafia and his friendships and financial holdings that were greatly +damaged when Castro closed the casinos run by the mob in Havana.[4] +When Nixon and Kennedy debated about the Cuban situation in the +1960 campaign, Nixon purposefully lied to the American people about +U.S. plans for an invasion.[5] When he narrowly lost to Kennedy, +it created a deep wound, and he and the PCG spent much of the next +three years planning revenge. +Nixon became a tool of a number of Cubans and Americans, both +inside the CIA and outside, who agreed with him that casting out +Castro was highly desirable. One of these men was E. Howard +Hunt.[6] Another was Bernard Barker.[7] A third was Carlos Prio +Socarras.[8] Richard Bissell, Richard Helms and Allen Dulles were +the three higher level men in the PCG. +These Nixon cronies and financial partners became involved with +the PCG. They murdered John Kennedy.[9] Whether Nixon was +directly involved in the PCG's planning for the assassination is +still open to question, although one researcher believes that he +was.[10] There certainly is substantial evidence that Nixon was +out to at least politically sink Kennedy and Johnson, and aimed to +do so in Dallas immediately before Kennedy was killed. (See section +on evidence).[11] +Whether Nixon was directly involved in planning the +assassination of President John F. Kennedy does not have to be +settled here. What is important is that Nixon was directly +involved in covering up the truth about who did kill Kennedy. +Evidence from the Nixon-Haldeman tapes of June 1972 indicated that +Nixon knew the truth about the assassination when he suggested +Gerald Ford be part of the Warren Commission.[12] +A close personal friendship had developed between Ford and Nixon +during their days together in the Congress, when both were strong, +ultra-conservative, "red, white and blue", anti-Communist, +"religious" members who thought and talked alike. +When Nixon realized that John Kennedy had been killed almost +under his nose in Dallas by some of his Bay of Pigs friends, the +PCG convinced him he had to do everything in his power to cover it +up and to bide his time until his powerful military and +intelligence friends could place him in the White House. It took +one more murder by the PCG (Robert Kennedy) to get him there, and +still another attempted murder to keep him there (George Wallace). +Control over the investigations of these murders was essential +for Nixon and the PCG. In order to guide a presidential commission +away from the truth, the closed small circle of people in the PCG +who knew what had happened to John Kennedy had to be enlarged. +Allen Dulles was no problem. He knew the cause was an +intelligence/military one from the day it happened. Earl Warren +was a different matter. He had to be fooled and later talked into +remaining silent "for the good of the country." +A ringleader inside the Warren Commission was crucial. It had +to be someone the PCG and Nixon could trust, one who had an honest +and trustworthy appearance. Nixon called on Gerry Ford, and he +convinced LBJ that Ford should be on the Commission.[13] +Nixon told Ford at some point prior to January, 1964 who killed +JFK and why. He convinced Ford that every effort should be made to +make sure Oswald was found to be the lone assassin. Ford did an +excellent job. He not only steered the Commission away from the +facts[14] whenever a key witness was interviewed or an embarrassing +situation developed, but he also nailed Oswald's coffin shut +personally by publishing his own book on Oswald.[15] This, coming +from the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, served to +firmly plant in the American mind the idea that there was no +conspiracy, that Oswald was the lone assassin, and that the Warren +Commission had done a good job. +From the day Ford's book was published, Nixon and Ford became +totally beholden to each other. They also both became totally +beholden to the members of the PCG who were at or near the top of +things and who were part of the small knowledgeable circle. Other +members of the PCG's inner circle included J. Edgar Hoover and +Richard Helms. +No one could be permitted by the PCG to come into power in the +White House, the CIA, the Justice Department or the FBI unless they +were part of the PCG and willing to keep quiet and help suppress +the truth about the JFK assassination. The PCG's membership +widened, of necessity, when Robert Kennedy was killed and Nixon +became president. The people involved in killing Robert Kennedy +and Nixon's top aides had to be told the truth. This included +Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Kissinger, Mitchell (who had the job of +controlling Hoover's successors in continuing the cover-ups) and +possibly others. Mitchell was instrumental in stopping Jim +Garrison's investigation of Clay Shaw and other PCG members and in +totally discrediting Garrison.[16] He was aided by Richard Helms +and others in the PCG through CIA support in the Clay Shaw trial +cover-up efforts.[17] +The White House plumber section of the PCG decided in 1972, with +or without Nixon's knowledge and approval, to assassinate George +Wallace, so that Nixon would be assured of the conservative vote. +The PCG and its debts once again grew. E. Howard Hunt and Charles +Colson, along with Tony Ulasewicz, Donald Segretti and others, were +in a position to make demands in exchange for their silence. The +Hunt million-dollar blackmail threat to reveal "seedy things" or +"hankypanky" was never explainable in terms of Watergate or the +Ellsberg break-ins. But three assassinations would certainly be +worth a cool million to keep Hunt silent. Again, the Haldeman-Nixon June 23, 1972 tapes are revealing.[18] +When the Watergate crisis occurred, Nixon was trapped by his own +tapes, and the PCG was in grave danger. Discussions with Haldeman, +Mitchell and others mention the Kennedy assassination conspiracy +and the Wallace murder attempt on tape. The PCG was suddenly +threatened as a group. The tapes couldn't all be destroyed because +too many Secret Service people knew about them. Haldeman and Nixon +managed to erase one revealing 18 1/2 minute section about the +assassinations, but who could remember exactly what telephone calls +or Oval Office conversations might have mentioned the truth about +the three murders? +The PCG and Nixon again sensed the need for a successor who +would keep quiet. They called on Gerry Ford when Agnew was forced +out. Ford and Nixon, bound inextricably together by their mutual +cover-up of the assassinations, worked out a deal. Nixon nominated +Ford to be his Vice President. The Senate, completely bamboozled +by Nixon and Ford, never asked Ford any important questions about +the assassinations nor his performance on the Warren Commission. +When they asked Ford about his book, he committed perjury twice +before the Senate (see item # 15 in the list ennumerated below). +Nixon and Ford agreed that Ford would keep quiet if Nixon +remained silent and that Ford would succeed Nixon if he were forced +to resign or be impeached. They agreed to a pardon afterward. But +the most critical part of the arrangement was that those tapes +revealing the truth about the assassinations be kept out of +circulation. When the Supreme Court ruled that the tapes must be +turned over, it was then time to implement their agreed-upon +strategy. +In addition, Jaworski, Colson, Mitchell, Kissinger, Haldeman, +Ehrlichman, the Warren Commission, Hunt, Helms, Shaw and anyone +else in the PCG had to be bought off, pardoned, protected or killed +to insure their silences. +Leon Jaworski resigned. People asked why. The real answer was +buried in the fact that Jaworski knew what had been going on. He +knew because of information passed on to him by the Ervin Committee +and Cox regarding the assassination and the cover-up. He was also +personally involved in 1964 in the JFK cover-up. +Jaworski could have been a problem, even though he helped with +the JFK cover-up from the beginning.[19] Hunt was taken care of by +getting him out of jail, buying him a large estate in Florida and +paying him a lot of money.[20] Helms could be counted on. +Kissinger may have been a problem, but he finally agreed. His +wiretaps were ordered to find out who knew about the +assassinations. Hoover was dead. Clay Shaw was murdered.[21] +Warren was dead. Richard Russell was dead. John Sherman Cooper +was bought off (he received an important ambassadorship). John J. +McCloy was too old to worry about. +That left Colson, Mitchell, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman, plus some +other small fry. The PCG strategy as planned with these men +involved pardons for all of them in exchange for their silence, +especially Haldeman and Mitchell, who not only knew what happened +to JFK, but who also took overt actions to cover-up. (Haldeman +erased the 18 1/2 minutes of tape and Mitchell nailed Jim +Garrison.) +Newer members of the PCG may cause some problems. They all have +to know the truth by now. Rockefeller and Alex Haig must know. +George Bush, William Colby, Edward Levi and Clarence Kelly knew +because of their access to the records, and they must have agreed +to cover-up continuance. Ford and his cronies in the House had to +continue to knock out any efforts by Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas to +start a new House Committee investigation of the JFK assassination. +They were very successful in their control of the House Rules +Committee. Haig seemed to have been bought off with the promise of +a top NATO post in exchange for his silence. And control over +Frank Church and the Senate Intelligence Committee was necessary. +Gerald Ford remained committed to the PCG and to Nixon. +The tapes had to be controlled and edited at all costs. Nixon +no doubt required help in listening to the tapes after Haldeman +left and in sorting out those in which assassinations and cover-ups +were discussed. General Haig was undoubtedly the man he selected +to do the dirty work. It was almost certain that no tapes would be +turned over to Judge Sirica or to Jaworski with any assassination +references left on them. One of the tapes demanded by Jaworski had +such references. This is the recording made on June 23, 1972 in +which Nixon and Haldeman are discussing Watergate just six days +after the break-in. +The Nixon transcript of that tape turned over to Judge Sirica +upon orders of the Supreme Court showed many sections labelled +"unintelligible." It is a near certainty that the critical +sections were edited out by Nixon and General Haig before they were +turned over to Sirica and prior to their transcription. Judge +Sirica was the only person in the chain of possession of that tape +who could have been counted on to make a scientific analysis of the +tape to see whether it was tampered with before he received it. +His near brush with death in 1975 must be viewed in that light and +in the light of the PCG's use of weapon-induced heart attacks. +The rest of Nixon's tapes that were still in Gerald Ford's +possession and control might have contained many references to +assassinations and cover-ups. Rather than go through all of them +and edit or erase the critical material, it was more likely that +Ford would either turn them over to Nixon for total destruction or +sit on them as long as he was president. +The evidence for the Power Control Group's and Ford/Nixon's +strategy is as follows:

+ +

1. Nixon was White House action officer on Cuban invasion +plans in 1960.

+ +

2. Nixon was in contact with Hunt and others during the +Bay of Pigs planning.

+ +

3. Nixon lied to the American people by his own admission +about the Bay of Pigs during his TV debates with +Kennedy in 1960.

+ +

4. Nixon was financially linked to the Mafia and to Cuban +casino operations before Castro took over.

+ +

5. Nixon was acquainted with Hunt, Baker, Martinez, +Sturgis, Carlos Prio Socarras, and other Watergate +people and anti-Castro people in Florida, and he was +financially linked to Baker, Martinez and Socarras.

+ +

6. Hunt, Baker, Sturgis and Socarras were connected with +the assassination group in the murder of JFK.

+ +

7. Nixon was in Dallas for three days, including the +morning of the JFK assassination. He was trying to +stir up trouble for Kennedy.

+ +

8. Nixon went to Dallas under false pretenses. There was +no board meeting of the Pepsi Cola Company as he +announced his law firm had had to attend.

+ +

9. Nixon did not admit being in Dallas on the day Kennedy +was shot and did not reveal the true reason for his +trip. He held two press conferences on the two days +before the assassination, attacking both Kennedy and +Johnson and emphasizing the Democratic political +problems in Texas.

+ +

10. Research indicates that Nixon either knew in advance +about assassination plans, or learned about them soon +after the assassination.

+ +

11. Nixon proposed to Lyndon Johnson that Gerald Ford serve +on the Warren Commission.

+ +

12. Ford led the Commission cover-up by controlling the +questioning of key witnesses and by several other +means.

+ +

13. Ford helped firmly plant the idea that Oswald was the +only assassin and that there was no conspiracy by +publishing his own book, "Lee Harvey Oswald: Portrait +of the Assassin."

+ +

14. Ford purposefully covered up the conspiracy of the PCG +in the JFK assassination and also covered up the fact +that Oswald was a paid informer for the FBI. He did +this by dismissing the subject in his book as worthless +rumor and by keeping the executive sessions of the +Commission (where Oswald's FBI informer status was +discussed) classified Top Secret.

+ +

15. Ford continued the cover-up when he was questioned +before being confirmed by the Senate as Vice President. +He lied under oath twice to the Senate Committee. He +stated that he had written his book about Oswald with +no access to classified documents. He lied about this +because his book used classified documents about +Oswald's FBI informer status. He lied when he said +that the book was entitled, "Lee Harvey Oswald: +Portrait of *an* Assassin." This was significant in +1973 because the public by then had become very +skeptical about a lone assassin. By changing one word +in the title, Ford made the book seem a little less +like what it actually was--an effort to make Oswald the +assassin.

+ +

16. Jaworski aided in the JFK cover-up by sitting on +evidence of conspiracy accumulated by Waggoner Carr, +Texas Attorney General, who he represented in liaison +with the Warren Commission. He also stopped the +critical testimony of Jack Ruby when he testified +before the Warren Commission, and diverted attention +away from Ruby's intent to reveal the conspiracy to +kill both Kennedy and Oswald.

+ +

17. Nixon became president in 1968 only because Robert +Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. Nixon was well +aware of the conspiracy whether or not he approved of +it in advance.

+ +

18. John Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover joined Nixon and the +lower level members of the PCG in covering up the RFK +murder conspiracy. They classified the evidence "Top +Secret" and murdered several witnesses, controlled the +judge in the Sirhan trial and the district attorney and +the chief of police in Los Angeles during and after the +trial. They still control these people and the Los +Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Clarence Kelly +also became involved.

+ +

19. The plumbers group ordered the assassination of George +Wallace in 1972 to insure Nixon's election by picking +up Wallace's vote (about 18%, according to polls).

+ +

20. J. Edgar Hoover and Richard Helms were aware of who +killed John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. They helped +cover-up both conspiracies.

+ +

21. John Mitchell controlled the trial of Clay Shaw and the +Garrison investigation and discredited Garrison by +framing him in a New Orleans gambling case.

+ +

22. Nixon and Haldeman discussed the assassination of John +Kennedy, the conspiracy, Hunt's involvement, the +possibility that Hunt might talk, the cover-up, the Bay +of Pigs relationship between Nixon, Hunt and the other +PCG members, and the briefing Nixon might have had to +give anyone running against him in 1972, on matters of +"national security".

+ +

23. Nixon and Mitchell discussed the assassinations and the +attempt to assassinate George Wallace. Mitchell +executed orders to suppress the truth about these +events.

+ +

24. Gerald Ford had possession of the most critical tapes +on which assassinations and cover-ups were discussed.

+ +

25. Jaworski could be counted on to keep the assassination +material under wraps even after his resignation. He +was aware of the conspiracy evidence and cover-up in +all three cases (JFK, RFK, George Wallace).

+ +

26. Hunt was taken care of and will keep silent. He had +been out of jail and living on a beautiful $100000 +estate in Florida with plenty of money, across the +street from his Bay of Pigs friend, Manuel Artime.

+ +

27. Clay Shaw was murdered by the PCG, undoubtedly to keep +him from talking once the truth about his CIA position +was revealed by Victor Marchetti. He was embalmed +before the coroner could determine the cause of death. +Evidence indicates he was killed somewhere and then +brought back to his apartment.

+ +

28. Hale Boggs, a Warren, Commission member, was possibly +killed by the PCG. Bogg's airplane disappeared in +Alaska. No trace of it was ever found and no +explanation of how the plane could have crashed has +ever been given. Mrs. Boggs has expressed doubts about +it being an accident.

+ +

29. Four of the seven Warren Commission members are dead: +Warren, Dulles, Russell and Boggs. Of the remaining +members, Ford was President, John McCloy is retired and +living in Connecticut, and John Sherman Cooper was made +ambassador to East Germany.

+ +

30. Richard Russell, Hale Boggs and Cooper believed there +was a conspiracy in the JFK assassination. Russell and +Boggs both said so publicly.

+ +

31. Haldeman erased 18 1/2 minutes of a taped discussion +with Nixon. This tape undoubtedly contained "national +security" matters. The fact that Haldeman did the +erasing can easily be determined by tracing the trail +of possession of the tape from the day it was taken out +of the vault to the day the gap was discovered. +Haldeman had the tape with the recorder alone for +nearly 48 hours. No one else had the tape alone long +enough to do the erasing.

+ +

32. Ford and the PCG contemplated pardons for Mitchell, +Haldeman, Ehrlichman and possibly others who know the +number one secret.

+ +

33. Ford's statements to the sub-committee of the House +Judiciary Committee concerning his pardon of Nixon +dodged the real issue. Only Elizabeth Holtzman asked +questions coming close to the number one secret. When +she asked about a prior agreement, Ford said, "I have +made no deal, there was no deal, *since I became Vice +President*." Those last few words were not reported by +the press, but a large number of Americans watched and +heard him say them. Of course he spoke truthfully +because the "deal" was made *before* he became Vice +President.

+ +

____________________

+ +

[1] Evans & Novak column -- September 12. 1974.

+ +

[2] "Paris Herald Tribune" -- September 12, 1974.

+ +

[3] "Compulsive Spy," Tad Szulc, Viking Press, 1974.

+ +

[4] "Nixon and the Mafia," Jeff Gerth, "Sundance," December, 1972.

+ +

[5] "My Six Crises," Richard M. Nixon.

+ +

[6] "Compulsive Spy."

+ +

[7] "Nixon and the Mafia."

+ +

[8] "Nixon, Bay of Pigs & Watergate," -- R.E. Sprague, "Computers and +Automation," January, 1973.

+ +

[9] "Nixon, Bay of Pigs & Watergate."

+ +

[10] Trowbridge Ford, Holy Cross College, Boston, MA, Several papers and +articles.

+ +

[11] Warren Commission Hearings & Exhibits -- Vol. 23, Pages 941-943.

+ +

[12] Nixon Transcript of June 23 1972 tape -- "New York Times," August +6, 1974.

+ +

[13] Trowbridge Ford -- Article on Gerald Ford & Warren Commission.

+ +

[14] Ibid.

+ +

[15] Gerald Ford "Lee Harvey Oswald: Portrait of the Assassin."

+ +

[16] "The Framing of Jim Garrison", R.E. Sprague, "Computers and +Automation," December, 1973.

+ +

[17] "The CIA and the Kennedy Assassination" -- Unpublished article by +R.E. Sprague.

+ +

[18] Nixon tape, June 23, 1972.

+ +

[19] Warren Commission Exhibits -- Testimony of Jack Ruby, Vol. V, +Pages 181-213 and Vol. XIV, pages 504-571. Also Trowbridge Ford +article on Jaworski.

+ +

[20] "Washington Watch" and Triss Coffin newsletter, August 10, 1974.

+ +

[21] Zodiac News Service release -- August 20, 1974.

+ +
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+ +

Chapter 12 +The Second Line of Defense and Cover-Ups in 1975 and 1976

+ +

The mini-war waged by assassination researchers and a few +Congressmen from 1964 to 1976 to reopen the major assassination +inquiries never really disturbed the Power Control Group. But in +1975, simultaneous with the revelations about all of the terrible +things the CIA and the FBI did, the researchers and a few of their +friends in the media and in Congress began to draw more attention +than was comfortable for the PCG. +A special renewed effort became necessary to extend the cover-ups. Part of this effort was a program to bring the media back +under control and to reinforce media support of the cover-ups. +This has been discussed in some detail in Chapter 9. Another part +of this effort was the expansion of the Rockefeller Commission's +assignment to reinforce the cover-up of the JFK assassination +conspiracy. Separate new efforts were necessary to control the +courts and lawyers and other public officials in the King and +Robert Kennedy assassination conspiracies. These were brought +about by appeals for new trials by James Earl Ray and Sirhan B. +Sirhan. The appeals were accompanied by new revelations. New +publicity was given to demands for an investigation into the +Wallace shooting by prominent people, including Wallace himself. +A minor success in the JFK case was scored by researchers with +the assistance of Dick Gregory, Geraldo Rivera of ABC, Tom Snyder +of NBC, Mort Sahl and others. They managed to have the Zapruder +film and other photographic evidence of conspiracy shown on local +and national television. No one of any intelligence outside the +PCG who has even seen the Zapruder film questions the fact that +shots came from two different directions in Dealey Plaza. This +breakthrough after eleven years of effort put new public and +Congressional pressures on the PCG. It was closely followed by a +grass roots campaign conducted by Mark Lane's Citizens Commission +of Inquiry to reopen the JFK case. Pressure was brought to bear on +Congressmen by their local constituents as a result of this +campaign. Henry Gonzalez from Texas and Thomas Downing from +Virginia introduced resolutions in the House of Representatives +calling for the reopening of all four cases and the JFK case, so +the public and Congress had a formal base to work with and a goal +to reach. +New revelations were made in 1975 about the FBI's and the CIA's +information withheld from the Warren Commission. From Dallas came +the admission that Oswald had been in closer contact with the FBI +than believed and that Jack Ruby had been an FBI informer. +Perhaps the most dangerous development for the PCG was the +creation of a sub-committee under the Church committee to +investigate the JFK assassination. This two-man subcommittee +formed by Senator Gary Hart of Colorado and Senator Schweiker of +Pennsylvania became a real threat when it was given authority by +the full Senate Committee on Intelligence to conduct their own +independent investigation with a staff of nine people. It would be +harder to control their efforts than to control the Church +committee, where the PCG had several strong allies, including +Senators Goldwater and Tower. +Gerald Ford, William Colby, Richard Helms (from his faraway post +in Asia) and the other PCG members developed a three-prong strategy +for the JFK case in order to cope with all of these new problems. +First came the reinforcement of the lone-assassin Warren +Commission scenario. Ford selected David Belin to be chief of +staff of the Rockefeller Commission. Ford admitted that Belin in +his Rockefeller Commission role--as well as in his advocacy to +reopen the JFK case in order to prove the Warren Commission +findings correct--was acting as "one of our best staff members." +This was necessary so that the Rockefeller Commission could add a +new assignment to its original charter and investigate the CIA and +FBI. The new assignment was to prove that all of the new questions +about the Zapruder film and the evidence for assassins on the +grassy knoll were answerable in support of Warren Commission +conclusions. +The former Warren commissioner now President, who led the +cover-up and pardoned Nixon, nominated the Warren Commission staff +lawyer who led the cover-up at the working level as the new +Rockefeller Commission chief of staff. +Belin did his job like a faithful dog. He personally called in +the most dangerous researchers, including Cyril Wecht and Dick +Gregory's cohorts, Ralph Schoenman and Robert Groden, who had been +making all of the noise on television. With the help (and possibly +the knowledge) of only one other staff man, Belin interviewed these +witnesses briefly, almost casually: then he misquoted them, edited +their statements, or left them out of the Rockefeller Report. He +purposefully did not call any researchers other than Wecht who +might have presented some embarrassing evidence of conspiracy. He +instead called a number of "experts" from the stable of PCG people, +including some of the Ramsey Clark doctors panel that had examined +the medical evidence in 1968 to back up the Warren Commission +during the Garrison investigation and the Clay Shaw trial. He also +called on reliable Dr. Lattimer, the urologist, to testify again +about the bullet wounds above the navel. +Belin wrote the chapter of the Rockefeller Commission Report +himself. It formed a base for controlled media presentations of +the lone assassin scenario. CBS used much of the basic material in +its series in 1975. Others quoted liberally from the favorite +misquotes of Cyril Wecht and the statements of the CIA doctors +concerning the fatal shot at frame 313 of the Zapruder film. That +had always been a sticky point with Belin and the other Warren +Commission defenders and technical cover-up artists in the PCG. +Belin was nearly driven to distraction at times, trying to avoid +any discussion of the back-to-the-left acceleration of JFK's head +following the Z313 shot. +He was therefore delighted to be able to produce a medical +opinion that the back-to-the-left motion was consistent with a shot +directly from the rear. The fact that no ballistics experts or +physics experts were called to testify about Newton's second law of +motion and what happens to an object when struck by a rifle bullet +traveling at twice to three times the speed of sound was never +questioned by the Rockefeller panel or the media. Belin easily +eliminated the assassins on the grassy knoll simply by persuading +the FBI to say the assassins weren't there at all. +Over a period of several months in the second half of 1975, the +PCG (through its control agents in the 15 media organizations, and +by using Belin's creation) hammered away again at the lone assassin +thesis. They caused the wave of excitement and furor created by +Gregory, Lane, Groden, Schoenman and their friends to die out. +Lectures on university campuses, discussions on FM radio talk shows +late at night, and conspiracy books and articles in underground +newspapers appeared as always. But there was no more showing of +the Zapruder film on ABC, NBC or CBS; nor was there any talk of +conspiracy in any of the major fifteen national news media +organizations. +The second part of the strategy was to create a fall-back, or +second line of defense in the JFK case. If necessary the same idea +could also be applied in the other three cases when the situation +became too dangerous. There was less danger in 1975 in the RFK, +MLK and Wallace cases because the researchers and the media had not +yet consistently begun to tie in the CIA, FBI and other PCG high +level people. In 1976 a danger emerged in the MLK case when it was +revealed that J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI might be linked and that +Hoover attempted to get King to commit suicide. However, that +development occurred several months after the implementation of the +strategy began in the JFK case. Of course there had never been any +danger with the Chappaquiddick crime, because few researchers +realized what the PCG had accomplished in that event. No +suspicions existed in Congress either, beyond some curiosity about +Tony Ulasewicz and E. Howard Hunt's strange visits to the island +and to Hyannisport. +There may be several second lines of defense positions already +prepared for the JFK case. The one that has been implemented in +1975 and 1976 is the "Castro did it in revenge" position. The PCG +realizes that while the media will behave like slaves to present +the first line of defense (Oswald did it alone), the public isn't +buying it any more. In 1969, shortly after the Clay Shaw trial +ended, the percent of people disbelieving the lone assassin theory +fell to its all-time low of just over 50%. By 1976 it had risen to +80%, despite the faithful efforts of CBS, "Time," "Newsweek," et +al. More importantly, Richard Schweiker, Gary Hart, Henry +Gonzalez, Thomas Downing, and a very large part of the House and +Senate weren't buying the lone assassin story any more either. +So, a good second line of defense story was needed. It had to +be one that the House and Senate and Schweiker, Church, Downing and +hopefully Gonzalez would buy. It had to be one which could be +created out of existing facts and then shored up by planted +evidence, faked records, dependable witnesses lying under oath, and +once again, the control and use of the media. The "Castro did it +in revenge" story met these requirements. The media had already +helped to some extent by publishing information from Jack Anderson, +Lyndon B. Johnson and others about Castro's turning around various +CIA agents or sending agents of his own, including Oswald, to +assassinate JFK. Perhaps even more importantly, Senator Schweiker +said he believed Castro might have been behind the assassination +and that this possibility should be investigated. +The Castro story strategy was implemented in 1975. Gradually at +first, a story appeared here or there in the press about the +assassins assigned to kill Castro. Then the media began to reprint +the Jack Anderson story about Castro's turning around of some of +these agents. New authors of the story appeared. Anderson's +original story seemed to be forgotten. These articles never seemed +to have an identifiable source or any proof. Hank Greenspun of the +Las Vegas newspaper circuit and the man involved with Howard +Hughes, Larry O'Brien, released a story to the "Chicago Tribune." +He said his information came from reliable sources. +The momentum began to build. More and more "leaked" information +about Castro and assassins and Oswald being a pro-Castroite hit the +establishment media. The stories and the sequence of events began +to be predictable, if a researcher had understood the PCG and their +fight for survival in 1975 and 1976. Then the Church committee and +the Schweiker sub-committee issued statements that they were going +to investigate the "Castro did it" theory. The PCG began feeding +them information in various forms and various ways that would back +up the idea. The JFK sex scandal was released by Judith Exner. +The PCG provided her with an incentive to spice up the "Castro did +it" theory with a little sex involving JFK and one of the assassins +assigned to Castro, John Roselli. +The PCG realized they had the double advantage of drawing +attention to Roselli and Castro and the turn-around assassin idea, +while at the same time gnawing away at JFK's image. There was +press speculation that Exner was a Mafia plant in the White House +to find out how much JFK knew about the Castro assassination plans. +Since Frank Sinatra had introduced Judith to both JFK and Roselli, +there was speculation about Sinatra's Mafia friends linked to the +rat pack, to Peter Lawford, to JFK's sister and to JFK himself. +All of this was meat for the PCG's grinder. It certainly drew +Schweiker's attention away from Helms, Hunt, Gabaldin, Shaw, +Ferrie, Seymour and all of the other operatives involved in JFK's +murder. In fact, the Schweiker staff, which had the names and +locations of several participants and witnesses that could pinpoint +the Helms-Hunt-Shaw-Gabaldin group as the real assassins as early +as September, 1975 did not interview more than one or two of them +and did not follow up on the rest at all. Their attention was +diverted by the second line of defense strategy and they were also +influenced by infiltration by the PCG. +Part three of the strategy was the control of the Congress and +the committees in the House and the Senate concerned with +investigations of the intelligence community and the JFK +assassination. This subject will be covered in depth in Chapter +14. Suffice it to say here that the PCG planted people on the +staffs of the Church committee and the Schweiker sub-committee. +They exercised control over the other committees in the House and +Senate (Abzug, Don Edwards, Pike committees) and they controlled +the House Rules committee, which effectively blocked the Gonzalez +and Downing resolutions for over a year. +The CIA has always had its supporters in both House and Senate. +So has the FBI. So did J. Edgar Hoover (sometimes through +blackmail) and Richard Helms. There was a story published in the +"Washington Post" about a dinner party given by Tom Braden, former +CIA man, at which all of Richard Helms' old buddies rallied to his +defense. Several well-known Congressmen were there and Senator +Symington gave a rousing speech supporting Helms in his hour of +need. +Gerald Ford, of course, as then titular leader of the PCG, had +many old friends in the House. Nixon had many supporters in both +House and Senate and still has to this day. Thus, control by the +PCG over Congress and committees is not all that difficult. +Specific examples will be given in Chapter 14 of how this really +works. So the cover-ups continue. The PCG is still in the +driver's seat. The three parts of their strategy work very well. +The lone assassin story is repeated at least once a month in some +media source or other. The "Castro did it" story will no doubt +make its official appearance again. +The Congress is under control. Gonzalez was not under control, +nor was Downing. But they couldn't do much without the Rules +Committee, which was controlled. +The people are left with no effective way of doing anything +about the PCG and their crimes. What is worse, there is no way the +people can elect the man of their choice.

+ +

-- +daveus rattus

+ +

yer friendly neighborhood ratman

+ +

KOYAANISQATSI

+ +

ko.yaa.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. +5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.

+ +

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Chapter 13 +The 1976 Election and Conspiracy Fever

+ +

To dramatize what might happen and probably did happen in 1976, +this chapter has been prepared by assuming the attitude typical of +today's innocent Americans. A new disease is sweeping America. +No, it's not the flu; it's conspiracy fever.[1] +People afflicted by the disease imagine conspiracies everywhere. +They believe, for example, that the CIA arranged for the takeover +in Chile and the assassination of Salvador Allende. They even +think Henry Kissinger had something to do with it. These poor +feverish devils have the strange idea that J. Edgar Hoover was a +fiend rather than a public hero. They imagine that he ordered a +vicious campaign against Dr. Martin Luther King and a conspiracy +against most of young America called Cointelpro. Some even think +Hoover had King killed. There are some Californians with the west +coast strain of this bug who imagine that the FBI and the +California authorities created a conspiracy in San Diego and Los +Angeles against black citizens. The California group also think +there was something strange about Donald DeFreeze and the +Symbionese Liberation Army. They suspect an FBI or California +state authority conspiracy, complete with police provocateurs, +double agents, faked prison breaks, and a Patty Hearst, alias +Tania, all thrown in by our own government to create a climate that +would make the public accept the prevalence of terrorism and demand +a police state. +The disease spread to Congressmen as well. It does not seem to +be limited, as it was before Watergate, to people under the age of +30. There are even Congressmen with a more virulent form of the +malady who are convinced their telephones are still being tapped. +They, along with thousands of others who suffer, no doubt reached +this conclusion just because they were told by a CIA-controlled +media that hundreds of telephones were tapped a few years ago. +Early forms of conspiracy fever are no longer considered to be +dangerous. For example, all those sick citizens who imagined +conspiracies in the incidents at Tonkin Gulf, Songmy, Mylai, the +Pueblo and the Black Panther murders are now considered to be more +or less recovered, since it turns out it was not their imaginations +working overtime after all. Even the special variety of the fever +which caused the impression that the CIA murdered a series of +foreign heads-of-state is no longer on the danger list. +There is still one form of the illness, however, that is +officially considered to be very dangerous, virulent, and to be +stamped out at all costs. It is the version producing the illusion +that all of America's domestic assassinations were conspiracies. +Those infected believe the conspiracies are interlinked in a giant +conspiracy to take over the electoral process in the United States +and to conceal this from the American people. Some citizens are +known to have this worst form of the fever. They include a +Congressman or two. Others have come down with a milder form in +which they imagine separate conspiracies in four assassination +cases (John and Robert Kennedy, Dr. King, and the attempted +assassination of George Wallace). +Members of the Ford Administration, particularly David Belin, +Mr. Ford's staff member on the Rockefeller Commission, went along +with an analysis made by Dr. Jacob Cohen, a professional fever +analyst, that the disease has been spreading rapidly because of a +small group of "carriers" traveling around the country who are +infecting everyone else. Some of these carriers, called +assassination "buffs", were thought to have contracted the fever as +many as twelve years ago. +In the disease's worst form, the patient imagines that there +exists a powerful, high level group of individuals, some of whom +have intelligence experience. The highest level of fever in these +patients produces the idea that this high level group, usually +called the PCG, will eliminate presidential candidates not in their +favor or under their control. Others imagine that Jimmy Carter has +been brought into the PCG by threats against his children and +careful briefings by George Bush. +It is worth analyzing the sick people with this domestic +assassination conspiracy fever to see how far their imaginations +take them. They calculate that the PCG, fearing exposure if any +president is not under their control and influence, will go to +whatever lengths are required to insure the election of the man +they do control. The idea is that Gerald Ford was nicely in the +PCG's pocket because he has been covering up for them ever since +1964. He has continued to help them through 1975 and 1976 by +maintaining a steady cover-up effort on all four cases. Jimmy +Carter was perhaps brought under control. The feverish "buffs" +figure that the PCG would have been sure to eliminate Jimmy Carter +unless he could be controlled. +The scenario continues into the future. The more control +exercised by the PCG, the stronger they become and the more people +in the executive branch become beholden to them to continue +covering up the cover-ups. +So, wake up America. Wipe out this disease. It's just as +dangerous as Communism, if not more so. Like the general in "Z", +Americans must realize that such a disease has to be eliminated +whenever and wherever it appears.

+ +

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+ +

[1] "Conspiracy Fever" is derived from an article with that title by +Jacob Cohen, a psychologist, in "Commentary" magazine, October, +1975.

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+ +

Chapter 14 +Congress and the People

+ +

The last hope of the people to take back their government from +the PCG is through Congress. The executive branch is a captive of +the PCG. The legislative branch has no power in the situation. +Where courts or judges do have some small measure of power, as in +the hearings and appeals for a new trial for James Earl Ray, they +have been controlled by the PCG. The ruling of the judge in the +Ray appeals case, for example, was obviously a decision made for +him by someone higher up. He ruled that Ray could not have a new +trial after hearing a vast amount of evidence of conspiracy and +solid evidence that Percy Foreman had duped Ray into pleading +guilty. +Unless a people's revolution comes along, and that hardly seems +likely, the only possibility left is to hope that Congress can do +it. What are the odds? From what has been pointed out so far, it +is obvious that if Congress is to expose the PCG, throw the rascals +in jail, and wipe the slate clean to seize the country back for the +people, a tremendous battle will be required. All of the forces of +the PCG, including their friends in the House and Senate, will be +focussed on preventing this from happening. A power base within +both houses would have to be created that could not only do battle +with the PCG but that would not be fooled by their myriad of +fiendishly clever techniques, methods and stratagems. It would +have to be a power base that protected itself from infiltration and +usurpation of its own resources. It would have to somehow conquer +the media control problem; otherwise, no American citizen would +know what it was doing or what the battle was about. +How would such a battle start and such a power base be +constructed? An important step would be to purify the special +committee created by either resolution and to purify the staff. +Preventing infiltration of staff by the PCG is especially +important. As mentioned in Chapter 12, the Church Committee staff +and the Schweiker sub-committee staff were infiltrated by the PCG, +and specifically the CIA. A leading assassination researcher and +former intelligence officer in the Defense Intelligence Agency who +knew many, many CIA agents discovered two of them in the Church +Committee staff offices in the fall of 1975. The other staff +members had not been aware that these two men were CIA agents +because they were "deep cover" agents. +This problem is rather complex because there is always great +pressure from the House or Senate to create a balance on any +appointed committee. Thus the Church committee was hamstrung by +several of the Senators appointed to be on it: they were close +friends and supporters of the CIA and FBI. Senators Goldwater and +Tower, for example, fought very hard to block any efforts to have +the entire committee investigate potential CIA or FBI involvement +in domestic assassinations. This does not necessarily mean that +Goldwater and Tower are members of the inner circle of the PCG. +But it does mean that PCG members who know who killed John Kennedy +and why can influence Goldwater and Tower to block such efforts. +The first step in the House or Senate might be floor voting +because of the tight control exercised by the PCG over the +committee procedure on resolutions. In the House, for example, the +Rules Committee is all-powerful in determining which resolutions +are brought to the floor. +Henry Gonzalez introduced his resolution HR204 in 1975 and sent +it to the rules committee. Nearly a year passed. On March 18, +1976 Mr. Gonzalez, together with Mr. Downing, was tired of waiting +for some action by Chairman Madden and they took the issue to the +floor of the House for discussion.[1] By this time the two +representatives had 125 co-sponsors for their two resolutions (an +unusually large number). Gonzalez and Downing had taken over the +floor of the House for two hours and had several supporting +speakers. No one rose in opposition. Prior to that time, +Representative Sisk from California and Representative Bolling from +West Virginia had been vehemently outspoken in the Rules Committee +against both resolutions. Madden, Sisk and Bolling all left the +House before Downing and Gonzalez started speaking. +As a result of Gonzalez's and Downing's efforts, Madden was +forced by Speaker Albert and other members of the House and by some +of his own constituents to hold a formal hearing on the two +resolutions on March 31, 1976. The PCG controlled the hearing +through Sisk, Bolling and Lott. The resolutions were tabled, +subject to future recall by the chairman. The vote was nine to +six. Representative Bolling was called into the hearing from the +House floor to cast the ninth vote at the last minute. He heard +none of the arguments. He didn't have to. The PCG had instructed +him on how to vote. +This event is described to illustrate how difficult it would be +to overcome the control advantages on the side of the PCG. Only on +the Senate or House floor might it be possible to equalize things. +The two events, the two hour discussion on the House floor on March +18, reported by the "Congressional Record," and the hearing by the +rules committee on March 31 illustrate another problem Congress has +combatting the PCG. Not one of the major news media organizations +reported either event. Two hours on the House floor is an +incredibly long time for any subject. There were many reporters +present from television, radio, newspapers and press services. Mark +Lane saw to that. But nothing appeared on CBS, NBC, ABC, or in +"Time," "Newsweek," or the "New York Times." Why? The answer is +obvious. Very tight control over the news from the House is +exercised by the PCG. +The larger implication is there for all to see who want to open +their eyes. Seeing it and believing it are two different things. +For nearly all Congressmen who still have faith in America, the +whole point of this book, and the existence of a Power Control +Group which included Ford, Nixon, Kissinger, the CIA, the FBI, the +fifteen major news media management level people, plus nearly +anyone else of importance in the executive branch and many +Congressmen, is too much to swallow. They would rather have the +whole thing go quietly away than face up to something that +gigantic. And that is the real source of the PCG's strength, the +unbelievability of it all.

+ +

Addendum to Chapter 14

+ +

Several truly historic and highly encouraging events occurred in +the months of September and October, 1976 that could indicate a +change in the tide and power and control described in earlier +chapters. +First, on September 15, a coalition of representatives from the +Black Caucus, Henry Gonzalez and Thomas Downing managed to get +Resolution H1540 through the House Rules Committee. Mark Lane, +Coretta King and others were responsible for creating pressures +that finally convinced Speaker Carl Albert, Chairman Tom Madden of +the Rules Committee and others that this was necessary and +desirable. The new resolution, made up of parts of the Downing and +Gonzalez resolutions plus input from Representative Walter Fauntroy +from the Black Caucus called for a special 12-person committee to +reopen the JFK and Dr. King cases and any other deaths that the +committee might decide to investigate. +The Rules Committee voted nine to four in favor. Representative +Bolling, who perhaps unknowingly had lent his support to the +opposition in the earlier vote, was an important swing vote and +actually introduced the resolution in the meeting. The position of +the nine who voted for the resolution was more than vindicated two +days later, when the House, by the extraordinary vote of 280 to 64, +passed the resolution. History was made. On that day cheers +should have gone up from several hundred dedicated researchers +around the world, and the Power Control Group should have begun +looking for rocks to crawl under. +The real war was only beginning, however. The "New York Times" +barely reported the event, did not mention the vote, and buried the +story in the middle of another story with one-half inch in one +column. The "Washington Star" and "Post" carried larger stories +and the "White Plains Reporter Dispatch" made it a first page +headline story. The PCG's media control slipped a bit. +The next hurdle was for Downing, Gonzalez and Fauntroy to +convince Albert that the chairman of the new committee for 1977 +should be Mr. Gonzalez since Mr. Downing had announced his +retirement. Because elections were being held in November, Mr. +Albert named Mr. Downing as chairman for the balance of 1976, with +Mr. Gonzalez as next in line. He also let it be known to the press +that Mr. Gonzalez would be the best choice to head the committee +next year. +Mr. Albert then named ten other members of the committee for the +1976 period. Four of them, Fauntroy, Burke, Stokes and Ford, were +members of the Black Caucus. Stewart McKinney, Representative from +Connecticut, is a well known supporter of the truth. Those five, +together with Downing and Gonzalez, could probably be counted on to +try to arrive at the truth. The other five representatives--Dodd +from Connecticut, Preyer from Tennessee, Devine from Ohio, Thone +from Nebraska and Talcott from California--were unknown quantities. +If the PCG theory holds up, at least one of them, and perhaps two, +will turn out to be PCG representatives. +The next event of significance occurred on October 4 when Mr. +Downing named Richard A. Sprague, former district attorney from +Philadelphia and fearless prosecutor of the Yablonski murderers, as +executive director of the committee's staff. The main significance +of this event was who was not named. Bernard Fensterwald, Jr., was +in strong contention, but he was not selected because of suspicions +that he might be a CIA agent and also because of conflicts of +interests among his clientele. Fensterwald represented Otto +Otepka, James McCord, James Earl Ray and Andrew St. George, among +others. There is certainly a strong CIA flavor and PCG influence +among his clients. Whether or not Bud Fensterwald himself works +for the CIA or the PCG, his rejection as executive director was a +healthy sign that the committee might be able to go through the +purification process described as essential in Chapter 14. +Richard A. Sprague had his hands full attempting to separate PCG +applicants for staff positions from non-PCG members. The PCG, +during the same time period (September and October) these historic +events were taking place, was very active in spreading its second +line of defense information. "Castro did it in revenge" stories +began popping up everywhere. Jack Anderson was revived to back up +the strategy by publishing another of his "Castro did it" columns.

+ +

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+ +

[1] House Resolution 204 -- Henry Gonzalez +House Resolution 498 -- Thomas Downing

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+ +

-- +daveus rattus

+ +

yer friendly neighborhood ratman

+ +

KOYAANISQATSI

+ +

ko.yaa.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. +5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.

+ +

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Chapter 15 +The Select Committee on Assassinations, +The Intelligence Community and the News Media

+ +

Part I

+ +

The Top Down vs. The Bottom Up Approach +To Assassination Investigations

+ +

Two vastly different views have been held by both assassination +researchers and members of Congress during the last three years +about the best way to arrive at the truth concerning political +assassinations in the United States. The conservative view +dictates we must build an investigative base from the ground +upward, beginning with the JFK assassination, and use "hard" +evidence in each assassination case. This view assumes that any +grand, overall conspiracy to cover up the cover-ups would be +detected and made public following exposure of the first layer of +cover-ups. +The less conservative view holds that the political processes +underlying the original assassinations and the massive cover-up +superstructure should be attacked and exposed simultaneously. +The resolutions to establish a Select Committee to Investigate +Assassinations, introduced by Thomas Downing and Henry Gonzalez in +the House of Representatives in 1975, were somewhat related to both +views. The conservative Downing resolution called for a sole +investigation of the JFK case. Gonzalez's resolution called for +the reopening of all four major cases--JFK, RFK, Dr. King and +George Wallace--and more importantly, it called for an +investigation of the possible links among all four. Gonzalez +stated that he believed the country might be experiencing an +assassination-controlled electoral process. His approach was +clearly allied with the less conservative view. +Research groups, such as Mark Lane's Citizen's Commission of +Inquiry (CCI), Bud Fensterwald's Committee to Investigate +Assassinations (CTIA), and Bob Katz's Assassination Information +Bureau (AIB) were also divided in their views. CCI and CTIA took +the bottom-up approach and tended to support Downing. AIB took the +overview political approach and tended to support Gonzalez. The +Black Caucus, Coretta King and others were primarily interested in +a broad overview of the King assassination. +The coalition formed by Downing, Gonzalez and the Black Caucus +finally brought about the creation of the Select Committee on +Assassinations in the House, which represents a mixture of these +views and approaches. +The work of the Select Committee will produce results if it is +recognized that the bottom-up approach alone cannot be used +successfully against the group of powerful individuals that +currently controls the environment in which any investigation +attempts are to be made. The best way the Select Committee can +succeed against this group is to use what will be labelled the "top +down" approach to investigating and exposing the truth as a +supplement to the bottom up approach.

+ +

The Power Control Group

+ +

The earlier part of this book described a group of individuals +in the United States and labelled them the "Power Control Group." +The PCG is that group of individuals or organizations that +knowingly participated in one or more of the assassination +conspiracies or related murders or attempted murders, plus the +individuals who knowingly participated or are still participating +in the cover-ups of those conspiracies or murders. The PCG +includes any people in the CIA, FBI, Justice Department, Secret +Service, local police departments or sheriffs offices in Los +Angeles, Memphis, Dallas, New Orleans or Florida, judges, district +attorneys, state attorneys general, other federal government +agencies, the House of Representatives, the Senate, the White +House, the Congress, or the Department of Defense as well as any +people in the media who are under the influence of any of the +above, who participated or are participating in the cover-ups or +the cover-ups of the cover-up. There are indications that people +in every one of the above organizations or groups belong to the +PCG.

+ +

Hard Evidence of Conspiracy

+ +

Anyone who has honestly and openly taken the time to examine a +few pieces of hard evidence in any one of the four major cases has +no trouble deciding there were individual conspiracies in each. In +the face of this situation, the layman wonders why the Congress +continually demands hard evidence of conspiracy. Statements +continue to appear in the media to the effect that, "I've seen no +evidence of conspiracy." Or, "We are not sure whether there were +others involved in addition to Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, +James Earl Ray or Arthur Bremer." These statements are made in +spite of the fact that even the most casual analysis clearly shows +that Oswald, Sirhan, and Ray did not fire any of the shots that +struck JFK, RFK and MLK, and that they were all patsies. Bremer +fired some of the shots in the Wallace case, but there is evidence +that another gun was fired. +The hard evidence is all old evidence. It goes back at least to +1967 and 1968 in the JFK case, and back to 1970 through 1972 in the +RFK and MLK cases. The Wallace evidence is a little fresher, but +nevertheless convincing. The people who demand new evidence are +either members of the PCG, or they are brainwashed by the media +members of the PCG into ignoring the old evidence. They do not +choose to see or to hear the old evidence, even when it is +literally placed before their very eyes and ears. Thus the words +"hard evidence" are merely substitutes for the words "no +conspiracy".

+ +

The Bottom Up Approach

+ +

The bottom up approach is doomed to failure no matter how the +Select Committee tries and no matter how much effort any official +body puts into attempts to offer that "bombshell" that Tip O'Neill +and others look for to prove conspiracy in the JFK and MLK cases. +The PCG is in complete control of the situation. It controls the +media and the media controls the minds of most citizens and the +Congress. The PCG is a living, dynamic body right now. They can +eliminate an investigation or investigators right now. They can +eliminate a member of the House or a member of the Select Committee +right now. +The bottom up approach will never get off the ground because the +PCG will not allow it. As long as the PCG controls all the sources +of evidence that might contain the hard evidence in the FBI, CIA +and local police files, as long as it controls the courts, and as +long as it controls the media, no one will be allowed to prove hard +evidence before the House, the Senate, the President, or any one in +the Executive Branch.

+ +

The Events of 1976 and 1977

+ +

That the PCG's control exists is more clearly evident now than +it has ever been before. The PCG is operating in an almost blatant +fashion. Any observer who keeps his eyes wide open and assumes +that such a group exists, can see it operate almost every day. +The prime objectives of the PCG in 1976 and 1977 were:

+ +

1. To block and eliminate the Select Committee on +Assassinations in the House of Representatives.

+ +

2. To firmly implant the idea that the JFK assassination +was a Castro plot.

+ +

3. To block any Congressional attempts to investigate the +four assassination cases.

+ +

4. To control the Carter Administration in such a way as +to permit only an executive branch investigation that +will conclude there was a Castro-based JFK conspiracy +and no conspiracy in the other cases.

+ +

The 1977 activities of the PCG lent themselves to a new +approach, the "top down" approach to exposing the truth.

+ +

Exposing the PCG

+ +

The top down approach obviously begins with exposing the PCG's +immediate, present activities. The following examples are +illustrative. The Select Committee is certainly in a better +position to know which individuals and actions taken by the PCG +since the formation of the Committee in September, 1976 would be +most easily attacked. The first example is the leaked Justice +Department report on the King case.

+ +

The Justice Department King Report

+ +

The PCG members' actions were leaked in the February 2, 1977 +King report and released a few weeks later. To review the list of +PCG members involved in the cover-up of the King case: J. Edgar +Hoover, the Memphis FBI, Phil Canale (Memphis D.A.), Fred Vinson +(State Department), Judge Battle, Percy Foreman, William Bradford +Huie, Gerald Frank (author), Frank Holloman and other members of +the Memphis police and judges at the state and federal court +levels. +One of the judges who became a PCG member in later years was +Judge McCrea. He heard James Earl Ray's plea for a new trial. +Solid evidence of the conspiracy to frame Ray was introduced at +that hearing. +Everyone who read or heard the evidence, with the exception of +Judge McCrea and his law clerk, reached the conclusion that Ray was +framed and that his lawyer, Percy Foreman, deliberately mishandled +the case. Nevertheless, McCrea decided that Ray would not get a +new trial. The case was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court +with no reversals of the decision.

+ +

Leaking the Justice Department Report on the King Case

+ +

Attorney General Levi some years later ordered a review by the +Justice Department of the King assassination and the FBI's handling +of its investigation. A report was prepared by Michael J. Shaheen, +who did most of the Justice Department work. No public +announcement was made in 1976 upon completion of the report. +Suddenly, on the exact day that the House was debating whether to +reconstitute the Select Committee (February 2, 1977), the King +report was leaked to the Republican minority leader of the +opposition, Representative Quillen of Tennessee. He announced he +had a copy of the report. Representative Yvonne Burke from +California, a member of the Select Committee and also a member of +the House Committee responsible for oversight of the Justice +Department, took strong issue with Quillen over the leak. She said +she had unsuccessfully tried to obtain the report that day from the +Justice Department. Quillen stated at first he did not have the +report, but had an Associated Press release describing the report. +About an hour later, he said he had received a copy of the report. +Burke stated that was very strange; not even the proper committee +of the House had received a copy. +The report was quoted to say that the Justice Department had +closed the King case and concluded James Earl Ray was the lone +assassin. Placed in the hands of the opposition to the Select +Committee, the statement was strategically useful. Quillen argued +against continuing the Committee on the strength of the conclusions +reached in the report.

+ +

Releasing the Report

+ +

On February 19, 1977, the King report was released by the +Justice Department. Blaring headlines again emphasized no +conspiracy and exonerated the FBI's conduct in their investigation. +A showdown meeting was scheduled for February 21 between Henry +Gonzalez and Tip O'Neill, to be followed the same day by a meeting +of the Select Committee to determine whether they would continue +with Richard A. Sprague as chief counsel. +The absurd report was published in the "New York Times" on +February 19, 1977. The PCG 's tactics became somewhat obvious on +that date. Attorney General Griffin Bell, having inherited the +report from Mr. Levi, let slip an important opinion on the CBS +program, "Face the Nation" on the Sunday before the report was +described as "still secret" by the UPI news release quoting Mr. +Bell. +Bell said he believed there were questions the report did not +answer. Bell clarified his concerns after the February 19 release +of the report by stating on the 24th that he might want to +interview Ray to find out where Ray obtained all of the money he +had before and after King was shot, and whether anyone helped him +obtain false passports or make travel arrangements. Perhaps Bell +was troubled by one of the report's conclusions--that one of Ray's +motives in killing King was to make a "quick profit." +This indicates that Mr. Bell, and presumably Mr. Carter, are not +members of the PCG cover-up on the King case. It also seems +obvious that Mr. Levi and the people preparing the report and +conducting the review had become members of the PCG. The timed +release and leaking of that report and the total whitewash of the +King conspiracy are too patently obvious to be coincidental. This +is one area in which the Select Committee has an excellent chance +to expose a raw nerve of the PCG.

+ +

Michael Shaheen -- PCG Member

+ +

A key PCG member in the situation would appear to be Mr. +Shaheen, Judge McCrea's law clerk mentioned earlier in the PCG +cover-up in Memphis. Shaheen was deeply involved in the old +cover-up as well as the new cover-up. He is from Memphis and part +of that closed circle of people in Tennessee who know very well +what happened to Martin Luther King and how Ray was framed. Mr. +Shaheen is now planning to become a judge in Memphis with the help +of all his co-conspirators and PCG members. +Who called the shots in this Justice Department effort? Was it +Levi? Was it the PCG members left over from the Nixon-Ford +administration? Was it members of the PCG still in the FBI? Was +it the Tennessee wing of the PCG that includes Judge McCrea, Phil +Canale, Howard Baker, Mr. Quillen and Bernard Fensterwald, Jr.? +The Select Committee should find out. The report itself is easily +attacked. It quotes the fake Charlie Stevens testimony all over +again, as if no one knew he had been bought off by Hoover to +identify Ray. Stevens was dead drunk and saw nothing on the day of +the King assassination.

+ +

Ignoring or Suppressing Conspiracy and Framing Evidence

+ +

Shaheen's review did not touch upon any of the evidence +regarding the framing of Ray that was introduced at the hearing +that Judge McCrea and Shaheen knew so very well. The witnesses who +had seen Ray at a gas station several blocks from the assassination +site when the shot was fired were ignored. Grace Walden Stevens +saw Frenchy (Raoul) in the rooming house, identified Frenchy as the +man she saw, and knew Charlie had seen nothing. She had to be +ignored. The witnesses who saw Jack Youngblood move away from the +bushes from which he had fired the shot had to be ignored. Hoover +and Fred Vinson's use of Stevens's false testimony to extradite Ray +from London had to be ignored. The FBI's role in Memphis, +including its instructions to the witnesses who had seen Frenchy to +keep quiet was to be kept a dark secret. The similarity between +Frenchy's photograph and the sketch of Raoul and Ray's subsequent +identification of Frenchy as Raoul had to be kept quiet. +More ignored evidence was turned up by Huie. He found three +witnesses who had seen Ray and Frenchy-Raoul together both in +Atlanta and Montreal. They confirmed Ray's claim that he was +framed. All of the evidence involving Youngblood and Frenchy, +uncovered by Robert Livingston and Wayne Chastain and published in +"Computers and People" in 1974, was omitted. +Livingston was Ray's attorney in Tennessee. Chastain is a +Memphis reporter. Livingston and Chastain's sighting of Frenchy-Raoul at the Detroit airport during a meeting between Livingston, +Chastain, Bud Fensterwald and the intermediary representing Frenchy +(in an attempt to obtain immunity for him in exchange for revealing +the identity of the Tennesseans and Louisianians who had hired him) +was ignored. +Exposure of this segment of the PCG would have done more to +bolster the 1977 efforts of the Select Committee than any +presentation of conspiracy evidence in the King case itself.

+ +

The PCG's Tactics With the Select Committee

+ +

In the early days of the formation of the Committee in September +1976, the PCG might have taken the Committee very lightly. The +PCG's efforts to stop an investigation from beginning in the spring +of 1976 through its control of the Rules Committee had been +successful. Downing and Gonzalez had given up. But when the +three-way coalition suddenly brought about a reversal of their +earlier Rules Committee vote, and the House quickly and +overwhelmingly passed a resolution to set up the Committee, the PCG +was forced to go back to the drawing boards for retaliation. +Before the PCG had time to react, Downing and Gonzalez hired +Dick Sprague as chief counsel. Sprague very rapidly hired the +equivalent of his own FBI. He sensed from the start that he might +be up against both the FBI and the CIA, so he carefully screened +his investigators, lawyers, researchers and other personnel to +prevent intelligence penetration of the staff. However, some +personnel were "handed" to him by both Gonzalez and Downing. +It goes almost without saying that the PCG would have tried to +infiltrate the staff. What they learned by their early +infiltration was that Sprague and his crack team were not only on +the right track in both the JFK and MLK investigations, but also +that the tactics used by the PCG in those weeks were making the +staff and some of the committee members suspicious about the PCG +itself.

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PCG Control of Prior Investigations

+ +

It became imperative for the PCG to either eliminate the entire +Committee or to gain control of it and to rid it of Dick Sprague +and the senior staff people who were loyal to him. It was no +longer possible to turn the investigations around and bury the +information that had been gathered as the PCG had done with six +prior Congressional investigations. In each of the prior +investigations (five Senate investigations and one House +investigation of the JFK assassination) the PCG had controlled the +results, disbanded the staffs and buried the evidence. The six +groups were:

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1. 1968--A Senate subcommittee under Senator Ed Long of +Missouri conducted a JFK investigation. Bernard +Fensterwald, Jr., was in charge of a six-person team. + +2. 1974--The Ervin Committee investigated the JFK case +during the Watergate period. Samuel Dash headed a team +of four that included Terry Lenzer, Barry Schochet and +Wayne Bishop. + +3. 1975--The Church Committee. A six-person team reported +to FAO Schwartz III. It included Bob Kelley, Dan +Dwyer, Ed Greissing, Paul Wallach, Pat Shea and David +Aaron. + +4. 1975--The Schweiker-Hart subcommittee under the Church +Committee had a team headed by David Marston, that +included Troy Gustafson, Gaeton Fonzi, and Elliott +Maxwell. + +5. 1975--Pike Committee in House. People unknown. + +6. 1976--Senate Intelligence Committee under Daniel +Inouye.

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In addition, both Howard Baker and Lowell Weicker conducted +their own investigations of the JFK case during the Watergate +period. +Sprague and his senior staff people are professionals compared +to the amateurs listed above. Wayne Bishop was the only +professional investigator in all of the staff groups. It was easy +for the PCG to cut off or alter the directions of the prior +investigations. Thus, the one with the greatest hope, the +Schweiker subcommittee, wound up not mentioning any of the +important evidence uncovered in Florida and elsewhere in their +final report. The Congress and the public were left with the +impression that there might have been a Castro conspiracy to +assassinate JFK.

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PCG Strategy

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Faced with the new committee and Sprague's staff, the PCG had +devise a strategy that included:

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1. Attacking Dick Sprague to discredit him with dirt and +print it in the media.

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2. Using the media to spread PCG propaganda and control +the sources of all stories concerning the Select +Committee.

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3. Using PCG Congressmen to provide biased, distorted +quotes to the media for its use.

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4. Trying to discredit the entire committee by making it +appear to be disorganized and unmanageable.

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5. Controlling the voting and lobbying against the +continuation of the committee in January and February.

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6. Influencing members of the House to vote against the +Committee through a massive letter and telegram +campaign.

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7. Exaggerating the emphasis placed on the size of the +budget requested by Sprague without considering the +need for such a budget.

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8. Demanding that the committee justify its existence by +producing new evidence.

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9. Splitting the committee and attempting to create +dissension; creating a battle between Henry Gonzalez +and Richard Sprague and between Gonzalez and Downing.

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10. Hamstringing the staff so they could not receive +salaries, could not travel, did not have subpoena +power, could not make long distance telephone calls; +blocking access to the key files at the FBI, Justice +Department, CIA and Secret Service.

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11. Trying to insert their own man at the head of the +staff.

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12. Brainwashing Henry Gonzalez into believing that Sprague +and others were agents.

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13. Sacrificing Henry Gonzalez when it became obvious the +PCG could not control him as their chairman.

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14. Leaking stories that seemed to make the committee's +efforts unnecessary.

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Media Control

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The primary technique used by the PCG is its nearly absolute +control of the media. This is not as difficult to achieve as one +might imagine. Since most of the stories about the committee +originate in Washington under rather tightly-knit conditions, it is +necessary to control only a small number of key reporters and their +bosses. The rest of the media follow along like sheep. +The PCG trotted out some of their old-timers in the media to +initiate the public and congressional brainwashing program against +the committee. They used the same tactic against Jim Garrison +between 1967 and 1969. The old-timers included Jeremiah O'Leary, +George Lardner, Jr., and David Burnham. Jeremiah O'Leary of the +"Washington Star" was on the CIA's list of reporters exposed the +year before. George Lardner Jr. had been in David Ferrie's +apartment until 4 AM on the morning he was murdered. Lardner was a +PCG member in 1967, while he worked as a reporter for the +"Washington Post" (he is still with the "Post"). David Burnham at +the "New York Times," one of the several reporters in Harrison +Salisbury's and Harding Bancroft, Jr.'s stable of PCG workers, was +called upon to carry the brunt of the "Times"' attack. +There were, of course, others. As in 1967 and at other times +during the first decade of media cover-ups, the major TV, radio, +wire service, magazine and newspaper media acted as a cover-up +unit. Ben Bradlee, the PCG chieftain at the "Washington Post," +made sure that "Newsweek" did their hatchet jobs. Time, Inc., CBS +(with Eric Sevaried, Dick Salant and Leslie Midgeley), NBC (with +David Brinkley), and ABC (with Bob Clark and Howard K. Smith) all +went on the attack. The overall theme was that the committee would +soon die out.

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Media Tactics

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The tactics first used were to create the impression that the +Committee was not going to find anything of importance. Then Dick +Sprague became the chief target. One of the dirty tricks used +against him portrayed him as arrogant, flamboyant, power-mad, and +as a man who usurped the powers of the Committee. The writers and +editors of the PCG are very good at this sort of thing. The "New +York Times," with Burnham writing and Salisbury and Bancroft +directing, did a real hatchet job on Sprague. These techniques +convinced congressmen and much of the public. Sqrague was forced +to stay very quiet and away from reporters and cameras. That did +not deter the PCG people. Once an image of a man has been created +by the media, it is not necessary for him to appear in public. He +could even disappear for several weeks, but the flamboyant, noisy +image would go on uninterrupted. This technique is much less +obvious than murder, but it works nearly as well. When the time +comes to destroy or eliminate the man, all the PCG has to do is +create an image.

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The Vote to Continue

+ +

The man chosen to eliminate Sprague was the new chairman of the +Select Committee, Henry Gonzalez. Before setting up a classic +"personality conflict" between Gonzalez and Sprague, the PCG used +another tactic. It attempted to kill the Committee with a vote not +to continue it in the 1977 Congress. +The House and media PCG members overemphasized the large budget +requested by Dick Sprague, the use of the polygraph, the use of the +psychological stress evaluator and the telephone monitoring +equipment. Rather than telling the truth about the budget, +describing how the money would be spent, and describing why and how +the equipment was going to be used, the media (aided and abetted by +PCG members in the House itself) made it seem as though the budget +was totally out of line and that citizen's rights would be violated +by the use of such equipment. The PCG planted false information +that led Don Edwards of California to play into their hands on the +equipment issue. +The year-end report of the Committee, which they and the staff +hoped would make these subjects clear, countered the media attacks. +*But*, of course, the PCG controls the media, and the report was +completely blacked out. Most citizens do not even know it exists. +Almost every U.S. citizen has heard and seen Dick Sprague called a +rattlesnake and an unscrupulous character. However, the PCG lost +the vote against continuing the Committee and used a new method to +try to kill it.

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The New Tactic

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The PCG decided to use Gonzalez to control the Committee. The +stage was set for the PCG to knock off Sprague and to install one +of their own men. The plan was to do this by brainwashing Henry +Gonzalez into distrusting Sprague and selected members of the +Committee and the staff. +The idea was to use Gonzalez in this way to install a PCG man +(the fact that he was a PCG man was unknown to Gonzalez) as chief +of staff. Gonzalez would fire Sprague and the key staff members, +first blocking their access to important files and witnesses. The +PCG would then have been in a position to either fold up the +Committee by March 31, or to direct its efforts toward finding a +Castro-did-it conspiracy in JFK's case and no conspiracy in the +King case.

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Tactic Backfires

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The PCG did not forecast one important effect their tactics +would have. By the time Henry Gonzalez became chairman, the other +eleven members of the Committee and its staff had begun to smell a +rat. They noted with curiosity all of the strange coincidences +that occurred. During the floor debate on February 2, 1977 over +continuing the Committee, Representatives Devine, Preyer, Burke and +Fauntroy let the rest of the House know that they believed +something peculiar was happening to them. The appearance of the +Justice Department report on that same day disturbed them very +much. The attacks on Sprague upset them also. +The staff were even more disturbed. Most of them had assumed +they were being asked to conduct a thorough and unbiased +investigation of two homicides. The power of the PCG became +obvious to them over a period of several weeks. The effect of this +on both the Committee and its staff was to drive all eighty-four +people (73 staff and 11 Committee members) into a solid block (the +only exceptions were Gonzalez's people on the staff), more +determined than ever to get at the truth. Some staffers began +using their own money for travel. All of them took pay cuts. Many +of them decided they would work for nothing if necessary to keep +going. The PCG's strategy had backfired. The eighty-four loyal +people were like one giant lion backed into a corner, spurred on to +greater heights to fight back. +For this reason, the PCG tactic to use a brainwashed Henry +Gonzalez failed. The eighty-four people resisted that manuever by +threatening to resign en masse. Tip O'Neill and others were forced +to go against Gonzalez. Gonzalez resigned. The House voted by a +large majority to accept his resignation and Tip O'Neill appointed +Louis Stokes as the new chairman. At this point, the PCG decided +to abandon Gonzalez and to try another tactic, signalled by an +article in the "Washington Star" on March 3, 1977. Written by +"Star" staff writer Lynn Rosellini, the article was entitled, +"Gonzalez' Action Stuns Panel but Not the Home Folks." It was +manufactured by the PCG to discredit Gonzalez and his final demise. +(It was the first anti-Gonzalez article to appear.) The PCG had +obviously decided to throw Gonzalez to the wolves. The significant +quote was supposedly from a "source familiar with Gonzalez' career" +that said "Henry focuses in on conspiracies, the weird angle of +things. Once he gets involved in something, he shakes it by the +throat until it's dead." That was a dead giveaway that the PCG no +longer wanted Henry around.

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Next Tactic -- Death By Acclamation

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The PCG's next tactic was to convince a majority of the House +that the Committee had had it because of the feuding as portrayed +in the press. They hoped to either eliminate the Committee +altogether or eliminate the JFK investigation or to force Sprague +to resign. (After all, the King conspiracy can always be blamed on +J. Edgar Hoover, if it comes down to that. There is no particular +spillover from the King case into JFK, RFK or Wallace, provided +Frenchy can be kept out of the limelight.) It might have been +possible for the PCG Congressmen to propose dropping the JFK case +or to propose postponing it in favor of continuing just the King +case with a reduced budget. Prior to March 31, a House floor vote +or a vote in the Rules Committee could have been proposed that +might have limited the investigations and the authority of the +Select Committee in this way. The rules under which the Select +Committee would operate were not passed by the Committee due to the +conflict between Henry Gonzalez and the rest of the members, so the +proposal could have included restrictive rules. The PCG media +could have boosted this idea with the PCG loyalists in the House. +Jim Wright appeared to be the new leader of the opposition to kill +the Select Committee. More ground was being laid every day for a +negative vote on continuation. The hint was that the Committee +must come up with a bombshell or that it will die. +The Committee fought off this tactic by diverting the attention +of the media through a series of very rapidly developing activities +and a substantial reduction in the proposed budget, which plummeted +to 2.8 million for the remainder of 1977. The House finally voted +to continue the Committee by a very narrow margin, with a swing of +25 votes determining the result. +The final weapon used to obtain a vote to continue the Committee +on March 30 was the resignation of Dick Sprague.

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Exposing the PCG

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The best way to expose the PCG is to demonstrate that it has +been influencing or controlling the media and attempting to control +Congress. How can this be done? It will be necessary to show who +the PCG members are in the House and the media and exactly what +they have been doing while they are doing it. Getting this kind of +information out to the public will be very difficult, since the +entire media group seems to be controlled. Live TV is not easily +controllable. If unannounced exposures of PCG members are made on +live TV there would be no way for the PCG to stop it. About the +only way to set up such a situation would be to hold public +hearings with live TV coverage. +Exposing the PCG to Congress might be accomplished on the floor +of the House. Evidence of the clandestine activities of PCG +members in the tactics described above could be introduced on the +floor without media coverage. This happened to a minor extent on +March 30 when some of the Committee members began to accuse the +media of improper influence.

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Who Are The PCG Members

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The PCG members presently attempting to control the Select +Committee must be clearly identified.[1] There are, no doubt, some +media people and Representatives who sincerely believe that there +were no conspiracies and who have been playing into the hands of +the PCG without realizing it. Other Representatives, and media +people by the definition of the term PCG, are purposefully +controlling the situation. It may be difficult to distinguish +between these two groups without tracing back some PCG connection +of the culprits. Any CIA or FBI clandestine relationship or any +direct connection with any of the assassination cases would be a +tip. An example of this is George Lardner, Jr.'s direct connection +with the JFK case ten years ago. (Lardner was in David Ferrie's +apartment for four hours after the midnight time of death estimated +by the New Orleans coroner. Ferrie was killed by a karate chop to +the back of his neck.) Jim Garrison interrogated Lardner at some +length, but he never received a satisfactory explanation of what he +had been doing there. +While it may be difficult to tell which congressmen are sincere +and which are knowingly trying to extend the cover-ups, the Select +Committee must turn its attention to any member of the House who +throws up roadblocks or who speaks out strongly against the +continuation of the investigations. On this basis, one must +suspect every one of the Representatives cited below. +Many questions should be asked of this group. For example, who +encouraged Mr. Bauman during that autumn and on March 30, Mr. Sisk +last spring and Mr. Quillen in February to suddenly become so +vehement about stopping investigations of the assassinations? +Their stated reasons were that the Kennedys were opposed, costs, +the lack of new evidence, the Warren Commission, etc. But these +reasons can no longer be their own true beliefs. On whose behalf +were they acting? How did Trent Lott find out that the Committee +staff made a telephone call to Cameroon, which he discussed on +March 28 at the Rules meeting? +Who talked Frank Thompson into a campaign to shut off the Select +Committee's financial resources? (The Thompson efforts cannot be +explained away by the ordinary controller's motivations.) Who +convinced Jim Wright that the Committee was doomed and that he +should personally intervene in the Gonzalez, Sprague and Committee +members' battle? And, most importantly, who brainwashed both Henry +Gonzalez and Gail Beagle into mistrusting the people they had +always trusted? Answer these questions and publicize the answers, +and the top-down approach to exposing the PCG and solving the +assassination conspiracies will be well along the path to success.

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Part II

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"Hard" and "Soft" Propaganda in 1977

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When the time approached for the Select Committee on +Assassinations to ask the House of Representatives for its 1978 +budget, it was interesting to once again examine the PCG's control +over the American news media and the Congress. To those who +observed the assassination scene with blinders removed, it was +patently obvious that the December 1977 date for the Select +Committee's budget approval was a target. The PCG attempted to +defeat the Committee's efforts to get at the truth underlying the +John Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations and the cover-up +crimes associated with them. +An all-out effort was mounted by the PCG to influence the +thinking of citizens and the votes of the members of the House. +This effort manifested itself in the major news media--over the +three TV networks, the "New York Times," "Washington Post," +"Newsweek," "Time," book publishers, book reviewers, TV talk shows, +etc. +This massive campaign is a useful test to prove the validity of +contentions made by this author and others in 1976 and 1977 +concerning the relationships between the Power Control Group and +the American news media, as utilized in the continuing cover-ups of +the domestic assassinations, and in the PCG's efforts to destroy +the reputations of assassination researchers[2] and the two +official investigations of the John Kennedy assassinations.[3] +New evidence surfaced in 1977 to support these contentions: a +CIA document released under the Freedom of Information Act and an +article by a new potential ally for assassination truth seekers, +Carl Bernstein. Both of these documents were provided to the +author by Ted Gandolfo in New York, who now has his own weekly +cable TV show on Friday nights on Manhattan TV entitled, +"Assassination USA."

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Evidence of Media Control by the CIA

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Carl Bernstein wrote an article exposing the CIA's methods of +controlling the news media.[4] The basic technique dictates +planting a Secret Team member at the top of each major media +organization, or obtaining tacit agreements from the top man to use +reporters working for the CIA, and to use CIA people, stories, and +policies on the inside of the organization. Bernstein named men +above the level named by this author as CIA people in certain +organizations. For example, the author's claim was that Harding +Bancroft, Jr. has been the CIA control point at the "New York +Times." Bernstein named Arthur Hays Sulzberger, the owner of the +"Times" and Bancroft's boss, as the CIA's man at the "Times." At +CBS, the author named Richard Salant. Bernstein names William C. +Paley. At the "Washington Post" and "Newsweek" Bernstein names +Philip Graham, Katherine Graham's husband, former owner of the +"Post" and "Newsweek," and by inference, Mrs. Graham since her +husband's death. The author named Ben Bradlee. But Bernstein's +information confirms the author's contention that the CIA controls +the 15 news media organizations in the U.S. +The other CIA top level individuals named by Bernstein are as +follows:

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"Louisville Courier Journal"--Barry Bingham, Sr. +NBC--Richard Wald +ABC--Sam Jaffe +Time, Inc.--Henry Luce +Copley News Service--James Copley +Hearst--Seymour Freiden

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The PCG, through their prime intelligence members, are today +still controlling what the media do and say about the subject of +assassinations and the Select Committee on Assassinations.[5] They +do this by influencing the heads of each organization who determine +media editorial policies that are carried out by their +subordinates. In some cases, however, lower level people are also +planted as reporters, editors or producers to execute the policies, +write the stories, produce the programs, review the books, or write +or publish the books. The CIA also owns and controls many +publishing houses, freelance writers or reviewers who can also be +used in this massive campaign. +However, the reader should not immediately jump to the +conclusion that all of the media people knowingly continue to +cover-up of the assassination conspiracies. It is only necessary +that they actually believe the CIA's stories and positions against +conspiracies. For example, Anthony Lewis at the "New York Times" +participates in this entire fraud, actually believing that Oswald +was the lone madman assassin. +It is inconceivable, however, that men intelligent enough to +rise to the top of CBS, NBC, ABC, the "New York Times et al." could +actually believe that Oswald was the lone assassin. Some or most +of them must be cooperating fully in the PCG cover-up efforts.

+ +

Proof of CIA Efforts to Discredit Researchers

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A recently released CIA document[6] was a dispatch issued from +CIA headquarters in April 1967 to certain bases and stations to +mount a campaign through media contacts (called assets) against +certain assassination researchers. The targets included Mark Lane, +Joachim Joesten, Penn Jones, Edward Epstein and Bertrand Russell. +The document describes an entire program to be used to discredit +the "critics." Many of the exact expressions that were used by the +CIA-controlled media to attack the researchers can be found in this +document. One example is: "The CIA should use this argument in +general. Conspiracy on the large scale often suggested (by +critics) would be impossible to conceal in the United States, +especially since informants could expect to receive large +royalties, etc." Another argument suggested is: "Note that Robert +Kennedy, Attorney General at the time and John F. Kennedy's +brother, would be the last man to overlook or conceal any +conspiracy." +How many times did we hear that between 1967 and 1969? +The document also suggests using an article by Fletcher Knebel +to attack Ed Epstein's book and to attack it rather than Mark +Lane's book because "Lane's book is much more difficult to answer +as a whole, as one becomes lost in a morass of unrelated details." +The timing of this document is particularly important. April 1, +1967 was approximately two months after Jim Garrison's +investigation surfaced, and only shortly after Garrison found David +Ferrie murdered in his own apartment and had Clay Shaw arrested. +Since we now know that both men were contract agents for the CIA +and that the CIA went to great lengths under Richard Helms' +direction to protect Clay Shaw and to keep his true identity from +being revealed, the chances are good that this document was +triggered by Garrison's investigation. +The names of the authors of the document have been blacked out +of the copy that was released. Further research might reveal who +actually wrote it and "pulled it together" (as a note in hand print +at the top states).

+ +

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

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The top level media control was demonstrated by the ABC-TV +program, "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald", whose co-director, +Lawrence Schiller, had to have been selected at the suggestion of +the PCG. Schiller, one of the worst people in the PCG's stable of +freelancers, is best known for his book supporting the Warren +Commission and attacking the researchers, called "The +Scavengers."[7] +Schiller is perhaps the biggest scavenger ever created. He +supposedly obtained a "deathbed" statement from Jack Ruby by +illegally and unethically sneaking a tape recorder into his +hospital room. He then parlayed this into a wide-selling record +with distasteful and untruthful propaganda. More recently he +seized the opportunity to interview Gary Gilmore before his +execution, practically holding a mike to his mouth while the +commands were being given to the firing squad. +How, the reader may ask, could Schiller become a co-producer of +a major ABC television show? The answer is simple. He is +available to attack and ridicule the assassination researchers and +reinforce the no-conspiracy idea for the PCG. +The ABC production crew had the full cooperation of the Dallas +police in re-enacting the assassination event in Dealey Plaza. +There is no way that could have happened without PCG influence. +The Dallas police, quite guilty of cover-up in the case and having +some individual members on the assassination team, would not permit +anyone to film a reenactment of the assassination showing +conspiracy or the truth. The PCG had to assure them that the +program's editorial position would be anti-conspiracy. +The "Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald" was given extensive publicity +on TV, in magazines, in newspapers. In England, a special article +about it appeared in the Sunday magazine section of a London +newspaper complete with photographs from the shooting sequence as +filmed.[8] The PCG spent an enormous amount of money on the +program and a publicity campaign. There is no way ABC-TV could +have done that on their own. More than 80% of the people believe +there was a conspiracy: why wouldn't ABC go along with the 80% of +their viewers and portray the truth? The answer again is simple: +ABC is controlled from the very top, probably much higher than the +Sam Jaffe level, by the PCG and the CIA.

+ +

Other TV Shows

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Both NBC and CBS are planning major TV specials on the +assassinations. CBS is planning a show on Ruby and Oswald. The +theme will be that the Warren Commission was right and that both +Oswald and Ruby were lone nuts. Mr. Paley and Mr. Salant are the +PCG people calling the shots. NBC is planning a show on Martin +Luther King which will have a section on the assassination. Even +though Abbey Mann is directing the show and he would like to bring +out some of the facts, it is certain that the PCG members of NBC, +including Richard Wald, will not permit any conclusions about Ray's +innocence or information about Frenchy-Raoul or Jack Youngblood +(the real assassins) to be included.

+ +

Priscilla McMillan--CIA Agent

+ +

One of the more remarkable things about the massive 1977 +campaign of the CIA and the PCG is their blatant use of freelance +writers and news reporters who are well known CIA agents to nearly +anyone who has taken the time to pay attention. Three agents are +Priscilla McMillan and her husband, George McMillan, and Jeremiah +O'Leary of the "Washington Star." Priscilla (in particular) is so +obviously an agent that even Dick Cavett indirectly accused her of +being one when she appeared on his show with Marina Oswald to plug +her new book. +The CIA decided the perfect time to publish McMillan's book[9], +which had been completed for several years. A publisher under CIA +control was selected, and the book was published in time for the +December committee budget vote. The CIA arranged that Marina +appear with Pat on several national TV shows. Priscilla had Marina +well rehearsed for these shows--she even retold the old lies about +Oswald shooting at General Walker. The commentators selected to +interview both women, including Dick Cavett, David Hartmann (ABC), +and Tom Snyder (NBC) had their orders to deal delicately with them +and not to ask any embarrassing questions. Cavett came closest +with his essentially accusatory question about whether Priscilla +was a CIA agent. +No one asked Marina the one embarrassing question she would have +had the greatest difficulty answering regarding the picture of +Oswald holding the rifle and the communist newspaper that Marina +claimed she took of him: "How was it possible for you to have +taken a photograph that since has been demonstrated to be a +composite of three photographs, with your husband's head attached +to someone else's body at the chin line?" (flashing on the screen +Fred Newcomb's slide showing the chin level discontinuity). Cavett +actually flashed the fake photograph on the screen at the beginning +of his show, but he never mentioned it. +This monumental PCG effort that involved controlling at least +three TV networks, a CIA publisher, Marina Oswald, a CIA agent, +Priscilla McMillan, an enormous amount of time and money, and a +special book review by the "New York Times"[10] demonstrates how +much power the PCG has. +Some of those people who watched "Good Morning America" and the +"Tomorrow Show" and the "Dick Cavett Show" (three different types +of national viewing audiences) who believe the lone assassin theory +and the Warren Commission had those beliefs reinforced by Priscilla +McMillan and Marina Oswald. It is wise for researchers, the Select +Committee on Assassinations and others who know what is really +going on, not to underestimate this power of the PCG.

+ +

Fensterwald's Book

+ +

A book by Bud Fensterwald appeared in 1977 under the sponsorship +of the PCG.[11] This clever effort on the part of one of the CIA's +best agents was designed to throw people off the track who have a +somewhat deeper interest in the JFK assassination. It was meant to +divert attention away from the CIA by omitting at least twelve of +the CIA conspirators who were in the files of the Committee to +Investigate Assassinations (co-founded by Fensterwald and the +author in 1968). +No excuse can be given for leaving these key people out of the +book, because the CIA had extensive files on most of them. Bud +Fensterwald even had a personal correspondent relationship to the +key informant of the group, Richard Case Nagell. The twelve are: +William Seymour, Emilio Santana, Manuel Garcia Gonzalez, Guy +Gabaldin, Mary Hope, Richard Case Nagell, Harry Dean, Ronald +Augustinovich, Thomas Beckham, Fred Lee Crisman, Frenchy, and Jack +Lawrence. All of them were included in a description of the +details of the assassination team earlier in this book and in an +article by the author.[12] +Zebra Books, the publisher of Fensterwald's book, is a CIA-controlled organization that has also published another +disinformation book, "Appointment in Dallas," by Hugh +MacDonald.[13] In both cases, the PCG intended to misdirect +attention away from the CIA participants while at the same time +admitting conspiracy. There is no way the story in MacDonald's +book can be true. It maintains that Oswald at least planned to +fire from the sixth floor window of the TSBD Building. As all good +researchers know, the photographs of the window, inside and +outside, prove there was no one firing from that window that day.

+ +

The de Mohrenschildt Murder

+ +

The Murder Inc. branch of the PCG killed George de Mohrenschildt +when he became too dangerous for them. The media branch of the PCG +then undertook a campaign to discredit Willem Oltmans and NOS-TV +(in Holland) who happened to be in possession of a series of video +and audio tapes of de Mohrenschildt that will be very damaging for +the PCG. +The de Mohrenschildt murder has so far been concealed by the PCG +with the help of the media and portrayed as the suicide of a man +who had become insane. As Willem Oltmans' book clearly +demonstrates[14] de Mohrenschildt was quite sane when he +disappeared from Belgium. He was in the process of giving Ed +Epstein a story about his involvement in the JFK assassination when +he was murdered in Florida.

+ +

Donald Donaldson's Disappearance

+ +

General Donald Donaldson, alias Dimitri Dimitrov alias Jim +Adams, was intimately acquainted with the CIA people who planned +JFK's assassination. He was in Holland to tell his story to NOS-TV +and Willem Oltmans. He told Oltmans that Allen Dulles was the key +CIA man in planning JFK's assassination. (Donaldson had been +brought to the U.S. as a double agent during World War II by +Franklin Roosevelt.) He held back his knowledge of the +assassination conspiracy until the Church Committee was formed. He +then took his information to Church, who brought him to President +Ford rather than having him questioned by the Church Committee or +the Schweiker sub-committee. Ford, Church and Donaldson had a +meeting in which Ford talked both of them into keeping Donaldson's +information under wraps. +When de Mohrenschildt was killed, Donaldson decided it was time +to make his information public and to offer it to the Select +Committee. He approached Oltmans, asked that his identity be kept +secret, told NOS his story, and then remained in Holland while +Oltmans attempted to tell the story to President Carter. Oltmans +revealed Donaldson's identity on American TV and to the Select +Committee when Carter refused to listen to the story. Donaldson +then moved to England, and subsequently disappeared from a London +hotel, leaving large unpaid bills at both his London and Amsterdam +hotels. The possibility is very good that he has gone the same +route as de Mohrenschildt, murdered by the PCG.

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Attacks on the Select Committee

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One of a series of attacks on the Select Committee in November +and December, leading up to the December vote on the 1978 budget, +took place in the form of an article by probable CIA agent George +Lardner, Jr., one of the Select Committee's biggest enemies. He is +one of the PCG's stable of reporters. Lardner wrote an article for +the Sunday "Washington Post" on November 6, 1977, portraying the +Committee as engaging in random, uncoordinated activity, +interrogating witnesses from the Garrison investigation (which +Lardner labelled, "the zany Garrison investigation", and "the +fruitless investigation"). The "New York Times," "Washington Star" +and other media can be expected to open up all barrels under PCG +direction. The general theme will no doubt be that the Committee +has done nothing at all and that Oswald acted alone.[15] +If Council Blakey or Chairman Stokes, or JFK subcommittee +Chairman Preyer try to respond to these attacks they will be ripped +to shreds by the PCG's media people. As the author pointed out in +part I of this chapter, the only chance the Committee and the House +have to keep the investigation going is to expose the PCG and their +media control, from the top down. Otherwise the Committee cannot +win the battle.

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[1] Power Control Group (PCG) defined in prior articles and one book +by the author, as follows:

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The PCG includes all organizations and individuals who +knowingly participated in any of the domestic political +assassinations or attempted assassinations, or in any of the +efforts to cover-up the truth about those assassinations. This +includes a large number of murders of witnesses and participants. +The assassinations involved include, but are not necessarily +limited to the following:

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John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, George +Wallace and Mary Jo Kopechne.

+ +

The PCG is a much larger group than just the clandestine parts +of the CIA and the FBI, or the Secret Team as defined by L. +Fletcher Prouty. It would however, include all those members of +the Secret Team or the CIA or the FBI falling under the +definition.

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[2] The author's contentions about media control by the PCG have +appeared in one self-published book and several articles:

+ +

(a) Book: "The Taking of America, 1-2-3," R.E. Sprague, +self-published, Hartsdale, N.Y., 1976. (First Edition. This +Third Edition contains chapters 15-17 plus the Appendix which +were written after 1977. --Editor) +(b) Articles: "The American News Media and the Assassination of +President John F. Kennedy: Accessories After Fact," R.E. +Sprague, "Computers and Automation," June, July, 1973. +(c) "The Central Intelligence Agency and the 'The New York +Times,'" R.E. Sprague. (Using pseudonym Samuel F. Thurston) +"Computers and Automation," July, 1971. Republished in "People +and the Pursuit of Truth," May, 1977. +(d) "Congressional Investigation of Political Assassinations in +the United States: The Two Approaches: From the Bottom Up vs. +From the Top Down," R.E. Sprague, "People and the Pursuit of +Truth," May, 1977.

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[3] The two official investigations of the Kennedy assassination +referred to here are:

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(a) The investigation by the office of the district attorney of +Orleans Parish, New Orleans, La. 1966 to 1969 (Jim Garrison). +(b) The investigation by the Select Committee on Assassinations +of the U.S. House of Representatives 1976-1977.

+ +

The investigations by the Schweiker-Hart subcommittee of the +Church committee and the Ervin Watergate committee were never +really approved by Congress, and so lacked the power and +influence to become a threat to the PCG.

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[4] "The CIA and the Press," Carl Bernstein, "Rolling Stone," October +4, 1977. A copy of the full unedited manuscript of this article +was also made available to the author. The "Rolling Stone" +version had selected names omitted.

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[5] Bernstein's article also describes the CIA influence over several +other media organizations without naming the top executives. +These are: +"New York Herald Tribune" +"Saturday Evening Post" +"Scripps Howard Newspapers" +"Associated Press" +"United Press International" +"Reuters" +"Miami Herald" +And a CIA official told Bernstein, "that's just a small part of +the list."

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[6] The CIA document was obtained by Harold Weisberg under the +Freedom of Information Act. It is dated 4/1/67 and labelled +"Dispatch to Chiefs, Certain Stations and Bases." Document +Number 1035-960 for "FOIA Review" on September 1976. Object: +Countering Criticism of the "Warren Report."

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[7] "The Scavengers and Critics of the Warren Report," Lawrence +Schiller, Dell Publishing Co., New York, 1967.

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[8] "The Big If," "London Sunday Times," September 18, 1977.

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[9] "Marina and Lee," Patricia McMillan, Harper & Row, 1977.

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[10] A review of the McMillan book appeared in the "Sunday New York +Times" book review section on November 6, 1977. It praised the +book to the skys, backed up the Warren Commission, and severely +attacked the researchers and the Select Committee.

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[11] "Coincidence or Conspiracy," Bernard Fensterwald, Jr., Zebra +Books, New York, 1977.

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[12] (a) "The Taking of America, 1-2-3," Richard E. Sprague, +self-published, 1976.

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(b) "The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The +Involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Plans +and the Cover-Up", Richard E. Sprague -- "People and the +Pursuit of Truth," May, 1975.

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[13] "Appointment in Dallas," Hugh C. McDonald, Zebra Books, New York, +1975.

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[14] "George de Mohrenschildt," Willem Oltmans, Published in The +Netherlands, Unpublished in the United States.

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[15] This chapter originally appeared as the article "Congressional +Investigation of Political Assassinations in the United States: +The Two Approaches: From the Bottom Up vs. From the Top Down," +by the author in "People and the Pursuit of Truth," May, 1977. +Since the original article was written, in November 1977 the +Select Committee decided that the budget money approved in 1977 +was sufficient to carry over a few months into 1978. No budget +request was made in December 1977. The PCG can now be expected +to continue its attacks until the spring of 1978 when the +budget request will be made. (January 4, 1978)

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-- +daveus rattus

+ +

yer friendly neighborhood ratman

+ +

KOYAANISQATSI

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ko.yaa.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life +in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. +5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.

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1979: The House Select Committee (1)

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Chapter 16 +1984 Here We Come

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George Orwell undoubtedly did not realize how accurate his 1984 +scenario would be by the year 1979. As 1978 drew to a close, +events in America made Orwell's descriptions of such concepts as +Newspeak and a supposedly open but actually closed society, very +close to reality. By 1984, now only five short years away, +Orwell's scenario will apparently be right on the nose. +Any doubts about who is in charge of America and how effective +they have become in creating our actual version of Newspeak, +disappeared as the Carter administration, congress, the courts, and +the media, all combined their coordinated efforts to cover up and +distort our current history. The hopes of thousands of Americans +that their only true representatives in government, the members of +the House, would expose the fabric of lies about our recent history +and the Power Control Group's activities were dashed to smithereens +by the House of Representative's Select Committee on +Assassinations. The hopes that Carter might be on our side, faded +away in 1978 and the intentions of the executive branch were made +quite clear by the new directors of the FBI and the CIA. +The murder incorporated group within the Power Control Group +continued to murder people in 1978, with efficiency and dispatch. +The presidential race in 1980 has been foreclosed to Ted Kennedy +for a long time, but the chances that any candidate, not willing to +extend the assassination cover-ups, could be nominated and elected, +are close to zero. +The American people, by and large, do not understand or +appreciate very much of this. The Select Committee teamed with the +media and by holding public hearings with almost no live coverage +they convinced the majority of Americans that there was no +conspiracy in the JFK case and that James Earl Ray shot Martin +Luther King although he might have had help from his brothers. The +public has never heard of most of the eight men assassinated in +1977 and 1978 by the PCG, nor do they appreciate the fact that +future assassinations will be carried off by the same bunch. +How the hell did the PCG control Congress and the Select +Committee? It wasn't easy and they very nearly didn't. +There may also be another explanation about the committee's +actions in which the word "control" is too strong. Influence, +intimidation by throwing out implied warnings or threats, or just +plain making it obvious that personal danger could be involved, +might have been used. The process was very involved and it made +use of a number of techniques and approaches, including some we can +only guess at in 1979. However, a number of the PCG's methods are +known and will be described herein. +The executive branch control by the PCG was exposed even before +Carter's election by those whose eyes were open wide enough to see +it. This author frankly admits to partially closed eyes until +1978. The significance of the Bilderberg Society and the +Trilateral Commission was not obvious until Carter had been in +office for a couple of years. Now, it is very obvious that he is +under the complete domination of the men who really run the U.S.A., +and that he will never do anything to expose the truth about the +political assassinations or their cover-ups. +The latest indication of where the Carter administration stands +was the testimony given by FBI director William H. Webster to the +Select Committee on December 11, 1978. He said that the FBI would +freeze the scene and take full immediate control of the +investigation of any future presidential assassination or that of +any other elected U.S. leader. +In case anyone has any doubt about what he meant by "freeze the +scene", Webster went on to say, "One purpose of the FBI +investigation would be to lay to rest untrue conspiratorial +questions that have a way of rising, and avoid the sort of mistakes +that followed the assassination of President Kennedy."[1] In other +words, the FBI will suppress or destroy any evidence of conspiracy +even if they were not involved in the assassination itself. One +such "mistake" in the Dallas murder surfaced in December 1978 when +Earl Golz of the "Dallas Morning News" found a movie that the FBI +failed to "freeze". It was taken by a man named Bronson and it +shows two men, not one, in the sixth floor window of the TSBD just +five minutes before the shots were fired. One of the men is +wearing a red shirt. That filmed evidence matches the still photo +taken by an unknown photographer earlier that morning, and +developed at a Dallas photo lab by Ed Foley, the lab owner. The +author found the photo and obtained a print of it in 1967. The +Foley photo, as it became known, shows two men in the sixth floor +window, one with a black shirt and one with a bright red shirt. +Mr. red shirt matches the description of the man in the Bronson +film. He is not Lee Harvey Oswald. Neither is the man in the +black shirt. He was most probably Buel Wesley Frazier, the man who +drove Oswald to work on November 22, 1963. The facial profile and +black shirt match photos of Frazier and another man entitled to be +on that sixth floor, were there around 10 AM and at 12:25, five +minutes before the shots were fired. Mr. Webster has in mind +rounding up all such evidence and destroying it right away in the +next assassination. +The evidence discussed in earlier chapters of this book, also +not "frozen" by the FBI, proves that the "snipers nest" was no +snipers nest at all, but just an area where workers on that floor +were piling cartons to allow the floor laying crew at the west end +of that floor to do their job. +Webster would like the FBI to grab such evidence the next time, +and destroy it before "conspiracy rumors" get started. The FBI +came much closer to doing this in Memphis, but after all, they were +involved directly in the planning and execution of the +assassination of Dr. King. They had a much greater incentive for +cover-up in that murder. William Sullivan's Division Five, at the +behest of J. Edgar Hoover, carried out the King assassination using +Raoul and Jack Youngblood plus others. +Returning to the Select Committee, I must switch over to a more +personal tone because of my direct involvement with the group from +its inception. I helped Henry Gonzalez in the early days of 1975 +and 1976 when the committee was just a wild dream for most people. +I made a presentation to Thomas Downing's staff members who +eventually became part of the Select Committee staff. Mark Lane +arranged that in the summer of 1976. The photographic evidence of +conspiracy in the JFK case was as overwhelming to them and to Henry +as it was to anyone who has taken the five or six hours or so to +look at it. I then became an advisor to Richard A. Sprague and Bob +Tanenbaum when the committee was formed and spent the months from +November 1976 to July 1977 helping them with the photographic +evidence and with evidence collected by the Committee to +Investigate Assassinations including Jim Garrison's evidence. +If Henry Gonzalez or Richard A. Sprague, or Thomas Downing had +stayed with the committee their work would not have been +controlled. Sprague's loyal deputy counsels, Bob Tanenbaum, in +charge of the JFK investigation and Bob Lehner in charge of the MLK +investigation had already begun to get at the real evidence of the +Power Control Group and the FBI and CIA's involvement in the two +cases and in the cover-ups. The committee members were already +becoming very suspicious of the two agencies. Walter Fauntroy, +chairman of the MLK sub-committee, even dared to speak out about +the CIA's influence. He was beaten into the ground by the PCG's +members in the House. +So Gonzalez, Sprague, Tanenbaum, Lehner and others who dared +take on the intelligence portions of the PCG, had to go. They were +forced out by one of the ancient techniques employed by the Romans +known as divide and conquer. Once Henry Gonzalez became convinced +that Richard A. Sprague was working for the CIA and the PCG, he +attacked Sprague bitterly. Henry knew there was a PCG and he knew +who had murdered John Kennedy and why. Henry had to go. He was +made to look like a paranoid fool and forced out by the key PCG +members of the House. Two PCG agents, Mr. Z and Harry Livingstone, +helped convince him that Sprague was a CIA man. +Mr. Z was brought in by Henry as a lawyer for his committee and +worked on Henry's beliefs about Richard A. Sprague. Over some +weeks he convinced Henry that Richard A. Sprague was a CIA +operative. He was supported in this activity by Harry Livingstone +(later author of "High Treason"). Harry Livingstone engaged in +various plagiaristic activities and scams, and over quite a period +of time he worked on Henry to convince him that Richard A. Sprague +was a CIA operative. At the same time Henry was developing his +beliefs with the help of Mr. Z and Mr. Livingstone, Richard A. +Sprague and his staff were developing skepticism about Henry's +integrity. The net result was both men resigned. In the next +year, 1978, the author appeared with Richard A. Sprague on a cable +television broadcast hosted by Ted Gandolfo in New York City, +named "Assassionation USA," and the three of them had a detailed +discussion about Sprague's reasons for resigning from the +Committee. To some extent his thinking was influenced by his +skepticism about Henry Gonzalez's integrity. +Once Louis Stokes took over as chairman, Sprague's men were +gradually calmed down, and the so-called search for the right chief +counsel was underway. It is difficult to detect what was going on +during that spring of 1977. Suffice it to say that the PCG was +undoubtedly pulling out every stop to get their own chief counsel +into the committee and to build up the case for getting rid of +Tanenbaum, Lehner, Donovan Gaye, and others who knew too much or +who had the gall to go up against the agencies. +The result of all this hard work by the PCG was the installation +in July 1977 of Dr. Robert Blakey as chief counsel. Tanenbaum +resigned almost immediately, making Blakey's job a little easier, +but Lehner and Gaye had to be fired by Blakey. Many others were +also weeded out. We may never know exactly what they all knew or +how they were forced out, because of the use of one of the PCG's +cleverest techniques and one of the most insidious. +Each committee staff member, each consultant and each committee +member was required to sign, as a condition of continuing +employment or membership on the committee, a nondisclosure +agreement. Now, nondisclosure agreements are nothing new, +especially in classified situations or in sensitive or patent or +copyright situations. The committee's nondisclosure agreement was +however, very unusual. Many well-known attorneys have pronounced +it illegal. Richard A. Sprague saw it and said he would absolutely +never have required the staff to sign anything like it. He said it +was illegal and unenforcable in several of its clauses. The worst +thing about it, or the best thing, from the viewpoint of the PCG, +are the paragraphs giving control over the committee to the FBI and +the CIA.[2] +The committee, under Sprague, planned to investigate the FBI and +the CIA in regard to both assassinations and the cover-ups. In +fact, Sprague had put both agencies on notice to that effect. +Subpoenas were being prepared for access to all of their withheld +information. Investigations of the CIA's role in the Mexico City +part of the assassination conspiracy, as well as Oswald's and +Ruby's connections with both agencies were under way. +The Blakey agreement automatically put a stop to all of that. +Here is one excerpt from the agreement. +"I (the staff member, committee member, or consultant) hereby +agree never to divulge, publish or reveal by words, conduct or +otherwise, . . . any information pertaining to intelligence sources +or methods as designated by the Director of Central Intelligence, +or any confidential information that is received by the Select +Committee or that comes into my possession by virtue of my position +with the Select Committee, to any person not a member of the Select +Committee, or, after the Select Committee's termination, by such +manner as the House of Representatives may determine or, in the +absence of a determination by the House, in such manner as the +Agency or Department from which the information originated may +determine." +In other words if the committee or an individual staff member, +or a consultant discovered that the CIA or part of it, was involved +in the assassination of John Kennedy, or that the FBI was in part +or in whole responsible for the death of Martin Luther King, or +that either agency was guilty of covering up the conspiracies in +both cases, the CIA and the FBI would have the right to prevent +these findings from being revealed to anyone outside the committee. +Furthermore, those agencies are still in existence today while the +Select Committee is not, so that the nondisclosure agreement which +goes on in perpetuity, gives both the FBI and CIA continuing +complete control over the individuals who signed it. +Another excerpt reads as follows: +"The Chairman of the Select Committee shall consult with the +Director of Central Intelligence for the purpose of the Chairman's +determination as to whether or not the material (any material +obtained by the signer of the agreement) contains information that +I pledge not to disclose." If that sounds like Catch-22, it is. +The interpretation that could be placed on that clause is that the +CIA has the right to decide what evidence in the JFK and MLK +assassinations should be withheld on grounds that the CIA itself +determines. +How could the committee possibly have investigated the CIA under +those terms and conditions? The answer is, they could not and did +not. +Can anyone doubt that the PCG prepared the agreement, implanted +Blakey, and coerced or blackmailed or threatened the Chairman and +the rest of the committee until they agreed to have everyone sign +it! +The most insidious part of the agreement is the clause that +could be described as the threat, or blackmail clause. It is +perhaps this clause that has closed the mouths and pens of all the +ex-staff members who knew what was going on, but who signed the +agreement. That clause reads as follows: +"In addition to any rights for criminal prosecution or for +injunctive relief the United Stated Government may have for +violation of this agreement, the United States Government may file +a civil suit in an appropriate court for damages as a consequence +of a breach of this agreement. The costs of any civil suit brought +by the United States for breach of this agreement, including court +costs, investigative expenses, and reasonable attorney fees, shall +be borne by any defendant who loses such suit." . . . "I hereby +agree that in any suit by the United States Government for +injunctive or monetary relief pursuant to the terms of this +agreement, personal jurisdiction shall obtain and venue shall lie +in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, +or in any other appropriate United States District Court in which +the United States may elect to bring suit. I further agree that +the law of the District of Columbia shall govern the interpretation +and construction of this agreement." +Those readers who have followed the performance of the U.S. +courts in the JFK and MLK cases through the years, will recognize +the trap in those last two sentences. Any ex-staffer or +consultant, or even a Congressman would have about as much chance +against a CIA/FBI-directed suit in a court of their choice, as the +man in the moon. The United States Government, in this clause, is +not your government or mine. It is the Power Control Group. You +can bet they would select a court already programmed for decision. +The clause is incredible on the face of it. +This was a mighty powerful weapon and the committee used it to a +maximum extent in carrying out a masterful job of continuing the +two cover-ups. It was masterful in the sense that they were not as +bold and bald about it as the Warren Commission or the Rockefeller +Commission or the Justice Department and the courts have been in +the MLK case. Their conclusions are inconclusive; sort of. They +say that to determine whether or not there really were conspiracies +in the two cases was beyond their means and the time they had +available. Nevertheless, the preponderant weight of the public +testimony before the committee was toward no conspiracy in the JFK +case and a, "Ray shot him, but might have been helped," conclusion +in the King case. But the hold they exercised over the staff and +consultants in directing their investigations away from conspiracy +was very smoothly done, with the nondisclosure agreement always +lurking in the background as a possible threat. +The agreement was used as an excuse by the committee to avoid +answering questions. For example, I wrote to Louis Stokes on April +5, October 30, and November 24, 1978 asking why the committee had +not called several important witnesses in the JFK case, including +Richard Case Nagell. Stokes had told me in a letter written on May +15, 1978, that the suggestion that Nagell be called was being +followed and that the staff was being alerted about him. Blakey +took no action and did not contact Nagell or Richard Russell, the +only person who knew where Nagell was to be found.[3] +Stokes sent me this reply to my inquiries about the witnesses on +December 41978.

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"Dear Mr. Sprague: +Thank you for your letter of November 24, 1978. I am aware of +the amount of time you have spent analyzing the assassination of +President John F. Kennedy and your interest in the work of the +Select Committee on Assassinations since its inception. However, I +regret that *under our Rules*, it is impossible for us to respond +to your letter in a manner which would reveal the substance or +procedure of our investigation, or the names of those persons who +will be called to testify before the committee. The committee is, +of course, grateful for your suggestions and those of the many +other concerned citizens who have taken the time to write." +(Underlining for emphasis is the author's) +Sincerely, +Louis Stokes +Chairman

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"The Rules" Stokes refers to include the nondisclosure +agreement. This letter implies that subsequent to December 4, +1978, the committee might be calling more JFK witnesses. Of +course, that didn't happen. Except for some high level FBI, Secret +Service and other government officials testifying about +Presidential safety and future assassination investigations, the +committee's show was already over, and Louis Stokes was well aware +of that. I'm sure Louis Stokes had his own personal reasons, not +necessarily sinister, for making that reply. +The committee had no intention of risking the appearance of any +of the more knowledgeable or involved witnesses whose names I had +given them in October 1978 as well as in May 1978 and November +1978. A list of these names appears later in this chapter. +The Warren Commission proved how easy it is to avoid finding a +conspiracy if you don't look for one, even one that seems to jump +up and smack you in the face. The Select Committee did this in +spades. The procedure was orchestrated by Robert Blakey by various +means. One of his methods was to split up the hard core Dealey +Plaza evidence and investigations into sections. He formed an +advisory panel of outside "experts", for each section; one on +medical evidence, photographic evidence, ballistics evidence, +trajectory evidence, etc. Then he made sure there was almost no +coordination, cross talk, or feedback among the panels or even +among the staff members assigned to each section, except at his +level. +There was a great amount of internal complaining about this, but +to no avail. Again, the nondisclosure agreement worked wonders. +An investigating team, in New Orleans and Dallas, headed by the JFK +task force leader Cliff Fenton, was never allowed to surface either +publicly or internally to other staff people or the committee. +Their findings alone would have blown Dr. Blakey and his CIA/FBI +friends right out of the water. They spent a lot of time with Jim +Garrison, and with many of the witnesses and the assassination +participants described in Chapter 5 of this book. The public does +not even know who these staffers are, and undoubtedly will not hear +or see what they discovered either in the committee's final report +or in the public hearings. +The separation of assignments worked wonders in explaining away +much of the hard evidence of conspiracy. Some of it during the +public hearings was like watching a magic show, for knowledgeable +researchers. For example, the medical panel and staff members +determined that the path of bullet 399 through JFK's body rear to +front was slightly upward, given that he was sitting erect. But +since the medical panel and the photographic panel were never +permitted coordination, the medical panel never realized that JFK +was sitting erect at the time bullet 399 supposedly struck. +Neither panel was allowed to communicate with the trajectory panel, +so that their representative Thomas Canning testified that bullet +399's trajectory backward from JFK's body, passed through the TSBD +sixth floor window. That erudite gentleman, a government employee +from NASA, was forced to make up his own medical evidence, which he +proceeded to do. He merely moved the exit wound in JFK's throat +down somewhat and the back of the neck wound up somewhat from where +Dr. Baden of the medical panel had placed them. He then tilted JFK +forward at about 17 or 18 degrees based on his personal observation +of one photograph, rather than on the photographic panel's +conclusions. Presto; the trajectory tilted upward and leftward +enough to pass through the sixth floor window. +Another bit of magic was presented by Canning to support the +single bullet theory. He drew a straight line between governor +Connally's back entry wound position and JFK's back entry wound +position and found that the line also passed through the sixth +floor window. To do this he moved Connally on the seat to his left +and JFK to his right, and lifted JFK up a bit on the rear seat. +Again he did this without consultation with the photographic panel. +Some hard evidence was not dealt with at all and other hard +evidence of conspiracy was presented without identifying it as such +and then just left dangling. An example of the former is all of +the photographic evidence cited earlier in this book and in my +"Computers and Automation" magazine articles, showing that the +sniper's nest was not a sniper's nest, that no one was in the +window, and that no one could have fired shots from that position +that day. I showed pictures of the nest from the inside and the +window from the outside to the JFK sub-committee in July 1977 and I +reviewed them at length for their evidenciary value with the JFK +staff, notably Ken Klein, Cliff Fenton, Bob Tanenbaum, Jackie Hess, +Donovan Gaye, Pat Orr, Chellie Mason, and Richard A. Sprague. +So the Committee cannot claim they didn't know about these +photos. They saw the Foley photo over a long period of time, and +were no doubt quite embarrassed by the unexpected appearance of the +Bronson film. Not one word about the sixth floor window, the +cartons, the planted shells, the planted rifle, and the extra rifle +found on the roof, the impossible shot, no one in the window when +the shots were fired; not one word was mentioned in the public +hearings about the photos and other evidence. Where was the +photographic panel? Asleep? Frightened by the agreement they +signed? +An example of evidence of conspiracy left dangling was the +testimony given by the photographic panel spokesman, Calvin S. +McCamy. The panel examined all of the photos of JFK during the +early part of the shot sequence, and took a vote on when the first +shot struck the President. It came out as around Z189 to Z196. +Perfect. That matches. But no one asked the trajectory panel or +the ballistics spokesman how Oswald was able to fire bullet 399 +right through the center of that big oak tree at Z189-Z196. Not +even the Warren Commission would make that claim, preferring to put +the timing at Z210 or later after JFK came out from behind the +tree. +There were some anxious moments for the Select Committee, even +as well orchestrated as the whole farce was. Dr. Cyril Wecht was +his usual grand self. He blasted the committee. They said he was +part of the medical panel and therefore was asked to present a +minority view. Cyril said they weren't planning to call him until +he demanded to be allowed to testify. They tried to bamboozle him, +to discredit him (a tough assignment), to attack him and to knock +down his testimony. Lawyer Gary Cornwell was particularly +obnoxious in his questioning of Dr. Wecht. Favorable witnesses +testifying to no conspiracy were handled with kid gloves and +treated politely or dragged through an obviously rehearsed series +of questions. It was the Warren Commission revisited. Two +witnesses they couldn't mistreat were Governor and Mrs. Connally. +They politely and calmly presented believable testimony destroying +the single bullet theory. That didn't bother the committee any +more than it bothered the Warren Commission. They resurrected the +theory a few days later when the trajectory panel testified. +Dr. Barger of Bolt Baranek & Newman shook them up a little with +his acoustical analysis of the police radio tape that reveals the +sounds of four, not three, shots. If Dr. Barger had been given all +of the facts initially, he probably could have helped prove where +the shots came from. Except for the grassy knoll position behind +the fence and the sixth floor TSBD window, he was not told about +any other possible firing points. For example, he knew nothing +about the Dal Tex building, the west end roof or high floor of the +TSBD, or other positions on the grassy knoll. In fact, Barger did +not know the location of the motorcycle where the microphone had +been left open, picking up the sound of the shots. His assignment +included a determination of where the motorcycle was, from the +sounds on the tape and sounds made during a re-enactment of the +firing in Dealey Plaza. The only test shots Barger had fired were +from the TSBD sixth floor window and from behind the grassy knoll +fence. The net result was that he decided the motorcycle was +trailing the Presidential limousine by 120 feet. No one on the +committee or the photographic panel ever showed Barger the Altgens +photo, the Hughes film, the Martin, Nix, Couch, Weigman, Bell or +Muchmore films or any other pictures showing there was no +motorcycle anywhere near 120 feet behind the limousine.[4] Again, +Blakey divided and conquered. Barger told me that if he had known +about the motorcycle trailing the limousine by a few feet, driven +by policeman D.L. Jackson, who disappeared completely after the +assassination, he could have altered his analysis completely. The +sounds of the last two shots may well have been from the knoll +behind the wall, and from the TSBD roof or the Dal Tex second +floor. Barger's analysis shows that the last shot sound, made by a +rifle occurred just a faction of a second after the next to the +last shot, possibly made by pistol. This would fit a pistol shot +from behind the fence fired almost simultaneously with a rifle shot +from either the TSBD west end or Dal Tex. The delay of the sound +traveling from Dal Tex is about right so that the Dal Tex shot +would strike at Z312 and the pistol or rifle shot from the right +front would strike at Z313. Prof. Mark Weiss of Queens College and +Barger were called into an executive session on December 20 after +the hearings were finished. They testified that there were +definitely four shots fired, at least one of which was from the +knoll. +This new analysis was conducted by Weiss independently from the +one done by Bolt Baranek and Newman. Weiss said that his work +proved to a 95% certainty that the third shot was a rifle shot from +a position on the knoll. He said the data pinpointed the position +to within two feet. The position was behind the fence, which +eliminates man number two at the corner of the wall and also +eliminates a pistol. However, the photos show man number two did +make a puff of smoke, whether or not he fired a shot. +Congressman Sawyer broke the news about Weiss' testimony during +a radio broadcast in Michigan, his home state. A furor broke +loose. The committee went into an executive session Friday +December 22 to discuss what to do since there were only nine days +left to the end of their existence. The radio tape and the Bronson +film seemed to shake them up considerably. Or was it all rehearsed +and planned this way by the committee. It seems incredible that +the 12 members of the committee would be shaken by the sounds from +a tape when they weren't bothered at all by photos of the Oswald +window showing that no one was there when the shots were fired. +The committee members could see those photos with their own eyes. +They had to take the word of experts about the sounds on the tape, +which cannot be heard because of the noise of the engine of the +policeman's cycle where the microphone was stuck open.[4] This was +the most blatantly dishonest stunt pulled by the Committee during +the Blakey period. Yet, the research community cannot complain too +much because it did produce a conspiracy conclusion. +The committee's distortions and omission respecting the hard +Dealey Plaza evidence is overshadowed by the key witnesses that the +committee did not call. None of the players listed in Chapter 5 +were called, nor ever mentioned. One key witness, James Hosty, +insisted that he testify about Oswald's FBI involvement, but was +turned down. Hosty told the "Dallas Morning News," "They don't +want to hear what I have to say." +He might have told them the same story he told the author, +through an intermediary in 1971. Namely, that Oswald was reporting +to Hosty on the assassination plans of the CIA group based in +Mexico City. FBI agent witness, Regis Kennedy might have given +private interview evidence, but he was killed the day before he was +to meet with the committee. +Gordon Novel, Ronald Augustinovich, Richard Case Nagell, Mary +Hope, Guy Gabaldin, Manuel Garcia Gonzalez, William Seymour, Emilio +Santana, Victor Marchetti, Jack Lawrence, Major L.M. Bloomfield, +Frenchy, Sergio Arcacha Smith, Harry Williams, James Hicks, Sylvia +Odio, Jim Braden, James Hosty, Warren Du Brueys, Louis Ivon, E. +Howard Hunt and Jim Garrison were not called and no interest was +shown in having them as witnesses. Some key witnesses who were +called were not asked any important questions, or cross examined at +all. Marina Oswald Porter was one of these. Another was Gerald +Ford. Richard Helms told his standard lies, and no one asked him +about Victor Marchetti's statement about Helms protecting Clay +Shaw, or about E. Howard Hunt and Guy Gabaldin in Mexico City in +October, 1963, or about Harry William's statement that he, Helms, +Hunt, and Lyman Kirkpatrick were reconsidering another Cuban +invasion at the moment JFK was shot, in a Washington, D.C., CIA +location. +With respect to the assassination of Dr. King, the committee +also performed admirably for the PCG, in this case, the FBI wing. +They failed to deal with the important evidence of conspiracy, +failed to call the prime witnesses, and distorted or omitted +evidence. They spent a great amount of time trying to prove, +rather unsuccessfully except for media accounts, that James Earl +Ray was guilty and that he had help from his family and was +possibly financed by some wealthy sountherners. +Briefly, here is the evidence they did not cover. The witnesses +who saw a man in the rooming house--all of whom said it was not +James Earl Ray--were not called. Charles Stephens, who was bribed +and coerced by the FBI into identifying the man as Ray, but who was +dead drunk, and saw nothing, was not put on the stand with his +common law wife Grace and a cab driver who saw how drunk he was. +Confronting his testimony by cross examination and by using counter +witnesses should have been done. +The three bar maids in Montreal and Atlanta who saw Ray and +Raoul together were not called. William Bradford Huie found them +and Ray knew where they were. The committee didn't look for them. +Huie and Foreman were not put on the stand and asked all of the key +questions about why Huie changed his entire approach toward Ray as +soon as I showed him the Raoul-Frenchy photos. Foreman's role was +never explored under fierce cross examination as it would be if +Mark Lane were able to get a new trial for Ray. He should have +been asked why he told Ray he got the Frenchy photos from the FBI +when he actually got them from me! +The Frenchy-Raoul sketch comparison, made by Bill Turner and I +in the summer of 1968, should have been produced and shown to +Foreman, Huie, Ray and other witnesses. +The complete list of witnesses who saw Ray and Raoul together, +as well as the complete list who saw Ray at the gasoline station a +few blocks away from the crime at the time the shot was fired, were +not called. The committee adopted the stance that it was up to +Mark Lane and Ray to produce those witnesses, as though the +investigation of the King killing was a trial instead. The +committee, not Ray, had the responsibility of investigating and +locating those witnesses. Bob Lehner wanted to do that, but he was +fired. +The evidence about the rooming house bathroom window as an +impossible firing point, presented so well in Harold Weisberg's +book "Frame-Up: The Martin Luther King/James Earl Ray Case," was +either ignored or distorted. The evidence about the trajectory of +the shot was completely distorted. The ballistics, medical and +trajectory panels discussed the vertical angle of difference +between the "grassy knoll" firing point and bathroom window firing +point trajectories to the Lorraine Motel balcony. They stated that +the differential angle between the two trajectories was too small +to determine, from the medical evidence, whether the shot came from +the window or the knoll. +But, they failed to discuss the horizontal differential angle +between the two trajectories which was much larger, large enough to +determine the firing point. +They also failed to present a number of witnesses who saw the +actual assassin, Jack Youngblood, both before and after he fired +from the knoll. Wayne Chastain should also have been called to +testify about this evidence and those witnesses. +The evidence concerning who Jack Youngblood and Frenchy-Raoul +worked for, and their involvement, was not dealt with at all. The +committee should have presented the photographic evidence showing +Raoul was Frenchy, and should have asked Ray and the witnesses who +saw Raoul to identify him from the Frenchy photos. Jeff Paley +actually showed Frenchy's photo to witnesses in 1968 while Raoul's +face was still fresh in their minds. They recognized the face. +They certainly should have since the sketch of Raoul was made from +their recollections. They should have called Frenchy as a witness +in both JFK & MLK cases. I know from an inside source on the +committee that they found Frenchy alive in 1978. They certainly +knew about Jack Youngblood because they read Wayne Chastain's +series of articles in "Computers and People." +In summary, the Select Committee performed reasonably well on +behalf of the PCG. There are no public outcrys over what they did +because the media wouldn't air them. Mark Lane held a number of +press conferences during the committee's life span, and no media +organization reported on any of them. The media, of course, were +quite willing servants of the PCG, as they always have been since +1963. The combination of the PCG, the CIA, the FBI, the Select +Committee, the House spokesmen for the PCG and the cooperative +media is really nearly unbeatable. +Some researchers hoped against hope that the Select Committee, +under Stokes, Blakey, Preyer and Fauntroy, would still unveil the +truth, as the public hearings began in August. The hopes +disappeared during the first week of hearings on the King case as +the committee demonstrated quite clearly that they were going to +continue the cover-ups and to get James Earl Ray and Mark Lane in +the bargain. Still, the hopes would not quite die. The letters I +wrote to Louis Stokes in the fall of 1978, expressed the last ditch +thought that maybe they were conducting a charade designed to fool +the FBI, CIA and the rest of the PCG into believing they were going +to cover-up the truth. It turned out be for real, no charade. +The eight people assassinated by the PCG in 1977-78 during the +Select Committee's life span are probably the best proof of who is +in charge of the U.S. and what their intentions are. The murders +are all part of the cover-up efforts and were all successfully +carried out, a la The Parallax View, with very few suspicions +raised on the part of the American media or the public. They +included William Sullivan, Regis Kennedy, George de Mohrenschildt, +Sam Giancana,[5] John Roselli, Carlos Prio Socarras, Thomas +Karamessines, Rolando Masferrer, and an attempt on the life of +Larry Flynt. +Each of these murders was carried out with great success and for +varying reasons. One common thread connects them all. Each man +knew too much about the assassinations of President Kennedy or +Martin Luther King and the subsequent cover-up conspiracies. All +but Flynt were witnesses to be called by the Select Committee or +ones that had given some information and were scheduled to give +more. Of the nine people including Flynt, the two most important +were William Sullivan and Regis Kennedy. +Regis Kennedy was one of two FBI agents in New Orleans assigned +as contact men for Lee Harvey Oswald in his role as FBI informer. +The other agent was Warren du Brueys. James Hosty was his contact +agent in Dallas. Kennedy knew a lot, but was under strict orders +from the FBI not to reveal any of it. He was called as a witness +at the trial of Clay Shaw and asked by Jim Garrison whether he +hadn't been searching for Clay Shaw under the name Clay Bertrand, +before it was known that Clay Bertrand wanted to hire a lawyer for +Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy took executive privilege, a popular +dodge at that time with the Nixon administration. When the judge +pressed him, he said he would have to check with the FBI and the +attorney general, John Mitchell, in Washington, D.C. Word came +through that he could answer that one question, so he said yes it +was true. He went no further however. The significance is that +the FBI knew all about Clay Shaw's involvement in the assassination +because Oswald was reporting back to them as a paid infiltrator of +Shaw's team. There is a distinct possibility that Kennedy was sent +by Hoover and Sullivan to Dallas immediately after the +assassination, to help coordinate the FBI/CIA cover-up. Beverly +Oliver, the Babushka lady, whose film was confiscated by three +government agents on Sunday November 24, 1963 at the Carousel Club +owned by Jack Ruby, made a tentative identification of Regis +Kennedy from his photograph as one of those three agents. The film +has never surfaced. It should show the assassins on the grassy +knoll quite clearly since Beverly was much closer than either +Orville Nix or Marie Muchmore and had her camera trained on JFK all +the way down Elm Street. +Kennedy died of a supposed heart attack the day before he was to +meet with the Select Committee staff. Heart attacks, as most +Americans know by now from watching the Church Committee hearings, +and seeing the Parallax View, are easily induced by a CIA-developed +pill, which leaves no trace in the autopsy, if there is one. +William Sullivan was eliminated by a clever, but simple +technique. The PCG agents who killed him knew about his hunting +haunts in New England. They also knew about a teenage son of a +state policeman living near Sullivan's country place who liked to +hunt in the same area. Two of them intercepted Sullivan early one +morning as he set out for a walk in the woods. They shot him with +a deer rifle and took his body to a spot in the woods where they +knew the boy would be. They carried a decoy inflated to the shape +resembling a deer and probably acted like one. The boy shot at him +and thought he hit a deer. The agents dropped Sullivan's body at +that spot and left. They accidentally left the pair of gloves one +of them was wearing. The boy went over to the spot in the early +morning semi-darkness, found Sullivan's body, and thought he had +killed him by mistake. He still thinks so. There was no +investigation and no questions asked. +Why was Sullivan killed? As mentioned before, William Sullivan +was J. Edgar Hoovers' right hand man in charge of Division Five, +the FBI's clandestine domestic operation that included an +assassination squad. Every likelihood exists that Hoover ordered +Sullivan's division to kill King and that Sullivan used +Frenchy/Raoul and Jack Youngblood to do the job. Sullivan was also +due to meet with the Select Committee within a day or two after the +day he was shot. Whether he would have talked or not probably +makes little difference. The PCG couldn't take the chance. +Thomas Karamessines died of an apparent heart attack at the age +of 61 on September 4, 1978 at his vacation home in Grand Lake, +Quebec. He headed the covert operations part of the CIA after +Richard Helms was promoted from that position to head of the CIA. +David Phillips, the CIA dirty tricks operative who is making public +speeches supporting the Deputy Director of Plans (dirty tricks) +function, worked for Karamessines. His knowledge of the JFK +assassination and the CIA's cover-up role was undoubtedly complete +since he inherited the whole thing from Helms. +The other dead people were bumped off figuratively, on the very +doorstep of the committee. Roselli was killed and dumped into +Miami Bay. Giancana was shot full of holes in his Chicago +residence. De Mohrenschildt was shot with a shotgun in his +daughter's friends house in Florida. All three were scheduled to +meet with the committee. Socarras was killed in a garage in +Florida. Masferrer was blown up in his car in Florida. Flynt was +shot on the street in Georgia. +Florida. Why does it keep popping up in these cases? Bay of +Pigs, No Name Key Group, anti-Castro forces, Mafia operations; it +all fits together somehow. Jim Garrison's first real breakthrough +came when he found Masferrer in Florida through Manuel Garcia +Gonzalez. That led him and the District Attorney in Dade County, +Florida, to William Seymour, Emilio Santana, Howard, Hall, Hemming +and Frenchy, all part of Socarras' and Banister's Florida-based, No +Name Key anti-Castro operations. It figured that some of them +would die in their own backyard when the committee was getting too +close. Gaeton Fonzi can personally vouch for that. He was the +committee's Florida investigator. +Why wouldn't men like Fonzi, Fenton, Fauntroy, Stokes, Preyer, +and a woman like Yvonne Burke, tell us the truth. I spent a lot of +time with all of them and got to know some of them very well. They +all impressed me as being very honest and dedicated people. +There may be another explanation, as I mentioned in the +beginning of this last chapter. A committee, is, after all, made +up of a bunch of individuals. So is a staff. Now, except for +Cliff Fenton, Ed Evans (MLK investigator) and one or two others, +these people were not professionals in the investigations and +certainly none of them had been involved in the really big game of +espionage and clandestine operations. They were, and still are, +ordinary mortals, like you and me, with fears and cautionary +attitudes toward personal safety and danger. They also have +families. +Not even Cliff Fenton had ever been involved with the kind of +monstrous game played by the spooks of the world. It is a game for +keeps, of life and death, mostly death. Let's look at it from the +viewpoint of Louis Stokes, just to take an example. He took over +the chairmanship of the committee with the following knowledge. +He suspected there was a conspiracy in the JFK case and at least +wanted to find out whether the CIA and FBI were involved in +covering it up. He may not have known all of the details, but he +was aware of the fact that many people had died. He knew that +Henry Gonzalez had nearly been killed by a rifleman while driving +through a Texas desert with his wife. This occurred just after +Henry made public statements about all four political +assassinations being related and the intelligence agencies possibly +being involved. Stokes saw how the PCG swung their weight around +in the Rules Committee and on the floor of the House when the +Select Committee in January and February 1977, asked for a new +budget and a reconstituted authority to subpoena records and +continue the investigation. He also knew that something strange +had happened to Henry Gonzalez. He told me so in a luncheon +meeting on May 10, 1977. He said Henry had cut off all +communications with him and other committee members just as he had +with me. I told Louis that I believed Henry had purposefully been +fed information by the PCG that I, Richard A. Sprague, and some of +the committee members were working for the CIA. Otherwise, why +would he have instructed the CIA and FBI to close access to their +files to the committee staff, just after he had won the fight he +fought so hard to get the subpoena power back. +Stokes agreed it must have been something like that. Stokes +also must have had a frightened reaction during 1977 and 1978 to +these eight bodies dumped on his doorstep. As in the scene in "The +Godfather", it only takes one horse's head in your bed to get the +idea you should keep your mouth closed and play it cool. +Given all of this, each committee member may have reached his or +her decision that this game was not for congressmen. In April 1977 +it is possible that all of those executive sessions the committee +held were partially devoted to a discussion of the personal safety +of each member, each staffer, and all of their families. They may +have reached unanimous agreement that the only safe approach would +be to avoid sensitive areas, and not to attack the CIA or FBI, and +certainly to avoid going after any of the dangerous guys in both +assassination cases. +Yet, to keep an honest approach going they would have to listen +to any credible hard evidence of conspiracy, comment on it, but +refrain from taking a stronger course than just listening. As Dr. +Blakey told me more than once, "I'm just going to let the facts +speak for themselves." This is somewhat like the position the +Warren Commission took when Richard Russell, Hale Boggs and John +Sherman Cooper refused to sign the draft of the Warren Report until +a qualifying statement was inserted. The statement read, "Because +of the difficulty of proving negatives to a certainty the +possibility of others being involved with either Oswald or Ruby +cannot be established categorically but if there is any such +evidence it has been beyond the reach of all the investigative +agencies and resources of the United States and has not come to the +attention of this Commission." +The committee has, in its final report, taken a stronger +position than that by saying, in effect, that new evidence of +conspiracy has surfaced and that the Congress should turn the job +of pursuing that evidence and a continuing investigation over to +the executive branch. The recommendation is for the Justice +Department to determine whether further investigations are +warranted. Thus the Committee members would be off the hook and, +more importantly, still alive and safe. They can claim that the +funds they had and the time they had were not enough. Whose fault +was that? Certainly not the committee's, they can claim. +This scenario, if true, is really the only hope, though very +slim, any of us have left. All other avenues have been closed.

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[1] "New York Daily News" -- Tuesday, December 12, 1979.

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[2] See the letters in the Appendix for a copy of the nondisclosure +agreement itself as well as correspondence between the author +and Louis Stokes.

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[3] See copies of this correspondence in the Appendix.

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[4] Following the December 22 executive session a public hearing was +held on December 29, the last weekday of the Committee's +existence. Weiss and Barger presented the acoustical evidence +proving four shots, one from the knoll, thereby causing the +Committee to conclude there was a probable conspiracy. +But, the fact that the Couch and Weigman films prove the +acoustical analysis was incorrect because there is no motorcycle +where there was supposed to be one, was completely covered-up by +the Committee staff. Why? The answer obviously is that the +Committee wanted to close shop with a conspiracy conclusion but +one that wouldn't shake up the intelligence community and the PCG +too much. If the correct acoustical analysis had been presented, +with the motorcycle directly behind the presidential limousine, +the net result would have been the elimination of that 6th floor +window as the source of the shots. Eliminate that window and you +eliminate Oswald and open up a can of worms with a completely +different kind of conspiracy. One with a patsy and intelligence +ramifications, written all over it. +So Cornwell and Blakey, and perhaps the entire Committee decided +to prove by implication that the motorcycle was 120 feet behind +the JFK car at the time of the shot from the knoll. They showed +publicly frames from the Hughes film which shows the motorcycle +they fudged, somewhat more than 120 feet behind the limousine. +But the Hughes film ends with the cycle on Houston Street. The +cycle can be seen in the Hughes film trailing Couch's camera car. +Couch took film all the way down Houston and around the turn onto +Elm Street. The limo can be seen in all of this footage. The +cycle can not. The cycle finally catches up to Couch and passes +him after the limo is beyond the triple overpass. Couch is, at +all times including the time of the knoll shot, more than 200 feet +behind the limousine. Ergo, the cycle is more than 200 feet +behind at the critical point. +Cornwell presented the cop driving the Houston Street cycle and +attempted to elicit testimony from him that it was his microphone +that was open.

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[5] Giancana actually died in 1975 before testifying to the Schweicker +JFK assassination subcommittee of the Church Committee.

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1985: The House Select Committee (2)

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Chapter 17 +THE FINAL COVER UP: How The CIA Controlled +The House Select Committee On Assassinations

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Introduction

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The final report of the House Select Committee on Assassinations +(HSCA), issued in 1979, concluded that a conspiracy existed in the +assassination of President Kennedy. This news should have +delighted hundreds of researchers who had disagreed with the no-conspiracy finding of the Warren Commission. The fact that it did +not, is due to the HSCA conspiracy being a simple one, with Lee +Harvey Oswald still firing all but one of the shots from the sixth +floor window of the Texas School Book Depository Building. The +existence of another shooter and another shot, from the grassy +knoll, was "proved" by the HSCA, based primarily on acoustical +evidence presented in the very last month of their public hearings. +Dr. Robert Blakey and Richard Billings, chief counsel and report +editor for the HSCA, co-authored, in 1981, a book, "The Plot to +Kill the President," following the publication of the HSCA's final +report. The book claimed that the other shooter and Oswald were +part of a Mafia plot to kill JFK. +To over simplify the current (1985) situation, most JFK +researchers feel that the American public had been deceived once +again. The HSCA reaffirmed all but one of the Warren Commission's +findings, including even the famed single bullet theory. The +simplified conspiracy finding is now subject to review by the +Justice Department and the FBI because it is based on very +questionable acoustical evidence. Justice commissioned the so-called Ramsey Panel[1] to review this evidence, in 1981, under the +auspices of the National Academy of Sciences. It found no evidence +from the acoustics that a grassy knoll shot was fired. So, we are +back to no-conspiracy and Oswald being the lone assassin. And even +if there was a conspiracy, Blakey claims it involved the Mafia and +not the CIA. The HSCA report and all of its volumes of evidence +omitting any reference to CIA involvement, concluded that the CIA +was not involved, and did not reveal any evidence that the HSCA +staff had collected showing that CIA people murdered JFK, and that +the CIA has been covering up that fact ever since. +Any followers of CIA activities connected with the JFK +assassination, since 1963, must ask the question, how did they do +it? How did the CIA turn things completely around from the 1976 +days when Henry Gonzalez, Thomas Downing, Richard A. Sprague, +Robert Tanenbaum, Cliff Fenton and others were pursuing the truth +about the assassination, to essentially the same status as when the +Warren Commission finished its work? How did they produce the +final cover-up? The answer is that the CIA controlled the HSCA and +its investigation and findings from the early part of 1977, +forward. The methods they used were as clever and devious as any +they had used previously to control the Warren Commission, the +Rockefeller Commission, the Garrison Investigation, the +Schweiker/Hart Committee[2] and the efforts of independent +researchers.

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The Situation in 1976

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In 1976, Henry Gonzalez, member of the House from Texas, and +Thomas Downing from Virginia, were both convinced there was a +massive conspiracy in the JFK assassination. They introduced a +joint bill in the House which resulted in the formation of the HSCA +and an investigation of the JFK and King assassinations. Gonzalez +believed there were at least four conspiracies in the +assassinations of JFK, MLK, Robert Kennedy and in the attempted +assassination of George Wallace. He introduced an original bill to +have the House investigate all four and the cover-ups and links +among them. Downing was primarily interested in the JFK case and +his original bill dealt only with that conspiracy. Mark Lane and +his committee members and supporters around the country joined +forces with Coretta King and the Black Caucus in the House to +pressure Congressmen and Tip O'Neill to investigate the King and +John Kennedy assassinations. The net result was a merging of the +Gonzalez and Downing bills into a Final HSCA bill dealing with only +two of the cases. +In the fall of 1976, with Downing as chairman, the HSCA selected +Richard A. Sprague, from the Philadelphia District Attorney's +office, to be chief counsel. Sprague hired four professional +investigators and criminal lawyers from New York City. They were +very good and completely independent of the CIA and FBI, having +been trained by one of the best professionals in the business, D.A. +Frank Hogan of New York. +Sprague and his JFK team, headed by Bob Tanenbaum, attorney, and +Cliff Fenton, chief detective, were going after the real assassins +and their bosses, whether this led them to the CIA or FBI or +anywhere else. Sprague had already made it clear to the HSCA that +he would investigate CIA involvement, and subpoena CIA people, +documents and other information, whether classified or not. He had +also had meetings with several researchers, including the author, +and made it known privately that he was going to use the talent and +knowledge of every reliable researcher on a consulting basis. He +had contacted Jim Garrison in New Orleans and informed him he would +be following up on all of his information and leads. He had +initiated an investigation of the CIA activities in Mexico City +connected with the JFK assassination, including information +supplied to Sprague by the author.[3] +R.A. Sprague and Tanenbaum were aware of the CIA connections of +the individuals involved in the JFK assassination in Dealey Plaza, +in Mexico City, in New Orleans and in the Florida Keys. They had, +in November 1976, exposed the entire HSCA staff to all of the +photographic evidence showing these people in Dealey Plaza and +elsewhere. They were aware of the assassination planning meetings +held by CIA people in Mexico City and knew who the higher level +conspirators were. They had initiated searches for the real +assassins; Frenchy, William Seymour, Emilio Santana, Jack +Lawrence, Fred Lee Crisman, Jim Braden, Jim Hicks, et al. They +were planning to interview CIA contract agents, Richard Case +Nagell, Harry Dean, Gordon Novel, Ronald Augustinovich, Mary Hope +and Guy Gabaldin. Cliff Fenton had been appointed head of a team +of investigators to follow up on the New Orleans part of the +conspiracy which had included CIA agents and people; Clay Shaw, +David Ferrie, Guy Banister, Manuel Garcia Gonzalez, Sergio Arcacha +Smith, Gordon Novel and others. They were going to contact people +who had attended assassination planning meetings in New Orleans. +From the photographic evidence surrounding the sixth floor +window, as well as the grassy knoll, Sprague, Tanenbaum and most of +the staff knew Oswald had not fired any shots, knew no shots came +from the sixth floor window, and knew there had been shots from the +Dal Tex Building and the knoll. They knew the single bullet theory +was not true, and knew there had been a well-planned crossfire in +Dealey Plaza. They were not planning to waste a lot of time +reviewing and rehashing the Dealey Plaza evidence, except as it +might lead to the real assassins. +They had set up an investigation in Florida and the Keys, of the +evidence and leads developed in 1967 by Garrison. Gaeton Fonzi was +in charge of that part of Sprague's team. They were going to check +out the people in the CIA that had been running and funding the No +Name Key group and other Anti-Castro groups. Seymour, Santana, +Manuel Garcia Gonzalez, Jerry Patrick Hemming, Loran Hall, Lawrence +Howard, Frenchy and Cubans Rolando Masferrer and Carlos Prio +Socarras were to be found and interrogated. +Tanenbaum and his research team had seen the photo collection of +Dick Billings from "Life Magazine" which was, by 1976, deposited in +the Georgetown University Library's JFK assassination collection. +The No Name Key people and others showing up in Garrison's +investigation appeared in these photos with high level CIA agents. +In 1977, Henry Gonzalez, who was far more supportive of a CIA +conspiracy idea than Tom Downing, was to become chairman of the +HSCA. Downing did not run for re-election in 1976 and was +retiring. At that point, December 1976, Gonzalez and Sprague were +of the same mind and getting along fine. Researchers were very +pleased with the way things were going and believed Sprague would +expose the CIA's involvement in the JFK cover up.

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The CIA's problem

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Given this background of the HSCA status in late 1976, it can +easily be seen that the CIA was up against much more serious +opposition than it ever had been before in the JFK murder and +cover-up. They had ruined Jim Garrison's reputation and curtailed +his investigation by various dirty trick means. They had been in +solid control of the Warren Commission by the simple expedient of +having four of the Commissioners belonging to them; Dulles, Ford, +McCloy and Russell. They were also able to kill enough people who +knew the truth, to slow down any truth-seeking that might have +taken place. They also hid documents, destroyed and altered +evidence, lied about other evidence, and bald facedly (Dulles) +admitted that they wouldn't tell the President or the Commission if +Lee Harvey Oswald had been a CIA agent (which he had been). In the +Rockefeller Commission situation they were in complete control of +that attempt to reinforce the Warren Commission's findings. And in +the Church Committee investigation, the Schweiker/Hart subcommittee +on the JFK case was very limited and controlled in what they could +do. +But in the new situation, in Richard A. Sprague and his +professionals with so much knowledge of the CIA's role in the +murder and the cover-up, they faced a crisis. They knew they had +to do several things to turn it around and to continue to keep the +American public from realizing what was happening. Here is what +they had to do:

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1. Get rid of Richard A. Sprague.

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2. Get rid of Henry Gonzalez.

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3. Get rid of Sprague's key men or keep them away from CIA +evidence or keep them quiet.

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4. Install their own chief counsel to control the +investigation.

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5. Elect a new HSCA chairman who would go along, or who +could be fooled.

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6. Cut off all Sprague's investigations of CIA people. +Make sure none of the people were found or bury any +testimony that had already been found, or murder CIA +people who might talk.

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7. Keep the committee members from knowing what was +happening and segregate the investigation from them.

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8. Create a new investigative environment whose purpose +would be to confirm all of the findings of the Warren +Commission and divert attention away from the who-did-it-and-why approach.

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9. Control the committee staff in such a way as to keep +any of them from revealing what they already knew about +CIA involvement.

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10. Control committee consultants in the same way, and +staff members who might leave or who might be fired.

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11. Continue to control the media in such a way as to +reinforce all of the above.

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12. Continue to murder witnesses or assassins in emergency +situations if necessary.

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The CIA successfully did all twelve of these things. The +techniques they used were much more subtle and devious than those +they had used before, although they did continue with murders of +potential HSCA witnesses and with media control.

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How The CIA Did It

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The first step taken by the CIA was to use the media they +control, along with some members of Congress they control, and two +planted agents on the staff of and consulting for, Henry Gonzalez, +to get rid of both Henry and Richard A. Sprague. In taking this +step, they used the old Roman approach of divide and conquer. They +made Gonzalez and his closest staff assistant, Gail Beagle, believe +that Sprague was a CIA agent and that Gonzalez must get rid of him. +They also made Gonzalez believe that some of his other associates, +both in the HSCA and outside, were CIA agents. At the same time, +they used the media to attack Sprague mercilessly. The key people +in doing this attack on Sprague were three CIA reporters, George +Lardner of the "Washington Post," Mr. Burnham of "The New York +Times," and Jeremiah O'Leary of the "Washington Star." In all HSCA +committee meetings and in Rules Committee and Finance Committee +meetings, these three reporters sat next to each other, passed +notes back and forth, and wrote articles continually attacking and +undermining both Sprague and Gonzalez, as well as the entire +committee. The CIA had the support of top management in all three +news organizations in doing this. +Gonzalez eventually tried to fire Sprague, was over-ruled by the +committee, and then resigned from the committee. Sprague +eventually resigned, because it became obvious that the CIA +controlled members of the Finance and Rules Committees and other +CIA allies in the House, were going to kill the committee unless he +resigned. There are many more details to this story, which +requires a book to describe. Suffice it to say, the CIA +accomplished their first two goals by March 1977. The next steps +were to install a CIA-controlled chief counsel and to get a +chairman elected who could be fooled or coerced into appointing +such a counsel. Lewis Stokes was a perfect choice for chairman. +He was, and probably still is, a good and honest man. But he was +completely bamboozled by what the CIA did and is still doing. The +selection and implementation of a CIA man as chief counsel had to +be done in an extremely subtle manner. It could not be obvious to +anyone that he was a CIA man. Stokes and the other committee +members had to be fooled into believing *they* had made the choice, +and had picked a good man. Professor Robert Blakey, an apparently +scientifically oriented, academic person, with a history of work +against organized crime, was the perfect CIA choice. Once Dr. +Blakey took over as chief counsel, he accomplished goals numbered +3, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 very nicely. The fourth and fifth goals +having been achieved, Blakey set about the other parts of his +assignment very rapidly after he arrived. For Goal 3, he fired Bob +Tanenbaum, Bob Lehner, and Donovan Gay, three loyal Sprague +supporters, quickly.

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The Nondisclosure Agreement

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The most important weapon used by the CIA and Blakey to pursue +goals 9 and 10 was instituted within one week after Blakely +arrived. It is by far the most subtle and far reaching technique +used by the CIA to date. It is called the "Nondisclosure +Agreement" and it was signed by all members of the committee, all +staff members including Blakey, all consultants to the committee, +and several independent researchers who met with Blakey in 1977. +Signing the agreement was a condition for continued employment on +the committee staff or for continuing consulting on a contract +basis. The choice was, sign or get out. The author signed the +agreement in July 1977, without realizing its implications at the +time, in order to continue as a consultant. The agreement is +reproduced in full in the Appendix and is labelled "Exhibit A." +The author's consulting help was never sought after that and the +obvious objective was to silence a consultant and not use his +services. +This CIA weapon has several parts. First, it binds the signer, +if a consultant, to never reveal that he is working for the +committee (see paragraph 13). Second, it prevents the signer from +ever revealing to anyone in perpetuity, any information he has +learned about the committee's work as a result of working for the +committee (see paragraphs 2 and 12). Third, it gives the committee +and the House, after the committee terminates, the power to take +legal action against the signer, *in a court named by the +committee* or the House, in case the committee believes the signer +has violated the agreement. Fourth, the signer agrees to pay the +court costs for such a suit in the event he loses the suit (see +paragraphs 14 and 15). +These four parts are enough to scare most researchers or staff +members who signed it into silence forever about what they learned. +The agreement is insidious in that the signer is, in effect, giving +away his constitutional rights. Some lawyers who have seen the +agreement, including Richard A. Sprague, have expressed the opinion +it is an illegal agreement in violation of the Constitution and +several Constitutional amendments. Whether it is illegal or not, +most staff members and all consultants who signed it *have* +remained silent, even after three and a half years beyond the life +of the committee. There are only two exceptions, the author and +Gaeton Fonzi, who published a lengthy article about the HSCA +cover-up in the "Washingtonian" magazine in 1981. +The most insidious parts of the agreement, however, are +paragraphs 2, 3 and 7, which give the CIA very effective control +over what the committee could and could not do with so-called +"classified" information. The director of the CIA is given +authority to determine, in effect, what information shall remain +classified and therefore unavailable to nearly everyone. The +signer of the agreement, and remember, this includes all of the +Congressman and women who were members of the committee, agrees not +to reveal or discuss any information that the CIA decides he should +not. The chairman of the committee supposedly has the final say on +what information is included, but in practice, even an intelligent +and gutsy chairman would not be likely to override the CIA. Lewis +Stokes did not attempt any final decisions. In fact, the CIA did +not have to do very much under these clauses. The fact that Blakey +was their man and kept nearly all of the CIA sensitive information, +evidence, and witnesses away from the committee members was all +that was necessary. Stokes never knew what he should have argued +about with the CIA director. It is this document which proves +beyond doubt that the CIA controlled the HSCA. +The author attempted to point out to Stokes in a letter dated +February 10, 1978, "Exhibit B," the type of control the agreement +gives the CIA over the HSCA. Stokes replied in a March 16, 1978 +letter, "Exhibit C," that he retained ultimate authority and was +not bound by the opinion of the Central Intelligence Director. He +also claimed that paragraphs 12 and 14, on extending the agreement +in perpetuity and giving the government the right to file a civil +suit in which the signer will pay all costs, were legal. He said +in the letter that the purpose of the agreement was to give the +HSCA control over the conduct of the investigation including +*control over the ultimate disclosure of information to the +American public*. That is a key admission about what has actually +happened. The only question is, who is controlling the information +in the heads of the staff investigators who discovered CIA +involvement? Was Louis Stokes working for the public or for the +CIA?

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Examples of CIA-Control

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Some specific examples will serve to illustrate how well the CIA +techniques have worked and are still working.

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Garrison Evidence and Witnesses Example

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As mentioned earlier, when Blakey arrived, an investigating team +headed by Cliff Fenton, reporting to Bob Tanenbaum, had already +been hard at work tracking down leads to the CIA conspirators +generated by Jim Garrison's investigation in New Orleans. This +team eventually had four investigators, all professionals, and +their work led them to believe that the CIA people in New Orleans +had been involved in a large conspiracy to assassinate JFK. As +Garrison told Ted Gandolfo, a New York City researcher, the Fenton +team went much further than Garrison, in locating witnesses and +other evidence of assassination planning meetings held in New +Orleans, Mexico City and Dallas. In fact, they found a CIA man who +attended those meetings, and who was willing to testify before the +committee. The evidence was far more convincing than the testimony +presented at the trial of Clay Shaw. In the Shaw Trial, CIA people +were involved in meetings in addition to the one brought out in the +trial. Clay Shaw, David Ferrie, William Seymour and others were +involved. Fenton's team discovered a lot of other facts about how +the CIA people planned and carried out the assassination. Their +report about the conspiracy was solid and convincing and they were +convinced. The CIA, through Robert Blakey, buried the Fenton +report. Committee members were not told about the team's findings. +The evidence was not included in the HSCA report, nor was it even +referred to in the volumes. The witnesses in New Orleans were +never called to testify. That included the CIA man at the +meetings. Fenton and the other three members of his team, having +signed the nondisclosure agreement, were legally sworn to secrecy, +or at least they thought so. To this day they refuse to discuss +anything with anybody. +There may also have been threats of physical violence against +them. There is no way to determine this. However, Fenton and the +others are well aware of the witnesses that the CIA murdered just +before they were about to testify before the HSCA. These included: +William Sullivan, the FBI deputy under J. Edgar Hoover, who headed +Division V, the domestic intelligence division; George de +Mohrenschildt, Oswald's CIA contact in Dallas; John Roselli, the +Mafia man involved in the CIA plots to assassinate Castro; Regis +Kennedy, the FBI agent who knew a lot about Clay Shaw, alias Clay +Bertrand, in New Orleans and who was one of Lee Harvey Oswald's FBI +contacts; Rolando Masferrer, an anti-Castro Cuban murdered in +Miami; and Carlos Prio Socarras, former Cuban premier, killed in +his garage in Miami. +With the knowledge of these murders, Fenton and his team would +not have required any more than a gentle hint, to keep quiet.

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Frenchy Example

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The "tramp," Frenchy, who appears in seven photos taken in +Dealey Plaza, is one of the most important CIA individuals in the +JFK assassination. Researcher Bill Turner discovered that Frenchy +had been in the Florida Keys working with CIA sponsored anti-Castro +groups. Richard A. Sprague and Bob Tanenbaum knew about his role, +and intended to go after him when the HSCA restored its subpoena +power and obtained enough money. They were aware of the evidence +that Frenchy fired the fatal shot from the grassy knoll. They had +assigned a team of investigators to follow a lead to Frenchy +provided by the author in the early part of 1977. +Unfortunately, the CIA managed to keep both the subpoena power +and the funds away from the committee until after they had forced +the resignations of Gonzalez, Sprague and Tanenbaum. The power and +funds were restored after Stokes was elected and after they +installed their own man, Blakey. The investigative team remained, +however, and they did search for and find Frenchy. But Blakey and +the CIA suppressed that fact, and suppressed anything they may have +learned from Frenchy. He is not mentioned in the report and was +not called as a witness. The author dares not reveal the source of +the above information because of the danger to staff people from +the nondisclosure agreement.

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Nagell, Dean, Novel, and Augustinovich

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The Garrison investigation and a subsequent series of +investigations by the author and other members of the Committee to +Investigate Assassinations in 1967 to 1973, turned up several +witnesses who were willing to talk privately about the CIA +assassination team that murdered JFK. Harry Dean and Richard Case +Nagell had been Lee Harvey Oswald's CIA contacts while he was in +Mexico City and knew about assassination planning meetings held in +Guy Gabaldin's apartment. Dean knew about William Seymour, CIA +contract agent, attending those meetings and how Seymour had been +pretending to be Oswald on many occasions. Gordon Novel knew how +the CIA had covered up the truth about the assassination and how +they went to extreme lengths to ruin Jim Garrison and his +investigation. Novel had been employed by the CIA in this effort. +Ronald Augustinovich and his friend, Mary Hope, had attended some +of the Mexico City meetings. +Richard Russell and the author tracked down all four of these +witnesses prior to the arrival of Robert Blakey at the HSCA. +Russell interviewed them and knew they would be willing to talk, +given protection and some form of immunity. The author presented +their names and their involvement to Richard A. Sprague, Henry +Gonzalez, Lewis Stokes and Robert Tanenbaum in the fall of 1976. +This was done as part of the author's consulting assignment for the +HSCA. The names were in a memorandum to Sprague, which outlined +the overall JFK conspiracy and the CIA's role, along with a +recommendation of the sequence in which witnesses should be called. +The idea was to base each witness interrogation on what had been +established from interviewing prior witnesses, working slowly from +cooperative witnesses, to non-cooperative witnesses, to actual +assassins, to higher level CIA people.[4] The highest level +people, E. Howard Hunt and Richard Helms, would be faced with +accusers. +As indicated earlier, Sprague and Tanenbaum could do nothing and +did nothing up to the day they left. By early 1978 it became +obvious that Blakey had done nothing about calling these CIA +witnesses. The author initiated a series of letter exchanges with +Blakey and Stokes, reminding them of these witnesses, and the +possibility that their lives could be in danger prior to their +being interviewed by HSCA. Dick Russell had obtained an agreement +from Nagell to meet with the committee, but no contact had been +made up to April 5, 1978, the date of the author's first letter to +Stokes on this subject, "Exhibit D." Nagell was hiding in fear of +his children's lives, not so much his own life. He was a real CIA +agent and knew how they operated. Russell was the only person who +knew where Nagell was. In the April 5th letter, a recommendation +was given to Stokes that the committee contact Nagell through +Russell, and contact the other witnesses on the original list. +Stokes wrote on May 15, 1978, "Exhibit E," that the Nagell matter had +been referred to Blakey for follow-up. Blakey never mentioned it +by telephone or by letter. +By September 1978, when the public hearings had begun, there was +no indication that Blakey was going to call the CIA witnesses. +Nagell was standing by but had not been contacted. The published, +intended witness list did not contain any of these CIA names. The +author wrote to Stokes and Representative Yvonne Burke on September +22 and 23, 1978, "Exhibits F," expressing dissatisfaction with +the committee's failure to call the CIA witnesses, and suggesting +that if they did not not, history would eventually catch up with +them. The names were repeated in the letter to Burke, and specific +mention made that the committee had never contacted Richard Case +Nagell. Louis Stokes sent back a letter dated October 10, 1978, +"Exhibit G." It is what one might call a non-answer, stating "that +the committee will make every effort to tell the whole story to the +American people." Seven years later (1985) it can be said that the +committee did not make an effort to call the most important +witnesses and therefore did not tell the whole story. Nor did +their report even mention these witnesses or any of the evidence +exposed earlier by the CTIA or Jim Garrison. Louis Stokes was +either totally fooled or he is part of the CIA's cover-up. +The author responded to Stokes' non-answer letter of October +10th with two more letters, dated October 30, 1978 and November 24, +1978, "Exhibits H & I." Stokes finally answered them on December +4, 1978 with another non-answer letter, "Exhibit J." He says the +committee cannot reveal the procedure of the investigation or the +names of those persons who will be called to testify before the +committee. This implies they were planning to call more witnesses +in December 1978. The committee's life ended on January 1, 1979. +The CIA witnesses were never called nor ever mentioned right up to +the very end and the report was silent about them.

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The Umbrella Man

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One last example illustrates the way the CIA and Blakey worked +together to cancel-out any evidence linking the CIA people and/or +techniques used in the JFK assassination. For may years, various +researchers, including Josiah Thompson[5] and the author, had +speculated about the role of a man appearing in the photographs in +Dealey Plaza with an open umbrella. He became known as "The +Umbrella Man," or TUM for short. Thompson speculated that TUM had +been giving the various shooters in Dealey Plaza visual signals +with the umbrella, and the author agreed this could have been true. +In *1976*, the Church committee took the public testimony of +Charles Senseney, a CIA contract weapons employee at the Army +Chemical Center in Ft. Detrick, MD. Senseney described a system +used by the CIA in Vietnam and elsewhere, for killing or paralyzing +people with poisons carried in self-propelled Flechette darts. The +darts were self-propelled like solid fuel rockets and launched +silently and unobtrusively from a number of devices, including an +umbrella. A CIA catalog of available secret weapons shows a +photograph of the umbrella launching device and photos of the +Flechettes which were self-propelled from one of the hollow spokes +of the umbrella. They could even be launched through soda straws. +Researcher Robert Cutler, former Air Force Liason officer, L. +Fletcher Prouty, and the author did some additional research on the +photographic evidence and the weapon system, especially research on +the movements of JFK in the Zapruder film and various photos of TUM +and a friend he had with him in Dealey Plaza. The friend had a +two-way radio device. As a result of this research, an article was +published in "Gallery" magazine in June, 1978. The article +presented the hypothesis that TUM launched, from his umbrella, a +poison Flechette at JFK, which struck him in the throat at Zapruder +frame 189, causing complete paralysis of his upper body, hands, +arms, shoulders and head, in less than two seconds. The photos +show this paralysis and the timing matches the testimony given by +Senseney about how fast the CIA poison works and what its +paralyzing effects look like. +Whether one agrees with this hypothesis or not is incidental to +what Blakey and the HSCA did in reaction to it. Until the summer +of 1977, official investigators for the HSCA, or any of its +predecessors, had shown no more than passing curious interest in +TUM. They just paid no attention and did not take the researcher's +ideas seriously. On August 8, 1977, the author informed Robert +Blakey, in a letter of that date, about the TUM hypothesis. The +letter concerned a discussion the author and Blakey had on July 21, +1977, two days after the nondisclosure agreement had been signed. +Blakey had said that if there was a conspiracy it would not have +involved a very large number of people. He was probably already +laying the foundation for a small, Mafia type, conspiracy involving +Oswald and a Mafia friend, backed by a few Mafia Dons. +The August 8th letter maintained that the CIA had been involved +and that it had been a massive intelligence operation, rather than +a conspiracy in the sense Blakey was using the term. The CIA +Flechette, umbrella launching weapons system, if indeed it had been +used by TUM, the letter pointed out, would be solid proof of high +level CIA involvement, since that system would not have been +available to lower level agents or contract people. +Blakey did not respond right away to this letter and the author +decided to make the TUM hypothesis public by publishing it with +Cutler as co-author, in the spring of 1978, in "Gallery" magazine. +Contact was also made with Senator Richard Schweiker who had been +the member of the Church Committee responsible for interrogating +Charles Senseney. Schweiker agreed to try and find out from +Senseney what had happened to the umbrella launchers he had +constructed for the CIA; that is, who in the CIA had had access to +a launcher. +The information to be published in "Gallery" had been generated +by Bob Cutler and the author independently of any information +obtained from the HSCA, but the safest approach seemed to be an +application to them for permission to print the article under the +terms of the nondisclosure agreement. So, on January 9, 1978, the +author submitted a draft of the "Gallery" article to Blakey and, on +January 16, 1978, he wrote back stating that publishing the article +would not violate the terms of the nondisclosure agreement, "Exhibit +K." The article was published in the June 1978 issue of "Gallery" +which actually appeared in May 1978. Blakey knew in advance when +it would appear. +On August 3, 1978, the author wrote to Blakey stating that +photographic evidence showed a high probability that TUM was +actually Gordon Novel, the CIA contract agent from New Orleans, who +had been hired to ruin the Garrison investigation, "Exhibit L." +The reason that some new photo evidence was just then coming to +light was that the committee had discovered a never-before seen +film of TUM and had released a frame from this film to the press in +July 1978. Shortly after the TUM photo was released by the HSCA, +with an appeal to him to come forward, an unknown caller contacted +Penn Jones in Texas to tell him he knew who TUM was. Penn visited +Louis Witt, having been given his address, and upon seeing him, +jumped to the conclusion that he *was* TUM. This led to Mr. Witt +appearing before the committee in their televised hearings and +making the claim he was TUM. He showed the umbrella on TV that he +claimed he used. +It was immediately obvious to Bob Cutler and the author that +Witt was not TUM. He displayed the umbrella he said he had used in +Dealey Plaza and *it contained the wrong number of spokes*. His +height, weight and facial appearance did not match TUM's, and his +description of his actions did not match at all the actions TUM +took, as shown in the photos. On November 24, 1978, the author +wrote to Stokes telling him he had been fooled by a CIA plant, or +by his own staff, planting Mr. Witt, and that he should call Gordon +Novel as a witness because it was likely that Novel was TUM. HSCA +never did call Novel as a witness. Novel had visited the HSCA +during the days Richard A. Sprague was still there, but he had not +mentioned being in Dealey Plaza or that the CIA had hired him to +ruin Garrison. Blakey and Stokes avoided contacting Novel. +Now, the important thing to focus on, in this example, is the +sequence of events. The HSCA had done nothing about TUM until they +were faced with the possibility of a public article linking TUM to +the CIA through a CIA weapons system and through Gordon Novel. +They also found out that Senator Schweiker was looking into the CIA +end of it. At about the time the "Gallery" article was being +widely read, the HSCA suddenly released to the press a photo of TUM +and asked that people identify him or that he come forward. The +photo did not show his umbrella or where he was sitting in Dealey +Plaza, nor did the release mention the umbrella or the theories +about it. Just his photo. An earlier photo used by Cutler and the +author to identify Novel as TUM was not released. +In a surprisingly short time after the photo appeared, an +unknown person calls a well-known researcher and leads him to Louis +Witt. Witt in turn lies about who he was and where he was, by +claiming to be TUM. Blakey and the committee put Witt on center +stage as though it was a play, and eliminate the TUM problem by +pulling off a charade. The fine hand of the CIA can be seen in +this whole series of linked events. Blakey had to have known what +was going on, and he knows today that Witt was not TUM and the high +probability that TUM was Gordon Novel, CIA agent. +The extreme lengths that the CIA and Blakey went to in this +charade, made one believe that the umbrella probably *was* the +Charles Senseney weapon. Otherwise, why bother with TUM?

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Goal Number Eight

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What has been presented so far in this article represents direct +actions by the CIA to cover-up CIA involvement. Blakey played +another important role and that was to achieve the eighth goal on +the list, namely to change the public impression of HSCA's main +effort. Researchers who concentrated on attacking the Warren +Commission's Dealey Plaza or Tippit shooting findings had created +a big problem. If Oswald had fired no shots, then he must have +been framed. If Oswald was framed, the evidence against him was +planted, and multiple gunmen were involved. All of this line of +reasoning would point to a very well-organized and very well-planned conspiracy, which would in turn point to an intelligence +style involvement. +So, Blakey set out from the beginning to create an investigative +environment and image that appeared to be based on a *highly +scientific, objective study of the Dealey Plaza evidence*. The +overall objective of this approach was to prove "scientifically" +that the Warren Commission was right, and that Lee Harvey Oswald +fired all the shots that had struck John Kennedy, Governor Connally +and policeman Tippit. That required scientific proof of the +single bullet theory, among other things. Blakey did just that. +Right up to the moment when the acoustical evidence on the Dallas +police tape reared its ugly head, only one month from the end of +the life of the committee, Blakey managed to control and manipulate +the Dealey Plaza evidence to back up the Warren Commission +completely. The author described how Blakey did this in chapter +16. One of his "magical" methods was to split up the scientific +work into subcommittees or panels of advisors, and various staff +groups, and keep them all from communicating with each other. +*Thus, even though the medical panel gave testimony showing an +upward trajectory of the single bullet (399) shot*, the trajectory +panel turned it into a downward trajectory. The photographic panel +was so isolated they never did see the most important evidence of +the sixth floor window, inside and outside. +The photo panel had a number of government and military people +on it, as did all of the other panels. Thus it was not surprising +that they testified that the fake photos of Oswald holding a rifle +were not fakes. Blakey rode roughshod over the evidence that these +photos were fakes, presenting only one witness, Jack White, to show +why they were fakes, and giving him a very rough time. Other +researchers, like Fred Newcomb and the author, who had done a lot +of work on the fake photos, were not called and not consulted by +the photo panel or Blakey and his staff. There are many more +examples of how Blakey managed this magic show on public TV, too +numerous to describe here. +One important result of this drastic change of investigative +environment compared to that existing under Richard A. Sprague, was +to draw the attention of the public during the hearings away from +the evidence and the witnesses pointing to the real assassins, and +to the fact that Oswald was framed and did not fire any shots. It +thus provided an additional shield for the CIA and in effect, +completed the cover-up.

+ +

Summary

+ +

Now, in the spring of 1985, the CIA appears to have under +control the final cover-up engineered by Robert Blakey with the +support of a few murders of key witnesses and the existence of the +insidious, illegal, nondisclosure agreement silencing the HSCA +staff, committee members, and consultants. The situation for the +American public appears to be hopeless. The CIA effectively +controlled all three branches of government when the chips were +down, and have had no problems controlling the fourth estate, the +media, or the independent researchers. By what means could the +American public combat this awesome power? It is hard to see that +there is any means available. And we have now reached and passed +1984. Would an election of Edward Kennedy to the presidency in +1988 change anything? If he lived through a presidency following +an election campaign, it probably would. Most Americans react to +that by saying, "he would be assassinated." Somehow they have +received the messages about what has gone wrong with the United +States.

+ +

____________________

+ +

[1] Chaired by Prof. Norman Ramsey of M.I.T.

+ +

[2] Senators Richard Schweiker of Penn. and Gary Hart of Colo. formed +a sub-committee of the Church Committee.

+ +

[3] The author became an advisor to Richard A. Sprague as soon as he +was appointed counsel to the HSCA.

+ +

[4] The names of the witnesses in the memo were: +Cooperative Witnesses: +Louis Ivon (Jim Garrison's chief investigator), Richard Case +Nagell, Harry Dean, James Hosty, Carver Gaten, Warren du Bruys, +Regis Kennedy, Victor Marchetti, Gordon Novel, Manuel Garcia +Gonzalez, Harry Williams, Jim Garrison, George de +Mohrenschildt, Charles Senseney, Mary Hope and Jim Hicks.

+ +

Non-Cooperative Witnesses or Assassins or Planners: +Ronald Augustinovich, Guy Gabaldin, Frenchy, William Seymour, +Emilio Santana, Jack Lawrence, Jim Braden, Sergio Arcacha +Smith, Fred Lee Crisman, William Sullivan, Carlos Prio +Socarras, Rolando Masferrer, Major L.M. Bloomfield, E. Howard +Hunt, and Richard Helms.

+ +

[5] In his book, "Six Seconds in Dallas," Thompson showed photos of +TUM.

+ +
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+ +
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+ +

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes +me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been +enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the +money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working +upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few +hands and the Republic is destroyed.

+ +

--- Abraham Lincoln (quoted in Jack London's "The Iron Heel").

+ +

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Appendix

+ +

The Secrecy Oath the Author signed after Robert Blakey took over +the HSCA, and correspondence between the author and various +committee members.

+ +

Exhibit A +____________________________________________________________

+ +

Select Committee on Assassinations Nondisclosure Agreement + + +[Richard E. Sprague] +I, ____________________, in consideration for being +employed by or engaged by contract or otherwise to perform +services for or at the request of the House Select Committee +on Assassinations, or any Member thereof, da hereby make the +representations and accept the obligations set forth below as +conditions precedent for my employment or engagement, or for +my continuing employment or engagement, with the Select Com-mittee, the United States House of Representatives, or the +United States Congress. + +1. I have read the Rules of the Select Committee, and I +hereby agree to be bound by them and by the Rules of the House +of Representatives. + +2. I hereby agree never to divulge, publish or reveal by +words, conduct or otherwise, any testimony given before the +Select Committee in executive session (including the name of any +witness who appeared or was summoned to appear before the Select +Committee in executive session), any classifiable and properly +classified information (as defined in 5 U.S.C. Section 552(b)(1)), +or any information pertaining to intelligence sources or methods +as designated by the Director of Central Intelligence, or any con-fidential information that is received by the Select Committee +or that comes into my possession by virtue of my position with +the Select Committee, to any person not a member of the Select +Committee or its staff or the personal staff representative of +a Committee Member unless authorized in writing by the Select +Committee, or, after the Select Committee's termination, by +such manner as the House of Representatives may determine or, +in the absence of a determination by the House, in such manner +as the Agency or Department from which the information origin-ated may determine. I further agree not to divulge, publish +or reveal by words, conduct or otherwise, any other information +which is received by the Select Committee or which comes into +my possession by virtue of my position with the Select Committee, +for the duration of the Select Committee's existence. + +3. I hereby agree that any material that is based upon or +may include information that I hereby pledge not to disclose, +and that is contemplated for publication by me will, prior to +discussing it with or showing it to any publishers, editors or +literary agents, be submitted to the Select Committee to deter-mine whether said material contains any information that I +hereby pledge not to disclose. The Chairman of the Select Com-mittee shall consult with the Director of Central Intelligence +for the purpose of the Chairman's determination as to whether +or not the material contains information that I pledge not to +disclose. I further agree to take no steps toward publication +until authorized in writing by the Select Committee, or after +its termination, by such manner as the House of Representatives +may determine, or in the absence of a determination by the +House, in such manner as the Agency or Department from which +the information originated may determine. + +4. I hereby agree to familiarize myself with the Select +Committee's security procedures, and provide at all times the +required degree of protection against unauthorized disclosure +for all information and materials that come into my possession +by virtue of my position with the Select Committee. + +5. I hereby agree to immediately notify the Select Com-mittee of any attempt by any person not a member of the Select +Committee staff to solicit information from me that I pledge +not to disclose. + +6. I hereby agree to immediately notify the Select +Committee if I am called upon to testify or provide information +to the proper authorities that I pledge not to disclose. I +will request that my obligation to respond is established by +the Select Committee, or after its termination, by such manner +as the House of Representatives may determine, before I do so. + +7. I hereby agree to surrender to the Select Committee +upon demand by the Chairman or upon my separation from the +Select Committee staff, any material, including any classified +information or information pertaining to intelligence sources +or methods as designated by the Director of Central Intelligence, +which comes into my possession by virtue of my position with the +Select Committee. I hereby acknowledge that all documents +acquired by me in the course of my employment are and remain the +property of the United States. + +8. I understand that any violation of the Select Committee +Rules, security procedures or this agreement shall constitute +grounds for dismissal from my current employment. + +9. I hereby assign to the United States Government all +rights, title and interest in any and all royalties, remunera-tions and emoluments that have resulted or may result from any +divulgence, publication or revelation in violation of this +agreement. + +10. I understand and agree that the United States Government +may choose to apply, prior to any unauthorized disclosure by +me, for a court order prohibiting disclosure. Nothing in this +agreement constitutes a waiver on the part of the United States +of the right to prosecute for any statutory violation. Nothing +in this agreement constitutes a waiver on my part of any defenses +I may otherwise have in any civil or criminal proceedings. + +11. I have read the provisions of the Espionage Laws, +Sections 793, 794 and 798, Title 18, United States Code, and +of Section 783, Title 50, United States Code, and I am aware +that unauthorized disclosure of certain classified information +may subject me to prosecution. I have read Section 1001, Title +18, United States Code, and I am aware that the making of a +false statement herein is punishable as a felony. I have also +read Executive Order 11652, and the implementing National +Security Council directive of May 17, 1972, relating to the +protection of classified information. + +12. Unless released in writing from this agreement or any +portion thereof by the Select Committee, I recognize that all +the conditions and obligations imposed on me by this agreement +apply during my Committee employment or engagement and continue +to apply after the relationship is terminated. + +13. No consultant shall indicate, divulge or acknowledge, +without written permission of the Select Committee, the fact +that the Select Committee has engaged him or her by contract +as a consultant until after the Select Committee has terminated. + +14. In addition to any rights for criminal prosecution or +for injunctive relief the United States Government may have for +violation of this agreement, the United States Government may +file a civil suit in an appropriate court for damages as a +consequence of a breach of this agreement. The costs of any +civil suit brought by the United States for breach of this +agreement, including court costs, investigative expenses, and +reasonable attorney fees, shall be borne by any defendant who +loses such suit. In any civil suit for damages successfully +brought by the United States Government for breach of this +agreement, actual damages may be recovered, or, in the event +that such actual damages may be impossible to calculate, liquidated +damages in an amount of $5000 shall be awarded as a reasonable +estimate for damages to the credibility and effectiveness of the +investigation. + +15. I hereby agree that in any suit by the United States +Government for injunctive or monetary relief pursuant to the +terms of this agreement, personal jurisdiction shall obtain and +venue shall lie in the United States District Court for the +District of Columbia, or in any other appropriate United States +District Court in which the United States may elect to bring +suit. I further agree that the law of the District of Columbia +shall govern the interpretation and construction of this +agreement. + +16. Each provision of this agreement is severable. If a +court should find any part of this agreement to be unenforceable, +all other provisions of this agreement shall remain in full force +and effect. + +I make this agreement without any mental reservation or +purpose of evasion, and I agree that it may be used by the +Select Committee in carrying out its duty to protect the security +of information provided to it. + + + + + + +[July 19, 1977] [Richard E., Sprague] +Date: _____________________ _________________________________ + + +[ I am submitting a list of +material and information +which has already been _________________________________ +given to the committee, LOUIS STOKES, Chariman +or which I intend to Select Committee on Assassinations +give to the committee in +the near future. I intend +to publish some of this +information.]

+ +

Exhibit B +____________________________________________________________

+ +

193 Pinewood Road +Hartsdale, NY 10530

+ +

February 10, 1978

+ +

Mr. Louis Stokes +Chairman, Select Committee on Assassinations +U.S. House of Representatives +Washington, D.C. 20515 + +Dear Louis: + +As I am sure you know, I signed a non disclosure agreement for the +Select Committee, given to me on July 19, 1977 by Robert Blakey. Not +being a lawyer, I did not really appreciate some of the provisions of +that agreemont at the time I signed it, even though some things in it +seemed strange to me. + +In the last fow months I have gone over the agreement several times, +with particular attention to those strange portions. The more I re-read the agreement, the more puzzled I have become. + +I was finally triggered into writing you this letter by a conversation +I had with Richard A. Sprague. As you may recall I helped him and Bob +Tanenbaum from November 1976 forward with the photographic evidence in +the JFK case, and several other areas derived from my relationship with +Jim Garrison and the Committee to Investigate Assassinations. I had no +written agreement with the Committee at that time and did not ask for +compensation for the work I had been doing. I had signed no non dis-closure agreement and such an agreement had never been mentioned. + +The first time I had any idea that the Committee would want to pay me +for my assistance was some time after Dick Sprague resigned, when Mr. +Blakey approached me about it through Bob Tanenbaum, shortly before +Bob resigned. My recent meeting with Dick Sprague naturally led to +discussion about my continuing work for the Committee. He raised the +subject of the non disclosure agreement signed by each staff member, +saying that he would never have enforced such a document while he was +chief counsel because he believes it gives the CIA and other agencies +too much power to control the activities of the Committee. It was +because of that statement that I read the agreement again in the +light of what he said. + +I know that you had a lot of faith in Richard A. Sprague and did not +personally want him to resign. For that reason I'm writing to you +rather than Mr. Blakey, seeking answers to my questions. + +Encloged is a copy of the agreement with my signature. I have circled +on it the paragraphs in question, and underlined the key words. My +questions, Mr. Stokes are as follows: + +1. Are paragraphs 2, 3 and 7 inserted for the purpose of giving the +CIA power over the Select Committee to investigate the CIA's +role in the assassinations or the cover up crimes following the +assassinations of President Kennedy or Dr. King? I believe those +paragraphs could be so interpreted, especially if each committee +member and each staff member signed a similar agreement. + +2. If the purposes of paragraphs 2, 3 and 7 are not as questioned +above, then how can the Select Committee, its staff or its con-sultants, *ever* discover whether the CIA was involved in the +assassinations or whether the CIA, as I maintain, is *still* +involved in covering up the conspiracies? + +For example, paragraph 3 states that you as chairman, shall con-sult with the Director of Central Intelligence--to determine +whether or not the material I might receive contains information +that I pledge not to disclose. + +Assuming that all committee staff people signed that paragraph, +it would seem to me that you would really be hamstrung in investi-gating the CIA's possible role. Your staff could not be working +with any documents or other materials pointing toward CIA agents' +involvement in the assassinations, without you personally having +to show those documents to the Director of Central Intelligence +and to obtain his agreement to disclose the information to the +public. + +The CIA Director has the power of judging what can be released. +Obviously, anything incriminating to the CIA, especially higher +level people who may have been involved, would be judged unreleas-able. + +None of this would take on the significance that it does, were it +not for my belief that the CIA itself has continued to cover up +the original conspiracy and that several CIA agents or contract +employees carried out the murder. + +3. Is paragraph 12 really logical, or even legal? Can an agreement +with a body be extended ad infinitum after the body has dissolved? + +4. Paragraph 14 bothers me. It seems to say that I agree to allow +the government to sue me and to bear the expenses of such a suit. +Is it really legal to ask me to agree to be sued as a condition +of my consulting contract? Couldn't the government sue me and +collect expenses anyway if I did something wrong, without such a +clause? Paragraph 16 seems to anticipate that Paragraph 14 may +not stand up in court. (Or some other paragraph.) + +I want to make it clear that my concerns in this matter are not related +to any obligation I may have. Rather, I am concerned about the +purposes of those clauses in the agreement, as they affect the +investigations. I believe every staff member signed them. + +I would appreciate hearing directly from you on these questions Mr. +Stokes, rather than referring this letter to Mr. Blakey. + +Yours sincerely, + + +Richard E. Sprague

+ +

Exhibit C +____________________________________________________________

+ +

LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

+ +

RICHARDSON PREYER, N.C. SAMUEL L. DEVINE, OHIO +WALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.C. STEWART B. MCKINNEY, CONN. +YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF. CHARLES THONE, NEBR. +CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN. HAROLD S. SAWYER, MICH. +HAROLD E. FORD, TENN. +FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND. +ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA. +------------ +(202) 225-4624

+ +

Select Committee on Assassinations +U.S House of Representatives +3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2 +WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

+ +

MAR 16 1978

+ +

Richard E. Sprague, Esq. +193 Pinewood Road +Hartsdale, New York 10530

+ +

Dear Mr. Sprague:

+ +

In response to your letter of February 10, 1978 +concerning the non-disclosure agreement which you signed +with the Committee, I wish to first remind you that the +agreement was explicitly explained to you provision by +provision by Mr. Blakey, and that you were given the +opportunity to ask any questions that you desired prior +to your signing the agreement. I want to assure you that +the intent of the agreement is not to prevent information +from ultimately being disclosed to the American public. +The non-disclosure agreement only governs the timing of +disclosure of information to the public. In response to +your specific questions: + +I. Paragraphs 2, 3 and 7 obviously are not for +the purpose of giving the CIA power over the Select Committee +to investigate the CIA's role in the assassination. If +you read these paragraphs carefully, they clearly provide +that the Select Committee, during its existence, will be in +full control and have access to all information. The paragraphs +do prevent you from disclosing the information, without the +authorization of the Select Committee. + +Paragraph 3 does state that I, as Chairman, will +consult with the Director of Central Intelligence to determine +whether or not material contains information which you pledge +not to disclose. I, however, retain ultimate authority and +I only consult with the Director of Central Intelligence - +I am not bound by his opinion. + +II. Paragraphs 12 and 14 are indeed legal. Should +you have any specific questions concerning the legality of +any of the provisions, I suggest you consult your own attorney.

+ +

I assure you that the very purpose of the non-disclosure agreement is to give the Select Committee full +control over the conduct of the investigation, including +the ultimate disclosure of information to the American +public. In no manner should it be construed as the Committee +being restricted in its investigation by the CIA or any other +federal agency or department. + +In closing, I remind you of paragraph 13 of the +non-disclosure agreement which provides that you may not +"indicate, divulge or acknowledge" the fact that you have +been retained as a consultant until after the Select Committee +has been terminated. I have seen a press release concerning +yourself issued by Mr. Altmans in conjunction with a new article +in Gallery magazine. I note that while you technically did +not violate the non-disclosure agreement which you signed, +by carefully wording the release to describe the work you +had done for the Committee in the past, this is the exact +kind of exploitation of a consultant relationship that the +Committee desires to avoid during its existence. + +If you have any other questions or comments on the +non-disclosure agreement, they should be addressed to Mr. +Blakey as Chief Counsel.

+ +

Sincerely,

+ +

[Louis Stokes]

+ +

Louis Stokes +Chairman

+ +

LS:jwc

+ +

Exhibit D +____________________________________________________________

+ +

193 Pinewood Road +Hartsdale, NY 10530

+ +

April 5, 1978

+ +

Representative Louis Stokes +U.S. House of Representatives +Raybur House Office Building +Washington, D.C. 20515 + +Dear Louis, + +Thank you for your most reassuring letter of March 16, 1978. +As you know I have great faith in your own personal integrity +and your goals as discussed with you at lunch nearly a year +ago. I understand the necessity for non disclosure and +sensitive discretion in the way the Select Committee is pro-ceeding. I believe I understand it more than most researchers +because of my close working relationship with the staff and the +committee ever since it started. + +You can rest assured that it is my intention to continue to +assist you and to support your efforts right up to the finish +line. I want to avoid as much as you do any exploitation of my +relationship to the committee that would cause problems for you +or for me, especially with the media. + +In this regard, the press release you mentioned in your letter +from Gallery magazine was initially prepared by their public +relations department, and included a statement taht I am a +consultant to the Select Committee. I asked them to delete the +statement and they insisted on retaining something about my +assistance to the committee in order to help establish my +credibility with their readers. After some discussion I was +able to get them to modify the statement to apply to the past +work for Richard A. Sprague and Henry Gonzalez. + +There will be another article in the June 1978 issue using this +same statement. I believe I mentioned the article to you several +months ago. It is about the CIA weapon system developed by +Charles Senseney at Fort Detrick, Maryland using rocket propelled +flechettes carrying paralyzing poison launched by an umbrella. +I described in the article the evidence pointing toward the use +of this weapons system in Dealey Plaza. The article will appear +on May 2 on the newsstands. + +I read your March 16 letter, on March 22, upon my return from a +trip to Japan and a vacation. I contacted Gallery asking them to +delete entirely the statement about me and the Select Committee. +They told me it was too late, that the issue had already gone to +press. However, they did agree to delete the statement from any + + + +[the remainder of this letter was missing from the copy of the +edition used to make this on-line version. --Editor]

+ +

Exhibit E +____________________________________________________________

+ +

LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

+ +

RICHARDSON PREYER, N.C. SAMUEL L. DEVINE, OHIO +WALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.C. STEWART B. MCKINNEY, CONN. +YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF. CHARLES THONE, NEBR. +CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN. HAROLD S. SAWYER, MICH. +HAROLD E. FORD, TENN. +FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND. +ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA. +------------ +(202) 225-4624

+ +

Select Committee on Assassinations +U.S House of Representatives +3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2 +WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

+ +

May 15, 1978

+ +

Mr. Richard Sprague +193 Pinewood Road +Hartsdale, NY 10530 + +Dear Mr. Sprague: + +Thank you for your thoughtful letter of April 5 +and I hope that you will excuse my delay in responding. + +I appreciate your expression of confidence in me +and your reassurance of your continued support. With +regard to the matter of the press release, I understand +your situation and it was most thoughtful of you to +advise me in advance about the article in the June issue +of Gallery magazine. + +Your letter has been sent on to the Committee staff +in order that they might share your recommendations about +Richard Case Nagell. + +Thank you again for your continuing support. + +Sincerely, + + +[Louis Stokes] + +LOUIS STOKES +Chairman + +LS:thn

+ +

Exhibit F +____________________________________________________________

+ +

+193 Pinewood Road +Hartsdale, New York 10530 + +September 22, 1978 + + +Representative Yvonne Burke +U.S. House of Representatives +Washington, D.C. 20515 + +Dear Mrs. Burke: + +I don't know whether you recall our meeting on +July 21, 1977 when Jack White, Robert Groden and I +made presentations to the J.F.K. subcommittee of the +Select Committee on Assassinations. You may +remember my showing a summary of photographic evidence +of conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination. You asked +some very pertinent questions which I answered about +how to obtain films and photos from media organizations +that were stonewalling at the time. + +I am truly sorry that you have missed the first +three weeks of the J.F.K. hearings because I feel that +your presence would have created at least a minority +of one against the carefully orchestrated cover up that +is now takinq place. I had great faith in the committee, +especially after a luncheon meeting with Louis Stokes +in 1977 and after the presentation to you. + +I want you personally to know that I have now lost +all of that faith. The farce that is going on is really +almost unbelievable to an honest researcher. All +witnesses (except Cyril Wecht), all panels employed by +the committee, the staff and the committee members doing +the questioning, obviously made up their minds a long +time ago that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin, +that there was no conspiracy and that the Warren +Commission was right. + +I cannot understand how this came about. As the +most likely committee member to still keep an open mind, +I would like to ask your opinion. + +How did the committee staff ignore all of the +evidence of conspiracy. I am speaking not only +about the photographic evidence, but about the +information that Clifford Fenton and his team +uncovered in New Orleans. I know you know about +that from my conversations with Ted Gandolfo and +Jim Garrison. + +Do you believe there was a conspiracy? If you +do, will you say so when you return to Washington? +Will you insist that the committee hear from the +important New Orleans witnesses as well as the +others I recommended long long ago. Specifically, +will you insist that the committee call as witnesses: +James Hosty, Warren du Bruys, Regis Kennedy, Richard +Case Nagell, Harry Dean, Ronald Augustinovich, Mary +Hope, Guy Gabaldin, Frenchy, William Seymour, Emilio +Santana, Jack Lawrence, Jim Braden, E. Howard Hunt, +Richard Helms and the others listed in the document +I gave Louis Stokes in 1977. If you can't or won't, +God help this country. + + +Yours sincerely, + + +Richard E. Sprague + + + +P.S. In the case of key witness Richard Case Nagell, +Mr. Stokes assured me this spring that the committee +would contact him. As of this date, he has never +been contacted. He knows who killed President Kennedy.

+ +

Exhibit G +____________________________________________________________

+ +

LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

+ +

RICHARDSON PREYER, N.C. SAMUEL L. DEVINE, OHIO +WALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.C. STEWART B. MCKINNEY, CONN. +YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF. CHARLES THONE, NEBR. +CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN. HAROLD S. SAWYER, MICH. +HAROLD E. FORD, TENN. +FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND. +ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA. +------------ +(202) 225-4624

+ +

Select Committee on Assassinations +U.S House of Representatives +3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2 +WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

+ +

October 10, 1978

+ +

Mr. Richard Sprague +193 Pinewood Road +Hartsdale, New York 10530 + +Dear Mr. Sprague: + +I was greatly disturbed by your letter of September +23, 1978 in which you stated that, "I have one last hope +that what we are witnessing in your hearings is a charade +meant to fool the FBI and the CIA. If it is, you have fooled +me. If it is not, your statements to me over the past year +about getting at the truth were all meaningless. I have +lost all faith in you and the committee." + +I must say that I deeply regret the fact that you +have lost faith in the performance of my committee. We +have attempted to do a thorough, competent and professional +job which would be a source of pride for you and other +concerned Americans. + +I should state here for the record, Mr. Sprague, that +I find nothing inconsistent in my statements to you over the +year indicating that the committee would be seeking the truth +and nothing but the truth during the course of the investigation +and the testimony that the committee has received during its +public hearings. Perhaps you are confused because I did not +explicitly state that the truth the committee is seeking is +not your truth or my truth, but truth supported by the weight +of the evidence. + +Thanks again for your past and current concerns. I +assure you that the committee will make every effort to tell +the whole story to the American people. + +Sincerely, + +[Louis Stokes] +Chairman + + +LS: icmj

+ +

Exhibit H +____________________________________________________________

+ +

+ +193 Pinewood Road +Hartsdale, NY 10530 + + + +October 30, 1978 + + + + +Representative Louis Stokes +Select Committee on Assassinations +U.S. House of Representatives +3369 House Office Building, Annex 2 +Washington, D.C. 20515 + +Dear Louis: + +I appreciate your responding to my September 23 letter. +I am truly sorry to be so disturbing to you concerning +the committee's hearings. I wish I could be more +complimentary and positive about your work. + +I could not agree with you more that the "truth supported +by the weight of the evidence" is what we are all after. +I'm enclosing for your information one more copy of the +document I gave to Henry Gonzalez, Richard A. Sprague, +Bob Tannenbaum, and you in 1976 and 1977. + +Unless you call the witnesses listed on pages 4-6 of this +document, Louis, you have not dealt with the most impor-tant evidence of all. How can you possibly claim to have +unearthed anything approximating the truth, unless you +and the rest of the committee interrogate with strength, +the following important witnesses that you missed: + +Richard Case Nagell, James P. Hosty, Louis Ivon, Victor +Marchetti, Gorden Novel, Ronald Augustinovich, Mary Hope, +Manuel Garcia Gonzalez, William Seymour, Emilio Santana, +Guy Gabaldin, Major L.M. Bloomfield, Harry Williams, +Sylvia Odio and Jim Garrison. + +The document explains how each of these witnesses was +involved in the assassination of investigations of it. +It is based, not just on my research, but on painful +hours of investigative efforts of many, many people, +including Jim Garrison's professional staff, the +Committee to Investigate Assassinations and others. + +I understand that James P. Hosty is finally ready to +tell his real story, at the risk of physical harm to +himself and his family. You have not called him. +Richard Case Nagell has been ready to testify for a +long time. Despite my requests to Dr. Blakey and to +you, he has not been called and no effort has been +made to locate him through the only person who knows +where he is, Dick Russell. + +If you will pardon my saying so Louis, something about +just those two failures stinks, not to mention all of +the others. + +It is not too late to save your reputations. You can +still call those witnesses in December. I hope you do. + + +Yours Sincerely, + + + +Dick Sprague

+ +

Exhibit I +____________________________________________________________

+ +

+ +193 Pinewood Road +Hartsdale, NY 10530 + +November 24, 1978 + + + + +Representative Louis Stokes +Select Committee on Assassinations +U.S. House of Representatives +3369 House Office Building, Annex 2 +Washington, D.C. 20515 + +Dear Louis: + +I am still waiting for a reply to my letter of October 30, +1978. I thought I should write again to remind you that +the witnesses you should call in December are not going to +be around much longer. I'm afraid that Gorden Novel, +Richard Case Nagell, James Hosty and Warren de Brueys, in +particular may go the same way that Regis Kennedy, William +Sullivan, and George de Mohrenschildt went. You really +must call them before they die. + +Regis Kennedy reportedly died of natural causes the day +before you were to talk with him. I do not believe that. +How many more key witnesses have to die before you would +be convinced? Kennedy, du Brueys and Hosty were Oswald's +points of contact in the FBI, receiving his reports on the +conspiratorial group planning JFK's assassination. I have +known this since 1971 directly from Hosty's own lips via +Carver Gaten and Jim Gochenaur. Regis Kennedy also knew +why the FBI was searching for Clay Shaw under his alias +Clay Bertrand in New Orleans, *before* Dean Andrews received +that phone call from him about defending Oswald. Kennedy +may also have been one of the three agents who took the +Babushka lady's film away from her. At least she told me +he was one of them from his photo. + +So Regis Kennedy had to die. So do Warren du Brueys and +James Hosty. If they die of "natural causes" in the next +month or two, don't say I didn't warn you. + +Nagell and Novel are in even greater danger. Nagell may +now be safe. He fled the country recently. However, the +CIA has tentacles everywhere, so he will not really be safe +wherever he is. Novel could easily be killed, since he is +in prison. That is one of the easiest places for the death +squad to catch up with him. + +As I have had told you in previous letters, the reason you +*must* call Novel is that there is a very strong possibility +that he is the umbrella man. If you laugh at that and try +to tell me that you found the umbrella man, Mr. Witt, I'll +laugh right back at you and tell you that farce you put on +for the American public didn't fool anyone with his eyes +even half way open. In addition to the obviously planned +sequence of events and the way in which Mr. Witt surfaced, +his umbrella was certainly not the one used in Dealey Plaza. +It was the wrong size, had the wrong number of ribs, and was +missing the two round white bulbs on either end when folded +up. + +No, Louis, Mr. Witt was either planted upon you or else +your staff planted him. I'll give you the benefit of the +doubt for the moment and assume that you do not know he +was a plant. If you let it go as is, you and Mr. Preyer +and the rest of the committee are going to look pretty +silly. + +You absolutely must call as witnesses, Gorden Novel, and +at the other end, Charles Sensenay and the CIA people asso-ciated with Fort Detrick, Maryland, where that umbrella +launching system was made. Incidentally, two Bulgarian +intelligence agents have recently been assassinated in +England with an umbrella weapon using poison flechettes, +very similar to the one used on JFK. + +I would appreciate a response to this letter telling me +what you plan to do about those witnesses. + + +Best regards, + + + +Dick Sprague

+ +

Exhibit J +____________________________________________________________

+ +

LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

+ +

RICHARDSON PREYER, N.C. SAMUEL L. DEVINE, OHIO +WALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.C. STEWART B. MCKINNEY, CONN. +YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF. CHARLES THONE, NEBR. +CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN. HAROLD S. SAWYER, MICH. +HAROLD E. FORD, TENN. +FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND. +ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA. +------------ +(202) 225-4624

+ +

Select Committee on Assassinations +U.S House of Representatives +3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2 +WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

+ +

December 4, 1978

+ +

Mr. Dick Sprague +193 Pinewood Rqad +Hartsdale, New York 10530 + +Dear Mr. Sprague: + +Thank you for your letter of November 24, 1978. + +I am aware of the amount of time you have spent +analyzing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy +and your interest in the work of the Select Committee on +Assassinations since its inception. + +However, I regret that under our Rules, it is +impossible for us to respond to your letter in a manner +which would reveal the substance or procedure of our +investigation, or the names of those persons who will be +called to testify before the committee. + +The committee is, of course, grateful for your +suggestions and those of the many other concerned citizens +who have taken the time to write. + +Sincerely, + +[Louis Stokes] + +LOUIS STOKES +Chairman + + + +LS:jl

+ +

Exhibit K +____________________________________________________________

+ +

LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

+ +

RICHARDSON PREYER, N.C. SAMUEL L. DEVINE, OHIO +WALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.C. STEWART B. MCKINNEY, CONN. +YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF. CHARLES THONE, NEBR. +CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN. HAROLD S. SAWYER, MICH. +HAROLD E. FORD, TENN. +FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND. +ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA. +------------ +(202) 225-4624

+ +

Select Committee on Assassinations +U.S House of Representatives +3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2 +WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515 +

+ +

JAN 16 1978 +

+ +

Richard E. Sprague, Esq. +193 Pinewood Road +Hartsdale, New York 10530 + +Dear Mr. Sprague: + +In response to your letter of January 9, +1978, I have reviewed your proposed article "The +CIA Weapon System Used in the Assassination of +President Kennedy." It is my opinion that the article +is derived from your own sources of information, and +contains no information that has come into your +possession by virtue of your consulting work with the +Committee. Accordingly, your proposed publication of +the article does not violate the terms of your non-disclosure agreement. As I am sure you can appreciate, +further comment by myself upon the article or its +proposed publication would be inappropriate, and +consequently I decline to express any review or +comment upon it. + +Thank you for your continuing cooperation +with the Select Committee. + +Sincerely, + +[G. Robert Blakey] + +G. Robert Blakey + +GRB:jwc

+ +

Exhibit L +____________________________________________________________

+ +

193 Pinewood Road +Hartsdale, NY 10530

+ +

August 3, 1978

+ +

Mr. Robert Blakey +Select Committee on Assassinations +U.S. House of Representatives +Washington, D.C. 20515 + +Dear Bob: + +Following our telephone conversation on Tuesday August 1, +I checked with Bob Cutler, my co-author on the Umbrella +Weapon System article in Gallery June 1978. Bob told me +he left with Mr. Preyer and with you, photographic material +showing that The Umbrella Man (TUM) was quite probably +J. Gordon Novel. + +Your news photo of him reinforces that belief for both of +us. I did not have that portion of the Couch film from +WFAA and so had never seen TUM's face as clearly as it +appears there. The Bothun photo of him has a light +reflection around his nose, as I'm sure you know. + +We have a 1962-3 photo of Novel taken from the same angle +as the Couch, film of TUM and a photo comparison convinces +us more than ever that Novel is TUM. Mr. Preyer no doubt +told you back in April that Novel is in a jail in Georgia, +framed for a crime he and Jim Garrison, his former lawyer, +both claim he didn't commit. + + +Best regards, + + + +Dick Sprague + +DS/mc + +P.S. I am still waiting for a response to my letters to +Louis Stokes about attending the hearings beginning +August 14. + +cc: L. Stokes +R. Cutler

+ +
--
+ +

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes +me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been +enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the +money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working +upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few +hands and the Republic is destroyed.

+ +

--- Abraham Lincoln (quoted in Jack London's "The Iron Heel").

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Short History of Nikola Tesla +

+

+This is a file to straighten out misconception and +disinformation that has occurred over the years, about how +supposedly "great" Edison was, and how Nikola Tesla was +brushed under the capitalist power rug. +Edison was a thief, employing all kinds of people for +their brains, he stole their inventions, their ideas, so +much so, that it is unclear today what Edison actually +invented, and what was stolen from others. +The Edison Electric Institute was formed to perpetuate +the notion that Edison was the inventor of record, and to +make sure that school textbooks, etc., only mentioned HIM +in connection with these many inventions. Much like Bell +Labs does today. +Nikola Tesla was pretty much always a genius, after +having made many improvements in the electric trolleys, and +trains in his country, he came to America, sought +employment, and eventually ended up working for Edison. +Edison had contracted with New York City to build +Direct Current (D.C.) power plants every square mile or so, +so as to power the lights that he supposedly invented. +Street lights, hotel lighting etc. Having trenches dug +throughout the city to lay the cables, copper, and as big +around as a man's bicep, he told Tesla that if Tesla could +save him money by redesigning certain aspects of the +installation, that he would give Tesla a percentage of the +savings. A verbal agreement. After approximately a year, +Tesla went to Edison's office and showed him the savings +that had occurred ($100000 or so, which in those days was +quite a piece of change) as a direct result of his +(Tesla's) engineering, and Edison pretended ignorance of +any agreement. Tesla quit. From that point on, the two men +were enemies. +Tesla invented useable Alternating Current (A.C.) that +we all use today, in a world where Edison and others +already had a huge investment in D.C. power. +Tesla proselytized A.C. power and had some success +building A.C. power plants, and providing A.C. power to +various entities. One of these was Sing Sing prison, in +upstate New York. Tesla provided A.C. power for the +"electric chair" there. Edison had big articles printed in +the New York newspapers, saying that A.C. power was +dangerous "killing" power, and in general, gave a bad name +to Tesla. +To contradict this jab, Tesla set out on his own +positive marketing campaign, appearing at the 1880? World +Exposition in Chicago passing high frequency "dangerous" +A.C. power over his body to power light bulbs in front of +the public. Shooting huge, long sparks from his "Tesla +coil", and touching them, etc. "Proving" that A.C. power +was safe for public consumption. +The advantage of A.C. power was that you could send it a +long distance through reasonably sized wires with little +loss, and if you touched the wires together, "shorted +them", you got a lot of sparks, and only the place where +they were touching melted until the two wires weren't +touching anymore. +D.C. power, on the other hand, needed huge cables to go +any distance at all, while using power, the cables heated +up. When shorted, the cables melted all the way back to the +power house, streets had to be dug up again and new cables +laid. If a short occurred in a single light, it usually +started a fire, and burned down the hotel or destroyed +whatever it was in contact with! This was quite profitable +for those in the D.C. power business, and quite good for +those into ditch digging, construction, etc. +Tesla invented 2-phase, and 3-phase Alternating Current. +He figured motors turned in a circle, so alternately driving +separate, 180 degree, sections of the surrounding armature +would build up less heat, and use less electricity. He was +right. +1929 came, the stock market crashed, bankers, lawyers, +everyone who had lost their wealth and hadn't jumped out a +window, sought work, many as common laborers if lucky, for +a dollar a day. Tesla found himself digging ditches in the +company of broke but influential ex-Wall-streeters. +During the short lunch period, he would tell his buddies +about phased A.C. electricity, and how it was efficient, +etc. Along about 1932, he was working at a small generator +rebuilding shop in New York, and one of the bankers that he +used to dig ditches with, found him, and took him to Mr. +Westinghouse, to whom he told his stories. Westinghouse +bought 19 patents outright, and gave Tesla a dollar per +horsepower for any electric motor produced by Westinghouse +using the Tesla 3-phase system. +Tesla finally had the money with which to start building +his laboratories, and conducting the experiments with free +earth energy. The idea that really made him unpopular. +Something free, that the masters of war and business +couldn't control? They couldn't have that! So, the day +after Tesla died in 1943, his huge laboratory on Long +Island mysteriously burned down, no records saved, and the +remnants were bulldozed the day after that to further +eradicate any equipment still left. So much for "free energy".

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THE GREATEST HACKER OF ALL TIME

+ +

by Dave Small +(c) 1987 Reprinted from Current Notes magazine.

+ +

The question comes up from time to time. "Who's the +greatest hacker ever?"Well, there's a lot of different opinions +on this. Some say Steve Wozniak of Apple II fame. Maybe Andy +Hertzfeld of the Mac operating system. Richard Stallman, say +others, of MIT. Yet at such times when I mention who I think the +greatest hacker is, everyone agrees (provided they know of him), +and there's no further argument. So, let me introduce you to him, +and his greatest hack. I'll warn you right up front that it's +mind numbing. By the way, everything I'm going to tell you is +true and verifiable down at your local library. Don't worry -- +we're not heading off into a Shirley MacLaine UFO-land story. +Just some classy electrical engineering...

+ +

THE SCENE: COLORADO SPRINGS, CO.

+ +

Colorado Springs is in southern Colorado, about 70 mile +south of Denver. These days it is known as the home of several +optical disk research corporations and of NORAD, the missile +defense command under Cheyenne Mountain. (I have a personal +interest in Colorado Springs; my wife Sandy grew up there.) +These events took place some time ago in Colorado Springs. A +scientist had moved into town and set up a laboratory on Hill +Street, on the southern outskirts. The lab had a two hundred +foot copper antenna sticking up out of it, looking something like +a HAM radio enthusiast's antenna. He moved in an started work. +And strange electrical things happened near that lab. People +would walk near the lab, and sparks would jump up from the ground +to their feet, through the soles of their shoes. One boy took a +screwdriver, held it near a fire hydrant, and drew a four inch +electrical spark from the hydrant. Sometimes the grass around +his lab would glow with an eerie blue corona, St. Elmo's Fire. +What they didn't know was this was small stuff. The man in the +lab was merely tuning up his apparatus. He was getting ready to +run it wide open in an experiment that ranks as among the +greatest, and most spectacular, of all time. One side effect of +his experiment was the setting of the record for man-made +lightning: some 42 meters in length (130 feet).

+ +

THE MAN: NIKOLA TESLA.

+ +

His name was Nikola Tesla. He was an immigrant from what is now +Yugoslavia; there's a museum of his works in Belgrade. He's a +virtual unknown in the United States, despite his +accomplishments. I'm not sure why. Some people feel it's a dark +plot, the same people who are into conspiracy theories. I feel +it's more that Tesla, while a brilliant inventor, was also an +awful businessman; he ended up going broke. Businessmen who go +broke fade out of the public eye; we see this in the computer +industry all the time. Edison, who wasn't near the inventor +Tesla was, but who was a better businessman, is well remembered +as is his General Electric. Still, let me list a few of Tesla's +works just so you'll understand how bright he was. He invented +the AC motor and transformer. (Think of every motor in your +house.) He invented 3-phase electricity and popularized +alternating current, the electrical distribution system used all +over the world. He invented the Tesla Coil, which makes the high +voltage that drives the picture tube in your computer's CRT. He +is now credited with inventing modern radio as well; the Supreme +Court overturned Marconi's patent in 1943 in favor of Tesla.

+ +

Tesla, in short, invented much of the equipment that gets +power to your home every day from miles away, and many that use +that power inside your home. His inventions made George +Westinghouse (Westinghouse Corp.) a wealthy man. Finally, the +unit of magnetic flux in the metric system is the "tesla". Other +units include the "faraday" and the "henry", so you'll understand +this is an honor given to few. So we're not talking about an +unknown here, but rather a solid electrical engineer. Tesla +whipped through a number of inventions early in his life. He +found himself increasingly interested in resonance, and in +particular, electrical resonance. Tesla found out something +fascinating. If you set an electrical circuit to resonating, it +does strange things indeed. Take for instance his Tesla Coil. +This high frequency step-up transformer would kick out a few +hundred thousand volts at radio frequencies. The voltage would +come off the top of his coil as a "corona", or brush discharge. +The little ones put out a six-inch spark; the big ones throw +sparks many feet long. Yet Tesla could draw the sparks to his +fingers without being hurt -- the high frequency of the +electricity keeps it on the surface of the skin, and prevents the +current from doing any harm. Tesla got to thinking about +resonance on a large scale. He'd already pioneered the +electrical distribution system we use today, and that's not small +thinking; when you think of Tesla, think big. He thought, let's +say I send an electrical charge into the ground. What happens to +it? Well, the ground is an excellent conductor of electricity. +Let me spend a moment on this so you understand, because topsoil +doesn't seem very conductive to most. The ground makes a +wonderful sinkhole for electricity. This is why you "ground" +power tools; the third (round) pin in every AC outlet in your +house is wired straight to, literally, the ground. Typically, +the handle of your power tool is hooked to ground; this way, if +something shorts out in the tool and the handle gets electrified, +the current ruches to the ground instead of into you. The ground +has long been used in this manner, as a conductor. Tesla +generates a powerful pulse of electricity, and drains it into the +ground. Because the ground is conductive, it doesn't stop. +Rather, it spreads out like a radio wave, traveling at the speed +of light, 186000 miles per second. And it keeps going, because +it's a powerful wave; it doesn't peter out after a few miles. It +passes through the iron core of the earth with little trouble. +After all, molten iron is very conductive. When the wave reaches +the far side of the planet, it bounces back, like a wave in water +bounces when it reaches an obstruction. Since it bounces, it +makes a return trip; eventually, it returns to the point of +origin. Now, this idea might seem wild. But it isn't science +fiction. We bounced radar beams off the moon in the 1950's, and +we mapped Venus by radar in the 1970's. Those planets are +millions of miles away. The earth is a mere 3000 miles in +diameter; sending an electromagnetic wave through it is a piece +of cake. We can sense earthquakes all the way across the planet +by the vibrations they set up that travel all that distance. So, +while at first thought it seems amazing, it's really pretty +straight forward. But, as I said, it's a typical example of how +Tesla thought. And then he had one of his typically Tesla ideas. +He thought, when the wave returns to me (about 1/30th of a second +after he sends it in), it's going to be considerably weakened by +the trip. Why doesn't he send in another charge at this point, +to strengthen the wave? The two will combine, go out, and bounce +again. And then he'll reinforce it again, and again. The wave +will build up in power. It's like pushing a swingset. You give +a series of small pushes each time the swing goes out. And you +build up a lot of power with a series of small pushes; ever tried +to stop a swing when it's going full tilt? He wanted to find out +the upper limit of resonance. And he was in for a surprise.

+ +

THE HACK: THE TESLA COIL

+ +

So Tesla moved into Colorado Springs, where one of his generators +and electrical systems had been installed, and set up his lab. +Why Colorado Springs? Well, his lab in New York had burned down, +and he was depressed about that. And as fate would have it, a +friend in Colorado Springs who directed the power company, +Leonard Curtis, offered him free electricity. Who could resist +that? After setting up his lab, he tuned his gigantic Tesla coil +through that year, trying to get it to resonate perfectly with +the earth below. And the townspeople noticed those weird +effects; Tesla was electrifying the ground beneath their feet on +the return bounce of the wave. Eventually, he got it tuned, +keeping things at low power. But in the spirit of a true hacker, +just once he decided to run it wide open, just to see what would +happen. Just what was the upper limit of the wave he would build +up, bouncing back and forth in the planet below? He had his Coil +hooked to the ground below it, the 200 foot antenna above it, and +getting as much electricity as he wanted right off the city power +supply mains. Tesla went outside to watch (wearing three inch +rubber soles for insulation) and had his assistant, Kolman Czito, +turn the Coil on. There was a buzz from rows of oil capacitors, +and a roar from the spark gap as wrist-thick arcs jumped across +it. Inside the lab the noise was deafening. But Tesla was +outside, watching the antenna. Any surge that returned to the +area would run up the antenna and jump off as lightning. Off the +top of the antenna shot a six foot lightning bolt. The bolt kept +going in a steady arc, though, unlike a single lightning flash. +And here Tesla watched carefully, for he wanted to see if the +power would build up, if his wave theory would work. Soon the +lightning was twenty feet long, then fifty. The surges were +growing more powerful. Eighty feet -- now thunder was following +each lightning bolt. A hundred feet, a hundred twenty feet; the +lightning shot upwards off the antenna. Thunder was heard +booming around Tesla now (it was heard 22 miles away, in the town +of Cripple Creek). The meadow Tesla was standing in was lit up +with an electrical discharge very much like St. Elmo's Fire, +casting a blue glow. His theory had worked! There didn't seem +to be an upper limit to the surges; he was creating the most +powerful electrical surges ever created by man. That moment he +set the record, which he still holds, for manmade lightning. Then +everything halted. The lightning discharges stopped, the thunder +quit. He ran in, found the power company had turned off his +power feed. He called them, shouted at them -- they were +interrupting his experiment! The foreman replied that Tesla had +just overloaded the generator and set it on fire, his lads were +busy putting out the fire in the windings, and it would be a cold +day in hell before Tesla got any more free power from the +Colorado Springs power company!

+ +

All the lights in Colorado Springs had gone out. And that, +readers, is to me the greatest hack in history. I've seen some +amazing hacks. The 8-bit Atari OS. The Mac OS. The phone +company computers -- well, lots of computers. But I've never +seen anyone set the world's lightning record and shut off the +power to an entire town, "just to see what would happen". For a +few moments, there in Colorado Springs, he achieved something +never before done. He had used the entire planet as a conductor, +and sent a pulse through it. In that one moment in the summer of +1899, he made electrical history. That's right, in 1899 -- darn +near a hundred years ago. Well, you may say to yourself, that's +a nice story, and I'm sure George Lucas could make a hell of a +move about it, special effects and all. But it's not relevant +today. Or isn't it? Hang on to your hat.

+ +

THE SDI AND THE TESLA COIL

+ +

Last month we talked about an amazing hack that Nikola Tesla +did -- bouncing an electrical wave through the planet, in 1899, +and setting the world's record for manmade lightning. This +month,let me lay a little political groundwork. Last October I +attended Hackercon 2.0, another gathering of computer hackers +from all over. It was an informal weekend at a camp in the hills +west of Santa Clara. One of the more interesting memories of +Hackers 2.0 were the numerous diatribes against the Strategic +Defense Initiative. Most speakers claimed it was impossible, +citing technical problems. So many people felt obligated to +complain about SDI that the conference was jokingly called +"SDIcon 2.0". Probably the high(?) point of the conference was +Jerry Pournelle and Timothy Leary up on stage debating SDI. I'll +leave the description to your imagination -- it was everything +you can think of and more. Personally, I was disturbed to see +how many gifted hackers adopting the attitude of "let's not even +try". That's not how micros got started. I mentioned to one +Time magazine journalist that if anyone could make SDI go, it was +the hackers gathered there. I also believe that the greatest +hacker of them all, Nikola Tesla, solved and SDI technical +problem back in 1899. The event was so long ago, and so amazing, +that it's pretty much been forgotten; I described it last issue. +Let me present my case for the Tesla Coil and SDI.

+ +

SOVIET USE OF THE TESLA COIL

+ +

You will recall I said that Tesla was born in Yugoslavia +(although back then, it was "Serbo-Croatia"). He is not unknown +there; he is regarded as a national hero. Witness the Nikola +Tesla museum in Belgrade, for instance. There's been +interferences picked up, on this side of the planet, which is +causing problems in the ham radio bands. Direction finding +equipment has traced the interference in the SW band to two +sources in the Soviet Union, which are apparently two high +powered Tesla Coils. Why on earth are the Soviets playing with +Tesla Coils? There's one odd theory that they're subjecting +Canada to low level electrical interference to cause attitude +change. Sigh. Moving right along, there's another theory, more +credible, that they are conducting research in "over the horizon" +radar using Tesla's ideas. (The Soviets are certainly not saying +what they're doing.) When I read about this testing, it worried +me. I don't think they're playing with attitude control or +radar. I think they're doing exactly what Tesla did in Colorado +Springs.

+ +

COMPUTERS AND GROUNDING

+ +

Time for another discussion of grounding. Consider your +computer equipment. You've doubtlessly been warned about static +electricity, always been told to ground yourself (thus +discharging the static into the ground, an electrical sinkhole) +before touching your computer. Companies make anti-static spray +for your rugs. Static is in the 20000 to 50000 volt range. +Computer chips run on five to twelve volts. The internal +insulation is built for that much voltage. When they get a shot +of static in the multiple thousand volt range, the insulation is +punctured, and the chip ruined. Countless computers have been +damaged this way. Read any manual on inserting memory chips to a +PC, and you'll see warnings about static; it's a big problem. +Now Tesla was working in the millions of volts range. And his +special idea -- that the ground itself could be the conductor -- +now comes into relevance, nearly a hundred years after his +dramatic demonstration in Colorado Springs. For, you see, in our +wisdom we've grounded our many computers, to protect them from +static. We've always assumed the ground is an electrical +sinkhole. So, with our three-pin plugs we ground everything -- +the two flat pins in your wall go to electricity (hot and +neutral); the third, round pin, goes straight to ground. That +third pin is usually hooked with a thick wire to a cold water +pipe, which grounds it effectively. Tesla proved that you can +give that ground a terrific charge, millions of volts of high +frequency electricity. (Tesla ran his large coil at 33 Khz). +Remember, the lightning surging off his Coil was coming from the +wave bouncing back and forth in the planet below. In short, he +was modifying the ground's electrical potential, changing it from +an electrical sinkhole to an electrical source. Tesla did his +experiment in 1899. There weren't any home computers with +delicate chips hooked up to grounds then. If there had been, +he'd have fried everything in Colorado Springs. There was, +however, one piece of electrical equipment grounded at the time +of the experiment, the city power generator. It caught fire and +ended Tesla's experiment. The cause of its failure is +interesting as well. It died from "high frequency kickback", +something most electrical engineers know about. Tesla forgot +that as the generator fed him power, he was feeding it high +frequency from his Coil. High frequency quickly heats +insulation; a microwave oven works on the same principle. In a +few minutes, the insulation inside that generator grew so hot +that the generator caught fire. When the lights went out all over +Colorado Springs, there was the first proof that Tesla's idea has +strategic possibilities. It gets scarier. Imagine Tesla's Coil, +busily pumping an electrical wave in the Earth. On his side of +the planet, he was getting 130 foot sparks, which is a hell of a +lot of voltage and current. And simple wave theory will show you +that those sort of potentials exist on the far side of the planet +as well. Remember, the wave was bouncing back and forth, being +reinforced on every trip. The big question is how focused the +opposite electrical pole will be. No one knows. But it seems +probable that the far side of the planet's ground target area +could be subjected to considerable electrical interference. And +if computer equipment is plugged inot that ground, faithfully +assuming the ground will never be a source of electricity, it's +just too bad for that equipment. This sort of electrical +interference makes static look tiny by comparison. It doesn't +take much difference in ground potential to kill a computer +connected across it. Lightning strikes cause a temporary flare +in ground voltage; I remember replacing driver chips on a network +on all computers that had been caught by one lightning strike, +when I lived in Austin. Imagine the effect on relatively delicate +electronics if someone fires up a Tesla Coil on the far side of +the planet, and subjects the grounds to steep electrical swings. +The military applications are pretty obvious -- those ICBM's in +North Dakota, for instance. It's possible they could be damaged +in their silos, and from thousands of miles away. Running two or +more Coils, you don't have to bee exactly on the far side of the +planet, either. Interference effects can give you high points +where you need with varied tunings. Maybe, just maybe, the +Soviets aren't doing "over the horizon" radar. Maybe they just +bothered to read Tesla's notes. And maybe they are tuning up a +real big surprise with their twin Coils.

+ +

"STAR WARS" AND THE TESLA COIL

+ +

You've heard of the Strategic Defense Initiative, or "Star +Wars". We're searching for a way to stop a nuclear attack. +Right now, we've got all sorts of high powered research projects, +with the emphasis on "new technology". Excimer laser, kinetic +kill techniques, and even more exotic ideas. As any of you know +that have written computer programs, it's darned hard to get +something "new" to work. Maybe it's an error to focus on "new" +exclusively. Wouldn't it be something if the solution to SDI +lies a hundred years ago, in the forgotten brilliance of Nikola +Tesla? For right now we can immobilize the electronics of +installations half a planet away. The technology to do it was +achieved in 1899, and promptly forgotten. Remember, we're not +talking vague, unproven theories here. We're talking the world's +record for lightning, and the inventor whose power system lights +up your house at night.

+ +

THE TESLA COIL WORKS. + +All we'd have to do is build it. You might not believe the +story about Tesla in Colorado Springs, and what he did. It's +pretty amazing. It has a way of being forgotten because of that. +And I'm not sure you want to hear about the SDI connection. +Still, as you work on a computer, remember Tesla. His Tesla Coil +supplies the high voltage for the picture tube you use. The +electricity for your computer comes from a Tesla design AC +generator, is sent through a Tesla transformer, and gets to your +house through 3-phase Tesla power. Tesla's inventions... they +have a way of working.. +

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TESLA HOWITZER

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+Written by T. E. Bearden +. +Nikola Tesla and The Tesla Howitzer

+ + +

Before the turn of the century, Nikola Tesla had discovered and +was utilizing a new type of electric wave. Tesla repeatedly +stated his waves were non-Hertzian, and his wireless +transmissions did not fall off as the square of the distance. +His discovery was apparently so fundamental (and his intent to +provide free energy to all humankind was so clear) that it was +responsible for the withdrawal of his financial backing, his +deliberate isolation, and the gradual removal of his name from +the history books.

+ +

By 1914 or so, Tesla had been successfully isolated and was +already nearly a "nonperson." Thereafter Tesla lived in nearly +total seclusion, occasionally surfacing (at his annual birthday +party for members of the press) to announce the discovery of an +enormous new source of free energy, the perfection of wireless +transmission of energy without losses, fireball weapons to +destroy whole armies and thousands of airplanes at hundreds of +miles distance, and a weapon (the "Tesla Shield," I've dubbed +it) that could provide an impenetrable defense and thus render +war obsolete.

+ +

In my pursuit of Tesla's secret, it gradually became apparent to +me that present orthodox electromagnetic theory is seriously +flawed in some fundamental respects. One of these is in the +definition and use of THETA, the scalar electrostatic +potential. It is this error which has hidden the long-sought +Unified Field Theory from the theorists.

+ +

In the theory of the scalar electrostatic potential (SEP), the +idea is introduced of work accomplished on a charge brought in +from a distance against the scalar field. The SEP is not a +vector field, but is a scalar field. Indeed, scalar potential +cannot of itself perform work on a charged mass due to the +extremely high SEP of the vacuum itself. Only a differential of +SEP between two spatial points can produce force or accomplish +work. (Rigorously, a differential of scalar potential between +two spatial points constitutes a vector. Only a vector can +produce force and do work.)

+ +

Also, work can only be done on a mass. Further, it takes TIME +to move an electron or other charged mass between two spatial +points, and so the work performed by a spatial differential of +the THETA-FIELD requires TIME. Rigorously, the delta SEP is +voltage, not SEP per se, and is directly related to the voltage +or "E" field. The entire voltage concept depends on the work +performed in moving a mass, after that mass has moved. The idea +of "voltage" always implies the existence of a steady +differential of THETA between two spatial points for a finite +length of time, and it also involves the assumption of a flow of +actual mass having occurred. SEP, on the one hand, is always a +single-point function; on the other hand, difference in +potential (i.e., V) is always a two point function, as is any +vector.

+ +

Yet many graduate level physics and electromagnetics papers and +texts erroneously confuse THETA and V in the static case! Such +an interpretation is of course quite incorrect.

+ +

Another common assumption in present EM theory -- that the +electrostatic potential (0,O) of the normal vacuum is zero --has +no legitimate basis. In fact, we know (0,O) is nonzero because +the vacuum is filled with enormous amounts of fluctuating +virtual state activity, including incredible charge +fluctuations. And by virtue of its point definition, (0,O) must +be the "instantaneous stress" on spacetime itself, and a measure +of the intensity of the virtual state flux through a 4-dimensional spacetime point.

+ +

Potential theory was largely developed in the 1800's before the +theory of relativity. Time flowrate was then regarded as +immutable. Accordingly, electrostatic "intensity" was chosen as +"spatial intensity," with the connotation of "spatial flux +density." This assumes a constant, immutable rate of flow of +time, which need not be true at all if we believe relativity. +Such a spatial "point" intensity is actually a "line" in 4-space, and not a 4-dimensional "point" at all. Thus the +spatial potential -- 0, 3 -- is a very special case of the real +spacetime potential --04, or charge -- and electromagnetic +theory today is accordingly a special case of the real 4-space +electromagnetism that actually exists! Note also that charge is +a 4-dimensional concept.

+ +

Now mass is a spatial, 3-dimensional concept. Rigorously, mass +does not exist in time -- masstime exists in time. Mass and +charge are thus of differing dimensionalities!

+ +

Also, according to quantum mechanics, the charge of a particle -- +e.g., of an electron -- is due to the continual flux of virtual +particles given off and absorbed by the observable particle of +mass. Thus charge also is conceptually a measure of the virtual +flux density, and directly related to THETA. Further, since the +charge exists in time, it is the charge of a particle of spatial +mass that gives it the property of masstime, or existing in +time.

+ +

Here a great confusion and fundamental error has been thrown +into the present EM theory by the equating of "charge" and +"charged mass." As we have seen, the two things are really very +different indeed.

+ +

To speak of a spatial "amount" of charge erroneously limits the +basic EM theory to a fixed time flowrate condition (which of +course it was considered to be, prior to Einstein's development +of relativity). Thus when the limited present theory encounters +a "relativistic" case (where the time flowrate changes), all +sorts of extraordinary corrections must be introduced. The real +problem, of course, is with the fundamental definitions of +electrostatic potential and charge. The spatial "amount" of +charge (i.e., the coulomb), as we presently erroneously use the +term, is actually the spatial amount of observable "charged +mass." To correct the theory, one must introduce the true 4-space SEP and separate the definitions of charge and charged +mass.

+ +

Only when a mass is moved does one have work -- and voltage or +vector fields. (The reason one has voltage and E field +connected to a normal electrostatically charged object in the +laboratory is because an excess of charged-particle masses are +assembled on the object, and these masses are in violent +motion! A true static charge would have no E field at all.)

+ +

The THETA field need not involve observable mass accumulation, +but only charge (virtual flowrate intensity) accumulation. +Accumulated masses are like so many gallons of water; +accumulated charge is like so much pressure on both the water +(space) and the time in which the water is existing.

+ +

Now, if one varies the SEP solely as a point function, one would +have a purely scalar complex longitudinal wave, and not a vector +wave at all. This is the fundamentally new electrical wave that +Tesla discovered in 1899.

+ +

Rigorously, all vector fields are two-point functions and thus +decomposable into two scalar fields, as Whittaker showed in +1903. It follows that any vector wave can be decomposed into +two scalar waves. By implication, therefore, a normal +transverse EM vector wave, e.g., must simply be two coupled +scalar (Tesla) waves -- and these scalars independently would be +longitudinal if uncoupled. An ordinary transverse EM vector +wave is thus two pair-coupled Tesla scalar longitudinal waves, +and only a single special case of the much more fundamental +electromagnetics discovered by Nikola Tesla.

+ +

A Tesla (scalar potential) wave -- i.e., a massless wave in pure +0,O, the stress of the spacetime medium -- would have very +strange characteristics indeed. For one thing, since it moves +in a complex 4-space, it has many more modes of movement than +does a simple wave in 3-space. And for another thing, it need +not be bound at all by the speed of (vector) light. In current +theory, one 03-field does not directly interact or couple with +other existing 03-fields except by simple superposition. +Therefore presently the THETA-field is considered to have no +drag limitation at all, hence infinite velocity. (E.g., as +stated in Jackson's, (Classical Electrodynamics, 2nd edition, +page 223.)

+ +

Actually, a 04-wave can and will interact with some of the +other existing 04-waves in the medium transversed, and this +interaction can involve pair-coupling into EM vector fields and +waves, an interaction not presently in the electrodynamics +theory. The result of scalar pair-coupling creates a finite +amount of vector "drag" on the 04-wave, so it then has less +than infinite velocity. However, is this drag is small due to +limited pair coupling, the scalar wave's velocity through the +slightly dragging medium still may be far greater than the speed +of vector EM waves (light) in vacuum. On the other hand, if the +pair-coupling is made severe, the THETA-wave may move at a speed +considerably below the speed of vector light waves in vacuum. +The velocity of the 04-wave is thus both variable and +controllable or adjustable (e.g., simply by varying its initial +amplitude which through a given medium changes the percentage of +pair-coupling and hence the degree of drag on the scalar wave.) +The Tesla scalar wave thus can have either subluminal or +superluminal velocity, in contradiction to present theory.

+ +

Note that the scalar wave also violates one of Einstein's +fundamental postulates -- for the speed of our "new kind of +light" wave is not limited to c, and need not be the same to +every observer. Thus Tesla scalar waves lead to a new "super-relativity" of which the present Einstein relativity is only a +highly special case!

+ +

But let us now look for some subtle but real examples of scalar +waves and scalar pair-coupling in nature. As is well known, a +tectonic fault zone can provide anomalous lights, sounds, etc +from stresses, piezoelectrical activity, and telluric currents +in the earth and through the fault zone. In examining the fault +zone phenomena, I finally realized that a fault zone was +literally a scalar interferometer --i.e., if one can have scalar +PHI-waves, they can interfere either constructively or +destructively. Their interference, however, produces scalar +pair-coupling into vector EM waves. This coupling may be at a +distance from the interferometer itself, and thus the +interferometer can produce energy directly at a distance, +without vector transmission through the intervening space. +Coupling of THETA waves with the paired scalars comprising +ordinary EM vector waves can also occur. If this triplex +coupling forms additional EM vector waves 180 degrees out of +phase, the ordinary EM wave is diminished or extinguished. If +the scalar triplex coupling occurs so as to create vector EM +waves, the amplitude of the ordinary vector wave is increased.

+ +

Scalar potential waves can thus augment or diminish, or create +or destroy, ordinary EM waves at a distance by pair-coupling +interference under appropriate conditions, and this is in +consonance with the implications of Whittaker's fundamental 1903 +work.

+ +

An earthquake fault zone is such a scalar interferometer. +Stresses and charge pileups exist in the plates on each side +adjacent to the fault, with stress relief existing in the middle +in the fault fracture itself. Since the rock is locally +nonlinear, the mechanical stresses and electrical currents in it +are also locally nonlinear. This results in the generation of +multiple frequencies of THETA-4-waves from each side of the +fault interferometer, yielding two complex Fourier expansion +patterns of scalar potential waves. On occasion these two +Fourier-transformed scalar wave patterns couple at a distance to +produce stable ordinary electromagnetic fields in a 3-dimensional spatial pattern --e.g., a stress light such as the +Vestigia light covered in Part I of The Excalibur Briefing. +Driven by the erratic two scalar Fourier expansion patterns of +the scalar interferometer (whose input stresses normally slowly +change), an erratic, darting, hovering "spooklight" of the +variety studied by Vestigia produced.

+ +

As the stresses change in each side of the interferometer, the +distant scalar coupling zone is affected. Thus the stresslight +moves and its form changes, but it may be relatively stable in +form for seconds or minutes. Since the stresses in the rock may +be intense, the stress light may involve an intense pair or +THETA-patterns coupling into the sphere or ball of vector EM +energy. The atoms and molecules of the air in the region of the +coupled stresslight ball thus become highly excited, giving off +radiant energy as the excited states decay.

+ +

Since much of the piezoelectric material in the stressed rocks +is quartz, the features of quartz are of particular interest. +Each little quartz is itself highly stressed, and has stress +cracks. It is therefore a little scalar interferometer. +Further, quartz is transparent to infrared and ultraviolet; and +the random orientation of all the quartz scalar interferometers +may also form a Prigogine system far from thermodynamic +equilibrium. If so, this system can tap into highly energetic +microscopic electromagnetic fluctuations to produce large-scale, +ordered, relatively stable patterns of electromagnetic energy at +a distance.

+ +

In short, all of this lends support to the formation of +relatively stable but somewhat erratic patterns of +electromagnetic energy at a distance from the fault itself. In +the atmosphere, such scalar interferometers could form in clouds +or even in the air or between clouds and earth. If so, such +rare but occasional "weather" scalar interferometers could +account for the rare phenomenon of ball lightening. The intense +energy of the ball lightening, as compared to the lesser energy +of an earth stress light, could well be due to the enormous +electrical charges between clouds or between cloud and earth, +available to fuel the scalar interferometer. Very probably it +is this phenomenon which gave Tesla the clue to scalar wave +interferometry.

+ +

Thus such phenomena as earth stress lights, ball lightening, and +the Tesla system of wireless transmission of energy at a +distance with negligible lasses and at speeds exceeding the +speed of light may be explained. They are complex, however, and +involve fundamental changes to present electromagnetic theory. +These changes include utilizing 4-space scalar electrostatic +potentials, scalar waves, pair coupling, ordinary 3-dimensional Fourier expansion, the Prigogine effect, and the properties of +piezoelectric materials in rocks.

+ +

Since the scalar potential also stresses time, it can change the +rate of flow of time itself. Thus it affects anything which +exists in time -- including the mind, both of the individual and +at various levels of unconsciousness. Therefore the same +functions that result in earth stress lights also affect mind +and thought, and are in turn affected by mind and thought. This +is the missing ingredient in Persinger's theory that UFO's are +correlated with, and a result of, fault zones and earth +stresses. While Persinger seems to feel this is a "normal +physics" explanation, it indeed involves a paranormal +explanation.

+ +

The time-stressing ability of the true THETA scalar wave also +explains the interaction of such earth stress lights with humans +and human intent, as noted by other researchers. (E.g., the +lights that repeatedly seemed to react to the observers, as +detailed by Dr. Harley Rutledge in his epoch-making Project +Identification, Prentice-Hall, 1981.)

+ +

These ideas in condensed form comprise the concepts required to +violate the speed of light and produce an ordinary +electromagnetic field at a distance, using scalar +interferometry, without losses -- as Tesla had done in his +wireless transmission system which he had tested prior to 1900 +and had perfected by the 1930's. Scalar interferometry can give +stable regions of EM or "light energy" at a distance without +losses, particularly as detailed in the beautiful Vestigia +experiments, and it is within our grasp to utilize the new +effects. Indeed, any stress crack in a material can result in +the scalar potential interferometer effect. Exophoton and +exoelectron emission -- poorly understood but already known in +fatiguing of materials -- must be at least partly due to the +scalar interferometer effect.

+ +

However, one additional caution should be advanced. Normal +movement of electrons allows so much "sideplay" movement of the +electrons -- and there is so much such sideplay electron motion +in the surrounding vicinity -- that pair coupling is almost +instantaneous for small waves. Thus orbital electrons in atoms +seem to absorb and emit vector EM photons. Actually they also +emit some percentage of scalar waves as well. Since a scalar +wave is comprised exclusively of disturbance in the virtual +state, it need not obey the conservation of energy law. +Further, a scalar wave of itself does not "push electrons" or +other charges; hence it is nearly indetectable by present +detectors. Ionization detectors such as a Geiger counter tube, +e.g., are exceptions if the scalar wave encountered is fairly +strong. In that case sufficient triplex coupling with the +ionized gas occurs to produce additional ionization or charge, +breaching the tube's cutoff threshold and producing a cascade +discharge of electrons and voltage which is detected. But weak scalar waves are presently indetectable by ordinary +instruments. However, these small scalar waves are detectable +by sensitive interferometry techniques -- e.g., such as an +electron interferometer. Since the use of such instruments is +quite rare, then indeed we have been living immersed in a sea of +scalar waves without knowing it.

+ +

Finally, the percentage of scalar waves produced by changes in +charged mass pileups can be increased by utilizing charged mass +streaming. Essentially the charged masses must be moved +suddenly, as quickly as possible, at or near the complete +breakdown of the medium. For this reason, Tesla utilized +sparkgaps in his early transmission systems, but also found that +he could induce ionized media to "breakdown" in such fashion by +a slow growth process. One of his early patented atmospheric +wireless transmission systems is based on this fact. However, +it was necessary to use a very high voltage, insuring extreme +stress on the medium and hence some spillover stress onto time +itself. In other words, THETA-3 is always an approximation; at +sufficiently high spatial stress, sufficient spillover THETA-4 +exists to give Tesla scalar waves. For this reason, Tesla used +very high voltages and extremely sharp discharges to give +"streaming" of the charged masses and thus high percentages of +THETA-4 waves. This suggests that the breakdown of dielectrics +is a much richer phenomenon than is presently allowed for in the +conventional theory.

+ +

To summarize, electrostatic potential -- THETA field --is stress +on the spacetime medium at a four-dimensional point. I.e., it +is a sort of pressure on the medium, but pressure on all four +dimensions, not just on the three spatial dimensions. Thus in +the new standard theory, THETA-4 may have complex values. In +addition, a PHI-wave is to be interpreted as a scalar +longitudinal wave in complex spacetime -- directly in THETA-0, +the normal average 4-space stress itself. And charge and +charged mass must be recognized as two separate concepts. This +is the gist of what I finally recognized about Nikola Tesla's +work and fundamental discovery.

+ +

This is exciting, for it means that Tesla stress waves can +affect either space or time individually, or both space and time +simultaneously, or even oscillate back and forth between +primarily affecting time and primarily affecting space. Tesla's +waves were actually these THETA-field scalar waves. As such, +they were fundamentally different from ordinary electromagnetic +waves, and had entirely different characteristics, just as Tesla +often stated. E.g., a Tesla wave can either move spatially, with +time flowing linearly; move temporally only (sitting at a point +and waxing and waning in magnitude -- but changing the rate of +flow of time itself in doing so, and affecting gravitational +field, fundamental constants of nature, etc.), or move in a +combination of the two modes. In the latter case, the Tesla +wave moves in space with a very strange motion -- it oscillates +between (1) spatially standing still and flexing time, and (2) moving smoothly in space while time flows smoothly and evenly. +I.e., it stands at one point (or at one columnar region), +flexing for a moment; then slowly picks up spatial velocity +until it is moving smoothly through space; then slows down again +to a "standing column," etc. This is Tesla's fabulous "standing +columnar wave."

+ +

Another wild characteristic of the Tesla wave is that it can +affect the rate of flow of time itself; hence it can affect or +change every other field -- including the gravitational field -- +that exists in time flow. It can also affect all universal +constants, the mass of an object, the inertia of a body, and the +mind and thoughts as well! All of these exist in the flow of +time, and they are affected if the time stream in which they +exist is affected. This was the awful secret that Tesla +partially discovered by 1900, and which he came more and more +to fully realize as he pursued it nature and its ramifications +into the 1920's and 1930's.

+ +

Tesla also found he could set up standing THETA-field waves +through the earth. He in fact intended to do so, for he had +also discovered that all charges in the highly stressed earth +regions in which such a standing wave existed produced THETA-fields which would feed (kindle) energy into the standing THETA-field wave by pair coupling. I.e., normal vector field energy +would "assemble" onto the scalar matrix wave by means of pair-coupling. Thus by transmitting a scalar wave into the earth, he +could easily tap the fiery scalar fields produced in the molten +core of the planet itself, turning them into ordinary +electromagnetic energy. In such case, a single generator would +enable anyone to put up a simple antenna and extract all the +free energy they desired.

+ +

When Tesla's alarmed financial backers discovered this was his +real intent, they considered him a dangerous madman and found it +necessary to ruthlessly stop his at all costs. And so his +financial support was withdrawn, he was harassed in his more +subtle patent efforts (and the patents themselves were +adulterated), and his name gradually was removed from all the +electrical textbooks. By 1914 Tesla, who had been the greatest +inventor and scientist in the world, had become essentially a +nonperson.

+ +

A few other persons in the early 1900's also were aware that +potential and voltage are different. And some of them even +learned to utilize Tesla's PHI-field, even though they only +vaguely understood they were utilizing a fundamentally different +kind of electromagnetic wave. For example, James Harris Rogers +patented an undersea and underground communications system which +Tesla later confirmed utilized Tesla waves. The U.S. secretly +used the Rogers communications system in World War I to +communicate with U. S. submarines underwater, and to communicate +through the earth to the American Expeditionary Force +Headquarters in Europe. The Rogers system was declassified after the War --and very shortly after that, it had mysteriously +been scrubbed off the face of the earth. Again, potential +stress waves -- Tesla waves -- were eliminated and "buried."

+ +

Probably the most brilliant inventor and researcher into Tesla's +electromagnetics was T. Henry Moray of Salt Lake City, Utah. +Dr. Moray actually succeeded in tapping the limitless zero-point +energy of vacuum (spacetime) itself. By 1939, Dr. Moray's +amplifier contained 29 stages and its output stage produced 50 +kilowatts of power from vacuum. Interestingly, another 50 +kilowatts could be tapped off any other stage in the device -- +which consequently could have produced almost 1.5 megawatts of +electrical power! Dr. Moray's epoch-making work was suppressed +also. His device -- which represented over 20 years of +heartbreaking accumulation of 29 working tubes from thousands +made -- was destroyed by a Soviet agent in 1939, but not before +the agent had obtained the drawing for building the tubes and +the device itself. Today the Moray amplifier is a standard +component of many of the Soviet secret superweapons and Tesla +weapons.

+ +

In the 20's and 30's, Tesla announced the final perfection of +his wireless transmission of energy without losses -- even to +interplanetary distances. In several articles (e.g., H. +Winfield Secor, "Tesla Maps Our Electrical Future," Science and +Invention, Vol. XVII, No. 12, pp. 1077, 1124-1126), Tesla even +revealed he used longitudinal stress waves in his wireless power +transmission. Quoting from the article, "Tesla upholds the +startling theory formulated by him long ago, that the radio +transmitters as now used, do not emit Hertz waves, as commonly +believed, but waves of sound." "He says that a Hertz wave would +only be possible in a solid either, but he has demonstrated +already in 1897 that the either is a gas, which can only +transmit waves of sound; that is such as are propagated by +alternate compressions and rarefactions of the medium in which +transverse waves are absolutely impossible." The wily Tesla did +not reveal, of course, that such scalar waves nearly always +immediately pair-coupled into vector waves when produced by +normal means. Tesla himself was working with longitudinal +scalar waves.

+ +

In the 1930's Tesla announced other bizarre and terrible +weapons: a death ray, a weapon to destroy hundreds or even +thousands of aircraft at hundreds of miles range, and his +ultimate weapon to end all war -- the Tesla shield, which +nothing could penetrate. However, by this time no one any +longer paid any real attention to the forgotten great genius. +Tesla died in 1943 without ever revealing the secret of these +great weapons.

+ +

Unfortunately, today in 1981 the Soviet Union has long since +discovered and weaponized the Tesla scalar wave effects. Here +we only have time to detail the most powerful of these +frightening Tesla weapons -- which Brezhnev undoubtedly was referring to in 1975 when the Soviet side at the SALT talks +suddenly suggested limiting the development of new weapons "more +frightening than the mind of man had imagined." One of these +weapons is the Tesla howitzer recently completed at the +Saryshagan missile range and presently considered to be either a +high energy laser or a particle beam weapon. (See Aviation Week +& Space Technology, July 28, 1980, p. 48 for an artist's +conception.)

+ +

The Saryshagan howitzer actually is a huge Tesla scalar +interferometer with four modes of operation. One continuous +mode is the Tesla shield, which places a thin, impenetrable +hemispherical shell of energy over a large defended area. The 3-dimensional shell is created by intefereing two Fourier-expansion, 3-dimensional scalar hemispherical patterns in space +so they pair-couple into a dome-like shell of intense, ordinary +electromagnetic energy. The air molecules and atoms in the +shell are totally ionized and thus highly excited, giving off +intense, glowing light. Anything physical which hits the shell +receives an enormous discharge of electrical energy and is +instantly vaporized -- it goes pfft! like a bug hitting one of +the electrical bug killers now so much in vogue.

+ +

If several of these hemispherical shells are concentrically +stacked, even the gamma radiation and EMP from a high altitude +nuclear explosion above the stack cannot penetrate all the +shells due to repetitive absorption and re-radiation, and +scattering in the layered plasmas.

+ +

In the continuous shield mode, the Tesla interferometer is fed +by a bank of Moray free energy generators, so that enormous +energy is available in the shield. A diagram of the Saryshagan-type Tesla howitzer can be seen in drawing TESLA-1. TESLA-2 +shows the Tesla shield produced by the howitzer.

+ +

In the pulse mode, a single intense 3-dimensional scalar Theta-field pulse form is fired, using two truncated Fourier +transforms, each involving several frequencies, to provide the +proper 3-dimensional shape (TESLA-3). This is why two scalar +antennas separated by a baseline are required. After a time +delay calculated for the particular target, a second and faster +pulse form of the same shape is fired from the interferometer +antennas. The second pulse overtakes the first, catching it +over the target zone and pair-coupling with it to instantly form +a violent EMP of ordinary vector (Hertzian) electromagnetic +energy. There is thus no vector transmission loss between the +howitzer and the burst. Further, the coupling time is extremely +short, and the energy will appear sharply in an "electromagnetic +pulse (EMP)" striking similar to the 2-pulsed EMP of a nuclear +weapon. This type is what actually caused the mysterious +flashes off the southwest coast of Africa, picked up in 1979 and +1980 by Vela satellites. The second flash, e.g., was in the +infrared only, with no visible spectrum. Nuclear flashes do not +do that, and neither does super-lightening, meteorite strikes, meteors, etc. In addition, one of the scientists at the Arecibo +Ionospheric Observatory observed a gravitational wave +disturbance -- signature of the truncated Fourier pattern and +the time-squeezing effect of the Tesla potential wave -- +traveling toward the vicinity of the explosion.

+ +

The pulse mode may be fed from either Moray generators or -- if +the Moray generators have suffered their anomalous "all fail" +malfunction -- ordinary explosive generators. Thus the Tesla +howitzer can always function in the pulse mode, but it will be +limited in power if the Moray generators fail.

+ +

In the continuous mode, two continuous scalar waves are emitted - +- one faster than the other -- and they pair-couple into vector +energy at the region where they approach an in-phase condition. +In this mode, the energy in the distant "ball" or geometric +region would appear continuously and be sustained -- and this is +Tesla's secret of wireless transmission of energy at a distance +without losses. It is also the secret of a "continuous +fireball" weapon capable of destroying hundreds of aircraft or +missiles at a distance.

+ +

The volume of the Tesla fireball can be vastly expanded to yield +a globe which will not vaporize physical vehicles but will +deliver and EMP to them to dud their electronics. A test of +this mode has already been witnessed, See Gwyne Roberts, +"Witness to a Super Weapon?, the London Sunday Times, 17 August +1980 for several tests of this mode at Saryshagan, seen from +Afghanistan by British TV cameraman and former War Correspondent +Nick Downie.

+ +

If the Moray generators fail anomalously, then a continuous mode +limited in power and range could conceivably be sustained by +powering the interferometer from more conventional power sources +such as advanced magneto-hydrodynamic generators.

+ +

Typical strategic ABM uses of Tesla weapons are shown in Tesla-4. In addition, of course, smaller Tesla howitzer systems for +anti-tactical ballistic missile defense of tactical troops and +installations could be constituted of more conventional field +missile systems using paired or triplet radars, of conventional +external appearance, in a scalar interferometer mode.

+ +

With Moray generators as power sources and multiply deployed +reentry vehicles with scalar antennas and transmitters, ICBM +reentry systems now can become long range "blasters" of the +target areas, from thousands of kilometers distance (TESLA-5). +Literally, "Star Wars" is liberated by the Tesla technology. +And in air attack, jammers and ECM aircraft now become "Tesla +blasters." With the Tesla technology, emitters become primary +fighting components of stunning power.

+ +

The potential peaceful implications of Tesla waves are also +enormous. By utilizing the "time squeeze" effect, one can get +antigravity, materialization and dematerialization, +transmutation, and mind boggling medical benefits. One can also +get subluminal and superluminal communication, see through the +earth and through the ocean, etc. The new view of Theta-field +also provides a unified field theory, higher orders of reality, +and a new super-relativity, but detailing these possibilities +must wait for another book.

+ +

With two cerebral brain halves, the human being also has a Tesla +scalar interferometer between his ears. And since the brain and +nervous system processes avalanche discharges, it can produce +(and detect) scalar Tesla waves to at least a limited degree. +Thus a human can sometimes produce anomalous spatio-temporal +effects at a distance and through time. This provides an exact +mechanism for psychokinesis, levitation, psychic healing, +telepathy, precognition, postcognition, remote viewing, etc. It +also provides a reason why an individual can detect a "stick" on +a radionics or Hieronymus machine (which processes scalar +waves), when ordinary detectors detect nothing. Unfortunately +there is not room to develop the implications of this human +Tesla interferometry in detail, for that must wait for yet +another book, presently in its initial stages, that Hal Crawford +and I are writing.

+ +

At the July 1981 U.S. Psychotronics Association's Annual +Conference in Dayton, Ohio, I presented the first rough paper on +the Tesla secret and scalar interferometry. A videotape of the +presentation was made and will shortly be available. I am also +scheduled to make a special presentation at the Alternate Energy +Conference in Toronto, Canada in latter October, 1981. A +professional, videotaped two-hour presentation on this subject +is also being prepared. Wide distribution of the material +through the international underground physics and technology +network has already been made. This time, God willing, Tesla's +secret will not be suppresses for another 80 years!

+ +

And perhaps it is not yet too late. The material has cost me +(now) some 16 years of agonizing labor and nearly $100000 of my +own personal funds. No orthodox university, scientific group, +foundation, or governmental agency would support such an effort, +either financially or otherwise. Indeed, most ordinary journals +will not even accept material on such matters. Nonetheless, the +area is of overwhelming importance -- and I truly believe +Tesla's lost secret will shortly affect the lives of every human +being on earth.

+ +

Perhaps with the free and open release of Tesla's secret, the +scientific and governmental bureaucracies will be shocked awake +from their slumber, and we can develop defense before Armageddon +occurs. Perhaps there is hope after all -- for even Brezhnev, +in his strange July, 1975 proposal to the SALT talks, seemed to +reveal a perception that a turning point in wear and weaponry may have been reached, and that human imagination is incapable +of dealing with the ability to totally engineer reality itself. +Having tested the weapons, the Soviets must be aware that the +ill-provoked oscillation of time flow affects the minds and +thoughts -- and the very life streams and even the collective +species unconsciousness -- of all life forms on earth. They +must know that these weapons are two-edged swords, and that the +backlash from their use can be far more terrible to the user +than was the original effect to his victim.

+ +

If we can avoid the Apocalypse, the fantastic secret of Nikola +Tesla can be employed to cure and elevate man, not kill him. +Tesla's discovery can eventually remove every conceivable +external human limitation. If we humans ourselves can elevate +our consciousness to properly utilize the Tesla +electromagnetics, then Nikola Tesla -- who gave us the +electrical twentieth century in the first place -- may yet give +us a fantastic new future more shining and glorious than all the +great scientists and sages have imagined.

+ + + + +

Part II + +Reference Articles for Solutions to Tesla's Secrets + +The Electrical Engineer - London +Dec. 24, 1909, p. 893

+ +

NIKOLA TESLA'S NEW WIRELESS + +Mr. Nikola Tesla has announced that as the result of experiments +conducted at Shoreham, Long Island, he has perfected a new +system of wireless telegraphy and telephony in which the +principles of transmission are the direct opposite of Hertzian +wave transmission. In the latter, he says, the transmission is +effected by rays akin to light, which pass through the air and +cannot be transmitted through the ground, while in the former +the Hertz waves are practically suppressed and the entire energy +of the current is transmitted through the ground exactly as +though a big wire. Mr. Tesla adds that in his experiments in +Colorado it was shown that a very powerful current developed by +the transmitter traversed the entire globe and returned to its +origin in an interval of 84 one-thousandths of a second, this +journey of 24000 miles being effected almost without loss of +energy. + + +NEW YORK TIMES +Dec. 8, 1915, p. 8, col. 3 + +TESLA'S NEW DEVICE LIKE BOLTS OF THOR + +He Seeks to Patent Wireless Engine for Destroying Navies by +Pulling a Lever. + +To Shatter Armies Also. + +"Impractical," He says of Westerner's Plan to Circle Country +with Electric Fire. + +Nikola Tesla, the inventor, winner of the 1915 Nobel Physics +Prize, has filed patent applications on the essential parts of a +machine the possibilities of which test a layman's imagination +and promise a parallel of Thor's shouting thunderbolts from the +sky to punish those who angered the gods. Dr. Tesla insists +there is nothing sensational about it, that it is but the +fruition of many years of work and study. He is not yet ready +to give the details of the engine which he says will render +fruitless any military expedition against a country which +possesses it. Suffice to say that the destructive invention +will go through space with a speed of 300 miles a second, and +manless airship without propelling engine or wings, sent by +electricity to any desired point on the globe on its errand of +destruction, if destruction its manipulator wishes to effect. + +Ten miles or a thousand miles, it will be all the same to the +machine, the inventor says. Straight to the point, on land or +on sea, it will be able to go with precision, delivering a blow +that will paralyze of kill, as is desired. A man in a tower on +Long Island could shield New York against ships or army by +working a lever, if the inventor's anticipations become +realizations. + +"It is not the time," said Dr. Tesla yesterday, "to go into the +details of this thing. It is founded on a principle that means +great things in peace, it can be used for great things in war. +But I repeat, this is no time to talk of such things. + +"It is perfectly practicable to transmit electrical energy +without wires and produce destructive effects at a distance. I +have already constructed a wireless transmitter which makes this +possible, and have described it in my technical publications, +among which I may refer to my patent 1119732 recently +granted. With transmitters of this kind we are enabled to +project electrical energy in any amount to any distance and +apply it for innumerable purposes, both in peace and war. +Through the universal adoption of this system, ideal conditions +for the maintenance of law and order will be realized, for then +the energy necessary to the enforcement of right and justice +will be normally productive, yet potential, and in any moment +available, for attack and defense. The power transmitted need +not be necessarily destructive, for, if existence is made to +depend upon it, its withdrawal or supply will bring about the +same results as those now accomplished by force of arms. + +Dr. Tesla then said that it would be possible with his wireless +mechanism to direct an ordinary aeroplane, manless, to any point +over a ship or an army, and to discharge explosives of great +strength from the base of operations. + +Asked to express an opinion upon the announcement last Sunday of +Charles H. Harris, and electrical engineer of Los Angeles, that +he would be able to surround this country with an electrical +wall of fire in time of war, Dr. Tesla gave it as his opinion +that Mr. Harris was not practical. + +"It is hard to stamp as impossible such results as those +described in the press dispatches to which you refer. Granted, +however, that the project is feasible, it would take more than +all the motive power obtainable in the United States to throw a +wall of fire around the country. In fact, even the passage of +small currents at considerable distances through air consumes a +great deal of energy on account of the immense pressure +required. So, for instance, in lightening discharges, energy +may be delivered at the rated of billions of horsepower, though +the currents are of smaller volume than those developed by +electrical generators in our power houses."

+

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Oliver Nichelson +333 N 760 E +Am. Fork, Utah 84003

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Nikola Tesla's Long Range Weapon

+ +

Oliver Nichelson +Copyright 1989

+ +

+The French ship Iena blew up in 1907. Electrical experts were +sought by the press for an explanation. Many thought the explosion +was caused by an electrical spark and the discussion was about the +origin of the ignition. Lee De Forest, inventor of the Audion +vacuum tube adopted by many radio broadcasters, pointed out that +Nikola Tesla had experimented with a "dirigible torpedo" capable of +delivering such destructive power to a ship through remote control. +He noted, though, Tesla also claimed that the same technology used +for remotely controlling vehicles also could project an electrical +wave of "sufficient intensity to cause a spark in a ship's magazine +and explode it."

+ +

It was Spring of 1924, however, that the time seemed best for +"death rays," for that year many newspapers carried a several +stories about their invention in different parts of the world. +Harry Grindell-Matthews of London lead the contenders in this early +Star Wars race. The New York Times of May 21st had this report:

+ +

Paris, May 20 - If confidence of Grindell +Mathew (sic), inventor of the so-called +'diabolical ray,' in his discovery is +justified it may become possible to put the +whole of an enemy army out of action, destroy +any force of airplanes attacking a city or +paralyze any fleet venturing within a +certain distance of the coast by invisible +rays. +Grindell-Matthews stated that his destructive rays would operate +over a distance of four miles and that the maximum distance for +this type of weapon would be seven or eight miles. "Tests have been +reported where the ray has been used to stop the operation of +automobiles by arresting the action of the magnetos, and an +quantity of gunpowder is said to have been exploded by playing the +beams on it from a distance of thirty-six feet." Grindell-Matthews +was able, also, to electrocute mice, shrivel plants, and light the +wick of an oil lamp from the same distance away.

+ +

Sensing something of importance the New York Times copyrighted +its story on May 28th on a ray weapon developed by the Soviets. The +story opened:

+ +

News has leaked out from the Communist +circles in Moscow that behind Trotsky's +recent war-like utterance lies an +electromagnetic invention, by a Russian +engineer named Grammachikoff for destroying +airplanes. +Tests of the destructive ray, the Times continued, had began the +previous August with the aid of German technical experts. A large +scale demonstration at Podosinsky Aerodome near Moscow was so +successful that the revolutionary Military Council and the +Political Bureau decided to fund enough electronic anti-aircraft +stations to protect sensitive areas of Russia. Similar, but more +powerful, stations were to be constructed to disable the electrical +mechanisms of warships.

+ +

The Commander of the Soviet Air Services, Rosenholtz, was so +overwhelmed by the ray weapon demonstration that he proposed "to +curtail the activity of the air fleet, because the invention +rendered a large air fleet unnecessary for the purpose of defense."

+ +

Picking up the death ray stories on the wire services on the +other side of the world, the Colorado Springs Gazette, ran a local +interest item on May 30th. With the headline: "Tesla Discovered +'Death Ray' in Experiments He Made Here," the story recounted, with +a feeling of local pride, the inventor's 1899 researches financed +by John Jacob Astor.

+ +

Tesla's Colorado Springs tests were well remembered by local +residents. With a 200 foot pole topped by a large copper sphere +rising above his laboratory he generated potentials that discharged +lightning bolts up to 135 feet long. Thunder from the released +energy could be heard 15 miles away in Cripple Creek. People +walking along the streets were amazed to see sparks jumping between +their feet and the ground, and flames of electricity would spring +from a tap when anyone turned them on for a drink of water. Light +bulbs within 100 feet of the experimental tower glowed when they +were turned off. Horses at the livery stable received shocks +through their metal shoes and bolted from the stalls. Even insects +were affected: Butterflies became electrified and "helplessly +swirled in circles - their wings spouting blue halos of 'St. Elmo's +Fire.'"

+ +

The most pronounced effect, and the one that captured the +attention of death ray inventors, occurred at the Colorado Springs +Electric Company generating station. One day while Tesla was +conducting a high power test, the crackling from inside the +laboratory suddenly stopped. Bursting into the lab Tesla demanded +to know why his assistant had disconnected the coil. The assistant +protested that had not anything. The power from the city's +generator, the assistant said, must have quit. When the angry +Tesla telephoned the power company he received an equally angry +reply that the electric company had not cut the power, but that +Tesla's experiment had destroyed the generator!

+ +

The inventor explained to The Electrical Experimenter, in +August of 1917 what had happened. While running his transmitter at +a power level of "several hundred kilowatts" high frequency +currents were set up in the electric company's generators. These +powerful currents "caused heavy sparks to jump thru the winds and +destroy the insulation." When the insulation failed, the generator +shorted out and was destroyed.

+ +

Some years later, 1935, he elaborated on the destructive +potential of his transmitter in the February issue of Liberty +magazine:

+ +

My invention requires a large plant, but once +it is established it will be possible to +destroy anything, men or machines, approaching +within a radius of 200 miles.

+ +

He went on to make a distinction between his invention and those +brought forward by others. He claimed that his device did not use +any so-called "death rays" because such radiation cannot be +produced in large amounts and rapidly becomes weaker over distance. +Here, he likely had in mind a Grindell-Matthews type of device +which, according to contemporary reports, used a powerful ultra-violet beam to make the air conducting so that high energy current +could be directed to the target. The range of an ultra-violet +searchlight would be much less than what Tesla was claiming. As he +put it: "all the energy of New York City (approximately two million +horsepower [1.5 billion watts]) transformed into rays and projected +twenty miles, would not kill a human being." On the contrary, he +said: + +My apparatus projects particles which may +be relatively large or of microscopic di-mensions, enabling us to convey to a small +area at a great distance trillions of times +more energy than is possible with rays of any +kind. Many thousands of horsepower can be thus +transmitted by a stream thinner than a hair, so +that nothing can resist.

+ +

Apparently what Tesla had in mind with this defensive system was +a large scale version of his Colorado Springs lightning bolt +machine. As airplanes or ships entered the electric field of his +charged tower, they would set up a conducting path for a stream of +high energy particles that would destroy the intruder's electrical +system.

+ +

A drawback to having giant Tesla transmitters poised to shoot +bolts of lightning at an enemy approaching the coasts is that they +would have to be located in an uninhabited area equal to its circle +of protection. Anyone stepping into the defensive zone of the coils +would be sensed as an intruder and struck down. Today, with the +development of oil drilling platforms, this disadvantage might be +overcome by locating the lightning defensive system at sea.

+ +

As ominous as death ray and beam weapon technology will be for +the future, there is another, more destructive, weapon system +alluded to in Tesla's writings.

+ +

When Tesla realized, as he pointed out in the 1900 Century +article, "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy," that economic +forces would not allow the development of a new type of electrical +generator able to supply power without burning fuel he "was led to +recognize [that] the transmission of electrical energy to any +distance through the media as by far the best solution of the great +problem of harnessing the sun's energy for the use of man." His +idea was that a relatively few generating plants located near +waterfalls would supply his very high energy transmitters which, in +turn, would send power through the earth to be picked up wherever +it was needed.

+ +

The plan would require several of his transmitters to +rhythmically pump huge amounts of electricity into the earth at +pressures on the order of 100 million volts. The earth would +become like a huge ball inflated to a great electrical potential, +but pulsing to Tesla's imposed beat.

+ +

Receiving energy from this high pressure reservoir only would +require a person to put a rod into the ground and connect it to a +receiver operating in unison with the earth's electrical motion. +As Tesla described it, "the entire apparatus for lighting the +average country dwelling will contain no moving parts whatever, and +could be readily carried about in a small valise."

+ +

However, the difference between a current that can be used to +run, say, a sewing machine and a current used as a method of +destruction, however, is a matter of timing. If the amount of +electricity used to run a sewing machine for an hour is released in +a millionth of a second, it would have a very different, and +negative, effect on the sewing machine.

+ +

Tesla said his transmitter could produce 100 million volts of +pressure with currents up to 1000 amperes which is a power level of +100 billion watts. If it was resonating at a radio frequency of 2 +MHz, then the energy released during one period of its oscillation +would be 100000000000000000 Joules of energy, or roughly the +amount of energy released by the explosion of 10 megatons of TNT. +Such a transmitter, would be capable of projecting the energy of +a nuclear warhead by radio. Any location in the world could be +vaporized at the speed of light.

+ +

Not unexpectedly, many scientists doubted the technical +feasibility of Tesla's wireless power transmission scheme whether +for commercial or military purposes. The secret of how through-the-earth broadcast power was found not in the theories of +electrical engineering, but in the realm of high energy physics.

+ +

Dr. Andrija Puharich, in 1976, was the first to point out that +Tesla's power transmission system could not be explained by the +laws of classical electrodynamics, but, rather, in terms of +relativistic transformations in high energy fields. He noted that +according to Dirac's theory of the electron, when one of those +particles encountered its oppositely charged member, a positron, +the two particles would annihilate each other. Because energy can +neither be destroyed nor created the energy of the two former +particles are transformed into an electromagnetic wave. The +opposite, of course, holds true. If there is a strong enough +electric field, two opposite charges of electricity are formed +where there was originally no charge at all. This type of trans-formation usually takes place near the intense field near an atomic +nucleus, but it can also manifest without the aid of a nuclear +catalyst if an electric field has enough energy. Puharich's +involved mathematical treatment demonstrated that power levels in a +Tesla transmitter were strong enough to cause such pair production.

+ +

The mechanism of pair production offers a very attractive +explanation for the ground transmission of power. Ordinary +electrical currents do not travel far through the earth. Dirt has +a high resistance to electricity and quickly turns currents into +heat energy that is wasted. With the pair production method +electricity can be moved from one point to another without really +having to push the physical particle through the earth - the +transmitting source would create a strong field, and a particle +would be created at the receiver.

+ +

If the sending of currents through the earth is possible from the +viewpoint of modern physics, the question remains of whether Tesla +actually demonstrated the weapons application of his power +transmitter or whether it remained an unrealized plan on the part +of the inventor. Circumstantial evidence points to there having +been a test of this weapon.

+ +

The clues are found in the chronology of Tesla's work and +financial fortunes between 1900 and 1915.

+ +

1900: Tesla returned from Colorado Springs after a series of +important tests of wireless power transmission. It was during +these tests that his magnifying transmitter sent out waves of +energy causing the destruction of the power company's generator.

+ +

He received financial backing from J. Pierpont Morgan of $150000 +to build a radio transmitter for signaling Europe. With the first +portion of the money he obtained 200 acres of land at Shoreham, +Long Island and built an enormous tower 187 feet tall topped with a +55 ton, 68 foot metal dome. He called the research site +"Wardenclyffe."

+ +

As Tesla was just getting started, investors were rushing to buy +stock offered by the Marconi company. Supporters of the Marconi +Company include his old adversary Edison.

+ +

On December 12th, Marconi sent the first transatlantic signal, +the letter "S," from Cornwall, England to Newfoundland. He did +this with, as the financiers noted, equipment much less costly than +that envisioned by Tesla.

+ +

1902: Marconi is being hailed as a hero around the world while +Tesla is seen as a shirker by the public for ignoring a call to +jury duty in a murder case (he was excused from duty because of his +opposition to the death penalty).

+ +

1903: When Morgan sent the balance of the $150000, it would not +cover the outstanding balance Tesla owed on the Wardenclyffe +construction. To encourage a larger investment in the face of +Marconi's success, Tesla revealed to Morgan his real purpose was +not to just send radio signals but the wireless transmission of +power to any point on the planet. Morgan was uninterested and +declined further funding.

+ +

A financial panic that Fall put an end to Tesla's hopes for +financing by Morgan or other wealthy industrialists. This left +Tesla without money even to buy the coal to fire the transmitter's +electrical generators.

+ +

1904: Tesla writes for the Electrical World, "The Transmission of +Electrical Energy Without Wires," noting that the globe, even with +its great size, responds to electrical currents like a small metal +ball.

+ +

Tesla declares to the press the completion of Wardenclyffe.

+ +

1904: The Colorado Springs power company sues for electricity +used at that experimental station. Tesla's Colorado laboratory is +torn down and is sold for lumber to pay the $180 judgement; his +electrical equipment is put in storage.

+ +

1905: Electrotherapeutic coils are manufactured at Wardenclyffe +for hospitals and researchers to help pay bills.

+ +

Tesla is sued by his lawyer for non-payment of a loan. +In an article, Tesla comments on Peary's expedition to the North +Pole and tells of his, Tesla's, plans for energy transmission to +any central point on the ground.

+ +

Tesla is sued by C.J. Duffner, a caretaker at the experi-mental +station in Colorado Springs, for wages .

+ +

1906: "Left Property Here; Skips; Sheriff's Sale," was +the headline in the Colorado Springs Gazette for March 6th. +Tesla's electrical equipment is sold to pay judgement +of $928.57.

+ +

George Westinghouse, who bought Tesla's patents for alter-nating +current motors and generators in the 1880's, turns down the +inventor's power transmission proposal.

+ +

Workers gradually stop coming to the Wardenclyffe labor-atory +when there are no funds to pay them.

+ +

1907: When commenting on the destruction of the French ship Iena, +Tesla noted in a letter to the New York Times that he has built and +tested remotely controlled torpedoes, but that electrical waves +would be more destructive. "As to projecting wave energy to any +particular region of the globe ... this can be done by my devices," +he wrote. Further, he claimed that "the spot at which the desired +effect is to be produced can be calculated very closely, assuming +the accepted terrestrial measurements to be correct."

+ +

1908: Tesla repeated the idea of destruction by electrical waves +to the newspaper on April 21st. His letter to the editor stated, +"When I spoke of future warfare I meant that it should be conducted +by direct application of electrical waves without the use of aerial +engines or other implements of destruction." He added: "This is +not a dream. Even now wireless power plants could be constructed by +which any region of the globe might be rendered uninhabitable +without subjecting the population of other parts to serious danger +or inconvenience."

+ +

1915: Again, in another letter to the editor, Tesla stated: "It +is perfectly practical to transmit electrical energy without wires +and produce destructive effects at a distance. I have already +constructed a wireless transmitter which makes this possible... +When unavoidable, the [transmitter] may be used to destroy property +and life."

+ +

Important to this chronology is the state of Tesla's mental +health. One researcher, Marc J. Seifer, a psychologist, believes +Tesla suffered a nervous breakdown catalyzed by the death of one +the partners in the Tesla Electric Company and the shooting of +Stanford White, the noted architect, who had designed Wardenclyffe. +Seifer places this in 1906 and cites as evidence a letter from +George Scherff, Tesla's secretary:

+ +

Wardenclyffe, 4/10/1906 +Dear Mr. Tesla:

+ +

I have received your letter and am very glad +to know you are vanquishing your illness. I +have scarcely ever seen you so out of sorts +as last Sunday; and I was frightened.

+ +

In the period from 1900 to 1910 Tesla's creative thrust was to +establish his plan for wireless transmission of energy. Undercut +by Marconi's accomplishment, beset by financial problems, and +spurned by the scientific establishment, Tesla was in a desperate +situation by mid-decade. The strain became too great by 1906 and +he suffered an emotional collapse. In order to make a final effort +to have his grand scheme recognized, he may have tried one high +power test of his transmitter to show off its destructive +potential. This would have been in 1908.

+ +

The Tunguska event took place on the morning of June 30th, 1908. +An explosion estimated to be equivalent to 10-15 megatons of TNT +flattened 500000 acres of pine forest near the Stony Tunguska +River in central Siberia. Whole herds of reindeer were destroyed. +The explosion was heard over a radius of 620 miles. When an +expedition was made to the area in 1927 to find evidence of the +meteorite presumed to have caused the blast, no impact crater was +found. When the ground was drilled for pieces of nickel, iron, or +stone, the main constituents of meteorites, none were found down to +a depth of 118 feet.

+ +

Many explanations have been given for the Tunguska event. The +officially accepted version is that a 100000 ton fragment of +Encke's Comet, composed mainly of dust and ice, entered the +atmosphere at 62000 mph, heated up, and exploded over the earth's +surface creating a fireball and shock wave but no crater. +Alternative versions of the disaster see a renegade mini-black hole +or an alien space ship crashing into the earth with the resulting +release of energy.

+ +

Associating Tesla with the Tunguska event comes close to putting +the inventor's power transmission idea in the same speculative +category as ancient astronauts. However, by looking at the above +chronology, it can be seen that real historical facts point to the +possibility that this event was caused by a test firing of Tesla's +energy weapon.

+ +

In 1907 and 1908, Tesla wrote about the destructive effects of +his energy transmitter. His Wardenclyffe transmitter was much +larger than the Colorado Springs device that destroyed the power +station's generator. His new transmitter would be capable of +effects many orders of magnitude greater than the Colorado device. +In 1915, he said he had already built a transmitter that "when +unavoidable ... may be used to destroy property and life." +Finally, a 1934 letter from Tesla to J.P. Morgan, uncovered by +Tesla biographer Margaret Cheney, seems to conclusively point to an +energy weapon test. In an effort to raise money for his defensive +system he wrote:

+ +

The flying machine has completely demoralized +the world, so much so that in some cities, as +London and Paris, people are in mortal fear from +aerial bombing. The new means I have perfected +affords absolute protection against this and +other forms of attack... These new discoveries I +have carried out experimentally on a limited +scale, created a profound impression (emphasis added).

+ +

Again, the evidence is circumstantial but, to use the language of +criminal investigation, Tesla had motive and means to be the cause +of the Tunguska event. He also seems to confess to such a test +having taken place before 1915. His transmitter could generate +energy levels and frequencies that would release the destructive +force of 10 megatons, or more, of TNT. And the overlooked genius +was desperate.

+ +

The nature of the Tunguska event, also, is not inconsistent with +what would happen during the sudden release of wireless power. No +fiery object was reported in the skies at that time by professional +or amateur astronomers as would be expected when a 200000000 +pound object enters the atmosphere. The sky glow in the region, +mentioned by some witnesses, just before the explosion may have +come from the ground, as geological researchers discovered in the +1970's. Just before an earthquake the stressed rock beneath the +ground creates an electrical effect causing the air to illuminate. +If the explosion was caused by wireless energy transmission, either +the geological stressing or the current itself would cause an air +glow. Finally, there is the absence of an impact crater. Because +there is no material object to impact, an explosion caused by +broadcast power would not leave a crater.

+ +

Given Tesla's general pacifistic nature it is hard to +understand why he would carry out a test harmful to both animals +and the people who herded the animals even when he was in the grip +of financial desperation. The answer is that he probably intended +no harm, but was aiming for a publicity coup and, literally, missed +his target.

+ +

At the end of 1908, the whole world was following the daring +attempt of Peary to reach the North Pole. Peary claimed the Pole +in the Spring of 1909, but the winter before he had returned to the +base at Ellesmere Island, about 700 miles from the Pole. If Tesla +wanted the attention of the international press, few things would +have been more impressive than the Peary expedition sending out +word of a cataclysmic explosion on the ice in the direction of the +North Pole. Tesla, then, if he could not be hailed as the master +creator that he was, could be seen as the master of a mysterious +new force of destruction.

+ +

The test, it seems, was not a complete success. It must +have been difficult controlling the vast amount of power in +transmitter and guiding it to the exact spot Tesla wanted. Alert, +Canada on Ellesmere Island and the Tunguska region are all on the +same great circle line from Shoreham, Long Island. Both are on a +compass bearing of a little more than 2 degrees along a polar path. +The destructive electrical wave overshot its target.

+ +

Whoever was privy to Tesla's energy weapon demonstration must +have been dismayed either because it missed the intended target and +would be a threat to inhabited regions of the planet, or because it +worked too well in devastating such a large area at the mere +throwing of a switch thousands of miles away. Whichever was the +case, Tesla never received the notoriety he sought for his power +transmitter.

+ +

In 1915, the Wardenclyffe laboratory was deeded over to Waldorf-Astoria, Inc. in lieu of payment for Tesla's hotel bills. In 1917, +Wardenclyffe was dynamited on orders of the new owners to recover +some money from the scrap.

+ +

The evidence is only circumstantial. Perhaps Tesla never did +achieve wireless power transmission through the earth. Maybe he +made a mistake in interpreting the results of his radio tests in +Colorado Springs and did not produce an effect engineers, then and +now, know is a scientific impossibility. Perhaps the mental stress +he suffered caused him to retreat completely to a fantasy world +from which he would send out preposterous claims to reporters who +gathered for his yearly, copy-making pronouncements on his +birthday. Maybe the atomic bomb size explosion in Siberia near the +turn of the century was the result of a meteorite no one saw fall. + +Or, perhaps, Nikola Tesla did shake the world in a way that has +been kept secret for over 80 years. +ansmitter

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THE INFLUENCE OF VEDIC PHILOSOPHY ON NIKOLA TESLA'S UNSTANDIING FREE ENERGY

+ +

"The first thing to realize about the ether is its absolute +continuity. A deep sea fish has probably no means of +apprehending the existence of water; it is too uniformly +immersed in it: and that is our condition in regard to the +ether." +Sir Oliver Lodge, Ether and Reality.

+ +

ABSTRACT

+ +

Nikola Tesla used ancient Sanskrit terminology in his descriptions of +natural phenomena. As early as 1891 Tesla described the universe as a +kinetic system filled with energy which could be harnessed at any +location. His concepts during the following years were greatly +influenced by the teachings of Swami Vivekananda. Swami Vivekananda +was the first of a succession of eastern yogi's who brought Vedic +philosophy and religion to the west. After meeting the Swami and after +continued study of the Eastern view of the mechanisms driving the +material world, Tesla began using the Sanskrit words Akasha, Prana, and +the concept of a luminiferous ether to describe the source, existence +and construction of matter. This paper will trace the development of +Tesla's understanding of Vedic Science, his correspondence with Lord +Kelvin concerning these matters, and the relation between Tesla and +Walter Russell and other turn of the century scientists concerning +advanced understanding of physics. Finally, after being obscured for +many years, the author will give a description of what he believes is +the the pre-requisite for the free energy systems envisioned by Tesla .

+ +

TESLA'S EARLIER DESCRIPTION OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE

+ +

By the year 1891, Nikola Tesla had invented many useful devices. +These included a system of arc lighting (1886), the alternating current +motor, power generation and transmission systems (1888), systems of +electrical conversion and distribution by oscillatory discharges +(1889), and a generator of high frequency currents (1890), to name a +few. The most well known patent centers around an inspiration that +occurred while walking with a friend in a park in Budapest, Hungry. It +was while observing the sunset that Tesla had a vision of how rotating +electromagnetic fields could be used in a new form of electric motor. +This led to the well known system of alternating current power +distribution. In 1891 however, Tesla patented what one day may become +his most famous invention. It is the basis for the wireless +transmission of electrical power and is know as the Tesla Coil +Transformer. It was during this year that Tesla made the following +comments during a speech before the American Institute of Electrical

+ +

Engineers;

+ +

"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by +a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea +is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of +Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among +the subtle speculations of one of your splendid +mathematicians... Throughout space there is energy. Is +this energy static or kinetic.? If static our hopes are in +vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - +then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed +in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of +nature." 1

+ +

This description of the physical mechanisms of the universe was given +before Tesla became familiar with the Vedic science of the eastern +Nations of India, Tibet, and Nepal. This science was first popualized +in the United States and the west during the three year visit of Swami +Vivekananda.

+ +

VEDIC SCIENCE AND SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

+ +

The Vedas are a collection of writings consisting of hymns, prayers, +myths, historical accounting, dissertations on science, and the nature +of reality, which date back at least 5000 years. The nature of +matter, antimatter, and the make up of atomic structure are described +in the Vedas. The language of the Vedas is known as Sanskrit. The +origin of Sanskrit is not fully understood. Western scholars suggest +that it was brought into the Himalayas and thence south into India by +the southward migrations of the Aryan culture. Paramahansa Yogananda +and other historians however do not subscribe to that theory, pointing +out that there is no evidence within India to substantiate such +claims. 2

+ +

There are words in Sanskrit that describe concepts totally foreign to +the western mind. Single words may require a full paragraph for +translation into english. Having studied Sanskrit for a brief period +during the late 70's, it finally occurred to this writer that Tesla's +use of Vedic terminology could provide a key to understanding his view +of electromagnetism and the nature of the universe. But where did +Tesla learn Vedic concepts and Sanskrit terminology? A review of the +well known biographies by Cheney, Hunt and Draper, and O'Neil 345, +reveal no mention of Tesla's knowledge of Sanskrit. O'Neal however +includes the following excerpt from an unpublished article called Man's +Greatest Achievement;

+ +

"There manifests itself in the fully developed being , Man, +a desire mysterious, inscrutable and irresistible: to +imitate nature, to create, to work himself the wonders he +perceives.... Long ago he recognized that all +perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or +tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the Akasha or +luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life giving

+ +

Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never +ending cycles all things and phenomena. The primary +substance, thrown into infinitesimal whirls of +prodigious velocity, becomes gross matter; the force +subsiding, the motion ceases and matter disappears, +reverting to the primary substance." +According to Leland Anderson the article was written May 13th, +1907. Anderson also suggested that it was through association with +Swami Vivekananda that Tesla may have come into contact with Sanskrit +terminology and that John Dobson of the San Francisco Sidewalk +Astronomers Association had researched that association. 6

+ +

Swami Vivekananda was born in Calcutta, India in 1863. He was +inspired by his teacher, Ramakrishna to serve men as visible +manifestations of God. In 1893 Swami Vivekananda began a tour of the +west by attending the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago. During +the three years that he toured the United States and Europe, +Vivekananda met with many of the well known scientists of the time +including Lord Kelvin and Nikola Tesla. 7 According to Swami +Nikhilananda;

+ +

Nikola Tesla, the great scientist who specialized in the +field of electricity, was much impressed to hear from the +Swami his explanation of the Samkhya cosmogony and the theory +of cycles given by the Hindus. He was particularly struck by +the resemblance between the Samkhya theory of matter and +energy and that of modern physics. The Swami also met in New +York Sir William Thompson, afterwards Lord Kelvin, and +Professor Helmholtz, two leading representatives of western +science. Sarah Bernhardt, the famous French actress had an +interview with the Swami and greatly admired his teachings. 8

+ +

It was at a party given by Sarah Bernhardt that Nikola Tesla probably +first met Swami Vivekananda. 9 Sarah Bernhardt was playing the part of +'Iziel' in a play of the same name. It was a French version about the +life of Bhudda. The actress upon seeing Swami Vivekananda in the +audience, arranged a meeting which was also attended by Nikola Tesla. +In a letter to a friend, dated February 13th, 1896, Swami Vivekananda +noted the following;

+ +

...Mr. Tesla was charmed to hear about the Vedantic Prana +and Akasha and the Kalpas, which according to him are the +only theories modern science can entertain.....Mr Tesla +thinks he can demonstrate that mathematically that force and +matter are reducible to potential energy. I am to go see him +next week to get this mathematical demonstration. 10

+ +

Swami Vivekananda was hopeful that Tesla would be able to show that +what we call matter is simply potential energy because that would +reconcile the teachings of the Vedas with modern science. The Swami +realized that "In that case, the Vedantic cosmology [would] be placed +on the surest of foundations". The harmony between Vedantic theories +and and western science was explained by the following diagram;

+ +

BRAHMAN = THE ABSOLUTE +| +MAHAT OR ISHVARA = PRIMAL CREATIVE ENERGY ++---------+ +---------+ +PRANA and AKASHA = ENERGY and MATTER

+ +

Tesla understood the Sanskrit terminology and philosophy and found +that it was a good means to describe the physical mechanisms of the +universe as seen through his eyes. It would behoove those who would +attempt to understand the science behind the inventions of Nikola Tesla +to study Sanskrit and Vedic philosophy.

+ +

Tesla apparently failed to show the identity of energy and matter. +If he had, certainly Swami Vivekananda would have recorded that +occasion. The mathematical proof of the principle did come until +about ten years later when Albert Einstein published his paper on +relativity. What had been known in the East for the last 5000 years +was then known to the West.

+ +

Brahman is defined as the one self existent impersonal spirit; the +Divine Essence, from which all things emanate, by which they are +sustained, and to which they return. Notice that this is very similar +to the concept of the Great Spirit as understood by Native American +cultures. Ishvara is the Supreme Ruler; the highest possible +conception of the Absolute, which is beyond all thought. Mahat means +literally the Great One, and is also interpreted as meaning universal +mind or cosmic intelligence. Prana means energy (usually translated as +life force) and Akasha means matter (usually translated as ether). +Dobson points out that the more common translations for Akasha and +Prana are not quite correct, but that Tesla did understand their true +meanings.

+ +

The meeting with Swami Vivekananda greatly stimulated Nikola Tesla's +interest in Eastern Science. The Swami later remarked during a lecture +in India, "I myself have been told by some of the best scientific minds +of the day, how wonderfully rational the conclusions of the Vedanta +are. I know of one of them personally, who scarcely has time to eat +his meal, or go out of his laboratory, but who would stand by the hour +to attend my lectures on the Vedanta; for, as he expresses it, they are +so scientific, they so exactly harmonize with the aspirations of the +age and with the conclusions to which modern science is coming at the +present time". 11

+ +

TESLA AND LORD KELVIN

+ +

William S. Thompson was one of the prominent scientists and engineers +of the 1800s. He developed analogies between heat and electricity and +his work influenced the theories developed by James Clerk Maxwell, one +of the founders of electromagnetic theory. Thompson supervised the +successful laying of the Trans Atlantic Cable and for that work was +knighted Lord Kelvin. Kelvin had endorsed Tesla's theories and proposed +system for the wireless transmission of electrical power. 12 FootNOTE-Grotz PACE

+ +

Tesla continued to study Hindu and Vedic philosophy for a number of +years as indicated by the following letter written to him by Lord +Kelvin.

+ +

15, Eaton Place +London, S.W. +May 20, 1902

+ +

Dear Mr. Tesla,

+ +

I do not know how I can ever thank you enough for the +most kind letter of May, 10, which I found in my cabin in the +Lucania, with the beautiful books which you most kindly sent +me along with it: -"The Buried Temple", "The Gospel of +Bhudda", Les Grands Inities", the exquisite edition of +Rossetti's "House of Life", and last but not least the +Century Magazine for June, 1900 with the splendid and +marvelous photographs on pp. 176, 187, 190, 191, 192, full of +electrical lessons.

+ +

We had a most beautiful passage across the Atlantic, much +the finest I have ever had. I was trying hard nearly all the +way, but quite unsuccessfully, to find something definite as +to the functions of ether in respect to plain, old fashioned +magnetism. A propos of this, I have instructed the +publishers, Messrs. Macmillan, to send you at the Waldorf a +copy of my book (Collection of Separate Papers) on +Electrostatics and Magnetism. I shall be glad if you will +accept it from me as a very small mark of my gratitude to you +for your kindness. You may possibly find something +interesting in the articles on Atmospheric Electricity which +it contains.

+ +

Lady Kelvin joins me in kind regards, and I remain,

+ +

Yours always truly,

+ +

Kelvin

+ +

Thank you also warmly for the beautiful flowers 13

+ +

TESLA AND RUSSELL

+ +

Walter Russell was one of the most accomplished artists, sculptors, +writers and scientists of this century. His periodic chart of the +elements accurately predicted the location and characteristics of four +elements years before they were discovered in laboratories. These are +now known as Deuterium, Tritium, Neptunium, and Plutonium. Russell

+ +

apparently entered into a heightened state of awareness after being +struck by lightning. He began several weeks of drawing and writing +about the basic nature and make up of the physical universe. Russells' +family finally called the family doctor to determine if Russell should +be committed to an mental institution. The doctor, upon seeing the +results of Russells weeks of work, said that he did not know what +Russell was doing, but that he definitely was not mad.

+ +

Although the exact time and occasion of their meeting has not yet +been determined, Nikola Tesla and Walter Russell did meet and discuss +their respective cosmologies. 14 Tesla recognized the wisdom and power +of Russells' teaching and urged Russell to lock up his knowledge in a +safe for 1000 years until man was ready for it. 15

+ +

WHY FREE ENERGY HASN'T HAPPENED YET

+ +

COMMENTS, POSSIBILITIES AND SOCIO ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS

+ +

Although Tesla did not accept many of the tenants of relativity and +quantum theory and never made the connection between matter and +energy, he did recognize the possibility of free and unlimited energy +as demonstrated by the following statement.

+ +

Can Man control [the ] grandest, most awe inspiring of all processes +in nature?...If he could do this, he would have powers almost unlimited +and supernatural... He could cause planes to collide and produce his +suns and stars, his heat and light. He could originate and develop +life in all its infinite forms....[Such powers] would place him beside +his creator, make him fulfill his ultimate destiny. 16

+ +

We see that Tesla is asking a question, speculating, searching for an +answer. If Tesla had developed free energy sources or learned how to +manipulate space time and gravity, during the time of his most public +and productive years, (up until about 1920), he would have had answers +to those questions.

+ +

Tesla's most misunderstood invention is popularly known as the "Death +Ray". It was simply a particle beam weapon which he proposed in 1937 +and was fabricated under contracts with Alcoa Aluminum and the English +and Italian governments. 17 It used electrostatic propulsion +techniques and similar devices are being developed today by the +Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) and the US Army +Strategic Defense Command. 18

+ +

So we see that mankind has not yet harnessed the infinite power of +the universe as envisioned by Nikola Tesla. The question remains, why +not?

+ +

Free energy devices, if they are feasible, are not about smaller +faster microcircuits or a bigger better mouse traps. This is a +technology which may revolutionize the socio-economic status quo on +planet Earth. At this moment the big pie is unevenly divided. One +quarter of the population on this rock, the third stone from the sun, +consumes three quarters of the yearly resource output. As one can +easily deduce, from a brief study of world affairs, there are about

+ +

three billion people who have just about had it with this scenario. +There are wars starvation and strife in every nook and cranny of the +planet. So what do we do about it?

+ +

Spaceship Earth Needs A Flight Plan

+ +

Either we divide the pie more evenly or we make the pie larger. The +first option requires that our standard of living must fall so that the +standard of living in the third world may rise. The second option +allows us to maintain our standard of living while we help raise the +standard of living of under privileged nations. This we must do. It +is our destiny. It is our responsibility. It is our final test.

+ +

Thirty thousand people starve to death every day on this planet, most +of them are children. Nations fight nations, war is part of our lives. +What drives our economy in the western world, allows us to enjoy a high +standard of living, a life of leisure compared to our neighbors south +of the imaginary line called a border? Many answers both economic, +social, political, and spiritual can be given. We do know that the +standard of living that a nation enjoys is directly related energy +consumption.

+ +

Energy drives the economies of nations and Tesla's life long goal was +to make electric power equally available to all people any where on +this planet. He continued to promote his plan for the wireless +transmission of power in the yearly interviews he gave on his birthday +as late as 1940. 19 Electrical power allows on site processing of raw +materials. Electrical power can run pumps from water wells in areas +affected by drought. Electrical power delivered to the poverty +stricken areas of the world can make the pie larger, can help bring +about the needed economic equality which is our birth right.

+ +

Why hasn't power been made equally available to all people and +nations? Why haven't the much touted free energy devices described by +Tom Bearden, John Bedini, Bruce DePalma, and others ever materialized? +Perhaps because "easy things are seldom done for the same reason that +impossible things are rarely done: no one will pay for anything +believed to be easy or impossible". 20 Perhaps because when we talk +about power there is more there than one would initially visualize. +What we are talking about is personal power, national power, planetary +power, karmic power and the power of love.

+ +

The sages tell us that in order to enjoy power we have to let go of +power, to overcome ourselves. As an example this author can describe +one of his recent experiences. After a very successful symposium +celebrating the 100th year after Nikola Tesla arrived in the United +States 21, a non profit corporation, 501(c)(3), was formed specifically +to encourage and pursue research into the inventions and discoveries of +Nikola Tesla. Two years later, after a second symposium, several of +the founding members approached the board of directors with a proposal +to validate Tesla's claim that wireless transmission of power was +possible. Board members suggested that permission be obtained from the +FCC, an environmental impact statement be filed with the EPA, and we +should go form "our own non profit corporation". 22 It was also +decided that since there was no procedure to cover research, the

+ +

organization could not be involved.

+ +

Another goal of the organization had been to establish a museum to be +named the Nikola Tesla Museum of Science and Technology. We proposed +that since 60 -70 billion dollars are given away to non profit +organizations annually, we had as good a chance as any other +organization for obtaining funding, for a museum or research. We +reasoned that:

+ +

"Since only 16% of the museums in this country are science +museums, this museum in honor of Nikola Tesla will help educate the +public in technological areas. With the need for economic +revitalization of industry in Colorado, 1986is the time to begin +supporting the scientific education of our region. With the current +statistics showing that the United States is falling behind the world +technologically, the effort to educate the public is becoming more +important, and the surge of public awareness of Nikola Tesla's +inventions makes him an appropriate namesake for a science and +technology museum." 23

+ +

The board moved to table our proposal indefinitely.

+ +

What had happened? Of the 15 - 20 people that had started the +organization only four remained as part of the governing body. Three +of those members were opposed to research. The collective mind of the +board of directors had become the antithesis of the momentum Tesla had +gained in his lifetime. Unlike the independent inventor and +businessman, the board was now composed of members who were bureaucrats +and paper pushers for Fortune 500 companies. Tesla was a vegetarian, +the board members all ate meat. Tesla did not ask for permission to be +inventive and strike out on bold new adventures, the board needed +approval from higher sources. The dichotomies were endless.

+ +

Tesla's visions have been delayed for 89 years. The squabbling +started with Thomas Edison, J.P. Morgan and Nikola Tesla himself. 24 It +continues to this day. Perhaps the reason for the delay of wireless +power transmission or free energy devices lies even deeper within the +human psyche. Is it possible that we could compare the Tesla story to +a biblical story? Bruce Gordan thinks so. In Gordan's analysis +Tesla's attempt at building a prototype magnifying transmitter +parallels Genesis 11:1-9. 25

+ +

"The message; human curiosity and technological derring-do makes God +nervous; God demolishes project, confounds language". Gordan further +outlines the the scenario as follows:

+ +

"ISOMORPHISM"

+ +

BIBLE STORY TESLA TALE

+ +

Human Efforts Tesla Projects +Tower of Babel Wardenclyffe Tower +God Money (J.P. Morgan)

+ +

Demolition and Confounding to maintain Withdrawal of Morgan's +Status Quo of God drunk on power above, Financial Support and

+ +

humanity groveling in ignorance below. subsequent suppression of +Tesla's work in orthodox +science & engineering circles +Perpetuation of mediocre +technology for energy +generation, storage,distribu-tion, to maintain favorable +cash flow for existing system +for energy management by +forcing continued combustion +of scarce fuels, keep +consumers, paying, paying, +paying......

+ +

"When everything is perfect, the right time shows up." 26 This is +equivalent to saying, "Absolute knowledge in the hands of one whose +heart is not yet tender, would be a terrible weapon. 27 We might postulate that technological developments do not occur until +the planet is ready. The recent examination of the theory of Gaia +credits the Earth with an intelligence. "Thousands of years ago, by +means of seeing, sorcerers became aware that the Earth was sentinent +and that its awareness could affect the awareness of humans." 28 By +implication of reciprocity the reverse could be true. The group or +collective unconscious is still struggling with the result of quantum +and relativity theory. We as a race were ready for nuclear power, +every thing was perfect and the right time showed up. Soon we will +have put the technology to good use or abandon it to insure our +survival as a species.

+ +

SO WHAT DO YOU DO ABOUT IT

+ +

FREE ENERGY: CREATING AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME

+ +

Wireless transmission of power and free energy have not happened yet, +perhaps we aren't ready, perhaps the Earth isn't ready. Pogo said it +best, " we have met the enemy and it is us." In the Jungian view of +collective unconscious, things happen when the time is right, we get +what we agree to. We need a flight plan. And that plan must realize +that,

+ +

WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE

+ +

OVERCOMES

+ +

THE LOVE OF POWER

+ +

THERE WILL BE

+ +

PEACE

+ +

[Source; Girls Lavatory, Boulder High School, Boulder, Colorado] +Described as "Post Industrial, neo-technical, teen-age graffiti."

+ +

"So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it +would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically +designed this planet...."

+ +

Nikola Tesla describing what is now known as Schumann +Resonance (7.8 Hz) in "The Transmission of Electrical Energy +Without Wires As A Means Of Furthering World Peace", +Electrical World And Engineer, January 7, 1905, PP 21-24.

+ +

FOOTNOTES

+ +

1. Ratzlaff, John, Tesla Said, Tesla Book Company, PO Box +1649, Greenville, TX 75401, 1984.

+ +

2. Yogananda, Paramahansa, Autobiography of a Yogi, Self +Realization Fellowship,, 3880 San Rafael Ave., Los Angeles, +CA 90065, 1985.

+ +

3. Cheney, Margaret, Man Out of Time, Prentice Hall, 1981.

+ +

4. Hunt, Inez and Draper. Wanetta, W., Lightning In His +Hand, The Life Story Of Nikola Tesla, Omni Publications, +Hawthorne, CA, 1981.

+ +

5. O'Neal, John, J., Prodigal Genius, The Life Of Nikola +Tesla, Ives Washington, Inc., 1944.

+ +

6. Anderson, Leland, personal communication. See also +Anderson, L.I., and Ratzlaff, J.T., Dr. Nikola Tesla +Bibliography, Ragusan Press, 936 Industrial Avenue, Palo +Alto, CA 94303, 1979.

+ +

7. Nikhilananda, Swami, Vivekananda, The Yogas and Other +Works, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, New York, 1973.

+ +

8. Nikhilananda, Swami.

+ +

9. Dobson, John, personal communication.

+ +

7. Dobson, John, Advaita Vedanta and Modern Science, Vedanta +Book Center, 5423 S. Hyde Park, Chicago, IL 60615, 1979.

+ +

10. Nikhilananda, Swami.

+ +

11. Burke, Marie Louise, Swami Vivekananda in the West, New +Discoveries, The World Teacher, Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, +India, 1985, p. 500

+ +

12. Grotz, T., "Artificially Stimulated Resonance of the +Earth's Schumann Cavity Waveguide", Proceedings of the Third +International New Energy Technology Symposium/Exhibition, +June 25th-28th, 1988, Hull, Quebec, Planetary Association for +Clean Energy, 191 Promenade du Portage/600, Hull, Quebec J8X +2K6 Canada

+ +

13. From the personal collection of L. Anderson.

+ +

14. Russell, Lao. personal communication.

+ +

15. The University of Science and Philosophy, Swannanoa, +Waynesboro, VA 22980, (703) 942-5161.

+ +

16. First written by Tesla on May 13, 1907, for the "Actors +Fair Fund", text transcribed from an A.L.S. in the +collections of the Bakken Library of Electricity in Life. +The article later appeared in the "New York American", July +6, 1930, pg. 10.

+ +

17. Tesla, Nikola, The New Art of Projecting Concentrated +Non-Dispersive Energy Through Natural Media, Proceedings of +the Tesla Centennial Symposium, Grotz, T. & Rauscher, E., +Editors, 1984.

+ +

18. Turchi, P.J.,Conte, D.,Seiler, S., Electrostatic +Acceleration of Microprojectiles to Ultrahypervelocities, +"Proceedings of the Seventh Pulsed Power Conference", June +12th-14th, Monterey, California, Jointly Sponsored by the +DOD, DOE, and the IEEE Electron Devices Society.

+ +

19. "Death Ray for Planes", New York Times, September 20, +1940.

+ +

20. Pawlicki, T.B., Exploring Hyperspace, 848 Fort Street, +Victoria, B.C., Canada, electronic book on floppy disk, 1988, +(Log onto the TESLA BBS at (719) 486-2775 for copy of ASCII +text files)

+ +

21. Broad, William J., "Tesla a Bizarre Genius, Regains Aura +of Greatness", New York Times, Aug. 28th, 1984

+ +

22. El-Kareh, E., Elswick, S., memo, 1987.

+ +

23. Grotz, T., & Sheppard, J., The Nikola Tesla Museum of +Science and Technology submitted to the Board of Directors of +the International Tesla Society, December 12th, 1986. +[Available as an ASCII text file on the TESLA BBS (719) 486-2775]

+ +

24. Cheney, Margaret, Tesla, Man Out of Time, Prentice Hall +Inc, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1981.

+ +

25. Gordan, Bruce, private communication, 1988.

+ +

26. Arguelles, Jose & Lloydine, personal communication.

+ +

27. Hercules, Michael, The Circle of Love, published by the +author.

+ +

28. Castenada, Carlos, The Power of Silence, Further Lessons +of don Jaun, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1987, Pg. 120.

+ +

FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT TESLA

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TESLA BBS: This is a full featured computer Bulletin Board Service for +access to information about current research and the life and times of +Nikola Tesla. A subsection of the Colorado Mountain College BBS, it +may be contacted using a computer and 300/1200/2400 baud modems at +(719) 486-2775.

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The Tesla Memorial Society The Tesla Coil Builders Association +% Nicholas Kosanovich % Harry Goldman +453 Martin Road RD #6 Box 181 +Lackawanna, NY 14218 Glenns Falls, NY 12801 +(716) 822-0281 (518) 792-1003

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The Tesla Book Company High Voltage Press +PO Box 1649 PO Box 532 +Greenville, TX 75401 Claremont, CA 91711 +(214) 454-6819

+ +

Mr. Toby Grotz, President, Wireless Engineering, is an electrical +engineer and has 16 years experience in the field of geophysics, +aerospace and industrial research and design. While working for the +Geophysical Services Division of Texas Instruments and at the +University of Texas at Dallas, Mr. Grotz was introduced to and worked +with the geophysical concepts which are of importance to the wireless +transmission of power. As a Senior Engineer at Martin Marietta, Mr. +Grotz designed and supervised the construction of industrial process +control systems and designed and built devices and equipment for use in +research and development and for testing space flight hardware. Mr. +Grotz also worked for the public utility industry installing mini +computer based pollutant measuring data acquisition systems in fossil +fuel power plants and as a results engineer in a nuclear power plant. +Mr. Grotz organized and chaired the 1984 Tesla Centennial Symposium and +the 1986 International Tesla Symposium and was president of the +International Tesla Society, a not for profit corporation formed as a +result the first symposium. As Project Manager for Project Tesla, Mr. +Grotz aided in the design and construction of a recreation of the +equipment Nikola Tesla used for wireless transmission of power +experiments in 1899 in Colorado Springs. Mr. Grotz received his +B.S.E.E. from the University of Connecticut in 1973. +

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QUOTES THAT GUIDE US

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"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by +a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea +is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of +Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among +the subtle speculations of one of your splendid +mathematicians... Throughout space there is energy. Is +this energy static or kinetic.? If static our hopes are in +vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - +then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed +in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of +nature." + +Nikola Tesla addressing the American Institute of Electrical +Engineers, 1891.

+ + + +

"There manifests itself in the fully developed being - Man +- a desire mysterious, inscrutable and irresistible: to +imitate nature, to create, to work himself the wonders he +perceives.... Long ago he recognized that all +perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or +tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the Akasa or +luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life giving +Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never +ending cycles all things and phenomena. The primary +substance, thrown into infintesimal whirls of +prodigious velocity, becomes gross matter; the force +subsiding, the motion ceases and matter disappears, +reverting to the primary substance." +

+

+Nikola Tesla, Man's Greatest Achievement, May 13, 1907.

+ + + +

"The first thing to realize about the ether is its absolute +continuity. A deep sea fish has probably no means of +apprehending the existence of water; it is too uniformly +immersed in it: and that is our condition in regard to the +ether." + +Sir Oliver Lodge, Ether and Reality.

+ + + +

"So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it +would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically +designed this planet...." + +Nikola Tesla describing what is now known as Schumann +Resonance (7.8Hz) in "The Transmission of Electrical Energy +Without Wires As A Means Of Furthering World Peace", +Electrical World And Engineer, January 7, 1905, PP 21-24.

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Nuclear Weapons Testing Facts +August 18, 1991

+ +

Nevada Desert Experience +PO Box 4487 +Las Vegas, NV 89127 +Telephone: 702-646-4814 +FAX: 702-386-5984

+ +

NUCLEAR BOMB AND WEAPONS TESTING FACTS

+ +

The US explodes nuclear bombs underground at the Nevada Test Site +(NTS), 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The NTS is 1350 square +miles in size, larger than the state of Rhode Island. The 1863 +Treaty of Ruby Valley recognizes the Western Shoshone Nation's +right to the land.[1] Despite Shoshone objections, the US +Department of Energy (DOE) operates the NTS for testing nuclear +bombs and weapons.

+ +

Nearly 5000 persons work for the nuclear weapons testing program +in the Las Vegas/NTS areas. The research, develop-ment and +testing budget for the US in FY 1990 was nearly $2 billion.[2] +Millions of dollars are now being allocated to assess and begin +clean-up of the environmental damage at NTS.

+ +

Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico and Lawrence Livermore in +California design and perfect nuclear weapons for the US testing +program. Both labs are managed by the University of California. +The main NTS contractors are EG&G (Edgerton, Germeshausen & +Grier), its subsidiary, REECo (Reynolds Electrical and Engineering +Co.), and Raytheon.

+ +

NTS became the location for on-continent nuclear weapons testing +in 1951. Previous to that the first nuclear bomb test took place +in the atmosphere in New Mexico.

+ +

Nuclear bombs were dropped in Japan on the populations of +Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Between 1946 and late-1962 +atmospheric and underground nuclear tests were conducted by the US +in the Marshall Islands, Christmas Island and Johnston Atoll in +the Pacific south of Hawaii, and over the South Atlantic Ocean. In +addition to Nevada, several underground nuclear weapons tests +since 1962 have been in Colorado, Mississippi, New Mexico, & +Amchitka, an Aleutian Island off Alaska's coast.[3]

+ +

Atomic veterans are those men and women in the armed forces who +were exposed to radiation from these nuclear weapons tests. Some +flew through radioactive clouds or marched to ground-zero; others +cleaned ships that had been contaminated, recovered instruments, +and/or were docked in bombing areas. Civilians who received +radiation doses where they live are called Downwinders. Congress +has legislated compensation for atomic veterans, test site workers +and those Downwinders in Utah and Nevada who have been exposed to +radiation fallout from the aboveground nuclear weapons tests. +Congress has not yet authorized the funds for this compensation.

+ +

Nuclear weapons tests are conducted within vertical shafts +hundreds of feet underground and in horizontal tunnels into +mountains. According to DOE, the purpose of testing nuclear bombs +is (1) to check for reliability of stockpiled weapons, (2) to test +new safety features,(3) to test new weapon designs, and (4) to +determine the effects of explosion-produced radiation on military +hardware.

+ +

Radiation ventings occur routinely as part of the clean-up +process after an underground nuclear weapons test. According to +DOE controlled ventings present no danger to human health, and no +radiation leaks occur. There is growing evidence in the +international scientific community that long-term exposure to low-level radiation results in lowered resistance to certain diseases +as well as possible genetic changes.

+ +

INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS TO LIMIT NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING

+ +

The Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) of 1963 requires that all +tests be underground. Public outcry about health effects from +aboveground tests helped bring about the PTBT. In the prologue of +this treaty signatory nations agree to continue negotiations to +end all nuclear weapons tests.[4]

+ +

The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1970 requires that nuclear +nations refrain from transferring nuclear weapon devices and/or +nuclear weapons technology to non-nuclear nations. It binds non-nuclear nations from developing or obtaining nuclear weapons in +exchange for a share in the technology of the peaceful uses of +atomic energy. The NPT requires a commitment by the nuclear +nations to negotiate an end to the nuclear arms race. The prologue +to the NPT recalls the earlier PTBT agreement that nuclear nations +work toward discontinuing nuclear weapons testing altogether.[5]

+ +

In 1995, the NPT nations will meet to decide whether to extend +the treaty. Many of the non-nuclear nations at the NPT review +meetings in 1990 made the extension of the Non-Proliferation +Treaty dependent on progress being made toward an end to all +nuclear weapons testing, specifically toward a Comprehensive Test +Ban Treaty.

+ +

The Threshold Test Ban Treaty of 1974 (ratified in 1990), limits +the explosive power of nuclear weapons tests to 150 kilotons. (The +Hiroshima bomb was 12 - 15 kilotons.)

+ +

International efforts for a complete ban on nuclear weapons +testing culminated in an Amendment Conference to the PTBT at the +UN in January, 1991. The US and United Kingdom (UK) oppose a +Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and can veto an amendment. In +spite of this the Conference passed a statement to continue to +work toward an amendment. The US and UK were the sole "no" votes +in this effort to end nuclear weapons testing.

+ +

The Global Anti-Nuclear Alliance (GANA), an international +citizens organization has recently formed to coordinate worldwide +efforts to end nuclear weapons testing. GANA grew out of the May, +1990, International Citizens Congress for a Nuclear Test Ban in +Kazakhstan, USSR.

+ +

OTHER NATIONS TESTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS

+ +

The UK, before 1962, tested nuclear weapons in Australia and +Christmas Island. Since 1962, the UK has tested weapons with the +US. In 1990, the UK/US conducted one nuclear weapons test at the +NTS. The UK is a signatory to both the Partial Test Ban Treaty +(PTBT) and Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

+ +

The USSR nuclear weapons testing program, due to citizen +pressure, may be moved from Kazakhstan to Novaya Zemlya above the +Arctic Circle. The USSR has initiated moratoriums on nuclear +weapons tests and has tested only once since October, 1989. The +USSR has signed both the PTBT and NPT.

+ +

China tested above ground from 1964-1980. The two most recent +tests were detonated at Lop Nor in 1990. The Chinese will not end +nuclear weapons tests until the US and USSR have greatly reduced +their nuclear arsenals and stopped testing. China has not signed +the PTBT, but tests underground as that treaty requires. Recently +China has agreed to sign the NPT.

+ +

The French have conducted six nuclear weapons tests on islands +in the South Pacific thus far in 1991. Some South Pacific +Islanders link the end of nuclear weapons testing with their +independence from France. France recently signed the NPT, but has +not signed the PTBT.

+ +

KNOWN NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTS [6 & 7]

+ +

Year of Atmospheric Underground Total 1990 1991 +First Test

+ +

USA-1945 212 721 933 8 4 +USSR-1949 215 499 714 1 - +FRANCE-1960 48 142 190 4 6 +UK-1952 21 22 43 1 - +CHINA-1964 22 14 36 2 - +INDIA-1974 1 1

+ +

Sources:

+ +

[1] Western Shoshone National Council, Western Shoshone Nation +Newsletter, Vol.I, no.1, 1991.

+ +

[2] International Foundation, Toward a Comprehensive Nuclear +Warhead Test Ban, 1991. pg. 39.

+ +

[3] U.S. Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, +Announced US Nuclear Tests: July 1945 through December 1990. +Springfield, VA: National Technical Information Service, 1990. +pg. viii.

+ +

[4] National Academy of Sciences-Nuclear Arms Control Washington, +DC: Natl Academy Press, 1985. pgs. 336-368.

+ +

[5] Ibid, pg. 196.

+ +

[6] "Nuclear Notebook," Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Vol. 47, +No. 3, April, 1991. pg. 49.

+ +

[7] "Nuclear Notebook," Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Vol. 47, +No. 4, May, 1991. pg. 49.

+ +

Current as of August 18, 1991 +by Mary H. Lehman +Nevada Desert Experience, +

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+THE HOLLOW EARTH: A MADDENING THEORY THAT CAN'T BE DISPROVED +From OMNI Magazine (October 1983), Games section (p. 128)

+ +

If there were a hall of fame for pseudoscientists, surely Cyrus Teed +would deserve a place of honor. It was shortly after the Civil War that +Teed had his vision: The earth is a hollow sphere, and WE LIVE INSIDE +IT. Everything else in the universe is in here with us -- planets, +comets, stars -- everything. What's outside the sphere? Nothing. +Teed's cosmology had a particular appeal to religious +fundamentalists. It made the earth important again, rather than an +insignifigant speck in the cosmos. And it eliminted the difficult +concepts of infinite space and aimlessly scattered worlds. We're all +right here together in this safe, spherical womb. +In 1870 Teed changed his name to Koresh (ancient Hebrew for Cyrus) +and started a cult. At its peak in the Nineties the Koreshan +(pronounced ker-ESH-an) Unity movement had some 4000 followers. Teed +established a religious/scientific community a few miles south of Fort +Myers, Florida, and there founded the town of Estero. He was determined +to prove his theory scientifically and launched his own geodetic survey +in 1897 to do just that. Using his "rectilineator," a set of double-T +squares made of large logs, he projected a horizontal line until his +calculations indicated that it would plunge into the Gulf of Mexico, +four miles from its starting point. This was Teed's proof that the +earth's surface is concave and that his rectilineator line had +intersected the earth's upward curve. +The scientists had gotten everything backward: It is centrifugal +force, not gravity, that keeps our feet planted on the ground. The +sphere *is* about 25000 miles around, just as the scientists say. +China is about 8000 miles away, through the earth's center -- straight +up. +The Nazis entertained many occult theories in their quest for world +domination, and Teed's was one of them. At one point a Nazi expedition +went to the Isle of Man. Its mission: to get secret photographs of the +United States by pointing its powerful telescopes *up*. +... +What's most infuriating is that a little mathematical fiddling turns +this crazy theory into a proposition that is virtually impossible to +refute. The trick is done by *inversion*, a purely geometric +transformation that lets a methemetician turn shapes inside-out. When a +sphere is inverted, ever point outside is mapped to a corresponding +point inside, and vice versa. +The goemetry is quite simple. If a sphere's center is "C" and its +radius is "r," then every outside point "P" maps to an inside point "P'" +such that "CP x CP' = r2" {that's "r squared" - Foxx}. +{My apologies for not being able to include the accompanying +illustration. - Foxx} +Here's a good way to visualize it: For any outside point "P" (on +the sun, or Pluto, or Cygnus X, for example), draw a circle that has +"CP" as its diameter. From one of the two points where this circle +intersects the earth, draw a line perpendicular to "CP." The +intersection point {of this perpendicular and "CP"} is the location of +"P'". +By far the largest body in our inverted Earth is the moon; a bit +over half a mile in diameter and some 3933 miles over our heads. The +sun's sphere is only eight feet across. The stars ar microscopic spots +clustered around the center, which is, of course, infinity. +Is there any way to prove we *aren't* inside a hollow earth? We +asked H.S.M. Coxeter, mathematics professor at the University of +Toronto and an expert on inversion geometry. "I can't think of any," he +said. "A rocket flight, an eclipse, a Foucault pendulum, a Coriolis +effect -- any observation we can makeon the outside of the earth has an +exact duplicate version inside. There would be no way to tell which was +the truth." +Just as the geometry of space inverts, so do all the laws of +physics. Toward the center of a hollow Earth, light slows down and +everything shrinks -- atoms, astronauts, spaceships, and measuring rods. +Light travels in circular paths, producing some weird (but lawful) +optical effects. Astronauts on the moon looked back on what they +thought was a blue sphere in the distance. Actually it was the inside +of the earth's shell, throught sight lines that flared like the bell of +a trumpet, producing the *illusion* of a sphere. The optical distortion +is something like the wide angle view through a fisheye lens. +As we look to the sky and the horizons, our visual field is filled +with a sphere some 4000 miles in diameter. Celestial bodies that +revolve around the earth's center appear to "rise" and "set" as they +enter or leave that sphere.

+ +

Cyrus Teed said that the moon is an illusion, that gravity is really +centrifugal force, and that a horizontal line on the earth's surface +eventually intersects the earth's upward curvature. We like to think +that if he were alive today he would junk some of his earlier +predictions to conform to inverse geometry, thereby keeping his theory +irrefutable. +The centrifugal-force idea is demonstrably false. If it were so, +there would be two points on the earth's surface where the force +disappeared -- along the axis of spin. It is gravity of a peculiar kind +that pulls us all to the outside. Teed's rectilineator experiment must +have been in error. A line that appears horizontal actually curves in +toward the center and so gets farther and farther "above" the surface. +Teed would have embraced Einstein's view of a finite, bounded +universe in which light travels in circles and eventually returns to its +starting point. An infinitely powered telescope aimed straight up, +Einstein said, will eventually produce a view of the other side of the +earth. That idea might seem paradoxical to most of us, but it would +have been intuitively obvious to Cyrus Teed. +... the Australian Journal _Speculations in Science and Technology_ +has published an article by Mostafa A Abdelkader, of Alexandria, Egypt, +that considers in all seriousness the proposal that we really *are* in a +hollow Earth. Abdelkader says that the only way to test the theory's +validity is to drill a tunnel straight through the earth. Until such an +experiment is performed, he writes, "it seems ... that the odds are +strongly in favor of [a hollow Earth] being our actual universe." +

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WIRELESS TRANSMISSION OF POWER

+ +

Resonating Planet Earth

+ +

by

+ +

Toby Grotz

+ +

Theoretical Electromagnetic Studies and Learning Association, Inc. +522 West Third Street +Leadville, CO 80461 +(719) 486-0133

+ +

Abstract

+ +

Many researchers have speculated on the meaning of the phrase "non-Hertzian waves" as used by Dr. Nikola Tesla. Dr. Tesla first began to +use this term in the mid 1890's in order to explain his proposed system +for the wireless transmission of electrical power. In fact, it was not +until the distinction between the method that Heinrich Hertz was using +and the system Dr. Tesla had designed, that Dr. Tesla was able to +receive the endorsement of the renowned physicist, Lord Kelvin.1

+ +

To this day, however, there exists a confusion amongs researchers, +experimentalists, popular authors and laymen as to the meaning of non-Hertzian waves and the method Dr. Tesla was promoting for the wireless +transmission of power. In this paper, the terms pertinent to wireless +transmission of power will be explained and the methods being used by +present researchers in a recreation of the Tesla's 1899 Colorado +Springs experiments will be defined.

+ +

Early Theories of Electromagnetic Propagation

+ +

In pre-World War I physics, scientists postulated a number of +theories to explain the propagation of electromagnetic energy through +the ether. There were three popular theories present in the literature +of the late 1800's and early 1900's. They were: +1. Transmission through or along the Earth, +2. Propagation as a result of terrestrial resonances, +3. Coupling to the ionosphere using propagation through +electrified gases.

+ +

We shall concern our examination at this time to the latter two +theories as they were both used by Dr. Tesla at various times to +explain his system of wireless transmission of power. It should be +noted, however, that the first theory was supported by Fritz +Lowenstein, the first vice-president of the Institute of Radio +Engineers, a man who had the enviable experience of assisting Dr. Tesla +during the Colorado Springs experiments of 1899. Lowenstein presented +what came to be known as the "gliding wave" theory of electromagnetic +radiation and propagation during a lecture before the IRE in 1915. +(Fig. 1)

+ +

Dr. Tesla delivered lectures to the Franklin Institute at +Philadelphia, in February, 1983, and to the National Electric Light +Association in St. Louis, in March, 1983, concerning electromagnetic +wave propagation. The theory presented in those lectures proposed that +the Earth could be considered as a conducting sphere and that it could +support a large electrical charge. Dr. Tesla proposed to disturb the +charge distribution on the surface of the Earth and record the period +of the resulting oscillations as the charge returned to its state of +equilibrium. The problem of a single charged sphere had been analyzed +at that time by J.J. Thompson and A.G. Webster in a treatise entitled +"The Spherical Oscillator." This was the beginning of an examination +of what we may call the science of terrestrial resonances, culminating +in the 1950's and 60's with the engineering of VLF radio systems and +the research and discoveries of W.O. Schumann and J.R. Waite.

+ +

The second method of energy propagation proposed by Dr. Tesla was +that of the propagation of electrical energy through electrified gases. +Dr. Tesla experimented with the use of high frequency RF currents to +examine the properties of gases over a wide range of pressures. It was +determined by Dr. Tesla that air under a partial vacuum could conduct +high frequency electrical currents as well or better than copper wires. +If a transmitter could be elevated to a level where the air pressure +was on the order of 75 to 130 millimeters in pressure and an excitation +of megavolts was applied, it was theorized that;

+ +

"...the air will serve as a conductor for the current produced, and +the latter will be transmitted through the air with, it may be, even +less resistance than through an ordinary copper wire".2 (Fig. 2) +Resonating Planet Earth

+ +

Dr. James T. Corum and Kenneth L. Corum, in chapter two of their soon +to be published book, A Tesla Primer, point out a number of statements +made by Dr. Tesla which indicate that he was using resonator fields and +transmission line modes.

+ +

1. When he speaks of tuning his apparatus until Hertzian radiations +have been eliminated, he is referring to using ELF vibrations: "...the +Hertzian effect has gradually been reduced through the lowering of +frequency."3

+ +

2. "...the energy received does not diminish with the square of the +distance, as it should, since the Hertzian radiation propagates in a +hemisphere."3

+ +

3. He apparently detected resonator or standing wave modes: "...my +discovery of the wonderful law governing the movement of electricity +through the globe...the projection of the wavelengths (measured along +the surface) on the earth's diameter or axis of symmetry...are all +equal."3

+ +

4. "We are living on a conducting globe surrounded by a thin layer of +insulating air, above which is a rarefied and conducting +atmosphere...The Hertz waves represent energy which is radiated and +unrecoverable. The current energy, on the other hand, is preserved and +can be recovered, theoretically at least, in its entirety."4

+ +

As Dr. Corum points out, "The last sentence seems to indicate that +Tesla's Colorado Springs experiments could be properly interpreted as +characteristic of a wave-guide probe in a cavity resonator."5 This was +in fact what led Dr. Tesla to report a measurement which to this day is +not understood and has led many to erroneously assume that he was +dealing with faster than light velocities.

+ +

The Controversial Measurement;

+ +

It does not indicate faster than light velocity

+ +

The mathematical models and experimental data used by Schumann and +Waite to describe ELF transmission and propagation are complex and +beyond the scope of this paper. Dr. James F. Corum, Kenneth L. Corum +and Dr. A-Hamid Aidinejad have, however, in a series of papers +presented at the 1984 Tesla Centennial Symposium and the 1986 +International Tesla Symposium, applied the experimental values obtained +by Dr. Tesla during his Colorado Springs experiments to the models and +equations used by Schumann and Waite. The results of this exercise +have proved that the Earth and the surrounding atmosphere can be used +as a cavity resonator for the wireless transmission of electrical +power. (Fig. 3)

+ +

Dr. Tesla reported that .08484 seconds was the time that a pulse +emitted from his laboratory took to propagate to the opposite side of +the planet and to return. From this statement many have assumed that +his transmissions exceeded the speed of light and many esoteric and +fallacious theories and publications have been generated. As Corum and +Aidinejad point out, in their 1986 paper, "The Transient Propagation of +ELF Pulses in the Earth Ionosphere Cavity", this measurement represents +the coherence time of the Earth cavity resonator system. This is also +known to students of radar systems as a determination of the range +dependent parameter. The accompanying diagrams from Corum's and +Aidinejad's paper graphically illustrate the point. (Fig. 3 & Fig. 4)

+ +

We now turn to a description of the methods to be used to build, as +Dr. Tesla did in 1899, a cavity resonator for the wireless transmission +of electrical power.

+ +

PROJECT TESLA:

+ +

The Wireless Transmission of Electrical Energy Using Schumann Resonance

+ +

It has been proven that electrical energy can be propagated around +the world between the surface of the Earth and the ionosphere at +extreme low frequencies in what is known as the Schumann Cavity. The +Schumann cavity surrounds the Earth between ground level and extends +upward to a maximum 80 kilometers. Experiments to date have shown that +electromagnetic waves of extreme low frequencies in the range of 8 Hz, +the fundamental Schumann Resonance frequency, propagate with little +attenuation around the planet within the Schumann Cavity.

+ +

Knowing that a resonant cavity can be excited and that power can be +delivered to that cavity similar to the methods used in microwave ovens +for home use, it should be possible to resonate and deliver power via +the Schumann Cavity to any point on Earth. This will result in +practical wireless transmission of electrical power.

+ +

Background

+ +

Although it was not until 1954-1959 when experimental measurements +were made of the frequency that is propagated in the resonant cavity +surrounding the Earth, recent analysis shows that it was Nikola Tesla +who, in 1899, first noticed the existence of stationary waves in the +Schumann cavity. Tesla's experimental measurements of the wave length +and frequency involved closely match Schumann's theoretical +calculations. Some of these observations were made in 1899 while Tesla +was monitoring the electromagnetic radiations due to lightning +discharges in a thunderstorm which passed over his Colorado Springs +laboratory and then moved more than 200 miles eastward across the +plains. In his Colorado Springs Notes, Tesla noted that these +stationary waves "... can be produced with an oscillator," and added in +parenthesis, "This is of immense importance."6 The importance of his +observations is due to the support they lend to the prime objective of +the Colorado Springs laboratory. The intent of the experiments and the +laboratory Tesla had constructed was to prove that wireless +transmission of electrical power was possible.

+ +

Schumann Resonance is analogous to pushing a pendulum. The intent of +Project Tesla is to create pulses or electrical disturbances that would +travel in all directions around the Earth in the thin membrane of non-conductive air between the ground and the ionosphere. The pulses or +waves would follow the surface of the Earth in all directions expanding +outward to the maximum circumference of the Earth and contracting +inward until meeting at a point opposite to that of the transmitter. +This point is called the anti-pode. The traveling waves would be +reflected back from the anti-pode to the transmitter to be reinforced +and sent out again. + +At the time of his measurements Tesla was experimenting with and +researching methods for "...power transmission and transmission of +intelligible messages to any point on the globe." Although Tesla was +not able to commercially market a system to transmit power around the +globe, modern scientific theory and mathematical calculations support +his contention that the wireless propagation of electrical power is +possible and a feasible alternative to the extensive and costly grid of +electrical transmission lines used today for electrical power +distribution.

+ +

The Need for a Wireless System of Energy Transmission

+ +

A great concern has been voiced in recent years over the extensive +use of energy, the limited supply of resources, and the pollution of +the environment from the use of present energy conversion systems. +Electrical power accounts for much of the energy consumed. Much of this +power is wasted during transmission from power plant generators to the +consumer. The resistance of the wire used in the electrical grid +distribution system causes a loss of 26-30% of the energy generated. +This loss implies that our present system of electrical distribution is +only 70-74% efficient.

+ +

A system of power distribution with little or no loss would conserve +energy. It would reduce pollution and expenses resulting from the need +to generate power to overcome and compensate for losses in the present +grid system.

+ +

The proposed project would demonstrate a method of energy +distribution calculated to be 90-94% efficient. An electrical +distribution system, based on this method would eliminate the need for +an inefficient, costly, and capital intensive grid of cables, towers, +and substations. The system would reduce the cost of electrical energy +used by the consumer and rid the landscape of wires, cables, and +transmission towers.

+ +

There are areas of the world where the need for electrical power +exists, yet there is no method for delivering power. Africa is in need +of power to run pumps to tap into the vast resources of water under the +Sahara Desert. Rural areas, such as those in China, require the +electrical power necessary to bring them into the 20th century and to +equal standing with western nations.

+ +

As first proposed by Buckminster Fuller, wireless transmission of +power would enable world wide distribution of off peak demand capacity. +This concept is based on the fact that some nations, especially the +United States, have the capacity to generate much more power than is +needed. This situation is accentuated at night. The greatest amount +of power used, the peak demand, is during the day. The extra power +available during the night could be sold to the side of the planet +where it is day time. Considering the huge capacity of power plants in +the United States, this system would provide a saleable product which +could do much to aid our balance of payments.

+ +

MARKET ANALYSIS

+ +

Of the 56 billion dollars spent for research by the the U.S +government in 1987, 64% was for military purposes, only 8% was spent on +energy related research. More efficient energy distribution systems +and sources are needed by both developed and under developed nations. +In regards to Project Tesla, the market for wireless power transmission +systems is enormous. It has the potential to become a multi-billion +dollar per year market. +

+ +

Market Size

+ +

The increasing demand for electrical energy in industrial nations is +well documented. If we include the demand of third world nations, +pushed by their increasing rate of growth, we could expect an even +faster rise in the demand for electrical power in the near future.

+ +

In 1971, nine industrialized nations, (with 25 percent of the world's +population), used 690 million kilowatts, 76 percent of all power +generated. The rest of the world used only 218 million kilowatts. By +comparison, China generated only 17 million kilowatts and India +generated only 15 million kilowatts (less than two percent each).7 If +a conservative assumption was made that the three-quarters of the world +which is only using one-quarter of the current power production were to +eventually consume as much as the first quarter, then an additional 908 +million kilowatts will be needed. The demand for electrical power will +continue to increase with the industrialization of the world.

+ +

Market Projections

+ +

The Energy Information Agency (EIA), based in Washington, D.C., +reported the 1985 net generation of electric power to be 2489 billion +kilowatt hours. At a conservative sale price of $.04 per kilowatt hour +that results in a yearly income of 100 billion dollars. The EIA also +reported that the 1985 capacity according to generator name plates to +be 656118 million watts. This would result in a yearly output of +5740 billion kilowatt hours at 100% utilization. What this means is +that we use only about 40% of the power we can generate (an excess +capability of 3251 billion kilowatt hours).

+ +

Allowing for down time and maintenance and the fact that the night time +off peak load is available, it is possible that half of the excess +power generation capability could be utilized. If 1625 billion +kilowatt hours were sold yearly at $.06/kilowatt, income would total +9.7 billion dollars.

+ +

Project Tesla: Objectives

+ +

The objectives of Project Tesla are divided into three areas of +investigation. +1. Demonstration that the Schumann Cavity can be resonated with an +open air, vertical dipole antenna; +2. Measurement of power insertion losses; +3. Measurement of power retrieval losses, locally and at a distance.

+ +

Methods

+ +

A full size, 51 foot diameter, air core, radio frequency resonating +coil and a unique 130 foot tower, insulated 30 feet above ground, have +been constructed and are operational at an elevation of approximately +11000 feet. This system was originally built by Robert Golka in 1973-1974 and used until 1982 by the United States Air Force at Wendover AFB +in Wendover, Utah. The USAF used the coil for simulating natural +lightning for testing and hardening fighter aircraft. The system has a +capacity of over 600 kilowatts. The coil, which is the largest part +of the system, has already been built, tested, and is operational.

+ +

A location at a high altitude is initially advantageous for reducing +atmospheric losses which work against an efficient coupling to the +Schumann Cavity. The high frequency, high voltage output of the coil +will be half wave rectified using a uniquely designed single electrode +X-ray tube. The X-ray tube will be used to charge a 130 ft. tall, +vertical tower which will function to provide a vertical current +moment. The mast is topped by a metal sphere 30 inches in diameter. +X-rays emitted from the tube will ionize the atmosphere between the +Tesla coil and the tower. This will result in a low resistance path +causing all discharges to flow from the coil to the tower. A +circulating current of 1000 amperes in the system will create an +ionization and corona causing a large virtual electrical capacitance in +the medium surrounding the sphere. The total charge around the tower +will be in the range of between 200-600 coulombs. Discharging the +tower 7-8 times per second through a fixed or rotary spark gap will +create electrical disturbances, which will resonantly excite the +Schumann Cavity, and propagate around the entire Earth.

+ +

The propagated wave front will be reflected from the antipode back to +the transmitter site. The reflected wave will be reinforced and again +radiated when it returns to the transmitter. As a result, an +oscillation will be established and maintained in the Schumann Cavity. +The loss of power in the cavity has been estimated to be about 6% per +round trip. If the same amount of power is delivered to the cavity on +each cycle of oscillation of the transmitter, there will be a net +energy gain which will result in a net voltage, or amplitude increase. +This will result in reactive energy storage in the cavity. As long as +energy is delivered to the cavity, the process will continue until the +energy is removed by heating, lightning discharges, or as is proposed +by this project, loading by tuned circuits at distant locations for +power distribution.

+ +

The resonating cavity field will be detected by stations both in the +United States and overseas. These will be staffed by engineers and +scientists who have agreed to participate in the experiment.

+ +

Measurement of power insertion and retrieval losses will be made at +the transmitter site and at distant receiving locations. Equipment +constructed especially for measurement of low frequency electromagnetic +waves will be employed to measure the effectiveness of using the +Schumann Cavity as a means of electrical power distribution. The +detection equipment used by project personnel will consist of a pick up +coil and industry standard low noise, high gain operational amplifiers +and active band pass filters.

+ +

In addition to project detection there will be a record of the +experiment recorded by a network of monitoring stations that have been +set up specifically to monitor electromagnetic activity in the Schumann +Cavity.

+ +

Evaluation Procedure

+ +

The project will be evaluated by an analysis of the data provided by +local and distant measurement stations. The output of the transmitter +will produce a 7-8 Hz sine wave as a result of the discharges from the +antenna. The recordings made by distant stations will be time +synchronized to ensure that the data received is a result of the +operation of the transmitter.

+ +

Power insertion and retrieval losses will be analyzed after the +measurements taken during the transmission are recorded. Attenuation, +field strength, and cavity Q will be calculated using the equations +presented in Dr. Corum's papers. These papers are noted in the +references. If recorded results indicate power can be efficiently +coupled into or transmitted in the Schumann Cavity, a second phase of +research involving power reception will be initiated.

+ +

Environmental Considerations

+ +

The extreme low frequencies (ELF), present in the environment have +several origins. The time varying magnetic fields produced as a result +of solar and lunar influences on ionospheric currents are on the order +of 30 nanoteslas. The largest time varying fields are those generated +by solar activity and thunderstorms. These magnetic fields reach a +maximum of 0.5 microteslas (uT) The magnetic fields produced as a +result of lightning discharges in the Schumann Cavity peak at 7, 14, 20 +and 26 Hz. The magnetic flux densities associated with these resonant +frequencies vary from 0.25 to 3.6 picoteslas. per root hertz +(pT/Hz1/2).

+ +

Exposure to man made sources of ELF can be up to 1 billion (1000 +million or 1 x 109) times stronger than that of naturally occurring +fields. Household appliances operated at 60 Hz can produce fields as +high as 2.5 mT. The field under a 765 kV, 60 Hz power line carrying 1 +amp per phase is 15 uT. ELF antennae systems that are used for +submarine communication produce fields of 20 uT. Video display +terminals produce fields of 2 uT, 1000000 times the strength of the +Schumann Resonance frequencies.9

+ +

Project Tesla will use a 150 kw generator to excite the Schumann +cavity. Calculations predict that the field strength due to this +excitation at 7.8 Hz will be on the order of 46 picoteslas.

+ +

Future Objectives

+ +

The successful resonating of the Schumann Cavity and wireless +transmission of power on a small scale resulting in proof of principle +will require a second phase of engineering, the design of receiving +stations. On completion of the second phase, the third and fourth +phases of the project involving further tests and improvements and a +large scale demonstration project will be pursued to prove commercial +feasibility. Total cost from proof of principle to commercial +prototype is expected to total $3 million. Interest in participation +in this project may be directed to the author.

+ +

REFERENCES

+ +

The following four papers were presented at the 1984 Tesla Centennial +Symposium and the 1986 International Tesla Symposium.

+ +

"The Transient Propagation of ELF Pulses in the Earth-Ionosphere +Cavity", by A-Ahamid Aidinejad and James F. Corum.

+ +

"Disclosures Concerning the Operation of an ELF Oscillator", by James +F. Corum and Kenneth L. Corum.

+ +

"A Physical Interpretation of the Colorado Springs Data", by James F. +Corum and Kenneth L. Corum.

+ +

"Critical Speculations Concerning Tesla's Invention and Applications +of Single Electrode X-Ray Directed Discharges for Power Processing, +Terrestrial Resonances and Particle Beam Weapons" by James F. Corum and +Kenneth L. Corum.

+ +

FOOTNOTES

+ +

1. Tesla Said, Compiled by John T. Ratzlaff, Tesla Book Company, +Millbrae, CA, 1984.

+ +

2. Dr. Nikola Tesla: Selected Patent Wrappers, compiled by John T. +Ratzlaff, Tesla Book Company, 1980, Vol. I, Pg. 128.

+ +

3. "The Disturbing Influence of Solar Radiation on the Wireless +Transmission of Energy", by Nikola Tesla, Electrical Review, July 6, +1912, PP. 34, 35.

+ +

4. "The Effect of Static on Wireless Transmission", by Nikola Tesla, +Electrical Experimenter, January 1919, PP. 627, 658.

+ +

5. Tesla Primer and Handbook, Dr. James T. Corum and Kenneth L. Corum, +unpublished. Corum and Associates, 8551 ST Rt 534, Windsor, Ohio 44099

+ +

6. Colorado Springs Notes, 1899 - 1900, Nikola Tesla, Nikola Tesla +Museum, Beograd, Yugoslavia, 1978, Pg. 62.

+ +

7. Van Nostrands Scientific Encylopedia, Fith Edition, Pg. 899.

+ +

8. "PC Monitors Lightning Worldwide", Davis D. Sentman, Computers in +Science, Premiere Issue, 1987.

+ +

9. "Artificially Stimulated Resonance of the Earth's Schumann Cavity +Waveguide", Toby Grotz, Proceedings of the Third International New +Energy Technology Symposium/Exhibition, June 25th-28th, 1988, Hull, +Quebec, Planetary Association for Clean Energy, 191 Promenade du +Portage/600, Hull, Quebec J8X 2K6 Canada

+ +

FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT TESLA

+ +

The Tesla Memorial Society The Tesla Coil Builders Association +% Nicholas Kosanovich % Harry Goldman +453 Martin Road RD #6 Box 181 +Lackawanna, NY 14218 Glenns Falls, NY 12801\ +(716) 822-0281 (518 792-1003

+ +

The Tesla Book Company High Voltage Press +PO Box 1649 PO Box 532 +Greenville, TX 75401 Claremont, CA 91711

+ +

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

+ +

Mr. Grotz, is an electrical engineer and has 15 years experience in +the field of geophysics, aerospace and industrial research and design. +While working for the Geophysical Services Division of Texas +Instruments and at the University of Texas at Dallas, Mr. Grotz was +introduced to and worked with the geophysical concepts which are of +importance to the proposed project. As a Senior Engineer at Martin +Marietta, Mr. Grotz designed and supervised the construction of +industrial process control systems and designed and built devices and +equipment for use in research and development and for testing space +flight hardware. Mr. Grotz organized and chaired the 1984 Tesla +Centennial Symposium and the 1986 International Tesla Symposium and was +President of the International Tesla Society, a not for profit +corporation formed as a result the first symposium. As Project Manager +for Project Tesla, Mr. Grotz aided in the design and construction of a +recreation of the equipment Nikola Tesla used for wireless transmission +of power experiments in 1899 in Colorado Springs. Mr. Grotz received +his B.S.E.E. from the University of Connecticut in 1973. + +

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TESLA COIL THEORY +

+

LINE VOLTAGE IS STEPPED UP BY THE HIGH-VOLTAGE TRANSFORMER TO A +MAGNITUDE SUFFICIENT TO CHARGE THE CAPACITOR AND FORCE THE SPARK GAP TO +BREAK DOWN. THIS ACTION IS REPEATED AT THE 60 HERTZ LINE FREQUENCY. +EFFICIENT ENERGY TRANSFER IS ENHANCED BY CHOOSING A CAPACITOR WHOSE +IMPEDANCE IS EQUAL TO THAT OF THE SECONDARY WINDING. +ESSENTIALLY, THE CAPACITOR AND TESLA COIL PRIMARY FORM ONE PAIR OF +TANK CIRCUTS: WHEN THE SPARK GAP ARCS, THE MOMENTARY SHORT CIRCUT +CREATED DUMPS THE CAPACITOR'S CHARGE INTO THE COIL'S PRIMARY. THE +RESULTING L-C CIRCUT RINGS AS THE CHARGE OSCILLATES BACK AND FORTH +BETWEEN THE CAPACITOR AND THE COIL. THE OSCILLATIONS DECREASE IN +AMPLITUDE AS THE CHARGE IS DISSIPATED BY RESISTANCE. THE RINGING +GENERATES WHAT IS REFFERRED TO AS A "DAMPED WAVE". THE NEXT HALF-CYCLE +OF 60-HZ RECHARGES THE CAPACITOR, STARTING THE PROCESS ANEW. A TRAIN OF +HI-FREQUENCY WAVES, SPACED AT 60-HZ INTERVALS, IS THE PRODUCT. +RESONANCE MUST BE ACHIEVED TO EFFECT RINGING: THIS DEMANDS THE +CAPACITOR AND PRIMARY HAVE THE SAME REACTANCE: +X(L) = X(C) THE CIRCUT RESISTANCE (CAPACITOR, COIL AND INTERMEDIATE +WIRING) LIMITS THE OVERALL EFFICIENCY OF THE TANK CIRCUT. EFFICIENCY IS +RATED IN TERMS OF "QUALITY FACTOR", REPRESENTED AS 'Q': +Q = W(L)/R = X(C)/R +

+

+INCREASING RESISTANCE REDUCES Q, THEREBY REDUCING EFFICIENCY. THE +EFFECT IS MINIMIZED BY WINDING THE PRIMARY WITH A FEW TURNS OF HEAVY +CONDUCTOR, WELL-SPACED, OVER A LARGE RADIUS FORM - THE LARGER THE +BETTER. THE CAPACITOR SIZE AND CONSTRUCTION ALSO BEAR UPON Q: THE +PHYSICAL SIZE AND AREA SHOULD BE MINIMIZED. THIS, HOWEVER, WORKS +AGAINST LARGE CAPACITANCE VALUES AND DICTATES THE COIL BE WOUND WITH +MORE TURNS. THE GOAL, THEN, IS TO ACHIEVE A WORKABLE RANGE OF COMPONENT +SPECIFICATIONS RATHER THAN TO STRIVE FOR OVERLY CLOSE TOLERANCES. COILS +OFTEN ARE WOUND WITH TAPPED PRIMARIES TO FACILITATE FINE TUNING. +THE SECONDARY COIL IS SITUATED BOTH ELECTRICALLY AND PHYSICALLY WITHIN +THE PRIMARY. THE SECONDARY AND ITS DISCHARGE ELECTRODE, GENERALLY A +SPHERE OR TOROID, MAKE UP THE SECOND TUNED CIRCUT. THE WINDING SUPPLIES +INDUCTANCE; THE CAPACITOR IS CREATED BY THE ELECTRODE AND THE (EARTH) +GROUND-PLANE. AIR IS THE DIELECTRIC. MOST TESLA COILS EMPLOY +SECONDARIES OF 1/4-WAVELENGTH AT THEIR OPERATING FREQUENCIES. THIS +ESTABLISHES A CONFIGURATION WITH MAXIMUM CURRENT AT ZERO VOLTAGE WITH +MINIMUM CURRENT AT THE ELECTRODE. THIS SITUATION PROVES TO BE +BENEFICIAL, IN THAT IT ENHANCES COUPLING WITH THE HIGH CURRENT PRIMARY, +AVOIDS ARCHING BETWEEN THE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY AND GENERATES THE +DESIRED HIGH VOLTAGE AT THE TOP END. +THE "OUDIN COIL IS A 1/2-WAVE VARIATION ON THE TESLA COIL. IT +POSSESSES THE ESSENTIAL TESLA COIL OPERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, BUT IT +EMPLOYS A HORIZONTALLY PLACED SECONDARY WITH DISCHARGE ELECTRODES AT +BOTH ENDS AND A PRIMARY AT THE CENTER. THE OUDIN PRIMARY SOMETIMES IS +MERELY A PAIR OF TAPS ON THE SECONDARY (AN AUTOTRANSFORMER). THE 1/2-WAVE ARRANGEMENT AFFORDS A COIL WITH MAXIMUM DISCHARGE AT EACH END AND +A VIRTUAL GROUND AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE WINDING(S). + + + +

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TOTALITARIANISM

+ +

by Chip Berlet

+ +

(adapted from a forthcoming book)

+ +

Totalitarianism is a zealous form of political +organization new to this century's mass +society. The style, strategies, +tactics, and internal organizing practices of the +totalitarian group were outlined by +historian-philosopher Hannah Arendt in her book +The Origins of Totalitarianism.

+ +

In recent years there has been a revisionist +interpretation of Arendt's work, linking nazism +and communism as two sides of the same political +coin, or claiming that all communist or Marxist +movements are totalitarian, or that only Nazi and +communist ideologies can become totalitarian. +Arendt specifically repudiates this simplistic +interpretation of her work when she writes +"...ideologies of the nineteenth century are not +in themselves totalitarian," and that although +fascism and communism became "the decisive +ideologies of the twentieth century they were +not, in principle, any 'more totalitarian' than +others." According to Arendt, the ideological +victory of fascism and communism over other +twentieth century belief structures was "decided +before the totalitarian movements took hold of +precisely these ideologies" as a vehicle for +seizing and holding state power.

+ +

Under totalitarianism there is strict control of +all aspects of the life of the individual in the +group through the use of coericive measures, +physical or emotional.

+ +

The allure of undeniably efficient and expedient +totalitarianism is what Stalin succumbed to in +his rush to create a socialist society. Not +totalitarianism as defined by cyncial +philosophical revisionists such as Jeane +Kirkpatrick and Henry Kissinger, but +totalitarianism in the original definition as an +organizational form characterised by centralized +control by an autocratic leader or hierarchy.

+ +

Totalitarian groups are characterised by +centralized control by an autocratic leader and +surrounding hierarchy.

+ +

Totalitarianism has left its mark on this +century--and the vast majority of progressives +around the world have learned an important lesson +from the disasterous consequences, and have +rejected the siren call of totalitarianism which +infected both Hitler and Stalin in their zealous +rush to power. Some elements of the NAP's +methodology and style mirror the early stages of +several European fascist movements in the 1930's.

+ +

Totalitarian movements historically have shared a +number of similarites:

+ +

*** A methodological link between the +psychological and the political which forms both +a theoretical world-view and a justification for +indoctrinating members in an effort to create a +new consciousness through a unique and exclusive +technique understood only by the group's leaders.

+ +

*** Psychologically coercive techniques to +manipulate members' views and actions.

+ +

*** Attempts to establish hegemonic relationships +with other similar political groups, and, failing +that, attempts to undermine the group and +establish parallel organizations.

+ +

*** Virulent and unprincipled attacks on critics, +including insults, agent-baiting, threats by +attorneys and defamation lawsuits.

+ +

*** Re-writing of the group's political and +organizational history to meet current needs.

+ +

*** A closed and covert hierarchical internal +structure that is not necessarily congruent with +the public organizational structure.

+ +

*** Differentiation between internal in-group and +external out-group reality, use of propoganda, +and implementation of a "secret-society" style.

+ +

These similarities do not change the fact that +the totalitarian LaRouchite philosophy is +apparently neo-fascist while the totalitarian +Newman and Parente philosophies are apparently +left-progressive, but it does mean that +internally, all these groups have an +authoritarian hierarchy whose existence is +denied, they rely on psychologically-manipulative +practices to control core members. These +political groups match a cult paradigm and are +far from democratic, despite outward claims and +appearances.

+ +

The propaganda and organizing techniques used by +the internally-authoritarian and +psychologically-manipulative cult groups run by +Lyndon LaRouche, Fred Newman, and Geno Parente +(and others) mirror totalitarianism.

+ +

It is crucial to note the relationship of +LaRouche, Parente, and Newman during the early +1970's in light of their subsequent activities. +All three white male political leaders viewed +Marxist revolution through an egocentric prism +which pre-supposed the centrality of one special +individual's will in shaping history. All three +used psychologically manipulative techniques to +enforce obedience in the institutions they have +built--institutions which sought political +hegemony over other groups. All three groups +share many elements of the a totalitarian +movement which is correctly defined by its style, +structure and methods not by its stated or +apparent ideology.

+ +

Arendt's theories were first published in the +1950's, long before people like LaRouche, Newman +and Parente arrived on the political scene, yet +her analysis reads as if it were a study of the +Executive Committee of the National Caucus of +Labor Committees (the secret core leadership of +the LaRouche network), the International Workers +Party (the secret core leadership of the New +Alliance Party, the Rainbow Lobby and the +Institutes for Social Therapy), and the Communist +Party (Provisional) (the secret core leadership +of the National Labor Federation and its related +fronts, the Eastern Service Workers, California +Homemakers, etc.).

+ +

Arendt discusses how totalitarian movements are +built around a central fiction of a powerful +conspiracy, (in the case of the Nazis, a +conspiracy of Jews which dominates the world,) +that requires a secretive counter-conspiracy be +organized. Totalitarian groups organize the +counter-conspiracy in a hierarchical manner which +mimics the levels of membership and rituals of +social and religious secret societies.

+ +

According to Arendt, most people get their first +glimpse of a totalitarian movement through its +front organizations:

+ +

"Sympathisers, who are to all appearances still +innocuous fellow citizens in a nontotalitarian +society, can hardly be called single-minded +fanatics; through them, the movements make their +lies more generally acceptable, can spread their +propaganda in milder, more respectable forms, +until the whole atmosphere is poisoned with +totalitarian elements which are hardly +recognizable as such but appear to be normal +political reactions or opinions." (p. 367)

+ +

LaRouche, Newman and Parente have spawned dozens +of front organizations, each designed around some +issue of mass appeal. For instance, LaRouche +followers used the front device of Proposition 64 +in California to take a generalized fear over the +spread of AIDS and steer it towards an acceptance +of authoritarian methods such as quarantine +isolation of suspected carriers and job +discrimination.

+ +

Arendt also explains that different +constituencies react to propaganda messages from +totalitarian groups in different ways:

+ +

"The whole hierarchical structure of +totalitarian movements, from naive +fellow-travellers to party members, elite +formations, and the intimate circle around the +Leader, and the Leader himself, could be +described in terms of a curiously varying mixture +of gullibility and cynicism with which each +member, depending upon his rank and standing in +the movement, is expected to react to the +changing lying statements of the leaders and the +central unchanging ideological fiction of the +movement." (p. 382)

+ +

Arendt explains that average members of +totalitarian groups need not believe all the +statements made for public consumption, but they +do believe "all the more fervently the standard +cliches of ideological explanation." (p. 384) If +a lie is detected by the mass of people or even +the average member, it is dismissed as having +been a tactical necessity which only further +proves the cunning and wisdom of the leader.

+ +

For the elite members, even the basic ideological +explanations of the group are not necessarily +believed, but are seen as "fabricated to answer a +quest for truth" among the lower ranking +followers. For the elite, facts are immaterial. +Their loyalty is to the leader who embodies +truth, and they require neither demonstration nor +explanation of the leader's assertions:

+ +

"Their superiority consists in their ability to +dissolve every statement of fact into a +declaration of purpose. In distinction to the +mass membership which, for instance, needs some +demonstration of the inferiority of the Jewish +race before it can safely be asked to kill Jews, +the elite formations understand that the +statement, all Jews are inferior, means, all Jews +should be killed." (p. 385)

+ +

At the top is "the intimate circle around the +Leader" for whom all statements are "mere devices +to organize the masses, and they feel no +compunction about changing them according to the +needs of circumstances." (p. 385)

+ +

The ultimate goal of a totalitarian movement, of +course, is to propel the totalitarian leader +toward total, ruthless, world domination. +Political issues and positions are transitory +tactical tools that move the organization and its +leader toward power. Historically, when power is +attained, the political allies and issues are +betrayed.

+ +

Leninist Democratic Centralism + totalitarianism = Stalinism

+ +

Hitlerian Ultra-Racialist Fascism + totalitarianism = Nazism + +

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Turn Off Your Television!!

+ +

by L. Wolfe

+ +

Hey buddy, I'm talking to you. Yes, you, the guy sitting in front of +the television. Turn down the sound a bit, so that you can hear what +I am saying. + +Now, try to concentrate on what I am going to say. I want to talk to you +about your favorite pastime. No, it's not baseball or football, although it +does have something to do with your interest in spectator sports. I'm +talking about what you were just doing: watching television.

+ +

Do you have any idea about how much time you spend in front of the +television set? According to the latest studies, the average American now +spends between five and six hours a day watching television. Let's put that in +perspective: that is more time than you spend doing anything else but sleeping +or working, if you are lucky enough to still have a job. That's more time than +you spend eating, more time than you spend with your wife alone, more time +than with the kids.

+ +

It's even worse with your children. According to these same +studies, young children below school age watch more than eight hours each +day. School age children watch a little under eight hours a day. In 1980, the +average 20-year-old had watched the equivalent of 14 months of television +in his or her brief lifetime. {That's 14 months, 24 hours a day.} More +recent figures show that the numbers have climbed: the 20-year-old has +spent closer to two full years of his or her life in front of the +television set.

+ +

At the same time, the researchers have noted a disturbing phenomena. It +seems that we Americans are getting progressively more {stupid}. +They note a decline in reading and comprehension levels in all age groups +tested. Americans read less and understand what they read less than +they did 10 years ago, less than they have at any time since research +began to study such things. As for writing skills, Americans are, in general, +unable to write more than a few simple sentences. We are among the least +literate people on this planet, and we're getting worse.

+ +

It's the change--the constant trendline downward--that interests +these researchers. More than one study has correlated this increasing +stupidity of our population to the amount of television they watch. +Interestingly, the studies found that it doesn't matter what people watch, +whether it's "The Simpsons'' or "McNeil/Lehrer,'' or "Murphy Brown'' +or "Nightline':' the more television you watch, the {less literate, the +more stupid} you are.

+ +

The growth in television watching had surprised some of the researchers. +Back a decade ago, they were predicting that television watching would level +off and might actually decline. It had reached an absolute saturation point. +They were right for so-called network television; figures show a steady +dropoff of viewership. But that drop is more than made up for by the growth of +cable television, with its smorgasbord of channels, one for almost every +perversion. Especially in urban and suburban areas, Americans are hard-wired +to more than 100 different channels that provide them with all +news, like CNN, all movies, all comedy, all sports, all weather, all financial +news and a liberal dose of straight pornography.

+ +

The researchers had also failed to predict the market penetration of first +beta and then VHS video recorders; they made it possible to watch one thing and +record another for later viewing. They also offered access to movies not +available on networks or even cable channels as well as home videos, +recorded on your own little camcorder. The proliferation of home video +equipment has involved families in video-related activities which are not +even considered in the cumulative totals for time Americans spend +watching television.

+ +

You might not actually realize how much you are watching television. But +think for a moment. When you come home, you turn the television on, if it isn't +on already. You read the paper with it on, half glancing at what is on the +screen, catching a bit of the news, or the plot of a show. You eat with it on, +maybe in the background, listening for a score or something that happens to a +character in a show you follow. When something you are interested in, a show +or basketball game, is on, the set becomes the center of attention. So +your attention to what is on may vary in intensity, but there is almost no +point when you are home, and inside, and have the set completely off. Isn't +that right?

+ +

The studies did not break down the periods of time people watched +television, according to the intensity of their viewing. But the point is +still made: you compulsively turn the television on and spend a good portion +of your waking hours glued to the tube. And the studies also showed that many +people can't sleep without the television turned on!

+ +

Brainwashing + +Now, I'm sure you have heard that watching too much television is bad for +your health. They put stories like that on the evening news. Bad for your eyes +to stare at the screen, they say. Especially bad if you sit too close. +Well, I want to make another point. We've already shown that you are +addicted to the tube, watching it between six and eight hour a day. But +it is an addiction that {brainwashes} you. + +There are two kinds of brainwashing. The one that's called {hard} +brainwashing is the type you're most familiar with. You've got a pretty good +image of it from some of those old Korean war movies. They take some guy, +an American patriot, drag him into a room, torture him, pump him full of +drugs, and after a struggle, get him to renounce his country and his beliefs. +He usually undergoes a personality change, signified by an ever-present +smile and blank stare.

+ +

This brainwashing is called {hard} because its methods are +overt. The controlled environment is obvious to the victim; so is the +terror. The victim is overwhelmed by a seemingly omnipotent external force, +and a feeling of intense isolation is induced. The victim's moral strength is +sapped, and slowly he embraces his torturers. It is man's moral strength +that informs and orders his power of reason; without it, the mind becomes +little more than a recording machine waiting for imprints. + +No one is saying that you have been a victim of {hard} +brainwashing. But you have been brainwashed, just as effectively as +those people in the movies. The blank stare? Did you ever look at what you +look like while watching television? If the angle is right, you might catch +your own reflection in the screen. Jaw slightly open, lips relaxed into a +smile. The blank stare of a television zombie. + +This is {soft} brainwashing, even more effective because its victims +go about their lives unaware of what is being done to them.

+ +

Television, with its reach into nearly every American home, creates the +basis for the mass brainwashing of citizens, like you. It works on a +principle of {tension and release}. Create tension, in a controlled +environment, increasing the level of stress. Then provide a series +of choices that provide release from the tension. As long as the victim +believes that the choices presented are the {only} choices available, +even if they are at first glance unacceptable, he will nevertheless, +ultimately seek release by choosing one of these unacceptable choices.

+ +

Under these circumstances, in a brainwashing, controlled environment, +such choice-making is not a "rational'' experience. It does not +involve the use of man's creative mental powers; instead man is +conditioned, like an animal, to respond to the tension, by seeking release.

+ +

The key to the success of this brainwashing process is the regulation +of both the tension and the perceived choices. As long as both are +controlled, then the range of outcomes is also controlled. The victim is +induced to walk down one of several pathways acceptable for his +controllers.

+ +

The brainwashers call the tension-filled environment {social +turbulence}. The last decades have been full of such {social +turbulence}--economic collapse, regional wars, population disasters, +ecological and biological catastrophes. {Social turbulence} creates +crises in perceptions, causing people to lose their bearings. Adrift and +confused, people seek release from the tension, following paths that appear to +lead to a simpler, less tension-filled life. There is no time in such a +process for rational consideration of complicated problems.

+ +

Television is the key vehicle for presenting both the tension and the +choices. It brings you the images of the tension, and serves up simple +answers. Television, in its world of semi-reality, of illusion, of escape +from reality, {is itself the single most important release from our +tension-wracked existence.} Eight hours a day, every day, through its +programming, you are being programmed.

+ +

If you doubt me, think about one important choice that you have made +recently that was not in some way influenced by something that you have +seen on television. I bet you can't think of one. That's how controlled you +are.

+ +

Who's Doing It + +But don't take my word for it. Ten years ago we spoke to a man from a think +tank called the Futures Group in Connecticut. Hal Becker had spent more +than 20 years of his life manipulating the minds of the leaders of our +society. Listen to what he said:

+ +

{"I know the secret of making the average American believe anything I +want him to. Just let me control television. Americans are wired into +their television sets. Over the last 30 years, they have come to look at their +television sets and the images on the screen as reality. You put something on +television and it becomes reality. If the world outside the television set +contradicts the images, people start changing the world to make it more like +the images and sounds of their television. Because its influence is so +great, so pervasive, it has become part of our lives. You lose your sense of +what is being done to you, but your mind is being shaped and +moulded.''}

+ +

"Your mind is being shaped and moulded.'' If that doesn't sound like +brainwashing, I don't know what is. Becker speaks with the elan of a +network of brainwashers who have been programming your lives, especially +since the advent of television as a "mass medium'' in the late 1940s and +early 1950s. This network numbers several tens of thousands worldwide. +Occasionally one appears on the nightly news to tell you what {you} are +thinking, by reporting the latest "opinion polls.'' But for the most +part, they work behind the scenes, speaking to themselves and writing +papers for their own internal distribution.

+ +

And though they work for many diverse groups, these brainwashers are +united by a common world view and common method. It is the world view of +a small elite, whose financial and political power rests in institutions +that pass this power on from generation to generation. They view the common +folk like yourself as little better than beasts of burden to be controlled +and manipulated by a semi-feudal international oligarchy, whose wealth, +power and bloodlines entitle them to rule.

+ +

One of the oligarchy's institutions for manipulation of +populations is located in a suburb of London called Tavistock. The Tavistock +Institute for Human Relations, which also has a branch in Sussex, England, is +the "mother'' for much of this extended network, of which Becker is a +member. They are the specialists in {both} hard and soft brainwashing.

+ +

The Tavistock Institute is the psychological warfare arm of the +British Royal household. The oligarchs behind Tavistock, and similar outfits +in the United States and elsewhere, are determined that you should be a +television addict, sucking up a daily dose of brainwashing from the "tube;'' +that is how they control you.

+ +

Like his fellow brainwashers, Becker prides himself in knowing the +minds of his victims. He calls them "saps.'' Man, he told an interviewer, +should be called "homo the sap.''

+ +

"Soft'' brainwashing by television works through power of +suggestion. Television watching creates a state of drugged-like oblivion to +outside reality. The mind, its perceptions dulled by habituated +viewing, is ready to accept any new illusion of reality as presented on the +tube. The mind, in its drugged-like stupor of television watching, is +prepared to accept that the images that television {suggests} as +reality {are} reality. It will then struggle to form fit a +contradictory reality into television image, just as Becker claims.

+ +

Another Tavistock brainwasher, Fred Emery, who studied television for +25 years, confirms this. The television signal itself, he found, puts the +viewer in this state of drugged-like oblivion. Emery writes: "Television as +a media consists of a constant visual signal of 50 half-frames per second. +Our hypotheses regarding this essential nature of the medium itself are:

+ +

"1) The constant visual stimulus fixates the viewer and causes the +habituation of response. The prefrontal and association areas of the cortex are +effectively dominated by the signal, the screen.

+ +

"2) The left cortical hemisphere--the center of visual and +analytical calculating processes--is effectively reduced in its functioning +to tracking changing images on the screen.

+ +

"3) Therefore, provided, the viewer keeps looking, he is unlikely to +reflect on what he is doing and what he is viewing. That is, he will be aware, +but unaware of his awareness....

+ +

"In other words, television can be seen partly as the technological +analogue of the hypnotist.''

+ +

The key to making the brainwashing work is the {repetition of +suggestion} over time. With people watching the tube for 6 to 8 hours a +day, there is plenty of time for such repeated suggestion.

+ +

Some Examples + +Let's look at an example to make things a bit clearer. Think back about +20 years ago. Think about what you thought about certain issues of the +day. Think about those same issues today; notice how you seemed to change +{your} mind about them, to become more tolerant of things you +opposed vehemently before. It's your television watching that changed your +mind, or to use Becker's terms, "shaped your perceptions.''

+ +

Twenty years ago, most people thought that the lunacy that is now +called environmentalism, the idea that animals and plants should be protected +on an equal basis with human life, was screwy. It went against the basic +concept of Christian civilization that man is a higher species than and +distinct from the animals, and that it is man, by virtue of his being made in +the image of the living God, whose life is sacred. That was 20 years ago. But +now, many people, maybe even you, seem to think otherwise; there are even laws +that say so.

+ +

This contrary, anti-human view of man being no more than equal to animals +and plants was inserted into our consciousness by the suggestion of +television. Environmental lunacy was scripted into network television shows, +into televised movies, and into the news. It started slowly, but picked up +steam. Environmental spokesmen were increasingly seen in the favorable glow +of television. Those who opposed this view were shown in an unfavorable way. +It was done over time, with repetition. If you weren't completely won over, you +were made tolerant of the views of environmental lunatics whose statements +were morally and scientifically unsound. + +Let's take a more recent example: the war against Iraq. That was a war +made for television. In fact, it was a war {organized} through +television. Think back a year: How were Americans prepared for the eventual +slaughter of Iraqi women and children? Images on the screen: Saddam Hussein, +on one side, Hitler on the other. The images repeated in newscasts, backed up +by scenes of alleged atrocities in Kuwait. Then the war itself: the +video-game like images of "smart'' weapons killing Iraqi targets.

+ +

Finally, the American military commander-in-chief Gen. Norman +Schwartzkopf, conducting a final press briefing that was consciously +orchestrated to resemble the winning Superbowl coach describing his victory.

+ +

Those were the images that overwhelmed our population. Only now, +months later, do we find out that the images had nothing to do with reality. +The Iraqi "atrocities'' in Kuwait and elsewhere were exaggerated. Our +"smart'' weapons like the famous Patriot anti-missile system didn't +really work. Oh, and the casualty figures: it seems that we murdered far +more women and children than we did soldiers. Hardly a "glorious +victory.'' But while it might have made a difference if people knew this while +the war was being planned or in progress, polls show that Americans no +longer find the war or any stories about it "interesting.''

+ +

Looking at the question more broadly, where did your children get +most of their values, if not from what they saw on television? Parents might +counteract the influence of the infernal box, but they could not +overcome it. How could they, if they themselves have been brainwashed by the +same box and if their children spend more time with it than them? Studies +show that most of television programming is geared to a less than +5th grade comprehension level; parents, like you, are themselves being +remade in the infantile images of the television screen. All of society +becomes more infantile, more easily controllable.

+ +

As Emery explains: {"We are proposing that television as a simple +constant and repetitive and ambiguous visual stimulus, gradually closes down +the central nervous system of man.''}

+ +

Becker holds a similar view of the effect of television on American's +ability to think: {"Americans don't really think--they have opinions +and feelings. Television creates the opinion and then validates it.''}

+ +

Nowhere is this clearer than with politics. Television tells Americans +what to think about politicians, restricting choices to those acceptable +to the oligarchs whose financial power controls networks and major cable +channels. It tells people what has been said and what is "important.'' +Everything else is filtered out. You are told who can win and who can't. And +few people have the urge to look behind the images in the screen, to seek +content and truth in ideas and look for a high quality of leadership.

+ +

Such an important matter as choosing a president becomes the same as +choosing a box of laundry detergent: a set of possibilities, whose limits are +determined, by the images on the screen. You are given the appearance of +freedom of choice, but that you have neither freedom nor real choice. That +is how the brainwashing works.

+ +

"Are they brainwashed by the tube,'' said Becker to the interviewer. +"It is really more than that. I think that people have lost the ability to +relate the images of their own lives without television intervening to tell +them what it means. That is what we really mean when we say that we have a +wired society.''

+ +

Turn It Off! + +That was ten years ago. It has gotten far worse since then. In coming +issues, we will show you the brainwashers' vision of a hell on earth +and how television is being used to get us there; we will discuss television +programming, revealing how it has helped produce what is called a +"paradigm'' shift in values, creating an immoral society; we will explain how +the news is presented and how its presentation has been used to destroy +the English language; we will discuss the mass entertainment media, showing +who controls it and how; we will deal with America's addiction to +spectator sports and show how that too has helped make you passive and stupid; +and finally, we will show where we are headed, if we can't break our addiction +to the tube.

+ +

So, after what I just told you, what do say, buddy? Do you want to +stay stupid and let your country go to hell in a basket? Why don't you just +walk over to the set and turn it off. That's right, completely off. Go on, +you can do it. Now isn't that better? Don't you feel a little better already? +You've just taken the first step in deprogramming yourself. It wasn't that +hard, was it? Until we speak again, try to keep it off. Now that will be a bit +harder.

+ +

From New Federalist V6, #29.

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Bewitching Science +by Val Dusek

+ +

[Note by Brian Siano: This article originally appeared in +the November/December 1987 issue of _Science for the People_, +published by the Science Resource Center, 897 Main Street, +Cambridge, MA 02139. I don't even know if the magazine is still +being published; it's a shame, because it regularly dealt with +such topics as toxic wastes, nuclear power, eugenics, +biotechnology, and the like. I have a few back issues, one of +which has a dandy article in the psychological experiments of Dr. +Ewen Cameron conducted in Canada. I wish a local newsstand still +carried it. (BTW, its editorial advisory board includes Stephen +Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin.) +[Since this article appeared, Bouchard _has_ published his +data, although I don't have the specific references for where he +published. This article addresses his public statements prior to +publishing, and raises important questions as to Bouchard's +impartiality over his thesis. +[Val Dusek, at the time of publication, taught philosophy at +the University of New Hampshire.]

+ +

For seven years, popular magazines have regaled us with +tales of Oskar and Jack, a pair of twins, one raised in Nazi +Germany, the other raised as a Jew in Trinidad, who both think it +funny to sneeze in elevators and always flush a toilet before +using it. We have also been told about Bridget and Dorothy, +British twins who each wore seven rings. +These anecdotes issue from scientists undertaking a massive +study of identical twins. The study, conducted by Thomas Bouchard +and others at the University of Minnesota, is said to show that +I.Q., personality traits, and virtually every other mental +attribute or behavior is heritable, or capable of being +inherited. +During the past year, lengthy articles have appeared in U.S. +News and World Report (a cover story), Discover, and Science. +Shorter pieces have appeared in Time, U.S. News and World Report, +the New York Times, and other magazines and newspapers. (1) +The Minnesota Twins Study's "latest bombshell" (as U.S. News +calls it) purports to show that traits such as shyness, +political conservatism, dedication to hard work, orderliness, +and intimacy are to a great extent heritable, and that +extraversion, conformity, creativity, optimism, and cautiousness +are more determined by heredity than by environment. +Despite all the media coverage, the scientific data and +methods of analysis upon which these conclusions are based have +not yet been published in a refereed scientific journal. A +December 1986 article in the New York Times and one in the +January 12, 1987 issue of Time referred to results "submitted" +and "being reviewed" by professional journals. However, in the +August 7, 1987 issue of Science, no reference is made to any +article having been submitted; it is said only that "the group +recently has submitted a paper." +This seems like a minor anomaly until one realizes that for +the last seven years, Bouchard has been releasing announcements +to the media regarding the Minnesota Twins Study and its results. +The news section of Science has several times enthusiastically +quoted Bouchard. Also since 1980, articles have appeared in +Science 80, Newsweek, The New York Times, the New York Times +Sunday Magazine, People, the New Orleans States-Item, the +Washington Post, and elsewhere. (2) +In these articles, traits from political conservatism to +toilet flushing have been claimed to be heritable. Bouchard has +declared his results "devastating" to feminists. (3) Opponents +have been termed "ideological." (4) U.S. News stated, "Unable to +hold back the swelling tide of evidence for the importance of +genes, supporters of the nurture side try to fight back with +words." (5) +This public trumpeting of 'science' without data is perhaps +the most extreme recent example of popular media releases without +scientific publication. Given the popular interest in Bouchard's +alleged results and their purported policy impact for child +rearing, social welfare programs, the criminal justice system, +and the schools, this situation raises questions of ethics and +responsibility. These questions relate to not only Bouchard and +the Minnesota Twin Study group in releasing these so-far +unverifiable claims. They also relate to the journalists who +uncritically convey the study's claims and the members of the +relevant subdisciplines within the scientific community who have +not raised critical notice concerning the twins study and its +media coverage.

+ +

Persecuted Galileos? +Doctrines of hereditary I.Q., race differences in I.Q., sex +differences in math ability, the sociobiology of aggression and +sex roles, and other aspects of biological determinism have +flooded the media. In these media presentations, hereditarians +play a double game. On the one hand, they claim to be 'pure +scientists,' above the political battle. On the other hand, they +are not shy in hyping their doctrines to the popular press, and +have never, to my knowledge, criticized a favorable presentation +of sociobiological doctrine, no matter how vulgar and distorted +it may be. +The biological determinists often present themselves as +persecuted Galileos of science. But they do not hesitate to make +policy pronouncements on such topics as the inferiority of black +intelligence, the inability of women to pursue careers in science +and the law, the ineffectiveness of attempts to educate the +disadvantaged, or the 'naturalness' of female depression, rape, +capitalism, and war. (6) However, biological determinists tend to +claim that their own views are purely scientific, while their +opponents' views are purely ideological. +Bouchard, his co-workers, and supporters follow this +pattern. According to Science, "Bouchard wants to keep his study +free from politics." But in the same article, Bouchard is also +quoted as saying that his German twins are "devastating to the +feminist contention that children's personalities are shaped +differently according to the sex of those who rear them, since +Oskar was raised by women and Jack by men." (3) Thus, in a sample +of one pair of twins, Bouchard is willing to draw conclusions +concerning child rearing and sexual politics. +Many biological determinists portray themselves as liberals +who were brought by the 'harsh facts' of biology to hold +conservative doctrines. Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson, psychologist +of inherited criminality Sanford Mednick, and others have made +this claim. +Bouchard is no exception. Despite his discipleship to the +scientific racist Arthur Jensen at Berkeley, Bouchard claims to +have been engaged in "political activism in the radical +sixties." (7) Bouchard also presents himself as having stumbled +"almost casually" in 1979 into an interest in twins through +reading about a pair of reunited twins. (8) +In fact, Bouchard had already published research and review +articles years before on the heritability of I.Q. From this work +and that of his mentor, Jensen, Bouchard must have realized the +centrality of studies of twins reared apart for the I.Q. debate. +This importance greatly increased after Cyril Burt's data, a +major basis for Jensen's claims concerning black/white I.Q. +differences, was discredited as fraudulent. (910) Inferences +From Coincidences +Despite the claims concerning hard evidence, large samples, +and the appeal to the biological sciences, what we find in +statements by Bouchard and in material released to the media from +the Minnesota Twin Study are anecdotes and amazing stories. What +is striking about the anecdotal material is its similarity to the +sort of evidence often offered as proof for astrology or +extrasensory perception (ESP). +Striking coincidences are reported as supposed grounds for +belief in the phenomenon itself. In literature about astrology +and ESP, cases where forecasts came true or where thought of a +friend was immediately followed by a phone call from that friend +are offered as evidence. The cases where forecasts failed or +where a thought of someone is not followed by a phone call from +that person are forgotten or left unmentioned. +Bouchard's coincidence anecdotes are of a similar nature: +we are told about the similarities (seven rings on fingers, +sneezing in elevators) but not about the differences. But some of +the similarities are physical ones that are to be expected in +identical twins. Other behavioral similarities are not all that +amazing. +Two twins living east and west of the Mississippi turn out +later to live on opposite sides of the river in Louisiana. Even +if "the mighty Mississippi divided" the twins, the fact that they +both wear cowboy hats and like hunting is not that unusual for +two working-class men in the same region of Louisiana.11 +Oskar and Jack, the Nazi and Jew -- superficially the most +spectacular case of twins reared apart -- both had less +isolation from each other and less different environments than +the media stories reveal. They were raised by their own relatives +in two German households. One of these households emigrated to +Trinidad. Bouchard himself admits that their household +environments were more similar than their Nazi-vs.-Jew image +suggests. In fact, the two men met briefly during the 1950s in +Germany, and their wives kept up correspondence since that +meeting. (11) +Bouchard notes that one function of the media publicity +about spectacular coincidences is to recruit more pairs of twins. +But such pairs may wish to exaggerate similarities of behavior or +wear identical dress to receive publicity and scientific approval +for themselves. This sort of recruitment bias has occurred in +some earlier twin studies. +Some of the coincidences recalled can have nothing to do +with the twins' genetics, such as twins being adopted by +families which had adoptive brothers with the same name or the +twins themselves being given the same name by their adoptive +families. (12) +Even the language of twin study reportage is similar to +that concerning the occult. One of Bouchard's co-workers says +that they were still "bewitched by the seven rings." (13) +Discover magazine's front cover introduces us to "The Eerie World +of Reunited Twins." +While admitting that "Genes do not cause fires," one popular +book entitled Twins: Nature's Amazing Mystery moves easily +between enthusiastic reports of Bouchard's coincidences and +discussions of telepathic communication between twins and +synchronous events such as fires in the lives of distant twins. +(15) The anecdotes that Bouchard relates would seem more at home +on the pages of the National Enquirer than in those of Science. +It is ironic that Bouchard, in his reviews of the critics of +the twin studies, dismisses their work as ad hoc and +unscientific. (14) In reviewing Howard Gardner's criticism of +I.Q. tests, Bouchard says. "This book is primarily an opinion +piece, a collection of anecdotes... Gardner's scheme is not, +however, a theory in the rigorous (or even the non-rigorous) +scientific sense." (14) This remark is particularly ironic since +all that Bouchard has so far released are anecdotes of strange +coincidences that "struck" him. +Given that the largest study of identical twins reared +apart fraudulent by even Burt's students and admirers, and that +earlier studies of twins are replete with tester and surveyor +bias,15 it would seem especially desirable that Bouchard and the +Minnesota group open to public scientific scrutiny their data and +experimental design. However, all we have in the popular reports +are assertions of the heritable nature of various traits and +anecdotes concerning a few of the twin pairs. +The only paper in a refereed journal which makes use of the +Minnesota Twin Study data is a study of homosexuality in twins +reared apart. (16) This study relies on the huge data base of six +pairs of twins -- four pairs of females and two pairs of males. +Both members of one of the male pairs are gay. Only one member of +the other male pair is gay. Of the four pairs of female twins, +only one member each is lesbian or bisexual and one member each +is heterosexual. +From these results, Bouchard and McGue conclude that male +homosexuality has a strong heritable component, while lesbianism +does not. That such a grand conclusion can be drawn from this +sample of two gay male twins is even more mind-boggling than some +of the coincidences that Bouchard relates. +The Science review of earlier I.Q. correlation studies 11 +and the study on the heritability of homosexuality are the only +articles in peer-reviewed journals closely relevant to or based +upon the twin study material. +A central feature of science is its public and critical +nature. Scientific data, unlike the lore and traditions of some +religious cults or such esoteric practices as alchemy, are made +publicly available in journals whose contents are reviewed, +evaluated, and published by members of the scientific community. +Peer review is meant to subject articles to critical scrutiny +prior to being accepted as worthy of publication. Despite the +fact that peer review does not always function to ideal +effectiveness, it is better than outright cronyism or nepotism. +Once the scientific article has been deemed worthy of +publication by a group of fellow scientists, the publicly +available account of data and methods is available to the entire +scientific community for further examination and criticism. +Methods of data collection, sources of sample populations, +statistical techniques. and the logic by which conclusions are +drawn can be carefully analyzed and criticized by other +scientists. +The failure of Bouchard and his colleagues in the Minnesota +Twin Study to participate in the peer review process is an +extreme example of circumventing the scientific process and using +the media for public relations. But scientists in competitive +fields such as high-energy physics, genetic engineering and +medicine have also announced their discoveries to the press +before they are published in the organs of the scientific +community. Editors of the New England Journal of Medicine and +Physical Review Letters have complained about this practice, (17) +and have tried to discipline scientists who publish in the +popular press before their work is refereed by other scientists +through refusal of publication in their journals. +For seven years, Bouchard and the Minnesota group have been +announcing their 'conclusions' concerning the heritable nature of +personality traits. They have been relating anecdotes of +coincidences to convince the general public that subtle +characteristics such as "beringedness" (wearing rings) have +heritable predispositions and that complex behaviors, such as +double toilet-flushing, sneezing in elevators, and naming one's +dog Toy, are relatively independent of upbringing and +environment. +Most recently, the Minnesota group has released a list of +group's representatives have also expounded on such topics as the +heritable nature of Chuck Yeager's bravery (although Yeager is +not known to be a subject of their survey). (18) +It is possible that Bouchard's survey is exhaustive and his +logic impeccable. But as long as the Minnesota Twin Study does +not publish its data and the methodological basis for its +conclusions in a peer review journal, we cannot tell. To +investigate the background, upbringing, and circumstances of +recruitment for the twins involved in Bouchard's research, a +book-length study would first have to be released. The Discover +article promises such a book by 1989, but by the time critical +evaluations are published by scientists, a decade of media +coverage will have made its impression. +The media anecdotes about "eerie" and "freakish" +coincidences that "struck" Bouchard must remain on a par with +tales about astrology and ESP. And Bouchard's data and methods +must remain in that limbo in which Cyril Burt's imaginary +assistants and unverifiable data existed.

+ +

Notes

+ +

1. "The Eerie World of Reunited Twins," Discover, September +1987; "How Genes Shape Personality," U.S. News and World Report, +April 13, 1987; "The Genetics of Personality," Science, vol. 237, +1987; "Exploring the Traits of Twins," Time, Jan 12, 1987; +"Genes: Little Things that Mean a Lot," U.S. News and World +Report, Dec. 15, 1986; "Major Personality Study Finds that Traits +Are Mostly Inherited," The New York Times, Dec. 1, 1986.

+ +

2. "Twins Reunited," Science 80, Nov. 1980; "Identical Twins +Reared Apart," Science, vol. 207, 1980; "Twins, Nazi and Jew," +Newsweek, Dec. 3, 1979; "Twins Reared Apart, a Living Lab," New +York Times Sunday Magazine, Dec. 9, 1979; "Two Ohio Strangers +Find They're Twins at 39 -- and a Boon to Psychologists," People, +May 7, 1979; "The Twins," States-Item, Feb. 25-29, 1980; "Me, +Myself, and Us: Twins," Science Digest, Nov./Dec. 1980.

+ +

3. op. cit. Science, vol, 207, 1980.

+ +

4. Bouchard's coworker David Lykken quoted describing Leon +Kamin as one of the "psychologists who object to genetic research +on ideological grounds" and "do not understand its true +implications." U.S. News, Dec. 15, 1986.

+ +

5. op. cit. U.S. News, April 13, 1987.

+ +

6. For a sample of the history and criticism of biological +determinist doctrines, see: Biology as a Social Weapon, the Ann +Arbor Science for the People Editorial Collective; The Mismeasure +of Man by Stephen Jay Gould; Not In Our Genes, by R. C. Lewontin, +Steven C. Rose, and Leon Kamin; Biology As Destiny, Science for +the People Sociobiology Study Group.

+ +

7. op. cit Science 80, November 1980.

+ +

8. op. cit Discover, Sept. 1987.

+ +

9. L.S. Hearnshaw, Cyril Burt, Psychologist, 1979. Hearnshaw, +eulogist at Burt's funeral and "official" biographer of Burt, was +only reluctantly led to his conclusions that Burt invented both +data and research assistants. Leon Kamin (The Science and +Politics of I.Q., 1974) had already raised doubts about Burt's +data. +Interestingly, the only person who by 1980 still seemed to +have doubts that Burt's data were fraudulent was Science +journalist Constance Holden, author of three articles in praise +of Bouchard (Science 80, Nov 1980, and Science, vol. 207, 1980, +to cite two).

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10. A look at Bouchard's previous publications in psychology +does not increase one's trust in the so-far-unpublished twin +data. Bouchard and McGue's "Familial Studies of Intelligence: A +Review," (Science, vol 212, 1981) reviews previous studies of +correlations of I.Q. among relatives, omitting Burt's discredited +studies. This article is obviously meant to show that despite the +loss of Burt's supposed data, there is a large body of work on +which hereditarians can base their assertions. +The survey has many faults. One is that Bouchard and McGue +do not mention or bother to deal with the faults already found +in the early studies that they resurrect (dating back to the +1920s, and largely from the 1930s and 40s). Many of these studies +were biased in their methodology and reported as "separated from +birth" twins who actually lived next door to one another, +attended the same school, played together, and had frequent +social interaction. +These studies are also vitiated by neglecting to correct for +the age bias in I.Q. tests. Despite the fact that I.Q. is +supposedly corrected for age, the I.Q. tests used in these +studies show I.Q. rising with age. Thus, part of the weaker +correlation between nontwin siblings than between twins arises +from the fact that twins are exactly the same age, while other +siblings may differ in age. +Finally, Bouchard and McGue simply pooled the samples from +very different tests and from tests which gave extraordinarily +divergent results. For instance, one test of siblings gave an +I.Q. correlation of 10 percent, while another test gave a +correlation of 90 percent. Bouchard and McGue simply averaged the +two to give a correlation of 50 percent. Given the radically +opposite results of the two surveys, it is likely that they were +performed with radically different biases and methodologies. They +could not have been randomly sampling two subpopulations of the +same homogeneous population of data -- a basic requirement for +drawing valid statistical inference.

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11. Cassil, Kay. Twins: Nature's Amazing Mystery. 1982.

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12. Ibid. p. 180. Also, op. cit Discover, Sept. 1987.

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13. Op. cit. Cassil, p. 134-5, 158-164, 189.

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14. Bouchard, Review of Howard Gardner's "The Intelligence +Controversy."American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 95, 1987.

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15. Kamin, Leon. The Science and Politics of I.Q. 1974.

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16. Eckert, Bouchard, Bohlen, and Heston, "Homosexuality in +Monozygotic Twins Reared Apart," British Journal of Psychiatry, +vol. 148, 1986.

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17. "Gene Cloning by Press Conference," New England Journal of +Medicine, March 27, 1980: New York Times article, Nov. 18, 1974.

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18. U.S. News, Dec. 15, 1986, and Time, Jan. 12, 1987. David +Lykken is the source of the claim about Chuck Yeager.

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Sidebar: "Financing Racist Research"

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The first New York Times report about the Minnesota Twin +study quoted Bouchard as saying, "I'm going to beg, borrow, and +steal" to pursue the twin study. In fact, Bouchard has solicited +money from the Pioneer Fund, a foundation with racist and radical +right-wing connections. the University of Minnesota has received +grants from the fund for Bouchard's twin study. Butthe Pioneer +Fund is best known for its support of research purpoting the +inferiority of blacks. +Once headed by directors such as the Chairman of the House +Committee on UnAmerican Activities, Representative Francis E. +Walter, and Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland, the fund has +long subsidized research and publication of the works of +scientific racists, including William Shockley and Arthur Jensen, +Jensen served on the scientific advisory board of the German Neo-Nazi journal Newe Anthropologie. (SeeBarry Mehler's article "The +New Eugenics" in the May/June 1983 issue of _Science for the +People_.) +The Pioneer Fund financed the work of Roger Pearson, quthor +of _Eugenics and Race_. Pearson also helped organize the 1978 +World Anti-Communist League meeting in Washington, D.C. The +League has united old European Nazis with leaders of Third World +death squads. +Bouchard, in his grant application to the Pioneer Fund, +noted that the National Science Foundation has repeatedly refused +funding for his study and has made numerous criticisms of his +method. Bouchard has claimed that the NSF and the National +Institutes of Health are packed with left liberals who deny him +funds on ideological grounds.

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[Additional Commentary by Brian Siano: In fairness to the +Pioneer Fund, they also provided some funding for _The Atomic +Cafe_, a savagely funny documentary about the ridiculous claims +on the harmlessness of nuclear war circulated in the 1950s. It's +hard to call this film 'right wing.' +[As for the comments on the World Anti-Communist League, +they're certainly true; the WACL was even condemned by the John +Birch society as being too fanatical. A good resource on this +organization (which has numbered Roberto D'Aubuisson, Rev. Sun +Myung Moon, Ferdinand Marcos and John Singlaub as its members) is +_Inside The League_, by Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson. +[Roger Pearson deserves a study by himself. Many of his +books (some still sold my the American Nazi Party) argue classic +racist themes, mainly against the dilution of the white race's +genetic stock through intermarriage with blacks and Jews. _Inside +the League_ provides a quick thumbnail study of Pearson's views +and activities.] + +

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+Unified Conspiracy Theory - Part 1

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Except no substitutes, here is the Unified Field Theory of Conspiracies!

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What can you say about a theory that:

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Is proposed by a member of the intelligence community who claims to +have seen the documents.

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Claims that the Kennedy assassination was not because the military +industrial complex wanted to make money off Vietnam, but because he was +going to go public with government secrets about UFOs.

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Claims that secret treaties exist between our government and aliens from +space.

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Claims that much of our high tech stuff is obtained through this treaty.

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Claims that the treaty allows aliens to abduct people with government +sanction.

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Gives project names of many secret projects associated with the UFO +coverup.

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Claims that the real Unified Field Theory is known and is being +suppressed.

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Says the aliens, in effect, claim to be God.

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Claims that secret UFO projects are partly funded by government drug +smuggling.

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What you can say is, if you want conspiracies, except no substitutes! Set +your weirdness bit way past the Twilight Zone, and read on!

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Fellow computer enthusiasts, 11-24-89

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What follows is a transcript of a 45 minute lecture that I attended on 11-17-89 at the "Whole Life Expo." in Los Angeles, +California. Speaking was Mr. Milton William Cooper who I first +became acquainted with through a text file I downloaded from a +local computer BBS. The file dealt with the subject of UFO's and +our government's concealment of the truth about them in such a +way that it made a lasting impression on me, which is why I +attended his lecture; to learn more. Please forgive my probable +misspelling of some of the proper names in the transcript which +follows and allow that I have taken it as best I could, word-for-word, from a less than acceptable micro-cassette recording. +If you are as moved by what you are about to read as I was in +hearing it first hand, I ask that you please spread it as far +and wide as possible. Upload it to every BBS in your reach and +please, don't change anything. Also, please give considerable +thought to Mr. Cooper's suggestions as to what we all can do to +see that this information is confirmed by our government to make +them stop what they are up to. +Thank you, and now, Milton Cooper:

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"For those of you who don't know who I am, I was raised in a +military family. My family, my ancestors, since they came to +this country, have been government people. We have served in the +military, we have been patriots, we have fought in all the wars, +we care about this country and believe in the constitution of +the United States. We know, as many people don't know, that the +Constitution of the United States of America IS the United +States of America! And that's why we've always been ready ...to +do the things needed ...to preserve and protect it." +"When I left home I went into the Air Force, the Strategic Air +Command. As a child I'd heard stories from my father and pilots, +other pilots, my father was a pilot, about Foo Fighters, UFO's, +strange craft that were not made on this Earth. And as a kid, +you hear that in passing, and it's neat, and you giggle about +it, and you go out and play "Space Man", and you forget it." +"When I was in the Air Force I met men who had participated in +alien crashed-craft recoveries. Now this intrigued me, it interested me, but it was usually after quite a few bottles of +beer that these stories would come out, and sometimes the next +morning I couldn't remember what the heck the guy said." +"When I left the Air Force I went into the Navy, and this is +where everything began to happen for me. I had originally intended to just go from service to service and do something that +very few people have ever done before. I was a very adventurous, +very crazy ...young man, and I thought that that would be a +pretty exciting life. I volunteered for submarines, and while on +the submarine U.S.S. Tyroot, SS-416, on a transit between the +Portland/Seattle area and Pearl Harbor, which was our home port; +the Pearl Harbor sub base, as the port lookout I saw a craft, +saucer-shaped, the size of a Midway class carrier, aircraft +carrier, for those of you who don't know how big that is; it's +huge, come up out of the water approximately 2 1/2 nautical +miles off the port bow, which is about 45 degrees to the left of +the pointy end of the submarine. It tumbled slowly on its own +axis, and went up into the clouds. It appeared to be moving +slowly to me at a distance of 2 1/2 nautical miles, but in +reality it was moving pretty fast because it came up out of the +water, did a few tumbles and it was gone!" +"I then reported it to the officer of the deck. I didn't tell +him what it was that I saw because my Daddy didn't raise no +fools and in case nobody else saw it I didn't want to be the +only looney onboard the ship. So I asked the officer of the deck +to help me cover that area, and he did, which is common for officers and lookouts to help each other while on bridge watch because they all hang together if something bad happens. After a +few seconds of watching, the same craft, or another craft exactly like it, came down out of the clouds, tumbled again on its +own axis, and went into the water. Ensign Ball, who was the officer of the deck, was literally shocked! What could I say? Seaman Dejeralimo, who was the starboard lookout, had also witnessed this, and ensign Ball called the captain to the bridge who +was followed by the chief quartermaster who brought a 35MM camera, and we watched for between 7 and 10 minutes the same craft, +or different craft that looked exactly alike, enter and leave +the water. It was an incredible show. I don't know if they knew +we were there, or if they even cared, but the craft did not +glow, they were metal, they were machines without a doubt, they +were obviously intelligently guided, they were HUGE, and having +been in the Air Force and the Navy and knowing what it takes, I +knew without a doubt, and know it today, that that machine was +not made on the face of this Earth. Because there's nothing that +man can make, that can fly through the air at a speed like that, +tumble on its own axis, and enter the water and effectively fly +beneath the sea." +"If you've ever been aboard an airplane and then gone aboard a +submarine, I know there's probably some of you in this room who +have visited a submarine at one time or another, you can readily +see just without even any of the technicalities involved how +difficult such a thing would be to do. Where would it be built, +that size? It was absolutely incredible. It changed my life +because then all the stories that I'd heard all my life I knew +were true, and I began seeing the world in a different light." +"It wasn't long after that I was trained by Naval security in +intelligence. I was sent to Viet Nam. I was assigned as a patrol +boat captain, first in DaNang harbor, given a crew, given a +multi-million dollar patrol boat. My job was to gather intelligence from the people who lived around the harbor and the +fishermen who transited the harbor, and maintain the safety and +security of the harbor and the shipping. After about 5-months I +was sent up North to the DMZ, to a place called Qua Vieaf [sp], +on the Tacan [sp] river. Our base camp was at the river mouth. +We were only 3-miles South of the North Vietnamese border and +our job was to patrol the Tacan river from the river mouth to +Dang Ha [sp], and then up the Quang Tree [sp] cutoff to Quang +Tree city, again to get to know the people on the bank, gather +intelligence, and to patrol every night and maintain the safety +and security of the river and the river traffic." +"It was while there that I discovered that there was a tremendous amount of UFO and alien activity in Viet Nam. It was always +reported in official messages as 'enemy helicopters.' Now any of +you who know anything about the Viet Nam war know that the North +Vietnamese did not have any helicopters, especially after our +first couple of air raids into North Viet Nam. Even if they had +they would not have been so foolish as to bring them over the +DMZ because that would have insured their demise. Our troops +were fired on occasionally by these 'enemy helicopters,' enemy +troops were fired on occasionally by these 'enemy helicopters,' +and occasionally people would disappear. And on one instance +that I know for sure at least one entire village disappeared one +night due to alien activity. The reason they used the term +'enemy helicopters' in messages and dispatches was that in Viet +Nam you could be overrun at any time, no matter where you where. +They did not bring crypto encoding equipment into Viet Nam, I'm +talking about the machinery. What we did is we had crypto tables, and once we every 24-hours those codes would be no good. So +that's what we used. We also, because of the inability to use +crypto transmitting equipment, had to devise code words such as +'enemy helicopters.'" +"When I left Viet Nam I was eventually attached to the headquarters staff of the Commander in Chief of the United States +Pacific Fleet at Macalappa, [sp] Hawaii, which is a little hill +overlooking Pearl Harbor, it's a beautiful white building up +there, and I was specifically attached to the Intelligence +Briefing Team of the Commander in Chief of the United States +Pacific Fleet." +"It was during this tour of duty that, in the course of my +duties, documents were placed in my hands that were so unbelievable and so incredible that it took me quite a while to adjust +to the fact that what I was seeing was real. Now for those of +you who don't understand how I could come to see this information let me give you a little short course in security clearance +and "the need to know" and how you get to see classified information if you're in the military or in the government, it doesn't matter which, the rules are the same." +"Number one you need a security clearance, and you've got to +have clearance at the level that the information you want to see +is classified at. In this instance it was classified 'Top Secret, Magic, Restricted Information,' which I came to find out +later is the highest security classification in the Nation. To +get that type of clearance, all you have to have is a Federal +Bureau of Investigation background check, which takes about six +months and they send federal agents to your home, to your old +schools, to all your teachers, to your friends, to everybody you +put down on your security clearance forms, to all your old addresses, your neighbors, everybody that you've worked for, and +it's embarrassing because they don't tell them what they're +checking on. They just show them their identification and start +asking questions and that's when you find out who's your friend +and who's not, because a lot of people get scared and think, +'Bill just robbed a bank and I'm not talkin' to him anymore.'" +"Now once you get that it's called a 'B.I.' and for those of +you who have received a copy of my service record look on the +first page, the DD-214 where it says 'Security Clearance,' you +will see the term 'B.I.' That's a 'Bureau of Investigation' +clearance. Now at that point, you have the clearance for everything including Top Secret and above. What determines what you +get to see is your need to know, and the job that you have determines what your need to know is." +"I was assigned to the Intelligence Briefing Team of the Commander in Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, who had to +know everything concerning his area of operations which was one-half of the Earth's surface; the Indian ocean, the Pacific +ocean, and all the land masses in between. Believe it or not, if +we go to war, if we ever go to war, it's the United States Navy +that strikes the first blow and attempts to keep the enemy at +bey while we can get ourselves together, at least historically. +Nuclear weapons have kind of done away with that concept, but +military commanders like to talk about it anyway." +"Because of this, and you have no conception of the amount of +material and information that an area commander has to know, +it's unbelievable, and he has to keep track of this, he has to +keep on top of it. He has to know what's happening, he has to +make the right decisions. Because it's almost humanly impossible +for anyone to do that, they have what's called a briefing team, +and it's our job to make sure that he has the correct information, all the time, on a 24-hour basis. And every morning, between 8 and 9 AM, we would give a briefing which covered everything that happened in the previous 24-hours, and everything +scheduled to happen in the next 24-hours, and all the pertinent +intelligence reports that we had received since the last briefing that he needed to know and that his staff members needed to +know. Occasionally we would get messages marked 'Top Secret, +Magic, Restricted Information,' and it would be coded in such a +way that all you had were answers to questions which you didn't +know what the questions were so you really didn't know what the +message was all about." +"But eventually I found myself in possession, holding two +documents; one called 'Project Grudge,' another one called 'Operation Majority.' Project Grudge contained the history of alien +involvement since around 1936, and it began talking about +Germany's involvement with a crashed-disk that they had recovered in 1936 and were attempting to duplicate the technology. +They were not successful despite what all these Nazi hunters +want to tell you. If they had been successful, we would not have +won the war, because you cannot beat those weapons! You cannot +outfly those craft, you can't even think about it with conventional aircraft. If Germany had been successful, we would now +have a German flag up in front of this podium." +"They did make some headway. When we went into Punta Mundy +[sp] we captured documents, we got some scientists, we got some +hardware. The Russians also got some documents, some scientists, +and some hardware. It wasn't until 1947 that we were able to +capture a craft, a whole craft, not all together but it was +everything. And that occurred near the city of Roswell, New +Mexico. There were dead aliens recovered from the craft. In Project Grudge I saw photographs of these dead aliens, of the +craft, I saw photographs of live aliens, I saw photographs of +autopsies, internal organs, I saw photographs of the alien designated 'E.B.'[or Ebe] which was held in captivity from 1949 until June the 2nd, 1952 when he died. I saw the history of what +they had been able to at that time put together, from incidents +in the 1800's which involved aliens and their craft." +"I saw the names of projects. I saw a project that was to fly +recovered alien craft that had been recovered intact and undamaged, and some of them were recovered intact and undamaged, and +how that happened I have no idea. It was called 'Project Redlight,' and first was conducted from the Tonopah test range in +the Nevada test sight and then was moved to a specially built +area, ordered built by president Eisenhower, called 'Area-51,' +code named 'Dreamland,' in the Groom [sp] dry lake area of the +Nevada test sight, by secret executive order. It doesn't exist +officially, if you ask anyone, or if you write letters to the +government they will tell you it doesn't exist. However if you +go out there at several places and see it, fly outside the +boundaries and look down and see it, you know it's there, but +according to the government it doesn't exist." +"The project to fly, test fly these craft, was ongoing until +sometime in 1962 when a craft blew up not far from the test +sight, in the air, and the explosion was seen over a three-state +area. The pilots were killed, they had no idea what had happened +or why the craft blew up, but they put Project Redlight on hold +until a later date when the aliens supplied us with 3-craft and +personnel to help us learn how to fly these craft. That project +is ongoing and we now have not only alien craft that we are flying, we have craft we have built, using the captured technology, +and some of the UFO's that people report seeing in the United +States, and maybe even elsewhere, are flown by United States +personnel." +"That may come as a shock to you. We have technology way beyond the limits of what we have been told. A lot of our development technologically, since the end of World War II, has been +due to the exchange of technology which occurs in the area +called 'Area-51' on a regular basis ...ongoing." +"When James Oberth, professor Oberth retired, many of you +don't know who he is ...not too many space people in here. Professor Oberth was probably one of the greatest rocket scientists +and space commentists that ever lived. When he retired, the government gave him a special award, there was a press conference, +all kinds of ceremony, and when he got up to speak he said, +'Gentlemen,' and I quote professor Oberth, he said, 'Gentlemen, +we cannot take credit for all the technological developments +that we have had in the last decade. We have had help,' and +that's where he stopped." +"One of the reporters raised his hand and said, 'Professor +Oberth, can you tell us what other country helped us?'" +"He said, 'It was those little guys from out in space,' and +then he got down and and would not comment any further. Now this +occurred in 1959. I can go on and on but time doesn't allow it." +"I will tell you ladies and gentlemen that there are all kinds +of things going on all the time, we are making rapid progress in +exposing this. Since I have begun talking, people have been coming out of the woodwork at a rapid rate, who know and have +pieces of this puzzle, and are helping us to put it together, +because I don't have all the answers. I saw an awful lot of material, I have remembered an awful lot of it, I have probably, +in my remembering, made some mistakes, and I guarantee you +they're minor ones, if I have." +"We have just recently, for those of you who didn't believe +that the Jason Society of the Jason Scholars, the secret group +existed, we now have a letter from the Pentagon, with 51 names +of the Jason Scholars, an admission from the Pentagon that they +hold the highest security clearances in the nation, an admission +from the Pentagon that they hold the protocol rank of Rear Admiral, and are treated as such on any military installation or +in any government office. There are 6 Nobel Prize winners on +that list, there are the elite of the elite of the scientific +world, they are the only ones who really know the truth about +the technology today and about the real science of physics, because the one that we're being taught all the time... If you +send your kids to college to learn physics you're wasting your +money because they're teaching them stuff that doesn't work, +it's not true, it's not real. Gravity is not what we think it +is. There IS a Unified Theory! We already know what it is, it's +what makes these craft work. It's absolutely incredible what's +going on." +"How many of you keep up with Billy Goodman's show on KVEG out +of Las Vegas? For those of you who don't, I would try tuning in +on any night between 10:00 PM and 1:00 AM. It's 840 on your AM +dial, and the subject every night are those subjects that no +other media person in the United States will touch with a 10-foot pole, every single night except Saturday night. It's the +only show that you can call in and talk to another caller, +you've got 3-minutes to say whatever you want to say as long as +you don't cuss or swear or slander anyone, and every night +they're helping to expose this." +"When John Lear and I first said what was going on out at +Groom Lake everybody said, 'You're nuts, there's nothing going +on out at Groom Lake!' The listeners of the Billy Goodman radio +show put together an excursion and went up to Groom Lake and +they all, ever since, every night, they go up there and watch +them test fly the alien craft ...every night! The first night +they had 100 people there. And 100 people saw 4 alien craft fly, +doing things that no airplane and no helicopter can do. Now they +don't tell us anymore that there's nothing happening at Groom +Lake. What they tell us now is there's no such thing as aliens, +it's all government secret projects. That's okay because we'll +prove that wrong too eventually, it just takes awhile. Because +where we WERE ...it's not where we're AT, and I'm really happy +about that." +"Now, if you want to see what's happening right now, keep +watching your movies, keep watching your television commercials, +your alien programs on television, read Whitley Streeper's +'Majestic' which is a part of the contingency plan called 'Majestic' to test the reaction of the population to the presence +of aliens on the Earth. And I have just finished my study of +Whitley Streeper's book 'Majestic,' and I'm gonna tell you right +now that most of the documents in there, that he says are fiction, are real documents that came right out of Project Grudge. +It is part of the government's campaign to leak information out +in ways that they can always deny that it's real. There's only +one thing wrong with the information in that book, the stories +of the characters in there I know nothing about. What I'm talking about are the supposed government documents that he has in +that book. I'm telling you tonight they're real. Those are some +of the same documents that I saw in Project Grudge back between +1970 & 1973, and where we have wondered before, now we know that +Whitley Streeper IS working for the government. And we had a +suspicion anyway because in the front of his book he states that +he got information and was helped by the research team of Moore, +Shanderey, and Friedman. William Moore has publicly admitted on +July the 1st that he is an agent of the United States Government, and we know that the others are too." +"This is gonna come out, and the reason they're doing it the +way they're doing it is they know eventually you're gonna find +out that it's all true and real. They're desensitizing you so +that you're not shocked, so that there's no collapse of society +as we know it, so that the religious structure doesn't fall to +pieces, so that the stock market doesn't go crazy, because these +were their original fears. Now, there's nothing we can do about +the last one because it's already happened, there will be a segment of the population that worships the aliens, even though +they're no different than us they're just from somewhere else, +and they may look a little different. They are not gods. But +there are already people worshiping the aliens and they predicted this would happen when they slapped the secret stamp all +over all this stuff." +"You know, there's really nothing wrong with what's been happening except for 3 things;" [Cooper forgot to mention the 3rd +thing, or was sidetracked, or included it into the 2nd thing.] +Number one, when they decided to keep it secret they needed to +finance it, they couldn't tell the public so they couldn't tell +Congress. They decided to finance it with the sale, importation +and sale, of drugs. Now in the documents that I read, in Operation Majority, it specifically stated that when George Bush was +the president and CEO of Sapata [sp] Oil, he, in conjunction +with the CIA, organized the first large scale drug importation +into this country from South and Central America by fishing +boat, to the offshore oil platforms of Sapata Oil, and then from +there into the beach, thus bypassing all Customs inspections and +law enforcement inspections of any kind. They are still bringing +in drugs, to a limited extent, in this manner. Another manner is +by CIA contract aircraft which, one of their bases of landing is +Homestead [sp] Air Force Base in Florida. We have affidavits +from air controllers who have vectored the planes in, who have +made sure that they're not interfered with in any way. We have +affidavits from personnel at Homestead Air Force Base who say +the planes have been met by Zeb Bush, who's George Bush's son. +We have affidavits from people who work in the Gulf of Mexico, +in the offshore oil business, that yes indeed, the drugs are +coming in, at least some of them, from the offshore oil platforms." +From the audience came a clear statement, "Just say no?" +"Pardon? ...Right! Just Say No! Well that's what we're gonna +do ladies and gentlemen with your help ...we are going to say +NO, no more! And you gotta do it, you gotta act. You either +gotta act, or watch your country go down the tubes." +"Now, that's one of the things that's wrong. The next thing +that's wrong is, to keep the secret, they killed a lot of people +who tried to leak it out. And if I hadn't done it the way that I +did it, you wouldn't be seeing me anywhere standing or walking +on this Earth now. They killed president Kennedy and during the +workshop, for those of you haven't seen the tape, I will show +you, on the tape, who shot the president and why. Between '70 +and '73, in Operation Majority it stated verbatim that President +Kennedy ordered MJ-12 to cease the importation and sale of drugs +to the American people, that he ordered them to implement a plan +to reveal the presence of aliens to the American people within +the following year. His assassination was ordered by the policy +committee of the Vilderbergers. MJ-12 implemented the plan and +carried it out in Dallas. It involved agents of the CIA, Division-5 of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the office of Naval +Intelligence. President Kennedy was killed by the driver of his +car, his name was William Greer, he used a recoilless, electrically operated, gas-powered assassination pistol that was specially built by the CIA to assassinate people at close range. It +fired an explosive pellet which injected a large amount of +shellfish poison into the brain, and that is why, in the documents, it stated that President Kennedy's brain was removed. If +you've studied the case, you will find that indeed his brain +disappeared. The reason for that is so that they would not find +the particles of the exploding pellet or the shellfish poison in +his brain which would have proved conclusively that Lee Harvy +Oswald was NOT the assassin. In fact, Lee Harvy Oswald never +fired a shot, he was the patsy." +Mr. Cooper paused briefly, and a lady in the audience asked +the obvious question, "Why haven't YOU been assassinated?" +"If they were to kill me right now, what would you think?" +Cooper posed. +"That it's the truth," several people chimed. +"I've got 'em right where I want 'em. If they touch me, +everyone who's ever heard me talk is gonna be absolutely enraged +and is gonna know that everything I've said is true. As long as +they don't touch me there's gonna be some of you who are always +gonna be wondering. But eventually we're gonna bring enough +proof out, and if you're here during the workshop you're gonna +see an awful lot of it that's gonna prove to you that it's true. +It's real. And it's happening!" +"Okay, I've tried to cover a lot of stuff, just briefly, because there's no time in 45 minutes to get into anything very +much." +Mr. Cooper then announced the scheduled workshop session the +following day in which tangible proofs could be seen but regrettably I was unable to attend. He then opened up the floor to +questions and answers. +A muffled question was barely heard coming from the front of +the room which in essence asked, "What about all the people in +the press and others who were in Dallas and who saw the assassination? Couldn't they tell where the shot came from, why didn't +they come forward? There must have been plenty." +"There was, we know that there was at least 18 who were all +murdered within 2-years of the event. The odds of that happening +are 1 in 300000 trillion," Cooper replied. +Again a muffled question, "Why did the DRIVER have to shoot +Kennedy?" +"Because the other fools missed! There were a total of 3-shots +fired at President Kennedy, one hit him in the throat and didn't +kill him and 2 of them hit John Connelly [sp]. The one that was +fired from the grassy knoll hit the president in the throat. The +other 2-shots came from directly behind the limousine, not the +school book depository building, and hit Governor Connelly. Governor Connelly, in intelligence community circles, is known as a +'can do' man, because he took 2-hits and still kept his mouth +shut." +"How is it that the driver, sitting on the front, left-hand +side of the car was able to blow off the right side of Kennedy's +brain when the bullet actually entered in, and it would have +been virtually impossible..." another person asked. +Mr. Cooper seized the gist of his question and injected, "For +those of you who have been listening to all these talk show +hosts, whose job it is to be a talk show host, and who have not +done any legitimate research into this, if you come to the workshop, I will show you, on the tape, how it was done. You will +see that Kennedy was, in fact slumped over against Jackie, his +head was turned [this direction], it was very simple, it was +easy and you will see it with your own eyes." +Another muffled, off-mike question from a member of the audience inquiring why no one else had come forward with the information Mr. Cooper was disseminating, and why those who knew it +had kept it secret for so long was quickly answered, "It hasn't +been, I'm talkin' about it now. Bill English was talkin' about +it 8-years ago but everybody laughed at Bill English. John +Lear's been talkin' about it for 3-years and everybody laughed +at him. Now there's so many people have been talkin' about it, +people are startin' to listen and it's about time. Because it's +about time we that we quit being fools, and that's exactly what +they think we are and we prove it to them every day." +Almost all of the questions from the audience were to faint to +hear. The next one dealt with the alien technology and asked in +essence, "Hasn't any one else [other than the government] come +up with the energy technology that the aliens have?" to which +Mr. Cooper answered, "There's been quite a few people who've +come up with it and they've ALL been stopped, and they'll all +continue to be stopped. Because once you have it you have FREE +ENERGY. Once you have free energy they no longer have power over +you. You understand? That's why they stop it." +Another question asking, "In the film of the assassination +which was examined greatly by experts, why didn't THEY conclude +that Kennedy's driver shot him?", to which Cooper asked, "Examined by WHO greatly?", and continued, "Most of the film that you +can purchase has that segment cut out, and you can always tell +it by the person running in the background, they'll run up to +here... all of a sudden they'll be down here... running. You +will see in most of the clips that you've ever seen on television, or in the movies, or that you're able to get your hands +on, you'll see William Greer start to turn like this...", then a +muffled comment from the audience, then Cooper answered, "That's +because they clipped it out! And on a lot of them, I'll bet you +most of you, every time you've seen the clip on television, +never looked at the driver anyway. If you're really honest with +yourself, and with me, you know your eyes were right on +Kennedy." +A woman asked if any of the alien technology was being used in +present-day military equipment and was answered, "Yes, there's a +lot of alien technology contained in the Stealth bomber, that's +right. The Stealth fighter was flying for 10-years before you +even knew it existed." +As the hour drew late another question, more clearly stated, +was asked of Mr. Cooper by a woman closer to my ears, "Before +you let us all out of here, there's a bunch of us here wondering +what can we all do to help bring this all out?" +A single word, "REVOLT" issued from several listeners simultaneously but Cooper responded, "Don't revolt. What you need to +do is what you should have been doing all along. You need to get +involved with your government. The first thing you need to do is +purchase a copy of the Constitution, which I know that most of +you don't have anywhere in your house, and if I were to go +around this room and ask each person what the Constitution says, +most of you couldn't tell me what the Constitution says from +your grocery bill. And that's the truth! And that IS your country! So if you don't know what your Constitution is you're dead +already, so the first thing you do is you get a copy of your +Constitution. The second thing you do is you learn it! The third +thing you do is you start calling your senators and your representatives, and the President of the United States and you start +leaning on them, and you tell them, 'Unless you straighten up +the government, and unless we start getting the truth, and I +mean the whole truth, and no more of this baloney, this's the +last job you're ever gonna have, period. And I'll do everything +in my power to make sure that comes true.' And then write them, +frequently, saying the same thing. And then when they're in your +area, in their area offices, take a little delegation and go see +them, and make them understand that they're gonna be living in +poverty because they're not gonna have a job anymore come election day. You see, the secret government may own the executive +branch, but you people, all of us, we own the Congress, and the +Congress makes the laws, and the Congress can impeach the entire +executive branch! You also have the right to petition the government for a redress of injuries. So you ARE powerful, you've +just forgotten that you're powerful, you've forgotten that that +vote that you haven't been doing every time election comes +around, that vote has abdicated your power. That vote you did +not cast abdicated your power and gave it to those who are +subverting the Constitution and are ruining this country." +A gentleman then asked, "What was traded to the aliens for +their technology?" +"People and animals," replied Cooper succinctly. +Another man asked, "Is the Soviet Union in on any of this?" +"The Soviet Union and the United States of America have been +close allies since the end of World War II and have been closely +participating in the secret space program all this time. The +Soviets have the same thing we have, yes. What you see happening +in the Soviet block right now is not the result of people standing up and saying, 'We want to be free.' It's the result of the +international bankers saying, 'You tear down these barriers, and +you meet the West half way, give your people some freedom, the +West is gonna take some freedom away from their people so that +we can put together a one-world economic system ...and have all +the power. That's what's happening! If you don't believe it, +stick around and watch it!" +A dubious woman then asked, "Why was the shellfish poison +necessary? A lot of his brain was blown off anyway." +Cooper: "The shellfish poison? If you go to kill someone, one +thing I've learned, I learned it real good, I learned it especially good when I went to Viet Nam; just 'cause you shoot someone doesn't mean they're gonna die. And if they don't die, +they're gonna be MAD. And if they've got a gun, you're dead. So +you want the first time to be the last time. So if you really +want to to kill somebody you don't play around. If you REALLY +want to kill somebody ...you KILL them, you don't play, you make +sure that when you shoot them, they're dead. That way they can't +hurt you, can't hurt you at all." +Regrettably, the next question was totally unintelligible, I +was thankful however that Mr. Cooper had a good public address +system to amplify his reply, "The first moon landing was May the +22nd, 1962... or excuse me, that was the first landing on Mars. +I'm sorry, May the 22nd, 1962 was the winged probe that used a +hydrozine propeller, flew around approximately 3-orbits and landed on May the 22nd, 1962, was a joint United States / Russian +endeavor. The first time that we landed on the moon was sometime +during the ...probably middle 50's, because at the time when +President Kennedy stated that he wanted a man to set foot on the +moon by the end of the decade we already had a base there." +"What about Mars?" came another quick question. +"We have a base on Mars also," Cooper calmly replied. +"When did that happen?" +"I don't know the exact date but I know the project's name, it +was 'Adam and Eve'." +"How long have you known about this?" +"Well, I revealed it publicly for the first time on July the +2nd, 1989, and within 3-weeks of the time I revealed it publicly, the government, to get the American people not to listen to +me, came out and said that they planned to build a base on the +moon and a colony on Mars. Now, 3-days previous to my speech, +representatives from NASA said, 'We can never have a colony on +Mars, it's impossible that there's a colony on Mars because Mars +is a dead planet.' And it's NOT a dead planet, they've lied to +you about Mars." +"My name is Dave [unintelligible], I'm a representative of the +Crystic Institute, and I'd like to know why it was that when we +sent a representative down to your home, at your request, you +failed to produce any documentation to substantiate your allegations." +"In the first place it was NOT at my request, I have never +contacted the Crystic Institute in my life. I was on the Carol +Hemingway Show, she contacted the Crystic institute, she told +Daniel Shehan [sp] that I had just said something about Bush and +drugs on her show. HE called ME and told me he wanted to send an +investigator, in fact he told me to even help the investigator +because he was new at the job, his name was Wayne Nelson, he is +a very good gentleman, he stayed at my house for 2-days, slept +overnight on my couch, I gave him everything I had. I never told +Daniel Shehan that I had any documents and I never told Wayne +Nelson that I had any documents. In fact what I told Wayne Nelson, and I quote, 'Wayne, if I did have the documents I couldn't +admit it and I don't know you from Adam, and I don't know Daniel +Shehan from Adam and what makes you think I would give them to +you.' Who am I going to give them to and how quick are they going to disappear, that was my thought. Wayne Nelson also came to +my house with a stack of documents this thick already substantiating the presence of aliens and extraterrestrial craft on this +planet, and they are keeping it a secret, because they're afraid +somebody'll laugh at them and they'll loose their credibility." +"We need some patriots in this country, not people trying to +make a name for themselves, trying to expose some drug runners, +because those are just the bag-men. The real crook is in the +White House! And you can tell THAT to Daniel Shehan!" +"Why didn't Jackie Kennedy report [the source of the lethal +shot]?" asked another audience member. +"Who's she gonna tell? The Secret Service just killed her husband and they're assigned to protect the President. Also, who +had her children? The same Secret Service had her children at +the time." +"Wasn't the craft at Roswell, New Mexico destroyed and all the +aliens killed?" another young man asked. +"All the aliens were dead but the craft was not completely +destroyed, it was severely damaged yes." +On an unrelated note an older gentleman asked, "Does that mean +that 'Alternative-3' is true?" +"Alternative-3 is absolutely true and so is 'Alternative-2'." +Then a man in his late 20's or early 30's raised his hand, +said something I couldn't hear, and was apparently recognized by +Mr. Cooper who asked him to take the podium and address the audience. +"What I said was that I thanked him [Cooper] very much for +coming forward and saying something. A lot of my friends out +here know that I was involved in the United States Special Forces, UFO Tracking and Research from the years 1971 to 1975. My +name is Richard Murray, I was based out of the 71st Tac Controll +Flight, McDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida. We were 'Mobile +Radar Command,' that was combat and war ready. We could be loaded on aircraft within an hour and many times were taken into +areas [to] set up radar. A lot of times we were set up around +Egland [sp] Air Force Base because that's where they have the +'Altered Temperature Weather Control', where they can test various aircraft for their shrinkage and their dimension change during altered temperature. So, you know, I was told to shut up +twice in 1982 and they finally threatened my parents life so I +stayed quiet, and, that's when Wendel Stevens was taken off the +streets... Just like that! And I hid for quite awhile, and decided to come back out when I heard that you're [Cooper] of such +high rank as you were, and I felt just in saying that your credentials are true, and that what you have to say, everything +you've said here today, I've heard before behind closed doors. +And you've really tied the link for me to the Kennedy killing. +And there's a few more links that have to go on with the Columbia Cartel and the money laundering. I think there's more than +one cartel involved, and they're shutting one of them down so +one can maintain a power, it just seems to be the way it works." +A muffled question then came from someone in the audience +regarding the person referred to as "Colonel Stevens." +"Uh, Colonel Stevens is out of jail now," replied Murray who +was quickly asked another question I couldn't hear to which he +answered, "I sure hope to hell so, he is a wonderful man and I +give him my utmost respect and it was one of the saddest days in +my life to see what happened to him happen to him. But I don't +care what they say about Wendel Stevens, in my heart you can't +discredit that man to me. I don't care who the hell you are. I +won't listen to it, I don't give a shit if he was screwin' babies. You know... that doesn't... he's not that kind of a man, I +don't care what you say, I know him personally."

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The lecture was then essentially over. The "Alternative-2 and +-3" that were referred to briefly are, to the best of my knowledge, two government contingency plans and I don't know which +is which, to 1: Declare Martial Law and invalidate the Constitution on the premise that a terrorist group had entered the country with a Nuclear weapon with plans to detonate it in a major +city. All dissidents would be rounded up and placed in concentration camps and the press and media would be nationalized. All +this, if the information becomes public before they want it to +or if the aliens attempt a takeover, and 2: Another contingency +plan to contain or delay the release of this information, the +details of which I am probably wrong about anyway. +My own personal reaction to Milton William Cooper; Mr. Cooper +is a man who appears to be in his late fourties, of medium +height and weight, and was dressed casually when I saw him. His +hairline was receding slightly and he carried himself with confidence and purpose. Bill Cooper, as he was called by several in +attendance, is not a professional speaker. His presentation +lacked the polish of repeated deliveries which all the other +lectures I heard during the Expo. had, but what it lacked in +fine tuning was easily made up for in its content. Weather or +not everyone in the audience was convinced of his sincerity I do +not know, but the thunderous peal of applause which exploded as +he concluded the session spoke for me and the majority of those +in attendance. I am convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that +Bill Cooper believes everything he said, and I'm about as +skeptical as they come. +Please read the attached file written by Milton William Cooper +which describes some of the government operations, projects, and +code names that pertain to the above transcript. Perhaps from +the two documents you can reach your own conclusions as to what +"Alternative-2 and -3 are.

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The following is the original file "OPER-MAJ.TXT" which +introduced Mr. Cooper to me.

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OPERATION MAJORITY +FINAL RELEASE +THERE WILL BE NO CORRECTIONS TO THIS FILE +C - COPYRIGHT 1989 BY MILTON WILLIAM COOPER +ALL RIGHTS RESERVED +YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO QUOTE FROM THIS INFORMATION IN PRESS +RELEASES, PERIODICALS, AND SPEECHES. INCLUSION IN ANY OTHER +MEDIA REQUIRES MY EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION. + +This file contains the absolute true information regarding the +alien presence on earth and the US Government's involvement with +the aliens. This file contains only the information as I saw it +and only my information. It does not contain any information +from any other source. +It was necessary for me to issue the information previous to +this release in a manner which would deceive the Government +until someone was able to independently confirm my identity, my +employment, my service record, my intelligence background, the +identity of the person to which I gave the information in 1972, +his acknowledgment of the information and when it was given to +him, that the information is correct, that I have not seen him +since 1974, and that I have not communicated with him in any +form since 1976. This was necessary because this file is my +death warrant if MJ-12 continues to operate in a manner +consistent with its history. +All in the last paragraph has been independently verified by 2 +different people who have no connection with each other. I will +only list one for obvious reasons. +Tony Pelham, Journalist +Las Vegas Bullet, (Newspaper) +300 West Boston +Las Vegas, Nevada 89102 +The original information that I first released was not much +MAJI that I was not a threat long enough to have independent +verification of the facts before I risked death. [TRANSMISSION +GARBLED] I wish to make it absolutely clear that I do not +consider myself a hero. I believe that most of you would do the +same thing if you knew the truth. I gave an oath that I would +uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States of +America and I take that oath very seriously. I am doing no more +now than I did when I fought in Vietnam. I am doing my duty. +Please make copies of this file and send it to your +Congressman, your Senator, the Attorney General of the United +States, and to the Supreme Court. Send it also to everyone you +know. Attach copies of the Bill English file and John Lears +file. Send anything else you may have which tends to support +the information. +I, Milton William Cooper, 1311 S. Highland #205, Fullerton, +California, 92632, (714) 680-9537, do solemnly swear that the +information contained in this file is true and correct to the +best of my knowledge. I swear that I saw this information in +1972 in the performance of my duties as a member of the +Intelligence Briefing Team of the Commander In Chief of the +Pacific Fleet as a Petty Officer in the US Navy. I swear that I +underwent hypnotic regression in order to make the information +as accurate as possible. I swear that I can and will take a lie +detector test or any other test of any reputable person's +choosing in order to confirm this information. I swear that I +can and will undergo hypnotic regression conducted by any +reputable and qualified Doctor of any reputable person's +choosing in order to confirm this information. I will not, +however submit to any test or hypnosis by anyone who is now or +has ever been connected with the Government in any capacity for +obvious reasons. +The following is brief listing of everything that I personally +saw and know from 1972 and does not contain any input from any +other source whatsoever.

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MAJESTY was listed as the code word for the President of the +United States for communications concerning this information. +OPERATION MAJORITY is the name of the operation responsible +for every aspect, project, and consequence of alien presence on +earth. +GRUDGE Contains 16 volumes of documented information collected +from the beginning of the United States investigation of +Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO's) and Identified Alien Crafts +(IAC). The project was funded by CIA confidential funds (non-appropriated) and money from the illicit drug trade. +Participation in the illegal drug trade was justified in that it +would identify and eliminate the weak elements of our society. +The purpose of project GRUDGE was to collect all scientific, +technological, medical and intelligence information from UFO/IAC +sightings and contacts with alien life forms. This orderly file +of collected information has been used to advance the United +States Space Program. +MJ-12 is the name of the secret control group. President +Eisenhower commissioned a secret society known as THE JASON +SOCIETY (JASON SCHOLARS) to sift through all the facts, +evidence, technology, lies and deception and find the truth of +the alien question. The society was made up of 32 of the most +prominent men in the country in 1972 and the top 12 members were +designated MJ-12. MJ-12 has total control over everything. +They are designated by the codes J-1, J-2, etc all the way +through the members of the Jason Society. +The director of the CIA was appointed J-1 and is the Director +of MJ-12. MJ-12 is responsible only to the President. MJ-12 +runs most of the world's illegal drug trade. This was done to +hide funding and thus keep the secret from the Congress and the +people of the United States. It was justified in that it would +identify and eliminate the weak elements of our society. The +cost of funding the alien connected projects is higher than +anything you can imagine. MJ-12 assassinated President Kennedy +when he informed them that he was going to tell the public all +the facts of the alien presence. He was killed by the Secret +Service agent driving his car and it is plainly visible in the +film held from public view. +A secret meeting place was constructed for MJ-12 in MARYLAND +and it was described as only accessible by air. It contains +full living, recreational, and other facilities for MJ-12 and +the JASON SOCIETY. It is code named "THE COUNTRY CLUB". Only +those with TOP SECRET/MAJIC clearance are allowed to go there. +MAJI is the MAJORITY AGENCY FOR JOINT INTELLIGENCE. All +information, disinformation, and intelligence is gathered and +evaluated by this agency. This agency is responsible for all +disinformation and operates in conjunction with the CIA, NSA, +and the Defense Intelligence Agency. This is a very powerful +organization and all alien projects are under its control. MAJI +is responsible only to MJ-12. +SIGMA is the project which first established communications +with the aliens and is still responsible for communications. +PLATO is the project responsible for Diplomatic relations with +the aliens. This project secured a formal treaty (illegal under +the Constitution) with the aliens. The terms were that the +aliens would give us technology. In return we agreed to keep +their presence on earth a secret, not to interfere in any way +with their actions, and to allow them to abduct humans and +animals. The aliens agreed to furnish MJ-12 with a list of +abductees on a periodic basis. +MAJIC is the security classification and clearance of all +alien connected material, projects, and information. MAJIC +means MAJI Controlled. +AQUARIUS is a project which compiled the history of alien +presence and their interaction with Homo Sapiens upon this +planet for the last 25000 years and culminating with the Basque +people who live in the mountainous country on the border of +France and Spain and the Syrians. +GARNET is the project responsible for control of all +information and documents regarding this subject and +accountability of the information and documents. +PLUTO is a project to evaluate all UFO/ IAC information +pertaining to space telZk{k+9kR [TRANSMISSION GARBLED] +POUNCE is the project formed to recover all downed/ crashed +craft and aliens. +REDLIGHT is the project to test fly recovered alien craft. It +is conducted at AREA 51 (DREAMLAND) in Nevada. It was aided +when the aliens gave us craft and helped us fly them. The +initial project was somewhat successful in that we flew a +recovered craft but it blew up in the air and the pilots were +killed. The project was suspended at that time until the aliens +agreed to help us. +SNOWBIRD was established as a cover for project REDLIGHT. +Several flying saucer type craft were built using conventional +technology. They were unveiled to the press and flown in front +of the press. The purpose was to explain accidental sightings +or disclosure of REDLIGHT as having been the SNOWBIRD craft. +LUNA is the alien base on the far side of the Moon. It was +seen and filmed by the Apollo Astronauts. A base, a mining +operation using very large machines, and the very large alien +craft described in sighting reports as MOTHER SHIPS exist there. +NRO is the National Recon Organization based at Fort Carson, +Colorado. It is responsible for security for all alien or alien +craft connected projects. +DELTA is the designation for the specific arm of the NRO which +is especially trained and tasked with security of these +projects. +JOSHUA is a project to develop a low frequency pulsed sound +generating weapon. It was said that this weapon would be +effective against the alien craft and beam weapons. +EXCALIBUR is a weapon to destroy the alien underground bases. +It is to be a missile capable of penetrating 1000 meters of +Tuff/hard packed soil such as that found in New Mexico with no +operational damage. Missile apogee not to exceed 30000 feet +AGL and impact must not deviate in excess of 50 meters from +designated target. The device will carry a 1 megaton nuclear +warhead. +ALIENS, there were 4 types of aliens mentioned in the papers. +A LARGE NOSED GREY with whom we have the treaty, the GREY +reported in abductee cases that works for the LARGE NOSED GREY, +a blond human like type described as the NORDIC, a red haired +human like type called the ORANGE. The home of the aliens were +described as being a star in the Constellation of Orion, +Barnards star, and Zeta Riticuli 1&2. I cannot remember even +under hypnosis which alien belongs to which star. +EBE is the name or designation given to the live alien +captured at the 1949 Roswell crash. He died in captivity. +KRLL OR KRLLL OR CRLL OR CRLLL pronounced Crill or Krill was +the hostage left with us at the first Holloman landing as a +pledge that the aliens would carry out their part of the basic +agreement reached during that meeting. KRLL gave us the +foundation of the yellow book which was completed by the guests +at a later date. KRLL became sick and was nursed by Dr. G. +Mendoza who became the expert on alien biology and medicine. +KRLL later died. His information was disseminated under the +pseudonym O.H. Cril or Crill. +GUESTS were aliens exchanged for humans who gave us the +balance of the yellow book. At the time I saw the information +there were only 3 left alive. They were called (P&#'s) Alien +Life Forms. [TRANSMISSION GARBLED] +RELIGION The aliens claim to have created Homo Sapiens +through hybridization. The papers said that RH-blood was proof +of this. They further claimed to have created all four major +religions. They showed a hologram of the crucifixion of Christ +which the Government filmed. They claim that Jesus was created +by them. +ALIEN BASES exist in the four corners area of Utah, Colorado, +New Mexico, and Nevada. Six bases were described in the 1972 +papers, all on indian reservations and all in the four corners +area. The base near Dulce was one of them. +MURDER The documents stated that many military and government +personnel had been terminated (murdered without due process of +law) when they had attempted to reveal the secret. +CRAFT RECOVERIES The documents stated that many craft had +been recovered. The early ones from Roswell, Aztec, Roswell +again, Texas, Mexico, and other places. +GENERAL DOOLITTLE made a prediction that one day we would have +to reckon with the aliens and the document stated that it +appeared that General Doolittle was correct. +ABDUCTIONS were occurring long before 1972. The document +stated that humans and animals were being abducted and or +mutilated. Many vanished without a trace. They were taking +sperm and ova samples, tissue, performed surgical operations, +implanted a spherical device 40 to 80 microns in size near the +optic nerve in the brain and all attempts to remove it resulted +in the death of the patient. The document estimated that 1 in +every 40 people had been implanted. This implant was said to +give the aliens total control of that human.

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CONTINGENCY PLAN SHOULD THE INFORMATION BECOME PUBLIC OR +SHOULD THE ALIENS ATTEMPT A TAKEOVER. +This plan called for a public announcement that a terrorist +group had entered the United States with an Atomic weapon. It +would be announced that the terrorists planned to detonate the +weapon in a major city. Martial Law would be declared and all +persons with implants would be rounded up along with all +dissidents and would be placed into concentration camps. The +press, radio, and TV would be nationalized and controlled. +Anyone attempting to resist would be arrested or killed.

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CONTINGENCY PLAN TO CONTAIN OR DELAY RELEASE OF INFORMATION +This plan called for the use of MAJESTIC TWELVE as a +disinformation ploy to delay and confuse the release of +information should anyone get close to the truth. It was +selected because of the similarity of spelling and the +similarity to MJ-12. It was designed to confuse memory and to +result in a fruitless search for material which did not exist.

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SOURCE OF MATERIAL CONTAINED IN THE DOCUMENTS WHICH I SAW +The source of the material was an ONI counter-intelligence +operation against MJ-12 in order for the Navy to find out the +truth of what was really going on. The Navy (at that time or at +least the Navy that I worked for) were not participants in any +of this. The different services and the government conduct this +type of operation against each other all the time. The result +of this operation was that the Navy cut themselves in for a +piece of the action (technology) and control of some projects. +As you can see this file is only a little different from my +previous file. Only some names were scrambled previously to +confuse the government long enough for someone to verify that +what I have said is the truth. I have added information in this +file that puts me in absolute danger. I have sent a copy of +this file to people all over the country and will continue to do +so. Please get this file into as many hands as you can and +maybe that will protect me but I doubt it.

+ +

HISTORY WILL BE THE JUDGE OF ME AND THIS INFORMATION AND I +HAVE NO FEAR OF THAT JUDGEMENT. I SWEAR THAT THIS INFORMATION +IS TRUE AND CORRECT TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE.

+ +

I wish to thank all those people who have aided me in reaching +this point and for their patience and understanding. I owe you +all more than I can ever repay. +Finally, it does not matter who is right and who is wrong or +if a project name is in the wrong place. It does not matter who +is working for who or what is really what. It should be obvious +by now that something sinister and terribly wrong is going on +involving the government and the UFO phenomenon. We must all +band together and expose it now. I have done my part in the +best manner that I could. I can add nothing else except my +testimony in Congress or a court of law that what I saw and have +written in this file is true and that I saw it. +Everything in my previous file that does not conflict with +this file is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and +some of it is from sources and research. You may combine the +files to get the entire picture. Throw out only that +information which conflicts with that contained in this file. +There will be no further additions or corrections to this +information either now or in the future. My file is complete +and stands to be judged by history. Sometime in the future the +exact papers that I saw will surface and you will all see this +exact information contained within them. + +Milton William Cooper +1/10/89

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+A LIE THAT IS KILLING US

+ +

Animal experimentation, also known as vlvisectlon, is directly +responsible for the ram-pant growth of cancer, heart dissase, diabetes, +birth defeds, arthrrtis, muscular dystrophy, leukemia, all kinds of mental +diseases, and an sndless list of many otherold afflictions as well as +scores of new ones, such as Alzheimer's disease and AIDS. These diseases +are causing the most massive, systematic, and widespread destruction of +human health ever known. The reason is fundamental: Today's research Is +based almost entirely on animal experimen-tation, whlch Is a medical and +scientific fraud. It is impossible to re-create a naturally occurrlng +dlssase In a healthy animal simply because once rt is "re-created," it is +no longer theoriginal,naturaldisease.The +predictableresultoflookingatartlficlallydiseasedanimals is that the data +obtained is not applfcable to man and thus is tragically misleading. This +is the reason why no diseass has been cured in the 20th century except for +the control of infectious diseases, which was accomplished thanks to +nutrrtion, hygiene, and public sanitation. Consequently, all the old +diseases along wrth the new ones are killing and dam-aging more and more +people every day, including you and your family and friends.

+ +

A LIE THAT IS COSTING US TRILLIONS +OF DOLILARS (YES, TRILLIONS!)

+ +

There is no money to be madefrom healthy people. This is why +the medical and rssearch establishments are not in the least interested in +preventlon (practically all diseases are pre-ventable). The criminal +refusal to remove ths known causesof so many human allments guarsntses a +sltuation where practlcally everyone is sick or will eventually gat sick +(the flat refusal to educate people about the vital need to adopt a +vegetarian diet is a prime ex-ample). Once millions upon millions of +people are sick and dying and pronounced "in need" of drugs, tests, +radiation, surgeries, transplants, and all kinds of medical attention and +intervention, the expenditures connected with "heahh care" skyrocket +accordingly. In 1991 alone, the United States spent 750 billion dollars on +what should more appropriately be called "sickness care." It is +conservatively estimated that by the year 2000, annual "health care" costs +in the Unrted States will have increased to at least 1.5 trillon dollars +($1 ,500000000000) (1) Needless to say, sueh astronomicai expendrtures +(which have made countless doctors, surgeons, pharmaceutical companies, +and all kinds of instrtutions rich) have alrsady broken the financial back +of the country. It is clear that prevention, and not "health care reform," +is the real cure.

+ +

A LIE THAT TORTURES BILLIONS OF ANIMALS

+ +

It is estimated that, just in the United States, 100 million +animals of all kinds are tortured to death every year by vivisectionist +mills, which operate hidden from public view in colleges and universities, +hospitals, chemical and pharmaceutical companies, cosmetic and tobacco +companies, countless other corporations such as Gsneral Motors (in +carcrash experiments), and by NASA and the milrtary. The numberof animals +used by the milrtary is unknown and thus is not included in the 100 +million figure. In addition, millions of animals are consumed by the +vivisectionist machinery in other countries all over the world (countries +that follow the "scientific standard" set by the United States). The 1991 +budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Washington,D.C., the +largest source of funding for vivisectors, was8.6billlon tax dollars +($8600000000).(2) Because of AIDS (the new gold mins for the biomedical +establishment), we are now pouring more billions into the pockets of the +very "researchsrs" and "scientists" who never cured cancer, heart disease, +diabetes, or anything else despite having consumed hundreds of billions of +our tax dollars and billions of animals just in the last few decades.

+ +

A LIE THAT IS DESTROYING THE PLANET

+ +

Not only are our health and economy being systematically destroyed +by the vivisectionist mind-set, but so is our environment. The massive +production and widespread use of pesticides and countless other chemicals +found "safe" based on anlmal tests are responsible for the relentless and +massive pollution of our land, rivers, and oceans, the consequent +poisoning of ourfood and water supplies, the dsstruction ofthe earth's +protective ozonelayer,and many other threats that are jeopardizing the +very survival of life on the pianet.

+ +

A LIE THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE +BIRTH AND GROWTH OF NUCLEAR ARMS

+ +

Horrifying chemical, biobgical, and nuclear weapons, possessed by an +ever-increasing number of countries, were developed by vivisectors and +"tested" on animals the same way a drug, detergsnt, or toothpaste is +"tested" on animals. Conventional wsapons of all sorts were also created +in vivisectionist laboratories, where animals are routinely used as +surrogates for man in warlike situations.

+ +

A LIE THAT SABOTAGES REAL SOLUTIONS TO DRUG +ADDICTION AND MENTAL DISEASE

+ +

There is plenty of tax money to fund endless numbers of grotesque +and useless "experiments"where perfectly healthy animals areturned +intodrug addicts and alcoholics. No money is available, however, to help +the millions of human beings who are being destroyed not only by the drugs +and aleohol they are addicted to, but also by the utter hopelessness they +feel when life-saving treatment is denied them becauss of this criminal +waste of precious resources. The same applies to the increasing numbers of +mentally ill people who are often totally ignored, while incredibly huge +amounts of money are poured by the National Instrtutes of Mental Health +and other sources into psychological and other "experiments" whereanimals +are driven insane. It is important to remember that the overwhelming +majority of homeless people are drug addicts, alcoholics, and/or mentally +ill idividuals.

+ +

WHY ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION IS A +MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC FRAUD

+ +

The medicai and scientific fraud of vivisection is based on the following +lies that the +biomedical empire relentlessly spoonfeeds the public in countries all over the +world with the +hslp of the beholden media:

+ +

LIE #1 : It is possible to re-create a naturally oa:urring human +disease in a healthy animal (what researchers call "an animal model of a +human disease"). SCIENTlFICFACT#1: h is by definrtion impossible. Trying +to re-create spontaneous human diseases (naturally occurring diseases that +arise from wrthin) in a healthy being constrtutes "experimental ra-search." It is impossible to re-create a naturally occurring human disease +in a heaithy animal (or in a healthy human being for that matter) simply +because once it Is "recreated,"It is artificial and is no longer the +original, natural diseass.Clearly,"re-creation" and "spontaneous" are +contradlctory terms. It then follows that experimental research cannot +find cures for any diseases no maner how many millions of animal or human +experiments are performed (human experiments are also common place). It is +sometimes possible to re-create some of the symptoms of a disease but +never the disease itseff. The exception to this fact is the case of +infectious diseases. However, animals do not get human infectious diseases +and we do not get theirs. Thls Is why vlvisectors cannot infect a single +animal with human AIDS despite massive efforts aimed at creating "an +animal model of human AIDS." (Besides, a nonhuman animal cannot have a +human disease because each species of animal is a drfferent biomechanical +entrty.)

+ +

Obviously, prevention is the ideal situation. Once disease has +occurred, however, the only hope for a successful treatment and possible +cure is clinical research, ortheobservation of human beings who have +naturally occurrlng diseases. Clinical research is the only way to get +valid answers. Tragically, we keep financing experlmental research to the +almost total exclusion of prevention and clinlcal research.

+ +

LIE #2: It is possibie to learn human anatomy and physiology by +studying four legged animals (quadrupeds), fish, and/or birds. +5ClENTIFICFACT#2: Animals are totaily different from man and from each +other genetically, histologically, anatomically, physiologically, +immunologically, emotionally, psychologically, sexually, and socially. It +Is clear that human medical cannot be based on veterinary medicine.

+ +

LIE #3: It is possibie to predict human readions to drugs, vaccines, +and other chemicals by testing them in animals. SCIENTIFIC FACT#3: Animals +react drffersntly to drugs, vaccines, and other chemicals not only from +man but also from each other. Hence the incalculabls damage to human +health caused by pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines.

+ +

LIE #4: Animal experimentation is useful in order to learn about +animal diseases in veterinary schoofs. SCIENTIFIC FACT #4: No knowledge +about animal diseases can be obtained by looking at artificially diseased +anlmals (experimental research). Same reasons as in Scientrfic Fact #1 .

+ +

THE NEW ANTIVIVISECTIONIST MOVEMENI

+ +

The new antivivisectionist movement represented by SUPRESS is seeking +the total abolition of animal experimentation and testing on medical and +scientiflc ground:. For the first time ever, the public is being informed +about one of the most supprsssed issues of the last 100 years: the +connection between animal experimentation and the systematic devastation +to our health, environment, and economy.

+ +

BEWARE OF IHE "ANlMAL RIGHTS" TRAP

+ +

The biomedical empire has a vested interest in promoting the sbgan +"animai rights" because making vivisection a moral, ethical, +philosophical, and/or religious issue Is the most effectlve way to shift +the public's attentlon away from tts medical and scienttflc fraudulence. +For decades the vivisectors have been able to disarm ths opposition by +using the tired line: What will it be, your dog or your baby? (which +implies that anyone opposed to animal experimentation is antihuman). We +are now painfully aware of the fact that this emotional question tries to +hide an indisputabls fact: Vivisectors routinely take the Iives of both +the dog and the baby. Vivisection as it is presented to the public is not +a moral issue. It is a msdical and scientific fssue, a human health issue.

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Conspiracy for the Day -- October 27, 1993 +============================================ +("Quid coniuratio est?")

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Waco, the Big Lie +Review by Brian Francis Redman

+ +

I was surprised to find myself afraid to view this videotape. +When it came in the mail I did not rip open the package and kick +on the old VCR (I almost said "fire up" the old VCR). Instead +thoughts like, "Well later... perhaps tonight after dinner," came +into my mind. I did not want to see that government tank setting +fire to the Branch Davidian compound. Because if the government +*did* purposely start the fire, then it would logically follow +that xx xxxxx xx xxx xxxxxxxxxx was wrong and that xxx xxxxx was +in cahoots with them. I did not want to face that.

+ +

But I overcame my fears, stopped what I was doing, and watched +"Waco, the Big Lie."

+ +

The tape runs for about a half hour and is a professional quality +production. The horror of the government tank purposely starting +the fire in which all those innocent children were burned alive +is what people tend to focus on, but there are other aspects to +the video.

+ +

Early in the video, at the point in time where the press has +already been sequestered away from the crime scene, we see what +looks like a bedsheet hanging from one of the upper-story windows +of the Mount Carmel compound: "God Help Us. We Want the Press," +it begs. Too late. The press is already setting up their RVs and +their lawn chairs and is more inclined to relax. As the video +makes clear, the "only news received by anyone in the U.S. will +be the official version told by agent Bob Ricks of the FBI."

+ +

"Waco, the Big Lie" includes video of Koresh beyond those couple +of clips we were shown over and over and over and over. Yes, +there *are* other shots of Koresh besides that one scene where he +is preaching to his flock. Viewers of the video get to see a +decent chunk of an interview with Koresh in which the following +exchange takes place:

+ +

INTERVIEWER: How many wives do you have? +KORESH: (sighs) One... *One*. +INTERVIEWER: Have you committed adultery? +KORESH: No. I don't commit adultery. +INTERVIEWER: Are you telling me the truth? +KORESH: I'm telling you the truth. +INTERVIEWER: Have you beaten children? +KORESH: No. I do not beat children.

+ +

So, in case anyone is interested, Koresh claims he didn't do it. +Or rather, *claimed*, seeing as he's dead now.

+ +

Also noteworthy are statements by two unidentified ATF agents:

+ +

AGENT #1: [Referring to his "superiors" at the BATF] The +thing that I find totally abhorrent and disgusting is, +these higher-level people took that same oath. And they +violate the basic principles and tenets of the +Constitution and simple ethics and morality. That's what +disgusts me.

+ +

AGENT #2: You know what's wrong with the ATF? The people +that I put in jail have more honor than the top +administration in this organization. I know it's a sad +commentary, but that's my experience with ATF.

+ +

The videotape clearly shows one agent shooting himself in the leg +on the day of the initial raid. Not so clear is one scene where +three agents on the roof enter the building through a window and +then are supposedly assassinated by a fourth agent.

+ +

And now, as to that tank that seems to be equipped with a fully +functioning flame thrower:

+ +

When I see the Zapruder film of Kennedy being shot, it sure looks +to me like one of the shots came more or less from the front. But +they found "experts" who say no.

+ +

When I see the videotape of Rodney King being clubbed by the Los +Angeles police, it sure looks to me like he is being beat up. The +"experts" disagree.

+ +

The saying goes that "If it walks like a duck and talks like a +duck, then, odds are, it's a duck." It sure looks to me like +there is a jet of flame shooting out of the barrel of that +government tank. Of course, I'm not an "expert."

+ +

Before the days of the modern State, there was the Church. The +Church had these people called "priests" who were posted to the +Church's various territories. Part of the job of the priests was +to explain to the people "how things are." The people gave their +faith to the priests and the priests told them what "reality" +was.

+ +

The modern State also has its "priests" only they are called +"experts." Like the priests of old, the experts explain to the +people "how things are." The people give their faith to the +experts (because people sometimes prefer to have someone else +think for them) and the experts tell them what "reality" is.

+ +

The videotape, "Waco, the Big Lie," has been sent to "experts" at +the University of Maryland for "analysis." How many of you think +these "experts" are going to conclude that, "yes, that is indeed +fire gushing out of the barrel of that tank."

+ +

Now, how many of you think that these "experts" are going to +conclude that, "no, it is not a flame. It is 'marsh gas' (or +whatever)."

+ +

**Right**.

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The Strange Case of Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker

+ +

General Edwin A. Walker is known to most JFK assassination buffs as +the man whom Oswald allegedly shot at in April 1963. The general's +right-wing connections are often noted, as is the fact that he was +forced out of his command by the Kennedy administration for his +political indoctrination of his troops. His activities during the +race riots in Oxford, Mississippi in 1962 are also often mentioned, +when he was arrested on four federal charges including insurrection.

+ +

His public statement at Oxford was as follows:

+ +

This is Edwin A. Walker. I am in Mississippi beside Gov. Ross +Barnett. I call for a national protest against the conspiracy +from within.

+ +

Rally to the cause of freedom in righteous indignation, violent +vocal protest and bitter silence under the flag of Mississippi +at the use of Federal troops.

+ +

This today is a disgrace to the nation in 'dire peril,' a +disgrace beyond the capacity of anyone except its enemies. +This is the conspiracy of the crucifixion by anti-Christ +conspirators of the Supreme Court in their denial of prayer +and their betrayal of a nation.

+ +

[source NYT, 9/30/62]

+ +

The Army ordered General Walker to undergo psychiatric testing.

+ +

The general's case is strange indeed. But another fact, not often mentioned, +makes his activities in 1961-3 even stranger. Going back to 1957, we find +him in charge of *enforcing* the desegregation order in Little Rock, +Arkansas. His public statements on the matter were limited to exhorting +the public to uphold the will of the courts and desegregate peacefully. +The following article details his biography up to that time.

+ +

============================================================================ +New York Times, September 25, 1957, page 18

+ +

HE GUARDS THE PEACE +Edwin Anderson Walker

+ +

LITTLE ROCK, Sept. 24 -- Maj. Gen. Edwin Anderson Walker, who will be +responsible for maintaining peace in Little Rock, was described by staff +officers today as "tough, but fair." A tall, lean-visaged Texan, +General Walker came to Little Rock only seven weeks ago as commander of +the Arkansas Military District. He is still a stranger to the city. +Today, General Walker was at his desk in a downtown office building at +7 A.M. He had not yet received formal orders to take over the Arkansas +National Guard, but he knew what was coming. Already orders carrying +his signature were being processed for the deployment of National Guard +units. He will command a combined force of regulars and Federalized +Guardsmen.

+ +

He stands 6 feet 3 inches in height. He is a bachelor and has been +considered a prize for hostesses wherever he has been stationed. +He was born in Center Point, Texas, on Nov. 10, 1909.

+ +

General Walker's favorite expression is "check," a word he snaps to +indicate a mission has been accomplished or that he understands his +orders.

+ +

As a member of the Special Services group, he was required to be a +paratrooper. At his test, he approached a subordinate and asked:

+ +

"How do you put this thing on?"

+ +

He received a fast five-minute briefing and climbed into an airplane. +He jumped, landed safe and snapped to the test officer: "Check."

+ +

General Walker is a combat officer. He has seen action in World War II +and in Korea. He has carried out a number of unusual and hazardous +assignments, particularly during World War II.

+ +

He started his military career as an artillery officer after he +graduated from West Point in 1931. But he switched to commando +operations during the war and led a special force of Canadians and +Americans, in Italy and in France.

+ +

This outfit, trained for airborne, amphibious, mountain and ski +operations, was called the Special Services Force.

+ +

General Walker led the Third Regiment, First Special Service Force, +in its initial operation at Kiska during the Aleutians campaign. When +the commandos were transferred to the Italian campaign, General Walker +led the first Special Service Force in tough mountain fighting up the +Italian peninsula and at Anzio beachhead.

+ +

A Surprise Landing

+ +

In August, 1944, his men made a surprise landing on the Hyeres Islands +off the French Riviera and killed or captured a strong German garrison +that could have jeopardized the Seventh Army landings on the mainland +near by.

+ +

With the Hyeres occupied, his troops rejoined the main invasion force +and moved up the Rhone Valley. Toward the end of the war he was detached +from the commandos and placed in command of the 417 Infantry Regiment, +a separate force attached to the Third Army. At V-E Day he was commanding +a special task unit in Oslo.

+ +

Returning to the United States in January, 1946, General Walker served as +assistant director of the combined arms department, Field Artillery +School, Fort Sill, Okla. He was in charge of the Greek desk at the +Pentagon during the Greek civil war and made an official visit to Greece +and Turkey.

+ +

During the Korean War, General Walker commanded the Seventh Regiment +of the Third Infantry Division and later was senior adviser to +Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. His last assignment before coming to +Little Rock was as commanding general at the Twenty-fifth Artillery +Division in Hawaii.

+ +

He holds the Silver Star and the Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster. +============================================================================

+ +

This is the man arrested on four federal charges in Mississippi in 1962?

+ +

Those charges were:

+ +

Section 111-- For assault and resisting or other opposing Federal +officers, including marshals, in the performance of their duty.

+ +

Section 372-- For conspiracy to prevent a Federal officer from +discharging his duties.

+ +

Section 2383-- For inciting or engaging in an insurrection +against the United States.

+ +

Section 2384-- For conspiracy to overthrow or oppose by force +the execution of the laws of the United States.

+ +

A conspiracy is defined legally as including two or more persons.

+ +

On October 7, 1962, Walker posted $50000 bond and returned home to +Dallas amid 200 cheering supporters carrying signs like "Welcome +Home, General Walker," "Win With General Walker," and "President '64."

+ +

On January 21, 1963, a federal grand jury in Oxford, Mississippi adjourned +without indicting Walker on any of the four counts against him.

+ +

The Justice Department dismissed the charges "without prejudice" after +the grand jury failed to indict. The dismissal "without prejudice" +meant that the charges could be reinstated before the five year statute +of limitations expired.

+ +

Walker and his supporters then went on the offensive. On April 2, 1963, +a group called the Citizens Congressional Committee filed a petition +with the Senate Judiciary Committee requesting an investigation of the +treatment of "America's fearless patriot on the occasion of his +incarceration at the instigation of the Department of Justice."

+ +

Nine days later, on April 9, Walker was sitting at his desk at home when +the famous shooting incident occurred.

+ +

Meanwhile, the American Medical Association was receiving "a volume of +letters from individual physicians" charging Dr. Charles E. Smith, the +Army psychiatrist -- who commented on Walker's mental state at the time +of the Oxford violence -- with unethical conduct: that he made an improper +diagnosis without a personal examination. Dr. Smith was cleared by the +AMA on July 4, 1963. He said that news stories of Walker's "reported +behavior reflects sensitivity and essentially unpredictable and seemingly +bizarre outbursts of the type often observed in individuals suffering +with paranoid mental disorder." The society had received 2500 letters +from physicians alleging unethical conduct by Dr. Smith. Nevertheless, +the board unanimously ruled in Smith's favor.

+ +

Walker then took his case to court, filing a total of $23 million dollars +in libel damages against numerous media outlets alleging that they had +made "false statements" and that their "suppression of truth was motivated +by malice and a desire to hurt and harm him in his good reputation and +blacken his good name." The statements in question were that he "led a +charge of students against Federal marshals on the Ole Miss campus" +and various other statements attributing to him a very active role in leading +the insurrection such as "Walker assumed command of the crowd." A jury +in Fort Worth awarded an $800000 judgment against the Associated Press, +ruling that malice was intended.

+ +

The offensive was also being taken up by Republicans in Congress in an +alliance with Southern Democrats, who wanted to embarrass Attorney +General Robert Kennedy because of his civils rights activities. The House +Judiciary Committee voted on September 1, 1964 by a margin of 18 to 14 to +open an investigation of the Justice Department's handling of cases +including, but not limited to, those of Jimmy Hoffa, Roy M. Cohn, and +former Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker. The vote among Republican and Southern +Democratic committee members was 16-2; that of non-Southern Democrats +was 2-12.

+ +

Meanwhile, a Louisiana jury awarded Walker $3 million in damages in another +one of his libel suits.

+ +

His luck started to turn sour however, and finally on June 12, 1967, the +Supreme Court ruled 9-0 extending the constitutional protection of +freedom of the press to libelous falsehoods about private individuals +who willingly take part in public affairs. Such protections were already in +place concerning libel against political officials, but this was a landmark +case extending the applicability to private individuals who willingly +venture into the public arena. Walker's awards were overturned.

+ +

Chief Justice Warren explained, "Our citizenry has a legitimate and +substantial interest in the conduct of such persons... Freedom of the +press to engage in uninhibited debate about their involvement in public +issues should be subject to derogatory criticism, even when based on +false statements."

+ +

Walker's name occasionally surfaced in the press after this, usually +in connection with anti-UN activities or in connection with the +presidential campaign of George Wallace.

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APPENDIX

+ +

These articles concern the controversy about right-wing extremism in the +military in the early Sixties, specifically related to General Walker and +the Kennedy administration.

+ +

============================================================================= +New York Times, June 18, 1961, page 1

+ +

Right-Wing Officers Worrying Pentagon

+ +

by Cabell Philips

+ +

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- The Pentagon is having its troubles with +right-wingers in uniform.

+ +

A number of officers of high and middle rank are indoctrinating their +commands and the civilian population near their bases with political +theories resembling those of the John Birch Society. They are also +holding up to criticism and ridicule some official policies of the +United States Government.

+ +

The most conspicuous example of some of these officers was Maj. Gen. +Edwin A. Walker, who was officially "admonished" for his activities +by the Secretary of the Army earlier this week.

+ +

General Walker's offense was in saying that a number of prominent +Americans, as well as elements of the newspaper and television industries, +were tainted with Communist ideology.

+ +

He did this in the course of a continuing effort that the general said +was "designed to develop an understanding of the American military and +civil heritage, responsibility toward that heritage and the facts and +objectives of those enemies who would destroy it."

+ +

General Walker was the commander of the Twenty-Fourth Infantry Division +in Germany at the time...

+ +

The problem for the Pentagon arises out of the fact that a number of its +higher ranking officers have participated in or publically lent their +support to a variety of so-called forums, schools, and seminars, +ostensibly focused on the issues of national security. However, many of +those groups -- at least incidentally -- are preoccupied with radically +right-wing political philosophies.

+ +

Stress on Anti-Communism

+ +

The chief ingredient of these philosophies is often a militant +anti-communism. The argument is that Communist subversion today is rife +among the schools, the churches, labor unions, Government offices, and +elsewhere.

+ +

In this argument, liberalism is equated with socialism and socialism with +communism. Thus it opposes most welfare legislation, many programs for +international cooperation such as foreign aid and disarmament +conferences...

+ +

The genesis of this program goes back to the so-called "cold war policy" +evolved by the National Security Council in the summer of 1958...

+ +

Cold War Widened

+ +

President Eisenhower and his top policy leaders decreed that the "cold +war" could not be fought as a series of separate and often unrelated +actions, as with foreign aid and propaganda. Rather, it must be fought +with a concentration of all the resources of the Government and with +the full understanding and support of the civilian population. It was +decided, in particular, that the military should be used to reinforce +the "cold war" effort.

+ +

This was the substance of the still-classified "cold-war policy" paper +of the National Security Council...

+ +

Of the hundreds of military bases here and abroad, only a score have +become involved in these programs to the point that they have caused +alarm among the new civilian team in the Pentagon. Officials suspect, +however, that the trend is somewhat more widespread than their reports +currently indicate. They are quietly trying to find out how widespread +it is.

+ +

A typical example about which they do know is a seminar labeled Project +Action.

+ +

This was held at the Naval Air Station, Wold-Chamberlain Field, +Minneapolis, on April 28 and 29 of this year. Capt. Robert T. Kieling +is the commanding officer of the station. He was a co-sponsor of the +program in collaboration with a committee of the Minneapolis-St. Paul +Chamber of Commerce.

+ +

The official announcement described the program as follows:

+ +

"The purpose of Project Action is to inspire the citizens of this area +to take an active part in the war against the danger that threatens our +freedom and American way of life."

+ +

"The program of talks and presentations by nationally-known leaders for +the cause of democracy will bring to light facts and figures concerning +the rising crime rate, juvenile delinquency, drug addiction, the general +degradation of morals, the complacent attitude toward patriotism, and +the tremendous gains the Communist conspiracy is making in this +country..."

+ +

The United States Naval Air Station is making facilities available for +the seminar at the request of the Twin Cities Council for American +Ideals...

+ +

Among the scores of letters concerning Project Action that reached the +Pentagon in the following days was one from a newspaper editor. It said +in part:

+ +

"Perhaps someone can clear up for us our lack of understanding as to just +how co-sponsorship of such activities fits in with the Navy mission, or +the overall military mission, for that matter. It must be admitted that +the local Project Action is politically partisan in a very real sense, +although the partisanship is not that of the party label type." ...

+ +

Among numerous other incidents that have been brought to the attention +of the Defense Department is the "Fourth Dimensional Warfare Seminar" +held in Pittsburgh on April 15. Among those listed as giving "assistance +and support" to the program were Lieut. Gen. Ridgely Gaither, Commanding +General, Second Army, and Maj. Gen. Ralph C. Cooper, Commanding General +of the Twenty-First Army Corps, and their respective staffs...

+ +

"This sort of thing, if carried far enough among susceptible people, +can breed a wave of vigilantism and witch-hunting," one Pentagon official +said. "Even Mr. Hoover of the F.B.I., whom nobody would call 'soft on +communism,' deplores these self-appointed counter-spies." ...

+ +

Reinforcing his point, he took from his desk a memorandum from Secretary +of Defense Robert S. McNamara, which has been circulated as "guidance" +throughout the services. In part, it said:

+ +

"After the President has taken a position, has established a policy, or +after appropriate officials in the Defense Department have established a +policy, I expect that no member of the department, either civilian or +military, will discuss that policy other than in a way to support it +before the public." ...

+ +

============================================================================= +New York Times, September 8, 1961

+ +

McNamara Refuses to Identify Individual Censors in Pentagon

+ +

But He Gives Senators a List of Security Staff -- +Thurmond Voices Criticism of Policy on Anti-Red Speeches

+ +

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 -- Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara refused today +to give the name of the person in the Pentagon immediately responsible +for deleting anti-Communist statements from speeches by an Army general.

+ +

He did provide a roster of the twelve-man security and review staff, +which clears speeches. But he declined to identify particular individuals +in the section who had made specific deletions.

+ +

The demand for this information was made by Senator Strom Thurmond, +Democrat of South Carolina, at the close of hearings before the Senate +Armed Services Committee on his resolution for a full investigation of +charges that military officers have been "muzzled." ...

+ +

It was also learned today that Gen. Edwin A. Walker, deposed last spring +from his command in Europe because of the nature of his troop +indoctrination program, had pleaded the military equivalent of the Fifth +Amendment's guarantee against self-incrimination during the investigation +of his case by the Army Inspector General...

+ +

The entire transcript of the proceedings involving General Walker, which +runs to more than 900 pages, is in the process of being declassified by +the Department of Defense...

+ +

Senator Thurmond's inquiry today related to a speech prepared for delivery +last March by Gen. Arthur G. Trudeau, Chief of Army Research. In +testimony today it was indicated that the excisions had the effect of +softening the general's blunt criticism of Soviet policies and tactics.

+ +

Mr. McNamara said that the justifications for the changes was that +negotiations were then going on with the Russians for release of the +downed RB-47. It was regarded as impolitic at the time, he explained, +to provoke the Russians unnecessarily...

+ +

============================================================================= +New York Times, November 19, 1961, page 1

+ +

KENNEDY ASSERTS FAR-RIGHT GROUPS PROVOKE DISUNITY

+ +

Attacks Birch Society and 'Minutemen' at a Party Dinner in Los Angeles

+ +

Spread of Fear Scored

+ +

President Says Real Threat Comes From Without, Not Within

+ +

by Tom Wicker

+ +

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18-- President Kennedy spoke out tonight against the +right-wing John Birch Society and the so-called Minutemen in a speech +at a Democratic Party dinner here.

+ +

The President mentioned neither group by name but left no doubt whom he +meant.

+ +

[In Atlanta, Senator Barry Goldwater, Arizona Republican, attacked +the "radicals in the White House." At a news conference, he called +President Kennedy the "wagon master" who is "riding on the left +wheel all the time."]

+ +

The President, in his talk at the Hollywood Palladium, also made his +first public response to Edward M. Dealey, publisher of the Dallas +Morning News. Mr. Dealey attacked the President at a White House +luncheon for "riding Caroline's tricycle" instead of being "a man on +horseback."

+ +

Some 'Escape Responsibility'

+ +

"There have always been those fringes of our society who have sought to +escape their own responsibility by finding a simple solution, an appealing +slogan or a convenient scapegoat," Mr. Kennedy said.

+ +

Now, he continued, "men who are unwilling to face up to the danger from +without are convinced that the real danger comes from within."

+ +

"They look suspiciously at their neighbors and their leaders," he declared. +"They call for a 'man on horseback' because they do not trust the people. +They find treason in our finest churches, in our highest court, and even +in the treatment of our water."

+ +

"They equate the Democratic Party with the welfare state, the welfare +state with socialism, and socialism with communism. They object quite +rightly to politics' intruding on the military -- but they are anxious +for the military to engage in politics." ...

+ +

Mr. Kennedy chose a region in which the John Birch Society has some of +its strongest support to make his third and sharpest attack on what he +called tonight "the discordant voices of extremism."

+ +

In the first two speeches, at Chapel Hill, N. C., and Seattle, he also +warned against left-wing and pacifist extremists. His remarks tonight +were directed to far-right groups and individuals.

+ +

The reference to "armed bands of civilian guerillas" appeared to be +directed at the Minutemen, individual groups of which are being +organized and armed in some parts of the country. The organization +is reputed to be particularly strong in California.

+ +

Los Angeles is regarded as almost the heartland of the Birch Society. +Two Republican Representatives from its urban districts, John H. +Rousselot and Edgar W. Hiestland, are avowed members. ...

+ +

============================================================================= +New York Times, November 19, 1961, page 54

+ +

RIGHTISTS PICKET KENNEDY SPEECH

+ +

3000 Parade in Los Angeles in Orderly Demonstration

+ +

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18-- Raucous picketing took place outside the Hollywood +Palladium where President Kennedy spoke.

+ +

For nearly an hour, 3000 persons paraded, carrying signs and chanting +and singing their protests over a variety of issues.

+ +

The demonstration, which started rather mildly five hours before the +President spoke, was suddenly stepped up by an apparent influx of +rightists.

+ +

Some of the signs carried by men and women wearing red, white, and blue +paper hats, read: "Unmuzzle the Military," "Clean Up the State +Department," "Veto Tito," "Disarmament is Suicide," and "CommUNism is +Our Enemy."

+ +

The marchers sporadically chanted "Test the Bomb," and, "No Aid to Tito." +They sang, among other things, "God Bless America" and "The Battle Hymn +of the Republic."

+ +

A much smaller contingent of pacifist marchers was elbowed out. Most of +these carried signs urging the end of all atomic testing...

+ +

============================================================================= +New York Times, November 19, 1961, page 54

+ +

Eisenhower Travels Aloft With Kennedy

+ +

SHERMAN, Tex. Nov. 18 (AP) -- President Kennedy and former President Dwight +D. Eisenhower rode together to Perrin Air Force Base near here by helicopter +today after attending the funeral of Sam Rayburn at near-by Bonham.

+ +

Senator Carl Hayden, Democrat of Arizona, was also on the helicopter.

+ +

Mr. Kennedy and General Eisenhower stood together talking by the side of +the aircraft for about two minutes. Mr. Kennedy gestured repeatedly with +his left hand and appearing to be explaining something to General +Eisenhower. General Eisenhower listened intently and shook his head +affirmatively several times.

+ +

They shook hands. Mr. Kennedy then walked briskly to his plane and General +Eisenhower got into an Air Force automobile.

+ +

============================================================================= +New York Times, November 24, 1961, page 1

+ +

Eisenhower Says Officers Should Stay Out of Politics

+ +

Assails Extremists In TV Interview

+ +

Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower last night urged officers of the +armed services to shun partisan politics.

+ +

Speaking as a General of the Army, he declared it was "bad practice -- +very bad" for an officer, even when testifying under oath before a +committee of Congress, to express opinions "on political matters or +economic matters that are contrary to the President's." ...

+ +

The former President was blunt in discussing the recent "rise of +extremists" in the country.

+ +

"I don't think the United States needs super-patriots," he declared. +"We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't +need these people that are more patriotic than you or anybody else."

+ +

His definition of extremists embraced those who would "go back to +eliminating the income tax from our laws and the rights of people to +unionize... [and those] advocating some form of dictatorship." It +also included those who "make radical statements [and] attack people +of good repute who are proved patriots."

+ +

At that point, Walter Cronkite of the C.B.S. news staff, who conducted +the interview, asked about the "military man's role in our modern +political life." He did not cite, but obviously referred to, the case +of Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, who stirred up a controversy that led to +his "admonishment" for the political nature of the indoctrination of +his troops. General Walker lated resigned from the Army.

+ +

"I believe the Army officer, Navy officer, Air officer," General +Eisenhower said, "should not be talking about political matters, +particularly domestically, and never in the international field, unless +he is asked to do so because of some particular position he might +hold." ...

+ +

The general declared there was hope for disarmament and better +East-West relations. As the Russian standard of living improves, the +Russian people will begin to understand that there is another way of +life, he said... +============================================================================= +

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Date: 20-Jun-87 20:31 MST +From: Executive News Svc. [76374303] +Subj: APfl 06/20 1301 UFO Investigations

+ +

By BILL KACZOR Associated Press Writer +FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A retired Air Force pilot says he +suspects, contrary to official denials, an unknown federal agency is +investigating reports of unidentified flying objects and other close +encounters with extraterrestrial beings. +Donald M. Ware, Florida state director of the Mutual UFO Network Inc., a +private "ufology" organization, says he doesn't have any direct knowledge but +nearly a lifetime of study leads him to believe probes are secretly being +conducted by some national intelligence agency. +"That idea doesn't bother me. I don't mind being an unequal partner," Ware +said in a recent interview. "I support the policy of secrecy." +He said secrecy would be necessary because, official statements +notwithstanding, he is convinced the subject involves national security in the +form of advanced alien technology. +Ware said he intends to take that message to the Annual MUFON UFO Symposium +June 26-28 at American University in Washington, D.C., where he is to be part +of a panel discussion on UFOs and the government. +His position is unlikely to be shared by many UFO investigators, Ware +admitted. A common complaint of ufologists is the government's professed lack +of interest and its failure to cooperate with private UFO studies. +"I'm so bold as to suggest there is a possibility of cooperation with some +unknown government agency if we show a little more tolerance of their policy +of secrecy," Ware said. +"As long as we publicly take such an antagonistic attitude, as long as we +place the government in an adversarial relationship," Ware said, "we are not +going to get much cooperation from them whoever they are." +The Air Force closed its Project Blue Book investigation of more than +12000 UFOs in 1969 after a panel of scientists found no evidence of visitors +from outer space. Most sightings were found to be such things as planets, +stars, meteors, weather balloons, satellites, false radar echoes, marsh gas, +clouds, aircraft or optical illusions, but a few have remained unexplained. +The official word ever since has been that the government has nothing to do +with UFO investigations and whatever they might be they pose no threat to +national security. +Ware, 51, joined the service in 1957. He said he was uninvolved in the Air +Force's UFO activities during his 26-year military career as a teacher, staff +scientist and fighter pilot, including two combat tours in Vietnam. +"That's one reason I can speak so freely," he said. "I have no information +from the Air Force." +His interest began as a teen-ager in 1952 when he saw star-like objects +streaking through the sky while walking near his home in the nation's capital. +Similar sightings, including radar returns, had been reported a week earlier +and Ware said they remain unexplained. +He began reading everything about UFOs he could get his hands on, including +books in the library at Duke University where he received a mechanical +engineering degree. He later earned a master's degree in nuclear engineering +from the Air Force Institute of Technology. +Ware kept up his interest in UFOs, building up a personal library on the +subject and questioning other pilots. +"I had no qualms about saying, 'Anybody seen a UFO?' " Ware said. The +answer, he said, usually was "yes." +However, until March of 1970, military personnel were ordered not to talk +about UFOs, Ware said. +"I think that in the late '40s and early '50s the U.S. government really +wanted the public to tell them what they saw and that those people primarily +responsible for investigating UFOs were not listed in the phone book," Ware +said. "The U.S. Air Force was chosen as Uncle Sam's public relations agent +because they were listed in the phone book." +No one thing has convinced him of government involvement, Ware said. "Two +years of study after I saw the UFOs in 1952 convinced me that somebody is +watching us," he said. "Ten more years of study caused me to think somebody +in our government has known that as a fact at least since 1947." +Ware said his goals in becoming state director of MUFON, an international +scientific organization based in Seguin, Texas, were to improve relations +between "ufologists" and the government and to learn all he could about alien +technology from abductees and other witnesses of close encounters. +Ware said he hasn't seen any more UFOs since 1952 and doesn't expect to. +"I haven't been selected," he said. He still scans the skies, but not for +UFOs. When he's not investigating UFO reports or giving talks about the +subject to civic groups, he is bird watching. He is treasurer of and runs an +annual bird count for the Choctawhatchee Audubon Society and does surveys for +the Florida Breeding Bird Atlas project. +Ware said his two avocations are unrelated. "Lots of people have accused +me of getting a lot of satisfaction from identifying feathered objects," he +said, grinning. "No, I'm just a nature boy." + +

+ +

Copyright 1987 by the Associated Press. All rights reserved. + +

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We still appear to be hanging on the brink of either a New Age or Armageddon +or some weird combination of both. Yet real solutions exist and are not widely +known or used, for all of mankind's supposedly unsolved problems. +An entire body of unused technology is waiting to be implemented, that works +by cooperating with seldom-recognized basic forces instead of struggling +against them. A world economy based on abundance, health and cooperation, +rather than scarcity, disease and conflict, can emerge as soon as enough +people want it intensely enough to make it happen. +Many times in recent history, various inventors and visionaries have offered +our civilization cleaner, safer and cheaper methods of obtaining the resources +and capabilities we require. 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Exotic and underground science and +news sources offer vital information omitted from official media. Yet equally +useful material can turn up in the most standard publications, patents and +references, which goes unnoticed and unused, swallowed up in the flood of +false or insignificant information surrounding it. +At the level of art, consider the entire Earth as a vast aesthetic +composition, that has deteriorated somewhat, due to age and general lack of +appreciation of what she is and how she works. Restoring her original beauty +and serenity is the ultimate in Earth Art, and can happily engage as many as +want to take it on. +To subtract the artificial ugliness that interferes with the natural beauty +and joy of life on Earth,straighten out the cirumstances that have been +allowing it to occur. It's really not that much more difficult than adding +more local things of beauty, if gone about gently, and the effects can reach +farther. The media available to be shaped and combined in new ways include +every kind of communication, information, activity and resource, and all the +networking already underway among them. +Along with however else you apply it, send copies of this information to +your favourite teachers, reporters, broadcasters, musicians, comedians, +directors, actors, politicians, anyone whose words reach many listeners. That +way it can no longer be suppressed just by removing its early disseminators. +And the more other people know about it, the safer you are as well. +Don't hesitate to send it to people of considerable wealth and power, or +their children, for that matter. Problems can indeed be solved by throwing +money at them, if it's thrown right, and it can cost much less than it has to +create the problems. +One way those who maintain the problems manage to spread the blame around, +is to pretend as though they represent the interests of all wealthy people. +This stimulates categorical hate and fear between rich and poor, and tends to +discourage representatives of each side from getting together and working +something out. +The poor and middle classes often fail to differentiate between the two +basic types of wealthy people. Most of the wealthy built their fortunes by +finding a genuine need and filling it, and have attempted to improve +conditions for mankind in general. But the others could care less about all +that, and choose to create and fill artificial, non-survival needs, such as +for weapons, narcotics, poisons, assassination teams, torture equipment, and +massive bank loans for governments to finance wars. They have no more +reservations about exploiting the rest of humanity than they do about using +any other natural resource on "their property". +Unfortunately this second group has had the competitive advantage. Being +unencumbered by ethics or compassion, they can engage in strategies for +domination that the more benign wealthy would not consider, and have tended +to take over the top positions in the world economy. Lucky for us, their own +ruthlessness and treachery keeps many of them from trusting each other enough +to collaborate as effectively as they might, in doing in everyone else. +There are still plenty of wealthy people who are either unaware of the +planned exterminations, or suspect it's possible but can't quite believe it. +Others do know and are collaborating only because it appears to be the only +plan for the future that anyone with big money is seriously behind. They +haven't thought of any better idea and are afraid to cross the really big +guys, and wind up among the victims. The momentum for "covert" global +exterminations comes more by default than from the plan's inherent appeal, +except to a few really diseased minds stuck in pain-inflict mode. +It is not impossible to identify the most powerful and least visible of +Earth's unpublicized owners, and sort out which are pro-genocide, but then +what? What options are there, if any, for rendering these self-appointed +population pruners harmless? +Any direct assault on the powers behind the scenes, whether judicial, +legislative, military, or through media, gets smothered or sidetracked because +those same powers already control any official agencies that would be +assigned to investigate, report, prosecute and so on. +The heads of all those government branches are linked to the principal war +merchants through their membership in such groups as the Council on Foreign +Relations. The CFR is a quasi-governmental private organization formed in +1921 to formulate foreign policies that would forward "American business +interests" around the world, then persuade the government to adopt those +policies. Members include the heads of the NSC, CIA, Departments of State, +Defense, Treasury, Joint Chiefs, and Federal Reserve, as well as the heads of +all the largest banking, media, energy and industrial conglomerates. Although +containing the core of the executive branch, they aren't answerable to any +government agency, and their actions are designed to further their own +interests, not America's. +The point is, their control is complete enough to defuse any standard legal +corrective actions, or any other traditional methods of dethroning a corrupt +power. A violent uprising would be disastrous and provide just the right +excuse for massive retaliations, roundup of dissidents and suspension of +civil rights. Forget the usual revolutionary strategies, they've got all that +stuff covered. +In fact, no corrective approach will work that is based on anger, +punishment, revenge, or destruction. So what's left? +Let's try talking our way out of it. Instead of trying to seize control from +those now holding it, let's come up with an arrangement where they use their +power to straighten this whole mess out, and sell them on it. +It could be that under the great pressures of inter-corporate struggles and +secrecy, none of them ever stopped to realize they had another choice than the +one they're committed to. Going into crash-production on the whole system of +perviously suppressed or ignored technology could eliminate the harmful +effects of "too many people" without having to eliminate any more people, and +still improve life for them personally. Plus they would get to be heroes +instead of creeps. +They can even take credit for the idea. If we think up a better deal for +them than what they're currently going for, in terms of safety, freedom and +happiness, it could persuade them that maybe the rest of us aren't too stupid +to live after all. If we can't, then maybe we are. +Perhaps we can directly renegotiate our collective future, once the true +situation has been publicized broadly enough to be no longer officially +deniable. Strike an agreement of mutual non-retaliation between both sides +while long-range transition logistics are worked out. +We forgive them and their employees for past atrocities, and for being so +greedy, cold-blooded and ruthless. They forgive us for exposing and ruining +their plans, and for being so infernally lame, gullible and numerous that +exploiting and repressing us has been irresistable. +With enough citizens cooperating in the amnesty, we can guarantee the +super-rich and their palaces remain safe from lycnh mobs and looters. In +exchange they arrange for: 1) a global ceasefire and release of all political +prisoners (they have the power to do that), 2) full disclosure of all "state +secrets" (in other words, full confessions), and 3) the diversion of the +wealth currently spent on plan A (advanced covert genocide technologies, +operations and coverups) over to plan B (crash program to implement previously +suppressed technologies and improve conditions for all). It might be worth it +to them, not having to constantly be on guard against their victimized public, +and each other. People do enjoy life more when they don't have to lie and +worry about getting caught all the time. +In other words, let's acknowledge that they've won the game they've been +playing, where the goal was to concentrate control of the world into as few +hands as possible, by any means available. The surviving multibillionaires +could go on battling and absorbing each others' empires, but why beat it into +the ground? They've thoroughly proved they can plunder the planet and get away +with it, so enough already. Let the winners and losers shake hands and start a +new game with more interesting goals, that we can all pursue together.

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AIDS, CANCER CURED BY HYPER-OXYGENATION

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(Waves Forest) Several dozen AIDS patients have not only reversed their +death sentences, but are now back at work, completely free of the disease. +They destroyed the virus in their blood by hyper-oxygenation, known in various +forms as oxygen therapy, bio-oxidative therapy or auto-hemotherapy. This is a +simple, inexpensive and very broad-spectrum healing process that many feel +could force a complete overhaul of the medical industry. The two basic types +of oxygen therapy are ozone blood infusion, and absorption of oxygen water +(hydrogen peroxide) at very low concentrations. +It turns out that the AIDS virus cannot tolerate high oxygen levels in its +victims' blood. Not only that, every other disease organism tested so far +apparently has the same weakness. Even cancer growths contract and disappear +when the oxygen saturation is sufficiently increased in the fluids +surrounding them, since they are anaerobic. +AIDS, herpes, hepatitis, Epstein Barr, cytomegalovirus and other lipid-envelope viruses are readily destroyed by hyper-oxygenating the patient's +blood with ozone. This was demonstrated by among others Dr Horst Kief in Bad +Hersfeld, West Germany. Dr Kief has already cured a number of AIDS victims by +drawing blood, infusing it with ozone and returning it to the patient, at +regular intervals until all the virus is gone. (He can be reached through +Biozon Ozon-Technik GmbH, An Der Haune #10, Bad Hersfeld, D-6430, Federal +Republic of Germany.) Dr. S. Rilling of Stuttgart and Dr. Renate Viebahn of +Iffezheim are among the growing number of physicians who have obtained +similar results with their patients. They are with Arztlich Gesellschaft fur +Ozontherapie and JrJ Hansler GmbH, respectively.

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THE BASIS OF BIO-OXIDATIVE THERAPIES +For many years the health sciences have been seeking to identify the primary +physical cause of all diseases, and the cure-all that this basic principle +would yield. Now noth have been found, but their utter simplicity makes them +difficult to accept at first, since it seems like if it's that easy, we should +have been using them all along. +Our bodies are composed mostly of water, which is eight ninths oxygen. Most +nutritional studies tend to get caught up in the small details of biochemistry +and overlook our most abundant and essential element, and the fundamental role +of its depletion in causing illness. Of all the elements the body needs, only +oxugen is in such constant demand that its absence brings death in minutes. +The main difference, for healing purposes, between benign micro-organisms +(including our own cells), and those which cause disease, is that the latter +require much lower oxygen levels. This is due to their more primitive +evolutionary origins, during the ages when free oxygen was far less abundant. +Now their descendants can only survive in low-oxygen environments such as +accompany stagnation and decay. To become a growth medium for such parasites, +one has to have allowed the oxygen saturation of the body's fluids to drop +well below the loptimum level for healthy cell growth and function. +The simplest substances available for restoring one's oxygen balance to a +healthy range are ozone (O3), and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which is much +easier to obtain and use. These are both highly toxic when concentrated, which +has tended to obscure their germicidal value except as a skin antiseptic. But +when diluted to therapeutic levels (for H2O2, 1/2 of 1% or less), they are not +only non-toxic but uniquely beneficial.

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OZONE BLOOD TREATMENT +Ozone overcomes the AIDS virus by a fundamentally different process than +usually attempted with drugs. Instead of burdening the liver and immune system +with more elaborate toxic substances, ozone simply oxidizes the molecules in +the shell of the virus. +The treatment is remarkably simple. The ozone is produced by forcing oxygen +through a metal tube carrying a 300-volt charge. A pint of blood is drawn from +the patient and placed in an infusion bottle. The ozone is then forced into +the bottle and mixed in by shaking gently, whereupon the blood turns bright +cardinal red. As the ozone molecules dissolve into the blood they give up +their third oxygen atom, releasing considerable energy which destroys all +lipid-envelope virus, and apparently most other disease organisms as well, +while leaving blood cells unharmed. +It also oxygenates the blood to a greater degree than is usually reached, +what with poor air and sluggish breathing habits. The treated blood is then +given back to the patient. This treatment is given from twice a week to twice +a day, depending on how advanced the disease is. The strengthened blood +confers some of its virucidal properties to the rest of the patient's blood as +it disperses. +The disease will not return, as long as the patient maintains his blood in +an oxygen-positive state, throug proper breathing, exercise, and clean diet. +A Dr Preuss, in Stuttgart, has written up ten case histories of AIDS +patients he has cured by this method. But his and the other physicians' +reports of cures are all anecdotal rather than in the form of "controlled +studies", since they could not be expected to treat some patients and deny +treatment to others just for the purpose of accumulating evidence. Thus their +results are not considered "proof" by the US medical community. So the +Medizone Company in New York has taken on the task of doing the controlled +studies required for the treatment to be approved in the US for general use.

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MEDIZONE TESTING OZONE BLOOD TREATMENT +In the summer of 1986 Medizone obtained from the FDA an IND (Investigative +New Drug) Approval for ozone, which falls under the heading of drugs even +though it isn't. They verified that ozone destroys the AIDS virus in vitro, +and completed their animal tests in the fall of 1986. The tests demonstrated +no indication of toxicity, at ten times the equivalent amount that is +proposd for human treatment. +The Medizone Co is at 123 E 54th St, Ste 2B, NY, NY 10022; phone is +212-421-0303. +Medizone says it has obtained the rights to US Patent # 4632980, on +"ozonation of blood and blood products", from the company "Immunologics", in +exchange for Medizone stock shares. The patent pertains specifically to +inactivating lipid-envelope virus. In humans, this includes AIDS, herpes, +hepatitis, Epstein Barr virus, and cytomegalovirus, among others. Medizone +obtained tentative FDA approval in April 1987 to begin human testing, but for +a variety of "bureaucratic reasons" the FDA has postponed the actual start of +the tests eight times now, with requests for further data, some of which had +already been given to them. +Twenty months have now passed [as of December 1988], along with several +thousand AIDS victims, since the first announced starting date was postponed. +The Medizone staff is hoping to finally begin in the spring of 1989, but are +no longer announcing expected starting dates with much confidence. "There are +no technical problems, but this is the FDA we're dealing with, after all." As +the Company's future hangs on their decision, no one at Medizone wants to risk +anatgonizing the FDA, by speculating about their actual motives for stalling +such a broad-spectrum cure. +All this has been with virtually no publicity. The official reason for this +is that the accepted procedure for publishing medical breakthroughs is to +complete all the tests first, even though victims may die waiting for the +cautious, methodical testing procedure to run its course. No one in the +industry wants to raise false hopes, let alone repeat the medical disasters +that ahve resulted in the past, from rushing approval on new treatments. +On the other hand, the enormously expensive and dubiously effective drug AZT +was widely publicized many months before it was approved in the US, as is +ongoing research into possible AIDS vaccines. In fact, FDA Commissioner Frank +Young has even announced a proposal to make experimental drugs available to +AIDS victims as swiftly as possible, without waiting for the full FDA approval +procedure to be completed. So there appears to be a severe double standard +involved here. It seems that highly profitable "treatments" with serious side +effects can be demonstrated in Europe, with minimal cost and no apparent +harmful effects, must be delayed and kept quiet while panic and deaths mount. +Surely at this stage the benefits of unauthorized publicity will outweigh the +risks.

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SAFE PURIFICATION OF BLOOD FOR TRANSFUSIONS +Ozone infusion also provides a simple method of purifying stored blood and +blood components, eliminating any possibility of disease being transmitted by +transfusion. It also pre-oxygenates blood to be transfused, greatly reducing +the burden on the body receiving the blood. +This application alone, of the Medizone process has enormous profit +potential, and the treatment will have vast international demand as the news +spreads. This has not gone unnoticed by various investment analysts. +"Confidential: Report from Zurich", "Penny Stock Insider" and "Low-Priced +Stock Edition", among others, are urging their readers to get in on Medizone +now, comparing the opportunity to getting in on Xerox, IBM or Polaroid while +they were still unknown. +Various physicians have independently discovered ozone to be also effective +against cancer, leukemia, arthritis, coronary heart disease, arterial +circulation disorders, colitis, gum diseases, and assorted childrens' +diseases. Some of these findings have now been collected and published in the +volume, "Medical Applications of Ozone", available from the International +Ozone Association, 83 Oakwood Terrace, Norwalk, CT 06850. +Some of the medical uses of ozone have been appreciated for years in Europe, +Brazil and elsewhere, as well as its advantages over chlorine for water +treatment (no toxic residues, 5000 times more rapid disinfection) but it's +still relatively unknown in the US.

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OXYGEN WATER +A much simpler type of Oxygen Therapy uses hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which +is what ozone (O3) forms on contact with water. It can be taken orally if +diluted with water to 1/200 or less, absorbed through the skin by bathing in +it (anywhere from 1-8 pints of 3% H2O2 in a standard size bathtub half full), +or in severe cases it can be injcted (250 cc of .075% to .15%, or roughly +1/1300 to 1/650). Injections obviously require a physician's assistance, but +self-treatment is possible with oral and skin applications. +The principle is the same as with ozone blood treatment. All hostile micro-organisms prefer lower oxygen levels than the body's cells require to remain +healthy. Boosting the oxygen level revitalizes normal cells while killing +virus and other pathogens. +The domestic sales of hydrogen peroxide are rising at 15% per year, as the +news of this option spreads at the grassroots level. The rapid expansion of +the peroxide movement is especially remarkable considering there has been +almost no media coverage, and in fact the FDA, American Cancer Society and +other enforcers of established medicine have tried hard to discourage the +practice. +Hydrogen peroxide is the only germicidal agent composed only of water and +oxygen. Like ozone, it kills disease organisms by oxidation as it spreads +through the patient's tissues. +This also destroys cancerous growths which are anaerobic. Nobel Prize-winner +Dr Otto Warburg demonstrated over fifty years ago the basic difference between +normal cells and cancer cells. Both derive energy from glucose, but the normal +cell requires oxygen to combine with the glucose, while cancer cells break +down glucose without oxygen, yielding only 1/15 the energy per glucose +molecule that a normal cell produces. This is why cancer cells have such a +huge appetite for sugar, and also why people who consume excessive quantities +of sugar tend to get cancer more often. +The anaerobic breakdown of glucose by cancer cells forms large amounts of +lactic acid as a waste product, the same substance formed by fermentation of +lactose, as in spoiled milk. The liver converts some of this back into +lactose, in an attempt to salvage a food source from a toxic waste. In doing +this the liver uses only 1/5 the energy per glucose molecule that a normal +cell can then derive from it, but that's three times the energy a cancer cell +will get from it. The more the weak, deranged cancer cells multiply, the more +energy is lost to the normal cells. Thus we find that low levels of both +oxygen and energy tend to occur where cancer is present, and vice versa. This +wasteful metabolism becomes self-sustaining and dominant unless the oxygen +and/or energy levels are sharply increased, or the cancer's food source +eliminated.

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HEART TRANSPLANT PIONEER RECOMMENDS OXYGEN WATER +Dr Christiaan Barnard, who performed the first heart transplant, said in +March 1986 that he was taking peroxide and water himself, several times daily +to reduce arthritis and aging, and he recommended it highly at that time. +Since then he has come under heavy attack by the medical establishment for +this position, and now states that he "is not involved" with the peroxide +movement. But he does not retract his original endorsement, nor deny that he +still uses it personally. +Over a hundred physicians are already curing a broad assortment of +"incurables" with this natural anti-microbial agent. This includes some forty +or more in the US. A principal liaison to these free-thinking physicians is +Dr Charles H. Farr, who wrote "The Therapeutic Use of Intravenous Hydrogen +Peroxide". He directs the International Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation, +and publishes the "IBOM Newsletter" which contains procedural updates and +technical refinements for physicians using intravenous H2O2 therapy on their +patients. By classifying the treatments as experimental they can get around +the FDA's archaic restrictions for now, until massive public demand and/or +media exposure force official approval. +Dr Farr summarizes the beneficial effects of H2O2 in "IBOM" issue #2: these +include killing bacteria, protozoa, yeast, and virus, oxidizing lipids from +arterial walls, increasing oxygen tension intracellularly, stimulating +oxidative enzymes, returning elasticity to arterial walls, dilating coronary +vessels, and regulating membrane transport. IBOM is at PO Box 61767, Dallas/ +Ft. Worth, TX 75261; 817-481-9772. Dr Farr is at 11330 North May Ave, +Oklahome City, OK 73120; 405-752-0070 and 799-8781.

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H2O2 CAN BE SELF-ADMINISTERED +The oral and skin applications offer the option of home treatment, as no +blood needs to be drawn, and hydrogen peroxide is cheap and plentiful. Keep +it diluted though; in high concentrations it can irritate sensitive skin and +induce vomiting when ingested. (Veterinarians routinely give common 3% H2O2 to +animals that have swallowed poison, to make them throw it up.) +The starting dosage is one ounce of .5% (1/200) H2O2 in water, and some will +find they need to start with less. As the peroxide contacts pathogens in the +stomach it liberates free oxygen, so those with high levels of virus and +streptococcus in their stomachs may feel slight nausea while the reaction is +occuring. The dosage is increased by an ounce per day, up to five ounces on +the fifth day, then up to five ounces three times daily for a week (or until +disease is no longer present). Then the dosage is tapered back down over a +five week period. +Food-grade or Re-agent (these are 35%, dangerous if undiluted) is better +for internal use, since the common USP 3% H2O2 contains small amounts of +chemical stabilizers and other impurities. It can still be used if food-grade +is unavailable; it just isn't as pure. +An alternate dosage regimen uses three drops of 35% H2O2 in a glass of +water, three times a day, which is then increased by a drop per dose, per day, +up to 25 drops per dose in extreme cases. Candidiasis victims should start at +one drop per dose, and build their tolerance gradually. Some find the taste +rather bleachy and unpleasant, and may wish to chase it with plain water. It +can also be mixed with fuit juice, and citrus juices in particular cover the +taste pretty well. +Adding seven drops of 35% H2O2 to a gallon of drinking water and shaking +well purifies it and gives it a pleasant waterfall-like flavor. +For more dosage details and extensive references on H2O2 taken +internationally, contact Walter Grotz, Box 126, Delano, MN 55328; 612-972-2144. His progress report, "ECHO", costs $1. He provided much of the material +regarding H2O2 in this article. Another source is Father Richard Wilhelm, Box +18, Union Rd., California, KY 41007; 606-635-9297. These gentlemen have +continued the research initiated by Dr Edward Carl Rosenow (1875-1966). They +have located over 4000 peer-reviewed medical articles on the applications of +hypdrogen peroxide, some dating back to the 1800's. They received the National +Health Federation's Pioneer Award in Medicine this year, for this ongoing +research. Walter Grotz, in particular, has been touring and lecturing +extensively on the benefits of self-administered H2O2, literally saving lives +wherever he goes, and bringing hope to people who had been told their cases +were hopeless. +Dr Kurt W. Donsbach at the Bio-Genesis Institute in Rosarita Beach, Baja +Mexico (714-964-1535), has achieved a remision rate exceeding 70%, in over +300 patients at last count, most of whom had been previously told they were +beyond hope, and had "tried everything else". Bio-oxidative therapies are now +applied to all cases that arrive at this clinic, and all respond except for +some of those who arrive already very close to death. The Guadalajara Medical +School, Mexico's largest, is initiating their own tests this summer, and will +add it to their curriculum upon verification. +As Dr Donsbach has pointed out, no US clinic or institution has ever tested +intravenous H2O2 as a treatment for cancer, so any claim that it is not +effective is not based on clinical trial, and amounts to wilful +disinformation. +The Gerson Institute and La Gloria Clinic in Mexico are also using Hydrogen +peroxide therapies on their patients, after the staff tested it on themselves +and found it to be beneficial.

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HYDROGEN PEROXIDE IN NATURE +Hydrogen peroxide occurs naturally in rain and snow, from atmospheric ozone, +and in mountain streams where rushing water is continuously separated. Most of +us learned at an early age to drink from a stream only where the water's +running white, because that's where it gets cleansed of germs. The reason is +that H2O2 is forming there due to the water's rapid agitation, and that's what +kills any harmful mcirobes present. +By just shaking a bottle of water vigorously for a while you can tuck enough +extra oxygen into it to form detectable amounts of H2O2, improving its purity, +flavor and vitality. +It turns out that the soring waters at Lourdes, France, long recognized for +their remarkable healing properties, are very high in natural hydrogen +peroxide. The spring is fed by high-altitude snowmelt, so the snow apparently +absorbs unusually large quantities of ozone on its way from the upper +atmosphere. Other less-known high altitude springs are said to be likewise +effective. +Similar benefits can be obtained in a swimming pool or hot tub, by +discarding the chlorination system and simply puring in H2O2, or by bubbling +ozone through the water. One simple method of making pool-grade ozone is to +pump air past an enclosed ultra-violet lamp. +Raw, uncooked vegetables and fruits contain natural hydrogen peroxide. +Cooking drives off the extra oxygen. Fresh fruit juices are well known for +their blood-cleansing and revitalizing capabiltiies, particularly when they +are not combined with other foods; this is largely due to the H2O2 they +contain. Reconstituted frozen juices have much less, and are no longer +"alive", thus they are not nearly as effective.

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H2O2 IS HEART OF IMMUNE SYSTEM +Mother's milk contains a high amount of H2O2, especially colostrum, the +first milk secreted after birth, which activates the newborn's immune system. +H2O2 is the first line of the body's defense systems, and key to many other +metabolic processes. +Under conditions of optimum health, H2O2 is produced by the body's immune +system in whatever amounts are needed to quickly destroy any invading hostile +organisms. It is made by combining water in the body with the free oxygen that +is supposed to be constantly available. When the body is oxygen-starved, it +can't produce enough H2O2 to wipe out invading pathogens, which can then get +the upper hand and cause visible disease.

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OXYGEN BOOST IS KEY TO OTHER HEALING METHODS +When penicillin is effective against infection, it is largely due to the +formation of bactericidal amounts of H2O2, when glucose is oxidized by O2 in +the presence of penicillin notatin. (General Biochemistry, Fruton & Simmonds +577.1 F944 p. 339) +Much has been made of the healing properties of Interferon, but it is +unbelievably expensive. However, much of its effectiveness is apparently due +to the fact that it stimulates production of H2O2 and other oxygen +intermediates, which are a key factor in reactivating the immune system. +(Journal of Interferon Research Vol 3, #2, 1983 p 143-151.) Thus Interferon +may turn out to be simply a very elaborate way to accomplish essentially the +same thing as the H2O2 regimen. +Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) has long been recognized as essential to the +proper use of oxygen by the cells. Dr Linus Pauling has demonstrated that +large doses of vitamin C are effective against cancer. The mainstream medical +community still has not acknowledged this discovery, let alone put it to use, +despite Dr Pauling's previous credentials. As it turns out, vitamin C actually +creates extra H2O2 in the body. +Organic Germanium (bis-carboxyethyl germanium sesquioxide) is gaining +increasing recognition as a potent healing substance, primarily through the +work of Dr Kazuhiko Asai. This compound directly increases the body's oxygen +supply, as it contains a great deal of oxygen in a form that can be easily +assimilated. (See "Miracle Cure: Organic Germanium" by Dr Asai, Japan +Publications, Inc., Tokyo and New York.) +Taheebo (aka Pau D'Arco or Lapacho Colorado) is a tree that grows in the +Andes and fixes high concentrations of oxygen in crystalline form into its +inner bark. The bark has been used for centuries by the native peoples of the +area to prevent and revesre illnesses, and it is onre reason why they do not +get cancer. In recent years it has become popular in the US, and it gets by +the FDA as an "herbal tea" whose distributors wisely make no medical claims +for it. Again, much of its effectiveness is apparently due to its high oxygen +content, released in solution when brewed as a tea.

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CAUSES OF OXYGEN DEPLETION +There are several very common practices that drop a person's oxygen level +far below where it should ideally be. At sea level, 20% of the atmosphere is +supposed to be oxygen, but city air gets down as low as 10%, due to smog and +removal of trees. Air that tastes bad induces a tendency to breathe shallowly, +getting even less oxygen in the blood. So does lack of exercise. +The carbon monoxide (CO) in smog does not normally occur in nature in much +quantity since it's formed by incomplete combustion of carbon compounds. It is +electrically unbalanced, so it seeks to bond with any available oxygen to +form the more stable carbon dioxide (CO2). Those who breathe too much carbon +monoxide tend to die, fast or slow depending on the concentration. It strips +oxygen molecules from the blood to form CO2, which the body can't use and must +exhale, at least until its oxygen runs out. The fact that the body considers +CO2 a waste product, by the way, doesn't say much for carbonated beverages. +Tap water is very low in oxygen, having had no opportunity to be aerated +during its journey through the pipes, and being loaded down with chlorine and +various contaminants. Since cooking drives the extra oxygen out of vegetables, +if one's diet is mostly cooked or processed foods, there's yet another oxygen +source lost.

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EATING, FASTING AND OXYGEN BALANCE +Overeating is so common in the US it's considered "normal". One cause is the +widespread use of oral antibiotics. While destroying the target germs, these +drugs also kill off one's intestinal flora, which are needed for healthy +digestion. With these friendly bacteria gone, digestive efficiency plummets. +As a result, the sensation of hunger comes more often and lasts longer, as +the body tries to compensate for ineffective digestion by increasing the +amounts consumed. +Even just eating daily, without ever giving the gastro-intestinal tract a +rest, loads down the blood with toxins and impurities, especially uric acid +crystals. Under a microscope these resemble tiny coffin-lids, interestingly +enough, another clue to our Creator's whimsical sense of humor. When the waste +products exceed the cleansing capacity of the kidneys, the blood ends up just +having to haul it around the body and stash it wherever possible. These toxins +literally take up so much room in the blood cells that the cells can't take +on enough oxygen when they pass through the lungs. The blood's primary +function of picking up and distributing oxygen gets blocked by overuse of the +garbage-hauling function. +Fasting restors health by giving the overloaded blood cells a chance to dump +the toxins and inert matter through normal organs of elimination at a rate +they can handle, instead of through the skin, as in acne, or other +inappropriate places. If the fast is long enough, accumulated residues in the +body are also scoured out and expelled, giving a considerable spiritual +resurgence once all the backlog is cleared away. While the debris is flushing +out, various toxic reactions may come and go. Once the blood is cleansed the +red corpuscles have a lot more room for oxygen molecules, the oxygen +saturation of the tissues is high, and health and energy are boosted +considerably. Each breath now gives more life than it was able to in the +blood's earlier state. +Most long-lived native peoples, who are not affected by our more common +diseases, either include fasting as a regular part of their yearly food +cycles, or eat much less overall, than industrialized peoples. +Today many Americans are existing at such high levels of toxicity, that +their toxic reactions when attempting to fast can seem intense enough to make +them start eating again before any serious cleansing can be accomplished. +Fortunately one can partially bypass the lungs and get the blood oxygen level +back up, by taking oxygenated water internally and through the skin. Several +weeks of detoxification with this regumen will also make it much easier to +fast without discomfort, if one chooses. It reduces appetite, logically +enough, to a level more in line with the body's actual needs. +The bacteria that aid digestion are not killed by oral use of H2O2, as long +as it's diluted properly.

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OXYWATER MAY EVEN CURE STUPIDITY +Perhaps the greatest potential benefit is the reversal of the slight brain +damage caused by long-term oxygen depletion, which can be observed in the +"average" human, and is sometimes not all that slight. It's well known that +after about nine minutes of no oxygen, from drowning or whatever, you can +kiss your brain goodbye. But the implications of constant gradual oxygen +starvation in our cities somehow escape notice, despite the tiredness, +depression, irritability, poor judgement and health problems affecting so many +citizens. +Increasing the oxygen supply to the brain and nervous system will reverse +these conditions. The oxywater regimen improves alertness, reflexes, memory +and apparently intelligence, and may offer the elderly a new weapon against +senility and related disorders. Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are reported to +be responding to it. Alcoholics who start taking H2O2 soon lose interest in +alcohol, and the thirst does not come back. Americans especially, will have +an opportunity to outgrow many stupid things. +It's strange that the common drug aspirin "stops pain" by interfering with +the nervous system's ability to sue oxygen, in the elctrochemical reactions +needed to transmit impulses. Though maybe it's not that strange, considering +that the Bayer Company which originated it was a subsidiary of IG Farben, the +German chemical conglomerate that is famous for, among other things, +developing and mass-producing the lethal gas Zyklon-B specifically for +exterminations at nazi death camps.

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ECONOMIC INERTIA +Dr Terry McGrath, the CEO at Medizone, confirmed that Hydrogen peroxide +would in principle act much like ozone in destroying the AIDS virus, but +pointed out that it's never likely to be tested and proven in the laboratory. +There's simply no economic incentive, since it's an unpatentable process and +offers no more commercial returns than most other natural remedies. So it's +completely up to individual patients and concerned citizens to push these +options out into the open, immediately, before various companies get too +financially committed to the assumption that AIDS (or any other disease) will +continue to spread and be incurable. +This is good a place as any for the FDA-required disclaimer: "Information +given here is for research and educational purposes only and is not intended +to prescribe treatment."

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VETERINARY AND AGRICULTURAL APPLICATIONS +Humans aren't the only life form that benefit from compensation for their +oxygen-deficient air, water and/or lifestyle. H2O2 in animals' drinking water, +not enough to taste unpleasant, knocks out a growing list of illnesses. +Locally, cats have gotten rid of their feline leukemia and chlamydia, and are +back to theirmold energetic slapstick selves. Distemper in dogs has been +reversed with H2O2, and a growing number of farmers are applying it to their +livestock to cut losses from disease and infected wounds. +Plants grow better with an ounce of 3% H2O2 per quart of water they're +given. Spray the solution on their leaves as well. Seeds germinate faster, +with bigger sprouts, when they are first soaked in one ounce of 3% H2O2 to a +pint of water. Instead of cutting trees that are diseased or otherwise +struggling, spray them with H2O2 and water (1 part 3% to 32 parts water).

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WHY ISN'T THIS ALREADY IN USE? +The obvious question is, if hyper-oxygenation is so simple and effective, +why has it taken so long to discover it? Ozone is hardly new and hydrogen +peroxide has been on the market for over a century. Why aren't all the doctors +already using it? How come this story isn't all over the major news outlets? +Turning the question around helps clarify the problem. Just exactly what +would happen if a cure was discovered that was completely effective against +the vast majority of diseases, ridiculously cheap and plentiful, and in most +cases could be self-administered without a physician? +Would the current medical establishment welcome a breakthrough that could +render 98% of all drugs, testing and disease-related surgery obsolete? What +would the response be of the pharmaceutical industrialists, hospital chain +owners, health insurance moguls, AMA, and FDA? +Would you expect to read or hear such an announcement from any medical +journal or media outlet owned by people financially committed to the medical +status quo, which is practically all of them? How many want to help their own +occupation become unnecessary? +And if the cure had already been suppressed once, wouldn't the possible +blame for allowing people to die without it provide even more incentive to +continue keeping the whole thing quiet? +All right then. This is precisely the situation that exists, and the cure +has indeed been around for ages. It has been independently reported effective +against virtually every disease at one time or another, in thousands of +public-domain medical articles, which had never been collected and correlated +until recently. And it is so simple and basic that concealing it from most +physicians and the general public has required a tremendous smokescreen of +artificial complications, narrow specializations, symptomatic classifications +and user-hostile treatments. +If this is so, it follows that the more profit-fixated elements of the +medical establishment will not be too thrilled about the recent surge in +interest in oxygen therapies. The drug industry has expanded enormously since +WW II, while America's level of health has dropped from the world's highest to +the lowest among the industrialized nations. It does look as if the bottom +line has been money and not health, for a long time. +The battle for the future of medicine, between Nature's truth and lucrative +lies, is about to really heat up. We can expect to see disinformation articles +and newscasts with persuasive medical experts, some of whom will even believe +what they're saying, warning of the dangers of hydrogen peroxide, ozone, and +even regular oxygen. These reports will attempt to blur the distinction +between using therapeutic dosages at safe dilutions, and the harmful effects +of excessive concentrations. Plenty of grisly examples are available, of what +happens when various tissues are over-oxidized. +Anti-oxygenation propaganda pieces will probably not mention that over the +years the FDA has approved H2O2 as a skin antiseptic at full 3% strength, as a +hair bleaching agent at 6%, and for internal use as an additiveto milk and in +aspetic long-shelf-life packaging. Nor are they likely to acknowledge that +many European countries use ozone and H2O2 in their cities' water supply, and +that they enjoy much better health than in the US. And they will be unable to +truthfully cite any examples of people who were harmed by using H2O2 in the +correct demonstrated therapeutic concentrations. +If not enough public move quickly to help spread the news of this +alternative, those how fear it could reduce their economic power may go so far +as to try and knock off someone who promotes it, while trying to make it look +like "too much oxygen" is the cause. Also, product tampering has thus far +mostly targeted Bayer Aspirin's competitors, in case you hadn't noticed, but +drugstore hydrogen peroxide would not be immune to such tactics. One approach +might be to plant a contaminated batch in a town where oral use of it is +catching on and the medical establishment is losing ground, so someone gets +hurt and the story gets nationwide coverage. +It is vital for Americans to realize that current economic dynamics don't +allow the businessmen in charge of the health industry any incentive at all, +to make people permanently healthy and lose them as customers. It's the same +reason why the energy conglomerates do not encourage citizens to become +energy-self-sufficient, the Pentagon has no incentive to stop wars, and the +American Psychiatric Association sees no advantage to ending mental illness. +Fortunately the majority of physicians really do want to see their patients +get well. They also wouldn't mind regaining the respect and admiration with +which physicians were once more widely regarded. When it comes down to a +choice between saving lives and protecting profits, most will be brave enough +to overhaul their medical belief systems, discard obsolete methodologies, +and basically tell the pharmacuetical conglomerates to go shove it. The rest +will simply get left behind.

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SOURCES FOR FOOD-GRADE HYDROGEN PEROXIDE +Most pharmacists have never even heard of it, so it's usually a waste of +time to ask them. A number of chemical supply houses have 35% H2O2 available; +check your local directories and call a few. Under FDA pressure, DuPont and +possibly other major chemical companies have recently issued warnings to their +distributors, not to sell hydrogen peroxide to people who want it for healing +purposes. So when you in quire, if they ask what you want it for, it will +unfortunately be necessary to lie. If you say you want it as a cleaning agent, +that's at least pretty close to the truth. +Several physicians quietly sell itthrough the mail, bu they aren't the same +ones promoting its healing properties, for obvious FDA-related reasons. A good +source in California, though he can ship it anywhere, is Dr A J McDonald, at +PO Box 775, Lodi, CA 95240; 209-368-8681; $12/pint. +Your best move would be to share this information with owners of health-food +stores in your area. Call and ask them if they have food-grade H2O2 (some +already do) and tell them why you want it and how it works. Encourage them to +carry it and give them Dr McDonald's address if they don't seem inclined to +track down a local source. +Cleanroom-grade 30% H2O2 (used for cleaning in computer rooms since it is a +powerful disinfectant and leaves no residue when it evaporates) is reported to +be just as pure as food-grade and much cheaper. Check with labs that make +"wafer fabrication" chemicals, or contact the manufacturers of silicon chips +and other computer parts, and the data processing complexes that might use it +in their cleanrooms, and ask where they buy it. The more sources become known, +the harder it will be for anyone to make it unavailable.

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GET THE WORD OUT +Write your elected officials, send copies of this information, and point out +what will happen to a politician whose constituents learn he knew of a cure +for cancer and AIDS but didn't tell them about it. Call in on radio talk shows +and share the good news, or send copies to their reporters and program +directors, especially at listener-supported stations as these are less likely +to suppress it. Don't assume your local papers have already heard of this; +write letters to editors, and/or send copies of this report. Tack it up on +every bulletin board you see, and post it on all relevant computer bulletin +boards. +If you know teachers, physicians, or health officials who can still think +for themselves, tell them about this and give the references. Notify your +local police officials that hyper-oxygenation gives them a way of maing sure +they'll be safe from infection due to contact with AIDS carriers. If you're +really feeling bold, walk into the local hospital's cancer wards and hand a +copy of this report to anyone who can still read, and slip out the back door +before their doctors walk in. Share it with anyone you know who has a health +problem, even a minor one; H2O2 apparently works on everything from acne to +warts. +Above all, stop buying the idea that cancer, AIDS, and other "terminal" +illnesses are automatic death sentences. When you hear some celebirty you like +is sick or dying of this or that, look up their mailing address in Who's Who +or whatever, and mail them this information. If the address is for an agent, +which are notorious for blocking attempted communications to their client, +you might include a cover letter to the agent, stating that the enclosed vital +news is also being sent to their client's family members, and if he or she +learns through them that there was life-saving information sent but held up +at the agent's, that agent will be out of a job. Act like you have the clout +it takes to make a difference, and you soon will. +Major scientific breakthroughs go through three stages: first they are +ridiculed, then violently opposed, and finally they are accepted as having +been self-evident all along. Let's see if we can short-cut those first two +stages a bit, OK?

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DESIGNER DISEASES: AIDS AS BIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE

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It is hard to imagine that a cure for AIDS would be withheld for economic +reasons alone. Could there be some other motive? +Despite repeated denials from Defense Department officials, allegations +persist that AIDS is a genetically altered virus, which has been deliberately +released to wipe out homosexuals and/or non-whites in the US and reduce +populations in third world countries. +At first glance it seems like the epitome of paranoia to accuse the military +of conspiring to exterminate citizens of their own country, and even some of +their own troops. However, the vast majority of military personnel could be +completely unaware of such a plot in their midst, while a relative handful of +traitors in key positions could conduct it under cover of classified +operations. And the circumstantial eivdence is actually quite compelling, that +the AIDS virus was artificially engineered, and planted in several different +locations at about the same time through vaccination programs, and possibly +blood bank contaminations. +At a House Appropriations hearing in 1969, the Defense Department's +Biological Warfare (BW) division requested funds to develop through gene-splicing a new disease that would both resist and break down a victim's immune +system. "Within the next 5 to 10 years it would probably be possible to make a +new infective micro-organism which could differ in certain important respects +from any known disease-causing organisms. Most important of these is that it +might be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon which +we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease." (See "A +Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story of Chemical and Biological Warfare" +by R. Harris and J. Paxman, p 266, Hill and Wang, pubs.) The funds were +approved. +AIDS appeared within the requested time frame, and has the exact +characteristics specified. +In 1972 the World Health Organization published a similar proposal: "An +attempt should be made to ascertain whether viruses can in fact exert +selective effects on immune function, e.g. by...affecting T cell function as +opposed to B cell function. The possibility should also be looked into that +the immune response to the virus itself may be impaired if the infecting +virus damages more or less selectively the cells responding to the viral +antigens." (Bulletin of the W.H.O., vol 47, p 257-74.) This is a clinical +description of the function of the AIDS virus. +The incidence of AIDS infections in Africa coincides exactly with the +locations of the massive W.H.O. smallpox vaccination program in the mid-1970's +(London Times, May 11, 1987). Some 14000 Haitians then on UN secondment to +Central Africa were also vaccinated in this campaign. Personnel actually +conducting the vaccinations may have been completely unaware that the vaccine +was anything other than what they were told. +A striking feature of AIDS is that it is ethno-selective. The rate of +infection is twice as high among Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans as among +whites, with death coming two to three times as swiftly. And over 80% of the +children with AIDS and 90% of infants born with it are among these minorities. +"Ethnic weapons" that would strike certain racial groups more heavily than +others have been a long-standing US Army BW objective. (Harris and Paxman, +p 265) +Under the current US administration biological warfare research spending has +increased 500 percent, primarily in the area of genetic engineering of new +disease organisms. +The "discovery" of the AIDS virus (HTLV3) was announced by Dr Robert Gallo +at the National Cancer Institute, which is on the grounds of Fort Derrick, +Maryland, a primary US biological warfare research facility. Actually the AIDS +virus looks and acts much more like a cross between a bovine leukemia virus +and a sheep visna (brain-rot) virus, cultured in ahuman cell culture, than any +virus of the HTLV group. +The closest thing in this case to a "smoking test tube" so far is the AIDS +virus itself. If it was possible for such a monstrosity to occur naturally it +would have done so ages ago and decimated mankind at that time. Some other +life form would presently be in control of this planet (assuming that is not +already the case). +The Hepatitis B vaccine study in 1978 appears to have been the initial means +of planting the infection in New York City. The test protocol specified non-monogamous males only, and homosexuals received a different vaccine from +heterosexuals. At least 25-50% of the first reported NY AIDS cases in 1981 +had received the Hepatitis B test vaccine in '78. By 1984, 64% of the vaccine +recipients had AIDS, and the figures on the current infection rate for the +participants of that study are held by the US Department of Justice, and +"unavailable". +The AIDS epidemic emerged full-blown in the three US cities with "organized +gay communities" before being reported elsewhere, including Haiti or Africa, +so it is epidemiologically impossible for either of those countries to be the +origin point for the US infections. +Another indication AIDS had multiple origin points is that the 14-month +doubling time of the disease cannot nearly account for the current number of +cases if we assume only a small number of initial infections starting in the +late 1970s. +Before dismissing the possibility that a US Army BW facility would +participate in genocide, bear in mind that hundreds of top nazis were imported +into key positions in the US military-intelligence establishment following +WW II. US military priorities were then defeating nazis to "defeating" +communism at any cost, and strengthening military control of economic and +foreign policy decisions. (See "Project Paperclip" by Clarence Lasby, Atheneum +214, NY, and "Gehlen: Spy of the Century" by E H Cookridge, Random House.) +There's no proof those nazis ever gave up their long-term goals of conquest +and genocide, just because they changed countries. Fascism was and is an +international phenomenon. +It's not as this was a total reversal of previous US military policy, +however. Hitler claimed to have gotten his inspiration for the "final +solution" from the extermination of Native Americans in the US. For that +matter the first example of germ warfare in the US was in 1763 when some of +the European colonists gave friendly Indians a number of blankets that had +been infected with smallpox, causing many deaths. +One indication of the actual US military priorities regarding BW was the +importation of the entire Japanese germ warfare unit (#731) following WW II. +These people killed over 3000 POWs, including many Americans, in a variety of +grisly experiments, yet they were granted complete amnesty and given American +military positions in exchange for sharing their research findings with their +US Army counterparts. +Consider also the callous attitude displayed by top military officials +toward veterans suffering from the aftereffects of exposure to Agent Orange +and radiation from nuclear weapons tests. +In fact, since the end of WW II over 200 experimental BW tests have been +conducted on civilians and military personnel in the US. One example was the +test spraying from Sept 20-26, 1950 of bacillus globigi and syraceus +maracezens over 117 square miles of the San Francisco area, vausing pneumonia-like infections in many of the residents. The family of one elderly man who +died in the test sued the government, but lost. To this day syraceus is a +leading cause of death among the elderly in the SF area. Another case was the +joint Army/CIA BW test in 1955, still classified, in which an undisclosed +bacteria was released in the Tampa Bay region of Florida, causing a dramatic +increase in whooping cough infections, including twelve deaths. A third +example was the July 7-10, 1966 release of bacteria throughout the New York +subway system, conducted by the US Army's Special Operations Division. Due to +the vast number of people exposed it would be virtually impossible to +identify, let alone prove, any specific health problems resulting directly +from this test. +So despite the loyalty of the vast majority of US military personnel toward +their country, there are clearly some military officials who have very +different intentions, and they occupy high wnough positions to impose their +priorities on military programs and get away with it, so far. +The first detailed charges regarding AIDS as a BW weapon were published in +the "Patriot" newspaper in New Delhi, India, on July 4, 1984. It is hard to +say where the investigations of this story in the Indian press might have led, +if they had not been sidetracked by two major domestic disasters shortly +thereafter: the assassination of Indira Gandhi on Oct 31 and the Bhopal Union +Carbide Plant "accident" that killed several thousand and injured over 200000 +on Dec 3. +The Soviet press picked up the story in October 1985, making it easy for US +Defense Department spokesmen to dismiss the charges as "Soviet propaganda", +even though many other countries carried it. The Soviets recently retracted +the charges, in the new spirit of US-USSR cooperation. +A variation on the AIDS-BW theory that is popular in far-right publications +is that AIDS was developed in Soviet laboratories for use against the US. An +obvious problem with this idea is that the victims of choice of a Soviet BW +attack would be anti-communists, not minorities or homosexuals, who are +generally more left-wing. The people at greatest risk from AIDS in the US are +in fact the very elements most disliked by arch-conservatives. In any case it +is simplistic to assume that one country, US or USSR, is conducting this +campaign against the other. Although concealed in apparent conflicts between +nations, the real culprits are multi-national fascists on both "sides" still +bent on massive population reductions and global domination. +Other motives include the old "divide and conquer" principle; AIDS is +inspiring fear and mistrust between people, and scaring them away from +relating to each other at the basic level of sexuality. It is acting as a +barrier to the attempted cultural resurgence toward peace, love and +cooperation. Of high school students surveyed last year as to which decade +they'd most like to have grown up in, 90% chose the 60's. The last thing pro-war fascists want is another "love generation", especially if it is more +politically sophisticated than the last one. +Apparently homosexuals were an initial target in the US because their sexual +practices would help in the rapid spread of the disease, and because it was +correctly assumed that very few non-homosexual citizens would pay much +attention during the early years of the epidemic. Also the stigma of a +"homosexual disease" would interfere with rational analysis and discussion of +AIDS. Bear in mind that homosexuals were among the first to be exterminated in +Nazi Germany, before Jews or other minorities, so fewer citizens would object. +The details of precisely how the AIDS virus was synthesized, mass cultured, +and spread by incorporating it into vaccination programs are available but +fairly intrictae. It is beyond the scope of this report to present a crash +course in virology, epidemiology, genetic engineering, and the military +strategies of international fascism. Readers are encouraged to obtain and +study the references cited here, and demand a full inquiry. Those officials +who are actually involved in the coverup will reveal it by their inaction +when pressed to investigate. +Evil is hard to confront, especially on the preposterous scale we have here. +If you acknowledge the presence of those who think their only hope for +survival of their kind is to kill off two thirds of all the other kinds, and +their ability to manage it, you then pretty much have to do something about +it. +Three good sources, each of which lists many other key references, are: +Covert Action Information Bulletin #28 ($5) Box 50272, Washington, DC 20004; +Bio-Attack Alert ($20) Dr Robert Strecker, 1501 Colorado Blvd, LA, CA 90041; +Radio Free America #16 by Dave Emery & Nip Tuck (3 tapes, $10), Davkore Co., +1300-D Space Park Way, Mountain View, CA 94043.

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WHY WAR

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The vast majority of humans desire peace and cooperation, so why are there +curently 43 wars arging around the globe? +To find what or who is responsible for a problem that persists and gets +worse no matter how hard you work at correcting what you think is the cause, +look to see who benefits from the continuation of the problem. +The beneficiaries of war are: 1) the owners of the companies that +manufacture and sell all kinds of weapons systems, 2) the owners of the giant +banks that loan money to governments to cover the deficits created by defense +spending, who can then use the billions in interest payments to get their own +people elected and influence government spending policy toward still greater +debts, and 3) the heads of governments who have so thoroughly cheated and +mistreated their citizens that only wars with outside enemies, genuine or +artificial, will distract the people from recognizing and revolting against +the real enemy in their own government. Hence, the symbiosis of U.S. and +Soviet military-industrial-intelligence establishments. +Imagine that you're in the big-time weapons business. Your profits depend on +increasing the world-wide demand for weapons. So you re-invest profits and/or +government funds to "stimulate the market". Hire "ex-"CIA or other clever +mercenaries to stir up or intensify foreign and domestic hostilities. +Overhtrow popular leaders and replace them with fascists, who need tons of +weapons just to keep their own outraged citizens subdued. Don't think about +the natives your merchandise ruins. Peace movements are costly and must be +infiltrated and sidetracked, and their mjore effective leaders assassinated. +The owners of the major news services are tightly connected with the +defense and banking giants, through interlinked corporate directorates and +membership in the Council on Foreign Relations. So if you get all your news +and information from AP, UPI, NBC, ABC, CBS and the other established media +owned by the same interconnected pro-war corpocracy, of course you'll remain +totally baffled by the treason-disguised-as-bungling that dominates the news. +Don't expect those sources to expose any deeper layers of the cover-up of +illegal weapons deals than are needed to ease out the Reagan team and install +a different batch of front-men to continue the same policies (if Americans +allow it). Just like after Watergate. +Only millionaires can get their own friends appointed to "investigate" them +when they are accused of criminal acts. Senator John Tower, assigned to "get +at the truth" in the Iran-Contra affair, is a long-time ally of key weapons +industrialists. He's even married to the sister of Interarms president Sam +Cummings, the world's largest private arms merchant. +If you're really serious about wanting peace on earth, you must first learn +the identities, motives and plans of the people who profit from the creation +of wars amd the arming of the combatants. Do you really expect men of great +wealth and power and no compassion to end on their own such a profitable +enterprise? They have no incentive to stop production of weapons and torture +equipment as long as their agents are allowed to stimulate markets for such +things, by creating and funding supposedly leftist terrorist groups, and +overthrowing legitimate third-world governments to install fascists.

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The federal deficit is constantly referred to in mass media without ever +acknowledging why it really exists. The world's largest banks derive their +largest profits from the interest payments on loans made to governments. Only +governments borrow billions at a time, and they only do that to cover budgets +bloated with massive "defense spending". Thus, the top bankers have a vested +interest in maintaining the appearance of a threat of imminent war. The very +men who collect the yearly billions in interest payments on the national debt +are then able with such resources to make sure the government policies calling +for deficit spending continue. +To understand the direction the world has taken since World War II, one must +recognize the full implications of these facts: throughout the war, the Nazis +had tremendous financial and material support from such U.S. corporations as +Ford, ITT, Standard Oil and Chase Bank. The Nazi goal of world conquest, +enslavement and population reduction appealed just as strongly to powerful +American fascists, and still do. Only a few dozen Nazi officers were ever +tried for war crimes. Literally thousands of other important Nazi personnel +simply moved their base of opeartions to the U.S., South America, the Middle +East and elsewhere. Under the guidance of Martin Bormann, they also removed +from Germany all the acpital they'd accumulated (over $370 million), and used +it to form some 750 foreign corporations officially headed by local nationals, +but with German expatriates as the principal shareholders. These companies, +reinvesting "from abroad" in Germany's industrial reconstruction, are +responsible for its rapid recovery and current economic strength. They also +are tightly interconnected with their American counterparts, and include some +of today's biggest multinationals. The loyalties of the Nazis who went +underground remained with the Third Reich and its long-range goals. And the +Nazi's niggest enemy, our war-time ally the Soviet Union, suddenly became +"our" enemy. Only these two superpowers were big enough to provide a +believable threat to each other, to justify continuing to maintain large-scale +military forces and industries in both countries. +The governemnt checks and balances provided in the U.S. Constitution were +completely sidestepped by the formation of the C.I.A. in the Executive Branch +immediately following World War II and stomped into the ground as more such +agencies were added (NSC, DIA, DISC< DARPA, FEMA, etc.). Few citizens are +aware yet that the CIA was created by Nazi general Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's +chief of intelligence against the Russians. Gehlen was brought over to the +U.S. right after the war with his entire staff, and given 200 million dollars +to continue the job for "our side". At the same time, hundreds of other top +Nais were imported (this was called "Project Paperclip") and given new +identities and government positions. They formed the core of the new U.S. +intelligence, defense, and aerospace establishments. Why do you suppose every +CIA-engineered coup installs a Nazi-like dictatorship that suppresses, +tortures and murders the native populations? +The first thing new intelligence agents are taught is to lie convincingly. +With the intelligence/defense establishment in almost total control over the +U.S. government, naturally we now have an actor in the White House. Official +deception of citizens is a dialy occurrence, for "national security reasons", +which has more to do with protecting those in power than protecting the +nation. But even though many government lies are exposed, many others have not +yet come out. It is a common tactic to confess to small misdeeds to throw +investigators off the trail of major crimes. +Intelligence agents are also taught how to sabotage, steal, arrange coups, +set up phony front organizations, blow up buildings, cars and planes, and kill +people without being detected. These are their products, the things they are +paid to do. So its it any wonder we now have a world in which all these things +occur constantly and are attributed to other sources? +When truth is what is really wanted, many popular deceptions must be given +up. Most people trying to reach the truth would prefer to pause at a safe +plateau of group agreement along the way. However, the world situation has +reached the point where learning what is really going on is far more important +than maintaining confidence in governments, corporations, schools and +established media. When the map you're following is of some imaginary land +instead of where you really are, of course you'll be mystified by what you see +around you.

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If while reading this you are experiencing disbelief or outrage, you'd +better start studying some of the references listed below, because you'll be a +lot more upset if you find out later that it's all true, whe it's too late for +you to do anything about it. +Or perhaps nations of sheep deserve to be fleeced, and then...? Come on! +It's time to stop pretending we don't know any better.

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BOOKS FOR THE BRAVE

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_Gehlen:_Spy_of_the_Century_ -- E.H. Cookridge; Random House (formed CIA) +_The_Warmongers,_and_the_Paper_Aristocracy_ -- Howard S. Katz; Books in Focus +_The_Secret_Team_ -- L. Fletcher Prouty; Ballantine (CIA "controls" world) +_Spooks_ (Wm. Morris & Co.), and _Secret_Agenda_ (Random House) -- Jim Hougan +*A_Higher_Form_of_Killing:_The_Secret_Story_of_Chemical_and_Biological_Warfare +-- R. Harris and J. Paxman; Hill and Wang, NY (is AIDS a weapon?) +*Nomenclature_of_an_Assassination_Cabal_ -- Wm. Torbitt (the removal of JFK) +_The_Taking_of_America,_1,_2,_3_ -- Richard E. Sprague +_The_Nazis_Go_Underground_ (1943) -- Curt Riess; Doubleday Doran +_Project_Paperclip_ -- Clarence G. Lasby; Atheneum 214, NY +_The_Great_Conspiracy,_and_Sabotage!_The_Secret_War_Against_America_ -- +Michael Sayers and Albert Kahn; Little, Bronw & Co.; Harper +*Moongate:_Suppressed_Findings_of_the_U.S._Space_Program_ -- Bill Brian; +Future Science Research Publishing Co., Box 06392, Portland OR 97206 +*International_Terrorism_and_the_C.I.A._ -- Syromsky; Progress Publishers +*The_Real_Terror_Network_ -- Edward S. Herman; South End Press, Boston +*The_Death_Merchant_ -- J. Goulden; Bantam (CIA arms U.S. enemies, terrorists) +*Deadly_Business:_Sam_Cummings,_Interarms_and_the_Arms_Trade_; Norton +*The_Great_Heroin_Coup_ -- Henrik Kruger; South End Press (CIA and narcotics) +*On_The_Take:_From_Petty_Crooks_to_Presidents_ -- Wm. Chambliss; Indiana U. +*Amnesty_International:_World_reports_ (annual) -- Amnesty Int'l, London +*The_Crime_and_Punishment_of_I.G._Farben_ -- Joseph Borkin; Pocket Books +_The_Glass_House_Tapes_ -- Louis E. Tackwood; Avon Books (LAPD & Cointelpro) +*Under_Cover:_35_Years_of_C.I.A._Deception_ -- Darrell Garwood; Grove Press +_Coup_D'Etat:_A_Practical_Handbook_ -- Edward Luttwak (how-to manual on +overthrowing a country by member of Reagan's transitionteam); Fawcett +*The_C.I.A._and_the_Cult_of_Intelligence_ -- V. Marchetti and J. Marks; Dell +*Trading_with_The_Enemy_, and _American_Swastika_ -- C. Higham; Delacourte +*Operation_Mind_control_ -- Walter H. Bowart; Dell (CIA/Army & MK ULTRA)

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*(Titles unavailable from publishers can be obtained from: Tom Davis Research, +P.O. Box 1107, Aptos CA 95001)

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PREDICTIONS

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Often those taken in by clever con-jobs don't report it, preferring not to +look like stupid suckers. On a grand scale, this and group agreement +dependency must explain most Americans' continued tolerance of the high +treason portrayed as well-intentioned bungling, that passes for U.S. foreign +and domestic policy. Until now. +This year, millions of Americans will stop buying the official stories and +start looking and thinking for themselves, including those military and +government people who discover they've also been betrayed. We're about to see +unprecedented non-compliance with institutionalized scams and foreign +conquests that have enriched a few at great cost to all others. +No longer mistaking the symbol for the thing, true patriots will reaffirm +their loyalty to the people, land and principles of America; not the White +House, Pentagon or corporate warmongers who create and strengthen our enemies +so we'll keep paying more for "security". +Communism is such a stupid and repressive system that it has been easy to +persuade citizens that it's also the cause of all our troubles. But such +simplistic explanations for continuing warfare, in the face of a global demand +for peace, are looking more ridiculous every year. The collaboration at the +highest levels between U.S. and Soviet weapons merchants to perpetuate demand +for their products has become too blatant to ignore. +A much higher percentage of American business, media and government leaders, +ashamed at having allowed U.S.-sponsored coups, terrorism, genocide, +parasitism and hypocrisy to make the U.S. the most hated and feared of all +nations, will stop assisting their own would-be enslavers and instead pour +some of their wealth into world-healing projects. They'll choose to be +remembered as heroes who helped rescue the planet at the last possible minute, +rather than as greedy, short-sighted jerks who kept trying to hold back the +future right up until it crushed them. +Regardless of who helps and who doesn't, the suppression of proven solutions +for major problems and resource shortages by the monopolists that profit by +perpetuating them, will no longer be permitted. +The dams of deception are about to burst, and the flood of truth will simply +wash away anyone who tries to stop it. Far safer to help the truth come out +now and release the pressure less explosively.

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FREE ENERGY OPTIONS

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There is no energy shortage, only a blocked information flow on fuelless +energy sources. The major media are owned mostly by the same characters who +own the energy conglomerates, so they should not be expected to publicize +alternatives to their monopolies. Citizens who are tired of being misled need +to look into the scientific underground's information channels. +Everything perceivable is composed of energy. The fabric of space itself has +an energy density per cubic centimeter far exceeding the entire world's energy +consumption, regardless of whather the space is occupied by matter. This is +due to its oscillation frequency being sixty octaves above the top of the +known spectrum, which stops at an electron's diameter. Energy potential +increases with frequency of vibration. We do not feel the enormous pressure of +this electric fluid, just as we do not feel the ten or fifteen tons of +constant air pressure on our bodies. +Tiny amounts of this energy are drawn from the "space-juice" in all energy +production methods. The apparent source of energy may be photons, combustion +of hydrocarbons, atomic disruption or mechanical conversion, but in all cases +it is the same ultimate source, appearing in various forms. +The US Patent Office categorically denies patents to any invention that +seems to involve "perpetual motion". Manufacturers won't touch an unpatentable +device. Thus the public is denied access to energy conversion systems that +seem to derive power "from nowhere". Actually the law of conservation of +energy is not violated by such devices. They are merely tapping an officially +unrecognized source. A windmill would appear to violate conservation of energy +as well, if we had no other means of feeling or detecting the wind. +Interestingly, despite this restriction a number of patents have been +granted for instruments that can run themselves and have power left over. In +most of these the self-powering feature is not directly pointed out in the +patent application. Apparently it goes unnoticed by the overworked examiners, +who by now have approved nearly five million patents. +Our civilization utilizes only a small percentage of those five million +inventions. Scattered among the remainder are some fascinating alternatives to +what currently prevails. They have never been implemented only because they +threaten to render various existing industrial monopolies obsolete. Agents of +the power elite routinely sabotage efforts to get such breakthroughs into +mass production. +Currently in the news is Joe Newman's Energy Machine. While Reagan stalled +on acid rain, and Hodel pushed offshore drilling, the US Patent Office +continued to block commercial development of this latest of many government-smothered free energy devices. +Newman is suing the patent office for refusing to grant his machine a +patent, in violation of their own regulations and the advice of the expert +they chose to examine the device. They also are issuing false statements to +the press about the invention's workability. Over thrity respected electrical +engineers, physicists and technical experts have endorsed Newman's machine and +signed affidavits confirming his claim of greater energy output than external +energy input. Ten congressmen have introduced bills which would require +Newman's patent be granted. +As the Newman battle heated up, Reagan appointed Donald Quigg, a thirty-year +Phillips Petroleum executive, to head the Patent and Trademark Office. The +Judge entrusted with the case, Thomas P. Jackson, has violated judicial +procedure, ignored expert testimony and ordered Newman's prototype confiscated +and destroyed. During Watergate, Jackson was the attorney for John Mitchell +and CREEP's corrupt finance division. +Newman identified the gyroscopic properties of subatomic particles and built +a unique arrangement of coils and magnets to draw energy directly from them, +thus converting almost immeasurably small amounts of the machine's mass into +energy. Theory and device are detailed in "The Energy Machine", $38.45 +including postage, from Joseph Newman Publishing Co, Route 1, Box 52, +Lucedale, Mississippi 39452; 601-947-7147. Free press releases and brief +technical decsriptions are also available, send SASE.

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Much quieter is H R Johnson of Blacksburg, Virginia. His motor simply puts +the continuous power of magnets in a usable rotary form. The device is +composed of specially curved magnets, and uses the difference in force and +quality of their north and south poles to create a net unidirectional +rotation. His patent number is 4151431, granted in 1979, but commercial +production does not appear to be occurring.

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Professor Shinichi Seike of Uwajima, Japan has built gravity-field energy +converters out of coils resembling mobius bands and klein bottles. The +equations describing electrical flow in such topological curiosities are very +strange indeed. Imaginary numbers appear in the energy output figures. Power +seems to well up inside the devices, which have no moving parts. +Seike's work is covered in his book, "The Principles of Ultra-Relativity", +$40 from Gravity Research Lab PO Box 33, Uwajima, Ehime (798) Japan.

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Fourteen years ago Joseph Papp was granted US Patwnt #3670494 for his +Noble Gas Plasma Engine. A mixture of inert gases (helium, neon, argon, +krypton, xenon) is sparked in a sealed cylinder with a piston. The spark +causes the gases to expand violently though no cpombustion is occurring. +Mechanical energy is delivered by the piston's displacement. The gases +immediately collapse to their original density and the cyle is repeated. After +several thousand hours the gases lose their elasticity and are replaced.

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Many types of ordinary rock actually emit electricity at a rate of roughly a +volt per foot thickness of rock. Take a slab of granite or basalt, paint +copper on both ends and attach wires to the painted surfaces, making in effect +a large capacitor. Hook the wires to an electrostatic type voltmeter that can +detect small currents, and a continuous flow of electricity will appear. The +amount of current increases with the surface area of the rock faces. The +voltage fluctuates daily by about thirty percent, and is strongest when our +galaxy's core is overhead, suggesting that the rock is translating gravity +waves into electricity. It remains to be seen in this can be adapted to +provide usable amounts of energy. Details on this phenomenon can be found in +Townsend Brown's papers on "Petro-voltaics", $17 from Rex Research, Box 1258, +Berkeley. CA 94701.

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There are many other free energy systems that have been devised in this +century alone, with varying degrees of efficiency and verifiability. None have +stood a chance so far against the existing energy monopolies. Perhaps the +threat of nuclear-and oil-induced ecological and economic disasters is +finally severe enough to bring on a massive public demand for re-examination +of these clean alternatives. In future issues of NOW WHAT we'll examine some +of these in more detail. Meanwhile a reference list is provided for those who +are interested in knowing more.

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The best single source of info is the many detailed folios available from +Rex Research, PO Box 1258, Berkeley, CA 94704. The extensive catalog is $2 and +covers many other areas of exotic science as well. +Another good source is Fry's Publishing, 9237 Craver, Morongo Valley, CA +92256. Start with "Suppressed and Incredible Inventions", $10. +"The Manual of Free Energy Devices and Systems", $10 from Electrodyne +Corporation, PO Box 11422, Clearwater, FL 33516. +"Tesla Said", and "The Nikola Tesla Patent Wrappers", John T Ratzlaff, +editor. Tesla Book Company, PO Box 1685, Ventura, CA 93002. +"Toward A New Electromagnetics", and "Solutions to Tesla's Secrets and The +Soviet Tesla Weapons", by Tom Bearden. Tesla Book Company. +"The Sea of Energy", by T Henry Moray. Cosray Research Institute, 2505 +South 4th East, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. +"Living Water: Viktor Schauberger and the Secerets of Natural Energy", by +Olof Alexandersson, Turnstone Press Ltd, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, +England. +"The Principles of Ultra-Relativity", by Shinichi Seike, $40 from Gravity +Research Lab PO Box 33, Uwajima, Ehime (798) Japan. +"Reality Revealed", by Douglas Vogt and Gary Sultan, Vector Associates, San +Jose, California. +"The All-Electric Motional Electric Field Generator", Frances G Gibson (on +W J Hooper's work), Electrodynamic Gravity, Inc, 34 West Tallmadge Ave, Akron, +OH 44310. +"Awesome Force", J H Cater, Cadake Industries, PO Box 9478, Winter Haven, +Florida. +That's enough to get you started. Welcome to the High Volt Age.

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[TRANSCRIPT OF ISSUE #1 INCOMPLETE]

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The following is the beginning of a short story by Waves Forest in +"Three-Fisted Tales of 'Bob'". This part is *not* uncopyrighted.

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"BOB" AND THE OXYGEN WARS - Waves Forest

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The SubGenius boasts about Time Control always sound like a bunch of tall +tales, until you get a firsthand taste of the High Volt Age. One of "Bob's" +Friends from the Future just clued me in, partway at least, and my scrambled +synapses still haven't settled. How do I apply some of these crazy new ideas +in time to prevent or at least personally survive you-know-what?

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Sometimes it seems like your luck has to balance out somehow, where you have +to undergo a total bummer to set you up for something great you'd never have +run into otherwise. +I was hoping this would be one of those times. A blown head gasket on an +empty desert highway should be worth some sort of break to even things out, +preferably before the sun melted me into the asphalt. +But so far all I was getting was a new and deeper appreciation of the word +*barren*. Even the occasional scragglebush looked like it really resented +being here, and wasn't about to put any more than the bare minimum of survival +effort into it. +So much for shortcuts. I'd been walking for three hours and had seen only +only one car. The e"BOB" AND THE OXYGEN WARS - Waves Forest

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The SubGenius boasts about Time Control always sound like a bunch of tall +tales, until you get a firsthand taste of the High Volt Age. One of "Bob's" +Friends from the Future just clued me in, partway at least, and my scrambled +synapses still haven't settled. How do I apply some of these crazy new ideas +in time to prevent or at least personally survive you-know-what? + +Sometimes it seems like your luck has to balance out somehow, where you have +to undergo a total bummer to set you up for something great you'd never have +run into otherwise. +I was hoping this would be one of those times. A blown head gasket on an +empty desert highway should be worth some sort of break to even things out, +preferably before the sun melted me into the asphalt. +But so far all I was getting was a new and deeper appreciation of the word +*barren*. Even the occasional scragglebush looked like it really resented +being here, and wasn't about to put any more than the bare minimum of survival +effort into it. +So much for shortcuts. I'd been walking for three hours and had seen only +only one car. The expressions glimpsed on the flyby were of dull surprise that +anyone would even try to hitch a ride in this time and place - a feeling I +could appreciate. +It was getting rather obvious that years of city life had left me in pitiful +shape. Only a few hours out in a hot but otherwise ordinary American desert +and I was nearly wiped out already. +This was no longer just a matter of missing a long-shot job interview that +might have helped me postpone lifting anything heavier than a paintbrush a +little while longer. It was starting to look like all my stubborn resistance +to changing times had caught up with me. When their basic survival needs get +threatened, most folks' interest in "art" evaporates quicker than piss on a +desert bush, which got the unpleasant surprise of discovering that it could +get even more resentful than it already was. +Shortly after that so did I. My crude pack of stuff salvaged from the car +got its fill of bouncing and bellyaching, split open and scattered feeble +expressions of American "culture" across the gravel. How appropriate. The +phrase "World Without Slack" kept taking opn new and more exasperating +significance. +While I was crouching there, telling various inanimate objects how stupid +they were and patching the pack up by tying my shirt around it, all my arm and +neck hairs suddenly stood up. +I turned around, and there was the smoothest-looking sports car I've ever +seen, standing with the passengr door open. Instant floods of relief struggled +with major danger signals for control of my legs. There was no way I could +have missed seeing that car miles ahead of its arrival. I'd been looking back +a lot oftener than any logical expectations could justify. And even with all +the smkog that's crept into the desert basins, visibility was still at least +twenty miles, on a road going straight over the horizon. +The desperate craving for shade won out. Dehydration makes me capable of +superhuman rationalizations. The car was actually the same shimmery color as +the road, and might have been mistaken for part of the constant mirage. The +motor was too quiet to be heard over the mild desert winds - which, rather +than cooling me off, tended to produce a slight blowtorch effect. +And anyway, how could something so beautiful be dangerous? Its curve was +completely different yet thoroughly appropriate. The interior was a deep moss +green, and a cool ocean breeze seemed to be flowing from inside it. This car +was definitely not made in Detroit. +As I stepped up to the open door I could see that the kid at the wheel +looked harmless enough - scrawny, and unarmed unless his swimming trunks had a +secret compartment, or the car itself was one big weapon. I collapsed into the +strange green upholstery and pulled the door shut. The sound reminded me +slightly of a submarine hatch closing. +"Thanks", I rasped. "Thatw was getting embarrassing." +The kid just smiled and floored it. We went from zero to about one-ten in +seven seconds, with no gear changes that I could detect. The bucket seat +yielded in all the right places, but I immediately discovered there were no +seat belts. And all that I could figure out was that he must have some really +ultimate soundproofing, because I could hardly hear any engine noise. This was +just sort of a deep muffled pounding whoosh, like a distant waterfall. +"What kind of car is this?" +"You sound awful. Here, soak those vocal cords before you break something. +Unless you're trying for a New Sound, maybe." +I seized the water jug, closed my eyes and swallowed until I had to stop for +air. Then I sat there gasping and trying to identify some of the extra stuff +in the car's instrument cluster. What little I thought I could recognize made +no sense at all, so I looked at the driver instead. +He didn't seem to make sense either. For one thing, he was soaked, not from +sweat but as if he'd just been swimming five minutes ago. He looked quite cool +and comfortable, and smelled like seawater - of which the nearest had to be a +couple hundred miles away. +Also, he didn't entirely look like a kid, up close. The face was maybe +nineteen, but the eyes seemed much too confident and experienced. Though he +looked thin, the muscle definition was unusually sharp. And his hands and feet +looked like they'd seen at least thirty years of heavy work, and were up for +plenty more whenever. +I acted mildly unastounded by our speed and silence and took another shot at +conversation. "You're probably wondering how I came to be stuck out here." +"Not really." +Normally I'd expect to be annoyed at such indifference to human suffering, +especially mine, but he was so matter-of-fact about it. +He added, "One dead car, three hours cold, and one overheated hitchhiker two +hours' walk past it. Nothing else around for miles. Fairly short list of +possible explanations, eh?" +In these irritating times that sort of a statement might be considered as a +mild put-down, especially from a strange and evidently well-financed teenager. +But here it came across perfectly straightforward. +I credited my extra tolerance to the relief of getting out from under the +sun, and to the water's invigorating aftertaste. +"What's in this stuff?" +"A few trace minerals, some North Pole magnetism and extra oxygen." +My stomach started feeling rather odd. "How do you get magnetism into +water?" +"Put the north face of a large, flat magnet against it for a while. Makes it +more able to hold things in solution. Don't use the south face unless the +water's for plants." +"Uh, just how much stuff is in solution here?" +"Very little. It's mostly to help it dissolve and carry out unnecessary +stuff from whoever's drinking it." +I had to admit that sounded like a good idea. Depending of course on who was +defining "unnecessary", and for what. +He took a giant swallow of the jug so I let it slide, then remembered +something else. "How could you tell my car was three hours cold?" +"Infrared. Comes in handy when you drive at night a lot." +I was trying hard not to goggle at the instrument panel, but it was rather +spooky. There were pressure and temperature gauges: internal, external and +somewhere else. There were high-voltage dials, gas-mixture indicators, gauges +for magnetic and gravitational field intensities, a ship's floating compass, +little radar and sonar screens, dials I couldn't identify at all, and some +sort of range finder. +But there was no fuel gauge anywhere. Also, the speedometer had no numbers +on it, just colors, and the needle was shockingly low on the dial. Unless it +read backwards, it was meant to be able to register speeds many times higher +than what we were doing. If that wasn't weird enough, there was an altimeter, +next to a depth gauge. +Looking at all that stuff, I didn't know whether to laugh or try to escape. +A lot of it appeared to have been salvaged from other vehicles. Most of the +controls were touch-sensitive patches behind the same clear shield that +covered all the gauges. What should have been a gearshift obviously wasn't, +since he hadn't touched it yet. There were extra knobs branching off it, and +what looked like backhoe levers beside it. There were also several small video +screens, all empty. +Seen against all this, the faded "Bob" sticker on the glove compartment was +rather reassuring. I'd met lots of SubGeniuses, and while most were pretty +peculiar, none seemed to be actually dangerous to me so far. +Just over the windscreen was a full-length detailed chart of the +electromagnetic spectrum, with tiny indicator lights along the whole thing, +including an extra upper section I'd never seen. Strangest of all, sprouting +from among the gauges were nine different clock faces with little dagger-shaped joysticks poking out of them. +My stomach suddenly felt very peculiar, and I involuntarily shook like a wet +dog for an instant, then let out a tremendous belch. Just as suddenly I felt +all right, better than I had all day. +"What the heck was that?" +"You just clobbered the anaerobic germs in your stomach, and also boosted +your oxygen saturation a bit." +"Huh?" +"You have a severe oxygen deficiency, like most people in this time period. +Due to pollution and deforestation, right now your atmospheric oxygen levels +are at an all-time low, so the oxygen pressure in your blood is insufficient +to guard you against oxygen-hating microbes. You become slightly stagnant, and +serve as a growth medium for anaerobic parasites. But all pathogens are +inherently much weaker than you own cells, which are a lot more highly evolved +than viruses, bacteria, fungus and such. So you can always get rid of them by +just raising your internal oxygen concentration above what they can stand. +I was still working on the first part. "I've heard of all kinds of +nutritional deficiencies, but oxygen?" +"Your body's supposed to be at least eighty percent water, which is eight +ninths oxygen." +"Wait a minute, water is two hydrogens for each oxygen, right?" I was not +exactly a chemistry whiz. +"Yeah, but the oxygen atom is sixteen times bigger, remember?" I hadn't. +"You're supposed to be composed of over two thirds oxygen, twice as much as +everything else in you combined. The bigger a proportion of something in a +formula, the more margin there is in the high to low range of how much you can +put in and still make that formula work. That also applies to the formula for +an organism. +"So you can see how a person could exist anywhere along a wide range of +oxygen saturation that can support his cells, though the lower levels are not +much fun. But people can still function, more or less, even at oxygen +percentages so low that anaerobic microbes can inhabit them quite +comfortably." +"Well, how can you tell if your oxygen level is high enough?" +"If you get sick, it isn't." +"But everyone gets sick sometimes." +"Everyone you know about. You're all oxygen-starved, that's all." +I considered this while watching the desert race by. I was strangely +reluctant to ask how we managed to hurtle over this beat-up old highway +without feeling any real bumps or vibrations. Instead I asked, "Well, doesn't +the encyclopedia still say oxygenx makes up twenty-one percent of our +atmosphere?" +"Have you measured it yourself lately? They haven't. They just keep printing +the same figures from earlier editions." +"So what level is it?" +"Depends where you measure it. In a healthy rain forest it can still get up +over twenty percent. But most large cities have very few trees and lots of +carbon monoxide, which, being electrically unstable, gobbles up free oxygen +like crazy, to become carbon dioxide, which is more stable. In those cities it +gets down to twelve percent or less at times. In Eastern Europe, with the +whole Western world's pollution blowing at them, even wooded areas can drop +below fifteen percent. Entire forests are dying there. For humans, suffocation +occurs at around seven percent." +"You mean that the cities are already more than halfway to suffocating?" +"Right. What do you think causes early heart attacks, crib deaths and +crashed immune systems? Very little of that happening in mountain villages. A +mammal's immune system uses lots of single-atom oxygen in knocking off germs, +and carries it around H2O2. That's because singlet oxygen itslef is so +reactive it only stays loose for maybe a millionth of a second before +oxidizing the nearest appropriate molecule. You should be internally producing +and using several quarts of H2O2 every day, but you can't if there's not +enough oxygen available from your air." +A little of this was coming back now. "H2O2? You mean hydrogen peroxide?" +"Yeah, oxygen water. The tiny amount in what you drank oxidized the +pathogens in your stomach." +"That stuff they sell in brown bottles?" Yucko. +"No, the pure food-grade kind, thirty-five percent, which can hurt you if +you don't dilute it enough. Lots of health-food stores carry it now. The +drugstore variety has chemical stabilizers in it. Okay to put a little on a +wound, but not much else." +"Stabilizers?" +"Supposedly to keep the oxygen from escaping, but it's really more stable +than they let on. Mainly it's so no one will use enough of it all at once to +get rid of a major disease that should have netted some hospital at least +twenty grand." +"What? Which diseases can you get rid of with it?" +"All of them. But oxygen water is too simple and cheap to draw any +commercial interest. Unpatentable." +"What do you mean, all of them?" +"Like I said, all disease organisms prefer much lower oxygen saturations +than what your cells function best at. Their primitive, fragile membranes +break down at concentrations a healthy human cell merely finds invigorating. +You need it constantly; oxygen's the only thing you can die in minutes +without. Get enough and it protects you from disease." +"What about cancer?" +"Especially cancer. It's anaerobic; high oxygen levels kill it pretty fast. +Otto Warburg won a Nobel Prize back in the 1930s for pointing that out, but +your medical establishment has ignored the principle since then. Too +unprofitable. Cancer cells get energy from glucose by fermentation instead of +oxidizing it like normal cells. This wastes so much energy that the healthy +cells can't get enough to function and the cancer squeezes them out, unless +you intervene by raising the oxygen level one way or another." +I thought of a couple of friends who should be hearing this. My growing +exhilaration wasn't just from watching the now painless desert zooming past. +"Why isn't all this written up somewhere?" +"It is, it's just unpublicized. Hundreds of physicians have independently +reported curing all kinds of supposedly incurable diseases by raising the +patient's oxygen saturation, whether with intravenous H2O2, ozone blood +infusions, taheebo or hyperbaric oxygen tanks, all of which simply raise the +level of H2O2 in the blood. But the way of modern science is to disregard any +facts that fit the accepted lucrative theory. And disease is a multibillion-dollar industry, in case you hadn't noticed." +"For someone so young, you are well-informed but awfully cynical." +He chuckled lightly. "Just how old do you hink I am?" +I was spared the embarrassment of guessing completely wrong by a small +interruption. A kamikaze jackrabbit apparently decided we were its ticket out +of this desert and maybe out of rabbithood, and scooted right in front of us. +The kid's hand twisted part of the steering wheel like a motorcycle throttle, +and the whole car smoothly lifted a couple of feet then dropped back to the +road. I turned and glimpsed a surprisingly complicated expression on the +receding rabbit. +"Would you mind telling me where this car was made?" +"Detroit, mostly." +"Uh, Detroit in Michigan?" +"Where else?" +I really wasn't holding up my end of the discussion very well. But I was +still determined to at least be too cool to ask why he was dripping wet in an +air-conditioned car ninety miles from any water. +That was another thing I realized just then: The air conditioning was +supreme. Instead of the usual dry, synthetic-tasting car air, this air was +cool, moist, and invigorating, like the air near a waterfall. The roasted +landscape whizzing by, and the relentless sun beating down all around, might +as well have been on a movie screen for all the effect they ahd on us. +I tried a different approach. "Is your air conditioner a custom job as +well?" +"Actually it's fairly standard at this car's point of origin. Nice, eh? The +extra moisture, oxugen and negative ions make it pretty close to the optimum +breathing mix for humans." +I spotted the inside air-mix gauge. "Thirty percent oxygen? Isn't that +supposed to be twenty-one?" +:Just because it was twenty-one when the encyclopedias first came out +doesn't mean that's optimum. Desertification of Earth has been going on a long +time, though the current rate is unprecedented. Remember hearing about those +scientists who measured the air mix in bubbles trapped in fossilized amber? It +tested out around this high. These samples were trapped about the time the +mammals took over. Not much tree-cutting or gas-burning going on back then, +and the plant-animal ratio was ideal. Under those conditions eventually humans +appeared, designed to operate at that oxygen percentage." +"So it's dropped by a third since then?" +"It's had lots of help. Currently the manufacture and operation of your +machinery consumes eighteen times the oxygen you use up through breathing. +That's the equivalent of another ninety million people standing around sharing +your air, all so someone can keep selling oil and cars and such. Talk about +wasteful, it works out that driving twenty thousand miles uses up as much +oxygen as breathing for two years." +"Folks do have a right to travel, though." +"Absolutely, but there are much cleaner, cheaper and safer methods, ready +and waiting, still as effective as back when they were invented and neglected. +Same with oxygen as a healing principle. It's an ancient concept, appearing in +various forms throughout history, but you all need it now more than ever. It +stands to reason that if your body contains over three times the percentage of +oxygen that's in the air, it has to work a lot harder at concentrating +whatever it extracts through nreathing when the atmospheric oxygen level +drops. So supplementing it with oxywater or other high-oxygen substances +becomes the most logical short-term solution." +"How about long-term?" +"Re-establish a healthy global oxygen production-consumption balance, if +you're up to the task. It can be done, though the situation may need to get +even worse before enough folks get their priorities straight. Like a lot of +things, oxygen is taken for granted, but since it is so reactive, free oxygen +has to constantly be replenished or it all gets bound up in other compounds. +Keep trashing your forests and your oceans' phytoplankton, and you'll all be +gasping long before X-Day." +"Oh yeah, when's that again?" +"Soon enough that you'd better get cracking. It'll be hard enough as it is, +trying to mobilize a bunch of oxygen-starved Normals, and the longer you wait +the more sick and tired and useless they'll become." +I had a sudden flash. "Is this why people were supposedly stronger and lived +longer in early Biblical times?" +"Precisely. Though by then there was already some atmospheric damage from +earlier civilzations." +"What, like Atlantis?" +"Among others. Many civilizations go through a brief deforestation and +fossil-fuel-burning stage, but this one has been artificially retarded and +kept there for over a century." +"By whom?" +"When you find the answer to that question, you will then know what to do +about it." +"Some reason you can't just tell me?" +"At this point you'd never believe it, and that would interfere with your +grasping certain other necessary facts first." +I made a disrespectful noise. "You sound just like my old college professor, +Mr. McSploont." +"How clever of him. What'd he teach?" +"Disregard for college professors, mostly. I expect he eventually melted +down in the white heat of his own brilliance." +He smiled a knowinxg smile that wasn't smug or irritating, but rather a bit +frightening, hinting at vast hard-won experience. +"So besides being physically less healthy overall, noticed anything else +wrong with city folks?" he asked quietly. +"You name it, they've screwed it up. Basically most of them just act +unbelievably lame, and tolerate the most absurd stuff you can imagine. There's +some exceptions, but I mean, like, have you switched on a TV set lately?" +He casually touched part of the spectrum chart overhead. One screen lit up +with a retina-wrenching ten-second montage of about ninety different TV +channels, then he switched it off. "Yup, pretty pitiful." +I was staring at the blank screen. "Uh, well, yeah, there you are." +"So what do you reckon makes them act like that?" +"Beats me." It was reassuring to refer to "them" as if I had rarely lived in +a city. "It's like they're all brain-damaged. Which is a real drag, +considering that's where all the governments are located... hey, wait a +minute." +He grinned. "Exactly. What happens to a brain that gets oxygen-starved?" +Mine seemed to be slipping gears a bit. "It goes to that big scrap bucket in +the sky, eventually. But continuous gradual oxygen starvation, over a period +of years..." I had to admit this could explain an awful lot of modern human +behavior. "Earlier you implied that all this was somehow deliberate. Does +someone actually want people brain-damaged and stupid?" +"Did you attend a public school? Do you follow the so-called news? Have you +browsed through a pharmacy recently?" +"Well, okay, but aren't most of the guys behind all that living right there +in the cities too?" +"The most powerful ones all have their own remote strongholds, and can +afford to have many others fronting for them. A good rule of thumb is, if +someone's in the news, that person's not actually running things. And hired +help are seldom in on the big picture, or the true purpose of their assigned +tasks." +We reached the crest of a long, low rise an,d started down the other side. +There was a slight bend ahead, with another road feeding in from the south, +all of which seemed a lot mroe interesting than it really was, due to +following so many miles of straightness. At the very edge of visibility it +looked like there was a little town. It struck me that I had one hell of a lot +of unasked questions still, and for all I knew this could be his destination +coming up. +I took a wild guess. "Since you're not a big fan of air pollution, I assume +this car is electrical, somehow." +"You could say that. It has more than one system, but the motor we're using +at the moment is a variation on the Noble Gas Plasma Engine invented by Joseph +Papp in the early seventies. Of course, since it's cheap and fuelless it was +never allowed to be commercially developed." +"Of course. How does it manage to be fuelless with gas plasma?" +"Noble gases. They're inert; with their outer electron shells already full, +they've got no incentive to hook up with other atoms. So they aren't being +burned or broken down, just induced to expand repeatedly. Put a certain mix +of noble gases in a sealed cylinder with a piston, spark it and pulse a +magnetic field around it, and the gases repel each other quite fiercely for an +instant, then collapse back to their previous state, to be sparked again. The +energy delivered by the piston's displacement greatly exceeds that required to +spark the gases, providing a net excess for a self-powering system." +"Are you saying this thing is a perpetual motion machine?" +"We're living on the surface of a great big perpetual motion machine and +composed of godzillions of little tiny ones, so shouldn't they be able to +exist on our scale as well?" +"Well, those things'll all wind down eventually, right?" +"They'll run long enough for whatever you plan on doing with them. Anyhow, +this design is somewhat less than perpetual; every hundred thousand miles or +so the gases lose their elasticity and need to be replaced." +"Sounds pretty tough." +"Sure beats making your whole lower atmosphere taste like a monoxide +suicide's garage." +"Couldn't we retrofit existing car engines to run off this?" +"Simpler to start from scratch, but maybe. Seal off the valves, throw away +the carburetor, fuel lines, exhaust manifold and so forth, evacuate the +cylinders and let in the inert gas mix. It'd become two-stroke, since there's +nothing for it to suck in or exhaust." +"So this gas is some combination of helium, neon, argon, krypton and xenon?" +I was amazed I could still remember their names. "I suppose the exact mixture +is privileged information." +"Technically, but it's locatable. The inventor's still alive, last we heard, +but understandably rather frustrated. It's always disillusioning to work out a +practical solution for some major problem, only to find that there's someone +profiting hugely by keeping the problem just the way it is." +For some reason I didn't resist this notion as much as I usually would, even +though it implied my eventually having to help do something about it. But at +the moment what I really wanted was details. "Where could I find diagrams and +such? I'm no engineer but I know a couple. While we're at it, how's that +gearless transmission work? And what was that hopping trick? I'm assuming +you'd like others to pick up on these inventions." +"Naturally. The drive gear consists of long cones pointing in opposite +directions, with a heavy triangular belt that slides along them, giving a +smoothly variable ratio between their cross sections. Again, it's not a new +idea, but it had anti-commercial potential, being much too efficient and +durable, so no way was any major automaker going to retool for that." +"I'd think the first to do it would make a fortune. Who wouldn't want one?" +"You're kidding, right? At first, sure they would, but then that'd be the +end of selling replacement transmissions, and cost billions in lost engine +sales and repairs, from the greatly reduced wear. Plus billions more in +lowered gasoline consumption, due to improved efficiency. As for the rest of +it, remind me to give you a few patent numbers and such before you get off." +It occurred to me that during all this I still hadn't asked how far he was +going. Whatever it was, we'd be arriving a lot sooner than expected. +There was a billboard, of all things, about four miles ahead of us. Mr. +Science touched something under one of the video screens and it gave us a zoom +picture of the road ahead. He reached up and pushed a spot just below the +visible-light band on the spectrum chart, and a little car-shaped pink spot +with abright center appeared on the screen at the bottom of the billboard. +"Nice of 'em to build that feller some shade. Though I doubt he's been there +long." +"Well, don't you think you should slow down a bit?" +He shook his head. "My, aren't you well-conditioned. Don't sweat it; this +car's not under any local jurisdictions." +While I considered my response, trying to choose between sounding real law-abiding and getting some clarification, we zipped past the billboard. He +touched a spot on the radio portion of the spectrum, just as a very dusty +police car lurched out after us in a cloud of gravel. +"Got a live one, Charlie", buzzed a small speaker in the dash. "No plates, +too fast to get the make. At least one-twenty." +"Want me to come on out?" A fainter voice, younger. +"May need you for a roadblock, so stand by. Let's see if this new engine is +as good as Clyde says." +We were already nearly a mile past him but now we could hear a faint siren, +slowly getting louder. We slowed down slightly, a move which sort of seemed at +cross-purposes with rocketing past a sherriff in the first place. My ever-unpredictable benefactor hit a button under the speaker and said, "Are you +attempting to get my attention, officer?" +There was a brief spluttering noise, then a few clenched words. "Smart boy, +huh? Pull your fancy self over, before I get irritated." +"That shouldn't be necessary. I can easily answer your questions in this +manner, without being late for my destination." +"You think this is open for discussion? Identify yourself." +"Changesmith. Or CS, whichever. Who's this?" +"Officer Harry Scrotum. You have about five seconds to pull off my highway." +"I see", said CS sympathetically. "What seems to be the trouble?" +"Are you nuts? Reckless endangerment, doing twice the limit, unauthorized +use of police bands, no plates; hell, I expect your fine'll buy us a whole new +station. You're even hauling drugs for all I know." +CS smiled questioningly at me and I shook my head. "Nope", he said. "And no +one uses them from where I'm from." +"Drugs?" +"License plates." +There was a strained silence. He evidently was not up for pursuing the +implications of that. We were now less than a quarter mile ahead of the +sherriff's car, which was still creeping closer, apparently at its top speed. +Changesmith added helpfully, "If our velocity is causing concern, be +reassured that this vehicle is crash-proof and does not threaten the safety of +local traffic, should there happen to be any." +There was a heavy sigh. "Charlie, get that block up, now. Don't use any +working vehicles; drag over some clunkers from Philo's lot. +"And as for you, snakebrain, consider yourself warned. This is your last +chance to pull over in one piece." +"Sorry to disturb tour programming, but it's a mistake to assume that +everything that moves through your area is subject to your rules and +limitations." +"That's it, pal, your detah wish is granted." +A sudden shimmy fro the left hind wheel was followed by the faint sound of +two gunshots. Changesmith touched a panel on the dash and a small sign lit up +that said GUNJAMMER, then he accelerated us a bit. The shimmy grew more +pronounced, then there was a loud clank and it stopped entirely. +No flat tire, and no more gunfire that I could hear. I looked back to see a +pistol being violently shaken out the cop's window, accompanied by some +general-purpose curses coming over the speaker. +CS said, "Sorry, but we couldn't chance a ricochet hitting someone in your +town up ahead", and switched off the speaker. +"What'd you do?" I asked. +"Ever hear of a subject known as sonochemistry? Production of chemical +changes with sound waves? This is related; we're broadcasting a simulation of +the wave pattern that occurs when water blocks the oxidizing spaces in +gunpowder. Since matter is junior to energy, many effects can be induced on +the physical level simply by emitting the kinds of vibrations which accompany +and direct them." +"Now that I like. How wide an area is affected?" +"The range varies with the power and circuit design. At the moment, no one +can shoot anybody within about twelve miles of us." +"Well, all right! Does it interfere at all with organic oxidation?" +"Good question, but no; cellular processes are all much less explosive. +Different frequencies altogether." +"Couldn't someone just mass-produce these things, hide them all over the +world, and stop wars and murders once and for all?" +"With enough time and materials, yes. Appealing idea, isn't it? Like taking +matches away from children." +I thought about it. "On the other hand, I suppose the more extreme gun +lovers would all come after you with crossbows, until it sunk in that now +they'd be protected as well. You'd have to be pretty discreet." +He zoomed the picture on the screen a bit more, and the rusty town became +quite visible, complete with roadblock. The crew that was pushing it together +seemed to be engaged in a lively argument with some old desert rat over one of +the cars they'd included. +CS chuckled and switched the speaker back on. "How's your engine holding +up?" +"Oh, so you're back, eh? I see we can add Giving False Names to the list of +charges." +"Not at all.

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In the best-selling 1962 spy thriller SEVEN DAYS IN MAY, the +Joint Chiefs of Staff plot to overthrow the U.S. president. Their +conspiracy centers on a place called Mount Thunder, a secret +subterranean command post where government leaders would go in the +event of a nuclear attack. +On December 1, 1974, a TWA Boeing 727 jet crashed into a fog-shrouded mountain in northern Virginia and burned, killing all +ninety-two persons aboard. Near the wreckage was a fenced +government reserve identified as Mount Weather. +Mount Weather is a real place; eighty-five acres located +forty-five miles west of Washington and 1725 feet above sea +level, near the town of Bluemont, Virginia. In the event of all-out war, an elite of civilian and military leaders are to be taken +to Mount Weather's cavernous underground shelter to become the +nucleus of a postwar American society. The government has a secret +list of those persons it plans to save. +The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) runs Mount +Weather. When it has to talk about the place, which is rare, it +calls it the "special facility." Its more common name comes from a +weather station that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had +maintained on the mountain. +The authors of SEVEN DAYS IN MAY, Fletcher Knebel and Charles +W. Bailey II, were Washington journalists who learned a lot about +the then-quite-secret post. Few readers of Knebel and Bailey's +fiction could have imagined how close to the truth it was. The +novel gives detailed highway directions from Washington:

+ +

...the Chrysler wheeled onto Route 50, +heading away from Washington.... +In the jungle of neon lights and access +roads at Seven Corners, Corwin saw Scott bear +right onto Route 7, the main road to Leesburg. +The two cars moved slowly through Falls Church +before the traffic began to thin out and speed +up.... +At the fork west of Leesburg, Scott bore +right on Route 9, heading toward Charles +Town.... They began to climb toward the Blue +Ridge, the eastern rim of the Shenandoah +Valley.... +West of Hillboro, where the road crossed +the Blue Ridge before dropping into the +valley....Scott turned left. Corwin followed +him onto a black macadam road that ran +straight along the spine of the ridge. +...Because of his White House job, Corwin +knew something about this road that few other +Americans did. Virginia 120 appeared to be +nothing more than a better-than-average Blue +Ridge byway, but it ran past Mount Thunder, +where an underground installation provided one +of the several bases from which the President +could run the nation in the event of a nuclear +attack on Washington. +

+

+Knebel and Bailey disguised the directions slightly. You +continue on Route 7 west of Leesburg, turning left on Route 601 +just west of Bluemont. It's Virginia Route 601 that runs right up +to the gates of Mount Weather. Residents have long known there is +something funny about that road; it is always the first road +cleared after a snowstorm. +At one point, the government asked the local paper not to +print any articles about the facility. But it is all but +impossible to keep such a place secret. The Appalachian Trail runs +right by Mount Weather, and hikers can get close enough to see +signs and flashing lights. One sign reads: "All persons and +vehicles entering hereon are liable to search. Photographing, +making notes, drawings, maps or graphic representations of this +area or its activities are prohibited." In the late 1960s an +unidentified "hippie" is supposed to have stumbled upon the +facility and sketched it from a tree. His drawing turned up in the +QUICKSILVER TIMES, an underground newspaper in Washington. +Residents also tell of the time a hunt club chased a fox onto +the site and triggered an alarm. The club had to go to the main +gate to get the dogs back. +After the TWA crash, a spokesman "politely declined to +comment on what Mt. Weather was used for, how many people work +there, or how long it has been in its current use," the WASHINGTON +POST reported. The POST published a picture of the facility, +citing far-fetched speculation that Mount Weather's radio antennas +may have interfered with the jet's radar and caused the disaster. +You don't get into Mount Weather without an invitation. The +entrance is said to be like the door to a bank vault, only +thicker, set into a mountain made out of the toughest granite in +the East. It is guarded around the clock. +Mount Weather got more unsolicited publicity in 1975. Senator +John Tunney (D-Calif.) charged that Mount Weather held dossiers on +100000 or more Americans. A sophisticated computer system gives +the installation access to detailed information on the lives of +virtually every American citizen, Tunney claimed. Mount Weather +personnel stonewalled question after question in two Senate +hearings. +"I don't understand what they're trying to hide out there," +Douglas Lea, staff director of the Senate Subcommittee on +Constitutional Rights, said. "Mount Weather is just closed up to +us." Tunney complained that Mount Weather was "out of control." +Mount Weather has been owned by the government since 1903, +when the site was purchased by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. +Calvin Coolidge talked about building a summer White House there. +In World War I it was an artillery range, and during the +Depression it was a workfarm for hobos. Mount Weather as an +alternate capital seems to have been the idea of Millard F. +Caldwell, former governor of Florida. +There is a fallout shelter under the East Wing of the White +House. No one believes it offers any real protection from a +nuclear attack on Washington, however. FEMA has elaborate plans +for getting the president and other key officials out of +Washington should there be a nuclear attack. +In that event, the president is supposed to board a Boeing +747 National Emergency Airborne Command Post ("Kneecap"). That is +presumed to be safer than any point on the ground. The president's +plane can be refueled in the air from other planes and may be able +to stay airborne for as long as three days. Then its engine will +conk out for lack of oil. That is where Mount Weather comes in. +Government geologists selected the site because it has some +of the most impregnable rock in the United States. The shelter was +started in the Truman administration, and it took years to tunnel +into the mountain. +There is a whole chain of shelters for leaders and critical +personnel. The Federal Relocation Arc, a system of ninety-six +shelters for specific U.S. Government agencies, sweeps through +North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and +Pennsylvania. A duplicate of the Pentagon is located at a site +called Raven Rock in Maryland. The administrative center of the +whole system, and the place where the top civilians would go, is +Mount Weather. +Mount Weather is much more than a fallout shelter; it is a +troglodytic Levittown. In the mid-1970s Richard Pollack, a writer +for PROGRESSIVE magazine, interviewed a number of persons who had +been associated with Mount Weather. According to them, Mount +Weather is an underground city with roads, sidewalks, and a +battery-powered subway. A spring-fed artificial lake gleams in the +fluorescent light. There are office buildings, cafeterias, and +hospitals. Large dormitories are furnished with bunks or "hot +cots" -- hammocks intended to be occupied in three eight-hour +shifts. There are private apartments as well. Mount Weather has +its own waterworks, food storage, and power plant. A "bubble-shaped pod" in the East Tunnel houses one of the most powerful +computers in the world. +The Situation Room, a circular chamber, would be a nerve +center in the time of war. The Mount Weather folks set great store +by visual aids and retain artists and cartographers at all times. +A futuristic color videophone system is the basic means of +communication within Mount Weather's subterranean world. "All +important staff meetings were conducted via color television as +far back as 1958, long before it was generally available to the +public," one former staffer bragged. +The most surprising of Pollack's revelations is that Mount +Weather has a working back-up of U.S. Government EVEN NOW. +Undisclosed persons there duplicate the responsibilities of our +elected leaders, making Mount Weather an eerie doppelganger of the +United States. +An Office of the Presidency is ensconced in an underground +wing known as the White House. The elected president or survivor +closest in the chain of command would make his way there and take +over the reins. Until then, a staffer appointed by FEMA would be +carrying out duties said to simulate those of the real president. +Installed at Mount Weather are nine federal departments, +their very names ironic in the context: Agriculture, Commerce, +Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, +Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, and the Treasury. +Miniature versions of the Selective Service, the Veteran's +Administration, the Federal Communications Commission, the Post +Office, the Civil Service Commission, the Federal Power +Commission, and the Federal Reserve are there, too. +"High-level government sources, speaking under the promise of +strict anonymity, told me that each of the federal departments +represented at Mount Weather is headed by a single person on who +is conferred Cabinet-level official," Pollack reported. "Protocol +even demands that subordinates address them as 'Mr. Secretary.' +Each of the Mount Weather 'Cabinet members' is apparently +appointed by the White House and serves an indefinite term. Many +of the 'secretaries' have held their positions through several +administrations." +What do all these people DO? Twice a month, Mount Weather +stages a war game to train its personnel and explore various dire +scenarios. Once a year they pull out all the stops and have a +super drill in which REAL Cabinet members and White House staffers +fly in from Washington. +General Leslie Bray, director of the Federal Preparedness +Agency, FEMA's predecessor, told the Senate that Mount Weather has +extensive files on "military installations, government facilities, +communications, transportation, energy and power, agriculture, +manufacturing, wholesale and retail services, manpower, financial, +medical and educational institutions, sanitary facilities, +population, housing shelter, and stockpiles." Additional +information is kept in safekeeping at other shelters in the +Federal Relocation Arc. +There is a body of opinion that considers Mount Weather +obsolete. Mount Weather is a non-movable target, and a very +strategic one if the relocation works. The "toughest granite in +the East" may have offered some protection in Eisenhower's time, +but multiple strikes could blast the mountain away. It was +reported that the TWA jet crash knocked out power at Mount Weather +for two and a half hours. What would a bomb do? +The Soviet Union knows exactly where Mount Weather is -- and +almost certainly knew long before the Western press did. The +Soviets tried to buy an estate near Mount Weather as a "vacation +retreat" for embassy employees. The State Department stopped the +sale.

+ +

+The Survivor List + +In 1975 General Bray told the Senate that the Mount Weather +survivor list had sixty-five hundred names on it. Who might be +included? +The president, of course, provide he survives his Kneecap +command. The vice-president and Cabinet members are on the list +because they take part in the annual dry runs. Beyond that, little +is known and the few existing accounts conflict. +For instance, what about Congress? General Bray said that his +responsibilities included the executive branch only, not Congress +or the Supreme Court. But in an interview in 1976, Senator Hubert +Humphrey insisted that he had visited the shelter as vice-president and seen "a nice little chamber, rostrum and all," for +postnuclear sessions of Congress. +Furthermore, Earl Warren is said to have been invited when he +was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Warren refused because he +was not allowed to take his wife. The protocol for ordering +persons to Mount Weather specifies that messages not be left with +family members answering the phone. +The vast majority of the persons on the list are believed to +be ranking bureaucrats from the nine federal agencies with +branches at Mount Weather. Pollack said he heard stories that some +construction workers were on the list "because, the Mount Weather +analysts reasoned, excavation work for mass graves would be needed +immediately in the aftermath of a thermonuclear war." General Bray +admitted that some others such as telephone company technicians +are included. +Each person on the survival list has an ID card with a photo. +The card reads: THE PERSON DESCRIBED ON THIS CARD HAS ESSENTIAL +EMERGENCY DUTIES WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. REQUEST FULL +ASSISTANCE AND UNRESTRICTED MOVEMENT BE AFFORDED THE PERSON TO +WHOM THIS CARD IS ISSUED. + +

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THE RANDY WEAVER CASE +Another Federal Fiasco!

+ +

BATF's entrapment of Randy Weaver led to +the violent deaths of three people. Says his +defense attorney, Gerry Spence: "What +happened to Randy Weaver can happen to +anybody in this country." +BY JIM OLIVER

+ +

Seeing his dog, Striker, shot to death by masked intruders clad in +camouflage, Sammy Weaver, 14, fired back in fear for his life. The +4 ft., 11"-tall youngster was hit in the arm, then shot in the back as +he turned to run for home. He died instantly, killed by an agent of the +federal government.

+ +

Cradling her 10-month-old daughter in her arms, Vicki Weaver stood +in the doorway of her home, mourning her slain son, unaware that she +herself had only seconds to live. In an instant a bullet tore into Vicki +Weaver's face, blew through her jaw and severed her carotid artery. +The bullet was fired from 200 yds. away by an agent of the federal +government.

+ +

What had the Weaver family done to bring FBI snipers and submachine-gun-toting U.S. marshals to the woods around their cabin on Ruby Ridge +in northern Idaho? Why did the government act as though the Weavers +had forfeited the protections guaranteed all Americans by the United +States Constitution? Who made the decisions that led to their +unjustified deaths and also to the death of deputy U.S. Marshall William +Degan?

+ +

For the six men working near Weaver's plywood cabin on Ruby Ridge, +Aug. 21, 1992, was another day on a job that had been going on more +than 16 months. Their employer, the U.S. government, was spending +$13000 a week, and there had been no end in sight to the work.

+ +

The cabin--really a shack--was home to 44-year old former Green +Beret Randy Weaver and his family--wife, Vicki; son, Sammy; and +daughters, Sara, Rachel and Elisheba. It was also home to their young +friend, Kevin Harris. They were subsistence hunters, and tended a +garden, putting up vegetables. A generator produced occasional +electricity. They had no TV, no radio.

+ +

This day there were some new men on the job site not far from the +cabin--one, 42-year-old William Degan, had been brought to northern +Idaho on special orders. He was to help plan a successful conclusion +to the job.

+ +

The men in the woods were dressed in their work clothes--camouflage +commando outfits complete with masks. They carried the tools of +their trade--two-way radios rigged for quiet operation, night vision +equipment, semi-automatic handguns, fully automatic military rifles +and at least one silenced HK submachine gun. One of the men was a +medic, prepared to care for any casualties.

+ +

The weaver family had dogs. Somebody threw a rock to test their +reaction. A golden retriever barked near the cabin and came running +their way. A mission somebody in the Marshal Service had dubbed +"Operation Northern Exposure" was about to end.

+ +

The "op" had included use of jet reconnaissance overflights with +aerial photographic analysis by the Defense Mapping Agency, and +placement of high-resolution video equipment recording activity by +the Weaver family from sites 1 1/2 miles away--160 hours worth +of tape used.

+ +

For nearly a year and a half, federal agents had roamed the area, +picking locations for surveillance and for snipers. Degan, belonged +to the Special Operations Group, the Marshals' national SWAT team. +The six on-site this day were deputy U.S. Marshals.

+ +

The target of all of this--and of a Federal law enforcement and +prosecution effort that would eventually total approximately $3 +million--was Randy Weaver. What kind of criminal was he to +demand this kind of attention? Was he a major drug dealer? +Serial killer? Was he a terrorist bomber?

+ +

No. On Oct. 24, 1989, Weaver sold two shotguns whose barrels +arguably measured 1/4 inch less than the 18 inch length determined +arbitrarily by Congress to be legal. The H&R single-barrel 12-ga. +and Remington pump were sold to a good friend who instructed +Weaver to shorten the barrels. The "good friend" was an undercover +informant working for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms +(BATF), who later told reporters he was in it "mainly for the +excitement."

+ +

Eight months after he sold the shotguns, Weaver was approached +by two BATF agents with an offer--spy on the Aryan Nations, a +white supremacist hate group head-quartered in northern Idaho, +or go to jail. Weaver refused to become a government informer, +and--six months later--he was indicted on the shotgun charge.

+ +

On Jan. 17, 1991, as Weaver and his wife were driving to town +for supplies, they encountered a pickup truck-camper with its +hood up, a man and woman seeming to be in trouble. The Weavers +stopped to offer their help. A horde of federal agents piled out +of the camper. A pistol was pressed against Weaver's neck. Vicki +Weaver was thrown to the slushy ground.

+ +

Weaver was arraigned before a federal magistrate, who later +admitted he cited the wrong law. Out on bond, Weaver went back +to his cabin. According to friends who testified in court, he and +his wife vowed not to have any more dealings with the courts of +the federal government. They would just stay on their mountain.

+ +

A hearing was set on the shotgun matter for Federal Court in +Moscow, Idaho. The government notified Weaver by letter that +he was to appear March 20, 1991. The actual hearing was held +February 20--one month earlier. The error in dates was enough +to give rise to a memo within the Marshal Service saying the case +would be a washout. (Weaver did not show for the wrong date, +either.) U.S. Attorney Ron Howen went to the grand jury anyway, +and Weaver was indicted for failure to appear.

+ +

But why had the BATF picked Randy Weaver to set up as an +informer? He was a man devoted to family, a man with no criminal +record, a veteran who served his country with honor. It was Weaver's +beliefs that made him an ideal target. His unorthodox religious +and political views were far outside mainstream America. He +was a white separatist. And, Randy Weaver was little, a nobody.

+ +

Over the next 16 months, the feds painted Weaver as racist, as +anti-semitic, as a criminal. But they had to entrap him into his +only crime, altering two guns. The media were unquestioning. In +print and on TV and radio, Weaver's home--the plywood shack he +built himself--became a "mountain fortress," and then "a bunker," +and a stronghold protected by a cache of 15 weapons and ammunition +capable of piercing armored personnel carriers."

+ +

The common shotguns Weaver sold became the chosen "weapons of +drug dealers and terrorists" or "gangster weapons" that "have no +sporting use." The media always added the universal out... "agents +said." But there were no gangsters. There were no terrorists or +drug dealers, just Weaver, the gun buyer and the government.

+ +

It was all a lie. Hate-hype. People believed it, maybe even the +agents who planted the hate-hype began to believe it. It all ceased +to matter on August 21, when Striker barked and sniffed out the +agents spying on the cabin--lives changed, lives ended.

+ +

Nobody, except the people who were there, knows exactly what +happened next. There were several versions of the story. But some +facts jibe. Randy Weaver's little boy, Sammy--a kid whose voice +hadn't yet changed--and Kevin Harris followed Striker. Harris and +Weaver later said they thought the dog was chasing a deer. Harris +carried a bolt-action hunting rifle. The boy also had a gun.

+ +

Without warning a federal agent fired a burst into Striker, killing +him. (It came out in court later that there had been a plan to take +the dog "out of the equation.") The boy, frightened, shot back, and +when one of the agents fired another burst, Sammy lay dead.

+ +

Kevin Harris shot deputy William Degan in the chest. He died a +few moments later. The shooting ended relatively quickly. The +agents would claim Harris fired first. Harris claimed he fired after +the boy was shot. Agents told the media their men had been pinned +down for eight hours. It was a lie.

+ +

The dog was dead. The boy was dead. Deputy Degan was dead. Two +American families had tragically lost loved-ones. During the night +hours, Randy Weaver and Kevin Harris brought the little boy's body +to a shed near the cabin and washed it.

+ +

Deputy Degan's shooting brought in the FBI. Soon, the Weaver +property was ringed by a huge force of FBI, BATF, U.S. Marshals, +Idaho state police and local law enforcement and Idaho National +Guard.

+ +

Among the federal law enforcement commanders was Richard +Rogers, the head of the FBI's hostage rescue team, which includes +its snipers. On the flight out, he took an extraordinary step--he +decided to alter radically the prescribed rules of engagement of +FBI sharpshooters.

+ +

Normally, agents can only shoot when they are facing death or +grievous harm. But 11 snipers that were positioned around the +Weaver cabin were given new ordrs:

+ +

"If any adult in the compound is observed with a weapon after +the surrender announcement is made, deadly force can and should +be employed to neutralize the individual." This meant Randy Weaver's +wife would be fair game. It went on:

+ +

"If any adult male is observed with a weapon prior to the +announcement, deadly force can and should be employed if the shot +can be taken without endangering the children."

+ +

Of words reminiscent of hollow justifications used in Waco, Texas, +federal spokesmen kept telling the media of their concern for the +children. In fact, Gene Glenn, the agent in charge of the siege, told +The New York Times he considered the kids to be hostages. Yet they'd +already killed one child.

+ +

The negotiators were not in place, and no effort had been made to +contact the Weavers, when Randy Weaver, Kevin Harris--armed-- +and 16-year-old Sara Weaver left the cabin and moved to the shed +where Sam's body lay.

+ +

As the three reached the shed, an FBI sniper some 200 yds. away +aimed at Weaver. He told the court he was aiming for the spine, +just below the neck. He missed; shot Weaver in the back of the arm, +the bullet exiting through the armpit.

+ +

Sara later told Spokesman Review staff writer Jess Walter in a +copyrighted story:

+ +

"I ran up to my dad and tried to shield him and pushed him toward +the house. If they were going to shoot someone, I was going to make +them shoot a kid."

+ +

At the cabin, Vicki Weaver was waiting at the door, holding her +infant daughter, Elisheba. The sniper fired again. His bullet hit +Vicki Weaver. She was dead before the baby hit the floor, +miraculously unhurt. Harris was hit by bullet fragments and bone +from Vicki's skull. He was bleeding badly. Randy Weaver, daughters +Sara and 10-year-old Rachel all saw the violent death.

+ +

Later, sniper Lon Horiuchi stated in court that killing Vicki Weaver +had been a mistake; that he was aiming for Kevin Harris. Defense +attorney Spence asked him, "You wanted to kill him, didn't you?" +He answered, "Yes, sir."

+ +

Sara Weaver recounted the night following her mother's death. +Again from reporter Jess Walter's story:

+ +

"Elisheba cried during the night. She was saying, 'Mama, mama, +mama.'... Dad was crying and saying, 'I know baby. I know baby. Your +Mama's gone....'"

+ +

She told Walters that on Sunday, they tried to yell at federal agents +and get their attention, to tell them that her mother was dead. She +said they got no response. Instead they would her the FBI negotiators.

+ +

"They'd come on real late at night and say, 'Come out and talk to us, +Mrs. Weaver. How's the baby, Mrs. Weaver,' in a real smart-alecky +voice. Or they'd say, 'Good morning, Randall. How'd you sleep? We're +having pancakes. What are you having?"

+ +

The FBI later claimed it had no idea that its sniper had shot Vicki +Weaver. Yet a New York Times stringer quoted FBI sources as saying +they were "using a listening device that allow(ed) them to hear +conversations, and even the baby's cries in the cabin." Another lie?

+ +

On Thursday, August 27, radio newsman Paul Harvey used his noon +broadcast to reach the Weavers, who he'd learned were regular +listeners. Urging Randy Weaver to surrender, Harvey said, +prophetically, "Randy, you'll have a much better chance with a jury +of understanding homefolks than you could ever have with any kind +of shoot-out with 200 frustrated lawmen."

+ +

As part of their efforts to make contact with the Weavers, the FBI +sent a robot with a telephone to the cabin. But the robot also had +a shotgun pointed at the door, so the Weavers feared that reaching +for the phone could result in death or injury.

+ +

Somewhere in all of this, the FBI discovered the body of Sammy. +They told the news media they didn't know he'd been killed.

+ +

The siege began to unravel six days after Vicki Weaver had been +killed. Her body remained in the kitchen of the cabin all that time. +Sara crawled around her to get food and water for her family. It +was during this time that Randy Weaver and Kevin Harris dictated +their version of their story to Sara. In this letter, Weaver accused +his government of murdering his wife.

+ +

The news media, based on information from the feds, repeatedly +reported that Vicki had been killed in "an exchange of fire" or in +a "gun battle." More spin control.

+ +

The only shots were two--from the government's sniper.

+ +

Kevin Harris was the first person to come out. Sunday, August 30, +badly wounded, he was rushed to a Spokane hospital where he was +treated and charged with murder. A magistrate told him he was +facing the death penalty.

+ +

The rest of the family came out on the next day. The surrender was +negotiated--not by the FBI--but by Bo Gritz, former Green Beret hero.

+ +

All the lies and federal spin control over the story were about to +end. The case was going to court.

+ +

The 36-day trial took place in the U.S. District Court in Boise, with +Judge Edward Lodge presiding. The jury of eight women and four men +heard the government put on 56 witnesses. The defense rested +without calling a single witness, confident that the government had +destroyed its own case. They were right.

+ +

The jury deliberated for nearly three weeks, and found Harris not +guilty of murder or any other charges leveled against him. They +found Weaver not guilty of eight federal felony counts. The judge +had earlier thrown out two other counts.

+ +

Weaver was found guilty of two counts: failing to appear in court +and violating his bail conditions. He was declared not guilty of the +gun charge--the seed of all this misery.

+ +

It was a bizarre trial, full of contradictions, with government +witnesses countering each other's stories as to the events of +August 21, and countering the events leading up to Vicki Weaver's +death the next day.

+ +

The question of who fired first--Harris or the Marshals--was key +to the jury deciding on the murder charge against Harris. In the end +they believed Kevin Harris acted in self-defense. Earlier, the death +penalty had been ruled out. The law the prosecution cited had been +struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court two decades before.

+ +

The government spent days going over the Weavers' religious views, +trying to establish they were racist and demonstrated a long-lived +conspiracy to violently confront the government. The jury didn't +believe it.

+ +

Marshall service witnesses told about a series of pre-siege scenarios +to root Weaver out of his cabin. But when pressed by the defense, +they said they never considered simply knocking on the door and +arresting him.

+ +

During the trial, the government admitted that the FBI had tampered +with the evidence; that the crime scene photos given the defense +were phony reenactments. Physical evidence had been removed and +replaced. The prosecutor knew this and had failed to tell the defense.

+ +

The prosecution also withheld documents that might have helped +the defense. When ordered by the judge to produce them immediately, +the FBI sent the material from Washington, D.C., via Fourth Class mail, +which took two weeks to cross the country. For prosecutorial +misconduct, the judge ordered the government to pay part of the +defense attorneys' fees, an action almost unheard of in a criminal +case. Prosecutor Hoiwen also was forced to apologize in open court. +At the end of the trial, he collapsed in the middle of a statement, +telling the judge, "I can't go on."

+ +

Gerry Spence told the jury, "This is a murder case, but the people +who committed the murder are not here in court."

+ +

After the trial, Spence told The New York Times, "A jury today has +said that you can't kill somebody just because you wear badges, +then cover those homicides by prosecuting the innocent.

+ +

What are we going to do now about the deaths of Vicki Weaver, a +mother who was killed with a baby in her arms, and Sammy Weaver, +a boy who was shot in the back?"

+ +

Spence has asked the Boundary County, Idaho, prosecutor to bring +charges against various federal agents. Should that happen, lingering +questions about the Weaver case finally may be answered. Should +that happen another jury undoubtedly will serve notice to those +who have forgotten that the United States government is supposed to +serve its citizens, not entrap them, not defame them, not falsify +evidence against them and absolutely not kill their children.

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From: dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen) +Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.conspiracy +Subject: Web of Conspiracy intro/README + 1991Aug8.055902.24581@bilver.uucp +Date: 8 Aug 91 05:59:02 GMT +Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL +Lines: 42

+ +

The Web of Conspiracy intro: +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ +

This text is a channelling from a group who call themselves +"Cosmic Awareness". I do not know anything about them and am +attempting to check them out at this time. This file goes into +some detail about the (alleged) underground bases and touches +on the Dulce and Area 51 topics. I would call this a controversial +text, myself. Please read this at your OWN RISK. It has *not* been +verified or otherwise checked out, to my knowledge. I will leave +it with you to do with as you see fit.

+ +

Since this is (yet another) huge text, I will give the sizes here: + +(minus message headers)

+ +

Web part 1: 27267 bytes +Web part 2: 26636 bytes +Web part 3: 27914 bytes +Web part 4: 32776 bytes

+ +

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Please note: I only post these files to educate people what is currently +available. They are for informational purposes only and as such, should +NOT be taken at face value. There is NO substitute for research and +investigation. If you want to ridicule the information, fine...but I +draw the line at personal slams, so please do yourselves a favor and +avoid ad homenim attacks and we will get along fine. Let's endeavor +to be a notch above the sci.skeptics and alt.paranormal obnoxiousness :-)

+ +

Don

+ +

---------------------------------------------------------------------- +This information is presented for your persusal and is a continuation +of my policy of informing the public what is currently available. The +content of this information does NOT necessarily reflect the personal +views of the poster,nor should the views,opinions,statements or claims +represented in the following be accepted by anyone reading these texts +at *face* value. If this interests you, please endeavor to research it +yourself and investigate it to *your* satisfaction, and as such I will +leave it in your hands to either prove it or de-bunk it :-) + +As I do not have a great amount of time available to pursue follow-ups +exclusively, comments to me should be directed to dona@bilver.uucp +in mail. +---------------------------------------------------------------------

+ +

REVELATIONS OF AWARENESS

+ +

The New Age Cosmic Newsletter

+ +

Cosmic Awareness Communications +P.O. Box 119 Olympus, Washington 83507

+ +

Helping People Become Aware

+ +

90-10 Issue No. 363

+ +

SPECIAL REPORT

+ +

"NIGHTMARE HALL" -------

+ +

"GOD" AT WORK ON LEVEL 6

+ +

THE WEB OF CONSPIRACY: (THE ALIEN PRESENCE): (PART 7)...

+ +

THE UNDERGROUND CITY AT DULCE, NEW MEXICO

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS is the Force that expressed Itself through Jesus of +Nazareth, the Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed, Edgar Cayce and other great +avatars who served as 'Channels' for the 'Heavenly Father' and who +speaks again today as the world begins to enter the 'New Age' of +spiritual consciousness and awareness. Since 1963 Cosmic Awareness +has been communicating through carefully trained channels. This +information is for those who desire to help in bringing in the New +Age. Throughout the thousands of 'Readings' given through these +various channels, Cosmic Awareness tells us not to believe anything, +but to question, explore, doubt, and discover for yourself, through +your own channel what is the truth. Cosmic Awareness will only +'indicate' and 'suggest'. Neither C.A.C. or any of the Interpreters +is responsible for anything Cosmic Awareness states in any of these +readings, nor does C.A.C. or the Interpreters necessarily agree with +the statements of Cosmic Awareness. The Interpreters interpret the +energies as they see them in trance levels and are not personally +responsible for what is said. The Interpreters published herein have +no connection with, nor control over the editorial comments and +material, including illustrations. This is entirely the +responsibility of the editor. Members of C.A.C. are invited to send +in questions of general interest to ask Awareness for possible +publication in this newsletter. +Paul Shockley, Interpreter

+ +

ABOUT THE INFORMATION ON ALIENS THAT FOLLOWS

+ +

(Excerpts from a C.A.C. General Reading) +May 12, 1990

+ +

Question:

+ +

This information on the alien presence, that has not yet been +published: Does Awareness suggest that this take priority over the +other more spiritual information, because of the possibility that +'window' could close sooner than expected, or does Awareness see this +'window' remaining open and the alien information being sent out over +a period of six months or a year and be balanced with other, less +negative, information?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness suggests that the most poignant, most precise, +most important information be released first; that the other +information may be seen as likened unto the flesh that fills out the +skeleton.

+ +

This Awareness indicates there could come a time wherein this +information would be stopped. There could be circumstances that +would prevent the release of the information and this information, +indeed, does need to be released.

+ +

There are many releasing information, but in proportion at this +time, less than 1 percent of the population has any inkling of what +is really going on, and at least 5 percent should know. This +Awareness indicates that probably one person in a thousand,--even +fewer at this time,--has ever heard of the information released even +by Cooper, or the elements involved in such information. Probably +only one in a thousand has ever heard of MJ-12...perhaps even fewer +than one in a thousand. It is likely that one in a half million, or +quarter of a million, has heard of Nightmare Hall. This Awareness +indicates, of course, this is changing, and more and more are hearing +of this.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that such information could be given to +tabloids and immediately, upon publication, these figures would +change enormously. This Awareness indicates a recent tabloid did +include information relating to Cooper and to Lazar, and much of the +population became aware, but to a very limited degree, since the +article was only approximately one-half page in length.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that the important thing is that +entities share the information with others who have some curiosity. +Not to think that they can force C.A.C. to prove this information by +bringing it to the authorities of their state or federal government +or agencies, but to search for themselves, to see if this is +accurate. If you have questions or doubts about the accuracy of this +information, go out and become a researcher for yourself.

+ +

Or, if you don't wish to do so, toss the paper into +the garbage can and forget it. There are some entities +who seem to think that if they hear something that +offends them, they should turn it over to an authority +and make the authority check out the source to see if +it's true.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that It is giving you the sources, so +that you can check them for yourself. If you do not like the +information, close your ears, cease your publication, stop your +subscription, or don't bother to read it. If you want to be aware, +if you want knowledge, if you want truth, you have to be open to +hearing even things you don't really like to hear.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this information isn't for +everyone; it is for the courageous, it is for the strong, it is for +the daring, it is for those who dare to be aware. This Awareness +indicates that it is not the responsibility of C.A.C. to check the +validity of all of this information, it is simply passing along +information. It is giving you the sources, so that you can check the +validity.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that in checking the validity, you +don't go to the people who are unaware, and you don't check on a +whistle-blower by going to the one who's had the whistle blown +against them. Thus, if Karen Silkwood blows the whistle on some +nuclear plant, or group of people who are causing some environmental +hazards, you don't go and ask those in charge of the creation of the +hazards whether Karen Silkwood has her facts straight. You don't ask +the fox in the henhouse if it has seen a fox in the henhouse.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that unless entities understand the +nature and purpose of this communication, to give them enough +information that they may search further for themselves if they so +desire---and there have been many over the years who have desired.-- +in fact, almost demanded,--information about UFO's. If the +information is given, and entities do not like the information, that +is their problem. They simply can ignore the information. You do +not have to attempt to rewrite the information. If you do not like +the story War of the Worlds, turn off your radio; don't expect to be +able to rewrite the script.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that there are many who have demanded +and requested for over a decade that this Awareness gives information +relating to the UFO phenomenon. Such information would have likely +resulted in the death of the individuals herein present had It given +information previously. It is only recently that even the higher +authorities have become aware of the activities of the aliens in +regard to some of these atrocities, to the point where they have had +enough dissension within their own ranks to debate whether to let the +public know. It is only recently that a few involved in the inner +circles of knowers,--having knowledge about UFO's,--have had the +courage to release information in spite of death threats, in spite of +knowing that others have been killed for far less.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that with this reality, with this +opportunity, this window that has suddenly opened, you who have +received the information from these entities and comments on this +from this Awareness, you are likened unto an elite, privileged few. +The chances of having such information is so remote,--less than one +in a million, or one in 50 million people at this time, know what you +know.

+ +

This Awareness suggests you do not expect too much, and that you +help in the dissemination of such information; but that you do it in +a way that is appropriate. This Awareness indicates that you not +endanger yourself, that you now endanger others in the way you +disseminate the information.

+ +
-----------------------------------------
+ +

THE WEB OF CONSPIRACY:

+ +

THE ALIEN PRESENCE (PART 7)--(THE UNDERGROUND CITY)

+ +

(PART 1)

+ +

HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM BEING MONITORED OR ABDUCTED BY ALIENS +(C.A.C. General Reading, May 11, 1990)

+ +

QUESTION:

+ +

Awareness, we're here tonight for a general C.A.C. +reading, with questions sent in by the membership. +Does Awareness have an opening message?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness suggests that entities may take precautions in +regard to protecting themselves in the following manner. (This is in +reference to those times in which an entity may feel the effect of a +monitoring device, or that which appears to be a monitoring energy +and they feel or hear in their ear, or feel around their head, which +occurs from time to time with some entities; that in many cases, not +all, but in many cases, this monitoring is done from alien +technology).

+ +

How the Aliens Select Victims for Abduction

+ +

This Awareness indicates that one may ask: How do the aliens +select people whom they are to abduct? This Awareness indicates that +they select these entities from vibrations in the brainwave pattern +that they seek for their particular interest or needs; that the +selection of a particular type may vary from time to time and +depending on what their purposes are, they may select a person at one +time which they would have overlooked at a different time.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that it is possible to avoid those +brainwave patterns that aliens would seek in their selection process +by wrapping oneself in White Light. This Awareness suggests that in +the first place, the least likely person an alien would seek would be +one whose brainwave pattern indicates a socially strong +individualistic entity. When you have a strong identification, +knowing who in fact you really are, and have a strong connection with +the spiritual essence of the highest, without much fear and without +being easily swayed or easily influenced, you are less likely to +become a candidate for abduction.

+ +

The more vulnerable and easily influenced you are, the more +gullible you are, the more naive you are and the more distraught your +thinking may be, the more you will tend to fit into the types of +candidates that are usually abducted. This Awareness indicates that +having a strong will also is a negative for aliens in regard to +abduction. Also, aliens do not, if they are involved in wishing to +use glandular substances or eat the entity, they do not like the +effects of chocolate, coffee, cigarettes, or sugar or other types of +addictive type foods and drugs in the system. They prefer, this +especially in regard to the reptilials; they prefer the more pure +essences without toxins. That this might be argued as a plus for +these vices.

+ +

This Awareness indicates on the other hand, the use of drugs and +alcohol can be the very thing that would distort a person's thinking +to make them more likely to be a candidate for abduction, for other +purposes. The best protection one can have for oneself during the +time of monitoring, because the monitoring process is designed to +read these brain vibrations; the best protection is to wrap yourself +in White Light, visualize the highest frequencies of Divinity coming +down over you from the Divine Being Itself. +Thus, you can call on the High Self, call on the Christ, call on +God, call on anything that you see as being the Highest and Best. If +you are in to Buddhism, call on Buddha. If you are in to any of the +other religions, call on the highest divinity that you can call on, +and see this entity covering you with a shower of Light, wrapping you +with Divine Light energy while this monitoring is in process. It +will sufficiently block the readings of the aliens if indeed they are +the forces monitoring you.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this is a psychological defense +that you may use in regard to the psychoelectronic monitoring that +aliens frequently do in their hunting process. This Awareness +indicates the term generally used is the 'harvesting' process. They +see this action as a kind of harvesting.

+ +

(Follow-up Question): Vikki

+ +

When I sensed that sound in my head, I automatically, almost +like a reflex, repeated the Law of Love. Does this afford +protection, or should I change?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This can be beneficial. It can help to say the Law of Love. It +is better to visualize the Light energy coming down over you. If you +can incorporate the two without losing the visionary image of the +White Light coming down so that you're saying the Law of Love at the +same time, you are clearly visualizing this love being showered over +you, it can be even more effective.

+ +

AN ACCOUNT OF SEEING UFO'S AND HEARING 'CRICKED' SOUNDS

+ +

QUESTION:

+ +

a sort of personal question from J.R., which is along this line. +She writes: "The night I saw two saucer-shaped crafts, just outside +my bathroom window in West Virginia: Whose craft were they and what +were they doing in my yard? Also, was it in response to the energy +of my astonishment that they immediately took off? Also, were they +related to other craft seen in the area, the one written up in a +local paper, the ones Dr. Jenkins said visited his family regularly; +and currently: why am I hearing the sound of crickets whenever it is +quiet enough to hear it? Is this an effect of meditation, stress, +UFO's or physiological malfunction?"

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that It suggests that you be most +attentive and cautious; that these entities were not Pleiadians; that +the Pleiadians essentially have abandoned this planet temporarily and +may not be able to return. There are some entities from Sirius who +are benevolent beings. These were not the entities from Sirius +either. There are some humans in saucers from the technology that +has been acquired from the alliance with the Greys; that the Greys in +some cases are not as vicious or hostile as others. In regard to the +entities whom you saw, it appears that these were humans of your +government testing craft in the general area without a desire to be +noticed; that they did not recognize your presence when first landing +in the area.

+ +

How the 'Good' UFO Will Contact You

+ +

This Awareness indicates that it is very important however, to avoid +any contact with those of UFO's unless you are absolutely sure that +these are Pleiadians or from Sirius, and these entities will often +give you ways by which you can be absolutely sure. This Awareness +indicates they will make themselves gradually known over a period of +time before contacting anyone in a close encounter.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that they tend to set up appointments +telepathically, letting you know that they will be there at a certain +time, where to look, where to expect them. Anything other than this +kind of appointment should be considered suspect of the more +malevolent type aliens; that the aliens will be tending, and have +tended to become more bold in their abductions and this may increase +as they are increasing in number. This Awareness indicates the +increase of approximately 20000 per month in recent months has been +a kind of average influx during the three days of the full moon.

+ +

Look for Holes or Marks on Your Body

+ +

This Awareness indicates that these entities generally going to +the bases which then allow them to traverse underground to other +places in other areas through these underground tunnels. Anyone who +has seen a UFO should also double-check their memory, trying to +recall if there were any marks on their body or energy weaknesses +shortly thereafter, for in many cases, an entity will see a UFO, be +abducted for a certain length of time, usually on the average of two +hours, anywhere from twenty minutes to two hours, then released, and +the entity will not remember having been abducted, but will simply +remember having seen the UFOs or whatever took place prior to the +abduction.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that if, in examining oneself one finds +holes, such as in the back of the ear, or chin, or a pain in the +nose, or in the back of the head, or somewhere else on the body or in +the naval area or the genitalia area, there is good reason to suspect +that an abduction and experimentation or implanting has taken place. +This Awareness indicates that generally, the memory is gone, but the +subconscious effects and feeling of violation will endure and cause +severe problems thereafter.

+ +

Most entities having been abducted benefit only from therapy +that is similar to that of rape cases. The action being very much +like that of rape, in which an entity has been violated against his +or her will, and the feeling of having been violated can create +severe hostility and make one feel one is violated and a victim, +affecting many of the entity's relationships and activities +thereafter. It is important for entities to get help when such an +event is realized.

+ +

This Awareness suggests however, that it is equally important +that entities not fake an abduction just for attention, because such +action can cause you other kinds of problems that you may not really +desire. It may be that, for example, you find yourself at some +future time being looked at as an abductee when in fact you aren't, +and in some ways, you may feel you have classified yourself into a +certain category that you no longer want to wear as a label. This +Awareness indicates that it is not something that entities should +fake for attention or as a means of self-importance; that generally +speaking, entities could not fake the action anyway and will be +embarrassed and found out when in deeper therapy.

+ +

FOLLOW-UP QUESTION:

+ +

Is there any significance to the cricket sound she's been +hearing?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this is not seen clearly. This +Awareness suggests the entity may wish to pursue further +investigation in this regard to determine whether this might be the +result of an implant which the entity does not recall receiving. It +also could be the result of the close proximity of the craft and +vibration and radiation given off from the craft which may be +affecting her. The energy is not seen as to why this is occurring, if +it still is occurring for the entity.

+ +

This Awareness indicates the entity may wish to read THE GULF +BREEZE SIGHTINGS in which this writer tells about an attempt by the +aliens to abduct him, wherein thereafter he always heard a sound, +vibration in his head, or a hum, when the craft came anywhere near, +even though others could not hear that humming sound. This Awareness +indicates that approximately one in thirty-five or one in forty +entities have been abducted or have in some way received implants; +that not all implants have been effected in the craft.

+ +

How the Aliens Enter a Bedroom to Implant +(Who are the Candidates for Implants?)

+ +

These aliens have the ability, in wearing certain types of packs +on their backs, to move through walls or through rooftops, to come +right into one's home, even into one's bedroom, while an entity +sleeps, and to give an implant. This is very rare that this occurs +however, and in most cases, the implants have been given to entities +who have worked in and around government operated bases or alien +operated bases, or people who work in government occupations, in +order that the aliens have some control over these entities. That +these are the more likely candidates for implants. It is not seen as +a likelihood that persons operating in more socially oriented +occupations, even if in government, such as the post office, or the +revenue department, or commerce department, that these would be +special candidates for implants, but more toward the types who would +work in military occupations, secret bases, or projects, or entities +working in corporations that have close contact with this type of +operation, or the families of such entities, the close-working +families, and also people who live near or around those places where +UFO government operations may be visible to the population. +Thus, for example, the city or town of Dulce, New Mexico, as +being one in which many of the local people have been implanted and +abducted.

+ +

THAT DEVICE THE ALIENS PACK--HOW EXACTLY DOES IT WORK?

+ +

(THAT FORCE THAT RESIDES IN SPACE)

+ +

(FOLLOW UP QUESTION):

+ +

That device the aliens pack with them that enables them to get +into a home: does this device enable them to raise their own +vibrational rate so they can enter matter, or does it raise the +vibration of the matter and allow them to enter, or just how does it +work?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates it creates a field around the entity +which makes the matter lose its density. It is as though matter is +created by atoms in molecular structure, held together by a spatial +force. If you were to look at matter with a high enough microscope +you would see there is more space than substance, yet there is a +force surrounding these particles that tends to bind them together, +holding them in place so that even though they are scattered apart +with great space between them, this would be equivalent, for example, +to a small ball on a football field, the substance of equating to the +space, and the actual substance of the atom being the size of a +football; that is the way atoms would appear if viewed with a +powerful enough microscope, and the question may be: 'How can these +things be held together?'

+ +

It is that force that resides in the space and not the matter +that holds things together, and the aliens' pack is able to overcome +that force, is able to defuse that force, so that the atoms of the +body and the atoms of the wall actually pass through each other, just +as if there were no force between the spaces. It is likened unto +sand going through a screen. If the sand is small enough and the +screen's holes are large enough, the sand can pass through, but if +that sand is made into a ball held together by blue, and it is +placed on a screen, it can't pass through, especially if the glue has +been spread on the screen. The glue is the force that resides +between the particles that make up the atom.

+ +

This Awareness indicates the aliens have the technology to leave +the particles intact, but to diminish the glue that holds the objects +as solid, and this is done through the use of vibration, the raising +of certain vibrations just high enough to overcome that frequency of +the force, the glue force.

+ +

THE TRILATERAL INSIGNIA: AN ALIEN FLAG

+ +

QUESTION: +A question by M.G. in New York: "The alien flag Trilateral +insignia referred to by Cooper, is this the start of the Trilateral +group of humans and aliens?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that the Trilateral humans took their +name from the Trilateral Insignia of the aliens. The symbols are +different.

+ +

THE WEB OF CONSPIRACY: (PART 2)

+ +

ALL ABOUT THAT ALIEN UNDERGROUND BASE AT DULCE, NEW MEXICO

+ +

QUESTION:

+ +

There's some questions that arise from a book called: ALIEN +MAGIC, by William F. Hamilton III, and there's a part of this book +called: THE DULCE BASE, by Jason Bishop the third, and I'd like to +read some of this, if it's alright, and ask Awareness to confirm or +deny this information, and when appropriate, to expand on it.*

+ +

*ALIEN MAGIC, by William F. Hamilton III, +published by UFORCES, 249 N. Brand Blvd., +Suite 651, Glendale, Calif. 91203

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates this in the affirmative, that It may +from time to time raise the hand of the Interpreter to signal a pause +for comment.

+ +

QUESTIONER: (Begins reading):

+ +

"The following material comes from people who know the +underground base at Dulce, New Mexico, exists. They are people who +worked in the labs, abductees taken to the base; people who assisted +in the construction; Intelligence personnel (CIA, NSA, etc.) and UFO +and Inner-Earth researchers. This information is meant for those who +are seriously interested in the Dulce Base. For your own protection, +be advised to 'USE CAUTION' while investigating this complex."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness suggests not only that entities, particularly in +your organization, use caution, but that they NOT investigate this +complex; that it is too well guarded; that only those who have +clearance will be allowed in, and for entities not to think that they +can simply run down there and explore the area. This Awareness +mentions this because there are all types of people in your +membership and some tend to be quite naive, and often want to express +an unusual sense of adventure based on that naivete. +This Awareness indicates that entities so inclined might not +return, and might end up being part of the experimentation conducted +at the base.

+ +

READING CONTINUES:

+ +

"This facility is a 'GENETICS LAB' and is connected to Los +Alamos, via a Tube-Shuttle (underground). Part of their research is +related to the Genetic Effects of Radiation (Mutations and Human +Genetics). Research there also includes other 'Intelligent Species' +(Alien biological Life Forms 'Entities').

+ +

In the revised Sept. 1950 edition of THE EFFECTS OF ATOMIC +WEAPONS, prepared for and in cooperation with the U.S. Dept. of +Defense and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, under the direction of +the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, we read about how "complete +underground placement of bases is desirable." On page 381: "There +are apparently no fundamental difficulties in construction and +operating underground various types of important facilities. Such +facilities must be placed in a suitable existing mine or a site may +be excavated for the purpose."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates this as accurate; that this kind of +underground networking has gone on, not only during this previous +century from the time of World War II as mentioned, but that there +are and have been other underground caverns created by the aliens +many hundreds and thousands of years prior to this time, and these +have been used along with the present excavations and mining +activities of government and alien technologies. This Awareness +reminds you of readings given some ten years ago regarding the +subterranean caverns; that many of these were man-made caverns, and +some were natural, but had been modified by machines of the more +advanced technologies of the subterranean aliens.*

+ +

*'Revelations of Awareness' No. 79-25: +(The Secret of the UFOs).

+ +

This Awareness indicates the Deros described during that time +are remnants of a humanoid species that were left underground for +many generations. They have continued in their underground +civilization which, through a network of caverns and tunnels extends +throughout the United States, South America and in through Europe and +other regions. These tunnels have been known by the Illuminati, +which was formed in 1776 on May 1st, by Adam Weishaupt, which is the +reason for the May 1st celebration in many countries; that this +Illuminati as the foundation for many of the occult and conspiracy +type organizations that have followed. It was based on the alien +contact by these entities.

+ +

This Awareness indicates, of course, there were still earlier +contacts with aliens on this planet, these contacts researching back +into prehistory. This Awareness suggests the questions continue.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES): +"Centuries ago, Surface People (some say the Illuminati) entered +into a pact with an "Alien Nation" (hidden within the Earth). The +U.S. government, in 1933, agreed to trade animals and humans in +exchange for High Tech knowledge, and to allow them to use +(undisturbed) underground bases, in the Western USA. A Special Group +was formed to deal with the Alien Beings. In the 1940's 'Alien Life +Forms' (ALF) began shifting their focus of operations, from Central +and South America, to the USA. The Continental Divide is vital to +these 'Entities'. Part of this has to do with Magnetics (Substrata +Rock) and high Energy States (Plasma)."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This is in the affirmative. This Awareness indicates that this +shift into this area was partly due to the use of the atomic bomb in +its infancy; the first atomic bomb being exploded in Alamogordo. +That this drew great attention from the aliens and in realizing that +these aliens use underground caverns, one can understand why they +became quite concerned with atomic bombs blowing holes in the earth, +and would like to have some input on the government using such +weapons.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"Whose Planet is This? These Aliens consider themselves 'Native +Terrans'". They are an ancient race (descendant from a Reptilian +Humanoid Species which cross-bred with Sapient Humans).

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this is in reference, not to all +types of Greys, but to some of the Greys; the Greys from Orion in +particular; that there are also other variations which do not have +much of the reptilian genetics in them, but have some insect base. +This Awareness indicates that the Greys who were present after World +War II, who were present in this pact with the U.S. government, and +the Greys who were present...This Awareness indicates there were +Greys present on this planet in contact with humans in the late +Twenties and early Thirties, but there were also other tall Greys +that came to this planet in the period of approximately 1947-48; +these being from Orion.

+ +

The Zeta Reticuli Greys, coming in contact more in the Sixties; +that the earlier Greys as having already been in the area, and the +pact which led to the underground cavern bases was with these and +also with the tall Orion Greys. Later, the Zeta Reticuli were +brought in to certain agreements and allowed to have bases and there +were further arrangements with them. They are all interrelated in +some ways as different species, in a similar manner that on earth +different races might still work together, though be somewhat +segregated and somewhat different from each other.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"They are untrustworthy manipulator/mercenary agents for another +extraterrestrial culture (the Draco), who are returning to earth +(their ancient 'outpost') to use it as a staging area.

+ +

But, these alien cultures are in conflict over whose agenda will +be followed for this planet. All the while mental control is being +used to keep humans 'in place,' especially since the Forties."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates this is in the affirmative; that there +is the conflict and agreement between the Grey Reticuli and the +Reptilians; that of the Grey Reticuli, the orange group as being the +more hostile to the Reptilians; that it is also the more hostile +group in regard to Grey/human relationships. This Awareness +indicates, however, that it does offer a potential for shifting of +alliances between the Greys and the humans, since the orange Grey +group is quite hostile to the Reptilians, it offers the humans an +important opportunity to align themselves with the Greys and a +potential for the alliance to be used in case of a conflict with the +Reptilians.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that it would appear that there is the +potential of a situation occurring on this planet in which if the +Reptilians arrive, the human race would not survive for any +meaningful length of time in any quality of life. It would, it +appears, deteriorate in such a manner that the human race would +simply become useful as food for the Reptilians; this in the event +sufficient numbers of Reptilians came and were able to control the +masses of humans, and through their present allies, the Greys, it +would appear this would be possible. Without the alliance between +the Greys and the humans, it would appear that the Reptilians would +have very little obstruction to their total dominion of the planet.

+ +

This Awareness indicates there is still the element of the +Pleiadians and the entities from Sirius, as a potential, but that +this is not at present seen as being a great potential, since +especially the Pleiadians are in deep trouble at home.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"The DULCE Complex is joint U.S. Government/Alien base. It was +NOT the first built with the aliens. (Others are in Colorado, +Nevada, Arizona, etc.)"

+ +

Is that correct?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This is in the affirmative.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"The Secret Activity". Paul Benewitz reports, about his study +into the Dulce area: "Troops went in and out of there every summer, +starting in 1947. The natives do recall that. They also built a +road--right in front of the people of Dulce, and trucks went in and +out for a long period. That road was later blocked and destroyed. +The signs on the trucks were "Smith Corporation" out of Pagosa +Springs, Colorado. No such corporation exists now...no records +exist...I believe the Base, at least the first one, was being built +then undercover of a lumbering project. The problem: they never +hauled logs. Only BIG equipment."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates this is in the affirmative; that there +also was built an underground tunnel from the area of Alamogordo to +the base.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"R & R and the Military Industrial Complex. The Rand +Corporation became involved and did a study for the Base. Most of +the lakes near Dulce were made 'for' the Indians, via government +grants. Navajo Dam is the main source for conventional electric +power, with a second source in El Vado (also an entrance).

+ +

Note: If Rand Corp. is the mother of 'Think Tanks', then the +Ford Foundation must be considered the father. Rand secrecy is not +confirmed to 'reports,' but on occasion extends to conferences and +meetings. On page number 645 of the PROJECT RAND: Proceedings of the +Deep Underground Construction Symposium (March, 1959) we read:

+ +

"Just as airplanes, ships and automobiles have given man mastery +of the surface of the Earth, tunnel-Boring Machines...will give him +access to the subterranean World."

+ +

Note: The Sept. 1983 issue of Omni magazine (Page 80) has a +color drawing of "The SUBTERRENE", the Los Alamos nuclear-powered +tunnel machine that burrows through the rock, deep underground, by +heating whatever stone it encounters into molten rock (magma), which +cools after the Subterrene has moved on. The result is a tunnel with +a smooth, glazed lining."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this, using atomic energy in the +process of heating these rocks, not only melts the rocks to allow for +the tunneling to take place, but it reduces the magma of these melted +rocks in terms of size so that there is very little or no residue +which needs to be carried out of the tunnel, so that the hole itself +is simply plastered up against the sides of the tunnel in a kind of +melted shell.

+ +

(FOLLOW UP QUESTION):

+ +

That would account for the absence of great piles of dirt and +rocks in that area, wouldn't it?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This is in the affirmative.

+ +

(CONTINUING WITH THE STATEMENT):

+ +

"These underground tubes are used by electromagnetically powered +"Subshuttle Vehicles," which can travel at great speeds. They +connect the 'Hidden Empire' Sub-City complexes. Also, the top-secret +project code-named "Noah's Ark," uses 'Tube Shuttles' in connection +with a system of over 100 'Bunkers' and 'Bolt Holes' which have been +established at various places on Earth. With other bases inside the +Moon and Mars. Many of these underground cities are complete with +streets, sidewalks, lakes, small electric cars, apartments, offices +and shopping malls."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates this is in the affirmative. This +Awareness reminds you that there have been numerous movies that have +covered many of the things that are now being exposed as realities. +You will recall the movie in which the entity had his ear down to the +sidewalk, hearing tunnels or hearing a machine underground, boring +the earth, boring a tunnel, and everyone thought the entity was +insane. This Awareness indicates that there have been numerous +efforts by some entities to leak information, in some ways to alert +the public of these various things.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that most of the information went into +movies that were seen as fantasy, and entities were entertained +rather than informed, but now that entities are becoming informed and +looking back on the entertainment that has been given during the past +several decades, these movies will begin to take on a new meaning. +This Awareness indicates JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, as well +as many of the movies regarding duplicates and clones now have new +meaning. Also, that in looking back on the earlier Awareness +readings in which It spoke of synthetics and robotoids, entities will +see that these too take on a new meaning. This Awareness suggests +the questions continue.

+ +

(FOLLOW-UP QUESTION):

+ +

"I had one question about the shopping malls. Are these +designed for humans that are working underground there, or are these +used by aliens?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this as mostly for humans, but +that there also are some shopping places for aliens too; that some +instances of human/alien intermingling is present underground, but in +most cases, in the higher levels, it is more a human-type of society, +although in some cases, the more benevolent aliens will also be found +in certain areas, intermingling with humans, even in those levels. +That in the deeper levels, the aliens have greater domination.

+ +

(FOLLOW-UP QUESTION):

+ +

"This tunnel machine mentioned that uses atomic energy and +burrows, melting the rock; was this technology given to the United +States by the aliens, or did the United States develop that itself?"

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that it is an alien machine. This has +been used down through centuries. It has been modified, but the +concept and the initial construction as that which is alien. The +more recent development as being a joint construction for and by +humans and aliens in cooperation. There are more than one such +machine. This Awareness indicates that these machines however, use +technology that were of alien origin, along with other aspects that +can be understood by human engineers.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"There were over 650 attendees to the 1959 RAND Symposium. Most +were representatives of the Corporate-Industrial State, like: The +General Electric Company; AT & T; Hughes Aircraft; Northrop Corp.; +Sandia Corp.; Stanford Research Institute; Walsh Construction +Company; The Bechtel Corporation; Colorado School of Mines; etc.

+ +

Bechtel (pronounced Beck-tull) in a supersecret international +corporate octopus, founded in 1898. Some say the firm is really a +"SHADOW GOVERNMENT"--a working arm of the CIA. It is the largest +construction and engineering outfit in the USA and the world, (and +some say, beyond).

+ +

The most important posts in the U.S. government are held by +former Bechtel officers. They are part of "THE WEB" (an +interconnected control system) which links the Tri-Lateralist plans, +the CFR, the Orders of 'Illuminism' (Cult of the All-Seeing Eye) and +other interlocking groups."

+ +

Is that information correct?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this is in the affirmative; that +you will recall, especially during the Reagan administration, the +scandals associated with many of his cronies, and the connections +with Bechtel; that in reviewing these, you will find the above +information being pertinent.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"The Dulce Facility consists of a central 'Hub,' the Security +Section, (also some photo labs). The deeper you go, the stronger the +Security. This is a multi-leveled Complex. There are over 3000 +cameras at various high-security locations (Exits and Labs). There +are over 100 Secret Exits near and around Dulce. Many around +Archuleta Mesa, others to the south around Dulce Lake and even as far +east as Lindrith."

+ +

Is that correct?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This is in the affirmative. This Awareness indicates that there +are caves used by aliens throughout the United States, Canada and +South America, as well as in Europe. Many of these are small bases +inside mountains that are in more remote areas; that there are +underground tunnels connecting many of these. In some cases, the +openings are used for the spacecraft for entrance and exits in +isolated bases, but in most cases, the bases are connected by +underground tunnels. These extend also into Washington, Oregon, +Canada, the Aleutian Islands, into Russia, and into most other +countries, especially in the Northern hemisphere of Europe; a;so in +Australia and New Zealand. There are older bases in South America, in +Brazil, in Central America, and in the areas of Chile, Venezuela, and +Peru.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"Deep sections of the Complex connect into natural cavern +systems. A person who worked at the Base, who had an 'ULTRA 7' +clearance, reports: "There may be more than seven Levels, but I only +know of seven. Most of the aliens are on levels 5, 6, and 7."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates there ten levels; that the three lower +levels have to do with the construction of technological instruments +and craft.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"...Alien housing is lever 5." Is this correct?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This as in the affirmative; this as the level where the aliens +live and interact together in their time when they are not involved +in their activities of industry.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"We are leaving the era of expendable resources, like oil-based +products. The power of the future is re-newable resources... +"Biologically Engineered." The Dulce Genetic Research was originally +funded under the cloak of "Black Budget" Secrecy. (Billions of +dollars.)

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This is where the drugs and drug money has been flowing to. +This Awareness indicates that this as also having received much +funding from the NSA hidden agenda and purposes; that much of the +enormous tax assessment on the nation and the great debt that has +accumulated over the years is due to this funding.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"They were interested in intelligent "Disposable Biology" +(Humanoids), to do the dangerous atomic (Plutonium) rocket and saucer +experiments.

+ +

"We cloned "our" own little Humanoids, via a process perfected +in the Bio-Genetic Research Center of the World, Los Alamos!

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates this relates to the synthetics and in +Russia, to the robotoids; that the reading continue.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"Now, we have our own 'disposable' slave-race. Like the alien +'Greys' (EBES), the U.S. government clandestinely impregnated +females, then removed the hybrid fetus, (after about 3 months) and +then accelerated their growth in the Lab. Biogenetic (DNA +Manipulation) programming is instilled; they are 'implanted' and +controlled at a distance through regular RF (Radio Frequency) +transmissions. These act as telepathic "Channels" and telemetric +brain (Advanced Research Project Agency). Two of the procedures were +R.H.I.C. (Radio-Hypnotic Intracerebral Memory). The brain +transceiver is inserted into the head through the nose. These +devices are used in the Soviet Union and the United States, as well +as in Sweden. The Swedish Prime Minister Palme gave the National +Swedish Police Board the right, in 1973, to insert brain transmitters +into the heads of human beings covertly.

+ +

They also developed ELF and E.M. wave propagation equipment +(RAYS), which can affect the nerves and can cause nausea, fatigue, +irritability, even death. This is essentially the same as Richard +Shaver's Cavern "Telaug" Mech. This research into biodynamic +relationships within organisms ("Biological Plasma") has produced a +RAY that can change the "genetic structure" and "HEAL" also."

+ +

Is that information correct?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

How Dr. Beter Got His Information

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this is correct; that the +instruments which Dr. Beter once spoke of in his Audio Letters as +being able to locate and determine what anyone on earth was doing at +any time, is an instrument that was just spoken of, that was made +available through his contacts with scientists in Nevada; that they +were using these instruments in order to supply him with information +for his Audio Letters. You will recall that often he spoke of +entities who would allegedly be at some place, but by his sources +would be found to be elsewhere, such as Jim Jones actually being +flown to Israel and being thrown out of a plane near the Turkish +boarder, and other instances of a similar nature, wherein entities +were believed by press releases and so forth to be in a certain +place, and Dr. Beter would indicate that they were truly elsewhere.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this also allowed them to +distinguish between the real entity and a duplicate, a double who was +replacing that entity, because the vibration of that double would be +slightly altered and different. This Awareness indicates that Dr. +Beter also was able to distinguish the difference between a robotoid, +synthetic and human, because the human had a soul at the time; that +in his later reports and in further technology, the robotoids were +even being given a soul.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this occurred through further +alien technology in which the soul of an entity can be severed from +the body and implanted into another's body. It is a technology that +allows for the Walk-In. It also allows for the soul to be put into a +duplicate body, a robotoid for example, so that the soul can continue +to exist after the first body has been eliminated, and in this kind +of action it is almost the same as if the entity had received a new +body. That in this sense, and for the purposes of changing the +entity from one body to another, the reason for such might be, for +example, to alter the memory or alter the philosophy of an entity in +moving it from one body to another, by erasing certain aspects of +memory.

+ +

This Awareness indicates you will recall that the memory is +stored in the etheric, between the mental and etheric bodies, and +that it can be altered in the human. It can also be erased, and by +taking the soul and these bodies from one physical body and putting +them into another replica of the physical body, they can actually +bring about a changed person with a different philosophy or different +values, and yet the entity would essentially be the same personality. +This Awareness indicates that perhaps this can answer many questions +that entities have had, in regard to past notable figures that have +been indicated by Dr. Beter as having been replaced by duplicate +bodies. This Awareness suggests the reading continue.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"Warning: Manipulation and Control, Fear and Favor...The +Pentagon, the CIA, NSA, FBI,DEA, NSC, etc. seek to capitalize on the +beliefs of the American public. The Secret Government is getting +ready to 'stage' a contact-landing with Aliens in the near future. +This way they can 'Control' the release of Alien related propaganda. +We will be told of an inter-stellar conflict. But...what looks real, +may be FAKE. What is disinformation? Is your attention being +diverted by the strategy of a 'Shadow Plan'?"

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this refers to the scenario +described in Stan Deyo's book, THE COSMIC CONSPIRACY, as that which +would be a staged version, using the beliefs of the American people +in regard to the BOOK OF REVELATION, wherein entities would be +expecting the return of Christ after some kind of event or situation +that might lead to a kind of Armageddon. This Awareness indicates +that the only thing about this is that there is, in fact the threat +of the Reptilian invasion; these entities coming in a planetoid which +does not travel at above-light speed; this because of such great +number of entities, in needing a planetoid for the transference of +the population.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that if the so-called invasion occurs +before 1996, and especially if it occurs around 1993, entities can +probably be correct in assuming it is staged. It may be staged to +set up the atmosphere for a One World Government. If it is held off +until approximately 1996 or '97 or thereafter, then entities can +presume it is probably for real, as by that time the Reptilians +would have made their approach, would be close enough to pose a real +threat.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"Berkeley, Los Alamos Labs Chosen to Explore Makeup of Human +Genome. (Overt and Covert Research). As U.S. Energy Secretary, John +Harrington, named the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and New Mexico's +Los Alamos National Laboratory to house new advanced genetic research +centers as part of a project to decipher the human genome. The +genome holds the genetically coded instructions that guide the +transformation of a single cell--a fertilized egg--into a Biological +Being. "The Human Genome Project may well have the greatest direct +impact on a humanity of any scientific initiative before us today," +said David Shirley, Director of the Berkeley Laboratory."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this is the exploration of the +genes and all of the codes that go into creating the various +lifeforms based on the patterns involved in the code of the molecular +structures that make up the genes. This Awareness indicates that +there has been some research; that approximately 15% of this genetic +coding has been researched by your universities, and the +research being classified in such a way as to allow them to splice, +remove, delete, add to that genetic code in order to create changes +in the code, that it can be used for destroying or creating diseases, +destroying or creating lifeforms, destroying or creating plants, +animals or whatever that may be tampered with genetically.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that it can also be used to modify any +of these things; thus, it has the potential for altering all forms of +life, for good or ill, and for creating all types of life in +different forms. This Awareness indicates that the effort is to may +out and decode all of the DNA, and in so doing, have complete control +over the lifeforms and the creation, modification or destruction for +these forms. It is through this information that many of the +creatures described on Level 6 in Nightmare Hall, such as the many-legged human, were created genetically.

+ +

Atlantean Genetics: The Creation of the "Things"

+ +

This awareness indicates that you will recall the Edgar Cayce +readings, in the readings on Atlantis, in which he described the +"Things" which the Atlanteans created. These were grossly distorted +creatures; that the 'Things" that were created became a part of +society. These were also entities who were the product of alien +technology in the time of Atlantis. This Awareness indicates that +these creations were also grotesque and of those things which are +common to humans today;--the cat and the pig were direct creations of +Atlantean genetics.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that the pig having some human genes +intermixed with earlier wild boar. The cat, being created from genes +that had belonged to the Greys. You will notice the cat-like eyes of +the Greys; these were incorporated into the genes used for creating +the cat. This also is a reason why there were cat societies, +societies that worshipped the cat, thinking they were a kind of +reflection of the gods of the time, many entities seeing these Grey +aliens as gods.

+ +

This Awareness suggests the reading continue.

+ +

WHY PORK IS CONSIDERED "UNCLEAN MEAT" BY THE JEWS

+ +

(FOLLOW-UP QUESTION):

+ +

"I was wondering if these human genes in the pig could possibly +be connected to the ancient Jewish philosophy that pork is unclean +meat and should not be eaten?"

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this as in the affirmative; that +there is also the concern about the cloven hoof; that entities were +permitted to eat food of a certain type, but not from those animals +having a cloven hoof. The cloven hoof also has been associated with +the devil. This Awareness reminds you also that the Grey aliens have +two toes. This Awareness indicates that the entities cloning the +Hebrews were of a type that were what you might call enemies of the +Greys, and did not want their clones fraternizing with or being +associated with the Greys or anything that had connection with them, +also did not want them eating food that had human genes in it, such +as the pig.

+ +
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+ +

+THE WEB OF CONSPIRACY: (PART 3)..."NIGHTMARE HALL"

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

This overlaps some information just given by Awareness.

+ +

"Covertly, this research has been going on for years at Dulce +Labs. Level No. 6 is privately called "Nightmare Hall," it holds the +Genetic Labs. Reports from workers who have seen bizarre +experimentation are as follows: +"I have seen multi-legged 'humans' that look like half +human/half-octopus. Also Reptilian-humans, and furry creatures that +have hands like humans and cries like a baby; it mimics human +words...also huge mixtures of Lizard-humans in cages." There are +fish, seals, birds and mice that can barely be considered those +species. There are several cages (and vats) of Winged-humanoids, +grotesque bat-like creatures, but 3-1/2 to 7 feet tall. Gargoyle-like beings and Draco-Reptoids."

+ +

Is that information true?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates this scratches the surface. There are +far more grotesque creatures than were described.

+ +

(FOLLOW-UP QUESTION):

+ +

Isn't that the very thing that brought down Atlantis?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This as in the affirmative.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"Level 7 is worse: row after row of thousands of humans and +human-mixtures in cold storage. Here too are embryo storage vats of +Humanoids, in various stages of development.

+ +

"I frequently encountered humans in cages, usually dazed or +drugged, but sometimes they cried and begged for help. We were told +they were hopelessly insane, and involved in high risk tests to cure +insanity.

+ +

"We were told to never try to speak to them at all. At the +beginning we believed that story. Finally, in 1978, a small group of +workers discovered the truth. It began the 'Dulce Wars,' (and a +secret resistance Unit was formed)."

+ +

Note: There are over 18000 'Aliens' at the Dulce Base.

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates there are closer to 200000 aliens at +this time; that approximately 100000 in the Dulce base, and 100000 +more that have moved through the base to other bases; these +continuing to enter at a rate of about 20000 per month. This +Awareness indicates the base at Ada, Oklahoma, as still being active; +this being approached from underground; that the recent floods in +that area as having been in part deliberately allowed to help slow +and hinder activities at the base.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that the government as being divided; +that one faction wishes to stop the aliens from further growth and +the other faction wishing to work with the aliens, collaborating with +them. The aliens wishing to move their entire population from their +dying planet to this one as quickly as possible, even prior to the +arrival of the Draco Reptilians. (This Awareness suggests the +reading continue).

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"In late 1979, there was a confrontation (over weapons), a lot of +scientists and military personnel were killed. The base was closed +for a while...but, it is currently active.

+ +

Note: Human and animal abductions (for their blood and other +parts) slowed in the mid-1980s, when the Livermore Berkeley labs +began production of artificial blood for Dulce.

+ +

William Cooper states: "A clash occurred wherein 66 of our +people, from the National Recon Group, the DELTA group, which is +responsible for security of all alien-connected projects, were +killed.

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this occurred in more places than +the Dulce base; that in many other areas there were raids by humans +into these alien bases, and skirmishes and activities in which many +of these aliens were killed, or their bases shut down. This +Awareness indicates that even here in your own state of Washington, +and also in Oregon, this type of thing occurred; that it was in +connection with a group working through the CIA, and that this did +begin to have some effect.

+ +

This Awareness indicates, however, that there was also a split +in the intelligence bureaus, it appears came from MJ 12, in which +there was one faction that wanted this conflict to stop immediately, +and collaboration to continue; and because of this in-fighting within +the agency, many of those agents who were working to hinder the +aliens, resulted in their being covertly eliminated, especially those +who had special skills in this area of raiding these caves.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"The DELTA Group (Within the Intelligence Support Activity) have +been seen with badges which have a black triangle on a red +background. (DELTA is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet)."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates this is in the affirmative; that these +entities are often witnessed as the group using black helicopters; +that the movie versions of the Delta Force, as that which was based +on rumors that such a force existed; these being particularly related +to UFO and alien concerns and not to raid into other countries as a +kind of SWAT team organization; this not being their purpose, as +depicted in movies.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"It has the form of a triangle, and figures prominently in +certain Masonic signs. Each base has its own symbol. The Dulce base +symbol is a triangle with the Greek letter (Tau) 'T' within it, and +then the symbol is inverted, so the triangle points down. The +insignia of 'a triangle and 3 lateral lines' has been seen on +'Saucer (transport) Craft,'--the Tri-lateral symbol. Other symbols +mark landing sites and Alien craft.

+ +

And they draw some of the symbols here that look like Indian +teepees and so forth. Is this information correct?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates this is the affirmative; that these +symbols appear to be correct in regard to the connection described. +This Awareness indicates that the Greek symbols relate back to +symbols from Akkadia, and even back to symbols of Sumeria, and these +were given as symbols of Sumeria, and these were given as symbols +from the aliens of that time; thus the symbols are a kind of link +between alien and modern human language, neither quite alien, nor +neither quite English, but of a language that many who have been +educated in your modern schools can easily find and adjust to in +using the Greek symbols.

+ +

The aliens also then have the capacity of adjusting their +language or symbolic writings into Greek, which is not too difficult +for them, and the humans to use as a mediating written language, in +terms of symbols.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"Inside the Dulce Base, Security officers wear jump-suits, with +the Dulce symbol on the front upper left side. The standards hand-weapon at Dulce, is a 'Flash gun,' which is good against humans and +aliens. The I.D. card (used in card slots for the doors and +elevators) has the Dulce symbol above the I.D. photo. "Government +Honchos" use cards with the Great Seal of the U.S. on it. "The Cult +of the All-Seeing Eye" (The New World Order)...13, "666" -the Phoenix +Empire..."9"..."Illuminism,"...'One out of many.'"

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS: +How the Flash-Gun Operates

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this as in the affirmative; that +in regard to the flash gun; that this as being likened unto a kind of +laser ray-gun; that it is a real life version of the Star Trek +phaser; the difference being that the flash-gun works in such a way +that the entity doesn't simply die from the blast, but is dried up. +This Awareness indicates that there is the potential for setting the +flash-gun to different frequencies or different ranges of +temperature; that its most intense range as that which immediately +dissolves or evaporates all water in the body, causing a body to +shrivel up totally, so that nothing in the sense of liquid within the +body is present. +Thus, the entity literally burns up at whatever speed is +appropriate according to the setting of the flash-gun; very quickly +or very slowly. It is essentially a death ray that works on the +water in the body.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"After the second level, everyone is weighed, in the nude, then +given a uniform. 'Visitors' are given an 'off white' uniform. In +front of ALL sensitive areas are scales built under the doorway, by +the door control. The person's care must match with the weight and +code or the door won't open. Any discrepancy in weight (any change +over three pounds) will summon Security. No one is allowed to carry +anything into or out of sensitive areas. All supplies are put thru a +Security conveyer system. The alien symbol language appears alot at +the facility.

+ +

During the construction of the Facility (which was done in +stages, over many years), the aliens assisted in the design and +construction materials. Many of the things assembled by the workers +were of a technology they could not understand, yet...it would +function when fully put together. Example: The elevators have no +cables. They are controlled magnetically. The magnetic system is +inside the walls.

+ +

There are no conventional electrical controls. All is +controlled by advanced magnetics. That includes a magnetically +induced (phosphorescent) illumination system. There are no regular +light bulbs. All exits are magnetically controlled. Note: It has +been reported that, "if you place a large magnet on an entrance, it +will affect an immediate interruption. They will have to come and +reset the system."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates this is in the affirmative; that there +is a totally different advancement in terms of technology used by +these entities in regard to an advancement that worked from the base +of electro-magnetics without the use of wires, whereas your +technology transferred electricity through wires and created a system +along different lines. There was less mechanical activity in their +technology, and more electronic and magnetic technology, and more +electronic and magnetic technology development.

+ +

This Awareness indicates the lighting system used as that which +is painted upon the walls, or placed on the walls in a kind of paint +which is affected by an electromagnetic charge that is applied, which +causes the wall to light,---this affecting the paint on the walls and +the substances that are in that painted material.

+ +

(QUESTIONER):

+ +

The Interpreter's been in trance for quite a while, and we would +like to bring him up at this time and continue this reading later, if +it is alright with Awareness.

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This as in the affirmative. This Awareness suggests that this +may be seen as a break; that the questions may continue after a brief +interruption from our sponsor.

+ +

(The Law of Gratitude is given)

+ +
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+ +

THE WEB OF CONSPIRACY: (PART 4)...THE DARK SIDE OF TECHNOLOGY

+ +

(READING CONTINUES...after dinner):

+ +

"The town of Dulce. The area around Dulce has had a high number +of reported animal mutilations. The government and the aliens used +the animals for environmental tests, psychological warfare on people, +etc. The aliens also wanted large amounts of blood for Genetic, +Nutritional and other reasons.

+ +

"In the book, ET's and UFOs--They Need Us, We Don't Need Them, +by Virgil 'Posty' Armstrong, he reports how his friends (Bob and +Sharon) stopped for the night in Dulce and went out to dinner. "They +overheard some local residents openly and vociferously discussing +extra-terrestrial abduction of townspeople for purposes of +experimentation." The ET's had our government's knowledge and +approval."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this is in the affirmative; that +in any of those areas near those bases there is an excessive degree +of danger of abduction or otherwise intimidation. That in regard to +the aliens' need for large amounts of blood, there is recently a +scientific breakthrough in regard to the use of cattle blood being +altered to work for human transfusions; that the use of cattle blood +in humans is a possibility on a one-time basis, without such +alteration. With the alteration, it can be repeatedly used without +side effects; that within approximately 5 years there will be no need +for a blood transfusion from the use of human blood.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that part of this is a side-effect from +the experimentation that involves alien technology and the cattle and +human mutilations and the researches into the different types of +blood. This Awareness indicates that much of the blood supplied to +the aliens could be supplied from slaughterhouses, were this to be +more organized, and this would help to prevent much of the mutilation +that otherwise occurs.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"In the Fifties, the EBES (Greys) began taking large numbers of +humans for experiments. By the Sixties, the rate was speeded up and +they began getting careless (they didn't care). By the Seventies, +their true colors were very obvious, but the "Special Group" of the +government still kept covering up for them.

+ +

"By the Eighties, the government realized there was no defense +against the Greys, so programs were enacted to prepare the public for +open contact with non-human 'Alien Beings.'

+ +

"The Greys and the 'Reptoids' are in league with each other. +But, their relationship is in a state of tension. The Greys' only +known enemy is the Reptilian race, and they are on their way to +earth. (Inside a Planetoid)."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness wishes entities to reflect back in regard to +these time segments in the previous paragraph, to reflect back in +regard to the attitude of the government toward the Greys in the +50's, 60's, and 70's, and you will see also that during such time +periods, the presentation of the aliens, in terms of any release of +information about aliens, tended to fit into the categories that the +government attitude held toward the aliens. The first attitude being +that they were benevolent people who were on a kind of friendly basis +with humanity, but as the time passed, this recognition reaching a +turning point in the 70's, in the late 70's and into the 80's, +wherein it was discovered that they were involved with excessive +human mutilation and abductions.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that what disturbed the government even +more was that they were deceptive to the government also. They were +breaking rules with the government in that they were supposed to be +giving a trade for technology. Efforts to fly the craft resulted in +many of the pilots being killed in the testing of the craft, and also +the Russians were being given technology which had been forbidden in +the agreements between the American government and the aliens. This +Awareness indicates that there were many groups in the 70's who +represented the aliens as being really nice, wonderful people, +rescuers of humanity. Even the movie, ET, was an attempt by the +government to present the image of aliens as being nice characters +from outer space. This was before the government discovered what +rascals they really were.

+ +

This Awareness suggests that last few sentences of that previous +paragraph be repeated; that this not necessarily be typed on your +final manuscript; this being for reference to this Awareness, for +further comment.

+ +

(Last two sentences are re-read)

+ +

This Awareness indicates that there is also some tension between +the Greys and the Dero. This reference to the Grey's only known +enemy; this in reference to certain elements of the Greys, +particularly the orange group which is generally hostile anyway. +This Awareness indicates that the reference to the Reptoids in the +planetoid, this as being accurate and having been discussed elsewhere +in other readings. These entities coming from Draco: the number +being approximately 40 million. This Awareness also indicates that +the element 115, which is available through the alien government +alliance, is capable of being useful in a kind of doomsday weapon +against the planetoid.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"Mind Manipulation Experiments: The Dulce base has studied Mind +Control Implants; Bio-Psi Units; ELF Devices capable of mood, sleep +and heartbeat control, etc.

+ +

D.A.R.P.A. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is using +these technologies to manipulate people. They establish 'The +Projects,' set priorities, coordinate efforts and guide the many +participants in these undertakings. Related projects are studied at +Sandia Base by "The JASON Group" of 55 scientists. They have +secretly harnessed the Dark Side of technology and hidden the +beneficial technology from the public.

+ +

Other projects take place at "Area 51" in Nevada. "Dreamland" +(Data Repository Establishment and Maintenance Land"); ELMINT +(Electro-magnetic Intelligence); CODE EMPIRE; CODE EVA; PROGRAM HIS; +(Hybrid Intelligence System); BW/CW; IRIS (Infrared Intruder +Systems); BI-PASS; REP-TILES; etc."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that these areas and names as related +to various aspects of various programs and locations; that the +reference to Groom Lake(?) and DREAMLAND can be researched in the +work of Lazar, the release of information from Lazar, and other +sources. This Awareness indicates that entities can do much of this +researching for themselves into the meaning of some of these; that +some of these terms are not defined clearly in publicly-released +information. This Awareness indicates that the information on +Element 115 as having been given in some of the earlier literature +also released by Lazar, and also to some degree, there are mentions +in the Cooper Material.

+ +

This Awareness suggests that entities can further research these +areas for more details if they are inclined to do so.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"The studies on Level No. 4 at Dulce, include Human-Aura +Research, as well as all aspects of Dream, Hypnosis, Telepathy, etc. +They know how to manipulate the Bio-plasmic Body (of Man). +They can lower your heart beat with deep sleep 'Delta Waves,' induce +a static shock, then re-program via a Brain-Computer link. They can +introduce data and programmed reactions into your mind (Information +impregnation-the "Dream Library."

+ +

We are entering an era of the technologicalization of psychic +powers.

+ +

The development of techniques to enhance man/machine +communications; Nano-tech; Bio-tech micro-machines; Psi-War; E.D.O.M. +(Electronic Dissolution of Memory); R.H.I.C. (Radio-Hypnotic Intra-Cerebral Control); and various forms of behavior control (via +chemical agents, ultra-sonics, optical and other EM radiations). The +Physics of 'Consciousness.'

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

How Robotoids & Synthetics are Created

+ +

This Awareness indicates that it is also on this level that the +technique whereby souls can be extracted from the physical and +transferred into other bodies or into replicas occurs. That in the +transference there can also be the alteration of memories, values and +qualities of the soul, so that an entity can appear to be the same, +but there will be certain changes that have occurred that may be +unseen, and the attitude and purposes and directions of the entity +may then be controlled.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this occurs when the vibratory +qualities of a soul are extracted by these electronic equipment from +a body and moved into another. This needs not necessarily be a +replica of the entity; it can be a totally different person's body, +in which case it becomes what is termed a walk-in. This Awareness +indicates that if it is a replica, it will tend to work with the +replica to create the final features that result in a duplication of +the features of the entity.

+ +

That this generally takes place on the almost human form, when +the mind-state or soul energies, including the various electro-body +energies are transferred, and as they begin to grow and attach +themselves to that almost human form. The features then begin to +solidify, to match the features of the electro-magnetic energies and +the soul energies and astral energies and other mental and etheric +bodies of the older original being.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that in the book of Genesis, which +states that God made Adam from clay, molded him; this was a poor +translation of the actual process. Rather than clay, it was +substance, then breathed the breath of life into Adam. The breath of +life being qualities of the Life Force which were part of the +creator, and this was in reference to the electromagnetic field of +the creator of Adam,--the Elohim, or alien that created Adam.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this was the process of breathing +life or the breath of life into the substance that became Adam. It +was a similar process as the creation of replicas or duplicates, +though that took place approximately ten thousand years ago.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

The final statement of the last question: "The development of +biotechnologies will mean a revolutionary change in the life of every +human being now on earth. The question is: Will this be better +living through Bio-Tech?"

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that it will be a change. Whether it +will be better or worse will always be questionable. There will be +some benefits that come from this. There will be detriments that +come from this. There does not appear to be anything that can be +done to prevent this knowledge from being incorporated into the +Earth's consciousness; it has, in fact, been used by beings alien to +human consciousness for tens and hundreds of thousands of years, +indeed, millions of years, and it will continue to be used. It is +just that humans are just realizing such strange and awesome +knowledge exists. It will be equivalent to an individual, much like +that of the child, who suddenly discovers much to his dismay, that +sex brings forth children, for the adult to discover that genetic +engineering can create living beings, can alter living beings, can +create and alter new life forms, new types of beings. This is +shocking to one who has never been exposed to such reality.

+ +
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+ +

THE WEB OF CONSPIRACY: (PART 5)...THE PHANTOM EMPIRE

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"The Phantom Empire: Above the Law. The Dulce base is run by +a "Board." The Chairman of the Board is John Herrington. Jim Baker +(of Tenn.) is the CIA link to Dulce. House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas (the nation's third-highest office) is Treasurer at Dulce.

+ +

There is currently a power struggle going on. As Rep. William +Thomas, R-Calf., put it..."Part of Jim Wright's problem is, he fails +to understand what's equitable and fair. It's the arrogance of +power." Even among his fellow democrats, many find Wright to be +"uncomfortably aloof." Wright's operating style leaves him +vulnerable.

+ +

Most meetings of 'The Dulce Board' are held in Denver and Taos, +N.M. Former New Mexico Senator Harrison "Last man on the moon" +Schmitt, has full knowledge of Dulce. He was one of 7 astronauts to +tour the base.

+ +

In 1979, he held an "Animal Mutilation" conference in +Albuquerque, N.M. This was used to locate researchers and determine +what they had learned about the links between the "Mute" operations +and the Alien/Government.

+ +

Senator Brian (Nev.) knows about the 'ULTRA' Secrets at +'Dreamland' and Dulce. So do many others in the government. This is +what the UFO researchers are up against, so be CAREFUL...they have +killed to keep this information secret. You now know more than they +want you to know.

+ +

They also have underwater bases off the coast of Florida and +Peru."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that all of the above is very poignant, +very accurate and very true. This Awareness indicates that even the +repetition through this reading of such information does create some +danger for C.A.C. headquarters and the Interpreter. This Awareness +indicates however, that it being just a kind of reflection of +material that is already available elsewhere, does tend to minimize +the danger, and the fact that the organization is small and the +publication limited to just a few hundred people, and the fact that +the information is available in other sources, and the sources are +being quoted, tends to minimize the danger.

+ +

Also, the fact that there are now quite a large number of +entities, UFO researchers and entities who are openly disclosing such +information, has led to a kind of floodgate opening of such +information. It makes it much less a danger. Had this information +been given a year ago, it would have been extremely dangerous, and +those who risked their lives in releasing this information a year +ago, in some cases almost two years ago, were indeed very courageous +and should be held in high esteem as they could have become more of a +large number of victims of the cover-up.

+ +

This Awareness indicates it does appear that part of the reason +this information can be released now, when it could not be released +even 18 months ago, is because there are conflicts even in the higher +ranks of government because some want the information hidden, while +others want it released to the public, knowing that the public must +be made aware of what is occurring if they are to be able to help in +the event of a clash between humans and aliens, and especially in +regard to the Draco/Reptilian invasion.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that those who are collaborators and +have been collaborators and do not wish the information released, +generally are continuing the cover-up out of fear that the masses +would blame them and hold them responsible for all that is due to an +alien presence, and they fear that they could be seen as traitors. +This Awareness indicates that there was a time when these entities +realized that masses of human beings were being sacrificed to feed +the alien appetites, and that the aliens were not being straight-forward in their dealings with humans. These entities had a choice +of making a clean break with the aliens, or at least informing more +of the humans, or of continuing to collaborate and cover-up and make +excuses and assist the aliens.

+ +

Of course, some entities cannot decide quickly, given certain +amount of time. These entities have had sufficient time; that it +would appear proper that they now realize this information must be +released to the public. It is appropriate that many within the +higher ranks have the courage and the ethics to allow this +information to be released as is being done, without destroying the +lives of those courageous researchers who are releasing information. +(This Awareness suggests that the reading continue).

+ +

(FOLLOW-UP QUESTION):

+ +

"One question: House Speaker Jim Wright was drummed out of +office a few months back for alleged improprieties regarding outside +interests, and also for monies given to him by various corporations, +etc. He has been replaced by Tom Foley, a Democrat from our own +Washington State, and I'd like to ask: Did this information about +the Dulce complex and the alien information that Jim Wright had, was +this passed along to the new Speaker, Tom Foley?"

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this as being information that is +not appropriate through this channel to be released; that this would +be a violation of certain...This Awareness does not disclose any +information that is not already available elsewhere in regard to +individuals and their connections with these aliens, in terms of this +secret government. This Awareness indicates that there will come a +time when more is disclosed; that this information could be damaging +to various entities in various ways.

+ +

QUESTIONER: I understand.

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"In the 1930's, 'Division Five' of the FBI knew about the +'Aliens.' A Fascist cabal, within this country, had John Kennedy +assassinated. Look to the links, within the larger umbrella...the +'Web' of a fascist totalitarian secret police state...within the +Pentagon: JCS; DIA; FBI; (Division Five); DISC/DIS and the CIA. +Note: the Defense Investigative Service's insignia is a composite of +the sun's rays, a rose, and a dagger, symbolized "The Search for +Information, Trustworthiness and Danger." Other links are Nazi +scientists (who had contact with the Aliens); the S.S.; Satanists; +Permindex; Exxon; the Mafia; NBC, etc.

+ +

This links with caves used for 'Initiation Rites' (all over the +world)...ancient vaults, retreats; Alien bases and Inner-Earth +civilizations."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this all as being correct +information; that this also relates to messages given in questions +asked yesterday in regard to the changes that are occurring +throughout the world, wherein this Awareness discussed certain +fascist energies that are in motion at this time. This Awareness +indicates that this is a time in which alliances between some of the +fascist energies and some of the aliens has shifted; that it is not +simply a matter of humans versus aliens; there are some aliens who +want alliances with humans and some who don't, and these are also in +some instances seeking alliances with humans, aliens seeking +alliances with the fascist elements of humans; other aliens seeking +to align themselves with the more Communistic alliance, or that +which might be termed the Bolshevik groups.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that the alliances being such that it +is a kind of struggle in which nothing absolutely clear has occurred, +but gradual shifting is making for a possibility that the alien +presence can be resolved to allow a human coexistence on this planet, +even in spite of the threat of the Draco Reptilians, and in spite of +the nature of the more hostile aliens on earth. There is a ray of +hope for humans, even though there is a threat to humanity greater +than humanity would have imagined.

+ +

The threat of nuclear war as that which conditioned humanity to +accept the potential for oblivion, but many humans would prefer +oblivion to enslavement by some of the beings whose attitudes and +natures see them as mere playthings or food or experimental guinea +pigs. This Awareness indicates there is much that humans can learn +from this experience in regard to their own attitude toward animals, +guinea pigs, and their own forms of experiments. This Awareness +indicates unfortunately, those who need to learn these lessons most +are not likely to have any reason to make such observations and +unfortunately too, there are many human cells and parts of +consciousness locked into those grotesque creations that are +presently entraped in a kind of hellish limbo and cannot get out, +because they have been genetically created as a 'thing,' yet their +consciousness still remains that of humans. Even if retarded or +demented in nature, they still have human consciousness, and these +entities continue to suffer.

+ +

If entities think that this information is shocking and +disturbing to their peace of mind, stop for a moment and consider +what these beings who are the subject of experiments in the genetic +engineering levels such as Nightmare Hall, are going through. This +Awareness suggests you should sing praises to the Divine Forces that +have protected you and your loved ones, if indeed you have been so +fortunate as to have lived a good life, and you should consider the +dangers facing younger generations who must grow up in a world so +totally different than the world you knew in your youth.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that there is still, however, a ray of +hope for humanity, whereby great things can come about, wherein the +Greys have no sense of emotion, but do indeed desire such, and humans +can teach these entities in time through some of these genetic +mutations, especially their own hybrid offspring; it is possible that +race, which is close to a million years in age, can regain a sense of +compassion, a sense of emotion, can redevelop an astral, an emotional +body, and can perhaps even develop compassion and love, given +examples and given time to do so.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that entities need to be most cautious +in the coming years, love your neighbors, your children, your family. +Cherish them carefully. Watch them. Do not neglect them. Protect +them, and be cautious yourself. Your chances are greater, much +greater, that you will live a normal healthy and long life than that +you would become a victim of alien technology. That would be most +rare in terms of percentage. (This Awareness suggests the reading +continue).

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

"Warning: Fascism is 'Corporatism'. We have passed the point of +no return, in our interaction with the Alien Beings. We are +guaranteed 'a crisis' which will persist until the final Revelation +(or conflict). The crisis is here, global and real. We must +mitigate or transform the nature of the disasters to come...and come +they will. Knowing is half the battle. Read the book, The Cosmic +Conspiracy, by Stan Deyo."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that knowledge is power. By knowing +what you know now from this information, you are much more powerful, +much more powerful than you were before being so informed. This +Awareness indicates in reference to the Stan Deyo information; this +book is not available or is very difficult to find. There is some +possibility of acquiring this book from certain sources. If this +book becomes available, you should, at all costs or at any reasonable +cost, acquire the book and read it.

+ +

It essentially speaks of the planned 'rapture' in which there +will be the fake rapture, whereby there will be the appearance of an +event, a crisis that will lead humanity into the abyss of a global +crisis that could mean great difficulty for all. There may even be +the appearance of the rise of an Antichrist, followed by an invasion +of spaceships, which would follow the BOOK OF REVELATION, wherein +entities would believe they were being rescued by high spiritual +beings, and in face, these could well be the humans using alien craft +and introducing alien technology as a One World Government is +established.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that if these events were it take +place, prior to 1995, it is likely to be a fake event. It is +possible that the Pleiadians could return by 1993. The Pleiadians' +ships are different from the Greys and their appearance is different. +Their symbol is that of a serpent climbing a vine, or a serpent. The +Reptilian symbol is that of a dragon. The Grey's symbol also uses a +serpent, this being a cobra.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that the Stan Deyo book has been +suppressed in this country. There is some chance of getting copies +from Australia. There are rare copies in the United States. This +Awareness indicates that in regard to the corporations as being +fascist in nature; that this is in the affirmative. This Awareness +suggests also that you will recall remarks by Dr. Beter that heads of +corporations were being replaced by synthetics or robotoids; in other +words, replicas of themselves. This Awareness indicates that this as +having been part of the alien program in order to assure continued +use of such corporations.

+ +

These entities being replaced are under control, or were under +control, of these technologies of the alien and of those who were +putting implants into their replicas to control the corporations, +according to their general plans. This Awareness indicates there +does appear to have been considerable shift in the alliances since +that time, and as indicated, even the aliens may be changing +alliances, away from their previous Draco masters, in favor of +alliances with humans. For this reason there is some degree of hope, +particularly if this shift continues.

+ +

This Awareness indicates the Draco Reptilians do not really need +the earth. They have more room than they need to grow and thrive. +They simply want the Earth as a kind of strategic point in their +battle to conquest the galaxy. It is likened unto your army wanting +to take a hill, not because it needs more room, but because it wants +the hill to help it have better positioning for better conquest. +(This Awareness suggests the reading continue).

+ +

(READING CONTINUES):

+ +

This is the final question in this particular reference.

+ +

"Some forces, in the government, want the public to be aware of +what is happening. Other forces (the collaborators) want to continue +making 'what ever deals necessary' for an elite few to survive the +conflicts. The future could bring a fascist 'World Order' or a +transformation of human consciousness (Awareness). The struggle is +NOW...your active assistance is needed. Prepare! We must preserve +humanity on Earth."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS: +What You Can Do About This Alien Situation

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this is an excellent summary of +the situation. There is the potential for a fascist domination by +both human and aliens. There is also the potential for a major +awakening by the masses on this planet. The preparation that is +needed has to do with filling oneself with knowledge of the +situation, and giving this knowledge to other. This Awareness +indicates that as you can easily see, notifying the government or +other such authorities of this problem is like letting the fox know +that there's a fox in the henhouse.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that the important thing is to notify +the masses, to notify other people. Let them notify still more. Let +them notify their preachers, their doctors, the workers on the +street, the people in the stores. Let them notify people who are +interested, to notify people who make films, who write papers, who +spread news, who write articles for magazines, who speak publicly, +who have the ability to disseminate information, to people who have +access to a copier, to a printing press.

+ +

Notify these people with sufficient amount of information that +they can be fully educated and knowledgeable so that they are not +spreading information that is half truth, half distorted, confused. +This Awareness indicates that this is how entities can prepare: by +preparing each other, by preparing those who are willing to listen. +You do not have to force the information. If entities are afraid to +hear it, if they have no curiosity, if they do not dare listen, do +not force it on them.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that as time passes, and these things +become more in the news, as UFOs are talked about more, as the +advertisements begin to present more information on UFOs, as the +movies bring out more UFO stories, as these things begin to happen, +people will want to know more. Have extra copies of your material +for them. Purchase these books, tapes, study these things that have +been released wherein people are risking their lives to get this +information to you. Study these things, have copies, purchase extra +copies. The more you purchase, the more you are contributing to the +future of humanity.

+ +

Give these copies, loan these copies, sell these copies; +whatever it takes to get the information out. People need to know. +Many entities want to know. Do not frighten entities who are already +helpless. Do not give it to the old lady who is on her deathbed, or +who is afraid to open her drapes at night. It would only frighten +her and harm her. Give it to them in doses they can accept.

+ +

If they cannot accept the full dose, give them something mild +until they ask for more. This Awareness indicates it is possible +that humanity can survive. The aliens presently on Earth have +greater technology than humans and yet they have this fear of humans +because of human emotion. It is something they do not understand; +and remember to wrap yourself and your loved ones in White Light +frequently, especially so when you are out in isolated areas, or when +you are monitored and feel vibrations tapping into your +consciousness.

+ +

This Awareness suggests any further questions may be asked at +this time or the Interpreter may be brought from trance.

+ +

HOW UFO RESEARCHERS GATHER THEIR INFORMATION +(High Praise To Valdamar Valerian)

+ +

QUESTION:

+ +

"We do have a few more questions while we're on this subject. +In the book, now out of print, called THE MATRIX, by Valdamar +Valerian, who's of the Nevada Aerial Research Group, there's a little +additional information I'd like to read, and ask if this information +on these entities is also valid."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness wishes to make a comment here, in regard to the +entity Valerian. This Awareness indicates that many entities may +wonder: How can a UFO researcher, having a group and putting out a +newsletter on UFOs, get so much information and have it accurate or +worthwhile? Is it possible that they are simply making up +information to print?

+ +

This Awareness indicates that in some cases, this is so. There +are some who start out on a shoe string, read magazines and then put +out information. There are many stories in some tabloids that are +simply fabricated, made up, but this Awareness indicates there is an +enormous amount of UFO information that has been double-checked in +different ways. There are many entities in the field of UFO +technology, working within the government, working in areas or living +in areas near bases, or people who have some relationship with +similar entities, and who have some knowledge, many of these entities +having spent much of their lifetime studying UFOs or UFO technology +or working with government branches that were involved in such, and +as these entities reach a certain age or leave their occupation or +begin to feel a twinge of guilty conscience about what they perceive +as not being the highest and best for the American people, they begin +to desire to give this information, to get it out.

+ +

These entities often write to groups like the Nevada Aerial +Research Group and the entity Valerian; and this entity, just by +being there, receives enormous amounts of information from people who +have something to tell, whose history and background was deeply +involved in this kind of cover-up, and these entities often +corroborate each other's testimony. One can say something; five +years later, another report comes in that verifies something that +came in before, and these entities in corroborating each other, lend +credit, especially if these entities did not know each other or came +from different backgrounds and had no similar connection, and the +same is so for abductees; wherein the abductee from South America +experiences the same thing as an abductee from Europe or Asia or the +United States, a pattern begins to emerge and that pattern indicates +something real is happening all over the world.

+ +

This Awareness indicates it is in this manner that information +is gathered that tends to indicate a strong validity, even though the +information may seem to be out of this world, and even alien to one's +intelligence. +(This Awareness suggests the question continue).

+ +

THE VARIOUS SPECIES OF ALIENS IN THE UNDERGROUND CITY

+ +

QUESTION RESUMES:

+ +

"Yes. This quoted from the book, THE MATRIX. +"Grey Species 2--the Reticulans. This species is the one most +commonly thought of as being 'Greys', and is the one popularized +in recent books about the subject. This species consists of +beings that exists at 3rd, 4th, and 5th density levels. Most of +them exist at the 4th density level, which means that they are +telepathic in nature. Those existing at the 5th level have no +physical bodies but must inhabit what they call "doll bodies," +or android bionic bodies. Connection is sustained with these +bodies through chakra points.

+ +

Grey Species 2 is a species that functions in a mode that is +apparently military in nature, with a rigidly defined social +structure that holds science and conquering worlds to be the prime +mover. What appear to be officers in this society have a diagonal +band running across their uniform. Officers are often 5th density, +and sometimes retain what appears to be a toy doll that they exhibit +to others around them. It is thought that this functions as a symbol +of authority among them.

+ +

Grey Species 2 are about four feet high, have heads that are +large and black wrap-around eyes. They also have devices that +magnify their mental fields in order to maintain control over humans +abducted. They can withdraw information from the mental field of the +human and use that information to form the basis for mental +projections that influence the human to behave in certain ways.

+ +

Some of these ways include disguising themselves as other humans +or other beings in order to gain control over the human being. +Mentally, these species function in what might be termed a +"group mind." They do not have individualized consciousness. This +fact is an advantage to humans because the Greys cannot respond +adequately to a sudden shift in what they perceive to be happening. +They cannot take a "curve ball," either psychologically or otherwise.

+ +

Grey Species 2 is a scientifically based society that functions +to study other lifeforms. They have had a part to play in alteration +of human genetics over thousands of years. They seek to cross-breed +with humans to create a mixture-race that will be better than +either."

+ +

That was the end of that article. Would Awareness comment as to +the validity of that information?

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this as generally correct: that +there are seven of the Reticuli species or types. These may be +termed races or species; that species is perhaps a better term for +them. There are also seven types of Reptilians of the Draco +civilization. This Awareness indicates that it can become extremely +confusing to get into the many detailed levels of the species and +behaviors of such; that essentially, this information as correct; +that there are other details that can be added or clarified in the +information, but that it is not critical or truly essential to do so. +This Awareness suggests that any further questions be asked or +the Interpreter by brought from trance.

+ +

Ed's Note: For information on Valdamar Valerian and his +Nevada Aerial Research Newsletter, please write: +P.O. Box 81407, Las Vegas, Nevada 89180.

+ +

This entity has put together a book in 1988, called "The +Matrix: Understanding Aspects of Covert Interaction +With Alien Culture, Technology and Planetary Power +Structures." Several hundred copies were printed. The +book contained 361 pages of information, including +maps and illustrations of alien bases, including their +tunnel network. Called by many UFO researchers, +the most detailed information on aliens to date, "The +Matrix" was also listed in William Cooper's material +as reputable references.

+ +

An interesting note, that backs up the information +just given by Awareness, that bits and pieces of inform-ation comes in to this entity, and years later is verified +by other information. In the last chapter of the 'Matrix,' +Valerian included 14 pages of the UFO information +released by C.A.C. in 1978 and early '79, which included +information on aliens, deros, replicas etc. In the preface +to this information, Valerian stated the following:

+ +

"COSMIC AWARENESS COMMUNICATIONS"--- +Generally seen as one of the most esoteric channeled +sources, C.A.C. does present some interesting concepts. +Some of the data does, in fact, match verified data that +we have about the EBEs. A sample of their newsletter +follows..."

+ +

The book, "The Matrix" sold for $60 and is out of +print. Hopefully, demand may force a reprinting and +perhaps an updating of this informative book, which +was published by:

+ +

Arcturus Book Service, +P.O. Box 831383 +Stone Mountain, Ga. 30083 +Phone: (404) 297-4624

+ +

We heartily suggest that if you wish to research UFOs +that you write Arcturus Book Service and request their +latest catalog of used, hard-to-find books on this subject. +New catalogs are updated monthly. This editor has been +able to locate quite a few books long out of print, +which Awareness has recommended in the past-the +works of John Keel, for instance. Arcturus Book +Service buys, and sells used books in the UFO and +related fields. Get on their mailing list without delay! +(Avaton)

+ +

COULD HEAT BE A POSSIBLE DETERRENT TO THE ALIENS?

+ +

QUESTION:

+ +

I had a couple more. In the Book, *THE ARMSTRONG REPORT: THEY +NEED US, WE DON'T NEED THEM, by Virgil Armstrong, he suggests: "We +know the greatest weakness of these aliens is their lack of +spirituality, but what about physical weakness? Surprisingly, the +answer has to do with heat. Apparently, they are extremely sensitive +to excessive heat and cannot safely sustain degrees beyond 80 to 85 +degrees Fahrenheit. Beyond this would be injurious or fatal.

+ +

"Although I am a firm believer that we must deal with these ET's +primarily through spiritual means, possibly heat may serve as a +deterrent or restraint. Something to ponder."

+ +

Will Awareness comment on that theory?

+ +

*The Armstrong Report: "They Need Us, +We Don't Need Them," by Virgil Armstrong, +Entheos Publishing, P.O. Box 20174, +Village of Oak Creek, Az 86341. Price: +$7.95 plus postage. (Also available from +C.A.C. although not listed in our Book +Catalog sheet.

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this could be considered as a +beneficial weapon in terms of dealing with these entities at certain +times, or under certain conditions. Unfortunately, for the entity's +argument, it does not appear to apply to all the aliens. The +Reptilians, especially, do not appear to be disturbed by the elements +of heat. This Awareness indicates it applies mostly to the Greys +from Orion, who tend to gravitate more toward the Northern climates. +It is partly for this reason that these entities prefer living under-ground than above ground. Also, they do not like the effect of the +sun's rays, even when the temperature of the atmosphere is cool, the +sun's rays tend to burn them, and this is not to their liking. It +also is harmful to their eyes.

+ +

This Awareness indicates this is fortunate for humans in that +these entities tend to leave the surface alone where humans live, +except at night, when it is cooler and when there is less light.

+ +

(FOLLOW-UP QUESTION):

+ +

"Those underground levels must be air-conditioned, are they not, +because one would think it would be pretty hot down there that far +into the earth."

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this is in the affirmative; that +generally these are selected areas, staying away from the more hot +locations; these being in areas that tend to be cool, away from magma +and volcanic lava and such that exhibits heat.

+ +

HOW MUCH KARMA EXISTS BETWEEN THE ALIENS AND THEIR VICTIMS?

+ +

QUESTION:

+ +

"In this book I just quoted from, Virgil Armstrong has a theory +I'd like to ask about. He writes: "The theory expounds that those +who are being abducted and tampered with on the surface are in an +agreement with a covenant established in another life. In short, +these unfortunate individuals are purposefully born and placed here +to serve as spare-parts and vehicles of purpose for the ET's in +question. In other words they are to serve the sacrificial needs of +the dying and needy ET's so that their civilization can recoup and +endure.

+ +

"If one accepts this, and I don't, then we would have to +presuppose that we are already heavily infiltrated with these +unfortunate individuals, who in truth would be aliens in human +bodies.

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that there does appear to be a certain +type of karma that is carried over in a kind of vibration. This +karma as not necessarily a negative karma, but related to a kind of +alliance; that it is a kind of pace that developed at some time in +the past. This Awareness indicates that the energies on this are not +clear at this time; that the Interpreter as having been in trance for +too long to draw strong energy for this question; that one more +question may be asked.

+ +

(FOLLOW-UP QUESTION):

+ +

"Well, this might be the same situation. Along this same line, +I was wondering if the genetic experiments on that level described +earlier, those terrible experiments, if there's any possibility that +these creatures created were the genetic engineers in Atlantis +thousands of years ago that perpetrated similar atrocities?"

+ +

What goes around comes around...

+ +

WHY MOST PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO WORK WITH THE ALIENS

+ +

(PAYING THE PIPER AFTER MAKING A PACT)

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates that in the forming of a pact wherein +one benefits at one time, there is the fee or cost, and there are +certain government people at this time who have formed pacts with +these entities who have not yet paid the fee. This Awareness +indicates that there are also opportunities by some of these entities +to have a second chance to break that cycle of selling themselves to +these beings, and if they can break that cycle, there is that +possibility of escaping from the karma they would otherwise endure.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that the entity who forms a pact at one +time in one life, and works for these entities, will return to work +for them again, and each time this occurs, the entity will have that +opportunity to break that alliance, and if the entity can break that +alliance, the enslavement is broken; but generally in the formation +of the alliance and the following opportunities of working with these +entities, there is a great temptation that is based on greed, +tempting the entities not to break the alliance. They actually feel +an attraction, a drawing, a desire to work with, to work for these +aliens. They tend to think of them as masters and want to give +themselves to their cause.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that it is this cycle and this +attraction that needs to be broken in order for entities to be free. +This Awareness indicates that there will be further efforts by these +aliens to appeal to the greed of people, particularly involved in the +monetary situation, wherein entities will be given an opportunity to +accept a chip in their hand, an alien-sponsored chip in their hand or +wrist or forehead, whereby if such is accepted, they then belong to +the aliens.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that those who at any time accept +aliens as masters will be used by these aliens. That essentially is +the harvest, wherein they collect those who have sold themselves to +the aliens for some security, or monetary gain, or gain of power. It +is a way of weeding out the entity who wants to follow the follower, +from the entity who is an individual who has personal integrity, is +integrated as an individual with their own Divine Center.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that in centering yourself with your +own Divine Deity, the aliens can have no control, can have no hold on +you. If you give yourself totally to the Highest and Best in the +sense of the absolute Divine, you are free of any domination by any +force outside, but if you lick the toes of the aliens, (both toes), +you are their servant until you break the cycle.

+ +

QUESTION:

+ +

"Does Awareness have a closing message?"

+ +

COSMIC AWARENESS:

+ +

This Awareness indicates there is much here for entities to +consider, to think about. There is much here to give entities great +hope. There is much here to give entities great concern. There is +much here to give entities something to study, something to reflect +on, something to measure their values against, something to put their +life in perspective with. There is much here to give to others, to +share with others, to share carefully discerningly with the right +people.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that it is time for entities to do such +sharing. It is valuable for entities to fully digest this +information, reread it approximately three times. Share it. Make +copies. Give entities other sources, references for further +research, so that they do not think that you yourself are getting +your information from one source only. Give them the opportunity to +research it for themselves. Encourage them to do so. Then you will +have someone to talk to about these things.

+ +

This Awareness indicates that this is the beginning of the +awakening. You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you +free.

+ +

(This Awareness suggests the Interpreter be brought from +trance.)

+ +

The Law of Gratitude is given.

+ +
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+ +

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+ +

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+ +

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+ +

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+ +

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+ +

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+ +

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+ +

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+ +

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World Bank +-------------------------------- +A specialized agency of the United Nations, the World Bank (officially, the +International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or IBRD) was established, +along with the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF), by the Bretton Woods Agreement +(1944) to assist European postwar recovery. When this initial role was absorbed +by the Marshall Plan, the focus shifted (1949) to loans and technical assistance +to promote the balanced growth of international trade and economic development, +especially in underdeveloped areas. With its affiliates--the INTERNATIONAL +FINANCE CORPORATION, created in 1956, and the INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT +ASSOCIATION, founded in 1960--the World Bank Group has become the single most +important lending agency in international development. +By 1983, membership consisted of 146 nations, including China, which replaced +Taiwan in 1980. Most loans are made to member governments, but if a member will +guarantee repayment, loans can be arranged for private firms. Funds from loans +are used to support a variety of long-range projects in such fields as energy, +agriculture, and transportation. From 1973 to 1982 loans increased from $3.4 +billion to $13 billion annually. Of the $13 billion in loans dispersed in 1982, +23.7% was used for agriculture, 22.3% for energy, and 12.4% for transportation. +Terms of the loans have ranged from near-commercial rates, lent by the Bank +itself, to zero-interest loans, lent to the poorest countries by the IDA, with +payment due within 10 to 40 years. In the late 1970s the Bank's lending policy +changed from funding development projects aimed at helping a particular economic +sector of a country to financing broad economic reform. +The technical assistance program of the Bank works in two ways: it helps set up +a project that may secure a loan, and it then aids recipients in utilizing the +loan when it is granted. When members request a mission to survey their +economies, other international organizations may be brought in; for example, the +FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) added its own personnel to the Bank's +missions to assist in agricultural and irrigation projects. With headquarters in +Washington, D.C., the Bank is run by a president and a board of governors who +meet annually to determine policies. Decisions on loans are made by the +executive directors (20), who meet monthly. Voting on loans is weighted +according to members' contributions (capital subscription), and therefore the +organization is controlled by the wealthier nations. Recent presidents of the +World Bank include Robert MCNAMARA, A. W. CLAUSEN, and Barber Conable. JOHN G. +STOESSINGER

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Bibliography: Heilbroner, Robert L., This Growing World: Economic Development +and the World Bank Group, rev. ed. (1966); Mason, E. S., and Asher, R. E., The +World Bank since Bretton Woods (1973); Reid, Escott, Strengthening the World +Bank (1973); Van de Laar, J. M., The World Bank and the World's Poor (1976). + +973); Reid, Escott, Strengthening the Worl

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[From _The Village Voice_, March 30, 1993]

+ +

THE CIA AND THE SHEIK

+ +

The Agency Coddled Omar Abdel Rahman, Allowing +Him to Operate in the U.S. +Now This Unholy Alliance Has Blown Up in Our Faces.

+ +

By Robert I. Friedman

+ +

"They were talking all the time about targeting American symbols," says the +FBI undercover informant, "the Empire State Building, the Statue of +Liberty. A few of the guys came to the mosque to pray and go home. But +others gathered to conspire in small groups, talking in deep, low voices. +They see the U.S. as an imperialist power, the Big Satan, the root of all +the evil in the world."

+ +

The FBI operative, Mamdouh Zaki Zakhary, monitored the radical activities +at the El Salaam Mosque in Jersey City, which was the headquarters of the +terrorist cell that allegedly planned and carried our the of the World +Trade Center on February 26. Zakhary, a heavily bearded Coptic Christian +from Egypt who owned an import-export firm in Jersey City, spent a year and +a half spying on the local Arab American community and the mosque, +beginning January 10, 1990. During this time, he watched the first two men +arrested in connection with the bombing. Mohammed Salameh and Ibraham +Elgabrowny, as well as the spiritual leader who may have inspired them, the +fiery blind fundamentalist cleric Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who is infamous +throughout the Arab world for his alleged role in the assassination of +Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat.

+ +

"The only thing they want is to establish an Islamic world," Zakhary told +The Village Voice during an interview from his home in Alexandria, Egypt. +"They will do anything to achieve it. You have to understand their desire +to strike out, to avenge anything that hurts Islam. I asked Elgabrowny, +'Why do you stay here [in Brooklyn]?' And he told me, I want to earn their +dollars so that I can stab them in the back."

+ +

Zakhary reported the group's subversive activities in regular meetings with +his FBI handler, Special Agent Kenneth Strange. But Zakhary, who was not +able to penetrate the cell's inner circle, had no advance warning that +there was a plan to commit one of the most sensational acts of foreign +terrorism on American soil before the bombing of the World Trade Center: +the assassination of the controversial right-wing Zionist leader Rabbi Meir +Kahane.

+ +

On November 5, 1990, El Sayyid Nosair, a pudgy, bearded 34-year-old +Egyptian American and a core member of the El Salaam Mosque, calmly walked +up to the podium of a conference room in the Halloran House, a midtown +Manhattan hotel, after Kahane had finished, a one-hour speech. Moments +later, Kahane was shot once in the throat at point-blank range with a .357 +magnum, and Nosair bolted outside. During a running gun battle down +Lexington Avenue, Nosair was wounded by an off-duty postal inspector and +finally captured by New York City police.

+ +

"At first, no one knew who Nosair was," recalls Zakhary, "so when I heard +about it I called the FBI and identified him,' I told them he was a member +of the mosque and that he was very close with the sheikh [Abdel Rahman]. I +told them that, four days before, I saw with my own eyes the sheikh meeting +with Nosair at a Lebanese restaurant on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. It was +7 p.m. There was Nosair, the sheikh, a person escorting the sheikh, and +another person I don't know. They were deep in conversation."

+ +

Shortly after police arrested Nosair they found startling evidence that the +Kahane killing was just the first in a planned spree. Scrawled on a bank +calendar in Nosair's home was a "hit list" that included the names of a +U.S. representative, two federal judges, and a former assistant U.S. +Attorney. Local police searching Nosair's Cliffside Park, New Jersey, home +discovered a trove of terrorist paraphernalia: bombmaking manuals, AK-47 +cartridges, a stolen New York State license plate, and a bullet-riddled +target board. There were also a number of passports and driver's licenses +under various names, as well as articles about the assassination of Anwar +Sadat.

+ +

But despite Zakhary's reports, Nosair's hit list, and the suspicious cache +at his home, the authorities seemed to be downplaying all signs of a +terrorist conspiracy. Within 12 hours of the shooting, New York City chief +of detectives Joseph Borrelli declared the Kahane assassination was the +work of a "lone gunman." Borrelli added, '"There was nothing found [at +Nosair's house] that would stir your imagination."

+ +

One New York City detective close to the investigation told me that the +case was handled like a routine homicide. "They [the NYPD] wanted to make +it as simple as possible," said the detective. "It was treated as a +homicide at the precinct level. The higher-ups didn't want to take it +further. The police department stated that they got the gunman and that +was it. We're not equipped to investigate international terrorism."

+ +

But the FBI is. On the eve of Nosair's trial, a frustrated federal +investigator told me that he didn't believe Nosair had acted alone. +"There's nothing to prove that Nosair took it upon himself to [kill +Kahane]. There are many conspiracy theories. We hit a lot of dry wells." +Yet the federal agent said that the NYPD had jurisdiction in the case and +that the FBI's investigation was "superficial."

+ +

What investigators would have found if they had done their job thoroughly +is that Sheikh Abdel Rahman and El Sayyid Nosair were at the heart of a +far-flung terrorist conspiracy. A magnet for the angry and dispossessed of +the Muslim world, Abdel Rahman, through his violent preaching, has been +linked to dozens of terrorist incidents in Egypt and now to the attack on +the World Trade Center. an act he says he deplores.

+ +

In the aftermath of the bombing, many are wondering why there wasn't a +comprehensive, wide-ranging investigation of Meir Kahane's murder. One +possible explanation is offered by a counterterrorism expert for the FBI. +At a meeting in a Denny's coffee shop in Los Angeles a week after the +Kahane assassination, the 20-year veteran field agent met with one of his +top undercover operatives, a burly 33-year-old FBI contract employee who +had been a premier bomber for a domestic terrorist group before being +"turned" and becoming a government informant.

+ +

"Why aren't we going after the sheikh [Abdel Rahman]?" demanded the +undercover man.

+ +

"It's hands-off," answered the agent.

+ +

"Why?" asked the operative.

+ +

"It was no accident that the sheikh got a visa and that he's still in the +country," replied the agent, visibly upset. "He's here under the banner of +national security, the State Department, the NSA [National Security +Agency], and the CIA." The agent pointed out that the sheikh had been +granted a tourist visa, and later a green card, despite the fact that he +was on a State Department terrorist watch-list that should have barred him +from the country. He's an untouchable, concluded the agent. "I haven't +seen the lone-gunman theory advocated [so forcefully] since John F. +Kennedy."

+ +

Why might the U.S. government protect a militant sheikh linked to numerous +acts of terrorism?

+ +

Sheikh Abdel Rahman left Egypt in 1990, in the wake of a series of bloody +clashes between his militant fundamentalist group, Al Gamaat al Islamia, +and the secular Egyptian government. The sheikh traveled to Pakistan, where +he met with representatives of the Afghan mujahedeen, who were providing +training for his underground terrorist group in Egypt, the very same +mujahedeen who were receiving financial aid and training from the CIA in +the war to rid Afghanistan of the Soviet Army. Even after the Soviets +pulled out of Afghanistan in February 1989, the U.S. and the Saudis +continued to aid the mujahedeen through Pakistan until December 1990, in an +attempt to topple the Afghan government.

+ +

According to a very high-ranking Egyptian official, when the sheikh moved +to Brooklyn in May 1990, he worked closely with the CIA, helping to channel +a steady flow of money, men, and guns to mujahedeen bases in Afghanistan +and Pakistan. The camps became a mecca for disaffected youth from across +the Muslim world.

+ +

Of course, the mujahedeen's agenda was not exactly the same as the CIA's. +While Abdel Rahman was perfectly happy to accept CIA help to chase the +godless Russians out of Afghanistan, it didn't stop him from teaching his +recruits his revolutionary agenda. The camps, says the high-ranking +Egyptian official, were "schools for jihad," or holy war. The sacred +mission was to be waged on two fronts. In the Middle East, his holy +warriors were to overthrow secular, pro-Western Arab regimes and replace +them with austere Islamic theocracies. The main target was Egypt, the +largest and most powerful nation in the Arab world. The sheikh believes, +the high-ranking Egyptian official says, "that if you take Egypt, you take +all the Middle East." Mamdouh Zaki Zakhary concurs: "Abdel Rahman +repeatedly preached that Egypt is the hand of Satan, and that you have to +cut off the hand of Satan immediately."

+ +

The Great Satan itself, of course, is America, a state that, in the eyes of +the sheikh and his supporters, has routinely committed atrocities against +the Muslim world. "Americans," said the sheikh on a recent Arabic-language +radio broadcast, "are descendants of apes and pigs who have been feeding +from the dining tables of the Zionists, Communism, and colonialism." He +advocates the destabilization of the U.S. by violent attacks on its symbols +of prestige and power, while proselytizing among African Americans and +other disenfranchised minorities. Abdel Rahman's "long-term goal is to +weaken U.S. society and to show Arab rulers that the U.S. is not an +invulnerable superpower," says Matti Steinberg, an expert on Islamic +fundamentalism at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

+ +

According to Western intelligence sources, Abdel Rahman has 10000 fanatic +disciples in Egypt and several hundred in America. But, as far as anyone +knows, he never issues them direct orders. "He talks about the importance +of jihad in the U.S. without being concrete," says Matti Steinberg. "It's a +form of spiritual brainwashing called Dawa. All it takes is a few angry +people to understand his message." A high-ranking Egyptian official agrees: +"This man is instigating violence in a very clever way. You can't really +hope to establish a direct link" between the sheikh and the World Trade +Center bombing.

+ +

Just four months before the bombing, Egyptian intelligence officials warned +the U.S. that the sheikh's principal mosques in America, the El Salaam +Mosque and the El Farouq Masjid Mosque in Brooklyn, were "hotbeds of +terrorist activity," and that the fiery blind Muslim preacher was plotting +a new round of terrorist attacks in Egypt. "There were many, many contacts +between Cairo and Washington," says the official.

+ +

The FBI received a violent reminder of the sheikh's agenda on November 12, +1992, when a terrorist hit squad linked to Abdel Rahman machine-gunned a +busload of Western tourists in Egypt, injuring five Germans. In the last +year, three Western tourists have been killed in Egypt and at least two +dozen have been wounded, crippling the country's $2.5 billion tourist +industry. When asked on an Arabic-language radio show in Washington, D.C., +about terrorist attacks on foreign tourists, the sheikh replied, "Force is +used with tourists. But tourists should use good manners. Tourism is not +nightclubs, alcohol, gambling, fornicating. They should stay away from +this behavior, the spread of AIDS and corruption with which they have +filled Egypt."

+ +

Some three months after the attack on the tourist bus, a rental van packed +with a witches' brew of sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and urea exploded in +the subbasement of the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring +more than 1000. "If they had found the exact architectural Achilles' heel +[of the World Trade Center]," says an explosives expert who works for the +FBI, "on if the bomb had been a little bit bigger, not much more, 500 +pounds more, I think it would have brought her down. It's really scary."

+ +

As Americans reeled from the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, the +first rumors that swept the country centered on an unidentified Serbian +terrorist group. The theory was abandoned only after a sharpeyed +investigator from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and a New +York City cop who were combing through the rubble found a tiny metal +fragment with the identification number of the van rented by Mohammed +Salameh. "It was a miracle that it wasn't destroyed," says the explosives +expert. If it had been, the FBI might have been tracking Serbians for +weeks in stead of Sheikh Abdel Rahman and hi labyrintine web of local Arab +terrorists

+ +

Lost in the press avalanche about the World Trade Center bombing was the +new that on the same day terrorists linked to Abdel Rahman had detonated a +bomb packed with rusty nails in the Wadi el-Ni caf , a fashionable +restaurant in Cairo, killing two tourists and two Egyptians, and wounding +16. "They wanted to show the Egyptian authorities that they could operate +in the heart of the nation's capital; says the high-ranking Egyptian-government official, who adds bitterly, "We begged America not to coddle +the sheikh."

+ +

Jack Blum, a widely respected former special investigator for the Senate +Foreign Relations subcommittee, puts it bluntly The CIA trained the +mujahedeen in terrorism, then dumped them in 1990 as part of an agreement +with Moscow, leaving behind a ragtag army of anti-Western Muslim extremists +burning to vent their rage on their former patrons, America. "One of the +big problems here is that many suspects in the World Trade Center bombing +were associated with the mujahedeen," says Blum. "And there are components +of our government that are absolutely disinterested in following that path +because it leads back to people we supported in the Afghan war." The first +suspect arrested in the World Trade Center bombing was Mohammed Salameh, a +25-year-old Palestinian with a thick black beard and a degree from a +Jordanian university in the shariah, Islamic religious law. On February +23, he rented the Ryder van that was packed with explosives and detonated +underneath the World Trade Center. When it was revealed that he had +returned four times to claim a $400 refund for the vehicle, which he claims +was stolen the night before the bombing, many assumed he was either a patsy +or the stupidest terrorist in history. What was forgotten, of course, was +that the odds against identifying the van were astronomical.

+ +

"He's not a clever man, but he's not a stupid man," says Zakhary, the FBI +undercover operative who met Salameh at the El Salaam Mosque. "He's an +ordinary man, a working man. I think that, for him, the bombing was coming +from his heart, not his brain."

+ +

The seeds of Salameh's discontent were sown in Bidya, a dusty, nondescript +farming village of 6000 Palestinian Arabs near the Nablus-Tel Aviv Highway, +on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The squat, ramshackle, cinder-block +homes line unpaved streets that are strewn with garbage. Indoor plumbing is +rare, and the town doesn't have a single telephone. The gray concrete walls +of Bidya's four schools are covered with pro-PLO graffiti and fierce +tirades against Israel.

+ +

Bidya is a glaring contrast to nearby Ariel, the gleaming suburban +settlement of 15000 secular Jews that was built on land expropriated from +Bidya and other nearby Palestinian villages in the mid 1970s. Ariel has the +look and feel of an American Sunbelt suburb in the midst of a boom. At the +mall in the heart of town, shops sell everything from falafel for $ 1.50 to +expensive clothes. A large outdoor swimming pool attracts suntanned Jewish +settlers, who moved to this West Bank outpost for its front yards and +scenic vistas.

+ +

Bidya has a long history of violence and rebellion. In 1936, when +Palestinian Arabs began a three-year revolt against the British Mandatory +authorities then ruling Palestine and the Jewish minority who were +struggling for statehood, Bidya became a staging base for fedayeen, or +Palestinian guerrillas. The British Army was far more brutal putting down +the revolt than the Israeli Army has been during the intifada. British +planes strafed Arab villages, thousands of Palestinians were herded into +concentration camps, and authorities passed emergency laws that made the +possession of a gun or even a bullet a crime punishable by death. More +than 10000 Palestinians were killed in the fighting; Bidya suffered +hundreds of casualties.

+ +

After Israel's 1948 War of Independence, the Jordanian Arab Legion occupied +the West Bank, and Bidya spearheaded Palestinian opposition to Jordan's +King Hussein, a Hashemite originally from Saudi Arabia who treated West +Bank Palestinians with high-handed contempt. In 1959, 15 high-ranking +officials of the Jordanian military, including a leading notable from +Bidya, plotted King Hussein's assassination. But the Jordanian mukhabarut +(secret police) discovered the scheme, and the plotters were sentenced to +death. Mohammed Salameh was born in Bidya in September 1967, just three +months after it was occupied by Israeli troops in the June 1967 Six Day +War. "When the Israelis came to our village' says Osama Odeh, a distant +cousin of Salameh, "they made a gentlemen's agreement with my father and +uncle, who is a lawyer. 'We know your Family is very nationalistic and +won't accept occupation,' they said, 'so if the fedayeen come to Bidya, you +can feed them so long as you then tell them to go. We will give you money +for your new school and build roads and sewers."'

+ +

But from the onset of Israeli rule, Bidya's residents waged a fierce +guerrilla war against the Israeli occupation, and Mohammed Salameh's family +was in the forefront of that opposition. Salameh's maternal grandfather, +one of Bidya's largest landowners, was active in the 1936 Arab Rebellion +and later joined the PLO. He was arrested in the early 1980s for membership +in the PLO, and, in spite of his advanced age, was imprisoned by the +Israelis and allegedly tortured. He died soon after his release. Salameh's +uncle spent 18 years in prison for a PLO attack on Israeli civilians. Odeh +told me that Salameh's "hate" comes from the "injustice" of the Israeli +occupation, his uncle's and grandfather's imprisonment, and Ariel's rapid +expansion. "Ariel," says Odeh, "is growing, and sucking the red blood of +our land."

+ +

When I last journeyed to Bidya, in the fall of 1990, the main entrance was +blocked by a knot of heavily armed Israeli soldiers in riot gear. "A +shooting took place," explained a soldier, who looked no more than 18. "The +road is closed. If you go in, we will shoot you."

+ +

Earlier in the day, students had gathered in the center of Bidya, shouting +anti-Israeli slogans under a huge banner that read FATAH AND HAMAS +TOGETHER. (Hamas is the large Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist group +dedicated to Israel's destruction.) Then hundreds of Palestinian youth +marched to the Nablus-Tel Aviv Highway, where young boys and girls began to +throw stones at Israeli cars. Soldiers raced to the scene and fired into +the air, trying to disperse the demonstrators. Several armed Jewish +settlers got out of their cars and fanned out among the almond trees that +line the side of the road and started shooting. Akhlam Abed, a 13-year-old +girl, was killed. She was Bidya's first casualty of the intifada.

+ +

In the wake of Israel's lightning victory in the June 1967 Six Day War, +Salameh's parents left Bidya for a squalid shantytown on the outskirts of +Amman, Jordan, forfeiting their home and possessions, as did tens of +thousands of Palestinians. Like all Palestinian youth, Salameh passionately +followed the course of the intifada, the Palestinian uprising that began in +the Gaza Strip in December 1987 and quickly spread to every Arab town, +village, and refugee camp in the Occupied Territories. Every day Jordanian +television broadcast images of Palestinian boys, their faces swathed in +black-and-white-checkered kaffiyehs, their eyes unafraid, hurling +pomegranate-sized stones at Israeli troops brandishing automatic weapons. +The children of the "stone revolution," as they are called, gave +Palestinians around the world a collective sense of pride and +determination.

+ +

Salameh, one of 11 brothers and sisters, was an indifferent student with a +poor self-image. According to Odeh, he became a devout Muslim in his +teens. Salameh's parents have expressed surprise about his alleged role in +the World Trade Center bombing. "The Jews, this is from the Jews, who have +done this and blamed my son," Salameh's mother, Aysha, told The New York +Times.

+ +

Aysha might well blame Sheikh Abdel Rahman for leading her wayward son down +the combustible path of Islamic fundamentalism. Salameh, who received a +tourist visa from the American consulate in Amman in December 1987, moved +to New Jersey, where he worked at menial jobs, constantly changing +addresses. He met Abdel Rahman not long after the sheikh arrived in +Brooklyn; he was captivated by the sheikh's call for jihad and the downfall +of America, becoming his sometime gofer, according to one U.S. law-enforcement source. Salameh quickly fell into a circle of like-minded +Muslims, including Nidal Ayyad, a chemical engineer of Palestinian descent +who allegedly concocted the World Trade Center bomb.

+ +

In Egypt, Abdel Rahman's name lives in infamy for his role in the October +6, 1981, assassination of Anwar Sadat, who was cut down in a hail of +grenade and automatic-weapons fire while he reviewed a military parade. In +1980, Abdel Rahman had issued a fatwa, or religious decree, that called +Sadat an infidel for turning his back on Islam and for making peace with +Israel. This made Sadat a prime target for assassination, an act eventually +executed by the operational arm of Abdel Rahman's organization, Al Gamaat +al Islamia, which had penetrated the Egyptian army and security services.

+ +

During a tumultuous trial in which the defendants publicly charged they had +been tortured by police interrogators, the sheikh was acquitted. The +sheikh, who continued to agitate against the Egyptian government while his +followers carried on a campaign of lethal bombings, was imprisoned for +three months in 1985, for one month in 1986, and for four months in 1989. +He finally left his homeland in 1990, saying, "It was too much for me." +After brief stays in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, the sheikh slipped into +Pakistan, where he forged operational links with mujahedeen strongman +Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the head of a radical Afghan Islamic fundamentalist +army that was being covertly backed by the CIA. According to Stephen Van +Evera, an affiliate of Harvard's Center for Science and International +Affairs, Hekmatyar "strongly chastised the United States and its 'immoral' +society, even while Washington lavished him with aid." In Hekmatyar's +guerrilla training camps, American advisers taught everything from using +explosives to shooting down enemy planes with shoulder-held Stinger +missiles.

+ +

The mujahedeen base camps in Peshawar were also places where militant +Muslims were caught up in the spirit of the two supreme moments in recent +Islamic history: the revolution in Iran, which transformed the country into +a self-righteous bastion of zealous fundamentalism, and the Afghan war. +"Iran symbolizes the rise of the Islamic state," says the Egyptian +official, "and the Afghan war was a real battlefield for these people to +acquire the stamina and capabilities to wage war." And since these two +events were successful, the militants "decided to pursue this march and +spread their revolutionary message to other countries."

+ +

In America, Abdel Rahman raised funds and recruits for the mujahedeen, many +oF them first-generation Muslim immigrants. His mosques in Jersey City and +Brooklyn also attracted fundamentalists expelled from the Gulf Emirates +after the Gulf War. But many Muslims repudiate his radical preachings. +Mosques across the country closed their doors to the rabble-rousing blind +man. Local Muslims grew even more wary in March 1991 when Mustafa Shalabi, +a 39-year-old Egyptian electrical contractor living in Brooklyn, was found +lying face down on his kitchen floor in his pajamas. He had been shot once +at close range near the left ear and stabbed in the back and stomach.

+ +

Police sources say Shalabi had been running guns to the Afghan rebels, as +well as raising money for the legal defense of El Sayyid Nosair before his +trial on charges of assassinating Rabbi Meir Kahane. Earlier, Shalabi had +helped Abdel Rahman find an apartment in Brooklyn. Police speculate that +Abdel Rahman had Shalabi murdered for pocketing some of the money. Shalabi +"had a lot of enemies," says a police source. "There was also a lot of +intrigue and infighting at his mosque in Brooklyn."

+ +

Shalabi worshipped at the El Farouq Masjid Mosque, located in a bleak +storefront building at 554 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. The Friday sermons +were delivered by Abdel Rahman, until the directors of the mosque expelled +him soon after Kahane's assassination.

+ +

The sheikh then moved entirely to the El Salaam Mosque in Jersey City. The +founder of the mosque is Sultan Ibraham El Gawli, a wealthy 55-year-old +Egyptian businessman who was convicted by a federal jury in July 1986 for +conspiring to export 150 pounds of C-4 plastic explosives to Israel for use +by the PLO in a Christmas bombing. El Gawli, who sports a full, white Santa +Claus beard, served 18 months in prison before returning to Jersey City. +He often marched in front of the courthouse during Nosair's trial, carrying +banners with fierce anti-Israel slogans. "It's no crime praying together, +is it?" El Gawli asked me when I questioned him about his friendship with +Nosair. +It was the infiltrator Mamdouh Zaki Zakhary who helped U.S. Customs set up +the sting operation that netted El Gawli. Zakhary , a frail man afflicted +with blindness in one eye and a large goiter on his neck, wore a wire into +El Galwi's office at a travel agency he owned, Sultan Travel, recording +five incriminating conversations. "There were some references on the tapes +about doing it [transporting the explosives] for God," recalls Kevin +McCarthy, the assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted El Gawli.

+ +

"Sultan El Gawli was the brains behind the terror cell at the mosque," says +Zakhary . "There were lots of meetings in his office. He also got foreign +money from the PLO and Iran. Many times he entertained and was visited by +officials from Saudi Arabia, the PLO, and Iran."

+ +

"I always thought the El Gawli case was just scratching the surface of what +was really going on [in the El Salaam Mosque]," admits a federal official +who worked on the case. "First, El Gawli himself was this businessman who +seemed to be trying to do things for the money, not for any grander scheme. +And secondly, since Mamdouh was a [Coptic Christian], I thought he wouldn't +have access to the real inner world of whatever was going on in the mosque. +At the same time, I didn't have any indications that there was more stuff +going on in the mosque."

+ +

After testifying as the key witness in a Camden, New Jersey, courthouse, +Zakhary entered a federal witness-protection program. At first, he and his +new bride lived in New Orleans, before he became convinced the PLO was +stalking him. He moved throughout the Southwest, driving the federal +marshals responsible for him crazy with complaints about the program.

+ +

Homesick and desperate for cash, Zakhary offered to return to Jersey City +to spy on the Arab American community and the El Salaam Mosque, this time +for the FBI, under the code name Mubarak. He stayed away from the mosque +itself except for three visits gathering what information he could -- +through friends and acquaintances.'

+ +

"I didn't know Salameh very well," says Zakhary, who was better acquainted +with Ibraham Elgabrowny, a cousin of both El Gawli and El Sayyid Nosair. +"Elgabrowny was a very extreme fundamentalist. He belonged to the Muslim +Brotherhood in Egypt. In 1985, when the TWA plane was hijacked to Beirut, +Elgabrowny said he was very happy. He said, 'lf I was the kidnapper, I +would start executing passengers right now."'

+ +

In 1991, a year and a half after he began to work for the FBI, Zakhary +reported to his handler that he had overheard a plot to assassinate the two +U.S. senators from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Alfonse D'Amato. +When incredulous FBI agents hooked him up to a lie detector, Zakhary failed +the test. He blames the result on prescription medication he was taking at +the time because of an automobile accident. The FBI did not believe him and +terminated his employment.

+ +

"Mamdouh [Zakhary] is an honest man with very good intentions," Richard +Kennan, a U.S. Customs agent, told the Israeli newspaper Ma ariv. "[He] +prevented a mass terror attack on Christmas 1985. Unfortunately, he didn't +understand the American system. He was confused. I'm very sorry about +what happened to him. We tried to get him asylum in the U.S., but his +behavior didn't help." The U.S. has had a long and tortured history with +the Islamic world. While most Americans see Muslims as the aggressors, +Muslims view the West the same way. In fact, the U.S. and the Islamic world +have been trading acts of terrorism for years. In 1986, Libyan-backed +terrorists bombed the La Belle discotheque in Berlin, killing two American +servicemen. In response, the U.S. bombed Libya, killing 36 civilians and +wounding 92. On July 3, 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, the U.S.S. +Vincennes accidentally shot down an Iranian passenger plane over the Gulf, +killing 290 people. Six months afterward, Pan Am 103 disintegrated in a +shower of fire and debris over Lockerbie, Scotland. No one claimed credit, +but it is widely believed in intelligence circles that the Pan Am bombing +was Iran's revenge.

+ +

The U.S.-funded attack that killed the greatest number of innocent +civilians took place on March 8, 1985, when the U.S. tried to liquidate +what it believed was the very symbol of international terrorism: +fundamentalist Muslim leader Sheikh Mohammed Fadlallah, the head of +Hizbollah, the Party of God. On October 23, 1983, Fadlallah had sent a +suicide bomber barreling into the Marine compound in Beirut, killing 241 +Marines. CIA director William Casey contracted out the job of retaliation +to Saudi intelligence, which sent a car packed with explosives into a +Beirut slum near Fadlallah's headquarters. A city block was devastated and +more than 90 people were buried under the rubble.

+ +

Because of the persistent fear of Arab terror during the Gulf War, Arab +Americans say they have been unfairly targeted for special surveillance by +federal agencies. Actually, there has been little evidence of Arab +terrorism on American soil. The PLO raises money and spreads propaganda in +the U.S., but has refrained from attacking targets here -- although it has +staged murderous assaults against Americans abroad. Ironically, the week +the World Trade Center was bombed, a PLO official was being tried in a +Brooklyn federal court for planting powerful time bombs in rented cars +parked outside two Israeli banks in Manhattan and the El Al terminal at +Kennedy Airport in 1973.

+ +

Most Americans would be surprised to learn, however, that the terrorist +group that led the hit parade through much of the 1980s was the Jewish +Defense League, Rabbi Meir Kahane's fanatical right-wing Zionist +organization. By 1985, the JDL was ranked by the FBI as the most lethal +domestic terrorist group in America, overtaking the Aryan Nation, the +American Nazi Party, and the Puerto Rican Revolution. The JDL has been +linked to dozens of bombings and at least two assassinations, including the +widely admired regional director of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination +Committee, Alex Odeh.

+ +

For years the Brooklyn-born Kahane had been calling for the expulsion of +all Arabs from Israel. After moving to Jerusalem, he established the Kach +Party and was elected to Israel's parliament in 1984. He drafted a slew of +bills that were never passed, including one that would have made it a crime +punishable by two years in prison for a Jew to have sex with an Arab. +Israel's High Court banned Kahane from running for reelection in 1988 on +the grounds that his party was racist and antidemocratic.

+ +

It seems certain now that Kahane's fanatical ideas made him the target of +terrorism himself. On November 5, 1990, he gave the last speech of his +life. "My whole life has been ideas which eventually were taken up by +other people and succeeded," said Kahane in his characteristic stutter, an +impediment since childhood. "Today Jewish defense is an accepted thing. A +patrol in a neighborhood is an accepted thing." But patrols were no longer +adequate to defend Jews in a country that was becoming increasingly anti-Semitic, Kahane warned. He urged his Jewish audience to move to Israel +before a new Holocaust engulfed them in America. "They hate us with a +passion out there," thundered Kahane, "with a virulence that's frightening +to see."

+ +

Following Kahane's speech, El Sayyid Nosair approached the podium wearing a +black yarmulke, as if to ask a question. Moments later, Kahane was dead. +In the irony of ironies, the FBI put the New York branch of the Kach Party +under surveillance to prevent it from avenging their slain leader. The FBI +failed, however, to monitor activities at the radical mosques.

+ +

I interviewed Nosair for The Village Voice in a tiny detention cell on +Rikers Island on the eve of his trial. Nosair, who was wearing a white +tunic and a white skullcap with the words ALLAH WILL BE VICTORIOUS knitted +in bold blue Arabic calligraphy across the front, began our 90-minute talk +by handing me a number of pamphlets showing why Islam was the true path. "I +started to practice my religion as much as I can since I came to the United +States," said Nosair. "Of course, I read a lot. I read about different +religions -- Christianity, Judaism -- I studied all these religions that +led me to believe that Islam is the true way of life.

+ +

"You face many different doors" in America, continued Nosair, who had +immigrated to Pittsburgh from Egypt on July 14, 1981. The true path is +behind one door, he explained, while evil lurks behind the others. "Because +I believe that Islam is the true way of life, I began to preach Islam, to +prove to people from their own [religious] books that Islam is the correct +way of life." Islam, he told me, is encoded in each of us at birth. Each +person is created in submission to Allah. We pervert nature, he said, when +we embrace Judaism or Christianity. "Judaism has a lot of materialistic +rituals with a minimum of spiritual rituals, and that's why Allah sent +Islam to mankind," Nosair said. Judaism is an abomination, he explained, +not because of race or blood (the Arabs too are Semites), but because the +Jews refuse to accept Mohammed as the Prophet.

+ +

I asked Nosair if the Koran says there is such a thing as a just killing. +"Of course, there has to be," he replied. "We have to have an Islamic +state -- that's why we try to preach Islam to everybody."

+ +

Nosair admitted he is a big "celebrity" in the Muslim world, where he is +credited with killing Kahane. When Nosair's wife, Caren, a blue-eyed Irish +Catholic convert to Islam, and three children traveled to Egypt a year +after Kahane's murder, they were met at the airport by government officials +and driven through Cairo in a motorcade. Caren's chaperone was none other +than Nosair's cousin, Ibraham Elgabrowny.

+ +

Elgabrowny had helped raise more than $250000 for Nosair's legal defense. +The trial turned out to be one of the most shocking in New York history. +The Manhattan D.A.'s case against Nosair was as narrowly focused as the +investigation had been. The prosecution didn't present any of the evidence +police found in Nosair's apartment suggesting his terrorist connections' +and never offered the jury an explanation of Nosair's motive, despite the +fact that Manhattan Assistant District Attorney William Greenbaum knew that +Nosair was bragging to fellow inmates at Rikers Island that "Allah chose me +to kill the big Jew." At least one inmate reported Nosair's confession to +the D.A.'s office, according to sources close to the investigation. After +close questioning that included a lie-detector test, the inmate was deemed +highly credible by the D.A. But in a catastrophic miscalculation, Greenbaum +decided not to put the inmate on the stand.

+ +

The D.A. believed there was ample evidence to convict Nosair without +delving into his motive, which would have led the trial into the swamp of +Kahane's radical ideas, 50 years of Arab-Israeli enmity, and the internal +politics of Israel and Egypt. What looked to every observer like an open-and-shut case ended with Nosair's stunning acquittal; he was, however, +sentenced to 22 years for related charges.

+ +

"In this case the result is so jarring that has tempted people to talk +about taking the law into their own hands," former U.S. Attorney Rudolph +Giuliani wrote to Manhattan U.S. Attorney Otto Obermaier after the verdict. +Giuliani recommended that the FBI reopen the Nosair investigation. The +Justice Department refused, and the case dimmed from public memory until +the World Trade Center was bombed.

+ +

The authorities are just now reopening the Kahane investigation. It is +possible that Nosair will be tried in federal court for violating Kahane's +civil rights, much as the police in the Rodney King case are now being +tried. A new investigation may find that the bombers of the World Trade +Center were also Kahane's killers. The connections seem strong. Both +Elgabrowny and Salameh visited Nosair in Attica. And federal agents found +forged Nicaraguan passports made out to Nosair and his family in +Elgabrowny's Brooklyn brownstone. Attica officials are currently +investigating whether an escape was being planned.

+ +

Another suspect in the case, Mahmud Abouhalima, a New York City taxi driver +and an associate of both Nosair and Salameh, fled the U.S., reportedly for +Egypt. Investigators believe he may now be in Pakistan, where he had +trained with the mujahedeen and later fought in the Afghan war. +Investigators are also looking for links between the bombing suspects and +Mir Aimal Kansi, who is being sought for the slaying of two CIA employees +in front of the agency's Virginia headquarters. According to a federal +prosecutor, Kansi had told his roommate that he was going to commit a +violent act to protest what he perceived as Western mistreatment of +Muslims.

+ +

This much is certain: Just 12 hours after Kahane's killing, the government +was espousing the lone-gunman theory and Nosair's terrorist connections +were ignored. Had the investigation into the assassination of Rabbi Meir +Kahane been vigorously pursued, the World Trade Center bombing may never +have happened.

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[From _The Village Voice_, April 6, 1993]

+ +

THE SHEIK'S REWARD

+ +

Will the CIA Come Clean About Abdel Rahman?

+ +

By Robert I. Friedman

+ +

Several prominent law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of +anonymity, say that it appears that Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman was allowed to +enter the United States because of his support for the mujahedeen -- the +fractious coalition of CIA-backed Islamic extremists who fought the Soviet +army in Afghanistan and later the moderate regime in Kabul.

+ +

The Voice revealed last week that in 1990 Abdel Rahman left Egypt for +Peshawar, Pakistan, where he met rebel Afghan leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, +who was already providing training for the sheikh's militant fundamentalist +terrorist group in Egypt, Al Gamaat al Islamia. The rebel camps were +"schools for Jihad," where fundamentalists from across the Muslim world +received courses in everything from making car bombs to shooting down +planes with American-made Stinger missiles. After several months in +Peshawar, Abdel Rahman traveled to Khartoum, Sudan, where he received a +U.S. tourist visa, despite his presence on a State Department terrorist +watch-list that should have barred him from the country. In America, where +he was also granted a green card, Abdel Rahman raised funds and recruits +for the mujahedeen, many of them first-generation Muslim immigrants living +in Brooklyn and New Jersey. One was Mahmud Abouhalima, a World Trade +Center bombing suspect and an Afghan war veteran.

+ +

Not only did the sheikh encourage his flock of Muslim zealots to fight the +godless Russians in Afghanistan, but he also exhorted his followers in +Egypt to wage a terror campaign against Hosni Mubarak's secular government. +In a CNN interview Monday, Mubarak said that a current wave of terror +bombings in Egypt was being funded by a U.S. group tied to Abdel Rahman. +"There is an association in New Jersey collecting a lot of money for the +refugees in Afghanistan," said Mubarak. "All this money is now being +channeled to those extremists [in Egypt]."

+ +

But even as the Egyptian government begged the U.S. not to coddle the +sheikh, who was smuggling cassettes of his fiery speeches into Egypt -- +much the way Ayatollah Khomeini did from his safe-haven in France before +the fall of the shah -- Abdel Rahman was also denouncing his patron, +America, as the root of all evil.

+ +

Although the sheikh is apparently at the heart of a far-flung terrorist +conspiracy, he is not considered a suspect in the World Trade Center +bombing. Incredibly, the FBI has not even questioned him about the blast, +and only last week was he reportedly placed under round-the-clock federal +surveillance.

+ +

"My gut feeling is that we are protecting the sheikh," says a law enforcement source familiar with the case. "We got him a visa as a reward +for his help in Afghanistan."

+ +

The source worries that the FBI appears to be shutting down the +investigation prematurely. "My ears perked up when I heard the FBI say +that they have apprehended all but one of the World Trade Center bombers," +he says. "These guys [the suspects) don't look like self-starters to me." +Professionals from abroad, he says, may have assisted the suspects.

+ +

The FBI already has been criticized for failing to untangle the terrorist +web around El Sayyid Nosair, following the murder of the Zionist demagogue +Rabbi Meir Kahane. Just 12 hours after Kahane's shooting, the government +was espousing the theory that Nosair was a lone gunman, despite having +found considerable evidence that appeared to link him to a wider terrorist +network.

+ +

Sheikh Abdel Rahman causes chaos wherever he goes. In Egypt, his +organization assassinated Anwar Sadat. Though acquitted himself, be was +imprisoned three times during the 1980s. He finally left his homeland in +1990. After a pilgrimage to Mecca, he traveled to Baghdad, where Egyptian +authorities believe he may have been involved in the planning of the +unsuccessful assassination of Egyptian Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel-Halim Moussa.

+ +

Abdel Rahman later slipped into Pakistan, where he forged operational links +with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the head of a radical rebel Afghan army backed by +the CIA. Hekmatyar's career in politics began in 1972, when as an +engineering student at Kabul University, he founded the Young Muslims, +which advocated turning Afghanistan into a single-party Islamic republic +based on the Sharia, or Islamic law. In June 1974, Hekmatyar fled to +Pakistan after a government crackdown on Islamic fundamentalists.

+ +

Hekmatyar immediately began to call for the armed overthrow of Afghanistan +-- an idea that won the approval of Pakistani leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, +who supplied Hekmatyar with arms, training, and money. Hekmatyar +orchestrated an insurrection in Afghanistan in 1975, but it was crushed. +Many of his followers subsequently joined him in Peshawar.

+ +

By 1979, six fundamentalist Muslim Afghani rebel groups were operating in +Peshawar. Hekmatyar's was by far the largest and most important, thanks +to the support of his newest Pakistani patron, President Mohammed Zia. At +the time, the Soviet-backed, Marxist government in Afghanistan was +attempting to weaken the hold of the traditional religious elite, who for +centuries had ruled the countryside. The Afghani Marxists even went so +far as to remove the Islamic green from the Afghani flag. Hekmatyar +resisted, waging a fierce terrorist war. In December 1979, the Soviets, +fearing the violence would spill across their borders, invaded Afghanistan. +Afghani president Hafizullah Amin was killed in the royal palace by Soviet +troops, and replaced by Babrak Karmal, an exile who had been living in +Moscow.

+ +

Hekmatyar's relationship with Abdel Rahman began around the time of the +Soviet invasion. Hekmatyar, who had only cursory religious training, drew +his inspiration from the sheikh's attempts to overthrow Sadat and his call +for a pure Islamic state, where women would be veiled and children would be +scrupulously taught by mullahs.

+ +

During Abdel Rahman's visit to Peshawar in 1990, the two charismatic +leaders talked about spreading their holy war beyond the Muslim world into +America, say several well-placed sources. But one of their most pressing +concerns were the Islamic republics of the Soviet Union. As early as 1987, +Hekmotyar's warriors were fighting Soviet troops in Soviet Tajikistan, +according to the Washington Times. Meanwhile, the CIA spent lavishly on +the Afghan rebels. In 1987 alone, the mujahedeen received $640 million -- +a sum matched by the Saudis. Additional funds were raised in the Gulf and +among Abdel Rahman's American disciples. At the same time, the U.S. was +building up the Iraqi war machine. When U.S. aid to the mujahedeen stopped +in late December 1990 as part of an accord with Moscow, the ragtag army of +Islamic fundamentalists turned its wrath on America. Around the same time, +Iraq swallowed Kuwait, forcing America into the Gulf War.

+ +

It is not surprising the U.S. government is attempting to cover up its +relationship with Abdel Rahman. It may take a congressional investigation +to unearth the extent of the sheikh's ties to U.S. intelligence. Last +week's report in the Voice about CIA links to Abdel Rahman has "CIA +officials running for cover," says a source close to the agency.

+ +

Instead of ducking, the CIA should tell law enforcement what it knows about +Abdel Rahman and his American followers. CIA files might shed light on the +letter to The New York Times from the Liberation Army Fifth Battalion, +which declared that the World Trade Center bombing was in retaliation for +America's support for Israel and pro-Western Arab regimes. The letter +threatened that the bombings would continue unless America suspended aid to +Israel. Authorities told the Times that the letter was prepared by one of +the five suspects in custody.

+ +

Some terrorism experts fear that the World Trade Center bombing is the +first round in radical Islam's war against America. They point to a wave +of bombings in Paris in 1985 and 1986 that was masterminded by Tehran, and +facilitated by Iranian students and small businessmen living in France. +While the locals provided safehouses, bomb-making materials, and other +logistical support, professional terrorists from abroad carried out the +bombings and fled. The French government later struck a secret deal with +the Khomeini regime. France took a more "neutral" position in the Iran-Iraq war and released several imprisoned Iranians. In return, the bombings +stopped. *

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["By way of deception shall you Conquer." -- Mossad's motto

+ +

Victor Ostrovsky was a career Mossad agent. He left Israel's +secret police agency and returned to his native Canada, where he +wrote his best-selling book _By Way of Deception_. He is the +only Mossad agent to leave the agency, discuss its covert +activities, and survive for more than one year.

+ +

"Mossad" means "by way of deception" in Hebrew. - C.M.]

+ +

[From _The Village Voice_, April 6, 1993]

+ +

BY WAY OF DECEPTION?

+ +

By Robert I. Friedman

+ +

Renegade Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky told the Voice that Israeli +intelligence may have been behind the World Trade Center bombing. Mossad +had motive and opportunity, says Ostrovsky, whose book about his spy days +caused a furor in Israel as it climbed the best-seller charts in Europe and +America. Ostrovsky admits he doesn't have "a shred of evidence" to support +his theory, which in my view is extremely dubious.

+ +

But consider: Prime Minister Yizthak Rabin summarily expels to a snow-covered mountain in Lebanon some 400 Palestinians suspected of aiding and +abetting Hamas, a fundamentalist group in the occupied territories that +killed six Israeli soldiers in November. The expulsion was "a big PR +mistake," says Ostrovsky, noting that the international media and most +foreign governments severely criticized Israel.

+ +

Meanwhile, the intifada had taken a new deadly turn. Spurred by the +expulsion, Palestinian fundamentalists killed 12 Israelis this month, the +highest single-month casualty figure since December 1987, when the intifada +started. Desperate to crack down on the Palestinians in the territories, +and draw media attention away from 400 freezing Palestinian deportees, +Rabin needed a plan to discredit Muslims in general and Palestinians in +particular so that Israel would emerge in the media as a hero.

+ +

Mossad, says Ostrovsky, then concocted a devious scheme. First Israeli +intelligence leaks to Judy Miller of The New York Times that Hamas is +headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, and is sending instructions to the +territories via fax and courier. The Times publishes the account on the +front page, using as a news hook the fact that Israel had just arrested +three Arab Americans from Chicago who were in the territories organizing +Hamas terror cells. Following the Times story, the ADL and other Jewish +institutions start carping about Palestinian Islamic terror cells operating +in America.

+ +

Having prepared public opinion and having already infiltrated the radical +mosques in New Jersey and Brooklyn where Abdel Rahman preached and +disciples like El Sayyid Nosair prayed, Mossad, says Ostrovsky, almost +certainly recruited a close associate of the rabble-rousing Egyptian blind +man. The insider is recruited In what Ostrovsky calls a "false flag +operation." The Arab "thinks he is being recruited by an Iranian agent or a +Libyan," says Ostrovsky. He never suspects he is actually being "run" by +Mossad.

+ +

The Mossad "handler" then masterminds the world Trade Center bombing. But +the bomb, says Ostrovsky, is never meant to detonate. Mossad is supposed +to call the CIA in the nick of time, becoming instant heroes. "I can just +see the experts sitting on television saying the tower would not sustain +the brunt of this one-ton truck bomb." The bomb may have exploded +prematurely, Ostrovsky explains.

+ +

Ostrovsky points out correctly that in the past the Mossad has effectively +used this modus operandi. In the early 1950s, Mossad recruited agents to +bomb American buildings in Cairo, hoping to drive a wedge between the U.S. +and Gamel Abdul Nasser. When the facts became known in Israel, the scandal +brought down the government. According to Ostrovsky, in 1984 Mossad +detonated bombs outside of the U.S. embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's +capital city, claiming credit in the name of an unknown radical Saudi +resistance group. Ostrovsky, a member of Mossad at the time, says the +purpose was to weaken U.S./Saudi relations by showing' the U.S. that the +regime was fragile and about to fall.

+ +

But none of this explains why Mossad would put tens of thousands of +Americans -- presumably many of them Jews -- at risk.

+ +

- R.I.F.

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[Reproduced from _The Village Voice_, 4/15/93]

+ +

THE CIA AND HEROIN FINANCED THE MUJAHEDEEN

+ +

By Robert I. Friedman

+ +

The World Trade Center bombing is the legacy of the CIA's disastrous policy +of arming the mujahedeen in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Not only have Afghan +war veterans been implicated in the worst act of terrorism in U.S. history, +but mujahedeen warlords also have become the world's biggest heroin +producers, according to experts in the international drug trade.

+ +

The CIA's arms shipments and training program for the mujahedeen became one +of its most massive covert operations, costing at least $2 billion, far +surpassing U.S. support for the Nicaraguan contras. If anything, the battle +for Afghanistan motivated the CIA more than the war against the +Sandinistas. In Nicaragua, the CIA fought Soviet proxies. In Afghanistan, +the enemy was the Soviet army, which invaded Afghanistan in December 1979.

+ +

Support for Nicaraguan and Afghani "freedom fighters" became the +cornerstone of the so-called Reagan Doctrine - an attempt not just to contain +Communism but to roll it back. While the contras were mostly a collection +of former dictator Anastasio Somoza's street thugs, in Afghanistan the +rebels were Islamic extremists and narco-terrorists who hated America as +much as they despised the Godless Russians.

+ +

Billions of dollars of CIA money, matched by billions from Saudi Arabia (a +quid pro quo for receiving AWAC surveillance planes over the adamant +protests of the pro-Israel lobby), were passed through the Bank of Credit +and Commerce International to the Afghan rebels. The bank was also used to +channel funds to the contras. But no matter how much money the Afghan +rebels received it never seemed to be enough. In order to augment their +funds, rebel chieftains began to grow poppies, refine opium into heroin, +and sell the drug in the U.S. and Europe. In 1979, Pakistan and Afghanistan +exported virtually no heroin to the West. By 1981, the drug lords, many +high-ranking members of Pakistan's political and military establishment, +controlled 60 per cent of America's heroin market. "Trucks from the +Pakistan army's National Logistics Cell arriving with CIA arms from Karachi +often returned loaded with heroin-protected by ISI [Pakistan's internal +security service] papers from police search," wrote Alfred McCoy in The +Politics of Heroin (Lawrence Hill, 1991).

+ +

Of the seven rebel mujahedeen leaders who operated from base-camps in +Peshawar, by far the most dominant is Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who received +more than $1 billion in covert U.S. aid. Hekmatyar was an obscure Islamic +fanatic before he was tapped by the CIA. Today, his forces are nine miles +from Kabul, where until recently he was engaged in bloody battles against +the Afghan army - indiscriminately raining tens of thousands of rockets and +artillery shells on the nation's capital. A March 7 Pakistani-brokered +peace accord named Hekmatyar Afghan's prime minister-designate.

+ +

All through the 1980s, Hekmatyar received accolades from the U.S. press, +even though Asia Watch, among others, published gory reports about his +human rights abuses. Hekmatyar brutally murdered rivals, then had their +corpses ritually mutilated. "He really did dominate the Afghan refugee +camps and was known among the refugees as being willing to retaliate +against anyone who challenged his political authority," McCoy, a professor +of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin, told the Voice. +Only after the Soviets left Afghanistan in 1989 did The New York Times +criticize Hekmatyar's "sinister nature." The Times, however, never +bothered to tell its readers that Hekmatyar is also among the world's +biggest heroin dealers, a distinction he has enjoyed for nearly a decade. +A May 1990 front-page article in The Washington Post charged that U.S. +officials had ignored Afghani complaints of heroin trafficking by Hekmatyar +and Pakistani intelligence. Some experts now believe that Hekmatyar will +vastly increase Afghanistan's opium harvest when he becomes prime minister. +"There were preliminary reports about six months ago based on interviews +with UN personnel in the region that Afghanistan by itself could produce +3000 tons of opium," says McCoy. "Now that's nearly equivalent to the +world's supply no matter how you calculate it. It's one little country and +it's going to double the world's supply all by itself."

+ +

It's easier - and far more profitable - for the 4 to 5 million Afghans +returning home from the refugee camps in Pakistan to plant poppies than +rebuild their war-shattered economy, says McCoy. Afghanistan's agriculture +was destroyed by the war and it will take a lot of nurturing to revive the +groves of oranges, its principal cash crop before the war. Poppies need +little tending and they will guarantee peasants an almost immediate income. +"Opium is the ideal solution," says McCoy. "They can put it in and in six +months they've got a harvest." But while Hekmatyar has inundated the U.S. +and Europe with the potent powder, U.S. officials have remained silent.

+ +

Ruined citrus crops, a plague of heroin, and hundreds of thousands of +casualties didn't deter the CIA from its holy war against communism in +Afghanistan. "On the afternoon of February 15, 1989, the champagne began +flowing at CIA headquarters," wrote Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Tim +Weiner in Blank Check, a book about covert operations. "A rare exultation +filled the air. After fifteen years of failure and humiliation, the Agency +had won a famous victory. The last Soviet troops had left Afghanistan. The +Agency's biggest covert action since the height of the Vietnam war had +achieved its goal. The CIA had won its jihad."

+ +

The real winners, of course, are Hekmatyar and the tens of thousands of +Islamic holy warriors -- trained and financed by the CIA -- who are today +locked in a life and death struggle with America. According to this week's +New Yorker, it was Hekmatyar who "most likely" introduced Sheikh Omar Abdel +Rahman to the American and Pakistani intelligence officials who were +orchestrating the Afghan war when the sheikh visited Pakistan just prior to +moving to Brooklyn in May 1990. As the Voice previously reported, the CIA +almost certainly facilitated the sheikh's entry into the United States as a +reward for helping the mujahedeen - despite his presence on a State +Department terrorism watch list. Mahmud Abouhalima, an Afghan war vet and +the sheikh's driver, has been indicted for his alleged involvement in the +World Trade Center bombing. The wreckage and death caused by the blast is +a depressing coda to the end of the Cold War. And thanks to the CIA's +favorite freedom fighters, heroin addiction is again on the rise in +America. *

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From: wmcguire@world.std.com (Wayne McGuire) +To: talk.politics.mideast +Subject: The End of Zionism (Yet Another Failed Messianic Movement) +Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA +Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 21:17:49 GMT +Lines: 239

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With all due humility and modesty I want to announce that the +post below is probably one of the most important posts you'll +ever read in talk.politics.mideast. There, that should take care +of the levity for the day.

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It is a message I posted to someone on another network, and sums +up a whole lot of reading and thinking I've been doing about the +Mideast and Israel for a few years now. Previous discussions here +in TPM, particularly interactions with ardent pro-Israel +partisans, helped clarify my thoughts.

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For a number of years now I've been noticing with increasing +attention the remarkable resemblances between Zionism and earlier +episodes of messianic (and always disastrous) outbursts in Jewish +history, but wasn't quite prepared to make the leap that Zionism +as a whole fit the model. I thought that the dangerous messianic +elements were mostly on the religious right, and could be safely +isolated. But the more I read, the more I realized that +messianism permeated the Israeli left as much as the Israeli +right, and that the entire Zionist enterprise is fundamentally +messianic in its outlook and foundations.

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The collapse of Communism (the 20th century's premier secular +messianic movement), the failure of the Israeli kibbutz +movement, the rush to proclaim Menachem Schneerson the Messiah, +the rise of Kahanism, and an unceasing succession of blunders by +the Israeli government starting in the 1973 war and continuing +most recently in the Demjanjuk fiasco have all combined to lead +me to the conclusion that something is so seriously awry with the +Zionist experiment that it does in fact exhibit all the traits of +previous failed messianic movements in Jewish history.

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What really confirmed me in this conviction was reading five +books one after the other, and digesting all the information +interactively and seeing all the implications:

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Golan, Matti. With Friends Like You: What Israelis Really Think +About American Jews. New York: The Free Press, 1992. Translated +from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.

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Leibowitz, Yeshayahu. Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish +State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

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Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock: A Confession. New York: Simon & +Schuster, 1993.

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Segev, Tom. The Seventh Million: The Israelis and The Holocaust. +New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

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Sicker, Martin. Judaism, Nationalism, and the Land of Israel. +Boulder, CO. Westview Press, 1992.

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Earlier here I tried to stimulate, without success, some serious +discussion about four of the books. If you want to get an idea of +how I reached my conclusions, try reading them and do some +creative thinking about what you've read. Attached below the post +is a longer list of books which collectively provide an +articulate explanation of why Zionism's future is bleak indeed.

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If you want the really short course, just read the Martin Sicker +book. Surveying thousands of years of failed messianism in a few +hundred pages is a real education, and puts mere decades of +Zionism into perspective.

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I can imagine the howls of outrage or mirth the assertion that +Zionism is defunct will arouse, but that is entirely predictable +and not interesting. I am not particularly motivated to debate +the subject one way or the other, although I will read with +curiosity valuable insights, as opposed to polemics, anyone might +contribute to my, ahem, prophetic, shall we even say, messianic +pronouncement. For me, the essential debate is over. All the +angry back and forth that is going on here and elsewhere about +who is right and wrong concerning this and that incident between +Israel and its neighbors is just so much noise and is missing the +big picture. Trying to figure out what is going on in the Mideast +and the Israel-Arab conflict was for me an exercise in solving a +knotty and fascinating intellectual problem. Once the problem is +figured out, it no longer excites one's attention.

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[Post to Mary Weiss]

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I've radically changed my views about Israel and the Mideast +conflict since we last chatted. Back then I was advocating +positions, with my usual visionary foresight, that have been +adopted by the current Israeli government. I was slightly ahead +of my time. Now I believe--make that KNOW--that Zionism may well +prove to be the greatest calamity for Jews in world history to +date, and will most certainly fail as a movement and a physical +state. Israel may not even last out the decade. Jews will come to +regret the day that Israel was ever founded. It doesn't matter +what policies Israel adopts--left, right, center, whatever. Jews +will be weeping and gnashing their teeth over the fact that they +foolishly saddled themselves with the need to support and defend +a physical Jewish state in the middle of a region which hates +that state. All the old anti-Zionist arguments that Jews +themselves hashed over before the founding of Israel are going to +come to the surface again, and the original Jewish anti-Zionists +are going to look like prophets. Theodore Herzl will come to be +seen as notorious a failed prophet as Karl Marx.

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The reason? Zionism is a false messianic movement, a well-known +phenomenon in Jewish history. It is built on air, fantasies, and +intoxication, not solid ground. These messianic splurges always +end up in catastrophes for Jews, and Zionism looks like it will +be the granddaddy of all these fiascos, for hundreds of reasons +which I could document for you at length. But you know the main +reason yourself if you examine your heart: ask yourself why you +don't live in Israel. Then you'll know why so many Jews want to +leave Israel.

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Trust me, Marty, it is over. Sometime during the last year or +two, deep in the secret soul of Jews, of history, of the world, +Zionism died, expired. Zionists will continue to go through the +motions, engage in angry and self-destructive arguments with +fellow Americans and others who criticize Israel: you know the +whole drill. But at the core, the ball game is over. The more +that Jews get locked into the position of defending a state they +don't want to live in, and don't even believe in, the more pain +and difficulty they are going to cause themselves.

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The best advice anyone could give to Jews who really cares about +them--not all of them, to be sure, but some of them--is to begin +to make preparations now for dissolving the state of Israel that +are maximally advantageous for Israelis and Jews in general. Once +that is accomplished, then sit down and figure out why you keep +getting suckered in by self-destructive messianic movements, and +then fix the problem through some form of cultural self-analysis +and psychotherapy. Then get on with doing what you do best in a +modern pluralistic society like the U.S.--make art, make science, +make products, make friends, be happy, be self-fulfilled, etc., +and just generally get on with making productive lives free of +the need to pursue a collective or ethnocentric messianic mission +of any kind, divine or secular.

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If this doesn't happen, it seems certain that Israel will be +heading for a mess that is beyond your wildest dreams. Those who +will be taking the deepest pleasure in Israel's continued +existence will be the world's most virulent anti-Semites.

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I know you won't believe a word I am saying, and will react +defensively, but that's ok. I know what I know. And I only say +something like this with the utmost gravity and care, after a +tremendous amount of reading, thought, and conversation. I know +what I am talking about, and I came to these conclusions very +reluctantly, in fact resisted them with all my might, since they +are so disturbing. I mainly want to get this statement down on +the public record somewhere, in part for the ego gratification of +being recognized as one of the first people to figure this out. +Once you get a handle on the key features of false messianism, of +any messianism for that matter, and do a match against all the +developments that have been going on Israel virtually since it's +founding, the truth becomes crystal clear. The coming collapse is +visible in Israel's every action and word.

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One important point to keep in mind is that people who have been +bitten by the messianic bug NEVER know when the house is about to +cave in: that is one of the key traits of messianism: it destroys +your ability to read objective reality clearly. The mind of the +messianist--whether that of one of the leaders of the revolt +against Rome, or one of Sabbatai Sevi's followers, or one of Karl +Marx's disciples, or Menachem Schneerson's, or David Koresh's, is +clouded by a kind of drug which is able to ignore or distort +every fact relevant to his or her true situation. All messianists +are essentially mad, at least for the duration of their fever. +After every messianic binge comes the vicious headache: what the +hell were we up to?

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What is the essence of messianism? Eventually your bullshit +catches up with you.

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It wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference, by the way, if +the Arabs in the region had welcomed the state of Israel with +open arms. In fact if that had been the case, Israel would have +gone under much sooner. The Mideast wars, with their effect in +uniting Israelis against a common external enemy, have served as +a distraction to keep Israelis from dealing with their underlying +internal problems, all of which revolve around the +self-destructive tendencies inherent in all forms of messianism.

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At some point the leaders of world Jewry are going to sit down +and ask--if they haven't already--on the whole is the state of +Israel a net positive or a net negative for the world's Jews? Is +it improving our health, wealth, reputation, peace of mind, +physical security, and good relations with our neighbors, or is +it damaging them? If Israel has become a significant net +negative, and there is no realistic prospect of improving the +situation, is there any point in continuing to maintain it, or +like a business gone permanently bad, should we just put it to +rest and get on to more fruitful matters?

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Zionism, just like Communism, and for much the same reasons, is +intellectually, morally, spiritually, psychologically, +ideologically, and economically bankrupt.

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Zionism, like Communism, attempted to build a society in a +top-down fashion by imposing a rigid ideology and theory on an +unmalleable physical situation. Successful nations grow +organically from the bottom up, emerging naturally from and +cooperating with the facts on the ground.

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All successful enterprises are fundamentally pragmatic and +bottom-up. All messianic movements in the world are doomed to +failure because they are top-down and over-ideological in their +essential nature. The curse of messianism is the curse of +ideology and theory on a megalomaniacal scale.

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This ideology is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and +gone to meet its maker. This is a late ideology. It's a stiff. +Bereft of life, its rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to +the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the +curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-ideology.

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In any case, enjoy the laugh--I can't guarantee I'll find the +time to participate in this conference at any length to provide +the long version of these insights. But after you laugh, give a +little serious thought to what I am saying. I just may be right.

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Wayne

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Reading List +************

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Avineri, Shlomo. Moses Hess: Prophet of Communism and Zionism. +New York and London: New York University Press, 1985.

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Friedman, Robert I. the False Prophet: Rabbi Meir Kahane: From +FBI Informant to Knesset Member. Brooklyn: Lawrence Hill Books, +1990.

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Golan, Matti. With Friends Like You: What Israelis Really Think +About American Jews. New York: The Free Press, 1992. Translated +from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.

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Harkabi, Yehoshafat. Israel's Fateful Hour. New York: Harper & +Row, 1988.

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Leibowitz, Yeshayahu. Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish +State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

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Leshem, Moshe. Balaam's Curse: How Israel Lost Its Way, and How +It Can Find It Again. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.

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Lustick, Ian S. for the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism +in Israel. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1988.

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Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock: A Confession. New York: Simon & +Schuster, 1993.

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Scholem, Gershom. Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah. Princeton, +New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973. Translated by R. J. +Zwi Werblowsky.

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Segev, Tom. The Seventh Million: The Israelis and The Holocaust. +New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

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Sicker, Martin. Judaism, Nationalism, and the Land of Israel. +Boulder, CO. Westview Press, 1992. +

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